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[Dovecot] Dovecot/SeLinux issues after RHEL5.1 upgrade
by Ion Soltan 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hello to everyone on the list, I have upgraded my RHEL4 to RHEL5.1 yesterday (all updates have been applied to it as well). I used to have dovecot v0.99.11 on the old system. Everything was working fine. Now I have 5.1 and its respective dovecot v1.0.rc15. Upon upgrading to RHEL5.1, dovecot no longer works correctly. The first thing I did after rewriting the config file for the updated version, was to check my own email. It works fine. However, no other user on the system can check his/hers. Here is what the log shows for everyone except myself: ============================ Jan 27 13:56:41 warp dovecot: POP3(jj): open() failed with file /home/jj/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Permission denied Jan 27 13:56:41 warp dovecot: POP3(jj): open() failed with file /home/jj/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Permission denied Jan 27 13:56:41 warp dovecot: POP3(jj): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2008-01-27 13:56:41] ============================ There are NO complaints reported by selinux in the logs. If I setenforce 0 (disable selinux), everything is working fine for everyone. If I disable selinux monitoring on dovecot (setsebool dovecot_disable_trans 1), nothing changes, which makes me think that something else is causing the problem. I do very much want to use selinux, however, I cannot figure out what the problem is and I have been trying for many hours. Can anyone help? Thanks, Ion

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[Dovecot] dovecot servers hanging with fuse/glusterfs errors
by Jordi Moles 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

hi. i've got a clustered mail system with glusterfs and some postfix, squirrelmail and dovecot machines sharing the same storage system through glusterfs. each server has only postfix or squirrel or dovecot installed on it. The thing is... dovecot servers hang very often and the last thing they always log is this: ************* login: Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000100108 RIP: [<ffffffff88020838>] :fuse:request_end+0x45/0x109 PGD 1f729067 PUD 1faae067 PMD 0 Oops: 0002 [1] SMP CPU 0 Modules linked in: ipv6 fuse dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_mod Pid: 678, comm: glusterfs Not tainted 2.6.18-xen #1 RIP: e030:[<ffffffff88020838>] [<ffffffff88020838>] :fuse:request_end+0x45/0x109 RSP: e02b:ffff88001f04dd68 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000200200 RBX: ffff88001db9fa58 RCX: ffff88001db9fa68 RDX: 0000000000100100 RSI: ffff88001db9fa58 RDI: ffff88001f676400 RBP: ffff88001f676400 R08: 00000000204abb00 R09: ffff88001db9fb58 R10: 0000000000000008 R11: ffff88001f04dcf0 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff88001db9fa90 R14: ffff88001f04ddf8 R15: 0000000000000001 FS: 00002b29187c53b0(0000) GS:ffffffff804cd000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 Process glusterfs (pid: 678, threadinfo ffff88001f04c000, task ffff88001fc5a860) Stack: ffff88001db9fa58 ffff88001f676400 00000000fffffffe ffffffff88021056 ffff88001f04def8 000000301f04de88 ffffffff8020dd40 ffff88001f04ddb8 ffffffff80225ca3 ffff88001de23500 ffffffff803ef023 ffff88001f04de98 Call Trace: [<ffffffff88021056>] :fuse:fuse_dev_readv+0x385/0x435 [<ffffffff8020dd40>] monotonic_clock+0x35/0x7d [<ffffffff80225ca3>] deactivate_task+0x1d/0x28 [<ffffffff803ef023>] thread_return+0x0/0x120 [<ffffffff802801d3>] do_readv_writev+0x271/0x294 [<ffffffff802274c7>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe [<ffffffff803f0976>] __down_read+0x12/0xec [<ffffffff88021120>] :fuse:fuse_dev_read+0x1a/0x1f [<ffffffff802804bc>] vfs_read+0xcb/0x171 [<ffffffff802274c7>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe [<ffffffff8028089b>] sys_read+0x45/0x6e [<ffffffff8020a436>] system_call+0x86/0x8b [<ffffffff8020a3b0>] system_call+0x0/0x8b Code: 48 89 42 08 48 89 10 48 c7 41 08 00 02 20 00 f6 46 30 08 48 RIP [<ffffffff88020838>] :fuse:request_end+0x45/0x109 RSP <ffff88001f04dd68> CR2: 0000000000100108 dovecot01gluster01 kernel: Oops: 0002 [1] SMP dovecot01gluster01 kernel: CR2: 0000000000100108 <3>BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff80257f78>] softlockup_tick+0xd8/0xea [<ffffffff8020f110>] timer_interrupt+0x3a9/0x405 [<ffffffff80258264>] handle_IRQ_event+0x4e/0x96 [<ffffffff80258350>] __do_IRQ+0xa4/0x105 [<ffffffff8020b0e8>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28 [<ffffffff8020cecb>] do_IRQ+0x65/0x73 [<ffffffff8034a8c1>] evtchn_do_upcall+0xac/0x12d [<ffffffff8020ac1e>] do_hypervisor_callback+0x1e/0x2c <EOI> [<ffffffff802d6f56>] dummy_inode_permission+0x0/0x3 [<ffffffff8028c9b8>] do_lookup+0x63/0x173 [<ffffffff803f1232>] .text.lock.spinlock+0x0/0x8a [<ffffffff8802144c>] :fuse:request_send+0x1b/0x2a8 [<ffffffff8028f0d6>] __link_path_walk+0xdf2/0xf3c [<ffffffff80261275>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x8a/0x28f [<ffffffff8802249f>] :fuse:fuse_dentry_revalidate+0x94/0x120 [<ffffffff80299838>] mntput_no_expire+0x19/0x8b [<ffffffff8028f2f3>] link_path_walk+0xd3/0xe5 [<ffffffff8029571e>] __d_lookup+0xb0/0xff [<ffffffff8028ca92>] do_lookup+0x13d/0x173 [<ffffffff8028e687>] __link_path_walk+0x3a3/0xf3c [<ffffffff8028f27c>] link_path_walk+0x5c/0xe5 [<ffffffff80219b90>] do_page_fault+0xee9/0x1215 [<ffffffff8027e38d>] fd_install+0x25/0x5f [<ffffffff8025daac>] filemap_nopage+0x188/0x324 [<ffffffff8028f6df>] do_path_lookup+0x270/0x2ec [<ffffffff8028e0c6>] getname+0x15b/0x1c1 [<ffffffff8028ff52>] __user_walk_fd+0x37/0x4c [<ffffffff80288883>] vfs_stat_fd+0x1b/0x4a [<ffffffff80219b90>] do_page_fault+0xee9/0x1215 [<ffffffff8027e38d>] fd_install+0x25/0x5f [<ffffffff80239287>] do_sigaction+0x7a/0x1f3 [<ffffffff80288a4e>] sys_newstat+0x19/0x31 [<ffffffff80239495>] sys_rt_sigaction+0x59/0x98 [<ffffffff8020ab73>] error_exit+0x0/0x71 [<ffffffff8020a436>] system_call+0x86/0x8b [<ffffffff8020a3b0>] system_call+0x0/0x8b ************* these are basic debian etch brand new set ups, they have nothing else than dovecot and glusterfs-client installed on them. The thing is all machines i've got have the very same version of glusterfs-client, but only the dovecot ones hang. Do you have any idea? Thank you.

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[Dovecot] dbox
by Evaggelos Balaskas 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to create a user with dbox format. i get this error: dovecot: Jan 28 13:45:34 Error: IMAP(ebal2): Mail storage creation failed with mail_location: dbox:/var/mail/folders/testuser dovecot: Jan 28 13:45:34 Error: child 5336 (imap) returned error 89 my conf has this entry: mail_location: dbox:/var/mail/folders/%u dovecot 1.0.10 any ideas? - -- Evaggelos Balaskas - http://ebalaskas.gr Unix System Engineer Informatics Engineer Technological Education -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHncCfWIK+Pe9twhoRAsqJAKCD1Ctf0Tz+2uU5LpLsrmXyNQTg9gCeO/C3 6AzUw9JG3gMwq0cPwiUDmps= =Q/0q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Plugin Trash
by Sebastien Andreatta 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hello, I have a problem with the trash plugin. i'm not English, but if i ave understand this http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Trash , if a mailbox is full (90% for example) and i want to delete a mail, the plugin delete a mail in mailbox specified in a file ... I have this : dovecot.conf : protocol imap { [.....] mail_plugins = quota imap_quota trash } plugin { trash = /etc/dovecot-trash.conf } And in dovecot-trash.conf : # Spam mailbox is emptied before Trash 1 Spam # Trash mailbox is emptied before Sent 2 Trash # If both Sent and "Sent Messages" mailboxes exist, the next oldest message # to be deleted is looked up from both of the mailboxes. 3 Sent 3 Sent Messages I have 3 mail in a 20Mb mailbox : 2 in Mailbox (5.1mb both) 1 in Trash (6.2Mb) When i try to delete a mail from my mailbox i have a error and i only see this in maillog : Jan 28 15:49:37 soez dovecot: child 28398 (imap) killed with signal 11 Thanks for your help !! Number :-) _________________________________________________________________ Envoyez vos voeux de façon originale grâce aux nombreuses solutions de Windows Live ! http://get.live.com

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[Dovecot] Shared mailboxes
by Wouter Amsterdam 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

L.S. It is not clear to me why I should use namespaces or symlinks to share a single maildir mailbox with multiple users. Why not configure multiple mail clients with the same account information? TIA, Wouter

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[Dovecot] Howto set mail_location for system users over LDAP?
by Patrick Ben Koetter 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

In parallel to /etc/passwd I do have my system users in LDAP. I want to store their messages in /srv/mail/state-of-mind/<username>. Dovecot has been configured to retrieve the extra field mail to override the mail_location setting. I can see in the log it retrieves the correct information as long as I run Dovecot deliver as Postfix service 'dovecot' as shown in section "Virtual users" <http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix>. However if I use deliver as specified for "System users" it ignores the LDAP settings and delivers messages to my users $HOME directory as specified in /etc/passwd. Is this correct behaviour? What do I need to do to use the Postfix $mailbox_command _and_ have Dovecot deliver honor my LDAP settings? TIA, p@rick -- state of mind Agentur für Kommunikation, Design und Softwareentwicklung Patrick Koetter Tel: 089 45227227 Echinger Strasse 3 Fax: 089 45227226 85386 Eching Web: http://www.state-of-mind.de Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird Problem - What causes this?
by Marc Perkel 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Strange problem and I'm not sure what's causing it. I'm using IMAP. A new message arives in the inbox. I see it displayed in the message list in bold. I click on the message and it looks like it's reading it by the previous message that was in the window remains and the new message is still bold (unread). However I can then click on an old message and then click on the new message again and it reads. I have also seen Thunderbird be in a somewhat unresponsive state. You can click on messages and they don't read. But Shutting down Thunderbird and restarting it make it responsive again. Has anyone seen this?

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[Dovecot] proxy configuration
by bill-dovecot＠carpenter.ORG 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Before I spend some time experimenting with what might be impossible, maybe someone can just tell me (either "how" or that it's impossible). I'd like to get perdition out of my environment (mainly to have one less moving part in my architecture). I'm looking at dovecot's built-in proxying. In my setup, I don't have dedicated front-end machines. A user can connect to any server, but their mail files live on one particular machine. I'd like to transparently proxy them from whatever machine they happen to hit to their home machine. Except for the "proxy_maybe" feature advertised for dovecot 1.1, I don't see a surefire way to do this. Has anyone done it, or can anyone say for sure that it can't reasonably be done until "proxy_maybe"? Tx! -- bill-dovecot(a)carpenter.ORG (WJCarpenter) PGP 0x91865119 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird trouble with Dovecote and dbox
by Hannes Dorbath 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Hi, I'm new to Dovecot -- migrating from Cyrus. Version and config: # 1.1.beta14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf protocols: imaps login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: dbox:/data/mail/%u auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: * userdb: driver: passwd Linux 2.6.22-gentoo-r10 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have chosen dbox as mailbox format as it is claimed to be the best performing -- and performance is the reason I'd like to migrate away form Cyrus. I'm aware that dbox might not be 100% mature, but I'm good at doing backups. Anyway, so far I have the following problems: - Greyed out Inbox After creating a new user and connecting to that account with Thunderbird the first time, the INBOX folder is greyed out and in italic. Restarting Thunderbird 3-4 times seems to fix the problem. Google suggests that other people have seen the same, but they never found a solution. - After creating sub folders they are not displayed, I need to manually subscribe to them after creation. - When "Trash" contains folders, Thunderbird is unable to "Empty Trash". While the folder is removed from Thunderbird's folder tree, it's there again after a restart of Thunderbird. - Deleted folders are never deleted from the file system. I'm not sure if this is intended with dbox. - Moving folders via drag & drop does not work, it just does nothing. So basically nothing besides reading existing mails seems to work reliable. My basic questions now is, are those problems related to dbox, or to Dovecot and Thunderbird in general? -- Best regards, Hannes Dorbath

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[Dovecot] User-specific mail_location using passwd database
by Maxime Brugidou 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

current version : 1.0.rc15 Hi, I would just like to know if it's possible to have different mail locations for different UNIX users, using pam authentication and the passwd userdb. We also have some virtual users using an SQL db. The current config is : auth default: username_translation: %@ verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf Then we can only modify mail locations for virtual users on the sql userdb. But how could we change it for real users ? Thanks for help, -- Maxime Brugidou

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