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[Dovecot] v1.1.beta13 released
by Timo Sirainen 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta13.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta13.tar.gz.sig Changes since beta12: - Half of LDAP code was rewritten to fix reconnect/queuing problems. I did test that the new code works with and without auth binds, but be careful. - \Recent flags should finally work correctly with maildir. - last_used field wasn't updated for cache fields that were permanently cached. This caused them to be dropped after a month. TODO for RC1: - When pipelining commands, do only one sync after all of them. Besides improving performance, this fixes some rare problems when multiple commands are running simultaneously. - SEARCH/SORT: Replace invalid input with unicode "replacement character" instead of just skipping it. - Squat: Handle expunges. NFS support. - Fix Lucene support.

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[Dovecot] imap cores
by Anil 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Experts, (Now that I am able to run imap...) Here's what I am seeing with imap, it seems to die in the latest nightly. (tss, I am still trying to get dbx to work properly, maybe it won't, but I got some more details here.) ... 2 select "INBOX" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 1 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1199514743] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID 2 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 3 UID fetch 1 ( BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (From)]) Connection to mail closed by foreign host. openat(-3041965, "/var/mail/apps/domain/admin/Maildir/cur", O_RDONLY|O_NDELAY|O_LARGEFILE) = 9 fcntl(9, F_SETFD, 0x00000001) = 0 fstat64(9, 0x080474C0) = 0 stat64("/var/mail/apps/domain/admin/Maildir/cur", 0x080475C0) = 0 time() = 1199564680 getdents64(9, 0xFEFA4000, 8192) = 112 getdents64(9, 0xFEFA4000, 8192) = 0 close(9) = 0 fcntl(6, F_SETLK64, 0x08047680) = 0 lstat64("/var/mail/apps/domain/admin/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock", 0x080476C0) = 0 unlink("/var/mail/apps/domain/admin/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock") = 0 open64("/var/mail/apps/domain/admin/Maildir/cur/1199514786.M867961P7368.vds5,W=1325:2,", O_RDONLY) = 9 fstat64(9, 0x080477A0) = 0 pread64(9, " R e t u r n - P a t h :".., 4096, 0) = 1298 pread64(9, " R e t u r n - P a t h :".., 4096, 0) = 1298 close(9) = 0 write(2, "01 P f i l e i n d e x".., 82) = 82 getcontext(0x08047510) open("/proc/self/as", O_RDONLY) = 9 close(9) = 0 write(2, "01 E R a w b a c k t r".., 18) = 18 sigaction(SIGABRT, 0x00000000, 0x08047710) = 0 sigaction(SIGABRT, 0x08047650, 0x080476D0) = 0 schedctl() = 0xFED32000 lwp_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) = 0xFFBFFEFF [0x0000FFFF] lwp_kill(1, SIGABRT) = 0 Received signal #6, SIGABRT [default] siginfo: SIGABRT pid=3257 uid=500 code=-1 This is all I can seem to get with dbx: program terminated by signal ABRT (Abort) 0xfee55687: __lwp_kill+0x0007: jae __lwp_kill+0x15 [ 0xfee55695, .+0xe ] (dbx) where =>[1] __lwp_kill(0x1, 0x6), at 0xfee55687 [2] _thr_kill(0x1, 0x6), at 0xfee52dee [3] raise(0x6), at 0xfee011bb [4] abort(0x817e3d8, 0x817e3d8, 0xfee7f5b8, 0x816e898, 0xffffffff, 0x81759e0), at 0xfede15d9 (dbx) # pstack core.imap.3479 core 'core.imap.3479' of 3479: imap fee55687 _lwp_kill (1, 6) + 7 fee011bb raise (6) + 1f fede15d9 abort (817e3d8, 817e3d8, fee7f5b8, 816e898, ffffffff, 81759e0) + cd 08118884 i_internal_fatal_handler () + 54 What do you think?

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[Dovecot] deliver fails - RFE
by Anil 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

deliver has suid: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 1892044 Jan 5 19:21 deliver Jan 5 23:11:02 vds5 deliver(admin(a)domain.com): [ID 702911 mail.error] stat(/var/mail/apps/domain.com/admin/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied The above mentioned directory has these permissions: drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 3 Jan 5 19:15 /var/mail/apps drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 3 Jan 5 19:15 /var/mail/apps/domain.com drwx------ 3 10001 10001 3 Jan 5 19:25 /var/mail/apps/domain.com/admin drwx------ 6 10001 10001 9 Jan 5 23:05 /var/mail/apps/domain.com/admin/Maildir/ drwx------ 2 10001 10001 2 Jan 5 19:03 /var/mail/apps/domain.com/admin/Maildir/tmp It seems deliver needs the /var/mail/apps and the /var/mail/apps/domain.com to be 755. Can Dovecot do this automatically when it creates these directories? (/var/mail/apps, /var/mail/apps/domain.com)

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[Dovecot] Upgrading a live running dovecot - how?
by Daniel Watts 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Hi Guys, This has bitten us twice now. We're running Gentoo and emerge (ie compile) a new version of Dovecot thinking we can finish that then restart Dovecot in our own time. It seems that Dovecot immediately starts to use the newly compiled Dovecot binary and we get version mismatch errors preventing access. Would be good if Dovecot behaved in such a way that it kept on using the old version (held in memory) until it was restarted where it then loaded the new version. Dan

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[Dovecot] running imap command line
by Anil 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

I am trying to debug some core dump problems. I should be able to run imap by itself right? How to fix? # ./imap imap(root): Fatal: setgroups() failed: Too many extra groups I am using latest nightly code.

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[Dovecot] How to use deliver to deliver to virtual users
by Andrew Falanga 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hi, Ok, here's my setup, each virtual user has a home directory as follows: /virtusers/<v_userid> and per the INBOX directive in the dovecot.conf file I also have a file as follows: /var/mail/<v_userid> Now, I've followed the directions as outlined here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail But every time I send mail to one of my virtual users, I get this message The original message was received at Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:22:51 -0700 (MST) from wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- /var/mail/jdunkin (reason: Can't create output) (expanded from: <jdunkin(a)whitneybaptist.org>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 5.0.0 /var/mail/jdunkin... Can't create output What could I be missing? Andy

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[Dovecot] help using sendmail LDA
by Anil 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

I am stuck. I get nothing in the logs (about deliver). Sendmail complains about "User unknown". I am not sure I have my sendmail.mc configured right, can someone confirm or give me some sample config files that make use of Dovecot+LDAP and sendmail LDA? Dovecot is running as root. I am a little confused, so the auth-master is not even needed? (the whole socket listen {}, since I am using static userdb and the user information was already found at authentication/login) Thank You! # 20080102: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf listen: *:143 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_log_format_elements: user=<%n@%d> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_max_connections: 64 max_mail_processes: 128 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/apps/%d/%n socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail My sendmail.mc file: define(`confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST', `mailhost$?m.$m$.')dnl define(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver') define(`LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS',`DFMPhfnu9') define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS',`deliver -d $u') MAILER(`local')dnl MAILER(`smtp')dnl LOCAL_NET_CONFIG R$* < @ $* .$m. > $* $#esmtp $@ $2.$m $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3

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[Dovecot] FETCH for mailbox INBOX UID 39641 got too little data: 4823 vs 4825
by Mikhail Teterin 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Whenever I try to access an e-mail in the middle (rather than at the end) of the mailbox, my mail-client (KMail) gets an error a message like this is logged in the maillog: IMAP(mi): FETCH for mailbox INBOX UID 39641 got too little data: 4823 vs 4825 IMAP(mi): Disconnected: Disconnected The actual numbers vary, but it is always X vs X+2 The problem started when I upgraded to 1.0.8. Unfortunately, it is still here with 1.0.9. The mailbox in question is the standard Unix mbox (/var/mail/mi in my case). The server runs FreeBSD/amd64. Please, advise. Thanks! -mi

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[Dovecot] backup dovecot
by Nikolay Shopik 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

What is correct way to backup dovecot store? Is am I right what is just enough to copy all maildir and my configuration. So in case failure I can just prepare new machine copy config, maildirs and I'm good to go with this.

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[Dovecot] Optimizing POP3 performance?
by Sebastian Färber 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hello, I recently migrated to Dovecot from Courier-IMAP and i'm very happy with the IMAP Performance and Dovecot in general. The server is running qmail-ldap and i'm still using the qmail pop3 daemon for the POP3 users. Because i want to get rid of qmail completely (switching to exim) i just tried to replace the qmail pop3 daemon with dovecot too. Immediately after the migration the server became basically unusable because of the high I/O Load caused by the dovecot pop3 daemon. I did some debugging and it looks like dovecot opens every old mail in a users maildir and wants to create it's index files etc. I tried running dovecot pop3 with and without "in memory" indexes but this didn't change anything. Is it possible to disable the indexing of the old e-mails completly for pop3? I understand that dovecot is primarily an IMAP Server but i didn't expect the POP3 Performance to be that bad compared to the qmail pop3 daemon (which is very very basic i have to admit). Is there anything i may have overlooked which helps with the POP3 Performance, any patches that disable the unnecessary indexing etc.? If not, what do you guys recommend and use as a pop3 daemon that is fast and stable? I'm using dovecot 1.0.2 (i checked the ChangeLog, doesn't look like upgrading would give better pop3 performance?) and the relevant pop3-config is: mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY mail_debug: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_enable_last: yes pop3_uidl_format: %f pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh Any hint in the right direction is greatly appreciated Regards, Sebastian Faerber

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