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[Dovecot] UIDL and IMAP
by Kenneth Porter 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

I finally got my aging FC2 box retired and moved all email to my new CentOS 5 box. My site is all-IMAP, no POP3. I have one user who downloads all email to Thunderbird on his laptop so that he can work offline while away from a network connection (eg. on an airplane). I forgot to change the pop3_uidl_format setting as described here: <http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.0> So he was seeing repeated downloads of all his mail (about 300 MBytes) every time he connected. (I'm not sure why it didn't happen only the first time.) I changed the setting and haven't heard back whether if fixed things for him. Does this setting in fact get used by IMAP? It's in the POP3 section, so I'm wondering if it takes effect when one is using IMAP from the client. CentOS 5 is currently shipping with: dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 I may look for a newer release. CentOS, based on RHEL, is intended to be a conservative distro, so I'll probably need to look at RPMForge (an addon repository of more exotic and bleeding edge software) to see if it offers a newer release.

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[Dovecot] Dovceot user pop3 last connect info?
by Tim Tyler 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Dovecot experts, I am a newbie to Dovecot. I am in the process of replacing qpopper with dovecot to support pop 3 clients. I have installed the latest version of Dovecot on Fedora Core 6. Everything seems to be working fine using ldap, etc. However, with qpopper, I used to have .pop.username files which would give me a time stamp of the last time a user established a pop3 connection. I know that Dovecot has logs of connection in the /var/log/maillog files, but these files rotate out over a relatively short period of time. Is there a method by which one can keep track of the last time a pop3 connection was established for each user when using Dovecot? Tim Tyler Network Engineer - Beloit College tyler(a)beloit.edu

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[Dovecot] Namespace "hidden" option not working?
by Ed W 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

I either misunderstand the namespace hidden option, or else perhaps it's not working correctly in 1.0.5? dovecot.conf # default namespace namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes hidden = yes } # for backwards compatibility: namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } Then login and test s6jh LIST "" "*" SND: <<< len(939) Comp_len(118) Time:0.137985 * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Diary" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Spam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Archive" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent Items" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Subdir" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Junk E-mail" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Deleted Items" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Diary" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Spam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Archive" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent Items" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Subdir" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Deleted Items" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX" The idea was to support an old client using Courier like access whilst still letting new clients access using the normal process Ed W

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[Dovecot] Disable imap proxy access
by Dominique Feyer 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

I work on a dovecot cluster (15 servers) we need to add a new storage array and move the data for a list of user from the old storage to the new one. We use dovecot proxy to redirect imap and pop3 to the same server everytime. How to disable pop3 and imap access during the data migration process (duration 5 minutes to 10 minutes). Can i send a custom error message to our users ? Thanks for your help Dominique Feyer

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[Dovecot] Postfix with Deliver (LDA) - user unknown
by Karin Gregorec 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Good Day All! I am attempting to configure deliver as our LDA. I am also configuring the server to use Postfix instead of Sendmail. I have followed the all the documentation and examples I could find. Below are my Dovecot and Postfix configs. Can someone please smack me upside the head and tell me why I am getting "user unknown" errors? If i don't use deliver as the LDA, all works perfectly. Help... TIA, glenn ========== *** Dovecot Config *** dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/maillogs/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: GID Ready login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> service=%s authMethod=%m rIP=%r lIP=%l encryption=%c login_max_processes_count: 256 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 5000 last_valid_uid: 10000 first_valid_gid: 0 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir dotlock_use_excl: yes fsync_disable: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_size: 1024 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_logout_format(default): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_logout_format(imap): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_logout_format(pop3): top=%t/%T, retr=%r/%R, del=%d/%m, size=%s auth default: cache_size: 1024 cache_ttl: 604800 verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam args: cache_key=%Lu userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: maildrop plugin: quota: maildir:storage=10000000:ignore=Trash *** Postfix main.cf *** alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/aliases biff = no command_directory = /usr/local/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 debugger_command = PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin; export PATH; (echo cont; echo where) | gdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id 2>&1 >$config_directory/$process_name.$process_id.log & sleep 5 #### Dovecot LDA Service - http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 home_mailbox = Maildir/ html_directory = no inet_interfaces = all mail_owner = postfix mail_spool_directory = /var/mail mailq_path = /usr/local/bin/mailq manpage_directory = /usr/local/man message_size_limit = 12000000 mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost mydomain = geekinternetdevelopment.com myhostname = superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com mynetworks = 72.18.193.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix readme_directory = no sample_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail setgid_group = maildrop smtpd_banner = $myhostname NO WHAMMIES!!! virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mailboxes virtual_mailbox_domains = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vdomains virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vmailboxes virtual_minimum_uid = 1000 virtual_transport = dovecot virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 *** Postfix master.cf *** ...snip... dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=maildrop:maildrop argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -e -d ${recipient}

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[Dovecot] autocreate plugin
by Lars Stavholm 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Did anyone get the autocreate plugin working? I've compiled, installed and configured, but no mailboxes/folders are created. /L

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Re: [Dovecot] Postfix with Deliver (LDA) - user unknown
by Lars Stavholm 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Let's try to keep this on the list shall we. hgic(a)geekazoid.com wrote: > Here is the conversation from my maillog: > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/pickup[179]: B77EA130C28: uid=0 from=<root> > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/cleanup[232]: B77EA130C28: > message-id=<20071004035215.B77EA130C28(a)superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com> > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/qmgr[98583]: B77EA130C28: > from=<root(a)superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com>, size=375, nrcpt=1 (queue > active) > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/pipe[234]: B77EA130C28: > to=<test(a)geekinetdev.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.25, > delays=0.16/0.01/0/0.08, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (user unknown) > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/cleanup[232]: E0729130C32: > message-id=<20071004035215.E0729130C32(a)superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com> > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/bounce[236]: B77EA130C28: sender > non-delivery notification: E0729130C32 > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/qmgr[98583]: E0729130C32: from=<>, > size=2294, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 3 20:52:15 superman postfix/qmgr[98583]: B77EA130C28: removed > Oct 3 20:52:16 superman postfix/local[237]: E0729130C32: > to=<geekserver(a)superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com>, Do you have a user called "geekserver". Looks a bit dodgy. > orig_to=<root(a)superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com>, relay=local, dovecot is a bit peculiar with the "root" user. You should always alias that to a real user. Or maybe you have. > delay=0.13, delays=0.06/0.01/0/0.06, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (unknown > user: "geekserver") Well, do you have a user called "geekserver"? > Oct 3 20:52:16 superman postfix/qmgr[98583]: E0729130C32: removed > > dovecot.log has: > > dovecot: Oct 03 08:57:04 Info: auth(default): > passwd(test(a)geekinetdev.com): unknown user That seems to be unrelated to the above. /L > dovecot-deliver.log is empty... > > Thanks for your assistance!!! ;-) > > glenn > >> System log could help. >> /L >> >> Karin Gregorec wrote: >>> Good Day All! I am attempting to configure deliver as our LDA. I am >>> also configuring the server to use Postfix instead of Sendmail. I >>> have followed the all the documentation and examples I could find. >>> >>> Below are my Dovecot and Postfix configs. Can someone please smack me >>> upside the head and tell me why I am getting "user unknown" errors? >>> If i don't use deliver as the LDA, all works perfectly. Help... >>> >>> TIA, >>> glenn >>> >>> ========== >>> >>> >>> *** Dovecot Config *** >>> >>> dovecot -n >>> # 1.0.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf >>> base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ >>> log_path: /var/log/maillogs/dovecot.log >>> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s >>> ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW >>> disable_plaintext_auth: no >>> verbose_ssl: yes >>> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login >>> login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login >>> login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login >>> login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login >>> login_greeting: GID Ready >>> login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> service=%s authMethod=%m rIP=%r >>> lIP=%l encryption=%c >>> login_max_processes_count: 256 >>> verbose_proctitle: yes >>> first_valid_uid: 5000 >>> last_valid_uid: 10000 >>> first_valid_gid: 0 >>> mail_extra_groups: mail >>> mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir >>> dotlock_use_excl: yes >>> fsync_disable: yes >>> maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes >>> mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap >>> mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap >>> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 >>> mail_process_size: 1024 >>> mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota >>> mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota >>> mail_plugins(pop3): >>> mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap >>> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap >>> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 >>> imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle >>> netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep >>> imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh >>> tb-extra-mailbox-sep >>> imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle >>> pop3_uidl_format(default): >>> pop3_uidl_format(imap): >>> pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv >>> pop3_client_workarounds(default): >>> pop3_client_workarounds(imap): >>> pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh >>> pop3_logout_format(default): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s >>> pop3_logout_format(imap): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s >>> pop3_logout_format(pop3): top=%t/%T, retr=%r/%R, del=%d/%m, size=%s >>> auth default: >>> cache_size: 1024 >>> cache_ttl: 604800 >>> verbose: yes >>> passdb: >>> driver: pam >>> args: cache_key=%Lu >>> userdb: >>> driver: passwd >>> socket: >>> type: listen >>> master: >>> path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master >>> mode: 384 >>> user: maildrop >>> plugin: >>> quota: maildir:storage=10000000:ignore=Trash >>> >>> >>> *** Postfix main.cf *** >>> >>> alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/aliases >>> alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/aliases >>> biff = no >>> command_directory = /usr/local/sbin >>> daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix >>> >>> debug_peer_level = 2 >>> debugger_command = >>> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin; export PATH; (echo cont; >>> echo where) | gdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id 2>&1 >>> >$config_directory/$process_name.$process_id.log & sleep 5 >>> >>> #### Dovecot LDA Service - http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix >>> dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 >>> >>> home_mailbox = Maildir/ >>> html_directory = no >>> inet_interfaces = all >>> mail_owner = postfix >>> mail_spool_directory = /var/mail >>> mailq_path = /usr/local/bin/mailq >>> manpage_directory = /usr/local/man >>> message_size_limit = 12000000 >>> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost >>> mydomain = geekinternetdevelopment.com >>> myhostname = superman.geekinternetdevelopment.com >>> mynetworks = 72.18.193.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 >>> newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases >>> queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix >>> readme_directory = no >>> sample_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix >>> sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail >>> setgid_group = maildrop >>> smtpd_banner = $myhostname NO WHAMMIES!!! >>> >>> virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 >>> virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mailboxes >>> virtual_mailbox_domains = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vdomains >>> virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/mail/postfix/vmailboxes >>> virtual_minimum_uid = 1000 >>> virtual_transport = dovecot >>> virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 >>> unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 >>> >>> *** Postfix master.cf *** >>> ...snip... >>> dovecot unix - n n - - pipe >>> flags=DRhu user=maildrop:maildrop >>> argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -e -d ${recipient} >

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[Dovecot] In-site migration from /etc/passwd to LDAP
by Maykel Moya 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

I'm doing in-site migration of accounts from /etc/passwd to an LDAP directory. The migration should be progressive (not all users at the same time). I'm already able to check mail for accounts in /etc/passwd and accounts in LDAP. The problem is with mail delivery. I'm using Postfix + Dovecot-LDA. This is the error I get with every delivery -- dovecot: Oct 03 00:16:09 Info: auth(default): master in: USER 1 moya service=deliver dovecot: Oct 03 00:16:09 Info: auth(default): ldap(moya): user search: base=ou=users,dc=sld,dc=cu scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=moya)) fields=sldMailbox,uidNumber dovecot: Oct 03 00:16:09 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 moya home=/srv/vmail/m/moya/ uid=29174 gid=101 deliver(moya): Oct 03 00:16:09 Fatal: setuid(29174) failed: Operation not permitted -- 29174 is the uid for moya, is the same in /etc/passwd or in LDAP via posixAccount class. Any advise please? Regards, maykel

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[Dovecot] new antispam plugin
by Johannes Berg 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Sparked from the discussion on the list, I've put my antispam plugin into git and split up the code into a frontend and possibly multiple backends. See http://git.sipsolutions.net/dovecot-antispam.git/ (URL functions as both gitweb and git URL) Andreas, I took your README file and adjusted it, I hope you don't mind. I didn't fork from your git tree because you'd already implemented the libdspam backend there. Maybe you could take a look at the new backend/frontend separation and implement a libdspam backend. Aria, it should be possible to write a spamassassin plugin, quite easily if spamassassin supports training based on signatures, not quite so easily otherwise though I intend to plan this. Timothy, you could write the mysql logger as a backend too. I take patches :) Oh and as always thanks to Timo for implementing such a nice server and string, memory and mail handling API. johannes

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[Dovecot] --enable-headers-install problem in 1.0.5
by Trever L. Adams 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

I am trying to get a SPEC file for an RPM to build a devel package. I have it working, except for one thing. 1.0.5 doesn't actually install the headers with that option to configure found in the subject. It does create the directory, but it doesn't put the files there. Timo, is this a known/unknown bug, or am I doing something stupid? Thanks, Trever

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