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[Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?
by Timothy Murphy 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

I'd be really grateful if someone running a dovecot IMAP (or IMAPS) server could tell me exactly how their email folders are arranged. What is the mail_location setting in /etc/dovecot.conf ? What are the directories (or some of them) containing mail messages? Does the client see an inbox folder? If so, what directory on the server contains these email messages?

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[Dovecot] imap killed with signal 6 (including backtrace)
by Ralf Hildebrandt 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Found this today multiple times for the same user: Aug 16 16:59:38 postamt dovecot: IMAP(username): file strfuncs.c: line 165 (p_strndup): assertion failed: (max_chars != (size_t)-1) Aug 16 16:59:38 postamt dovecot: IMAP(username): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80c6d53] -> imap(i_fatal+0) [0x80c6795] -> imap(p_strndup+0x38) [0x80d8316] -> imap(t_strndup+0x22) [0x80d86d7] -> imap(cmd_create+0xb5) [0x8059a39] -> imap [0x805eb09] -> imap [0x805ecf9] -> imap(_client_input+0x116) [0x805ee1b] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0x191) [0x80cebf8] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x20) [0x80cde56] -> imap(main+0xb8) [0x8069cbf] -> /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7dc8030] -> imap [0x8058361] Aug 16 16:59:38 postamt dovecot: child 11760 (imap) killed with signal 6 -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de) plonk(a)charite.de Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. -- Albert Einstein

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[Dovecot] Is anyone using the dspam plugin for dovecot 1.1?
by Lars Stavholm 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

I'm about to try to adjust the dspam plugin code to dovecot-1.1, but before starting out on this, I thought I'd ask the list: anyone done it already? /L

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[Dovecot] SEARCH NOT not working
by Julian Cowley 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

I think I've found the source of a bug which I first saw when running dovecot and pine (or alpine), which I finally tracked down by doing a protocol trace. In the IMAP session, the SEARCH command appears to have a problem with sets of messages and/or the NOT operator. Probably the best way to show this is by doing operations on a folder with ten messages in it. a select ten * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 10 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1190450101] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 11] Predicted next UID a OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. Now, start doing some basic searches using message sets: b search (1:10) * SEARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 b OK Search completed. OK, so far so good. Try the inverse: c search not (1:10) * SEARCH c OK Search completed. OK. d search not (1,10) * SEARCH d OK Search completed. Hmm, should have output 2..9. e search not (2,10) * SEARCH 1 e OK Search completed. Hmm.. that should have been 1, 3..9. f search not (2:10) * SEARCH 1 f OK Search completed. OK, expected. g search not (1,9) * SEARCH 10 g OK Search completed. Seems to affect other end of the range as well. h search not (2,9) * SEARCH 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 h OK Search completed. OK working again.

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[Dovecot] dovecot with virtual and local users?
by Patrick Winnertz 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hello, I googled for a while in order to find a solution to make dovecot work with local and virtual users. My Mailserver setup looks like the following: virtual users are stored in a mysql database, and having their Mailbox here: /srv/mail/$domain/$uid/ Local users have a Maildir folder in their home directory. The only point i found in the web concerning this issue is this post here: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-November/017478.html but I failed to understand the user_query. Can somebody who has such a setup running, or know how such a setup will work give me an advice, or a good point to read? Greetings Patrick ps: Please cc me, I'm not subscribed. -- .''`. Patrick Winnertz <patrick.winnertz(a)skolelinux.org> : :' : GNU/Linux Debian-Edu Developer `. `'` http://www.der-winnie.de http://d.skolelinux.org/~winnie `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems

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[Dovecot] quota ignore trash
by JC 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hi everybody, I have a server works good but the quota calculation includes trash, what i have to do in order to ignore trash in quota calculation? My server imap is dovecot 1.0, my smtp server is postfix 2.3.8-2 and my webmail is horde 3.1.3 and imp 4.1.3. my dovecot.conf : base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/mail.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 imap disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 5 login_max_processes_count: 256 login_max_connections: 512 first_valid_uid: 5000 last_valid_uid: 5000 first_valid_gid: 5000 mail_extra_groups: vmail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota trash imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota trash imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail 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 namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: vmail passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: vmail master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir:storage=10240:messages=1000:ignore=Trash trash: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf my dovecot-sql.conf : password_query = SELECT email AS user, password, '/home/vmail/%d/%n' AS userdb_home, 'maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n' AS userdb_mail, 5000 AS userdb_uid, 5000 AS userdb_gid FROM users WHERE email = '%u' user_query = SELECT '/home/vmail/%d/%n' AS home, 'maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n' AS mail, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, CONCAT('maildir:storage=', ROUND(quota/1000) ) AS quota FROM users WHERE email = '%u'

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Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.beta1 released
by Jerry Yeager 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

On Sep 23, 2007, at 11:23 AM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Re: v1.1.beta1 released So far every thing is up and running well, (OS X 10.4 on a G5 machine). There are two things: From the logs: 1) dovecot: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 1152). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings this is of course NOT a dovecot problem, it is just being nice and saying it can use more than the OS X defaults for open files. The next come from using the new Dovecot LDA: in trying to send mail, the following error occurs and I have not been able to find the setting to change this 2) postfix/qmgr[25767]: 2459A37F612: from=<from-email-address>, size=1226, nrcpt=1 (queue active) deliver(to-email-address): auth input: to-email-address deliver(to-email-address): auth input: uid=1000 deliver(to-email-address): auth input: gid=1000 deliver(to-email-address): auth input: home=path/to/ deliver(to-email-address): setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted postfix/pipe[6505]: 2459A37F612: to=<to-email-address>, relay=dovecot, delay=984, delays=984/0.03/0/0.06, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure) The solution so far is to go back to using the Postfix Deliver option. Where is the setgroups option being set in the LDA? Thank for you hard work!! Jerry Yeager

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[Dovecot] kmail + IMAPS
by Timothy Murphy 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

I have dovecot IMAPS + kmail working perfectly on two laptops - I'm using one now - but I just tried starting it on a third laptop, and cannot get it running; kmail on the third laptop just waits indefinitely, saying "Retrieving Folder Contents Please wait ...". All 3 laptops are running Fedora 7, with more or less the same packages, all updated. (1) I suspect the problem lies with authentication. But how can I test this? Running "telnet <server> 993" gets the same response on all 3 laptops: [tim@elizabeth ~]$ telnet www.*.com 993 Trying 86.*.*.228... Connected to www.*.com. Escape character is '^]'. with no further response until I press ^]. I looked at <http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation> but this seems only to apply to IMAP on port 143. (2) kmail has an option to "Check What the Server Supports" under the Security tag, but pressing this just returns without any message, leaving whatever settings as they are. (On the laptops where kmail is working as an IMAPS client, the settings are changed to "Use TLS ..." and "Clear text".) I realise this is probably a kmail question, but shouldn't clicking on this option return some warning if it does not work? (3) I guess I don't understand exactly how TLS authentication works. Does installing openssl set up the correct certificates on server and client? Is there any documentation on this? Any suggestions or enlightenment gratefully received.

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[Dovecot] recipient delimiter results in sieve errors
by Gregory Mokhin 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hello, I'm using dovecot 1.0.3 and Dovecot Sieve plugin 1.0.2. Sieve script works fine with normal addresses, like user@domain.., and messages marked with "X-Spam-Flag: YES" are delivered directly to INBOX.Spam. To make deliver understand recipient_delimiter I tried two methods, the first one as per wiki (tweaking postfix master.cf), and the second one by tweaking dovecot-sql.conf (the main idea is to use concat(substring_index('%n',"+',1),'@','%d') for the username). Both methods work good. However when deliver processes sieve script for the addresses with a delimiter, user+ext(a)domain.tld, there is an error: deliver(test@k..): Info: cmusieve: Using sieve path: /home/vmail/.dovecot.sieve deliver(test@k..): Info: cmusieve: Executing script /home/vmail/.dovecot.sievec deliver(test@k..): Info: sieve runtime error: Keep: Generic Error deliver(test@k..): Error: sieve_execute_bytecode(/home/vmail/.dovecot.sievec) failed deliver(test@k..): Info: msgid=<..@mail...>: saved mail to INBOX In that case message is delivered to INBOX, not to INBOX.Spam Regards, Gregory

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[Dovecot] Strange error message
by Rich Winkel 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

I apologise if this is a faq but I couldn't find it in the archives. FreeBSD math 4.11-RELEASE-p26 FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p26 dovecot version 1.0.3 x86 cpu local disk (ufs) Trying to run "deliver" from user's .forward file. sendmail configured with smrsh, forward file says: | "deliver" Imap seems to work fine, but deliver says: deliver(rw): mbox read/write lock list settings are invalid. Lock ordering must be the same with both, and write locks must contain all read locks (and possibly more) #dovecot -n # 1.0.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ listen: localhost:996 ssl_disable: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting_capability: yes first_valid_uid: 100 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/spool/dovecot_indexes/%u lock_method: flock mbox_write_locks: flock auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd Any help would be much appreciated!! Rich

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