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[Dovecot] Benchmarking CVS HEAD vs. v1.0
by Timo Sirainen 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Some new features in CVS HEAD are: - v1.0 saves most of the data to dovecot.index.cache only when the client is FETCHing the messages. With mboxes the message headers are saved while parsing the mbox, which is almost the same thing. With CVS HEAD the dovecot.index.cache file is updated already when the new messages are being saved (with deliver or IMAP APPEND). This avoids reading the message second time (although if client fetches the new message bodies immediately it doesn't probably help that much). - Mailbox list index. LIST command can be handled by reading the mailboxes from the index. The index also contains the mailbox's message counters, so STATUS command can be handled by only looking into the index file. - Multiple commands can be handled simultaneously. For example you can start a long running SEARCH command and then at the same time continue FETCHing new messages. Or if you're doing a long FETCH (eg. fetching all message bodies) you can do a smaller FETCH while the long one is still running, and get the result in the middle of the long running FETCH reply. There are also indexing support for SORT and THREAD, and full text search indexes for SEARCH BODY/TEXT, but I didn't benchmark these now. It looks like CVS HEAD is quite a lot faster than v1.0. I think that's mostly because of the APPEND optimization. Here are the results: 100MB ext3 filesystem inside a file in XFS. C: CVS HEAD, fsync_disable=yes, mmap_disable=yes S: CVS branch_1_0 (upcoming 1.0.rc28), fsync_disable=yes, mmap_disable=yes ./imaptest seed=1 secs=60 Logi List Stat Sele Fetc Fet2 Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo C: 11275 5647 5597 11275 11264 16179 5571 4126 11256 6074 22531 C: 11287 5740 5606 11287 11275 16193 5698 4154 11267 6064 22553 S: 9201 4660 4575 9197 9190 13107 4614 2843 9184 3601 18382 S: 9271 4701 4657 9267 9260 13189 4580 2799 9256 3540 18522 82% 82% 59% ./imaptest seed=1 secs=60 no_pipelining Logi List Stat Sele Fetc Fet2 Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo C: 5756 2856 2795 5756 5747 8087 2796 1942 5746 5081 11489 C: 5779 2865 2872 5777 5768 8273 2929 1965 5768 5138 11532 S: 5016 2564 2467 5016 5008 7090 2512 1756 5006 4116 10012 S: 5009 2529 2481 5008 4999 7142 2503 1734 4997 4165 9998 87% 89% 81% ---------- Trying to see how much mailbox list indexing code affects the results by disabling LIST and STATUS (which means that CVS HEAD is doing more I/O by updating the list indexes which are never used). Looks like the indexes do help some, since CVS HEAD is ~5% less faster now. ./imaptest seed=1 secs=60 list=0 status=0 Logi Sele Fetc Fet2 Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo C: 11435 11432 11422 16341 5639 4122 11415 5941 22848 S: 9984 9984 9976 14347 5013 2987 9967 3840 19947 87% 65% ./imaptest seed=1 secs=60 list=0 status=0 no_pipelining Logi Sele Fetc Fet2 Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo C: 5778 5778 5768 8105 2922 2021 5767 5107 11533 S: 5240 5239 5230 7384 2525 1823 5229 4343 10460 90% 85% --------------- Any difference with just one client instead of 10 simultaneously running? Looks like with pipelining CVS HEAD is now even faster, but without pipelining it's a bit slower. I'm not sure why. I tried with different max. command queue lengths with CVS HEAD. The C1, C4 and C8 mean queue lengths of 1, 4 and 8 commands. 1 practically disables it, so it runs like v1.0. Doesn't look like the queue length makes much of a different. ./imaptest seed=1 secs=60 list=0 status=0 clients=1 Logi Sele Fetc Fet2 Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo C4: 9968 9968 9967 14244 5020 2664 9967 2990 19934 S : 6510 6510 6508 9340 3216 1729 6508 1942 13017 65% 63% C1: 9956 9956 9954 14314 4959 2642 9954 2987 19907 C4: 9968 9968 9967 14244 5020 2664 9967 2990 19934 C8: 9978 9978 9976 14329 4848 2618 9976 2962 19953 ./imaptest seed=1 secs=60 list=0 status=0 clients=1 no_pipelining Logi Sele Fetc Fet2 Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo C: 1942 1942 1941 2711 962 508 1941 605 3882 S: 1868 1868 1867 2669 965 520 1866 618 3734 96% 102% --------------- mmap_disable=no seems to work more slowly after all even with etx3..: Logi List Stat Sele Fetc Fet2 Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo C: 8254 4150 4139 8254 8244 11813 4126 2791 8234 3658 16487 S: 7833 3940 3910 7829 7821 11243 3846 2345 7816 2966 15646 95% 81%

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Re: [Dovecot] imap-login (proxy) Connection queue full
by Bill Boebel 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

On Thu, August 10, 2006 5:22 pm, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: >> Aug 10 16:23:34 director5 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Connection queue >> full: >> >> I am seeing this logged several times per minute. From netstat, the server has >> 650 proxied IMAP connections and 450 proxied IMAPS connections, there are >> currently 10 imap-login processes running, and using the following config: > > I did some changes to CVS which hopefully should fix this? It is still disconnecting with "Connection queue full", although less frequently. Testing with about 315 IMAP connections right now and same config as earlier today, so it should never hit this condition, right? The weird thing is sometimes when I am testing via telnet, my session encounters this condition and disconnects within the first 5 seconds. It does this with and without these patches. Bill

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[Dovecot] Sieve plugin - install help - filters ignored
by Brent Hostetler 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hello, My setup consists of the following: * Freebsd 6.2 system with software installed from ports tree: * Postfix 2.3.8,1 * postfixadmin 2.1.0_7 * mysql 5.0.33 * dovecot-1.0.r25 * dovecot-sieve 1.0.1 * clamav 0.90_3 * SpamAssassin 3.1.8_1 * amavisd-new 2.4.5_1,1 My mail setup is a virtual user setup with all users/domains sharing same UID:GID. Postfix and dovecot get their User information from mysql tables that are administered with postfixadmin. Mail is filtered through clamav and spamassassin using amavisd-new setup as a content filter. All users mail is delivered such as their maildir is /usr/local/vmail/%d/%u using dovecot's lda 'deliver' agent. The system is working fine as configured.. Mail goes where it is supposed to. Trying to get sieve support and unable to get this going. First step is simulating home directories. >From dovecot-mysql.conf ... changed user_query to user_query = SELECT maildir, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, @home := maildir AS home FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' Added the following to a users maildir: .dovecot.sieve require "fileinto"; fileinto "test"; --- Restart all daemons.. Mail still delivers to inbox. Nothing appears in /var/log/maillog or /usr/local/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log that shows anything but the message being delivered to the inbox. HELP! Brent.

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[Dovecot] userdb-vpopmail.c bug in rc27
by Gabor HALASZ 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hi! I discovered a bug in $subject. Next line caused a compilation error: auth_request_log_debug(auth_request, "vpopmail", "lookup user=%s domain=%s", vpop_user, vpop_domain); I think, te correct version is: auth_request_log_debug(request, "vpopmail", "lookup user=%s domain=%s", vpop_user, vpop_domain); -- Gabor HALASZ <halasz.g(a)freemail.hu>

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[Dovecot] Variable %h not recognized in userdb_mail (passwd-file)
by Michal Soltys 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

As in subject, if you for instance create a simple passwd-file with: test@domain.tld:{plain}pass:20000:10::/home/regular/.test::userdb_mail=maildir:%h/maildir Dovecot (rc23 & 27) will expand %h to empty string, and try to make a directory under / Mar 14 14:25:28 rasengan dovecot: IMAP(test(a)domain.tld): mkdir(/maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied Mar 14 14:25:28 rasengan dovecot: IMAP(test(a)domain.tld): mkdir(/maildir/.Trash/cur) failed: Permission denied ... If tilde is used instead of %h, the expansion works properly. While checking it, I tested other variables (putting aside craziness of using some of them), so summing it up - h,w,i,a,b don't work, all the other ones do. In case %h is not actually intended to work in passwd-files, some wiki examples would have to be adjusted.

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[Dovecot] Issue with pop3 & phpList
by Chris Harner 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hello, all. Dovecot really sparked my interest when I noticed it focused on security. It seems to be a great product thus far. Anyway... I'm new to the mail world (pop3/smtp), and I have a project in which I use a mass mailer known as phpList. If you aren't familiar with it, it has the ability to view and process bounces. Bounces are basically emails that don't quite make it (for the most part). In order for this to work, I must create a pop3 account. I installed Dovecot and now the port is open, which means the service is running. Here is where it gets confusing... When I goto process the bounces, it times out because of the fact that there were too many login attempts. Does dovecot have a default username/password? How do I set up a username and password? Is there a special way to just have the pop3 portion of Dovecot load? I went through the config file and took out some of the #'s like the docs said. Thanks! Server: OpenSUSE 10.1 -- Chris Harner [] Server Engineer [] Arnold Transportation Services

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Re: [Dovecot] solaris 10 + dovecot (1)
by Gábor Lénárt 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Re, On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:26:53PM +0000, aza zel wrote: > like other suggest me, the cause of problem is that i not have much space in > / (i think that 4.4gb is a lot of space but i wrong) > so, i move to /export/home where i have space and try again and i not have > any problems. > about memory... i don't remeber how much i have but swap have nearly 667mbs > free for proces compile (i only run these proces). Nice :) I've mentioned 'memory' because of the Spanish (is it Spanish? Just guessing) fragment 'espacio de memoria' remembered me to the English word of 'memory', I was wrong here it seems. So forget about memory, it was only my guesswork about your native language :) The lesson here: please translate all messages to English if you want to post to an English mailing list. Otherwise some people (like me) have no chance to understand just guessing ... :) -- - Gábor

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[Dovecot] help with basic setup
by Perish Mutyanda 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I am new to dovecot and would like to setup dovecot with mysql auth. I successfuly installed postfix admin and used the default table structure there, Mail delivery works fine as It gets delivered to mailboxes. My problem is the login, dovecot runs with no errors but I get the error: Mar 14 14:39:43 itecsouth dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix) Mar 14 14:40:34 itecsouth dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: rip=41.xxx.xxx.190, lip=41.243.140.153 Mar 14 14:41:14 itecsouth dovecot: pop3-login: Login failed: Plaintext authentication disabled: rip=41.xxx.xxx.190, lip=41.xxx.xxx.153 Mar 14 14:41:14 itecsouth dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: rip=41.xxx.xxx.190, lip=41.xxx.xxx.153 I have tried to change the pass scheme in dovecot-mysql.conf to CRYPT as but says unknown auth_scheme a copy of my dovecot.conf protocols = pop3 listen = * login_process_size = 64 default_mail_env = maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%u/ mail_extra_groups = postfix verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 125 first_valid_gid = 125 mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = fcntl protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes auth default { passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } } -- and the dovecot-mysql.conf # Database driver: mysql, pgsql driver = mysql default_pass_scheme = PLAIN connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=dovecot password=dovecot password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' user_query = SELECT maildir, 125 AS uid, 125 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'

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[Dovecot] Timed Out or Disconnect Errors on emails with attachments
by Tudor Holton 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:35 +1100, Tudor Holton wrote: > >> I've migrated our Maildir system from Courier-IMAP-SSL to Dovecot with >> SSL and now we're getting "Connection to <server> Timed Out" errors when >> sending mail with attachments. The mail gets sent, however it doesn't >> save the mail in the user's "Sent" folder. >> > > What OS is Dovecot running in? What Dovecot version? What configure > options? There have been bugs related to this, but I thought they were > all fixed. > I apologise, I just realised that I hadn't included that information. The server is a current Ubuntu Edgy Box. It has Dovecot 1.0rc2. I now see there have been 25 rc's since then. (Yikes!) So I guess I should be complaining upstream. I did search the net for several weeks, however, and found no mention of this problem, even in the Dovecot wiki or mailing list archive. So if you say it's fixed, then I'll put something in the wiki to that effect and go badger the Ubuntu guys for an upgrade. :-) Cheers, Tudor.

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[Dovecot] HTML mails
by Timo Sirainen 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I think I configured Mailman to drop all text/html MIME parts. Lets see if it works. html -> text translation is also enabled.

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