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[Dovecot] / and . in folder names
by Magnus Holmgren 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Right now, trying to create folders with "/" or "." in their name can yield strange results, because Dovecot simply turns every occurrence of the current folder hierarchy separator in a folder name given by the client into a "." (or so it seems). If the folder separator isn't ".", clients can try to create folders with names containing ".", and Dovecot will convert those "." back to the folder separator on listing. It will look like there is an intermediate folder, but Dovecot is unaware of it. If the folder separator isn't "/", clients can try to create folders with names containing "/", which will simply fail. Judging from to http://www.courier-mta.org/?maildir.html, Courier encodes "." and "/" in the names of the directories the folders are stored as on disk. This means that that of "." and "/" that isn't the folder separator can be used in folder names, but it also means that Dovecot has to be able to perform the recoding. Has any thought been given to this? -- Magnus Holmgren holmgren(a)lysator.liu.se (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) "Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your rack)" -- Dave Evans

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Re: [Dovecot] Auth process died too early
by Ken Dail 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 16:40 -0700, Kenny Dail wrote: >> Hello all, >> Trying an Install of Dovecot 1.0rc15. We have previously used 1.0b8 >> without too many troubles. >> starting Dovecot 1.0rc15 yields: >> >> Dec 1 16:31:08 mailtest1 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up >> Dec 1 16:31:09 mailtest1 dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login: >> rip=172.30.0.3, lip=172.30.0.30 >> Dec 1 16:31:09 mailtest1 dovecot: Auth process died too early - >> shutting down >> Dec 1 16:31:09 mailtest1 dovecot: auth(default): Socket already >> exists: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client > .. >> count = 10 > > Auth sockets are unfortunately incompatible with count > 1. Too large > change to fix before v1.0. I don't think it worked in beta8 either? That does appear to be the problem. However, as far as I can tell it is working on our beta8 machines with count = 10. Thanks! Kenny

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[Dovecot] Evolution: DATA command failed: Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation.
by Rob Frohne 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Hi Everyone, I have been recently getting these errors in Evolution 2.6.1. I think it is a client issue, as I don't see them using Thunderbird on the same machine (though I get a lot of "disconnected from servers" from Thunderbird. On Evolution 2.8.1 on another machine I haven't noticed these issues. DATA command failed: Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation. It seems that it happens when my sent messages are attempted to be stored on my IMAP sent folder on the server (running dovecot 1rc15, and OS X. I can't find any hints in the mail.log on the server or the system.log on the server, or the system.log on the client. Any idea on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks, Rob -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla College 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 529-3585 http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/

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Re: [Dovecot] Unsolved : mbox-sync-rewrite.c : assertion failed
by Timo Sirainen 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Looks like I broke keyword handling for mboxes in rc10, fix here: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-October/006632.html

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[Dovecot] problem in rc15 (proxy mode)
by Laurent Papier 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Hi, I have test dovecot on one of my pop3/imap proxies (from rc10 to rc15). I immediately get a lot of error messages like this one : Nov 27 15:10:45 mproxy1 dovecot: pop3-login: file client.c: line 423 (client_unref): assertion failed: (client->destroyed) Nov 27 15:10:45 mproxy1 dovecot: child 21677 (login) killed with signal 6 A lot means one every 2 or 3 seconds. Any suggestion ? ---------------- protocols = pop3 imap disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = yes login_process_size = 64 login_process_per_connection = no login_processes_count = 8 login_max_connections = 256 login_greeting = loktar auth_cache_size = 16384 auth_cache_ttl = 1800 auth_worker_max_count = 30 auth default { mechanisms = plain # Userdb settings are not used with proxy but there need to be something. userdb static { args = static uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/dev/null } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } user = root count = 1 } -- Laurent Papier - 03 88 75 80 50 Admin. système - SdV Plurimedia - <http://www.sdv.fr/>

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[Dovecot] Deliver Root Setuid
by Láďa 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Hi, I just configured my Postfix installation to deliver via Dovecot LDA. But because I use separate uids for virtual domains I had to set deliver to be setuid root. Altough I find this as frequent answer to this problem with deliver LDA I am not a 100% sure - basically because I try to avoid root setuids as much as I can. What should be better solution - to have all mailboxes with one owner or this setuid binary? My main reason for separate uids was filesystem quotas for whole domain. But my mail partition resides on XFS so I can do the same with directory quotas and I also noticed changes in quotas which should be also per domain in some next release or with patch. Thanks for any advice and also thanks for all great work on Dovecot. Láďa

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[Dovecot] Too many open files
by bofh list 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

dovecot: Nov 08 04:04:23 Error: IMAP(user): open() failed with file mailstore/user/Maildir/.Alerts/dovecot.index.log.2: Too many open files dovecot: Nov 08 04:04:23 Error: IMAP(user): open(mailstore/user/Maildir/.Alerts/tmp/1162976663.P4853Q1817.server) failed: Too many open files dovecot: Nov 08 04:04:23 Error: IMAP(user): open() failed with file mailstore/user/Maildir/dovecot.index.tmp: Too many open files Seeing this with both 1.0beta9 and 1.0rc12 This occured when a user was not using the client, however the client(Thunderbird) filtering mechanism was active as their client is left on 24x7. Do we really need to increase individual user maxfiles to >1024 ? Dovecot is set to 31768 so it is definately the user process here. Anything I can tweak in dovecot.conf to prevent this? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Dovecot hung or what?
by Odhiambo WASHINGTON 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Here is my first major problem with dovecot. I am running rc15 on FreeBSD 6.1. I run dovecot supervised by DJB's daemontools. I run only the pop3 service. A colleague informed me that pop3 service was simply not responding. They could not rcv mail. When I checked the server, tail-ing dovecot.log, here is what was scrolling: [wash@nbi ~]$ tail -f /var/log/dovecot.log dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:11 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.200.37.94, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:11 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.200.42.212, lip=196.200.36.2 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:12 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.200.35.130, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:13 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=168.144.108.27, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:14 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=168.144.108.8, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:17 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.200.39.169, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:17 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=41.220.126.2, lip=196.200.38.2 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:17 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.200.39.169, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:18 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.200.37.174, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:19 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.216.68.230, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:22 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.200.45.54, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:26 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.200.35.130, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:27 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.200.45.54, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:28 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=41.220.126.2, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:28 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=196.207.23.28, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:31 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=82.109.38.129, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:32 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=41.222.12.121, lip=196.200.36.2 ^C [wash@nbi ~]$ su Password: nbi# sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan.sh stop Stopping svscan. nbi# sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan.sh start Starting svscan. I then restarted the service .... nbi# nbi# tail -f /var/log/dovecot.log dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:47 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Shutting down: rip=196.200.37.126, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:47 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Shutting down: rip=196.200.39.74, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:47 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Shutting down: rip=196.200.35.146, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:47 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Shutting down: rip=196.200.37.42, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:47 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Shutting down: rip=196.200.46.122, lip=62.8.64.64 dovecot: Nov 23 18:04:50 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up After this, dovecot was now answering as expected. 1. What could the problem be? 2. How can I reproduce it. PS: This has never happened ever since with the previous versions. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash(a)wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ It's lucky you're going so slowly, because you're going in the wrong direction.

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[Dovecot] UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox
by illicoweb, eric 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Hi all, I have some trouble: multiple copies of mail and error messages: IMAP(contact): UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /var/mail/contact Fedora core 5 x86 - dovecot-1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5 Can you help me ? -- thanks, Eric ____________________________________________ Cet email a ete verifie par ILLICOWEB Anti-virus Clamav / Anti-Spam Spamassassin

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[Dovecot] Pop3 migration (was Status of commercial support?)
by Francisco Reyes 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Odhiambo WASHINGTON writes: > | Courier 4 POP migration to dovecot. > > This should be very easy, I think. > Once you know the uidl format used by Courier 4 POP. The migration is Courier 4 to Dovecot using Maildir format. I used some scripts I found on the net and adapted them. I got everything to come over (ie imap subscriptions), except POP3 UIDs. My Courier POP3-uid files look like: /2 19 1164413643 <message file name>,S=28985:2,S 29648 10:1164413643 <message file name>,S=5913:2,S 6042 11:1164413643 <message file name>,S=5121:2, 5236 12:1164413643 <message file name>,S=5257:2, 5373 13:1164413643 <message file name>,S=5106:2, 5215 14:1164413643 <message file name>,S=5618:2, 5745 15:1164413643 <message file name>,S=30619:2, 31353 16:1164413643 <message file name>,S=34785:2, 35609 17:1164413643 <message file name>,S=6695:2, 6852 18:1164413643 My pop3_uidl_format is pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv Looking at what Dovecot generates on a brand new pop account the files look like: 1 1164413643 29 10 <message file name> 11 <message file name> 12 <message file name> 13 <message file name> ... and more with the same format... So I write an AWK script which creates the proper first line and gets for each line the message ID and message file name. Yet after I do the conversion and run a pop3 client against the migrated pop account, old mails are re-downloaded.

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