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[Dovecot] POP3 timeout
by Jason Gretz 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hey guys I have a user's machine that won't drop his POP3 connection, is there a way to set a timeout? I'm not seeing it in the default config or in the webmin module for dovecot, any ideas? Thanks! Jason Gretz Network Admin Angstman Law 208-850-9284 https://companyweb/

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[Dovecot] Correct usage of NFS mounted Maildirs
by Fran Fabrizio 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Dovecot 1.0RC15 running on Fedora Core 5 kernel 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5smp. A SLES10 server (kernel 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp) has the home directories on an ext3 partition mounted with options (rw,acl,user_xattr,usrquota) which is then exposed as an NFS mount with server side options (rw,no_root_squash,no_acl,async). The home directories include Maildirs to which postfix delivers. The Fedora Core 5 dovecot&postfix machine then mounts this NFS mount with options (rw,hard,intr) Dovecot variables: mmap_disable=yes lock_method=dotlock default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/usr/local/dovecot/indexes/%u (only one dovecot server and wanted to see if local indices helped) I didn't turn off the attribute caching of NFS since I only have one dovecot server, I think the wiki said it was safe to leave on in this case. With this configuration, I am seeing a lot of NFS Stale Filehandle errors, even after moving the index files to a local disk. Here's an excerpt from the log: dovecot: Dec 22 11:23:06 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up dovecot: Dec 22 11:23:22 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<nfsuser1>, method=plain, rip=138.26.64.50, lip=138.26.64.5 dovecot: Dec 22 11:23:24 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<nfsuser1>, method=plain, rip=138.26.64.50, lip=138.26.64.5 dovecot: Dec 22 11:24:48 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<nfsuser1>, method=plain, rip=138.26.64.50, lip=138.26.64.5 dovecot: Dec 22 11:26:43 Error: IMAP(nfsuser1): inotify_add_watch(/nethome/facstaff/nfsuser1/Maildir/.Trash/new) failed: Stale NFS file handle dovecot: Dec 22 11:26:43 Error: IMAP(nfsuser1): inotify_add_watch(/nethome/facstaff/nfsuser1/Maildir/new) failed: Stale NFS file handle To be honest, I'm not 100% sure this is a dovecot problem, because I also see that I am getting stale filehandles when postfix tries to deliver the mail to the Maildir, but I'm curious as to whether this is because of something dovecot did because I have it misconfigured. Does anything about my dovecot config provide any clues as to what I might have done wrong? The NFS mounts are completely stable everywhere except within the Maildirs. From the shell, I can run a loop to call 'ls' 1000 times outside of a Maildir and it works fine. Inside a Maildir, I will get Stale NFS Filehandle errors before long. Does this sound like it could have something to do with my Dovecot config, given that it is happening even after I moved indices to the local disk (still getting stale filehandle errors on files like dovecot-keywords). I performed the following procedure: - shut down dovecot - did a rm-rf Maildir on my test account - unmounted the NFS mount /nethome/facstaff - remounted the NFS mount /nethome/facstaff - set the index files to be local in dovecot.conf and created that directory (/usr/local/dovecot/index/) - sent a few test mails to the user (to recreate the Maildir) - started dovecot - logged in (via Thunderbird) to account through dovecot. - read test message - deleted test message - opened shell to dovecot server - cd'ed into user's Maildir - ran 'ls' a few times. Got Stale Filehandle errors after a few. - back in Thunderbird, tried to read/move/delete other test mails, got the above errors in the log. If it's not a dovecot issue I know it's off-topic, but has anyone else seen similar? I might be imagining this, but I think the problem started when I moved from SLES9 to SLES10 for my fileserver (newer kernel, newer version of NFS, perhaps an incompatibility here?) Thanks, Fran

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[Dovecot] Custom mail directory with LDAP
by Maykel Moya 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

For certain users, I have their mail boxes under /srv/mpop/<username>/Maildir. For the rest, I have their mail boxes under /srv/vmail/<username>/Maildir. mpop/ users are stored in LDAP, vmail/ users are local users so I discard the idea of set a fixed mail_location. In dovecot-ldap.conf I can't get the picture to set /srv/mpop/<username>/Maildir as mail. I'd tried user_attrs = /srv/mpop/uid/Maildir=mail but watching the logs I saw that a '/srv/mpop/uid/Maildir' is queried to the LDAP Server. Would be nice to have a user_global_mail equivalent to user_global_uid for LDAP user lookups. Regards, maykel

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[Dovecot] auth unix sockets
by Uldis Pakuls 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi, I'm working on "avelsieve" SqurrelMail plug-in to implement SIEVE "file" back end for dovecot. 1. My be someone my explain me, how to use client auth socket to authenticate against dovecot-auth unix socket. As fas as I understood login must be sent in form "user\0\user\0password" as base64 encoded string. pp code (I'm using socket used by postfix auth): -------------------- <?php $authstr = base64_encode('test@virtual.net\0test@virtual.net\0test'); $fp = fsockopen("unix:///var/spool/postfix/private/auth",0, $errno, $errstr, 30); if (!$fp) { echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n"; } else { $out = "$authstr\r\n"; fwrite($fp, $out); while (!feof($fp)) { echo fgets($fp, 128); } fclose($fp); } ?> ----------------------- Dovecot auth complains about syntax It seems 'auth mech' also is required. thus; how to correctly use dovecot client auth socket to authenticate? (some FAQ?, php sample code?) 2. [most important] dovecot LDA uses auth maser sockets to read userdb and get home directory path to deliver mail and locate sieve scripts. I need some home path to locate users sieve script. Wow to obtain it using dovecot auth sockets? Tnx Uldis

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[Dovecot] Multiple Mailbox Location
by Giuseppe Giacomini 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi, I' m using dovecot v1.0.rc17 on a Centos 4.4 linux box with maildir format. Linux box mounts two LUNs of our Storage Area Network. LUN(a) has been mounted on /home with linux quota enable (small in size , but faster than LUN(b)) LUN(b) has been mounted on /archive with linux quota enable (big in size, but slower than LUN(a) ) I want to create two different private namespaces for our users. The first namespace is used for users' current mail (INBOX,Trash,Sent ....) and is located on faster disk (LUN(a)) The second namespace is used as mail archive. User drags his mail from first namespace to the folders located on the second namespace. This is my namespace definition in dovecot.conf default_mail_env = maildir:/%h/MailDir namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes hidden = yes } namespace private { separator = / prefix = "#Archive/" location = maildir:/archive/%u/MailDir #hidden = yes } This is the output to NAMESPACE command : 02 namespace * NAMESPACE (("#Archive/" "/")) NIL NIL We have a lot of types of client: Outlook >= 2000, Thunderbird, Eudora 7, Squirrellmail 1.4.8 with different behavior regarding namespace. These are my questions: 1) Is my namespace configuration right? Am I missing something? It is a bit different from that at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces 2) If I create a folder under the default namespace (i.e. .test under user MailDir) and add the folder name in namespace's subscription , Outlook and Eudora show me the folder and if I open the subscribe menu' they show me the two namespaces with their folders. With Thunderbird I can't see the created folder under default namespace and if I open the subscribe window I can see only the second namespace "#Archive" (That one not hidden). Is it a Thunderbird problem? Thank you

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[Dovecot] Corrupt Transaction Log?
by Jay Chandler 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Got most of my install woes sorted out. Have Dovecot running on two servers, one for my standard imap deployment, and one for my webmail server. I'm getting a lot of messages like this when my palm Treo syncs. Anyone have any idea what I have set wrong? Jan 17 21:49:57 montreal dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<chandler>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Jan 17 21:49:57 montreal dovecot: IMAP(chandler): Corrupted transaction log file /usr/users/staff/chandler/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Deleted counter wrong Jan 17 21:49:57 montreal dovecot: IMAP(chandler): Disconnected Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / chandler(a)chapman.edu Today's Excuse: PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth file descriptor usage
by Steven F Siirila 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

In dovecot-auth (rc15) we experienced problems when the file descriptors reached 256 (due to a Solaris fdopen() call described previously). The issue was that there was one file descriptor being used for every imap-login and pop3-login process (in our environment of SSL-only that means one for every active IMAP and POP connection). Mods were made (and appear in rc16) to close out the descriptor in question after using it during authentication (as I understand it). However, I am still seeing plenty of file descriptors left open in rc16 (one per session). For example, on a Solaris 9 server with 9 IMAP connections open here is an lsof excerpt of dovecot-auth: dovecot-a 26071 root 7u unix 105,136 0t79 3190 /devices/pseudo/tl@0:ticots->/var/opt/dovecot/run/dovecot/login/default (0x3000d084250) dovecot-a 26071 root 8u unix 105,140 0t80 3190 /devices/pseudo/tl@0:ticots->/var/opt/dovecot/run/dovecot/login/default (0x3c9c4227b68) dovecot-a 26071 root 9u unix 105,149 0t79 3190 /devices/pseudo/tl@0:ticots->/var/opt/dovecot/run/dovecot/login/default (0x3cbaa7680b8) dovecot-a 26071 root 10u unix 105,266 0t79 3190 /devices/pseudo/tl@0:ticots->/var/opt/dovecot/run/dovecot/login/default (0x3cbaa765d48) dovecot-a 26071 root 11u unix 105,160 0t79 3190 /devices/pseudo/tl@0:ticots->/var/opt/dovecot/run/dovecot/login/default (0x3cbaa7667e0) dovecot-a 26071 root 12u unix 105,255 0t79 3190 /devices/pseudo/tl@0:ticots->/var/opt/dovecot/run/dovecot/login/default (0x3cbaa769288) dovecot-a 26071 root 13r DOOR 265,0 0t0 50 /var/run (swap) (door to nscd[7752]) dovecot-a 26071 root 14u unix 105,258 0t79 3190 /devices/pseudo/tl@0:ticots->/var/opt/dovecot/run/dovecot/login/default (0x30002dc4008) dovecot-a 26071 root 15u unix 105,282 0t80 3190 /devices/pseudo/tl@0:ticots->/var/opt/dovecot/run/dovecot/login/default (0x30003185738) dovecot-a 26071 root 16u unix 105,141 0t80 3190 /devices/pseudo/tl@0:ticots->/var/opt/dovecot/run/dovecot/login/default (0x30003185ac8) With the modification made, shouldn't these no longer accumulate? -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: sfs(a)umn.edu Office of Information Technology Voice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593

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[Dovecot] Dovecot cannot find passwd-file
by craig carriere 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Posted this once before, but am still having problems. I have dovecot 1.0 rc15 running with postfix 2.3 on a SLES 10 server. With local user and /etc/passwd /pam authentication my local user can retrieve mail. I am now adding a virtual domain and have postifx relaying correctly. I want to have dovecot pull passwd and userdb from two files. When setting passwd-file to /etc/dovecot/passwd the system states that the file does not exist but it does. It does not appear to be a permissions issue; is this a path issue relative to chroot? Would appreciate some input; I have found others with the same issues but have not seen a solution posted. Thanks --------------------------------- Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot deliver and procmail
by Václav Hůla 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Hi, I have site w. around 7000 users, most of which have some procmail rules (theres even .procmailrc in /etc/skel with rule to put spam into spam folder). Afaik dovecot's deliver doesnt understand procmail rules, so i'd like to ask if its possible to configure procmail so it saves mail using deliver, without modifying users .procmailrc Thanks for any pointers, Vaclav Hula

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[Dovecot] Index corruption causes child process to die
by Juha Saarinen 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

My recent migration from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot has been marred by these errors: Oct 24 12:12:40 server dovecot: IMAP(juha): Fixed index file ~user/Maildir/.Geekzone/dovecot.index: first_recent_uid_lowwater 431 -> 430 Oct 24 12:12:40 server dovecot: IMAP(juha): Corrupted index file ~user/Maildir/.Geekzone/dovecot.index: Duplicate header extension keywords Oct 24 12:12:40 server dovecot: child 5786 (imap) killed with signal 11 They happen with Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 and I'm using Dovecot 1.0RC7 from the FreeBSD ports. I think the index corruption may be caused by Tbird's message filtering - I'm asking it to filter certain messages from INBOX to subfolders. When the error occurs, Tbird pops up an error message saying it can't connect to the mail server, but I don't lose any messages it seems. Instead, I get duplicates and even triplicates when I restart Tbird. Any work around for this? -- Juha http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha

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