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[Dovecot] 1.0-test73
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Two potentially dangerous changes: - mbox parser should now be able to handle CR+LF linefeeds. Hopefully doesn't break anything. - Some mail header parser changes. Hopefully doesn't break anything. And other stuff: - COPY shouldn't crash anymore with 64bit systems - If PAM modifies username, keep it - When auth workers died they leaked file descriptors in dovecot-auth - Auth workers were leaking memory for each request - Make MySQL connect abort in 10 seconds if it can't connect - 32bit UID/GIDs were truncated to 31bit value - dovecot-auth reports cache hits and misses on SIGUSR2

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: master/config rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 19:27 +0900, Peter Evans wrote: > > > 32602 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/config > > > 32603 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/log > > > This is very lucid. Only argument I can see against is that solaris > > uses /nn to mark number of threads on a process (eg prstat). My vote > > will be on slashes before dashes any day. > > Or that solaris doesnt have setproctitle The above is done by modifying argv[0] before exec()ing. setproctitle() doesn't matter..

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[Dovecot] master/config rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

I've finally got it to work, kind of .. It should allow you to log in, but several settings don't work yet and there are probably many bugs. Anyway, I thought I'd show this already in case someone is interested of looking how it works :) One thing I'm still wondering a bit is if I should show process names as: 32602 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/config 32603 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/log 32604 ? Ss 0:00 dovecot 32606 ? S 0:00 dovecot/imap-login 32607 ? S 0:00 dovecot/auth -s 3 Or if I should name the binaries all as dovecot-config, dovecot-log, etc. One nice thing with the above is that it also shows imap and imap-login processes while grepping for dovecot. You can get the tarball from http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot-1.0-test67-mrewrite.tar.gz (it has all the test73 changes despite the name..) Example configuration file (with bare minimals) is at http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot.conf I think I'll create a separate dovecot-master.conf for those service-blocks in the above config file (after I add include-directive to config file parser code). After the code is working better, I'll commit it to CVS and it'll be in future -test releases.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot stable slow
by Loren M. Lang 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

A few days ago I installed dovecot stable to replace uw-imap. The install went well and all boxes were converted ok. When accessing the new imap server though, certain operations seem much slower, in particular, moving mail between boxes is very slow, and I have received several complaints from users that the mail server has slowed down. I can't figure out what the slow point is as maildir should be faster than mbox. -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2

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[Dovecot] Pop-before-smtp issue
by Rob Kettle 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hi, I'm trying to use pop-before-smtp with Dovecot IMAP (not running pop3). Pop-before-smtp has fixes to work with the fact that Thunderbird holds the Dovecot Imap connection open and therefore doesn't record regular 'login' entries in maillog. Problem is that pop-before-smtp relies on Dovecot recording a disconnect in the maillog when an Imap client disconnects. Dovecot doesn't seem log disconnects. How can I get it to do this please ? Regards Rob -- This message has been scanned for viruses and other dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] Quota
by Josh Kelley 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

We're getting ready to set up a new mail server running dovecot 0.99.11 (CentOS 4) with maildir and filesystem quotas. I saw on the Dovecot web site that "hard filesystem quota can also be problematic." How problematic? What problems might we anticipate? Thanks. Josh Kelley

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[Dovecot] Can't see existing mail folders
by Chris Green 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I have installed dovecot version 0.99.11 on my Slackware 10.1 system recently and it basically works as expected. However I can't get it to 'see' existing mbox hierarchies. I have the following in dovecot.conf:- default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u (I also originally tried with %h/Mail) IMAP MUAs can see the INBOX OK but I can't get them to see any of the mail in $HOME/Mail. There certainly is lots of mail there, 250Mb or so of it, and a local mutt can see it without problems. Am I missing something obvious or will dovecot only see mail and folders that it's created itself? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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[Dovecot] multiple authentication mechanisms, many problems
by Jani Karlsson 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

dovecot: Jun 11 23:57:56 Info: auth(default): pam(testi(a)irkkaa.net,83.145.196.129): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure tried also debugging whats wrong with it, it queries ok, the password in the query is ok and everything. but it never replies +OK. that connection just halts after PASS command. Tried IMAP, same result. config: (dovecot.conf, PLAIN etc all enabled) passdb pam { args = * } passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb passwd { } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT username as user, password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT concat('/usr/local/virtual/',maildir) as home, 207 AS uid,208 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' postfixadmin-format mysql-DB, mails in /usr/local/virtual/user@domain/Maildir Any ideas where stuff could go wrong? Passwords in the MySQL are cleartext and checked that query returns right values. Yet authentication-phase just gets stuck. System is hardned Gentoo-Linux (2.6.11r13-grsec)

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[Dovecot] Question regarding dovecot 0.99.14 & 1.0 stable
by Sebastiaan de Vogel 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hi all, For several day's now I've been attempting to get Dovecot working, but without much success so far. I've compiled both 0.99.14 and the latest 1.0 stable version with mysql support, which seems to be working for the 0.99.14. Unfortunately version 1.0 stable wont start and quits with this: dovecot: Jun 13 16:44:47 Error: child 27346 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 13 16:44:48 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down Version 0.99.14 starts though! I've not included my dovecot.conf and dovecot-mysql conf here because of their size, if you need them please ask me by email. This version seems to work, I can see the databse getting queried, and can get authenticated. After authentication it just says this: dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT clear FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = 'sebastiaan(a)**.**' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id; dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT maildir||'/sebastiaan' as home, uid, gid FROM domains WHERE domain = '**.**'; pop3-login: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Internal login failure: sebastiaan(a)**.** [**.**.215.237] dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: MySQL: connected to localhost dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 8 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 8 sent handshake: PID 15133 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 9 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 9 sent handshake: PID 15149 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 10 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 10 sent handshake: PID 15124 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 11 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 11 sent handshake: PID 15126 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 12 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 12 sent handshake: PID 15127 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 13 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 13 sent handshake: PID 15129 The client gets disconnected and just says this: +OK dovecot ready. user sebastiaan(a)**.** +OK pass blabla +OK Logged in. BYE Internal login failure. Error report written to server log. Does anyone have any suggestions to get Dovecot to work please? Thanks in advance Sebastiaan

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[Dovecot] chroot directory question
by Lisa C Boyd 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I am setting up dovecot for imap on a new Fedora 3 box. Through SquirrelMail I can access my email - no problem. However my other users are getting this error message: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: CAPABILITY Looking in the maillog file for further error details gives me this: dovecot: chroot directory no included in valid_chroot_dirs: /home/user Looking through the dovecot.conf file I see where it says not to add in home directories under valid_chroot_dirs if the users have access to those directories. So I'm stuck now as to what I need to add to the conf file and I'm a little confused as to why it works for my email account and not the other users. Everything with these user accounts is setup the same (same maildir format, etc.). Thanks for any help :) Lisa B.

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