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[Dovecot] corrupted .imap.index.log
by Fredrick Backman 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi, I'm using version 0.99.10.8 on debian 2.4.26 and am getting this problem, can someone please shed some light over this? Aug 31 13:58:58 xxx imap(someone): file_wait_lock() failed with modify log file /var/mail/someone_new/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.log: Resource temporarily unavailable and then: Aug 31 14:00:58 xxx imap(someone): Couldn't lock modify log file /var/mail/someone_new/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.log and finally: Aug 31 14:26:35 xxx imap(someone): Corrupted modify log file /var/mail/someone_new/Maildir/.INBOX/.imap.index.log: used_file_size larger than real file size (4096 vs 2576) MTA is qmail 1.03 (with procmail v3.22) TIA, Fredrick -- Systemadministration EsPresto AG ----------------------------------------------------------------- backman(a)espresto.com Breite Str. 30-31 Tel/Fax: +49.30.90 226.750/.760 10178 Berlin/Germany

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[Dovecot] Assertion failed in buffer.c
by news.gmane.org 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2 I have had a report from a user that when accessing their inbox, the connection is suddenly dropped. Dovecot reports the following:- imap(user): file buffer.c: line 357 (buffer_set_start_pos): assertion failed: (abs_pos <= I_MIN(buf->used, buf->limit)) From searching the list, I found an indication that it is a problem with an individual message. As the user has rather a large number of emails, how can I isolate the message? Regards -- Chris Hills IT Services North East Worcestershire College

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RE:UPDATE: [Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/user1
by Zoong Pham 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org > [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On > Behalf Of Zoong Pham > Sent: Thursday, 2 September 2004 4:09 PM > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: [Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/user1 > > I lately see lots of message like this in my maillog: > > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3-login: Login: user1 [203.11.35.29] > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3(tekciz): File isn't in mbox > format: /var/mail/user1 > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3(tekciz): File isn't in mbox > format: /var/mail/user1 Oop, I changed the login name from tekciz to user1 to protect the client's privacy but I missed the above lines :-( > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3: I/O leak: 0x1c00881c (0) > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3: I/O leak: 0x1c034f1c (1) > Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3: Timeout leak: 0x1c01a3e8 > > I have: > - OS: OpenBSD-3.5 with all the patches. > - Sendmail 8.12.11 > - dovecot-0.99.10.9 The POP3 client is MDaemon (http://www.altn.com/) Thanks ___________________________________________________________________________________ THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo *

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[Dovecot] File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/user1
by Zoong Pham 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

I lately see lots of message like this in my maillog: Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3-login: Login: user1 [203.11.35.29] Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3(tekciz): File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/user1 Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3(tekciz): File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/user1 Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3: I/O leak: 0x1c00881c (0) Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3: I/O leak: 0x1c034f1c (1) Sep 1 11:12:31 onion pop3: Timeout leak: 0x1c01a3e8 I have: - OS: OpenBSD-3.5 with all the patches. - Sendmail 8.12.11 - dovecot-0.99.10.9 (configured like this: ./configure --without-pam --without-shadow --without-vpopmail --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --with-ssl=openssl Does anyone know what's happening? Thanks, Zoong PHAM ___________________________________________________________________________________ THIS EMAIL IS CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this email in error please forward it to information(a)mercy.com.au. It may contain personal information and it is intended for the addressee only. If you receive this email in error you must not use, copy forward, print or otherwise disseminate any information it contains. Mercy Health & Aged Care is a Catholic community benefit organisation. Each year one in twenty Victorian families are touched by the services we provide. Visit www.mercy.com.au for more information. Our services include: * Mercy Hospital for Women - East Melbourne (moving to Heidelberg in 2005) * Werribee Mercy Hospital - Werribee * Mount Alvernia Mercy Hospital - Bendigo * Mercy Hospice - Western suburbs * O'Connell Family Centre - Canterbury * Corporate Office - Richmond * Rice Village - Geelong * Tullamore Mercy - Montrose * Eventide Mercy - Colac * Bethlehem Home for the Aged - Bendigo *

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[Dovecot] sig11 with test36/37 on some emails
by Peter Hessler 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Sometimes I'll get an email from a luser which will cause the POP3 daemon to sig11. The email "appears" to be legal. The sig11s only happen on specific emails, and once I remove the emails from the server, the rest can be downloaded. I gzipped the email, and its at http://theapt.org/bogusemail.gz. While this example is international spam, the sig11s happen with real emails too. -- Entropy isn't what it used to be.

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[Dovecot] Strange behavior
by DR 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Hi, I'm using dovecot under fedora core 2. Nearly everything seems to work. Dovecot was easily to configure and is a really smart program. BUT ... I figured out a problem. Whenever I fetch my mails (pop3s) using Outlook, TheBat or Pegasus, the mails on the server will not be marked as read. Sometimes I don't have a nice GUI mail client, than I use pine (I love it, but I won't feed the trolls ;-)). All messages, which I have already received are marked as new in pine or my webinterface squirrelmail. It seems, that dovecot doesn't mark the messages as read after fetching them. There are no strange entries in the logs, nothing which seems to be mysterious. Can anyone help me? This problem teases me. Cheers, DuRu

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[Dovecot] starting/stopping Dovecot
by Tom Metro 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

http://www.dovecot.org/doc/INSTALL > Once everything is configured, there's two ways to start Dovecot: > > 1) Run "dovecot" binary which does everything. > > 2) Start it via inetd or similiar by executing "imap-login" or "pop3-login" > binaries. If you're listening in SSL port, add --ssl parameter. What are the pros and cons of using 'dovecot' vs. inetd. This may seem silly, but I noticed that there isn't any documentation saying what is the proper way to kill Dovecot. I assume it is to kill the 'dovecot' process. This is indirectly addressed in the Wiki: 6. Why can't I change the log location? http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/QuestionsAndAnswers#head-c9650f53dd4f7ca2b… though the first few examples refer to <pid> without identifying the pid of what. Maybe adding a "How do I start Dovecot?" and "How do I stop Dovecot?" as the first two items on that page would be a good idea, and then the log file question and "7.1 Dovecot isn't running." and "8. Why doesn't Dovecot listen on localhost (127.0.0.1)?" could refer to those. (If this sounds reasonable, I'll update the Wiki.) Any plans to support a /var/run/dovecot/pid file or similar? What are your thoughts on including an init.d script in the distribution. I know some of the binary distributions will have platform-specific scripts included, but it might be good to include a generic one for those who build from source. -Tom

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[Dovecot] 0.99.11 release candidate
by Timo Sirainen 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ So, we're back into 3 digit version numbers, 0.99.10.10 would have looked too ugly. Originally I was planning on making 0.99.10.x series only for a few months and leave 0.99.11 for the larger changes, but 1.0- tests are now used for that. Version numbering is difficult. So, assuming there are no problems found from this RC, I'll release 0.99.11 tomorrow. Changes are: + 127.* and ::1 IP addresses are treated as secured with disable_plaintext_auth = yes + auth_debug setting for extra authentication debugging + Some documentation and error message updates - If APPENDed mail ended with CR character, Dovecot aborted the saving - Output streams sometimes sent data duplicated and lost part of it. This could have caused various strange problems, but looks like in practise it rarely caused real problems.

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[Dovecot] User Auth problems
by Nikolaus Gerstmayr 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

Hi ! Problem: Auth doesn't work, can't figure out why :( More precisely: setup: dovecot 0.99.10.9 pop3 only Userdb + Passwd via passwd-file. Anything plaintext. (communication client server, passwords in passwd-file, well, for first tests non public server... if I get it working, I'll try better ways - of course) non standard parts of my config: protocols = pop3 ssl_disable = yes auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd-file /passwd_file auth_passdb = passwd-file /passwd_file auth_verbose = yes /passwd_file content: nick#sales.blabla:{PLAIN}test:500:500::::/mail/nick well, syntax is not 100% obvious from docu, but that's the way I understood it. (examples would be nice) That's how I understood semantics: If client sends user nick#sales.blabla and password test, dovecot accesses /mail/nick (maildir) with UID 500, GID 500 ???? problem: Auth fails. In logfiles I get this: dovecot-auth: Aug 30 22:36:20 Info: mech-plain(nick#sales.blabla): invalid username. (So no typo in mail client account setup or anytihng like this). Of course clients says auth fialed as well. Well, nick#sales.blabla is not a user on the test machine, but that's on purpose. It IS in /passwd-file :/ Anyone any idea ? Thx i.A for help !

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] [RFC] epoll based ioloop handler (now with patch)
by Andrey Panin 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Sorry, I forgot to attach patch to previous mail. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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