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mail_location hashing & lowercasing?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

Currently, I'm using mail_location = mdbox:/var/spool/mail/%Ld/%Ln/mdbox Now I want to add a partitioning (so I don'T have all directories in one single directory), but can't find the right syntax: mail_location = mdbox:/var/spool/mail/%Ld/<HASHING HERE>/%Ln/mdbox It seems like I'd need to use %N (new hash) on %Ln and then take a substring of that. %2NLn 2 Characters of the %N hash of %Ln (the lowercase username) But this gives me a verbatim "Ln" on the path! -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein

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Need help to compile and install a minimal dovecot imap plugin
by Stefan Arentz 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

I am trying to create a plugin that adds a new IMAP capability. So far I have this: const char *foo_plugin_version = DOVECOT_ABI_VERSION; static struct module *foo_module; static imap_client_created_func_t *next_hook_client_created; static void foo_client_created(struct client **client) { str_append((*client)->capability_string, " XFOO"); if (next_hook_client_created != NULL) { next_hook_client_created(client); } } void foo_plugin_init(struct module *module) { i_info(“init”); foo_module = module; next_hook_client_created = imap_client_created_hook_set(foo_client_created); } void foo_plugin_deinit(void) { i_info(“deinit”); imap_client_created_hook_set(next_hook_client_created); } const char foo_plugin_binary_dependency[] = "imap”; On Fedora 20, with the dovecot and dovecot-devel packages installed, I compile this with: cc -Wall -shared -fPIC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/include/dovecot -o lib20_foo_plugin.so foo-plugin.c And then install with: sudo cp lib20_foo_plugin.so /usr/lib64/dovecot/ (I also have mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot in 10-mail.conf) I enable this plugin in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-imap.conf with: protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins foo } But … nothing happens. No warnings, no errors, no crashes. How do I debug this? Am I missing something obvious? Does the naming of the plugin matter? S.

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Tarballs for dovecot 1.2.17 and pigenhole where to find it?
by Benny Pedersen 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

Just like to have in case i need to rebuild from source on gentoo, since i change mysql from 5.1 to 5.5 slot i think dovecot need rebuilding

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Misleading error message when case-insensitive file/dir names from config files clash with case-sensitive file system.
by Info Akra 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

Hi, Is it noted somewhere that Dovecot (v 2.0.9) doesn’t use case in directory names in its config-files? I found that out the hard way (i.e. a week of debugging)!! in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf, the line: unix_listener /var/spool/postOut/auth/dovecot-auth { creates a: Jul 29 22:15:58 server dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): unlink(/var/run/dovecot/) failed: Is a directory but unix_listener /var/spool/postout/auth/dovecot-auth { works just fine (with matching case changes on the directory names themselves). That’s on running on Ubuntu 12.04.4 TLS, standard installation from apt-get, in cooperation with Postfix 2.0.9. — Hugo

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Dsync setup... help needed
by Sinergizmas Sin ergizmas 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

Hello, I tried to implement Dsync (doveadm version 2.2.10) following https://www.evilcoder.org/2014/08/22/automatic-replication-with-dovecot/ but had no luck. SSH commands working quite well, but I need to respond more quickly. So TCP looks promising. I have Centos 6, Dovecot 2.2.10. I did everything that is written there, but after I restart dovecot doesn't sync. Then i ran netstat command but no service listen to port 12345 also. Iptables service are of in testing scenario...

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Migrating courier to dovecot
by Patrick Lion 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Hi, i want to migrate the following setup: postfix / courier-{imap/s,pop3/s,authlib} / maildrop / mysql I´m using the maildir format and quotas as well. My target is the following setup: postfix / dovecot / some sort of quota respecting lda / mysql What i`ve done already: SQL-Implementation for dovecot, login process and also sending mails via auth-userdb is already working. Quotas are read out from database and working. Before i mention my problems while implementing, here is the config im using at this time: # 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.14.14-gentoo x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.2 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = syslog login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m ip=%r mpid=%e mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:.maildir mail_plugins = quota namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = .maildir mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = INBOX. separator = . } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = %u quota_rule2 = trash:storage=+150M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = mail mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mail mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota } grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=postfix user=postfix password=thereisone default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT password_query = \ SELECT username, password \ FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = \ SELECT concat('/', home, user, '/', destinationname) AS home, uid, gid, \ concat('*:storage=', round(quota / 1000 * 1.024)) AS quota_rule \ FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' Where user is the row where the admin-panel user is stored and username is the mbox-user. My problem is the LDA, with dovecot-lda im having the uid / gid trouble and i really dont want to suid oder sudo it. dovecot-lmtp just gives me status=deferred (host xx.xx[/var/run/dovecot/lmtp] said: 451 4.3.0 <box(a)xx.xx> Temporary internal error (in reply to end of DATA command)) Postfix virtual is working as well as maildrop, but no dovecot-implementation wants to, i also didnt find anything about the error above, except a bug in v2.2.2 and a google groups thread where users are just blaming each others for nothing .. I want to use a dovecot lda/lmtp because the quota settings for trash-folders are very nice and reducing my support times but im stuck at getting one of the dovecot-LDAs to work. Let me know if you need any additional information. Any help is greatly appreciated! -- Viele Grüße / Best regards Patrick

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Multiple A Records for IMAP service
by Vijay Rajah 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Hello All, I have a quick question. I have 2 MX servers each with a Dovecot Instances (2.2.6). These 2 Dovecot Instances are replicated by using Dsync... All works well. The questions is, Can I have 2 A records for my imap.mydomain.tld? The Idea being, if for any reason, one of the Dovecot IMAP instances are unreachable, the client can connect to the other Instance. (this is purely a fail over scenario). If it matters, The clients are Thunderbird, Android Native (default) Mail client, iOS Mail Client. -Thanks in advance Vijay

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Re: About Dovecot cluster and filesystems...
by Listas＠Adminlinux 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Thank you Andreas!! > If you keep two separate storage areas you will have to figure out > how to sync them. But Dovecot Replication with dsync via tcp solves it. Right? Regards -- Thiago Henrique Em 29-08-2014 08:41, Andreas Kasenides escreveu: > This is what http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Director says. > If you keep two separate storage areas you will have to figure out how > to sync them. > And then make sure to keep the sync running smoothly and efficiently > without hick-ups. > Otherwise the potential exists that the users will see different things > upon login (at least temporarily). > > Andreas

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Documentation for /usr/lib/dovecot/imap executable
by Christoph Groth 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Dear Dovecot experts, I'm in the process of setting up dovecot with mbsync as a local cache for remote IMAP servers. One recipe that I found involves using the /usr/lib/dovecot/imap (This is with Debian's dovecot package). For example, in .mbsyncrc I have IMAPAccount cwg-wf-local RequireSSL no Tunnel "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:/home/cwg/.mail/cwg-wf" This works, but I wonder: is there any documentation for the /usr/lib/dovecot/imap executable? What options does it take? If there's no documentation: where can I find this command in dovecot's sources? Thank you, Christoph

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Postfix + dovecot setup
by Timothy Murphy 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

I'm trying to clarify the various ways in which I could set up Postfix + Dovecot + SpamAssassin under CentOS-7, and I'd welcome any comments on the following remarks. As far as I can see there are 3 standard ways of setting this up: 1. Use amavisd 2. Use dovecot + pigeonhole/sieve 3. Use spamass-milter At present I'm following (2), but am thinking of going over to (1), since this seems simpler. (Amavisd wasn't available when I set up CentOS-7, so I didn't consider it then.) It seems to me that (2) is using dovecot in a slightly odd way, since as far as I can see dovecot normally takes email from ~/Maildir/cur/ and then moves marked spam. I'm not quite sure if (3) is a genuine alternative, or if it is why it is not the standard? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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