May 2005 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] utime() failed: Value too large for defined data type
by Brian Hechinger 22 May '05

22 May '05

i have recently rebuilt dovecot on my mail server as i wanted to add SSL support for it. well, my OpenSSL libs are 64-bit, so what they hey, i'll build dovecot 64-bit as well. worked just fine, no issues at all. the setup is: Solaris 9/SPARC Sun C compiler Dovecot 0.99.14 after rebuilding it 64-bit, i now have a small problem however. I cannot save messages to IMAP folders from Mail.app on OSX 10.3.9. OE6 and mutt work fine, no problems there, but when I try to save a message from Mail.app, it tells me it couldn't save the message and i get the folloing in my log file on the mail server: May 19 16:24:37 wiggum.4amlunch.net imap(paula): [ID 702911 mail.error] utime() failed for /usr/home/paula/Maildir/.Sent Items/tmp/1116534277.P10885Q0M105223.wiggum.4amlunch.net: Value too large for defined data type does anyone have any clue as to what could be the cause of this? i would say simple 64-bit uncleanliness issue, but why doesn't it also affect OE6 or mutt? there is some way that Mail.app accesses IMAP that is specifically tickling this problem. thank you very much for your time, and if there is any other information you might need to track this down, please ask and i'll get it right away. -brian -- "I fear death only slightly more than I hate my life." --8-bit Theater

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[Dovecot] Active Directory Auth
by Juan Pablo Fava 20 May '05

20 May '05

Hi, this is my fist post :) I'm trying to authenticate users to Active Directory, but I don´t know how to set up dovecot-ldap.conf to do this. Specially user_filter and pass_filter attrs. Does someone have this configuration working? Thanks in advance. -- Juan Pablo Fava Ing. en Sistemas de Información

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[Dovecot] dovecot deliver question
by Reuben Farrelly 17 May '05

17 May '05

Hi Timo, How much of the code base is shared between dovecot-lda and the dovecot CVS? I'm asking because when I tried out 'deliver' a few weeks ago I was seeing all sorts of nasty index corruption errors in the logs...and obviously lots of fixes have gone into core dovecot (but haven't seen many go into dovecot-lda) Reuben

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-stable rpms
by Topher Fischer 17 May '05

17 May '05

I've been searching, and I can't find any rpms of dovecot stable for RHEL 4. Does anybody know where I can get one? Ever since we went from IMAP-UW to Dovecot, we've been having frequent problems with mbox corruption, and I've read that 1.0 fixes many of those types of problems. Has anybody else found an rpm for RHEL 4 of any Dovecot greater than 1.0? -- Topher Fischer System Administrator - TMCB 1140 GnuPG Fingerprint: 3597 1B8D C7A5 C5AF 2E19 EFF5 2FC3 BE99 D123 6674 javert42(a)cs.byu.edu

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[Dovecot] Error in config
by Brent Clark 17 May '05

17 May '05

Hi Im trying dovecot for the first time, and I would like to get shared mail folders to work. I came acress this content (copied and pasted below). and the error I get is: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 204: Expecting '=' ===================================================== default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes hidden = no } namespace public { separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/var/mail/public inbox = no hidden = no } namespace shared { separator = / prefix = Accounts/ location = maildir:/var/mail/accounts inbox = no hidden = no } =================================================== If anyone has and tips or advice etc, it would be most appreciated. Kind Regards Brent Clark

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[Dovecot] Corrupted transaction log file, dotlocks..?
by John and Catherine Allen 16 May '05

16 May '05

I'm new to Dovecot but I've been able to get it up and running on a test basis without too much difficulty. I'm running dovecot-stable-20050508 with maildir, under Linux (an old Gentoo setup that's been stable for about 2,5 years). Mail client is Thunderbird. However, in the course of experimentally copying the accumulated household email (95000 emails from the last 10 years) from the existing IMAP server (UW-IMAP) using imapsync, I'm seeing some problems. While copying the 1000 or so messages from the main INBOX, Dovecot seems to hang after 50-100 messages and the following lines appear in the server log: May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): utime(/home/allen/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock) failed: No such file or directory May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Our dotlock file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock was deleted May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Corrupted transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1827, but next_uid = 1828 May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Lost transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 4 May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Lost transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 4 May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Corrupted transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1827, but next_uid = 1828 May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Lost transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 4 [...20 identical lines deleted....] May 15 18:48:27 [dovecot] imap-login: Login: allen [192.168.0.1] May 15 18:48:57 [dovecot] imap-login: Login: allen [192.168.0.1] May 15 18:48:57 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted I can restart after deleting the dovecot files in ~/Maildir, but the problem recurs. In other folders I've been able to copy large numbers of emails successfully with imapsync. I've not experienced any problems while accessing the folders with Thunderbird. I can't relate these log messages to anything in the configuration file or the documentation, so I'm wondering if I can ask for help? John -- John Allen Bofferdange, Luxembourg allen(a)vo.lu http://www.homepages.lu/allen

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[Dovecot] redhat+dovecot+sendmail problem
by Magnus Polson 15 May '05

15 May '05

I got problem i don't know how to solve. Everything is working fine except that i cant send any html or attachments to the server....they never come to the inbox.. what can be wrong? -- _______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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[Dovecot] new-attrib lost when calling through pop3
by Marten Lehmann 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hi, I noticed, that all messages are moved from new/ to cur/ (using maildirs) after the authentication in pop3, even before the list command. I'm working with 1.0-stable-20050426. Why is this done? Shouldn't a message keep it's new-attrib as long as it isn't retrieved? This is how it worked with qmail-pop3d. Through imap, it works correctly. It's just sad if I can't distinguish between older and new emails with imap, just because I logged in through pop3 shortly before. Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] fcntl lock timout on maildir format Trash .index file under OpenBSD sparc64
by Dale J. Robertson 15 May '05

15 May '05

Whenever I attempt to retrieve or delete mail (Using thunderbird win client) operation takes several minutes. right before completion posts the following error to maillog: May 14 10:22:04 NAPUtil imap(djrobert): Timeout while waiting for release of shared fcntl() lock for index file /home/djrobert/Maildir/.Trash/.imap.index deleting the index file speeds up the operation once. subsequent operations are slow again I don't know what other process is placing a lock on the file. or how to clear it. I am running the 9914p0 package distributed with a march 11 3.7 snapshot (OS loaded from the same snapshot). I previously was running the release 3.6 OS and the Dovecot package that came with the CD. both installs exhibit the same behavior. Both Dovecot and postfix are configured with fcntl locking only. What the heck am I doing wrong? Thanks, Dale

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[Dovecot] Segfault in imap process
by Todd Burroughs 15 May '05

15 May '05

I'm running the CVS version from May 9. I've seen these errors in the log file before (every time I open my mailbox), but this is the first time it crashed. Todd dovecot: May 11 15:00:18 Error: 8438 IMAP(todd.bluegenesis.com): Corrupted index cache file /mailhome/new/t/b/todd.bluegenesis.com/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Duplicated field in header: hdr.RESENT-TO dovecot: May 11 15:02:00 Error: child 8438 (imap) killed with signal 11 Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. (gdb) bt full #0 0x08074d10 in index_mail_get_flags (_mail=0x80c86d0) at index-mail.c:162 data = (struct index_mail_data *) 0x80c8734 #1 0x0808c86d in mail_get_flags (mail=0xb7c71834) at mail.c:32 No locals. #2 0x0805a6a5 in fetch_flags (ctx=0x80bee70, mail=0x80c86d0, context=0x0) at imap-fetch.c:444 flags = Variable "flags" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0x08074d10 in index_mail_get_flags (_mail=0x80c86d0) at index-mail.c:162 #1 0x0808c86d in mail_get_flags (mail=0xb7c71834) at mail.c:32 #2 0x0805a6a5 in fetch_flags (ctx=0x80bee70, mail=0x80c86d0, context=0x0) at imap-fetch.c:444 #3 0x0805abdc in imap_fetch (ctx=0x80bee70) at imap-fetch.c:264 #4 0x0805676b in cmd_fetch (cmd=0x80bcb98) at cmd-fetch.c:165 #5 0x08059635 in _client_input (context=0x80bcb58) at client.c:334 #6 0x0809e1da in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #7 0x0809d8f9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop.c:218 #8 0x08060537 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa84, envp=0xbffffa8c) at main.c:228 (gdb) frame #0 0x08074d10 in index_mail_get_flags (_mail=0x80c86d0) at index-mail.c:162 162 data->flags = data->rec->flags & MAIL_FLAGS_MASK; (gdb) p data->rec $3 = (const struct mail_index_record *) 0xb7c71834 (gdb) p data->rec->flags Cannot access memory at address 0xb7c71838

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