February 2006 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Error "make install" of dovecot 1.0b3
by David A. Lee 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

I just downloaded dovecot 1.0b3 and running "make install" gives me an error This seems like a fairly simple bug in the Makefile ... but I'm not sure if maybe its a symptom of something more complex. I've tried "make uninstall" , "make install" and removing the entire /usr/local/lib/dovecot tree and same thing. dovecot does run ... but for other reasons I'm having problems getting it to work so thinking maybe this error could explain things System: Linux [root@lee dovecot-1.0.beta3]# uname -a Linux lee.calldei.com 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 #1 Tue May 17 20:27:37 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux CPU: x86 Filesystem: standard linux fs. FYI: the "other problem" is I had to modify main.c to listen on alternate ports because I cant shut down my current UofW IMAP server to test this one ... ------- mkdir -p -- /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda for d in imap pop3 lda; do \ rm -f /usr/local/lib/dovecot/$d/lib02_trash_plugin.so; \ ln -s ../lib01_convert_plugin.so /usr/local/lib/dovecot/$d; \ done ln: `/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists make[4]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 [root@lee dovecot-1.0.beta3]# ln: `/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists

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[Dovecot] Virtual-Auth-Problem "user unknown"
by strace＠letras.net 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

After setting up dovecot 1.0beta-2 on a debian(etch) system I can well login as local user but not vor virtual domains. When I try to login via POP3 as via IMAP connects (here with telnet from localhost), I get a strange output "user unknown": ------------------------- /var/log/dovecot ------------------------- 2006-02-28 01:07:38 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AHh5ekBub3JhLmxpAGRrc2RrU20= 2006-02-28 01:07:38 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(xyz(a)nora.li,127.0.0.1): unknown user 2006-02-28 01:07:39 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=xyz(a)nora.li 2006-02-28 01:07:40 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<xyz(a)nora.li>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured The abobe test user xyz(a)nora.li exists an receives valid email via postfix (see below in ls -laR). My configuration (user dovecot exists with uid 119): ------------------------- /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ------------------------- base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " syslog_facility = mail login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 3 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_logging_users = 256 login_greeting = Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format = %$: %s max_mail_processes = 1024 verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes first_valid_uid = 200 mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes protocol imap { mail_use_modules = yes mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv mail_use_modules = no mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/vmail/passwd.%d } userdb static { args = uid=200 gid=200 home=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n } user = root } ------------------------- /etc/passwd ------------------------- vmail:x:200:200::/home/vmail:/bin/sh - that's the user postfix brings mail in ------------------------- /etc/group ------------------------- vmail:x:200: ---------------------------------------- `ls -laR /var/spool/mail/nora.li/xyz ---------------------------------------- /var/spool/vmail/nora.li/xyz: total 20 drwxr-sr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 . drwxr-sr-x 4 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 .. drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 cur drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 18:30 new drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 18:30 tmp /var/spool/vmail/nora.li/xyz/cur: total 8 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 . drwxr-sr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 .. /var/spool/vmail/nora.li/xyz/new: total 16 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 18:30 . drwxr-sr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 .. -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 813 2006-02-27 18:14 1141060448.V303I33f01M21995.tapas.letras.de -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 813 2006-02-27 18:30 1141061439.V303I33f4dM13454.tapas.letras.de /var/spool/vmail/nora.li/xyz/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 18:30 . drwxr-sr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 .. ============================================================== Any hint will be highly appreciated. Thanx in advance, Werner

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[Dovecot] Sorting order after mail move
by Václav Haisman 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, when I move some recent mail from some mbox folder into Maildir folder the moved email sorts as the first (on top) in the folder while it should be on the bottom with the rest of the recent emails in the folder. This happens only when moving from mbox folder to Maildir folder. I am not sure if it is really Dovecot bug or not but I suspect it could be so because it only happens in this one specific scenario. Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] two possible inboxes, possible to check both?
by adcx＠server101.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

We're currently in the process of organising a migration from mbox to maildir mail storage on our server, and are hoping to phase this in gradually using dovecot's capabilities. Procmail has already been configured to deliver mail to either the existing mbox or to a new maildir for the user based on the (non)existence of a .converted file in their home directory. Where we are having problems is the pop3 retrieval side of things. Basically, we're chasing a setup where dovecot will first check to see if /mail/<first letter of username>/username exists (indicating that the account has had the .converted file created and new mail has since been delivered to that user in the new maildir format). If this directory does not exist, it should fallback to retrieving mail from the as-yet unconverted mbox, /var/mail/username. We've tried different combinations of namespaces and default_mail_env values to achieve this without success. One attempt which has come particularly close was: 1. Leaving /etc/dovecot.conf almost entirely default. The auto-detection ability of dovecot performs the following (output to /var/log/maillog): Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): maildir: access(/home/joe/Maildir, rwx): failed: No such file or directory Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): maildir: couldn't find root dir Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): mbox: root exists (/home/joe/mail) Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): mbox: INBOX exists (/var/mail/joe) Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): mbox: root=/home/joe/mail, index=/home/joe/mail, inbox=/var/mail/joe Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<joe>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.6.20, lip=192.168.6.2 Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): Logout. top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 This is almost exactly what we're chasing, except the new Maildir is not going to be created in the user's home dir, it will be in /mail/<first letter of username>/username. All attempts to make this last adjustment have ultimately modified the behaviour of dovecot so that it only checks the one source explicity given, and then simply fails if it does not exist, unlike the unconfigured behaviour illustrated above where it is able to fallback to a secondary source. A '2nd_default_mail_env' is the type of variable I'm looking to define, if that makes it any clearer. Any advice much appreciated, I've already searched most of the archives for this list without finding anything similar.

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[Dovecot] Change Default IMAP folder
by Marco 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi all, I use dovecot 0.99.14-1 Can I change the default Dovecot IMAP Trash folder from .Draft to .Drafts? Dovecot make a .Draft folder and my e-mail clients (Thunderbird - Outlook Express) makes .Drafts folder. Thanks Marco

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.0-beta3 in production
by Branko F. Gračnar 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hello there! I've migrated our courier-imap production imap/pop server to dovecot 1.0-beta few days ago. In general dovecot performs excellent, but i've encountered several "bugs" in dovecot log: --- snip --- dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:05:21 elfstone dovecot: imap(user3(a)domain.tld): Maildir /export/mail/domain.tld/user3 sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (47681 > 47680, file = 1138960753.P9796Q0M642679.elfstone:2,T) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:20:48 elfstone dovecot: imap(user4(a)domain.tld): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 140 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:21:16 elfstone dovecot: imap(user4(a)domain.tld): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 140 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:21:49 elfstone dovecot: imap(user4(a)domain.tld): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 140 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:46:27 elfstone dovecot: imap(user1(a)domain.tld): Maildir /export/mail/domain.tld/user1 sync: UID < next_uid (1 < 199, file = 1122973973.V809Id001aafc.elfstone,S=8889:2,RS) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:47:31 elfstone dovecot: imap(user1(a)domain.tld): Maildir /export/mail/domain.tld/user1 sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (183 > 181, file = 1140780283.P10326Q0M678892.elfstone:2,RS) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:54:47 elfstone dovecot: imap(user5(a)domain.tld): Corrupted index file /export/data/dovecot/domain.tld/user5/.Sent/dovecot.index: keywords_count larger than header size dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 17:01:00 elfstone dovecot: imap(user1(a)domain.tld): Corrupted transaction log file /export/data/dovecot/domain.tld/user1/.Sent/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1, but next_uid = 4850 dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 20:25:40 elfstone dovecot: imap(userX(a)domain2.tld): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 140 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot.log.10.gz:Feb 15 19:20:05 elfstone dovecot: imap(user2(a)domain.tld): stat(/export/mail/domain.tld/user2/.Trash.Cron/new) failed: No such file or directory --- snip --- I have multi-domain setup with several hundred users, emails are delivered using dovecot-deliver LDA, dovecot indexes are outside mailboxes, indexes and mailboxes are on local filesystem (xfs). I'm using linux 2.6 on slackware platform. If you need any more info, just let me know. Best regards, Brane

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[Dovecot] Impact of log files on performance
by vmstech 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi - im trawling through my config trying to reduce chances of timeouts etc - I use postgres for all the dovecot and exim4 authentication and location of mail directories etc - and found that by eliminating logging (or reducing to almost none) the queries invovled have gone from >500ms to <3ms - Just wondering if I'll get similar performance gains with dovecot (which is set to be verbose as I could) - esp during connection thx Glenn

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[Dovecot] Config Error Puzzle
by Dick Middleton 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Can somebody help me get this right please. I'm trying to upgrade to version 1 and I get this error which I can't workaround: expecting "=" on line 33 Line 33 is the passdb file name ?? I'm trying this with 1.0 beta3 on a Devil linux system (v 1.2.9). Thanks Dick ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/mydomain1.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/myhost-private.pem log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_extra_groups = mail default_mail_env = mbox:/home/vhome/%d/%n:INBOX=/home/vmail/%d/%n protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_realms = mydomain1.net mydomain2.net mydomain3.co.uk auth_default_realm = mydomain1.net auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { /etc/imap.passwd } userdb passwd-file { /etc/imap.passwd } user = dovecot }

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[Dovecot] Errors
by vmstech 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi All I intermittently get these kind of errors when connecting to my beta2 imap dovecot: reported error 0x8004df0b:'Outlook is unable to download folder (null) from the imap email server for account mymailhost.com'. Error the server is unavailable. Receiveing Reported error (0x800CC0F):'The connection to the server was interrupted' While these are from outlook - I often get one simiar to the first one in my evolution clients. Are these things that can be best managed with some sort of configuration change? What might be other possible causes of these (apart from a power cut to the server? thx Glenn

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[Dovecot] RHEL4 configuration
by f00bar 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

I just installed a new email server using RHEL4. I only want pop3d services, no imap is desired so I modified the dovecot.conf file by changing to "protocols = pop3". All is working fine. However, dovecot requires access to /home/user/mail or the Thunderbird client hangs when attempting to download email. We have a single /home that is mounted by all servers for all users. We do not want the mail server to mount this /home. So I created directories with the usernames in the mail server's /home. This is not desired from a system management perspective. The files dovecot creates in the /home/user/mail directory appear to be for the use of IMAP which we do not use. How do I configure dovecot to not access /home and to not create any IMAP files? Thank you

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