April 2006 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] [Fwd: Imap Timeouts]
by Neilw 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi guys, So is there resolution to my query below? Is this a bug in beta3? Thanks. Neil -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Imap Timeouts Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:56:21 +0200 From: Neil Wilson <neilw(a)dcdata.co.za> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Hi guys, I've got a client running 1.0.beta3 on SuSe 9.3 Everything has been running perfectly since it was installed about 6 months ago, but lately they've had issues with email clients not being able to connect to the IMAP server, until they close their clients(Thunderbird & Outlook) and then re-open them. They have roughly 70 users on their network, so it sounds like it could be too many active sessions at once, but I've tried changing a few things in the config, and so far nothing has resolved this. Any help would be appreciated. Regards. Neil Wilson Powered by Linux, driven by passion! -- This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer: http://www.dcdata.co.za/emaildisclaimer.html

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[Dovecot] lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota
by Apps Lists 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi folks. We're trying to set up Dovecot with Maildir++ quotas. Operating system is CentOS 4.3 (final) X86 using Dovecot 1.0b5. After logging in, I get the following logged through syslog and the connection closes: Apr 6 10:39:36 dev3 dovecot: imap(jtest): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap Apr 6 10:39:36 dev3 dovecot: imap(jtest): dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota Apr 6 10:39:36 dev3 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jtest>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Apr 6 10:39:36 dev3 dovecot: child 23750 (imap) returned error 89 My dovecot.conf: protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota_plugin imap_quota mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle delay-newmail } Can someone point us in the right direction? Thanks. Steve

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[Dovecot] GSSAPI and virtual Users?
by S. Thias 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi, is there a possibility to map login-names to allowed Kerberos-Principals? At the moment GSSAPI-authentication seems to work only if loginname and kerberos-principal are the same, or am I missing something? It would be really great to use GSSAPI-auth with virtual users. Thanks a lot! S. Thias

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[Dovecot] Re: Getting maildir++ quotas working
by Robin Breathe 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

> ...snip... > So there are two problems that I am trying to resolve, but I'm not sure > how to go about fixing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated: > > (1) Dovecot isn't announcing QUOTA support in the capability string. Timo posted the following patch from Joshua Goodal a while ago to get the QUOTA added to the capability string: --- imap-quota/imap-quota-plugin.c 14 Dec 2005 21:28:44 -0000 1.2 +++ imap-quota/imap-quota-plugin.c 6 Jan 2006 00:43:14 -0000 @@ -189,4 +189,5 @@ void imap_quota_plugin_init(void) command_register("GETQUOTA", cmd_getquota); command_register("SETQUOTA", cmd_setquota); + str_append(capability_string, " QUOTA"); } I don't know for sure that it still applies, but it looks promising. > (2) Dovecot isn't getting a valid quota limit, which I assume is breaking > the GETQUOTAROOT command. No comment. Regards, Robin

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[Dovecot] locking methods
by Obantec Support 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi 1.0 stable is there a way to check which locking method is in use. procmail shows Locking strategies: dotlocking, fcntl() does dovecot use these by default as they are commented out in dovecot.conf Mark

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Re: [Dovecot] batch convert mbox to maildir
by Todd Piket 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

I did not use the the libc-client Perl bindings...sorry. I used a modified version of mb2md-3.20. It was pretty simple really. If you'd like to look at/dowload the source please visit: http://svn.dcs.it.mtu.edu/email.mtu.edu/convert_tools/tags/mb2md-release-4.… (I have my own release numbers for the whole system I wrapped around mb2md). Not a lot of documentation and there is a lot that is specific to my site, but it shouldn't be too hard to decipher and you can always ask me questions, though I'm going to take a well earned next 2 days off. If anyone is interested, the conversion we just performed has been in place for ~5 days now. Only a handful of the ~30,000 users we converted noticed we even did anything (except performance) is better (this was in large part due to the UIDL code I added to mb2md). We are now huge Dovecot fans! Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------ | Todd Piket | Email: todd(a)mtu.edu | | Programmer/Analyst | Phone: (906) 487-1720 | | Distributed Computing Services | | | Michigan Technological University | | ------------------------------------------------------------ pod wrote: >>>>>> "TP" == Todd Piket <todd(a)mtu.edu> writes: > > [...] > TP> If you would like the source for this system I would be happy to > TP> provide it. There is no documentation right now as it was a one > TP> time only thing, but I can try to explain. If others are > TP> interested just let me know. The whole thing is written in Perl > TP> and expects to be run as root. It chowns everything in the final > TP> steps. > > I'm definitely interested. What you've done sounds fabulous. I'm going > to be needing to convert our users here at Oxford soon from uw-imap mbx > (not Berkley mbox) to dovecot maildir on a similar scale. > > Did you use the libc-client perl bindings for reading the mbox? If you > did then adapting for mbx should be a piece of cake. If not then I'll > need to do some work; I'm more than happy to submit patches back.

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[Dovecot] Overriding inbox location in passwd-like file
by Václav Haisman 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hi, I have some real users and some virtual users. The real users use mbox file as their inbox. But I'd like to use Maildir as inbox for the virtual users. (The reason is that I am actually moving some accounts from another server that already uses Maildir.) I'd like Dovecot to find Maildir in $HOME of my virtual users as their inbox. So I tried to use the following in my users.passwd file: test:{PLAIN}some_password:30003:30003::/home/vmail/domain/test:/bin/false::maildir:%h/Maildir/:INBOX=maildir:%h/Maildir/ Unfortunatelly this doesn't work and dies with this message: Mar 8 16:44:25 logout dovecot: imap(test): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/vmail/isc.cvut.cz/test/mbox (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) Mar 8 16:44:25 logout dovecot: imap(test): Failed to create storage for '' with data: /home/vmail/isc.cvut.cz/test/mbox Mar 8 16:44:25 logout dovecot: child 41976 (imap) returned error 89 Is it even possible to override the setting from dovecot.conf like this? Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] C programmers, please help. need dovecot patch
by Adam M. Dunn 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hi all. Can any C programmers out there tell me how to fix Dovecot to default to Maildir format when autodecting can't find anything? I don't know C, but it seems like it would be a simple thing. Right now, I use the autodetect mailbox feature because we want users to choose to optionally be able to use Mbox format (we have some diehard unix users with non-maildir clients). I have Maildrop setup to check for the existance of a ~/Maildir folder in the user's home, and if it exists, it delivers there. Otherwise it falls back to ~/Mail where mbox style files go. The problem with Dovecot is there is no way to tell the autodetect feature what to default to, and if it can't find anything, it automatically creates a folder called ~/mail under the user's home and primes it with an Mbox file, but I'd rather it create a ~/Maildir instead. So if we have for example, a new user with no mail yet, and they log in via IMAP before getting any mail from maildrop, Dovecot will create a them a ~/mail folder. So when they DO get mail, our maildrop filters will think they are an Mbox user. I could do some fancy Maildrop filters to fix that when they get their first mail, but in the meantime the unknowing user could try creating things via IMAP that gets overwritten. Anyway, it would be much cleaner if Dovecot just did what I wanted. If anyone could point me to the place to patch my copy of Dovecot, I would GREATLY apprecieate it. I don't know C, but I know many other languages. I would also like to see this be added via the config file in future releases. So consider this a feature request. Not only that, but more control over the autodetection process in general would be REALLY nice. Thanks. Adam

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[Dovecot] Setting a Default Domain
by Richard Laager 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

I'm working on migrating to Dovecot. At the moment, I have a mail path that includes the domain, so I'm using %d to get that. However, if users authenticate without specifying a domain (i.e. using "bob" instead of "bob(a)wiktel.com"), then %d expands to nothing. I'd like to have that expand to a default domain (wiktel.com) instead. Is that possible? Thanks, Richard

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[Dovecot] About Released 1.0 alpha5 version
by Gisella Linares 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Hi, I'm woking with dovecot at my work and I would want to upgrade the actual version to Released 1.0 alpha5 version, but when I saw the download section at dovecot home page, I noticed that you have only beta versions available. Because of this, I would want to ask you if since now you only put available beta versions or those of them will be replace for the next alpha version. Thanks for beforehand your gentility in the attention to the present. Regards, Gisella Linares

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[Dovecot] 1.0.beta5 released
by Timo Sirainen 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Just two changes: - Beta4's SSL proxying rewrite worked worse than I thought. Reverted it back to original code. - Filesystem quota plugin now looks up the mount path correctly.

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[Dovecot] SSL failures on 1.0B3
by Joseph Filla 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

I have setup Dovecot 1.0B3, and IMAP works fine, but I cannot get IMAPS to work. I've generated the keys with the mkcert script and Thunderbird can see and accept the certificate but tosses an error just after that. In my log, I'm getting: dovecot: Apr 03 19:07:43 Warning: imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:140D308A:SSL routines:TLS1_SETUP_KEY_BLOCK:cipher or hash unavailable [x.x.x.x] dovecot: Apr 03 19:07:43 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, TLS Can anyone give me a tip as to what is the matter? I don't understand these ssl errors, Thanks, -- Joe

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[Dovecot] 1.0.beta4 released
by Timo Sirainen 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

I haven't had yet time to read all the mails in this list which I skipped in the last few of weeks. I'll try to get to them eventually. This release contains several new features which haven't been fully tested yet, such as ACLs, master users and Maildir++ quota. If you intend to use them, test them properly first. This is the first Dovecot release where it's supposed to work well with NFS. Even with indexes being stored in NFS. I was able to test it only with Linux 2.4 kernels as clients though, and it didn't work well in a stress test. It looked like the problem was caused by the kernel caching the data a bit too much. Hopefully I can test soon with 2.6 kernels. Also note the other changes which might affect you. Especially if you're using Dovecot-LDA remember to upgrade it as well to make sure the default lock_method gets updated in it also. As for the future, it looks like I'm getting soon paid to develop several features to improve Dovecot's performance (by the company which already paid for ACLs, NFS fixes and many other changes in this release, thanks!). * Changed the default lock_method back to fcntl. Apparently flock gives problems with some systems. * mbox: mailboxes beginning with '.' are now also listed * Replaced mail_use_modules and mail_modules settings with mail_plugins and mail_plugin_dir. Now instead of loading all plugins from the directory, you'll have to give a list of plugins to load. If the plugin couldn't be loaded, the process exits instead of just ignoring the problem (this is important with ACL plugin). + Added support for "master users" who can log in as other people. The master username can be given either in authorization ID string with SASL PLAIN mechanism or by setting auth_master_user_separator and giving it within the normal username string. + Added ACL plugin with ACL file backend. This however doesn't mean that there yet exists a proper shared folder support. If master user logged in as someone else, the ACLs are checked as the master user. + Added some Dovecot extensions to checkpassword passdb, see ChangeLog + Updated passwd-file format to allow specifying any key=value fields + Maildir++ quota support and several quota fixes + passdb supporting extra fields: Added "allow_nets" option which takes a comma separated list of IPs/networks where to allow user to log in. + NFS: Handle ESTALE errors the best way we can + IMAP now writes to log when client disconnects + In shared mailboxes (if dovecot-shared file exists) \Seen flags are now kept only in index files, so as long as each user has a separate index file they have separate \Seen flags. - Fixes to DIGEST-MD5 realm handling so it works with more clients - BODYSTRUCTURE -> BODY conversion from cache file was broken with mails containing message/rfc822 parts. - Fixed several memory leaks - We could have sent client FETCH notifications about messages before telling about them with EXISTS - Compiling fixes for Solaris and some other OSes - Fixed problem with internal timeout handling code, which caused eg. outlook-idle workaround to break. - If /dev/urandom didn't exist, we didn't seed OpenSSL's random number generator properly. Patch by Vilmos Nebehaj. - Maildir: Recent flags weren't always immediately removed from mails when mailbox was opened. - Several changes to SSL proxying code, hopefully making it work better.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0beta4 and Disconnected Problem
by Gerhard Wiesinger 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Hello! Yesterday I upgraded from 1.0beta3 to 1.0beta4. I've major problems now with my inbox (quite large, 900MB) and another large folder. Thunderbird 1.5 connects and disconnects. I tried to delete the indexes of dovecot and thunderbird without any sucess. Finally I downgraded to 1.0beta3 and it works well again (Beta3 was running for a timeframe from when it came out and now without any problems). Config is the same as for 1.0beta3. Apr 3 07:30:27 bbs dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>,method=plain, rip=192.168.0.5, lip=192.168.0.2, TLS Apr 3 07:30:27 bbs dovecot: imap(gerhard): Disconnected Apr 3 07:30:27 bbs dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>, method=plain, rip=192.168.0.5, lip=192.168.0.2, TLS Apr 3 07:30:28 bbs dovecot: imap(gerhard): Disconnected Apr 3 07:30:28 bbs dovecot: imap-login: Login: user<user1>, method=plain, rip=192.168.0.5, lip=192.168.0.2, TLS Apr 3 07:30:28 bbs dovecot: imap(gerhard): Disconnected Any ideas how the problem can be found? Thank you for the answer. Ciao, Gerhard

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[Dovecot] Busyloop in dovecot-auth
by Jorgen Lundman 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

SunOS pop01.unix 5.10 Generic_118844-26 i86pc i386 i86pc dovecot-1.0.beta3 Dovecot itself runs well, and was easy to confirgure with LDAP. However, I am seeing a cpu busy-loop in dovecot-auth. Is this a known issue, or do you know why it happens? If needed I can go deeper if so required. PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 26440 root 1 10 0 4232K 2096K cpu/0 40.9H 49.73% dovecot-auth # truss -fip 26440 26440: pollsys(0x08093E90, 10, 0x08047B90, 0x00000000) = 1 26440: pollsys(0x08047834, 5, 0x080477F8, 0x00000000) = 0 26440: pollsys(0x08093E90, 10, 0x08047B90, 0x00000000) = 1 26440: pollsys(0x08047834, 5, 0x080477F8, 0x00000000) = 0 26440: pollsys(0x08093E90, 10, 0x08047B90, 0x00000000) = 1 26440: pollsys(0x08047834, 5, 0x080477F8, 0x00000000) = 0 [snip] This is a test box, it has no load/users, except when I telnet to port 110 to test LDAP authentication. Lund -- Jorgen Lundman | <lundman(a)lundman.net> Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo | +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) Japan | +81 (0)3 -3375-1767 (home)

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[Dovecot] batch convert mbox to maildir
by Netlink Tech 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hello, I have used mb2md for an individual user like this: su ~username cd ~ ./mb2md -m This converted /var/spool/mail/username mbox to /home/users/username/Maildir just as I expected. To convert 100s of users the same way would be a chore (su as each user for permissions, etc.). Is there a way to batch process all /var/spool/mail/$USER to /home/users/$USER/Maildir with the correct permissions/file owners for each user?

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[Dovecot] Re: Courier to Dovecot Maildir conversion
by Roger Weeks 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

We went through a courier to dovecot conversion. There are a couple of things that might be causing this problem. 1. Dovecot namespaces 2. Client configuration Your namespaces might not be taking into account the fact that courier prefixed all files and directories in the maildir with a dot (.). You can get around this a couple of ways. We had almost no IMAP clients under courier, so I renamed everything in our IMAP client directories away from .files and .directories, and used a default namespace without dots. Also some clients like Apple Mail needed an IMAP prefix like INBOX. to work with courier. I had to remove those with the dovecot namespace I set up. -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network On Mar 31, 2006, at 12:29 PM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Message: 8 > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:07:56 -0400 > From: "Jeff S." <go4broke(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Dovecot] Courier to Dovecot Maildir converstion > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: > <f63de89e0603311007p2c367b5ev17bef83a7b98833(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello, > > I am running Dovecot 0.99 on OpenSuse 10.0. Previously, I was running > courier IMAP with vpopmail on Suse 9.3. In the process of the > change, I > decided to sing MySQL to authenticate the users, provide home dir, > uid and > gid. > > I tar'ed up the old mail directories, moved them to the new server, > added a > new user and group to own the files, set the files uid/gid to match > the > values in the db. Next, I followed the Migration directions on > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration. I can successfully authenticate > the new > users, have no errors in the log file but when I am logged in I > only see the > Inbox. There should be other folders as well as mail in the > inbox. No > errors in the log files. > > Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] hard quota example, 1.0b3
by Jeff A. Earickson 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Timo, Here's an example of the filesystem quota issue: A user was near his hard filesystem quota, so he moved some junk to his Trash folder to clear disk space. He got the following error on his IMAP client: "Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. {2006-04033 11:08:44]". My setup: Solaris 9, beta3 (soon going to beta4), mbox format, IMAP only. Home directories (where IMAP folders and index files go) have filesystem quotas. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot road-map
by Jeff A. Earickson 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:11:33 +0300 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > To: Kupor Laszlo <willy(a)dunanet.hu> > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot road-map > On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 09:54 +0200, Kupor Laszlo wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I track dovecot m-list, and i wan't migrate to dovecot, but now dovecot > > has no maildir++ quota in public release(beta etc). Without quota support > > dovcot not a solution for me. > > Please if dovecot have a release plan, post to me. > > I'll release beta4 today which will have Maildir++ quota support. It's > not well tested yet, but if there are bugs they should be easy to fix > now. :) I have to agree that dovecot's inability to react to filesystem quotas is a major deficiency. This feature should not rely on plug-ins, mailbox format, etc. It should be built into the base code, IMHO. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] MySQL auth issues?
by Matthias Saou 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hi, Since my last email about RHEL4 problems on x86_64, I've kept trying to figure out what the problem might be, and just ran into a reply to an old email I sent to the list, which I had missed. It suggests that the issue might be in the MySQL authentication that I'm using. Here is a more detailed log entry, with auto debugging on : Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=::ffff:195.x.x.x rip=::ffff:195.x.x.x resp=AHBhcnRuZXJzQdNvbW1lcm3lZ2F0ZS5jb20Aa2F2YWthdmE= Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=x(a)domain.com Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 70 22190 1 Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(x@domain.com,::ffff:195.x.x.x): SELECT maildir, 101 AS uid, 103 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'x(a)domain.com' Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 70 x(a)domain.com maildir=domain.com/x/ uid=101 gid=103 Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<x(a)domain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:195.x.x.x, lip=::ffff:195.x.x.x Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: pop3(x(a)domain.com): ^GUnexpected eof found when reading file 'UNOPENED' (Errcode: 0) Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 last message repeated 2 times Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: pop3(x(a)domain.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/2, size=17174 Those "Unexpected eof found when reading file 'fileName'" messages are apparently from MySQL, as one can see here for instance : http://www.mysqlfreaks.com/errors/49.php Here is my relevant configuration (all the rest is the default) : login_greeting = Ready. verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 101 default_mail_env = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=MEMORY auth_cache_size = 512 auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } } The INDEX=MEMORY was added because of similar errors with the indexes : Apr 3 12:56:44 s1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<x(a)domain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:195.x.x.x, lip=::ffff:195.x.x.x, TLS Apr 3 12:56:44 s1 dovecot: pop3(x(a)domaine.com): Corrupted transaction log file /home/vmail/domain.com/x/dovecot.index.log: unexpected end of file while reading header Apr 3 12:56:44 s1 dovecot: pop3(x(a)domain.com): Corrupted transaction log file /home/vmail/domain.com/x/dovecot.index.log: unexpected end of file while reading header Apr 3 12:56:44 s1 dovecot: pop3(x(a)domain.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 (this was when the auth_debug wasn't enabled) Here is my /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf file : driver = mysql connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=postfix user=postfix password=xxx default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT maildir, 101 AS uid, 103 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' I'm using MySQL 4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1 (the original RHEL4 packages), with the server on the same machine (hence the socket access). I was seeing this also with 0.9, not just 1.0 betas. With x86_64 packages, any slight change to the main dovecot.conf file can prevent dovecot from starting (segfault with "Unexpected eof found when reading file 'UNOPENED' (Errcode: 0)" message), whereas i386 packages work somewhat better. This is on the same machine with an i386 compatibility layer. Is anyone using MySQL auth successfully? Any help or pointers would be more than welcome. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) - Linux kernel 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 Load : 0.38 0.33 0.34

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[Dovecot] mbox-sync-update.c error
by Carlos Vicente 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hi, I think the problem is in Dovecot. I'm using both Evolution and Thunderbird on a Gentoo box. One of my folders keeps locking up and the clients can't retrieve the messages. The situation appears to be triggered by trying to move a message into that folder. Deleting the index files (under /var/log/dovecot/xxx/) solves the problem (temporarily). I get these error messages in the logs: Mar 31 15:10:34 dovecot: imap(cvicente): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/xxx/Mail/xxx (93 > 3, seq=93, idx_msgs=3455) Mar 31 15:10:34 dovecot: imap(cvicente): file mbox-sync-update.c: line 55 (mbox_sync_move_buffer): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.offset + ctx->mail.space <= ctx->hdr_offset + pos || ctx->mail.offset > ctx->hdr_offset + pos + have) Mar 31 15:10:35 dovecot: child 32373 (imap) killed with signal 6 M I'm running dovecot-1.0_beta3 Hope this gets some attention from the developers. cv >In the maillog I get > > Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<hartr>, > method=plain, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured > Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap(hartr): mbox sync: UID inserted > in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/hartr (8 > 1, seq=2, idx_msgs=4) > Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap(hartr): file mbox-sync-update.c: > line 55 (mbox_sync_move_buffer): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.offset > + ctx->mail.space <= ctx->hdr_offset + pos || ctx->mail.offset > > ctx->hdr_offset + pos + have) > Mar 29 09:17:26 bree dove

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-news mailing list created
by Timo Sirainen 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

New low-traffic list created for people who only wish to see new release announcements and possibly some other rare important announcements. Also from now on no-one can send mails to either of these lists with From-field containing "tss(a)iki.fi" or "Timo Sirainen", unless it also contains a valid PGP signature from me. If someone wants to see the script (and please check if there are any bugs in it, thanks :), it's here: http://iki.fi/tss/gpgcheck.pl

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[Dovecot] Dovecot road-map
by Kupor Laszlo 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hello, I track dovecot m-list, and i wan't migrate to dovecot, but now dovecot has no maildir++ quota in public release(beta etc). Without quota support dovcot not a solution for me. Please if dovecot have a release plan, post to me. Thanks. Udv.: Willy -- PGP GNUPG/1.0 ID = 5BFA0D36 Kupor Laszlo Attila <willy(a)dunanet.hu> Key fingerprint = 3F68 9483 5B65 8E2F CD30 5326 50F9 5A33 5BFA 0D36

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[Dovecot] imap processes remaing after dovecot shutdown
by Marten Lehmann 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hello, I'm using dovecot-1.0.beta3. When I shutdown dovecot (kill -term on the master-pid) the main process disappears, but all the child processes still remain. Why doesn't dovecot kill them as I shutdown the master-process? When I shutdown mysql, all child processes will be shutdown, too. When I shutdown apache, all child processes willbe shutdown, too. Thats what I expect on every application. Usually there is no need to shutdown dovecot. But for some reasons, from time to time 50 and more processes of one user are running and I don't know how else to get rid of them. I don't like to kill the child processes always manually. Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] Auth user from sasldb with dovecot
by kami Nonstop 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hi I configured my postfix that i can access the file /etc/sasl2/sasldb2 and authorize the users how are added in this database. My smtpd.conf looks like this: mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN pwcheck_method: auxprop auxprop_plugin: sasldb My saslauthd is not running. And when i telnet to port 25 i can authorize my self like this: telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 localhost ESMTP Postfix ehlo localhost 250-localhost 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN 250 8BITMIME auth plain dGVzdEBtaWNyb3NlcnZ== 235 Authentication successful But my problem is now that i dont know how to configure dovecot that i can login to my system with squirrelmail or something else? Dovecot should use the user added in sasldb2. I read this Howto but can find a solution for this: http://postfix.hostingzero.com/SASL_README.html I hope someone here can help me? Thx a lot Cu kami

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[Dovecot] file lock on 1.0 stable
by Obantec Support 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hi I have the lock file back on 2 customer accounts. i am using mbox under /var/spool/mail/%u and of the 300 pop3 accounts i only have the odd random issue with the file locks. some are 1 byte (containing 0) other correct in that they have a pid (average 26 bytes). mbox & lock files owned by userUID.mail Mark

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[Dovecot] How to use trash plugin?
by hshh 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hi, I can't found any document about this plugin. How can I setup a trash for deleted mail in imap? And remove them after some day like Courier IMAP.

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Re: [Dovecot] Quick question. Thunderbird/Outlook = no love.
by Charlie Davis 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Ok, it worked once, then stopped working. To get away from maybe it being a thunderbird setup issue, I made a little php script. And now I have an error that didn't show up in the dovecot log even though I have auth_debug and auth_verbose set to yes. Here's what the imap socket returned to the php script: Array ( [0] => Certificate failure for 10.0.0.208: self signed certificate: /OU=IMAP server/CN=imap.example.com/emailAddress=postmaster@example.com ) So, I gotta setup my certificate stuff which I can do, But couldn't this have shown up in the dovecot log somehow? -Charlie ----- On Saturday, April 1, 2006 fishgills(a)fishgills.net wrote: > Turns out some Anti-Virus email scanners don't support TLS. > > Sorry again! Not dovecot's fault. Disabled my anti-virus' email scanner > and it worked with TLS only. > > Good to know for anyone else that ever has this problem. :) > > -Charlie > > Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 18:56 -0800, Charlie Davis wrote: >> >>> 1.0 Beta 3. >>> >>> Plain authentication works. But not TLS. >>> >>> I don't see anything in the configuration file that seems obvious to deny > TLS authentication. >>> >> >> Set auth_verbose=yes and auth_debug=yes in dovecot.conf, maybe it shows >> then why it's failing? >> >>

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[Dovecot] User data over Mysql
by Andew Velikorechanin 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Hi, all! What I need set in dovecot config (dovecot-mysql.conf) for get home dir and mailbox file path from mysql DB? dovecot 0.99.11 Thanks.

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[Dovecot] postfix 2.3 SMTP AUTH and Outlook
by Antonin Karasek 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Hi all, I just maked $SUBJECT to run. The main problem was, that in Dovecot are by default enabled only plain digest-md5 and cram-md5 authentication mechanisms. While MS Outlook knows only "LOGIN" mechanism. So, Outlook users wasn't able to use SMTP AUTH. The solution is to change a line in dovecot.conf: mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 to: mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 login I suggest Timo to change the default configuration, and the page http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication -- more precisely the line "LOGIN: Similiar to PLAIN, not very useful. [in 1.0-tests only]" -- I think, that this line is a little confusing. Becouse since one can use Dovecot for SASL authentication, "LOGIN" is starting to be useful (because of the M*S* bullshit). Regards Tony

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[Dovecot] var_expand and pop3_logout_format
by Alexander Sabourenkov 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Hi. -alpha2 broke the retr-byte-count field of the pop3_logout_format with the following change: -Added %R (reverse string) and %H (hash string) variable modifiers. %R as modifier conflicts on expand with %R as retr-byte-count in pop3_logout_format resulting in expanded strings like: top=0/0, retr=1/ del=0/1, size=431 seen in -alpha3 -alpha4 cvs as of 04.11.2005 FreeBSD 5.4-R, both i386 and amd64 -- ./lxnt

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[Dovecot] Fedora 4: x86_64 different build options than i386?
by fishgills＠fishgills.net 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

After successful testing on our 32-bit machine using the rpm, I'm installing dovecot on our Fedora 64-bit machine using that rpm. In the log file I get: dovecot: Mar 31 15:34:16 Error: auth(default): Unknown database driver 'mysql' I see this: # dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll dnotify ipv6 openssl Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow Userdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file static and dovecot is in: /usr/local/sbin/dovecot But on my 32-bit Fedora machine, also installed from the rpm, I get this: # dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll dnotify ipv6 openssl mysql postgresql sqlite Passdb: checkpassword ldap pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: checkpassword ldap passwd passwd-file sql static and dovecot is in: /usr/sbin Shouldn't the 64-bit machine have the same build-options? What can I do to make it right? Do I *have* to build it from a tarball? Charlie Davis

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Re: [Dovecot] Fedora 4: x86_64 different build options than i386?
by Charlie Davis 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Yeah, I got your latest from your website. Google's top return for you was an older release. Using your .5 I believe it is. For x86_64 of course. It works fine now. ----- On Friday, March 31, 2006 ivazquez(a)ivazquez.net wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 16:32 -0800, fishgills(a)fishgills.net wrote: >> After successful testing on our 32-bit machine using the rpm, I'm >> installing dovecot on our Fedora 64-bit machine using that rpm. In >> the log file I get: > > It was previously broken. Which specific package did you install? > > -- > Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams > http://fedora.ivazquez.net/ > > gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72

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[Dovecot] Quick question. Thunderbird/Outlook = no love.
by Charlie Davis 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Are there any how-tos or documentation on getting dovecot to be thunderbird/outlook friendly? Thunderbird can connect about 20% of the time, the other 80% of the time, I Get the error: "You may need to connect via SSL or TLS. Please check the account settings for your mail server." I have my thunderbird setup to do TLS. I've put it on the TLS if available as well, still no love. Dovecot logfile contains: dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:19 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4, lip=10.0.0.208, TLS dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:24 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4, lip=10.0.0.208, TLS Nothing else. Thanks in advance! -Charlie

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Re: [Dovecot] Quick question. Thunderbird/Outlook = no love.
by Charlie Davis 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Oh, I forgot to mention that if I turn on plain text authentication, it works fine. But I'd to do TLS over the net. -Charlie ----- On Friday, March 31, 2006 fishgills(a)fishgills.net wrote: > Are there any how-tos or documentation on getting dovecot to be > thunderbird/outlook friendly? > > Thunderbird can connect about 20% of the time, the other 80% of the time, I > Get the error: > > "You may need to connect via SSL or TLS. Please check the account settings for > your mail server." > > I have my thunderbird setup to do TLS. I've put it on the TLS if available as > well, still no love. > > Dovecot logfile contains: > > dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:19 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4, > lip=10.0.0.208, TLS > dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:24 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4, > lip=10.0.0.208, TLS > > Nothing else. > > Thanks in advance! > > -Charlie

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Re: [Dovecot] Fedora 4: x86_64 different build options than i386?
by Charlie Davis 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Fixed this by getting the latest x86_64 rpm from Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams' repository. Sorry for the email. :D -Charlie Davis ----- On Friday, March 31, 2006 fishgills(a)fishgills.net wrote: > After successful testing on our 32-bit machine using the rpm, I'm > installing dovecot on our Fedora 64-bit machine using that rpm. In > the log file I get: > > dovecot: Mar 31 15:34:16 Error: auth(default): Unknown database driver 'mysql' > > I see this: > > # dovecot --build-options > Build options: ioloop=poll dnotify ipv6 openssl > Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow > Userdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file static > > and dovecot is in: > > /usr/local/sbin/dovecot > > But on my 32-bit Fedora machine, also installed from the rpm, I get this: > > # dovecot --build-options > Build options: ioloop=poll dnotify ipv6 openssl mysql postgresql sqlite > Passdb: checkpassword ldap pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql > Userdb: checkpassword ldap passwd passwd-file sql static > > and dovecot is in: > > /usr/sbin > > Shouldn't the 64-bit machine have the same build-options? > > What can I do to make it right? Do I *have* to build it from a > tarball? > > Charlie Davis

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