April 2008 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] How to log login errors?
by Sven Schmidt 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hi! I used "auth_debug=yes" and "auth_debug_passwords=yes". But I only see connects and disconnects: Apr 11 09:17:43 dovecot: POP3(info(a)xxxx.xx): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Apr 11 09:17:43 dovecot: POP3(info(a)xxxx.xx): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Apr 11 09:18:11 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<pop-test(a)xxxx.xx>, method=PLAIN, rip=80.146.3.204, lip=87.106.66.95

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[Dovecot] Single quote email addresses
by Guy 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hi, I've just been told that I need to make our mail server cater to accounts with single quotes. Has anyone set dovecot up to do this or know of any documentation/howto on it, assuming it's possible at all. I'm running dovecot 1.0.5 on Ubuntu 7.10 if that makes much of a difference. Thanks for any help anyone can give. Guy -- Don't just do something...sit there!

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[Dovecot] dovecot + qmail - deliver not working...
by Peter Van den Wildenbergh 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hi List, I have a working qmail server and installed dovecot trying to setup vmail... it's not going as expected... What is working: qmail I can log-in using Thunderbird (IMAP) from dovecot-info.log dovecot: Apr 10 21:19:54 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<peter(a)---.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.50, lip=192.168.10.188 Config bits: Ubuntu (command-line system) 7.10 ls -l /home drwxr-xr-- 2 vmail vmail ... vmail UID GID for vmail = 500 Content of /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf protocols = imap imaps log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log ssl_disable = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir dotlock_use_excl=yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd } userdb static { args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n } } cat /etc/dovecot/passwd peter@meta-logica.com:{SSHA}iDMg--- peter@wilboo.org:{SSHA}iDMg--- cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d $EXT@$USER (LWQ setup - verified location of 'deliver') Looks like local delivery for qmail is NOT working :-( from the logs: starting delivery 8: msg 3752525 to local peter@ma--- status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 delivery 8: deferral: Can't_open_log_file_/var/log/dovecot.log:_Permission_denied/ status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 status: exiting permission on /var/log/dovecot.log = -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 728 2008-04-10 21:36 /var/log/dovecot.log qmailctl stat messages in queue: 7 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 3 So I assume that the inability to 'log' is stopping the delivery process... Couldn't find anything obvious on google. Any suggestions? Regards Peter

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[Dovecot] dovecot and postfix virtual mailbox domains, system users
by Dave 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hello, I'm trying to get dovecot and postfix virtual domains working on an fc6 system. My software versions are postfix 2.4.5 installed from rpm and dovecot 1.0.3 also installed from rpm. I'm only running secure protocols, pop3s at the moment, imaps later on. I've set up postfix for virtual mailbox domains as per it's howto on the subject and confirmed that email sent gets delivered to the virtual area, which in this case is /home/vmail/domain.com/username/, there's a maildir under that area and incoming mail gets delivered by postfix to that area. In the first case the user is a shell user who has a login, in all other cases the users will be completely virtual, having no login account at all. When i atempt to get mail from the server using this user, the one with the login, i am getting a can not map username coming from dovecot. Here's my config: # 1.0.3: /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info protocols: pop3s ssl_ca_file: /etc/dovecot/ca-cert.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/dovecot/pop.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/dovecot/pop.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login valid_chroot_dirs: /var/spool/vmail mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%u maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: passwd and the specific maillog error is this: Apr 11 23:48:17 s15298471 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=66.139.186.37, lip=74.208.64.129, TLS Apr 11 23:48:17 s15298471 dovecot: POP3(user): stat(/home/vmail//user/cur) failed: Permission denied Apr 11 23:48:17 s15298471 dovecot: POP3(user): stat(/home/vmail//user/cur) failed: Permission denied Apr 11 23:48:17 s15298471 dovecot: POP3(user): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2008-04-11 23:48:17] Apr 11 23:48:17 s15298471 dovecot: POP3(user): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 I'd appreciate any pointers. I think i am close, but am not seeing it. Thanks. Dave.

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[Dovecot] Cross Compiling Dovecot?
by stefano＠tiscali.dk 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

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[Dovecot] remove mails from shared folders
by Patrick Fischer 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hallo dovecot This is my first post on this list. I'm new to IMAP servers and i read lots of howtos. If I use the wrong term for some features please tell me the right term. I have installed dovecot under ubuntu 7.10 and it works fine. dovecot + fetchmail + postfix I would like to use shared folders the way that we have an email pool for info(a)mydomain.com user1(a)mydomain.com -> User1 user2(a)mydomain.com -> User2 user3(a)mydomain.com -> User3 info(a)mydomain.com -> Pool (look at this http://decembersoul.dyndns.org/wiki/images/c/c6/IMAP1.jpeg ) The users can see and process emails from the email pool. To process an email the user move the email from the email pool to his own inbox. This should make sure that only one user process a email. Shared folders are created by symlink. The problem is that, if a user move an email out of the email pool, the other users still can see the mail in the pool. It takes a long time to remove the mail from the pool for every user. Move TO the pool works immediatley. The user can make a "compress folder" to remove the emails but this can't be the soulution. Maybe this is a client failed (tested only with thunderbird) Best regards Patrick Fischer

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[Dovecot] Minor namespace issue - inconsistent default value
by Joel Johnson 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

I burned some time yesterday over a documentation inconsistency. The dovecot-example.conf file shipped with dovecot (checked with 1.1rc4 and the April 3 nightly), includes an indication at the top that the commented values listed are the defaults for the settings. Line 248 of this file has the inbox setting for a private namespace which indicates that the default value for this setting is true. However, line 358 of ./srv/master/master-settings.c sets the default value of the namespace inbox variable to false. With a single private namespace (what I was setting up), one wants this value to be true, however when using multiple namespaces the default should likely remain false. I propose keeping the coded default and changing the line in the example configuration file to indicate false. Before I determined that this was the issue, I had a single namespace defined (but not as INBOX), and dovecot (both deliver and imap) created and read from a .INBOX directory under the Maildir. Thanks, Joel

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[Dovecot] more than one ldap database.
by Mauro Sanna 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

If I have two databases in my ldap, ex: dc=dominio1,dc=it is the first database and dc=dominio2,dc=it is the second one. Can I put these two search bases in dovecot-ldap.conf?

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[Dovecot] Bah! Outlook
by Jason Wohlford 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hi All, I run a little hosting company. I use Dovecot 1.0.10* with IMAP exclusively. Lots of my customers use Outlook or Outlook Express. This poses a problem. These programs don't and have absolutely no workarounds to move messages to a trash folder when deleted. They only mark the message for deletion. Then, users have to purge the message to actually delete it. Outlook has a way to hide deleted messages and also auto-purge them when moving to a different folder. That just doesn't cut it. (Thanks Microsoft! :-p ) So, I'm thinking Dovecot could pick up where Microsoft left off. It seems to me there needs to be two things done. First, a system that automatically copy a message marked for deletion from one folder (e.g. INBOX) to a trash folder (e.g. Trash, Deleted Messages, etc.) Dovecot's lazy_expunge might already do this, but I couldn't quite discern it from the wiki docs. Second, a way to only do this when Outlook or Outlook Express is the one who is deleting a message. Possibility? Comments? Cheers, Jason P.S. Thanks for the great software! *Yes, I know. I need to upgrade to Dovecot 1.0.13. -- Jason Wohlford <jason(a)wohlford.org> <http://wohlford.org>

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Re: [Dovecot] Development news
by Eugene 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hi Timo and welcome back! > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 20:29 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> Tomorrow begins a 5 week lab course at school. Every day and about 8 >> hours a day. And then we'll also have to write these reports about what >> we have done and how/why, which takes quite a lot of time as well. After >> 5 weeks there's one free week Are you a teacher or a student? And generally speaking, I expected a small bio/CV on the site but was not able to find one. Best wishes Eugene

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