April 2009 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] [PATCH, RFC] add APOP authentication mechanism
by Andrey Panin 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Hello all, this patch add APOP authentication mechanism to dovecot 1.0-test23. Please take a look. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Missing return-path on vacation messages
by Stephen Vaughan 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Hi, I can see this has been discussed previously, was just wondering if it's been fixed in v1.1.x? -- Best Regards, Stephen

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[Dovecot] Dovecot broken with newer OpenSSL
by Brad 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

After updating my system from OpenSSL 0.9.8j to 0.9.8k Dovecot has stopped functioning properly with TLS sessions. The version of Dovecot does not seem to matter as I tried 1.1.11 - 1.1.14. Other programs using SSL/TLS such as Postfix and lightty still work fine when built with the newer release of OpenSSL. The IMAP client doesn't matter. For the time being I have gone back to .13 linked against older OpenSSL. In the logs I see messages like the following... dovecot: Apr 16 23:12:18 Info: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=2001:470:b01e:3:216:41ff:fe17:6933, lip=2001:470:1d:8c::2, TLS handshaking: Disconnected -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] GSSAPI cross-realm fixed
by Bryan Jacobs 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Attached is a patch which in my environment (Linux/Heimdal 1.2.1) fixes cross-realm GSSAPI authentication. Changes it makes: 1. When using krb5_kuserok, do not call gss_compare_name to check that authn_name and authz_name are the same. Instead, make TWO calls to krb5_kuserok, one for each ID. If both IDs are acceptable, allow the login. 2. Disable checking that the name is a GSS_KRB5_PRINCIPAL_NAME, as this doesn't appear to be always the case for the authz_name. If I create a .k5login listing both username@REALM1 and username@REALM2, and make that file follow the appropriate security restrictions (world read, user only write permissions), this lets me use GSSAPI logins with principals from either REALM1 or REALM2. This leaves untouched the behavior in the case where krb5_kuserok is not available. Bryan Jacobs

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[Dovecot] Connecting to dovecot
by Grant Lowe 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Hi All, I've got a brand new dovecot installation. I'm new to dovecot, so please be gentle :-) Anyway, I'm getting some errors when I try to connect to dovecot. I've tried searching the web and haven't been able to find a lot of information. Here's the config info: # dovecot --version 1.1.2 # dovecot -n sudo dovecot -n # 1.1.2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: /var/mail/%u auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/%u # Here are the errors I'm getting. dovecot: Sep 16 18:44:15 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<wfoatst>, method=PLAIN, rip=172.20.58.4, lip=172.20.8.215 dovecot: Sep 16 18:44:15 Error: IMAP(wfoatst): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with ho me=/var/mail/wfoatst Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Spliting Folders for Efficiency
by Daniel Watts 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

Dear Timo, Would there be any sense in giving Dovecot the option to split folders into multiple subfolders when they reached a specified size (probably message count) limit? Dovecot would monitor folders and when they reached, say, 10,000 messages, silently split the folder on the filesystem to ensure that access remains fast. I know that Dovecot scales very well but this would give practically unlimited storage capability and also keep things fast. You could even have it so that the latest 100 messages are kept in their own folder for fast access. .Folder.new .Folder.cur .Folder.tmp could become: .Folder__1.new .Folder__1.cur .Folder__1.tmp and .Folder__2.new .Folder__2.cur .Folder__2.tmp with Dovecot merging them before display as just "Folder" within the mail client. This could be further extended so that Dovecot could be configured to store 'old' message folders in a separate location. We could then have slower+cheaper+larger storage mounted so that 'old mail' does not take up the expensive local SCSI disks on the machine. Mail from 2 years ago is much less likely to be accessed than mail from the last week. This would provide very neat behind-the-scenes archiving functionality. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Best, Daniel -- Squirrelmail Stable 1.4.8 (and developing on 1.5.2) PHP 5.x Hardened with Eaccelerator Apache 2.x Mysql 5.0.x Imapproxy over Dovecot 1.0.rc27 with Maildir all running on Gentoo Linux for ~5,000 users.

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Re: [Dovecot] How do I get my mail from fetchmail into dovecot
by Michael Steinbeck-Reeves 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

> Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:53:49 +0300 > From: Odhiambo ????? <odhiambo(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] How do I get my mail from fetchmail into > dovecot? > To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Message-ID: > <991123400904290653g205c603m2e4b511486a69b52(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Michael Steinbeck-Reeves < > michael(a)steinbeck-reeves.uk.com> wrote: > > > I have dovecot (with squirrel mail etc.) running without any problems > > but cannot understand how to get e-mail from a pop server into dovecot. > > I have fetchmail configured to pick up the mail from the pop3 server but > > don't understand how to get it from there into my dovecot mbox > > > Where does fetchmail put the e-mails? > Point dovecot there with "mail_location =..." then use your favorite MuA to > access the e-mail. That is the problem, fetchmail just forwards it to port 25 (I think) and I need to work out what to put between fetchmail and dovecot in order to get the mail into the correct folders... And I am just going around in circles on this at the moment. Any hint would be appreciated! Thanks, Michael

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[Dovecot] compressed mbox patch
by Axel Thimm 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

Some ages ago there existed a compressed mbox patch, but now all I can find are posting about it. Does such a beast exist and would it remotely apply to today's dovecot? If not, is there any hope that something like that emerges? Thanks! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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[Dovecot] Authentication cache, failure to login after changed password
by Tom Sommer 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

Hi, I have an issue with the authentication cache. When a user changes his password, the cache doesn't seem to get flushed. Meaning the user is unable to log in to his IMAP account after changing his password. Flow: - Log into IMAP account using pass1 - Approved - Stored in auth cache - Change password to pass2 in MySQL - Log into IMAP account using pass2 - Access is denied - Restart dovecot - Log into IMAP account using pass2 - Approved I'd really like to continue to use the auth cache, is there any solution to the above? perhaps a way to debug the cache and auth process? I wasn't able to activate auth_debug without restarting Dovecot and solving the problem. Using version 1.1.1, MySQL userdb, with "nopassword=Y". Maybe it's due to nopassword? Thanks -- Tom

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[Dovecot] 1.2.beta1: expire-tool and 'mail_location' setting
by e-frog 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Hi Timo, Trying 1.2.beta1 with expire plugin currently: When I set mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir the expire plugin doesn't delete messages. #: expire-tool --test Info: auth input: system_user=foo Info: auth input: uid=1000 Info: auth input: gid=1000 Info: auth input: home=/home/foo Info: foo/Trash: no messages left I also noticed that above command creates a new but empty directory 'mail' in user's home dir. However using mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir and of course moving the messages to it works. #: expire-tool --test Info: auth input: system_user=foo Info: auth input: uid=1000 Info: auth input: gid=1000 Info: auth input: home=/home/foo Info: foo/Trash: seq=1 uid=4078: Expunge . . Info: foo/Trash: seq=100 uid=4178: Expunge Info: foo/Trash: seq=101 uid=4179: Expunge Info: foo/Trash: timestamp 1235292536 -> 1235325429 My guess is that mail_location is not respected by expire-tool for some reason and in second case mailbox auto-detection makes it working? Thanks, e-frog ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #: dovecot -n # 1.2.beta1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27-11-server i686 Ubuntu 8.10 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap managesieve disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/.maildir mail_debug: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota expire fts fts_squat mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota expire fts fts_squat mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: dovecot group: Debian-exim master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=1GB quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10%% expire: Trash 1 expire_dict: proxy::expiredict sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/.sieve fts: squat fts_squat: partial=4 full=10 dict: expiredict: mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf

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