October 2011 - dovecot

[Dovecot] can not receive email upgrading from ubuntu 11.4 to 11.10
by Nikolaos Petronikolos 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

Dear all, I have the following error when i am sending an email to my email server postfix + dovecot. #5.3.0 x-unix; /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver: invalid option -- 'n' Usage: dovecot-lda [-c <config file>] [-a <address>] [-d <username>] [-p <path>] [-f <envelope sender>] [-m <mailbox>] [-e] [-k]> #SMTP# The problem occurred after i upgraded my server from ubuntu 11.4 to 11.10. i kindly ask you if you can help me thank you in advance for your kind attention. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/can-not-receive-email-upgrading-from-ubuntu-11.4-to-1… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] Don't Know Where Emails Are Or What's Happening
by Jack Fredrikson 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

Hi; I'm new to Dovecot and Postfix. I'm trying to enable these with MySQL support and postfixadmin. I've got all those services up and running (finally!); however, I can't figure out if the emails are being received and/or stored. I'm pretty sure Postfix is receiving them because I dealt with certain errors and they're now gone. Here's some data: Dovecot ver. 0.91 [root@example postfix]# /sbin/service dovecot -n doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with: doveconf -n > dovecot-new.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:5: imap_client_workarounds=outlook-idle is no longer necessary doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:17: add auth_ prefix to all settings inside auth {} and remove the auth {} section completely doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:21: passdb sql {} has been replaced by passdb { driver=sql } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:24: userdb sql {} has been replaced by userdb { driver=sql } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:27: userdb prefetch {} has been replaced by userdb { driver=prefetch } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:29: auth_user has been replaced by service auth { user } Usage: /etc/init.d/dovecot {start|stop|reload|restart|force-reload} tail /var/log/maillog Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/smtpd[28141]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Success Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/master[4000]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 30178 exit status 1 Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/master[4000]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 30179 exit status 1 Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/smtpd[28458]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Success Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/master[4000]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 30180 exit status 1 Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/master[4000]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 30181 exit status 1 Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/smtpd[28483]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Success Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/smtpd[28460]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Success Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/master[4000]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 30182 exit status 1 Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/smtpd[28455]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Success Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/master[4000]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 30183 exit status 1 Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/smtpd[28484]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Success Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/master[4000]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 30184 exit status 1 Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/smtpd[29917]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Success Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/master[4000]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 30185 exit status 1 Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/smtpd[29953]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Success Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/master[4000]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 30186 exit status 1 Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/smtpd[28485]: warning: problem talking to service rewrite: Success Oct 20 10:13:59 example postfix/master[4000]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite pid 30187 exit status 1 Oct 20 10:14:15 example postfix/smtpd[30152]: connect from unknown[66.248.165.32] Oct 20 10:14:15 example postfix/smtpd[30152]: lost connection after EHLO from unknown[66.248.165.32] Oct 20 10:14:15 example postfix/smtpd[30152]: disconnect from unknown[66.248.165.32] I also get this in there: Oct 20 10:13:15 example postfix/smtpd[30152]: warning: dict_nis_init: NIS domain name not set - NIS lookups disabled Oct 20 10:13:15 example postfix/smtpd[30152]: cannot load Certificate Authority data: disabling TLS support Oct 20 10:13:15 example postfix/smtpd[30152]: warning: TLS library problem: 30152:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:bss_file.c:122:fopen('/etc/pki/tls/c erts/cert.pem','r'): Oct 20 10:13:15 example postfix/smtpd[30152]: warning: TLS library problem: 30152:error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file:bss_file.c:125: Oct 20 10:13:15 example postfix/smtpd[30152]: warning: TLS library problem: 30152:error:0B084002:x509 certificate routines:X509_load_cert_crl_file:system lib:by_file.c:279: Oct 20 10:13:15 example postfix/smtpd[30152]: connect from unknown[66.248.165.32] Oct 20 10:13:15 example postfix/smtpd[30152]: lost connection after EHLO from unknown[66.248.165.32] Oct 20 10:13:15 example postfix/smtpd[30152]: disconnect from unknown[66.248.165.32] Oct 20 10:13:57 example postfix/proxymap[28446]: warning: mysql query failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version f or the right syntax to use near '??gifteatszone.com??? AND active = 1' at line 1 Oct 20 10:13:57 example postfix/trivial-rewrite[30154]: fatal: proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf(0,lock|fold_fix): table lookup problem Oct 20 10:13:57 example postfix/trivial-rewrite[30155]: fatal: proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf(0,lock|fold_fix): table lookup problem Oct 20 10:13:57 example postfix/proxymap[28444]: warning: mysql query failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version f or the right syntax to use near '??awakelunch.info??? AND active = 1' at line 1 I reckon the failing of mysql inquiries just has to do with hackers trying to hack me. The TLS problem isn't mission-critical since it's just getting disabled. [root@example jack]# ps wax|grep dovecot 20223 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot 20224 ? S 0:00 dovecot/anvil 20225 ? S 0:00 dovecot/log 31832 ? S 0:00 dovecot/config 31833 ? S 0:00 dovecot/auth 31836 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep dovecot [root@example jack]# ps wax|grep postfix 4000 ? Ss 0:01 /usr/libexec/postfix/master 31839 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep postfix [root@example jack]# ps wax|grep postfixadmin 31842 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep postfixadmin [root@example jack]# ps wax|grep saslauthd 16337 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a pam -n 2 16338 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a pam -n 2 25718 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -d -a pam 25719 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -d -a pam 25720 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -d -a pam 25721 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -d -a pam 25722 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -d -a pam 32052 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep saslauthd I also tried this: First send a test mail to yourself (as your own non-root user): echo "Hello me" | mail -s "Dovecot test" $USER Now, find where the mail went. Here's a simple script which checks the most common locations: for mbox in /var/mail/$USER /var/spool/mail/$USER ~/mbox ~/mail/* ~/*; do grep -q "Dovecot test" $mbox && echo "mbox: $mbox" done grep -q "Dovecot test" ~/Maildir/new/* 2>/dev/null && echo "Maildir: ~/Maildir" and the mail was not found. This from my dovecot.conf file: mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u #but there's nothing there. ... auth default { # Having "login" also as a mechanism make sure outlook can use the auth smtpd as well # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms mechanisms = plain login passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sql.conf } userdb prefetch { } user = nobody socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = vmail group = mail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = mail } } } Telnetting to port 25 brings up Postfix, to port 110 brings up Dovecot TIA,Jack

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[Dovecot] Quota
by nuno marques 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

hi, I'm having some difficulty understanding the connection between postfix, dovecot and quota. What is the best way to set up quotas? through the file system quota and maildir? Need the dovecot lda working? The postfix needs a patch? I was thinking about setting quotas on file system, then configure Postfix to connect to dovecot-lda. Any suggestion? The system as a whole is composed of:dovecot-2.0-0.10.beta6.20100630.el6.x86_64 -> 2.0.beta6 (3156315704ef)openldap-servers-2.4.19-15.el6_0.2.x86_64postfix-2.6.6-2.1.el6_0.x86_64mailscanner-4.84.3-1.noarchspamassassin-3.3.1-2.el6.x86_64centos 6 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 27 19:49:27 BST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[Dovecot] Email filters
by Jos Chrispijn 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

Can someone tell me how I can configure Dovecot to use message filters on incoming email? When I now activate my mail account on my mobile phone and Thunderbird (or any other mail client with message filters) is not online, I get a huge pile of email in my INBOX that I have to go thru, while 90% is not that interesting to read as they belong to Spam messages, newsletters etc. Thanks in advance Jos Chrispijn

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[Dovecot] Expire plugin not executing for sieve plugin?
by Dan Swartzendruber 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

Running dovecot 1.2.12 on ubuntu 10.10. Here is the problem: I have mysql backend for expire. I am using the dovecot-postfix package which creates /etc/dovecot/conf.d/01-mail-stack-delivery.conf which looks like this: # Some general options protocols = imap imaps managesieve disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl = yes ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-mail.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-mail.key ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ # IMAP configuration protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle delay-newmail mail_plugins = expire } # LDA configuration protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster mail_plugins = sieve expire quota_full_tempfail = yes deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r } # Plugins configuration plugin { sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir=~/sieve # If the user has no personal active script (i.e. if the file # indicated in sieve= does not exist), use this one: sieve_global_path = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } The sieve is: require "fileinto"; require "imap4flags"; if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { setflag "\\Seen"; fileinto "SPAM"; stop; } Originally, this did not have the setflag or stop - I added them hoping to fix the problem, but no luck. The problem is this: when spam assassin has flagged a message as spam, the sieve runs and the message is in fact filed into the SPAM folder, but no expire entry is added to the database. If I move such a message from the SPAM folder to the Inbox and then back to SPAM, voila, I *do* get the entry created. Here is the mysql table before and after I did the move/move: mysql> select * from expires; +----------+---------------+--------------+ | username | mailbox | expire_stamp | +----------+---------------+--------------+ | dswartz | Deleted Items | 1319720163 | | dswartz | Sent | 1319120165 | | denise | Trash | 1319139920 | | samantha | Trash | 1319136146 | | denise | Sent | 1319655872 | | danielle | Sent | 1319192230 | | samantha | Sent | 1319268855 | | dswartz | Trash | 1319725884 | | samantha | SPAM | 1321504531 | +----------+---------------+--------------+ 9 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> select * from expires; +----------+---------------+--------------+ | username | mailbox | expire_stamp | +----------+---------------+--------------+ | dswartz | Deleted Items | 1319720163 | | dswartz | Sent | 1319120165 | | denise | Trash | 1319139920 | | samantha | Trash | 1319136146 | | denise | Sent | 1319655872 | | danielle | Sent | 1319192230 | | samantha | Sent | 1319268855 | | dswartz | Trash | 1319725884 | | samantha | SPAM | 1321504531 | | dswartz | SPAM | 1321714666 | +----------+---------------+--------------+ 10 rows in set (0.00 sec) It's almost like the fileinto stuff is not running the plugin code at all, or am I totally on drugs? If I can't get a fix for this, I at least now can think of a hack to "fix" it. e.g. every night, run a script that adds a "now" timestamp for everyone's SPAM folder to trick the periodic expire tool code into checking that folder, but obviously I'd rather have a real fix :) If this is just 'how it works', is it better in 2.0?

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[Dovecot] too many open files and v1.2
by Michael Moritz 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

Hi I've found an older thread http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-March/047886.html which mentions that this is a bug in version 1. I'm on Debian squeeze (1:1.2.15-7) and got errors like these recently Oct 5 11:29:29 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 5 11:29:32 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 5 11:29:32 mail dovecot: dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now As a work around I've increased login_max_processes_count from 256 to 512 and it seems to have helped (as I suspected stale opened files). My colleague thinks it's hitting the kernel open file limit ulimit -n (currently at 1024) but I don't see how that could happen if the number of process is nowhere near that. Any ideas? Thanks, Michael

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[Dovecot] Is '*:bytes=" quota specification the quota 'Value', or 'Limit'?
by Rich 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Docs for quota configuration http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Configuration#Limit_configuration state that the 'bytes=' specification defines the quota **LIMIT** "bytes: Quota limit in bytes, 0 means unlimited" as used in plugin { ... quota_rule = *:bytes=10000000 ... BUT, documentation for quota dict http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Dict states "MySQL uses the following queries to update the quota" and provides an SQL example of Dovecot decrementing the 'bytes' value, "UPDATE table SET bytes=bytes-14433,messages=messages-2 ..." I'm working on a current problem (http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-October/061538.html) with 'doveadm' reporting mixing up quote Value & Limit. Question: Is 'bytes' supposed to contain the Value, or the Limit? Rich

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[Dovecot] 'doveadm quota get' dictionary SQL query ignores specified '@domain' part of username. bad config or bug?
by Rich 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hi, I'm setting up SQL quota usage in Dovecot2. I've created a MAILBOX parameter table, 'PARAMS', that contains unique <user>@<domain> pairs, with quota data. mysql> select * from PARAMS; +----+------------------------+------------+-------------+------------+ | ai | MAILBOX_user_domain | quota | quota_bytes | quota_msgs | +----+------------------------+------------+-------------+------------+ | 1 | myuser(a)domain1.com | 1073741824 | 0 | 0 | | 2 | myuser(a)domain2.com | 1000000000 | 0 | 0 | +----+------------------------+------------+-------------+------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) I've specified dict usage for quota, /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf !include conf.d/*.conf protocols = imap lmtp dict { quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } created the maps, /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext connect = host=/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=my_db user=my_user password=my_pass map { pattern = priv/quota/storage table = PARAMS username_field = MAILBOX_user_domain value_field = quota_bytes } map { pattern = priv/quota/messages table = PARAMS username_field = MAILBOX_user_domain value_field = quota_msgs } assigned the global values and backend, /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-quota.conf plugin { quota = dict:User Quota::proxy::quota quota_rule = *:storage=1GB:messages=10000 quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% } and specified the user iteration query /etc/dovecot/sql/virtmail-userdb-sql.cf driver = mysql connect = host=/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=my_db user=my_user password=my_pass user_query = CALL UserDBQuery('%n','%d'); iterate_query = SELECT `MAILBOX_user_domain` AS user FROM `PARAMS`; Verifying operation with with `doveadm`, I get a result from a !error query, doveadm quota get -u myuser(a)domain1.com Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 0 1048576 0 User quota MESSAGE 0 10000 0 doveadm quota get -u myuser(a)domain2.com Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 0 1048576 0 User quota MESSAGE 0 10000 0 But notice that there's no specificity by *domain*. Despite being provided the full <user>@<domain>, matched to the map, username_field = MAILBOX_user_domain the Dovecot dict query seems to ignore the <domain> part, and simply matches on the first of the tow identical <user> parts. Specifying "-A" doesn't help, doveadm quota get -A Username Quota name Type Value Limit % myuser(a)domain1.com User quota STORAGE 0 1048576 0 myuser(a)domain1.com User quota MESSAGE 0 10000 0 myuser(a)domain2.com User quota STORAGE 0 1048576 0 myuser(a)domain2.com User quota MESSAGE 0 10000 0 What needs to be done to get domain-specificity in the 'doveadm quota get' query? Is my configuration off, or incomplete, or is this a bug? Thanks, Rich

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Re: [Dovecot] "doveadm log reopen" don't reopen separate lmtp log
by Henrik Larsson 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

I still see the issue below. Is there anyone running separate LMTP logging that could check if they experience the same issue? Best regards Henrik Larsson -------- Original Message -------- Subject: "doveadm log reopen" don't reopen separate lmtp log Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:23:49 +0200 From: Henrik Larsson <dovecot-user(a)spambox.dk> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Dear all I have setup separate pop3/imap log "/var/log/dovecot" and lmtp delivery log "/var/log/dovecot-deliver". After rotating logfiles, i run "doveadm log reopen". I see that my pop3/imap log "/var/log/dovecot" is used straight away, but my lmpt log "/var/log/dovecot-deliver" isn't used at first. After some time, usually a few minutes, logs are being written to this file anyway. But if I compare this to my maillog, it misses some deliveries just after the log rotation. Is there any problems with this configuration that should be corrected? --cut-- # doveconf -n # 2.0.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 first_valid_uid = 125 hostname = mail.larsson.it listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_plugins = fts fts_squat zlib mail_privileged_group = postfix mail_temp_dir = /var/db/dovecot managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { hidden = yes inbox = no list = no location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { fts = squat fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { unix_listener /home/mail/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service lmtp { executable = lmtp -L unix_listener /home/mail/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/mail-chained.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/mail.key userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver mail_plugins = fts fts_squat zlib sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = fts fts_squat zlib sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = fts fts_squat zlib imap_zlib } --cut-- Best regards Henrik Larsson

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[Dovecot] mail_location in LDAP and variables
by Joseba Torre 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hi, Is it posible to use variables in mail_location when taken from ldap? How? I've tried mdbox:/buzones2/'%n'/mdbox mdbox:/buzones2/"%n"/mdbox mdbox:/buzones2/%n/mdbox but %n is never replaced by its value. Thanks! -- Joseba Torre. Vicegerencia de TICs, área de Explotación

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