December 2011 - dovecot

[Dovecot] [dovecot] Getting duplicates when using snarf plugin with mbox backend
by Jonathan SIegle 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Running dovecot version 2.0.11. To reproduce, open two imap sessions and issue a check command from each at the same time with new mail in the queue. 0 login testuser testpw 1 select inbox -- Deliver mail -- 2 check Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] fts (lucene): indexing of virtual mailboxes?
by Lutz Preßler 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hello, (recent 2.1alpha2 variant - my test setup known to Timo). No time to diagnose in depth at the moment, but I just noticed that SEARCHing in virtual mailboxes seems not to create lucene index content of its own but use those of referenced mailboxes? The problem is that no new indexing takes place. Example: with INBOX INBOX.in% all in dovecot-virtual, for a given query I only get matches from those mailboxes searched in previously. Regards, Lutz

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Bad boundary check in client_find_namespace
by Christoph Bussenius 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi, while trying to investigate the bug I reported last week, I found that there is a broken boundary check in client_find_namespace in src/imap/imap-commands-util.c. The code is: /* make sure two hierarchy separators aren't next to each others */ for (p = storage_name+1; *p != '\0'; p++) { if (p[0] == ns->real_sep && p[-1] == ns->real_sep) { client_send_tagline(cmd, "NO Invalid mailbox name."); return NULL; } } The loop iterates over the string storage_name starting from its second byte. However, the string may be "". This is the case if you select the root of a namespace, like in "SELECT shared" or "SELECT shared/user1". In that case, the code will read past the end of the buffer from random memory until it finds a zero byte or a duplicate separator. This would fix it: diff -ru dovecot-2.0.15.orig/src/imap/imap-commands-util.c dovecot-2.0.15/src/imap/imap-commands-util.c --- dovecot-2.0.15.orig/src/imap/imap-commands-util.c 2011-08-02 12:29:37.000000000 +0200 +++ dovecot-2.0.15/src/imap/imap-commands-util.c 2011-09-26 18:33:16.121917759 +0200 @@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ } /* make sure two hierarchy separators aren't next to each others */ - for (p = storage_name+1; *p != '\0'; p++) { + for (p = storage_name; *p != '\0'; p++) { + if (p == storage_name) + continue; if (p[0] == ns->real_sep && p[-1] == ns->real_sep) { client_send_tagline(cmd, "NO Invalid mailbox name."); return NULL; Cheers, Christoph Bußenius -- Christoph Bußenius Rechnerbetriebsgruppe der Fakultäten Informatik und Mathematik TU München +49 89-289-18519 <> Raum 00.05.055 <> Boltzmannstr. 3 <> Garching

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[Dovecot] 2.0.14 doveadm proxy list segfault
by Tom Pawlowski 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi Timo, Periodic segfaults with doveadm proxy list: root@director1:~) doveadm proxy list doveadm(root): Error: LIST failed: Disconnected Segmentation fault (core dumped) Sometimes it's just the 'LIST failed' error, other times it's the error with the segfault. Usually the first attempt to call it works, subsequent attempts fail. I've attached a strace log of it in action. -- Tom Pawlowski OIT-CSS System Administrator office: Hill 147 email: tompru(a)jla.rutgers.edu phone: (732) 445-2634

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[Dovecot] Syncing shared mailboxes
by Knud Dombrowsky 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi, while trying to sync the mailboxes of several users who use and share their mailboxes dsync prints this message: dsync-local(<user-who-uses-shared-mailbox>): Warning: Subscriptions file /home/<user-who-uses-shared-mailbox>/Maildir/subscriptions: Removing invalid entry: shared/<sharing-user>/<shared-folder> The problem is: Every user has to subscribe the shared folder again after each run of dsync... Is dsync capable of syncing shared mailboxes? Are there any preliminaries to do so? thanks in advance, Knud

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[Dovecot] crash on shared folders if remote user has empty $home
by Peer Heinlein 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi, in seldom cirumstances it's possible that the imap-process is crashing without write something usefule into the logfile. a) User foo exists, is happy and everything's alright b) He had a shared folder given from bar c) In our setup we have mailforwarding adresses without a valid $home in LDAP c) if user bar is changed from a user with into a mailforwarding adress, the user foo won't have an entry for $home any more, but still exists in LDAP. d) If foo logs in, dovecot's exploring the shared folders given from the non-existing user bar. But bar's entry in LDAP doesn't have $home any more. imap crashes and closes the TCP-connection immediately. root@dobby2:/etc/dovecot# telnet xxxxxxxx 143 Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE ACL UIDPLUS STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5] Dovecot ready. Testing. a LOGIN foo xxxxx a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS ACL UIDPLUS QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in a LIST "" "*" * BYE Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Connection closed by foreign host. Dec 22 21:57:41 dobby2 dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 18095 killed with signal 11 (core dumps disabled) e) This happens if mail_location=mdbox:%%h/mdbox is set in the shared folder namespace. If I set "mail_location=auto:" then Dovecot logs an error message, but is still possible to continue without any problems. Dec 22 21:33:59 dobby2 dovecot: imap(bar): Error: Namespace 'shared/bar/': Autodetection failed for auto: (home=/mail/foo/) -- Heinlein Professional Linux Support GmbH Linux: Akademie - Support - Hosting http://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: 030 / 40 50 51 - 0 Fax: 030 / 40 50 51 - 19 Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: HRB 93818 B / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein -- Sitz: Berlin

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[Dovecot] LSUB and subscribed folders
by Peer Heinlein 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

I have a strange behavior on a customer's server and I don't understand that: User "bar" has some folders and one shared folder from "foo" if I use the "LIST"-command, which should list AFAIK *all* folders: # telnet localhost 143 a login bar xxxx a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in a LIST "" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Gesendete Objekte" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Papierkorb" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Entw&APw-rfe" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Spam" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "shared/foo" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "shared/foo/INBOX" a OK List completed. Using the LSUB-command, which should only list subscribed folders I can see some more shared folders. AFAIK the output of LSUB must be always less then LIST: a LSUB "" "*" * LSUB () "/" "Entw&APw-rfe" * LSUB () "/" "Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX" * LSUB () "/" "Papierkorb" * LSUB () "/" "Spam" * LSUB () "/" "Trash" * LSUB (\Noselect) "/" "shared/amerkel" * LSUB () "/" "shared/foo/Papierkorb/Ungelesene Mails" * LSUB () "/" "shared/foo/INBOX" * LSUB () "/" "shared/foo/INBOX/abc/Unterebene 1" * LSUB () "/" "shared/foo/INBOX/abc/Unterebene 1/Test6789" * LSUB () "/" "shared/foo/INBOX/abc/Unterebene 1/Test Unterornder" * LSUB () "/" "shared/foo/INBOX/abc/Unterebene 1/Tsfgnksfgnk" a OK Lsub completed. a logout * BYE Logging out a OK Logout completed. And why is /shared/foo/INBOX listed with "HasNoChildren"? IMHO that's looking buggy. And, btw: Looks like's not possible to use the "doveadm"-command to get a list of a user's complete folder list. Maybe "doveadm mailbox" should get some extra parameters to geht all folders / only subscribe folders / only shared folders: # doveadm mailbox list -u bar Gesendete Objekte Papierkorb INBOX Trash Entwürfe Spam -- Heinlein Professional Linux Support GmbH Linux: Akademie - Support - Hosting http://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: 030/405051-42 Fax: 030/405051-19 Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: HRB 93818 B / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein -- Sitz: Berlin

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[Dovecot] dsync error Mailbox has children, delete them first
by Jürgen Obermann 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hi, I use dsync to backup mailboxes from mbox format to mdbox on a remote system. The first run for a user with dsync is OK, but during the second there are lots of the following errors: dsync-remote(user): Error: Can't delete mailbox directory Example: Mailbox has children, delete them first I see no way how I could influence the order dsync deletes mailboxes. This happens with dovecot version 2.0.16 Thank you, Juergen Obermann

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[Dovecot] movming mail out of alt storage
by Micah Anderson 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

I moved some mail into the alt storage: doveadm altmove -u johnd(a)example.com seen savedbefore 1w and now I want to move it back to the regular INBOX, but I can't see how I can do that with either 'altmove' or 'mailbox move'. thanks! micah --

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[Dovecot] 2.1.rc1 (056934abd2ef): virtual plugin mailbox search pattern
by e-frog 29 Jan '12

29 Jan '12

Hello Timo, With dovecot 2.1.rc1 (056934abd2ef) there seems to be something wrong with virtual plugin mailbox search patterns. I'm using a virtual mailbox 'unread' with the following dovecot-virtual file $ cat dovecot-virtual * unseen For testing propose I created the following folders with each containing one unread message INBOX, INBOX/level1 and INBOX/level1/level2 2.1.rc1 (056934abd2ef) 1 LIST "" "*" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "INBOX" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "INBOX/level1" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX/level1/level2" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "virtual" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "virtual/unread" 1 OK List completed. 2 STATUS "INBOX" (UNSEEN) * STATUS "INBOX" (UNSEEN 1) 2 OK Status completed. 3 STATUS "INBOX/level1" (UNSEEN) * STATUS "INBOX/level1" (UNSEEN 1) 3 OK Status completed. 4 STATUS "INBOX/level1/level2" (UNSEEN) * STATUS "INBOX/level1/level2" (UNSEEN 1) 4 OK Status completed. 5 STATUS "virtual/unread" (UNSEEN) * STATUS "virtual/unread" (UNSEEN 1) 5 OK Status completed. Result: virtual/unread shows only 1 unseen message. Further tests showed it's the one from INBOX. The mails from the deeper levels are not found. Downgrading to 2.0.16 restores the correct behavior: 1 LIST "" "*" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "INBOX" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "INBOX/level1" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX/level1/level2" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "virtual" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "virtual/unread" 1 OK List completed. 2 STATUS "INBOX" (UNSEEN) * STATUS "INBOX" (UNSEEN 1) 2 OK Status completed. 3 STATUS "INBOX/level1" (UNSEEN) * STATUS "INBOX/level1" (UNSEEN 1) 3 OK Status completed. 4 STATUS "INBOX/level1/level2" (UNSEEN) * STATUS "INBOX/level1/level2" (UNSEEN 1) 4 OK Status completed. 5 STATUS "virtual/unread" (UNSEEN) * STATUS "virtual/unread" (UNSEEN 3) 5 OK Status completed. Result: virtual/unread shows 3 unseen messages as it should The namespace configuration is as following namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { location = virtual:~/virtual prefix = virtual/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = private } I've also tried this with location = virtual:~/virtual:LAYOUT=maildir++ leading to the same result. Thanks, e-frog

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