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[Dovecot] v2.1.rc3 released
by Timo Sirainen 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc3.tar.gz.sig Whops, rc2 was missing a file. I always run "make distcheck", which should catch these, but recently it has always failed due to clang static checking giving one "error" that I didn't really want to fix. Because of that the distcheck didn't finish and didn't check for the missing file. So, anyway, I've made clang happy again, and now that I see how bad idea it is to just ignore the failed distcheck, I won't do that again in future. :)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot unable to locate mailbox
by Jason X, Maney 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Dear all, I hope someone can point me in the right direction. here. I have setup my Dovecot v2.0.13 on Ubuntu 11.10. The logs tells me that the mail location has failed as follows: ========= Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<userA>, method=PLAIN, rip=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, lip=www.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=1360, TLS Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: user molla: Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/userA Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. ========= Yet my config also come out strangely as below: ========= root@guyana:~# dovecot -n # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.0-12-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10 passdb { driver = pam } protocols = " imap pop3" ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } root@guyana:~# ========= My mailbox location setting is as follows: ========= cat conf.d/10-mail.conf |grep mail_location # path given in the mail_location setting. # mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # explicitly, ie. mail_location does nothing unless you have a namespace # mail_location, which is also the default for it. ========= I am wondering how best to work around this Dovecot problem. Please help. Regards Jason.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Solutions company update
by Timo Sirainen 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hi, A small update: My Dovecot support company finally has web pages: http://www.dovecot.fi/ We've also started providing 24/7 support.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot did not accept Login from Host
by email＠randpoger.org 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hi! My Dovecot is running and i can connect + login through telnet: -------------------------------------------- >> telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. >> 1 login user passwort 1 OK [...] Logged in -------------------------------------------- But through my domain i can only connect, but than i get an error: -------------------------------------------- >> telnet domain.de 143 Trying xx.xxx.xxx.xx... Connected to domain.de. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. >> 1 login user passwort 1 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. -------------------------------------------- My dovecot.conf: -------------------------------------------- protocols = imap imaps ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem mail_location= /var/mail/%u log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes protocol imap { } auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } -------------------------------------------- If i try to connect+login through an domain, dovecot write NOTHING into the .log Someone ideas about this?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot crashes totally
by Gordon Grubert 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hello, our dovecot server crashes totally without any really useful log messages. The error log can be found in the attachment. The only way to get dovecot running again is a complete system restart. Dovecot version: 2:2.0.15-0~auto+5 (2.0.15 (6b7242ead6ed)) Configuration : see attachment OS : Debian Squeeze amd64 Dovecot source : http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ \ stable-auto/dovecot-2.0 main This problem has already occurred with the version 2.0.13 where the log says as few as the current logs :-( Best regards, Gordon -- Leiter AG Technische Infrastruktur und Basisdienste Universitaetsrechenzentrum (URZ) E.-M.-Arndt-Universitaet Greifswald Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 12 17489 Greifswald Germany Tel. +49 3834 86-1456 Fax. +49 3834 86-1401

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[Dovecot] [Dovecot 2.1] ACL plugin makes imap service crash when using some clients
by interfaSys sàrl 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hello, I've just noticed that when Horde is connecting to Dovecot 2.1, it crashes the imap service if Dovecot is configured to use the ACL plugin. I'm not sure what's so special about the command Horde sends, but it shouldn't make Dovecot crash. Everything is fine when using Thunderbird. Here is the message in Dovecot's logs "Fatal: master: service(imap): child 89974 killed with signal 11 (core not dumped)" The message says that the core is not dumped, even though I did add drop_priv_before_exec=yes to my config file. I've tried connecting to the pid using gdb, but the process just hangs as soon as I'm connected. Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] resolve mail_home ?
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

I now have "mail_home = /srv/mailstore/%256RHu/%d/%n". Is there any way of asking dovecot where a user's home directory is? It's not in "doveadm user": $ doveadm user -f home janfrode(a)lyse.net $ doveadm user janfrode(a)tanso.net userdb: janfrode(a)tanso.net mail : mdbox:~/mdbox quota_rule: *:storage=1048576 Alternatively, is there an easy way to calculate the %256RHu hash ? -jf

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[Dovecot] little bug with Director in 2.1?
by Luca Di Vizio 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hi, in 2.1rc3 the "director_servers" setting does not accept hostnames as documented (with ip no problems). It works correctly in 2.0.17. Greetings, Luca

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[Dovecot] Using Dovecot-auth to return error code 450 (or other 4xx) to Postfix when user is on vacation
by IVO GELOV (CRM) 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hello to all members. I am using Dovecot for 5 years, but this is my first post here. I am aware of the various autoresponder scripts for vacation autoreplies (I am using Virtual Vacation 3.1 by Mischa Peters). I have an issue with auto-replies - it is vulnerable to spamming with forged email address. Forging can be prevented with several Postfix settings, which I did in the past - but was forced to remove, because our company occasionaly has clients with improper configurations and those settings prevent us to receive their legitimate mail (and this of course is not good for the business). So I have though about another idea. Since I use Dovecot-auth to verify mailbox existence - I just wonder is it possible to somehow indicate specific error code (and hopefully descriptive text also) to Postfix (e.g. 450 or some other temporary failure) when the owner of the mailbox is currently on vacation ? Best wishes, IVO GELOV

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[Dovecot] IMAP maillog error: file lib.c: line 37 (nearest_power): assertion failed: (num <= ((size_t)1 << (BITS_IN_SIZE_T-1)))
by Charles Thompson 15 Jan '12

15 Jan '12

Dear Mailing List, What does this error mean and how do I fix it? I am on a Centos 4.9 >From /var/log/maillog : Jan 14 11:54:51 hostname imap(username): file lib.c: line 37 (nearest_power): assertion failed: (num <= ((size_t)1 << (BITS_IN_SIZE_T-1))) Version information : root(a)hostname[/etc/rc.d/rc3.d]# dovecot --version ; dovecot -n ; cat /etc/*release* 0.99.11 Usage: dovecot [-F] [-c <config file>] Fatal: Unknown argument: -n CentOS release 4.9 (Final) root(a)hostname[/etc/rc.d/rc3.d]# Thank you. -- Sincerely, Charles Thompson *UNIX & Linux Administrator* Tel* : *(650) 906-9156 Web : www.kinesis.me Mail: mail(a)kinesis.me

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