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[Dovecot] doveadm search doesn't update fts
by metro_domain_admin＠fastmail.fm 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hello, Doveadm search is failing to update our Squat indexes. The search itself works fine but the dovecot.index.search* files remain unchanged. I tried: doveadm search -u test mailbox INBOX body sometext doveadm search -u test mailbox INBOX text sometext I also tried the exact syntax Timo expressed in an earlier post: doveadm search -A body asdf If I run the same search through IMAP, the index files update as expected. The searches finish with a clean exit status and nothing shows up in the logs. I upgraded from 2.0.0 to 2.0.11 but the problem remains. >From doveconf -n: plugin { fts = squat } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 16 mail_plugins = $mail_plugins fts fts_squat } Thank you, Tony

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[Dovecot] Permission Denied - cannot create inbox
by Joseph Tam 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

tlmoore(a)gmail.com writes: > Apr 7 07:44:51 fs1 dovecot: imap(tim): Error: > chown(/home/tim/mail/.imap/INBOX, -1, 97(dovecot)) failed: Operation not > permitted (egid=500(tim), group based on /var/mail/tim) > > How do I give permissions to dovecot program to create these? I am trying > not to chmod 777 every mailbox. I was going to write about the same problem. This got me over the hump: chmod 0600 /var/spool/mail/* All my user's mailboxes used to be group=mail mode=0660. I think these settings were left over from Solaris' mail.local: I can't reproduce these permissions now, even for new mailboxes. Maybe it's because the spool directory is now mode=1777 (not g+s mail). Not too keen on these permissions either, but it seems to work. Dovecot seems to transfer group permissions of the mailbox to its corresponding cache. If it can't set group ownership, you get the fatal error message above. If the original mailbox is mode 0600, dovecot is smart enough not to set group ownership. I couldn't find this information: shouldn't it be documented here? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions This situation could also happen if a user is revoked from a group's membership. Would it be useful to make this a configurable behaviour whereby a chgrp() failure of cache files will fall back to chown'ing to user=owner, mode=0600 instead? Or just leave the user to scratch their head? Joseph Tam <tam(a)math.ubc.ca>

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[Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP, Cyrus SASL, verbose_proctitle
by Joseph Tam 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Is there a reason I should prefer LMTP over LDA for local delivery? Performance? Security? The Wiki doesn't differentiates LMTP vs LDA with respect to sendmail configuration, so am I correct that I just need to replace mail.local with dovecot-lda, which will choose LDA/LMTP based on dovecot.conf? Also, can I consolidate authentication by configuring dovecot to use what sendmail uses (Cyrus SASL) or vice versa? The Wiki hints this is in the works. Lastly, toggling verbose_proctitle seems to have no effect on the output of ps. Is verbose_proctitle broken for Solaris? Thanks, Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] configure: error: unrecognized option: --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.0.11
by Bruce Cheng 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Hi, I tried to use ATrpms (http://dl.atrpms.net/all/dovecot-2.0.11-1_126.src.rpm) to rebuild the rpms. It is shown the error message as following: configure: error: unrecognized option: --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.0.11 Try `./configure --help' for more information. I checked `./configure --help', it did contain the '--docdir' option. I don't know how to fix it. Then I tried to remove ' --docdir=%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version} \' and rebuild it again. It is shown another error message as following: mv: cannot stat `/var/tmp/dovecot-2.0.11-1_126-root//usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.0.11': No such file or directory I tried to modify dovecot.spec again, replace 'mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version} %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/docinstall ' with 'mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_docdir}/%{name} %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/docinstall' and rebuild it again. Antoher error shown 'File must begin with "/": %{_initddir}/dovecot', therefore I add '%define _initddir /etc/rc.d/init.d' Finally, I can rebuild the RPMS, but it is shown error message again while I install RPMS: [root@testmail SPECS]# rpm -ivh ../RPMS/x86_64/dovecot-2.0.11-1_126.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:dovecot ########################################### [100%] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.13056: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `fi' /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.13056: line 3: `fi' error: %post(dovecot-2.0.11-1_126.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 2 Please advise me how to fix the problem and thank you in advance. -- Best Regards, Bruce

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[Dovecot] Permission Denied - cannot create inbox
by tl511 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

I cant figure out permissions with Dovecot. I am new with this program and have tried setting the mail group to "mail" which is the group of my mailboxes which are located in /var/spool/mail. Here's the error I get. fs1 dovecot: imap(tl511insight): Error: chown(/home/tl511insight/mail/.imap/INBOX, -1, 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=504(tl511insight), group based on /var/mail/tl511insight) Apr 7 07:44:51 fs1 dovecot: imap(tl511insight): Error: mkdir(/home/tl511insight/mail/.imap/INBOX) failed: Operation not permitted Apr 7 07:44:51 fs1 dovecot: imap(tim): Error: chown(/home/tim/mail/.imap/INBOX, -1, 97(dovecot)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=500(tim), group based on /var/mail/tim) Apr 7 07:44:51 fs1 dovecot: imap(tim): Error: mkdir(/home/tim/mail/.imap/INBOX) failed: Operation not permitted How do I give permissions to dovecot program to create these? I am trying not to chmod 777 every mailbox. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Permission-Denied---cannot-create-inbox-tp31341777p31… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] Change/add mail header via IMAP
by Алексей Сундуков 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hello. I create RoundCube plugin and I have question. I want add mail header and I see 2 way: 1) change file via filesystem (mailbox in maildir format); 2) change header via dovecot. I think 1) bad way. But I do not know dovecot support change head information or not? My by via IMAP commant? same programm (LDA?)? May be it impossible via dovecot?

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[Dovecot] Virtual users
by Tolga 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hello, I am using postfix and virtual accounts. So far, I have been able to get postfix to deliver to the correct location, but I don't know how to get dovecot to pick up the mail. My mails are at /srv/vmail/domain/user, below is my dovecot -n output and the relevant error. Can you help me please? Regards, dovecot -n: # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.028stab070.5 i686 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap listen: *:143 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: mbox:/srv/vmail/%d/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock auth default: passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/srv/vmail/%d/%u userdb: driver: passwd Log: Apr 06 16:09:32 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 2 attempts): user=<bilgi>, method=PLAIN, rip=193.255.135.1, lip=184.82.40.118, TLS Tolga

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[Dovecot] dovecot: auth(default): Can't open configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf: Permission denied
by Kevin P. McDonough 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hello, I have been searching all day for help on an issue I am having after installing and just having begun to configure dovecot. Whenever I try to start the dovecot daemon I receive the following errors in the syslog: Apr 4 13:15:03 ***** dovecot: auth(default): Can't open configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf: Permission denied Apr 4 13:15:03 *****dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down Now, I have gone through the config file (see below) trying various settings for auth including running it as root and as vmail. I have tried a number of permutations for the permissions and ownership on the file specified above from 600 root -> 777 vmail and everything in between, yet always the same issue. If I rename the file and try to start dovecot it notices that the file is missing and gives an appropriate error. I cannot figure out how the permissions can be wrong on the file, I am starting to assume it is a problem elsewhere. (One other note, I was initially getting an error regarding the rawlog permissions, and just removed the rawlog part of the IMAP config to work around that). ---cut--- *****:~ # l /etc/dovecot/ total 160 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 4 14:18 ./ drwxr-xr-x 98 root root 12288 Apr 4 17:41 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52110 Apr 4 14:18 dovecot.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51576 Mar 16 13:31 dovecot.conf~ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 410 Feb 22 19:03 dovecot-db-example.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 782 Feb 22 19:03 dovecot-dict-sql-example.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4986 Feb 22 19:03 dovecot-ldap-example.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5589 Apr 4 13:25 dovecot-sql.backup -rw------- 1 root root 5589 Mar 16 13:31 dovecot-sql.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5097 Feb 22 19:03 dovecot-sql-example.conf ---cut--- ---cut--- *****:~ # dovecot -n # 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Error: setmntent(/etc/mtab) failed: Permission denied # OS: Linux 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop i686 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl: no 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(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 5000 last_valid_uid: 5000 first_valid_gid: 5000 last_valid_gid: 5000 mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com mail_plugins: sieve quota mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: quota: maildir sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve ---cut--- I just noticed that setmntent error above, I havent seen that anywhere else previously. Any help would be _greatly_ appreciated. Sincerely, Kevin M.

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[Dovecot] squirrelmail doesn't display share
by Eric Broch 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hello list, I have dovecot 2.0.11 installed on a client's server and Squirrelmail as the webmail client. I created the share below in dovecot.conf and it appears in Thunderbird and Outlook but not in Squirrelmail. What setting do I need to adjust in order for the share to appear in squirrelmail? Below are dumps of /etc/dovecot.conf and /etc/squirrelmail/local_config.conf # dovecot -n # 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) auth_cache_size = 32 M auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_username_format = %Lu disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_greeting = Dovecot toaster ready. namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects prefix = projects. separator = . type = shared } passdb { args = cache_key=%u webmail=127.0.0.1 driver = vpopmail } plugin/quota = maildir protocols = imap ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { args = cache_key=%u quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail } # cat config_local.php <?php #################### # Local configuration for Qmail Toaster # configure to suit your requirements $hide_sm_attributions = true; $useSendmail = false; $imap_server_type = 'courier'; $optional_delimiter = '.'; $default_folder_prefix = 'INBOX.'; $show_prefix_option = false; $show_contain_subfolders_option = false; $delete_folder = true; $plugins[] = 'calendar'; $plugins[] = 'notes'; $plugins[] = 'filters'; $plugins[] = 'quota_usage'; $plugins[] = 'unsafe_image_rules'; $plugins[] = 'qmailadmin_login'; ?>

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[Dovecot] imap-login: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 35 (io_add): assertion failed:
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

My dovecot directors (v2.0.8) had 3 instances of these yesterday: imap-login: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 35 (io_add): assertion failed: (fd >= 0) master: Error: service(imap-login): child 17374 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) imap-login: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 35 (io_add): assertion failed: (fd >= 0) master: Error: service(imap-login): child 1780 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) imap-login: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 35 (io_add): assertion failed: (fd >= 0) master: Error: service(imap-login): child 10349 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) dovecot "assertion failed" normally scares me quite a bit, but I don't think this can be very bad, since it's only on the directors and we're not doing lmtp here yet.. More of a FYI, and please let me know if I should enable something to get better debug data if/when it happens again. -jf

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