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[Dovecot] Duplicate suppression
by Thiago Henrique 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hello, In a Dovecot 2.0.6 server I have an account x@domain and an alias y@domain -> x@domain. When I send an email to x@domain with carbon copy to y@domain, X receives two messages on mailbox. Dovecot2 has any feature of duplicate suppression ? Thanks, Thiago Henrique

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[Dovecot] LDA, postfix and multiple virtual users : postfix is still the MDA
by Antoine Souques 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi, I have some trouble to use dovecot as MDA. I followed the instructions in http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA and http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix I have multiple virtual users, stored in a LDAP server, and it look like postfix is still delivering the mails directly to the maildirs. Dovecot version : 1.2.15 (using the 1:1.2.15-4 squeeze packets) postfix version : 2.7.1 (using the 2.7.1-1 squeeze packet) dovecot configuration (dovecot -n): # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0 ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s 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 login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 4 login_max_processes_count: 512 login_max_connections: 1024 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 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 imap_capability(default): IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRAL imap_capability(imap): IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRAL imap_capability(pop3): lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)test.ecp.fr hostname: squeeze.test.ecp.fr sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: dovecot userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mail postfix configuration (postconf -n) append_dot_mydomain = no biff = no bounce_queue_lifetime = 1d command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix mail_spool_directory = /var/mail/ message_size_limit = 10240000 myhostname = squeeze.test.ecp.fr mynetworks = 138.195.32.0/23, 127.0.0.1 recipient_delimiter = + setgid_group = postdrop smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject smtpd_helo_required = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_unknown_sender_domain, permit virtual_alias_maps = ldap:ldapxforward,ldap:ldapforward,ldap:ldapvalias virtual_mailbox_domains = test.ecp.fr virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:ldapcanonical virtual_transport = dovecot /etc/postfix/master.cf dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mail:mail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} Sample from the logs Mar 14 13:22:59 squeeze postfix/pickup[17376]: A93DE49A55: uid=0 from=<root> Mar 14 13:22:59 squeeze postfix/cleanup[17543]: A93DE49A55: message-id=<20110314122259.A93DE49A55(a)squeeze.test.ecp.fr> Mar 14 13:22:59 squeeze postfix/qmgr[16038]: A93DE49A55: from=<root(a)squeeze.test.ecp.fr>, size=381, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 14 13:22:59 squeeze postfix/local[17547]: A93DE49A55: to=<etutest(a)squeeze.test.ecp.fr>, orig_to=<etudiant.test(a)test.ecp.fr>, relay=local, delay=0.07, delays=0.04/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir) Mar 14 13:22:59 squeeze postfix/qmgr[16038]: A93DE49A55: removed During the mail delivery, I doesn't have any log from dovecot, and i didn't have set the bit_suid/sudo, so the deliver process can't deliver the mail to the maildir. Have someone any idea about what i did wrong ? -- Antoine SOouques

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[Dovecot] Problems with dovecot 2.0, sieve and mdbox
by Patrick Westenberg 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Hi guys, I tried to use a global sieve skript to sort spam mails into a subfolder of INBOX. I´m using mdbox. The log shows that the script is called and executed but it is not able to find or create the mailbox: Sep 4 15:18:55 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6237, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) Debug: Namespace : Permission lookup failed from /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox/mailboxes/Spamverdacht Sep 4 15:18:55 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6237, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 Sep 4 15:22:37 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6261, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) Debug: Namespace : Permission lookup failed from /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX.Spamverdacht Sep 4 15:22:37 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6261, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 My skript looks like this: require "fileinto"; if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { fileinto "Spamverdacht"; } I also tried: require "fileinto"; if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { fileinto "INBOX.Spamverdacht"; } How can I fix this? Regards Patrick

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[Dovecot] Patch proposition to implement a new workaround: tb-lsub-flags
by Bruno Tréguier 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

Hi again Timo, As agreed earlier tonight, you'll find as attachments 4 diffs (diff -u) implementing the new workaround "tb-lsub-flags". The 4 impacted files are: ./src/imap/imap-settings.h ./src/imap/imap-settings.c ./src/imap/cmd-list.c ./src/config/all-settings.c Here is the proposed description for the dovecot.conf file: # tb-lsub-flags: # Usually IMAP servers don't bother returning the flags attached # to each mailbox, but Thunderbird presently needs them in order # to correctly process the "folders of folders" case. Please tell me if the patch format is suitable or if you expect something else. Best regards and thanks again for your responsiveness. Bruno -- - Service Hydrographique et Oceanographique de la Marine - DO/MGS/INF - 13, rue du Chatellier - CS 92803 - 29228 Brest Cedex 2, FRANCE - Phone: +33 2 98 22 17 49 - Email: Bruno.Treguier(a)shom.fr

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[Dovecot] Filtering attachements ?
by Frank Bonnet 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

Hello again Is there a way to filter some attachments with dovecot ? I don't want my users to keep video files in the IMAP folders anymore ( disk is almost full ) . Thank you.

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[Dovecot] SASL abort causes 5s delay, triggered by UW libc-client
by Arne Nordmark 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

Since upgrding to Debian squeeze, the web mail system (Imp4/Horde3) suffers delays every time a new IMAP connection is needed. Tracing the authentication conversation, we find: 08:45:55.270609: 00000000 AUTHENTICATE GSSAPI 08:45:55.271277: + 08:45:55.271761: * 08:45:55.271782: 00000000 BAD Authentication aborted by client. 08:45:55.271815: 00000001 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN 08:46:00.271008: + and the PLAIN login succeeds. Imp4 is using php5-imap which is using libc-client, and the delays makes the interface so slow to hardly usable. For reasons best known to its authors, libc-client first initiates GSSAPI authentication, then checks if there is a Kerberos ticket it can use (there is none), then realizes its mistake and aborts SASL, and tries PLAIN. At this point dovecot delays for 5000ms. While not defending libs-client's odd behaviour of not checking for tickets first, it has probably done so for a long time, and dovecot from Debian lenny does not delay at this point. I am lost as how to get around this without changing the code. The "nodelay" parameter can not be used with PAM passdb, according to the documentation. I would be inclined to call always call client_auth_failed with nodelay=TRUE in the SASL_SERVER_REPLY_AUTH_ABORTED case. Arne Nordmark Config: # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0 ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap listen: *, [::] ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/certs/mechca_cert.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ano4/ano4_crt.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ano4/ano4_key.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/maildir/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)ano.mech.kth.se mail_plugins: sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain gssapi failure_delay: 0 debug: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: root plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.X, built from source, no extensions?
by Enright, Mike 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Greetings list. Pardon the ignorance. I am working on CentOS 5.2. Unfortunately the repo version of Dovecot is 1.0.X. This works fine mind you but it doesn't have ORDEREDSUBJECT Threading support, which I need. I downloaded 2.0.11 and built from source, but now I don't see any Threading support, not even REFERENCES. I looked to see if I was missing a ./configure option but if I am, it has eluded me. Any guidance would be appreciated. # dovecot -n # 2.0.11: /usr/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5PAE i686 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) ext3 auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir passdb { args = /usr/etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } plugin/quota = maildir:storage=10240:messages=1000 protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener /var/run/dovecot/auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { client_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 128 M } ssl = no userdb { args = uid=6000 gid=6000 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n allow_any_users=yes driver = static } # telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. 1 capability * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN 1 OK Capability completed. Cheers Mike Enright Senior Software Engineer Office: +1 239-425-9161 (Florida) Fax: +1 239-425-6845 [cid:C388744A-AA0D-4A0C-A96D-3038C56EC9E5] Interop Technologies 13500 Powers Court Fort Myers, FL 33912 www.interoptechnologies.com<http://www.interoptechnologies.com/>

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[Dovecot] permission recomendation for dovecot configuration files and binaries
by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

I'm trying to figure out which permissions will be the best to handle most of tasks (for use in rpm package) for configuration files. Basically /etc/dovecot/ dir /etc/dovecot/* files /etc/dovecot/conf.d/ dir /etc/dovecot/conf.d/files dovecot binaries, deliver mainly For example deliver needs to read configuration files and needs to write into destination. Doesn't seem to be sane to allow MTA user read dovecot configs but that is requires for deliver to work etc. Are there any sane/tested recommendations that would fit most situations (remember, that's going to be rpm package default config) ? -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0 - size of the mailbox
by Cristiane França 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi, The Dovecot 2.0 has some limit size for the mailbox? The server is 64 bits and would like to have mailbox with bigger size that 2 GB.

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Re: [Dovecot] POP3 error
by Thierry de Montaudry 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

On 08 Mar 2011, at 13:24, Chris Wilson wrote: > Hi Thierry, > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Thierry de Montaudry wrote: >> On 07 Mar 2011, at 19:15, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 19:03 +0200, Thierry de Montaudry wrote: >>>>>>>>> Mar 7 11:19:51 xxx dovecot: pop3-login: Error: net_connect_unix(pop3) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable >>>>> .. >>>> As it is happening at least once a day, is there anything I can do to >>>> trace it? and whatever I'll do, will it slow down those machines? >>> >>> Set verbose_proctitle=yes (won't slow down) and get list of all >>> Dovecot processes when it happens. And check how much user and system >>> CPU it's using and what the load is. >> >> Got the same problem this morning, here is the CPU usage and ps aux for >> dovecot. plus the different error I could pick up in the log, most of >> them are repeated a couple of times. >> >> I suspect it a problem with system resources, but can find any message >> to tell me what. Mail are stored on 17 NFS servers (CentOS), plus 3 >> servers for indexes only. >> >> CPU load is very high, but mainly from httpd running our webmail >> interface, which uses the local imap server. > [...] >> top - 11:10:14 up 14 days, 12:04, 2 users, load average: 55.04, 29.13, 14.55 >> Tasks: 474 total, 60 running, 414 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >> Cpu(s): 99.6%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st >> Mem: 16439812k total, 16353268k used, 86544k free, 33268k buffers >> Swap: 4192956k total, 140k used, 4192816k free, 8228744k cached > > You're lucky this server is still alive and that you could even run top > and ps on it. > > There's nothing to debug in dovecot here. Your server is overloaded by > about 55 times. Buy 55 times as many servers or do something about your > webmail interface (maybe a separate webmail cluster). > > Cheers, Chris. > As you can see the numbers (55.04, 29.13, 14.55) the load was busy getting higher when I took this snapshot and this was not a normal situation. Usually this machine's load is only between 1 and 4, which is quite ok for a quad core. It only happens when dovecot start generating errors, and pop3, imap and http get stuck. It went up to 200, and I was still able to stop web and mail daemons, then restart them, and everything was back to normal.

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