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[Dovecot] is there a script to find a message from a given username easily?
by Gary Kline 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hello people, I used primarily mutt and sendmail for many years. (And elm before mutt.) All my mail was saved into ~/Mail. Messages from, say, smith(a)foo.ber were stored in ~/Mail/smith; all mail from smith was catenated into one file, and if I wanted to find something that smith had written, I would just cd to ~/Mail and grep or egrep on a likely word or phrase. Is there a script that can reach into my server into My maildirectory and cp or symlink (say) ~/Maildir/smith's files: 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 780 Apr 18 2008 1208585354.91013_3.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 731 May 15 2008 1210901757.55602_4.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 566 May 18 2008 1211140486.77700_3.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 578 May 20 2008 1211326880.95596_4.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 578 May 21 2008 1211393732.2283_3.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 673 Apr 13 2009 1239636788.1457_3.aristotle:2,S 6 -rw------- 1 kline kline 4242 Apr 14 2009 1239748901.16354_4.aristotle:2,S into somthing named ~/Mail/smith, with all files catted together? tia, gary kline -- Gary Kline kline(a)thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

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[Dovecot] Acl Groups
by Dimitrios Karapiperis 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi all! I have a corpus of virtual users ( user1(a)domain.tld , user2(a)domain.tld, user3(a)domain.tld,..., usern(a)domain.tld ... ) authenticated against Active Directory. Is it possible to group some users (virtual) and give appropriate ACLs on a shared imap public folder using an ACL vfile? thanks in advance Dimitrios

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[Dovecot] Dovecot hosts in France?
by Anatoly IVANOV 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi, * Would someone recommend web hosts in France using Dovecot, please? I'd prefer to outsource the server management to someone else (although I could install and run my own Dovecot server). I need the server to be located physically in a French datacenter for legal reasons. Sorry if I'm a bit off-topic. Not a technical question. Thanks in advance. ANATOLY IVANOV / PHOTOGRAPHY / DESIGN / PROSE http://www.anatolyivanov.com/ AI on Twitter http://twitter.com/anatolyivanov

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[Dovecot] 1.2.7: recs[i]->uid < rec-> uid
by Edgar Fuß 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

I'm getting this Panic with some users on dovecot-1.2.7: Panic: file maildir-uidlist.c: line 1242 (maildir_uidlist_records_drop_expunges): assertion failed: (recs[i]- >uid < rec-> uid) There's another dovecot-1.2.3 running on identical hardware accessing the same NFS mail storage without problems.

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[Dovecot] restrictions on folder length?
by Brett Dikeman 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Greetings all, After migrating a few dozen people to our departmental mailserver, we've run into a problem with one user who makes extensive use of folders and nesting them. I've seen as many as 8 levels. The longest resulting folder name is 113 characters, which results in a total path length of 137 characters (/var/spool/mail/******). Their old mail server handled this fine, but dovecot is choking on it; imapsync reports "invalid mailbox name", and he gets the same error clicking on the mailboxes in Thunderbird (they seem to have been created, despite the error messages.) Mail was imported over using imapsync, and did so flawlessly for all the other accounts. Are we running up against a soft (configuration file) or hard (source) limit? Or is this a bug? Thanks! Brett

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[Dovecot] 2.0.alpha3 typo patch
by Mike Abbott 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

--- a/src/lib-storage/mail-storage-service.c +++ b/src/lib-storage/mail-storage-service.c @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ } } if (*set->mail_privileged_group != '\0') { - if (!parse_uid(set->mail_privileged_group, &rset.privileged_gid)) + if (!parse_gid(set->mail_privileged_group, &rset.privileged_gid)) i_fatal("Unknown mail_gid group: %s", set->mail_gid); } if (*set->mail_access_groups != '\0')

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[Dovecot] [OT] DRBD
by Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hello all, has someone worked with DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) for HA of mail storage? if so, does it have stability issues? comments and experiences are thanked :) Thanks, Rodolfo.

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[Dovecot] expire plugin + --exec-mail in 1.2.6 version
by Nikita Koshikov 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hello list, After upgrade to dovecot version 1.2.6 I have noticed some quota malfunctions(users become often overquota). Looking at logs closely I have found that quota value resets to general dovecot-config( quota = maildir:Mailbox quota quota_rule = *:storage=500M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=10%% ), after dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh command. The problem that some users have their own quotas stored in ldap. For example, user sr(a)domain.com have maildirsize before running expire-tool(1G value from ldap): # head -2 /data/mail/domain.com/sr/data/maildirsize 10485760000S 836423205 8285 Then I run expire-tool with mail_debug enabled: # /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_trash_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_expire_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_virtual_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Info: Quota root: name=Mailbox quota backend=maildir args= Info: Quota rule: root=Mailbox quota mailbox=* bytes=524288000 messages=0 Info: Quota rule: root=Mailbox quota mailbox=Trash bytes=52428800 (10%) messages=0 Info: Quota warning: bytes=471859200 (90%) messages=0 command=/etc/dovecot/plugins/quota_warning.sh 90 Info: expire: pattern=Trash type=expunge secs=2592000 Info: expire: pattern=Spam type=expunge secs=2592000 Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=1 uid=1869: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=2 uid=1870: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=3 uid=1871: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=4 uid=1872: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=5 uid=1873: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=6 uid=1874: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=7 uid=1875: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=8 uid=1876: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=9 uid=1877: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=10 uid=1878: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=11 uid=1879: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=12 uid=1880: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: timestamp 1256618680 (Tue Oct 27 06:44:40 2009) -> 1256716674 (Wed Oct 28 09:57:54 2009) Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/fsb Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/fsb/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/fsb/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/fsb/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=1 uid=578: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=2 uid=579: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=3 uid=580: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=4 uid=581: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=5 uid=582: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=6 uid=583: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=7 uid=584: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=8 uid=585: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=9 uid=586: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=10 uid=587: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=11 uid=588: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=12 uid=589: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=13 uid=590: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: timestamp 1256627284 (Tue Oct 27 09:08:04 2009) -> 1256732991 (Wed Oct 28 14:29:51 2009) Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/arsen Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/arsen/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/arsen/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/arsen/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=1 uid=14: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=2 uid=15: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=3 uid=16: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=4 uid=17: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=5 uid=18: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=6 uid=19: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=7 uid=20: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=8 uid=21: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=9 uid=22: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=10 uid=23: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=11 uid=24: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: timestamp 1256630371 (Tue Oct 27 09:59:31 2009) -> 1256733711 (Wed Oct 28 14:41:51 2009) Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=1 uid=2561: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Trash: timestamp 1256709279 (Wed Oct 28 07:54:39 2009) -> 1256795118 (Thu Oct 29 07:45:18 2009) Info: auth input: quota_rule=*:bytes=10485760000 Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/sr Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/sr/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/sr/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/sr/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: sr(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=1 uid=405: Expunge Info: sr(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=2 uid=406: Expunge Info: sr(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=3 uid=407: Expunge Info: sr(a)domain.com/Spam: timestamp 1256710764 (Wed Oct 28 08:19:24 2009) -> 1256980000 (Sat Oct 31 11:06:40 2009) Info: kolotilo.m(a)domain.com/Trash: stop, expire time in future: Wed Oct 28 10:27:41 2009 And after expire-tool ends it's stuff, user sr(a)domain.com have(512M from dovecot-config): 524288000SS 836423205 8285 As you can see - quota reset to default value. In changes to version 1.2.6 I see - dovecot --exec-mail was broken. Is fixes to 1.2.6 touch userdb lookups from --exec-mail ? With 1.2.4 expire-tool works correct and I have no config changes to dovecot setup. If dovecot -n output is needed, please let me know. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Berlin talk - video or audio available?
by James Brown 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Thanks Timo for putting up the .pdf and .ppt files for your talk at www.dovecot.org/talks . Is there a video or audio file of it? Thanks, James.

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[Dovecot] new to dovecot
by Lars Nielsen 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hi there, I have installed debian with exim4 postgresql 8.3 and dovecot 1.0.15. I have the mail delivery part done, so when i send mail it gets delivered in ~/MailDir/ I have tried to authenticate via passwd and postgresql but with no luck. I have read a lot on google but i cannot get dovecot to give me the mails via pop3. Is there a tutorial somewhere i have missed? so far i have messed up my config like this : # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/errors.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd regards Lars Nielsen

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