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[Dovecot] setting up home directories
by Cliff Hayes 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello, I have not been using the home directory but I read in MailLocation.txt that I probably should. Does dovecot create each directory? What does it put in there? My server uses mbox format. My users all look like this: [root@sendmail log]# finger chayes Login: chayes Name: 50387.00 Directory: /home/chayes Shell: /sbin/nologin Never logged in. Mail last read Mon Nov 16 19:56 2009 (CST) No Plan. So each user does have a home directory assigned, but it is never created. Here is my current mail_location: mail_location = mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u Do I just add the maildir component as follows: mail_location = mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u:maildir:/home /u% I'm confused by the MailLocation.txt entry below which says not to mix maildir and mbox formats. ---%<----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/.INBOX ---%<----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Note that it's still not possible to mix maildir and mbox formats this way. You need to use<namespaces> [Namespaces.txt] for that. Thanks in advance, Cliff

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.2.7 : configure: error: Can't build with LDAP support: libldap not found
by Santhosh A. J 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

hi i have downloaded the dovecot 1.2.7 source when i tried to compile with ldap support it gives the error "configure: error: Can't build with LDAP support: libldap not found". i am attaching the log file with this mail. i want to use it with latest apacheDS. Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] deliver is ignoring mail_access_groups
by Peter 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Ubuntu 8.04LTS Dovecot 1.2.6 Postfix 2.5.1 I'm using dovecot imap/deliver in an environment where I don't want users with shell access to reach their mail folders (partly to do with IMAP ACLs requiring open group permissions and partly to do with not wanting users to mess their mail folders / sieve configs up). I specifically don't want to switch to a "single dovecot user" style installation. Current config: mail_location = maildir:/home/mail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_privileged_group = mail mail_access_groups = maildir drwxrws--- 3 nobody maildir 21 2009-11-15 10:52 /home/mail drwxrws--- 4 nobody adomain.com 30 2009-11-15 12:12 /home/mail/adomain.com/ drwxrws--- 3 auser adomain.com 20 2009-11-15 10:52 /home/mail/adomain.com/auser drwxrws--- 3 auser adomain.com 20 2009-11-15 10:52 /home/mail/adomain.com/auser/Maildir And so on... As expected IMAP and Managesieve work perfectly, but deliver fails: Nov 15 12:48:26 s15364807 dovecot: deliver(auser(a)adomain.com): sieve: stat(/home/mail/adomain.com/auser/.dovecot.sieve) failed: Permission denied (using global script path in stead) Nov 15 12:28:06 s15364807 dovecot: deliver(auser(a)adomain.com): stat(/home/mail/adomain.com/auser/Maildir) failed: Permission denied Nov 15 12:28:06 s15364807 dovecot: deliver(auser(a)adomain.com): stat(/home/mail/adomain.com/auser/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=1002(auser) egid=1001(adomain.com) missing +x perm: /home/mail) Nov 15 12:28:06 s15364807 dovecot: deliver(auser(a)adomain.com): msgid=<20091115122806.79A0F80034F(a)servername.com>: save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-11-15 12:28:06] Opening the permissions on /home/mail (6771) allows deliver to succeed suggesting that mail_access_groups is being ignored by deliver. As a work-around I can set /home/mail to 6771 but this is not ideal as anyone somehow guessing the directory structure could access mail of another user in the same group regardless of IMAP acl settings. Yes, I can severely obfuscate it but it's not secure. I've spent about half a day trying to figure this out, I'm assuming at this point that either I'm missing something obvious or something else is wrong. Any ideas? Peter.

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[Dovecot] read() failed with subscription file
by david＠davidwbrown.name 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello Dovecot folks, I have Dovecot running reasonably well against my Postfix SMPTd. All mail is stored in Maildir format only. In my Thunderbird client I can see the Inbox, Trash and Sent folders in the Thunderbird pane but no other directories. I have very many Maildir format directories under my Inbox directory but I cannot see them in the Thunderbird client. I have the Dovecot info and debug log runnning with the solitary error message being displayed in the log when ever I access the Thunderbird client folders pane as stated below. Particulars follow and please advise, David. OS: CentOS 5.2 Postfix: 2.3.3 Dovecot: 1.2 Dovecot log: dovecot: IMAP(user): read() failed with subscription file /home/user/Maildir/subscriptions: Is a directory

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[Dovecot] Replace message headers
by Matthias-Christian Ott 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi, I'm looking for a way to replace specific message headers of a mail via the mail storage API. Any suggestions? Regards, Matthias-Christian

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[Dovecot] fetch bodystructure filename problem rfc2231
by myleetlist＠gmx.de 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi, I have a problem with the filename of attachments in some clients. # dovecot 1.2.(5|7) * 3 FETCH (BODYSTRUCTURE (("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "7bit" 13 1 NIL NIL NIL NIL)("text" "plain" ("charset" "UTF-8" "name" "ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt") NIL NIL "8bit" 27 1 NIL ("attachment" ("filename" "ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt")) NIL NIL) "mixed" ("boundary" "=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu") NIL NIL NIL)) -> wrong filename in client: ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt # cyrus * 808 FETCH (BODYSTRUCTURE (("TEXT" "PLAIN" NIL NIL NIL "7BIT" 13 1 NIL NIL NIL)("TEXT" "PLAIN" ("NAME*" {28} ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt "CHARSET" "UTF-8") NIL NIL "8BIT" 27 1 NIL ("ATTACHMENT" ("FILENAME*" {28} ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt)) NIL) "MIXED" ("BOUNDARY" "=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu") NIL NIL)) -> correct filename in client: testanhäng.txt I think "name" should be "name*" (rfc 2231?) What can I do? Test mail: --> Subject: test From: ... To: ... Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu" Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:48:26 +0000 Message-Id: <1257500906.7739.0.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 X-CheckCompat: OK --=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit inhalt mail --=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt Content-Type: text/plain; name*=ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit inhalt.. auch mit umlaüt --=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu-- <-- -- DSL-Preisknaller: DSL Komplettpakete von GMX schon für 16,99 Euro mtl.!* Hier klicken: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02

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[Dovecot] Dovecot+Sieve Please Help!...
by Andrey Garkin 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Dovecot Sieve Plugin... 1. ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/lib/dovecot make make install protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)kipalex.ru mail_plugins = sieve } plugin { sieve = /home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru/dovecot.sieve } 2. dovecot.sieve file in /home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru require "fileinto"; if header :contains "Subject" "***SPAM***" { fileinto "/home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru/.Spam/new"; } And in the dovecot.log I see: 2009-11-16 13:45:55 deliver(andrey(a)kipalex.ru): Error: sieve: msgid=<351009bd0911160227r6ef9f39fja32c2893cb7fc54e(a)mail.gmail.com>: failed to store into mailbox '/home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru/.Spam/new': Invalid mailbox name 2009-11-16 13:45:55 deliver(andrey(a)kipalex.ru): Error: sieve: execution of script /home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru/dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful Mail system is already up and working... Please Help... Why Dovecot plugin is not working???

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[Dovecot] More dovecot-2.0.alpha2 problems
by Mike Abbott 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

1. My earlier patch to fix a typo in array.h was not good enough. Here's one that not only compiles, but also doesn't crash: --- dovecot-2.0.alpha2/src/lib/array.h 2009-10-08 10:04:35.000000000 -0500 +++ dovecot/src/lib/array.h 2009-10-29 20:47:47.000000000 -0500 @@ -72,8 +72,7 @@ (elem)++) # define array_foreach_modifiable(array, elem) \ for (elem = ARRAY_TYPE_CAST_MODIFIABLE(array) \ - buffer_get_modifiable_data((array)->arr.buffer, NULL)) + \ - (array)->arr.buffer->used; \ + buffer_get_modifiable_data((array)->arr.buffer, NULL); \ elem != CONST_PTR_OFFSET(*(array)->v, (array)->arr.buffer- >used); \ (elem)++) #endif 2. Sometimes I see a flood of these errors in the log: [...] Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: service(imap): dup2s failed Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap-login: Login: user=<userX>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.8, lip=192.168.1.7, pid=11362 Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap(pid 11362 user userX): Connection closed bytes=118/934 Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: dup2(-1, 5) failed: Bad file descriptor Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: service(imap): dup2s failed Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap-login: Login: user=<userY>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.8, lip=192.168.1.7, pid=11363 Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap(pid 11363 user userY): Connection closed bytes=118/972 Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: dup2(-1, 5) failed: Bad file descriptor Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: service(imap): dup2s failed [...] 3. imap crashed when using mdbox: Fri Oct 30 14:54:49 server dovecot[11491]: imap(pid 11938 user userZ): dbox /Volumes/Mail/userZ/mailboxes/INBOX/Sent/dbox-Mails: map uidvalidity mismatch (1256918863 vs 1256919073) Fri Oct 30 14:54:49 server dovecot[11491]: imap(pid 11938 user userZ): Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-10-30 14:54:49] bytes=553447/2146313 Fri Oct 30 14:54:49 server dovecot[11491]: imap(pid 11938 user userZ): dbox /Volumes/Mail/userZ/storage: rebuilding indexes Fri Oct 30 14:54:49 server dovecot[11491]: imap(pid 11938 user user): Panic: file dbox-file.c: line 308 (dbox_file_get_mail_stream): assertion failed: (file->input != NULL) 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff875f4eba __kill + 10 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff875f4eac kill + 14 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff87683519 raise + 25 3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876a4e12 abort + 90 4 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000e8027 i_set_failure_file + 275 5 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000e6eef i_set_failure_internal + 103 6 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000e76d2 i_debug + 0 7 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x000000010005768a dbox_file_seek_next + 0 8 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x000000010005772a dbox_file_seek_next + 160 9 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100084266 mdbox_storage_rebuild + 1406 10 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100085617 mdbox_mailbox_alloc + 1271 11 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x00000001000271e1 mail_storage_unref + 93 12 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100023386 mail_namespace_get_storage_name + 162 13 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100023429 mail_namespaces_deinit + 35 14 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100028c39 mail_user_alloc + 311 15 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x000000010002889a mail_user_unref + 40 16 imap 0x0000000100007fa4 client_destroy + 404 17 imap 0x0000000100006eb3 client_input + 87 18 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000eca50 io_loop_handler_run + 224 19 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000ed55a io_loop_run + 56 20 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000e393d master_service_run + 27 21 imap 0x000000010000fb45 main + 557 22 imap 0x0000000100000dd0 start + 52 Hope this helps.

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[Dovecot] file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory
by Rene Bakkum 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi, I am having some problems with my vacation messages using dovecot. The mail is send without problems, and the auto-respond is working as well. But its always auto-responding, because the lda-dupes file can't be created. See mail log below: Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/smtpd[6501]: connect from mail-bw0-f211.google.com[209.85.218.211] Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/smtpd[6501]: D6FE6F64F: client=mail-bw0-f211.google.com[209.85.218.211] Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/cleanup[6505]: D6FE6F64F: message-id=<4B014929.1000008(a)gmail.com> Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/qmgr[27330]: D6FE6F64F: from=<[my.gmail.account]>, size=1946, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 deliver([my.test.account]): file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/pickup[5934]: F202DF690: uid=5000 from=<> Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 deliver([my.test.account]): msgid=<4B014929.1000008(a)gmail.com>: sent vacation response to <[my.gmail.account]> Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/cleanup[6505]: F202DF690: message-id=<dovecot-1258375383-947629-0@mail003> Nov 16 13:43:04 mail003 postfix/qmgr[27330]: F202DF690: from=<>, size=570, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 16 13:43:04 mail003 deliver([my.test.account]): msgid=<4B014929.1000008(a)gmail.com>: saved mail to INBOX Nov 16 13:43:04 mail003 postfix/pipe[6506]: D6FE6F64F: to=<[my.test.account]>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.21, delays=0.08/0.01/0/0.12, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Nov 16 13:43:04 mail003 postfix/qmgr[27330]: D6FE6F64F: removed Nov 16 13:43:05 mail003 postfix/smtp[6510]: F202DF690: to=<[my.gmail.account]>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.93.114]:25, delay=1.6, delays=0.07/0.01/0.32/1.2, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1258375453 7si18156568qwb.35) Nov 16 13:43:05 mail003 postfix/qmgr[27330]: F202DF690: removed I manually created the file, but its keeping getting the message: root@mail003:/home/vmail/mydomain.com/info/.Maildir# ls -la drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 14:04 . drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 12:37 .. drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 14:04 cur -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 340 2009-11-16 13:49 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 22528 2009-11-16 14:04 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 7000 2009-11-16 14:04 dovecot.index.log -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 0 2009-11-16 14:03 .dovecot.lda-dupes -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 485 2009-11-16 12:33 .dovecot.sieve -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 208 2009-11-16 12:56 .dovecot.sievec -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 522 2009-11-16 14:04 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 8 2009-11-11 14:31 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 0 2009-11-11 14:31 dovecot-uidvalidity.4afabcaa drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 14:04 new -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 6 2009-11-11 14:45 subscriptions drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 14:04 tmp drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-11 14:45 .Trash Is the ~/.dovecot.lda-dupes linking to another path, and how can I adjust this so it searches for /home/vmail/%d/%n/.Maildir/ ? Thanks, - Rene

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[Dovecot] Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index
by Cliff Hayes 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello, I just installed Fedora 11 with Dovecot 1.2.6 and am now seeing a steady stream of these in maillog: Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Raw backtrace: pop3 [0x4930ab] -> pop3 [0x493123] -> pop3 [0x4927b6] -> pop3 [0x43ddd4] -> pop3 [0x43de84] -> pop3(index_mail_set_seq+0x146) [0x449c16] -> pop3 [0x43e129] -> pop3(index_storage_search_next_nonblock+0x141) [0x44d5c1] -> pop3(mailbox_search_next_nonblock+0x20) [0x45b580] -> pop3(mailbox_search_next+0x26) [0x45b5d6] -> pop3 [0x419ef9] -> pop3(client_command_execute+0x666) [0x41abd6] -> pop3(client_handle_input+0x80) [0x418f80] -> pop3(io_loop_handler_run+0xbd) [0x49b02d] -> pop3(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x49a498] -> pop3(main+0x526) [0x41b286] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x3a9b61ea2d] -> pop3 [0x418809] Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: dovecot: child 26792 (pop3) killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) I see nothing about this in the mail archives or on the internet! What could be happening and how do I fix? I'm also seeing lots of these: Nov 15 11:26:24 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Log synchronization error at seq=12646,offset=172 for /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Extension introduction for unknown id 1 Nov 15 11:26:24 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): fscking index file /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index Here are the only things I messed with in dovecot.conf: protocols = pop3 mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_very_dirty_syncs = yes Thanks in advance, Cliff

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