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[Dovecot] Maildir and Invalid data in file
by Patryk 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hello, I'm using dovecot version 1.0.13 on reiserfs on hardware RAID-0, but I'm getting the following error in the logs every time one user tries to access his old mails in the .Sent directory: dovecot: 2008-06-23 15:09:46 Error: IMAP(marek.chajecki): Invalid data in file /var/mail/Maildir/marek.chajecki/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist As a result he fails to get access to the emails in this folder. I've googled a bit and read that deleting the uidlist makes dovecot recreate it, but after some time the same thing happens. It's a new hard drive, so I don't think this is a hard drive fault. Some additional info: this server is being used by about 200 users who get about 100 emails daily each one of them. Config: root@warsaw Maildir # dovecot -n # 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_listen: * login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 15 login_max_processes_count: 512 max_mail_processes: 4096 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/Maildir/%u maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes auth default: worker_max_count: 100 passdb: driver: pam args: cache_key=%u dovecot userdb: driver: passwd Any help will be appreciated! -- Regards, Patryk Rzadzinski

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[Dovecot] v1.0.13: maildirfolder not being created
by Eduardo M KALINOWSKI 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hi, I'm using version 1.0.13 of dovecot. I know it's somewhat dated, but that's the latest that Debian etch offers, and I would like to avoid compiling by myself if possible. dovecot is not creating the 'maildirfolder' in folders that are created via IMAP. Looking at the NEWS file, this was implemented in v1.0.rc7, so my version should have that working already. Is there anything else that needs to be done? Here's dovecot -n: # 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot/main.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/server.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 1 first_valid_uid: 100 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/INBOX:INDEX=/home/vmail/%d/%n/dovecotidx mail_plugins: quota imap_quota auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /home/vmail/%d/db/passwd passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: static args: uid=104 gid=8 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 438 plugin: quota: maildir:ignore=Trash -- I want the presidency so bad I can already taste the hors d'oeuvres. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI eduardo(a)kalinowski.com.br http://move.to/hpkb

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[Dovecot] Testing using namespaces
by Kyle Wheeler 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hey there, I'm interested in testing out using different storage formats for different folder hierarchies. I *think* this can be achieved using namespaces, but I'm not sure. For example, is it possible to, say, make all directories under INBOX.Archive be stored as mboxes, while everything else is stored as Maildirs? ~Kyle -- May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead. -- Old Irish Toast

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[Dovecot] v1.0.15 released
by Timo Sirainen 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.15.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.15.tar.gz.sig Still some last fixes to v1.0 series: - IMAP: SORT SUBJECT and THREAD didn't create base subjects correctly - Maildir: Expunged messages may have never gotten removed from dovecot-uidlist - mbox: Fixed a crash when adding a new X-IMAPbase: header with keywords. - Multiple "socket listen" auth blocks should have been possible, but Dovecot failed to start with a "With connect auth socket no other sockets can be used in same auth section" error.

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[Dovecot] Some crashes with 1.1.1
by Ralf Hildebrandt 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

I'm getting some cra shes with 1.1.1, but even with these start options: #!/bin/sh mkdir /var/core chmod 1777 /var/core echo /var/core/%p > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern ulimit -n 65535 ulimit -c unlimited /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F I'm not getting any corefiles - why? It definitely used to work :) Jun 22 00:05:53 postamt dovecot: imap-login: *** glibc detected *** imap-login: free(): invalid pointer: 0x08cbd600 *** Jun 22 00:05:53 postamt dovecot: child 28879 (login) killed with signal 6 Jun 22 00:29:58 postamt dovecot: imap-login: *** glibc detected *** imap-login: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x09db3d88 *** Jun 22 00:29:58 postamt dovecot: child 28883 (login) killed with signal 6 Jun 22 00:47:07 postamt dovecot: imap-login: *** glibc detected *** imap-login: free(): invalid pointer: 0x090693d8 *** Jun 22 00:47:07 postamt dovecot: child 28876 (login) killed with signal 6 Jun 22 02:47:27 postamt dovecot: child 28885 (login) killed with signal 11 Jun 22 10:06:19 postamt dovecot: imap-login: *** glibc detected *** imap-login: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x091ee0a0 *** Jun 22 10:06:19 postamt dovecot: child 28887 (login) killed with signal 6 Jun 22 15:20:21 postamt dovecot: imap-login: *** glibc detected *** imap-login: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x09f84718 *** Jun 22 15:20:21 postamt dovecot: child 12530 (login) killed with signal 6 -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de) snickebo(a)charite.de Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de All the features in the world only do more to make me believe that Sendmail is hopelessly baroque, like some huge construction with chrome and tailfins sticking out in every direction -- like some monstrocity sculpted by people not the least bit interested in correctness.

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[Dovecot] no maildirsize file being created -dovecot v1.1
by Barry R Cisna 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

Hi Timo, Thanks for the info. You are exactly right ,,after I done some researching. by default the Fedora and El distros setups up mail folders in mbox format. My Bad. I was always under the impression default was maildir.I have used sendmail>Procmail>dovecot>squirrelmail for my new setup same as the last email server setup.I found that sendmail seems to be much less CPU intensive than postfix,or I did not have the config correctly as postfix was easy to setup but really choked our email server when a secretary " bulk emailed" everyone in the school district. I have learned a lot about this in the last couple days. I thought I knew a little bit about this,but obviously I didn't know a thing. I am going to go with the default dovecot rpm that ships with EL5 1.0.1x as this does what all I need to have done. My main concern is the check_quota plugin available for Squirrelmail works,and with the dirsize quota directive put into dovecot.conf this is working very slick, and appears to be reporting very accurately.Now hopefully some teachers will not end up with 1GB mail folders!! and complaining the mail server is so slow when they check their email via Squirrelmail at home! Thanks again for steering me straight! Take Care, Barry Cisna

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[Dovecot] Cygwin and dovecot-auth problems
by TBlack 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

Hi all. I'm trying to install Dovecot 1.1.rc13 on Cygwin. I've read the related posts, and I realize that maybe there's no solution at present; since I'm having a different error, though, I'm posting it here. Compilation succeeds. Starting dovecot from command line results in: Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 640). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings Warning: Last died with error (see error log for more information): Auth process died too early - shutting down Trying to run just dovecot-auth outputs: dovecot-auth: Fatal: MECHANISMS environment is unset Now, if I try to set an environment variable called MECHANISMS (say, export MECHANISMS=plain) I get a different error: dovecot-auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file. PLAIN mechanism needs one This is the output of dovecot -n: # 1.1.rc13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 640). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings log_path: /tmp/logs/dovecot-error.log info_log_path: /tmp/logs/dovecot-other.log listen: 127.0.0.1 ssl_disable: yes ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: MyUser login_greeting: Yo, mate. login_process_per_connection: no login_greeting_capability: yes login_process_size: 0 mail_max_userip_connections: 20 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_process_size: 0 auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes process_size: 0 passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd Any clues or suggestions, anything I could try...? ^__^ Thanks, Angelo ___________________________________ Scopri il Blog di Yahoo! Mail: trucchi, novità, consigli... e la tua opinione! http://www.ymailblogit.com/blog/

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[Dovecot] Using sork-passwd from Horde to change dovecot password
by Eduardo M KALINOWSKI 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

I'm using in my server dovecot and Horde to provide IMAP and Webmail for virtual users. Their password are stored in a passwd file, since the setup is quite simple and small. I'd like to use the Horde module sork-passwd to allow changing of the passwords. Apparently, this can be done for the case of passwd file by using an expect script, or simply calling a program that receives the data. It should not be hard to write a Perl (or Python, or whatever) script that does that. I'm just asking if someone has already done that and is willing to share the solution.

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[Dovecot] SSL + compression?
by Ed W 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

OK, my interested is piqued now - does anyone have a recipe for how to make openssl compress the traffic before encrypting it? (Or perhaps it does by default?) Ed W

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[Dovecot] no maildirsize file being created -dovecot v1.1
by Barry R Cisna 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

Hi Timo, I changed the maildir directive in my dovecot.conf as you suggested. The maildirsize file IS created now , but, the ~/mail folder structure is now showing all messed up for the user that logs into Squirrelmail for example: Before the mail_location was changed; ~/mail/Drafts,Sent,Trash,.subsciptions/.imap/Drafts,INBOX,Sent,Trash After, mail_location = maildir:~/mail ~/mail/cur/new/tmp/.Drafts,.Sent,.Trash,dovecot.index.log,subsciptions,maildirsize/.imap/Drafts/INBOX/Sent/Trash Notice how after the maildir directive change there are .DOT in front of Drafts,Sent,Trash as well as no .DOT in front of subsciptions,as well as the added cur,new,tmp directories under the ~/mail folder?? And yes this is the default EL5 install with maildir storage( not mbox). As I stated earlier, if i simply 'rpm -e dovecot' them 'rpm -ivh dovecot' with the default install of the dovecot rpm that shipps with EL5 everything comes up correctly as far as quotas for dovecot, Squirrelmail,etc. I think I may just stick with the default dovecot1.0.1.2-rc15.el rpm that ships with EL5 for now. I'm afraid of other underlying problems i may find as I we start using dovecot v1.1 when school starts then I will be in trouble! Another sidenote: After installing dovecot1.1 rpm dovecot appears to start fine with no errors,,but it is not actually listening on port 143 by doing an nmap localhost. I had to change listen = [::] to listen = * then restart dovecot,then dovecot was listening on port 143 as it should. Thanks for the help, Barry Cisna

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