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[Dovecot] Dynamic server address
by Kresimir Tonkovic 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hi! My mail server (ubuntu breezey badger) is connected by ADSL and has a dynamic address. I have noticed that, every day after the IP address changes, dovecot is no longer reachable from the net. Iguess this is because dovecot doesn't register this change and continues to listen on a non-existing interface/address. I'm trying to solve this problem by putting a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up/ dovecot --===--- #!/bin/sh # By kresho # dovecot ip-up script (/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/dovecot) # /etc/init.d/dovecot restart ---===--- So far, it seems to work. I doubt I'm the first one to come across this problem, yet I couldn't find anything similar on google. Any comments? -- kresho

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[Dovecot] [1.0.rc6] Bug in deliver (still exists)
by Claus Alboege 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hi, The bug reported in http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-July/014786.html still exists in 1.0.rc6 % grep "$ ./configure" dovecot-1.0.rc6/config.log $ ./configure --prefix=/srv/software/dovecot Install prefix ...................... : /srv/software/dovecot File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword (modules) Building with SQL drivers ............: I'm letting 'qmail' deliver one copy of the message and dovecot's 'deliver' another copy to the same maildir. % cat /home/csa/.qmail |preline /srv/software/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver ./Maildir/ Then I'm sending this mail to myself. % cat /tmp/mail.txt From: csa(a)csa-net.dk To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Subject: Test mail Testing - mail >From csa(a)csa-net.dk Mon Aug 07 08:01:49 2006 This part of the body will be zapped by Dovecot's deliver... This is bad.... Injecting the message: % cat /tmp/mail.txt | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject Having qmail process the message: % sudo /var/qmail/rc status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 new msg 1596241 info msg 1596241: bytes 364 from <csa(a)csa-net.dk> qp 23105 uid 1000 starting delivery 1: msg 1596241 to local csa(a)csa-net.dk status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 delivery 1: success: did_1+0+1/ status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 end msg 1596241 Looking at the result: % cd /home/csa/Maildir/new/ % ls -l total 8 -rw------- 1 csa csa 423 2006-08-07 10:21 1154938875.23114.silver -rw------- 1 csa csa 334 2006-08-07 10:21 1154938875.P23113Q0M326713.silver First one (delivered by 'qmail') looks good: % cat 1154938875.23114.silver Return-Path: <csa(a)csa-net.dk> Delivered-To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Received: (qmail 23105 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Aug 2006 08:21:02 -0000 Date: 7 Aug 2006 08:21:02 -0000 Message-ID: <20060807082102.23104.qmail(a)csa-net.dk> From: csa(a)csa-net.dk To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Subject: Test mail Testing - mail >From csa(a)csa-net.dk Mon Aug 07 08:01:49 2006 This part of the body will be zapped by Dovecot's deliver... This is bad.... /Claus A Second one (delivered by Dovecot's 'deliver') doesn't look good: % cat 1154938875.P23113Q0M326713.silver >From csa(a)csa-net.dk Mon Aug 07 08:21:15 2006 Return-Path: <csa(a)csa-net.dk> Delivered-To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Received: (qmail 23105 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Aug 2006 08:21:02 -0000 Date: 7 Aug 2006 08:21:02 -0000 Message-ID: <20060807082102.23104.qmail(a)csa-net.dk> From: csa(a)csa-net.dk To: csa(a)csa-net.dk Subject: Test mail Testing - mail -------------------- As we see, Dovecot's 'deliver' zapped everything in the message from and including the MBOX From line.... If more info is needed, please let me know. Regards /Claus A

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[Dovecot] Purging old mails
by Dave Hatton 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hi all, Firstly if this is a FAQ and I've missed it - let me apologise in advance. I use dovecot as a backup mail store and would now like to purge all mails over a certain age. Is it as simple as using find and rm'ing the results or is there more to it? I'm using maildir if that make a difference? Thanks in advance. Daveh

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[Dovecot] RC6 startup failure: "Login prcess died too early"
by S JList 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Greetings. I have been running Dovecot-1.0rc2 on a test server for the last couple of weeks. No problems. However, when I installed RC6 this morning, Dovecot refused to launch completely. Here's the relevant snippet from /var/log/maillog: Aug 7 10:08:36 mercury dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc6 starting up Aug 7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Aug 7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: child 26127 (login) killed with signal 11 Aug 7 10:08:37 mercury dovecot: child 26128 (login) killed with signal 11 Both RC2 and RC6 compiled cleanly with "--with-pop3d". For reasons beyond my control, I have to set protocols = imap pop3 disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = yes I do have a valid /etc/pam.d/dovecot file (we're using PAM). I made certain that the localized settings for /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf matched what they were in RC2 for RC6. (I did use the RC6 dovecot-example.conf as source for RC6, then made the local changes. I also tried testing RC6 with my old RC2 config file--same failure). So, RC2 starts just fine. RC6 fails to start with the messages logged above. Can anyone give me any pointers? RHEL (Linux Kernel 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp), built from source, nothing out-of-the-ordinary. Right now, I've reverted back to RC2. TIA. S JList sjlist(a)heidelberg.edu

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[Dovecot] rc6 build pb
by Thomas Hummel 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hello, with rc6 on FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE, I encounter the following when running make after the usual configure [ Note : that worked with rc5 ] /usr/local/bin/zsh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -L/usr/local/lib -o dovecot-auth -export-dynamic auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-gssapi.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -lpam -lldap -export-dynamic ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// libtool: ignoring unknown tag ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated. *** Future versions of Libtool will require --mode=MODE be specified. ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// (eval):1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// ../../libtool:1: no such file or directory: /usr/bin/sed -e 1s/^X// mkdir /.libs mkdir: /.libs: Permission denied *** Error code 1 Stop in /tmp/dovecot-1.0.rc6/src/auth. *** Error code 1 Stop in /tmp/dovecot-1.0.rc6/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /tmp/dovecot-1.0.rc6. *** Error code 1 Stop in /tmp/dovecot-1.0.rc6. munster2% pwd /tmp/dovecot-1.0.rc6 -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] rc6 compilation problem?
by Alan Schmitt 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hello, I usually have no problem compiling dovecot on my OS X.4 machine (last one I compiled was rc2), but rc6 is giving trouble: if /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc - DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/ lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-index -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../ src/lib-storage -I../../../src/lib-storage/index -I../../../src/lib- storage/index/maildir -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing- prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts - Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -MT quota-fs.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/ quota-fs.Tpo" -c -o quota-fs.lo quota-fs.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/quota-fs.Tpo" ".deps/quota-fs.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/quota-fs.Tpo"; exit 1; fi gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../ src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-index -I../../../src/lib-mail - I../../../src/lib-storage -I../../../src/lib-storage/index -I../../../ src/lib-storage/index/maildir -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing- prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts - Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -MT quota-fs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota- fs.Tpo -c quota-fs.c -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/quota-fs.o quota-fs.c: In function ‘fs_quota_get_resource’: quota-fs.c:219: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘quotactl’ makes pointer from integer without a cast quota-fs.c:219: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘quotactl’ makes integer from pointer without a cast quota-fs.c:234: error: ‘struct dqblk’ has no member named ‘dqb_curblocks’ make[4]: *** [quota-fs.lo] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 Here is what I did: - run configure - edit config.h to remove the use of MADVISE - run make Am I doing something wrong? Alan -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] flag changes - duped notifications
by Joshua Goodall 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Seeing the following with 1.0-rcX : * OK Dovecot ready. 001 login xxx@xxx xxx 001 OK Logged in. 002 select INBOX * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 18 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1146630080] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 46] Predicted next UID 002 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 003 STORE 1 FLAGS (\Deleted) * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted)) * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted)) 003 OK Store completed. The flag change results in a duplicated notification. With a large number of deletes over a slower link this causes client problems. JG ________________________________ Joshua Goodall | Senior Systems Engineer Pacific Internet (Australia) Pty Ltd P: +61 3 9674 7552 Australia | Singapore | Hong Kong | Philippines | India | Thailand | Malaysia http://www.pacific.net.au/disclaimer/

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[Dovecot] Stale imap processes
by Martin Jackson 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hello, I'm new to the list, but I noticed a buildup of stale imap processes after upgrading to 1.0rc2. My IMAP server actually ran over maxpipekva, and I had to reboot it. I got to spend some time learning about kern.ipc.maxpipekva in the process of troubleshooting. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3, and I have a small home office LAN setup. 2 XP client PC's, one which uses primarily Thunderbird 1.5.0.5, one which uses primarily Outlook Express. I had been running with SSL under Thunderbird (only), but disabled that in hopes of fixing the problem. It appears not to have helped. I am using the FreeBSD dovecot port, currently at rc2, with default settings. I use the default authentication scheme, and Maildir storage (my MTA is Postfix). I am running a number of other daemons on this machine but mail is its main function. I am interested in helping to solve this problem; is there anything I can do to help? Thanks, Marty

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Re: [Dovecot] LIST command ignores "hidden=yes" for default namespace
by Bill Boebel 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

On Sun, June 11, 2006 1:51 pm, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 22:03 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote: >I'm not sure if this is a bug or just an undesirable feature, but when I >have our namespace configured to match Courier's "INBOX." functionality, >Dovecot forces me to also define a default namespace (with no prefix). >Without the default namespace defined I get "NO Unknown namespace." errors >when trying to subscribe or unsubscribe folders. > > It was a bug when tb-extra-mailbox-sep workaround was enabled. Fixed: > http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-June/005709.html > The second part of this still seems to be the case with RC2... the LIST command ignores "hidden=yes". http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-May/013253.html Running with the following namespace settings causes a LIST comand to show the folder listing twice, once the INBOX. prefix and once without. But it should only be listing the folders with the prefix since hidden=yes on the second. The patch I listed in my original post fixes it in RC2 as well. namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes location = maildir:%h } namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = no hidden = yes location = maildir:%h }

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[Dovecot] 1.0 RC6 released
by Timo Sirainen 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc6.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc6.tar.gz.sig Back to rc1's SSL proxying code with some improvements, which hopefully now makes everyone happy. I'm seeing all kinds of problems with namespace prefixes and LIST code. I guess it would be important to fix it before v1.0 since it makes upgrades from other servers easier.. I also tried looking into the "Unknown namespace" problems that happens if you try to create only one namespace with "INBOX." prefix. I couldn't really figure out what causes those errors. Could someone show me what commands the client tries to use which causes it? * Removed login_max_logging_users setting since it was somewhat weird in how it worked. Added login_max_connections to replace it with login_process_per_connection=no, and with =yes its functionality is now within login_max_processes_count. + Added --with-linux-quota configure option to specify which Linux quota version to use, in case it's not correct in sys/quota.h. Usually used as --with-linux-quota=2 + acl plugins: If .DEFAULT file exists in global ACL root directory, use it as the default ACLs for all mailboxes. - Fixes to login process handling, especially with login_process_per_connection=no. - Back to the original SSL proxy code but with one small fix, which hopefully fixes the occational hangs with it - Several fixes to handling LIST command more correctly.

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