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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0.alpha4 hangs at auth
by Mihai Secasiu 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

I'm using dovecot 1.0.alpha4 on a freebsd 5.3 i386 system. Dovecot is configured to use mysql authentication and I'm running mysql 5.0.15 . Everything works fine, but after a period of inactivity (20-30 minutes ) when I connect and try to authenticate it just hangs. I noticed that the dovecot-auth worker process is not running anymore... from looking at the source code I understand that the dovecot-auth worker process is actually a client that connects to the main dovecot-auth process ( the server) I restarted dovecot and I straced the auth worker process ... after 20-30 minutes it just existed here is the output of strace : gettimeofday({0, 0}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}], 2, 0) = 0 gettimeofday({1133138508, 221796}, {0, 0}) = 0 gettimeofday({0, 0}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLIN}], 2, 1999) = 1 gettimeofday({1133138509, 49095}, {0, 0}) = 0 read(4, "", 478) = 0 close(4) = 0 fcntl(7, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 read(7, "", 8192) = 0 fcntl(7, F_SETFL, O_RDWR) = 0 write(7, "\1\0\0\0\1", 5) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) shutdown(7, 2 /* send and receive */) = 0 close(7) = 0 close(3) = 0 close(5) = 0 close(6) = 0 close(-1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) exit(0) = ? Why is the auth worker exiting if it reads 0 from fd=4 ? is it possible to make it so that it does not exit ? and in the case it exits is there a mechanism to restart it? Another question would be why read(4, "", 478) returns 0 ? this means that the server closed connection right ? why would the auth server close the connection with the auth worker ? I had a similar problem with dovecot 0.99 but there I got a "login failed" error message immediately , with 1.0alpha4 it just hangs. I also used a nightly cvs snapshot and the problem is there too. Thank you for your time Mihai Secasiu http://denixsolutions.com/

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[Dovecot] Graceful shutdown
by Cliff Hayes 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hello all, I am running Dovecot v1alpha4 on Fedora 4 from the command line (as opposed to deamon). Is there a recommended way to shut it down gracefully? Or do I just use killall -9 dovecot? I'm not using the included version, so I can't do SERVICE DOVECOT STOP. Thanks, Cliff

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[Dovecot] F_UNLCK assertion
by Martin Preen 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Hello, > I upgraded from alpha3 to alpha4 yesterday, and I am seeing > a few of the following asserts: > > imap(user): file mbox-lock.c: line 379 (mbox_lock_fcntl): > assertion failed: (lock_type == F_UNLCK) I'm getting this error too after upgrading to alpha4. > Gdb info on a couple of the cores is attached. It looks > like the arg lock_type for mbox_lock_fcntl() is not getting > passed in correctly, like the enum "enum mbox_lock_type type" > in mbox_lock_list() is not getting set or used correctly so > that lock_data[type].func is wrong. Hmmm. > > My setup: Solaris 9, mbox, dovecot built with gcc 4.0.2. > The filesystem for INBOXes is NFS mounted from another Solaris 9 > system, but the index files reside on local filesystems. > My setting for "lock_method = fcntl", per your release notes. > I did not change the default setting of "mmap_disable = no" > because my index files are local. The above also applies to our installation. Greetings. Martin --------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Preen, Universitaet Freiburg, Institut fuer Informatik Georges-Koehler-Allee 52, Raum 00-006, 79110 Freiburg, Germany phone: ++49 761 203-8250 preen(a)informatik.uni-freiburg.de fax: ++49 761 203-8242 www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de

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Re: [Dovecot] Pop-before-smtp and MySQL?
by Matteo Garofano 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Thanks ... so I know inetd is not the issue... I don't know where look for help :-( ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matteo Garofano" <m.garofano(a)internetware.it> To: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Pop-before-smtp and MySQL? >I can add, i run dovecot standalone not inetd or xinetd. > does it change something about the pop-before-smtp issue ? > > Thanks > te0x > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lorens" <dovecot.fdop(a)tagged.lorens.org> > To: "Matteo Garofano" <m.garofano(a)internetware.it> > Cc: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 6:23 PM > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Pop-before-smtp and MySQL? > > >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:21:27PM +0100, Matteo Garofano wrote: >>> dovecot: Nov 28 14:50:41 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up >>> dovecot: Nov 28 14:50:42 Info: auth(default): mysql: Connected to >>> postfix >>> Login from , parameters 1=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3, 2=, 3=, 4= >>> dovecot: Nov 28 14:50:59 Info: pop3-login: Login: teo(a)xarrampicate.it >>> [192.168.100.70] >>> >>> it seems that no variable is passed during the execution of the >>> mail_execute commands >> >> It does seems that way. Sorry, I cannot explain that. Maybe you >> have a different version than I do, but they are both -stable >> and your dovecot.conf syntax resembles mine. No idea... maybe >> something in the compilation (you give your compilation options >> so I suppose you compiled it yourself; I took a debian package). >> >> >

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[Dovecot] Problem with openldap+nscd+dovecot
by Oliver Schulze L. 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hi, I'm having a problem with this setup: RHEL4 U4.2(Centos) + openldap + nscd The problem I see is that for some reason, after a couple of hours dovecot stuck in the auth procress. I do a : telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1 login user pass (here is the delay) After passing a username/password, the process is like stuck for some reason. I have to killall dovecot processes and do a: service dovecot restart and it work again. I have 1.5GB left on the disk and this problem just appeared now after month of working correctly. Could it be the disk space? How can I debug the problem? Should I migrate de 1.0alpha4? Does alpha4 have a new code in the authentication phase? Regards, Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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[Dovecot] Not an IMAP4 Server?
by John Gray 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

I've been testing alpha4, and every once in a while my client (Thunderbird 1.5 RC1) tells me the dovecot isn't a valid IMAP4 server. This is usually (maybe always) when I first bring up the client up. If I just ask the client to get the mail again, it does so happily (without any errors). I must say I found dovecot as a pleasant surprise. We have been using UW. Which didn't scale well. I was considering going to cyrus, but dovecot seems to have given much (if not all) of performance improvements without all the hassle of conventing all the existing mbox mail to maildir. Thanks, John -- John Gray gray(a)agora-net.com AgoraNet, Inc. (302) 224-2475 314 E. Main Street, Suite 1 (302) 224-2552 (fax) Newark, De 19711 http://www.agora-net.com

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[Dovecot] Re: Pop-before-smtp and MySQL?
by Matteo Garofano 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Thanks for your reply, I know that smtp auth is far better from pop-before-smtp but I have to replace a qpopper daemon and not ask any change from client site (they are thousands ...) So I must do the kind of setting I described. If you have any suggestion... thanks again Bye te0x ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matteo Garofano" <m.garofano(a)internetware.it> To: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:40 PM Subject: Pop-before-smtp and MySQL? > Hi, > I found that dovecot have many nice features. > Now I write because I'm tring to setup the dovecot server, I would > substitute a qpopper daemon (patched for mysql authentication) > The problem I find is to set up the pop-before-smtp using sql (mysq) as > written in http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/PopBSMTPAndDovecot > (Waiting for post_login ;-) > I would use the script popbsmtp.sh and not a perl pig. (I'm using qpopper > patched to store the relay IP in mysql and it works) > I set .my.cnf in /root > What happen is that the $3 don't contain the IP that should be written to > the DB. Is there something I miss ? > I tried to modify the dovecot.conf file like this > mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/popbsmtp.sh > /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 %r "%r" > and it write to the db the litteral value %r and not the ip, otherwise it > write nothing. > the connection with mysql works and any other operation on it works. > this should be the last step for my setting. > > Have you any hint? > > Thanks in advance > and > best regards > > Matteo Garofano

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[Dovecot] authentication failure messages in log
by Daniel 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Hi I'm using Dovecot 1.0.stable branch on a production Fedora Core 3 server. All is running very well other than I getting tons of these messages in the log (/var/log/messages): Nov 26 13:38:56 bmw unix_chkpwd[19360]: password check failed for user (xxxx) Nov 26 13:38:56 bmw imap(pam_unix)[19359]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=x.x.x.x user=xxxx However the sessions are authenticating correctly and the user is able to down load the mail fine. I have tested this. I send mail to an account then login and download the mail correctly, however my session gets the above in the messages log. Each log on to dovecot get ones of these messages in the log. It making the log file large. Any idea on what it is? Regards Daniel -- "Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." --- Dennis Ritchie

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[Dovecot] Problem with mysql authentication
by Jacek Osiecki 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Hi, I'm trying to set up dovecot-stable (http://www.dovecot.org/nightly/stable/dovecot-stable-20051124.tar.gz) All seems to be prepared correctly, but... my dovecot can not access the mysql database :( Connection string goes like this (i tried changing the order of parameters, that's why password is the first in the line): connect = password=***** host=/var/lib/mysql/system/mysql.sock dbname=vmail user=vmail But - in dovecot log I see: dovecot: Nov 24 23:53:05 Error: auth(default): mysql: Connect failed to vmail: Access denied for user 'vmail'@'localhost' (using password: TAK) Same in mysql log: 051124 23:53:05 171 Connect Access denied for user 'vmail'@'localhost' (using password: TAK) All settings in connection string are 100% correct - I have pasted them from dovecot-sql.conf to command-line mysql client and it worked, I have logged in. My copy of dovecot has been compiled recently, so all libraries are correct. Mysql version is 5.0.15 - but I doubt it is the reason... Can anyone help? Thanks in advance! Greetz, -- Jacek Osiecki joshua(a)ceti.pl GG:3828944 Poland

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[Dovecot] New Assert Failure
by Todd Burroughs 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Here's a new one with CVS version from 2005-11-03. The mbox size is currently 42951945 bytes. dovecot: Nov 24 12:05:50 Error: 11520 imap(username): Unexpectedly lost From-line at offset 33979772 from mbox file /mailhome/new/a/l/username/mbox dovecot: Nov 24 12:05:50 Error: 11520 imap(username): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 552 (mbox_sync_rewrite): assertion failed: (mails[idx].from_offset == start_offset) dovecot: Nov 24 12:05:55 Error: child 11520 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbfffefc8 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x00002d00 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #6 0x0809b52a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x2d00 <Address 0x2d00 out of bounds>) at failures.c:375 No locals. #7 0x0809b954 in i_panic ( format=0x80a8acc "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x08073ce3 in mbox_sync_rewrite (sync_ctx=0xbffff7d0, mail_ctx=0x0, end_offset=Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0x93 ) at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:454 mails = Variable "mails" is not available.

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