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Re: [Dovecot] Too many open files, etc.
by Remy Zandwijk 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

> a few days ago I switched out UW-server installation to > dovecot 0.99.14 (Solaris 9). There were a few client issues, > but mostly the migration was ok. > > But I have still some questions/problems: > > +) dovecot-auth: ... PAM: pipe() failed: Too many open files > I increased the max. number of open files. Is this normal > behaviour, that more than 512 open files are needed ? Martin, we're dealing with the same problem right now. We are using dovecot 1.0 stable and we migrated last weekend. 32-bit processes in Solaris 9 have 256 filedescriptors avail- able. This seems a bit to small. Using this command to get the number of file descriptors used by dovecot: ls -1 /proc/`cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid`/fd | wc In our enviroment this is currently around 390. You can limit the number of file descriptors per process in Solaris 9. After starting Dovecot, we issued the command: plimit -n 8192,8192 `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid` This gives Dovecot 8192 filedescriptors. HTH, Remy

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[Dovecot] UID inserted in the middle of mailbox
by Nicolas STRANSKY 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

I'm seeing these with latest 1.0-stable : Feb 27 16:48:12 zamok dovecot: POP3(****): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/**** (176 > 150) Feb 27 16:49:58 zamok dovecot: POP3(****): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/**** (4409 > 4237) Feb 27 16:50:04 zamok dovecot: IMAP(****): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/**** (7122 > 5116) Feb 27 16:50:16 zamok dovecot: IMAP(****): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/****/Mail/trash (15571 > 14535) Feb 27 16:50:16 zamok dovecot: IMAP(****): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/****/Mail/trash (16578 > 14535) Feb 27 16:50:19 zamok dovecot: IMAP(****): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/**** (23318 > 13713) -- Nico L'étude approfondie de la nature est la source la plus féconde des découvertes mathématiques. -+- Joseph Fourier -+-

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[Dovecot] Protect some mailbox to remove
by FireFly 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

I've installed dovecot 0.99.14 (maildir, postfix, RHEL3) and I would like to create , for every user, 4 mailbox (in skel): mail-sent, spam, virus-alert and sysadm. Procmail, parsing header mail, will move mails into a specific mailbox. Every users could move, delete, read these mails but they must not delete mailbox folder (such as INBOX mail). Thanks in advance, Francesco __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] APOP
by Steven Stern 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

I want to turn off POP3 and use POP3S in its place. So far, it's working well for Outlook and Thunderbird. But I'm running into problems with Agent: It supports APOP but not POP3S. Is there a way to have Dovecot support APOP authentication on a normal POP3 connection? I'm running 0.99.13 on Fedora Core 3. -- Steve

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[Dovecot] A few words about NFS please?
by Jeff A. Earickson 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hi, Could you say a few words about Dovecot and POP/IMAP to an NFS mounted filesystem? I thought I saw on the dovecot webpage that NFS is "no way" with 0.99 and "maybe" with 1.x. I was looking for the FAQ and couldn't find it. My setup is like so: My mail server is a Solaris 9 system, running sendmail/procmail, and qpopper POP. Mail is stored in mbox format. The /var/mail filesystem is NFS exported to another Solaris 9 system that runs UW-IMAP. The user community also has login access to this second system, so there are also local email clients like Pine and emacs using the NFS /var/mail. So, POP and sendmail/procmail accesses /var/mail locally, while UW-IMAP accesses it via NFS. The user community has been warned to do either POP or IMAP, but not both. There are very few problems with this setup. I would like to use Dovecot for both POP and IMAP on the two machines. I know NFS is frowned upon, but this has worked for me. Comments and suggestions, please? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Inotify
by Nicolas STRANSKY 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hi, Is there any plans to use the Linux inotify, which is a major improvement over dnotify ? (Linux mechanism for communicating filesystem events to user space) Regards, -- Nico Écrivez dans l'ivresse, mais relisez-vous à jeun. -+- André Gide (1869-1951) -+-

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[Dovecot] Authentication woes
by woollettg 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

I having a hard time working this out, I've looked in the wiki and various other places but am still cueless (stupid me) mercury:/etc/dovecot# imtest -a graeme 203.96.154.204 S: * OK dovecot ready. C: C01 CAPABILITY S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN S: C01 OK Capability completed. Authentication failed. no mechanism available Security strength factor: 0 mercury:/etc/dovecot# Below is my configuration file for version 0.99-14.1 on a Debian Sarge box I'm quite happy with plaintext auth for now. Any help or suggestions much appreciated. Graeme ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file # Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment # any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples # with real defaults being based on configure options. The paths listed here # are for configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot # --localstatedir=/var --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl # Base directory where to store runtime data. #base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s protocols = imap # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. You can specify ports with # "host:port". #imap_listen = * #pop3_listen = * # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above non-SSL equilevants if not specified. #imaps_listen = #pop3s_listen = # Disable SSL/TLS support. #ssl_disable = no # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but # root. #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem # SSL parameter file. Master process generates this file for login processes. # It contains Diffie Hellman and RSA parameters. #ssl_parameters_file = /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat # How often to regenerate the SSL parameters file. Generation is quite CPU # intensive operation. The value is in hours, 0 disables regeneration # entirely. #ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if # you connect from those addresses. disable_plaintext_auth = no # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). #log_path = # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default #info_log_path = # Prefix for each line written to log file. % codes are in strftime(3) # format. #log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " ## ## Login processes ## # Directory where authentication process places authentication UNIX sockets # which login needs to be able to connect to. The sockets are created when # running as root, so you don't have to worry about permissions. Note that # everything in this directory is deleted when Dovecot is started. #login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login # chroot login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this is if you # wish to run the whole Dovecot without roots. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Rootless #login_chroot = yes ## ## IMAP login process ## login = imap # Executable location. login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login # User to use for the login process. Create a completely new user for this, # and don't use it anywhere else. The user must also belong to a group where # only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process. # Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds #login_user = dovecot # Set max. process size in megabytes. If you don't use # login_process_per_connection you might need to grow this. #login_process_size = 32 # Should each login be processed in it's own process (yes), or should one # login process be allowed to process multiple connections (no)? Yes is more # secure, espcially with SSL/TLS enabled. No is faster since there's no need # to create processes all the time. #login_process_per_connection = yes # Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_user is # yes, this is the number of extra processes waiting for users to log in. #login_processes_count = 3 # Maximum number of extra login processes to create. The extra process count # usually stays at login_processes_count, but when multiple users start logging # in at the same time more extra processes are created. To prevent fork-bombing # we check only once in a second if new processes should be created - if all # of them are used at the time, we double their amount until limit set by this # setting is reached. This setting is used only if login_process_per_use is yes. #login_max_processes_count = 128 # Maximum number of connections allowed in login state. When this limit is # reached, the oldest connections are dropped. If login_process_per_user # is no, this is a per-process value, so the absolute maximum number of users # logging in actually login_processes_count * max_logging_users. #login_max_logging_users = 256 ## ## POP3 login process ## # Settings default to same as above, so you don't have to set anything # unless you want to override them. login = pop3 # Exception to above rule being the executable location. #login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login ## ## Mail processes ## # Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, # new users aren't allowed to log in. #max_mail_processes = 1024 # Show more verbose process titles (in ps). Currently shows user name and # IP address. Useful for seeing who are actually using the IMAP processes # (eg. shared mailboxes or if same uid is used for multiple accounts). #verbose_proctitle = no # Show protocol level SSL errors. #verbose_ssl = no # Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. #first_valid_uid = 500 #last_valid_uid = 0 # Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel. Users having # non-valid GID as primary group ID aren't allowed to log in. If user # belongs to supplementary groups with non-valid GIDs, those groups are # not set. #first_valid_gid = 1 #last_valid_gid = 0 # Grant access to these extra groups for mail processes. Typical use would be # to give "mail" group write access to /var/mail to be able to create dotlocks. mail_extra_groups = mail # ':' separated list of directories under which chrooting is allowed for mail # processes (ie. /var/mail will allow chrooting to /var/mail/foo/bar too). # This setting doesn't affect login_chroot or auth_chroot variables. # WARNING: Never add directories here which local users can modify, that # may lead to root exploit. Usually this should be done only if you don't # allow shell access for users. See # /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/configuration.txt for more information. #valid_chroot_dirs = # Default chroot directory for mail processes. This can be overridden by # giving /./ in user's home directory (eg. /home/./user chroots into /home). #mail_chroot = # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/mail-storages.txt. There's a few special # variables you can use: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain # %h - home directory # # You can also limit a width of string by giving the number of max. characters # after the '%' character. For example %1u gives the first character of # username. Some examples: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # #default_mail_env = # Space-separated list of fields to cache for all mails. Currently these # fields are allowed followed by a list of commands they speed up: # # Envelope - FETCH ENVELOPE and SEARCH FROM, TO, CC, BCC, SUBJECT, # SENTBEFORE, SENTON, SENTSINCE, HEADER MESSAGE-ID, # HEADER IN-REPLY-TO # Body - FETCH BODY # Bodystructure - FETCH BODY, BODYSTRUCTURE # MessagePart - FETCH BODY[1.2.3] (ie. body parts), RFC822.SIZE, # SEARCH SMALLER, LARGER, also speeds up BODY/BODYSTRUCTURE # generation. This is always set with mbox mailboxes, and # also default with Maildir. # # Different IMAP clients work in different ways, that's why Dovecot by default # only caches MessagePart which speeds up most operations. Whenever client # does something where caching could be used, the field is automatically marked # to be cached later. For example after FETCH BODY the BODY will be cached # for all new messages. Normally you should leave this alone, unless you know # what most of your IMAP clients are. Caching more fields than needed makes # the index files larger and generate useless I/O. # # With maildir there's one extra optimization - if nothing is cached, indexing # the maildir becomes much faster since it's not opening any of the mail files. # This could be useful if your IMAP clients access only new mails. #mail_cache_fields = MessagePart # Space-separated list of fields that Dovecot should never set to be cached. # Useful if you want to save disk space at the cost of more I/O when the fields # needed. #mail_never_cache_fields = # Workarounds for various client bugs: # oe6-fetch-no-newmail: # Never send EXISTS/RECENT when replying to FETCH command. Outlook Express # seems to think they are FETCH replies and gives user "Message no longer # in server" error. Note that OE6 still breaks even with this workaround # if synchronization is set to "Headers Only". # outlook-idle: # Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no mail # arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is still # fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new mail # arrives. # outlook-pop3-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. #client_workarounds = # Dovecot can notify client of new mail in selected mailbox soon after it's # received. This setting specifies the minimum interval in seconds between # new mail notifications to client - internally they may be checked more or # less often. Setting this to 0 disables the checking. # NOTE: Evolution client breaks with this option when it's trying to APPEND. #mailbox_check_interval = 0 # Like mailbox_check_interval, but used for IDLE command. #mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 # Allow full filesystem access to clients. There's no access checks other than # what the operating system does for the active UID/GID. It works with both # maildir and mboxes, allowing you to prefix mailboxes names with eg. /path/ # or ~user/. #mail_full_filesystem_access = no # Maximum allowed length for custom flag name. It's only forced when trying # to create new flags. #mail_max_flag_length = 50 # Save mails with CR+LF instead of plain LF. This makes sending those mails # take less CPU, especially with sendfile() syscall with Linux and FreeBSD. # But it also creates a bit more disk I/O which may just make it slower. #mail_save_crlf = no # Use mmap() instead of read() to read mail files. read() seems to be a bit # faster with my Linux/x86 and it's better with NFS, so that's the default. #mail_read_mmaped = no # By default LIST command returns all entries in maildir beginning with dot. # Enabling this option makes Dovecot return only entries which are directories. # This is done by stat()ing each entry, so it causes more disk I/O. # (For systems setting struct dirent->d_type, this check is free and it's # done always regardless of this setting) #maildir_stat_dirs = no # Copy mail to another folders using hard links. This is much faster than # actually copying the file. This is problematic only if something modifies # the mail in one folder but doesn't want it modified in the others. I don't # know any MUA which would modify mail files directly. IMAP protocol also # requires that the mails don't change, so it would be problematic in any case. # If you care about performance, enable it. #maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no # Check if mails' content has been changed by external programs. This slows # down things as extra stat() needs to be called for each file. If changes are # noticed, the message is treated as a new message, since IMAP protocol # specifies that existing messages are immutable. #maildir_check_content_changes = no # Which locking methods to use for locking mbox. There's three available: # dotlock: Create <mailbox>.lock file. This is the oldest and most NFS-safe # solution. If you want to use /var/mail/ like directory, the users # will need write access to that directory. # fcntl : Use this if possible. Works with NFS too if lockd is used. # flock : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # # You can use both fcntl and flock too; if you do the order they're declared # with is important to avoid deadlocks if other MTAs/MUAs are using both fcntl # and flock. Some operating systems don't allow using both of them # simultaneously, eg. BSDs. If dotlock is used, it's always created first. #mbox_locks = dotlock fcntl # Should we create dotlock file even when we want only a read-lock? Setting # this to yes hurts the performance when the mailbox is accessed simultaneously # by multiple processes, but it's needed for reliable reading if no other # locking methods are available. #mbox_read_dotlock = no # Maximum time in seconds to wait for lock (all of them) before aborting. #mbox_lock_timeout = 300 # If dotlock exists but the mailbox isn't modified in any way, override the # lock file after this many seconds. #mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 # umask to use for mail files and directories #umask = 0077 # Drop all privileges before exec()ing the mail process. This is mostly # meant for debugging, otherwise you don't get core dumps. Note that setting # this to yes means that log file is opened as the logged in user, which # might not work. It could also be a small security risk if you use single UID # for multiple users, as the users could ptrace() each others processes then. #mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no ## ## IMAP process ## # Executable location imap_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. #imap_process_size = 256 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #imap_use_modules = no imap_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap ## ## POP3 process ## # Executable location #pop3_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. #pop3_process_size = 256 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #pop3_use_modules = no #pop3_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 ## ## Authentication processes ## # An Authentication process is a child process used by Dovecot that # handles the authentication steps. The steps cover an authentication # mechanism (auth_mechanisms, how the client authenticates in the IMAP or # POP3 protocol), which password database should be queried (auth_passdb), # and which user database should be queried (auth_userdb, to obtain # UID, GID, and location of the user's mailbox/home directory). # # You can have multiple processes, though a typical configuration will # have only one. Each time "auth = xx" is seen, a new process # definition is started. The point of multiple processes is to be able # to set stricter permissions. (See auth_user below.) # # Just remember that only one Authentication process is asked for the # password, so you can't have different passwords accessible through # different process definitions (unless they have different # auth_mechanisms, and you're ok with having different password for # each mechanisms). # Authentication process name. auth = default # Specifies how the client authenticates in the IMAP protocol. # Space separated list of permitted authentication mechanisms: # anonymous plain digest-md5 cram-md5 # # anonymous - No authentication required. # plain - The password is sent as plain text. All IMAP/POP3 clients # support this, and the password can be encrypted by Dovecot to match # any of the encryption schemes used in password databases. # digest-md5 and cram-md5 - both encrypt the password so it is more # secure in transit, but are not well supported by clients, and # require that the password database use a matching encryption # scheme (or be in plaintext). # # See auth.txt for more details. # # If you are using SSL there is less benefit to digest-md5 and # cram-md5 as the communication is already encrypted. auth_mechanisms = plain # Space separated list of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms that need # them. You can leave it empty if you don't want to support multiple realms. # Many clients simply use the first one listed here, so keep the default realm # first. #auth_realms = # Default realm/domain to use if none was specified. This is used for both # SASL realms and appending @domain to username in plaintext logins. #auth_default_realm = # User database specifies where mails are located and what user/group IDs # own them. For single-UID configuration use "static". # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # passwd-file <path>: passwd-like file with specified location # static uid=<uid> gid=<gid> home=<dir template>: static settings # vpopmail: vpopmail library # ldap <config path>: LDAP, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf # mysql <config path>: a MySQL database, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf # pgsql <config path>: a PostgreSQL database, see # /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_userdb = passwd # Password database specifies only the passwords for users. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # shadow: /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam() # pam [<service> | *]: PAM authentication # passwd-file <path>: passwd-like file with specified location # vpopmail: vpopmail authentication # ldap <config path>: LDAP, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf # mysql <config path>: a MySQL database, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf # pgsql <config path>: a PostgreSQL database, see # /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_passdb = passwd #auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth # Set max. process size in megabytes. #auth_process_size = 256 # User to use for the process. This user needs access to only user and # password databases, nothing else. Only shadow and pam authentication # requires roots, so use something else if possible. Note that passwd # authentication with BSDs internally accesses shadow files, which also # requires roots. Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # That user is specified by auth_userdb above. auth_user = root # Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't # work if this is set, and there's no point chrooting if auth_user is root. #auth_chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create #auth_count = 1 # List of allowed characters in username. If the user-given username contains # a character not listed in here, the login automatically fails. This is just # an extra check to make sure user can't exploit any potential quote escaping # vulnerabilities with SQL/LDAP databases. If you want to allow all characters, # set this value to empty. #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ # Username to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism #auth_anonymous_username = anonymous # More verbose logging. Useful for figuring out why authentication isn't # working. auth_verbose = yes # Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes. Shows for example SQL # queries. #auth_debug = no # digest-md5 authentication process. It requires special MD5 passwords which # /etc/shadow and PAM doesn't support, so we never need roots to handle it. # Note that the passwd-file is opened before chrooting and dropping root # privileges, so it may be 0600-root owned file. #auth = digest_md5 #auth_mechanisms = digest-md5 #auth_realms = #auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap #auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap #auth_user = imapauth #auth_chroot = # if you plan to use only passwd-file, you don't need the two auth processes, # simply set "auth_methods = plain digest-md5"

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[Dovecot] Re: Problems with MySQL/PAM authentication
by KATOH Yasufumi 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

> I'm using (or trying to at least) a combination of PAM/passwd and MySQL > authentication: : (snip) > MySQL authentication works without problems but authentication real > (system) users dosn't: : I have similar problem using Multiple Auth Database: auth virtual { mechanisms = plain userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/passwd passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/passwd user = root } auth local { mechanisms = plain userdb = passwd passdb = shadow user = root } I tested: | % telnet localhost 143 | Trying 127.0.0.1... | Connected to localhost. | Escape character is '^]'. | * OK Dovecot ready. | 1 login kato(a)harp.gr.jp password | 1 NO Authentication failed. | 1 login kato(a)harp.gr.jp password | 1 OK Logged in. | 1 logout | * BYE Logging out | 1 OK Logout completed. | Connection closed by foreign host. "kato(a)harp.gr.jp" is registered in /etc/dovecot/passwd. First time it failed, but success at second time. "auth local" works without problem. | Feb 24 11:19:24 tara dovecot: auth(local): shadow(kato(a)harp.gr.jp,127.0.0.1): unknown user | Feb 24 11:19:33 tara dovecot: auth(local): shadow(kato(a)harp.gr.jp,127.0.0.1): unknown user | Feb 24 11:19:33 tara dovecot: auth(virtual): userdb(kato(a)harp.gr.jp,127.0.0.1): uid=1000 gid=100 home=/home/kato mail= | Feb 24 11:19:33 tara dovecot: IMAP(kato(a)harp.gr.jp): mkdir(/home/kato(a)harp.gr.jp/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied | Feb 24 11:19:33 tara dovecot: imap-login: Login: kato(a)harp.gr.jp [127.0.0.1] | Feb 24 11:19:35 tara dovecot: auth(local): file auth-client-connection.c: line 31 (auth_client_send): assertion failed: (conn->refcount > 1) | Feb 24 11:19:35 tara dovecot: child 14884 (auth) killed with signal 6 I rewritten dovecot.conf and tested. The result is different. auth local { mechanisms = plain userdb = passwd passdb = shadow user = root } auth virtual { mechanisms = plain userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/passwd passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/passwd user = root } At this time, "auth virtual" work, and "auth local" doesn't work. | * OK Dovecot ready. | 1 login kato(a)harp.gr.jp password | 1 OK Logged in. | 1 logout | * BYE Logging out | 1 OK Logout completed. | * OK Dovecot ready. | 1 login kato password | 1 NO Authentication failed. | 1 login kato password | 1 OK Logged in. | 1 logout | * BYE Logging out | 1 OK Logout completed. (kato is system user) | Feb 24 11:28:52 tara dovecot: auth(virtual): passwd-file(kato,127.0.0.1): unknown user | Feb 24 11:28:59 tara dovecot: auth(virtual): passwd-file(kato,127.0.0.1): unknown user | Feb 24 11:28:59 tara dovecot: auth(local): userdb(kato,127.0.0.1): uid=1000 gid=100 home=/home/kato mail= | Feb 24 11:28:59 tara dovecot: imap-login: Login: kato [127.0.0.1] | Feb 24 11:28:59 tara dovecot: auth(virtual): file auth-client-connection.c: line 31 (auth_client_send): assertion failed: (conn->refcount > 1) | Feb 24 11:28:59 tara dovecot: child 14924 (auth) killed with signal 6 It is not worked well to write configuration previously, but worked well to write after. I tested with ldap auth instead of paswd-file auth. I got same result. Env: Plamo Linux 4.01 (kernel 2.6.10, glibc 2.3.2) dovcot-1.0-test62, dovecot-stable-20050222 -- karma @ jazz.email.ne.jp / Y.KATOH Sorry for my poor English.

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[Dovecot] Limit Number of Postgres Database Connections
by Dan Fitzpatrick 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

I have dovecot running with postgres backend. I am exceeding my maximum database connections (currently 40) with dovecot 0.99.10.9 and postfix and was wondering if dovecot has a parameter to limit the total number of database connections that it will create. Dan

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[Dovecot] mozilla, error in imap command uid
by Nicolas Kowalski 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Hello. Mozilla (1.7.3) gives me the following error message when trying to view some messages: the mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid BODY[..] parameter: Missing '>' in '<10240.-7730>'. What's wrong ? Thanks. -- Nicolas

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