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[Dovecot] Debugging doveadm expunge
by Andy Hawkins 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Hi, I'm a recent convert to dovecot, and in general it is all working fine. However, I have a number of cron jobs set up to purge old messages from mailboxes. These don't seem to be doing what I would expect. Is there any way of debugging this process? Some way of seeing what messages it's checking, and why each one matches or fails to match? For example, I'm running this: doveadm expunge -u andy mailbox "News Reports" savedbefore 90d from the crontab of user 'andy'. I'd expect the specified folder to only contain 90 messages (I get one 'News Report' per day) but in actual fact there are 1428 in there! Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Andy

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Re: [Dovecot] Connection refused userdb lookup ..dovecot/auth-userdb
by Simon 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Steffen Kaiser < skdovecot(a)smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote: > >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> > What's the output of: >>> >>> lsof -c dovecot|grep auth-userdb >>> >>> [root@vmail1 ~]# lsof -c dovecot|grep auth-userdb >> dovecot 3147 root 38u unix 0xffff88004fce0680 0t0 24739 >> /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb >> > > Dovecot is configured to use /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb whereas your LDA > uses /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb . You do not have > symlinks to merge both locations, do you? > > Check, why the Dovecot LDA is using another config file. Found it!!!!!!! Thank youm thank you, thank you... this was delivery config in postfix that was using /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb. DUH! Simon

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[Dovecot] dsync replication questions
by Nikolaos Milas 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

I am running two servers with Dovecot v2.2.12 on CentOS x86_64 (5.10 and 6.5 respectively) and users are virtual over ldap. I have setup our main internal server (vmail.example.com) with dsync replication according to the first part of http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Replication. The second one (vmail1.example.com) will be the failover server which we want to be a real-time mirror (but can be manipulated directly and it should propagate changes back to vmail.example.com) When I started the server (vmail.example.com) mirroring started and completed fine (after a few hours). However, since then, I am not seeing a continued mirroring between the two. I would expect changes to one of the masters to be propagated in real time to the other - which does not happen. If I manually run (on vmail.example.com) dsync -u imaptester mirror ssh -l root vmail1.example.com dsync -u imaptester then these two accounts are synced. Question 1: Shouldn't mirroring continue automatically in real time (having configured it as in the first part of http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Replication)? If not, what should I do to enable such a real-time (or near-real-time) sync? Note that I have not configured "replication_dsync_parameters" as noted at the above page. Question 2: Where can I find documentation about "replication_dsync_parameters" and about "the doveadm sync command" (referred to at the same page)? I have not been able to locate such a documentation/wiki page. Question 2a: What do options "-d -N -l 30 -U" signify in "replication_dsync_parameters = -d -N -l 30 -U"? Thanks, Nick

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[Dovecot] Regarding SSHA512 Password Scheme
by Joy 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Dear Expert, I am having issue with using SSHA512 Password Schemes with my openldap server. I have used doveadm utility to create password and able to verify the same but trying to login to IMAP is failing tried debug the auth part but no success so far. I am using the latest version of dovecot. Please share your views .. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Dovecot IMAP Authentication issue with Vpopmail
by Arup 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Hello All, i've configured a qmail server (for office) under Ubuntu 12.04 server following this guide- http://www.connor.net.au/tutorials/qmail/qmaillite/ everything working just fine except dovecot IMAP. i've followed this section for dovecot- http://www.connor.net.au/tutorials/q...te/dovecot.php<http://www.connor.net.au/tutorials/qmail/qmaillite/dovecot.php> but when i go to telnet 143 and try to login with username/password, it failed and showing error: ** BYE Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information.Connection closed by foreign host.* i think there may be some authentication issue with vpopmail and dovecot. POP and SMTP both working. but why not IMAP? i can't also use webmail (i.e. squirrelmail) as it don't working with IMAP. it's showing- *connection dropped by IMAP server *error while trying to login. i'm looking forward to a solution here. any qmail+vpopmail expert here? plz help. Thanks in advance. B/R

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[Dovecot] Unknown setting: plugin after fresh install
by Patrik Karisch 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Hi guys, I've installed dovecot 2.1.7 on a Debian Wheezy, tweaked some parameters little bit, but I can't restart it (dovecot -n also fails) and get this error: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-acl.conf line 11: Unknown setting: plugin doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process returned 89 Wether I uncomment this plugin line, I get the error on another file (example 90-quote.conf). Seems a little bit weird. What have I done false? Thanks Patrik -- PRIVACY IS NOT A CRIME! So please encrypt your emails using PGP/GnuPG. My PGP Key-ID: 0x42D6DEA0 / 0x28B8F6E242D6DEA0 PGP Fingerprint: 4C1F ED51 047A D0E2 6C20 F3F7 28B8 F6E2 42D6 DEA0

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[Dovecot] mdbox with mail_attachment_dir per user in 2.2.12
by Pavel Stano 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Hello, we have 2 netapp arrays with 2 volumes and we need to store our mail data in one or other volume for every user. We want keep data for one user in one volume only. So we would like to have 2 separate mail_attachment_dir, one on every volume. But in latest version 2.2.12 it look like it is only possible to set one global mail_attachment_dir. I have an idea with 2 separate dovecot instances per machine with different mail_attachment_dir. Or it is possible to somehow specify it per user ? Thanks -- [ Ohodnotte kvalitu mailu: http://nicereply.com/websupport/Stano/ ] Pavel Stano | Troubleshooter http://WebSupport.sk *** BERTE A VYCHUTNAVAJTE ***

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[Dovecot] imap / IPv6 problems?
by Egbert 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Hi, I have this intermittant problem. When sending an email it *sometimes* takes ages before the process finishes. The process seems to hang in moving the message to the sent items" folder". When I disable the IPv6 stack in the network config (this is MS Windows 7), the hanging process immedialetely completes! This makens me think that is has to do with the IP stacks. Another observed effect is a long "rotating wheel" when just klicking on an imap folder before the listing in the right pane updates. Here the same trick solves the problem. I use Thunderbird on W7 as client and have my mail (3 accounts) on a remote mailserver. I have full control over that server which can become handy... Th emailserver is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with postfix and Dovecot (2.0.19) from the standard repo's. My IPv6 connections is a native IPv6 from my ISP (xs4all.nl). I have no reason to think that the IPv 6 connecition itself is the problem. Any advise to investigate this problem is welcome. Egbert Jan, NL

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[Dovecot] xz compression
by T.B. 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Hello Timo, I've successfully setup xz compression for my Dovecot installation using the version 2.2.12 from Debian unstable. Together with the activation of the "Single Instance Attachment Storage", this reduced the mail storage utilization for 20 mail accounts by 74%. *My question:* (For this test just one user was logged in. OS = Debian Wheezy, AMD64) After conversion of my mail storage, IMAP read by Thunderbird worked perfectly. But IMAP write and LMTP write was not possible.* *xz compression seems to need a higher vsz_limit than its default value of 256M without compression. Before the conversion, 256M was enough with the plugins "**acl fts fts_solr" and " imap_zlib". 512M was still not enough for xz compression, 1024M works OK but I'm not sure since this is a relative large increase. My new setting: /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf: service imap { vsz_limit=1024M } The absolute minimum to successfully send an empty mail is 710MB (700MB still produces out of memory)! _*Is this normal behaviour? What is a recommended value for "service imap {vsz_limit = }"?*_ I recommend to add this "_vsz_limit"_-increase to the wiki (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib) to make others life easier. Error log below. * **My config & how I converted:* /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf: mail_plugins = *zlib *acl fts fts_solr /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf: # Enable these only if you want compression while saving: zlib_save_level = 9 # 1..9 zlib_save = xz For "Single Instance Attachment Storage": /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf: # Directory root where to store mail attachments. Disabled, if empty. mail_attachment_dir = /srv/vmail/mail_attachments For compressed IMAP access ( to reduce the bandwidth usage of IMAP ) (has nothing to do with storage space): /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-imap.conf: protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins *imap_zlib* } Previous storage format was standard mdbox Format. To convert a single user, I used dsync from the command line: dsync -u user(a)domain.de mirror mdbox:/srv/converted_vmail/user@domain.de/ After conversion (~2 hours per account), I moved the original mail folder of the user to a backup location and replaced it by the converted folders from "/srv/converted_vmail/user(a)domain.de/". (Pay attention that the directory structure matches!, I had to adjust ist.) *My Problem:* *After conversion IMAP read by Thunderbird worked perfectly**. But IMAP write and **LMTP write was not possible**.** **/var/log/dovecot.log showed that vsz_limit**was to restrictive:* Log: Apr 03 14:13:14 imap(user(a)domain.de): Fatal: lzma: Out of memory Apr 03 14:13:14 imap(user(a)domain.de): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x674f0) [0x7f8538fd54f0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x675ce) [0x7f8538fd55ce] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f8538f90678] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_zlib_plugin.so(o_stream_create_lzma+0xeb) [0x7f8538393ecb] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_zlib_plugin.so(+0x2c14) [0x7f8538390c14] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_save_begin+0x43) [0x7f85392bdc23] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.de 192.168.1.42 append](+0xd824) [0x7f8539788824] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.de 192.168.1.42 append](cmd_append+0x10e) [0x7f8539788a6e] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.de 192.168.1.42 append](command_exec+0x3c) [0x7f853979390c] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.de 192.168.1.42 append](+0x178ff) [0x7f85397928ff] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.de 192.168.1.42 append](+0x179b5) [0x7f85397929b5] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.de 192.168.1.42 append](client_handle_input+0x125) [0x7f8539792cd5] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.de 192.168.1.42 append](client_input+0x75) [0x7f8539793065] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x27) [0x7f8538fe55c7] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xd7) [0x7f8538fe6357] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7f8538fe5168] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f8538f95723] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.de 192.168.1.42 append](main+0x2c4) [0x7f8539787324] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f8538be6b45] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.de 192.168.1.42 append](+0xc490) [0x7f8539787490] Apr 03 14:13:14 imap-login: Debug: SSL alert: close notify [192.168.1.42] Apr 03 14:13:14 imap(user(a)domain.de): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 23995 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service imap { vsz_limit=256 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set CORE_OUTOFMEM=1 environment to get core dump) ==============================================

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[Dovecot] Crash in pop3 with version 2.2.12
by Urban Loesch 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Hi, today I upgraded to version 2.2.12 under Debian Squeeze. I saw some people on the list they had the same problems with version 2.2.11, but which should have been fixed in version 2.2.12. My logfile shows: .. Mar 28 08:25:01 mailstore dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<ul(a)domain.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=34568, secured, session=<Jp6RmaX1YAB/AAAB> Mar 28 08:25:06 mailstore dovecot: pop3(ul(a)domain.net pid:34568 session:<Jp6RmaX1YAB/AAAB>): Fatal: master: service(pop3): child 34568 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) ... I made some more dubugging and I found that the pop3 process crashed on the "uidl" command. Here my output from telnet session: .. root@mailstore: # telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user ul(a)domain.net +OK pass PASS +OK Logged in. list +OK 5 messages: 1 3492 2 21924 3 3525 4 3472 5 3273 . uidl Connection closed by foreign host. ... Listing massages or retrieving messages works normally. Only on "uidl" command the services crashes. I made a backtrace. -----> start backtrace <----- Core was generated by `dovecot/pop3'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00007f9dd8ca488d in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007f9dd8ca488d in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007f9dd8cc6732 in vsnprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00007f9dd904d0db in str_vprintfa (str=0x11aa4f8, fmt=0x409184 "%u %s", args=0x7ffffab4fff0) at str.c:155 args2 = {{gp_offset = 16, fp_offset = 48, overflow_arg_area = 0x7ffffab500e0, reg_save_area = 0x7ffffab50010}} init_size = 4231558 pos = 0 ret = <value optimized out> ret2 = <value optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "str_vprintfa" #3 0x00000000004055ff in client_send_line (client=0x11d1e50, fmt=<value optimized out>) at pop3-client.c:678 str = 0x11aa4f8 _data_stack_cur_id = 4 va = {{gp_offset = 32, fp_offset = 48, overflow_arg_area = 0x7ffffab500e0, reg_save_area = 0x7ffffab50010}} ret = <value optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "client_send_line" #4 0x00000000004073cd in list_uidls_saved_iter (client=0x11d1e50, ctx=0x11da3c0) at pop3-commands.c:666 found = true #5 list_uids_iter (client=0x11d1e50, ctx=0x11da3c0) at pop3-commands.c:693 str = <value optimized out> permanent_uidl = <value optimized out> found = <value optimized out> failed = <value optimized out> #6 0x0000000000407d88 in cmd_uidl (client=0x11d1e50, name=<value optimized out>, args=0x408880 "") at pop3-commands.c:874 ctx = 0x0 seq = <value optimized out> #7 client_command_execute (client=0x11d1e50, name=<value optimized out>, args=0x408880 "") at pop3-commands.c:938 No locals. #8 0x0000000000405870 in client_handle_input (client=0x11d1e50) at pop3-client.c:739 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 line = <value optimized out> args = 0x408880 "" ret = <value optimized out> #9 0x00007f9dd903c3d6 in io_loop_call_io (io=0x11d2760) at ioloop.c:388 ioloop = 0x11b2740 t_id = 2 #10 0x00007f9dd903d45f in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=<value optimized out>) at ioloop-epoll.c:220 ctx = 0x11b2aa0 event = 0x11b3900 list = 0x11b44d0 io = 0x51 tv = {tv_sec = 9, tv_usec = 999326} msecs = <value optimized out> ret = 1 i = 0 call = false __FUNCTION__ = "io_loop_handler_run" #11 0x00007f9dd903c348 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x11b2740) at ioloop.c:412 __FUNCTION__ = "io_loop_run" #12 0x00007f9dd8fea953 in master_service_run (service=0x11b25d0, callback=0x409186) at master-service.c:566 No locals. #13 0x0000000000404ac7 in main (argc=1, argv=0x11b2390) at main.c:277 set_roots = {0x4094e0, 0x0} login_set = {auth_socket_path = 0x11aa050 "/var/run/dovecot/auth-master", postlogin_socket_path = 0x0, postlogin_timeout_secs = 60, callback = 0x404ca0 <login_client_connected>, failure_callback = 0x404c50 <login_client_failed>, request_auth_token = 0} service_flags = <value optimized out> storage_service_flags = MAIL_STORAGE_SERVICE_FLAG_DISALLOW_ROOT username = 0x0 c = <value optimized out> (gdb) quit -----> end backtrace <----- And at least my pop3 configuration part: -----> start config <----- protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = " quota mail_log notify acl zlib stats" pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_lock_session = yes pop3_logout_format = bytes_sent=%o top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s uidl_hash=%u session=<%{session}> pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes } -----> end config <----- Setting "pop3_reuse_xuidl = no" has noe effect. Always the same crash. Thanks and regards Urban Loesch

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