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[Dovecot] lmtp_rcpt_check_quota working somewhere?
by Steffen Kaiser 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm running Dovecot v2.1 and enabled the lmtp_rcpt_check_quota option in conf.d/20-lmtp.conf, because I just found it in the sample config. Is this option working somewhere? When I have the option enabled, I get _no_ response in the RCPT TO phase, if the user is under quota. If I go on and enter the DATA keyword eventually, I get "554 5.5.1 No valid recipients", so it looks like, the user is really ignored at all. For an user over quota, I get: 552 5.2.2 <user> Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) Without lmtp_rcpt_check_quota LMTP works fine. For the user over quota I get the error after DATA phase, the user under quota gets the message delivered. Regards, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBULOTyWoxLS8a3A9mAQITfggAoC0ujUXE53ePUEsTUHXlL2S0/hQCdAgA ppZnUPv9Gjh2oZjjrOmPa+zYVnd+6xK9m58bV4b7FPC+uz1otaS205WMIeZCuy5l kTtCpNpxxNfsUDzMM8zrRf+AZODAwUzwx7yknGdpXtezIGYg7kTKIXxs3KShgI3i ML/kbj4j+YkpdR0wUnZCIVM7MBukAJ3rhSqvfcY0ekZo8+ownqVjCE1PLhFy6oGE OsN8qY272nuvY9dLjflUjOKsvPVnviIu0kgRAZEsqPPp27Jp4GMsSpqqdAhjgbzH D8n9AnxVc6KYhq8qVpsWBCNy3/CwERsadZcRnl/4zcZmq19VsLLZMQ== =Nyqj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Feature request: add information to error message: client doesn't have lookup permissions for this user: userdb reply doesn't contain uid (change userdb socket permissions)
by Steffen Kaiser 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Please add the information to this error, which socket has the problem and which uid access is and what is expected. For instance, when the quota dict request fails, because of permission problems, you get a very detailed info about the current problem. And, further more, hints to solve it. BTW: I'm trying to configure shared mailboxes for a virtual user system, when one user with ACLs on other mailboxes requests a LIST, I get this error. In my case, I solved the problem by chmod u+x auth-userdb . Kind regards, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBUJPs/2oxLS8a3A9mAQLQxwf/ZkhmER1q/+rlZCIdQ70x6TDwS1nwJI6J FHyr8UFgV0xXBeX8OW+UDl8N4OzXOiReygHnrcpYE4BCEQmeQC9YUU7mCcC6tpqG cg+uYMAPap3Zx8WkAqsmDnnqHe4xX7GUscoiVh1vxYdiRkHwikiKEfuve+SwTpyj wmAK5CMGLBifWPk6bmFP7YR+sJnG/E1vKxEUMEKEKjMfubsCCqc95NNCOiVTwCTG Y15eIhyJTBBjrGuLSeiHb40sPnOE/OgO9r00+OXrZOtuouYZlsMENsDXSFFLoC7v MpABu57w3GRC0p33bjSuX8ZGinEd8fFz9mbUCSvBmLLL7rOZVR6FDw== =Rf46 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Rebuilding indexes fails on inconsistent mdbox
by Milan Holzäpfel 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hello all, I have a problem with an incosistent mdbox: Oct 24 10:43:23 two dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<...>, method=PLAIN, rip=..., lip=..., mpid=4977, TLS Oct 24 10:43:23 two dovecot: imap(listen(a)mjh.name): Error: mdbox map .../mdbox/storage/dovecot.map.index corrupted: Unexpectedly lost INBOX uid=638 map_uid=809891 Oct 24 10:43:23 two dovecot: imap(listen(a)mjh.name): Error: mdbox map .../mdbox/storage/dovecot.map.index corrupted: Unexpectedly lost INBOX uid=638 map_uid=809891 Oct 24 10:43:23 two dovecot: imap(listen(a)mjh.name): Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-10-24 10:43:23] bytes=115/53726 Oct 24 10:43:23 two dovecot: imap(listen(a)mjh.name): Warning: mdbox .../mdbox/storage: Inconsistency in map index (467,31960 != 467,36768) Oct 24 10:43:23 two dovecot: imap(listen(a)mjh.name): Warning: mdbox .../mdbox/storage: rebuilding indexes Oct 24 10:45:19 two dovecot: imap(listen(a)mjh.name): Panic: file mdbox-storage-rebuild.c: line 773 (rebuild_update_refcounts): assertion failed: (map_uid < msgs[i]->map_uid) Oct 24 10:45:19 two dovecot: imap(listen(a)mjh.name): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x380ca) [0x7f99cf35b0ca] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3810e) [0x7f99cf35b10e] -> /usr/li b/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f99cf334a67] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mdbox_storage_rebuild_in_context+0x10a5) [0x7f99cf5f42d5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mdbox_s torage_rebuild+0x24) [0x7f99cf5f4414] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x53565) [0x7f99cf5f4565] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_close+0x1a) [0x7f99cf5c8caa] -> /usr/lib/dovec ot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_free+0x13) [0x7f99cf5c8cf3] -> dovecot/imap(client_destroy+0x109) [0x7f99cfaa69e9] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0xaa) [0x7f99cfaa6dba] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i o_loop_call_io+0x48) [0x7f99cf366c98] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xa7) [0x7f99cf367d27] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f99cf366c28] -> /usr/lib/dovecot /libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f99cf354e33] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x304) [0x7f99cfa9e554] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x7f99cef8576d] -> dovecot/imap(+0x95e5) [0 x7f99cfa9e5e5] Oct 24 10:45:19 two dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 4977 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) I use: Dovecot 2.0.19-0ubuntu1 Ubuntu 12.04, x86-64, Kernel 3.2.0-32-generic local XFS filesystem for the mdbox The problem appeared out of nowhere. Many messages been continously delivered to this mailbox on this installation since May 2012, and the mdbox was only accessed with deliver and imap/pop3 from dovecot. About four hours after the problem initially appeared, I did a hard reset of the system because it was unresponsive. The error message is exactly the same before and after the hard reset. The problem is triggered by both IMAP access and dovecot deliver access. The whole mdbox is 6.6 GiB large and I guess that it contains about 300k-600k messages. It's an archive of public mailing lists, so I could give access to the files. Can anybody say something about this? May the mdbox be repaired? Regards, Milan Holzäpfel -- Milan Holzäpfel <listen(a)mjh.name>

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[Dovecot] Dovecot IMAP/POP3 auto creating maildir
by Dominic Malolepszy 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hi I have observed that after deleting a mailbox and removing the user from the userdb, immediately accessing the mail account via POP3/IMAP causes Dovecot to auto create an empty mailbox, because the userdb/passdb details are still cached for 10minutes. Is there any option to tell Dovecot POP3/IMAP not to auto create the mailbox if it does not exist? Alternatively and less desirably is there a mechanism for telling Dovecot to expire a userdb/passdb cached entry? Running Dovecot 2.1.9 Dominic

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[Dovecot] memory allocation issues
by Kelsey Cummings 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

One of our dovecot backend servers ran into a problem with it's auth process a few days ago. This doesn't appear to be the error logged when dovecot hits its internal limit so I'm not sure what is going on here. auth: Error: malloc: 58012: Cannot allocate memory auth: Error: Unable to allocate memory for mutexes from the region auth: Error: PANIC: Cannot allocate memory auth: passwd(test,1.1.1.1,<8HTlNHzNIQBAjhKC>): unknown user pop3: Error: Authenticated user not found from userdb, auth lookup +id=2509111297 (client-pid=4781 client-id=1) pop3-login: Internal login failure (pid=4781 id=1) (internal failure, 1 +succesful auths): user=<test>... There was at least 10+GB free RAM on the server and no indication of a system level issue at the same time. The server is running 2.1.9. There were about 3,200 active sessions, with something like 12 new sessions/sec. The other identical servers are/were handling virtually identical load with the same service uptime and haven't had any issues so far. (Crash happened 7 days ago.) -- Kelsey Cummings - kgc(a)corp.sonic.net sonic.net, inc. System Architect 2260 Apollo Way 707.522.1000 Santa Rosa, CA 95407

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[Dovecot] fs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail) AGAIN
by Ken Mandelberg 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

We are running Dovecot 2.0.12. It runs on only one server and /var/mail is local where all the INBOX's are stored. Users other IMAP folders are NFS mounted on the server. We see frequent Error: nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail) failed: Device busy I know this error message has been around a long time. Should we still be seeing it on 2.0.12 with a local /var/mail. Perhaps the message is misleading and really complaining about folders other than INBOX that are NFS mounted. Our config has dovecot.conf:mail_nfs_index = no dovecot.conf:mail_nfs_storage = yes is that correct given the above? Also, does the flush error messages have any real consequences? My understanding is that the rmdir is meant to fail, just to force a flush.

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[Dovecot] Filesystem quotas
by Andreas Kasenides 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

I could not determine if when using filesystem quotas (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/FS) Dovecot will use the reported quota and limits without the need of configuring them via "quota_rules". Is this possible somehow? Such a feature would determine the quota limits automatically from the filesystem quotas thereby allowing to make use of them in quota warnings. Dovecot already knows the quota settings and limits. Here is evidence from the logs > Nov 21 19:24:22 iolaos dovecot: imap(user): Debug: box=/Mail/ank > mount=/newmail match=yes > Nov 21 19:24:22 iolaos dovecot: imap(user): Debug: quota-fs: > host=xxxx.xxxx.ucy.xx.cy, path=/mail, uid=211, bytes > Nov 21 19:24:22 iolaos dovecot: imap(user): Debug: quota-fs: uid=211, > value=2779115520, limit=8388608000 I am using (testing) version 2.2alpha1. Thankx. -- Andreas Kasenides Senior IT Officer University of Cyprus, Dept. of Computer Science Tel: 22892714, Fax: 22892701

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[Dovecot] Plugin help, number of messages in mailbox
by Richard Platel 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hi, We use Dovecot for IMAP and POP (but not LDA), we want to do something when a user has an INBOX that becomes empty, or becomes not empty (set a flag in memcached, but that's not really important). I'm writing a plugin (for Dovecot 2.1.7). On mailbox_open() I can use mailbox_get_status() to get a count of messages in the mailbox, and then decrement this in expunge() or increment it in mailbox save_finish() (for IMAP APPEND or COPY commands). However in expunge() and mailbox_save_finish, even after calling the super function, mailbox_get_status doesn't update the number of messages in the mailbox. This is a problem if (for example) there are concurrent POP sessions. Two POP sessions could get all the messages in INBOX, one could logout, calling expunge a few times, eventually causing my plugin to note that the inbox is empty, then our LDA could deliver a message, mark the INBOX not empty, then the other POP session could log out, call expunge and cause my plugin to mark the INBOX empty, when it's not. So in summation: how can a plugin be notified of changes to a mailbox, and then accurately get the real number of messages in that mailbox?

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[Dovecot] Folder layout after Cyrus to Dovecot migration
by Keith Edmunds 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

# dovecot --version 1.2.15 We're trying to migrate a server from Cyrus to Dovecot, and we're mostly there. On Cyrus, the folder layout in the MUA is: INBOX subfolder subfolder ... Sent Drafts Queue Trash Users cannot create sibling folders to the Inbox, only subfolders (and sub-subfolders, etc). We've replicated that with: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- mail_location = maildir:/shared/imapmail/users/%u:INBOX=/shared/imapmail/users/%u:LAYOUT=fs namespace private { separator = / prefix = "INBOX/" inbox = yes } -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...however, the Sent/Drafts/Queue/Trash folders are now subfolders of Inbox. Cyrus seems to default to the above layout (at least, I can't find anywhere that defines it). There are no special settings in the MUA to achieve the abovev. Is there a way of replicating the above within Dovecot? We can probably go to V2 if we have to, but 1.2.15 would be preferable. Thanks, Keith

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[Dovecot] cannot update mailbox - unable to lock for exclusive access
by 1st WebDesigns 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hi there, We're using Dovecot version 1.0.7 and Postfix, and since upgrading our Linux box we're getting this in the maillog: Nov 8 07:49:11 server1 postfix/local[27901]: 04B8E7081DA: to=<xyz(a)xyz.com>, orig_to=<abc(a)abc.com>, relay=local, delay=19, delays=0.07/0/0/19, dsn=4.2.0, status=deferred (cannot update mailbox /var/spool/mail/abc for user abc. unable to lock for exclusive access: Resource temporarily unavailable) Postfix is currently set to: mailbox_delivery_lock = fcntl, dotlock Dovecot has this: mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = fcntl dotlock I've scoured the web and tried all kinds of different locking mechanisms and combinations to no avail. The mail is eventually delivered but on a busy day this can take several hours. In the evening it generally doesn't happen, which leads me to believe it occurs during the day when people have their mail clients open. However, this particular issue doesn't affect every user that has their mail client open, only some! We currently have the mailboxes in mbox format - yes I know we should upgrade to maildir which we will eventually, however we've been using mbox for the last 10 years and this has only become an issue since upgrading. What I have discovered this morning is a Dovecot connection that is open for 6 minutes before disconnection. During this 6 minutes the above problem occurs (new mail cannot get an exclusive lock). The same user will have connected and disconnected several times before and after, with a connection taking no more than a few seconds. But it seems sometimes the connection is taking longer than it should and I suspect the problem lies here. Please can anyone help! Thank you, G

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[Dovecot] sieve + dkim
by Николай Клименко 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

message sent from the sieve-vacation does not contain dkim signature how to configure sieve to send messages via smtp transport with signing?

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[Dovecot] IMAP proxy - can it detect parodying to itself?
by Graham Leggett 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hi all, I have some IMAP servers fronted with separate perdition processes, and it would be ideal if I could collapse this down to having dovecot do both the IMAP proxying and the IMAP serving at the same time on the same IP addresses. One of the fields in my LDAP entries contains the canonical name of the server that hosts their mailbox, and if I follow the manual at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields#LDAP I could add the host field to enable proxying. My question is whether dovecot has the ability to notice whether dovecot is being asked to proxy to itself, in other words the value of "host" is the current dovecot server, and when this happens, ignore the proxy and just be a straight IMAP server, because the user has connected to the right box already. Is this possible? Regards, Graham --

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Re: [Dovecot] doveadm fails with passdb authentication binds (dovecot 2.0.16)
by mailing lists 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hello, >> # doveadm mailbox list -u user001 >> doveadm(user001): Error: user user001: Auth PASS lookup failed >> doveadm(user001): Fatal: passdb lookup failed > Are you running this on a Dovecot proxy? It looks like doveadm wants to do a passdb lookup to find out which server should handle this user. Passdb lookups don't work with LDAP binding. But if everything else works then I think you simply shouldn't have enabled doveadm proxying. So, set doveadm_proxy_port back to 0? thank you Timo, setting doveadm_proxy_port to 0 did the trick.

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[Dovecot] Missing Messages on IOS device
by David Morsberger 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

I just converted my old server running UW/Panda to a Mac Mini Server running Mountain Lion (ML) Server. I'm using the postfix / dovecot setup provided by Apple. My IMAP clients are not showing all my emails. The Mail App on my iPhone and iPad is behaving the worse. I can see the emails that are not showing up in the cur directory. The ML Mail App is stating there are 3854 emails in my INBOX. There are 3948 files in the 'cur' directory ('ls cur | wc -l' returns 3948). Other mailboxes and directories have the same behavior. I'm not sure what to expect here. My method of conversion was to bulk copy (drag and drop) all the messages from one the UW server to the Dovecot server using the Apple Desktop Mail App in Mountain Lion. Any idea why these messages are not showing up on my devices and how I can get them to show up? bash-3.2# /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/dovecotd --version 2.0.19apple1 bash-3.2# /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/dovecotd -n # 2.0.19apple1: /Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 12.2.1 x86_64 hfs aps_topic = com.apple.mail.XServer.fc3bb7c3-c8ef-4fe2-aff3-95ecd927fb11 auth_mechanisms = cram-md5 x-plain-submit plain login apop digest-md5 auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_username_format = %n default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 6 first_valid_uid = 6 mail_access_groups = mail mail_location = maildir:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%u mail_log_prefix = "%s(pid %p user %u): " mail_plugins = quota zlib fts fts_sk managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mdbox_rotate_size = 200 M passdb { args = /Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/submit.passdb driver = passwd-file pass = yes submit = yes } passdb { driver = od } plugin { fts = sk quota = maildir:User quota quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-exceeded %u sieve = /Library/Server/Mail/Data/rules/%u/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /Library/Server/Mail/Data/rules/%u } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mini.mmpcrofton.com protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { extra_groups = _keytabusers idle_kill = 15 mins unix_listener auth-userdb { user = _dovecot } } service dns_client { unix_listener dns-client { mode = 0600 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } service_count = 0 } service imap { client_limit = 5 process_limit = 200 service_count = 0 } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0600 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service pop3 { client_limit = 5 process_limit = 200 service_count = 0 } service quota-exceeded { executable = script /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-exceeded.sh unix_listener quota-exceeded { group = mail mode = 0660 user = _dovecot } user = _dovecot } service quota-warning { executable = script /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { group = mail mode = 0660 user = _dovecot } user = _dovecot } ssl_ca = </etc/certificates/*.chain.pem ssl_cert = </etc/certificates/*.cert.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL ssl_key = </etc/certificates/*.key.pem ssl_key_path = /etc/certificates/*.key.pem syslog_facility = local6 userdb { args = partition=/Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/partition_map.conf enforce_quotas=no driver = od } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota zlib fts fts_sk sieve push_notify } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota zlib fts fts_sk sieve push_notify } protocol imap { imap_id_log = * imap_id_send = "name" * "version" * mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = quota zlib fts fts_sk imap_quota imap_zlib imap_fts urlauth } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 6 }

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[Dovecot] sieve-extprograms strips Return-Path headers
by Ben Morrow 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

The sieve-extprograms extension strips Return-Path headers before passing mail off to the external program. The patch to remove this behavious is trivial (and attached), but since it appears to be deliberate I felt I should investigate further. I believe this is basically a cut-and-paste error. The code to strip Return-Path has been there since the sieve-pipe plugin for Dovecot 1.x, and I believe it was copied from the equivalent code in the 'redirect' action for passing mail off to sendmail(8). In that case, stripping Return-Path is correct, since the message is being resubmitted for delivery (by SMTP or otherwise), and the last step of the new delivery will (should) add a new Return-Path header with the new envelope information. In the case of sieve-extprograms, though, the filtering is happening post-delivery, so a stripped Return-Path will never be replaced. Ben

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[Dovecot] SSL certificates
by The Doctor 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Who is the best CA Certificate provider for Dovecot? -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca God,Queen and country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! http://www.fullyfollow.me/rootnl2k Merry Christmas 2012 and Happy New Year 2013 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] dovecot trying to update my sieve directory
by Mathieu R. 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hello, i got an error in maillog, dovecot trying tu update my sieve directory : 2012-11-23T11:01:33.943047+00:00 localhost dovecot: imap(mathieu(a)400iso.net): Error: stat(/srv/vmail/400iso.net/mathieu@400iso.net/.dovecot.sieve/tmp) failed: Not a directory this cause no problem but i probably misconfigured something... here is my dovecot.conf : protocols = imap pop3 sieve mail_home = /srv/vmail/%d/%u mail_location = maildir:~ mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/server.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/server.key service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve postmaster_address = postmaster(a)400iso.net hostname = 400iso.net } managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve # sieve_global_dir = /srv/vmail/sieve/ quota = fs:vm quota quota_rule = *:storage=5G } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota } -- Mathieu Rousseau http://400iso.net/

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[Dovecot] Proxy to join two accounts
by Tomek 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hello, I have server with IMAP on dovecot for user mails and second server on archiveopteryx as mail archive. I'm wondering if it's possible to make some sort of proxy to these two servers in way where: - dovecot server will be main IMAP service with INBOX, etc - I want archiveopteryx account to be something like shared folder with read only access (no delete, no move, etc) in path ex. /archive/user.name - this proxy mappings should allow adding few archive accounts to one user (in case of people replacement) + it will be cool if this mappings could be defined in database so I could write tools to manage archive access for bosses. Is such case possible to achieve with dovecot (any howto or example would be very helpful)? If not - do you know any proxy tools that could allow such configuration? Thanks for any help. Regards, Tomek.

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[Dovecot] v2.1.10: Director director_servers order issue
by Bertrand Jacquin 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi, I'm setting up an IMAP/POP cluster using dovecot director for some NFS reasons and I'm getting some troubles with director_servers directive. Configuration is shared on both nodes : director_servers = 10.0.50.50 10.0.50.51 director_mail_servers = 192.168.0.150 192.168.0.151 director_user_expire = 15 min service director { unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0600 user = $default_login_user } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0600 } inet_listener { port = 9090 } } service ipc { unix_listener ipc { user = $default_login_user } } Here 10.0.50.50 is node1, 10.0.50.51 is node2 # ring status on node1 director ip port type last failed 10.0.50.50 9090 self never 10.0.50.51 9090 never # ring status on node2 director ip port type last failed 10.0.50.50 9090 self never 10.0.50.51 9090 never self is the same on both nodes, and that generate some cases that can be observed on logs : # logs on node1 dovecot: director: Error: Remote director thinks it's someone else (connected to 10.0.50.51:9090, remote says it's 10.0.50.50:9090) And this is true, TCP packet contain bad DATA : # tcpdump -i eth0 -nn src host 10.0.50.51 and port 9090 -s 0 -w - -l | strings | egrep '^ME' ME 10.0.50.50 9090 # logs on node2 dovecot: director: Error: connect(10.0.50.51:9090) failed: Invalid argument Invalid argument is present as bind() is not done with the appropriate IP : # strace -p 6063 -fF -s 1024 -e trace=bind,connect bind(28, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(0), sin_addr=inet_addr("10.0.50.50")}, 16) = 0 connect(28, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(9090), sin_addr=inet_addr("10.0.50.51")}, 16) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) Also, during this time, CPU is ~100% used. bind() is done with node1 IP address. I also tested using a DNS : director_servers = director-all director-all is two A entries, first containing 10.0.50.50, second 10.0.50.51 and the result here is exactly the same. Using two configurations : # director_servers on node1 director_servers = 10.0.50.50 10.0.50.51 # director_servers on node2 director_servers = 10.0.50.51 10.0.50.50 Give the same result as showed before : # ring status on node1 director ip port type last failed 10.0.50.50 9090 self never 10.0.50.51 9090 never # ring status on node2 director ip port type last failed 10.0.50.50 9090 self never 10.0.50.51 9090 never It seems that first sorted entry in director_servers is considered as "self". I'm using dovecot 2.1.10-0~auto+55 debian package from rename-it repository. Thanks for your help. -- Beber

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[Dovecot] doveadm fails with passdb authentication binds (dovecot 2.0.16)
by mailing lists 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hello, I'm testing passdb auth binds with dovecot 2.0.16, but for some reason dovedm fails to work with the configuration showed below. The network trace shows the successful bind for the administrative user (uid=mailapp), but nothing for the mail user (uid=user001). what am i missing here? # doveadm mailbox list -u user001 doveadm(user001): Error: user user001: Auth PASS lookup failed doveadm(user001): Fatal: passdb lookup failed 10-auth.conf: ==================== disable_plaintext_auth = no auth_cache_size = 0 auth_cache_ttl = 0 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_mechanisms = plain !include auth-ldap.conf.ext auth-ldap.conf.ext: ===================================== passdb { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/passdb-dovecot-ldap.conf.ext } userdb { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/userdb-dovecot-ldap.conf.ext } passdb-dovecot-ldap.conf.ext: ===================================== uris = ldap://ldap.example.com dn = uid=mailapp,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com dnpass = xxxxxxxxxx sasl_bind = no tls = no auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=example,dc=com deref = never scope = subtree pass_attrs = uid=user pass_filter = (uid=%n) userdb-dovecot-ldap.conf.ext: ==================================== uris = ldap://ldap.example.com dn = uid=mailapp,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com dnpass = xxxxxxxxxx sasl_bind = no tls = no auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=example,dc=com deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = mailbox=mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$,homeFilter=home,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n)) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,\ mailbox=userdb_mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$,homeFilter=userdb_home,mailQuota=userdb_quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n)) iterate_attrs = uid=user iterate_filter = (objectClass=posixMailAccount)

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[Dovecot] whoson plugin for 2.0
by Chuck Cochems 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

I have found a plugin at ftp://ftp.ufanet.ru/pub/boco/dovecot/whoson-plugin/ I was able to make it function on a dovecot 1.2.8 server, by changing __attr_unused__ to ATTR_UNUSED and strlcpy to i_strocpy (since glibc doesn't HAVE strlcpy, on purpose). However, it doesn't work with 2.1 this is, of course, because getenv() no longer functions lie it used to in plugins. so i need a replacement for getenv("IP") and getenv("USER") to make this work. i know, pop before SMTP is stupid, but the isp i'm doing this for hs customers that have used pop before smtp for ages. so I MUST make a whoson plugin. as i said, the remote ip and the email address are required to interface with whoson. (this is superior to DRAC, which just opens the IP)

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[Dovecot] Initial status notification not received
by Nicolas KOWALSKI 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hello, We have SLES-11 SP2 Xen VMs running dovecot as IMAP proxies. At VMs startup, dovecot almost always shows these errors: Nov 16 14:29:19 server dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.1.10 starting up (core dumps disabled) Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(log): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(ssl-params): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(log): child 3591 killed with signal 9 As the last line tells, dovecot stops logging information. We have to restart the dovecot processes to get back normal behaviour. I also tried to set idle_kill values to services definitions, without success. Is there a way to prevent these errors? Here is the dovecot -n output: # 2.1.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.42-0.7-xen x86_64 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) default_client_limit = 4096 default_idle_kill = 5 mins default_process_limit = 16384 listen = 10.254.251.18 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap sieve service anvil { client_limit = 65536 idle_kill = 0 } service auth { client_limit = 32768 } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } } service imap { process_limit = 0 } service log { idle_kill = 0 } service managesieve { process_limit = 0 } service ssl-params { idle_kill = 0 } ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/ssl/ca.pem ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/server-crt.pem ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/server-key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol sieve { passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-sieve.conf.ext driver = ldap } } Thanks, -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] User iteration with static userdb
by Radek Novotný 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all, can someone explain me, please, why user iteration (iterate_query) doesn't work with static userdb? There isn't reason why it shouldn't work. In my opinion. However static userdb doesn't mean that user list not exist. Thanks Radek

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[Dovecot] Is there a hook for a plugin to do some transient operation on the mail body ...
by Jay 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

... when the MUA has issued a FETCH? I am a Dovecot newbie ... so please bear with me if this is obvious. Basically what I am trying to do is process the mail body (in my own specific way) before Dovecot serves it up to the MUA. I want to do it as a transient operation in memory. So think of the scenario as ... - the MUA issues a FETCH - Dovecot intercepts the FETCH - Dovecot internally gets the mail from the storage into a buffer in memory ----> This is where I'd like to apply a function to the mail body and modify the mail body in the buffer (not in the storage) - Dovecot serves up the (modified) mail to the MUA Looking for a hook that allows me to do it using a plugin. Looks like the zlib plugin does something similar ... applies a decompression function ... but I am not 100% sure. Thanks for your help. -- J.

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[Dovecot] Hardlink with Maildir a brief help
by Davide 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi to all, my question is: Is possible implementing SIS (with hardlink) with maildir instead of *dbox format? If yes in dovecot.conf it's only necessary the below parameters or what else? mail_attachment_dir = /var/qmail/attachments I have also acting the zlib plugin it is not a problem isn't it? Thanks in advance for any response -- */Davide Marchi /Teorema Ferrara Srl /(Tel: /**/+39 0532 783161)/**/ (Fax: +/**/39 0532 783368/**/)/**//**/ /**//**/Davide.Marchi(a)mail.cgilfe.it <mailto:davide.marchi@mail.cgilfe.it?subject=Info> /CONFIDENZIALITA’ *** Questo messaggio, inclusi gli eventuali allegati, è indirizzato solo ai destinatari e può contenere informazioni riservate e confidenziali. Se avete ricevuto il messaggio senza esserne un destinatario, siete pregati di non utilizzare, copiare o distribuire questo messaggio o i suoi allegati. Se avete ricevuto il messaggio per errore, siete pregati di cancellarlo dal vostro sistema, assieme a tutti gli allegati, e di informare immediatamente il mittente,sia ai sensi dell'art. 616 c.p., sia ai sensi del DL n. 196/03. *CONFIDENTIALITY*** This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee(s) and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient(s) or an authorized representative of the intended recipient(s), please do not use, copy, distribute this email or its attachments or take action based on them. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the message and any attachments from your system. *Teorema FerraraSrl - Via Spronello, 7 - 44121 Ferrara Italia - P. IVA 01244490387** P**S**tampa questo messaggio solo se veramente necessario, pensa alla natura! - Please consider whether it is necessary to print this e-mail*

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[Dovecot] IMAP session state inconsistent
by list＠airstreamcomm.net 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Running Dovecot 1.2.12 (we are in the process of upgrading to 2.1.x) Didn't find much in old threads, but we are seeing the following in the logs this morning: dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<wajabrun>, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=y.y.y.y dovecot: IMAP(wajabrun): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=443/1146 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<wajabrun>, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=y.y.y.y dovecot: IMAP(wajabrun): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=561/1637 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<wajabrun>, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=y.y.y.y dovecot: IMAP(wajabrun): file_dotlock_open() failed with file /mail/w/a/wajabrun/Maildir/.INBOX.02 ORDERS.Gaiam/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory dovecot: IMAP(wajabrun): file_dotlock_open() failed with file /mail/w/a/wajabrun/Maildir/.INBOX.02 ORDERS.Gaiam/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory Not sure what to make of this sequence?

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[Dovecot] maildir and end-of-line encoding
by Christoph Anton Mitterer 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi. I just wondered, the following: My MDA may get mails that use LF or CR/LF end of line encodings and deliver them into maildirs. I couldn't find any information about, whether one should or must convert all into one format, cause AFAIK at least on the IMAP side, CR/LF is always used? How does this work on the maildir/backend side of dovcot? Can it work with both and simply automatically convert LF into CR/LF? Thanks, Chris.

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[Dovecot] Is there any Documentation or Howto/Guide for Dovecot Replication or do i have to wait for dovecot 2.2.x?
by weber＠zackbummfertig.de 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

dear timo, can you help me? best regards marko, from hamburg

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[Dovecot] imap_acl and osx 10.7
by Piero Zucchi 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hello everybody, I'm trying to setup public folder with ACLs on a Lion Server 10.7.5 unfortunately it seems that the imap_acl plugin is not loaded properly do you have any advice? cheers Piero This is what i get from the log with imap_acl plugin enabled in protocol imap { } Log file: imap: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot Nov 22 09:08:14 xserve04 dovecot[87688]: imap: Error: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/lib02_imap_acl_plugin.so) failed: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/lib02_imap_acl_plugin.so, 10): Symbol not found: _acl_user_module Nov 22 09:08:14 xserve04 dovecot[87688]: imap: Error: Referenced from: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib02_imap_acl_plugin.so Nov 22 09:08:14 xserve04 dovecot[87688]: imap: Error: Expected in: flat namespace Nov 22 09:08:14 xserve04 dovecot[87688]: imap: Error: in /usr/lib/dovecot/lib02_imap_acl_plugin.so Nov 22 09:08:14 xserve04 dovecot[87688]: imap: Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins Nov 22 09:08:14 xserve04 dovecot[43220]: master: Error: service(imap): command startup failed, throttling dovecot config # 2.0.16apple1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 11.4.2 x86_64 acfs auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_gssapi_hostname = $ALL auth_mechanisms = cram-md5 x-plain-submit apop gssapi plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_username_format = %n default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 6 first_valid_uid = 6 hostname = mail.customer.com mail_access_groups = mail mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/Volumes/XsanVolume/Mail/%u mail_log_prefix = "%s(pid %p user %u): " mail_plugins = quota zlib fts fts_sk acl managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mdbox_rotate_size = 200 M namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { hidden = yes list = children location = maildir:/Volumes/XsanVolume/Mail/Condivise/Interno:CONTROL=/Volumes/XsanVolume/Mail/Condivise/Indexes/%u/shared_Interno:INDEX=/Volumes/XsanVolume/Mail/Condivise/Indexes/%u/shared_Interno prefix = Interno/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/submit.passdb driver = passwd-file pass = yes submit = yes } passdb { driver = od } plugin { acl = vfile fts = sk quota = maildir:User quota quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-exceeded %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning %u sieve = /Library/Server/Mail/Data/rules/%u/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /Library/Server/Mail/Data/rules/%u } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)xserve04.customer.com protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { extra_groups = _keytabusers idle_kill = 15 mins } service dns_client { unix_listener dns-client { mode = 0600 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } service_count = 0 } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login -d /etc/dovecot/acl_groups.sh unix_listener imap-postlogin { group = mail mode = 0600 user = _dovecot } user = _dovecot } service imap { client_limit = 5 executable = imap imap-postlogin process_limit = 200 service_count = 0 } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0600 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service pop3 { client_limit = 5 process_limit = 200 service_count = 0 } service quota-exceeded { executable = script /usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-exceeded.sh unix_listener quota-exceeded { group = mail mode = 0660 user = _dovecot } user = _dovecot } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { group = mail mode = 0660 user = _dovecot } user = _dovecot } ssl_ca = </etc/certificates/xserve04.customer.com.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.chain.pem ssl_cert = </etc/certificates/xserve04.customer.com.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.cert.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL ssl_key = </etc/certificates/xserve04.customer.com.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.key.pem ssl_key_path = /etc/certificates/xserve04.customer.com.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.key.pem syslog_facility = local6 userdb { args = partition=/etc/dovecot/partition_map.conf enforce_quotas=yes driver = od } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota zlib fts fts_sk sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota zlib fts fts_sk sieve } protocol imap { imap_id_log = * imap_id_send = "name" * "version" * mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = quota zlib fts fts_sk imap_quota imap_zlib imap_fts imap_acl urlauth } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 6 } -- Piero Zucchi Apple Certified Trainer Apple Certified Specialist Professional 10.8 Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.7 Apple Certified System Administrator 10.6 Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.6 Apple Certified Specialist - Mac Os X Directory Services 10.6 Apple Certified Specialist - Mobility and Security 10.6 Apple Certified System Administrator 10.5 Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.5 Apple Certified Support Professional 10.5 Apple Certified Pro - Final Cut Pro 7, Level 1

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Re: [Dovecot] users mail folders have to be subscribed
by Andre Bischof 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Daniel, Am 19.11.2012 23:32 schrieb "Daniel Parthey" < daniel.parthey(a)informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>: > > Andre Bischof wrote: > > doveadm mailbox subscribe -u user(a)example.com "*" > > > > Should the user for "-u" be the system user the > > mailboxes belong to or has the user to be written in form of an email > > adress (user@localhost / user(a)n.dyndns.org)? > > It should be the same userdb username as used for imap login. Thank you. One thing that still doesn't work is subscribing to all mailboxes via "*", I guess because the folder names start with "." but dovecot mailbbox subscribe wants it without a starting "." Any clues how that can be solved? Regards Andre

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[Dovecot] XMLRPC anyone?
by Egbert 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hi, Is there any code around that lets Dovecot (2.x) aauthenticate via a XMLRPC server (which connects to a LDAP server) instead of going directly to a LDAP server? It could give much more flexibility. TIA Egbert Jan, NL

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[Dovecot] Autocreate No namespace for Problem
by tibby＠tibby.hu 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hi! I see this in the log: autocreate: No namespace found for Trash autocreate: No namespace found for Spam autocreate: No namespace found for Sent autocreate: No namespace found for Trash autocreate: No namespace found for Spam autocreate: No namespace found for Sent Why do I get this error ? Do I need to create a separate namespace for every folder? The config file looks like this: namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes subscriptions = yes list = yes } ... plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Spam autocreate3 = Sent autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Spam autosubscribe3 = Sent } Thanks!

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[Dovecot] v2.1 memory usage
by Timo Sirainen 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

v2.1's imap/pop3 processes are linked with OpenSSL by default, because of imapc/pop3c storages. I wonder if you notice any actual (system-global) memory usage reduction when compiling without those and you have thousands of imap processes? ./configure --with-storages=mdbox sdbox maildir mbox cydir I guess I could try it myself also but maybe someone else wanting to reduce memory usage is quicker? :) Related to that, you can look at where imap processes' memory goes with: http://dovecot.org/tools/linux-maps-parse-imap.pl I don't know how much memory those (writable!) file-backed memory areas actually use per-process. Maybe nothing, maybe something..

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[Dovecot] Need help for configure sieve
by Mathieu R. 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hello, i just did set up a mail server with postfix+dovecot+mysql+roundcube everything work fine. Now i'm trying to configure dovecot to get sieve working, and i probably missing something, cause i can not get it to fall in work... Thanks in advance, if you can help me a bit... here is my dovecot (2.1.10) conf : 20:07 root@curzio /home/mathieu # dovecot -n # 2.1.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.30-xenU-7157-x86_64 x86_64 Arch Linux mail_home = /srv/vmail/%d/%u mail_location = maildir:~ managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/server.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/server.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " sieve" } here is my postfix conf : 20:07 root@curzio /home/mathieu # postconf -n alias_database = $alias_maps alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix data_directory = /var/lib/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 debugger_command = PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin ddd $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5 html_directory = no inet_protocols = ipv4 local_recipient_maps = $virtual_mailbox_maps local_transport = virtual mail_owner = postfix mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq manpage_directory = /usr/share/man newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix relay_domains = * sample_directory = /etc/postfix/sample sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail setgid_group = postdrop smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $mydomain smtpd_sasl_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_tls_security_options = $smtpd_sasl_security_options smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/private/server.crt smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/server.key smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_alias_maps.cf virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 virtual_mailbox_base = /srv/vmail virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_domains_maps.cf virtual_mailbox_limit = 512000000 virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_maps.cf virtual_minimum_uid = 5000 virtual_transport = virtual virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 i use the roundcube plugin managesieve, wich seems to work correctly. -- Mathieu R.

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[Dovecot] ACL and SSL
by Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Finally got Dovecot to work on ports 100 and 143. I would like to a) Learn about ACL esp on port 110 as there are still yodellaks that try to brake in on port 110. b) Setting up separate SSL cert for imaps and pop3s. -- For effective Internet Etiquette and communications read http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html, http://idallen.com/topposting.html & http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] FYI: News about Mark Crispin
by Timo Sirainen 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Begin forwarded message: > From: Barry Leiba <barryleiba(a)computer.org> > Date: 20. marraskuuta 2012 2.44.51 UTC+2.00 > To: imap5(a)ietf.org, imapext(a)ietf.org, imap-protocol(a)u.washington.edu, imap-use(a)u.washington.edu > Subject: [imapext] News about Mark Crispin > Reply-To: imap5(a)ietf.org > > Everyone here knows Mark Crispin -- or at least knows who he is: Mark is the author of the original IMAP specification, and has taken it through its different versions to the present IMAP4rev1. He's written reference implementations of both server and client, and has been a vocal participant on all the mailing lists I'm posting this to. > > I'm sad to have to report that Mark is now terminally ill, and is in hospice care. > > For now, at least, I'm told that Mark is at least somewhat aware. If anyone has brief well-wishing messages they'd like to send him, please post them to the <imap5(a)ietf.org> mailing list, and I'll forward them to Mark's long-term companion, Annie. I will also post updates to that list as I get them. > > [The Reply-To for this message is set to <imap5(a)ietf.org>, so that replies will go there. You will have to subscribe to that mailing list in order to post to it. You can do that here: > http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/imap5 ] > > Barry Leiba > > _______________________________________________ > imapext mailing list > imapext(a)ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/imapext >

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[Dovecot] users mail folders have to be subscribed
by Andre Bischof 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Hi, I did a migration from cyrus 2.2 to dovecot (fresh installation, details below) via cyrus2dovecot from FU Berlin. That worked, but I first was missing mails in subfolders ander Inbox. No I detected that they are in the users Maildir in folders in his directory. They are listed when using telnet: * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX.ebay" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.ebay.xj" But they are not shown in thunderbird, I have to subscribe to them one by one. I probably did something wrong and maybe messed up with namespace and seperator settings - it would be great if one could lead me out of that. The wiki was a great help installing and configuring everything, but now I'm stuck. I use dovecot 2.1.7 under Ubuntu 12.10: # dovecot -n # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 12.10 auth_verbose = yes mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation s ubaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variab les body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster@localhost protocols = imap pop3 sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol lda { deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ mail_plugins = sieve sieve postmaster_address = postmaster quota_full_tempfail = yes rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r } Any help is greatly appreciated! Regards Andre

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[Dovecot] Unsuscribe
by Hendrik 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Please unsubscribe me

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[Dovecot] Data Store Synchronization
by Roman Gelfand 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Is there a way to synchronize dovecote mail store with another mail store, like zarafa, via imap or pop3? Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] upgrade 1.0.15 -> 2.1.7: MBOX index compatibility and performance
by Benoit Branciard 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Hi, we just upgraded our mailserver from Dovecot 1.0.15 to Dovecot 2.1.7. We use MBOX format (due to legacy compatibility), system users, PAM+GSSAPI auth, filesystem quotas, and indexes located on a separate filesystem: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mail/INBOX:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/indexes/%16Hu/%u The 2.1.7 configuration files have been rewritten based on default templates instead of converting it from 1.0.15. The server has ~8000 mailboxes and about ~2000 simultaneous IMAP/POP active connexions. The problem is: - indexes seem to be rebuilt: first IMAP/POP connexion for each user thows lots of error messages in the log, and the global index size decreases. Example error log: Nov 19 08:56:38 myhost dovecot: imap(myuser): Error: Cached message size larger than expected (27884 > 27855) Nov 19 08:56:38 myhost dovecot: imap(myuser): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/cache/dovecot/indexes/4/myuser/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Broken physical size for mail UID 4414 Nov 19 08:56:38 myhost dovecot: imap(myuser): Error: Cached message size larger than expected (27884 > 27855) Nov 19 08:56:38 myhost dovecot: imap(myuser): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/cache/dovecot/indexes/4/myuser/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Broken physical size for mail UID 4414 Nov 19 08:56:38 myhost dovecot: imap(myuser): Error: Cached message size larger than expected (27884 > 27855) Nov 19 08:56:38 myhost dovecot: imap(myuser): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/cache/dovecot/indexes/4/myuser/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Broken physical size for mail UID 4414 Nov 19 08:56:38 myhost dovecot: imap(myuser): Error: Cached message size larger than expected (27884 > 27855) Nov 19 08:56:38 myhost dovecot: imap(myuser): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/cache/dovecot/indexes/4/myuser/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Broken physical size for mail UID 4414 Nov 19 08:56:38 myhost dovecot: imap(myuser): Error: copy: i_stream_read() failed: Input/output error Nov 19 08:56:38 myhost dovecot: imap(myuser): Error: Cached message size larger than expected (27884 > 27855) Nov 19 08:56:38 myhost dovecot: imap(myuser): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/cache/dovecot/indexes/4/myuser/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Broken physical size for mail UID 4414 - load average is extremely high (more than 10x the usual one), resulting from an significant increase of disk I/O, and for now (4h after the "monday rush") this doesn't seem to decrease. Questions: - are 1.05 indexes supposed to be backward compatible with Dovecot 2.1.7 ? - are there some technical reasons which could explain the increase of disk I/O, apart from index rebuild ? -- Benoit BRANCIARD Service InfraStructures (SIS) - Direction du Système d'Information (DSI) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Centre Pierre Mendès France B 406 - 90, rue de Tolbiac - 75634 Paris cedex 13 - France Tél : +33 1 44 07 89 68 - Fax : +33 1 44 07 89 66 Accueil tél. : +33 1 44 07 89 65 Assistance : assistance-dsi(a)univ-paris1.fr Web : http://dsi.univ-paris1.fr -- Ce message a ete verifie par MailScanner pour des virus ou des polluriels et rien de suspect n'a ete trouve.

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[Dovecot] advices for a new installation
by Surviet Amine 18 Nov '12

18 Nov '12

hello everyone, first of all, please forgive my bad english skill, I live in France. On our "old" Dovecot 1.x architecture, we have NFS shares between the front servers (MTA, IMAP...) and mail storage server. I've read some wiki2 pages that present the new director and imap proxy. But I'm still don't see things clearly, so I post here to have your advices to set-up a new mail architecture. The hardware we have : - 24x hard drives in a SAS bay - this bay is directly attached via SAS to a server that I'll call : mail storage server - 2 others servers run ProxMox Virtual Environment The PVE will help us to get many virtual servers : - MX : "mail in" servers - IMAP/POP : our hosted clients services These clients may come from webmail (RoundCube) and others clients (Outlook, Thunderbird, mobile clients...) - RoundCube webmail - MySQL server (hosts in databases accounts and settings for Postfix, Dovecot and RoundCube) - maybe antivirus and antispam servers I've read several threads about NFS and IMAP issues. So I decided to not keeping it. In this scenario, I've tried for the mail receiving part : - front-end (postfix lmtp-client) to mail storage server (lmtp server) that seems to runs fine, now i'll must try to add antispam and antivirus scans Now, for the IMAP part, could you, please tell me, if it is better to : - have several IMAP frontend servers that proxy to the mail storage server or - still keeps NFS between the mail storage server and the frontends Dovecot ? On our Dovecot 1.x webmail use imapproxy. I've read that others proxies exist. We have used for a limited time Perdition. What is the differences between imapproxy, Perdition, nginx imap proxy and Dovecot proxy ? Thanks for sharing your experience of "large mail service" that are solid enought to be scaled.

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[Dovecot] Different Mechanism for POP3
by Tim Smith 18 Nov '12

18 Nov '12

Just wondered if there was a way of making the PLAIN an authentication method for POP3S transactions only without making this an option for IMAP? I am attempting to connect to a POP3S server through the GMail interface available through "Accounts and Import". The issue is that there does not seem to be an option to specify the type of mechanism within their interface so I think I have to offer PLAIN along with SSL. Has anyone else had any experience of using the GMail import settings? -- Tim Smith Tel: 01423 564 078 Mob: 07984 398 299 Email: info(a)titan21.co.uk Web: www.titan21.co.uk

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[Dovecot] couple questions about dovecot
by Raan Young 17 Nov '12

17 Nov '12

I am attempting to migrate an ancient IMAP server to Dovecot 2.0.9 running on CentOS 6.3, while trying to minimize the impact on users. Most are using Outlook. I have everything working, but have run into a couple of problems, neither horrible, but both weird. It started when I noticed Outlook shows the .subscriptions file in the folder listing. I figured out a way to prevent that (see below), but then decided to attempt the same tactic to move the .imap index structure out of the folder tree and ran into an interesting side-effect. The .subscriptions issue would seem to be a bug, since the documentation I found implies Dovecot should be hiding it from list requests - as it does for the .imap index structure. I made a workaround by using the below mail_location setting. This puts the .subscriptions file above the imap folder structure and hence outside the list scope. mail_location = mbox:~/imap:INBOX=~/mbox:CONTROL=~:INDEX=~/.imap You'll note I have also moved the .imap index. This works, but the full path to the index files has extra layers of .imap. For example, if a folder tree of imap/A/B/C/D exists, where D is the actual mbox format message file, then the index files are stored in .imap/A/B/C/.imap/D. Don't know if this is a bug or I'm misunderstanding something. Can you provide any insight or better solutions for either issue? Some clients are also using iPhones and/or roundcubemail for web access. Those do not have the .subscriptions issue. Raan

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[Dovecot] dovecot: lda(root): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.
by Thufir 17 Nov '12

17 Nov '12

I ran dovecot -a and the blizzard of data seemed ok to my limited knowledge. Is there another log I should look into to trace this error down? Dovecot and system info: thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ dovecot --version 2.0.19 thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS" thufir@dur:~$ testing postfix & dovecot (http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/dovecot-postfix) root@dur:/etc/postfix# root@dur:/etc/postfix# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 dur.bounceme.net ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) helo me 250 dur.bounceme.net mail from:foo@bar.com 250 2.1.0 Ok rcpt to:root@dur.bounceme.net 250 2.1.5 Ok data 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> subject:ping 3 blah blah . 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 35EC92A0D72 quit 221 2.0.0 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. root@dur:/etc/postfix# root@dur:/etc/postfix# tail /var/log/mail.log Nov 16 12:30:07 dur postfix/smtpd[4113]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Nov 16 12:30:40 dur postfix/smtpd[4113]: 35EC92A0D72: client=localhost[127.0.0.1] Nov 16 12:30:52 dur postfix/cleanup[4133]: 35EC92A0D72: message-id=<20121116203040.35EC92A0D72(a)dur.bounceme.net> Nov 16 12:30:52 dur postfix/qmgr[1681]: 35EC92A0D72: from=<foo(a)bar.com>, size=321, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 16 12:30:52 dur dovecot: lda(root): Error: chdir(/root/) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nogroup) missing +x perm: /root, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0700) Nov 16 12:30:52 dur dovecot: lda(root): Error: chdir(/root) failed: Permission denied Nov 16 12:30:52 dur dovecot: lda(root): Error: user root: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: stat(/root/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nogroup) missing +x perm: /root, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0700) Nov 16 12:30:52 dur dovecot: lda(root): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. Nov 16 12:30:52 dur postfix/local[4134]: 35EC92A0D72: to=<root(a)dur.bounceme.net>, relay=local, delay=25, delays=25/0.02/0/0.12, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure) Nov 16 12:30:56 dur postfix/smtpd[4113]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] root@dur:/etc/postfix# thanks, Thufir

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[Dovecot] Change errors to spanish
by Yago Alonso - Ityd 15 Nov '12

15 Nov '12

Hello, i have dovecot version 1.2.17 and i need to translate all the errors that my users receive when a mail fails to send. Were and how should i change it? Thanks a lot! -- Yago Alonso

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[Dovecot] emails are not displayed
by Daniel Fischer 15 Nov '12

15 Nov '12

Hello, i have a problem with some public folders in my testing environment. But after the series, here is my konfiguraion: doveconf -n # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 x86_64 Debian wheezy/sid hostname = ......................................... lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = * mail_debug = no mail_gid = 5000 mail_location = maildir:~:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes/%d/%n mail_plugins = acl mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = 5000 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/public:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes/%d/public:CONTROL=/var/mail/controls/%d/public prefix = Public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } namespace inbox { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = . subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { args = scheme=CRAM-MD5 username_format=%u /var/mail/vhosts/auth.d/%d/shadow driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile antispam_allow_append_to_spam = no antispam_backend = pipe antispam_pipe_program = /usr/local/bin/sa-learn-pipe.sh antispam_pipe_program_notspam_arg = --ham antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg = --spam antispam_pipe_tmpdir = /tmp antispam_spam = Spam antispam_trash = Trash sieve = /var/mail/vhosts/sieve/users/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/mail/vhosts/sieve/%d/before sieve_dir = /var/mail/vhosts/sieve/users/%d/%n sieve_global_dir = /var/mail/vhosts/sieve/%d/global sieve_user_log = /var/mail/vhosts/sieve/users/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve.log } postmaster_address = postmaster@..... protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/................................. ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/......................... userdb { args = username_format=%u /var/mail/vhosts/auth.d/%d/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = acl sieve } protocol lda { log_path = /var/log/sieve.log mail_plugins = acl sieve } protocol imap { imap_idle_notify_interval = 24 mins mail_plugins = acl imap_acl antispam } protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o } the problem is that any, not all public folder appear empty. if I delete the index files, I see the emails again for a while(1-2 hours) until they're gone again sometime. The directories change their content not for weeks. It is a test environment. but in one of the folders are more than 13000 mails (the Faxbox). Currently 3 of 13 folders are affected. I thought that it may be due to the size, but it is not the largest folders. For normal mail boxes I have not observed this effect. a3 EXAMINE Public.faxe * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Read-only mailbox. * 0 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1349419566] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 141737] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 5] Highest Delete indexes.... /var/mail/indexes/........../public# rm -r .faxe/ a3 EXAMINE Public.faxe * OK [CLOSED] Previous mailbox closed. * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Read-only mailbox. * 13778 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1349419566] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 141737] Predicted next UID * OK [NOMODSEQ] No permanent modsequences i would like to show you log files but i didn't see any error message. Does Have anyone an idea? Thanks for comment... Daniel

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[Dovecot] auth attempts errors
by burak gürer 15 Nov '12

15 Nov '12

i have install 2.1.1 and configured in dovecot log this error is coming every 20 seconds: dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): rip=**********, lip=**********, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() syscall failed: Connection reset by peer and this error every 2 seconds: dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): rip=**********, lip=********** what can be the problem? thanks..

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[Dovecot] multiple users to same e-mail account with ldap authentication
by Marco Gatti 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hi, I was looking for a particular case of dovecot configuration I cannot find anywhere. Is there a way dovecot can authenticate via ldap different windows 2008 AD users that have access to the same e-mail account (like user authorization in ms exchange)? For example I want to extend AD schema to let users have 10 email accounts (with multiple domain support). If they are private accounts I think there is no problem at all. But if I want two or more users to access the same mail account what happens? Can I do it with dovecot? Or should I create AD groups and add members to that, to let user access the same mail account? Cheers -- Marco

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Re: [Dovecot] IPhone wont delete IMAP messages from dovecot mailbox
by tibby＠tibby.hu 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hello! I've got dovecot running with postfix. Have virtual users under vmail folder. When I connect with outlook, I can read, delete messages. When I sign on with webmail, also can delete messages, Mutt is working as well on the mail server, can delete messages. Once the message is deleted it moves to the trash. Works as it supposed to. But on Iphone, when I add a mail user, got the mailbox synced with IMAP I can see the INBOX, but when I delete a message, get this error: "Unable to Move Message The message could not be moved to the mailbox Trash." http://www.netchimp.co.uk/webdesign/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/iphone_unabl… What causing this problem? Please Help.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.1.10
by Ralf Zimmermann 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hi all, I've a problem with dovecot-2.1.10. At time we use dovecot-1.2 without zlib. We setup a new server with dovecot 2.1.10. After syncing the emails everything looks fine. But if we use zlib plugin all new emails have no content. There are a lot of "Error: Maildir filename has wrong S value" log entrys. So we have compiled dovecot-2.0.18 and we use exactly the same configuration. Everything works. What can be our problem with version 2.1.10? Greets Ralf

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[Dovecot] dovecot lost mail! Cause?
by Lukas Haase 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hi, After using dovecot for several years now, today happend something which makes me really feel unconfortable: An email received was just not delivered properly, or, is lost! The mail (from an external server) was sent to two local mailboxes, user1 and user2. user1 received the message but for user2, it *magically* disappeared. MTA is exim4 which definitely processed the messages and handed over to dovecot deliver: 2012-11-12 07:28:21 1TXnVG-00053I-GD SA: [...] id=8644593.887351352701 685934.JavaMail 2012-11-12 07:28:21 1TXnVG-00053I-GD => user1 <user1(a)example.com> R=dovecot T=dovecot_pipe 2012-11-12 07:28:21 1TXnVG-00053I-GD => user2 <user2(a)example.com> R=dovecot T=dovecot_pipe 2012-11-12 07:28:21 1TXnVG-00053I-GD Completed Also, the log of dovecot tells that the mail should have been stored: Nov 12 07:28:21 mail dovecot: deliver(user1): sieve: msgid=<8644593.887351352701685934.JavaMail>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Nov 12 07:28:21 mail dovecot: deliver(user2): sieve: msgid=<8644593.887351352701685934.JavaMail.orbitz>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' user1 received the mail but user2 not. Since user2 is myself, I *know* that I did not accidently delete any mail or something like that. It was just never received! Disk space is 3GB left, so enough. So I grepped the whole Maildir of user2 for the message ID. There is only one match in the dovecot.index.cache and within that, the most important data of the mail (Message ID, Date, Sender, Receiver, Subject) appears. But apart from that, not a single file! Is there hope to ever find out why what was going wrong here? It feels me veeeeeeeeery unconfortable because from now on I can never be sure any more that all my mails are really received :( :( However, as I said, my mail system processed maybe millions of messages the past 8 years. Although, I can not be sure if that was the case ... :( And help greatly appreciated! Luke PS: Dovecot version 1.2.15 (Debian 6.0.6) with Maildir backend on local harddrive. No NFS, nothing which can go wrong ... PPS: Original log files, just named replaced for privacy.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot newbie (migrating from qmail)
by Ajai Khattri 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Ive been using qmail+vpopmail+courier-imap for many years but its time to retire that server so I thought this might be an opportunity to see how I could use Postfix and Dovecot to provide the same services. Im running Dovecot 2.1.9 and Postfix 2.9.4. I have spent a few days reading through some of the docs on the wiki (there's doesn't seem to be any large overview of Dovecot concepts or books so bear with me). Im thinking something simple like passwd-file setup would suffice for me. I want to use completely virtual users. Id like to store mail under /home/vmail/$domain/$user. I think Ive figured out how to do that. But how do I create the maildir? I understand the need to have a mail directory but also a directory for things like sieve - how to specify that? Im thinking the structure would be something like: /home/vmail/$domain/$user/mail <-- mail stored here /home/vmail/$domain/$user/ <-- sieve and other sundry store here Or should the sieve stuff also be under its own folder alongside the maildir? Is it possible to have a separate passwd file per domain? It is possible to combine password and userdb files into one per domain? (I prefer to keep all files related to each domain in its own folder). Also would like to configure Postfix to use dovecot-sasl and I want to use dovecot-lmtp for deliveries. Any good docs / example on those? Later on, I think I want to integrate some kind of virus and spam filtering (amavisd and maybe dspam - anybody used those? would I configure Postfix to handle that or dovecot-lmtp?) Im sure Ill have more questions as I get more complicated but baby steps for now. -- Aj.

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[Dovecot] Problem importing messages with lazy_expunged configured
by Angel L. Mateo 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Hello, I have a problem importing messages since I have configured lazy_expunge. My lazy_expunge configuration (that is correctly working when a message is expunged) is: plugin { lazy_expunge = BORRADOS. } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = maildir:~/Maildir/expunged prefix = BORRADOS. separator = . } but when I try to import messages I get: amateo_adm@myotis31:~$ sudo doveadm -vD import -u angel.luis maildir:/tmp/angel.luis '' mailbox INBOX doveadm(root): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib02_lazy_expunge_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_quota_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_zlib_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_acl_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so: undefined symbol: acl_user_module (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_expire_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so: undefined symbol: expire_set_deinit (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_zlib_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_fts_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin.so: undefined symbol: fts_backend_rescan (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(root): Debug: Effective uid=0, gid=0, home=/home/amateo_adm doveadm(root): Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=dict args=:file:/home/amateo_adm/Maildir/dovecot.quota doveadm(root): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=10737418240 messages=0 doveadm(root): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=Trash bytes=+1073741824 messages=0 doveadm(root): Debug: dict quota: user=doveadm, uri=file:/home/amateo_adm/Maildir/dovecot.quota, noenforcing=0 doveadm(root): Debug: maildir++: root=/tmp/angel.luis, index=, control=, inbox=/tmp/angel.luis, alt= doveadm(root): Fatal: lazy_expunge: Unknown namespace: 'BORRADOS.' in /tmp/<user> I don't have any "expunged" folder, it is just a maildir. In order to use it I have to deactivate this plugin in the running command with something like "sudo doveadm -vD -o mail_plugins='quota zlib' import -u <user> maildir:/tmp/<user> '' mailbox INBOX". Any idea? -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) http://www.um.es/atica Tfo: 868889150 Fax: 868888337

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[Dovecot] older gcc don't know --as-needed
by Andreas Schulze 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Hi, I have to build dovecot-2.1.10 for SuSE SLES9. /bin/sh ../../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 -fno-builtin-strftime -no-undefined -Wl,--as-needed -o test-lib test_lib-test-lib.o test_lib-test-array.o test_lib-test-aqueue.o test_lib-test-base64.o test_lib-test-bsearch-insert-pos.o test_lib-test-buffer.o test_lib-test-crc32.o test_lib-test-hash-format.o test_lib-test-hex-binary.o test_lib-test-istream-base64-encoder.o test_lib-test-istream-concat.o test_lib-test-istream-crlf.o test_lib-test-istream-seekable.o test_lib-test-istream-tee.o test_lib-test-llist.o test_lib-test-mempool-alloconly.o test_lib-test-network.o test_lib-test-ostream-file.o test_lib-test-primes.o test_lib-test-priorityq.o test_lib-test-seq-range-array.o test_lib-test-strescape.o test_lib-test-strfuncs.o test_lib-test-str-find.o test_lib-test-str-sanitize.o test_lib-test-time-util.o test_lib-test-utc-mktime.o test_lib-test-var-expand.o ../lib-test/libtest.la liblib.la -lrt libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wl,--as-needed -o test-lib test_lib-test-lib.o test_lib-test-array.o test_lib-test-aqueue.o test_lib-test-base64.o test_lib-test-bsearch-insert-pos.o test_lib-test-buffer.o test_lib-test-crc32.o test_lib-test-hash-format.o test_lib-test-hex-binary.o test_lib-test-istream-base64-encoder.o test_lib-test-istream-concat.o test_lib-test-istream-crlf.o test_lib-test-istream-seekable.o test_lib-test-istream-tee.o test_lib-test-llist.o test_lib-test-mempool-alloconly.o test_lib-test-network.o test_lib-test-ostream-file.o test_lib-test-primes.o test_lib-test-priorityq.o test_lib-test-seq-range-array.o test_lib-test-strescape.o test_lib-test-strfuncs.o test_lib-test-str-find.o test_lib-test-str-sanitize.o test_lib-test-time-util.o test_lib-test-utc-mktime.o test_lib-test-var-expand.o ../lib-test/.libs/libtest.a ./.libs/liblib.a -lrt /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--as-needed' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information gcc version is 3.3.3 Is there a special option to disable ithe ld option or do I have to apply a special patch? Are there other suggestions? Thanks -- Andreas Schulze Internetdienste | P252 DATEV eG 90329 Nürnberg | Telefon +49 911 319-0 | Telefax +49 911 319-3196 E-Mail info @datev.de | Internet www.datev.de Sitz: 90429 Nürnberg, Paumgartnerstr. 6-14 | Registergericht Nürnberg, GenReg Nr.70 Vorstand Prof. Dieter Kempf (Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Wolfgang Stegmann (stellvertretender Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Michael Leistenschneider Dipl.-Kfm. Dr. Robert Mayr Jörg Rabe v. Pappenheim Dipl.-Vw. Eckhard Schwarzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Reinhard Verholen

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[Dovecot] Commercial features in Dovecot future: Object storage, archive
by Timo Sirainen 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Hi all, Dovecot Oy’s web pages at www.dovecot.fi have been updated. The products page lists two features that will be available for commercial licensing, extending the functionality of the basic open-source version of Dovecot. * Storing emails to (high-latency) object storage, initially supporting Amazon S3, Caringo CAStor and Scality. * Email archive storage. See http://www.dovecot.fi/products/index.html for details. I’ve been developing Dovecot for over 10 years now. For a long time it was my primary motivation in life to create the best IMAP server available :) I think I've pretty much accomplished that by now. The future is looking very bright for Dovecot: we will continue the open source development stronger than ever, but in addition, for the long term it needs some additional licensed components that bring the money to cover the cost for future Dovecot development and to be able to build up the support in a professional way. These new features will be added as plugins on top of Dovecot to extend the functionality. Note that I’m not just randomly choosing which features will be open and which will be licensed. Only some specific features will be licensed where my company is going to make money with partnerships and in other measurable ways.

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[Dovecot] mbox vs. maildir storage block waste
by Christoph Anton Mitterer 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Hi. I recently mentioned in several posts, that I'd tended to use mbox rather than maildir, because you don't loose so much space (due to always allocating full blocks per maildir file and thus per mail). I made some tests of my archive, which consists of some 3,4 million mails at a total of 42GB). Most of these mails are probably normal sized, but there are also some with bigger attachments. For those who are interested here are the results: I used a 53687091200 B image file (via loop device) and tested ext4 only. btrfs is IMHO not yet ready, I have had often issues with XFS (corruptions), reiser4 is more or less dead and reiser3 is said to have issues (see e.g. its wikipedia article, even though it has that mode for small files which would fit nicely). As you see the number of mails increased a bit, cause I tested over several days... but this is only a very small increase so it shouldn't change the numbers a lot. 1) Original mbox archives (right now in Evolution) mbox exact space: 38122676224 (does not include meta-data) mbox guess space: 44625670144 (includes Evolution meta-data which is several GBs) mbox num mails: 3412999 (occurances of From_ lines) In the following: - image file, 1B-blocks, Used_begin, Used_end, Available_begin, Available_end result out of df -B 1 - mdir exact used space is the sum of du -B 1 for each regular file (i.e. each mdir file) - mdir guess used space du -B 1 on the root dir of the filesystem - mdir num mails: find . type -f | wc -l on the root dir of the filesystem 2) EXT4 with 4096 blocks: image file: 53687091200 1B-blocks: 52844687360 Used_begin: 188555264 Used_end: 45198778368 Available_begin: 49971777536 Available_end: 2444972032 mdir exact used space: 44810866688 mdir guess used space: 45010243584 mdir num mails: 3423296 delta: 6.688190464 G delta / mail: 1953 B 3) EXT4 with 2048 blocks: image file: 53687091200 1B-blocks: 50324295680 Used_begin: 82857984 Used_end: 41598846976 Available_begin: 47557083136 Available_end: 6041094144 mdir exact used space: 41323991040 mdir guess used space: 41516007424 mdir num mails: 3425033 delta: 3.201314816 G delta / mail: 934 B 4) EXT4 with 1024 blocks: image file: 53687091200 1B-blocks: 50314834944 Used_begin: 38287360 Used_end: 39909360640 Available_begin: 47592193024 Available_end: 7721119744 mdir exact used space: 39683908608 mdir guess used space: 39871086592 mdir num mails: 3425033 delta: 1.561232384 G delta / mail: 455 B As you can see, the delta per mail is rather close to the statistically expected values of 2048B, 1024B and 512B. In the end I probably changed my opinion. ~7GB of wasted block space for all my mails is actually quite a lot, but in days of cheap disk space it's acceptable. And with mbox one has IMHO the major disadvantage that mailservers (including dovecot) store some meta-data _in_ it (i.e. in the mails themselves) , which I don't like a lot. I still think about reports that mbox is much faster with full text search (which sounds reasonable)... but therefore one needs probably and database backend anyway. HTH, Chris.

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[Dovecot] Invalid Managesieve commands are counted twice
by Christoph Bußenius 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hi, the Managesieve server closes the connection if it receives an unknown command before authentication: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Dovecot Pigeonhole" "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave" "NOTIFY" "mailto" "SASL" "PLAIN" "STARTTLS" "VERSION" "1.0" OK "Dovecot ready." --> BOGUS NO "Error in MANAGESIEVE command received by server." NO "Error in MANAGESIEVE command received by server." BYE "Too many invalid MANAGESIEVE commands." Connection closed by foreign host. Note that only one bogus command has been sent by the client, however the server sends two identical error messages. This seems to be a bug in Pigeonhole 0.3.3. In version 0.2.6, the connection was kept open after the error message. This is actually important to us because we use the "sieveshell" utility which is shipped with the Python "managesieve" package. The managesieve.py module always sends a BOGUS command after the TLS handshake. According to its comments, this is done to work around problems with other server implementations: # Some servers send capabilities after TLS handshake, some # do not. We send a bogus command, and expect a NO. If you # get something else instead, read the extra NO to clear # the buffer. typ, data = self._command('BOGUS') (The full source is at http://pydoc.net/managesieve/0.4.2/managesieve) As a result, sieveshell cannot be used with TLS and a current Dovecot/Pigeonhole server. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Bußenius Rechnerbetriebsgruppe der Fakultäten Informatik und Mathematik Technische Universität München +49 89-289-18519 <> Raum 00.05.040 <> Boltzmannstr. 3 <> Garching

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[Dovecot] Help me with IMAP config
by Tibby 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hello! I have dovecot running. Imap works fine. When i connect with outlook an when i delete a message it gets crossed out but still stays in my mailbox. I want to disable this feature. I want it once its deleted then go to trash folder on the mail server and thats it. Is there an option for this? I'm running dovecot 1.2.15 Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Sieve users script problem.
by Eliezer Croitoru 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

I am using Dovecot 2.1.9 which seems to solve older bug in sieve. Now I have another problem with users scripts. I want dovecot to run users scripts but it seems to not even see them. Dovecot runs the default sieve script from home dir but wont see the sieve scripts in the sieve subdirectory and some logs: Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=maildir args= Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=1073741824 messages=0 Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=Trash bytes=+32212254 (3%) messages=0 Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=1020054732 (95%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 95 raw mail user Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=214748364 (20%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 20 raw mail user Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: Destination address: eliezer(a)domain.local (source: user@hostname) Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: sieve: include: sieve_global_dir is not set; it is currently not possible to include `:global' scripts. Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: sieve: using the following location for user's Sieve script: /home/vmail/domain.local/eliezer/home/.dovecot.sieve Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: sieve: opening script /home/vmail/domain.local/eliezer/home/.dovecot.sieve Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: sieve: script binary /home/vmail/domain.local/eliezer/home/.dovecot.svbin successfully loaded Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: sieve: binary save: not saving binary /home/vmail/domain.local/eliezer/home/.dovecot.svbin, because it is already stored Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Debug: sieve: executing script from /home/vmail/domain.local/eliezer/home/.dovecot.svbin Nov 10 18:35:54 lda(user(a)domain.local): Info: sieve: msgid=<XXXX@XXXX>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' So it recognizes the home sir but wont look at the sieve sub directory. My dovecot -n output: # 2.1.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.3.8-gentoo x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.0.3 ext3 auth_mechanisms = plain login dict { quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 5000 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 5000 mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/ mail_plugins = " quota" mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = 5000 namespace { inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = . subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+3%% quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=20%% quota-warning 20 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +include +vnd.dovecot.debug +imapflags +spamtest +spamtestplus +relational +comparator-i;ascii-numeric } postmaster_address = postmastert(a)domain.local service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service quota-warning { executable = script /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh user = vmail } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/dca.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/ssl.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/ssl.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " quota sieve" } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota" } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } Thanks, Eliezer

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[Dovecot] Solr 4.0 - lucene - FTS
by Charles Marcus 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hi Timo, As one who is interested in implementing FTS sometime in the future, I'm curious about what is in store as far as improvements go... Specifically, any plans for implementing immediate/automatic index updates at delivery time? The lack of automatically updated indexes is one downside for its implementation... Also, does the release of Solr 4.0 mean anything for the lucene library used by dovecot? http://www.marketwatch.com/story/lucidworks-congratulates-apache-foundation… Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] Sieve puts incoming message into inbox on any problem with submission_host
by Christian Rohmann 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hello dovecot-users, I have a question/suggestion regarding the submission_host feature of the lda (either via dovecot-lda binary or lmtp) in combination with sieve. When trying to deliver message to a mailbox and this message has a sieve redirect action applied to it, dovecot is using the configured smtp server to forward the message just fine. Unfortunately, if the server configured for submission is unavailable, returns an error or cannot be found via DNS, sieve will simply put the message into the inbox and be done with it: --- dovecot.log --- dovecot: lda(user1): Error: lmtp client: DNS lookup of idonotexist.example.com failed: Name or service not known dovecot: lda(user1): Error: sieve: msgid=unspecified: failed to redirect message to <user2> (refer to server log for more information) dovecot: lda(user1): sieve: msgid=unspecified: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' dovecot: lda(user1): Error: sieve: execution of script /mailboxes/user1/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful (user logfile /mailboxes/user1/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) --- /dovecot.log --- The same applies to vacation messages being sent out. Especially with an (unconditional) redirect action, users don't expect to find messages in their inbox. Also problems with the submission_host could very much be temporary and a little delay in delivering a message is better then putting it somewhere the user doesn't expect a message to be. Is there any way to change the behavior of dovecot or the sieve plugin to tempfail in case a message cannot be sent out? I know that with multiple sieve actions it gets more complicated as there could be corner cases were the first message can be sent via the submission server and another message produced by the same sieve script cannot. I'd love sieve to behave like this: a) if submission host is unreachable (hostname wrong, timeout, ...) -> tempfail b) if submission host returns 4xx error -> tempfail c) if submission host returns 5xx error -> fail(-save) and just drop the message into inbox or even have an option to reject the message completely in this case. In case of a tempfail response, the mta simply queues the message and tries again later. In case of a permanent fail the mta will create a bounce message to in form the sender. Regards and have a great weekend, Christian

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Re: [Dovecot] LDA without lookup as non-root?
by E.B. 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

Timo, Sorry I didn't see your response until now >> 3) The interesting part -- I am invoking LDA from Maildrop. See: >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/65473 > So >> when invoked, Maildrop has already dropped to the destination UID/GID >> and the needed paths are available in the environment. However, using >> as many permutations of calling LDA as I can think of (based on >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA ), I always get this: >> >> (command line usage error. Command output: lda: Fatal: Couldn't lookup >> our username (uid=2500) ) > > Set USER environment. Sorry, would you mind being more specific? If you see my follow-up posts on this thread, I found a source file with this error message in it (link below) and reading that code, there is no way to avoid this error for non-system users (uid's) if you don't use -d. (looking at the "destination" variable) http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-sieve-1.1/raw-rev/7d85833eff96

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[Dovecot] doveadm quota get -A via doveadm-proxy director with LDAP
by Ramon Frontera 10 Nov '12

10 Nov '12

Hi, We are running Dovecot 2.1.10 I want configure dovecot to do execute doveadm commands on the proxy server. We have 1 proxy with director and 2 mail servers. we use LDAP when I try to do doveadm quota get -u user it works fine. The problem is when I try to do doveadm quota get -A ON PROXY I have this result: doveadm(first_user): Error: Proxy is missing destination host doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users Username Quota name Type Value Limit % in 10-auth.conf I have "!include auth-ldap.conf.ext" in auth-ldap.conf.ext I hve: passdb { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext } userdb { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext } and In dovecot-ldap.conf.ext I have: uris = ldap://ldap:port dn = xxxxx dnpass = yyyyy auth_bind = no ldap_version = 3 base =base scope = subtree user_attrs = attributes user_filter = (mail=%u) pass_attrs = userPassword=password,uid=user=%L$,cn=proxy,=starttls=any-cert pass_filter = (mail=%u) iterate_attrs = uid=user iterate_filter = (uid=*) I don't know where is my error!!! Thanks in advance -- ------------------------------------------ Ramon Frontera Gallardo Universitat de les Illes Balears

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[Dovecot] quota recalc does not work
by Adrian Stoica 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hi I upgraded dovecot from 2.0 to 2.1 , and now i face the quota recalc problem. All settings are keep in mysql Before , after a change in mailbox.quota field, i run doveadm quota recalc and all was ok , but now that command doesn't do anything. After i change a quota for a user , i have to restart dovecot to get the new quota , or do a "doveadm reload" instead of recalc. And the doveadm quota recalc -A" give me back a lot of "doveadm(username): Info: User no longer exists, skipping" Any thoughts ? # 2.1.10: /usr/dovecot21/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.4 i686 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 1 secs auth_cache_size = 2 M auth_failure_delay = 4 secs auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_worker_max_count = 100 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ default_client_limit = 4096 default_internal_user = vmail default_login_user = nobody default_process_limit = 256 deliver_log_format = mail delivery from=%f subject=%s msgid=%m: %$ dict { acl = mysql:/usr/dovecot21/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 1 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " quota acl trash notify mail_log" managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace { hidden = no list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes list = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { args = /usr/dovecot21/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Drafts autocreate3 = Sent autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Drafts autosubscribe3 = INBOX autosubscribe4 = Sent mail_log_events = delete mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = box subject from msgid size quota = maildir:User quota quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=95%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning3 = storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve trash = /usr/dovecot21/etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf.ext } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)dacris.net protocols = imap quota_full_tempfail = yes rejection_subject = Rejected: %s: %r service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0666 user = vmail } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { user = vmail } } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 4 } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login /bin/imap.sh unix_listener imap-postlogin { mode = 01232 } } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin process_limit = 1024 vsz_limit = 1 G } service quota-warning { executable = script /bin/quota_warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = vmail } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /usr/dovecot21/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " quota acl trash notify mail_log sieve autocreate" } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = " quota acl trash notify mail_log imap_quota imap_acl" } dovecot-sql.conf.ext: password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE \ username = '%Ln' AND domain = '%Ld' AND \ active = '1' user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/srv/vmail/',mailbox.domain,'/%Ln') AS 'home' ,'98' AS 'uid', '98' AS 'gid' , \ CONCAT('*:storage=', mailbox.quota,'M') AS quota_rule ,"Trash:storage=+50M" AS quota_rule2 FROM mailbox WHERE \ mailbox.username = '%Ln' AND mailbox.domain = '%Ld' AND \ mailbox.active = '1' iterate_query = SELECT username AS user , domain FROM mailbox WHERE active = '1'

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[Dovecot] Mails don't get deleted after POP3
by cullinan＠rocketmail.com 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hi, there! Well, I am new to dovecot, so please be patient with me: I have a virtual server and want to setup simple mail delivery. postfix, saslauthd and dovecot basically work fine. The only open issue is, that (I guess) dovecot doesn't remove the mail when it's retrieved via pop3 from the server. It keeps sending me the same emails again and again. (The mail client (Thunderbird) is configured to remove the messages from the server - it was working already.) I guess that dovecot cannot write to some files / has problems with write permissions. But it doesn't tell me anything... Can you tell me, what configuration might be wrong or how can I enable more debugging to see what dovecot is doing after the mails got sent out via pop3? Here is the configuration: # dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.38-8-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.04 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -----8<----- # dovecot -a # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.38-8-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.04 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot log_path: info_log_path: log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S syslog_facility: mail protocols: pop3 pop3s listen: * ssl_listen: ssl: yes ssl_ca_file: ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_key_password: ssl_parameters_regenerate: 168 ssl_cipher_list: ssl_cert_username_field: commonName ssl_verify_client_cert: no disable_plaintext_auth: yes verbose_ssl: no shutdown_clients: yes nfs_check: yes version_ignore: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: dovecot login_greeting: Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format: %$: %s login_process_per_connection: yes login_chroot: yes login_trusted_networks: login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 3 login_max_processes_count: 128 login_max_connections: 256 valid_chroot_dirs: mail_chroot: max_mail_processes: 512 mail_max_userip_connections: 10 verbose_proctitle: no first_valid_uid: 500 last_valid_uid: 0 first_valid_gid: 1 last_valid_gid: 0 mail_access_groups: mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: mail_gid: mail_location: mail_cache_fields: mail_never_cache_fields: imap.envelope mail_cache_min_mail_count: 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval: 30 mail_debug: no mail_full_filesystem_access: no mail_max_keyword_length: 50 mail_save_crlf: no mmap_disable: no dotlock_use_excl: yes fsync_disable: no mail_nfs_storage: no mail_nfs_index: no mailbox_list_index_disable: yes lock_method: fcntl maildir_stat_dirs: no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: no maildir_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_read_locks: fcntl mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mbox_lock_timeout: 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout: 120 mbox_min_index_size: 0 mbox_dirty_syncs: yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_lazy_writes: yes dbox_rotate_size: 2048 dbox_rotate_min_size: 16 dbox_rotate_days: 1 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: no mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_size: 256 mail_plugins: mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 mail_log_prefix: %Us(%u): mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 10 imap_max_line_length: 65536 imap_capability: imap_client_workarounds: imap_logout_format: bytes=%i/%o imap_id_send: imap_id_log: imap_idle_notify_interval: 120 pop3_no_flag_updates: no pop3_enable_last: no pop3_reuse_xuidl: no pop3_save_uidl: no pop3_lock_session: no pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds: pop3_logout_format: top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s dict_db_config: dict_process_count: 1 managesieve_max_line_length: 65536 managesieve_logout_format: bytes=%i/%o managesieve_implementation_string: dovecot auth default: mechanisms: plain realms: default_realm: cache_size: 0 cache_ttl: 3600 cache_negative_ttl: 3600 executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth user: root chroot: username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ username_translation: username_format: master_user_separator: anonymous_username: anonymous krb5_keytab: gssapi_hostname: winbind_helper_path: /usr/bin/ntlm_auth failure_delay: 2 verbose: no debug: no debug_passwords: no ssl_require_client_cert: no ssl_username_from_cert: no use_winbind: no count: 1 worker_max_count: 30 process_size: 256 passdb: driver: pam args: deny: no pass: no master: no userdb: driver: passwd args: -----8<----- Please let me know if you need more. Thank you in advance! Regards, Rob

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[Dovecot] Dovecot ok for port 110, but not for SSL (beginner asking)
by ycc_Swe 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hello, I just installed Dovecot. It works for plaintext autorization, port 110. It has connected with Telnet, Thunderbird and an on-line pop3 client. Telnet: +OK Dovecot ready. user nnnnn -ERR Unknown command. user nnnnn +OK pass xxxxxxxxxx +OK Logged in. stat +OK 1 1553 retr 1 +OK 1553 octets Return-path: <sssssss(a)hotmail.com> Envelope-to: nnnnnn(a)mydomain.com Delivery-date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:02:28 +0100 Received: from bay0-xcvxcv-xvxcv.bay333.hotmail.com ([123.123.123.123]) by deb7.pc with esmtp (Exim 4.80) But when I try ssl (port 995) with an on-line pop3 client, it will not work: /var/log/mail.log Nov 7 02:46:55 deb7 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=12.12.12.7, lip=123.123.123.123, TLS: Disconnected, session=<Iza75N3NlABBNykH> Nov 7 02:46:56 deb7 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 1 secs): user=<>, rip=12.12.12.7, lip=123.123.123.123, TLS: Disconnected, session=<nWTF5N3NlQBBNykH> root@deb7:~# doveconf -n # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae i686 disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_gid = mail mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = } passdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = " imap pop3" ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } I know very little about mail and ssl. I have assumed that ssl will be set up "automatically" when Dovecot is installed. But maybe I have missed something here. Please give me pointers. The following two files contain ssl keys: ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem I have tried changing the ssl parameter ("yes", "required") in 10-ssl.conf but with no change except that port 110 login becomes disabled. As you can see I am a beginner with Dovecot, I hope it is still OK to ask on this mailing list. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/Dovecot-ok-for-port-110-but-not-for-SS… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Dovecot] cannot update mailbox - unable to lock for exclusive access
by Stan Hoeppner 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Please always reply to the list, not individuals. On 11/8/2012 4:17 AM, 1st WebDesigns wrote: > On 08/11/2012 09:23, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 11/8/2012 2:29 AM, 1st WebDesigns wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> We're using Dovecot version 1.0.7 and Postfix, and since upgrading our >>> Linux box we're getting this in the maillog: >> >> 1.0.7 is absolutely ancient and no longer officially supported. You >> need 1.2.x minimum, 2.x.x even better. And you say you just recently >> upgraded your Linux distro? What planet do you live on son? You're a >> few light years behind current stable software. >> >>> Nov 8 07:49:11 server1 postfix/local[27901]: 04B8E7081DA: >>> to=<xyz(a)xyz.com>, orig_to=<abc(a)abc.com>, relay=local, delay=19, >>> delays=0.07/0/0/19, dsn=4.2.0, status=deferred (cannot update mailbox >>> /var/spool/mail/abc for user abc. unable to lock for exclusive access: >>> Resource temporarily unavailable) >> >> The simple permanent fix to Postfix/Dovecot mbox locking issues is >> switching from Postfix LOCAL to Dovecot LDA for mailbox delivery. 1.0.7 >> is before my time. I do not know if LDA was available then. Upgrade >> and you'll have it, and you'll also fix other problems you're not even >> aware of yet. >> >>> Postfix is currently set to: >>> mailbox_delivery_lock = fcntl, dotlock >>> >>> Dovecot has this: >>> mbox_read_locks = fcntl >>> mbox_write_locks = fcntl dotlock >> >> LDA completely eliminates lock contention. >> >> http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix >> > > Thanks for your reply. We have upgraded from RHEL4 to RHEL5, so 1.0.7 > is the "stable" version that they provide RHEL 5 is also ancient, released in March 2007, over 5 years ago. The current stable release is RHEL 6.3, released in June 2012. What is the valid reason preventing you from upgrading to the 6.x distribution? The packages in general in 6.x are 5 years newer than 5.x. And given the fact that RHEL runs miles behind the bleeding edge, you're way behind the curve even with a recent RHEL distribution. You can probably find a much newer version of Dovecot in an RPM somewhere, and Postfix for that matter. But it would be better for you if you simply upgraded to RHEL 6.3. -- Stan

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[Dovecot] IP/SSL configuration
by James Devine 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Is there a way I can have something like the following setup: 192.168.0.2 port 110/143, with no starttls/ssl 192.168.0.3 port 110,995/143,993 with starttls/ssl 192.168.0.4 port 110,995/143,993 with starttls/ssl I am looking to setup dovecot so that some IPs will run without any notion of SSL whereas other IPs will run with with ssl/starttls available, each with its own certs

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[Dovecot] pop3 exim4 dovecot
by Patrick Shirkey 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Hi, I have an exim4 and dovecot system. The system has multiple accounts. Exim4 is receiving emails in the /var/mail/user files and dovecot is configured to use /home/user/mail (mbox) folder. I have one account that dovecot is not processing replies/bounces/etc... The data is being written in the /var/mail/user file by exim4 but as far as dovecot is aware there is nothing in the pop3 inbox. Can anyone suggest how I can enable dovecot to know that the data is in the /var/mail/user file and deliver it to the pop3 inbox for this account? -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd

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Re: [Dovecot] pop3 exim4 dovecot
by Patrick Shirkey 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

On Fri, November 9, 2012 1:10 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Patrick Shirkey > <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>wrote: > >> >> On Fri, November 9, 2012 12:13 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Patrick Shirkey >> > <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com >> >> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> On Thu, November 8, 2012 7:21 pm, Robert Schetterer wrote: >> >> > Am 08.11.2012 08:48, schrieb Patrick Shirkey: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> >> >> I have an exim4 and dovecot system. The system has multiple >> accounts. >> >> >> Exim4 is receiving emails in the /var/mail/user files and dovecot >> is >> >> >> configured to use /home/user/mail (mbox) folder. >> >> >> >> >> >> I have one account that dovecot is not processing >> >> replies/bounces/etc... >> >> >> The data is being written in the /var/mail/user file by exim4 but >> as >> >> far >> >> >> as dovecot is aware there is nothing in the pop3 inbox. >> >> >> >> >> >> Can anyone suggest how I can enable dovecot to know that the data >> is >> >> in >> >> >> the /var/mail/user file and deliver it to the pop3 inbox for this >> >> >> account? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> Patrick Shirkey >> >> >> Boost Hardware Ltd >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > show logs >> >> > and config like doveconf -n >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> There is nothing in the dovecot logs afaict >> >> >> >> echo "my test" | mail -s "test message" test@xxx >> >> >> >> 2012-11-08 08:34:38 1TWNZO-0000TG-8s <= root@xxx U=root P=local S=398 >> >> 2012-11-08 08:34:38 1TWNZO-0000TG-8s => xxx <test@xxx> R=local_user >> >> T=mail_spool >> >> 2012-11-08 08:34:38 1TWNZO-0000TG-8s Completed >> >> >> >> >> >> exim -bt test@xxx >> >> R: system_aliases for xxx@localhost >> >> R: userforward for xxx@localhost >> >> R: procmail for xxx@localhost >> >> R: maildrop for xxx@localhost >> >> R: lowuid_aliases for xxx@localhost (UID 1238) >> >> R: local_user for xxx@localhost >> >> xxx@localhost >> >> <-- test@xxx >> >> router = local_user, transport = mail_spool >> >> >> >> >> >> - Here's the dovecot config: >> >> >> >> # dovecot -n >> >> # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf >> >> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.6 >> >> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S >> >> protocols: pop3 pop3s >> >> listen: 127.0.0.1 >> >> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login >> >> login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login >> >> mail_privileged_group: mail >> >> mail_location: mbox:~/mail >> >> mail_debug: yes >> >> mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock >> >> mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 >> >> mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 >> >> auth default: >> >> debug: yes >> >> passdb: >> >> driver: pam >> >> userdb: >> >> driver: passwd >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > You are telling dovecot that mails are in mbox format (why you even >> use >> > mbox instead of Maildir++ beats me, but that's not what you asked for >> help >> > with) and are stored in /home/$user/mbox so go ahead at also tell Exim >> to >> > deliver to the same location! >> > If you want Exim to deliver to /var/mail/$user then change your >> > mail_location in dovecot.conf to point to this too. >> > >> > >> >> >> Thanks for your advice. I inherited this system and it is a live B2B >> system so I am trying not to break it as well as to keep it running :-) >> >> I have seen some unusual behaviour now. >> >> 1: According to my script to process the inbox for each account the pop3 >> account was empty. The code was previously working for many months. I >> thought it might be related to the missing mail_location directive >> because >> the home/xxx/mail folder was missing for the specific account that was >> having a problem so I added it as above but it didn't appear to fix the >> problem. >> > > You DO NOT need to add it manually. All you have to do is to send a test > mail to the user and the mbox will be created with the correct > permissions. > > >> >> 2: I modified it as suggested : mail_location = INBOX=/var/mail/%u >> >> That gave me an error >> >> Nov 8 13:47:03 mail dovecot: POP3(xxx): mail_location: Ambiguous mail >> location setting, don't know what to do with it: INBOX=/var/mail/xxx >> (try >> prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) >> Nov 8 13:47:03 mail dovecot: POP3(xxx): Fatal: Namespace initialization >> failed >> > > > You must RTFM. The examples are in conf.d/10-mail.conf and they have the > following text: > > <quote> > ## Mailbox locations and namespaces > ## > > # Location for users' mailboxes. The default is empty, which means that > Dovecot > # tries to find the mailboxes automatically. This won't work if the user > # doesn't yet have any mail, so you should explicitly tell Dovecot the > full > # location. > # > # If you're using mbox, giving a path to the INBOX file (eg. /var/mail/%u) > # isn't enough. You'll also need to tell Dovecot where the other mailboxes > are > # kept. This is called the "root mail directory", and it must be the first > # path given in the mail_location setting. > # > # There are a few special variables you can use, eg.: > # > # %u - username > # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain > # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there's no domain > # %h - home directory > # > # See doc/wiki/Variables.txt for full list. Some examples: > # > # mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir > # mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u > # mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n > # > # <doc/wiki/MailLocation.txt> > </quote> > > ... make sense? > Starting to now. My first attempt to *not* break the existing system was to try with the following: mail_location = mbox:~/mail But that didn't work so I asked here and according to your first email it seemed this config was necessary: mail_location = INBOX=/var/mail/%u But after re reading the docs it appears that *both* locations are required: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd

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[Dovecot] v2.2.alpha1 released
by Timo Sirainen 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/alpha/dovecot-2.2.alpha1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/alpha/dovecot-2.2.alpha1.tar.gz.sig I wanted to start stabilizing v2.2 release some months ago already, but I somehow got stuck adding more and more features. Now it looks like all of the necessary API changes are done, so everything I'm planning on near future can still be added to v2.2 without major changes. The redesigned dsync hasn't had much testing yet, so avoid running it with important mails. Would be nice if people started testing and reporting any bugs. I was going to create some kind of a test suite for testing all the possible syncing combinations and also doing some random stress testing, but I haven't had time for that yet. The new dsync supports doing very fast syncs by saving the resulting state and giving it as command line parameter to the next sync. So for example doveadm sync -s "" > new-state saves the state and doveadm sync -s `cat new-state` continues from the saved state. The replicator code doesn't yet support this. * When creating home directories, the permissions are copied from the parent directory if it has setgid-bit set. For full details, see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions * "doveadm auth" command was renamed to "doveadm auth test" * IMAP: ID command now advertises server name as Dovecot by default. It was already trivial to guess this from command replies. + Implemented IMAP MOVE and BINARY extensions + Implemented IMAP CATENATE, URLAUTH and URLAUTH=BINARY extensions (by Stephan Bosch). + Implemented IMAP NOTIFY extension. Requires mailbox_list_index=yes to be enabled. + Redesigned and rewritten dsync. The new design makes the syncing faster, more reliable and more featureful. The new dsync protocol isn't backwards compatible with old dsync versions (but is designed to be forwards compatible with future versions). + All mailbox formats now support per-user message flags for shared mailboxes by using a private index. It can be enabled by adding :INDEXPVT=<path> to mail location. This should be used instead of :INDEX also for Maildir/mbox to improve performance. + Improved mailbox list indexes. They should be usable now, although still disabled by default. + Added LAYOUT=index. The mailbox directories are created using their GUIDs in the filesystem, while the actual GUID <-> name mapping exists only in the index. + LMTP proxy: Implemented XCLIENT extension for passing remote IP address through proxy.

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Re: [Dovecot] Android ICS stock client and IMAP Capability issue.
by Massimiliano Cianelli 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Hi, Yes w/o prefix work as expected, try to add a prefix like courier does (eg. Inbox.) It will not work as expected. Due I'm upgrading an old installed server, I've to keep everything as much transparent I can... it includes IMAP folder and subscription. Looking at that I've encountered that issue, and analyzed for fix it (thank you open source), not everyone will want to use/use k9.. but you can be 100% sure the stock client is there. Due that Google act like BlackBerry, Microsoft,etc.. (hovewer they will not fix it soon, or really respect the rfc), it's much simple add Namespace on prelogin banner then wait or have to tell someone to install another client for that mailbox. I didn't know the history, but looking at change log seems that idle as been put back to prelogin client for some kind of compatibility with their service. Anyway, the most important reason that got me to subscribe the mailing list for write those emails, is share with the community that problem and provide a solution.. for someone in the future that have the same problem and will search on internet for a solution (like I've does.. before analyze it on my own). If the workaround will be added to the wiki or will be put in the source.. the important thing is that there is a solution simple and fast (two.. the source modify, and the configuration file) and someone can find it.. (Sarcastic) And if the mayans were right we can't wait for google to fix it :p Best Regards Sent from Galaxy Nexus Robert Schetterer <rs(a)sys4.de> ha scritto: >Am 07.11.2012 08:13, schrieb Massimiliano Cianelli: >> Hello, >> >> My phone: >> Android ics 4.1.2 on galaxy nexus. >> And yes, stock mean the default client that come with the os in IMAP mode. >> >> I already know about that configuration parameter, but it will display two time namespace in postlogin capabilities, and so I like much more to adjust the source code to fix the issue. >> >> Yes there is k9 but I didn't like it too much, I prefer the stock client and is much important to keep compatibility with stock client then user-installed client. >> >> About the issue on Google code, there is thr issue on google code... but Google is a lot slow in fixing those things. >> http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1811 >> >> In a few hour I'll update the issue noticing where is hidden the problem. >> >> Regards >> Sent from Galaxy Nexus > >Hi , i shortly tested this with android sdk jelly bean 4.1.1 and "my >setup" dovecot 2.1.10 with included orginal android mail app in imap mode, >,leaving IMAP prefix blank, everything works as expected, no double >shown inbox, namespace problems etc >so you might have to fit your namespace setup. >Also you might follow allready given advice from here. > >Anyway , i understand you using "stock client" >but you have to understand that the producers of mail clients >optimize their stuff fitting best in their own server structure >making money with it, therefor their motivation coding better imap code >is not very high, same case is for outlook and microsoft >however, i would say, fixing bugs is on the google site here, looks like >there is patch >at >http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1811 >and the issue seems long known > >i dont see any hard relation to dovecot in this case >meanwhile using k9mail seems the best way to workaround >there are lots of other bugs around android versions >over the years i dont expect google to fix them > > >> >> Robert Schetterer <rs(a)sys4.de> ha scritto: >> >>> Am 06.11.2012 07:08, schrieb Ben Morrow: >>>> At 6AM +0100 on 6/11/12 you (Massimiliano Cianelli) wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> My setup: >>>>> Dovecot 2 latest, installed to replace courrier IMAP, and off course >>>>> configured with the dot separator and all folder under INBOX.*. >>>>> >>>>> The problem: >>>>> My phone was driving me mad during the test, due that it will only >>>>> recognize Inbox. >>>>> >>>>> How found the solution: >>>>> I've started sniffing IMAP traffic on my server and ended up with one >>>>> difference: >>>>> On courier it ask for namespace, on dovecot it won't. >>>>> >>>>> I gives a better look, and noticed that courier show namespace >>>>> capability on prelogin banner, adding it too solved the problem. >>>>> >>>>> Reason: >>>>> Android ICS stock client seems do not honor the capability gived after >>>>> the login. >>>> >>>> See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0?highlight=%28capability%29 ; >>>> you need to set imap_capability and/or get your client fixed. >>>> >>>> Ben >>>> >>> >>> Hi, first ,what is the exact meaning of >>> >>> "Android ICS stock client" >>> >>> do you mean default included email client in standard android in imap >>> mode, when yes, which version of Android , i like to test my own >>> however is there changelog/code etc at google for this behave? >>> >>> conf example >>> >>> # Override the IMAP CAPABILITY response. If the value begins with '+', >>> # add the given capabilities on top of the defaults (e.g. +XFOO XBAR). >>> #imap_capability = >>> >>> setting stuff here might be complex , or lead to trouble with other >>> clients, if setting this might fix problems ,with clients it should be >>> advised in the wiki/example-conf and/or Timo >>> >>> or the other way ,for massive used clients there should be >>> a seperate workaround section in the conf >>> >>> But fixing behave clients should be prime option anyway >>> >>> Meanwhile use K9mail in Android as best free option in imap mode servers >>> >>> Best Regards >>> MfG Robert Schetterer >>> >>> -- >>> [*] sys4 AG >>> >>> http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 >>> Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München >>> >>> Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 >>> Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer >>> Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich > > > >Best Regards >MfG Robert Schetterer > >-- >[*] sys4 AG > >http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 >Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München > >Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 >Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer >Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda not correct folder
by tony.blue.mailinglist＠gmx.de 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hello, i use dovecot with maildir. The maildir-folder looks like this: vmail/mail/user1/cur vmail/mail/user1/.Sent vmail/mail/user1/.optionalfolder Procmail should put some definded mails in the "optionalfolder" My uses configuration does not do this: ... DELIVERMAIL="/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda" IMAP="$DELIVERMAIL -e -d $LOGNAME -m INBOX" ZUSATZORDNER="$DELIVERMAIL -e -d $LOGNAME -m .optionalfolder" ... dovecot-lda puts the mails for the optionalfolder always in the .cur (INBOX). What´s the correct dovecot-lda parameter to put the mails in the optionalfolder? Thank you! Tony

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[Dovecot] No manpage for "doveadm fts" command
by Dave Abrahams 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Just wanted to make sure this issue was registered separately from the overall confusion I'm exploring in another thread, even though I mention this there too. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost

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[Dovecot] 2.2.alpha1 (626a9df21e62): LMTP Core Dump
by Thomas Leuxner 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Please find Backtrace for LMTP Core Dump below: [...] ==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log <== Nov 1 11:16:14 spectre dovecot: lmtp(17245): Connect from local Nov 1 11:16:14 spectre dovecot: lmtp(17245): Fatal: master: service(lmtp): child 17245 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) ==> /var/log/mail.log <== Nov 1 11:16:14 spectre postfix/lmtp[17204]: 3Xsj4G11MrzNY: to=<tlx(a)leuxner.net>, relay=spectre.leuxner.net[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=0.11, delays=0.06/0/0.01/0.04, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (lost connection with spectre.leuxner.net[private/dovecot-lmtp] while sending MAIL FROM) [...] $ gdb /usr/lib/dovecot/lmtp /tmp/core Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00007f6174db3d35 in mail_storage_service_lookup (ctx=0x1160640, input=0x7fff905265d0, user_r=<value optimized out>, error_r=<value optimized out>) at mail-storage-service.c:1013 1013 mail-storage-service.c: No such file or directory. in mail-storage-service.c (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007f6174db3d35 in mail_storage_service_lookup (ctx=0x1160640, input=0x7fff905265d0, user_r=<value optimized out>, error_r=<value optimized out>) at mail-storage-service.c:1013 flags = 675 user = <value optimized out> username = 0x11540b0 "tlx(a)leuxner.net" user_info = 0x1163718 user_set = <value optimized out> userdb_fields = 0x1173dd8 error = <value optimized out> reply = {uid = 0, gid = 0, home = 0x7f6175249712 "H\211\303d\213\004%\030", chroot = 0x7f6100000001 <Address 0x7f6100000001 out of bounds>, extra_fields = {arr = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 18170192}, v = 0x0, v_modifiable = 0x0}, anonymous = 0} set_parser = 0x1167500 sets = 0x0 user_pool = 0x11705e0 temp_pool = 0x1173db0 ret = 1 #1 0x0000000000406c16 in cmd_rcpt (client=0x1161e70, args=0x116d623 "") at commands.c:545 rcpt = {address = 0x0, detail = 0x0, service_user = 0x0} input = {module = 0x40823a "lmtp", service = 0x40823a "lmtp", username = 0x11540b0 "tlx(a)leuxner.net", session_id = 0x0, local_ip = {family = 0, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = { __u6_addr8 = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, __u6_addr16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 0}}}, remote_ip = {family = 0, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = { __u6_addr8 = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, __u6_addr16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 0}}}, local_port = 0, remote_port = 0, userdb_fields = 0x0, flags_override_add = 0, flags_override_remove = 0, no_userdb_lookup = 0} address = 0x11540b0 "tlx(a)leuxner.net" username = 0x11540b0 "tlx(a)leuxner.net" detail = 0x4086a3 "" error = 0x0 ret = <value optimized out> #2 0x00000000004055fb in client_input_line (client=0x1161e70) at client.c:60 cmd = <value optimized out> args = 0x116d60f "TO:<tlx(a)leuxner.net>" #3 client_input_handle (client=0x1161e70) at client.c:113 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 output = 0x11610e8 line = <value optimized out> ret = <value optimized out> #4 0x00007f6174afd186 in io_loop_call_io (io=0x1161190) at ioloop.c:387 ioloop = 0x115c670 t_id = 2 #5 0x00007f6174afe1d7 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=<value optimized out>) at ioloop-epoll.c:215 ctx = 0x115f4a0 event = 0x115f510 list = 0x11611e0 io = 0x11540b0 tv = {tv_sec = 299, tv_usec = 999016} msecs = <value optimized out> ret = 1 i = 0 call = false #6 0x00007f6174afd128 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x115c670) at ioloop.c:406 No locals. #7 0x00007f6174ae6473 in master_service_run (service=0x115c510, callback=0x1173e08) at master-service.c:546 No locals. #8 0x0000000000404a06 in main (argc=1, argv=0x115c370) at main.c:122 set_roots = {0x60a8e0, 0x408e20, 0x0} service_flags = <value optimized out> storage_service_flags = 675 c = <value optimized out> [ doveconf -n ] # 2.2.alpha1 (626a9df21e62): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.6 auth_cache_size = 16 k auth_verbose = yes mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = acl quota stats namespace { list = yes location = mdbox:/var/vmail/public prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } namespace inbox { hidden = no inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = username_format=%u /var/vmail/auth.d/%d/passwd driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile:/var/vmail/conf.d/%d/acls:cache_secs=300 mail_log_events = expunge mailbox_delete quota = dict:user::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=1GB quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /var/vmail/conf.d/%d/sieve stats_refresh = 30s stats_track_cmds = yes } protocols = " imap lmtp" quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth-worker { unix_listener auth-worker { user = doveauth } user = doveauth } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = doveauth } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 1.2.3.4 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 0 } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/SSL123_CA_Bundle.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/host_domain_tld.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/host_domain_tld.key syslog_facility = local1 userdb { args = username_format=%u /var/vmail/auth.d/%d/passwd driver = passwd-file } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = acl quota stats sieve } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = acl quota stats imap_acl imap_quota mail_log notify imap_stats }

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[Dovecot] acl and subfolder
by Laurent Foucher 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

hello, I'm using dovecot 2.0.16 and i would like to use acl for subfolder. The file dovecot-acl is well written in both folder test and the subfolder test/Test : cat /home/user2/Maildir/.test.Test/dovecot-acl user=user1 ilrws cat /home/user2/Maildir/.test/dovecot-acl user=user1 ilprws When user1 want to list, the folder test is well shown, but not the subfolder test/Test. This is the logs : Debug: acl: acl username = user1 imap(laurent.foucher): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Shuka-a dovecot: imap(user1): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (none) Shuka-a dovecot: imap(user1): Debug: acl vfile: reading file /home/user2/Maildir/.test/dovecot-acl [....] imap(user1): Debug: acl: Mailbox not in dovecot-acl-list: Partages/user2/test/Test I don't userstand why the file dovecot-acl is not read from the subfolder, while user1 and user2 have the same gid and write access to the directories. Thanks for your answers. dovecot -n auth_cache_size = 512 M default_client_limit = 8400 disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_access_groups = dovecot mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = acl mail_privileged_group = dovecot managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave imapflags notify namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = Partages/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { args = cache_key=%u%s * driver = pam } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)iut-tlse3.fr protocols = " imap sieve" service auth { client_limit = 8500 unix_listener auth-userdb { group = Personnel_IUT mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { process_limit = 4096 process_min_avail = 16 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 256 M } service imap { process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 3036 M } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/cert-5383-imaps.iut-tlse3.fr.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/imaps.iut-tlse3.fr.key userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { driver = prefetch } protocol lda { info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-lda.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-lda-errors.log mail_plugins = acl sieve } protocol imap { imap_id_log = * mail_plugins = acl imap_acl listescape } -- - Laurent Foucher < I U T 'A' Paul Sabatier > laurent.foucher(a)iut-tlse3.fr Enseignant/Chargé de mission Systèmes & Réseau

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[Dovecot] Auth USER lookup failed
by Angel L. Mateo 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hello, I'm running dovecot 2.1.9 and I'm trying to configure shared folders. So, as described at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Shared I have configured a namespace like this: namespace { type = shared separator = / prefix = shared/%%u/ location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u subscriptions = no list = yes } In one user (user1) I have configured ACLs so another one (user2) has access to a folder. Now, I want to susbscribe user2 to this folder. The problem I have is that whenever I try to list folders for this user (running thunderbird client) I get a panic and an error in the dovecot server (I have attached the complete log). The error says: Nov 6 11:58:56 myotis30 dovecot: auth: Error: userdb(user1): client doesn't have lookup permissions for this user: userdb uid (113246) doesn't match peer uid (14585) (change userdb socket permissions) Nov 6 11:58:56 myotis30 dovecot: auth: Debug: master out: FAIL#0112 Nov 6 11:58:56 myotis30 dovecot: imap(user2): Error: user user1: Auth USER lookup failed Nov 6 11:58:56 myotis30 dovecot: imap(user2): Debug: auth input: Nov 6 11:58:56 myotis30 dovecot: imap(user2): Error: Couldn't create namespace 'shared/' for user user1: userdb didn't return a home directory, but plugin setting quota used it (%h): dict:User quota::file:%h/Maildir/dovecot.quota It seems that imap process running for user2 is trying to a user lookup that fails. So I have manually tried it root@myotis30:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# sudo -u user2 doveadm user user2 userdb: user2 home : <homeDirectory> uid : 14585 gid : 404 root@myotis30:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# sudo -u user2 doveadm user user1 doveadm(user2): Error: user user1: Auth USER lookup failed doveadm(user2): Error: userdb lookup failed for user1 I have checked the socket permissions, but they are 0666 (if I'm looking the right socket): root@myotis30:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# ls -l /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb srwxrwxrwx 1 dovecot root 0 nov 6 11:43 /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb In fact, I have tried to put all sockets with permissions 0666 and 0777, but the error persists. Any idea? -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) http://www.um.es/atica Tfo: 868889150 Fax: 868888337

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[Dovecot] LDAP congestion
by Bernhard Schmidt 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hello, I've been asked to have a look at a misbehaving mail server of some colleagues today where almost all logins where failing or excessively delayed, while the LDAP database itself was pretty fast. They run Dovecot 1.2.11 (yes, I know, stoneage) against an LDAP server run by a 3rd party, auth_bind=yes (required). The problem is that this third party LDAP server delays bindResponse 3 seconds when the password is wrong. A user wanted to login every 2-3 seconds this morning with the wrong password, which effectively killed the system because the LDAP connection was mostly stalled waiting for the auth timeout. >From a previous discussion with Timo I know that bindRequests cannot be parallelized in LDAP, so the problem does not come completely unexpected. Other than removing the failure delay in the LDAP server, is there anything one can do? If there is any change in newer Dovecot versions about that please tell me so I can encourage them to upgrade, but I haven't seen anything in the changelog. Any way to get several LDAP workers/connections for passdb in parallel? Thanks, Bernhard

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[Dovecot] "starting" dovecot
by Dave Abrahams 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

My system never issues the "dovecot start" command. I do, however, run /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap on port 9xxx. I talk to the server through port 9xxx and through the preauth tunnel. Is this arrangement OK? Are there some things that will only work if "dovecot" is invoked? Thanks, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost

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[Dovecot] Indexing problems
by Dave Abrahams 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

It looks like something is going very wrong here. Any advice? --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ doveadm -vvvD index '*' doveadm(dave): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_lucene_plugin.so doveadm(dave): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm doveadm(dave): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_acl_plugin, because dlopen() failed: dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so, 10): Symbol not found: _acl_user_module Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so Expected in: flat namespace in /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(dave): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_expire_plugin, because dlopen() failed: dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so, 10): Symbol not found: _expire_set_deinit Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so Expected in: flat namespace in /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(dave): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_quota_plugin, because dlopen() failed: dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so, 10): Symbol not found: _quota_user_module Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so Expected in: flat namespace in /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_zlib_plugin.so doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_lucene_plugin.so doveadm(dave): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.1.9/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin.so doveadm(dave): Debug: Effective uid=501, gid=20, home=/Users/dave doveadm(dave): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mdbox:/Users/dave/Library/Data/LocalIMAP/mdbox doveadm(dave): Debug: fs: root=/Users/dave/Library/Data/LocalIMAP/mdbox, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= doveadm(dave): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /Users/dave/Library/Data/LocalIMAP/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 doveadm(dave): Info: [Gmail].All: Cache is already up to date doveadm(dave): Info: [Gmail].All Mail: Caching mails seq=2..231746 8000/231745Assertion failed: (numDocsInStore*8 == directory->fileLength( (docStoreSegment + "." + IndexFileNames::FIELDS_INDEX_EXTENSION).c_str() )), function closeDocStore, file /tmp/clucene-gmYE/src/core/CLucene/index/DocumentsWriter.cpp, line 210. Abort trap: 6 cone:local dave$ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost

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[Dovecot] Modifying mailbox GUIDs?
by Faheem Patel 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Greetings all, I can view a mailbox's GUID like so: doveadm mailbox status -u guid However, how may I *modify* a mailbox GUID? Can this be done using doveadm or some other tool? If not, how may I go about modifying the dovecot.mailbox.log (where I assume GUID data is stored)? My specific use case has to do with me wanting to modify an existing mailbox's GUID so that its messages are mirrored into a folder of the same name using "dsync mirror". (As we know, dsync utilizes GUIDs to determine mailbox uniqueness) Thanks! -- - Faheem

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[Dovecot] Error: Internal quota calculation error
by Micah Anderson 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hello, I'm using 2.1.7 with seive and mysql quotas. We had an outage the other day where the database server where quotas are stored was not available for a short period of time. In dovecot land, the following types of errors occured in that scenario: Oct 26 22:19:01 grosbeak dovecot: lda(example(a)riseup.net): Error: Internal quota calculation error Oct 26 22:19:01 grosbeak dovecot: lda(example(a)riseup.net): Error: sieve: msgid=<20122132765181x.ABCCE457(a)example.com>: failed to store into mailbox 'Trash': Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-10-26 22:19:01] Oct 26 22:19:01 grosbeak dovecot: lda(example(a)riseup.net): Error: sieve: script /maildir/e/example/.dovecot.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep (user logfile /maildir/e/example/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) I expect that there would be quota calculation errors as dovecot could not reach the database server, but what worried me was the 'failed to store into mailbox' message from sieve. The 'Trash' mailbox in this particular seive script is the correct location for the message to be filed into, but the worrisome message is the 'failed with unsuccessful implicit keep'. I looked through all the message-ids that reported this error and I found that the messages were properly delivered in the end, so this might be some issue interacting between sieve, dovecot and quota and just causing a scary message that can be ignored? thanks for any information you can provide, dovecot is great! micah --

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[Dovecot] backtrace for non-existant %{ldap:attr} on login
by Steffen Kaiser 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm fetching the user and auth data from LDAP, this is the string: pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,homeDirectory=userdb_home,mailUidNumber=userdb_uid,mailGidNumber=userdb_gid,mailLocationDovecot=userdb_mail,uid=userdb_user,=userdb_quota_rule=*:bytes=%{ldap:mailQuotaBytes}, =userdb_quota_rule2=Trash:bytes=+%{ldap:mailQuotaBytesTrash} If mailQuotaBytesTrash or mailQuotaBytes is not present, the LOGIN process does not work: 1 login user pwd 1 NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure. [mailsrv2:2012-10-31 08:56:51] * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. If I add those two attributes, the user can login successfully. dovecot-2.1.10/sbin/dovecot --version 2.1.10 (9cdeab12f3e1) The log entries: 2012-10-31 09:56:51 auth: Panic: pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed 2012-10-31 09:56:51 auth: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4857a) [0x7f2c0528c57a] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x485c6) [0x7f2c0528c5c6] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f2c0525feaf] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x58f2e) [0x7f2c0529cf2e] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x442f5) [0x7f2c052882f5] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_get_space_unsafe+0x68) [0x7f2c05288728] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(str_vprintfa+0x6d) [0x7f2c052a796d] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(str_printfa+0x88) [0x7f2c052a7ac8] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x42682e] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(var_expand_with_funcs+0x6fb) [0x7f2c052ac48b] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb](db_ldap_result_iterate_next+0x12f) [0x42734f] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x428974] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x428f5f] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x4282a1] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f2c05298756] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f2c0529978f] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f2c052986f8] -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.1.10/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f2c052840d3] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb](main+0x376) [0x41bba6] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f2c04449c8d] -> dovecot2.1/auth [0 wait, 1 passdb, 0 userdb]() [0x40cf89] 2012-10-31 09:56:51 auth: Fatal: master: service(auth): child 15865 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) 2012-10-31 09:56:51 imap-login: Warning: Auth connection closed with 1 pending requests (max 0 secs, pid=15869, EOF) - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBUJDqe2oxLS8a3A9mAQI+YQf/Qd4IIeM35Hmmpl1IMcQwJFK4854G5Dku yK+GsWhE2gxI6KaLO6DSI/kpN79qhQRkHsUAHzoPiZ7kQpZprNaEP/CIPkTzw//i HyC2Odpfa8fWUOqtH5Cp6X5spF6hQa4mmQyzgXguF9bdjZkNu4vQ78wRuQGG4eHi BOkNL0b93DsN3NSIoXDpiAiJn1aleTLe7mYkfsGewjb+AN+FpR4hLbf32yRRn8J0 Fkn8agEijixGMXEBD4ZprTbX9NbUr92YPfRycMnA2A00MUUlv/iKlqXRpMLafRjL bnHL/QE80xHoKKJUR96/RjruciIolAtlyYvhTU9ibRpLYm5Hcd9bZg== =iPvg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] copymail deleted
by Christian Rößner 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hi, I had enabled an option in dovecot. mail_attachment_dir = /var/mail/virtual/copymail/attachments After a while I checked /var/mail/virtual and did some cleanup. I did not remember that copymail was specified in dovecot and erased it. Oct 30 10:56:05 mx0 dovecot: imap(hidden): Error: file_istream.stat(/var/mail/virtual/copymail/attachments/6a/50/6a506530265ef7c9feb396410eaf6946036e9a79-b034401e794009503a0400002cb72ff6) failed: No such file or directory Oct 30 10:56:05 mx0 dovecot: imap(hidden): Error: istream-concat: Failed to get size of stream /var/mail/virtual/copymail/attachments/6a/50/6a506530265ef7c9feb396410eaf6946036e9a79-b034401e794009503a0400002cb72ff6 Oct 30 10:56:05 mx0 dovecot: imap(hidden): Error: read() failed: Invalid argument (FETCH for mailbox INBOX UID 196) Oct 30 10:56:05 mx0 dovecot: imap(hidden): Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2012-10-30 10:56:05] in=150 out=950 I have Bacula and have restored most of the stuff, but obviously not all files. That is not too important. But I do not know, how to tell dovecot that it may "forget" about files that produce a "No such file or directory" error. Can I do some "rescan/rebuild" in dovecot? Kind regards -Christian Rößner -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich

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[Dovecot] how to best import Evolution/Thunderbird mail into dovecot?
by Christoph Anton Mitterer 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hi. I'm migrating all my mail archive (some 60 GB) from Evolution (which is really a broken piece of software) into dovecot. Now I face the problem how to do this best... Evolution (which is still a old 2.32.x version) itself uses mbox files, in a special hierarchical structure to allow subfolders and that like. It also stores it's own status info in X-Evolution and X-Evolution-Source mail headers. Unfortunately,... much of the mail was earlier from a Thunderbird installation, which uses it's own status headers (X-Mozilla*) that were not recognised by Evolution. I have no idea which mbox subformat was always used throughout the different programs and versions... 1) Any way to check for that? To make things worse... Thunder(burden) seems to have used a modified From_ line syntax... "^From -<address> <date>$" Ideally I'd like migrate all mail into dovecot (for storage reasons again, mbox) retaining the different status flags (read, forwarded, etc.) and getting rid of the proprietary headers (of course only when they were. First thing I tried was to simply copy mail within Evolution (i.e. dragging&dropping it from the local folders to the IMAP folders from dovecot). - that preserves the status from Evolution, but doesn't restore that from Thunderbird - it clutters up the information of all From_ lines... "<address> <date>" becomes "<address of my default evolution account> <now>" - neither does it handle the special Thunderbird From_ lines - neither does it remove the Thunderbird or the X-Evolution-Source headers - if Evolution has already had corrupted index files (and this is extremely likely... as it happens even immediately during recreating all of them)... so I may loose mail So my idea was that I need a program that: - can parse all the different mbox formats (those that use the quoted ">From" style and those that use Conent-Length) - can differentiate message headers from body (so that I can drop the proprietary headers and replace them by what dovecot uses as headers) - must of course understand multiline message headers 2) Any idea for a tool like that? The meaning of the X-Evolution and X-Mozilla* headers are easy to find on the web.... so I can convert them. So I basically "just" need a tool that parses all kinds of mbox formats... allow me to drop/add headers... and spits out the rest unmodified. 3) dovecot uses some special headers like X-UID and X-IMAPD... will it create these on it's own, the first time it processes the new mbox file? I mean these headers won't be there after creation. 4) Should I drop out (during) conversion... any other mail headers.. that dovecot uses as it's own? Thanks, Chris.

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Re: [Dovecot] Android ICS stock client and IMAP Capability issue.
by Massimiliano Cianelli 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hello, My phone: Android ics 4.1.2 on galaxy nexus. And yes, stock mean the default client that come with the os in IMAP mode. I already know about that configuration parameter, but it will display two time namespace in postlogin capabilities, and so I like much more to adjust the source code to fix the issue. Yes there is k9 but I didn't like it too much, I prefer the stock client and is much important to keep compatibility with stock client then user-installed client. About the issue on Google code, there is thr issue on google code... but Google is a lot slow in fixing those things. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1811 In a few hour I'll update the issue noticing where is hidden the problem. Regards Sent from Galaxy Nexus Robert Schetterer <rs(a)sys4.de> ha scritto: >Am 06.11.2012 07:08, schrieb Ben Morrow: >> At 6AM +0100 on 6/11/12 you (Massimiliano Cianelli) wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> My setup: >>> Dovecot 2 latest, installed to replace courrier IMAP, and off course >>> configured with the dot separator and all folder under INBOX.*. >>> >>> The problem: >>> My phone was driving me mad during the test, due that it will only >>> recognize Inbox. >>> >>> How found the solution: >>> I've started sniffing IMAP traffic on my server and ended up with one >>> difference: >>> On courier it ask for namespace, on dovecot it won't. >>> >>> I gives a better look, and noticed that courier show namespace >>> capability on prelogin banner, adding it too solved the problem. >>> >>> Reason: >>> Android ICS stock client seems do not honor the capability gived after >>> the login. >> >> See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0?highlight=%28capability%29 ; >> you need to set imap_capability and/or get your client fixed. >> >> Ben >> > >Hi, first ,what is the exact meaning of > >"Android ICS stock client" > >do you mean default included email client in standard android in imap >mode, when yes, which version of Android , i like to test my own >however is there changelog/code etc at google for this behave? > >conf example > ># Override the IMAP CAPABILITY response. If the value begins with '+', > # add the given capabilities on top of the defaults (e.g. +XFOO XBAR). > #imap_capability = > >setting stuff here might be complex , or lead to trouble with other >clients, if setting this might fix problems ,with clients it should be >advised in the wiki/example-conf and/or Timo > >or the other way ,for massive used clients there should be >a seperate workaround section in the conf > >But fixing behave clients should be prime option anyway > >Meanwhile use K9mail in Android as best free option in imap mode servers > >Best Regards >MfG Robert Schetterer > >-- >[*] sys4 AG > >http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 >Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München > >Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 >Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer >Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich

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[Dovecot] LMTP benefit vs LDA
by Davide 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hi to all, my question is what is benefit implementing LMTP service replacing LDA i have dovecot 2.1.8 with vpoipmail+qmail and about 500 users now i'm using LDA and i'm interested on LMTP service. Thanks in advance -- */Davide Marchi /Teorema Ferrara Srl /(Tel: /**/+39 0532 783161)/**/ (Fax: +/**/39 0532 783368/**/)/**//**/ /**//**/Davide.Marchi(a)mail.cgilfe.it <mailto:davide.marchi@mail.cgilfe.it?subject=Info> /CONFIDENZIALITA’ *** Questo messaggio, inclusi gli eventuali allegati, è indirizzato solo ai destinatari e può contenere informazioni riservate e confidenziali. Se avete ricevuto il messaggio senza esserne un destinatario, siete pregati di non utilizzare, copiare o distribuire questo messaggio o i suoi allegati. Se avete ricevuto il messaggio per errore, siete pregati di cancellarlo dal vostro sistema, assieme a tutti gli allegati, e di informare immediatamente il mittente,sia ai sensi dell'art. 616 c.p., sia ai sensi del DL n. 196/03. *CONFIDENTIALITY*** This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee(s) and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient(s) or an authorized representative of the intended recipient(s), please do not use, copy, distribute this email or its attachments or take action based on them. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the message and any attachments from your system. *Teorema FerraraSrl - Via Spronello, 7 - 44121 Ferrara Italia - P. IVA 01244490387** P**S**tampa questo messaggio solo se veramente necessario, pensa alla natura! - Please consider whether it is necessary to print this e-mail*

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[Dovecot] sieve
by Christian Rößner 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hi, is there a sieve option that can reject a mail directly without creating a new mail and sending that out? I know about reject "Reject message goes here"; but I am looking for a mechanism that can reject Mail. Postfix can use reject_unverified_recipient to connect to LMTP and ask if a mail would successfully be enqueued and will return the status gotten from the LMTP server if not. Chances are high that the mechanism would work, too, if Dovecot would know about the sieve rule, while getting a connection on LMTP. Does Dovecot know all rules at this point or is sieve handled after the mail has already been accepted? Kind regards -Christian Rößner -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich

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[Dovecot] doveadm import doesn't work
by Andreas Thomsen 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hello, we are running dovecot 2.0.4 on openSuse 11.2. mailboxes are in mdbox-format on local filesystem. we had a powerfailure resulting in many corrupted files and i had to restore some mailboxes. as descibed in wiki, i tried : doveadm import -u <username> mdbox:/path/to/backup/<username>/mdbox INBOX all or doveadm import -u <username> mdbox:/path/to/backup/<username>/mdbox mdbox:/path/to/mailbox/<username>/mdbox all all i get is : usage: doveadm [-Dv] [-f <formatter>] <command> [<args>] altmove [-u <user>|-A] <search query> auth [-a <auth socket path>] [-x <auth info>] <user> [<password>] config [doveconf parameters] director add|flush|map|remove|status dump [-t <type>] <path> expunge [-u <user>|-A] <search query> fetch [-u <user>|-A] <fields> <search query> force-resync [-u <user>|-A] <mailbox> help <cmd> kick [-a <anvil socket path>] [-f] <user mask>[|]<ip/bits> log find|reopen|test mailbox create|delete|list|mutf7|rename|status|subscribe|unsubscribe penalty [-a <anvil socket path>] [<ip/bits>] purge [-u <user>|-A] pw [-l] [-p plaintext] [-r rounds] [-s scheme] [-u user] [-V] quota get|recalc reload search [-u <user>|-A] <search query> stop user [-a <userdb socket path>] [-x <auth info>] <user mask> [...] who [-a <anvil socket path>] [-1] [<user mask>] [<ip/bits>] any idea, whats the problem? kind regards Andreas Thomsen -- DAD Deutscher Adressdienst GmbH Alter Wall 65 20457 Hamburg Postfach 11 35 58 20435 Hamburg Deutschland Tel. 0049 (0)40 7511990 Fax 0049 (0)40 75119911 Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 88115 Geschäftsführerin: Daniela Kunst Steuernummer 48/714/02030 Ust-IdNr. DE813739877

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[Dovecot] Android ICS stock client and IMAP Capability issue.
by Massimiliano Cianelli 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hi, My setup: Dovecot 2 latest, installed to replace courrier IMAP, and off course configured with the dot separator and all folder under INBOX.*. The problem: My phone was driving me mad during the test, due that it will only recognize Inbox. How found the solution: I've started sniffing IMAP traffic on my server and ended up with one difference: On courier it ask for namespace, on dovecot it won't. I gives a better look, and noticed that courier show namespace capability on prelogin banner, adding it too solved the problem. Reason: Android ICS stock client seems do not honor the capability gived after the login. Request: Maybe is possible to put namespace capability in prelogin banner for the next version? That will solve trouble with a setup like the mine and android stock email client. Thank you, Best regards Sent from Galaxy Nexus

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[Dovecot] Security precautions for remote clients
by Roman Gelfand 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Where can I find something like remote client secure dovecot best practices or, perhaps, if there is not many, if you could list major configuration/setup points. Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] Quota
by Christian Rößner 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Hi, is it possible to ask Dovecot for a users quota by talking to the Dovecot server over TCP? I know about doveadm quota -u <user>, but I would like to know, if I can query for that over a network connection (on the Postfix ML they suggested writing a policy service that checks quota. Postfix is not always on the same server as Dovecot is). Does the LMTP protocol give that information somehow? I am not so familiar with LMTP. Or some Unix-Socket to query that could also be configured as inet_listener? Thanks in advance -Christian Rößner -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich

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[Dovecot] maildir S= and W=
by Christoph Anton Mitterer 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Hi. Even new mails delivered by my MDA don't get the ,S= and ,W= fields set... (but when I "upload" a mail via IMAP to dovecot, they are set) Is there some place in dovecot where I need to enable this? Or would it be the MDA that has to calculate and set this already when placing a file in ./new? Thanks, Chris.

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Re: [Dovecot] LMTP benefit vs LDA
by Joseph Tam 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

Daniel Parthey writes: > Davide wrote: >> my question is what is benefit implementing LMTP service replacing >> LDA i have dovecot 2.1.8 with vpoipmail+qmail and about 500 users >> now i'm using LDA and i'm interested on LMTP service. > > with LMTP... > * you dont need to care about mail filesystem permissions > * you can use dovecot lmtp proxy and/or director > * you don't need to spawn a new process for each message One of the (potential) benefit is that a LMTP, because it can handle multiple recipients, has the ability to optimize I/O (or storage?) by using hardlinking to a single copy of a message (deduping). I don't know if Dovecot takes advantage of this in any way though. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] dovecot default service
by mican zhang 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

i install dovecot 2 and when i try ps auxw|grep "dovecot" i just get only 5processes, root 21861 0.0 0.0 14884 980 ? Ss 16:53 0:00 /usr/local/sbin /dovecot dovecot 21862 0.0 0.0 12740 968 ? S 16:53 0:00 dovecot/anvil root 21863 0.0 0.0 12872 1088 ? S 16:53 0:00 dovecot/log root 21865 0.0 0.0 15356 1468 ? S 16:53 0:00 dovecot/config root 21945 0.0 0.0 61148 800 pts/0 S+ 17:04 0:00 grep dovecot , my os is redhat 5.4 and i just install like ./configure make &make install i don't what's wrong?i also test on centos 6.2,and result is the same does anyone has the same issue?and what should i do to fix this?

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[Dovecot] sessionid in logout line
by Aleksandar Lazic 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Dear listmembers. I have the following login_log_format_elements = service=%s user=<%u> session=%{session} method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c %k Maybe I have overseen the config option to add the %{session} also to the logout line. Here a example from my log: ### Nov 3 00:46:43 <HOST> dovecot: imap-login: Login: service=imap, user=<USER>, session=ETV8v4vNfwB/AAAB, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=14874, TLS, TLSv1.1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) zlib compression Nov 3 00:46:43 external dovecot: imap(USER): Disconnected: Logged out in=15649 out=80199 ### Thanks for help and answers. Best regards Aleks

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot dimensioning
by mancyborg＠gmail.com 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Hi Javier, yes i see. Storage for now is just a 3tb sata2 hdd, so i guess that write performance is around 100 MB/s What do you think about that ? Thanks and regards, Mike On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 19:55:35 +0100 Javier de Miguel Rodriguez <javierdemiguel-ext(a)us.es> wrote: > > IMHO, fast storage is the main requirement for dovecot. > > > > El 01/11/2012, a las 16:20, "mancyborg(a)gmail.com" <mancyborg(a)gmail.com> escribió: > > > Hi All, first post here, nice to meet you :) > > > > I've been using dovecot + postfix + clamav + spamassassin for years but always with few users. > > > > Now i must build a server for 1500 users, > > they will use various email software (thunderbird, outlook, ..) > > the webmail (i'm not sure if squirrelmail or roundcube) > > and blackberry devices (with the BIS service). > > > > There will be around 1000 domains (virtual_domains) and postfix will read its users and domains from mysql. > > > > Let's say that they will send and receive around 5000 emails per hour (10K in total per hour). > > > > I was thinking to use karspersky server instead of clamav. > > > > I already have the hardware, it is a server with 4 physical cpu (Intel Xeon E5504 @ 2.00GHz) and 24 gb of ram, > > do you think it is enough ? > > > > > > Thanks for supporting, > > regards and have a nice day, > > Mike

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[Dovecot] dovecot dimensioning
by mancyborg＠gmail.com 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hi All, first post here, nice to meet you :) I've been using dovecot + postfix + clamav + spamassassin for years but always with few users. Now i must build a server for 1500 users, they will use various email software (thunderbird, outlook, ..) the webmail (i'm not sure if squirrelmail or roundcube) and blackberry devices (with the BIS service). There will be around 1000 domains (virtual_domains) and postfix will read its users and domains from mysql. Let's say that they will send and receive around 5000 emails per hour (10K in total per hour). I was thinking to use karspersky server instead of clamav. I already have the hardware, it is a server with 4 physical cpu (Intel Xeon E5504 @ 2.00GHz) and 24 gb of ram, do you think it is enough ? Thanks for supporting, regards and have a nice day, Mike

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Re: [Dovecot] Pigeonhole 3.3 broken against Dovecot 2.1.10
by Daniel L. Miller 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

On 31.10.2012 21:23, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > On 31.10.2012 21:16, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > >> On 31.10.2012 > > 04:26, Timo Sirainen wrote: > >>> I think this is a Dovecot bug, fixed > could also do this by adding -lssl -lcrypto manually to the > > installed > dovecot-config and > >> -left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">I see > pto" already in the DOVECOT_SSL_LIBS section of > > /usr/local/lib/dovecot/dovecot-config. What should be changed? > > Ok - I > read the patch, and modified the LIBDOVECOT_STORAGE section accordingly. > Same comp> > >> Thought I'd see if I could guess the next fix - added the parms to LIBDOVECOT_LOGIN as well. Seems to have fixed it. Sorry for the multiple posts - it's been a long day. -- Daniel

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Re: [Dovecot] Pigeonhole 3.3 broken against Dovecot 2.1.10
by Daniel L. Miller 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

On 31.10.2012 21:23, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > On 31.10.2012 21:16, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > >> On 31.10.2012 > > 04:26, Timo Sirainen wrote: > >>> I think this is a Dovecot bug, fixed > could also do this by adding -lssl -lcrypto manually to the > > installed > dovecot-config and > >> -left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">I see > pto" already in the DOVECOT_SSL_LIBS section of > > /usr/local/lib/dovecot/dovecot-config. What should be changed? > > Ok - I > read the patch, and modified the LIBDOVECOT_STORAGE section accordingly. > Same comp> > >> I take that back - it's not exactly the same compile error. Now it references libdovecot-login.so for the undefined SSL references. -- Daniel

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