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[Dovecot] migrate dovecot files 1.2.16 to 2.0.13 (OpenBSD 5.0)
by Wesley M. 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hi, I have a mailserver(Postfix+MySql) on OpenBSD 4.9 with Dovecot 1.2.16, all works fine. Now i want to do the same but on OpenBSD 5.0. I meet problems using dovecot 2.0.13 on OpenBSD 5.0. Some tests (on the box): telnet 127.0.0.1 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. telnet 127.0.0.1 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. Seems that pop3/imap doesn't work 'netstat -anf inet' tcp 0 0 *.993 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.143 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.995 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.110 *.* LISTEN Therefore, ports are open. When i use Roundcube webmail, i have errors : error imap connection If someone can help me on. Thank you very much. Files to migrate (already tried to modify them) : dovecot.conf / dovecot-sql.conf / and 'dovecot -n ' ###############::::::::dovecot.conf:::::::::::################################# base_dir = /var/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 ssl_cert = /etc/ssl/dovecotcert.pem ssl_key = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list = HIGH:MEDIUM:+TLSv1:!SSLv2:+SSLv3 disable_plaintext_auth = yes default_login_user = _dovecot default_internal_user = _dovecot login_process_per_connection = no login_process_size = 64 mail_location = maildir:/var/mailserv/mail/%d/%n first_valid_uid = 1000 mmap_disable = yes protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve quota postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mailr130.localdomain sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master } auth default { mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 apop passdb { driver=sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb { driver=sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } user = root socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = _postfix group = _postfix } master { path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mode = 0600 user = _dovecot # User running Dovecot LDA group = _dovecot # Or alternatively mode 0660 + LDA user in this group } } } plugin { sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage=~/sieve } plugin { quota = maildir quota_rule = *:storage=5G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=100M quota_warning = storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2 = storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Spam autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Spam autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts } plugin { antispam_signature = X-Spam-Flag antispam_signature_missing = move # move silently without training antispam_trash = trash;Trash;Deleted Items; Deleted Messages antispam_spam = SPAM;Spam;spam;Junk;junk antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/local/bin/sa-learn antispam_mail_sendmail_args = --username=%u antispam_mail_spam = --spam antispam_mail_notspam = --ham antispam_mail_tmpdir = /tmp } ###############::::::::dovecot-sql.conf:::::::################################## driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=mail user=postfix password=postfix default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT email as user, password FROM users WHERE email = '%u' user_query = SELECT id as uid, id as gid, home, concat('*:storage=', quota, 'M') AS quota_rule FROM users WHERE email = '%u' ################### dovecot -n######################################## # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: OpenBSD 5.0 i386 ffs auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 apop base_dir = /var/dovecot/ default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovecot first_valid_uid = 1000 mail_location = maildir:/var/mailserv/mail/%d/%n mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { antispam_mail_notspam = --ham antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/local/bin/sa-learn antispam_mail_sendmail_args = --username=%u antispam_mail_spam = --spam antispam_mail_tmpdir = /tmp antispam_signature = X-Spam-Flag antispam_signature_missing = move antispam_spam = SPAM;Spam;spam;Junk;junk antispam_trash = trash;Trash;Deleted Items; Deleted Messages autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Spam autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Spam autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts quota = maildir quota_rule = *:storage=5G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=100M quota_warning = storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2 = storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/run/dovecot-auth-master { group = _dovecot mode = 0600 user = _dovecot } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = _postfix mode = 0660 user = _postfix } user = root } service imap-login { service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 64 M } service pop3-login { service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 64 M } ssl_cert = /etc/ssl/dovecotcert.pem ssl_cipher_list = HIGH:MEDIUM:+TLSv1:!SSLv2:+SSLv3 ssl_key = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mail_plugins = sieve quota postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mailr130.localdomain sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail } Cheers, Wesley. M www.mouedine.net

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[Dovecot] error bad file number with compressed mbox files
by Jürgen Obermann 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hello, can dsync convert from compressed mbox to compressed mdbox format? When I use compressed mbox files, either with gzip or with bzip2, I can read the mails as usual, but I find the following errors in dovecots log file: imap(userxy): Error: nfs_flush_fcntl: fcntl(/home/hrz/userxy/Mail/mymbox.gz, F_RDLCK) failed: Bad file number imap(userxy): Error: nfs_flush_fcntl: fcntl(/home/hrz/userxy/Mail/mymbox.bz2, F_RDLCK) failed: Bad file number These errors also appear when I use dsync to convert the compressed mbox to mdbox format on a second dovecot server: /opt/local/bin/dsync -v -u userxy backup mdbox:/sanpool/mail/home/hrz/userxy/mdbox dsync(userxy): Error: nfs_flush_fcntl: fcntl(/home/hrz/userxy/Mail/mymbox.gz, F_RDLCK) failed: Bad file number But now dovecot does not find the mails in the folder mymbox.gz on the second dovecot server in mdbox format! The relevant part of the dovcot configuration is: # 2.0.16: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v mail_fsync = always mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib mmap_disable = yes Thank you, -- Jürgen Obermann Hochschulrechenzentrum der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 Tel. 0641-9913054

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Re: [Dovecot] GPFS for mail-storage (Was: Re: Compressing existing maildirs)
by list＠airstreamcomm.net 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Great information, thank you. Could you remark on GPFS services hosting mail storage over a WAN between two geographically separated data centers? ----- Reply message ----- From: "Jan-Frode Myklebust" <janfrode(a)tanso.net> To: "Stan Hoeppner" <stan(a)hardwarefreak.com> Cc: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi>, <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Subject: [Dovecot] GPFS for mail-storage (Was: Re: Compressing existing maildirs) Date: Tue, Jan 3, 2012 2:14 am On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 01:54:32AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Nice setup. I've mentioned GPFS for cluster use on this list before, > but I think you're the only operator to confirm using it. I'm sure > others would be interested in hearing of your first hand experience: > pros, cons, performance, etc. And a ball park figure on the licensing > costs, whether one can only use GPFS on IBM storage or if storage from > others vendors is allowed in the GPFS pool. I used to work for IBM, so I've been a bit uneasy about pushing GPFS too hard publicly, for risk of being accused of being biased. But I changed job in November, so now I'm only a satisfied customer :-) Pros: Extremely simple to configure and manage. Assuming root on all nodes can ssh freely, and port 1191/tcp is open between the nodes, these are the commands to create the cluster, create a NSD (network shared disks), and create a filesystem: # echo hostname1:manager-quorum > NodeFile # "manager" means this node can be selected as filesystem manager # echo hostname2:manager-quorum >> NodeFile # "quorum" means this node has a vote in the quorum selection # echo hostname3:manager-quorum >> NodeFile # all my nodes are usually the same, so they all have same roles. # mmcrcluster -n NodeFile -p $(hostname) -A ### sdb1 is either a local disk on hostname1 (in which case the other nodes will access it over tcp to ### hostname1), or a SAN-disk that they can access directly over FC/iSCSI. # echo sdb1:hostname1::dataAndMetadata:: > DescFile # This disk can be used for both data and metadata # mmcrnsd -F DescFile # mmstartup -A # starts GPFS services on all nodes # mmcrfs /gpfs1 gpfs1 -F DescFile # mount /gpfs1 You can add and remove disks from the filesystem, and change most settings without downtime. You can scale out your workload by adding more nodes (SAN attached or not), and scale out your disk performance by adding more disks on the fly. (IBM uses GPFS to create scale-out NAS solutions http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/network/sonas/ , which highlights a few of the features available with GPFS) There's no problem running GPFS on other vendors disk systems. I've used Nexsan SATAboy earlier, for a HPC cluster. One can easily move from one disksystem to another without downtime. Cons: It has it's own page cache, staticly configured. So you don't get the "all available memory used for page caching" behaviour as you normally do on linux. There is a kernel module that needs to be rebuilt on every upgrade. It's a simple process, but it needs to be done and means we can't just run "yum update ; reboot" to upgrade. % export SHARKCLONEROOT=/usr/lpp/mmfs/src % cp /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/config/site.mcr.proto /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/config/site.mcr % vi /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/config/site.mcr # correct GPFS_ARCH, LINUX_DISTRIBUTION and LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION % cd /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/ ; make clean ; make World % su - root # export SHARKCLONEROOT=/usr/lpp/mmfs/src # cd /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/ ; make InstallImages > > To this point IIRC everyone here doing clusters is using NFS, GFS, or > OCFS. Each has its downsides, mostly because everyone is using maildir. > NFS has locking issues with shared dovecot index files. GFS and OCFS > have filesystem metadata performance issues. How does GPFS perform with > your maildir workload? Maildir is likely a worst case type workload for filesystems. Millions of tiny-tiny files, making all IO random, and getting minimal controller read cache utilized (unless you can cache all active files). So I've concluded that our performance issues are mostly design errors (and the fact that there were no better mail storage formats than maildir at the time these servers were implemented). I expect moving to mdbox will fix all our performance issues. I *think* GPFS is as good as it gets for maildir storage on clusterfs, but have no number to back that up ... Would be very interesting if we could somehow compare numbers for a few clusterfs'. I believe our main limitation in this setup is the iops we can get from the backend storage system. It's hard to balance the IO over enough RAID arrays (the fs is spread over 11 RAID5 arrays of 5 disks each), and we're always having hotspots. Right now two arrays are doing <100 iops, while others are doing 4-500 iops. Would very much like to replace it by something smarter where we can utilize SSDs for active data and something slower for stale data. GPFS can manage this by itself trough it's ILM interface, but we don't have the very fast storage to put in as tier-1. -jf

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[Dovecot] Problem with huge IMAP Archive after Courier migration
by Preacher 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

I have a mail server running Debian 6.0 with Courier IMAP to store project related mail. Currently the maildir of the archive (one user) contains about 37GB of data. Our staff is acessing the archive via Outlook 2007 where they drag their Exchange inbox or sent files to it. The problem with courier is that is sometimes mixes up headers with message bodies, so I wanted to migrate to dovecot. I tried this on my proxy running Debian 7.0 with some test data and this worked fine (OK, spent some hours to get the config files done - Dovecot without authentication). Dovecot version here is 2.0.15. Tried it with our productive system today, but got Dovecot 1.2.15 installed on Debian 6.0 Config files and parameters I took from my test system were not compatible and I didn't get it to work. So I forced to install the Debisn 7.0 packages with 2.0.15 and finally got the server running, I also restarted the whole machine to empty caches. But the problem I got was that in the huge folder hierarchy the downloaded headers in the individual folders disappeared, some folders showed a few very old messages, some none. Also some subfolders disappeared. I checked this with Outlook and Thunderbird. The difference was, that Thunderbird shows more messages (but not all) than Outlook in some folders, but also none in some others. Outlook brought up a message in some cases, that the connection timed out, although I set the timeout to 60s. After being frustrated uninstalled dovecot, went back to Courier and folder contents are displayed correctly again. Anyone a clue what's wrong here? Finally some config information: proxy-server:~# dovecot -n # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae i686 Debian wheezy/sid auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd }

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[Dovecot] Maildir migration and uids
by David Jonas 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

I'm in the process of migrating a large number of maildirs to a 3rd party dovecot server (from a dovecot server). Tests have shown that using imap to sync the accounts doesn't preserve the uidl for pop3 access. My current attempt is to convert the maildir to mbox and add an X-UIDL header in the process. Run a second dovecot that serves the converted mbox. But dovecot's docs say, "None of these headers are sent to IMAP/POP3 clients when they read the mail". Is there any way to sync these maildirs to the new server and maintain the uids? The real goal is keep customers email clients happy when they are pointed at the new server. Am I just wishing?

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[Dovecot] Deliver all addresses to the same mdbox:?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

For archiving purposes I'm delivering all addresses to the same mdbox: like this: passdb { driver = passwd-file args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/passwd } userdb { driver = static args = uid=1000 gid=1000 home=/home/copymail allow_all_users=yes } Yet I'm getting this: Jan 3 19:03:27 mail postfix/lmtp[29378]: 3THjg02wfWzFvmL: to=<firstname.lastname@charite.de@backup.invalid>, relay=mail.charite.de[private/dovecot-lmtp], conn_use=20, delay=323, delays=323/0/0/0, dsn=4.1.1, status=SOFTBOUNCE (host mail.charite.de[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 550 5.1.1 <"firstname.lastname(a)charite.de"@backup.invalid> User doesn't exist: "firstname.lastname(a)charite.de"@backup.invalid (in reply to RCPT TO command)) (using soft_bounce = yes here in Postfix) In short: backup.invalid is delivered to dovecot by means of LMTP (local socket). I thought my static mapping in userdb would enable the lmtp listener to accept ALL recipients and map their $home to /home/copymail - why is that not working? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] Multiple Maildirs per Virtual User
by Ruslan Nabioullin 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

How would it be possible to configure dovecot (2.0.16) in such a way that it would serve several maildirs (e.g., INBOX, INBOX.Drafts, INBOX.Sent, forum_email, [Gmail].Trash, etc.) per virtual user? I am only able to specify a single maildir, but I want all maildirs in /home/my-username/mail/account1/ to be served. e.g., /etc/dovecot/passwd: my-username_account1:{PLAIN}password:my-username:my-group::::userdb_mail=maildir:/home/my-username/mail/account1/INBOX Thanks in advance, Ruslan -- Ruslan Nabioullin rnabioullin(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] What is normal CPU usage of dovecot imap?
by Mikko Lampikoski 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

I got Dual Core Intel Xeon CPU 3.00GHz, over 1000 mailbox and almost 1 dovecot login / second (peak time). Server stats says that load is continually over 2 and cpu usage is 60%. top says that imap is making this load. virtual users are in mysql database and mysqld is running on another server (this server is ok). Do I need better CPU or is there something going on that I do not understand? # dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-4-pve i686 Ubuntu 9.10 nfs log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen: *, [::] ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/**********.crt ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/**********.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/**********.key ssl_key_password: ********** disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes shutdown_clients: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no login_process_size: 128 login_processes_count: 10 login_max_processes_count: 2048 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 3 first_valid_uid: 99 last_valid_uid: 100 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n fsync_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl mbox_min_index_size: 4 mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_size: 2048 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 cache_size: 1024 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=99 gid=99 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail

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[Dovecot] Compressing existing maildirs
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

I've just enabled zlib for our users, and am looking at how to compress the existing files. The routine for doing this at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib seems a bit complicated. What do you think about simply doing: find /var/vmail -type f -name "*,S=*" -mtime +1 -exec gzip -S Z -6 '{}' + I.e. find all maildir-files: - with size in the name ("*,S=*") - modified before I enabled zlib plugin - compress them - add the Z suffix - keep timestamps (gzip does that by default) It's of course racy without the maildirlock, but are there any other problems with this approach ? -jf

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[Dovecot] Dsync fails on second sync for folders with dot in the name
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

I'm in the processes of running our first dsync backup of all users (from maildir to mdbox on remote server), and one problem I'm hitting that dsync will work fine on first run for some users, and then reliably fail whenever I try a new run: $ sudo dsync -u janfrode(a)example.net backup ssh -q mailbackup(a)repo1.example.net dsync -u janfrode(a)example.net $ sudo dsync -u janfrode(a)example.net backup ssh -q mailbackup(a)repo1.example.net dsync -u janfrode(a)example.net dsync-remote(janfrode(a)example.net): Error: Can't delete mailbox directory INBOX/a: Mailbox has children, delete them first The problem here seems to be that this user has a maildir named ".a.b". On the backup side I see this as "a/b/". So dsync doesn't quite seem to agree with itself for how to handle folders with dot in the name. -jf

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[Dovecot] lmtp-postlogin ?
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

We have last-login tracking for imap and pop, and I intend to use this for deciding which users to backup daily. But, it would also be nice to backup users who has only received messages, but not logged in lately.. So is it possible to implement "last-login" tracking for lmtp ? I naively tried copying the settings from imap, but it didn't work: service lmtp-postlogin { executable = script-login /usr/local/sbin/lmtp-postlogin.sh unix_listener lmtp-postlogin { } } service lmtp { executable = lmtp lmtp-postlogin <snip> -jf

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[Dovecot] Newbie: LDA Isn't Logging
by Michael Papet 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Hi, I'm a newbie having some trouble getting deliver to log anything. Related to this, there are no return values unless the -d is missing. I'm using LDAP to store virtual domain and user account information. Test #1: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -e -f mpapet(a)yahoo.com -d zed(a)mailswansong.dom < bad.mail Expected result: supposed to fail, there's no zed account via ldap lookup and supposed to get a return code per the wiki at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA. Supposed to log too. Actual result: nothing gets delivered, no return code, nothing is logged. Test #2: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f mpapet(a)yahoo.com -d dude(a)mailswansong.dom < good.mail Expected result: deliver to dude and return 0. Actual result: delivers, but no return code. Nothing logged. The wiki is vague about the difficulties of getting deliver LDA to log, but I thought I had it covered in my config. I even opened permissions up wide (777) on my log files specified below. Nothing gets logged. The ONLY thing changed in 15-lda.conf is as follows. protocol lda { # Space separated list of plugins to load (default is global mail_plugins). #mail_plugins = $mail_plugins log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda-info.log service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } I'm running plain Debian Testing and used dovecot from Debian's repository. The end-goal is to write a qpsmtpd queue plugin, but I need to figure out what's the matter first. Thanks in advance. mpapet

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[Dovecot] dsync / separator / namespace config-problem
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Guess I don't quite get namespaces, but we have the following namespace configured: $ doveconf namespace namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = subscriptions = yes type = private } But when I try running dsync it complains: $ sudo -u atmail dsync -u janfrode(a)tanso.net mirror mdbox:/tmp/janfrodeboks dsync(atmail): Error: user janfrode(a)tanso.net: Initialization failed: namespace configuration error: list=yes requires prefix=INBOX. to end with separator dsync(atmail): Fatal: User init failed I can fix this by adding "separator = ." to the namespace and dsync is happy, but is changing this now safe, or will this affect existing clients? -jf

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[Dovecot] Trouble with proxy_maybe and auth_default_realm
by Gedalya 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hello, I'm using proxy_maybe and auth_default_realm. It seems that when a user logs in without the domain name, relying on auth_default_realm, and the "host" field points to the local server, I get the Proxying loops to itself error. It does work as expected - log on to the local server without proxying, if the user does include the domain name in the login. (IP's and domain name masked below) No domain: Dec 29 11:49:07 imap01 dovecot: pop3-login: Error: Proxying loops to itself: user=<jedi(a)----.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=00.00.52.18, lip=00.00.241.140 Dec 29 11:49:27 imap01 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<jedi(a)----.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=00.00.52.18, lip=00.00.241.140 With domain: Dec 29 11:52:13 imap01 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<jedi(a)---.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=00.00.52.18, lip=00.00.241.140, mpid=19969 Dec 29 11:52:18 imap01 dovecot: pop3(jedi(a)---.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/1, size=731 Otherwise, e.g. when the proxy host is indeed another host, auth_default_domain works fine, including or not including the domain seems to make no difference, and everything works. I'm using mysql, and I'm able to get around this problem including the following in the password query: IF(host='' or host='00.00.241.140', NULL, 'Y') as proxy_maybe # dovecot --version 2.0.15 # dovecot -n # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 auth_default_realm = ----.com auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 ntlm auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain dict { quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no login_greeting = How can I help you? mail_gid = vmail mail_uid = vmail passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 0.0.0.0 port = 7025 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes ----- dovecot-sql.conf.ext ---- driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=email user=email default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password, \ IF('%s' = 'pop3', host_pop3, host) as host, \ IF(host='' or host='00.00.241.140', NULL, 'Y') as proxy_maybe, \ concat(userid, '@', domain) as destuser, \ password as pass, \ '/stor/mail/domains/%d/%n' AS userdb_home, \ 'maildir:/stor/mail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir' as userdb_mail, \ concat('*:storage=', quota_mb, 'M') as userdb_quota_rule, \ 'vmail' AS userdb_uid, 'vmail' AS userdb_gid \ FROM email WHERE userid = '%n' AND domain = '%d' user_query = SELECT '/stor/mail/domains/%d/%n' AS home, \ 'maildir:/stor/mail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir' as mail, \ concat('*:storage=', quota_mb, 'M') as quota_rule, \ 'vmail' AS uid, 'vmail' AS gid \ FROM email WHERE userid = '%n' AND domain = '%d'

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[Dovecot] imap process limits problem
by Calvin Cochran 31 Dec '11

31 Dec '11

I am having a problem with the number of current processes that I cannot seem to diagnose adequately, and is a possible bug. This will be a bit long, but usually more info is better. I am running dovecot 2.0.16 on a CentOS 5 x86_64 server with the mailstore on gfs (output from dovecot -n at bottom). This is an imap issue. This is mostly to do with one client, but none of my tests indicate an issue with the client side. We have mail_max_userip_connections = 10 for imap, but they are not hitting the limit. We also have verbose_proctitle = yes to help in diagnosing the situation. Most of our clients, including this one, use SSL or TLS and connect on 993. As I understand it, that should have an imap-login process and an imap process per authenticated session. Based on some other diagnosis the client seems to have a PC using Outlook 2010 and an i-device (phone or pad, not sure), both on the office network, and both with imap connections to the server. Based on my analysis it seems like the client is connecting, authenticating, and then closing the session, but the imap-login process does not drop until it times out server side (I don't know a way to tell which device, the PC or i???). One odd thing is that the tcp sessions time out at 2 hours and 11 minutes (this is where the possible bug aspect comes in). I have put a strace on the process, and there does not appear to be any traffic, so I don't understand why the 30 min timeout isn't happening. Based on netstat and verbose_proctitle, at this moment there are 99 connections from the IP in question, all of which show in ps output as: dovecot/imap-login [1 connections (1 TLS)] My understanding is that means they have successfully authenticated, and that there should be line with dovecot/imap [username ip TLS] in ps output, but there isn't, so I am taking that to mean the client closed the imap session. The client ip address puts them on comcast (tcp resets?) and we do have a load balancer in front of two servers, just to add a little challenge to the diagnosis fun. The short term fix has been to increase the process limits. However, it is clearly not a workable solution to increase the limits by 100 every time someone starts accessing the server with their new i??? device. I appreciate your thoughts on this, and I am happy to provide additional useful debug info if I have missed something. Thanks, Calvin output from dovecot -n auth_mechanisms = plain apop cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain auth_worker_max_count = 400 default_process_limit = 400 disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 login_greeting = EMCS ready. mail_fsync = never maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes mmap_disable = yes passdb { driver = vpopmail } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size mail_log_group_events = no } protocols = imap pop3 shutdown_clients = no ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { driver = vpopmail } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 pop3_no_flag_updates = yes pop3_uidl_format = %f }

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[Dovecot] fts_solr break-imap-search 2.1
by Daniel L. Miller 31 Dec '11

31 Dec '11

Is "break-imap-search" still required using 2.1 with Solr to index TEXT & BODY searches? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] crashes on 2.0.16
by Cor Bosman 31 Dec '11

31 Dec '11

Hey all, I upgraded some servers today from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze, and after the upgrade I started getting dovecot crashes. I was on 2.0.13 but got these there as well, and hoped upgrading to 2.0.16 would help. It didn't. Anyone have an idea? Cor Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.245530] __ratelimit: 122 callbacks suppressed Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.245536] imap[19665]: segfault at 7f108efb7f60 ip 00007f108ecd37e0 sp 00007fff73c3d658 error 5 in libc-2.11.2.so[7f108ec5d000+158000] Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.245663] BUG: Bad page map in process imap pte:00000001 pmd:09767067 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.252563] page:ffffea0000000000 flags:(null) count:-84 mapcount:-84 mapping:(null) index:0 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.261186] addr:00007f108ef46000 vm_flags:08000070 anon_vma:(null) mapping:ffff88012b6e5238 index:2e9 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.270804] vma->vm_ops->fault: filemap_fault+0x0/0x460 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.276172] vma->vm_file->f_op->mmap: generic_file_mmap+0x0/0x60 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282424] Pid: 19665, comm: imap Tainted: G B 2.6.32.36-xsserver #1 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282429] Call Trace: Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282441] [<ffffffff81103ee5>] print_bad_pte+0x1d5/0x280 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282448] [<ffffffff8110568a>] unmap_vmas+0xa1a/0xa20 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282458] [<ffffffff8137e501>] ? sch_direct_xmit+0x81/0x1d0 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282465] [<ffffffff8110b60d>] exit_mmap+0xbd/0x190 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282473] [<ffffffff81059cbd>] mmput+0x4d/0x120 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282481] [<ffffffff8105f282>] exit_mm+0x112/0x150 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282488] [<ffffffff8106104d>] do_exit+0x13d/0x800 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282496] [<ffffffff81072f31>] ? __dequeue_signal+0xe1/0x200 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282503] [<ffffffff81061765>] do_group_exit+0x55/0xd0 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282510] [<ffffffff81075251>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x1e1/0x3e0 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282517] [<ffffffff8100b315>] do_signal+0x75/0x7d0 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282523] [<ffffffff81103203>] ? print_vma_addr+0xb3/0x120 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282533] [<ffffffff8143856e>] ? printk+0x41/0x43 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282541] [<ffffffff81036436>] ? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0xf6/0x1e0 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282547] [<ffffffff810365ee>] ? bad_area_access_error+0x4e/0x60 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282553] [<ffffffff8100bac7>] do_notify_resume+0x57/0x60 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282559] [<ffffffff8100cadc>] retint_signal+0x48/0x8c # 2.0.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32.36-xsserver x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 auth_cache_size = 1 M auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ default_vsz_limit = 2 G disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 20 lock_method = dotlock login_greeting = User-IMAP ready. login_trusted_networks = 194.109.26.128/27 mail_fsync = always mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mailbox_idle_check_interval = 1 mins maildir_stat_dirs = yes mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = maildir:%Nu:INDEX=/var/spool/mail/dovecot-control/indexes/%1u/%2u/%u:INBOX=%Nu:CONTROL=/var/spool/mail/dovecot-control/%1u/%2u/%u/INBOX prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.masterusers driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = cache_key=%u%r dovecot driver = pam } plugin { quota = fs:User quota } protocols = imap service auth { client_limit = 5000 } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 8 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 2 G } service imap { process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 2 G } shutdown_clients = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/xx ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/xx userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_capability = IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_max_userip_connections = 24 mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota" }

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[Dovecot] Upgrade/Migration
by sottilette＠rfx.it 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Current box: CentOS 4.x (32 bit), dovecot 1.02, mbox format New box (supposed): CentOS 6.x (32/64 bit ? ), dovecot 2.04, mbox format The server have about 3.000 active users (unix users); /var/mail is about 100 GB; /home/Users about 150 GB I read the docs and searched on the net, but still request hints for planning the migration. 32/64 bit? Tricks to avoid users get all messages ...? Better first update the old server from 1.02 to 2.0x or ..? Any hints/comment appreciated ;-) Thanks, P. 1.02 dovecot.conf: ----------------------- protocols = pop3 pop3s imap imaps listen = [::] log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot.info.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_full_filesystem_access = yes first_valid_uid = 100 mbox_read_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } -----------------------

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[Dovecot] mbox, hierarchical folders/folders and IMAP
by Alexander Chekalin 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hello, I'm now dealing with funny problem. I try to use Dovecot (2.1.rc1, actually) and mbox format to store old mailing, to keep logic of "one folder = one file". If I'd choose Maildir, I'd be able to create hierarchical folders (like "OldMail -> Maillists -> Dovecot"), and in fact on disk such a folders would be stored as real folders with dots in their names. In PHP it is easy to create with "imap_createmailbox()" function, I'd simple fire it 3 times (for "OldMail", for "OldMail.Maillists" and for "OldMail.Maillists.Dovecot"). But when I do the same with mbox, in fact it creates separate files (indeed, named "OldMail", "OldMail.Maillists" and "OldMail.Maillists.Dovecot") instead of creating filesystem folders ("OldMail/Maillists/Dovecot"). PHP is not guilty, Thunderbird won't create such folders as well. I can only create folders myself (say, with mkdir in the shell), chown it, and the it perfectly works in IMAP. Now I just wanted to know, are there any way to create IMAP-folders and subfolders using standard IMAP functionality? Thank you, Alexander

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[Dovecot] Using Amazon S3 storage for Maildir ?
by Forrest Aldrich 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

I wonder if anyone has tried using an IMAP server with Amazon S3 as a backend. There would be many factors to consider (speed, etc). However, moreso, I don't know that Maildir(++) would support multiple folders that might be linked into the cloud. For example, higher-I/O local incoming mail is on disk, some folders archived on S3. Could be easily done by simply creating another account and storing its Maildir in S3 -- Curious....

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[Dovecot] How to serve a subset of IMAP folders for hand held devices.
by David Pottage 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hello I am currently running dovecot 1.2.15 on my home server. I have over 200 folders in personal email account, and I have found that my smart-phone does not work well trying to display that many folders. I solved the problem by creating a second instance of dovecot running on a non standard port, and configured it to serve only a subset my email folders, so that way the email client on my smartphone works well and I can read the emails I am interested in on the move. The process of configuring two instances of dovecot on the same machine serving different views of the same mailbox was faily complex, so I think it would be worth documenting the process in an FAQ or suchlike for other users. I thought a good place to write up my method would be in the HowTo section of the Dovecot Wiki. Is that a good idea? Can I request an account to edit the Wiki, or should I send a draft text to an editor? Are there any Dovecot experts here who can review my methods and suggest improvements? -- David Pottage

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[Dovecot] /usr/lib/dovecot/imap ignores log settings?
by Asheesh Laroia 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Hi Dovecot peeps, I'm enjoying running /usr/lib/dovecot/imap directly as a PREAUTH IMAP pipe. I find that it outputs log messages whose severity is INFO to stdout. I'm running it as follows: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c /tmp/dovecot.conf and I see the following messages output to stdout: * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in as paulproteus imap(paulproteus): Info: Connection closed bytes=0/305 Naturally, the first line is great. My /tmp/dovecot.conf is: <cut here> # single-dbox mail_location = sdbox:~/Maildir/dbox log_path = syslog info_log_path = /dev/null </cut> I'm also attaching strace output, created by running this command: echo | strace /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c /tmp/dovecot.conf > /tmp/straced 2>&1 (The point of the "echo | " is to provide a newline and then EOF to /usr/lib/dovecot/imap.) You can see in the strace output that /usr/lib/dovecot/imap outputs the "Connection closed" message to file descriptor 2. I'd like that message to actually not be printed, which is why I set log_path to syslog. -- Asheesh.

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[Dovecot] Dsync Error Can't Delete Mailbox
by Asai 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Greetings, I'm getting this error in the dsync logs: Warning: Destination mailbox INBOX has been modified, need to recreate it before we can continue syncing dsync(foo(a)bar.org): Error: Can't delete mailbox INBOX: INBOX can't be deleted. In this situation, what should I do to remedy the problem? Just delete the backup and rebuild? -- --asai

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[Dovecot] Received date no longer email date?
by Brian L. Matthews 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

I just upgrade from dovecot 1.2 to dovecot 2.0.16. I use dovecot as a local IMAP server to archive email from my corporate email account (on Exchange). I don't have any automated archiving, I just periodically move messages from my Exchange inbox to the IMAP inbox. I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.8 using Entourage as my mail client. In the previous version of dovecot, the Received date of the email was preserved when I moved a message, but it's not in 2.0.16, it's set to the date and time I move the message. If I open a message, the date displayed is the date on the message as expected. I converted my config from 1.2 with $ doveconf -n -c dovecot.conf > dovecot-2.conf It spit out various warnings but, once I'd created a dovenull user, seemed to work fine. Here's my configuration info: $ dovecot --version 2.0.16 $ dovecot -n # 2.0.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 10.8.0 i386 disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = 127.0.0.1 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir passdb { args = login driver = pam } service auth { user = root } service imap-login { process_limit = 16 } service imap { process_limit = 64 } ssl = no userdb { driver = passwd } I'd like to get it back to preserving the Received date, any help you can provide will be appreciated. Brian

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[Dovecot] proxying, SSL, and client certificate
by Mike Abbott 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

How do I configure dovecot-2.0.x to present a client SSL certificate when proxying? If dovecot on server1.example.com has: passdb { driver = static args = proxy=y host=server2.example.com nopassword=y ssl=yes } and dovecot on server2.example.com has: ssl_verify_client_cert = yes auth_ssl_require_client_cert = yes then when a client connects to server1 and authenticates, a connection is established to server2 but the SSL handshake fails because server1 doesn't present a client certificate. I don't see where ssl_client_ctx is tied to a client certificate in ssl-proxy-openssl.c. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Lucene vs Solr with 2.1 single server
by Daniel L. Miller 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

For a single server, is the Lucene backend now "better" than running a Solr server? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Dovecot imap proxy to nginx, incompatible
by David Jonas 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

It appears that using dovecot to proxy to nginx imap proxy doesn't work. >From tcpdump and browsing the source it appears dovecot sends, C CAPABILITY\r\nL LOGIN <user> <pass>\r\n and nginx only responds to the CAPABILITY command. Is this a problem with dovecot sending the two commands without waiting for the first to complete or is it nginx's trouble with not handling it correctly? A quick test with a perl script confirms: #!/usr/bin/perl -w $|++; use IO::Socket; use strict; my ($host, $user, $pass) = @ARGV; my $s = new IO::Socket::INET(Proto => 'tcp', PeerAddr => $host, PeerPort => 143); die "Could not create socket $!\n" unless $s; while(<$s>) { print $_; last if /OK/; } print $s "C CAPABILITY\r\nL LOGIN $user $pass\r\n"; while(<$s>) { print $_; last if /OK/; } print $s "Q logout\r\n"; while(<$s>) { print $_; last if /OK/; } close($s); ## Output: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 QUOTA AUTH=PLAIN C OK completed * BYE Q OK completed

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[Dovecot] UIDL format
by sottilette＠rfx.it 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

How can be sure of the current POP3 UIDL? Below my current config (to be migrated to 2.0.x ASAP). Thanks, P. # dovecot -n # 1.0.2: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/mail/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/mail/dovecot.info.log protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps listen: * login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 100 mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_full_filesystem_access: yes mbox_read_locks: dotlock fcntl mbox_write_locks: dotlock fcntl mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] imap be killed (core dump disabled)
by Dongyu.Zhen 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Hello everybody, When I modify the dovecot imap source ,in "src/imap/" dir, I meet the Error below: Error: child (imap) kill (core dump disabled). In fact, I want to record the imap operation through dovecot. So, I modify every source file in "src/imap/cmd-IMAP_OPERATION" ,when the imap command function is executed, it will write to a file cur time and operation. Could you tell me why the imap be killed? Thank you.

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[Dovecot] managesieve vacation script bounces/frozen with a 550 error.
by Jason X, Maney 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

Dear all, I have been trying to get this problem out of the way but I just cant seem to get it right. I hope someone can point me in the right direction here. I have come up with a vacation script as below, which can be send out from my Postfix SMTP server to my smarthost at the ISP, and yet for some reason it is not sent out at my ISP server. The guys at the ISP have sent me the full error they are getting on their Exim SMTP server. My dovecot version is: ========== dovecot --version 1.2.9 ========== ...and my managesieve configs are as follows: ========== dovecot -n |grep sieve protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps managesieve listen(managesieve): *:4190 login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve mail_plugins: sieve quota sieve: /var/vmail/sieve/%d/%u/sieve-script sieve_global_path: /var/vmail/sieve/default.sieve sieve_storage: /var/vmail/sieve/%d/%u ========== Error from my ISP smarthost: ========== +++ 1ReM7W-000Dm8-My has not completed +++ 2011-12-26 09:34:18 1ReM7W-000Dm8-My <= <> H=(myhostname.mydomain.com<http://havana.Speedlinkcargo.com>) [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] P=esmtps X=TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256 S=1451 id=dovecot-sieve-1324712058-257846-0@havana T="Out of office reply" 2011-12-26 09:34:18 1ReM7W-000Dm8-My ** jsxmoney(a)gmail.comR=send_to_gateway T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<jsxmoney(a)gmail.com>: host smtp.myisp.com<http://smtp2.yoafrica.com>[yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy]: 550 Bounces must have only a single recipient 2011-12-26 09:34:18 1ReM7W-000Dm8-My Frozen (delivery error message ========== My vacation sieve script is: ========== ## /* empty script */ require ["fileinto", "vacation"]; vacation # Reply at most once a day to a same sender :days 1 :subject "Out of office reply" # List of additional recipient addresses which are included in the auto replying. # If a mail's recipient is not the envelope recipient and it's not on this list, # no vacation reply is sent for it. :addresses "me(a)mydomain.com" "I'm out of office, please contact Joan Doe instead. Best regards Me"; ========== What I am not sure of is, is this a problem I need to fix or is it something my ISP need to work on, on their Exim? If its something they can work on can you also give me pointers so I can work with them to fix it? Many thanx, JXM.

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[Dovecot] Dovolená
by pasek＠valbek.cz 26 Dec '11

26 Dec '11

Dobrý den, od 23.12. do 30.12. jsem na dovolené. V případě nutnosti volejte na mobil. S pozdravem Bc. Ladislav Pašek vedoucí oddělení IT a vizualizace mobil: +420 776 140 489 e-mail: pasek(a)valbek.cz Valbek, s.r.o. Vaňurova 505/17, 460 02 Liberec 3 tel./fax: +420 485 103 336, +420 485 103 346 www.valbek.cz

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[Dovecot] dovecot / postfix mail bounce problem
by IcedEarth 25 Dec '11

25 Dec '11

Hello, i use a globalsieve rule to collect spam for all mail accounts in a specific mailbox. Here is the code: vi /var/vmail/globalsieverc require ["fileinto"]; # Move spam to junk folder if not address :is "to" "antispam(a)xxx.com" { if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" ["YES"] { redirect "antispam(a)xxx.com"; stop; } } But the spam mails are not delivered. cat /var/log/mail.info postfix/pipe[32301]: AD8F78E2128D: to=<antispam(a)xxx.de>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.14, delays=0.08/0/0/0.06, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail forwarding loop for antispam(a)xxx.de) Why is there a loop? I don't unterstand that. Any help? Thanks! Iced -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/dovecot---postfix-mail-bounce-problem-tp33029725p3302… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] sieve in sql or reporting
by Bradley Giesbrecht 24 Dec '11

24 Dec '11

With dovecot2 and pigeonhole sieve/managesieve is it currently possible to store sieve rules in an sql database? If not is there a way to query all accounts; looking for things like active vacation rules? Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht

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[Dovecot] Corrupted index cache file and high CPU usage
by hydra 24 Dec '11

24 Dec '11

I suspect, that dovecot v2.0.16 under Linux (tested on Gentoo 3.0.4 Hardened, Gentoo 3.0.6, Gentoo 3.1.4) causes 100% cpu utilization when index.cache is broken and doveadm is lanched. Dovecot uses LDAP as the userdb and provides IMAP and LDA. Because each user has a quota, the doveadm's expunge functionality is used to get rid of old trashed mail. The mail log: Dec 12 07:38:59 www dovecot: imap(user): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/data/mail/domain.tld/user/mail/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Doveadm is launched as: doveadm -D expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 1w Mail is stored on ext4 and flush will use all of the CPU capacity like this: load average: 4.00, 4.01, 4.05 ps: root 26401 98.2 0.0 0 0 ? R Dec20 1369:49 [flush-253:1] lsblk: vg_data-mail (dm-1) 253:1 0 500M 0 /var/data/mail dovecot -n: # 2.0.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.4-hardened-r5 x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.0.3 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes hostname = mail.domain.tld lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = * mail_debug = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_home = /var/data/mail/domain.tld/%n mail_location = maildir:~/mail mail_plugins = " mail_log notify zlib quota" mail_uid = vmail 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-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { autocreate = Sent autocreate2 = Trash autocreate3 = Spam autosubscribe = Sent autosubscribe2 = Trash autosubscribe3 = Spam fts = squat fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=100M quota_rule2 = Trash:ignore quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_quota_max_scripts = 5 sieve_quota_max_storage = 5M } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)domain.tld protocols = imap sieve 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 quota-warning { executable = script /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = vmail } ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/mail.domain.tld-cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/postfix/mail.domain.tld-key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes protocol lda { info_log_path = log_path = mail_plugins = " mail_log notify zlib quota sieve" } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " mail_log notify zlib quota autocreate fts fts_squat imap_zlib imap_quota" } dovecot-ldap.conf.ext: hosts = localhost dn = user dnpass = pass base = base auth_bind = yes user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid,mailboxQuota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ user_filter = (&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(uid=%u)) pass_attrs = uid=user pass_filter = (&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(uid=%u)) iterate_attrs = uid=user iterate_filter = (objectClass=inetOrgPerson) I suspect, that this is something to do with Dovecot, because after deleting the dovecot.index.cache file, everything went back to normal. When this happens, I cannot unmount the drive nor a system reboot works. Thank you !

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[Dovecot] Limit maximum connections for user/IP on proxy
by Martin Abrahamsson 23 Dec '11

23 Dec '11

Hi, Is it possible to limit the maximum number of IMAP connections allowed for a user from each IP address, on the proxy server instead of on the mail store server? mail_max_userip_connections works well when the client is connection to the mail store without proxy, but when using proxies the POP/IMAP server will register the remote IP (rip) as the proxy server's IP address - thus a low limit will be reached quite easily. Thanks -- Martin Abrahamsson

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[Dovecot] Dovolená
by pasek＠valbek.cz 23 Dec '11

23 Dec '11

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[Dovecot] OS/Distro wars
by Alan Brown 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS

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[Dovecot] file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory ...
by LE NORCY Arnaud 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

Hello, i get this message every time that a user has enabled the vacation script (into Horde webmail) in my mail.err log file: Dec 22 10:18:16 mailserver dovecot: deliver(user324): file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory normally the reply is sent only once in the number of configured days.. but for all users the reply is sent every time... the day variable is "ignored.." because the file "dovecot.lda-dupes" is not wrotten i think.. ~# dpkg -l | grep dovecot ii dovecot-common 1:1.2.15-4 secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes ii dovecot-imapd 1:1.2.15-4 secure IMAP server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes ii dovecot-pop3d 1:1.2.15-4 secure POP3 server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes dovecot.conf : protocols = imap imaps pop3s managesieve mail_location = maildir:/ext/spool/imap/%1Mu/%u mail_uid = vmail mail_gid = vmail protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota sieves.fr } .. plugin { .. sieve_dir = /ext/spool/sieve/%1Mu/%u sieve = /ext/spool/sieve/%1Mu/%u/dovecot.sieve } rights are OK for user "vmail" in /ext/spool/sieve/%1Mu/%u/ ....; for example : /ext/spool/sieve/d/user324# ls -la total 20 drwxr-x--- 3 vmail vmail 4096 20 déc. 19:15 . drwxr-x--- 43 vmail vmail 4096 17 nov. 10:14 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 vmail vmail 10 20 déc. 18:38 dovecot.sieve -> ingo.sieve -rw-r----- 1 vmail vmail 65 20 déc. 19:15 dovecot.svbin -rw-r----- 1 vmail vmail 88 20 déc. 18:38 ingo.sieve drwxr-x--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 20 déc. 18:38 tmp any ideas?thanks Arnaud,

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[Dovecot] Patch for dovecot 1.2.16 (and .17) for vpopmail module
by Alessio Cecchi 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

Hi Timo, I love dovecot but I love also vpopmail and its functions for manage user limits (via vmoduser). Unfortunately in dovecot 1.2.x auth default set to use "vpopmail" is unable to apply this limits. Only if used with checkpassword limits works fine but in the dovecot.log only user (without @domain) is logged. So, based on the code of dovecot 2.0, I have created this very simple patch that correct this bug. Thanks for consideration -- Alessio Cecchi is: on LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice Assistenza Sistemi Linux -> http://www.cecchi.biz/ Hosting Linux -> http://www.hosting-linux.it @ PLUG -> ex-Presidente, adesso senatore a vita, http://www.prato.linux.it

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[Dovecot] Global Sieve Script Includes no longer works with 056934abd2ef
by Thomas Leuxner 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

Latest Dovecot Auto-Build 2.1.rc1-0~auto+42 (056934abd2ef) fails to include global Sieve Scripts. Not sure this is specific to Stephan's Repository. Rolling back to older version restores functionality. ==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log <== Dec 22 12:13:52 spectre dovecot: lmtp(32246): Connect from local Dec 22 12:13:52 spectre dovecot: lmtp(32246, tlx(a)leuxner.net) Error: jo99GvAQ8072fQAAqZii3w: sieve: failed to open script /var/vmail/domains/leuxner.net/tlx/.dovecot.sieve (view user logfile /var/vmail/domains/leuxner.net/tlx/.dovecot.sieve.log for more information) Dec 22 12:13:52 spectre dovecot: lmtp(32246, tlx(a)leuxner.net) jo99GvAQ8072fQAAqZii3w: msgid=<4EF310E0.6030006(a)Media-Brokers.com>: saved mail to INBOX $ cat /var/vmail/domains/leuxner.net/tlx/.dovecot.sieve.log sieve: info: started log at Dec 22 12:13:52. main_script: line 2: error: included global script 'global.sieve' does not exist. main_script: error: validation failed. [ Script Calling Global ] $ head /var/vmail/domains/leuxner.net/tlx/.dovecot.sieve require ["include","copy","fileinto","vacation"]; include :global "global.sieve"; […] $ ls -al /var/vmail/conf.d/leuxner.net/sieve/ total 12 dr-x------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 7 15:09 . dr-x------ 4 vmail vmail 4096 Mar 17 2010 .. -r-------- 1 vmail vmail 3647 Dec 7 15:09 global.sieve $ doveconf -n # 2.1.rc1 (056934abd2ef): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 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 { user = doveauth } service auth { client_limit = 1224 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_plugins = acl quota stats imap_acl imap_quota mail_log notify imap_stats }

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[Dovecot] Backing Up To Windows File Server
by Asai 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

Greetings, Working with dsync and setting up backups to a Windows file server. Problem seems to be that Windows is renaming the dovecot mail files (maildir) to Windows friendly filenames, and losing the Dovecot name. For example, 1323817925.M36368P32049.triata.globalchangemultimedia.net,S=2255,W=2318:2,S becomes 1AETPH~X. Does anyone have any ideas about how to tell Windows to not do this? Or is it not possible? -- --asai

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[Dovecot] lmtp logging incomplete (does not tell what mailbox mail is actually being saved to!)
by Gary Chodos 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

We created a new virtual domain and created a user in that domain in our pgsql database. Instead of creating any directory structure in /home/virtual/mail/<domain>/<user>, I just sent a test email to see if dovecot's lmtp would autocreate. And it did! And mail appears to be delivered to an inbox.. but, logging is weird and I'm not sure everything is working as it should because: Dec 20 23:01:28 mx dovecot: lmtp(21458, user(a)example.com) lUDFG8tZ8U7SUwAAO3tENA: msgid=<20111221040122.GP13367(a)hostname.example.org>: saved mail to . so why doesn't dovecot log where mail is stored/saved? thanks, Gary

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[Dovecot] Problem listing SPECIAL-USE flags
by Patrick Ben Koetter 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Timo, we want to implement SPECIAL-USE in Thunderbird (TB), but we've run into problems. I believe you could help change that. Here's the problem: By default TB only lists subscribed (LSUB) folders when it accesses an IMAP server. However when I do a LSUB on recent Dovecot 2.1 code from mercurial I don't get to see the SPECIAL-USE flags. Therefore TB fails to identify which folders it should use and map to until someone tells it to list all folders (LIST) manually. Central part of the SPECIAL-USE idea was/is to require as little user interaction as possible to automatically setup a MUA to do the right thing. Speculating that probably most MUAs will do a LSUB by default and never will get to see SPECIAL-USE flags I think it is easier to have the server-side promote the flags. Do you think that would be possible? Just to verify I configured Dovecot as you would expect for SPECIAL-USE: I've set Dovecot 2.1 to autocreate and autosubscribe SPECIAL-USE mailboxes like this: namespace inbox { ... mailbox AltDrafts { special_use = \Drafts auto = subscribe } ... } This is what I get: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Dovecot 2.1 ready. t1 login alice(a)example.com secret t1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS FUZZY SPECIAL-USE] Logged in t2 LSUB "" "%" * LSUB () "." "Trash" * LSUB () "." "AltDrafts" * LSUB () "." "AltSent" * LSUB () "." "Archives" * LSUB () "." "AltTrash" * LSUB () "." "AltJunk" * LSUB () "." "AltArchive" * LSUB () "." "Junk" t2 OK Lsub completed. t3 LIST "" "%" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Sent) "." "AltSent" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "Archives" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Archive) "." "AltArchive" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Junk) "." "AltJunk" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Junk" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Trash) "." "AltTrash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Drafts) "." "AltDrafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" t3 OK List completed. t4 logout * BYE Logging out t4 OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. Thanks, p@rick -- state of mind () http://www.state-of-mind.de Franziskanerstraße 15 Telefon +49 89 3090 4664 81669 München Telefax +49 89 3090 4666 Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563

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[Dovecot] compile dovecot-sieve for dovecot 1.2.9 (ubuntu pkg)
by Julien Lacroix 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Cheers, I've a running Dovecot 1.2.9, installed from the ubuntu 10.04 Lucid LTS repository and trying to get the dovecot-sieve plugin (which seems to be not included in the lucid repo) compiled. Method 1 listed in http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot wont work, seems the rpm was build without --enable-header-install Is it sufficient to download the sources from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dovecot/dovecot_1.2.9.orig.tar… and use them for ./configure --with-dovecot=$path ? thanks and happy holidays julien

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[Dovecot] Can I block dovecot from deleting read messages, after being fetched?
by Vasiliu Adrian 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hi all, Is there an option to disable (server-side) the deletion of read mails after fetching them via POP3, regardless of the MUA config? Here are the issues I'm facing: - my boss wants to force everyone into a server-side "no delete message"-policy, for archiving, auditing and backup&recovery purposes - the requisite here is pop3, so imap is out - the mailusers are virtual users (held in a mysql db) - don't have the budget to set up a separate mail-arvhing server - don't want to use shaggy ways (aka immutable flag, r/w permissions for Maildirs, etc) dovecot --version 2.0.15 Help? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Sieve filter not working
by Lars Larsen 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hi, Dovecot, the "deliver" LDA and managesieve are all working. However, the sieve rules do not seem to work: System info: CenOS 2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP dovecot-pigeonhole-2.0.9-2.el6_1.1.x86_64 dovecot-2.0.9-2.el6_1.1.x86_64 /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: mbox_write_locks = fcntl protocols = imap pop3 sieve passdb { driver = pam } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } /etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-lda.conf: postmaster_address = postmaster(a)ourdomain.net hostname = mail.ourdomain.net sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes protocol lda { log_path = info_log_path = syslog_facility = messages mail_plugins = sieve } /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-sieve.conf plugin { sieve = ~/sieve/roundcube.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } /home/lars/sieve/roundcube.sieve: require ["fileinto"]; # rule:[admin-root] if anyof (header :contains "From" "root", header :contains "Subject" "logwatch") { fileinto "Admin"; }

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Re: [Dovecot] Why imap_open doesn't work as is expected to?
by Joseph Tam 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

I M <profymath(a)yahoo.com> writes: > Question: Why imap_open function doesn't work while getting a mailbox through telnet works perfectly? > Note:?imap.so is loaded!?imap.ini is parsed!? After the imap_open() invocation, you should check for error messages in your PHP logs, or dump all the errors using imap_errors(); Without more details, I would say you dropped one of those /option-flags or got the mailbox argument syntax wrong. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] Mail lost - maybe a bug???
by Marco Carcano 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hello everybody I'm struggling against what seems a really serious trouble: sometimes mail get lost I did all the possible checks, but they seems really lost - I know is absurd, but it seems so it has been noticed by two users on my server: intially I tought that was their mistake (mail deleted, mail into spam, ecc), but it wasn't I deeply checked mail logs, and it seems that mail are delivered (the path is postfix->amavis->dovecotlda) - log files says that messages are delivered, but sometimes we lost a message. I also tried to get into the Maildir and grep the subject of the lost email: if it was addressed to more recipients I'm able to get it on some of them, but not to all (look at the example below) I hope I have clearly explained everything, otherwise let me knowmydomain now an extract from the log file: Oct 27 11:20:29 srv001 postfix/smtpd[24562]: connect from usstlz- psecap06.emerson.com[144.191.128.17] Oct 27 11:20:30 srv001 postfix/smtpd[24562]: CE0B74E4A9F: client=usstlz-psecap06.emerson.com[144.191.128.17] Oct 27 11:20:31 srv001 postfix/cleanup[25157]: CE0B74E4A9F: warning: header Subject: =?utf-8?B? RW1lcnNvbiBHbG9iYWwgVXNlcnMgRXhjaGFuZ2UgMjAxMiBpbiBEw7xzc2VsZG9yZiA6IFJlaWNoZW4gU2llIGpldHp0IElocmUgUHLDpHNlbnRhdGlvbmVuIGVpbg ==?= from usstlz-psecap06.emerson.com[144.191.128.17]; from=<Emerson.News(a)emersonprocess.com > to=<oil(a)mydomain.ch> proto=ESMTP helo=<USSTLZ-PSECAP06.EMERSON.COM> Oct 27 11:20:31 srv001 postfix/cleanup[25157]: CE0B74E4A9F: message- id=<e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862(a)usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org> Oct 27 11:20:31 srv001 postfix/qmgr[11827]: CE0B74E4A9F: from=<Emerson.News(a)emersonprocess.com >, size=22689, nrcpt=3 (queue active) Oct 27 11:20:33 srv001 dovecot: imap(lromano): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=632/34319 Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/smtpd[25162]: connect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/smtpd[25162]: B16284E4AA2: client=localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/cleanup[25157]: B16284E4AA2: message- id=<e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862(a)usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org> Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/qmgr[11827]: B16284E4AA2: from=<Emerson.News(a)emersonprocess.com >, size=23094, nrcpt=3 (queue active) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 amavis[22923]: (22923-01) Passed CLEAN, [144.191.128.17] [155.177.20.144] <Emerson.News(a)emersonprocess.com> -> <user1(a)mydomain.local>,<user2(a)mydomain.local>,<user3(a)mydomain.local>, Message-ID: <e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862(a)usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org >, mail_id: 6rtF4927FAjt, Hits: -0.518, size: 22687, queued_as: B16284E4AA2, 3293 ms Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/lmtp[25158]: CE0B74E4A9F: to=<user1(a)mydomain.local >, orig_to=<oil(a)mydomain.ch>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=4.2, delays=0.95/0.01/0.01/3.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B16284E4AA2) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/lmtp[25158]: CE0B74E4A9F: to=<user2(a)mydomain.local >, orig_to=<oil(a)mydomain.ch>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=4.2, delays=0.95/0.01/0.01/3.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B16284E4AA2) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/lmtp[25158]: CE0B74E4A9F: to=<user3(a)mydomain.local >, orig_to=<oil(a)mydomain.ch>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=4.2, delays=0.95/0.01/0.01/3.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B16284E4AA2) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/qmgr[11827]: CE0B74E4A9F: removed Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 dovecot: lda(user1): msgid=<e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862(a)usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org >: saved mail to INBOX Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/pipe[25165]: B16284E4AA2: to=<user1(a)mydomain.local >, relay=dovecot, delay=0.04, delays=0.01/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 dovecot: lda(user2): msgid=<e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862(a)usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org >: saved mail to INBOX Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/pipe[25168]: B16284E4AA2: to=<user2(a)mydomain.local >, relay=dovecot, delay=0.04, delays=0.01/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 dovecot: lda(user3): msgid=<e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862(a)usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org >: saved mail to INBOX Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/pipe[25170]: B16284E4AA2: to=<user3(a)mydomain.local >, relay=dovecot, delay=0.05, delays=0.01/0.02/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/qmgr[11827]: B16284E4AA2: removed Oct 27 11:20:36 srv001 postfix/smtpd[24562]: disconnect from usstlz- psecap06.emerson.com[144.191.128.17] as you can see there was a message for oil(a)mydomain.ch (I obviously changed the domain for privacy) - logs says that all the three users got the email, but the third user didn't. I do not know why and when it happens, but seldom we have this issue maybe is there some kind of bug in the maildrop version I use? by the way, I had this issue also before installing amavisd-new now some infos: CentOS 5.3 postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 amavisd-new-2.6.6-1.el5.rf dovecot-2.0.11-1_126 dovecot-managesieve-0.2.2-15 dovecot-pigeonhole-0.2.2-15 users are on a Kerberized OpenLDAP please help me because this is really driving me crazy - don't leave me alone, please Marco Carcano

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[Dovecot] APOP and AuthDatabase/SQL
by Peter Smith 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hi, We're running dovecot 1.2.15 and use SQL authentication. We'd like to be able to support APOP, but can't see how this would fit in with SQL auth. Currently we have: password_query = SELECT email as user, password FROM virtual_users WHERE email='%u' or (email LIKE '%n@%%' AND unhashed='%w') It seems that in order to auth APOP logins, we'd need to access variables containing the authentication string sent by the client, and also variables containing the auth string sent in the POP3 greeting. Incidentally, the RFC (1939) suggests using: <pid.time@hostname> for the greeting, but it looks as if dovecot uses something else? I'm seeing greetings such as: +OK Dovecot ready. <260f.4abcc.4ef11550.cJD6sQSUSnmPS1B/5RGF0Q==(a)myhostname.com> base64 encoding? Thanks in advance, Peter Smith

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[Dovecot] Why imap_open function doesn't work while getting a mailbox through telnet works perfectly?
by I M 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hi, everybody! Question: Why imap_open function doesn't work while getting a mailbox through telnet works perfectly? Note: imap.so is loaded! imap.ini is parsed!php flags is checked! Is it a bug?

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[Dovecot] Why imap_open doesn't work as is expected to?
by I M 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hi, everybody! Question: Why imap_open function doesn't work while getting a mailbox through telnet works perfectly? Note: imap.so is loaded! imap.ini is parsed!

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[Dovecot] Sieve too rfc compliant ;-)
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

It seems we have a few email addresses that are not RFC 5322 compliant, and now that we've started using sieve these are failing. The problem is that we have a few addresses with leading, trailing or double dots in the local part: jan..frode(a)tanso.net .janfrode(a)tanso.net janfrode.(a)tanso.net I believe these has been working fine with everything else in dovecot (lda, lmtp, imap, pop), but that sieve is more strict. I think it's fair enough that it's strict with messages generated by sieve scripts, but it would be nice if it could be more tolerant with messages addressed for the sieve script. So, is there any setting for making it more tolerant ? -jf

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Re: [Dovecot] Question about index reset in dovecot 2.0.15
by Maria Arrea 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hello Timo, thank you in advance. Full log here (1 hour time range) Dec 14 21:19:43 buzon postfix/pipe[27103]: 4423BC7C31: to=<fmcarrasco@domain>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.24, delays=0.03 /0/0/0.2, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Dec 14 21:20:59 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=556/2245 Dec 14 21:44:30 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/07/47/fmcarrasco/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 21:44:30 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=42402/3153543 Dec 14 21:45:30 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<fmcarrasco>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=20035, TLS Dec 14 22:01:27 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/07/47/fmcarrasco/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 22:01:27 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=343/8671 Dec 14 22:02:58 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<fmcarrasco>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=2685, TLS Dec 14 22:13:46 buzon dovecot: lda(fmcarrasco): sieve: msgid=<f81a253ebaceca9bf0a6635027e4d747s>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Dec 14 22:13:46 buzon postfix/pipe[21152]: AAD36C8501: to=<fmcarrasco>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.34, delays=0.03/0.01/0/0.31, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) The other one: Dec 14 20:53:38 buzon dovecot: pop3(cfp): Connection closed top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/3605, size=446902389 Dec 14 21:38:34 buzon postfix/qmgr[4015]: A90CFC7C31: from=<scet2012a(a)confcfp.org>, size=23256, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 14 21:43:00 buzon postfix/qmgr[4015]: E7E61C7DED: from=<scet2012a(a)confcfp.org>, size=23244, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Sent/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=32118/127014 Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: Recent flags state corrupted for mailbox Trash Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Trash/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=38097/309083 Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: Recent flags state corrupted for mailbox Preinscripcion Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Preinscripcion/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=33263/164275 Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Emagister/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=35437/111594 Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=24811, TLS Dec 14 21:50:39 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=24822, TLS Dec 14 21:52:12 buzon postfix/cleanup[21212]: 9A22CC816C: message-id=<CAP3xem+Vzw4b_dmDnr=ajn9cfpA8TNotxAVbkM5xoBzxPfu_bQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Sent/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=554/169764 Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Trash/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=533/10963 Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Preinscripcion/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=629/39790 Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=613/496956 Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=464, TLS Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=465, TLS Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=466, TLS Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=467, TLS Dec 14 22:30:28 buzon dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=25194 I do not see any pattern about this problem of index reset, logs from other day, maybe the problem is I/O load based: Dec 15 13:16:06 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Connection closed bytes=357/20249 Dec 15 13:16:06 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Connection closed bytes=70/12804 Dec 15 13:16:12 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<ehlers>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.150, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=1005 Dec 15 13:16:12 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Connection closed bytes=103/818 Dec 15 13:16:19 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<ehlers>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.150, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=1419 Dec 15 13:16:19 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Error: Mailbox Archivador/Facultad/curso whiteboard: Corrupted index, uidvalidity=0 Dec 15 13:16:19 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Warning: mdbox /buzones/domain/11/53/ehlers/storage: rebuilding indexes Dec 15 13:16:19 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<ehlers>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.150, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=1426 Dec 15 13:16:19 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Connection closed bytes=459/3205 Dec 15 13:16:32 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/11/53/ehlers/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 15 13:16:32 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=195/963 Dec 15 13:16:32 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<ehlers>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.150, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=2006 Dec 15 13:16:32 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Connection closed bytes=274/80860 Dec 15 13:16:49 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<ehlers>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.150, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=2735 Any idea? Regards Maria On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 22:10 +0100, Maria Arrea wrote: > I have seen some strange error log messages in our dovecot server (2.0.15, RHEL 5.7x64, mdbox+zlib, local storage, high load) > > Dec 14 22:01:27 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/07/47/fmcarrasco/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent > Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Sent/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent These messages shouldn't appear alone. Is there anything else logged about them? > Dec 14 20:56:46 buzon dovecot: imap(rcam): Error: Corrupted index cache file /indices_dovecot/indices/03/6b/rcam/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Broken virtual size for mail UID 132197 Possibly related to zlib.. Again it should have logged another error message just before this. > Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: Recent flags state corrupted for mailbox INBOX Possibly related to other errors. So .. none of the errors above really were what I'd call the actual cause of the problems. They were just after effects. > I have been googling without luck, why does this happen? I have tried with doveadm force-resync, maybe this could solve this issues. All of those should be fixed automatically. Do they keep happening if you don't do force-resync? How often do they happen anyway? Do they happen at any specific times (e.g. during doveadm purge)?

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[Dovecot] dovecot penalties and anvil
by Leonardo Rodrigues 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hi, I'm strugling to find some documentation on dovecot's anvil service and/or its penalties (that can be checked with doveadm penalty) ... but i'm not finding anything on that. is there any documentation on anvil/penalties that i should check other than a few messages on the mailing list archive ? thanks ! -- Atenciosamente / Sincerily, Leonardo Rodrigues Solutti Tecnologia http://www.solutti.com.br Minha armadilha de SPAM, NÃO mandem email gertrudes(a)solutti.com.br My SPAMTRAP, do not email it

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.1rc1 + 2.0.16 woes regarding fts_squat
by Robin 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

I can confirm the report posted in http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-November/062263.html that fts_squat no longer seems to be used after moving from 2.0.16->2.1 rc 1. I don't see crash reports in the logs, just "0 messages indexed". My search test tool just does a normal IMAP SEARCH for a long non-existent string. If there's another way to trigger re-indexing in 2.1, I don't see anything in the documentation for it. I've enabled mail_debug, but no log entries that shed light on the problem are available. Has the configuration for fts_squat changed? If anyone has a working fts_squat setup with Dovecot 2.1rc1, I'd appreciate hearing how you have it setup and working. During a large mail import with 2.0.16 today, I ran across a worrying message in the logs during an fts_squat reindex: out of memory. The plugin doesn't obey the mmap_disable configuration directive, which I've confirmed in the plugin source. The mailbox in question has only 17GB (mdbox style), with about 90,000 emails in it. Its "index" (for the purposes of normal IMAP retrieval as opposed to IMAP TEXT/BODY searching) is fine and uncorrupted. I freshly import these mailboxes between test iterations and any version changes anyway, so if there's corruption, it's happening within dovecot only. I'm using use Mail::IMAPClient to create + append mail over localhost, not any direct mdbox conversion trickery. In looking through the code, I see that mmap() is called for the *ENTIRE FILE*, which is guaranteed to fail on large indexes. I assume this was done out of expedience, but it's a "risky" sort of thing to do in a server process, even if 8GB RAM systems do seem to grow on trees. I intend to put this to work in a large installation (>10K users), so this IS of some concern for me in the long-term. Dec 12 22:48:52 linuxcode dovecot: imap(user1001): Error: mremap_anon(188084224) failed: Cannot allocate memory Dec 12 22:48:52 linuxcode dovecot: imap(user1001): Error: read(.../mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX2010/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.search.uids) failed: Cannot allocate memory Dec 12 22:48:52 linuxcode dovecot: imap(user1001): Error: mremap_anon(188280832) failed: Cannot allocate memory Dec 12 22:48:52 linuxcode dovecot: imap(user1001): Error: read(.../mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX2010/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.search.uids) failed: Cannot allocate memory Dec 12 22:50:47 linuxcode dovecot: imap(user1001): Error: Corrupted squat uidlist file .../mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX2010/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.search.uids: uidlist not found ================ dovecot -n output: # 2.0.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.7-smp i686 Slackware 13.1.0 auth_mechanisms = plain cram-md5 digest-md5 apop default_vsz_limit = 192 M disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 100 hostname = linuxcode info_log_path = /tmp/dovecot.log last_valid_gid = 60000 last_valid_uid = 60000 listen = * mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = " zlib acl" mdbox_preallocate_space = yes mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 days mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = scheme=plain /etc/cram-md5.pwd driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile } postmaster_address = postmaster@linuxcode quota_full_tempfail = yes service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 0 vsz_limit = 64 M } service imap { vsz_limit = 512 M } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } ssl = no userdb { args = blocking=no driver = passwd } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " zlib acl" } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " zlib acl fts fts_squat imap_acl imap_zlib" plugin { fts = squat fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 } } ================ CONFIGURE ================ LIBS=-lnsl CFLAGS='-O2 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -fstack-protector -fomit-frame-pointer' \ CXXFLAGS='-O2 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -fstack-protector -fomit-frame-pointer' \ LDFLAGS=-s ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-mysql --with-sqlite --with-pgsql --without-pam --with-sql \ --with-libwrap --with-libcap -with-ssl=openssl --with-solr \ --with-mem-align=16 --with-bzlib --with-zlib --localstatedir=/var ================ OS: Slackware 13.1 (32-bit, 2GB physical RAM, kernel setup for 2G/2G split) fully patched up =R=

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[Dovecot] Question about index reset in dovecot 2.0.15
by Maria Arrea 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

I have seen some strange error log messages in our dovecot server (2.0.15, RHEL 5.7x64, mdbox+zlib, local storage, high load) Dec 14 22:01:27 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/07/47/fmcarrasco/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Sent/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 20:56:46 buzon dovecot: imap(rcam): Error: Corrupted index cache file /indices_dovecot/indices/03/6b/rcam/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Broken virtual size for mail UID 132197 Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: Recent flags state corrupted for mailbox INBOX I have been googling without luck, why does this happen? I have tried with doveadm force-resync, maybe this could solve this issues. doveconf -n output # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga) ext4 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 10 secs auth_cache_size = 10 M auth_cache_ttl = 2 mins auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_worker_max_count = 3500 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ default_client_limit = 5000 default_process_limit = 6500 disable_plaintext_auth = no imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail tb-lsub-flags lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_fsync = never mail_gid = entrega mail_home = /buzones/domain/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n/home_usuario/ mail_location = mdbox:/buzones/domain/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n:INDEX=/indices_dovecot/indices/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n mail_max_userip_connections = 15000 mail_plugins = " zlib acl quota autocreate" mail_uid = entrega 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 mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 days mdbox_rotate_size = 60 M passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { args = /etc/usuario_maestro.txt driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile autocreate = SPAM autocreate2 = Sent autocreate3 = Drafts autocreate4 = Trash autosubscribe = SPAM autosubscribe2 = Sent autosubscribe3 = Drafts autosubscribe4 = Trash lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes quota = dict:Cuota de usuario::file:/buzones/cuotas/%n quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% quota_warning = storage=90%% aviso_cuota 90 %u sieve = /buzones/domain/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n/home_usuario/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /buzones/domain/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n/home_usuario/sieve/ zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 9 } pop3_no_flag_updates = yes protocols = pop3 imap sieve service anvil { client_limit = 25000 } service auth { client_limit = 28000 unix_listener auth-master { user = entrega } unix_listener auth-userdb { user = entrega } user = root } service aviso_cuota { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener aviso_cuota { mode = 0666 } user = entrega } service imap-login { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login group = dovenull service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 1 G } service imap { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap process_limit = 6000 } service managesieve-login { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login inet_listener sieve { port = 2000 } process_limit = 2000 vsz_limit = 1 G } service managesieve { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve process_limit = 5000 } service pop3-login { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login process_limit = 4000 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 1 G } service pop3 { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 process_limit = 4000 } ssl_ca = </etc/pki/generico/cacert.crt.pem ssl_cert = </etc/pki/generico/wildcard-us_es.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/generico/wildcard-key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 } protocol lda { hostname = domain info_log_path = log_path = mail_fsync = optimized mail_plugins = sieve zlib quota postmaster_address = evcorreo@domain syslog_facility = mail } protocol imap { mail_plugins = zlib autocreate quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = zlib pop3_enable_last = yes pop3_uidl_format = %g } Regards Maria

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[Dovecot] doveadm quota does not list all accounts
by Nikolaos Milas 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hello, I am running dovecot-2.0.13-1_128.el5 x86_64 RPM on CentOS 5.7. All accounts are virtual, hosted on LDAP Server. My problem is that the command: doveadm quota get -A stopped listing all accounts. I think this problem started after I changed in LDAP lookup configuration from "scope = subtree" to "scope = onelevel", because it did not occur before (I did no other changes). Now, the above command only lists 12 accounts. If I query for a particular user: doveadm quota get -u userx this works fine, but userx (and all users except those 12) is NOT listed when trying to display all users. How can I run the above command without problems again? Thanks in advance, Nick

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[Dovecot] Quota PostgreSQL INSERT trigger
by Adis Nezirovic 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Wiki instructions for creating insert trigger for PostgreSQL are wrong http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/Dict Calling INSERT on the table from within BEFORE INSERT trigger creates cascading trigger. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/trigger-definition.html Instead, one should return NEW record from the trigger, and it will be inserted after trigger execution. --- CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION merge_quota2() RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$ BEGIN IF NEW.messages < 0 OR NEW.messages IS NULL THEN -- ugly kludge: we came here from this function, really do try to insert IF NEW.messages IS NULL THEN NEW.messages = 0; ELSE NEW.messages = -NEW.messages; END IF; return NEW; END IF; LOOP UPDATE quota2 SET bytes = bytes + NEW.bytes, messages = messages + NEW.messages WHERE username = NEW.username; IF found THEN RETURN NULL; END IF; BEGIN IF NEW.messages = 0 THEN RETURN NEW; ELSE NEW.messages = - NEW.messages; RETURN NEW; END IF; EXCEPTION WHEN unique_violation THEN -- someone just inserted the record, update it END; END LOOP; END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql; DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS mergequota2 ON quota2; CREATE TRIGGER mergequota2 BEFORE INSERT ON quota2 FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE merge_quota2(); --- Best regards, Adis

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[Dovecot] Tuning Login processes for High-performance Mode
by Alessio Cecchi 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hi, I'm working for tuning a busy cluster of dovecot servers. Heach server as 4 core, 8GB of RAM and provide POP3 and IMAP access to mailbox. OS is Debian 6.0 and dovecot version is 1.2.15. I am unsure how to set "login_max_processes_count" and "login_max_connections" for reach the best situation when login_process_per_connection is set to no. I don't know what value to set login_max_processes_count. For example is better the first or the second configuration? login_process_per_connection=no login_processes_count=4 login_max_processes_count=8 login_max_connections=512 login_process_size=128 login_process_per_connection=no login_processes_count=4 login_max_processes_count=16 login_max_connections=256 login_process_size=128 Which is a suggested ratio from login_max_processes_count and login_max_connections ? Other values are correct? Thanks -- Alessio Cecchi is: @ ILS -> http://www.linux.it/~alessice/ on LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice Assistenza Sistemi GNU/Linux -> http://www.cecchi.biz/ @ PLUG -> ex-Presidente, adesso senatore a vita, http://www.prato.linux.it @ LOLUG -> Socio http://www.lolug.net

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[Dovecot] Calculation of suggested vsz_limit values
by Nikolaos Milas 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hello, I would like to ask on suggested vsz_limit values. Is there any way of calculating such values? How should we determine them? I don't want to risk wrong values (and possible errors) on a production system, if I upgrade to 2.0.16 where vsz_limit values are enforced (I read release notes)! If there is no standard way of calculation, could someone please check the following info and suggest some values? I am running dovecot-2.0.13-1_128.el5 x86_64 RPM on CentOS 5.7 (as a VM on a KVM Host). All accounts are virtual, hosted on LDAP Server. We have about 250 mailboxes of 4GB each (in practice, only a couple of mailboxes ever reach 1GB so we are "over-booking"). It is a relatively low-load server. Memory status and config follows below. Thanks, Nick The server memory condition is as follows: # vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------ r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 0 92 62400 212324 1299604 0 0 397 235 70 39 4 2 89 4 0 # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2010 1951 59 0 207 1269 -/+ buffers/cache: 474 1536 Swap: 2015 0 2015 ---------- Config Start ------------- # 2.0.13: dovecot.conf protocols = imap pop3 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/ mail_gid = 500 mail_uid = 500 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_plugins = quota protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = "delay-newmail " mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master info_log_path = log_path = mail_plugins = quota postmaster_address = sysadmin(a)example.com sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-usrdb-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-passdb-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=4G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+3%% quota_warning = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u quota_warning2 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u } service quota-warning { executable = script /opt/mail1.sh user = vmail unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service pop3-login { service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } ssl_ca = </etc/pki/CA/certs/chain.pem ssl_cert = </etc/pki/CA/certs/cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/CA/private/key.pem syslog_facility = local1 ---------- Config End -------------

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[Dovecot] Strange Login / Timeout Sessions
by Carlos Mennens 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

I have my webmail application tied to Postfix / Dovecot server & now for some reason the IMAP sessions oddly time out throughout the day and then logging back into the mail system over the web is painfully slow. The only thing I've seen that fixes it is to reload the Dovecot daemon in Linux: /etc/init.d/dovecot reload Once that command is ran, my webmail login is super fast and moving from folder to folder is extremely fast again. Then in about a few hours, the session will time out and this problem repeats. The problem is the same for everyone and not just a few user accounts. Anyone have any idea what I should be looking for or looking at? My Dovecot logs or mixed in /var/log/maillog which is extremely hard to watch live & gets mixed with Postfix, Amavisd, and Postgrey. Any ideas or suggestions to narrow this problem out? I'm running Dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5_7.1. I saw this load on the console today: Error: Dovecot is already running with PID 2334 (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf Below is my configuration file: [root@mail ~]# dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/certs/digicert.crt ssl_cert_file: ***OMIT*** ssl_key_file: ***OMIT*** login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix

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[Dovecot] One important question!
by I M 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Hello!Please, give me a feedback as soon as you can! I need some advice regarding "dovecot self signed certificate" configuration!If you have any experience in working with php IMAP-module that would be useful for me to know what would you say about below: Problem: I can connect to my INBOX through telnet, but I cannot do it through imap-functions (Certificate failure for ...)? My best,Edward.

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[Dovecot] Two important new Pigeonhole v0.3 features
by Stephan Bosch 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Hello Dovecot users, Pigeonhole v0.3 for Dovecot v2.1 has two new features I would like you to play with before I make a first release: 1) The new Sieve editheader extension (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5293) This allows modifying the headers of the message before delivery. This is actually the first implemented extension that can modify the message itself in any way. This feature adds quite a bit of new code that I'd like to see tested more thoroughly. 2) The new sieve-filter tool (documented in the sieve-filter(1) man page upon installation). This allows (re-)filtering messages that are already stored in a particular mailbox. It preserves the assigned IMAP flags and keywords and using the imap4flags extension these can also be modified. It also plays nice with the editheader extension. Judging by postings in this mailing list from the last few years, this is a highly-demanded feature and I'm glad that I finally got around to finish this thing. If the new sieve-filter tool is lacking certain features in your opinion, just let me know. Needless to say: read the man page carefully and watch out with important mail. This is currently only available from the mercurial repository, but if you prefer to have an .rc1 release first, just tell me and I'll make one. The automatic Debian repository already includes these features. Regards, Stephan.

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[Dovecot] IMAP and sieve
by moozer 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

I am currently setting up an IMAP server for archiving purposes. The goal is to drag an email to the IMAP folder, and then have a server-side sieve script to put it in the right folder. One of the sources used was this wiki entry http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot I added the mail_plugins = sieve to /etc/dovecot/15-lda.conf and after some exim4 fiddling, mails delivered are filtered by my sieve script. Doing the same for imap delivery (in /etc/dovecot/20-imap.conf) give the following error Dec 19 10:22:09 leon dovecot: imap: Error: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_sieve_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0: undefined symbol: mail_deliver_save_open Dec 19 10:22:09 leon dovecot: imap: Error: Can't load plugin sieve_plugin: Plugin is intended to be used only by binaries: lda lmtp (we're imap) Dec 19 10:22:09 leon dovecot: imap: Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins Dec 19 10:22:10 leon dovecot: imap: Error: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_sieve_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0: undefined symbol: mail_deliver_save_open Dec 19 10:22:10 leon dovecot: imap: Error: Can't load plugin sieve_plugin: Plugin is intended to be used only by binaries: lda lmtp (we're imap) Dec 19 10:22:10 leon dovecot: imap: Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins I notice this part: "plugin is intended to be used only by binaries: lda lmtp (we're imap)" So the question is if it is possible to run sieve server-side sieve scripts on emails copied using IMAP. Suggestions are most welcome. Moozer -- I am running debian testing # dovecot --version 2.0.15

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[Dovecot] DKIM Verification failures
by Nikolaos Milas 18 Dec '11

18 Dec '11

Hi, -- This message refers to the maillist itself rather than to dovecot software -- I have noticed that when I post to this list (only), I get DKIM Verification failure reports from: root(a)moncton.sidefx.com (e.g. for my last post: "DKIM failure report for job 4D27B5DC4E on mail.sidefx.com") root(a)mail.rmacd.com (e.g. for my last post: "DKIM failure report for job B69B3187F1 on mail.rmacd.com") root(a)mx0.roessner-net.de (e.g. for my last post: "DKIM failure report for job 6103B52092 on mx0.roessner-net.de") I have not had other DKIM failure reports from anywhere and I know that we should not have issues with it. An example from gmail: Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of nmilas(a)noa.gr designates 195.251.204.235 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=nmilas(a)noa.gr; dkim=pass header.i=(a)noa.gr So, whom should I contact to investigate this problem? Thanks, Nick

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[Dovecot] logging deletion of emails through IMAP?
by John Brock 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Version 1.2.16: Is there some way to enable logging for when emails are deleted via IMAP? All I see are log entries for users logging in/logging out. It would be nice to know when an email is deleted, and from which IP address the user was logged in when s/he deleted the email. -- John Brock Adeptive Software 303-554-0301 x1

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[Dovecot] simultaneous scripts not running via sieve_before
by Scott Lewis 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Hi again everyone, So I've finally got sieve integration happening on my REHL Postfix/Dovecot server, with private user scripts happily running when users create them. (we user SquirrelMail, so the avelsieve plugin runs the sieve integration). Now I'd like to utilise additional per-user scripts (probably via sieve_before), but I've not been able to get my additional scripts to execute. I am doing the following: a) getting avelsieve to write my redirect script (ie. logging on as user, completing private script wizard, and activating it) b) compiling .dovecot.sieve with sievec c) copying the resultant .dovecot.svbin to sieve/ directory (and renaming it eg redirect.svbin still, it appears that each /home/%u/.dovecot.sieve file is the only one taking effect. Any thoughts on how to make the other ones active? (The idea behind this is to automatically forward all of joeuser@mydomain's incoming mail to somewhere like joeusersbackup(a)gmail.com, for backup reasons. One day, I'll work out how to configure postfix to do this for all outgoing email too, but that's for another day :) Below are what my .conf files look like. Thanks in advance, Scott /etc/dovecot.conf: [code] protocols = imap imaps managesieve listen = * protocol imap { #mail_plugins = sieve quota } ## ## ManageSieve specific settings ## protocol managesieve { # debugging mail_debug = yes #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login #mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve #managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 #managesieve_logout_format = bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) #managesieve_implementation_string = Cyrus timsieved v2.2.13 } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve quota sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_extentions = +include sieve_dir=~/sieve sieve_before = /home/%u/sieve/redirect.svbin sieve_global_path = /etc/globalsieverc.svbin [/code]

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[Dovecot] Autosubscribe new folders
by For＠ll 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

Hi, I have a sieve filter: require ["fileinto","reject","body"]; if header :contains "subject" "NOTE" { if body :content "application/pdf" :contains "" { redirect "notes(a)domena.com"; } else { reject text: Lack attachment PDF! . ; stop; } } When I get a new message, in user folder is automaticly created folder like subject but is not subscribed. What I must settings in dovecot to automaticly subscribe folders to subscriptions files.?

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[Dovecot] dovecot-antispam: pipe backend with spamc failing to parse args
by Micah Anderson 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

I'm trying to get the pipe backend to work with the new dovecot-antispam (I was very pleased to see the new version, thanks Johannes!) Before I would run the following over the maildir: spamc -d 10.0.1.109 -L ham < $file 2>&1 > /dev/null now, i'm using dovecot-antispam and mdbox and have the following configured: antispam_backend = pipe antispam_signature = X-Spam-Flag antispam_signature_missing = error antispam_trash_pattern = trash;Trash;Deleted * antispam_spam_pattern_ignorecase = SPAM antispam_pipe_tmpdir = /var/tmp antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg = -L spam antispam_pipe_program_notspam_arg = -L ham antispam_pipe_program = /usr/bin/spamc antispam_pipe_program_args = -d 10.0.1.109 Now, when I move a message to Spam, dovecot-antispam detects it and attempts to run, but it fails: Dec 14 16:22:45 grosbeak [username 10.0.1.74 uid]: antispam: run program failed with exit code 64 Exit code 64 is spamc's exit code for "command line usage error" - but I can't see exactly the command that is being constructed by dovecot-antispam to know where the error is. Any ideas? micah --

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[Dovecot] Quota warnings not being sent
by Nikolaos Milas 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

Hello, I am running dovecot-2.0.13-1_128.el5 x86_64 RPM on CentOS 5.7 with the config shown below. All accounts are virtual, hosted on LDAP Server. My problem is that the quota warning mail is not sent as expected. For example, in the logs I get: Dec 12 08:42:40 vmail dovecot: lda(imaptester): Error: quota: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/quota-warning) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(vmail) egid=500(vmail) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/quota-warning, euid is not dir owner) Here is /var/run/dovecot/: # ls -la /var/run/dovecot/ total 32 drwxr-xr-x 4 root dovecot 4096 Dec 9 21:27 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 14 12:27 .. srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 anvil srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 anvil-auth-penalty srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 auth-client srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Dec 9 21:27 auth-login srw-rw---- 1 vmail vmail 0 Dec 9 21:27 auth-master srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 auth-userdb srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Dec 9 21:27 auth-worker srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 config srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 dict srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 director-admin srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 dns-client srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 doveadm-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Dec 9 21:27 dovecot.conf -> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 17 2011 empty drwxr-x--- 2 root dovenull 4096 Dec 9 21:27 login -rw------- 1 root root 5 Dec 9 21:27 master.pid srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 quota-warning Follows my config (at the end of this message). How should I change permissions to resolve the issue? Would it be enough to change ownership of the whole directory /var/run/dovecot/ and its contents to vmail:vmail? What configuration directives determine the ownership and the access permissions for these sockets? Please advise. Thanks in advance, Nick ------------------------------------------ # 2.0.13: dovecot.conf protocols = imap pop3 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/ mail_gid = 500 mail_uid = 500 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_plugins = quota protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = "delay-newmail " mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master info_log_path = log_path = mail_plugins = quota postmaster_address = sysadmin(a)example.com sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-usrdb-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-passdb-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=4G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+3%% quota_warning = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u quota_warning2 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u } service quota-warning { executable = script /opt/mail1.sh user = root unix_listener quota-warning { } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service pop3-login { service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } ssl_ca = </etc/pki/CA/certs/chain.pem ssl_cert = </etc/pki/CA/certs/cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/CA/private/key.pem syslog_facility = local1 ---------------------------------------------

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Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up To Windows File Server
by Luigi Rosa 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Asai said the following on 14/12/11 17:52: > Thanks, Luigi, I may fall back to that. Should you need it, here's the script I use to do it. In my configurations /var/spool/mail contains one dir for each domain and each of that dir contains a maildir for each domain. So the email of foobar(a)acme.com is in /var/spool/mail/acme.com/foobar/ The 4th line checks lost&found because /bar/spool/mail is a different file system. I create the .tgz file on local /tmp for performance reasons. TARGET=/backup for DOMAINPATH in /var/spool/mail/* do if [ "${DOMAINPATH}" != "/var/spool/mail/lost+found" ] then DOMAIN=`echo $DOMAINPATH | cut -d '/' -f 5` for USERPATH in ${DOMAINPATH}/* do USER=`echo $USERPATH | cut -d '/' -f 6` tar cvzf /tmp/$DOMAIN-$USER.tgz $USERPATH > /dev/null cp -f /tmp/$DOMAIN-$USER.tgz $TARGET/mail rm -f /tmp/$DOMAIN-$USER.tgz done fi done Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ I don't think we have the right or the wisdom to interfere, however a planet is evolving. --James Kirk, "The Omega Glory" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7o3jYACgkQ3kWu7Tfl6ZSfpQCgvzhOJH6mnJMu8ZzvKu5y8um+ 46wAoKd0eXxBNPad9EZao7VKjZBkACer =dhk0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Two recent issues
by Brad Schuetz 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

I've been using dovecot for years, been working great. However recently I've come across two issues. The first issue unfortunately I have little information on, mail_debug hasn't provided anything useful either (in fact it looks like the login request that fails doesn't even get logged at all). During the morning rush of email, this server has around 11k mailboxes on it, it *appears* that one of the auth processes dies resulting in "dovecot: imap-login: Error: read(imap) failed: Connection reset by peer" errors followed by "dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure ..." in the logs. I've yet to get any useful debugging information on this error so I'm not expecting much/any help on this one, but if anyone has any ideas on how I can get more debug besides running strace 24/7 in the hopes it catches something before the hard drive is full of strace output I'd love to hear it. The best I've gotten was a lucky strace once (at the time I didn't realize it was so lucky or I would have saved the output) that indicated the imap-login daemon was failing to connect to the auth process. The second issue is lmtp/lda (tried both) delivery to a mailbox that has filesystem quotas enabled and the group quota is maxed is resulting in the below panic and crash. This issue happens with 2.0.13, 2.0.15 and 2.0.16. Here's the logs showing that it knows the disk quota is exceeded and then a subsequent zlib panic. Like it's trying to deliver it anyway. --------------------- 11:21:07 [err] dovecot: lmtp(29691, admin(a)[redacted].com) Error: o_stream_send_istream(/email/d/r/[redacted]/[redacted]/admin/Maildir/tmp/1323458467.M245978P29691.fenrir.omnis.com) failed: Disk quota exceeded 11:21:07 [crit] dovecot: lmtp(29691, admin(a)[redacted].com) Panic: file ostream-zlib.c: line 144 (o_stream_zlib_send_flush): assertion failed: (zs->avail_in == 0) 11:21:07 [err] dovecot: lmtp(29691, admin(a)[redacted].com) Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x345443ca90] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x345443cae6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x345443c4a3] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so [0x2ba2d31547f6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so [0x2ba2d315481b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(o_stream_flush+0x2a) [0x345444f0ea] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(maildir_save_finish+0x6b) [0x3451c63b6b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so [0x2ba2d2f4ce7a] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_save_finish+0x30) [0x3451c2fbb0] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_storage_copy+0xb3) [0x3451c2aae3] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(maildir_copy+0x56) [0x3451c6fd36] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so [0x2ba2d2f4d0ba] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_copy+0x5a) [0x3451c301ba] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/li 11:21:07 [err] dovecot: master: Error: service(lmtp): child 29691 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) --------------------- Attached is the current "doveadm config" output. -- Brad Schuetz

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Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage
by Maria Arrea 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Hello Timo. If we can not safely restore from backup a user's mailbox with SiS enabled, we can not enable SiS. Any plan to include this backup recovery tool in dovecot 2.0.X or 2.1? Regards Maria > 5º We use bacula to save indexes & mdboxes, and we recover mailboxes using doveadm import when a user "makes a fatal mistake" wiping all her Inbox. If we enable SiS I am not really sure how can we safely restore a user's INBOX if that user has SiS attachments. Hm. Yes, that is problematic.. Even if you knew what SIS files were used, there's no simple way to restore those with proper refcounts. I think what really should be done is writing a tool that can create/restore backups, possibly de-SISing the attachments..

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[Dovecot] Panic when attempting index with Apache Solr : fts_solr plugin
by A Dovecot User 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Dovecot version: 2.1.rc1 Expat version: expat-2.0.1-10 Libcurl version: libcurl-7.21.0-10 OS: Fedora 14 i686 Configure command: ./configure --with-solr Solr version: 1.4.1 (also tried 3.5.0) Java version: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-55.1.9.10 (also tried Oracle Java 6u29) [root@mymailserver ~]# doveadm -D index -u username mailbox inbox doveadm(username): Info: INBOX: Caching mails seq=1..466 doveadm(username): Panic: file solr-connection.c: line 545 (solr_connection_post_more): assertion failed: (maxfd >= 0) doveadm(username): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b9b1) [0x14b9b1] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x47) [0x14bac7] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x1211ae] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(solr_connection_post_more+0x293) [0xb1a7d3] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x2599) [0xb16599] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_build_more+0x31) [0x2273f1] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x3b2) [0x228272] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xa74e) [0x22d74e] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_precache+0xf) [0x937a6f] -> doveadm() [0x80520b6] -> doveadm() [0x804f4b5] -> doveadm(doveadm_mail_single_user+0x5b) [0x804f8db] -> doveadm() [0x804fd3f] -> doveadm(doveadm_mail_try_run+0x12e) [0x805019e] -> doveadm(main+0x3a4) [0x8056444] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x729e36] -> doveadm() [0x804f2c1] ---------------------- mail_plugins = acl antispam fts fts_solr plugin { fts = solr fts_solr = break-imap-search debug url=http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/ }

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Re: [Dovecot] Prevent re-download mails
by Francisco Wagner C. Freire 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hello, The clients re-download the messages on every connection, i current looking for the client versions with this problem. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Wouter van der Schagt <wouter(a)vdschagt.com>wrote: > > Looking for more info. > > Even with the same UIDL values, some e-mail clients will still redownload > the messages if a hostname changed. > > Anyway, annoying as it is, after the second download it will stop, you can > ask your users to simply delete the duplicates, it won't download a 3rd > time. > > - WS > >

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[Dovecot] v2.1.rc1 managesieve TLS
by Mike Constabel 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hi, TLS on imap port 143 works. But if I try TLS on managesieve port 4190, I get no connection. Dec 12 21:16:10 managesieve-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 5 secs): rip=192.168.10.117, lip=192.168.10.117, secured Dec 12 21:16:20 managesieve-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 5 secs): rip=192.168.10.117, lip=192.168.10.117, TLS handshaking: Disconnected # gnutls-cli --starttls -p 4190 192.168.10.117 Resolving '192.168.10.117'... Connecting to '192.168.10.117:4190'... - Simple Client Mode: "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 LOGIN CRAM-MD5" "STARTTLS" "VERSION" "1.0" OK "Dovecot ready." STARTTLS NO "Begin TLS negotiation now." ^ There is a NO and not an OK... Possible something wrong with my config, but I cannot find something... # doveconf -n # 2.1.rc1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 auth_cache_size = 1 M auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-debug.log default_client_limit = 2600 dict { expire = sqlite:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no hostname = mx4.constabel-it.de info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log expire acl mail_privileged_group = mail 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 Archive/2011 { auto = subscribe } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = scheme=PLAIN username_format=%u /etc/imap.userdb driver = passwd-file } plugin { expire = Trash expire2 = Trash/* expire3 = Spam expire_dict = proxy::expire quota = dict:User quota::file:/mailspool1/%d/%n/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=9000M:messages=1000000 sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster@localhost protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3" service auth { inet_listener { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 12345 } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </etc/postfix/psw-ssl/ssl.ca-bundle ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/psw-ssl/ssl.crt ssl_key = </etc/postfix/psw-ssl/ssl.key userdb { args = username_format=%Lu /etc/imap.userdb driver = passwd-file } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log expire acl sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log expire acl } protocol imap { imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log expire acl imap_quota imap_acl } protocol sieve { mail_debug = yes managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log expire acl } regards, Mike

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[Dovecot] Saving archive copy of all mail sent/received w/Dovecot+Postfix?
by Andrew M 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

I'm running Dovecot 2.0.15 and Postfix 2.7.7 with postfix handing off to Dovecot's LDA. I am hosting multiple virtual domains with multiple users and everything is working. I would now like to create a permanent archive of all sent/received mail with each virtual user's mail saved to its own sent file and received file. This needs to be independent of the user's regular Maildir store since he can't delete or modify the permanent archive. Any suggestions on how to best accomplish this either via postfix or dovecot? Postfix has in main.cf virtual_transport = dovecot and in master.cf dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=virtual:virtual argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot /dovecot-lda -d ${recipient} -f ${sender} dovecot uses this: [root@xxx andrew]# dovecot -n # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.14-103.fc14.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) ext4 auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = scheme=plain username_format=%u /etc/postfix/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap lmtp service auth { inet_listener { port = 12345 } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/xxx.com.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/xxx.com.key userdb { args = username_format=%u uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n driver = static } Thanks, Andrew

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[Dovecot] mail_max_userip_connections=10
by Tom Clark 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hi, A couple of questions rather than a problem for once! We've got our Dovecot server running smoothly now apart from our MD. He's having problems with mail_max_userip_connections. He has 3 (Phone/Laptop/Tablet) items that all connect to the server at about the same time. Which means he's frequently running over the max_userip_connections. My questions are: Is there anyway of whitelisting an IP so that it can ignore mail_max_userip_connections=10? What should we set mail_max_userip_connections too realistically? 10 seems a bit low? Thanks Tom

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[Dovecot] question regarding postfixadmin
by oni-neko＠gmx.net 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hello! I hope someone here is already using postfixadmin with dovecot and can help me out =) the install-readme for postfixadmin mentions, that the mail-home should be set to default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%u/ but my dovecot is already installed and working with another config, namely mail_location = maildir:/var/dovecotmail/%n/Maildir. Do i have to change this, or is postfixadmin able to read this or can i set this value in postfixadmin somewhere? i´d rather avoid moving all mailfolders around just because of that, and unfortunately the paths don´t really lend themself to an easy solution via symlink ^_^ thanks for any replies best regards sil -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de

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[Dovecot] Prevent re-download mails
by Selcuk Yazar 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hi, today we have a problem our mail server about user accounts. (something about prefetch) anyway i corrected, but some clients re-download emails again. how can i stop this .I've read about some forums about UIDVALIDITY ? is it posibble prevent clients redownload emails with pop3 ? thanks in advance. -- Selçuk YAZAR

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[Dovecot] postlogin script
by Selcuk Yazar 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hi, I have Postfix + OpenLdap + DoveCot configuration, and it's running succesfuly, i wantto convert users pop3 password NTPassword and LMPassword, so i ne plain passwor dof users, how can i do that. (Normaly using perl's ntlmgen function i convert password , but in plain) thanks in advance

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Re: [Dovecot] IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension
by Alan Brown 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:49:49 +0200 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension > > I did this: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/9b9a206395f7 Just to add to the confusion: Pine/Alpine uses "sent-mail" :(

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[Dovecot] Documentation clarifiction on mmap_disable
by Marcio Merlone 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Greetings, On http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig I read: "mmap_disable = no Don't use mmap() at all. This is required if you store indexes to shared filesystems (NFS or clustered filesystem). " Does that mean: 1. mmap is required when using NFS or 2. it is required to don't use mmap at all when using NFS? Sorry if this is obvious. Best regards. -- *Marcio Merlone*

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[Dovecot] database failover
by Nick Edwards 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Trying to get dovecot to _only_ use local copy of database, only querying another database server (same database, just replicated) if local copy is not responding, I have google fu'd a bit and found my only answer in so far as dovecot did this once upon as time, but it was only due to a dovecot bug, that has since been fixed, is that so? The wiki shows no information of failover, just load sharing, or is it an undocumented feature, or can dovecot not do failover, if not, can it be made so? Trying to cut down on network traffic, postfix does this nicely, I thought dovecot did too.

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.1.rc1: sieve and folders with umlauts
by Mike Constabel 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hi, now the umlauts problem with sieve: # cat /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/.dovecot.sieve ## Generated by Roundcube Webmail SieveRules Plugin ## require ["fileinto"]; # rule:[Test] if anyof (header :contains "Subject" "test") { fileinto "m&APY-"; } Error: DBBjDsXL5U7mIAAA/TNBsA: sieve: execution of script /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful (user logfile /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) # cat /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/.dovecot.sieve.log sieve: info: started log at Dec 12 10:40:04. error: msgid=<20111212094004.DB86918594(a)mx4.constabel-it.de>: failed to store into mailbox 'm&APY-': Mailbox doesn't exist: m&-APY-. Here the same: 'm&APY-' != "m&-APY-" Mike

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.1.rc1 and folders with umlauts
by Mike Constabel 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hi, if I try to crate a folder in Thunderbird 8 which contains umlauts this happens: - Create folder "Tür" - Thunderbird show T&APw-r in folder list In log: Dec 07 17:45:39 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/T&APw-r doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Dec 07 17:45:39 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 # ll /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/ insgesamt 32K drwx------ 8 vmail vmail 4,0K 7. Dez 17:45 . drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 4,0K 7. Dez 17:45 .. drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4,0K 29. Nov 11:11 Drafts drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4,0K 29. Nov 11:04 INBOX drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4,0K 29. Nov 11:11 Junk drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4,0K 29. Nov 11:11 Sent drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4,0K 7. Dez 17:45 T&APw-r drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 4,0K 7. Dez 17:44 Trash If I click in TB on the folder, TB gives an empty message, the log shows: Dec 07 17:42:53 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1 Dec 07 17:42:53 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: quota: No quota setting - plugin disabled Dec 07 17:42:53 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mdbox:~/mdbox Dec 07 17:42:53 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: fs: root=/mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Dec 07 17:42:53 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 Dec 07 17:43:02 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/&ANY-de doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Dec 07 17:43:02 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 Dec 07 17:44:19 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/&-ANY-de doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Dec 07 17:44:19 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 Dec 07 17:44:19 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/Trash/&-ANY-de doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Dec 07 17:44:24 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/Trash/T&APw-r doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Dec 07 17:45:39 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/T&APw-r doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Dec 07 17:45:39 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 On another server with # 2.0.13 (537d4b6d9a7a): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 i686 Debian 6.0.2 an an server with # 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.9 umlauts are working. Is there an problem with my config or with the rc1? thanks, Mike dovecot -n for not working 2.1.rc1: # 2.1.rc1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 auth_cache_size = 1 M auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-debug.log default_client_limit = 2600 disable_plaintext_auth = no hostname = mx4.constabel-it.de info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log mail_privileged_group = mail 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 = prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = scheme=PLAIN username_format=%u /etc/imap.userdb driver = passwd-file } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Junk autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Junk autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster@localhost protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3" service auth { inet_listener { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 12345 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </etc/postfix/psw-ssl/ssl.ca-bundle ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/psw-ssl/ssl.crt ssl_key = </etc/postfix/psw-ssl/ssl.key userdb { args = username_format=%Lu /etc/imap.userdb driver = passwd-file } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log } protocol imap { imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log } dovecot -n for working 2.0.13: # 2.0.13 (537d4b6d9a7a): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 i686 Debian 6.0.2 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-debug.log lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox 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 = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /etc/imap.userdb driver = passwd-file } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Junk autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Junk autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = " imap lmtp sieve" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } 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 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/imap.userdb driver = passwd-file } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " autocreate" }

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[Dovecot] 2.1.rc1 (51d87deb5c26): %{gid} modification problem
by Pascal Volk 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

I tried to apply the X modifier to the %{gid} variable: 'mail_attachment_dir = /srv/mail/.SiS/%X{gid}'. But the name of the created directory is '0', instead of '11172'. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: c01dcofe.1134416(a)localdomain.org

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Re: [Dovecot] using dsync to convert mailboxes looses caching options
by Mark Zealey 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

With 2.0.16 hdr.xxx fields get copied fine (but of course without timestamp). With the patch you provided they don't get copied whether using mirror or backup & starting from scratch. I'm doing a Maildir to sdbox migration otherwise don't think I'm doing anytihng strange. Mark ________________________________________ From: Mark Zealey Sent: 08 December 2011 09:35 To: Timo Sirainen Cc: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: RE: [Dovecot] using dsync to convert mailboxes looses caching options OK I'll test the header copying more fully. The reason we want to preserve caching decisions is to avoid an IO storm when users log in to their mailboxes after an sdbox upgrade so it would be great to be able to have some way to warm caches. Mark

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[Dovecot] using dsync to convert mailboxes looses caching options
by Mark Zealey 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hi there, We're trying to convert users from Maildir to sdbox at present; I'm using dsync to achieve this (2.0.16) however when the user's have been converted we only get minimal information in the caching files. Is there some way to preserve all the caching decisions that were previously made so that when the user logs in to the new mailbox we don't have to cause an io storm rebuilding the cache that we know was good? Dovecot seems to be partially doing this - if i remove the logs/cache from the source mailbox no cache files are built in the conversion; if i put them back then we get a cache file built but it only contains a few bits of information (guid, date.save). Looking into this a bit further i find that when the caches are present at source the fields are preserved but the 'last used' date and caching decisions are not which I suspect means dsync doesn't bother caching on import - only fields with a yes decision in the source are copied (but their decision is only copied as a tmp with the date of import). For example: Source idxview cache: -- Cache fields -- # Name Type Size Dec Last used 0: flags bit 4 tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 1: date.received fix 4 yes 2011-11-26 16:17 2: size.virtual fix 8 tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 3: imap.bodystructure str - tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 4: mime.parts var - tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 5: hdr.IMPORTANCE hdr - tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 6: hdr.X-PRIORITY hdr - tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 7: hdr.CONTENT-TYPE hdr - tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 ... 18: date.sent fix 8 no 1970-01-01 01:00 19: date.save fix 4 yes 2011-11-26 16:17 20: size.physical fix 8 no 1970-01-01 01:00 21: imap.body str - no 1970-01-01 01:00 ... (24 total entries. stripped ones are just hdr. with a tmp decision) dst cache: # Name Type Size Dec Last used 0: flags bit 4 tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 1: date.sent fix 8 no 1970-01-01 01:00 2: date.received fix 4 tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 3: date.save fix 4 tmp 2011-11-26 16:19 4: size.virtual fix 8 tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 5: size.physical fix 8 no 1970-01-01 01:00 6: imap.body str - no 1970-01-01 01:00 7: imap.bodystructure str - tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 8: imap.envelope str - no! 1970-01-01 01:00 9: pop3.uidl str - no 1970-01-01 01:00 10: guid str - tmp 2011-11-26 16:19 11: mime.parts var - tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 12: hdr.IMPORTANCE hdr - tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 13: hdr.X-PRIORITY hdr - tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 ... and dst cached message for example: RECORD: seq=57, uid=12207, flags=0x09 (Seen Answered) - ext 1 modseq : 1 (0100000000000000) - ext 3 cache : 5516 (8c150000) - cache offset=5516 size=92, prev_offset = 0 - guid: 1321895282.XXXt,S=7399760,W=7496225 - date.save: 1322324286 (3e11d14e) src idx record for this message contains pretty much all fields. Thanks, Mark

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[Dovecot] POP - preventing re-download with server move
by Trutwin, Joshua 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hi, Curious if anyone has any good suggestions to handle this. I try to get my hosting users to use IMAP but most use Outhouse and the IMAP support is somewhat annoying for many so I typically have them change their settings when using POP to leave copies on the server. That way when they get the inevitable virus or wanna use webmail they have a backup copy and webmail sees their saved mail. So now I have to move my sites to a new server and I'm trying to avoid having all these messages re-downloaded by POP clients. Some of the sites I've moved with low email usage have just dealt with the re-download and cleaned up afterwards. I have a few other accounts though that I'm more concerned about that have massive amounts of stored email. The mail is stored in Maildirs - a sample file: 1280409166.23580.foo:2,S If I move this to server "bar" would renaming the file to 1280409166.23580.bar:2,S prevent this somehow? Old server uses qmail-pop, new server uses dovecot 2.0. Thanks for any tips, Josh

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[Dovecot] noaclright
by Knud Dombrowsky 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hi, I recently upgraded to openSuse 12.1 which comes with dovecot 2.0.14. Because of mail-client-problems I am running one dovecot which requires authentication via a client-certificate and another one which can be used without a certificate. (Configurations can be found below.) Since the upgrade our shared mailbox is no longer visible. I tried to repair this by setting the ACLs once again (using imap-acl in Thunderbird) but every time I try to set a new ACL the tool says "noaclright" and dovecot logs the following messages: Dec 7 14:31:14 mailbox dovecot: imap(<sharing-user>): Error: fstat(/home/<sharing-user>/Maildir/.<shared-folder>/dovecot-acl.lock) failed: No such file or directory Dec 7 14:31:14 mailbox dovecot: imap(<sharing-user>): Error: file_dotlock_open(/home/<sharing-user>/Maildir/.<shared-folder>/dovecot-acl) failed: No such file or directory Needless to say the file exists and its contents looks like it should. (Every line is an ACL like "user=testuser ilrws") I took a look at the changelog from 2.0.14 onwards and since it says nothing about my problem I am not looking forward to compiling dovecot myself and installing it. Any ideas why this is happening? Is this a known problem? Any help is appreciated, Knud ------------Dovecot-on-port-992----------------------------------------- mailbox:~ # dovecot -n # 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64 openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master default_client_limit = 1600 default_process_limit = 512 listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/.INBOX 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 = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes quota = maildir:alle Nutzer quota_rule = *:storage=1GB sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { port = 992 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/graband-ca.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mailbox5.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailbox.gpbs.net.key.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl imap_acl quota imap_quota } ------------Dovecot-on-port-993----------------------------------------- mailbox:~ # dovecot -c /etc/dovecot-cert/dovecot.conf -n # 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot-cert/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64 openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-cert/auth-master auth_ssl_require_client_cert = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot-cert/ default_client_limit = 1600 default_process_limit = 512 listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/.INBOX 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 = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes quota = maildir:alle Nutzer quota_rule = *:storage=1GB sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap quota_full_tempfail = yes service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/graband-ca.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mailbox5.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailbox.gpbs.net.key.pem ssl_verify_client_cert = yes userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl imap_acl quota imap_quota } -----------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] overriding userdb connection host for doveadm-user
by Micah Anderson 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

I've got my users in a replicated database setup and dovecot configured with two connect lines in dovecot-sql.conf: connect = host=127.0.0.1 port=3306 dbname=users user=user password=pass connect = host=127.0.0.2 port=3306 dbname=users user=user password=pass this works really well to help balance the load. However, when a new user is created, the replication information sometimes has not made it to the slave database before my user creation process tries to send that new user an email about their new email account. If it hasn't and the email gets sent, then it bounces because postfix thinks the user doesn't exist yet. Replication usually happens within seconds, but could be delayed due to problems. I would like a way to see if the new user's information has been replicated yet before sending the email. I was thinking I could use 'doveadm user' to lookup the user, but I am not sure that I can specify one of the specific 'connect' lines in my configuration to check. Is there a way to override that configuration variable to do this test? I tried various incarnations of passing '-o connect=host='... but doveadm user would just ignore them. thanks for any suggestions! micah ps - yes, I can make my user creation process just 'sleep' for an arbitrary amount of time and by that time the replication should have occured, but that is a bit of a shot in the dark, and doesn't handle longer replication delays that could potentially happen. --

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[Dovecot] lmtp panic in proxy lmtp director
by Xavier Pons 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hi, we are getting some core dumps with signal 6 in ltmp on a dovecot director proxy server, like this: Dec 5 14:31:51 sproxy1 dovecot: lmtp(29999): Panic: file lmtp-proxy.c: line 376 (lmtp_proxy_output_timeout): assertion failed: (proxy->data_input->eof) Dec 5 14:31:51 sproxy1 dovecot: lmtp(29999): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0() [0x363323d99a] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0() [0x363323d9e6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x3633216f8f] -> dovecot/lmtp() [0x406e57] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handle_timeouts+0xd4) [0x3633248ff4] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x5b) [0x3633249bdb] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x3633248c58] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x3633236fc3] -> dovecot/lmtp(main+0x154) [0x403f84] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x373cc1ec5d] -> dovecot/lmtp() [0x403d69] Dec 5 14:31:51 sproxy1 abrt[30067]: saved core dump of pid 29999 (/usr/libexec/dovecot/lmtp) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1323091911-29999.new/coredump (1368064 bytes) Dec 5 14:31:51 sproxy1 dovecot: master: Error: service(lmtp): child 29999 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) we have something misconfigured or it's a bug on this dovecot version? our doveconf -n is: # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final) auth_cache_size = 3 k auth_cache_ttl = 15 mins auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ default_client_limit = 30000 default_process_limit = 5000 director_doveadm_port = 990 director_mail_servers = 10.80.82.21 10.80.82.22 director_servers = 10.80.82.11 10.80.82.12 doveadm_proxy_port = 24245 lmtp_proxy = yes 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 = proxy=y nopassword=y starttls=any-cert driver = static } postmaster_address = xavier.pons(a)uib.es protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { client_limit = 27048 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot mode = 0660 } } service director { fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } inet_listener { port = 991 } inet_listener director-doveadm { port = 990 } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0660 } unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 24245 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 30025 } } service managesieve-login { executable = managesieve-login director } service pop3-login { executable = pop3-login director inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/imap.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/imap.uib.es_privatekey.pem syslog_facility = local1 verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = director-userdb passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-pass.conf.lmtp driver = ldap } } protocol doveadm { auth_socket_path = director-userdb } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } Xavier -- xavier.pons(a)uib.es Centre de Tecnologies de la Informació Universitat Illes Balears

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[Dovecot] Make entire mailbox read-only (ACLs?)
by David Jonas 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hello, Is there a way of locking a mailbox, effectively making it read-only to IMAP clients? I've read through http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ACL. I created dovecot-acl with the content "owner lr" in .INBOX which seems to keep me from copying messages into the folder, but not out. I have the plugin configured correctly, it seems, since MYRIGHTS command shows the correct value: 30 MYRIGHTS "INBOX" * MYRIGHTS "INBOX" lr Am I barking up the wrong tree? Is there an easier way to lock a mailbox? post-login scripting perhaps? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Major bug with hardlinks and lmtp
by Brad Schuetz 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

In working on trying to fix the crash issue from my last email I had enabled LMTP delivery to try it out instead of using the LDA. I have discovered that when a single piece of email is to be delivered to multiple users the message is being hard linked instead of copied into each mail box. This is a major problem that makes LMTP unusable in an environment where each mailbox has it's own UID since the hard linked file will only be readable by one of the users. I assume this is related to "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes", however this setting doesn't say anything about hardlinking across different email accounts. -- Brad Schuetz

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[Dovecot] Per-User MySQL Quota (postfixadmin)
by Sehic, Haris 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

Hi, need some help setting per-user quota and postfixadmin. Setup is working on 1.2 dovecot. Tryin 2.1 dovecot now, quota is working but overriden quota rule set by 'user_query =' in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext takes no efffekt. What's wrong here? Greets Haris

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[Dovecot] Wish list item: %g/%{gid} variable
by Pascal Volk 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

I think it would be very useful to have a user's GID in a variable. So i could use for example: mail_attachment_dir = /srv/mail/.SiS/%{gid} I use one GID per domain and the aliases fqhns of the domain. When for example example.com would be an alias for exmaple.net (gid: 12345), the attachments would be stored inside /srv/mail/.SiS/12345/, no matter if a message was sent to john.doe(a)example.com or to john.doe(a)example.net. "quota = dict:domain:%{gid}:proxy::quota" would then also work. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: c01dcofe.1134217(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] "Unstable" vs "Development" vs "Nightly"
by Terry Carmen 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

I'm currently running v2.1rc1, but have been seeing errors like: Dec 8 11:31:55 it kernel: auth[18914]: segfault at 48 ip 00fe2f74 sp bfcaccd0 error 4 in libauthdb_imap.so[fdd000+f000] The unstable and nightly builds are newer, but are they likely to be more or less stable than the version I'm currently running? I'd like to install a newer version, but am trying to get a feel for how usable they're likely to be. Thanks, Terry

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[Dovecot] Error: Corrupted index cache file /xxx/yyy/zzz/indexes/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
by florent＠coppint.com 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

Hi all, I got a problem with a Dovecot IMAP/POP installation. Since a recent failure of our distributed file system (no loss of data btw), Dovecot seems to have a problem with index cache files. For a lot of accounts, I have this error in logs: Error: Corrupted index cache file /xxx/yyy/zzz/indexes/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size If I delete all files from /indexes/ directory, it still occurs... Do you see what can cause this problem ? Or what information can I provide to help ? Our distributed FS is MooseFS. Dovecot is configured like if it was NFS (no mmap, etc...). Thank you for your help :) Flo

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Re: [Dovecot] sql dict: commit failed: MySQL server has gone away
by Mark Zealey 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Thanks Timo, this patch applied clean against 2.0.16 just running it on live for the past few minutes & seems to have fixed the issues. Mark ________________________________________ From: Mark Zealey Sent: 08 December 2011 07:14 To: Timo Sirainen Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] sql dict: commit failed: MySQL server has gone away Correct we're not enforcing the quotas at present just want an easy way to monitor everyone's mailbox usage. Thanks for the patch; will it work ok against 2.0.16? if so I'll recompile and give it a test today. Mark

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