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[Dovecot] Convert-tool maildir > mbox
by Bertrand Jacquin 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Timo, Is seems that this commit broke convertion from Maildir to Mbox using dovecot 1.2 convert-tool binary : 2009-07-09 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> * src/plugins/convert/convert-storage.c: convert plugin: Fixed changing hierarchy separators in mailbox names when alt_hierarchy_char isn't set. [a9f719f9a509] <HEAD> Since, I get the following : $ convert-tool user1 /var/mail/example.com/user1 Maildir:/var/mail/example.com/user1 mbox:/var/mail/example.com/user1-mbox alt_hierarchy_char=_ Error: Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox Sent/test: Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes Error: Internal failure Strace give show me a failure after : access("/var/mail/example.com/user1/.Sent.test/cur", W_OK) = 0 stat("/var/mail/example.com/user1-mbox/Sent/test", 0x7fff843e73b0) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory) write(2, "Error: Mailbox conversion: Couldn"..., 103Error: Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox Sent/test: Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes ) = 103 lstat("/var/mail/example.com/user1/.dovecot.convert.lock", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=12, ...}) = 0 unlink("/var/mail/example.com/user1/.dovecot.convert.lock") = 0 Is that somethinh known ? Didn't find anything interesting in archives. Maybe that kind of conversion have evolved since 2.0 ? Thanks, Beber

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[Dovecot] doveadm mailbox list shows file system directories as mailboxes
by Jürgen Obermann 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hello. In our dovecvot we use mbox format with the default filesystem layout. Therefore it is not possible to have mailboxes which are subfolders of other mailboxes containing messages. The command "doveadm mailbox list" includes the file system directories, that contain only subfolders, as normal mailboxes in the output: archiv archiv/daemon archiv/dovecot Did I miss something in the dovecot configuration or is there a bug in the command "doveadm mailbox list"? # 2.0.13: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = imap.hrz.uni-giessen.de localhost mail_fsync = always mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = mail_log notify 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 mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = Mail/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } Thanks, Jürgen -- Hochschulrechenzentrum der | Mail: Juergen.Obermann(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de Justus-Liebig-Universitaet | WWW: http://www.uni-giessen.de/obermann/ Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 | Tel: 0641-99-13054 (0641-99-13001) D-35392 Giessen, Germany | Fax: 0641-99-13009

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Re: [Dovecot] Spammers attempting SASL Auth
by Tom Pawlowski 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Take a look at: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/file/962df5d9413a/src/auth/auth-request.c on line 536. That's the auth service catching illegal characters and rejecting the attempt. It'll happen with or without a valid user. So, working as it should. As for spammers trying to brute force valid logins, yep, pretty common. Higher rate of success if they can mail from a known good server and account. * Simon Brereton <simon.brereton(a)buongiorno.com> [2011-10-17 11:51:15 -0400]: > On 17 October 2011 11:31, Robert Schetterer <robert(a)schetterer.org> wrote: > > Am 17.10.2011 17:16, schrieb Simon Brereton: > >> Hi > >> > >> This is a new one on me - I've never seen spammers attempt to use to SASL Auth to inject spam. None of the users they are trying (newsletter, dummy, test, etc.) exist, but what worries me is the illegal chars error - is this a known vulnerability in dovecot they are trying to exploit? I'm running 1:1.2.15-7 installed from apt-get.. > >> > >> Oct 17 15:07:16 mail postfix/smtpd[14422]: connect from unknown[208.86.147.92] > >> Oct 17 15:07:16 mail dovecot: auth(default): passdb(newsletter(a)mydomain.net,208.86.147.92): Attempted login with password having illegal chars > >> Oct 17 15:07:17 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<test(a)mydomain.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=208.86.147.92, lip=83.170.64.84 > >> Oct 17 15:07:18 mail postfix/smtpd[14403]: warning: 208.86.147.92: hostname default-208-86-147-92.nsihosting.net verification failed: Name or service not known > >> > >> > >> Simon > >> > > > > this maybe a brute force attack,or more easy someone missconfigured his > > client , you may use fail2ban etc to block it > > not directly related to dovecot > > 17 queries in 30 seconds is not a misconfigured client :) > > And I'm already using Fail2Ban - but as someone on this list pointed > out recently, that doesn't apply if they try X attempts on the same > connection. Although, I don't think that was case here - maybe I > should update my dovecot jail with that illegal chars line. But, be > that as it may - all these attempts failed because the user didn't > exist. What if the user exists though? Does this illegal chars make > a hole for them to enter through? > > Simon > -- Tom Pawlowski OIT-CSS System Administrator office: Hill 147 email: tompru(a)jla.rutgers.edu phone: (732) 445-2634

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Re: [Dovecot] Spammers attempting SASL Auth
by Robert Schetterer 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Am 17.10.2011 17:51, schrieb Simon Brereton: > On 17 October 2011 11:31, Robert Schetterer <robert(a)schetterer.org> wrote: >> Am 17.10.2011 17:16, schrieb Simon Brereton: >>> Hi >>> >>> This is a new one on me - I've never seen spammers attempt to use to SASL Auth to inject spam. None of the users they are trying (newsletter, dummy, test, etc.) exist, but what worries me is the illegal chars error - is this a known vulnerability in dovecot they are trying to exploit? I'm running 1:1.2.15-7 installed from apt-get.. >>> >>> Oct 17 15:07:16 mail postfix/smtpd[14422]: connect from unknown[208.86.147.92] >>> Oct 17 15:07:16 mail dovecot: auth(default): passdb(newsletter(a)mydomain.net,208.86.147.92): Attempted login with password having illegal chars >>> Oct 17 15:07:17 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<test(a)mydomain.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=208.86.147.92, lip=83.170.64.84 >>> Oct 17 15:07:18 mail postfix/smtpd[14403]: warning: 208.86.147.92: hostname default-208-86-147-92.nsihosting.net verification failed: Name or service not known >>> >>> >>> Simon >>> >> >> this maybe a brute force attack,or more easy someone missconfigured his >> client , you may use fail2ban etc to block it >> not directly related to dovecot > > 17 queries in 30 seconds is not a misconfigured client :) > > And I'm already using Fail2Ban - but as someone on this list pointed > out recently, that doesn't apply if they try X attempts on the same > connection. Although, I don't think that was case here - maybe I > should update my dovecot jail with that illegal chars line. But, be > that as it may - all these attempts failed because the user didn't > exist. What if the user exists though? Does this illegal chars make > a hole for them to enter through? > > Simon > as i posted you offlist, this is a smtp attack, look at your i.e fail2ban postfix rules, fail2ban dovecot ruel is for banning pop3/imap brute force -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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Re: [Dovecot] Spammers attempting SASL Auth
by Robert Schetterer 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Am 17.10.2011 17:16, schrieb Simon Brereton: > Hi > > This is a new one on me - I've never seen spammers attempt to use to SASL Auth to inject spam. None of the users they are trying (newsletter, dummy, test, etc.) exist, but what worries me is the illegal chars error - is this a known vulnerability in dovecot they are trying to exploit? I'm running 1:1.2.15-7 installed from apt-get.. > > Oct 17 15:07:16 mail postfix/smtpd[14422]: connect from unknown[208.86.147.92] > Oct 17 15:07:16 mail dovecot: auth(default): passdb(newsletter(a)mydomain.net,208.86.147.92): Attempted login with password having illegal chars > Oct 17 15:07:17 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<test(a)mydomain.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=208.86.147.92, lip=83.170.64.84 > Oct 17 15:07:18 mail postfix/smtpd[14403]: warning: 208.86.147.92: hostname default-208-86-147-92.nsihosting.net verification failed: Name or service not known > > > Simon > this maybe a brute force attack,or more easy someone missconfigured his client , you may use fail2ban etc to block it not directly related to dovecot -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] Spammers attempting SASL Auth
by Simon Brereton 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Hi This is a new one on me - I've never seen spammers attempt to use to SASL Auth to inject spam. None of the users they are trying (newsletter, dummy, test, etc.) exist, but what worries me is the illegal chars error - is this a known vulnerability in dovecot they are trying to exploit? I'm running 1:1.2.15-7 installed from apt-get.. Oct 17 15:07:16 mail postfix/smtpd[14422]: connect from unknown[208.86.147.92] Oct 17 15:07:16 mail dovecot: auth(default): passdb(newsletter(a)mydomain.net,208.86.147.92): Attempted login with password having illegal chars Oct 17 15:07:17 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<test(a)mydomain.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=208.86.147.92, lip=83.170.64.84 Oct 17 15:07:18 mail postfix/smtpd[14403]: warning: 208.86.147.92: hostname default-208-86-147-92.nsihosting.net verification failed: Name or service not known Simon

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[Dovecot] dovecot-antispam – Debian package
by Philipp Haselwarter 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Dovecot2 has been around for a bit now but Eugene Paskevich's antispam plugin unfortunately still doesn't seem to have a tagged release. Has anyone by any chance rolled a .deb for the plugin that works on current Debian sid? -- Philipp Haselwarter

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[Dovecot] lmtp performance
by Juan Carlos Sanchez 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Hello: In the process of migration from version 1.2 to 2.0 have tried to use lmtp instead of lda as delivery agent. But unfortunately througput we get is poor with lmtp compared to lda. In peak times with lda we are able to deliver over 1800 messages/minute (high I/O but not affecting service) but if we switch to lmtp cannot deliver more than 300 mess/minute (very low I/O). This is enough for normal work but low under heavy load (distribution lists messages sometimes stay queued for 4 hours before deliver). We have arround 50000 boxes and use postfix as MTA How to increase lmtp performance? dovecot config for lda and lmtp: protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master info_log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot_deliver.log log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot_deliver.log mail_plugins = quota sieve zlib postmaster_address = postmaster(a)upm.es sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } protocol lmtp { info_log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot_deliver.log log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot_deliver.log mail_plugins = quota sieve zlib postmaster_address = postmaster(a)upm.es sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } In postfix I have: mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp Thanks in advance. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Juan Carlos Sanchez Hernandez Universidad Politecnica de Madrid ------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Problems Configuring Pigeonhole/Seve
by Ian Barton 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

I am moving my email server from Ubuntu Lucid to Arch. The Arch server is running Dovecot V2.0.15. Email is working fine, but I can't get Pigeonhiole/sieve to work. My dovecot.conf is: protocols = imap sieve ssl = yes ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mail2.wilkesley.net.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail2.wilkesley.net.key first_valid_uid = 5000 first_valid_gid = 5000 auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ namespace { location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir type = private prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes hidden = yes } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol lda { postmaster_address = ian(a)wilkesley.net hostname = wilkesley.org sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve } protocol sieve { # Nothing to do here as defaults are OK } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_global_path = /home/vmail/globalsieverc sieve_dir = ~/ } passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } I have created the sieve dir in the virtual users folder. However sieve doesn't appear to be working. I have tried logging in manually to see if sieve is running, but get the following error: ian:~/ $ gnutls-cli --starttls -p 143 mail2.wilkesley.net [8:32:22] Resolving 'mail2.wilkesley.net'... Connecting to '127.0.0.1:143'... - Simple Client Mode: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. STARTTLS STARTTLS BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. According to the Dovecot wiki this should reply with the capabilities of my server, Note the server sends and receives mail OK using starttls. So what am I doing wrong?

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[Dovecot] Question about ionice & dovecot-deliver
by Maria Arrea 16 Oct '11

16 Oct '11

Hello We are running dovecot 2.0.13 with mdbox on RHEL 5.7 x64, ext4 filesystem. Sometimes we have a big load increase because a mailing list server send 16.000 32k messages in less than 3 minutes. We want to "slow down" delivery, we prefer slow delivery instead of logging out webmail users. I have the following line en /etc/postfix/master.cf: flags=DRhu user=userid argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d ${user} And in /etc/postfix/main.cf mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver I would like to add ionice to the equation, prefixing /usr/bin/ionice -c2 -n6 before the deliver lines in postfix config. Is there any other way of slowing down delivery speed vs imap access? Regards Maria

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[Dovecot] Issue after upgrading to Ubuntu Server 11.10
by Chris Vanden Berghe 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hi all, After upgrading to Ubuntu Server 11.10 my mail setup stopped working. The error message I get is: lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, euid is not dir owner) Does anybody have an idea how to solve this? Thanks, Chris. --- # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10 ext3 auth_verbose = yes log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail maildir_stat_dirs = 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 passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { fts = squat fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = localhost port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = * port = 993 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/vmail/%u driver = static } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = fts fts_squat } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve }

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot not processing through Sieve
by Stephan Bosch 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Please reply to the list as well. On 10/13/2011 3:28 PM, Steven Kiehl wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Stephan Bosch <stephan(a)rename-it.nl > <mailto:stephan@rename-it.nl>> wrote: > > Are you sure you are using the Dovecot LDA (deliver)? Did you > follow these instructions in the wiki? > > http://wiki1.dovecot.org/LDA > http://wiki1.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix > > From the looks of things, your Postfix currently still does its > own mail delivery instead of using the Dovecot LDA. You should see > entries in your log relating to LDA/deliver and Sieve, especially > since you enabled mail_debug. To test whether Sieve is configured > correctly (and to see what the Dovecot LDA normally logs), you can > also manually execute /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver and feed it a message. > > I am using Dovecot deliver to perform mail delivery. I'm absolutely > certain of this because I get spam scores and it is SpamAssassin that > actually hands the mail over to deliver. Here is my postfix master.cf > <http://master.cf> entry for spamc/deliver: > > dovespam unix n n n - - pipe > flags=DRhu user=dovemail:dovemail argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e > /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf -f ${sender} -d > ${user}@${nexthop} -n -m ${extension} Ok, then what do your logs say about delivery? Even when things are filed in INBOX, the logs should show that deliver and sieve are being executed and putting the mail there. http://wiki1.dovecot.org/Logging Regards, Stephan

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[Dovecot] Sieve and UserDB/SQL support
by ben＠benweblife.fr 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Hi, I would like to know if plugins of sieve support UserDB/SQL backend. For example, for the vacation plugin, is it possible to retrieve a field like "sieve_vacation_days", "sieve_vacation_reason", and so on.. on user_query? Or, there is a plan for implement this? Thanks ------ dovecot version: 2.0.13

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[Dovecot] Dovecot not processing through Sieve
by Steven Kiehl 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Hello everyone, I'm fairly new to Dovecot, but I've gotten the majority of things working except for Sieve. I'm running Dovecot 1.2.9 coupled with Postfix and SpamAssassin all with a virtual domains setup. I am receiving mail and it is being processed by all the plugins that operate through Postfix. The quota configured in Dovecot appears to be working because my mail client shows the configured quota. But the Sieve rules are not processing. I created a rule as follows to filter spam: require ["fileinto"]; # rule:[global-spam] if anyof (header :contains "Subject" "[SPAM]", header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES") { fileinto "Junk"; } If I mail myself a message with [SPAM] in the title, it goes into my inbox regardless. I've run 'sieve-test' with the same email and it says it will file it into Junk. The Junk folder exists. I even tried adding :create and the "mailbox" plugin, but that didn't do anything either. Here is the relevant majority of my dovecot configuration: 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_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/dovecot/mail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugins(managesieve): 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 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(managesieve): namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: *mail_plugins: quota sieve* quota_full_tempfail: yes deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ rejection_reason: Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r auth default: mechanisms: cram-md5 plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: dovemail group: dovemail socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: convert_mail: maildir:/home/dovecot/mail/domains/%d/%u/Maildir * sieve: /etc/dovecot/sieve/domains/%d/%n.sieve* * sieve_global_dir: /etc/dovecot/sieve/global/* quota: maildir:User quota_rule: INBOX:storage=500M quota_rule2: INBOX.Trash:storage=100M The sieve plugin exists in /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so, so I would assume I'd have to use *mail_plugin: sieve* as my configuration setting. Like I said, I am receiving emails to my domains without any problem, but sieve rules are not being processed. I can see the rules set up by using the Roundcube plugin, and I can create and edit rules through Roundcube, but nothing different happens when I send myself an email. It all just delivers to the inbox. Thanks for your help, Steve K.

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[Dovecot] Auth Worker failures
by Simon Brereton 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

Hi I have a script that checks the logs each day and mails me invalid user attempts and authentication failures for the previous day. (I use fail2ban to ban multiple attempts in a short space of time). For some reason, this appears every day: Oct 11 06:25:12 mail dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(simon(a)mydomain.net,127.0.0.1): Password mismatch Oct 11 06:25:19 mail dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(simon(a)mydomain.net,127.0.0.1): Password mismatch Oct 11 06:25:31 mail dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(simon(a)mydomain.net,127.0.0.1): Password mismatch Oct 11 06:25:48 mail dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(simon(a)mydomain.net,127.0.0.1): Password mismatch Oct 11 06:26:10 mail dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 4 attempts): user=<simon(a)mydomain.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Of all the accounts on the box, it's only mine that throws this up. Since its LIP is localhost, it could really only be for webmail - but I don't always leave the webmail open, so I'm curious to know how this gets there and what it is. Any suggestions? I find it difficult to believe I have an IMAP process in a script somewhere (especially with my user account - the postmaster account, I could believe, but not with my personal one).. The log time is UTC, so watching the process list at 2.24 is less than appealing! Simon

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[Dovecot] dovecot2 auth-worker socket perms ignoring assigned ownership settings in conf.d/10-master.conf?
by mephistopheles＠operamail.com 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

I have Dovecot2 auth setup to run as user = doveauth group = dovecot configured in, vi conf.d/10-master.conf ... service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { user = postfix group = postfix mode = 0660 } user = doveauth group = dovecot } service auth-worker { user = doveauth group = dovecot } ... When I start Dovecot, ls -al /var/run/dovecot/auth-* /bin/ls: No match. service dovecot-custom start Starting Dovecot ... done Dovect's auth-process sockets are created with different ownership than what I specified, ls -al /var/run/dovecot/auth-* srw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 11 19:30 /var/run/dovecot/auth-client srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Oct 11 19:30 /var/run/dovecot/auth-login srw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 11 19:30 /var/run/dovecot/auth-master srw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 11 19:30 /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Oct 11 19:30 /var/run/dovecot/auth-worker Which causes problems when I test AUTH, telnet 127.0.0.1 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. a login "xxx(a)domain.loc" "testpass" a NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure. * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. In logs, ==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-debug.log <== Oct 11 19:32:11 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/auth Oct 11 19:32:11 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so Oct 11 19:32:11 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/auth/libdriver_mysql.so Oct 11 19:32:11 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/auth/libdriver_pgsql.so Oct 11 19:32:11 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so Oct 11 19:32:11 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Oct 11 19:32:11 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=2397) Oct 11 19:32:17 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1lport=143 rport=47016 resp=<hidden> ==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log <== Oct 11 19:32:17 auth: Fatal: net_connect_unix(auth-worker) in directory /var/run/dovecot failed: Permission denied (euid=1101(doveauth) egid=305(dovecot) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-worker, dir owned by 305:305 mode=0755) What needs to change to get those sockets created with correct/assigned ownership & perms?

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[Dovecot] To query two SQL tables for user verification over LMTP, should I use (a) two separate lookups? or (b) just one lookup with a boolean query?
by jake0534＠airpost.net 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

Hey all I've been running a Dovecot 1X server for awhile. Most of the config was pretty simple using flat files. I'm switching to Dovecot 2X now, and want to switch to using SQL for lookups so I can share info with the Postfix front end. For starters I setup two SIMPLE SQL tables -- a 'users' table and a 'aliases' table, where each user can have many aliases. I want to have Postfix check Dovecot's SASL/LMTP passdb to see if a <user>@<domain> exists. If yes, deliver through LMTP. If NO, reject it. Here are the table definitions so far, CREATE TABLE user ( userid TINYINT, user VARCHAR(64), domain VARCHAR(128), password VARCHAR(64), PRIMARY KEY (userid), UNIQUE (user,domain) ); CREATE TABLE alias ( aliasid TINYINT, alias VARCHAR(64), user VARCHAR(64), domain VARCHAR(128), PRIMARY KEY (aliasid), UNIQUE (domain,user,alias), CONSTRAINT fk_alias1 FOREIGN KEY (user) REFERENCES user (user) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION, CONSTRAINT fk_alias2 FOREIGN KEY (domain) REFERENCES user (domain) ON DELETE NO ACTION ON UPDATE NO ACTION ); With flat file and just one table, 'users', I get how to setup LMTP. I can get Postfix delivering/rejecting over LMTP depending on if the user exists in the Dovecot passdb or not. I don't get how to do the SQL query in Dovecot if I have the TWO tables. An inbound <user>@<domain> needs to be auth'd as valid if it exists in EITHER 'user' OR 'alias' table. Do I need to use a single lookup for passdb with some sort of "IF EXISTS IN TABLE 'user' OR TABLE 'alias'" query? Or do I need to have TWO lookups, the main one for 'user' and a fallback one for 'alias' (like talked about here http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases)? Cheers! Jake

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[Dovecot] using ecc-certificates (ellyptic curve) will not establish connection
by Fresel Michal - hi competence e.U. 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

hi I want to use ECC(ellyptic curve cryptography) for SSL-connections but somehow dovecot doesn't like my ECC-certificates :( I tried to test using following scenario: machine: debian 6 (x64) dovecot 2.0.15-0~auto+21 ((f6a2c0e8bc03) from http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian openssl 1.0.0e-2 from testing (as the default 0.9.8o-4squeeze3 needs also the parameter -cipher ECCdraft for testing) creating keys+cert for ecc (i.e. curves prime192v1, secp521r1) # openssl ecparam -name prime192v1 -genkey -out prime192v1.key # openssl req -new -key prime192v1.key -out prime192v1.csr # openssl req -x509 -in prime192v1.csr -key prime192v1.key -out prime192v1.crt testing these in 2 windows # openssl s_server -cert prime192v1.crt -key prime192v1.key -www # openssl s_client note: when using the default openssl version 0.9.8o-4squeeze3 you need to append -cipher ECCdraft output (cut) ... New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA Server public key is 192 bit Secure Renegotiation IS supported Compression: zlib compression Expansion: zlib compression SSL-Session: Protocol : SSLv3 Cipher : ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA Session-ID: xxxxx Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: xxxxx Key-Arg : None PSK identity: None PSK identity hint: None Compression: 1 (zlib compression) Start Time: xxxxx Timeout : 7200 (sec) Verify return code: 18 (self signed certificate) looks promising - also for the secp521r1 curve but when changing dovecot.conf to use these keys and certificates it won't use them and return errors # openssl s_client -port 993 CONNECTED(00000003) 140543456835240:error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure:s3_pkt.c:1195:SSL alert number 40 140543456835240:error:1409E0E5:SSL routines:SSL3_WRITE_BYTES:ssl handshake failure:s3_pkt.c:591: --- no peer certificate available --- No client certificate CA names sent --- SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 0 bytes --- New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE) Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE SSL-Session: Protocol : SSLv3 Cipher : 0000 Session-ID: Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: Key-Arg : None PSK identity: None PSK identity hint: None Start Time: xxxxx Timeout : 7200 (sec) Verify return code: 0 (ok) --- and the log gives (using verbose_ssl = yes in dovecot.conf) ==> /var/log/mail.log <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x10, ret=1: before/accept initialization [127.0.0.1] ==> /var/log/mail.info <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x10, ret=1: before/accept initialization [127.0.0.1] ==> /var/log/mail.warn <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x10, ret=1: before/accept initialization [127.0.0.1] ==> /var/log/mail.log <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: before/accept initialization [127.0.0.1] ==> /var/log/mail.info <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: before/accept initialization [127.0.0.1] ==> /var/log/mail.warn <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: before/accept initialization [127.0.0.1] ==> /var/log/mail.log <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL alert: where=0x4008, ret=552: fatal handshake failure [127.0.0.1] ==> /var/log/mail.info <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL alert: where=0x4008, ret=552: fatal handshake failure [127.0.0.1] ==> /var/log/mail.warn <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL alert: where=0x4008, ret=552: fatal handshake failure [127.0.0.1] ==> /var/log/mail.log <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client hello C [127.0.0.1] ==> /var/log/mail.info <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client hello C [127.0.0.1] ==> /var/log/mail.warn <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client hello C [127.0.0.1] ==> /var/log/mail.log <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client hello C [127.0.0.1] dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:1408A0C1:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:no shared cipher ==> /var/log/mail.info <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client hello C [127.0.0.1] dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:1408A0C1:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:no shared cipher ==> /var/log/mail.warn <== dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client hello C [127.0.0.1] from doveconf -a: ssl = required ssl_ca = ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/prime192v1.crt ssl_cert_username_field = commonName ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL ssl_key = </etc/ssl/certs/prime192v1.key ssl_key_password = ssl_parameters_regenerate = 168 ssl_verify_client_cert = no Has anybody already tested this and made it working? Or do i have just to recompile everything to make it work? Greetings Mike

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[Dovecot] inbox issue
by Eric Broch 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

I have dovecot 2.0.11 installed on a CentOS 5.7 email server. Two of the server email clients, one using Outlook and the other Thunderbird, have had all the contents of their inbox disappear only to reappear at a later time. One client's inbox email reappeared upon receiving a test email (to check if it would show up in the inbox) from another user. Has anyone heard of such a thing? Here's a dump of my dovecot configuration. # 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.7 (Final) auth_anonymous_username = anonymous auth_cache_negative_ttl = 1 hours auth_cache_size = 32 M auth_cache_ttl = 1 hours auth_debug = no auth_debug_passwords = no auth_default_realm = auth_failure_delay = 2 secs auth_first_valid_uid = 500 auth_gssapi_hostname = auth_krb5_keytab = auth_last_valid_uid = 0 auth_master_user_separator = auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_realms = auth_socket_path = auth-userdb auth_ssl_require_client_cert = no auth_ssl_username_from_cert = no auth_use_winbind = no auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_username_format = %Lu auth_username_translation = auth_verbose = no auth_verbose_passwords = no auth_winbind_helper_path = /usr/bin/ntlm_auth auth_worker_max_count = 30 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot config_cache_size = 1 M debug_log_path = default_client_limit = 1000 default_idle_kill = 60 default_internal_user = dovecot default_login_user = dovenull default_process_limit = 100 default_vsz_limit = 256 M deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ dict_db_config = director_doveadm_port = 0 director_mail_servers = director_servers = director_user_expire = 15 mins disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = yes doveadm_socket_path = doveadm-server doveadm_worker_count = 0 first_valid_gid = 1 first_valid_uid = 89 hostname = imap_capability = imap_client_workarounds = imap_id_log = imap_id_send = imap_idle_notify_interval = 2 mins imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o imap_max_line_length = 64 k import_environment = TZ info_log_path = last_valid_gid = 0 last_valid_uid = 0 lda_mailbox_autocreate = no lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = no lda_original_recipient_header = libexec_dir = /usr/libexec/dovecot listen = *, :: lmtp_proxy = no lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = no lock_method = fcntl log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " login_access_sockets = login_greeting = Dovecot toaster ready. login_log_format = %$: %s login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c login_trusted_networks = mail_access_groups = mail_attachment_dir = mail_attachment_fs = sis posix mail_attachment_hash = %{sha1} mail_attachment_min_size = 128 k mail_cache_fields = flags mail_cache_min_mail_count = 0 mail_chroot = mail_debug = no mail_fsync = optimized mail_full_filesystem_access = no mail_gid = mail_home = mail_location = mail_log_prefix = "%s(%u): " mail_max_keyword_length = 50 mail_max_lock_timeout = 0 mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_never_cache_fields = imap.envelope mail_nfs_index = no mail_nfs_storage = no mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot mail_plugins = mail_privileged_group = mail_save_crlf = no mail_temp_dir = /tmp mail_uid = mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 secs mailbox_list_index_disable = no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes maildir_stat_dirs = no maildir_very_dirty_syncs = no master_user_separator = mbox_dirty_syncs = yes mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 2 mins mbox_lazy_writes = yes mbox_lock_timeout = 5 mins mbox_min_index_size = 0 mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl mdbox_preallocate_space = no mdbox_rotate_interval = 0 mdbox_rotate_size = 2 M mmap_disable = no namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { hidden = no inbox = no list = yes location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/acemt.com/shared/projects prefix = projects. separator = . subscriptions = yes type = public } passdb { args = cache_key=%u webmail=127.0.0.1 deny = no driver = vpopmail master = no pass = no } plugin/quota = maildir pop3_client_workarounds = pop3_enable_last = no pop3_fast_size_lookups = no pop3_lock_session = no pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_no_flag_updates = no pop3_reuse_xuidl = no pop3_save_uidl = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv postmaster_address = protocols = imap quota_full_tempfail = no recipient_delimiter = + rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r rejection_subject = Rejected: %s sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail service anvil { chroot = empty client_limit = 0 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = anvil extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 4294967295 secs privileged_group = process_limit = 1 process_min_avail = 1 protocol = service_count = 0 type = anvil unix_listener anvil-auth-penalty { group = mode = 0600 user = } unix_listener anvil { group = mode = 0600 user = } user = $default_internal_user vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } service auth-worker { chroot = client_limit = 1 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = auth -w extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 privileged_group = process_limit = 0 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = service_count = 1 type = unix_listener auth-worker { group = mode = 0600 user = $default_internal_user } user = vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } service auth { chroot = client_limit = 4096 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = auth extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 privileged_group = process_limit = 1 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = service_count = 0 type = unix_listener auth-client { group = mode = 0600 user = } unix_listener auth-login { group = mode = 0600 user = $default_internal_user } unix_listener auth-master { group = mode = 0600 user = } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mode = 0600 user = } unix_listener login/login { group = mode = 0666 user = } user = $default_internal_user vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } service config { chroot = client_limit = 0 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = config extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 privileged_group = process_limit = 0 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = service_count = 0 type = config unix_listener config { group = mode = 0600 user = } user = vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } service dict { chroot = client_limit = 1 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = dict extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 privileged_group = process_limit = 0 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = service_count = 0 type = unix_listener dict { group = mode = 0600 user = } user = $default_internal_user vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } service director { chroot = client_limit = 0 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = director extra_groups = fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { group = mode = 00 user = } group = idle_kill = 4294967295 secs privileged_group = process_limit = 1 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = service_count = 0 type = unix_listener director-admin { group = mode = 0600 user = } unix_listener login/director { group = mode = 00 user = } user = $default_internal_user vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } service dns_client { chroot = client_limit = 1 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = dns-client extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 privileged_group = process_limit = 0 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = service_count = 0 type = unix_listener dns-client { group = mode = 0666 user = } unix_listener login/dns-client { group = mode = 0666 user = } user = $default_internal_user vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } service doveadm { chroot = client_limit = 1 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = doveadm-server extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 privileged_group = process_limit = 0 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = service_count = 1 type = unix_listener doveadm-server { group = mode = 0600 user = } user = vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } service imap-login { chroot = login client_limit = 0 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = imap-login extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 inet_listener imap { address = port = 143 ssl = no } inet_listener imaps { address = port = 993 ssl = yes } privileged_group = process_limit = 0 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = imap service_count = 1 type = login user = $default_login_user vsz_limit = 64 M } service imap { chroot = client_limit = 1 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = imap extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 privileged_group = process_limit = 1024 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = imap service_count = 1 type = unix_listener login/imap { group = mode = 0666 user = } user = vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } service lmtp { chroot = client_limit = 0 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = lmtp extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 privileged_group = process_limit = 0 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = lmtp service_count = 0 type = unix_listener lmtp { group = mode = 0666 user = } user = vsz_limit = 0 } service log { chroot = client_limit = 0 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = log extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 privileged_group = process_limit = 1 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = service_count = 0 type = log user = vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } service pop3-login { chroot = login client_limit = 0 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = pop3-login extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 inet_listener pop3 { address = port = 110 ssl = no } inet_listener pop3s { address = port = 995 ssl = yes } privileged_group = process_limit = 0 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = pop3 service_count = 1 type = login user = $default_login_user vsz_limit = 64 M } service pop3 { chroot = client_limit = 1 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = pop3 extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 privileged_group = process_limit = 1024 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = pop3 service_count = 1 type = unix_listener login/pop3 { group = mode = 0666 user = } user = vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } service ssl-params { chroot = client_limit = 0 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = ssl-params extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 privileged_group = process_limit = 0 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = service_count = 0 type = startup unix_listener login/ssl-params { group = mode = 0666 user = } user = vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } shutdown_clients = yes ssl = yes ssl_ca = ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_cert_username_field = commonName ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key_password = ssl_parameters_file = ssl-parameters.dat ssl_parameters_regenerate = 168 ssl_verify_client_cert = no submission_host = syslog_facility = mail userdb { args = cache_key=%u quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } valid_chroot_dirs = verbose_auth = no verbose_proctitle = no verbose_ssl = no version_ignore = no protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail }

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Re: [Dovecot] Filesystem quotas
by Joseph Tam 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Timo Sirainen writes in response to Steve Fatula's query: > With imap_quota plugin it allows IMAP client to see how much quota is > used/left. You could also enable quota warnings. And configure the > quota exceeded error message. It could also prevent the catch-22 situation I wrote about earlier whereby a filesystem out-of-space condition will result in a user not being able get themselves out of that situation, since a mailbox operation (like a delete and expunge) will not be able to create a lockfile. Having quotas handled by the IMAP/LDA will allow extra room to handle this impasse. Disabling dotlock or using dotlock_try locking method are some other workarounds. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] Timeout leak in get quota
by Danilo 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Hello! I wrote perl script for read current quota usage, it works but when I run the program I receive a warning in Dovecot log: 2011-09-29 14:45:30 doveadm(guest(a)testmail.com): Warning: Timeout leak: 0x7f14800ad970 This is the script: =============================== #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Socket; use IO::Handle; socket(TSOCK, PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM,0); connect(TSOCK, sockaddr_un("/var/run/dovecot/doveadm-server")) or print("ERROR!"); print "VERSION\tdoveadm-server\t1\t0\n"; print "\tguest\(a)testmail.com\tquota get\n"; print "=" x 20 . "\n"; if (defined(my $messg = <TSOCK>)) { print $messg; print TSOCK "VERSION\tdoveadm-server\t1\t0\n"; TSOCK->flush; print TSOCK "\tguest\(a)testmail.com\tquota get\n"; TSOCK->flush; $messg = <TSOCK>; print $messg; $messg = <TSOCK>; print $messg; close TSOCK; } ============================= I hope someone could help me to fix the warning. Thanks in advance, Dany

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Re: [Dovecot] Group ACL
by Daniel L. Miller 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

On 10/7/2011 11:08 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > On 10/6/2011 8:38 AM, Daniel L. Miller wrote: >> Using Dovecot 2.0, LDAP userdb & passdb, with prefetch: >> >> [..] >> >> I have added permissions for "$allshared" to a mailbox's Inbox. It >> does not appear in the shared folders list. Other mailboxes, with >> explicit permission for a given username, work fine. What am I doing >> wrong? >> > Am I, as usual, doing something wrong? > Is there anything else I should supply to help diagnose the issue? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Filesystem quotas
by Steve Fatula 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

I am wondering if I really need to use dovecot quota functions or not. Assume for the moment, that, each system user has a quota defined using Linux quotas, and that the Maildir is within their quota limited directory. So, any mail (or files created by the user etc) that would exceed the quota obviously can't be created. In such an environment, is there any advantage to implementing the same quota already defined in the filesystem via dovecot? Or, can I just make things simpler and ignore dovecot quotas? Assuming I keep the index and control files out of the quota limited directories. I presume if exceeding filesystem quota, the mail will not be delivered of course. If using lmtp, I presume it stays in the queue to retry later for some period of time. Steve

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Re: [Dovecot] Group ACL
by Daniel L. Miller 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

On 10/6/2011 8:38 AM, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Using Dovecot 2.0, LDAP userdb & passdb, with prefetch: > > [..] > > I have added permissions for "$allshared" to a mailbox's Inbox. It > does not appear in the shared folders list. Other mailboxes, with > explicit permission for a given username, work fine. What am I doing > wrong? > Am I, as usual, doing something wrong? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] lazy expunge namespaces
by Micah Anderson 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

I turned on lazy_expunge and configured a namespace following the wiki[0] instructions for mdbox configuration: namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . } namespace { hidden = yes inbox = no list = no location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . } namespace { location = mdbox:~/mdbox:MAILBOXDIR=expunged prefix = EXPUNGED. separator = . } This created an EXPUNGED mailbox in my client (thunderbird), which was greyed out. When I deleted things, they got put in the EXPUNGED mailbox, as expected, but I could not access them to try and "restore" them. The server would say that the mailbox did not exist. micah 0. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge --

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[Dovecot] doveadm mailbox subscribe wildcard
by Micah Anderson 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hi, I noticed that wildcards work like the following, as described in the man page: # doveadm mailbox list -s -u bob dovecot* dovecot dovecot/pigeonhole dovecot/pigeonhole/2.0 however, wildcard subscriptions don't work: # doveadm mailbox subscribe -u bob dovecot* # doveadm mailbox list -s -u bob dovecot* dovecot dovecot* dovecot/pigeonhole dovecot/pigeonhole/2.0 It seems I subscribed the non-existant mailbox called 'dovecot*' -- is there a better way to handle this? thanks! micah --

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[Dovecot] Using dsync to synchronize pop3 mailbox <-> pop3 mailbox
by Tristan Goguen 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hi All, We're trying to get dsync to synchronize pop3 mailboxes on multiple servers. Is this possible? Any hints are appreciated. Thanks, Tristan Tristan Goguen CEO, ILAP® T: 416-250-5600 ext. 205 F: 416-250-6755 tgoguen(a)ilap.com www.ilap.com

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[Dovecot] I'm the ONLY user that can get mail
by Ed Hochman 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi, I'm stumped. I can access the postfix server to read my mail. BUT I'm the only user that can. Everyone else get rejected. Here's the syslog entry for another user: ...dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<jmarino>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.51, lip=192.168.0.189 And here's an entry for me: ...dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<ed>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.51, lip=192.168.0.189 So ONLY I am able to get my mail. And this is consistent. The other users and passwords are valid. I've re-set them just to be sure. I suspect it's a rights issue but I've checked the rights for all /var/mail files and they're all the same except the owner of the file is the actual owner. I also checked all the rights for the files in /etc/dovecot. They all look OK and they all have root/root for the owner and user. Since I installed the system and did all the editing of the configuration files it's possible, but unlikely, that I'm the owner or group of some key file. I've looked for that but found nothing suspicious. Is it possible I may have given myself root access? I don't see how. My UID is 1000. Does the fact I'm the first user (per my UID) make a difference? I would think not. So I'm stumped. I don't have a clue as to where to look or what to do next. Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated. This is Dovecot 1.2.15 on Ubuntu 11.04. A new/clean install. Plaintext passwords are allowed. Here's dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686 Ubuntu 11.04 protocols: pop3 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: passwd passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: passwd Thanks

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[Dovecot] Only using LMTP-delivery, where should domain & user aliases be configured, Dovecot or MTA conf?
by mephistopheles＠operamail.com 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

I have my MTA (Postfix) check Dovecot2 LMTP for existing users. No other delivery is done; this is a virtual/LMTP-only setup. I define known users in a Dovecot passwd-file, specified in conf.d/10-auth.conf passdb { args = ... username_format=%n /stor01/vmail/auth.d/%d/passwd e.g., vi /stor01/vmail/auth.d/mx1.domain1.com/passwd myuser:{scheme}####:... mail to: myuser(a)mx1.domain1.com is correctly auth'd and stored. I want two things to happen: (1) all mail to existing-users "@domain1.com" gets re-routed to "@mx1.domain1.com", i.e., map: myuser(a)domain1.com -> myuser(a)mx1.domain1.com and is accepted/not-rejected ONLY if 'myuser' is defined as a user in mx1.domain1.com/passwd and, (2) specific 'user' aliasing/remapping within a given domain, i.e. map: whatever(a)mx1.domain1.com -> myuser(a)mx1.domain1.com as long as 'myuser' is a defined user in mx1.domain1.com In these cases, where should I assign domain & mail aliases, Dovecot or the MTA's conf ?

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[Dovecot] trouble setting up director, "invalid argument" for connect() call
by Jim Lawson 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Hi Timo & everyone, I'm trying out a 2-node director setup, but I keep getting the following error: Oct 3 16:11:29 imapdir1 dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.15 starting up (core dumps disabled) Oct 3 16:11:34 imapdir1 dovecot: director: Error: connect(132.198.100.150:9090) failed: Invalid argument Oct 3 16:11:41 imapdir1 last message repeated 3 times Both nodes report this error. The director on each node is listening on port 9090 just fine: > [root@imapdir1 ~]# nc imapdir2 9090 > VERSION director 1 0 > ME 127.0.0.1 9090 > [root@imapdir2 ~]# nc imapdir1 9090 > VERSION director 1 0 > ME 127.0.0.1 9090 "doveadm director ring status" always reports failure of the peer: > [root@imapdir1 ~]# doveadm director ring status > director ip port type last > failed > 127.0.0.1 9090 self > never > 132.198.100.150 9090 2011-10-04 > 13:28:55 > [root@imapdir2 ~]# doveadm director ring status > director ip port type last > failed > 127.0.0.1 9090 self > never > 132.198.100.149 9090 2011-10-04 > 13:24:08 Has anyone else seen this? FWIW, a single-node director works fine, proxying IMAP, LMTP and POP. I'm guessing I have a broken config, but if I do I can't figure it out. Hope I'm not missing something *too* obvious... Here's doveconf -n from imapdir1: # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga) base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ director_mail_servers = penguina.uvm.edu penguinb.uvm.edu penguinc.uvm.edu director_servers = imapdir1.uvm.edu imapdir2.uvm.edu lmtp_proxy = yes login_trusted_networks = 132.198.101.211,132.198.101.212,132.198.101.213,132.198.101.214,132.198.101.215,132.198.101.216,132.198.100.45,132.198.100.46,132.198.100.47 passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y protocol=smtp driver = static } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mail mode = 0660 user = dovecot } } service director { fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } inet_listener { port = 9090 } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0600 } unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director } service lmtp { client_limit = 1 inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } unix_listener /var/lib/dovecot/lmtp-socket { group = root mode = 0600 user = root } } Best, Jim

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + managesieve + ldap not working
by Philip Brechler 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Hi, I want to use managesieve in my dovecot server which uses virtual users and a ldap for the users. This is in my dovecot.conf: # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.0-x86_64-jb1 x86_64 Debian 6.0.1 ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 disable_plaintext_auth: 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(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: 5000 mail_gid: 5000 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%u/Maildir mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve lda: postmaster_address: pbrechler(a)piratenfraktion-berlin.de mail_plugins: sieve mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: sieve_dir: /var/mail/sievescript/%u_scripts/ sieve_extensions: +imapflags And my ldap conf: hosts = ldap.piratenfraktion-berlin.de auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = uid=%u,ou=people,dc=domain,dc=de ldap_version = 3 base = dc=domaindc=de deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid=mail=maildir:/var/mail/%$/Maildir/ user_filter = (|(&(objectClass=organizationalPerson)(uid=%Ln))(&(objectClass=organizationalPerson)(mail=%Lu))) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=organizationalPerson)(uid=%u)) If I try to talk to managesieve with telnet this happens: Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. "IMPLEMENTATION" "dovecot" "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator- i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date imapflags" "SASL" "PLAIN LOGIN" "STARTTLS" "NOTIFY" "mailto" "VERSION" "1.0" OK "Dovecot ready." # ca. 2 Seconds pause AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN" "xxxxxxxxxxxxx" BYE "Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2011-10-02 00:48:09]" Connection closed by foreign host. Dies is a log reading 2011-10-02 00:48:09 MANAGESIEVE(user): Fatal: Failed to create sieve storage with data: /var/mail/sievescript/user_scripts But the permissions are 775 dovecot:dovecot and the system tells me that dovecot was the last user who had access to the directory. Can someone help me? Thanks! kind regards Philip Brechler

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[Dovecot] doveadm(user001): Fatal: passdb lookup failed
by mailing lists 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Hello all, why I can run whis command: imap1:~ # doveadm user user001 userdb: user001 mail : maildir:/var/maildir/vol04/4/46/user001 home : /var/mailfilter/vol04/4/46/user001 quota_rule: *:bytes=100000000 but not this one: imap1:~ # doveadm quota get -u user001 doveadm(user001): Error: user user001: Auth PASS lookup failed doveadm(user001): Fatal: passdb lookup failed what I'm missing ? /-------------------/ imap1:/etc/dovecot # grep ^[^#] dovecot-ldap.conf.ext uris = ldap://ldap.example.com dn = cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com dnpass = secret sasl_bind = no tls = no auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=example,dc=com deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = mailbox=mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$,homeFilter=home,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ user_filter = (&(objectClass=CourierMailAccount)(uid=%n)) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=CourierMailAccount)(uid=%n)) iterate_filter = (objectClass=CourierMailAccount) imap1:/etc/dovecot # dovecot -n # 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.34.7-0.7-xen x86_64 openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_proxy_port = 24244 doveadm_socket_path = localhost:24244 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_gid = 5000 mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = acl quota notify quota = maildir:User Quota quota_exceeded_message = Quota exceded quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+50M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u mail_uid = 5000 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = . subscriptions = yes } namespace { hidden = yes inbox = no list = no location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . subscriptions = no } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/virtual-maildir/%%n:INDEX=~/shared.%%n prefix = shared.%%n. separator = . subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/maildir/shared-mailboxes mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename flag_change append mail_log_fields = uid box msgid from subject size vsize flags mail_plugins = " mail_log notify" sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } postmaster_address = nonresponse(a)example.com service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 24244 } } service imap { process_limit = 1024 } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } unix_listener lmtp { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } } service pop3 { process_limit = 1024 } service quota-warning { executable = script /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh user = vmail } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = acl quota notify sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = acl quota notify sieve } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 mail_plugins = acl quota notify imap_acl autocreate imap_quota } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %v-%u } local 100.1.245.101/28/28 { doveadm_password = secret }

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[Dovecot] sieve vacation reply
by Wojciech Giel 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Hi, I'm configuring postfix with dovecot and roundcube. I'm using flat files as passwdb userdb. Everything works fine except sieve vacation reply. when i send mail from ex. user dennis to tytus I get "discarding vacation response for message implicitly delivered to". What Am i doing wrong? thanks sieve: using sieve path for user's script: /home/tytus/.dovecot.sieve 2011-05-17 16:56:45 deliver(tytus): Info: sieve: opening script /home/tytus/.dovecot.sieve 2011-05-17 16:56:45 deliver(tytus): Info: sieve: executing compiled script /home/tytus/.dovecot.sieve 2011-05-17 16:56:45 deliver(tytus): Info: sieve: msgid=<20110517155641.GA3452(a)badger.example.com>: discarding vacation response for message implicitly delivered to <tytus@badger> /etc/postfix/main.cf ... mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -n -m "${EXTENSION}" ... # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.1 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): 127.0.0.1:2000 ssl_ca_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/servercrt.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/serverkey.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/indexes mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota autocreate mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota autocreate mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): tb-extra-mailbox-sep netscape-eoh delay-newmail outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(imap): tb-extra-mailbox-sep netscape-eoh delay-newmail outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): lda: postmaster_address: postmaster mail_plugins: sieve quota autocreate quota_full_tempfail: yes deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ rejection_reason: Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r log_path: /var/log/sieve.log auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd-file args: scheme=cram-md5 /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve autocreate: INBOX autocreate2: Sent autocreate3: Trash autocreate4: Drafts autocreate5: Junk autosubscribe: INBOX autosubscribe2: Sent autosubscribe3: Trash autosubscribe4: Drafts autosubscribe5: Junk quota: maildir:User quota quota_rule: Trash:storage=10M quota_warning: storage=85%% /usr/bin/dovecot-quota-warning.sh 85 quota_warning2: storage=90%% /usr/bin/dovecot-quota-warning.sh 90 quota_warning3: storage=95%% /usr/bin/dovecot-quota-warning.sh 95

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[Dovecot] Missing man page for doveadm move
by Jeetu 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Hi, i cant see man pages for doveadm-move, though the command "doveadm move ..." works on new version of dovecot. http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/d7a02077d91f -- -Jeetu

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[Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?
by terryjames9461＠mm.st 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Hello, I'm moving my mail server from Exchange to an opensource one. After a bunch of reading, I decided on building a Dovecot2 + Postfix server in a VirtualUsers-only + Multiple-domains configuration. Since my messages will be stored by Dovecot, and the documentation is really good, I figured that it's smartest to configure Dovecot, then make Postfix 'fit' to it, sharing the data files that way. I read through lots of the Dovecot wiki for v2. There are many ways for storing the database data. My goal is to only have data in one instances, used by both Postfix & Dovecot. I'm a little confused about: to do that sharing-in-one-place, do I have to use SQL or can I use the flatfiles like passwd-db? I think for sure someone already decided the best approach for this, and maybe I'm not understanding the logic to it. The data I think I need to share are: users (user(a)domain.com) passwords user aliases (mapping user2(a)domain.com -> user1(a)domain.com) domains domain aliases (domain.com also receives email for domain2.com) And I think all of this can be in passwd-db in Dovecot. But I also want to make sure that Postfix ONLY accepts email for users/domains that exist, so it has to read that data too. Can I do this that way with the flatfiles? Or do I have to use the SQL approach? TJ

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL only for external connections
by Joseph Tam 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

On Sun, 2 Oct 2011, Simon Brereton writes: > I don't have that file. Part of the problem is that I'm confused > between protocols and wrappers and interfaces :) Dick and Michael have > persuaded me that it's just easier to for Horde not to ask for TLS on > port 143 - because that's in fact what I was doing - and it's > pointless. > > Nonetheless, I think it would be nice to tell Dovecot listen on the > local interface for IMAP. Listen on the external interface for IMAP, > IMAPS, POP and POP3S. But if there's not simple way to do that I don't > have a valid use-case for doing it right now. I got into this thread rather late so maybe I missed something here. If you have different policies for your interface, you can run two different instances of dovecot (with 2 different base directories and sets of configuration files). I haven't tried it, but maybe it's also possible have interface specific CAPA strings and remove STARTTLS. Dovecot will support unencrypted sessions over the localhost interface, but your webmail seems to opportunistcally use it when offered, so don't offer it. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] Intermittent authentication failures
by Eric Shubert 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

I'm running dovecot with vpopmail. Here's the configuration: [root@wong log]# dovecot -n # 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.6 (Final) auth_cache_size = 32 M auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_username_format = %Lu first_valid_uid = 89 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_greeting = Dovecot toaster ready. mail_fsync = always mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } passdb { args = cache_key=%u webmail=127.0.0.1 driver = vpopmail } plugin/quota = maildir protocols = imap ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { args = cache_key=%u quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail } Most clients use TLS and PLAIN login for verification, which works flawlessly. I also run SquirrelMail that is slightly dated and has no TLS capability, so it is using CRAM-MD5. CRAM-MD5 works sometimes: Sep 30 08:15:43 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<userA(a)domain.com>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=192.168.252.8, lip=192.168.252.14, mpid=20301 but (seemingly more frequently) the authentication fails: Sep 30 08:16:41 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<userA(a)domain.com>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=192.168.252.8, lip=192.168.252.14 I restarted dovecot, and that apparently cleared the problem for one user, but not others. Is this perhaps a bug in dovecot, or would the problem lie with vpopmail? TIA for any pointers. -- -Eric 'shubes'

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[Dovecot] Multiple LDAP authentication servers
by Romer Ventura 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hello, We are performing a Domain migration and I was wondering if there was any way to get Dovecot to authenticate to more than 1 LDAP server? Currently dovecot is configure to query the "mail" attribute from Active Directory and when found it binds with the credentials the user provided. This works fine, but when migrating user accounts, they get disabled in the source domain so that the user can no longer log on to it. But disabling the account in the source domain, causes the user to be unable to use his email account. Is there any way to get dovecot to try a second LDAP server if the first one fails to authenticate..? ~# dovecot -n # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.29-xs5.5.0.15 i686 Debian 5.0.4 ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps imap ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/smtpd.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/smtpd.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_user: postfix mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: vmail mail_gid: vmail mail_location: maildir:/srv/mail/vmail/%Ud/%Ln/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)h-st.com auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver-info.log auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf 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 group: vmail Thanks -------- Romer Ventura

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[Dovecot] clarifications on shared mailboxes
by Frank Bonnet 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hello I need some clarifications on shared mailboxes. Actually we use MBOX format with "real" unix users , but I've been asked to create some shared mailboxes for some users who need to have some for their working groups. What would be the best way to create those shared mailboxes ? Would it be possible to create some "shared space" on the server in maildir format to get advantage of the last seen flag ? If yes some config examples would be a great help. See attach the doveconf -n output ( certificates names have been obscured ;-) ) Thank you.

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[Dovecot] 1.2.17 Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
by Andrew Hearn 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hello, We've had seg faults a couple of times a day on our servers, we upgraded to 1.2.17 and still have them. running a coredump through dbg says: Reading symbols from /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login...done. [New Thread 27962] Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 warning: no loadable sections found in added symbol-file system-supplied DSO at 0x7fff083f4000 Core was generated by `imap-login -D'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x000000000041388b in io_file_unlink (_io=<value optimized out>, closed=true) at ioloop.c:70 70 if (io->next != NULL) dovecot -n is at http://pastebin.ca/SQjrseJD (pass timo) Linux 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Sep 6 20:13:52 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux We use NFS for mail store, and ramdisk for dovecot indexes. We do run the mail_log plugin. Let me know if you need any more info though. -- Andrew Hearn. AAISP Technical Support Team Leader Tel: 03333 400999

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[Dovecot] problem with getting outlook to work with IMAP server
by Daminto Lie 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Hi, I am having difficulty in getting the outlook 2010 to connect to my server running on Ubuntu Server 10.04. I can login to Squirrelmail webmail, and am able to send & receive emails through squirrelmail with no problem whatsoever. However, this morning, I was trying to add a new account for the same user on Outlook 2010 and I got the following error from outlook as follows Send test e-mail message: Your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server has reported an internal error. The server responded: 554 5.7.7 No Spoofing Allowed. I then, went to check /var/log/mail.log and I found the following Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): ldap(sbernett,50.4.39.163): pass search: base=ou=accounts,dc=example,dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=sbernett)) fields=uid,userPassword,homeDirectory,uidNumber,gidNumber Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): ldap(sbernett,50.4.39.163): result: uid(user)=sbernett uidNumber(userdb_uid)=106 gidNumber(userdb_gid)=106 userPassword(password)={CRYPT}xGHI86Ktls homeDirectory(userdb_home)=/home/vmail/sbernett Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK#0111#011user=sbernett Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST#0114#0112686#0111 Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): passwd(sbernett,50.4.39.163): lookup Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): passwd(sbernett,50.4.39.163): unknown user Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER#0114#011sbernett#011uid=106#011gid=106#011home=/home/vmail/sbernett Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<sbernett>, method=PLAIN, rip=50.4.39.163, lip=50.4.39.164 Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer dovecot: IMAP(sbernett): Disconnected in IDLE bytes=9/292 Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer postfix/smtpd[2766]: warning: No server certs available. TLS won't be enabled Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer postfix/smtpd[2766]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer postfix/smtpd[2766]: 182292400AE: client=localhost[127.0.0.1] Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer postfix/smtpd[2766]: lost connection after DATA (0 bytes) from localhost[127.0.0.1] Oct 3 12:19:27 mymailServer postfix/smtpd[2766]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Next, I tried to see if there are any the difference in the mail.log when logging into the squirrelmail (which is working for me) Oct 3 12:31:32 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): ldap(sbernett,127.0.0.1): pass search: base=ou=accounts,dc=example,dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=sbernett)) fields=uid,userPassword,homeDirectory,uidNumber,gidNumber Oct 3 12:31:32 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): ldap(sbernett,127.0.0.1): result: uid(user)=sbernett uidNumber(userdb_uid)=106 gidNumber(userdb_gid)=106 userPassword(password)={CRYPT}xGHI86Ktls homeDirectory(userdb_home)=/home/vmail/sbernett Oct 3 12:31:32 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK#0111#011user=sbernett Oct 3 12:31:32 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST#0114#0112485#0111 Oct 3 12:31:32 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): passwd(sbernett,127.0.0.1): lookup Oct 3 12:31:32 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): passwd(sbernett,127.0.0.1): unknown user Oct 3 12:31:32 mymailServer dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER#0114#011sbernett#011uid=1004#011gid=1004#011home=/home/vmail/sbernett Oct 3 12:31:32 mymailServer dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<sbernett>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured The only thing I noticed different between the two is the IP addresses in rip and lip. Is there a way to tell the IMAP server to allow the remote IP addresses to connect. Here is my dovecot.conf # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-34-generic-pae i686 Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS ext4 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap listen: *:143 ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 106 last_valid_uid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_plugins: quota imap_quota imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)mailtest.dyndns-free.com mail_plugins: quota sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail rejection_reason: Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot-auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=106 gid=106 home=/home/vmail/%u allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: mail master: path: /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=3GB quota_rule2: Trash:storage=20%% quota_rule3: Spam:storage=10%% quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 Here is my postfix.cf myhostname = mymailserver mydomain = example.com mydestination = localhost.$mydomain,localhost,$mydomain,$myhostname local_recipient_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-user-auth.cf virtual_transport = dovecot virtual_mailbox_domains = vexample.com virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_mailboxes virtual_minimum_uid = 100 virtual_uid_maps = static:106 virtual_gid_maps = static:106 relayhost = mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.1.0/24, 50.4.39.163, 50.4.39.164 mynetworks_style = subnet mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = all inet_protocols = ipv4 mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sasl_exceptions_networks = $mynetworks smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous, noplaintext smtpd_sasl_tls_security_options = noanomymous smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination,reject_sender_login_mismatch smtpd_sasl_local_domain = vexample.com dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

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Re: [Dovecot] FTS and compound searches
by Nikolai Schupbach 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

>> New subscriber here. I noticed that the FTS index is not used in compound searches. >> Is this expected? Tested in 2.0.0 and 2.0.8: > >Yep. It's been in TODO for a while. I know this thread is quite old, but we have the same issue with v2.0.14 and squat. Would this issue also affect the Solr FTS backend? Thanks, Nikolai.

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Re: [Dovecot] Error message in log
by Joseph Tam 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Knute Johnson wrote: > I'm getting the following message in my log; > > dovecot: IMAP(knute): > fchown(/home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 8(mail)) > failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(knute), group based on > /var/mail/knute): 4 Time(s) > > I got these once before on the /var/mail/user files and changed the > permissions to 600. /home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX is 770 and the index > files are 600. Is this a problem with the directory privilege? Probably. This was discussed a few times before. Check the mailing list archives. Dovecot tries to retain the same file access for the indices as the mailbox/message file it indexes; if the permissions allow access to the group, but the owner is not part of that group, then the dovecot process (which sets UID to the owner) cannot recreate the same permissions, hence the error. Either change the group ownership of "/var/mail/knute", put user "knute" in group "mail", or chmod it to 0600. The last one is probably the best solution. And fix the problem that created these permissions in the first place. Check your other users (if you have any) for the same situation. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL only for external connections
by Dick Middleton 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

On 09/30/11 20:25, Simon Brereton wrote: > But the question remains - if only because it's now there - how does one limit services effectively in Dovecot. In Courier it was fairly easy and well documented. There's no reason for me to offer IMAPS or POP3S to localhost (because of the certificate issue) and there's also no reason for me to offer POP3 to localhost either. > > For posterity and for my own edification it would be nice to know how to do that. I don't think you can do that. However if you don't want to use tls/ssl just connect to port 143 plain. I don't know about horde but Roundcube you use tls://localhost, ssl://locahost or just localhost. i.e the choice is with the client not the server. Dick

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL only for external connections
by Michael M Slusarz 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton(a)buongiorno.com>: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot- >> bounces(a)dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Stan Hoeppner >> On 9/30/2011 12:34 PM, Simon Brereton wrote: >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot- >> >> bounces(a)dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Terry Carmen >> > >> >> >> >> If SSL/TLS works from the outside, but not the inside, you should >> >> probably find out why and fix that instead. >> > >> > You'd think so - but since I don't actually need TLS from the >> inside, >> > and given my skill level - disabling it seems easier :) >> >> You don't need TLS/SSL from the outside either, if this is strictly a >> webmail box. In this case, configure Apache/lighttpd+Horde to only >> accept HTTPS connections from the outside, and configure Horde to >> connect via the Dovecot localhost:143 listener. This is how I've >> been doing it with Roundcube for years. Works like a champ. > > It's not strictly a webmail box though. IMAP clients (fixed and > mobile) connect to it. So what I'd like is IMAP, IMAPS, POP3 and > POP3S on the outside and IMAP only on the local host (there's no > actual reason to offer POP to the localhost either... You can also configure the MUA (e.g. Horde) to not use a secure connection, as opposed to turning off features on the server level. michael

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL only for external connections
by Michael M Slusarz 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton(a)buongiorno.com>: > But the question remains - if only because it's now there - how does > one limit services effectively in Dovecot. In Courier it was fairly > easy and well documented. There's no reason for me to offer IMAPS > or POP3S to localhost (because of the certificate issue) and there's > also no reason for me to offer POP3 to localhost either. > > For posterity and for my own edification it would be nice to know > how to do that. At a minimum, you can't disable TLS. If you disable TLS support in dovecot, the server is no longer IMAP 4rev1 compliant (see RFC 3501 [6.1.1] - STARTTLS MUST be supported by server). michael

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[Dovecot] SSL only for external connections
by Terry Carmen 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

If SSL/TLS works from the outside, but not the inside, you should probably find out why and fix that instead. What is the actual error text? Terry -- Terry Carmen CNY Support, LLC https://www.cnysupport.com

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL only for external connections
by Stan Hoeppner 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

On 9/30/2011 12:34 PM, Simon Brereton wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot- >> bounces(a)dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Terry Carmen > >> >> If SSL/TLS works from the outside, but not the inside, you should >> probably find out why and fix that instead. > > You'd think so - but since I don't actually need TLS from the inside, and given my skill level - disabling it seems easier :) You don't need TLS/SSL from the outside either, if this is strictly a webmail box. In this case, configure Apache/lighttpd+Horde to only accept HTTPS connections from the outside, and configure Horde to connect via the Dovecot localhost:143 listener. This is how I've been doing it with Roundcube for years. Works like a champ. With encrypted sessions between browser and web server, and both Horde and Dovecot running on the same host, you don't need to, nor want to, use IMAPS. -- Stan

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[Dovecot] SSL only for external connections
by Simon Brereton 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

Hi I'm running dovecot 1:1.2.15-7 and php webmail application is throwing errors when connecting to IMAP with TLS. Is there away to disable SSL/TLS for localhost connections? I googled, but didn't see anything specific. Can I assume that it's as simple as setting ssl_listen = to the external IP address(es) and leaving listen = * as it is? Thanks. Simon

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[Dovecot] Panic: file lmtp-proxy.c: line 370 (lmtp_proxy_output_timeout): assertion failed: (proxy->data_input->eof)
by mailing lists 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

Hello all, today I got this crash from dovecot (2.0.14) Sep 29 14:09:32 imap1 dovecot: lmtp(17693): Panic: file lmtp-proxy.c: line 370 (lmtp_proxy_output_timeout): assertion failed: (proxy->data_input->eof) Sep 29 14:09:32 imap1 dovecot: lmtp(17693): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3f9aa) [0x7f18f10299aa] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3f9f6) [0x7f18f10299f6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f18f1003211] -> dovecot/lmtp(+0x7a4f) [0x7f18f1982a4f] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handle_timeouts+0xcb) [0x7f18f103590b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x5b) [0x7f18f103680b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f18f1035768] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f18f1023423] -> dovecot/lmtp(main+0x183) [0x7f18f197fa93] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f18f0ca8b7d] -> dovecot/lmtp(+0x4819) [0x7f18f197f819] Sep 29 14:09:32 imap1 dovecot: master: Error: service(lmtp): child 17693 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) /-----------------/ # dovecot -n -c /etc/dovecot-director/dovecot.conf # 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot-director/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.34.7-0.7-xen x86_64 openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot-director/ director_mail_servers = 100.1.245.101 100.1.245.105 director_servers = 100.1.245.101:9091 100.1.245.105:9091 100.1.241.204:9091 disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_proxy_port = 24245 lmtp_proxy = yes mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_gid = 5000 mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = acl mail_uid = 5000 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y driver = static } plugin { acl = vfile sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap lmtp pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service director { fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } inet_listener { port = 9091 } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0666 } unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 24245 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director inet_listener imap { port = 10143 } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 1024 } } service pop3-login { executable = pop3-login director inet_listener pop3 { port = 10110 } } ssl = no verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = director-userdb passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y port=24 driver = static } } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 } local 100.1.245.101/28/28 { doveadm_password = secret }

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[Dovecot] Error message in log
by Knute Johnson 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

I'm getting the following message in my log; dovecot: IMAP(knute): fchown(/home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache.lock, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(knute), group based on /var/mail/knute): 1 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(knute): fchown(/home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(knute), group based on /var/mail/knute): 2 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(knute): fchown(/home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(knute), group based on /var/mail/knute): 4 Time(s) I got these once before on the /var/mail/user files and changed the permissions to 600. /home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX is 770 and the index files are 600. Is this a problem with the directory privilege? Thanks, -- Knute Johnson knute2011(a)knutejohnson.com

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[Dovecot] Broken mail clients? [MIME] Long attachment encoded filenames (for non-ASCII characters etc)
by Andrew Richards 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

Hi, I've noticed a possible minor issue with long encoded filenames for attachments where these filenames are split across multiple lines. My understanding of character encoding and MIME is not as good as it should be, so I may easily have got this all mixed up, in which case sorry for the noise... Although I understand the preferred method for handling filenames split across multiple lines (because they're too long to fit on one line in the message) is that suggested in RFC2184/2231, so for example, filename*0*=iso-8859-1''accented_characters_here_%EA%CA%E6 filename*1=etc%2Epdf I find that some mail clients do this instead, filename="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?accented_characters_here_=EA=CA=E6?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?etc=2Epdf?=" In Dovecot this results in, 0 fetch 25 body * 25 FETCH (BODY (("text" "plain" ("charset" "ISO-8859-1") NIL NIL "7bit" 239 8)("application" "pdf" ("name" "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?accented_characters_here_=EA=CA=E6?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?etc=2Epdf?=") NIL NIL "base64" 219130) "mixed")) esp. note the unwanted space - or in fact the sequence ?= =? between the two sections of the filename. I think a possible tweak for Dovecot would be to combine the filename parts in this situation to remove the ?= =?. I'm not sure if an IMAP client should know to combine the parts in their current format. FWIW I see that Courier does the same as Dovecot in this situation. I think the 'alternative' method of splitting filenames I'm raising breaks RFC2047 (details below), but unfortunately this method is used by some large email generators like gmail - also details below. Key bits from RFC2047 section 5 part (3) re. only a single encoded-word ('phrase') being allowed for a MIME Content-Type / Content-Disposition: phrase = 1*( encoded-word / word ) An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT be used in parameter of a MIME Content-Type or Content-Disposition field, or in any structured field body except within a 'comment' or 'phrase'. Here are the mail clients I noted this issue with (original filenames destroyed because I've been examining my client's emails for this issue - with their permission), (AOL) X-Mailer: Webmail 33953-STANDARD Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?utf-8?Q?abcde?= =?utf-8?Q?abcde=C3=A9abcde.jpg?=" Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="=?utf-8?Q?abcde?= =?utf-8?Q?abcde=C3=A9abcde.jpg?=" Gmail: Content-Type: application/pdf; name="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?with_a_=EA=CA=E6_super=2Dlong_name_that=27s_bound?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_to_overflow_a_line_boundary_to_test_gmail=2Epdf?=" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?with_a_=EA=CA=E6_super=2Dlong_name_that=27s_bound?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_to_overflow_a_line_boundary_to_test_gmail=2Epdf?=" X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.113.313619 Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats- officedocument.wordprocessingml.document; name="=?utf-8?B?base64encodedstring?= =?utf-8?B?base64encodedstring?=" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?utf-8?B?base64encodedstring?= =?utf-8?B?base64encodedstring?=" X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.5.5 November 30, 2005: Content-type: application/pdf; name="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?abcde=E9abcde=E9abcde=E9?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?abcde=2Cl=2Epdf?=" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?abcde=E9abcde=E9_abcde=E9?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?abcde=2Cl=2Epdf?=" Content-ID: <20__=snip> Content-transfer-encoding: base64 X-Mailer: Lotus Domino Web Server Release 6.5.5FP1 HF551 November 27, 2007: Content-type: application/pdf; name="=?windows-1252?Q?abcde_=28=E9?= =?windows-1252?Q?=29=2Epdf?=" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?windows-1252?Q?abcde_=28=E9?= =?windows-1252?Q?=29=2Epdf?=" Content-transfer-encoding: base64 Timo also noted the same style of filename encoding in Apple Mail in the previous thread I started, it would be interesting to try Apple Mail with a very long filename to cause it to split across multiple lines and see how it encodes the filename then, > Looks like Apple Mail also sends: > > Content-Type: application/octet-stream; > > name="=?iso-8859-1?Q?p=E4=E4?=" Best regards, Andrew.

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[Dovecot] Long attachment encoded filenames (for non-ASCII characters etc) in MIME headers & corresponding Dovecot behaviour
by Andrew Richards 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

(Correction: Subject was confused) Hi, I've noticed a possible minor issue with long encoded filenames for attachments where these filenames are split across multiple lines. My understanding of character encoding and MIME is not as good as it should be, so I may easily have got this all mixed up, in which case sorry for the noise... Although I understand the preferred method for handling filenames split across multiple lines (because they're too long to fit on one line in the message) is that suggested in RFC2184/2231, so for example, filename*0*=iso-8859-1''accented_characters_here_%EA%CA%E6 filename*1=etc%2Epdf I find that some mail clients do this instead, filename="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?accented_characters_here_=EA=CA=E6?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?etc=2Epdf?=" In Dovecot this results in, 0 fetch 25 body * 25 FETCH (BODY (("text" "plain" ("charset" "ISO-8859-1") NIL NIL "7bit" 239 8)("application" "pdf" ("name" "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?accented_characters_here_=EA=CA=E6?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?etc=2Epdf?=") NIL NIL "base64" 219130) "mixed")) esp. note the unwanted space - or in fact the sequence ?= =? between the two sections of the filename. I think a possible tweak for Dovecot would be to combine the filename parts in this situation to remove the ?= =?. I'm not sure if an IMAP client should know to combine the parts in their current format. FWIW I see that Courier does the same as Dovecot in this situation. I think the 'alternative' method of splitting filenames I'm raising breaks RFC2047 (details below), but unfortunately this method is used by some large email generators like gmail - also details below. Key bits from RFC2047 section 5 part (3) re. only a single encoded-word ('phrase') being allowed for a MIME Content-Type / Content-Disposition: phrase = 1*( encoded-word / word ) An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT be used in parameter of a MIME Content-Type or Content-Disposition field, or in any structured field body except within a 'comment' or 'phrase'. Here are the mail clients I noted this issue with (original filenames destroyed because I've been examining my client's emails for this issue - with their permission), (AOL) X-Mailer: Webmail 33953-STANDARD Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?utf-8?Q?abcde?= =?utf-8?Q?abcde=C3=A9abcde.jpg?=" Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="=?utf-8?Q?abcde?= =?utf-8?Q?abcde=C3=A9abcde.jpg?=" Gmail: Content-Type: application/pdf; name="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?with_a_=EA=CA=E6_super=2Dlong_name_that=27s_bound?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_to_overflow_a_line_boundary_to_test_gmail=2Epdf?=" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?with_a_=EA=CA=E6_super=2Dlong_name_that=27s_bound?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_to_overflow_a_line_boundary_to_test_gmail=2Epdf?=" X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.113.313619 Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats- officedocument.wordprocessingml.document; name="=?utf-8?B?base64encodedstring?= =?utf-8?B?base64encodedstring?=" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?utf-8?B?base64encodedstring?= =?utf-8?B?base64encodedstring?=" X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.5.5 November 30, 2005: Content-type: application/pdf; name="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?abcde=E9abcde=E9abcde=E9?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?abcde=2Cl=2Epdf?=" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?abcde=E9abcde=E9_abcde=E9?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?abcde=2Cl=2Epdf?=" Content-ID: <20__=snip> Content-transfer-encoding: base64 X-Mailer: Lotus Domino Web Server Release 6.5.5FP1 HF551 November 27, 2007: Content-type: application/pdf; name="=?windows-1252?Q?abcde_=28=E9?= =?windows-1252?Q?=29=2Epdf?=" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?windows-1252?Q?abcde_=28=E9?= =?windows-1252?Q?=29=2Epdf?=" Content-transfer-encoding: base64 Timo also noted the same style of filename encoding in Apple Mail in the previous thread I started, it would be interesting to try Apple Mail with a very long filename to cause it to split across multiple lines and see how it encodes the filename then, > Looks like Apple Mail also sends: > > Content-Type: application/octet-stream; > > name="=?iso-8859-1?Q?p=E4=E4?=" Best regards, Andrew.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot failing to parse some UTF-8 encoded attachment filenames, returning empty string instead
by Andrew Richards 30 Sep '11

30 Sep '11

Hi, I'm seeing a strange problem with some attachment filenames that are UTF-8 encoded. The problem seems to be related to spaces and/or unusual characters in filenames, like accented characters (or perhaps just to filenames if UTF-8 encoded; I've not explored that fully). These filenames are shown as empty strings in IMAP using Dovecot. I've attached a sample message that exhibits this problem, trimmed down to fairly bare essentials. By comparison I find that (for example) Courier happily returns the filename (still encoded). Although I suspect the problem lies within Dovecot, it may be an underlying Unicode or other component that's at the root of the problem. I can replicate this by putting the attached message in a mailbox (I'm using Maildir format mailboxes, so I just drop the raw file in Maildir/new and change the ownership of the file to match the mailbox owner). Then a pretend IMAP session to show the problem, $ telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. 0 login some.one(a)test.domain password 0 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] Logged in 0 select inbox * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 4 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1316621730] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 8] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] Highest 0 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 0 fetch 4 body * 4 FETCH (BODY (("text" "html" ("charset" "iso-8859-15") NIL NIL "base64" 278 5)("application" "octet-stream" ("name" "") NIL NIL "base64" 18) "mixed")) 0 OK Fetch completed. 0 logout * BYE Logging out 0 OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. $ especially note the ("name" "") part showing a supposedly empty filename. I've observed this behaviour on the following versions of Dovecot, - 1.2.9 on Ubuntu 10.04LTS (pre-compiled version) - 1.2.17 on Fedora 13 (pre-compiled version) - 2.0.15 on Fedora 13 (from source) I don't think the Dovecot configuration is relevant, but I've put it below for good measure for the 2.0.15 setup. Any ideas on what might be causing this? Best regards, Andrew. # dovecot -n # 2.0.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.34.9-69.fc13.i686.PAE i686 Fedora release 13 (Goddard) auth_debug = yes default_login_user = nobody log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log passdb { args = /usr/local/bin/checkcdb driver = checkpassword } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { user = root } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { ssl = no } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { ssl = no } } ssl = no userdb { driver = prefetch }

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[Dovecot] Virtual Folder configuration problem. [FIXED]
by Terry Carmen 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Well, it took a ton of time and research, but I finally have a working Unread virtual mailbox on Dovecot 2.x on Centos 6.0. I have no idea if it's optimal or correct, but it works perfectly and doesn't raise any errors or warnings. Here's what I ended up with: dovecot.conf: Add the following: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins virtual namespace { type = private prefix = virtual. separator = . location = virtual:~/Maildir/virtual } 10-mail.conf: Add the following: # default namespace namespace { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes } 20-imap.conf: Add the following: protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins virtual } 15-lda.conf: Add the following: protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins virtual } Restart dovecot. Reload your mail client. Dovecot will create ~/Maildir/virtual cd ~/Maildir/virtual mkdir Unread Use your favorite editor and create a file named "dovecot-virtual" contaiing: # ~/Maildir/virtual/unseen/dovecot-virtual INBOX INBOX.* -INBOX.Trash unseen Save the file and restart your mail client. Go to "Subscriptions" in your mail client and subscribe to the Unseen folder. You should now have a virtual folder that contains all your unread mail, except for the contents of the Trash folder. Enjoy! -- Terry Carmen CNY Support, LLC https://www.cnysupport.com

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[Dovecot] Error message
by Knute Johnson 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

I'm getting the following message in my log; dovecot: IMAP(knute): fchown(/home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache.lock, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(knute), group based on /var/mail/knute): 1 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(knute): fchown(/home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(knute), group based on /var/mail/knute): 2 Time(s) dovecot: IMAP(knute): fchown(/home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(knute), group based on /var/mail/knute): 4 Time(s) I got these once before on the /var/mail/user files and changed the permissions to 600. /home/knute/mail/.imap/INBOX is 770 and the index files are 600. Is this a problem with the directory privilege? Thanks, -- Knute Johnson

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[Dovecot] "Waiting for authentication process to respond" for invalid users with auth_dovecot
by Ibrahim Harrani 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Hi, I am testing dovecot 2.0.13 and 2.0.14 with qmail-ldap and auth_dovecot patch. If i login to dovecot (pop3/imap) with correct user and password. no problem, I can login immediately. but if I try with nonexistant user, dovecot does not immediate answer, wait for a while and says "Waiting for authentication process to respond." auth_dovecot process remains working in the background. How can I avoid this situation? # telnet 0 143 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. o login validuser validpass o OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL o login validuser wrongpass o NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure. o login non-existant anypass * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. Here is output of dovecot -n # OS: Linux 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 100 last_valid_gid = 65000 last_valid_uid = 65000 listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir passdb { args =/opt/qmail/smtp/bin/auth_dovecot ./Maildir/ driver = checkpassword } plugin { mechanisms = plain login quota = maildir } protocols = imap pop3 service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 1 } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login /opt/qmail/scripts/dovecotpostlogin.sh } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 1 } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mail.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail.pem userdb { driver = prefetch } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mail.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail.pem } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mail.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail.pem }

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[Dovecot] outlook 2007 very slow.
by Kui Zhang 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Hello I have a user with 2500+ sub folders. Total mailboxes size is around 6G. (mdbox, dovecot 2:2.0.14) Syncing/Receiving appears to be slow, with outlook 2007. He does not want to switch to an alternative, due to various reasons. I did not find any error logs indicate issues. during idle, imap process appears to loop at adding inotify watches to all folders. I found outlook-idle in wiki, but it is obsolete. doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-imap.conf:55: imap_client_workarounds=outlook-idle is no longer necessary Any one else having similar issue? Anything else I should do to narrow down the issue? Thanks KuiZ

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[Dovecot] Messages not deleted from mbox
by venom00 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Hello, I've two accounts on my mail server, and from my client (Evolution) I've set up two configurations. If I dowload mail one account at a time everything works fine, but if I download both of them at the same time I'm not able to delete downloaded messages, so I download them twice, three times and counting to infinity. On th client side everything looks good: ----------------------------------------------------- LIST +OK 1 messages: 1 485 . UIDL +OK 1 000000704e57eebd . RETR 1 +OK 485 octets Message here... . DELE 1 +OK Marked to be deleted. QUIT +OK Logging out, messages deleted. ----------------------------------------------------- On the server side I've enabled debug logging but nothing relevant comes up, except sometimes an error: Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index Full log: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=bBizx9tm But most of the times there are no errors and simply the message is not deleted. I'm using mbox format in /var/spool/mail/%u. The dovecot user has read-write access to the folder (even because, as I said, if download an account at once everything works fine). I think it's about locking, I've tried several lock methods but always the same result and I can't see dead locks from lsof, fuser or ls (for dotlocks). Thanks in advance, venom00

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and NTLM problem
by Pavel Obr 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Hallo, i am trying setup dovecot 2.0.9 with NTLM. I tested succesfully winbind with winbind -k, ntlm-auth with ntlm_auth --username=pavel. But I cannot authenticate in Dovecot. My log show these lines: Sep 28 22:16:25 srv-pat dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=6002) Sep 28 22:16:25 srv-pat dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011NTLM#011service=imap#011lip=192.168.7.67#011rip=192.168.100.141#011lport=143#011rport=5109 Sep 28 22:16:25 srv-pat dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: CONT#0111#011 Sep 28 22:16:25 srv-pat dovecot: auth: Fatal: execv(/usr/bin/ntlm_auth) failed: Permission denied Sep 28 22:16:25 srv-pat dovecot: auth: Error: winbind: ntlm_auth exited with exit code 84 Sep 28 22:16:25 srv-pat dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT#0111#011TlRMTVNTUAABAAAAB4IIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA= Sep 28 22:16:25 srv-pat dovecot: auth: Error: winbind(?,192.168.100.141): write(out_pipe) failed: Broken pipe Sep 28 22:16:27 srv-pat dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: FAIL#0111 Do you know what that is mean "Fatal: execv(/usr/bin/ntlm_auth) failed: Permission denied" ? What is exit code 84 - "Error: winbind: ntlm_auth exited with exit code 84"? My dovecot -n: # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-131.12.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 Scientific Linux release 6.1 (Carbon) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain ntlm login auth_use_winbind = yes auth_username_format = %n mail_home = /data/vmail/%d/%n mail_location = mdbox:~/mail mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } protocols = pop3 imap lmtp ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=501 gid=501 home=/data/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes driver = static } Thank you, Pavel

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[Dovecot] deliver LDA issue with setuid-root
by Daminto Lie 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Hi, I am getting the following error message when trying to implement LDA Dovecot 1.2.9 with virtual users: Sep 28 15:59:33 server1 postfix/pipe[3041]: 28BEC2400A1: to=<msmith(a)example.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=2361, delays=2361/0.01/0/0.03, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver must not be both world-executable and setuid-root. This allows root exploits. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#multipleuids ) I do not know if I need to change the group to secmail. Currently, I have as follows -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 933796 2011-06-10 05:36 deliver Can I change it to any other group apart from secmail? and what does it mean by world-executable? Sorry if I ask a silly question here but keen to learn more about linux. Here is my dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap listen: *:143 ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 106 last_valid_uid: 200 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_plugins: quota imap_quota imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com mail_plugins: quota sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail rejection_reason: Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=106 gid=1010 home=/home/vmail/%u socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: mail master: path: /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=3GB quota_rule2: Trash:storage=20%% quota_rule3: Spam:storage=10%% quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 Here is my master.cf # delivery through dovecot dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

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[Dovecot] Dsync Removing Subscriptions Entries
by Asai 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Greetings, In learning to get Dsync to work, I see a lot of this type of warning in the logs: dsync-remote(user(a)domain.org): Warning: Subscriptions file /vmail/domain/user/subscriptions: Removing invalid entry: INBOX/SOME folder When I ran a test this morning on the backed up emails on the remote server with Thunderbird, I did indeed see that many of the subscribed folders were not present in TB, although the directories and data were indeed present on the remote server. The subscriptions file on the remote server had the omissions which Dsync warned about. These maildir folders seem to work fine on the main server. Can someone help me to understand how to make the sync without omissions in the subscriptions file? -- *Asai* Global Change Multi-Media Internet Application Development IT and Networking Services 520-398-2542

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[Dovecot] Controling users access ?
by Frank Bonnet 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Hello We are going to split our mailhub in two :-) one for students and one for the others Does Dovecot 2 provide some mechanisms to filter users's' login ? a flat file would be enough for my usage ( I use pam_ldap nss_ldap with nsswitch ) thanks

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[Dovecot] 2.0.14 IPC client_limit reached error
by Tom Pawlowski 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Hi Timo, Upgraded to 2.0.14 last night for the director-related features and I noticed an oddity in the logs: Sep 28 09:53:21 director2 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:53:56 director1 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:54:23 director2 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:55:07 director1 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:55:24 director2 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:56:08 director1 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:56:25 director2 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:57:10 director1 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Sep 28 09:57:26 director2 dovecot: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped These warnings are only being printed out by the directors. Both the directors and imap/pop3 servers have init scripts with the following ulimits set in the start sections: ulimit -s unlimited ulimit -n 30000 ulimit -u 30000 (We'd get alerts long before resource consumption became an issue) I've been watching the established imap/pop3 connection count on both directors for the past hour and a half and despite these warnings, those counts have grown continuously. The other weird thing is, according the configuration (attached), the ipc service has a client_limit of 0 by default, so we shouldn't be hitting a ceiling anyway, correct? So are these false warnings or something to be concerned about? -- Tom Pawlowski OIT-CSS System Administrator office: Hill 147 email: tompru(a)jla.rutgers.edu phone: (732) 445-2634

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[Dovecot] Problems running Dovecot 1.2.17 on AIX
by ra＠rz.uni-frankfurt.de 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Hello, we have a problem getting Dovecot 1.2.17 to work on one of our AIX-Machines (AIX 5.3). Dovecot compiles fine, but if we try to run it we get strange library dependency problems such as the following: [root@localhost dovecot-test]# /local/dovecot-test/sbin/dovecot -F -c /local/dovecot-test/etc/dovecot.clients.conf Edlopen(/local/dovecot-test/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so) failed: rtld: 0712-001 Symbol bsearch_strcmp was referenced from module /local/dovecot-test/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. rtld: 0712-001 Symbol safe_mkstemp_group was referenced from module /local/dovecot-test/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. rtld: 0712-001 Symbol mail_user_module_register was referenced from module /local/dovecot-test/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. rtld: 0712-001 Symbol dict_iterate_init was referenced from module /local/dovecot-test/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. rtld: 0712-001 Symbol dict_iterate was referenced from module /local/dovecot-test/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. rtld: 0712-001 Symbol dict_iterate_deinit was referenced from module /local/dovecot-test/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. rtld: 0712-001 Symbol i_strcmp_p was referenced from module /local/dovecot-test/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(), but a runtime definition of the symbol was not found. Additional errors occurred but are not reported. FCouldn't load required plugins We tried to use the compiler-script as described on the wiki (http://wiki1.dovecot.org/AixPluginsSupport) and we tried to compile dovecot with gcc instead of xlc. We even tried it on another host running AIX 5.3 but dovecot still fails with the runtime linker complaining about missing runtime definitions. Any hint/help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Manuel

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[Dovecot] Virtual Folder configuration problem.
by Terry Carmen 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

I'm attempting to create a virtual inbox that contains all unread messages from the user's Maildir. I created a conf file called 80-virtual.conf containing: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins virtual namespace { prefix = virtual/ separator = / location = virtual:~/Maildir/virtual } And created the /home/username/Maildir/virtual/unseen/dovecot-virtual file which contains: # ~/Maildir/virtual/unseen/dovecot-virtual * unseen However it doesn't work and the maillog file contains: dovecot: imap(username): Error: user username: Initialization failed: namespace configuration error: inbox=yes namespace missing This is with dovecot 2.0.beta6 (3156315704ef) Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks! Terry

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[Dovecot] Duplicates when switching from Qpopper to Dovecot pop3
by Tristan Goguen 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Hi All, Our test users re-download the mail they've left on the server when they switch from Qpopper to Dovecot. Qpopper includes the X-UIDL header - X-UIDL: X8V"!E)<"!58?"!"9C"! - on read messages. Any suggestions are appreciated. I've included my dovecot configuration. Thank you, Tristan --- Tristan Tristan Goguen CEO, ILAP® T: 416-250-5600 ext. 205 F: 416-250-6755 tgoguen(a)ilap.com www.ilap.com --- # 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v auth_cache_size = 1048575 B auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.+-_@ auth_username_format = %Ln auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 100 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_greeting = mail_access_groups = mail mail_fsync = never mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%1u/%1.1u/%u mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 1 mins mbox_min_index_size = 1 B mbox_read_locks = dotlock mbox_write_locks = dotlock mmap_disable = yes passdb { driver = shadow } protocols = pop3 service pop3-login { client_limit = 10 inet_listener pop3 { address = 216.223.136.7 port = 110 } process_limit = 128 process_min_avail = 5 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 512 M } shutdown_clients = no ssl = no userdb { args = blocking=yes driver = passwd } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = yes pop3_lock_session = yes pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes pop3_save_uidl = yes }

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[Dovecot] Create userdir on dovecot login --- solved
by Andreas Cieslak 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Sorted out the problem, which was already solved in an older forum post of dovecot. In the file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-system.conf.ext I set Passdb { Driver = pam args = session=yes dovecot } Unfortunately this didnt work because when I log in with a user xy, the user dovecot became the owner of the userdir. When I modified the file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-system.conf.ext like this: Passdb { Driver = pam # args = session=yes dovecot } And gave anyone (for testing) the permission to write to home. That worked! At least put the ldap-users in a group and gave that group writing permissions to home. Finished! -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] Im Auftrag von Andreas Cieslak Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 15:41 An: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Betreff: [Dovecot] Create userdir on dovecot login Hi List, I am trying to set up automated userdir-creation on login via squirrelmail or email-client with a dovecot backend. The users are first imported on an openldap directory on the same server as the dovecot runs on. Authentication on the dovecot mail system via pam_ldap works properly. Tried already to integrate some advices from the dovecot wiki like Passdb { Driver = pam args = session=yes dovecot } But the homedir creation works only when the user logs onto the machine. When I try to log in via Squirrel on the dovecot no homedir is created and there is following message in the logs: auth: Error: pam(cieslak,193.175.157.121): pam_open_session() failed: Permission denied I think its something about the user rights, but dont really know where to search for the needle Here is the config of my environment root@server:/home# dovecot -n # 2.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 i686 Debian 6.0.2 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = login plain auth_verbose = yes first_valid_uid = 1000 hostname = server info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info last_valid_uid = 10000 listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_access_groups = mail mail_debug = yes mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = session=yes dovecot driver = pam } postmaster_address = mailaddress service auth-worker { group = shadow user = $default_internal_user } service auth { user = $default_internal_user } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 256 M } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/ca ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/crt ssl_key = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/key userdb { driver = passwd } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } dovecot --version 2.0.13 The configuration of the pam module /etc/pam.d/dovecot looks like @include common-auth @include common-account @include common-session The common session has the line session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0077 I would appreciate any hints. Andreas

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[Dovecot] deliver agent and index/control files
by Nerijus Kislauskas 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Hi Timo and others, We use Dovecot in Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania. For now our LDA is Postfix and POP/IMAP server is Dovecot. We would like to implement dovecot deliver as LDA. Everything is ok exept one small thing: deliver is creating dovecot.index.log in wrong place In dovecot config files we have: ... mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%Ln:INDEX=/var/indexes/%Ln:CONTROL=/var/indexes/%Ln ... As you can see, mail and index/control files are in different partitions. and deliver log: deliver(nerijus.kislauskas(a)ktu.lt): maildir: data=/var/mail/nerkisl deliver(nerijus.kislauskas(a)ktu.lt): maildir++: root=/var/mail/nerkisl, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/nerkisl That is why dovecot.index.log is created in /var/mail/nerkisl, and not in /var/indexes/nerkisl. How can we fix this? -- Sincerely, Nerijus Kislauskas KTU ITPI, LitNET NOC Studentu g. 48a - 101, Kaunas tel.: (8~37) 30 06 45 mob. tel.: 8-614-93889 e-mail.: nerijus.kislauskas(a)ktu.lt

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[Dovecot] Subscription File
by Carlos Mennens 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

I had a use lose 20 folders on their mail account. I was able to pull them back from a restore and dumped them all back on the server in her Maildir. The problem is she doesn't see them on her Thunderbird or Outlook client. I checked to make sure I put them back into the correct directory and I did as well as verify permissions aren't weird. I then noticed a file called 'subscriptions' in her Maildir directory. She appears to only be seeing folders that are listed in this 'subscriptions' file. My question is how do I update this file? If I delete it, will Dovecot re-generate the file with the correct subscription entries? I don't understand what to do but I'm hoping I don't have to edit the file by hand...that seems way too cumbersome.

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[Dovecot] how to disable quota for second namespace?
by Udo Lembke 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

Hi all, I have a second namespace as archive, where no quota should be active (work with type = shared). But if I change the type to private the quota will allways count. My dovecot version is the 2.0.13. I have tried things like this: plugin { quota_rule = *:storage=500M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_rule3 = Sent:storage=+50M quota_rule4 = ns=archiv/%u/:ignore } It's also doesn't work with "quota_rule4 = archiv/%u/:ignore" The namespace: namespace { type = private separator = / prefix = "archiv/%u/" location = maildir:/var/data/archiv/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/data/indexes/archiv/%u:LAYOUT=fs inbox = no hidden = no subscriptions = no list = yes } Even if I define the namespace for quota I see the quota-value also in the "root": plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota2 = maildir:Archiv quota:ns=archiv/%u/ } doveadm quota get -u test(a)example.com Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 1587135 512000 309 User quota MESSAGE 13346 - 0 Archiv quota STORAGE 1359379 - 0 Archiv quota MESSAGE 10577 - 0 du -ks /var/data/mail/example.com/test 234364 /var/data/mail/example.com/test du -ks /var/data/archiv/example.com/test 1383792 /var/data/archiv/example.com/test Now is the big question, how can I reach such an output? doveadm quota get -u test(a)example.com Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 227756 512000 44 User quota MESSAGE 2769 - 0 Archiv quota STORAGE 1359379 - 0 Archiv quota MESSAGE 10577 - 0 I can't believe that's only possible with a shared namespace, or? Any hints are welcome. Best regards Udo

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[Dovecot] "doveadm log reopen" don't reopen seperate lmtp log
by Henrik Larsson 25 Sep '11

25 Sep '11

Dear all I have setup separate pop3/imap log "/var/log/dovecot" and lmtp delivery log "/var/log/dovecot-deliver". After rotating logfiles, i run "doveadm log reopen". I see that my pop3/imap log "/var/log/dovecot" is used straight away, but my lmpt log "/var/log/dovecot-deliver" isn't used at first. After some time, usually a few minutes, logs are being written to this file anyway. But if I compare this to my maillog, it misses some deliveries just after the log rotation. Is there any problems with this configuration that should be corrected? --cut-- # doveconf -n # 2.0.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 first_valid_uid = 125 hostname = mail.larsson.it listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_plugins = fts fts_squat zlib mail_privileged_group = postfix mail_temp_dir = /var/db/dovecot managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { hidden = yes inbox = no list = no location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { fts = squat fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { unix_listener /home/mail/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service lmtp { executable = lmtp -L unix_listener /home/mail/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/mail-chained.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/mail.key userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver mail_plugins = fts fts_squat zlib sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = fts fts_squat zlib sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = fts fts_squat zlib imap_zlib } --cut-- Best regards Henrik Larsson

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[Dovecot] dsync doubts
by Piotr NetExpert 24 Sep '11

24 Sep '11

Hi everyone, I want to backup mailboxes to another server. A usage information for dsync says "... <remote dsync command>". Does it mean I need dsync installed on the other server too? Now when I try to run dsync I receive: # dsync -v -D -u abc backup ssh user(a)other.server dsync(username): Debug: Effective uid=123, gid=123, home=/path/abc dsync(username): Debug: maildir++: root=/path/abc, index=, control=, inbox=/path/abc dsync-local(abc): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /path/abc: mode=0700 gid=-1 Password: server: not found dsync-local(abc): Error: read() from worker server failed: EOF What could be wrong? How can I check what it wants to do and cannot? I cannot find more information I need in a wiki page of dsync. -- pozdrawiam Piotr Szafarczyk http://www.netexpert.pl

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[Dovecot] tiny doc bug report
by Jeff Rogers 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

First timer, I'm installing dovecot-2.0.15. I ran configure; make; sudo make install The INSTALL file then says: --- Rename configuration file: mv /usr/local/etc/dovecot-example.conf /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Read through, and make needed modifications. --- The example configuration file is not installed in that location. Presumably it is now installed as /usr/local/share/doc/dovecot/example-config/dovecot.conf Unless this path difference is a quirk of my local system, the INSTALL directions should be fixed to avoid confusion. Thanks, -J

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[Dovecot] Using Dsync for Incremental Sync
by Asai 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Greetings, We have about 26 GB of email which we're trying to sync nightly to a remote server, but what I just read from a post from Timo awhile back is that it's not possible because dsync relies on message GUIDs which aren't available in the IMAP protocol. It seems that this is still the case, is there anything on the horizon for this to change? -- *Asai* Global Change Multi-Media Internet Application Development IT and Networking Services 520-398-2542

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[Dovecot] How to port this dovecot-1.x configuration file to dovecot-2.x
by forumer＠smartmobili.com 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi, I am trying to move from dovecot-1.x to dovecot 2.1 but I have this error : Sep 23 16:04:13 lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) and I dont' manage to find information about how to translate this old configuration part: socket listen { master { # Master socket provides access to userdb information. It's typically # used to give Dovecot's local delivery agent access to userdb so it # can find mailbox locations. path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) user = vmail #group = } client { # The client socket is generally safe to export to everyone. Typical use # is to export it to your SMTP server so it can do SMTP AUTH lookups # using it. path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode = 0660 } Thanks

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[Dovecot] (2.1 recent:) fts_decoder
by Lutz Preßler 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hello again, test setup as in previous messages. With fts = lucene, I enabled the adapted decode2text.sh (at least I tried...) as suggested in the comment section. On dovecot-start /var/run/dovecot/decode2text socket is created with sufficiant permissions (rw for anybody), but decode2text.sh is not started (it's rx for anybody). When creating lucene indexes, I cannot see it executed either (and no attachment-only content is findable afterwards). No errors with mail_debug - if I change fts_decoder to a nonexistant value, that's logged. Lutz

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[Dovecot] 64.31.19.48 attempt to break into my computer
by Rick Baartman 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

>From my secure log: Sep 19 01:16:44 lin12 dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): check pass; user unknown Sep 19 01:16:44 lin12 dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser= rhost=::ffff:64.31.19.48 Sep 19 01:16:44 lin12 dovecot-auth: pam_succeed_if(dovecot:auth): error retrieving information about user aaron Sep 19 01:16:45 lin12 dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): check pass; user unknown Sep 19 01:16:45 lin12 dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser= rhost=::ffff:64.31.19.48 Sep 19 01:16:45 lin12 dovecot-auth: pam_succeed_if(dovecot:auth): error retrieving information about user abby etc. Literally, 30,000 user names attempted. -- rick baartman TRIUMF 4004 Wesbrook Mall Vancouver, BC V6T2A3

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Re: [Dovecot] 64.31.19.48 attempt to break into my computer
by Alex 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

It is a great tool. Unfortunately dovecot allows infinate incorrect logins during a single session. When fail2ban has firewalled the ip its pointless as the rule only affects new sessions, not established ones. I am disappointed that the author of dovecot has no interest in adding a feature that closes the session after x auth failures. It would certainly make tools like fail2ban more effective. ----- Reply message ----- From: "John Alexander" <john.alexander(a)preachain.org> Date: Fri, Sep 23, 2011 00:13 Subject: [Dovecot] 64.31.19.48 attempt to break into my computer To: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Fail2Ban is an excellent tool to deal with this sort of thing. On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:05:47 -0700, Rick Baartman wrote > >From my secure log: > > Sep 19 01:16:44 lin12 dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): check > pass; user unknown > Sep 19 01:16:44 lin12 dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): > authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser= > rhost=::ffff:64.31.19.48 > Sep 19 01:16:44 lin12 dovecot-auth: pam_succeed_if(dovecot:auth): > error retrieving information about user aaron

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.x vs 2.x
by Lee Standen 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi All, I'm currently in the planning stages for a technology refresh for a very large mail installation, and looking at using Dovecot with LDA/Sieve/FTS_Solr and a number of other plugins to give our users some great features. Currently, our standard distribution is Ubuntu Lucid, which has Dovecot 1.x included with it in pre-built packages, and Dovecot 2.x is in the upcoming Oneiric beta coming out next month. My question is, are there any compelling reasons why we should gravitate towards running Dovecot 2.x beyond the fact it's the "latest and greatest" version? What features would we miss that we're likely to want or need on a very large installation (i'm talking dozens of VM's, over 1 million mailboxes). Thanks

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2, problem with SQL quota and mail aliases
by Jacek Osiecki 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hello, I have a small server running dovecot 1.2 (still not balsy enough to switch to 2.0 - virtual sql accounts, managesieve etc.). There are no local users - only ones defined in the SQL database, and everything else (including quota) is defined in SQL db too. Dovecot is used as IMAP daemon, and dovecot-lda is responsible for delivery (in order to make use of sieve and managesieve). I know that my configuration might be a bit ancient, but this is not referring to any bug (at least I think so) and rather to errors I've made in configuration. Several users have reported, that they are running out of quota even though their mailboxes are empty. I thought these were some single cases, but recently I discovered that this situation occurs when: - user john(a)domain.com has a mail alias, eg. john.smith(a)domain.com - he logs in to the imap account (using MUA or webmail) using his alias (john.smith(a)domain.com) In effect, all incoming emails for john(a)domain.com are increasing the counters (both "bytes" and "messages"), but since user logs in using john.smith(a)domain.com - anything he deletes from the mailbox decreases the records for john.smith(a)domain.com. Finally, John has two records: +---------------------------+-----------+----------+ | username | bytes | messages | +---------------------------+-----------+----------+ | john.smith(a)domain.com | -5488133 | -13 | | john(a)domain.com | 341411029 | 1111 | +---------------------------+-----------+----------+ The record for john(a)domain.com finaly reaches the quota limit - and even removing all emails does not help. My /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf looks like this: map { pattern = priv/quota/storage table = quota username_field = username value_field = bytes } map { pattern = priv/quota/messages table = quota username_field = username value_field = messages } And my question is: what is used as "username"? Always the username given wher user logs in? Is there a way to provide some dictionary to translate all aliases to the real username? Best regards, -- Jacek Osiecki joshua(a)ceti.pl GG:3828944 I don't want something I need. I want something I want.

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[Dovecot] Shared Namespace
by Tom Clark 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Is there anyway of limiting a shared namespace to a domain? E.g. mailbox.com and mailbox2.com are setup with vpopmail. We've got a shared namespace but only want the ability on mailbox.com. Thanks, Tom

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[Dovecot] Trouble getting lda to gzip incomming mails (zlib plugin)
by Helge Milde 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi! I've followed the guide at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib to try to make Dovecot gzip incomming mails, but it doesn't seem to work. I've made pop/imap read gzipped files, and this seems to work perfectly, but LDA is still saving incomming mails in plain text. There's not too much information out there regarding the zlib module, so I'm not sure where to start debugging the problem, and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. The only mention of zlib when LDA is delivering a file: Sep 20 15:51:19 mail dovecot: deliver(helgemil): Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib20_zlib_plugin.so The most relevant lines from dovecot.conf: mail_debug = yes protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_privileged_group = mail max_mail_processes = 1024 mail_process_size = 512 protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = fts fts_squat zlib } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = zlib } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)monsternett.no mail_plugins = sieve zlib mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda sieve_global_dir = /etc/dovecot/sieve/ sieve_global_path = /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } plugin { zlib_save_level = 6 zlib_save = gz fts = squat sieve = ~/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/ } -- Helge Milde, 69701808 www.monsternett.no

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[Dovecot] Create userdir on dovecot login
by Andreas Cieslak 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi List, I am trying to set up automated userdir-creation on login via squirrelmail or email-client with a dovecot backend. The users are first imported on an openldap directory on the same server as the dovecot runs on. Authentication on the dovecot mail system via pam_ldap works properly. Tried already to integrate some advices from the dovecot wiki like Passdb { Driver = pam args = session=yes dovecot } But the homedir creation works only when the user logs onto the machine. When I try to log in via Squirrel on the dovecot no homedir is created and there is following message in the logs: auth: Error: pam(cieslak,193.175.157.121): pam_open_session() failed: Permission denied I think its something about the user rights, but dont really know where to search for the needle Here is the config of my environment root@server:/home# dovecot -n # 2.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 i686 Debian 6.0.2 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = login plain auth_verbose = yes first_valid_uid = 1000 hostname = server info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info last_valid_uid = 10000 listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_access_groups = mail mail_debug = yes mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = session=yes dovecot driver = pam } postmaster_address = mailaddress service auth-worker { group = shadow user = $default_internal_user } service auth { user = $default_internal_user } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 256 M } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/ca ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/crt ssl_key = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/key userdb { driver = passwd } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } dovecot --version 2.0.13 The configuration of the pam module /etc/pam.d/dovecot looks like @include common-auth @include common-account @include common-session The common-session has the line session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0077 I would appreciate any hints. Andreas

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Re: [Dovecot] IMAP delete logs
by James isolder 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Since enabling the mail_plugins = mail_log. I now get an error. Is there anything else I need to check adn how I can put the dovecot into debug mode so I can get more info about where it is failing. dovecot not running? (check /var/run/dovecot//master.pid). Starting dovecot. Error: imap dump-capability process returned 1 Fkevent(EV_ADD, 0) failed: Operation not supported by device Fatal: Invalid configuration in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # 1.2.17: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): *:1143 listen(imap): *:1143 listen(pop3): *:1110 ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_log_format_elements: pid=%p rsock=%r:%b lsock=%l:%a proto=%s user=%u auth_method=%m secure=%c login_log_format: role=proxy realm=test %$: %s login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 50 login_max_processes_count: 5120 login_max_connections: 512 max_mail_processes: 6144 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 8 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_debug: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): mail_log mail_plugins(imap): mail_log mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 pop3_enable_last(default): yes pop3_enable_last(imap): yes pop3_enable_last(pop3): no pop3_client_workarounds(default): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): auth default: mechanisms: plain login cache_ttl: 0 cache_negative_ttl: 0 worker_max_count: 60 process_size: 512 passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-proxy.sql socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:40:21 +0200 "mailing(a)securitylabs.it" <mailing(a)securitylabs.it> wrote > Il 14/09/2011 07:48, James isolder ha scritto: > > Version - 1.2.17 > > > > Is there a way to include message or folder deletion logs in the dovecot > > log > > files. > > > > > > Yes, you can use the mail logger plugin: > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailLog ____________________________________________________________ South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za For super low premiums, click here. http://www.dialdirect.co.za/?vdn=15828

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[Dovecot] Create userdir on dovecot login
by Andreas Cieslak 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi List, I am trying to set up automated userdir-creation on login via squirrelmail or email-client with a dovecot backend. The users are first imported on an openldap directory on the same server as the dovecot runs on. Authentication on the dovecot mail system via pam_ldap works properly. Tried already to integrate some advices from the dovecot wiki like Passdb { Driver = pam args = session=yes dovecot } But the homedir creation works only when the user logs onto the machine. When I try to log in via Squirrel on the dovecot no homedir is created and there is following message in the logs: auth: Error: pam(cieslak,193.175.157.121): pam_open_session() failed: Permission denied I think its something about the user rights, but dont really know where to search for the needle Here is the config of my environment root@server:/home# dovecot -n # 2.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 i686 Debian 6.0.2 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = login plain auth_verbose = yes first_valid_uid = 1000 hostname = server info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info last_valid_uid = 10000 listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_access_groups = mail mail_debug = yes mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = session=yes dovecot driver = pam } postmaster_address = mailaddress service auth-worker { group = shadow user = $default_internal_user } service auth { user = $default_internal_user } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 256 M } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/ca ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/crt ssl_key = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/key userdb { driver = passwd } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } dovecot --version 2.0.13 The configuration of the pam module /etc/pam.d/dovecot looks like @include common-auth @include common-account @include common-session The common session has the line session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0077 I would appreciate any hints. Andreas

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[Dovecot] Webmail architecture : questions about cache and storage backend
by forumer＠smartmobili.com 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi, I have some questions about dovecot-2.1 and need some advice about software architecture. My company plans to develop a kind of Document Managing System (DMS) and one of its module is a webmail that is currently in a pre-alpha stage (if you are curious you can have a look here http://kairos.smartmobili.com/ but don't be surprised if it doesn't work and please do not use IE for now). From my personal analysis that I am sure is incomplete we have the following options to handle emails storage and cache: 1) Do not use a cache and rely on dovecot performance to retrieve email's header in real time. Actually don't know if it's that simple because we might need to have a transformed version of emails to be able to display them more easily in the webmail. In this case this option is not really possible. 2) Use new dovecot-2.1 imap backend and develop a kind of dummy imap server listening to a custom port and storing emails inside a mongoDB database. Advantage is it allow replication very easily. 3) Wait for dovecot2.x to implement a NoSQL storage. Will it happen soon ? If you have other suggestions or ideas I would be happy to hear them. Vincent R.

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[Dovecot] Restoring mail
by Knute Johnson 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

I solved it myself, I forgot about the folders in the /home/user/mail directory. So kindly disregard my panicky message from before. -- Knute Johnson

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[Dovecot] Help restoring imap mail
by Knute Johnson 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

My mailserver blew up today with a power hit. I've created a new server and have dovecot running and I want to restore my mail. I have a copy of the file that was in /var/mail. I set the new dovecot config up the same as the old one and copied the mail file over. I can see the INBOX mail but none of the rest of it. I'm running 1.2.15 under Ubuntu server 11.04. I'm using Thunderbird as my client running on XP. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Knute Johnson

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[Dovecot] global ACL inheritances
by Kui Zhang 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hello I am trying to prevent people from actively delete lazy expunged messages. ACL in following file does not appears to apply to existing or new mailboxes. dovecot/acls/.EXPUNGED/.DEFAULT owner lripk Am I missing something, or is it due to ACL inheritances support? mail_plugins = acl plugin { ... acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls ... } Thank KuiZ

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[Dovecot] Sieve: Vacation, handle and variable
by René Neumann 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi *, I am adding a generic way for vacation-replies in my sieve setup. There I set the handle and the reason using variables (see end of mail). My simple question now is: Though variable expansion is not done for subject and reason, is it done for the handle? Because else there seems no way in configuring the vacation action via variables. I tried to read the code for this extension, but ... well ... the whole sieve implementation is way more complicated then I figured ^^. Thus I take the question to the list. Thanks, René ----- default.sieve ----- require [..., "include", "variables"]; # set this to the text you want to get included in the vacation-mail global ["vacation", "vhandle"]; set "vhandle" ""; set "vacation" ""; [...] include :personal "vacation"; ----- vacation.sieve ----- require ["variables", "include", "vacation"]; # this is set in the including script global ["vacation", "vhandle"]; if string :is "${vacation}" "" { return; } # ensure we have a handle if string :is "${vhandle}" "" { set "vhandle" "${vacation}"; } if header :matches "subject" "*" { set "sbj" "Out of office [was: ${1}]"; vacation :addresses [...] :from "..." :days 7 :handle "${vhandle}" :subject "${sbj}" "${vacation}"; } -------------------------

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[Dovecot] About using Dovecot indexes with Thunderbird/kmail
by Anton Aylward 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

I have Dovecot running well on my Mandriva mail hub, handing out IMAP to the household LAN. This is 1.2.15. Eventually I'll upgrade the OS and get 2.x, but this is working fine. So this question is really about the mail readers I use and how they make use of Dovecot. I have Thunderbird on my laptop and KMail2 on my desktop. Dovecot indexes. GOOD! The trouble is that the mail readers want their own indexes :-( I wish that Thunderbird would NOT index mail on my laptop, but it does. I wish Kmail2 would not use nepomuk/akonadi to index the mail but it does. Why can't they both believe the indexes used by Dovecot? Is this an unreasonable request? -- "We stand behind all of our products, except for the manure spreader." -- Corporate motto of an equipment manufacturer

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[Dovecot] Login problem via webmail and outlook
by Ankit Gupta 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi Mentors, Please help, our users are not able to login into their mailbox account using either outlook or webmail. Please find logs from /var/log/maillog Jan 17 10:45:40 elct dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<ismail>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Jan 17 10:49:17 elct dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<ismail>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Jan 17 11:02:57 elct dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<ismail>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Jan 17 11:03:03 elct dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<ismail>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Jan 17 11:10:08 elct dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<ismail>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Jan 17 11:10:14 elct dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<ismail>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Please help it is urgent. -- Regards Ankit Gupta, Tel: | M: +91 - 9650594790

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[Dovecot] dovecot-virtual folder configuration
by Pierre 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi all, Long story short, I'd like to configure a folder containing: INBOX (some other folders) -> unseen emails from these folders + all other emails (also seen) from the same thread -> seen emails from these folders, but only the recent ones + all other emails from the same thread I tried: # inthread refs (or (or recent unseen) recent ) inthread refs unseen # inthread refs (or unseen ( recent seen) ) # inthread refs recent unseen # inthread refs unseen #inthread refs recent (or unseen ) # inthread refs (recent seen (or unseen )) # (inthread refs (or unseen) recent seen) #( inthread refs (or (or recent unseen) flagged) ) without success. Where could I find proper,understandable doc for this? Could anybody help me on configuring such rule(s) ? Thanks a lot in adavance, Pierre

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[Dovecot] Why can NOT login as root
by jana1972＠centrum.cz 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hi i use Dovecot and it works ok for users except for root user. It is impossible to login as root Here is a log Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=18077) Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=212.97.133.82 rip=212.97.133.82 lport=143 rport=34645 resp=<hidden> Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: pam(root,212.97.133.82): lookup service=dovecot Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: pam(root,212.97.133.82): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: client out: OK 1 user=root Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST 2889482241 18077 1 3500554cf70742dfc0515671c7671bbd Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: passwd(root,212.97.133.82): lookup Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: master out: USER 2889482241 root system_groups_user=root uid=0 gid=0 home=/root Sep 10 10:15:44 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<root>, method=PLAIN, rip=212.97.133.82, lip=212.97.133.82, mpid=18082, secured Sep 10 10:15:44 imap: Error: user root: Invalid settings in userdb: userdb returned 0 as uid Sep 10 10:15:44 imap: Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. Can anyone help? Thanks LL.

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[Dovecot] 2.1: problems compiling fts-lucene - CLucene git version necessary?
by Lutz Preßler 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hello! I have problems recompiling the Debian squeeze auto build packages with "--with-lecene". Is the git (2.3) version of CLucene necessary? Debian includes 0.9.21b, which does not work. Lutz

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[Dovecot] Default permissions on newly created maildir
by Alex 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hi Guys, I am setting up SQL auth for mail. Auth works fine, I notice that if no maildir exists for the authenticated user, it is created automatically (depending on the homedir specified in the sql table entry). The problem is that it creates the dir with "700" permissions which is causing grief for my MTA when it comes time for it to try and drop mail there. If I chmod the dir to 770 things work fine. How do I change the default permissions that dovecot uses whenever it creates a new mail account?

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[Dovecot] ODBC support
by list＠airstreamcomm.net 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

I was wondering if ODBC support was on the road map for Dovecot, or if it has ever been discussed? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Deleted mailboxes with lazy_expunge
by Angel L. Mateo 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Hello, I'm trying to configure lazy_expunge plugin (as a way to provide easy backup for mails). This is my configuration (as explained in dovecot wiki): # Default namespace namespace { prefix = separator = / inbox = yes } # namespaces for lazy_expunge plugin: namespace { prefix = .EXPUNGED/ separator = / location = maildir:~/Maildir/expunged } namespace { prefix = .DELETED/ separator = / location = maildir:~/Maildir/deleted } namespace { prefix = .DELETED/.EXPUNGED/ separator = / location = maildir:~/Maildir/deleted/expunged lazy_expunge = .EXPUNGED/ .DELETED/ .DELETED/.EXPUNGED/ I use just one namespace because I don't want to differentiate between deleting mails or deleting mailboxes, but I have the same problem using the 3 namespaces. With this configuration, when a user connects, if he doesn't have the expunged folder, dovecot logs: Sep 16 10:53:35 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=.EXPUNGED/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/Maildir/expunged Sep 16 10:53:35 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/alumnos/46/113246/Maildir/expunged, index=, control=, inbox= Sep 16 10:53:35 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: Namespace .EXPUNGED/: Permission lookup failed from /home/alumnos/46/113246/Maildir/expunged Sep 16 10:53:35 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: Namespace .EXPUNGED/: Using permissions from /home/alumnos/46/113246/Maildir/expunged: mode=0700 gid=-1 and the expunged folder is created (without the cur, new neither tmp folders). When I delete a message in the INBOX folder (for example), dovecot logs: Sep 16 10:57:19 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: Namespace .EXPUNGED/: Permission lookup failed from /home/alumnos/46/113246/Maildir/expunged/.INBOX Sep 16 10:57:19 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: Namespace .EXPUNGED/: Using permissions from /home/alumnos/46/113246/Maildir/expunged: mode=0700 gid=-1 Sep 16 10:57:19 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: Namespace .EXPUNGED/: Permission lookup failed from /home/alumnos/46/113246/Maildir/expunged/.INBOX Sep 16 10:57:19 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: Namespace .EXPUNGED/: Using permissions from /home/alumnos/46/113246/Maildir/expunged: mode=0700 gid=-1 and the message is stored in the expunge namespace (that is an imap INBOX folder is created in the namespace, with its cur, new and tmp, and the message is stored). But when I try to delete a whole imap folder (in the example I delete it from trash folder because I use thunderbird and it previously move the folder to trash), dovecot logs: Sep 16 11:45:46 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: Namespace .DELETED/: Using permissions from /home/alumnos/46/113246/Maildir/deleted: mode=0700 gid=-1 Sep 16 11:45:46 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: Namespace .DELETED/: Permission lookup failed from /home/alumnos/46/113246/Maildir/deleted/.Trash.kk-20110916-114546 Sep 16 11:45:46 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: Namespace .DELETED/: Using permissions from /home/alumnos/46/113246/Maildir/deleted: mode=0700 gid=-1 Sep 16 11:45:46 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: Namespace .DELETED/: Permission lookup failed from /home/alumnos/46/113246/Maildir/deleted/.Trash.kk-20110916-114546 Sep 16 11:45:46 myotis30 dovecot: imap(angel.luis): Debug: Namespace .DELETED/: Using permissions from /home/alumnos/46/113246/Maildir/deleted: mode=0700 gid=-1 and my mail client reports the error "[CANNOT] Can't rename mailboxes accross specified storages" and the mail folder isn't created in the DELETED namespace. Any idea? -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información _o) y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) / \\ http://www.um.es/atica _(___V Tfo: 868887590 Fax: 868888337

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[Dovecot] convert maildrop filter to sieve
by Aleksandar Lazic 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Dear list member, does anybody have a script which can convert maildrop filter to sive filter? BR Aleks

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