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[Dovecot] Webmail project : to cache or not to cache emails
by Vincent Richomme 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hi, I plan to develop a new web service where one of its module is a webmail and I am thinking about some implementation details. From a interface point of view I wanted to adopt the same logic a outlook(desktop) or yahoo webmail and not split emails into pages. I mean I just want a single datatable view where user can scroll to see his old messages and data are updated only when user release the vertical scrollbar. When I look at current webmail (roundcube for instance) I can see that a cache is used to stored emails headers and I was wondering if it was really necessary ? Once a user has passed the login process I would like to retrieve only the emails that will be displayed (actually a bit more, I am thinking of 150) but I am wondering if it's a good idea to not use a cache for headers. For instance if I have thousands of users on the same machine, will it support it ? Will it be fast enough ? Of course I will try by myself the different options but would be curious to have some opinions. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Explain about (mail_get_first_header(mail, "From", &header)
by Alex Baule 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hi Timo... Inside my plugin, i use the (mail_get_first_header(mail, "From", &header) function, to get the email From to put in some Blacklist. Looking in the header under this mail, we have 2 "From" fields. Using the function above, i get the Second "From", but my MTA (exim) look in to The First From, in the First Line, in that way, my blacklist don't work, because the sender to be blocked is different from the From looked by dovecot. There is a way to get the "From" from First line ? ############################## HEADER ######################################################## >From dma_3783(a)envios.socomdescontos.com.br Tue Jun 07 15:43:04 2011 Return-path: <dma_3783(a)envios.socomdescontos.com.br> Envelope-to: sugestao(a)brc.com.br Delivery-date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:43:04 -0300 Received: from [187.61.43.119] (helo=vt-0007-119.virtualtarget.com.br) by mail.brc.com.br with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from <dma_3783(a)envios.socomdescontos.com.br>) id 1QU1Ex-0006II-5o for sugestao(a)brc.com.br; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:43:01 -0300 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=k1; d=dkim.vttrack.com.br; h=From:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Reply-To:List-Unsubscribe:Message-ID:Date; bh=Q5G3TQPrYgogLS7aDg1DLYJpLKI=; b=XC+MHH79L6VHTI2OayuFHZGeSRAvNstNz8sHEp+xE5i71GznnYfCVsw7fuq2dIST6bTYY7tto/Rd aIZjc2YfEyqgUi0KKKesnMLSI61Ij/FlmE5ftRgIy9Ra59O9R03S62wAt6WPjkx1f4xCZ9ZAIaox GU957biBsg3B6ryU5Ks= Received: by vt-0007-119.virtualtarget.com.br id htpoj60sh70i for <sugestao(a)brc.com.br>; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:42:59 -0300 (envelope-from <dma_3783(a)envios.socomdescontos.com.br>) From: "CompraFacil.com.br" <mkt(a)socomdescontos.com.br> To: "sugestao" <sugestao(a)brc.com.br> Subject: SUPER OFERTA: TV LCD 32” Full HD apenas 10x 129,99 reais com FRETE ZERO. Aproveite. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="b928815d46126f887c344b7d725aceb1" Reply-To: "CompraFacil.com.br" <res(a)socomdescontos.com.br> List-Unsubscribe: <http://relacionamento.socomdescontos.com.br/index.dma/DmaOptOut?3783,3351,2…> X-DMA: 8448122 X-UID: 8448122-74473 X-CID: 3783 X-TYP: MAIL Message-ID: <0.0.1E.8DF.1CC2542B91E3284.8E34(a)vt-0007-119.virtualtarget.com.br> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:42:59 -0300 ############################## HEADER ########################################################

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + qmail-ldap
by Aydın Demirel 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hi; I installed latest dovecot version (2.0.13) and qmail pathed with qmail-ldap on our systems. We want to use auth_dovecot binary authentication for dovecot. My dovecot config is following: auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 100 first_valid_uid = 100 last_valid_gid = 65000 last_valid_uid = 65000 listen = * mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mmap_disable = yes protocols = imap pop3 service auth { executable = /opt/surmail/smtp/bin/auth_dovecot ./Maildir unix_listener auth-userdb { group = qmail user = root } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } } ssl = no verbose_proctitle = yes But, unfortunately I can not connect port 110 via telnet and i'm getting following error: Jun 13 17:11:43 sms dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): child 31580 returned error 111 Jun 13 17:11:43 sms dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling What can be the problem? Regards.. -------------------------------- *Aydin Demirel Endersys Ltd. Sistem Destek Muhendisi / System Support Engineer * Phone : +90 216-4709423 Fax : +90 216-4709508 | Web : http://www.endersys.com.tr <http://www.endersys.com.tr/> Blog : http://blog.endersys.com <http://blog.endersys.com/> Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/endersys LPI : The #1 Linux Certification for IT Professionals LPI (Linux Professional Institute) Turkey http://www.lpi-turkey.com <http://www.lpi-turkey.com/> Endersys is the first Advanced Business partner of Red Hat in Turkey ! http://www.europe.redhat.com/partners/endersys/

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0+LMTP: Legal MAIL FROM rejected?
by Bernhard Schmidt 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hi, I run Dovecot 2.0.13 fed by Postfix over LMTP. Today it rejected one mail Postfix and Amavis accepted, generating a bounce. It was just a spammail, but I think the sender address is legal according to RFC5321 and should be accepted. I don't like generating bounces, email should be either rejected by postfix/pre-queue-amavis or delivered. Jun 6 12:32:47 mail postfix/qmgr[840]: 991FC240DB: from=<admin <admin(a)kl38000.com>, size=8427, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 6 12:32:47 mail amavis[27046]: (27046-06) FWD via SMTP: <"admin <admin"@kl38000.com> -> <user(a)domain.com>,BODY=7BIT 250 2.0.0 Ok, id=27046-06, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 991FC240DB Jun 6 12:32:47 mail postfix/lmtp[4710]: 991FC240DB: to=<user(a)vmail.domain.com>, orig_to=<user(a)domain.com>, relay=pop3.domain.com[::1]:24, delay=0.24, delays=0.09/0.11/0.03/0.01, dsn=5.5.4, status=bounced (host pop3.domain.com[::1] said: 501 5.5.4 Invalid parameters (in reply to MAIL FROM command)) It looks like dovecot/lmtp does not accept an address with quoted localpart that contains a space mail from:<"admin admin"@kl38000.com> 501 5.5.4 Invalid parameters mail from:<"adminadmin"@kl38000.com> 250 2.1.0 OK mail from:<"admin<admin"@kl38000.com> 250 2.1.0 OK Bernhard

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Re: [Dovecot] Using Dovecot new version 2.0.13 facing issues.
by गौरव जोशी 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

> Hi, > > I have configured POP-IMAP server with dovecot 2.0.13 with mysql support. > When I am running load test on the same I face issue on IMAP connections. I > get "dovecot: imap-login: Error: fd_send(imap, 15) failed: Interrupted > system call" followed by "dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure" in > log files. See if these patches help: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/86e4023d08e4 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/6fdee880c5dc Hi Timo, Thanks for the response. The first patch is not getting compiled, where the other one got complied cleanly. Please help on this. Have a nice time, Gourav Joshi Have a look at www.linuxquestions.in

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[Dovecot] Regarding Digest-MD5 auth
by kenja heramba 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hi, I am writing a Pop3Client. I use dovecot server as POP3 server in linux and hMailServer in windows. I was just testing digest-md5 auth with dovecot server. I had an observation. After server side verification, server sends a verification code to client. If this fails, how can client send the negative response or does it not exist? When I see packet capture, dovecot server sends +OK Logged in for anything client sends. I may be wrong. Please let me know your thoughts Regards, Heramba

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[Dovecot] sqlite quota dict
by Nikita Koshikov 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hello Timo, and list followers, Sqlite supports good feature like mysql 'ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE' - it calls REPLACE/INSERT OR REPLACE This clause can be added to INSERT query, like: INSERT OR REPLACE INTO table VALUES() REPLACE INTO table VALUES() // alias to previous one Also this can be done during CREATE TABLE syntax, like so: CREATE TABLE quota ( username text not null, bytes integer not null default 0, messages integer not null default 0, primary key (username) ON CONFLICT REPLACE ); So the examples will work: INSERT INTO quota (bytes,username) VALUES ('112497180','foo(a)spam.dom'); INSERT INTO quota (bytes,username) VALUES ('112497181','foo(a)spam.dom'); SELECT * FROM quota; foo(a)spam.dom|112497181|0 But 1 thing to note - if we updating not all fields and column has NOT NULL DEFAULT value, then DEFAULT value will alter current one: INSERT INTO quota (bytes,username) VALUES ('112497180','foo(a)spam.dom'); INSERT INTO quota (messages,username) VALUES ('1743','foo(a)spam.dom'); SELECT * FROM quota; foo(a)spam.dom|0|1743 This can be easily bypassed if INSERT will be: INSERT INTO quota (bytes,messages,username) VALUES ('112497180','1743','foo(a)spam.dom'); So if dovecot will INSERT values to sql dict in this manner, sqlite can be used for storing quota data.

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[Dovecot] virtual users with postfix+dovecot plugin usage question
by Denis Iskandarov 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

I'm interested in if i should enable plugins only in LDA as i understood that with postfix dovecot works only like LDA. For example i wanna use autocreate plugin for imap user i have enabled in both IMAP and LDA sections. Is it right or i had to configure it only in LDA section ? Than how quota and imap_quota work in imap section ? For what is it there if lda controls user maildirs ? Dovecot 2.0.13 protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota autocreate } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh }

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[Dovecot] Question about Dovecot-ACLs
by Jan Phillip Greimann 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hi there, i try to create an php-script to control acl's for public folders without file-manipulation. For this i use imap_setacl() like this example: imap_setacl($mbox,"INBOX/test", "email(a)domain.tld", "lrwstipekxa"); The acl-file looks so: ~:> cat dovecot-acl user=email(a)domain.tld akxeilprwts But i have a problem with the follow function: imap_setacl($mbox,"INBOX/test", "email(a)domain.tld", ""); This command only delete the rights from the email, not the whole entry in my dovecot-acl file. Now my acl-file looks like this: ~:> cat dovecot-acl user=email(a)domain.tld Did this affect dovecot by any way? Thanks, Jan

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[Dovecot] dovecot auth server problem PAM handshake imap-login
by emc 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hi, i have a big problem with dovecot... PAM auth problem i guess, but don't know how to sort it out... Down the log and the dovecot.conf. Please soemone can tell me what's broken there? Thanks a lot ************************* HERE log ************************* Jun 9 14:49:46 vps dovecot: pop3-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Resource temporarily unavailable Jun 9 14:49:46 vps dovecot: imap-login: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=14681, input bytes=0 Jun 9 14:49:46 vps dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Resource temporarily unavailable Jun 9 14:49:46 vps dovecot: imap-login: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=14681, input bytes=0 Jun 9 14:49:46 vps dovecot: imap-login: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=14682, input bytes=0 ************************* HERE my doveconf -a ************************* # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot log_path: info_log_path: log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S syslog_facility: mail protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s listen: ssl_listen: ssl_disable: no ssl_ca_file: ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_key_password: ssl_parameters_regenerate: 168 ssl_cipher_list: ssl_verify_client_cert: no disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: no shutdown_clients: yes nfs_check: yes version_ignore: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: dovecot login_greeting: Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format: %$: %s login_process_per_connection: yes login_chroot: yes login_greeting_capability: no login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 3 login_max_processes_count: 128 login_max_connections: 256 valid_chroot_dirs: mail_chroot: max_mail_processes: 1024 verbose_proctitle: no first_valid_uid: 500 last_valid_uid: 0 first_valid_gid: 1 last_valid_gid: 0 mail_extra_groups: mail_access_groups: mail_privileged_group: man default_mail_env: mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_cache_fields: flags mail_never_cache_fields: imap.envelope mail_cache_min_mail_count: 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval: 30 mail_debug: yes mail_full_filesystem_access: no mail_max_keyword_length: 50 mail_save_crlf: no mail_read_mmaped: no mmap_disable: no mmap_no_write: no dotlock_use_excl: no fsync_disable: no lock_method: fcntl maildir_stat_dirs: no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: no maildir_copy_preserve_filename: no mbox_read_locks: fcntl mbox_write_locks: fcntl mbox_lock_timeout: 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout: 120 mbox_min_index_size: 0 mbox_dirty_syncs: yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_lazy_writes: yes dbox_rotate_size: 2048 dbox_rotate_min_size: 16 dbox_rotate_days: 1 umask: 63 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: no mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_size: 256 mail_plugins: 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_log_prefix: %Us(%u): mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 10 imap_max_line_length: 65536 imap_capability: imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle pop3_no_flag_updates: no pop3_enable_last: no pop3_reuse_xuidl: no pop3_lock_session: no pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds: pop3_logout_format: top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s managesieve_max_line_length: 65536 managesieve_implementation_string: dovecot sieve_storage: sieve: auth default: mechanisms: plain login realms: default_realm: cache_size: 0 cache_ttl: 3600 executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth user: root chroot: username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ username_translation: username_format: master_user_separator: anonymous_username: anonymous krb5_keytab: gssapi_hostname: verbose: no debug: yes debug_passwords: no ssl_require_client_cert: no ssl_username_from_cert: no count: 1 worker_max_count: 30 process_size: 256 passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes dovecot deny: no pass: no master: no userdb: driver: passwd args: --------------------------

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[Dovecot] auth_cache question
by Robert Schetterer 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hi , just to make clear short question does auth_cache... help with downing sql lookups http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Caching isnt clear to me for sql to me if yes are there real world recommanded settings lets say for a 5000 users server and where password changes should be noticed asap -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2 + Sieve-0.1.19 not working please help
by Denis Iskandarov 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hello i have installed dovecot from rpm found on rpm.pbone.net 1.2.17-0_115.el5 Everuthing works as charm Postfix + Dovecot + TLS + MySQL/postfixadmin For Reference: Centos 5.6 postfix 2.3.3-2.2 dovecot 1.2.17-0_115.el5 spamassassin 3.2.5-1.el5 postfixadmin 2.3.3 amavisd-new 2.6.4-4.el5.rf Now i'm trying to install Sieve for Dovecot 1.2 to make it redirect spam in proper folders but getting next error: ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/lib/dovecot/ #OMITED OUTPUT# dovecot-config not found from /usr/lib/dovecot, use --with-dovecot=PATH to give path to compiled Dovecot sources or to a directory with the installed dovecot-config file. configure: error: dovecot-config not found /usr/lib/dovecot/ - is dir where all plugins and other things are stored. /etc is dir where dovecot.conf is located /etc/dovecot is dir where i put dovecot sql config Please help. I have no idea how to fix this. Especially when everything seems to be working as charm. My thread on LQ.org http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=4381803&posted=1#p… dovecot -n # 1.2.17: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.6 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_ca_file: /etc/pki/tls/cacert.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/tls/dev.cdn/cent56.dev.cdn.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/tls/dev.cdn/cent56.dev.cdn.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 1001 last_valid_uid: 1001 first_valid_gid: 12 last_valid_gid: 12 mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)dev.cdn mail_plugins: quota autocreate mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: nobody passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch 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: mail

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[Dovecot] Dovecot sieve redirect: failed to redirect message to user@domain.com
by Thiago Henrique 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hello, I'm running Dovecot 2.0.13 on my Ubuntu10.04. It's working very well but I faced a problem with Redirect and Vacation using Sieve. :-( In fact, after well configuring the system I dont't receive the redirect message, and in the log I found: ######################################################################################## Jun 9 18:49:37 box7 dovecot: lmtp(10734, user(a)server.com) Fatal: execv(/usr/sbin/sendmail) failed: Permission denied Jun 9 18:49:37 box7 dovecot: lmtp(10734, user(a)server.com) Error: Sendmail process terminated abnormally, exit status 84 Jun 9 18:49:37 box7 dovecot: lmtp(10734, user(a)server.com) Error: At35JIgC8U3uKQAAndgVeA: sieve: msgid=<20110609184850.0FAB8200A41C(a)domain.com>: failed to redirect message to <user-destination(a)server.com> (refer to server log for more information) ######################################################################################## In sieve.log I see: ######################################################################################## error: msgid=<2011060919.0200A375(a)domain.com>: failed to redirect message to <user(a)domain.com> (refer to server log for more information). ######################################################################################## Manually sendmail command works normally. Cron sends email normally. Any idea about the reason this happen and how to solve? Thanks in advance, Thiago Henrique

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[Dovecot] Loading Message Delays
by Ken Mandelberg 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

I sometimes see "loading message" or "opening Inbox" delays against both 1.X and 2.X Dovecot servers from thunderbird. Is there some way to pin down whats causing them?

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[Dovecot] mmap in GFS2 on rhel 6.1
by Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hello list, we continue our tests using Dovecot on a RHEL 6.1 Cluster Backend with GFS2, also we are using dovecot as a Director for user node persistence, everything was ok until we started stress testing the solution with imaptest, we had many deadlocks, cluster filesystems corruptions and hangs, specially in index filesystem, we have configured the backend as if they were on a NFS like setup but this seems not to work at least on GFS2 on rhel 6.1. We have a two node cluster sharing two GFS2 filesystem - Index GFS2 filesystem to store users indexes - Mailbox data on a GFS2 filesystem The specific configs for NFS or cluster filesystem we used: mmap_disable = yes mail_fsync = always mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_nfs_index = yes fsync_disable=no lock_method = fcntl mail location : mail_location = mdbox:/var/vmail/%d/%3n/%n/mdbox:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%3n/%n But this seems not to work for GFS2 even doing user node persistence, maillog is plagged of errors and GFS2 hangs on stress testing with imaptest, many corrupted index for example, transaction logs etc, at this point we have many questions, first mmap... In Redhat GFS2 docs we read: Gold rules for performance: An inode is used in a read only fashion across all nodes An inode is written or modified from a single node only. We have succesfull archived this using dovecot director Now, for mmap rh says: ... If you mmap() a file on GFS2 with a read/write mapping, but only read from it, this only counts as a read. On GFS though, it counts as a write, so GFS2 is much more scalable with mmap() I/O... But in our config we are using mmap_disable=yes, do we have to use mmap_disable=no with GFS2??? Also, how dovecot manage the cache flush on GFS2 filesystem??? Why, if we are doing user node persistence, dovecot indexes gets corrupted??? What lock method do we have to use?? How fsync should be used?? We know we have many questions, but this is really a very complex stuff and we are going to appreciate any help you can give us. Thank you all for a great work, specially Timo... best regards

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[Dovecot] Unable to compile --with-mysql on Solaris
by Jesse Reynolds 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hello I'm hoping someone can give me a pointer as to how to compile Dovecot with MySQL support on Solaris. I am trying to compile dovecot 2.0.13 (also tried 2.0.9) on Solaris (OpenSolaris 2009-06, snv_111b) with the OpenSolaris provided MySQL 5.1.30 under /usr/mysql. The server is a Sun X2100 M2, which has a dual core AMD Opteron processor (amd64). Running "./configure --with-mysql" stops here: ... checking for mysql_config... mysql_config checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no configure: error: Can't build with MySQL support: libmysqlclient not found the libmysqlclient.so is to be found here: /usr/mysql/5.1/lib/mysql/ or for the amd64 version: /usr/mysql/5.1/lib/amd64/mysql/ And include is at: /usr/mysql/5.1/include/ I have tried various combinations of things in CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, but it doesn't change the configure error above at all. Eg: export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/mysql/5.1/include/mysql" export CFLAGS="-I/usr/mysql/5.1/include/mysql" export LDFLAGS="-R/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/amd64/mysql -L/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/amd64/mysql" ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --with-ldap --with-mysql Looking at config.log this section seems relevant: configure:22993: checking for mysql_config configure:23009: found /usr/mysql/bin/mysql_config configure:23021: result: mysql_config configure:23055: checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient configure:23080: gcc -o conftest -std=gnu99 -I/usr/mysql/5.1/include/mysql -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissin g-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/mysql/5.1/include/mysql -R /usr/mysql/5.1/lib/amd64/mysql -L/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/amd64/mysql conftest.c -lmysqlclient -lnsl -lsocket -lrt -l sendfile -L/opt/SUNWspro/lib -lCrun -lrt -L/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/mysql -R/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lgen -lsocket -lnsl -lm -lz -lm >&5 ld: fatal: library -lCrun: not found ld: fatal: file processing errors. No output written to conftest collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:23080: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h */ ...snip... configure:23089: result: no configure:23198: error: Can't build with MySQL support: libmysqlclient not found Note, I have not installed the Sun C compiler, so am compiling with gcc (/usr/bin/gcc 3.4.3). gmake is at /usr/bin/gmake and sun make is at /usr/bin/make. Perhaps I would more more luck with Sun's C compiler? Thank you Jesse -- Jesse Reynolds Carbon Planet Limited - http://www.carbonplanet.com/ Virtual Artists Pty Ltd - http://www.va.com.au/

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[Dovecot] thunderbird not receiving new incoming mail: Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file
by Noah Garrett Wallach 12 Jun '11

12 Jun '11

Hi there, I am running dovecot 1.0.10 and thunderbird 3.1.10 for OSX 10.6.7 and I am finding that new imap mail is not coming into my INBOX folder on thunderbird. there is an error message "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file" in the syslog here is my INBOX .imap dir ~/mail/.imap/INBOX$ ls -l total 75100K -rw------- 1 blah blah 1462024 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 blah blah 75153408 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 blah blah 1464 Jun 11 20:17 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 blah blah 195812 Jun 11 17:23 dovecot.index.log.2 what is the best way to troubleshoot this problem? what else can I look at? Cheers, Noah

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Re: [Dovecot] postfix dovecot spamassassin question
by Dhaval Patel 12 Jun '11

12 Jun '11

So I setup amavis-new and configured postfix/spamassassin/amavis. Mail is still delivered properly but I do not see the spamassassin info in the headers of the email. I configured amavis-new and set "sa_tag_level_deflt" to -999 so that it would always show up but no luck. I updated the spamassassin config and enabled it. I also tested spamassassin manually running "spamassassin -t < someemail" and that returns the email with the X-Spam in the headers. If this is not the correct place to ask, I apologize. Please direct me where I can find the answer. Thanks, Dhaval Simone Caruso <info(a)simonecaruso.com> wrote: >On 11/06/2011 18:53, Dhaval Patel wrote: >> I have an old server with postfix -> maildrop -> spamassassin -> courier setup. >> I am installing a new server and would like to use dovecot instead of courier. >> Currently I have postfix -> dovecot lda -> dovecot setup and emails are >> delivered as expected. The problem is that I do not know how to get spamassassin >> integrated into the mix since I am using the dovecot lda rather than maildrop. > >The simplest, and maybe fastest, is to use amavis-new as postfix contentfilter. > > >-- >Simone Caruso >IT Consultant >+39 349 65 90 805 >p.iva: 03045250838

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[Dovecot] postfix dovecot spamassassin question
by Dhaval Patel 11 Jun '11

11 Jun '11

I have an old server with postfix -> maildrop -> spamassassin -> courier setup. I am installing a new server and would like to use dovecot instead of courier. Currently I have postfix -> dovecot lda -> dovecot setup and emails are delivered as expected. The problem is that I do not know how to get spamassassin integrated into the mix since I am using the dovecot lda rather than maildrop. I would rather keep things as simple as possible and not use maildrop + sendmail just to use spamassasin but will if I have to. So my question to the list is, how do you recommend me doing this? Are there any documentation, howtos or tutorials which can help me configure this? Below is the output of dovecot -n Thanks, Dhaval ------------dovecot -n--------------- # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem i686 Debian 6.0.1 xfs log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/secure.consoe.com.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/certs/secure.consoe.com.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)patel.sh auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master log_path: /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log mail_plugins: sieve global_script_path: /home/vmail/globalsieverc auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail

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[Dovecot] migration scenario
by Alexandre Chapellon 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

Hello, I'd like to know if anybody have an experience with migrating mailboxes from mirapoint mail system to dovecot? If so how was it done and what were the difficulties? regards.

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[Dovecot] Sub-Subfolder from public folders
by Torsten Harenberg 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

Dear all, I just moved from an old cyrus instance to a brand new dovecot installation. Everything worked pretty well so far. The only small problem I have is: we have public folders, so I defined namespace { type = public separator = . prefix = public. location = maildir:/var/mail/public:INDEX=%u/public subscriptions = no list = children } And I define ACLs for the folders inside. This works, but the some of these folders have sub-folders and these cannot be seen by (what I have tested is Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook and squirrelmail). File system looks like this: mail# cd /var/mail/public/.icecube-c mail# ls -l .ice* .icecube-hard: total 232 drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 512 Jun 9 13:07 cur -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 167 Jun 9 13:07 dovecot-keywords -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 105179 Jun 9 13:07 dovecot-uidlist drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 123904 Jun 9 13:07 new drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 512 Jun 9 13:07 tmp .icecube-soft: total 2214 drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 512 Jun 9 13:06 cur -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 167 Jun 9 13:07 dovecot-keywords -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 1019250 Jun 9 13:07 dovecot-uidlist -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 0 Jun 9 13:06 maildirfolder drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 1195008 Jun 9 13:07 new drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 512 Jun 9 13:07 tmp mail# ls .icecube-hard .icecube-soft cur dovecot-acl dovecot-keywords dovecot-uidlist new subscriptions tmp Maybe anybody can help with this? Full dovecot -n attached. Thanks again and best regards, Torsten -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> <> <> <> Dr. Torsten Harenberg harenberg(a)physik.uni-wuppertal.de <> <> Bergische Universitaet <> <> FB C - Physik Tel.: +49 (0)202 439-3521 <> <> Gaussstr. 20 Fax : +49 (0)202 439-2811 <> <> 42097 Wuppertal <> <> <> <><><><><><><>< Of course it runs NetBSD http://www.netbsd.org ><> mail# dovecot -n # 2.0.13: /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: NetBSD 5.1 amd64 ffs auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 6 mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/user/%u/Maildir mail_plugins = acl managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/mail/public:INDEX=%u/public prefix = public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { args = /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot user = dovecot } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } ssl_cert = </etc/certificates/mail.physik.uni-wuppertal.de.crt ssl_key = </etc/certificates/mail.physik.uni-wuppertal.de.key userdb { args = /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl imap_acl } protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole }

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[Dovecot] On-delivery deduplication?
by Xin LI 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, A feature of Cyrus-IMAPd I really missed after migrated to Dovecot is their optional "duplicate suppression", which eliminates duplicate message at deliver time, if their envelope sender, recipient and message-id matches. For example, if one subscribes to a mailing list, and someone hit "Reply All" to reply to him, there will be two different SMTP deliveries, one from the replier's server and one from the mailing list. Is it possible to do the same on latest Dovecot? (Looking at the documentation it seems not?) Or is there some better ways to implement the same functionality? Thanks in advance! Cheers, - -- Xin LI <delphij(a)delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJN79XjAAoJEATO+BI/yjfBCO0IAMLNZ9Rkargb6bQqILAcbobt 2ZFb6cO8f4vJu/BPO7Dq3TZoIEmfR+/pbruwgV+FSslTL+5TjkB5Rd5Yb+HYgvZT Qdbk8Jshgq1XBj2MvbLQugHKhNcN37oDI9eGCDPttYe/C4Jb2hh1W+RtqGpfS6ud jXUTUzS4yr7HWRRYcyDMvL4HuG/VnKEuFYmX2T/mT8oHfz5FckIPM+k+0prbgMSx IGTdkKpSMnqYnyUjxQklSmMJ5iJMM7Lr6FMS2c6ORKwG8rD0w1GKrU77saHqJJLQ YJqqIwJcr5753US6Q1Rk4gK+/L4JmJ+2BUXDdNMYBIfPOFjH9nOLlE5HIfSskBg= =fo5J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] possible bug leading to lmtp crashes
by Trever L. Adams 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

I have been using Samba 4 kerberos and ldap with dovecot. Samba 4 changed a while back (resulting in me asking for help) which requires kerberos auth for ldap lookups. My setup worked perfectly before hand. Before and after were with dovecot-2.0.11 and the after also happens with 2.0.11. The only changes were (in my ldap.conf for dovecot -- changes are new lines starting with *, * is not in the conf, just showing changes): hosts = example.org base = dc=example,dc=org ldap_version = 3 user_attrs = userPrincipalName=user user_filter = (&(objectClass=person)(|(mail=%u)(sAMAccountName=%u)(userPrincipalName=%u))) *dn = MACHINEACCOUNT$(a)EXAMPLE.ORG *sasl_bind = yes *sasl_mech = GSSAPI *sasl_realm = EXAMPLE.ORG *#sasl_authz_id = MACHINEACCOUNT$(a)EXAMPE.ORG # For using doveadm -A: iterate_attrs = userPrincipalName=user iterate_filter = (objectClass=person) in dovecot.conf: import_environment = TZ KRB5CCNAME=/etc/dovecot/krb5.cc With that do any of the following lines from the referenced hg rev set mean I am missing anything on my import_environment variable? Or is it all good? 10.15 +/* <settings checks> */ 10.16 +#ifdef HAVE_SYSTEMD 10.17 +# define ENV_SYSTEMD " LISTEN_PID LISTEN_FDS" 10.18 +#else 10.19 +# define ENV_SYSTEMD "" 10.20 +#endif 10.21 +#ifdef DEBUG 10.22 +# define ENV_GDB " GDB" 10.23 +#else 10.24 +# define ENV_GDB "" 10.25 +#endif 10.26 +/* </settings checks> */ 10.27 + 10.28 static const struct master_settings master_default_settings = { 10.29 .base_dir = PKG_RUNDIR, 10.30 .libexec_dir = PKG_LIBEXECDIR, 10.31 + .import_environment = "TZ" ENV_SYSTEMD ENV_GDB, If I am not missing anything, then there seems to be a problem with kerberos sasl with ldap lookups. Thank you, Trever Adams Reference: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/cec7fa92ff48 Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697325 (backtrace via abrtd is included here) -- "Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise, and balance." -- Unknown

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Re: [Dovecot] Error: file_dotlock_create failed: Permission denied
by M. Fioretti 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 16:51:06 PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 13:49 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > > > /home/z/email/marco isn't owned by marco? Alternatively you have SELinux > > enabled, which is preventing this. Yes, it was indeed selinux. I realized it (with help from the fedora list) the day after posting to this one, but then I started to restore other files from the backup and forgot to confirm that this was the problem, sorry. Marco

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[Dovecot] IMAP Label Updates not showing up across shared account
by Ricardo Branco 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

Dovecot 2.0.13 Centos 5.4 x86_64 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5 (on ESXi) OS/Logs on local storage, /home all on NFS server for datastore (NFS Store Centos 5.5 x86_64 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5) Thunderbird 3.1.10 on XP/W7 Desktops We are seeing a werid issue where there is a delay of up to a few mins in seeing label updates on messages. I have confirmed that Thunderbird is sending the update to the server with WireShark, its just additional users connected to the same mailbox do not see them. Marking a message as Seen/Un-Seen happens faster just not labels. If you have a label set when you mark a message as Seen/Un-Seen the other clients then see the update straight away. -- The information contained in or attached to this email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorised to and must not disclose, copy, distribute, or retain any message or any part of it. If you have received an email in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. The contents of this email are not for publication unless specifically stated. Furthermore, the information contained in this message, and any attachment(s) thereto, is for information purposes only and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of WENN or its subsidiaries and associated companies. We make every effort to keep our network free from viruses. However, you do need to check this e-mail and any attachments to it for viruses as we can take no responsibility for any computer virus which may be transferred by way! of this e-mail. WENN Ltd: Registered Office: 35 Tileyard Studios, Tileyard Road, London, N7 9AH, England. Registered No: 4375163. Place of Registration: United Kingdom. USA Entertainment News Inc (d/b/a WENN): Registered Office: 60 Madison Avenue, Suite 1027, New York, NY 10010, USA The WENN name, design and related marks are trademarks of the WENN group of companies. (c) 2011 All Rights Reserved.

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Re: [Dovecot] save failed to INBOX: Not enough disk space
by Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Hi Doing mail debug I found this dovecot: lmtp(12696, user1(a)domain.tld) Error: o_stream_send_istream(/var/vmail/domain.tld/user1/Maildir/tmp/1307537596.M117043P12696.smtp1) failed: No space left on device dovecot: lmtp(12696, user1(a)domain.tld) Error: o_stream_flush(/var/vmail/domain.tld/user1/Maildir/tmp/1307537596.M117043P12696.smtp1) failed: No space left on device So dovecot write in to a tmp folder inside the user Maildir before definitly copying it to new folder. But why it says thereis no space left? 2011/6/8 Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks(a)gmail.com>: > Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo schreef: >> >> Hi >> this is the output of df -h >> >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda2 5.5G 1.8G 3.6G 33% / >> tmpfs 502M 0 502M 0% /lib/init/rw >> udev 10M 680K 9.4M 7% /dev >> tmpfs 502M 0 502M 0% /dev/shm >> /dev/sda1 122M 41M 76M 35% /boot >> /dev/sda3 942M 18M 877M 2% /tmp >> /dev/sda6 7.4G 812M 6.3G 12% /var/log >> /dev/mapper/vmail >> 120G 84G 37G 70% /var/vmail >> >> So /var/spool depends on "/" wich has 3.6G available. >> >> Thanks >> >> >> 2011/6/8 Johan Hendriks<joh.hendriks(a)gmail.com>: >>> >>> Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo schreef: >>>> >>>> Hi Tom, >>>> >>>> it is dovecot 2.0.12 this is the doveconf -n output. >>>> >>>> >>>> There is not file system quota. >>>> >>>> This is the output of doveconf -n >>>> >>>> # 2.0.12: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf >>>> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.5 ocfs2 >>>> auth_cache_size = 1 M >>>> auth_mechanisms = plain login >>>> base_dir = /usr/local/dovecot >>>> disable_plaintext_auth = no >>>> first_valid_uid = 5000 >>>> last_valid_uid = 5000 >>>> mail_access_groups = mail >>>> mail_gid = 8 >>>> mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u/Maildir >>>> mail_max_userip_connections = 100 >>>> mail_uid = 5000 >>>> maildir_very_dirty_syncs = 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 >>>> mmap_disable = yes >>>> passdb { >>>> args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/sql.conf >>>> driver = sql >>>> } >>>> plugin { >>>> quota = maildir:User quota >>>> sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve >>>> sieve_dir = ~/sieve >>>> } >>>> protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve >>>> service auth { >>>> client_limit = 10500 >>>> unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { >>>> group = mail >>>> mode = 0660 >>>> user = postfix >>>> } >>>> unix_listener auth-userdb { >>>> group = mail >>>> mode = 0660 >>>> user = postfix >>>> } >>>> } >>>> service imap-login { >>>> process_min_avail = 2 >>>> service_count = 0 >>>> vsz_limit = 128 M >>>> } >>>> service imap { >>>> process_limit = 5000 >>>> } >>>> service lmtp { >>>> inet_listener lmtp { >>>> address = 127.0.0.1 ::1 >>>> port = 24 >>>> } >>>> unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { >>>> group = postfix >>>> mode = 0660 >>>> user = postfix >>>> } >>>> } >>>> service managesieve-login { >>>> inet_listener sieve { >>>> port = 4190 >>>> } >>>> } >>>> service pop3-login { >>>> process_min_avail = 2 >>>> service_count = 0 >>>> } >>>> service pop3 { >>>> process_limit = 5000 >>>> } >>>> >>>> userdb { >>>> driver = prefetch >>>> } >>>> >>>> userdb { >>>> args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/sql.conf >>>> driver = sql >>>> } >>>> >>>> protocol imap { >>>> imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail >>>> } >>>> protocol pop3 { >>>> pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh >>>> pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv >>>> } >>>> >>>> protocol lmtp { >>>> mail_plugins = sieve >>>> postmaster_address = admin(a)domain.tld >>>> } >>>> protocol sieve { >>>> managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole >>>> managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o >>>> managesieve_max_compile_errors = 5 >>>> managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 >>>> } >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> 2011/6/8 Tom Hendrikx<tom(a)whyscream.net>: >>>>> >>>>> On 08/06/11 13:47, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:16 +0200, Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> But I have found this on my logs "save failed to INBOX: Not enough >>>>>>> disk >>>>>>> space" . >>>>>> >>>>>> This means that a write() (or some other syscall) returned either >>>>>> ENOSPC >>>>>> or EDQUOT error message, or that quota plugin decided user is out of >>>>>> quota. >>>>>> >>>>>>> There is enougth space on disk. and I am not using quota plugin on >>>>>>> lmtp >>>>>> >>>>>> What about filesystem quota? >>>>>> >>>>> I remember there were similar issues in the past, due to the fact that >>>>> messages larger than 128kb were temporarily stored on disk in the users >>>>> homedir. Maybe this is related? >>>>> >>>>>>> my lmtp conf is as follow: >>>>>> >>>>>> A full doveconf -n output would be better. >>>>>> >>>>> OP has not posted complete doveconf -n output, nor a specific version >>>>> (other than 'dovecot 2'). Please do so. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Reagrds, >>>>> Tom >>>>> >>> Wild guess, >>> What is the disk space of your /var dir or /var/spool for that matter >>> Or df -h for all mounted filesystems. >>> >>> regards, >>> Johan Hendriks >>> >>> > Could it be a permission problem? > > mail_gid = 8 > On my system this is the same as mail_uid in your case 5000 > > regards, > Johan > > >

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[Dovecot] save failed to INBOX: Not enough disk space
by Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Hi I migrated to dovecot 2 and I started using lmtp for mail delivery. But I have found this on my logs "save failed to INBOX: Not enough disk space" . There is enougth space on disk. and I am not using quota plugin on lmtp my lmtp conf is as follow: # ## LMTP specific settings ## # Support proxying to other LMTP/SMTP servers by performing passdb lookups. #lmtp_proxy = no # When recipient address includes the detail (e.g. user+detail), try to save # the mail to the detail mailbox. See also recipient_delimiter and # lda_mailbox_autocreate settings. #lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = no protocol lmtp { # Space separated list of plugins to load (default is global mail_plugins). #mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_plugins = sieve postmaster_address = admin(a)domain.tld } Any idea please? Thanks

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[Dovecot] lda_mailbox_autocreate does not work for lmtp?
by Attila Nagy 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Hi, I try to deliver into specific folders with the "plus addressing", namely: rcpt to:<userid+folder@domain> This works only if the folder exists. If it does not, I get the following error: rcpt to:<userid+Spam@domain> 501 5.5.4 Unsupported options example-config/conf.d/20-lmtp.conf says: # When recipient address includes the detail (e.g. user+detail), try to save # the mail to the detail mailbox. See also recipient_delimiter and # lda_mailbox_autocreate settings. But it seems it does not work (or I am missing something). Current config (I've also tried to include autocreate plugin into lmtp, without any success) is below: # 2.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_cache_size = 100 M auth_cache_ttl = 1 days disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = syslog lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot-errors.log mail_fsync = never mail_gid = 999 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " quota" mail_uid = 999 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 = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { autocreate = INBOX.Trash autocreate2 = INBOX.Drafts autocreate3 = INBOX.Sent autocreate4 = INBOX.Spam autosubscribe = INBOX.Trash autosubscribe2 = INBOX.Drafts autosubscribe3 = INBOX.Sent autosubscribe4 = INBOX.Spam mail_log_events = delete mailbox_delete mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size flags vsize from subject quota = maildir:User quota recipient_delimiter = + sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = pop3 imap lmtp service anvil { client_limit = 8192 } service auth { client_limit = 8192 unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = qmailldap } } service imap-login { client_limit = 1000 process_limit = 100 process_min_avail = 8 service_count = 0 } service imap { client_limit = 8 process_limit = 2048 process_min_avail = 16 service_count = 0 } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } user = qmailldap } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { client_limit = 1000 process_limit = 100 process_min_avail = 8 service_count = 0 } service pop3 { client_limit = 8 process_limit = 2048 process_min_avail = 32 service_count = 0 } ssl = no userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " quota autocreate mail_log notify sieve" } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 1024 mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota autocreate mail_log notify" } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 1024 mail_plugins = " quota autocreate" }

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[Dovecot] sieve script tracing
by Maciej Uhlig 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Could it be possible to trace Sieve script using method other than "enotify", i.e. to write a message to syslog using some action? MU

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[Dovecot] Problem with Outlook 2010
by pch0317 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Hi, I use dovecot 2.0. I have problem with Outlook 2010. This application freezes for about 2 minutes when I move or delete messages. Other applications such as Outlook Express and Thunderbird work correctly. Has anyone had similar problem? Thanks

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[Dovecot] deliver doesn't find adress/inbox
by Martin Benkenstein 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

I'm trying to make dovecot 1.2.15, deliver, openLDAP, exim and fetchmail work together on an Debian Squeeze (virtual) maschine. The connection between dovecot and LDAP seems to be working, I can logon from Thunderbird (IMAP) and my maildir is created automatically. So far so good. But when I download the mails via fetchmail, it seems that deliver cannot find the correct mailbox for the X-Envelope-To entry in the header. fetchmail downloads all mails for the domain from one account (config below) and hands them over to exim. I configured exim addording to the wiki entry (http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim Virtual Users / Single UID). The mail is sent back to the account which is fetched by fetchmail. There is a header entry X-Fetchmail-Warning: no recipient addresses matched declared local names. The fetchmail-log itself is worthless. What am I doing wrong? At which does the system try to look up the mailaddress and fails? Thank you in advance Martin Configuration details: # dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 i686 Debian 6.0.1 ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/dovecot/%n@%d/maildir/ mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock lda: postmaster_address: postfrau(a)pti857.dyndns.info hostname: pti857.dyndns.info log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver-errors.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=1002 gid=1002 home=/var/mail/dovecot/%n@%d/home socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: dovecotvmail /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf ### hosts = localhost dn = cn=admin,dc=tuced,dc=local dnpass = toor auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = ou=users, dc=tuced, dc=local /etc/fetchmailrc #### set daemon 300 # Pool every 5 minutes set postmaster root set no bouncemail defaults: timeout 300 antispam -1 batchlimit 100 set no syslog set logfile "/var/log/fetchmail.log" poll mail.domain.de proto pop3 localdomains some.domain.org: envelope "X-Envelope-To:" timeout 30 user postman(a)some.domain.org password secret is * /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_dovecot_lda ### dovecot_virtual_delivery: driver = pipe command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $local_part@$domain -f $sender_address -a $original_local_part@$original_domain message_prefix = message_suffix = delivery_date_add envelope_to_add return_path_add log_output user = dovecotvmail temp_errors = 64 : 69 : 70: 71 : 72 : 73 : 74 : 75 : 78

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[Dovecot] Patch for vpopmail roaming users support
by Matt Brookings 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Timo, here is a patch against the Mercurial repository that fixes and updates the support for roaming users under the vpopmail module. Thanks! - -- /* Matt Brookings <matt(a)inter7.com> GnuPG Key FAE0672C Software developer Systems technician Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. (815)776-9465 */ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3uKwMACgkQIwet2/rgZyyBVACfQJkigTq3dMC9+bk+dhr6UgyW bVIAnA4xtylbGpATJV0f1lgLQMo0RzMS =zrO6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] uid=error and BUG: Unknown internal error dovecot 2.0.13
by Robert Schetterer 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Hi Timo, i have a few ( not really many ) errors like this with lmtp Jun 7 09:41:23 mail02 dovecot: lmtp(11034, user(a)user.de) DELlOoq+7U0aKwAAZA6IsQ: msgid=<4DEDD502.705020(a)ameriton.com>: save failed to INBOX: BUG: Unknown internal error Jun 7 09:36:22 mail01 dovecot: lmtp(26456, user(a)user.de) save: box=INBOX, uid=error, msgid=<OF671FDBE9.DD479224-ONC12578A8.00282832-C12578A8.0029C38D(a)hella.com>, size=7192 any idea ? is it critical, possible to loose mails with this ? system are two postfix/dovecot servers with drbd and ocfs2 store behind load balancers -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] chroot lmtp, then can not open /usr/local/lib/dovecot
by johnw 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

i want to chroot lmtp with sieve, but have some problem, look like lmtp can not load sieve's lib or something. the error message like this: dovecot: lmtp(12799): Fatal: opendir(/usr/local/lib/dovecot) failed: No such file or directory all is work fine, when not config lmtp chroot. can i config lmtp load sieve before chroot? please help, and thank you.

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[Dovecot] lmtp lowercase/uppercase mailbox problem
by johnw 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

after upgrade to 2.0.x, and change dovecot-lda to dovecot-lmtp as mail deliver. i find the lowercase/uppercase mail box problem, i see some mail is delivery to uppercase mail box, (my mail box is /var/vmail/johnw, now i see some mail in /var/vmail/JOHNW, i use maildir) it did not happen before. (dovecot 1.2.x with dovecot-lda) anyone can point me which config/setting, should i looking for? i use postfix as smtp server, and i use virtual mailuser. both user info is stored in mysql database. please help, and thank you.

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[Dovecot] How Dovecot 2 create folders and subfolders ( MBOX format ) with TB ?
by Frank Bonnet 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Hello When creating new IMAP folder with thunderbird and Dovecot configured with the std MBOX format dovecot create a file in mbox format and so it is not possible to create a subfolder of this folder. If you ask to create a NEW subfolder of the form : TOTO/TATA Dovecot create a directory TOTO containing a mbox file TATA. Very useful :-) I suppose the "/" separator is parsed by dovecot then it creates a directory containing the mbox file. Am I right ?

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[Dovecot] virtual plugin, delete mail
by johnw 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

i use dovecot 2.0.x as imap server,i setup virtual plugin to view all unseen mail. when i delete the mail, it do not delete the real mail, the mail still exist in some mailbox. can i config virtual plugin delete the real mail? please help, and thank you. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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[Dovecot] restore lost emails
by Daminto Lie 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Hi, I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me with this. I am running Postfix 2.7.0, Dovecot 1.2.9 and squirrelmail. Every week, I perform a back-up on both Postfix and Dovecot (maildir and conf folders). That's good because I have all the emails backed up. And now what I would like to ask is whether or not there are any easy way of restoring e-mails if some emails got deleted by accident or for other reason. So far, I have tried to look up the answer on the Internet but got a bit of vague answer. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

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[Dovecot] Doveadm index!
by Henrique Fernandes 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Hello folks, I recent update my dovecot 2.0.6 to the version 2.0.13 cause i wanted to use dovecot index to build fts squat for users! I noticed that there is no log for the fts build action, it does log all actions to the normal index.cache. Timo, could you add some logging please? And also, if possible an option to cache all mailbox of the users! Thanks a lot! Right now is already helping me a lot. []'sf.rique

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[Dovecot] Please HELP, TRASH won't work at all
by Ivan Rodrigues 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Folks, I'm setting a imap server here to store our mails, no need for quota or anything fancy, we just need trash can to work, when I mark a message to delete, this message to be moved to trash folder. that's all that I need. any thoughts?

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[Dovecot] after upgrade to 2.x, sieve do not create folder
by John Wong 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

after upgrade to 2.x, sieve do not create folder, which do not exist. i remenber(maybe wrong) 1.2.x sieve plugin will create folder, if it do not exist. the sieve log like this failed to store into mailbox 'dovecot': Mailbox doesn't exist: dovecot can i config sieve automatic create the folder? please help, and thank you.

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[Dovecot] Subject: IMAP crash on index
by Ruan Kendall 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

I'm running Dovecot 1.2.15 as an IMAP server on an up-to-date Debian v6 VM. I've recently upgraded the server from a pretty crusty old Debian v4 installation, though I don't recall exactly which version of Dovecot that would have been running. I guess I could try crawling through the old logs to check if it is likely to be useful. The upgrade seemed to have gone fine and I've been using the new server for about a week, but this morning I'm finding that whilst I can successfully connect to the IMAP server using Mutt, it can't display a mail index and a quick peek at the logs shows the IMAP process falling over: (account and server IP replaced) Jun 6 10:39:27 xen dovecot: Dovecot v1.2.15 starting up (core dumps disabled) Jun 6 10:39:27 xen dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to localhost (mail) Jun 6 10:39:34 xen dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<example(a)example.org>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, TLS Jun 6 10:39:35 xen dovecot: IMAP(example(a)example.org): Panic: file mail-index-view.c: line 264 (view_lookup_seq_range): assertion failed: (first_uid > 0) Jun 6 10:39:35 xen dovecot: IMAP(example(a)example.org): Raw backtrace: imap() [0x80f0e1e] -> imap() [0x80f0e82] -> imap() [0x80f0809] -> imap() [0x80ceb17] -> imap(mail_index_lookup_seq+0x26) [0x80ce5f6] -> imap() [0x80c481d] -> imap(mail_index_modseq_hdr_update+0x2e) [0x80c48ee] -> imap(mail_index_sync_ext_hdr_update+0xbb) [0x80de91b] -> imap(mail_index_sync_record+0x40f) [0x80cd57f] -> imap(mail_index_sync_map+0x2dd) [0x80cdfed] -> imap(mail_index_map+0x5c7) [0x80c3557] -> imap() [0x80bfd87] -> imap(mail_index_open+0x23f) [0x80c01ff] -> imap(index_storage_mailbox_open+0x71) [0x80abc81] -> imap(maildir_storage_sync_init+0x188) [0x8086c18] -> imap(mailbox_sync+0x31) [0x80b59d1] -> imap(imap_status_get+0x8a) [0x806f0ea] -> imap(cmd_status+0x123) [0x8065dd3] -> imap() [0x8067b5c] -> imap() [0x8067c32] -> imap(client_handle_input+0x175) [0x8067eb5] -> imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x80686ef] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0xd6) [0x80f9aa6] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x20) [0x80f8f20] -> imap(main+0x5b4) [0x8070f24] -> /lib/i Jun 6 10:39:35 xen dovecot: IMAP(example(a)example.org): 76] -> imap() [0x80603a1] Jun 6 10:39:35 xen dovecot: dovecot: child 20617 (imap) killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) I've not been able to find any mentions of this error occurring for other people. I've not looked at the source to see what the server is trying to do at this point. Restarting the IMAP service doesn't help. Any suggestions or advice?

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[Dovecot] Using Dovecot new version 2.0.13 facing issues.
by गौरव जोशी 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hi, I have configured POP-IMAP server with dovecot 2.0.13 with mysql support. When I am running load test on the same I face issue on IMAP connections. I get "dovecot: imap-login: Error: fd_send(imap, 15) failed: Interrupted system call" followed by "dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure" in log files. Below is my dovecot -n output; ========================================================= # 2.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.6 (Final) auth_socket_path = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 99 first_valid_uid = 99 listen = * mail_fsync = always mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/indexes/%h:CONTROL=/indexes/%h mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = nobody mode = 0600 user = nobody } } ssl = no syslog_facility = local1 userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 1500 } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 800 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls pop3_lock_session = yes pop3_no_flag_updates = yes pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } ========================================================= Please help I want to move this server in live environment. Have a nice time, Gourav Joshi Have a look at www.linuxquestions.in

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[Dovecot] Outlook2010 + dovecot-1.2.10 - UID FETCH 0 (xxx) Error
by Jin FengMing 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hi all, I'm not so sure it is about to dovecot, but any thoughts will be appreciated. I have an email account configured as IMAP(dovecot-1.2.10) via outlook 2010. If I'm creating a *new* mailbox folder, for example "ttt", and *copying* a mail into *that* mailbox folder, then an error message window will be displayed. The problem caused by C:UID FETCH 0 (UID FLAGS RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[HEADER] INTERNALDATE) S:3mgc BAD Error in IMAP command UID FETCH: Invalid uidset The dovecot's rawlog 20100101-060322-5491.in: 54nc IDLE DONE uh4m SELECT "INBOX.ttt" 37ax IDLE DONE 5dtr FETCH 1 (UID) 3mgc UID FETCH 0 (UID FLAGS RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[HEADER] INTERNALDATE) 28kc IDLE DONE msxw CLOSE tuis IDLE DONE a6rl SELECT "INBOX.ttt" 59oj FETCH 1 (UID) k26b UID FETCH 1 (UID FLAGS) z8su IDLE DONE 20100101-060322-5491.out: * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2010-01-01 06:03:22 7u95 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in + idling 54nc OK Idle completed. * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 0 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1262323866] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID * OK [NOMODSEQ] No permanent modsequences uh4m OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. + idling * 1 EXISTS 37ax OK Idle completed. * 1 FETCH (UID 1) 5dtr OK Fetch completed. 3mgc BAD Error in IMAP command UID FETCH: Invalid uidset + idling 28kc OK Idle completed. msxw OK Close completed. + idling tuis OK Idle completed. * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 1 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1262323866] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID * OK [NOMODSEQ] No permanent modsequences a6rl OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. * 1 FETCH (UID 1) 59oj OK Fetch completed. * 1 FETCH (UID 1 FLAGS (\Seen)) k26b OK Fetch completed. + idling z8su OK Idle completed.

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[Dovecot] file rights for dictionary file
by Michael Köhler 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hi, I use Debian Squeeze and the sources from Stephan Bosch. A few weeks ago I´ve upgraded from 2.0.11 to 2.0.13 and got an error May 29 20:01:53 mailserver dovecot: dict: Error: Can't open configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext: Permission denied May 29 20:01:53 mailserver dovecot: dict: Error: Failed to initialize dictionary 'quota' and I could see that /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext is owning by root:root with 600. After changing to root:root 644 all works, but after each upgrade all files in /etc/dovecot will be set to 600. Is it a problem of the dovecot package or should I do some changes to config to allow dovecot reading the dict file? Here is my config: # 2.0.13 (9ae30e5d6935): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.1 ext3 auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 dict { quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } first_valid_uid = 106 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%u mail_plugins = quota 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.ext driver = sql } plugin { autocreate = Sent Messages autocreate2 = Deleted Messages autocreate3 = Drafts autosubscribe = Sent Messages autosubscribe2 = Deleted Messages autosubscribe3 = Drafts quota = dict:User quota::proxy::quota quota_rule2 = Deleted Messages:storage=+1GB sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap lmtp service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = mail mode = 0660 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mailserver-cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver-key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate } local_name mailserver.makomi.de { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mailserver1-cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver1-key.pem } local_name mailserver.kokoma.de { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mailserver2-cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver2-key.pem } local_name mailserver.grooveb.de { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mailserver3-cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver3-key.pem } local_name mailserver.koehler-gohlis.de { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mailserver4-cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver4-key.pem } local_name mailserver.koehler-schroeder.de { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mailserver5-cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver5-key.pem } Greetings, Michael

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[Dovecot] doveadm problem with mail_plugins in database
by Ralf Zimmermann 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I use this user_query: - -------------------------------%<-------------------------------- user_query = SELECT LOWER(CONCAT(t2.login,'@',t1.name)) AS user,t2.home,t2.mail,5000 AS uid,5000 AS gid,CONCAT('*:storage=',quota_mb,'MB') AS quota_rule,t2.acl_groups,case when '%s'='lda' then 'acl quota sieve' when '%s'='lmtp' then 'acl quota sieve' when '%s'='doveadm' then mail_plugins when '%s'='sieve' then 'acl quota' else t2.mail_plugins end as mail_plugins FROM virtual_users as t2, virtual_domains as t1 WHERE ( t2.login='%n' OR t2.email='%u' ) AND t1.enabled IS true AND t2.enabled IS true AND t1.id=t2.domain_id - -------------------------------%<-------------------------------- When I use some doveadm commands I get this error for example: - -------------------------------%<-------------------------------- # doveadm fetch -u rzimmermann "hdr" savedbefore 3d doveadm(rzimmermann): Error: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib02_imap_acl_plugin.so) failed: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib02_imap_acl_plugin.so: undefined symbol: client_fail_mailbox_name_status doveadm(rzimmermann): Error: Can't load plugin imap_acl_plugin: Plugin is intended to be used only by imap binary (we're doveadm) doveadm(rzimmermann): Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins - -------------------------------%<-------------------------------- Some doveadm commands runs fine. Here a example: - -------------------------------%<-------------------------------- # doveadm user rzimmermann userdb: rzimmermann home : /var/vmail/virtusers/boardfreunde.de/rzimmermann mail : maildir:~/Maildir uid : 5000 gid : 5000 quota_rule: *:storage=4000MB acl_groups: admins,boe-admins mail_plugins: quota imap_quota acl imap_acl autocreate fts fts_squat - -------------------------------%<-------------------------------- If I change the user_query part "'%s'='doveadm' then mail_plugins" to "'%s'='doveadm' then 'acl quota" all works fine, but I get a wrong mail_plugin output: - -------------------------------%<-------------------------------- userdb: rzimmermann home : /var/vmail/virtusers/boardfreunde.de/rzimmermann mail : maildir:~/Maildir uid : 5000 gid : 5000 quota_rule: *:storage=4000MB acl_groups: admins,boe-admins mail_plugins: acl quota - -------------------------------%<-------------------------------- What can I do to get doveadm working with "'%s'='doveadm' then mail_plugins"? Or must I use "'%s'='doveadm' then 'acl quota" in the user_query? I use dovecot 2.0.13. Greets Ralf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJN7BDnAAoJENVjhbwuX+/H6F4H/ROB/J4/icebgAQdpqQxYgDt PEUR87dlgIufQWT7KVyYVYBxzfjRqk20+f/Djpxy6RGl2jVHajvtOpsovQQz92Dy C1ulagZ2mimhbP8qa6VSh3Ozjv9xASbXDJHEDhSR3i45V0bPFpN1resaP8pHHJkl bdvqrdXlvIdMvJ83fSTcElMdIrmg0wyUJMTB900NVkvndlGO1xs1vtfv2c+PhNDe 9nq9Vs2/uVt7NO6ct/d9tqd57X5fzqxzIvjWWCIyHB38W6KgNFM6TiHI1WtSFsKn 4UOcE9FKmePq17ugaj1yrn0gmOSgU1TqnSjRwEM0xoteUlio2NsuhzFSVojkq9s= =NzcM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Bug: Fixed a duplicate
by Tom Sommer 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

I restored a dovecot mailserver today, and when I started the server again, the logs filled up with "Fixed a duplicate" warnings. This in itself it not a problem, the problem is that it appears the fix is not done correct. Consider this: Warning: Fixed a duplicate: [X]/cur/1305907573.V807I37682f3M146183.mail8.xxx.com:2,S -> 1306601066.M382668P27710.mail8.xxx.com The problem appears to be the timestamp of this new file isn't updated correctly. Now I got hundreds of mailboxes filled with mails named 1305907573.* with random (in the past) timestamps, leading to mangled miss-sorted inboxes for customers. 3575 May 25 02:05 1306600913.M982997P26976.mail8.xxx.com:2,S 55313 May 6 01:50 1306600913.M982998P26976.mail8.xxx.com:2,S 9839 May 7 23:59 1306600913.M982999P26976.mail8.xxx.com:2,S 3453 May 10 01:32 1306600913.M983000P26976.mail8.xxx.com:2,S 16616 May 14 00:22 1306600913.M983001P26976.mail8.xxx.com:2,S 68850 May 25 00:46 1306600913.M983002P26976.mail8.xxx.com:2,S etc. Dovecot is v. 2.0.11 I guess I should have deleted all dovecot.* files after the restore, before I started dovecot? // Tom

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[Dovecot] Help with Trash setup
by Ivan Rodrigues 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

Folks, I'm trying to setup a mail server just to store my mail, i use fetchmail to retrieve my messages and I want to configure the trash can, can you guys please help me with this mater? Dovecot Version: 1.2.9 No SQL nor LDAP installed dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic-pae i686 Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_plugins: delete_to_trash auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: deleted_to_trash_folder: Trash

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[Dovecot] Custom sql query for keeping quota with dict-sql
by Marcin Mirosław 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

Hello! I'd like to setup quota for for virtualusers, i'm using both maildir++ and mdbox as storage, and i'm using postgresql to keep users. I'm keeping all users data in one table: [...] login text NOT NULL, domain text, password text, quota_mb integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 [... other columns ...] i'd like to keep present quota in such two columns: quota_dict_bytes integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, quota_dict_messages integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 I read wiki a little and it looks i can't define own sql queries, they appear to be hardcoded. Am i wrong? Is it possible to write own queries to get/set quota using such table schema? Or maybe there is diffrent way to track quota for diffrent storages? Regards! Marcin

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[Dovecot] dsync: Invalid mailbox first_recent_uid
by David Jonas 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

For the life of me I can't get dsync to work. Please help! Remote server runs dovecot out of /usr/local/dovecot2. Everything makes sense until this line: dsync-local(djonas(a)vitalwerks.com): Error: Invalid mailbox input from worker server: Invalid mailbox first_recent_uid The local uid is 8989 and the remote uid is 89. I added "first_valid_uid = 89" to the local conf but to no avail. Local version is 2.0.12, remote is 2.0.1. # dsync -Dv -u djonas(a)vitalwerks.com mirror \ ssh vmail(a)192.168.15.54 \ /usr/local/dovecot2/bin/dsync -Dv -u djonas(a)vitalwerks.com dsync(vmail): Debug: Effective uid=8989, gid=8989, home=/home/vmail/domains/vitalwerks.com/djonas dsync(vmail): Debug: Quota root: name=user backend=dict args=vitalwerks.com-djonas:proxy::quota dsync(vmail): Debug: dict quota: user=vitalwerks.com-djonas, uri=proxy::quota, noenforcing=0 dsync(vmail): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir dsync(vmail): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/vmail/domains/vitalwerks.com/djonas/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/home/vmail/domains/vitalwerks.com/djonas/Maildir dsync-local(djonas(a)vitalwerks.com): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/vmail/domains/vitalwerks.com/djonas/Maildir: mode=0770 gid=-1 dsync-local(djonas(a)vitalwerks.com): Error: Invalid mailbox input from worker server: Invalid mailbox first_recent_uid dsync-remote(djonas(a)vitalwerks.com): Error: read() from proxy client failed: EOF

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[Dovecot] Segmentation fault again
by Jim Knuth 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hi, I have the following report after a cron job again? /root/tools/expunge: Zeile 3: 4869 Speicherzugriffsfehler doveadm expunge -A mailbox Spam savedbefore 5d /root/tools/expunge: Zeile 5: 4915 Speicherzugriffsfehler doveadm expunge -A mailbox Papierkorb savedbefore 4d See the attachment. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Thanks -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, with kind regards, Jim Knuth --------- Das Leben ist bezaubernd, man muss es nur durch die richtige Brille sehen. (Alexandre Dumas)

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[Dovecot] solr substring schema.xml
by Daniel Miller 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

I'm trying a modified schema.xml with solr - it appears I now have substring searches! I took the schema.xml file shipped with Dovecot, and modified the text field definition to be: <fieldType name="text" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"> <analyzer type="index"> <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt"/> <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="0"/> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.SnowballPorterFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt"/> <filter class="solr.NGramFilterFactory" minGramSize="3" maxGramSize="15"/> <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> <analyzer type="query"> <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt"/> <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="0" catenateNumbers="0" catenateAll="0"/> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.SnowballPorterFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt"/> <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> </fieldType> Changing to the new "SnowballPorter" instead of the deprecated "EnglishPorter" filters is probably minor - the magic is the "NGramFilterFactory". 3 & 15 seemed reasonable defaults for the min/max size to search on. -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] unexpected subfolder locaton in Maildir/.INBOX.subfolder
by wulf 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hallo, I try to migrate existing imap server to dovecot 1.2 in debian squeeze if I connect to imap://user@host/INBOX Inbox works as expected and I get the content of Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.subfolder already exists if I connect to imap://user@host/INBOX.subfolder I get "folder not found" if I do a imap directory listing (raw mutt config, no subscriptions) - I see "../" - If I navigate to "../" I se all my existing subfolders if I create a new folder via imap the folder is created in Maildir/.INBOX.new_subfolder I expect the creation of Maildir/.new_subfolder This doesn't fit to the client configs and if I move the existing folders it doesn't fit to existing delivery agent filters and settings. I enabled mail_debug and the expansion looks ok for me: dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<wulf>, method=PLAIN, rip=85.178.xx.xxx, lip=80.81.xxx.xxx, TLS dovecot: IMAP(wulf): Effective uid=112, gid=114, home=/var/mail/home/wulf dovecot: IMAP(wulf): maildir: data=~/Maildir dovecot: IMAP(wulf): maildir++: root=/var/mail/home/wulf/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/home/wulf/Maildir the existing subscription information from courier-imap looks like INBOX.subolder Yes I can sed them to subfolder (of course I have to copy them to Maildir/subscriptions anyhow) But is that the idea? I like to avoid trouble with all the users and their already configured mail-clients. Where is my mistake? Thanks for feedback Best Wulf CONF: protocols = imap imaps log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " ssl = required ssl_cert_file = /etc/exim4/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/exim4/xxxxxx.key mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_uid = 112 mail_gid = 114 mail_access_groups = vmail mail_debug = yes first_valid_uid = 112 protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol managesieve { } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb static { args = uid=112 gid=114 home=/var/mail/home/%u } user = root } dict { } plugin { } dovecot-ldap.conf: hosts = 127.0.0.1:389 auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = uid=%u,ou=users,dc=xxxxxxxx,dc=de base = dc=xxxxxxxx,dc=de

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[Dovecot] Running a dovecot cluster with mixed versions?
by Ian Foutch 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

I have been trying to find information and possible issues with running a cluster of dovecot server with different versions without any luck. We have an existing cluster with dovecot v1.1.10 and tried migrating to a new cluster with dovecot v2.0.12. We ran into some issues when we moved traffic to the new cluster and have been unable to reproduce it in our own testing. We may need to put real usage on the new servers but would like to be able to do this by adding newer servers into the existing cluster. What are the potential issues with doing this? Thanks, --Ian This message and any attachments to it are intended only for the addressee(s) identified above and may contain CONFIDENTIAL information. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt by, any unauthorized persons. If you are not an intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to an intended recipient, you have received this e-mail in error and any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message or any attachment to it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please (i) do not read it, (ii) reply to the sender that you received the message in error, and (iii) erase or destroy the message from your system.

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[Dovecot] Problems in auth when switching from PLAIN-MD5
by Eduardo Casarero 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hi, i am running dovecot 2.0.11 (with mysql backend) and until now using PLAIN-MD5 as pass default_pass_scheme everything was working fine. However i wanted to change the pass_scheme to something stronger than plain-md5, so i started by reading the wiki. I found this: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/ConvertPasswordSchemes But when i comment out "default_pass_scheme" and i create the pass with the {SHA256.hex} prefix i see this in the logs: auth: Error: sql(xxx(a)xxxxxx.com,10.21.1.1): Password in passdb is not in expected scheme SHA256.hex I tried with several algorithms, but it seems to be something in my config that it's only working with plain-md5. the auth_mechanism is plain with ssl/tls. Maybe someone can give me a hint of where to see o which config file review. Thanks in advance. Eduardo.

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[Dovecot] slow squat fts index creation
by Cor Bosman 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hi all, ive been playing with squat indexes. Up to about 300.000 emails in a single mailbox this was working flawlessly. The search index file is about 500MB at that time. Ive now added some more emails, and at 450.000 or so emails im seeing a serious problem with squat index creation. It takes...f o r e v e r . The .tmp file is being so slowly, it will probably take 2-3 hours to create. Upto this point it took maybe a minute. Im doing this in an openvz container, so theoretically i may be hitting some openvz resource limit. But ive upped all the limits and dont see any improvements. I dont see any resources starvation either. Could there be some dovecot issue when the search index reaches say 1GB? (im estimating that it's now trying to save about 1GB search index). Regards, Cor

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2 with MySQL limit Trash folder
by Damien Robinet 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hi All, I need your help to limit the size of the Trash folder. I want to exclude the Trash folder in my user quota. But I do not want the Trash folder can not exceed 10M for example. I can manage to exclude the size of the Trash folder. But I can not limit the size of the folder. On my test, I've bytes=512000 for the Trash folder. But the user can move more that 512000B on the Trash folder ... Could you help me please ? Bests Regards, Damien ################################ ## My SQL query (dovecot-sql.conf) ## ################################ user_query = SELECT CONCAT( '/home/vmail/', maildir ) AS home, CONCAT( '/home/vmail/', maildir ) AS sieve_dir, 201 AS uid, 201 AS gid, CONCAT('*:storage=',ROUND((quota*1048.576)),'B') AS quota_rule, 'Trash:storage=50000B' AS quota_rule2, 'Trash:ignore' AS quota_rule3 FROM mail_mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND actif = '1' ############ ## My Log: ## ############ 2011-05-24 20:08:59 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<postmaster(a)domain.tld>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.101, lip=192.168.1.10 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib20_expire_plugin.so 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: Effective uid=201, gid=201, home=/home/vmail/d/o/domain.tld/postmaster/ 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: Quota root: name=user backend=dict args=:proxy::quota 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: Quota rule: root=user mailbox=* bytes=1048576 messages=0 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: Quota rule: root=user mailbox=Trash bytes=512000 messages=0 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: expire: No expire or expire_altmove settings - plugin disabled 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: dict quota: user=postmaster(a)domain.tld, uri=proxy::quota, noenforcing=0 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: maildir: data=/home/vmail/d/o/domain.tld/postmaster/ 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: maildir++: root=/home/vmail/d/o/domain.tld/postmaster, index=, control=, inbox=/home/vmail/d/o/domain.tld/postmaster 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/vmail/d/o/domain.tld/postmaster: mode=0700 gid=-1 2011-05-24 20:08:59 IMAP(postmaster(a)domain.tld): Info: Connection closed bytes=38/363 ################### ## My dovecot.conf ## ################### dict { quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-quota.conf } plugin { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf quota = dict:user::proxy::quota autocreate = Junk autocreate2 = NonJunk autocreate3 = Drafts autocreate4 = Sent autocreate5 = Trash autosubscribe = Junk autosubscribe2 = NonJunk autosubscribe3 = Drafts autosubscribe4 = Sent autosubscribe5 = Trash }

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[Dovecot] New IPC features : any configuration doc ?
by Joan Moreau 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hi, Dovecot complains at start for the ipc listener not correctly configured. What is the configuration scheme ? Thanks JM

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[Dovecot] passdb: password contains illegal chars question
by Torsten Krah 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hi, some question about passdb backend: I'll receive this (using dovecot 2.0.13, pgsql passdb backend) for some users: mail dovecot: auth: passdb(account-username,127.0.0.1): Attempted login with password having illegal chars Password schema ist crypt-md5. So what "chars" does dovecot not like (why?) and whats the preferred way to fix this? regards Torsten -- Bitte senden Sie mir keine Word- oder PowerPoint-Anhänge. Siehe http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.de.html Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." -- Linus Torvalds

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[Dovecot] doveadm segfault
by Joan Moreau 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hi, Using HG latest version, I get the following in the dmesg : [38041.387112] doveadm[20515]: segfault at 8 ip 000000000040f51d sp 00007fffb774c010 error 4 in doveadm[400000+2a000] [38041.397966] doveadm[20613]: segfault at 8 ip 000000000040f51d sp 00007fff953c1790 error 4 in doveadm[400000+2a000] [38041.428206] doveadm[20615]: segfault at 8 ip 000000000040f51d sp 00007ffffdce0cf0 error 4 in doveadm[400000+2a000] [38041.444879] doveadm[20619]: segfault at 8 ip 000000000040f51d sp 00007fffbb0668b0 error 4 in doveadm[400000+2a000] [38041.451815] doveadm[20622]: segfault at 8 ip 000000000040f51d sp 00007fff91d9b670 error 4 in doveadm[400000+2a000] [38041.459231] doveadm[20624]: segfault at 8 ip 000000000040f51d sp 00007fffe92b31b0 error 4 in doveadm[400000+2a000] [38041.468292] doveadm[20625]: segfault at 8 ip 000000000040f51d sp 00007fff5a4895c0 error 4 in doveadm[400000+2a000] [38041.481951] doveadm[20626]: segfault at 8 ip 000000000040f51d sp 00007fff8e84d010 error 4 in doveadm[400000+2a000] [38041.489414] doveadm[20629]: segfault at 8 ip 000000000040f51d sp 00007fff79206180 error 4 in doveadm[400000+2a000] [38041.512329] doveadm[20630]: segfault at 8 ip 000000000040f51d sp 00007ffff10582d0 error 4 in doveadm[400000+2a000] hundreds of times... No clue what is the bug.... JM

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[Dovecot] Error: file_dotlock_create failed: Permission denied
by M. Fioretti 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hi, I have a Fedora 14 x86_64 computer. I run dovecot 2.0.12 on it, only to keep a local imap copy of all my email, in maildir format. A couple days ago the hard disk broke, so I bought a new one, and reinstalled Fedora 14 x86_64 with all the updates. Then I copied all the maildirs from a backup to the new drive. But I can't access email now. No matter how I change sticky bits or ownership and permissions of all the involved files and directories, etc.. Login succeeds, but I get this error whenever I try to create new mailboxes or access existing ones: May 25 13:36:03 polaris dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<marco>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=8489, secured May 25 13:36:06 polaris dovecot: imap(marco): Error: file_dotlock_open(/home/z/email/marco/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(marco) egid=500(marco) missing +w perm: /home/z/email/marco, euid is not dir owner) May 25 13:36:06 polaris dovecot: imap(marco): Error: file_dotlock_create(/home/z/email/marco/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(marco) egid=500(marco) missing +w perm: /home/z/email/marco, euid is not dir owner) May 25 13:36:06 polaris dovecot: imap(marco): Error: file_dotlock_create(/home/z/email/marco/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(marco) egid=500(marco) missing +w perm: /home/z/email/marco, euid is not dir owner) May 25 13:36:06 polaris dovecot: imap(marco): Error: opendir(/home/z/email/marco/new) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(marco) egid=500(marco) missing +r perm: /home/z/email/marco/new, euid is not dir owner) May 25 13:36:06 polaris dovecot: imap(marco): Error: file_dotlock_create(/home/z/email/marco/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(marco) egid=500(marco) missing +w perm: /home/z/email/marco, euid is not dir owner) Again, this doesn't change changing ownership. Output of dovecot -n is below The only possible difference I can find between this and the previous install of the SAME distro/dovecot package is that this time I use ext4 filesystem. Maybe, I don't remember, I was using ext3 in the original install. What must I change to gain access again to my mailboxes??? thanks! Marco dovecot -n # 2.0.12: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with: doveconf -n > dovecot-new.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:88: ssl_disable has been renamed to ssl doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:979: auth_user has been replaced by service auth { user } doveconf: Warning: SSL is disabled because global ssl=no, ignoring ssl=yes for subsection # OS: Linux 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) ext4 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login listen = * mail_location = maildir:/home/z/email/%u mail_privileged_group = mail_imap passdb { args = scheme=plain username_format=%n /etc/local_dovecot_passwords driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap service auth { user = root } ssl = no userdb { args = username_format=%n /etc/local_dovecot_passwords driver = passwd-file } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com }

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[Dovecot] Squat Question!
by Henrique Fernandes 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hello folks, I use dovecot squat for indexing. I use to have fts_squat = partial=4 full=4 But i change to fts_squat = partial=4 full=8 My question is, do i need to delete older indexes to have it consistenly, or dovecot is able "update" the indexes or it sees that it is broken and rebuild it all? Other question, is there an comand line to update the indexes ? Thanks a lot! []'sf.rique

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[Dovecot] This is appear a fts bug
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

I have checked this on dovecot 2.0.9 and 2.0.13 with fts-solr without patching. If you execute the follow IMAP script, then the imap process die by and a "assert" . select "inbox." . search text something After search, the connection is aborted in the client side, and imap process died on the server. When the log in dovecot says: (fts_backend_solr_init): assertion failed: (*box_name != '\0') After debug the code, there isn't in context any possibility to get "box_name". With squat plugin it is running. -- Antonio Pérez-Aranda Alcaide aperezaranda(a)yaco.es Yaco Sistemas S.L. http://www.yaco.es/ C/ Rioja 5, 41001 Sevilla Teléfono +34 954 50 00 57 Fax +34 954 50 09 29

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[Dovecot] v2.0.13 released
by Sean Donelan 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

After configure and compiling dovecot-2.0.13, running "make check" fails on a few tests on sparc/solaris net_is_in_network(0) ................................................. : ok net_is_in_network(1) ................................................. : ok net_is_in_network(2) ................................................. : ok net_is_in_network(3) ................................................. : ok net_is_in_network(4) ................................................. : ok net_is_in_network(5) ................................................. : ok net_is_in_network(6) ................................................. : ok net_is_in_network(7) ................................................. : ok net_is_in_network(8) ................................................. : ok net_is_in_network(9) ................................................. : ok net_is_in_network(10) ................................................ : ok net_is_in_network(11) ................................................ : FAILED net_is_in_network(12) ................................................ : FAILED net_is_in_network(13) ................................................ : ok net_is_in_network(14) ................................................ : ok net_is_in_network(15) ................................................ : ok net_is_in_network(16) ................................................ : ok The failing tests are for { "255.255.255.255", "128.0.0.0", 1, TRUE }, { "255.255.255.255", "127.0.0.0", 1, FALSE } src/lib/network.c src/lib/test-network

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[Dovecot] shared folders "invisible" on new setup
by Torsten Harenberg 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Dear list, I hope this is not an old issue, but I couldn't find a solution even after google'ing quite some time. I try to migrate our institute's mail server (~200 users) from an old cyrus-based Mac installation to a new machine (NetBSD, dovecot 2.0.13). Everything went quite smoothly so far, but we are used to have "shared folders" ("public" folders in dovecot) and I simply couldn't make them to appear. I have two separate folders for private (user) mails and for public ones (yes, I set everything to 777 for the moment to avoid file access problems) : mailserver# pwd /var/mail mailserver# ls -al total 8 drwxrwxrwt 4 dovecot wheel 512 May 31 12:26 . drwxr-xr-x 28 root wheel 512 Mar 29 15:05 .. drwxrwxrwx 3 root mail 512 May 31 15:18 public drwxrwxrwx 4 root wheel 512 May 31 12:26 user In the public folder there is a shared folder named "fb8": mailserver# pwd /var/mail/public mailserver# ls -al total 8 drwxrwxrwx 3 root mail 512 May 31 15:18 . drwxrwxrwt 4 dovecot wheel 512 May 31 12:26 .. -rw-rw-rw- 1 10001 mail 0 May 31 15:14 dovecot-acl-list -rwxrwxrwx 1 root mail 0 May 31 11:06 dovecot-shared drwxrwxrwx 5 root mail 512 May 31 12:03 fb8 Now my own username (LDAP-based) is "harenber" and I try to subscribe myself to this list: mailserver# doveadm mailbox subscribe -u harenber public.fb8 mailserver# So a "subscriptions" file appears: mailserver# ls -al total 8 drwxrwxrwx 3 root mail 512 May 31 15:18 . drwxrwxrwt 4 dovecot wheel 512 May 31 12:26 .. -rw-rw-rw- 1 10001 mail 0 May 31 15:14 dovecot-acl-list -rwxrwxrwx 1 root mail 0 May 31 11:06 dovecot-shared drwxrwxrwx 5 root mail 512 May 31 12:03 fb8 -rw-rw-rw- 1 10001 mail 4 May 31 15:18 subscriptions mailserver# cat subscriptions fb8 mailserver# (although I think this is wrong, as I have namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/mail/public:INDEX=~/public prefix = public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } I would assume this file to appear somewhere in /var/mail/user/harenber/public... ) But I cannot access this "fb8" folder with any client. Alpine says that the public folder is empty: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Folder-Collection <test> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [No Folders in Collection] and also Apple Mail sees nothing beneath "public". Tried to speak IMAP directly shows: 01 login harenber XXXXX 01 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 ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in 02 namespace * NAMESPACE (("" ".")) NIL (("public." ".")) 02 OK Namespace completed. 03 list "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "ALiCEnext" [...] * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "sent-mail" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "tier2" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "public" 03 OK List completed Maybe someone of you has a clue what I do wrong here, I'm completely lost at the moment. Thanks for any hint and best regards, Torsten mailserver# doveconf -n # 2.0.13: /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: NetBSD 5.1 amd64 ffs auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 6 mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/user/%u mail_plugins = acl managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/mail/public:INDEX=%u/public prefix = public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { args = /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot user = dovecot } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } ssl_cert = </etc/certificates/mail.physik.uni-wuppertal.de.crt ssl_key = </etc/certificates/mail.physik.uni-wuppertal.de.key userdb { args = /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl imap_acl } protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole } mailserver# -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> <> <> <> Dr. Torsten Harenberg harenberg(a)physik.uni-wuppertal.de <> <> Bergische Universitaet <> <> FB C - Physik Tel.: +49 (0)202 439-3521 <> <> Gaussstr. 20 Fax : +49 (0)202 439-2811 <> <> 42097 Wuppertal <> <> <> <><><><><><><>< Of course it runs NetBSD http://www.netbsd.org ><>

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[Dovecot] dbox single instance storage maintenance
by Daniel Miller 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Does the "doveadm purge" operation delete unused attachments? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2 + Director: IMAP+GSSAPI and LMTP-proxying
by Jahnke-Zumbusch, Dirk 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hi all, I have a setup of some nodes running Dovecot 2.0.13 and Postfix 2.5.6 with storage in NFS and authentication happening with PAM. Poking around in the wiki, I tried out different possibilities but now I am stuck -- and are hoping for your (enlightening) comments and tips. My planned setup for IMAP and LMTP is like this: IMAP ==== 1. A loadbalancer directs new sessions to a Dovecot-Director instance; this extra amount of traffic routing is mostly done for automatic handling in case of a failing Director node; this works fine, the same IP will end always on the same backend, but user-based Directory proxying seems more appropriate, especially taking the NFS-setup and the delivery process into account 2. Then the Director decides where to direct the user's session; this works fine when I let the backend servers do the authentication work 3. The backend Dovecot server will happily provide the user's e-mail For now my section for the passdb in the Director instance is passdb { driver = static args = proxy=y nopassword=y } So the backend will do the authentication of the session. But this setup inhibits using Kerberos, as the TGT is not forwarded to the backend server. I would very much like to provide GSSAPI/Kerberos authentication, which already works fine with the backend servers being directly connected by mail clients. The backend servers are using the PAM driver. I could not figure out, how to setup the passdb entry for the director instance to use PAM (this way enabling GSSAPI/Kerberos) and also giving back the necessary "proxy=y" to make director proxying the IMAP session. Is this setup feasible at all? LMTP ==== 1. Postfix accepts incoming e-mail and decides, which e-mail will go the LMTP-way to be deliverd into a Dovecot mailbox with something like virtual_transport = lmtp:inet:DOVECOT-DIRECTORS-IP:LMTP-PORT-ABC 2. the Dovecot Director instance accepts the LMTP connections and will proxy this to the appropriate==user's current backend server For now Postfix delivers e-mails using LMTP to the _backend_ w/o proxying and everything like SIEVE-filtering works fine: virtual_transport = lmtp:inet:DOVECOT-BACKENDS-IP:LMTP-PORT-XYZ But when I use the Director's IP/Port combination for LMTP, I see an error "554 5.4.6 <the(a)addr.ess> Proxying loops to itself". Where may I specify the port number of the backend server's LMTP-port? I suspect that the missing port number implies that the receiving LMTP-backend server uses the same port and so this would lead to a loop, hence the loop error?! I browsed the Wiki and the archives but still cannot find the information I am looking for. Any hints on that? Cheers, Dirk And here's the director.conf (via doveconf -n): # 2.0.13: /dovecot/code/etc/dovecot-director/director.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/director/ debug_log_path = /var/adm/dovecot-director.debug director_mail_servers = <LOCAL-BACKEND-IP> director_servers = <PUBLIC-DIRECTOR-IP> lmtp_proxy = yes login_greeting = Dovecot Director ready. mail_debug = 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 = proxy=y nopassword=y driver = static } protocols = imap lmtp service auth-worker { user = root } service auth { client_limit = 6000 unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0644 user = vmail } } 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 inet_listener imap { port = 10143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 10993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 1 } service imap { process_limit = 1024 } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = <LOCAL-DIRECTOR-IP> port = 24242 } } ssl_cert = </dovecot/code/dovecot-homedir/dovecot.crt ssl_key = </dovecot/code/dovecot-homedir/dovecot.key syslog_facility = local0 protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = director-userdb } -- Dirk Jahnke-Zumbusch Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY IT Information Fabrics Member of the Helmholtz Association D-22603 Hamburg Notkestrasse 85 / 22607 Hamburg T: +49-40-899.81760 F: +49-40-899.41760 dirk.jahnke-zumbusch(a)desy.de

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[Dovecot] doveadm "-S <socket_path>" option enabled in 2.0.8?
by David Warden 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

I apologize if this is a stupid question but I just compiled 2.0.8 and am trying to use doveadm to get the quota for a user using the -S <socket_path> option because I have different options for the various local IPs that dovecot listens on. For example, my default quota is filesystem (NFS rquota) and I can get that by doing: doveadm quota get -u warden which tells me: Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 1313476 1766400 74 But when I try to get my quota on a different local IP using the -S flag to doveadm: doveadm quota get -u warden -S 137.238.2.244:143 I am told: get: invalid option -- S The strange thing is doveadm's usage says that the -S option is valid for quite a few commands and in the man pages for those commands it looks like they should work for the way I'm calling doveadm. In the 2.0.8 source I also see code that looks like it should be parsing the -S flag. I can telnet to 127.0.0.1:143 and do ". getquotaroot inbox" which gives me the same information as "doveadm quota get -u warden" and I can telnet to 137.238.2.244:143 and ". getquotaroot inbox" also tells me my quota, but I'm hoping to use doveadm to periodically recalc my Maildir++ quota and update the squat FTS indexes and for that to happen doveadm needs to be able to be told what local IP address/port to connect to (I think). Here's my doveconf -n: # 2.0.8: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.26.1.0.1.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga) nfs auth_cache_size = 10 M auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Ln deliver_log_format = msgid="%m" subject="%s" from="%f" size=%p result="%$" first_valid_uid = 0 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes login_log_format_elements = user=%u method=%m rip=%r lip=%l lport=%a mpid=%e encryption=%c mail_location = maildir:/home/%Lu/Maildir:CONTROL=/Mail/mailhome/%Lu/.dovecot:INDEX=/Mail/mailhome/%Lu/.dovecot mail_log_prefix = "service=%s user=%u rip=%r lip=%l " mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = zlib quota mail_log notify fts fts_squat 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 mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = cache_key=%u dovecot driver = pam } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Drafts autocreate3 = Sent autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Drafts autosubscribe3 = Sent fts = squat mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename flag_change append mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size from subject flags mail_log_group_events = yes quota = fs:User quota quota_exceeded_message = Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full). Please see http://go.geneseo.edu/emailoverquota for help deleting messages while over quota. sieve = /Mail/mailhome/%Lu/.filter.sieve sieve_dir = /Mail/mailhome/%Lu/.sievedir } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)geneseo.edu protocols = imap pop3 sieve quota_full_tempfail = yes service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = zlib quota mail_log notify fts fts_squat sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = zlib quota mail_log notify fts fts_squat sieve zlib } protocol imap { imap_logout_format = bytes(in/out)=%i/%o mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = zlib quota mail_log notify fts fts_squat quota imap_quota autocreate imap_zlib fts fts_squat } protocol sieve { managesieve_logout_format = bytes(in/out)=%i/%o } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_logout_format = bytes(in/out)=%i/%o, top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, mailbox-size=%s pop3_uidl_format = UID%u-%v } local 137.238.2.244 { mail_location = maildir:/Mail/mailhome/$Lu/mailtest/Maildir:CONTROL=/Mail/mailhome/%Lu/mailtest/.dovecot2-control:INDEX=/Mail/mailhome/%Lu/mailtest/.dovecot2-index namespace { location = prefix = } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=200M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+50M zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } } local 137.238.1.1 { protocol imap { ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/imaps.geneseo.edu.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/imaps.geneseo.edu.key } } local 137.238.2.244 { protocol imap { ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/mailtest.geneseo.edu.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/mailtest.geneseo.edu.key } } local 137.238.1.1 { protocol pop3 { ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/imaps.geneseo.edu.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/imaps.geneseo.edu.key } } local 137.238.2.244 { protocol pop3 { ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/mailtest.geneseo.edu.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/mailtest.geneseo.edu.key } }

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[Dovecot] [dovecot] notifications when delivery fails
by Héctor Moreno Blanco 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hello Timo, We have dovecot 1.2.13. Is there any way to send notifications to the postmaster when a delivery fails? For example, when the dovecot index are corrupted and the mail is not sent to the user (the user who sent the message receives an error informing that the mail has not sent). Thank you very much in advanced. Héctor Moreno Blanco. ______________________ This message including any attachments may contain confidential information, according to our Information Security Management System, and intended solely for a specific individual to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorised copy, disclosure or distribution of this message is strictly forbidden. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it. ______________________ Este mensaje, y en su caso, cualquier fichero anexo al mismo, puede contener informacion clasificada por su emisor como confidencial en el marco de su Sistema de Gestion de Seguridad de la Informacion siendo para uso exclusivo del destinatario, quedando prohibida su divulgacion copia o distribucion a terceros sin la autorizacion expresa del remitente. Si Vd. ha recibido este mensaje erroneamente, se ruega lo notifique al remitente y proceda a su borrado. Gracias por su colaboracion. ______________________

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[Dovecot] 2.0: deliver run from multiple uids and configuration files
by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

I'm trying to run deliver from exim transport in a way that it doesn't need to query userdb AND doesn't need to read configuration files. The problem is that config files are readable for root only and if I run deliver with multiple UIDs then I would have to allow reading config files for everyone. Of course that's not a option because configs contain database passwords and such stuff. I wonder if it is possible to avoid reading config files by deliver? The only solution I see it to run deliver via sudo which doesn't look nice. -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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[Dovecot] LMTP/Sieve/sendmail path
by Andreas Schulze 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hello, I have a system using postfix multi instance feature. The first, main postfix-instance is a nullclient as suggested by http://www.postfix.org/MULTI_INSTANCE_README.html#split The second instance is for real use. Postfix receive mail and handover them to the dovecot lmtp server. Thats working. The lmtp server supports sieve. One account has activated a vacation rule. So while delivering a mail to this account, dovecot creates a new mail based on the vacation rules. *This one* fail. It is injected in the main postfix instance, which is wrong in this case. I tried to start dovecot with an additional environment MAIL_CONFIG=/etc/postfix-instance2 and enabled alternate_config_directories in main.cf of the first insance. ( http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#alternate_config_directories ) I also configured the userdb to return an extrafield userdb_mail_config=/etc/postfix-instance2. But all produce strance postfix errors I never saw in my last 6 years as postfix-admin. Would it be possible to configure dovecot lmtp server to use an external smtp-server to submit new mails ? Any other Ideas ? Thanks Andreas -- Andreas Schulze Internetdienste | P252 DATEV eG 90329 Nürnberg | Telefon +49 911 319-0 | Telefax +49 911 319-3196 E-Mail info @datev.de | Internet www.datev.de Sitz: 90429 Nürnberg, Paumgartnerstr. 6-14 | Registergericht Nürnberg, GenReg Nr.70 Vorstand Prof. Dieter Kempf (Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Wolfgang Stegmann (stellvertretender Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Michael Leistenschneider Jörg Rabe v. Pappenheim Dipl.-Vw. Eckhard Schwarzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Reinhard Verholen

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[Dovecot] Baffled after upgrade
by Bert Todger 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Hello all, I have just upgraded my Fedora 13 system to F15. With it came a shiny new dovecot 2.0.13 (Details of dovecot -n below). The configuration is different from the dovecot 1.something that I had been used to with F13, but I managed to get it working and all was well... Without changing anything related to dovecot (as far as I know), after a reboot, dovecot stopped working. I did a bit of digging, upped the verbosity of logging and found this in the logs: =======8<================================================================= Jun 02 09:58:21 auth: Debug: passwd-file /etc/passwd.dovecot: Read 3 users Jun 02 09:58:21 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=16699) Jun 02 09:58:21 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=192.168.2.2 rip=192.168.2.2 lport=993 rport=33960 Jun 02 09:58:21 auth: Debug: client out: CONT 1 Jun 02 09:58:21 auth: Debug: client in: CONT 1 AG1hcmsAaWxIYWFkSFA= Jun 02 09:58:21 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/auth Jun 02 09:58:21 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so Jun 02 09:58:21 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so Jun 02 09:58:21 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Jun 02 09:58:21 auth: Debug: passwd-file /etc/passwd.dovecot: Read 3 users Jun 02 09:58:21 auth: Debug: pam(mark,192.168.2.2): lookup service=dovecot Jun 02 09:58:21 auth: Debug: pam(mark,192.168.2.2): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Jun 02 09:58:23 auth: Info: pam(mark,192.168.2.2): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure (password mismatch?) (given password: mypass) Jun 02 09:58:23 auth: Debug: passwd-file(mark,192.168.2.2): lookup: user=mark file=/etc/passwd.dovecot Jun 02 09:58:23 auth: Debug: client out: OK 1 user=mark Jun 02 09:58:23 auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST 1125646337 16699 1 69152b70b5461508ad2a3eb02942b883 Jun 02 09:58:23 auth: Debug: passwd(mark,192.168.2.2): lookup Jun 02 09:58:23 auth: Debug: master out: USER 1125646337 mark system_groups_user=mark uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/mark Jun 02 09:58:23 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<mark>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.2.2, lip=192.168.2.2, mpid=16705, TLS =========8<=============================================================== Now it's entirely possible that I simply don't properly understand the password authentication process. I have PLAIN passwords set in /etc/passwd.dovecot which it seems to be reading OK, my /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext file contains just =========8<============================================= passdb { driver = passwd-file args = scheme=PLAIN username_format=%u /etc/passwd.dovecot } =========8<============================================= and nothing else. ...and as I said - it *was* working fine. I am puzzled by the reference to PAM authentication in the logs and in the dovecot -n output. Should I comment out all references to PAM? (in auth-system.conf.ext?) I and my family access mail through a variety of means, using Evolution on the home network, mobile devices (eg iPhone), webmail (using squirrelmail configured to access dovecot) and over ssh (using mutt). I don't necessarily want my (or their) email passwords to be the same as our PAM logon passwords (and at the moment they're not). So for me PLAIN has been the best solution up until now. What is my best (and simplest) solution? Thanks in advance Mark # dovecot -n # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.PAE i686 Fedora release 15 (Lovelock) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain log_path = /var/log/dovecot mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = scheme=PLAIN username_format=%u /etc/passwd.dovecot driver = passwd-file } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd }

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[Dovecot] DOVECOT v2.0.11 using SIEVE not working
by Matt Mc Namara 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Hi, I'm trying to get sieve working with dovecot. I seem to have everything enabled but my scripts done seem to work. both sieve-filter (2000) and sieve (4190) are running along with pop3 and imap. I have a simple script which checks the email address and moves it to a folder. I'm at a loss as to what to check next. Thanks in advance, Matt

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[Dovecot] Unknown setting: dbox_attachment_dir
by imap＠tnde.org 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Hi, I am trying to set up Dovecot with sdbox and sis (single instance storage of attachments), however I get the following error when attempting to start dovecot: Starting Dovecot Imap: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 89: Unknown setting: dbox_attachment_dir I'd appreciate help on getting this up and running. This is a virtual (for the time being) server, running Centos, and Dovecot 2. [root@localhost ~]# dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=epoll notify=inotify ipv6 openssl io_block_size=8192 Mail storages: cydir maildir mbox mdbox raw sdbox shared SQL driver plugins: mysql postgresql sqlite Passdb: checkpassword ldap pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: checkpassword ldap(plugin) nss passwd prefetch passwd-file sql [root@localhost ~]# dovecot -n # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.6 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = sdbox:~/dbox mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd }

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[Dovecot] Client IP log variable for proxy/director setups?
by Kelsey Cummings 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Timo - it would be very convenient if we could get a variable that held the real client ip for use in logging with director/proxy setups. It's clearly already passed around in client->user->remote_ip but at this point, I don't see anyway to get it into the logs and it would take me ages to figure out the Right place to add it since client->user doesn't seem to be available in client-common.c: get_var_expand_table(..). Perhaps I'm missing something obvious? -- Kelsey Cummings - kgc(a)corp.sonic.net sonic.net, inc. System Architect 2260 Apollo Way 707.522.1000 Santa Rosa, CA 95407

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[Dovecot] Help needed on dovecot 2.0.13
by गौरव जोशी 31 May '11

31 May '11

Hi, We have just installed dovecot version 2.0.13 on our server. while load testing we get below error in logs. May 30 19:57:19 [My Server]dovecot: imap-login: Error: read(imap) failed: Connection reset by peer May 30 19:57:19 [My Server] dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure (pid=25816 id=1) (auth failed, 1 attempts): Please help as we want to use this on live environment and if these tests fails we can not move this server into live structure. Have a nice time, Gourav Joshi Have a look at www.linuxquestions.in

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[Dovecot] PAM config problem...
by Juan Bernhard 30 May '11

30 May '11

Hi, I had some troubles with PAM configuration. I need to restrict imap access to some users (and allow pop3 to all). I followed the wiki example of using "args = %s" to use 2 pams configurations (one for imap and another for pop3) When I start the service, it starts, but when I try to auth its hangs Here is the log: May 26 15:16:09 claudia dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=15424 uid=0 code=kill) May 26 15:16:10 claudia dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.13 starting up May 26 15:16:24 claudia dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth May 26 15:16:24 claudia dovecot: auth: Fatal: pam: Unknown setting: %s May 26 15:16:24 claudia dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling May 26 15:16:59 claudia dovecot: pop3-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=15435, input bytes=0 Is this option working? Im I missing somethin? I had the same proble in Solaris (but i thought that was a solaris thing, solaris is ALWAYS diferent) here is my doveconf -n # 2.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.6 (Final) ext3 auth_cache_size = 10 M auth_debug = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * login_greeting = Server ready. mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%u:INDEX=~/ mail_plugins = quota passdb { args = %s failure_show_msg=yes driver = pam } plugin { quota = maildir:Cuota de correo quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M } protocols = imap pop3 ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_lock_session = yes pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } And the build options: Build options: ioloop=epoll notify=inotify ipv6 openssl io_block_size=8192 Mail storages: cydir maildir mbox mdbox raw sdbox shared SQL drivers: Passdb: checkpassword ldap pam passwd passwd-file shadow Userdb: checkpassword ldap nss passwd prefetch passwd-file Thanks, Juan.

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[Dovecot] OT: DNS-Problem with Mailnglist-Server
by Hanns Mattes 30 May '11

30 May '11

Hi, is there a problem with the server, which is running this list, or do I have an issue with my DNS-server? mail:/ # host 193.210.130.67 Host 67.130.210.193.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) which leads to postfix complaining: May 30 13:28:39 mail postfix/smtpd[25014]: NOQUEUE: reject_warning: RCPT from unknown[193.210.130.67]: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your reverse hostname, [193.210.130.67]; from=<dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org> to=<hanns(a)hannsmattes.de> proto=ESMTP helo=<dovecot.org> Regards Hanns

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[Dovecot] recipient delimiters and virtual users
by Nick Edwards 30 May '11

30 May '11

Is there a known workaround for users who want to use the old recipient delimiter plus sign method of sorting their mail? eg: foo.bat +dovecot(a)example.com <foe.blow%2Bdovecot(a)example.com> This does not work with postfix/dovecot, but if we tell postfix/system-passwd to use the recipient_delimiter = + it works just like I recall sendmail did, but we no longer use local users only virtual dovecot LDA w/mysql. postfix appears to accept it testing by telnet, but then the message gets a new DSN generated saying no user, so dovecot LDA must not work by default with this. Postfix 2.8.3 Dovecot 1.2.17 MySQL 5.5.12 our postfix master.cf is dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mail:mail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -e -d ${recipient}

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[Dovecot] Email being stored in "cur" folder and not being downloaded in Thunderbird
by Jay Welch 27 May '11

27 May '11

Hi, I have recently noticed that a random number of emails are being stored in the "cur" folder under certain users and cannot be downloaded in Thunderbird. I have tried moving the emails from "cur" to "new" but everytime I try to download the email from Thunderbird, the emails go back to the "cur" folder. What could be causing this? What is the "cur" folder used for? I had thought that the "cur" folder was used for IMAP but all the users here are using POP. Also, I have tried testing this on Outlook and Outlook seems to download the files from "cur". Thanks

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[Dovecot] Bug report: Panic: Trying to sync mailbox archive with open transactions
by Erik Hetzner 26 May '11

26 May '11

Hi, I am getting the following error trying to search a virtual folder. May 26 11:35:29 xam dovecot: imap(egh): Panic: Trying to sync mailbox archive with open transactions May 26 11:35:29 xam dovecot: imap(egh): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/stow/dovecot-2.0.13/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x39ce1) [0xd2dce1] -> /usr/local/stow/dovecot-2.0.13/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x39d4f) [0xd2dd4f] -> /usr/local/stow/dovecot-2.0.13/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0xd0485e] -> /usr/local/stow/dovecot-2.0.13/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x24dd6) [0xf5add6] -> /usr/local/stow/dovecot-2.0.13/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(virtual_storage_sync_init+0x80f) [0x4a1a7f] -> /usr/local/stow/dovecot-2.0.13/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync_init+0x39) [0xf5ada9] -> dovecot/imap(imap_sync_init+0x54) [0x805df74] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_sync_delayed+0x1bc) [0x805ecdc] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x21a) [0x805658a] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x8056daf] -> /usr/local/stow/dovecot-2.0.13/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x51) [0xd3b681] -> /usr/local/stow/dovecot-2.0.13/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xd3) [0xd3c8b3] -> /usr/local/stow/dovecot-2.0.13/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x40) [0xd3b600] -> /usr/local/stow/dovecot-2.0.13/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x2a) [0xd26e1a] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x32d) [0x805f99d] -> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0x808e37] -> dovecot/imap() [0x804e131] May 26 11:35:29 xam dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 18403 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) As you can see, I am using fts_solr plugin. the virtual mailbox is pretty simple: INBOX * -spam -Trash -trash -drafts My client is Wanderlust. Let me know any other information I can provide. Thank you! best, Erik Hetzner Sent from my free software system <http://fsf.org/>.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot imaptest on RHEL4/GFS1, RHEL6/GFS2, NFS and local storage results
by Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes 26 May '11

26 May '11

We have done some benchmarking tests using dovecot 2.0.12 to find the best shared filesystem for hosting many users, here I share with you the results, notice the bad perfomance of all the shared filesystems against the local storage. Is there any specific optimization/tunning on dovecot for use GFS2 on rhel6??, we have configured the director to make the user mailbox persistent in a node, we will thank's any help from you. we are interested in using GFS2 or NFS, we believe the problem is the locks, how can we improve this?? best regards, Aliet The results rhel 4.8 x86_64/GFS1 two nodes, shared FC lun on a SAN Totals: Logi List Stat Sele Fetc Fet2 Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo 100% 50% 50% 100% 100% 100% 50% 100% 100% 100% 100% 30% 5% 1- 2608 1321 1311 2608 2508 3545 547 2001 2493 2702 5282 2- 2810 1440 1430 2810 2688 3835 403 2154 2679 2925 5706 3- 2913 1457 1441 2908 2778 3913 417 2253 2773 3034 5924 4- 2814 1448 1412 2812 2695 3910 401 2186 2686 2929 5712 5- 2789 1464 1432 2787 2652 3774 427 2112 2649 2879 5676 6- 2843 1460 1444 2839 2722 3948 422 2164 2713 2957 5778 rhel6 x86_64/GFS2 two nodes, shared FC lun on a SAN(Used RDM in VMWare vSphere for GFS2 lun) Tunned cluster suite cluster.conf + <dlm plock_ownership="1" plock_rate_limit="0"/> <gfs_controld plock_rate_limit="0"/> Totals: Logi List Stat Sele Fetc Fet2 Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo 100% 50% 50% 100% 100% 100% 50% 100% 100% 100% 100% 30% 5% 1- 2730 1340 1356 2704 2644 3748 522 2125 2643 2662 5422 2- 3309 1618 1659 3294 3223 4658 531 2563 3221 3239 6596 3- 2131 1046 1017 2055 2025 2911 381 1608 2024 2052 4256 4- 2176 1055 1039 2082 2058 2947 377 1671 2058 2078 4344 5- 1859 928 931 1859 1800 2626 304 1454 1799 1801 3706 6- 2672 1322 1329 2672 2607 3758 464 2097 2606 2615 5326 rhel6 x86_64/GFS2 two nodes, shared FC lun on a SAN(Used RDM in VMWare vSphere for GFS2 lun) Cluster suite defaults configs for plocks Totals: Logi List Stat Sele Fetc Fet2 Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo 100% 50% 50% 100% 100% 100% 50% 100% 100% 100% 100% 30% 5% 1- 1417 644 676 1325 1305 1872 308 1048 1302 1318 2824 2- 837 378 392 742 726 1050 117 588 722 734 1658 3- 803 363 347 752 745 1069 153 597 744 750 1658 4- 1682 802 811 1587 1569 2261 291 1299 1569 1585 3360 5- 1146 583 564 1146 1037 1500 213 811 1037 1049 2290 6- 838 403 366 744 734 1057 152 561 731 736 1664 rhel6 x86_64 two nodes used NFS(NAS Freenas 0.8, nfsvers 3) Totals: Logi List Stat Sele Fetc Fet2 Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo 100% 50% 50% 100% 100% 100% 50% 100% 100% 100% 100% 30% 5% 1- 1382 699 691 1357 1063 1500 224 861 1053 1313 2694 2- 1634 785 799 1610 1459 2120 311 1192 1451 1570 3204 2- 1635 826 806 1611 1463 2088 345 1159 1459 1568 3190 3- 1574 758 781 1537 1403 2060 324 1135 1396 1504 3090 4- 1685 842 807 1653 1506 2135 349 1215 1504 1634 3344 5- 1766 850 893 1737 1582 2289 335 1288 1579 1705 3480 6- 1597 797 769 1572 1423 2007 313 1133 1420 1536 3142 rhel6 x86_64 local storage Totals: Logi List Stat Sele Fetc Fet2 Stor Dele Expu Appe Logo 100% 50% 50% 100% 100% 100% 50% 100% 100% 100% 100% 30% 5% 1- 7798 3868 3889 7706 7566 10713 1080 6089 7559 7688 15562 2- 7806 3879 3874 7716 7585 10873 1114 6018 7578 7696 15572 3- 7866 3910 3855 7773 7748 11053 1076 6253 7747 7761 15710 4- 7893 3978 3931 7802 7772 10988 1117 6197 7767 7789 15760 5- 7775 3853 3809 7683 7654 10897 1081 6142 7651 7675 15534 6- 7877 3919 3872 7789 7758 10986 1085 6218 7755 7773 15720

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[Dovecot] Moving maildir mailboxes
by Willie Gillespie 26 May '11

26 May '11

I am using Maildir with Dovecot 1.2. (Config available if needed, but should be a simple question.) I have a bunch of mail that I would like to do a one-time move from a private namespace to a shared namespace. The namespaces are already set up, etc. Can I just move the folders to their new location? I am not merging with existing folders, they would be new subfolders. Thanks! - Willie

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[Dovecot] 2.0.12 (fa2e92526716): Deleting mails and folders from public namespaces
by Binarus 26 May '11

26 May '11

Hello, we basically run a dovecot imap setup where users' mailboxes are in private namespaces (as usual), but there is a public namespace with several thousand deeply nested folders also. The client we use is Thunderbird 3. The public namespace shows up in each user's account at the top level (i.e. same level as Inbox, Sent and so on), and users can make new subfolders in the public namespace, copy mails to it and so on. So, our setup basically works. But whenever a user tries to delete a folder from the public namespace, dovecot gives the following error: "Renaming not supported across non-private namespaces". I think I have a grasp why this happens (Thunderbird tries to move the folder from the public namespace into the trash folder (private namespace) of the user who does the deletion), and I also have read Timo's statement that he does not plan to support such renaming due to big problems he is seeing with it. Nevertheless, since deleting a folder from a public archive is not a too uncommon thing, I wanted to ask how other people have solved that. It came to my mind to configure Thunderbird to immediately delete folders and messages (instead of moving them to trash folder). I have tested that, and it worked, but is somehow dangerous and unsatisfying. Furthermore, I haven't completely understood the reason for the different behaviour of folders in the public namespace and a single message therein. If I configure Thunderbird to use the trash folder, users can delete messages from the public namespace, i.e. Thunderbird can move messages from the public namespace to the private trash folder of the respective account. This is obviously not true for folders (even if they are empty). What's the difference between an empty folder and a single message in this respect? Is it really the ACL thing which makes folders so difficult to handle opposed to single messages? Thank you very much for any ideas! Regards, Peter ************ dovecot -n: # 2.0.12 (fa2e92526716): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.1 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = sha1 first_valid_uid = 103 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = maildir:/home/vmail/content/users/%u:INDEX=/home/vmail/index/users/%u prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { hidden = no inbox = no list = yes location = maildir:/home/vmail/content/archive:INDEX=/home/vmail/index/archive prefix = Archive/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = public } passdb { args = scheme=SSHA username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile } protocols = " imap" service auth { user = root } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { address = 192.168.20.140 port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/imap-ssl.home.omeganet.de.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/imap-ssl.home.omeganet.de.key userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/content/users/%u driver = static } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl imap_acl }

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[Dovecot] Per user Namespaces From SQL
by Henrique Fernandes 26 May '11

26 May '11

Hello folks, i am lookign in the wiki, but did not find anything very clear about what i want. I need to have namespace for each user from mysql. But like, i need all configruation comming from mysql, not only the location. Is that possible? here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces at section: Per-user Namespace Location From SQLI can set the location, is there an way to make everything ? Like the name of namespace, and etc ? Thanks to all! []'sf.rique

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[Dovecot] v1.1.20 vs v1.2 & v2.0
by Adam 25 May '11

25 May '11

I am currently running v1.1.20 and was wondering if there is any compelling reason to upgrade to v1.2 or v2.0? For example is there any security updates in v1.2 or v2.0 that aren't included in v1.1.20? The other major thing I would be interested in knowing is there any speed enhancements in the newer versions? I am using basic PAM Auth and Maildir mailboxes on a Linux box. Let me know if you need any more information to answer my questions. Thanks, Adam

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[Dovecot] problems with debian 5.0 and thunderbird
by Steven Jones 25 May '11

25 May '11

Hi, Does anyone have a setup guide for Thunderbird and Dovecot on Debian please? Dovecot is 1.0.15 I have Dovecot running listening on 143 and I can telnet from the XP guest but Thunderbird cant or wont talk to it. I have taken the # off listen and I get a telnet reply, no firewall is configured.... Ive set thunderbird up lots so I suspect its not Thunderbird but a dovecot config I have wrong. regards

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[Dovecot] libwrap does it work on in 2.0?
by a.smith＠ukgrid.net 24 May '11

24 May '11

Hi, I noticed recently that libwrap (TCP Wrappers) is supported, although disabled by default, in the current Dovecot 2.0 but doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere on the wiki. Is this working well/at all? Anyone care with experience using this care to share their experiences? My OS is FreeBSD, I noticed on some Linux distributions there may be issues, but this won't affect my installation. thanks Andy.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2 and Expire plugins : doesn't have record in DB
by San San 24 May '11

24 May '11

Dovecot 2 and Expire plugins : doesn't have records in db Hide Details FROM: * San San TO: * dovecot(a)dovecot.org Message flagged Tuesday, May 24, 2011 1:09 PM Dear Dovecot I have already config dovecot server with 2.0.13, and I need to enable expire plugins (in dovecot1 I have already used) but I see in my db doesn't have any record how about to debug or trace to solve this problem doveconf -n : auth_verbose = yes default_internal_user = vmail dict { expire = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 200 first_valid_uid = 200 last_valid_gid = 200 last_valid_uid = 200 login_greeting = mail ready. mail_gid = vmail mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = expire mail_uid = vmail maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { autocreate = INBOX.Drafts autocreate2 = INBOX.Sent autocreate3 = INBOX.Trash autocreate4 = INBOX.Spam autosubscribe = INBOX.Drafts autosubscribe2 = INBOX.Sent autosubscribe3 = INBOX.Trash autosubscribe4 = INBOX.Spam expire = INBOX.Trash 15d expire2 = INBOX.Spam 30d expire_dict = proxy::expire quota = maildir quota_rule = INBOX.Trash:storage=+200M } protocols = imap 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 = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mode = 0600 user = } unix_listener login/login { group = mode = 0666 user = } user = root 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 = vmail } user = $default_internal_user vsz_limit = 64 M } 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 = 64 M } service imap-login { chroot = login client_limit = 800 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 = 255 process_min_avail = 10 protocol = imap service_count = 0 type = login user = nobody vsz_limit = 64 M } service imap { chroot = client_limit = 1024 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = imap extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 privileged_group = process_limit = 1024 process_min_avail = 8 protocol = imap service_count = 1 type = unix_listener login/imap { group = mode = 0666 user = } user = vsz_limit = 64 M } 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 = 255 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 = 255 process_min_avail = 10 protocol = pop3 service_count = 0 type = login user = nobody 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 = unix_listener login/ssl-params { group = mode = 0666 user = } user = vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } ssl = no userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 200 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota expire autocreate } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %v-%u } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com } and dovecot-dict-expire.conf is connect = host=10.3.1.31 dbname=dovecot user=dovecot password=dovecot # CREATE TABLE expires ( # username varchar(100) not null, # mailbox varchar(255) not null, # expire_stamp integer not null, # primary key (username, mailbox) # ); map { pattern = shared/expire/$user/$mailbox table = expires value_field = expire_stamp fields { username = $user mailbox = $mailbox } } Sincerely, Nantharat Puwarang

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Re: [Dovecot] How to stop mail_executable from cwd to ~home
by Joseph Tam 24 May '11

24 May '11

Timo wrote: >> As to how to stop the mail process from chdir'ing to a home directory > > If you don't want Dovecot to use a home directory, don't tell it a home directory. I'm all for that since I don't seem to have any need for a home directory. Any idea of how to do it with a passwd-file userdb backend? I also tried to override home directory with userdb { driver = passwd-file args = /etc/passwd home=/bundled/home/$n } but that didn't work out too well. Or is this feature a rephrasing of the current topic thread "Global fields for passwd-file database". Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] delegation of admin rights
by Ariel Biener 23 May '11

23 May '11

Hello, We're a rather largish university (largest in Israel), with some 60-70k users, using Dovecot 1.2.14 (we're cautious about moving to 2.0.x for now). We need to provide admin rights to faculty computer/IT staff, so they can have access to the mailboxes of their respective users. We use LDAP as an authentication/authorization backend. Currently, dovecot has a "master user" which can access all mailboxes. I am looking for a solution, preferably within dovecot, to create a delegation type of administration, allowing certain users to access the mailboxes of other users based on an LDAP filter or LDAP attribute value. If possible, allowing per protocol access(that is, I would like to give them IMAP access and not POP3) and within IMAP allowing only to view a mailbox, but not to change it, that would be even better. Does anyone on this list know of any IMAP proxy providing such abilities, and also, would the Dovecot team consider this as a candidate for a request for enhancement ? This would be very useful in a delegated administration environment, like most larger organizations, hosting & ISP, and other environments where delegation is an important and very much needed ability. thanks a bunch, -- Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: ariel(a)post.tau.ac.il PGP: http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html

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[Dovecot] SVN Compilation error
by Joan Moreau 23 May '11

23 May '11

Hi, Here the error I get (SVN) Making all in dns make[3]: Entering directory `/data/admin/src/mail/dovecot2/dovecot-2.0/src/dns' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/data/admin/src/mail/dovecot2/dovecot-2.0/src/dns' Making all in ipc make[3]: Entering directory `/data/admin/src/mail/dovecot2/dovecot-2.0/src/ipc' MAKE[3]: *** NO RULE TO MAKE TARGET `ALL'. STOP. make[3]: Leaving directory `/data/admin/src/mail/dovecot2/dovecot-2.0/src/ipc' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/admin/src/mail/dovecot2/dovecot-2.0/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/admin/src/mail/dovecot2/dovecot-2.0' make: *** [all] Error 2

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[Dovecot] Crash test :)
by kjonca＠o2.pl 23 May '11

23 May '11

I'm considering to move my mails from maildir/mbox to mdbox. One of my doubts is: how can I restore my mails when something terrribly wrong happens. I understand that I should use doveadm import "backup_location" "mailbox" all. So I try to import with: doveadm -v import "sdbox:~/Mail/dbox-temp/spamcop/reports/" "#Dbox/spamcop/reports" all #Dbox namespace were defined as: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- namespace { hidden = no inbox = no list = yes location = mdbox:~/Mail/Dbox prefix = "#Dbox/" separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- dbox-temp were defined earlier as --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- namespace { hidden = no inbox = no list = yes location = sdbox:~/Mail/dbox-temp separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- 1. when I specified for example sdbox:~/Mail/dbox-temp/spamcop/reports/ doveadm search mails under ~/Mail/dbox-temp/spamcop/reports/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/ - am I missing something from documentation? (I expected rather ~/Mail/dbox-temp/mailboxes/spamcop/reports/dbox-Mails) 2. when I move dbox-Mails to proper place I got: doveadm(kjonca): Error: sdbox /home/kjonca/Mail/dbox-temp/spamcop/reports/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails: Invalid dbox header size doveadm(kjonca): Error: sdbox /home/kjonca/Mail/dbox-temp/spamcop/reports/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails: Invalid dbox header size And nothing were imported. Notices: a) there were only u.* files, no indexes. b) u.* files were created on i386 system, and import test on amd64. KJ -- http://blogdebart.pl/2010/03/17/dalsze-przygody-swinki-w-new-jersey/

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[Dovecot] HG Compilation error
by Joan Moreau 23 May '11

23 May '11

Hi, Here the error I get, when compiling from Mercurial repository Making all in ipc make[3]: Entering directory `/data/admin/src/mail/dovecot2/dovecot-2.0/src/ipc' MAKE[3]: *** NO RULE TO MAKE TARGET `ALL'. STOP. make[3]: Leaving directory `/data/admin/src/mail/dovecot2/dovecot-2.0/src/ipc' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/admin/src/mail/dovecot2/dovecot-2.0/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/admin/src/mail/dovecot2/dovecot-2.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 How to fix that ? thx jm

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[Dovecot] zlib
by Daniel L. Miller 23 May '11

23 May '11

How can I enable zlib for reading compressed messages but not writing? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] PERMANENTFLAGS response if ACL seen/write rights are missing
by Michael M Slusarz 23 May '11

23 May '11

In dovecot 2.0.13, if a user does not have either s or w ACL rights on a mailbox, PERMANENTFLAGS correctly indicates that the mailbox has not permanent flags: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Read-only mailbox. However, if one is set but not the other, the PERMANENTFLAGS list is not being pruned appropriately. For example, for a mailbox with the following flags: * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Forwarded $Junk) If s is set, but not w, I would expect PERMANENTFLAGS to look like: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Seen)] If w is set, but not s, I would expect this: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft $Forwarded $Junk \*)] However, in both cases I currently see all flags in the mailbox: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Forwarded $Junk \*)] michael

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[Dovecot] Hide INBOX prefix on shared mailboxes
by Martin Werthmöller 23 May '11

23 May '11

Hello List, We've upgraded our Dovecot system from 1.2.4 to 2.0.12. If someone now accesses an inbox of another user at the shared namespace, the folder will be shown as: shared/martin/INBOX The 1.2 installation has shown the folder like shared/martin Is it possible to achieve the "old" behavior? ** Configuration of the namespaces * dovecot 1.2 namespace private { separator = / prefix = #location defaults to mail_location. inbox = yes } namespace shared { separator = / prefix = shared/%%n location = maildir:%%h:INDEX=~/shared/%%n/ subscriptions = no list = children } * dovecot 2.0 namespace { type = private separator = / prefix = #location defaults to mail_location. inbox = yes } namespace { type = shared separator = / prefix = shared/%%n/ location = maildir:%%h:INDEX=~/shared/%%n subscriptions = no list = children } Best regards, Martin Werthmoeller -- LWsystems GmbH & Co. KG ++ http://www.lw-systems.de/impressum Phone: +49 +5455 932132 ++ Fax: +49 +5455 932099 Your experts for Linux, Open Source and IT security. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LWsystems GmbH & Co. KG Headquaters: Tegelerweg 11, D-49186 Bad Iburg, Germany Phone +49 (0)5455 932132 fax +49 (0)5455 932099 register of commerce: Amtsgericht Osnabrück, hra 110668 VAT no. DE23852211 Managing Directors: Dipl.-Ing. Ansgar H. Licher, Bad Iburg, Germany Dipl.-Ing. Martin Werthmöller, Ibbenbüren, Germany For further company details please look at: http://www.lw-systems.de/impressum ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-antispam dependencies
by Sven Schwyn 23 May '11

23 May '11

> I would like to see a tagged version too, but trunk works fine here. > Since the OP mentions Gentoo, my latest ebuild for dovecot-antispam for > 2.x is attached. The thing with Gentoo: Unless a tagged version is created, it's very unlikely that the Gentoo guys update the current ebuild (aka: package) and thus the incompatibility between the dovecot and the dovecot-antispam packages in the package tree remains. Thanks for the ebuild. Cheers, -sven

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[Dovecot] Debian or Ubuntu packages ?
by Frank Bonnet 23 May '11

23 May '11

Hello Anyone knows which version of Dovecot 2 are availables on Squeeze Debian or Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS ? Also what is the Linux OS that is must up to date ? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Global fields for passwd-file database
by Sergey Urushkin 23 May '11

23 May '11

Is there a way to specify global fields for passwd-file DB? Currently interested in "home" for userdb and "allow_nets" for passworddb. The next doesn't work, of course: passdb passwd-file { args = username_format=%n allow_nets=127.0.0.1 /etc/dovecot/dovecot.passwd.%d } userdb passwd-file { args = username_format=%n home=/var/mail/%d/%n /etc/dovecot/dovecot.passwd.%d } -- Best regards, Sergey Urushkin

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