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Re: [Dovecot] Sub-Sub-Subfolders not shown after converting from maildir to mdbox
by Patrick Westenberg 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Timo Sirainen schrieb: > Or just from mdbox:~/mdbox to mdbox:~/mdbox:LAYOUT=maildir++ This doesn´t work: Initialization failed: Namespace 'INBOX.': Mailbox list driver maildir++: maildir_name not supported by this driver or without namespace: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: Mailbox list driver maildir++: maildir_name not supported by this driver

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[Dovecot] What's %%h ?
by William Blunn 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

What's %%h ? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables says that "%%" expands to "%", so according to that, "%%h" expands to "%h". But I have seen people using "%%h", so it must mean something else. Bill

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[Dovecot] Bad HTML at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/
by William Blunn 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Bad HTML at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ <div style="padding: 0.2em; background-color: #50bead"> This documentation is for<strong>Dovecot v2.0</strong>, see<a href="http://wiki1.dovecot.org/ <view-source:http://wiki1.dovecot.org/>">wiki1</a> for v1.x documentation.</a> </div> After "documentation." there is a closing</a> tag with no corresponding opening tag. A similar issue appears on http://wiki.dovecot.org/ Bill

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[Dovecot] Problems setting up dovecot 2.0.1 with kerberos auth
by Dirk Heinrichs 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi, I'm trying to setup dovecot 2.0.1 on a debian squeeze test box. I want to integrate it into an already working kerberos5 setup, but I don't get it to work. I've added created host/ smtp/ and imap/ service principals with random key for the test machine and added them to its keytab. I can also obtain user credentials using kinit, but when I try to telnet to port 143, I only get the following: # kinit heini Password for heini(a)ALTUM.DE: # klist Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_0 Default principal: heini(a)ALTUM.DE Valid starting Expires Service principal 09/05/10 18:56:30 09/06/10 04:56:30 krbtgt/ALTUM.DE(a)ALTUM.DE renew until 09/06/10 18:56:27 # telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE AUTH=GSSAPI] Dovecot ready. a authenticate GSSAPI a NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure. ^] telnet> Connection closed. This is in the logs: Sep 5 18:56:47 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Sep 5 18:56:47 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=27684) Sep 5 18:56:58 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011GSSAPI#011service=imap#011secured#011lip=127.0.0.1#011rip=127.0.0.1#011lport=143#011rport=33753 Sep 5 18:56:58 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: gssapi(?,127.0.0.1): Obtaining credentials for imap@rohan Sep 5 18:56:58 oldbox dovecot: auth: gssapi(?,127.0.0.1): While acquiring service credentials: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information Sep 5 18:56:58 oldbox dovecot: auth: gssapi(?,127.0.0.1): While acquiring service credentials: Permission denied Sep 5 18:57:00 oldbox dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: FAIL#0111#011temp Sep 5 18:57:05 oldbox dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=GSSAPI, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=0, secured My configuration: # doveconf -n # 2.0.1 (a05834588ffb): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 i586 Debian squeeze/sid auth_debug = yes auth_gssapi_hostname = rohan auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/krb5.keytab auth_mechanisms = gssapi auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%u driver = static } And here's the content of the kerberos keytab: # ktutil ktutil: rkt /etc/krb5.keytab ktutil: l slot KVNO Principal ---- ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 3 host/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 2 3 host/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 3 3 host/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 4 3 host/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 5 3 imap/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 6 3 imap/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 7 3 imap/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 8 3 imap/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 9 3 smtp/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 10 3 smtp/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 11 3 smtp/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE 12 3 smtp/oldbox.altum.de(a)ALTUM.DE I also don't see any connection attempt in the KDC's log file. Any idea what could be wrong? Thanks... Dirk

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[Dovecot] dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file entry at line
by Luca Palazzo 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi All, we are experiencing another strange problem after upgrading to 2.0.1 from 1.2. Many people's client aree-retrieving mail from server due to some problem with dovecot-uidlist file. Looking at log file seem that all file content is sometime duplicated and appended to the and of same file. It look as another process was accesing and trying to modify uidlist table. Our setup has a load balance (dovecot director) and three backend server. All of them use 2.0.1. MTA is a cluster of postfix that deliver mail to load balancer by LMTP. How can I collect some more information? or, better, solve it? Regards Luca PS: Backend configuration is: # 2.0.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem i686 Debian 5.0.5 auth_master_user_separator = * auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = $mail_plugins notify mail_log quota managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date spamtest spamtestplus virustest passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid from size quota = maildir:User quota quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning.sh 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning.sh 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /etc/dovecot/sieve/global/ sieve_global_path = /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot mode = 0600 user = dovecot } } service director { inet_listener { port = 8100 } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 10.194.1.31 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 10.194.1.31 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 4190 } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 } service quota-warning { executable = script /virtual/shared/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = dovecot } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota }

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[Dovecot] Dovecot director - silly questions
by Guy 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi, I'm currently using Dovecot 1.1.18 with storage over NFS and there's been the occasional corrupt index. I'm going to be installing a new set of servers soon and would like to start using Dovecot 2.0. I've had a look at the bit there is on the new Dovecot director, but I'm not totally sure how it's intended to be used. Should I install Dovecot on the software load balancers (IMAP/POP3 and other services balanced by haproxy) and configure the director on there? I'm also using maildrop at the moment but would like to switch to Dovecot deliver at some stage. Since mail is delivered to a random mail server (they both have access to the NFS shares), won't I run into the same index problem? Should I look at per user transports before then or can director also be used to effect Dovecot deliver? Thanks Guy -- Don't just do something...sit there!

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[Dovecot] cant see public mailbox
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

hi.. im running dovecot 2.0.1 sharing mailboxes works like a charm, but now im trying to create a public undetected-SPAM folder. thunderbird shows the public namespace but no mailboxes. ive created the public folder and did a mkdir for the folder.. after that doesnt work ive created cur,new,tmp in .undetected-SPAM /home/MAILBOXES/public# ls -al drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 74 7. Sep 14:23 . drwxr-xr-x 57 vmail vmail 4096 7. Sep 14:23 .. -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 0 7. Sep 14:23 dovecot-acl-list -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 0 7. Sep 13:19 dovecot-shared drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 36 7. Sep 14:17 .undetected-SPAM doveconf -n mail_location = maildir:~/mail namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/mail:INDEX=~/mail/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/home/MAILBOXES/public:INDEX=~/mail/public prefix = public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } any ideas ? Hans

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[Dovecot] v1.2.14 released
by Timo Sirainen 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.14.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.14.tar.gz.sig + virtual mailboxes: Added support for IDLE notifications. - master: Don't crash on config reload when using dict processes. - IMAP: QRESYNC parameters for SELECT weren't handled correctly.

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[Dovecot] Plugin execution order and Sieve
by Charly 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hello, I use dovecot 2.0.1 and pigeonhole Sieve (version of August), I try to create a deliver plugin (lda or lmtp), but if I declare, in addition to my plugin, sieve, sieve is called first, and my plugin is never called. I tried to change the order of declaration of plugins, but nothing changes. If I remove Sieve, my plugin is properly called. protocol lmtp { #mail_plugins = $mail_plugins myplugin sieve ## sieve called first, my plugin is never called #mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve myplugin ## sieve called first, my plugin is never called mail_plugins = $mail_plugins myplugin ## my plugin is called } I try to patch Pigeonhole Sieve to call other plugin at the end of execution with : --- dovecot-2-0-pigeonhole-d51650c8af85/src/plugins/lda-sieve/lda-sieve-plugin.c.next_deliver 2010-08-23 19:26:12.000000000 +0200 +++ dovecot-2-0-pigeonhole-d51650c8af85/src/plugins/lda-sieve/lda-sieve-plugin.c 2010-09-02 11:48:22.000000000 +0200 @@ -775,7 +775,8 @@ } T_END; - return ret; + //return ret; + return next_deliver_mail(mdctx,storage_r); } /* With this patch, my plugin is called, but, always AFTER Sieve... How can I call my plugin before Sieve and do I need to patch Pigeonhole Sieve ? Thank you, Charly.

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[Dovecot] LAYOUT=maildir++ under mbox?
by William Blunn 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Whilst documenting LAYOUT=maildir++ under dbox, that got me thinking: Can we specify :LAYOUT=maildir++ with mbox? If I have it right, this should then remove the problem of not being able to have messages and mail subfolders in the same mail folder. So for example if we had mail location specified as: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:LAYOUT=maildir++ we would have files: ~/mail/inbox - file storing messages in INBOX ~/mail/.foo - file storing messages in mail folder "foo" ~/mail/.foo.bar - file storing messages in mail folder "foo/bar" and I think all of Dovecot's indexes would go under ~/mail/.imap Bill

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[Dovecot] extended search
by Daniel-Constantin Mierla 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hello, is it safe to use arg_new_human_date() from src/lib-storage/mail-search-register-human.c instead of arg_new_date() inside src/lib-storage/mail-search-register-imap.c? The benefit is ability to use interval based search rules, e.g., SINCE 2days. I run it for couple of days and looks fine, used for virtual folders. This kind of search I missed for usage on laptop - I have pretty huge inboxes, thunderbird was over 20% CPU all the time. I switched on using dovecot locally and thunderbird connected to it, my common searches (before: thunderbird's "save as folder" searches) are virtual folders. Everything works great, cpu usage is less than 1% (I have to say that I also moved many filtering rules (for sorting incoming messages to folders) from TB to be done by imapfilter, but the reason was mainly sorting flexibility and rescanning folders). If all is safe, would it be considered for addition in the future version? The patch is trivial, I can leave with patching every release, but I believe is a nice thing to have. Afaik, should not break IMAP SEARCH specs, being an extended version. An alternative would be to add 'X-' commands (e.g., X-SINCE 2days). Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel-Constantin Mierla http://www.asipto.com

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[Dovecot] Problems with zlib
by Andre 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Sometimes I see lines like these in my log: 20100906 11:34:32 imap(username(a)domain.com): Panic: file istream-zlib.c: line 173 (i_stream_zlib_read): assertion failed: (zstream->high_pos == 0) 20100906 11:34:32 imap(username(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x7f328d2244a2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x7f328d22450a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f328d2248b3] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_zlib_plugin.so [0x7f328be444fc] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read+0x6b) [0x7f328d22a10b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_read_data+0x4d) [0x7f328d22a3fd] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x7f328d21476e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x7f328d214cbe] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(message_parser_parse_next_block+0x29) [0x7f328d2148c9] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(message_parser_parse_body+0x23) [0x7f328d214a43] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x7f328d4cb72f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x7f328d4cb84a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_get_special+0x3dc) [0x7f328d4cc99c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x7f328d4dd86d] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID] [0x41256a] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID](imap_fetch_more+0x16c) [0x412b0c] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID](cmd_fetch+0x3fa) [0x40acea] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID] [0x41031c] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID] [0x4103cd] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID](client_handle_input+0x45) [0x410545] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID](client_input+0x62) [0x410f72] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xcb) [0x7f328d22f3ab] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x7f328d22e4c8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f328d21dd63] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID](main+0x281) [0x419201] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f328caa81a6] -> dovecot/imap [username(a)domain.com 192.168.4.253 UID] [0x408bd9] Here is the backtrace: [New process 11474] #0 0x00007f328cabbed5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f328cabbed5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007f328cabd3f3 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x00007f328d2244b5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #3 0x00007f328d22450a in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #4 0x00007f328d2248b3 in i_panic () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #5 0x00007f328be444fc in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_zlib_plugin.so #6 0x00007f328d22a10b in i_stream_read () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #7 0x00007f328d22a3fd in i_stream_read_data () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #8 0x00007f328d21476e in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #9 0x00007f328d214cbe in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #10 0x00007f328d2148c9 in message_parser_parse_next_block () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #11 0x00007f328d214a43 in message_parser_parse_body () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #12 0x00007f328d4cb72f in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 #13 0x00007f328d4cb84a in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 #14 0x00007f328d4cc99c in index_mail_get_special () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 #15 0x00007f328d4dd86d in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 #16 0x000000000041256a in ?? () #17 0x0000000000412b0c in imap_fetch_more () #18 0x000000000040acea in cmd_fetch () #19 0x000000000041031c in ?? () #20 0x00000000004103cd in ?? () #21 0x0000000000410545 in client_handle_input () #22 0x0000000000410f72 in client_input () #23 0x00007f328d22f3ab in io_loop_handler_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #24 0x00007f328d22e4c8 in io_loop_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #25 0x00007f328d21dd63 in master_service_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #26 0x0000000000419201 in main () here is the relevant plugin section: plugin { zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } What can I do to investigate deeper? TIA Andre

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 89, Issue 27
by Alan Brown 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

> > Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> Wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 14:26 +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > > > > Is there any way of enforcing a Maildir per-folder message limit in > > > > Dovecot? > > > > > No. > > > > Would you consider it as a feature request? > What if you just create a script that automatically archives older mails to <box>/archive/yyyy-mm mailboxes when number of messages in a mailbox increases too high for too long? Or something like that. I'm looking at doing that anyway, however it would be much easier to train the users if the server says "folder full"

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 89, Issue 25
by Alan Brown 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> Wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 14:26 +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > > Is there any way of enforcing a Maildir per-folder message limit in > > Dovecot? > No. Would you consider it as a feature request? > > We're finding major performance hits once a threshold of files/directory > > is exceeded. This applies across all common filesystems with the > > threshold differing depending on the FS. GFS2 pretty much _STOPS_ for 10 > > minutes when users put 65k+ messages in one folder... > mdbox would probably work nicely. :) Yes, it probably would, however I have several layers of resistance to get past in order to implement that (ie, up to 2 years to get approval to switch to dbox) > > I'm currently running 1.1.20 but looking to update (RHEL5 cluster > > installation) > With v1.2+ you could also try maildir_very_dirty_syncs=yes That won't help much for initial directory opens, which is where most of the pain is. Past that point, the index of ~/Maildir/.folder/cur is mostly cached until you hit about 16,000 messages(files) on GFS2 and some people are insisting on 32k+ files in one folder with the odd few trying 65k or more (I'm surprised their clients don't break). For info sake: we have Dovecot running on a pair of dedicated dual E5530 (quad-core X86 1300MHZ FSB cpu) servers (RH cluster+GFS2) with 24Gb RAM apiece and ~2TB of 8Gb/s san-attached storage available. There are only ~250 accounts but there's around 600Gb in the maildir folder areas and another 300Gb in a separate dedicated inbox area - and I believe there's another 1TB of stuff in client local folders we're trying to pull back to the servers in order to simplify backups. Even with this kind of horsepower available, over-large folders can render the setup completely unresponsive for minutes at a time. I know this is a case of "work smarter, not harder", but I'm facing major delays until we're able to change the on-disk storage format. Alan

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 89, Issue 26
by Alan Brown 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> Wrote: >On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 12:37 +0100, William Blunn wrote: > > Whilst documenting LAYOUT=maildir++ under dbox, that got me thinking: > > > > Can we specify :LAYOUT=maildir++ with mbox? > Yes, ever since LAYOUT was added. > > If I have it right, this should then remove the problem of not being > > able to have messages and mail subfolders in the same mail folder. > Yes. Also it might be possible to use DIRNAME with LAYOUT=fs to solve > that problem, but I'm less sure about that. I anyway doubt most mbox > users want to switch to a whole new layout. Mbox users might not, but Maildir or dbox users might want to, especially if users have a lot of folders (One of mine has ~2500) Directories definitely get slower to list with more files/subdirectories in them and there are knee points beyond which they get substantially slower (Where the knee is depends on the type of FS but it's usually a power of 2)

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[Dovecot] mdbox: Cannot create subfolder called "dbox-Mails" (2.0beta5)
by William Blunn 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

I am trying out "mdbox" under Dovecot 2.0beta5. Looking in the "mailboxes" directory under the mdbox storage root ("~/dbox" in my case), I can see that the mail folders are mapped into filesystem directories. But Dovecot seems to put all the message list information ("dovecot.index.cache", "dovecot.index.log") for any given mail folder into a directory called "dbox-Mails"... But this directory name exists in the same namespace as that used for mail subfolders... So this means we cannot create a mail subfolder whose name is "dbox-Mails"! I concede that this eventuality may be unlikely, but when designing in a green field, surely we should avoid such obvious pitfalls? Surely we would want to make it so that these objects exist in different namespaces, so that mail folders can be created with any name? So perhaps the directory "dbox-Mails" should use a character in its name which could not be used in mail folder names. Or mail folder names could have a non-identity mapping into directory names such that the directory name can never be "dbox-Mails". Regards, Bill

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[Dovecot] Specify auth service for protocols
by Lukas Garberg 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi all, I'm building a mail system where two machines are functioning both as POP3/IMAP-proxy (using dovecot 1.2.12) and SMTP-server with authentication for outgoing mail. The SMTP-server is postfix with dovecot SASL as authentication backend. User credentials for SMTP auth as well as the mapping from account to final server for the proxy is stored in a MySQL-database which dovecot queries. As I want the POP3/IMAP-proxy to accept any username and password (as the final POP3/IMAP server takes care of the authentication) the passdb SQL query has the statements "NULL AS password, 'Y' AS nopassword, 'Y' AS proxy" added to the query. As these additions cannot be used in the SQL query for the auth service used by postfix (as users would be able to authenticate with any password) I have defined a second auth service (auth postfix { ... }) in dovecot.conf which is slightly different; it returns the password hash instead of NULL as password and skips the proxy and nopasswd part. This works fine on one server, but on the other one the auth services get mixed up and the service defined for postfix (missing password and proxy stuff) is used by the POP3 and IMAP services and vice versa, which breaks the proxying. I've been trying my best to find any difference between the configuration of the two machines, but without result. The configurations are simply copies of each other. So, to finally arrive at my question: Is there any way to specify which authentication service is to be used by each protocol in dovecot.conf? Or is the solution instead to rewrite the passdb-query to take the service into account and return 'Y' AS proxy when the service is postfix and 'N' AS proxy when the service is POP3 or IMAP as I then would be able to use only one authentication backend? Sorry for the lengthy post and thank you in advance! Regards, Lukas Garberg

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[Dovecot] notification plugin
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, I'm pretty new to dovecot's codebase and trying to write a plugin which performs certain plugins if new mail arrives in a user's mailbox. I saw the mail-log plugin and was playing around with it but it seems to not create events if new mails arrive but only if mail are copied or saved from an IMAP connection. Are there any hooks I can base my plugin on to get events in the above case? Any pointers? Thanks, Wolfgang

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[Dovecot] Quotas - per folder message limits?
by Alan Brown 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Is there any way of enforcing a Maildir per-folder message limit in Dovecot? We're finding major performance hits once a threshold of files/directory is exceeded. This applies across all common filesystems with the threshold differing depending on the FS. GFS2 pretty much _STOPS_ for 10 minutes when users put 65k+ messages in one folder... I'm currently running 1.1.20 but looking to update (RHEL5 cluster installation)

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[Dovecot] Documentation for "altpath" / "altmove" / ?"Alternate storage"
by William Blunn 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

I was thinking about documentation for alternate storage. We have a few mentions at: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Altmove But I was thinking it would be helpful if there could be a page about alternate storage. I could write the page, but I currently have so many unknowns that I think it would be better to gather some more information before writing the first draft. Note that I don't necessarily fully understand all the surrounding concepts, so I could have written something below which is based on a (vague) belief. Please correct me if I am wrong, or even if it's sort-of right but doesn't quite hit the point squarely. We might want to have a name for the wiki page. Perhaps "AlternateStorage"? Of course if it only applies to dbox, then another idea is to make it a section on the page "MailboxFormat/dbox". All suggestions gratefully received. I would be interested in an overview of what alternate storage is. It seems to be a way of transparently moving message data to alternare storage, with the idea that the alternate storage may be on a different filesystem which may be cheaper and/or slower than the main storage, which may be an economic way to store messages where the fastest access to them is less important. It is transparent in as much as IMAP/POP users will not normally be able to tell if any given message has been moved to alternate storage. A single mail folder can end up containing a mixture of messages stored in main storage and alternate storage. (Another question begged here of what consistent term should be used to refer to the main storage. Could be "main storage", "normal storage", "ordinary storage".) Also I would be interested to know the development/stability status of alternate storage: experimental / alpha / beta / stable. Also I would be interested to know the applicability against mailbox formats: mbox / maildir / sdbox / mdbox / cydir. Also I would be interested to know which data gets moved to the alternate storage, and which data stays in the main storage: message-data / control-data / index-data / combined-control-and-index-data. Also I would be interested to know how data can be moved to alternate storage. Seems to be that is only done by invocation of "doveadm altmove". There is a page for that already so we can link to that. Also it would be interesting to have some idea of how it works. For example there might be an "alternate storage" flag in the indexes, or Dovecot tries the main location first and if not found there then it tries the alternate storage. Just a brief overview, and any pertinent ramifications of that. Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] \" character in folder name results in strange LIST
by Samuel Kvasnica 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi Timo, >> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "folder1" >> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "folder2" >> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" {9} >> six"wafer >> . OK List completed. >> >> Note the {9} length of the following real folder name. Is this normal >> handling of special folder names ? >Yes. Well, I did try other servers and e.g. on scalix I'm getting this: * LIST (\X-DirectRef=000d7f94a4731510 \X-ModDate=20100814200222) "/" "six\"wafer" I cannot find anything relevant in RFC3501 >> Mail clients do not seem to like this response. >What clients? They're buggy then.. Well, of course, way too many clients are :( at least Thunderbird will go totally crazy when getting this kind response. (My old python scripts expecting string, not a tuple go crazy as well... :-< )

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[Dovecot] Alternate mail_location prefix for homedir
by Henry C. 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi, I'm switching from UW-imap to dovecot 2.0.1 and was wondering about the mail_location config: mail_location = mbox:~/.:INBOX=/var/mail/%u Notice '.' in '~/.' above. This seems to resolve the ~/mail problem when switching from UW-imap (ie, no 'mail' prefix). doc/wiki/Migration.UW.txt doesn't mention using '~/.', so I was wondering whether there are any gotchas anyone can think of. Thanks Henry

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[Dovecot] psr2md
by Benoit LORAND 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

hello, I just write script who converts outlook pst files to the maildir format. I want to share it to community. I have tried it with outlook 2003 and outlook 2007. http://www.blorand.org/index.php/Pst2md i hope it will help someone. -- Benoît LORAND http://www.blorand.org benoit.lorand(a)blorand.org

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Re: [Dovecot] Problems with dovecot 2.0, sieve and mdbox
by Patrick Westenberg 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

Why so complicated?   ---- Originalnachricht ---- Von: fakessh <fakessh(a)fakessh.eu> Gesendet: 4 Sep 2010 17:31 +02:00 An: Patrick Westenberg <pw(a)wk-serv.de> CC: <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Problems with dovecot 2.0, sieve and mdbox On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:27:26 +0200, Patrick Westenberg <pw(a)wk-serv.de> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I tried to use a global sieve skript to sort spam mails into > a subfolder of INBOX. I´m using mdbox. > > The log shows that the script is called and executed but it is > not able to find or create the mailbox: > > Sep 4 15:18:55 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6237, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) > Debug: Namespace : Permission lookup failed from > /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox/mailboxes/Spamverdacht > Sep 4 15:18:55 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6237, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) > Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from > /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 > > Sep 4 15:22:37 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6261, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) > Debug: Namespace : Permission lookup failed from > /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX.Spamverdacht > Sep 4 15:22:37 mercury dovecot: lmtp(6261, mail(a)steulerfliesen.de) > Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from > /var/mail/steulerfliesen.de/mail/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 > > My skript looks like this: > > require "fileinto"; > if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { > fileinto "Spamverdacht"; > } > > I also tried: > > require "fileinto"; > if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { > fileinto "INBOX.Spamverdacht"; > } > > How can I fix this? > > Regards > Patrick the script should be require ["fileinto","regex","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","reject","relational"]; # rule:[spammanage-before] if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["500"] { discard; stop; } if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["100"] { fileinto "Junk.spam"; stop; } if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["10"] { fileinto "Junk"; } elsif anyof ( header :contains "Received" [ "[4.63. "[218.160.", "[218.242.]" ] ) { fileinto "Junk"; } elsif anyof ( header :contains ["SPAM", "X-Spam-hits"] ["ADDRESSES_ON_CD", "X_OSIRU_DUL", "X_OSIRU_SPAMWARE_SITE", "X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC" ] ) { fileinto "Junk"; }

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[Dovecot] fts, solr, and client support
by Kelsey Cummings 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

I've been playing around with the fts plugins and currently have solr up and running. While the initial indexing time is pretty rough, the search performance is impressive. I've run into a problem though- so far as I can tell, thunderbird (and most other popular clients?) won't actually take advantage of it. Even using thunderbird's advanced search and checking the 'run serach on server' box doesn't push the search to the server. If most popular clients don't support it, there doesn't seem much point in setting it up; which is a shame, solr beats the snot out of the built in search for thunderbird. That said, is anyone running any of the fts plugins in a large scale environment? If so, what kind of scaling issues do you see? How do the search servers compare hardware wise to users count/spool size? -- 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] a question about QRESYNC extension
by Joe Wong 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

Hi Timo, How long is the MODSEQ NUMBER kept for each UID ever exists in the mailbox? - Joe

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[Dovecot] user/domain-dependent autosubscribe ?
by Per Jessen 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Newbie alert! Dovecot 2.0rc3 I've got autosubscribe working very well, but I need to make it dependent on the domain - e.g. domain example.com will have folders (a,b,c), while domain example2.com will have (d,e,f). Any hints on how to achieve that? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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[Dovecot] SIS for maildir?
by Mike Abbott 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

When might deduplication of attachments work with maildir?

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[Dovecot] Best way to migrate from qmail-ldap's autoreply?
by Attila Nagy 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hi, qmail-ldap uses four LDAP attributes for handling autoreplies in qmail-local: - deliverymode (to see whether the autoreply should be send) - mailreplytext, which is a base64 encoded multiline string* - mailreplystart and mailreplystop, unix dates I'm wondering how this could be handled with Dovecot (2.0) in the most easier way. All I could find out so far: - patching the code - writing a plugin (it it possible to get these LDAP attributes in the LMTPd with a single userdb-lookup and get it from the plugin during a new mail event? Any examples?) - conditionally provide these values to a sieve script and process them accordingly (the base64 string and maybe the dates seem to be hard for the first glimpse) the mad stuff: - using an LD_PRELOAD library, which emulates per user sieve scripts according to LDAP lookups (gives a lot more flexibility) - an LMTP proxy/server, which does all this and forwards the traffic to the Dovecot LMTPd/deliver process * a sample mailreplytext looks like this: '''%HEADER% Content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" távol vagyok''' (of course this is in UTF-8).

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[Dovecot] Maybe wrong quota recalculation behaviour on overquota delivery try
by Luca Palazzo 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hi all, we are experencing some, may be strange, slowness in our dovecot/postfix mail system. We have three dovecot 2.0.1 server with LMTP, POP3 and IMAP enabled. Three shared OCFS2 filesystem are used for mail storage. We have too a load balancer based on dovecot director in front of these three server. Our SMTP cluster receives mail and send by LMTP to load balancer. Everything work flowless, but sometime, under heavy load, three server slow down a lot. Our mail gateway logs a lot of: status=deferred (host 10.194.1.20[10.194.1.20] said: 451 4.4.0 Remote server not answering (DATA output timeout) IP 10.194.1.20 is dovecot director. Looking at mbox servers log nothing seem to happen, but stracing lmtp process we can see stat system calls to all Maildir files, as if dovecot was recalculating quota and regenerating maildirsize file. It happens always when LMTP tries to deliver a mail to an overquota account. Is this possible and right? How can we look deeper in system to have more information? Best regards Luca PS: dovecot configuration for maildir servers is: # 2.0.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem i686 Debian 5.0.5 auth_master_user_separator = * auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = $mail_plugins notify mail_log quota managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date spamtest spamtestplus virustest passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid from size quota = maildir:User quota quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning.sh 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning.sh 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /etc/dovecot/sieve/global/ sieve_global_path = /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot mode = 0600 user = dovecot } } service director { inet_listener { port = 8100 } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 10.194.1.31 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 10.194.1.31 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 4190 } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 } service quota-warning { executable = script /virtual/shared/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = dovecot } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota }

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[Dovecot] minor director issues
by Cor Bosman 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

I noticed 2 minor things with the director. 1) if I start 2 directors, but in 1 of them I dont add the other as a director_servers, they both start spamming the logfiles really really fast. It seems there is no backoff mechanism in the protocol between directors. 2) user mail server ip expire time cor 194.109.26.171 2010-09-02 14:32:13 <unknown> 194.109.26.172 2010-09-02 14:33:13 Why does it say 'unknown'? That session is active, im manually logged in with telnet, issued a login and a select inbox. The first one is a normal mail client login. Regards, Cor

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[Dovecot] safe_memset
by Len7hir 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

samples % lib function 4 0.0525 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 sha1_result_libmysqlcli(..) 7 0.0919 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 io_loop_handler_run 36 0.4729 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 imap_parser_reset 227 2.9817 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_unref 7339 96.4009 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_clear 7710 3.2463 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 safe_memset 7710 100.000 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 safe_memset [self] ------- 1 0.0148 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 i_stream_limit_read 2 0.0296 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 i_stream_header_filt(..) 6 0.0888 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 imap_parser_destroy 8 0.1184 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 settings_parser_deinit 230 3.4039 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 imap_parser_reset 6510 96.3445 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_unref 598 0.2518 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_clear 7339 89.8286 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 safe_memset 598 7.3195 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_clear [self] 232 2.8397 libc-2.3.6.so (no symbols) 1 0.0122 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 body ------- 4 0.0525 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 sha1_result_libmysqlclient_craps_all_over 7 0.0919 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 io_loop_handler_run 36 0.4729 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 imap_parser_reset 227 2.9817 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_unref 7339 96.4009 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 pool_alloconly_clear 7710 3.2463 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 safe_memset 7710 100.000 libdovecot.so.0.0.0 safe_memset [self] Mostly safe_memset is called from pool_alloconly_clear. I attach result from oprofile - functions (with call tree) that have more than 2% of all oprofile samples in libdovecot.so. p_strdup is on the list, but it is lower than before last optimisations. As You see there is no other optimised functions :) -- Len7hir

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[Dovecot] apply sieve filter to old mails
by Giovanni Mancuso 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hi, i install dovecot 2.0.1 with managesieve support in my test machine. If i create a sieve filter and i send the mail to my user thi filter is applied. Is there a way to apply this filter to old mails too? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Suggested location for single-dbox
by William Blunn 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

I've updated http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation regarding a typical mail_location entry for dbox. Previously it said: mail_location = dbox:~/dbox but of course "dbox" is now the old name for "sdbox", so the example should be updated to say "sdbox" and there might/ought also to be an example for "mdbox". In http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox the example mail_location for mdbox is given as "mdbox:~/mdbox", so I have followed that for "MailLocation". So I have changed it to say # single-dbox mail_location = sdbox:~/dbox or: # multi-dbox mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox I didn't know whether to change the directory for sdbox to "~/sdbox" or to leave it as it is. For the time being I have left it at "~/dbox" --- following the example given should allow new installations of Dovecot 2 to be able to read any existing single-dbox data which used the historically-suggested "~/dbox" location, whilst at the same time avoiding using the old mailbox format name of "dbox". Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] Some doubts about quota
by Andre 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Il giorno 03/set/2010, alle ore 10.37, Andre ha scritto: > Hi to all, > we are using quota to collect statistics about usage of mailboxes (thanks to the one who implemented :noenforcing) and we are using “maildir” backend, but we are thinking to migrate to *dbox (as soon as “per-user \Seen flag” would be implemented) and we should need a faster way to collect statistics, so I’ve tried to use Postgresql as a backend. I’ve follwed literally instructions from wiki2 (and part from wiki), but quota is not automatically updated as soon as a messages is delivered to user or deleted from mailbox, we need to perform a “doveadm quota recalc -A” to have it updated. Is it the normal behavior of quota plugin or do I missed something? > > TIA > Andrea Mistrali > am(a)am.cx Solved! I’ve had disabled quota plugin in LDA & LMTP. Now it works, sorry to have bothered you all and wasted your bandwidth Andrea Mistrali am(a)am.cx

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[Dovecot] Some doubts about quota
by Andre 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hi to all, we are using quota to collect statistics about usage of mailboxes (thanks to the one who implemented :noenforcing) and we are using “maildir” backend, but we are thinking to migrate to *dbox (as soon as “per-user \Seen flag” would be implemented) and we should need a faster way to collect statistics, so I’ve tried to use Postgresql as a backend. I’ve follwed literally instructions from wiki2 (and part from wiki), but quota is not automatically updated as soon as a messages is delivered to user or deleted from mailbox, we need to perform a “doveadm quota recalc -A” to have it updated. Is it the normal behavior of quota plugin or do I missed something? TIA Andrea Mistrali am(a)am.cx

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[Dovecot] bogus fts percentage
by Mike Abbott 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Sometimes dovecot-2.0 sends this untagged response to clients: * OK Indexed -2147483648% of the mailbox, ETA 0:00 I imagine there's a bug in there somewhere.

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[Dovecot] LMTP plugin with MySQL query
by Charly 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hello, I want to create a plugin to dovecot 2.0.1, to call a on the deliver action. My plugin work even if I include other libs like mysql or wathever I tried to use the "sql-api.h" (lib-sql), but at runtime, I have : "undefined symbol: sql_init", "Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins" Is it possible to use lib-sql api or mysql libs in a plugin ? I've tried with lda or lmtp plugin with the same result... Any idea ? Charly.

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[Dovecot] My "%%" variables in the namespace settings do not appear to be expanding.
by Kenneth Cope 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hello, I've been using the dovecot 1.2.x branch server software for a while now. With the advent of the 2.0.x branch going 'stable' I decided to attempt a migration and make use of some of the features that I've not needed before. One of these is the shared folder/namespace feature. No luck. I've hit a wall and can not determine the problem. At the moment it looks like a bug to me, but it may well be that I'm missing some related configuration, or file permission. I can not get the %% variable expansion in a namespace to work. What I end up with, on an IMAP connection is a directory named, for instance, '%h'. The same goes for any of the %% variables used at this point. My current set-up is 'not' the same as the current setup and I'm using virtual users that are not 'live' on the current system. I would really appreciate it if someone could cast an eye over my config and let me know if I've missed something obvious. Thanks. Kenneth Cope kenneth(a)CopeOnThe.net ---- I'm using a dovecot compiled with the following options: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1 \ --enable-dependency-tracking INSTALL_DATA="install -c -p -m644" \ --docdir=/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/docs/ --disable-static \ --disable-rpath --with-nss --with-zlib --with-bzlib --with-libcap \ --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/etc/ssl \ --with-docs \ ---- The 'test' configuration is as follows: # > /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/bin/doveconf -n # 2.0.1: /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-89.0.26.ELsmp i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 apop auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_ @& auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes default_client_limit = 10000 default_internal_user = mail default_login_user = dovecot disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 12 first_valid_uid = 8 last_valid_gid = 12 last_valid_uid = 8 log_path = /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/dovecot.log login_log_format_elements = [%p:%e] %Us(%u) method=%m rip=%r:%b lip=%l:%a %c %k mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:%h/ mail_log_prefix = [%p] %Us(%u): mail_max_keyword_length = 30 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota zlib acl mailbox_idle_check_interval = 120 s namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { hidden = yes inbox = no list = no location = prefix = INBOX separator = . type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h:LAYOUT=maildir++:INDEX=~/shared.%Dn_%Dd prefix = shared/%n@%d. separator = . subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace { location = prefix = } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/auth/passwd.dovecot driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = file:/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes mail_log_events = all mail_log_fields = uid, box, msgid, from, subject, size, vsize, flags mail_log_group_events = yes quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = ?:storage=400M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10% zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 9 } service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot mode = 0664 user = mail } user = $default_internal_user } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 9143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 9993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 1 } service imap { process_limit = 1024 vsz_limit = 268435456 } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 9110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 9995 ssl = yes } } service pop3 { process_limit = 1024 } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/mail.cert ssl_key = </etc/ssl/mail.cert userdb { args = username_format=%u /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/auth/passwd.dovecot driver = passwd-file } verbose_ssl = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail imap_id_log = * imap_idle_notify_interval = 120 s imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o imap_max_line_length = 65536 mail_max_userip_connections = 40 mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota zlib imap_zlib imap_acl } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 40 mail_plugins = $mail_plugins zlib pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = no pop3_lock_session = no pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s bytes=%i/%o pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes pop3_save_uidl = yes pop3_uidl_format = %Mf } ---- The contents of .../var/run/dovecot # > ls -lA total 12 srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 anvil srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 anvil-auth-penalty srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 auth-client srw------- 1 mail root 0 Aug 31 11:25 auth-login srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 auth-master srw-rw-r-- 1 mail dovecot 0 Aug 31 11:25 auth-userdb srw------- 1 mail root 0 Aug 31 11:25 auth-worker srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 config srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 dict srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 director-admin srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 director-userdb srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 dns-client srw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 doveadm-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Aug 31 11:25 dovecot.conf -> /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 31 11:25 empty srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Aug 31 11:25 lmtp drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 4096 Aug 31 11:25 login -rw------- 1 root root 6 Aug 31 11:25 master.pid

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[Dovecot] Segfault on dovecot 2.0.1 w/ACLs
by Michael M. Slusarz 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

* PREAUTH [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 ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in as slusarz 5 LIST (SUBSCRIBED) "" (*) RETURN (SUBSCRIBED) * LIST (\Subscribed) "." "INBOX" [...] * LIST (\Subscribed) "." "Mileage Plus" Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff6d0cd61 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib01_acl_plugin.so (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007ffff6d0cd61 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib01_acl_plugin.so No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007ffff7b40eea in mailbox_list_iter_next () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #2 0x000000000040b209 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x000000000040c030 in cmd_list_full () No symbol table info available. #4 0x000000000040f9dd in ?? () No symbol table info available. #5 0x000000000040fab2 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #6 0x000000000040fcfd in client_handle_input () No symbol table info available. #7 0x000000000041059f in client_input () No symbol table info available. #8 0x00007ffff78d8e85 in io_loop_handler_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #9 0x00007ffff78d80f8 in io_loop_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #10 0x00007ffff78c76f3 in master_service_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #11 0x0000000000418791 in main () No symbol table info available. # 2.0.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35-ARCH x86_64 plugin { acl = vfile quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=10485769 } Can verify that disabling acl makes the segfault go away. michael

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[Dovecot] [pigeonhole] Libraries not linked correctly
by pyther 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hello All I am trying to compile and use pigeonhole and I am experiencing the same exact problem that is stated here: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-August/051859.htm [root@mongo dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-build]# ldd /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb777e000) libdovecot-login.so.0 => not found libdovecot.so.0 => not found libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7622000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb777f000) lt does not seem as if -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib/dovecot is being appended to gcc -std=gnu99 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -o managesieve-login client.o client-authenticate.o managesieve-login-settings.o managesieve-proxy.o ../../src/lib-managesieve/libmanagesieve.a -ldovecot-login -L/usr/lib/dovecot -ldovecot -lrt ^^See: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-August/051907.html However, my lack of programming knowledge and skills prohibit me from trying to fix this myself. I am hoping some kind soul would be nice enough to fix it. Thank you!

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[Dovecot] Dovecot - some more optimisations
by Len7hir 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

I did some more optimisation. Most performance hit in Dovecot do "for loop" in string operations. In one case (in message-parser.c) "for loop" has another "for" inside with the same variable used as iterator. This case is very hard to optimise by compiler. I do changes only in top functions listed in oprofile. Maybe I do more in future. Code was analysed and tested but it's hard to generate all cases. It's working well in production server (I'm monitoring). In istream-crlf.c I've changed one thing. When destination buffer is full after '\r' addition (to dest), It didn't skip '\n' in source buffer. I think this was buggy in earlier code, and '\n' was skipped (this piece of code is used very rare). Please check this out. This can help in huge e-mail systems :P And another problem. Why You use safe_memset instead of memset? Now this function have the largest impact in Dovecot performance. Another on list is t_push. Regards, Len7hir

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[Dovecot] Passdb filter question - LDAP.
by Lauro Costa G. Borges 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

dovecot 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.1 ---- I don't know if I can solve this problem with Dovecot, or if it's an LDAP matter. I'm authenticating users with saslauthd/LDAP, and using Dovecot LDA. ---- dovecot.conf passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-passdb.conf } userdb prefetch { } # The userdb below is used only by deliver. userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf } ----- ----- dovecot-ldap-passdb.conf search base is dc=example,dc=org pass_filter = (&(objectclass=brPerson)(objectclass=inetOrgPerson)(mail=%u)) pass_attrs = userPassword=password,%u=user ----- ----- dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf search base is ou=%d,ou=mail,ou=services,dc=example,dc=org user_filter = (&(objectclass=nisMailAlias)(cn=%n)) user_attrs = rfc822MailMember=user,EmailQuota=quota_rule=*:storage=%$M ----- Here is how the LDAP tree is: ou=mail,ou=services,dc=example,dc=org ou=subdomain1.example.org,ou=mail,ou=services,dc=example,dc=org example entry under "ou=subdomain1.example.org" --- dn: cn=userfoo,ou=subdomain1,ou=mail,ou=services,dc=example,dc=org cn: userfoo edupersonprincipalname: WEMHVDEA-FUAOBAAA(a)example.org (some sort of unique identifier) emailquota: 512 objectclass: eduPerson objectclass: nisMailAlias rfc822mailmember: userfoo(a)subdomain1.example.org --- ou=people,dc=example,dc=org dn: uid=29859085900(a)example.org,ou=people,dc=example,dc=org uid: 29859085900(a)example.org eduPersonPrincipalName: WEMHVDEA-FUAOBAAA(a)example.org userPassword: {MD5}6ZoYxCjLONXyYIU2eJIuAw== objectClass: person objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: eduPerson mail: 29859085900(a)example.org mail: userf(a)director.example.org mail: userfoo(a)dptoxyz.example.org mail: userfoo(a)subdomain1.example.org When delivering email, it must search under "services", for the proper "rfc822mailmember", which is the mailbox. When authenticating, there's where my problem is, I can't have ALL user e-mails under "ou=people", maybe just 1, so I need to search under "ou=services", there I have all user email addresses, and by using "edupersonPrincipalName", I want to point to the right location under "ou=people", where I have the user password. edupersonPrincipalName is the attribute present under "ou=services" and "ou=people" that links the entries. I tried to do it by changing passdb filter file, like this: pass_filter = (&(objectclass=eduPerson)(mail=%u)) pass_attrs = userPassword=userdb_password,eduPersonPrincipalName=userdb_user It works, but changes the username to the value of "edupersonprincipalname", and this changes the mailbox name. Dovecot accesses the wrong mailbox then (something like 29859085900(a)example.org) * My question is: is it possible to change the passdb filter, so it searches for somemail(a)sub1.example.org (under ou=services), then it gets the value of "edupersonprincipalname" (the unique identifier, present under "services" and "people"), and with that value, it looks under "people" the person with that identifier and validates the password. It would be a filter inside a filter, sort of. thanks, and sorry if this is a little offtopic. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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[Dovecot] Filtering virtual mailbox using other virtual mailbox?
by Giovanni Giorgi 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi All, my name is Giovanni and I am new to dovecot. I have installed version 2.0 the past week and I find it very powerful. I have started to play with the virtual mailbox plugin. I was unable to do a virtual mailbox filtering out the contents of other mailbox, for instance I have a virtual/spam mailbox which filter out all the spam thanks to spamassassin. This mailbox is virtual, its description is INBOX -Trash -Trash/* -Junk subject SPAM I'd like to do a simple virtual/ham mbox using this dovecot-virtual INBOX -virtual/spam to: jj(a)gioorgi.com but it seems not working. it does not filter the spam. It is possible to do such thing, or I am trying to do something not possible at all? Thank you (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(") Giovanni Giorgi jj(a)gioorgi.com

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[Dovecot] Shared mail folders
by Ian macdonald 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi All, I am trying to configure shared mail folders and have made some progress, however I am just stuck lack of experience I think. I have ubuntu 10.04 postfix and dovecot (working well) using dovecot deliver as LDA thunderbird reports that folders are shared flat file database has the shares My problem is I am missing something on the userdb I wish to use auth passwd as it is a small system of 20 system users I have the following from dovecot -n auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd I get the following IMAP(peter): userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: IMAP(peter): Namespace 'shared/': Could not lookup home for user ian I am lost and would be grateful for any help all the best Ian

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[Dovecot] Virtual plugin speedup?
by Giovanni Giorgi 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi, I am using the virtual plugin on divecot2. It seems a bit slow when accessing from my iPhone. How can I speed it up? The full text search plugin can help? Inviato da iPhone

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[Dovecot] Help with Public Folder Configuration
by Joy 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Dear All, I am trying to use Public Folder feature of dovecot but having some confusion with the configuration part as well as understanding the same. Here is output of doveconf -n which i think required to help me - mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/mail/public prefix = Public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot/dovecot-acl/acl } after making this configuration i also created subfolder inside /var/mail/public which looks like following:- mail1:~# less /var/mail/public/ dovecot-acl-list .Public/ mail1:~# less /var/mail/public/.Public/Maildir/ cur/ new/ tmp/ I have changed default permission to [ chown -R vmail:vmail /var/mail ] on base public folder. Now I am able to see the public folder from webmail as well as from thunderbird but no display for .Public folder. I am expecting that .Public folder will be visible to all but no one will be allowed to delete and make any change in that folder, I am also using global ACL in my configuration. Please let me know what i am doing wrong because not getting any error in log, Correct me if i am understanding wrong. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Broken SELECT ""/EXAMINE ""
by Michael M. Slusarz 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

a EXAMINE INBOX [...] a OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed. a EXAMINE "" a NO Empty mailbox name. [Should be in authenticated mode with no active mailbox. But...] a STATUS INBOX (UIDVALIDITY) * STATUS "INBOX" (UIDVALIDITY 1255685337) a OK [CLIENTBUG] Status on selected mailbox completed. a UNSELECT a OK Unselect completed. a STATUS INBOX (UIDVALIDITY) * STATUS "INBOX" (UIDVALIDITY 1255685337) a OK Status completed. Seeing a whole bunch of the CLIENTBUGs in the logs since IMP uses imapproxy and relies on the proxy to unselect the mailbox when a LOGOUT is caught. Thus, when we rebuild the connection on the next page connection, we assume that there is no active mailbox (we actually use LIST-STATUS to do folder polling, but we still use STATUS when we only need data on a single mailbox). imapproxy *should* really be using UNSELECT, but that looks like a different (imapproxy) bug. michael

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[Dovecot] 2.0 migration weirdnesses: logs and hang
by Kyle Wheeler 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hello, I'm testing out an upgrade to dovecot 2.0 from 1.2.11, and I've stumbled across two weirdnesses that I need help with. First, I'm only getting one log message: master: Info: Dovecot v2.0.0 starting up After that, while I can connect, log in, read mail, etc., no further log messages are created. I have log_path set to /dev/stderr, and no syslog_facility setting, so... what could be going wrong? Second, when I create a new mailbox and copy messages across namespaces, dovecot hangs. The mailbox is created and the messages are copied successfully, but dovecot simply stops responding. I can't even logout! I'm attaching my config file, if it helps. ~Kyle -- The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. -- Edmund Burke

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[Dovecot] Some questions about Shared mailboxes
by Mihajlin Evgenij 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi, again. 1. Can somebody explain me about dovecot's shared mailboxes? 2. What does it do while searching shared mailboxes (debug_log cannot explain it)? What files is it looking for? 3. Need i set dovecot-shared file into directory which are shared (if i want to have separate flags for separate users)? 4. Some errors are hard to understand. For example, # pwd /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua # ls -l drwx------ 3 mailnull mail 4096 Авг 27 09:24 admin drwx------ 3 mailnull mail 4096 Июн 3 10:51 exim drwx------ 3 mailnull mail 4096 Мар 26 15:08 iif drwx-w---- 3 mailnull mail 4096 Мар 11 15:53 jack drwx------ 2 mailnull mail 4096 Авг 27 09:28 Maildir drwx-w---- 3 mailnull mail 4096 Авг 27 09:25 test Why did dovecot create Maildir folder??? And what mean this lines at the end of debug.log. Aug 27 09:28:42 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace : type=shared, prefix=shared/%n/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=children, subscriptions=no Aug 27 09:28:42 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: shared: root=/var/run/dovecot, index=, control=, inbox= Aug 27 09:28:42 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile Aug 27 09:28:42 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: acl username = zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 27 09:28:42 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Aug 27 09:28:42 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (null) Aug 27 09:28:46 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Aug 27 09:28:46 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/Maildir/dovecot-acl not found Aug 27 09:28:46 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua//Maildir, index=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/shared/(a)badmltd.dn.ua, control=, inbox=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua//Maildir Aug 27 09:28:46 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace shared//: Permission lookup failed from /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua//Maildir Aug 27 09:28:46 imap(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace shared//: Using permissions from /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua//Maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Shared mailboxes with dovecot.
by Mihajlin Evgenij 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi, first of all for forgive me for my english. I have several questions. 1. There are 2 user/passwd databases in my setup - ldap and mysql. when i login into one user with telnet 127.0.0.1 143 and share inbox to some users - records in dict-file apears? but if i delete some acls - records indict-file stays same. 2. I see in error.log such errors. can somebody explain what do dovecot list shared folder (what files is looking for, how it see variables %u and %%u, ...) Aug 26 15:44:19 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Error: Namespace 'shared//': mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua) failed: Permission denied (euid=47(mailnull) egid=12(mail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, euid is not dir owner) Aug 26 15:44:53 imap(admin(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Error: Namespace 'shared/shared/': mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/shared(a)badmltd.dn.ua) failed: Permission denied (euid=47(mailnull) egid=12(mail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, euid is not dir owner) Aug 26 15:44:56 imap(test(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Error: Namespace 'shared/shared/': mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/shared(a)badmltd.dn.ua) failed: Permission denied (euid=47(mailnull) egid=12(mail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, euid is not dir owner) Aug 26 15:46:36 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Error: Namespace 'shared//': mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua) failed: Permission denied (euid=47(mailnull) egid=12(mail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, euid is not dir owner) Aug 26 15:48:04 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Error: Namespace 'shared//': mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua) failed: Permission denied (euid=47(mailnull) egid=12(mail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, euid is not dir owner) *********************debug.log******************* Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master out: USER 1 jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack uid=47 gid=12 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot Aug 26 15:48:03 imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so Aug 26 15:48:03 imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib02_imap_acl_plugin.so Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Effective uid=47, gid=12, home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: acl username = jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: owner = 1 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (null) Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace : type=shared, prefix=shared/%n/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=children, subscriptions=no Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: shared: root=/var/run/dovecot, index=, control=, inbox= Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: acl username = jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (null) Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot-acl not found Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/.&BB4EQgQ,BEAEMAQyBDsENQQ9BD0ESwQ1-/dovecot- acl not found Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/.Sent/dovecot-acl not found Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/.&BCcENQRABD0EPgQyBDgEOgQ4-/dovecot- acl not found Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/dovecot-acl not found Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua service=lib-storage Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: sql(zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua): SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE id = 'zakaz' AND active = 'Y' Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master out: USER 1 zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz uid=47 gid=12 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: auth input: zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz uid=47 gid=12 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/Maildir, index=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/shared/zakaz(a)badmltd.dn.ua, control=, inbox=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/Maildir Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: acl username = jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (null) Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: reading file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/Maildir/dovecot-acl Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master in: USER 2 test(a)badmltd.dn.ua service=lib-storage Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: sql(test(a)badmltd.dn.ua): SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE id = 'test' AND active = 'Y' Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: ldap(test(a)badmltd.dn.ua): user search: base=dc=Donetsk, dc=Office, dc=badm, dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectclass=user)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)) (mail=test(a)badmltd.dn.ua)) fields= Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: ldap(test(a)badmltd.dn.ua): result: objectClass(?unknown?)= cn(?unknown?)= givenName(?unknown?)= distinguishedName(?unknown?)= instanceType(?unknown?)= whenCreated(?unknown?)= whenChanged(?unknown?)= displayName(?unknown?)= uSNCreated(?unknown?)= uSNChanged(?unknown?)= name(?unknown?)= objectGUID(?unknown?)= userAccountControl(?unknown?)= primaryGroupID(?unknown?)= objectSid(?unknown?)= sAMAccountName(?unknown?)= sAMAccountType(?unknown?)= userPrincipalName(?unknown?)= objectCategory(?unknown?)= dSCorePropagationData(?unknown?)= lastLogonTimestamp(?unknown?)= mail(?unknown?)= Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master out: USER 2 test(a)badmltd.dn.ua home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test mail=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test/Maildir Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: auth input: test(a)badmltd.dn.ua home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test mail=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test/Maildir Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test/Maildir, index=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/shared/test(a)badmltd.dn.ua, control=, inbox=/var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test/Maildir Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: acl username = jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (null) Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: reading file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/test/Maildir/.kde/dovecot-acl Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master in: USER 3 @badmltd.dn.ua service=lib-storage Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: sql((a)badmltd.dn.ua): SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE id = '' AND active = 'Y' Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: ldap((a)badmltd.dn.ua): user search: base=dc=Donetsk, dc=Office, dc=badm, dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectclass=user)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)) (mail=(a)badmltd.dn.ua)) fields= Aug 26 15:48:03 auth: Debug: master out: NOTFOUND 3 Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: auth input: Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua, index=, control=, inbox=/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace shared//: Permission lookup failed from /var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua Aug 26 15:48:03 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace shared//: Using permissions from /var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/(a)badmltd.dn.ua: mode=0700 gid=-1 Aug 26 15:48:04 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/.shared.test.kde/dovecot- acl not found Aug 26 15:48:04 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir/.shared.zakaz.INBOX/dovecot- acl not found Aug 26 15:48:08 imap(jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/jack/Maildir: mode=0720 gid=-1 my setup: dovecot -n # 2.0.0: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE i686 Fedora release 13 (Goddard) ext4 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug.log disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 12 first_valid_uid = 47 info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_access_groups = mail mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 12 mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/vmail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir mail_plugins = acl mail_uid = 47 mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%n/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/tmp/shared-mailboxes } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)badmltd.dn.ua protocols = imap pop3 service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 user = mailnull } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lda { debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/delivery-debug.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/delivery-info.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/delivery.log } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_acl } # cat /tmp/shared-mailboxes shared/shared-boxes/user/admin@badmltd.dn.ua/test@badmltd.dn.ua 1 shared/shared-boxes/user/admin@badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz@badmltd.dn.ua 1 shared/shared-boxes/user/jack@badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz@badmltd.dn.ua 1 shared/shared-boxes/user/test@badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz@badmltd.dn.ua 1 shared/shared-boxes/user/jack@badmltd.dn.ua/test@badmltd.dn.ua 1 # cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=****** user=**** password=***** default_pass_scheme=plain password_query = SELECT passwd as password FROM users WHERE id = '%n' AND active = 'Y' user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE id = '%n' AND active = 'Y' #password_query = SELECT crypt as password FROM users WHERE id = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND active = 'Y' #user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE id = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND active = 'Y' # cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext hosts = 10.1.11.3:3268 172.27.1.2:3268 dn = cn=****,cn=Users,dc=****,dc=Office,dc=****,dc=com dnpass = ***** auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=*****k, dc=Office, dc=****, dc=com deref = searching scope = subtree user_attrs = =home=/var/spool/vmail/domains/%d/%n,=mail=/var/spool/vmail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir user_filter = (&(objectclass=user)(! (userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))(mail=%u)) pass_filter = (&(objectclass=user)(! (userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))(mail=%u)) # cat /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua/zakaz/Maildir/dovecot-acl user=admin(a)badmltd.dn.ua lrws user=jack(a)badmltd.dn.ua lrws user=test(a)badmltd.dn.ua lrws

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[Dovecot] doveadm search/expunge with public folders
by Ralf Zimmermann 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi all, can I expunge or search emails in public folders? The command 'doveadm expunge -u rzimmermann mailbox Public/folder all' does not delete emails in the folder 'Public/folder'. The command 'doveadm expunge -u rzimmermann mailbox Spam all' does delete emails in the folder 'Spam'. The user rzimmermann has all rights in 'Public/folder'. Greets Ralf Zimmermann -- .''`. Ralf Zimmermann : :' : SIEGNETZ.IT GmbH `. `' Schneppenkauten 1a `- 57076 Siegen Tel.: +49 271 68193 13 Fax.: +49 271 68193 29 Amtsgericht Siegen HRB4838 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Oliver Seitz Sitz der Gesellschaft ist Siegen

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Alexander Cherniak 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi, I'd like to use Global ACLs to limit user's access to individual folders (e.g. read only). The dovecot-acl file limiting my user "test": user=test lr works fine when I put it into the user's mailbox /home/vmail/test/Maildir/.Records but gets ignored in /etc/dovecot/acls/Records Bellow is my dovecot -n output: # 2.0.0: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain ntlm disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = acl passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls } protocols = imap userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u allow_all_users=yes driver = static } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_acl } Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] configure forgets to add -lgcc_s under Solaris 10
by Stephan Schulz 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi all! I built dovecot-1.2.14 on Solaris 10 with gcc as well as cc and had reproducible crashes of imap-login: Aug 31 19:00:05 dovecot: Info: Dovecot v1.2.14 starting up Aug 31 19:00:10 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<someuser>, method=PLAIN, rip=<remote_ip>, lip=<local_ip> Aug 31 19:00:10 IMAP(someuser): Error: ld.so.1: imap: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory Aug 31 19:00:10 dovecot: Error: child 26222 (imap) killed with signal 9 To solution was to set the environment variable LIBS to "-lgcc_s" before running configure. I think this is a bug as this library should be added automatically by configure to the Makefile when considered necessary. The same problem applies to Dovecot-2.0.1 also, which gave the same error message. regards, Stephan P.S. I found a similar message of this issue for version 1.0.rc27 but the suggestions didn't help (i.e. /usr/sfw/lib is already in the RPATH).

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[Dovecot] Lazy expunge plugin - delete folder result error.
by Kui Zhang 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hello Is it a bug in lazy expunge plugin or am I missing something? Dovecot v2.0.1 (c5111fb65b0b) home = /mail/%Ld/%Ln mail_location = mdbox:/mail/%Ld/%Ln/mdbox sources.list - debian (squeeze) .. deb http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian testing-auto/dovecot-2.0 main Config changes - - - plugin { lazy_expunge = .EXPUNGED/ } namespace { type = private separator = / prefix = inbox = yes list = yes } # lazy_expunge namespace { type = private separator = / prefix = .EXPUNGED/ #location = mdbox:~/mdbox:MAILBOXDIR=expunged location = mdbox:~/expunged:MAILBOXDIR=expunged list = children subscriptions = no - - - When: location = mdbox:~/mdbox:MAILBOXDIR=expunged expunged folder gets created inside mail_location delete/expunge email works delete/expunge folder works When: location = mdbox:~/expunged:MAILBOXDIR=expunged expunged folder gets created inside mail home delete/expunge email works delete/expunge folder DOES NOT WORK. To reproduce the problem in outlook 2003: Delete a messages in the Inbox. Then edit/purge deleted messages. Create a new folder, then delete the new folder... error prompt Server Responded: "CANNOT] Can't rename mailboxes across specified storages." Folder does not get unsubscribe/move no core dump. when try to delete the same folder again. Server Responded: "NONEXISTENT] Mailbox was deleted under us" Thanks

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[Dovecot] Static passdb support?
by Brad Davidson 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Timo, Do you have any plans to add a static passdb? I'm essentially emulating one with sqlite on my director - have it connect to /dev/null and return three static fields for all queries. Works fine, but it would seem a little cleaner to me if I could just do: passdb { driver = static args = password='' nopasswd='Y' proxy='Y' } -Brad

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[Dovecot] doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d iterate_query LDAP
by Tomislav Mihalicek 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

hi everyone after doing this in shell #/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/bin/doveadm expunge -u tmihal mailbox INBOX savedbefore 1d everything is working as it should but ... #/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/bin/doveadm expunge -A mailbox INBOX savedbefore 1d doveadm(root): Error: userdb list: Disconnected unexpectedly doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users #cat /etc/dovecot2/dovecot-ldap.conf tls = no hosts = blah ldap_version = 3 auth_bind = no dn = blah.blah dnpass = blah scope = onelevel deref = never pass_attrs = userPassword=password default_pass_scheme = CRYPT user_attrs = mail=%u,homeDirectory=home,mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$,mailQuotaCount=quota_rule2=*:messages=%$ base = ou=accounts,dc=xnet,dc=hr user_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(accountStatus=enabled)(enabledService=mail)(enabledService=%Ls%Lc)(|(mail=%u)(mailAlternateAddress=%u))) pass_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)(accountStatus=enabled)(enabledService=mail)(enabledService=%Ls%Lc)(|(mail=%u)(mailAlternateAddress=%u))) # Attributes and filter to get a list of all users iterate_attrs = mail=%u iterate_filter = (objectClass=qmailUser) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: master in: LIST 1 Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Fatal: net_connect_unix(auth-worker) failed: Permission denied Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/lib/dovecot/auth Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd-file /etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers: Read 1 users Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17731) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17729) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17734) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17735) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17737) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17739) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17742) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17741) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17740) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17730) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17738) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17733) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17743) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17728) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17736) Aug 31 10:03:35 cartman2 dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17732) any clues? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/doveadm-expunge--A-mailbox-Trash-savedbefore-30d-iter… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] doveadm quota get -u someone@ourdomains.com
by Jerrale G 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

With the expire running from mysql, on 2.0.1, we get no errors with: " doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 7d" we have the mail_plugins defined differently for each protocol ({imap=quota,expire,imap_quota} {pop3=quota,expire} {lda=quota,expire,sieve}). When trying "doveadm quota get -u someone(a)ourdomains.com" the output is: "doveadm(root): Fatal: Unknown command 'quota', but plugin quota exists. Try to set mail_plugins=quota" When adding an additional, global mail_plugins=quota, we get: "Segmentation fault" Is there a specific, proper way beyond the way I read of 1.2.x for defining the plugins. Please let me know how and what plugins I should define Jerrale G -- Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot creating aditional folders?
by Pablo 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Thank you again. Yes, you're on the way :-) Problem was that in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf was: mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ instead of my new line: mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%u/ I think it's all right now. Well...not all right, I see no mails with a client (it's on the mailserver filesystem) but it's another history ;-) Thanks in advance! 2010/9/1 <spamvoll(a)googlemail.com>: > mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ > > check if there is the correct home in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf > > maybe that is different, but not sure > > 2010/9/1 Pablo <boinker(a)gmail.com>: >> Thank you for your response. >> >> Yes, I know that I'm using maildir, but when we create an account, >> file sistem look likes: >> >> /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/new >> /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/cur >> /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/tmp >> >> My problem is that dovecot is creating additional folders: >> >> /home/vmail/user1/new >> /home/vmail/domain.com/user/cur >> /home/vmail/domain.com/user/tmp >> >> Mail are received in first directories, second ones are created but not used. >> >> What's the problem? >> >> Thanks again! >> >> 2010/9/1 <spamvoll(a)googlemail.com>: >>> its because u using maildir to store your mails. >>> >>> THE MAILDIR STRUCTURE >>> A directory in maildir format has three subdirectories, all >>> on the same filesystem: tmp, new, and cur. >>> >>> 2010/9/1 Pablo <boinker(a)gmail.com>: >>>> Hi guys. >>>> >>>> My conf: >>>> >>>> # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf >>>> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-23-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS reiserfs >>>> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S >>>> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s >>>> ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.crt >>>> ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.key >>>> disable_plaintext_auth: no >>>> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login >>>> login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login >>>> login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login >>>> login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login >>>> mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ >>>> mail_debug: yes >>>> mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock >>>> mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap >>>> mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap >>>> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 >>>> mail_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 >>>> auth default: >>>> mechanisms: plain login >>>> verbose: yes >>>> debug: yes >>>> debug_passwords: yes >>>> passdb: >>>> driver: sql >>>> args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf >>>> userdb: >>>> driver: sql >>>> args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf >>>> socket: >>>> type: listen >>>> client: >>>> path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth >>>> mode: 432 >>>> user: postfix >>>> group: postfix >>>> master: >>>> path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master >>>> mode: 384 >>>> user: vmail >>>> group: vmail >>>> ------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> My problem is that dovecot is creating aditional folders: >>>> >>>> #ls -l /home/vmail >>>> >>>> drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 184 2010-09-01 01:31 escuelasuperiordecoaching.com >>>> drwx------ 8 vmail vmail 392 2010-09-01 10:58 >>>> pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com >>>> >>>> # ls -l escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/ >>>> drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 120 2010-08-30 14:35 pablo.rodriguez >>>> >>>> I'm receiving mail in >>>> /home/vmail/escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/pablo.rodriguez/new without >>>> problem, but why is dovecot creating aditional folders? >>>> >>>> My log: >>>> >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master in: >>>> REQUEST^I162^I4003^I1 >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth-worker(default): >>>> sql(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com,127.0.0.1): SELECT >>>> maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = >>>> 'pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com' >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master out: >>>> USER^I162^Ipablo.rodriguez@escuelasuperiordecoaching.com^Imaildir=escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/pablo.rodriguez/^Iuid=1001^Igid=1001 >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: imap-login: Login: >>>> user=<pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com>, method=PLAIN, >>>> rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >>>> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Effective >>>> uid=1001, gid=1001, home=(none) >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >>>> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): maildir: >>>> data=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/ >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >>>> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): maildir++: >>>> root=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com, >>>> index=, control=, >>>> inbox=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >>>> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Namespace : Using >>>> permissions from >>>> /home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com: mode=0700 >>>> gid=-1 >>>> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >>>> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Disconnected: >>>> Logged out bytes=117/1383 >>>> >>>> I can see that Dovecot is creating when...I login? >>>> >>>> What's the problem? I can't understand... >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance. >>>> >>> >> >

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[Dovecot] Dovecot creating aditional folders?
by Pablo 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi guys. My conf: # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-23-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS reiserfs log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_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 auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail ------------------------------------- My problem is that dovecot is creating aditional folders: #ls -l /home/vmail drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 184 2010-09-01 01:31 escuelasuperiordecoaching.com drwx------ 8 vmail vmail 392 2010-09-01 10:58 pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com # ls -l escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/ drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 120 2010-08-30 14:35 pablo.rodriguez I'm receiving mail in /home/vmail/escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/pablo.rodriguez/new without problem, but why is dovecot creating aditional folders? My log: Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I162^I4003^I1 Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com,127.0.0.1): SELECT maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com' Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER^I162^Ipablo.rodriguez@escuelasuperiordecoaching.com^Imaildir=escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/pablo.rodriguez/^Iuid=1001^Igid=1001 Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Effective uid=1001, gid=1001, home=(none) Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): maildir: data=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/ Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): maildir++: root=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com, index=, control=, inbox=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Namespace : Using permissions from /home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com: mode=0700 gid=-1 Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=117/1383 I can see that Dovecot is creating when...I login? What's the problem? I can't understand... Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] sieve + homedirectory
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

hi.. system: dovecot 2.0.1 + pigenhole my global sieve script is used but my users sieve scrips not. the user scripts arent even compiled. so i think the problem is with the home path im using ldap as userdb (ive tryed staticdb but i need the uid from my ldap, path is /home/MAILBOXES/hpeter/mail) user_attrs = homeDirectory=home=/home/MAILBOXES/%$/,uid=mail=maildir:/home/MAILBOXES/%$/mail user_filter = (&(objectClass=gosaMailAccount)(|(mail=%u)(gosaMailAlternateAddress=%u)(uid=%u))) in sieve i use: sieve_dir = ~/sieve any ideas ? all mails are stored correctly Hans

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot creating aditional folders?
by Pablo 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Thank you for your response. Yes, I know that I'm using maildir, but when we create an account, file sistem look likes: /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/new /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/cur /home/vmail/domain.com/user1/tmp My problem is that dovecot is creating additional folders: /home/vmail/user1/new /home/vmail/domain.com/user/cur /home/vmail/domain.com/user/tmp Mail are received in first directories, second ones are created but not used. What's the problem? Thanks again! 2010/9/1 <spamvoll(a)googlemail.com>: > its because u using maildir to store your mails. > > THE MAILDIR STRUCTURE > A directory in maildir format has three subdirectories, all > on the same filesystem: tmp, new, and cur. > > 2010/9/1 Pablo <boinker(a)gmail.com>: >> Hi guys. >> >> My conf: >> >> # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf >> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-23-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS reiserfs >> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S >> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s >> ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.crt >> ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.key >> disable_plaintext_auth: no >> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login >> login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login >> login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login >> login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login >> mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ >> mail_debug: yes >> mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock >> mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap >> mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap >> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 >> mail_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 >> auth default: >> mechanisms: plain login >> verbose: yes >> debug: yes >> debug_passwords: yes >> passdb: >> driver: sql >> args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf >> userdb: >> driver: sql >> args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf >> socket: >> type: listen >> client: >> path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth >> mode: 432 >> user: postfix >> group: postfix >> master: >> path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master >> mode: 384 >> user: vmail >> group: vmail >> ------------------------------------- >> >> My problem is that dovecot is creating aditional folders: >> >> #ls -l /home/vmail >> >> drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 184 2010-09-01 01:31 escuelasuperiordecoaching.com >> drwx------ 8 vmail vmail 392 2010-09-01 10:58 >> pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com >> >> # ls -l escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/ >> drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 120 2010-08-30 14:35 pablo.rodriguez >> >> I'm receiving mail in >> /home/vmail/escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/pablo.rodriguez/new without >> problem, but why is dovecot creating aditional folders? >> >> My log: >> >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master in: >> REQUEST^I162^I4003^I1 >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth-worker(default): >> sql(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com,127.0.0.1): SELECT >> maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = >> 'pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com' >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master out: >> USER^I162^Ipablo.rodriguez@escuelasuperiordecoaching.com^Imaildir=escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/pablo.rodriguez/^Iuid=1001^Igid=1001 >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: imap-login: Login: >> user=<pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com>, method=PLAIN, >> rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Effective >> uid=1001, gid=1001, home=(none) >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): maildir: >> data=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com/ >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): maildir++: >> root=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com, >> index=, control=, >> inbox=/home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Namespace : Using >> permissions from >> /home/vmail/pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com: mode=0700 >> gid=-1 >> Sep 1 10:58:30 socrates dovecot: >> IMAP(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com): Disconnected: >> Logged out bytes=117/1383 >> >> I can see that Dovecot is creating when...I login? >> >> What's the problem? I can't understand... >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >

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[Dovecot] vpopmail auth always return "unknown user"
by Toorop 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi, I'm working on a setup of dovecot 2 + netqmail + vpopmail 5.5 but auth doesn't works :( dovecot -n # 2.0.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.1-rscloud x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log login_greeting = Dovecot ready. mail_debug = yes passdb { driver = vpopmail } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = vpopmail } verbose_ssl = yes LOG: -------------------------------------------------------------- Aug 27 14:11:55 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=184.106.217.69 rip=178.32.33.247 lport=143 rport=33875 Aug 27 14:11:55 auth: Debug: client out: CONT 1 Aug 27 14:11:56 auth: Debug: client in: CONT 1 AHRvb3JvcEByZXNwdWJsaWNhLmZyAG11cnBoeTI1 Aug 27 14:11:56 auth: Debug: vpopmail(toorop(a)respublica.fr,178.32.33.247): lookup user=toorop domain=respublica.fr Aug 27 14:11:56 auth: Info: vpopmail(toorop(a)respublica.fr,178.32.33.247): unknown user Aug 27 14:11:58 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 1 user=toorop(a)respublica.fr Aug 27 14:11:58 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=184.106.217.69 rip=178.32.33.247 lport=143 rport=33875 resp=AHRvb3JvcEByZXNwdWJsaWNhLmZyAG11cnBoeTI1 Aug 27 14:12:02 auth: Debug: vpopmail(toorop(a)respublica.fr,178.32.33.247): lookup user=toorop domain=respublica.fr Aug 27 14:12:02 auth: Info: vpopmail(toorop(a)respublica.fr,178.32.33.247): unknown user Aug 27 14:12:04 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 2 user=toorop(a)respublica.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------- ./vuserinfo toorop(a)respublica.fr name: toorop passwd: $1$sOC22F4C$8.ciZmdTZkNnFLFB8EsZm0 clear passwd: clearpass comment/gecos: toorop uid: 1 gid: 0 flags: 0 gecos: toorop limits: No user limits set. dir: /home/vpopmail/domains/respublica.fr/toorop quota: NOQUOTA usage: 0% (8487 byte(s) in 3 file(s)) Any idea ? Thanks. -- Toorop «Ils ne savaient pas que c'était impossible, alors ils l'ont fait.» Mark Twain

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.x and 2.x on the same machine ?
by Frank Bonnet 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hello Would it be possible to run two instances of Dovecot in order to test V 2 on the SAME machine that runs V 1 One Dovecot 1.x instance on std TCP ports One Dovecot 2.x instance on custom TCP ports and custom directories Thanks

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[Dovecot] Wiki page for the 2.x version of the antispam plugin
by interfaSys sàrl 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Since I had to collect information from different places to get it right, I decided to paste what I had into a wiki page. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Antispam Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] Problems Converting Maildir to mdbox
by Christian Felsing 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hello, I would like to convert all users mail from maildir to mdbox. My Dovecot version is 2.0.1, converted from 1.2.13 but config was rewritten from scratch. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat says following: maildir -> mdbox migration. Set mail_location=mdbox:~/mdbox and run doveadm convert -u username maildir:~/Maildir but doveadm does not know a command like "convert". Is there a _working_ way to convert maildir to mdbox ? How to do that with all Dovecot mail users (about 10000) ? Christian

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[Dovecot] status of antispam plugin for DC 2.x ?
by interfaSys sàrl 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hello, I saw that there is now an antispam plugin repository for the V2.x version. It doesn't compile and it seems it cannot be configured like the old one. Any ETA? Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] Running auth as root
by Egbert Jan van den Bussche 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi, I seem to be forced to run the auth proces as root because I want to use pam for local users. My gut feeling says that this is Not Good. Is there another way? For the virtual users 'vmail' is good enough because that user may access the MySQL database. This is on Ubuntu server 10.04.1 and Dovecot 1.2.9. TIA, Egbert Jan

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[Dovecot] Size limit for a single mail in the IMAP store?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Postfix has "message_size_limit = 26214400", but that doesn't keep my users from sending huge messages which canot be sent, but can be stored in the IMAP "Sent" folder. Is it possible to set a size limit for the size of a single mail? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d
by Jerrale G 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

In the shell: ,doveadm(root): Error: User listing returned failure,doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users In the log: dovecot: auth: Error: sql: Iterate query failed: Table 'mail.users' doesn't exist (using built-in default iterate_query: SELECT username, domain FROM users) Why is dovecot trying to "select username, domain from users" when the "service auth" is setup to "select homedir, maildir, sieve_dir, from MAILBOXES.... the same with the password query except for selecting password from mail.mailboxes. The expire dictionary is EXACTLY like the example you posted in the wiki2. I can't remember whether I posted this thread before or not; I remember writing it two days ago but I'm not sure if I sent it as I can't find it in this "mailing lists" folder. Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] Is there a way to catch mailbox and message flag changes?
by John O'Brien 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Guys, We have been trying to establish if there is a way to get some type of notification from Dovecot when a message is appended to a mailbox or when a message has its flags updated. These are the 2 use cases: A message is appended to the mailbox "/Watch", we want to trigger "processing" of the message immediately it arrives. A message in the "Inbox" has its status changed from Unseen to Seen, we want to trigger some code to indicate the message has been "processed". Regards, John

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Re: [Dovecot] LDAP & static userdb
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

ive added args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/ mail=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/mail and it work. Im not really sure about the hole LDAP thing :) my conf: uris = ldaps://ldap.example.org:636 dn = cn=dovecot server,ou=people,ou=Server,dc=example,dc=org dnpass = hiddenpw auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=example,dc=org scope = subtree user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uid=mail=maildir:/home/%$/mail user_filter = (&(objectClass=gosaMailAccount)(|(mail=%u)(gosaMailAlternateAddress=%u)(uid=%u))) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=gosaMailAccount)(uid=%u)) (yea on 1.2 my home was /home/%uid but that suxx and i want to move it to /home/MAILBOXES/%uid) 1) I have a user that can read the PW so i dont need "auth_bind = yes", right? 2) user_* and pass_* i dont need them anymore cause its always: home=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/ mail=/home/MAILBOXES/%u/mail 2010/8/27 Mihajlin Evgenij <skyworker(a)ooobadm.dp.ua>: > В сообщении от 27 августа 2010 17:32:04 автор spamvoll(a)googlemail.com написал: > >> > log say: >> > dovecot: imap(hpeter): Error: user hpeter: Initialization failed: >> > mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage >> > autodetection failed with home=/home/MAILBOXES/hpeter/mail > > may be try to set into 10-mail.conf or in namespace private (if you have such) > mail_localtion = ~/Maildir > >

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[Dovecot] MainConfig for dovecot 2.0
by Sascha Peters 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hey, for dovecot 1.2 there is a very good reference page for all options. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig is there a reference for dovecot 2.0 in the new wiki? If not, when will be this page online? Thanks a lot. -- Gruß Sascha

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[Dovecot] NTLM authentication does not work
by Alexander Cherniak 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Dear Experts, I configured Samba, Kerberos, etc., can login to my CentOS using ADS account, but missing something in my Dovecot config. Windbind seems to work: [root@aCentOs2 dovecot]# wbinfo -a wAlex%pass plaintext password authentication succeeded challenge/response password authentication succeeded Same is true for ntlm_auth helper: [root@aCentOs2 dovecot]# /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --username=wAlex --password=pass NT_STATUS_OK: Success (0x0) But I couldn't get into Dovecot (with or without auth_use_winbind option): . login wAlex pass . NO [ALERT] Unsupported authentication mechanism. Despite very verbose logging, there no clues there. Bellow's my dovecot -n output: # 2.0.0: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = ntlm auth_use_winbind = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /var/log/Dovecot/dovecot_debug.log disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/Dovecot/dovecot_info.log log_path = /var/log/Dovecot/dovecot.log mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir protocols = imap ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u allow_all_users=yes driver = static } It might be irrelevant, but although the lines "auth_use_winbind = yes" and "auth_winbind_helper_path = /usr/bin/ntlm_auth" are close together in the config file, I cannot see the latter when run dovecot -n. I am quite new to Dovecot and will appreciate any help. Thanks, Alex.

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[Dovecot] Possible erroneous "aborted login attempts"
by Jerrale G 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Aug 29 22:51:27 server1 dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts): rip=(obfuscated), lip=173.50.101.12, TLS Aug 29 22:51:27 server1 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=........... before most every successful login, the same second of time, dovecot has the above message. This is not a huge problem but our firewall is looking for aborted login attempts, for imap/pop3 (relevant to dovecot) dos attempts and, if many people start having problems of their packets being dropped, we will have to stop looking for the statement or lower security slightly, more attempts over a period of time before filtering. However, thanks to your idle feature, there is less of these messages; so, I don't think we will have a problem. The only client that doesn't have a problem is our php webmail but we don't look in dovecot's log for failed attempts from here; as, it is from the same ip, to dovecot from php, constantly without reference to the user. This has been happening since 1.2.11 with us. We don't use any imap relay but was looking into imapproxy for cacheing speed and preventing advanced ddos attempts, those from users with access. Jerrale G. errale G. SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] dovecot lda issue
by Joy 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

I am using dovecot lda and everything is working fine for me except the sieve rule which is built for rejecting mail from a specific sender. message is being rejected but from address is not correct in rejection mail which looks like the following :- <<>@mail.xyz.net> sieve rule :- require ["fileinto","envelope","reject","vacation","imap4flags","relational","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","regex","body","date"]; if address :contains "From" "xyz(a)gmail.com" { reject text: Please do not send mail to me piyush .... . ; } Please let me know where is the issue with sieve rule or with lda setting :- lda has been configured with the following parameter :- postmaster_address = postmaster(a)xyz.net

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[Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem
by Patrick Fay 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

> >>>> Hi, >>>> I am running dovecot 1.2.11 on mac osx 1.5.8. Everything works >>>> perfectly with the application-level firewall off, but enabling the >>>> application firewall prevents dovecot connections. I have tried >>>> explicitly authorizing dovecot in the firewall, but it does not work. I >>>> have searched everywhere I can think of to look, and haven't found a >>>> solution, but have seen a couple other reports of what seems to be the >>>> same problem. The firewall logs the activity with what looks like a >>>> corrupt process name: a typical appfirewall.log entry looks like: >>>> >>>> Aug 26 20:43:45 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >>>> Aug 26 20:43:53 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^H?^U???^Z connecting from >>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >>>> Aug 26 20:44:09 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >>>> Aug 26 20:44:34 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >>>> XX.XX.XX.XX:37312 uid = 0 proto=6 >>>> Aug 26 20:44:45: --- last message repeated 6 times --- >>>> >>>> where "hostname" is my server name and the XX's are my client's IP >>>> address. For all of the other services I've used, the process name >>>> (e.g. dovecot) should appear after "Deny" when blocking traffic, instead >>>> of the funny characters. Any advice on how I could resolve this issue >>>> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! >>> >>> >> >> I was hoping to use the application firewall because this machine gets used both as a server as well as a client machine for more general use. I haven't been able to find any specific documentation for it, but I have found that the firewall works fine with postfix and several file services I use (enabling/disabling works as expected, process names get logged as expected, etc). Thanks! >> >> Patrick > > So, you're running Dovecot and Postfix on a laptop? WTF? > > -- > Stan Hi, Sorry for the confusion--no laptop involved. Postfix, dovecot, etc, all running on intel-based desktop mac (a mac pro). Patrick

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[Dovecot] mixing 1.2 and 2.0?
by Cor Bosman 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi all, anyone know if it's safe to mix a 1.2 environment with 2.0 servers? Im planning on adding some 2.0 servers for test purposes, but now im wondering if thats going to mess up index files or other files for users selecting the test server and then switching back to our normal servers. Regards, Cor

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem
by Patrick Fay 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi, Thanks everyone for your help and input. I think perhaps my attempt to be brief and focused in posing my question has led to some confusion about my needs and configuration. I do not have the luxury of being able to segregate the server (postfix and dovecot) from client (GUI, etc) on different machines. I am, as Charles' surmised, using this to aggregate disparate mail streams into a single location, and using dovecot to serve it. Since I must run client-ish applications on this machine, the application firewall is desirable. The anticipated load on this system from the server side is quite light, so the throughput overhead incurred by the application firewall is negligible. The problem appears to be that--for some reason--dovecot identifies itself incorrectly to the application firewall, resulting in the garbage shown in the logs and failure to permit this connection (the firewall is configured to explicitly permit connections for dovecot). I note that other daemons (e.g. postfix, sshd, etc) do not exhibit this defect; the firewall works as expected for every other service I've tried except dovecot. The logs for the firewall appear as: Aug 26 20:43:45 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 Aug 26 20:43:53 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^H?^U???^Z connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 Both of these are dovecot hits--but the name is different each time. Also the ?'s aren't really "?" marks; they're trans-ascii characters with high bits set that my mailer doesn't like very much. It really looks like a misdirected pointer or something somewhere, but I'm not familiar enough with the codebase to know where to start looking, or if in fact it is something else that is misconfigured. Any thoughts on how to resolve this? Patrick

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[Dovecot] getdents() with 4KB buffer - seems slow (Maildir, large inbox)
by Marinos Yannikos 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi, I have a very large inbox (~146K mails) in Maildir format and dovecot seems to spend a lot of time rescanning the directory, especially when the server is loaded. I'm not sure whether this is triggered by Thunderbird or done regularly, but it takes longer when the server is loaded, so sometimes it seems that it is scanning continuously. Since it takes around 2000 getdents64() syscalls to scan my inbox, I'm wondering whether the buffer size is a bit small with 4KB and might benefit from being configurable: ... getdents64(8, /* 73 entries */, 4096) = 4088 getdents64(8, /* 73 entries */, 4096) = 4088 getdents64(8, /* 73 entries */, 4096) = 4088 getdents64(8, /* 73 entries */, 4096) = 4088 getdents64(8, /* 73 entries */, 4096) = 4088 ... (strace output of an imap process belonging to me) The behaviour is identical on 1.0.15 and 1.2.13 (I just upgraded). Regards, Marinos PS. I know that the main reason for slowness is my large inbox and the server being loaded (disk I/O), but still, so many syscalls just to rescan the inbox seems wasteful. # dovecot -n # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-686 i686 Debian 4.0 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_listen: * ssl_cert_file: XXXXX (censored) ssl_key_file: XXXXX login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_process_size: 32 login_processes_count: 8 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_process_size: 2048 imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix

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[Dovecot] Mail error in log
by Ian macdonald 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi All, I am getting the following in the mail error log deliver(julie): safe_mkstemp(/home/julie/.temp.geomail.10443.) failed: Permission denied This is correct julie does not have access to write to her home directory Julie is a system user who is chrooted so her home is owned by root, this is for when she logs in via sftp to retrieve files she can only access folders below her home. I am using Maildir and julie does have access to ~Maildir, is there any reason why deliver is attempting to use her user directory and not her Maildir? Cheers Ian

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[Dovecot] istream_read like zlib, but without zlib
by Alex Baule 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hy Timo ! I Made some modification in stream_read in zlib. I remove all zlib part, because i don't need this, but i need to read a istream to change it. Well, i create a size_t called supersize, with is a substitute for stream->zs.avail_in. The trouble is, my debug file have a lot of "READ Plugin\n", and i think it's because my read becomes a loop, i think it's because i don't know to identify the EOF from the istream. you can help me to identify the EOF and set it ? Tks .!!! static ssize_t i_stream_emx_read(struct istream_private *stream) { struct emx_istream *emxstream = (struct emx_istream *)stream; const unsigned char *data; uoff_t high_offset; size_t size; int ret; fprintf(emxstream->debug,"READ Plugin\n"); fflush(emxstream->debug); high_offset = stream->istream.v_offset + (stream->pos - stream->skip); if (emxstream->eof_offset == high_offset) { i_assert(emxstream->high_pos == 0); stream->istream.eof = TRUE; return -1; } if (stream->pos < emxstream->high_pos) { /* we're here because we seeked back within the read buffer. */ ret = emxstream->high_pos - stream->pos; stream->pos = emxstream->high_pos; emxstream->high_pos = 0; return ret; } emxstream->high_pos = 0; if (stream->pos + CHUNK_SIZE > stream->buffer_size) { /* try to keep at least CHUNK_SIZE available */ if (!emxstream->marked && stream->skip > 0) { /* don't try to keep anything cached if we don't have a seek mark. */ i_stream_compress(stream); } if (stream->max_buffer_size == 0 || stream->buffer_size < stream->max_buffer_size) i_stream_grow_buffer(stream, CHUNK_SIZE); if (stream->pos == stream->buffer_size) { if (stream->skip > 0) { /* lose our buffer cache */ i_stream_compress(stream); } if (stream->pos == stream->buffer_size) return -2; /* buffer full */ } } if(emxstream->supersize == 0){ /* need to read more data. try to read a full CHUNK_SIZE */ i_stream_skip(stream->parent, emxstream->prev_size); if (i_stream_read_data(stream->parent, &data, &size, CHUNK_SIZE-1) == -1 && size == 0) { if (stream->parent->stream_errno != 0) { stream->istream.stream_errno = stream->parent->stream_errno; } else { i_assert(stream->parent->eof); stream->istream.stream_errno = EPIPE; } return -1; } emxstream->prev_size = size; if (size == 0) { /* no more input */ stream->istream.eof = TRUE; i_assert(!stream->istream.blocking); return 0; } fprintf(emxstream->debug,"READ =|%s|= Plugin\n",data); fflush(emxstream->debug); memcpy(stream->w_buffer + stream->pos, data,size); emxstream->supersize = size; } size = stream->buffer_size - stream->pos; stream->pos += size; if(stream->istream.eof == TRUE){ emxstream->eof_offset = stream->istream.v_offset + stream->pos; i_stream_skip(stream->parent, emxstream->prev_size - emxstream->supersize); emxstream->supersize = 0; emxstream->prev_size = 0; } if (size == 0) { /* read more input */ return i_stream_emx_read(stream); } return size; }

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Re: [Dovecot] fetchmail wakeup
by Amon Ott 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

On Tuesday 31 August 2010 wrote Peter Dungel: > Does someone know, if in the new release of dovecot 2.x.x there is a > feature implemented, that wakes fetchmail or any other program on a client > request, or is the "fetchmail wakeup" plugin still the only way to do this > (at least I've not found any other, and that plugin never worked for me),.. You could replace the imap or pop3 helper program with a wrapper that first sends the fetchmail daemon a wakeup signal, waits a few secs and then calls the original. Amon Ott -- Dr. Amon Ott - m-privacy GmbH Am Köllnischen Park 1, 10179 Berlin Tel: +49 30 24342334 Fax: +49 30 24342336 Web: http://www.m-privacy.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 84946 Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Kfm. Holger Maczkowsky, Roman Maczkowsky GnuPG-Key-ID: EA898571

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[Dovecot] fetchmail wakeup
by Peter Dungel 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Does someone know, if in the new release of dovecot 2.x.x there is a feature implemented, that wakes fetchmail or any other program on a client request, or is the "fetchmail wakeup" plugin still the only way to do this (at least I've not found any other, and that plugin never worked for me),.. Yours Peter

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[Dovecot] Wrong MySQL sintax, I can't login
by Pablo 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi guys: I can't login as a user: The output of mail.log: Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=imap^Ilip=178.63.82.247^Irip=81.39.27.227^Ilport=143^Irport=33715^Iresp=AHBhYmxvLnJvZHJpZ3VlekBlc2N1ZWxhc3VwZXJpb3JkZWNvYWNoaW5nLmNvbQBwZXJpa2l0YS4= Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com,81.39.27.227): query: SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com' Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I65^I16796^I1 Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com,81.39.27.227): SELECT maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com,81.39.27.227): User query failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com' at line 1 Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: auth(default): master out: FAIL^I65 Aug 31 08:39:45 socrates dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<pablo.rodriguez(a)escuelasuperiordecoaching.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=81.39.27.227, lip=178.63.82.247 My Dovecot version: 1.2.9 My Dovecot configuration: # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-23-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS reiserfs log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/mail/dovecot.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u/ mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_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 auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail My Dovecot MySQL configuration: driver=mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=xxxxxx default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u Can anyone help me? I've seen that log told me "wrong syntax", but I think upper query is right, isn't it? Any hint? Thanks in advance :-)

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[Dovecot] Combining ManageSieve with hand-written scripts
by Jason Bleazard 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi, new to Dovecot, forgive me if I'm missing something basic... I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to use a couple of custom rules alongside ManageSieve. Most of the time I like the ManageSieve interface in Roundcube, but there's one rule that I can't get it to do the way I want (it's a notify rule, and I don't like the way Roundcube constructs the notify). I figured out how to write it by hand, but of course I can't put my own rules in Roundcube's file or it gets really confused. I tried adding an include to the generated file, but Roundcube politely removes it for me the next time I use the rule editor. (Squirrelmail doesn't seem to be any better in this regard.) I thought I could do something like sieve_before = ~/sieve/custom.sieve but that doesn't seem to work. I couldn't even see any evidence in the log that it attempted to look at that file. Apparently sieve_before isn't meant to work on a per-user basis. If I do a global sieve_before, can I have it "include :personal"? If so, what's going to happen with the script compilation? From what I understand, it can't be compiled globally, since each user has a different custom rule set. Am I trying to do the impossible here? Thanks for any ideas, Jason Bleazard

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[Dovecot] Different IPs should use different ssl-certs/keys
by Peer Heinlein 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

I don't understand how to use multiple keys/certs on different IPs without SNI. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration explains how to use different keys for different protocols like POP3 and IMAP. But how to bind those keys/ on IPs/Ports? Looks like it is not possible to use ssl_cert inside service { inet_listener {} } Is it still necessary to run multiple instances like it was in Dovecot 1.2.x? Peer -- Heinlein Professional Linux Support GmbH Linux: Akademie - Support - Hosting http://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: 030 / 40 50 51 - 0 Fax: 030 / 40 50 51 - 19 Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: HRB 93818 B / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein -- Sitz: Berlin

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[Dovecot] Dovecot dict process privileges
by Mike Mimic 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi! Is it possible to configure Dovecot so that it drops privileges for dict process? Currently this process is running as root. (At least on my system with Dovecot 1.2.) Best regards Mike

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem
by Patrick Fay 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

> On 8/29/2010 8:51 PM, Patrick Fay wrote: >> Aug 26 20:43:45 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >> Aug 26 20:43:53 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^H?^U???^Z connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >> >> Both of these are dovecot hits--but the name is different each time. >> Also the ?'s aren't really "?" marks; they're trans-ascii characters >> with high bits set that my mailer doesn't like very much. It really >> looks like a misdirected pointer or something somewhere, but I'm not >> familiar enough with the codebase to know where to start looking, or >> if in fact it is something else that is misconfigured. Any thoughts >> on how to resolve this? > > Dovecot version? > > -- > > Best regards, > > Charles > My apologies-- dovecot version 1.2.11. Patrick

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Re: [Dovecot] doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d
by Jerrale G 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Could you explain the iterate_query in any kind of sql. I'm guessing to just use the query, correctly, that's failing as iterate_query= and put it in the service auth file which includes password_query and user_query. then, I'm guessing to add something like: iteratedb { driver = sql args = /path/to/sql.conf } The wiki2 only says: "When the SQL userdb module is used make sure that the iterate_query setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext matches your database layout." it should give an example query. I don't know if its wanting to list the fields or the contents of a field. Thanks, Jerrale G Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] Can't get dovecot to see email folders
by Blaster 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

So I'm very frustrated, I've spent the better part of a day trying to get dovecot 2.0.1 working...Most of the documentation on the Wiki seems to think you are running an older version and therefore very little of it applies. I'm running 2.0.1 on OpenSolaris. I seem to have 2 remaining issues: 1) Dovecot is not able to determine the home directory 2) IMAP clients can not get to the mail folder directory. One client is reporting that it can't open it in read only mode. 3) I tried to get raw logging working, but apparently I couldn't because of #1. The architecture of Dovecot makes it difficult to transition from another IMAP server. If I force the MBOX to be /home/%u/mail, all of my clients think the folders are in /home/%u/mail/mail. If I set mbox location to /home/%u, then dovecot tries to create .subscription and .imap files/directories in the users home dir which it doesn't have permission to do. It would be nice if you could configure Dovecot in such a way as to make transition easier, such as the ability to strip off a duplicate trailing path, ie /home/%u/mail/mail becomes /home/%u/mail....Otherwise this necessitates visiting countless IMAP clients for reconfiguration... Here is my config file: /opt/sbin/dovecot -n # 2.0.1: /opt/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ mail_debug = yes mail_gid = mail mail_location = mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = dovecot passdb { driver = pam } plugin { home = /home/%u } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = * port = 993 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = * port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { address = * port = 0 } } ssl_cert = </usr/local/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </usr/local/ssl/private/dovecot.pem gremlin [/opt/bin] # gremlin [/opt/bin] #

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[Dovecot] PAM authentication fails
by Egbert Jan van den Bussche 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Hi, I'm fighting all weekend on with auth and pam to authenticate local system users. testuser is such local user and is in passwd and shadow. I want to have local system users (testuser is one of them) and virtual users. The virtual part works fine but I cannot get the local user to connect. Still pam fails finding the user. The suggested password mismatch at the end is, in my eyes, because there is no user in the first place. I verified the password by interactive login to the account. The pam module (dovecot) is just the default file with three @includes in it. Syslog: Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH#0112#011LOGIN#011service=imap#011lip=2a02:968:1:2:212:72:224:16#011rip=2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c#011lport=143#011rport=1093 Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT#0112#011VXNlcm5hbWU6 Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT#0112#011dGVzdHVzZXI= Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT#0112#011UGFzc3dvcmQ6 Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT#0112#011dmF4dm1z Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(testuser,2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c): lookup service=dovecot Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(testuser,2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Aug 29 20:18:02 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): cache(testuser,2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c): miss Aug 29 20:18:04 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): cache(testuser,2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c): hit: Aug 29 20:18:04 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): cache(testuser,2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c): User unknown Aug 29 20:18:04 mail-dev dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(testuser,2001:888:1740:10:250:daff:fe41:4d1c): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure (password mismatch?) (given password: xxxxxxxx) Aug 29 20:18:06 mail-dev dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL#0112#011user=testuser Relevant settings in dovecot: root@mail-dev:/etc/dovecot# dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-24-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS ext4 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s managesieve listen: *, [::] ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-mail.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-mail.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_max_userip_connections(default): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 3 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=/home/vmail/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(managesieve): lda: postmaster_address: postmaster deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ rejection_reason: Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login realms: kader.hcc.nl hobby.nl cache_size: 1024 user: vmail verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam args: setcred=yes failure_show_msg=yes cache_key=%u dovecot passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail Where should I look further for this dovecot pam problem? Is there such a thing as pam debugging? TIA Egbert Jan

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[Dovecot] Sent mail issue
by Piyush Joshi 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Dear All, I have few question regarding dovecot configuration for specific need which are as follows:- 1. I have IMAP folder with the name Sent Mail and i want whenever client uses any MUA to send mail from my server his mail must be kept in server's IMAP folder which is Sent Mail instead of local Sent folder. 2. Whenever user configures account in MUA, MUA automatically create some new folder like Junk Mail etc. while i am already using Spam folder to keep spam message in that folder so let me know how can i save myself from this. 3. Is there any thing which can also put deleted message in my server's Trash folder. Thanks

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[Dovecot] "Multiple Commands in Progress" support
by Mike Cardwell 29 Aug '10

29 Aug '10

Section 5.5 of RFC3501 discusses the ability of IMAP servers to receive and execute multiple commands asynchronously on a single IMAP connection, not necessarily responding in the same order the commands were received: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-5.5 Does Dovecot take advantage of this ability, or does it simply queue up the commands and execute them synchronously in order? -- Mike Cardwell - Perl/Java/Web developer, Linux admin, Email admin Read my tech Blog - https://secure.grepular.com/ Follow me on Twitter - http://twitter.com/mickeyc Hire me - http://cardwellit.com/ http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mikecardwell

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem
by Patrick Fay 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

>> Hi, >> I am running dovecot 1.2.11 on mac osx 1.5.8. Everything works >> perfectly with the application-level firewall off, but enabling the >> application firewall prevents dovecot connections. I have tried >> explicitly authorizing dovecot in the firewall, but it does not work. I >> have searched everywhere I can think of to look, and haven't found a >> solution, but have seen a couple other reports of what seems to be the >> same problem. The firewall logs the activity with what looks like a >> corrupt process name: a typical appfirewall.log entry looks like: >> >> Aug 26 20:43:45 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >> Aug 26 20:43:53 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^H?^U???^Z connecting from >> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >> Aug 26 20:44:09 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >> XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 >> Aug 26 20:44:34 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from >> XX.XX.XX.XX:37312 uid = 0 proto=6 >> Aug 26 20:44:45: --- last message repeated 6 times --- >> >> where "hostname" is my server name and the XX's are my client's IP >> address. For all of the other services I've used, the process name >> (e.g. dovecot) should appear after "Deny" when blocking traffic, instead >> of the funny characters. Any advice on how I could resolve this issue >> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! > > The application level firewall in OSX is aimed at _client_ use, not > server use. It's similar to Novell's AppArmor, etc. Leave it turned off. > > Simply because a piece of software (in this case an OS) offers any given > option does not mean every system needs it. Can you offer a compelling > reason why you _need_ the OSX application level firewall enabled? > Please point us to documentation that advises using it for any of your > services/daemons. > > -- > Stan > Hi was hoping to use the application firewall because this machine gets used both as a server as well as a client machine for more general use. I haven't been able to find any specific documentation for it, but I have found that the firewall works fine with postfix and several file services I use (enabling/disabling works as expected, process names get logged as expected, etc). Thanks! Patrick

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[Dovecot] When should dictionary entries for the expire plugin be added/updated?
by Ralph Seichter 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

I've set up Dovecot 2.0 with the expire plugin using an SQLite DB, and when mail is delivered via dovecto-lda, the DB gets updated as expected. However, when I use Thunderbird 3.1.2 for Mac OS X to move a message to any of the folders known to the expire plugin (e.g. the 'tmp' folder), the SQLite DB is not updated. Here is an excerpt of my current configuration: # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf dict { expire = sqlite:/etc/dovecot/dict-expire.conf } plugin { expire = Junk expire2 = Trash expire3 = tmp expire4 = *.News expire5 = *.Reports expire_dict = proxy::expire sieve = /etc/dovecot/sieve/%u.sieve } service dict { unix_listener dict { # Ensure that there is no permission-related problem mode = 0666 } } protocol lda { mail_plugins = expire sieve postmaster_address = postmaster(a)domain.tld sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail } # /etc/dovecot/dict-expire.conf connect = /var/lib/dovecot/expires.sqlite map { pattern = shared/expire/$user/$mailbox table = expires value_field = expire fields { username = $user mailbox = $mailbox } } # Schema dump of /var/lib/dovecot/expires.sqlite PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF; BEGIN TRANSACTION; CREATE TABLE expires ( username VARCHAR(75) NOT NULL, mailbox VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, expire integer NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (username, mailbox) ); CREATE TRIGGER mergeexpire BEFORE INSERT ON expires FOR EACH ROW BEGIN UPDATE expires SET expire=NEW.expire WHERE username=NEW.username AND mailbox=NEW.mailbox; SELECT RAISE(IGNORE) WHERE (SELECT 1 FROM expires WHERE username=NEW.username AND mailbox=NEW.mailbox) IS NOT NULL; END; COMMIT; With these settings, rows will be inserted to (or updated within) expires.sqlite when dovecot-lda stores messages to any of my "Reports" folders using sieve rules. When I manually move messages to "tmp" or "Junk", the database remains unchanged. Also, when I delete messages in Thunderbird, I'd expect database additions for the folder "Trash", but this does not happen either. What am I doing wrong here? -Ralph

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[Dovecot] Error: service(auth): child 2212 killed with signal 11
by Toorop 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Hi, Auth always crash (segfault) using vpopmail backend. Any idea ? vpopmail 5.5.0 os: ubuntu 10.04 on rackspace cloud # dovecot -n dovecot -n # 2.0.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.1-rscloud x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes passdb { driver = vpopmail } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vchkpw mode = 0600 user = vpopmail } user = root } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = vpopmail } Log: Aug 28 10:59:48 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth Aug 28 10:59:48 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=2211) Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 CRAM-MD5 service=imap secured lip=184.106.217.69 rip=178.32.33.247 lport=143 rport=49099 Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: client out: CONT 1 PDM3MjI0MzQ4NjQzNTI3NjUuMTI4Mjk5MzE4OUByYWNrc3BhY2UuZGVkaW1haWwuZXU+ Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden> Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: vpopmail(toorop(a)respublica.fr,178.32.33.247): lookup user=toorop domain=respublica.fr Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: client out: OK 1 user=toorop(a)respublica.fr Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST 1 2211 1 e4920e51f96ae453663098df19c5b374 Aug 28 10:59:49 auth: Debug: vpopmail(toorop(a)respublica.fr,178.32.33.247): lookup user=toorop domain=respublica.fr Aug 28 10:59:49 imap-login: Info: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<toorop(a)respublica.fr>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=178.32.33.247, lip=184.106.217.69, mpid=2214, TLS Aug 28 10:59:49 master: Error: service(auth): child 2212 killed with signal 11 (core dumps disabled) strace : http://pastebin.com/kYsWHP5J Thanks, -- Toorop «Ils ne savaient pas que c'était impossible, alors ils l'ont fait.» Mark Twain

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[Dovecot] Roff typo in sievec.1.in
by Mike Abbott 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

There is a roff typo in pigeonhole's sievec.1.in. Roff treats the leading apostrophe on line 54 as an invalid command and produces bad output: dump to be written to stdout. The out-file argument may also be omitted, which has the same effect as for a com- piled Sieve binary file. Note that this option is not The output should be: dump to be written to stdout. The out-file argument may also be omitted, which has the same effect as '-'. The output is identical to what the sieve-dump(1) command pro- duces for a compiled Sieve binary file. Note that this Here is a patch: --- a/doc/man/sievec.1.in +++ b/doc/man/sievec.1.in @@ -50,8 +50,9 @@ Don\(aqt write the binary to \fIout\-file\fP, but write a textual dump of the binary instead. In this context, the \fIout\-file\fP value '\-' has special meaning: it causes the the textual dump to be written to \fBstdout\fP. -The \fIout\-file\fP argument may also be omitted, which has the same effect as -'\-'. The output is identical to what the \fBsieve\-dump\fP(1) command produces +The \fIout\-file\fP argument may also be omitted, which has the same effect +as '\-'. +The output is identical to what the \fBsieve\-dump\fP(1) command produces for a compiled Sieve binary file. Note that this option is not allowed when the \fIout\-file\fP argument is a directory. .TP

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[Dovecot] pigeonhole needs to ship doc/man/{reporting-bugs.inc, sed.sh}
by Paul Howarth 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

A tarball created from current pigeonhole hg using "make dist" doesn't include the files doc/man/{reporting-bugs.inc,sed.sh} and fails to build as a result. Attached patch works for me. Paul

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[Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem
by Patrick Fay 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Hi, I am running dovecot 1.2.11 on mac osx 1.5.8. Everything works perfectly with the application-level firewall off, but enabling the application firewall prevents dovecot connections. I have tried explicitly authorizing dovecot in the firewall, but it does not work. I have searched everywhere I can think of to look, and haven't found a solution, but have seen a couple other reports of what seems to be the same problem. The firewall logs the activity with what looks like a corrupt process name: a typical appfirewall.log entry looks like: Aug 26 20:43:45 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 Aug 26 20:43:53 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^H�^U��^Z connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 Aug 26 20:44:09 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37310 uid = 0 proto=6 Aug 26 20:44:34 hostname Firewall[55]: Deny ^L connecting from XX.XX.XX.XX:37312 uid = 0 proto=6 Aug 26 20:44:45: --- last message repeated 6 times --- where "hostname" is my server name and the XX's are my client's IP address. For all of the other services I've used, the process name (e.g. dovecot) should appear after "Deny" when blocking traffic, instead of the funny characters. Any advice on how I could resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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