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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.x masteruser proxy problem
by Tom Mihalicek 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Greetings to all I need a masteruser/proxy account for some applications to be implemented and i am having some problems. Normal users are proxyied through ldap queries to the remote machine and this is working like it sopose to, but i can't make the master user to work. Below are both the dovecot.conf and dovecot-ldap.conf and verbose logs on the proxy machine. If i log directly on the remote machine that should be proxied everything is working normal ... ### dovecot.conf protocols = pop3 imap managesieve mail_uid = 10021 mail_gid = 10021 mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_access_groups = vmail log_path = info_log_path = log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format = %$: %s mail_log_prefix = "%Us(%u): " disable_plaintext_auth = no login_process_per_connection=yes auth_default_realm = example.com login_processes_count = 8 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_connections = 256 verbose_proctitle = yes max_mail_processes = 512 mail_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_master_user_separator = * login_chroot = yes ssl = no protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep listen = xx.xx.xx.xx:143 imap_max_line_length = 65536 imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = yes pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv listen = xx.xx.xx.xx:110 mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol managesieve { listen = xx.xx.xx.xx:2000 login_executable = /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_executable = /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/managesieve managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot managesieve_logout_format = bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) } auth default { mechanisms = plain login user = vmail passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers master = yes pass = yes } passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail group = vmail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/dovecot-auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } ### dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = ldap.example.com ldap_version = 3 auth_bind = yes dn = cn=vmail,dc=example,dc=com dnpass = secret_pass base = ou=Users,domainName=%d,o=domains,dc=example,dc=com scope = subtree deref = never user_filter = (&(mail=%u)(objectClass=mailUser)(accountStatus=active)(enabledService=mail)(enabledService=%Ls)) user_attrs = storageBaseDirectory=home,mailHost=host,=proxy=yes,=nologin=yes,=nodelay=yes pass_filter = (&(mail=%u)(objectClass=mailUser)(accountStatus=active)(enabledService=mail)(enabledService=%Ls)) pass_attrs = userPassword=password,mailHost=host,=proxy=yes,=nologin=yes,=nodelay=yes default_pass_scheme = CRYPT ### /var/log/mail/dovecot.info Nov 30 14:26:59 dougie dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=5873 Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 lip=xx.xx.xx.xx rip=192.168.22.222 lport=110 rport=36639 resp=AHRtaWhhbGljZWtAeG5ldC5sYW4qbWlncmF0aW9uQHhuZXQuaHIAbTFncjR0MTBu Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(migration(a)example.com,192.168.22.222,master): lookup: user=master_user(a)example.com file=/etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): passdb(master_user(a)example.com,192.168.22.222,master): Master user logging in as some_user(a)example.com Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): ldap(some_user(a)example.com,192.168.22.222): bind search: base=ou=Users,domainName=example.com,o=domains,dc=example,dc=com filter=(&(mail=some_user@example.com)(objectClass=mailUser)(accountStatus=active)(enabledService=mail)(enabledService=pop3)) Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): ldap(some_user(a)example.com,192.168.22.222): result: mailHost(host)=xx.xx.xx.xx Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): ldap(some_user(a)example.com,192.168.22.222): invalid credentials (given password: master_password) Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=some_user(a)example.com authz nodelay host=xx.xx.xx.xx proxynologin pass=master_password master=master_user(a)example.com Nov 30 14:27:28 dougie dovecot: pop3-login: Ignoring unknown passdb extra field: authz -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Dovecot-1.2.x-masteruser-proxy-problem-tp26574804p265… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] /var/run/dovecot mode 750 too tight
by Frank Cusack 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

dovecot-1.2.8 creates /var/run/dovecot mode 750. I run postfix+dovecot in a virtual user setup. Postfix calls deliver as user vmail group vmail. Nov 29 12:53:04 imap.invalid dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] deliver(frank): userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(vmail) egid=500(vmail) missing +x perm: /var/run/dovecot) I will say this: dovecot's error reporting in general is head and shoulders above the norm. Makes tracking down problems sooo much easier. Something else I noticed, should the dict-server socket really be mode 777? At least a-x I would think. -frank

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[Dovecot] Everytime I start my mail client it downloads all message again!
by BeKi 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hello, I use Xdove 1.2 on my ts-409 together with IMAP/dovecot. I like to see the same folder structure on my different workstation (private/work ...). I move the mails into the folder structure I created. That works fine. But since I use Xdove with IMAP I have the problem that my mailclient loads all mails I already stored in different folders again into the INBOX (some mails also multiple with subfolders). These mails are duplicates (or multiples) because I delete them all. The mails in my folders are still there. Up to now I tried different mail clients. Thunderbird 2.x/3.x, Pegasus 4.5, Outlook Express. All behave the same way, so I think it must have something to do with the server. Maybe one of you heard about this and can give me hints where to look for. Which configuration files shall I post to help debug? Thanks, Bernd

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[Dovecot] init-script update for v2.0
by Pascal Volk 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi Timo, please find attached a patch for the init script in the doc directory. * Added LSB-compliant info block (for insserv and friends) * Updated base_dir detection (for v2.0 config output) Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: decade.0932307(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] Proxy, using checkpassword
by Aaron Roberts 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi all, I think I may be doing something wrong but, is it possible to proxy POP and IMAP users when using a checkpassword script as the passdb? I'm trying to write a perl script to handle authentication to a mix of SQL and POP3 sources whilst logging user passwords at the same time for a migration. At the moment, I'm trying to set environment variables to tell dovecot what to do: $ENV{'AUTHORIZED'} = 2; $ENV{'proxy'} = 'Y'; $ENV{'host'} = $pop_success; Dovecot is logging the following: Nov 27 10:35:01 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH#0118#011PLAIN#011service=pop3#011lip=192.168.100.143#011rip=192.168.100.60#011lport=110#011rport=3051#011resp=AGFpcmJlYXIAcG9uZGFhcjM= Nov 27 10:35:01 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(airbear,192.168.100.60): execute: /var/run/dovecot/login/authomatic.pl /usr/libexec/dovecot/checkpassword-reply Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(airbear,192.168.100.60): Received input: userdb_uid=0#011userdb_gid=0#011 Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(airbear,192.168.100.60): Received no input Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): checkpassword(airbear,192.168.100.60): exit_status=0 Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK#0118#011user=airbear Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: dovecot: User airbear is missing UID (see mail_uid setting) Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST#0115#01116075#0118 Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER#0115#011airbear Nov 27 10:35:02 pop3 dovecot: pop3-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<airbear>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.100.60, lip=192.168.100.143 Thanks in advance, Aaron

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[Dovecot] is there a script to find a message from a given username easily?
by Gary Kline 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hello people, I used primarily mutt and sendmail for many years. (And elm before mutt.) All my mail was saved into ~/Mail. Messages from, say, smith(a)foo.ber were stored in ~/Mail/smith; all mail from smith was catenated into one file, and if I wanted to find something that smith had written, I would just cd to ~/Mail and grep or egrep on a likely word or phrase. Is there a script that can reach into my server into My maildirectory and cp or symlink (say) ~/Maildir/smith's files: 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 780 Apr 18 2008 1208585354.91013_3.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 731 May 15 2008 1210901757.55602_4.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 566 May 18 2008 1211140486.77700_3.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 578 May 20 2008 1211326880.95596_4.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 578 May 21 2008 1211393732.2283_3.aristotle:2,S 2 -rw------- 1 kline kline 673 Apr 13 2009 1239636788.1457_3.aristotle:2,S 6 -rw------- 1 kline kline 4242 Apr 14 2009 1239748901.16354_4.aristotle:2,S into somthing named ~/Mail/smith, with all files catted together? tia, gary kline -- Gary Kline kline(a)thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

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[Dovecot] Acl Groups
by Dimitrios Karapiperis 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi all! I have a corpus of virtual users ( user1(a)domain.tld , user2(a)domain.tld, user3(a)domain.tld,..., usern(a)domain.tld ... ) authenticated against Active Directory. Is it possible to group some users (virtual) and give appropriate ACLs on a shared imap public folder using an ACL vfile? thanks in advance Dimitrios

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[Dovecot] Dovecot hosts in France?
by Anatoly IVANOV 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi, * Would someone recommend web hosts in France using Dovecot, please? I'd prefer to outsource the server management to someone else (although I could install and run my own Dovecot server). I need the server to be located physically in a French datacenter for legal reasons. Sorry if I'm a bit off-topic. Not a technical question. Thanks in advance. ANATOLY IVANOV / PHOTOGRAPHY / DESIGN / PROSE http://www.anatolyivanov.com/ AI on Twitter http://twitter.com/anatolyivanov

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[Dovecot] 1.2.7: recs[i]->uid < rec-> uid
by Edgar Fuß 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

I'm getting this Panic with some users on dovecot-1.2.7: Panic: file maildir-uidlist.c: line 1242 (maildir_uidlist_records_drop_expunges): assertion failed: (recs[i]- >uid < rec-> uid) There's another dovecot-1.2.3 running on identical hardware accessing the same NFS mail storage without problems.

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[Dovecot] restrictions on folder length?
by Brett Dikeman 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Greetings all, After migrating a few dozen people to our departmental mailserver, we've run into a problem with one user who makes extensive use of folders and nesting them. I've seen as many as 8 levels. The longest resulting folder name is 113 characters, which results in a total path length of 137 characters (/var/spool/mail/******). Their old mail server handled this fine, but dovecot is choking on it; imapsync reports "invalid mailbox name", and he gets the same error clicking on the mailboxes in Thunderbird (they seem to have been created, despite the error messages.) Mail was imported over using imapsync, and did so flawlessly for all the other accounts. Are we running up against a soft (configuration file) or hard (source) limit? Or is this a bug? Thanks! Brett

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[Dovecot] 2.0.alpha3 typo patch
by Mike Abbott 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

--- a/src/lib-storage/mail-storage-service.c +++ b/src/lib-storage/mail-storage-service.c @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ } } if (*set->mail_privileged_group != '\0') { - if (!parse_uid(set->mail_privileged_group, &rset.privileged_gid)) + if (!parse_gid(set->mail_privileged_group, &rset.privileged_gid)) i_fatal("Unknown mail_gid group: %s", set->mail_gid); } if (*set->mail_access_groups != '\0')

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[Dovecot] [OT] DRBD
by Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hello all, has someone worked with DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) for HA of mail storage? if so, does it have stability issues? comments and experiences are thanked :) Thanks, Rodolfo.

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[Dovecot] expire plugin + --exec-mail in 1.2.6 version
by Nikita Koshikov 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hello list, After upgrade to dovecot version 1.2.6 I have noticed some quota malfunctions(users become often overquota). Looking at logs closely I have found that quota value resets to general dovecot-config( quota = maildir:Mailbox quota quota_rule = *:storage=500M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=10%% ), after dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh command. The problem that some users have their own quotas stored in ldap. For example, user sr(a)domain.com have maildirsize before running expire-tool(1G value from ldap): # head -2 /data/mail/domain.com/sr/data/maildirsize 10485760000S 836423205 8285 Then I run expire-tool with mail_debug enabled: # /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_trash_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_expire_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_virtual_plugin.so Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Info: Quota root: name=Mailbox quota backend=maildir args= Info: Quota rule: root=Mailbox quota mailbox=* bytes=524288000 messages=0 Info: Quota rule: root=Mailbox quota mailbox=Trash bytes=52428800 (10%) messages=0 Info: Quota warning: bytes=471859200 (90%) messages=0 command=/etc/dovecot/plugins/quota_warning.sh 90 Info: expire: pattern=Trash type=expunge secs=2592000 Info: expire: pattern=Spam type=expunge secs=2592000 Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=1 uid=1869: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=2 uid=1870: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=3 uid=1871: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=4 uid=1872: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=5 uid=1873: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=6 uid=1874: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=7 uid=1875: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=8 uid=1876: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=9 uid=1877: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=10 uid=1878: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=11 uid=1879: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=12 uid=1880: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Spam: timestamp 1256618680 (Tue Oct 27 06:44:40 2009) -> 1256716674 (Wed Oct 28 09:57:54 2009) Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/fsb Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/fsb/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/fsb/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/fsb/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=1 uid=578: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=2 uid=579: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=3 uid=580: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=4 uid=581: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=5 uid=582: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=6 uid=583: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=7 uid=584: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=8 uid=585: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=9 uid=586: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=10 uid=587: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=11 uid=588: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=12 uid=589: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=13 uid=590: Expunge Info: fsb(a)domain.com/Trash: timestamp 1256627284 (Tue Oct 27 09:08:04 2009) -> 1256732991 (Wed Oct 28 14:29:51 2009) Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/arsen Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/arsen/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/arsen/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/arsen/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=1 uid=14: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=2 uid=15: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=3 uid=16: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=4 uid=17: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=5 uid=18: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=6 uid=19: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=7 uid=20: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=8 uid=21: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=9 uid=22: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=10 uid=23: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=11 uid=24: Expunge Info: arsen(a)domain.com/Trash: timestamp 1256630371 (Tue Oct 27 09:59:31 2009) -> 1256733711 (Wed Oct 28 14:41:51 2009) Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/koshikov.n/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Trash: seq=1 uid=2561: Expunge Info: koshikov.n(a)domain.com/Trash: timestamp 1256709279 (Wed Oct 28 07:54:39 2009) -> 1256795118 (Thu Oct 29 07:45:18 2009) Info: auth input: quota_rule=*:bytes=10485760000 Info: auth input: uid=8 Info: auth input: gid=12 Info: auth input: home=/data/mail/domain.com/sr Info: auth input: mail=maildir:~/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Info: maildir: data=~/data Info: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/sr/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/sr/data Info: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Agromat/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Info: virtual: data=/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/sr/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Info: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Info: sr(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=1 uid=405: Expunge Info: sr(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=2 uid=406: Expunge Info: sr(a)domain.com/Spam: seq=3 uid=407: Expunge Info: sr(a)domain.com/Spam: timestamp 1256710764 (Wed Oct 28 08:19:24 2009) -> 1256980000 (Sat Oct 31 11:06:40 2009) Info: kolotilo.m(a)domain.com/Trash: stop, expire time in future: Wed Oct 28 10:27:41 2009 And after expire-tool ends it's stuff, user sr(a)domain.com have(512M from dovecot-config): 524288000SS 836423205 8285 As you can see - quota reset to default value. In changes to version 1.2.6 I see - dovecot --exec-mail was broken. Is fixes to 1.2.6 touch userdb lookups from --exec-mail ? With 1.2.4 expire-tool works correct and I have no config changes to dovecot setup. If dovecot -n output is needed, please let me know. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Berlin talk - video or audio available?
by James Brown 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Thanks Timo for putting up the .pdf and .ppt files for your talk at www.dovecot.org/talks . Is there a video or audio file of it? Thanks, James.

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[Dovecot] new to dovecot
by Lars Nielsen 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hi there, I have installed debian with exim4 postgresql 8.3 and dovecot 1.0.15. I have the mail delivery part done, so when i send mail it gets delivered in ~/MailDir/ I have tried to authenticate via passwd and postgresql but with no luck. I have read a lot on google but i cannot get dovecot to give me the mails via pop3. Is there a tutorial somewhere i have missed? so far i have messed up my config like this : # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/errors.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd regards Lars Nielsen

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[Dovecot] mailbox count folders issues
by Nikita Koshikov 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hello list, I have one user, which have a lot of folders (not it is 414 without INBOX). When he tries to create one more folder with random name - the folder successfully created, but LIST command invokes out of memory to imap process. From the logs: Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435472 bytes Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: *** glibc detected *** imap: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0812ba00 *** Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: ======= Backtrace: ========= Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: /lib/libc.so.6[0xb7e8a714] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x9c)[0xb7e8bfcc] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(t_pop+0x7a)[0x80f0a1a] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(t_pop_check+0xf)[0x80f0b9f] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80f199d] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80f2285] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80f1bd9] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80f099d] Oct 26 15:26:38 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: Sending log messages too fast, throttling.. Oct 26 15:26:38 dovecot: Error: child 9497 (imap) killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80f0e17] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80fccc8] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80efd3a] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(buffer_write+0xd2)[0x80f0242] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(buffer_append+0x26)[0x80f0366] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(mail_transaction_log_append+0x5dc)[0x80d457c] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80c90d9] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(mail_index_sync_commit+0xa5)[0x80cc625] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_virtual_plugin.so[0xb7de7cee] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(virtual_storage_sync_init+0x71c)[0xb7dea7cc] Oct 26 15:26:39 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(mailbox_sync+0x35)[0x80b6335] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(cmd_select_full+0x3d8)[0x8065088] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(cmd_select+0x19)[0x80657e9] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x8067a9c] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x8067b35] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(client_handle_input+0x2d)[0x8067ced] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(client_input+0x5f)[0x80686af] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(io_loop_handler_run+0xe0)[0x80fae60] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(io_loop_run+0x20)[0x80fa2e0] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap(main+0x5ea)[0x807116a] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5)[0xb7e35725] Oct 26 15:26:40 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: imap[0x80602b1] Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: ======= Memory map: ======== Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: 08048000-08129000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 385446 /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: 08129000-0812a000 r--p 000e0000 08:02 385446 /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: 0812a000-0812c000 rw-p 000e1000 08:02 385446 /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: 0812c000-0bbbd000 rw-p 0812c000 00:00 0 [heap] Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: 92600000-92621000 rw-p 92600000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: 92621000-92700000 ---p 92621000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b280d000-b2819000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 263779 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/libgcc_s.so.1 Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b2819000-b281a000 r--p 0000b000 08:02 263779 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/libgcc_s.so.1 Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b281a000-b281b000 rw-p 0000c000 08:02 263779 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/libgcc_s.so.1 Oct 26 15:26:41 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b2822000-b7d88000 rw-p b2822000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7d88000-b7d90000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24109678 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7d90000-b7d95000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24109800 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/.Supplier.Furniture.Prima Ridhacitra.Inbox/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7d95000-b7d9a000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24117515 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/.Supplier.Furniture.Kappa Salotti.Outbox/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7d9a000-b7d9f000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24109096 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/.Supplier.Furniture.Keoma Salotti.Inbox/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7d9f000-b7da4000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24109729 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/.Supplier.Elements of illumination.Laber Agent.2 Outbox/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7da4000-b7da9000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24109097 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/.Supplier.Elements of illumination.Laber Agent.1 Inbox/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7da9000-b7dae000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24117749 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/.Structure of Agromat Company.Auto Logistics.1 Inbox/dovecot.index.cache Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dae000-b7dbd000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 562992 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.5 Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dbd000-b7dbe000 r--p 0000e000 08:02 562992 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.5 Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dbe000-b7dbf000 rw-p 0000f000 08:02 562992 /lib/libbz2.so.1.0.5 Oct 26 15:26:42 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dbf000-b7dd1000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 562990 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dd1000-b7dd2000 r--p 00011000 08:02 562990 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dd2000-b7dd3000 rw-p 00012000 08:02 562990 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dd7000-b7dda000 r--s 00000000 08:11 24109083 /data/mail/domain.com/gozhda.a/data/dovecot.index.log Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dda000-b7ddd000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 269577 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7ddd000-b7dde000 r--p 00002000 08:02 269577 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dde000-b7ddf000 rw-p 00003000 08:02 269577 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7ddf000-b7dec000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 269941 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dec000-b7ded000 r--p 0000c000 08:02 269941 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7ded000-b7dee000 rw-p 0000d000 08:02 269941 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7dee000-b7df1000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 272179 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_expire_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:43 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7df1000-b7df2000 r--p 00002000 08:02 272179 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_expire_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7df2000-b7df3000 rw-p 00003000 08:02 272179 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_expire_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7df3000-b7df5000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 269836 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib11_trash_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7df5000-b7df6000 r--p 00001000 08:02 269836 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib11_trash_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7df6000-b7df7000 rw-p 00002000 08:02 269836 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib11_trash_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7df7000-b7e04000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 270039 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e04000-b7e05000 r--p 0000c000 08:02 270039 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e05000-b7e06000 rw-p 0000d000 08:02 270039 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e06000-b7e07000 rw-p b7e06000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e07000-b7e1b000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 562206 /lib/libpthread-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e1b000-b7e1c000 r--p 00013000 08:02 562206 /lib/libpthread-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:44 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e1c000-b7e1d000 rw-p 00014000 08:02 562206 /lib/libpthread-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e1d000-b7e1f000 rw-p b7e1d000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7e1f000-b7f5c000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 563472 /lib/libc-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f5c000-b7f5e000 r--p 0013d000 08:02 563472 /lib/libc-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f5e000-b7f5f000 rw-p 0013f000 08:02 563472 /lib/libc-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f5f000-b7f62000 rw-p b7f5f000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f62000-b7f69000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 563080 /lib/librt-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f69000-b7f6a000 r--p 00006000 08:02 563080 /lib/librt-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f6a000-b7f6b000 rw-p 00007000 08:02 563080 /lib/librt-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f6b000-b7f6d000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 563473 /lib/libdl-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f6d000-b7f6e000 r--p 00001000 08:02 563473 /lib/libdl-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:45 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f6e000-b7f6f000 rw-p 00002000 08:02 563473 /lib/libdl-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f6f000-b7f70000 rw-p b7f6f000 00:00 0 Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f70000-b7f71000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 269571 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f71000-b7f72000 r--p 00000000 08:02 269571 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f72000-b7f73000 rw-p 00001000 08:02 269571 /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f73000-b7f75000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 270032 /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f75000-b7f76000 r--p 00001000 08:02 270032 /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f76000-b7f77000 rw-p 00002000 08:02 270032 /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f77000-b7f93000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 563474 /lib/ld-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f93000-b7f94000 r--p 0001c000 08:02 563474 /lib/ld-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: b7f94000-b7f95000 rw-p 0001d000 08:02 563474 /lib/ld-2.9.so Oct 26 15:26:46 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: bfb7f000-bfb94000 rw-p bffeb000 00:00 0 [stack] Oct 26 15:26:47 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Error: ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] Oct 26 15:26:57 IMAP(gozhda.a(a)domain.com): Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435472 bytes And so on... I have tried to grow mail_process_size from 256 to 512, but this didn't help. My question - is there some hardcoded limit for mail directories or it's a bug ? dovecot -n: # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-gentoo-r4 i686 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log protocols: imaps managesieve ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/imaps.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/imaps.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_greeting: Server ready. login_processes_count: 20 login_max_processes_count: 512 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 first_valid_uid: 8 last_valid_uid: 8 first_valid_gid: 12 last_valid_gid: 12 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota trash expire zlib autocreate virtual mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota trash expire zlib autocreate virtual mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:~/data inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: Company/ location: virtual:/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ list: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)domain.com hostname: mail.domain.com mail_plugins: quota trash expire sieve virtual quota_full_tempfail: yes sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log global_script_path: /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_global_dir: /etc/dovecot/sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login default_realm: domain.com cache_size: 10240 cache_negative_ttl: 0 user: dovecot_auth master_user_separator: * worker_max_count: 50 passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passdb/master.pwd master: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passdb/users.pwd passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-userdb-ldap.conf userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passdb/users.pwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: mail group: dovecot_auth master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mail group: mail plugin: quota_warning: storage=90%% /etc/dovecot/plugins/quota_warning.sh 90 quota: maildir:Mailbox quota quota_rule: *:storage=500M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10%% trash: /etc/dovecot/plugins/dovecot-trash.conf expire: Trash 30 Spam 30 expire_dict: proxy::expire autocreate: Drafts autocreate2: Sent autocreate3: Spam autocreate4: Trash autosubscribe: Drafts autosubscribe2: Sent autosubscribe3: Spam autosubscribe4: Trash sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve sieve_extensions: +notify sieve_before: /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve dict: expire: sqlite:/etc/dovecot/plugins/expire.conf

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[Dovecot] Newbee, some questions
by Spyros Tsiolis 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hello list, OK, I just registered with the list, so please be tolerant :-) I've been using another MTA for about, oh, I'd say nine years now. Due to reasons beyond me (mainly my clients demanding more for their buck / things like webmail etc.), I was forced to start searching for (always) open source alternatives. The last MTA was only POP3/SMTP. It does no webmail. It interfaces with other software with a lot of pain and difficulty. I'll cut to the chase. I would like to start using some kind of software that can do the following : 1. Do multiple domain handling. 2. Have a centralized user base 3. Have a centralized mail repository for each user (like exchange, only without the admin/maintenance pain that comes with it) 4. be able to do IMAP/POP3 and not SMTP/POP3 (or do I need all three of them ?) 5. Interface with things like web-based mail software (LAMP ?) Am I in the right place ? I would certainly like to think so. However, the feedback belongs to you . Thank you kindly for your hospitality and patience, S. Tsiolis

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[Dovecot] shared mailboxes using namespaces in 1.2
by Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hi! I've been using shared mailbox trees using maildir, unix permissions and separate namespaces per shared tree since dovecot 1.0. However now that I've upgraded to 1.2.8, I cannot create subfolders anymore. The server responds with "NO Invalid mailbox name: test/testsub". The hierarchy separator for the namespaces is / because I am mixing maildir and mbox namespaces and list=yes. The details: I am using a post-login script (attached) that detects all subfolders of /var/spool/mail/Shared for which the current user has at least read access. For every subfolder, it creates a separate namespace with the prefix Shared/<mailboxname>. The shared mailbox trees are in maildir format. If one of those namespace-prefixes is e.g. "Shared/sharedmailbox/", I am able to create "Shared/sharedmailbox/test" but trying to create "Shared/sharedmailbox/test/testsub" will fail with the above error. If I set the herarchy separator to '.' even creating "Shared/sharedmailbox/test" will fail. Any hints? Thanks, --leo -- e-mail ::: Leo.Bergolth (at) wu.ac.at fax ::: +43-1-31336-906050 location ::: IT-Services | Vienna University of Economics | Austria # 1.2.8: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686.PAE i686 Fedora release 10 (Cambridge) login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 100 mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_drop_priv_before_exec(default): yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec(imap): yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec(pop3): no mail_executable(default): /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-post-login.pl /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-post-login.pl /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 namespace: type: private separator: / location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)strike.wu-wien.ac.at auth default: mechanisms: plain gssapi 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] Slow IMAP Auth
by Jeff Duncan 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hello, I am experiencing IMAP authentication delays when a client first authenticates, or after the last auth timeout. There are only a handful of clients - less than 5 - using the server. I am using a mysql database and I have verified the PAM auth is commented out. Other than that I can't figure out what might be causing the slow authentication. The first time a client authenticates with SSL/CRAMD5 it takes almost 20 seconds. Does anyone have any suggestions? My config and version is below: mail:~# dovecot --version 1.1.11 mail:/usr/share/gallery2# dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.3 ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s 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_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 first_valid_uid: 6060 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): autocreate quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): autocreate quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota 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 cram-md5 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf passdb: driver: sql

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[Dovecot] Error: read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote disconnected
by Lauryca Puyulik 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hello all, I have a problem with my mail configuration and I don`t know how to resolve this error (listed bellow): deliver(mymail(a)testtest.ro): Nov 11 09:07:54 Error: Internal quota calculation error dovecot: Nov 11 09:07:54 Error: dict: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf: 'username_field' missing dovecot: Nov 11 09:07:54 Error: dict: Failed to initialize dictionary 'quota1' deliver(mymail(a)testtest.ro): Nov 11 09:07:54 Error: read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote disconnected deliver(mymail(a)testtest.ro): Nov 11 09:07:54 Error: Internal quota calculation error dovecot: Nov 11 09:07:56 Error: dict: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf: 'username_field' missing dovecot: Nov 11 09:07:56 Error: dict: Failed to initialize dictionary 'quota1' My dovecot configuration is: dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.7-9-pae i686 openSUSE 11.1 (i586) ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.err info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login first_valid_uid: 5000 last_valid_uid: 5000 mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: vmail verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: dict:::proxy::quota1 quota_rule: *:storage=50M:messages=10000 acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 dict: quota1: mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf Another question that raise from these logs is what are the permissions for all files from /var/run/dovecot? In the master.cf file I have somthing like this: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} Regarding this log : "dovecot: Nov 11 09:07:54 Error: dict: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf: 'username_field' missing", my dovecot-dict-quota.conf is correctly and that field exists. So...any idea? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Migrating existing local Maildir structure to dovecot server Maildir
by Halim Issa 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hello, I'm about to migrate a number of existing users who have been using POP3 with emails stored locally in KMail's Maildir format into an IMAP solution based on Dovecot. Will it be possible to simply move all the KDE Maildir folders from the local PCs to the Maildir folder on the IMAP server running Dovecot and then have the emails accessible on the server, or will this most likely mess up the Dovecot index files? If this causes index file trouble, is there any way to force a re-indexing of all these files, or is there another recommended way of migrating up to 7 years of email communication from local hosts to the IMAP server, for later putting them in folders? Thanks in advance! (PS. I noticed a few of the howto's on how to migrate to dovecot, but they only focus on moving from mbox to dovecot or similar, and not migrating existing Maildir emails to a new dovecot server... Any such pointers would be greatly appreciated :-)) -y1

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[Dovecot] dovecot ignoring folder permissions on directory creation
by Peter 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Ubuntu 8.04lts Dovecot 1.2.6 So, further to the 'deliver' problem posted yesterday I've also discovered another issue regarding permissions: files and directories are being created 0600/0700 by the IMAP and deliver process (depending on who gets there first!) preventing use of shared mailboxes. According to documentation: "When creating a new mailbox, Dovecot v1.2+ copies the permissions from the mailbox root directory." and "When creating new files inside a mailbox, Dovecot v1.2+ copies the read/write permissions from the mailbox's directory." (http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions) So, with an empty directory of: drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 21 2009-11-16 13:36 /home drwxrwx--x 3 nobody maildir 21 2009-11-16 13:36 /home/mail I would expect a user logging in to have their mail directory created automatically with the same permissions (but not necessarily the same group). What I see post-login is: drwxrwx--x 3 nobody maildir 21 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail drwx------ 3 auser adomain 18 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain drwx------ 3 auser adomain 20 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser drwx------ 5 auser adomain 4096 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir drwx------ 2 auser adomain 6 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/cur -rw------- 1 auser adomain 0 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/dovecot-acl-list -rw------- 1 auser adomain 156 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 auser adomain 17 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 auser adomain 8 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 auser adomain 0 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/dovecot-uidvalidity.4b0156e2 drwx------ 2 auser adomain 6 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/new drwx------ 2 auser adomain 6 2009-11-16 13:42 /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir/tmp I've tried pre-creation of /home/mail/adomain, /home/mail/adomain/auser and /home/mail/adomain/auser/Maildir in each case with permissions 0770 but in each case subsequent subdirectories and files are 0700/0600. I've also tried use of a "dovecot-shared" file, but this also has no effect under any permutation I can create. Anyone else seen this?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot on Qnap ts-439
by BeKi 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hello, I use Xdove 1.2 on my ts-409 together with IMAP/dovecot. I like to see the same folder structure on my different workstation (private/work ...). I move the mails into the folder structure I created. That works fine. But since I use Xdove with IMAP I have the problem that my mailclient loads all mails I already stored in different folders again into the INBOX (some mails also multiple with subfolders). These mails are duplicates (or multiples) because I delete them all. The mails in my folders are still there. Up to now I tried different mail clients. Thunderbird 2.x/3.x, Pegasus 4.5, Outlook Express. All behave the same way, so I think it must have something to do with the server. The times when the clients loads the mails into INBOX are not regular intervals. It can be a day when this happens again or one week. Maybe one of you heard about this and can give me hints where to look for. Which configuration files shall I post to help debug? Thanks, Bernd

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[Dovecot] lda deliver + vpopmail
by Stéphane Cottin 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi all, I'm enjoying using dovecot deliver with qmail+vpopmail+dspam. It works mostly fine, I like the indexing and sieve features with dovecot deliver. I would like to get more details on trouble, the log entry is just : " 2009-11-18_20:38:55.64778 delivery 50833: deferral: " As you see, there no reason for the deferral. How can I make deliver more verbose ? I also have a vpopmail alias issue. Because some domains (sadly) needs a catchall, and to keep using the useful vpopmail alias features, I'm using the following ugly script : " #!/bin/sh email=`/usr/sbin/valias -- $1 2>/dev/null | cut -d" " -f3` if [ -z "$email" ];then email=$1 t=`/usr/sbin/vuserinfo -n -- $1 2>&1>/dev/null` t=$? if [ "$t" == "255" ];then domain=`echo "${1}" | cut -d'@' -f 2` dir=`/usr/sbin/vdominfo -d $domain 2> /dev/null| head -1` email=`cat ${dir}/.qmail-default | head -1 | awk -F# '{ print $2 }'` if [ "$email" == "bounce-no-mailbox" ];then email=$1 fi fi fi echo $email " my .qmail-default file contains : " #bounce-no-mailbox | /usr/bin/dspam --client --deliver=innocent,spam --user `/usr/sbin/vrealemails $EXT@$USER` --stdout | /usr/bin/preline -f /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d `/usr/sbin/vrealemails $EXT@$USER` " or if using a catchall : " #catchall(a)domain.com | /usr/bin/dspam --client --deliver=innocent,spam --user `/usr/sbin/vrealemails $EXT@$USER` --stdout | /usr/bin/preline -f /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d `/usr/sbin/vrealemails $EXT@$USER` " I don't like this way for design and security reasons and would prefer a more consistent approach. The vpopmail alias lookup should be made internally by deliver, and unlike my script, handle one to many aliasing. The catchall feature is (sadly) also needed, my implementation is ugly, in practice it works, but is limited as the catchall address must be on the same host. I'm thinking about adding a specific option to the deliver command line, but I'm not sure that's the better way to do it. Help needed please Stéphane

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[Dovecot] Anonymous SSL Ciphers
by Jeffrey Nikoletich 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Everyone, I am having an issue with getting anonymous ssl ciphers disabled in dovecot. I have googled like crazy to find the solution with no help. Here is my doveconf -n # 1.2.5: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) nfs log_path: /var/log/dovecot ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/islandemail.com.wild.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/islandemail.com.wild.key ssl_cipher_list: HIGH:MEDIUM:+TLSv1:!SSLv2:+SSLv3 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Island Email - Ready. login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 512 login_processes_count: 100 login_max_processes_count: 500 login_max_connections: 1000 max_mail_processes: 5000 mail_max_userip_connections: 2000 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 5000 first_valid_gid: 5000 mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mbox_read_locks: dotlock mbox_write_locks: dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_size: 512 mail_plugins(default): mail_log mail_plugins(imap): mail_log mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 pop3_save_uidl(default): no pop3_save_uidl(imap): no pop3_save_uidl(pop3): yes pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v.%u lda: postmaster_address: xxxx(a)xxxxx.xxxx mail_plugins: sieve log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 failure_delay: 1 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes worker_max_count: 100 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/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mailowner group: mailowner plugin: mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename thanks in advance. Jeff N.

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[Dovecot] FW: Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index
by Cliff Hayes 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Nevermind. I figured it out. I left off the INDEX command. Sorry to spam the mail list :( Here is my mail_location for future reference / searches: mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+chayes=afo.net@dovecot.org]On Behalf Of Cliff Hayes Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 4:02 PM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index Hello, I just installed Fedora 11 with Dovecot 1.2.6 and am now seeing a steady stream of these in maillog: Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Raw backtrace: pop3 [0x4930ab] -> pop3 [0x493123] -> pop3 [0x4927b6] -> pop3 [0x43ddd4] -> pop3 [0x43de84] -> pop3(index_mail_set_seq+0x146) [0x449c16] -> pop3 [0x43e129] -> pop3(index_storage_search_next_nonblock+0x141) [0x44d5c1] -> pop3(mailbox_search_next_nonblock+0x20) [0x45b580] -> pop3(mailbox_search_next+0x26) [0x45b5d6] -> pop3 [0x419ef9] -> pop3(client_command_execute+0x666) [0x41abd6] -> pop3(client_handle_input+0x80) [0x418f80] -> pop3(io_loop_handler_run+0xbd) [0x49b02d] -> pop3(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x49a498] -> pop3(main+0x526) [0x41b286] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x3a9b61ea2d] -> pop3 [0x418809] Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: dovecot: child 26792 (pop3) killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) I see nothing about this in the mail archives or on the internet! What could be happening and how do I fix? I'm also seeing lots of these: Nov 15 11:26:24 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Log synchronization error at seq=12646,offset=172 for /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Extension introduction for unknown id 1 Nov 15 11:26:24 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): fscking index file /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index Here are the only things I messed with in dovecot.conf: protocols = pop3 mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_very_dirty_syncs = yes Thanks in advance, Cliff

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[Dovecot] .temp file, public folders
by Mayer 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

We recently migrated from UW-Imap to dovecot. Our setup: dovecot 1.2.6 postfix 2.3.3 (from rhel) systemusers without shell access to the mailstore location = maildir:/maildir/%1n/%u:LAYOUT=fs All mails on local disks. Performance is great compared with mbox. But I still have some unresolved problems, mainly concerning deliver. Deliver sometimes wants to write a .temp.<hostname>.some-number file in the user's home directory. If the user is over quota (in his home!) he can't receive mails though no mails are stored in his home. The user homes are on a distributed filesystem (AFS). The mails are stored locally on the mailserver as I mentioned before. How can I tell deliver in the configuration to write the temp file at another location ? We would like to offer public folders for work groups. Reading with imap works fine. But I didn't find a way to tell deliver to drop mails directly in a public folder. Should I use Sieve instead ? Maybe this is rather a postfix question. Postfix is calling deliver. Userdb in the dovecot config is passwd. Postfix looks for local users in: local_recipient_maps = $alias_maps $recipient_canonical_maps unix:passwd.byname Any help is appreciated. Helga Mayer

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[Dovecot] mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox
by Ivan S 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi All, Our webmail having an issue with the harddrive so I build new webmail on other machine (using Squirrelmail+dovecot+postfix). After copy all data/home folder from the backup, when this user want to access his Sent item, nothing's in it. I've checked the log and found the message as below. mailserver dovecot: IMAP(xxxxx): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/xxxx/mail/Sent (691 > 657, seq=473, idx_msgs=10950) mailserver dovecot: IMAP(xxxxx): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/xxxx/mail/Sent (691 > 657, seq=473, idx_msgs=10950) This is only happen with the Sent items, since I also found other similar log and this user advised that everything is fine with that folder mailserver dovecot: IMAP(xxxxx): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/xxxxx/mail/Accountant Info (327 > 326, seq=306, idx_msgs=353) mailserver dovecot: IMAP(xxxxx): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/xxxxx/mail/Accountant Info (327 > 326, seq=306, idx_msgs=353) I've rebuild the index file by delete the Sent item folder in .imap directory, no such luck. Any help would be really appreciated Thank you

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[Dovecot] NONEXISTENT status code
by Michael M. Slusarz 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

I'm going to take exception to the way dovecot (1.2.8) is returning the NONEXISTENT response code in certain cases. For example, these transactions: c: 1 EXAMINE "foo" S: 1 NO [NONEXISTENT] Mailbox doesn't exist: foo C: 2 STATUS "foo" (MESSAGES) S: 2 NO [NONEXISTENT] Mailbox doesn't exist: foo ...don't appear to be the proper usage of NONEXISTENT. From RFC 5530[3]: NONEXISTENT The operation attempts to delete something that does not exist. NONEXISTENT should be used for RENAME or DELETE (also the UID EXPUNGE) commands. Although the textual description is appropriate in the above situations - the mailbox truly doesn't exist - this is not what the response code indicates. Under the RFCs, it seems that failure of a STATUS or EXAMINE command with a NO response *could* mean the mailbox doesn't exist, but there is no method of reporting this via a response code. michael

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[Dovecot] Upgrade Dovecot 1.2.7 to 1.2.8 on OS X (10.6.2)
by Tom Kardos 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi there, I've tried to update Dovecot to the latest version and have come upon an error during make. Previous upgrades have all been very easy (thank you!) and it appears that the updated make script includes a wget command and unfortunately OS X does not come with wget by default (curl is the default). Not being completely up to speed with the whole autoconf and make process, I'm a little at a loss as to where to even look for making a modification to use curl instead of wget - any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Tom

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[Dovecot] quota in SQL and static userdb
by Lampa 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hello, which solution will be working or will be working better (performance). Using dovecot 1.2.6 (plugin section contains quota_rule = *:storage=500M:messages=10000 and i need override this default quota for some users) A) passdb sql(SELECT userid AS user, pw AS password, quota AS userdb_quota_rule FROM users WHERE userid = '%u') + userdb static (uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/mail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes) - using extra fields quota with no prefetch userdb or B) passdb sql(SELECT userid AS user, pw AS password, quota AS userdb_quota_rule, CONCAT('/home/mail/', domain, '/', user) AS userdb_home, 500 AS userdb_uid, 500 AS userdb_gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u') + prefetch (eg same sql file) Solution for LDA only(postfix local delivery) and for another IMAP/POP3 dovecot instance? And how to implement domain quotas (something like user quotas using dict) ? Thank you. -- Lampa

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[Dovecot] How to remove leading dots from folder names with Layout=FS
by Tony Rutherford 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

We are looking to move to Dovecot from a customized Courier implementation. Our current format is maildir-like. It's basically a filesystem layout...hierarchies are identified by real directories/subdirectories. Our folder names do have a leading dot and for reasons related to other systems, we do not want to change our format at all.The Layout=FS is very close to working for us. The problem we have is the folder names are coming back with the leading dot to the clients. Is there a way through configuration to have the leading dot removed?So, just to clarify, under our maildir home, we have directories (folders) for example: .Trash, .Sent-Mail, etc. Then, any child folders would be resident in the physical subdirectories. Like I said, things appear to work ok, except our List is coming back with .Trash, .Sent-Mail, etc....we would like simply Trash, Sent-Mail, etc.Thanks,...Tony This message is intended solely for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination or copying is strictly prohibited. If you believe you received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete from your system. Thank you.

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[Dovecot] trivial documentation errata (1.2.7)
by Frank Cusack 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

The default dovecot.conf says # Dictionary can be used by some plugins to store key=value lists. # Currently this is only used by dict quota backend. Looks like expire uses dict as well. The managesieve comments are stale as well, with a reference to sieve_storage still in there. Or do they refer to the CMU sieve implementation? Anyway it is confusing. -frank

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[Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients
by Jonathan 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

I'm getting tired of Thunderbird telling me I have unread messages in folders that haven't gotten new messages for months so I'm looking for a new mail client. I know the problem lies with Thunderbird because everything is fine via RoundCube and if it tell Thunderbird to rebuild it's index it shows the folder correctly again. Except of course for a subset of the messages in my inbox that it insists where delivered at the exact time I re-indexed it, every time. So what IMAP clients do people prefer these days? Preferably windows or cross platform and it needs to have decent key bindings because (probably like many of you) I get 100s of emails a day via lists and anything that speeds my way through them is good. I run my own server (probably obvious being on this list) and can install webmail clients as well. I ran squirrelmail for a while but although functional it's quite dated. I'm using RoundCube for access away from my systems now but it lacks keyboard shortcut support and trying to click one email after another with a laptop touchpad gets painful fast. Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] Override Quota with post-login scripting problem
by Yorck Koehler 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi everyone, I do have the following dovecot-setup: Passdb: PAM (Winbind-auth and pam_mkhomedir-session) Userdb: passwd (NSS-winbind) This validates/creates my users with aid of my running ActiveDirectory. Now the problem: My global quota policy works fine, but I need to override them for some users. I was sucessful within IMAP itself. I use post-login scripting for that. The mail-clients displays the user-quota correctly. But delivery is still a problem, because I'm unable to override the settings there with post-login scripting. Everytime I send messages to such a user, dovecot sends it back with "Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)"... My Question: Is it possible to override the lda quota like I can do it within imap ? (I dont want to change my setup to MYSQL DB only for per-user Quota, if its possible to use a simple file with names and quota) This is the post-login script: #quotaperuser.sh #!/bin/sh case "$USER" in "ZAGH-V+username") QUOTA_RULE='*:storage=500M';; "ZAGH-V+test") QUOTA_RULE='*:storage=5000M';; esac exec /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap $* My Configuration: {dovecot -n} # 1.2.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.16.60-0.54.5-smp i686 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.err info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info protocols: imap imaps pop3 ssl_listen: * disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_full_filesystem_access: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/bin/quotaperuser.sh mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/bin/quotaperuser.sh mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota expire mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota expire mail_plugins(pop3): quota expire mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v.%u lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)zag.de mail_plugins: sieve quota expire mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda quota_full_tempfail: no deliver_log_format: msgid=%m subject=%s from=%f status=%$ auth default: username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@+ username_format: zagh-v+%u failure_delay: 0 passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes dovecot userdb: driver: passwd plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve quota: maildir:Quota quota_rule: *:storage=100M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=100M quota_warning: storage=90%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 90 quota_warning2: storage=75%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 75 expire: trash 7 expire_dict: proxy::expire

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[Dovecot] v1.2.8 released
by Timo Sirainen 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.8.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.8.tar.gz.sig This is mainly to fix the 0777 base_dir creation issue, which could be considered a security hole, exploitable by local users. An attacker could for example replace Dovecot's auth socket and log in as other users. Gaining root privileges isn't possible though. This affects only v1.2 users, v1.1 and older versions were creating the directory with 0755 permission. If your Dovecot's base_dir isn't in /var/run/dovecot/, you should also make sure that the $prefix/var/ and $prefix/var/run/ (i.e. /usr/local/var/, /usr/local/var/run/ by default) aren't 0777. * Dovecot v1.2.x had been creating base_dir (and its parents if necessary) with 0777 permissions. The base_dir's permissions get changed to 0755 automatically at startup, but you may need to chmod the parent directories manually. - acl: If user has rights from more than one group, merge them instead of choosing one group's rights and ignoring others. - virtual: When using a lot of mailboxes, the virtual mailbox's header could have grown over 32 kB and caused "out of memory" crashes. Also over 64 kB headers couldn't even be updated with existing transaction log records. Added a new record type that gets used with >=64 kB headers. Older Dovecot versions don't understand this header and will log errors if they see it. - FETCH BODYSTRUCTURE didn't return RFC 2231 "key*" fields correctly

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[Dovecot] migrating from Courier
by LuKreme 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

I've been running postfix/courier-ssl/MySQL/postfixadmin for years, but since I am in the process of building a new server I decide to reexamine my options. I'm sticking with postfix, but I've decided to move from courier to dovecot because everyone is telling me it's much faster, and I really dislike courier's SASL setup and integration with other services. Of course, I have dozens (but not hundreds) of gigabytes of Courier Maildirs for all the users. Most of the users are in MySQL virtual domains and their mail is stored in a common directory (/usr/local/virtual) and owned by a single system user (vpopmail). I've even hacked together a postfix service to run procmail for the virtual users, though my intention of creating a webface allowing them to muck up their own .procmailrcs never came to fruition. I'm doing my user migration in two steps. First, I will rsync all the mail (and all the user webfiles) to the new server, do any setup/conversion/&c to the data on the new server and make sure everything is working and that passwords are preserved. Then, right before the server goes live I will shutdown mail on the old machine, rsync any new mail (hopefully no more than a couple of hours worth) over, do any conversion, and then fire up the new server. 1) what do I need to do to convert or prepare the courier maildirs for dovecot? 2) is the current setup of virtual users reasonable for dovecot? 2.1) Is there a better option than postfixadmin? 3) some of my users are not in MySQL, but are real system users. Is this going to confuse dovecot (it confuses courier no end). These system users are still using courier and courier maildirs. 4) would it be better to take the server live and THEN move/convert the old mail? 5) anything else obvious that I didn't mention or ask that I should have? The most important thing, of course, is to not lose anyone's email. -- "Two years from now, spam will be solved," -- Bill Gates, January, 2004

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and SATA Backend
by Nicolas GRENECHE 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi all, I plan to run a dovecot IMAPS and POPS service on our network. We handle about 3 000 mailboxes. I thought first buying a topnotch server (8 cores and 16 Go RAM) with equalogic iSCSI SAN SAS 15K for storage backend. On second though (and after a comprhensive read of dovecot features), I saw in http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation that index files can be created on a separete local filesystem. My question is : for 3000 users, is it possible to have only a SATA backend attached to my topnotch server (to handle bigger mail quotas) by storing index on local hard drives (SAS drives) ? Extra question, what is the better : iSCSI SATA backend or NFS share ? NFS share is more convenient to have a failover server. Thanks for your help. Regards, -- Nicolas Grenèche - Orléans University - France http://blog.garnett.fr (in french)

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Re: [Dovecot] Sieve plugin: Filtering UTF-8 Emails
by micha＠pocomail.de 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Am Montag, den 23.11.2009 0:53:15 schrieb Pascal Volk <user+dovecot(a)localhost.localdomain.org>... > Please stop top posting. > > Your installation is horrible old. You may consider an update. > > You are using the omparator "i;ascii-casemap". Please read in RFC 2244 > section 3.4 about it <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2244#section-3.4>. > And you will know, why your rule never will match. > You could test my working script from my last message. > > > Regards, > Pascal okay, thank you !!!!!!! michael

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Re: [Dovecot] Sieve plugin: Filtering UTF-8 Emails
by micha＠pocomail.de 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

hi Pascal, sorry, here are my infos: dovecot version: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 i am not sure how to find out, which version of cumsieve the server has, as far as i can see with a locate cumsieve, it must be version 1.0.3 or 1.1.6. the scripte and a test-email is attached. the log says: deliver(shop(a)xxxx.de): "2009-11-23 00:09:45 "Info: msgid=<4B09C4AE.3070306(a)xxxx.de>: saved mail to INBOX thanks for your help!! michael Am Sonntag, den 22.11.2009 23:01:35 schrieb Pascal Volk <user+dovecot(a)localhost.localdomain.org>... > On 11/22/2009 09:33 PM micha(a)pocomail.de wrote: > >> hi all, >> >> i hope it´s okay for questions about the sieve plugin here... >> > > Yes, this is the right mailing list for such questions… > > >> my problem is, that the filters do not seem to match utf8-content >> >> for instance: the email: >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> Subject: >> =?utf-8?Q?Erinnerung:=20Bitte=20f=C3=BChren=20Sie=20die=20Kaufabwicklung=20durch?= >> >> when i use the same subject (of course in utf-8) in my ".dovecot.sieve", >> the filter never matches ;-(( >> >> does anyone have an idea howto make the sample here matching by sieve ??? >> > > Huh, where is your script? No script - no error checking. ;) > > Which Dovecot version? Which Sieve version? > > # file .dovecot.sieve > .dovecot.sieve: UTF-8 Unicode text > > ~/.dovecot.sieve: > require "fileinto"; > if header :matches "subject" "Erinnerung: Bitte führen Sie die Kaufabw*" { > fileinto "Trash"; > setflag "\\Seen"; > } > > Log: Info: sieve: msgid=<20091…ple.com>: stored mail into mailbox Trash' > The test message is attached. > > > Regards, > Pascal > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Betreff: > Erinnerung: Bitte führen Sie die Kaufabwicklung durch > Von: > spambot(a)example.com > Datum: > Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:50:29 +0100 (CET) > An: > sven(a)firma.tld > > An: > sven(a)firma.tld > > > <html> > <body> > <h1>Hello wordl</h1> > <p>foo bar baz</p> > </body> > </html> > # Erinnerung Kaufabwicklung if allof ( header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "Subject" "Erinnerung: Bitte führen Sie die Kaufabwicklung durch", ) { redirect "xxx(a)googlemail.com"; stop; }

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[Dovecot] Sieve plugin: Filtering UTF-8 Emails
by micha＠pocomail.de 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

hi all, i hope it´s okay for questions about the sieve plugin here... my problem is, that the filters do not seem to match utf8-content for instance: the email: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Erinnerung:=20Bitte=20f=C3=BChren=20Sie=20die=20Kaufabwicklung=20durch?= when i use the same subject (of course in utf-8) in my ".dovecot.sieve", the filter never matches ;-(( does anyone have an idea howto make the sample here matching by sieve ??? thank´s for any help! michael

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[Dovecot] quota dict
by Lampa 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hello, i'm using dict quota stored in mysql (/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf): connect = host=localhost dbname=vmail user=dovecot password= # CREATE TABLE quota ( # username varchar(100) not null, # bytes bigint not null default 0, # messages integer not null default 0, # primary key (username) # ); map { pattern = priv/quota/storage table = quota username_field = username value_field = bytes } map { pattern = priv/quota/messages table = quota username_field = username value_field = messages } ----------------------- from dovecot.conf (quota rule is get from passdb sql + prefetch): dict { quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf } plugin { quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_warning = storage=99%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 99 quota_warning2 = storage=95%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning3 = storage=80%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 80 But how to add another quota for Trash folder ? It seeems that will be needed another table something like quota2 but how to map it using map {} -- Lampa

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[Dovecot] kudos
by Frank Cusack 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

I'm sure this isn't said enough, so kudos to Timo for what has to be the best IMAP server anywhere, hands-down no qualifications! And to think, it's a one man operation ... although perhaps that is one of the reasons it is so good.

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[Dovecot] Problem compiling dovecot 1.2.8 on Solaris 10?
by Drew Schatt 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

I've got an issue using Sun's compilers on Solaris 10 - it appears that dovecot is trying to use the getopt function, that's part of GNU's glibc, and, therefore, not present when using Sun's compilers. Any ideas on how to resolve? cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-auth -I../../src/lib-mail -I../../src/lib-imap -I../../src/lib-index -I../../src/lib-storage/index/maildir -I../../src/auth -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"\" -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include -D_XPG6 -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -KPIC -lm -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xc99 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -D_XPG6 -xstrconst -KPIC -lm -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c authtest.c "authtest.c", line 164: warning: implicit function declaration: getopt "authtest.c", line 167: undefined symbol: optarg "authtest.c", line 167: warning: improper pointer/integer combination: op "=" "authtest.c", line 170: warning: improper pointer/integer combination: op "=" "authtest.c", line 176: undefined symbol: optind "authtest.c", line 178: undefined symbol: optind cc: acomp failed for authtest.c -Drew Schatt

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[Dovecot] Plugin Compatibility
by Tony Rutherford 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

We are looking to develop a plugin against the 1.2.X line (8 as of right now). Seeing that v2.0 is not too far off, is there any reason to think that a plugin developed for 1.2.X would NOT be compatible with the 2.0 line?Thanks,Tony This message is intended solely for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination or copying is strictly prohibited. If you believe you received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete from your system. Thank you.

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[Dovecot] quota is not ignoring trash
by JC 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I have debian lenny configured with postfix 2.5.5 and dovecot 1.0.15 with mysql, every user has a different quota. The problem is that the quota is not ignoring trash folder, how can I solve this problem? And another question, is there a possibility to ignore sent folder?. this is my dovecot.conf smtp:# dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/mail.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 imap 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 login_processes_count: 5 login_max_processes_count: 256 login_max_connections: 512 max_mail_processes: 512 first_valid_uid: 5000 last_valid_uid: 5000 first_valid_gid: 5000 mail_access_groups: vmail mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota trash mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: vmail passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: vmail master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir:storage=51200:ignore=Trash trash: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf this is my dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=maildb user=xxx password=yyy default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT email AS user, password FROM users WHERE email = '%u' user_query = SELECT 'maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n' AS home, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, CONCAT('maildir:storage=', ROUND( quota / 1000 ) ) AS quota FROM users WHERE email = '%u'

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[Dovecot] Postfix+Dovecot SASL+LDAP(AD)
by Vitaliy Vladimirovich 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I have tried configure Postfix with Dovecot SASL to authenticate remote users in LDAP (Active Directory). Below my dovecot.conf: protocols = none ssl = none auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf } } dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = 10.55.0.2:389 debug_level = 1 auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = cn=%n,dc=example,dc=gov,dc=ua ldap_version = 3 base = dc=example, dc=gov, dc=ua scope = subtree ## 10.55.0.2 - Domain Controller ## But it does not work:-( Where is mistake? Below log: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx postfix/smtpd[12985]: connect from unknown[190.10.190.3] Nov 18 13:02:59 mx postfix/smtpd[12985]: setting up TLS connection from unknown[190.10.190.3] Nov 18 13:02:59 mx postfix/smtpd[12985]: Anonymous TLS connection established from unknown[190.10.190.3]: TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_bind Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_simple_bind Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_sasl_bind Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_send_initial_request Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_send_server_request Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_result ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): wait4msg ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 (timeout 0 usec) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): wait4msg continue ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 all 1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ** ld 0x11847020 Connections: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): * host: 10.55.0.2 port: 389 (default) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): refcnt: 2 status: Connected Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): last used: Wed Nov 18 13:02:59 2009 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ** ld 0x11847020 Outstanding Requests: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): * msgid 3, origid 3, status InProgress Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): outstanding referrals 0, parent count 0 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ld 0x11847020 request count 1 (abandoned 0) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ** ld 0x11847020 Response Queue: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Empty Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ld 0x11847020 response count 0 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_chkResponseList ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 all 1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_chkResponseList returns ld 0x11847020 NULL Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_int_select Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): read1msg: ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 all 1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): read1msg: ld 0x11847020 msgid 3 message type bind Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_chase_referrals Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): read1msg: V2 referral chased, mark request completed, id = 3 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): read1msg: ld 0x11847020 0 new referrals Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): read1msg: mark request completed, ld 0x11847020 msgid 3 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): request done: ld 0x11847020 msgid 3 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): res_errno: 49, res_error: <80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C090334, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 525, vece>, res_matched: <> Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_free_request (origid 3, msgid 3) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_parse_result Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_parse_result Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap(test_user(a)example.org.ua,190.10.190.3): invalid credentials Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_msgfree Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_result ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): wait4msg ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 (timeout 0 usec) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): wait4msg continue ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 all 1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ** ld 0x11847020 Connections: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): * host: 10.55.0.2 port: 389 (default) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): refcnt: 1 status: Connected Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): last used: Wed Nov 18 13:02:59 2009 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ** ld 0x11847020 Outstanding Requests: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Empty Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ld 0x11847020 request count 0 (abandoned 0) Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ** ld 0x11847020 Response Queue: Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): Empty Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ld 0x11847020 response count 0 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_chkResponseList ld 0x11847020 msgid -1 all 1 Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_chkResponseList returns ld 0x11847020 NULL Nov 18 13:02:59 mx dovecot: auth(default): ldap_int_select Nov 18 13:03:01 mx postfix/smtpd[12985]: warning: unknown[190.10.190.3]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: UGFzc3dvcmQ6 Nov 18 13:03:01 mx postfix/smtpd[12985]: lost connection after AUTH from unknown[190.10.190.3]

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[Dovecot] bug when creating /var/run/dovecot?
by Frank Cusack 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

dovecot-1.2.7 If /var/run/dovecot does not exist when dovecot starts up (e.g. required when /var/run is a tmpfs/ramfs), it creates it. But it creates it with the wrong file mode -- the directory is mode 777. Being world writable means any user could change the name of any file within the directory, including the login directory, and then create their own new login directory. Or remove the pid file, or perhaps cause other types of havoc. Comments? -frank

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[Dovecot] Errors in strace
by Jeffrey Nikoletich 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I keep getting the following when I do a strace on login processes in dovecot. Are there any issues with these errors: gettimeofday({1258671134, 941478}, {420, 0}) = 0 accept(4, 0x7fff3279b0d0, [28]) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) epoll_wait(11, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=534434496, u64=534434496}}}, 46, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1258671135, 70395}, {420, 0}) = 0 accept(4, 0x7fff3279b0d0, [28]) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) epoll_wait(11, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=534434688, u64=534434688}}}, 46, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1258671135, 167400}, {420, 0}) = 0 accept(6, 0x7fff3279b0d0, [28]) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) epoll_wait(11, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=534434496, u64=534434496}}}, 46, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1258671135, 388157}, {420, 0}) = 0 accept(4, 0x7fff3279b0d0, [28]) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) epoll_wait(11, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=534434496, u64=534434496}}}, 46, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1258671135, 570056}, {420, 0}) = 0 accept(4, 0x7fff3279b0d0, [28]) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) epoll_wait(11, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=534434688, u64=534434688}}}, 46, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1258671135, 572030}, {420, 0}) = 0 Jeffrey N.

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[Dovecot] Sieve compilation error
by Oli Schacher 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi list Trying to get sieve for 1.2 running (dovecot sieve, not cmusieve) I'm running on centos 5.4 64bit, dovecot rpms installed from http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/dovecot/ ( dovecot-1.2.7-0_102.el5.x86_64.rpm and dovecot-devel-1.2.7-0_102.el5.x86_64.rpm ) I pulled the sieve sources ( hg clone http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-1.2-sieve ) autogen.sh ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/include/dovecot/ so far so good but make fails: [...] make[4]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src/sieve-tools/debug' make[4]: Entering directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src/sieve-tools' if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../src/lib-sieve -I../../src/lib-sieve-tool -I./debug -I/usr/include/dovecot -I/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib -I/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib-mail -I/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib-index -I/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib-storage -I/usr/include/dovecot/src/deliver -std=gnu99 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/usr/kerberos/include -MT sievec.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/sievec.Tpo" -c -o sievec.o sievec.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/sievec.Tpo" ".deps/sievec.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/sievec.Tpo"; exit 1; fi make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a', needed by `sievec'. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src/sieve-tools' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src/sieve-tools' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any hints? Thanks in advance Oli

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and SATA Backend - filesystems
by John Lyons 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

> The "generally don't see any bugs/issues" is the part I'm worried about > (generally isn't comforting). I was covering my **** on that one. Sods law dictates as soon as I say 'never' we'll discover an issue. > If you use a more traditional filesystem like ext2/ext3/ufs/etc then yes. > But you can use a cluster filesystem to get around this, and run > active-active. I've spent a week looking at the likes of PVFS, GFS, Lustre and a whole host of different systems, including pNFS (NFS 4.1) At the risk of diverting the thread away from the SATA backend, is there any recommendation for a fault tolerant file service. I'm really looking for 3 or 4 boxes to store data/metadata to support 10 Apache and Dovecot servers. The things I don't like are having a single metadata server be a single point of failure. Regards John

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[Dovecot] Fwd: Re: Dovecot and SATA Backend
by Joseba Torre 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

I suppose this was for the list... -- Joseba Torre. Vicegerencia de TICs, área de Explotación

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[Dovecot] configurable sieve_max_redirects
by Maciej Polewczyński 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Witam Sieve implementation in dovecot 1.2 have hard-coded limit for max redirect: SIEVE_DEFAULT_MAX_REDIRECTS 4. I have to rise this to much higher value, e.g. 64. Is there possibility to do this another way than recompiling source? Maybe adding an option to dovecot.conf in plugin section will be a good idea. -- Pozdrowienia Maciej Polewczynski Registered Linux user #117725 OGICOM Sp. z o.o., 61-131 Poznan, ul. Baraniaka 88 REGON 634407251, NIP 781-17-20-476, KRS 0000140692 kapital zakladowy: 410 000 PLN

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Re: [Dovecot] Combination of default domain and username character translation problem in POP3 server configuration
by Steffen Kaiser 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Javier Vico Egea wrote: > In that case it works perfect but my problem are all the users using the old > vm-pop3 configuration with XXX!mysecondarydomain.es Yep, I just wanted confirmation :) There is currently no way to change this behaviour by configuration, but src/auth/auth-request.c contains function auth_request_fix_username(): The default domain is appended, before the character translation takes place. ======== if (strchr(username, '@') == NULL && request->auth->default_realm != NULL) { user = p_strconcat(request->pool, username, "@", request->auth->default_realm, NULL); } else { user = p_strdup(request->pool, username); } for (p = (unsigned char *)user; *p != '\0'; p++) { if (request->auth->username_translation[*p & 0xff] != 0) *p = request->auth->username_translation[*p & 0xff]; if (request->auth->username_chars[*p & 0xff] == 0) { *error_r = t_strdup_printf( "Username contains disallowed character: " "0x%02x", *p); return NULL; } } ========= I would change the first if() into: ========= if (strchr(username, '@') == NULL && strchr(username, '!') == NULL && request->auth->default_realm != NULL) { ========= Note the strchr() in the second line. The default domain is not appended, if either an Ad sign or exclamation mark is present in the username. Maybe, you ask Timo to have a way to conditionally let replace a set of characters into '@' before this check. Regards, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSwVYSnWSIuGy1ktrAQI/4gf/TFGCcTnIaxWsZiRFi/P0iSr0uyPdFP8+ dQMgAVkYYt/sP7PH28vZbMHHtiBtIb7T3FTiuNclXXZcLrfj3NX3zf8XfNFknd4j BzcghW+wE+2I9v4O5/WmKRD79herBCGOTnswOMcRk9zPrIL2lEjuDhOFsePQXjTI IYBybQx+EebAYRUwtVgUc1leQtaD02QtFLLM2EbIbIbNhnYLaOr6+YQs2Ghi6LpL MAbfsRh00L/AmY5NNXZUPK2UKpTyppBxVMwwv+K12FqABzs6PAdQz8LpdwqrRDOX 7Raze+KD4U9M9imLVgcD8dgdRnl6wGQJnTFiA0kgb0fyEqk/pL/tpg== =KieQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] Combination of default domain and username character translation problem in POP3 server configuration
by Steffen Kaiser 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Javier Vico Egea wrote: > auth default: > default_realm: myprincipaldomain.es > username_chars: > abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@! > username_translation: !@ > passdb: > driver: passwd-file > args: /etc/virtual/%d/passwd Hmm, what happens, if you login with: prueba(a)mysecondarydomain.es ? Note the @ Does it work? > userdb: > driver: static > args: uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/spool/virtual/%d Each use should have an unique home dir, I think. Regards, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSwVMWXWSIuGy1ktrAQIRiggArndG34u+zfOU41LXb8Nj6A5UMQ8o1cMv P8Ax+uKXyo9b7kae5N+ZeMkiVVMiALmMr6e7HJeKbTUdl6CFVc+Wa0TBdlpNVEJ0 d49A4IetnfVSWlfu21VR5hpenpsNE2E8JRHQ5Mb0eBaEFneT/VEk2YB7WfsmsvbF pS2gXhnBl1q8x+VtC/y5fyYB/P8urQU8wwdVTb809fLxUuMVDEUC77bHtXBtRHYT C0mF3ZyRmh3vFLwBb6e7VwhWkttbKlAzO7lsfNujEqA0dpjzeA+qOw+A2JmyH6sl ZTFpDWc/jv12+7m+AJB46CsPeKZ8/cfFVITni6G7aBrmGPseIVF3+w== =il6+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] Combination of default domain and username character translation problem in POP3 server configuration
by Charles Marcus 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

On 11/19/2009, Javier Vico Egea (j.vico(a)dipualba.es) wrote: > # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf Not that this is the cause of your problem, but you do need to upgrade...

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[Dovecot] Combination of default domain and username character translation problem in POP3 server configuration
by Vico 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hello, I have a mail server running vm-pop3 and I am migrating it to Dovecot. I have a problem configuring Dovecot as a POP3 server only (I'm not interested in IMAP for now). I have two types of domains: one principal domain, whose users don't include the domain in the login process; and secondary domains, whose users include the domain part with the ! separator, instead of @ (i.e. prueba!mysecondarydomain.es). Because of that, I have set the following options in the configuration file: auth_default_realm = myprincipaldomain.es auth_username_translation = !@ The combination of these two parameters produces the following effect when I login with an user of a secondary domain (I have no problem with principal domain authentication): +OK Bienvenido al servidor de correo. user prueba!mysecondarydomain.es +OK pass prueba. -ERR Authentication failed. quit +OK Logging out This is the resulting log: Nov 19 09:58:51 prueba dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=21953 Nov 19 09:59:04 prueba dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.1.84 rip=192.168.17.13 resp=AHBydWViYSF0b2JhcnJhLmVzAHBydWViYS4= Nov 19 09:59:04 prueba dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(prueba@mysecondarydomain.es@myprincipaldomain.es,192.168.17. 13): no passwd file: /etc/virtual/mysecondarydomain.es(a)myprincipaldomain.es/passwd Nov 19 09:59:05 prueba dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=prueba@mysecondarydomain.es@myprincipaldomain.es So, I think the problem is Dovecot tests if the default domain is needed before the character translation is done, so the character ! is not detected as a domain separator, so the default domain is always appended. The question is how I could resolve this problem. I need these two operations to be done because there is a lot of users already working with this configuration. Thank you in advance.

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Re: [Dovecot] failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001
by Jürgen Herrmann 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

On Wed, November 18, 2009 17:29, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:17 +0100, Jürgen Herrmann wrote: >> 2009-11-18 16:04:24 dovecot: Fatal: chdir(/home/mail_virtual/2001) failed: >> Permission denied (euid=2001 egid=2001 stat(/home/mail_virtual/2001) >> failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001) > > so "ls -dln /home/mail_virtual/2001" actually shows that the owner and > group is 2001? app3:~# ls -dln /home/mail_virtual/2001 drwx------ 4 2001 2001 4096 18. Nov 13:59 /home/mail_virtual/2001 app3:~# ls -dln /home/mail_virtual/2001/Maildir/ drwx------ 54 2001 2001 4096 18. Nov 18:07 /home/mail_virtual/2001/Maildir/ > > Do you have SELinux or something similar enabled? > no. regards, jürgen -- >> XLhost.de - eXperts in Linux hosting ® << XLhost.de GmbH Jürgen Herrmann, Geschäftsführer Boelckestrasse 21, 93051 Regensburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Volker Geith, Jürgen Herrmann Registriert unter: HRB9918 Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer: DE245931218 Fon: +49 (0)800 XLHOSTDE [0800 95467833] Fax: +49 (0)800 95467830 WEB: http://www.XLhost.de IRC: #XLhost(a)irc.quakenet.org

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[Dovecot] unix_listener with user/group setting
by Pascal Volk 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi Timo, are there any plans for configurable user/group settings for a Unix socket? I had tried this configuration: service auth { user = nobody unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0600 user = postfix group = postfix } } The mode of the socket was fine but it was owned by nobody. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: fabaceae.0932304(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] v2.0.tip Panic: file index-storage.c: line 385 (index_storage_mailbox_open): assertion failed: (!box->opened)
by Pascal Volk 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi Timo, I've tried to convert the Maildir from the first user: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool j.doe(a)example.com \ /srv/mail/1/70003/70008 \ maildir:/srv/mail/1/70003/70008/Maildir \ mdbox:/srv/mail/1/70003/70008/mdbox Panic: file index-storage.c: line 385 (index_storage_mailbox_open): assertion failed: (!box->opened) Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xf7e7ef8b] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_error_handler+0) [0xf7e7f01b] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0xf7e7f1ad] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_open+0x9a) [0xf7f333ed] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(dbox_mailbox_open+0x76) [0xf7f43cb6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_open+0x7d) [0xf7edb915] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool [0x804a847] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool [0x804a996] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool(convert_storage+0x270) [0x804ad35] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool(main+0x333) [0x8049cc7] -> /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xf7cfeb35] -> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/convert-tool [0x8049901] Aborted (core dumped) The backtrace is attached. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: deadbeef.0931510(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] Unknown column mail_plugins in field list
by juan carlos 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

I have installed debian lenny, postfix 2.5.5 and dovecot 1.0.15 and can't send emails locally. this is the error in the log Error: auth-worker(default): sql(xxx(a)yyy.com): User query failed: Unknown column 'mail_plugins' in 'field list'

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[Dovecot] Maildirs++ on ext4
by Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, happy after migrating from Courier to Dovecot without major issues, and saving 3 Gb of RAM after the migration, now I'm going to move everything to a 5 Tb RAID6 array. There's another thread on SATA and cluster fs, but for now I'm looking for the best filesystem in your experience. Currently I use Reiser, but I'd like to know if someone has worked with ext4 and Dovecot's maildir++. Thanks. P.S. I have UPS and generator, but my RAID card doesn't have backup battery.

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Re: [Dovecot] expire_dict - Folder names with spaces
by michael＠euroinfissi.eu 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Yes but how to setup the expire tool for foldernames that contain spaces? expire: Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci 7 Elementy?usuni&ARk-te 7 INBOX 365 does not work... and expire: Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci 7 Elementy usuni&ARk-te 7 INBOX 365 produces the following: Stopping Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] Starting Dovecot Imap: ☺ILoading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so ☺IModule loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap/lib20_expire_plugin.so ☺IEffective uid=99, gid=99, home=/tmp ☺IQuota root: name=user backend=dict args=:proxy::quota ☺IQuota rule: root=user mailbox=* bytes=1073741824 messages=0 ☺IQuota warning: bytes=1020054732 (95%) messages=0 command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 ☺IQuota warning: bytes=858993459 (80%) messages=0 command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 ☺Iexpire: pattern=Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVo-mieci type=expunge secs=604800 ☺Iexpire: pattern=Elementy type=expunge secs=0 ☺Iexpire: pattern=7 type=expunge secs=0 ☺Fexpire: Missing expire days for mailbox '365' Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89 Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf

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[Dovecot] Web-Interface for Dovecot-Sieve?
by Daniel Spannbauer 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hello, is there anywhere a web-interface for managing sieve-filters with dovecot? Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Software Entwicklung marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4 - 6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München

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[Dovecot] cache auth clear
by Juan Carlos Sanchez 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hello: Have found probably auth cache clearing is not working well. I get this log after issuing several SIGUSR2 and SIGHUP from command line: Nov 18 13:56:26 dovecot: Info: Dovecot v1.2.6 starting up Nov 18 13:56:33 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache hits 5/14 (35%) Nov 18 13:56:33 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache inserts: positive: 9 1213B, negative: 0 0B Nov 18 13:57:40 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache hits 47/112 (41%) Nov 18 13:57:40 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache inserts: positive: 65 8322B, negative: 0 0B Nov 18 13:58:00 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache hits 25/45 (55%) Nov 18 13:58:00 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache inserts: positive: 21 2721B, negative: 0 0B Nov 18 13:58:24 auth(default): Info: SIGHUP received, clearing cache Nov 18 13:58:57 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache hits 58/121 (47%) Nov 18 13:58:57 auth(default): Info: Authentication cache inserts: positive: 63 8223B, negative: 0 0B As you can see after the SIGHUP and supposed cache clearing, then cache stats continue growing as if nothing had been cleaned. Is this normal behaviour ? Dovecot version is 1.2.6 Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Juan Carlos Sanchez Hernandez Responsable de Seguridad y Correo Electronico Servicio de Planificacion Informatica y Comunicaciones Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Rectorado Avda. Ramiro de Maeztu 7 28040 Madrid ------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001
by Jürgen Herrmann 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

hi there! i'm trying to run dovecot 1.2.4 managesieve service with mysql auth. authentication is obviously going fine, i have debug_auth set to on and can see log lines indicating auth success: 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=10100 rport=42497 resp=<hidden> 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(jh(a)new.xlhost.de,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT alias as user, password, home as userdb_home, vuid as userdb_uid, vgid as userdb_gid FROM virtual_mailbox WHERE alias = 'jh(a)new.xlhost.de' 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: client out: OK 1 user=jh(a)new.xlhost.de 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: master in: REQUEST 1 27482 1 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(jh(a)new.xlhost.de,127.0.0.1): SELECT home, vuid AS uid, vgid AS gid FROM virtual_mailbox WHERE alias = 'jh(a)new.xlhost.de' 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: master out: USER 1 jh(a)new.xlhost.de home=/home/mail_virtual/2001 uid=2001 gid=2001 2009-11-18 16:04:24 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<jh(a)new.xlhost.de>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured however then managesieve tries to chdir to the user's homedir, which fails: 2009-11-18 16:04:24 dovecot: Fatal: chdir(/home/mail_virtual/2001) failed: Permission denied (euid=2001 egid=2001 stat(/home/mail_virtual/2001) failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001) 2009-11-18 16:04:24 dovecot: Error: child 27589 (pop3) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) the user's homedir /home/mail_virtual/2001 ist set to 705 (also tried 700, 755, 770, 775 and 777) but still not write access. the mail/homedirs are definitely writeable by their respective (virtual) owners because postfix/maildrop is delivering to it and courier imap is currently reading from it just fine. any hints, please? best regards, jürgen herrmann -- >> XLhost.de - eXperts in Linux hosting ® << XLhost.de GmbH Jürgen Herrmann, Geschäftsführer Boelckestrasse 21, 93051 Regensburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Volker Geith, Jürgen Herrmann Registriert unter: HRB9918 Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer: DE245931218 Fon: +49 (0)800 XLHOSTDE [0800 95467833] Fax: +49 (0)800 95467830 WEB: http://www.XLhost.de IRC: #XLhost(a)irc.quakenet.org

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird Search Folder failures
by Michael Durket 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

In converting everyone at our site from UW-IMAP I've run into another problem with Thunderbird users that I'm hoping someone can help me with. The dovecot version I'm running is old (1.0.13 - we don't do production upgrades that often but I'm perfectly willing to install a newer version). The affected Thunderbird users are running Thunderbird version 2.0023 under Windows. All mail is stored in mbox format. What appears to be happening is that searches looking for string matches in the message body don't work. I set up a test case with the affected user. We created a folder that had 6 messages: 5 containing the string in the message body and 1 that did not. Then we set up a search folder that looked for the string. Opening the Thunderbird search folder yielded no messages matching the search. A rawlog trace of the search in dovecot showed that dovecot had indeed responded that no messages were found (when 5 should have been). This doesn't happen with UW-IMAP (version imap-2007e which I think is the last version with bug fixes ever issued). Is this perhaps a known bug in dovecot that was fixed many releases ago and I should upgrade?

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Re: [Dovecot] setting up home directories
by Steffen Kaiser 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Cliff Hayes wrote: > I did look at that prior to posting. I'm not using virtual users ... all my > users are system users. It does not matter whether you have system users or not, the useage is the same. > Do I just add the maildir component as follows the home directory is no mail_location. Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSwOwbHWSIuGy1ktrAQIZ8Af/fPr1Ll1SpB1vIzQ+5Rrq0rPsbt5cyAfn /KQi/4AEO4A83ZXgUgcri0swjFf6HzzUpRbUogjatltE7pJcYLEb46Ufz+Eh9mOx JsP+6Ez/0+LA4uyuWD7E1jur9ibQFi9QpUXGrleVfnLxPWwyfcptL0GuiMh6ZPVj +zM4mBzoBUVrxQ0kc4s2/qtuLzKqpMazNxnqpvYyv7I1jzwteTD7v1XhynJeBD3g krSPXzuv1UZiCSO5fRlPbaQhN/MEyf4dLQxDhjCnI2K20o+GZ/G9fqWd8bhl295B 3kdxjyM8JgPKfstV24zgT+DiASe+vrzAOOihYSXGqMq2maBMbn14PQ== =T+sB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] address of dovecot server
by Seb 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, How can I find out what the address of my dovecot server is? The server is working fine in my Debian sid machine, and clients can check it using the intranet name of the server machine. However, I'm not sure what address to provide in clients outside my home network so they can access the server. Is it simply the standard convention of 'machine.domain.com' address of the server? Thanks for any help. Cheers, -- Seb

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[Dovecot] address of dovecot server
by Seb 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, How can I find out what the address of my dovecot server is? The server is working fine, and clients can check it using the intranet name of the server machine. However, I'm not sure what address to provide in clients outside my home network so they can access the server. Is it simply the standard convention of 'machine.domain.com' address of the server? Thanks for any help. Cheers, -- Seb

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[Dovecot] plugin cmusieve not found
by juan carlos 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

I have debian lenny and dovecot 1.2.4 and a problem with the plugin cmusieve. protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)cablenet.com.pe mail_plugins = cmusieve quota log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log } the log /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log shows me the following Fatal: Plugin cmusieve not found from directory /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda When I list the directory /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda, it was not found the cmusieve plugin. Where can i get it? # ls -l /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 nov 12 21:20 lib01_acl_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 12 21:20 lib10_quota_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 12 21:20 lib11_trash_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 nov 12 21:20 lib20_autocreate_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 nov 12 21:20 lib20_convert_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 nov 12 21:20 lib20_expire_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 nov 12 21:20 lib20_fts_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 nov 12 21:20 lib20_listescape_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 nov 12 21:20 lib20_mail_log_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 nov 12 21:20 lib20_virtual_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 nov 12 21:20 lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3663976 nov 15 23:04 lib90_sieve_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1029 nov 15 23:04 lib90_sieve_plugin.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1777465 nov 15 23:04 lib90_sieve_plugin.so

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[Dovecot] 2.0.alpha3 ssl_ca_file is broken
by Mike Abbott 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

In dovecot-2.0.alpha3, setting "ssl_ca_file = /path/to/file" in conf.d/ssl.conf does not work, because imap-login chroots before opening the ca_file. Perhaps this parameter could be replaced with "ssl_ca = </path/to/file" as was done with ssl_cert and ssl_key. Tue Nov 17 11:19:38 server dovecot[1143]: imap-login: Fatal: Error reading configuration: Invalid settings: ssl_ca_file: access(/path/to/file) failed: No such file or directory

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[Dovecot] automatically compiling sieve scripts
by Edgar Fuß 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Without having looked into the code: Does Pigeonhole automatically compile a sieve script if the compiled form is not /strictly/ newer than the text form? I'm running into the problem that during automatic installation of a global sieve-after script, my Makefile has a rule to compile, yet afterwards, the sieve plugin complains about not being able to compile (which is correct, but it shouldn't try in the first place). Both text and binary form have identical time stamps. I don't want to sleep between install and sievec.

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[Dovecot] 2.0.alpha3 dovecot/auth works multiplying
by Alan Commike 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

I setup a test machine with 2.0.alpha3 - Linux, Centos 5.4. I'm using Postfix as my MTA with dovecot to do SASL authorization from /etc/{passwd,shadow}. I'm getting 'dovecot/auth -w' processes hanging around, over a few days I've reached into the 100s. As a test I set auth_worker_max_count = 2, didn't make a difference. Attaching with strace, looks like they're in their standard poll loop waiting for input. Any ideas? I haven't instrumented any of the code yet to see what's going on. I expect somehow you're losing track that the auth worker is out there? I have an old 1.x installation working with a similar setup. Here's the config: [root@pf ~]# dovecot -n # 2.0.alpha3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.4 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_worker_max_count = 2 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir passdb { deny = no driver = shadow } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)projectfoodie.com protocols = imap imaps service imap-login { inet_listener { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 511 user = postfix } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = blocking=yes driver = passwd } userdb { args = /etc/passwd driver = passwd-file } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes -- Alan Commike Founder, QEDLabs commike(a)qedlabs.com http://www.qedlabs.com 408.472.3202

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[Dovecot] Problem with stored procedure
by Fcuk F 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hi Timo/all I am trying to use stored procedure for password query when it try to connect i get authenticated only for the first user after that for subsequent user it gives me this error. Password query failed: Commands out of sync; you can't run this command now You might have solved this issue before, did some search just found this http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-October/017041.html (not resloved) Could you please guide me how to resolve this issue. thanks in advance. *dovecot-mysql.conf* connect = host=xxxx dbname=dovecot user=xxx password=xxxxx client_flags=65536 user_query = SELECT xx as uid, xx as gid, home FROM table WHERE User = '%u' password_query = call proxyMayBe('%u','%w','%r'); *Dovecot -n : *# 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.4 (Final) base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log protocols: imap pop3 listen: * ssl: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 30 mail_location: maildir:~/ mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf

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[Dovecot] setting up home directories
by Cliff Hayes 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello, I have not been using the home directory but I read in MailLocation.txt that I probably should. Does dovecot create each directory? What does it put in there? My server uses mbox format. My users all look like this: [root@sendmail log]# finger chayes Login: chayes Name: 50387.00 Directory: /home/chayes Shell: /sbin/nologin Never logged in. Mail last read Mon Nov 16 19:56 2009 (CST) No Plan. So each user does have a home directory assigned, but it is never created. Here is my current mail_location: mail_location = mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u Do I just add the maildir component as follows: mail_location = mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u:maildir:/home /u% I'm confused by the MailLocation.txt entry below which says not to mix maildir and mbox formats. ---%<----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/.INBOX ---%<----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Note that it's still not possible to mix maildir and mbox formats this way. You need to use<namespaces> [Namespaces.txt] for that. Thanks in advance, Cliff

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.2.7 : configure: error: Can't build with LDAP support: libldap not found
by Santhosh A. J 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

hi i have downloaded the dovecot 1.2.7 source when i tried to compile with ldap support it gives the error "configure: error: Can't build with LDAP support: libldap not found". i am attaching the log file with this mail. i want to use it with latest apacheDS. Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] deliver is ignoring mail_access_groups
by Peter 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Ubuntu 8.04LTS Dovecot 1.2.6 Postfix 2.5.1 I'm using dovecot imap/deliver in an environment where I don't want users with shell access to reach their mail folders (partly to do with IMAP ACLs requiring open group permissions and partly to do with not wanting users to mess their mail folders / sieve configs up). I specifically don't want to switch to a "single dovecot user" style installation. Current config: mail_location = maildir:/home/mail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_privileged_group = mail mail_access_groups = maildir drwxrws--- 3 nobody maildir 21 2009-11-15 10:52 /home/mail drwxrws--- 4 nobody adomain.com 30 2009-11-15 12:12 /home/mail/adomain.com/ drwxrws--- 3 auser adomain.com 20 2009-11-15 10:52 /home/mail/adomain.com/auser drwxrws--- 3 auser adomain.com 20 2009-11-15 10:52 /home/mail/adomain.com/auser/Maildir And so on... As expected IMAP and Managesieve work perfectly, but deliver fails: Nov 15 12:48:26 s15364807 dovecot: deliver(auser(a)adomain.com): sieve: stat(/home/mail/adomain.com/auser/.dovecot.sieve) failed: Permission denied (using global script path in stead) Nov 15 12:28:06 s15364807 dovecot: deliver(auser(a)adomain.com): stat(/home/mail/adomain.com/auser/Maildir) failed: Permission denied Nov 15 12:28:06 s15364807 dovecot: deliver(auser(a)adomain.com): stat(/home/mail/adomain.com/auser/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=1002(auser) egid=1001(adomain.com) missing +x perm: /home/mail) Nov 15 12:28:06 s15364807 dovecot: deliver(auser(a)adomain.com): msgid=<20091115122806.79A0F80034F(a)servername.com>: save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-11-15 12:28:06] Opening the permissions on /home/mail (6771) allows deliver to succeed suggesting that mail_access_groups is being ignored by deliver. As a work-around I can set /home/mail to 6771 but this is not ideal as anyone somehow guessing the directory structure could access mail of another user in the same group regardless of IMAP acl settings. Yes, I can severely obfuscate it but it's not secure. I've spent about half a day trying to figure this out, I'm assuming at this point that either I'm missing something obvious or something else is wrong. Any ideas? Peter.

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[Dovecot] read() failed with subscription file
by david＠davidwbrown.name 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello Dovecot folks, I have Dovecot running reasonably well against my Postfix SMPTd. All mail is stored in Maildir format only. In my Thunderbird client I can see the Inbox, Trash and Sent folders in the Thunderbird pane but no other directories. I have very many Maildir format directories under my Inbox directory but I cannot see them in the Thunderbird client. I have the Dovecot info and debug log runnning with the solitary error message being displayed in the log when ever I access the Thunderbird client folders pane as stated below. Particulars follow and please advise, David. OS: CentOS 5.2 Postfix: 2.3.3 Dovecot: 1.2 Dovecot log: dovecot: IMAP(user): read() failed with subscription file /home/user/Maildir/subscriptions: Is a directory

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[Dovecot] Replace message headers
by Matthias-Christian Ott 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi, I'm looking for a way to replace specific message headers of a mail via the mail storage API. Any suggestions? Regards, Matthias-Christian

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[Dovecot] fetch bodystructure filename problem rfc2231
by myleetlist＠gmx.de 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi, I have a problem with the filename of attachments in some clients. # dovecot 1.2.(5|7) * 3 FETCH (BODYSTRUCTURE (("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "7bit" 13 1 NIL NIL NIL NIL)("text" "plain" ("charset" "UTF-8" "name" "ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt") NIL NIL "8bit" 27 1 NIL ("attachment" ("filename" "ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt")) NIL NIL) "mixed" ("boundary" "=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu") NIL NIL NIL)) -> wrong filename in client: ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt # cyrus * 808 FETCH (BODYSTRUCTURE (("TEXT" "PLAIN" NIL NIL NIL "7BIT" 13 1 NIL NIL NIL)("TEXT" "PLAIN" ("NAME*" {28} ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt "CHARSET" "UTF-8") NIL NIL "8BIT" 27 1 NIL ("ATTACHMENT" ("FILENAME*" {28} ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt)) NIL) "MIXED" ("BOUNDARY" "=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu") NIL NIL)) -> correct filename in client: testanhäng.txt I think "name" should be "name*" (rfc 2231?) What can I do? Test mail: --> Subject: test From: ... To: ... Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu" Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:48:26 +0000 Message-Id: <1257500906.7739.0.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 X-CheckCompat: OK --=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit inhalt mail --=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt Content-Type: text/plain; name*=ISO-8859-1''testanh%E4ng.txt; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit inhalt.. auch mit umlaüt --=-+zw7hjwJmiqfzphlbHnu-- <-- -- DSL-Preisknaller: DSL Komplettpakete von GMX schon für 16,99 Euro mtl.!* Hier klicken: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02

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[Dovecot] Dovecot+Sieve Please Help!...
by Andrey Garkin 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Dovecot Sieve Plugin... 1. ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/lib/dovecot make make install protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)kipalex.ru mail_plugins = sieve } plugin { sieve = /home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru/dovecot.sieve } 2. dovecot.sieve file in /home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru require "fileinto"; if header :contains "Subject" "***SPAM***" { fileinto "/home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru/.Spam/new"; } And in the dovecot.log I see: 2009-11-16 13:45:55 deliver(andrey(a)kipalex.ru): Error: sieve: msgid=<351009bd0911160227r6ef9f39fja32c2893cb7fc54e(a)mail.gmail.com>: failed to store into mailbox '/home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru/.Spam/new': Invalid mailbox name 2009-11-16 13:45:55 deliver(andrey(a)kipalex.ru): Error: sieve: execution of script /home/vmail/kipalex.ru/andrey(a)kipalex.ru/dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful Mail system is already up and working... Please Help... Why Dovecot plugin is not working???

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[Dovecot] More dovecot-2.0.alpha2 problems
by Mike Abbott 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

1. My earlier patch to fix a typo in array.h was not good enough. Here's one that not only compiles, but also doesn't crash: --- dovecot-2.0.alpha2/src/lib/array.h 2009-10-08 10:04:35.000000000 -0500 +++ dovecot/src/lib/array.h 2009-10-29 20:47:47.000000000 -0500 @@ -72,8 +72,7 @@ (elem)++) # define array_foreach_modifiable(array, elem) \ for (elem = ARRAY_TYPE_CAST_MODIFIABLE(array) \ - buffer_get_modifiable_data((array)->arr.buffer, NULL)) + \ - (array)->arr.buffer->used; \ + buffer_get_modifiable_data((array)->arr.buffer, NULL); \ elem != CONST_PTR_OFFSET(*(array)->v, (array)->arr.buffer- >used); \ (elem)++) #endif 2. Sometimes I see a flood of these errors in the log: [...] Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: service(imap): dup2s failed Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap-login: Login: user=<userX>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.8, lip=192.168.1.7, pid=11362 Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap(pid 11362 user userX): Connection closed bytes=118/934 Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: dup2(-1, 5) failed: Bad file descriptor Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: service(imap): dup2s failed Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap-login: Login: user=<userY>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.8, lip=192.168.1.7, pid=11363 Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap(pid 11363 user userY): Connection closed bytes=118/972 Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: dup2(-1, 5) failed: Bad file descriptor Fri Oct 30 14:45:23 server dovecot[9585]: imap: service(imap): dup2s failed [...] 3. imap crashed when using mdbox: Fri Oct 30 14:54:49 server dovecot[11491]: imap(pid 11938 user userZ): dbox /Volumes/Mail/userZ/mailboxes/INBOX/Sent/dbox-Mails: map uidvalidity mismatch (1256918863 vs 1256919073) Fri Oct 30 14:54:49 server dovecot[11491]: imap(pid 11938 user userZ): Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-10-30 14:54:49] bytes=553447/2146313 Fri Oct 30 14:54:49 server dovecot[11491]: imap(pid 11938 user userZ): dbox /Volumes/Mail/userZ/storage: rebuilding indexes Fri Oct 30 14:54:49 server dovecot[11491]: imap(pid 11938 user user): Panic: file dbox-file.c: line 308 (dbox_file_get_mail_stream): assertion failed: (file->input != NULL) 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff875f4eba __kill + 10 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff875f4eac kill + 14 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff87683519 raise + 25 3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff876a4e12 abort + 90 4 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000e8027 i_set_failure_file + 275 5 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000e6eef i_set_failure_internal + 103 6 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000e76d2 i_debug + 0 7 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x000000010005768a dbox_file_seek_next + 0 8 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x000000010005772a dbox_file_seek_next + 160 9 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100084266 mdbox_storage_rebuild + 1406 10 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100085617 mdbox_mailbox_alloc + 1271 11 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x00000001000271e1 mail_storage_unref + 93 12 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100023386 mail_namespace_get_storage_name + 162 13 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100023429 mail_namespaces_deinit + 35 14 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x0000000100028c39 mail_user_alloc + 311 15 libdovecot-storage.0.dylib 0x000000010002889a mail_user_unref + 40 16 imap 0x0000000100007fa4 client_destroy + 404 17 imap 0x0000000100006eb3 client_input + 87 18 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000eca50 io_loop_handler_run + 224 19 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000ed55a io_loop_run + 56 20 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x00000001000e393d master_service_run + 27 21 imap 0x000000010000fb45 main + 557 22 imap 0x0000000100000dd0 start + 52 Hope this helps.

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[Dovecot] file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory
by Rene Bakkum 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi, I am having some problems with my vacation messages using dovecot. The mail is send without problems, and the auto-respond is working as well. But its always auto-responding, because the lda-dupes file can't be created. See mail log below: Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/smtpd[6501]: connect from mail-bw0-f211.google.com[209.85.218.211] Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/smtpd[6501]: D6FE6F64F: client=mail-bw0-f211.google.com[209.85.218.211] Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/cleanup[6505]: D6FE6F64F: message-id=<4B014929.1000008(a)gmail.com> Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/qmgr[27330]: D6FE6F64F: from=<[my.gmail.account]>, size=1946, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 deliver([my.test.account]): file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/pickup[5934]: F202DF690: uid=5000 from=<> Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 deliver([my.test.account]): msgid=<4B014929.1000008(a)gmail.com>: sent vacation response to <[my.gmail.account]> Nov 16 13:43:03 mail003 postfix/cleanup[6505]: F202DF690: message-id=<dovecot-1258375383-947629-0@mail003> Nov 16 13:43:04 mail003 postfix/qmgr[27330]: F202DF690: from=<>, size=570, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 16 13:43:04 mail003 deliver([my.test.account]): msgid=<4B014929.1000008(a)gmail.com>: saved mail to INBOX Nov 16 13:43:04 mail003 postfix/pipe[6506]: D6FE6F64F: to=<[my.test.account]>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.21, delays=0.08/0.01/0/0.12, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Nov 16 13:43:04 mail003 postfix/qmgr[27330]: D6FE6F64F: removed Nov 16 13:43:05 mail003 postfix/smtp[6510]: F202DF690: to=<[my.gmail.account]>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.93.114]:25, delay=1.6, delays=0.07/0.01/0.32/1.2, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1258375453 7si18156568qwb.35) Nov 16 13:43:05 mail003 postfix/qmgr[27330]: F202DF690: removed I manually created the file, but its keeping getting the message: root@mail003:/home/vmail/mydomain.com/info/.Maildir# ls -la drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 14:04 . drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 12:37 .. drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 14:04 cur -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 340 2009-11-16 13:49 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 22528 2009-11-16 14:04 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 7000 2009-11-16 14:04 dovecot.index.log -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 0 2009-11-16 14:03 .dovecot.lda-dupes -rwx------ 1 vmail vmail 485 2009-11-16 12:33 .dovecot.sieve -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 208 2009-11-16 12:56 .dovecot.sievec -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 522 2009-11-16 14:04 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 8 2009-11-11 14:31 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 0 2009-11-11 14:31 dovecot-uidvalidity.4afabcaa drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 14:04 new -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 6 2009-11-11 14:45 subscriptions drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-16 14:04 tmp drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 2009-11-11 14:45 .Trash Is the ~/.dovecot.lda-dupes linking to another path, and how can I adjust this so it searches for /home/vmail/%d/%n/.Maildir/ ? Thanks, - Rene

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[Dovecot] Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index
by Cliff Hayes 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello, I just installed Fedora 11 with Dovecot 1.2.6 and am now seeing a steady stream of these in maillog: Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Panic: Message unexpectedly expunged from index Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Raw backtrace: pop3 [0x4930ab] -> pop3 [0x493123] -> pop3 [0x4927b6] -> pop3 [0x43ddd4] -> pop3 [0x43de84] -> pop3(index_mail_set_seq+0x146) [0x449c16] -> pop3 [0x43e129] -> pop3(index_storage_search_next_nonblock+0x141) [0x44d5c1] -> pop3(mailbox_search_next_nonblock+0x20) [0x45b580] -> pop3(mailbox_search_next+0x26) [0x45b5d6] -> pop3 [0x419ef9] -> pop3(client_command_execute+0x666) [0x41abd6] -> pop3(client_handle_input+0x80) [0x418f80] -> pop3(io_loop_handler_run+0xbd) [0x49b02d] -> pop3(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x49a498] -> pop3(main+0x526) [0x41b286] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x3a9b61ea2d] -> pop3 [0x418809] Nov 15 15:52:03 sendmail dovecot: dovecot: child 26792 (pop3) killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) I see nothing about this in the mail archives or on the internet! What could be happening and how do I fix? I'm also seeing lots of these: Nov 15 11:26:24 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): Log synchronization error at seq=12646,offset=172 for /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Extension introduction for unknown id 1 Nov 15 11:26:24 sendmail dovecot: POP3(<username>): fscking index file /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index Here are the only things I messed with in dovecot.conf: protocols = pop3 mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_very_dirty_syncs = yes Thanks in advance, Cliff

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[Dovecot] IMAP folders' codepages problem ?
by michael＠euroinfissi.eu 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

Hi! I probably have a problem with the imap folders codepages. I use polish email clients such as MS Outlook and Windows Mail. The clients try to create folders like Wiadomości-Śmieci but Dovecot creates Wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVs-mieci This happens on two different dovecot installations 1: Installation A # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 11 (Leonidas) info_log_path: /var/log/maillog protocols: imaps ssl_listen: * ssl: required ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/certs/dovecot/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/certs/dovecot/dovecot_key.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!ADH!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:+HIGH:+MEDIUM disable_plaintext_auth: yes verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: dovecot_mail mail_debug: yes mail_plugins: autocreate quota imap_quota expire lda: postmaster_address: root@localhost auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf plugin: autocreate: Trash autosubscribe: Trash quota: dict:user::proxy::quota quota_rule: *:storage=1048576 quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 expire: Trash 7 INBOX 365 expire_dict: proxy::expire dict: quota: mysql:/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf expire: mysql:/etc/dovecot-dict-expire.conf 2: Installation B # 1.1.19: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 x86_64 Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) base_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /usr/local/dovecot/var/log/dovecot_log info_log_path: /usr/local/dovecot/var/log/dovecot_log protocols: imaps ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/ssl/certs/dovecot/certificate_04102009.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/ssl/certs/dovecot/privateKey_04102009.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!ADH!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:+HIGH:+MEDIUM verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: dovecot_login mail_privileged_group: dovecot_mail mail_plugins: expire quota imap_quota trash lda: postmaster_address: root@localhost hostname: filemon mail_plugins: expire quota mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/passwd.dovecot socket: type: listen master: path: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mail plugin: quota: dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_rule: *:storage=5G:messages=2000 quota_rule2: Trash:storage=1G:messages=1000 quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 trash: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-trash.conf expire: Trash 7 Spam 7 INBOX 180 Sent 180 auth_socket_path: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master expire_dict: proxy::expire dict: quotadict: mysql:/usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf expire: mysql:/usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-dict-expire.conf Please help :-) What should I do to have the right codes for the folder names? Best regards Michael Lattari

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[Dovecot] v1.2.7 released
by Timo Sirainen 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.7.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.7.tar.gz.sig * IMAP: IDLE now sends "Still here" notifications to same user's connections at the same time. This hopefully reduces power usage of some mobile clients that use multiple IDLEing connections. * IMAP: If imap_capability is set, show it in the login banner. + IMAP: Implemented SORT=DISPLAY extension. - Login process creation could have sometimes failed with epoll_ctl() errors or without epoll probably some other strange things could have happened. - Maildir: Fixed some performance issues - Maildir: Fixed crash when using a lot of keywords. - Several fixes to QRESYNC extension and modseq handling - mbox: Make sure failed saves get rolled back with NFS. - dbox: Several fixes.

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[Dovecot] v1.1.20 released
by Timo Sirainen 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.20.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.20.tar.gz.sig Hopefully one of the last v1.1 releases. * Upgraded to Unicode 5.2.0 - Maildir: Fixed crash when using a lot of keywords. - file_set_size() was broken with OSes that didn't support posix_fallocate() (almost everyone except Linux), causing all kinds of index file errors.

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[Dovecot] Ownership and permissions for the index directory/filesystem
by Stewart Dean 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

I recently upgraded from DC 1.1.15 to 1.2.6. The /var/dcindx index root directory is: drwxrwsrwt 3962 root sys 192512 Nov 13 11:56 ./ thus 3777. It appears that the user index directories created under DC1.1 look like this (here for /var/dcindx/cep): drwx--S--- 5 cep sys 256 Nov 13 14:26 cep/ while those created under V1.2 look like: drwx------ 3 lrenart sys 256 Nov 12 14:59 lrenart/ It seems that the first time that DC goes to do indexing, I now see this error msg: Nov 12 11:45:15 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(bpyi): open(/var/spool/mail/bpyi) failed: Permission denied (euid=2586(bpyi) egid=2000(bard2) missing +w perm: /var/spool/mail) ...but never again... Questions: 1) Are the ownership and permissions on the /var/dcindx index root directory ideal or should they be something else? 2) Ideally what should the ownership and permissions be for individual user subdirs? I create the user mail directories when creating a new account, so it would be little extra trouble to create and set the ownership and permissions. I am currently using mbox mailbox format but will be migrating to maildir over the next some months. Dovecot -n > # 1.2.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf > # OS: AIX 3 0001378F4C00 > listen: *:143 > ssl_listen: *:993 > disable_plaintext_auth: no > verbose_ssl: yes > login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login > login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login > login_processes_count: 12 > login_max_processes_count: 774 > max_mail_processes: 1280 > mail_max_userip_connections: 12 > verbose_proctitle: yes > first_valid_uid: 200 > mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dcindx/%u > mbox_write_locks: fcntl > mbox_dirty_syncs: no > lda: > postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com > auth default: > passdb: > driver: pam > userdb: > driver: passwd -- ==== Once upon a time, the Internet was a friendly, neighbors-helping-neighbors small town, and no one locked their doors. Now it's like an apartment in Bed-Stuy: you need three heavy duty pick-proof locks, one of those braces that goes from the lock to the floor, and bars on the windows.... ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Bard College, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] Index file (date timestamp) issue on OS X 10.6.2 Server
by Darren Latter 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

Hi, I've run into a bit of a problem and exhausted my knowledge and research. I'm hoping that I've overlooked something very obvious! I moved from a single Apple OS X 10.6.2 server Dovecot environment to a NFS clustered environment, currently with two servers. Both servers are identical hardware, software. Currently both the Dovecot index and data files are on the NFS RAID array. Both servers are configured to work with NFS per the Dovecot guides. The index and data files are accessed via a target link to the NFS mount via /var/spool/imap/dovecot. Email can be sent and received via either server and there are no errors being reported (both platforms are in debug mode). In essence everything appears to be working fine. The issue is that after the index is initially built (all email timestamps are correct) however any new incoming email is timestamped: 8 July 2037 23:53 I checked the index files: drwx------ 5 XXXX mail 4096 Nov 12 20:41 .UND -rw------- 1 XXXX staff 1472 Nov 13 12:30 .nfs.2005105c.0583 -rw------- 2 XXXX mail 56668 Nov 13 15:44 .nfs.200514ff.0583 -rw------- 2 XXXX mail 1364 Nov 13 15:44 .nfs.20051500.0583 drwx------ 2 XXXX mail 12288 Nov 13 15:44 cur -rw------- 1 XXXX mail 118 Nov 13 10:04 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 XXXX staff 5359 Nov 13 15:44 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 XXXX staff 8 Nov 12 21:12 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 XXXX mail 0 Jul 8 2037 dovecot-uidvalidity.4afc7a3a -rw------- 1 XXXX staff 1472 Nov 13 15:44 dovecot.index -rw------- 2 XXXX mail 56668 Nov 13 15:44 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 2 XXXX mail 1364 Nov 13 15:44 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 XXXX mail 3859 Nov 13 15:47 maildirsize drwx------ 2 XXXX mail 4096 Nov 13 15:44 new -rw------- 1 XXXX mail 902 Nov 1 14:07 subscriptions drwx------ 2 XXXX mail 4096 Nov 13 15:44 tmp When checking the "stand alone" old data - the files are all correctly dated. This issue is the same for all users. Any ideas? Many thanks, Darren sh-3.2# /usr/sbin/dovecotd -n # 1.1.17apple0.5: /private/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 456). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: Darwin 10.0.0 i386 nfs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot syslog_facility: local6 protocols: managesieve imaps listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 ssl_cert_file: /etc/certificates/X.X.org.X.cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/certificates/X.X.org.X.key.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_user: _dovecot login_process_per_connection: no max_mail_processes: 200 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 6 first_valid_gid: 6 mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes dotlock_use_excl: no mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes lock_method: dotlock mbox_read_locks: fcntl dotlock mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_process_sharing(default): full mail_process_sharing(imap): full mail_process_sharing(managesieve): none mail_max_connections(default): 5 mail_max_connections(imap): 5 mail_max_connections(managesieve): 20 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(managesieve): /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/%u sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(managesieve): /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/%u/dovecot.sieve auth default: mechanisms: gssapi cram-md5 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: od userdb: driver: od args: partition=/etc/dovecot/partition_map.conf enforce_quotas=no socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: _dovecot group: mail plugin: quota_warning: storage=100%% /usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-exceeded.sh quota: maildir:User quota sieve: /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/%u/dovecot.sieve

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Re: [Dovecot] Index file (date timestamp) issue on OS X 10.6.2 Server
by Darren Latter 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Squirrelmail operates fine no date/time issues - it's the only bit that works without a problem :) On 13 Nov 2009, at 21:00, Bruce Bodger wrote: > Right... I wasn't thinking of either Postfix or Dovecot, I was thinking that the program that was used to create the actual message may be squirrelmail or some other phpmailer-like affair. > > Good luck, > Bruce > > On Nov 13, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Darren Latter wrote: > >> Hi Bruce, >> >> OS X 10.6 Server uses Postfix and Dovecot so no PHP that I'm aware of - but thanks for the thought! >> I'm wondering if Apple have "enhanced" Dovecot for XSAN clustering/integration? I know that there are several parameters in the dovecot.conf file (mail file locations, index status) that are overridden by other Apple files. >> >> >> >> On 13 Nov 2009, at 20:23, Bruce Bodger wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 13, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Darren Latter wrote: >>> >>>> Volumes of emails arriving - hits either server, some will be correctly received with date/time, others time stamped with 8 July 2037, 23:53 >>>> Same server could give either the correct or the 2037 timestamp. >>> >>> It's a long shot, but are the emails that contain the errant date/time stamp being created by any php mail routine? We ask because we've seen similar issues with dates from a PEAR/Date library that's not php v5.3 compliant. >>> >>> B. Bodger >>> >> >> >

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[Dovecot] vacation
by selaci selaci 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

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[Dovecot] read/connect anvil-auth-penalty failed: EOF/Connection refused
by Pascal Volk 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Since the changesets: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/9bec70f26637 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/75b48fa3aec4 there is another problem. A `dovecot stop`, while auth and auth -w are still running, logs: Nov 12 03:17:00 master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=31656 uid=0 code=kill) Nov 12 03:17:00 auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: EOF Nov 12 03:17:00 auth: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Connection refused Nov 12 03:17:00 auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: EOF Nov 12 03:17:00 auth: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Connection refused This problem doesn't occur with changeset 49d92c3fa17a. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: face1e55.0931603(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] Rewriting username at login
by Gerry Demaret 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

I am trying to make a switch from Cyrus to Dovecot which has some "historical accidents" to it that I have to deal with and ideally would like to get rid of. One of them is that about half of the existing accounts have a different format for their login. All the newer accounts have their email address as login, the old ones use a dot instead of an at: - new: user1(a)domain.tld - old: user2.domain.tld I would like to migrate away from the all-dots notation since it leads to a lot of support questions, and for that I'd like to run in a compatibility-mode for a few months. Effectively, I want to get rid of all the old users and convert them all to the new scheme, and have the username rewritten at login, so every second to last dot gets rewritten to an at. This would ensure that we have no complaints and allow our users to migrate slowly. All users are currently stored in a MySQL database for Cyrus, but this will be changed to a Dovecot-LDAP combination. Is this possible? How could I achieve this? Kind regards, Gerry.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot setuid, setgid, permission denied Problem!
by "Яцко Эллад Геннадьевич (ngs)" 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hello! Please, help! I have trouble with Dovecot's Deliver utility. I don't know how to avoid errors. Let me know what additional related information do you need? 1) Its call in Exim's configure: ========================================== local_delivery_spam_transport: driver = pipe command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -c /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf -d $local_part@$domain -m Junk message_prefix = message_suffix = log_output = true delivery_date_add envelope_to_add return_path_add user = mailnull group = mail ========================================== 2) maillog output: ========================================== Nov 13 11:16:50 srvgate-msk exim[47586]: 1N8rKs-000CNW-Qu <= eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru H=main.domain.runoguy.ru [172.16.77.11] P=esmtpa A=auth_plain:eyatsko@runoguy.ru S=42548 from <eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru> for eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk exim[47593]: 1N8rKt-000CNd-D2 <= eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru U=mailnull P=spam-scanned S=43507 id=E1N8rKs-000CNW-Qu(a)srvgate-msk.runoguy.ru from <mailnull(a)runoguy.ru> for eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk exim[47587]: 1N8rKs-000CNW-Qu => eyatsko <eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru> R=dspam_spamscan_router T=dspam_spamscan_transport Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk exim[47587]: 1N8rKs-000CNW-Qu Completed Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk deliver(eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru): auth input: home=/var/mail/exim Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk deliver(eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru): auth input: uid=26 Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk deliver(eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru): auth input: gid=26 Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk deliver(eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru): Fatal: setgid(26(mailnull)) failed with euid=26(mailnull), gid=6(mail), egid=6(mail): Operation not permitted Nov 13 11:16:51 srvgate-msk exim[47594]: 1N8rKt-000CNd-D2 == eyatsko(a)runoguy.ru R=local_delivery_spam_router T=local_delivery_spam_transport defer (0): Child process of local_delivery_spam_transport transport returned 75 (could mean temporary error) from command: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver ========================================== 3) dovecot-mysql.conf ========================================== driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=exim user=exim password=***** default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT `username` as `user`, `password` FROM `users` WHERE `username` = '%n@%d' AND `active`='Y' user_query = SELECT `home`, 26 AS `uid`, 26 AS `gid` FROM `users` WHERE `username` = '%n@%d' AND `active`='Y' ========================================== 4) Owner and permissions on mailbox-directory: ========================================== /usr/local/etc/exim> ll /var/mail/exim/runoguy.ru/ total 6 drwxrwx--- 10 mailnull mail 512 Nov 13 10:40 eyatsko drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 12 22:17 nkolobovnikova drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 12 22:30 oyatsko /usr/local/etc/exim> ========================================== 5) Junk folder: ========================================== /usr/local/etc/exim> ll /var/mail/exim/runoguy.ru/eyatsko/ total 46 drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 10 21:29 .Drafts drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 10 21:34 .Junk drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 12 17:24 .Outgoing drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 12 14:01 .Sent drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 512 Nov 12 17:24 .Trash drwxrwx--- 2 mailnull mail 1024 Nov 13 10:40 cur -rwxrwx--- 1 mailnull mail 17 Nov 10 18:47 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 mailnull mail 19 Nov 13 10:40 dovecot-uidlist -rwxrwx--- 1 mailnull mail 8 Nov 10 21:24 dovecot-uidvalidity -rwxrwx--- 1 mailnull mail 0 Nov 10 17:17 dovecot-uidvalidity.4af975ff -rw------- 1 mailnull mail 384 Nov 13 10:40 dovecot.index -rwxrwx--- 1 mailnull mail 16916 Nov 13 10:40 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 mailnull mail 116 Nov 13 10:40 dovecot.index.log drwxrwx--- 2 mailnull mail 512 Nov 13 10:33 new -rwxrwx--- 1 mailnull mail 38 Nov 10 21:28 subscriptions drwxrwx--- 2 mailnull mail 512 Nov 13 10:33 tmp /usr/local/etc/exim> ========================================== mailnull has system uid=26, mail has system gid=26. Kind regards. Ellad G. Yatsko.

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[Dovecot] Turning off "Fixed Duplicates" feature
by Jordan Tardif 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Is there a way to disable this feature? Seems to be causing more harm then good right now. Without getting into too much details it is fixing the duplcates but it does not remove the old file, and the new file it creates is not marked as read like the old one was. I understand that this problem can be created by multiple rsyncs and files changing in between, but is there any way that I can just turn this feature off all together? I do not see anything in the wiki regrading settings to disable. -- Jordan Tardif DreamHost

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[Dovecot] Sieve and ACL problem
by Gregory Finch 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've come across a problem that I can't figure out. I'm using Dovecot 1.2.6 and Sieve 0.1.13. I'm using the following sieve script to sort my incoming mail. require ["fileinto", "envelope"]; if envelope :all :is "from" "sopprde(a)newport.th.gov.bc.ca" { fileinto "Public/Weather"; } elsif envelope :all :is "from" "apache(a)ldmltd.ca" { fileinto "hwcr"; } elsif envelope :all :is "from" "weatherdirect(a)pelmorex.ca" { fileinto "Public/Weather"; } elsif envelope :all :is "from" "Drive.BC(a)gems2.gov.bc.ca" { fileinto "Public/Weather"; } elsif header :contains "List-Id" "Dovecot Mailing List" { fileinto "Dovecot"; } else { keep; } It works for saving to my private email folders, but I get a permission denied error when trying to save to a public folder. maillog - showing error Nov 12 12:26:57 app postfix/qmgr[19314]: B36E77800088: from=<weatherdirect(a)pelmorex.ca>, size=35572, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 12 12:26:57 app dovecot: deliver(gfinch(a)app.ldmltd.ca): sieve: msgid=<3708845-2200911412202651769(a)pelmorex.ca>: failed to store into mailbox 'Public/Weather': Permission denied Nov 12 12:26:57 app dovecot: deliver(gfinch(a)app.ldmltd.ca): sieve: msgid=<3708845-2200911412202651769(a)pelmorex.ca>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Nov 12 12:26:57 app dovecot: deliver(gfinch(a)app.ldmltd.ca): sieve: execution of script /srv/dovecot/gfinch/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful Nov 12 12:26:57 app postfix/pipe[15363]: B36E77800088: to=<gfinch(a)app.ldmltd.ca>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.66, delays=0.62/0/0/0.05, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Nov 12 12:26:57 app postfix/qmgr[19314]: B36E77800088: removed Nov 12 12:26:57 app postfix/smtpd[15365]: disconnect from mail127c0.megamailservers.com[69.49.121.237] maillog - showing working Nov 12 09:44:42 app postfix/smtpd[13094]: connect from dovecot.org[82.118.211.50] Nov 12 09:44:42 app postfix/smtpd[13094]: E08BC7800085: client=dovecot.org[82.118.211.50] Nov 12 09:44:43 app postfix/cleanup[13097]: E08BC7800085: message-id=<1258047854.3022.401.camel@timo-desktop> Nov 12 09:44:43 app postfix/qmgr[19314]: E08BC7800085: from=<dovecot-bounces+gfinch=app.ldmltd.ca(a)dovecot.org>, size=2518, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Nov 12 09:44:43 app postfix/smtpd[13094]: disconnect from dovecot.org[82.118.211.50] Nov 12 09:44:43 app dovecot: deliver(gfinch(a)app.ldmltd.ca): sieve: msgid=<1258047854.3022.401.camel@timo-desktop>: stored mail into mailbox 'Dovecot' Nov 12 09:44:43 app postfix/pipe[13099]: E08BC7800085: to=<gfinch(a)app.ldmltd.ca>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.32, delays=0.27/0.01/0/0.05, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Nov 12 09:44:43 app postfix/qmgr[19314]: E08BC7800085: removed As for the permissions, I can save messages to the public folder with no problems from my email client over IMAP, so I'm assuming the acl file is correct. dovecot-acl for Public/Weather authenticated lrs user=gfinch lrwstipekxa # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.23.1-smp-LDM i686 Slackware 12.0.0 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps managesieve ssl_ca_file: /etc/dovecot/ca.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/dovecot/dovecot1.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/dovecot/dovecot1.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 500 mail_uid: 500 mail_gid: 500 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs fsync_disable: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): acl imap_acl mail_plugins(imap): acl imap_acl mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_idle_notify_interval(default): 1200 imap_idle_notify_interval(imap): 1200 imap_idle_notify_interval(managesieve): 120 namespace: type: private inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: Shared/%%u/ location: maildir:%%h/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs:INDEX=~/shared/%%u list: children namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: Public/ location: maildir:/srv/dovecot/public:LAYOUT=fs:INDEX=~/public list: children lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)ldmltd.ca mail_plugins: acl sieve fsync_disable: no auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 passdb: driver: passwd-file args: username_format=%Ln /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=500 gid=500 home=/srv/dovecot/%Ln 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 plugin: acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict: file:/etc/dovecot/shared/mailboxes sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve I don't know what I missed in the config, as everything else works perfectly. Thank you, - -Greg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkr8jEwACgkQeflWWP27iA+UQgCgni3jztUw6PRCH9Z1tljVbv09 dQ8AnjBx+cYEmSfiZzTItbR/ZsmGcQQi =WzVp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Deliver and file system quota
by Rainer Frey 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hi, what is the quota plugin for deliver supposed to do when using fs quota? With IMAP, and not using noenforcing, a user that is over Soft limit can't copy mails. With deliver, the mail is delivered normally. When hard limit is exceeded, there is an error "rejected: Not enough disk space", just like when I don't use the plugin in lda. Even the lda setting "quota_full_tempfail = yes" works without the plugin configured in lda section. So is there any effect of the quota plugin in lda with file system quota? Thanks Rainer

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[Dovecot] sieve files wont get parsed/compiled using cmusieve
by Moritz Krinke 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hello, im trying to get sieve up and running, but apparently my sieve rules file doesnt get parsed / compiled and i cant see any errors in my logfile which would point me to the problem. im using ubuntu 9.10 (and the dovecot packages from it), dovecot version is 1.1.11. in the protocol lda section of the config file i have added: mail_plugins = cmusieve mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda and in the plugins section: sieve = /var/vmail/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /var/vmail/%d/%n/sieve root@mail:/# l /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 247470 2009-10-15 06:38 /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1038 2009-10-15 06:37 /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 141384 2009-10-15 06:38 /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so in /var/vmail/%d/%n/ i have a dir "sieve", containing a sieve rule file and a symlink to it: ls -la .dovecot.sieve lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2009-11-07 17:14 .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/roundcube.sieve ls -la sieve/ total 16 drwxrw-rw- 3 vmail mail 4096 2009-11-07 17:02 . drwxrw---- 20 vmail mail 4096 2009-11-07 17:20 .. -rwxrw-rw- 1 vmail mail 359 2009-11-07 17:02 roundcube.sieve as i understand the documentation there should be a ".dovecot.sievec" file after the first mail arrived. But there isnt. There also is nor err file . Since the dovecot user is in the group "mail", deliver should have rw-access to the sieve file/directory. The Upload of the sieve rule via dovecots managesieve did work as expected. Would be great if anyone had an idea what/where to check next...? ;-) Thanks, Moritz

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[Dovecot] UTF-8 mailbox names in filesystem
by Timo Sirainen 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Currently mailbox names are stored in IMAP's modified-UTF-7 format in filesystem. I was wondering about changing this in v2.0. The default would still be to use mUTF-7 in filesystem, but just adding :UTF8 or something to mail_location could enable UTF-8. Any thoughts? Could this be dangerous somehow? UTF-8 enables a lot of weird characters, perhaps no one really wants to see them on filesystem since there's no way to type the characters? But for small systems this probably isn't a problem.

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