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[Dovecot] Dovecot ACLs
by dovecot＠corwyn.net 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Running Dovecot 1.1.8 using Virtual users, multiple domains. My file structure is /var/spool/mail/<domain>/<user>/Maildir/ (cur, new,tmp,.Spam) What I'd like to do is add an ACL such that all users can read/delete/move mail that's in the spam folder, but not delete it. Am I going to have to create an entry for every single user, or is there a way to do it once, for all .Spam folders? I've read through http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL and can't quite get this as the last step. Thanks rick Rick Steeves http://www.sinister.net "The journey is the destination"

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[Dovecot] Dovecot SASL Postfix
by kosovo73＠web.de 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello, I try to bring Postfix + Dovecot + SASL in the running. Unfortunately, this has not succeeded to me, only the Pop3 daemon runs without problems. /var/log/dovecot.log dovecot: 2009-04-03 01:04:38 Error: auth(default): bind(/var/spool/postifx/private/auth) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: 2009-04-03 01:04:38 Fatal: auth(default): net_listen_unix(/var/spool/postifx/private/auth) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: 2009-04-03 01:04:38 Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down /var/log/mail.log Apr 3 01:08:38 server1 postfix/master[14627]: daemon started -- version 2.5.5, configuration /etc/postfix Apr 3 01:09:07 server1 postfix/smtpd[14650]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory Apr 3 01:09:07 server1 postfix/smtpd[14650]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Apr 3 01:09:08 server1 postfix/master[14627]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 14650 exit status 1 Apr 3 01:09:08 server1 postfix/master[14627]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling --------------------- postconf -n alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes config_directory = /etc/postfix content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024 home_mailbox = maildir/ mailbox_size_limit = 0 mydestination = $myhostname, mail.silvio-siefke.de, server1.silviosiefke.de myhostname = server1.silviosiefke.de recipient_delimiter = + smtp_sasl_auth_enable = no smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender reject_non_fqdn_recipient reject_invalid_helo_hostname reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname permit_sasl_authenticated permit_mynetworks reject_unauth_destination reject_unlisted_recipient reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org reject_rbl_client dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:10031 reject_unknown_sender_domain smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_local_domain = smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf virtual_gid_maps = static:1001 virtual_mailbox_base = /usr/local/virtual virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf virtual_mailbox_limit = 51200000 virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/mysql_virtual_mailbox_maps.cf virtual_minimum_uid = 1001 virtual_transport = virtual virtual_uid_maps = static:1004 --------------------- /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " ssl_disable = yes auth_verbose=yes auth_debug=yes auth_debug_passwords=yes mail_debug=yes protocols = pop3 imap disable_plaintext_auth = no log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n mail_access_groups = virtual first_valid_uid = 1004 first_valid_gid = 1005 protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } auth default { mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } user = root socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postifx/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } Has someone a Idea? Greetings Silvio

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[Dovecot] Fatal: imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 4): Operation not permitted
by Jérôme Blanc 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hello, I'am following the beginning tutorial on the Wiki, but actually, I can't even start the server correctly so far. The imap-login child dies immediately. What I can guess from the log is that it tries some unpermietted operations on some files but I can't find out which files are concerned. Google is not my friend at all either on this matter. How can I know which files are concerned ? Some infos that might help : [root@Aries ~]# dovecot -n # 1.1.6: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.14-server-1mnb i686 Mandriva Linux release 2009.0 (Official) for i586 ext3 ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/tls/private/dovecot.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%n auth default: passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: passwd [root@Aries ~]# ls -ld /var/mail drwxrwx--x 3 root mail 4096 2009-03-10 18:06 /var/mail/ [root@Aries ~]# service dovecot start And here is what I get in the /var/log/syslog file : Mar 10 20:00:47 aries dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.6 starting up Mar 10 20:00:48 aries dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 4): Operation not permitted Mar 10 20:00:48 aries dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now Mar 10 20:00:48 aries dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 4): Operation not permitted Mar 10 20:00:48 aries dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 4): Operation not permitted Thanks -- Jérôme Blanc OpenPGP : 1024D/F44DB96C

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[Dovecot] Squat memory usage
by Ryan 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

I've been reading about using Squat with Dovecot on large mailboxes. I was wondering if some of the memory usage during searching and indexing could be reduced by using a berkeley db? I've used this in the past for something similar and in BTREE mode it was very fast for millions of keys. I havent had time to look at how squat is implemented, but I thought I'd throw it out there... -Ryan

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[Dovecot] v1.2.beta2: Fatal: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 10): Bad file descriptor
by Pascal Volk 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi Timo, I'm playing with Dovecot v1.2.beta2 currently. When the dict process was started via deliver(?) and Dovecot is killed (kill $PID_OF_DOVECOT) after delivering only one message, it logs: Fatal: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 10): Bad file descriptor If the dict process was not started or deliver has delivered more than one message, the error doesn't occur. I'm not using SELinux or AppArmor or something similar. # 1.2.beta2: /usr/local/dovecot12/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid log_path: /usr/local/dovecot12/var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap listen: 10.11.12.13:10143 ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/dovecot12/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot12/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 70000 first_valid_gid: 70000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins: quota imap_quota auth default: mechanisms: digest-md5 cram-md5 login plain user: nobody verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot12/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot12/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /usr/local/dovecot12/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: dict:user::noenforcing:proxy::quotadict quota_rule: *:storage=10M:messages=11 quota_rule2: Trash:storage=50%% mail_debug: yes dict: quotadict: pgsql:/usr/local/dovecot12/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: cafefeed.0907505(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] quota-fs: get nfs GROUP quota (patch)
by fandorin＠rol.ru 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi all. Unfortunately, the existing quota-fs does not know how to get GROUP quota with NFS storage. But there is a tool for Linux quota-tools (http://slackware.rol.ru/slackware/slackware-12.2/source/a/quota/) This patch is made on the basis quota-tools. The patch was successful alpha testing. Suggestions and comments are welcome. diff -ruN dovecot-1.1.11.orig/src/plugins/quota/quota-fs.c dovecot-1.1.11/src/plugins/quota/quota-fs.c --- dovecot-1.1.11.orig/src/plugins/quota/quota-fs.c 2009-01-06 17:33:51.000000000 +0300 +++ dovecot-1.1.11/src/plugins/quota/quota-fs.c 2009-02-11 12:57:55.000000000 +0300 @@ -288,17 +288,26 @@ #ifdef HAVE_RQUOTA /* retrieve user quota from a remote host */ -static int do_rquota(struct fs_quota_root *root, bool bytes, +static int do_rquota(struct fs_quota_root *root, bool group, bool bytes, uint64_t *value_r, uint64_t *limit_r) { - struct getquota_rslt result; - struct getquota_args args; - struct timeval timeout; + struct getquota_rslt *result; + static struct getquota_rslt clnt_res; enum clnt_stat call_status; - CLIENT *cl; + CLIENT *clnt; struct fs_quota_mountpoint *mount = root->mount; const char *host; char *path; + int type, id; + struct timeval timeout = { 2, 0 }; + + union { + getquota_args arg; + ext_getquota_args ext_arg; + } args; + + type = group ? GRPQUOTA : USRQUOTA; + id = group ? root->gid : root->uid; path = strchr(mount->device_path, ':'); if (path == NULL) { @@ -311,82 +320,211 @@ path++; if (getenv("DEBUG") != NULL) { + if (group) { + i_info("quota-fs: host=%s, path=%s, gid=%s", + host, path, dec2str(root->gid)); + } else { i_info("quota-fs: host=%s, path=%s, uid=%s", host, path, dec2str(root->uid)); + } } - /* clnt_create() polls for a while to establish a connection */ - cl = clnt_create(host, RQUOTAPROG, RQUOTAVERS, "udp"); - if (cl == NULL) { - i_error("quota-fs: could not contact RPC service on %s", - host); - return -1; - } - - /* Establish some RPC credentials */ - auth_destroy(cl->cl_auth); - cl->cl_auth = authunix_create_default(); - - /* make the rquota call on the remote host */ - args.gqa_pathp = path; - args.gqa_uid = root->uid; - - timeout.tv_sec = RQUOTA_GETQUOTA_TIMEOUT_SECS; - timeout.tv_usec = 0; - call_status = clnt_call(cl, RQUOTAPROC_GETQUOTA, - (xdrproc_t)xdr_getquota_args, (char *)&args, - (xdrproc_t)xdr_getquota_rslt, (char *)&result, - timeout); + /* + * First try EXT_RQUOTAPROG (Extended (LINUX) RPC quota program) + */ + args.ext_arg.gqa_pathp = path; + args.ext_arg.gqa_id = id; + args.ext_arg.gqa_type = type; - /* the result has been deserialized, let the client go */ - auth_destroy(cl->cl_auth); - clnt_destroy(cl); - - if (call_status != RPC_SUCCESS) { - const char *rpc_error_msg = clnt_sperrno(call_status); - + /* + * Create a RPC client. + */ + + if ((clnt = clnt_create(host, RQUOTAPROG, EXT_RQUOTAVERS, "udp")) != NULL) { + /* + * Initialize unix authentication + */ + clnt->cl_auth = authunix_create_default(); + + /* + * Setup protocol timeout. + */ + clnt_control(clnt, CLSET_TIMEOUT, (caddr_t) & timeout); + + /* + * Do RPC call and check result. + */ + + memset((char *)&clnt_res, 0, sizeof(clnt_res)); + call_status = clnt_call (clnt, RQUOTAPROC_GETQUOTA, + (xdrproc_t) xdr_ext_getquota_args, (caddr_t) &args.ext_arg, + (xdrproc_t) xdr_getquota_rslt, (caddr_t) &clnt_res, + timeout); + result = &clnt_res; + /* + * Destroy unix authentication and RPC client structure. + */ + auth_destroy(clnt->cl_auth); + clnt_destroy(clnt); + + if (call_status != RPC_SUCCESS) { + const char *rpc_error_msg = clnt_sperrno(call_status); i_error("quota-fs: remote rquota call failed: %s", rpc_error_msg); return -1; - } - - switch (result.status) { - case Q_OK: { + } + + switch (result->status) { + case Q_OK: { /* convert the results from blocks to bytes */ - rquota *rq = &result.getquota_rslt_u.gqr_rquota; + rquota *rq = &result->getquota_rslt_u.gqr_rquota; if (rq->rq_active) { - if (bytes) { - *value_r = (uint64_t)rq->rq_curblocks * - (uint64_t)rq->rq_bsize; - *limit_r = (uint64_t)rq->rq_bsoftlimit * - (uint64_t)rq->rq_bsize; - } else { - *value_r = rq->rq_curfiles; - *limit_r = rq->rq_fsoftlimit; - } + if (bytes) { + *value_r = (uint64_t)rq->rq_curblocks * + (uint64_t)rq->rq_bsize; + *limit_r = (uint64_t)rq->rq_bsoftlimit * + (uint64_t)rq->rq_bsize; + } else { + *value_r = rq->rq_curfiles; + *limit_r = rq->rq_fsoftlimit; + } } if (getenv("DEBUG") != NULL) { + if (group) { + i_info("quota-fs: gid=%s, value=%llu, " + "limit=%llu, active=%d", dec2str(root->gid), + (unsigned long long)*value_r, + (unsigned long long)*limit_r, rq->rq_active); + } else { i_info("quota-fs: uid=%s, value=%llu, " "limit=%llu, active=%d", dec2str(root->uid), (unsigned long long)*value_r, (unsigned long long)*limit_r, rq->rq_active); + } } return 1; - } - case Q_NOQUOTA: + } + case Q_NOQUOTA: if (getenv("DEBUG") != NULL) { + if (group) { + i_info("quota-fs: gid=%s, limit=unlimited", + dec2str(root->gid)); + } else { i_info("quota-fs: uid=%s, limit=unlimited", dec2str(root->uid)); + } } return 1; - case Q_EPERM: + case Q_EPERM: i_error("quota-fs: permission denied to rquota service"); return -1; - default: + default: i_error("quota-fs: unrecognized status code (%d) " - "from rquota service", result.status); + "from rquota service", result->status); return -1; + } + } else { + result = NULL; + } + + if (result == NULL || !result->status) { + if (type == USRQUOTA) { + /* + * Try RQUOTAPROG because server doesn't seem to understand EXT_RQUOTAPROG. (NON-LINUX servers.) + */ + args.arg.gqa_pathp = path; + args.arg.gqa_uid = id; + + /* + * Create a RPC client. + */ + if ((clnt = clnt_create(host, RQUOTAPROG, RQUOTAVERS, "udp")) != NULL) { + /* + * Initialize unix authentication + */ + clnt->cl_auth = authunix_create_default(); + + /* + * Setup protocol timeout. + */ + clnt_control(clnt, CLSET_TIMEOUT, (caddr_t) & timeout); + + /* + * Do RPC call and check result. + */ + memset((char *)&clnt_res, 0, sizeof(clnt_res)); + call_status = clnt_call (clnt, RQUOTAPROC_GETQUOTA, + (xdrproc_t) xdr_getquota_args, (caddr_t) &args.arg, + (xdrproc_t) xdr_getquota_rslt, (caddr_t) &clnt_res, + timeout); + result = &clnt_res; + /* + * Destroy unix authentication and RPC client structure. + */ + auth_destroy(clnt->cl_auth); + clnt_destroy(clnt); + + if (call_status != RPC_SUCCESS) { + const char *rpc_error_msg = clnt_sperrno(call_status); + i_error("quota-fs: remote rquota call failed: %s", + rpc_error_msg); + return -1; + } + + switch (result->status) { + case Q_OK: { + /* convert the results from blocks to bytes */ + rquota *rq = &result->getquota_rslt_u.gqr_rquota; + + if (rq->rq_active) { + if (bytes) { + *value_r = (uint64_t)rq->rq_curblocks * + (uint64_t)rq->rq_bsize; + *limit_r = (uint64_t)rq->rq_bsoftlimit * + (uint64_t)rq->rq_bsize; + } else { + *value_r = rq->rq_curfiles; + *limit_r = rq->rq_fsoftlimit; + } + } + if (getenv("DEBUG") != NULL) { + if (group) { + i_info("quota-fs: gid=%s, value=%llu, " + "limit=%llu, active=%d", dec2str(root->gid), + (unsigned long long)*value_r, + (unsigned long long)*limit_r, rq->rq_active); + } else { + i_info("quota-fs: uid=%s, value=%llu, " + "limit=%llu, active=%d", dec2str(root->uid), + (unsigned long long)*value_r, + (unsigned long long)*limit_r, rq->rq_active); + } + } + return 1; + } + case Q_NOQUOTA: + if (getenv("DEBUG") != NULL) { + if (group) { + i_info("quota-fs: gid=%s, limit=unlimited", + dec2str(root->gid)); + } else { + i_info("quota-fs: uid=%s, limit=unlimited", + dec2str(root->uid)); + } + } + return 1; + case Q_EPERM: + i_error("quota-fs: permission denied to rquota service"); + return -1; + default: + i_error("quota-fs: unrecognized status code (%d) " + "from rquota service", result->status); + return -1; + } + + } + } } } #endif @@ -602,6 +740,7 @@ uint64_t limit = 0; bool bytes; int ret; + bool group; *value_r = 0; @@ -614,7 +753,12 @@ #ifdef HAVE_RQUOTA if (strcmp(root->mount->type, "nfs") == 0) { T_BEGIN { - ret = do_rquota(root, bytes, value_r, &limit); + if (root->group_disabled){ + group = FALSE; + } else { + group = TRUE; + } + ret = do_rquota(root, group, bytes, value_r, &limit); } T_END; } else #endif

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[Dovecot] 1.11 bug?: file client-common.c: line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0)
by Long Le Dinh 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi, I got below log in last 2 days, I have to restart dovecot as pop3-login failed and service cannot respond. Mar 26 14:19:31 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Shutting down (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x Mar 26 14:19:31 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Shutting down (tried to use disabled plaintext auth): method=??<B7> Mar 26 14:19:31 Panic: pop3-login: file client-common.c: line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0) Mar 26 14:19:31 Error: child 31902 (login) killed with signal 6 (ip=x.x.x.x) My system info: dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-8.el5 i686 CentOS release 5 (Final) ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log 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 mail_gid: 100 mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/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/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf We're using Maildir format, no NFS. Any help/clue is appreciated. Thanks, - Long Le

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[Dovecot] odd epoll() errors
by Ralf Hildebrandt 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

>From my log: Dec 29 16:43:58 postamt dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.7 starting up Dec 29 16:43:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:43:59 postamt dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now Dec 29 16:43:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:43:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: pop3-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:43:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:43:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:43:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: pop3-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:44:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:44:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: pop3-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:44:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: pop3-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:44:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:44:59 postamt dovecot: child 15976 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:44:59 postamt dovecot: child 15977 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:44:59 postamt dovecot: child 15978 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:44:59 postamt dovecot: child 15979 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:44:59 postamt dovecot: child 15981 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:44:59 postamt dovecot: child 15982 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:44:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:45:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: pop3-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:45:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: pop3-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:45:59 postamt dovecot: child 17052 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:45:59 postamt dovecot: child 17053 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:45:59 postamt dovecot: child 17054 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:45:59 postamt dovecot: child 17055 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:45:59 postamt dovecot: child 17056 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:45:59 postamt dovecot: child 17057 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:45:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:46:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: pop3-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:46:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: pop3-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:46:59 postamt dovecot: child 17984 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:46:59 postamt dovecot: child 17985 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:46:59 postamt dovecot: child 17986 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:46:59 postamt dovecot: child 17987 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:46:59 postamt dovecot: child 17988 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:46:59 postamt dovecot: child 17989 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:46:59 postamt dovecot: child 17990 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:46:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:47:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: pop3-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:47:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: pop3-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:47:59 postamt dovecot: child 18791 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:47:59 postamt dovecot: child 18792 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:47:59 postamt dovecot: child 18793 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:47:59 postamt dovecot: child 18794 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:47:59 postamt dovecot: child 18796 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:47:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:47:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:48:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: pop3-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:48:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:48:59 postamt dovecot: child 19618 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:48:59 postamt dovecot: child 19614 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:48:59 postamt dovecot: child 19620 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 16:48:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:48:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:48:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: pop3-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 16:48:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files ... Dec 29 20:58:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files Dec 29 20:58:59 postamt dovecot: child 5268 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 20:58:59 postamt dovecot: child 5269 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 20:58:59 postamt dovecot: child 5274 (login) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) Dec 29 20:58:59 postamt dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: epoll_create(): Too many open files -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de) snickebo(a)charite.de Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de "Java is, in many ways, C++--." - Michael Feldman.

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[Dovecot] File and group permissions for incoming mails
by Sascha Scandella 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hello I am using Dovecot 1.1.1 together with Postfix (and for some users Procmail for Spam Filtering). Until now I didn't have to use shared mailboxes. Now I want to use simple simlinking to grant other users of the same group access to my mails. The problem is that new incoming mails have always file permissions set to 0600. I have also a file called dovecot-shared (0660) in the Maildir folder. No success. Why doesn't this work? I also tried to use UMASK in the procmailrc. No success. Any help is appreciated! Best regards Sascha

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[Dovecot] 1.2.beta4: Fatal: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 11): Bad file descriptor
by e-frog 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Whenever dovecot is stopped while a dict process is running I see Fatal: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(1, 11): Bad file descriptor in the error log. The following patch fixes this for me. I'm sure there is a better way though. --- dovecot-1.2.beta4/src/master/dict-process.c.orig 2009-03-27 16:44:59.000000000 +0100 +++ dovecot-1.2.beta4/src/master/dict-process.c 2009-03-27 18:59:24.000000000 +0100 @@ -209,11 +209,6 @@ dict_process_destroyed(struct child_proc struct dict_listener *listener = process->listener; dict_process_deinit(process); - if (listener->processes == NULL) { - /* last listener died, create new ones */ - listener->io = io_add(listener->fd, IO_READ, - dict_listener_input, listener); - } } void dict_processes_init(void)

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[Dovecot] Email stress test
by Proskurin Kirill 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hello all. May be not in right list but... I have a email system based on: Exim-4.69 + Dovecot-1.1.11 on FreeBSD-7.1 I need to make a stress test on it. Something like a 1000 concurrent conection to IMAP and SMTP. What tool can help me? -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill

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[Dovecot] dbox - how to awaken the monster
by Odhiambo Washington 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hello people, Since the invention of this storage called dbox, I have never quite gotten round to understanding it, nor getting to use it. It seems so strange to me and I must ask a few stupid questions about it. I use the MTA to deliver mail to Maildir, either in ~/Maildir or /some/path/%d/%n/Maildir. It has always beat me how dbox comes into play under such circumstances. From the wiki, I see the following: "dbox supports a quick migration from Maildir format" - now this leaves me hanging. How? Suppose I migrate from Maildir to dbox, what changes do I make to the MTA to understand that I use dbox? Ok, I use Exim as my MTA. I hope someone can explain to me what I need to do to Exim and what to do th Dovecot so that I can test this dbox thing. And suppose I want to transfer userA's mail to UserB, what do I do? With Maildir, I can simply do something like mv ~A/Maildir ~B/Maildir chown -R B ~b/Maildir Suppose I am using dbox, howdy? Thank you in advance. I know those sound dumb, but I simply haven't understood dbox. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby." - Natalie Wood

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[Dovecot] [TroubleShoot]How to know what problem with Dovecot-POP3 configuration?
by tao.6.yang＠nokia.com 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi all, I am using Ubuntu8.04/Dovecot 1.0.10 and the dovecot -n shows as following, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/plain.pwd passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PROBLEM - [1] I cannot get the full CAPABILITY list after the user1/user1 login which includes plain login cram-md5 digest-md5, while can get a full complete list if I don't do the user1/user1 login when telnet at 143 But - auth connect from thunderbird client to IMAP4 email server successful for CRAM-MD5 for user1/user1, as seen from /var/log/mail.log [2]I cannot see the CRAM-MD5 and APOP auth connect logging in /var/mail/mail.log or mail.info when doing connect to Dovecot POP3 from thunderbird client - connect from thunderbird is successful but there is no logging info related with pop3-login in /var/log/mail.log or mail.info Can anyone tell me why I cannot see the logging for Dovecot Pop3 in the /var/log/mail.log or /var/log/mail.info and it seems there is no info shown for the POP3 CRAM-MD5 authentication? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot in OSCON 2009?
by Timo Sirainen 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi, I'm thinking about attending OSCON 2009 with some other people from Mailtrust and having some kind of an informal Dovecot meeting nearby. We could for example talk about what Dovecot would need to work better in your system, like missing features or if some things are annoyingly difficult etc, or just general talking and socializing. If you're interested in joining, send me a mail (privately, unless you have something else to say besides "yes").

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[Dovecot] problem with ldap
by Xueron Nee 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi, dovecot-1.2 from hg.dovecot.org openldap-2.4.11 passdb.o: In function `passdbs_init': /home/src/dovecot-1.2/src/auth/passdb.c:230: undefined reference to `passdb_ldap' userdb.o: In function `userdbs_init': /home/src/dovecot-1.2/src/auth/userdb.c:177: undefined reference to `userdb_ldap' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status -- Xueron Nee http://www.xueron.com

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[Dovecot] Slightly OT : Maildir format (silly) questions
by Thomas Hummel 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hello, I was asking what was the motivation for not having the envelope From in the Maildir format, as defined in the qmail spec : "The message is delivered without an extra UUCP- style From_ line, without any >From quoting, and without an extra blank line at the end." which may sound silly since we lose an important piece of information. Same question about the motivation in Courrier (Maildir++) for emulating a hierarchy for subfolders (like in .folder.subfolder.subsubfolder) instead of (note : I know about layout=FS, I'm not talking about that) implementing a real filesystem hierarchy. I understand dovecot kept those for compatibility reasons but I'd like to know what was the authors of thoses specs thinking when deciding this. Thanks -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] Informations in LDAP and Database
by Etienne MAYNIER 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi everybody, I'm installing an application using LDAP and I want dovecot to use LDAP too. The problem is that they don't use the same schema (especially because we want per-user quotas). I think the best solution is to have the authentication by LDAP and others datas (like quotas) in a database. Is it possible with dovecot ? and How ? Thanks Etienne

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[Dovecot] postfix + dovecot
by Łukasz Kasperek <lukasz 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

I have postfix+ dovecot but when I run sasl - have this: Mar 31 21:21:39 localhost postfix/smtpd[13134]: warning: SASL: Connect to smtpd failed: No such file or directory Mar 31 21:21:39 localhost postfix/smtpd[13134]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Mar 31 21:21:40 localhost postfix/master[13128]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 13134 exit status 1 Mar 31 21:21:40 localhost postfix/master[13128]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling I have Slackware 12.2. I write main.cf with documentation on postfix.org. my dovecot.conf: base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 ssl_disable = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path=/var/log/dovecot.log listen=* syslog_facility = mail login_greeting = Dovecot ready. mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n mail_privileged_group = mail protocol imap { } namespace private { prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %u-%v } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)yourdomain.tld auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb checkpassword { args = /var/www/ispcp/engine/ispcp-dovecot-mngr } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-domain.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-aliasdomain.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-subdomain.conf } socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0777 user = postfix group = postfix } master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = vmail group = mail } } } user = root } plugin { }

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[Dovecot] courier-dovecot-migrate.pl issue
by Louis-David Mitterrand 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi, I'm testing migration from courier to courier-0.57.0 to dovecot-imap-1.1.12 on a debian/sid box. When running the migration script, non of the active users' "courierimapsubscribed" and "courierimapuiddb" files seem to be detected: ZENON:~# ./courier-dovecot-migrate.pl --to-dovecot --recursive /home Testing conversion to Dovecot format Finding maildirs under /home /home/XXXX/Maildir: No imap/pop3 uidlist files /home/XXXX/CB: No imap/pop3 uidlist files /home/XXXX/Maildir/subscriptions already exists, not overwritten /home/XXXX/Maildir: No imap/pop3 uidlist files /home/XXXX/Maildir: No imap/pop3 uidlist files /home/XXXX/Mail: No imap/pop3 uidlist files /home/XXXX/Maildir: No imap/pop3 uidlist files /home/XXXX/Maildir: No imap/pop3 uidlist files Total: 0 mailboxes / 0 users 0 mailboxes / 0 users 0 errors No actual conversion done, use --convert parameter (the /home/XXXX users are old, non-active users) However when trying the courier-dovecot-migrate-1.0.pl I get plenty of mailbox matches, but since I am installing 1.1.12 it is useless to me. Dis I miss something? Thanks, -- http://www.critikart.net

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[Dovecot] Courier
by kosovo73＠web.de 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hello, For months I have the following configuration in run. Postfix with Mysql and Postfixadmin, Courier Imap + Pop I get a new server and, therefore, would like to change on Dovecot. The installation has also clapped without problems and the configuration has run so far also without defects. If I liked to call away the emails, I always get the announcement Internal Login failure. /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " ssl_disable = yes auth_verbose=yes auth_debug=yes auth_debug_passwords=yes mail_debug=yes protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth = no log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n mail_access_groups = virtual first_valid_uid = 1004 first_valid_gid = 1005 protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } auth default { mechanisms = digest-md5 plain passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } user = root } /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = dbname=postfix user=postfix host=localhost password=******** default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT maildir, 106 AS uid, 106 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' server1:/etc/init.d# ls -l /usr/local/virtual insgesamt 8 drwx--S--- 5 virtual virtual 4096 26. Aug 2008 silviosiefke.de drwx--S--- 3 virtual virtual 4096 25. Aug 2008 silvio-siefke.de server1:/etc/init.d# ls -l /usr/local/virtual/silviosiefke.de insgesamt 12 drwx--S--- 15 virtual virtual 4096 4. Feb 13:37 info drwx--S--- 12 virtual virtual 4096 13. Dez 11:56 listen drwx--S--- 12 virtual virtual 4096 13. Dez 11:55 webmaster server1:/etc/init.d# ls -l /usr/local/virtual/silviosiefke.de/webmaster insgesamt 76 drwx--S--- 2 virtual virtual 4096 8. Dez 16:26 courierimaphieracl -rw-r--r-- 1 virtual virtual 175 31. Mär 11:30 courierpop3dsizelist drwx--S--- 2 virtual virtual 28672 31. Mär 11:30 cur drwx--S--- 2 virtual virtual 20480 31. Mär 11:30 new drwx--S--- 2 virtual virtual 4096 13. Dez 11:55 sqwebmail-curcache -rw------- 1 virtual virtual 1 13. Dez 11:55 sqwebmail-curcache.nfshack -rw------- 1 virtual virtual 7 8. Dez 16:26 sqwebmail-sentstamp -rw------- 1 virtual virtual 1 13. Dez 11:55 sqwebmail-timestamp drwx--S--- 2 virtual virtual 4096 31. Mär 11:30 tmp Log: dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 lip=212.43.81.97 rip=78.50.83.149 lport=110 rport=2740 resp= dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 gklshjksdhshghsgslgls dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: auth-worker(default): sql(webmaster(a)silviosiefke.de,78.50.83.149): query: SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'webmaster(a)silviosiefke.de' dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=webmaster(a)silviosiefke.de dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 2 20275 1 dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: auth-worker(default): sql(webmaster(a)silviosiefke.de,78.50.83.149): SELECT maildir, 1000 AS uid, 1000 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'webmaster(a)silviosiefke.de' dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 2 webmaster(a)silviosiefke.de maildir=silviosiefke.de/webmaster/ uid=1000 gid=1000 dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<webmaster(a)silviosiefke.de>, method=PLAIN, rip=78.50.83.149, lip=212.43.81.97 dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: POP3(webmaster(a)silviosiefke.de): Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home= dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: POP3(webmaster(a)silviosiefke.de): maildir: data=/usr/local/virtual/silviosiefke.de/webmaster dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: POP3(webmaster(a)silviosiefke.de): maildir++: root=/usr/local/virtual/silviosiefke.de/webmaster, index=, control=, inbox=/usr/local/virtual/silviosiefke.de/webmaster dovecot: 2009-03-31 13:50:16 Info: POP3(webmaster(a)silviosiefke.de): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Does somebody have an idea what it can lie with? Greeting Silvio Siefke www.silviosiefke.de

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[Dovecot] about quota in dovecot
by guojinpeng(郭晋鹏) 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi, I’m currently try to use the dovecot quota plugin. I use the maildir plugin ,and use mysql as to get the quota rule. Question is: Sometimes dovecot only count in the size of INBOX ,without other (I use imap to create some mailbox),while,sometimes it count in all. I don’t know if there’s anything wrong with my configure. Here is the configure of my dovecot. Thank u! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>--------dovecot setting-------------<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< # 1.1.13: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-67.0.7.EL i686 CentOS release 4.6 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap pop3 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: Dovecot Ready mail_location: maildir:/home/mail/%u/ mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 438 user: dovecot group: dovecot plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_warning: storage=80%% /home/guojinpeng/quota-warning.sh 80 dict: quota: mysql:/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>end<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< # cat /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=postfix user=postfix password=postfix default_pass_scheme = CRYPT #password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' #user_query = SELECT maildir, 506 AS uid, 508 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = select maildir,506 as uid, 508 as gid, \ concat('*:storage=', quota ,'B') as quota_rule \ from mailbox where username = '%u' password_query = select username as user, password, \ 506 as userdb_uid, 508 as userdb_gid, \ concat('*:storage=', quota ,'B') as userdb_quota_rule \ from mailbox where username = '%u'

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[Dovecot] cannot login with plain authentication - missing UID
by Marc Donovan 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Mar 29 09:39:22 vertuso dovecot: dovecot v1.1.13 starting up (core dumps disabled) Mar 29 09:39:22 vertuso dovecot: auth(default): args = 512 Mar 29 09:39:22 vertuso dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/dovecot/userdb: Read 1 users Mar 29 09:39:23 vertuso dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=31142 Mar 29 09:39:23 vertuso dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=31143 Mar 29 09:39:23 vertuso dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=31144 Mar 29 09:39:26 vertuso dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=31145 Mar 29 09:39:33 vertuso dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap lip=207.210.243.5 rip=71.99.73.252 lport=143 rport=34016 resp=AHRlc3RAcmVkbW91bnRhaW5vcmdhbmljcy5j b20AZjBydzRyZA== Mar 29 09:39:33 vertuso dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file( test(a)redmountainorganics.com,71.99.73.252) lookup: user= test(a)redmountainorganics.com file=/etc/dovecot/userdb Mar 29 09:39:33 vertuso dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=test(a)redmountainorganics.com Mar 29 09:39:33 vertuso dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 31144 1 Mar 29 09:39:33 vertuso dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 1 test(a)redmountainorganics.com Mar 29 09:39:33 vertuso dovecot: User test(a)redmountainorganics.com is missing UID (see mail_uid setting) Mar 29 09:39:33 vertuso dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<test(a)redmountainorganics.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.99.73.252, lip=207.210.243.5 # cat /etc/dovecot/userdb test(a)redmountainorganics.com: $1$382-munged-qPfVf687aBiH0.rBgQ80:512:512::/var/mail/vhosts/ redmountainorganics.com/:: $ telnet redmountainorganics.com 143 Trying 207.210.243.5... Connected to redmountainorganics.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. a login test(a)redmountainorganics.com XXXXXXX * BYE Internal login failure. Refer to server log for more information. Connection closed by foreign host. # dovecot -n # 1.1.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.16.38-xenU i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant) ext3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n mail_debug: yes auth default: user: vmail verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/userdb compiled from the latest source. I have spent two days with gdb and can't figure out what is going on. Here is a bt # gdb -p 31140 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.132.EL4rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu". Attaching to process 31140 warning: The current VSYSCALL page code requires an existing execuitable. Use "add-symbol-file-from-memory" to load the VSYSCALL page by hand Reading symbols from /usr/local/sbin/dovecot...done. Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 0xb7f39079 in epoll_wait () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) break auth_process_input_user Function "auth_process_input_user" not defined. Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) n (gdb) break master_login_process Function "master_login_process" not defined. Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) n (gdb) break create_mail_process Breakpoint 1 at 0x804fc64: file mail-process.c, line 542. (gdb) cont Continuing. Detaching after fork from child process 31212. Breakpoint 1, create_mail_process (process_type=PROCESS_TYPE_IMAP, set=0x8070330, socket_fd=21, local_ip=0x8077468, remote_ip=0x807747c, user=0x806c322 "test(a)redmountainorganics.com", args=0x806c370, dump_capability=false) at mail-process.c:542 542 { (gdb) p *args $1 = 0x0 (gdb) bt #0 create_mail_process (process_type=PROCESS_TYPE_IMAP, set=0x8070330, socket_fd=21, local_ip=0x8077468, remote_ip=0x807747c, user=0x806c322 "test(a)redmountainorganics.com", args=0x806c370, dump_capability=false) at mail-process.c:542 #1 0x0804ddb5 in auth_master_callback (user=0x806c322 " test(a)redmountainorganics.com", args=0x806c370, request=0x8077458) at login-process.c:105 #2 0x0804ab94 in auth_process_input (process=0x80741b0) at auth-process.c:142 #3 0x0805a400 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x8072ea8) at ioloop-epoll.c:203 #4 0x080598bd in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x8072ea8) at ioloop.c:336 #5 0x08051853 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfca79d4) at main.c:604 *args is NULL, so it cant get the UID. I've been trying to figure out how this works and why mine does not. Its got to be something simple. Thanks, Marc D.

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[Dovecot] ampersand in local-part
by Bradley Giesbrecht 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

I have a new email server (postfix/dovecot/mysql) with accounts migrated from another server (different platform) and email addresses with ampersands like "r&d(a)domain.com" that worked on my old email server are not working now. I'd like some help tracking this issue down. Can anyone tell me if this looks like a postfix, dovecot or mysql issue? Some log info follows. For brevity I'm just posting this log snip as I'm thinking I will get a simple answer to this but I will be happy to post postfix, dovecot or mysql settings in detail if they are required. Thank you, Brad dovecot.log file: [...] dovecot: Mar 27 16:37:23 Info: auth(default): auth(?,216.111.149.248): Invalid username: r&d(a)domain.com dovecot: Mar 27 16:37:23 Info: auth(default): cram-md5(?, 216.111.149.248): Username contains disallowed character: 0x26 dovecot: Mar 27 16:37:24 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=68420 dovecot: Mar 27 16:37:25 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 dovecot: Mar 27 16:37:25 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 [....] dovecot: Mar 27 16:37:25 Info: auth(default): auth(?,216.111.149.248): Invalid username: r&d(a)domain.com dovecot: Mar 27 16:37:25 Info: auth(default): plain(?, 216.111.149.248): Username contains disallowed character: 0x26 dovecot: Mar 27 16:37:27 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 dovecot: Mar 27 16:37:27 Info: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 2 attempts): method=PLAIN, rip=216.111.149.248, lip=216.111.149.248, secured [...]

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[Dovecot] dbox with non-dovecot LDA
by Justin Krejci 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Aside from the code is there any documentation on using dbox with a non-Dovecot LDA? We have our own MTA and currently use Dovecot with Maildir only for message retrieval and just have our MTA write the message files to our own directory structure (Dovecot per user mailbox locations stored in mysql) but I am interested in looking at moving to dbox if it is better for performance and other things like static filenames. One thing we'd like to do is not use the Dovecot LDA so as to control the entire inbound email delivery process all the way to verifying the actual message is 100% written to disk. Certainly we can use the Dovecot LDA if it came to it but we'd like to retain control over this entire process if possible.

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[Dovecot] Help with basic configuration
by Rob Breault 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

I followed the information from the wiki here is my dovecot.conf file and yet I can't get pop3 working. I need this to listen on pop3 for an internal process but get email from smtp sources. So I would like to have sendmail receive email from the world to a specific email address then check the mailbox via a POP3 internal process. Any help would be great. [root@CRM-ILM-CC-A etc]# dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /home/vmail/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /home/vmail/log/dovecot-info.log ssl_disable: yes 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 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir dotlock_use_excl: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u [root@CRM-ILM-CC-A etc]# Robert Breault Sr System Engineer - Infrastructure Team | DealerTrack Systems -- ARKONA DMS 10757 South River Front Parkway | Suite 400 |South Jordan, UT 84095 801-617-8747 desk | 801-556-1091 mobile DISCLAIMER: This e-mail may contain confidential, proprietary information of DealerTrack, Inc. It is intended solely for the named recipient(s) listed above and should be maintained in strictest confidence. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this information from your computer and destroy any related paper copies.

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[Dovecot] Solr's index update
by Rui Carneiro 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi all, In the wiki says this: "Currently the indexes are updated only while searching" @ http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS This also is applied to Solr Indexes? If not, when Solr Indexes are updated? Thank you, Rui Carneiro -- mail: rui.arc(a)gmail.com, rui.carneiro(a)portugalmail.net website: http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~ei04073<http://paginas.fe.up.pt/%7Eei04073>

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[Dovecot] Virtual user folder configuration
by Daniel L. Miller 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Since I'm going to make a change to my folder structure, what would be recommended so I can avoid the need in the future? All my mail users are virtual - they have no existence in /etc/passwd, nor do they have folders under /home. At this time, all mail is being delivered to maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n - and the home is the same (which is becoming more of a problem). As I see it, I have the choices of: 1. Place mail underneath home, as in /var/mail/%d/%n/mailbox Probably the simplest, but adds a level to the folder hierarchy. Does that matter in any way? 2. Place home underneath mail, as in /var/mail/%d/%n/home (unless THAT poses a problem as well, with a non-mail folder visible to the mail system) Leaves mail alone - but means the home folder is visible from within the mail system. 3. Relocate home totally outside mail, as in /var/mail/home/%d/%n Would provide isolation - but more difficulty in administration, particularly adding/deleting users. Any suggestions? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] CMUSieve with virtual users
by Guillaume HILT 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi, I'm using dovecot 1.1.7 on Gentoo with Postfix and PostfixAdmin to manage my virtual users. I'm trying to use sieve (which has been compiled with Dovecot) but it doesn't work. I added cmusieve in the lda protocol : mail_plugins = cmusieve mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/lda My maildir scheme is : /home/vmail/%d/%n/.maildir The sieve file is in /home/vmail/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve (i'm using the sieve variable in the plugin section). I also tried in /home/vmail/%d/%n/.maildir/.dovecot.sieve. Then I tried in /var/sieve-scripts/%u.sieve. None of these solutions worked :x I enabled all the debug options in dovecot, and i can't see anything about sieve in my logs. I'm using the same configuration without virtual users on another server and it's working fine. I'm out of ideas. Could someone has managed to use sieve scripts with virtual users ? Thanks :) Guillaume

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[Dovecot] Double mysql auth problem
by Sebastian Chociwski 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hello , I am forced to use 2 DBs to auth users. First one is for our CRM system (new user=mail from him/her) , second is for other (cannot user CRM DB :( ) Postfix have no problem to deliver mails to both DBs but I've some problems with reciveing mails from second (not CRM) DB. The dovecot.conf : protocols = imap pop3 imaps disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n log_path = /var/log/dovecot ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb static { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes } } auth secondary { passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql2.conf } userdb static { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes } } dovecot-mysql.conf : driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname= user= password= default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT email as user, haslo as password FROM users WHERE email='%u'; dovecot-mysql2.conf : driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname= user= password= default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT email as user, password FROM poczta WHERE email='%u'; I could log on mail located in dovecot-mysql.conf (CRM) but when I try to log on second DB I got errors : dovecot: Mar 30 14:41:01 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=993 rport=32930 resp=AGdyb21AZXVyaW1hZ2UucGwANzEyMA== dovecot: Mar 30 14:41:01 Info: auth-worker(default): sql(grom(a)eurimage.pl,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT email as user, haslo as password FROM users WHERE email='grom(a)eurimage.pl'; dovecot: Mar 30 14:41:01 Info: auth-worker(default): sql(grom(a)eurimage.pl,127.0.0.1): unknown user dovecot: Mar 30 14:41:01 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=19560 dovecot: Mar 30 14:41:01 Info: auth(secondary): new auth connection: pid=19560 dovecot: Mar 30 14:41:03 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=grom(a)eurimage.pl dovecot: Mar 30 14:41:03 Info: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<grom(a)eurimage.pl>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS I see query for auth default but got no isea why there's no query for auth secondary ? Waiting for some help :)

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[Dovecot] Sieve Rule for Folders
by Gerhard Wiesinger 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hello! Is it possible with sieve to do the following: When a new message is added to a folder (e.g. dovecot folder and not INBOX) then an action like forwarding it per E-Mail should be triggered. Is this possible? If yes, how does the sieve script look like? If possible, can a shell script also be triggered as action? Thanx. Ciao, Gerhard -- http://www.wiesinger.com/

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[Dovecot] Benefits of DBOX format ?
by Frank Bonnet 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hello What would be the benefits of using DBOX format ? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Empty To: Header and message_address_parse
by Wolfgang.Friebel＠desy.de 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Using dovecot 1.2beta (but earlier versions should behave similarly) we have a problem in conjunction with empty To: headers and the RT request tracker. RT sends mail out using Bcc: and no To: header at all. To make some mailers happy one can configure to send a dummy To: header, which we do. Our To header looks like: To: "AdminCc of rt Ticket #123456":; The message_address_parse function called with the TRUE flag (triggers add_fixed_address) in dovecot changes that to To: AdminCc of rt Ticket #123456: MISSING_MAILBOX@MISSING_DOMAIN ; and then at least alpine does use that invalid address as Cc: address when replying. If the mail is stored in a local folder, i.e. does not get fetched via IMAP then the To: line is displayed as is and a reply does not result in an errorneous Cc: This behaviour is at least inconsistent from a user point of view. Is there some advice other than change the RT mail header generation? (other mailers seem to copy the To: line unaltered which results in an invalid address as well, therefore I admit that the real problem is with RT) -- Wolfgang Friebel Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Phone/Fax: +49 33762 77372/216 Platanenallee 6 Mail: Wolfgang.Friebel AT desy.de D-15738 Zeuthen Germany

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Re: [Dovecot] Common "sasl master" [Was: sendmail with dovecot sasl]
by Mario Pavlov 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi, so sendmail can use only cyrus-sasl ? ok, thank you >Mario Pavlov wrote: >> I was wondering if I can make sendmail use dovecot's SASL >> implementation...maybe I should somehow compile it against dovecot's >> SASL ? My idea is to make sendmail and dovecot authenticate against >> one central user/password repository. Is this possible ? >> >> thank you. >> >> P.S. I want to use virtual users > >Sendmail uses cyrus-sasl (only?). > >You can make cyrus-sasl and dovecot-sasl use "common master" >e.g. LDAP or PAM. >"LDAP centric" approach is a standard recommendation if you plan multi >server mail system with multiple "mailbox servers"/"filtering gateways". > >-- >[pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi(a)onet.eu >While there's life, there's hope. > -- Publius Terentius Afer (Terence) >

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[Dovecot] Convert from maildir to dbox
by Daniel L. Miller 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Ok...I made the leap. Compiled a copy of 1.2b4 (very pleasant compile BTW - almost no warnings, nice code Timo!)...tweaked a config...had a few false starts... 1.2b4 seems to working quite nicely. Now...for my next magical trick... I would like to migrate from maildir to dbox. I've tried using the convert plugin, but it kept failing during the conversion. I should mention my paths: home (old & new) = /var/mail/%d/%n old mail = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n new mail = dbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/dbox Note that "home" was defined as the same path as "mail" in my old config - I'm looking to fix that as well during the migration. I found entries in my mail log after the convert execution similar to: Mar 30 19:00:52 bubba dovecot: IMAP(sfox(a)amfes.com): rename(/var/mail/amfes.com/sfox/.dovecot.convert.lock/cur, /var/mail/amfes.com/sfox/dbox/mailboxes/dovecot/convert/lock/dbox-Mails) failed: Not a directory Mar 30 19:01:41 bubba dovecot: IMAP(sfox(a)amfes.com): Mailbox conversion failed for mailbox dovecot.convert.lock Now that I'm staring at that line...I'm wondering if that "home=mail" configuration is part of the problem. I currently have about a dozen users on this box - but with very large mailboxes (I still have archived mailing lists in mine!). If there's a few manual steps I need to perform to "condition" this setup prior to conversion please advise. Should I manually shift the mailboxes into a "/var/mail/%d/%n/maildir" folder? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] MAILBOXDIR question
by Stewart Dean 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

I'm unclear about where and how this is to be used. I gather it is to be a new standard, but I didn't seem to find anything about it in the Dovecot Wiki Mail Location page. There are some words about it in the 1.1.12/3 release notes, but perhaps I'm thick, but they're meta-ambiguous to me. Is it meant to be used like this: mail_location = mbox:MAILBOXDIR=~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u instead of the current mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u ??? Sorry to be so dense. -- ==== 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] Panic: Trying to allocate 2147483648 bytes
by David Halik 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi all, I recently upgraded from courier to dovecot 1.1.12 on a Solaris 9 system with about 100 users. We have been testing dovecot for sometime in a mixed Linux/Solaris environment and are aware of the index endianess issue with multiple archs. To solve this, we run with INDEX=MEMORY (as seen in the docs) so that only Linux clients have anything to do with the indexes. We generally have much more of them anyways. So far everything is working smoothly, but when someone does a search through directory with a large number of emails, dovecot dies and prints the following message: [ID 107833 mail.crit] Panic: Trying to allocate 2147483648 bytes I googled around and saw this same issue elsewhere, with NFS indexes usually being the problem. However, we have indexes turned off, so I don't understand why the same problem is still happening. Just to be sure, I ran with: mmap_disable = yes dotlock_use_excl = no mail_nfs_storage = yes But there has been no change, I can still reproduce it at will. Setting mail_nfs_index = yes caused my connections to stop working, so that didn't help either. Besides, I wouldn't think that would be the answer considering we set INDEX=MEMORY. This thread also seems to be related, but we're definitely running with this code in 1.1.12, yet it still happens: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-September/033615.html I grabbed a backtrace if it is helpful: http://pastebin.com/f5f3d282c Also, here is dovecot -n: # 1.1.12: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.9 sun4u protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/ssl/certs/nbcs.key+crt.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/ssl/certs/nbcs.key+crt.pem login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota pop3_quota 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): UID%u-%v namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: * userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, -Dave -- ================================ David Halik System Administrator OIT-CSS Rutgers University dhalik(a)jla.rutgers.edu ================================

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[Dovecot] Upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1, plus migration from Maildir to dbox
by Daniel L. Miller 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Ok - I gave up on trying to get CIFS to work - there's obviously stuff going on I don't understand. So - instead of trying to get a virtual server to work, I next tried a chroot. That worked...but imapsync error'ed out trying to handle one of my large mailboxes. I was trying to setup a "new" server, migrate all my mail over, verify everything worked - maybe even leave the virtual server operating for a while. But the fates are consipiring against me. So - time to make the leap. I want to upgrade a live version 1.0 server to version 1.1 (from Ubuntu repositories, using version 1.0.10 to 1.1.4). What special steps do I need to take to have this go smoothly? At least I have some semi-tested configs for 1.1 that I can use. Do I just stop the server, upgrade, upgrade the configs, start - and pray? Or is there another step? Also, my legacy installation was using maildir - I'd like to try shifting to dbox. Do I just need to change the prefix on mail_location and the conversion will magically happen? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] [Help] How get the complete CAPABILITY list?
by tao.6.yang＠nokia.com 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

I run a telnet localhost 143 to get into my loopback installation of Dovecot on Ubuntu8.04 I have the auth default {} containing the following auth mechanisms, auth default: mechanisms : plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 I had an user which is called user1, I do the following after telnet localhost 143 A Login user1 <user1's pwd> A CAPABILITY I expect to get the list that contains the following - AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 But actually I did not get the above content, I only get a short list as below, CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL -IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS A OK Capability completed Why did I miss the AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5?? Please kindly let me know what I missed for the configuration. Thanks, taoyang

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[Dovecot] dovecot: auth(default): ldap(...): Authenticated user not found
by Stas SUSHKOV 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi, I'm trying to set up dovecot together with postfix and experience some problems. Here's in details what I have and what I want to get. I have a ldap server on localhost, a working setup of dovecot to serve sasl, imap using ldap, a working setup of Postfix for (s)smtp (I can authenticate which uses dovecot's sasl). What i wan't to get is a completely working email server for ldap users with their email forwardings (so far they have only 1 forwarding). The porblem I stuck on is the following: when sending mail through (s)smtp, after passing authentication, I get my email dropped. And I see this in logs: http://ciorne.softwareliber.ro/index.php/view/raw/aaf3eb42 ***Authenticated user not found!!!*** My dovecot conf is this: http://ciorne.softwareliber.ro/index.php/view/raw/f8696531 And my dovecot-ldap is this: http://ciorne.softwareliber.ro/index.php/view/raw/698dc851 (I'm using prefetch) Can somebody point me where's my problem. *Any* advices are welcomed!!! Thank you in advance. P.S.: Environment is a vanilla installation of Ubuntu 8.04.02 with latest updates. -- () Campania Panglicii în ASCII /\ http://stas.nerd.ro/ascii/

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[Dovecot] Stephan Dietrich ist außer Haus.
by Stephan Dietrich 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Ich werde ab 28.03.2009 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 01.04.2009. Ihre Nachricht wird nach meiner Rückkehr am 01.04.2009 beantwortet, falls dies erforderlich ist.

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[Dovecot] sendmail with dovecot sasl
by Mario Pavlov 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Hi, I was wondering if I can make sendmail use dovecot's SASL implementation...maybe I should somehow compile it against dovecot's SASL ? My idea is to make sendmail and dovecot authenticate against one central user/password repository. Is this possible ? thank you. P.S. I want to use virtual users

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[Dovecot] multiple sql servers - loadbalancing and failover
by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hi, Is there a way for dovecot to use a pool of sql (mysql) servers and load balance queries between these? Also fallback to next available sql server if connection to previous one fails. Can dovecot do such things currently? (If not this is feature request). -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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[Dovecot] Making changes to dovecot log levels
by Thomas M Goerger 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hi Timo, Not sure if you saw this yet, or if you're still working on a response. Awhile back I'd written about making changes to some of the log levels that dovecot writes to to stop the process from writing these to monitor. I wanted to run a few changes by you for this, just to make sure these won't cause problems somewhere else. And to send this to the list, in case anyone else wants to make similar changes in the future. In the file src/lib-index/mail-index.c: duplicate the function mail_index_set_error to mail_index_set_warning and call this function in /src/lib-index/mail_cache.c instead int mail_index_set_error(struct mail_index *index, const char *fmt, ...) { va_list va; i_free(index->error); if (fmt == NULL) index->error = NULL; else { va_start(va, fmt); index->error = i_strdup_vprintf(fmt, va); va_end(va); i_error("%s", index->error); } return -1; } changing the line : i_error("%s", index->error); to i_warning("%s", index_error); and for the file src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-sync.c changing this code if (rec == NULL && uid < sync_ctx->idx_next_uid) { /* this UID was already in index and it was expunged */ mbox_sync_set_critical(sync_ctx, "mbox sync: Expunged message reappeared in mailbox %s " "(UID %u < %u, seq=%u, idx_msgs=%u)", sync_ctx->mbox->path, uid, sync_ctx->idx_next_uid, sync_ctx->seq, messages_count); ret = FALSE; rec = NULL; } else if (rec != NULL && rec->uid != uid) { /* new UID in the middle of the mailbox - shouldn't happen */ mbox_sync_set_critical(sync_ctx, "mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox %s " "(%u > %u, seq=%u, idx_msgs=%u)",sync_ctx->mbox->path, rec->uid, uid, sync_ctx->seq, messages_count); ret = FALSE; rec = NULL; from mbox_sync_set_critical( etc... to mail_storage_clear_error(storage) i_warning("Error text"... mail_storage_set_internal_error(storage) to clear and set the storage pointer Hopefully that's all clear. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks, ************************************************************************* * Tom Goerger - Email/Unix System Administrator * * * * University of Minnesota Email: tmg(a)umn.edu * * Operations, Infrastructure and Architecture Phone: 4-5804 * * Internet Services Office: 626J WBOB * * * *************************************************************************

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[Dovecot] [Help] How get the complete CAPABILITY list?
by tao.6.yang＠nokia.com 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

dovecot version 1.0.10 I run a telnet localhost 143 to get into my loopback installation of Dovecot on Ubuntu8.04 I have the auth default {} containing the following auth mechanisms, from dovecot -n, I get this, auth default: mechanisms : plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 I had an user which is called user1, I do the following after telnet localhost 143 A Login user1 <user1's pwd> A CAPABILITY I expect to get the list that contains the following - AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 But actually I did not get the above content, I only get a short list as below, CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL -IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS A OK Capability completed Why did I miss the AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5?? Please kindly let me know what I missed for the configuration. Thanks, taoyang

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[Dovecot] outlook problem if TLS mailsettings are off
by Georg Käfer 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Dear List, I dont know if its a config problem or its an outlook 2007 issue. Behaviour: If I set /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: Following is valid with IMAP mailboxes only: disable_plaintext_auth = yes # outlook 2007 with TLS in/out enabled) can show index of mails and klick on mail does preview / doubleklick opens mail PERFECT AS INTENDED disable_plaintext_auth = no # outlook 2007 with TLS/SSL OFF can show index of mails, but (double)-/klick on mail gives me "sandwatch"-mouspointer and I've to restart outlook again (and enable TLS again to get it work again) with POP3 mailbox both variants are working smoothly. Other ssl/tls settings: ssl_disable = no login_process_per_connection = yes using or not using following makes no difference... imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh I'm sad - but I cant force SSL/TLS for my users - so I cant "solve" this by using "disable_plaintext_auth = yes" Is there any way out of the dark? my data: gentoo linux dovecot 1.1.7 postfix 2.5.5 postfixadmin-2.2.1.1 mysql 5.0.70-r1 php 5.2.8-pl12 dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-gentoo-r3 i686 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 ext3 protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.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(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_max_userip_connections(default): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 30 first_valid_uid: 8 last_valid_uid: 8 first_valid_gid: 12 last_valid_gid: 12 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: mail mail_gid: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n/Maildir/:INDEX=/var/mail/%d/%n/indexes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login 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: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mail group: mail regards, Georg

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[Dovecot] very slow pop3 downloads
by Kae Verens 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hi all, I have a dovecot installation which very suddenly decided to slow to a crawl yesterday after being totally fine for months. IMAP is fine, but POP3 is very painful to use, and frequently times out. here's my config: # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot_errors info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot_informational ssl_ca_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/postfix.webworks.ie.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/postfix.webworks.ie.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(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 6 first_valid_uid: 89 mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf I tried an strace as suggested by some other people. didn't know exactly what to attach it to, so did a "ps aux" (Centos 5.2, btw) and chose the first "pop3" process: [root@postfix cur]# strace -p 1697 Process 1697 attached - interrupt to quit gettimeofday({1238146840, 724484}, {0, 0}) = 0 gettimeofday({1238146840, 724542}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=2, events=POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=1, events=POLLOUT|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}], 4, 3123) = 0 gettimeofday({1238146843, 847540}, {0, 0}) = 0 gettimeofday({1238146843, 847590}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=2, events=POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=1, events=POLLOUT|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLOUT}], 4, 10000) = 1 gettimeofday({1238146847, 807077}, {0, 0}) = 0 write(1, "6DEDK02J5VXFQtloRQ/JPgdcCrSmSRXj"..., 2171) = 2171 setsockopt(1, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [1], 4) = 0 pread64(9, "7P8JZloV9g/oYWdnm\nnZ9f+xzkO3fVXr"..., 4096, 102400) = 4096 write(1, "\r\nLhQoxZy+rq1TZXl2ZtrKrZH15dE2PK"..., 4134) = 3669 write(1, "uv69IdP6FDbO0lztPh2sA6Z/wBqIdP9Y"..., 465) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) setsockopt(1, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [0], 4) = 0 gettimeofday({1238146847, 807691}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=2, events=POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=1, events=POLLOUT|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}], 4, 6040) = 0 gettimeofday({1238146853, 847046}, {0, 0}) = 0 gettimeofday({1238146853, 847095}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=2, events=POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=1, events=POLLOUT|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLOUT}], 4, 10000) = 1 gettimeofday({1238146856, 546780}, {0, 0}) = 0 write(1, "uv69IdP6FDbO0lztPh2sA6Z/wBqIdP9Y"..., 465) = 465 setsockopt(1, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [1], 4) = 0 pread64(9, "24\nekSIYgeKr5kpQwrk4iWMqC2+/uvwf"..., 4096, 106496) = 4096 write(1, "\r\nIHaoJDSPFqr4jw9SP8S2yLsWOt2RVx"..., 4134) = 4134 pread64(9, "DUJvKTRdVNxs3JTdRQYqD61EYbg22DLb"..., 4096, 110592) = 4096 write(1, "\r\nbDlx3+0LszvjOrD5+04T8PF39frFpQ"..., 4134) = 1241 write(1, "9Zc/wAr\r\nF1bI22U8dNTIKBc423KFJSO"..., 2893) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) setsockopt(1, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [0], 4) = 0 gettimeofday({1238146856, 547406}, NULL) = 0 poll( <unfinished ...> Process 1697 detached looking forward to you all saving my sanity! thanks, kae

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[Dovecot] Preventing IMAP folder deletion?
by dovecot＠corwyn.net 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hi! I'm running postfix with dovecot using mysql for user accounts, with Outlook being used as the IMAP mail client. I'm using a mail delimiter ("+") and mail automatically goes to a Spam folder as part of spam filtering with amavisd and spam assassin. It's configured so that folders won't automatically create; if the folder isn't there mail delivers to the inbox (so that spam doesn't create extra folders). the problem I ran into today is that a user deleted the Spam folder. While recreating it isn't that hard, is there a way I can prevent them from being able to delete specific folders in IMAP? In squirrelmail I can create "system" folders that the user can't change or delete, but that's client based. Since I don't see that ability in Outlook, can I somehow configure dovecot so the user can't delete specified folders? Thanks Rick Rick Steeves http://www.sinister.net "The journey is the destination"

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[Dovecot] Version 2.0 with multiple IP/TLS certificate support.
by Gordon Dickens 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

Hello, I sent this email earlier but for some reason it did not go through so I will try again! I am using Dovecot on several servers that require multiple domain SSL certificates. I like Dovecot very much because of its speed and stability. Currently, Dovecot does not support multiple SSL certificates directly although I have gotten around this problem with multiple Dovecot instances running multiple configuration files. However, I would prefer to have one configuration file that supports multiple domain certificates. My understanding is that Dovecot Version 2.0 will have this "multiple SSL certificate" feature. So, my question is, when is version 2.0 projected to be released? Many thanks! Gordon Dickens

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[Dovecot] v1.2.beta4 released
by Timo Sirainen 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/beta/dovecot-1.2.beta4.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/beta/dovecot-1.2.beta4.tar.gz.sig This release fixes a memory corruption bug related to MODSEQ handling in earlier v1.2 releases. Memory corruption means that it's a security bug and possibly exploitable. MODSEQ code is new in v1.2, so v1.1 and older releases are not affected. Other than that, there is an ESORT bugfix and other fixes that were added to v1.1 branch too.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2 beta1 in Solaris 10 for sparc, error reading maildir format?
by Andrés Yacopino 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

Greetings, i have installed dovecot 1.2beta1. I get an error like (in folders from squirrelmail): -* ERROR: Connection terminated by IMAP SERVER".*Query: SELECT "INBOX" -* ERROR: Connection terminated by IMAP SERVER** *Query: STATUS "INBOX" (MESSAGES UNSEEN RECENT) in syslog i get: acamail dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] child 3322 (imap) killed with signal 10 In happens with all mail (from dovecot 1.1 maildir) and with new mail. For example, i have deleted all the maildirs folders, then i sent two mails, the first one, i am able to read the first one from Sent Folder, but when i sent the second one, the Sent Folder give me an error (and it can't be readed): *-ERROR: Connection terminated by IMAP SERVER* Query: SELECT "Enviados" (Sent Folder) The problem is the same with outlook express. Is there some bug related with this version?. I will try 1.2 beta 2 and let you know how it goes. Greetings, -- Andrés Fernando Yacopino Infraestructura - Dpto Sistemas AcaSalud Cooperativa de Prestaciones Médico Asistenciales Limitada Tel: 0341-4208726 ayacopino(a)acasalud.com.ar

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[Dovecot] LIST command claims children exist in empty folder
by Jonathan Siegle 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

Dovecot 1.2 (8834:5284f45c249a) Should list return \HasChildren if no folders exist under it? I'm using mbox format. 2 create testfolder/ 2 OK Create completed. 3 list "testfolder/" * * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "testfolder/" 3 OK List completed. 4 list "testfolder/" % * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "testfolder/" 4 OK List completed. 5 list "testfolder" % * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "testfolder" 5 OK List completed. 6 list "testfolder" * * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "testfolder" Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] Account lockout option?
by dovecot＠corwyn.net 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

I'm currently using postfix and dovecot, with dovecot authentication (with saslauthd) using mysql for accounts Is there any option available for me to help inhibit/prevent brute-force login attempts? Thx. Rick Rick Steeves http://www.sinister.net "The journey is the destination"

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[Dovecot] Using Checkpassword with a PHP script
by Muhammed Alat 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

Hi, im a newbee using dovecot. I want to use checkpassword, but i've no idea how to use it. Can somebody post a script where i can see how to include a PHP file to verify the password and user. Im useing Dovecot 1.0.15 and somebody have canfigure for me Checkpassword. There is an empty checkpassword and checkpassword-reply file and i have no idea what to do with it? Muhammed

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[Dovecot] Missing TMP folder - Dovecot 1.2 Beta3
by Matt Rude 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Recently after upgrading to 1.2 Beta3 from 1.1.13, I started to defer mail. After looking into it deeper, it looks like Dovecot/sieve now asks for a tmp folder in the imap (maildir) folder. Once I added the tmp folder as the logs indicants, the mail was processed normally. I have split my Inbox and imap store to different folder. Looking at what it's trying to do, it looks to me that dovecot/sieve expect the imap directory to be the Inbox. Is this a bug, or intended behaver? # Log output, when requeueing the message in postfix, with mail_debug on ######################################################################### Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha postfix/qmgr[6855]: EB4141237BD: from=<colleen(a)example.com>, size=493284, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib10_quota_plugin.so Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib20_expire_plugin.so Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): auth input: maildir=example.com/jill@example.com/ Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): auth input: uid=1000 Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): auth input: gid=1000 Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): auth input: quota_rule=*:storage=524288 Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): Quota root: name=User quota backend=maildir args= Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=536870912 messages=0 Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=Trash bytes=53687091 (10%) messages=0 Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=Junk bytes=107374182 (20%) messages=0 Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): maildir: data=/var/spool/virtualmailboxes/example.com/jill@example.com/imap/:INBOX=/… Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): maildir++: root=/var/spool/virtualmailboxes/example.com/jill@example.com/imap, index=/var/spool/virtualmailboxes/Indexes/example.com/jill@example.com, control=, inbox=/var/spool/virtualmailboxes/example.com/jill@example.com Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): cmusieve: /var/spool/virtualmailboxes/example.com/jill(a)example.com/dovecot.sieve doesn't exist Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): cmusieve: Using sieve path: /var/spool/sieve/dovecot.sieve Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): cmusieve: Executing script /var/spool/sieve/dovecot.sievec Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): Namespace : Using permissions from /var/spool/virtualmailboxes/example.com/jill(a)example.com/imap: mode=0700 gid=-1 ****** Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): creat(/var/spool/virtualmailboxes/example.com/jill@example.com/imap/tmp/tem… failed: No such file or directory ****** Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): copy: i_stream_read() failed: No such file or directory Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): msgid=<85866319ca18bf9cd994e34fe806c4f5.squirrel(a)mail.mattrude.com>: save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-03-24 12:02:50] Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): sieve runtime error: Keep: Generic Error Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha dovecot: deliver(jill(a)example.com): sieve_execute_bytecode(/var/spool/sieve/dovecot.sievec) failed Mar 24 12:02:50 samantha postfix/pipe[3116]: EB4141237BD: to=<jill(a)example.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=540, delays=540/0.03/0/0.14, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-03-24 12:02:50] ) ############################################################### # dovecot -n # 1.2.beta3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 i686 Fedora release 10 (Cambridge) ext3 protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): * ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/SSL/mail.example.com.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/SSL/mail.example.com.key login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: postfix mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/virtualmailboxes/%d/%u/imap/:INBOX=/var/spool/virtualmailboxes/%d/%u/:INDEX=/var/spool/virtualmailboxes/Indexes/%d/%u/ mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): autocreate expire quota imap_quota zlib trash mail_plugins(imap): autocreate expire quota imap_quota zlib trash 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 auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 cache_size: 128 cache_ttl: 600 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: virtualmail group: virtualmail plugin: autocreate: Drafts autocreate2: Sent autocreate3: Trash autocreate4: Junk autocreate5: Junk.IsSpam autocreate6: Junk.IsNotSpam autosubscribe: Drafts autosubscribe2: Sent autosubscribe3: Trash autosubscribe4: Junk autosubscribe5: Junk.IsSpam autosubscribe6: Junk.IsNotSpam expire: Trash 30 Junk 30 expire_dict: proxy::expire quota: maildir:User quota quota_rule: *:storage=10M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10%% quota_rule3: Junk:storage=20%% sieve: /var/spool/virtualmailboxes/%d/%u/dovecot.sieve sieve_storage: = /var/spool/virtualmailboxes/%d/%u/ trash: /etc/dovecot-trash.conf dict: expire: db:/var/spool/imap/expire.db Thanks -Matt -- Matt Rude http://www.mattrude.com - wiki: http://wiki.mattrude.com

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[Dovecot] deliver command line options "visible" in sieve script
by Andrzej Adam Filip 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

I use dovecot mailbox as destination of fetches from a few POP mailboxes. I would like to pass name of "source mailbox" to sieve script via deliver's command line option(s). As I understand I should use -a "mailbox@domain". How it would be accessible in sieve script? -- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi(a)onet.eu It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. -- Jerome K. Jerome

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[Dovecot] sqlite 3.6.11
by William E. Moreno A. 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

sqlite 3.6.11 doesn´t update from portmanager -u -l, conflicts with apache 2.2.11_3 and dovecot-1.1.11 on FreeBSD 7.1 I unselect into make config window the option to apache and dovecot and make deinstall reinstall, until sqlite fixed the dependence. am I OK? William P.D.: El presente correo no contiene tildes para evitarle al receptor inconvenientes en su lectura. ¡Sé el Bello 51 de People en Español! ¡Es tu oportunidad de Brillar! Sube tus fotos ya. http://www..51bello.com/

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[Dovecot] Dbox Upgrade Problem With MAILBOXDIR
by Alan Swanson 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Hi. Trying to upgrade from Dovecot 1.1.11 to 1.1.13 but having a problem with imap process segfaulting. Backtrace is below. I presume it's related to these MAILBOXDIR changes but the only documentation is the single line in the news for changing to ":MAILBOXDIR=mailboxes" when using dbox. Current configuration is "mail_location = dbox:~/Mail" so what exactly should be changed here? (gdb) bt full #0 0x08093546 in dbox_get_list_settings (list_set=0xafe33244, data=0xafe34e33 "/home/USER/Mail", flags=MAIL_STORAGE_FLAG_NO_AUTODETECTION, layout_r=0xafe331e0, alt_dir_r=0xafe331dc, error_r=0xafe33304) at dbox-storage.c:76 subs_fname = 0x810fd7c "subscriptions" debug = false #1 0x08093615 in dbox_create (_storage=0x9405d08, data=0xafe34e33 "/home/USER/Mail", error_r=0xafe33304) at dbox-storage.c:103 storage = (struct dbox_storage *) 0x9405d08 list_set = {root_dir = 0x93fc038 "/home/USER/Mail", index_dir = 0x0, control_dir = 0x0, inbox_path = 0x0, subscription_fname = 0x810fd7c "subscriptions", maildir_name = 0x810fd8d "dbox-Mails", mailbox_dir_name = 0x0, mail_storage_flags = 0x0, lock_method = 0x0} st = {st_dev = 12674028786447048160, __pad1 = 61096, __st_ino = 155213040, st_mode = 135297936, st_nlink = 2950902296, st_uid = 135192819, st_gid = 155213040, st_rdev = 0, __pad2 = 20, st_size = -6340927589388910560, st_blksize = -1344064952, st_blocks = 666635824201130632, st_atim = {tv_sec = 20, tv_nsec = -1344064952}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 135387904, tv_nsec = 1}, st_ctim = {tv_sec = 1, tv_nsec = 155213040}, st_ino = 34514951600} layout = 0x810fd8a "fs" alt_dir = 0x0 #2 0x080b1f12 in mail_storage_create (ns=0x9405900, driver=0x93fc030 "dbox", data=0xafe34e33 "/home/USER/Mail", user=0xafe34830 "USER", flags=MAIL_STORAGE_FLAG_NO_AUTODETECTION, lock_method=FILE_LOCK_METHOD_FCNTL, error_r=0xafe33304) at mail-storage.c:224 storage_class = (struct mail_storage *) 0x8128be0 storage = (struct mail_storage *) 0x9405d08 classes = (struct mail_storage * const *) 0xafe332a0 home = 0xa8007ff4 "|�\024" value = 0x2 <Address 0x2 out of bounds> i = 0 count = 1 #3 0x080b0815 in mail_namespaces_init (pool=0x94058e8, user=0xafe34830 "USER", namespaces_r=0xafe33360) at mail-namespace.c:230 namespaces = (struct mail_namespace *) 0x0 ns = (struct mail_namespace *) 0x9405900 ns_p = (struct mail_namespace **) 0xafe33310 flags = 0 lock_method = FILE_LOCK_METHOD_FCNTL mail = 0xafe34e2e "dbox:/home/USER/Mail" data = 0x0 error = 0x0 i = 1 #4 0x0806c373 in main_init () at main.c:238 client = (struct client *) 0x0 ns = (struct mail_namespace *) 0x49c953ed user = 0xafe34830 "USER" str = 0x0 #5 0x0806c59a in main (argc=1, argv=0xafe33434, envp=0xafe3343c) at main.c:296 No locals. (gdb) -- Alan. "One must never be purposelessnessnesslessness."

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[Dovecot] selection correct auth with multiple auth methods
by jm 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

How do you control which socket or authentication process dovecot's pop3 daemon chooses to use? I've got a user database with two flags one to allow pop3 access and the other to allow the use of auth smtp. There are two authentication instances configed, thus, auth default { .... passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-sql-postfix.conf } .... socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = group = } } auth postfix { ..... passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-sql-postfix.conf } .... socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } From the logs and testing pop3 is using the postfix authentication instance and not the default as expected. Does anyone out there know how control dovecot's pops daemon authentication choice? This infomation seems to be lacking in the documentation I can find. Jeff.

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[Dovecot] Making changes to dovecot log levels
by Thomas M Goerger 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hi Timo, Awhile back I'd written about making changes to some of the log levels that dovecot writes to to stop the process from writing these to monitor. I wanted to run a few changes by you for this, just to make sure these won't cause problems somewhere else. And to send this to the list, in case anyone else wants to make similar changes in the future. In the file src/lib-index/mail-index.c: duplicate the function mail_index_set_error to mail_index_set_warning and call this function in /src/lib-index/mail_cache.c instead int mail_index_set_error(struct mail_index *index, const char *fmt, ...) { va_list va; i_free(index->error); if (fmt == NULL) index->error = NULL; else { va_start(va, fmt); index->error = i_strdup_vprintf(fmt, va); va_end(va); i_error("%s", index->error); } return -1; } changing the line : i_error("%s", index->error); to i_warning("%s", index_error); and for the file src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-sync.c changing this code if (rec == NULL && uid < sync_ctx->idx_next_uid) { /* this UID was already in index and it was expunged */ mbox_sync_set_critical(sync_ctx, "mbox sync: Expunged message reappeared in mailbox %s " "(UID %u < %u, seq=%u, idx_msgs=%u)", sync_ctx->mbox->path, uid, sync_ctx->idx_next_uid, sync_ctx->seq, messages_count); ret = FALSE; rec = NULL; } else if (rec != NULL && rec->uid != uid) { /* new UID in the middle of the mailbox - shouldn't happen */ mbox_sync_set_critical(sync_ctx, "mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox %s " "(%u > %u, seq=%u, idx_msgs=%u)",sync_ctx->mbox->path, rec->uid, uid, sync_ctx->seq, messages_count); ret = FALSE; rec = NULL; from mbox_sync_set_critical( etc... to mail_storage_clear_error(storage) i_warning("Error text"... mail_storage_set_internal_error(storage) to clear and set the storage pointer Hopefully that's all clear. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks, ************************************************************************* * Tom Goerger - Email/Unix System Administrator * * * * University of Minnesota Email: tmg(a)umn.edu * * Operations, Infrastructure and Architecture Phone: 4-5804 * * Internet Services Office: 626J WBOB * * * *************************************************************************

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[Dovecot] Dovecot error: Panic: i_stream_stat()
by PEACEYALL 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hello! I'm testing the virtual mail boxes using telnet. The telnet seesion completes 100% okay with no errors at all. Though, when postfix has to relay the message to dovecot, i get the following error in my delivery log (/home/vmail/dovecot-delivery): deliver(john): 2009-03-21 16:23:00 Panic: i_stream_stat() used for non-blocking seekable stream deliver(john): 2009-03-21 16:23:00 Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0x80a4c7a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0x80a4ae9] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0x80aa4fc] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(mbox_sync_has_changed+0x100) [0x806deb0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(mbox_sync+0x36b) [0x807103b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(mbox_storage_sync_init+0x3e) [0x807160e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0x805794a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver(main+0xc97) [0x8058937] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7e13455] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [0x8056ef1] degus:/home/vmail# deliver(john): 2009-03-21 16:23:00 Panic: i_stream_stat() used for non-blocking seekable stream Here is the required information: ------------------------------------------------------- degus:/home/vmail# dovecot --version 1.0.15 degus:/home/vmail# degus:/home/vmail# dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/mail.err info_log_path: /var/log/mail.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps 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_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes 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 degus:/home/vmail# degus:/etc/dovecot# grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=mailserver user=*****88 password=******** default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 password_query = SELECT email as user, password FROM view_users WHERE email='%u'; degus:/etc/dovecot# ------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your help and time.

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[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot + imap idle + qmail-local delivery
by Jochen Schug 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hi, I've recently switched from courier-imap to dovecot. Everything seemed to work fine, but after I while I noticed that dovecot is occasionaly causing problems with delivery of new incoming mails. System: Gentoo Linux, kernel 2.6.19, qmail 1.03, vpopmail 5.4.26 , dovecot 1.1.11, maildir, mail store on ext3. Symptoms: qmail is having trouble with the mail delivery. First I thought it had something to do with vpopmail or dovecot's quota support, but I tracked it down to qmail-local. I tried two different versions, one with Bill Shupp's maildir++ patch and one without. With the patch, I'm getting "User_over_quota._(#5.1.1)" errors. Mail is delivered once and sender is sent a notification about the exceeded quota. Without the patch, I get "Temporary_error_on_maildir_delivery._(#4.3.0)". Mail is delivered, but delivery is tried again and again. This only happens if a MUA is logged in to the mailbox and IMAP IDLE is being used. If the MUA is disconnected: fine. If dovecot is stopped: fine. I tried a couple of different things, all without success: - upgraded dovecot from 1.1.7 to 1.1.11 - compiled a new kernel with inotify support and recompiled dovecot - migrated mail store from reiserfs to ext3 - disabling quota support in dovecot - tried dovecot's various file locking mechanisms Right now I'm working around this by removing IDLE from the capabilities. This solves the problem, but leaves me with a less functional IMAP server. Any help is greatly appreciated. Jochen dovecot -n: protocols: imaps imap pop3s pop3 listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes 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: 89 last_valid_uid: 89 first_valid_gid: 89 last_valid_gid: 89 mail_uid: 89 mail_gid: 89 mail_location: maildir:/var/vpopmail/domains/%d/%n/.maildir maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_capability(default): IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 QUOTA imap_capability(imap): IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 QUOTA imap_capability(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): namespace: type: private prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 user: vpopmail verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: vpopmail userdb: driver: vpopmail plugin: quota: maildir

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[Dovecot] Staged migration from mbox to maildir
by Stewart Dean 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

So much changes in this migration that the ideal way to do it would be to begin with a few users or a department, then migrate the users affinity group by affinity group: first an institute or so, then the faculty, then the staff, then the students, moving to bigger and bigger groupings as the bugs work out of the migration and the move becomes more assured. We use sendmail and procmail. There's no problem there, as the ~./procmailrc can be changed to over-ride the mbox default until all groups are done and it become the default. The problem comes with IMAP. While dovecot can tell if a folder is mbox or maildir, it has to be pointed to the right place (by namespace definitions in the client, IIRC), and the default of putting the inbox under ~/mail is one I'd like to embrace for various reason...but given that that means moved inbox folders and *that* means either making a global change (there goes staged migration) OR changing the namespace definitions on each PC. I can get to the early few and change the namespaces definition, but there doesn't appear to any equivalent (enlighten me, if I'm missing something) to ~/.procmailrc for imap, so that I don't have to get on the client machine. Is this correct or am I (hopefully) wrong and there *is* a way to change things on the server that allows for staged migration? Oh, I would so like to be wrong! IMAP should have an rc file............. -- "Eppur si muove." (But Still it moves) Galileo, leaving the Inquisition, after buckling under the threat of torture and excommunication and recanting from his proof that the heavens do not revolve around the earth -- Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Center, Bard College, Annandale, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] dovecot with IMAP and POP3 mixed
by Andreas Meyer 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Hello! I tried to setup dovecot to work with IMAP and POP3 but when I connect with Squirrelmail, I get an error saying CREATE "INBOX.Sent" reason: Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes # dovecot --version 1.0.5 # dovecot -n # 1.0.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: imap imaps pop3 ssl_disable: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/vhosts/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd and /etc/dovecot/passwd looks like this: anmeyer@anup.de:{PLAIN}password:5000:5000::/var/spool/vhosts/anup.de/anmeyer::userdb_mail=maildir:~/ user7@anup.de:{PLAIN}password7:5000:5000::/var/spool/vhosts/anup.de/user7::userdb_mail=mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/vhosts/anup.de/%u The mbox of user7 already exists. Can someone help to get both variants working so that dovecot can handle IMAP and POP3 accounts? Kind regards -- Andreas Meyer A man, a miss, a car -- a curve, He kissed the miss and missed the curve -- Burma Shave (1948) Mein öffentlicher GPG-Schlüssel unter: http://gpg-keyserver.de/pks/lookup?search=anmeyer&fingerprint=on&op=index

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[Dovecot] Released Sieve v0.1.4
by Stephan Bosch 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Hello Dovecot users, Not much Sieve development was done in the last five weeks, but some important platform-dependent bugs were found and repaired. The main new feature is the addition of a custom Sieve language extension for debugging in the Sieve command line tools. Changelog Sieve v0.1.4: * Started work on the sieve-filter tool. With this command line tool it will be possible to (re-)apply Sieve filters on a mail folder. It is currently undocumented and far from functional. + Added a custom debug extension that provides the possibility to print debug messages from scripts executed by the Sieve tools. - Fixed issue with opening relative paths as a mail file. Bug reported by Ian P. Christian. - Fixed MAC OSX compile problem. Turns out the extern modifier was missing at multiple places. Bug reported by Edgar Fuss. - Fixed Solaris compile problem: removed unecessary and unportable linker flags that caused compile to fail. Bug reported by Andres Yacopino. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.4.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.4.tar.gz.sig Have fun testing the new release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] v1.1.13 and v1.2.beta3 released
by Timo Sirainen 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.13.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.13.tar.gz.sig http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/beta/dovecot-1.2.beta3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/beta/dovecot-1.2.beta3.tar.gz.sig Looks like Friday the 13th isn't the best day to make releases. :) These releases fix two bad bugs in v1.1.12. - v1.1.12's MAILBOXDIR changes broke accessing mails in some setups - v1.1.12's login_executable -D checking changes caused dovecot to crash at startup if protocols setting contained only pop3. - mbox: pop3_lock_session=yes was broken with mail_privileged_group.

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[Dovecot] Single Instance Storage still on the roadmap?
by Charles Marcus 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hey Timo, I was curious where Single Instance Storage fits in on the roadmap, now that you are maybe settled in in your new digs... Is it still coming soon? Has it been pushed back by your new employers priorities? Its real high on mine, so if has been back-burnered, I'll need to start looking for alternatives... Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] update of current quota usage
by floss＠pBartels.info 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hello, I use Dovecot 1.1.11 and store the current quota usage in a Database. As far I can see it, the quota usage is updated each time dovecot performs an action on a mail. For example if a new mail is stored in the inbox, the current quota usage is increased. If a mail is deleted the quota usage is decreased. If there are still existing E-Mails in the inbox, before quota is turned on or if I perfom changes on the "mail storage" myself (for example purging trash or spam, or something) the current quota usage is NOT updated automatically by dovecot. For example I copy some mailboxes to my server, then the current quota for this mailboxes is still zero. Is it correct that dovecot can't do this for me? If yes, it seems I have to write my own (simple) update script and run it sometimes croned (because I don't really trust the actual quota implementation) and/or I have to update the current quota usage each time I perform actions myself. This "workaround" is easy by using a DB storage, but what about other implementations? Wouldn't it be nice if dovecot could do this or provide a tool for it? Thank you! Philipp

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[Dovecot] Maildir and mail files question
by Harry Lachanas 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

If an incoming mail is saved in 2 mail locations via dovecot deliver, and its wished that if deleted from box "a" should also be deleted from box "b" ... wil it be safe to delete based upon the W=xxxxx part of the file name ???? So far my tests indicate that It could be true ... Thanks Harry

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[Dovecot] ESORT broken in Dovecot 1.2
by Michael M. Slusarz 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Looks like ESORT is broken (just compiled 1.2 from hg 10 minutes ago). Here is the command I'm using and the corresponding error message: C: 5 UID SORT RETURN (ALL COUNT) (ARRIVAL) US-ASCII UNSEEN S: 5 BAD Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid sort argument. The corresponding UID SORT command (without the RETURN syntax) works fine: 5 UID SORT (ARRIVAL) US-ASCII UNSEEN * SORT 5 OK Sort completed (0.000 secs). michael

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[Dovecot] panic in dovecot 1.1.12
by Martin Preen 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Hello, with some mbox folders I got this error: Mar 18 14:48:12 imap2 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.crit] Panic: IMAP(xyz): file charset-iconv.c: line 122: unreached I assume that this is related to the folder contents (and not the configration). What does that mean to me ? Martin --------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Preen, Universität Freiburg, Institut für Informatik Georges-Koehler-Allee 52, Raum 00-006, 79110 Freiburg, Germany phone: ++49 761 203-8250 preen(a)informatik.uni-freiburg.de fax: ++49 761 203-8242 www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de

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[Dovecot] Fatal: write() failed to info log: Interrupted system call
by Janos Dohanics 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Last night Dovecot stopped, and the last message in the log was: Fatal: write() failed to info log: Interrupted system call Would you please advise? *** # dovecot -n # 1.1.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: mail_extra_groups setting was often used insecurely so it is now deprecated, use mail_access_groups or mail_privileged_group instead # OS: FreeBSD 6.4-PRERELEASE i386 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap pop3 imaps ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.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(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 0 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 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 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: passwd -- Janos Dohanics

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[Dovecot] largefile question
by Martin Preen 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Hello, currently we're using version 1.0.13 with 32bit file offsets. Is it safe to switch to a new version with largefile support enabled ? We want to reuse existing index/cache or do we have to expect errors with that ? Regards. Martin --------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Preen, Universität Freiburg, Institut für Informatik Georges-Koehler-Allee 52, Raum 00-006, 79110 Freiburg, Germany phone: ++49 761 203-8250 preen(a)informatik.uni-freiburg.de fax: ++49 761 203-8242 www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de

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[Dovecot] fchown() error with Public Folders
by Stephen Carville 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

I was able to get public folders to work with a dedicated account for the hierarchy and ACL's for individual users. I have location defined so that each user has a local index and control files location = maildir:/usr/mail/public/cs/mail:CONTROL=~/Maildir/CS:INDEX=~/Maildir/CS Now i am seeing the folliwing error in the logs. dovecot: IMAP(stephen): fchown() failed with file /home/stephen/Maildir/CS/.Incoming/dovecot.index.log: Operation not permitted As I understand it, dovecot runs as root but the the IMAP process that servicers the request runs as the user so naturally the fchown() fails. However it seems the file is never even created. It there someting I need to do to get this to work? I am using 1.1.7 # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) protocols: imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/scacifs02-lnx.dovecot.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/private/scacifs02-lnx.dovecot.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: CS/ location: maildir:/usr/mail/public/cs/mail:CONTROL=~/Maildir/CS:INDEX=~/Maildir/CS list: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/imap.passwd -- Stephen Carville

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[Dovecot] IMAP ACLs not working
by Seba 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi, I've some problems to get folder ACLs working with Dovecot. I've defined some folders (like drafts, spam etc.) for every user and created a dovecot-acl file in every folder so that users can not delete or rename these folders but this does not work as expected. Config ===== Debian Lenny 5.0 Dovecot 1.0.15 dovecot.conf ========= protocols = imap protocol imap { listen = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx } disable_plaintext_auth = yes log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " ssl_disable = yes mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%Ld/%Ln namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes } mail_privileged_group = vmail protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com hostname = hostname(a)example.com mail_plugins = cmusieve } auth_username_translation = %Lu auth default { mechanisms = cram-md5 passdb pam { } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb passwd { } userdb static { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes } user = root socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } Folder structure =========== (For dovecot-acl) /home/vmail/example.com/user/.Spam/dovecot-acl dovecot-acl contains =============== owner lrwstiek For me the config looks OK and I can't find an error... When I change the dovecot-acl to "owner l" for example it seems that this change has no effect. Are there an error in my setup? Seba

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[Dovecot] dovecot1.2beta2( hg tags yields 8834:5284f45c249a) fetch error
by Jonathan Siegle 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Steps to reproduce 1 login testuser testpw 2 select inbox 3 fetch 1 body.peek[HEADER.FIELDS (date)] I get the error 3 BAD Error in IMAP command FETCH: Unknown FETCH modifier This is AIX 5.3 with mbox files. -Jonathan

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[Dovecot] mbox on NFS + automount, folder creation -> mkdir_parents() failed
by Sebastian Kayser 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi, i am about to migrate some internal imapd mboxes to dovecot. Regular access is fine, just when i want to create a folder i get the following error message in the logs: Mar 18 17:36:57 pulsar dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(skayser): mkdir_parents(/home/skayser) failed: Operation not applicable /home/skayser is mounted via autofs. When i set mail_location to a subdirectory within /home/skayser, folder creation works. From looking at the truss output dovecot tries to mkdir() the parent and doesn't seem to like the ENOSYS that is returned when the directoy is an autofs mountpoint. Any chance for a fix, Timo? :) 1549: poll(0x00117818, 3, 1800000) (sleeping...) 1549: poll(0x00117818, 3, 1800000) = 1 1549: read(0, " a 0 0 0 8 S T A T U S".., 3832) = 38 1549: stat64("/home/skayser/foobar3", 0xFFBFF598) Err#2 ENOENT 1549: write(1, " a 0 0 0 8 N O M a i".., 41) = 41 1549: poll(0x00117818, 3, 1800000) = 1 1549: read(0, " a 0 0 0 9 U I D C O".., 3794) = 31 1549: stat64("/home/skayser/foobar3", 0xFFBFF600) Err#2 ENOENT 1549: write(1, " a 0 0 0 9 N O [ T R".., 53) = 53 1549: poll(0x00117818, 3, 1800000) (sleeping...) 1549: poll(0x00117818, 3, 1800000) = 1 1549: read(0, " a 0 0 1 0 C R E A T E".., 3763) = 24 1549: stat64("/home/skayser/foobar3", 0xFFBFF620) Err#2 ENOENT 1549: stat64("/home/skayser/foobar3", 0xFFBFF688) Err#2 ENOENT 1549: mkdir("/home/skayser", 0770) Err#89 ENOSYS 1549: write(2, "01 E m k d i r _ p a r e".., 64) = 64 1549: write(1, " a 0 0 1 0 N O I n t".., 99) = 99 1549: poll(0x00117818, 3, 1799999) (sleeping...) # mount | grep skayser /home/skayser on nfs:/export/home/skayser remote/read/write/setuid/xattr/dev=490000a # dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /opt/csw/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.9 sun4u disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/opt/csw/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/mail/%u mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable: /usr/local/bin/dovecot-imap-wrapper.sh auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd Sebastian

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[Dovecot] NFS-error with dovecot 1.1.12
by Martin Preen 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hello, I'm testing version 1.1.12 and occasionally there is Mar 18 14:40:44 imap2 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(xyz): nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/home/xyz) failed: Device busy It seems that it is related to a crash of the previous imap process of that user. And it doesn't seem to cause any problems. So can it safely be ignored ? It is on Solaris 10. Index storage is local (UFS) and mailbox storage is NFS (mail_nfs_storage=yes). Martin --------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Preen, Universität Freiburg, Institut für Informatik Georges-Koehler-Allee 52, Raum 00-006, 79110 Freiburg, Germany phone: ++49 761 203-8250 preen(a)informatik.uni-freiburg.de fax: ++49 761 203-8242 www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA and "undeliverable" emails
by Kat Wisnosky 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:31:32 -0400 > From: Bill Cole <dovecot-20061108(a)billmail.scconsult.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA and "undeliverable" emails > To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Message-ID: <49C07924.7080707(a)billmail.scconsult.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Kat Wisnosky wrote, On 3/16/09 1:35 PM: >> >> I googled around looking for this, apparantly my google-fu is failing >> this >> morning. I just switched over to using a Postfix/Dovecot virtual set-up >> with Dovecot as the delivery agent. One of my users mistyped his email >> address when he paid for something through Paypal and the reciept got >> forwarded to everyone. It didn't bounce or just go to Postmaster, it was >> delivered to every valid user on the system. >> >> Below is my conf comments stripped: > > Dovecot config is irrelevant. This is a Postfix configuration issue. > You've > provided the proof of that: > > >> And here's the mail.log from a test message that I sent out: >> Mar 16 09:52:46 byron postfix/smtpd[24082]: C75E84F006D: >> client=unknown[xxx.xx.xxx.xx], sasl_method=LOGIN, >> sasl_username=kat(a)amtpolitics.com >> Mar 16 09:52:46 byron postfix/cleanup[24085]: C75E84F006D: >> message-id=<46497375E9264D2BA3BFB31BE37918BC@Kat> >> Mar 16 09:52:46 byron postfix/qmgr[19409]: C75E84F006D: >> from=<kat(a)amtpolitics.com>, size=887, nrcpt=10 (queue active) > > That says that the message from you had 10 recipients as Postfix was > queueing it, *BEFORE* it tried any delivery. It is not possible for the > Dovecot LDA to be involved in whatever caused the message to have 10 > recipients. > > If you cannot figure out why that is happening from looking at your > Postfix > config, I would suggest a visit to the Postfix Users' list. Uhg, I win the CluelessnUnobservant Award for this. Thanks everyone for the followups. I caught that myself yesterday and fixed the problem on Postfix's side. To sum up in case anyone else runs in to this, the mistake I made was in assuming that Postfix just made the handoff to Dovecot and that Dovecot would handle the rest, so I commented out the parts of the old config where Postfix handled this when I was using Postfix virtual transport. Once I restored those and gave Postfix the query it needed, it worked fine. Thanks for bearing with me, everyone. Kat

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[Dovecot] Multiple DBs
by Sebastian Chociwski 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Welcome, I'm new one here . I've switch to dovecot in order to get mysql auth to recive emails. And I am not sure about one thing : may I configure dovecot to user more then one DB to authorize users ? I have suse 11.1/postfix/mysql system where the users exist in 2 separate DBs. Delivering works well, I'm just not sure if everyone could revive the emails ? Any tips ? reagards, Sebastian

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA and "undeliverable" emails
by Kat Wisnosky 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

I googled around looking for this, apparantly my google-fu is failing this morning. I just switched over to using a Postfix/Dovecot virtual set-up with Dovecot as the delivery agent. One of my users mistyped his email address when he paid for something through Paypal and the reciept got forwarded to everyone. It didn't bounce or just go to Postmaster, it was delivered to every valid user on the system. Below is my conf comments stripped: base_dir= /var/run/dovecot/ login_process_per_connection = no max_mail_processes = 2048 mail_process_size = 1024 protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s shutdown_clients = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot info_log_path = /var/log.dovecot.info log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key ssl_disable = no disable_plaintext_auth = no login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot login_greeting = Dovecot ready mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n mmap_disable = no valid_chroot_dirs = /var/spool/mail protocol lda { postmaster_address = kat(a)amtpolitics.com log_path = /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log # UNIX socket path to master auth server to find users: auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # Enabling Sieve plugin for server-side mail filtering # Will be handy for Spam - will be implemented later. #mail_plugins = cmusieve #global_script_path = /home/vmail/globalsieverc } protocol imap { login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap } protocol pop3 { login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default_with_listener { socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } mechanisms = plain login passdb sql { # Path for SQL configuration file, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf for example args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb static { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes } } imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh login_process_size = 64 namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } And here's the mail.log from a test message that I sent out: Mar 16 09:52:46 byron postfix/smtpd[24082]: C75E84F006D: client=unknown[xxx.xx.xxx.xx], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=kat(a)amtpolitics.com Mar 16 09:52:46 byron postfix/cleanup[24085]: C75E84F006D: message-id=<46497375E9264D2BA3BFB31BE37918BC@Kat> Mar 16 09:52:46 byron postfix/qmgr[19409]: C75E84F006D: from=<kat(a)amtpolitics.com>, size=887, nrcpt=10 (queue active) Mar 16 09:52:47 byron postfix/smtpd[24082]: disconnect from unknown[216.70.186.80] Mar 16 09:52:47 byron postfix/pipe[24096]: C75E84F006D: to=<xxxx(a)amtpolitics.com>, orig_to=<nonexistantemail(a)amtpolitics.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.27, delays=0.2/0.01/0/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Mar 16 09:52:47 byron postfix/pipe[24092]: C75E84F006D: to=<xxxxx(a)amtpolitics.com>, orig_to=<nonexistantemail(a)amtpolitics.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.27, delays=0.2/0.01/0/0.07, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Mar 16 09:52:47 byron postfix/pipe[24107]: C75E84F006D: to=<xxxxx(a)amtpolitics.com>, orig_to=<nonexistantemail(a)amtpolitics.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.3, delays=0.2/0.04/0/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Mar 16 09:52:47 byron postfix/pipe[24098]: C75E84F006D: to=<xxxxx(a)amtpolitics.com>, orig_to=<nonexistantemail(a)amtpolitics.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.3, delays=0.2/0.02/0/0.08, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Mar 16 09:52:47 byron postfix/pipe[24102]: C75E84F006D: to=<kat(a)amtpolitics.com>, orig_to=<nonexistantemail(a)amtpolitics.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.3, delays=0.2/0.03/0/0.08, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Mar 16 09:52:47 byron postfix/pipe[24086]: C75E84F006D: to=<xxxx(a)amtpolitics.com>, orig_to=<nonexistantemail(a)amtpolitics.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.31, delays=0.2/0/0/0.1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Mar 16 09:52:47 byron postfix/pipe[24094]: C75E84F006D: to=<xxxxx(a)amtpolitics.com>, orig_to=<nonexistantemail(a)amtpolitics.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.31, delays=0.2/0.01/0/0.09, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Mar 16 09:52:47 byron postfix/pipe[24105]: C75E84F006D: to=<xxxx(a)amtpolitics.com>, orig_to=<nonexistantemail(a)amtpolitics.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.31, delays=0.2/0.03/0/0.07, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Mar 16 09:52:47 byron postfix/pipe[24109]: C75E84F006D: to=<xxxxx(a)amtpolitics.com>, orig_to=<nonexistantemail(a)amtpolitics.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.31, delays=0.2/0.04/0/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Mar 16 09:52:47 byron postfix/pipe[24101]: C75E84F006D: to=<xxxxx(a)amtpolitics.com>, orig_to=<nonexistantemail(a)amtpolitics.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.33, delays=0.2/0.02/0/0.1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Mar 16 09:52:47 byron postfix/qmgr[19409]: C75E84F006D: removed Thanks for any help, Kat

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA and "undeliverable" emails
by Kat Wisnosky 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Timo wrote: > So Postfix delivers bounces to everyone by calling Dovecot LDA > separately for each bounce? Looks like a Postfix configuration problem > to me. I should have been more specific... because we'd also changed domain names at the time we moved over to using Dovecot as the LDA, I temporarily disabled automatically bouncing mail addressed to invalid users because I figured that we'd have at least one who decided that they didn't want the standard formation of email addresses... What I'd wanted to happen was for Postfix to accept the message(s) and then for them to be delivered to the postmaster address so that I could address the issue. I'm still unsure as to why, when Dovecot couldn't find the user in the tables, it copied the message to every user of the system - that seems like odd behavior, which indicates that even though the system is "working", I need to fine-tune something. And at Charles request, here's the output of dovecot -n: # 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot info_log_path: /var/log.dovecot.info protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s 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_greeting: Dovecot ready login_process_per_connection: no valid_chroot_dirs: /var/spool/mail max_mail_processes: 2048 mail_location: maildir:/home/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_process_size: 1024 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: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes auth default_with_listener: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes 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

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[Dovecot] ACLs are applied recursively to sub mailboxes
by Sascha Wilde 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi *, The problem is most noticeable when a user shares his INBOX[0][1] with others: User A sets his INBOX acls to "eilprwtsd" Now User B can see _all_ sub mailboxes and sub sub [...] mailboxes and their contents of User A: User A: g getacl INBOX * ACL "INBOX" "A(a)example.com" akxeilprwtscd "B(a)example.com" eilprwtsd "A(a)example.com" lrwstipekxacd g OK Getacl completed. g getacl INBOX/foobar * ACL "INBOX/foobar" "1(a)aztec.intevation.de" lrwstipekxacd User B: l list "" "*" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "user" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "user/1(a)aztec.intevation.de" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "INBOX" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX/Gesendet" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "user/1(a)aztec.intevation.de/foobar" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/1(a)aztec.intevation.de/foobar/barbaaz" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/1(a)aztec.intevation.de/INBOX" l OK List completed. The RfC is not to verbose on this topic of scope, but I think the following excerpt from RfC4314: 2. Access Control [...] An access control list is a set of <access identifier,rights> pairs. An ACL applies to a mailbox name. indicates that ACLs are only valid for individual mailboxes (name) and not for sub mailboxes. cheers sascha [0] Yes, there are really actual users wanting to do this. [1] There is actually another bug in this context I'll report in my next mail... -- Sascha Wilde OpenPGP key: 4BB86568 http://www.intevation.de/~wilde/ http://www.intevation.de/ Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück; AG Osnabrück, HR B 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner

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[Dovecot] how about my setup
by Stacker Hush 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hello to tall. Can someone please confirm if my config is secure? Thanks, Wilson dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf 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 mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] Dovecot as a POP3-/POP3SSL-proxy in front of exchange 2003
by south africa 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Dear all, im looking for a solution to protect an Exchange 2003 email server from direct "pop3-internet-connects". Is it possible that Dovecot act as a POP3-/POP3SSL-Proxy, "LDAP-authenticate" all user logins to a Windows 2003 domain controller and forward then all POP3-connects to a single Exchange 2003 server? Could someone give me some advices or a link for howtos for this solution? The howto on www.dovcot.org (http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/ImapProxy) does not fit in my situation because it prefere a mysql server and not a LDAP-server/domain-controller. Greetings Paul _____________________________________________________________ Get your FREE TheDoghouseMail email address at http://www.thedoghousemail.com

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[Dovecot] Errors on mbox to Maildir conversion
by Phill Edwards 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

I have Julian Fitzell's migrateuser.sh script which uses mb2md-3.20.pl to convert a mailbox in mbox format to Maildir. I have set up a test user called "mailtest" which has mail as follows: /var/mail/mailtest /home/mailtest/mail/ Drafts MoreStuff Sent Items Stuff After the conversion I want all this user's mail to be in /home/mailtest/Maildir/ I'm not quite sure how to run the migrateuser.sh script, but I think it's like this (run as user mailtest): $ /usr/local/bin/mb2md/migrateuser.sh mailtest /home/mailtest /home/mailtest/Maildir When I run this I get the following output: mailtest -- Migrating INBOX... Converting /var/mail/mailtest to maildir: /home/mailtest/Maildir.mdwork.1237291760 Source Mbox is /var/mail/mailtest Target Maildir is /home/mailtest/Maildir.mdwork.1237291760 Created UID list: /home/mailtest/Maildir.mdwork.1237291760/dovecot-uidlist 3 messages. warning: Can't open /home/mailtest/Maildir.mdwork.1237291760: not a selectable mailbox [ERROR] (mismatch during post compare) mailtest -- 0 new message(s) (), 3 total mailtest -- That bit about "not a selectable mailbox" seems to be the problem. Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Regards, Phill

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[Dovecot] How to use DoveCot with checkpassword
by Muhammed Alat 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi, im a newbee using dovecot. I want to use checkpassword, but i've no idea how to use it. DoveCot is running and checking the passwords with a ldap server. But in future we want to use a sql database, where the password and userinformation is stored. I want to use checkpassword, to authetificate the users with the passwords. But ive no idea how a script for checkpassword can be. What should i write to the checkpassword file (actualy the file is empty). The SQL Database is on another server. Can i use PHP for checkpassword, and if i can, how should it be written. Which variables can i use and what and how shoul i return the result? Greetings, Muhammed

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[Dovecot] Segmentation fault when only use pop3
by Tatsuyoshi 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi. I found the problem when only use POP3 at v1.1.12. [root@kessel]# diff /usr/local/etc/dovecot-example.conf /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf 23a24 > protocols = pop3 47a49 > disable_plaintext_auth = no 88a91 > ssl_disable = yes [root@kessel]# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot Segmentation fault Cause, call null-pointer's pointer. The following is quick-hack patch, [toyota@kessel]% diff -c master-settings.c.org master-settings.c *** master-settings.c.org 2009-03-14 04:11:53.000000000 +0900 --- master-settings.c 2009-03-17 10:39:38.000000000 +0900 *************** *** 908,919 **** { const char *p; ! p = strstr(set->server->pop3->login_executable, " -D"); ! if (p != NULL && p[3] == '\0') ! return TRUE; ! p = strstr(set->server->imap->login_executable, " -D"); ! if (p != NULL && p[3] == '\0') ! return TRUE; return FALSE; } --- 908,923 ---- { const char *p; ! if(set->server->pop3) { ! p = strstr(set->server->pop3->login_executable, " -D"); ! if (p != NULL && p[3] == '\0') ! return TRUE; ! } ! if(set->server->imap) { ! p = strstr(set->server->imap->login_executable, " -D"); ! if (p != NULL && p[3] == '\0') ! return TRUE; ! } return FALSE; } Regards. -- Tatsuyoshi Toyota rs27(a)tatsuyoshi.net

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[Dovecot] expire tool in 1.1.11
by Harry Lachanas 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi, I am on dovecot 1.1.11 trying to figure out the expire tool .... The thing is that when I had confed the exp tool there where a bunch of mails inside the mail boxes. Thus it seems as if the database is not updated about them. Is there a way to update it from command line to include the old mails ??? Thanks Harry

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[Dovecot] folders are not under INBOX
by Ondrej Svoboda 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

hi guys, I hope it's common trouble, but I'm not able to find a solution: - i'am using courier imap and trying to migrate to the dovecot - on courier I have all folders as subfolder of Inbox - i.e. Inbox.Sent but on dovecot the folder Sent is not subfolder of Inbox, but its on the same level. Please is there some possibility to have the subfolders the same behaviour as in courier? we have lot's of customers so after the upgrade the folders can't change. thank you ondrej

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[Dovecot] file client-common.c: line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0)
by Frank Bonnet 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hello since few days I got this in dovecot log I use 1.1.11 on Debian etch 64 bits Thanks for any info dovecot: Mar 12 16:57:37 Panic: imap-login: file client-common.c: line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0) dovecot: Mar 12 16:57:37 Error: child 5247 (login) killed with signal 6 (ip=80.125.173.19) dovecot: Mar 12 17:10:04 Panic: imap-login: file client-common.c: line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0) dovecot: Mar 12 17:10:04 Error: child 6678 (login) killed with signal 6 (ip=92.132.140.150) dovecot: Mar 12 17:10:58 Panic: imap-login: file client-common.c: line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0) dovecot: Mar 12 17:10:58 Error: child 6812 (login) killed with signal 6 (ip=90.3.120.43) dovecot: Mar 12 17:11:07 Panic: imap-login: file client-common.c: line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0) dovecot: Mar 12 17:11:07 Error: child 6827 (login) killed with signal 6 (ip=90.3.120.43) dovecot: Mar 12 17:11:13 Panic: imap-login: file client-common.c: line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0) dovecot: Mar 12 17:11:13 Error: child 6839 (login) killed with signal 6 (ip=90.3.120.43) dovecot: Mar 12 17:11:15 Panic: imap-login: file client-common.c: line 25 (client_unlink): assertion failed: (clients_count > 0) dovecot: Mar 12 17:11:15 Error: child 6841 (login) killed with signal 6 (ip=90.3.120.43)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and high availability
by d dimov 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hello dear all. Please accept apologies if the topic was discussed already, tried searching the archives but found few details. What I am looking for would be the best way to making Dovecot highly available in an environment where: two Alteons are load-balancing two Dovecot servers, each Alteon seing both of them; the clients are using exclusively POP3; low volume; in case of a Dovecot server failure service should fail over to the other node with preferably no manual intervention. Failover could mean Alteons just ignoring the failed host and routing all requests to the healthy one. Would it be shared NFS volume mounted on both of the servers from some NAS, maildirs put on that volume and both Dovecots seing the mailboxes simultaneously? Any risks? Is there a good document describing such a setup? Thank you in advance and please indicate if I missed relevant details. Best regards, Dimov

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[Dovecot] Mailing list convert scripts not working on wiki
by Phill Edwards 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

I'm trying to download Julian Fitzell's scripts to convert mbox to Maildir format from the wiki page at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat But when I click on the links for the scripts it just sends me back to the same page rather than downloading the scripts. The links in question are http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat?action=AttachFile&do=get&targe… and http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat?action=AttachFile&do=get&targe… How can I get the scripts? Regards, Phill

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[Dovecot] MoinMoin wiki updated
by Timo Sirainen 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

I finally upgraded to MoinMoin v1.8.2 from old v1.5.8. Let me know if something doesn't work right.

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[Dovecot] fstat(mboxname.lock) failed: Bad file descriptor
by Mark Sapiro 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

I have just upgraded from 1.2.beta1 to 1.2.beta2. My configuration is: [root@sbh16 ~]# dovecot -n # 1.2.beta2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 i686 CentOS release 5 (Final) protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/sbh16-cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/sbh16-key.pem login_dir: /usr/local/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_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 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_lock_session(default): no pop3_lock_session(imap): no pop3_lock_session(pop3): yes auth default: mechanisms: plain apop login worker_max_count: 5 passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.passwd passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix [root@sbh16 ~]# This represents one change from the previous config. Previously with pop3_lock_session = yes, I needed mail_access_group = mail. With the upgrade to beta2, I changed that to mail_privileged_group = mail as shown above. Now, during a session lasting several seconds, I see the following in maillog: Mar 15 09:35:51 sbh16 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<mark>, method=APOP, rip=68.183.193.239, lip=72.52.113.16, TLS Mar 15 09:36:01 sbh16 dovecot: POP3(mark): fstat(mark.lock) failed: Bad file descriptor Mar 15 09:36:04 sbh16 dovecot: POP3(mark): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/1919972, del=0/328, size=5381253 Mar 15 09:36:04 sbh16 dovecot: child 9023 (pop3) killed with signal 11 (core dumps disabled) This does not occur with shorter sessions lasting only a few seconds or less. The only symptom is the log messages. The client sees nothing unusual, at least in this case where the session is a retrieval of one large message. I haven't tried long sessions retrieving multiple messages. If I remove pop3_lock_session = yes, the issue does not occur. I don't think I need it. I put it in a long time ago to attempt to solve a problem that was actually caused by something else. Since removing it does seem to avoid this issue, I will leave it out, but I'm reporting this anyway as it seems there may be some underlying problem. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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[Dovecot] pop-proxy to redundant servers ?
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

I'm considering putting two servers with failover IP-addresses in front of our pop/imap cluster, with dovecot in proxy-mode running on both servers. But, can dovecot handle more than one backend server for each user ? I.e. I would want to point the dovecot proxy to send userX to backend-server1, or backend-server2 if backend-server1 is down. Is something like that possible ? -jf

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[Dovecot] Can't compile v1.2.beta2 w/o linux-quota
by Pascal Volk 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hi Timo, make dies with an error: quota-fs.c: In function ‘fs_quota_get_linux’: quota-fs.c:456: error: ‘no’ undeclared (first use in this function) quota-fs.c:456: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once quota-fs.c:456: error: for each function it appears in.) make[4]: *** [quota-fs.lo] Error 1 One of the configure options was: --without-linux-quota Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: deadbeef.0907402(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] v1.1.12 and v1.2.beta2 released
by Timo Sirainen 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.12.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.12.tar.gz.sig http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/beta/dovecot-1.2.beta2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/beta/dovecot-1.2.beta2.tar.gz.sig I thought I'd do a double-release since it's Friday the 13th. v1.2.0 is getting closer, mainly some ACL fixes left. Changes in v1.2.beta2 since beta1: * Authentication userdb: Renamed system_user to system_groups_user. Probably pretty much no one used this feature. * deliver no longer creates temp files to /tmp. They're instead created to the users' mailbox directories. - IMAP: Fixed SORT command crashing - POP3 was broken in beta1 - Fixes to virtual mailboxes - Fixes to IMAP ACL support Changes in both v1.1.12 and v1.2.beta2: * Added :MAILBOXDIR= to mail_location to specify the root dir for mailboxes. dbox users should migrate to ":MAILBOXDIR=mailboxes", because that's going to be the default in v1.2+. + Linux: Adding -D parameter to login_executable makes login processes dump core to login_dir if they crash. - IMAP: SELECT didn't always return first unseen message in reply - POP3: pop3_lock_session=yes didn't use mail_privileged_group while dotlocking. - mbox: Don't crash if >=8192 bytes long line begins with "From ". - Maildir: More fixes to handling over 26 keywords. - Several logging fixes and improvements - Fixed authentication caching with non-plaintext mechanisms when using a blocking passdb (e.g. MySQL) - Fixed DIGEST-MD5 authentication with user@domain style usernames.

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[Dovecot] setting up both system password users AND virtual users
by Jim Pazarena 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

I'm afraid that I am a rookie at dovecot, and cannot seem to figure the configuration for a dual system & virtual setup. For now I am using POP3 ---only--- I've got the "system" working, but cannot figure out how to add the virtual system. The docs aren't quite clear enough for me to understand. The wiki example for dynamic passwd-file locations shows: mail_location = maildir:/home/%d/%n/Maildir userdb passwd-file etc etc I am using mbox, not maildir, AND I've already used mail_location for my system accounts with the following line: mail_location = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/mail/%u In the case of my virtual users, the mail is stored in INBOX=/mail/VIRTUAL/%d/%u and the password file is stored in /exim/etc/VIRTUAL/%d/passwd would someone kindly help me with this? thanks!

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[Dovecot] pam_authenticate() failed: authentication error
by Zbigniew Szalbot 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

Hello, I would like to ask for your help. I have noticed some error messages issued by dovecot. Mar 13 20:00:57 relay dovecot: auth-worker(default): pam(example(a)example.com): pam_authenticate() failed: authentication error (/etc/pam.d/dovecot missing?) Not surprisingly $ l /etc/pam.d/dovecot ls: /etc/pam.d/dovecot: No such file or directory The funny thing is that authentication does work but I guess I have something misconfigured. I'd appreciate if you could help me. I am on a FreeBSD system (7.0) if that matters. Thank you! -- Zbigniew Szalbot

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[Dovecot] How can i override mail_location?
by Zhang Huangbin 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

Hi, all. I use dovecot-1.1.11 with OpenLDAP backend. but i found the mail_location is not correct. How can i override mail_location setting in dovecot.conf? LDAP user data and dovecot config are attached below. in dovecot config, mail_location is: ---- mail_location = maildir:/%Lh/%Ld/%Ln/:INDEX=/%Lh/%Ld/%Ln/ ---- but the correct maildir should be 'homeDirectory' + 'mailMessageStore': ---- maildir:/home/vmail/a.cn/w/ww/www/ ---- LDAP user: ---- dn: mail=www(a)a.cn,ou=Users,domainName=a.cn,o=domains,dc=iredmail,dc=org objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: mailUser objectClass: top cn: www sn: www uid: www mail: www(a)a.cn accountStatus: active homeDirectory: /home/vmail mailQuota: 104857600 userPassword: {SSHA}crkYO5tg8KRkOY7W3bRgjtLQ+79U4NgG enabledService: mail enabledService: smtp enabledService: pop3 enabledService: imap enabledService: deliver mailMessageStore: a.cn/w/ww/www/ ---- Dovecot ldap config file: ---- user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,=sieve_dir=/home/vmail/sieve/%Ld/%Ln/,mailMessageStore=maildir:mail,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ ---- Dovecot main config file: ---- # dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps listen: * ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/iRedMail/SSL_Cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/iRedMail/SSL_Key.pem 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 mail_uid: 500 mail_gid: 500 mail_location: maildir:/%Lh/%Ld/%Ln/:INDEX=/%Lh/%Ld/%Ln/ mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota zlib mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota zlib mail_plugins(pop3): quota zlib 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_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login default_realm: a.cn user: vmail passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/dovecot-auth mode: 438 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 438 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: *:storage=10M expire: Trash 7 Trash/* 7 Junk 30 expire_dict: proxy::expire auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master sieve: /home/vmail/sieve/%Ld/%Ln/.dovecot.sieve dict: expire: db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire/expire.db ---- -- Best regards. Zhang Huangbin - Open Source Mail Server Solution for RHEL/CentOS 5.x: http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/

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