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[Dovecot] ownership/perms on DC file objects
by Stewart Dean 10 May '07

10 May '07

Back in late March I asked what ownership and permissions Dovecot's own directories and files should have; I have an obsessive nature, and wanted to get things right :(.. On April Fool's Day :), Timo responded: > Dovecot opens pretty much all the configuration etc. files as root > before dropping the privileges. So in general they could all be 0600 > owned by root In my typical turtle-crawl fashion, I got around to today, but the onership/perms came out somewhat differently, which I put down here for anyone that wants to know......... I set everything under /var/run/dovecot to 600, owned by root:dovecot > 4242 root@mercury:/var/run/dovecot ## ls -alR > total 24 > drw------- 3 root dovecot 512 Mar 06 15:27 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 3 root system 512 Apr 18 2006 ../ > drw------- 2 root dovecot 512 May 09 10:37 login/ > ./login: > total 24 > drw------- 2 root dovecot 512 May 09 10:37 ./ > drw------- 3 root dovecot 512 Mar 06 15:27 ../ > srw------- 1 root dovecot 0 May 09 10:37 default= > -rw------- 1 root dovecot 230 May 09 10:36 ssl-parameters.dat > And restarted dovecot > 4243 root@mercury:/var/run/dovecot ## dovecot > but apparently /var/run/dovecot/login should be 750, but DC dealt with that automagically > Warning: Corrected permissions for login directory /var/run/dovecot/login > 4244 root@mercury:/var/run/dovecot ## ls -alR > total 24 > drw------- 3 root dovecot 512 Mar 06 15:27 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 3 root system 512 Apr 18 2006 ../ > drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 512 May 10 12:47 login/ > ./login: > total 24 > drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 512 May 10 12:47 ./ > drw------- 3 root dovecot 512 Mar 06 15:27 ../ > srwxrwxrwx 1 root dovecot 0 May 10 12:47 default= > -rw------- 1 root dovecot 230 May 09 10:36 ssl-parameters.dat > ...but then got in the syslog > May 10 12:49:51 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: imap-login: Can't open SSL param > eter file ssl-parameters.dat: Permission denied > May 10 12:49:51 mercury mail:err|error dovecot: child 1380384 (login) returned error 89 > > So I made it 640 which seems to do. > 4246 root@mercury:/var/run/dovecot ## chmod 640 login/ssl-parameters.dat > 4247 root@mercury:/var/run/dovecot ## ls -alR login > total 24 > drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 512 May 10 12:47 ./ > drw------- 3 root dovecot 512 Mar 06 15:27 ../ > srwxrwxrwx 1 root dovecot 0 May 10 12:47 default= > -rw-r----- 1 root dovecot 230 May 09 10:36 ssl-parameters.dat So it seems this will do (for others who obsess over things small):: a) /var/run/dovecot can be 600, root:dovecot b) /var/run/dovecot/login should be 750, root:dovecot c) /var/run/dovecot/login/ssl-parameters.dat might be 640, root: dovecot -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-dspam-integration
by Johannes Berg 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi Trever, Please copy the mailing list too. On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 09:45 -0600, Trever L. Adams wrote: > 1) Why on line 350 of your code do you say "do (almost) everything"? > What is left out? Is it done still by dovcecot? I don't remember. You can probably find out by comparing the code. > 2) "I decided that hardlinking into special folders was too much work > (especially with removing the mails again!), so for now my plugin is > calling the dspam client directly." What exactly was the problem? Can't > the problem be as simple as: > > a) unlink the message from inappropriate folder (if moving into spam, > unlink from unlearn, if moving out unlink from learn) using the file > name below > b) link the message to the appropriate folder with the name of <MESSAGE > ID>- > > Why do a without seeing if the file exists, well, if you use the full > message ID, because if people are following the rules with their MTA's > and/or mail clients, then message ID should be unique as it must be > unique on their system and it seems that all of them append the hose > name at the end, making it globally unique (or most likely so...). If > this is the case, then the client name. If this is in question then make > it <MESSAGE ID><DATE><FROM>. That should make it globally unique. > > This keeps one from having to mess with keeping lists. If people keep > dragging the same message to their outbox from sent, then the MESSAGE ID > may not be unique, but it will fit all of the same messages, hence I > think it isn't a problem. Also, unlink will cause the os to traverse the > directory, why should we do it as well as it will be a non-fatal error > if it doesn't exist. > > If you take my suggestions, and I am not just being stupid, please > provide some example processes/cron jobs to go with your code in the top > comments. Actually, the thing we care about is the dspam signature which is unique. So that's not a problem. The point is that you have to (a) when no files exist: move into spam: create a file <sig> with contents "spam" move out of spam: create a file <sig> with contents "notspam" (b) when <sig> file exists with contents "spam": move into spam: shouldn't happen move out of spam: unlink file (c) when <sig> file exists with contents "notspam": move into spam: unlink file move out of spam: shouldn't happen the cron job would have to iterate through all these files and call dspam depending on the contents of the file. And then it all has to be atomic. It's not really all that complex, but I was too lazy to implement it. johannes

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[Dovecot] Duplicate emails with several clients
by Erick Perez 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi, I'm using Centos 4.4 (which is redhat linux but free) that comes with dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4. I have done a clean reinstall of the server and I have users reporting that everytime they hit "send/receive" in their outlook or outlook express software, they get the same messages, as well as the new ones, over and over again. I use postfix + dovecot and only the pop3 protocol. My dovecot.conf has the following relevant entries default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle outlook-pop3-no-nuls mbox_locks = fcntl everything else is at default value. Also, we do not upgrade dovecot because it is not part of the upstream provider, and we do not want to break binary compatibility updates. Thanks for your guidance. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Managesieve: first steps
by Joseba Torre 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi, I'm trying to get managesieve to work but, as usual, I have some issues... - First of all, the compilation process after applying the patch is a bit strange. I've used this way (i'm using centOS 4 for this pre-tests): $ tar zxvf dovecot-1.0.0.tar.gz $ cd dovecot-1.0.0 $ gzip -cd ../dovecot-1.0.rc28-MANAGESIEVE-v4.diff.gz | patch -p1 $ autoreconf (This ends with an error about missing ./ylwrap) $ automake --add-missing (This copies ylwrap to ., but fails if executed before autoreconf) $ autoreconf $ ./configure && make && sudo make install but I'm quite sure that should exist a better way... - After this, adding protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve and protocol managesieve { listen = *:2000 login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve } to dovecot.conf, everything seems to work fine (pop3 and imap work as usual, and I can connect to the managesieve port), but dovecot -n gives no output. (If I put out managesieve from the protocols, dovecot -n gives the normal output again). (This output is appended at the end) - Finally, I'm using Plain as the authentication mechanism, and I've been unable to connect using kmail or the sieve extension for thunderbird. As I'm not sure if any of these really work, I'll setup horde for further testing. Is there anything that I should be aware of? dovecot -n output: # /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf syslog_facility: local1 protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot-beta.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot-beta.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_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%u:CONTROL=/var/dovecot/%u mmap_disable: 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 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): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v.%u auth default: master_user_separator: * passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-master.conf master: yes passdb: driver: pam args: blocking=yes userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen client: master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master plugin: quota: fs Thanks. -- Joseba Torre. CIDIR Bizkaia.

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[Dovecot] removing old emails
by Ray 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hello, I need to remove mail older than for example 30 days. Email is stored in maildir format. can I just use a cron job and shell script or will that mess up indexs? Thanks Ray

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and horde issues
by John H. Bennett III 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hello, First time poster to this list, please be kind. I am having difficulties trying to get the current stable version of horde's imp webmail to work correctly using dovecot 1.0rc15. I am using a pre-release version of SME Server 8 which runs on top of CentOS 5. I have also tried using the 1.0 release of dovecot as well. What is happenning is that when I login to imp, I don't see any folders. I can create folders in imp which do get created in my Maildir directory, but I can't see them. If I revert back to dovecot-0.99.14-1.2, then I am able to see my folders. I have been looking in the wiki at the steps needed to upgrade from 0.99 to 1.0 and I thought everything had been taken care of, but since things aren't working, I have overlooked something. I also browsed the archives and see that others are using horde with various dovecot 1.x releases, so I know it should be possible to get it to work. My dovecot.conf currently only as the below, which works fine for 0.99: maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no my /etc/pam.d/dovecot has: more /etc/pam.d/dovecot #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth include system-auth account include system-auth session include system-auth imp servers.php: $servers['_prompt'] = array( 'name' => 'Choose a mail server:' ); $servers['thebennetthome2.com'] = array( 'name' => 'IMAP Server', 'server' => 'localhost', 'protocol' => 'imap/notls', 'port' => '143', 'maildomain' => 'test.com', 'smtphost' => 'localhost', 'realm' => 'test.com', 'preferred' => '' ); php -v PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Apr 9 2007 03:37:21) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies I do get some php errors when logging into horde, and a lot of php errors when creating folders that I can post if needed. I did post my issue to the horde list as well, but there has been no answer to date. Please let me know what other information is needed to assist me with fixing this issue. Thank you very much, John Bennett Thanks, John H. Bennett III bennettj(a)johnbennettservices.com

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[Dovecot] Email client dowloads previously read messages as new during migration.
by Eric and Barbara Sammons 09 May '07

09 May '07

I am migrating from UW to dovecot and using mbox. I have been able to find mbox to maildir migration information and tools; however, I have had little luck finding any tool or information for performing such a migration where I wish to keep mbox. ( I know I should migrate to MailDir, but in the case I wish to take baby steps.) I have setup dovecot pop3 communication and I go to my email client and everything works fine with the exception that all mail I have previously read (when using UW as my POP server) is downloaded again as NEW. Is there a way to prevent this from happening without setting my client to delete mail from server? thank you!

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[Dovecot] Troubleshooting enhancement request...
by Charles Marcus 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi Timo, You were good enough to add the -n flag to the dovecot command to output the current *changed* config parameters (changed as compared to the defaults) of the running dovecot process. This makes it much easier to troubleshoot issues - thanks! Another flag that postfix has is the -d flag (postconf -d). This one outputs all of the DEFAULTS of the current running postfix process/version. I just used this today to compare what I had in my main.cf to what the defaults were - and for some reason I had uncommented a bunch of things that didn't need to be uncommented (because they were the default setting), resulting in a much larger output from the postconf -n command. I know its not a big deal, but any chance of implementing this for dovecot? This would make it easy to keep the conf file (and the -n output) clean and neat. Many, many thanks for 1.0.0! -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] Trying to modify the source - fopen problems
by Phillip T. George 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hello all, I don't know if this needs to be sent to a different list or not, if so, please let me know. Anyways, I'm trying to modify the dovecot source a bit, but the problem I'm having is that whenever I use "fopen", it always returns NULL. I've tried a variety of things, even fopen("/dev/null", "w") -- because that should almost always work. I'm trying to get it to work in src/pop3-login/client-authenticate.c Any idea why this might be happening? Any suggestions as to where to put the code instead? (I'm trying to check the username against some information in a file OR pass the username to a process and have it do the work) Thanks, Phillip

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[Dovecot] Inconsistent Mailbox with Eudora as POP3 client
by Amon Ott 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hello everyone, one of our customers using QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 as POP3 client with Dovecot 1.0.0 under Linux using Maildirs reports that on various accounts they get occasional "inconsistent mailbox" errors at quit. The same Docevot binary in the same environment on other servers works fine for several other customers and ourselves. We use Postfix 2.2 with Dovecot deliver and Sieve plugin, nothing else touches the Maildirs. I have no idea what goes wrong there, I already suspected memory corruptions. The system is low on memory and uses some swap (more memory soon), does that trigger such problems? The Eudora log shows: <Dominant>, Shutting down POP connection, QUIT [08:54:07 AM] There has been an error transferring your mail. I said: QUIT and then the POP3 server (xyz(a)my.domain.de) said: ERR Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin. The mail syslog shows e.g.: Apr 27 08:50:26 gateway dovecot: POP3(mk): Disconnected: Mailbox is in inconsistent state. top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/715, size=20210522 # /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 first_valid_uid: 440 mail_extra_groups: mail maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: user: dovecot-login verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: fs Amon Ott -- Amon Ott - m-privacy GmbH Am Köllnischen Park 1, 10179 Berlin Tel: +49 30 24342334 Fax: +49 30 24342336 Web: http://www.m-privacy.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 84946 Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Kfm. Holger Maczkowsky, Roman Maczkowsky GnuPG-Key-ID: EA898571

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[Dovecot] Hot to get rid of \"DON\'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE\" messages?
by foxx＠freemail.gr 09 May '07

09 May '07

I'm using Dovecot 1.0.0 (mbox) with Postfix 2.4 on my FreeBSD box, as a pop3-only server (imap is disabled). All account mailboxes are accessed using Outlook clients. I've noticed that, whenever I'm retrieving mail with pop3, a "DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE" is created in mbox. Although these messages are never sent to client MUAs, I found them very annoying. BTW I don't use (or used before) UW or Pine or any other c-client, therefore I assume it's a Dovecot issue. Previously I was using Cyrus and never had such a problem. Any idea how this can be fixed? FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Postfix 2.4, Dovecot 1.0.0 dovecot -n report: base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: pop3 listen: * ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 1 login_max_processes_count: 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 2000 last_valid_uid: 2999 first_valid_gid: 2000 last_valid_gid: 2000 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: mbox:/var/empty/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY dotlock_use_excl: yes mbox_read_locks: flock mbox_write_locks: flock mail_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_no_flag_updates: yes pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: default_realm: domain.com username_format: %n passdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: regards, Athan

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[Dovecot] sporadic slow/non response, problems copying to sent folder
by Danno Coppock 09 May '07

09 May '07

After experiencing these symptoms through many of the release candidates, we've been at v1.0.0 now for a few weeks, and they're still there. Perhaps a config issue with my setup (mbox locks?). It's really too disrupting to continue using this way. I've included symptoms, client info, mta info, log entries and config file. What other information can I provide? Please advise. Thanks, Danno symptoms: 1. Coming back to the idle client, and clicking on a newly arrived message, often a long delay (seems like minutes, sometimes) will occur before the message loads from the server. 2. Sending messages, as often as not, the client will stall, sometimes indefinitely, on "copying message to sent folder". client: * usually not more than 2-3 clients running at any time. * Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (on XP) * Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (on FreeBSD 5.5) mta: * Sendmail 8.13.6/8.13.6 * $sudo sendmail -bt -d0.10 < /dev/null | grep HASFLOCK OS Defines: BSD4_4_SOCKADDR HASFCHOWN HASFCHMOD HASFLOCK === log entries May 3 21:27:09 tejas dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<annie>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.216.71.193, lip =68.224.168.249, TLS May 3 21:28:00 tejas dovecot: IMAP(annie): Disconnected May 3 21:28:01 tejas dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<annie>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.216.71.193, lip =68.224.168.249, TLS May 3 21:32:08 tejas dovecot: IMAP(annie): Disconnected for inactivity May 3 21:37:01 tejas dovecot: IMAP(annie): Disconnected May 3 21:37:02 tejas dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<annie>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.216.71.193, lip =68.224.168.249, TLS May 3 21:37:55 tejas dovecot: IMAP(annie): Disconnected in IDLE May 3 21:38:18 tejas dovecot: IMAP(annie): Disconnected in IDLE May 3 21:56:02 tejas dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<danno>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.216.71.193, lip =68.224.168.249, TLS May 3 21:56:17 tejas dovecot: IMAP(annie): Disconnected for inactivity May 3 21:58:32 tejas dovecot: IMAP(danno): Disconnected May 3 22:02:31 tejas dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<danno>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.216.71.193, lip =68.224.168.249, TLS May 3 22:03:14 tejas dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<danno>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.216.71.193, lip =68.224.168.249, TLS May 3 22:14:10 tejas dovecot: IMAP(annie): Disconnected May 3 22:14:38 tejas dovecot: IMAP(danno): Disconnected in IDLE May 3 22:16:24 tejas dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<danno>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.216.71.193, lip =68.224.168.249, TLS May 3 22:16:33 tejas dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<annie>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.216.71.193, lip =68.224.168.249, TLS May 3 22:16:44 tejas dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<annie>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.216.71.193, lip =68.224.168.249, TLS May 3 22:18:36 tejas dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<annie>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.216.71.193, lip =68.224.168.249, TLS May 3 22:19:16 tejas dovecot: IMAP(danno): Disconnected May 3 22:19:17 tejas dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<danno>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.216.71.193, lip =68.224.168.249, TLS ===== config $grep -E -v '^ *(#|$)' dovecot.conf protocols = imaps login_process_size = 64 default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_extra_groups = mail verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 100 first_valid_gid = 0 mbox_read_locks = flock mbox_write_locks = flock protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } dict { } plugin { }

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[Dovecot] .imap files
by L. Scott Loftin 09 May '07

09 May '07

Dovecot version: 1.0.rc7 OS: Red Hat Fedora Core 6 CPU: x86 Filesystem: Linux I have recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6 (the FC6 was a clean install, not an upgrade). Prior to the upgrade, I used Dovecot to handle IMAP email that talked to Outlook clients. After the FC6 install and copying the .imap* files to the newly recreated user accounts, Outlook is not seeing the old email. Dovecot is creating new dovecot.* files to hold new email, not looking in the existing .imap.* files. Is there a way to either convert the .imap* files into the new dovecot.* files or any way to recover the email that anyone knows about? Thanks! Scott

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[Dovecot] PATCH: Deliver looses mail and DSN if Return-Path is missing
by Steffen Kaiser 09 May '07

09 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Dovecot v1.0.0 if there is no Return-Path in the message and Deliver cannot deliver the message, no DSN is sent _and_ the MTA is returned 0 (aka success) return code, which leads to mail loss. This is not the case, when the message actually finds a Return-Path, but fails to invoke the MTA. - --- src/deliver/mail-send.c (revision 47) +++ src/deliver/mail-send.c (working copy) @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ i_info("msgid=%s: Return-Path missing, rejection reason: %s", orig_msgid == NULL ? "" : str_sanitize(orig_msgid, 80), str_sanitize(reason, 512)); - - return 0; + return EX_TEMPFAIL; } smtp_client = smtp_client_open(return_addr, NULL, &f); Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRkGA0S9SORjhbDpvAQIh0Qf/RUkmWnK+LhB3/ZwY+AnyTAYGBPB7qTCp bVchn4F7zL+W2fIYZGz6YG1bKUtHE3qMQAY3gYijspNZBejS0Z8cTI983ZMwJFP+ ygMAicyEDFSWrFWYnzBnpvHYZEK9VjQ4HnDIkojDQx+pQH0LS/Ve0/JbiaNuwMRQ g0ay3puas8xiyktRHVHslDfbanrfzwpbO7qtNpFrF9aCKo3RLIhFCKSjaXD75BfQ K7XrmOjFECkB1bLeaFJrVzm/DoayRn1HusKQjtwKCRx4YBgOP0d5OQGQTvqRLx33 agHXdNxFN6vYB/QbIMcoI6xyWw6POHpiRjLJ5maWsdhlMFIrRVNOJg== =xshk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Startup error
by kamran arshad 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi, I have installed Dovecot 1.0.0 on a FreeBSD6.0 machine with Exim 4.66 and Vexim 1.5. When I restart the machine, dovecot does not load properly. The logs of /var/log/maillog are as: May 8 00:10:32 lhr dovecot: pop3-login: No authentication sockets found May 8 00:10:32 lhr dovecot: child 11478 (login) returned error 89 May 8 00:10:34 lhr dovecot: imap-login: No authentication sockets found May 8 00:10:34 lhr dovecot: child 11479 (login) returned error 89 When I kill it and then start it, then it starts working properly. /var/log/maillog:May 8 09:33:02 lhr dovecot: auth(default): Killed with signal 15 /var/log/maillog:May 8 09:33:02 lhr dovecot: Killed with signal 15 /var/log/maillog:May 8 09:33:13 lhr dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.0 starting up /var/log/maillog:May 8 09:33:13 lhr dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to 127.0.0.1 (exim) My configuration file is : lhr# dovecot -n # /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): * ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no 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 first_valid_uid: 90 last_valid_uid: 93 first_valid_gid: 90 last_valid_gid: 93 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 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): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf Please help me in this regard. Thanks in advance. Kamran Arshad --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos.

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[Dovecot] lda reports a lot of errors
by Thomas Balsfulland 09 May '07

09 May '07

hello, i am using dovecot 1.0.rc15-1~bpo1 (from backports.org) on an debian sarge machine as lda imapd and pop3d with postfix 2.1.5-9. sometimes docvecot lda cannot write an mail to an existing mbox-file and the logfiles fills up with: deliver(user1(a)domain.tld): "2007-04-22 23:17:32 "Error: Cached message offset 6937844 is invalid for mbox file /home/vmail/domain.tld/user1 deliver(user1(a)domain.tld): "2007-04-22 23:17:32 "Error: Cached message offset 6937844 is invalid for mbox file /home/vmail/domain.tld/user1 deliver(user1(a)domain.tld): "2007-04-22 23:17:32 "Error: Cached message offset 6937844 is invalid for mbox file /home/vmail/domain.tld/user1 deliver(user1(a)domain.tld): "2007-04-22 23:17:32 "Error: Cached message offset 6937844 is invalid for mbox file /home/vmail/domain.tld/user1 40 lines from this per second and will never stop! i need to stop postfix and dovecot, kill -9 the deliver-process, fix the mbox (unlock it with mutt) and start dovecot and postfix again. then the mail will be deliverd without errors. some minutes to hours later i got the same problem with a random user and domain. my configs: /etc/postfix/main.cf: : virtual_mailbox_domains = /etc/postfix/virtual_domains virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_boxes virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_user virtual_minimum_uid = 100 virtual_uid_maps = static:1005 virtual_gid_maps = static:1005 virtual_transport = dovecot dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 : /etc/postfix/master.cf: : # dovecot lda # ============================================================================== # service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc # command + args # (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100) # ============================================================================== dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} the dovecot.conf is attached, the mailuser-file looks like: user1@domain.tld:password:1005:1005::/home/vmail/domain.tld can someone help? thanks a lot. regards thomas -- thomas balsfulland tbals(a)ctrl-c.de zwischen mut und dummheit liegt nur ein grat der sich durch das vorbereitetsein unterscheidet

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[Dovecot] [courier-dovecot-migrate.pl] - No such file or directory at courier-dovecot-migrate.pl line 230
by Wilkinson, Alex 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi all, I am in the process of migrating my Maildir IMAP server from courier-imap to dovecot. I am now at the point of converting my Maildirs into a format that dovecot understands (as per http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier) Problem: ------- #/usr/bin/perl courier-dovecot-migrate.pl --recursive Finding maildirs under . ./courierimapuiddb: OK No such file or directory at courier-dovecot-migrate.pl line 230. # Can anyone tell me what the problem is here ? And how to deal with it ? Platform: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Apr 10 13:47:53 WST 2007. Cheers! -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email.

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[Dovecot] Tru64 patch for mountpoint.c
by Simon L Jackson 09 May '07

09 May '07

I believe that there is one more patch required for a successful build on Tru64: # diff ./src/lib/mountpoint.c.orig ./src/lib/mountpoint.c 60a61,63 > #ifdef __osf__ > point_r->type = p_strdup(pool, getvfsbynumber(buf.f_type)); > #else 62c65,66 < point_r->block_size = buf.f_bsize; --- > #endif > point_r->block_size = buf.f_bsize; Cheers -- Simon L Jackson Carringbush.Net +- Carringbush.Net Hosting * Development * Advice Web: www.carringbush.net <http://www.carringbush.net/> Email: simon.jackson(a)carringbush.net <mailto:simon.jackson@carringbush.net> Office: +61 3 9411 4400 Support: +61 3 9411 4444 Fax: +61 3 9411 4499 Level 1 15 Bedford Street Collingwood VIC 3066 Australia P.O. Box 1464 Collingwood VIC 3066 Australia +-

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[Dovecot] ldap and digest-md5 problem
by Łukasz Mierzwa 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi, I'm using dovecot-1.0.0 on gentoo box and I have problem with authentication using digest-md5 and passwords stored as plain text in ldap database, when I use cram-md5 it works, while digest-md5 give this error (squirrelmail login): May 5 16:03:32 srv dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 DIGEST-MD5 service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 May 5 16:03:32 srv dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 [password hash] May 5 16:03:32 srv dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> May 5 16:03:32 srv dovecot: auth(default): ldap(user(a)domain.com,127.0.0.1): pass search: base=ou=domain.com,cn=Users,dc=domain,dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=user)) fields=userPassword May 5 16:03:32 srv dovecot: auth(default): ldap(user(a)domain.com,127.0.0.1): result: userPassword(password)=<hidden> May 5 16:03:32 srv dovecot: auth(default): digest-md5 (user(a)domain.com,127.0.0.1) password mismatch May 5 16:03:32 srv dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=user(a)domain.com May 5 16:03:32 srv dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<user(a)domain.com>, method=DIGEST-MD5, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured It seems that client and dovecot hashes calculated for DIGEST-MD5 are different, I tested squirrelmail 1.4.9a, kmail 3.5.6 both can't login using digest-md5 so maybe dovecot does not working correctly? Passwords where created using phpldapadmin and "clear" password type, cram-md5 logins are ok. I can't find any info on ldap and digest-md5 incompatibility in dovecot wiki, can anyone give my a hint? my dovecot-ldap.conf: uris = ldaps://127.0.0.1 dn = uid=dovecot,cn=Daemons,dc=domain,dc=com dnpass = secret sasl_bind = no tls = no auth_bind = no ldap_version = 3 base = ou=%d,cn=Users,dc=domain,dc=com deref = never scope = subtree pass_attrs = userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n)) default_pass_scheme = PLAIN my dovecot.conf: protocols = imap imaps managesieve shutdown_clients = yes syslog_facility = mail ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/cert ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/key verbose_ssl = no login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 2 login_max_processes_count = 10 login_user = dovecot login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n mail_extra_groups = postfix mail_full_filesystem_access = no mail_debug = no verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 2000 last_valid_uid = 2000 first_valid_gid = 2000 last_valid_uid = 2000 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes disable_plaintext_auth = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)domain.com hostname = domain.com mail_plugins = cmusieve } auth_default_realm = pcserwis.net auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = no auth default { mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb static { args = uid=2000 gid=2000 home=/var/mail/%d/%n } socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = vmail group = postfix } master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail } } } protocol managesieve { listen = *:2000 login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve } -- Łukasz Mierzwa

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[Dovecot] Switching from mailbox to maildir.. duplicates!
by Lars Johansen 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi We have been running a dovecot server for some time.. users connect with pop. Now this server is going to be substituted with a new one.. before we used mbox, but now we will move to maildir! I have done some testing transfering the mail with the mb2md script, the conversion works correctly, but users gets duplicates since they selected "keep mail on server" I have googled for the problem, and set pop3_reuse_xuidl=yes and pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv is the same on both servers.. but no luck. My first tought was to script in an X-UIDL header for each mail that was converted.. but that wont work since the mail already downloaded by the client didnt contain that header.. is there anyone that has some experience with this, or knows if its possible? Many Greetings, Lars Johansen

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[Dovecot] Strange Mail Problem
by Jason Baker 09 May '07

09 May '07

I submitted this question to the Postfix maillist and they suggested that I post to this one. Here's my issue: I have a Postifx email system running on a CentOS 4 box, with Dovecot pop3 and imap. Last week, one of my users reported to me that about a dozen emails suddenly showed up in his in box (as unread messages), but none of them were addressed to him. Under further investigation, they turned out to be from another user's inbox. The messages were all over a month old. How could mail simply show up in one inbox from another user's? We're using Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5. Anyone else run into issues like this? -- *Jason Baker */IT Coordinator/ *Glastender Inc.* 5400 North Michigan Road Saginaw, Michigan 48604 USA 800.748.0423 Phone: 989.752.4275 ext. 228 Fax: 989.752.4444 www.glastender.com <http://www.glastender.com> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT$ d- s: a C++$ LU+++$ P+ L++>L++++ !E--- W+++ N o? K? w !O M !V PS PE++ Y? PGP- t 5? X+ R+ tv+ b- DI-- D++ G e+ h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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[Dovecot] busy still for a week
by Timo Sirainen 09 May '07

09 May '07

This school year is pretty much finished next thursday (for the classes I intended to pass). After that I should again have enough energy to read and answer the 150 mails in this list .. :) And maybe release v1.0.1 fixing the newly found bugs.

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[Dovecot] File Changes and IDLE
by Andy Shellam 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi Timo and all, I used to use Dovecot back in the 0.99 days a couple of years ago, had since moved to Courier IMAP, but with the release of Dovecot 1.0.0, I'm looking at moving back! One thing I currently have set up and working with Courier is the use of the enhanced IDLE mode, whereby Courier uses FAM (File Alteration Monitor) to monitor changes in the INBOX, and sends the details to the client as soon as a new mail arrives. Is this something that Dovecot supports? If possible, I'd prefer not to use FAM, as it crashes at random intervals and I have to keep restarting it. When I configured Dovecot, it said "File change notification method ..... : none". Does this mean FreeBSD doesn't support any method of notifying of file changes? Is there any way I can install, or re-configure the kernel, to include this support? Thanks, Andy

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[Dovecot] input / output error in dovecot.log
by Joe Wong 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hello, >From time to time, I saw input / output error on rename() or pwrite_full(), for example: dovecot: May 02 05:46:18 Error: IMAP(joe): rename(/fs/joe/Maildir/.Sent Items/tmp/1178084777.P21895Q0M200058.tkodog.no-ip.com.com, /fs/joe/Maildir/.Sent Items/cur/1178084777.P21895Q0M200058.tkodog.no-ip.com:2,S) failed: Input/output error dovecot: May 02 06:29:49 Error: IMAP(victor): pwrite_full() failed with file /fs/victor/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Input/output error dovecot: May 02 08:21:29 Error: IMAP(victor): pwrite_full() failed with file /fs/victor/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Input/output error dovecot: May 03 06:02:06 Error: IMAP(joe): rename(/fs/joe/Maildir/.Sent Items/tmp/1178172125.P16867Q0M173436.tkodog.no-ip.com, /fs/joe/Maildir/.Sent Items/cur/1178172125.P16867Q0M173436.tkodog.no-ip.com.com:2,S) failed: Input/output error What could be the cause of this problem and the consequences? Regards, - Joe

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[Dovecot] auth(default): Error sending status request (Operation not permitted)
by Keith Bjorndahl 09 May '07

09 May '07

After upgrading to dovecot-1.0.0 from dovecot-0.99.14, I've started getting the following errors: auth(default): Error sending status request (Operation not permitted) but yet everything _seems_ to be functioning okay ... so far. This is a FC4 system, SELinux is re-configured and still generates errors with SELinux disabled. Ideas?

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[Dovecot] INBOX inaccessible
by Sophie Nicoud 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi, One of my users can't read message of his Inbox, he can view subject of message with Thunderbird or Squirrelmail and IMAP but when he click on a message in order to read it he has thess messages with Thunderbird : The current command did not succeed. Invalidmessageset: 1181461470:-1181461446. ou 1181461444:* ou 1181461444:-1181461445 with Squirrelmail : SquirrelMail: ERREUR ERREUR: Le serveur IMAP n'a pas trouvé le message requis. La cause probable est que votre liste de messages n'est pas à jour et le message a été déplacé ou supprimé (éventuellement par un autre programme qui utilise la même boîte aux lettres). traduction : IMAP server doesn't find the message Your message list isnt up to day or has been delated or moved.... With the mail -f command I can read messages and with POP3 protocol and Thunderbird also. Install : dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4 :-( What can I do ? Thanks Sophie

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[Dovecot] Password Problems
by Don O'Neil 09 May '07

09 May '07

I have a user that has a password that has {} in it (left and right curly brackets). Under earlier versions of dovecot (less than v1) there weren't any problems with it. Now that we've upgraded to v1, his password no longer work. The short term solution is for him to change his password, which he has. Has anyone else seen this same problem? It seems to pop up more when using webmail apps such as Squirrelmail or Uebiumaiu. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Moving new email from the mail spool to the inbox
by Adrian Barker 09 May '07

09 May '07

We are considering switching from the Washington UW IMAP server to Dovecot for performance reasons, but we make use of the feature in the UW server that automatically moves new email from the mail spool to the IMAP INBOX. Has anyone implemented this in Dovecot, or considered implementing it ? We have a large number of users, so cannot easily change the way that we deliver email. -- Adrian Barker, Information Systems University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT External phone: +44 20 7679 5140, Fax (+44) 20 7388 5406 Email: A.Barker(a)ucl.ac.uk

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[Dovecot] Dovecot deliver discards emails (mail loss)
by Steffen Kaiser 09 May '07

09 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Dovecot deliver used with filesystem quota, sendmail v8.13 via .forward-mechanism causes mail loess: May 8 09:49:53 ux-2s11-9 deliver(dvtest): msgid=<200705080749.l487nclf029596(a)ux-2s11-9.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de>: save failed to INBOX May 8 09:49:53 ux-2s11-9 deliver(dvtest): msgid=<200705080749.l487nclf029596(a)ux-2s11-9.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de>: Return-Path missing, rejection reason: Not enough disk space May 8 09:49:53 ux-2s11-9 sendmail[29618]: l487nclf029596: to="| /etc/mail/runde", ctladdr=dvtest (31045/102), delay=00:00:15, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=120033, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent "/etc/mail/runde" is a shell script to capture various status of the delivery attempt, incl. a strace log. Below are the last lines of the strace. Actually, I expected deliver to _tempfail_ the delivery attempt with "out of quota". However, the mail is lost, I guess, because sendmail received a return code "0". ================== brk(0x8115000) = 0x8115000 time(NULL) = 1178610593 open("/var/cache/dovecot/31045/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 7 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(7, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xbfaa8c44) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2144, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 2144, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xb7ee6000 open("/var/cache/dovecot/31045/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 8 fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2984, ...}) = 0 pread64(8, "\1\0\30\0\214\267\377E\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\214\267"..., 24, 0) = 24 fcntl64(7, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xbfaa8ca4) = 0 time(NULL) = 1178610593 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=837, ...}) = 0 stat64("/home/dvtest/MailDir/new", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=12288, ...}) = 0 stat64("/home/dvtest/MailDir/cur", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 stat64("/home/dvtest/MailDir/tmp/1178610593.P29623Q0M537288.ux-2s11-9", 0xbfaa8d90) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) umask(0) = 077 open("/home/dvtest/MailDir/tmp/1178610593.P29623Q0M537288.ux-2s11-9", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 9 umask(077) = 0 _llseek(9, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 fstat64(9, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 writev(9, [{"From root(a)ux-2s11-9.inf.fh-bonn-"..., 70}, {"\n", 1}], 2) = - -1 EDQUOT (Disk quota exceeded) utime("/home/dvtest/MailDir/tmp/1178610593.P29623Q0M537288.ux-2s11-9", [2007/05/08-09:49:53, 2007/05/08-09:49:53]) = 0 fsync(9) = 0 close(9) = 0 unlink("/home/dvtest/MailDir/tmp/1178610593.P29623Q0M537288.ux-2s11-9") = 0 time([1178610593]) = 1178610593 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=837, ...}) = 0 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=837, ...}) = 0 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=837, ...}) = 0 send(6, "<22>May 8 09:49:53 deliver(dvte"..., 130, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 130 time([1178610593]) = 1178610593 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=837, ...}) = 0 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=837, ...}) = 0 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=837, ...}) = 0 send(6, "<22>May 8 09:49:53 deliver(dvte"..., 170, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 170 close(8) = 0 munmap(0xb7ee6000, 2144) = 0 close(7) = 0 munmap(0xb7d6c000, 39020) = 0 munmap(0xb7ee7000, 8952) = 0 munmap(0xb7d43000, 166416) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC) close(3) = 0 close(5) = 0 exit_group(0) = ? =============== protocol lda { # Address to use when sending rejection mails. postmaster_address = postmaster@mail # Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated # list of plugins to load. mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda mail_plugins = quota mail_log cmusieve # Binary to use for sending mails. sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail # UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users. auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # Log to syslog log_path = info_log_path = syslog_facility = mail } Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRkAvCC9SORjhbDpvAQKXiwgAoWOhnRqlqqqcWrT0r/vPB4vklFUylxFz rgNlNklola01iqZWT3SXsraxGbbK4xnU4D2XtxoA8uwONZ3pQny+2gdnwlDlcjcY Uqme8Rmr4TQz3JiTgMlT2I2gUGeSNrgckDV3Q9VvFfUT+23kEIhOahL4aBVD9tsv SV3YZDkekP4qndrfxRfW5cVwsaaRX4YJZsk47mx2oakmaoFb3qGk3QGV0x9sZRhj AvXeIKu8SQkHMC6rbSJiwr34oYZl/aGA7Z/vB3iTxE3NgkyqE1WoUfxgdo1EiXTJ /i+E26VD/YJy6sWLy/usZibZMG/TJ3EM9kNmEk+23dLJbhX130Uk3A== =Md0l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] troubleshooting new dovecot installation
by Ray 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hello, I'm setting up a new mail server using freebsd 6.2, postfix, dovecot with SASL and, eventually, squirrelmail. I've gone through http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestPop3Installation the program is running, plain works over telnet from local host or from a remote machine. I can do stat and retr commands. however, when I try to use the login method (that is what the command 1 login username password part is, isn't it?) all I get is: -ERR Unknown command. even with auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes, logs give no information. May 7 20:41:53 server dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: rip=1.2.3.4, lip=1.2.3.4 (IP's substituted) almost all of the users will be using outlook/outlook express so I'm only enabling plain and login methods. thanks Ray dovecot -n gives protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 0 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/usr/local/mail/%d/%n 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): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: prefetch args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth user: postfix group: postfix master: I don't think it matters, but for the sake of formality: server# grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=/tmp/mysql.sock dbname=******** user=******** password=******* password_query = SELECT md5(userpassword) AS password, home, virtual_uid AS userdb_uid, virtual_gid AS userdb_gid FROM virtual_users WHERE email = '%u' AND active = 1

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Re: [Dovecot] What would you tell the CIO in an "ABCs of Email" overview?
by Kenneth Porter 08 May '07

08 May '07

Perhaps the first fundamental is that Internet email isn't handled by one kind of server. It's a suite of protocols that are served by distinct processes. At minimum, you have inbound (POP3, IMAP) and outbound (SMTP) servers. You may also have a separate authentication server (LDAP) and perhaps other pieces providing calendaring, web mail (HTTP), and central storage of client configuration (ACAP). The different protocols exist not because some programmer thought it would be cool to create a new protocol, but because they serve completely different needs. For example, POP3 was designed to support lightweight disconnected clients. IMAP provides server-based storage of mail folders. LDAP provides authentication not just for mail systems but for many other applications. (I'm sure experts for each of these protocols could provide better explanations. The RFC for each probably has a motivation section that you can quote.) An important "slide" in the presentation would show the plumbing that ties all these protocols and processes together and shows how mail moves through the system. In some cases the plumbing itself is variable. For example, spam and virus processing might occur within several servers or within a client.

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[Dovecot] sieve parse error
by Matthias Kellermann 06 May '07

06 May '07

Hello everyone, I'm using Dovecot (v1.0.beta3-3ubuntu5.4 under Ubuntu) with postfix and LDA with virtual users. Everything is working fine. To filter mails I use the Dovecot Sieve feature. But I get some strange error for one simple Sieve script: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- require "fileinto"; if header :contains ["to", "Cc", "Bcc"] ["freewrt-users(a)freewrt.org"] { fileinto "Mailinglists.FreeWRT"; stop; } elseif header :contains ["to", "Cc", "Bcc"] ["getmail(a)discworld.dnsalias.org"] { fileinto "Mailinglists.getmail"; stop; } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the error I get in mail.log: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 6 15:47:08 gehirnschnecke deliver: sieve parse error for matthias(a)adminlife.net: line 8: syntax error, unexpected IF, expecting '{' ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After studying sieve.info my sieve script should be correct. What could be wrong here? Thanks & best regards Matthias

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Re: [Dovecot] sporadic slow/non response, problems copying to, sent folder
by Danno Coppock 05 May '07

05 May '07

>> symptoms: >> 1. Coming back to the idle client, and clicking on a newly arrived >> message, often a long delay (seems like minutes, sometimes) will >> occur before the message loads from the server. >> 2. Sending messages, as often as not, the client will stall, >> sometimes indefinitely, on "copying message to sent folder". >> > Does this happen when using a client which is on the same LAN as > the server? This kind of behavior looks like a network issue. > You called it. We access the server over the Internet. How did I forget to provide that small detail? However, that's not the slowness I speak of. Perhaps a better term is long delay, like waiting on some timeout, before message loadding (in symptom 1., above). So are there parameters to tune, that will make dovecot behave nicer? I do not believe this to be connectivity outages between our clients and the server. For one, we never experienced these symptoms with UW-IMAP. I just duplicated the stall on copying to Sent folder. This is probably the more prevalent, and annoying of the two problems. facts: * There was only one active client. * The client was T'bird, v1.5.0.10, running on XP. * This particular test had a 3Mb attachment. * The mail was delivered immediately to the single, remote recipient (after a ~20 seconds of 3Mb upload). * The "Copying to Sent Folder" dialog stayed up for (no exaggeration) 15-minutes, and then completed; the message is in the Sent folder now. suspicion, from months of experiencing the behavior: * Attachments are usually involved. How does the config look? Are the mbox lock settings appropriate? I was somewhat shooting in the dark there. * Sendmail 8.13.6/8.13.6 * $sudo sendmail -bt -d0.10 < /dev/null | grep HASFLOCK OS Defines: BSD4_4_SOCKADDR HASFCHOWN HASFCHMOD HASFLOCK mbox_read_locks = flock mbox_write_locks = flock What else can I provide? netstats? tcpdumps? Are there logs/debugging appropriate to enable? Thanks for any ideas, Danno

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[Dovecot] Subfolders with IMAP
by Sophie Nicoud 05 May '07

05 May '07

Hello, How can I configure dovecot in order to allow subfolders on IMAP directories ? I dont find in the dovecot.conf file Thanks Sophie

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[Dovecot] Method to globally limit network access
by Marcus O. White 05 May '07

05 May '07

G'day All, I am new to dovecot. I've run across the "allow_net" to restrict access on what seems like a per user basis. Is the a way to global limit access to one or more networks? Marcus O.

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[Dovecot] Converting Courier mailboxes to Dovecot
by Andy Shellam 05 May '07

05 May '07

Hi, I have around 100 mailboxes (maildirs) to convert from Courier IMAP (4.1.3) to Dovecot. (From a recent backup) I've tested a few mailboxes on Dovecot 1.0.0, and while the client doesn't notice any difference (at least in Thunderbird) I'm hoping to get rid of the old Courier folders and convert any useful information they may have into Dovecot. I've tried Timo's migration script (http://www.dovecot.org/tools/courier-dovecot-migrate.pl) but it fails at line 230 with a "no file/directory" error. At that line, it appears to be finding Courier's keywords folder (courierimapkeywords), and looking for a file called ":list". However in my mailboxes, there's no file by that name, only what looks like a set of standard IMAP filenames, most of which are empty files. If I can't salvage anything useful, is there any adverse effects to me deleting all the "courier*" files/folders from each mailbox and subfolders so when the client connects back when Dovecot's running, it creates it's own UIDs and keywords etc? Thanks Andy.

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[Dovecot] Help with LDAP authentication - user / user+domain
by Venilton Junior 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hello Folks, I've my dovecot working well and authenticating in my ldap servers. But I'd like configure my users to authenticate in two ways. One is just submitting the username and the other one is providing user(a)domain.com . I'm moving from a cyrus-imap solution to dovecot and I've implemented it with VD domains. But nowadays I still have one domain at my servers. So to no cause to much impact to users, I'd like to provide this two ways of authentication. Here follows my dovecot-ldap.conf: hosts = localhost dn = uid=admin,ou=administrators,ou=topologymanagement,o=netscaperoot dnpass = XXXXXX auth_bind = no ldap_version = 3 base = dc=domain,dc=com deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = mail,homeDirectory,,,,quota=quota=maildir:storage user_filter = (&(objectClass=VirtualMailAccount)(mail=%u)(accountActive=TRUE)(delete=F ALSE)) pass_attrs = mail,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=VirtualMailAccount)(mail=%u)(accountActive=TRUE)(delete=F ALSE)) default_pass_scheme = SSHA user_global_uid = 100 user_global_gid = 101 My logs: Apr 30 13:47:58 server dovecot: auth(default_with_listener): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=xxx.xxx.xx.xx rip=xxx.xx.xxx.xxx resp=AGpveWNlLm1hcmlhbm8AbWFrdHVi Apr 30 13:47:58 server dovecot: auth(default_with_listener): ldap(user.test,xxx.xx.xxx.xxx): pass search: base=dc=domain,dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=VirtualMailAccount)(mail=user.test)(accountActive= TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) fields=mail,userPassword Apr 30 13:47:58 server dovecot: auth(default_with_listener): ldap(user.test,xxx.xx.xxx.xxx): unknown user Apr 30 13:47:59 server dovecot: auth(default_with_listener): client out: FAIL 1 user=user.test Apr 30 13:48:05 server dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<user.test>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xx.xx If I provide user.test(a)domain.com works fine. Any guesses or ideas? PS: I've suppressed some information, like IPs, server names e IPs Best Regards, Venilton C. Junior HP Certified Professional Sercompe Computadores Ltda. Office: +55 47 3431-9700 Fax: +55 47 3431-9747 Mobile: +55 47 9653-5872 www.sercompe.com.br <http://www.sercompe.com.br/>

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[Dovecot] Sieve not recognizing keywords
by Alexander Hoogerhuis 04 May '07

04 May '07

First, I've been lurking and using dovecot for a few years now and I've always liked it, great piece of software! :) I've finally decided to clean up my act here and get virutal users and get postfix (2.3), dovecot (1.0.0) and deliver to play nice, using postfixadmin. I have it 99% there, but one thing is left: When I receive mails, deliver finds my virtual home dir and then tries to compile the sieve script (converted from procmail with the script mentioned in the wiki), and then always bums out on this: sieve parse error: line 3: Unsupported features in require line and line 3 looks like this: require ["fileinto","regex","envelope","vacation"]; which should be fine? Then I googled around and found this thread from january: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-January/018376.html Which made it sound like the sieve plugin 1.0.0 had a bug that got fixed in 1.0.1. I am doing all of this on Gentoo, so I decided to just redo the ebuild so that I got the dovecot 1.0.0 ebuild, but with the sieve plugin 1.0.1. Aparently I get the same error and now am at a loss here. Any pointers? -A

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Re: [Dovecot] INBOX inaccessible
by Joseba Torre 04 May '07

04 May '07

El Jueves, 3 de Mayo de 2007 14:37, escribió: > Joseba Torre a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > delete the indexes (.imap.index*) and try again. > > I try but it's same :-( > > > Anyway, a better idea is upgrading to 1.0; dovecot 0.99 is really old and > > no longer supported. > > > :-\ I use the version including in my SL 4.4 distribution > > I hope there's some RPM somewhere for the 1.0 Sure. Try http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/dovecot/ There's a way to get them using up2date, but ask it in the mailing list, I don't use them. HTH Aaaaaaaaaaagur. -- Joseba Torre. CIDIR Bizkaia.

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[Dovecot] Testing IMAP clients with Dovecot, problems with MacMail
by Stewart Dean 04 May '07

04 May '07

I've been testing my user community's IMAP clients when I try to login and then transfer a big message from the inbox into a folder in an overquota folder directory. I am using native filesystem quotaing in AIXV5.3 with UWIMAP and comparing my results with what I see with Dovecot 1.0.0. (My Dovecot built without any plugins or quota extensions) Everything matches/works except for Mac Mail under SSL with Dovecot.. Mac Mail: 1) with UWIMAP, login and mailbox load goes OK, then the illegal overquota xfer fails (as it should) with a popup reading 'Message could not be moved', with (port 993) and without (port 143) SSL 2) with Dovecot, 1) login and mailbox load goes OK to port 10143, plain listen, and the illegal xfer correctly fails as it should with a popup messge under a plain connection, but 2) When the port number is set to the Dovecot ssl_listen port and the SSL box is checked, Mac Mail doesn't bring up the inbox and folders...it acts like it can't connect. Has anyone else seen this behavior, and is there a fix? Mac Mail is also known as Mail.app. I am testing it at 1.3.11 and 2.1.1. In the July '05 archive, I found this: > It looks like Mail.app treats "non-standard" ports differently. On the > standard port (993), the "SSL" option seems to do pure SSL; but with > another > port specified, it does clean-plus-starttls (and hence fails horribly, > because > it's talking to a pure SSl service) Is there anything I can do to get MacMail to behave correctly? Or will it clear up when I shut down UWIMAP and give Dovecot the default ports. A Bronx cheer for Mac Mail........ My thanks in advance, S. Everything else I tested behaves...for anyone that's interested....... ================ Over Quota Xfer results ==================== Insecure Pine from Unix login shell: refused by both UWIMAP (cannot exceed user or group quota) and Dovecot (there's not enough disk space.) server apps. It is presumed that this will be used from within an SSH session to secure the transmission. Webmail (horde, insecure and secure) : refused by both UWIMAP (cannot exceed user or group quota) and Dovecot (there's not enough disk space.) server apps. PC: TBird 1.5, 2.0, Sea Monkey and Netscape 7.2: get a popup with both UWIMAP (cannot exceed user or group quota) and Dovecot (there's not enough disk space.) server apps, both secure and insecure Mac: Seamonkey: ditto, same as PC Sea Monkey Mac Mail or Mail.app only works insecure, as per above

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[Dovecot] Does dovecot do any address checking or referring back to a server?
by Wade Smart 03 May '07

03 May '07

This is a dovecot question so bear with me. I just upgraded to Ubuntu 7.04 from 6.06. I used fetchmail and postfix but not dovecot on 6.06. Fetchmail retrieved my mail and postfix put it in my maildir. I used Evolution to access the maildir directly. I setup Evolution to send mail directly as well. With this move I decided to go the extra step and get dovecot working. With some help on this form, I did that. But, I immediately started having trouble with getting my mail. Fetchmail is retrieving it but postfix keeps not processing for some reason. Im geting these error message: May 2 17:14:11 wadesmart postfix/qmgr[14778]: 6D4AD14286F3: to=<wadesmart(a)mail.wadesmart.com>, orig_to=<wade@localhost>, relay=none, delay=9331, delays=9307/25/0/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to smtpout.secureserver.net[64.202.165.58]: Connection timed out) The thing is - Im not sending mail at all through postfix. So my question is, I know that dovecot only serves up email to a mail client but, does it do something that I have totally missed that would some how or some way refer mail back to a server? Is there some type of address check or something going on? I know Im grasping at straws here but, I have been unable to get help from the postfix list or any list for that matter so if I can eliminate one more piece of the puzzle, all the better. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot SASL for postfix: Client host rejected: when relaying using POP mail client
by Nad 03 May '07

03 May '07

Hi everyone I have setup an ISP style mail system using postfix, dovecot, squirrelmail and mysql on ubuntu server 7.04. Everything seems to be working fine with sending recieving emails but relaying on submission service (port 587). I want to allow any client to be able to relay as long as they AUTH using dovecot SASL and are valid users regardless of what IP/host they come in from. I have a feeling that the submission service is not able to make use of dovecot sasl-auth. Here is what I have in my master.cf to enable submission service: submission inet n - - - - smtpd -o smtpd_enforce_tls=no -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject My main.cf file looks like this: queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix command_directory = /usr/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix mail_owner = postfix myhostname = mail.domainname.tld mydomain = domainname.tld myorigin = $myhostname inet_interfaces = $myhostname inet_protocols = ipv4 mydestination = $myhostname unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 mynetworks_style = host mynetworks = aa.bb.cc.dd relay_domains = $mydestination alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq setgid_group = postdrop transport_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/transports.cf virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/domains.cf virtual_mailbox_base = /srv/mail virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/accounts.cf virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/forwardings.cf, proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql/emails.cf virtual_minimum_uid = 8 virtual_uid_maps = static:8 virtual_gid_maps = static:8 dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 smtpd_use_tls = no smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth strict_rfc821_envelopes = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unknown_recipient_domain When I try to relay using Outlook, I see the following message in the mail.log: May 3 00:36:33 mail postfix/smtpd[10004]: connect from cable.company.client.hostname.com[12.34.56.78] May 3 00:36:33 mail postfix/smtpd[10004]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from cable.company.client.hostname.com[12.34.56.78]: 554 5.7.1 <cable.company.client.hostname.com[12.34.56.78]>: Client host rejected: Access denied; from=<postfixuser(a)domainname.tld> to=<someone(a)anotherdomainname.tld> proto=ESMTP helo=<mycomputer> May 3 00:36:33 mail postfix/smtpd[10004]: disconnect from cable.company.client.hostname.com[12.34.56.78] May 3 00:36:33 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<postfixuser(a)domainname.tld>, method=PLAIN, rip=12.34.56.78, lip=aa.bb.cc.dd May 3 00:36:33 mail dovecot: POP3(postfixuser(a)domainname.tld): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/626, size=27305010 I have tried several options for the last 2 days but have not been able to get past in relaying email for valid-users from any/all client hosts. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance. N

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[Dovecot] connecting postfix with dovecot trouble
by André Höpner 03 May '07

03 May '07

Hello listmembers, we have some trouble connecting postfix to dovecot. after a lot of hours the transport and delivery is working but dovecot can't get the correct user. postmap -q some.user(a)domain.com ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-aliases.cf first returns: someuser The mailbox someuser exists and i can login with this user on imap and i can deliver directly using deliver -d but on mail delivery thrue postfix dovecot is not looking for someuser. It looks for someuser(a)host.domain.com. ---8<------ May 3 16:18:42 mail postfix/pickup[24686]: C94251DB23E: uid=0 from=<root> May 3 16:18:42 mail postfix/cleanup[24769]: C94251DB23E: message-id=<20070503161842.C94251DB23E(a)host.domain.com> May 3 16:18:42 mail postfix/qmgr[24544]: C94251DB23E: from=<root(a)host.domain.com>, size=322, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 3 16:18:42 mail dovecot: auth(default): master in: USER 1 someuser(a)host.domain.com service=deliver May 3 16:18:42 mail dovecot: auth(default): ldap(someuser(a)host.domain.com): user search: base=dc=domain,dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=someuser(a)host.domain.com)) fields=mail,homeDirectory May 3 16:18:42 mail dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 1 someuser(a)host.domain.com home=/var/mail/dovecot/someuser uid=100 gid=12 May 3 16:18:42 mail postfix/pipe[24772]: C94251DB23E: to=<someuser(a)host.domain.com>, orig_to=<some.user(a)domain.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.04, delays=0.02/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) May 3 16:18:42 mail postfix/qmgr[24544]: C94251DB23E: removed ---8<------ It seems that postfix or dovecot appends the hostname to the mailboxname. But i cant figure out which of both. If i change the uid to someuser(a)hostname.domain.com on ldap-server anything works fine. how can i fix this? i dont know if anyone needs config files for diagnostic. if so - please tell me and i post the needed informations. best regards Andre Hoepner

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[Dovecot] upgrading to dovecot 1.0
by aza zel 03 May '07

03 May '07

hi, i'm using dovecot 1.0 rc26 and i want to upgrade to dovecot 1.0; i want to know if i must uninstall previus version or i can install overriding prevus install . Thanks in advance!!!

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[Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?
by Francisco Reyes 03 May '07

03 May '07

Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I am trying to address where I work. Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database? NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are extremely expensive. I also don't see any distributed filesystem which is mature and available for the OS we use (FreeBSD). I recall at one point, many months back, Timo mentioned that perhaps storing the messages in the database was a possibility for the future. Any additional thoughts on this?

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[Dovecot] usedb query
by M1 03 May '07

03 May '07

I can specified two passdb so I can mix auth source. Can I do similar thing with userdb? I would like to have uid, gid and home from static and quota from sql. Regards, Steve

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0, namespace & mbox
by Stefan Klatt 03 May '07

03 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, >i try to use a new namespace with mbox parallel to my working maildir >configuration. > >With this i have a few interesting effects: > >- dovecot doesn't use the CONTROL statement and generate a >.subscriptions file at the namespace directory. The INDEX statement is >used. > >- dovecot can work with subdirectories even mbox is used > >- I can't work with namespaces under Thunderbird till i have a mbox >filemanually there. an subscription or construction of a new mbox >file isn't possible :-( but this seems like one of the (handling?) bugs >of Thunderbird > >- Why can't i delete a Folder at an namespace? Dovecot complains "Can't >rename mailbox to another storage type". Probably this is only a config >issue. > >- if i use as the first character for the prefix an # like #Archiv >dovecot dosen't recognize the complete prefix statement at this >namespace. The output of "dovecot -n" is the same except the prefix >statement. >I thought # is a legal character? A folder can start with it. > >Any ideas ?? Has really nobody any idea for this? Has anybody read my emails on this lists? Mfg. Stefan Klatt - -- CaC, Computer and Communication Inhaber Stefan Klatt Triftstrasse 9 60528 Frankfurt Germany Tel.: +49-(0)172-6807809 Tel.: +49-(0)69-67808-900 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGOSFR+AkeCg4UPr4RApZHAKC4Qtt85CHeabB+Piz/Qwd7M7jFqgCfbuUP zG/8WufZz/juw2oO5A4qfz8= =aO1B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] 200 pop3-login processes
by Zbigniew Szalbot 03 May '07

03 May '07

Dear all, I am using dovecot 1.0.0 and have only 5 pop3 users. However, I have counted over 200 pop3-loging processes. I just wonder if it is normal for dovecot (has been running maybe for 2-3 weeks after installing the stable verion). Thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot

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[Dovecot] Migrate from mlbox to maildir, lock problem
by Sylvain Nemtua 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hi We've been using dovecot successufly for few month. Previous setup : solaris 8, postfix+LDA, mbox + index on NFS (Netapp), 2500 accounts Everything shared overs NFS, multiple servers connect to index, mbox. mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/mbox/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes_dovecot/%u We had at first some issue with mbox locking, using lock_method = dotlock solve the issue. The problem seemed to be with fcntl. I Migrate to maildir to ease administration to use maildir quota I use mb2md-3.20.pl to migrate the mbox everything works smooth. Actual setup : solaris 8, postfix+LDA, maildir + index + control on NFS (Netapp) I change the mail_location settings to mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/maildir/%u:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes_dovecot/%u:CONTROL=/var/mail/dovecot_control/%u And now I'm facing new locking issue : Errors on user loging, users leaving mail on server downloading the same mail over and over. Numerous entries in log files : May 2 11:19:03 gregorie dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] POP3(carini): Maildir /var/mail/maildir/carini sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (13 > 1, file = 1178097228.P16222Q0M452645.yder,S=22935:2,) May 2 11:19:03 gregorie dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(carini): Disconnected: Mailbox is in inconsistent state. top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, s ize=0 May 2 11:19:03 gregorie dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] POP3(carini): Couldn't init INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more i nformation. [2007-05-02 11:19:01] Seems to be locking issue, numerous .nfs files in INDEX & CONTROL location The maildirsize & dovecot-uidlist files aren't update properly Does the patch posted here still apply ? http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-December/018145.html Is the any ls -lai ../dovecot_control/carini total 168 1241498 drwx------ 3 carini 10008 4096 May 2 08:38 . 2194825 drwxrwxrwx 890 root mail 69632 May 2 12:02 .. 2272724 drwx------ 2 carini 10008 4096 May 2 12:09 .INBOX 1600612 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 31 May 1 00:16 .nfs70B454 874201 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 31 May 2 05:02 .nfs976604 257061 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 30 May 1 10:15 .nfsB57E54 319327 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 31 Apr 30 13:03 .nfsD66BD3 319326 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 25 Apr 30 11:58 .nfsDA3144 874204 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 144 May 2 12:09 maildirsize root@gregorie-/var/mail/maildir# ls -lai ../dovecot_control/carini/.INBOX/ total 72 2272724 drwx------ 2 carini 10008 4096 May 2 12:09 . 1241498 drwx------ 3 carini 10008 4096 May 2 08:38 .. 1648711 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 369 May 2 09:38 .nfs05BB04 1539511 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 58 Apr 30 13:03 .nfs076BD3 1648718 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 101 May 2 12:04 .nfs16A114 1648715 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 101 May 2 11:13 .nfs4A5F04 1539510 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 56 Apr 30 11:58 .nfs8B3144 1648714 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 149 May 2 11:45 .nfs97B014 1648716 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 100 May 2 11:23 .nfs9EAF04 2165940 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 58 May 1 00:16 .nfsA0B454 1648710 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 56 May 2 05:02 .nfsC76604 1648713 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 105 May 2 09:44 .nfsCF0D74 1648712 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 154 May 2 09:55 .nfsD62C04 1654025 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 57 May 1 10:15 .nfsF67E54 1648717 -rw------- 1 carini 10008 58 May 2 12:04 dovecot-uidlist thanks for your help sylvain nemtua

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[Dovecot] How to use option allow_nets?
by Bernd Kuhls 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hi, according to http://wiki.dovecot.fi/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/AllowNets there exists an option allow_nets to restrict IP ranges from where users are allowed to login to Dovecot. I am using Debian Etch with the official Dovecot packages: # dpkg -l | grep dovecot ii dovecot-common 1.0.rc15-2 ii dovecot-imapd 1.0.rc15-2 ii dovecot-pop3d 1.0.rc15-2 using a mostly unchanged dovecot.conf. I tried to add the line allow_nets=127.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16 in the block passdb pam { which is the default enabled auth code in Debian. When starting Dovecot I get this error message: # /etc/init.d/dovecot start Starting mail server: dovecot Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 777: Unknown setting: allow_nets According to the Dovecot changelog > 2006-02-27 18:46 Timo Sirainen <timo.sirainen(a)movial.fi> > > * src/auth/: auth-request.c, auth-request.h: Added "allow_nets" > extra field. If set, the user can log in only from within the > given networks (hope the code is correct...) the option exists since February 2006, while the Debian package was released in December 2006. What I am doing wrong? Using TCP wrappers instead seems not to be an option according to http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-April/012476.html Greetings, Bernd Kuhls

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[Dovecot] Best authentication option
by Eric 02 May '07

02 May '07

Dear Dovecot experts, I have a small home server debian based, with postfix/dovecot/squirrelmail installed locally and working. Dovecot is used non-secured (no imaps) but only on the 192.168.0.100 address (address of the server on the local network). I want to use squirrelmail to read my email from outside. Squirrelmail can configured to access it in particular, either through cram-md5 or login auths. In that situation, is it better (I mean more secure) to use : 1) auth mechanim = cram-md5 or 2) auth mechanism = plain (using PAM authentication for dovecot) ? That will determine my dovecot configuration. Thank you Eric

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[Dovecot] Strange directory created at dovecot launch
by Eric 02 May '07

02 May '07

I installed dovecot from scratch and compiled it from 1.0.0 source. Installed in /usr/local. Now everytime I launch dovecot it creates and uses /usr/local/var/lib/dovecot and /usr/local/var/run/dovecot directories. For the latter I found the modifications to do in dovecot.conf for using /var/run/dovecot instead, but for the former I see nothing about such directory in dovecot.conf. What happens ? How can I configure it so that dovecot uses /var/lib/dovecot instead ? Thank you Eric

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[Dovecot] Migrate from dovecot to dovecot.. new server
by Lars Johansen 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hi We have been running a dovecot server for some time.. users connect with pop. Now this server is going to be substituted with a new one.. before we used mbox, but now we will move to maildir! I have done some testing transfering the mail with the mb2md script, the conversion works correctly, but users gets duplicates since they selected "keep mail on server" I have googled for the problem, and set pop3_reuse_xuidl=yes and pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv is the same on both servers.. but no luck. My first tought was to script in an X-UIDL header for each mail that was converted.. but that wont work since the mail already downloaded by the client didnt contain that header.. is there anyone that has some experience with this, or knows if its possible? Many Greetings, Lars Johansen

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[Dovecot] Migrate from dovecot to dovecot.. new server
by Lars Johansen 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hi We have been running a dovecot server for some time.. users connect with pop. Now this server is going to be substituted with a new one.. before we used mbox, but now we will move to maildir! I have done some testing transfering the mail with the mb2md script, the conversion works correctly, but users gets duplicates since they selected "keep mail on server" I have googled for the problem, and set pop3_reuse_xuidl=yes and pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv is the same on both servers.. but no luck. My first tought was to script in an X-UIDL header for each mail that was converted.. but that wont work since the mail already downloaded by the client didnt contain that header.. is there anyone that has some experience with this, or knows if its possible? Many Greetings, Lars Johansen

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[Dovecot] Courier-imap + dovecot simultaneously?
by Charles Marcus 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi everyone, I have a client I've been trying to talk into switching from courier to dovecot, but the owner of the company wants me to set up two different accounts in Thunderbird (I finally got him switched to that from outlook express), one accessing his account through courier, and one through dovecot, so he can compare the speed... Is this even possible? I've never tried it before, so before I spend a lot of time, I want to know if I'd be wasting it (my time)... Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 for openSUSE 10.2?
by Matt Zukowski 01 May '07

01 May '07

Just wondering if anyone out there is working on a package for openSUSE 10.2? This e-mail message is privileged, confidential and subject to copyright. Any unauthorized use or disclosure is prohibited. Le contenu du pr'esent courriel est privil'egi'e, confidentiel et soumis `a des droits d'auteur. Il est interdit de l'utiliser ou de le divulguer sans autorisation.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0.0 for OpenBSD
by Brad 01 May '07

01 May '07

Just as a heads up, I wanted to let anyone who is using Dovecot on OpenBSD know that the Dovecot port (ports/mail/dovecot) has been updated to the 1.0.0 release for -current, 4.1 -stable, 4.0 -stable, and 3.9 -stable. Also i386 and amd64 packages have been built for 4.1, 4.0 and 3.9. http://www.openbsd.org/pkg-stable.html http://www.openbsd.org/pkg-stable40.html http://www.openbsd.org/pkg-stable39.html

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[Dovecot] INDEX on database
by kontak＠ramdhani.net 01 May '07

01 May '07

it maybe a feature request, but could you add an option to make INDEX dovecot files in the database?currently I use mysql as backend.thank you. _________________________________________________________________ Get the new Windows Live Messenger! http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0.0 packed fot Mandive Linux
by Egbert Jan 01 May '07

01 May '07

Dovecot 1.0.0 has been compiled vor Mandriva 2008.0 in the contrib/release tree. Hopefully a backport to the current mdv releases (2007.1 and 2007.0) will follow soon! Thanks Michael! Egbert Jan NL Name : dovecot Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 1.0.0 Vendor: Mandriva Release : 1mdv2008.0 Build Date: Tue May 1 09:56:44 2007 Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: seggie.mandriva.com Group : System/Servers Source RPM: (none) Size : 1162294 License: GPL Signature : (none) Packager : Michael Scherer <misc(a)mandriva.org> URL : http://dovecot.org Summary : Secure IMAP and POP3 server Description : Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Although it's written with C, it uses several coding techniques to avoid most of the common pitfalls. Dovecot can work with standard mbox and maildir formats and it's fully compatible with UW-IMAP and Courier IMAP servers as well as mail clients accessing the mailboxes directly. This package have some configurable build options: --without ldap - build without LDAP support which is by default enabled --with sasl - build with Cyrus SASL 2 library support --with mysql - build with MySQL support --with pgsql - build with PostgreSQL support Michael Scherer <misc(a)mandriva.org> 1.0.0-1mdv2008.0: - Revision: 19904 - upgrade to 1.0.0 ( at last )

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[Dovecot] Default Mailbox
by Feris Thia 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi All, What is the default mailbox for Dovecot ? Is it mbox or Maildir ? Can I set my mailbox for pop3/imapd to /var/spool/mail/USER ? Regards, Feris

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[Dovecot] PAM, Active Directory, all users mapped to uid=0
by Matt Zukowski 01 May '07

01 May '07

I'm having a problem with authentication using PAM, connected on the back end to Active Directory. PAM authentication itself works fine. We can log in to the machine using AD credentials without any problems. Each user is automatically mapped to uid's in the 10000+ range. However, for some reason when the user logs in via dovecot, the user's uid and gid are showing up as 0. For example: dovecot: May 01 11:22:47 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 3 mzukowski uid=0 gid=0 home=/home/URBACON/mzukowski dovecot: May 01 11:22:47 Error: Logins with UID 0 not permitted (user mzukowski) Is there a reason why dovecot might not be resolving the uid and gid correctly? PAM itself seems to be doing this right, since when I log on to the machine as an AD user, their UID shows up correctly as 10000+. Thanks, Matt. -------------- This e-mail message is privileged, confidential and subject to copyright. Any unauthorized use or disclosure is prohibited. Le contenu du pr'esent courriel est privil'egi'e, confidentiel et soumis `a des droits d'auteur. Il est interdit de l'utiliser ou de le divulguer sans autorisation.

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[Dovecot] dovecot-ldap and ldap_result() failed.
by Tan Shao Yi 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi, I have configured dovecot for auth_bind against an LDAP server on the localhost and I'm seeing the following error in my dovecot logs: dovecot: Apr 30 09:03:18 Error: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server dovecot: Apr 30 09:03:27 Error: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server ... and so on ... When I turned on LDAP logging, this was what slapd logged. Apr 30 09:05:00 recess3 slapd[14387]: [ID 848112 local4.debug] conn=3555 fd=11 ACCEPT from IP=127.0.0.1:47299 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Apr 30 09:05:00 recess3 slapd[14387]: [ID 215403 local4.debug] conn=3555 op=0 BIND dn="cn=root,o=home" method=128 Apr 30 09:05:00 recess3 slapd[14387]: [ID 600343 local4.debug] conn=3555 op=0 BIND dn="cn=root,o=home" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 Apr 30 09:05:00 recess3 slapd[14387]: [ID 588225 local4.debug] conn=3555 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= May I know what is causing Dovecot to log that it Can't contact the LDAP server when slapd does see the incoming connection. Strangely, everything is working fine, my users are able to authenticate against LDAP; the UIDs, home directories, quotas etc are all picked up correctly. It's just the annoying auth(default) errors that keep popping up every 20 seconds or so. Thanking in advance if anyone has any ideas. Cheers.

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[Dovecot] dovecot for imap
by dhottinger＠harrisonburg.k12.va.us 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

I have been using uw-imap on my mailserver. I tried briefly to use dovecot with the default config. It seem to work faster, but users imap folders (user accounts are in openldap) disappeared. Is there a sample config somewhere I can look at to get some idea how to configure dovecot so all the imap folders users created will appear when I make the switch? Most of my users login via Horde. Server is an FC6 box, dovecot installed via yum install. -- Dwayne Hottinger Network Administrator Harrisonburg City Public Schools

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[Dovecot] Sieve notify error?
by Láďa 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hi, I am playing with Sieve, everything is working nice except notify method. Source script looks like this (generated with avelsieve): require ["fileinto","envelope","reject","vacation","imapflags","relational","compara tor-i;ascii-numeric","notify"]; if #hashed-avelsieve-source true { keep; notify :method "mailto" :options "xxx(a)xxx.xx" :low :message "Nova zpráva."; } but with no success. Message is delivered fine, but notification is not sent. Deliver logs only this: deliver(xxx(a)xxx.xx): Apr 28 20:05:23 Info: sieve runtime error: Notify: Generic Error Thanks for any ideas how to get this working. Láďa

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[Dovecot] Auth(default): add one userdb - what does this mean?
by Wade Smart 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

I got dovecot to start but then I had to reboot and now Im receiving errors: Apr 27 19:48:18 wadesmart dovecot: auth(default): You'll need to add at least one userdb Im still following the steps from http://wiki.dovecot.org/BasicConfiguration wade

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[Dovecot] Doubled subjectlines in mailfolders
by Götz Reinicke 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hi, after the upgrade from 0.99 to 1.0rc15 on our RHEL 5 Server I noticed, that some of my mailfolders do double the mails subject line in the listview of thunderbird. The mail itself isn't doubled and the second mail contains a different content from a mail that didn't show up in the list. SO it seams, that only the subject line is somehow wrong. Any ideas or tips? I haven't found anything on that googling or in the list archive; but maybe I'm searching with the wrong syntax ... Regards Götz

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Re: [Dovecot] New install on Ubuntu Fiesty 7.04
by Wade Smart 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Ok. I started with the example file and edited it as the Quick Start suggested and here is the final working result: wadesmart@wadesmart:~$ sudo dovecot -n Password: # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: ~/Maildir maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes auth default: passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd.dovecot wadesmart@wadesmart:~$ I was able to login in via telnet like the tutorial said. In my Maildir/new I had 884 new messages. The tutorial said to access the Inbox, and I did and could. However, then my 884 messages were gone!!! I do not understand what the heck happened. Did I just loose all my messages?

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[Dovecot] dovecot sendmail mysql no inbox error
by jan gestre 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

hi guys, we are experiencing this particular problem with one of the webmail server we manage. the server is using dovecot as pop3 and imap server while sendmail is being used as mta. when this user tries to login via telnet, this is what i've got: $ telnet localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. user user1 +OK pass password +OK Logged in. -ERR No INBOX for user. Connection closed by foreign host. when i looked at the maillog i saw this: Apr 25 20:52:32 samplemail pop3(samplemail): File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/samplemail Apr 25 20:52:32 samplemail pop3(samplemail): File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/samplemail Apr 25 20:52:32 samplemail pop3(samplemail): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2007-04-25 20:52:32] tried google but not much of help, they just suggested to update or replace dovecot. i already update dovecot and made some changes to default_mail_env parameter, still the same result. dovecot version is 0.99 on a fedora 4 box any idea?

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[Dovecot] Shared mailbox plans
by Timo Sirainen 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

** Configuration ** namespace shared { prefix = user/%u/ location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared-indexes } So the only difference to how it's configured now is that %u is expanded to whatever user whose mailboxes we're accessing. ACL plugin then uses that user as the owner in the namespace's mailbox owner. Since the default ACL is to not give any access to non-owners, the mailboxes without dovecot-acl files will be invisible. If ACL plugin isn't loaded, I suppose the mailboxes can be accessed if the process has filesystem permissions to access them. ** ACL vfile speedups ** Currently it stat() the dovecot-acl file a bit too often. It doesn't do it more than once a second, but there's really no need to do it even that often. I guess it could be changed to be configurable with default being something like 5 minutes. Create a new dovecot-acl-list file which lists all the mailboxes which have dovecot-acl file with "l" right (visible in mailbox list) to any non-owner. It could be in "<timestamp> <mailbox name>" format. This allows other users to quickly get a list of mailboxes that are potentially visible to them. They still need to read the dovecot-acl file from the mailbox before knowing for sure. If the dovecot-acl-list file doesn't exist or if at any time any timestamp doesn't match dovecot-acl file's current mtime, the file is rebuilt by looking into all mailboxes' dovecot-acl files (if the reading user has write permissions to the directory, otherwise it just keeps it in memory). Whenever Dovecot modifies dovecot-acl file, it also updates the dovecot-acl-list file. This means that the file can contain stale data only if a new dovecot-acl file is created without updating dovecot-acl-list file. Even that will be fixed the next time the owner does a LIST (or select the mailbox, or anything that causes its dovecot-acl file to be stated), which causes ACL plugin to notice the desync. There exist also global ACL files. These need to be included in the dovecot-acl-list file as well. The only issue with them is that user doesn't necessarily have a mailbox even though the global ACL file exists. So these need to be marked somehow in the dovecot-acl-list file as non-existing mailboxes. Then if user creates a mailbox with such name, the mark is removed. Deleting the mailbox puts the mark back. After the visible mailbox list has been figured out once, only the dovecot-acl-list file needs to be stat()ed once in a while instead of all the mailboxes' dovecot-acl files. ** User list ** The next problem is how to quickly get a list of users whose mailboxes are visible to ourself so they can be included in mailbox list. I couldn't figure out anything new and great for this, so the options are the same as in http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006- October/017082.html Although for dict backend I could make it a bit more secure. Currently dict has "private" and "shared read-write" options to store the data with. The shared users list could be done with "shared read- only". ** Virtual domains ** ACL plugin could support virtual "group=@domain" to give access to usernames ending with @domain. Or perhaps the group could support wildcards? "group=*@domain"? That way it wouldn't be required to have @ really in the username. Anyway, I think "anyone" should then be aliased to "group=*@domain". If there are multiple virtual domains and you let the users manipulate the ACLs themselves, I'd think they want anyone to mean anyone within my domain (my organization) rather than really anyone who just happens to be using the same server. I think it would also be annoying if anyone could really force their own mailboxes to be visible to a lot of people. That could be used for spamming as well.. If administrator wants to have global mailboxes that really are visible to all domains, they could be done with public namespaces (not shared). ** Quota ** This is kind of problematic. The behavior depends entirely on quota backend: - Filesystem quota of course tracks the quota based on the file's owner - Maildir++ quota counts the quota for the user whose maildir the shared mailbox exists in. This means it also requires filesystem level access to maildirsize file, otherwise the quota updating happens sometimes later when the quota is recalculated. - Dict quota.. I think it'll need a new path for each shared mailbox, which is modifiable by any user. So while your own quota would exist in private/quota/storage, the shared mailboxes' quota would exist in shared/quota/storage. This means that the dict quota needs to be able to know what mailboxes the current user has shared. It also gets a bit tricky to update the quota if mailbox is unshared. The quota could be tracked individually for each mailbox also, but I'm not sure if that's such a great idea either. Perhaps a new quota backend could be implemented to make all this easier. The mail sizes could be tracked in index file, so getting the size of a mailbox could be done simply by reading the value from the index file's header. With mailbox list indexes (in CVS HEAD) they'd all be listed in a single mailbox.list.index file, which would make summing them up really fast. This would require that users don't use private index files for shared mailboxes though. But if the users don't have shell access the shared index files are probably a good idea anyway (at least from performance point of view). ** Symlink shares ** Currently the only way to implement shared mailboxes among users is for administrator to create symlinks. This will be possible in future too with a configuration like: namespace shared { prefix = Shared/ location = maildir:~/Maildir/shared-symlinks:INDEX=~/Maildir/ shared-indexes } The "owner" ACL won't match anyone. So it'll work exactly as it does now.

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[Dovecot] New install on Ubuntu Fiesty 7.04
by Wade Smart 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

System: Ubuntu 7.04 Dovecot Version: 1.0.rc17 Dovecot -n Output: wadesmart@wadesmart:~$ sudo dovecot -n Password: # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: /home/wadesmart/Maildir auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd This is my personal system and I use fetchmail and postfix to get and store my mail. All Im wanting to do is to access my email in maildir format. I am new to linux and definitely to this type of setup. Since this is my own system all these talk about security measures seem a bit overboard for my needs. I guess what Im really asking is for a more simple setup instruction set. wade

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0, namespace & mbox
by Stefan Klatt 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, >i try to use a new namespace with mbox parallel to my working maildir >configuration. Has nobody any idea to get this configuration working? Mfg. Stefan Klatt - -- CaC, Computer and Communication Inhaber Stefan Klatt Triftstrasse 9 60528 Frankfurt Germany Tel.: +49-(0)172-6807809 Tel.: +49-(0)69-67808-900 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGMlwE+AkeCg4UPr4RAqnLAKCeRto1AgGS/P0MBrDZPg/3fEgvDwCg5BJo 3iZhN7x4tHAGPNVwgwwUUEM= =4Zaf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] dovecot + ldap + quota
by aza zel 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

hi.... i using dovecot 1.0rc26 and i started to configure quota plugin but i think its not working fine. i configure like suggested in http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota in dovecot.conf: protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } plugin { # 10 MB quota limit quota = maildir:storage=10240 } in dovecot-ldap.conf: user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid,quotaStorage=quota if a mua send a attach near 9MB i receive a message tell me that the server don't have more space, but if i attach files of 2MB this messages are sending ok, and the cur directory of this user have 15 MB. another question: in ldap entry, the attribute quota are the attibute that A represents the quota on a mailbox, ¿so why i put 10MB as limit? uota = maildir:storage=10240 ¿this value is for all "entryes" or the quota limit is the entry quota limit? i you can see, i not understand how dovecot works with the attribute quota in ldap entry; ¿can anybody explain me this? Thanks in advance!!!

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[Dovecot] Dovecot "assertion failed" errors
by Christian Friedli 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Dear all, We are running Dovecot (on debian etch, Version 1.0.rc15-2) on 4 Loadbalanced servers using a NFS share for the homedirs. The loadbalancer is using persistant connections (timeout 30min). Lately, IMAP Users (mostly using Thunderbird) reported the following errors: 1. When trying to mark messages as read, nothing happened, message was still displayed as unread. 2. When moving a Directory the client loads for a long time and then hangs. Same was reported to happened when a user tried to open a mail. When checking the logs at the time users reported those errors we could always find one fo the following "assertion failed" errors: file mail-index-sync-update.c: line 730 (mail_index_sync_update_index): assertion failed: (view- >hdr.messages_count == map->hdr.messages_count) file mail-index.c: line 415 (mail_index_map_parse_keywords): assertion failed: (ext->hdr_offset < map->hdr.header_size) file mail-index.c: line 909 (mail_index_sync_from_transactions): assertion failed: (prev_seq <= max_seq && (prev_seq != max_seq || prev_offset <= max_offset)) file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 158 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 229 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (view->cur_offset <= view->cur->sync_offset) file message-body-search.c: line 393 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset <= part->physical_pos) I wonder if anyone has experienced similar problems and if there is a solution to this strange behaviour. ____________________________ University of Bern IT Department Central Systems Group Christian Friedli E-Mail Services Gesellschaftsstr. 6 CH-3012 Bern Switzerland Tel. +41 (0)31 631 38 38 Fax +41 (0)31 631 43 57 mailto:christian.friedli@id.unibe.ch http://www.mail.unibe.ch --

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[Dovecot] sendmail + dovecot + vpopmail + virtual users, problem with pop3 uidl
by Oliver Schulze L. 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hi, I just migrated a server running qmail+vpopmail+maildir to sendmail+dovecot+maildir+vpopmail The migrating is working great thanks to the help from the list and the wiki. I'm now running the infamous problem about duplicating emails, because of pop3 UIDL mismatch. My question is: anyone knows that the pop3_uidl_format string for a vpopmail server? I'm using vpopmail auth and userdb. I noted that when manually issuing a list command to the vpopmail pop3 server, it uses a number that is in the filename for identifying the email. For example if the filename uses: .....,S=1234,... Then the UID is 1234, and 1234 appears in the list command. Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. | Get my e-mail after a captcha in: Asuncion - Paraguay | http://tinymailto.com/oliver

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[Dovecot] LSUB "" "" vs LIST "" "" (hacked Apple Mail problem)
by Eyvind Bernhardsen 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

The LSUB command does not act like LIST when provided with an empty mask argument. LIST responds with the hierarchy delimiter: * LIST (\Noselect) "." "" OK List completed. whereas LSUB doesn't return anything useful: OK Lsub completed. RFC 3501 doesn't specify what LSUB should do in this case, but Courier IMAP has LSUB act like LIST. The attached patch modifies imap/cmd-list.c to make Dovecot do the same. Why do I care about LSUB? I'm using a hack for Apple Mail that replaces its LIST command with LSUB (something like what's described here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? story=20040407062603804), to prevent it from syncing public folders from the Exchange server at the office. The hack replaces _all_ LISTs with LSUBs, including the LIST "" "" Mail.app sends to discover the hierarchy delimiter. Since dovecot doesn't give it any information in response to LSUB "" "", Mail.app defaults to using "/" as a delimiter, which means that trying to access a subfolder only results in an "Invalid mailbox name" error. While this isn't really a bug in Dovecot, it's not inconceivable that other people than me could be affected by this problem (macosxhints.com has a substantial readership). It's also tricky to diagnose, especially since the "Invalid mailbox name" message doesn't include the invalid mailbox name, so any bug reports you get are likely to eventually be filed under "crazy [Mac] users". In fact, while Googling to figure out why Dovecot wasn't working for me, I came across at least one poster to this mailing list who had discovered that Mail.app was using "/" as a delimiter. I can't be sure, but I'm guessing that his problem was related to mine. Since the patch is tiny and doesn't hurt performance or make Dovecot do anything that contradicts the IMAP RFC, I hope you'll consider adding it to the official distribution. Eyvind Bernhardsen

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[Dovecot] simple questions
by Nagyon Almos 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hello Everybody, I would like to use Dovecot on my desktop with imap but before doing the real migration I have some (very simple) questions: - Is there any way to log in with imap automatically ? That is, from localhost without any passwords. - Can Dovecot work with only readable maildirs? I want to avoid accidental e-mail loss, therefore on some maildir folder I have only read permissions. Or shall I use ACLs only? - Is there or Will there be a windows version? (In case I had to use windows.) Thanks for any help. Regards, A. <br><br>____________________________________________ GYŰJTSÖN LAKÁSRA AZ INTERNETEN! <a href="http://cthandler.adverticum.net/?cturl=http%3A%2F%2Flakaskassza.origo.hu%2F… " target="new">lakaskassza.origo.hu</a>

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Re: [Dovecot] AIXPluginsSupport and AIX FS qoutas
by Ralf Becker 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hello Stewart, Stewart Dean schrieb am 25.04.2007 21:26: > I'm running AIXV5.3 at the latest level, compiling using the IBM C for > AIX V6.0 compiler and building/running Dovecot at V1.0/mbox under test > usage by our IT department right now. We have a legacy UWIMAP that is > currently the production IMAP service. The same here: - AIX 5.2, - xlC 6, - uwimap and qpopper in production and - dovecot for testing. > I am cleaning up on some left-over loose ends, one of them being > quotas/plugins, and I have some questions about your page with > AIXPluginsSupport on which I'd appreciate your assistance and comments. > > 1) I use AIX filesystem quota on the Inbox and folders, though the > indices are in a separate un-quota-ed filesystem.. a) Do you use Dovecot > with AIX FS quotaing or know of someone with experience? > b) What do you get out of FS quotaing? Since the quota with FS quotaing > is enforced by AIX, what does the FS plugin do that isn't already > achieved by the OS's function? Do I just get quota reporting? > c) If I don't enable quota in Dovecot and let AIX deal with it, are > there any problems? > No, I'm not using AIS FS quotas nor I've any experience with that, sorry > 2) A minor point but you invoke configure using bash: > bash configure > Configure is written in sh; can I just leave off the bash, since the > dovecot-cc script you wrote calls out bash in the first line > You can, but bash is backwards compatible to sh. I'm usually using bash because of it's performance. You may try this: # CONFIG_SHELL=bash time bash ./configure # time ./configure > 3) I gather you use Gnu gcc; do you know of any problems/benefits with > using the IBM compiler? > I'm using xlc and dovecot-cc depends on it. I've haven't use gcc on AIX for years :-) So in my opinion a common problem with xlc (or better xlc and AIX) is the shared object handling. Libtool seems to fix most of the problems. I've mentioned this in http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-March/021247.html > Thanks in advance........S. > Regards, Ralf -- ______________________________________________________________________ Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Ralf Becker Rechenzentrum (r/ft) der FH Trier (Network|Mail|Web|Firewall) University of applied sciences Administrator Schneidershof, D-54293 Trier Mail: beckerr(a)fh-trier.de Fon: +49 651 8103 499 WWW: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr Fax: +49 651 8103 214 PGP: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr/pgp ICQ: <available> ______________________________________________________________________ Wenn Gott gewollt haette, dass E-Mail in HTML geschrieben wuerden, endeten Gebete traditionell mit </amen>. (Tom Listen)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot, Postfix and SMTP AUTH.... one more time...
by Bartosz Toczek 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hello. I've notice a problem with SMTP AUTH in postfix with dovecot. My configuration is based on Postgresql. I've created a function in postgresql which returns password and username and attached it to password_query. Query looks like this password_query = SELECT username_out as username, password_out as password FROM get_password(lower('%n'),lower('%d')); Problem is when get_password returns something like this... vmail=# SELECT username_out as username, password_out FROM get_password(lower(''),lower('')); LOG: statement: SELECT username_out as username, password_out FROM get_password(lower(''),lower('')); LOG: duration: 2.342 ms statement: SELECT username_out as username, password_out FROM get_password(lower(''),lower('')); username | password_out ----------+-------------- | (1 row) It returns 1 empty row.... When this is attached to postfix with smtp auth with such configuration # SMTP AUTH broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth my serwer starts to be open relay... I now that it returns empty string for username and password... so where is the password checked... if I dont send password as a parameter to my function. Definition of the function looks like this: CREATE FUNCTION get_password("login" character varying, "domain" character varying, OUT username_out character varying, OUT password_out character varying) RETURNS record Can you help with that... BT

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[Dovecot] 1.0 in Debian etch
by Paul 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Is there a plan to upgrade the stable package from 1.0-rc15?

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0, namespace & mbox
by Stefan Klatt 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, i try to use a new namespace with mbox parallel to my working maildir configuration. With this i have a few interesting effects: - - dovecot doesn't use the CONTROL statement and generate a .subscriptions file at the namespace directory. The INDEX statement is used. - - dovecot can work with subdirectories even mbox is used - - I can't work with namespaces under Thunderbird till i have a mbox file manually there. an subscription or construction of a new mbox file isn't possible :-( but this seems like one of the (handling?) bugs of Thunderbird - - Why can't i delete a Folder at an namespace? Dovecot complains "Can't rename mailbox to another storage type". Probably this is only a config issue. - - if i use as the first character for the prefix an # like #Archiv dovecot dosen't recognize the complete prefix statement at this namespace. The output of "dovecot -n" is the same except the prefix statement. I thought # is a legal character? A folder can start with it. Any ideas ?? Here is the output of dovecot -n : [root@cac etc]# dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/cac.is-a-geek.com.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/tls/private/cac.is-a-geek.com.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_extra_groups: email dotlock_use_excl: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins: zlib 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 tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:/srv/imapd/user/%u/maildir inbox: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: Public/ location: maildir:/srv/imapd/shared/public/maildir:CONTROL=/srv/imapd/user/%u/shared-settings/public/control:INDEX=/srv/imapd/user/%u/shared-settings/public/index namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: Archiv/ location: mbox:/srv/imapd/shared/archiv/maildir:CONTROL=/srv/imapd/user/%u/shared-settings/archiv/control:INDEX=/srv/imapd/user/%u/shared-settings/archiv/index auth default: passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=600 gid=600 - -- CaC, Computer and Communication Inhaber Stefan Klatt Triftstrasse 9 60528 Frankfurt Germany Tel.: +49-(0)172-6807809 Tel.: +49-(0)69-67808-900 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGL47E+AkeCg4UPr4RApGVAJ9mvhvZAFEcamaSJcL7DTOTLjp4GgCfYkrz tsCThhIsYjCVH1pkPJIq2Go= =hCRf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] bug? ldap auth CRAM-MD5
by André Höpner 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hello list, our users are authenticated against ldap-server. anything works fine... dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<xxx>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured but now we want to use secure passwords and not only plain over ssl. so we configured dovecot to use cram-md5 and configured the ldap-server with CRAM-MD5 passwords. as client we used thunderbird 2.0 and a webfrontend called roundcube. that does not work, because the server gives... dovecot: auth(default): ldap(xxx,127.0.0.1): Password mismatch then we tried to use DIGEST-MD5. we changed the ldap password to the created one with dovecotpw. but this doesnt work too. thunderbird requests CRAM-MD5 and not DIGEST-MD5. so the log says: dovecot: auth(default): password(xxx,127.0.0.1): Requested CRAM-MD5 scheme, but we have only DIGEST-MD5 imap-login: Aborted login: user=<xxx>, method=CRAM-MD5 after that we changed the password back to CRAM-MD5, but we mad the failure not to delete the DIGEST-MD5 value. so the users had 2 passwords set... {CRAM-MD5}e02d374fde0dc75a17a557039a3a5338c7743304777dccd376f332bee68d2cf6 {DIGEST-MD5}358aefa044c08e6c19711c8117714fb0 password is "test" in both cases. on the next try we start thunderbird it works. i dont know why and the log of dovecot says... auth(default): ldap(xxx,127.0.0.1): Multiple password values not supported imap-login: Login: user=<xxx>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured user was logged in using CRAM-MD5. it's not nice but it works. anyone have an idea why? because of apache-module to auth against ldap and apache doesnt support nor CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 we have set the password third time using MD5. So every user has three same passwords with different encryptions. Not nice - but it works. But what can we do to change this. I dont like to set passwords three times. our configuration: # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/ssl.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/ssl.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: mbox:/var/mail/dovecot/%n:INDEX=/var/mail/dovecot/indexes/%n mail_plugins: quota imap_quota auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 verbose: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf plugin: quota: maildir:storage=1024 ------------- # /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = 127.0.0.1:389 dn = cn=dovecot,dc=xxx,dc=com dnpass = dovecot sasl_bind = no sasl_mech = DIGEST-MD5 tls = no auth_bind = no ldap_version = 3 base = ou=People,dc=xxx,dc=com scope = subtree user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) default_pass_scheme = DIGEST-MD5 ------------- best regards Andre

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[Dovecot] upgrading RHEL4 to RHEL5 - dovecot 0.99 to 1.0rc15
by Götz Reinicke 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hi, now that a lot off software is updated e.g. RedHat EL and dovecot got finaly final :-) we plan to upgrade our mailserver from RHEL4 dovecot 0.99 to RHEL5 with dovecot 1.0rc15 - the rpms provided by Red Hat. I've read the upgrading Dovecot manual from here http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot, but yust to get things right I'd like to ask some questions: Simply spoken, we use the basic default dovecot-config, mbox format and imaps/pop3s. So will there be any big trouble to just use the most default settings of the 1.0 config file? Or which options are compleatly different? Dose there exist a migration how to beside the dovecot upgrade from the wiki? Thanks for hints and tips! Best regards Götz Reinicke -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator Tel. +49 7141 969 420 Fax +49 7141 969 55 420 E-Mail goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de Eintragung Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 205016 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Christoph Palmer, MdL, Minister a.D. Geschäftsführer: Prof. Thomas Schadt

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[Dovecot] disabling pop/imap per mail address?
by Armijn Hemel 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

hello, first of all I want to say thanks to Timo for Dovecot 1.0. We've been running it in production at the company where I work and we're very pleased with it. Good job! One thing that we were wondering about today is if we can disable a certain protocol depending on the mailbox. So for example: user A can access via pop3s and imap, user B can only access via pop3, user C can use only imaps, and so on. thanks! armijn PS: am I assuming correctly that IMAP namespaces will make it possible to have shared IMAP folders with Dovecot? I'm still a bit of an IMAP dummy -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- armijn(a)uulug.nl | http://www.uulug.nl/ | UULug: Utrecht Linux Users Group ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Experience with Dovecot + Sieve + Webmail?
by Steffen Kaiser 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, there were some posts into this lists regarding Webmail interfaces and Sieve. What are the experiences with them? I need a webmail frontend that is capable of IMAP, supporting dovecot's namespaces, verifying PGP and managing Sieve in conjunction with Dovecot. I found two mature products, I also saw posts about, so I'm going to ask. Some posts on this list suggest that some are using SquirrelMail/avelsieve and some Horde (IMP/Ingo). What are the experiences with them? Are they stable and are there configuration glitches (there is a thread about a bug in avelsieve, for instance). How do they interact with Dovecot in order to find the user's homedirectory to get/put the Sieve script? Maybe it's offtopic for the Wiki, but would you mind share your configuration on the Dovecot Wiki? Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRi3/dS9SORjhbDpvAQLoCggAgGInRUJI944aAIOjOjDWsdlssCdnqTlk CWufMVfFpTjRqN9VobuUHiZzVY45zDN+9emVm4b68hL+L9bHQZyytiqsZjmDNlWM wcE49XckNAAOaq+qOJZR+2CxyKAECklGkhTrs5hfLSZx8i/5uGNCyAOHFQ98YU6Q 3VoDeNq5Cd0sVxiEEzeLeU6BrcY7Cnt+qeemZCSfKRI5cQow+edSM8Mb7BP7WuUU wlaMo5bTZLBWQCQPAPd7m9wiBueV6bDxhsfe9yuOYxUKHI/N/sKr3iRLcZCxRsXk wh3UT6OcFe4Mg873EMfdZClahLp5a3oUbP1lH7MP8Aa9iSOccEIcNg== =ADCc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] message-of-the-day feature?
by Steven F Siirila 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

For lack of a better name, we are interested in a feature where one could get a notice out to all Dovecot users as quickly as possible, possibly without going through an MTA even. Given a message and a list of userids we could certainly do a mailing on the MDA server itself going through both Postfix and Dovecot LDA. However, we were wondering what other options we might have in Dovecot. For example, would it be possible to place the message into some file which Dovecot periodically checks for, and if the file exists, either present it to the user as a new message, or automatically deliver it at that time via Dovecot LDA? -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: sfs(a)umn.edu Office of Information Technology Voice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593

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[Dovecot] Auth MD5 problem
by Azher Amin 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi, I am using dovecot 1.0 with squirrelmail. But when i use $imap_auth_mech = 'digest-md5' instead of plain, dovecot throws this line: dovecot: Apr 23 09:16:07 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<azher>, method=DIGEST-MD5, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured and user can't login. Plz suggest. Regards -Azher Settings: ====== disable_plaintext_auth = yes auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 Mysql Tables: Passwords are stored with the help of MD5 function dovecot-sql.conf : ============ user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' password_query = SELECT userid as user, password, home as userdb_home, uid as userdb_uid, gid as userdb_gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] SASL Problems
by Phillip T. George 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hello all, I seem to be having a problem with SASL. It doesn't seem to work with Outlook. Upon searching a bit, I found that I need to enable "login" for auth mechanisms. However, when I do that, (after I stop and start dovecot and postfix), and then try to use SMTP auth using Outlook, it causes postfix to crash. It works fine with Thunderbird still though. Any ideas as to what the cause might be? I'm using Dovecot 1.0.0 and Postfix 2.3.5. Thanks, Phillip

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Re: [Dovecot] Mixing MBOX and Maildir?
by Paul 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

> Is it possible to have some folders be mbox and some be maildir format? Claudio Succa posted his successful configuration back in 2005, at my request. I never actually put it into practice, and I don't know how much has changed since 1.0test68, but good luck!: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-June/007574.html

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[Dovecot] Trying to explain mutt+dovecot(ssl) to myself :(
by Wilkinson, Alex 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hi all, I have recently migrated my mail from courier-imap to dovecot. In doing so, I finally configured mutt to connect to imaps (SSL). In the end I got it all working. I then sat back and thought: "I kinda don't understand the SSL/TLS part even though it works". And I hate setting stuff up and not truely understanding the mechanics of it. So I started to write about it and am stuck. Can those that _understand_ mutt+ssl have a read of what I wrote to myself and give me your $00.02 worth (corrections etc). Trying to explain mutt+ssl and getting it all wrong --------------------------------------------------- * mutt(with openssl support built in) initiates with a "SSL-Client-Hello" to SSL on port 993 i.e. mutt's capabilities (algorithms, SSL version etc). * dovecot:993 compares mutt's CipherSuites with its own. Of the CipherSuites mutt and dovecot have in common, dovecot:993 chooses the _most_ secure algorithm. * Dovecot:993 will then tell mutt what it has decided to use and assigns a Unique session ID. From now on all communication is via this ID. * Now that the CipherSuite is set between mutt and dovecot, dovecot sends its SSL certificate to mutt [/usr/local/share/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem]. mutt then uses dovecot's corresponding public key [/usr/local/share/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem] to verify that the ceritificate is authentic. * once mutt has verified that the certificate is authentic ... and here I got unstuck. Cheers -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email.

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[Dovecot] deliver failing to execute sendmail (sieve)
by Justin McAleer 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

I have apparently done something to mess up my test installation, as deliver's attempts to send messages now fail with the following error: deliver(user(a)example.com): execv() failed: No such file or directory In these cases, I have sieve rules trying to send messages. It had been working though, and I've tried going through all the changes I made yesterday (related to dictionary quota debugging) to find what could be wrong, but no luck so far. So, I was hoping for suggestions. Basically, deliver seems to not know where sendmail is. I have sendmail_path set in dovecot.conf (never changed that), yet when deliver tries to pull the location via deliver_set->sendmail_path, it's just returning an empty string. If I hard-code the location in smtp-client.c, it works again. Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] dovecot.spec
by J.Palacios 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Hi List, Plis, where can i find an updated version (for recently dovecot v1.0.0) of dovecot.spec, needed to build an rpm for RH 4? Thanks in advance, Juan Carlos

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0.0 and Seive 1.0.1 on FreeBSD
by Ed Lucero 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

I have installed dovecot and sieve using the FreeBSD ports. Authentication is against a MySql Database. Dovecot is running using deliver as the LDA. But when I try to Sieve I get the following error in /var/log/dovecot.log deliver(mike(a)systemrt.com): Apr 19 14:07:19 Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot deliver(mike(a)systemrt.com): Apr 19 14:07:19 Fatal: Plugin sieved not found from directory /usr/local/libexec/dovecot Yet in /usr/local/libexec/dovecot the binaries are there root@db3 /usr/local/libexec/dovecot> ll total 2432 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 29980 Apr 17 15:51 checkpassword-reply* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 476884 Apr 17 15:51 deliver* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 88700 Apr 17 15:51 dict* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 254984 Apr 17 15:51 dovecot-auth* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 30588 Apr 17 15:51 gdbhelper* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 34816 Apr 17 15:51 idxview* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 523128 Apr 17 15:51 imap* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 103968 Apr 17 15:51 imap-login* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 31996 Apr 17 15:51 logview* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 474288 Apr 17 15:51 pop3* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 98932 Apr 17 15:51 pop3-login* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 52764 Apr 17 15:51 rawlog* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 108980 Apr 11 09:17 sievec* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 50228 Apr 11 09:17 sieved* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 30784 Apr 17 15:51 ssl-build-param* What am I doing wrong? Ed Here is the dovecot.conf file ## Dovecot configuration file mail_debug = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log # IC - EL 2006.09.29 protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s # IC - EL 2006.09.29 disable_plaintext_auth = no # IC - EL 2006.09.29 ssl_disable = no # IC - EL 2006.09.29 ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/s/Cert.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/s/PrivateKey.pem login_process_size = 64 # IC - EL 2006.09.29 login_processes_count = 6 # IC - EL 2006.09.29 login_greeting = InternetCrusade ready. # IC - EL 2006.09.29 default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%Ld/%Ln mail_save_crlf = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes mail_extra_groups = mail verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_gid = 0 protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { # IC - EL 2006.09.29 pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)internetcrusade.com sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail # Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated # list of plugins to load. mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot mail_plugins = sieved # If there is no user-specific Sieve-script, global Sieve script is # executed if set. global_script_path = /usr/local/etc/sieve.default } auth default { # IC - EL 2006.09.29 mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 ntlm # IC - EL 2006.09.29 passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } # IC - EL 2006.09.29 userdb static { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/mail/%Ld/%Ln } # IC - EL 2006.09.29 socket listen { master { # Master socket provides access to userdb information. It's typically # used to give Dovecot's local delivery agent access to userdb so it # can find mailbox locations. path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) user = icmail group = icmail } client { user = postfix group = postfix path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 } } } #dict { #quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf #} auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes verbose_ssl = yes mmap_disable=yes #fsync_disable=yes

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[Dovecot] Automatic subscribtion to the Spam folder?
by Henk Wevers 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Is this possible? Or need I make some shell scripts to add Spam into subscriptions? Henk

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-auth %c variable is not working
by Bill Boebel 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

On Thu, April 19, 2007 3:23 pm, Andrey Panin <pazke(a)donpac.ru> said: > On 109, 04 19, 2007 at 12:17:41PM -0400, Bill Boebel wrote: >> In "doc/variables.txt" >> >> > For dovecot-auth there are also these variables: >> > >> > %c - "secured" string with SSL, TLS and localhost connections. >> > Otherwise empty. >> >> %c does not appear to be working. I am trying to use it in a MySQL query userdb >> and passdb query and it is always empty string. > > Seems like secured flag isn't passed to blocking passdb handler. > Can you try attached patch ? > This patch indeed fixed it. Tested with all 4 protocols... pop3 -> %c = '' pop3s -> %c = 'secured' imap -> %c = '' imaps -> %c = 'secured' Thanks Andrey! Bill

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[Dovecot] Client with SSL client cert support?
by Peter Abrahamsen 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Good day, all, I've gleaned that dovecot has support for verifying SSL client certs on connect. What IMAP clients have people found that support sending a specific SSL cert? I can't find this feature in Thunderbird, at least. Thanks, Peter

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[Dovecot] POP3 log in failure after switch to dovecot from Cyrus
by Stowe Spivey 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

I can set up and access a dovecot pop3 account using outlook express fine. I can telnet into it fine. However, GFI FaxMaker is failing to log in. I assisted a client in switching his web site, including email from one server (FreeBSD) which was using Cyrus to a Redhat 4.0 server using dovecot version 0.99.11 Here's the listing of dovecot -n: dovecot -n Usage: dovecot [-F] [-c <config file>] Fatal: Unknown argument: -n The GFI Faxmaker polls the pop3 account every minute so we're getting a lot lf these messages in the log file: Apr 19 19:51:28 server name pop3-login: Aborted login [::ffff:<ip address here>] Again, I can telnet in to the account from that server. I verified all the log in credentials are correct but it still is failing to log in. Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] Memory Errors
by Paul Hamby 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

I just loaded 1.0.0 on a new box and am getting the following errors periodically. Apr 19 16:36:00 imap01 dovecot: auth(default): *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7f45d14 *** Apr 19 16:36:00 imap01 dovecot: child 1943 (auth) killed with signal 6 Apr 19 16:36:00 imap01 dovecot: auth(default): *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x080920a0 *** Apr 19 16:37:31 imap01 dovecot: auth(default): *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08091449 *** Apr 19 16:37:31 imap01 dovecot: auth(default): pam(user,ip): Child process died Apr 19 16:37:31 imap01 dovecot: auth(default): PAM: Child 13425 died with signal 6 Apr 19 16:38:09 imap01 dovecot: IMAP(user): UID larger than next_uid in file /mail_home1/c/ch/user/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist (1 >= 1) Apr 19 16:38:46 imap01 dovecot: auth(default): *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7ea7d14 *** Apr 19 16:38:46 imap01 dovecot: child 12280 (auth) killed with signal 6 Apr 19 16:38:46 imap01 dovecot: auth(default): *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0809143f *** Has anyone else seen something similar? What additional information can I provide? Dovecot Version=1.0.0 OS: Debian Etch CPU: x86 Maildirs are stored in NFS and only accessed via Horde/IMP webmail client. I have three other Dovecot boxes(1.0.rc28) running Sarge and haven't seen this error before. dovecot -n follows Thanks for any help. Paul imap01:/usr/local/src/dovecot-1.0.0# dovecot -n # /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap listen: *:143 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_process_per_connection: no default_mail_env: maildir:~/Maildir mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mmap_disable: yes lock_method: dotlock maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: maildir

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[Dovecot] Maillog rotates, but dovecot still writes logs into old logfile?
by Mart Pirita 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Tere. I use: log_path = /var/log/maillog info_log_path = /var/log/maillog And into /var/log are: maillog maillog.1 maillog.2 maillog.3 Now when log files are rotating at 04:00 (maillog > maillog.1) dovecot still keeps login into maillog.1 and not into maillog, where sendmail, etc writes logs. The only solution I did found, is adding into /etc/logrotate.d/syslog command to restart dovecot: /var/log/maillog { postrotate /usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot restart >/dev/null 2>&1 endscript } Any other solution? -- Mart

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[Dovecot] Master auth: what is 'client-id'?
by Koen Vermeer 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi, I am trying to get some useful data from the master auth socket. On the wiki, I found that I need to do: M: "REQUEST" TAB <id> TAB <client-pid> TAB <client-id> M: "USER" TAB <id> TAB <userid> TAB service=<service> [TAB <parameters>] However, what should I specify for <client-id>? I cannot find a definition on the Wiki. Thanks! Koen

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth %c variable is not working
by Bill Boebel 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

In "doc/variables.txt" > For dovecot-auth there are also these variables: > > %c - "secured" string with SSL, TLS and localhost connections. > Otherwise empty. %c does not appear to be working. I am trying to use it in a MySQL query userdb and passdb query and it is always empty string. Timo, any chance you could post a patch that fixes this? Thanks, Bill

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