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[Dovecot] How to achieve: Automove of mails
by Daniel Watts 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Dear All, I was wondering if this is possible: I am using namespaces to support my environment which has legacy mboxes and new maildirs. In it looks like: namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes prefix = location = maildir:/home/virtual/%d/home/%n/Maildir/ } namespace private { separator = / prefix = mail2/ inbox = yes hidden = yes location = mbox:/home/virtual/%d/home/var/spool/mail/%n:INBOX=/home/virtual/%d/var/spool/mail/%n } This basically means that there is a hidden inbox "mail2/INBOX" that the user cannot see but which can referenced and accessed. What I would like is for Dovecot to automatically move all mail (actually only as much as possible within quota limits) in "mail2/INBOX" into "/INBOX" whenever INBOX is checked/expunged. An alternative acceptable solution is to have something that moves mail once it has read. I would then symlink mail2/INBOX as a "New mail" folder. Once user's read their mail it is moved to the standard /INBOX folder. Are either of the above possible natively or do I need to look at something like plugins? Incidently where is the documentation guiding plugin development? I've looked at the website but can't find anything either by browsing or searching. Many thanks, Daniel

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Re: [Dovecot] Quick question. Thunderbird/Outlook = no love.
by Charlie Davis 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

1.0 Beta 3. Plain authentication works. But not TLS. I don't see anything in the configuration file that seems obvious to deny TLS authentication. -Charlie ----- On Friday, March 31, 2006 javert42(a)cs.byu.edu wrote: > Charlie Davis wrote: >> Are there any how-tos or documentation on getting dovecot to be > thunderbird/outlook friendly? >> >> Thunderbird can connect about 20% of the time, the other 80% of the time, I > Get the error: >> >> "You may need to connect via SSL or TLS. Please check the account settings > for your mail server." >> >> I have my thunderbird setup to do TLS. I've put it on the TLS if available > as well, still no love. >> >> Dovecot logfile contains: >> >> dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:19 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4, > lip=10.0.0.208, TLS >> dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:24 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4, > lip=10.0.0.208, TLS >> >> Nothing else. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> -Charlie >> >> >> > I've got beta2 running on an RHEL4 box, and I've had no problems with > Thunderbird (with people running anywhere from 0.7 to 1.5). Which > version of dovecot are you running? > > -- > Topher Fischer > GnuPG Fingerprint: 3597 1B8D C7A5 C5AF 2E19 EFF5 2FC3 BE99 D123 6674 > javert42(a)cs.byu.edu

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[Dovecot] LDAP and prefetch
by Jorgen Lundman 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

SunOS pop01.unix 5.10 Generic_118844-26 i86pc i386 i86pc dovecot-1.0.beta3 It is most likely something I am doing wrong, but could someone take a look at why I can not get LDAP prefetch to work? If I define things like this: dovecot.conf: ---------------------------------------------- passdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } ---------------------------------------------- dovecot-ldap.conf: ---------------------------------------------- base = uid=%n, o=%d, ou=mail, dc=example, dc=com user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(mail=%u)) pass_attrs = mail=user,userPassword=password,homeDirectory=userdb_home,uidNumber =userdb_uid,gidNumber=userdb_gid pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(mail=%u)) ---------------------------------------------- This works correctly. Queries LDAP twice, but retrieves home, uid, gid and mail correctly. Authenticates well. If I replace the userdb line in dovecot.conf with: ---------------------------------------------- userdb prefetch { } ---------------------------------------------- It does no longer work. The passdb query is still correct, and it is followed by a second "empty" ldap query (as seen from snoop) with the following errors: Mar 20 15:58:06 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 474965 mail.info] Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up Mar 20 15:58:14 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] auth(default): prefetch(fred(a)uranus.com,172.20.12.12): userdb_uid not returned Mar 20 15:58:14 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] auth(default): prefetch(fred(a)uranus.com,172.20.12.12): userdb_gid not returned Mar 20 15:58:14 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] auth(default): userdb(fred(a)uranus.com,172.20.12.12): user not found from userdb Mar 20 15:58:14 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] pop3-login: Internal login failure: user=<fred(a)uranus.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=172.20.12.12, lip=172.20.12.8 Snoop of failing lookup: LDAP: Operation *[APPL 3: Search Request] LDAP: [Base Object] LDAP: uid=fred, o=uranus.com, ou=mail, LDAP: dc=example, dc=com [snip] LDAP: And *[0] LDAP: Equality Match *[3] LDAP: [Attr Descr] LDAP: objectClass LDAP: [Value] LDAP: posixAccount LDAP: *[3] LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: mail LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: fred(a)uranus.com LDAP: *[Sequence] LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: mail LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: userPassword LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: homeDirectory LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: uidNumber LDAP: [OctetString] LDAP: gidNumber [snip] LDAP: Operation *[APPL 4: Search ResEntry] LDAP: [Object Name] LDAP: uid=fred,o=uranus.com,ou=mail,dc LDAP: =example,dc=com LDAP: *[Partial Attributes] LDAP: *[Attribute] LDAP: [Type] LDAP: uidNumber LDAP: *[Vals] LDAP: [Value] LDAP: 105 LDAP: *[Attribute] LDAP: [Type] LDAP: gidNumber LDAP: *[Vals] LDAP: [Value] LDAP: 200 LDAP: *[Attribute] LDAP: [Type] LDAP: homeDirectory LDAP: *[Vals] LDAP: [Value] LDAP: /export/nfs/mail/com/s/u/ur LDAP: anus/fred/ LDAP: *[Attribute] LDAP: [Type] LDAP: userPassword LDAP: *[Vals] LDAP: [Value] LDAP: {crypt}QAa3SPeYrDARs (its "test", no leak fun here) LDAP: *[Attribute] LDAP: [Type] LDAP: mail LDAP: *[Vals] LDAP: [Value] LDAP: fred(a)uranus.com [snip] TCP: Destination port = 389 (LDAP) LDAP: ----- LDAP: ----- LDAP: LDAP: "" LDAP: TCP: Destination port = 389 (LDAP) LDAP: ----- LDAP: ----- LDAP: LDAP: "" LDAP: Please advice! Lund -- Jorgen Lundman | <lundman(a)lundman.net> Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo | +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) Japan | +81 (0)3 -3375-1767 (home)

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[Dovecot] POP (dot) locks
by Christian Balzer 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hello, just to soothe my paranoia from many years of qpopper usage, which enforces solitary access to a POP mailbox. Only one login per user is possible at the same time and if a session terminates w/o qpopper being properly notified it will remain locked for some time, 30 minutes by default. With dovecot (0.99.10.4) one can login multiple times (using POP, with IMAP of course this comes as no surprise :) and thus I presume this bit from the configuration: --- # Should we create dotlock file even when we want only a read-lock? Setting # this to yes hurts the performance when the mailbox is accessed simultaneously # by multiple processes, but it's needed for reliable reading if no other # locking methods are available. #mbox_read_dotlock = no --- means that if the only other reading accesses to a (mbox style in this case here) mailbox are via other dovecot processes everything will be fine? Regards, Christian Balzer -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi(a)gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/

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[Dovecot] .'s in folder names
by Craig Whitmore 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi there We are trying to move over from 1 IMAP server to another, but the problem is dovecot does not allow .'s in folder names (and we have quite a number of people who do have .'s in their folder names (ie "www.domain stuff") Is there anyway of allowing dovecot to allow .'s in folder names? Thanks Craig Whitmore

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[Dovecot] problem with userdb_ on pgsql
by chester c young 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

# 1 password_query = SELECT login as user, passwd as password FROM mail.dovecot_passwd_v WHERE login = '%n' # 2 user_query = SELECT home, 5020 as uid, 5020 as gid FROM mail.dovecot_passwd_v WHERE login = '%n' # 3 # password_query = SELECT login as user, passwd as password, home as userdb_home, 5020 as userdb_uid, 5020 as userdb_gid FROM mail.dovecot_passwd_v WHERE login = '%n' when #3, instead of #1 and #2 is used, it still calls a default user_query. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] How to use Master Users.
by Adam M. Dunn 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi. I'm testing out the new 'master users' feature, and I'm not having any luck getting it to work. Anyone out there using it yet? Here's what I have so far: dovecot.conf: ------------ auth_master_user_separator = * auth default { passdb passwd-file { # Master users that can login as anyone else args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot.masterusers master = yes pass = yes } # LDAP database passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } ... ... } dovecot.masterusers: ------------------- testuser:{plain}testpass # telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK IMAP server ready. 1 login realuser*testuser "testpass" 1 NO Authentication failed. As you can see I get authentication failed. The log shows it fails for the 'realuser' that exists in ldap. Any ideas out there? I have the 'testuser' also setup in /etc/passwd. Thanks Adam

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[Dovecot] Questions about differences to other mail servers
by Kai Schaetzl 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I just transferred over my first server from Suse Linux with uw-imap(ipop3/imap2003) to CentOS with Dovecot (0.99). I didn't find any problems in the testing phase, but when the actual transfer into production happened I found a few problems crop up: 1. Dovecot wants to chdir in the user's home directory even when logging in via POP3. However, the mailboxes for POP3 are all in /var/spool/mail. What's the reason for this and can I stop this? 2. In addition I found that the home directories need additional permissions I did not need when using ipop3/imap2003, although this imap server needs to write/read in the same directories as dovecot. Specifically, I had to change the permissions on the directory right above the pop user directories from 750 to 755. Those directories are owned by the user and the primary group he belongs to. It seems that dovecot somehow doesn't "use" the primary group of the user and so can't traverse thru and the chdir fails. 3. Furthermore, Dovecot created an IMAP directory structure within the home directory of most users like "mail/.imap/INBOX" (on some it reused the existing Mail -uppercase- directory). Just on a simple first POP3 login. What's the reason for doing this? Maybe that user is never going to use IMAP? Does it test for both mail and Mail before it creates it's own structure or what does it do? I assume this is related to default_mail_env? 4. Dovecot supports "auth plain", does it also support "auth login"? If so, how do I enable it? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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[Dovecot] plugin problems.
by lenny＠edpausa.com 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

dovecot 1 beta 5. solaris 9, gcc, gnu make. trying to test imap quota plugin. Apr 4 09:44:59 frodo dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(lenny): dlopen(/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so) failed: ld.so.1: imap: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so: symbol quota: referenced symbol not found default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=~/mbox mail_plugins = imap_quota mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap quota = dirsize:%h:1024000 ------------------ trying to test convert plugin. ~/Maildir gets created with 3 subdirectories, but no mail is converted and this error comes up. Apr 4 10:48:03 frodo dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(lenny): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox directory Maildir/cur default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=~/ mail_plugins = convert mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap convert_mail = mbox:%h/:INBOX=%h/mbox

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[Dovecot] LDA and Shared Mailboxes
by Timothy White 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I'm hoping LDA has what I'm looking for, basically, I want to be able to deliver mail, to a shared mailbox. Ideally, I'd like a method of determining what address can send to the shared mailbox, and I don't like the idea of having to copy emails into the mailbox, to 'send' to it. I'd prefer to just send to an address, and if your permissions are correct, then the email is delivered to the shared mailbox. Any ideas? Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] preserving pop3 mail uids
by adcx＠server101.com 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Is there some way that message uids can be preserved when converting uw-pop3 mbox mail to dovecot maildir format? We've tried perfect_maildir, mb2md and the convert-tool that comes with dovecot but so far have been unable to preserve the message uids, which for example go from 44333a8500000003 before the conversion to 4434621500000003 afterwards. The quantity of mailboxes involved means forcing users to re-pop old emails left on the server isn't an option. Any help appreciated.

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[Dovecot] LDAP authentication via PAM
by Oscar A. Valdez 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I've configured dovecot to authenticate against a Fedora Directory Server. The mail server on which dovecot is installed has the nss_ldap and pam_ldap packages installed, and /etc/dovecot.conf has the following two lines: auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = pam In other words, I want dovecot to use LDAP to access the user database, but PAM for authentication. This part is working, since users authenticate and get their mails correctly through dovecot. /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf contains the following: hosts = 192.168.0.2 ldap_version = 3 base = ou=People, dc=duraflex, dc=com, dc=sv deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,,uidNumber,gidNumber user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) I haven't specified a dn or dnpass, since all I need is that dovecot perform an anonymous query for the uid, homeDirectory, uidNumber and gidNumber fields of its users, which are publically viewable. However, my FDS server's access log has entries like these: conn=3266227 fd=138 slot=138 connection from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.2 conn=3266227 op=0 BIND dn="" method=128 version=3 conn=3266227 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97 nentries=0 etime=0 dn="" conn=3266227 op=1 SRCH base="ou=People,dc=duraflex,dc=com,dc=sv" scope=1 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dovecot))" attrs=ALL conn=3266227 op=1 RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=0 etime=0 conn=3266227 op=2 SRCH base="ou=Groups,dc=duraflex,dc=com,dc=sv" scope=1 filter="(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(memberUid=dovecot))" attrs="gidNumber" conn=3266227 op=2 RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=0 etime=0 conn=3266227 op=-1 fd=138 closed - B1 Dovecot binds anonimously with an empty dn, then queries FDS for a user and a group called dovecot (which don't exist on the DS), and finds 0 entries. Is it possible to access the user database through PAM (auth_userdb = pam)? Since I'm running the nss_ldap and pam_ldap modules, it'd really be an LDAP query for users, and a query in /etc/passwd and /etc/group for dovecot (since it's a local user and group on the mail server). -- Oscar A. Valdez

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[Dovecot] auth problem with dovecot-1.0.beta5
by Alan McKay 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hey folks, Let me start by saying I really love what I see so far! Dovecot seems to be extremely feature-rich, and unlike a lot of free software the documentation is extremely good! I gave up on courier IMAP because of the poor documentation, and I have to say Dovecot sure differentiates itself in that area! Unfortunately I still can't get it going :-/ First thing I noticed is that --with-shadow does not appear to be working on my FreeBSD 6.0 system. Here is what I built with : ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --enable-static --disable-ipv6 --with-ioloop =poll --with-passwd --with-shadow --with-pam --with-passwd-file --without-checkpassword --wit hout-bsdauth --without-gssapi --without-ldap --with-static-userdb --without-prefetch-userdb --without-sql --without-mysql --without-ssl --with-rundir=/var/run/dovecot --with-storages=mb ox --without-sql-drivers However : root@heimat# dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file vpopmail Userdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file static vpopmail And when I try to include the shadow options in the config file I get this in the log file : Apr 8 17:07:38 heimat dovecot: auth(default): Unknown passdb driver 'shadow' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? Check with dovecot --build-options) No big deal. I've never used PAM, but I'll have a go at it. My config file looks like this : base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap listen = 127.0.0.1 ssl_disable = yes first_valid_uid = 1000 last_valid_uid = 2000 first_valid_gid = 1000 last_valid_gid = 2000 default_mail_env = mbox:~/IMAP/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_extra_groups = mail protocol imap { } auth_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890 auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb passwd { } passdb pam { # args = session=yes * args = * } #passdb passwd { #} # /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam(). Deprecated by PAM nowadays. #passdb shadow { #} user = root } And I cannot get my webmail to auth. So I decided to "telnet localhost 143" and try typing the login command like the docs suggest. But here's what I get : telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.dmz.alanmckay.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. LOGIN amckay XXXXXX LOGIN BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. Something tells me there is a big problem here :-/ Which brings me to my next question : is there a "latest stable" release? I didn't see anything obvious on the website. thanks! -Alan -- "True Budo is done for the sake of building peace. Train every day so as to make peace between this spirit and all things manifested on the face of the Earth" - Ueshiba Morihei

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[Dovecot] looking for headway on Timeout leak
by David Powers 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

mail1 dovecot: imap(smith(a)willcapmanagement.com): Timeout leak: 0x807fad0 Can anyone give me a heads up on what might cause the above message? I am working on polishing a plugin and it continues to throw this error with no seeming consequences. -David

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[Dovecot] beta5: Solaris, IMAP, DOA
by Jeff A. Earickson 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Help... Both beta4 and now beta5 die immediately at startup for me: Apr 7 14:29:32 emerald dovecot: [ID 474997 mail.info] Dovecot v1.0.beta5 starting up Apr 7 14:29:33 emerald dovecot: [ID 128275 mail.error] Auth process died too early - shutting down My setup: Solaris 9, built with gcc 4.1.0, IMAP only, mbox format, INBOXes NFS mounted, index and other mail folders local disk. Beta3 continues to work great for me; imap-login for it notes "method=PLAIN, TLS" in the syslogs. There were no real changes in my dovecot.conf between beta3 and beta5. What broke? What to look for to fix this problem? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] One dovecot, multiple addresses
by Nick Plante 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

There was a thread in February called "One dovecot, multiple domains" that I'd like to follow up on... I have a similar need; a hosted system with a couple IP aliases currently running dovecot for users at imap.domain1.com on one of those addresses. Now I need to also make it accessible via the name imap.domain2.com on a different address. Both "hosts" require SSL certs. They'll be using the same user auth source and have access to the same mailspools (although certain users will access theirs through domain1 and others through domain2). It sounds like dovecot doesn't support this sort of ip-based virtual hosting scheme right now. Is it possible to just configure two separate instances of the server, one bound to each virtual interface with their separate certs? Or are there issues with this poor man approach (contention, etc)? TIA; nap.

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[Dovecot] problem authenticating passwd
by richard＠richard-brouwer.nl 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Maybe you guys seen this question a thousand times but really I can't find a solution. So is there anybody who can give me a direction or a clue to solve my problem. I configured my dovecot as follows: protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd { args = /etc/passwd } userdb passwd { args = /etc/passwd } user = root } The maillog gives me that there is password mismatch, but I'm 100 % sure that the password is correct. I allso looked in my /etc/passwd file and the user is there. The user is all so able to login the Linux system. My system is Fedora redhat RC 5. Dovecot is v1.0.beta2. I attached the last rules of my maillog. Is there anybody who can please help me. Thx in advance richard This is the tail of the maillog: Apr 8 10:58:12 host dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Apr 8 10:58:34 host dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta2 starting up Apr 8 10:59:09 host dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.0.200 rip=192.168.0.104 resp=AHJpY2hhcmRAcmljaGFyZC1icm91d2VyLmNvbQBoYWxsbzUzOA== Apr 8 10:59:09 host dovecot: auth(default): passwd(richard(a)richard-brouwer.com,192.168.0.104): unknown user Apr 8 10:59:11 host dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=richard(a)richard-brouwer.com Apr 8 11:00:00 host dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.0.200 rip=192.168.0.104 resp=AHJpY2hhcmRAcmljaGFyZC1icm91d2VyLm5sAGhhbGxvNTM4 Apr 8 11:00:00 host dovecot: auth(default): passwd(richard(a)richard-brouwer.nl,192.168.0.104): password mismatch Apr 8 11:00:01 host dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 user=richard(a)richard-brouwer.nl

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[Dovecot] pop-before-smtp Dovecot pattern
by Bjorn Patterson 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hi, Having some problems with the default pattern in the pop-before-smtp.pl.conf file for dovecot. Also the one off the dovecot wiki doesn't seem to work and since I can't seem to figure out how these patterns work I hoping someone could help me out with a custom pattern. This is what my mail log looks like: Apr 8 23:30:40 nemesis dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<bjorn>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:203.109.208.111, lip=::ffff:192.168.0.253 Any help would be much appreciated _________________________________________________ Regards: Bjorn Patterson Digitalsouth Networks ICC Technician HYPERLINK "http://www.digitalsouth.net.nz/"http://www.digitalsouth.net.nz [ When replying to this, please include a copy of the original message. ] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/304 - Release Date: 7/04/2006

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[Dovecot] where do i get updates from? (one for Timo?)
by Obantec Support 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hi i am on FC3 and ran yum update dovecot and it offers dovecot.i386 0:0.99.13-3.FC3 i thought there was a 1.X beta4 which i should be using? (i have 1.0 stable running from a while back) Mark

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[Dovecot] plain auth problem with beta4
by Mark Davies 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Using kmail with PLAIN authentication worked fine with beta3 but trying it with beta4 authentication fails. This is because kmail sends "username \0 username \0 password" in the authorization token and the new code to call auth_request_set_login_username() when supplied an authid must be returning failure (certainly commenting this code out returns to the beta3 behaviour of successfully authenticating). I had a quick look at the routine to see why it might be failing but didn't really work out what its supposed to do. cheers mark

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[Dovecot] Dovecot article @ Linux.com
by Thomas Zajic 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

There's a short article up on Linux.com introducing Dovecot. Just thought I'd let you know. ;-) http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/28/1919226&from=rss Thomas -- =-------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Thomas "ZlatkO" Zajic <zlatko(a)gmx.at> Linux-2.6.16 & Thunderbird-1.5 - - "It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw." (M. C.) - =-------------------------------------------------------------------------=

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Imap Timeouts]
by Neilw 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi guys, So is there resolution to my query below? Is this a bug in beta3? Thanks. Neil -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Imap Timeouts Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:56:21 +0200 From: Neil Wilson <neilw(a)dcdata.co.za> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Hi guys, I've got a client running 1.0.beta3 on SuSe 9.3 Everything has been running perfectly since it was installed about 6 months ago, but lately they've had issues with email clients not being able to connect to the IMAP server, until they close their clients(Thunderbird & Outlook) and then re-open them. They have roughly 70 users on their network, so it sounds like it could be too many active sessions at once, but I've tried changing a few things in the config, and so far nothing has resolved this. Any help would be appreciated. Regards. Neil Wilson Powered by Linux, driven by passion! -- This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer: http://www.dcdata.co.za/emaildisclaimer.html

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[Dovecot] lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota
by Apps Lists 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi folks. We're trying to set up Dovecot with Maildir++ quotas. Operating system is CentOS 4.3 (final) X86 using Dovecot 1.0b5. After logging in, I get the following logged through syslog and the connection closes: Apr 6 10:39:36 dev3 dovecot: imap(jtest): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap Apr 6 10:39:36 dev3 dovecot: imap(jtest): dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota Apr 6 10:39:36 dev3 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jtest>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Apr 6 10:39:36 dev3 dovecot: child 23750 (imap) returned error 89 My dovecot.conf: protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota_plugin imap_quota mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle delay-newmail } Can someone point us in the right direction? Thanks. Steve

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[Dovecot] GSSAPI and virtual Users?
by S. Thias 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi, is there a possibility to map login-names to allowed Kerberos-Principals? At the moment GSSAPI-authentication seems to work only if loginname and kerberos-principal are the same, or am I missing something? It would be really great to use GSSAPI-auth with virtual users. Thanks a lot! S. Thias

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[Dovecot] Re: Getting maildir++ quotas working
by Robin Breathe 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

> ...snip... > So there are two problems that I am trying to resolve, but I'm not sure > how to go about fixing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated: > > (1) Dovecot isn't announcing QUOTA support in the capability string. Timo posted the following patch from Joshua Goodal a while ago to get the QUOTA added to the capability string: --- imap-quota/imap-quota-plugin.c 14 Dec 2005 21:28:44 -0000 1.2 +++ imap-quota/imap-quota-plugin.c 6 Jan 2006 00:43:14 -0000 @@ -189,4 +189,5 @@ void imap_quota_plugin_init(void) command_register("GETQUOTA", cmd_getquota); command_register("SETQUOTA", cmd_setquota); + str_append(capability_string, " QUOTA"); } I don't know for sure that it still applies, but it looks promising. > (2) Dovecot isn't getting a valid quota limit, which I assume is breaking > the GETQUOTAROOT command. No comment. Regards, Robin

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[Dovecot] locking methods
by Obantec Support 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi 1.0 stable is there a way to check which locking method is in use. procmail shows Locking strategies: dotlocking, fcntl() does dovecot use these by default as they are commented out in dovecot.conf Mark

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Re: [Dovecot] batch convert mbox to maildir
by Todd Piket 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

I did not use the the libc-client Perl bindings...sorry. I used a modified version of mb2md-3.20. It was pretty simple really. If you'd like to look at/dowload the source please visit: http://svn.dcs.it.mtu.edu/email.mtu.edu/convert_tools/tags/mb2md-release-4.… (I have my own release numbers for the whole system I wrapped around mb2md). Not a lot of documentation and there is a lot that is specific to my site, but it shouldn't be too hard to decipher and you can always ask me questions, though I'm going to take a well earned next 2 days off. If anyone is interested, the conversion we just performed has been in place for ~5 days now. Only a handful of the ~30,000 users we converted noticed we even did anything (except performance) is better (this was in large part due to the UIDL code I added to mb2md). We are now huge Dovecot fans! Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------ | Todd Piket | Email: todd(a)mtu.edu | | Programmer/Analyst | Phone: (906) 487-1720 | | Distributed Computing Services | | | Michigan Technological University | | ------------------------------------------------------------ pod wrote: >>>>>> "TP" == Todd Piket <todd(a)mtu.edu> writes: > > [...] > TP> If you would like the source for this system I would be happy to > TP> provide it. There is no documentation right now as it was a one > TP> time only thing, but I can try to explain. If others are > TP> interested just let me know. The whole thing is written in Perl > TP> and expects to be run as root. It chowns everything in the final > TP> steps. > > I'm definitely interested. What you've done sounds fabulous. I'm going > to be needing to convert our users here at Oxford soon from uw-imap mbx > (not Berkley mbox) to dovecot maildir on a similar scale. > > Did you use the libc-client perl bindings for reading the mbox? If you > did then adapting for mbx should be a piece of cake. If not then I'll > need to do some work; I'm more than happy to submit patches back.

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[Dovecot] Overriding inbox location in passwd-like file
by Václav Haisman 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hi, I have some real users and some virtual users. The real users use mbox file as their inbox. But I'd like to use Maildir as inbox for the virtual users. (The reason is that I am actually moving some accounts from another server that already uses Maildir.) I'd like Dovecot to find Maildir in $HOME of my virtual users as their inbox. So I tried to use the following in my users.passwd file: test:{PLAIN}some_password:30003:30003::/home/vmail/domain/test:/bin/false::maildir:%h/Maildir/:INBOX=maildir:%h/Maildir/ Unfortunatelly this doesn't work and dies with this message: Mar 8 16:44:25 logout dovecot: imap(test): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/vmail/isc.cvut.cz/test/mbox (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) Mar 8 16:44:25 logout dovecot: imap(test): Failed to create storage for '' with data: /home/vmail/isc.cvut.cz/test/mbox Mar 8 16:44:25 logout dovecot: child 41976 (imap) returned error 89 Is it even possible to override the setting from dovecot.conf like this? Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] C programmers, please help. need dovecot patch
by Adam M. Dunn 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hi all. Can any C programmers out there tell me how to fix Dovecot to default to Maildir format when autodecting can't find anything? I don't know C, but it seems like it would be a simple thing. Right now, I use the autodetect mailbox feature because we want users to choose to optionally be able to use Mbox format (we have some diehard unix users with non-maildir clients). I have Maildrop setup to check for the existance of a ~/Maildir folder in the user's home, and if it exists, it delivers there. Otherwise it falls back to ~/Mail where mbox style files go. The problem with Dovecot is there is no way to tell the autodetect feature what to default to, and if it can't find anything, it automatically creates a folder called ~/mail under the user's home and primes it with an Mbox file, but I'd rather it create a ~/Maildir instead. So if we have for example, a new user with no mail yet, and they log in via IMAP before getting any mail from maildrop, Dovecot will create a them a ~/mail folder. So when they DO get mail, our maildrop filters will think they are an Mbox user. I could do some fancy Maildrop filters to fix that when they get their first mail, but in the meantime the unknowing user could try creating things via IMAP that gets overwritten. Anyway, it would be much cleaner if Dovecot just did what I wanted. If anyone could point me to the place to patch my copy of Dovecot, I would GREATLY apprecieate it. I don't know C, but I know many other languages. I would also like to see this be added via the config file in future releases. So consider this a feature request. Not only that, but more control over the autodetection process in general would be REALLY nice. Thanks. Adam

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[Dovecot] Setting a Default Domain
by Richard Laager 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

I'm working on migrating to Dovecot. At the moment, I have a mail path that includes the domain, so I'm using %d to get that. However, if users authenticate without specifying a domain (i.e. using "bob" instead of "bob(a)wiktel.com"), then %d expands to nothing. I'd like to have that expand to a default domain (wiktel.com) instead. Is that possible? Thanks, Richard

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[Dovecot] About Released 1.0 alpha5 version
by Gisella Linares 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Hi, I'm woking with dovecot at my work and I would want to upgrade the actual version to Released 1.0 alpha5 version, but when I saw the download section at dovecot home page, I noticed that you have only beta versions available. Because of this, I would want to ask you if since now you only put available beta versions or those of them will be replace for the next alpha version. Thanks for beforehand your gentility in the attention to the present. Regards, Gisella Linares

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[Dovecot] 1.0.beta5 released
by Timo Sirainen 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Just two changes: - Beta4's SSL proxying rewrite worked worse than I thought. Reverted it back to original code. - Filesystem quota plugin now looks up the mount path correctly.

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[Dovecot] SSL failures on 1.0B3
by Joseph Filla 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

I have setup Dovecot 1.0B3, and IMAP works fine, but I cannot get IMAPS to work. I've generated the keys with the mkcert script and Thunderbird can see and accept the certificate but tosses an error just after that. In my log, I'm getting: dovecot: Apr 03 19:07:43 Warning: imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:140D308A:SSL routines:TLS1_SETUP_KEY_BLOCK:cipher or hash unavailable [x.x.x.x] dovecot: Apr 03 19:07:43 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, TLS Can anyone give me a tip as to what is the matter? I don't understand these ssl errors, Thanks, -- Joe

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[Dovecot] 1.0.beta4 released
by Timo Sirainen 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

I haven't had yet time to read all the mails in this list which I skipped in the last few of weeks. I'll try to get to them eventually. This release contains several new features which haven't been fully tested yet, such as ACLs, master users and Maildir++ quota. If you intend to use them, test them properly first. This is the first Dovecot release where it's supposed to work well with NFS. Even with indexes being stored in NFS. I was able to test it only with Linux 2.4 kernels as clients though, and it didn't work well in a stress test. It looked like the problem was caused by the kernel caching the data a bit too much. Hopefully I can test soon with 2.6 kernels. Also note the other changes which might affect you. Especially if you're using Dovecot-LDA remember to upgrade it as well to make sure the default lock_method gets updated in it also. As for the future, it looks like I'm getting soon paid to develop several features to improve Dovecot's performance (by the company which already paid for ACLs, NFS fixes and many other changes in this release, thanks!). * Changed the default lock_method back to fcntl. Apparently flock gives problems with some systems. * mbox: mailboxes beginning with '.' are now also listed * Replaced mail_use_modules and mail_modules settings with mail_plugins and mail_plugin_dir. Now instead of loading all plugins from the directory, you'll have to give a list of plugins to load. If the plugin couldn't be loaded, the process exits instead of just ignoring the problem (this is important with ACL plugin). + Added support for "master users" who can log in as other people. The master username can be given either in authorization ID string with SASL PLAIN mechanism or by setting auth_master_user_separator and giving it within the normal username string. + Added ACL plugin with ACL file backend. This however doesn't mean that there yet exists a proper shared folder support. If master user logged in as someone else, the ACLs are checked as the master user. + Added some Dovecot extensions to checkpassword passdb, see ChangeLog + Updated passwd-file format to allow specifying any key=value fields + Maildir++ quota support and several quota fixes + passdb supporting extra fields: Added "allow_nets" option which takes a comma separated list of IPs/networks where to allow user to log in. + NFS: Handle ESTALE errors the best way we can + IMAP now writes to log when client disconnects + In shared mailboxes (if dovecot-shared file exists) \Seen flags are now kept only in index files, so as long as each user has a separate index file they have separate \Seen flags. - Fixes to DIGEST-MD5 realm handling so it works with more clients - BODYSTRUCTURE -> BODY conversion from cache file was broken with mails containing message/rfc822 parts. - Fixed several memory leaks - We could have sent client FETCH notifications about messages before telling about them with EXISTS - Compiling fixes for Solaris and some other OSes - Fixed problem with internal timeout handling code, which caused eg. outlook-idle workaround to break. - If /dev/urandom didn't exist, we didn't seed OpenSSL's random number generator properly. Patch by Vilmos Nebehaj. - Maildir: Recent flags weren't always immediately removed from mails when mailbox was opened. - Several changes to SSL proxying code, hopefully making it work better.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0beta4 and Disconnected Problem
by Gerhard Wiesinger 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Hello! Yesterday I upgraded from 1.0beta3 to 1.0beta4. I've major problems now with my inbox (quite large, 900MB) and another large folder. Thunderbird 1.5 connects and disconnects. I tried to delete the indexes of dovecot and thunderbird without any sucess. Finally I downgraded to 1.0beta3 and it works well again (Beta3 was running for a timeframe from when it came out and now without any problems). Config is the same as for 1.0beta3. Apr 3 07:30:27 bbs dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>,method=plain, rip=192.168.0.5, lip=192.168.0.2, TLS Apr 3 07:30:27 bbs dovecot: imap(gerhard): Disconnected Apr 3 07:30:27 bbs dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user1>, method=plain, rip=192.168.0.5, lip=192.168.0.2, TLS Apr 3 07:30:28 bbs dovecot: imap(gerhard): Disconnected Apr 3 07:30:28 bbs dovecot: imap-login: Login: user<user1>, method=plain, rip=192.168.0.5, lip=192.168.0.2, TLS Apr 3 07:30:28 bbs dovecot: imap(gerhard): Disconnected Any ideas how the problem can be found? Thank you for the answer. Ciao, Gerhard

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[Dovecot] Busyloop in dovecot-auth
by Jorgen Lundman 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

SunOS pop01.unix 5.10 Generic_118844-26 i86pc i386 i86pc dovecot-1.0.beta3 Dovecot itself runs well, and was easy to confirgure with LDAP. However, I am seeing a cpu busy-loop in dovecot-auth. Is this a known issue, or do you know why it happens? If needed I can go deeper if so required. PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 26440 root 1 10 0 4232K 2096K cpu/0 40.9H 49.73% dovecot-auth # truss -fip 26440 26440: pollsys(0x08093E90, 10, 0x08047B90, 0x00000000) = 1 26440: pollsys(0x08047834, 5, 0x080477F8, 0x00000000) = 0 26440: pollsys(0x08093E90, 10, 0x08047B90, 0x00000000) = 1 26440: pollsys(0x08047834, 5, 0x080477F8, 0x00000000) = 0 26440: pollsys(0x08093E90, 10, 0x08047B90, 0x00000000) = 1 26440: pollsys(0x08047834, 5, 0x080477F8, 0x00000000) = 0 [snip] This is a test box, it has no load/users, except when I telnet to port 110 to test LDAP authentication. Lund -- Jorgen Lundman | <lundman(a)lundman.net> Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo | +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) Japan | +81 (0)3 -3375-1767 (home)

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[Dovecot] batch convert mbox to maildir
by Netlink Tech 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hello, I have used mb2md for an individual user like this: su ~username cd ~ ./mb2md -m This converted /var/spool/mail/username mbox to /home/users/username/Maildir just as I expected. To convert 100s of users the same way would be a chore (su as each user for permissions, etc.). Is there a way to batch process all /var/spool/mail/$USER to /home/users/$USER/Maildir with the correct permissions/file owners for each user?

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[Dovecot] Re: Courier to Dovecot Maildir conversion
by Roger Weeks 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

We went through a courier to dovecot conversion. There are a couple of things that might be causing this problem. 1. Dovecot namespaces 2. Client configuration Your namespaces might not be taking into account the fact that courier prefixed all files and directories in the maildir with a dot (.). You can get around this a couple of ways. We had almost no IMAP clients under courier, so I renamed everything in our IMAP client directories away from .files and .directories, and used a default namespace without dots. Also some clients like Apple Mail needed an IMAP prefix like INBOX. to work with courier. I had to remove those with the dovecot namespace I set up. -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network On Mar 31, 2006, at 12:29 PM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Message: 8 > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:07:56 -0400 > From: "Jeff S." <go4broke(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Dovecot] Courier to Dovecot Maildir converstion > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: > <f63de89e0603311007p2c367b5ev17bef83a7b98833(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello, > > I am running Dovecot 0.99 on OpenSuse 10.0. Previously, I was running > courier IMAP with vpopmail on Suse 9.3. In the process of the > change, I > decided to sing MySQL to authenticate the users, provide home dir, > uid and > gid. > > I tar'ed up the old mail directories, moved them to the new server, > added a > new user and group to own the files, set the files uid/gid to match > the > values in the db. Next, I followed the Migration directions on > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration. I can successfully authenticate > the new > users, have no errors in the log file but when I am logged in I > only see the > Inbox. There should be other folders as well as mail in the > inbox. No > errors in the log files. > > Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] hard quota example, 1.0b3
by Jeff A. Earickson 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Timo, Here's an example of the filesystem quota issue: A user was near his hard filesystem quota, so he moved some junk to his Trash folder to clear disk space. He got the following error on his IMAP client: "Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. {2006-04033 11:08:44]". My setup: Solaris 9, beta3 (soon going to beta4), mbox format, IMAP only. Home directories (where IMAP folders and index files go) have filesystem quotas. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot road-map
by Jeff A. Earickson 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:11:33 +0300 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > To: Kupor Laszlo <willy(a)dunanet.hu> > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot road-map > On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 09:54 +0200, Kupor Laszlo wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I track dovecot m-list, and i wan't migrate to dovecot, but now dovecot > > has no maildir++ quota in public release(beta etc). Without quota support > > dovcot not a solution for me. > > Please if dovecot have a release plan, post to me. > > I'll release beta4 today which will have Maildir++ quota support. It's > not well tested yet, but if there are bugs they should be easy to fix > now. :) I have to agree that dovecot's inability to react to filesystem quotas is a major deficiency. This feature should not rely on plug-ins, mailbox format, etc. It should be built into the base code, IMHO. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] MySQL auth issues?
by Matthias Saou 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hi, Since my last email about RHEL4 problems on x86_64, I've kept trying to figure out what the problem might be, and just ran into a reply to an old email I sent to the list, which I had missed. It suggests that the issue might be in the MySQL authentication that I'm using. Here is a more detailed log entry, with auto debugging on : Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=::ffff:195.x.x.x rip=::ffff:195.x.x.x resp=AHBhcnRuZXJzQdNvbW1lcm3lZ2F0ZS5jb20Aa2F2YWthdmE= Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=x(a)domain.com Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 70 22190 1 Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(x@domain.com,::ffff:195.x.x.x): SELECT maildir, 101 AS uid, 103 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'x(a)domain.com' Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 70 x(a)domain.com maildir=domain.com/x/ uid=101 gid=103 Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<x(a)domain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:195.x.x.x, lip=::ffff:195.x.x.x Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: pop3(x(a)domain.com): ^GUnexpected eof found when reading file 'UNOPENED' (Errcode: 0) Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 last message repeated 2 times Apr 3 13:13:02 s1 dovecot: pop3(x(a)domain.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/2, size=17174 Those "Unexpected eof found when reading file 'fileName'" messages are apparently from MySQL, as one can see here for instance : http://www.mysqlfreaks.com/errors/49.php Here is my relevant configuration (all the rest is the default) : login_greeting = Ready. verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 101 default_mail_env = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=MEMORY auth_cache_size = 512 auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } } The INDEX=MEMORY was added because of similar errors with the indexes : Apr 3 12:56:44 s1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<x(a)domain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:195.x.x.x, lip=::ffff:195.x.x.x, TLS Apr 3 12:56:44 s1 dovecot: pop3(x(a)domaine.com): Corrupted transaction log file /home/vmail/domain.com/x/dovecot.index.log: unexpected end of file while reading header Apr 3 12:56:44 s1 dovecot: pop3(x(a)domain.com): Corrupted transaction log file /home/vmail/domain.com/x/dovecot.index.log: unexpected end of file while reading header Apr 3 12:56:44 s1 dovecot: pop3(x(a)domain.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 (this was when the auth_debug wasn't enabled) Here is my /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf file : driver = mysql connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=postfix user=postfix password=xxx default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT maildir, 101 AS uid, 103 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' I'm using MySQL 4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1 (the original RHEL4 packages), with the server on the same machine (hence the socket access). I was seeing this also with 0.9, not just 1.0 betas. With x86_64 packages, any slight change to the main dovecot.conf file can prevent dovecot from starting (segfault with "Unexpected eof found when reading file 'UNOPENED' (Errcode: 0)" message), whereas i386 packages work somewhat better. This is on the same machine with an i386 compatibility layer. Is anyone using MySQL auth successfully? Any help or pointers would be more than welcome. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) - Linux kernel 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 Load : 0.38 0.33 0.34

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[Dovecot] mbox-sync-update.c error
by Carlos Vicente 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hi, I think the problem is in Dovecot. I'm using both Evolution and Thunderbird on a Gentoo box. One of my folders keeps locking up and the clients can't retrieve the messages. The situation appears to be triggered by trying to move a message into that folder. Deleting the index files (under /var/log/dovecot/xxx/) solves the problem (temporarily). I get these error messages in the logs: Mar 31 15:10:34 dovecot: imap(cvicente): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/xxx/Mail/xxx (93 > 3, seq=93, idx_msgs=3455) Mar 31 15:10:34 dovecot: imap(cvicente): file mbox-sync-update.c: line 55 (mbox_sync_move_buffer): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.offset + ctx->mail.space <= ctx->hdr_offset + pos || ctx->mail.offset > ctx->hdr_offset + pos + have) Mar 31 15:10:35 dovecot: child 32373 (imap) killed with signal 6 M I'm running dovecot-1.0_beta3 Hope this gets some attention from the developers. cv >In the maillog I get > > Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<hartr>, > method=plain, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured > Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap(hartr): mbox sync: UID inserted > in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/hartr (8 > 1, seq=2, idx_msgs=4) > Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap(hartr): file mbox-sync-update.c: > line 55 (mbox_sync_move_buffer): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.offset > + ctx->mail.space <= ctx->hdr_offset + pos || ctx->mail.offset > > ctx->hdr_offset + pos + have) > Mar 29 09:17:26 bree dove

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-news mailing list created
by Timo Sirainen 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

New low-traffic list created for people who only wish to see new release announcements and possibly some other rare important announcements. Also from now on no-one can send mails to either of these lists with From-field containing "tss(a)iki.fi" or "Timo Sirainen", unless it also contains a valid PGP signature from me. If someone wants to see the script (and please check if there are any bugs in it, thanks :), it's here: http://iki.fi/tss/gpgcheck.pl

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[Dovecot] Dovecot road-map
by Kupor Laszlo 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hello, I track dovecot m-list, and i wan't migrate to dovecot, but now dovecot has no maildir++ quota in public release(beta etc). Without quota support dovcot not a solution for me. Please if dovecot have a release plan, post to me. Thanks. Udv.: Willy -- PGP GNUPG/1.0 ID = 5BFA0D36 Kupor Laszlo Attila <willy(a)dunanet.hu> Key fingerprint = 3F68 9483 5B65 8E2F CD30 5326 50F9 5A33 5BFA 0D36

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[Dovecot] imap processes remaing after dovecot shutdown
by Marten Lehmann 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hello, I'm using dovecot-1.0.beta3. When I shutdown dovecot (kill -term on the master-pid) the main process disappears, but all the child processes still remain. Why doesn't dovecot kill them as I shutdown the master-process? When I shutdown mysql, all child processes will be shutdown, too. When I shutdown apache, all child processes willbe shutdown, too. Thats what I expect on every application. Usually there is no need to shutdown dovecot. But for some reasons, from time to time 50 and more processes of one user are running and I don't know how else to get rid of them. I don't like to kill the child processes always manually. Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] Auth user from sasldb with dovecot
by kami Nonstop 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hi I configured my postfix that i can access the file /etc/sasl2/sasldb2 and authorize the users how are added in this database. My smtpd.conf looks like this: mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN pwcheck_method: auxprop auxprop_plugin: sasldb My saslauthd is not running. And when i telnet to port 25 i can authorize my self like this: telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 localhost ESMTP Postfix ehlo localhost 250-localhost 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN 250 8BITMIME auth plain dGVzdEBtaWNyb3NlcnZ== 235 Authentication successful But my problem is now that i dont know how to configure dovecot that i can login to my system with squirrelmail or something else? Dovecot should use the user added in sasldb2. I read this Howto but can find a solution for this: http://postfix.hostingzero.com/SASL_README.html I hope someone here can help me? Thx a lot Cu kami

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[Dovecot] file lock on 1.0 stable
by Obantec Support 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hi I have the lock file back on 2 customer accounts. i am using mbox under /var/spool/mail/%u and of the 300 pop3 accounts i only have the odd random issue with the file locks. some are 1 byte (containing 0) other correct in that they have a pid (average 26 bytes). mbox & lock files owned by userUID.mail Mark

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[Dovecot] How to use trash plugin?
by hshh 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hi, I can't found any document about this plugin. How can I setup a trash for deleted mail in imap? And remove them after some day like Courier IMAP.

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Re: [Dovecot] Quick question. Thunderbird/Outlook = no love.
by Charlie Davis 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Ok, it worked once, then stopped working. To get away from maybe it being a thunderbird setup issue, I made a little php script. And now I have an error that didn't show up in the dovecot log even though I have auth_debug and auth_verbose set to yes. Here's what the imap socket returned to the php script: Array ( [0] => Certificate failure for 10.0.0.208: self signed certificate: /OU=IMAP server/CN=imap.example.com/emailAddress=postmaster@example.com ) So, I gotta setup my certificate stuff which I can do, But couldn't this have shown up in the dovecot log somehow? -Charlie ----- On Saturday, April 1, 2006 fishgills(a)fishgills.net wrote: > Turns out some Anti-Virus email scanners don't support TLS. > > Sorry again! Not dovecot's fault. Disabled my anti-virus' email scanner > and it worked with TLS only. > > Good to know for anyone else that ever has this problem. :) > > -Charlie > > Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 18:56 -0800, Charlie Davis wrote: >> >>> 1.0 Beta 3. >>> >>> Plain authentication works. But not TLS. >>> >>> I don't see anything in the configuration file that seems obvious to deny > TLS authentication. >>> >> >> Set auth_verbose=yes and auth_debug=yes in dovecot.conf, maybe it shows >> then why it's failing? >> >>

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[Dovecot] User data over Mysql
by Andew Velikorechanin 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Hi, all! What I need set in dovecot config (dovecot-mysql.conf) for get home dir and mailbox file path from mysql DB? dovecot 0.99.11 Thanks.

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[Dovecot] postfix 2.3 SMTP AUTH and Outlook
by Antonin Karasek 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Hi all, I just maked $SUBJECT to run. The main problem was, that in Dovecot are by default enabled only plain digest-md5 and cram-md5 authentication mechanisms. While MS Outlook knows only "LOGIN" mechanism. So, Outlook users wasn't able to use SMTP AUTH. The solution is to change a line in dovecot.conf: mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 to: mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 login I suggest Timo to change the default configuration, and the page http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication -- more precisely the line "LOGIN: Similiar to PLAIN, not very useful. [in 1.0-tests only]" -- I think, that this line is a little confusing. Becouse since one can use Dovecot for SASL authentication, "LOGIN" is starting to be useful (because of the M*S* bullshit). Regards Tony

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[Dovecot] var_expand and pop3_logout_format
by Alexander Sabourenkov 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Hi. -alpha2 broke the retr-byte-count field of the pop3_logout_format with the following change: -Added %R (reverse string) and %H (hash string) variable modifiers. %R as modifier conflicts on expand with %R as retr-byte-count in pop3_logout_format resulting in expanded strings like: top=0/0, retr=1/ del=0/1, size=431 seen in -alpha3 -alpha4 cvs as of 04.11.2005 FreeBSD 5.4-R, both i386 and amd64 -- ./lxnt

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[Dovecot] Fedora 4: x86_64 different build options than i386?
by fishgills＠fishgills.net 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

After successful testing on our 32-bit machine using the rpm, I'm installing dovecot on our Fedora 64-bit machine using that rpm. In the log file I get: dovecot: Mar 31 15:34:16 Error: auth(default): Unknown database driver 'mysql' I see this: # dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll dnotify ipv6 openssl Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow Userdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file static and dovecot is in: /usr/local/sbin/dovecot But on my 32-bit Fedora machine, also installed from the rpm, I get this: # dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll dnotify ipv6 openssl mysql postgresql sqlite Passdb: checkpassword ldap pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: checkpassword ldap passwd passwd-file sql static and dovecot is in: /usr/sbin Shouldn't the 64-bit machine have the same build-options? What can I do to make it right? Do I *have* to build it from a tarball? Charlie Davis

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Re: [Dovecot] Fedora 4: x86_64 different build options than i386?
by Charlie Davis 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Yeah, I got your latest from your website. Google's top return for you was an older release. Using your .5 I believe it is. For x86_64 of course. It works fine now. ----- On Friday, March 31, 2006 ivazquez(a)ivazquez.net wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 16:32 -0800, fishgills(a)fishgills.net wrote: >> After successful testing on our 32-bit machine using the rpm, I'm >> installing dovecot on our Fedora 64-bit machine using that rpm. In >> the log file I get: > > It was previously broken. Which specific package did you install? > > -- > Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams > http://fedora.ivazquez.net/ > > gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72

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[Dovecot] Quick question. Thunderbird/Outlook = no love.
by Charlie Davis 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Are there any how-tos or documentation on getting dovecot to be thunderbird/outlook friendly? Thunderbird can connect about 20% of the time, the other 80% of the time, I Get the error: "You may need to connect via SSL or TLS. Please check the account settings for your mail server." I have my thunderbird setup to do TLS. I've put it on the TLS if available as well, still no love. Dovecot logfile contains: dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:19 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4, lip=10.0.0.208, TLS dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:24 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4, lip=10.0.0.208, TLS Nothing else. Thanks in advance! -Charlie

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Re: [Dovecot] Quick question. Thunderbird/Outlook = no love.
by Charlie Davis 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Oh, I forgot to mention that if I turn on plain text authentication, it works fine. But I'd to do TLS over the net. -Charlie ----- On Friday, March 31, 2006 fishgills(a)fishgills.net wrote: > Are there any how-tos or documentation on getting dovecot to be > thunderbird/outlook friendly? > > Thunderbird can connect about 20% of the time, the other 80% of the time, I > Get the error: > > "You may need to connect via SSL or TLS. Please check the account settings for > your mail server." > > I have my thunderbird setup to do TLS. I've put it on the TLS if available as > well, still no love. > > Dovecot logfile contains: > > dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:19 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4, > lip=10.0.0.208, TLS > dovecot: Mar 31 17:25:24 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=10.0.0.4, > lip=10.0.0.208, TLS > > Nothing else. > > Thanks in advance! > > -Charlie

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Re: [Dovecot] Fedora 4: x86_64 different build options than i386?
by Charlie Davis 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Fixed this by getting the latest x86_64 rpm from Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams' repository. Sorry for the email. :D -Charlie Davis ----- On Friday, March 31, 2006 fishgills(a)fishgills.net wrote: > After successful testing on our 32-bit machine using the rpm, I'm > installing dovecot on our Fedora 64-bit machine using that rpm. In > the log file I get: > > dovecot: Mar 31 15:34:16 Error: auth(default): Unknown database driver 'mysql' > > I see this: > > # dovecot --build-options > Build options: ioloop=poll dnotify ipv6 openssl > Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow > Userdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file static > > and dovecot is in: > > /usr/local/sbin/dovecot > > But on my 32-bit Fedora machine, also installed from the rpm, I get this: > > # dovecot --build-options > Build options: ioloop=poll dnotify ipv6 openssl mysql postgresql sqlite > Passdb: checkpassword ldap pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql > Userdb: checkpassword ldap passwd passwd-file sql static > > and dovecot is in: > > /usr/sbin > > Shouldn't the 64-bit machine have the same build-options? > > What can I do to make it right? Do I *have* to build it from a > tarball? > > Charlie Davis

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[Dovecot] Repot: Problems with Fedora core 5, Dovecot and Thunderbird - is this a Dovecot bete3 bug?
by Robert Hart 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hi One Wed I posted the following message and have had no replies. I am reposting as I think this is a Dovecot bug but I am not sure. If anyone can assist on this I'd be most grateful. Tks ----------------------------------------------------- Hi I am testing FC5 before upgrading my main server and I am getting errors with dovecot 1.0 beta3 - both the distributed RPM and also the one at ATrpms and thunderbird (the distributed version which is thunderbird-1.5-6) I am running both dovecot and thunderbird on the same machine, pointing thunderbird at 127.0.0.1 for its imap server. The symptoms are an inability to access mail - thunderbird just keeps on trying and getting nowhere and even if I shut down thunderbird on the client, it still leaves processes running that have to be killed by hand. In the maillog I get Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<hartr>, method=plain, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap(hartr): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/hartr (8 > 1, seq=2, idx_msgs=4) Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap(hartr): file mbox-sync-update.c: line 55 (mbox_sync_move_buffer): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.offset + ctx->mail.space <= ctx->hdr_offset + pos || ctx->mail.offset > ctx->hdr_offset + pos + have) Mar 29 09:17:26 bree dovecot: child 14242 (imap) killed with signal 6 When I point this thunderbird at my main (dovecot 0.99) server everything is fine, which seems to suggest that this is a dovecot problem and not a thunderbird one. Can anyone give me any pointers on this please as it's a show stopper for upgrading my main server. Tks -- Robert Hart hartr(a)interweft.com.au +61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au

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[Dovecot] Courier to Dovecot Maildir converstion
by Jeff S. 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hello, I am running Dovecot 0.99 on OpenSuse 10.0. Previously, I was running courier IMAP with vpopmail on Suse 9.3. In the process of the change, I decided to sing MySQL to authenticate the users, provide home dir, uid and gid. I tar'ed up the old mail directories, moved them to the new server, added a new user and group to own the files, set the files uid/gid to match the values in the db. Next, I followed the Migration directions on http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration. I can successfully authenticate the new users, have no errors in the log file but when I am logged in I only see the Inbox. There should be other folders as well as mail in the inbox. No errors in the log files. Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] Authentication Problem MD5 hashs
by Fabrizio Steiner 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hello I've migrated to dovecot-1.0beta3 and I have taken over the password files from an older system. For some reason the md5 hashs have "[" chars in the salt. For example like this $1$[xxxXX[E$bg/d4JdSSf2kTL8sXXxXXX Now the problem is that in the file src/auth/db-passwd-file.c on line 43 for libpam-pwdfile compatibility it will be searched for "[" to find the type of the password hash. Then only the hash up to this point will be used in future for comparing the passwords. The problem line. p = pass == NULL ? NULL : strchr(pass, '['); I changed the behavior to always use the complete hash out of the file because I don't use pam. Does anyone know if [ chars are allowed in md5 hashs? Kind Regards Fabrizio Steiner

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[Dovecot] problem with IMAP authentication with Thunderbird in local network
by Marco Ceccarelli - tnx.it 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I've installed dovecot in our debian and when i login from localhost it work. when we try from our local network it give an error as this: Mar 31 11:25:27 linux2 dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser=mcecccarelli Mar 31 11:25:27 linux2 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I2^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Ilip=192.168.0.105^Irip=192.168.0.115^Iresp=AG1jZWNjY2ZWxsaQBzZW5uYTk0 Mar 31 11:25:29 linux2 dovecot: auth(default): pam(mcecccarelli,192.168.0.115): pam_authenticate() failed: User not known to the underlying ahentication module Mar 31 11:25:31 linux2 dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I2^Iuser=mcecccarelli i see that whe i try to login from localhost it try with pam(mcecccarelli) when i try from local network it try with pam(mcecccarelli,192.168.0.115) what i have to configure to make authorized all ip from local network ?

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[Dovecot] Custom Quotas
by Andrew Barrow 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Greetings I'm currently working on a design, to integrate an IMAP server into our existing mail architecture. It's proving to be a difficult exercise, mainly because of how we structure our quotas. In our system, the quota covers more than just email. We have a single quota that covers email, ftp directory, and personal homepage. The quota is stored in a mysql database, in a werid table structure. The quota allocation is stored against the user, while the quota usage is stored in 3 rows per user, in a seperate table; One row each for www, email, and ftp per user. I'm currently trying to figure out how we could integrate this quota into Dovecot. I'm quite happy to write plugin to handle updating the quota in our system, but I have no idea where to start. Any information you could provide on updating a quota in a third party system would be much appreciated. Thanks for you help. Andrew andrew(a)myinternet.com.au -- "If we don't have time to do it correctly now, will we have time to do it over once it's broken?" http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/

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[Dovecot] userdb prefetch not working for passdb sql
by dovecot-ri 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hi all, I'm using 1.0.beta3 and having problems using userdb prefetch in conjuction with passdb sql. Here are my mail logs when I log to virtual account "testuser(a)mydomain.com" by doing "telnet localhost 143": Mar 26 15:15:47 imapserver dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up Mar 26 15:15:49 imapserver dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to (null) (mail) Mar 26 15:16:03 imapserver dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=<hidden> Mar 26 15:16:03 imapserver dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(testuser(a)mydomain.com,127.0.0.1): query: ***snipped, very long*** Mar 26 15:16:03 imapserver dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=testuser(a)mydomain.com Mar 26 15:16:03 imapserver dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 16001 1 Mar 26 15:16:03 imapserver dovecot: auth(default): passwd(testuser(a)mydomain.com,127.0.0.1): unknown user Mar 26 15:16:03 imapserver dovecot: auth(default): prefetch(testuser(a)mydomain.com,127.0.0.1): userdb_uid not returned Mar 26 15:16:03 imapserver dovecot: auth(default): prefetch(testuser(a)mydomain.com,127.0.0.1): userdb_gid not returned Mar 26 15:16:03 imapserver dovecot: auth(default): userdb(testuser(a)mydomain.com,127.0.0.1): user not found from userdb Mar 26 15:16:03 imapserver dovecot: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND 1 Mar 26 15:16:03 imapserver dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<testuser(a)mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured The MySQL query is long and complicated, but here's what it returned when I copied and pasted it into mysql: user testuser(a)mydomain.com password {SSHA}BRuPgonpb8Zd+0NaFH2G6dT47m3mT43w userdb_home /var/mail/mydomain.com/testuser userdb_uid vmail userdb_gid vmail All of these values are correct. It seems to be ignoring the userdb_* fields. It works when I don't use prefetch, and it also works when I do use prefetch but change the SQL query to return "testuser" instead of "testuser(a)mydomain.com" in the user field. Anyone know why? Here's my dovecot.conf in case it proves useful: first_valid_uid = 900 mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes protocol imap { login_greeting_capability = yes } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } passdb pam { args = "*" } userdb passwd { } userdb prefetch { } user = root } plugin { } Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Dovecot abort while selecting INBOX
by Joshua Wise 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hello all, Recently, I was setting up SpamAssassin and procmail on my system (used to run Courier, and was converted using Courier convert scripts). I was setting up a rule in PINE to filter all previously marked SPAM messages into a folder, when I suddenly got disconnected from the IMAP server. I attempted to reconnect, but any attempts to access my INBOX would disconnect me. I looked in /var/log/mail.log on my server, and found this: Mar 26 12:42:17 dashnine dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<joshua>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Mar 26 12:42:17 dashnine dovecot: imap(joshua): Trying to allocate 0 bytes Mar 26 12:42:17 dashnine dovecot: child 31035 (imap) killed with signal 6 Looks like Dovecot aborted. I grabbed a tcpdump of the event after turning off SSL, which is available at http://joshuawise.com/pine.imap.tcpdump . My system is, summarized: * A Linux x86 machine: Linux dashnine 2.6.12.3 #2 Sun Aug 7 18:56:14 EDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux * A Debian machine: testing/unstable * Running Dovecot from Debian: 1.0.beta3 * Converted from Courier using convert scripts * Using Postfix and Procmail * Using Maildirs in home directories (although in this case, lrwxrwxrwx 1 joshua joshua 23 Mar 11 22:08 Maildir -> /media/Maildirs/joshua/) * Using PINE connecting to Dovecot on localhost to access email Let me know if you want more information, or if you want me to try anything in particular. Thanks, joshua

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[Dovecot] Confused about what MTA, MDA, IMAP/POP server to use
by Netlink Tech 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hello...I'll TRY make this short. This post is not specific to Dovecot...but many subscribers to this list have probably been down this road. (private replies welcome if you want it to go off list) I currently use Sendmail with MailScanner, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Procmail, and qpopper for POP3 (hash mail dirs for mbox files)on RedHat 9 server. Roaming users currently only have the option of UebiMiau webmail interface to POP3 (doesn't work well) I will be moving to a server with Fedora Core 5.(x86_64) Things I would like to accomplish: 1) Move to maildir mailbox format (currently large mbox files cause I/O flushing errors and problems for users retrieving). 2) Use squirrelmail for webmail (IMAP) (local or roaming users) 3) Enable local users (ones with current accounts on the server) to continue to use their current client setup. 4) Enable any user to use the webmail interface to retrieve/send email. 5) Enable roaming users (ones connected from any location) to use Outlook Express or similar with SMTP_Auth and port 587 for message submission and POP3/IMAP. 6) Enable mail quota. I want the current users to use their current settings (unless they roam...then require that they use webmail or SMTP_Auth and port 587), but moving forward with new users, I have no reason to give them shell access/system accounts....so I was thinking virtual users using user@domain and storing their auth information in mysql db. (mysql will be used for radius...so it is already running on the server). Because I am trying to figure out how to keep the existing users system accounts and move forward with new users only having virtual accounts (just mail access with no login), I don't think I can use file system quotas. I have used Sendmail for 10 years, so I am familiar with it and it has been very stable for me. (so I prefer to stick with it if I can) I rely heavily on MailScanner to scan/mark/clean virus and Procmail to filter marked spam. Qpopper is on the way out...A couple of weeks messing with the test server and I already love Dovecot. Questions: 1) Recommendations please: How to accomplish with what configuration. 2) Quotas? 3) SMTP_Auth using Mysql for virtual users? (works fine with PAM/system passwords) Sorry for not being Dovecot specific on the list. Curt

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Re: [Dovecot] domain stripping sorry !!
by jasper 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

sorry people but a'm searcing for about a year for this sollution im now on double databasses witch gives me ass f* problems I get a lot of " i's an option in dovecot" but nobody gan give me an configuration example. i'l take aniting. On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:05:28 +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote > [off-list reply] > > Hi jasper, > FYI, asking the same question three times in five days is considered > impolite by quite a lot of folks. > > Cheers, > -jkt > > -- > cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth - Als echtparen echt paren hebben echtgenoten echt genoten -- Dit bericht is gescanned op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door Techspace mailscanner en lijkt schoon te zijn.

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[Dovecot] domain stripping searcing for ages
by jasper 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

X-Tech Space-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Tech Space-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Tech Space-MailScanner-From: redhat(a)techspace.nl I use pam to login my users are stored as j.hendriks now i like to use 2 domains but with the same user and passw and the option that de mail is stored in a difrent directory but i cant get rit of the @domain extention by Autentification i'f made these canges. auth_process_size = 256 auth_cache_size = 5000 auth_cache_ttl = 3600 passdb pam { args = session=yes args = service name="*" args = cache_key=%n args = dovecot } but keeps Autentificating me as j.hendriks@domain insted of j.hendriks what am i doing wrong. help please. -- Dit bericht is gescanned op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door Techspace mailscanner en lijkt schoon te zijn.

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Re: [Dovecot] Support for Kmail maildir format
by Magnus Holmgren 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Thursday 26 January 2006 18:35 skrev Graham Cobb: > Kmail's use of maildir seems to folow the basic maildir approach except > that sub-folders are handled differently. > > If you create a folder (say it is called ABC) in Kmail and start putting > mail in it, Kmail creates a directory on the disk called ABC (not .ABC) and > creates the cur, new and tmp folders within it to contain the email. > > If you then create a subfolder of ABC (say it is called DEF, contained > within the ABC folder), Kmail creates a directory on the disk called > .ABC.directory and creates the DEF directory within that. > > In other words, maildir directories are given the same name as the mail > folder (with no leading dot) but sub-folders are contained in disk > directories called .<folder-name>.directory. Then we have Evolution, which also uses maildirs but with yet another subfolder naming format (subfolders are created right beside the cur, new and tmp directories). In both cases, the folder names are not UTF-7 encoded on disk, which is worth noticing. -- Magnus Holmgren

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RE: [Dovecot] Shared namespaces
by Mark Lidstone 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hi Timo, Thanks for the reply. > -----Original Message----- > From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] > Sent: 25 March 2006 09:42 > To: Mark Lidstone > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Shared namespaces > > > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 16:03 +0000, Mark Lidstone wrote: > > I logged with Thunderbird as user 1 and everything seems to > work fine. However, when I logged in as user 2 I was getting > all kinds of errors. On checking the permissions of > /home/public/Maildir/subscriptions it was user1:user1 with mode 600. > > Looks like at some point I've thought about adding "subscriptions" > setting to namespaces where you could configure if each one > should have > separate ones. For public/shared namespaces I guess this > should default > to "no". In my case it should default to "yes". It allows people to only see the folders with email relating to their projects. At the moment when a project finishes we have to move it to another store so that it's not clogging up everyone's public folder list. Allowing people to only see the folders they want is one of the features that has attracted us to shared namespaces. > Unfortunately I don't think it's easy to currently make namespace's > subscriptions exist in another namespace. I'll add this in > TODO, but you > could maybe kludge around this by changing the code, eg. set > umask to 0 > before file_dotlock_open() in > src/lib-storage/subscription-file/subscription-file.c and back to > original value afterwards. Don't add it in the TODO - you've already done it (basically). I'd cobbled together a real kludge to use the dovecot-shared permissions on the subscriptions file (kinda - only the group permissions, not the user) and was about to post it to the list when I came across the way you'd already handled it. The subscriptions file is stored in the folder pointed to with the "CONTROL" directive - I just put this to a separate place for every user and it works fine. The only thing that's left is getting this added to the Wiki - I don't think anyone's done that yet. Thanks, Mark CONFIDENTIAL The information contained in this e-mail and any attachment is confidential. It is intended only for the named addressee(s). If you are not the named addressee please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose, copy or distribute the contents to any other person other than the intended addressee(s). VIRUSES The contents of an attachment to this e-mail may contain software viruses which could damage your own computer system. While BMT Nigel Gee and Associates Ltd has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise this risk, we cannot accept liability for any damage which you sustain as a result of software viruses. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the attachment.

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Re: [Dovecot] How to change login_greeting ?
by spart cus 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

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[Dovecot] Dovecote Make failure with MySQL support.
by Nathan 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hello all. I am trying to compile Dovecot from source on an AMD Opteron based Sun server running Solaris 10. I ran the configue script with the mysql flag on because I need mysql auth support. I am running MySQL version: 5.0.18 Here is where the make fails. Any suggestions? *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `driver-mysql.o' Current working directory /export/home/nathan/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/lib-sql *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: failcom='exit 1'; \ for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \ case $f in \ *=* | --[!k]*);; \ *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \ esac; \ done; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ list='lib lib-dict lib-sql lib-ntlm lib-settings lib-charset lib-mail lib -imap lib-index lib-storage lib-auth auth dict master login-common imap- login imap pop3-login pop3 util plugins'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || eval $failcom; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /export/home/nathan/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: failcom='exit 1'; \ for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \ case $f in \ *=* | --[!k]*);; \ *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \ esac; \ done; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ list='src doc'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || eval $failcom; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /export/home/nathan/dovecot-1.0.beta3 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all' Thanks for your time.

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[Dovecot] sig11 with 1.0.beta3 on openbsd-i386
by David Gwynne 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

i recently helped a friend of mine migrate from imap-uw using mboxes to dovecot on top of Maildirs and came up against two issues. this is quite embarrassing as ive been claiming dovecot is Solid As A Rock(tm) and hasn't ever given me any issues. 1. if dovecot runs out of file descriptors it will loop forever trying to open new logging pipes. the code in question is at line 624 of src/master/login-process.c 2. we get a sig11 in the imap process. heres the bt: dlg@mail dlg$ gdb -c imap.core /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap GNU gdb 6.3 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-openbsd3.9"... Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.4.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.4.0 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.39.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.39.0 Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/libexec/ld.so #0 0x1c04895a in mail_transaction_log_view_set (view=0x7f0b8300, min_file_seq=2, min_file_offset=208, max_file_seq=2, max_file_offset=208, type_mask=MAIL_TRANSACTION_APPEND) at mail-transaction-log-view.c:107 107 if (min_file_seq == view->log->tail->hdr.prev_file_seq && (gdb) bt #0 0x1c04895a in mail_transaction_log_view_set (view=0x7f0b8300, min_file_seq=2, min_file_offset=208, max_file_seq=2, max_file_offset=208, type_mask=MAIL_TRANSACTION_APPEND) at mail-transaction-log-view.c:107 #1 0x1c044e91 in view_sync_set_log_view_range (view=0x7efaa800, type_mask=65532) at mail-index-view-sync.c:102 #2 0x1c045109 in mail_index_view_sync_begin (view=0x7efaa800, sync_mask=252, ctx_r=0x2) at mail-index-view-sync.c:216 #3 0x1c037e58 in index_mailbox_sync_init (box=0x82cf2840, flags=28, failed=8) at index-sync.c:151 #4 0x1c01bbb4 in maildir_storage_sync_init (box=0x82cf2840, flags=28) at maildir-sync.c:1343 #5 0x1c04c270 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x2, flags=28) at mail-storage.c:375 #6 0x1c0167fa in imap_sync_init (client=0x7f0b8000, box=0x82cf2840, imap_flags=2, flags=28) at imap-sync.c:46 #7 0x1c016c80 in cmd_sync (cmd=0x7f0b8044, flags=28, imap_flags=0, tagline=0x3c0005cf "OK Search completed.") at imap-sync.c:231 #8 0x1c00ff9f in cmd_search (cmd=0x7f0b8044) at cmd-search.c:99 #9 0x1c010fb5 in cmd_uid (cmd=0x7f0b8044) at cmd-uid.c:19 #10 0x1c01186b in client_handle_input (cmd=0x7f0b8044) at client.c:364 #11 0x1c01199a in _client_input (context=0x7f0b8000) at client.c:415 #12 0x1c05d0a4 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x848ed220) at ioloop-kqueue.c:200 #13 0x1c05c701 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80e6a000) at ioloop.c:246 #14 0x1c0184f3 in main (argc=1, argv=0xcfbd5554, envp=0xcfbd555c) at main.c:238 (gdb) x view->log->tail->hdr.prev_file_seq Cannot access memory at address 0x7f0bca (gdb) x view->log->tail->hdr Cannot access memory at address 0x7f0bbe (gdb) x view->log->tail 0x7f0b82: Cannot access memory at address 0x7f0b82 (gdb) x view->log 0x7f0b8181: 0x007efaa2 in both cases the problem was triggered with Apple Mail 2 as the client. the user has maybe a dozen mailboxes, the largest of which is aoubt 10k messages. if you need any more detail, please dont hesitate to ask. i would like this to work so i dont have to keep apologising. dlg

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[Dovecot] Realm Stripping
by Michael Baird 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

I saw some discussion on this from the middle of last year. Looking through the archives, there didn't seem to be a full solution using a standard dovecot configuration. Did this issue get resolved within dovecot? Will it strip domains from the login presented by the customer. I currently am using dovecot for imap with a webmail system (I strip the domain there before it hits dovecot), but I'd like to replace qpopper with dovecot's pop3, just need to work out the domain stripping bit. Regards Michael Baird

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[Dovecot] Solution to Dovecot-lda configure problem on RHEL4/FC4
by Tomi Hakala 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hello, After a long break from Dovecot I finally managed to compile Dovecot-lda on RHEL 4 x86_64 platfrom. For some reason $LIBICONV translates to a @LIBICONV@ on config.status which generates loop for sed. Solution is to manually edit "configure" after autogen.sh. In configure change line s,@LIBICONV@,$LIBICONV,;t t to s,@LIBICONV@,,;t t After this configure finishes succesfully. Tomi

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[Dovecot] How to change login_greeting ?
by Jefferson Briones 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi guys, How can i change the login greeting for dovecot whenever someone telnets to it. I tried putting login_greeting = Test Banner at the end of my dovecot.conf.:When i try restart the service it fails. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] integrate dovecot LDA into dovecot
by Timo Sirainen 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

(ops, messed up the first send, again) > what do you think about replacing the deliver source in dovecot with > deliver from dovecot LDA? It would make it much easier to compile and > deploy dovecot LDA. It would, but I don't want that, at least not currently. My plan is to merge them in some way at some point, but the Sieve code will always be kept out of the main Dovecot tarball as some kind of plugin. The Sieve code is something I don't really want to touch myself, and I don't want it to be included in Dovecot's "1000 EUR for security hole" competition (or whatever it should be called). Since the patch was a bit too large, I didn't accept your original mail to the list.

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[Dovecot] new mails don't always show
by Bjoern Rost 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi, I am having some trouble with dovecot (0.99.14) and maildir. Some users are reporting that sometimes, they don't get (pop3, various clients) new mails for a while even though they should. I checked and confirmed this: mails were delivered by MTA (sendmail, procmail). But when the problem existed, the new mails were in cur/, not new/ and dovecot would not report any new messaged to the client. A 'solution' was to send another mail to the same account, and ususally this would end up in new/ On the next fetch, this new message and the new ones from cur/ are downloaded. I also had the same problem with imap and evolution today. My inbox showed as empty but there were many messages in cur/ I could access all other folders without a problem during this period. Again, a simple mail to myself 'solved' this. This behaviour does not happen all the time and I don't know how to trigger/reproduce it. Just the relevant (imho) parts of dovecot.conf: login_process_size = 256 login_processes_count = 64 login_max_logging_users = 1024 default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir client_workarounds = outlook-idle oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-pop3-no-nuls everything else is set to default values Any ideas/help? Thanks Bjoern -- Bjoern Rost portrix.net GmbH Stresemannstr. 375 22761 Hamburg Germany fon +49-40-39 80 53 - 19 fax +49-40-39 80 53 - 29 http://www.portrix.net

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[Dovecot] Too many links
by Feraudet Cyril 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi all, I've a problem during a big migration to dovecot. I'm not sure that is a really a dovecot bug ... but maybe somebody here know one solution ... I have more than 150000 imap account to migrate from an obscure mail system based on a database to an imap/dovecot system. During the migration (simple but very long process) I get a "Too many links" error from dovecot. This error is not obscure but I'm unable to find a solution with this error on google. I kown the /proc/sys/fs/file-max for increase the number of open file, but it's not the problem here. This probleme occure with more than 130000 directory and more than 350000 file. Have you an idea ? Thank, Cyril Feraudet

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Fwd: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: [Dovecot] Timeout when downloading messages
by spart cus 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

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[Dovecot] Timeout when downloading messages
by spart cus 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi to All Gurus, Im having some problem with my mail server. Sending works perfectly but the problem is when my clients are receiving theyre mails. For example theyre downloading 20 mails, somehow when it reaches to 12 it disconnectes. Or the outlook client pops up some messages saying connection timeout? Im using dovecot and postfix for my mails server. tia --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.

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[Dovecot] Problems with Fedora core 5, Dovecot and Thunderbird
by Robert Hart 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi I am testing FC5 before upgrading my main server and I am getting errors with dovecot 1.0 beta3 - both the distributed RPM and also the one at ATrpms thunderbird (the distributed version which is thunderbird-1.5-6) I am running both dovecot and thunderbird on the same machine, pointing thunderbird at 127.0.0.1 for its imap server. The symptoms are an inability to access mail - thunderbird just keeps on trying and getting nowhere and even if I shut down thunderbird on the client, it still leaves processes running that have to be killed by hand. In the maillog I get Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<hartr>, method=plain, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap(hartr): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/hartr (8 > 1, seq=2, idx_msgs=4) Mar 29 09:17:25 bree dovecot: imap(hartr): file mbox-sync-update.c: line 55 (mbox_sync_move_buffer): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.offset + ctx->mail.space <= ctx->hdr_offset + pos || ctx->mail.offset > ctx->hdr_offset + pos + have) Mar 29 09:17:26 bree dovecot: child 14242 (imap) killed with signal 6 When I point this thunderbird at my main (dovecot 0.99) server everything is fine, we seems to suggest that this is a dovecot problem and not a thunderbird one. Can anyone give me any pointers on this please as it's a show stopper for upgrading my main server. Tks -- Robert Hart hartr(a)interweft.com.au +61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au

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[Dovecot] login problem
by jasper 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

X-Tech Space-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Tech Space-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Tech Space-MailScanner-From: redhat(a)techspace.nl I use pam to login my users are stored as j.hendriks now i like to use 2 domains but with the same user and passw and the option that de mail is stored in a difrent directory but i cant get rit of the @domain extention by Autentification made these canges. auth_process_size = 256 auth_cache_size = 5000 auth_cache_ttl = 3600 passdb pam { args = session=yes args = service name="*" args = cache_key=%n args = dovecot } but keeps Autentificating me as j.hendriks@domain insted of j.hendriks what am i doing wrong. help please. -- Dit bericht is gescanned op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door Techspace mailscanner en lijkt schoon te zijn.

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Re: [Dovecot] user name translation
by jasper 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

I'v read about this for virtual users bus were do i put this for pam authentication but i'm using the /etc/schadow file by pam so were do i implement te %n . in the dovecot.conf or the pam.d/dovecot or is there a new line in the updated verson of dovecot. thanks. On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:15:04 +0100, Daniel Watts wrote > jasper wrote: > > > > i have the next question i like to authenticate users only by user ant > > not by user@domain <mailto:user@domain> > > > > i'm using pam for authentication the users are stored bij first lette > > for name then back name > > > > J.Hendriks so no domain included. > > > > bu i want them to login as J.Hendriks@domain > > <mailto:J.Hendriks@domain> so i kan use the same user for more domains > > > > in diverent mail folders b.v. mail_folder= home/%d/%u > > > > but now pam is authenticating as user name J.Hendriks@domain > > <mailto:J.Hendriks@domain> and not J.Hendriks. > > > > is there a way to cut of @domain from name. > > > > > > > use %n for the username part of username(a)domain.com > Daniel > > -- > Dit bericht is gescanned op virussen en andere gevaarlijke > inhoud door Techspace mailscanner en lijkt schoon te zijn. - Als echtparen echt paren hebben echtgenoten echt genoten -- Dit bericht is gescanned op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door Techspace mailscanner en lijkt schoon te zijn.

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[Dovecot] user name translation
by jasper 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

i have the next question i like to authenticate users only by user ant not by user@domain i'm using pam for authentication the users are stored bij first lette for name then back name J.Hendriks so no domain included. bu i want them to login as J.Hendriks@domain so i kan use the same user for more domains in diverent mail folders b.v. mail_folder= home/%d/%u but now pam is authenticating as user name J.Hendriks@domain and not J.Hendriks. is there a way to cut of @domain from name. -- Dit bericht is gescanned op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door Techspace mailscanner en lijkt schoon te zijn.

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[Dovecot] Timeout when receiving messages with attachment
by spart cus 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hi guys, just recently got a problem with my mail server. My clients are comlaining that whel receiving theyre emails after 7 mails received suddenly the connection has timeout. Another scenario is with attachments. Sending 1MB of attachment is not a problem, but receiving this attachement is. Suddenly it timeout for some while. Anyone has a solution for these ? tnx --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.

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Re: [Dovecot] Message Filenames
by Marilyn Davis 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

> Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi > Sat Mar 25 11:12:27 EET 2006 > > On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 13:39 -0800, Charlie Davis wrote: > > Is there anyway to get a message's filename through the imap server? I've > been developing a program for awhile and just switched to dovecot from > > > > courier. Courier had a file that for every line was like: > > > > <message uid> <message filename> > > > > Is there anway to get this information out of dovecot? > > Yea, dovecot-uidlist file has the exact same format as long as you're > using maildir. We're new to dovecot (and really enjoying its speed and good sense!) We are delivering via exim, not yet using the dovecot-lda, and we are delivering to maildirs, but we don't seem to have any dovecot-uidlist files. What are we missing? Thank you, Marilyn

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[Dovecot] dovecot died
by Marten Lehmann 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hello, today our dovecot imap server died. The following message appeared in the logfile: dovecot: Mar 23 07:00:58 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files We have one dovecot instance for pop3 and one for imap, so while the pop3-service was still available, the imap-service was not running any more. I've seen a lots of users keeping there imap-connections idle for hours, often more than one per mailbox. How can I limit this? Can I limit the maximum time a connection can be open? Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] multiple "make install"s fail with 1.0.beta3
by Richard Laager 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

I think the subject covers it. Here's the error: Making install in convert make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[4]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' mkdir -p -- /usr/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 /usr/lib/dovecot/lda for d in imap pop3 lda; do \ rm -f /usr/lib/dovecot/$d/lib02_trash_plugin.so; \ ln -s ../lib01_convert_plugin.so /usr/lib/dovecot/$d; \ done ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists Richard

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[Dovecot] Re: OS X-centricities? Too many files, temp, indexes, etc...
by Roger Weeks 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

We're an ISP with approximately 9000 email customers. Up until early in January our primary mail servers ran on OS X, with exim as the MTA and courier-imap as the pop/imap server. We had continual problems with courier on OS X. The load it generates on the machine is horrible. You'll get absolutely no help from the courier mailing list or developers with OS X issues. When we started evaluating Dovecot, we first attempted it on OS X, however we were unable to get it running in an NFS environement on OS X in any sort of stable manner. I can't recommend highly enough getting off of OS X if you can for mail services. We went to Red Hat machines, and they have been amazingly stable and reliable. I love OS X, and use it for other things, but it makes a bad mail server at least for the volume of mail we process. -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network On Mar 26, 2006, at 12:24 AM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:22:18 -0800 > From: Dean Blackburn <dean.blackburn(a)viz.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] OS X-centricities? Too many files, temp, > indexes, etc... > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <44257C4A.6030801(a)viz.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> 1) Too many files open - no plimit command on OS X, so I can't >>> figure >>> out how to increase the max number of open files... Also, are >>> there any >>> alternative means of CLOSING the files? stopping/restarting dovecot >>> didn't seem to help; >>> >> >> Which process is running out of them? There are multiple Dovecot >> processes, and each could have a different reason of running out >> of file >> handles. >> >> > dovecot: Mar 24 11:35:51 Error: imap(yukimurashige): pipe() failed: > Too > many open files > dovecot: Mar 24 11:35:51 Error: child 21465 (imap) returned error 89 > >>> 2) I was running 1.0beta1 last week, and am now on 1.0beta3, but I'm >>> still not seeing corrupt indexes/other dovecot files rebuilding >>> themselves. I really can't stick with this solution if I'll >>> always have >>> to worry about manually fixing broken caches/indexes. >>> >> >> First of all they shouldn't anymore be corrupting themselves at least >> easily. What exactly are the error messages you're seeing? >> >> > Lots of this: > > dovecot: Mar 24 12:18:45 Error: imap(mikitanaka): Corrupted index file > /Users/mikitanaka/Maildir/dovecot.index: uid_validity = 0, next_uid > = 1366 > > Some of this: > > dovecot: Mar 24 10:55:45 Error: imap(kristinegivas): imap(19936) > malloc: > *** error for object 0x602200: incorrect checksum for freed object - > object was probably modified after being freed, break at > szone_error to > debug > > And occasionally this: > > dovecot: Mar 24 11:00:14 Error: imap(deanblackburn): Maildir > /Users/deanblackburn/Maildir sync: UID inserted in the middle of > mailbox > (1042 > 1041, file = 1143071249.Ve000008I8e7f3b40.mailserv.local:2,Sk) > > That's just yesterday's errors, we've seen some others as well. But > they > all go away if one deletes dovecot* from the affected directory, and > they don't go away on their own. Also, we'll see a huge number of > temp.* > files build up within the maildir once these files "go bad"... > > From the client perspective, you either get a "connection timed out" > error, or on some less robust clients, "connection refused by IMAP > server". >> Also as far as I know they're rebuilding themselves automatically in >> most situations. Only if Dovecot crashes because of the corruption it >> doesn't get rebuilt. If it's not crashing with you, could it be just >> that they keep re-breaking all the time? >> > Definitely possible. ;) How can we tell? > > If we can solve these issues, we'll be very happy with Dovecot... > Courier seems a lot more solid, in retrospect, but required so much > disk > access it was completely unusable by our staff. In contrast, > Dovecot is > fast, light on resources, but will break around 5-10 individuals' > mailboxes every day. So far, we just can't win! > > -deano

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[Dovecot] LDA sieve library
by Luca Corti 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hello, is the LDA linked against the Cyrus SIEVE library or against the fork at libsieve.sourceforge.net ? It seems Cyrus SIEVE from src/libsieve/README in the lda sources. libsieve seems to be better suited for inclusion in non-cyrus software and should be completely independent from libcyrus. The README for cyrus version of libsieve also states that: "It should compile without libcyrus, but then it does not implement the "address" test." thanks -- Luca Corti PGP Key ID 1F38C091 BOFH excuse of the moment: Interference from the Van Allen Belt.

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD 5.4/Dovecot 1.0.b3: lots of error messages
by Martin Jangowski 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi! I installed Dovecot from the FreeBSD port. I have about 20 users on this machine and used popper before switching. I get a lot of error messages like: dovecot: Mar 21 10:03:41 Error: pop3(xxx): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/xxx (37326 > 35874, seq=1, idx_msgs=26) dovecot: Mar 21 10:06:17 Error: imap(yyy): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/yyy (37352 > 36945, seq=1, idx_msgs=2) dovecot: Mar 21 10:06:18 Error: imap(yyy): kevent(1) in io_loop_handle_add() failed: Bad file descriptor dovecot: Mar 21 10:06:18 Error: imap(yyy): kevent(1) in io_loop_handle_remove failed: Bad file descriptor dovecot: Mar 21 10:06:22 Error: imap(yyy): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/yyy (37354 > 36945, seq=1, idx_msgs=205) Most of the errors are the mbox sync messages. The users report that they get all mails double, triple and more... I think this is connected to the UID problem. My config file looks like that: protocols = imap imaps pop3 disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot.err info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " login_process_size = 64 verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_gid = 0 mail_extra_groups = mail default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } plugin { } Any ideas? Grüße aus Hohenlohe, Martin Jangowski | Martin Jangowski E-Mail: Martin(a)Jangowski.de| | Netzwerke und Multimedia | | Voice: +49 7946/940790 Fax: +49 7946/940791 | | Snail Mail: Von-Olnhausen Str. 4 74626 Bretzfeld Germany |

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[Dovecot] Installing Dovecot on CentOS
by James A 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

I use CentOS 3.5 and want to install Dovecot, but I got this error : # yum install dovecot Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Centos-3 - i386/i686 - Addons Server: Centos-3 - i386/i686 - Base Server: Centos-3 - i386/i686 - Extras Server: Centos-3 - i386/i686 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Cannot find a package matching dovecot No actions to take Is it discontinued ? JA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] %d empty even though username has @domain
by William Ross 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

hello, Sorry to jump straight in with a question, but I've searched the archive[0] and I'm pretty sure the answer's not there. I'm using dovecot to replace courier imap, so authentication is by vpopmail and the Maildirs are stored in the usual domains/domain/user/ Maildir. Everything seems to work very well, and setting it up has been easy, so thank you very much for that. I have only one problem left: %d is empty when interpolated into default_mail_env. I expect there's something obvious I'm doing wrong, but it's hard to tell because the wiki isn't always up to date (i'd be happy to update the vpopmail sections once this is working): Config has this [1]: default_mail_env = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir and i log in over imaps with the account i'm using for testing: username: sysadmin(a)spanner.org password: ... Authentication seems to work perfectly, but then the logs show: dovecot: Dec 05 12:24:59 Info: imap(sysadmin): maildir: root=/home/ vpopmail/domains//sysadmin/Maildir, index=/home/vpopmail/domains// sysadmin/Maildir, control=, inbox= any suggestions, please? thank you, will [0] This has come up before: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005- June/007530.html [1] the rest of dovecot.conf, less comments: base_dir = /var/run/dovecot protocols = imaps log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_debug = yes protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb vpopmail { args = } userdb vpopmail { } userdb prefetch { } user = root } namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } default_mail_env = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir pop3_uidl_format = %v-%u ssl_cert_file = /usr/local/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/local/ssl/private/dovecot.pem

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 beta3 and SUBSCRIBE
by Bertrand Leboeuf 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Thanks but for mbox it is ".subscriptions", "subscriptions" is for maildir, but I found the BUG !!! ~/mail/.subscriptions is on an NFS mounted filesystem, it keeps on getting deleted... does not like NFS (the files are renamed .nfsXXXXX when deleted) if I patch the code to get it on a local filesystem, like my indexes (in storage->index_dir instead of storage->dir): /var/indexes/%u/.subscriptions then it stays alive and work. Bertrand >On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:40:05 -0500 (EST) >Bertrand Leboeuf <leboeuf(a)emt.inrs.ca> wrote: > >> Any clues > >Rename .subscriptions to subscriptions > >-- > >Brian Morrison >

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[Dovecot] Clash between multiple authentication databases (security problem?)
by dovecot-ri 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi all, I just installed dovecot-1.0_beta2 and love it! However, I've run into issues using multiple authentication databases. I use both pam (for users on my system) and sql (for virtual users). I've noticed that if I have system user "userabc" and virtual user "userabc(a)otherdomain.com" (two distinct users) and my "auth default" section contains these passdb/userdb entries in this order (the order in the example config): passdb pam passdb sql userdb pam userdb sql then when userabc(a)otherdomain.com logs in, he'll get the system user userabc's mail instead of his own. It appears that the sql password check succeeds, then Dovecot grabs the home directory from pam, NOT sql. I can work around this by setting up "userdb prefetch" and adding that section *before* "userdb pam". If I put "userdb prefetch" after "userdb pam" or after "userdb sql", then Dovecot doesn't actually do the prefetch (which causes an error since Dovecot issues the default SQL query for "user_query", which my MySQL database doesn't like). Is there a safer way to do this? If not, should there be? Thanks! Richard ====================================================== complete working dovecot.conf: ====================================================== first_valid_uid = 900 mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes protocol imap { login_greeting_capability = yes } protocol pop3 { } auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = "*" } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb prefetch { } userdb passwd { } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } user = root } ====================================================== dovecot-sql.conf: ====================================================== driver = mysql connect = host=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock user=mail password=** dbname=mail default_pass_scheme = SSHA password_query = <query that returns user, password, userdb_home, userdb_uid, userdb_gid>

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA + Fedora destribution = no go?
by Marilyn Davis 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

> Jakob Hirsch jh at plonk.de > Sat Mar 25 04:40:29 EET 2006 > Quoting Charlie Davis: > > > Anyone know of a way to get the LDA to work on the fedora distribution > > available on yum? I'm a big fan of the whole yum-auto-updating thing but > > if this isn't possible, I'll go tarball. > > To use the LDA, AFAIK you'll have to go CVS. Going CVS, can we build and install dovecot-lda and keep the dovecot executable the way it is? Or do we have to rebuild the dovecot executable from the CVS tree too? Thank you. Marilyn Davis

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[Dovecot] Some moved or copied messages get stuck in tmp
by Luis Meléndez 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

Hello. I have seen in recent posts that there are other people with this problem, and it is very important for me, as it is the only cause for not putting Dovecot in production in all mail servers in my University. When moving/copying messages, some of them get stuck in the tmp directory of the destination folder, effectively lost for the user. I have been tracing the problem, and it looks that it happens with messages that have flags. The others don't have problems. But if I copy/move several flagged messages, one of them is copied, and the others are kept in tmp. In maildir-save.c there is the following comment: /* if we have flags, we'll move it to cur/ directly, because files in new/ directory can't have flags. alternative would be to write it in new/ and set the flags dirty in index file, but in that case external MUAs would see wrong flags. */ that looks like a clue. It happens with CVS versions 20060320 and 20060325 I hace done almost all tests with Thunderbird. Best regards. -- +----------------------------------------------^-----------------------+ | Luis Meléndez Aganzo ^ Email: luism(a)uco.es | | Servicio de Informática ^ Tlf: 34-(9)57-211022 | | Área de Sistemas ^ Fax: 34-(9)57-218116 | | Universidad de Córdoba (SPAIN) ^ http://www.uco.es | +----------------------------------------------^-----------------------+

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[Dovecot] OS X-centricities? Too many files, temp, indexes, etc...
by Dean Blackburn 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

I'm just writing to see if anyone else is seeing the following issues, and particularly if they are running OS X (especially 10.4), and/or have compatible solutions (I've been reading the mailing list quite a bit, and every now and then, I find a solution that just "doesn't work" because of the differences in OS: 1) Too many files open - no plimit command on OS X, so I can't figure out how to increase the max number of open files... Also, are there any alternative means of CLOSING the files? stopping/restarting dovecot didn't seem to help; 2) I was running 1.0beta1 last week, and am now on 1.0beta3, but I'm still not seeing corrupt indexes/other dovecot files rebuilding themselves. I really can't stick with this solution if I'll always have to worry about manually fixing broken caches/indexes. 3) Any advice on fcntl/flock on OS X, particularly? They both appear to work, but I'd prefer to use the fastest/least resource intensive options for everything if possible. Thanks! -deano

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[Dovecot] Filesystem full/quota limitations and Dovecot
by Tony Kay 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

How does Dovecot handle accounts when writes are denied, such as in situations when a user is over quota, or the filesystem is full? -- Anthony Kay University Computing Center (541) 346-1719 GPG Fingerprint: B0DB D46A 60AF FAE7 A94A 5075 0CB4 4D88 9F4F 7F09 Only a statue can be perfect, and even then it casts a shadow. - Merle Fossum

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[Dovecot] Corrupted transaction log file dovecot.index.log: unexpected end of file while reading header
by Matthias Saou 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

Hi, I'm using dovecot 1.0.0beta3 on a RHEL4 x86_64 server. I'm seeing this error each and every time a user checks his emails : Mar 15 18:19:34 s1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user@domain>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:195.x.x.x, lip=::ffff:195.x.x.x Mar 15 18:19:34s1 dovecot: pop3(user@domain): Corrupted transaction log file /home/vmail/domain/user/dovecot.index.log: unexpected end of file while reading header Mar 15 18:19:34 s1 dovecot: pop3(user@domain): Logout. top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/2, size=1213 From my basic testing, this seemed harmless. But after putting this in production, it appears that when emails are retrieved, long ones always get truncated after a few kB, changing attachments into garbage :-( Has anyone seen this problem before? Any ideas what could be causing this? Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 4 (Rawhide) - Linux kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 Load : 0.22 0.36 0.41

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