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[Dovecot] Shared Folders (1.0beta3)
by Timothy White 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

A few quick questions, as documentation seems to be sparse. * Is there a way to force a shared folder to be subscribed to? If I am using SquirrelMail I have a plugin to do that, but not if they are using another IMAP client. * Are there some sort of ACL's on shared folders, so that I can (hopefully with a sql backend), allow different users different permissions on the folder? * Is it a bug that we can't subscribe to the shared folder, only to it's sub folders? (and is there a way to work around this, i.e. if the shared folder isn't really a Maildir, but it's sub folders are? Other than that, so far, my glimpse at 1.0beta3 is looking very good, and came at the right time, as I was thinking I might need to use Cyrus for the project I'm working on atm... Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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RE: [Dovecot] getting lock error
by Bas van den Dikkenberg 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

Thanx fot the tip this solves problem with pop3 but not with imap With imap I get imap(basweb(a)dikkenberg.net): Mar 07 00:32:35 Error:mailstore/vmail/dikkenberg.net/basweb/.subscriptions failed with subscription file file_wait_lock(): No locks available I'm running redhat enterprise linux 4.0 with dovecot 0.99.11 but redhat doesn't provide the new version yet with up2date is there an rpm so I can update? Met vriendelijk groet, Bas van Dikkenberg GISkit bv BFVD1-RIPE Tel: +3130-6340430 Fax: +3130-6342433 Prive Tel: +3130-6372769 Mob: +316-52384841 -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] Namens Timo Sirainen Verzonden: maandag 6 maart 2006 21:55 Aan: Bas van den Dikkenberg CC: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] getting lock error On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 09:11 +0100, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote: > I’m getting this error for al my users does anybody know wat the > problem is and how i can fix it > > pop3(bas(a)giskit.nl): Mar 06 09:10:37 Error: file_wait_lock() failed > with index file /mailstore/vmail/giskit.nl/bas/.INBOX/.imap.index: No > locks available First of all, use 1.0betas instead of 0.99.x. Then read NFS section in http://wiki.dovecot.org/QuickConfiguration

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[Dovecot] using mbox but, can't create subfolders
by blaq b0x 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

Hi, I'm using mbox format w/ dovecot 1.0b3. I tried moving over my mail from a uw-imap server. Everything works fine except I can't create subfolders. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is this a limitation of dovecot? How can I fix this? Thanks, --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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Re: [Dovecot] maildir locking and 'racing'
by William Ross 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

On 2 Mar 2006, at 21:44, Andy Cravens wrote: > I had this problem on a Sun Solaris 9 host using maildir. I had to > set lock_method = fcntl in dovecot.conf > > All accounts on this system are on local disk (not NFS) Fantastic! Fixed it just like that. Thank you. Oddly, this too is a Sun box but it's running Debian. I'm ccing this back to the list in case anyone else needs to know that (or can tell me what's wrong with my flock). thanks again, will > > > > > > > William Ross wrote: > >> hello Timo, list, >> >> quick error-message question. A few of the accounts on my main >> mailserver are failing to log in with errors like this: >> >> dovecot: Mar 02 19:33:35 Error: imap(user(a)example.com): >> maildir_file_do(/var/lib/vpopmail/domains/example.com/user/ >> Maildir) racing >> >> if I log in by telnet everything is fine, and from the source it >> looks like the error happens when dovecot fails to get a lock on >> some important file or other. Could it be to do with concurrent >> connections? No idea. Has anyone seen this, and can you suggest a >> quick fix? I can't see any obvious difference between the >> accounts that work and those that don't :( >> >> nb. this is with vpopmail, and the Maildirs have just been moved >> over from another server that was also running the same version >> of dovecot. Some of the accounts do work. Perhaps it's just an >> obscure file permissions problem, or something? I'd be very glad >> of any suggestions. >> >> thank you, >> >> will >> > >

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[Dovecot] permission/ownership of SSL cert, key & their directories
by Stewart Dean 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

This ought to be a simple question. Have I got this right? drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 512 Mar 03 15:16 certs drwxr-x--- 2 root system 512 Mar 03 15:10 private ./certs: -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 1403 Mar 03 15:16 dovecot.pem ./private: -rw------- 1 root system 887 Mar 03 15:16 dovecot.pem -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] getting lock error
by Bas van den Dikkenberg 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

I'm getting this error for al my users does anybody know wat the problem is and how i can fix it pop3(bas(a)giskit.nl): Mar 06 09:10:37 Error: file_wait_lock() failed with index file /mailstore/vmail/giskit.nl/bas/.INBOX/.imap.index: No locks available Met vriendelijk groet, Bas van Dikkenberg GISkit bv BFVD1-RIPE Tel: +3130-6340430 Fax: +3130-6342433 Prive Tel: +3130-6372769 Mob: +316-52384841

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[Dovecot] convert tool
by lenny＠edpausa.com 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Trying out the new convert tool, to migrate from mbox to maildir. Using this syntax ( both inbox and folders are in user's home dir, in mbox format ) ./convert-tool pinetest/export/home2/pinetest \ mbox:/export/home2/pinetest/:INBOX=/export/home2/pinetest/mbox \ maildir:/export/home2/pinetest/Maildir/ I get this error. "Error: Mailbox conversion: Couldn't create mailbox home/Trash Error: Internal failure" Where does it get home/Trash from is hard to guess. I'm not using any variables, every path explicitly says "/export/home2/pinetest" Any ideas ?

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[Dovecot] How to create .dovecot.sieve through IMAP?
by Sergey A. Lipnevich 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Hi All, I suspect that the answer is "no way," but there's hope. I'm trying to set up a PHP application Ingo (part of Horde suite) to create the file <home>/.dovecot.sieve for the "advanced" LDA to do mail sorting. Because PHP is running under a Web server user, Ingo can't really write this file directly. My question is, is there any way for Ingo (or any other tool, for that matter) to create that file via IMAP protocol interaction? Horde authenticates users and "knows" login/password combination (that's how it accesses mail folders). Thank you! Sergey.

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[Dovecot] using uid in ldap to send email with postfix to dovecot-users!!
by hotten 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Hallo @All I want to use the uid entry in an ldap-database to send email to virtuell dovecot users. What have I to to in postfix?? Allways get an error message user does not exist!! Can abybody help with an example?? Thanks a lot

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[Dovecot] Does it work with ispman
by Dennis K 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Hello guys, I have just installed ispman. According to the manual it supports cyrus & courier. I was wondering if it will support dovecot. Dennis Kaplan

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RE: [Dovecot] Really dumb question
by Al Blake 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

Thanks Reuben......I got there just as your reply came in......for some reason I didn’t find them before. Found them all as hidden directories under Maildir. Now I can switch off my windows mail server :) Al. -----Original Message----- From: Reuben Farrelly [mailto:reuben-dovecot@reub.net] Sent: Sunday, 5 March 2006 9:31 PM To: Al Blake Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Really dumb question On 5/03/2006 11:25 p.m., Al Blake wrote: > Just got dovecot running inside MEPIS 3.3.2 SOHO (debian). I am > impressed. It works really well and I am planning to move my mail away > from my Win server and access the mail from dovecot using imap. I have > copied some folders from my existing Outlook mail system into the imap > mail server without any problems....so here is the dumb question: > where are the mail files/folders stored on the MEPIS server? I have > been all over the file system and cant find any files that look right. > The dovecot doco talks about mail location for the index files - but I > have looked in all of those and cant find anything. > The MEPIS system has a Maildir for the user......but that looks just > as it did at install: contains three folders, cur, new and tmp all of > which are empty :( Do you see anything if you run: ls -la Maildir/ in the users directories? That's where the indexes are often stored.. reuben -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.2/274 - Release Date: 3/03/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.2/274 - Release Date: 3/03/2006

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[Dovecot] Really dumb question
by Al Blake 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

Just got dovecot running inside MEPIS 3.3.2 SOHO (debian). I am impressed. It works really well and I am planning to move my mail away from my Win server and access the mail from dovecot using imap. I have copied some folders from my existing Outlook mail system into the imap mail server without any problems....so here is the dumb question: where are the mail files/folders stored on the MEPIS server? I have been all over the file system and cant find any files that look right. The dovecot doco talks about mail location for the index files - but I have looked in all of those and cant find anything. The MEPIS system has a Maildir for the user......but that looks just as it did at install: contains three folders, cur, new and tmp all of which are empty :( Please dont flame - I have looked and I did try to find the answer but I although I can see the folders and messages through the imap client I cant actually find anything on the server.......and I would like to see something before I turn my Win mail server off. Thanks Al Blake (australia) -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.2/274 - Release Date: 3/03/2006

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[Dovecot] Apple Mail cannot connect (1.0 beta3)
by Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

I'm testing 1.0 beta3 on our mail server, and finding that Apple Mail seems unable to connect to it. I'm running the 1.0b3 on port 997 so we can test it in parallel to 0.91 to compare performance (so far, it's hella faster). I've ensured that the users testing are _not_ connecting in any way to the 0.91 version running on port 993. From the OS X client side (10.4.5 + latest patches), Apple Mail simply sits there and spins, and eventually times out. The error it gives is: ----- Alert There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Check the settings for account "UCSD" or try again. The server error encountered was: The connection to the server "csefast.ucsd.edu" on port 0 timed out. ----- I'm thinking, "port 0, WTF?" ... On the server, I get this out of the logs: ----- Mar 2 11:54:48 csefast dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=<client_ip_address>, lip=<server_ip_address>, TLS Mar 2 11:54:48 csefast dovecot: imap-login: SSL_accept() syscall failed: EOF [<client_ip_address>] ----- Apple Mail is configured to connect to port 997 and has "Use SSL" checked. I'm not getting anything else useful out of the Mac in terms of debugging info. Thunderbird seems to be working fine (all platforms). The configuration file in use is: ----- protocols = imaps ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/<servername>_cert.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/<servername>_key.pem login_greeting = Dovecot ready. max_mail_processes = 2048 verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes first_valid_uid = 100 mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no protocol imap { ssl_listen = *:997 login_greeting_capability = yes } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = session=yes dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root } ----- Any ideas? Thanks, Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade Sr. Systems Administrator Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego Office: EBU3b 1216 Phone: (858) 822-2625 E-mail: gkra(a)ucsd.edu

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird 1.5 and dovecot 1.0 beta 3 problem
by Peterg 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

My mailhosting provider has been testing dovecot 1.0 beta 3 as a proxy server and they asked the customers if they would like to test it out and report any issues. I am using Thunderbird 1.5 (IMAP) and have been with this mailhosting company for two months and have no issues at all with their current setup which uses Perdition as their proxy servers. The problem(s) I am encountered have been reported here a few times previously over the last couple of years but in searching I have not found any concrete solutions. When I first tested it out there was a continuous problem of a failure in saving a copy of an email to the sent folder although the message was sent. One of the staff of the mailhosting company noted this exact problem as well and believed the issue was Dovecot announcing different IMAP capabilities than the real backend IMAP servers (via the CAPABILITY command). This was supposedly fixed and initially there were no issues with the first set of test emails. However, in short order, this problem re-emerged and there would be sporadic failures to copy a message to the sent folder. Another issue would be that every now and then, when clicking on a folder in the left-hand pane (and no other activity going on with Thunderbird like downloading a new mail) Thunderbird would hourglass for 10-15 seconds as if it were trying to open a connection and was having difficulty. The maximum number of connections setup in Thunderbird is the default 5 and I am advised that this is the correct setting with their servers. Reducing the maximum number of connections does not appear to change matters in terms of avoiding these problems. Changing back to the current system (ie not using the test proxy server) both these issues disappeared. I have been in communication with the mailhosting provider as to my findings but it would be most appreciated if others here would perhaps have some insight into this matter. Peter

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[Dovecot] lock files on mbox using 1.0 stable
by Obantec Support 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hi i am using dovecot 1.0 stable no SSL on FC3 and mbox format i have a user who seem prone to file locks. he had a pop3 process running for 8 hours. i killed it and deleted the lock but it returned a few hour later. the user is using Outlook express only. as a test i have setup a new account for him but would like to know if there is a way to stop this happening. i have gone thru the conf and default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u #lock_method = fcntl #mbox_read_locks = fcntl #mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl #mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 Mark -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/273 - Release Date: 02/03/2006

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Re: [Dovecot] Error "make install" of dovecot 1.0b3 - Working !
by David A. Lee 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

----- Original Message ----- From: "David A. Lee" <dlee(a)calldei.com> To: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi>; <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:20 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Error "make install" of dovecot 1.0b3 - Working ! > 4) -- that was prety obvious, the log file told me what was going on. Its > also somehwat documented. > However 3) was a total mystery to me. All the debug log said even with > full debugging was "Authentication Failed" > > I had never used pam before (even after 25 years of unix programming ... ) > and had absolutely no clue what to do. > After looking through the source code for about an hour I found the > function call it was using (pam_authenticate) and then about another hour > looking through the worthless pam man pages and trying about a dozen > things I finally guessed right and it worked. > > I think a comment in the config or install notes would really really help > out a beginner. > > > > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:08 -0500, David A. Lee wrote: >> 3) I had to create a "dovecot" service in my /etc/pam.d/ directory >> >> 4) had to add "mail" as an extra group to get write access to /var/mail > .. >> Who would I send these notes to hopefully get these issues either fixed >> or >> documented ? > > I don't know how I could anything about these. They're both > site-specific settings, not everyone wants them. I could add a reminder > about /etc/pam.d/dovecot to config file I suppose.. > >

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[Dovecot] maildir locking and 'racing'
by William Ross 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

hello Timo, list, quick error-message question. A few of the accounts on my main mailserver are failing to log in with errors like this: dovecot: Mar 02 19:33:35 Error: imap(user(a)example.com): maildir_file_do(/var/lib/vpopmail/domains/example.com/user/Maildir) racing if I log in by telnet everything is fine, and from the source it looks like the error happens when dovecot fails to get a lock on some important file or other. Could it be to do with concurrent connections? No idea. Has anyone seen this, and can you suggest a quick fix? I can't see any obvious difference between the accounts that work and those that don't :( nb. this is with vpopmail, and the Maildirs have just been moved over from another server that was also running the same version of dovecot. Some of the accounts do work. Perhaps it's just an obscure file permissions problem, or something? I'd be very glad of any suggestions. thank you, will

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RE: [Dovecot] ipv6 not working
by Bas van den Dikkenberg 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Thanxs Works great now Met vriendelijk groet, Bas van Dikkenberg GISkit bv BFVD1-RIPE Tel: +3130-6340430 Fax: +3130-6342433 Prive Tel: +3130-6372769 Mob: +316-52384841 -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Johannes Berg [mailto:johannes@sipsolutions.net] Verzonden: donderdag 2 maart 2006 14:04 Aan: Bas van den Dikkenberg CC: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] ipv6 not working On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 13:31 +0100, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote: > > imap_listen = * > > pop3_listen = * Leave those out. works for me (on linux, if you're on BSD that might result in it not listening on ipv4 or something) johannes

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[Dovecot] ipv6 not working
by Bas van den Dikkenberg 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

I added an listner to dovecot bye adding the following lines to config but no result no connectivity with ipv6: imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * Met vriendelijk groet, Bas van Dikkenberg GISkit bv BFVD1-RIPE Tel: +3130-6340430 Fax: +3130-6342433 Prive Tel: +3130-6372769 Mob: +316-52384841

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[Dovecot] Patch to src/auth/mech-gssapi.c
by James F. Hranicky 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

This bug causes a segfault when compiled against heimdal, but not MIT krb5. Either way, I think this code is correct. HTH. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Jim Hranicky, Senior SysAdmin UF/CISE Department | | E314D CSE Building Phone (352) 392-1499 | | jfh(a)cise.ufl.edu http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jfh | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- src/auth/mech-gssapi.c.orig 2006-03-01 14:21:40.000000000 -0500 +++ src/auth/mech-gssapi.c 2006-03-01 14:18:58.000000000 -0500 @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ return major_status; } - gss_release_name(&minor_status, gss_principal); + gss_release_name(&minor_status, &gss_principal); return major_status; }

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Bas van den Dikkenberg 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

I have a problem Trying to connect with pop3 to my server with ipv4 it works great. But when I use ipv6 it doesn't want to work. I added the following lines: imap_listen = [2001:7b8:210::4] pop3_listen = [2001:7b8:210::4] but this doesn't work also Wat am doing wrong Met vriendelijk groet, Bas van Dikkenberg GISkit bv BFVD1-RIPE Tel: +3130-6340430 Fax: +3130-6342433 Prive Tel: +3130-6372769 Mob: +316-52384841

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[Dovecot] Postfix: Command died with status 89: "/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver"
by Jacob Elder 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

One of our servers running Dovecot 1.0.beta3 and dovecot-lda has failed to deliver a few messages and I can't figure out why. Very few messages bounce and I don't see any common thread between them other than time. The 15:19:11 message was a company wide announcement and the other 4 servers (identical configuration) were able to deliver it. Feb 26 20:24:46 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141003486.9152.94b403f750d9ce0b) failed: Permission denied Feb 26 20:24:46 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 26 20:24:46 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail Feb 27 09:57:13 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141052233.12958.20786c4677df8930) failed: Permission denied Feb 27 09:57:13 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 27 09:57:13 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail Feb 28 09:00:25 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141135225.20088.aedaad0b0720edda) failed: Permission denied Feb 28 09:00:25 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 28 09:00:25 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141157951.21988.6a7426202e533221) failed: Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141157951.21990.6a7426202e533221) failed: Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141157951.21992.6a7426202e533221) failed: Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: open(/tmp/dovecot.deliver.. 1141157951.21993.6a7426202e533221) failed: Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: i_stream_stat() failed with mbox file (read-only mbox stream): Permission denied Feb 28 15:19:11 rental deliver: Can't sync delivery mail -- Jacob Elder

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[Dovecot] Maildir Quotas
by wink＠gettcomm.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hey guys, Does anyone have any ideas as to when this may be implemented? I'd love to be able to use dovecot, but without quota support, it just won't fit the bill. Is there any developer documentation as to what would be required to fully support maildir quotas as I'd be willing to help implement it assuming it's not going to take me weeks to become familiar enough with the codebase. Thanks

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[Dovecot] using dovecot for postfix sasl
by h＠hpjt.net 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

I have followed the Dovecot/Postfix/SASL howto, and modified the main.cf and dovecot.conf files, yet when trying to authenticate during a postfix SMTP session the log reports: "postfix/smtpd....warning: SASL authentication failure: Could not open db" Dovecot itself is authenticating IMAP logins correctly, and it is creating the auth file in the location specified under /var/spool/postfix/private. Why is postfix not able to get to the Dovecot auth mechanism? Thanks. Hugh

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[Dovecot] Error "make install" of dovecot 1.0b3
by David A. Lee 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

I just downloaded dovecot 1.0b3 and running "make install" gives me an error This seems like a fairly simple bug in the Makefile ... but I'm not sure if maybe its a symptom of something more complex. I've tried "make uninstall" , "make install" and removing the entire /usr/local/lib/dovecot tree and same thing. dovecot does run ... but for other reasons I'm having problems getting it to work so thinking maybe this error could explain things System: Linux [root@lee dovecot-1.0.beta3]# uname -a Linux lee.calldei.com 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 #1 Tue May 17 20:27:37 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux CPU: x86 Filesystem: standard linux fs. FYI: the "other problem" is I had to modify main.c to listen on alternate ports because I cant shut down my current UofW IMAP server to test this one ... ------- mkdir -p -- /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda for d in imap pop3 lda; do \ rm -f /usr/local/lib/dovecot/$d/lib02_trash_plugin.so; \ ln -s ../lib01_convert_plugin.so /usr/local/lib/dovecot/$d; \ done ln: `/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists ln: `/usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists make[4]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 [root@lee dovecot-1.0.beta3]# ln: `/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_convert_plugin.so': File exists

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[Dovecot] Virtual-Auth-Problem "user unknown"
by strace＠letras.net 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

After setting up dovecot 1.0beta-2 on a debian(etch) system I can well login as local user but not vor virtual domains. When I try to login via POP3 as via IMAP connects (here with telnet from localhost), I get a strange output "user unknown": ------------------------- /var/log/dovecot ------------------------- 2006-02-28 01:07:38 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AHh5ekBub3JhLmxpAGRrc2RrU20= 2006-02-28 01:07:38 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(xyz(a)nora.li,127.0.0.1): unknown user 2006-02-28 01:07:39 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=xyz(a)nora.li 2006-02-28 01:07:40 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<xyz(a)nora.li>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured The abobe test user xyz(a)nora.li exists an receives valid email via postfix (see below in ls -laR). My configuration (user dovecot exists with uid 119): ------------------------- /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ------------------------- base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " syslog_facility = mail login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 3 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_logging_users = 256 login_greeting = Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format = %$: %s max_mail_processes = 1024 verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes first_valid_uid = 200 mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes protocol imap { mail_use_modules = yes mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv mail_use_modules = no mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/vmail/passwd.%d } userdb static { args = uid=200 gid=200 home=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n } user = root } ------------------------- /etc/passwd ------------------------- vmail:x:200:200::/home/vmail:/bin/sh - that's the user postfix brings mail in ------------------------- /etc/group ------------------------- vmail:x:200: ---------------------------------------- `ls -laR /var/spool/mail/nora.li/xyz ---------------------------------------- /var/spool/vmail/nora.li/xyz: total 20 drwxr-sr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 . drwxr-sr-x 4 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 .. drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 cur drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 18:30 new drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 18:30 tmp /var/spool/vmail/nora.li/xyz/cur: total 8 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 . drwxr-sr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 .. /var/spool/vmail/nora.li/xyz/new: total 16 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 18:30 . drwxr-sr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 .. -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 813 2006-02-27 18:14 1141060448.V303I33f01M21995.tapas.letras.de -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 813 2006-02-27 18:30 1141061439.V303I33f4dM13454.tapas.letras.de /var/spool/vmail/nora.li/xyz/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 18:30 . drwxr-sr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-02-27 17:32 .. ============================================================== Any hint will be highly appreciated. Thanx in advance, Werner

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[Dovecot] Sorting order after mail move
by Václav Haisman 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, when I move some recent mail from some mbox folder into Maildir folder the moved email sorts as the first (on top) in the folder while it should be on the bottom with the rest of the recent emails in the folder. This happens only when moving from mbox folder to Maildir folder. I am not sure if it is really Dovecot bug or not but I suspect it could be so because it only happens in this one specific scenario. Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] two possible inboxes, possible to check both?
by adcx＠server101.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

We're currently in the process of organising a migration from mbox to maildir mail storage on our server, and are hoping to phase this in gradually using dovecot's capabilities. Procmail has already been configured to deliver mail to either the existing mbox or to a new maildir for the user based on the (non)existence of a .converted file in their home directory. Where we are having problems is the pop3 retrieval side of things. Basically, we're chasing a setup where dovecot will first check to see if /mail/<first letter of username>/username exists (indicating that the account has had the .converted file created and new mail has since been delivered to that user in the new maildir format). If this directory does not exist, it should fallback to retrieving mail from the as-yet unconverted mbox, /var/mail/username. We've tried different combinations of namespaces and default_mail_env values to achieve this without success. One attempt which has come particularly close was: 1. Leaving /etc/dovecot.conf almost entirely default. The auto-detection ability of dovecot performs the following (output to /var/log/maillog): Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): maildir: access(/home/joe/Maildir, rwx): failed: No such file or directory Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): maildir: couldn't find root dir Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): mbox: root exists (/home/joe/mail) Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): mbox: INBOX exists (/var/mail/joe) Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): mbox: root=/home/joe/mail, index=/home/joe/mail, inbox=/var/mail/joe Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<joe>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.6.20, lip=192.168.6.2 Feb 28 14:57:45 mouse dovecot: pop3(joe): Logout. top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 This is almost exactly what we're chasing, except the new Maildir is not going to be created in the user's home dir, it will be in /mail/<first letter of username>/username. All attempts to make this last adjustment have ultimately modified the behaviour of dovecot so that it only checks the one source explicity given, and then simply fails if it does not exist, unlike the unconfigured behaviour illustrated above where it is able to fallback to a secondary source. A '2nd_default_mail_env' is the type of variable I'm looking to define, if that makes it any clearer. Any advice much appreciated, I've already searched most of the archives for this list without finding anything similar.

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[Dovecot] Change Default IMAP folder
by Marco 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi all, I use dovecot 0.99.14-1 Can I change the default Dovecot IMAP Trash folder from .Draft to .Drafts? Dovecot make a .Draft folder and my e-mail clients (Thunderbird - Outlook Express) makes .Drafts folder. Thanks Marco

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.0-beta3 in production
by Branko F. Gračnar 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hello there! I've migrated our courier-imap production imap/pop server to dovecot 1.0-beta few days ago. In general dovecot performs excellent, but i've encountered several "bugs" in dovecot log: --- snip --- dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:05:21 elfstone dovecot: imap(user3(a)domain.tld): Maildir /export/mail/domain.tld/user3 sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (47681 > 47680, file = 1138960753.P9796Q0M642679.elfstone:2,T) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:20:48 elfstone dovecot: imap(user4(a)domain.tld): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 140 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:21:16 elfstone dovecot: imap(user4(a)domain.tld): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 140 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:21:49 elfstone dovecot: imap(user4(a)domain.tld): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 140 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:46:27 elfstone dovecot: imap(user1(a)domain.tld): Maildir /export/mail/domain.tld/user1 sync: UID < next_uid (1 < 199, file = 1122973973.V809Id001aafc.elfstone,S=8889:2,RS) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:47:31 elfstone dovecot: imap(user1(a)domain.tld): Maildir /export/mail/domain.tld/user1 sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (183 > 181, file = 1140780283.P10326Q0M678892.elfstone:2,RS) dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 16:54:47 elfstone dovecot: imap(user5(a)domain.tld): Corrupted index file /export/data/dovecot/domain.tld/user5/.Sent/dovecot.index: keywords_count larger than header size dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 17:01:00 elfstone dovecot: imap(user1(a)domain.tld): Corrupted transaction log file /export/data/dovecot/domain.tld/user1/.Sent/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1, but next_uid = 4850 dovecot.log.1.gz:Feb 24 20:25:40 elfstone dovecot: imap(userX(a)domain2.tld): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 140 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || min_file_offset <= max_file_offset) dovecot.log.10.gz:Feb 15 19:20:05 elfstone dovecot: imap(user2(a)domain.tld): stat(/export/mail/domain.tld/user2/.Trash.Cron/new) failed: No such file or directory --- snip --- I have multi-domain setup with several hundred users, emails are delivered using dovecot-deliver LDA, dovecot indexes are outside mailboxes, indexes and mailboxes are on local filesystem (xfs). I'm using linux 2.6 on slackware platform. If you need any more info, just let me know. Best regards, Brane

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[Dovecot] Impact of log files on performance
by vmstech 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi - im trawling through my config trying to reduce chances of timeouts etc - I use postgres for all the dovecot and exim4 authentication and location of mail directories etc - and found that by eliminating logging (or reducing to almost none) the queries invovled have gone from >500ms to <3ms - Just wondering if I'll get similar performance gains with dovecot (which is set to be verbose as I could) - esp during connection thx Glenn

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[Dovecot] Config Error Puzzle
by Dick Middleton 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Can somebody help me get this right please. I'm trying to upgrade to version 1 and I get this error which I can't workaround: expecting "=" on line 33 Line 33 is the passdb file name ?? I'm trying this with 1.0 beta3 on a Devil linux system (v 1.2.9). Thanks Dick ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/mydomain1.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/myhost-private.pem log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_extra_groups = mail default_mail_env = mbox:/home/vhome/%d/%n:INBOX=/home/vmail/%d/%n protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_realms = mydomain1.net mydomain2.net mydomain3.co.uk auth_default_realm = mydomain1.net auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { /etc/imap.passwd } userdb passwd-file { /etc/imap.passwd } user = dovecot }

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[Dovecot] Errors
by vmstech 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi All I intermittently get these kind of errors when connecting to my beta2 imap dovecot: reported error 0x8004df0b:'Outlook is unable to download folder (null) from the imap email server for account mymailhost.com'. Error the server is unavailable. Receiveing Reported error (0x800CC0F):'The connection to the server was interrupted' While these are from outlook - I often get one simiar to the first one in my evolution clients. Are these things that can be best managed with some sort of configuration change? What might be other possible causes of these (apart from a power cut to the server? thx Glenn

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[Dovecot] RHEL4 configuration
by f00bar 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

I just installed a new email server using RHEL4. I only want pop3d services, no imap is desired so I modified the dovecot.conf file by changing to "protocols = pop3". All is working fine. However, dovecot requires access to /home/user/mail or the Thunderbird client hangs when attempting to download email. We have a single /home that is mounted by all servers for all users. We do not want the mail server to mount this /home. So I created directories with the usernames in the mail server's /home. This is not desired from a system management perspective. The files dovecot creates in the /home/user/mail directory appear to be for the use of IMAP which we do not use. How do I configure dovecot to not access /home and to not create any IMAP files? Thank you

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[Dovecot] Quota plugin problem
by Max "CtRiX" 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hi, I'm using dovecot beta3 on a debian sarge (unstable debs backported). I have successfully managed to make dovecot-lda to work but enabling modules it seems not to work and gives me strange error messages. Postfix logs follows: Feb 26 16:35:38 aretha postfix/qmgr[23520]: 7AADF70: from=<test(a)test.it>, size=719440, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 26 16:35:38 aretha postfix/smtpd[24174]: disconnect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Feb 26 16:35:38 aretha deliver: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib02_trash_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib02_trash_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota Feb 26 16:35:38 aretha deliver: Unknown quota module: /var/mail/virtual/test.it/test/ Feb 26 16:35:38 aretha postfix/pipe[24126]: 7AADF70: to=<test(a)test.it>, relay=dovecot, delay=1, status=sent (test.it) Feb 26 16:35:38 aretha postfix/qmgr[23520]: 7AADF70: removed Feb 26 16:35:39 aretha dovecot: imap(test(a)test.it): dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib02_imap_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota Feb 26 16:35:39 aretha dovecot: imap(test(a)test.it): Unknown quota module: /var/mail/virtual/test.it/test/ Both Imap and LDA give the same errors. What did I do wrong? Max

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[Dovecot] dovecot is crashing
by Sergey Bolberov 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

My dovecot have crashed twice in last month: System is FC4 AMD64 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 /var/log/messages pop3-login[9545]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000003bb6d009e0 rsp 00007fffff813720 error 6 /var/log/dovecot dovecot: Feb 24 23:17:47 Error: child 9545 (login) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Feb 24 23:17:47 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down File system type is XFS, dovecot version is dovecot-1.0.beta3

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[Dovecot] how to make the server consistent for replication?
by atul chaudhari 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

hi every one, i want to make the dovecot mail server consistent and flush its caches for backup purpose. can anybody tell mehow to make that? (i've written a signal handler to call the functoins from my code. The server caches should be flushed before the function call.) any reply ? --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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[Dovecot] minor compilation bug in Dovecot 1.0 beta3
by jdd＠cs.toronto.edu 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

There's a minor compilation bug in dovecot 1.0 beta3 -- if there are no sql_drivers, then the generated Makefile in src/lib-sql exits improperly. A simple patch is appended below. Regards, John -- John DiMarco <jdd(a)cs.toronto.edu> Office: SF3302B IT Director Phone: 416-978-5300 Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Fax: 416-946-5464 http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jdd *** src/lib-sql/Makefile.in 2006/02/26 00:39:09 1.1 --- src/lib-sql/Makefile.in 2006/02/26 00:38:43 *************** *** 470,480 **** echo '/* this file automatically generated by Makefile */' >$@ echo '#include "lib.h"' >>$@ echo '#include "sql-api.h"' >>$@ ! for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "extern struct sql_db driver_$${i}_db;" >>$@ ; \ done echo 'void sql_drivers_register_all(void) {' >>$@ ! for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "sql_driver_register(&driver_$${i}_db);" >>$@ ; \ done echo '}' >>$@ --- 470,480 ---- echo '/* this file automatically generated by Makefile */' >$@ echo '#include "lib.h"' >>$@ echo '#include "sql-api.h"' >>$@ ! -for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "extern struct sql_db driver_$${i}_db;" >>$@ ; \ done echo 'void sql_drivers_register_all(void) {' >>$@ ! -for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "sql_driver_register(&driver_$${i}_db);" >>$@ ; \ done echo '}' >>$@ *** src/lib-sql/Makefile.am 2006/02/26 00:44:34 1.1 --- src/lib-sql/Makefile.am 2006/02/26 00:44:44 *************** *** 25,35 **** echo '/* this file automatically generated by Makefile */' >$@ echo '#include "lib.h"' >>$@ echo '#include "sql-api.h"' >>$@ ! for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "extern struct sql_db driver_$${i}_db;" >>$@ ; \ done echo 'void sql_drivers_register_all(void) {' >>$@ ! for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "sql_driver_register(&driver_$${i}_db);" >>$@ ; \ done echo '}' >>$@ --- 25,35 ---- echo '/* this file automatically generated by Makefile */' >$@ echo '#include "lib.h"' >>$@ echo '#include "sql-api.h"' >>$@ ! -for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "extern struct sql_db driver_$${i}_db;" >>$@ ; \ done echo 'void sql_drivers_register_all(void) {' >>$@ ! -for i in $(sql_drivers) ; do \ echo "sql_driver_register(&driver_$${i}_db);" >>$@ ; \ done echo '}' >>$@

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[Dovecot] Re : dovecot --Err Plaintext authentication disabled
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Thanks I succeed with disable_plaintext_auth = no I think that it's not good for security. I'm looking for security with pop3s. I made a certificate with cacert.org

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[Dovecot] dovecot --Err Plaintext authentication disabled
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi Following my last posts, i succeed to connect pop3 in localhost but not in mydomain.org (with dovecot 0.99 it worked) I have this error : -ERR Plaintext authentication disabled. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Dovecot can't connect to mysql
by fa 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi. I've just compiled dovecot-1.0.alpha5 with mysql support.from freebsd ports (FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE). It looks like dovecot has problems connecting to mysql. In the log I'm getting: dovecot: Feb 24 16:57:41 Error: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to (null) (exim): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 5 seconds before retry dovecot: Feb 24 16:57:41 Error: auth-worker(default): sql(facha(a)facha.org.ua,127.0.0.1): Password query failed: Not connected to database dovecot: Feb 24 16:57:44 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<facha(a)facha.org.ua>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured This is my dovecot-mysql.conf: connect = host=localhost dbname=exim user=root password=qwer default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM auth WHERE username = '%u' AND domain = '%d' Exim is working with the same settings on the same machine. I also checked if I can use these settings with mysql console client. I don't know where to look for errors. Is anyone else having this problem? Thanks in advance for your answers.

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[Dovecot] index file vs. memory
by Marten Lehmann 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hello, we have a large base of mailbox users and while pop3-connections are usually closed after the download of all mails, I noticed hundrets of imap-connections kept idle by the users. This is surely according to the idea behind imap, but I'm a bit afraid of overwhelming memory consumption if there are too many imap-connections opened at the same time. Is the index file kept in memory as long as an imap-connection exists, or is it closed as soon as a certain read or write command has finished? Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] Re : dovecot 0.99 to 1 (solved)
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Thanks it's the solution. I added to dovecot.conf protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu }

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[Dovecot] Re : dovecot 0.99 to 1
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Thanks for your precision. So, i do : telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user toto +OK pass mypasswd +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. And with evolution : Unable to connect to POP server pop.toto.org. Error sending username: -ERR No username given.

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[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99 to 1
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi, I change this auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = "dovecot" } passdb passwd { } userdb passwd { } But i have the same error : telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. 1 login toto mypasswd -ERR Unknown command. telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. 1 login toto mypasswd 1 OK Logged in In pam.d/dovecot, i have auth required pam_unix.so nullok account required pam_unix.so In pam.d/imap, i have auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth In pam.d/pop3, i have auth required pam_nologin.so auth include pam_stack.so service=system-auth account include pam_stack.so service=system-auth session include pam_stack.so service=system-auth and in pam.d/pop, i have auth required pam_nologin.so auth include system-auth account include system-auth session include system-auth I don't know of pam

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[Dovecot] ssl_parameters_file
by Sergey Redin 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hello Timo, What was the reason to remove ssl_parameters_file setting? Is it possible to restore it? We really need it, and I can see no reason to remove this useful setting. -- Sergey Redin

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[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99 to 1
by mickael.choisnard＠free.fr 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi, Gentoo updated dovecot to 1.0 beta3 and don't succeed in authentification with pop3. Here is my dovecot.conf 0.99 protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * imaps_listen = * pop3s_listen = * login = imap login = pop3 default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir mbox_locks = fcntl dotlock auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam dovecot auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes and here is my translation for dovecot.conf 1.0 protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = "*" } passdb passwd { } userdb passwd { } user = root } I succeed in connection with telnet localhost 143 but not with pop3 I compiled dovecot with -debug +ipv6 -kerberos +ldap -mbox +mysql +pam +pop3d -postgres +ssl -vpopmail Thank you for your help

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[Dovecot] rpm build problem with beta 3
by Daniel 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi I have a small problem with building a rpm of dovecot. I normally build rpms from the tar balls to install on our servers. With beta 3 I'm getting the error below. It builds fine if it is left stock with no ldap support. This the snip from the .spec file I put the --with-ldap as I require ldap support however this is stoping it from building. %configure \ --with-ldap \ --with-ssl="openssl" \ --with-ssldir="%{_sysconfdir}/ssl" I have tested this on Fedora Core 3 and Core 4 both get the same. Output of the end of the 'rpmbuild -tb dovecot-1.0.beta3.tar.gz'. /usr/bin/install -c pop3-login /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3-login' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3-login' Making install in pop3 make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3' test -z "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot" || mkdir -p -- "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'pop3' '/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3' /usr/bin/install -c pop3 /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3' Making install in util make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/util' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/util' test -z "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot" || mkdir -p -- "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'rawlog' '/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog' /usr/bin/install -c rawlog /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'gdbhelper' '/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/gdbhelper' /usr/bin/install -c gdbhelper /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/libexec/dovecot/gdbhelper test -z "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/sbin" || mkdir -p -- "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/sbin" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'dovecotpw' '/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/sbin/dovecotpw' /usr/bin/install -c dovecotpw /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta3/usr/sbin/dovecotpw make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/util' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/util' Making install in plugins make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins' Making install in convert make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/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 make[4]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30428 (%install) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30428 (%install)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot username mapping
by Adam "Fuzzy" Kennedy 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Ok, here's my situation. I currently run IMail 7.x with about 80 domains and nearly 4000 users. I want to switch this to a Linux server. I'm using Virtualmin to manage the users/postfix. I have dovecot working just peachy with the setup, except for one problem. We are an ISP. The easiest thing for us (and our users) is to have them use their full email address as their username. What I need is some way to have Dovecot take a username and map it to the real unix user. Our unix users are created as "username-domain.com" When our users login to our current email system, they enter their username as "username(a)domain.com". I for the life of me cannot figure out how to make Dovecot take "username(a)domain.com" and know that the unix username is really "username-domain.com" Ideas? -Adam "Fuzzy" Kennedy

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RE: [Dovecot] IMAP login name conversion
by Zoong Pham 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] > Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2004 9:39 PM > To: Zoong Pham > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] IMAP login name conversion > > What passdb and userdb do you use? Unless you're authenticating from > SQL you probably have to modify the source. Let me explain: My server runs OpenBSD-3.5 and Sendmail. We host few virtual domains. Local accounts have login names in this format: login-domain_abc_xyz For example: joedirt-joedomain_com_au, info-adomain_com, info-otherdomain_com That way login accounts are unique across all the virtual domains. I use the OpenBSD pre-compiled dovecot-0.99.10p2. It is set to use "auth_passdb = passwd" and "auth_userdb = passwd" I can use mutt to access my mailbox via IMAPS with login name format joedirt-joedomain_com_au. Other users use different MUA like Outlook and prefer to login with their email addresses (joedirt(a)joedomain.com.au, info(a)adomain.com, info(a)otherdomain.com) We use squirrelmail for webmail. I modified squirrelmail to automatically convert login name from format of joedirt(a)joedomain.com.au to joedirt-joedomain_com_au. So if users use squirrelmail, they can just login with their email addresses. My question is how to achieve the same thing with other MUAs like Outlook? Do I have to modify dovecot source? Can I use LDAP or SQL instead? Note that we are using Sendmail and prefer it than othe MTA. I have looked at the Wiki, specially the "DovecotOpenLdap" but am still confused. Thanks Zoong

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[Dovecot] Old Maildir UW-imap
by Torbjörn Gripp 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi all, I'm new in using dovecot and I'm running in a problem, which I cannot solve without hours and hours of work. Maybe there is a solution, which I didn't find with old friend google :_) Here is the problem: We are using an old mailserver (it's running fine for 5 years) with qmail and the old uw-imap server. All users have their grown directories under a home/Maildir folder. All subdirectories are lying under Maildir/sub/sub/sub. Now I want to migrate to dovecot and I have a lot of trouble, cause I cannot find a solution to migrate to the folder structure /Maildir/.sub.sub.sub. It's really difficult cause all the windows users have subdirs like one folder (1945)/a new ö/ and something like that! Any hints?? greetings and sorry for the bad english -- [ t o r b j o e r n g r i p p ] senior systemadministrator opus 5 interaktive medien gmbh grossneumarkt 50 20459 hamburg fon: +49(0)40 350174-439 fax: +49(0)40 350174-404 mobil: 0175 9326096 mailto:gripp@opus5.de http://www.opus5.de

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[Dovecot] Server & move to Dovecot
by K Gilpin 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, I a currently running a server which is using uw-imap server which currently has 190 users. I am looking to move the server OS and the imap server to Dovecot Imap Server. We are currently using mbox as the default mail file. I have a couple of questions to ask. 1) Would it be better if we moved to maildirs during the server move? 2) All current mail files are in a directly called /export/home/mail/%username. How would one configure dovecot to use the above path? How points to any good FAQs would be great. Thanks Kevin

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[Dovecot] Digest-MD5 and GSSAPI not working in beta3
by Casey Allen Shobe 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

I have built dovecot with kerberos support, however am not able to log in using GSSAPI support in my mail client. I receive the following error: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found Additionally, Digest-MD5 does not work - I receive an authentication failed (as though I have an incorrect password) if I try to use it. I am using PostgreSQL for authentication, and returning a plaintext password with my SQL query. LOGIN, PLAIN, NTLM, and CRAM-MD5 are all working as expected. I tried making the change shown in Mark Davies' src/auth/mech-gssapi.c patch (posted to the list on 10 February), but it had no effect. Any advice welcome! Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | cshobe(a)seattleserver.com | 206-381-2800 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com

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[Dovecot] INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox
by Chris Wakelin 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, I was wondering whether anybody has managed to get Dovecot 1.0 to store INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox. I've tried something like default_mail_env = mbox:/folders/user/mail:INBOX=maildir:/inboxes/maildir/user:INDEX=/indexes/user but it doesn't seem to work (treats INBOX as mbox). I'm hoping to move some INBOXes from mbox on local disk to Maildir on nicely-mirrored NetApp NFS (or possibly iSCSI) servers for redundancy and better incremental backups. I'm probably doing something silly, or have misunderstood something! Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] dspam plugin updated
by Johannes Berg 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi, Since debian just updated to beta 2, I updated the dspam plugin for that. Also, I added ignoring a Trash folder, Taivo please test if it works for you (but you will need to patch again for dspam daemon mode!) As always: http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/dovecot-dspam-integration johannes

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[Dovecot] Restore of a message
by Luigi Rosa 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Hello, if I want to restore from a previous backup a single message or a single folder, what is the correct procedure? Do I have to do it with Dovecot shut down? Does Dovecot recognize automagically the new message/folder? Thank you in advance. Ciao, luigi -- +--[Luigi Rosa]--

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[Dovecot] Beta3 bug - non-first make install's fail
by Casey Allen Shobe 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/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 make[4]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins/convert' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/plugins' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/root/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 Workaround: make uninstall before make install. Fix: Use ln -snf instead of ln -s. -- Casey Allen Shobe | cshobe(a)seattleserver.com | 206-381-2800 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com

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[Dovecot] Changing listen ports
by Václav Haisman 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Hi, I want to change ports that Dovecot uses to listen for connections. I have listen = [::] in global section and listen = 0.0.0.0:10143 and listen = 0.0.0.0:10110 in protocol imap and protocol pop3 sections. The problem is that it doesn't seem to work for SSL ports of the two protocols and I get following error when I try to start the service: Fatal: listen(993) failed: Address already in use This is because I still have IMAP-UW installed and running. So, how can I change the SSL ports for both IMAPs and POP3s? Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] Clients cannot empty trash
by james edwards 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

I am having a problem with Dovecot and imap; users are not being able to empty their trash from time to time. Here is what I am running: [root@xxxx root]# rpm -q dovecot dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3 [root@xxxx root]# uname -a Linux xxxx 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3smp #1 SMP Fri Oct 21 04:03:26 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@xxxx root]# Several times a week different users get the following pop up message when they empty trash (manually by selecting "delete trash" on their mail client): "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. {2006-02-22 08:46:24]." The quick and dirty fix is to go into their home dir and empty the trash folder (ie "> Trash"). I have checked the log and do not see anything useful at the time noted in the pop up error message on the users client. I have now set up logging to separate files to make debugging a bit easier: log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log Most of my users are using Netscape for mail. I have searched the web and archives of this list with little luck. Some people mention issues with quota but I am not running quota. Has anyone seen this or can point me in the right direction to debug this problem further ? James H. Edwards Network Systems Administrator Judicial Information Division jedwards(a)nmcourts.com (505)476-6960

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and Squirrelmail problem
by Scott Mayo 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

I get the following error when I check my mail a lot. I can keep refreshing until all errors are gone, then I am alright. This started happening when I turned on the serverside sorting in squirrelmail. How do I check to see which mails are causing this problem? ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: COPY 10223:10223 "INBOX.Trash" Reason Given: Internal error [2006-02-22 10:08:53] All that I am doing is filtering a lot of listserves that I am on to go to the trash. Thanks. -- Scott Mayo Technology Coordinator Bloomfield Schools PH: 573-568-5669 FA: 573-568-4565 Pager: 800-264-2535 X2549 Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.

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[Dovecot] fcntl and F_NOTIFY
by Michael Blinn 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

I've set up dovecot on a testbed server. Each time a user ('myusername') connects via imap, I get the following info in mail.log: dovecot: imap(myusername): fcntl(F_NOTIFY) failed: Invalid argument I'm using these config settings in dovecot.conf in an attempt to avoid fcntl lock_method = dotlock mbox_read_locks = dotlock mbox_write_locks = dotlock I've looked through the archives but haven't seen this particular message, so I am a bit lost. I've tried fiddling with the NOTIFY defines in config.h but these don't seem to make a difference, if they compile at all. I'm on lib6 on this Debian Woody (kernel 2.2.25) box. I don't know how realistic it would be to get up to a latest glibc, if this is where the problem exists. Can anyone point me in the right direction or provide some insight? Cheers, -Michael Blinn -- If this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed the seed, and in what unremembered seasons? - Kahlil Gibran CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message, and any attachments that may accompany it, contain information that is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the recipient of this message is not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or other use of this communication or any of the information, which it contains is unauthorized and prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the original sender by return mail and delete this message, along with any attachments, from your computer. Thank you.

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[Dovecot] Disconnect IMAP session after certain time?
by Jan-Piet Mens 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Is it possible to have Dovecot cleanly terminate an IMAP session after a certain time? I have a number of users who leave their MUA (Mozilla Thunderbird) on all night, and I'd like to have them (cleanly) disconnect in order to free up resources after a certain "inactivity" time (e.g. 2 hours). Can that be done? -JP

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[Dovecot] BUG: PASSL had invalid passdb num
by Jakob Hirsch 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

With current cvs: Feb 22 14:30:32 ymmv dovecot: auth-worker(default): BUG: PASSL had invalid passdb num never seen that before.

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[Dovecot] Problem getting new mail from Postfix to Dovecot
by Dave Engbers 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Dear reader, I am having problems getting new mail into my Inbox. I have this in my dovecot.conf: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=/var/mail/%u The logs show nothing special, catting /var/mail/%u shows the new mails coming in, as does /var/log/mail.info Any clues? Regards, Dave.

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[Dovecot] Stale configure options...
by Curtis Maloney 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Does the GNUTLS support in Dovecot currently work? Last I saw it was quite stale, and broken. If it doesn't work, should it perhaps be removed as an option from the configure script? ... just a thought. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] building in AIXV5.3 using the IBM C for AIX compiler V6.0
by Stewart Dean 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

What fun. I don't often stoke up the boiler and actually compile open-source code, but here I am at the beginning of just such a joyous and wondrous adventure. I'm running the latest level of AIX (V5.3...V4.3 has been obsolete for at least, what, 5 years) and using the IBM compiler (xlc is similarly obsolete, from back when the compiler came with the O/S...oh, for the halcyon days of Unix's youth) as above The IBM compiler is now know as xlc rather than xlC, and configure doesn't find it: checking for xlC_r... no checking for xlC... no and it isn't happy with the quota stuff: checking sys/quota.h usability... no checking sys/quota.h presence... no checking for sys/quota.h... no checking sys/fs/ufs_quota.h usability... no checking sys/fs/ufs_quota.h presence... no checking for sys/fs/ufs_quota.h... no checking ufs/ufs/quota.h usability... no checking ufs/ufs/quota.h presence... no checking for ufs/ufs/quota.h... no I guess this is because AIX has journalled filesystems and the quota.h stuff is under /usr/include/jfs/quota.h Configure completes with this summary. Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 32bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : none Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file pam checkpassword (modules) Right now, I'm just shooting (sorry, Mr. Cheney) for a clean compile...I'll leave such niceties as finding the OpenSSL binaries (which IBM, in its wisdom, puts in special places), doing a multiproccesor-enabled compile, etc. for later. Onward! I have defined CC= /usr/vac/bin/cc. But alas, the party just doesn't happen. There's much like this: "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='hostpid.c' object='hostpid.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bin/ xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c hostpid.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='imem.c' object='imem.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bin/xlc -D HAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c imem.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='iostream.c' object='iostream.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bi n/xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c iostream.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. source='istream.c' object='istream.o' libtool=no DEPDIR=.deps depmode=aix /bin/sh ../../depcomp /usr/vac/bin/ xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -c istream.c "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.25: 1506-115 (E) Duplicate type specifier "unsigned" ignored. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 136.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "/usr/include/sys/types.h", line 156.1: 1506-137 (E) Declaration must declare at least one declarator, tag, or the memb ers of an enumeration. "ioloop.h", line 17.31: 1506-275 (S) Unexpected text ',' encountered. make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. Yikes. Would someone be so kind as to lend me a hand? -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] documentation on modifying the configure script
by Stewart Dean 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

On second thought (unless someone is fantastically charitable), I suppose I need to seriously concentrate on modifying the current configure script to work with the current AIX operating system and compiler. Can someone direct me to documentation on configure so I can begin my trek through the wilderness? -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] Procmail sending to 'Folder ^'
by Anne Wilson 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Due to a fault in a procmail recipe, a number of files have been sent to 'Folder ^'. Would this mean anything at all to Dovecot? At this point I don't know whether the messages are physically on my drive or have been sent to /dev/null. I know there was one important message among them, so if they are recoverable I'd like to check them. Anne

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[Dovecot] dovecot memory consumption beta vs. old "stable" series
by Gunter Ohrner 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Hi! I just wanted to know if anyone can give a definitive answer if dovecot beta's memory requirements are much better than in the old pre-alpha "stable" series? I'm using a rather old stable.20050712 release on an also rather old Debian Sarge box to manage my personal mails. I'm pretty satisfied with this dovecot release but it's memory consumption when deleting messages causes major troubles on this box - more than 500 MB of virtual memory allocated to the "imap" process is quite a lot and often causes random processes to fall victim to the OOM killer. :-( Adding even more swap space also is no viable option. (The system has 64 MB RAM and currently about 650 MB swap space.) So, would it be worth a try to install dovecot beta2 or something when it's released, or won't it help in this regard? I won't want to sacrificy the otherwise well working installation, if dovecot beta2 isn't guaranteed to help I'll continue to monitor available memory and swap space while cleaning up my spams... Greetings, Gunter -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + http://aachen.uni-dsl.de/ - Der direkte Draht in's Hochschulnetz! + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "What do people like to drink here, then?" The landlord looked sideways at his customers, a clever trick given that they were directly in front of him. -- Mort goes out for a drink (Terry Pratchett, Mort) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + PGP-verschlüsselte Mails bevorzugt! + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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[Dovecot] '+' addesses and Foldered delivery
by Brad 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Before I start tearing my hair out .. I am using sendmail 8.13.5 with the exact setting for the dovecot lda specified in the dovecot wiki. Does the mailer definition for the lda ensure that it can understand +'ed addressing for foldered delivery ?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot lda woes
by Brad 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Having some painful problems with the dovecot lda and getting it to (a). Just work (b). Work with sendmail This is how I have dovecot setup (appropriate dovecot.conf snippets included) protocol lda { module_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda postmaster_address = postmaster(a)bradphinney.com auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master } auth default { .... # passwd-like file with specified location passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/dovecot-passdb } userdb static { args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/%u mail=mbox:/export/dovecot/%d/%u/ nice=10 } ... } Here is what deliver is set up as -rwsr-sr-x 1 dovecot dovecot 2070623 Feb 19 18:22 deliver* I drop sendmail into debugging mode so I can at least see if it is resolving the address correctly. Here is my mailertable entries : testdomain1.com dovecot:dovecot I fire up sendmail. telnet to port 25 and see if I cant get some mail delivered. Here is what sendmail spits out Feb 20 18:54:18 titan sendmail[6475]: k1KNqWti006459: to=<echo(a)testdomain1.com>, delay=00:01:16, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=dovecot, pri=120016, relay=dovecot, dsn=5.3.0, stat=unknown mailer error 89 Not good. On a hunch .. I change the permissions on the dovecot log to be 777. Now .. I get a different error .. Feb 20 18:12:14 titan sendmail[6014]: k1KNBQ1e006006: to=<echo(a)testdomain1.com>, delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=dovecot, pri=120012, relay=dovecot, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: dovecot mailer (/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL Any ideas ?

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[Dovecot] Problems with authentication
by Lapo Luchini 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hi there. I've got a running qmail+vpopmail+mysql5 server on FreeBSD and I would like to give IMAP access to it (both for user's sake and to have a decent webmail), so I decided to install dovecot (it certainly does its work on my home box). Problem is: I haven't had success with authentication. At first I tried the most obvious: using the vpopmail backend. Unfortunately I received lots of "vmysql: MySQL server has gone away" just like in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/10321 So I decided to spice up a query to vpopmail's MySQL table, and there another problem was waiting for me: "Access denied" just like in this thread http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/9077 Only difference: in my case using OLD_PASSWORD() didn't solve the problem and -thinking about it better- couln't possibly have solved it: that FreeBSD is a recent fresh install and I installed MySQL 5.0.18 from sources using the "ports" system, so a library with no support for new PASSWORD() has never seen the light on that box. I kinda went around the problem using a shell script to dump the MySQL table to a SQLite file and authentication dovecot against that, but while this work-around can do for a little bit I'd really like to solve the problem itself, and avoid having to keep ni sync those two DBs (no, unfortunately vpopmail doesn't support SQLite, else I'd use that: it would also have the nice side-effect that a "down" on mysql side wouldn't hurt the mail subsystem). Any suggestions or idea how I could solve or, at least, better diagnose the problem(s)? Yours, Lapo

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[Dovecot] Plain password auth issues
by nospam 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Have the following entries in dovecot.conf auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot-passdb auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot-passdb auth_user = dovecot passwd-file is owned by user and group dovecot When I try to log in .. I get dovecot: Feb 19 16:41:30 Error: Logins with UID 0 not permitted (user echo) imap-login: Feb 19 16:41:30 Info: Internal login failure: echo [127.0.0.1] dovecot-auth: Feb 19 16:41:30 Info: Login process 12 disconnected Any ideas ?

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[Dovecot] MySql Server Has gone
by Marc-André Joyal 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

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[Dovecot] rawlog for Dovecot proxies
by Bill Boebel 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Is there a way to use rawlog to log the full IMAP session when running Dovecot as a front-end proxy for other IMAP servers? If so, how?... I couldn't figure it out. Or is there another debug setting that can give me this information? If not, what is the best method to sniff the IMAP session for debugging a proxy?... ethereal? Thanks, Bill -- http://billboebel.typepad.com/

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[Dovecot] Updating the web?
by Peter Lindgren 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hello! I was looking for some information about which signals I can send to dovecot to do various things, but I couldn't find it. Since it's a wiki, is it ok to just edit the pages, or should I post here first? I thought I'd check with Timo and you guys first, maybe I missed that page that describes the signals... If it's ok, I can edit or add a new page. /Peter -- Peter Lindgren, dataingenjör E-post: peter "at" norrskenkonsult punkt com http://www.norrskenkonsult.com

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[Dovecot] IMAP stress testing tool
by Timo Sirainen 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

I updated my IMAP stress testing tool to support also APPENDs and print some nice statistics. If you want to try for yourself, it's here: http://dovecot.org/tools/imaptest.c I thought about adding some more features in future to it, such as: - Add a header to each appended message containing MD5 sum of it. When fetching, verify that the MD5 sum is valid. - Do randomized fetch requests (headers, size, flags, etc.) - Do randomized search requests - sort, thread

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[Dovecot] Messages disappear and reappear when I check mailbox using KMail
by Lincoln Peters 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Not sure if this is a Dovecot bug or a KMail bug, but since it only seems to happen to people using KMail to access a Dovecot server or a Novell NetWare IMAP server, I thought I should mention it here. <http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121866> From the bug report: When I check for mail on an IMAP account (not disconnected), all recently-received messages disappear prior to any mail check, any new messages appear, and then the messages that disappeared earlier reappear. This does not seem to cause any harm, but it is horrendously inefficient if there are a lot of messages in an IMAP folder so affected. Any ideas as to what could cause this behavior in a mail client when connecting to a Dovecot IMAP server but not when connecting to other kinds of IMAP servers? -- Lincoln Peters <sampln(a)sbcglobal.net> BOFH excuse #80: That's a great computer you have there; have you considered how it would work as a BSD machine? /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards

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[Dovecot] IMAP and Outlook XP Contacts
by DiskMan 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

I was wondering, does Dovecot's IMAP server hand Outlook XP's contact lists? I tried to enter a contact on my IMAP server and received an error from Outlook stating that the Contacts formatting was too complex and thus couldn't be saved. I went ahead and swung my box over to MailDir and scrapped Sendmail for Postfix [for maildir support], I was wondering, would this issue continue? In other words, by swinging over to MailDir, would Dovecot be able to handle Outlook's Contacts information? Will L G

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[Dovecot] Another permissions problem?
by Anne Wilson 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

The rebuild server is now almost complete. Dovecot is running, and I can telnet and log in. In kmail on this workstation I have created an imap account, for which Inbox was created. I also created Trash and sent-mail as top-level folders, and they display correctly with the cur, new and tmp sub-folders on the server. I now want to create subfolders of Inbox, and there I'm coming unstuck. According to the info box URL: (unknown) Date and time: Saturday 18 February 2006 16:51 Additional information: imap://anne@192.168.0.30:143/INBOX/LAN//;INFO=ASKUSER Possible causes: Your access permissions may be inadequate to perform the requested operation on this resource The location where the folder was to be created may not exist A protocol error or incompatibility may have occurred This is what I have at the moment: ls -al -R ~/Maildir /home/anne/Maildir: total 44 drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 49 anne anne 4096 Feb 18 17:23 .. drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 cur -rw------- 1 anne users 5 Feb 18 16:48 .customflags -rw------- 1 anne users 61 Feb 18 17:21 dovecot-uidlist drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 .INBOX drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 new drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .sent-mail -rw------- 1 anne users 16 Feb 18 16:48 .subscriptions drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 tmp drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .Trash /home/anne/Maildir/cur: total 28 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. -rw------- 1 anne users 18063 Feb 18 17:21 1140283312.P16651Q0M725303.wkstn.domain.lan:2,FS /home/anne/Maildir/.INBOX: total 32 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. -rw------- 1 anne users 1608 Feb 18 17:21 .imap.index -rw------- 1 anne users 10264 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 anne users 2576 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 anne users 1556 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index.tree /home/anne/Maildir/new: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail: total 48 drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 cur -rw------- 1 anne users 5 Feb 18 16:51 .customflags -rw------- 1 anne users 1608 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index -rw------- 1 anne users 10264 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 anne users 2576 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 anne users 1556 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.tree drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 new drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 tmp /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail/cur: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail/new: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.sent-mail/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash: total 48 drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 . drwxr-xr-x 8 anne users 4096 Feb 18 17:21 .. drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 cur -rw------- 1 anne users 5 Feb 18 16:51 .customflags -rw------- 1 anne users 1608 Feb 18 16:48 .imap.index -rw------- 1 anne users 10264 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 anne users 2576 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 anne users 1556 Feb 18 16:51 .imap.index.tree drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 new drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 tmp /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash/cur: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash/new: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. /home/anne/Maildir/.Trash/tmp: total 8 drwx------ 2 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:48 . drwx------ 5 anne users 4096 Feb 18 16:51 .. Any suggestions, please? Anne

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[Dovecot] Login processes don't die
by Jürgen Herz 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Hello, I'm a fresh dovecot user (resp. admin), using dovecot 0.99.14 (a little old, but that's what Debian Sarge provides). In general everything works as it should, but there's something that makes me wonder. The wiki says "By default each login process will handle only a single connection and afterwards kill itself." But it does look different to me. On startup there are two imap-login processes running (login_processes_count is 2). When connecting with Sylpheed, one additional imap process is running. But when connecting with Mozilla (Seamonkey), I get three imap-login and one imap process at minimum (Maximum number of server connections to cache set to 1 in Mozilla). If the cached connections is set to 2, there are four imap-login and two imap processes. So it looks to me as the login processes don't get killed. Is this a client issue (but how could it keep the login alive?), is this a known bug in the older dovecot, or something unknown? BTW, login_process_per_connection is default. Regards, Jürgen

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[Dovecot] Second user problems
by Anne Wilson 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

I have dovecot (0.99.14 under FC4) set up and working beautifully for my mail, handing on to procmail, and handling many subfolders. Today I needed to set up a second user. I added his account in kmail and created a sub-folder, but no sent-mail, trash etc. were created. I have sent test messages and /var/log/maillog says they have been processed, but they are not arriving in his inbox. /var/log/mail.info shows that he has logged in to dovecot. He has a simple .procmailrc to handle the one subdirectory. I'm sure that it must be something I've missed in dovecot.conf, but I can't see anything there that shouldn't work just as well for him as it does for me. Any pointers? Anne

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Re: [Dovecot] Second user problems
by Anne Wilson 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:55, Stroller wrote: > On 16 Feb 2006, at 20:53, Anne Wilson wrote: > > ... Today I needed to set > > up a second user. I added his account in kmail and created a sub- > > folder, but > > no sent-mail, trash etc. were created. I have sent test messages > > and /var/log/maillog says they have been processed, but they are > > not arriving > > in his inbox. > > How did you create the user on the server, please? Using Fedora's User management tool > Can you show us the output of `grep -ie FirstUser -ie SecondUser /etc/ > passwd`? grep -ie anne -ie david /etc/passwd anne:x:500:100:Anne Wilson:/home/anne:/bin/bash david:x:502:100:David Wilson:/home/david:/bin/bash > Of `ls -la ~FirstUser ~SecondUser`? > Do you really want that - it's huge - or do you want me to look for specific lines? I'll post all of it if you need it. Anne

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[Dovecot] "undefined reference to `yes_storage'"
by DiskMan 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Well after the 'issues' with Compaq C, I decided to attempt compile using GCC-3.4.3... To put it short, that didn't fair well either. Will L G. Redhat 7.2 [Alpha] GCC 3.4.3 Binutils-2.16.x Kernel-2.6.13.4 ccache gcc-3.4.3 -std=gnu99 -g -O5 -finline -fstrict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -mieee -w -mtune=ev56 -mmax -pipe -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wl,-lots -Wl,-lcpml -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o imap cmd-append.o cmd-authenticate.o cmd-capability.o cmd-check.o cmd-close.o cmd-copy.o cmd-create.o cmd-delete.o cmd-examine.o cmd-expunge.o cmd-fetch.o cmd-idle.o cmd-list.o cmd-login.o cmd-logout.o cmd-lsub.o cmd-namespace.o cmd-noop.o cmd-rename.o cmd-search.o cmd-select.o cmd-sort.o cmd-status.o cmd-store.o cmd-subscribe.o cmd-thread.o cmd-uid.o cmd-unselect.o cmd-unsubscribe.o client.o commands.o commands-util.o imap-expunge.o imap-fetch.o imap-fetch-body.o imap-messageset.o imap-search.o imap-sort.o imap-sync.o imap-thread.o mail-storage-callbacks.o main.o namespace.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a ../../src/lib-storage/index/libstorage_index.a ../../src/lib-index/libindex.a ../lib-storage/libstorage.a ../lib-storage/subscription-file/libstorage_subscription_file.a ../lib-imap/libimap.a ../lib-mail/libmail.a ../lib-dict/libdict.a ../lib-charset/libcharset.a ../lib/liblib.a -ldl ../lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a(mail-storage-register.o): In function `mail_storage_register_all': /usr2/www/linux-related/servers/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/lib-storage/register/m ail-storage-register.c:6: undefined reference to `yes_storage' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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[Dovecot] Segmentation fault
by DiskMan 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Receiving nothing but a 'segfault' when ever I attempt to run any of the binaries after building... Redhat 7.2 [Alpha] Compaq C 6.5.9 Binutils-2.16.x Kernel-2.6.13.4 CC="ccache ccc" CXX="ccache cxx" \ CFLAGS="-shared -O2 -fast -ansi_alias -arch ev56 -mieee -w -pipe" \ CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fast -ansi_alias -arch ev56 -w -pipe" \ ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --build=alpha-alpha-linux \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-passwd \ --with-mysql \ --with-storages \ --localstatedir=/var make -s This GDB was configured as "alphapca56-alpha-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr2/www/pub/alpha-RH7/servers/dovecot-1.0.beta3/src/pop3/pop3 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x000002000100a4c0 in __do_global_dtors_aux () (gdb) (gdb) (gdb) bt #0 0x000002000100a4c0 in __do_global_dtors_aux () Cannot access memory at address 0x120019f24 TIA, Will L G

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[Dovecot] Growing pools and disconnects
by mmaurer＠betterbe.com 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Since a couple of hours I see *a lot* of the following messages in my maillog: Feb 17 15:37:35 defiant dovecot: imap(mmaurer(a)betterbe.com): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 32768 Feb 17 15:37:35 defiant dovecot: imap(mmaurer(a)betterbe.com): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 65536 Feb 17 15:37:35 defiant dovecot: imap(mmaurer(a)betterbe.com): Growing pool 'maildir_uidlist_sync' with: 131072 This happens also when viewing small inboxes (but the number being ~1024). This is dovecot 1.0.beta2, which has been running for about 2 days. Any indication where this message is coming from? The first day we never saw this message appearing. Dovecot now also seems to randomly disconnect people from time to time. Any insights would be appreciated. Marc

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[Dovecot] Authentication failing - Ant Internet Suite (Risc-OS)
by Simon Waters 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Switched to using dovecot for POP3, PLAIN login. One client with "Ant Internet Suite" can't use the service with this client, he used the same setting with another email client and it worked. On inspection of the packets, it is sending one packet with; "user username\r\npass password\r\nstat\r\n" Dovecot sends an "-ERR Unknown command", then a "+OK Logged in". I'm wondering if things got out of sequence here, since a "STAT" to dovecot before authentication causes the "Unknown command" error. "STAT" isn't allowed in the authentication stage... but well it issued it last.... Anyway I'm unclear here on the precise details of the packet trace, possible it is responding to an earlier packet, but thought I'd ask before pursuing this further in case some one leaps up and says "oh that'll be...". The client software has an option to disabled "queued commands" buried deep within it (append /ucb to user details), I suggested trying this if possible, will report back if it works. Also mentioned in a Google search. I'm curious as to what is right here, but the "/ucb" is presumably the practical answer if it works. Simon

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[Dovecot] 1.0beta3 released
by Timo Sirainen 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Since there have been so many requests, I guess it's time for beta3 now. There are a couple of issues that I'm still concerned about, but those probably happen with beta2 as well. If you're beginning to see more connection hangs/timeouts with this release, please tell me. * Dotlock code changed to timeout faster in some situations when the lock file is old. + Added support for loading SQL drivers dynamically (see INSTALL file for how to build them) + Keywords are stored to dboxes, and other dbox improvements. + dict-sql could actually work now, making quota-in-sql-database possibly working now (not fully tested) + Added mail storage conversion plugin to convert automatically from one mailbox format to another while user logs in. Doesn't preserve UIDVALIDITY/UIDs though. + Added plugin { .. } section to dovecot.conf for passing parameters to plugins (see dovecot-example.conf). + Added ssl-build-param binary which is used to generate ssl-parameters.dat. Main dovecot binary doesn't anymore link to SSL libraries, and this also makes the process title be clearer about why the process is eating all the CPU. - Fix building without OpenSSL - Fixed memory leak in MySQL driver - Fixes to checkpassword - Broken Content-Length header could have broken mbox opening - Fixed potential hangs after APPEND command - Fixed potential crashes in dovecot-auth and imap/pop3-login - zlib plugin now links with -lz so it could actually work - kqueue fixes by Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] Support of M-IMAP?
by Peter Hessler 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

I was looking at some new mobile phones, and apparently there is a form of IMAP that is optimized for mobiles called M-IMAP. Its not a rush (since I'm not even sure the phones will be out before Q2), but it'd be a cool thing to have. The spec is in the following PDF. http://www.3gpp2.org/Public_html/specs/X.S0016-311_v1.0_022404.pdf -- Klein bottle for sale ... inquire within.

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[Dovecot] Beta 3 fixes slow delete problem
by Marc Perkel 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

The slow delete and move that started with Beta 1 is now fixed in Beta 3. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] maildir and stat
by David Spidley 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Hi. I plan to use dovecot on nfs with maildir. Does dovecot need to stat each file in a maildir, or does it just read a list of files in the directory? i.e. does it do the equivalent of an ls -f, or an ls -l? HYCH

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[Dovecot] ugly hack to make maildir quotas work
by Joshua Goodall 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Timo encouraged me to forward this to the list. Basically it pokes the right value into the right place to make quota deltas work properly when saving mail to Maildirs. It's a nasty hack workaround, so don't rely on it without understanding that it should be superseded in future. Without this, saving to a maildir doesn't increment quota. --- src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-save.c 14 Jan 2006 18:47:50 -0000 1.64 +++ src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-save.c 16 Feb 2006 04:32:49 -0000 @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ #include "str.h" #include "maildir-storage.h" #include "maildir-uidlist.h" +#include "index-mail.h" #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> @@ -233,6 +234,7 @@ struct utimbuf buf; const char *path; int output_errno; + struct stat st; if (ctx->failed && ctx->fd == -1) { /* tmp file creation failed */ @@ -264,6 +266,9 @@ "fsync(%s) failed: %m", path); ctx->failed = TRUE; } + if (fstat(ctx->fd, &st) < 0) { + ctx->failed = TRUE; + } if (close(ctx->fd) < 0) { mail_storage_set_critical(STORAGE(ctx->mbox->storage), "close(%s) failed: %m", path); @@ -297,6 +302,8 @@ if (mail_set_seq(dest_mail, ctx->seq) < 0) return -1; + + ((struct index_mail *)dest_mail)->data.physical_size = st.st_size; } t_pop(); /k -- Josh "Koshua" Goodall "as modern as tomorrow afternoon" joshua(a)roughtrade.net - FW109

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[Dovecot] Question regarding 'dovecot-auth'
by Paul E Virgo 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Hello Timo, I am compiling dovecot-1.0.beta3, and I get the following message when the dovecot-auth module is being compiled: Undefined symbol sql_drivers_register_all first referenced in main.o Now I had run 'configure' with the '--without-sql-drivers' since I neither have MySQL or PostgresSQL installed on my server. Does this mean I DO have to get either package, install, and run it '--with-sql-drivers'? Or is it that the '--without...' feature doesn't work as intended? Am I making ANY sense? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] NFS Stale File Handles on Indexes
by Tony Kay 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

The configuration files has settings that seem to address the issues of using indexes on NFS (i.e. locking and mmap fixes), but we are using Dovecot on NFS, and when the load gets high we start to see a lot of NFS stale file handle errors, particularly with MS clients like Outlook. I see the discussion about these errors from last year. Any updates on the state of the code? Should we be using in-memory or local indexes instead for now? - Dovecot 1.0b3 - four physical IMAP servers - mbox format accounts on NFS netapps - currently allowing NFS indexes w/mmap disabled, and using dotlocks -- Anthony Kay University Computing Center (541) 346-1719 GPG Fingerprint: B0DB D46A 60AF FAE7 A94A 5075 0CB4 4D88 9F4F 7F09 Perfection uncanned Like a beautiful redhead Fresh from her trailer from Spam-Ku : Tranquil Reflections on Luncheon Loaf by John Cho

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[Dovecot] imap_capability setting
by Bill Boebel 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

In src/master/master-settings.c, there is a config variable "imap_capability" that is read in from the conf file... but in the rest of the code it looks like that variable is never used. I assume this is there for future use, but just wanted to confirm that the code not using it was intentional. Since we are using Dovecot as an IMAP proxy for a Courier backend (for now), we need to advertise a different capability string than the Dovecot default. I have changed the hardcoded value in the ./configure script (@ 31015) for now. Bill

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[Dovecot] Dovecot RFC non-compliance: Mailbox names
by Tony Kay 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Hi, I think I already know the answer to this and I agree with it, but I have a question about "invalid" mailbox naming decisions in dovecot. Technically, RFC3501 (Section 5.1, pg. 18, client consideration 3) says that * and % are legal in mailbox names, though it implicitly discourages their use. We just migrated to dovecot, and unfortunately have a few users who used * in their mailbox naming (which worked on our old IMAP server). I looked in the mailing list and source comments, but I could not find any discussion. Was there any discussion about the imap/commands-util.c:48? 46: /* make sure it even looks valid */ 47: sep = mail_storage_get_hierarchy_sep(storage); 48: if (*mailbox == '\0' || strspn(mailbox, "\r\n*%?") != 0) { 49: client_send_tagline(cmd, "NO Invalid mailbox name."); which is technically not RFC-compliant? I have a feeling it fixes much more important things than it breaks (i.e. LIST/LSUB), but then again we never had complaints from people using those characters in names until they stopped being supported. -- Anthony Kay University Computing Center (541) 346-1719 GPG Fingerprint: B0DB D46A 60AF FAE7 A94A 5075 0CB4 4D88 9F4F 7F09 Sanity is a cozy lie. Susan Sontag

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[Dovecot] Solaris and T1
by Martin Preen 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Hello, is someone using Dovecot with Solaris on a T1 cpu ? I would like to hear about pros and cons. Martin --------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Preen, Universitaet Freiburg, Institut fuer Informatik Georges-Koehler-Allee 52, Raum 00-006, 79110 Freiburg, Germany phone: ++49 761 203-8250 preen(a)informatik.uni-freiburg.de fax: ++49 761 203-8242 www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de

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[Dovecot] dovecot-LDA and fromwho-argument
by Björn Ketelaars 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Hello, Im using dspam 3.6.3 in combination with Dovecot, procmail and Sendmail. Everything works fine but I want to replace procmail by dovecot-LDA. A few changes to dspam.conf results in a takeover by dovecot-LDA. Unfortunately this is where it goes awry; besides the d argument (user), dspam also supplies the f argument (fromwhom). The use of the f argument results in an error because dovecot-LDA does not know what to do with it. Is there an option to ignore the passing of 'fromwhom' from dspam? -- In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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[Dovecot] Upgrade alpha5 to beta3
by Jan-Piet Mens 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Hello, after an upgrade from alpha5 to beta3, every operation after login from an MUA returns ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: COPY 9 "Trash" Reason Given: (null) Both were built with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \ --disable-ipv6 \ --with-passwd \ --with-passwd-file \ --with-ldap \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/etc/dovecot/ssl \ --localstatedir=/var \ --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot \ --with-mysql \ --without-deliver \ --with-moduledir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot Just before `make install' on beta3, I removed content of /usr/local/lib/dovecot to ensure a clean install of the modules. My dovecot.conf contains base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imaps imap listen = * ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/dovecot/ssl/net.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/dovecot/ssl/net.key ssl_ca_file = /etc/dovecot/ssl/chain.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:!SSLv2 disable_plaintext_auth = yes syslog_facility = mail login_user = dovecot login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c verbose_proctitle = yes mail_debug = no default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } mail_full_filesystem_access = no mail_log_prefix = "%Us %p %r [%u]: " protocol imap { mail_use_modules = yes mail_modules = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap login_greeting_capability = no } protocol pop3 { } auth_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain user = root passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-client/sock mode = 0666 } } } Can someone please help me? Thank & regards, -JP

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[Dovecot] SASL und APOP
by Luca Bertoncello 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Hi, all! I configured Dovecot to use many protocols. To do this, I wrote: mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop ntlm Very strange, if I ask the capability, I get: CAPA TOP UIDL RESP-CODES PIPELINING STLS USER SASL PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 NTLM . I can't understand why APOP is not written (but I can use it!) and why I can see SASL, that I didn't configure... How can I change these message so that I get PLAIN APOP DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 NTLM? Thanks a lot! -- _______________________________ Luca Bertoncello -Programmierung / Mailserver- IMS Internet-Media-Service GmbH Bärensteiner Straße 7 01277 Dresden Fon: +49 351 2112034 Fax: +49 351 2112020 email: bertoncello(a)internet24.de

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