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[Dovecot] dovecot-ldap.conf for usernames/homes/UID/GID
by Paul Matthews 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

hi there, Im getting such a headache today, Ive added myself to three mailing lists trying to figure this out, okay here it goes. Ive got a Fedora Core 4 box running dovecot imap, squirrel mail, postfix, samba/winbind. Im running winbind to authenticate against Active Directory, Ive edited my /etc/pam.d/dovecot pam module so to let my users login with there Active directory password, but squirrel mail wont let them I think, let me stress the term, think is has something to do with there home directories, because I have some local users as well, they can login no issues & my users with the same usernames on unix and ADS can login with there ADS passwords Now Im looking at the dovecot webmin module and I see that Data source for users, homes and Ids is set to use Standard unix username database. There is now option of PAM like in Password authentication source. Although I do see LDAP, using config file. Can I set that to query Active directory ldap database and go there Data source for users, homes and Ids? If I can can someone tell me how to, if not can someone tell me what I need to do? Here is what I have so far with my /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = senior-server.school.cathedral.qld.edu.au:389 dn = cn=administrator,cn=users,dc=school,dc=cathedral,dc=qld,dc=edu,dc=au dnpass = wwvH@cs ldap_version = 3 base = dc=school,dc=cathedral,dc=qld,dc=edu,dc=au deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(cn=%u)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) CRYPT default_pass_scheme = CRYPT user_global_uid = 100 user_global_gid = 100

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[Dovecot] QUOTA Imap Extension
by Brady Wetherington 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi - long time lurker, very rare poster I understand Dovecot's support for mbox quotas is - well, not quite there yet. But I actually am not asking about that. I use vpopmail and qmail and Maildirs and was wondering about the QUOTA imap extension, which allows IMAP clients to query their quota settings. The reason I need to know about this is that I have a mailserver with a chunk of clients and their mail stores are getting large. And starting to exhaust my storage. I could just throw more storage at it - but they're not paying me for that level of storage, so I need to quota them. And my main source of business is one particular consulting company, so I pretty much have to do what they say, within reason, and they said, "Okay, you can quota everyone, so long as they can at least find out what their quota is in Webmail..." Which is pretty reasonable - quota'ing people and then not letting them know how close to their quota they are seems cruel, especially with the meager IQ's of my particular set of clients. Some research on my part has determined that there's an RFC for a QUOTA extension to IMAP, and there are plugins for my webmail program (Squirrelmail) which can display the user's quota usage there. Also, some mail clients are smart enough to also query the QUOTA extensions and let the user know how close they are to their max quota usage. I'm also planning a pretty decent-sized technology transition in the near future (switching to a shared-storage system with two servers, etc, etc), and I could be convinced to perhaps try and change my quotaing system at the same time - for instance, switching to filesystem quotas instead of vpopmail quotas, if that will help. The scary possibility that I guess I have to prepare myself for is that dovecot Just Doesn't Do It, and I need to figure out some other way of informing the clients of their quota usage - possibly a script that goes and recurses through maildirs and sends little emails if users are at a certain percentage of their actual usage, or something...I'm certainly not looking forward to writing that, but it's not a fate worse than death...

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[Dovecot] were are my e-mails?
by Paul Matthews 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

hi there, i seam to have pretty much everything under control at the moment other than the ability to recieve email's ... i can send them though and i know they get there because i can login into webmin and look in my user's mail boxes and see the e-mails, but for some reason i can retrive them using squirrel mail, can someone tell me why?

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[Dovecot] pop3 CAPA STLS and stupid clients
by Marten Lehmann 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hello, is it possible to disable the announcment of STLS in the CAPA-command for the pop3-daemon? I want to support pop3s, but only at port 995, not through the STLS on port 110. The reason for this is that some clients have problems with this and strange errors appear (e.g. older imap-libs) although they don't seem to have a problem with pop3s through port 995. Regards Marten

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Re: [Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] IMAP subscriptions - how, for what and why?
by Tom Alsberg 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Again, not a Dovecot issua - but can someone clarify better what IMAP subscriptions (SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE/LSUB) are and what they are used for? I've seen a few times in Microsoft mail clients, the options to subscribe to folders and to "show only subscribed folders". I haven't played much with them, though. But what's the actual point? Except for being returned in the list of LSUB, what else changes when doing a SUBSCRIBE to a mailbox? Are subscriptions supposed to be remembered by the server outside of the context of a session (so a client that connects to the server at some point and authenticates will already see in LSUB what a possibly other client has subscribed to in a previous session)? Clarifications appreciated, regards, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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Re: [Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] PAM Authentication issues with Dovecot
by david.kolts＠entouch.net 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

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[Dovecot] Outlook Express / Namespaces
by Matthias Rieber 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi, I'm planning to switch from courier-imap to dovecot. Everythings seems fine. I adjust the namespaces to avoid client side changes. This works with Thunderbird, but Outlook Express seems to have problmes with the path "INBOX.", that I've configured in the client settings. I can remove that path, but the folders will be sorted under the inbox. Is there something that I've done wrong? I'm using dovecot 1.0alpha5 matthias

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda: problems compiling
by nospam 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

I am trying to compile the dovecot lda and running into some problems. (compiling most recent version on Fedora core 4). I was able to compile the dovecot imap server just fine. However .. when I try to run configure in the lda package (after running autogen) it gets stuck on this line : + eval 'sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-1.sed | sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-2.sed | sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-3.sed' ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-1.sed ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-2.sed ++ sed -f ./confstatm19105/subs-3.sed Basically it is getting stuck on the sed portion in config.status. Anyone run into this problem before ?

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[Dovecot] Authentication failure - unknown user
by Anne Wilson 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

I'm trying to set up a temporary mailserver using Debian Sarge and Dovecot 1.0 with maildir format. My only previous experience has been on a simple imap server with mbox format. I have read the wiki documentation and searched the archives, but can't tie down my problem. The log tells me Info: passwd-file(anne) : unknown user. I have set auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd and created the /etc/imap.passwd file as anne:{plain}mypassword:1000:1000::/home/anne What have I missed? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)

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[Dovecot] special variables
by Andrés Pereira 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Are there any plans to extend the special variables you can use for ldap query strings (%u,%n,etc)? For instance, say you have an ldap schema like this with multiple domains in a single top-level-domain: dc=domain_1,dc=tld_1 dc=domain_2,dc=tld_1 dc=domain_3,dc=tld_1 dc=domain_4,dc=tld_2 dc=domain_5,dc=tld_2 dc=domain_6,dc=tld_2 Now dovecot (latest CVS snapshot) offers, among others, the following variable: %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there is no domain But, what if dovecot could offer something like this: %1-9 = domain tokens (%1 = tld, %2 = domain when %d = domain.tld) (actually, these variables are present in auth_ldap module for saslauthd) This way people could create a query like this (just an example): base = ou=some_ou,dc=%2,dc=%1 I know I could modify my ldap schema to: dc=domain_1.tld_1 dc=domain_2.tld_1 .... and it would be solved by using %d, however those "new" variables could be useful, what do you think? Cheers, - -- Andrés Pereira -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDxKDu7iUaNXa3Ta4RAitAAJ9oVoE51QjjSp6sQMe3qtkzwj9tygCcDfkj fnxUHKd/F6i9hjPoVDrHY18= =JdxG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] mbox assertion failure
by Timo Sirainen 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:56 +0000, Michael Stevens wrote: > Jan 8 18:53:12 saigo dovecot: imap(mstevens): file > mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion > failed: (start_pos < data_size) For everyone else too, attached patch fixes this.

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[Dovecot] Wild Idea for a feature
by Marc Perkel 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

OK - this is a wild idea and wondering what it would take to make it possible. I get a lot of email from a lot of different people about a lot of different issues. What I need is a way to do some server side presorting of email into specific folders. I can build a LOT of Mozilla rules but that is too cumbersome for what I have in mind. Here's what I'm thinking - one classification of email is "customers" and what I want to do is to drag an email into the customers server side folder and once I do that then any incoming email that comes from that person goes into the customers folder. I'm trying to envision how to code this and I think what I would need is if Dovecot were to create an external berkeley db file or mysql database of what is a list of email addresses contained in the folder that could be quickly searched for a match, that might do it. I think I could write a backent in Exim to handle it. This idea isn't yet well though out. I'm just throwing it out there to see if it's feasable. Thoughts?

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird, IDLE, mailbox not always SELECTed
by Tom Alsberg 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Hi there. Although it does not seem to be a Dovecot issue, I'm sending this here as people in this list may know better where exactly the problem is. I am working on Dovecot 1.0 (.alpha5, right now), with the aim that when Dovecot becomes stable we can put that into production. Recently after being more clear with the behaviour (I'm most into namespaces and mbox/maildir mixing issues, as you can see from my past messages), I have adopted a few (two, right now, with the third one gone) "Guinea-Pigs" to use the experimental IMAP server - people who very much want an IMAP service here and thus may help me test bugs. One of them reported, that he does not always see new mail. That user is using Mozilla Thunderbird (1.0.7). Looking a bit with him at the workings, I can see the issue. He has the IDLE extension enabled. However when sniffing the network, I see that sometimes when switching to another mailbox, the SELECT command is not always sent to the server. At the beginning, INBOX is (always) selected. Then another mailbox is selected, and usually a SELECT command is sent and the mailbox is seen. But going back to INBOX again, often no "SELECT INBOX" is seen on the wire. Then of course he sees no "EXISTS" or anything like that. I wonder if anyone else has observed this, or in some other way, that Thunderbird does not always show new mail. Sometimes it appears that a mailbox is selected in Thunderbird, and Thunderbird immediately (remembering from its cache) does a FETCH to show the message in the mailbox/folder, but not SELECT to update the folder itself. Can caching in Thunderbird be completely disabled, so that every action will be done against the server? Regards, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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[Dovecot] new 1.0 config and vpopmail
by Henti Smith 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

does anybody have a working config they can send me .. I just cannot seem to get this working. alternativly how can I set the debug so I can see where my config is wrong ? thanks Henti

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[Dovecot] dovecot auth using passwd-file
by Brad 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Im a dovecot newbie and need a little help with the passwd-like file auth mechanism in dovecot I got dovecot to work fine with regular /etc/passwd file auth .. so I wanted to start using another authentication store for virtual users. So .. I created a /etc/dovecot-passdb file and plopped in an encrypted password using md5crypt. Here are the appropriate lines from the dovecot.conf file auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot-passdb auth_passdb = pam and here is the /etc/pam.d/dovecot file #%PAM-1.0 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 So far .. no dice. Dovecot reports constant authentication failures. I fear that the dovecot-passdb file is wonky. Can anyone give me any pointers ?

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[Dovecot] Maildir permissions, shared folders & postfix
by Stroller 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi there, It's my understanding that shared folders can be implemented in the Dovecot IMAP server by simply symlinking one maildir to another, eg: $ ls -lan /home/DOMAIN/ned/.maildir/ total 40 drwx------ 9 10012 10000 440 Jan 9 04:23 . drwxr-xr-x 3 10012 10000 160 Jan 6 06:32 .. drwx------ 5 10012 10000 264 Jan 9 04:21 .Deleted Items drwx------ 5 10012 10000 232 Jan 6 06:32 .Drafts drwx------ 5 10012 10000 232 Jan 6 06:39 .Junk E-mail drwx------ 5 10012 10000 264 Jan 9 04:33 .Sent lrwxrwxrwx 1 10012 0 24 Jan 6 07:36 .Stroller -> /home/ stroller/.maildir/ drwx------ 2 10012 10000 336 Jan 9 04:23 cur -rw------- 1 10012 10000 268 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 10012 10000 192 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 10012 10000 21504 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 10012 10000 1908 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index.log drwx------ 2 10012 10000 48 Jan 9 04:23 new -rw------- 1 10012 10000 47 Jan 6 07:45 subscriptions drwx------ 2 10012 10000 48 Jan 9 04:23 tmp In the above configuration the user Ned has a mailbox "Stroller", in which he can read messages & stuff - I can log in as ned and drag & drop messages into this mailbox quite happily. I thought all was well with this type of shared configuration until I actually started to try setting it up for the info(a)ourdomain.com mailbox, and tried delivering messages to it. It seems that Postfix doesn't respect the permissions of the parent folder when delivering mail into it: # ls -ldn /home/info/.maildir/ drwxrwx--- 5 10021 10000 120 Jan 9 04:26 /home/info/.maildir/ # ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/ total 0 drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:26 cur drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:33 new drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:31 tmp # ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/new total 0 # cat HungUp.txt | sendmail info # sudo ls -l /home/info/.maildir/new total 4 # sudo ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/new total 4 -rw------- 1 10021 10000 1806 Jan 9 04:39 1136781544.V4804I3606cM633316.mail.domain.local How inconsiderate of Postfix to set secure permissions on the message it delivered!! I need the message to have 660 permissions so that others in the group can read it! At present this causes Squirrelmail to squeal & give nasty messages whenever a shared mailbox is accesses. Can anyone advise me how to resolve this, please? Stroller. PS: should you consider suggesting using Dovecot's "namespaces" type of shared mailbox, I'd be grateful if you could answer this first: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-December/010459.html

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[Dovecot] POP3 only - why is cur/ growing?
by Wally Winchester 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi, I use Sarge's dovecot for a pop3 mail collection server. IMAP is not used at all. It works well, but I would like to know why one of the accounts also keeps a copy of all e-mail copies in the cur/ folder? Thanks a lot, Wally -- Wally Winchester wally_winchester(a)fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be

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Re: [Dovecot] mbox assertion failure
by Timo Sirainen 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:56 +0000, Michael Stevens wrote: > Hi. > > I'm running 1.0alpha5 on FreeBSD 5.3. I'm using mbox mailboxes. > > I keep getting: > > Jan 8 18:53:12 saigo dovecot: imap(mstevens): file > mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion > failed: (start_pos < data_size) > Jan 8 18:53:13 saigo dovecot: child 88663 (imap) killed with signal 6 This happens all the time with one specific mbox? Could you send it and the index files to me? You could put the mbox though http://dovecot.org/tools/mboxcrypt.pl

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[Dovecot] Running dovecot-lda
by Linus Nordberg 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hi, I'm planning on setting up dovecot with dovecot-lda, for sieve support. What does the list have to say about versions to use? I prefer stability over features but sieve has to be there. Does anybody use the combination dovecot 1.0 alpha5 and dovecot-lda 0.1 with success or would you recommend running -lda from CVS? If so, is there any point in time that's better than another? And, will dovecot 1.0 alpha5 do for -lda from CVS? Finally, are there any release plans for dovecot-lda that can be shared? Thanks, -- Linus

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:17 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote .. > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > > > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > > .. > > > > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18 > > > > > > How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that > > > kind of a timestamp. > > > > Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva. > Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves? > My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail, > and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files, > and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix: > > It worked with 0.99 only because Dovecot didn't check errors as well as > 1.0 does. So it just parsed those timestamps as being invalid, and set > the received-time of mails wrong. > > > > I suppose I could add support for it.. > > > > Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good > idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually > in order to use dovecot. > > Dovecot's current CVS version supports that timestamp format. How do I compile the CVS version? "configure" seems to be missing. I tried downloading the snapshot from 20060105 but that fails make: ~ main.c:14:25: dict-client.h: No such file or directory main.c: In function `main_init': main.c:162: warning: implicit declaration of function `dict_client_register' main.c: In function `main_deinit': main.c:206: warning: implicit declaration of function `dict_client_unregister' make[3]: *** [main.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/imap' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 The 20060107 snapshot won't ./configure : configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-sql/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-auth/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-charset/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-dict/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-imap/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-index/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-mail/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-ntlm/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-settings/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/maildir/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/mbox/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/dbox/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/subscription-file/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/register/Makefile config.status: creating src/auth/Makefile config.status: error: cannot find input file: src/dict/Makefile.in [root@www dovecot-1.0.alpha5]# make cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status config.h config.status: creating config.h make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' Making all in lib make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib' Makefile:423: .deps/base64.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:424: .deps/bsearch-insert-pos.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:425: .deps/buffer.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:426: .deps/compat.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:427: .deps/data-stack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:428: .deps/env-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:429: .deps/failures.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:430: .deps/fd-close-on-exec.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:431: .deps/fd-set-nonblock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:432: .deps/fdpass.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:433: .deps/file-cache.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:434: .deps/file-dotlock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:435: .deps/file-lock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:436: 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Makefile:468: .deps/mempool.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:469: .deps/mkdir-parents.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:470: .deps/mmap-anon.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:471: .deps/mmap-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:472: .deps/module-dir.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:473: .deps/network.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:474: .deps/ostream-crlf.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:475: .deps/ostream-file.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:476: .deps/ostream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:477: .deps/primes.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:478: .deps/printf-upper-bound.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:479: .deps/process-title.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:480: .deps/randgen.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:481: .deps/read-full.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:482: .deps/restrict-access.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:483: .deps/restrict-process-size.Po: No such file or directory 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*** No rule to make target `.deps/write-full.Po'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 It seems like the code is horribly broken. All of the nightly snapshots except for 20060107 (which won't configure) fail with "main.c:14:25: dict-client.h: No such file or directory" it does this for src/imap/main.c AND src/pop3/main.c . I tried commenting out any lines that had to do with "dict-client.h" "dict_client_register();" and "dict_client_unregister();" inside the two files and it would compile those files but it would fail in src/deliver claiming that it is too old? make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/deliver' ~ deliver.c:4:2: #error This program is somewhat out of date, use dovecot-lda instead make[3]: *** [deliver.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/deliver' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 Harout Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] Documentation updates in Wiki
by Timo Sirainen 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

I started writing a new front page for wiki.dovecot.org: http://wiki.dovecot.org/NewIndex This is partially based on the comments in Documentation thread starting from here: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-July/008076.html "A simple Dovecot installation" section is pretty much finished from my point of view. I hope it's clear enough for anyone wanting to install a working Dovecot server. Suggestions are welcome of course. You're also welcome to just edit the pages directly. I'll get email notifications of all page changes, so if I see changes that I don't think belong in there, I'll just remove them and maybe move them elsewhere (so don't add too much text without asking :). I'm not sure about what exactly should be visible in the front page. Currently there's probably too much. But I think it's better to show more than too little, so that new people can just look at the page and quickly pick up the interesting keywords without having to click through multiple pages. Maybe most of the sub-sections in "full guide" section could be listed only under those root sections. So that it becomes something like: * Starting guidelines * Authentication configuration * Mail configuration * Namespaces * Shared folders * SSL * POP3 * Dovecot LDA * Full configuration file reference * Examples / Scenarios I'd leave namespaces and shared folders there so that they can be easily found. I'm not sure where to put "full configuration file reference" or what exactly to call it. The same goes for Examples/Scenarios. Tuning should maybe be only part of "full guide". "Generic information about mail servers" is meant for discussion of mail server components, protocols, etc. without being too much Dovecot-specific. It's partially for "mail server newbies", but also would contain some "hard core" information about how things really work (mailbox format and user authentication especially). Anyway, if you have time please start adding the missing pages and writing to them. Even if you only give a FIXME-list that others can then fill out :) My school starts again at monday, and I'll be too busy to do anything else than that and work for the rest of January (after that only finals, yay).

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[Dovecot] fastbind patch -> auth_bind_userdn patch (attached)
by Geff 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Let me know how you like this one. This assumes one config parameter. The non-null of auth_bind_userdn overrides auth_bind = yes. I'm using this patch now on cvs head. Comments are always welcome. Thanks much, Geff

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[Dovecot] Questions regarding quota
by Stian Jordet 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi, I have some trouble trying to test the quota plugin. First off all, it says in the wiki: "Dovecot 1.0 supports quota using a quota plugin. It's currently discussed in Dovecot LDA page and it supports only very simple quota calculation which is suitable only for mboxes. Maildir++ quota support will come later." Does that mean that it won't work at all with Maildir++, or just that it's slow? Second; there are two plugins? One in src/plugins/quota and one ine src/plugins/imap-quota. What's the difference? Is one for imap-quota and the other for fs-quota? (I would love that!) But third and most importantly; I can't get it too work. I'm using CVS from tonight (which fixed the missing symbol bug). But neither when I'm using static userdb nor LDAP as explained in the wiki I can't get it to work. I'm not really sure of the getquota syntax, but whatever I try, I get: a OK No quota. So please, enlighten me! :) Best regards, Stian

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

I am resending this because I have not gotten a response in a few days. Help is appreciated! Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:50 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > I recently upgraded from dovecot 0.9x to 1.0.5-Aplha and now when ever > folders are opened (in IMAP), it keeps saying invalid mbox files. It worked > fine in 0.99.x. It is detecting the right mbox files because it lists the > folders and the subscriptions correctly. I am using "default_mail_env > = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" in the config file, but I get the same > error with "Detect automatically". It generates nothing in the log files > so I am lost!! I tried both outlook and thunderbird but same results. > > Invalid mbox file error comes only if the first line of the mbox file > isn't valid. What does it look like? It should be something like: > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > 0.99.x Dovecot didn't accept broken From-lines either, but it might have > had slightly different logic in checking what's valid and what's not. Here is a sample file generated by postfix. Note: it is NOT censored or edited. What you see is the real thing. >From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18^M Return-Path: <List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> Received: from mail.fuelcellstore.com ([207.174.23.2]) by rwcrgwc55.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020406013417.LNRM3313.rwcrgwc55.attbi.com(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> for <haroutetoot(a)attbi.com>; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:34:17 +0000 Received: from saa01.saleebaadams.com.au [203.59.141.98] by mail.revealmail.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id A64E1BA01F8; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:50:22 -0700 Received: from saa01.saleebaadams.com.au (10.0.0.13 [10.0.0.13]) by saa01.saleebaadams.com.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 1KDV523W; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:45:25 +0800 Received: by saa01.saleebaadams.com.au (Microsoft Exchange Connector for POP3 Mailboxes 4.50.2113) with SMTP (Global POP3 Download) id MSG04062002-084518-2751.MMD@SAA01; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:45:18 +0800 Return-Path: <List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> Delivered-To: saa(a)iinet.net.au Received: (qmail 28777 invoked by uid 666); 6 Apr 2002 00:24:40 -0000 Delivered-To: saa-saleebaadamscomau-n.juniper(a)saleebaadams.com.au X-Envelope-To: <n.juniper(a)saleebaadams.com.au> Received: (qmail 28767 invoked by uid 666); 6 Apr 2002 00:24:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.fuelcellstore.com) (207.174.23.2) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 6 Apr 2002 00:24:39 -0000 Received: from mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.48] by mail.revealmail.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id AD4D1690192; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:11:57 -0700 Received: from jason ([12.81.167.50]) by mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020406001120.RBFM8815.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@jason>; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 00:11:20 +0000 Reply-To: fuelcell(a)fuelcellstore.com From: "fuelcell" <fuelcell(a)fuelcellstore.com> To: list(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Subject: FuelCellStore.com Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:11:08 -0700 Message-ID: <001d01c1dcff$8f6c5fa0$cacbfea9@jason> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal X-Sender: List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Precedence: bulk Sender: List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-IMAPbase: 1135543792 1 Status: O X-UID: 1 Content-Length: 150475 X-Keywords: Dear Fuel Cell Enthusiast,^M ^M FuelCellStore.com would like to tell you about several new fuel cell products and our redesigned website. ^M ^M * ^M One of which is the new 500W unit that is available for residential back up power, or remote low power primary needs. These units can be stacked up to 1500W and self-starts upon grid failure ~V provi ding critical power for nominal apparatus and remote applications. You will find a link to this product at www.fuelcellstore.com^M * ^M Bench Top Methanol Reformer capable of generating ultra-pure hydrogen from methanol and water for University and Research Labs. Please reply for more information. ^M * ^M A fuel cell powered remote control car with metal hydride storage. ^M ^M FuelCellStore.com has many new educational products and a new nav bar to help you find the products you are looking for. Please check out our Student and Teacher section at www.fuelcellstore.com/products.htm l^M Please let us know what you think of the new site structure and any feedback would be great. ^M ^M You have received this message because you have contacted fuelcellstore.com in the past and asked to receive FuelCellStore.com news. If you would like to unsubscribe from our mailing please reply to this mes sage with unsubscribe in the subject heading. ^M ^M Sincerely,^M ^M FuelCellStore.com^M PO Box 4038^M Boulder, CO 80306-4038^M Harout Hedeshian harout(a)hedeshian.net 720 - 261 - 3548

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:17 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote .. > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > > > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > > .. > > > > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18 > > > > > > How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that > > > kind of a timestamp. > > > > Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva. > Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves? > My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail, > and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files, > and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix: > > It worked with 0.99 only because Dovecot didn't check errors as well as > 1.0 does. So it just parsed those timestamps as being invalid, and set > the received-time of mails wrong. > > > > I suppose I could add support for it.. > > > > Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good > idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually > in order to use dovecot. > > Dovecot's current CVS version supports that timestamp format. Okay. Thanks. I will try getting the CVS version. Harout Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] Passwd file location
by Tracy Phillips 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi, I am trying to access my passwd file like this: passdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/vmail/%d/passwd } Is that not possible. I keep getting an error when trying to login. I do not get much in my log files to help me debug it. Thanks, Tracy

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[Dovecot] FETCH FLAGS in response to SORT and SEARCH commands
by Michael Doppler 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Hi, I am getting IMAP FETCH FLAGS in response to SORT and SEARCH commands for my INBOX. See the following transcript between dovecot (marked with S:) and an imap client (marked with C:) for an example SEARCH command. C: A004 UID SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL TEXT {4} C: test S: + OK S: * SEARCH 5 13 20 21 22 23 24 30 37 39 56 64 77 82 93 94 96 103 109 110 118 135 136 158 160 165 171 174 175 177 180 181 190 198 207 209 210 212 220 221 233 237 242 248 250 253 256 257 261 270 278 281 294 296 301 302 303 304 305 309 310 317 318 320 323 330 331 333 342 343 352 355 356 357 365 387 390 394 407 412 416 426 428 432 437 450 451 454 459 460 465 468 470 477 482 484 488 493 500 522 524 526 529 530 537 541 571 575 580 597 604 666 689 730 738 741 742 743 746 750 751 752 753 754 755 758 759 760 762 763 764 766 767 768 770 772 773 782 788 797 798 829 831 832 835 836 842 854 863 864 865 866 868 869 871 874 880 881 891 943 944 945 954 957 962 963 964 965 968 970 971 973 974 985 986 987 S: * 307 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 381 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: * 307 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 381 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: * 307 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 381 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: A004 OK Search completed Mozilla Thunderbird and Apple Mail seem to be able to cope with this, but squirrelmail chokes when it receives those flags. I get them only for my INBOX and not for other folders like sent mail, so the behaivour seems to depend on the content of the folder. It occurrs at least with dovecot 1.0alpha4 and 1.0alpha5 using maildir. I have not tested other versions / mbox format. Is this behaviour expected? regards, Michael

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha?
by Marc Perkel 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

I'd like to make a suggestion. Let's drop the Alpha and come out with an official version 1.0. Here's my reasons. The 0.9x version are obsolete and people should be using the 1.0 Alpha versions which seem to me to do everything the previous versions did and more. It's as full featured and stable as all other IMAP servers and in my opinion is ready to be called 1.0. The "Alpha" label scares people off and with the 0.9x version being obsolete I think it creates confusion for new users. It created confusion for me when I converted to dovecot, and distros are less ,ikely to include versions with the Alpha label. Once you go to 1.0 you can start a 1.1 alpha series and finish it up. I know Timo has high standards but as a marketing issue I think that the Alpha label needs to go to get people to accept and use 1.0 in production. Thoughts? -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] problems connecting to the Problems connecting to mysql
by Alfonso Fernández Vázquez 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hi, I'm trying to setup a mailserver running postfix and dovecot with mysql as database backend. Postfix is already running and delivers mails just fine. Unfortunately, dovecot has great problems connecting to the database (using username + password). Found that two threads about the same issue but none of them solves the problem http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-April/006770.html http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-August/008394.html I am using: dovecot-1.0.alpha5 mysql 5.0.17-1 Please, can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Alfonso

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[Dovecot] Status of your Dovecot GSSAPI patch
by Fredrik Tolf 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hi! I saw your discussion on the Dovecot list back in October about a SASL GSSAPI patch for Dovecot. I'd like to ask what the status is on it. Are you still working on it? Thanks for your attention! Fredrik Tolf

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[Dovecot] Intermittent "Password Mismatch" errors
by dan＠ipws.com 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hello - I have had a problem the last few days with Dovecot reporting intermittent "Password Mismatch" errors for pretty much every client. Not all the time, maybe 1 out of every 10 connections. I cannot pinpoint where the process may be failing. I am using a MySQL backend to store user information in, and Dovecot queries that database directly. It works fine, but it seems as if Dovecot has a problem connecting to the SQL server for this information, instead of doing something smart, it just reports a password mismatch. I've turned on debugging and verbose logging, but I can't see exactly *why* the process fails on occasion. MySQL is tuned appropriately, and there's no reason why Dovecot cannot connect to the server. I'm wondering if anyone has seen this, and if so, what they've done about it. Because honestly, I'm lost. Thanks -dant

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[Dovecot] very slow imap opens in pine after moving maildirs to new drive
by Dave Lugo 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, I've been running dovecot-0.99.10 for the past several years, with virtually no problems. Lately, I noticed that the filesystem holding my users' imap maildirs was getting close to full. So... last night, I used tar to copy /var/spool/imap to a new drive (9G scsi, reiserfs) that I then mounted under /var/spool/imap (after moving the old dir aside). After the move, what would take pine a handful of seconds, with the load average barely breaking .40, now takes several minutes, with a load average spike to nearly 3. I must admit to being rather puzzled by this, as I would not have expected the move to result in worse performance. Do I need to figure out what the index file names are, and delete those? Any suggestions greatly appreciated - as even closing pine now takes nearly 5 minutes, whereas when dovecot talks to my old imap dir (I've tested this), closing the session takes no more than 10 seconds. server is Mandrake 9.1, 2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise, P4 2.6GHz, 1G RAM 9G U2W SCSI system disk, 9G U2W SCSI (and big*ss IDE drive for /users). Each of the scsi drives is on its own aha-2940UW controller. Filesystem on old imap location (/var filesystem) is reiserfs, same as that on new dedicated disk. Thanks much, Dave -- -------------------------------------------------------- Dave Lugo dlugo(a)etherboy.com LC Unit #260 TINLC Have you hugged your firewall today? No spam, thanks. -------------------------------------------------------- Are you the police? . . . . No ma'am, we're sysadmins.

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[Dovecot] fast bind patch for ldap passwords
by Geff 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

All, I'm not sure if I sent this in yet or not. Basically it works like this: if you set "fast_bind = yes" it overrides auth_bind. And requires that you set userdn. Example config: fast_bind = yes userdn = cn=%u,ou=people,o=dovecot I'm using the patch right now on the cvs head branch. Comments are welcome. Geff

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[Dovecot] another migration problem from courier with Outlook 2003
by Andreas Mimz 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

So I'm still trying to figure out a way to migrate from courier-imap to dovecot but I got stuck again... basically all of the clients are working now (more or less) - but when using outlook 2003 I don't see any email! the folders are there - just no emails! I think there's still a namespace problem somehow... I've attached the rawlog .in and .out files... when I select the Spam folder outlook tries to access "Posteingang.Spam" which should be "INBOX.Spam", shouldn't it?? my namespace config: namespace private { separator = . location = maildir:~/Maildir prefix=INBOX. inbox = yes hidden = no } maybe anyone can help me out?! thanks a lot! aexd IDLE DONE tgr8 LIST "" "" qqvt IDLE DONE nlvq LSUB "" "*" wjll STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN) yhuw STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN) epjg STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN) r2bz STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN) 16iu STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN) 3vki STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN) dstc STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN) 64bl STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN) gwa0 STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN) 31sy STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN) u9fg STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN) dypb IDLE DONE 4u5q LIST "" "INBOX" x8nb LSUB "" "*" dja3 LIST "" "INBOX" x40b LSUB "" "*" eg5t IDLE DONE mj6l SELECT "Posteingang" uj7v IDLE DONE 7w1o SELECT "Posteingang.Spam" zuyg IDLE DONE xsoy SELECT "Posteingang" kiuz IDLE DONE dx73 LSUB "" "*" 4qnd STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN) 61vj STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN) jhaw STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN) x7t3 STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN) gipp STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN) cx56 STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN) yw81 STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN) nx8w STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN) 1nfc STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN) wf7r STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN) 9y3i STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN) al6r IDLE DONE fcd9 LSUB "" "*" dpxa STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN) 6fsv STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN) 8nyj STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN) lsnf STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN) gmym STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN) u7nd STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN) r8zi STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN) hrja STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN) 9keb STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN) iwfc STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN) 1pd6 STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN) bhfu IDLE * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2006-01-02 00:01:31 + idling aexd OK Idle completed. tgr8 OK List completed. + idling qqvt OK Idle completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" nlvq OK Lsub completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN 0) wjll OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN 0) yhuw OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN 0) epjg OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN 0) r2bz OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN 0) 16iu OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN 0) 3vki OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) dstc OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) 64bl OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN 0) gwa0 OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN 0) 31sy OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN 0) u9fg OK Status completed. + idling dypb OK Idle completed. 4u5q OK List completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" x8nb OK Lsub completed. dja3 OK List completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" x40b OK Lsub completed. + idling eg5t OK Idle completed. mj6l NO Unknown namespace. + idling uj7v OK Idle completed. 7w1o NO Unknown namespace. + idling zuyg OK Idle completed. xsoy NO Unknown namespace. + idling kiuz OK Idle completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" dx73 OK Lsub completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN 0) 4qnd OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN 0) 61vj OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN 0) jhaw OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN 0) x7t3 OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN 0) gipp OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN 0) cx56 OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) yw81 OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) nx8w OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN 0) 1nfc OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN 0) wf7r OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN 0) 9y3i OK Status completed. + idling al6r OK Idle completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" fcd9 OK Lsub completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN 0) dpxa OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN 0) 6fsv OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN 0) 8nyj OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN 0) lsnf OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN 0) gmym OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN 0) u7nd OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) r8zi OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) hrja OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN 0) 9keb OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN 0) iwfc OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN 0) 1pd6 OK Status completed. + idling

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[Dovecot] Using dovecot auth with Postfix
by Kim Culhan 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Attempting to setup smtpd auth for Postfix using the Dovecot authorization unix socket. Some info is at: http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html To enable operation when Postfix is chrooted, a method from the reference above is to locate the socket at: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth To do this, I have this configuration in dovecot.conf: # listener sockets will be created by Dovecot's master process using the # settings given inside the auth section auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd { } userdb pam { } socket listen { master { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth-master # WARNING: Giving untrusted users access to master socket may be a # security risk, don't give too wide permissions to it! mode = 0600 # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) user = group = } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth-master mode = 0660 } } } With this configuration Dovecot writes this to the log at startup: dovecot: Dec 31 17:04:32 Error: child 3536 (auth) returned error 89 dovecot: Dec 31 17:25:34 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Dec 31 17:25:34 Error: auth(default_with_listener): Unknown userdb driver 'pam' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? Check with dovecot --build-options) Before modifying the setup for this auth function, pam authentication was working fine. Also, Dovecot will make /auth owned by root which Postfix considers a 'fatal' problem. Should it be setup to run as user Postfix ? Any help here is vy appreciated -kim -- w8hdkim(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] LDAP - authentication with bind vs. password attribute read
by Geff 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Any word on this patch? http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-June/003867.html If not, I'll take a stab at it. Geff

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[Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hello! I recently upgraded from dovecot 0.9x to 1.0.5-Aplha and now when ever folders are opened (in IMAP), it keeps saying invalid mbox files. It worked fine in 0.99.x. It is detecting the right mbox files because it lists the folders and the subscriptions correctly. I am using "default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" in the config file, but I get the same error with "Detect automatically". It generates nothing in the log files so I am lost!! I tried both outlook and thunderbird but same results. Thanks for the help, Harout S. Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] alpha5: (message_body_search_ctx) assert
by Jeff A. Earickson 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, My second case of this assert, gdb analysis of the core dump attached. My setup: Solaris 9, dovecot built with gcc 4.0.2, mbox format, imap usage only. INBOX is NFS mounted from another Solaris 9 system, index files are local. Syslog complaint is: imap(user): file message-body-search.c: line 414 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset == part->physical_pos + part->header_size.physical_size) Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha5: fcntl() locking problem
by Jeff A. Earickson 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, My setup: Solaris 9, /var/mail is NFS mounted from another Solaris 9 box, home directories and dovecot index stuff is on local ufs filesystems. I upgraded from alpha4 to a5 about 36 hours ago. Dovecot is configured like so during the build: VERSION=1.0.alpha5 CC=gcc CFLAGS="-g -O" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib \ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot.$VERSION --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl > configure.out This afternoon dovecot basically locked up where a lot of people (including me) were getting: imap(user): fcntl() failed with mbox file /var/mail/user: No record locks available for syslog messages, and their mailbox operations would fail. In my case pine just closed the mailbox with an internal error. I did a quick fix by stopping dovecot, killing all dovecot processes, killing /usr/lib/nfs/lockd on the dovecot server, and restarting lockd. Ideas? Suggestions? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Bug with userdb prefetch
by Stian Jordet 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, when I'm (trying) to use userdb prefetch with ldap, it works fine for system users, but for virtual users without their own uid and gid, it won't work. I get in the log: Dec 31 01:34:47 buick dovecot: auth(default): prefetch(oddrun,127.0.0.1): userdb_uid not returned Dec 31 01:34:47 buick dovecot: auth(default): prefetch(oddrun,127.0.0.1): userdb_gid not returned Which means that the problem is that user_global_uid and user_global_gid is not used when using prefetch. That must be a bug? Best regards, Stian

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[Dovecot] can't switch off login debuggin
by Sebastian Bauer 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I tried the change from cyrus to dovecot. This was just some days ago and I'm really happy. Just a little problem. For testing I switched on some login debugging. Now I can't switch it off. Dovecot seems to ignore the "no" in the config file. <snip> auth_verbose = no auth_debug = no </snip> That is what I get in maillog: <snip> dovecot-auth: pam_sm_authenticate called. dovecot-auth: dbuser changed. dovecot-auth: dbpasswd changed. dovecot-auth: host changed. dovecot-auth: database changed. dovecot-auth: table changed. dovecot-auth: usercolumn changed. dovecot-auth: passwdcolumn changed. dovecot-auth: crypt changed. dovecot-auth: logtable changed. dovecot-auth: logmsgcolumn changed. dovecot-auth: logusercolumn changed. dovecot-auth: loghostcolumn changed. dovecot-auth: logpidcolumn changed. dovecot-auth: logtimecolumn changed. dovecot-auth: db_connect called. dovecot-auth: returning 0 . dovecot-auth: db_checkpasswd called. dovecot-auth: pam_mysql: where clause = dovecot-auth: SELECT password FROM accountuser WHERE username='XXXX' dovecot-auth: sqlLog called. dovecot-auth: insert into log (msg, user, host, pid, time) values('AUTH SUCCESSFUL', 'XXXX', '', '14813' , NOW()) dovecot-auth: Returning 0 dovecot-auth: returning 0 . dovecot-auth: returning 0. dovecot-auth: pam_mysql: setcred called but not implemented. dovecot-auth: pam_mysql: acct_mgmt called but not implemented. Dont panic though :) </snip> I use dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 on CentOS. Hope someone can help me to stop these messages. Regards, Sebstian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDtcI90IZnttJ61yYRAhqYAKDC5DUvlNHR2o70gMWayBbJFr6oewCg8r5u hWlfTfsff1k67RLKq/P/xEM= =rlmj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] a problem in building dovecot @ opensolaris
by Sergey Ivanov 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, I'm trying to build dovecot from snapshot dovecot-20051215.tar.gz on OpenSolaris Nevada build 28. I have added to the PATH directories for make, gcc and automake/autoconf (in BASH): $ export PATH=/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:$PATH then executed --- $ aclocal $ libtoolize --force $ automake --add-missing $ autoheader $ autoconf --- And then make finished with --- Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : none Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : 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 shadow pam checkpassword (modules) --- But make fails, the first error is: --- Making all in quota if /bin/bash ../../../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT quota.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/quota.Tpo" -c -o quota.lo quota.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/quota.Tpo" ".deps/quota.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/quota.Tpo"; exit 1; fi gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT quota.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota.Tpo -c quota.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/quota.o In file included from quota-fs.h:22, from quota.c:6: /usr/include/sys/mnttab.h:81: error: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/sys/mnttab.h:82: error: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/sys/mnttab.h:83: error: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/sys/mnttab.h:84: error: parse error before '*' token *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `quota.lo' Current working directory /home/seriv/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/plugins/quota *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: set fnord $MAKEFLAGS; amf=$2; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ list='quota imap-quota trash'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' --- Please, help. -- Sergey Ivanov

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[Dovecot] dovecot and ldaps://
by David Coppa 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi all, I've managed to get dovecot running with ldaps (ssl over port 636, not starttls). Btw, it's working right only if i specify "TLSVerifyClient never" in my slapd.conf. With any other parameter (like "TLSVerifyClient demand"), the bind fails with: connection_get(12) connection_get(12): got connid=0 connection_read(12): checking for input on id=0 TLS trace: SSL_accept:before/accept initialization TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 read client hello A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write server hello A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write certificate A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write certificate request A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 flush data TLS trace: SSL_accept:error in SSLv3 read client certificate A TLS trace: SSL_accept:error in SSLv3 read client certificate A connection_get(12) connection_get(12): got connid=0 connection_read(12): checking for input on id=0 TLS trace: SSL3 alert write:fatal:handshake failure TLS trace: SSL_accept:error in SSLv3 read client certificate B TLS: can't accept. TLS: error:140890C7:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:peer did not return a certificate +/usr/src/lib/libssl/src/ssl/s3_srvr.c:2004 connection_read(12): TLS accept error error=-1 id=0, closing connection_closing: readying conn=0 sd=12 for close connection_close: conn=0 sd=12 Is there a way to specify, in the dovecot-ldap.conf file, where to look for the client certificate and key files? Or maybe make dovecot parse the ldaprc file under /etc? Best Regards, David

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[Dovecot] How to disable keywords?
by Sebastjan Trepca 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, is there a quick way to disable keyword feature in dovecot? Thanks, Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] Compile problem on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE
by Kim Culhan 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Trying to update to dovecot-1.0.alpha5 and seeing this at compile time: mech-gssapi.o mech-gssapi.c; then mv -f ".deps/mech-gssapi.Tpo" ".deps/mech-gssapi.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/mech-gssapi.Tpo"; exit 1; fi mech-gssapi.c:30:27: gssapi/gssapi.h: No such file or directory mech-gssapi.c:42: error: syntax error before "gss_ctx_id_t" mech-gssapi.c:51: error: syntax error before "gss_name_t" mech-gssapi.c:58: error: syntax error before "OM_uint32" [snipped] mech-gssapi.c:387: error: structure has no member named `authz_name' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/auth. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src. *** Error code 1 Any help is greatly appreciated -kim -- w8hdkim(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] dovecot+mysql login problem
by Mircea Stefan 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi, This is my MySQL table: <snip> mysql> select username, password from mailbox; +----------+----------+ | username | password | +----------+----------+ | mircea | stefan | +----------+----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) </snip> When I try to login (pop3) I recive "-ERR Authentication failed." <snip> +OK Dovecot ready. user mircea +OK pass stefan -ERR Authentication failed. </snip> maillog: <snip> Dec 27 20:54:38 pluto dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(mircea,10.13.15.2): query: SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'mircea' Dec 27 20:54:38 pluto dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Ilip=10.13.15.1^Irip=10.13.15.2^Iresp=AG1pcmNlYQBzdGVmYW4= Dec 27 20:54:39 pluto dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser=mircea </snip> I started a mysql client and ran: <snip> mysql> SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'mircea'; +----------+ | password | +----------+ | stefan | +----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) </snip> What's the problem? Thank you and Happy Holidays!

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[Dovecot] new user setup trouble
by Will Ling 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi again, I am still trying to run Dovecot but persistently get the errors Corrupted transaction log file and Lost transaction log file. I cannot find any reference to this problem that will help, I have checked the file permissions and locks and cannot see any obvious cause. Could somebody please advise what I might be doing wrong or direct me to somewhere else that I can ask for or find help. Below is some information about the problem. The log file show the following when I attempt to log in: Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 starting up Info: imap(will): Effective uid=501, gid=501 Info: imap(will): mbox: data=/home/will/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/will Info: imap(will): mbox: root=/home/will/mail, index=/home/will/mail, inbox=/var/spool/mail/will Info: imap-login: Login: user=<will>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.128.58, lip=10.0.128.55 Error: imap(will): Corrupted transaction log file /home /will/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x40, offset=24, size=0) Error: imap(will): /home/will/mail/. imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will/mail/. imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 My config file contains the following un commented lines: protocols = imap ssl_disable = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb shadow { } userdb passwd { } } My file permissions are: /var/spool/mail/ -rwxrwx--- will mail 2797 Dec 29 20:37 will /home/will/mail drwx------ will will 4096 Dec 29 20:47 .imap/ -rw------- will will 19 Dec 29 20:47 .subscriptions /home/will/mail/.imap drwx------ will will 4096 Dec 29 21:07 INBOX/ /home/will/mail/.imap/INBOX -rwxrwxrwx will will 120 Dec 28 20:47 dovecot.index -rw------- will will 376 Dec 29 21:07 dovecot.index.log -rw------- will will 376 Dec 29 21:04 dovecot.index.log.2 The .imap and everything in it is created when I try to login, the three dovecot.index are all completely empty. If any more information is required, please let me know. Regards, Will -- Will Ling

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[Dovecot] Dovecot index cache regeneration
by John Newman 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi, We've been using dovecot in the lab now for quite a while and really like the results we're seeing. Underlying dovecot we're using maildir mailboxes. We have the need to manually remove maildir files from time to time. That is, by hand (we'll, actually by script) but not via imap or pop. Dues to dovecot's index caching (which I might add, we love most of the time) imap clients still continue to display the message once they're gone (as we'd expect). However, in this instance it's not what we're after. So my question is, what is the "dovecot recommended" way to force the index cache to regenerate. We really don't want to delete the entire index cache for a particular mailbox as larger mailboxes will then need to unnecessarily regenerate indices on unaffected messages. Many thanks for any tips you can provide. John.

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[Dovecot] dovecot INSTALL
by Tom Lee 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hello, I just tried dovecot-stable-20051206.tar.gz. It takes me one additional day to get it work. >From INSTALL file, it failed to miss the following installation steps: 1) needs to create the file /etc/pam.d/dovecot 2) needs to create the directory /etc/ssl/certs/ and /etc/ssl/private/, configure doc/dovecot-openssl.cnf, chmod +x doc/mkcerts.sh doc/mkcerts.sh Not sure why it is not in the the file INSTALL. For pop3 client configuration, I wonder if it is OK for me to use: #outlook-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. # oe-ns-eoh: # Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is # missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing. pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls, oe-ns-eoh or dovecot can only allow one such as: pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls Thanks. Tom

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[Dovecot] Dovecot - struct dqblk' has no member named 'dqb_curblocks
by Bob Gustafson 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

On, Fedora4 This is against the latest cvs update This was encountered during make, after doing ./autogen.sh ./configure --without-lda make gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -I/usr/local/ssl/include -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -MT quota-fs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota-fs.Tpo -c quota-fs.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/quota-fs.o quota-fs.c: In function 'fs_quota_get_resource': quota-fs.c:208: error: 'struct dqblk' has no member named 'dqb_curblocks' make[4]: *** [quota-fs.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot/cvs/dovecot/src/plugins/quota'

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[Dovecot] out of memory on dovecot alpha5
by Pavel Volkovitskiy 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hello Once a day i have these errors in doveecot.log: =========================================== dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:04 Error: auth-worker(default): .Out of memory (Needed 52 bytes) dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:04 Error: auth-worker(default): sql(login,<ip>): Password query failed: MySQL client ran out of memory dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:06 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: user=<login>, method=PLAIN, rip=<ip>, lip=<ip2> dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:06 Error: auth-worker(default): pool_system_malloc(): Out of memory dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:06 Error: child 23022 (auth-worker) returned error 83 (Out of memory) ============================================ And after that nobody can login I do /etc/init.d/dovecot restart and then it's working for a day Before upgrade to alpha5 i was used 0.99.x series without eny errros on this server What can i do to debug this? -- Pavel

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[Dovecot] LDAP authenticated bind support
by J.M. Maurer 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Recently at Better.be we implemented LDAP authenticated bind support for dovecot. A patch against CVS HEAD is attached. I have not tested it against all possible configurations one can use, but the basic operation seems to be right. As documented in the patch, it adds one new option to the dovecot-ldap.conf configuration file: # Set "auth_bind" to "yes" if you want to use "authenticated binds" # as a login validation mechanism. NOTE: the pass_attrs option # will (naturally) be ignored if you enable this auth_bind = yes Authenticated bind support is implemented asynchronously. This involves 2 asynchronous calls: the first being 'ldap_search' to find the dn to bind against and the second being the actual 'ldap_bind' call. I'd love to hear some feedback on this. Regards, Marc Maurer Better.be B.V.

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot behaving badly after upgrade..
by Adrian Vasile 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

wrote it and tested it. now it reconnects to mysql as it should. <snip> loki ~ # cat /usr/local/portage/net-mail/dovecot/files/db-mysql.diff diff -ur dovecot-0.99.14-orig/src/auth/db-mysql.c dovecot-0.99.14/src/auth/db-mysql.c --- dovecot-0.99.14-orig/src/auth/db-mysql.c 2004-12-19 07:25:15.000000000 +0200 +++ dovecot-0.99.14/src/auth/db-mysql.c 2005-12-27 15:43:11.000000000 +0200 @@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ case CR_SERVER_GONE_ERROR: case CR_SERVER_LOST: /* connection lost - try immediate reconnect */ + /* but first close the connection :) */ + if (conn->connected) + mysql_conn_close(conn); if (!mysql_conn_open(conn)) break; if (mysql_query(conn->mysql, query) == 0) { </snip> i suppose that v1alpha5 has the same bug.. addapt to needs Adrian Vasile wrote: > re,re > > I think I found the issue: > in this switch : > if (failed) { > /* query failed */ > switch (mysql_errno(conn->mysql)) { > case CR_SERVER_GONE_ERROR: > case CR_SERVER_LOST: > /* connection lost - try immediate reconnect */ > if (!mysql_conn_open(conn)) > break; > if (mysql_query(conn->mysql, query) == 0) { > failed = FALSE; > break; > } > /* query failed, fallback to error handler */ > default: > i_error("MySQL: Error executing query \"%s\": %s", > query, mysql_error(conn->mysql)); > break; > } > } > if this error occurs then reconnect.. this is true, but > static int mysql_conn_open(struct mysql_connection *conn) > { > if (conn->connected) > return TRUE; > .... > in the conn structure the connected bit is always true I belive. > > May I write the patch ? > > Adrian Vasile wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> It doesn't matter who's fault it is. I run Dovecot with mysql auth and >> it does the same.. >> the idea is that mysql has a timeout for connections so, after a period >> of inactivity it closes the connection. >> I don't know if Dovecot uses what the developers from mysql propose: >> if mysql_ping != ok then reconnect >> I didn't have time to browse the sources. >> >> The lazy work-around I made is modifying the pop3/imap monitor of mon >> and every 15 min, mon logs into dovecot >> with a test account :) >> >> It's the same problem with amavis but that's not necesarly amavis's >> fault but the DBI people. >> >> PS: I run : >> * net-mail/dovecot >> Installed: 0.99.14-r1 >> Homepage: http://dovecot.org/ >> Description: An IMAP and POP3 server written with security >> primarily in mind >> >> * dev-db/mysql >> Installed: 5.0.17 >> Homepage: http://www.mysql.com/ >> Description: A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL >> database server >> >> maybe using pam_mysql would solve this issue.. >> >> daniel petre wrote: >> >>> >>> i dont think its vpopmail's fault, since THIS running version is OKAY: >>> >>> delfix ~ # emerge -s dovecot >>> Searching... >>> [ Results for search key : dovecot ] >>> [ Applications found : 1 ] >>> >>> * net-mail/dovecot >>> Latest version available: 1.0_alpha5 >>> Latest version installed: 0.99.14-r1 >>> Size of downloaded files: 1,236 kB >>> Homepage: http://dovecot.org/ >>> Description: An IMAP and POP3 server written with security >>> primarily in mind >>> License: LGPL-2.1 >>> >>> >>> >>> Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 02:52 +0200, daniel petre wrote: >>>> >>>>> dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql >>>>> error[3]: MySQL server has gone away >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> .. >>>> >>>>> anyone encountered this? >>>>> mysql is not away, i edited dovecot.conf carefully. >>>>> what am i missing? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> That error message is coming from vpopmail libraries, and it looks >>>> like >>>> it at least thinks it can't connect to MySQL. Looks to me like the >>>> problem is in vpopmail's side. There isn't really anything that can be >>>> configured for vpopmail from Dovecot's side. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >

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[Dovecot] postfix, dovecot, sasl deliver error
by Tracy Phillips 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Hi, I am receiving an error when trying to send mail. I am using FreeBSD 6 and dovecot 1.0.alpha5 and postfix 2.3-20051223 which includes the dovecot sasl patch. I am getting: Dec 26 17:26:45 example postfix/pipe[612]: DC90D5C30: to=<tep(a)example.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=14, delays=14/0.05/0/0.08, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: Error: net_connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied ) This is from dovecot.conf: auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/passwd } userdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # # WARNING: Giving untrusted users access to master socket may be a # # security risk, don't give too wide permissions to it! mode = 0666 # # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) user = virtual group = virtual } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0666 } } } and from dovecot-deliver.conf: # UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users. auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master From postfix master.cf: # Dovecot LDA dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=virtual:virtual argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} from postfix main.cf: virtual_mailbox_domains = /usr/local/etc/postfix/vhosts.txt virtual_mailbox_base = /usr/local/var/spool/vmail virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/vmaps.txt virtual_uid_maps = static:1003 virtual_gid_maps = static:1003 virtual_alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/valias.txt dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 virtual_transport = dovecot smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth

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[Dovecot] Another Assertion Failure in Current CVS Version
by Todd Burroughs 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

This is in the CVS version as of Dec. 12. A user got a few of these: dovecot: Dec 14 15:10:29 Error: 23648 imap(username): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /mailhome/new/s/h/username/DONE (1591 > 19, seq=19, idx_msgs=1593) dovecot: Dec 14 15:10:33 Error: 23648 imap(username): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion failed: (start_pos < data_size) dovecot: Dec 14 15:10:40 Error: child 23648 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff348 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x00005c60 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #6 0x080a17ba in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x5c60 <Address 0x5c60 out of bounds>) at failures.c:375 No locals. #7 0x080a1be4 in i_panic ( format=0x80af28c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x08074225 in mbox_sync_headers_add_space (ctx=0xbffff6e0, size=4106) at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:99 data_size = Variable "data_size" is not available. (gdb) frame 8 #8 0x08074225 in mbox_sync_headers_add_space (ctx=0xbffff6e0, size=4106) at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:99 99 start_pos = ctx->hdr_pos[MBOX_HDR_X_KEYWORDS] != (size_t)-1 ? (gdb) p start_pos Variable "start_pos" is not available. (gdb) p data_size Variable "data_size" is not available. (gdb) p ctx->hdr_pos[MBOX_HDR_X_KEYWORDS] $1 = 1344 (gdb) p *ctx->header $2 = {data = 0x810d2a0, used = 1395}

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[Dovecot] Wiki Documentation: missing item
by Luigi Rosa 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

In the "MainConfig" section of the online documentation (http://wiki.dovecot.org/) one item in the "logging" section is missing. The missing item is "syslog_facility" described in the dovecot-example.conf file. Ciao, luigi -- +--[Luigi Rosa]--

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[Dovecot] Migrating from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot
by Andreas Mimz 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

Hi! I'm currently trying to migrate from courier-imapd to dovecot... Unfortunately I'm experiences some difficulties here... Since I don't want any user to notice the change of the server backend I've tried changing the namespace in dovecot.conf to namespace private { separator = . location = maildir:~/Maildir prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes hidden = no } With this setting almost everything works fine! Almost... ;-) Squirrelmail won't show 'INBOX' on the left side of the folder tree... If I configure dovecot without the 'INBOX.' prefix it works fine in Squirrelmail, except that all other eMail clients show all sub-folders as a sub-folder of root and not the inbox... root \- inbox \- sent \- trash \- drafts \- private \- spam instead of root \- inbox | \- sent | \- trash | \- drafts | \- private | \- spam any Idea what could be wrong? I've read the wiki about the courier-migration and also tried the conversion script ... but something is wrong I'm afraid... thanks in advance, Andreas

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[Dovecot] dovecot behaving badly after upgrade..
by daniel petre 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

i upgraded dovecot from 0.99 to the last version and it doesnt seem to work anymore.. im using vpopmail userdb and i get this in the logs : dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=81.x.x.x rip=81.x.x.x resp= dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGRhbmlAbGludXhzb2x1dGlvbnMucm8AcG9jcG9j dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Info: auth(default): vpopmail(dani(a)domain,81.x.x.x): unknown user dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:09 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=dani@domain dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:09 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=81.x.x.x rip=81.x.x.x resp=AGRhbmlAbGludXhzb2x1dGlvbnMucm8AcG9jcG9j anyone encountered this? mysql is not away, i edited dovecot.conf carefully. what am i missing? thanks -- Daniel Petre System Administrator Tech Support Coordinator ............................................................................. RCS & RDS Pitesti Tel.: +40348.400.401 Fax: +40348.400.441 http://www.rcs-rds.ro ............................................................................. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not in the addresses indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail.

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[Dovecot] inbox problems when moving from server to server
by Eric S. Johansson 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

this is probably an FAQ but I moved all the mailboxes from a gentoo server to an ubuntu one and all old inbox messages "disappeared" for. New messages appear and can be read, deleted etc. the old messages can still be found in the Maildir/cur directory like they were on the old mail server. Ownership was changed to user:user and is 600 permissions. Dovecot version: 0.99.14-1ubuntu1 all other mailboxes are fine, all messages visible as far as we can tell. ideas?

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[Dovecot] dovecot and virtual mailbox - suggestions please
by David Bain 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

I've setup postfix to delivered my mail to a maildir located at /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/mydomain.com/myuser My postgresql database called 'mails' has a user table setup as follows: CREATE TABLE users ( userid VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL, password VARCHAR(128), realname VARCHAR(128), uid INTEGER NOT NULL, gid INTEGER NOT NULL, home VARCHAR(128), mail VARCHAR(255), PRIMARY KEY (userid) ); What would the query look like in my dovecot-pgsql.conf file to retrieve the appropriate INBOX information? mine currently looks like this. user_query = SELECT '/var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' The user authenticates fine via pop, yet I keeping getting the following error. -*ERR No INBOX for user*

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0alpha imap uid store command response
by Tomas Kuliavas 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Hi, Dovecot 1.0alpha (tested 0.99.14, 1.0alpha1, 1.0alpha4 and 1.0alpha5) does not return UID number in 'UID STORE uid-number +FLAGS (\Seen)' command response. Issue is not present in 0.99.14. >From IMAP RFC http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3501.txt 6.4.8. UID Command ... However, server implementations MUST implicitly include the UID message data item as part of any FETCH response caused by a UID command, regardless of whether a UID was specified as a message data item to the FETCH. ... Could you fix your IMAP server? -- Tomas

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[Dovecot] dovecot - postgresql ERR No INBOX for user.
by David Bain 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

I've setup dovecot to authenticate against postgresql. But I consistently get a "No INBOX for user" error when I try to do pop requests. Any pointers would be helpful. Postfix deposits mails in maildirs in the format /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/{domain}/{username}/ below is the result of a telnet test (altered slightly of course, but gives the idea) telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. USER personx(a)myxdomxain.net +OK PASS herexxxx +OK Logged in. -ERR No INBOX for user. Connection closed by foreign host. here is my dovecot.conf file /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf =================== ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file protocols = imap imaps pop3 # "host:port". imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * login = imap login = pop3 # to make sure that users ca here is my dovecot-pgsql.conf file default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/%lu/%u/Maildir # Authentication process name. auth = default auth_user = root auth_userdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_passdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf ==================== connect = host=localhost dbname=mails user=xxxxxxname password=xxxxxxx default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' user_query = SELECT '/var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' #user_query = SELECT '/%n' as home,uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u'

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[Dovecot] Corrupted transaction log file
by Will Ling 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Hi, I am new to dovecot and have just got it up and running on mandrake 8.2. Dovecot seems to be running OK, I can telnet in and log in and Mail on OS X will get the folder list but if a client selects a mail box I get an error back. I cannot find any help anywhere on the errors I'm getting so I hope this is the right place to ask. Please see the log file below. Any clues to the problem would be greatly appreciated. This was after an attempted login from Mail then another try using Mutt locally: dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:44 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 starting up dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:51 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<will>, method=PLAIN, rip =10.0.128.58, lip=10.0.128.55 dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:51 Error: imap(will): Corrupted transaction log file /home /will/mail/.imap/test/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x20, offse t=24, size=0) dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:51 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will /mail/.imap/test/dovecot.index.log seq 2 dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:51 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will /mail/.imap/test/dovecot.index.log seq 2 dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:56 Error: imap(will): Corrupted transaction log file /home /will/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: record size too large (type=0x20, offs et=24, size=201326616, end=48) dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:56 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will /mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:56 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<will>, method=PLAIN, rip =10.0.128.58, lip=10.0.128.55 dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:56 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will /mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:56 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will /mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 dovecot: Dec 24 16:18:46 Error: imap(will): Corrupted transaction log file /home /will/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: record size too large (type=0x20, offs et=24, size=603979800, end=48) dovecot: Dec 24 16:18:46 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<will>, method=PLAIN, rip =127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.will1, secured Regards, Will -- Will Ling

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[Dovecot] PATCH: Dovecot SASL authentication for Postfix 2.3-20051220
by Timo Sirainen 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Tested with PLAIN authentication. Doesn't require any external libraries. Building: make makefiles CCARGS="-DUSE_SASL_AUTH" If you want Cyrus SASL support also (eg. for SASL client), just follow SASL_README instructions normally. main.cf: smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot # non-chrooted smtpd: #smtpd_sasl_path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth # chrooted smtpd: smtpd_sasl_path = /private/auth dovecot.conf: auth default { .. socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0666 } } }

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[Dovecot] Re: PATCH: Dovecot SASL authentication for Postfix 2.3-20051220
by wietse＠porcupine.org 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

I'm adding the finishing touch to the Postfix Dovecot plug-in, to be released with snapshot 20051223. The plug-in code quality is generally very good. I had two observations, both of minor importance: - The authentication server protocol uses the TAB character as a delimiter, so it is critical that legitimate user names don't contain this character. This is of course trivial to ensure with the authentication server implementation, so I will not worry about it. - I noticed that the plug-in did not satisfy one Postfix principle, namely that operations be bounded in time. I added a time limit for connect, read and write operations. Postfix will time-bound all operations anyway, but the diagnostics of the watchdog timer are less specific and therefore less useful. Wietse

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[Dovecot] Thinking about switching from courier-imap to Dovecot: 2 simple questions
by kadafax 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Hi, I'm using RHEL4 and since the dovecot RPM is present in the main repository, I'm thinking about switching from courier-imap (with whom I've got trouble to update) to Dovecot. Here are two questions about Dovecot (google didn't answer me): 1. Is it possible for dovecot to use the bind mecanism against ldap for authentification purpose. My main concern is to avoid the clear-text password in the dovecot-ldap.conf file. With courier-imap, the process simply bind to the ldap tree with the users's supplied login/password. No need for a special authentification purpose user. 2. Does imap's dovecot implementation support folders imbrication (more than one level folders) ? Thanks, kfx.

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RE: [Dovecot] Vacation Message HOWTO
by Joshua Goodall 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

John Peacock wrote: > It's probably possible to use with any LDA which support delivery > scripts (e.g. .forward files). The CVS version of dovecot-lda has Sieve script support, and it works well. http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/LDA - Joshua.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot & pam_mkhomedir
by Stroller 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hi there, Does anyone have Dovecot working correctly with pam_mkhomedir, please? I seem to be going through quite a number of IMAP servers this week, trying to find one that will not only authenticate against a Windows domain but which will also create home directories for users the first time they log in. I'm using winbind to do the authentication & that seems to be doing the trick in the first instance - if I log in using Squirrelmail I see entries written to the system log saying: Dec 16 11:58:35 baby pam_winbind[9319]: user 'ned' granted access I have set Dovecot to log to /var/log/mail and in that I see only three entries saying: imap-login: Dec 16 11:58:36 Info: Login: ned [127.0.0.1] But Squirrelmail gives: ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: SELECT "INBOX" Reason Given: /etc/pam.d/imap says: #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_winbind.so account required /lib/security/pam_winbind.so session required /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0022 If I use the same configuration for SSH then the user's home directory is created upon authenticaton, but not with Dovecot. I chose to try Dovecot because I understood it handled PAM session wossisnames, which Courier-IMAP doesn't. My dovecot.conf is attached - I'm wondering if the problem could be with the "auth_userdb" setting, but `getent passwd` does show an entry for the user: # grep ned /etc/passwd # getent passwd | grep ned ned:x:10012:10000:Ned Nedbody:/home/DOMAIN/ned:/bin/false # Many thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions - I'd really like to understand what's going on here. I believe I can authenticate against the domain using LDAP / Active Directory, but since I don't know if that'll help I'd rather not go that route yet. If I first try to log in using ssh with pam_mkhomedir enabled then the users' home directory is created successfully & I can subsequently log on in Squirrelmail. But it's important to me that I shouldn't have to create users' home dirs for them - I should be able to add them on the Windows domain controller & just tell them to log in to their email - the home dir on the mailserver should be created automagically when they authenticate against the domain. Stroller.

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[Dovecot] Authentication trouble.
by Michael Peters 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

I am not having much luck with resolving my authentication issue. The environment is "SunOS 5.10 Generic_118822-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine". dovecot-1.0.alpha5 ./configure --with-passwd --with-shadow --with-pam --with-checkpassword --with-mysql --with-storages=maildir # telnet 172.16.0.40 143 Trying 172.16.0.40... Connected to 172.16.0.40. Escape character is '^]'. * OK mailhub is for business purposes only. Usage is monitored. A01 login username mypassword * BAD [ALERT] Plaintext authentication is disabled, but your client sent password in plaintext anyway. If anyone was listening, the password was exposed. A01 NO Plaintext authentication disabled. A04 Logout * BYE Logging out A04 OK Logout completed. Connection to 172.16.0.40 closed by foreign host. *I have tried adding digest-md5 cram-md5 and shadow but Dovecot will not start.* auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous gssapi mechanisms = plain *Dovecot will not start when I tried these options. Maybe I am entering this wrong?* passdb shadow { /etc/shadow } passdb passwd { /etc/passwd } Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Best regards, Michael

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[Dovecot] dovecot -CVS and epoll and cvs not building
by Reuben Farrelly 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hi, After reviewing my dovecot ./configure options I thought I'd give --with-ioloop=epoll a go again (as opposed to just using =poll) but I'm seeing some errors appearing in the maillog that aren't there with standard poll: Dec 23 02:34:47 tornado dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<reuben>, auth-method=plain, remote=220.237.24.149, TLS Dec 23 02:34:48 tornado dovecot: imap-login: io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(3, 9): No such file or directory Dec 23 02:34:48 tornado dovecot: child 16524 (login) returned error 89 They're appearing fairly frequently, ie within a few mins of starting up and then the message won't go away until the client is restarted. So it's easy to reproduce but I'm not sure how to go about debugging it. Can anyone help with this? It's a very recent Linux-2.6 system so epoll support should not be an issue. Additionally -CVS won't compile for me right now, it bails out when compiling the 'quota' plugin. Workaround is to manually edit the dovecot/src/plugins/Makefile and not build this plugin.. Timo - is there a file/commit missing from -CVS at the moment for this plugin? I see no other reference anywhere for dqb_curblocks in the code. gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -MT quota-fs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota-fs.Tpo -c quota-fs.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/quota-fs.o quota-fs.c: In function 'fs_quota_get_resource': quota-fs.c:208: error: 'struct dqblk' has no member named 'dqb_curblocks' make[1]: *** [quota-fs.lo] Error 1 reuben

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[Dovecot] Migrating from mbox to maildir, which converter is compatible with dovecot
by Oliver Schulze L. 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hi, I'm testing/debuging the migration from mbox to maildir in a mailserver running Dovecot 1.0alpha5. I migrated all 472715 emails(in a test server) and later noted that dovecot could not get the same flags/status of the emails as in the mbox. I was using perfect_maildir.pl and I think its not dovecot fault. Seems to me that perfect_maildir.pl convert the emails in a way that dovecot could not understand completelly. So, my cuestion is, which mbox to maildir converter can I use that is compatible with dovecot 1.0alpha5 ? Thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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[Dovecot] mailbox from ldap and indexes
by Stian Jordet 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi, because of quota, I would like to have indexes on another filesystem then user's maildir. This I can do with "default_mail_env= maildir:/% h/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u" or something. But when I get the users mailbox location from ldap, there is no way to set the index? I guess I can make the ldap entry contain the INDEX as well, but I would like to use the ldap entry in the exim conf as well, to tell exim where to write the mails... Is there a way I haven't thought of yet? I have this in dovecot-ldap.conf now: user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,mailbox,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber If I could do something like: user_attrs = uid,..,"maildir:" . mailbox . ":INDEX=var/indexes/%u",... that would have been awesome. Best regards, Stian

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[Dovecot] Another "Too many files open" post
by Andy Cravens 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

I'm running Solaris 9 Sparc with Dovecot alpha 5 and using maildir format.. I noticed in the log file the following error: dovecot: Dec 20 15:54:18 Error: imap(xxxxxxxx): open(/export/home/xxxxxxxx/mail/.Sent Messages/cur/1135013649.002916.mbox:2,Sab) failed: Too many open files I called the guy and asked him what he was doing... synching his folders. It hung for a while but finally finished. I searched the archives and found some related info from Jeff Ballard: >Actually on Solaris 9 you want to put something like this in >/etc/system: > >set rlim_fd_cur = 32768 >set rlim_fd_max = 65536 > >That sets the current fd's to 32k and max to 64k. Unfortunately, to >take effect you'll need to reboot. After the reboot, ulimit -a should >show that nofiles(descriptors) is 32768. > >-Jeff And I found this from Jeff Earickson: >I ran into this problem with alpha4 on Solaris 9. I doubled the >following dovecot settings: > >login_max_processes_count = 256 (was 128) >login_max_logging_users = 512 (was 256) > >and the problem went away. I carried these numbers forward intoalpha5, >and it has been working fine. I changed my /etc/system file but have not rebooted yet. Also, on Jeff Earickson's post, I looked at my dovecot.conf settings and they're basically default which means everything in the "Login processes" section is commented out. I have 10 users on this system and will hold off migrating any more until I can resolve this problem. By the way, my "ulimit -a" shows "open files" at 256 which seems low. # ulimit -a core file size (blocks) 0 data seg size (kbytes) unlimited file size (blocks) unlimited open files 256 pipe size (512 bytes) 10 stack size (kbytes) 8192 cpu time (seconds) unlimited max user processes 29995 virtual memory (kbytes) unlimited Any advice would be appreciated. I can't reboot for a few more days.

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[Dovecot] 1.0 alpha5: Plugin woes: quota/trash
by Jan-Piet Mens 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello, I'm running Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 and I'm trying to get the quota plugins to work. I've enabled modules in dovecot.conf, but when the IMAP connection is opened, the log shows undefined symbols. : Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap : dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/libtrash_plugin.so) failed: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/libtrash_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota : dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/libimap_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/libimap_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota : dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/libquota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/libquota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: dict_transaction_commit The source shows that the modules are read by reading the module directory and loading each of the found .so files. Supposing that the ordering of the files in the directory is wrong, I've even recreated the module directory manually, copying the libs into it in different orders; no change. It seems to me as though there are cross-dependencies in the shared libs that cannot be resolved. Has anybody found it to work or could anyone give me a hint on how to get it working? Thanks & regards, -JP

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Re: [Dovecot] Quota usage
by Robin Breathe 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

> Stewart Dean wrote: > (from someone other than the original appender) > I'm looking to report the O/S (Berkeley BSD-originated, though on AIX) > derived quota > > Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 20:23 -0200, Clovis Tristão wrote: >>> How I enable the quota using in Dovecot. >>> Necessary to have access the quota of the users through the >>> SquirrelMail checkquota plugin. Thanks a lot, >> >> Currently not possible, but I just added the quota plugin to CVS, >> so it >> comes to alpha5 release. But that doesn't mean it necessarily works >> exactly how you want it, since there is no standard way to do quota.. >> Did you want it to show user's filesystem quota or something else? I wrote a filesystem quota plugin for use with dovecot-0.99.x some time ago. It's been tested with both Solaris and FreeBSD, and is currently used on a production Solaris server with 20k users for exactly the purpose you describe - SquirrelMail quota display. If anyone's interested in looking at the code with an eye to extending OS support or accelerating conversion to the 1.0-alpha codebase, let me know and I'll get around to making it available somewhere. On the other hand, Timo made some noises about committing something similar to CVS, so it may be worth waiting. Robin

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Re: [Dovecot] Quota usage
by Robin Breathe 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

> Stewart Dean wrote: > (from someone other than the original appender) > I'm looking to report the O/S (Berkeley BSD-originated, though on AIX) > derived quota > > Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 20:23 -0200, Clovis Tristão wrote: >>> How I enable the quota using in Dovecot. >>> Necessary to have access the quota of the users through the >>> SquirrelMail checkquota plugin. Thanks a lot, >> >> Currently not possible, but I just added the quota plugin to CVS, >> so it >> comes to alpha5 release. But that doesn't mean it necessarily works >> exactly how you want it, since there is no standard way to do quota.. >> Did you want it to show user's filesystem quota or something else? I wrote a filesystem quota plugin for use with dovecot-0.99.x some time ago. It's been tested with both Solaris and FreeBSD, and is currently used on a production Solaris server with 20k users for exactly the purpose you describe - SquirrelMail quota display. If anyone's interested in looking at the code with an eye to extending OS support or accelerating conversion to the 1.0-alpha codebase, let me know and I'll get around to making it available somewhere. On the other hand, Timo made some noises about committing something similar to CVS, so it may be worth waiting. Robin

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[Dovecot] LDAP schema for mailLocation?
by Jason Pepas 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi, I would like to try implementing user specific default_mail_env's as described here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MailLocation using the LDAP attribute 'mailLocation'. However, I have been unable to find any LDAP schema which contains mailLocation. What schema is this attribute part of? Thanks, Jason Pepas

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[Dovecot] Feature Request - Different SQL queries to retrieve pop and imap auth tokens
by Max CtRiX 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi! I world like to have different queries to let a user use pop only or imap only (webmail) accounts. It would really be very useful. I have not found any workaround get it working with dovecot. Could it be possible ? It should not be too difficult, I suppose. Max

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[Dovecot] messages_count too large (2578 > 2566) Help!
by Rob Frohne 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi, I'm having trouble as of about noon today. I noticed I wasn't getting any new messages in Thunderbird. I restarted it and still nothing. I looked at the log, and found nothing from dovecot for a long time (since perhaps noon today). I restarted dovecot, but still it didn't get me new mail. I finally removed dovecot.* in my Maildir folder and restarted dovecot. I'm using 1.0alpha4. Now I'm still not able to get the new mail, and I get the following messages: Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<frohro>, method=plain, rip=172.17.128.191, lip=10.7.3.11 Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Effective uid=501, gid=20 Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: data=/Users/frohro/Maildir Nov 20 20:49:59 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: root=/Users/frohro/Maildir, index=/Users/frohro/Maildir, control=, inbox= Nov 20 20:50:00 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2578 > 2566) Nov 20 20:50:00 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2578 > 2566) Nov 20 20:50:08 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2588 > 2576) Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<frohro>, method=plain, rip=172.17.128.191, lip=10.7.3.11 Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Effective uid=501, gid=20 Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: data=/Users/frohro/Maildir Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): maildir: root=/Users/frohro/Maildir, index=/Users/frohro/Maildir, control=, inbox= Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2588 > 2576) Nov 20 20:50:25 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2588 > 2576) Nov 20 20:50:26 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Corrupted index file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (2588 > 2576) I guess I won't be able to read any answers to this in my mailbox, but I should be able to read the archive on the web. Please help! Thanks, Rob -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla College 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro

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[Dovecot] Auto-expunge
by John Newman 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi, For some time we've been intermittently experiencing a problem whereby dovecot often automatically expunges "deleted" messages. This has happened across several mailboxes. The problem is proving difficult to isolate as it's seemingly non-deterministic in nature. One commonality, however, is that the "auto-expunge" seems to occur with greater frequency on mailboxes with a larger of deleted messages. First off, does this sound any alarm bells for anybody else? Perhaps others have encountered this in the past? I've trolled the mailing list (and web) but cannot find any references to this occurring elsewhere. Additional Information: We have experienced this "bug" in 1.0-alpha3 and alpha4. Underlying dovecot we have a maildir, populated via Perl's Mail::Box::Maildir module. Many thanks for any assistance that can be offered. John.

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[Dovecot] dovecot as3
by Ammad Shah 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

i am using redhat as3, sendmail, xinetd ipop3 and imap, i installed dovecot and configured, when i stop xinetd and start dovecot , after successful startup , and using web to access it getting authenticaion errors, user/password unknown __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] alpha5: assert and core
by Jeff A. Earickson 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

My setup: Solaris 9, dovecot built with gcc 4.0.2. Mailboxes on remote NFS file mount from another S9 box (mbox format), index files local disk. IMAP usage only. Dovecot build like so: VERSION=1.0.alpha5 CC=gcc CFLAGS="-g -O" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include \ LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib \ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot.$VERSION --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl > configure.out The assertion: Dec 16 14:59:54 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(user): file message-body-search.c: line 414 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset == part->physical_pos + part->header_size.physical_size) Dec 16 14:59:58 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(user): file message-body-search.c: line 414 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset == part->physical_pos + part->header_size.physical_size) (twice in four seconds). The gdb traceback and core dump analysis is attached. This is the only core from alpha5 in about a week's worth of production usage. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] pam_authenticate() failed:
by Michael Peters 18 Dec '05

18 Dec '05

Obviously I have an account. This is Solaris 10. I have been tinkering with the /etc/pam.conf without success. Does anyone have a solution? I have this currently in the pam.conf. dovecot auth required pam_passwd_auth.so.1 try_first_pass dovecot account required pam_unix_account.so.1 I have tried: dovecot auth required pam_unix_account.so.1 nullok dovecot account required pam_unix_account.so.1 And this: dovecot auth required pam_unix_auth.so.1 nullok dovecot account required pam_unix_account.so.1 When trying an IMAP attempt at the command line, this is the log extract. dovecot: Dec 17 10:32:13 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 starting up dovecot: Dec 17 10:32:33 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=172.16.0.41 rip=172.16.0.41 resp=AG1kcGV0ZXJzAEhhY2tlcmphYzY3QA== dovecot: Dec 17 10:32:33 Info: auth(default): pam(myname(a)mydomain.com,172.16.0.41): pam_authenticate() failed: No account present for user dovecot: Dec 17 10:32:35 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=myname(a)mydomain.com dovecot: Dec 17 10:32:39 Info: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<myname(a)mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=172.16.0.41, lip=172.16.0.41 -- Best regards, Michael

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 32, Issue 42
by Daniel 17 Dec '05

17 Dec '05

If its too hard for them to setup the pop3 catch all, we can probably put some mapping in place to smtp froward mail to their server. This is more complex on our part so would prefer not to do it that way, but its an option and will require not setup on their part other than make sure their server does not accept mail for anyone other than our server. dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Send dovecot mailing list submissions to > dovecot(a)dovecot.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://dovecot.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dovecot > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > dovecot-owner(a)dovecot.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of dovecot digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? (Marc Perkel) > 2. Dovecot - struct dqblk' has no member named 'dqb_curblocks > (Bob Gustafson) > 3. Re: Dovecot - struct dqblk' has no member named > 'dqb_curblocks (Bob Gustafson) > 4. Re: Dovecot & pam_mkhomedir (Stroller) > 5. Re: Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? (Andy Cravens) > 6. Re: LDAP schema for mailLocation? (Aiko Barz) > 7. Authentication trouble. (Michael Peters) > 8. Re: LDAP schema for mailLocation? (Karl Latiss) > 9. Re: Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? > (Erik Petersen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:26:11 -0800 > From: Marc Perkel <marc(a)perkel.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? > To: "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick(a)colby.edu> > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <43A2F8B3.8080405(a)perkel.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I'm sure some of my customers would also freak if they knew I was using > "Alpha" code. Besides, who expects a 1.0 version to be perfect? > > Jeff A. Earickson wrote: > >> For political reasons, I would like to see alphaX promoted to "1.0". >> My boss had a cow the other day when I told her we are running alpha >> code in production. My defense was "you hadn't noticed because it >> works." Or at least call alpha6 something like "beta1" instead. >> >> Jeff Earickson >> Colby College >> >> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Marc Perkel wrote: >> >>> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:42:09 -0800 >>> From: Marc Perkel <marc(a)perkel.com> >>> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org >>> Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha? >>> >>> I'd like to make a suggestion. Let's drop the Alpha and come out with >>> an official version 1.0. >>> >>> Here's my reasons. The 0.9x version are obsolete and people should be >>> using the 1.0 Alpha versions which seem to me to do everything the >>> previous versions did and more. It's as full featured and stable as >>> all other IMAP servers and in my opinion is ready to be called 1.0. >>> >>> The "Alpha" label scares people off and with the 0.9x version being >>> obsolete I think it creates confusion for new users. It created >>> confusion for me when I converted to dovecot, and distros are less >>> ,ikely to include versions with the Alpha label. >>> >>> Once you go to 1.0 you can start a 1.1 alpha series and finish it up. >>> I know Timo has high standards but as a marketing issue I think that >>> the Alpha label needs to go to get people to accept and use 1.0 in >>> production. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> -- >>> Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com >>> >>> Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com >>> My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com >>> >

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[Dovecot] Two-phase delete/expunge ?
by Jan-Piet Mens 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Is it possible to have messages which have been marked for deletion or which are to be expunged, moved into a "secret" directory on the IMAP server? The IMAP client would consider the message as deleted, but an administrator could easily restore single messages (without having to retrieve tapes) by moving the message back into inbox. I understand there are patches floating around somewhere enabling that for Cyrus, but I'd love to see Dovecot do that as well. Is anyone aware of such functionality? Thanks, -JP

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[Dovecot] strange connection NG
by Yi Xuan 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Dear all, I have a devocot server based on fedora core 3 in Japan. When my users are in Japan, there is no any problem reported.Devocot works very well. But when my users are in China, sometimes the following problem occured. Sometimes the user can not download mails, after that all connections attempt to server(e.g http/ssh) failed. the user has to close OutLook, and wait for about 10 minutes, then access the webmail to read mail. Maybe the POP NG is due to the network , but what is the possible reason of 10-minute other connection NG? Is there any solution? Because users in China share the same outside IP, when one user occures POP NG, all users occures server access NG, that is a big puzzle. Thanks in advance. Best regards,

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[Dovecot] Patch: ioloop using kqueue/kevent for FreeBSD
by Vaclav Haisman 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Hi, I would like to submit the attached patch. It implements IO loop using FreeBSD's kqueue/kevent syscalls. It is based on snapshot of CVS HEAD as of 2005-12-12. I could only give it limited testing on FreeBSD 5.4 but it works fine so far. Vaclav Haisman

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha5 released
by Timo Sirainen 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

We have now some new big features: - Beginnings of dbox mailbox format. It should work, but if you happen to delete/break index files, the mails aren't found again. So really not a good idea to use it for more than testing. - GSSAPI (Kerberos 5) support by Jelmer Vernooij with some fixes by pod(a)herald.ox.ac.uk - Added dictionary API to Dovecot, similar to what Postfix has. It can be used for getting/setting key=value pairs, which can be useful for many different purposes. For example it could be used to store mailbox metadata for ANNOTATEMORE extension. Implemented SQL backend for it. In future there should be berkeley DB backend at least. Also there could be some kind of proxy backend which would use UNIX socket to connect to dictionary server doing the actual work. This way each imap/lda process wouldn't have to connect to SQL server themself. - Quota plugin is now included. We also have now dictionary based quota support, which means the quota limits and values can be stored in SQL. However I haven't actually tested these changes yet, so there's a good chance the quota plugin doesn't actually work at all. - Created a new trash plugin which works only together with quota plugin. The point of it is to expunge mails from a list of configurable mailboxes whenever saving new mails would cause the account to go over quota. The oldest mails are expunged first, and only as many mails are expunged as is needed to save the new mail. For configuration it first looks up for ~/.dovecot.trash.conf, and then fallbacks to /etc/dovecot-trash.conf. The file format is "<priority> <mailbox name>". It's possible to have multiple mailboxes with same priority. Lower number = higher priority. This plugin is also currently untested. The plugins are currently installed as shared libraries to plugin directory. At some point I'll add a configure option to select which plugins to compile directly into binaries. Possibly even do it by default for some plugins (quota). And smaller new features: - If LDAP lookup fails because connection gets closed, try retrying it again after reconnect. This is however untested, hopefully didn't break LDAP code completely.. - %w variable in dovecot-auth contains password. Can be used to do eg.: password_query = select null as password from users where userid = '%u' and password = password('%w') - syslog_facility setting And fixes: - auth_cache was quite broken - adding keywords caused sometimes assert-crash - If login_greeting_capability = yes we could have sent the capability before dovecot-auth returned what auth mechanisms were available, forcing clients to use plaintext authentication - Lots of mbox fixes again.. - userdb prefetch wasn't supposed to be uncommented in dovecot-example.conf in alpha4. Comment it out if you don't need it. - Don't crash with "out of memory" in 64bit systems - IDLE command might have crashed when finishing itself if there were lots of external changes - pop3_reuse_xuidl setting wasn't actually working

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[Dovecot] Logging IMAP deletions
by Jan-Piet Mens 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

I'm using dovecot-1.0.alpha5 and I'd like to be able to log the fact that a message has been deleted (or marked for deletion) in order to prove to end-users that they actually deleted a message. Is that possible? -JP

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[Dovecot] messages_count too large (1121 > 1115)
by Moritz Willers 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

I've seen this was mentioned before but remains unsolved. I upgraded Dovecot from 0.99 to v1.0.alpha4 yesterday and it rendered my inbox inaccessible: Dec 15 00:09:07 sand dovecot: imap(willers): Corrupted index file /home/willers/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (1121 > 1115) I've since moved that inbox away so I can view my new mail again. The error has moved with the mbox file: Dec 15 00:27:41 sand dovecot: imap(willers): Corrupted index file /home/willers/mail/old-inbox/.imap/200407-200512/dovecot.index: messages_count too large (1121 > 1115) Dec 15 00:27:41 sand dovecot: child 83886 (imap) killed with signal 11 This is on FreeBSD 4.8 (yes, yes ... but: "up 687 days" which is quite nice) all running on local disk. So earlier suspicions about NFS or MacOS X are out of the window. One day I'll move move from mbox to dir format and the problem will go away, in the meanwhile, I thought it would be good to resolve this issue. Let me know how I can help to get to the bottom of this. - mo

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[Dovecot] Best way to upgrade from 1.0a4 to 1.0a5
by Cliff Hayes 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Hello all, I have 1.0 Alpha 4. Is it better to shut down sendmail, uninstall dovecot 1.0a4 then install 1.0a5, or just install 1.0a5 over the top of 1.0a4? Thanks, Cliff

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[Dovecot] Variable '%r' doesn't transfomr in Postgres query
by Sebastjan Trepca 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Hi, i'm using postgres for authorization. When I switched from a4 to a5 authorization stoped working. Query in conf file for postgres looks like this: password_query = select password from auth('%u','%r'); But in logs, the transformed query looks like this: Performing query: select password from auth('test','%r'); Looks like you don't transform that remote IP parameter? Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] writing an MDA, help me avoid corrupted indexes
by Lee Howard 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Hello. First, I want to thank those responsible for Dovecot IMAP as it was a real treat to implement in comparison to my mostly-failed attempts with Cyrus. The passwd-file authentication was exactly what I needed as I really didn't want to have to deal with PAM or LDAP but where I am setting up a server with virtual accounts. I'm using Postfix as an MTA, and it quite handily passes the mail off to SpamAssassin. From there I need an MDA to dump any mails detected as spam into a common spam folder, discard any mails with viruses (antivir) and send a notification to me, and then drop good mail into the appropriate maildir directory for the virtual users to get via both POP3 and IMAP. I could conceivably use procmail to do that MDA, and I've done similar things with procmail in the past, but my growing experience with procmail indicates that procmail is too ferocious for what simple work I need done, and too difficult to make work right in a virtual-user environment. So I've written my own little MDA with a few lines of shell that will take the mail from Postfix+SpamAssassin and ultimately deposit mails in the maildirs. So far so good, except that I keep seeing corrupt indexes... probably because I'm not touching the indexes at all with the MDA. My guess is that in order for the MDA to properly deal with maildir it needs to adjust the indexes after depositing new mail. Okay. So can someone either give me a pointer to the proper documentation on this, including the index file formats, or perhaps just explain it to me? Maybe I'm missing a larger picture of maildir handling? I've glanced through http://www.dovecot.org/doc/index.txt but I notice that the index files are not ASCII, so I'm not sure where to start at understanding that documentation. Any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks, Lee.

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[Dovecot] assertion failed: (conn->refcount > 1)
by David Schweikert 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Hi, Sometimes (happens maybe twice in a day), I have the following errors: Dec 15 16:10:17 dovecot: auth(default): file auth-client-connection.c: line 33 (auth_client_send): assertion failed: (conn->refcount > 1) Dec 15 16:10:17 dovecot: child 17152 (auth) killed with signal 6 Dec 15 16:10:17 dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused Dec 15 16:10:17 dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused Dec 15 16:10:17 dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused Dec 15 16:10:17 dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused Dovecot seems to recover though, because afterwards it still works. I did however notice that the logging-in seemed to hang for a while (some seconds). Cheers David -- David Schweikert | phone: +41 44 632 7019 System manager ISG.EE | walk: ETH Zentrum, ETL F24.1 ETH Zurich, Switzerland | web: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/dws

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[Dovecot] How to serve two "inboxes" via imap
by Roderick Johnstone 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Hi In our setup we have mail delivered to /var/spool/mail/<username>. Many users like thunderbird as their MUA and we typically have thunderbird set up to read mail using a movemail account with the local mail directory set to ~/mail so that the mail can be read easily by pine as well. So, when a user clicks the "Get Mail" button in Thunderbird, mail is moved from /var/spool/mail/<username> to ~/mail/Inbox. Although I can serve other folders from ~/mail my imap clients don't see ~/mail/Inbox, they see just /var/spool/mail/<username> as INBOX. Can anyone advise please how to make the ~/mail/Inbox available as well via imap using dovecot (currently using 1.0-alpha5). We currently use default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u Many thanks Roderick Johnstone

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[Dovecot] auth error after upgrading from 0.99 to 1 alpha...
by daniel petre 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

so, i use vpopmail to auth my users,but after upgrading from dovecot-0.99.14-r1 to dovecot-1.0_alpha5 and tweaking dovecot.conf i get this in the log : dovecot: Dec 15 12:12:11 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=81.xx.xx.xx rip=81.xx.xx.xx resp= dovecot: Dec 15 12:12:11 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Dec 15 12:12:11 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGRhbmlAbGludXhzb2x1dGlvbnMfgucm8AcG9jcG9j dovecot: Dec 15 12:12:11 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away dovecot: Dec 15 12:12:11 Info: auth(default): vpopmail(dani(a)domain.com,81.xx.xx.xx): unknown user dovecot: Dec 15 12:12:12 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=dani(a)domain.com dovecot: Dec 15 12:12:12 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=81.xx.xx.xx rip=81.xx.xx.xx resp=AGRhbmlAbGludXhzb2x1dGlvbnMfgucm8AcG9jcG9j dovecot: Dec 15 12:12:12 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away dovecot: Dec 15 12:12:12 Info: auth(default): vpopmail(dani(a)domain.com,81.xx.xx.xx): unknown user dovecot: Dec 15 12:12:14 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 user=dani(a)domain.com so no one can login no more via pop3/vpopmail .. anyone any ideas? thx. -- Daniel Petre System Administrator Tech Support Coordinator ............................................................................. RCS & RDS Pitesti Tel.: +40348.400.401 Fax: +40348.400.441 http://www.rcs-rds.ro ............................................................................. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not in the addresses indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail.

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[Dovecot] Question about the dovecot debian package
by Florian Schnabel 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

am planing transition to dovecot right now ... just noticed dovecot debian package would install mysql ... it probably depens on just any database and uses ymsql by default .. but anyway why does it need one ? Florian

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[Dovecot] Compiling 1.0alpha5 on Mac OS X 10.4 Server
by Roger Weeks 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

I am trying to compile the 1.0alpha5 on Mac OS X Server 10.4.3, and not having success. My configure flags are: ./configure --with-mysql We're thinking of migrating from courier. The configure processes okay, but I get this error a ways through the make: /usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _sha1_result ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) definition of _sha1_result in section (__TEXT,__text) /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o) definition of _sha1_result in section (__TEXT,__text) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 Has anyone seen this error compiling? I'm not sure how to get around it. -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network

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