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[Dovecot] Delimiter of mailbox changes in response to STATUS command...
by Lawrence Katz 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

Hi - I've been using Hastymail with my Dovecot server for awhile now. However, I have noticed that at some point Hastymail stopped showing the number of unseen messages in its folder drop down list, it just shows 0 for the folders that I have it checking for unseen messages. I'm not sure when it broke, but I think it's when I went to one of the testing builds several months ago. I just upgraded to Hastymail 1.3 and Dovecot testing66 today just to see if the issue would go away and it hasn't. So I did some digging and I think I found the cause of the issue... If I send a STATUS command, like the one shown below, Dovecot changes the mailbox delimiter in the result from a "/" to a "."... 2 STATUS "Misc/Spam" (UNSEEN) * STATUS "Misc.Spam" (UNSEEN 3) 2 OK Status completed. I was able to work around this in Hastymail by substituting a "/" for a "." when the result comes back, but it's not that elegant. Any thoughts on why this might be happening in Dovecot? Is it a configuration issue on my part, or a bug? The private namespace in my dovecot.conf has the following: separator = / Thanks, Lawrence

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[Dovecot] dovecot crashes
by Geo Carncross 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

I'm getting these over and over again in my dovecot [CVS] logs. I'm using PAM for authentication- something that worked a few weeks ago. Apr 6 15:22:11 [PAM-env] Unknown PAM_ITEM: <XAUTHORITY> Apr 6 15:22:11 [dovecot-auth] PAM pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; XAUTHORITY dovecot: Apr 06 15:22:16 Warning: Killed with signal 2 dovecot: Apr 06 15:22:16 Error: child 25731 (imap) killed with signal 2 dovecot: Apr 06 15:22:16 Error: child 27545 (login) killed with signal 2 dovecot: Apr 06 15:22:16 Error: child 20320 (login) killed with signal 2 -- Internet Connection High Quality Web Hosting http://www.internetconnection.net/

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 POP3 login but no mail
by David Wynter 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

Dovecot is installed on the hosted FC1 server I have, it was working fine until yesterday when they had to bounce the server. I can login fine from Outlook or connect telnet <hostname> 110. But even though I can see sendmail has received mail into my %h/.maildir (via webmail's user mail facility) when I log into dovecot via Outlook it does not retrieve any of it. I tried from W2K "telnet <hostname> 110", it connects "+OK dovecot ready.", then I typed "LOGIN <username> <password>" and i get "-ERR Unknown command.". However with Outlook it logs in fine I see in maillog the result, no other errors in maillog. Cannot see what is wrong. Here are the important bits of my dovecot.conf, everything else is std. i.e. commented out protocols = pop3 login = imap login = pop3 default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir client_workarounds = outlook-idle mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes Ideas on where to look next? Thx David

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[Dovecot] change POP3 default prompt
by Ing. Alejandro Rodriguez 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

ppl for security reasons I'dont want that the default prompt for the POP3 be +OK Dovecot ready. don't want an attacker can guess my POP3 server easily, any idea?? want something like +OK mydomain.com ready. regards A

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[Dovecot] dovecot and vpopmail
by Kris Northern 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Hello Im using dovecot .99.14 with vpopmail 5.4.2 on debian sarge I changed the settings in dovecot.conf default_mail_env = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%u/Maildir (my mail is in /home/vpopmail/domains/phidelity.com/kris/Maildir) auth = vpopmail auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = vpopmail auth_passdb = vpopmail auth_executable = /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw auth_user = vpopmail and when I start up dovecot I get these errors Apr 4 22:43:01 mail dovecot: Dovecot starting up Apr 4 22:43:02 mail dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Apr 4 22:43:02 mail dovecot: child 25759 (auth) returned error 11 can someone help me make sense of this? I couldnt find anything useful on google. -kris

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[Dovecot] FETCH order fix backport to stable from test66
by Chris Wakelin 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

I've had a go at back-porting Timo's recent fixes to the IMAP fetch command from 1.0-test66 to 1.0-stable. This seems to fix the problem with kmail, and Thunderbird seems to work fine without its RFC822.SIZE fix. It's a bit big for the body of this message, so it's attached. The bit I'm most concerned about in my port is whether I got the buffer_insert call right (back-ported from an array_insert call) in imap-fetch.c :- @@ -119,8 +129,14 @@ memset(&h, 0, sizeof(h)); h.handler = handler; h.context = context; + h.buffered = buffered; - buffer_append(ctx->handlers, &h, sizeof(h)); + if (!buffered) + buffer_append(ctx->handlers, &h, sizeof(h)); + else { + buffer_insert(ctx->handlers, ctx->buffered_handlers_count * size of(h), &h, sizeof(h)); + ctx->buffered_handlers_count++; + } } Best Wishes, Chris --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] Running POP3 with two different ports?
by Andres U 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Hi everyone! I need to run Dovecot with two ports (eg 110 and 2110). Any ideas? Regards, Andres Argentina

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[Dovecot] ldap auth with test66
by Thomas Hummel 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

Hello, The installation of 1.0-test66 (still on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p1 with openldap-2.1.27) solved the SIGSEV problem I posted here on March 30 but I still cannot authenticate correctly with ldap. logs report "ldap(dovetest,127.0.0.1): No password in reply" and my client gets a "NO Temporary authentication failure." Obviously the attr_names array of the passdb_ldap_connection struct is valid until the preinit function but has been corrupted when we're at the passdb_init function. For instance, here's what I get in the log file for the 'fields' value : --- dovecot: Apr 04 11:43:19 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test66 starting up dovecot: Apr 04 11:44:58 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AGRvdmV0ZXN0AHBhc3M = dovecot: Apr 04 11:44:58 Info: auth(default): ldap(dovetest,127.0.0.1): base=ou= personnes, dc=pasteur, dc=fr scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(u id=dovetest)) fields=0^S^<^S^d^S^°^S^ð^S^^T^T^Ð^T^Ø^T^^C -- Beside, I could notice, by adding some logging info, that the attr_names seem to hold the USER attrs instead of the PASS attrs. I'm trying now to investigate further through gdb (I added a sleep in the main of dovecot-auth to be able to attach the running process in gdb) but without success for now. Do you have any clue of where I should look ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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RE: [Dovecot] LDA Wishlist idea
by Mark Lidstone 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

But then in theory I should be able to get Fetchmail to figure that out by itself. Thanks for your reply too, Jakob. I think I'll have to have a good think about this one. Many thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: 02 April 2005 23:23 To: Mark Lidstone Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] LDA Wishlist idea On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 10:12 +0100, Mark Lidstone wrote: > I know that's how Demon do it, but surely it's not the only way of > doing it. > > As for putting the correct headers in, I've had no end of trouble with > fetchmail ignoring those headers and picking something it found in the > latest "Received:" header (which obviously names the drop-box). But fetchmail supports SDPS? You could write POP3 plugin which implements SDPS by eg. looking at those Return-Path and Envelope-To headers and returning them..

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[Dovecot] Nested folders
by Michael Irons 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

I would like to have nested folders that users could create from their MUA. The problem is that I cannot create sub folders either through the MUA or by hand on the server side. I can make folders that are not the subfolder of anything. I have an Inbox, Mailing Lists, Spam, Trash, etc. But I cannot create subfolders of these. For example, I would like a subfolder under Mailing Lists for each Mailing list that I have subscribed. I am using Postfix that delivers directly to procmail which puts mails into Maildir style mail boxes in each users home directory. I am using the dovecot-0.99.13-4.FC2 rpm if that helps. I am sure that there would be some information about this somewhere, but I haven't found it in the mailing lists or googling around. The only information I have been able to find is that dovecot reportedly supports this. Thanks, Mike

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[Dovecot] We couldn't drop root group privileges
by J. Erik Heinz 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi, I just installed dovecot. The installation went well and i configured dovecot to user ~/Maildir. When I tested imap via telnet the login work, but right after that the connection is cutted: Trying 192.168.0.14... Connected to op. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. . login jerik password . OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. And the log says: dovecot: Apr 02 19:37:18 Info: Dovecot starting up imap-login: Apr 02 19:38:03 Info: Login: jerik [192.168.0.23] imap(jerik): Apr 02 19:38:03 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges dovecot: Apr 02 19:38:04 Error: child 15194 (imap) returned error 89 So the problem is that dovecot "could't drop root group". I started dovecot with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot.sh through the user root. The privilegs of the file are: ls -l dovecot.sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 459 2 Apr 19:03 dovecot.sh the /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf has the following entries. protocols = imap ssl_disable = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login = imap login_user = dovecot login = pop3 verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_gid = 0 valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle outlook-pop3-no-nuls maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = passwd auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes If I understand the dovecot.conf wright, the is the user root required for running dovecot "auth_user = root". That's why I don't understand the erros message. By the way, through the installation there was the user and group dovecot created, should this user start dovecot at boottime? Or should he be used for other tasks? Regards Erik -- J. Erik Heinz Koblenzer Str. 11 60327 Frankfurt am Main Handy: 0163 337 37 45 Mail: jheinz(a)wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de

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[Dovecot] Multiple auth method problem
by Timshel Knoll-Miller 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi, I'm having issues getting the multiple authentication methods of dovecot 1.0-test65 to work correctly on NetBSD. I am combining a MySQL database of virtual host accounts with the system password database of local machine accounts. Both work correctly when enabled on their own, but when enabled together only the one listed first in the "auth default" section of dovecot.conf works - the other logs the following error (line 5 below): Mar 29 21:56:50 rivendell dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test65 starting up Mar 29 21:56:51 rivendell dovecot: auth(default): mysql: Connected to 127.0.0.1 (maildomains) Mar 29 21:56:51 rivendell dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to 127 .0.0.1 (maildomains) Mar 29 21:57:05 rivendell dovecot: auth-worker(default): BUG: PASSV had invalid passdb num Mar 29 21:57:38 rivendell dovecot: Killed with signal 2 To the client, dovecot locks up when a LOGIN command is issued for a user which can't be authenticated using the first method available (in my case, passwd). So for me, /etc/passwd users can still log in ok, but dovecot will lock up whenever a login with any other username is attempted. Script started on Tue Mar 29 22:07:59 2005 [root@rivendell ttyp3 ~]# telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. . LOGIN timshel secret . OK Logged in. . LOGOUT * BYE Logging out . OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. [root@rivendell ttyp3 ~]# telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. . LOGIN timshel(a)shels.net secret <dovecot locks up> . LOGOUT ^] telnet> quit Connection closed. [root@rivendell ttyp3 ~]# telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. . LOGIN dummyuser dummypass <dovecot locks up again> ^] telnet> quit Connection closed. [root@rivendell ttyp3 ~]# Script done on Tue Mar 29 22:09:03 2005 My dovecot.conf file is attached - can anyone shed any light on this and help me get going? Cheers, Timshel ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file # '#' character and everything after it is treated as comments. Extra spaces # and tabs are ignored. If you want to use either of these explicitly, put the # value inside quotes, eg.: key = "# char and trailing whitespace " # Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment # any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples with # real defaults being based on configure options. # Base directory where to store runtime data. #base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s #protocols = imap imaps #protocols = imaps # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. If you want to specify ports # for each service, you will need to configure these settings inside the # protocol imap/pop3 { ... } section, so you can specify different ports # for IMAP/POP3. #listen = * #listen = [::] listen = 127.0.0.1 # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above if not specified. #ssl_listen = #ssl_listen = [::] ssl_listen = * # Disable SSL/TLS support. #ssl_disable = no # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but # root. Included doc/mkcert.sh can be used to easily generate self-signed # certificate, just make sure to update the domains in dovecot-openssl.cnf #ssl_cert_file = /usr/pkg/etc/ssl/certs/imap.pem #ssl_key_file = /usr/pkg/etc/ssl/private/imap.pem ssl_cert_file = /etc/openssl/certs/mail.shels.net.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/openssl/private/mail.shels.net.key # File containing trusted SSL certificate authorities. Usually not needed. #ssl_ca_file = ssl_ca_file = /etc/openssl/ShelsCA/cacert.pem # Request client to send a certificate. #ssl_verify_client_cert = no # SSL parameter file. Master process generates this file for login processes. # It contains Diffie Hellman and RSA parameters. #ssl_parameters_file = /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat # How often to regenerate the SSL parameters file. Generation is quite CPU # intensive operation. The value is in hours, 0 disables regeneration # entirely. #ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 # SSL ciphers to use #ssl_cipher_list = all:!low # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if # you connect from those addresses. #disable_plaintext_auth = yes disable_plaintext_auth = yes # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). #log_path = # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default #info_log_path = # Prefix for each line written to log file. % codes are in strftime(3) # format. #log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " ## ## Login processes ## # Directory where authentication process places authentication UNIX sockets # which login needs to be able to connect to. The sockets are created when # running as root, so you don't have to worry about permissions. Note that # everything in this directory is deleted when Dovecot is started. #login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login # chroot login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this is if you # wish to run the whole Dovecot without roots. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Rootless #login_chroot = yes # User to use for the login process. Create a completely new user for this, # and don't use it anywhere else. The user must also belong to a group where # only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process. # Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds #login_user = dovecot # Set max. process size in megabytes. If you don't use # login_process_per_connection you might need to grow this. #login_process_size = 32 # Should each login be processed in it's own process (yes), or should one # login process be allowed to process multiple connections (no)? Yes is more # secure, espcially with SSL/TLS enabled. No is faster since there's no need # to create processes all the time. #login_process_per_connection = yes # Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_user is # yes, this is the number of extra processes waiting for users to log in. #login_processes_count = 3 # Maximum number of extra login processes to create. The extra process count # usually stays at login_processes_count, but when multiple users start logging # in at the same time more extra processes are created. To prevent fork-bombing # we check only once in a second if new processes should be created - if all # of them are used at the time, we double their amount until limit set by this # setting is reached. This setting is used only if login_process_per_use is yes. #login_max_processes_count = 128 # Maximum number of connections allowed in login state. When this limit is # reached, the oldest connections are dropped. If login_process_per_user # is no, this is a per-process value, so the absolute maximum number of users # logging in actually login_processes_count * max_logging_users. #login_max_logging_users = 256 # Greeting message for clients. #login_greeting = Dovecot ready. ## ## Mail processes ## # Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, # new users aren't allowed to log in. #max_mail_processes = 1024 # Show more verbose process titles (in ps). Currently shows user name and # IP address. Useful for seeing who are actually using the IMAP processes # (eg. shared mailboxes or if same uid is used for multiple accounts). #verbose_proctitle = no # Show protocol level SSL errors. #verbose_ssl = no # Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. first_valid_uid = 100 #last_valid_uid = 0 # Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel. Users having # non-valid GID as primary group ID aren't allowed to log in. If user # belongs to supplementary groups with non-valid GIDs, those groups are # not set. first_valid_gid = 100 #last_valid_gid = 0 # Grant access to these extra groups for mail processes. Typical use would be # to give "mail" group write access to /var/mail to be able to create dotlocks. #mail_extra_groups = # ':' separated list of directories under which chrooting is allowed for mail # processes (ie. /var/mail will allow chrooting to /var/mail/foo/bar too). # This setting doesn't affect login_chroot or auth_chroot variables. # WARNING: Never add directories here which local users can modify, that # may lead to root exploit. Usually this should be done only if you don't # allow shell access for users. See doc/configuration.txt for more information. #valid_chroot_dirs = # Default chroot directory for mail processes. This can be overridden for # specific users in user database by giving /./ in user's home directory # (eg. /home/./user chroots into /home). Note that usually there is no real # need to do chrooting, Dovecot doesn't allow users to access files outside # their mail directory anyway. #mail_chroot = # Enable mail process debugging. This can help you figure out why Dovecot # isn't finding your mails. #mail_debug = no # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # doc/mail-storages.txt. There's a few special variables you can use, eg.: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there's no domain # %h - home directory # # See doc/variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # #default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir #default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u default_mail_env = maildir:~/.mail # If you need to set multiple mailbox locations or want to change default # namespace settings, you can do it by defining namespace sections: # # You can have private, shared and public namespaces. The only difference # between them is how Dovecot announces them to client via NAMESPACE # extension. Shared namespaces are meant for user-owned mailboxes which are # shared to other users, while public namespaces are for more globally # accessible mailboxes. # # REMEMBER: If you add any namespaces, the default namespace must be added # explicitly, ie. default_mail_env does nothing unless you have a namespace # without a location setting. Default namespace is simply done by having a # namespace with empty prefix. #namespace private { # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator for all # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a good one. #separator = / # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be different for # all namespaces. For example "Public/". #prefix = # Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as # default_mail_env, which is also the default for it. #location = # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which namespace # has it. #inbox = yes # If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via NAMESPACE # extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful when converting # from another server with different namespaces which you want to depricate # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden namespaces with # prefixes "~/mail/", "~%u/mail/" and "mail/". #hidden = yes #} # Space-separated list of fields to initially save into cache file. Currently # these fields are allowed: # # flags, date.sent, date.received, size.virtual, size.physical # mime.parts, imap.body, imap.bodystructure # # Different IMAP clients work in different ways, so they benefit from # different cached fields. Some do not benefit from them at all. Caching more # than necessary generates useless disk I/O, so you don't want to do that # either. # # Dovecot attempts to automatically figure out what client wants and it keeps # only that. However the first few times a mailbox is opened, Dovecot hasn't # yet figured out what client needs, so it may not perform optimally. If you # know what fields the majority of your clients need, it may be useful to set # these fields by hand. If client doesn't actually use them, Dovecot will # eventually drop them. # # Usually you should just leave this field alone. The potential benefits are # typically unnoticeable. #mail_cache_fields = # Space-separated list of fields that Dovecot should never save to cache file. # Useful if you want to save disk space at the cost of more I/O when the fields # needed. #mail_never_cache_fields = # Like mailbox_check_interval, but used for IDLE command. #mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 # Allow full filesystem access to clients. There's no access checks other than # what the operating system does for the active UID/GID. It works with both # maildir and mboxes, allowing you to prefix mailboxes names with eg. /path/ # or ~user/. #mail_full_filesystem_access = no # Maximum allowed length for mail keyword name. It's only forced when trying # to create new keywords. #mail_max_keyword_length = 50 # Save mails with CR+LF instead of plain LF. This makes sending those mails # take less CPU, especially with sendfile() syscall with Linux and FreeBSD. # But it also creates a bit more disk I/O which may just make it slower. #mail_save_crlf = no # Use mmap() instead of read() to read mail files. read() seems to be a bit # faster with my Linux/x86 and it's better with NFS, so that's the default. # Note that OpenBSD 3.3 and older don't work right with mail_read_mmaped = yes. #mail_read_mmaped = no # Don't use mmap() at all. This is required if you store indexes in remote # filesystems (NFS or clustered filesystem). #mmap_disable = no # Don't write() to mmaped files. This is required for some operating systems # which use separate caches for them, such as OpenBSD. #mmap_no_write = no # Locking method for index files. Alternatives are fcntl, flock and dotlock. # Dotlocking uses some tricks which may create more disk I/O than other locking # methods. #lock_method = fcntl # By default LIST command returns all entries in maildir beginning with dot. # Enabling this option makes Dovecot return only entries which are directories. # This is done by stat()ing each entry, so it causes more disk I/O. # (For systems setting struct dirent->d_type, this check is free and it's # done always regardless of this setting) #maildir_stat_dirs = no # Copy mail to another folders using hard links. This is much faster than # actually copying the file. This is problematic only if something modifies # the mail in one folder but doesn't want it modified in the others. I don't # know any MUA which would modify mail files directly. IMAP protocol also # requires that the mails don't change, so it would be problematic in any case. # If you care about performance, enable it. maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes # Which locking methods to use for locking mbox. There's four available: # dotlock: Create <mailbox>.lock file. This is the oldest and most NFS-safe # solution. If you want to use /var/mail/ like directory, the users # will need write access to that directory. # fcntl : Use this if possible. Works with NFS too if lockd is used. # flock : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # lockf : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # # You can use multiple locking methods; if you do the order they're declared # in is important to avoid deadlocks if other MTAs/MUAs are using multiple # locking methods as well. Some operating systems don't allow using some of # them simultaneously. mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = fcntl # Maximum time in seconds to wait for lock (all of them) before aborting. #mbox_lock_timeout = 300 # If dotlock exists but the mailbox isn't modified in any way, override the # lock file after this many seconds. #mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 # When mbox changes unexpectedly we have to fully read it to find out what # changed. If the mbox is large this can take a long time. Since the change # is usually just a newly appended mail, it'd be faster to simply read the # new mails. If this setting is enabled, Dovecot does this but still safely # fallbacks to re-reading the whole mbox file whenever something in mbox isn't # how it's expected to be. The only real downside to this setting is that if # some other MUA changes message flags, Dovecot doesn't notice it immediately. # Note that a full sync is done with SELECT, EXAMINE, EXPUNGE and CHECK # commands. #mbox_dirty_syncs = yes # Like mbox_dirty_syncs, but don't do full syncs even with SELECT, EXAMINE, # EXPUNGE or CHECK commands. If this is set, mbox_dirty_syncs is ignored. #mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no # Delay writing mbox headers until doing a full write sync (EXPUNGE and CHECK # commands and when closing the mailbox). This is especially useful for POP3 # where clients often delete all mails. The downside is that our changes # aren't immediately visible to other MUAs. #mbox_lazy_writes = yes # umask to use for mail files and directories #umask = 0077 # Drop all privileges before exec()ing the mail process. This is mostly # meant for debugging, otherwise you don't get core dumps. It could be a small # security risk if you use single UID for multiple users, as the users could # ptrace() each others processes then. #mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. #mail_process_size = 256 # Log prefix for mail processes. See doc/variables.txt for list of possible # variables you can use. #mail_log_prefix = "%Us(%u): " ## ## IMAP specific settings ## protocol imap { # Login executable location. #login_executable = /usr/pkg/libexec/dovecot/imap-login # IMAP executable location #mail_executable = /usr/pkg/libexec/dovecot/imap # This would write rawlogs into ~/dovecot.rawlog/ directory: #mail_executable = /usr/pkg/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/pkg/libexec/dovecot/imap # Maximum IMAP command line length in bytes. Some clients generate very long # command lines with huge mailboxes, so you may need to raise this if you get # "Too long argument" or "IMAP command line too large" errors often. #imap_max_line_length = 65536 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #mail_use_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/pkg/lib/dovecot/imap # Send IMAP capabilities in greeting message. This makes it unnecessary for # clients to request it with CAPABILITY command, so it saves one round-trip. # Many clients however don't understand it and ask the CAPABILITY anyway. #login_greeting_capability = no # Workarounds for various client bugs: # delay-newmail: # Send EXISTS/RECENT new mail notifications only when replying to NOOP # and CHECK commands. Some clients ignore them otherwise, for example # OSX Mail. Outlook Express breaks more badly though, without this it # may show user "Message no longer in server" errors. Note that OE6 still # breaks even with this workaround if synchronization is set to # "Headers Only". # outlook-idle: # Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no mail # arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is still # fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new mail # arrives. # netscape-eoh: # Netscape 4.x breaks if message headers don't end with the empty "end of # headers" line. Normally all messages have this, but setting this # workaround makes sure that Netscape never breaks by adding the line if # it doesn't exist. This is done only for FETCH BODY[HEADER.FIELDS..] # commands. Note that RFC says this shouldn't be done. # tb-negative-fetch: # Thunderbird sometimes messed up some calculations and wants to read # the message past it's end, giving negative size to FETCH BODY[]<..> # command. This workaround just hides the error message. #imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } ## ## POP3 specific settings ## protocol pop3 { # Login executable location. #login_executable = /usr/pkg/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login # POP3 executable location #mail_executable = /usr/pkg/libexec/dovecot/pop3 # Don't try to set mails non-recent or seen with POP3 sessions. This is # mostly intended to reduce disk I/O. With maildir it doesn't move files # from new/ to cur/, with mbox it doesn't write Status-header. #pop3_no_flag_updates = no # Support LAST command which exists in old POP3 specs, but has been removed # from new ones. Some clients still wish to use this though. Enabling this # makes RSET command clear all \Seen flags from messages. #pop3_enable_last = no # POP3 UIDL format to use. You can use following variables: # # %v - Mailbox UIDVALIDITY # %u - Mail UID # %m - MD5 sum of the mailbox headers in hex (mbox only) # %f - filename (maildir only) # # If you want UIDL compatibility with other POP3 servers, use: # UW's ipop3d : %08Xv%08Xu # Courier version 0 : %f # Courier version 1 : %u # Courier version 2 : %v-%u # Cyrus (<= 2.1.3) : %u # Cyrus (>= 2.1.4) : %v.%u # # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which is # Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good # idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe. #pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #mail_use_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/pkg/lib/dovecot/pop3 # Workarounds for various client bugs: # 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 = } ## ## Authentication processes ## # Executable location #auth_executable = /usr/pkg/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth # Set max. process size in megabytes. #auth_process_size = 256 # Authentication cache size in kilobytes. #auth_cache_size = 0 # Time to live in seconds for cached data. After this many seconds a cached # record is forced out of cache. #auth_cache_ttl = 3600 # Space separated list of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms that need # them. You can leave it empty if you don't want to support multiple realms. # Many clients simply use the first one listed here, so keep the default realm # first. #auth_realms = # Default realm/domain to use if none was specified. This is used for both # SASL realms and appending @domain to username in plaintext logins. #auth_default_realm = # List of allowed characters in username. If the user-given username contains # a character not listed in here, the login automatically fails. This is just # an extra check to make sure user can't exploit any potential quote escaping # vulnerabilities with SQL/LDAP databases. If you want to allow all characters, # set this value to empty. #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ # Username character translations before it's looked up from databases. The # value contains series of from -> to characters. For example "#@/@" means # that '#' and '/' characters are translated to '@'. #auth_username_translation = # Username to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism #auth_anonymous_username = anonymous # More verbose logging. Useful for figuring out why authentication isn't # working. auth_verbose = no # Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes. Shows for example SQL # queries. auth_debug = no # Maximum number of dovecot-auth worker processes. They're used to execute # blocking passdb and userdb queries (eg. MySQL and PAM). They're # automatically created and destroyed as needed. #auth_worker_max_count = 30 auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous #mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 mechanisms = plain # # Password database is used to verify user's password (and nothing more). # You can have multiple passdbs and userdbs. This is useful if you want to # allow both system users (/etc/passwd) and virtual users to login without # duplicating the system users into virtual database. # # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # # PAM authentication. Preferred nowadays by most systems. # Note that PAM can only be used to verify if user's password is correct, # so it can't be used as userdb. If you don't want to use a separate user # database (passwd usually), you can use static userdb. #passdb pam { # Service name or * as parameter. * means the authenticating service name # is used, eg. pop3 or imap. #args = dovecot #} # /etc/passwd or similar, using getpwnam() # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. passdb passwd { } # /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam(). Deprecated by PAM nowadays. #passdb shadow { #} # passwd-like file with specified location #passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # checkpassword executable authentication #passdb checkpassword { # Path for checkpassword binary #args = #} # SQL database passdb sql { # Path for SQL configuration file, see doc/dovecot-sql.conf for example args = /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } # LDAP database #passdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf for example #args = #} # vpopmail authentication #passdb vpopmail { #} # # User database specifies where mails are located and what user/group IDs # own them. For single-UID configuration use "static". # # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers # # /etc/passwd or similar, using getpwnam() # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. userdb passwd { } # passwd-like file with specified location #userdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # static settings generated from template #userdb static { # Template for settings. Can return anything a userdb could normally # return, eg.: uid, gid, home, mail, nice # # A few examples: # # args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/%u # args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/%u mail=mbox:%h/mail nice=10 # #args = #} # SQL database userdb sql { # Path for SQL configuration file, see doc/dovecot-sql.conf for example args = /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } # LDAP database #userdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf for example #args = #} # vpopmail #userdb vpopmail { #} # User to use for the process. This user needs access to only user and # password databases, nothing else. Only shadow and pam authentication # requires roots, so use something else if possible. Note that passwd # authentication with BSDs internally accesses shadow files, which also # requires roots. Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # That user is specified by userdb above. user = root # Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't # work if this is set, and there's no point chrooting if auth_user is root. # Note that valid_chroot_dirs isn't needed to use this setting. #chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create #count = 1 # Require a valid SSL client certificate or the authentication fails. #ssl_require_client_cert = no } # It's possible to export the authentication interface to other programs, # for example SMTP server which supports talking to Dovecot. Client socket # handles the actual authentication - you give it a username and password # and it returns OK or failure. So it's pretty safe to allow anyone access to # it. Master socket is used to a) query if given client was successfully # authenticated, b) userdb lookups. # 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/run/dovecot/auth-master # #mode = 0600 # # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) # #user = # #group = # } # client { # path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-client # mode = 0660 # } # } #} # connect sockets are assumed to be already running, Dovecot's master # process only tries to connect to them. They don't need any other settings # than path for the master socket, as the configuration is done elsewhere. # Note that the client sockets must exist in login_dir. #auth external { # socket connect { # master { # path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # } # } #}

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[Dovecot] Trouble with basic Dovecot setup
by paul wisehart 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi, I have compiled dovecot-1.0_stable. (http://dovecot.org/nightly/stable/dovecot-stable-20050328.tar.gz) I have it set to "userdb = passwd" & "passdb = passwd" I have a user "wise" with an maildir type mailbox at ~/Mail The actual maildirs are all subfolders with the INBOX "inbox" being one of them. I also have setup the ssl certificates with the script from the source doc directory. I start dovecot, and try to login from a seperate machine running thunderbird. I tell it to use ssl ( 993 ). (I specified both dovecot logs in the config file.) This is what I get from the dovecot logs: "info_log_path = /etc/dovecot/info.log": dovecot: Mar 29 08:30:15 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up dovecot: Mar 29 08:37:44 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up dovecot: Mar 29 08:39:04 Info: imap-login: Aborted login [###.###.###.###] I get that last line every time I try to connect from thunderbird. Any ideas? I can give more detailed info as well. thanks! -- paul \ / wisehart >/ <//////$> |\|\|\ -- paul \ / wisehart >/ <//////$> |\|\|\

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[Dovecot] QUOTA support timeframe? (also -- folders in folders?)
by Gerald V. Livingston II 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

I see it's been in the wishlist a while. Any possible timeframe for getting it working, or maybe a patch (or is it too big a change) to support it? I'm building a new server to move an existing userbase to. So far I have working: Postfix (with Maildir quota patches that work fine) Amavis-new with ClamAV scanning for viruses (will add SpamAssassin soon) SquirrelMail IMP (Horde) (Yes, 2 webmails to allow customers a choice of interface) Right now my test accounts have quotas, but they have no way to see where they stand without IMAP++ QUOTA support. Also, a question. Does Dovecot support folders within folders other than INBOX? I hadn't even thought about that question until I tried to create a test folder from within Squirrelmail and checked the "Let this folder contain subfolders" box and the creation failed ---- nevermind, that must be a Squirrelmail oddity. I created another folder inside the test folder and it worked OK -- just have to NOT check that box. Thanks all, Gerald

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[Dovecot] pop3 storage problems
by Obantec Support 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi Having updated the conf file and done a restart i now see 3 account with problems. Mar 30 12:10:37 proteus2a pop3(campusuk): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/spool/mail/campusuk Mar 30 13:08:20 proteus2a pop3(tlccoco_003): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/spool/mail/tlccoco_003 Mar 30 13:16:44 proteus2a pop3(tlccoco_001): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/spool/mail/tlccoco_001 Mark

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RE: [Dovecot] LDA Wishlist idea
by Mark Lidstone 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi, I know that's how Demon do it, but surely it's not the only way of doing it. As for putting the correct headers in, I've had no end of trouble with fetchmail ignoring those headers and picking something it found in the latest "Received:" header (which obviously names the drop-box). Thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: Jakob Hirsch [mailto:jh@plonk.de] Sent: 01 April 2005 19:52 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] LDA Wishlist idea Mark Lidstone wrote: > Demon (an ISP) have extensions to POP3 they call "SDPS" - there's > basically an extra command that can be called for an email and it > gives the envelope rcpt and from addresses. I was wondering if there > was any chance of future versions of Dovecot allowing something > similar? As demon says, SDPS works by accessing "the same mail spools as are used by SMTP". Dovecot does not do this. And I don't see a need for that. Configure your MTA to put the envelope data into the mail header (e.g. Return-path and Envelope-to). I used this several times for multidrop-mailboxes (which also seems to be the main use of SDPS).

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[Dovecot] virtual user question
by Steve Hoffman 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

I'm sorry if this has been asked already, but I'm new to the list and to dovecot. I'm trying to add imap to our existing setup where we host many virtual domains and would like to use dovecot to do it as I find it's one of the most configurable I've seen so far. The problem is that our virtual users passwd files are kept in seperate directories so /etc/virtual/%d/passwd, but I can't use the variable substitution in the dovecot.conf file as it results in a load error because it won't translate the %d. I'm using the latest development release, test65. I read in the config file that you can use many passdb's but do I have to put them all in there or is there a way to use some sort of substitution? The other issue I'm having is when I try to test the connection (with a hard coded path to passwd) it fails auth if I pass the username "user(a)domain.com" but passes if I pass just "user". Any help or places you can point me for these issues? Thanks, Steve

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[Dovecot] dovecot don't start
by Luca Stancapiano 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

hi...I've a problem with dovecot 0.99.13-3 for fedora core 3. When I start dovecot with "service dovecot start" it seems to start succesful but it is a false message. It don't start and in /var/log/maillog I've this errors: Apr 1 15:37:00 edim dovecot: Dovecot starting up Apr 1 15:37:03 edim dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Apr 1 15:37:03 edim dovecot: child 9593 (auth) returned error 127 Apr 1 15:37:03 edim pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe my configuration is : protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] imaps_listen = [::] pop3s_listen = [::] ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3 mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_user = root what does it?

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[Dovecot] new to dovecot, dealing with MH foders
by jerry scharf 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hello, I'm sorry if this is a repeat, a few choice searches into google didn't help and I found no search for the archives. I can no longer put of moving away from UW-IMAP. Dovecot certainly seems to be the right choice, but I am having problems getting it to do what I need it to for all my mail. The machine is running the dist version, 0.99.12. I have a system mailbox and a large MH mail tree (~25K messages.) I saw that dovecot didn't support mh trees like UW did. It looked like maildir would be a good common target. So I found a script that would convert the mbox to maildir and have adjusted postfix, and that all works fine. Then I found mh2maildir, and ran it over my entire mh tree. Then I tried just for a test copying one of the small top level directories under ~/Maildir, but my MUA (mulberry) doesn't see it. So how do I get dovecot to see things other than the inbox in maildir format? How can I easily test to see if it's dovecot's problem or the MUA? thanks for any help, jerry Jerry Scharf laguna way consulting

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.0-test65 + mysql build problem (sha1_result)
by Michael Goth 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hello all! When trying to build dovecot-1.0-test65 with mysql support I get the following error: ... /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x5c): In function `sha1_result': : multiple definition of `sha1_result' ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x830):/usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0-test65/src/lib/sha1.c:242: first defined here /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `sha1_result' changed from 158 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) to 126 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0-test65/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0-test65/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0-test65' make: *** [all] Error 2 The version of mysql I'm using is 4.1.10a. Could this mean that dovecot uses a function ('sha1_result') that already exists in libmysqlclient.a? If not, can someone perhaps point me into the right direction where to look for the error? I can provide more details about my setup, if needed, of course. Regards, Michael

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Re: [Dovecot] [ #14832]: Capital letters in POP3 logins
by Timo Sirainen 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

In CVS pass_query can now return "user" column to replace the username that was used to log in. Besides fixing character casing problems, it also allows login aliases.

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[Dovecot] FC2 POP3/SMTP Configuration
by Linux Stuff 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

OK, let me try this again. . . . I'm a newbie to dovecot and a little bit less of a newbie to linux. I am in the process of moving my server from RH9 to FC2. The only obstacle remaining is my email. I run dovecot (v0.99.14) POP3 and sendmail (8.12.11-4.6) with Mozilla (1.4.2 and others), Thunderbird (1.0.2) and Netscape (7.1 on PC's, etc) mail clients - mostly PC's (W2K, WXP). They all can read their mail but none of the users can send any mail. I have also tested with Outlook and it works!? Ximian Evolution (1.4.6) also works!??? Depending on the state of the dovecot.conf file, I get the following: Mar 28 16:04:14 corvette sendmail[5810]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Invalid argument Mar 28 16:04:14 corvette sendmail[5810]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Invalid argument Mar 28 16:04:14 corvette sendmail[5810]: no secret in database Why do Outlook and Ximian work and the others do not? I know I must be missing something in my config file. Ideas?? Thanks

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[Dovecot] LDA Wishlist idea
by Mark Lidstone 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

Hi all, Sorry if this is out of place, but I've seen people suggesting future functionality for Dovecot on here before. TBH I'm not completely sure if this would be possible in a LDA. Demon (an ISP) have extensions to POP3 they call "SDPS" - there's basically an extra command that can be called for an email and it gives the envelope rcpt and from addresses. I was wondering if there was any chance of future versions of Dovecot allowing something similar? Many thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== ==

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Re: [Dovecot] [ #14832]: Capital letters in POP3 logins
by Gerald V. Livingston II 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

I just tested and IMAP doesn't ignore case either. Remove the UPPER CASE maildir created by your POP3 login then do the same thing with an IMAP client. Set up the IMAP client to use an UPPER CASE username and when you log-in/refresh folders it creates the new UPPERCASE empty Maildir all over again. Crap, between this and the missing QUOTA feature I guess I'm gonna have to rip out Dovecot and use Courier. I really wanted to use Dovecot for it's speed with the indexing. What I don't understand is -- all usernames in my test database are stored in lower case -- shouldn't it simply fail to match and cause the login to fail? Can anyone point out how to force the match to be case sensitive? I'll investigate and get back to the list. It would be "nicer" though if Dovecot converted all username input to lower case before authenticating to maintain uniqueness of email addresses. Gerald On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:16:12 +0400 "support(a)majordomo.ru" <support(a)majordomo.ru> wrote: > Using dovecot (version 1.0-test59, with mysql-auth) I saw strange problem: > after authentication by POP3 in case that username given has capital letters, for example SupportTeam(a)majordomo.ru, > dovecot creates new maildir 'SupportTeam' for this username instead reading mails from existing maildir 'supportteam'. > Then dovecot scans created maildir 'SupportTeam' and returns 0 messages (sure:). > IMAP4 works fine in the same time. > Can I solve this problem or it is virtually "bug" of dovecot?

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[Dovecot] dovecot authentication problem on OSX
by Mac Shabba 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

after reading good comments on dovecot i'm trying to get it going I've got an apple g4, with osx 10.3.8 Compile and install went fine. I can also start dovecot, and telnet to it...but I can't login Even before I try to auth i get this in the log: >>localhost dovecot: Dovecot starting up >>localhost imap-login: opendir(".") failed when trying to get list of authentication servers: Permission denied I can't find any reference to this error message, and I'm completely puzzled about it I just need to know how to figure out what is causing this...is it related to pam, folder permissions, server config, .... MacShabba

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[Dovecot] Anybody tracking the GSSAPI patch?
by David B Harris 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Hey all, I'm doing some Kerberos stuff at work, and I'm thinking it'd be nice if dovecot had GSSAPI support. I found http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-July/004039.html (thanks Colin :), but it's a long ways away from applying to the current stable tree. I'm wondering - has anybody else been keeping a local copy of this patch up to date? Thanks, Dave -- Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud. After a while, you realise the pig is enjoying it. OpenPGP v4 key ID: 4096R/59DDCB9F Fingerprint: CC53 F124 35C0 7BC2 58FE 7A3C 157D DFD9 59DD CB9F Retreive from subkeys.pgp.net or risk key corruption

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[Dovecot] test65 killed by SIGSEV
by Thomas Hummel 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi, I had successfully set up dovecot-1.0-test62 + ldap pass/user db, but now I'm encoutering a SIGSEV problem with a similar set up of a brand new dovecot-1.0-test65 installation. The auth process is killed by a SIGSEV as reported in the error log file : dovecot: Mar 30 17:06:59 Error: child 28291 (auth) killed with signal 11 To be precise, the problem occurs in the "ldap_lookup_pass" function (auth/passdb-ldap.c) just before loging the ldap request parameters (auth_request_log_debug) and to actually perform the search (db_ldap_search). The signal occurs on the call of t_strarray_join(attr_names, ",") What I'm observing is that the "attr_names" array of the "passdb_ldap_conn" ldap connection doesn't seem to hold the right attributes : while in the test62 version it holded 'uid' and 'userPassword', it holds now 'uid' and 'homeDirectory'. As a matter of fact, the content of this array seem to change between the "preinit" and "init" passdb function and I'm not quite sure this is legal. So my client (actually just a test through telnet) gets a 'NO Temporary authentication failure'. Here's a gdb backtrace of the process : ------- Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x08065bf6 in t_strarray_join (arr=0x807aa20, separator=0x8067b1a ",") at strfuncs.c:571 571 len = strlen(*arr); (gdb) bt full #0 0x08065bf6 in t_strarray_join (arr=0x807aa20, separator=0x8067b1a ",") at strfuncs.c:571 alloc_len = 8 sep_len = 1 len = 9 pos = 39 needed_space = 0 str = 0x806e488 "uid,homeDirectory,,,uidNumber,gidNumber" #1 0x080578a1 in ldap_lookup_pass (auth_request=0x8077a10, ldap_request=0x8077ab0) at passdb-ldap.c:181 conn = (struct ldap_connection *) 0x807a810 vars = (const struct var_expand_table *) 0x807a9a0 attr_names = (const char **) 0x807aa08 filter = 0x806e268 "(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dovetest))" base = 0x806e468 "ou=personnes, dc=pasteur, dc=fr" str = (string_t *) 0x806e268 #2 0x08050947 in auth_request_verify_plain (request=0x8077a10, password=0x806e198 "pass", callback=0x8054790 <verify_callback>) at auth-request.c:261 passdb = (struct passdb_module *) 0x806b9e0 result = -1077941592 cache_key = 0x646975 <Error reading address 0x646975: Bad address> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "auth_request_verify_plain" ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #3 0x0805486e in mech_plain_auth_continue (request=0x8077a10, data=0xffffffff <Error reading address 0xffffffff: Bad address>, data_size=6580597) at mech-plain.c:62 authenid = 0x806e181 "dovetest" error = 0xbfbfeaf8 "(ë¿¿²ø\004\b\020@\b\b\034\020\b\b(ë¿¿dø\004\b\002" pass = 0x806e198 "pass" i = 0 count = 2 #4 0x08051a80 in auth_request_handler_auth_begin (handler=0x8084010, args=0x808101c "1\tPLAIN\tservice=IMAP\tsecured\tlip=127.0.0.1\trip=127.0.0.1\tresp=AGRvdmV0ZXN0AHBhc3M=") at auth-request-handler.c:327 len = 20 mech = (struct mech_module *) 0x0 request = (struct auth_request *) 0x8077a10 list = (const char * const *) 0x806e114 name = 0x806e130 "resp" arg = 0x806e160 "\200á\006\b\016" initial_resp = 0x806e0de "AGRvdmV0ZXN0AHBhc3M=" initial_resp_data = (const void *) 0x646975 initial_resp_len = 0 id = 1 buf = (buffer_t *) 0x806e160 valid_client_cert = 0 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #5 0x0804f8b2 in auth_client_input (context=0x80785c0) at auth-client-connection.c:144 conn = (struct auth_client_connection *) 0x80785c0 line = 0x8081017 "AUTH\t1\tPLAIN\tservice=IMAP\tsecured\tlip=127.0.0.1\trip=127.0.0.1\tresp=AGRvdmV0ZXN0AHBhc3M=" #6 0x0805f8dc in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x8078000) at ioloop-poll.c:184 data = (struct ioloop_handler_data *) 0x806d080 pollfd = (struct pollfd *) 0x2 tv = {tv_sec = 1, tv_usec = 999555} io = (struct io *) 0x806d5c0 t_id = 2 msecs = 0 ret = 0 call = 1 #7 0x0805f319 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x8078000) at ioloop.c:218 No locals. #8 0x080541dd in main (argc=1, argv=0x1) at main.c:311 foreground = 0 (gdb) ------- Thanks -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] Pine and prefix - LIST command bug?
by Chris Wakelin 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I've been having problems with Pine 4.62 talking to Dovecot 1.0 stable. It's fine when the folder collection path is empty, but if I have "~/mail/" or "mail/" it gives access errors (I'm using the "~/mail/", "mail/" etc. hidden namespaces for backwards compatability). It seems to me that Dovecot is not replying correctly to a "LIST" command with empty mailbox name: - Dovecot: xyz LIST "" "" * LIST (\NoSelect) "/" "" xyz LIST "~/mail/" "" * LIST (\NoSelect) "/" "" xyz LIST "mail/" "" * LIST (\NoSelect) "/" "" UW-IMAP; xyz LIST "" "" * LIST (\NoSelect) "/" "" xyz LIST "~/mail/" "" * LIST (\NoSelect) "/" ~/ xyz LIST "mail/" "" * LIST (\NoSelect) "/" mail/ RFC 2060 says: An empty ("" string) mailbox name argument is a special request to return the hierarchy delimiter and the root name of the name given in the reference. The value returned as the root MAY be null if the reference is non-rooted or is null. In all cases, the hierarchy delimiter is returned. This permits a client to get the hierarchy delimiter even when no mailboxes by that name currently exist. Mind you, it looks like at least our UW-IMAP also gets it wrong for "~/mail/". Of course, I may be misunderstanding something! Best Wishes, Chris --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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Re: [Dovecot] [ #14832]: Capital letters in POP3 logins
by Jakob Hirsch 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

support(a)majordomo.ru wrote: > Can I solve this problem or it is virtually "bug" of dovecot? No bug, just the "garbage in, garbage out" principle. Mysql's string matches are case-insensisitive by default, so when dovecot asks mysql for the user information of UsEr1, it will get the information of user1 and therefore assumes that UsEr1 is a valid login. It's not dovecot's fault. If you want the match case-insensitive (so UsEr1 will be rejected), add the BINARY attribute to the userid field or change your query to '... WHERE BINARY userid = "%u"' in password_query and user_query. If you want to allow logins as UsEr1 (and let him access user1's mail), you have to change your dovecot.conf, I think. Use %h instead of %u there, and let user_query return the home directory with something like 'SELECT CONCAT('/var/spool/vmail/',LOWER(userid)) AS home, ...'.

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[Dovecot] [ #14832]: Capital letters in POP3 logins
by support＠majordomo.ru 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

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[Dovecot] [ #14832]: Capital letters in POP3 logins
by support＠majordomo.ru 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Hello all! I'm newbie here :) Using dovecot (version 1.0-test59, with mysql-auth) I saw strange problem: after authentication by POP3 in case that username given has capital letters, for example SupportTeam(a)majordomo.ru, dovecot creates new maildir 'SupportTeam' for this username instead reading mails from existing maildir 'supportteam'. Then dovecot scans created maildir 'SupportTeam' and returns 0 messages (sure:). IMAP4 works fine in the same time. Can I solve this problem or it is virtually "bug" of dovecot? Thanks in advance! Vladimir

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[Dovecot] Chrooting dovecot.
by BSD Mail 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Greetings, I have installed Dovecot under FreeBSD 5_3 It is pretty impressive. I got SSL working with no problem for both imap and pop3. Besides that I do still want to chroot Dovecot. I noticed that there are some options in the dovecot.conf that are intended for this. Unfortunately online resources on how to do that can't be found on google. Although I'm running the server as user dovecot. I still do have this: dovecot pop3-login 491 1 tcp4 10.0.1.4:995 *:* dovecot pop3-login 490 1 tcp4 10.0.1.4:995 *:* dovecot pop3-login 489 1 tcp4 10.0.1.4:995 *:* dovecot imap-login 488 1 tcp4 10.0.1.4:993 *:* dovecot imap-login 487 1 tcp4 10.0.1.4:993 *:* dovecot imap-login 486 1 tcp4 10.0.1.4:993 *:* root dovecot 481 5 tcp4 10.0.1.4:993 *:* root dovecot 481 6 tcp4 10.0.1.4:995 *:* Fine for the first six lines it's doing what it's doing. But the last two lines are running as root. That is why I want to chroot the server. I would like if anyone can point me to some howto or notes on how to do so. If there is none I will have to configure a jail just for this purpose. Thanks in advance. -- Regards,

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[Dovecot] Abort error in current CVS version
by Todd Burroughs 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

I just tried the latest version from CVS and got this error: dovecot: Mar 29 18:11:33 Error: 27526 IMAP(todd.bluegenesis.com): Corrupted index cache file /mailhome/new/t/b/todd.bluegenesis.com/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Duplicated field in header: hdr.RESENT-TO dovecot: Mar 29 18:11:33 Error: 27526 IMAP(todd.bluegenesis.com): file index-mail-headers.c: line 68 (index_mail_parse_header_finish): assertion failed: (match[match_idx] != mail->header_match_value + 1) dovecot: Mar 29 18:11:34 Error: child 27526 (imap) killed with signal 6 I deleted the index files, didn't help. I checked my mailbox and there aren't any mails with a duplicate "Resent-To" header. With older versions of dovecot, I still get this error, but it does not abort. (Using mbox, if it matters) Here's a backtrace: Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbffff528 in ?? () #2 0x00000006 in ?? () #3 0x00006b86 in ?? () #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x0809744a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x6b86 <Address 0x6b86 out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 #7 0x08097864 in i_panic ( format=0x80a3bcc "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 #8 0x080748cf in index_mail_parse_header (part=0x0, hdr=0x0, mail=0x80c2f20) at index-mail-headers.c:210 #9 0x08090963 in _read (stream=0x80c3be8) at istream-header-filter.c:170 #10 0x0809a293 in i_stream_read (stream=0x80c3c0c) at istream.c:51 #11 0x0809a4d1 in i_stream_read_data (stream=0x80c3c0c, data=0xbffff7c4, size=0xbffff7c8, threshold=58) at istream.c:229 #12 0x08092f5f in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x80c1920, hdr_r=0xbffff7f8) at message-parser.c:735 #13 0x0809363e in message_parse_header (part=0x0, input=0x80c3c0c, hdr_size=0x0, callback=0x80757c0 <search_header>, context=0xbffff880) at message-parser.c:655 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #14 0x08075640 in index_storage_search_next (_ctx=0x80c5568, mail=0x80c2f20) at index-search.c:502 #15 0x0808b705 in mailbox_search_next (ctx=0x6, mail=0x80c2f20) at mail-storage.c:405 #16 0x08057bee in cmd_search (cmd=0x80ba980) at cmd-search.c:33 #17 0x080594f5 in _client_input (context=0x80ba940) at client.c:334 #18 0x0809c5da in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80b95b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #19 0x0809bcf9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80b95b0) at ioloop.c:218 #20 0x080603a7 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa74, envp=0xbffffa7c) at main.c:229 (gdb)

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[Dovecot] Compile Error in current CVS
by Todd Burroughs 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Had a small error with the current CVS version. It was in deliver.c. Here's a fix. I'm assuming that adding NULL is correct ;-) dovecot.2005-03-29/src # diff deliver/deliver.c.orig deliver/deliver.c 86c86 < box = mailbox_open(storage, mailbox, MAILBOX_OPEN_FAST | --- > box = mailbox_open(storage, mailbox, NULL, MAILBOX_OPEN_FAST | Here's the symptoms: deliver.c: In function `save_mail': deliver.c:87: warning: passing arg 3 of `mailbox_open' makes pointer from integer without a cast deliver.c:87: error: too few arguments to function `mailbox_open' make[3]: *** [deliver.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/services/src/9.2/dovecot/dovecot.2005-03-29/src/deliver' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/services/src/9.2/dovecot/dovecot.2005-03-29/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/services/src/9.2/dovecot/dovecot.2005-03-29' make: *** [all] Error 2

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[Dovecot] Checkin 1.37 of src/lib-storage/mail-storage.c
by Geo Carncross 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Checkin 1.37 of src/lib-storage/mail-storage.c added a parameter to mailbox_open() but this broke building src/deliver/deliver.c as revision 1.2 doesn't use the new parameter. It looks like save_mail() of src/deliver/deliver.c calls mailbox_open() and it looks like it might work fine if it were to use a (struct istream *)0 as the third parameter (instead of the flags) -- but I don't use deliver [yet], so I don't have any adequate way to test this. -- Internet Connection High Quality Web Hosting http://www.internetconnection.net/

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[Dovecot] mbox zlib compression plugin
by Timo Sirainen 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Some people have been asking this forever, but because it wasn't possible to implement it as a plugin, I hadn't done it. Now, due to some API changes for other purposes, it was suddenly easy. So, if you want to try it, grab the latest CVS code / nightly CVS snapshot and http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/zlib-plugin.tar.gz Compilation instructions inside zlib-plugin.c file. What it does is check if mbox name ends with ".gz", if so it opens it as read-only using zlib. If the file isn't actually zlib compressed, zlib seems to be able to still access it as a normal file (but it's still read-only). It should be possible to implement it for maildir files as well by hooking into mail_get_stream().

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[Dovecot] FC2 POP Configurtion
by Linux Stuff 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

I'm a newbie to dovecot and a little bit less of a newbit to linux. I am in the process of moving my server from RH9 to FC2. The only obstacle remaining is my email. I run sendmail with netscape mail clients - mostly PC's. They all can read their mail but none of the users can send. Depending on the state of the dovecot.conf file, I get the following: Mar 28 16:04:14 corvette sendmail[5810]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Invalid argument Mar 28 16:04:14 corvette sendmail[5810]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Invalid argument Mar 28 16:04:14 corvette sendmail[5810]: no secret in database I know I must be missing something, probably trivial. Does someone have a simple, easy-to-read, config file for dovecot pop running with sendmail? Thanks

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[Dovecot] error creating storage
by Alex 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hello, I have some problems. I am getting the error: Mar 28 21:24:01 APOLLO imap(alex(a)mydomain.nl): Failed to create storage with data: mydomain.nl/alex What is wrong with it? I think it has something to do with the rights or something. Can anyone tell me what to do? Thank you, Alex

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[Dovecot] Re: telnet to pop3 problem
by Obantec Support 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi Yes i was :( did the change you suggested and that bit works now. Off to look at using syslog to how dovecot logging works. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert" <herbert(a)oslo.ath.cx> To: "Obantec Support" <support(a)obantec.net> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 4:31 PM Subject: Re: telnet to pop3 problem > Obantec Support <support(a)obantec.net> wrote: > > Hi > > > > default_mail_env was commented out. when i set it to > > > > default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u > ^^^^^^^ > You are not using maildir, are you? > > > it fails to deliver maillog shows. > > Mar 28 15:34:31 proteus2a pop3(obantec): > > lstat(/var/spool/mail/obantec/cur) failed: Not a directory > > > > /var/spool/mail exists what is /cur ??? all i want is > > /var/spool/mail/obantec where obantec is the mail file. > > Maybe you should use: > > default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u > > - Herbert > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 27/03/2005 > >

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[Dovecot] telnet to pop3 problem
by Obantec Support 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi I have 1 customer who is having issues with pop3 on FC3 telnet mail.hisdomain.com 110 +OK dovecot ready. user beachy -ERR Unknown command. user beachy +OK pass letmein +OK Logged in. list -ERR No INBOX for user. pass & username fake for this example! Mark

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[Dovecot] Wiki upgrade
by Timo Sirainen 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Upgraded Moin wiki from 1.2.x -> 1.3.4 which required migrating old data using several scripts and reconfiguring the whole thing. If you see any problems, please mail me.

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[Dovecot] Address with whitespace shows as ""@MISSING_DOMAIN
by Chris Wakelin 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

It seems that Dovecot gets confused when presented with a header like: From: someone(a)somewhere.org i.e. with leading whitespace and no "friendly name" This shows up as ""@MISSING_DOMAIN in clients, such as Pine, that believe what Dovecot tells them rather than parsing the headers themselves (e.g. Thunderbird). Here's a sample IMAP session: xyz FETCH 728 ENVELOPE * 728 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:10:50 +0100 (BST)" "Test" ((NIL NIL "" "MISSING_DOMAIN")) ((NIL NIL "c.d.wakelin" "reading.ac.uk")) ((NIL NIL "" "MISSING_DOMAIN")) ((NIL NIL "" "MISSING_DOMAIN")) NIL NIL NIL "<Pine.GSO.3.96.1010704101043.17798B-100000@suma3>")) xyz OK Fetch completed. Here's UW-IMAP on the same mailbox: . FETCH 729 ENVELOPE * 729 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:10:50 +0100 (BST)" "Test" ((NIL NIL "c.d.wakelin" "reading.ac.uk")) ((NIL NIL "c.d.wakelin" "reading.ac.uk")) ((NIL NIL "c.d.wakelin" "reading.ac.uk")) ((NIL NIL "c.d.wakelin" "reading.ac.uk")) NIL NIL NIL "<Pine.GSO.3.96.1010704101043.17798B-100000@suma3>")) . OK FETCH completed I'm not sure I read the RFC correctly, but it looks like whitespace is allowed (and if it wasn't, I'd expect our MTA, Exim to fix it on delivery). There's a particular member of one of the UK academic computing mailing lists who always seems to do this, but I'm not sure how common a problem it is! Best Wishes, Chris --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] Troubleshooting help
by Paul Michael Reilly 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Somehow, hopefully to be determined, I got my Thunderbird/dovecot Fedora Core 3 configuration into a real snit, such that I can no longer access my INBOX. When Thunderbird tries to get the INBOX content (or get new mail) it reports "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid messageset: -2147483648:*." Scouring logs and googling has come up empty. Now I'm flailing at trying to get to a state that this problem does not exist. I'd like to understand how this situation arose and how to deal with it better if it happens to any other users on my mail server. Thanks, -pmr

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[Dovecot] cannot select
by juri vrljicak 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

hi everybody, Found many many answers in here but...not this one. My imap client displays all of the folders but not the inbox one (cannot select inbox). Paths in imap.passwd seem to be fine. using mbox format and error log says "fail with mbox file..is a directory" which i already know. do i have to create a file? and what about valid uids and gids, i had some trouble with that too. well defined and nevertheless dropped. (using netbsd dove sqmail) regards _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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[Dovecot] test65 "deliver" LDA bug
by "Branko F. Gračnar" 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hello. I've tried to implement dovecot's deliver LDA to my home mailserver. I've run into troubles :) dovecot-deliver.conf: -- snip -- mail = maildir:%h/Maildir:INBOX=maildir:%h/Maildir mbox_read_locks = flock mbox_write_locks = flock -- snip -- when i run: deliver -d bfg < email.txt dovecot delivers message to ~/Maildir/maildir/new It acctually creates "maildir" folder inside real maildir folder. If i try to list messages via Outlook express mail client, OE reports entire folder list, but also lists one message "which no longer exists on server". If i remove ~/Maildir/maildir folder this message dissaperas from OE imap folder listing. Test scenario: 1. start dovecot 2. try to deliver message using "deliver" program (succeedes) 3. try to open INBOX via imap: Outlook Express: - reports INBOX message listing with one message, which "doesn't exist on server anymore" - the next delivery test with "deliver" LDA fails (lots of nanosleep() calls) Thunderbird: - reports that there are NO messages in INBOX - still can delivery messages with "deliver" LDA deliver strace output (search for EVIL CODE string): --- snip --- execve("/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver", ["/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver", "-d", "bfg"], [/* 42 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="frost", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x80af7cc mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb28ee000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=29220, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 29220, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb28e6000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 \r\0\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=9604, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 11364, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x5837000 mmap2(0x5839000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0x5839000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\220T\1"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1207404, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 1132300, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x583a000 mmap2(0x5949000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x10f) = 0x5949000 mmap2(0x594c000, 9996, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x594c000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb28e5000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb28e56b0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 munmap(0xb28e6000, 29220) = 0 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\362yOO", 4) = 4 close(3) = 0 time(NULL) = 1111840485 brk(0) = 0x80af7cc brk(0x80d87cc) = 0x80d87cc brk(0x80d9000) = 0x80d9000 uname({sys="Linux", node="frost", ...}) = 0 cat: 1111836380.P11693Q0M524017.frost:2,S: No such file or directory getpid() = 23206 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x8093a90, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x58625b8}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGUSR1, {0x8093a90, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x58625b8}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGUSR2, {0x8093a90, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x58625b8}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8093ad0, [INT], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x58625b8}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x8093ad0, [TERM], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x58625b8}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 gettimeofday({1111840485, 349252}, {4294967236, 0}) = 0 open("/opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-deliver.conf", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=111, ...}) = 0 pread(3, "#\n#\n# \n\nmail = maildir:%h/Maildi"..., 1024, 0) = 111 pread(3, "", 913, 111) = 0 close(3) = 0 socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, path="/var/run/dovecot/auth-master"}, 110) = 0 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFSOCK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 _llseek(3, 0, 0xb71716b0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) getsockname(3, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, path=L '"}, [2]) = 0 write(3, "VERSION\t1\t0\nUSER\t1\tbfg\n", 23) = 23 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1111840485, 361824}, {4294967236, 0}) = 0 read(3, "VERSION\t1\t0\nSPID\t29143\n", 4096) = 23 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1111840485, 364325}, {4294967236, 0}) = 0 read(3, "USER\t1\tbfg\tsystem_user=bfg\tuid=1"..., 4073) = 66 getgid32() = 0 setgid32(100) = 0 setgroups32(1, [100]) = 0 setuid32(1000) = 0 setuid32(0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) getgid32() = 100 getegid32() = 100 setgid32(0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) lstat64("maildir/cur", 0xb7171640) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mkdir("maildir/cur", 0770) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ********* EVIL CODE ********* mkdir("maildir", 0770) = 0 mkdir("maildir/cur", 0770) = 0 lstat64("maildir/new", 0xb7171640) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mkdir("maildir/new", 0770) = 0 lstat64("maildir/tmp", 0xb7171640) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mkdir("maildir/tmp", 0770) = 0 ********* EVIL CODE ********* fcntl64(0, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fcntl64(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 fstat64(0, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 lstat64("maildir/cur", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 lstat64("maildir/new", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 lstat64("maildir/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 stat64("maildir/dovecot-shared", 0xb7171620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) time(NULL) = 1111840485 open("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171410) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 144, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0xb28ed000 open("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.log", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 5 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16504, ...}) = 0 pread(5, "\1\0\30\0\223LEB\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\223LEB", 24, 0) = 24 open("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1202176, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 1202176, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 6, 0) = 0xb27bf000 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171470) = 0 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb71714b0) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16504, ...}) = 0 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16504, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 16504, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 5, 0) = 0xb27ba000 madvise(0xb27ba000, 16504, MADV_SEQUENTIAL) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb71714b0) = 0 write(2, "Error: ", 7Error: ) = 7 write(2, "Fixed index file /export/home/bf"..., 89Fixed index file /export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index: first_recent_uid_lowwater 3 -> 1) = 89 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 msync(0xb28ed000, 120, MS_SYNC) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb71714f0) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb71714f0) = 0 stat64("maildir/new", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 stat64("maildir/cur", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171560) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16504, ...}) = 0 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16504, ...}) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171570) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171470) = 0 _llseek(4, 0, [144], SEEK_END) = 0 write(4, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 12) = 12 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=156, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 156, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0xb27b9000 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 7 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=696, ...}) = 0 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=696, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb27b8000 read(7, "TZif\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\6\0"..., 4096) = 696 close(7) = 0 munmap(0xb27b8000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 7 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=696, ...}) = 0 close(7) = 0 msync(0xb27b9000, 156, MS_SYNC) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171470) = 0 umask(0177) = 022 time(NULL) = 1111840485 lstat64("maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock", 0xb71714c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("maildir/temp.frost.23206.19bb83d2a70b22b7", 0xb7171490) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("maildir/temp.frost.23206.19bb83d2a70b22b7", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 7 link("maildir/temp.frost.23206.19bb83d2a70b22b7", "maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock") = 0 unlink("maildir/temp.frost.23206.19bb83d2a70b22b7") = 0 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 umask(022) = 0177 open("maildir/dovecot-uidlist", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("maildir/new", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 8 fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(8, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 getdents64(8, /* 2 entries */, 4096) = 48 getdents64(8, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(8) = 0 open("maildir/cur", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 8 fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(8, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 getdents64(8, /* 2 entries */, 4096) = 48 getdents64(8, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(8) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=156, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 156, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0xb27b8000 pwrite(5, "\0\0\0\0\221\315\0\20", 8, 16504) = 8 pwrite(5, "\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 16512) = 8 pwrite(5, "\200\200\200\204 \0\0\20", 8, 16520) = 8 pwrite(5, "\34\0\4\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 16528) = 8 fsync(5) = 0 pwrite(5, "\200\200\200\204", 4, 16504) = 4 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16536, ...}) = 0 munmap(0xb27ba000, 16504) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 16536, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 5, 0) = 0xb27ba000 madvise(0xb27ba000, 16536, MADV_SEQUENTIAL) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=156, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=156, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171460) = 0 munmap(0xb27b9000, 156) = 0 munmap(0xb27b8000, 156) = 0 umask(0) = 022 open("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.tmp", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 8 umask(022) = 0 write(8, "\7\0x\0\220\0\0\0\f\0\0\0\1\10\4\0\223LEB\0\0\0\0\223L"..., 120) = 120 write(8, "\0\0\0\0\224LEB\10\0\4\0\4\0\5\0cache\0\0\0", 24) = 24 close(8) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171460) = 0 fsync(4) = 0 rename("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.tmp", "/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index") = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171530) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171530) = 0 lstat64("maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 unlink("maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock") = 0 close(7) = 0 munmap(0xb28ed000, 144) = 0 stat64("maildir/tmp/1111840485.P23206Q0M364325.frost", 0xb7171660) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) umask(0) = 022 open("maildir/tmp/1111840485.P23206Q0M364325.frost", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 7 umask(022) = 0 _llseek(7, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 poll([{fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLHUP}], 1, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1111840485, 393090}, {4294967236, 0}) = 0 read(0, "", 4096) = 0 fsync(7) = 0 close(7) = 0 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171590) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16536, ...}) = 0 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16536, ...}) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=156, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 open("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 7 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(7, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171410) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 144, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xb28ed000 fcntl64(7, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171440) = 0 close(4) = 0 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(7, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb71715a0) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 umask(0177) = 022 time(NULL) = 1111840485 lstat64("maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock", 0xb71714f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("maildir/temp.frost.23206.187e2a44c13cb5c3", 0xb71714c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("maildir/temp.frost.23206.187e2a44c13cb5c3", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 4 link("maildir/temp.frost.23206.187e2a44c13cb5c3", "maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock") = 0 unlink("maildir/temp.frost.23206.187e2a44c13cb5c3") = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 umask(022) = 0177 open("maildir/dovecot-uidlist", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) fcntl64(5, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171560) = 0 fcntl64(7, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171510) = 0 link("maildir/tmp/1111840485.P23206Q0M364325.frost", "maildir/new/1111840485.P23206Q0M364325.frost") = 0 unlink("maildir/tmp/1111840485.P23206Q0M364325.frost") = 0 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(7, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb71715b0) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171530) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16536, ...}) = 0 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16536, ...}) = 0 pwrite(5, "\0\0\0\0\2\0\0\20", 8, 16536) = 8 pwrite(5, "\1\0\0\0 \0\0\0", 8, 16544) = 8 fsync(5) = 0 pwrite(5, "\200\200\200\204", 4, 16536) = 4 fcntl64(5, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171550) = 0 fcntl64(7, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171650) = 0 write(4, "1 1111837843 2\n1 1111840485.P232"..., 50) = 50 utime("maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock", [2005/03/26-13:34:45, 2005/03/26-13:34:45]) = 0 fsync(4) = 0 rename("maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock", "maildir/dovecot-uidlist") = 0 close(4) = 0 exit_group(75) SHELL EXIT CODE: 0 --- snip --- Best regards, Brane

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[Dovecot] Another imap crash...
by Todd Burroughs 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

The segfault problem that was happening seems to be fixed. I'm still getting some "(imap) killed with signal 6" errors. I just noticed that it did get one segfault. Unfortunately, I don't have a core file. I'll try to get one if this happens again. Here's the error messages, not sure if it will help. I'm using the CVS copy from March 24. dovecot: Mar 26 05:28:20 Error: 4282 IMAP(support): Corrupted index cache file /mailhome/new/s/support/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed dovecot: Mar 26 05:28:20 Error: 4282 IMAP(support): Corrupted transaction log file /mailhome/new/s/support/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: invalid indexid (1111832898 != 1111831599) dovecot: Mar 26 05:28:20 Error: 4282 IMAP(support): Corrupted index file /mailhome/new/s/support/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Record UIDs are not ordered dovecot: Mar 26 05:28:20 Error: 4282 IMAP(support): Corrupted transaction log file /mailhome/new/s/support/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: invalid indexid (1111831599 != 0) dovecot: Mar 26 05:28:20 Error: 4282 IMAP(support): Corrupted index file /mailhome/new/s/support/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Record UIDs are not ordered dovecot: Mar 26 05:28:20 Error: child 4282 (imap) killed with signal 11 Todd Burroughs

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[Dovecot] quota issue POP3
by Obantec Support 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Hi Just u/g to RH FC3 from RH8.0 which seemed to work fine with quotas. I have quotas for usernames set up as /home/domain/domainX/username/ for web space 50MB say 48MB used so 2MB free and /var/mail/spool/username for email. 100MB (60MB used so 40MB is available). /var/mail/username is symbolic linked via to spool/mail under /var dovecot seems to be using the quota for /home/.. and sees only 2MB so refuses to write file back. maillog is reporting (username and IP replaced). Mar 16 13:20:03 proteus2a pop3-login: Login: username [11.22.33.44] Mar 16 13:20:03 proteus2a pop3(username): Error rewriting mbox file /var/mail/username: Disk quota exceeded Mar 16 13:20:03 proteus2a pop3(username): write() failed with mbox file /var/mail/username: Disk quota exceeded i am assuming this is when pop3 login is trying to re-write file back when deleting emails. Mark -- Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Tag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller

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[Dovecot] Postfix SMTP AUTH patch updated
by Timo Sirainen 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

There was a small protocol change in later 1.0-test releases which made the older patches not to work. Updated the patch for Postfix 2.1.5 and added patch for Postfix 2.2.1. I also tested that it works with Dovecot 1.0-stable releases. So, if you're interested: http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix/

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[Dovecot] Segfault in imap process
by Todd Burroughs 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

We've been testing dovecot for a while and I noticed yesterday that imap crashes quite often. It seems to be about even with SIGABRT and SIGSEGV. This one was SIGSEGV. Our system is SuSE Linux 9.2, 2.6.11.5 kernel (also happened with an older 2.6 kernel). Dovecot version is 1.0-test64 and was compiled with: "./configure --prefix=/services/dovecot --disable-ipv6" It's using mbox over NFS and I've configured "mmap_disable = yes". The mailbox that it crashed on is one of our support mailboxes and it is pretty busy. In the last 1/2 hour, it received over 100 emails. I had a look at the code, but didn't notice anything obvious. Thanks for any help... Here's the log messages: dovecot: Mar 22 18:22:23 Error: 19697 IMAP(support): UIDVALIDITY changed (1111532787 -> 1111533642) in mbox file /mailhome/new/s/support/mbox dovecot: Mar 22 18:22:26 Error: child 19697 (imap) killed with signal 11 and a backtrace: mail201:/services/dovecot/var/log # gdb /services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap imap.core.pid19697 GNU gdb 6.2.1 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. warning: current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x08079f14 in mail_cache_sync_lost_handler (index=0x0) at mail-cache-sync-update.c:152 152 file_cache_invalidate(index->cache->file_cache, 0, (uoff_t)-1); (gdb) bt #0 0x08079f14 in mail_cache_sync_lost_handler (index=0x0) at mail-cache-sync-update.c:152 #1 0x0807bcfb in mail_index_map (index=0x80c24e8, force=0) at mail-index.c:792 #2 0x0807c870 in mail_index_try_open (index=0x80c24e8, lock_id_r=0xbffff68c) at mail-index.c:1064 #3 0x0807c9cf in mail_index_open (index=0x80c24e8, flags=5, lock_method=MAIL_INDEX_LOCK_FCNTL) at mail-index.c:1219 #4 0x08076025 in index_storage_mailbox_init (storage=0x80b7b90, box=0x80ac920, index=0x80c24e8, name=0x80a292f "INBOX", flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at index-storage.c:330 #5 0x08067cd8 in mbox_open (storage=0x80b7b90, name=0x80a292f "INBOX", flags=0) at mbox-storage.c:510 #6 0x08067ea4 in mbox_mailbox_open (_storage=0x80b7b90, name=0x80a292f "INBOX", flags=0) at mbox-storage.c:557 #7 0x08089305 in mailbox_open (storage=0x0, name=0x80a292f "INBOX", flags=0) at mail-storage.c:292 #8 0x08057ace in _cmd_select_full (cmd=0x80b7e80, readonly=0) at cmd-select.c:32 #9 0x08057ca1 in cmd_select (cmd=0x80b7e80) at cmd-select.c:99 #10 0x08059145 in _client_input (context=0x80b7e40) at client.c:334 #11 0x08099eca in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80b69e8) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #12 0x080995e9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80b69e8) at ioloop.c:218 #13 0x0805fea7 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa24, envp=0xbffffa2c) at main.c:229 (gdb) Todd Burroughs

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Fw: [Dovecot] Auto Create Folders
by Chris L. Franklin 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

>> the problem might be: what would your mta do if: >> 1. the user never logged in via imap okay, so then they would never get there mail ? I guess I don't see where your going with this problem. >> 2. therefor no folders were created by dovecot .... Ok ?? >> 3. it has to deliver a spam message to the spam folder. Your right the filter would put it into the spam folder, witch it would created if it's not found. And as a side note the "Spam" folder was just a example folder name. Really for are needs it would be a folder called "Meetings" >> "so you have to ensure the folder existance at the user creation level >> imho. thats the logical point to do exactly that. >> checking for folder existance everytime a user might access a service is >> stupid. it costs at least a stat() call per directory." Some how you missed the part.I'd like to make sure this use always has this folder. Aka if they delete it, I'd like it to be recreated. PS. In the end all's it comes down to is i was wounder if there was a way to have dovecot auto create a folder or a list of folders at login. OR really if there was a way to tell dovecot a list of folders a user COULD NOT delete (But could delete the folders in side). -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] dovecot-ldap with tls
by ck 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

hi all, Can somebody help me to find out how to use dovecot to connect to my ldap server which has the tls support? Currently I'm using my dovecot to connect to ldap without tls and soon my ldap server will apply the tls and all others server have to connect through the tls. thanks a lot. CK from Malaysia

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[Dovecot] automatic flag updates
by Aaron VanDevender 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Is there a way to get dovecot to send automatic flag updates? I notice that when I have two clients connected and one of them reads a new message, the server sends a status update which contains the number of unseen messages, but doesn't specifically say which ones have changed. I think the solution to this problem, while not wasting bandwidth, is to issue a unilateral FETCH FLAGS response whenever a flag changes. There doesn't seem to be a way to get dovecot (I'm using 0.99.10) to do this. Can the 1.0-test versions do this? cya .sig

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[Dovecot] stable assert error
by Paul Jongsma 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hello, When moving a message from my inbox to an existing mailbox folder I get: dovecot: Mar 21 12:52:48 Error: IMAP(paulj): file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 383 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: (rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) dovecot: Mar 21 12:52:48 Error: child 10265 (imap) killed with signal 6 This after moving from 0.99 to 1.0 stable on 5.3-RELEASE-p5 Client is Apple Mail program Anything I can do to fix or investigate? Thanks Paul

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[Dovecot] Hide non-accessable folder from users
by Remy Zandwijk 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi all, In our faculty, people keep asking about shared mail folders. With Dovecot up and running this should be no problem. I think we will have about 50 shared folders. I did take a look at the various solutions, but not all of them are useable. For example, I do not want users to create sub-folders in shared folders. This means the symlink option is unuseable. In my opinion, the easiest solution is creating a namespace and create the shared folders in the location of this namespace. Every shared folders gets his own UNIX group ID. Offcourse, this works great. The ony big disadvantage is that every users 'sees' all shared mailfolders, even if the user does not have the proper rights to access the folders. Is there a way to hide the non-accessable folders from users? Best regards, Remy Zandwijk

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Re: [Dovecot] Auto Create Folders
by Chris L. Franklin 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

To make sure users have certain folders. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] strange email client problems
by Gabriel Granger 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

I've got some issues with dovecot, that I need to resolve, I only have about 20 users in the office, but the average disk space used by each user is anywhere from 1GB up to at the extreme end of the scale 7GB. I'm using the mailbox format. The server is a P4 2.8 with a 1GB of ram and run off 250GB SATA disks. most users have lots of structured folders going as deep as 6 levels. The problems I'm getting are odd the problems that I'm getting at the moment are "cannot copy mail to sent folder", but sends the message fine, this doesn't happen all the time but happens to everyone but me... I'm using OS X's Mail.app which seems to always work:) all my users are using W2K and either ThunderBird or Mozilla The other problem which I've been made aware of... The users get the "loading message" or "opening messages" and the egg timer goes round but never completes. I managed to clear the problem by getting the user to close their email client and then kill their IMAP processes on the server, when the user logs in again the client responds correctly. Is there something I'm doing wrong with the configuration of dovecot? would using MailDir help, I dont want to migrate from Mailbox unless this change will make things better, I understand their are benefits from using MailDir, but I dont know if I will continue to see the same problems if I migrate. Any help or advise would be great, I should add that everyone is connecting to the server over SSL Gabe

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[Dovecot] emulating courier imap
by Geo Carncross 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I'm trying this: default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir:INDEX=%h/.indexes:INBOX=% h/.maildir namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = no } namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes hidden = yes } but dovecot doesn't appear to be honoring "hidden" - am I missing something? (that is, all my folders appear twice- one under INBOX, the other under root) I tried without the second segment, and makign the first one "inbox=yes" - but then I got two inboxes... -- Internet Connection High Quality Web Hosting http://www.internetconnection.net/

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[Dovecot] Mixing mbox and maildir
by Tom Alsberg 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi there. I understood that in Dovecot 1.0 it should be possible to mix the usage of mbox and maildir mailboxes. I just downloaded, built, and am testing dovecot-stable-20050304. I'm a bit confused as to the terms of namespaces (haven't read that part of the RFC yet), but this does not seem related. Anyway, when I try specifying: default_mail_env = ~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u On login I'm immediately disconnected, seeing something like: dovecot: IMAP(user): Failed to create storage with data: ~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/user in the log file. This seems more like a bug to me (or maybe something in permissions I haven't noticed - but I've checked...) Any way, according to the documentation, it will detect whether ~/mail/ is mbox or maildir - but would that enable having both mbox and maildir in that directory? The goal is, to deploy Dovecot 1.0 at some time, while here there are users who have both maildir and mbox mailboxes (I.E. spool is mbox, ~/mbox is mbox, ~/mail contains some mbox mailboxes for small stuff that users want to be able to access even using /usr/bin/mail, and some larger maildir mailboxes (less critical, or high volume - e.g. mailing lists). How is that possible? Thanks, -- Tom P.S. Thanks again, Timo and rest of developers for this big piece of code - I maintain Dovecot 0.99 in another place and it's by far the most useful IMAP server yet. -- 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] Shared maildirs with symlinking
by Gauthier Vandemoortele 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hello, I try to set up a shared maildir with symbolink links, but it doesn't work. The main user, from which I would share a mailbox, creates a mailbox named "Commun" with thunderbird. I see on the file system from the server that a directory .Commun is created in his ~/Maildir/ and that the file ~/Maildir/.subscriptions has now such an entry. Right. In ~/Maildir/Commun the permissions are /cur 700 /new 700 /tmp 700 .customflags 600 .imap.index 600 .imap.index.data 600 .imap.index.log 600 .imap.index.tree 600 dovecot-uidlist 600 and as owner MainUser/users (I work on a slackware 10, all the users have by default the group users.) So, I change all the rights to 770 for directories and 660 for other files (I don't forget .Commun itself) Now the other user ; he creates also a folder named "Commun", so that such an entry exists in .subscriptions. As admin, I delete his folder ~/Maildir/.Commun, and create a symbolink link ~OtherUser/Maildir/.Commun pointing to ~MainUser/Maildir/.Commun Now MainUser moves a mail in his folder Commun, always with thunderbird ; OtherUser sees now a message in the "same" folder, but he can't read it. In fact, Thunderbird displays a little icon but without textuel information, like subject, or so. If OtherUser clicks on it, the mailer hangs indefinitly. It's logical, the file created in ~MainUser/Maildir/.Commun has 600 as permissions. On the other hand, OtherUser can move or create a file in his folder Commun, but MainUser does'nt see it, I suppose because his index is not updated. I had read in http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders that : It's important to have dovecot-shared file created in the shared maildir with the permissions and group ID you want to have access to the mailbox. Dovecot uses the same permissions and GID when it creates index files, dovecot-uidlist file, new mail files, etc. With my experience, it seems that Dovecot creates the file regardless of the permissions of the shared folder. Can someone say how to resolve that ? I use dovecot-0.99.11 Thanks in advance, -- Gauthier Vandemoortele <gauthier.vandemoortele(a)skynet.be> ... Un jeune sur dix qui sait pas lire, ça en fait neuf sur dix qui lisent des conneries. (Brèves de comptoir - J-M Gourio)

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[Dovecot] Loading messages
by Gabriel Granger 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Thanks to all for pointing out the Thunderbird bug workaround, I've got another question Some of my users are complaining that when they select a message, the email client says "Loading Message" and either takes a long time to display a small message or does not display the message at all. Its odd becuase it seems that larger message on these users machines seem to open more quickly then the small 1Kb - 15Kb messages. Looking a little further on the messages that wont open they all seem to be very small in size. Is this a common issue? or something i need to tweak on the dovecot.conf or on the client side? Gabe

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[Dovecot] problems with migration to Maildir
by F. Even 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

I'm attempting to use Maildir and mbox together until I can finish migrating all mailboxes and figure out issues I'm having with a couple other mailboxes. But, I want to officially start using Maildir as the primary msg. store. Now...when I configure Dovecot as follows, it creates new folders in the ~/mail folder, which is where my mboxes reside: #default_mail_env = #default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=~/mbox #default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=~/mbox #default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir #namespace private { # separator = / # inbox = yes # prefix = # location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox #} #namespace private { # separator = / # prefix = "Maildir/" # location = maildir:~/Maildir #} namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes location = maildir:~/Maildir } namespace private { separator = / location = mbox:~/mail } I would like to have access to the mbox hierarchy, but I want all new folders by default created in ~/Maildir. How do I go about acheiving this? Thanks, Frank

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test65 and ldap auth
by KATOH Yasufumi 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Hi, Does 1.0-test65 work with ldap auth? The log is: dovecot: Mar 15 20:59:32 Error: child 13676 (auth) killed with signal 11 Info log is: dovecot: Mar 15 20:59:19 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test65 starting up dovecot: Mar 15 20:59:32 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AGthcm1hQGhhcnAuZ3I uanAAU2FncmFkbzAy dovecot: Mar 15 20:59:36 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login [127.0.0.1] linux kernel 2.6.10, glibc 2.3.2 OpenLDAP 2.2.23 -- karma(a)jazz.email.ne.jp / KATOH Yasufumi

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[Dovecot] Auto Create Folders
by Chris L. Franklin 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Is there any way to addon the ability to have dovecot auto create imap folders for a user ? -- Chris L. Franklin

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[Dovecot] Re: Warning, newbie!
by Pete 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

To make things clearer, this is where I am at now when I login from Mutt. FreeBSD 4.11 Dovecot -0.99.13 Postfix current Mar 18 09:28:15 slippery dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Mar 18 11:10:38 slippery imap(pete): We couldn't drop root group privileges Mar 18 11:10:38 slippery dovecot: child 97190 (imap) returned error 89 -- Pete http://milneweb.com http://nomorevirus.com

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[Dovecot] Moving from 0.99 to 1.0-stable
by Jim Trigg 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

What is involved in migrating from 0.99 to 1-stable? (I'd be creating a FreeBSD port to work with, but the main question I have is what would need to be done to configuration files.) Thanks, Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Verger and System Administrator, X HELP CURE HTML MAIL All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel / \

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[Dovecot] error
by Pete 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Hi, I am getting this error in my syslog when I try to access with Mutt. Mar 18 09:06:55 slippery imap(pete): We couldn't drop root group privileges This is more difficult to get running that I expected but I will stick with it a little longer. -- Pete http://milneweb.com http://nomorevirus.com

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[Dovecot] postfix + SMTP AUTH using DOVECOT AUTH DAEMON
by Ing. Alejandro Rodriguez 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

hi ppl I'm the new member of the list. Looking at recent messages look like there is a way to do SMTP AUTH in postfix using the Dovecot AUTH daemon. Currently my Dovecot installation auth again PAM (local users) and a simple shadow file (for virtual users, I plan to move to MYSQL later). I don't want to have different databases one for dovecot a one for SASL. Where I can found the POSTFIX patch, or better, some kind of helper daemon for Postfix. thx A

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[Dovecot] Namespaces and subscriptions
by Chris Wakelin 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

I've got a problem with subscriptions in 1.0-stable when migrating from UW-IMAP. I've modified the SUBSCRIPTION_FILE_NAME entries as suggested in the Wiki http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration and included the "~/mail/" etc. hidden namespaces. The .mailboxlist files contain entries like "~/mail/somefolder" and the clients have "~/mail/" set as a prefix. In UW-IMAP: xyz LSUB "" "*" * LSUB () "/" ~/mail/somefolder xyz LSUB "~/mail/" "*" * LSUB () "/" ~/mail/somefolder Now with Dovecot: xyz LSUB "" "*" * LSUB () "/" "~/mail/somefolder" xyz LSUB "~/mail/" "*" * LSUB () "/" "~/mail/~/mail/somefolder" In other words, Dovecot is prepending the namespace to the list of folders stored in .mailboxlist. This causes Thunderbird to show the folders as -~ - mail | somefolder which are accessible. Squirrelmail gets completely confused and tries to display "~/mail/~/mail/somefolder" (but works with the prefix set to ""). Am I missing something? I tried Geo's empty namespace patch, just in case that would help, but it didn't. Best Wishes, Chris --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] Warning, newbie!
by Pete 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Greetings again all, <snip> I am a Postfix/Courier-IMAP user and am interested in Dovecot. I have install Dovecot via FBSD ports. I have got to the part where I can telnet in to the server. </snip> I guess I ought to backup a little, now that I have the above resolved. I am wanting/wondering about using Dovecot with Postfix. I assume some of you have done this. Have you any thoughts, comments, how-to -- Pete http://milneweb.com http://nomorevirus.com

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[Dovecot] Warning, newbie!
by Pete 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Greetings All, I am a Postfix/Courier-IMAP user and am interested in Dovecot. I have install Dovecot via FBSD ports. I have got to the part where I can telnet in to the server. -bash-2.05b$ telnet 192.168.1.61 143 Trying 192.168.1.61... Connected to 192.168.1.61. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. x login pete testing * BAD [ALERT] Plaintext authentication is disabled, but your client sent password in plaintext anyway.If anyone was listening, the password was exposed. x NO Plaintext authentication disabled. x logout * BYE Logging out x OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. -bash-2.05b$ I am afraid I dont know what to do from here. Anyone care to assist me? Thanks, -- Pete http://milneweb.com http://nomorevirus.com

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test65
by Timo Sirainen 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ If dovecot-auth was crashing with you, this release should fix it. I don't know when it did though, I just applied a patch from Andrey Panin with that description :) Fixed also another dovecot-auth crash with Solaris and maybe some other systems. Contains the first attempt of a Dovecot LDA. It's still in pretty ugly shape, but it should work, more or less. I wouldn't recommend using it in production yet. There are two ways to use it: 1. As a normal user. The username is taken from passwd. 2. Giving -d <username> option. This connects to dovecot-auth and requests the uid, gid, home, etc. from it. dovecot-auth's master socket is expected to be in /var/run/dovecot/auth-master but you can override this with -a parameter. To actually create the auth-master socket you'll need to add this inside auth { .. } : socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 } } Dovecot LDA also currently needs dovecot-lda.conf file. Everything that is read from it is just dumped into environment variables internally. You should be able to set pretty much all the same settings in there as exists in dovecot.conf. The most important exception is that instead of default_mail_env there's just "mail". Example dovecot-lda.conf would be: # note that namespaces aren't supported yet.. mail = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_read_locks = flock mbox_write_locks = flock # EOF All this goes away once I get the config process implemented. The actual usage goes something like: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d username < mail_file ie. the mail is read from standard input. Any suggestions if the "deliver" name should be changed and maybe moved to /usr/bin/? Another large change is that I created dynamically growing array implementation with possibility to do compile time type checking. The old code was using buffer_t for arrays, but that got pretty ugly. I changed most of those in lib-index/ to the new array API. I'd be happy if someone changed the rest of them since it's pretty boring and time consuming job :) See lib/array.h for explanation how it works. And finally a small advertisement: http://mjr.iki.fi/texts/patentfund

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[Dovecot] corruption and errors in dovecot-stable
by Nicholas Riley 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Hi, We switched from dovecot 0.99.something to 1.0-stable (on FreeBSD 4.10) a few days ago and have been seeing many errors and one corrupted mailbox so far. Almost everyone uses mbox format, and most users primarily use SquirrelMail; I use Apple Mail and Thunderbird, as well as accessing the mailboxes locally with Mutt, and have not noted any visible problems. There have been several of these messages: dovecot: Feb 21 11:40:06 Error: IMAP(njr): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /usr/home/njriley/mail/lists/trac (5308 > 1151) dovecot: Feb 21 22:57:13 Error: IMAP(njr): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /usr/home/njriley/mail/lists/trac (6458 > 1151) dovecot: Feb 22 08:37:03 Error: IMAP(njr): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /usr/home/njriley/mail/lists/reportlab-users (5162 > 3812) Others: dovecot: Feb 22 11:44:17 Error: IMAP(njr): file mbox-sync-parse.c: line 221 (parse_x_uid): assertion failed: (!ctx->sync_ctx->sync_restart) dovecot: Feb 22 11:44:17 Error: child 19931 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: Feb 25 06:26:09 Error: IMAP(kbode): file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 383 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: (rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) dovecot: Feb 25 06:26:09 Error: child 83423 (imap) killed with signal 6 (I think this refers to the mailbox that was corrupted) dovecot: Feb 25 12:30:40 Error: IMAP(sachs): Transaction log file /home/sachs/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: invalid indexid (1109356120 != 1108933119) dovecot: Feb 25 12:30:40 Error: IMAP(sachs): Corrupted transaction log file /home/sachs/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Extension record update update without intro prefix dovecot: Feb 25 12:30:41 Error: IMAP(sachs): Transaction log file /home/sachs/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted dovecot: Feb 25 12:39:34 Error: IMAP(sachs): Transaction log file /home/sachs/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: invalid indexid (1109356120 != 1108933119) dovecot: Feb 25 12:39:34 Error: IMAP(sachs): Lost transaction log file /home/sachs/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 dovecot: Feb 25 12:39:41 Error: IMAP(sachs): Transaction log file /home/sachs/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: invalid indexid (1108933119 != 1109356120) I am currently reinstalling 0.99.14, but it would be nice to be able to switch to a 1.0-derived version again - we have to run two copies of 0.99.x to get what we want. If there is any additional testing I can do to help fix these problems, please let me know. Thanks, -- Nicholas Riley <njriley(a)uiuc.edu> | 4111 Siebel Center Department of Computer Science | 201 N. Goodwin Ave. and Medical Scholars Program | Urbana, IL 61801-2302 Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | +1 217 244 2274

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[Dovecot] Minor documentation bug with 0.99.14
by John Peacock 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

The sample dovecot-example.conf contains these lines: > # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before > # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but > # root. Included doc/mkcert.sh can be used to easily generate self-signed > # certificate, just make sure to update the domains in dovecot-openssl.cnf > #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem > #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem but the aforementioned doc/mkcert.sh contains these lines: > CERTFILE=$SSLDIR/certs/imapd.pem > KEYFILE=$SSLDIR/private/imapd.pem either the script should be changed to reflect the sample config file or vice versa. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748

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[Dovecot] Problems with Outlook 2002 SP3 & Dovecot 0.99.13 Redux
by Md 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Hi, I posted this question a while back and didn't get much response. Since then, I've done a bit more experimenting and wonder if someone can help me move forward towards resolution. The orignal question... > I'm running Dovecot0.99.13 on Fedora Core 3 and things work fine when using either > Thunderbird 1.0 or Outlook Express as IMAP clients. Outlook (2002 SP3) on the other hand > runs incredibly slowly, or just outright hangs. I've discovered that if I delete and recrete .../Maildir in the user account such that the directory exists but is empty, then outlook seems to behave. If on the other-hand, I try to create a folder, with outlook, outlook will hang and the folder won't be created. If I create the folder with another client and then go back to using outlook, outlook will hang. I've taken some network traces and have annotated them here... Starting with an empty "Maildir" Time Source Destination Protocol Info 8.515435 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: * OK dovecot ready. 8.516056 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0000 CAPABILITY 8.516539 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN 8.516733 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0001 LOGIN "xxx" "xxx" 8.594634 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: 0001 OK Logged in. 8.640521 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: + idling 8.640709 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: DONE 8.640983 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: 0002 OK Idle completed. 8.641165 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0003 LIST "" "" 8.641315 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: * LIST (\Noselect) "." "" 8.642387 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0004 LIST "" "INBOX" 8.642956 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." INBOX 8.657424 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0005 LSUB "" "*" 8.657925 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: 0005 OK Lsub completed. 8.660627 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0006 IDLE 8.660973 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: + idling Now try to create a sub-folder using outlook: 0.000000 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: DONE 0.000587 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: 0006 OK Idle completed. 0.000910 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0008 IDLE 0.001113 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: + idling And there outlook just hangs. Killing outlook and starting it again gives this trace: 5.110260 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 TCP 1953 > imap [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 Win=64240 Len=0 MSS=1460 5.111826 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: * OK dovecot ready. 5.112139 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0000 CAPABILITY 5.112600 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN 5.112798 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0001 LOGIN "xxx" "xxx" 5.127237 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: 0001 OK Logged in. 5.135355 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0002 IDLE 5.137334 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: + idling 5.138060 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: DONE 5.138273 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: 0002 OK Idle completed. 5.138505 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0004 IDLE 5.138646 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: + idling And there outlook just hangs again. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Md

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[Dovecot] imap-login zombies
by Robin Breathe 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Running dovecot-0.99.13 on Solaris9/Sparc with ~25k users, we are having regularly recurring problems with large numbers imap-login/pop3-login drones, cycling on poll(). Over the course of 1-2 days, the number of such processes slowly rises to >1000, exhausts resources, and necessitates that dovecot be restarted (having killed all current active and zombie child processes). Nothing of interest seems to be logged with the possible exception of a reasonably high number of aborted logins (~10/hour). Can anyone offer any guidance as to how to track down this bug and help get it resolved? Any help would be much appreciated, as we would very much like to see this resolved in the 0.99 branch. Regards, Robin

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth hangs with IO leak
by Alan Tam 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Hi dovecot, I am using the debian dovecot packages on a system running LDAP. My /etc/pam.d/common-* looks like this, which simply means try /etc/passwd first, and try LDAP using the same password if it is failed. account [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so account required pam_ldap.so use_first_pass account required pam_permit.so auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so auth required pam_ldap.so use_first_pass auth required pam_permit.so session [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so session required pam_ldap.so use_first_pass session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0002 session required pam_permit.so When many LDAP users login, /var/log/auth.log shows many (expected) error like: (note "pam_unix") Feb 3 18:16:15 eta dovecot-auth: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=127.0.0.1 Feb 3 18:16:19 eta dovecot-auth: (pam_unix) check pass; user unknown After recent upgrades from probably 0.99.10 to 0.99.13, these lines begin to appear in /var/log/mail.log: Feb 3 16:31:00 eta dovecot-auth: Login process has too old (123s) requests, killing it. Feb 3 16:31:00 eta dovecot-auth: Login process has too old (124s) requests, killing it. And some more like this, which shows the problem: Feb 3 16:45:23 eta dovecot-auth: I/O leak: 0x8054940 (13) Feb 3 16:45:23 eta dovecot-auth: I/O leak: 0x8054940 (14) Feb 3 16:45:23 eta dovecot-auth: I/O leak: 0x8054940 (15) The problem can be solved by changing /etc/pam.d/dovecot to: auth required pam_ldap.so account required pam_ldap.so session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0002 session required pam_ldap.so This change means PAM not fail auth for /etc/passwd again. I think dovecot has some problem dealing with the pam_unix + pam_ldap configuration. Do you have any idea? I am Cc-ing this message to the corresponding bug in Debian BTS. -- Regards, Alan

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[Dovecot] Bit of a Newbie Question
by Jud 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Apologies in advance - I'm sure there's something quite obvious I'm not doing correctly, but since I'm unable to resolve the problem myself.... I've installed Dovecot 99.14 on FreeBSD-CURRENT using the Dovecot FreeBSD port. My "network" consists of a cable modem connected to a router which is in turn connected (only) to my computer. My ISP assigns a dynamic IP address. I have ddclient set up to sync the dynamic IP to my hostname and MX via dyndns.org. Local operations (local delivery via Postfix or copying/moving/deleting with Thunderbird) work fine. Mail delivery from remote machines does not seem to work via either IMAP or IMAP-SSL. (That is, test e-mails I send from this [Fastmail] account to my local IMAP server never reach their destination.) Enabling port forwarding on my router for ports 993 and 143 has made no difference. What should I be doing to make this work correctly? Jud

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[Dovecot] Strange behaviour with moving mail
by Remy Zandwijk 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi All, Sorry to bother you again. I am not too familiar with IMAP yet, so maybe I am asking stupid questions. Here goes anyway: In our (Dovecot 1.0-stable) setup, we have two namespaces: the default namespace, which location is '/var/mailstore/1%u/%u' and the "Mailstorage" namespace, which location is '~/.Mailstorage/'. Now we create a folder called 'Test' in the default namespace and the "Mailstorage" namespace. As far as I know this is possible and not a strange thing to do. When moving an email from the first 'Test' folder to the other 'Test' folder, it appears that everything works like expected, but when refreshing the mailbox, the message is still in the original folder. This happens with a number of different mailclients (which are configured with an empty namespace setting). I guess Dovecot doesn't look at the namespace in which the mail folder is. Is this a Dovecot bug or is this normal behaviour? Best regards, Remy B.T.W: When moving the mail, this is the IMAP conversation: 00029 UID COPY 4 TEST * 2 EXISTS * 2 RECENT 00029 OK Copy completed. 00030 UID STORE 4 +Flags.silent (\Deleted) 00030 OK Store completed.

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[Dovecot] Is it possible to regenerate the index files?
by Joakim Verona 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Is it possible to regenerate the index files, on other conditions than the mbox file being read? For instance, it would be nice if I could regenerate the index for a specific mbox whenever procmail delivers mail to it. If theres no existing solution, would it be possible to make a small script with something like "nc" that could send an imap command to dovecot, so that dovecot would rebuild its index for that mbox? If so, which imap command triggers an index rebuild? -- Joakim Verona www.verona.se

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[Dovecot] Visibility of .subscriptions and .customflags
by justin 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi, I upgraded to test65 from 0.99 (mostly to get the namespace feature) and now it seems my .subscriptions and .customflags are showing up as mail folders in my IMAP client (Eudora). If I try and open those folders, of course I get an error. How can I configure dovecot so that these aren't displayed to my IMAP client? I looked through about 6 months of acrhives and couldn't find it mentioned anywhere. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] logging
by F. Even 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

I'm curious about exactly what this means in my log: Mar 13 10:56:20 cerebus dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected [130.94.242.20] Mar 13 10:56:51 cerebus last message repeated 177 times Mar 13 10:57:32 cerebus last message repeated 179 times Now...does Dovecot ONLY log the names of users on successful attempts? Is this "Disconnected" log entry an indication someone ran a username/password attack against the imap server and failed to authenticate? If so, is there any way to make this a little more verbose, so I can perhaps see what names, etc. the annoying idiot is throwing against my server....? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Gabriel Granger 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi All, Bit the bullet last night and switched off UW-IMAP and turned on Dovecot. With any migration I've got some teething problems and hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. I tested the system using apple's Mail.app which worked fine, no problems at all, but it seems that most of my users are getting problems, i suspect Mail.app is hiding these messages from me. All my users are using ThunderBird 1.0 lastest stable release. Some messages in their IMAP folders are producing the following error. The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid BODY[_] parameter: Missing '>' in '<16384.-14781>'. it occurs on the same messages in the users email client but happens randomly, it does not stop you from viewing the message, its just pops up with this error. I'm current using IMAP over SSL and using mbox not maildir for IMAP Any ideas or hep would be great as I'd rather not have to roll back out to UW-IMAP Gabe

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Re: [Dovecot] aha! (was apple mail vs. v0.99)
by sean finney 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

hey timo, On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:32:35PM +0200, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > > i set: > > > > mailbox_check_interval = 0 > > This has been the default since 0.99.5 which was released over 2 years > ago. How old version are you using? :) Or had you changed the default? i had indeed changed the default, thinking that it would be a nice feature to turn on. when the problem first surfaced, i immediately thought of this option. however, since the problem was that applemail wasn't seing the new mail, and this was an option to notify the client that there *was* new mail, i guess common sense got the better of me and i forgot this was something i had changed... > > mailbox_idle_check_interval = 0 > > This shouldn't matter because OSX Mail doesn't use IDLE. Probably better > idea to turn it back on or clients using IDLE don't see new mails (I > think?) aha. well then i'll have to try turning that back on :) thanks, sean

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[Dovecot] corrupted inboxes
by Josh Burley 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi all, Two users on our system have recently had trouble reading their inbox, and it seems to be a result of their inbox getting corrupted. In the most recent case, their Mailbox file (in /home/eric/Mailbox in this case), has the following as the first line: cnw.igmg-- Here's a piece of the logs below... if you look for "eric", there's a successfully delivery, followed a bit later by a POP attempt by "eric" that returns that the Mailbox isn't in mbox format. Any ideas? .josh Mar 11 14:59:04 core postfix/local[8203]: 27D18279857E: to=<eric(a)kuci.org>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) Mar 11 14:59:04 core postfix/qmgr[7238]: 27D18279857E: removed Mar 11 14:59:06 core postfix/smtpd[8199]: disconnect from user-0c8gg6h.cable.mindspring.com[24.136.64.209] Mar 11 14:59:13 core pop3-login: Login: gtt [::ffff:67.120.76.169] Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtpd[7575]: connect from webhost2.ethr.net[208.37.25.24] Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtpd[7575]: setting up TLS connection from webhost2.ethr.net[208.37.25.24] Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtpd[7575]: TLS connection established from webhost2.ethr.net[208.37.25.24]: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtpd[7575]: 242E2279857E: client=webhost2.ethr.net[208.37.25.24] Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/cleanup[8201]: 242E2279857E: message-id=<bb165712392a2b4375d6da0efa3c046c(a)www.ethr.net> Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/qmgr[7238]: 242E2279857E: from=<nobody(a)webhost2.ethr.net>, size=1527, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/cleanup[8201]: 6F63A2798580: message-id=<bb165712392a2b4375d6da0efa3c046c(a)www.ethr.net> Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/local[8203]: 242E2279857E: to=<r-ethr(a)kuci.org>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (forwarded as 6F63A2798580) Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/qmgr[7238]: 6F63A2798580: from=<nobody(a)webhost2.ethr.net>, size=1653, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtpd[7575]: disconnect from webhost2.ethr.net[208.37.25.24] Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/qmgr[7238]: 242E2279857E: removed Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtp[8250]: setting up TLS connection to blade.butterzone.net Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtp[8250]: verify error:num=19:self signed certificate in certificate chain Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtp[8250]: Peer verification: CommonName in certificate does not match: tloin.butterzone.net != blade.butterzone.net Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtp[8250]: Peer certficate could not be verified Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtp[8250]: 6F63A2798580: to=<r(a)butterzone.net>, orig_to=<r-ethr(a)kuci.org>, relay=blade.butterzone.net[208.37.27.136], delay=0, status=sent (250 Ok: queued as 4783AC2C130) Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/qmgr[7238]: 6F63A2798580: removed Mar 11 14:59:23 core pop3(eric): File isn't in mbox format: /home/eric/Mailbox Mar 11 14:59:24 core pop3-login: Login: eric [::ffff:128.195.131.49] Mar 11 14:59:24 core pop3(eric): File isn't in mbox format: /home/eric/Mailbox Mar 11 14:59:24 core pop3(eric): File isn't in mbox format: /home/eric/Mailbox Mar 11 14:59:24 core pop3(eric): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-03-11 14:59:24] Mar 11 14:59:49 core pop3-login: Login: eric [::ffff:128.195.131.49] Mar 11 14:59:49 core pop3(eric): File isn't in mbox format: /home/eric/Mailbox Mar 11 14:59:49 core pop3(eric): File isn't in mbox format: /home/eric/Mailbox Mar 11 14:59:49 core pop3(eric): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-03-11 14:59:49] Mar 11 14:59:53 core imap-login: Login: jeanie [::ffff:128.195.131.2] Mar 11 14:59:58 core last message repeated 5 times

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Re: [Dovecot] aha! (was apple mail vs. v0.99)
by sean finney 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

hello! On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:08:39PM +0200, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > From: "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <D.Mierzejewski(a)icm.edu.pl> > > According to RFC3501 (is this the right one?), NOOP can be used to check > for new mail, but it doesn't say that the server should return status > data every time NOOP is issued. i think the problem is that when the server asynchronously reports to the client that there's new mail apple mail gets confused. then noop doesn't report new mail. also, it seems that this is also the cause of apple mail having to re-download the entire mailbox every time it checks for new mail. > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > > How did you disable them? I think enabling oe6-fetch-no-newmail > workaround should help. i set: mailbox_check_interval = 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval = 0 which did the trick (i already had all the client workarounds enabled). thanks, sean

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[Dovecot] empty namespace prefix doesn't honor hidden (PATCH)
by Geo Carncross 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

diff -u -r1.44 cmd-list.c --- src/imap/cmd-list.c 5 Feb 2005 18:07:26 -0000 1.44 +++ src/imap/cmd-list.c 15 Mar 2005 16:15:27 -0000 @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ ctx->inbox && cur_ref == ctx->ref, ns->sep); if (*cur_ref != '\0' || *cur_prefix == '\0') - match = IMAP_MATCH_CHILDREN; + match = ns->hidden ? IMAP_MATCH_NO : IMAP_MATCH_CHILDREN; else { len = strlen(cur_prefix); if (cur_prefix[len-1] == ns->sep) -- Internet Connection High Quality Web Hosting http://www.internetconnection.net/

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[Dovecot] Authentication to Active Directory
by Chris Wakelin 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Has anybody managed to have Dovecot authenticate to Microsoft Active Directory? I've tried to get it to work using LDAP and the following settings dovecot.conf: userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf dovecot-ldap.conf: hosts = rdg-home.ad.rdg.ac.uk dn = cn=bind-user,cn=users,dc=rdg-home,dc=ad,dc=rdg,dc=ac,dc=uk dnpass = XXXXX ldap_version = 2 base = dc=rdg-home,dc=ad,dc=rdg,dc=ac,dc=uk user_filter = (sAMAccountName=%u) pass_filter = (sAMAccountName=%u) I've also tried things like "(&(objectClass=sAMACcountName)(cn=%u))" to no avail. It appears to bind properly, but never finds the account, so login fails. I've had Active Directory authentication working with Squid and with Cyrus SASL/IMAP. Best Wishes, Chris --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] Drac and Dovecot, almost there ...
by Jon Shoberg 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

I have dracd and dovecot up and running and trying to get the two connected. I'm using the FC3 rpms from callimg yum install. I've downloaded the drac patch from http://dovecot.org/patches/drac.c and compiled it with both gcc -Wall -W -shared -fPIC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I$dovecot -I$dovecot/src/lib drac.c -o drac.so -ldrac and gcc -Wall -W -shared -fPIC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I$dovecot -I$dovecot/src/lib drac.c -o drac.so I get no warnings or errors on the compiling to drac.so. In the conf file I have imap_use_modules = yes imap_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap However, I don't see the module being called. Is there a way to tell. The dracd database (/etc/mail/dracd.db) is not being updated via testing with the drac utilities. Thoughts? Ideas? Below is output from a strace ... I don't see /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/drac.so being opened ... execve("/usr/sbin/dovecot", ["/usr/sbin/dovecot"], [/* 20 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="masra.org", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x8c85000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=28209, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 28209, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xf6ff9000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libssl.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\226"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=213600, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x7c0000, 212692, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7c0000 old_mmap(0x7f1000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x31000) = 0x7f1000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libcrypto.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0\31d\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=933408, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x617000, 949656, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x617000 old_mmap(0x6ea000, 73728, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xd2000) = 0x6ea000 old_mmap(0x6fc000, 11672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x6fc000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320\214"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=82944, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xf6ff8000 old_mmap(0x724000, 80272, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x724000 old_mmap(0x737000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13000) = 0x737000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`\370[\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=415188, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x5b0000, 413000, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x5b0000 old_mmap(0x613000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x63000) = 0x613000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libcom_err.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\3548Y\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=7004, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x593000, 8636, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x593000 old_mmap(0x595000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1000) = 0x595000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`Bp\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=136016, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x701000, 134560, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x701000 old_mmap(0x721000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x20000) = 0x721000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360\363"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=81316, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x57d000, 80040, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x57d000 mprotect(0x58c000, 18600, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x58d000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xf000) = 0x58d000 old_mmap(0x58f000, 6312, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x58f000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\313"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=16908, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x4ec000, 12388, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4ec000 old_mmap(0x4ee000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1000) = 0x4ee000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\205"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=63528, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xf6ff7000 old_mmap(0x517000, 65028, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x517000 old_mmap(0x526000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xe000) = 0x526000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 O=\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1524828, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x3c0000, 1219740, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x3c0000 mprotect(0x4e3000, 27804, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x4e4000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x123000) = 0x4e4000 old_mmap(0x4e8000, 7324, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4e8000 close(3) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xf6ff6000 mprotect(0x4e4000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x4ee000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x58d000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x3bc000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xf6ff66c0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 munmap(0xf6ff9000, 28209) = 0 time(NULL) = 1110856826 brk(0) = 0x8c85000 brk(0x8cae000) = 0x8cae000 uname({sys="Linux", node="masra.org", ...}) = 0 getpid() = 18177 geteuid32() = 510 open("/etc/dovecot.conf", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=20533, ...}) = 0 pread(3, "## Dovecot 1.0 configuration fil"..., 2048, 0) = 2048 pread(3, "ges, use this logfile instead of"..., 2023, 2048) = 2023 pread(3, "g\n# we check only once in a seco"..., 1970, 4071) = 1970 pread(3, "to give \"mail\" group write acces"..., 2046, 6041) = 2046 pread(3, "STRUCTURE\n# gen"..., 1981, 8087) = 1981 pread(3, "is setting specifies the minimum"..., 2034, 10068) = 2034 pread(3, "dlinks = no\n\n# Check if mails\' c"..., 2026, 12102) = 2026 pread(3, "processes then.\n#mail_drop_priv_"..., 1986, 14128) = 1986 pread(3, " client authenticates in the IMA"..., 2029, 16114) = 2029 pread(3, "ice> | *]: PAM authentication\n# "..., 2034, 18143) = 2034 pread(3, "s, so it may be 0600-root owned "..., 356, 20177) = 356 close(3) = 0 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(3) = 0 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(3) = 0 open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1686, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xf6fff000 read(3, "#\n# /etc/nsswitch.conf\n#\n# An ex"..., 4096) = 1686 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xf6fff000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=28209, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 28209, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xf6ff9000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libnss_files.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320\32"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=47496, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 41604, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xf6feb000 old_mmap(0xf6ff4000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x8000) = 0xf6ff4000 close(3) = 0 mprotect(0xf6ff4000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xf6ff9000, 28209) = 0 open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3306, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xf6fff000 read(3, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 4096) = 3306 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xf6fff000, 4096) = 0 access("/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login", X_OK) = 0 open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3306, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xf6fff000 read(3, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 4096) = 3306 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xf6fff000, 4096) = 0 access("/usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login", X_OK) = 0 access("/usr/libexec/dovecot/imap", X_OK) = 0 access("/usr/lib/dovecot/imap", R_OK|X_OK) = 0 access("/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3", X_OK) = 0 access("/usr/lib/dovecot/pop3", R_OK|X_OK) = 0 access("/usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem", R_OK) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) write(2, "Fatal: ", 7Fatal: ) = 7 write(2, "Can\'t use SSL certificate /usr/s"..., 77Can't use SSL certificate /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: Permission denied) = 77 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 exit_group(89) = ?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 64-bit and Pine error
by Remy Zandwijk 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi all, I compiled a 64-bit Dovecot stable (13-03-2005) version on a Solaris 9 box with gcc 3.4.2. OpenSSL and libiconv are compiled 64-bit also. The configure I use: export CPPFLAGS="-m64 -I/var/tmp/openssl/include" export LDFLAGS="-m64 -L/var/tmp/openssl/lib" ./configure \ --prefix=/opt/dovecot \ --sysconfdir=/etc/opt/dovecot \ --disable-shared \ --with-libiconv-prefix=/var/tmp/iconv \ --without-passwd-file \ --without-shadow \ --without-vpopmail \ --without-static-userdb \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/etc/opt/dovecot/cert \ --without-pop3d Dovecot is running fine, all email clients are running fine, except for Pine (4.62). When saving a mail to another IMAP mailbox, Pine report an error message and the logfile shows: Mar 14 16:33:28 tbox dovecot: [ID 107833 local1.error] IMAP(tstud1): utime(/var/tmp/var_mailstore/ t/tstud1/.Drafts/tmp/1110814408.P2681Q0M979308.tbox) failed: Value too large for defined data type Compiling Dovecot in 32-bit, saving mail within Pine is doing just fine. I guess this is caused by maildir-save.c, line 219. Is this a bug in Solaris or Dovecot? -Remy

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[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99 + apple mail.app
by sean finney 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

hello all, first off, a success story. after much testing and preperation, we've switched from uw-imap to dovecot. i am not kidding when i say that we have experienced an order of magnitude decrease in server load (previously load peaks were 40-60, now they are 3-4). so, suffice to say that the mail admins here are very happy :) one problem that has come up though is particular to apple's mail.app. when a client recieves a new message, they aren't notified that it's arrived, and often even when pressing "check for new mail" they don't see it come in. however, if they move from one mailbox to another, and then back, it shows up. it also shows up if thtey completely quit out of the program and start it back up. i'm going to try and get a packet dump of this to see if i can find out what's happening in the conversation, but figured in the meantime i'd put my feelers out to see if anyone else is having this problem. thanks, sean

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[Dovecot] dovecot-stable mbox weirdness
by Matt Howard 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

I just tested dovecot-stable from 2005-03-08 and 03-12 and saw the following behavior. All of my mbox folders show is the first message's header. None of the files were truncated (whew, saves a restore). I had 0.99.12.1 installed before this, and just switched back to 0.99.14. Both 0.99.x versions work fine. I removed all of the index files to see if there was a hiccup there, with no effect. System is Slackware 10.0. My package was built with this: http://tinyurl.com/6l2vv

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[Dovecot] aha! (was apple mail vs. v0.99)
by sean finney 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

it seems that when you say "check for new mail" in apple mail, it sends a NOOP to the imap server to get the response. in uw, the conversation is something like: 25 NOOP 25 OK NOOP completed 26 NOOP * 2796 EXISTS * 7 RECENT 26 OK NOOP completed however, with dovecot, if it has already notified the client that new mail has arrived, it will look something like: * 24 EXISTS * 2 RECENT 22 NOOP 22 OK NOOP completed. 23 NOOP 23 OK NOOP completed. (the counts are different because these are seperate accounts) so evidently, apple mail is too stupid to realize to read info from the server unless it asked for it... so now that i think i have a short-term fix (disabling notification for new mail server-side), i can breathe a sigh of relief. for a long-term fix, would it be possible to have the server always notify the client of new mail after a NOOP? thanks, sean

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[Dovecot] Authentication error after authentication query (for Eudora 5.2 on Mac)
by Tim Alberts 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Greetings all, I'm a new user of Dovecot and want to say thanks for the great software. I am having a problem at the moment. I run a heterogeneous network with windows and Mac clients logging into a Fedora Linux 2 box running sendmail and previously UW-IMAP, but now Dovecot. I am using strictly pop3, plain authentication with mbox format. Every computer in the network is working fine with this sytem, except 1. A mac running Eurdora mail 5.2. It gives me an Authentication error every time it tries to get mail. I telnet into the server and when I skip the AUTH process and just log in, the server works fine as follows: [talberts@localhost ~]$ telnet mail.inside.msi 110 Trying 192.168.0.3... Connected to mail.inside.msi (192.168.0.3). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. user tdazey +OK pass ****** +OK Logged in. quit +OK Logging out. Connection closed by foreign host. [talberts@localhost ~]$ However, when I do the following session: [talberts@localhost ~]$ telnet mail.inside.msi 110 Trying 192.168.0.3... Connected to mail.inside.msi (192.168.0.3). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. auth cram_md5 -ERR Unsupported authentication mechanism. auth login -ERR Unsupported authentication mechanism. auth plain + user tdazey -ERR Authentication failed. user tdazey +OK pass ****** +OK Logged in. quit +OK Logging out. Connection closed by foreign host. [talberts@localhost ~]$ I don't need any authentication except plain. However, when the client queries the settings, it fails the login. I tried this on multiple accounts with the same results. What do I do to fix this?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot, pam and OpenLDAP
by Rune Hamnvik 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Hello We have a Dovecot installation using only pop3 where auth data is stored in OpenLDAP and accessed using pam. With Fedora 2 everything has worked fine, but when we upgraded to Fedora 3 we started to get problems. After a while a lot of dovecot processes existed, and error messages was logged in maillog telling that the processes was too old. Then some error messages telling about memory leak was logged. Our /etc/pam.d/dovecot looks like this: #%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 Any idea what is happening? Rune Hamnvik Mobinor AS Norway

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Re: [Dovecot] Plain Authentication - Outlook not working
by F. Even 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

What problems exist with Thunderbird? Both my wife and I are using Thunderbird with no issues on both OSX and WindowsXP. (No issues that I'm noticing anyway). I'm using 1.0 Test 64: Dovecot v1.0-test64 starting up Frank Simon Windsor wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for the advice, but no luck. > > In the end, I am now using Evolution, which I do not like but it works. > It appears that Kmails IMAP and Thunderbirds IMAP are broken, > particularly kmails! > > Installing Dovecot 1.0.59 improves Dovecots IMAP software, but exposes > flaws for Kmail and Thunderbird! > > So, until the update to KDE, due at the end of March, I will endure > Evolution. > > Thanks, once again > > Simon > > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 17:40 -0600, F. Even wrote: > >>>Hi >>> >>>I tried re-subscribing and still, I get not emails with kmail. >>> >>>Outlook appeared to pick the change in Subscription file automatically. >>> >>>Any other ideas, or should I drop the IMAP connection and re-do it? >> >>I've always had to drop my IMAP connection and reconnect to recognize >>changes I've made on the server side. A kill -1 to dovecot will only >>reload the server process and the login auth processes...it won't kill >>your already established IMAP connection, which as far as I can tell, >>keeps using old settings. >> >>If you are having that many problems, delete all of your subscriptions >>files and dovecot caches and start from scratch. I've had to do it a few >>times to get things to work as expected. >>

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RE: [Dovecot] Plain Authentication - Outlook not working
by F. Even 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

> Hi > > I tried re-subscribing and still, I get not emails with kmail. > > Outlook appeared to pick the change in Subscription file automatically. > > Any other ideas, or should I drop the IMAP connection and re-do it? I've always had to drop my IMAP connection and reconnect to recognize changes I've made on the server side. A kill -1 to dovecot will only reload the server process and the login auth processes...it won't kill your already established IMAP connection, which as far as I can tell, keeps using old settings. If you are having that many problems, delete all of your subscriptions files and dovecot caches and start from scratch. I've had to do it a few times to get things to work as expected.

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[Dovecot] Restrict Imap access
by Sergiu Zaharia 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Hello. I need to restrict access to IMAP ports to a few users, so that all users can use POP3 and just a few of them will be able to access IMAP. I use secure connections POP3s and IMAPs. Is it possible? Also... When I connect to the Dovecot server using Outlook (IMAPs) I get a Warning message,something like: "The server you are connectiing to uses a non verified protection certificate. A chain of certificates ...so on ( I can't translate :) ) Continue using the server? " How can I fix that warning? Thanks

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RE: [Dovecot] Plain Authentication - Outlook not working
by Timo Sirainen 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 15:18 +0000, Simon Windsor wrote: > Hi > > I tried re-subscribing and still, I get not emails with kmail. > > Outlook appeared to pick the change in Subscription file automatically. > > Any other ideas, or should I drop the IMAP connection and re-do it? Do you even see the mailbox list? Maybe kmail got somehow confused and recreating the IMAP account entirely would be easiest way to fix it.

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[Dovecot] pop before smtp with 'exact' and 'exim4'
by Jools Smyth 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Hello, I just thought I would write this in case its useful to anyone. I've used dovecot for a while, as its so easy to set up, its fast and it and just "works". I recently wanted to be able to send via my server after pop3s authentication. I'm also running debian (testing) which utilises exim4 by default. I found no information about how to do it with this combination of software so went about sorting it out myself. First I got exact : (a pop before smtp daemon) http://adju.st/dist/exact/ After compiling and installing i edited its /usr/local/etc/exact-servers.conf It doesn't support dovecot's log format out of the box, so i created a regular expression entry for it. <server dovecot> order username,address match (Login): (.*) \[(.*)\] </server> I then edited its main configuration, (/usr/local/etc/exact.conf) changing only the user its running on (default mail/mail) to Debian-exim/mail. (so that the state file it creates can be read fine by exim4) I also changed the mail log ownership so that group mail can read them, /usr/local/var/state/exact to drwxr-sr-x 2 Debian-exim mail 1024 Mar 13 16:39 exact and /usr/local/var/run/exact to drwxr-sr-x 2 Debian-exim mail 1024 Mar 12 21:54 exact Exact's exim documentation is not for the most recent version, so I had to locate the correct line to modify. I went into the exim4 configuration files. I use the debian split format configuration. In the file /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/30_exim4-config_check_rcpt there is a line near the bottom which reads accept hosts = +relay_from_hosts I changed this to accept hosts = +relay_from_hosts : net-lsearch;/usr/local/var/state/exact/rela y I then just set exact to and start/stop in /etc/init.d/exim4 thats all! Best Regards Jools -- Oxford Inspire jools(a)oxfordinspire.co.uk Tel: 01865 751879 Mob: 07966 577498

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[Dovecot] Plain Authentication - Outlook not working
by Simon Windsor 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Hi I have just upgraded a mail server from dovecot-0.99 to stable (dovecot-1.0.59). My normal desktop email client, kmail is working fine, but outlook keeps producing PLAIN authentication errors, and refusing to authenticate. From dovecot.log, I can see dovecot: Mar 13 10:57:30 Error: auth(default): sql(<xxxxxxxMy Detailsxxxxxxxxxxx>): Password query must return a field named "password" I have tried setting, unsetting disable_plaintext_auth in dovecot.conf, to no avail. What is happening, and what should I do to get all email cleints to work. Simon -- Simon Windsor Email: simon.windsor(a)cornfield.org.uk Tel: 01454 617689 Mob: 07720 447385

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