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[Dovecot] Lost BODY message
by Tom Allison 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

DEBIAN package information: ii dovecot-common 0.99.11-3 ii dovecot-imapd 0.99.11-3 ii bogofilter 0.93.1-1 Apologies for cross-posting, but I think the problem lies somewhere in here. Maybe someone can tell me something useful. Now, I've confirmed the following: I received a mail message that was not spam, of size 2132 originally. clamav scanned it and bumped the size up to 2356 (added headers) ls -l shows it at 1019. The message file (maildir) does not show any BODY. I didn't have my procmail logging on VERBOSE=yes at this time which is a real bummer. Nothing else shows up in the syslog or other logs. As near as I can tell, the following happened: postfix delivered the email to the procmail script in good shape. Now, either procmail or dovecot got goofy on this one. I'm also running bogofilter in the dovecot script, but there's nothing in the procmail log to indicate a problem (logging would have helped!). But the bogofilter database doesn't show any signs of corruption. Somewhere between the interplay of procmail, bogofilter, dovecot things went wrong. I've increased all the logging that I can to watch for the next event. BTW - how can I increase the verbosity of dovecot while staying in daemon mode?

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Re: [Dovecot] Problem with dovecot on home LAN
by Timothy Murphy 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 15:28, David Sheryn wrote: > > With fetchmail I get the error message: > > ============================================ > > [tim@william ~]$ fetchmail alfred > > fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != alfred > > fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != alfred > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This would appear to be you problem. You have an identity crisis > somewhere. Either your laptop or you dektop (or both) are confused as to > their (LAN, i.e. IP) network identity (note that this has nothing to do > with UUCP -- unless, of course, you are attempting to run UUCP over IP > which would be ill-advised.) > > It's not at all obvious where the misconfig lies, but I'd start with host > files / interface configs. I'm sure you are right that this is where the problem lies. Unfortunately I don't know what the solution is. There is no "identity crisis" normally, as I ssh from one machine to the other with no problem, and eg keep a yum repository on the desktop which I use to update Fedora-3 on the small number of machines on my two little LANs (Ethernet and WiFi). I googled for this error "Server CommonName mismatch" and found dozens fo hits, but none of them seemed to suggest a concrete solution. What slightly puzzles me is that dozens of people must be using dovecot for more or less the purpose I envisage - otherwise what are they using it for - so my little problem must have arisen many times before. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot on home LAN
by Timothy Murphy 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

At present I get email directly on my laptop in /var/spool/mail/* through uucp. I'd like to get the email in the same directory on my desktop (alfred), and then run a mail server on the destop and collect the email on my laptop (william) (or on other computers on my two little home LANs, ethernet and WiFi). I was advised that dovecot was a good imap server for this purpose (I tried cyrus-imapd, but decided it was too complicated), so I'm running dovecot on alfred (my desktop), with the following /etc/dovecot.conf (minus comments): ============================================ imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3 default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes ============================================ I am able to access my desktop with telnet from my laptop: ============================================ [tim@william ~]$ telnet alfred 143 Trying 192.168.1.1... Connected to alfred. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. x login tim <password> x OK Logged in. ^] telnet> quit Connection closed. ============================================ Unfortunately, neither fetchmail not KMail on my laptop seem able to retrieve mail from my desktop. With fetchmail I get the error message: ============================================ [tim@william ~]$ fetchmail alfred fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != alfred fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != alfred 10 messages for tim at alfred. reading message tim@alfred.murphy.ie:1 of 10 (765 header octets) fetchmail: fetchmail: getaddrinfo(localhost.smtp) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from alfred fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) ============================================ My .fetchmailrc on william reads ============================================ poll alfred proto IMAP user "tim" password "whatever" ============================================ I have no better luck trying to retrieve mail with KMail on the laptop, after adding the following entry to KMail=>Settings=>Configure KMail=>Network=>Receiving ============================================== Name: dovecot Login: tim Password: <password> Host: alfred Port: 143 Prefix to folders: /var/spool/mail/ ============================================== (I also tried with "Prefix to folders:" empty.) When I start KMail on william I get the message "Checking account dovecot for new mail", but no mail comes over, and I see no error in the log files on either machine (although I may have missed something there). I should say that I am running Fedora-3 with all programs up-to-date. Apologies for the long message; any suggestions of advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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[Dovecot] Assert in mech.c
by Andrew Hutchings 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Hi guys, Seems to be my week for mailing :) I am getting the following in my mail log: Dec 7 11:54:08 svr21 dovecot: auth(sql8): file mech.c: line 143 (mech_auth_finish): assertion failed: (*requests != request) Is this assert important or can I remove it from my copy of the code? Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru Netserve Consultants Ltd. http://www.domaincity.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] imaps, certificate and authentification
by jean-Noël Chardron 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

hello, first sorry for my poor english I'm doing the migration from UW-imap to Dovecot I have two question about the authentification in the imaps (port 993) process In dovecot .conf I can enable (or disable) the différent port (pop, pops, imap, imaps) and may be restrict the access to the serveur with the ip adresse. Can I configure dovecot in imaps so it permit the access if the certificate is knowing by the server? Actually, this is the process to authenticate in WU-imap on imaps : the client connect to the server through a tunnel SSL (stunnel) and only if stunnel know the certificate, then the client can connect. and more, Is it possible when the client (with a certificate) connect to the serveur with imaps to authenticate the user without prompting the password, so the authentication is throught the certificate ? These are similar functionnality in the apache server with the restriction access to location et authentification with certificate. thanks -- Jean-Noel

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[Dovecot] 0.99.12.1 released
by Timo Sirainen 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

The only difference to 0.99.12 is that it now builds without GNU make. I didn't bother to change the version number so it's still 0.99.12 inside the tarball.

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[Dovecot] 0.99.12-1.1.fc1.rf broken?
by alex＠amcms.org 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi, I dont know if this is a dovecot problem, or the rpm build, me, or my computer ;) Was wondering if anyone else has been having problems using the 0.99.12-1.1.fc1.rf release from http://dag.wieers.com/packages/dovecot/ My specific problem is this. 1. Dovecot starts 2. You can login using telnet 3. You can issue a select inbox but nothing seems to happen By this stage dovecot is spiraling out of control, using up almost all my tiny cpu's processor, when usually it uses basically nothing. What appears to happen if you look at the logs is this. ======= Dovecot Log ======= dovecot: Dec 06 10:39:48 Error: login: Authentication process 5634 doesn't exist ======= Dovecot Info Log ======= imap-login: Dec 06 12:36:09 Info: Disconnected: Inactivity [127.0.0.1] Then, I noticed that if I tried to log in again I would have multiple dovecot-auth processes churning away at my processor.... I went thru the config file, and the new one with my changes, still the same. I also restarted dovecot several times, having to kill all the processes manually as service dovecot stop didnt seem to work. Is anyone else having this problem? And do they know how to fix it? Im running dovecot on fedora core 1, using mysql for authenticating. Thanks Alex

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[Dovecot] 1.0 test 52 - test 56 upgrade
by Andrew Hutchings 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi guys, I run a LVS cluster system which holds mail via a NFS server in Maildir format, and indexes on the local hard disks. When upgrading from 52-56 about half the index files failed to work correctly, many killing the server. Not really a problem, I just deleted them. Just thought the developer guys should know. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru Netserve Consultants Ltd. http://www.domaincity.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test56
by Timo Sirainen 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Lots of fixes for mmap_disable = yes. It finally seems to be working pretty well. - POP3 idle timeouts changed to 10min I just wrote a simple stress test tool for IMAP and I've had one for POP3 for some months. The IMAP stress test was very helpful in finding out the bugs I fixed today. If anyone wants to try them, they're in: http://dovecot.org/tools/

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[Dovecot] problem with test56
by Cor Bosman 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi all, im doing some tests with the test56 release and im seeing some problems with APPEND (may be related to something else, I just see it with APPEND). When I ask someone to move some emails from one mailbox to another, after some messages (seemingly random), the client experiences a 'hang'. When tracing the process what seems to happen is that dovecot doesnt send a final OK after that specific email. It's kinda hard to attach a gdb at that point, so for now, maybe someone has seen this also? Cor

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] passdb cache fixes
by Andrey Panin 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hello, attached patches fixes some bugs in passdb cache. First patch fixes bug which causes passdb cache always return empty scheme for cached passwords. Second patch fixes dovecot-auth crash with passdb cache enabled. I'm not sure that it is proper fix, though. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] chained SSL certificates
by Cor Bosman 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi all, anyone got dovecot to work with chained SSL certificates? Cor

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[Dovecot] IMAP - many folders?
by piotr＠mallorn.ii.uj.edu.pl 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

Hi, I've been reading the list and it seems the answer to my (soon to be asked question) is no, at least with 0.99, but I'll ask to be sure. I have following setup: new mail goes to ~/Mail/Maildir, except for mailing lists which are moved by procmail to ~/Mail/mailing_lists/name, spam which goes to ~/Mail/spam. Read mail is moved by mutt to ~/Mail/read. Everything is in maildir format. Is it possibile to configure dovecot in such a way to allow user to access all those mail folders thorough imap/pop? User can access ~/Mail/Maildir by setting default_mail_env, but so far nothing else. -- Piotrek irc: #debian.pl Mors Drosophilis melanogastribus!

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[Dovecot] (_send_istream): assertion failed:
by Kim Culhan 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

This is on FreeBSD 5.3, is this fixed in -test or CVS ? Log message is below.. dovecot: Dec 05 07:48:08 Error: IMAP(kimc): file ostream-file.c: line 643 (_send_istream): assertion failed: (instream->v_offset <= in_size) dovecot: Dec 05 07:48:08 Error: child 42086 (imap) killed with signal 6 -kim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] 0.99.12-rc1
by Timo Sirainen 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Just gathered the patches in dovecot.org/patches/ and a few more that I think have been sent to this list before. If there's anything missing, please tell. - Fix memory leaks in LDAP, MySQL and PGSQL userdb/passdb - Fix hanging when parsing mails that have over 4096 bytes in one line (SMTP servers normally don't allow over 1000 bytes so it shouldn't be much of a problem) - FETCH BODYSTRUCTURE sometimes giving a wrong reply (eg. with FETCH (BODYSTRUCTURE RFC822.SIZE) if it wasn't cached) - Never return more than one INBOX in LIST even if there are such files. They don't work anyway and it just confuses clients. - mbox: Don't allow creating INBOX directory by creating/renaming mailboxes under it. They just wouldn't work. - POP3: Don't return PLAIN in SASL list. We don't support initial SASL responses, so it only breaks with most clients that try to use it.

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AW: [Dovecot] newbie question
by Grammes, Carsten 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

> If you really want to use maildir, you can have procmail deliver to > maildirs: > (in .procmailrc): > DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ > > Note the trailing slash - that's the kicker. > > Then tell Dovecot to use maildir. > > If you want to mix and match mailbox formats per user, then you'll > need to use an auth database that allows setting this (passwd-file, or > maybe ldap or sql). Thanks, Jon! I think now I get the picture. I will start playing around with procmail and the with dovecot auth options. Carsten

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[Dovecot] newbie question
by Grammes, Carsten 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hello all, just managed to install dovecot as imap server on a Suse Linux box. Now running fine with mbox format. A question regarding maildir or mbox. The MDA (in my case sendmail, Mlocal = procmail) stores mbox format. Do have to modify the local mailer to store maildir format or does dovecot convert automatically from mbox when I tell dovecot to use maildir format? Thanks, for any hint. Carsten

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[Dovecot] Maildir/mbox on a per-user basis
by Jon Nathan 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hello, The Wiki indicates that Dovecot can do either mbox or Maildir on a per-user basis: default_mail_env can be overridden in userdb for each user. This works with userdbs supporting the "mail" attribute (eg. passwd-file, SQL, LDAP). How exactly does one do this for passwd-file? Thanks, -Jon -- Jon Nathan jon(a)rupture.net

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[Dovecot] master or client
by Kirill Miazine 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hello, Dovecot auth protocol 1.0 defines differend command sets for client and master. How can a daemon distinguish a master connection from a client connection? Clients do send CPID and master does not. I have following auth configuration: auth external { socket connect { master { path = /var/state/dovecot/login/master-auth } } } I try to learn my authentication daemon to learn to speak with Dovecot. I fire up my master.py and try to login via pop3 as foo:bar. Below is what my master.py receives from Dovecot (master and client), VERSION commands are not shown: km@thinkpad:/home/km > ./krot/sbin/master.py CPID : ['11915'] CPID : ['11915'] CPID : ['16652'] CPID : ['11915'] AUTH : ['1', 'PLAIN', 'service=POP3', 'secured', 'lip=127.0.0.1', 'rip=127.0.0.1', 'resp=AGZvbwBiYXI='] REQUEST : ['9', '11915', '1'] CPID : ['16652'] (In the above output command and parameters are parsed.) The protocol specification is mentioning a separate SERVICE command in the client's greeting. I can't let my daemon die if the master issues DIE. Why should a server exit when it receives DIE? Can anybody provide an example dialog of an authentication request that is successful and a reques that fails because of a bad password. Thanks, Kirill -- They make a desert and call it peace. -- Tacitus

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[Dovecot] pop3 with lmos results in multiple downloads
by Juerd 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

One of our users wants to use POP3 with leave-mail-on-server (LMOS). That's great and works well for most people. But for some reason, they MUA (outlook) downloads messages more than once. As the MUA asks for messages, I'm sure it's Outlook's fault, but I was wondering if there is anything that can be done about this on the servern side, or if anyone knows how to fix Outlook. I'm sending this here, because they report that with non-dovecot servers it does work correctly. They do not want IMAP, because they want to use Outlook, which cannot support both Exchange and IMAP simultaneously. This user has multiple accounts, and only for some of them things go wrong. A temporary fix is to remove the mail from the server once, but after a few more messages arrive, the problem starts all over again. Please help. Regards, Juerd

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[Dovecot] imap: assertion failed
by Kim Culhan 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

This error is returned when reading a certain message using Squirrelmail. Any help on tracing the cause of this is greatly appreciated. >From the logs: dovecot: Nov 20 13:00:29 Error: IMAP(kimc): file ostream-file.c: line 643 (_send_istream): assertion failed: (instream->v_offset <= in_size) dovecot: Nov 20 13:00:29 Error: child 27873 (imap) killed with signal6 -kim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Problem getting incoming mail to IMAP inbox
by Jeff Sutherland 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

I have dovecot-0.99.10.5 on Fedora Core 2 installed and otherwise operating using Maildir format for the folders, Kmail as the email client. Got through all the ssl and other security configuration fine, but have one last problem: I can't read the incoming mail from /var/spool/mail/%u. Tried several 'default_mail_env' settings, including none at all, to no avail. When I try to check in new mail to the inbox, the only messages are "Transmission Complete, no new messages" Tried this setting for example: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u but to no avail. Is something getting cocked up because the folders are all in maildir format and the incoming mail spool is in mbox format? I checked permissions, they seem ok. Kmail can pull the messages in just fine to its local folder inbox, it just seems that dovecot can't read the mail spool file for some reason. All the other maildir folders work fine. ????????? Regards, -Jeff -- Secure your email with Gnu Privacy Guard and Mozilla, the open source cross platform solution for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. See http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

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[Dovecot] Cannot list mailbox
by Fawad Halim 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hi, I have dovecot 0.99.11 on a Linux machine running against a maildir based mailbox. I am getting the following errors in the maillog: Nov 27 23:08:14 fawad3 imap(fawad): file imap-bodystructure.c: line 278 (part_parse_headers): assertion failed: (part->physical_pos >= input->v_offset - start_offset) Nov 27 23:08:14 fawad3 dovecot: child 14202 (imap) killed with signal 6 This happens when the mail reader tries to enumerate the messages in the INBOX. I am able to read the messages whose headers have already been cached by the mail reader. It is also able to read others folders without any problem. This problem has occured before, and I was able to get rid of it by identifying the junk mail message it was dying on. In this case, however, I'm not able to figure out which message is causing it to crash. I am able to read the same maildir in mutt, and Courier IMAP doesn't seem to have trouble with it either. I'd really appreciate if someone could tell me what I can do to get around this problem. Regards -fawad

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test CVS HEAD index problems
by Jim Lawson 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Running current CVS HEAD I get: dovecot: Dec 01 13:27:38 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test52 starting up dovecot: Dec 01 13:33:34 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.162.177.245] dovecot: Dec 01 13:41:07 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1100294646 -> 110192643 5) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:41:07 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1100294646 -> 110192643 5) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:42:39 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.x.x.x] dovecot: Dec 01 13:42:39 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1100294646 -> 110192643 5) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:42:39 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1100294646 -> 110192643 5) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:43:59 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.x.x.x] dovecot: Dec 01 13:43:59 Error: IMAP(jtl): Corrupted index cache file /users/j/t/jtl/.i map/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed dovecot: Dec 01 13:47:24 Error: IMAP(jtl): file mbox-lock.c: line 493 (mbox_lock): asse rtion failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK || ibox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) dovecot: Dec 01 13:47:25 Error: child 17528 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: Dec 01 13:47:41 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.x.x.x] dovecot: Dec 01 13:50:49 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1101926435 -> 110192703 6) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:55:27 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.x.x.x] dovecot: Dec 01 13:55:27 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1101926435 -> 110192703 6) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:56:15 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.x.x.x] dovecot: Dec 01 13:56:15 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1101926435 -> 110192703 6) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl Using Thunderbird-0.9. Dovecot is running on RHEL 3, on top of Redhat/Sistina GFS (clustered filesystem.) Currently I'm keeping it on one node to avoid possible GFS locking issues. I'm running with mmap_disabled=yes, mbox format. Most of the 1.0-test builds I have done eventually corrupt their index files, and show strange behavior (click on a message in the folder view, and an entirely different message opens... delete three or four messages and expunge, the messages instantly reappear as unseen.). I typically wipe the .imap directories between different builds of Dovecot. I've been following the -test code for a couple of months now, just to see how it does, because we're running UW IMAPd and are excited to have a way to increase the performance of our mail cluster (indexes) without having to move away from mbox. Let me know if there's more information I could provide that would be helpful. Jim

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[Dovecot] Excessive imap_login processes
by Keith Edmunds 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

I'm running Dovecot on a very small mail server (never more than six users accessing IMAP, often fewer). I'm seeing the number of imap_login processes grow over time, and right now there are 23. All the "login_process_*" settings in dovecot.conf are commented (ie, at their defaults). Is this a known or expected issue? The version of Dovecot is 0.99.10.8, which I accept is perhaps a little old. Thanks, Keith

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test55
by Timo Sirainen 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Sorry :) The last fix I made a few minutes before test54 release didn't turn out to be exactly correct.

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[Dovecot] big troubel - damaged mailboxfolders
by Götz Reinicke 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hi, because the fedora project switcht from wu imap to dovecot, i followed this step. Today I'm very unhappy about this step, because there are more problems for me than advantages... But today the biggest problem is, that a lot!!! of mailboxes are damaged. within three year no mailbox was damaged using wu imap. The errormessage is: imap(cstrang): File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/cstrang the server is fedora core 1, dovecot-0.99.11. May be I have something misconfigured, but where to look at? Any ideas, what causes the damage? And installing the test-version isnt an alternativ for my production server vor 500 users. Regards Götz Reinicke -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test55, threading does not include new messages
by Nicolas.Kowalski＠imag.fr 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hello. The dovecot server is 1.0-test55, with maildir storage. The MUA is pine 4.61, using thread sort. When I open a folder containing new messages (delivered through procmail), the threads do not include these messages. I have to close the folder, then open it again to make the threads complete. Thanks in advance. -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test53 and 'Junk in start of group' messages
by Nicolas.Kowalski＠imag.fr 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hello. I am using dovecot-1.0-test53 with Maildir mailstore, with pine 4.61 as MUA. I have several folders which cause error messages like 'Junk in start of group' in Pine when I read them. I googled a bit for this, and found that removing the index file should do the trick, but unfortunately, it does not. What can I do to make these annoying messages disappear ? Thanks in advance. -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] dovecot only answers to imap connections
by Mitch Pirtle 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hey list, Finally got up and running, and now am trying to figure out why dovecot would only accept imap connections - I have people that are happy with pop, but they can only authenticate when they use imap. Is there a conf setting for this somewhere that I am missing? -- Mitch

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test54
by Timo Sirainen 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixing crashes and other index problems with test53.

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[Dovecot] Entourage on Dovecot 09.11, is 1.0-test the answer?
by Michael Maggard 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Background: I'm running a RH9 box with Dovecot 0.99.11. Dovecot was installed using yum and the rpm found on http://dag.wieers.com/packages/dovecot/. With two exceptions I've been enormously happy with Dovecot. I'm even happier having recently successfully installed pop-before-smtp sop one exception down. However the other problem I've experienced is becoming critical. I've an ongoing issue with MS Entourage clients, a MS for Mac product, unable to authenticate to Dovecot. This had been attributed to MacOS 9/MS Entourage 2001 but with new systems in place I'm having the same issue with MacOS X/MS Entourage 2004 being unable to authenticate to Dovecot. MS acknowledges the issue in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/871016 with the errata: > 5 Known issues > 5.1 NTLM v1 authentication support > Entourage no longer supports NTLM v1 authentication. Entourage does support NTLM v2. Where I am now: There has been previous references to an Entourage authentication issue on the mailing list but it was resolved by "after I tried everything else with no success, upgrading from Dovecot 0.99.10.2 to 0.99.10.4 solved the problem." Well, I'm at 0.99.11 so apparently this is back, or something else is going on. >From several hours going over the mailing list it appears that Dovecot 1.0-test is the solution with it's extended NTLM support. However I'm not a very sophisticated sysadmin and so it was with trepidation I downloaded dovecot-1.0-test52 and started following the instructions. After a quick "yum install openssl-development" I thought I was good to go but alas "./configure --with-ssl=openssl" resulted in: > ./configure: line 26374: pkg-config: command not found > checking for SSL_read in -lssl... yes > checking openssl/ssl.h usability... no > checking openssl/ssl.h presence... no > checking for openssl/ssl.h... no > checking openssl/err.h usability... yes > checking openssl/err.h presence... yes > checking for openssl/err.h... Yes and make failed with a cascade of errors after: > In file included from /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:179, > from ssl-proxy-openssl.c:14: > /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:72:18: krb5.h: No such file or directory Why I'm posting: So, hoping I've given enough detail to be useful, here are my questions: * Am I correct that MS Entourage 2004 can't authenticate with Dovecot .99.11? Are there folks it does work for (how)? * Am I correct that Dovecot-1.0-test has support for NTLMv2 and would thus authenticate MS Entourage 2004? * Does anyone have a prebuilt (yum suitable) rpm of a recent Dovecot 1.0-test for RH9? Dag appears to only carry released versions, is there a source for -test ones? * Is there something trivial I'm overlooking in trying to build dovecot-1.0-test52? I'm assuming I'm missing /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h, is this correct? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I was pushing my skillset getting pop-before-smtp working. While I'm good at following directions and learning from them I'm just that; learning. -- Michael <michael(a)michaelmaggard.com>

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test53, sig11 when sorting by thread
by Nicolas.Kowalski＠imag.fr 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hello. When trying to sort a folder by thread (with pine4.61), I get a sig11. The mailstore is Maildir, indexes stored in /var/indexes/%u. The syslog on the server shows this: Nov 29 11:37:55 olan dovecot: IMAP(kowalski): Corrupted index cache file /var/indexes/kowalski/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: record points outside file Nov 29 11:37:56 olan dovecot: child 14344 (imap) killed with signal 11 A backtrace of the core is attached. Thanks. PS: I tried with mbox mailstore, and got the same sig11. -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] test53 and signal 11 errors
by Sean Porter 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

I installed test53 tonight, and I've begun to see the following error in my maillog every time I attempt to retrieve mail from an imap client: dovecot: child 46128 (imap) killed with signal 11 I built from source on FreeBSD 4.9 with the following: ./configure --with-mysql --with-storages=maildir --with-ssl=openssl A little bit of Googling seems to indicate that this is a hardware issue(http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/), but I've not had this error under any other circumstances. What other information would be helpful to sort this out?

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test53
by Timo Sirainen 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Sorry for not answering any questions for past two weeks, I'll try to get around answering them in next few days. I've also been thinking about if I should switch from CVS to Darcs. It seems to be exactly the kind of reversion control tool I had wanted to use. Anyone have comments for or against it? I'd still have read-only CVS repository generated from it, although I couldn't yet find a way to do it. Anyway, test53: - Recent flag counters should finally be correct - dovecot-shared file actually works correctly now - Cache file works with mmap_disable = yes (still some small issues though) - Lots of internal changes in indexing code, especially for mmap_disable = yes - DIGEST-MD5 authentication works again - etc. It's been running with me for 45mins without breaking. Guess it should work. :)

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AW: Re: [Dovecot] [OT] Apple Mail.app access to localhost imap whe n nonetwork
by valo＠valo.at 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

> This script is what I use -- note that you need to have it on the > server, and then call ssh to execute that script (on the server) > immediately. > #!/bin/sh > # arch-tag: dbfe44f6-0d80-40c4-948a-bac05a804bf5 > > export MAIL=/home/johannes/Maildir > export MAILBOX_CHECK_INTERVAL=60 > exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap Hi. IIRC you should exec dovecot as a whole, to use it properly. Also edit your dovecot.conf to only serve imap. christian

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[Dovecot] Orientation and configuration help
by J Moore 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

This sounds to me like a "RTFM" question, but I've read the Wiki, and looked through the m.l. archives as far back as July... I still don't have a clear answer, so I'm posting here :/ I'm currently using mutt as my mail client. It runs on the same host that runs the sendmail MTA for my domain. So sendmail "delivers" my mail to /var/mail/<username>, and I read it from that location w/ mutt, transferring the "new" mail to a folder in my home directory if I want to save it (/home/<username>/Mail/<foldername>). This arrangement has been convenient, useful and reasonably secure (I think): I can check mail from anywhere via SSH, and I don't have to worry about downloading virus-laden spam/shit to my Windoze (corporate) laptop. Now, I want to change; I want to use dovecot to provide IMAP access to my mail. I'd like to do this in such a way that I can still access mail using mutt when I want/need to do so. I've installed dovecot, and reviewed /etc/dovecot.conf. I think I need to do the following to get underway: 1) create a directory for Maildir-formatted folders: mkdir /home/<username>/Maildir 2) start the dovecot daemon Is that it? Will dovecot "take over" from mutt, and put mail in my home directory? Or do I need to configure sendmail to deliver to dovecot? Also, there are other users/email accounts on the mail server that I would like to leave "as-is". Over time, I may want to migrate them to dovecot as well, but I'm reluctant to switch everything over until I've had a chance to evaluate it. Should I run dovecot as a "rootless" installation to get it for a single user, or should I just set my single UID in dovecot.conf? Thanks, Jay

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[Dovecot] Which is the imap root directory? Conflicting documentation...
by Tom 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

So, which is the imap root directory? I am getting conflicting definitions from the documentation (copied below)... ------------------------ mbox storage requires detecting INBOX location and IMAP root directory. If MAIL environment points to file (+rw) it's treated as the INBOX file. If it points to directory (+rwx) which contains .imap/ (+rwx), inbox (+rw) or mbox (+rw) it's treated as IMAP root directory. If INBOX isn't known, imap_root/inbox file is used by default. If root directory isn't known, we try to find it from /, ~/mail or ~/Mail. Files created by Dovecot ------------------------ .subscriptions: One folder per line listing subscribed IMAP folders. There's only one of these files in the root mail directory (~/Maildir/ or ~/mail/.imap/). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ My .subscription file is located in ~/mail/ but the documentation states only one should be in ~/mail/.imap/ !!!! Thanks, OOOrah

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[Dovecot] problem setting up dovecot server
by Tanim Islam 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Hi all: I have a problem running my dovecot server. I get the following error message when trying to get mail from my account with INBOX in /var/spool/mail/tanim (username tanim). Nov 22 19:23:00 phobos imap(tanim): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/tanim: Permission denied What permissions should I set for the mailbox? I am running dovecot-0.99.11-1.1. Tanim -- Astronomy 109, Department of Astronomy P. O. Box 3818, University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903

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[Dovecot] Strace of Dovecot segfaulting.
by Chris Tooley 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Please find attached the strace of dovecot, configure for use with LDAP segfaulting and throwing no error. I need to get this thing to run. It happens on startup. Chris Tooley Networking Technologies Resource Center, LLC Networking and Consulting Services Manager 8650 Spicewood Springs Rd Suite 105 Austin, TX 78759 (512)250-8985 x802 (512)659-2498 (Mobile) (512)250-5909 (Fax) www.ntrc.net

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[Dovecot] Only one malfunction in months - now running dovecot-1.0-test52
by Kim Culhan 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Dont think there has been even one failure in some months of use but tonight we're seeing this running test-52 While running squirrelmail 1.5.1-CVS a certain message causes: dovecot: Nov 17 22:25:14 Error: IMAP(kimc): file ostream-file.c: line 643 (_send_istream): assertion failed: (instream->v_offset <= in_size) dovecot: Nov 17 22:25:14 Error: child 72172 (imap) killed with signal 6 FWIW squirrelmail shows: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: FETCH 5 BODY[1] If I retrieve the message with Outlook, it shows the message has no text and a single jpeg attachment. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] SASL authentication
by Tom Allison 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

I was browsing the wiki and found a section on what appears to be as close to "exactly what I'm looking for" as I've seen in a long time. http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql However, I'm not inclined to do very much "blind" configuration on my machines without first understanding the what/why of it all. My theory is that this helps me with the RTFM syndromes later. Hopefully. My current dovecot installation is based on pgsql authentication with a single domain and files being placed in a $HOME. It's as if it were /etc/passwd based, but the passwords are different. I would very much like to migrate this into a system which supports multiple domains and this Wiki seems to be the best means for that. However, I didn't use SASL authentication. I was emotionally scarred trying to use SASL with a venture with Cyrus-IMAP under different circumstances. Could someone explain why SASL is a good thing in this case? Does it allow for something more, lead into future developements? Most of the rest of this general paper I do understand, but the SASL is the only part where I'm not sure if I must do that, want to do that, or can live without it.

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[Dovecot] NFS, test52, maildir, freebsd 4.x and OS X (Panther) Server
by Sean Porter 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

I've been working on setting up a Dovecot server with a maildir mailboxes stored over NFS. Initially, everything was working great, and then I started seeing this error as previously discussed on the list in my maillog: (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) Timo, in another thread, suggested to remove line 247 in mail-index-transaction.c in the test52 source, which I blithely ignored as I thought this would remove only the error message from the logfile and not fix the problem. At Mark Lidstone's helpful off-list insistence I did remove the line, recompile, and everything did seem to be working, until I encountered a different error. I started doing some light load testing from multiple clients (essentially, clicking like a rabid monkey on Get Mail in Thunderbird and hitting different mailbox links in Squirrelmail as the same user) and started running into this error in the logs: Nov 22 20:10:46 server dovecot: IMAP(mailuser(a)example.com): rename(/host/mail/mailboxes/mailuser(a)example.com/dovecot-uidlist.lock, /host/mail/mailboxes/mailuser(a)example.com/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Input/output error Nov 22 20:10:46 server dovecot: IMAP(mailuser(a)example.com): file_dotlock_replace(/host/mail/mailboxes/mailuser(a)example.com/dovecot- uidlist) failed: Input/output error Oddly, the dovecot-uidlist.lock file was unremovable on the NFS server (OS X Panther Server) with a simple 'rm', so I started digging into things a little further. It seems that the OS X NFS code is based on the FreeBSD 5.x codebase. The server that Dovecot (and my NFS client) lives on is FreeBSD 4.x, which doesn't support NFS locking at all(incidentally, the FreeBSD NFS Server is apparently incompatible with Linux NFS clients as well -- nice!). Per the suggestion in http://www.dovecot.org/doc/nfs.txt I'd already been storing my index files locally, but it appeared that the control files were somehow blowing up, even with NFS-safe dotlocking. All hope was nearly lost when I came across this tidbit in a post from Timo(http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2003-May/001489.html): - :CONTROL=dir in default_mail_env can specify where to save dovecot-uidlist and .customflags files. Useful for above problems. I then changed my dovecot.conf to retreive the mailboxes from the NFS mount, but store the indexes and the control files locally: default_mail_env = maildir:/host/mail/mailboxes/%u:INDEX=/home/dovecot/%u/indexes: CONTROL=/home/dovecot/%u/control All seems well so far. I know this is a relatively unique setup, but I thought it might help some of the other people that are running into NFS-related issues. Suggestion: perhaps the :CONTROL directive could be added to mail-storages.txt or dovecot-example.conf? A hint may also want to be added to http://www.dovecot.org/doc/nfs.txt. Sean

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[Dovecot] AppleMail causes dovecot error: file mbox-rewrite.c: line 429 assertion failed
by Adam Rosi-Kessel 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

I get the following error message in my syslog frequently when a user accesses the dovecot (IMAP) server from his OS X AppleMail client: Nov 24 09:45:42 myhost imap(someuser): file mbox-rewrite.c: line 429 (mbox_write_header): assertion failed: (hdr_parsed_size.physical_size == hdr_size) Nov 24 09:45:42 myhost dovecot: child 23277 (imap) killed with signal 6 Usually each message appears 5-6 times. The user on the other end doesn't notice any problems. Any idea why this occurs and what I can do to prevent it? I'm using dovecot from Debian sid, 0.99.11-3. Otherwise a fairly standard configuration. -- Adam Rosi-Kessel http://adam.rosi-kessel.org

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[Dovecot] Runtime root directory
by Brad Robel-Forrest 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

I'm considering modifying the Dovecot source to support a runtime designation for the root directory instead of relying on the prefix provided via configure. Once complete, it would be possible to move the root directory around somewhat ad-hoc after installation without having to rebuild the source. The primary driver for this is that I'd like to wrap a binary build of Dovecot within an OSX application bundle. These bundles can be placed anywhere the user desires, so Dovecot couldn't rely on a particular build-defined root directory. Before I get too far down the path, I'd like to know if there's a desire for this type of enhancement. If so, I'd like to provide a diff that would meet any other requirements for this change. There are two methods I was considering. Feel free to suggest a better alternative as I'm not ecstatic about either at the moment. 1. Find and change all uses of the prefix directory to instead prepend a value obtained from the environment (say, DOVECOT_ROOT_DIR). 2. Find and change all uses of the prefix directory to instead prepend a value obtained from the configuration file (say, a new setting called "dovecot_root_dir"). In either case, if the value was not available or not a valid directory, I would fall back to the build prefix. I would also make this functionality optional via configure--defaulted "off". -brad

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0-test52 and LDAP authentication
by Jonathan Salomon 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Hi all! I have upgraded Dovecot 0.99.11 installation that's worked with LDAP to Dovecot 1.0-test52 and I can't get LDAP to work. I noticed the /etc/dovecot.conf is slightly different, so I have adjusted changes. If I use the standard auth (passw & pam) everything works fine, however when I user ldap for auth Dovecot starts but then dies: dovecot: Nov 26 14:14:36 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Nov 26 14:14:36 Error: child 16454 (auth) killed with signal 11 As far as I can tell the /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf hasn't changed since 0.99.11 and the LDAP server is working properly. What is happening here? I did a 'strace -f dovecot 2>log' because I saw this in the mailing list archive, but it doesn't really tell me anything, so I have someone can tell me what is happening here. I have included the tail below. Thank you in advance! Jonathan [pid 16545] rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x8056330, [TERM], SA_RESTART}, <unfinished ...> [pid 16546] <... sendmsg resumed> ) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) [pid 16545] <... rt_sigaction resumed> {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 [pid 16546] --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- [pid 16545] rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, <unfinished ...> [pid 16546] write(2, "\1Ffd_send(-1) failed: Broken pip"..., 34 <unfinished ...> [pid 16545] <... rt_sigaction resumed> {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 [pid 16546] <... write resumed> ) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) [pid 16545] rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_IGN}, <unfinished ...> [pid 16546] --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- [pid 16545] <... rt_sigaction resumed> {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 [pid 16546] exit_group(82) = ? Process 16546 detached [pid 16545] open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 [pid 16545] fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 [pid 16545] fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 [pid 16545] getdents64(6, /* 2 entries */, 4096) = 48 [pid 16545] getdents64(6, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 [pid 16545] close(6) = 0 [pid 16545] getsockname(0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(143), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, [16]) = 0 [pid 16545] getsockname(1, <unfinished ...> [pid 16547] <... select resumed> ) = 1 (in [5]) [pid 16545] <... getsockname resumed> 0xfef3d050, [28]) = -1 ENOTSOCK (Socket operation on non-socket) [pid 16547] read(5, <unfinished ...> [pid 16545] sendmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 56}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0 <unfinished ...> [pid 16547] <... read resumed> "0\f\2\1\2e\7\n", 8) = 8 [pid 16545] <... sendmsg resumed> ) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) [pid 16547] read(5, <unfinished ...> [pid 16545] --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- [pid 16547] <... read resumed> "\1\0\4\0\4\0", 6) = 6 [pid 16545] write(2, "\1Ffd_send(-1) failed: Broken pip"..., 34 <unfinished ...> [pid 16547] time( <unfinished ...> [pid 16545] <... write resumed> ) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) [pid 16547] <... time resumed> NULL) = 1101483703 [pid 16545] --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- [pid 16547] time( <unfinished ...> [pid 16545] exit_group(82) = ? Process 16545 detached <... time resumed> [1101483703]) = 1101483703 geteuid32() = 0 geteuid32() = 0 time(NULL) = 1101483703 write(5, "0s\2\1\3cn\4\35ou=Groups,dc=2male"..., 117) = 117 time([1101483703]) = 1101483703 select(1024, [5], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [5]) read(5, "0\f\2\1\3e\7\n", 8) = 8 read(5, "\1\0\4\0\4\0", 6) = 6 time(NULL) = 1101483703 geteuid32() = 0 setgroups32(1, [97]) = 0 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 6 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1074, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xf6f0f000 read(6, "TZif\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\r\0\0\0\r\0"..., 4096) = 1074 close(6) = 0 munmap(0xf6f0f000, 4096) = 0 chroot("/var/run/dovecot/login") = 0 chdir("/") = 0 setuid32(97) = 0 setuid32(0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) getgid32() = 97 getegid32() = 97 setgid32(0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) setrlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC, {rlim_cur=1, rlim_max=1}) = 0 gettimeofday({1101483703, 638988}, {4294967236, 0}) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x8056320, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8056330, [INT], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x8056330, [TERM], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 getdents64(6, /* 2 entries */, 4096) = 48 getdents64(6, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(6) = 0 getsockname(0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(143), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, [16]) = 0 getsockname(1, 0xfef8b470, [28]) = -1 ENOTSOCK (Socket operation on non-socket) sendmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 56}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- write(2, "\1Ffd_send(-1) failed: Broken pip"..., 34) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- exit_group(82) = ? Process 16547 detached

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[Dovecot] [OT] Apple Mail.app access to localhost imap when no network
by Alan Schmitt 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Hello, Sorry for the offtopic subject, but I tried asking this on some Apple mailing lists and could not find an answer there, and as it's related to imap (provided by dovecot), someone might know something about this. The problem is the following: I have a local IMAP server provided by dovecot, so that I can store my mail in maildir format, and read it both using mutt and Apple Mail.app. Mail.app is configured to access localhost:143 to access mail. However, I discovered that when there is no network connection (no ethernet cable plugged in and no wifi network), Mail.app is saying that it's working in disconnected mode and refuses to access the imap server. Would someone have a suggestion as to what to do to allow connected access to localhost when no network is present? I'm very new to OS X (I come from Linux). Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot only answers to imap connections
by Mitch Pirtle 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Nope, just sticking with simple pop3 at this point ;-) The second issue I am having is that Thunderbird seems to 'freeze' from time to time on directories that have more than 1000 messages in them. I remember reading earlier that there were some performance tweaks for Thunderbird, but I lost the link :-( I cannot replicate the authentication problem, and will wait to see if it is a layer 8 protocol error (between the ears). Thanks for the help, you have been stupendous! -- Mitch On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:01:29 -0700, Saurabh Barve <sa(a)atmos.colostate.edu> wrote: > Are you using simple POP3 or secure POP3? If you are using secure POP3, > then you have to tell the clients that they need to accept your > certificate permanently, not just for that session. Otherwise, the mail > clients will complain about self-signed certificates every time they > log in.

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[Dovecot] Cannot see contents of ~/mail folder
by Saurabh Barve 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Hi, I just installed dovecot-0.99 on my Fedora Core 2 machine. When I start the secure IMAP daemon, I am able to see my Inbox, but not the other folders in the 'mail' folder in my home directory (sent-mail, saved-messages, etc.) These folders were created when I was using pine earlier on the machine. In my dovecot.conf file, I have set: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u I am using Mozilla Mail as my mail client, if that makes a difference. Dovecot seems to be creating a directory called .imap inside the 'mail' folder, where it is storing the inbox and a Trash folder. I have set "mail_full_filesystem_access = no" so that users don't access any of their other files except the mail folder. From what I understand, I don't have to set IMAP path in Mozilla Mail. I tried doing that too, just to try it out, but as expected, it didn't work. What do I need to set in order to see my other folders in the 'mail' directory? Thanks, Saurabh. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- Saurabh Barve Phone : (970) 491-7714 E-mail : sa(a)atmos.colostate.edu System Administrator, Montgomery Research Group, Deptt of Atmos. Sci., CSU, Fort Collins, CO - 80523

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[Dovecot] ssl_ca_file
by Jacob Elder 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

I am very fond of Dovecot, but it would be nice to have a more useful SSL implementation. When do you think we'll see a non-beta version that supports ssl_ca_file? I am running 0.99.11-3 from Debian testing. -- Jacob Elder

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[Dovecot] Error in IMAP command GETACL: Unknown command..
by Ingo Lantschner (Lists) 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hi all, I have just installed dovecot on my Fedora Core 2 box. I would like to use it only for reading archived email from within my Mozilla 1.7.3. I syminked my old opera-files (*.mbs whoch seems to be same as mbox) into ~/mail. Seems to work fine, mostly I can open the mailfiles - sometimes it hangs with the following error: The current command did not succeed. The mailserver responded: Error in IMAP command GETACL: Unknown command.. And then: The current command did not succeed. The mailserver responded: Error in IMAP command MYRIGHTS: Unknown command.. ALthough I searched in Google and in the Wiki on dovecot, I did not find any hint - am I the first with this problem? TIA Ingo. -- Ingo Lantschner T (+43-1) 59 55 766 M (+43-664) 143 84 18 -- Ingo Lantschner T (+43-1) 59 55 766 M (+43-664) 143 84 18

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Re: [Dovecot] [OT] Apple Mail.app access to localhost imap when no network
by Alan Schmitt 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Le 22 nov. 04, à 14:30, Simon Waters a écrit : >> I tried that, and it did not work. I guess Mail.app must be trying to >> resolve some name (that is not localhost), and failing somehow. > > Stupid question, but does "localhost" resolve. Most systems it must > appear in > /etc/hosts for it to resolve. You can always specify 127.0.0.1 as the > server > to rule out name resolution. Thanks for this suggestion. "localhost" does resolve (I tried to ping it, and it worked), and 127.0.0.1 does not change anything. So I guess my initial guess was wrong, and Mail must be trying to see if the network is up before even trying to log in. Alan Schmitt

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[Dovecot] .INBOX required?
by Todd Slater 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi, Newbie to Dovecot and IMAP in general. The system in question is RH 9, Dovecot 0.99.11, Maildir, accessing mail with SquirrelMail, Thunderbird, Kmail, Mutt, Entourage and Mail.app. I've set up the maildir for users in ~/Maildir. Inside that I have other folders, .Sent, .Drafts, .Trash, .Junk, .MakeJunk, .MakeGood. ~/Maildir itself has the cur, new, and tmp folders, but I note that there is also an .INBOX folder. Mail to the account does end up in ~/Maildir/new and it's readable in the various MUA's (as Inbox). I'm just not certain why the .INBOX is there, and if I'm supposed to be creating the other folders as .INBOX.otherfolder. Thanks, Todd

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] add initial response support for NTLM and RPA
by Andrey Panin 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Hello, this patch adds initial response support for NTLM and RPA authentication mechanism. It can be useful if dovecot acts as authentication backend for SMTP server. RFC2554 permits initial response in AUTH command, so it's legal to send NTLM type 1 message or RPA token 1 in it. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] assertion failed: (!t->view->external)
by Peter Hessler 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Nov 18 17:29:54 gir dovecot: imap-login: Login: jmcvetta [69.106.50.255] Nov 18 17:30:02 gir dovecot: IMAP(jmcvetta): file mail-index-transaction.c: line 247 (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) Nov 18 17:30:02 gir dovecot: child 31094 (imap) killed with signal 6 I saw this in my maillog. I have no idea what that user is doing, but I can harrass him and find out if need be. I'm using 1.0-test52 on OpenBSD/macppc. -- There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. (3) Forbid your kids to do it.

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Re: [Evolution] evo confused when searching message bodies on large folders?]
by Dan Stromberg 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Is this possibly a problem with dovecot 0.99.10.9? Maybe it's been fixed in a later release? Might it be a security issue? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external)
by Mark Lidstone 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone's seen anything like this? Nov 15 14:16:13 olympic dovecot: imap-login: Login: postmaster [192.168.0.32] Nov 15 14:17:05 olympic dovecot: IMAP(postmaster): file mail-index-transaction.c: line 247 (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) Nov 15 14:17:05 olympic dovecot: child 20184 (imap) killed with signal 6 Nov 15 14:17:19 olympic dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Nov 15 14:17:19 olympic dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test52 starting up I'm running (as you might have guessed) test52 on Linux (i386) using maildirs. The client is Thunderbird. This only appears to be happening when viewing certain mail folders in the IMAP account. As a temporary fix, it seems to stop happening when I delete the ".imap*" files in the affected folder, but this is hardly an ideal solution. If you want any debug-type information please send me "idiots guide" type instructions as to how to do it - I'm not a software engineer :? 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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[Dovecot] Rebuilind help
by Clinton Mills 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Okay see if you can see what I am doing wrong? Looking at the timestamp [root@ns3 sbin]# ls -la /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 471186 Nov 13 18:25 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot rebuilding [root@ns3 sbin]# /root/dovecot-0.99.11/configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var ...... [root@ns3 sbin]# make ...... [root@ns3 sbin]# sudo make install .... Looking at the timestamp [root@ns3 sbin]# ls -la /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 471186 Nov 17 13:35 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot The file was updated! [root@ns3 dovecot-0.99.11]# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: Can't open configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf: No such file or directory Any ideas on why it is looking in /usr/local? Thanks Clinton Hitcents.com Tel: (270) 796-5063 ext 105# Fax: (270) 796-3195 Cell: (270) 996-1122

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDAP, SQL auth process memory leaks fixed
by Timo Sirainen 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Pretty simple bug, fixed finally. For 0.99.x: http://dovecot.org/patches/sql-ldap-auth-leak.diff Next 1.0-test release (or next nightly snapshot) fixes it for 1.0-tests.

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[Dovecot] noob - Outlook Duplicate Problem Question
by Jeff Ramsey 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Hi, I use dovecot 0.99-11 with sendmail latest, and clamav-milter, and spamass-milter. Whole setup works great. We only use dovecot for pop3, no imap. We use primarily Outlook 2000-2003 for a client. I have a couple of users who prefer to leave a copy of each message on the server. I read the archives about the Outlook Duplicate Message problem regarding the setting 'Leave a copy on the Server'. I read that someone fixed this by changing the order of the UIDL from datestamp.message# to message#.datestamp. My question is if I make that change in my source for 0.99-11, will the 1.0 version have a fix for this included, or should I look for another pop3 server? I'd like to continue to use dovecot as it is very light and fast, but I'm trying to eliminate using source compiled binaries on my production servers, and letting YUM do my updates for me. I can compile this version from source, using the fix that was mentioned in the September Archives for this list, if I know that the problem (which is an MS problem, go figure) will be gone in future RPM binary packages. Thanks for any info or help. Jeff Ramsey MIS Administrator Tubafor Mill, Inc.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test52
by Timo Sirainen 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ I have very high hopes that mbox support is finally stable in this version. I've been running some stress tests for an hour now without it breaking (well, there are two potential problems but I think they were just fixing previous breakages). Before it took only a few minutes at most to break. - fixes several mbox syncing problems, especially expunges potentially deleted parts of wrong messages - maildir: readdir() race conditions are fixed by keeping dovecot-uidlist lock a bit more than before (it really doesn't matter in most cases, we did this before as well but slightly less often. so this really fixes just the problematic cases without giving hardly any more overhead than there was before) - index header changed a bit. will rebuild indexes and print some cache indexid errors.. i should hide these errors too.. - fixed memory leaks in dovecot-auth

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[Dovecot] dovecot and outlook express and large messages
by Daniel 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi I have been using Dovecot 0.99.11 and 1.0-test52 on a server with about 2000 accounts. All has been working good until a few days ago. Now I'm stuck and can't work out whats going on. The problem seems to be only with Outlook/outlook express clients. If the mail is large with an attachment its fails. After you hit the send and receive button after a while Outlook express gives the error "Your POP3 server has not responded in 60 seconds". Network activity seem to be minimal between the client and the server. There is no log entry out of the ordinary to say what went wrong. I have tried out a number of changes to the dovecot.conf file, none make any difference. Thanks for any help. Regards Daniel Rowe

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[Dovecot] eudora issue
by kent crispin 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

There seems to be a protocol mismatch between eudora and dovecot when using pop. The login interchange with, for example, mozilla, is as follows: MO: [connects] DC: +OK dovecot ready. MO: CAPA DC: +OK DC: CAPA DC: TOP DC: USER DC: UIDL DC: RESP-CODES DC: STLS DC: SASL PLAIN DC: . MO: USER yyy DC: +OK MO: PASS xxxxxxxx DC: +OK Logged in. But with eudora, with apparently equivalent configuration, the sequence is as follows: EU: [connects] DC: +OK dovecot ready. EU: CAPA DC: +OK DC: CAPA DC: TOP DC: USER DC: UIDL DC: RESP-CODES DC: STLS DC: SASL PLAIN DC: . EU: auth PLAIN AG1tcgBtaXN0bGV0b2U= DC: -ERR Unsupported authentication mechanism. At this point eudora reports an error back to the user, and the connection fails. Can anyone shed any light on this? Is it just that there is an incompatibility in how eudora and dovecot view the protocol? Or is there some configuration option I need to tweak to make things work? Thanks for any help. Kent -- Kent Crispin kent(a)songbird.com SIP: 81202(a)fwd.pulver.com

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[Dovecot] (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) Is this a bug?
by Daniel 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi I am getting this a lot. Is this a bug? (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) can be fixed by deleting the /home/<user>/mail/.imap directory. It has happened a few times with me. Regards Daniel Rowe

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[Dovecot] (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external)
by Daniel 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) can be fixed by deleting the /home/<user>/mail/.imap directory. It has happened a few times with me. Regards Daniel Rowe

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[Dovecot] RE: dovecot and outlook express and large messages
by Daniel 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi Dose dovecot have problem working on a eth0:1 alias type interfaces? I just wondering if this could be my problem? Dovecot would do the authentication correctly and send small email but as soon as any load was put on it like downloading a mail with a large attachment it would fail. All network traffic would stop. No errors in the logs. As soon as I move the service to listen on a non alias interface eth0 all works fine. Very strange. I have taken a good look at our server to check that is not anything. I'm pretty sure we are good. I have also rebooted the box to see if that would fixed it which it didn't. Regards Daniel

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[Dovecot] dovecot with different POP3S / IMAPS Certs
by Vincent Jaussaud 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi, I'm new to dovecot, but actually planning to switch a wide WU-IMAP/POP installation to dovecot. With WU-IMAP, a different certificate can be used by pop3s and imaps, allowing both server to be reachable through different hostnames,without SSL complaints on the client side; this is mostly used for scalability. I'm trying to do the same thing with dovecot; that is having dovecot using a different certificate for it's pop3s instance and imaps instance. Unfortunately, in dovecot configuration file, only one certificate can be set; used by both pop3s / imaps. Any idea of the best way to handle this ? Thanks ! Vincent. -- Vincent Jaussaud Kelkoo.com Security Manager email: tatooin(a)kelkoo.com GPG key: 1024D/3BFE3FC7 2002-02-07 "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." -- President Thomas Jefferson. 1743-1826

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth leaves zombies
by Stefano Maffulli 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi all, I have installed and configured dovecot on two different machines, so I don't have much experience with this server. One installation is giving me serious problems, that I have a hard time tracing. From the beginning: the machine is a debian mix (stable/unstable) dovecot 0.9.11, real users authenticated via pam_ldap/nss_ldap. It serves ~70 users, all of them using Outlook, Outlook Express and IMP. The system seems to work just fine for a while, but after a some time, some dovecot-auth zombies start appearing. I can't really understand who/what is causing them. The only thing I see in the logs are these lines, very sporadically, but I still couldn't trace when they happened. Nov 5 09:40:28 csv-mail-01 dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... Nov 5 09:40:28 csv-mail-01 dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 attempt(s) (BTW, also apache2 sends similar messages, I don't know if they are related) Nov 5 09:52:14 csv-mail-01 apache2: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... Nov 5 09:52:14 csv-mail-01 apache2: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 attempt(s) After a while dovecot stops authenticating and needs to be killed and restarted (/etc/init.d/dovecot stop takes some time to actually stop dovecot processes). Do you have any clue of what is going on and where I can investigate further? I would like to say 'it's Outlook's fault', but I really can't. Any hint appreciated. regards stef

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RE: [Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(homedir) failed: Permission denied
by Καράμπης Παναγιώτης 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

matthias thnx a lot for your hint. We are 2 admins on this box and this makes things complicated. /home 's permissions where 705 and that's the reason for this. Solved thank u again mate:) ________________________________ Από: Matthias Andree [mailto:matthias.andree@gmx.de] Αποστολή: Κυρ 14/11/2004 1:52 πμ Προς: Καράμπης Παναγιώτης Κοιν.: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Θέμα: Re: [Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(homedir) failed: Permission denied Καράμπης Παναγιώτης <epp719(a)epp.teicrete.gr> writes: > hello all i run dovecot as my imap server on my university and squirrel as webmail. But squirrel returns an error: > ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server > CAPABILITY > > i tail my /var/log/dovecot and this is the output with whatever user i try to log in and view mails: > > dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Fatal: chdir(/home/epp719) failed with uid 2975: Permission denied > dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Error: child 17554 (imap) returned error 89 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > i give the: > root@(host edited):/root# ls -lad /home/epp719 Panagiotis, if the user epp719 and dovecot are in a common group, that may be the cause why it isn't working. > drwx---r-x 4 epp719 users 368 2004-11-13 17:49 /home/epp719 > and directory exists i tried also changing permissions on dir but same things happen. > both .qmail and Maildir exist in the home directory. What are the permissions of the / and /home directories? ls -lad /home -- can dovecot execute the / and /home directories? If these are drwx------ or similar, that might be the problem. Hope that helps. -- Matthias Andree

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[Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(homedir) failed: Permission denied
by Καράμπης Παναγιώτης 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

hello all i run dovecot as my imap server on my university and squirrel as webmail. But squirrel returns an error: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server CAPABILITY i tail my /var/log/dovecot and this is the output with whatever user i try to log in and view mails: dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Fatal: chdir(/home/epp719) failed with uid 2975: Permission denied dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Error: child 17554 (imap) returned error 89 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i give the: root@(host edited):/root# ls -lad /home/epp719 drwx---r-x 4 epp719 users 368 2004-11-13 17:49 /home/epp719 and directory exists i tried also changing permissions on dir but same things happen. both .qmail and Maildir exist in the home directory. I attach the dovecot.conf file... any help is appreciated! PS: Sorry about my english its not my native language.. oh i forgot squirrel gets data and attachments from mysql...

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[Dovecot] make error
by Ken Woodward (IS) 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Dear DINH and TIMO, Here are the last lines before the fatal error. It says that "set fnord ; amf=$2; \ " is the command that caused the error. Does this make any sense to you? "if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /r/downloads/dovecot-0.99.11/src *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: set fnord ; amf=$2; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ list='src doc'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /r/downloads/dovecot-0.99.11 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive-am' /r/downloads/dovecot-0.99.11>"\ ============================================================================ ============================= I can include my complete config.log which does complete with no indication of failure reported at the end, BUT, inside it does list fatal errors like: "configure:2802: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lcposix >&5 ld: fatal: library -lcposix: not found ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to conftest" AND "Undefined first referenced symbol in file socket /var/tmp//ccsUoghx.o ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:21217: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ " AND "Undefined first referenced symbol in file inet_addr /var/tmp//cceuY9Eo.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1) ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:21383: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ " ============================================================================ ================================= Thanks for your help. P.S. Was I supposed to send a new message to dovecot at dovecot dot org like this or reply to your message?

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[Dovecot] make error
by Ken Woodward (IS) 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Can anyone help with this? I get the following error when running "make". "configure" worked fine. I am installing the latest dovecot on a Solaris OS10 machine make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' **** Error code 1 Also could someone tell me if it is possible to search all the archives through the complete message bodies or are we limited to searching each month individually and only on the message subject? Thanks for any help, Sincerely, Ken

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[Dovecot] pem help
by Clinton Mills 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

When I run this: /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot.conf I get this Fatal: Can't use SSL certificate /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory But in my conf file these are commented out?? #ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem Why would I get this error? Thanks Clinton Mills

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[Dovecot] pop3d keeps downloading messages over and over again
by Gordon Thagard 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Solaris 9 SunOS 5.9 Generic_117171-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250 gcc version 3.3.2 dovecot-0.99.11 compile options: LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --disable-ipv6 --with-file-offset-size=32 --with-mem-align=4 --with-rawlog --with-ssl=openssl OK, this applies whether or not a user account is set to leave mail on the server or not. There are several things that might happen, depending on who knows what: 1. Mail pops fine. 2. The "DO NOT DELETE THIS EMAIL" keeps downloading over and over again. 3. All emails since the switch to this new test dovecot pop3d will be downloaded over and over again. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Gordon Thagard

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[Dovecot] duplicate woes
by Jeff Ramsey 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hi, I have FC2/Sendmail/Dovecot default setup. I turned on POP3 and POP3S in /etc/dovecot.conf. I started out getting duplicates only when I was using Outlook w/ 'Leave copy on server' option. Lately, I've been getting duplicates at seemingly random messages sent to and from seemingly random users. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff Ramsey Tubafor Mill, Inc.

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[Dovecot] Popping without home directories
by Andre Grove 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hello there I tend to e-mail user accounts to my servers with /sbin/nologin and /dev/null as their shell and home directories respectively. I have discovered that Dovcot does not like it when a user does not have a home directory. Obviosly the user POP3 and not IMAP! :P Is there a work around for this? I have a suspicion it is one of the chroot option, but I do not know the meaning chroot. Thanks Andre

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[Dovecot] Possible Bug
by Chris L. Franklin 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Okay in dovecot.conf I set the fallowing settings log_path = /var/log/dovecot info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot Then I setup log rotation for that file (using logrotate). But after it does the rotation. Dovecot dies. Now I know why this happens. But should it ? To over come this I now have it set to stop dovecot and start dovecot after it's done dealing with the log file. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] bug with LIST IMAP command
by DINH Viet Hoa 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

I am in mbox configuration, and I am getting INBOX listed 3 times. I suppose the first is /var/mail/login and the others are $HOME/Mail but they appear twice. However, it seems this is a bug. << $ telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to utopia.priv. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 01 LOGIN login password 01 OK Logged in. 02 LIST "" "*" * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" INBOX * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "queue" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" INBOX * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" INBOX * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "INBOX/pingouin" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "sent" * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" "sent/1" 02 OK List completed. 02 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out 02 OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. >> -- DINH V. Hoa, "c'est stressant comme taf" -- coin

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] NTLM update and crashfix
by Andrey Panin 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

Hello, attached patch allows LM authentication for older (Win9x) clients which do not pass NTLM response in type 3 message. It also fixes crash in dovecot-auth (empty credentials could be passed to hex_to_binary function if NTLM2 was negotiated). Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] noob - integrating dovecot with postfix
by Mitch Pirtle 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

Hi list, Just jumped providers and am now desperately trying to get IMAP running on a new server... But not getting the link between postfix and dovecot working. :-( My two problems are: 1) local mail seems to get into the ~/Maildirs, but not from the outside (this is a postfix issue?) 2) I cannot find information on how to tell postfix to use virtual domains/addresses and then connect dovecot to them (as they are now in non-standard locations and/or formats) I'm sure this is a FAQ, but cannot find an example that would walk me though this. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction? -- Mitch

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[Dovecot] Excessive imap-login and pop3-login processes
by Ben Beuchler 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

I'm running a Linux mail server with Postfix and Dovecot. I've noticed that the number of "imap-login" processes usually sits around 240, and "pop3-login" usually around 50 or so. The comments in the config file seem to indicate that, with my setup, I shouldn't see more than about 10 of each. Am I misunderstanding the config or is this expected behavior? login_process_per_connection = no login_processes_count = 10 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_logging_users = 256 The mail server receives about 1.5 - 3 logins per second and usually has around 75 simultaneous IMAP sessions. There are rarely more than 1 or 2 simultaneous POP3 sessions open. Thanks... -Ben -- Ben Beuchler There is no spoon. insyte(a)emt-p.org -- The Matrix

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0-test52 build notes
by Mark E. Mallett 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

I thought I would try to use 'configure' to lay out the dovecot install a little differently than the default. I prefer all the support files under one tree (e.g. in /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0) rather than distributed around the filesystem. And I'd be happiest if all of the support files were just at that top level rather than in subdirectories. e.g.: /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot.conf /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/imap-login /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot-auth etc. (I'm happy to have a "doc" subdirectory though.) And ideally I'd have the primary executable installed in a more generic place, but tagged with its version number, like /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-1.0 Note that I'm not suggesting this, just explaining what I am after. So the second to last thing I tried was: --program-suffix=-1.0 \ --bindir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --sbindir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --sysconfdir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --datadir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --localstatedir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ But that didn't really work, for the reasons listed in the "last" try below, plus all of the executables got the "-1.0" suffix, not just the "dovecot" program (not a big surprise..). And the last thing I tried: --bindir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --sbindir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --sysconfdir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --datadir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --localstatedir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ which kinda got me where I wanted, except that if I want a dovecot-1.0 executable in /usr/local/sbin I need to add that by hand, and also that the build process added another subdirectory "dovecot": /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/ I can (and did) manually remove that final directory and flatten out the tree, and fortunately you've made it possible to specify in dovecot.conf the paths to all the executables and so forth. But it would be nice to be able to create this desired layout entirely via configure and not have to move things around after the fact. Is that even possible? Obviously, don't spend a lot of time on it.. but if I'm missing an option that would get me where I want, I'd be interested in knowing about it. Oh, and "strings src/master/dovecot | grep /usr/local" gives this: /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot.conf /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/imap /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/run/dovecot /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/dovecot-auth /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/imap-login /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/pop3-login /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/pop3 /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 So it looks like there are a couple of places where the configured paths aren't caught (or so it would seem). Yours, -mm-

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0-test52 compile notes
by Mark E. Mallett 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Compile issues on an older BSD/OS 4.2 system: src/lib/byteorder.h needs #include <netinet/in.h> to pick up in_addr struct src/lib/byteorder.c no "libgen" here (no basename()). Added it inline, no big deal, but you might want to have configure test for this and provide one if it's missing. Also, on this system there are no types like "uint8_t" and "uint64_t" -- instead there are the u_int8_t and u_int64_t et al types. I added some global typedefs, but I gather this is a somewhat common issue, so you might want to test for these. -mm-

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[Dovecot] Runas Question
by Chris L. Franklin 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Okay heres a weird question is there anyways to make dovecot run as root ? Heres why: I'm currently using XMail email server (smtp/pop3/virtual accounts). And I love using it. But it really must run as root. I've tryed all the non-root solutions for it. and really I'd prefer to have it run as root. And I'd like to really use dovecot as (on server with xmail). Currently I've got it running with some sendmail server and a few postfixs But really I'd like to get it working with Xmail. So if anyone has any Ideas or how to get Dovecot to run as root. PS. I know the Idea behind dovecot is security and how it's coded to be able to run using non-root accont. So please I'm really only looking for ways to get dove to run as root. And not new ways of reconfiguring my smtp servers so as they don't need to be run as root. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] strange timeout with ssl
by Arnaud Lacroix 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Hello, First sorry for my poor english. slack 9.1 dovecot-0.99.11 (thanks for this) compiled with openssl (0.9.7b) MUA : Mozilla 1.5 (win32) Under a ssl session, at first, it's work. But a later ago, i recieved alway, when i tried to contact the server imap : "connecting to <host> timed out ..." This fact is never without ssl. No dns problems. I don't know how can i help you my best because i don't see the problem. So, i give you this information. Hope it will be help you for a solution. But its seem to be ok. #openssl s_client -host localhost -port 993 -verify -debug ... ... --- SSL handshake has read 841 bytes and written 340 bytes --- New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is AES256-SHA Server public key is 1024 bit SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1 Cipher : AES256-SHA Session-ID: ED349971D46EC76E2F75BB80ED52A0D081CE10B609F4761E176361629C9AE6AD Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Key-Arg : None Start Time: 1099614038 Timeout : 300 (sec) Verify return code: 18 (self signed certificate) --- * OK dovecot ready. // timeout : * BYE Disconnected for inactivity. read:errno=0 Thanks very much. Regards, Arnaud Lacroix.

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[Dovecot] Unread mail problem
by Clinton Mills 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Okay, here is the set up. I have Outlook set up to keep mail on the server for 5 days. At some point I started downloading all my mail that was on the server over and over again, even though I already have the mail. The weird thing is that it did not download all the mail, just a few. For example it would download 6 messages, then 18, then 12, etc! After I tried it a few times I had 50 of the same message in Outlook? A small fix, but I do not want to so this ever time If I unclick save on server and then check my mail, it will delete all the mail in my mail box. Then I reclick the leave on server for 5 days and it will work fine! Any idea what is going on? Clinton Hitcents.com Tel: (270) 796-5063 ext 105# Fax: (270) 796-3195 Cell: (270) 996-1122

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test52 - assertion failed
by Tom Sommer 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Clicked on a folder in Thunderbird and got this in the log: Nov 6 22:49:11 one dovecot: imap-login: Login: ts(a)dreamcoder.dk [10.24.0.1] Nov 6 22:49:11 one dovecot: IMAP(ts(a)dreamcoder.dk): Corrupted index cache file dreamcoder.dk/ts/Maildir/.INBOX.Mailing Lists.bugzilla/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed Nov 6 22:49:11 one dovecot: IMAP(ts(a)dreamcoder.dk): file mail-cache-fields.c: line 338 (mail_cache_header_fields_get): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(dest) == sizeof(hdr) + (sizeof(uint32_t)*2 + 2) * hdr.fields_count) Nov 6 22:49:11 one dovecot: child 469 (imap) killed with signal 6 -- Tom

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RE: [Dovecot] Unread mail problem
by Mark Lidstone 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hi Clinton, I've come across the same problem several times before - Outlook keeps messing up it's list of seen UIDLs. Try using Thunderbird instead. I moved a load of people in our company to Thunderbird because they kept having that problem and it's not happened for them since. As a matter of interest - I've seen both Outlook and Outlook Express do this on dovecot, mercury/32 and Exchange (when using pop3 for pickup). I hope this helps, 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: Clinton Mills [mailto:clinton.mills@hitcents.com] Sent: 03 November 2004 14:13 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Unread mail problem Okay, here is the set up. I have Outlook set up to keep mail on the server for 5 days. At some point I started downloading all my mail that was on the server over and over again, even though I already have the mail. The weird thing is that it did not download all the mail, just a few. For example it would download 6 messages, then 18, then 12, etc! After I tried it a few times I had 50 of the same message in Outlook? A small fix, but I do not want to so this ever time If I unclick save on server and then check my mail, it will delete all the mail in my mail box. Then I reclick the leave on server for 5 days and it will work fine! Any idea what is going on? Clinton Hitcents.com Tel: (270) 796-5063 ext 105# Fax: (270) 796-3195 Cell: (270) 996-1122

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] yet another NTLM update
by Andrey Panin 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hello, after more than week using dovecot as exim4 authentication backend, I noticed that some strange clients send type 3 messages with LM response only. Attached patch allows them to log in. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Logging and libwrap
by Jesse 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, A few things regarding logging and libwrap.. a) PAM_RHOST patch Back in July, dean gaudet helpfully posted a patch to dovecot PAM_RHOST the remote IP. Is this going to be included in the main dovecot tree? It seems like a worthwhile addition. The more informative and concise the logging the better. See http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-July/004011.html for the original message. b) Better logging Is it possible to get logging of when a client connects and disconnects? I'm very used to seeing this information and it's very useful for debugging user sessions. It's frustrating not being able to easily tell whether a user has opened a connection. Really many of the log messages could be more verbose. For instance, on disconnect, I see imap-login: Disconnected [ip.here] but the username they were logged in as isn't included. It would be nice to have that rather than having to dig back for a login message with the same IP. Heck, even the pid isn't logged. That would be nice too. c) libwrap Any chance of getting libwrap support built into dovecot? Right now I'm running dovecot out of xinetd, so that I can see when tcp connections are opened, and take advantage of tcpwrappers. But this causes the problem that dovecot thinks all connections come from the local host. Correlating logins to IPs gets to be a lot of hassle, with the information divided over so many lines, while needing multiple ways to track which messages from xinetd, dovecot and pam match each other. With some of the minor logging changes (more info on one line, notification of tcp connections), plus libwrap, it'd be much simpler and much more informative. :) Thanks for the great imap server. Just thinking of some improvements. :) --- Jesse <j(a)lumiere.net>

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[Dovecot] Test51 compile problems
by Greg Deputy 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

First of all, thanks for a great product. I've been able to get dovecot up and running with minimum pain. Very nice. Running Fedora Core 2 with postfix using mysql for virtual mailbox config. Got release version of dovecot working with a passwd-file, then I wanted to try it out with using the same mysql db as postfix, so I downloaded test51. I run ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-mysql And it seems happy. Completes with: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with user database modules . : static passwd passwd-file checkpassword mysql (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword mysql (modules) Then I run make, and it errors out with: gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o dovecot-auth auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-module.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -ldl /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+0x7f4):/root/dovecot-1.0-test51/src/lib/sh a1.c:242: first defined here /usr/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 `/root/dovecot-1.0-test51/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0-test51/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0-test51' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] new crash in dovecot-auth test51
by Dan Sully 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

#0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 51 if ((io->condition & IO_NOTIFY_MASK) != 0) { (gdb) bt #0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 #1 0x0804fd68 in auth_client_connection_destroy_wait (conn=0x80877d8) at auth-client-connection.c:494 #2 0x08050acd in auth_callback (request=0x84716b8, result=134681554, reply=0x0, reply_size=0) at auth-client-connection.c:104 #3 0x08050950 in auth_client_input (context=0x80877d8) at auth-client-connection.c:286 #4 0x0805f170 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80898a8) at ioloop-epoll.c:243 #5 0x0805e698 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x8082b88) at ioloop.c:218 #6 0x080525a5 in main (argc=1, argv=0x0) at main.c:296 Linux 2.6.9 / glibc 2.3.3 / epoll (also does it with poll()) / vpopmail & passwd-db dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Warning: auth(vpopmail): Authentication client 8908: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Warning: auth(vpopmail): Authentication client 8908: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Warning: imap-login: Error sending request to auth server: Broken pipe dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Error: child 5689 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Error: child 8908 (login) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Warning: auth(default): Authentication client 10685: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Warning: auth(default): Authentication client 10685: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Error: child 5687 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Warning: imap-login: Error sending request to auth server: Connection reset by peer dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Error: child 10685 (login) killed with signal 11 -D -- <iNoah> you know, most free operating systems come preinstalled with their own high horse.

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[Dovecot] GNUTLS bug?
by Grant Goodyear 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

We recently received a bug report about a compiler issue when using GNUTLS: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67628. I can confirm the same bug using 0.99.11. Help? Thanks, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer g2boojum(a)gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76

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[Dovecot] v0.99.11
by Knut Rauscher 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hello Timo, we are using dovcot v0.99.11 under Fedora Core 1. We tested following reproducible action with Outlook 2000 SP3, Outlook XP SP3 and Outlook 2003 SP1: folder test with subfolder test1 test test.test1 choose 'move folder' from the context (right-mouse-click) menu of test choose that we want to move folder test into his subfolder test1 (nonsense action, but quite a few employees trying to do that...) Outlook displays error message subscriptions shows correctly: test test1 BUT the directory structure of maildir is .test.test1.test.test1 .test.test1.test.test1.test Is this a mishap of Dovecot or Outlook? Regards, Knut

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[Dovecot] dovecot seems to be slow
by Götz Reinicke 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, after the update from wu-imap to dovecot, opening e-mails on the imap server seems slower than with wu-imap. I haven't measured any speed yet, but clicking on a message in a folder takes sometimes a couple of seconds to open the mail. Any ideas or performance tips or information you need? Regards Götz -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de

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[Dovecot] Hooking on renaming actions
by Adam Pordzik 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hello, A short question: is it possible to intercept user's action whe he renames a folder? My goal is to adjust shell-scripts or procmailrc to the new name. A --

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[Dovecot] Possible Feature request
by Chris L. Franklin 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I've Looked over the list of Auth methods that dovecot can use But i didn't see a option for a custom auth option. Would it be possible to add in a way for dovecot to call a script to check a users login info. have it able to retun the the homedir,gid/uid, and weather or not the password matched. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] Crash (segfault) while reading folder headers
by Steve Meyers 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Occasionally, while reading the headers of a folder, Dovecot crashes. The visible effect in my mail client is that it will tell me a folder has a new message, but when I click on it, it will take forever to load, and there will be no new messages. When another message comes in to that folder, the folder begins to work again. I generated a core from the latest crash, and the gdb dump is included below. After generating the core file, I removed the .imap.index* files from that folder, and it started working again. I am using Fedora Core 1, with dovecot as an RPM (version dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC1). It's a Pentium 4 CPU. Let me know if there is any more information that would help you resolve this. ============================================================== Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x08088225 in hash_lookup () (gdb) bt full #0 0x08088225 in hash_lookup () No symbol table info available. #1 0x08060784 in maildir_index_sync_readonly () No symbol table info available. #2 0x0805e586 in maildir_open_mail () No symbol table info available. #3 0x0806bf8a in index_mail_next () No symbol table info available. #4 0x0806aa33 in index_storage_fetch_next () No symbol table info available. #5 0x08055f0c in imap_fetch () No symbol table info available. #6 0x0805254a in cmd_fetch () No symbol table info available. #7 0x08054260 in cmd_uid () No symbol table info available. #8 0x08054a49 in _client_reset_command () No symbol table info available. #9 0x08054ad8 in _client_input () No symbol table info available. #10 0x0808b128 in io_loop_handler_run () No symbol table info available. #11 0x00000001 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #12 0x000025c7 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #13 0x080933f2 in imap_ext_commands () No symbol table info available. #14 0x09c03b30 in ?? () ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- No symbol table info available. #15 0x09c03a78 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #16 0xbfefc278 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #17 0x0808d918 in o_stream_flush () No symbol table info available. Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)

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[Dovecot] Filesystem requirements
by Nigel Metheringham 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

What are the filesystem requirements for dovecot - for example I see some people are running with atime updates switched off (as I intend to do so myself), so presumably dovecot has no need of an accurate atime implementation. How about directory atime? ctime/mtime etc? I'm intending to run on a linux box using local disk, so am currently considering using reiserfs (3.6) with noatime, nodiratime options since that appeared to work with good performance on the quick benchmark test I tried. I do not have a particularly high opinion of reiserfs reliability, but it normally appears to fail in a all-or-nothing way (ie filesystem unusable) rather than some files going corrupt or missing, so I can work round that with a backup regime. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)InTechnology.co.uk ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

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[Dovecot] Cache fields
by Alex S Moore 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Using 1.0-test51, or maybe test50. I this message in syslog: mail_cache_fields: Invalid cache field name 'MessagePart', ignoring >From the what I see, MessagePart is the default value. My <sysconfdir>/dovecot.conf has: mail_cache_fields = MessagePart Thanks, Alex

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