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RE: [Dovecot] triggering multiple actions on pop-3 request
by Julian Melville 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

> The reason for this is so that the messages > retrieved by fetchmail can be filtered via an anti spam > service before depositing them into the inbox. How about just running fetchmail in daemon mode, so it's polling for messages instead of running on demand? Then you don't need to worry about any special integration issues. Julian.

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[Dovecot] RE: Missed config option
by Alex S Moore 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

I am trying to sync a set of maildir folders from a dovecot server and a different imap server on a different host. Using a perl tool called imapsync. The tool says the following about the two servers capabilities: >From capability : IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED To capability : IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION No NAMESPACE capability in imap server sws601.mcsun.local Give the separator character with the --sep1 option The From server sws601.mcsun.local is dovecot. What did I miss that causes the NAMESPACE capability to not be seen from dovecot? What is the separator character? Thanks, Alex --

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[Dovecot] imap errors filtering folders with evolution
by Brent Hills 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hello, I posted earlier to the Ximian Evolution Users list. It was suggested I follow up in relation to dovecot. They also indicated the timestamp in the error message was coming from dovecot. When filtering a folder on a dovecot (0.99.10) imap server with Evolution version 1.46 I receive: Error while 'Filtering Folder' Imap command failed internal error [YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS] The timestamp seems to be the current time. The filters used are primarily move to folder where the destination folder is another imap folder on the same server. The error can be reproduced reliably if I select a large number of email to filter. There are about 10 filters all moving to different folders based on criteria. If I select smaller number of email the error occurs but less predictably. Eventually, it will filter all the email so its not a particular one that it hangs up on. Is anyone familiar with this issue? Brent Hills.

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[Dovecot] dovecot dies - mabye a clue?
by Steven Stern 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Dovecot died twice today. This was in the maillog: Apr 9 17:50:27 ciscy pop3-login: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded Apr 9 17:50:27 ciscy dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down I think I can cause it to happen reliably and I'm asking for other to test this scenario: Open several terminal windows. In each, type "telnet 127.0.0.1 110". Wait for the dovecot POP prompt and do nothing. After each times out, up-arrow and try again. Sometime in the next hour, dovecot will die. -- Steve

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[Dovecot] file permissions help!
by smk 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hi all! Ran into a problem and hopefully i can get some help. OK here is my set up: - dovecot-0.99.10.4 + MySQL patch. - Redhat 9 The authentication part works just fine. It gives me the following entry in the log file: imap-login: "Apr 12 22:15:10 "Info: Login: USER(a)DOMAIN.com [127.0.0.1] But there is a problem with dovecot reading the mbox file (I think). In the error file I get this entry: imap(USER(a)DOMAIN.com): "Apr 12 22:15:10 "Fatal: Failed to create storage with data: /export/htdocs/DOMAIN.com/mail/USER dovecot: "Apr 12 22:15:11 "Error: child 18613 (imap) returned error 89 Of course the user and domain info was changed. I am out of ideas but thats not to say its something easy or something I completely looked over. This is how I compiled dovecot: CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql -DPASSDB_MYSQL -DUSERDB_MYSQL" \ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/ -lmysqlclient" \ \ ./configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/imapd \ --disable-ipv6 \ --without-pop3d \ --without-ssl \ --with-storages=mbox \ --enable-debug thanks in advance. Scott

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[Dovecot] Problem with flags
by Jeff Hoskinson 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Greetings! I'm having a problem with flags not working correctly. I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird as my mail client, and Dovecot 0.99.10.4 as part of Debian on a Sparc box. The thing that doesn't seem to be working right is Thunderbird's Label feature, which uses custom IMAP flags. I noticed that once I labeled a message, I couldn't un-label it. I recorded this exchange between Thunderbird and Dovecot while using the Label/None command on a message: 5235 uid store 35 -Flags ($Label1 $Label2 $Label3 $Label4 $Label5) * 35 FETCH (FLAGS (\Answered \Seen NonJunk $Label4 $Label5) UID 35) 5235 OK Store completed. Even though Thunderbird is sending the -Flags command for all its custom flags, the message is still retaining two of those flags. Just out of curiousity, I tried changing the flag of that same message to something different, and recorded this exchange: 5259 uid store 35 +Flags ($Label2) * 35 FETCH (FLAGS (\Answered \Seen NonJunk $Label4 $Label2 $Label5) UID 35) 5259 OK Store completed. 5260 uid store 35 -Flags ($Label1 $Label3 $Label4 $Label5) * 35 FETCH (FLAGS (\Answered \Seen NonJunk $Label4 $Label2 $Label5) UID 35) 5260 OK Store completed. So it seems the +Flags command works, but not the -Flags? Or does it have something to do with sending more than one flag at a time? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Jeff

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[Dovecot] [OT] Is there a secure reverse IMAP proxy
by Sven Kirmess 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

This question is off topic. I ask this list because the question is related to security and IMAP and I guess the people in this list know a lot about both of that. Is there a secure reverse proxy for the IMAP protocol? Something you can install on a bastion host which checks the IMAP traffic before forwarding it to the internal IMAP server? There are these proxies for WebMail to IMAP connections but as far as I can tell they were not created for security reasons and not with security as primary goal. Sven

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[Dovecot] SSL Ciphers
by John Wentworth 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

I have dovecot running as a pop3s server on port 995 it works great with sendmail and I run nessus to check security issues nessus reports this The SSLv2 server offers 3 strong ciphers, but also 0 medium strength and 2 weak "export class" ciphers. The weak/medium ciphers may be chosen by an export-grade or badly configured client software. They only offer a limited protection against a brute force attack Solution: disable those ciphers and upgrade your client software if necessary I have previously disabled weak ciphers in apache but cannot figure out how to disable the weak ciphers in dovecot Any help would be appreciated john

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[Dovecot] problems with squirrelmail and TLS (debian unstable)
by Amelia A Lewis 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Heylas, So, okay, I've had this lovely IMAP server running, and adore the ease of configuration, among other things. Problem, though. I'm trying to set up SquirrelMail, so that some folks with accounts on my box can use it without having to set up a proper imap client (or can check mail when they're at a cafe, or like that). However, I *won't* turn off the disable_plaintext_auth, 'cause I'm damned if I'll set up a box that asks people to send passwords in the clear, and there *are* people using imap. Dovecot cannot, currently, be configured to permit plaintext on localhost while requiring Something Better from the rest of the world. This becomes a problem with SquirrelMail, which can't cope with TLS. It just barfs. Looking at bug reports in debian, this has already been noticed, and the maintainer there (and the maintainers of SquirrelMail) considers this a non-problem, 'cause, they say, you shouldn't be using TLS with webmail. Is there a way to set up, for instance, two instances of dovecot, running on different ports, so that one listens to the external interface and the other listens to localhost? I don't much like the idea, but how would I go about doing this? Two copies of dovecot.conf and a command-line switch? Amy! -- Amelia A. Lewis amyzing {at} talsever.com Yankees are compelled by some mysterious force to imitate Southern accents and they're so damn dumb they don't know the difference beween a Tennessee drawl and a Charleston clip. -- Rita Mae Brown, "Rubyfruit Jungle"

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[Dovecot] error dropping root group priv
by Thomas Abthorpe 24 Apr '04

24 Apr '04

Good morning all, I am new to this list. I have been running FreeBSD 5.1 with dovecot successfully for about a year. Just recently, I built a new machine with 5.2.1-p5 on the Intel platform with dovecot-0.99.10.4_2. When I use the same configuration options on the new machine, I get Apr 24 10:53:59 standrew pop3-login: Login: tabthorpe [172.16.1.100] Apr 24 10:53:59 standrew pop3(tabthorpe): We couldn't drop root group privileges Apr 24 10:53:59 standrew dovecot: child 44134 (pop3) returned error 89 Any suggestion? Thanks in advance. Thomas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Postmaster http://www.stthomasanglican.org

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[Dovecot] SSL Ciphers
by John Wentworth 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

I have dovecot running as a pop3s server on port 995 it works great with sendmail and I run nessus to check security issues nessus reports this The SSLv2 server offers 3 strong ciphers, but also 0 medium strength and 2 weak "export class" ciphers. The weak/medium ciphers may be chosen by an export-grade or badly configured client software. They only offer a limited protection against a brute force attack Solution: disable those ciphers and upgrade your client software if necessary I have previously disabled weak ciphers in apache but cannot figure out how to disable the weak ciphers in dovecot Any help would be appreciated john

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[Dovecot] SSL Ciphers
by John Wentworth 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

I have dovecot running as a pop3s server on port 995 it works great with sendmail and I run nessus to check security issues nessus reports this The SSLv2 server offers 3 strong ciphers, but also 0 medium strength and 2 weak "export class" ciphers. The weak/medium ciphers may be chosen by an export-grade or badly configured client software. They only offer a limited protection against a brute force attack Solution: disable those ciphers and upgrade your client software if necessary I have previously disabled weak ciphers in apache but cannot figure out how to disable the weak ciphers in dovecot Any help would be appreciated john

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[Dovecot] Is dovecot distributed with RHEL 3.0
by Avery 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

I can't seem to find out if dovecot is packaged with RHEL 3.0. It seems redhat makes it hard to find what packages you get when you purchase their RHEL. Does anyone know if dovecot is disributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3.0? I know dovecot is distribured with redhat 9.0 and fedora. Thanks, -- Avery

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[Dovecot] configuring dovecot for NIS (w/ pam)
by Yedidia Klein 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

Hi, I am trying to start using dovecot on a linux machine. I config it to auth w/ my passwd/shadow and it worked perefectly. I'm not getting to config it to work with my SUN NIS (not +) As I understood I must use PAM for this, I tried to config it w/o any success... do someone has a config file/ pam config for this ? thanks --Yedidia

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[Dovecot] RE: dovecot Digest, Vol 12, Issue 21
by Alban Dani 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

Hi Adrian, You are right. I had a space after the .1. Now dovecot is listening fine on 127.0.0.1. Thanks a lot. I would have never thought of it. Alban Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:37:21 +0200 From: Adrian Ulrich <dovecot(a)blinkenlights.ch> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Can't resolve address 127.0.0.1 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Message-ID: <20040420083721.1d1a4323.dovecot(a)blinkenlights.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hello, > imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 Check if you have a space after .1: 'imap_listen = 127.0.0.1' maybe not the same as 'imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 ' bye

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Re: [Dovecot] Can't resolve address 127.0.0.1
by Alban Dani 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

Rick thanks for the message, -I have not done any changes to the default nsswitch.conf. I checked and the entry hosts: files dns is there -127.0.0.1 localhost entry is in the /etc/hosts file. -ifconfig shows that the interface is up and I can successfully ping it by name ( ping localhost ). What else can be wrong. I am totally lost here. Alban Rick Johnson wrote: >Alban Dani wrote: >> Hi , >> >> I recently installed Fedora Core 1. >> >> Installed postfix on it and that is running fine. >> >> I am trying to get dovecot to run and I have changed only the following >> line from the default dovecot.conf : >> >> imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 since I'd like to install squirrelmail later on. >> >> Now when I try to start dovecot I get "Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: >> Can't resolve address 127.0.0.1 : Name or service not known" > >Does /etc/hosts still contain an entry for localhost? > >Does /etc/nsswitch.conf still reference files for name resolution? > >Is the interface lo active? (run ifconfig to find out) > >-Rick > >-- >Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson(a)medata.com >Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. >PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc >

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[Dovecot] Wiki: virutal user with Sendmail and OpenLDAP
by Zoong Pham 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

In the Wiki, section 2, "Virtual user support with OpenLDAP", does the example apply to non Sendmail? If that's the case, can someone post a quick guide about setup virtual user with Sendmail. I use OpenBSD-3.4, BTW. TIA, Zoong

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[Dovecot] Can't resolve address 127.0.0.1
by Alban Dani 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

Hi , I recently installed Fedora Core 1. Installed postfix on it and that is running fine. I am trying to get dovecot to run and I have changed only the following line from the default dovecot.conf : imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 since I'd like to install squirrelmail later on. Now when I try to start dovecot I get "Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: Can't resolve address 127.0.0.1 : Name or service not known" Can anybody help me? Alban

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[Dovecot] configuration problem.. with passwd
by Kartik Vaidyanathan 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

Hi i was trying to configure dovecot. Under the authentication section i have set the auth_passdb=/etc/passwd auth_user=root auth_userdb=/etc/passwd But it gives Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 398 :missing value which points to auth_passdb=/etc/passwd in the file. Firstly do i need setup some other parameters I want to follow the most simple authentication process. Please advice. thanks

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[Dovecot] adding new user to dovecot
by Kartik Vaidyanathan 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

Hi, Your mail was very insightful. You have stated in you mail as follows .. "But I think they create virtual users in database systems for email, I can't imagine all of the users they have are in one passwd file on one tiny machine." a. What do you mean by virtual users. b. How does one link them to a mailbox. Very frankly i am confused... 1.Well lets say i have a user who wants to create a new group say GROUP1.Lets say i have users who want to create GROUP1(a)pigeonhole.com or GROUP2(a)pigeonhole.com .This group name will be entered in my JSP page, now what do i have to do to create the group. 2.How do i see to that anyone who sends a mail to GROUP2@pigeonhole receives it in it mailbox( Firstly does the group have a mails box in the groups name).Will one create a account(mailbox) for the group or how is it done. 3.Lastly I actually want to create a mailing List manager. Please advice on how to go about it. Regards Kartik On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 Wouter Van Hemel wrote : >On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Kartik Vaidyanathan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have actually configured dovecot because i required a mail server in > > order to build a mailing list manager.A mail list manager is something > > in the likes of yahoogroups, where each group in my case must have a > > mailbox. > > > >You need a MTA, such as postfix, qmail, sendmail, exim, etc. It's more >important than an imap server for what you want to do. > >Actually, I don't really understand why you need an imap server when >making a mailinglist manager. > > > 1. I am using Debian OS. > > The software that i am creating , which is going developed in JSP, will > > take a new users name and password and create a account for him by > > executing a shell script in my linux machine.I assume yahoo also does > > something similar to this to create new mail boxes for any new > > user.Please correct me if i am wrong. > > > >I don't know, I don't work at yahoo. But I think they create virtual users >in database systems for email, I can't imagine all of the users they have >are in one passwd file on one tiny machine. > > > In fact this very mail that i have received from you is because i have > > subscribed to the dovecott mailing list. How do you think dovecott has > > been able to accomplish this. Is it not because that dovecott has a > > mailbox in the group name "dovecott" in some system, that internally > > does the sending of mails to all those in the groups refering to some > > database. > > > >Dovecot doesn't have anything to do with that. It's mostly the MTA, aided >by the mailing list manager. > >Here's how majordomo (popular mailinglist manager) works: > >Bob wants to subscribe to the pigeonhole mailinglist. He emails or enters >his email address in a web form so it ends up in a database file with all >the other users on that list. The mailinglist manager's job is to take >care of adding (or removing) email addresses to (from) that file; it adds >Bob's address. > >When an email is sent to pigeonhole(a)pigeonhole.org, the mailer daemon >(MTA) receives this email, and instead of delivering it to a local user, >either it (1) delivers it to a pipe - it passes the email to the >mailinglist software, which then just generates an email that replaces the >original destination with the list of email addresses; or (2) the mailer >daemon itself forwards the email by alias expansion to the list of email >addresses the mailinglist software made. > >In the former case, the mailinglist manager reads the original message and >replaces the address with all those in the list's database; in the latter >case, basically the only thing a mailinglist manager does, is taking care >of an error-free database file with email addresses so the MTA can forward >the email to the addresses in this file. > >Because Bob's email address is in this file, his address will be inserted >in the headers of the message, and he will receive the email. > > > 2.Will the mail server support me in anyway by giving me some > > functionality to add users, thereby creating maildir's (imap) for the > > users. > > > >No, adding users is not the job of a mail server daemon. Or of an imap >server. Usually, you don't allow people to add users to your system, for >obvious reasons. > >If you want to add users to a mailing list, you don't need accounts for >those users, only when you also want to provide them with an email address. > >What do you want to do: provide email addresses, or a mailinglist manager? > > > 3.Dont I need to know the admin login and passwd, to create users? > > > >Yes, ofcourse. Unless your users are in a database server, in that case >you need the ability to add records to that database. > >(Shared webhosting accounts usually allow adding virtual users, if that's >the reasoning behind your question.) > > > 3.Lastly i know this is not that prevalent a question -> I was told mail > > man does a similar job as to what my software will do.Do you know how > > mailman works (or even yahoogroups)?. > > > >Not precisely, but pretty much like I said above. You can check out the >documentation and source code of said software. > >Yahoogroups probably uses custom written software, but still based on the >simple approach of a mailinglist manager taking care of a list of >subscribers, and the mailer daemon either itself or by aid of an external >program multiplicating the recipients. > > >A mailinglist manager has nothing to do with Dovecot. Dovecot has nothing >to do with *sending* email, only with retrieving it from a system with >IMAP of POP. It's the end-of-the-line for emails, delivery to final >destination; it does not forward or duplicate. > > > Please enlighten me on the above issues. > > Thanks a lot for you time. > > > >I'll send you the bill later. ;) > > > Regards > > Kartik > > > > > > > > >

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Re: Re: [Dovecot] adding new user to dovecot
by Kartik Vaidyanathan 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

Hi, Thanks a lot for the mails.Well one major doubt that was prevailing was that do i need to create a system account for each person in order to send/receive mails, and from both(Sven Kirmess & Johannes Berg ) your mails i gather it is a must. But Is there a workaround to this? I have actually configured dovecot because i required a mail server in order to build a mailing list manager.A mail list manager is something in the likes of yahoogroups, where each group in my case must have a mailbox. 1. I am using Debian OS. The software that i am creating , which is going developed in JSP, will take a new users name and password and create a account for him by executing a shell script in my linux machine.I assume yahoo also does something similar to this to create new mail boxes for any new user.Please correct me if i am wrong. In fact this very mail that i have received from you is because i have subscribed to the dovecott mailing list. How do you think dovecott has been able to accomplish this. Is it not because that dovecott has a mailbox in the group name "dovecott" in some system, that internally does the sending of mails to all those in the groups refering to some database. 2.Will the mail server support me in anyway by giving me some functionality to add users, thereby creating maildir's (imap) for the users. 3.Dont I need to know the admin login and passwd, to create users? 3.Lastly i know this is not that prevalent a question -> I was told mail man does a similar job as to what my software will do.Do you know how mailman works (or even yahoogroups)?. Please enlighten me on the above issues. Thanks a lot for you time. Regards Kartik

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[Dovecot] adding new user to dovecot
by Kartik Vaidyanathan 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Hi, This is from your documentation Creating new users ------------------ Dovecot is interested in only one thing - being able to find the user's mail directory. With maildir you need to do mkdir ~user/Maildir, with mbox mkdir ~user/mail. what does ~ refer to. Pardon my ignorance in unix, i am relatively new to unix. Does not ~ refer to the user account in which you have logged in. So does that mean that maildir folder exist for only user accounts that already exist.My intention for asking the above is that i have a java program running, that will take a new users name and password, so with that can i create a mailbox for that person , or does the admin have to create an user account for that person , so that his maildir folder can be created. Please clarify my understanding of how it workds.. Thanks

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RE: [Dovecot] I added a "SQ and Dovecot FAQ" on the SQ website
by Avery Day 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

<quote who="Julian Melville"> >> Maybe someone can verify my setup procedure really quick. > > Looks the same as mine except for saying that the server is like > Courier... I left that bit blank and haven't had any hassles. What does > that change I wonder? > > Cheers, > > Julian. > > Actually I stole alot of the procedure from some website. Im not taking credit for anything I'm just doing the dirty work :) If you do perl conf.pl and change the IMAP server to courier it tells you everything that it changes --------------------------------------------------------- Please select your IMAP server: cyrus = Cyrus IMAP server uw = University of Washington's IMAP server exchange = Microsoft Exchange IMAP server courier = Courier IMAP server macosx = Mac OS X Mailserver quit = Do not change anything Command >> courier imap_server_type = courier default_folder_prefix = INBOX. trash_folder = Trash sent_folder = Sent draft_folder = Drafts show_prefix_option = false default_sub_of_inbox = false show_contain_subfolders_option = false optional_delimiter = . delete_folder = true ---------------------------------------------------------- -- Avery

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RE: [Dovecot] I added a "SQ and Dovecot FAQ" on the SQ website
by Julian Melville 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

> Maybe someone can verify my setup procedure really quick. Looks the same as mine except for saying that the server is like Courier... I left that bit blank and haven't had any hassles. What does that change I wonder? Cheers, Julian.

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[Dovecot] Calling gentoo maintainers
by Zach Bagnall 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

If anyone knows someone with CVS access can they please take another look at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22080. It has been in bugzilla for nearly nine months. Would like to see this in portage - masked is fine - so at least everyone is working off the same file. Cheers Zach.

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RE: [Dovecot] I added a "SQ and Dovecot FAQ" on the SQ website
by Zoong Pham 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Is that dovecot in your FAQ serving mbox or mdir format? Thanks, Zoong -----Original Message----- From: Avery Day [mailto:schrock@dayzed.com] Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:07 PM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] I added a "SQ and Dovecot FAQ" on the SQ website On the Squirrelmail website I setup in the FAQ a quick install guid on how to get squirrelmail to work with Dovecot. Maybe someone can verify my setup procedure really quick. Maybe someone thinks this is wrong. Also if you have something to add please do so. No one has bothered to do this before so I took it upon my self. Here is the link in the FAQ its about 8 lines down http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/InstallingSquirrelMail Here is where the link takes you http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/SquirrelMailAndDovecotIMAP Thanks -- Avery

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[Dovecot] I added a "SQ and Dovecot FAQ" on the SQ website
by Avery Day 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

On the Squirrelmail website I setup in the FAQ a quick install guid on how to get squirrelmail to work with Dovecot. Maybe someone can verify my setup procedure really quick. Maybe someone thinks this is wrong. Also if you have something to add please do so. No one has bothered to do this before so I took it upon my self. Here is the link in the FAQ its about 8 lines down http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/InstallingSquirrelMail Here is where the link takes you http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/SquirrelMailAndDovecotIMAP Thanks -- Avery

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[Dovecot] Dovecot for production environment
by Avery Day 11 Apr '04

11 Apr '04

Sorry if this question has been asked before I looked through some of the archives before posting this. I am considering using dovecot on a small 35 user environment (only around 6 gigs of email) that will be primarly be used with squirrelmail for the MUA. I have been using dovecot for a few weeks now and really like it. It is a big improvement over uw-imap thats for sure. I was wondering how many people in this mailing list are using dovecot for a production email server, and why you chose to use dovecot over cyrus or courier. Or maybe someone feels that dovecot isnt ready for this type of thing just yet. I am all ears so please feel free. Thanks -- Avery -- Avery Day

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[Dovecot] Missing mail file - Internal Error
by James Moser 10 Apr '04

10 Apr '04

I have noticed that if the user does not already have a mail file, for instance in /var/mail, the IMAP server responds with Internal Error, and the pop server imediately terminates the connection. Is this something I have configuered wrong? Are there any work arounds for this... /var/mail is owned by root:mail with permissions 0775... -- James L Moser james(a)powweb.com PowWeb Hosting http://www.powweb.com /(bb|[^b]{2})/, that is the Question. mysql>SELECT * FROM user WHERE clue > 0; Empty set (0.03 sec) Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die... Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing...

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[Dovecot] blank line at the top of mbox
by KB Digital 10 Apr '04

10 Apr '04

Hello, It seems dovecop pop3 server sometimes inserts a blank line at the top of the mbox. It only happens for certain users not all. I'm not sure why it's doing that. Looking back into the mailing list, I saw the same post in Oct 6, 2003 but there was no reply to it. Is there a patch or fix that i can use to get around the blank line? Thank you. Ken

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Avery Day 09 Apr '04

09 Apr '04

Sorry if this question has been asked before I looked through some of the archives before posting this. I am considering using dovecot on a small 35 user enviorment (only around 6 gigs of email) that will be primarly be used with squirrelmail for the MUA. I have been using dovecot for a few weeks now and really like it. It is a big improvement over uw-imap thats for sure. I was wondering how many people in this mailing list are using dovecot for a production email server, and why you chose to use dovecot over cyrus or courier. Or maybe someone feels that dovecot isnt ready for this type of thing just yet. I am all ears so please feel free. Thanks -- Avery

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[Dovecot] Re: Dovecot died due to some SSL related error
by rhr-dovecot＠batky-howell.com 09 Apr '04

09 Apr '04

(Sorry, just joined the list, can't reply in the original message from Feb 4.) > Hi, > Dovecot (pre-compiled version of Fedora Core 1, configured for Maildir) > is running fine for me since a few days. It happened now twice to me > that dovecot died with the following error message in /var/log/maillog: > > Feb 4 11:18:27 hundehuette imap-login: RAND_bytes() failed: > error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not > seeded > Feb 4 11:18:27 hundehuette dovecot: Login process died too early - > shutting down > > As these previous log messages indicate the login was working before > without any problem: > Feb 4 11:02:37 hundehuette imap-login: Login: andrea [192.168.2.138] > Feb 4 11:05:56 hundehuette last message repeated 30 times > Feb 4 11:09:02 hundehuette last message repeated 15 times > Feb 4 11:12:08 hundehuette last message repeated 15 times > Feb 4 11:15:15 hundehuette last message repeated 15 times > Feb 4 11:18:21 hundehuette last message repeated 15 times > Feb 4 11:18:26 hundehuette last message repeated 12 times > > Dovecot is running as user "dovecot" who does not have a ~/.rnd file > > Any idea? > > Thanks, > Christof Hi, No idea, but I'm getting the same thing, at least once a day, sometimes several times a day. I tried putting a .rnd file in /var/libexec/dovecot, no help. - Fedora Core 1.0 - dovecot-0.99.10-6 - openssl-0.9.7a-23 - About 20 users, using pop, pops, imap, imaps. I had to run a cron job that checks every minute to see if dovecot is running, and restart it if it isn't. I'd love to get this figured out, though. I see another message about this in the list archives, at the end of January. I'll post if I find anything... Rob

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[Dovecot] vmailmgr
by Alejandro Mery 08 Apr '04

08 Apr '04

hi, does dovecot supports vmailmgr authentication? any recomended reading? and, in a vmailmgr context, what are the benefits of dovecot over courier-imap or bincimap? Best regards, Alejandro Mery

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[Dovecot] Dovecot startup at boottime fails
by Bavo De Ridder 08 Apr '04

08 Apr '04

Hi, I am running dovecot 0.99.10.4 on SuSE 9. I installed it using apt-get from the gwdg repository. The dovecot service is configured to start at boottime in run level 3 and 5. However, it dies immediately with this error (/var/log/mail.err): dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Starting the service afterwords from a prompt as root with the command: /etc/init.d/dovecot start works without a glitch. Attached you can find my dovecot.conf and the startup script /etc/init.d/dovecot. I hope someone could shed some light on this issue.

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[Dovecot] dovecot vs. cyrus IMAP?
by Jim Norton 08 Apr '04

08 Apr '04

Hello all, I just learned about dovecot. I am currently using Cyrus IMAP/POP3 with Postfix on a Linux system. The one thing I don't like about Cyrus IMAP is that it doesn't support mail users who have accounts on the system. It uses it's own mailbox format and the users can't be regular system users. It would be nice to have an IMAP/POP3 server that can handle mail for users in /etc/passwd as well as the cyrus 'virtual' user type. Does dovecot only provide access to mail for users in /etc/passwd? Or can one setup email accounts for people that don't have accounts on the system ( in /etc/passwd )? Thanks, -- Jim Norton - http://www.jimnorton.org Recursion; n. see 'Recursion'

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[Dovecot] username and password not from /etc/passwd
by Zoong Pham 08 Apr '04

08 Apr '04

Can dovecot use usernames and passwords not from /etc/passwd and be able to read mails of an user whose username and password are in /etc/passwd ? For example: - Joe Bloke has a local Unix account joe on Unix server mail.example.com - Sendmail on mail.example.com accepts mails for joe(a)example.com and put them in /var/mail/joe - can dovecot use other username/password file or database or directory rather than /etc/passwd to authenticate Joe and let him (once logs in successfully) reading mails in /var/mail/joe ? Ideally, the usernames and passwords that dovecot uses are different with the ones in /etc/passwd. Say, username is joe.bloke(a)example.com That way, Joe doesn't need to know the username and password on the Unix server at all. In summary, I want to have IMAP usernames and passwords totally different from the local Unix usernames and passwords. And users use only IMAP usernames and passwords to read their mails. I use OpenBSD-3.4, Sendmail 8.12.9, dovecot-0.99.10p0 (pre-compiled packaged from OpenBSD). Thanks, Zoong Pham

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Re: [Dovecot] Repeating downloads
by Brian T Glenn 08 Apr '04

08 Apr '04

[You have top-posted your message. Please refrain from doing so on technical mailing lists. It ruins the flow of the conversation as well as making archive difficult to read] [You have sent a personal reply to a mailing list message when it was not warranted. Please keep replies on the list so that everyone can benefit.] On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 04:27:01PM -0500, Paul Hanson may have written: > On Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:14 PM Brian T Glenn wrote: > > That sounds about how POP3 works in my experience. How were you > > expecting it to behave differently? > > Well the only problem is that if they receive a new message, not only do you > get the new message but another copy of ALL messages on the server. A > scenario that I have not experienced with any other POP3 server/client > setup. The correct behavior should be to only download the new message. from doing a search on dovecot and uidl, it seems that dovecot supports these functions, which is the standard way for a pop3 server to announce unique checksums of messages. Whether or not your client software supports this is another matter. -- Brian T Glenn delink.net Internet Services

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[Dovecot] Repeating downloads
by Paul Hanson 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Hey- Just wanna say that I'm really happy with Dovecot, it has worked really well for my small operation. I do have a couple problems I'd just like to bring to everyone's attention for future bugfixes and if there is a solution available. I'm using dovecot-0.99.10-6 with a clean fedora core 1 install. I'm using primarily IMAP with OpenSSL, however a few people use POP3 (over SSL) with outlook 2002 clients. The problem is that with each send and receive another copy of all messages in their Inboxes are downloaded. I have tried closing outlook restarting it etc. nothing seems to help unless I tell outlook to remove all messages from the server then outlook responds with "messages that outlook was attempting to download are no longer on the server." And problem solved. Not a huge deal but others with similar setups may be experiencing the same problems. I have postfix for my MTA, every account uses Maildir. Attached is my dovecot.conf. Thanks a lot!!! -Paul

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[Dovecot] Process died to early
by Steven Stern 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Just went through this again today. Has anyone found a solution? ------------------------------------------------------ After several days of operation, POP connections fail to my server. The log message is Mar 27 15:51:46 ciscy dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Linux ciscy.sterndata.com 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux ]# /usr/sbin/dovecot --version 0.99.10 # /etc/init.d/dovecot status dovecot (pid 6900) is running... Killing the dovecot process, deleting /var/lock/subys/dovecot, and restarting the process gets POP3 and IMAP working again. Suggestions? -- Steve

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[Dovecot] Repeating downloads
by Paul Hanson 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Sorry about the Spam with the dovecot.conf. Here is the intended message. Thanks!! Hey- Just wanna say that Im really happy with Dovecot, it has worked really well for my small operation. I do have a couple problems Id just like to bring to everyones attention for future bugfixes and if there is a solution available. Im using dovecot-0.99.10-6 with a clean fedora core 1 install. Im using primarily IMAP with OpenSSL, however a few people use POP3 (over SSL) with outlook 2002 clients. The problem is that with each send and receive another copy of all messages in their Inboxes are downloaded. I have tried closing outlook restarting it etc nothing seems to help unless I tell outlook to remove all messages from the server then outlook responds with messages that outlook was attempting to download are no longer on the server. And problem solved. Not a huge deal but others with similar setups may be experiencing the same problems. I have postfix for my MTA, every account uses Maildir. Attached is my dovecot.conf. Thanks a lot!!! -Paul

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[Dovecot] dovecot with sendmail
by electron electron 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Hello, Here is an issue. I am trying to make dovecot work with sendmail If I use the default conf file (default_mail_env = ) then the inbox is the file /var/mail/user and a mail folder is created in /home/user directory where it stores all additional imap folders. The problem with this is that I cant have subfolders. If I edit dovecot.conf file and enter default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir then I can create subfolders, but new emails are not stored in INBOX, but the stay in /var/mail/user. In order to overcome this issue I used procmail .procmailrc: ---------- { :0 Maildir/ } ---------- So now all emails are stored in Maildir format and again with the default dovecot.conf file it works fine. I was wondering if there is an alternative way to do this, without using procmail..just editing the dovecot.conf file. Thank you Regards _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

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[Dovecot] User authentication
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Hi. I installed IMP webmail. I had use MySQL authentication for IMAP. Can i use MySQL for dovecot-imap server? Please guide me.... Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/

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[Dovecot] dovecot not staying up
by Brian T Glenn 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

I found one reference to this in the archives via google, but the assistance offered there did not resolve the problem. I am getting the following in the logs: Apr 5 10:21:25 ziegchen dovecot: Dovecot starting up Apr 5 10:21:26 ziegchen dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Apr 5 10:21:26 ziegchen dovecot: child 30091 (auth) returned error 127 Apr 5 10:21:26 ziegchen imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe This is with SSL on or off, I have tried building the source many different ways, but it behaves the same every time. I even copied the config from a working installation and tried it with that, but to no avail. Any insight would be appreciated. -- Brian T Glenn delink.net Internet Services

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[Dovecot] dovecot not reconnecting to ldap after ldap restart
by Jared 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

I upgraded dovecot two weeks ago from 0.99.10-0.rc2 to 0.99.10.4-1woody1 (both from the woody backport packages from braincells.com) Dovecot is using LDAP on a separate machine for authentication. (through stunnel if it matters) At 4:00 am, the LDAP server stops, dumps the ldap database, and then starts back up. Because the LDAP server is stopped, anyone who tries to authenticate during the few seconds will be denied. This isn't a big deal since it's 4:00 am. However, twice in the past two weeks, it appears that if dovecot can't connect to the LDAP server, it loses the ability until dovecot is restarted. It's only happened since I upgraded, and it's only happened twice, presumably when someone was trying to check their mail at the precise moment the LDAP server is down. I get the following entry in mail.err: Mar 30 04:00:18 akbar dovecot-auth: LDAP: ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server Mar 30 04:00:19 akbar dovecot-auth: LDAP: Can't connect to server: localhost Mar 30 04:00:50 akbar last message repeated 36 times . . . The two times it has happened, ldap is responding properly (all other services we provide which use LDAP still work), stunnel on the dovecot machine is still running, and dovecot is still running, accepting IMAP and POP connections, but failing at the authentication phase. Is there some change or bug in dovecot which would make this happen? Or is there a problem with my set up? Thanks in advance for any ideas. -jared

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[Dovecot] passwd-file maintenance by users, other options
by Mike Brown 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

I am using Dovecot to provide IMAP and IMAP+SSL service for my users, but am still using QPopper for POP3 service, wrapped with stunnel for POP3+SSL. I am hesitant to get rid of QPopper because it supports APOP, which encrypts authentication data (both where it is stored, and when it is transmitted), and because APOP passwords can be managed by the users themselves, via the popauth tool that they can run from their shell accounts. I'd like very much to use Dovecot for POP3, but would need to have it be comparable to APOP, where authentication does not involve having user passwords going across the wire in the clear, and especially I need for users to be able to maintain their passwords themselves, preferably with their status as a current user of the system being established without my intervention; I don't want to have to manually keep things in sync with /etc/passwd. Furthermore, it needs to have no conflicts with popular email clients including Mozilla, Outlook, Outlook Express, and Eudora, so unusual authentication mechanisms are not really an option. I've RTFM at http://www.dovecot.org/doc/auth.txt but I don't know how to establish a separate passwd file that would satisfy the requirement that users be able to maintain their passwords themselves. And PAM is a complete mystery to me. So what do you all do? Is there a tutorial somewhere that would help? Thanks, M.

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[Dovecot] Bug fix - message/rfc822 attachments
by Rick Jones 03 Apr '04

03 Apr '04

Greetings I've attached a patch that fixes a bug in Dovecot relating to rfc822 attachments. This problem shows up in Mulberry (which hammers the IMAP protocol more than most!). The problem is that FETCH BODY[n], where "n" is the number for the message/rfc822 part, returns the wrong information. It returns the message without the headers, whereas it should return the entire rfc822 attachment. FETCH BODY[n.MIME] doesn't appear to return the MIME headers for the part either. This happens because the find_part() function always steps down into the child when the type of the part is RFC822. It should only do this if the request is for a sub-part, or for HEADER. Otherwise it should stay at the current level. I have to say the IMAP protocol is a bit perverse in the way implicit nesting of rfc822 messages is handled, which is why this looks somewhat hacky. I don't see a nicer way though. The effect in Mulberry is that certain operations on rfc822 attachments don't work properly, in particular extracting the attachment into a separate message. It also affects message-digest format messages, which will completely lock up Mulberry if one is even present in a mailbox. (It may be that Dovecot itself hangs, I don't know. Once I found that the patch fixed both problems I didn't look any further :) Mulberry doesn't exhibit these problems with other IMAP servers. The attached patch is for the source code of 0.99.10.04. I've looked at the "latest" source, and there is no change in these lines of code, so I guess the bug is still there. -- Best regards Rick Jones

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[Dovecot] SSL error and PostgreSQL
by eLgino 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

Hello there, Anyone have a Howto for me how i can configure dovecot to work with a PostgreSQL Database? (the docs are small), i want to use it with Exim4 and i have a error with SSL "imap-login: Can't load private key file /var/dovecot/ssl/private/imapd.pem: error:0906D06C:PEM routine:PEM_read_bio:no start line" i make my cert with this command (i don't like the included script :)) openssl req -nodes -new -x509 -keyout imapd.pem -out imapd.pem -days 3650 or openssl req -nodes -new -x509 -out imapd.pem -days 3650 the pem is file is in the right directory and have "a chmod 700,777 or 600" no one of the this will work. sorry for my poor english and thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] Failed to create storage with data
by Tim Middleton 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Switched from UW-IMAP to dovecot a little while ago. Worked through the namespace hell with current users. But now I've hit another problem I can't seem to figure out. Some webmail (squirrelmail) users noticed that when they tried to login they would jus get this error: ERROR: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: CAPABILITY I discovered in the mail logs the real error was like this: Apr 1 04:28:38 smaug imap(mcfletch): Invalid mbox file /var/mail/mcfletch: No such file or directory Apr 1 04:28:38 smaug imap(mcfletch): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/mail/mcfletch And the error seems to be quite accurate. These are new logins seeing this error, which do not yet have an mbox file. So the question is, why is dovecot not able to deal with this situation? Searching google i saw the suggestoin to one preson that it was actually the ~/mail directory unable to be created, but this is not the case in my test above, as ~/mail already existed for that account. Directory permissions seem okay. /usr/mail is drwxrwxrwt (note: /var/mail is a symlink to /usr/mail on this system). The dovecot setup is fairly default. Platform is FreeBSD 4.9. Authentication is done via system password file. There's no problem accessing/modifying existing mailboxes. I put in a chron job to touch into existance any non-existing mailboxes for everyone in the passwd file periodically, which mostly eliminates the problem. But I'd still like to know why the server is having the problem, if anyone can make any suggestions. -- Tim Middleton | Cain Gang Ltd | "Are the gods not just?" "Oh no, child. x(a)veX.net | www.Vex.Net | What would become of us if they were?" (CSL)

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[Dovecot] Mulberry problem
by Rick Jones 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

I've been chasing a problem with Mulberry which now actually seems to be a Dovecot server bug. The problem manifests itself when manipulating embedded rfc822 messages, and the analysis comes down to the fact that a FETCH BODY[2] command returns the same thing as FETCH BODY[2.1]. Both return just the text of the embedded message, whereas FETCH BODY[2] should return everything including the headers (this is what Cyrus Daboo came up with after looking at the Mulberry log). I'm not sure exactly what version of Dovecot I'm running, it's what comes with SME Server 6.0. Has this by any chance been fixed? I have another Mulberry problem which might be related, but I'll save that for another post :) -- Regards Rick Jones

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[Dovecot] Rogue child imap processes when using Mac imap clients
by darren david 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

hi all- I am currently running dovecot 0.99.10p2 on OpenBSD-3.4-snapshot. It has been very stable, but I have recently noticed that I am having problems when checking IMAP-SSL mail with Mac OS X clients. There are not problems using Mozilla or Outlook on Windows, but Mac clients (Thunderbird, Mozilla, Mail.app) all exhibit the same behavior - they can check and send mail, but I end up with a single, rogue child imap process on the server that pins the cpu that i have to 'kill -9' to clear out. Is this a Mac problem or a Dovecot problem? I'm not even sure what to look for in the logs... Thanks, Darren David

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[Dovecot] New indexing code
by Timo Sirainen 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

Sorry about the lack of replies to questions in this list. Work on the new indexing code has taken way too long, but it's finally beginning to be get near usable state. After it's fully working, I'll start being more active here again. If you're interested (as a developer, normal users shouldn't even try playing with it yet), you can checkout "newdove" module from Dovecot CVS. Many things are still broken, but basic maildir support is almost working with the exception of expunges (which probably break badly) and custom flags (not implemented). And the maildir syncing code isn't optimized yet. Don't try it with any of your real maildirs, it might lose your mails. Some of the new great things in it: - Mailbox API which is a lot more easier to use than before, allowing a lot of things that previously were difficult to implement - Less IMAP-specific than before - Should work extremely well with shared mailboxes with tons of users I'm hoping to get a usable alpha release out of it within few weeks.

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[Dovecot] Fatal: RAND_bytes() failed
by Anders Nielsen 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

This morning dovecot died with the following messages in the errorlog. Any solution to this problem? I am using Fedora Core 1 on a SMP i686 box. imap-login: Mar 30 08:08:00 Fatal: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded dovecot: Mar 30 08:08:00 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Mar 30 08:08:00 Error: child 21354 (login) returned error 89 Best regards Anders Nielsen -- Anders Nielsen <anielsen(a)diku.dk>

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by tom＠replic8.net 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

hello, suddenly, dovecot stopped working. login succeeds, then no mail is displayed to the user. i upgraded to latest nightly, no change. ==snip== Mar 30 10:17:31 commbox imap-login: Login: user [192.168.99.66] Mar 30 10:17:31 commbox imap(user): Buffer full (49) Mar 30 10:17:31 commbox dovecot: child 745 (imap) killed with signal 6 ==snap== some minutes later i tried another client - i was using php-based horde/imp webmail system first (php uses cclient2000 for imap which is based on uw-imap afaik) - using syslphed-0.99 things work fine. strange. any hints on how to debug this more? -- thanks, TOM

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[Dovecot] error starting dovecot
by Avery Day 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

I am running redhat 9.0. I have been using uw-imap for some time now and wanted to try our dovecot. After installing dovecot and trying to start it up I am getting an error ------------------- Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL certificate /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory ------------------- Thanks for any help.

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[Dovecot] UW-IMAP -> Dovecot : patch to remove nasty "internal messages" from UW-IMAP ?
by Xavier Beaudouin 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Hello there, We want to move from UW-IMAP to Dovecot (mbox format), works like a charm, but UW-IMAP has that bloody habbit to make a stupid message in all his mailbox files : From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Apr 19 10:30:01 2001 Date: 19 Apr 2001 10:30:01 +0200 From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON(a)mailhub2-vil.isdnet.net> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA Message-ID: <987669001(a)mailhub2-vil.isdnet.net> X-IMAP: 0987630138 0000000001 Status: RO This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values. Is there any patch / trick / whatever to avoid that such "stupid" message to be not served by dovecot ? Thanks, /Xavier

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[Dovecot] IMAP error with squirrelmail - how to debug?
by Raymond Scholz 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

When moving messages with squirrelmail (or kmail), I get the following error: ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: COPY 3 "INBOX" Reason Given: Unexpected EOF According to the config I switched on rawlog: # This would write rawlogs into ~/dovecot.rawlog/ directory: mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap rawlog.c was altered in order to have /tmp as HOME. But I see no logfiles being generated. Environment: lastest dovecot from CVS, vpopmail and local users (error with both types). Another issue: Ocassionally the auth process dies: Feb 26 21:08:49 servername dovecot: child 28641 (auth) killed with signal 11 Cheers, Ray -- Raymond Scholz - rscholz(a)zonix.de - GnuPG/PGP - http://www.zonix.de/

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[Dovecot] dovecot tls configuration
by Johannes Berg 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Hi, I looked through the web and the list archives, but couldn't find how to set up the following: - dovecot with ssl/tls enabled - login from localhost allowed with and without tls - login from remote hosts only allowed via tls Is that possible at all? I'm using debian/unstable so its version 0.99.10.4-3. Thanks, johannes -- http://www.sipsolutions.de/ Key-ID: 9AB78CA5 Johannes Martin Berg <johannes(a)sipsolutions.de>

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[Dovecot] Process died to early
by Steven Stern 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

After several days of operation, POP connections fail to my server. The log message is Mar 27 15:51:46 ciscy dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Linux ciscy.sterndata.com 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux ]# /usr/sbin/dovecot --version 0.99.10 # /etc/init.d/dovecot status dovecot (pid 6900) is running... Killing the dovecot process, deleting /var/lock/subys/dovecot, and restarting the process gets POP3 and IMAP working again. Suggestions? -- Steve

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[Dovecot] RE: Lock problem - take 2
by Alex S Moore 21 Mar '04

21 Mar '04

I deleted the index folder to fix a lock problem described on my previous post. I still cannot access the folder. Now, I have a file in the maildir folder named dovecot-uidlist.lock that must be corrupt. How do I fix this? I can remove this particular maildir folder and there is no great loss. But I want to know how to fix it, in case this problem occurs on an important folder. Thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] RE: Locking problem
by Alex S Moore 20 Mar '04

20 Mar '04

Running dovecot on Solaris 8 sparc with SylpheedClaws as the MUA. I tried moving to many messages from a folder to my maildir folder, which is a local directory on the dovecot server. Now, I cannot open the folder due to this message: 'Mar 20 10:26:15 sws601.mcsun.local imap(amoore): [ID 702911 mail.error] Timeout while waiting for release of shared fcntl() lock for index file /var/indexes//amoore/.Spam.Spam Archive/.imap.index' How do I get the lock released? I changed some timeout settings in dovecot.conf, but that did not help. Every time that I click this particular folder in my MUA, the screen locks up. Thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] Case insensitive user names
by andrew fresh 20 Mar '04

20 Mar '04

I am trying to set up the Dovecot pop3 server for some virtual hosting I am doing and it is going well, I am generating a passwd file that points dovecot to the virtual users mailspool. The only thing that I don't have working is that my current pop3 server (NTMail) has case insensitve usernames. Dovecot doesn't. I was hoping there was just an option to turn on, but I didn't see one, and unfortunately I don't know enough C to change to lc($submitted_user) eq lc($database_user) like I would in perl :-) I do have control over generating the passwd file, and it is currently generating the users to lowecase in the file, so just lc($submitted_user) eq $database_user would work well enough. Unfortunately I don't know enough C to do that, so I thought I would ask if anyone has done this. So, does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Thank you, -- andrew /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | ICQ# | Proud Member of Mad-Techies.org | | 253198 | http://www.mad-techies.org | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | There are two ways to write error-free programs; | | only the third one works. | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/

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[Dovecot] chdir() on NFS
by Christian Andersen 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Hi, I'm having problems accessing home directories though NFS. This setup uses LDAP and Kerberos. Users defined on the local host work fine. This is what dovecot writes in the logs while trying to log in as the user johndoe: ---- Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 attempt(s) Mar 19 14:10:54 jack imap-login: Login: johndoe [10.0.0.30] Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot: chdir(/home/johndoe) failed: Permission denied Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot: child 3525 (imap) returned error 89 ---- The authentication is OK, but dovecot fails to get access to the home directory. What username does dovecot try to chdir() as? If I 'su' from to that user I have access to /home/johndoe, and a quick test with Courier IMAP worked fine. Postfix has no problem delivering mail in the users maildir using procmail. Some relevant config options: default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INDEX=/var/indexes/%n auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root -- Christian Andersen <http://phuzz.org>

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RE: [Dovecot] Dovecot failing silently on startup
by Julian Melville 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

> Can you do an strace of a running dovecot process so we can > get a better idea? (You ought to cc the list as well.) Sorry for the slow reply, it's taken me a few days to get back to this and observe the problem again. I've placed a tarball of the output of "strace -ff -o dovecot dovecot" here: http://rimu.tiddly-pom.com/dovecot-strace.tar.gz To my (admittedly untrained) eye, it's looking for and not finding /etc/ld.so.nohwcap, and then repeatedly not finding /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat. At that point there is a /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat.tmp - is that where the SSL stuff is being generated? Is it just that Dovecot is stalled until the ssl-parameters.dat file appears? Thanks, Julian.

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[Dovecot] duplicate mails
by Neal D. Becker 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

I run kmail and use it to automatically sort my mails to various imap folders (using kmail's disconnected imap). If I fire up a second instance of kmail (e.g., @work + @home) then both will do this, and I wind up with 2 copies of each mail. Can dovecot be taught to discard duplicate mail ids, or maybe some other mechanism to avoid this problem?

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[Dovecot] triggering multiple actions on pop-3 request
by Eric S. Johansson 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

I want to trigger fetchmail when a user makes a pop-3 request. The reason for this is so that the messages retrieved by fetchmail can be filtered via an anti spam service before depositing them into the inbox. The way I figure it, since I need to know who the user is and that they authenticated in order to make the correct fetchmail call, I need to spawn the fetchmail process somewhere between the authentication and the pop 3 process. since I'm currently unfamiliar with code at that level, could I get a suggestion as to where to start looking?. apologies if I haven't explained is clearly enough. I'm still just kind of exploring the idea myself to see if it's the right way to approach this problem (pop 3 anti spam Gateway). If it works out right, it may even end up as part of a firewall (IPCop) as a way of making anti spam trivially easy for the technically challenged. (I.e. put it in a box, said it up right, don't let them touch it) I know it is also somewhat off topic for the group but since I want to modify dovecot (the IMAP server that rescued me from UW), I figured I would give it a shot. thanks in advance, ---eric

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[Dovecot] Corrupted Indexes and File Permissions
by Dominic Marks 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

Hello, I'm using Dovecot to provide an IMAP service to a small number of users and I'm seeing two recurring errors which look like they might be related. Environment: o FreeBSD 5.2.1 / Postfix 2.0.18 / Dovecot 0.99.10.4 o Maildir mailboxes Problem: On logging in all the folders under the users mailbox are empty. This has happened with both MS Outlook 2000 clients as well as Squirrelmail which uses c-client. When you look at the mail log it shows errors from Dovecot about index file corruption and file permissions (see attached sample section). I've checked the permissions on the maildir and it seems at the moment that the user has rw permssion on every file under cur, could this error be caused by an interaction between Postfix and Dovecot? Any comments / suggestions greatly appreciated, -- Dominic Marks

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[Dovecot] index file corruption
by mat＠reynerie.org 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

Hi, I'm using Dovecot (dovecot-0.99.10p0) on OpenBSD-3.4 for few weeks now. When i connect to my IMAP account the connection is often closed by dovecot when i try to delete mails. I can see messages like this in log: Feb 29 18:47:00 po imap(mat(a)reynerie.org): Corrupted binary tree file /home/mat/Maildir//.INBOX/.imap.index.tree: used_file_size larger than real file size (1772 vs 1556) I tried to remove all index files, but the problem still occur. I also tried Maildir and Mbox, same problem (i can't remember if the log are similar with mbox, if needed i will test again). I have ktraced the imap process and try (succesfully) to reproduce this behaviour: I have re-send a lot of spam and delete few of them from mailbox until the problem occur. All logs/kdump/config are here: http://mat.reynerie.org/dovecot/ In the kdump file, the problem is visible at the end, Dovecot is compiled (via ports) with: env CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib" CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with-ldap --with-ldap-includes=/usr/local/include --with-ldap-lib=/usr/local/lib" make Searching the mailing list archives, i have not found any solutions. -- mat

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Re: [Dovecot] Mysql patch question
by Skye Poier 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

Last question of the day I promise :) If dovecot is configured to use the MySQL patch, ie: auth_userdb = mysql /path/to/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /path/to/dovecot-mysql.conf Its not possible to "chain" authentication methods is it? I mean, if its using MySQL it _cannot_ be configured to check passwd (via "pam *") first, and then check mysql, right? So, if I want to support real shell users (who are in /etc/passwd) I will have to have them in mysql along with the "virtual" users. ...... OK I lied, one more question! I love the feature that you can login with a username user@domain and the domain is automatically parsed out. Do these options have anything to do with the @domain part (referred to as a realm in auth.txt) or are they for something else completely? I'm not sure what SASL is that it refers to in the example .conf #auth_realms = #auth_default_realm = Thanks, Skye

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[Dovecot] Help with dovecot+passwd+pam_mysql
by Skye Poier 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

Hi again, I'm on Freebsd 4.x and instead of using the mysql patch, it seems like it would be easier to just use "auth_passdb = pam *" with the pam_mysql drop-in. I'm not really a pam.conf writing expert though. Here's what it currently contains (works for /etc/passwd users) imap auth required pam_unix.so imap account required pam_unix.so try_first_pass imap session required pam_deny.so How would I set it up so that it first checks to see if the user is in /etc/passwd (as above) and then checks pam_mysql.so? Example from the pam_mysql readme: auth optional pam_mysql.so user=root passwd=password account required pam_mysql.so user=root passwd=password Is anyone else using this setup? Any disadvantages? Thanks, Skye

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[Dovecot] Next version features?
by Skye Poier 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Hello, sorry if this gets asked a lot :) When is the next version of dovecot planned for release? Will it include non-patched MySQL support? Can I make a donation to speed up the process? I have used about 5 different IMAP servers in the last month trying to find one that didn't suck.. and I'm happy to say dovecot is the best!! Thanks, Skye

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[Dovecot] dovecot & vpopmail
by Dirk Jäckel 12 Mar '04

12 Mar '04

Hi! Authentication works, but default_mail_env = maildir:/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir/ is translated by the "imap"-process to /usr/local/vpopmail/domains//testerhorst/Maildir/ although I succesfully log in as testerhorst(a)elektropost.org. Is there a manual how to use dovecot with vpopmail? We have here: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE, vpopmail-5.4.0 and dovecot-0.99.10.4_2. Thank you for your help! Regards, Dirk Jaeckel

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RE: [Dovecot] MySQL Auth and default_mail_env
by dovecot＠technicalabuse.com 10 Mar '04

10 Mar '04

Well I've tried a number of different permissions , uid , gid What I have are mail server permissions on the spool folders where the users are virtual. The mail server runs under exim:mail and I have tried unique uid:gid and exim:mail uid:gid To access the directories as well as the folder permissions 770 750 etc. Dovecot is running as it's own user (imapd) What should they be working as ? Maybe I missed something in the docs. Gary -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of David S. Madole Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:30 PM To: dovecot(a)technicalabuse.com Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] MySQL Auth and default_mail_env > From: <dovecot(a)technicalabuse.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 3:04 PM > > Now I get chdir fatals but at least it's dynamic. > > failed with uid Permission denied > So what are the permissions on the directories? David ____________________________________________________________________________ This message is spam and virus free. Filtering solutions by http://omd3.com Expert computer system support and development by http://baysidenetworks.com

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[Dovecot] imap internaldate
by Payton 10 Mar '04

10 Mar '04

I think I found a bug in dovecot which I'm not sure where to fix. (I may even have found a reference to it in an archived list message from Jul 2003.) Here is the situation: dovecot (dovecot-0.99.10.4) running with an imap server on an mbox system is queried by a local client program, like Mail.app, and is told the "Received" date of the message (presumably sent through INTERNALDATE), however, that date is being passed on in GMT (-0000) instead of the server or client's local time zone (EST -0500, in this case). Maybe it's assumed that the local client will convert this time to the local zone, but no clients I know actually do that. Anyone know how/where to fix this? Thanks! - Payton - payton(a)repligen.com

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[Dovecot] MySQL Auth and default_mail_env
by dovecot＠technicalabuse.com 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Hi Not sure how much support you guys can offer but when I use default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%d/imap/%n/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%d/%n I get the login error .. Fatal: Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/spool/mail/DOMAIN/imap/USER/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/DOMAIN/USER It is grabbing the right values for %d and %n from the mysql query 65 Query SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = 'USER' AND domainname = 'DOMAIN' 65 Query SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users where username = 'USER' AND domainname = 'DOMAIN' Anyone have the same experience. Any help is appreciated. Gary TechnicalAbuse.com

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[Dovecot] Problems with Mozilla
by Tres! 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Hello, I've some problems with Dovecot and Mozilla. First of all i have to mention, that Dovecot is installed on SuSE Linux 8.2 and uses up to 20 Win32 Mozilla clients. If you need further information, please let me know. My problem is, that I got one or two times a week a login failure from Mozilla, and the clients can't connect anymore. The error message from Mozilla after a long time "checking server capabilities" is "server is not an imap4 server". I haven't found something usable in the logs except for a login timeout of the clients who want to connect. If i kill the imap and imap-login tasks and restart redove, everything works well for some days. Is there anyone who knows something about my problem? regards Tres!

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[Dovecot] RE: imap segv trying to list inbox
by Sam Powers 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

(This is releveant information to the one that Alex Moore just posted, but I'm not subscribed yet so I can't properly reply to that thread. Sorry for creating a new one.) I've got a crash in dovecot-imap when trying to list the inbox on a nonexistant directory. I'm not sure how it should be handled, but basically it's only happening when the directory in imap's MAIL environment doesn't exist. This is a problem for me because I'm trying to have dovecot create all the necessary directories in the specified environment, as I don't know if the user will pop/imap or recieve an email first, and the dir needs to either be already ready, or created upon reciept. I've already got postfix to create a ~/Maildir when a new mail comes in, but for my migration plan to work, I need dovecot to create this directory instead of segfaulting. ;) dante:/usr/lib/dovecot# MAIL=maildir:/tmp/nonexistant gdb ./imap (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED] Logged in as root 1 list "" inbox (no debugging symbols found)... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x400c32ef in readdir64 () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x400c32ef in readdir64 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x0805c70b in maildir_expunge_locked () #2 0x0805cda1 in maildir_list_mailbox_init () #3 0x08052a60 in cmd_idle () #4 0x08052d4a in _cmd_list_full () #5 0x08052ea7 in cmd_list () #6 0x08054a19 in _client_reset_command () #7 0x08054aa8 in _client_input () #8 0x0808adb8 in io_loop_handler_run () #9 0x0808a748 in io_loop_run () #10 0x0805aab9 in main () #11 0x40034dc6 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 If I use MAIL=maildir:/tmp/nonexistant, it crashes, but what I'm really trying to do is MAIL=maildir:/home/staff/%u/Maildir/, which will necessarily be nonexistant, and I'd like to see dovecot create this in the manner that postfix does; with the logged in user's uid/gid. Now, if I leave default_mail_env blank, and let dovecot's autodetection do the work, it seems to create a maildir in ~/mail. This works just fine, except it's the wrong directory. Otherwise, dovecot rocks, and in another, less automatic setup, I've been using it for the better part of a year with nothing but happy results, and appreciate your work. (Irssi too :) -Sam

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[Dovecot] RE: imap process abends
by Alex S Moore 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

I am trying to setup dovecot imap on a test Solaris 8 box. I have dovecot POP3S running fine on another box, but I want to switch to IMAP. I see a successful login with a message like: Mar 8 13:22:47 sws601.mcsun.local imap-login: [ID 457029 mail.info] Login: sunuser1 [192.168.1.17] Then the Mozilla Mail client gets a message that the server disconnected. It appears to be from a segfault on the imap process. Here is the next message in syslog: Mar 8 13:22:47 sws601.mcsun.local dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 14108 (imap) killed with signal 11 On my ldap server, I see all of the appropriate entries for logging in getting the userdb info. So I think that I am past the login process, but I could be wrong. I setup a maildir environment on this server as follows: maildir:/export/home/imap/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n I have a test message to pickup and the maildir folders seem OK to me. Help, Alex

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[Dovecot] Mails manipulation and indices
by Giacomo Cariello 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

I've recently manipulated the contents of my maildir, changing the content of some mail files (mime handling and such...). This broke dovecot since it expected different filesizes while reading contents of files that were previously indexed. Therefore dovecot returned some assert like this: imap(jwk(a)bug.it): file istream.c: line 163 (i_stream_seek): assertion failed: (v_offset <= stream->v_size) Obviously, the solution was to remove indices and have dovecot recreate them. I suppose it would be more "polite" to have this kind of routines (i_stream_seek etc) handle this case by requesting indices recreation for indices that are no longer "real", instead of just dropping connection with some "internal error" message. Giacomo Cariello, jwk(a)bug.it KeyID: 3072/1024/0x409C9044 Fingerprint: 7984 10FD 0460 4202 BF90 3881 CDE4 D78E 409C 9044 "Put that mic in my hand and let me kick out the jams!" - MC5

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[Dovecot] OS X 10.3, SSL, client connection hangs?
by Chad Bergeron 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Ok, I've just installed Dovecot, and got it set up in xinetd for ssl and plain/pam. Everything looks good, I even got to the point where my client (mail.app) asked if I wanted to accept the new certificate I'd made. All good. But then the imap connection seems to hang right after negotiating. Nothing shows up in my logs except a disconnect, usually for inactivity. Has anyone else managed to set Dovecot up on 10.3, and has anyone seen this issue, or ones like it? Trying to figure out where to go from here... -Chad Bergeron

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[Dovecot] imap MUA received
by Payton 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Does anyone know where MUAs like Outlook, Entourage, and Mail.app get their 'Received' or 'Date Received' information from? It certainly doesn't appear to correspond with the mail headers, at least in my case, so I'm guessing it's possibly getting that data from the IMAP server? My mail clients (MUAs) show the 'Receieved' time as 5 hours off. I have qmail running as my MTA, and since it stamps emails' "Received" header with time in GMT (-0000) and I'm in EST (-0500) I thought that was the problem. However, I patched qmail to set the headers in -0500 instead, which worked as far as I can tell, but the MUAs *still* report the time incorrectly! (Time on both the client and the server are correct as well.) Here is my setup: dovecot running pop/imap mbox files (yes, i know this is bad) qmail as my MTA (used to list time as GMT in headers, but I patched it and now the headers list time in the local zone instead) -- ;; Payton Swick ;; ;; Repligen Corporation ;; ;; IT Systems Administrator ;; ;; payton(a)repligen.com ;;

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[Dovecot] RFE: more graceful handling of startup errors
by Matthias Andree 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Hi, I've just had a funny (but not amusing) incident after boot-up on a Dovecot server. rpc.mountd (NFS server) grabbed port 995 (POP3-SSL), and the whole Dovecot lot (POP3-SSL, IMAP-SSL, IMAP) refused to start up, rather than just letting POP3-SSL fail with "address in use". May I request to kindly consider letting Dovecot services fail individually rather than all of them, at least optionally? TIA, -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95

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[Dovecot] libpam-pwdfile
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

hi Where are libpam-pwdfile on my hard? Please guide me... Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] user
by Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Hi. I want to test my users. This means when i login via telnet or other,i can login into imapo server. Please guide me..... Yours,Mohsen. ===== ---------DIGITAL SIGNATURE------------------- ///Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh//////// Network administrator & programmer My work phone is : +98216054096-7 My home phone is: +98213810146 My emails is m_pahlevanzadeh(a)yahoo.com My website is: http://webnegar.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com

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Re: [Dovecot] UW-IMAP -> Dovecot : patch to remove nasty
by Joseph Teichman 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

> I've also heard of some actual mbox corruption from one large > installation, but I don't know if it really was Dovecot's problem as > I've never heard of it from others. Might have been some problem related > to their specific environment. I have also had a similar problem where there was partial curroption of an mbox folder. After that point in time, I could not properly read some messags using Openwebmail. I did not have time to fully investigate the exact cause and the exact form of the curroption, but I did want to let you know that it is an issue. Thanks, Joe

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[Dovecot] debian unstable : mutt polling imap mailboxes
by Kai Hendry 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

Package: dovecot Version: 0.99.10.4-2 I am accessing my IMAP folder on my ~/Maildir using mutt via Dovecot and I have this problem whereby mutt incorrectly reports I have new mail in a "mailboxes" polled mailbox. This happens all the time when I press the key bound to change mailbox. I use courier IMAP at school, and I have not experienced this problem. A bug with dovecot or mutt?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot failing silently on startup
by Julian Melville 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

I'm puzzled... I'm running the Debian package of Dovecot 0.99.10.4 on a Debian (testing) server, and it's basically doing nothing on startup for an extended period. After a while (maybe 10 minutes or more) it all suddenly starts working, all without logging anything untoward. All the dovecot processes appear to start OK, and 'Dovecot starting up' is logged to the syslog. If you telnet to an IMAP or POP3 port at this point, it will successfully connect but there's no response (i.e. no '* OK dovecot ready'). Nothing else on this server is failing in this way; e.g. Apache and PostgreSQL are running fine throughout this period. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Cheers, Julian.

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[Dovecot] severe problem
by Ewald Geschwinde 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

I have debian knoppix and postfix + dovecot imap My problem is the following: Feb 29 18:51:14 cybserv imap-login: Login: xx(a)xxx.xx [xx.xx.xx.xx] Feb 29 18:51:14 cybserv dovecot: child 13959 (imap) killed with signal 11 Feb 29 18:52:41 cybserv imap-login: Disconnected [xx.xxx.xx.xx] Feb 29 18:52:41 cybserv dovecot: child 13952 (login) killed with signal 11 I'm using the debian package for the version 0.99.10.4-2 Always when someone tries to login the server throws this error I don't know whats going wrong I'm using a postgresql backend Regards Ewald Geschwinde

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[Dovecot] SSL 143/notls stuff
by Mark Williamson 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Hi Everyone, Just trying to work out how totally disable SSL/TLS support on port 143 while enabling SSL support on port 993 In the config file when I comment out the setting "ssl_disable = yes", I have Webmail client that will no longer be able to auth against port 143, Now I can get the Webmail client to sort of work via using the setting the port to "143/notls" but the main problem with that is that the WEbmail client does not support that setting correctly, giving the Webmail issues in other areas. Anyway is there a way of enabling SSL support on 993, and a way to let port 143 to auth with out the need of using a setting port "143/notls" Cheers Mark Williamson

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[Dovecot] [OT] How is the Changelog file created?
by Sven Kirmess 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

How is the Changelog file created? I assume there is a tool which grabs this information from the CVS repository. What's the name of this tool? Sven

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[Dovecot] Set only INDEX path
by Kilian CAVALOTTI 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

Hi folks, I'd like to know if I can set the INDEX path in the default_mail_env, without setting the format and location of mailboxes (something like default_mail_env = :INDEX=/var/mail/indexes/%u) I want to let each user choose whether he prefers to store his mail in mbox or maildir format, so I don't want to /force/ the configuration in the default_mail_env variable, but let the autodetection feature of Dovecot do the job. The problem is that home folders are NFS mounted on the mail server. So I'd like to put the indexes somewhere locally on the mail server. I tried to set the default_mail_env with various combinations of ':' and INDEX, but with no success, I invariably get "Fatal: Failed to create storage with data..." error messages. Is there any solution to my problem ? ;) TIA, -- Kilian

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[Dovecot] More than one auth method with dovevot 0.99.10.4 - how?
by Raymond Scholz 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

We're setting up a server with qmail/vpopmail and dovecot. In addition to vpopmail users we want non-virtual, local users to be able to authenticate and have them read the Maildir in their real $HOME. vpopmail userdb/passwd works fine. Now how do I tell dovecot to use passwd (or PAM) userdb/passdb authentication too? /etc/dovecot.conf: [...] auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = vpopmail auth_passdb = vpopmail auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes auth = local auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd /etc/passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes #auth_methods = default local EOF I think, I'm supposed to put the auth_methods line somewhere. Without it, dovecot only tries authentication using the first auth process definition: | Feb 25 00:01:49 server1 dovecot-auth: vpopmail(rscholz): unknown user (rscholz@) after loggin in with ". login rscholz secret_password" at the IMAP server. Putting the auth_methods line behind the two auth processes (or somewhere in the middle) gives me: | Starting mail server: dovecotFatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 456: Unknown setting: methods Putting it above all auth processes gives me: | Starting mail server: dovecotFatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 362: Authentication process name not defined yet Hm, I'm lost here. System is Debian i386 stable (woody) with dovecot_0.99.10.4-2.deb backported from Debian unstable. Cheers, Ray -- Hfr fgebat rapelcgvba!

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[Dovecot] Mailbox formats
by Kenneth Porter 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

I'm currently using mbox and mbx with UW-IMAP, mbox for space efficiency and mbx for folders with lots of messages for time efficiency without a large space cost. I've avoided maildir because it has a relatively high space cost; mbox has no inter-message cost while maildir wastes on average half a sector plus an inode for each message. What other formats are there, and has anyone come up with a good format that gives both good time and space characteristics without sacrificing reliability? (I'm aware of the file format list in the UW-IMAP distro: <http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/formats.txt.html>)

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[Dovecot] Pam trouble
by Benjamin Dabelow 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hi folks, I can't get dovecot to authenticate properly against ldap/pam. I've been fiddling with it for several days now, to no avail. It keeps crashing with: Child died with signal 11 The system is Solaris9. Enclosed is a trace of dovecot-auth for a connection to pop with correct username and password and my config. Any help is appreciated. Cheers Benjamin Trace----------------------------------------------------- 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 9, 4999) (sleeping...) 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 9, 4999) = 0 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 9, 0) = 0 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 9, 4999) (sleeping...) 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 9, 4999) = 1 29964: accept(3, 0xFFBFFAD0, 0xFFBFFAC8, 1) = 13 29964: fstat64(13, 0xFFBFF920) = 0 29964: getsockopt(13, SOL_SOCKET, 0x2000, 0xFFBFFA20, 0xFFBFFA1C, 0) = 0 29964: setsockopt(13, SOL_SOCKET, 0x2000, 0xFFBFFA20, 4, 0) = 0 29964: fcntl(13, F_SETFL, 0x00000080) = 0 29964: fstat64(13, 0xFFBFF9D8) = 0 29964: llseek(13, 0, SEEK_CUR) Err#29 ESPIPE 29964: getsockname(13, 0xFFBFF928, 0xFFBFF924, 1) = 0 29964: write(13, "\0\0 u\f\0\0\001", 8) = 8 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 2917) = 1 29964: read(13, "\0\0 u1C", 4096) = 4 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 2917) (sleeping...) 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 2917) = 0 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 0) = 0 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 4999) (sleeping...) 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 4999) = 1 29964: read(14, "\0\0\001\0\0\001\0\0\001".., 4092) = 16 29964: write(14, "\0\0\001\0\0\001\0\0\0\0".., 20) = 20 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 1664) = 1 29964: read(14, "\0\0\002\0\0\001\0\0\011".., 4076) = 29 29964: pipe() = 15 [16] 29964: fork1() = 29981 29964: lwp_schedctl(SC_STATE|SC_PREEMPT, 0, 0xFFBFF7AC) = 0 29964: close(16) = 0 29981: fork1() (returning as child ...) = 29964 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: close(15) = 0 29981: lwp_schedctl(SC_STATE|SC_PREEMPT, 0, 0xFFBFF4A4) = 0 29981: open("/etc/pam_debug", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat64("/etc/pam.conf", 0xFFBFF4C0) = 0 29981: open("/etc/pam.conf", O_RDONLY) = 15 29981: mmap(0x00000000, 1893, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 15, 0) = 0xFEBA0000 29981: munmap(0xFEBA0000, 1893) = 0 29981: close(15) = 0 29981: stat64("/usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1", 0xFFBFF400) = 0 29981: stat("/usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1", 0xFFBFED44) = 0 29981: open("/usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 15 29981: fstat(15, 0xFFBFED44) = 0 29981: mmap(0x00000000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 15, 0) = 0xFEBA0000 29981: mmap(0x00000000, 212992, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 15, 0) = 0xFEB40000 29981: mmap(0xFEB6A000, 36767, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 15, 106496) = 0xFEB6A000 29981: munmap(0xFEB5A000, 65536) = 0 29981: resolvepath("/usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1", "/usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1", 1023) = 31 29981: memcntl(0xFEB40000, 24652, MC_ADVISE, MADV_WILLNEED, 0, 0) = 0 29981: close(15) = 0 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libc.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libpam.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libnsl.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libcmd.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libmp.so.2", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: munmap(0xFEBA0000, 8192) = 0 29981: stat64("/usr/lib/security/pam_openldap.so.1", 0xFFBFF400) = 0 29981: stat("/usr/lib/security/pam_openldap.so.1", 0xFFBFED44) = 0 29981: open("/usr/lib/security/pam_openldap.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 15 29981: fstat(15, 0xFFBFED44) = 0 29981: mmap(0x00000000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 15, 0) = 0xFEBA0000 29981: mmap(0x00000000, 106496, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 15, 0) = 0xFEB20000 29981: mmap(0xFEB38000, 3928, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 15, 32768) = 0xFEB38000 29981: munmap(0xFEB2A000, 57344) = 0 29981: resolvepath("/usr/lib/security/pam_openldap.so.1", "/usr/lib/security/pam_openldap.so.1", 1023) = 35 29981: memcntl(0xFEB20000, 6704, MC_ADVISE, MADV_WILLNEED, 0, 0) = 0 29981: close(15) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libc.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libc.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libc.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libldap.so.2", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: mmap(0x00000000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, -1, 0) = 0xFEB10000 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/liblber.so.2", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libnsl.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libnsl.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libnsl.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libcrypt_i.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypt_i.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libcrypt_i.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libresolv.so.2", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libresolv.so.2", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libresolv.so.2", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libpam.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libpam.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libpam.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libdl.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libdl.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libdl.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libpthread.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libpthread.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libpthread.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/librt.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/librt.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/librt.so.1", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libdb-4.0.so", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libdb-4.0.so", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libdb-4.0.so", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7", 0xFFBFEC84) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7", 0xFFBFEC84) = 0 29981: munmap(0xFEBA0000, 8192) = 0 29981: open64("/var/run/name_service_door", O_RDONLY) = 15 29981: fcntl(15, F_SETFD, 0x00000001) = 0 29981: door_info(15, 0xFEEC2668) = 0 29981: close(15) = 0 29981: stat("/usr/lib/nss_files.so.1", 0xFFBFDE64) = 0 29981: open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 15 29981: fstat64(15, 0xFFBFE2D8) = 0 29981: brk(0x00081460) = 0 29981: brk(0x00083460) = 0 29981: fstat64(15, 0xFFBFE180) = 0 29981: ioctl(15, TCGETA, 0xFFBFE264) Err#25 ENOTTY 29981: read(15, " r o o t : x : 0 : 1 : Z".., 8192) = 710 29981: read(15, 0x00080594, 8192) = 0 29981: llseek(15, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 710 29981: close(15) = 0 29981: stat("/usr/lib/nss_ldap.so.1", 0xFFBFDE64) = 0 29981: open("/usr/lib/nss_ldap.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 15 29981: fstat(15, 0xFFBFDE64) = 0 29981: mmap(0x00000000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 15, 0) = 0xFEBA0000 29981: mmap(0x00000000, 163840, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 15, 0) = 0xFEAE0000 29981: mmap(0xFEAFC000, 4828, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 15, 49152) = 0xFEAFC000 29981: mmap(0xFEAFE000, 35640, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANON, -1, 0) = 0xFEAFE000 29981: munmap(0xFEAEE000, 57344) = 0 29981: resolvepath("/usr/lib/nss_ldap.so.1", "/usr/lib/nss_ldap.so.1", 1023) = 22 29981: memcntl(0xFEAE0000, 9792, MC_ADVISE, MADV_WILLNEED, 0, 0) = 0 29981: close(15) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libldap.so.2", 0xFFBFDDA4) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/liblber.so.2", 0xFFBFDDA4) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libdb-4.0.so", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libdb-4.0.so", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libdb-4.0.so", 0xFFBFDDA4) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libdl.so.1", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libdl.so.1", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libdl.so.1", 0xFFBFDDA4) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libnsl.so.1", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libnsl.so.1", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libnsl.so.1", 0xFFBFDDA4) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libresolv.so.2", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libresolv.so.2", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libresolv.so.2", 0xFFBFDDA4) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libpthread.so.1", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libpthread.so.1", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/libpthread.so.1", 0xFFBFDDA4) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/librt.so.1", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/librt.so.1", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/lib/librt.so.1", 0xFFBFDDA4) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7", 0xFFBFDDA4) = 0 29981: stat("/opt/OpenLDAP2/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7", 0xFFBFDDA4) Err#2 ENOENT 29981: stat("/usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7", 0xFFBFDDA4) = 0 29981: munmap(0xFEBA0000, 8192) = 0 29981: sigaction(SIGPIPE, 0xFFBFE2B8, 0xFFBFE3F8) = 0 29981: sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, 0xFEBEA0B4, 0xFFBFE308) = 0 29981: sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, 0xFFBFE2F4, 0x00000000) = 0 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getuid() = 0 [0] 29981: open("/etc/ldap.conf", O_RDONLY) = 15 29981: fstat64(15, 0xFFBFCA38) = 0 29981: fstat64(15, 0xFFBFC8E0) = 0 29981: ioctl(15, TCGETA, 0xFFBFC9C4) Err#25 ENOTTY 29981: read(15, " # @ ( # ) $ I d : l".., 8192) = 6190 29981: read(15, 0x0008018C, 8192) = 0 29981: llseek(15, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 6190 29981: close(15) = 0 29981: open64("/var/run/name_service_door", O_RDONLY) = 15 29981: fcntl(15, F_SETFD, 0x00000001) = 0 29981: door_info(15, 0xFEEC2668) = 0 29981: close(15) = 0 29981: open("/etc/inet/ipnodes", O_RDONLY) = 15 29981: fstat64(15, 0xFFBFADA8) = 0 29981: brk(0x00083460) = 0 29981: brk(0x00085460) = 0 29981: fstat64(15, 0xFFBFAC50) = 0 29981: ioctl(15, TCGETA, 0xFFBFAD34) Err#25 ENOTTY 29981: read(15, " #\n # I n t e r n e t".., 8192) = 61 29981: read(15, 0x0008257C, 8192) = 0 29981: llseek(15, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 61 29981: close(15) = 0 29981: open64("/var/run/name_service_door", O_RDONLY) = 15 29981: fcntl(15, F_SETFD, 0x00000001) = 0 29981: door_info(15, 0xFEEC2668) = 0 29981: close(15) = 0 29981: open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY) = 15 29981: fstat64(15, 0xFFBFAD28) = 0 29981: fstat64(15, 0xFFBFABD0) = 0 29981: ioctl(15, TCGETA, 0xFFBFACB4) Err#25 ENOTTY 29981: read(15, " #\n # I n t e r n e t".., 8192) = 107 29981: read(15, 0x0008257C, 8192) = 0 29981: llseek(15, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 107 29981: close(15) = 0 29981: so_socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP, "", 1) = 15 29981: setsockopt(15, tcp, TCP_NODELAY, 0xFFBFD724, 4, 1) = 0 29981: fcntl(15, F_GETFL, 0xFF1FE9E0) = 2 29981: fstat64(15, 0xFFBFD468) = 0 29981: getsockopt(15, SOL_SOCKET, 0x2000, 0xFFBFD568, 0xFFBFD560, 0) = 0 29981: fstat64(15, 0xFFBFD4D8) = 0 29981: getsockopt(15, SOL_SOCKET, 0x2000, 0xFFBFD5D8, 0xFFBFD5D4, 0) = 0 29981: setsockopt(15, SOL_SOCKET, 0x2000, 0xFFBFD5D8, 4, 0) = 0 29981: fcntl(15, F_SETFL, 0x00000082) = 0 29981: connect(15, 0x0007F9E8, 16, 1) = 0 29981: fcntl(15, F_GETFL, 0xFF1FE9F8) = 130 29981: fstat64(15, 0xFFBFD468) = 0 29981: getsockopt(15, SOL_SOCKET, 0x2000, 0xFFBFD568, 0xFFBFD560, 0) = 0 29981: fstat64(15, 0xFFBFD4D8) = 0 29981: getsockopt(15, SOL_SOCKET, 0x2000, 0xFFBFD5D8, 0xFFBFD5D4, 0) = 0 29981: setsockopt(15, SOL_SOCKET, 0x2000, 0xFFBFD5D8, 4, 0) = 0 29981: fcntl(15, F_SETFL, 0x00000002) = 0 29981: getpeername(15, 0xFFBFD708, 0xFFBFD2E8, 1) = 0 29981: open64("/var/run/name_service_door", O_RDONLY) = 17 29981: fcntl(17, F_SETFD, 0x00000001) = 0 29981: door_info(17, 0xFEEC2668) = 0 29981: close(17) = 0 29981: open("/etc/inet/ipnodes", O_RDONLY) = 17 29981: fstat64(17, 0xFFBFAC98) = 0 29981: fstat64(17, 0xFFBFAB40) = 0 29981: ioctl(17, TCGETA, 0xFFBFAC24) Err#25 ENOTTY 29981: read(17, " #\n # I n t e r n e t".., 8192) = 61 29981: read(17, 0x0008257C, 8192) = 0 29981: llseek(17, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 61 29981: close(17) = 0 29981: open64("/var/run/name_service_door", O_RDONLY) = 17 29981: fcntl(17, F_SETFD, 0x00000001) = 0 29981: door_info(17, 0xFEEC2668) = 0 29981: close(17) = 0 29981: open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY) = 17 29981: fstat64(17, 0xFFBFAC18) = 0 29981: fstat64(17, 0xFFBFAAC0) = 0 29981: ioctl(17, TCGETA, 0xFFBFABA4) Err#25 ENOTTY 29981: read(17, " #\n # I n t e r n e t".., 8192) = 107 29981: llseek(17, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 107 29981: close(17) = 0 29981: uname(0xFFBFD110) = 1 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: write(15, " 01D020101 w188016 1 . 3".., 31) = 31 29981: poll(0xFFBFD1C0, 1, -1) = 1 29981: read(15, " 0\f020101 x07\n", 8) = 8 29981: read(15, "01\004\004\0", 6) = 6 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: brk(0x00085460) = 0 29981: brk(0x00087460) = 0 29981: brk(0x00087460) = 0 29981: brk(0x00089460) = 0 29981: brk(0x00089460) = 0 29981: brk(0x0008B460) = 0 29981: brk(0x0008B460) = 0 29981: brk(0x0008D460) = 0 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: brk(0x0008D460) = 0 29981: brk(0x00093460) = 0 29981: brk(0x00093460) = 0 29981: brk(0x00097460) = 0 29981: brk(0x00097460) = 0 29981: brk(0x0009B460) = 0 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOCTTY) = 17 29981: poll(0xFFBFD3B0, 1, 10) = 1 29981: read(17, "029F\0 XA5B2F0C7 U &1FE6".., 32) = 32 29981: close(17) = 0 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getuid() = 0 [0] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: write(15, "8095010301\0 l\0\0\0 \0".., 151) = 151 29981: read(15, "160301\0 J02\0", 7) = 7 29981: brk(0x0009B460) = 0 29981: brk(0x0009D460) = 0 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: read(15, "\0 F0301 @ ; 0 oBFEE1DE1".., 72) = 72 29981: read(15, "1603010412", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, "\v\0040E\004\v\004\b 082".., 1042) = 1042 29981: brk(0x0009D460) = 0 29981: brk(0x0009F460) = 0 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: read(15, "160301\004", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, "0E\0\0\0", 4) = 4 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: brk(0x0009F460) = 0 29981: brk(0x000A1460) = 0 29981: write(15, "160301\08610\0\082\080 /".., 198) = 198 29981: read(15, "140301\001", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, "01", 1) = 1 29981: read(15, "160301\0 0", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, "9197ADECFE9AFB )DF83 $8A".., 48) = 48 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: write(15, "170301\0 DF0F1E H pC386".., 90) = 90 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: poll(0xFFBFD230, 1, 30000) = 1 29981: read(15, "170301\0 ", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, "DBFFF9B9EC g WEE iE0 , Z".., 32) = 32 29981: read(15, "170301\0 0", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, "7F >BDCE96B4 = zE587F1 ]".., 48) = 48 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: setsockopt(15, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, 0xFFBFDB88, 4, 1) = 0 29981: fcntl(15, F_SETFD, 0x00000001) = 0 29981: getsockname(15, 0xFEAFE2F8, 0xFFBFDB84, 1) = 0 29981: getpeername(15, 0xFEAFE308, 0xFFBFDB84, 1) = 0 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getuid() = 0 [0] 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: write(15, "170301\0 $1D1086B7 { #".., 266) = 266 29981: poll(0xFFBFD1E0, 1, -1) = 1 29981: read(15, "170301\0 ", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, " 3 0 @B7AA14 j9284E2D4\t".., 32) = 32 29981: read(15, "1703010180", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, "92 | e850589C27F <CDB0 a".., 384) = 384 29981: poll(0xFFBFD1E0, 1, -1) = 1 29981: read(15, "170301\0 ", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, "DABDA1 `8DBDD795B117E4D3".., 32) = 32 29981: read(15, "170301\0 0", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, "8AA2B9 y1A MFEC3FCDB J".., 48) = 48 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: stat("/usr/lib/nss_files.so.1", 0xFFBFE2D4) = 0 29981: open("/etc/shadow", O_RDONLY) = 17 29981: fstat64(17, 0xFFBFE878) = 0 29981: fstat64(17, 0xFFBFE720) = 0 29981: ioctl(17, TCGETA, 0xFFBFE804) Err#25 ENOTTY 29981: read(17, " r o o t : f s i o o X 9".., 8192) = 308 29981: read(17, 0x0008CB34, 8192) = 0 29981: llseek(17, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 308 29981: close(17) = 0 29981: stat("/usr/lib/nss_ldap.so.1", 0xFFBFE2D4) = 0 29981: sigaction(SIGPIPE, 0xFFBFE728, 0xFFBFE868) = 0 29981: sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, 0xFEBEA0B4, 0xFFBFE778) = 0 29981: sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, 0xFFBFE764, 0x00000000) = 0 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getuid() = 0 [0] 29981: getpid() = 29981 [29964] 29981: getuid() = 0 [0] 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: write(15, "170301\0 8D81 R r r89".., 266) = 266 29981: poll(0xFFBFD650, 1, -1) = 1 29981: read(15, "170301\0 ", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, " 61ED503E3C40EC7A3 R\t (".., 32) = 32 29981: read(15, "170301\0F0", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, "D61F k # \F1\v l wFFE3 r".., 240) = 240 29981: poll(0xFFBFD650, 1, -1) = 1 29981: read(15, "170301\0 ", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, " 898 8DB2CD bB9 m8B84C5".., 32) = 32 29981: read(15, "170301\0 0", 5) = 5 29981: read(15, "9F >C5BCA687 X .EEA2 > i".., 48) = 48 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: time() = 1077620847 29981: Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0xFF053364 29981: siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000004 29981: Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default] 29981: siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000004 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 11, 999) = 1 29964: read(15, 0xFFBFF958, 512) = 0 29964: time() = 1077620847 29964: write(4, " d o v e c o t - a u t h".., 61) = 61 29964: write(14, "\0\0\001\0\0\003\0\0\0\0".., 20) = 20 29964: close(15) = 0 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 446) = 0 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 0) = 0 29964: waitid(P_ALL, 0, 0xFFBFF998, WEXITED|WTRAPPED|WNOHANG) = 0 29964: time() = 1077620848 29964: write(4, " d o v e c o t - a u t h".., 74) = 74 29964: waitid(P_ALL, 0, 0xFFBFF998, WEXITED|WTRAPPED|WNOHANG) Err#10 ECHILD 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 998) = 0 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 0) = 0 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 4999) (sleeping...) 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 10, 4999) = 1 29964: read(14, 0x0007C051, 4047) = 0 29964: close(14) = 0 29964: poll(0x00052E28, 9, 2885) (sleeping...) dovecot.conf---------------------------------------------------- ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file # Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment # any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples # with real defaults being based on configure options. The paths listed here # are for configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var # --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl # Base directory where to store runtime data. base_dir = /usr/local/dovecot/run/ # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. You can specify ports with # "host:port". imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above non-SSL equilevants if not specified. #imaps_listen = #pop3s_listen = # Disable SSL/TLS support. ssl_disable = yes # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but # root. Included doc/mkcert.sh can be used to easily generate self-signed # certificate, just make sure to update the domains in dovecot-openssl.cnf #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem # SSL parameter file. Master process generates this file for login processes. # It contains Diffie Hellman and RSA parameters. ssl_parameters_file = /usr/local/dovecot/run/ssl-parameters.dat # How often to regenerate the SSL parameters file. Generation is quite CPU # intensive operation. The value is in hours, 0 disables regeneration # entirely. ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability) #disable_plaintext_auth = no # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info # Prefix for each line written to log file. % codes are in strftime(3) # format. Note the extra space at the end of line. #log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " ## ## Login processes ## # Directory where authentication process places authentication UNIX sockets # which login needs to be able to connect to. The sockets are created when # running as root, so you don't have to worry about permissions. #login_dir = /usr/local/dovecot/run/login # chroot login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this is if you # wish to run the whole Dovecot without roots. #login_chroot = yes ## ## IMAP login process ## login = imap # Executable location. #login_executable = /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login # User to use for the login process. Create a completely new user for this, # and don't use it anywhere else. The user must also belong to a group where # only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process. login_user = dovecot # Set max. process size in megabytes. If you don't use # login_process_per_connection you might need to grow this. #login_process_size = 16 # Should each login be processed in it's own process (yes), or should one # login process be allowed to process multiple connections (no)? Yes is more # secure, espcially with SSL/TLS enabled. No is faster since there's no need # to create processes all the time. #login_process_per_connection = yes # Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_user is # yes, this is the number of extra processes waiting for users to log in. #login_processes_count = 3 # Maximum number of extra login processes to create. The extra process count # usually stays at login_processes_count, but when multiple users start logging # IN AT THE SAME time more extra processes are created. To prevent fork-bombing # we check only once in a second if new processes should be created - if all # of them are used at the time, we double their amount until limit set by this # setting is reached. This setting is used only if login_process_per_use is yes. #login_max_processes_count = 128 # Maximum number of connections allowed in login state. When this limit is # reached, the oldest connections are dropped. If login_process_per_user # is no, this is a per-process value, so the absolute maximum number of users # logging in actually login_processes_count * max_logging_users. #login_max_logging_users = 256 ## ## POP3 login process ## # Settings default to same as above, so you don't have to set anything # unless you want to override them. login = pop3 # Exception to above rule being the executable location. #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login ## ## Mail processes ## # Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, # new users aren't allowed to log in. #max_mail_processes = 1024 # Show more verbose process titles (in ps). Currently shows user name and # IP address. Useful for seeing who are actually using the IMAP processes # (eg. shared mailboxes or if same uid is used for multiple accounts). #verbose_proctitle = no # Show protocol level SSL errors. #verbose_ssl = no # Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. #first_valid_uid = 500 #last_valid_uid = 0 # Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel. Users having # non-valid GID as primary group ID aren't allowed to log in. If user # belongs to supplementary groups with non-valid GIDs, those groups are # not set. #first_valid_gid = 1 #last_valid_gid = 0 # ':' separated list of directories under which chrooting is allowed for mail # processes (ie. /var/mail will allow chrooting to /var/mail/foo/bar too). # This setting doesn't affect login_chroot or auth_chroot variables. # WARNING: Never add directories here which local users can modify, that # may lead to root exploit. Usually this should be done only if you don't # allow shell access for users. See doc/configuration.txt for more information. #valid_chroot_dirs = # Default chroot directory for mail processes. This can be overridden by # giving /./ in user's home directory (eg. /home/./user chroots into /home). #mail_chroot = # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # doc/mail-storages.txt. There's a few special variables you can use: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain # %h - home directory # # You can also limit a width of string by giving the number of max. characters # after the '%' character. For example %1u gives the first character of # username. Some examples: # # maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # default_mail_env = maildir:/maildir/%u/Maildir # Space-separated list of fields to cache for all mails. Currently these # fields are allowed followed by a list of commands they speed up: # # Envelope - FETCH ENVELOPE and SEARCH FROM, TO, CC, BCC, SUBJECT, # SENTBEFORE, SENTON, SENTSINCE, HEADER MESSAGE-ID, # HEADER IN-REPLY-TO # Body - FETCH BODY # Bodystructure - FETCH BODY, BODYSTRUCTURE # MessagePart - FETCH BODY[1.2.3] (ie. body parts), RFC822.SIZE, # SEARCH SMALLER, LARGER, also speeds up BODY/BODYSTRUCTURE # generation. This is always set with mbox mailboxes, and # also default with Maildir. # # Different IMAP clients work in different ways, that's why Dovecot by default # only caches MessagePart which speeds up most operations. Whenever client # does something where caching could be used, the field is automatically marked # to be cached later. For example after FETCH BODY the BODY will be cached # for all new messages. Normally you should leave this alone, unless you know # what most of your IMAP clients are. Caching more fields than needed makes # the index files larger and generate useless I/O. # # With maildir there's one extra optimization - if nothing is cached, indexing # the maildir becomes much faster since it's not opening any of the mail files. # This could be useful if your IMAP clients access only new mails. #mail_cache_fields = MessagePart # Space-separated list of fields that Dovecot should never set to be cached. # Useful if you want to save disk space at the cost of more I/O when the fields # needed. #mail_never_cache_fields = # Workarounds for various client bugs: # oe6-fetch-no-newmail: # Never send EXISTS/RECENT when replying to FETCH command. Outlook Express # seems to think they are FETCH replies and gives user "Message no longer # in server" error. Note that OE6 still breaks even with this workaround # if synchronization is set to "Headers Only". # outlook-idle: # Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no mail # arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is still # fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new mail # arrives. #client_workarounds = # Dovecot can notify client of new mail in selected mailbox soon after it's # received. This setting specifies the minimum interval in seconds between # new mail notifications to client - internally they may be checked more or # less often. Setting this to 0 disables the checking. # NOTE: Evolution client breaks with this option when it's trying to APPEND. #mailbox_check_interval = 0 # Like mailbox_check_interval, but used for IDLE command. #mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 # Allow full filesystem access to clients. There's no access checks other than # what the operating system does for the active UID/GID. It works with both # maildir and mboxes, allowing you to prefix mailboxes names with eg. /path/ # or ~user/. mail_full_filesystem_access = no # Maximum allowed length for custom flag name. It's only forced when trying # to create new flags. #mail_max_flag_length = 50 # Save mails with CR+LF instead of plain LF. This makes sending those mails # take less CPU, especially with sendfile() syscall with Linux and FreeBSD. # But it also creates a bit more disk I/O which may just make it slower. #mail_save_crlf = no # Use mmap() instead of read() to read mail files. read() seems to be a bit # faster with my Linux/x86 and it's better with NFS, so that's the default. #mail_read_mmaped = no # Copy mail to another folders using hard links. This is much faster than # actually copying the file. This is problematic only if something modifies # the mail in one folder but doesn't want it modified in the others. I don't # know any MUA which would modify mail files directly. IMAP protocol also # requires that the mails don't change, so it would be problematic in any case. # If you care about performance, enable it. #maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no # Check if mails' content has been changed by external programs. This slows # down things as extra stat() needs to be called for each file. If changes are # noticed, the message is treated as a new message, since IMAP protocol # specifies that existing message are immutable. #maildir_check_content_changes = no # Which locking methods to use for locking mbox. There's three available: # dotlock: Create <mailbox>.lock file. This is the oldest and most NFS-safe # solution. If you want to use /var/mail/ like directory, the users # will need write access to that directory. # fcntl : Use this if possible. Works with NFS too if lockd is used. # flock : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # # You can use both fcntl and flock too; if you do the order they're declared # with is important to avoid deadlocks if other MTAs/MUAs are using both fcntl # and flock. Some operating systems don't allow using both of them # simultaneously, eg. BSDs. If dotlock is used, it's always created first. #mbox_locks = dotlock fcntl # Should we create dotlock file even when we want only a read-lock? Setting # this to yes hurts the performance when the mailbox is accessed simultaneously # by multiple processes, but it's needed for reliable reading if no other # locking methods are available. #mbox_read_dotlock = no # Maximum time in seconds to wait for lock (all of them) before aborting. #mbox_lock_timeout = 300 # If dotlock exists but the mailbox isn't modified in any way, override the # lock file after this many seconds. #mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 # umask to use for mail files and directories #umask = 0077 # Drop all privileges before exec()ing the mail process. This is mostly # meant for debugging, otherwise you don't get core dumps. Note that setting # this to yes means that log file is opened as the logged in user, which # might not work. It could also be a small security risk if you use single UID # for multiple users, as the users could ptrace() each others processes then. #mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no ## ## IMAP process ## # Executable location #imap_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. #imap_process_size = 256 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #imap_use_modules = no #imap_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap ## ## POP3 process ## # Executable location #pop3_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. #pop3_process_size = 256 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #pop3_use_modules = no #pop3_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 ## ## Authentication processes ## # You can have multiple processes; each time "auth = xx" is seen, a new # process definition is started. The point of multiple processes is to be # able to set stricter permissions to others. For example, plain/PAM # authentication requires roots, but if you also use digest-md5 authentication # for some users, you can authenticate them without any privileges in a # separate auth process. Just remember that only one auth process is asked # for the password, so you can't have different passwords with different # processes (unless they have different auth methods, and you're ok with # having different password for each method). # Authentication process name. auth = default # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 anonymous auth_mechanisms = plain # Space separated list of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms that need # them. You can leave it empty if you don't want to support multiple realms. # Many clients simply use the first one listed here, so keep the default realm # first. #auth_realms = # Default realm to use if none was specified. #auth_default_realm = # Where user database is kept: # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # passwd-file <path>: passwd-like file with specified location # static uid=<uid> gid=<gid> home=<dir template>: static settings # vpopmail: vpopmail library # ldap <config path>: LDAP, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf # pgsql <config path>: a PostgreSQL database, see doc/dovecot-pgsql.conf #auth_userdb = passwd auth_userdb = ldap /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf # Where password database is kept: # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # shadow: /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam() # pam [<service> | *]: PAM authentication # passwd-file <path>: passwd-like file with specified location # vpopmail: vpopmail authentication # ldap <config path>: LDAP, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf # pgsql <config path>: a PostgreSQL database, see doc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_passdb = pam imap #auth_passdb = ldap /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf #auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth # Set max. process size in megabytes. #auth_process_size = 256 # User to use for the process. This user needs access to only user and # password databases, nothing else. Only shadow and pam authentication # requires roots, so use something else if possible. auth_user = root # Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't # work if this is set, and there's no point chrooting if auth_user is root. #auth_chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create #auth_count = 1 # List of allowed characters in username. If the user-given username contains # a character not listed in here, the login automatically fails. This is just # an extra check to make sure user can't exploit any potential quote escaping # vulnerabilities with SQL/LDAP databases. If you want to allow all characters, # set this value to empty. #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ # Username to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism #auth_anonymous_username = anonymous # More verbose logging. Useful for figuring out why authentication isn't # working. auth_verbose = yes # digest-md5 authentication process. It requires special MD5 passwords which # /etc/shadow and PAM doesn't support, so we never need roots to handle it. # Note that the passwd-file is opened before chrooting and dropping root # privileges, so it may be 0600-root owned file. #auth = digest_md5 #auth_methods = digest-md5 #auth_realms = #auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap #auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap #auth_user = imapauth #auth_chroot = # if you plan to use only passwd-file, you don't need the two auth processes, # simply set "auth_methods = plain digest-md5" -- Benjamin Dabelow benja.dabelow(a)gmx.net Staufenbergstr. 88 benja-dabelow.gmxhome.de/start.html 74081 Heilbronn Germany

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[Dovecot] help: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid mask.
by Bodo Gelbe 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Am tryin to move from uw-imapd to dovecot, using dovecot ver 0.99.10.4. Reading with Mozilla Mail v 1.4. I made some test accounts and they seem to be working fine, but my older existing accounts give error messages whenever I connect or subscribe to mailboxes within them. The message that appears on the client is: "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid mask." it appears two or three times in an alert box (on windows) then everything seems to work. The masks (I've put a syslog call into the code) are: "~%", "~%~%" and "~*". The test accounts I created don't have this problem. Thanks in advance for any advice, -- Bodo Gelbe

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and Mulberry
by Kenneth Porter 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

FYI. Does Dovecot implement BODYSTRUCTURE? An eval copy of Mulberry can be downloaded from <http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/>. ------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 6:56 PM +0100 From: Lennart Petersson <lennart(a)informatik.gu.se> To: mulberry-discuss(a)cyrusoft.com Subject: Dovecot and Mulberry I've recently changed my imap-server from Courier to Dovecot <http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/> for testing purposes and have seen some strange behaviour from Mulberry. Most annoying is that suddenly some incoming mail are parsed wrong, i.e. even if the mail has has proper Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" and Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable, it is displayed as 7bit and us-ascii. All these =F6 and so on is irritating. The only way remedy the problem is to quit mulberry and start again and almost always the email is displayed properly. And if the mail that gets misinterpreted is a multi-part email mulberry only reports that it has one part. But if you view the mail in raw all the parts are there. I've yet to see a pattern in then mulberry starts this misinterpretations. Sometimes it is a email from pine or a mail from a mailinglist or from outlook or ... A collegue that also uses dovecot but mutt instead of mulberry doesn't have this problems. Should I blame Dovecot or Mulberry? Anyone one with experience with dovecot (or any other imap-server that supports Maildirs)? Lennart ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- ------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:12 PM -0500 From: Cyrus Daboo <daboo(a)cyrusoft.com> To: Lennart Petersson <lennart(a)informatik.gu.se>, mulberry-discuss(a)cyrusoft.com Subject: Re: Dovecot and Mulberry Hi Lennart, --On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 6:56 PM +0100 Lennart Petersson <lennart(a)informatik.gu.se> wrote: | A collegue that also uses dovecot but mutt instead of mulberry doesn't | have this problems. Should I blame Dovecot or Mulberry? | | Anyone one with experience with dovecot (or any other imap-server that | supports Maildirs)? If you see problems with proper interpretation of MIME structure and MIME parameters etc, then it is almost certainly a server bug. Mulberry uses the IMAP server's BODYSTRUCTURE response to determine the MIME structure of a message on the server without having to download the entire message and parse it locally - that is one of the major benefits of IMAP. The details you see listed in the mailbox pane (addresses, subject, attachment types) and the parts listed in the message pane's Parts list are all derived from the server response. If the server gets it wrong, then you will see the incorrect data/structure in Mulberry too. To confirm that it really is a server bug, try copying the message to a local Mulberry mailbox and look at it from the local mailbox. It should appear correctly in that case, because Mulberry will do MIME parsing itself for local messages. To fully diagnose this, put the problem messages in their own IMAP mailbox, then turn protocol logging for IMAP on in Mulberry using <http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/faq/logging.html> and open the mailbox to show the list of message. Then turn logging off and send me (or inspect yourself) the log files. NB Clients that do not take advantage of IMAP's benefits by using BODYSTRUCTURE (and other similar features) will not 'expose' the server bug as they never use that data from the server. PS Getting the BODYSTRUCTURE response wrong is the most common server bug that we see - particularly in relatively new servers. -- Cyrus Daboo ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------

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[Dovecot] X-UID
by Paul Adams 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

What is the function of the X-UID header in mbox format? Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 seems to regard it as a simple numbering of the messages; i.e., that the first message in the mbox should have X-UID: 1. Dovecot seems to treat it simply as an ordered unique identifier. Thus, the first message in my actual mbox has X-UID: 3849658. (There are only a few dozen messages in the box.) Running Thunderbird 0.5 against a Dovecot IMAP server with mbox format, Thunderbird displays these UID numbers in the message list, which is fairly useless -- I want a numbered list of my messages starting at 1 (which Pine, for example, is happy to provide). I'm just wondering whether this is Dovecot's fault, Thunderbird's fault, or an ambiguity in the mbox standard. thanks, Paul

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[Dovecot] auth_executable
by Helmut Zeilinger 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hi, i am new to dovecot and i don't know what i can do with the "auth_executable" setting in the "dovecot.conf" file. Can i invoke an external program for authentification? If yes, is there a description what this program/script has to do? Thanks Helmut

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] POP3: Fix RFC1939 non-compliance in STAT, LIST and UIDL commands
by Nic Bellamy 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hi all, attached is a patch against 0.99.10.4 that fixes the STAT, LIST and UIDL POP3 command output in the case that they're issued after one or more messages have been deleted. Examples of incorrect behavior (bad spots marked with '***') C: STAT S: +OK 2 806 C: LIST S: +OK 2 messages: S: 1 403 S: 2 403 S: . C: UIDL S: +OK S: 1 1076749908.12 S: 2 1076749908.13 S: . C: DELE 1 S: +OK Marked to be deleted. C: STAT *** S: +OK 2 806 C: LIST *** S: +OK 2 messages: *** S: 1 403 S: 2 403 S: . C: UIDL S: +OK *** S: 1 1076749908.12 S: 2 1076749908.13 S: . What it should have been is: [snip] C: DELE 1 S: +OK Marked to be deleted. C: STAT S: +OK 1 403 C: LIST S: +OK 1 messages: S: 2 403 S: . C: UIDL S: +OK S: 2 1076749908.13 S: . It's unlikely the above issue has been causing much in the way of problems, as it's very rare for mail clients to use any of the faulty commands after they've deleted messages (they tend to do it once at the beginning of the POP3 session and cache the results). Regards, Nic. -- Nic Bellamy <nic(a)bellamy.co.nz> Bellamy Consulting -- Software & Security -- http://www.bellamy.co.nz/ -- Phone: +64-6-377-4957 Fax: +64-6-377-0505 Mobile: +64-21-251-8954 --

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[Dovecot] RE: Question on folders
by Alex S Moore 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

I have read and read the dovecot docs on maildir folders and think that this is what I want. However, the MUA programs that I use, SylpheedClaws, Evolution, Mozilla seem to react differently to how I setup the folders. Is there a good FAQ on this subject somewhere? I think that I want to setup a virtual domain and am looking for documents. Alex

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[Dovecot] too large imap.index.data files
by Network Wizards 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hi, I have noticed that imap.index.data are often too large files (several MiBs). Is there a way to limit their size or to shrink dimension or to assign another directory where those file are stored? thank you will

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