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[Dovecot] Periodic cleanup of Trash
by Anand Buddhdev 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi dovecot developers, Is there any plan to have a plugin which deletes old messages from certain folders at login time? I am thinking along the lines of the automatic removal of old messages from say, the Trash folder. This functionality exists in courier-imap and cyrus imap, and would be very handy to have in dovecot too. -- Anand

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Re: [Dovecot] maildir quota not including INBOX
by Bill Boebel 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

On Sun, June 11, 2006 1:52 pm, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 20:02 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote: >The maildir quota plugin doesn't appear to be including the INBOX in the quota > calculation that is reported by GETQUOTAROOT. > >I took a look at the code and it appears that in this file > "src/plugins/quota/quota-maildir.c", the function "maildirsize_recalculate" relies > on all of the folders being listed when "maildir_list_init" is called. However the > INBOX is not included in that listing, so its current storage size is not > included. > >I couldn't figure out what patch would be needed to fix this, but I'm sure it is > something simple. Any ideas? > > Does this still happen? It should return INBOX always, so maybe your > namespace settings somehow causes it to break.. > Yes, it is still happenning with last night's CVS. Mail in the INBOX ~/cur and ~/new directories are not counted during quota recalculations, and also I am seeing exactly what Steve describes here: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-June/014318.html My namespace settings are: namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes location = . } Bill

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[Dovecot] POP3 quota trouble
by Anand Buddhdev 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hi all, I'm running Dovecot 1.0 beta8 on CentOS 4.3. In the "protocol imap { }" section, I have enabled the following 2 plugins: imap_quota quota In the "plugin { }" section, I have configured the following: quota = maildir imap_quota = maildir This all works well, and if I use IMAP, Dovecot correctly updates the maildirsize file in user Maildirs. However, I need quota to work for POP3 as well. If I enable the quota plugin in the "protocol pop3 { }" section, I get the following error in the log: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib01_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: mountpoint_get Along with this error, POP3 logins are not possible. The server crashes, and client connection is closed. Is there a fix for this problem? Regards, -- Anand

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: Maildirquota
by Bill Boebel 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

On Tue, May 30, 2006 10:02 am, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 20:43 +0800, Timothy White wrote: >userdb static { >args = uid=112 gid=112 home=/var/mail/%1n/%n imap_quota=10485760 >} > > "imap_quota" does nothing. Use "quota" instead. Also its contents should > be something like: > > quota=maildir:storage=10485760 > > If that's correctly configured, then Dovecot creates and updates the > maildirsize file's quota information. Also the GETQUOTAROOT problem Bill > was describing doesn't seem to happen with me if this is correct.. > I am finally getting to test the latest CVS... Yep, our LDAP was returnning a bad quota string. Fixing the quota string corrected the problem I was seeing where calling GETQUOTAROOT would not always recalculate the maildirsize file. Thanks, Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] Problems with dovecot.beta9
by Roy Marples 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

> I have been upgraded dovecot today and I get following errors: > >Jun 14 12:08:54 [dovecot] IMAP(adnae at xxxxxx.xxx): inotify_init() failed: >Function not implemented >Jun 14 12:08:54 [dovecot] IMAP(auftrag at xxxxxxx.xxx): inotify_init() >failed: Function not implemented >Jun 14 12:08:54 [dovecot] IMAP(swolf at xxxxxx.xxx): inotify_init() failed: >Function not implemented > >I have a 64 bit system (Gentoo [amd64]) and I have enabled this >function on my kernel: > >Kernel: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9: > [*] Inotify file change notification support One of our developers wanted inotify support in dovecot, and look what happens - lol. The error is that you have glibc-2.4 which triggers inotify support in dovecot on linux boxes (in the Gentoo ebuild). However, glibc-2.4 needs to be compiled against linux-headers-2.6.13 or later as they provide the linux/inotify.h header which glibc needs. I've spoken to our toolchain guys and they don't want to remove glibc's inotify.h so they keep their ABI which makes perfect sense to them. So I've hacked up a patch to dovecots configure.in that only enables inotify if it really works :) It also tests for inotify, then kqueue, then dnotify if no notify method is specified. Seems to work well. If upstream (Timo) accepts it then I'll roll it into beta9's ebuild ASAP A better solution would be to have something in the code though as if the kernel suddenly drops to <2.6.13 then you'll get the same errors. In the meantime, I've forced the beta9 ebuild to only use inotify if >=glibc-2.4 and >=linux-headers-2.6.16 are present, and I hope glibc has been compiled against them - lol. Thanks -- Roy Marples <uberlord(a)gentoo.org> Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking)

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[Dovecot] pop-3 login delay
by Joseph W. Breu 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

We are running Dovecot 1.0.beta9 w/ mysql authentication. Mail storage is a Network Appliance F810 filer and we are using maildir. The only issue that we have run into is that pop3 logins take much longer than imap logins within dovecott and many times longer than a similar connection with courier-imap. For example, dovecot IMAP and courier-imap POP3 and IMAP logins take less than 1/2 second to complete the login. dovecot POP3 takes 2-3 seconds. I have disabled MMAP and am using fcntl. I searched the last few months of the archive, and being new here, didn't know if this had been discussed before or not. Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] 1.0 RC1 status #2
by Timo Sirainen 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

I've done several fixes since my original RC1 status mail. Most importantly I noticed that SEARCH command has been somewhat broken for a long time if the search condition contained OR or NOT conditions. Then again fixing that caused Dovecot to assert-crash for some searches. That should be fixed now. Hopefully I didn't break the SEARCH in other ways while doing this.. So, again, please test the latest CVS or the latest nightly snapshot from http://dovecot.org/nightly/ Especially I'm interested in: - Does SEARCH work correctly? - Does ioloop checks now work properly? There were mails about it being broken with kqueue and epoll. - Does mboxes with CR+LF linefeeds work correctly? I'm hoping to release the 1.0 RC1 late in sunday or in monday morning (EEST). Then a status update of my life in case you're interested: I got in pretty much everywhere I applied for: CS and biotech in Helsinki university and biotech in Tampere university. For Helsinki's biochem I'm the first in the waiting list, which means I almost certainly would get in there too. So, unless something suddenly changes my mind, I'm moving to Tampere in two months. I'm selling my current apartment, so now's your chance to live in the same place where most of Dovecot was designed and written ;) Or I think it could be a good investment also if you have the money. http://www.igglo.fi/ad.php?card_id=82322 has some information (in Finnish only), I'll get pictures from inside tomorrow. Would be nice if I didn't have to pay real estate agents (?) to sell it for me, so please buy it :) I'll keep my current job so this shouldn't affect the commercial side of Dovecot.

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[Dovecot] loganalyser for dovecot logs ?
by Andreas Schulze 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

hello, I'm looking for any help to analyze my dovecot logs - logins per day - different users - users per protocol - bytes - pop3commands - nice graphs any suggestions ? thanks -- Andreas Schulze DATEV eG, Paumgartner Strasse 6-14, D - 90429 Nürnberg Abt. Internet- und Securitydienste Telefon : +49 911 276 2648 Telefax : +49 911 276 7892 Mobil : +49 172 8122883 E-Mail : andreas.schulze_at_datev.de

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[Dovecot] Asterisks (*) in Folder Names disallowed?
by Daniel W 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

As far as I can see the RFC for IMAP should allow the * character in the folder name. This is certainly allowed in UW IMAP. Dovecot seems to object however with: ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: COPY 9975:9975 "mail/*myfolder" Reason Given: Invalid mailbox name. Could this restriction be lifted? Best wishes, Daniel

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Re: [Dovecot] problem with dovecot and thunderbird while deleting
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

My BSD wrote: > That was my point. The problem seems to be more a Thunderbird than a > Dovecot bug. > Hmmm, I am not sure. With Cyrus TB seems to work correctly in that case.

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[Dovecot] Configure Dovecot with LDAP
by hpmysql 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Dear All I encountered some problem while i tried to configure Dovecot with LDAP. configuration directory: /usr/local/src/dovecot-1.0.beta8 configure command: ./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib --with-ldap /usr/local/include# ls -F lber.h lber_types.h ldap.h ldap_cdefs.h ldap_features.h ldap_schema.h ldap_utf8.h openssl/ slapi-plugin.h /usr/local/lib# ls *.a libcrypto.a liblber.a libldap.a libldap_r.a libssl.a My configure output: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword (modules) Building with SQL drivers ............: It does not seem to have LDAP configured. Did i miss out something on the configure options? or is there any PATH that i need to specify? Hope to hear from you soon! Thanking in advance. Joshua

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[Dovecot] trying to build dovecot-sieve
by Sergey Ivanov 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi, I'm trying to compile dovecot with dovecot-sieve, both from CVS. There is file dovecot-config.in.in in current dovecot module, which produce dovecot-config.in after ./configure'ing. But dovecot-sieve requires file dovecot-config to be in dovecot's directory. I think it is just typo, because after renaming dovecot-config.in to dovecot-config the building succeeded. -- Sergey Ivanov

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[Dovecot] quotas on shared folders
by Nicolas Boullis 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi, After using dovecot 0.99.14 on a production server with full satisfaction, I'm now giving a try to 1.0beta8 (I know beta9 is out, but it's not yet available within Debian). The new features are great. Maildir++ quotas seem to work fine, and shared folders look promising (despite a few issues). My problem is that I could not fire out how to set quotas on shared folders. Is it possible? Cheers, Nicolas

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[Dovecot] [PATCH, RFC 0/13] OTP: add auth_cache_remove()
by Andrey Panin 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

This patchset add support for One-Time-Password authentication mechanisms, both S/Key (RFC 1731) and OTP (RFC 2444) are implemented. Tested with mutt (uses cyrus sasl library for authentication). Patches were made against CVS HEAD. Please take a look. Add auth_cache_remove() function which will be used by OTP code to evict old entries from auth cache. diff -urdpNX /usr/share/dontdiff -x Makefile dovecot.vanilla/src/auth/auth-cache.c dovecot/src/auth/auth-cache.c --- dovecot.vanilla/src/auth/auth-cache.c 2006-06-23 13:42:22.122508080 +0400 +++ dovecot/src/auth/auth-cache.c 2006-06-23 13:44:30.945923944 +0400 @@ -226,3 +226,22 @@ void auth_cache_insert(struct auth_cache cache->size_left -= alloc_size; hash_insert(cache->hash, node->data, node); } + +void auth_cache_remove(struct auth_cache *cache, + const struct auth_request *request, + const char *key) +{ + string_t *str; + struct cache_node *node; + + str = t_str_new(256); + var_expand(str, key, + auth_request_get_var_expand_table(request, + auth_request_str_escape)); + + node = hash_lookup(cache->hash, str_c(str)); + if (node == NULL) + return; + + auth_cache_node_destroy(cache, node); +} diff -urdpNX /usr/share/dontdiff -x Makefile dovecot.vanilla/src/auth/auth-cache.h dovecot/src/auth/auth-cache.h --- dovecot.vanilla/src/auth/auth-cache.h 2006-06-23 13:42:22.122508080 +0400 +++ dovecot/src/auth/auth-cache.h 2006-06-23 13:44:30.945923944 +0400 @@ -27,4 +27,9 @@ void auth_cache_insert(struct auth_cache const struct auth_request *request, const char *key, const char *value); +/* Remove key from cache */ +void auth_cache_remove(struct auth_cache *cache, + const struct auth_request *request, + const char *key); + #endif

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Re: [Dovecot] problem with dovecot and thunderbird while deleting
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

My BSD wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:57:00 +0300 > Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:19 +0400, the.buratino(a)rambler.ru wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> I have very strange problem with dovecot and thunderbird while >>> deleting messages. The problem is that they are not actually >>> deleted from storage filesystem and if I later run mutt I can >>> perfectly see them, though marked with 'D', so mutt ask to delete >>> them on exit and this time they dissapear from filesystem. I >>> enabled in thunderbird 'remove it iimediately' feature, but this >>> doesn't help. When I delete message from mutt it removed from >>> filesystem just fine. >>> >>> IMAP server: >>> OS: FreeBSD 6.1p2 >>> dovecot: dovecot-1.0.b9 >> Yes, this is a bug in 1.0beta9. If you do the expunging twice it >> should work then. I'll release 1.0rc1 soon which will fix it. >> > > Good day! > > (I missed the beginning of this thread, sorry. I hope I'm not > re-stating the obvious or what some other poster already observed.) > > I'm not so sure that this is only a Dovecot bug. > > As I understand it, upon manual deletion TB's "remove it immediately" > setting removes it from view but not from the server. > > As the.buratino correctly observed, messages are marked deleted on the > server. However, TB does not expunge them until TB is closed (or > sometimes re-started). > I've made some experiments with TB and observed: 1) if message was in INBOX and marked for deletion by TB it _is_ deleted from filesystem after TB restart. 2) if message was _not_ in INBOX but in other IMAP folder it is not deleted even after TB restart. In addition to mutt I've tested sylpheed and it is also delete messages from server correctly, i.e. they are removed from filesystem

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[Dovecot] problem with dovecot and thunderbird while deleting
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hello! I have very strange problem with dovecot and thunderbird while deleting messages. The problem is that they are not actually deleted from storage filesystem and if I later run mutt I can perfectly see them, though marked with 'D', so mutt ask to delete them on exit and this time they dissapear from filesystem. I enabled in thunderbird 'remove it iimediately' feature, but this doesn't help. When I delete message from mutt it removed from filesystem just fine. IMAP server: OS: FreeBSD 6.1p2 dovecot: dovecot-1.0.b9 Client: OS: Debian sarge Thunderbird: thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (from backports.org) Any suggestions ?

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[Dovecot] Squirrel mail search tool fails
by Paul 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

When I do a search in squirrelmail, it will start giving several results, but then fails. I use squirrelmail via https. maillog reveils: file message-body-search.c: line 391 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset <= part->physical_pos) Squirrel mail browser interface reveils: ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: SEARCH CHARSET UTF-8 ALL TEXT {4} "text" Current versions (all up to date) squirrelmail-1.4.6-5.el4.centos4 dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12 squirrelmail-1.4.6-5.el4.centos4 mod_ssl-2.0.52-22.ent.centos4 Can someone point me in a direction? I just cut-over to CentOS4.3 (fresh install) from FC1 and this is the first bug which I have never seen before. Never have used Dovecot before. Thanks. -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^| || \ | Budvar ######|| ||'|"\,__. | _..._...______ ===|=||_|__|...] "(@)'(@)""""**|(@)(@)*****(@)I

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[Dovecot] Dovecot with Imp problems
by Neil Wilson 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi guys, I've run into a strange problem using beta 8 and beta 9 when using the latest version of Horde/IMP Through IMP, I can see that there are messages in the maildir on the sidemenu(popup menu) but the emails don't show in my actual inbox. I thought this was an IMP problem, but then I downgraded to dovecot 99 series RPM and this resolved the problem. I was seeing the following error in my logs, when I tried to log into a mailbox through IMP. Jun 21 09:22:46 mail dovecot: IMAP(davew): file index-mail.c: line 105 (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == data_size) Jun 21 09:22:46 mail dovecot: child 6217 (imap) killed with signal 6 Thanks, I hope this helps. Regards. Neil Wilson Powered by Linux, driven by passion! -- This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer: http://www.dcdata.co.za/emaildisclaimer.html

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[Dovecot] UID sync errors
by Patrick MacDonald 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hello, I recently converted my 300+ email user system over to Dovecot. It is working fantastically, except for UID sync errors. I read everything I could find and only saw others with those problems in version 0.99 below. My log shows errors like this all day long for pretty much all users: dovecot: Jun 25 19:12:46 Error: POP3(nmichel): Maildir /home/rtb/users/nmichel/.Maildir sync: UID < next_uid (42 < 43, file = msg.oP8c:2,) dovecot: Jun 25 19:25:59 Error: IMAP(lcrowe): Maildir /home/dentist/users/lcrowe/.Maildir sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (70 > 4, file = msg.AM81:2,) When this happens, IMAP and POP3 drop the connections sending errors to their clients. I use squirrelmail over IMAP and some new emails never appear until I delete the index files. I have tried deleting indexes, and the problem continued. I went from dovecot-1.0.beta3 to dovecot-1.0.beta9 and still happens. The only way it doesn't happen is when I append the INDEX=MEMORY trick as in: default_mail_env = maildir:~/.Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY but then it's all so slow for large mailboxes, it's painful. Here are some of my specs: Linux kernel 2.6.15 Maildir Auth from /etc/shadow Users from /etc/passwd Does anyone have any hints on where I should start? Thanks in advance. I love Dovecot. I really hope I can get this resolved. Patrick MacDonald admin(a)athensguy.com

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[Dovecot] OE pop3 > imap subfolder migration?
by Sysadmin 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hello. This isn't actually a dovecot question, but I'm running in clienys servers dovecot mostly as pop3 server and now started to migrate some servers to imap. But as clients uses Outlook Express how to transfer their pop3 settings and mailboxes to imap?. Making a new mail account for imap is easy, and drag & drop the default folders (inbox, outbox etc) messages to imap accounts default folders is easy, but what about subfolders? Some users have hundreds subfolders and creating them & transfering messages by hand is a pain. So have anyone a better and faster solution how to migrate Outlook Express pop3 account to the imap account, preserving the same folders, rules etc. -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] RHEL 3 and quota issues.
by Alan Premselaar 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to code provided by Geo Carncross, I was able to determine what the problem was with v2 quota support on RHEL 3 using ext3 filesystems. I've included a patch file for quota-fs.c <sys/quota.h> on RHEL 3 sets _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION to 1 if it's not defined by default. I copied <sys/quota.h> to ./sysquota.h and edited it to set _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION to 2 if not defined since that's the version i'm using on my machine. I don't know if that's necessarily appropriate so I'm not including that file. (I then modified quota-fs.h to load "sysquota.h" instead of <sys/quota.h>) I was able to get it to compile and properly show the quota information now. I'd like to do more testing (like seeing if explicitly setting _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION to 2 is really necesssary) but my one and only RHEL 3 machine is my production mail server, so I can't really do that. Anyways, since I figured out the problem and fixed it for myself, I thought I would share :) Timo, perhaps if you have the time to look at the patch and if the modifications to the quota.h file are necessary or not and include it into the next CVS update, I'm sure people would appreciate it. Thanks, Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEn0spE2gsBSKjZHQRAs/RAJ9DsqkhHYvRifZYkOcLo8DibQMS0gCdEPDD A4CUiujssDVT5e+pjfuMWow= =+6vU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- quota-fs.c.orig 2006-06-26 11:23:30.000000000 +0900 +++ quota-fs.c 2006-06-26 11:27:52.000000000 +0900 @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ /* BSD, AIX */ root->mount->device_path, QCMD(Q_GETQUOTA, USRQUOTA), #endif - root->uid, (void *)&dqblk) < 0) { + root->uid, (caddr_t)&dqblk) < 0) { i_error("quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, %s) failed: %m", root->mount->device_path); quota_set_error(_root->setup->quota, "Internal quota error"); @@ -211,8 +211,13 @@ return -1; } #endif +#if _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION < 2 *value_r = (uint64_t)dqblk.dqb_curblocks * (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024 / 4096; +#else + *value_r = (uint64_t)dqblk.dqb_curspace * + (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024 / 4096; +#endif *limit_r = (uint64_t)dqblk.dqb_bsoftlimit * (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024 / 4; return 1;

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[Dovecot] Problem with SSL
by Артемьев Артем 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Freebsd dovecot --version 1.0.beta9 In /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf #grep -i ssl /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf |egrep -v '^#' ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/mail/certs/server.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/mail/certs/server.key ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 When I try to be connected to imaps I get message in maillog: Jun 24 04:00:18 alife dovecot: imap-login: Waiting for SSL parameter file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat Also I deleted a file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat and reboot system. And file rebuild but still ssl doesn't work. I try # /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ssl-build-param /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat SSL parameters regeneration completed And ssl doesn't work and I still get message Waiting for SSL parameter file /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ssl-parameters.dat I do not know what to do. I have another server with 1.0.beta8 and ssl work fine.

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[Dovecot] escaping in sqlite
by Jakob Hirsch 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi Timo&all, a recent change in the sql drivers introduced escaping, but sqlite is a different in this aspect: You cannot escape with a backslash, the only character that needs escaping is the quoting character itself (by doubling it, as the SQL standard says). As the escaping function does not know which quote character is used, one should only use the single tick ' (again, as the SQL standard says) and the escaping function double any single quote in the string. (untested) patch for the latter attached. Index: dovecot/src/lib-sql/driver-sqlite.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-sql/driver-sqlite.c,v retrieving revision 1.5.2.1 diff -u -r1.5.2.1 driver-sqlite.c --- dovecot/src/lib-sql/driver-sqlite.c 31 May 2006 11:02:45 -0000 1.5.2.1 +++ dovecot/src/lib-sql/driver-sqlite.c 25 Jun 2006 12:53:48 -0000 @@ -92,7 +92,24 @@ static char *driver_sqlite_escape_string(struct sql_db *_db __attr_unused__, const char *string) { - return t_strdup_noconst(str_escape(string)); + size_t newlen = 0; + char *c, *newstr; + + /* check if escaping is needed */ + if (index(string, '\'') == NULL) + return string; + + /* escape ' */ + newstr = t_buffer_get(strlen(string) * 2 + 1); + for (c=string; *c != '\0'; ++c) { + newstr[newlen++] = *c; + if (*c == '\'') + newstr[newlen++] = *c; + } + newstr[newlen] = '\0'; + t_buffer_alloc(newlen + 1); + + return newstr; } static void driver_sqlite_exec(struct sql_db *_db, const char *query)

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[Dovecot] recent dovecot: assertion failed.
by sergey ivanov 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hi, today I have built dovecot from cvs sources, and upgraded server from beta-7 to this newer version. Then i got problems with opening INBOX using thunderbird 1.5.0.2. The client says "Opening folder...", then, after about half a minute, blinking "connecting to the server" and returning to "Opening folder..." /var/log/maillog gets the messages: --- Jun 22 17:19:07 parkheights dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<seriv>, method=plain, rip=66.80.117.2, lip=192.168.10.14, TLS Jun 22 17:19:26 parkheights dovecot: IMAP(seriv): file index-search.c: line 845 (search_get_seqset): assertion failed: (ctx->seq1 <= ctx->seq2) Jun 22 17:19:26 parkheights dovecot: child 25812 (imap) killed with signal 6 --- and this lines repeat and repeat. At the same time I can open some INBOX' subfolders at the same server. So, I think it is a problem not with a server's software, but with mail storage. Help me, please, - how can I fix these indexes, or what causes the problem with access to that mail folder? My dovecot's configs are: --- # dovecot -a -n protocols: imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/key.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login default_mail_env: maildir:/home/%u/.imap lock_method: flock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd --- # dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=epoll dnotify ipv6 openssl mysql postgresql sqlite Passdb: checkpassword ldap pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: checkpassword ldap passwd passwd-file sql static -- Sergey Ivanov

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Re: [Dovecot] Help! Uidlist files are gone and won't come back; imap keeps coredumping!
by Mario Nigrovic-rvvk40 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Timo - The only behavior change that I notice is that when I exit the telnet session the truss also exits. Previously, the truss hung around until I did the "pkill dovecot", after exiting the telnet session. So, that's weird. But, hold on! Now I do seem to have a uidlist file, again! % ls -l total 308 drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 98304 Jun 19 07:44 cur/ -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 260 Jun 19 07:47 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 65752 Jun 19 07:47 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 29560 Jun 11 08:42 dovecot.index drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 32768 Jun 19 07:43 new/ -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 1188 May 1 07:01 subscriptions drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 61440 Jun 19 07:42 tmp/ Mario Timo Sirainen wrote: > Try if the attached patch changes anything. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Index: src/lib/file-dotlock.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/lib/file-dotlock.c,v > retrieving revision 1.38 > diff -u -r1.38 file-dotlock.c > --- src/lib/file-dotlock.c 8 Jun 2006 16:42:40 -0000 1.38 > +++ src/lib/file-dotlock.c 19 Jun 2006 12:55:51 -0000 > @@ -664,6 +664,12 @@ > } > } > > + if (dotlock->fd != -1) { > + if (close(dotlock->fd) < 0) > + i_error("close(%s) failed: %m", dotlock->path); > + dotlock->fd = -1; > + } > + > if (rename(lock_path, dotlock->path) < 0) { > i_error("rename(%s, %s) failed: %m", lock_path, dotlock->path); > file_dotlock_free(dotlock); -- I don't need a name; my number's just fine. | Mario.Nigrovic(a)freescale.com It's nobody else's -- just mine, all mine. | 480-413-3578 Internal Use Only

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[Dovecot] BODY.PEEK errors on Beta8?
by Gavin Henry 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: FETCH 1 (FLAGS UID RFC822.SIZE INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date To Cc From Subject X-Priority Importance Priority Content-Type)]) Will try an update just now. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.0_beta9 : (auth) killed with signal 11
by Paul Harrington 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

I have just upgraded from courier to dovecot and things seem to be working okay (after a few problems getting shared folders working correctly). I notice the following error message in my logs:- Jun 23 11:17:32 calzone dovecot: child 1258 (auth) killed with signal 11 I am using the beta9 ebuild that is available from gentoo portage. I have followed the steps to try to get a core dump but it doesn't seem to be working. My config file is as follows:- =============================================================== protocols = imap imaps protocol imap { listen = 127.0.0.1:143 ssl_listen = *:993 } mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes auth_debug = yes #mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/users/%u auth default { mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/imap.passwd } passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/imap.passwd } } namespace private { separator = . prefix = Inbox. inbox = yes } namespace public { separator = . prefix = Allstar. location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/users/shared::CONTROL=/var/spool/mail/virtual/control/%u:INDEX=/var/spool/mail/virtual/control/%u } ================================================================== All users use UID/GID 5000. /etc/imap.passwd contains enteries such as:- paul:rMPY999gvr2kU:5000:5000::/var/spool/mail/virtual/users/paul Any advise on how I can produce a core dump and get this fixed? Thanks Paul

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[Dovecot] LMTP revisited
by Glenn Leavell 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

During the early Dovecot LDA brainstorming discussions, there was some talk about the possibility of including an LMTP interface, and I've noticed that there's an "is it needed?" question about LMTP in Dovecot's TODO file. I'd like to put in a vote for LMTP, and I'm wondering if anyone else has a need for it. Specifically, I'd love an LMTP-enabled LDA that uses hard links when when delivering the same message to multiple recipients (I'm thinking Maildir files), as it would be a nice way to facilitate so-called Single Instance Storage. Glenn

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[Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state
by Patrick Carney 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Can anyone help me with this issue? The CEO of our company keeps getting IMAP time out errors and "mailbox is in an inconsistent state" messages. He uses Outlook 2003. There are errors on the server side. This is what it says: "Jun 19 08:08:34 burmail imap(ed): Corrupted binary tree file /home/ed/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't hi gher than existing (2 <= 504)" Can someone tell me what that means?? I have been assigned to take over for a departed sys admin and have never used or administered Dovecot before. Thank You! Patrick

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[Dovecot] Patch for rawlog.c
by Andreas Schulze 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

hello The homedirectories are stored as a relative path in my userdb One problem ocoures with rawlog: rawloging occures only if a directory $HOME/dovecot.rawlog exist. this is checked with lstat for me $HOME is always "username/". This is relative to /var/mail and works. in rawlog.c lstat should now check "username//dovecot.rawlog" which fails. lstat can check "/var/mail/username//dovecot.rawlog" or "./dovecot.rawlog" ( All checks test the existence of the same dir. ) I patched rawlog.c for me to force always the test of "./dovecot.rawlog" I think, this is no problem, because imap-auth / pop3-auth always change to the correct location. mayby I am wrong, because I'm _NOT_ dealing with mboxes, only maildirs. then you may discard this ... --- snip diff -Naur dovecot-1.0.beta9.orig/src/util/rawlog.c dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/util/rawlog.c --- dovecot-1.0.beta9.orig/src/util/rawlog.c 2006-02-26 11:05:31.000000000 +0100 +++ dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/util/rawlog.c 2006-06-23 08:37:57.684368256 +0200 @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #define TIMESTAMP_WAIT_TIME 5 #define TIMESTAMP_FORMAT "* OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\n" +#define RAWLOG_DIRNAME "./dovecot.rawlog" static struct ioloop *ioloop; @@ -261,20 +262,14 @@ static void rawlog_open(bool write_timestamps) { - const char *home, *path; struct stat st; int sfd[2]; pid_t pid; - home = getenv("HOME"); - if (home == NULL) - home = "."; - /* see if we want rawlog */ - path = t_strconcat(home, "/dovecot.rawlog", NULL); - if (lstat(path, &st) < 0) { + if (lstat(RAWLOG_DIRNAME, &st) < 0) { if (errno != ENOENT) - i_warning("lstat() failed for %s: %m", path); + i_warning("lstat() failed for %s: %m", RAWLOG_DIRNAME); return; } if (!S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) @@ -305,7 +300,7 @@ dec2str(getppid()))); ioloop = io_loop_create(system_pool); - rawlog_proxy_create(0, 1, sfd[0], path, write_timestamps); + rawlog_proxy_create(0, 1, sfd[0], RAWLOG_DIRNAME, write_timestamps); io_loop_run(ioloop); io_loop_destroy(&ioloop); ---- snap -- Andreas Schulze DATEV eG, Paumgartner Strasse 6-14, D - 90429 Nürnberg Abt. Internet- und Securitydienste Telefon : +49 911 276 2648 Telefax : +49 911 276 7892 Mobil : +49 172 8122883 E-Mail : andreas.schulze_at_datev.de

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[Dovecot] courier imap features I miss in dovecot
by Andreas Schulze 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

hello, courier imap has two features: ##NAME: IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH:0 # # Set IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH to move expunged messages to Trash. This # effectively allows an undo of message deletion by fishing the deleted # mail from trash. Trash can be manually expunged as usually, and mail # will get automatically expunged from Trash according to IMAP_EMPTYTRASH. # # NOTE: shared folders are still expunged as usual. Shared folders are # not affected. # IMAP_MOVE_EXPUNGE_TO_TRASH=1 ##NAME: IMAP_EMPTYTRASH:0 # # The following setting is optional, and causes messages from the given # folder to be automatically deleted after the given number of days. # IMAP_EMPTYTRASH is a comma-separated list of folder:days. The default # setting, below, purges 7 day old messages from the Trash folder. # Another useful setting would be: # # IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7,Sent:30 # # This would also delete messages from the Sent folder (presumably copies # of sent mail) after 30 days. This is a global setting that is applied to # every mail account, and is probably useful in a controlled, corporate # environment. # is this possible with dovecot too ? -- Andreas Schulze DATEV eG, Paumgartner Strasse 6-14, D - 90429 Nürnberg Abt. Internet- und Securitydienste Telefon : +49 911 276 2648 Telefax : +49 911 276 7892 Mobil : +49 172 8122883 E-Mail : andreas.schulze_at_datev.de

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[Dovecot] different locations for different reals
by Arne Van Theemsche 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Hi I've been reading a lot, but I think I'am confused about namespaces. We are planning a migration of our pshychical mail storage. This will mean that subfolders are moving from /home to /var/spool/mail. I was thinking, for the migrations of creating a realm. I would like that if a user logs in with his username, the old location is used, if the user logs in with username@REALM, the subfolders are to be searched in the new location, is this possible? Can I use a different mail location per realm? thx in advance Arne

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[Dovecot] Large mbox files.
by Kevin Warren 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

I'm very sorry if this is a faq. I've spent considerable time reading documentation and doing Google searches to no avail...and the mailing list archive isn't searchable as far as I can tell. Anyway, the question: When I try to open a large mbox file from Squirrel Mail I receive the following Dovecot error: Jun 23 10:47:55 jetta dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(kevin): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 400 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): ass ertion failed: (need_space == (uoff_t)-mails[idx].space) Jun 23 10:47:56 jetta dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 28535 (imap) killed with signal 6 Not sure what other information you will need. (There's no posting guideline for the mailing list) Here's my guess: Dovecot version: 1.0.beta9 OS version: Solaris x86 v10 I'm guessing a listing of non-default values in dovecot.conf would be useful too: $ grep -vE "^ *#" dovecot.conf | grep -E "^ *[a-z\}]" ssl_listen = *:993 first_valid_uid = 100 protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } plugin { }

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[Dovecot] dovecot and thunderbird
by Mark Davies 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

We've been using dovecot for a while now (currently 1.0beta7) and it works nicely. We have just one reoccuring problem: When using thunderbird as the imap client sometimes when messages are moved from the inbox to other folders (including Trash) they shortly thereafter reappear in the inbox - this can happen multiple times to the same message. We have multiple namespaces set up so that inbox is mbox format in ~/.poffice/username and other folders are maildir in ~/Maildir - both of these are on NFS. Indexes are on local storage. The problem only seems to happen with thunderbird. kmail, mac mail, outlook, pine all work fine. If we effectively move a user so that their inbox is also maildir then the problem doesn't happen. The inbox being mbox format is for historic reasons and medium to long term this should change to maildir but in the interim can anyone see anything different that thunderbird does to other imap clients that might be tickling an underlying bug? cheers mark

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[Dovecot] beta9 (auth) killed with signal 11 - backtrace
by Paul Harrington 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Further to my previous email I managed to find the core file. Version: 1.0.beta9 OS: Gentoo x86 Core was generated by `dovecot-auth'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. (gdb) bt full #0 0xb7d575ba in strcasecmp () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x0805b091 in passdb_get_credentials () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available.

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[Dovecot] 2nd Question on v1.0 setup and maildir
by Patrick Carney 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

_____ From: Patrick Carney [mailto:patrick@castandcrew.com] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:55 AM To: 'dovecot(a)dovecot.org' Subject: Question on v1.0 setup and maildir Hello all. I appreciate the responses to my problem on v0.99.14. Thank you all. We have built a new server running version 1.0-0_15.beta9.el4. The mail delivery agent is sendmail. We seem to have gotten it up fairly easily. But we have one problem. We are using the maildir feature instead of mbox and when ever mail gets delivered, it is not sending it to the \maildir\new folder. It seems to be dumping it in the root of the maildir directory, thus when a client checks for email, it appears nothing is there. Here is a sample from our config. Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Forgive me if this is elementary question, but I am new to dovecot. ## Mailbox locations and namespaces ## # 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 are a few special variables you can use, eg.: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there's no domain # %h - home directory # # See doc/variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir # If you need to set multiple mailbox locations or want to change default # namespace settings, you can do it by defining namespace sections: # # You can have private, shared and public namespaces. The only difference # between them is how Dovecot announces them to client via NAMESPACE # extension. Shared namespaces are meant for user-owned mailboxes which are # shared to other users, while public namespaces are for more globally # accessible mailboxes. # # REMEMBER: If you add any namespaces, the default namespace must be added # explicitly, ie. default_mail_env does nothing unless you have a namespace # without a location setting. Default namespace is simply done by having a # namespace with empty prefix. #namespace private { # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator for all # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a good one. #separator = / # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be different for # all namespaces. For example "Public/". #prefix = # Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as # default_mail_env, which is also the default for it. #location = # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which namespace # has it. #inbox = yes # If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via NAMESPACE # extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful when converting # from another server with different namespaces which you want to depricate # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden namespaces with # prefixes "~/mail/", "~%u/mail/" and "mail/". #hidden = yes #} # Grant access to these extra groups for mail processes. Typical use would be # to give "mail" group write access to /var/mail to be able to create dotlocks. #mail_extra_groups = # 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 ##

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[Dovecot] This store does not support subscriptions, or they are not enabled...
by Dan Stromberg 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi folks. I'm using evolution 2.2.3 on Fedora Core 4 with simap to dovecot 1.0beta9. I had the same problem with dovecot 1.0alpha1. The problem is that I can't seem to subscribe to any folders. Nor can I seem to get this combination to list all of my folders. I'd be fine with either. It used to be, that if I just toggled "show only subscribed folders" a few times, I'd start getting folders, but not anymore. Of course, sometimes the behavior would be the opposite of what I'd selected, but I wasn't too worried about that. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] maildir++ Quotas - bizarre behavior.
by Apps Lists 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi Timo et al. I've been trying to track down why Dovecot recalculations of maildirsize are so wildly different (lower) than what Maildrop comes up with. I think I've found some bizarre behavior in Dovecot -- this is in beta9 as well as CVS from yesterday. It appears Dovecot isn't looking at /Maildir/cur ... /Maildir/new and /Maildir/tmp. It is, however, looking at /Maildir/.Drafts, /Maildir/.Sent, and /Maildir/.Trash. None of these folders contain any messages, but Dovecot seems to count the existence of . and .. as message files. Worse, it's coming up with actual usage data for these empty (of messages) folders. Presumably it's counting the log and cache files. I've attached a diff to quota-maildir.c which will enable some verbose logging. Also attached is a ls -lR of the Maildir in question as well as the output of the aforementioned debugging. Please help. Steve

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[Dovecot] Authentication problems with mysql 5
by Gianfranco Bartolini 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hello, this is my first post here, so hi to all! I've just configured a new Suse Linux 10.1 distribution that comes with: - postfix 2.2.9 + mysql tables - dovecot 1.0.beta3 - mysql 5.0.18 - kernel 2.6.16.13-4-bigsmp i386 on a Intel Xeon 2.0Ghz with 3Gb RAM I've also added postfixadmin 2.1.0 to build an IMAP server with virtual users/virtual hosts management, and ran the script DATABASE_MYSQL.TXT to build correctly database/tables and user/permissions. The problem is that dovecot fail to access to mysql tables with the following error: =================== dovecot: Jun 12 18:40:28 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up dovecot: Jun 12 18:40:29 Error: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to 127.0.0.1 (postfix): Access denied for user 'postfix'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry =================== I've tried to connect to mysql using the socket instead of the local ip address, but i've got the same error: =================== dovecot: Jun 12 18:55:19 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta3 starting up dovecot: Jun 12 18:55:20 Error: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to (null) (postfix): Access denied for user 'postfix'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry =================== In mysql the user "postfix" is correctly created with access granted from either localhost and 127.0.0.1 If i do the same from the command line it works perfectly: =================== server01:/ # mysql -h localhost -u postfix -p Enter password: secret Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 136 to server version: 5.0.18 Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> =================== Here is my dovecot.conf: =================== default_mail_env = maildir:/home/mbox/%d/%n protocols = imap pop3 auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } } first_valid_uid = 51 ssl_disable = yes listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log =================== And my dovecot-sql.conf: =================== driver = mysql connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=postfix user=postfix password=secret default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' user_query = SELECT maildir AS mail, 51 AS uid, 51 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' =================== I'v tried also all the password mechanisms (PLAIN, PLAIN-MD5, MD5, CRYPT) with no success. My google searches ended with no results. Btw, the same configuration on a Suse 9.3 professional works perfectly :( Please anyone can help me? Thanks in advance for all the kindly support Saluti G.Bartolini Linux User #333064

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[Dovecot] Re: entered bc_action_emit with filelen:
by Alex Pimperton 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hi, I'm still getting the errors below on Debian Etch with Dovecot 1.0.8-4 and Dovecot LDA. Is this something that's fixed in 1.0.9? It doesn't seem to have an effect but I'm wary of messages I don't recognise! Regards, Alex Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: 16 Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: 112 Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: 240 Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: 368 Jun 20 14:13:04 server01 deliver: entered bc_action_emit with filelen: -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the MailScanner at Placet.co.uk, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] problem with kqueue
by Alessandro de Manzano 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hello, I'm a new user of Dovecot (since 1.0b8) and I'ld report about a possible bug. Situation: Dovecot 1.0beta9 with kqueue support FreeBSD 6.1-Release x86 machine (IBM x206, P4 3.2 Ghz) local filesystem UFS2 This is an internal, experimental, mail server running Postfix and Dovecot configured with Maildirs e IMAP-only access. Clients are quite few, now, just because it's an experiment. However are near all Outlook Express 6. Running with dovecot 1.0 beta8 _without_ kqueue support for few weeks was fine, no problems at all. A couple of days ago I updated to beta9 (using FreeBSD's portupgrade tools) and in the _same_time_ I enabled the kqueue support. Since then I've seen about 3-4 of these in the log: (note that process traps apparently after reporting the unrecognized event) Jun 20 10:38:53 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Unrecognized event: kevent {.ident = 1, .filter = 0xfffffffe, .flags = 0x0000, .fflags = 0x00000000, .data = 0x00008322} Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): mode: 0x004x Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue kernel: pid 18426 (imap), uid 1004: exited on signal 6 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: child 18426 (imap) killed with signal 6 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:38:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<laura2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.9.31, lip=192.168.9.68 Jun 20 10:39:54 bigblue dovecot: IMAP(laura2): Disconnected in IDLE Any ideas ? Any one else got these messages ? I'ld try recompiling beta9 without kqueue support, probably the issue would disappear, but IMHO is not the best way to "correct" things :) Many thanks in advance! -- Alessandro de Manzano System & Network Administrator Playstos - TIMA S.p.A. Corso Sempione 63 20149 Milano, Italy tel.: +39-023314153 fax : +39-02315678 email: demanzano(a)playstos.com http://www.playstos.com

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[Dovecot] Dovecot servers / SAN
by Dean Manners 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hey guys, Wondering if anyone out there has any input on running Dovecot with SAN storage. Its coming to the time where we need to run load balanced servers, and past experiences steer us away from a NAS. Tips / pitfalls ? Regards __________________________________________ Dean Manners

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RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state
by Patrick Carney 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

So how do I delete his indexes? Is there somewhere a step by step procedure? Timo, please help? Forgive me, I am new to all this. Thanks much, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Graves [mailto:jeff@image-src.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:34 AM To: 'Patrick Carney' Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state I haven't used 0.99 in a while but it shouldn't destroy the subscriptions. I think the next login may be delayed some while the index is rebuilt. Might want to check with Timo. -- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Carney [mailto:patrick@castandcrew.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:23 PM To: 'Jeff Graves'; dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state Will that destroy his folder subscriptions? Will I loose anything? Thanks PAtrick -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Graves Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:18 AM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state The only quick and easy band-aid I can think of is to delete the indexes and let dovecot recreate them. -- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Carney Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:44 PM To: 'Timo Sirainen' Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state Yes. I was afraid of that. But the weird thing is it only happens with One particular user. And at that, it wasn't doing it for the longest time. It just started recently. Is there a band-aid for this. I ask because we are not in a place to upgrade at the moment. Thanks Patrick -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:37 AM To: Patrick Carney Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] imap - mailbox in an inconsistant state On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:07 -0700, Patrick Carney wrote: > "Jun 19 08:08:34 burmail imap(ed): Corrupted binary tree > file /home/ed/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted > isn't higher than existing (2 <= 504)" > Can someone tell me what that means?? I have been assigned to take > over for a departed sys admin and have never used or administered > Dovecot before. You're using 0.99.x Dovecot and there's not much point anymore in trying to figure out why it's broken. I'd suggest upgrading to 1.0beta versions as the first step. If it still breaks after that I can help debug it further. Also see http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot

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[Dovecot] Reading the index / log files
by Raymond Lillard 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Dear Dovecot, I have a user who claims his mail is being lost. I can find the message marked as having been accepted for delivery in the maillog. I am hoping there is a tool which will let me read his IMAP transactions. We are delivering the messages with procmail and storing them as Maildir files. I read mail on this very same server and process about 500 mails per day. (Its the machine where all of my mail lists are collected.) I use T-bird, he uses LookOut. My working theory is that he (or his MUA) is somehow deleting some of his mail. Being able to read a log of his IMAP transactions would be most helpful. I see nothing about this in the Wiki. Regards, Ray

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[Dovecot] Dovecot --IMAP
by Clovis Tristao 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, I am using dovecot-0.99.14-8.fc4 in Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz), and is appears this message: maillog -------- imap(testelabin): file mbox-rewrite.c: line 429 (mbox_write_header): assertion failed: (hdr_parsed_size.physical_size == hdr_size) When I try to have access a very great mailbox(mbox) (99 MB) via Webmail SquirrelMail. My quota of record is of 250 MB, some suggestion? Thanks a lot, Clóvis -- Clovis Tristao - UNICAMP/Faculdade de Engenharia Agricola Administrador de Redes - Secao de Informatica (SINFO) E-mail: clovis(a)agr.unicamp.br http://www.agr.unicamp.br Fone(0xx19) 37881031-37881038 ou FAX(55xx19) 37881005/37881010

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[Dovecot] repairing mbox files
by Dominic Lepiane 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi folks, Is there a good tool for repairing/working with mbox files? I'm trying to get a user moved off of Entourage (Outlook for Mac). Entourage actually exports the mail (was pop, will be imap) as mbox files, however, I can't just drop them in place even after fixing the line-endings. many of the messages with attachments come up with the correct header info but no message body or attachment. But some work so it's clearly a problem that a lot the messages are malformed somehow. Server is RHEL 4, dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 Current client is Mozilla Thunderbird (1.5.0.4) in Mac OS X 10.4.6 using IMAP. Previous client was MS Entourage (OS x 10.4.6) using POP. Thanks in advance. -- Dominic Lepiane Simon Fraser University/IRMACS dlepiane(a)irmacs.sfu.ca (604)268-7369

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[Dovecot] strange behaviour: connecting to mysql, but no queries after upgrade on ubuntu...
by dstrayer＠sadt.com 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

> hi all, > > I'm having trouble using dovecot with mysql after upgrading to 1.0.beta3 on > ubuntu. according to the mysql log, dovecot connects but doesn't issue any > queries.. > > any hints what might be wrong or where I should look? > -- > Cheers, > > Nikl I'm seeing the same behavior under Debian Sid. (First time I've tried it, so I don't know whether the problem is connected to a particular update.) I can make an imap connection using passwd-file authentication. When I switch to mysql, the mysql log shows a connection when dovecot starts but no further activity. The reply to the imap client is NO Temporary authentication failure. In the mail.log, I see: Jun 16 06:25:57 server dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Ilip=192.168.1.2^Irip=192.168.1.3^Iresp=AGd1ZXN0QHNhZHQuY29tAGZvbw== Jun 16 06:25:57 server dovecot: child 4951 (auth-worker) killed with signal 11 Jun 16 06:25:57 server dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser=foo(a)sample.com^Itemp Jun 16 06:25:57 server dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<foo(a)sample.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.2, lip=192.168.1.3 Any clues?

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[Dovecot] Problem compile dovecot-sieve under Debian
by Dominique Feyer 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

I get the source from CVS: # cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dovecot.org:/home/cvs co dovecot-sieve Edit configure.in to change - AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([dsieve-config.h]) + AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(dsieve-config.h) Launch autogen.sh, and I have some errors: configure.in: 4: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not `AC_CONFIG_HEADER' configure.in: 11: automake requires `AM_PROG_LEX', not `AC_PROG_LEX' automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: not supported: source file `../map.c' is in subdirectory automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: not supported: source file `../imparse.c' is in subdirectory automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: lex source seen but `AC_DECL_YYTEXT' not in `configure.in' If i try to build: # ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot-1.0.beta9 No error: ... configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/libsieve/Makefile config.status: creating stamp.h config.status: creating dsieve-config.h config.status: dsieve-config.h is unchanged # make gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o sievec sievec.o libsieve.a /usr/src/dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/lib/liblib.a libsieve.a(script.o)(.text+0xa23): In function `sieve_script_load': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/script.c:435: undefined reference to `map_refresh' libsieve.a(script.o)(.text+0xaf0): In function `sieve_script_unload': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/script.c:462: undefined reference to `map_free' libsieve.a(sieve.o)(.text+0x1e6e): In function `verify_flag': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/sieve.y:951: undefined reference to `imparse_isatom' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [sievec] Erreur 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Erreur 2 I try to install cyrus-dev or cyrus21-dev with apt-get, but nothing change, always the same error. Does someone have success with plugin dovecot-sieve ? Thanks -- Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer(a)net4all.ch

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot, search and i18n
by Timo Sirainen 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 13:19 +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:45 +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> Does dovecot support i18n'd search? > >> > > > > It supports searching with all the character sets that your system's > > iconv supports. Case-insensitive matching unfortunately works only for > > A-Z characters for now. > > > > > Hmm... Attempt to plainly use squirrelmail's search resulted in no > success at all. Imap command was quite plain, > > SEARCH ALL SUBJECT {10}[russian letters here] > > The problem is that Cyrillic has at least two widely used encodings. > Maybe I need to specify them exactly somehow? I don't know much about Squirrelmail configuration, but SEARCH command should specify character set if using non-ascii characters in search string. Otherwise Dovecot will just try to search them from the mails without any charset conversions. So correct way would have been something like: SEARCH CHARSET cyrillic ALL SUBJECT {10} Maybe someone in this list knows more about Squirrelmail..

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[Dovecot] Question about acls
by Stian Jordet 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, Is it possible to have a maildir-folder with an acl letter "i", but not "r"? I mean, the folder always seems empty for the user, but he can copy mail there? (which of course might be readable for another user..) Regards, Stian

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[Dovecot] dovecot, search and i18n
by Alex Povolotsky 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hello! Does dovecot support i18n'd search? Alex.

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[Dovecot] Shared Folder's, Separate Index's, not 'Working'
by Timothy White 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Looking back through the mail, I found the following from March --- On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:15 +0000, Mark Lidstone wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if the above was possible. I know that the "seen" > flag is stored in the filename, but was wondering if anyone knew of a > way to separate it out? I know this would strictly-speaking break > maildir compatibility, but it would be extremely useful for shared > folders. The way this worked at one point was by making each user have separate index file for the mailbox, then keeping the \Seen flag only inside that index file and ignoring the maildir's seen flag completely. Then I rewrote the maildir syncing code and this part was dropped out. Probably wouldn't be too difficult to make it work again.. Yea, looks like it wasn't. Works now in CVS. --- I'm trying to do a similar thing now, but without 100% luck. I have the following namespaces defined namespace public { separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/var/mail/scouts/public:CONTROL=/var/mail/scouts/%1n/%n/shared-settings/public/control:INDEX=/var/mail/scouts/%1n/%n/shared-settings/public/index hidden = no } namespace public { separator = / prefix = Official/ location = maildir:/var/mail/scouts/official::INDEX=/var/mail/scouts/%1n/%n/shared-settings/official/index hidden = no } Even though I have separate INDEX's for the second public namespace, the SEEN flag doesn't seem to be picked up from the users' INDEX's. BUT, for the first namespace, when I have CONTROL defined as well, it IS picked up! The reason I don't want CONTROL defined for the second name space, is I discovered that I can force all users on the system, to be subscribed to mailboxes in the 'Official' name space, if I keep CONTROL with the mailbox, instead of separate, and ensure that once I have set up the subscriptions file, I ensure it can't be changed. The counter side of this 'subscriptions' hack, is that I can't do hidden=yes. Ideally, I want a method of forcing a subscription on every user, that they can't change, but still preserving the SEEN flag. The closest I have come to, is, separate CONTROL, INDEX, and hidden=yes. This requires though, that I use the SquirrelMail forced subscriptions extension, which I've not yet tested. The other idea I had, was a method for having subscriptions come out of a database, seeing as I already have a large block of user data in the SQL database, and if I could have subscriptions in there as well, that would be a huge bonus! (Even better if it was only for the namespaces I wanted, cause I don't need to put each users personal subscriptions in a database). Anyway, it's mainly ideas, other than the SEEN flag issue I described above. Hope someone has ideas for getting it to work. Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] About RH patches and 1.0beta8
by Oliver Schulze L. 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, I just started building dovecot 1.0beta8 on RHEL4.3 based on atrpm.net .spec file. I noted that 3 patches are included in the .src.rpm and wanted to discuss them. I'm interested in knowing if those patches are relevant to all dovecot users and if they can be applied to dovecot. From: http://dl.atrpms.net/all/dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.src.rpm patch: dovecot-1.0.beta2-mkcert-permissions.patch calls 'chown root.root', is good to have the certs owned by root? patch: dovecot-1.0.beta2-pam-setcred.patch is dissables the call to pam_setcred() because there is no other call to pam_setcred() in order to release the resources patch: dovecot-1.0.beta2-pam-tty.patch it add a call to pam_set_item() I don't to attach the patches to the list, but I can if anyone could not extract them from the .src.rpm Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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[Dovecot] "GETQUOTA" Working?
by richs＠whidbey.net 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Using beta9, I've tried "quota = dirsize:storage=10240" and "quota = maildir:storage=10240", but I can't seem to get the IMAP commands to respond: * OK Dovecot ready. a LOGIN user pass a OK Logged in. b CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS b OK Capability completed. c GETQUOTAROOT INBOX c BAD Error in IMAP command GETQUOTAROOT: Unknown command. d GETQUOTA "" d BAD Error in IMAP command GETQUOTA: Unknown command. e LOGOUT * BYE Logging out e OK Logout completed. (Per http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2087.html) Apparently "QUOTA" isn't being advertised, and none of the commands are accepted. Any ideas? Rich

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[Dovecot] 1.0.beta9 released
by Timo Sirainen 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Fixes a lot of bugs. The next release will be the first "release candidate" instead of a beta. * PAM: Don't call pam_setcred() unless setcred=yes PAM passdb argument was given. * Moved around settings in dovecot-example.conf to be in more logical groups. + Local delivery agent (deliver binary) works again. + LDAP: Added support for SASL binding. Patch by Geert Jansen + ssl_verify_client_cert: Check CRLs. If auth_verbose=yes, log invalid sent certificates. If verbose_ssl=yes, log even the valid certificates. When using the username from the certificate, use CommonName. Based on patch by HenkJan Wolthuis + PAM: Set PAM_TTY which is needed by some PAM plugins + dovecot --exec-mail ext <binary path> can now be used to start binaries which want dovecot.conf to be read, for example the convert-tool. - Expunging needed to be done twice if client used STORE +FLAGS.SILENT command to set the \Deleted flags - Added sql_escape_string() to lib-sql API and use it instead of normal \-escaping. - ACL plugin fixes - DIGEST-MD5: Trying to use subsequent authentication crashed dovecot-auth. - Fetching BODY when BODYSTRUCTURE was already cached caused the reply to be broken in some cases - Lots of fixes for index file handling - dbox fixes and changes - mbox syncing broke if some extraneous/broken headers were removed (eg. extra X-IMAPbase headers in mails) - Running Dovecot from inetd work now properly with POP3 - Quota plugin fixes for calculating the quota correctly

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[Dovecot] Help! Uidlist files are gone and won't come back; imap keeps coredumping!
by Mario Nigrovic-rvvk40 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Folks - Some time ago as I migrated to dovecot 1.0, I ran into all sorts of problems with file locks, and I tried various solutions. Apparently, in the process, I got a bit careless and removed all my dovecot-uidlist files. They're gone. My understanding, however, is that they should come back, but this doesn't happen. I've been forced to run with index=MEMORY in 1.0 for the entire time I've been using it, but I would really like to get back to a more standard configuration. Yet, anything I do to try and actually use index files, whether (locally) on /var or (via NFS) in /home, I run into problems. The log files say: dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<rvvk40>, method=plain, rip=10.69.75.131, lip=172.16.26.151 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Info: IMAP(rvvk40): Effective uid=10019173, gid=21 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Info: IMAP(rvvk40): maildir: data=/home/mario/.mail/Maildir dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Info: IMAP(rvvk40): maildir: root=/home/mario/.mail/Maildir, index=/home/mario/.mail/Maildir, control=, inbox= dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Error: child 21207 (imap) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Error: child 21208 (imap) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Error: child 21211 (imap) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 01 07:36:36 Error: child 21212 (imap) killed with signal 11 and a truss says: 29146: execve("/home/mario/tools/SunOS/libexec/dovecot/imap", 0x000407D8, 0x00052850) argc = 1 29146: argv: imap ... 29146: write(1, " * 1 2 4 5 F E T C H".., 2091) = 2091 29146: write(1, " * 1 2 9 5 F E T C H".., 2059) = 2059 29146: write(1, " * 1 3 4 6 F E T C H".., 2056) = 2056 29146: poll(0x000AEC90, 3, 9912) = 1 29146: read(0, " 4 U I D f e t c h ".., 4037) = 173 29146: open64("/home/mario/.mail/Maildir/.Freescale.ATIC.CMOS65/dovecot-uidlist", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT 29146: Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0xFF133218 29146: siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000 29146: Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default] 29146: siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000 29146: *** process killed *** Some background info: dovecot is running only for me, so it runs under my UID, from my home directory. % tools/SunOS/sbin/dovecot --version 1.0.beta8 % tools/SunOS/sbin/dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll openssl Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file shadow Userdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file static % uname -a SunOS velocity 5.8 Generic_117350-06 sun4u sparc What do I have to do to recreate the uidlist files? Mario -- I don't need a name; my number's just fine. | Mario.Nigrovic(a)freescale.com It's nobody else's -- just mine, all mine. | 480-413-3578 Internal Use Only

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[Dovecot] beta8 + mbox + Thunderbird
by Thomas Hummel 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi all, I'm still using beta8 (on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE). Recently I put a co-worker who's using Thunderbird (1.5.0.4) on it and he seemed to have lost some messages (which were delivered on the spool since seen on procmail logfile). I switched him on another server to play safe and tried to test it myself but failed to reproduce the issue. I myself use mutt on a daily basis with no problem with that beta8. Did someone experienced the same (I read about some similar issue on the list but with maildir format - I'm using mbox) ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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RE: [Dovecot] MS Exchange SMTP Login problem
by Xavier Romero 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Ok, patched and working perfectly !! Thank you!!! Xavier Romero. -----Mensaje original----- De: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] En nombre de Timo Sirainen Enviado el: lunes, 19 de junio de 2006 12:49 Para: Xavier Romero CC: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Asunto: Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange SMTP Login problem On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 12:43 +0200, Xavier Romero wrote: > But it seems that the way Exchange talks to our server, dovecot gets > confused, and password is used instead username for user lookups, so > authentication fails. Fixed in next version, or use a patch: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-June/005765.html

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[Dovecot] MS Exchange SMTP Login problem
by Xavier Romero 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hello, I'm using dovecot & postfix to bring smtp auth to our customers. Normal mail clients have no problem at all and I'm so satisfied. However, we're having problems with Microsoft Exchange server clients. We're using our postfix-dovecot server as smarhost for several Exchange Servers, and we wish to use TLS + basic authentication for these outgoing mails. But it seems that the way Exchange talks to our server, dovecot gets confused, and password is used instead username for user lookups, so authentication fails. Info: auth(default_with_listener): client in: AUTH 5 login service=smtp resp=bXlfdXNlcm5hbWU= //(resp=my_username) Info: auth(default_with_listener): client out: CONT 5 VXNlcm5hbWU6 //(Username:) Info: auth(default_with_listener): client in: CONT 5 bXlfcGFzc3dvcmQ= //(my_password) Info: auth(default_with_listener): client out: CONT 5 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 //(Password:) Info: auth(default_with_listener): client in: CONT 5 bXlfcGFzc3dvcmQ= //(my_password) Info: auth(default_with_listener): sql(my_user): query: SELECT user, password FROM users WHERE user = 'my_password' Info: auth(default_with_listener): sql(my_user): unknown user Info: auth(default_with_listener): client out: FAIL 5 user=my_password Any clue if there is a way to make it work, either modifiying Exchange or dovecot settings? Thank you very much! Xavier Romero.

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Re: [Dovecot] Problem with Dovecot LDA / Postfix
by Dominique Feyer 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Thanks. The log is really useful ;-) **** deliver(info(a)lda.net4all.ch): Fatal: Running as root isn't permitted **** So it's not possible acutally to use LDA to deliver mail with different UID/GID So I need the change all the owner for my mail storage ... update the DB and restart the service ... it's bad !!! I need a lots of downtime to change the owner of 80Go data storage. So beafore that, I need to test the dovecot-sieve plugin from CVS. Next month a lot of my customer are in holiday and the need auto responders ;-) I try the dovecot-sieve plugin from the CVS and I have this error when i start make (configure as no error): libsieve.a(script.o)(.text+0xa23): In function `sieve_script_load': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/script.c:435: undefined reference to `map_refresh' libsieve.a(script.o)(.text+0xaf0): In function `sieve_script_unload': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/script.c:462: undefined reference to `map_free' libsieve.a(sieve.o)(.text+0x1e6e): In function `verify_flag': /usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve/sieve.y:951: undefined reference to `imparse_isatom' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [sievec] Erreur 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-sieve' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Erreur 2 I have the same error last week when I try to build dovecot-lda with sieve script support from the CVS. I use Debian Sarge. I think the macro imparse_isatom is from the cyrus-imapd project. I try to install cyrus-dec and cyrus21-dev with apt-get ... but always the same error. Do you have a idea ? Le vendredi 16 juin 2006 à 10:44 -0400, My BSD a écrit : > On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:44:51 +0200 > Dominique Feyer <dfeyer(a)net4all.ch> wrote: > > > I have only postfix log (in syslog mail facility), no dovecot log from > > the LDA deliver binary (with mail_debug = yes), this is strange ... > > > > Jun 16 14:37:58 mail2 postfix/pickup[6014]: 5407F7FF3: uid=0 > > from=<root> Jun 16 14:37:58 mail2 postfix/cleanup[6073]: 5407F7FF3: > > message-id=<20060616123758.5407F7FF3(a)mail2.clm.net4all.ch> > > Jun 16 14:37:58 mail2 postfix/qmgr[6015]: 5407F7FF3: > > from=<root(a)localhost.localdomain>, size=326, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > > Jun 16 14:37:58 mail2 postfix/pipe[6076]: 5407F7FF3: > > to=<info(a)lda.net4all.ch>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=bounced > > (Command died with status 89: > > "/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver") > > > > Can i activate log for the LDA in the configuration file or deliver > > command argument in master.cf ? > > > ... > > My dovecot setup logs to a file, settings below: > > ---------------------------------------------- > mail_debug = yes > log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot > info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.info > ---------------------------------------------- > > Make sure that the socket user has write access to the file, otherwise > it won't work (and thinking of it, also make sure that the socket user > also has access to the socket itself -- that was one of my biggest > problems before I got it to work). > > You may also want to add the following until you get it working: > > ---------------------------------------------- > auth_verbose = yes > auth_debug = yes > auth_debug_passwords = yes > ---------------------------------------------- > > Good luck! > -- Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer(a)net4all.ch

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[Dovecot] Problem with default_mail_env in beta9
by Andreas Schulze 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hallo, I am playing arround with dovecot I hat version 1.0.beta7 running fine. After installing beta9 there is a problem with default_mail_env setting. I have all users in ldap. there is an attribute "mailMessageStore" which contains a relative path to users maildir mailMessageStore: sca/ my mailer completes this relative pathinformation to /var/mail/sca/ therefor I setup default_mail_env to "maildir:/var/mail/%h" dovecot-ldap.conf includes "user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid" all fine in beta7 in beta9 I got this in my log: dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:22 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta9 starting up dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=random dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: auth(default): ldap(sca,127.0.0.1): bind search: base=o=datev,c=de filter=(uid=sca) dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=sca dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 30400 1 dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: auth(default): ldap(sca,127.0.0.1): base=o=datev,c=de scope=subtree filter=(uid=sca) fields=mailMessageStore,uidNumber,gidNumber dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 t02985a home=sca/ uid=30014 gid=30007 dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<sca>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1 dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Error: POP3(sca): dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Fatal: chdir(sca/) failed with uid 30014: Permission denied dovecot: Jun 16 14:50:30 Error: child 30407 (pop3) returned error 89 If I change user_attrs to "user_attrs = mailMessageStore=FOO,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid" I got dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:36 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta9 starting up dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=random dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: auth(default): ldap(sca,127.0.0.1): bind search: base=o=datev,c=de filter=(uid=sca) dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=sca dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 30475 1 dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: auth(default): ldap(sca,127.0.0.1): base=o=datev,c=de scope=subtree filter=(uid=sca) fields=mailmessagestore,uidNumber,gidNumber dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 sca uid=30014 gid=30007 dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<sca>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1 dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: POP3(sca): Effective uid=30014, gid=30007 dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: POP3(sca): maildir: data=/var/mail//HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB dovecot: Jun 16 14:54:41 Info: POP3(sca): maildir: root=/var/mail//HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB, index=/var/mail//HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB, control=, inbox= this inicates to me, that 1. homedirvariable is unset OK, because I assigned mailMessageStore to local FOO 2. default_mail_env is correct evaluated to maildir:/var/mail/%h Question: Why is default_mail_env not correct evalueted to maildir:/var/mail/sca/ if sca/ is set as homedir ? As mentions above, this worked fine with beta7 ... What do I wrong ??? My I provide more Informations ? -- Andreas Schulze DATEV eG, Paumgartner Strasse 6-14, D - 90429 Nürnberg Abt. Internet- und Securitydienste Telefon : +49 911 276 2648 Telefax : +49 911 276 7892 Mobil : +49 172 8122883 E-Mail : andreas.schulze_at_datev.de

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[Dovecot] building dovecot lda on solaris 9
by lenny＠edpausa.com 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Trying to build the latest CVS code of LDA against dovecot beta 9. Running autogen script I'm getting this message. I added the contents of /usr/local/share/aclocal/ to /usr/local/share/libtool/libltdl/aclocal.m4 #aclocaldir = /usr/local/share/aclocal/ aclocal_DATA = libmcrypt.m4 libtool.m4 ltdl.m4 but no luck. any advise ? /usr/local/share/aclocal/libmcrypt.m4:17: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_LIBMCRYPT run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal autom4te: unknown language: Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4 aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 autoheader: `lda-config.h.in' is unchanged You should add the contents of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'. configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found. configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory, configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal). /usr/local/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/local/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL src/libsieve/Makefile.am:5: library used but `RANLIB' is undefined src/libsieve/Makefile.am:5: src/libsieve/Makefile.am:5: The usual way to define `RANLIB' is to add `AC_PROG_RANLIB' src/libsieve/Makefile.am:5: to `configure.in' and run `autoconf' again. /usr/local/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/local/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL

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[Dovecot] LDA - Return-Path missing
by Timothy White 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

I seem to have a problem... Deliver relies on Return-Path headers? I tried sending emails from SquirrelMail, and Gmail, and both have caused the same issue (on the recieving end). (I am trying to test this part, the quota exceeded stuff). deliver(joeblogs): Return-Path missing, rejection reason: Quota exceeded I can post email headers, and stuff if needed. Does it need the Return-Path header, shouldn't it rely on the From address, if there is no Return-Path? Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Dovecot randomly stops responding
by Miguel Saturnino 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi! I'm running Dovecot 1.0beta7 on FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) and it randomly stops responding. To mitigate the problem I made a little ruby scripts which logs in to the POP3 server every 3 minutes and, in case of error (the errors are usually timeout or end of file errors), restarts Dovecot. Although this keeps this keeps things working, I'd like to figure out what is causing Dovecot to stop responding. Looking at the logs, nothing stands out except that there is always one or more of these messages just before Dovecot stops responding: Apr 20 19:25:00 zeus dovecot[62881]: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=209.123.xxx.xxx, lip=64.21.xxx.xxx Any help debugging this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Miguel Saturnino <miguel.saturnino(a)teiadigital.pt>

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[Dovecot] Maildir++ implementation issues.
by Apps Lists 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi Timo and crew! I'm doing more testing with Dovecot and Maildrop today and have run across some strangeness. It appears as if Maildrop stores updates to the maildirquota file in a way that causes Dovecot to ignore them. In my test scenario, Dovecot just rebuilt my maildirsize file to the following: 0S 86213796 108 After delivering a few messages through Postfix -> Maildrop and have the following maildirsize file: 0S 86213796 108 5102 1 387708 1 5093 1 382406 1 3550 1 268337 1 Note the pretty formatting. These are spaces. Unfortunately, Dovecot seems to ignore these when reading the maildirsize file in maildirsize_parse(). It appears to be using sscanf to look for numeric entries: if (sscanf(*lines, "%lld %d", &bytes_diff, &count_diff) != 2) I've read and re-read the maildir++ specification at http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html and can't understand why Maildrop implements things this way. Steve

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[Dovecot] asserts and cores in beta3
by Jeff A. Earickson 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

My setup: Solaris 9, built with gcc 4.0.2 (I now have gcc 4.1 installed on my system, but have not rebuilt dovecot). A couple of asserts and cores in the last few days: Mar 1 09:25:13 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(tmwillia): file mbox-sync.c: line 1471 (mbox_sync_do): assertion failed: (!sync_ctx->mbox->mbox_sync_dirty || (flags & MBOX_SYNC_UNDIRTY) == 0) Mar 1 09:58:44 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(eewilson): file mbox-sync.c: line 1471 (mbox_sync_do): assertion failed: (!sync_ctx->mbox->mbox_sync_dirty || (flags & MBOX_SYNC_UNDIRTY) == 0) Mar 3 16:18:54 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(tmwillia): file mbox-sync.c: line 1471 (mbox_sync_do): assertion failed: (!sync_ctx->mbox->mbox_sync_dirty || (flags & MBOX_SYNC_UNDIRTY) == 0) Backtraces from the two cores in hand are attached. I can do further poking at the cores if that would help. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0 beta3 not preserving X-Keyword header?
by Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

We've been putting 1.0 Beta 3 through the paces on our test system, and one of our users pointed out to me that Thunderbird's "labels" behave strangely on the new server. In fact, there used to be a header added to the message via IMAP when Thunderbird placed a label on a message, but as of the switch from 0.99.11 to 1.0beta3, this label header is no longer placed in the message. Specifically, Thunderbird adds the "X-Keyword: $LabelN" header when you add a label to the message in tbird, where "N" is [1-9]. This works on dovecot 0.99.11 (RHEL4), but not on 1.0beta3. 1.0b3 doesn't seem to add this header at all, but rather seems to keep this information somewhere else. Perhaps in the .imap indexes? We're using mbox stores on the server. This was tested with both Thunderbird 1.0.7 (most widely deployed) and Thunderbird 1.5. Aditionally, we've found that if the .imap index directories are removed, all the Thunderbird labels on messages seem to get "confused", too. I.e., if the user uses multiple machines throughout the day, changes in one client may not be reflected in another, when the user moves to a different system. I'm still trying to get more details from the users, but have been doing preliminary testing that verifies this. One of the users complaining about this is my manager, who makes extensive use of Thunderbird's "Label" feature, so he's a bit nervous. :\ Another thing we've noticed is the potential for bad behavior if a use switches from the old dovecot to the new dovecot, which seems to be resolved if the .imap indexes are removed... Let me know what other information is needed, and I'll do my best to collect it. Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade Sr. Systems Administrator Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego Office: EBU3b 1216 Phone: (858) 822-2625 E-mail: gkra(a)ucsd.edu

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[Dovecot] RHEL 3 and quota problems...
by alan premselaar 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've just installed 1.0beta9 on my RHEL 3 system and am still getting the problems with the quota-fs returning "invalid argument". I think i've traced the problem down to differences in the quota versions based on the <sys/quota.h> files on RHEL 3 compared to FC3. on the system itself i'm using v2 quotas (with aquota.user and aquota.group files) however a diff of sysquota.h (copied from FC3 /usr/include/sys/quota.h) and <sys/quota.h> produces only the following: diff -u sysquota.h /usr/include/sys/quota.h - --- sysquota.h 2006-06-16 23:48:03.000000000 +0900 +++ /usr/include/sys/quota.h 2005-11-22 21:57:15.000000000 +0900 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. * - - * Version: $Id: quota.h,v 1.7.6.1 2005/07/18 02:07:37 roland Exp $ + * Version: $Id: quota.h,v 1.7 1999/10/19 03:05:21 drepper Exp $ */ #ifndef _SYS_QUOTA_H @@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ /* * Select between different incompatible quota versions. - - * Default to the version used by Linux kernel version 2.4.22 - - * or later. */ + * Default to the version used by Linux kernel version 2.4.21 + * or earlier (in RHEL version 1 is AS2.1, version 2 is RHEL3 and later). */ #ifndef _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION - -# define _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION 2 +# define _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION 1 #endif /* if I edit the quota-fs.h file to load "sysquota.h" instead of <sys/quota.h> for the linux quotas, it won't compile. (i tried this instead of editing system header files directly) so I suspect the problem lies deeper than just the _LINUX_QUOTA_VERSION number being set incorrectly. incidently, the error I get compiling is this: quota-fs.c: In function `fs_quota_get_resource': quota-fs.c:214: structure has no member named `dqb_curblocks' make: *** [quota-fs.lo] Error 1 I haven't done any C programming in more than 20 years so I think I'm pushing the boundaries of my capabilities here, but I'm hoping this might just be enough information to help someone more qualified easily fix the problem and allow me to start using the FS based quota plugins to dovecot on my mail server. here are some details of my system if they're useful: # uname -a Linux <hostname_goes_here> 2.4.21-40.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Feb 2 22:22:39 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # more /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 7) Thanks, Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEkshYE2gsBSKjZHQRAgrZAJ0cbZjSuPLV0T8C432EniCrkNw6tACgwKkz UZiSXsgXRb8w1Cc1XXXHWXs= =3CGX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Better detection for ioloop and notify
by Roy Marples 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi List! Attached is a patch to configure.in to test that epoll, poll, inotify, kqueue and dnotify actually work. It also attempts to select the best one for you if none specified. This supercedes my previous patch in the re beta9 thread. Hopefully get this in Gentoo's beta9 ebuild soon. Thanks -- Roy Marples <uberlord(a)gentoo.org> Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking)

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[Dovecot] Plain and MD5 passwd for the same user?
by M. Fioretti 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hello, I'm running dovecot 1.0-0_12.beta8. Since I have only a very small number of user on that server, I have their names and password in text files, no databases. imap works both via webmail and via Kmail Is it possible to have, for the same user, a plain unencrypted password when connecting via imap on the local interface (needed, as I understand it, to be squirrelmail compatible) and a DIGEST-MD5 one when connecting via pop3s or imaps remotely? TIA, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. -- John Naisbitt, Megatrends

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[Dovecot] Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain
by M. Fioretti 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hello, I have seen via google that this very problem was already discussed on this and other lists some months ago, but the archives report no solution. I have dovecot 1.0-0_12.beta8 on Centos 4.3. IMAP works just fine: I can read email from both Squirrelmail via web and Kmail. Now I have created an ssl certificate and I'm trying to use it via pop3. When I launch fetchmail I get the error below. Is it caused by dovecot? If not, where is the problem, on the server or here in my home PC? TIA, Marco marco@polaris:~> fetchmail -vv fetchmail: 6.3.2 querying my.vps.fqdn.name (protocol POP3) at Tue 13 Jun 2006 05:22:50 PM CEST: +poll started fetchmail: Issuer Organization: SomeOrganization fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: localhost.localdomain fetchmail: Server CommonName: localhost.localdomain fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != my.vps.fqdn.name fetchmail: my.vps.fqdn.name key fingerprint: 20:93:B4:D8:CB:75:AD:72:F6:00:A8:DC:CE:F2:53:6E fetchmail: my.vps.fqdn.name fingerprints do not match! 23942:error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify +failed:s3_clnt.c:894: fetchmail: SSL connection failed. fetchmail: socket error while fetching from remoteuser(a)my.vps.fqdn.name -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ Only boring people ever get bored Anonymous

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[Dovecot] 1.0 beta 9 problems
by Peter Chiu 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Two problems with this new beta not found in beta 8. 1. mbox_from_create error This is the configure string I use, and I paste the make error message below. I have to use "--with-storages=maildir,mbox" to get around the error. ./configure \ --prefix=/opt1/dovecot \ --localstatedir=/var \ --without-shadow \ --without-cyrus-sasl2 \ --without-pop3d \ --without-gssapi \ --disable-ipv6 \ --disable-debug \ --with-storages=maildir \ --with-ssl=openssl mkdir .libs gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o deliver auth-client.o deliver.o duplicate.o mail-send.o smtp-client.o ../lib/mountpoint.o ../lib/str-sanitize.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a ../../src/lib-storage/index/maildir/libstorage_maildir.a ../../src/lib-storage/index/libstorage_index.a ../../src/lib-index/libindex.a ../lib-storage/libstorage.a ../lib-storage/subscription-file/libstorage_subscription_file.a ../lib-imap/libimap.a ../lib-mail/libmail.a ../lib-dict/libdict.a ../lib-charset/libcharset.a ../lib/liblib.a deliver.o(.text+0xa28): In function `main': /opt1/source/dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/deliver/deliver.c:301: undefined reference to `mbox_from_create' *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt1/source/dovecot-1.0.beta9/src/deliver. *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt1/source/dovecot-1.0.beta9/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt1/source/dovecot-1.0.beta9. *** Error code 1 Stop in /opt1/source/dovecot-1.0.beta9. 2. I have to specify the following in the dovecot.conf or server wont start as others have pointed out alreay. protocol imap { ssl_listen = *:993 }

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[Dovecot] APPEND command truncates message
by Chris Rodgers 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi, I have been debugging a small perl script (see ShowBug2) that I use. In doing so, I think that I may have uncovered a problem with the dovecot IMAP server. Attached are two packet traces for connections to two different IMAP servers. On both servers I run the script: i.e. I login, select a folder, search for messages and append a message. On the fvs5 server (Courier IMAP?), everything works as expected. However, on the dovecot server, the message that is saved into my mailbox has been truncated at the end of the line containing "26". I attach a copy of the saved message in MessageAsOnIMAPServer.txt. I hope that this report might be useful. Please let me know if you require any further information. Chris. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=LOGIN] fvs5 IMAP4rev1 2003.339p-cpanel at Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:50:06 +0000 (GMT) 1 Login "*******" {7} + Ready for argument ******* 1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 IDLE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS BINARY UNSELECT SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] User Rodgers authenticated 2 SELECT IT-Lilac * 0 EXISTS * NO Trying to get mailbox lock from process 32317 * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1145396966] UID validity status * OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)] Permanent flags 2 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed 3 UID SEARCH HEADER Subject "lilac gpg message" * SEARCH 3 OK UID SEARCH completed 4 APPEND IT-Lilac {717} + Ready for argument >From chris(a)rodgers.org.uk Tue Apr 18 21:49:09 2006 Return-Path: <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Received: from lilac.home (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3IKn8cK004092 for <chris(a)lilac.home>; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Received: (from chris@localhost) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k3IKn8Cm004091 for chris; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 From: Chris Rodgers <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Message-Id: <200604182049.k3IKn8Cm004091(a)lilac.home> To: chris(a)lilac.home Subject: test 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 * 1 EXISTS * 1 RECENT 4 OK APPEND completed 5 LOGOUT * BYE fvs5.freevirtualservers.com IMAP4rev1 server terminating connection 5 OK LOGOUT completed * OK dovecot ready. 1 Login "*******" {8} + OK ******** 1 OK Logged in. 2 SELECT IT-Lilac * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk Junk) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft NonJunk Junk \*)] Flags permitted. * 117 EXISTS * 1 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 116] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1136428693] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 344] Predicted next UID 2 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 3 UID SEARCH HEADER Subject "lilac gpg message" * SEARCH 3 OK Search completed. 4 APPEND IT-Lilac {717} + OK >From chris(a)rodgers.org.uk Tue Apr 18 21:49:09 2006 Return-Path: <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Received: from lilac.home (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3IKn8cK004092 for <chris(a)lilac.home>; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Received: (from chris@localhost) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k3IKn8Cm004091 for chris; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 From: Chris Rodgers <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Message-Id: <200604182049.k3IKn8Cm004091(a)lilac.home> To: chris(a)lilac.home Subject: test 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 * 118 EXISTS * 2 RECENT 4 OK Append completed. 5 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out 5 OK Logout completed. >From chris(a)rodgers.org.uk Tue Apr 18 21: 49:09 2006 Return-Path: <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Received: from lilac.home (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3IKn8cK004092 for <chris(a)lilac.home>; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Received: (from chris@localhost) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k3IKn8Cm004091 for chris; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 From: Chris Rodgers <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Message-Id: <200604182049.k3IKn8Cm004091(a)lilac.home> To: chris(a)lilac.home Subject: test Content-Length: 113 Status: O X-UID: 344 X-Keywords: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 #! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use Mail::IMAPClient; use Term::ReadPassword; # Check that username, password and server have been provided my $Server = "imap.pcl.ox.ac.uk"; my $User = `whoami`; chomp $User; my $Password = read_password('Mail password: '); my $INBOX = "IT-Lilac"; unless ($Server) { die "You must provide a server!"; } unless ($User) { die "You must provide a user!"; } unless ($Password) { die "You must provide a password!"; } print "Connecting to $User\@$Server\n\n"; my $IMAP = Mail::IMAPClient -> new (Server => $Server, User => $User, Password => $Password, Debug => 1) or die "Could not connect to your IMAP server, stopping"; if (!$IMAP->IsAuthenticated()) { die "Could not log in to your IMAP server, stopping"; } $IMAP -> Uid(1); # Use UID's for messages. $IMAP -> select($INBOX); my @msgs = $IMAP -> search("HEADER","Subject","lilac gpg message"); my $MessageBody = <<'EOM'; >From chris(a)rodgers.org.uk Tue Apr 18 21:49:09 2006 Return-Path: <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Received: from lilac.home (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3IKn8cK004092 for <chris(a)lilac.home>; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Received: (from chris@localhost) by lilac.home (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k3IKn8Cm004091 for chris; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0100 From: Chris Rodgers <chris(a)rodgers.org.uk> Message-Id: <200604182049.k3IKn8Cm004091(a)lilac.home> To: chris(a)lilac.home Subject: test 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 EOM print "Length is: {" . length($MessageBody) . "}"; $IMAP -> append("IT-Lilac",$MessageBody); # BUG: For some reason, we lose a bit of the message! print "\n"; $IMAP = $IMAP -> disconnect(); exit;

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[Dovecot] Dovecot's as ip/user based login filter?
by Sysadmin 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hello. I'm facing a problem, I need to give access to internal mailserer for some people only, but can't figure out how to do it. Opening the 993 port for whole word gives access to everyone who have account. Can Dovecot act as login filter or etc for that purpose. Or does anybody have idea how to do it? -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] Dovecot not responding to CAPABILITY command
by Ryan Hinton 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

Thank you for the patch, my mail server is up and running again. Now I am back to my previous problem: I am not able to log in with Thunderbird. Thunderbird issues the capability command which is not answered by Dovecot. Here is a session transcript using openssl s_client. * OK Dovecot ready. 1 capability * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. 2 CAPABILITY * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. quit * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. QUIT DONE The first time I tried it worked fine. * OK Dovecot ready. 1 capability * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=PLAIN 1 OK Capability completed. QUIT DONE But every other time I tried it failed like the first example. Any suggestions? --- Ryan Hinton iobass(a)email.com

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[Dovecot] Plugin Docs (Trash)
by Timothy White 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

I searched, and couldn't find much in the wiki, or the mailing list... What is the trash plugin? How do we use it? I notice that none of the plugins have much documentation, other that bits on the wiki, which is getting out of date. When I get the chance, I'll make sure the wiki quota stuff, is right, and post working examples. Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Dovecot+NFS: Copying messages causes failures (possible SIGABRT)
by Tony Kay 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Environment: Dovecot 1.0beta8 Host: 64 bit Red Hat AS4 Linux (2.6.9-34.0.1) Disks: NFS netapp In the case below, the two connections were going through two separate servers sharing disks via an NFS NetApp. Here is the sequence of operations: 1. Open a connection to a folder (say mail/Trash) 2. Open a connection to another folder (say Inbox) 3. Move messages from Inbox to Trash using this sequence on Inbox: uid copy #,# "mail/Trash" uid store #,# +flags (\Deleted) check expunge 4. Next, access open connection to Trash: noop (completes OK, but does not see new messages) ...wait a few seconds... noop (connection drops...no response) Attempt to reconnect: mailbox locked. Will override in 270 seconds. The dovecot logs contain the following for the exact time when the connection drops: dovecot: IMAP(tkay): file mail-index-sync-update.c: line 686 (mail_index_sync_update_index): assertion failed: (view->hdr.messages_count == map->hdr.messages_count) I cannot correlate this to the user/folder, but this message is usually nearby: child 22915 (imap) killed with signal 6 -- Anthony Kay University Computing Center (541) 346-1719 GPG Fingerprint: B0DB D46A 60AF FAE7 A94A 5075 0CB4 4D88 9F4F 7F09 Perfection uncanned Like a beautiful redhead Fresh from her trailer from Spam-Ku : Tranquil Reflections on Luncheon Loaf by John Cho

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[Dovecot] check pass; user unknown in logs
by james edwards 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

I am seeing lots of these in my logs and there are often a hundered or so imap/dovecat process running. I am running RC Core3. Can anyone shead some light on how to correct this ? Jun 16 08:38:24 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27653]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:24 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27653]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:24 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27657]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:24 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27657]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:24 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27658]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:24 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27658]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:26 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27684]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:26 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27684]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:27 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27690]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:27 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27690]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:27 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27693]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:27 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27693]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:29 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27712]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:29 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27712]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:30 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27713]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:30 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27713]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Jun 16 08:38:30 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27716]: check pass; user unknown Jun 16 08:38:30 jidmail dovecot(pam_unix)[27716]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= -- James H. Edwards Network Systems Administrator Judicial Information Division jedwards(a)nmcourts.com

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[Dovecot] Problem with Dovecot LDA / Postfix
by Dominique Feyer 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Our setup is ok with Postfix / Dovecot. I just need to add dovecot LDA. I use the 1.0beta9 LDA Configuration: protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)clm.net4all.ch #hostname = #mail_plugins = #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap #sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } auth default-socket { mechanisms = plain login passdb sql { args = /usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta8/etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = vmail group = mail } } user = dovecot count = 1 } Postfix configuration, like the dovecot LDA wiki page Master.cf: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mail:mail argv=/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} Main.cf default_destination_recipient_limit = 1 Log: Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 postfix/qmgr[4226]: 31FA27FF2: from=<root(a)localhost.localdomain>, size=343, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 dovecot: auth(default-socket): master in: USER^I1^Iinfo(a)lda.net4all.ch^Iservice=deliver Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 dovecot: auth(default-socket): sql(info(a)lda.net4all.ch): SELECT '/var/spool/mail/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = 'info(a)lda.net4all.ch' Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 dovecot: auth(default-socket): master out: USER^I1^Iinfo@lda.net4all.ch^Ihome=/var/spool/mail/lda.net4all.ch/mails/info^Iuid=1999^Igid=1999 Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 dovecot: auth(default-socket): Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 postfix/pipe[4314]: 31FA27FF2: to=<info(a)lda.net4all.ch>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=bounced (Command died with status 89: "/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver") The status 89 is for default error ... so no more informations with this. Permision on deliver is setuid (we use a different UID per domain) mail2:/etc/dovecot# stat /usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver File: `/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver' Size: 2507575 Blocks: 4912 IO Block: 4096 fichier r�gulier Device: 805h/2053d Inode: 65010 Links: 1 Access: (6755/-rwsr-sr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2006-06-15 19:15:43.314434576 +0200 Modify: 2006-06-15 13:46:15.000000000 +0200 Change: 2006-06-15 19:18:32.821665560 +0200 Can anyone help me ? Thanks, -- Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer(a)net4all.ch

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Re: [Dovecot] Problem with Dovecot LDA / Postfix
by Dominique Feyer 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

I have only postfix log (in syslog mail facility), no dovecot log from the LDA deliver binary (with mail_debug = yes), this is strange ... Jun 16 14:37:58 mail2 postfix/pickup[6014]: 5407F7FF3: uid=0 from=<root> Jun 16 14:37:58 mail2 postfix/cleanup[6073]: 5407F7FF3: message-id=<20060616123758.5407F7FF3(a)mail2.clm.net4all.ch> Jun 16 14:37:58 mail2 postfix/qmgr[6015]: 5407F7FF3: from=<root(a)localhost.localdomain>, size=326, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 16 14:37:58 mail2 postfix/pipe[6076]: 5407F7FF3: to=<info(a)lda.net4all.ch>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=bounced (Command died with status 89: "/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver") Can i activate log for the LDA in the configuration file or deliver command argument in master.cf ? Thanks Le vendredi 16 juin 2006 à 08:24 -0400, My BSD a écrit : > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:18:40 +0200 > Dominique Feyer <dfeyer(a)net4all.ch> wrote: > > > Our setup is ok with Postfix / Dovecot. > > > > I just need to add dovecot LDA. > > > > I use the 1.0beta9 > > > > LDA Configuration: > > > > protocol lda { > > postmaster_address = postmaster(a)clm.net4all.ch > > #hostname = > > #mail_plugins = > > #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap > > #sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail > > auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master > > } > > auth default-socket { > > mechanisms = plain login > > passdb sql { > > args = /usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf > > } > > userdb sql { > > args = /usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta8/etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf > > } > > socket listen { > > master { > > path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master > > mode = 0660 > > user = vmail > > group = mail > > } > > } > > user = dovecot > > count = 1 > > } > > > > Postfix configuration, like the dovecot LDA wiki page > > > > Master.cf: > > dovecot unix - n n - - pipe > > flags=DRhu user=mail:mail > > argv=/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d > > ${recipient} > > > > Main.cf > > default_destination_recipient_limit = 1 > > > > Log: > > > > Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 postfix/qmgr[4226]: 31FA27FF2: > > from=<root(a)localhost.localdomain>, size=343, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > > Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 dovecot: auth(default-socket): master in: > > USER^I1^Iinfo(a)lda.net4all.ch^Iservice=deliver > > Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 dovecot: auth(default-socket): > > sql(info(a)lda.net4all.ch): SELECT '/var/spool/mail/'||home AS home, > > uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = 'info(a)lda.net4all.ch' > > Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 dovecot: auth(default-socket): master out: > > USER^I1^Iinfo@lda.net4all.ch^Ihome=/var/spool/mail/lda.net4all.ch/mails/info^Iuid=1999^Igid=1999 > > Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 dovecot: auth(default-socket): > > Jun 15 19:15:43 mail2 postfix/pipe[4314]: 31FA27FF2: > > to=<info(a)lda.net4all.ch>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=bounced > > (Command died with status 89: > > "/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver") > > > > The status 89 is for default error ... so no more informations with > > this. > > > > Permision on deliver is setuid (we use a different UID per domain) > > mail2:/etc/dovecot# > > stat /usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver > > File: `/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-beta9/libexec/dovecot/deliver' > > Size: 2507575 Blocks: 4912 IO Block: 4096 fichier > > r�gulier > > Device: 805h/2053d Inode: 65010 Links: 1 > > Access: (6755/-rwsr-sr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ > > root) Access: 2006-06-15 19:15:43.314434576 +0200 > > Modify: 2006-06-15 13:46:15.000000000 +0200 > > Change: 2006-06-15 19:18:32.821665560 +0200 > > > > Can anyone help me ? Thanks, > > > > -- > > Dominique Feyer > > Administrateur Système > > Ch. de la Colline 5bis > > CH-1007 Lausanne > > dfeyer(a)net4all.ch > > > > > > What are the corresponding "dovecot" log entries? > > (I use exim and was finally able to get "deliver" working by studying > "dovecot" log entries.) > -- Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer(a)net4all.ch

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[Dovecot] Broken on upgrade, "Protocol not supported"
by Ryan Hinton 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hello, and thanks in advance for your help. I was having trouble with dovecot-1.0beta2 after it worked flawlessly since January. Thunderbird was complaining that dovecot was not returning proper mail server capabilities (its log seems to confirm this). I checked the dovecot site and saw a new beta (beta9) with lots of bug fixes, so I downloaded it and installed it. The configure and make ran without incident. Before running 'sudo make install' I stopped the dovecot process with a SIGTERM. I installed and tried to restart the server, but now I get the two following errors: Error: socket() failed: Protocol not supported Fatal: listen(993) failed: Protocol not supported I went back and re-configured without IPv6 support, recompiled, and reinstalled. I even rebooted, but still the same result. Any help is greatly appreciated. I am running OpenBSD 3.5 i386. <time passes...> After some printf's, I found Error: socket() failed: Protocol not supported Error: section 2 port = 993 my_ip.family = 0 so.sin.family = 0 SOCK_STREAM = 1 AF_UNIX = 1 AF_INET = 2 AF_INET6 = 24 Fatal: listen(993) failed: Protocol not supported in function net_listen(...) in src/lib/network.c. My socket programming is a little rusty, but don't we want an address family of AF_INET or AF_INET6? Moving up into src/master/main.c I found set->protocols = imap imaps set->listen_ip.family = 2 set->listen_port = 143 set->ssl_listen_ip.family = 0 set->ssl_listen_port = 993 These print statements start at line 361, right after if (set->ssl_listen_ip.family == 0 && set->ssl_listen == NULL) set->ssl_listen_ip = set->listen_ip; Is there something going wrong in resolve_ip? I'm out of time tonight trying to track this down. Hopefully someone else will have more knowledge to pinpoint the problem. Let me know if I can provide more information. OK, one more tidbit. I hard-coded set->ssl_listen_ip.family to 2 and it seems to work beautifully. My mail server is back up. Why? --- Ryan Hinton iobass(a)email.com

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[Dovecot] LDAP with Active Directory
by B Hatoum 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hello, I have successfully used dovecot 1.0 Beta 9 to do SASL authentication for postfix using the unix passwd/shadow files. I need to authenticate with a windows 2003 server using active directory. My system does not support PAM (I'm using slackware) so I cannot take that route. I do not need to use dovecot for POP or IMAP at the present time and so I would like to avoid modifying my active directory schema. Dovecot seems to be communicating with the active directory server, however it is sending an authentication failure to postfix: postfix/smtpd[24540]: warning: unknown[XXX.XXX.XXX.X]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: UxxvcmxxQ6 I don't see any messages in the log from dovecot. Here is my dovecot-ldap.conf: hosts = 192.168.1.2:389 dn = "cn=dovecot,cn=Users,dc=DOM,dc=local" dnpass = "password" auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = cn=Users,dc=DOM,dc=local deref = never scope = subtree default_pass_scheme = CRYPT user_global_uid = 900 user_global_gid = 900 Can someone point out what I am missing? I can't find documentation on this type of setup. Thanks in advance. B Hatoum

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[Dovecot] fedora directory server
by Alfonso Sparano 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hi all someone is successful to use fedora directory server as an ldap server for user/password and also with the LDA? I'm testing protocol smtp: sendmail + dovecot lda + fedora directory server and also: protocol pop3 and imap: dovecot + fedora directory server Thanks a lot folks Alfonso

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-auth relicensing to BSD/MIT
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Bcc'd to everyone who have sent me patches to dovecot-auth or related code. Once in a while people ask me if Dovecot's authentication server code could be relicensed to BSD so they could use it for their project. Usually they have been other BSD-licensed open source projects which just prefer not to use LGPL code. Now there's again this company asking me to give them a bit less restrictive license (they want to link it statically to a closed source program). They'd want to move the code to a separate SASL package and create a library out of it. They want SASL client code too, so they'd apparently write it for the package as well. I've been thinking about separating the dovecot-auth to be a separate package for a while too, although only around the time when Dovecot v2.0 is released (certainly not before v1.0). So, I think changing the Dovecot-auth's license from LGPL to BSD or MIT wouldn't really hurt and it could get it more widely used. Most of Dovecot's lib/ code is already MIT-licensed, so MIT would be more consistent. But I don't think there really is any real difference between BSD and MIT, so either one is fine for me. :) Now, this mail is mostly meant for asking people who have sent me patches to dovecot-auth if they allow the license change for their patch. If not, I'll either rewrite the part of the code, or for larger code parts (eg. NTLM auth) I'll just leave it LGPL licensed but so that it can be compiled out optionally. So, bcc'd people, please reply to me which one of these you're okay with: 1) I allow license change to either BSD or MIT 2) I allow license change to BSD 3) I allow license change to MIT 4) I don't allow license change

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[Dovecot] SASL AUTH LOGIN mechanism problems
by Anders Karlsson 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hi all, Have anyone had problems with Exhange 2003 servers trying to use sasl against Postfix+Dovecot SASL using the AUTH LOGIN Mechanism ? I've done some smtp debugging, and it seems that Exchange sends the usename at the same time as AUTH LOGIN i.e: AUTH LOGIN <base64_username> It then expects to be able to send the password. mech-login.c silently discards all data after AUTH LOGIN and just prompts the username prompt whetever the username has already been supplied during initial AUTH LOGIN request. I've attached a patch to make mech-login.c check if additional data has been sent along with AUTH LOGIN, and in this case skip ahead directly to the Password: prompt. Cheers Anders

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[Dovecot] nfs, dovecot, and maildirs
by bofh list 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hello - I know I am not the only one that will be trying, or has tried this before. Here are my questions! NFS Clients, multiple servers running dovecot - linux with 2.6 kernel with relevant patches (utime, etc) Backend - netapp filer End users - various clients all running IMAP It looks like 1.0.beta8 is definately the way to go. I have a few questions with regards to setup. Is it now possible to reliably store index files over nfs? If not, the alternative is keeping index files in memory, or on local disk - on each server. How big of a performance hit is this if imap connections are round-robined between imap servers? I've seen various people using different actimeo settings, some set at 0, some slightly higher - as much as 30. Can anyone speak on experience they have had with netapps on this subject? The following sound like they are required: mmap_disable=yes lock_method=dotlock Has anyone been successful with fnctl() on netapps with dovecot? Thanks in advance!

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[Dovecot] How to open only these dovecot ports?
by M. Fioretti 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hello, I have not clear, due to the new syntax, how to configure dovecot 1.0 to listen only for the following combinations of ports and services: no pop3, from whatever host accept imap connections only if coming from localhost (since I understand this is secure _and_ the only way to make squirrelmail talk to dovecot) listen on the internet only for imaps and pop3s connections, accept them only if DIGEST-MD5 authentication succeeds. Thanks in advance for any explanation, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ We shall serve God, family and country, in that order, because without the one before it, each would perish.

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[Dovecot] Error: socket() failed: Protocol not supported ERROR in dovecot-1.0.beta9
by Jeff Gardiner 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

I'm trying to get IMAPS working with dovecot-1.0.beta9. I'm building it on a Solaris 10 box, with openssl-0.9.8b installed. Here is the results of my ./configure: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local/dovecot-1.0.beta9 File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : none Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword (modules) Building with SQL drivers ............: I've attached a copy of my dovecot.conf file (striped of comments). When I try running dovecot I get the following error: Error: socket() failed: Protocol not supported Fatal: listen(993) failed: Protocol not supported When I change ssl_disable = no to ssl_disable = yes, everything works. Anyone have any suggestions? Cheers Jeff protocols = imap imaps listen = * disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /usr/local/ssl/certs/Imaging_Dovecot_cert.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/local/ssl/private/Imaging_Dovecot_key.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate = 168 verbose_ssl = yes default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.email protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com } auth default { mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 passdb pam { args = dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root } plugin { }

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[Dovecot] Problems with dovecot.beta9
by Adnae Mac Uthidir 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Dear all :) I have been upgraded dovecot today and I get following errors: Jun 14 12:08:54 [dovecot] IMAP(adnae(a)xxxxxx.xxx): inotify_init() failed: Function not implemented Jun 14 12:08:54 [dovecot] IMAP(auftrag(a)xxxxxxx.xxx): inotify_init() failed: Function not implemented Jun 14 12:08:54 [dovecot] IMAP(swolf(a)xxxxxx.xxx): inotify_init() failed: Function not implemented I have a 64 bit system (Gentoo [amd64]) and I have enabled this function on my kernel: Kernel: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9: [*] Inotify file change notification support thx for your help :)

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Re: [Dovecot] Quick thanks for wonderful ACLS!
by Gavin Henry 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

<quote who="Marc Perkel"> > Looks cute but - why do I want it? What's it good for? I must be missing > something .... > > Well, in a big company, you might not want users to delete any e-mails they have sent out of the company. Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] 1.0 roadmap
by Timo Sirainen 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

I've read about one month back this list's messages. I've still 216 messages from this year marked as "unread" which I should look into more (+258 older ones). Also I've 180 "unread" messages in my INBOX also which might contain something useful. So those messages could still contain something that should be added to this list. Anyway looking at my current TODO, I think the following things should be fixed before v1.0. Additions, comments, patches and such welcome. :) Help would be welcome in checking if these bugs are still there: - Thunderbird+POP3 DELE error. Was this fixed already? Could someone try this? See http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-June/007497.html and the rest of the thread. Basically put thousands of messages into mailbox, start downloading them and see if error comes. - Solaris sendfile is broken? Is it? Can someone try? You can test it with maildir by setting mail_save_crlf=yes, saving a somewhat large mail and FETCHing it (and truss that it really uses sendfile) - passdb passwd + passdb shadow -> passdb_password isn't reset to NULL (ie. probably doesn't allow logging in if the shadow password is correct?) - maildir: rename foo foo.xyz -> infinite loop possible? (doesn't seem so? why did I think it could be? look at the code) Important: - dict-server should have some config file which lists the allowed dicts - LDA: empty mail gives an error. - deliver: delivering mail to box smaller than mbox_min_index_size give close() errors - mbox: CRLFs in headers break the mbox - index: when mailbox is deleted/renamed and someone else had it open, we get stat() error messages in log file. Handle at least the most common places where it happens. - lib-storage - limit folder hierarchy levels? user can now create eg. a/a/a/a/... and then start renaming them from end to beginning, which probably will at some point start causing syscall failures which will fill up logs. Probably should be done: - mbox: dirty mode should be stored to index - quota code should probably be always doing some quota_set_critical() instead of using mail_storage_set_critical(), so that quota_last_error() would work properly - rfc2557 support for BODYSTRUCTURE, as specified by RFC3501 - keywords: add some limits to how many there can be - don't return \* in PERMANENTFLAGS when we're full - mbox: how well does dirty sync + status work? it reads the last mail every time? not very good.. - maildir: we probably shouldn't do duplicate detection/fixing?.. or at least stat() the old file before trying, because we might have just previously seen the old file and then new file and then we try to fix it..

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[Dovecot] b8 fails with ACL plugin on
by Fintec 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

After upgrading to b8 using the ATrpm with the ACL plugin on it fails: # /etc/init.d/dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: Edlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Error: imap dump-capability process returned 22784 [FAILED] Anyone able to help be troubleshoot this? Gavin

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[Dovecot] question about upgrade
by Ivan Arteaga 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

HI, First time posting here. can someone do let me know if there is a specific upgrade procedure from 0.99x to 1.x? Any comment will be appreciated. --Ivan.

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Re: [Dovecot] Error: socket() failed: Protocol not supported ERROR
by Marcus Rueckert 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

On 2006-06-13 17:20:11 -0700, Jack Bailey wrote: > The bug seems to be in dovecot.conf. Uncomment ssl_listen and set it to * works for me: SuSE Linux 10.0 i386 1.0.beta9 with imap and pop3 enabled with listen and ssl_listen set to either "*" or "[::]". maybe run the process under truss/strace to see which call exactly fails. darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org

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[Dovecot] Re: [Dovecot-news] 1.0.beta9 released
by Timo Sirainen 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 18:49 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:16:50PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Fixes a lot of bugs. The next release will be the first "release > > candidate" instead of a beta. > > Timo, > > thanks for another release. I noticed one thing though: ./configure now > checks for c++ and f77 compilers, even though dovecot doesn't seem to use > any C++ nor Fortran. Could this check be removed again? (unless it's > necessary, of course) I've no idea how to remove them. Autoconf for some reason just wants to add checks for them. I once tried looking into it how they could be removed but couldn't figure out anything. Cc'd the mailing list, maybe someone here knows how to do that?

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[Dovecot] POP3 notice if password expired
by Vaidas Pilkauskas 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hi, We just migrated our IMAP service to Dovecot and it performs very well. We also want to migrate our POP3 service (qpopper) to Dovecot. The problem is that Dovecot and Qpopper differently act on expired passwords: Qpopper: -ERR "user": password expired. Dovecot: -ERR Authentication failed. Are there any way to tell Dovecot to report about expired passwords? We have about 30000 users and 84 days password lifecycle. "Password expired" notifications highly reduce the number of support calls from our users. Server setup info: Solaris 9 SPARC, PAM authentication. Thanks, Vaidas Pilkauskas Vilnius University

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[Dovecot] ssl-proxy: client certificates and crl check
by HenkJan Wolthuis 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hi, I've attached a new version of my patch against ssl_proxy-openssl.c which: - disconnects when no clientcertificate is presented - checks the clientcertificate against the crl for our root cert. (so you can't use a revoked client cert.) - returns the CommonName from the client cert. in ssl_proxy_get_peer_name (this way it's easier to use dovecot as imap-proxy with a passwd-like userdb + ssl_require_client_cert + ssl_username_from_cert, it "binds" the emailuser to the clientcertificate, so a user / clientcert. can access only the account from the userdb) In order to use it, the CAfile must be a file which contains the CAcertificate (pem format) followed by the CRL (also in pem format). (servercert and the clientcerts are signed with a self-signed rootcert) changes in this version: - found the proper way to extract the CommonName from a certificate! - code cleanup there are some issues with the patch: - it needs openssl > 0.9.7. the way I do CRL loading/checking is new in 0.9.7. There are some examples on the openssl-devel list, but not much documentation. - ssl_verify_client_cert now returns 0 in case of an invalid cert. was there a reason why it always returned 1? - ssl_proxy_get_peer_name is changed, code depending on this function returning "X509_NAME_oneline" can break.. (at the moment it is only used for the ssl_username_from_cert config option, i think) I'd like comments / ideas etc. -- groeten, HenkJan Wolthuis --- ssl-proxy-openssl.c.orig 2006-04-04 10:32:58.000000000 +0200 +++ ssl-proxy-openssl.c 2006-06-01 09:24:57.000000000 +0200 @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ const char *ssl_proxy_get_peer_name(struct ssl_proxy *proxy) { X509 *x509; - char buf[1024]; + char buf[256]; const char *name; if (!ssl_proxy_has_valid_client_cert(proxy)) @@ -508,10 +508,16 @@ if (x509 == NULL) return NULL; /* we should have had it.. */ - X509_NAME_oneline(X509_get_subject_name(x509), buf, sizeof(buf)); - name = t_strndup(buf, sizeof(buf)); + /* HJHJ */ + /* the X509_N_gtbN can return -1 without 0-terminating buf */ + /* if the call succeeds buf is 0-terminated (openssl 0.9.7e / 0.9.8b src) */ + buf[0] = '\0'; + if( X509_NAME_get_text_by_NID(X509_get_subject_name(x509),NID_commonName,buf,sizeof(buf)) < 0 ) + { buf[0] = '\0'; } + name = t_strndup(buf, sizeof(buf) ); X509_free(x509); - + /* HJHJ */ + return *name == '\0' ? NULL : name; } @@ -582,10 +588,22 @@ proxy = SSL_get_ex_data(ssl, extdata_index); proxy->cert_received = TRUE; + + /* HJHJ */ + char buf[1024]; + X509_NAME_oneline( X509_get_subject_name(ctx->current_cert),buf,sizeof(buf)); + if (!preverify_ok) + { proxy->cert_broken = TRUE; + i_warning("BAD CERT %s: %s",X509_verify_cert_error_string(ctx->error),buf); + } + else + { i_warning("CERT: %s",buf); } /* logging */ - return 1; + return preverify_ok; + /* HJHJ */ + } static int @@ -666,10 +684,20 @@ if (getenv("SSL_VERIFY_CLIENT_CERT") != NULL) { SSL_CTX_set_verify(ssl_ctx, SSL_VERIFY_PEER | - SSL_VERIFY_CLIENT_ONCE, + SSL_VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT, ssl_verify_client_cert); } + /* HJHJ */ +#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x00907000L + X509_STORE *store; + if( (store=SSL_CTX_get_cert_store(ssl_ctx)) != NULL ) + { X509_STORE_set_flags( store, X509_V_FLAG_CRL_CHECK | X509_V_FLAG_CRL_CHECK_ALL); } + else + { i_warning("X509 get cert store failed..."); } +#endif + /* HJHJ */ + /* PRNG initialization might want to use /dev/urandom, make sure it does it before chrooting. We might not have enough entropy at the first try, so this function may fail. It's still been

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[Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?
by Marc Perkel 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

So Timo, Have you considered the idea of storing all the email in a MySQL database? Seems to me that MySQL could somplify all the backend stuff that everyone struggles with and with replication one could create very massive and reliable systems. What would it take to use MySQL that way?

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[Dovecot] Multiple quota roots
by Timo Sirainen 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

IMAP RFC defines a way to have multiple quota roots. For example with filesystem quota the first quota root would be "available disk space in filesystem" and second quota root would be the user's normal quota. I guess this could similarly be useful for example to have a per-domain quota (eg. 10GB) and each user have their own separate quota (eg. 1GB), so that 20 the users together still couldn't use more than the 10GB. Anyway the most important reason why I need to implement them now is to allow a configuration where you could have eg. 1GB quota normally, but also extra 100MB allowed for Trash mailbox. So even when you're over quota your IMAP client can still do its copy-to-Trash operations. I guess with Maildir++ quota backend this should need to be implemented in a backwards compatible way so that the main maildirsize file contains the 1GB quota limit but still tracks the entire usage so it can grow to 1,1GB there. Now, anyone have suggestions how all of this should be configured in config file to make it as useful for different purposes as possible? :)

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[Dovecot] strange behaviour: connecting to mysql, but no queries after upgrade on ubuntu...
by Nikolaus Schlemm 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

hi all, I'm having trouble using dovecot with mysql after upgrading to 1.0.beta3 on ubuntu. according to the mysql log, dovecot connects but doesn't issue any queries.. any hints what might be wrong or where I should look? -- Cheers, Nikl

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[Dovecot] what is the correct password file format?
by M. Fioretti 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hello, I'm trying to set up dovecot installed from RPM (version dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1, the one included in Centos 4.3). I get this error: dovecot-auth: passwd-file(user@domail): unknown user even if user@domain exists: auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.virtual_users auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.virtual_users -bash-3.00# cat /etc/imap.v_users user@domain:{DIGEST-MD5}thepassword:uid_value:gid_value::/absolute/path/to/virtual/mailboxes why do I get this error? and what is the correct config format for this version of dovecot? TIA, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H.H. Williams

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot fails to start after enabling "deliver" executable settings to config file
by infowolfe 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

On 6/12/06, My BSD <MyBSD(a)comcast.net> wrote: > The directory should have been "/opt/local/var/run/dovecot/". > > However, when "user" and "group" are set to "9999" dovecot will not > start with the following error log entries: > > ------------------------------------------- > dovecot: Jun 12 12:52:36 Error: auth(default): User doesn't exist: 9999 > dovecot: Jun 12 12:52:36 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting > down dovecot: Jun 12 12:52:36 Error: child 29585 (auth) returned error > 89 > ------------------------------------------- cat /etc/passwd | grep 9999 if you don't see any output, then cat /etc/passwd | more and pick a different uid/gid to launch dovecot as ;-)

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[Dovecot] ./configure and /or Makefile problem
by B.O.F.H. 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 This is on OpenBSD 3.x. I'll fully admit not being a savvy programmer and therefore unable to suggest a decent resolution. It seems that _something_ in either the main "configure" script or one of the Makefile.in templates is causing the Makefiles in src/auth and src/util to add two variables named "AUTH_CFLAGS" and "AUTH_LIBS", which on first look makes sense. Looking a bit deeper, they both contain variables in the format "@VARNAME@" which I'm presuming _should_ have been replaced with actual paths and/or "-l" statements during the configure process. Those being: AUTH_CFLAGS = -I@includedir@ @INCLUDE_des@ AUTH_LIBS = -L@libdir@ -lgssapi -lkrb5 -lasn1 @LIB_des_appl@ - - -lroken @LIB_crypt@ @LIB_dbopen@ @LIBS@ -L/usr/local/lib -lpq - - -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lm Two issues become apparent: 1 - Somehow, the unexpanded "@" variables are making it to the command line 2 - "-lroken" is a Linux specific library and is not found in most *BSD's. Generally configure scripts replace it with "-lcrypto" on host OS detection. This can be displayed by looking at the errors for both auth and util: Making all in auth gmake[3]: Entering directory `/src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src/auth' if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib - - -I../../src/lib-sql -I../../src/lib-settings -I../../src/lib-ntlm - - -DAUTH_MODULE_DIR=\""/usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth"\" - - -DPKG_LIBEXECDIR=\""/usr/local/libexec/dovecot"\" -I@includedir@ @INCLUDE_des@ -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/kerberosV - - -std=gnu99 -O2 -march=athlon -pipe -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes - - -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 - - -Wbad-function-cast -MT mycrypt.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo" - - -c -o mycrypt.o mycrypt.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo" ".deps/mycrypt.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo"; exit 1; fi gcc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations gmake[3]: *** [mycrypt.o] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src/auth' gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 Making all in util gmake[3]: Entering directory `/src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src/util' if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib - - - -I../../src/auth -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/kerberosV - - - -std=gnu99 -O2 -march=athlon -pipe -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes - - - -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 - - - -Wbad-function-cast -MT rawlog.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/rawlog.Tpo" - - -c - -o rawlog.o rawlog.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/rawlog.Tpo" ".deps/rawlog.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/rawlog.Tpo"; exit 1; fi /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link --tag=CC gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 - - - -march=athlon -pipe -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes - - - -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts - - -Wformat=2 - -Wbad-function-cast -L/usr/local/lib -o rawlog rawlog.o ../lib/liblib.a mkdir .libs gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -march=athlon -pipe -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes - - - -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts - - -Wformat=2 - -Wbad-function-cast -o rawlog rawlog.o -L/usr/local/lib ../lib/liblib.a if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. - - -I../../src/lib - -I../../src/auth -I/usr/local/include - - -I/usr/include/kerberosV - -std=gnu99 -O2 -march=athlon -pipe -Wall - - -W -Wmissing-prototypes - -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith - - -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 - -Wbad-function-cast -MT gdbhelper.o - - -MD -MP -MF ".deps/gdbhelper.Tpo" -c -o gdbhelper.o gdbhelper.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/gdbhelper.Tpo" ".deps/gdbhelper.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/gdbhelper.Tpo"; exit 1; fi /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link - - --tag=CC gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 - -march=athlon -pipe -Wall -W - - -Wmissing-prototypes - - - -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts - - -Wformat=2 - -Wbad-function-cast -L/usr/local/lib -o gdbhelper gdbhelper.o ../lib/liblib.a gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -march=athlon -pipe -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes - - - -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts - - -Wformat=2 - -Wbad-function-cast -o gdbhelper gdbhelper.o - - -L/usr/local/lib ../lib/liblib.a if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib - - - -I../../src/auth -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/kerberosV - - - -std=gnu99 -O2 -march=athlon -pipe -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes - - - -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 - - - -Wbad-function-cast -MT dovecotpw.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/dovecotpw.Tpo" -c -o dovecotpw.o dovecotpw.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/dovecotpw.Tpo" ".deps/dovecotpw.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/dovecotpw.Tpo"; exit 1; fi /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link - - --tag=CC gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 - -march=athlon -pipe -Wall -W - - -Wmissing-prototypes - -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith - - -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 - -Wbad-function-cast - - -L/usr/local/lib -o dovecotpw dovecotpw.o ../auth/libpassword.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib/liblib.a - -L@libdir@ -lgssapi -lkrb5 - - -lasn1 @LIB_des_appl@ -lroken @LIB_crypt@ @LIB_dbopen@ @LIBS@ - - -L/usr/local/lib -lpq -L/usr/local/lib/mysql - - - -lmysqlclient -lz -lm -export-dynamic ../../libtool[6473]: cd: /src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src/util/@libdir@ - No such file or directory libtool: link: cannot determine absolute directory name of `@libdir@' gmake[3]: *** [dovecotpw] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src/util' gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 To get Dovecot to build, I manually went into both Makefiles, made "AUTH_CFLAGS" empty and deleted all "@" references and "-lroken" in "AUTH_LIBS" replacing them with "-lcrypto" Once I did that, it built successfully and has not thrown any errors. - -- Ed V. 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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot fails to start after enabling "deliver" executable settings to config file
by Timo Sirainen 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 10:29 -0400, My BSD wrote: > dovecot: Jun 12 10:08:53 Error: auth(default): bind > (/opt/var/run/dovecot/auth-client) failed: No such file or directory Does /opt/var/run/dovecot/ directory exist? And you haven't tried to chroot auth process?

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[Dovecot] deliver setgid issues
by Brad 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Okay .. have dovecot set up with following settings : userdb static { args = uid=97 gid=97 home=/export/dovecot/mail/%d/%u mail=mbox:/export/dovecot/mbox/%d/%u/ } passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/dovecot-passdb } Passdb works I think in the sense that I can log into dovecot using a regular mail client. The real issue is when I try to deliver any type of mail using dovecot-lda (deliver). deliver is setuid and setgid dovecot .. I event se the static mail dirs above to be owned by dovecot (I know .. a no no .. but wanted to trace down issue) I also have first_valid_uid = 96 and first_valid_uid = 96 Now .. when I try to do this .. echo "A Test Message" | /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d existinguser I get this .. master in: USER 1 echo service=deliver dovecot: Mar 11 23:45:24 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 echo uid=97 gid=97 home=/export/dovecot/mail//echo mail=mbox:/export/dovecot/mbox//echo/ dovecot: Mar 11 23:45:24 Error: auth(default): deliver: Fatal: setgroups(97) failed: Operation not permitted 97 is the gid for the dovecot user .. which owns just about everything deliver could ever touch. What am I missing ?

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[Dovecot] Verbose logs to show ACL hits?
by Gavin Henry 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi all, Using Beta here, but can't see anything in dovecot.conf for this? Any tips? Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] Quick thanks for wonderful ACLS!
by Gavin Henry 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi again, Just testing the ACLs, as one of our clients do not want users to delete or move Sent emails. Following http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL and creating: /etc/dovecot-acls/Sent with this in it: owner lrsi Works a treat. We love Dovecot! ;-) -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] Verbose logs to show ACL hits?
by Gavin Henry 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi all, Using Beta here, but can't see anything in dovecot.conf for this? Any tips? Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] LDA Questions
by Timothy White 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Firstly, if you're out of quota for example, and using postfix, will it need to send a bounce email, or will it do the out of quota error at SMTP time? (preferred) Also, I want a global sieve script to run first, REGARDLESS if the user has their own script. # If there is no user-specific Sieve-script, global Sieve script is # executed if set. #global_script_path = This suggests to me, that it will only execute if no user sieve script is present. As most of my users are going to be virtual, it shouldn't be a problem, but just encase, I'd like to know my global script is being run for all users. Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] ssl_require_client_cert = yes for encrypted connections only
by Rainer Frey 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi, is there any way to get dovecot to use "ssl_require_client_cert = yes" for encrypted connections only? For unencrypted connections there can't be any client certificate, and I can't disable unencrypted connections altogether (I limit them by firewall to our own network). Rainer Frey -- Software Development ------------------------------------------------------ Inxmail GmbH Kaiser-Joseph-Str. 274, 79098 Freiburg, Germany

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[Dovecot] Expunge is not expunging unless called twice--revisited
by Jeff Blank 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi, I'm running dovecot-1.0.beta8 from FreeBSD ports, using mbox mail store. My problem appears to have come up on the list about a month ago, "Expunge is not expunging unless it is called twice". I ran through Bill Boebel's telnet-IMAP session for myself, and I see that his test case is now fixed (as Timo said), but mutt, for whatever reason, uses +FLAGS.SILENT, and I'm still getting the behaviour in Bill's original problem when I telnet and use +FLAGS.SILENT: 1 OK Logged in. 2 select INBOX * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] * Flags permitted. * 1 EXISTS * 1 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1148956034] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 4] Predicted next UID 2 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 3 UID STORE 3 +FLAGS.SILENT (\Deleted) 3 OK Store completed. 4 expunge 4 OK Expunge completed. 5 expunge * 1 EXPUNGE * 0 RECENT 5 OK Expunge completed. After step 4, the message is still in the mailbox with "X-Status: D"; the second expunge is required to remove it. I seem to get the same behaviour with Thunderbird, so is this still a dovecot problem? (I have Thunderbird set up to remove deleted messages immediately, not move to trash or just mark as deleted.) thanks much, Jeff

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[Dovecot] Wiki's MainConfig page
by Timo Sirainen 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig is now automatically generated from dovecot-example.conf, so it's no longer out of date. I use the attached perl script to generate it, so if you want some things to work better in it fix the script and send it back to me :) Oh and it's now immutable so no-one can edit the page directly.

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[Dovecot] Strange Error after some hour of inactivity.
by Ramunas 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi, in near future planing migrate our E-mail server to new hardware. Decided try dovecot as IMAP and POP3 server. Compiled latest dovecot-1.0.beta8 version on Linux Fedora Core 3 machine (2.6 kernel). Users database are on PostgreSQL server. Everything working fine except some issues. After some hour of inactivity (POP3 or IMAP) then connecting to check e-mail got this error: invalid I/O fd 8, callback 0x8064d30. Next connection without service restart working fine again but only when in dovecot.conf exsist this option: login_process_per_connection = yes. When "login_process_per_connection = no" , always got "invalid I/O fd 8, callback 0x8064d30" error. from log file ( in dovecot.conf login_process_per_connection = yes): ... Jun 2 08:34:31 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): sql(ramas,192.168.0.3): Password query failed: Jun 2 08:34:31 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): invalid I/O fd 8, callback 0x8064d30 Jun 2 08:34:31 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): sql(ramas,192.168.0.3): Password query failed: Jun 2 08:34:31 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): file auth-request.c: line 347 (auth_request_verify_plain_callback): assertion failed:(request->state == AUTH_REQUEST_STATE_PASSDB) Jun 2 08:34:31 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS Jun 2 08:34:31 srv1 dovecot: child 12203 (auth) killed with signal 6 Jun 2 08:34:31 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): pgsql: Connected to hosting Jun 2 08:34:34 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<ramas>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS Jun 2 08:34:34 srv1 dovecot: POP3(ramas): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=2/3502, del=2/2, size=3468 ... also have troubles with maildir quota on POP3 module (IMAP works fine): mail log: ... Jun 1 20:29:40 srv1 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta8 starting up Jun 1 20:29:41 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): pgsql: Connected to hosting Jun 1 20:29:44 srv1 dovecot: POP3(ramas): dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib01_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: mountpoint_get Jun 1 20:29:44 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<ramas>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS Jun 1 20:29:44 srv1 dovecot: child 21465 (pop3) returned error 89 Jun 1 20:43:09 srv1 dovecot: Killed with signal 15 ... For this issue i found solution with manual compilation POP3 module: appended dependence -o ../lib/mountpoint.o Best regards, Ramas Lithuania, Marijampole

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[Dovecot] Errors in dovecot 1 beta7
by Oliver Schulze L. 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi, I just installed dovecot 1.0 beta 7 and I have these errors: May 5 09:21:27 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.6, lip=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.1 May 5 09:21:27 mail dovecot: POP3(user2): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 May 5 09:21:27 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user3>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.12, lip=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.1 May 5 09:21:27 mail dovecot: auth(default): userdb(user4,::ffff:xx.xx.xx.207): user not found from userdb May 5 09:21:27 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Internal login failure: user=<user4>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.207, lip=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.1 May 5 09:21:27 mail dovecot: POP3(user1): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 May 5 09:36:49 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user5>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.203, lip=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.1 May 5 09:36:49 mail dovecot: POP3(user5): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 May 5 09:36:50 mail dovecot: auth(default): BROKEN NSS IMPLEMENTATION: getpwnam() lookup returned different user than was requested (user6 != user7). May 5 09:36:50 mail dovecot: child 8454 (auth) returned error 89 May 5 09:37:50 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: user=<user7>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.32, lip=::ffff:xx.xx.xx.1 I run dovecot in CentOS 4.3 using openldap/nss_ldap/nscd The problem get resolved when I restart dovecot. Is this a problem in dovecot or in nss_ldap/nscd? How can I debug even further? Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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Re: [Dovecot] Maildir folder hierarchy question
by Richard Leszczynski 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

> did you get an answer? No answer yet. I've had another look at the conf file in the meantime and I still can't detect if specifying :INBOX=... in the default_mail_env has any effect at all. Richard L > Richard Leszczynski wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to set up Dovecot to use a particular > > maildir folder hierarchy and have a problem that > > relates to the inbox. > > > > the folder hierarchy I want in /.../Maildir/ is: > > > > .inbox > > cur > > new > > tmp > > .imap.index.files-for-inbox > > .sent-items > > cur > > new > > tmp > > .imap.index.files-for-sent-items > > > > however the hierarchy that dovecot gives me is > > > > .inbox (unused) > > .INBOX > > .imap.index.files-for-.INBOX > > cur > > new > > tmp > > .sent-items > > cur > > new > > tmp > > .imap.index.files-for-.sent-items > > > > I would like to have the (cur,new,tmp) folders > > associated with the the .inbox placed in the > .inbox > > directory, not alongside it in the main maildir > > directory. Dovecot appears to do this > automatically > > for other folders. I'm not too bothered if the > .inbox > > folder has to be capitalised. > > > > Is this possible? I suspect from reading the > Dovecot > > Q&A that it may not be as the rootdir has special > > significance with IMAP but I would like > confirmation. > > > > I've currently set my default_mail_env as: > > > > default_mail_env = > > > maildir:/home/%u/mail/maildir:INBOX=/home/%u/mail/maildir/.inbox > > > > > > which I thought should do accomplish what I want > but > > it has no apparent effect. > > > > I'm running SUSE 10.0 with Dovecot 0.99.14-5 (as > > installed by Yast). KMail and Outlook are being > used > > to access Dovecot. > > > > Can anyone help? > > thank you, > > Richard L > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > > 24 FIFA World Cup tickets to be won with Yahoo! > Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > ==== > Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer > Resources > Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New > York 12504 > sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: > 845-758-7035 > > ___________________________________________________________ Switch an email account to Yahoo! Mail, you could win FIFA World Cup tickets. http://uk.mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0beta7: STARTTLS/SSL not wanting to start
by Mike Brudenell 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Greetings - I have been looking at Dovecot with a view to migrating us to it from the Washington IMAP server on our Sun systems. To start our testing we first of all installed the pre-built version of Dovecot from the Blastwave (www.blastwave.org) community supported packaged software site. This was Dovecot 0.99.10.4 and we successfully got it working in our test environment: at first just with regular IMAP, then with STARTTLS too. For the latter we installed a properly signed certificate and it works fine: mail clients can connect, use STARTTLS and then use the encrypted connection. I then downloaded the source code for Dovecot 1.0beta7 and built this myself from source, against the OpenSSL 0.9.8 libraries. I configured Dovecot to use the same certificate and key files as had been used for the earlier version we had just tried out. Whilst 1.0beta7 works fine for regular IMAP it just does not want to start SSL using STARTTLS at all. The error that is getting logged in the syslog file is: <date etc> ... dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.warning] imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:140D308A:SSL routines:TLS1_SETUP_KEY_BLOCK:cipher or hash unavailable [ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd] I see in the archived for the list archives that this same problem was asked about for 1.0beta3 but without a solution I could see. Could someone offer any insight/help, please? Cheers, Mike Brudenell -- The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York Yo10 5DD, UK Tel:+44-1904-433811 FAX:+44-1904-433740 * Unsolicited commercial e-mail is NOT welcome at this e-mail address. *

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[Dovecot] Quotas and LDAP
by Stephan Müller 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi, first of all, it is very nice that dovecot has quotas now! Thank you very much. Now, I want to use quotas with LDAP requests, but I am having the following issues. First, contrary to what is written in the Wiki about quota and LDAP ("# quotaStorage must be in the format mentioned above, # For example: dirsize:storage=10240"), it is possible to have an LDAP field with just a number in it. The configuration in dovecot-ldap.conf looks like: user_attrs = homedir=home,uidnumber=uid,primaryGroupID=gid,quotanumber=quota=maildir:storage This works (as tested - I guess, it works as long as the quota entry is the last entry) and you also see it in the logs: Jun 11 19:10:36 inet dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER^I8^Ismueller^Iuid= 76340^Igid=513^Iquota=maildir:storage=90000000^Ihome=/home/dozenten/smueller/ Question now: is this intended (meaning, is this configuration possibility here to stay)? If yes, can you please update the wiki? Second issue: according to the description, the quota number is the size in KB. Is there a chance to change it to bytes? Reason: I am using Postfix with the VDA extension. There, the quota is to be given in bytes. Now, as lazy as I am, I only want to maintain one value for the quota. As I personally think that a quota given in bytes is more flexible, I would ask whether the following change can be made to dovecot: --- quota-maildir.c.orig 2006-06-11 19:15:55.000000000 +0200 +++ quota-maildir.c 2006-06-11 19:16:13.000000000 +0200 @@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ for (; *args != '\0'; args++) { if (strncmp(*args, "storage=", 8) == 0) { - size = strtoull(*args + 8, NULL, 10) * 1024; + size = strtoull(*args + 8, NULL, 10); if (size != 0) root->message_bytes_limit = size; root->master_message_limits = TRUE; Thanks Stephan -- | Those that bite the hand that feeds them are | | doomed to lick the boot that kicks them. |

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[Dovecot] beta8: complaint about tilde at startup
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Timo, After installing beta8 on Solaris 10 sparc and starting it for the first time, I noticed this in my syslog: May 14 19:35:45 emerald dovecot: [ID 475045 mail.info] Dovecot v1.0.beta8 starting up May 14 19:35:47 emerald dovecot: [ID 536776 mail.error] stat(~) failed: No such file or directory The only appearance of the tilde (~) in my dovecot.conf is here: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%1u/%u:INDEX=~ Is the INDEX definition wrong? Or is this a bug? My setup: Solaris 10, mbox format, home directories are local UFS filesystems, INBOX is an NFS-mounted filesystem from another S10 box (NFS version 4). Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] maildir quota not including INBOX
by Bill Boebel 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

The maildir quota plugin doesn't appear to be including the INBOX in the quota calculation that is reported by GETQUOTAROOT. I took a look at the code and it appears that in this file "src/plugins/quota/quota-maildir.c", the function "maildirsize_recalculate" relies on all of the folders being listed when "maildir_list_init" is called. However the INBOX is not included in that listing, so its current storage size is not included. I couldn't figure out what patch would be needed to fix this, but I'm sure it is something simple. Any ideas? Bill

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[Dovecot] LIST command ignores "hidden=yes" for default namespace
by Bill Boebel 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

I'm not sure if this is a bug or just an undesirable feature, but when I have our namespace configured to match Courier's "INBOX." functionality, Dovecot forces me to also define a default namespace (with no prefix). Without the default namespace defined I get "NO Unknown namespace." errors when trying to subscribe or unsubscribe folders. So I have configured my namespaces like this: namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = no } namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes hidden = yes } However with this configuration, LIST commands ignore the "hidden = yes" setting on the default namespace and IMAP clients end up displaying an identical folder listing twice... 2 list "" "*" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.spam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.RSS" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.test" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.test2" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "spam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "RSS" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "test" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "test2" 2 OK List completed. Again, I am not sure if this was intended, but either way it is undesirable for us. I even had a couple customers delete one of their duplicate folders thinking that was safe, but it deleted both folders - of course. To force Dovecot to hide mailboxes in the default namespace I made the following change: src/imap/cmd-list.c: @247 + if (ns->hidden) { + return; + }

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[Dovecot] Bug: maildirsize not updated when deleting folders
by Bill Boebel 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

When using maildir++ quotas, if you delete an IMAP folder, the maildirsize file should get updated so that it subtracts the size of the messages that were contained in the deleted IMAP folder. However Dovecot is not doing this, resulting in Dovecot showing an incorrect quota value until the next time the maildirsize file is rebuilt. Bill

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[Dovecot] Outside mails
by Tolga 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi, I recently found out that I was able to get system mails, but not mails from the outside world. What setting do I have to fiddle with for this? Regards,

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[Dovecot] Quotas and LDAP
by Stephan Müller 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi, first of all, it is very nice that dovecot has quotas now! Thank you very much. Now, I want to use quotas with LDAP requests, but I am having the following issues. First, contrary to what is written in the Wiki about quota and LDAP ("# quotaStorage must be in the format mentioned above, # For example: dirsize:storage=10240"), it is possible to have an LDAP field with just a number in it. The configuration in dovecot-ldap.conf looks like: user_attrs = homedir=home,uidnumber=uid,primaryGroupID=gid,quotanumber=quota=maildir:storage This works (as tested - I guess, it works as long as the quota entry is the last entry) and you also see it in the logs: Jun 11 19:10:36 inet dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER^I8^Ismueller^Iuid= 76340^Igid=513^Iquota=maildir:storage=90000000^Ihome=/home/dozenten/smueller/ Question now: is this intended (meaning, is this configuration possibility here to stay)? If yes, can you please update the wiki? Second issue: according to the description, the quota number is the size in KB. Is there a chance to change it to bytes? Reason: I am using Postfix with the VDA extension. There, the quota is to be given in bytes. Now, as lazy as I am, I only want to maintain one value for the quota. As I personally think that a quota given in bytes is more flexible, I would ask whether the following change can be made to dovecot: --- quota-maildir.c.orig 2006-06-11 19:15:55.000000000 +0200 +++ quota-maildir.c 2006-06-11 19:16:13.000000000 +0200 @@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ for (; *args != '\0'; args++) { if (strncmp(*args, "storage=", 8) == 0) { - size = strtoull(*args + 8, NULL, 10) * 1024; + size = strtoull(*args + 8, NULL, 10); if (size != 0) root->message_bytes_limit = size; root->master_message_limits = TRUE; Thanks Stephan -- | Those that bite the hand that feeds them are | | doomed to lick the boot that kicks them. |

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[Dovecot] RFC 3501 compliance issue: body-type-msg incorrect
by Tony Kay 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi, I am using Dovecot 1.0 beta 7, moving to beta8 probably tomorrow. I am seeing a few RFC compliance issues with IMAP responses. I have an in-house IMAP client that caches IMAP data for a web mail system (it parses millions of IMAP interactions a day), and it reports whenever it gets a line that does not look RFC compliant. Unfortunately, users modify their mailboxes before I can get a copy that allows me to reproduce the errors. However, I can at least show you some examples of the response lines I'm seeing, since they are copied verbatim to my logs when they happen. I saw one case of imap-literal coming across without a \r\n sequence: * 1135 FETCH (UID 1345 RFC822.SIZE 4813894 BODY (("text" "plain" ("charset" "ISO-8859-1") NIL NIL "7bit" 415 6)("application" "octet-stream" ("name" {59}C:\\Documents and Settings\\Mitch\\Desktop\\AIR JORDANS.ppt) NIL NIL "base64" 4811938) "mixed") BODY[1]<0> {80} We sorted out what technical difficulties we having and have posted a corrected BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (FROM TO SUBJECT)] {90} From: XXX To: XXX Subject: Sports group II back online ) This one is probably some weird malformed message, since literal strings processing is certainly not broken in general. The much more common problem is when people receive a message that has a message embedded using the RFC3501 body-type-msg rule. Here is a sample incorrect response: * 4154 FETCH (UID 27140 RFC822.SIZE 14078 BODY (("text" "plain" ("charset" "ISO-8859-1" "format" "flowed") NIL NIL "7bit" 2 1)("message" "rfc822" ("name" "casbudmgr: FW: deans-dirs: Scholarship Announcement") NIL NIL "7bit" 11694 ("Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:42:04 -0700" "casbudmgr: FW: deans-dirs: Scholarship Announcement" (("xxxxxxx xxxx" NIL "xxxxxx" "xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx")) ((NIL NIL "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" "lists.xxxxxxxxxxx")) ((NIL NIL "casbudmgr" "xxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx")) ((NIL NIL "xxxxxxxxx" "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")) NIL NIL NIL <AF3B91355406B440A6E838338E63A742C6435B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdu>") ("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "quoted-printable" 2047 50)("text" "html" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "quoted-printable" 6565 189) "alternative" 302)("text" "x-vcard" ("charset" "utf-8" "name" "ddkintz.vcf") NIL NIL "7bit" 415 14) "mixed")) Look through the line to the point where you see: "alternative" 302. The part the proceeds this is a body-type-mpart rule, but it is missing a set of parentheses...i.e. there should be an ending paren after alternative, and a beginning paren before the set of 1parts that precede it. This looks like a similar problem to what was in imap_bodystructure.c a while back. -- Anthony Kay University Computing Center (541) 346-1719 GPG Fingerprint: B0DB D46A 60AF FAE7 A94A 5075 0CB4 4D88 9F4F 7F09 Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Rich Cook

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[Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(/home/xxxxx) failed with uid xxx: Permission denied
by Nick Ortiz 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

I've had this issue for sometime, I finally gave up and switched to Courier-Imap but I'm finding I hate data storage / structure so I decided to give dovecot another go but am still running into the same issue. I had this working once upon a time and can not for the life of me figure it out. Here's some basic info. Dist: Gentoo 2005.1 Emerge Info: net-mail/dovecot-1.0_beta8 USE="ipv6 pam ssl -debug -kerberos -ldap -mbox -mysql* -pop3d -postgres -vpopmail" Permissions for /home: drwxr-x--x Owner for /home: root Permissions for /home/*: drwxr-xr-x Owner for /home/*: username:username dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=xxxx dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Fatal: chdir(/home/xxxxx) failed with uid 502: Permission denied dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 2 4464 1 dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 2 xxxx system_user=xxxx uid=502 gid=506 home=/home/xxxx ovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<xxxx>, method=plain, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, TLS dovecot: May 18 23:40:04 Error: child 4488 (imap) returned error 89 Only real resolution I can find refers to SELinux which I do not have installed. I can provide my dovecot.conf if needed.

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[Dovecot] LDAP imaps,pop3s authentication problem
by Peter Susán 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi, i'm using LDAP authentication with dovecot, and it's working flawlessly,until i enable SSL.. (even imaps or pop3s) i can't log in... if i test the certificates, and the login with the `openssl s_client - host example.com -port 993 -verify -debug` command, it works, until i want to log in... it lists the capibilities, but when i login it says "01 NO LOGIN failed"... no log messages appears in the logfile, only when i login without SSL... i've tried the newest beta8 and older versions of the server, but the effect is the same.. i'm really confused, becouse i have lots servers running dovecot, but with mysql authentication, and i didn't have any problems with them... the biggest problem is, that no log messages being generated during the process (with or without auth_debug, and auth_verbose options enabled), so i can't figure it out why is it happening.. it's working if i authenticate from other sources, just like passdb, or mysql... thx for the answers in advance, ->Peter Susán tel.: +36-20-395-3751 mail: peter(a)susinet.hu

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[Dovecot] beta8: cores on corrupted index file
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Timo, I saw a couple of these cores over the weekend. The syslog says: May 21 19:04:48 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(user): Corrupted index cache file /home/students/s/user/.imap/sent-mail-apr-2004/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed With a resulting core file from imap at this time. I also discovered a remaining lock file on the person's imap file: -rw------- 1 user user 3088940 May 10 2004 sent-mail-apr-2004 -rw------- 1 user user 13 May 21 19:04 sent-mail-apr-2004.lock The lockfile contains the pid of the process that cores: May 21 19:04:48 emerald dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 17480 (imap) killed with signal 11 The gdb output of the core file is attached. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Dovecot statistics -- I hope this is a stupid question
by Jon Callas 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Is there a way for me to know the last time a user logged in? i'm running Dovecot with Postfix with the authentication bridge and completely virtual everything. It would be nice to know the last time someone logged in, so four years from now I can delete the ones that haven't been used in three years. Jon

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[Dovecot] Slow caching
by John Rowe 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

I have just installed dovecot on a RedHat Enterprise 4 clone with exim MTA, procmail LDA and mbox format. I'm getting complaints of slow caching from a Mac user: I think there's still something very sick with [host]'s IMAP server: it just took a full five minutes to cache an attachment (350kb) in an email from [person]. In that time, I couldn't do anything else with mail; it was essentially locked. The user's inbox is in /var/spool/mail (where there are no idexes), there areindex files within his home directory: ./.imap/INBOX: total 1160 -rw------- 1 xyz users 60656 May 30 14:22 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 xyz users 891904 May 30 14:22 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 xyz users 78428 May 30 14:22 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 xyz users 131920 May 26 11:29 dovecot.index.log.2 Everything is on local disk, there are no NFS mounts at all. Any thoughts? Thanks John

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[Dovecot] Inbox in two different locations
by arilinux 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hello I'm running dovecot v1.0.beta3 on a fedora 4 machine. I'm looking for the way to tell dovecot that some users have inbox (mailbox) in /var/mail/%u and some have inbox (maildir) in /home/%u/mail. Anyway?

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[Dovecot] deliver LDA status?
by Lev Serebryakov 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hello dovecot, wiki mentions `deliver', but it doesn't include into 1.0.beta8 dovecot distribution. It can be downlaoded from CVS, and even contains two tags on files, that seems to eb release tags :) But what is official status of `deliver' tool? Is it stable, or experemental, or what? Are here any plans when it will be packaged ad announced? -- Best regards, Lev mailto:lev@serebryakov.spb.ru

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[Dovecot] Can't run POP3 and IMAP simultaneously from xinetd...
by Timothy Meader 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hello all, I'm hoping you can help out with an issue I'm having running dovecot-beta8 on Solaris 9 (SPARC). The reason I need to run them from xinetd is that we require the filtering ability that tcp_wrappers provide. My issue is that, when running both from xinetd, IMAP runs fine, but then, when you try to POP in to check mail on the same box, it seems that the login section is handled via pop3-login... but all subsequent commands are handled via the imap interpreter. It's as if it's getting passed off to /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap instead of /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 as is specified in dovecot.conf. Here's an example from running a direct telnet session to the box in question: [operator@yyyy operator]# telnet yyyy 110 Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... Connected to yyyy. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Unauthorized access prohibited USER joeblow +OK PASS joeblowspass +OK Logged in. LIST LIST BAD Error in IMAP command : Unknown command. QUIT QUIT BAD Error in IMAP command : Unknown command. 1 logout If you do a ps -ef on the box and check the processes, at no time does a pop3 process start through this process. However, if you do the ps -ef right after the "LIST" command, you can see that there's an imap process started for user 'joeblow'. Now, if I take xinetd out of the equation and instead use the daemon mode /usr/local/sbin/dovecot... everything works perfectly. I've tried using the tcp_wrappers patch that's available in the unsupported directory on dovecot.org, but I cannot get the configure script to recognize the libwrap I have on the system when I compile dovecot with "--with-libwrap" as specified. I'm using tcp_wrappers for Solaris 9 off sunfreeware, so I know it's on there. I've also created sym links to libwrap.a and tcpd.h in /usr/lib and /usr/include respectively... still no dice. Honestly, I don't care which way dovecot runs (though daemon mode WOULD actually be preferred for performance reasons IF tcp_wrappers were available for use), but I just need it running both IMAP and POP3 somehow. Here are the applicable pop3 and imap sections of my dovecot.conf: -- default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%1u/%1.1u/%u protocol pop3 { login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 pop3_no_flag_updates = no pop3_enable_last = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%T, retr=%r/%R, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol imap { login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap login_greeting_capability = yes } -- And the respective sections from xinetd.conf: -- service pop3 { socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login port = 110 flags = REUSE IPv4 rlimit_cpu = 150 instances = 80 cps = 110 10 disable = no } service imap { socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login port = 143 flags = REUSE IPv4 rlimit_cpu = 120 disable = no } -- I hope someone can shed some light on this situation for me. Thank you in advance. --- Tim Meader CNE Internet Services NetCommerce Corporation Tim.Meader(a)gsfc.nasa.gov (301) 286-8013

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[Dovecot] missing empty line in mbox folders with Outlook 2000 client
by Gary Funck 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

I recently looked into a problem that has been plaguing me since the switch to dovecot a couple of years back, documented here: http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/pipermail/procmail/2006-May/024363.html The gist is that when I tell Outlook 2000 to write all outgoing mail into a Sent-mail folder on the IMAP server (using mbox format), I find that the mbox's don't have empty lines separating the messages, (though the Content-Length field is correct. This leads to interoperability problems with programs and scripts that expect each mbox message to be separated by an empty line. (We're running dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7 under Fedora Core 5 on an x86_64 platform.) Has this mbox behavior been reported before? Is it considered a bug or a feature? Is there a configuration option, or Outlook tweak, that can be enabled to ensure that the mbox's produced by writing messages to them via Outlook, are well-formed (have an empty line separating messages)?

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[Dovecot] Server settings for a busy server
by Pat Hastings 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi, We are migrating from a windows server and i have very few stats as to what our current concurrent usage stats are other than about 50,000 active users and 90,000 email messages a day inbound 20,000 outbound. Anyone got some tips for tuning dovecot to handle this load? Below is my config - do the values of login_process_size etc sound correct? Also my logs seem to be written out as root which seems kind of scary do how do I / should I have these written out by the dovecot user. Any feedback greatfully accepted. Regards, Pat protocols = imap pop3 listen = * ssl_disable = no disable_plaintext_auth = no shutdown_clients = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot/mainlog info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/infolog log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot login_process_size = 256 login_process_per_connection = no login_processes_count = 48 login_max_logging_users = 2048 login_greeting = Email server ready. login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format = %$: %s first_valid_uid = 100 mail_extra_groups = mail valid_chroot_dirs = /var/vmail mail_debug = no default_mail_env = maildir:/var/vmail/dovecoterror/%domain/%u maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { pop3_reuse_xuidl = no pop3_uidl_format =%u pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls, oe-ns-eoh } auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb passwd { } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = root } --- [This E-mail has been scanned for viruses but it is your responsibility to maintain up to date anti virus software on the device that you are currently using to read this email. ]

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0beta8 dovecot-auth consumes 100% CPU time on Solaris 10 amd64
by Tore André Klock 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hello. I hope someone out there can help with this. It is getting pretty urgent. I am running a Solaris 10 server on Opteron (amd64) hardware and have compiled Dovecot 1.0beta8 from source. It has openssl compiled in (after much mucking around with various environment variables and modifying the Makefile), and was built with: $ ./configure --with-ldap --with-ssl-dir=/etc/ssl $ make # make install The variables: CC=/usr/sfw/bin/gcc CFLAGS='-m64 -I/usr/local/ssl/include:/usr/sfw/include:/opt/sfw/include' CPP=/usr/sfw/bin/cpp CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl:/usr/sfw/include:/opt/sfw/include CXX=/usr/sfw/bin/g++ LDFLAGS='-m64 -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -R/usr/local/ssl/lib:/usr/sfw/lib:/opt/sfw/lib' LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib:/usr/sfw/lib:/opt/sfw/lib It was compiled with gcc version 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath). I modified the SSL_CFLAGS and SSL_LIBS variables in the Makefile to make it find my openssl install in /usr/local/ssl. The one that came with the OS was broken[1], so I compiled 0.9.8b from source. The configure script for some reason didn't pick this up, even when using CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc. At any rate, I successfully set it up to accept SSL/TLS connections and authenticate against an LDAP server. I use the auth_bind authentication method and only one LDAP host. I have confirmed that this works. In fact, dovecot runs just fine with the exception of the dovecot-auth proces, which is thrown into an endless loop. It starts off at maybe 1-2% CPU time, but after a few minutes it is back up to 100%. This is the output from truss(1) pointed at the dovecot-auth process: --cut-- pollsys(0xFFFFFD7FFFDFF6F0, 5, 0xFFFFFD7FFFDFF6D0, 0x00000000) = 0 pollsys(0xFFFFFD7FFFDFF6F0, 5, 0xFFFFFD7FFFDFF6D0, 0x00000000) = 0 pollsys(0x00467DC0, 10, 0xFFFFFD7FFFDFFB10, 0x00000000) = 1 [same sequence repeats ad nauseum] --cut-- This is a sample of top(1) output: --cut-- load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 08:51:38 60 processes: 55 sleeping, 3 running, 1 zombie, 1 on cpu CPU states: 0.0% idle, 68.3% user, 31.7% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 1024M real, 680M free, 71M swap in use, 591M swap free PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 22875 nobody 1 0 0 0K 0K run 726:22 99.68% dovecot-auth --cut-- Here is a condensed version of my ldap-config: (comments removed, names changed to protect the innocent) --cut-- hosts = ldap.example.com auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = uid=%u,ou=People,o=example.com,o=example.com ldap_version = 3 base = uid=%,ou=People,o=example.com,o=example.com --cut-- This is my condensed dovecot.conf: --cut-- base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 listen = * ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/host.cert ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/host.key ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth = no shutdown_clients = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " login_user = dovecot login_process_per_connection = yes verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes first_valid_uid = 100 last_valid_uid = 60000 mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%u/Maildir mail_full_filesystem_access = no protocol imap { login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap login_greeting_capability = yes imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } auth_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_cache_size = 0 auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = no auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb passwd { } user = nobody } --cut-- I may have commented out more than necessary in an attempt to be explicit while I was trying to narrow this down. This is the output of ldd dovecot-auth: --cut-- libpam.so.1 => /lib/64/libpam.so.1 libldap.so.5 => /usr/lib/64/libldap.so.5 libsocket.so.1 => /lib/64/libsocket.so.1 libnsl.so.1 => /lib/64/libnsl.so.1 librt.so.1 => /lib/64/librt.so.1 libsendfile.so.1 => /lib/64/libsendfile.so.1 libc.so.1 => /lib/64/libc.so.1 libcmd.so.1 => /lib/64/libcmd.so.1 libsasl.so.1 => /usr/lib/64/libsasl.so.1 libmd5.so.1 => /lib/64/libmd5.so.1 libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/mps/64/libnspr4.so libplc4.so => /usr/lib/mps/64/libplc4.so libnss3.so => /usr/lib/mps/64/libnss3.so libssl3.so => /usr/lib/mps/64/libssl3.so libmp.so.2 => /lib/64/libmp.so.2 libscf.so.1 => /lib/64/libscf.so.1 libaio.so.1 => /lib/64/libaio.so.1 libpthread.so.1 => /lib/64/libpthread.so.1 libthread.so.1 => /lib/64/libthread.so.1 libdl.so.1 => /lib/64/libdl.so.1 libsoftokn3.so => /usr/lib/mps/amd64/libsoftokn3.so libplds4.so => /usr/lib/mps/amd64/libplds4.so libdoor.so.1 => /lib/64/libdoor.so.1 libuutil.so.1 => /lib/64/libuutil.so.1 libm.so.2 => /lib/64/libm.so.2 --cut-- Notes: - The problem *seems* to occur only when I use LDAP authentication. - Disabling SSL in the config has no effect on the CPU usage. - I am not using NFS for anything. - I use Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 and another client runs Outlook. - There is no indication of any problem in the dovecot or system logs. - I suspected this had to do with the poll method dovecot is compiled with (poll), but it happens even when I compiled it with the select method. As far as I know, none of the other methods are available on Solaris. - I noted that the poll(2) call in Solaris will return immediately given a timeout of zero (-1 is 'forever'). I tried tacking down the use of that system call, but I had to give up on that. I only mention it in case it is a dovecot bug and of any help to Timo. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you. - Tore [1] If you use the factory-installed version, you get messages like "Warning: imap-login: SSL_accept() failed: error:1409D08A:SSL routines:SSL3_SETUP_KEY_BLOCK:cipher or hash unavailable" in your dovecot log.

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[Dovecot] Can't read dovecot.conf
by E P 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hello all, I'm attempting to run dovecot on an HP-UX 11.11 system ... the built went fine, and I've got the program installed. I copied dovecot-example.conf to dovecot.conf and made a few changes to it, then went to sbin and ran the dovecot binary to see what would happen. What happened was this: colin:/usr/local/dovecot/sbin# ./dovecot Error: Error in configuration file /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf line 1: Unknown setting: _cert_file ... which is odd; line 1 of dovecot.conf was actually this: ## Dovecot configuration file ... and the first line that wasn't commented out was this: protocols = imaps So just for fun I changed the first non-commented line to this: protocols=imaps ... and then ran the dovecot binary again. This time the error was subtly different: colin:/usr/local/dovecot/sbin# ./dovecot Error: Error in configuration file /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf line 1: Unknown setting: ert_file ... "aha" says I, "it's having some issue with comments." So I took out every line in dovecot.conf that wasn't a comment, leaving me with just 23 lines: protocols=imaps listen=<IP address> ssl_cert_file=/opt/openssl/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key_file=/opt/openssl/certs/imapd.pem disable_plaintext_auth=yes protocol imap { login_executable=/usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_executable=/usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir=/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot } protocol pop3 { } auth_executable=/usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth default { mechanisms=plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user=root } plugin { } This time, when I ran the binary, I got a new error: colin:/usr/local/dovecot/sbin# ./dovecot Error: Can't use SSL certificate /opt/openssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory ... this is odd, because the config file clearly states that it should look for the certificate elsewhere. But just for fun, I made dovecot.pem symlinks in /opt/openssl/certs and /opt/openssl/private. Then I try running again: colin:/usr/local/dovecot/sbin# ./dovecot Error: Missing auth section for server default At this point, it's becoming clear to me that my current tactic isn't doing much, so I read some READMEs, checked the wiki, googled around a bit, and now I'm here. Anyone have hints on this? Thanks -- Elliott

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[Dovecot] Dovecot wont start.
by Cesar Diaz 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

I installed Dovecot along with Postfix on a FreeBSD server using the port. When I try to start dovecot I get the following error: Fatal: Can't resolve address : hostname nor servname provided, or not known I have the hostname define on the server and can ping it by FQDN and by just hostname with out problems. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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[Dovecot] postmaster alias
by Tracy R Reed 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

I have dovecot configured to use an LDAP database for mail delivery with dovecot-lda. All of of my user accounts and aliases work fine except for postmaster@ which consistantly bounces. I have compared the entry for postmaster with another working alias and see no difference. When I send mail to postmaster I get the following in the logs: Jun 11 02:11:13 server1 postfix/pipe[12083]: 6D6CF33444: to=<postmaster(a)mydomain.com>, orig_to=<postmaster>, relay=dovecot, delay=3, status=bounced (user unknown)Jun 11 02:11:13 server1 deliver(treed(a)mydomain.com): saved mail to INBOX Jun 11 02:11:13 server1 postfix/pipe[12193]: 6D6CF33444: to=<treed(a)mydomain.com>, orig_to=<postmaster>, relay=dovecot, delay=3, status=sent (mydomain.com) Jun 11 02:11:13 server1 postfix/cleanup[12055]: 49F1F33431: message-id=<20060611091113.49F1F33431(a)mail.mydomain.com> Jun 11 02:11:13 server1 postfix/qmgr[29342]: 49F1F33431: from=<>, size=2138, nrcpt=2 (queue active) Jun 11 02:11:13 server1 postfix/qmgr[29342]: 6D6CF33444: removed Jun 11 02:11:13 server1 postfix/smtpd[12089]: 6464D33415: client=d150-39-102.home.cgocable.net[24.150.39.102] Jun 11 02:11:13 server1 postfix/pipe[12193]: 49F1F33431: to=<treed(a)mydomain.com>, orig_to=<root(a)mydomain.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=sent (mydomain.com) Jun 11 02:11:13 server1 postfix/pipe[12083]: 49F1F33431: to=<myboss(a)mydomain.com>, orig_to=<root(a)mydomain.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=sent (mydomain.com) Then I get a bounce email back saying: <postmaster(a)drjays.com> (expanded from <postmaster>): user unknown The strange thing is that first I get the bounce and then the mail goes on to be delivered to the two users (me and my boss) specified in the alias as it should be. How is this possible that the user is unknown and then it goes on to deliver to the alias? I am running 1.0.beta8 pulled from CVS May 23 16:46 (PDT) with openldap-2.2.13-4 on CentOS 4.3 Thanks for any clues you can provide! -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org

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[Dovecot] mkcert.sh broken
by Erick Calder 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

I've just installed dovecot on my FC5 box. I tweaked the dovecot-openssl.cnf and attempted to recreate the cert but get the errors below. I see older postings about this problem on FC2. help? - e # ./mkcert.sh /etc/ssl/certs directory doesn't exist /etc/ssl/private directory doesn't exist error on line -1 of dovecot-openssl.cnf 2810:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:bss_file.c:122:fopen('dovecot-openssl.cnf','rb') 2810:error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file:bss_file.c:125: 2810:error:0E078072:configuration file routines:DEF_LOAD:no such file:conf_def.c:197:

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[Dovecot] IMAP FILE MOVE ERROR
by agreig＠protectionprojects.co.za 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

I recently installed dovecot.x86_64 1.0-0.beta8.1.fc5 on a new server. Our network users use Pegasus as their mail readers, accessing their home folder on the server via Samba. Each user has a pop3 set of folders, and we have a shared imap set of folders. This has worked very well for previous versions of dovecot. When moving files between folders on the imap set, we get an error message from Pegasus, as follows: "The IMAP server that manages this mailbox or folder has reported an error during the operation you have attempted to perform." The operation cannot be completed." Operation of the imap INBOX only restores once it is "refreshed" via Pegasus. The maillog shows the following message for this error: "dovecot: IMAP(tekstaff): file mail-cache-transaction.c: line 709 (mail_cache_add): assertion failed: (fixed_size == (unsigned int)-1 || fixed_size == data_size)" A search using find / -name mail-cache-transaction.c does not find such file. I am stumped. Any help to fix this will be much appreciated.

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[Dovecot] imap default folder dont appear..,
by John Von Essen 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Hi, New to list. I am having some issues with dovecot and Outlook. Mail server is sendmail with procmail LDA for supporting /home/username/Maildir. I am talking to IMAP with both Outlook and SquirrelMail. SquirrelMail shows the default IMAP folders under INBOX, namely Sent, Drafts, and Trash for all users. However Outlook does not. Actually, to be more specific, some clients Outlook show the default folders but some do not. On the ones that do not, I am not sure what to do? Those accounts receive mail into the Inbox, but there is no Sent mail folder for outbound email, etc.,. Can someone point me in the right direction. I have six Outlook clients for six users, 2 show the default folders, the others do not. On the users Outlook that do not see the defaults folders, like Sent mail... If I go into SquirrelMail and send an email, I see it in SquirrelMails Sent, but not Outlook?! Thanks in advance for any help.... John

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[Dovecot] Dovecot, IMAP, and mutt
by Travis Poppe 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 release on x86 hardware and am using mutt version 1.5.11. Not running dovecot on/over NFS or anything, just the standard UFS2 filesystem. I'm also using SSL for IMAP. Since dovecot 1.0.b8, I've had to instruct mutt to do things twice (such as deleting) before the changes will actually occur. I've confirmed that this does not happen with dovecot 1.0.b7, which is what I'm using now to work around the problem. To repeat, use mutt 1.5.11 in IMAP/SSL mode with dovecot 1.0.b8 and try to mark some mail for deletion. Then, press the '$' key to enact the changes. You'll see that the piece(s) of mail will still be there after doing so. Pressing the '$' key again will cause the mail to be removed. Any ideas as to what's going on? Thanks, -- Travis Poppe IRC: tlp @ irc.freenode.net

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[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot-lda
by Jef Driesen 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

I have installed the dovecot 1.0 beta3 (package included with Ubuntu Dapper Drake) and everything is working very well. Next I wanted to try the dovecot lda (for sieve filtering). In postfix I have "mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver" and I followed the instructions from http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA. I only changed "postmaster_address = postmaster(a)localdomain.local" and "user = dovecot" from the example configuration. With this configuration, no mail is delivered (discarded?) and in the logfile there is this error: Jun 5 18:10:08 localhost postfix/local[9630]: BFA6D5A403: to=<jef(a)localdomain.local>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (local configuration error. Command output: Fatal: open(/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: Permission denied ) Changing permissions on /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf to 644 fixes the problem, but I think this is not the best solution. Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] Problem Compiling Dovecot-LDA
by Timothy White 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

I'm trying to setup Dovecot-LDA. I grab dovecot beta8 and compiled it with the following options. $ ./configure --without-deliver --with-mysql $ make # make install It builds fine, and I have it running fine now. I then tried to build dovecot-lda from cvs, with the following. $ ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot-1.0.beta8/ $ make and it then fails with the following gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o sievec sievec.o libsieve.a /home/tim/src/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src/lib/liblib.a libsieve.a(script.o)(.text+0xa23): In function `sieve_script_load': /home/tim/src/dovecot-lda/src/libsieve/script.c:435: undefined reference to `map_refresh' libsieve.a(script.o)(.text+0xaf0): In function `sieve_script_unload': /home/tim/src/dovecot-lda/src/libsieve/script.c:462: undefined reference to `map_free' libsieve.a(sieve.o)(.text+0x1e6e): In function `verify_flag': /home/tim/src/dovecot-lda/src/libsieve/sieve.y:951: undefined reference to `imparse_isatom' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [sievec] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tim/src/dovecot-lda/src/libsieve' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tim/src/dovecot-lda/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Any ideas as to what is wrong? Grepping the src files for map_refresh, map_free, and imparse_isatom only show references in dovecot-lda, in src/imparse.c and src/map.c. It seems to be a problem with src/libsieve when trying to build the sieve stuff. But I'm not sure. Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Authentication through LDAP Server
by ashok cvs 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

I have a Samba PDC with LDAP (samba version 3.0.21c with Openldap 2.3.19). where i have all the users. I have configured sendmail on another system with dovecot as IMAP and POP3 server. I wanted to enable user authentication from LDAP server which is on samba PDC. So configured /etc/dovecot.conf ################################################################ protocols = pop3 imap imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login_user = testuser login = pop3 verbose_proctitle = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_user = dovecot auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ ################################################################ configured /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf ####################################################################### # NOTE: We don't support "authentication binds", so you'll have to give # dovecot-auth read access to userPassword field in LDAP server. With OpenLDAP # this is done by modifying /etc/ldap/slapd.conf. There should already be # something like this: # # access to attribute=userPassword # by dn="<dovecot's dn>" read # add this # by anonymous auth # by self write # by * none # Space separated list of LDAP hosts to use. host:port is allowed too. hosts = 192.168.129.18 # Distinguished Name - the username used to login to the LDAP server dn = uid=root,ou=People,dc=msdpl,dc=com # Password for LDAP server dnpass = mobil5@b1d # LDAP protocol version to use. Likely 2 or 3. ldap_version = 3 # LDAP base base = dc=msdpl,dc=com # Dereference: never, searching, finding, always deref = never # Search scope: base, onelevel, subtree scope = subtree # User attributes in order: # Virtual user name (user@domain) # Home directory # MAIL environment # System user name (for initgroups()) # System UID # System GID #user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,uid,, # Filter for user lookup. Some variables can be used: # %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 user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) #ser_filter = (&(objectClass=sambaSamAccount)(uid=%u)) # Password checking attributes in order: # Virtual user name (user@domain) # Password, may optionally start with {type}, eg. {crypt} pass_attrs = uid,userPassword # Filter for password lookups #pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) # Default password scheme. "{scheme}" before password overrides this. # Currently supported schemes include PLAIN, PLAIN-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, CRYPT #default_pass_scheme = CRYPT # You can use same UID and GID for all user accounts if you really want to. # If the UID/GID is still found from LDAP reply, it overrides these values. #user_global_uid = 100 #user_global_gid = 100 ####################################################################### The following is the error when we check using [root]#telnet mymailserverip 110 Trying 192.168.129.248 Connected to testmail.mydomain.com (192.168.129.248) Escape character is '^]`. user dcadmin pass mypass ERR-Authentication Failure The following is the log output of /var/log/maillog ######################################################################### Jun 8 13:09:16 testmail dovecot-auth: ldap(dcadmin): No password in reply Jun 8 13:10:16 testmail pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [::ffff: 127.0.0.1] Jun 8 13:10:26 testmail dovecot-auth: ldap(root): No password in reply Jun 8 13:11:26 testmail pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [::ffff: 127.0.0.1] Jun 8 13:11:38 testmail dovecot-auth: LDAP: ldap_result() failed: Can't contact LDAP server Jun 8 13:13:46 testmail dovecot-auth: ldap(root): No password in reply Jun 8 13:13:46 testmail imap-login: Disconnected [::ffff:127.0.0.1] Jun 8 13:14:03 testmail dovecot-auth: ldap(dcadmin): No password in reply Jun 8 13:14:03 testmail imap-login: Disconnected [::ffff:127.0.0.1] ############################################################################ Regards Niranjan

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[Dovecot] Login issue
by "M. Tolga Özses" 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Hi, cat /var/log/dovecot.log|grep -i jun\ 09 dovecot: Jun 09 09:35:26 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.1.2 rip=212.98.201.1 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Jun 09 09:35:26 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Jun 09 09:35:26 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> dovecot: Jun 09 09:35:26 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=kabuto dovecot: Jun 09 09:35:26 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 13 12652 1 dovecot: Jun 09 09:35:26 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 13 kabuto system_user=kabuto uid=1000 gid=100 home=/home/kabuto dovecot: Jun 09 09:35:26 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<kabuto>, method=PLAIN, rip=212.98.201.1, lip=192.168.1.2 dovecot: Jun 09 09:35:26 Info: POP3(kabuto): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Does this look right? I'm still not getting any e-mails from outside world. My latest .conf file is at http://www.kunduz.org/dovecot.conf. The last change I made was to out uncomment pop3_uidl_format as I was suggested yesterday. Regards,

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[Dovecot] Error building on OpenBSD 3.9
by B.O.F.H. 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 This is for all versions from 1.0b3 - 1.0b8 All crash at the same place: Making all in auth gmake[3]: Entering directory `/src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src/auth' if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib - -I../../src/lib-sql -I../../src/lib-settings -I../../src/lib-ntlm - -DAUTH_MODULE_DIR=\""/usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth"\" - -DPKG_LIBEXECDIR=\""/usr/local/libexec/dovecot"\" -I@includedir@ @INCLUDE_des@ -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/kerberosV - -std=gnu99 -O2 -march=athlon -pipe -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes - -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 - -Wbad-function-cast -MT mycrypt.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo" - -c -o mycrypt.o mycrypt.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo" ".deps/mycrypt.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo"; exit 1; fi gcc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations gmake[3]: *** [mycrypt.o] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src/auth' gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/src/mail/dovecot-1.0.beta8' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 Gnu-make versus BSD make doesn't differ. Compile options were: ./configure \ - --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot \ - --localstatedir=/var \ - --infodir=/usr/share/info \ - --mandir=/usr/share/man \ - --disable-rpath \ - --enable-ipv6 \ - --enable-asserts \ - --without-shadow \ - --without-pam \ - --without-vpopmail \ - --with-pgsql \ - --with-mysql \ - --with-ssl=openssl \ - --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl \ - --with-storages='maildir mbox' \ - --with-sql-drivers \ CFLAGS='-O2 -march=athlon -pipe' \ LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib' \ CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/kerberosV' What other data can I provide to help figure out what's going wrong? - -- Ed V. IBM: Into Building Money 7 June 2006 17:52:03 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) iQIVAwUBRIdnZKfRmhqF/IZAAQrVUg//U0L4agoc5WGQ8gvj0XiEclzj+izer635 NYppYOc4AicVKq1Hp3HbcwaYcWYBY0nubkcUemSk+t8V/2qcZY2Y3rvaQo6B2aj8 rQF8Wj8BdqIzVMsX4IeVJO7XQlI7xUA/vaEOeL69dx43M/+7VE673YuaBpHYLvez UwXx/4pWujg0HbSuuX1SqFg5VntAE2XppxfukHmbK4FYfNbmWWGYKuAwAMqdr35t r+2cN8GOrk9nRBgisl2ADJW8YbDYvrj1DVcrNeo2cIeK68kqXU8knhCNxs9fXr75 pNRP811rdDLXQur66JHSlGdcJWOSNuoKUDUWLoJ5vpuQP/QlCpF2IfJ5kiK7rraJ 56q4Jbw63IHqYOiEC+yb2pGcgoh7tOOBSGTtlmzorym+0lOBS2SSKz7xd0+zfeU2 yHlRs5af13nCWG5ZV9e+gdyLuvZkd+8H9RTQyv2pbBgn9GHjq62HreDP/Drj6/DA HfHMXOtDF0tkfWbedIDD6SCeH4ptPf6FOqRd0BVdzuMk0Hi4uFeiChmkdXJYo9Vn c3176FN31fHmc7ZJm1P7MjAPdzAI/QP+vGiucMJg9bNTZVVOs5t/4aKMdG183zRT 5UZR4x+7ZA1JKZ4NgfVuaTM3khsgo9lQgw+A8QwrOOwKFGaek9By0AKxbJ06wIcg BFOZZSoKgWc= =U0oQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] a bug in the LDAP code
by Udo Rader 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Hi, I was heaving some grave problems with dovecot's ldap client that left me with the following settings for virtual users: -------CUT------- mbox: data=/virtual/oeush.at/home/f.someone/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/f.someone.oeush.at -------CUT------- data in that case was correct, yet the INBOX location was wrong, this should have been /virtual/oeush.at/var/mail/f.someone.oeush.at instead. My settings for the retrieval of the mail environment in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf were like this: -------CUT------- user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid,MailMessageStore=mail -------CUT------- now at first glance this seems correct, but the problem was the upper cased "MailMessageStore" attribute name. changing it to "mailMessageStore" gave me the correct settings: -------CUT------- mbox: data=/virtual/oeush.at/home/f.someone/mail/:INBOX=/virtual/oeush.at/var/mail/f.someone.oeush.at -------CUT------- I don't have any of the LDAP RFCs ready, but I think that per default the case of the attribute _names_ should not matter when querying an ldap server. Udo Rader -- B e s t S o l u t i o n . a t EDV Systemhaus GmbH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ udo rader technischer leiter/CTO mobile ++43 660 5263642 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eduard-bodem-gasse 8/3 A-6020 innsbruck fax ++43 512 935833 http://www.bestsolution.at phone ++43 512 935834

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[Dovecot] Login issue
by "M. Tolga Özses" 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Hi, I have a login issue. I do everything I can think of, but can't login. My .conf file is at http://kabuto.kunduz.org/dovecot.conf and I make slight changes everytime I try a new thing. I last set disable_plaintext_auth to yes and when I try to login using Thunderbird, I get *Code:* Sending of username did not succeed. Mail server mail.somedomain.org responded: Plaintext authentication disabled. , and dovecot.log reads *Code:* Info: pop3-login: Login failed: Plaintext authentication disabled: method=PLAIN, rip=212.98.201.1, lip=192.168.1.2. When I set disable_plaintext_auth to no and try again, I get *Code:* Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server mail.somedomain.org responded: Authentication failed and dovecot.log reads *Code:* dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:45 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.1.2 rip=212.98.201.1 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:45 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:45 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:45 Info: auth(default): pam(kabuto,212.98.201.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:46 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=kabuto dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:47 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.1.2 rip=212.98.201.1 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:47 Info: auth(default): pam(kabuto,212.98.201.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:48 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 user=kabuto dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:51 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<kabuto>, method=PLAIN, rip=212.98.201.1, lip=192.168.1.2 Can you help me with this? Sorry that it is long, but it was the only way to describe completely. Best regards,

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RE: [Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?
by Joshua Goodall 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Marc Perkel scribbled: > Repeat after me - think outside the box. Did you miss the part where I said we've already tried this? Not only have we thought outside the box, but we've smashed it up and built several alternatives to see which one sucked the least. Turns out, SQL backends suck the most. Please try to keep up :) Marc Perkel also scribbled: > To do this with MySQL would be trivial. To do it without a database > isn't possible. Actually you could do that with a tiny Sieve extension. I don't think you really understand what you are even proposing. Your statement would be better phrased "to do it without an index would be slow". If you wanted to create a database server for mail, with a mail-specific query language, then that database might be called "Dovecot", and the query language might be called "IMAP". Innovation is not an excuse for lousy engineering. As usual, it turns out to be bad design practice to say "let's deploy shinytoy for feature X!" rather than say "we need capability X! What's a creative way to achieve that?". Which is why necessity is the mother of invention. /JG

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RE: [Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?
by Joshua Goodall 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Marc Perkel: > Suppose I want to move all message from a specific host to another folder. > UPDATE table SET folder=new-folder WHERE host=value; > > With databases you can do things you would have to write complex programs > to do with files. Things that you would consider to be impossible are > trivial with databases. > > This outside the box. People who optimise their systems for shiny cute features rather than the common case get all the hacks they deserve. Repeat after me: design for the common case. Also your proposed sql above and implications (arbitrary operations based on mail metadata i.e. headers) seems to involve indexing every mail header on delivery. Good luck with that one large scale mail storage. Did you want a mail database, or an OLAP system? >-) /jg

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RE: [Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?
by Joshua Goodall 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Marc Perkel trolled: > So Timo, > > Have you considered the idea of storing all the email in a MySQL > database? Seems to me that MySQL could somplify all the backend stuff > that everyone struggles with and with replication one could create very > massive and reliable systems. What would it take to use MySQL that way? Maybe we could recode Dovecot in PHP, too. Sorry, that was nasty. However, having recently experimented with a very large mail storage system using mysql, I strongly advise against this avenue. In particular, the two main backends have serious deficiencies when you get up to the multi-gigabyte ranges: * MyISAM doesn't restart in constant time. * InnoDB's next-key locking kills performance on large blob inserts & deletes. Anyway, what do you mean, everyone struggles with backends? Dovecot's backends are fast, modular and reliable. Regarding replication; all good logical volume managers can do this. Regarding massive; all good filesystems can do this. Regarding reliable; I guarantee that mysql reliability (when properly managed) is still lower than that of a filesystem (when properly managed). In fact, the whole argument is specious. Filesystems already are databases, optimised for storing arbitrary-sized data objects using a hierarchical key, which is practically the definition of mail storage. /jg

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[Dovecot] Dspam Plugin
by Timothy White 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Johannes, do you have any plans (regarding your dspam plugin) to: a) Integrate it into libdspam rather than calling the dspam binary? b) Any ideas for scaling it better, and implementing it scaled better? I notice a slight discussion about scaling, and you have chosen not to pursue it. Is that because it's too hard, or just because you don't need to? Thanks Tim p.s. If I knew how to use the libdspam stuff, I'd make the changes myself... I might have to learn ;-) -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Dovecot configure script for 1.0b8 not including SQL drivers?
by Will Buik 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

On 6/5/06, grant beattie <grant(a)grunta.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:57:36PM -0400, Will Buik wrote: > > > I am having a problem with the configure script for Dovecot 1.0b8. It > > doesn't seem to be compiling in sql engine driver support. I have > > specified --with-sql and --with-pgsql but when the script is done it > > says "Building with SQL drivers ..............:" but lists no drivers > > afterwards. I tried compiling it anyway but it logs the error " > > auth(default): Unknown database driver 'pgsql' " so the it defiantly > > didn't get compiled in. My pgsql includes and libs are in a non > > standard location but I specified that in the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS > > before the ./configure invocation. What have I done wrong here, or is > > there a bug in the script? > > > > The whole invocation is: > > CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/openssl-0.9.8b/include > > -I/usr/local/pgsql-8.1.4/include' > > LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/openssl-0.9.8b/lib -L/usr/local/pgsql-8.1.4/lib' > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-1.0b8 > > --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --localstatedir=/var --with-ioloop=eooll > > --with-notify=dnotify --without-pop3d --with-storages=maildir > > --with-sql --with-pgsql --with-gnu-ld > > what does config.log say? and does it report any problems with > finding openssl? > > the problem may be that the shared libraries can't be found at > runtime, in which case you will need to set the rpath in the binaries > that are built. you didn't mention which platform/compiler you're > using, but this is done using the -Wl,-R<directory> argument for gcc > and Sun Studio compiler/Solaris ld, at least (-Wl passes the next > argument to the linker, -R tells the linker to include this path in the > binary's rpath). > > grant. I looked at the config.log file and it doesn't look like it's having any problems with openssl, but when I looked for pgsql I got what looked like some errors. configure:29296: checking for PQconnectdb in -lpq | char PQconnectdb (); | PQconnectdb (); ac_cv_lib_pq_PQconnectdb=no /usr/local/pgsql-8.1.4/lib/libpq.so: undefined reference to `dlerror' /usr/local/pgsql-8.1.4/lib/libpq.so: undefined reference to `dlclose' /usr/local/pgsql-8.1.4/lib/libpq.so: undefined reference to `dlopen' /usr/local/pgsql-8.1.4/lib/libpq.so: undefined reference to `dlsym'

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Re: [Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?
by nodata 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

> On 06-06-2006 15:48:20 +0200, nodata wrote: >> Putting everything in a database would provide one benefit: >> * Less storage space needed due to duplicated e-mail > > ... assuming that the mails are completely identical (i.e. have no slightly different headers) and that the database backend does expensive duplicate elimination on its string heaps. Yes, like Exchange does (unless you did something "clever" with the headers). > So the real benefit you get I think is: > * full text searching capabilities based on the IR-like indices > provided/maintained by the database backend, such as for instance: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-query-expansion.html If the original poster if struggling with a filesystem version of dovecot, and wants to create "massive and reliable systems" using MySQL, then he's going to have trouble. Adding MySQL won't do that.

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[Dovecot] vpopmail
by C J Kenneth Tan -- OptimaNumerics 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

I was running 1.0.beta3 code with no problems. I recently switched to 1.0.beta8 and I noticed that vpopmail's pop-before-smtp functionality stopped working. I am using vpopmail authentication. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Thank you. Kenneth Tan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- C J Kenneth Tan, PhD OptimaNumerics Ltd Telephone: +44 798 941 7838 E-mail: cjtan(a)OptimaNumerics.com Telephone: +44 207 099 4428 Web: http://www.OptimaNumerics.com Facsimile: +44 207 100 4572 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Procmail and dovecot interactions
by Jeff Turner 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Hi, I'm using procmail to deliver to Maildir directories: DEFAULT=${HOME}/Maildir/ I notice dovecot keeps a 'dovecot-uidlist' plus cache and index files, in each maildir. How is it that dovecot keeps these up to date when the contents of cur/ keeps changing? Is dovecot scanning cur/ every so often checking for changes? Isn't this slow for large folders (100k+)? I note on the Dovecot LDA page[1], that it keeps the "Dovecot index base up to date". Does this mean Dovecot isn't expected to work properly with a delivery agent which doesn't know about its indexes? Cheers, Jeff [1] http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA

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[Dovecot] Dovecot configure script for 1.0b8 not including SQL drivers?
by Will Buik 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

I am having a problem with the configure script for Dovecot 1.0b8. It doesn't seem to be compiling in sql engine driver support. I have specified --with-sql and --with-pgsql but when the script is done it says "Building with SQL drivers ..............:" but lists no drivers afterwards. I tried compiling it anyway but it logs the error " auth(default): Unknown database driver 'pgsql' " so the it defiantly didn't get compiled in. My pgsql includes and libs are in a non standard location but I specified that in the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS before the ./configure invocation. What have I done wrong here, or is there a bug in the script? The whole invocation is: CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/openssl-0.9.8b/include -I/usr/local/pgsql-8.1.4/include' LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/openssl-0.9.8b/lib -L/usr/local/pgsql-8.1.4/lib' ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-1.0b8 --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --localstatedir=/var --with-ioloop=eooll --with-notify=dnotify --without-pop3d --with-storages=maildir --with-sql --with-pgsql --with-gnu-ld Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] Maildir, procmail, and locks
by Mark Nienberg 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I'm using procmail as the local delivery agent for Maildir style mailboxes. I discovered that I was able to send mail to other users but was unable to send mail to myself. Examples from verbose procmail log: **** Successful message to another user **** procmail: [24589] Fri Jun 2 15:03:34 2006 procmail: Assigning "PATH=/home/david/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/david/Maildir/new/msg.4AAdC" procmail: Opening "/home/david/Maildir/new/msg.4AAdC" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock procmail: Notified comsat: "david@0:/home/david/Maildir/new/msg.4AAdC" From mark.nienberg(a)tippingmar.com Fri Jun 2 15:03:34 2006 Subject: test to other user Folder: /home/david/Maildir/new/msg.4AAdC **** Failed message to myself **** procmail: [24596] Fri Jun 2 15:05:13 2006 procmail: Assigning "PATH=/home/mark/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" procmail: Couldn't create or rename temp file "/home/mark/Maildir/new/msg.A" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/mark" procmail: Opening "/var/mail/mark" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock procmail: Notified comsat: "mark@686:/var/mail/mark" From mark.nienberg(a)tippingmar.com Fri Jun 2 15:05:13 2006 Subject: test to self Folder: /var/mail/mark Anyway, I changed dovecot's lock_method from the default fcntl to flock and the problem disappeared. I'll add this to the wiki unless someone points out an error in my method. Mark Nienberg

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[Dovecot] Re: Expunge is not expunging unless called twice--revisited
by Glenn Leavell 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

On Tue May 30 05:45:12 EEST 2006, Jeff Blank jb000002 at mr-happy.com wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running dovecot-1.0.beta8 from FreeBSD ports, using mbox mail > store. My problem appears to have come up on the list about a month > ago, "Expunge is not expunging unless it is called twice". I ran > through Bill Boebel's telnet-IMAP session for myself, and I see that > his test case is now fixed (as Timo said), but mutt, for whatever > reason, uses +FLAGS.SILENT, and I'm still getting the behaviour in > Bill's original problem when I telnet and use +FLAGS.SILENT: > > 1 OK Logged in. > 2 select INBOX > * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) > * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] > * Flags permitted. > * 1 EXISTS > * 1 RECENT > * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. > * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1148956034] UIDs valid > * OK [UIDNEXT 4] Predicted next UID > 2 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. > 3 UID STORE 3 +FLAGS.SILENT (\Deleted) > 3 OK Store completed. > 4 expunge > 4 OK Expunge completed. > 5 expunge > * 1 EXPUNGE > * 0 RECENT > 5 OK Expunge completed. > > After step 4, the message is still in the mailbox with "X-Status: D"; > the second expunge is required to remove it. I seem to get the same > behaviour with Thunderbird, so is this still a dovecot problem? (I > have Thunderbird set up to remove deleted messages immediately, not > move to trash or just mark as deleted.) I'm also still experiencing the twice-needed expunge problem (with mutt and +FLAGS.SILENT) just as Jeff described it. I have the problem both with Beta8 and with last night's CVS snapshot. I'm using Maildir. Thanks very much, Glenn

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + Logcheck Regex
by Rik Wade 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I'm using logcheck for log reporting on Debian Etch, and am currently getting a lot of log entries from Syslog falling through the standard logcheck regex filters. I'm running Dovecot 1.0beta8. The filters follow: ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ (imap|pop3)-login: Login: [.[:alnum:]@-]+ \[(::ffff:)?[:0-9a-f.]+\]$ ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ (dovecot: )?(imap|pop3)-login: Disconnected \[(::ffff:)?[:0-9a-f.]+\]$ ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ (dovecot: )?(imap|pop3)$[^[:space:]]+$: File isn't in mbox format: [^[:space:]]+$ # dovecot 1.0 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ dovecot: (imap|pop3)-login: Login: user=<[.[:alnum:]@-]+>, method=(PLAIN|plain|LOGIN|login|(CRAM|cram|DIGEST|digest)-(MD5|md5)), rip=(::ffff:)?[:.[:digit:]]+, lip=(::ffff:)?[:0-9a-f.]+(, TLS)?$ The type of entry coming through is: Jun 5 09:05:57 myhostname dovecot: IMAP(myusername): Disconnected for inactivity Jun 5 09:07:05 myhostname dovecot: IMAP(myusername): Disconnected: Logged out Jun 5 09:07:05 myhostname dovecot: IMAP(myusername): Disconnected: Logged out The first alnum pattern doesn't match given a host name, but the messages given by Dovecot do not appear to be catered for in the logcheck files. I wondered whether anyone on the dovecot list was also using logcheck and had fixed the regex patterns? -- rik

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[Dovecot] Specifying with openssl to use
by Chase 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I'm trying to setup dovecot on Solaris 10. I can get it all working except TLS/SSL. I traced my problem down to the version of openssl that Solaris 10 ships with. The fix is supposed to be to use a newer version of openssl. Without removing the built-in version of openssl I've installed openssl-0.9.8b to /usr/local. When I "./configure" dovecot it seems to always pick up the broken version of openssl in /usr/sfw. How do I make dovecot use an alternate copy of openssl? How is it even finding the one in /usr/sfw? Thanks, -Chase I tried setting CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS already.

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[Dovecot] Since Updating Dovecot - Problem by connecting with Client
by Mailing 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Hi, in the last days I've updated my dovecot on my Gentoo System. Before all went fine. Since the update it doesn't work in any way. After the Update my Thunderbird Client says: The Connecction could not proceeded because it was rejected. Another message was, that I should use TLS or SSL to connect. I've not changed my config - probably the update does - and it's only a simple configuration in my home-network. Has anybody an idea which is causing the problem? the config looks like this: protocols = imap imaps listen = [::] default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.mail mechanism = plain Thx for help k1x

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[Dovecot] imaps multiple domains proposal
by Jim Flowers 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

There was a thread earlier this year that noted a difficulty in modifying dovecot to handle multiple domain certificates. This is a proposal that may require only minor modifications. Virtual domains can be set up with a unique ip address for each server; mail.domain1.tld ###.###.###.1, mail.domain2.tld ###.###.###.2, etc. Users are instructed to enter 'mail.domain?.tld' for their imap server. When an SSL TCP connection is established on port 993, the server program will know the IP # that was used for the connection and can use getnameinfo to extract the domain name (%d). This can then be used to build a specific reference to the certificate to be used, prior to responding to CLIENT_HELLO. Something like /etc/ssl/%d/[certs|private]/dovecot.pem One technique would be to include this in multiple dovecot.conf listen parameters read on startup, similar to tpop3d: listen = ###.###.###.1:993(domain1.tld);tls=stls,\ /etc/ssl/domain1.tld/certs/dovecot.pem,\ /etc/ssl/domain1.tld/private/dovecot.pem listen = ###.###.###.2:993(domain2.tld);tls=stls,\ /etc/ssl/domain2.tld/certs/dovecot.pem,\ /etc/ssl/domain2.tld/private/dovecot.pem Alternatively, as virtual servers almost always use some form of lookup (in my case mysql) the certificate used could be determined at time of connection, similar to the way ssl_ca is handled. For example: user_query = SELECT '125'as uid, '125' as gid, maildir as home, '/etc/ssl/%d/certs/dovecot.pem' as cert, '/etc/ssl/%d/private/dovecot.pem as priv FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' In this manner the certificate returned would match the server ip/FQDN and can also be customized for the specific domain involved. Seeing their own domain name as the CN for both the certificate and CA goes a long way to establish credibility for most secure email users. Could this be done? -- Jim Flowers<jflowers(a)ezo.net>

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[Dovecot] "Bug" report (and patch)
by Soren Hansen 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

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[Dovecot] outlook express 6 imap client workaround
by david williams 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

My outlook express users connecting with imap are having issues with client timeout. The wiki says to add oe6-fetch-no-newmail, but when I add that workaround I get this error in the logs: Jun 2 10:00:13 mail dovecot: IMAP(username): Unknown client workaround: oe6-fetch-no-newmail I'm using 1.0b7. Any ideas?

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Re[2]: [Dovecot] dovecot can't start!
by Oleg D. 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

MB> Hmmm... I was seeing a problem rather like this with 1.0beta8 under Solaris MB> with Sun's compiler: only it was with the IMAP protocol rather than POP. MB> The problem there was an assumption Tio had made that everyone was using a MB> C99-compatible compiler. Apparently this handles some aspects of variable MB> initialisation differently from earlier C compilers. MB> In my case adding a command-line option to the C compiler to flip it into MB> C99 mode seemed to solve the problem. The option for our compiler was MB> "-xc99" -- however if your compiler has such an option it may have a MB> different name. If you check the manual page for your C compiler you may MB> find an equivalent option to try. MB> However another solution was provided by Timo in the form of a simple patch MB> that made changes to a couple of source files. I hope Timo doesn't mind: MB> I'm re-sending his patch as an attachment to this message as it is tiny. MB> You could try applying it and rebuilding Dovecot. MB> Cheers, MB> Mike Brudenell But I use FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p15 with native compiler. Really nobody has this problem on freebsd? And the main - Why I can't start dovecot without SSL :) Why I see in log "pop3-login: BUG: SSL initialization parameters not given while they should have been" even if I have "ssl_disable = yes" in dovecot.conf 1.0b3 works fine. This problem is main for me because I don't want to use SSL. -- Best regards, Oleg mailto:dzoleg@rsute.ru

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[Dovecot] Duplicate Attachments....
by Charles Marcus 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Love Dovecot, many thanks for it! But, I have a question regarding the storing of emails, with respect to efficiency... Our business model (advertising industry) is such that our users exchange a lot of emails with attachments - most less than a megabyte, but some considerably larger. Consequently, I have been looking for a good, open source imap server that doesn't store multiple copies of the same attachment - but instead, stores a checksum, and whenever a message is stored with a duplicate attachment, the attachment is stored only once, and simply referenced by some kind of link to other emails. This would *drastically* reduce the storage requirements for our company - imagine a message with a 10MB attachment, sent to 40 of our users, sometimes more than once. Now multiply this by 3 times per day, for 5 years... Are there any plans for Dovecot to support this type of storage in the future? Does this require the use of an SQL DB for storing the message components? -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] Platform change, considerations?
by Peter Lindgren 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Hello! I am switching hardware platform for my dovecot 1.0beta3 installation. From Sun Sparc (SS4) to Intel i386. OS platform will only change from OpenBSD 3.7 to 3.9. From Dovecot 1.0beta3 to beta8. Is there anything special to consider, in terms of endianness or other incompatibilities? I plan on a fresh install (compile) on the new machine, migrate the settings manually (by hand), test the new server and then migrate old mail. Can I just mount the disks and copy, or should I go through NFS to be safe from potential endianness problems? Or perhaps copy with IMAP using my Thunderbird client? The live switch (the old server is in production) isn't that delicate, several hours downtime is OK. There's a backup server that can receive any mail I might loose during downtime, which can be copied though IMAP later. Thanks for any input! /Peter -- Peter Lindgren, dataingenjör E-post: peter "at" norrskenkonsult punkt com http://www.norrskenkonsult.com

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[Dovecot] Outlook causes BIG dovecot index problem (beta 8, outlook 2003)
by Casey Allen Shobe 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hey all, Well, I typed up all the below, then managed to fix the problem before sending this to the list. I'll send it anyways, in case anybody else is affected by it (and because it does indicate a definite bug in Dovecot's experimental Kerberos support). The fix is to recompile without kerberos enabled, and to take gssapi out of the auth methods in the config (the latter alone may or may not be enough of a fix on it's own, I didn't try it without recompiling). I'm guessing that Outlook attempts to use Kerberos authentication by default or something and silently fails and uses other auth methods, and that any attempt to use Kerberos is in fact what hoses the server. However I have not done any further testing against beta8 with a Kerberos-enabled client such as KMail, so I leave this as an exercise for the next adventurer. I'm also uncertain as to why this problem does not manifest on our main servers, which also have Kerberos enabled (and Outlook 2003 clients). Or /had/ anyways, as I'm disabling Kerberos support as we speak as a preventative measure. Here's the problem description: I've been running dovecot happily for many months on our production mail servers hosting about 600 accounts, with no problems. People use every mail client under the sun - Apple Mail, Outlook 97|2000|XP|2003, Outlook Express, Mutt, Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail, Eudora, and other esoteric things with no problem. So today I installed a new mail server on a client site dedicated to their domain. The MTA is exim, running with almost the same configuration we use on our main servers. The dovecot.conf is 100% identical. No mail was moved by hand to the new mail server - to migrate we copied the mail setting up the old and new accounts in Thunderbird and dragging things over (just to rule out that possibility, we have also tested using brand new empty accounts to reproduce the issue). Everything is golden using Thunderbird - email is send, and shows up in the inbox immediately. Enter Outlook 2003 (SP1): It shows all folders and mail fine. It sends mail fine. Nothing shows up in the inbox. At this moment, Thunderbird also stops receiving new mail in the inbox. I check the server, and there's a mail sitting in the /new directory in the maildir. Not only that, but suddenly NONE of the accounts on the box show any new mail, exhibiting the same signs. I tried a variety of things, including 'sync', removing all the dovecot* index files in the maildir, and restarting dovecot (being sure to killall imap before bringing it back up). Sometimes, these steps would magically cause everything to work again, until I did a mail poll in Outlook which causes the problem to re-occur. Other times, these steps didn't seem to do anything. A couple times, for no apparent reason, without doing anything, mail would show up. Too hopeful, we sat around for 30 minutes sending more mail to an account and then just idling...nothing showed up. The hardware is good, we've compiled a full glibc and gcc just to ensure that there are no CPU/memory issues, and this box has a solid good history behind it in it's prior uses. Until Outlook is used, everything works fine. We do have the outlook-idle workaround enabled, and tried both with and without delay-newmail, which didn't make any difference. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | cshobe(a)seattleserver.com | 206-381-2800 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com

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[Dovecot] mbx to mbox conversion
by Marc Perkel 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Here's a feature I'd like. If Dovecot opened an MBX format file that it would convert it to an MBOX format file. I have several files that I'm having a hard time converting. The one I got from Washington University WUIMAP is extremely flawed.

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[Dovecot] Cannot remove Maildir folder
by Marcin Deranek 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hi, I have been using dovecot 1.0 beta 8 on Debian Sarge for a couple of days and I experienced some problems when removing folders.. As an IMAP client I use Thunderbird 1.5 and IMAP folders are on NFS. Here are the steps to re-produce the problem: 1. Run Thunderbird as usual 2. Create folder 3. Remove folder - In my case folder is not removed but moved to Trash (Thunderbird setting) 4. I go to Trash and remove it from there 5. Folder is removed but I get additional ..DOVECOT-TRASHED directory - next time it won't be possible to remove it Some more info: * Just before removal I run lsof to see which files are in use: bash# lsof /home/marcin ... imap 21360 marcin cwd DIR 0,15 344064 3307008 /home/marcin (filer:/vol/vol0/home/marcin) imap 21360 marcin 8u DIR 0,15 4096 4223651 /home/marcin/Maildir/.Trash.test/new (filer:/vol/vol0/home/marcin) imap 21360 marcin 9u DIR 0,15 4096 4223650 /home/marcin/Maildir/.Trash.test/cur (filer:/vol/vol0/home/marcin) imap 21360 marcin 11r REG 0,15 144 4223663 /home/marcin/Maildir/.Trash.test/dovecot.index (filer:/vol/vol0/home/marcin) imap 21360 marcin 12r REG 0,15 104 4223647 /home/marcin/Maildir/.Trash.test/dovecot.index.log (filer:/vol/vol0/home/marcin) imap 21360 marcin 13u REG 0,15 10272 4223657 /home/marcin/Maildir/.Trash.test/dovecot.index.cache (filer:/vol/vol0/home/marcin) ... There are more files in use but in this case I'm interested with PID 21360 which has opened Trash/test (the one which I'm going to remove) * Just after removal I see error message in Syslog: dovecot: IMAP(marcin): unlink_directory(/home/marcin/Maildir/..DOVECOT-TRASHED) failed: Device or resource busy Running lsof again gives the following: imap 21360 marcin cwd DIR 0,15 344064 3307008 /home/marcin (filer:/vol/vol0/home/marcin) imap 21360 marcin 11r REG 0,15 144 4223663 /home/marcin/Maildir/..DOVECOT-TRASHED/.nfs004072af0002cb1b (filer:/vol/vol0/home/marcin) imap 21360 marcin 12r REG 0,15 104 4223647 /home/marcin/Maildir/..DOVECOT-TRASHED/.nfs0040729f0002cb1a (filer:/vol/vol0/home/marcin) imap 21360 marcin 13u REG 0,15 10272 4223657 /home/marcin/Maildir/..DOVECOT-TRASHED/.nfs004072a90002cb1c (filer:/vol/vol0/home/marcin) Looking into some NFS docs we can read: "A client has a file opened. Another process on that client deletes the file. So the client NFS stack rather than deleting the file and potentially hurting the other process, it renames the file to .nfs<file_handle>." To me it looks like one imap process tries to delete .Trash.test directory (first rename and then unlink) whereas other imap process has still opened dovecot.* files. Any workaround/fix for that ? Regards, Marcin Deranek

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[Dovecot] beta8 starts but no POP3 access
by Obantec Support 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi Timo i see you just answered a posting less than 1 hour old! any chance you can comment on mine (29/05/06) repeated below and very urgent i get dovecot beta8 up. I just compiled stock beta8 on FC3 with ./configure make make install all looked ok and i changed my dovecot.conf to suit. start dovecot and i see it running May 29 08:18:00 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta8 starting up POP3 to 1 account and May 29 08:18:06 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=xx.xx.xx.xx rip=yy.yy.yy.yy resp=<hidden> May 29 08:18:06 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=obantec_com May 29 08:18:06 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 19528 1 May 29 08:18:06 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 obantec_com system_user=obantec_com uid=501 gid=10001 home=/home/domain/domain17 May 29 08:18:06 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<obantec_com>, method=PLAIN, rip=yy.yy.yy.yy, lip=xx.xx.xx.xx May 29 08:18:06 proteus2 dovecot: POP3(obantec_com): Corrupted index cache file /home/domain/domain17/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed May 29 08:18:06 proteus2 dovecot: child 19536 (pop3) killed with signal 11 yy.yy.yy.yy & xx.xx.xx.xx are the ip's just masked out. OE just immediately say error , what is also worrying is the Corrupted index message even though i am using POP3. any ideas what to look for. I might add a test box running FC3 and the same .conf works! Mark -- Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller

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[Dovecot] dovecot.index.cache
by Fintec 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hopefully someone can explain/help me with the dovecot.index.cache file. I am wanting to move a dovecot server (v1.0b7) onto a new box running the same version (1.0b7) of dovecot. To do this I rsync'd the maildir files to the new server but when I logged into the new machine through IMAP dovecot reported: IMAP(username): file index-mail.c: line 105 (index_mail_get_fixed_field): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(buf) == data_size) As soon as I delete the dovecot.index.cache file within the users mailbox this error goes away. Great, but that now I have some questions: 1) Does the dovecot.index.cache file store/cache server specific settings? If not why did it cause this error on the new box with exactly the same dovecot version and dovecot.conf? 2) What will happen if I delete the dovecot.index.cache file for all users? Will POP3 users have to re-download all their mail or will dovecot simply reference the dovecot.index file in the absence of the cache file? If I've missed something on the wiki explaining all this please point me in the right direction. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Gavin

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[Dovecot] Apple Mail and too many open files?
by Alan Schmitt 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hello, For two days in a row, I've noticed that my dovecot server (hosted on a PowerMac running OS X) has stopped working, with a bunch of error messages in /var/log/mail.log like: May 24 07:31:10 top dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files To solve this, I have to kill -9 dovecot and the (many) imap processes running. The only client accessing the server is a machine running Apple Mail. I tried to increase the limit in the number of files (I did a "launchctl limit maxfiles 1024 unlimited", but the problem still happened. Is this a known problem? Should I allow still more files? Thanks, Alan -- Alan Schmitt <http://alan.petitepomme.net/> The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] problems with Debian Sarge
by Andrea Riela 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi folks, I've updated my dovecot 0.99.14 with the last package (0.99.14-1sarge0), but it doesn't work. I've found that problem: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/80872 then I've removed that, and reinstalled first package (from /var/cache/apt/archives), and NOW it doesnt' work too :( When I start the daemon, I see in my logs: dovecot: May 31 12:40:28 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot-auth: May 31 12:40:29 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'vpopmail' dovecot: May 31 12:40:29 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: May 31 12:40:29 Error: child 15798 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: May 31 12:40:29 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: No such file or directory imap-login: May 31 12:40:29 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: No such file or directory I don't understand. Any advice will be appreciated Best Regards Andrea my dovecot.conf is like that: ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file <...> # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s protocols = imaps <...> # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above non-SSL equilevants if not specified. imaps_listen = 192.168.17.10:993 #pop3s_listen = # Disable SSL/TLS support. ssl_disable = no # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but # root. #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_cert_file = /var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key_file = /var/qmail/control/servercert.pem <...> # 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.log <...> ## ## IMAP login process ## login = imap # Executable location. #login_executable = /usr/lib/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. # Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds login_user = dovecot <...> ## ## 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 = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 # 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 = 0 #last_valid_gid = 0 <...> # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/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: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir <...> # 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. # outlook-pop3-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle outlook-pop3-no-nuls <...> # Copy mail to another folders using hard links. This is much faster than # actually copying the file. This is problematic only if something modifies # the mail in one folder but doesn't want it modified in the others. I don't # know any MUA which would modify mail files directly. IMAP protocol also # requires that the mails don't change, so it would be problematic in any case. # If you care about performance, enable it. maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes <...> ## ## Authentication processes ## # An Authentication process is a child process used by Dovecot that # handles the authentication steps. The steps cover an authentication # mechanism (auth_mechanisms, how the client authenticates in the IMAP or # POP3 protocol), which password database should be queried (auth_passdb), # and which user database should be queried (auth_userdb, to obtain # UID, GID, and location of the user's mailbox/home directory). # # You can have multiple processes, though a typical configuration will # have only one. 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. (See auth_user below.) # # Just remember that only one Authentication process is asked for the # password, so you can't have different passwords accessible through # different process definitions (unless they have different # auth_mechanisms, and you're ok with having different password for # each mechanisms). # Authentication process name. auth = default # Specifies how the client authenticates in the IMAP protocol. # Space separated list of permitted authentication mechanisms: # anonymous plain digest-md5 cram-md5 # # anonymous - No authentication required. # plain - The password is sent as plain text. All IMAP/POP3 clients # support this, and the password can be encrypted by Dovecot to match # any of the encryption schemes used in password databases. # digest-md5 and cram-md5 - both encrypt the password so it is more # secure in transit, but are not well supported by clients, and # require that the password database use a matching encryption # scheme (or be in plaintext). # # See auth.txt for more details. # # If you are using SSL there is less benefit to digest-md5 and # cram-md5 as the communication is already encrypted. 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/domain to use if none was specified. This is used for both # SASL realms and appending @domain to username in plaintext logins. #auth_default_realm = # User database specifies where mails are located and what user/group IDs # own them. For single-UID configuration use "static". # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers # 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 /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf # mysql <config path>: a MySQL database, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf # pgsql <config path>: a PostgreSQL database, see # /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_userdb = vpopmail # Password database specifies only the passwords for users. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # 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 /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf # mysql <config path>: a MySQL database, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf # pgsql <config path>: a PostgreSQL database, see # /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_passdb = vpopmail #auth_executable = /usr/lib/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. Note that passwd # authentication with BSDs internally accesses shadow files, which also # requires roots. Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # That user is specified by auth_userdb above. auth_user = root <...>

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[Dovecot] about init.d script
by Andrea Riela 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi folks, someone using Debian? I need the init script, if you please :) Thanks for your support Regards Andrea

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[Dovecot] How to move a Maildir directory to a new server?
by Darrin Smart 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi All, I'd like to ask about the best practice for moving a user's Maildir from one host to another. I moved a few user's home directories, and therefore their ~/Maildir folders. They have complained that since the move, they don't see all the messages in their INBOX for a while, but eventually they all appear again. They are using Thunderbird. I tried deleting the index files but it didn't help. Can anyone give advice? I have a soft link pointing from the old home directory to the new one, and both paths were on NFS. I can't see how dovecot could give different results, could it be related to message UID numbers? I did notice that when I moved my own home directory, Mail.app re-downloaded every mail when I opened each folder. Thunderbird doesn't seem to do this, perhaps its related. Thanks. Darrin

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[Dovecot] public folders aren't public
by Mark Nienberg 30 May '06

30 May '06

I'm testing dovecot as a replacement for an aging UW-IMAP server. I have the basic IMAP setup working but I'm stuck on public folders (which my users are addicted to). I set up public folders generally a described in the wiki. The problem is that when a user creates a new public folder, the folder is owned by the user with permissions drwx------ which prevents other users from viewing the contents. Here is part of dovecot.conf: namespace public { separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/home/public/Maildir } and here is the Maildir directory [root@tesla Maildir]# ls -la total 70k drwxrwxrwx 7 dovecot Everyone 4.1k May 12 14:33 ./ drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4.1k May 12 13:43 ../ drwxrwS--- 2 dovecot Everyone 4.1k May 12 13:48 cur/ drwx------ 5 david Everyone 4.1k May 12 14:33 .davi/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 dovecot Everyone 0 May 12 13:46 dovecot-shared drwxrwS--- 2 dovecot Everyone 4.1k May 12 13:48 new/ -rw------- 1 mark Everyone 6 May 12 14:07 subscriptions drwxrwS--- 2 dovecot Everyone 4.1k May 12 13:48 tmp/ drwx------ 5 mark Everyone 4.1k May 12 14:30 .tryit/ The directories .davi/ and .tryit/ were created by users david and mark respectively. These are real system users. They are both members of the Everyone group. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Mark

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[Dovecot] IMAP server <defunct> (beta 7)
by Graham Briggs 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, We've been using a 0.99 version of Dovecot for nearly a year without problems, but due to a server death I had to reinstall with the same configuration as before, but more recent versions of the software, on different hardware. This time though, every few days IMAP login and access fails, and the output of ps ax shows entries such as [imap-login] <defunct> and [imap] <defunct>, with the lovely brain-eating Zombie status. There is nothing in the log file that suggests an issue. We're using dovecot with authentication/etc being done against a Postgresql database. I searched online for a solution, but the nearest problem said it was a problem with PAM, which we are not using with Dovecot. We're using Maildir as the message storage format. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this might be occurring? If it will help to see the dovecot configuration files then I can provide them. The platform is Debian 64-bit running on a dual-core Opteron system. Yes, it isn't Debian-stable! Graham

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[Dovecot] Maildirquota
by Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, I'd like to use dovecot+postfix (with Maildir) for several virtual email servers, but one requirement is quota support. I'm aware about the lack of maildirquota support in dovecot, and I found a patch in the "unofficial patches" section which is said to provide maildirquota support to dovecot. How stable is this patch?, is it usable with dovecot 1.0b2?. And, is there any plan to support maildirquota natively in the near future?, I'd like to replace courier-imap in my setup. Thanks. Rodolfo.

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[Dovecot] separate pop and imap server keys?
by Noah 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi there, is there any way to get the imap and pop client to use separate keys? My Thunderbird client complains when I am popping from popss.domain.com that the certificate is owned by imapss.domain.com Any clues here? Cheers, Noah

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[Dovecot] Problems with subfolders in Thunderbird
by Ian Thurlbeck 30 May '06

30 May '06

Dear All Server: dovecot-1.0.beta8 (compiled from source) centos 4.3 Client: thunderbird 1.0.8 on Fedora Core 4 on port 993 Using maildir Normally (with the current UW-IMAP) I can create a folder which may contain only messages or only folders. If I create a folder which will contain only folders, it is listed in thunderbird in light-grey italics. Subsequently I can create message folders within this folder. When doing the same thing using dovecot as the server, the same options are available, but any attempt to create a folder containing only folders is silently ignored and nothing happens (nothing is created anywhere on the server filesystem). Is this a known problem ? I do not want to use the setting which allows you to create folders which may contain both messages and folders. Thanks Ian -- Ian Thurlbeck http://www.stams.strath.ac.uk/ Statistics and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow, UK, G1 1XH Tel: +44 (0)141 548 3667 Fax: +44 (0)141 552 2079

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[Dovecot] Hint for Fatal: sigaction(SIGRTMIN) failed: Invalid argument
by Breno Jacinto Duarte da Costa 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hello, Search google I've found a thread ("errors in logfile") discussing a similar problem to mine. It`s something related to the #define IOLOOP_NOTIFY_DNOTIFY in config.h, but disbling it resulted in errors in compilation. I'm really running out of answers for this one... if anyone could give a hint, it'd be of great help. cheers -- .''`. -- Breno Jacinto : :´` : -- breno /at/ freeunix dot com dot br : ' ' : -- 88AE 3F43 7110 57F6 A206 `. `'` -- D116 02CA 02F4 803D 4294 `-- -- Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal OS

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[Dovecot] imap proxy and passwd-like passdb/userdb
by HenkJan Wolthuis 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, I'm testing/using dovecot as imap proxy, passdb/userdb as passwd-like-file. It seems to function as expected (1). This setup is described in the wiki in AuthSpecials. But I also noticed in the documentation (ImapProxy / FeatLoginProxy pages) that the proxy feature only works with a sql passdb. Maybe I did something strange, but passwd-like-passdb does work..... So I have some questions: Is the documentation wrong? Is the documentation right? ;-) Are there reasons not to use dovecot this way (other than scalability / maintainability)? Are there bugs I've not yet seen? (am I the only one using dovecot this way?) thanks-in-advance, HenkJan 1) i'm proxying to a courier backend, had to modify dovecots capability_string, because the emailclient gets the capabilities from dovecot, while it uses the proxied server (=courier). Had some strange errors with append, as courier doesn't support Literal+, modifying dovecot so that it stopped advertising Literal+ solved the problem....

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[Dovecot] Out of Quota Causing "BYE Too many invalid IMAP commands."
by Timothy White 30 May '06

30 May '06

Doing some testing in Squirrelmail, with quotas, and basically opening a message, and saving it as a draft, over and over until I run at of quota. This is what I get when I try and save a message that is larger than the size left May 30 19:36:36 mafeking dovecot: IMAP(joeblogs): Disconnected: Too many invalid IMAP commands. and in SM ERROR: IMAP server closed the connection. Server responded:* BYE Too many invalid IMAP commands. I would expect something a little more user friendly in that situation. I haven't worked out how to debug the IMAP session in SM, or how to run an IMAP session with logging. I may get around to setting up debug in dovecot to see what happens. I'm running dovecot beta8. Any suggestions as to how to make it 'die' nicer? Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Leave copy on server problem.
by Dario Ale 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hello, I am using Dovecot 0.99.14-r1 with mbox format. I have a problem with the option "Leave copy on server", the messages are duplicated. I tried many options but I can´t find the solution. The last test was: I modified in src/pop3/commands.c (function list_uids()) the folowing things: "... client_send_line(client, message == 0 ? "%u %u.%u" : "+OK %u %u.%u", mail->seq, client->uidvalidity, mail->uid); ..." by "... client_send_line(client, message == 0 ? "%u %08x%08x" : "+OK %u %08x%08x", mail->seq, mail->uid, client->uidvalidity); ..." then, I removed all index files so this were regenerated, I deleted popstate.dat, after with Mozilla Thunderbird I got the messages. popstate.dat was regenerated too, with the following information: this is the last lines: "... k 000000b14062ffdb 1148496134 k 000000b24062ffdb 1148496135 " After I send a new email and get messages, the last lines in popstate.dat was: "... k 000000b14062ffdb 1148496134 <-- no duplicated k 000000b34062ffdb 1148496827 <-- duplicated of k "000000b24062ffdb 1148496135" k 000000b44062ffdb 1148496828 <-- new " the new messaged arrived and the previous message was duplicated. This problem happens with OutLook Express too. Please, somebody can help me?? Thanks very much. pd: sorry by my english. -- Dario Ale (dario.a en telpin.com.ar)

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[Dovecot] pop3-login: Internal login failure
by Pedro Vieira 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi all... I'm running Dovecot 0.99.14 on Debian Sarge and I'm now trying to configure a mysql-based authentication. I made all the nessary setup accordinf to dovecot.conf and dovecot-mysql-conf but when i try to login I get the follwing error: pop3-login: Internal login failure: username(a)mydomain.tld [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Any ideias on what may be happening? Thanks in advance, Pedro ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes." "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."

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[Dovecot] Migration problems from Courier-Imap
by Mattia Martinello 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, I'm migrating from Courier-Imap to Dovecot-Imapd and I have some problems.. I don't want to change the IMAP folders, so I wish to have Dovecot's compatibility with Courier's IMAP folders. In the Dovecot configuration I configured this: namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } Dovecot correctly shows me the INBOX folder, but doesn't show me the subfolders anymore... What can I do to solve this problem? Thank you very much and goodbye. Mattia.

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[Dovecot] Effect of "login_process_per_connection = no"?
by Pete Slagle 29 May '06

29 May '06

Using dovecot version v1.0.beta8 on FreeBSD 6.1_RELEASE with login_process_per_connection = no in the dovecot.conf file, I still get a new imap process for each IMAP login. That is, if a single user logs in five times, five imap processes are created. The difference appears to be that with a "yes" setting each user login causes a new copy of the imap-login processes to be forked, which then creates the imap process for the connection and exits. With a "no" setting, one of the existing imap-login processes creates the imap process directly (and does not exit). I am understanding the effect of this control setting correctly? Are there other actions or implications? Pete

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[Dovecot] Security hole with mboxes
by Timo Sirainen 29 May '06

29 May '06

Unfortunately we have our first problem that could really be counted as security hole. Giving "1 LIST .. *" IMAP command allows the user to see all files and directories under the mbox root's parent directory, so potentially you could see other users' mailbox names. Nothing can be done with them though, so it's not possible to read or modify them. There are also some other less than wanted behaviors that can be done with "." and ".." directories, such as "DELETE .." command can give errors. Also with maildir if you store indexes in different directory than mails this command can be used to delete the index files. Anyway I don't see any of these as security issues. Hopefully most people have their mail directory under user's home directory, so this would only list the home directory's contents. But if you do have users' mails stored in eg. under /var/mail/%u/ directory, giving that command would list everything under /var/mail, assuming that the process has permissions to do that (that's why you should be using different UIDs for users if possible). This affects 1.0 beta and 1.0 stable releases, but not 0.99.x. Fix is in http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-May/005563.html I'll also release 1.0 beta8 now. Thanks for Bill Boebel for noticing "DELETE .." doing weird things with maildir.

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[Dovecot] Subfolder in Maildir
by Bart Braem 29 May '06

29 May '06

Hello, We have installed a brand new Dovecot because it seems very interesting as an IMAP server. We created a mailbox for a test user and we succeeded in copying some mails into it. However making subfolders does not work. The only folders we can create are in the root, next to the INBOX that is. We thought Maildir does support subfolders (as opposed to mbox), are we wrong here? Our Dovecot version is 1.0.b8_1. Bart

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[Dovecot] Server statistics
by Dean Manners 29 May '06

29 May '06

Hey guys, Is there a way to extract the concurrent connectons to a dovecot servers? Got a fairly busy installation that Id like to monitor/graph concurrent connections for. __________________________________________ Dean Manners

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[Dovecot] beta8 starts but no POP3 access
by Obantec Support 29 May '06

29 May '06

Hi I just compiled stock beta8 on FC3 with ./configure make make install all looked ok and i changed my dovecot.conf to suit. start dovecot and i see it running May 29 08:18:00 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta8 starting up POP3 to 1 account and May 29 08:18:06 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=xx.xx.xx.xx rip=yy.yy.yy.yy resp=<hidden> May 29 08:18:06 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=obantec_com May 29 08:18:06 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 19528 1 May 29 08:18:06 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 obantec_com system_user=obantec_com uid=501 gid=10001 home=/home/domain/domain17 May 29 08:18:06 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<obantec_com>, method=PLAIN, rip=yy.yy.yy.yy, lip=xx.xx.xx.xx May 29 08:18:06 proteus2 dovecot: POP3(obantec_com): Corrupted index cache file /home/domain/domain17/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed May 29 08:18:06 proteus2 dovecot: child 19536 (pop3) killed with signal 11 yy.yy.yy.yy & xx.xx.xx.xx are the ip's just masked out. OE just immediately say error , what is also worrying is the Corrupted index message even though i am using POP3. any ideas what to look for. I might add a test box running FC3 and the same .conf works! Mark -- Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller

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[Dovecot] setting default_mail_env - INBOX not seen?
by Noah 29 May '06

29 May '06

Hi there, I am trying to figure out hte Proper defualt_mail_env definition default_mail_env = mbox:%h/mail:INBOX=/usr/mail/%u (yes /usr/mail not /var/mail) Most users have their INBOX at /usr/mail/%u and some users have saved-folders and other mail folders in %h/mail *** right now i am unable to view my inbox. But I can view all the folders and contents of the %h/mail subdirs visible as separate folders. do I have this set up correctly? My IMAP client is unable to see my INBOX file. Cheers, Noah

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Implementation
by Jagga Soorma 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hey Guys, I was able to get dovecot running on my linux server using kerb authentication against our windows 2003 domain controller. Is there a way for me to use the windows active directory for looking up names on the email clients? I have tried setting the base dn to the following under microsoft outlook: dc=domain,dc=com cn=users,dc=domain,dc=com However, I am unable to lookup any names. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks in advance, -J

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[Dovecot] [RFC] create_dovecot_shares
by Gavin Henry 26 May '06

26 May '06

Dear All, As mentioned previously at: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-May/013003.html create_dovecot_shares is now finished. Apologies to all for the time it has taken. Description: "Creating lots of dovecot-shared files, changing permissions and creating symlinks is a pain, especially when dealing with more than a handle of users. create_dovecot_shares helps. It modifies users home directories and Maildirs (permissions) for sharing via Dovecot, and creates symlinks into the Maildir you want the shares accessed from. There's even a restore option, to roll back any changes you made with a history of 10 runs." Uploaded to my CPAN directory (not indexed yet): http://search.cpan.org/~ghenry/ HTML Docs (embedded in program): http://www.suretecsystems.com/our_docs/create_dovecot_shares.html Syntax highlighted Code: http://www.suretecsystems.com/our_docs/create_dovecot_shares-code.html Actual Program (Please go to CPAN for latest version from now on): http://www.perl.me.uk/create_dovecot_shares Hope this helps someone out. If it does, maybe we should start a "contrib" section in the source? Many thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Authentication to Windows Domain Controller
by Jagga Soorma 26 May '06

26 May '06

Hey Guys, I am trying to convince my co-workers to move from Exchange 2003 to a unix implementation of sendmai/dovecot. They have a couple of concerns that I am sure can be resolved. First, is there a way for dovecot running on a linux server to authenticate a user to a windows 2003 domain controller? If so, then where can I get information on how to implement and test this feature? Also, do you guys know of any calender software that can be used with this implementation as well? Where users can maybe share their meetings? Any comments or suggestions would be grately appreciated. Thanks in advance, -Jagga

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[Dovecot] Missing Mailboxes
by Jim 25 May '06

25 May '06

I upgraded from Fedora 4 to 5, which took me from dovecot .99 to 1.x. When I started up Thunderbird, I could not see any mailboxes other than Inbox. I am using Maildir with postfix. I re-installed .99, and all the mailboxes are back. I looked at the wiki on Missing Mailboxes, but I am not sure what I have to fix, and I do not really want to re-install the 1.x version and mess around, as I will mess up a number of other people. Clearly, I am not an expert, so if anyone can can help, I will be most appreciative! Jim

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[Dovecot] Bug / Problem - Dovecot and Thunderbird
by wc_fbsd＠xxiii.com 25 May '06

25 May '06

Greetings, I've been running Dovecot for a couple years now. Currently 1.0.b8 on FreeBSD i386. I just switched to Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (windows) for an IMAP client, and am having some problems that appear to be at least partially attributable to Dovecot. After configuring the IMAP account, TB fetched the list of folders on the server, but was displaying several folders that had been deleted from the server months ago. When I tried to access or delete the folders from TB, it produced an error message (imap command failed, or something similar.) Some other folders had been moved from the root to sub-folders -- they still showed in the root, but not the sub-folder, thus were inaccessible. I looked all through the client's config files, but couldn't find any reference to them. From a shell on the server, I also verified they did not exist. I discovered they were still referenced in the .subscribe file, and had index files in .imap on the server. I deleted those, restarted the server processes, and refreshed the folders in TB, and the problem was resolved. But required manual intervention on the server. Not sure if this is a bug or just client issue, but since those files are maintained by Dovecot, I'm inclined to say "bug". Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about the internals of IMAP! -Thanks, Wayne

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