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[Dovecot] Authentication by certificats (a bug or my misconfiguration)
by Michal Soltys 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

Today I've been trying to get dovecot (1.0 rc2) to use certificates for client side authentication. If my memory serves right, beta8 had no problems with it (although it was some time ago and on different machine). Similar setup works perfectly well for postfix (for authentication that is, on the same machine). Originally I thought I overdid some certificate settings (keyUsage, nsCertType, etc.), so for the sake of testing I've simplified the setup to bare minimum - 1 simple selfsigned root certificate, another 1 for dovecot, and the last one for the user. Unfortunately, the results were the same. Configuration: OpenBSD 3.9 (stable branch), i386, no nfs or afs (only local ffs) standard OpenSSL 0.9.7g (+ patches) dovecot 1.0 rc2, compiled from sources, with sysconfdir set to /etc and with disabled pam Tested with the most recent opera and mozilla thunderbird, using pop3s. (note: both clients work with postfix, authetnicating only by certificates). They do send requested certificates. Important dovecot configuration: ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/ca_ppgk/certs/pop3_crt.pem (common name - pop3.ppgk.com.pl, valid dns name) ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/ca_ppgk/private/pop3_key.pem ssl_ca_file = /etc/ssl/ca_ppgk/ca_crt.pem ssl_verify_client_cert = yes verbose_ssl = yes auth_verbose = yes ssl_require_client_cert = yes ssl_username_from_cert = (tested both with yes and no, with common name of user certificate set both as username@domain or as bare username) The rest is just pretty standard, using passwd for both user auth and userdb, with plain and login mechanisms allowed. I tested "few" sets of certificates (for ca, server and user) with configurations ranging from quite specific ones (with basicConstraints, nsCertType, keyUsage, extendedKeyUsage fields set) to very simple ones (basicConstraints + typical stuff like subjectKeyIdentifier). All of them gave the same results with dovecot (postfix didn't complain with any of them either). This is what I get in logs, when trying to pull mail using opera or mozilla: Jul 7 14:33:47 ppgk-wa dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc2 starting up Jul 7 14:33:57 ppgk-wa dovecot: pop3-login: Invalid certificate: /C=PL/ST=Mazowieckie/L=Warszawa/O=PPGK/OU=Z10/CN=adminms@ppgk.com.pl/emailAddress=adminms@ppgk.com.pl Jul 7 14:33:57 ppgk-wa dovecot: pop3-login: Invalid certificate: /C=PL/ST=Mazowieckie/L=Warszawa/O=PPGK/OU=Z10/CN=RootCA/emailAddress=admin(a)ppgk.com.pl Jul 7 14:33:57 ppgk-wa dovecot: pop3-login: Valid certificate: /C=PL/ST=Mazowieckie/L=Warszawa/O=PPGK/OU=Z10/CN=RootCA/emailAddress=admin(a)ppgk.com.pl Jul 7 14:33:57 ppgk-wa dovecot: pop3-login: Valid certificate: /C=PL/ST=Mazowieckie/L=Warszawa/O=PPGK/OU=Z10/CN=adminms@ppgk.com.pl/emailAddress=adminms@ppgk.com.pl Jul 7 14:34:05 ppgk-wa dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 secured lip=192.168.100.77 rip=192.168.100.75 resp=<hidden> Jul 7 14:34:05 ppgk-wa dovecot: auth(default): PLAIN(?,192.168.100.75): Client didn't present valid SSL certificate Jul 7 14:34:05 ppgk-wa dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 reason=Client didn't present valid SSL certificate Jul 7 14:34:05 ppgk-wa dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 LOGIN service=POP3 secured lip=192.168.100.77 rip=192.168.100.75 resp=<hidden> Jul 7 14:34:05 ppgk-wa dovecot: auth(default): LOGIN(?,192.168.100.75): Client didn't present valid SSL certificate Jul 7 14:34:05 ppgk-wa dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 reason=Client didn't present valid SSL certificate Jul 7 14:34:05 ppgk-wa dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 3 PLAIN service=POP3 secured lip=192.168.100.77 rip=192.168.100.75 resp=<hidden> Jul 7 14:34:05 ppgk-wa dovecot: auth(default): PLAIN(?,192.168.100.75): Client didn't present valid SSL certificate Jul 7 14:34:05 ppgk-wa dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 3 reason=Client didn't present valid SSL certificate Jul 7 14:34:07 ppgk-wa dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.100.75, lip=192.168.100.77, TLS Those two "Invalid certificate" lines, followed immediately by two "Valid certificate" lines seem suspicious. Is there some configuration detail I might have missed or messed, or is it (probably) a bug ?

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[Dovecot] Group-based filesystem quota
by Scott Alter 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

Hello. After using Dovecot for over a year, I have just started experimenting with the filesystem quotas, and I have a suggestion for improvement. On my mail server, I use group-based quotas, and would like to have Dovecot be able to report these quotas. It should be simple to implement, requiring only changes to the quota-fs.c file of the quota plugin. Simply changing USRQUOTA to GRPQUOTA should do the trick. In terms of the configuration file, "quota = fs" could be expanded to something like: quota = fs:storage=group # use filesystem quota with group storage limit Adding in support for message (inode) limits is just as easy, replacing dqb_curblocks with dqb_curinodes and dqb_bsoftlimit with dqb_isoftlimit. It could be easy to configure too, like: quota = fs:storage=group:messages=user # use filesystem quota with group storage limit and user messages limit Although I think I know what would need to be changed, I'm not a C programmer and my code would not be clean nor efficient. Since the messages and storage parameters of the quota setting are defined elsewhere (quota-maildir.c), I don't think it would be too difficult to duplicate this in the quota-fs.c file. Also, I am having the same problem as others with used space off by a factor of 4096, total limit off by a factor of 4. Stian's patch (http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-June/014159.html) does the trick, but I'm wondering if everyone is having this problem, or just those running Linux. Thanks, Scott

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[Dovecot] Corrupted index & index data file
by james edwards 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

We just moved to a new box for POP/IMAP services. I rsynced /home and /var/spool/mail to the new box from the old with the archive switch. It went smoothly but I am seeing more corrupted index & index data file errors in the log than I normally do. I thought I read that Dovecot would rebuild these files after the user accessed them the second time, if corrupt. Is this correct ? Is there a better way to deal with this issue other than deleting them so they are recreated the next time the user checks their mail ? james <jedwards(a)nmcourts.com>

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[Dovecot] PAM Error on POP3s auth? And apop?
by Bruce Lane 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Fellow Dovecot'ers, I've -almost- got Dovecot completely functional, and I will add that it works just fine for non-authenticated POP3. The problem begins when I try to use authentication for same against the system's /etc/passwd section. This is the error message that comes up in /var/log/maillog Jul 9 21:14:10 featherweb dovecot: auth(default): pam(kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com,192.168.42.40): pam_start() failed: system error Jul 9 21:14:17 featherweb dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.42.40, lip=192.168.42.130, TLS THE PLATFORM: NetBSD 3.0, Postfix 2.3-RC8 (soon to be replaced by an official release in the coming week), and whatever the current release candidate of Dovecot is. I did some googling for that pam_start error, and discovered (much to my annoyance) that it may be a system bug within NetBSD 3.0. If that's the case, given that I don't have anywhere near the programming skill to even try and correct it, it'll mean I'm pretty much stuck until the NetBSD developers fix it, or until I can figure out an alternate authentication method that won't be an administrative nightmare. Does anyone have any ideas on this? For the benefit of poking and pondering, this is the relevant section of my dovecot.conf file. auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } And this is the contents of the file 'dovecot' in the directory /etc/pam.d # PAM configuration for the "dovecot" subsystem. # # auth auth required pam_nologin.so no_warn auth required pam_unix That entry should, in theory, block all logins if the /etc/nologin file is present, and then hand off to the pam_unix module if it's not. pam_unix, in NetBSD, is the module that authenticates against the /etc/passwd file. As I said, further thoughts would be welcome. If it is a NetBSD system bug causing that pam_auth error, ideas for a simple workaround until the NetBSD crew gets things patched up would also be welcome. Thanks in advance. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"

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[Dovecot] LDAP: bind to LDAP server instead of retreiving a password from it?
by Geert Hendrickx 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Hi, Dovecot currently treats an LDAP user/password database the same way as a text or SQL based database: it just tries to retreive the (hashed) password for a given username. LDAP however has the capability to authenticate the user itself: dovecot could try to bind to LDAP with the given username and password, and if authentication succeeded, the LDAP server returns the other info (uid, homedir, ...), but not the password. I know at least qmail's pop3 server uses LDAP this way. Could this authentication mechanism be implemented in Dovecot as well? Geert

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[Dovecot] Damnitall
by nick 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Today I upgraded to dovecot 1.0 rc1 (before I was using a 1.0 beta, as it had functions no one else had), the beta worked fairly well, no crashes, and the bugs were few and far between. I had a few issues with thunderbird 1.5, so I decided to upgrade. My problem is this, before, I had configured procmail to deliver SPAM to a subdirectory of the users home directory, (not mail/) and everything worked fine, new directories were creatable, and IMP seemed to be happy with everything as it was. With the new version though, dovecot refuses to see the folders in the base of the home directory, and all of this with absolutely no change to my conf file (except for the passdb and userdb options). my dovecot.conf file looks like this: default_mail_env = mbox:/ha/home/%u:INBOX=/ha/mail/%u:INDEX=/ha/home/%u ha is my drbd directory, for high availability. I've tried modifying the private namespaces, but without much luck, and I'm really not looking forward to moving all those folders to under the mail/ directory. Do I have any other options?? thanks, Nick

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and MS Active Directory.
by Sysadmin 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Hello. We are using dovecot right now, but the boss pushes the MS based system (Exchange, Sharepoint, Active Directory etc) to use. However, skipping the other parts I'd like to keep open source based mail server and the question is - can the dovecot authenticate against the MS Active Directory without any problems? -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] Oops, forgot about apop...
by Bruce Lane 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

How does one go about generating a local password database for apop authentication? Or can it simply run against /etc/passwd, using a PAM entry? (I forgot to append this to my last message... sorry...). Thanks much. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"

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[Dovecot] New User: POP3 issues
by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Fellow dovecot'ers, I'm just getting started with Dovecot, and I'm not a programmer, so please be gentle. ;-) THE PLATFORM: NetBSD 3.0/SPARC, Postfix 2.3-RC8, current Dovecot RC (I forgot the number). Maildir-type directories. THE GOAL: To accommodate authenticated (remote) POP3 users with APOP or SSL/TLS, and allow users on the internal network (192.168.x.x) to just use basic POP3 without worrying about authentication. QUESTIONS: (1) Does the dovecot master daemon have to be running in order to call pop3- login from inetd, in response to POP connection attempts? If so, it could be a problem. I'm getting this error when I try to start the thing. featherweb: {339} /usr/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: listen(110) failed: Address already in use featherweb: {340} (2) For apop authentication, how do I go about generating the shared secret file locally, for each user? Is there a script that came with dovecot or...? (3) Is there a trick, similar to postfix's 'postconf -n,' that will give a condensed output of dovecot's configuration file? (4) I'm currently using sasl auth for Postfix's SMTP auth function. How difficult is it to use Dovecot for the same thing? (5) GAAAAHHHHH! (Just on general principles, based on the hours I've spent trying to get everything working). Thanks in advance. --- Bruce 'Quietly Making Noise' Lane Blue Feather Technologies

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[Dovecot] /var/dovecot /var/spool/mail permissions, setup help (w/ config info)
by Jeff Kowalczyk 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

(repost gmane message as list member) I need some help with Dovecot-1.0rc2 on Gentoo Linux. My test harness is one Thunderbird-1.5.0.4 client, storage using legacy mbox directories ported over from an old UW-IMAP/sendmail combo running on RHL 8. Config is intended to be passwd/pam, plaintext login allowed (until I migrate everyone to ssl). After this is working, postfix and dspam are to be added, unless someone can recommend a 'dovecot of smtp' to use. I'll tail the mail.log to illustrate the problem, then excerpt what I think are the relevant directory and config file listings. I'm paying particular attention to file ownership, but am loathe to just chown dovecot things unless I know why. Let me know if you want to see any other config info to help spot the problem. Thanks! # tail -n 30 /var/log/mail.log dovecot: Jul 05 18:35:25 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc2 starting up dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=123.456.789.012 rip=098.765.432.109 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGplZmYua293YWxjenlrAHdvcmRwYXNzMQ== dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=namefirst.namelast dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 25692 1 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 namefirst.namelast system_user=namefirst.namelast uid=501 gid=12 home=/home/namefirst.namelast dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Error: stat(/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): Effective uid=501, gid=12 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox: data=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast:INDEX=/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox: INBOX defaulted to /var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox: root=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast, index=/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast, inbox=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<namefirst.namelast>, method=plain, rip=098.765.432.109, lip=123.456.789.012 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Error: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): open() failed with subscription file /var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/.subscriptions: Not a directory dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:12 Error: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): open(/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox, O_CREAT) failed: Not a directory dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:12 Error: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mkdir_parents(/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:14 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): Disconnected: Logged out # ls -al /var/spool/mail drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1472 Jul 2 19:20 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 168 Jul 3 14:19 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 27 18:46 .keep -rw------- 1 namefirst.namelast mail 36243879 Jul 1 17:52 namefirst.namelast (...) # ls -al /var/dovecot/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jul 5 10:30 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 360 Jun 29 09:45 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 5 10:30 .keep # ls -al /var/run/dovecot/ total 5 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 176 Jul 5 18:35 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 504 Jul 3 14:45 .. srw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 5 18:35 auth-worker.25687 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 5 18:35 dict-server drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 136 Jul 5 18:35 login -rw------- 1 root root 6 Jul 5 18:35 master.pid # ls -al /home/namefirst.namelast/ total 17791 drwxr-xr-x 2 namefirst.namelast mail 248 Jul 5 18:29 . drwxr-xr-x 76 root root 2512 Jul 2 20:21 .. -rw------- 1 namefirst.namelast mail 3293785 Sep 23 2005 Sent # grep dovecot /etc/group dovecot:x:97: # grep dovecot /etc/passwd dovecot:x:97:97:added by portage for dovecot:/dev/null:/usr/sbin/nologin # grep mail /etc/passwd mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false postmaster:x:14:12:postmaster:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false # grep mail /etc/group mail::12:mail # grep namefirst.namelast /etc/passwd namefirst.namelast:x:501:12:First Last:/home/namefirst.namelast:/bin/bash # cat /etc/pam.d/dovecot auth required pam_unix.so account required pam_unix.so # cat /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * shutdown_clients = yes log_path = /var/log/mail.log info_log_path = /var/log/mail.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " syslog_facility = mail disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%u mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { args = dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root } __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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[Dovecot] FYI: timosieved
by John Peacock 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Just a heads up for all interested in using the Dovecot LDA with SIEVE scripting: I've started work on a proof-of-concept managesieve daemon, since the only one available right now is dependent on Cyrus. It appears that the only choice available for sites not using timsieved is the Ingo component of Horde, which is way too fat to install by itself (plus it uses FTP for a transport, which I make it a rule not to install). For testing purposes, I am hacking together a Perl module based on the Net::Server model (which is not suitable for production). If this goes well (the managesieve protocol is painfully stupid and the only tricky part is linking in libsieve), then I'll do a rewrite in C. It will authenticate directly to Dovecot through the auth-client (or auth-master) mechanism, so whatever SASL methods that Dovecot supports, it will support. I've decided that the eventual server will be called timosieved, in honor of our host, and echoing the original Cyrus timsieved. Don't bug me about when it'll be done... :) John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748

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[Dovecot] default_mail_env and IMAP server directory in client
by Dirk Essl 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Hi, I'm currently installing a dovecot Server to be a replacement for an uw-imapd. I dont want to touch the clients configuration, because I have too much users... Situation is the following: the mbox files are in the users homedirectory (~/MailImap), automounted via nfs In dovecot.conf I've set default_mail_env = mbox:%h/MailImap:INBOX=/var/mail/%u It works perfect without a value in Firefox' setting 'IMAP server directory' but in all clients tis is set to '~/MailImap' so it doesnt show subfolders I already tried to symlink various things in the MailImap directory and different values of default_mail_env, but I cannot mak it work. Any suggestions? It would help if dovecot could discard the IMAP server directory setting of the client, but I am not a programmer and dont know where to look in the source :-( -- TIA dirk

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[Dovecot] 1.0.rc2 ldap in Solaris
by Tomi Vainio 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Hi, Earlier it was possible to compile ldap support in Solaris 10 but currently it fails in src/auth/db-ldap.c line 341 because LDAP_SASL_QUIET is missing. I can found eg. LDAP_SASL_INTERACTIVE from headers. Tomppa

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[Dovecot] Newbie on Fedora 5
by Yudhvir Singh Sidhu 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Hey Guys, I want to transition from Merak to Postfix/Dovecot. I am not sure how to begin. I have been reading the different Howtos - cocktail of services to Postfix like ClamAV, Spamassissin, Greylisting, Jamm, SquirrelMail. The thing is that I want stable IMAP mail. Here is what I want to do: a. Stand alone linux box for email only - 25 users b. provide IMAP and web c. provide SSL authentication, spam filtering and virus checking. d. I would perfer to setup flat file, or unix based SIMPLE authentication scheme. e. Current users are on windows and are popping mail. Although we have LDAP, can we have another LDAP server which lives with existing server? f. I have Fedora 5 installed. I have Dovecot, Postfix, Cyrus-SASL installed. As well as webmin to manage it all. Any suggestions to get running quickly? h. I need to preserve the popped mail sitting in user Outlook clients. -- Yudhvir Singh Sidhu, 3-4039

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Re: [Dovecot] bug/feature
by Jeff Graves 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Oops. That one was for 0.99.x series. This one was what I used for 1.x -- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Graves Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:22 PM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] bug/feature I have always had a similar problem. Our's though is that we authenticate using SFU and nis. So in addition to the folder needing to be lowercase, the username has to be as well. It hasn't be discussed in a while but Timo mentioned that the %L wouldn't work for username's. To workaround it, I used this patch. However, I have no idea how it works with other authentication methods as we use passwd and I haven't tested it since test69 so it probably needs tweaking. -- 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 Johannes Berg Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:35 PM To: Paul Blankenship Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] bug/feature On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 09:13 -0700, Paul Blankenship wrote: > I don't know if this has been mentioned here or even thought of in > the > grand scheme of things and I'm just sending a one time email about it > "just in case" > I recently swapped my server around and I'm using dovecot now....LOVE > it! Could use a bit more intuitive error messages, but otherwise, it's > great! > But there is one flaw that I've run into with my users. Case > sensitivity. I think you can lower-case the name just about anywhere, e.g. default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%Lu/.mail instead of default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/.mail See /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/variables.txt (on debian systems, otherwise just look for variables.txt) johannes

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[Dovecot] courier-imap transition
by Joseph W. Breu 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Hello All, I am transitioning from a courier-imap installation where the POP3 UIDLs are of the format: 28 UID10823-1064256714 29 UID10829-1064256714 30 UID10830-1064256714 31 UID10833-1064256714 32 UID10836-1064256714 33 UID10847-1064256714 34 UID10859-1064256714 35 UID10893-1064256714 36 UID10903-1064256714 37 UID10904-1064256714 The dovecot UIDL list for the recommend courier version 2 configuration produces: 432 1150908803-432 433 1150908803-433 434 1150908803-434 435 1150908803-435 436 1150908803-436 437 1150908803-437 438 1150908803-438 439 1150908803-439 I need to produce a UIDL map similar to that of courier-imap. Any suggestions? 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] bug/feature
by Paul Blankenship 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

I don't know if this has been mentioned here or even thought of in the grand scheme of things and I'm just sending a one time email about it "just in case" I recently swapped my server around and I'm using dovecot now....LOVE it! Could use a bit more intuitive error messages, but otherwise, it's great! But there is one flaw that I've run into with my users. Case sensitivity. As you all know, Linux is case sensitive and windows is not and mail should always be lower case. I have users who are checking Thisemail(a)domain.tld instead of thisemail(a)domain.tld. This causes my build to create a folder for Thisemail(a)domain.tld to check instead of pulling mail from thisemail(a)domain.tld Either rate, I'm correcting users when I find it, but it doesn't help when I have those that USE ALL CAPS BECAUSE EITHER IT'S COOL OR THEY USE IT FOR OTHER PURPOSES AND DON'T TURN IT OFF. No, I'm not yelling, I'm being sarcastic :) Anyway, just incase noone was aware of that little "issue".... -- Paul Blankenship Solano Computer Resource 441 Georgia St. Suite 200 Vallejo, CA 94590 (707)645-9652 Fax: (707)649-4360 For all your business and residential computer and Internet needs. Because IT just works.

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[Dovecot] rc2
by Lucas Valdeón 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hi, Timo, thank you for your previus answer. Now I have other problems: - Error message: imap-login: Can't open SSL parameter file ssl-parameters.dat: Permission denied I don´t know if it is because I have another location for ssl-parameters.dat file $ls -la /var/run/dovecot-1.0/login/ssl-parameters.dat -rw------- 1 root dovecot 230 Jul 4 13:41 ssl-parameters.dat - I´m testing dovecot with Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 and when I try to access several folders this error appear: " ... use the Advanced IMAP Server Settings dialog to reduce the number of cache connections." in config file: auth_cache_size = 0 So cache is disable - And last error is when I send a message. It fails when try to copy message to Sent folder. Thank you in advance, Lucas

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[Dovecot] tool for convertin mbox to maildir
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hello! Can anybody advise me nice and well-tested script for converting mbox to maildir format that saves all message flags ?

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[Dovecot] cmusieve bug: vaction + redirect
by Dominique Feyer 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

I found a bug in cmusieve plugin. I can do redirect: --- redirect "booking(a)jamesdo.com"; redirect "chabanel(a)net4all.ch"; keep; --- And vacation: --- require "vacation"; vacation :days 5 :addresses "info(a)lda.net4all.ch" :subject "Out of Office Reply" "Thanks for your email. I'm away from my desk, so I won't be able to reply until Thursday 15th April at the earliest. Thanks."; --- If I try to do vacation and redirect in the same script: --- require "vacation"; redirect "booking(a)jamesdo.com"; redirect "chabanel(a)net4all.ch"; keep; vacation :days 5 :addresses "info(a)lda.net4all.ch" :subject "Out of Office Reply" "Thanks for your email. I'm away from my desk, so I won't be able to reply until Thursday 15th April at the earliest. Thanks."; --- The vacation is OK, but the redirect as no subject in the header and the to: header is "undisclosed-recipients : ;". The content of the message is ok. Thanks; -- Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer(a)net4all.ch

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 RC1 + Plugin cmusieve "Sendmail qui with signal 11"
by Dominique Feyer 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

I just install RC1 + Plugin cmusieve (cvs), the sieve script is compiled and the sive lib seems OK. But in my log I have sendmail qui with signal 11 when I try to send a mail with "redirect" or "vacation" ? Any possibilitie to use a external SMTP server ? Signal 11 with sendmail is often a memory problem, but the server is in production since more than one month without any problem to sendmail. I dont use sendmail, but postifix so /usr/lib/sendmail is the compatibility command. Thanks -- Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer(a)net4all.ch

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Re: [Dovecot] Procmail patch for dovecot delivery
by Gerhard Wiesinger 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hello! Looks like the patch is also interesting for some other users. http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2006-07/msg00023.html Ciao, Gerhard -- Gerhard Wiesinger E-Mail Mailinglist: lists(a)wiesinger.com Web: http://www.wiesinger.com/ On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: > Hello! > > As discussed in the previous thread about "Dovecot deliver logging problem > and procmail" I have made a small patch for procmail to deliver through > dovecot's deliver program (or any other delivery program). > > So Procmail does not write the mailboxes directly any more. So delivery is > done through pipes and an external program which can deliver the files. > > Since dovecot's deliver program can not handle absolute pathes, theses files > are handled directly by procmail. See the configuration options below for > details. > > Also INBOX handling needs special handling because this is handled through > the /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME folder which dovecot deliver can not handle. So > this is mapped (when configured) to the INBOX folder. > > For debugging purposes you can add the VERBOSE=on variable. A sample > configuration for dovecot usage with documentation is discussed below. Some > other delivery agents (e.g. cyrus) might need other options. > > Keep in mind that the environment expansions with $ in the DELIVER_PROGRAM > must be escaped with a backslash. BOXNAME and RECIPIENT are 2 new variables > which can be used. > > Status of the patch is that it "works for me". There is no other guarantee > ... > > So I hope you like the patch. Maybe someone can make a short review of the > code changes. > > Feel free for any feedback. > > Ciao, > Gerhard > > ############################################################################ > > #Set on when debugging > VERBOSE=on > > #Replace `mail' with your mail directory (Pine uses mail, Elm uses Mail) > MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail > > #Directory for storing procmail log and rc files > PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail > > LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log > > ############################################################################## > # > # Alternate delivery options through external program > # > ############################################################################## > > ####################### > # Options for Mailboxes > ####################### > # Possibilites for Mailboxes: > # Mailbox is INBOX > # 1.) Deliver through mbox > # 2.) Deliver through external delivery program > # Mailbox has an absolute path > # 1.) Deliver through mbox > # 2.) Deliver through external delivery program > > ############### > # INBOX options > ############### > # When set, delivers the INBOX throuh the external program > # When not set, absolute path mailboxes are delivered through procmail. > DELIVER_INBOX=yes > # When set and the mailbox is the INBOX (e.g. /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME) > # it is replaced with a custom string (default INBOX) > DELIVER_REPLACE_INBOX_NAME=yes > # When DELIVER_REPLACE_INBOX_NAME is set the mailbox name is replaced with # > INBOX (default) or when DELIVER_NEW_INBOX_NAME is set, this name is used > DELIVER_NEW_INBOX_NAME=INBOX > > ####################### > # Absoulte Path options > ####################### > # When set, absolute path mailboxes are delivered through the external > program > # When not set, absolute path mailboxes are delivered through procmail. > #DELIVER_ABSOLUTE_PATH=yes > > ################## > # Delivery options > ################## > # Do not lock anything even the rule has a lock assigned > DELIVER_PIPE_NO_LOCK=yes > # Deliver in raw mode even the rule flag states that it should be delivered > in raw mode > DELIVER_RAW_MODE=yes > # When set, remove the first From line of the mbox file through the external > program > DELIVER_REMOVE_FROM=yes > > ################ > # Global options > ################ > # When set and the mail ends in a folder it is piped through the program > # Global Switch for enabling alternate delivery method > # All environment variables can be used with \$NAME > # \$BOXNAME is the name of the mailbox (maybe converted to the rules > discussed above) > # \$RECIPIENT is the recipient name, typically the user name > DELIVER_PROGRAM="/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m \$BOXNAME -d \$RECIPIENT -c > /etc/dovecot.conf" > > :0 > $DEFAULT

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[Dovecot] Procmail patch for dovecot delivery
by Gerhard Wiesinger 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hello! As discussed in the previous thread about "Dovecot deliver logging problem and procmail" I have made a small patch for procmail to deliver through dovecot's deliver program (or any other delivery program). So Procmail does not write the mailboxes directly any more. So delivery is done through pipes and an external program which can deliver the files. Since dovecot's deliver program can not handle absolute pathes, theses files are handled directly by procmail. See the configuration options below for details. Also INBOX handling needs special handling because this is handled through the /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME folder which dovecot deliver can not handle. So this is mapped (when configured) to the INBOX folder. For debugging purposes you can add the VERBOSE=on variable. A sample configuration for dovecot usage with documentation is discussed below. Some other delivery agents (e.g. cyrus) might need other options. Keep in mind that the environment expansions with $ in the DELIVER_PROGRAM must be escaped with a backslash. BOXNAME and RECIPIENT are 2 new variables which can be used. Status of the patch is that it "works for me". There is no other guarantee ... So I hope you like the patch. Maybe someone can make a short review of the code changes. Feel free for any feedback. Ciao, Gerhard ############################################################################ #Set on when debugging VERBOSE=on #Replace `mail' with your mail directory (Pine uses mail, Elm uses Mail) MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #Directory for storing procmail log and rc files PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log ############################################################################## # # Alternate delivery options through external program # ############################################################################## ####################### # Options for Mailboxes ####################### # Possibilites for Mailboxes: # Mailbox is INBOX # 1.) Deliver through mbox # 2.) Deliver through external delivery program # Mailbox has an absolute path # 1.) Deliver through mbox # 2.) Deliver through external delivery program ############### # INBOX options ############### # When set, delivers the INBOX throuh the external program # When not set, absolute path mailboxes are delivered through procmail. DELIVER_INBOX=yes # When set and the mailbox is the INBOX (e.g. /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME) # it is replaced with a custom string (default INBOX) DELIVER_REPLACE_INBOX_NAME=yes # When DELIVER_REPLACE_INBOX_NAME is set the mailbox name is replaced with # INBOX (default) or when DELIVER_NEW_INBOX_NAME is set, this name is used DELIVER_NEW_INBOX_NAME=INBOX ####################### # Absoulte Path options ####################### # When set, absolute path mailboxes are delivered through the external program # When not set, absolute path mailboxes are delivered through procmail. #DELIVER_ABSOLUTE_PATH=yes ################## # Delivery options ################## # Do not lock anything even the rule has a lock assigned DELIVER_PIPE_NO_LOCK=yes # Deliver in raw mode even the rule flag states that it should be delivered in raw mode DELIVER_RAW_MODE=yes # When set, remove the first From line of the mbox file through the external program DELIVER_REMOVE_FROM=yes ################ # Global options ################ # When set and the mail ends in a folder it is piped through the program # Global Switch for enabling alternate delivery method # All environment variables can be used with \$NAME # \$BOXNAME is the name of the mailbox (maybe converted to the rules discussed above) # \$RECIPIENT is the recipient name, typically the user name DELIVER_PROGRAM="/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m \$BOXNAME -d \$RECIPIENT -c /etc/dovecot.conf" :0 $DEFAULT

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[Dovecot] FW: Postfix Dovecot MySQL user/pass authentication:: Password Mismatch
by Brad Staszcuk 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Having some difficulty with this one: I have Postfix setup, with a web interface for postfixadmin. Both Dovecot and Postfix are setup to use the same MySQL database to authenticate users. Only SSL connections are allowed, so I use PLAIN/cleartext as my password type. Setting up users works correctly from Postfixadmin, and Dovecot recognizes the users and their respective directories, however, when I try to connect from an email client (Outlook in this case) I get the following errors in my log after enabling verbose debugging and auth logging: dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 secured lip=192.168.0.10 .... dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth-worker(default) sql(admin(a)domain.com,192.168.0.15): query: .... dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth-worker(default) sql(admin(a)domain.com,192.168.0.15): Password mismatch dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth-worker(default) sql(admin(a)domain.com,192.168.0.15): PLAIN-MD5 (testingpassword) != 'testingpassword' dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=admin(a)domain.com dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<admin(a)domain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168. .... Any suggestions? It seems like the passwords match, as it prints them both and they are the same, but for some reason it is failing when comparing them... I'm at a loss, and I can't seem to find anyone else who has had quite this issue. CentOS 4.3 if that helps, newest builds of dovecot and postfix downloaded and compiled today, both correctly with mysql and sasl support. I appreciate any input.. - Brad

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[Dovecot] Postfix/Dovecot/SaSL/MySQL Problem
by James Bowling 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

I have a current working installation of Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL. I want to utilize the Dovecot implementation of SaSL for SMTP-AUTH. Here is the issue I am running into when making the appropriate changes to my configs, when starting Dovecot with the addition of the socket listen configuration in dovecot.conf, I see this error in the logs: Jul 5 00:02:11 localhost dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta9 starting up Jul 5 00:02:12 localhost dovecot: child 25908 (auth) returned error 89 Jul 5 00:02:12 localhost dovecot: child 25910 (auth) returned error 89 Jul 5 00:02:12 localhost dovecot: child 25911 (auth) returned error 89 Jul 5 00:02:12 localhost dovecot: child 25912 (auth) returned error 89 Jul 5 00:02:12 localhost dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jul 5 00:02:12 localhost dovecot: auth(default): Socket already exists: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth Not quite sure why this is happening...I searched on google for this and found nothing. If anyone could please shed some light on this for me then please do as it would be appreciated. And for good measure: Postfix v2.3-RC5 Dovecot 1.0b9 Regards, James Bowling <james(a)jamesbowling.com>

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[Dovecot] LIST returning INBOX.INBOX
by Bill Boebel 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

With rc2, the LIST command is returning both INBOX and INBOX.INBOX when using the following namespace setting... namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes location = maildir:%h:INDEX=/var/index/%h } This patch fixed it for us: *** src/imap/cmd-list.c 2006-07-05 11:14:58.000000000 -0400 --- src/imap/cmd-list.c.new 2006-07-05 11:15:45.000000000 -0400 *************** *** 147,156 **** --- 147,159 ---- name = "INBOX"; ctx->inbox_found = TRUE; } + if (strcasecmp(list->name, "INBOX") == 0) + continue; + str_truncate(str, 0); str_printfa(str, "* %s (%s) \"%s\" ", ctx->lsub ? "LSUB" : "LIST", mailbox_flags2str(list->flags, ctx->list_flags), ctx->ns->sep_str);

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[Dovecot] Newbie needs help with LDA
by Hidayat Bin Rahmat 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Hi, I've just configured dovecot, but I'm having problems with exim4 as the LDA. Is there a good HOW-TO on the net or something that I can refer to as a guide? Really need your help. Thank you in advance. Regards, Hidayat Bin Rahmat Technical Support Officer Faculty Of Science (Dean's Office) Ext : 8729

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[Dovecot] umask problem
by Matteo 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Hi all, i got a problem with the umask parameter. I set it to umask=0007 because i need to access mail with another process with different uid, but dovecot seems to ignore the directive for files. I'm using the last 1.0_rc2 release and i'm storing mail in maildir format. Ex: root@linux ~ # ls -al /var/domains/matteo/.maildir/.INBOX.test/ total 21K drwxrwx--- 5 maildir maildir 232 Jul 5 11:21 . drwx------ 23 maildir maildir 928 Jul 5 11:21 .. drwxrwx--- 2 maildir maildir 48 Jul 5 11:21 cur -rw------- 1 maildir maildir 144 Jul 5 11:21 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 maildir maildir 11K Jul 5 11:21 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 maildir maildir 104 Jul 5 11:21 dovecot.index.log drwxrwx--- 2 maildir maildir 48 Jul 5 11:21 new drwxrwx--- 2 maildir maildir 48 Jul 5 11:21 tmp for directories umask work! but for mail file... (i copied an e-mail to the imap folder) root@linux ~ # ls -al /var/domains/matteo/.maildir/.INBOX.test/cur/ total 56K drwxrwx--- 2 maildir maildir 104 Jul 5 11:24 . drwxrwx--- 5 maildir maildir 264 Jul 5 11:24 .. -rw------- 1 maildir maildir 55K Jun 21 17:03 1152091443.P25455Q0M183478.linux:2,S i would like the mail be stored with 0760 or 0770. Could someone help me? Thank you in advanced. Matteo P.S: sorry for my bad english

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[Dovecot] RC1 broken - Authentication Failed
by Marc Perkel 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Works great with all the beta versions. I installed RC1 and get massive authentication failures. auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_master_user_separator=* auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { # Master users that can log in as anyone args = /etc/dovecot.masterusers master = yes #pass =yes } passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/vmail/shadow.%d } userdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/vmail/passwd.%d } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0666 } } } dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): pam(mark(a)marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(mark(a)marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): unknown user dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 6 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=69.50.231.8rip=64.81.213.137 resp=AG1hcmtAbWFyeG1haWwubmV0AHlldW4xMjM= dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 8 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=69.50.231.8rip=64.81.213.137 resp=AG1hcmtAbWFyeG1haWwubmV0AHlldW4xMjM= dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): pam(mark(a)marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(mark(a)marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): unknown user dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): pam(mark(a)marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(mark(a)marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): unknown user dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<elizasue(a)marksharconsulting.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.192.214.3, lip=69.50.231.8, TLS dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:58 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: rip=70.105.255.245, lip=69.50.231.8 dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:59 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 26 user=mark(a)marxmail.net dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:59 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 27 user=mark(a)marxmail.net dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:59 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 7 user=mark(a)marxmail.net dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:59 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 8 user=mark(a)marxmail.net dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:59 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 6 user=mark(a)marxmail.net dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:04 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 28 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=69.50.231.8rip=66.100.35.217 dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:04 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 28 dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:04 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 28 ADRnZW9yZ2VAdGhlbWlkZGxlYnJvb2tzLm9yZwBnbTU5NjAz dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:04 Info: auth(default): pam(4george(a)themiddlebrooks.org,66.100.35.217): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:04 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(4george(a)themiddlebrooks.org,66.100.35.217): unknown user dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:05 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 28 user=4george(a)themiddlebrooks.org dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:05 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 29 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=69.50.231.8rip=66.100.35.217 resp=ADRnZW9yZ2VAdGhlbWlkZGxlYnJvb2tzLm9yZwBnbTU5NjAz dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:05 Info: auth(default): pam(4george(a)themiddlebrooks.org,66.100.35.217): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:05 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(4george(a)themiddlebrooks.org,66.100.35.217): unknown user dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:06 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 30 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=69.50.231.8rip=63.203.231.61

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[Dovecot] Dovecot authentication issue with postgresql
by wernervdm＠topbilling.com 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Good day, I am having trouble getting dovecot to authenticate using postgresql. For some reason, it fails on a PAM error, although I have specified pgsql as authentication? Here my setups: dovecot.conf: -- snip-- (not sure if you need teh rest) auth = digest_md5 auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_passdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_user = root dovecot-pgsql.conf: connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=postfix default_pass_scheme = MD5 password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT '/var/spool/vmail/'||maildir AS home, uid, gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' I get an authentication error trying to log in. It queries the database for the password, but it does not seem to query for user? Logs: dovecot: dovecot-auth: Jul 05 05:14:41 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(chrisj(a)topbilling.com) failed: Authentication failure messages: Jul 5 05:14:39 tophat dovecot(pam_unix)[2928]: check pass; user unknown Jul 5 05:14:39 tophat dovecot(pam_unix)[2928]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Any help will be greatly appreciated - the passwords are created using postfixadmin - I presume it is in MD5 format. Kind regards Werner

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[Dovecot] fun: bird shit
by martin f krafft 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

At the risk of self promotion, I thought I'd share this wise thought: 21:16 * madduck loves dovecot because a dove is a bird and the german word for animal shit is kot, so there... 21:16 < madduck> your mail is served by bird shit! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net "he gave me his card he said, 'call me if they die' i shook his hand and said goodbye ran out to the street when a bowling ball came down the road and knocked me off my feet" -- bob dylan

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[Dovecot] migrating to 1.0.rc1 + vpopmail
by Lucas Valdeón 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi, We want to migrate to rc1 using vpopmail auth. This is the configuration: -------------------------------------------------- auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi mechanisms = plain login passdb vpopmail { # [cache_key=<key>] - See cache_key in PAM for explanation. #args = } userdb vpopmail { } user = root } -------------------------------------------------- And the log shows: -------------------------------------------------- dovecot: Jul 04 13:49:33 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jul 04 15:51:03 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc1 starting up dovecot: Jul 04 15:51:04 Error: auth(default): dovecot-auth: Fatal: USERDB envir onment is unset dovecot: Jul 04 15:51:04 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jul 04 15:51:04 Error: child 11290 (auth) returned error 89 dovecot: Jul 04 15:55:42 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc1 starting up dovecot: Jul 04 15:55:43 Error: login: Protocol version mismatch (mixed old and new binaries?) dovecot: Jul 04 15:55:43 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down -------------------------------------------------- What´s happening? Thank you in advance, Lucas

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[Dovecot] subscription to mail folders not working properly anymore with dovecot1.0x ?
by Alain Hofer 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi we run dovecot on sun solaris 9. I try to switch from dovecot 0.99.11 to dovecot 1.0, with ssl support turned on. The user's mail are stored in mbox format in Mail in their home dirs. I was not able to get the subscrition working properly with the new dovecot. New means: 1.0beta2 and now also 1.0.RC1 (beta9) The client mailreaders are mainly thunderbird 1.0x and 1.5.x, Netscape Messenger, and SquirrelMail for web access. The mail folder subscriptions stored in <usershome>/Mail/.subscriptions works fine with the dovecot 0.99.11. With dovecot_1.0 the subscriptions get properly read, but as soon as the user wants to make any changes to them (for example subscribing to a new folder out of thunderbird), the subscriptions get lost, the file <usershome>/Mail/.subscriptions simply disappears. Did I miss any point in the configuration? Or does someone else encounter the same problem? Thx for any help! -- Alain Hofer ________ __ _________________________________________________ / ____/ / / / / / ____/ GLUE Software Engineering AG / / __/ / / / / / __/ Zieglerstr. 34, 3007 Bern, Switzerland / /_/ / /___/ /_/ / /___ Phone: +41-(0)31/385 3011 Fax: 3018 \____/_____/\____/_____/___mailto:hofer@glue.ch http://www.glue.ch

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[Dovecot] Dovecot deliver logging problem and procmail
by Gerhard Wiesinger 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hello! Currently I'm trying to integrate dovecot's deliver program into procmail. So basically I'd write a patch for procmail to deliver not directly into the mbox file but delivering with the dovecot deliver program. Do you think this is a good concept? For testing I use the commands discussed below. Currently I'm having a problem that deliver doesn't recognize the logging configuration from the environment (as non root user): setenv INFO_LOG_PATH $HOME/deliver.log setenv LOG_PATH $HOME/deliver.log setenv LOG_TIMESTAMP "%b %d %H:%M:%S " cat testmail.txt | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m testbox cat testmail.txt | strace /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d gerhard -m Mail/testbox cat testmail.txt | strace /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m Mail/testbox Mail is delivered correctly, but no logging at all. Any ideas? Config (currently not security optimized, local testing only): auth default { #Some stuff deleted socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master # WARNING: Giving untrusted users access to master socket may be a # security risk, don't give too wide permissions to it! # mode = 0600 mode = 0660 # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) #user = group = users } } } protocol lda { # Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated # list of plugins to load. For example quota plugin is used to enforce quota. #mail_plugins = #mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # Address from LDA should send MDNs like out of quota postmaster_address = postmaster(a)wiesinger.com # Hostname to show in mail headers. Default is the system's # real hostname. #hostname = # Binary to use for sending mails. #sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail # If there is no user-specific Sieve-script, global Sieve script is # executed if set. #global_script_path = # UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users. auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master } Thank you for your help. Ciao, Gerhard

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[Dovecot] Per-user Reply-To headers
by Timo Sirainen 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Today (tonight..) I thought maybe I should see how easy this would be to implement: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1469343&group_id=1… So basically if enabled it'd add a "Reply-To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org" for the mails you *send* to this list. You can of course already do this yourself, but most clients don't support setting it automatically. I even managed to make it work: http://dovecot.org/tmp/mailman-2.1.8.replytolist.diff But should I actually enable it for Dovecot list? It'll probably break completely once Mailman 2.2/3.0 comes out (when does it come?) and I probably won't bother updating it then. And somehow I feel that the patch won't get accepted to upstream version..

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[Dovecot] [PATCH, RFC 3/13] OTP: parity table
by Andrey Panin 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Add OTP parity table. diff -urdpNX /usr/share/dontdiff -x Makefile dovecot.vanilla/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.c dovecot/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.c --- dovecot.vanilla/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.c 1970-01-01 03:00:00.000000000 +0300 +++ dovecot/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.c 2006-06-23 13:44:31.161891112 +0400 @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +/* + * OTP parity table. + * + * Copyright (c) 2006 Andrey Panin <pazke(a)donpac.ru> + * + * This software is released under the MIT license. + */ + +#include "lib.h" +#include "otp.h" + +const unsigned char parity_table[256] = { + 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, + 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, + 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, + 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, + 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, + 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, + 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, + 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, + 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, + 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, + 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, + 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, + 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, + 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, + 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, + 2, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 0, +}; diff -urdpNX /usr/share/dontdiff -x Makefile dovecot.vanilla/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.h dovecot/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.h --- dovecot.vanilla/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.h 1970-01-01 03:00:00.000000000 +0300 +++ dovecot/src/lib-otp/otp-parity.h 2006-06-23 13:44:31.161891112 +0400 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +#ifndef __OTP_PARITY_H__ +#define __OTP_PARITY_H__ + +const unsigned char parity_table[256]; + +static inline unsigned int otp_parity(unsigned char *data) +{ + unsigned int i, parity = 0; + + for (i = 0; i < OTP_HASH_SIZE; i++) + parity += parity_table[*data++]; + + return parity & 3; +} + +#endif /* __OTP_PARITY_H__ */

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Re: [Dovecot] OE pop3 > imap subfolder migration?
by Sysadmin 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Tere. > Sysadmin wrote: >> 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. >> > > I found with OE I could drag whole trees of folders from one location > to another without issue. This actually made it the most useful tool > we had to unlock our users from using OE - previously all employee > mail was stored on a shared drive, but in whatever format their mail > client used. > > Some of our users have many complex hierarchies of folders, but with > OE I just created another account, dragged their folders over, and hey > presto - it was done (after a while :) Hmm, just tried, XP, Outlook Express, pop3 account, folders are: Loval Folders Inbox - Test1 Outbox Sent Items Deleted Items Drafts Test2 Test3 Then I made for the same user also in same Outlook Express imap account. And all I can is drag & drop messages for example from pop3 inbox to the imap inbox. But I can't drag & drop any folder from pop3 to imap account. What kind of trick did You use, to do this? > > Don't know about the settings though - I assume you mean filters and > sorting? Yes. -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] Bug: ThunderBird and dovecot 1rc1
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Hello! It seems to me that correct deletion of message in thunderbird still doesn't work with ThanderBird and dovectot 1rc1. As I've said before messages are not removed phisically from filesystem, just marked for deletetion. Though I'm not sure that this is dovecot bug and not ThunderBird. Anyone to clarify this issue ?

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Re: [Dovecot] RE: [dovecot-cvs] dovecot/src/lib-storage/index index-mail.c, 1.102, 1.103
by Bill Boebel 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Woops... yep, that was the problem. Sorry. Bill On Mon, July 3, 2006 10:08 am, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > Are you sure you're not just mixing changes to CVS HEAD and branch_1_0? > CVS HEAD was broken for days before this patch fixed it. > > On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:59 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote: >Fyi, after this patch I started seeing the error below: > >Jul 3 09:46:55 mail11a dovecot: IMAP(user(a)example.com): file mail-cache-lookup.c: > line 270 (mail_cache_field_exists): assertion failed: (field < > view->cache->fields_count) > >Bill > > >On Mon, July 3, 2006 7:12 am, tss-movial(a)dovecot.org said: > >Update of /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index >In directory talvi:/tmp/cvs-serv31265/lib-storage/index > >Modified Files: >index-mail.c >Log Message: >Crashfix: Added missing date.save field. > > > >Index: index-mail.c >=================================================================== >RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/index-mail.c,v >retrieving revision 1.102 >retrieving revision 1.103 >diff -u -d -r1.102 -r1.103 >--- index-mail.c 29 Jun 2006 11:08:55 -0000 1.102 >+++ index-mail.c 3 Jul 2006 11:12:15 -0000 1.103 >@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ >sizeof(struct mail_sent_date), 0 }, >{ "date.received", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, >sizeof(time_t), 0 }, >+ { "date.save", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, >+ sizeof(time_t), 0 }, >{ "size.virtual", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, >sizeof(uoff_t), 0 }, >{ "size.physical", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, > > >

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[Dovecot] RE: [dovecot-cvs] dovecot/src/lib-storage/index index-mail.c, 1.102, 1.103
by Bill Boebel 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Fyi, after this patch I started seeing the error below: Jul 3 09:46:55 mail11a dovecot: IMAP(user(a)example.com): file mail-cache-lookup.c: line 270 (mail_cache_field_exists): assertion failed: (field < view->cache->fields_count) Bill On Mon, July 3, 2006 7:12 am, tss-movial(a)dovecot.org said: > Update of /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index > In directory talvi:/tmp/cvs-serv31265/lib-storage/index > > Modified Files: > index-mail.c > Log Message: > Crashfix: Added missing date.save field. > > > > Index: index-mail.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/index-mail.c,v > retrieving revision 1.102 > retrieving revision 1.103 > diff -u -d -r1.102 -r1.103 > --- index-mail.c 29 Jun 2006 11:08:55 -0000 1.102 > +++ index-mail.c 3 Jul 2006 11:12:15 -0000 1.103 > @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ > sizeof(struct mail_sent_date), 0 }, > { "date.received", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, > sizeof(time_t), 0 }, > + { "date.save", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, > + sizeof(time_t), 0 }, > { "size.virtual", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, > sizeof(uoff_t), 0 }, > { "size.physical", 0, MAIL_CACHE_FIELD_FIXED_SIZE, > >

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[Dovecot] deliver roadmap
by Jorge Salamero Sanz 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

hi all, what is the roadmap to the dovecot deliver in 1.0 ? will be dovecot 1.0 released with the current no-filtering, no-vacation and no-quota deliver ? will include the dovecot-sieve which has these features ? thanks for your answers.

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[Dovecot] Re: Error compiling on Solaris 10
by Joseph Tam 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 Dirk Essl wrote: > fiction:/tmp# gcc test.c -o test > In file included from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:34, > from /usr/include/signal.h:26, > from test.c:2: > ... You get this error if you use a Solaris9 version of gcc rather than Solaris 10 (header incompatibility). What do you get when you do gcc -v Joseph Tam <tam(a)math.ubc.ca>

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[Dovecot] User Mailbox Backups
by Fintec 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

I realise it is very easy server-side but we have some Outlook users who are use to creating PST backups of their mail. What is a good open source alternative to the MS PST file? Does it just come down to what the Mail client supports? Keen to hear recommendations and thoughts on the topic... Gavin

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[Dovecot] rc1: Questions about ssl-build-param!!??
by Jeff A. Earickson 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Timo, My setup: Solaris 9, 1.0rc1, built like so: CC=gcc CFLAGS="-g -O" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include \ LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot.1.0rc1 \ --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl \ --with-sql-drivers=no --disable-ipv6 using gcc 4.1.0. Protocols are imap and imaps. My system paniced and crashed in the middle of the night, and after it came up the ssl-parameters.dat file was messed up. >From syslog: child 1965 (login) returned error 89 imap-login: Can't open SSL parameter file ssl-parameters.dat: Permission denied Nobody was getting their email via imap. So I removed the directories /opt/dovecot/var and /var/run/dovecot to get dovecot to rebuild the ssl-parameters.dat file. Questions: 1) Why on Earth does ssl-build-param take so long??!! (> 12 minutes on my E220R) What is it doing? How to speed this process up, and/or tune it? 2) Where does ssl-parameters.dat get written to? I found one copy in the /opt/dovecot/var/lib/dovecot directory, and one copy in /var/run/dovecot/login. Which copy gets used? 3) What are the permissions supposed to be for ssl-parameters.dat? The copy in /var/run was chown root:other and chmod 640. I could not get rid of the syslog "permission denied" until I made it chmod 644. 4) Likewise the directories /opt/dovecot/var and below get created chown root:other and chmod 750, with ssl-parameters.dat chmod 640. What should these perms be? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] writing a plugin for LDA to chain Unix pipes
by martin f krafft 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Hi, I've spent some part of the last week on trying to figure out whether dovecot LDA meets our requirements for a new mail server infrastructure (the IMAP and POP servers, as well as the SASL backend certainly do; thanks a lot!). The one thing that's holding me back is that we need per-user integration of SpamAssassin and some other, custom content filters, all of which are implemented as Unix pipe filters. My conclusion is that since dovecot LDA cannot yet integrate such filters in the delivery chain, but it supports plugins, that such a plugin must be written. Conceptually, it's very simple: a configuration file option specifying the Unix pipe, and a plugin that does the proper popen() (or whatever is to be used these days) call, checking for errors and doing the right thing. Unfortunately, I do not have much time at my hands -- basically it all boils down to Sunday evening and a little bit of Monday, and then it's got to be done. My C is rusty, but I do have a lot of experience with it, so I am confident... ... but what would really help is if someone who knows the internals of Dovecot would give me a starting point, or even some more information. How do I conceive to write such a plugin? I could not find the information online, and I'd rather not reverse engineer existing plugins, for that approach usually leads to ugly and hence unstable/insecure/unusable code. Any feedback is thus warmly appreciated! Also, if someone is online on IRC on Sunday and Monday and wouldn't mind if I asked a question now and then, please let me know. It goes without saying that I will happily submit my plugin (once its tested) to Dovecot upstream under the Artistic Licence, or if that doesn't work, another licence of your choosing. Thanks, -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net "common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -- albert einstein

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[Dovecot] Error compiling on Solaris 10
by Dirk Essl 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Hi, I'm trying to compile dovecot 1.0rc1 on a V250, Solaris 10 installed. -- configure: CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -R/usr/local/ssl/lib' ./configure --with-ssl=openssl --with-file-offset-size=32 -- gcc Version 3.3.2 from Sunfreeware Error Message: # make make all-recursive Making all in src Making all in lib if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/ssl/include -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -MT file-dotlock.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/file-dotlock.Tpo" -c -o file-dotlock.o file-dotlock.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/file-dotlock.Tpo" ".deps/file-dotlock.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/file-dotlock.Tpo"; exit 1; fi In file included from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:34, from /usr/include/signal.h:26, from file-dotlock.c:13: /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:259: error: parse error before "ctid_t" /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:292: error: parse error before '}' token /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:294: error: parse error before '}' token /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:390: error: parse error before "ctid_t" /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:392: error: conflicting types for `__proc' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:261: error: previous declaration of `__proc' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:398: error: conflicting types for `__fault' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:267: error: previous declaration of `__fault' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:404: error: conflicting types for `__file' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:273: error: previous declaration of `__file' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:420: error: conflicting types for `__prof' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:287: error: previous declaration of `__prof' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:424: error: conflicting types for `__rctl' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:291: error: previous declaration of `__rctl' /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:426: error: parse error before '}' token /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:428: error: parse error before '}' token /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:432: error: parse error before "k_siginfo_t" /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:437: error: parse error before '}' token In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:26, from file-dotlock.c:13: /usr/include/sys/signal.h:85: error: parse error before "siginfo_t" In file included from file-dotlock.c:13: /usr/include/signal.h:111: error: parse error before "siginfo_t" /usr/include/signal.h:113: error: parse error before "siginfo_t" *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `file-dotlock.o' Current working directory /tmp/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src/lib *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: set fnord $MAKEFLAGS; amf=$2; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ list='lib lib-dict lib-sql lib-ntlm lib-settings lib-charset lib-mail lib-imap lib-index lib-storage lib-auth auth dict master login-common imap-login imap pop3-login pop3 util plugins'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /tmp/dovecot-1.0.beta8/src *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: set fnord $MAKEFLAGS; amf=$2; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ list='src doc'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /tmp/dovecot-1.0.beta8 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all' -- Can anybody halp, please? TIA dirk

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[Dovecot] 1.0.rc1 released
by Timo Sirainen 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

I think the code is now stable enough to be called the first release candidate. Please report any bugs, new and old. The filesystem quota numbers should be correct now? http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc1.tar.gz.sig * PAM: If user's password is expired, give "Password expired" error message to the user. Now actually working thanks to Vaidas Pilkauskas * Relicensed dovecot-auth, lib-sql and lib-ntlm to MIT license. See COPYING file for more information. * Abuse prevention: When creating a mailbox, limit the number of hierarchies (up to 20) and the length of the mailbox name within a hierarchy (up to 200 characters). * mbox: If saved mail doesn't end with LF, add it ourself so that the mails always have one empty line before the next From-line. + Added --with-statedir configure option which defaults to $localstatedir/lib/dovecot. ssl-parameters.dat is permanently stored in that directory and is copied to login_dirs from there. + IMAP: Support SASL-IR extension (SASL initial response) + Support initial SASL response with LOGIN mechanism. Patch by Anders Karlsson + Added PLAIN-MD4 password scheme. Patch by Andrey Panin. + Added support for XFS disk quotas. Patch by Pawel Jarosz + If another process deletes the opened mailbox, try to handle it without writing errors to log file. Handles the most common cases. + Added TLS support for LDAP if the library supports it. - SEARCH command was more or less broken with OR and NOT conditions - Dovecot corrupted mbox files which had CR+LF linefeeds in headers - MySQL code could have crashed while escaping strings - MD4 code with NTLM authentication was broken with 64bit systems. Patch by Andrey Panin - Plugin loading was broken in some OSes (eg. FreeBSD) - Several fixes to handling empty values in configuration file - Several fixes to dictionary quota backend and dict server. Also changed how they're configured. - deliver: Fixed plugin handling settings - mbox_min_index_size handling was somewhat broken - passdb passwd-file: extra_args field wasn't read unless the file was also used as userdb.

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[Dovecot] SSL proxy rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Last time I committed my SSL proxy rewrite people complained that it got broken. Now that I'm finally trying to fix it, it seems to work perfectly with me. Both downloading lots of messages and saving lots of messages works fine. I added SSL alerts and something else to be logged now with verbose_ssl=yes. With that enabled, could you people try if the rewritten code works with you, and if not, what do the logs say? To test it you'll need the latest CVS code or the latest nightly snapshot and this patch: http://dovecot.org/patches/ssl-rewrite.diff

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[Dovecot] Secure connection from "localhost" in jails
by Dirk Engling 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear dovecot developers, first: thanks for this really cool imapd, on my server it serves some hundred domains, all in all some thousand users, some having hundred thousand mails in their Maildirs (their spam boxes mostly). Since I put this installation in an FreeBSD geli encrypted disc image I had no choice but to choose an imapd with clever indexes - dovecot was perfect. However, since I reconfigured the disc image to work as a FreeBSD jail, I had some trouble with my web mail solution. Squirrelmail does not work with imaps (or at least not smoothly, out of the box, or whatever) and I didn't like to hack php to support SSL. Plus: there is no point in using ssl for a local connection. In a FreeBSD jail a sockets source address is always rewritten to the jails address, so squirrelmail opening a connection to dovecot will not come from 127.0.0.1 but from the same (jails) address, dovecot listens to. Still, dovecot only considers 'localhost' addresses as secure and allows LOGIN or PLAIN auth. With the little patch below dovecot allows clients from the jail to authenticate via LOGIN, when they connect from the IP it accepts connections at. Something similar is lurking around in pop3 auth code, I am sure, you get the point. Regards erdgeist ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< dovecot-1.0.rc1/src/imap-login 18:59:44 #> diff -u client.c* - --- client.c Thu Jun 29 18:59:39 2006 +++ client.c_new Thu Jun 29 18:59:19 2006 @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ const struct ip_addr *ip) { struct imap_client *client; - - const char *addr; + const char *addr, *local_addr; if (max_logging_users > CLIENT_DESTROY_OLDEST_COUNT && hash_size(clients) >= max_logging_users) { @@ -429,8 +429,10 @@ client->common.tls = ssl; addr = net_ip2addr(ip); + local_addr = net_ip2addr(local_ip); client->common.secured = ssl || (IPADDR_IS_V4(ip) && strncmp(addr, "127.", 4) == 0) || + (IPADDR_IS_V4(ip) && strncmp(addr, local_addr, strlen(local_addr)) == 0) || (IPADDR_IS_V6(ip) && (strcmp(addr, "::1") == 0 || strncmp(addr, "::ffff:127.", 11) == 0)); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEpAu4ImmQdUyYEgkRAnC8AJ9W3L5XwjdTuLvGfUwmIjEfyq8sAQCdErPc v6JW46e9dfYBsKzAWprg2zw= =/IWt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Re: 1.0 RC1 status
by Ramunas 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

>If you think there's still something I should have replied to, please >re-send it because I've either missed it or just skipped it for some >reason.(Except there are still a couple of mails from this week I've >yet to reply to.) Timo look at this message - http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-June/013958.html. I compiled dovecot-latest (dovecot-20060618.tar.gz , configured --with-ioloop=poll), but same problem: Jun 19 07:43:25 srv1 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta9 starting up Jun 19 07:43:26 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): pgsql: Connected to hosting Jun 19 07:44:09 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<ramas>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS Jun 19 07:44:09 srv1 dovecot: POP3(ramas): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Jun 19 19:18:21 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): sql(ramas,192.168.0.3): Password query failed: Jun 19 19:18:21 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): invalid I/O fd 8, callback 0x8065170 Jun 19 19:19:21 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS gdb /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth 30056 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.122rh) 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) x 0x8065170 0x8065170 <get_result>: 0x83e58955 (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7debe3e in __lll_mutex_lock_wait () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0xb7d6b94c in _L_lock_100 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0xb7d6b8ea in fflush () from /lib/libc.so.6 #4 0xb7e5a973 in pqFlush () from /usr/lib/libpq.so.3 #5 0xb7e57cb0 in PQconsumeInput () from /usr/lib/libpq.so.3 #6 0x0806518c in get_result () #7 0x0806abe8 in io_loop_handler_run () #8 0x0806a28c in io_loop_run () #9 0x08058da5 in main () Also tryed compile with epoll, got this error: Jun 19 06:55:23 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): sql(ramas,192.168.0.3): Password query failed: Jun 19 06:55:23 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<ramas>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS Jun 19 06:55:26 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): io_loop_handle_add: epoll_ctl(3, 9): No such file or directory Jun 19 06:55:26 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS Jun 19 06:55:26 srv1 dovecot: child 11758 (auth) returned error 89 Jun 19 06:55:27 srv1 dovecot: auth(default): pgsql: Connected to hosting Jun 19 06:55:27 srv1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<ramas>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.3, lip=192.168.0.6, TLS Jun 19 06:55:27 srv1 dovecot: POP3(ramas): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=2/3429, del=2/2, size=3395 Users passwords stored on PostgreSQL (7.4.11) another server. Machine - Linux, kernel 2.6.16.20 Thank you. Ramunas

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[Dovecot] Just one user experiencing server timeouts
by Fran Fabrizio 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

[dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7 on Fedora Core 5, maildir formatted mail directories, various clients: thunderbird 1.5.0.4 from FC4 and WinXP, SquirrelMail 1.4.6-5.fc5 RPM, various recent versions of Pine from various Fedoras and Redhat 9] I have just one mail user who experiences server timeouts when trying to delete a message (move it to Trash) or other common operations. This user has 4.1GB of mail spread over 200+ Maildir-formatted folders, so I immediately expected sheer volume as the problem - this user has by far the most mail. This user experiences the problem from multiple Thunderbird installs, from SquirrelMail, and from Pine. However, I created a new user account using our standard account creation processes, and did a direct copy of olduser's Maildir to newuser's homedir. Then I did a chown -R newuser ~newuser/Maildir, set up an account in Thunderbird for newuser's account, and tried for an hour to get a server timeout doing all the same operations that cause the timeout on olduser's account, with no timeouts. I absolutely cannot duplicate the behavior, but when I watch olduser do this from any of the above named clients, I see the timeouts on about 10% of the operations. I've been looking into this off and on for weeks, but I am baffled. I can't think of what is so specific about this one user's account that is causing the trip up. Both home directories are stored on the same filesystem and as I mentioned I made an exact duplicate of Maildir. I'm completely out of ideas, does anyone have any thoughts? Does Dovecot do any data tracking on a per user basis that could be confusing it, some cache I can clear? Dovecot has been restarted numerous times since the trouble started. -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653

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[Dovecot] Problems with Sent folder
by james edwards 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

We are using dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3; the users use IMAP. I have had several of these today where the user cannot write to their Sent folder on the server. The users do own everything in their home dir: [root@jidmail lcrdjav]# file Sent Sent: ISO-8859 HTML document text What is up with the HTML, I am not used to seeing this in any of the IMAP folders ? -- James H. Edwards Network Systems Administrator Judicial Information Division jedwards(a)nmcourts.com

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[Dovecot] patch to make sieved compile & work
by Steffen Kaiser 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hello, attached you'll find a patch to make the Sieve decompiler located in dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve compile & work. To compile sieved I've extracted the two commands from the make process for sievec, see the attached sieved.compile.sh. Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] rc1 & password debug
by Thomas Hummel 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hello Timo, I just launched rc1 with auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes #auth_debug_passwords = no and on a wrong password, I see my crypted passwd in the log : userPassword(password)={Crypt}xxxxxxxx Is that normal, since I assume that auth_debug_passwords defaults to no ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] Improving interaction/performance with Mail.app?
by Alan Schmitt 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hello, I'm using dovecot as my IMAP server just for me, and I access it from three machines, all using Apple Mail.app. Unfortunately the performance is really bad, especially when deleting or copying a lot of messages. I know this is the fault of Mail.app, whose IMAP support leaves a lot to desire, but I was wondering if there could be some dovecot configuration tricks that make the interaction smoother. Thanks a lot, 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] file_wait_lock with dovecot 0.99.14-1sarge
by Jorge Salamero Sanz 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

hi all, i've just installed dovecot from debian sarge and i get this error: Jun 28 16:31:50 server pop3(user): file_wait_lock() failed with custom flags file /mnt/nfs/users/user//mail/.customflags: No locks available (maildir in nfs) how seriously i should take it ? is it fixed in newer versions ? thanks !

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RE: [Dovecot] APPEND bug in dovecot-20060628
by Bill Boebel 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Timo, > >I'm running maildir quotas with rc1 (dovecot-20060628) and get the > >following when trying to APPEND: > >"NO Unknown error" > >System logs show: > >Quota: Couldn't get new message's size > > > >.... and the file isn't there (unknown if Dovecot removed it, or if the > >lack of the file is the cause of the error). > > I am seeing this problem as well. Running this morning's CVS. It is hitting this condition on line 229 of src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-mail.c, in function maildir_mail_get_physical_size(): /* size can be included in filename */ if (!maildir_filename_get_size(fname, MAILDIR_EXTRA_FILE_SIZE, &size)) { if (_mail->uid != 0) { if (maildir_file_do(mbox, _mail->uid, do_stat, &st) <= 0) { return (uoff_t)-1; } } else { /* saved mail which hasn't been committed yet */ if (do_stat(mbox, fname, &st) <= 0) { >> line 229 >>>>>> return (uoff_t)-1; } } size = st.st_size; }

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[Dovecot] 1.0rc1 location variable bug
by Chris Wakelin 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

I think I've found a bug in Dovecot 1.0 rc1 where if you have namespaces without the "location = " setting defined, it fails to use default_mail_env as it should. This seems to have been broken by :- 2006-06-16 18:13 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> * src/master/: auth-process.c, login-process.c, mail-process.c, main.c, master-settings.c: Settings parser nowadays returns "" instead of NULL when it reads an empty value from config file (due to some good reason I unfortunately didn't write to commit message and can't remember anymore). Fixed a lot of existing checks which checked for empty strings with NULL instead of "" checks. Looks like Timo missed (at least) one! I'm surprised nobody else has seen this. Do you all have "location" defined? Patch attached. Best Wishes, Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094 --- dovecot-1.0.rc1.orig/src/master/mail-process.c Tue Jun 27 22:00:46 2006 +++ dovecot-1.0.rc1/src/master/mail-process.c Fri Jun 30 16:08:40 2006 @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ for (i = 1; ns != NULL; i++, ns = ns->next) { t_push(); - location = ns->location != NULL ? ns->location : + location = *ns->location != '\0' ? ns->location : default_location; location = expand_mail_env(location, table); env_put(t_strdup_printf("NAMESPACE_%u=%s", i, location));

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[Dovecot] ssl-parameters.dat permissions
by Thomas Hummel 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hello, I'm using 1.0rc1 with login_dir = /var/dovecot-1.0/run/dovecot/login #login_user = dovecot but when launched, I've got dovecot: imap-login: Can't open SSL parameter file ssl-parameters.dat: Permission denied as a matter of fact, ssl-parameters.dat is created with the following permissions : -rw------- 1 root dovecot 230 Jun 30 14:35 /var/dovecot-1.0/run/dovecot/login/ssl-parameters.dat -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] set quota on INBOX only
by Kristian Vlahovicek 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hello, how can I configure the IMAP quota plugin to force quotas on inbox only? I would like to limit the size of each of the user's inbox (in /var/mail/%u) to 50 meg and I do not want to force any quotas in their folders (mbox style). They should keep their inbox small :) thanks, Kristian

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[Dovecot] help for static user
by JC 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hi everybody, I have been long (for 2 days) trying, but I really need some help. I would like to use virtual static users. I configured my file as indicated in the documentation and then I created the following directory, with the needed rights (mail account) and leave them empty : /var/mail/virtual/<mon_domaine>.fr/toto/ I am not sure that it is the good method, but I understand it as follows : dovecot looks up in the directories and takes them as usernames and domain names. When I try to open the imap box from a client (evolution), I get a "Unknown error - the server closed the connection" message, that doesn't appear in the server's syslog. My dovecont.conf : << base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = pop3s imaps imap_listen = *:143 pop3_listen = * ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes login = imap login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot login_process_size = 32 login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 3 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_logging_users = 256 login = pop3 login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login max_mail_processes = 1024 verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 8 last_valid_uid = 0 first_valid_gid = 1 last_valid_gid = 0 mail_extra_groups = mail client_workarounds = outlook-idle outlook-pop3-no-nuls mailbox_check_interval = 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 mail_full_filesystem_access = no mail_max_flag_length = 50 mail_save_crlf = no mail_read_mmaped = no maildir_stat_dirs = no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no maildir_check_content_changes = no mbox_lock_timeout = 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 umask = 0077 imap_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap imap_process_size = 256 imap_use_modules = no imap_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap pop3_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_process_size = 256 pop3_use_modules = no pop3_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth = cram-md5 auth_mechanisms = cram-md5 auth_realms = auth_userdb = passwd static uid=8 gid=8 home=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%u auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/cram-md5.pwd auth_user = dovecot auth_chroot = auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_process_size = 256 auth_count = 1 auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ >> Thank you in advance for any help.

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[Dovecot] Secure connection from "localhost" in jails
by Dirk Engling 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear dovecot developers, first: thanks for this really cool imapd, on my server it serves some hundred domains, all in all some thousand users, some having hundred thousand mails in their Maildirs (their spam boxes mostly). Since I put this installation in an FreeBSD geli encrypted disc image I had no choice but to choose an imapd with clever indexes - dovecot was perfect. However, since I reconfigured the disc image to work as a FreeBSD jail, I had some trouble with my web mail solution. Squirrelmail does not work with imaps (or at least not smoothly, out of the box, or whatever) and I didn't like to hack php to support SSL. Plus: there is no point in using ssl for a local connection. In a FreeBSD jail a sockets source address is always rewritten to the jails address, so squirrelmail opening a connection to dovecot will not come from 127.0.0.1 but from the same (jails) address, dovecot listens to. Still, dovecot only considers 'localhost' addresses as secure and allows LOGIN or PLAIN auth. With the little patch below dovecot allows clients from the jail to authenticate via LOGIN, when they connect from the IP it accepts connections at. Something similar is lurking around in pop3 auth code, I am sure, you get the point. Regards erdgeist ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< ======== 8< dovecot-1.0.rc1/src/imap-login 18:59:44 #> diff -u client.c* - --- client.c Thu Jun 29 18:59:39 2006 +++ client.c_new Thu Jun 29 18:59:19 2006 @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ const struct ip_addr *ip) { struct imap_client *client; - - const char *addr; + const char *addr, *local_addr; if (max_logging_users > CLIENT_DESTROY_OLDEST_COUNT && hash_size(clients) >= max_logging_users) { @@ -429,8 +429,10 @@ client->common.tls = ssl; addr = net_ip2addr(ip); + local_addr = net_ip2addr(local_ip); client->common.secured = ssl || (IPADDR_IS_V4(ip) && strncmp(addr, "127.", 4) == 0) || + (IPADDR_IS_V4(ip) && strncmp(addr, local_addr, strlen(local_addr)) == 0) || (IPADDR_IS_V6(ip) && (strcmp(addr, "::1") == 0 || strncmp(addr, "::ffff:127.", 11) == 0)); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEpmKwImmQdUyYEgkRAmWJAKCISUFtjdwvIZvHucqREHXKmB3s3ACeO7ql phwkh3m/KTjQCKsRetLxORA= =VnV4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] How to use filters with the LDA?
by martin f krafft 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Hi, I am trying to deploy dovecot LDA and liking it so far. However, I need to pass the message through some filters before it's delivered to the user (e.g. spamc). I realise I can just set up a chain (postfix delivers to spamc, pipes to foo, pipes to bar, pipes to deliver), but there's no reliable error handling with that approach. Furthermore, I cannot seem to figure out whether sieve can pass messages through external filters, or how you'd do that. How do people approach this? What would be really sweet is an LDA plugin that can call arbitrary filters for each message it processes. Has something (obvious) like this been done? Thanks, -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net "doesn't he know who i think i am?" -- phil collins

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[Dovecot] some basic questions
by David 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I'm seeking a small IMAP server, and dovecat was recommended by those more savvy than me. (The sign on my monitor is "My programming language is solder..") so I'll be getting help to deploy this, but first... I've read through the wiki docs but still have questions, ones likely too obvious for most readers.... There will be <100 users, the platform will Debian, and I need IMAP/PO over SSL/TSL and locally-hosted Squirrelmail [unless someone has a better webmail client...]. Other boxes here run postfix, so that is a first choice. Clients will be Eudora, maybe TBird/Apple mail; no M$ Outlook. A) I need multi-domain support, with <joe(a)xyz.com> and <joy(a)qbc.net> being separate users. B) I have a problem with storage-abusers & really want the carrot-stick quota system my favorite ISP, Panix, has. You get N bytes {or messages, I can live with either/both} and when you get near, you get nagged until you solve it. When you exceed quota, you get no more incoming mail, just nagging. It's shunted aside until you make room. After D days, if it's still there, the shunted mail is returned. Regular reports as to who's naughty and nice would be great. C) Password changes. How can I have user-changable pw's, with crack/sanity checking of the new ones? Do I have to have accessible shell accounts on the box for each user? [argh] D) Spam: assume I can run spam-assassin and have it move suspected mail into a Junque mailbox; true? E) Non-guru creation/deletion of accounts: It appears from "Virtual Users" that this is possible via a text file, but I'm not sure... Comments?

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[Dovecot] Managesieve daemon
by Luca Corti 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hello, some time ago there was dicussion on the list about development of a managesieve daemon to allow users to manage their own scripts. After putting the pieces togheter and having sieve working in the lda with Dovecot I solved the management issue by using Horde's Ingo + FTP to manage scripts for virtual users. This is quite ugly (technically speaking) but works and it is integrated with my webmail system (which is quite nice). Is anyone actively working on this? Which client do support managesieve? Luca

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[Dovecot] upgrade from beta9 to rc1 - lost access to messages and folders
by Joseph W. Breu 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hello All, Upgraded a test machine this morning from beta9 to rc1 and lost access to messages and folders. an strace on the imap process shows it accessing the home directory, but not the mail directory. The two queries that I use are: password_query = SELECT email,crypt as password FROM users WHERE email = '%u' user_query = SELECT homedir AS home, maildir AS mail, 1000 AS uid, 1000 AS gid FROM users WHERE email = '%u' In this example, homedir=/var/spool/mail/filer/storage and maildir=cfu.net/b/r/breu Under beta9, it finds the homedir/maildir correctly as /var/spool/mail/filer/storage/cfu.net/b/r/breu. Under rc1, it accesses /var/spool/mail/filer/storage//mail/ What did I miss during the upgrade? -- 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] Maildir Quota and Trash Folder
by Joseph W. Breu 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Is there an option to instruct the imap_quota plugin to count messages in the Trash folder as used space? 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] [PATCH]: updated tpop3d UIDL support based on older patch
by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hi, Here is an updated patch which allows to use tpop3d compatible UIDL in dovecot (it's against 1.0rc1): http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES/dovecot-tpop3d-uidl.patch?r… which is based on: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2006-March/012080.html Please consider merging it. -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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[Dovecot] Running on HPUX
by Rich Rauenzahn 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I've gotten fairly far into compiling and running dovecot on HPUX. The problem I'm currently having is that the index seems to be mmap'ed at twice after login. The 576 byte mmap is the index file: root@hp46t243 # grep mmap64 /tmp/dovecot.tusc [imap ][1707] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][1707] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][1707] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][1707] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][1717] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][1717] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][1717] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][1717] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][1897] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][1897] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][1897] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][1897] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][2042] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][2042] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][2042] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][2042] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][2178] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][2178] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][2178] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][2178] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM [imap ][2318] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xc166c000 [imap ][2318] mmap64(NULL, 18432, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 9, 0) ........ = 0xc166d000 [imap ][2318] mmap64(NULL, 24, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 8, 0) ........... = 0xc1672000 [imap ][2318] mmap64(NULL, 576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) ERR#12 ENOMEM root@hp46t243 # I think multiple mmap's of the same file are verboten -- + In most cases, two separate calls to mmap() cannot map overlapping ranges in a file. The virtual address range reserved for a file range is determined at the time of the initial mapping of the file range into a process address space. The system allocates only the virtual address range necessary to represent the initial mapping. As long as the initial mapping exists, subsequent attempts to map a different file range that includes any portion of the initial range may fail with an ENOMEM error if an extended contiguous address range that preserves the mappings of the initial range cannot be allocated. So, I was trying to look at why the index file is being mapped twice, and why the addr isn't saved and reused. I was thinking of adding it to one of the index structures and skipping the mmap if the addr != 0. I've been poking around for a couple of hours today and am going to call it a day, but I thought I'd ping the list to see if there was something obvious I was missing. Rich

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RE: [Dovecot] APPEND bug in dovecot-20060628
by Bill Boebel 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

On Wed, June 28, 2006 1:02 pm, Apps Lists <appslists(a)neonova.net> said: > I'm running maildir quotas with rc1 (dovecot-20060628) and get the > following when trying to APPEND: > "NO Unknown error" > System logs show: > Quota: Couldn't get new message's size > > .... and the file isn't there (unknown if Dovecot removed it, or if the > lack of the file is the cause of the error). I am seeing this problem as well. Running this morning's CVS. Bill

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[Dovecot] APPEND bug in dovecot-20060628
by Apps Lists 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi. I'm running maildir quotas with rc1 (dovecot-20060628) and get the following when trying to APPEND: "NO Unknown error" System logs show: Quota: Couldn't get new message's size .... and the file isn't there (unknown if Dovecot removed it, or if the lack of the file is the cause of the error). I reverted back to dovecot-20060621 and APPEND is now working again. Steve

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[Dovecot] quota not working on delivery
by martin f krafft 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi, I am using the Debian dovecot packages and the deliver LDA from postfix, all version 1.0.beta8. My problem is with quota support, I am using Maildirs. The relevant configuration stuff is included at the bottom of this email. Quota support seems to work with IMAP. However, even when IMAP complains about an account being over quota, the deliver LDA still happily writes new mail to the (correct) Maildirs. I cannot see any warnings or other hints. Can you spot what I am doing wrong? Thanks! dovecot.conf: protocols = imap default_mail_env = maildir:~/.maildir auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } socket listen { master { # LDA path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail } } } plugin { quota = maildir } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)seamus.madduck.net mail_plugins = quota } dovecot-sql.conf: driver = pgsql connect = host=localhost dbname=users user=dovecot password=XXXXXXXX password_query = select password from vmail.users where email='%u' user_query = select home, uid, gid, 'maildir:storage=' || quota as quote from vmail.users where email='%u' -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net "women love us for our defects. if we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects." -- oscar wilde

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[Dovecot] How to startup multi auth daemond
by Xueron Nee 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi all， I want restrict some user to use POP3 and some other to use SMTP. I consider to startup multi Auth daemond and each use a diffenent SQL. For example: for pop3： select .... where pop3_service=1 and ... for smtp: select .... where smtp_service=1 and ... I don't know if this is a good idea and how to setup dovecot to do so. Is there any suggest? Thanks! -- Xueron Nee <xueron(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] question indexes recreations
by Konstantin 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hello! Is it correct not to backup index files in the hope that dovecot will recreate them ?

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[Dovecot] Test
by Tom Alsberg 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Test -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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[Dovecot] mbox locking
by Thomas Hummel 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hello, I'd like to make sure my understanding of the mbox locking strategy is correct : - "mbox_dotlock_change_timeout" directive : a process seeing that an already locked (by another process) mbox he want to access hasn't change for this amount of time, allows himself to override the lock ? If it's using fcntl, is it only possible to override ? - when a process abort trying to get a lock after mbox_lock_timeout, does the UA sees anything ? - multiple locking methods in "mbox_write_lock" : if I state, for instance, mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl when does exactly dotlock method get used and when does fcntl get used ? Are both used simultaneously ? Which leads to the wiki's deadlock situation example : # Program A: fcntl locks the mbox # Program B at the same time: dotlocks the mbox # Program A continues: tries to dotlock the mbox, but since it's already dotlocked by B, it starts waiting # Program B continues: tries to fcntl lock the, but since it's already fcntl locked by A, it starts waiting why would A dotlock the mbox since he did fcntl'ed it successfully ? if he's able to perform fcntl, he can use a shared or an exclusive lock : why use dotlock at all ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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New LDA + Sieve (Was Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc1 released)
by Timothy White 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

> - deliver: Fixed plugin handling settings For sieve support, what is the new procedure? From what I could see, compile WITH deliver support, and then get a plugin from CVS? What has changed in the config files then to enable sieve support? Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Colon in maildir folder name breaks keywords
by Bill Boebel 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

With maildir, if you have a colon in a folder name, and you try to set a keyword on a message in that folder, the keyword does not get set - and worse, all existing keywords and other status information gets dropped (flagged, seen, replied, trashed). Bill

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[Dovecot] Trash expire plugin
by Timo Sirainen 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Dovecot will soon have a plugin which allows running a nightly cronjob to expunge mails from configured mailboxes which have been in there for a configurable amount of time. For example the configuration could be: plugin { # Trash 7d, Spam 30d expire = Trash 7 Spam 30 } It also supports using Dovecot's lib-dict to keep track of the mailboxes and their oldest mail's timestamp, so that the nightly cronjob can quickly go through only those mailboxes that have those old mails. Berkeley DB support has been added to lib-dict for this purpose, but you could use SQL as well. There's however one problem with it that I could use opinions on. Currently there's no way to know how long a mail has been in a mailbox. There are pretty much 3 ways to handle this: 1) When copying to those Trash/Spam mailboxes the message's INTERNALDATE could be replaced with the current time. That way the INTERNALDATE tells how long the message has been in there. The obvious downside of this is that if the user wants to move the message back to another mailbox, the original INTERNALDATE is lost (INTERNALDATE means the time when the message was received and is often the timestamp used to sort messages). 2) Preserve the INTERNALDATE while copying, but still use it anyway. Often the messages are moved to Trash (and especially to Spam) soon after they have been received. If not, then the user has time until the next nightly cronjob to move the messages back before they're lost. 3) Add a new field to index file which contains the date when the message was copied. This could be done only for those Trash/Spam boxes so they don't waste space for other mailboxes. The problem with this is that it won't work if there are no index files. To overcome that problem the time could be stored in yet another place, such as maildir filename and some new mbox header. I don't see supporting those as worth the trouble though, so the fallback could be either the date index file is created or the messages' INTERNALDATE. I think either 1) or 3) would be best solutions. 3) probably, but if index files don't exist nearly permanently, it's not very reliable..

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[Dovecot] Postfix "userlookup" via Dovecot Auth
by Timothy White 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

I'm hoping to take advantage of authentication caching via dovecot-auth. I see that posfix can communicate with Dovecot-Auth, via SASL, but from what I can see, postfix only does this for authentication checks. Not 100% sure how postfix handles virtual_transport (I assume it needs to do a lookup via virtual_mailbox_maps), but I can't see anyway to get virtual_mailbox_maps to use dovecot-auth ether. I guess I may just have to get the virtual_mailbox_maps to look up userdata via SQL as well as Dovecot, but I was hoping to avoid what will be 3 similar lookups one after the other (dovecot-lda is in use as well). My intended setup is "Postfix" -- LMTP --> "Dspam" -- DeliveryAgent --> "Dovecot-LDA", with each stage currently doing a SQL lookup for user information. It would be awesome if they all used SASl via Dovecot-Auth so that the Auth cache does it's job! Reading the doc files in Dspam is confusing me, as the relay file seems to be mixed up. Any help greatly appreciated! Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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

28 Jun '06

On Tue, June 27, 2006 5:14 pm, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > >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: > > Fixed now in CVS. Weird that I always had the .INBOX directory created > in all my tests, guess I still run 0.99.x Dovecot once in a while :) > That fixed it. Thanks. Bill

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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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