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[Dovecot] pop3 problem with small messages with no Subject: and no To: headers
by Ken A 11 May '06

11 May '06

Hello, Seeing a strange thing with dovecot 1.0 b7 pop3. If a user gets a particular _very_ short spam message (not sure what virus makes these..), with NO Subject and NO To: headers and NO body, (example available upon request), the user is unable to download the mail. The log entry is: May 10 10:51:35 mail dovecot: POP3(user): Disconnected top=0/0, retr=1/1344, del=0/75, size=16383381 There's no QUIT, so no "Logged out" disconnect reason. I did a tcpdump to see what was happening. I have not been able to duplicate this myself yet, even with an exact copy of the message that seems to be causing it, so it could be a client issue, but I've never seen this before, and we just switched to Dovecot, so I thought I'd check with the list.. ideas? Message #9 is requested (it's the one in the user's box with missing headers). Dovecot begins returning it, but then disconnects, or so it seems. 10:51:35.171916 IP customer.60181 > mailserver.pop3: P 40:48(8) ack 1633 win 65535 0x0000: 4500 0030 d326 4000 7106 fc20 4624 16a1 E..0.&@.q...F$.. 0x0010: ceaa 0f11 eb15 006e 7ee7 2a93 d845 fe0c .......n~.*..E.. 0x0020: 5018 ffff 3618 0000 5245 5452 2039 0d0a P...6...RETR.9.. 10:51:35.172177 IP mailserver.pop3 > customer.60181: P 1633:2980(1347) ack 48 win 5840 0x0000: 4500 056b ca0b 4000 4006 3101 ceaa 0f11 E..k..@.@.1..... 0x0010: 4624 16a1 006e eb15 d845 fe0c 7ee7 2a9b F$...n...E..~.*. 0x0020: 5018 16d0 3fde 0000 2b4f 4b20 3133 3237 P...?...+OK.1327 0x0030: 206f 6374 6574 730d 0a52 6574 7572 6e2d .octets..Return- 0x0040: 5061 7468 3a20 3c68 7469 3935 6b67 6576 Path:.<hti95kgev 0x0050: 4072 @r 10:51:35.416549 IP mailserver.pop3 > customer.60181: P 1633:2980(1347) ack 48 win 5840 0x0000: 4500 056b ca0d 4000 4006 30ff ceaa 0f11 E..k..@.@.0..... 0x0010: 4624 16a1 006e eb15 d845 fe0c 7ee7 2a9b F$...n...E..~.*. 0x0020: 5018 16d0 3fde 0000 2b4f 4b20 3133 3237 P...?...+OK.1327 0x0030: 206f 6374 6574 730d 0a52 6574 7572 6e2d .octets..Return- 0x0040: 5061 7468 3a20 3c68 7469 3935 6b67 6576 Path:.<hti95kgev 0x0050: 4072 @r 10:51:35.470688 IP customer.60181 > mailserver.pop3: F 48:48(0) ack 2980 win 64188 0x0000: 4500 0028 d329 4000 7106 fc25 4624 16a1 E..(.)@.q..%F$.. 0x0010: ceaa 0f11 eb15 006e 7ee7 2a9b d846 034f .......n~.*..F.O 0x0020: 5011 fabc 09fa 0000 0000 0000 0000 P............. 10:51:35.470997 IP mailserver.pop3 > customer.60181: F 2980:2980(0) ack 49 win 5840 0x0000: 4500 0028 ca0f 4000 4006 3640 ceaa 0f11 E..(..@.@.6@.... 0x0010: 4624 16a1 006e eb15 d846 034f 7ee7 2a9c F$...n...F.O~.*. 0x0020: 5011 16d0 ede5 0000 P....... 10:51:35.515279 IP customer.60181 > mailserver.pop3: . ack 2981 win 64188 0x0000: 4500 0028 d32e 4000 7106 fc20 4624 16a1 E..(..@.q...F$.. 0x0010: ceaa 0f11 eb15 006e 7ee7 2a9c d846 0350 .......n~.*..F.P 0x0020: 5010 fabc 09f9 0000 0000 0000 0000 P............. That's all, the connection is closed. Ken A Pacific.Net

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[Dovecot] Recommended FS for Dovecot Maildir
by Daniel Watts 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hi, I've heard that for Dovecot/Mailir systems there are filesystems that are optimised for the situation of many small files in one folder. Could I possibly have some feedback on what the recommended filesystems are? I've heard of ReiserFS but was wondering what other options there are and how they compare. If I get a good comprehensive response I'll build a wiki summary page out of the data gathered. Best wishes, Daniel

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[Dovecot] Re: Recommended FS for Dovecot Maildir
by Roger Weeks 10 May '06

10 May '06

> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 00:24:23 +0100 > From: Daniel Watts <d(a)nielwatts.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Recommended FS for Dovecot Maildir > To: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> > > Can you remember any general findings? > > Thanks to all for responding in this thread - I am reading them all > and > making notes. All very useful information. > > Can I phrase the question in a different way? Of those of you who are > running 10,000+ user system - what FS do you use? > Or do you all use special file servers (netapps, emc etc?) with > proprietary filesystems? > > Daniel We're probably right at your 10000 user threshold, but we're an ISP so we get a LOT of mail traffic. Our mail system consists of dual exim servers processing incoming mail, writing to maildirs on a home- built NFS system. The home-built system is a dual-xeon machine with lots of SATA disks in a RAID5. We then have two client-facing machines running dovecot and squirrelmail. These are all SuperMicro servers running RedHat ES 4. They all use SATA disks. We are using EXT3 for the RAID5 filesystem, and I have had no performance issues to speak of. I had considered Reiser or xfs, but as I have limited experience with either filesystem I didn't feel comfortable using them in production. -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network

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[Dovecot] Debugging with strace
by Fran Fabrizio 10 May '06

10 May '06

We have a dovecot install that is working fine for everyone except one user, who complains that it takes a minute or longer to delete a single message from the INBOX to Trash. This is happening for him from multiple IMAP clients so it appears to be server-side. I wanted to start up a test instance of dovecot alongside the production one and test there. So I copied dovecot.conf, put imap on port 10143, and started up the test server like this: # strace -tt dovecot -F -c /etc/dovecottest.conf (I could not find the docs for -F but without it dovecot would quickly detatch into a daemon and I could no longer strace it... so is -F for putting dovecot in the foreground like I think? :-) I noticed two things when I did this: 1. My screen just scrolled continuously with poll calls - does dovecot poll something every second even when it has no clients connected? 2. It appeared to interfere with the production install running alongside of it - as I could no longer authenticate to it or copy messages to my Sent folder when I sent something out through the production dovecot. I had to restart the production instance to get it to behave. So my questions are whether all that polling output is normal and also, is my testing method really interfering with the production server, and if so, how to avoid that? Thanks, Fran -- 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] moving from postfix+dovecot to postfix+dovecot+postfixadmin+mysql
by albi 10 May '06

10 May '06

hi, i know this is not really a dovecot-question, but (after searching for hours and hours) here goes : last week i've tested a setup with postfixadmin and dovecot, and i'm very happy with the result! it's running on a FreeBSD-server but i've used this howto (which describes the setup for debian) : http://bliki.rimuhosting.com/space/knowledgebase/linux/mail/postfixadmin+on… big question is : how can i convert the already existing passwords from the mail-users to the mysql-based auth in postfixadmin/dovecot ------------------------------------------ thanks for having dovecot available, it's great to work with ! :) -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import

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[Dovecot] managesieve daemon
by Gerald Dachs 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hi, I am currently working on a managesieve daemon, so that I can use the squirrelmail plugin avelsieve together with dovecot-lda. Without this I can't migrate from cyrus to dovecot. For several reasons I don't use the timsieved from cyrus and build it from scratch. Is this interesting for somebody else? Gerald

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[Dovecot] Imap folders missing after updating
by Fred Harris 10 May '06

10 May '06

I just updated from 0.99.14 to 1.0beta2 on FC5 and my my IMAP folders have mainly disappeared in my Thunderbird client. All that's left is Inbox and Trash. Is there some configuration setting that's now necessary to make the server think an account uses IMAP folders? The way it seemed to work before was that the presense of a Maildir directory in a user's home indicated IMAP. The new server seems to read the Maildir directory but it doesn't recognize all the folders. Thanks. --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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[Dovecot] SIEVE: Any information at all?
by Leah Cunningham 09 May '06

09 May '06

Hi, I am quickly losing the will to live over the lack of any kind of information at all about the SIEVE support that is listed in the dovecot features list. Does anyone have any information at all? I've grepped through the source, looked through all the configuration files, and googled a fair bit and come up with nothing at all. How would a user with maildir enable a sieve script? Does it run on port 2000? How can I test functionality? Thanks, Leah

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[Dovecot] auth: pam_setcred() failed: Error in service module
by Martin Stockinger 09 May '06

09 May '06

Hi, I have a strange problem with authentication. Some users can successfully authenticate and some users can not authenticate. All users use the same client (thunderbird-1.5.0.2-win32-de). At the problematic users i get the following error message: ============ snip =================== auth(default): client in: AUTH 8 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=10.24.1.6 rip=10.211.11.1 auth(default): client out: CONT 8 auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> auth(default): pam(pgerlesb,10.211.11.1): pam_setcred() failed: Error in service module auth(default): client out: FAIL 8 user=pgerlesb auth(default): client in: AUTH 9 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=10.24.1.6 rip=10.211.11.1 resp=<hidden> auth(default): pam(pgerlesb,10.211.11.1): pam_setcred() failed: Error in service module auth(default): client out: FAIL 9 user=pgerlesb imap-login: Aborted login: user=<pgerlesb>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.211.11.1, lip=10.24.1.6, TLS ============ snap =================== The username and password is right. I can "su - <username>" at the dovecot host with the same password. Some other users can authenticate without any problems. I have set in dovecot.conf: auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = "*" } userdb passwd { } } I have configured PAM to do the authentication against Kerberos5. The user data come from an LDAP directory. What could be the problem? Thanks Martin Stockinger

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[Dovecot] Encrypted IMAP only from Internet, unencrypted POP3 from internal network
by Rainer Frey 09 May '06

09 May '06

Hi, we have following situation: I migrated our company mailserver from POP3 only to dovecot with IMAP and POP. We need to have unencrypted POP3 from our internal network, and the subnet our mailserver is in. Additionally, we now want to allow encrypted IMAP from the internet (for some defined accounts), preferably with TLS (which means I open Port 143 in our firewall). Now, how can I achieve that they can't use unencrypted plaintext authentication from Internet, while I allow unencrypted POP3 from the mailserver and private network? (I can require using encryption for IMAP from our internal net, but I must have unencrypted POP3 as we use software that retrieves mail via POP3 that doesn't support encryption). My idea was: - use disable_plaintext_auth for IMAP only - use disable_plaintext_auth for internet, but not our networks - allow connection from the internet only for certain accounts, and limit them to use encryption Internet access for POP3 is not necessary. Is any of this possible with dovecot? Or another way to achieve my goal? Non-plaintext authentication is not possible, as we use linux system accounts with shadow passwords. TIA Rainer Frey -- Software Development ------------------------------------------------------ Inxmail GmbH

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Re: [Dovecot] Imap folders missing after updating
by Mark E. Mallett 09 May '06

09 May '06

> LOL, there are only about a billion web pages that are "2 clicks" from > the front page of any site. True if you are just wandering around willy-nilly. It's not like it's tacked up on a pole on Alpha Centauri. I was opining that "Documentation" -> "Upgrading" is pretty easy to find, and not at all in line with "undocumented configuration changes." Come to think of it, it's only one click away from where the README tells you to look. But you do have to look, and care to look. Me, I was grateful that it was there; it didn't have to be. > This is why people still stay in the MS heard. Any number of problems > like this would cost most companies thousands of dollars to resolve. > It's much cheaper just to pay a company like MS who take upgrade > transitions seriously. Not gonna touch that. And true transition starts from within :) People won't bite too hard if you ask, either. Nip, maybe. mm (who obviously should be working)

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[Dovecot] ssl-build-param
by Jackie Hunt 08 May '06

08 May '06

Hi all, I'm trying to get dovecot up and running on an AIX 5.2 system with openssl 0.9.8a. Everything compiles fine, but when I start dovecot I find in the log: dovecot: May 08 13:39:14 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta7 starting up dovecot: May 08 13:39:14 Info: Generating Diffie-Hellman parameters for the first time. This may take a while.. dovecot: May 08 13:39:14 Error: ssl-build-param: Trying to allocate 0 bytes dovecot: May 08 13:39:14 Error: child 18998 (ssl-build-param) killed with signal 6 I searched the archives of the mailing list and didn't have any luck. Any help would be created appreciated. Please reply directly to me as well as the list. Thanks much! Jackie --- Jackie Hunt ACNS Voice: (970) 663-3789 Colorado State University FAX: (970) 491-1958 Fort Collins, CO 80523 Email: jackie.hunt(a)colostate.edu

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[Dovecot] Unrecognized event: kevent
by Dillon 08 May '06

08 May '06

Hey guys, I just subscribed to the list about 15 minutes ago so i apologize in advance if this is something that has already been discussed. I skimmed through the web archives and I didn't see anything. I'm running FreeBSD/amd64 and after upgrading from 1.0b3 to 1.0b7 I am experiencing the following May 8 13:18:22 loveturtle dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<turtle>, method=plain, rip=216.89.228.116, lip=216.91.90.11, TLS May 8 13:18:22 loveturtle dovecot: IMAP(turtle): Unrecognized event: kevent {.ident = 2, .filter = 0xfffffffe, .flags = 0x0000, .fflags = 0x00000000, .data = 0x00004000} May 8 13:18:22 loveturtle dovecot: child 32279 (imap) killed with signal 6 Immediately after this imap respawns and then prints this again and crashes. it happens about three or four times a second until i shut down dovecot. I reverted back to 1.0b3 and everything is happy again. Cheers, Dillon

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[Dovecot] kevent error (1.0.b7) - Is this a FreeBSD-only problem?
by Odhiambo WASHINGTON 08 May '06

08 May '06

Hello everyone, The problem below has been reported, but I did not see any response! <cut> | | I'm also seeing this bug while testing the forthcoming 1.0.b7 FreeBSD | | port under 6.1-PRERELEASE: | | | | Info: imap-login: Login: user=<wibble>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.0.2, | | lip=10.0.0.2, TLS | | dovecot: Error: IMAP(isometry): Unrecognized event: kevent {.ident = | | 2, .filter = 0xfffffffe, .flags = 0x0001, .fflags = 0x00000000, .data | | = 0x00004000} | | dovecot: Error: child 7254 (imap) killed with signal 6 </cut> So, I am wondering if this a problem applying only to FreeBSD. When I downgrade to beta5, this problem is not there at all!! -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash(a)wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ On-line, adj.: The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer.

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[Dovecot] Problem with "INDEX" in default_mail_env, and pop3
by Andrea Dell'Amico 08 May '06

08 May '06

Hello all, I've a problem with maildir, pop3 and relocated indexes. My configuration is: default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dovecot/index/% u:CONTROL=/var/dovecot/control/%u I created the "/var/dovecot/{index,control}/%u" directories, each one have rights 700 and the ownership is assigned to the user. When the pop clients connect, they fail with the error dovecot: POP3(<username>): mkdir(/var/dovecot/index/<username>/.INBOX) failed: Permission denied I'm using dovecot 1.0.beta7, authentication is pam. I'm using the following settings, too: valid_chroot_dirs = /home:/var/spool/mail:/var/dovecot/index:/var/dovecot/control (last two directories added when i changed the "default_mail_env" setting). Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong? I need to move indexes in a file system without quota. Thanks in advance, andrea -- "Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!" - Terry Bisson <http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html>

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[Dovecot] Maildir folder hierarchy question
by Richard Leszczynski 08 May '06

08 May '06

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

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[Dovecot] CVS forked into development/stable branches
by Timo Sirainen 08 May '06

08 May '06

New branch created to CVS: branch_1_0 It's going to stabilize into v1.0 Dovecot, hopefully somewhat soon. I'll start adding new larger features into HEAD, so you might want to switch to branch_1_0 if you're currently using Dovecot from CVS. You can do this with: cvs up -r branch_1_0 The nightly snapshots are from branch_1_0, at least for now.

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[Dovecot] different login_greeting for pop3 & imap?
by Geert Hendrickx 08 May '06

08 May '06

Hi, I have a tiny feature request for Dovecot: could it optionally have different login_greetings for pop3 and imap connections? e.g. I want it to say "Dovecot on pop.mycompany.com ready" on pop3 connections and "Dovecot on imap.mycompany.com ready" on imap connections. Would that be possible? TIA, Geert

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[Dovecot] configuring dovecot-lda takes forever...
by Joseba Torre 08 May '06

08 May '06

Hi, I want to try dovecot-lda, but the ./configure doesn't seem to finish... I've followed the installation instructions: cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dovecot.org:/home/cvs co dovecot-lda cd dovecot-lda/ ./autogen.sh ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot (dovecot source tree -from cvs- is in ../dovecot) Everything seems to go ok but the message config.status: creating Makefile never ends. The problem seems to be in this process: sed -f ./confstatn25334/subs-3.sed (i can attach the file if needed). Any hint? Aaaaaaaaaaagur.

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[Dovecot] dovecot error: unrecognized event
by dovecot＠bengrimm.net 07 May '06

07 May '06

If you're using the FreeBSD port: Go to /usr/ports/mail/dovecot Edit Makefile Find the line: .if !defined(WITHOUT_KQUEUE) Change it into: .if defined(WITH_KQUEUE) Then: make deinstall && make install Worked for me.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot EOF bug on FreeBSD 6.0
by Matt Bostock 06 May '06

06 May '06

Hello, We're running Dovecot 1.0.7 on FreeBSD 6.0. Now and then I'll see a POP error ('EOF'), which is remedied simply by restarting Dovecot. Is this a known issue? Kind regards, Matt

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[Dovecot] rebuilding dovecot 1.0 beta7 at.src.rpm mysql error
by dave 06 May '06

06 May '06

hi all i'm trying to rebuild the 1.0 beta 7 src rpm from atrpms.net to use mysql 5, instead of mysql 4 but i'm having issues when it gets to the mysql part of the make i have mysql 5 installed (via mysql.com rpm's) i changed the spec file where it says Buildrequires to say MySQL-devel (instead of mysql-devel) but it always comes back with this error, and i don't know what it means, i also tried leaving it as mysql-devel, but still get the same error when i run rpmbuild -ba dovecot.spec && rpm -Uvh --force ../RPMS/i386/dovecot* am i doing this completely wrong, is there something else i need to do to be able to use mysql 5? /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x60): In function `sha1_result': : multiple definition of `sha1_result' ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x8e7):/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib/sha1.c:233: first defined here /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `sha1_result' changed from 191 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) to 126 in /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7' make: *** [all] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.84952 (%build) thanks dave -- http://dtracorp.com

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[Dovecot] Sending email over IMAP?
by Marc Perkel 06 May '06

06 May '06

I'm advocating for a change in the IMAP specification to allow outgoing email to be sent over the same connection as incoming rather that having to separately configure outgoing SMTP email. There are two significant advantages to this concept. 1) It would greatly simplify setup for clients as they would only have to configure one connection rather than two. 2) Spam reduction by authentication. The sending of email over the same connection tells the server that the person who is the sender of the email also has demonstrated they have access to read the account. This would be a powerful whitelisting criteria for eliminating fake senders. So - my question. It seems that it would be easy to do this if there were a standard. Dovecot would merely hand incoming email off to the outgoing SMTP server. Besides the difficulty of getting a standard created, am I right on my assumptions?

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[Dovecot] UID and GID problems
by Simon Windsor 06 May '06

06 May '06

Hi I have been using dovecot for a while now to support a number of virtual users via a postgres table. The dovecot user chown is dovecot:dovecot, and for each domain, I use a single GID, so for example domain1 is 1001:dovecot, domain2 is 2001:dovecot. All directories are owned by 1001:dovecot or 2001:dovecot. The works well most of the time, but occasionally, some user files are owned by dovecot:dovecot, and others by gid:dovecot. Is this a know issue? Any help would be appreciated. Simon -- Simon Windsor Eml: simon.windsor(a)cornfield.org.uk Tel: 01454 617689 Mob: 07960 321599

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[Dovecot] dovecot LDA w/virtual domains and postfix
by Leah Cunningham 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, I've been trying to follow the documentation that I am finding, but am running into trouble getting things set up correctly for postfix + virtual domains (using ldap) with dovecot LDA. I can get it to work without LDA, but I'm running into permissions problems when I try to run with LDA. I am wondering if anyone has any good examples of configuring this. I basically have a 'vmail' user (1015) that owns a /var/vmail/domains directory tree. I have set the following in postfix master.cf: # Dovecot LDA dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:mail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} In main.cf dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 virtual_transport = dovecot virtual_mailbox_base = /var/vmail/domains virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-mailbox.cf virtual_mailbox_domains = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-vdoms.cf virtual_uid_maps = static:1015 virtual_gid_maps = static:12 home_mailbox = Maildir/ and in dovecot.conf: protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/sauerkraut.heinous.org.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/sauerkraut.heinous.org.key mail_extra_groups = mail valid_chroot_dirs = /var/vmail/domains default_mail_env = maildir:/var/vmail/domains/%d/%n/mail protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)frauerpower.com } protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = root } auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail group = mail } } } plugin { } However, I must be missing something. I get the following when trying to send the user a message: setuid(1015) failed: Operation not permitted Doing 'postmap -q leah(a)frauerpower.com ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-mailbox.cf' returns 'frauerpower.com/leah/mail/' which, in the non LDA mode worked okay, plonking the mail under /var/vmail/domains/frauerpower.com/leah/mail How is this sort of thing normally set up? Apologies in advance for my ignorance, I am pretty new to dovecot. Leah

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Saving Direct to Shared Mailbox (Was: Re: [Dovecot] Sending email over IMAP?)
by Timothy White 05 May '06

05 May '06

Thinking along similar lines to this sending email via IMAP... What I am thinking, is using Shared Folders/Mailbox's, like mailing lists. We have the power of ACL's, and if you have the appropriate permissions, you can 'append' emails to the folder. Except, when you think of a mailing list, you usually just hit reply. One of the projects I am working on, will be setup with a number of shared folders, an 'official' folder that everyone has read access to, (probably thier own index files as well, so the Seen flag isn't global), and a few admins have write access to. The problem still comes, as to the easiest way to 'send emails' to the folder. I could set up a virtual user, that delivers to that folder, but then you need a second system of ACL's that determine who can send emails to the folder.... Unless, Dovecot LDA handles that.... So, other than lack of client support for saving directly to a folder, instead of sending to a folder... Can Dovecot LDA do what I want, or be made to do what I want? I have no problems having a 'virtual' user that people send the emails to, as long as Dovecot LDA will handle the ACL's for it as well. Any ideas of how to solve this problem, or if Dovecot LDA can/will do it? Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Bug in yesterday's CVS..
by Apps Lists 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi Timo. I'm doing some testing with yesterday's CVS code and believe I've found a bug. In SquirrelMail, I get 5 messages in INBOX (doesn't matter how). I click "Toggle All" then "Delete". All 5 messages move to Trash. The Trash folder gets a link "expunge". I click that and get the following error: ERROR : Bad or malformed request. Query:STORE 1:6 +FLAGS (\Deleted) Server responded: Error in IMAP command STORE: Invalid messageset There are 5 messages in Trash, not 6. After this error is displayed, I see the following in syslog: May 2 09:37:24 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Fixed index file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot.index: first_recent_uid_lowwater 10 -> 9 (this might not actually be the right message for the error, but it's always first_recent_uid_lowwater getting decremented by 1) If I hit refresh in the browser, I can then click Expunge without issue once first_recent_uid_lowwater is fixed. I am able to replicate this easily in NFS, GFS (cluster) and local disk. Steve

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[Dovecot] dovecot LDA w/virtual domains and postfix
by Leah Cunningham 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, I am running into trouble getting things set up correctly for postfix + virtual domains (using ldap) with dovecot LDA. I can get it to work without LDA, but I'm running into permissions problems when I try to run with LDA. I am wondering if anyone has any good examples of configuring this. It would seem that we can't deliver in setuid mode, even though the documentation seemed to indicate that we can. I basically have a 'vmail' user (1015) that owns a /var/vmail/domains directory tree. I have set the following in postfix master.cf: # Dovecot LDA dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:mail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} In main.cf dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 virtual_transport = dovecot virtual_mailbox_base = /var/vmail/domains virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-mailbox.cf virtual_mailbox_domains = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-vdoms.cf virtual_uid_maps = static:1015 virtual_gid_maps = static:12 home_mailbox = Maildir/ and in dovecot.conf: protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/sauerkraut.heinous.org.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/sauerkraut.heinous.org.key mail_extra_groups = mail valid_chroot_dirs = /var/vmail/domains default_mail_env = maildir:/var/vmail/domains/%d/%n/mail protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)frauerpower.com } protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = root } auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail group = mail } } } plugin { } However, I must be missing something. I get the following when trying to send the user a message: May 5 10:42:48 sauerkraut deliver: setuid(1015) failed: Operation not permitted May 5 10:42:48 sauerkraut postfix/pipe[28978]: ECD7FF5E: to=<leah(a)frauerpower.com>, orig_to=<root(a)oogabooga.heinous.org>, relay=dovecot, delay=1, status=bounced (Command died with status 89: "/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver") Doing 'postmap -q leah(a)frauerpower.com ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-mailbox.cf' returns 'frauerpower.com/leah/mail/' which, in the non LDA mode worked okay, plonking the mail under /var/vmail/domains/frauerpower.com/leah/mail How is this sort of thing normally set up? Apologies in advance for my ignorance, I am pretty new to dovecot. Leah

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[Dovecot] greetings and logging
by Edward Chase 05 May '06

05 May '06

Howdy, I've been working with a new CentOS installation and this is my first experience with dovecot. I would like dovecot to provide more logging, however I'm not finding much on how to alter it's logging. http://wiki.dovecot.org/DovecotFeatures speaks of having Logging Control. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks. -- Edward Chase Providence College Information Technology

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[Dovecot] statfs() error message
by John Wong 05 May '06

05 May '06

i use openbsd/i386, dovecot-1.0b7 i see the error message in maillog dovecot: statfs(mail/username) failed: No such file or directory i guess the statfs() can not find the directory, because i run dovecot-imap in chroot userdb static { args = uid=34567 gid=34567 home=/var/./mail } i am sure, i have this directory "/var/mail/username", and i add "nfs_check = no" to dovecot.conf, the error message will gone

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[Dovecot] .imap locaction
by Obantec Support 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi is it possible to have the .imap directory and sub-directory located under the same directory as mbox users. i.e /var/spool/mail/%u is where mbox files are i would like to use /var/spool/maildir/%u/.imap reason being i do not want my users /home/username used for anything otherthan their website. how big do the files under .imap get? Mark

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[Dovecot] sigsev with postfix + dovecot SASL
by Udo Rader 05 May '06

05 May '06

hi, I am just playing a bit with the dovecot SASL plugin for postfix and so far my tests have been very successfull, can't wait to get the cyrus-sasl beast replaced. However, I found a potential problem when doing some "illegal" stuff on the postfix side: -------CUT------- cerberus:/var/log# telnet smtptest 25 Trying 192.168.99.99... Connected to smtptest.bestsolution.at. Escape character is '^]'. 220 smtptest.bestsolution.at ESMTP Postfix (bestsolution.at GmbH) EHLO localhost 250-smtptest.bestsolution.at 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 51200000 250-ETRN 250-AUTH PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 250-AUTH=PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN AUTH somestring 535 5.7.0 Error: authentication failed: Connection lost to authentication server -------CUT------- dovecot logs this: -------CUT------- dovecot: Apr 27 10:27:36 Error: auth(default): BUG: Authentication client 4315 requested unsupported authentication mechanism somestring dovecot: Apr 27 10:27:36 Error: child 445 (auth) killed with signal 11 -------CUT------- I am very aware that "AUTH somestring" is not valid in the given context, but dovecot should not sigsev IMO. dovecot is 1.0-beta7. regards Udo Rader b e s t s o l u t i o n . a t EDV Systemhaus GmbH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ udo rader technischer leiter/CTO mobile +43 660 5263642 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eduard-bodem-gasse 8/3 A-6020 innsbruck fax +43 512 935833 http://www.bestsolution.at phone +43 512 935834

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[Dovecot] auth-request.c: assertion failed: (*name != '\0')
by Tom Sommer 05 May '06

05 May '06

I upgraded to beta7 from alpha4, and got this error during the auth process: dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=0.0.0.0 rip=0.0.0.0 resp=<hidden> dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(webmaster(a)example.com,0.0.0.0): query: SELECT username as user, NULL as password FROM users WHERE username = 'webmaster(a)example.com' AND password = PASSWORD('mypassword') dovecot: auth(default): file auth-request.c: line 723 (auth_request_set_field): assertion failed: (*name != '\0') dovecot: child 8552 (auth) killed with signal 6 My SQL conf: password_query = SELECT username as user, NULL as password FROM users WHERE username = '%u' AND password = PASSWORD('%w') as advised in a previous discussion in this list Regards -- Tom Sommer

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[Dovecot] maildir format
by DINH Viêt Hoà 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hello Timo and other dovecot-dev or users, It looks like Dovecot accepts (with APPEND command) messages that begins with 'From[SPACE]' line, which are not valid from RFC 2822 point of view. Additionnally, Dovecot will store them as they are APPENDed, I mean with the starting 'From[SPACE]' line, which generates a bad Maildir format. http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html states the following : << Each file in new is a newly delivered mail message. The modification time of the file is the delivery date of the message. The message is delivered without an extra UUCP- style From_ line, without any >From quoting, and without an extra blank line at the end. The message is normally in RFC 822 format, starting with a Return-Path line and a Delivered-To line, but it could contain arbitrary binary data. It might not even end with a newline. >> -- DINH Viêt Hoà

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[Dovecot] Solution: NFS & Dovecot!
by Apps Lists 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi folks! It looks like Timo nailed down the NFS issues we've been seeing here in last night's CVS build. Anyone running Dovecot in a high-usage environment should check this out. Here are some relevant ChangeLog updates that seem to address the problem: 2006-05-02 11:11 Timo Sirainen <timo.sirainen(a)movial.fi> * src/lib-storage/index/maildir/: maildir-save.c, maildir-storage.h, maildir-sync.c, maildir-uidlist.c, maildir-uidlist.h: Adding mail to index while saving it had a race condition. Fixing it required a bit larger changes. Switched uidlist/index locking order so that uidlist is now locked first. 2006-05-02 11:04 Timo Sirainen <timo.sirainen(a)movial.fi> * src/lib-index/: mail-index-private.h, mail-index-sync-update.c, mail-index.c: mmap_disable: When syncing in-memory index from transaction log, we didn't skip external transactions which were already been in our in-memory mapping, causing "Append with UID n, but next_uid = m" errors. The build is available here: http://dovecot.org/nightly/dovecot-20060503.tar.gz Thus far, I've seen no complaints of corrupted indexes or core dumps. This is absolutely fantastic. As always... hats off to Timo. Great work! Steve

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[Dovecot] "fchown() failed with file" and Operation not permitted with indexes
by Gavin Henry 05 May '06

05 May '06

Dear all, Getting lots of these errors in our maillog with the INDEX changed: dovecot: IMAP(ghenry): fchown() failed with file /home/ghenry/Maildir/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp: Operation not permitted For .log and .cache as well. We have: location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/index I looked in safe-mkdir.c and saw: fchown() failed for (line 42) to change the owner first, so don't know why we are getting this error? Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] dovecot LDA and pop3 session lock question
by Ken A 05 May '06

05 May '06

If pop3_lock_session = yes, how does Dovecot LDA handle the situation when the pop3 mbox is locked? Does it requeue mail for later delivery immediately (EX_TEMPFAIL), or wait until mbox_lock_timeout? Thanks, Ken A. Pacific.Net

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[Dovecot] Problems with Dovecot 1.0 beta7 rpm form atrpm for RHEL4
by Oliver Schulze L. 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, I just want to install dovecot 1.0 beta7 from atrpm and noted that it depends on a non official dependency. If you have RHEL4 (Centos) 4.3 fully updated and you try to install: http://dl.atrpms.net/all/dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.i386.rpm You get this error: # rpm -ivh dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: openssl >= 0.9.7f-4 is needed by dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.i386 The lates official openssl version for RHEL 4.3 is: # rpm -q openssl openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 I think I can solve this problem by compiling the src.rpm, but I get this error: # rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 --clean dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.src.rpm Installing /opt/shares/tmp/dovecot-1.0-0_10.99.beta7.el4.at.src.rpm Building target platforms: i686 Building for target i686 error: line 4: Tag takes single token only: Release: 0_%atrelease 10.99.beta7 How can I compile the .src.rpm from atrpm? It seems that there is an error in the spec file: This line: Release: 0_%atrelease 10.99.beta7 should it looks like this: Release: 0_%{atrelease}10.99.beta7 Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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[Dovecot] support for no modules, patch
by Jens Laas 05 May '06

05 May '06

--- src/lib/module-dir.c~ 2006-02-26 13:14:12.000000000 +0100 +++ src/lib/module-dir.c 2006-05-05 11:09:11.000000000 +0200 @@ -255,8 +255,8 @@ } #else - struct module *module_dir_load(const char *dir __attr_unused__, + const char *module_names __attr_unused__, bool require_init_funcs __attr_unused__) { i_error("Dynamically loadable module support not built in"); ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Old C programmers don't die ... they're just cast into void*' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jens Låås Email: jens.laas(a)data.slu.se Department of Computer Services, SLU Phone: +46 18 67 35 15 Vindbrovägen 1 P.O. Box 7079 S-750 07 Uppsala SWEDEN -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] running only the dovecot-auth service
by Udo Rader 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, we are just testing postfix 2.3 in combination with its new dovecot SASL plugin. Now what we would like to have was dovecot SASL without acutally running dovecot ... The reason for this is because we have the "real" dovecot running on a different server than the postfix instance and it would be nice if it would not be necessary running an "full" dovecot on that server for only SASL support. So is it possible to start only the "dovecot-auth" part of dovecot? Another idea that I had was to export the created auth socket via nfs. Somewhere, sometimes I think to have read that it was possible to use unix domain sockets over nfs mounted shares, but I am not sure about this (and have failed so far). Udo Rader -- bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at

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[Dovecot] Bug in new mail-index-transaction.c
by Bill Boebel 04 May '06

04 May '06

These changes apparently broke something: > 2006-04-24 09:17 Timo Sirainen <timo.sirainen(a)movial.fi> > > * src/lib-index/mail-index-transaction.c: Fixed crash while > updating keywords (broken by recent changes). > > 2006-04-20 14:10 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > > * src/lib-index/mail-index-transaction.c: If we sorted appended > messages, we weren't sorting extensions and keywords so they were > mapped to wrong messages (dbox-only problem, keywords not yet > fixed by this change). What I am seeing is when there are messages that have keywords set, Dovecot occasionally hangs while building the index and/or uidlist. It leaves a lock file "dovecot-uidlist.lock" around and the IMAP process reading that folder never completes successfully. To fix it, I have have to rename the message files to remove the keyword. For example: $ mv 1146246349.P365Q2.mail1b.r1.iad.emailsrvr.com:2,Sa 1146246349.P365Q2.mail1b.r1.iad.emailsrvr.com:2,S I reverted back to the copy of src/lib-index/mail-index-transaction.c from the 4/14/2006 CVS snapshot, and this problem completely went away. And mailboxes that were encountering the .lock problem suddenly worked again. If there is any additional information that you need in order to troubleshoot this bug, please let me know and I'll be happy to send it. Bill

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Re: [Dovecot] Expunge is not expunging unless it is called twice
by Bill Boebel 03 May '06

03 May '06

On Tue, May 2, 2006 18:21, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > > Dovecot is requiring two "expunge" calls before it deletes an email. It just >> seems to ignore the first expunge call, leaving the email file in the maildir cur/ >> folder. Any idea why? I even waited 10 seconds after setting the Deleted flag, >> but still the first expunge call did nothing.... > > Fixed now. > I have tested this and works now. Thanks, Bill

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[Dovecot] help server crash
by Luis Atala 03 May '06

03 May '06

chek this out how can i fix this pple? http://channels.debian.net/paste/2475 http://channels.debian.net/paste/2476 pls i need help

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[Dovecot] dovecot, procmail, postfix & SpamAssassin working together
by Paul Matthews 03 May '06

03 May '06

Hi there, i'm trying to get dovecot, procmail, postfix & SpamAssassin working together http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=441062 But i'm not having a lot of luck, a question about dovecot, what kind of mail box am i using? mbox? if so does anyone know if procmail can use mbox? /etc/dovecot.conf protocols = imap pop3 imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] imaps_listen = pop3s_listen = log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login = imap login = pop3 default_mail_env = mbox:/home/CATHEDRAL/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root -- Paul Matthews I.T Trainee | The Cathedral School Ph (07) 47222 194 | Fax (07) 47222 111 PO Box 944 Aitkenvale Q 4814 E: paul.matthews(a)cathedral.qld.edu.au W: www.cathedral.qld.edu.au Anglican coeducation | Day and Boarding | Early Childhood to Year 12 Educating for life-long success **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** *********************************** IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY This electronic email message is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that any transmission, distribution or photocopying of this email is strictly prohibited. The confidentiality attached to this email is not waived, lost or destroyed by reasons of a mistaken delivery to you.

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Re: [Dovecot] FreeBSD 6 - DirectAdmin - dovecot
by Floris van den Berg 03 May '06

03 May '06

Jim Trigg schreef: > On Tue, May 2, 2006 1:27 pm, Floris van den Berg wrote: > >> Jim Trigg schreef: >> >>> On Tue, May 2, 2006 10:45 am, Floris van den Berg wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Jim Trigg schreef: >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Tue, May 2, 2006 1:15 am, Floris van den Berg wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Since version 1.0 I experience strange problems with dovecot. At the >>>>>> moment I have beta 7 installed. I use FreeBSD 6.0. >>>>>> >>>>>> * Pop3 works >>>>>> * Imap works, but only when i telnet to localhost >>>>>> * In all other cases I can't connect to the server. Tried with >>>>>> squirrelmail, uebimau and thunderbird. Squirrelmail after a long >>>>>> time >>>>>> waiting: "ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server." >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> What happens if you try to telnet to the imap port other than >>>>> localhost? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Hi, that works too. It didn't work before because i didn't properly >>>> disable the firewall. >>>> >>>> >>> Do the mail clients work now, then, or do we need to keep >>> troubleshooting? >>> >>> >> Webmail still doesn't work. Other clients however do work. >> I still have no clue what's wrong :( >> > > Actually, here are all of my imap-related entries from Squirrelmail's > config.php -- what is different in your setup? > > $imapServerAddress = 'localhost'; > $imapPort = 143; > $imap_server_type = 'other'; > $imap_auth_mech = 'login'; > $use_imap_tls = false; > No difference. It's getting weirder and weirder. 1) imap works fine when i connect to this dovecot from a remote client (e.g. thunderbird or scripts provided above) 2) everything works fine when i use the troubled box and connect to a remote dovecot server, using telnet and the scripts provided above. 3) the scripts above do work when used with localhost but they are extremely slow. It takes about 1,5 to 2 minutes to complete just to perform a login/logout sequence. Seems to be something wrong with connecting to localhost on that port. Can't pinpoint what it is. Oh by the way, results do not differ when the firewall is enabled or disabled. Floris

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-1.0.beta7 Build Fedora 3 Error REMOVE
by Luke Jackson 03 May '06

03 May '06

Sorry about the double post and I did search google but it didn't provide me with the information i needed. You can delete the last 2 posts I was forced to use google as I was not receving emails from the list at ljackson at luteck.com Thanks for your help hope to be more informed next time I post. -Luke

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-1.0.beta7 Build Fedora 3 Error
by Luke Jackson 03 May '06

03 May '06

Hello I'm attempting to configure Dovecot with mysql support so I'm able to have a single database of users and point both postfix and dovecot to this db. I currently have an rpm src that I have download and placed in my RPMBUILDROOT of my linux box. Next I configured the .spec file and attempted to run a rpmbuild -bb Near the end of the install phase I receive an error which has me stumped. I ran rpmbuild again and used the -bi --short-circuit options and logged the output for you to see. Any help would be greatly appreciated..... rpmbuild -bi --short-circuit dovecot-fc5.spec Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.44599 Making install in src make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src' Making install in lib make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib' Making install in lib-dict make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-dict' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-dict' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-dict' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-dict' Making install in lib-sql make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-sql' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-sql' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-sql' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-sql' Making install in lib-ntlm make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-ntlm' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-ntlm' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-ntlm' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-ntlm' Making install in lib-settings make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-settings' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-settings' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-settings' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-settings' Making install in lib-charset make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-charset' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-charset' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-charset' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-charset' Making install in lib-mail make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-mail' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-mail' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-mail' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-mail' Making install in lib-imap make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-imap' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-imap' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-imap' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-imap' Making install in lib-index make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-index' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-index' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-index' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-index' Making install in lib-storage make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage' Making install in index make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage/index' Making install in maildir make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage/index/maildir' make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage/index/maildir' make[5]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[5]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage/index/maildir' make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage/index/maildir' Making install in mbox make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage/index/mbox' make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage/index/mbox' make[5]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[5]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage/index/mbox' make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage/index/mbox' Making install in dbox make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage/index/dbox' make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage/index/dbox' make[5]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. 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Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-auth' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-auth' Making install in auth make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/auth' /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link --tag=CC gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -o dovecot-auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-gssapi.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -lpam -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lresolv -lldap -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lm -export-dynamic -ldl gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -o dovecot-auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-gssapi.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lpam -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lldap -L/usr/lib/mysql /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a -lcrypt -lnsl -lc -lnss_files -lnss_dns -lresolv -lz -lm -ldl make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/auth' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src' RPM build errors: /BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib/sha1.c:233: first defined here /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `sha1_result' changed from 190 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) to 126 in /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.44599 (%install) Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.44599 (%install) Thanks, -m3

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[Dovecot] "0" quota and Maildir++
by Apps Lists 03 May '06

03 May '06

Hi Timo. I saw the "0" quota should be interpreted as unlimited in the ChangeLog from yesterday's snapshot. I just tested and it's still seeing zero as zero. I am unable to append any messages. Can you double-check this feature? Thanks! Steve

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[Dovecot] Unoffical Survey - What MTA/Spam filtering do you use?
by Marc Perkel 03 May '06

03 May '06

I like this unofficial survey of hardware but wondering what MTA and spam filtering everyone is using. I do front end spam filtering for other servers as well. (junkemailfilter.com) I'm using Exim 4.61 SpamAssassin 3.11 Some version of DSpam that I'm experimenting with Most of my spam filtering happens on the Exim level. My mail spam filter server is: AMD 3800 Dual Core Athlon 2 100gb SATA drives 4 gigs ram 64 bit Fedora Core 4 2 backup servers on higher MX recored that are similar configuration.

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[Dovecot] timeout_remove and "Timeout leak" problems
by David Friedlander 03 May '06

03 May '06

Hello, I have run into troubles trying to jump from 1.0alpha5 (basically running smoothly) to 1.0beta5 and/or beta7. I am seeing errors such as the following set for nearly every user. dovecot: May 01 16:21:02 Info: IMAP(joeuser): Disconnected: Logged out dovecot: May 01 16:21:02 Error: IMAP(joeuser): file ioloop.c: line 153 (timeout_remove): assertion failed: (*timeout != NULL) dovecot: May 01 16:21:03 Info: IMAP(joeuser): Disconnected: Logged out dovecot: May 01 16:21:03 Warning: IMAP(joeuser): Timeout leak: 0x111acc dovecot: May 01 16:21:03 Error: child 20607 (imap) killed with signal 6 (INBOX is on local RAID disks while home directory (hence, ~/Maildir) is on a NetApp NFS file server.) While I tweaked settings for the differences between the 1.0a5 conf file and the beta conf file, things are fundamentally the same between them. The other critical element to this is that imap-login sessions are being left around and the load average climbs inexorably. (It reached 50 on this dual dual-core machine before I killed things off and started the daemon from scratch.) This occurs for users using a whole array of clients: Thunderbird, SquirrelMail, Eudora, Apple Mail, etc. How can I track this down or can someone please help me figure out what is happening here? (I have been unable to find answers between the mailing list archives and Google.) Thanks in advance, David P.S. The only item of note from examining ioloop.c was the differences between the alpha and beta source code: alpha5: void timeout_remove(struct timeout *timeout) { i_assert(timeout != NULL); timeout->destroyed = TRUE; } beta7: void timeout_remove(struct timeout **timeout) { i_assert(*timeout != NULL); (*timeout)->destroyed = TRUE; *timeout = NULL; }

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[Dovecot] Re: mail shown throught outlook, shows todays date
by richs＠whidbey.net 03 May '06

03 May '06

> bclark wrote: > > > The interesting thing is, once I have some mail on the dovecot, > the date > > displayed on Mozilla is correct, but the mail shown throught > outlook, > > shows todays date (thats for all mail). > > Each mail has (at least) two dates : the date it was sent (stored > in the > headers), and the date it arrived (in Maildir, the date of the > file). Most > likely, Mozilla and SquirrelMail are showing the date in the > headers, and Outloo > is showing the arrival date. > > This problem has come up a few times, I believe. As I recall, most > mail clients > allow you to select which date to sort by. If you can't find the > option, it may > be somewhere in this list's archives. > > > Almost seems as Outlook (office 2000) looks at the date / time > stamp of > > the file it self as opposed to opening and reading the mail and > reading > > the necassry tags. > > That's my assessment, also. > > > If anyone could help me understand this (is this a dovecot issue), I > > would really appreciate it. > > I don't believe it's a dovecot issue, per se. > > -- > Curtis Maloney > cmaloney <at> cardgate.net I've been testing Dovecot 1.0beta7 to implement IMAP for the first time, and have had a good experience so far. But like Curtis and Brent, I found that Outlook and Outlook Express display "incorrect" dates on messages uploaded via APPEND. That's because they sort messages using INTERNALDATE: wea3 SELECT "Test Folder" pqng UID FETCH 1:* (UID FLAGS RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[HEADER] INTERNALDATE) Some have created scripts to sync file timestamps with "Date" headers, which conflicts with the concept of "INTERNALDATE". Others ask users to add the "Date Sent" column, but those dates are only revealed after a message is viewed. I'd like to propose the attached patch to add an optional "outlook- dates" IMAP workaround, which returns the message "Date:" even when INTERNALDATE is specified. Since "BODY.PEEK" is being called anyway, our tests didn't reveal any performance impact. Can anyone think of a scenario this would negatively impact? Another option might be to patch the APPEND function? Thanks! Rich Sandberg richs(a)whidbey.net

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[Dovecot] Expunge is not expunging unless it is called twice
by Bill Boebel 03 May '06

03 May '06

Dovecot is requiring two "expunge" calls before it deletes an email. It just seems to ignore the first expunge call, leaving the email file in the maildir cur/ folder. Any idea why? I even waited 10 seconds after setting the Deleted flag, but still the first expunge call did nothing.... 1 OK User logged in 2 select "INBOX" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 12 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1144082550] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 1509] Predicted next UID 2 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. 3 UID STORE 1511 +FLAGS (\Deleted) * 12 FETCH (UID 1508 FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) 3 OK Store completed. 4 expunge 4 OK Expunge completed. 5 expunge * 12 EXPUNGE 5 OK Expunge completed.

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[Dovecot] errors while testing with imaptest
by Jens Laas 03 May '06

03 May '06

I get lots of these (in error log): dovecot: Apr 28 14:50:03 Error: IMAP(jenslt): Corrupted index cache file /home0/jenslt/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: record points outside file And some of these: dovecot: Apr 28 14:50:03 Error: IMAP(jenslt): Corrupted index cache file /home0/jenslt/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: field index too large (2037149797 >= 19) Should I worry or not? (Assuming its not due to me having broken imaptest). This was with command: imaptest jenslt@xxxx:yyy pass=xxxx clients=40 msgs=300 Local software raid 5 on linux 2.6.16.11 on reiserfs. Cheers, Jens ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Old C programmers don't die ... they're just cast into void*' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jens Låås Email: jens.laas(a)data.slu.se Department of Computer Services, SLU Phone: +46 18 67 35 15 Vindbrovägen 1 P.O. Box 7079 S-750 07 Uppsala SWEDEN -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA - Performance/issues versus postfix delivery? Also, installing on OS X?
by Dean Blackburn 03 May '06

03 May '06

Can anyone give me an idea of whether or not dovecot-lda can solve the following issue: We seem to have constantly-corrupting dovecot* files for people who fit one (or more) of the following categories: 1) 1000+ message inboxes; 2) multiple clients simultaneously checking mail; 3) people receiving a lot of mail, and/or the server receiving and trying to deliver a single message to all users at once We're using straight postfix maildir delivery, and while the mail keeps coming, we start to see a lot of "temp.xxxx.xxxx.xxx" type lockfiles build up after any inconsistencies appear in the Inbox indexes, and clients start to report timeouts and/or crash as a result. Would switching to LDA by itself resolve this issue (on the argument that delivery would ALSO update the indexes every time), or is there some more fundamental issue we are having that is causing the inconsistency to arise? On a related note: I noticed the darwinports version of 1.0beta7 does not include the code for dovecot-lda... Does anyone have experience setting this up? Thanks! -deano

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[Dovecot] madvise() errors
by Mark E. Mallett 02 May '06

02 May '06

(I think this has been mentioned before.) Do these hurt?: May 2 13:41:30 sysname dovecot: POP3(xxxx): madvise() failed with file /users/xx/xxxx/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Operation not supported I think not, since I've been seeing them forever. But they do muddy the logs. This is on an old BSD/OS server, where the man page for madvise ends with: BUGS This call is not yet supported. The messages are *only* about index.log files. Would it be possible to either suppress the log message if the error is specifically "not supported" or, better yet, detect it at configure time? Completely understandable if it's not worth the effort, though. mm

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Re: [Dovecot] managesieve daemon
by Gerald Dachs 02 May '06

02 May '06

On Tue, 02 May 2006 15:10:16 -0500 Richard Laager <rlaager(a)wiktel.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 13:00 +0200, Gerald Dachs wrote: > > Is this interesting > > for somebody else? > > I would be interested in this for a migration at work. I may be able to > provide financial just one hour ago I broke an AMD 2700+ XP CPU (yes, it's physically broken), because I am stupid, so one of my development machines is down and my finance minister (my wife) would kill me (or would be angry with me, that would be more worse than being killed) if I would ask for a new CPU. So a contribution in form of another fast XP CPU would speed up the process ;), but is not absolutely necessary, because I can set up another machine. > or code contributions as well. only if you have something ready. The server itself is running, I use libut for this, I highly recomend this http://libut.sourceforge.net/primer.html. Last thing I was working on before the machine died (code is safe), was the command parser with flex, not ready yet. Iater I could need help with the autoconf, automake stuff, this is not one of my strength. Gerald

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[Dovecot] create_dovecot_shares
by Gavin Henry 02 May '06

02 May '06

Dear All, We've been working on this for a client to help create and manage maildir shares, via the dovecot-shared file. Our problems are creating lots of dovecot-shared files and permissions and monitoring new Maildir folders that get added by the user (maybe a better way, would love to know). The tool is almost done, with the docs at: http://www.suretecsystems.com/our_docs/create_dovecot_shares.html Maybe this can be of use to others when it's finished. Thanks, Gavin. P.S> Might be redundant a little when the ACLs are complete, as per Timos' e-mail earlier today: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2006-May/012991.html -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] Assertion failed
by Jonathan Knight 02 May '06

02 May '06

We're in a bit of a panic here as we're getting a lot of errors along the lines of: May 2 12:39:00 lenny dovecot: IMAP(XXXXX): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion failed: (start_pos < data_size) We didn't see this until our mail servers went under a full load and now we've trashed the ability of nearly all our users to read email. We saw this first under 1.0Beta3 and we've tried building 1.0Beta7 and its made no difference. I've tried fiddling with the "dirty" settings for the indices and banning mmap to see if there's any way way of avoiding the broken code, but with no luck. We're running White Box EL4 (2.6 Linux kernel) Does anyone know a workaround or whether there is an older version that doesn't have the bug? We desperately need to get an email service running and I don't want to go back to (shudder) UW-imap if I can help it but my options are limited at the moment. -- ______ J.Knight(a)kis.keele.ac.uk Jonathan Knight, / Keele Information Services / _ __ Telephone: +44 1782 583478 University of Keele, Keele, (_/ (_) / / Fax : +44 1782 713082 Staffordshire. ST5 5BG. U.K.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and NFS with file locking
by Nate Sanders 02 May '06

02 May '06

Greetings all, I'm trying to get an understanding of a problem we are facing here. We're currently running dovecot 1.0-beta3 and have a long standing issue of system crashes on our mail server (Debian Linux 2.4.27-2-k7-smp). Here's what is happening: The machine hangs and the system load climbs as high as 80.0+. Yet, the system response is not effected. Command line is still responds instantly. There are multiple running dovecot PIDs, even if I stop the service. If I try to kill or -9 the PIDs, they will not die. The machine is DOA and must be forcefully restarted. Issuing a reboot will cause the machine to hang when it attempts to unmount network shares. Here's the setup: - Dovecot 1.0-beta3 - lock_method = dotlock - mmap_disable = yes /var/mail is store locally on the mail server and access via NFS to ALL remote machines. All remote machines have /var/mail sym linked to the NFS share on Mail. /home on Mail is NFS'd to another set of servers where IMAP mail folders reside in mbox format. All client machines have /home sym linked to the second NFS server. In other words, there's a lot of NFS shares and one mail transaction can involve 3 machines. What I'm trying to find out is the current state of NFS locking with Dovecot. This system hang happens 1-3 times a week. The current /home NFS mounts are running from SGI machines on IRIX 6.5. Clients are all Linux (debian) 2.4 or Linux (ubuntu) 2.6. Is our setup too much for Dovecot to handle? Are there other variables we're not looking at here? Thanks everyone. -- ============================================== Nate Sanders nate(a)ima.umn.edu Associate Systems Manager (612) 624 - 4353 http://www.ima.umn.edu/ ============================================== Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota 400 Lind Hall, 207 Church St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455-0463 ==============================================

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[Dovecot] blank forwarded messages
by lenny＠edpausa.com 02 May '06

02 May '06

Just switched from uw to dovecot ( latest beta3 + lda ) on production system and everything seems fine except... There's some strange problem with forwarding messages from thundebird, the body of the forwarded message is always completely blank - 0 byte size. Forwarding from squrrel, horde, eudora and outlook works fine. Client setup on thunderbird installs hasn't changed a bit. I'm still investigating why this is happening. Has anyone run into this ?

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Re: [Dovecot] FreeBSD 6 - DirectAdmin - dovecot
by Floris van den Berg 02 May '06

02 May '06

Jim Trigg schreef: > On Tue, May 2, 2006 1:15 am, Floris van den Berg wrote: > >> Since version 1.0 I experience strange problems with dovecot. At the >> moment I have beta 7 installed. I use FreeBSD 6.0. >> >> * Pop3 works >> * Imap works, but only when i telnet to localhost >> * In all other cases I can't connect to the server. Tried with >> squirrelmail, uebimau and thunderbird. Squirrelmail after a long time >> waiting: "ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server." >> > > What happens if you try to telnet to the imap port other than localhost? > > Jim > > Hi, that works too. It didn't work before because i didn't properly disable the firewall. Floris

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Re: [Dovecot] Maildir + NFS + multiple machines = spectacular failure
by Apps Lists 02 May '06

02 May '06

Rich, We're also in the process of setting up a GFS/Cluster with CentOS. I'm hopeful this will eliminate some of the issues. I'll keep everyone posted. Steve > Hi Steve, > > We'll give that a try. I'm sure users would prefer a slightly slower > mail experience if it ensured accurate mail lists and reduced the > chance for lost mail. > > Rich Sandberg > richs(a)whidbey.net > Systems & Network Administrator > Whidbey Telecom Network Operations > > > > On Apr 28, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Apps Lists wrote: > >> Hi Rich. >> >> I've seen a lot of the same IMAP errors... haven't played with POP >> yet. >> >> You might want to try adding "noac" to the mount options... your >> line.. >> >> nfshost:/var/mail /var/mail nfs >> rw,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 >> >> .... would become: >> >> >> nfshost:/var/mail /var/mail nfs >> rw,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,noac 0 0 >> >> >> .... and see if that helps. I haven't seen much if any difference. >> >> What I don't understand is how some people are running what appears >> to be >> the same configuration ... RHEL/CentOS ... NFS3, 2+ Dovecot >> machines with >> IMAP and have no problems. >> >> I'd love to get to the bottom of this. >> >> Steve >> >>> We're using 2.6.9-34, the latest RHEL4 kernel, over NFSv3 with 3 >>> Dovecot servers. Our most concerning episode was a failed APPEND >>> operation (with a set of folders containing 200 messages): >>> >>> IMAP(username): Corrupted transaction log file /var/mail/username/ >>> Maildir/dovecot.index.log: unexpected end of file while reading >>> header >>> >>> That resulted in one of the new APPENDed mail folders and content >>> being lost. We see those errors at other times too, although they >>> don't always end in a noticeable failure. >>> >>> Continuous other errors we see that might be NFS related: >>> >>> IMAP(username): close() failed with index cache file /var/mail/ >>> username/Maildir/.Deleted Messages/dovecot.index.cache: Stale NFS >>> file >>> handle >>> IMAP(username): Corrupted index cache file /var/mail/username/ >>> Maildir/.OldMail/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size >>> IMAP(username): close() failed with index file /var/mail/username/ >>> Maildir/.INBOX.Security/dovecot.index: Bad file descriptor >>> >>> We also see errors with POP3, which would rarely benefit from indexes >>> (since 92% of our users RETR-and-DELE messages): >>> >>> POP3(username): file_dotlock_create() failed with file /var/mail/ >>> username/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Stale NFS file handle >>> POP3(username): Corrupted transaction log file /var/mail/username/ >>> Maildir/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x8080, >>> offset=9056, size=0) >>> POP3(username): Our dotlock file /var/mail/username/Maildir/ >>> dovecot.index.log.lock was deleted (kept it -118 secs) >>> POP3(username): Timeout while waiting for release of dotlock for >>> transaction log file /var/mail/username/Maildir/dovecot.index.log >>> >>> We've tried manually removing "dovecot*" from all folders, allowing >>> the indexes to be re-built, but the errors return. >>> >>> Excerpt from our config: >>> >>> mail_cache_fields mail_never_cache_fields mail_cache_min_mail_count >>> >> 1000 mailbox_idle_check_interval = 10 mail_full_filesystem_access >>> = no >>> mail_read_mmaped = no >>> mmap_disable = yes >>> mmap_no_write = no >>> lock_method = dotlock >>> maildir_stat_dirs = yes >>> maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no >>> >>> Our NFS mount: >>> >>> nfshost:/var/mail /var/mail nfs >>> rw,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 >>> >>> I've read some of the list archives about disabling the index files. >>> We realize that indexes should be beneficial, but we'd like to at >>> least experiment with a "no index" install. This would solve some of >>> the NFS locking issues, eliminate the need to modify our MTA >>> behavior, and remove (potentially) millions of files from the system. >>> >>> Did anyone discover a method to cleanly disable the indexes? At least >>> for POP3? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Rich Sandberg >>> richs(a)whidbey.net >>> >>> >>> On Apr 28, 2006, at 6:59 AM, Luis Melendez wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all. >>>> We also had problems with client NFS locking using RHEL4, kernel >>>> 2.6.9 >>>> Some of them were solved updating the kelnel from RedHat. >>>> Hope this helps. >>>> >>>> Regards. >>>> >>>> Apps Lists wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm running beta7 on two machines, with maildir on NFS. I have >>>>> lockd >>>>> running on all machines. I've found that Dovecot is highly >>>>> unstable with >>>>> NFS when accessing a mailbox on more than one machine at the same >>>>> time. >>>>> >>>>> Both dovecot machines have: >>>>> >>>>> mmap_disable = yes >>>>> lock_method = fcntl >>>>> >>>>> NFS is version 3, exported from a third linux machine. All >>>>> machines are >>>>> running 2.6.9 kernel. >>>>> >>>>> Any ideas what's going wrong here? >>>>> >>>>> Steve >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *** dev4 *** >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:40 dev4 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Duplicate file in >>>>> uidlist file >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: >>>>> 1146230258.P2889Q0M407851.dev4.neonova.net:2, >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:41 dev4 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Corrupted transaction >>>>> log file >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Extension >>>>> introduction for unknown id 0 >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:41 dev4 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): file mail-index.c: line >>>>> 883 >>>>> (mail_index_sync_from_transactions): assertion failed: >>>>> (hdr.log_file_int_offset == (*map)->hdr.log_file_int_offset) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:41 dev4 dovecot: child 2889 (imap) killed with >>>>> signal 6 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *** dev3 *** >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:39 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Duplicate file in >>>>> uidlist file >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: >>>>> 1146230254.P2888Q0M651598.dev4.neonova.net >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:41 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Fixed index file >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index: >>>>> first_recent_uid_lowwater 4036 -> 1772 >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:44 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was >>>>> lowered >>>>> (4036 -> 1774) >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:45 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Duplicate file in >>>>> uidlist file >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: >>>>> 1146145480.P5976Q0M245663.dev3.neonova.net:2, >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:46 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Fixed index file >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index: >>>>> first_recent_uid_lowwater 4038 -> 1774 >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:47 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was >>>>> lowered >>>>> (4038 -> 1775) >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:48 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Duplicate file in >>>>> uidlist file >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: >>>>> 1146145480.P5976Q0M245663.dev3.neonova.net:2, >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:49 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was >>>>> lowered >>>>> (4039 -> 1775) >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:50 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Corrupted transaction >>>>> log file >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Extension >>>>> introduction for unknown id 0 >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:50 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): file mail-index.c: line >>>>> 881 >>>>> (mail_index_sync_from_transactions): assertion failed: >>>>> (hdr.messages_count >>>>> == (*map)->hdr.messages_count) >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:50 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was >>>>> lowered >>>>> (4039 -> 1775) >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:51 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Corrupted transaction >>>>> log file >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append with >>>>> UID >>>>> 1775, but next_uid = 4039 >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:51 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Corrupted transaction >>>>> log file >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append with >>>>> UID >>>>> 1775, but next_uid = 4039 >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:52 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Unexpected >>>>> transaction log >>>>> desync with index /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:52 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Disconnected: >>>>> Mailbox is >>>>> in >>>>> inconsistent state, please relogin. >>>>> >>>>> Apr 28 09:17:52 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Fixed index file >>>>> /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index: >>>>> first_recent_uid_lowwater 4039 -> 1776 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> +---------------------------------------------- >>>> ^-----------------------+ >>>> | Luis Meléndez Aganzo ^ Email: >>>> luism(a)uco.es | >>>> | Servicio de Informática ^ Tlf: 34-(9) >>>> 57-211022 | >>>> | Analista - Área de Sistemas ^ Fax: 34-(9) >>>> 57-218116 | >>>> | Universidad de Córdoba (SPAIN) ^ http:// >>>> www.uco.es | >>>> +---------------------------------------------- >>>> ^-----------------------+

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD 6 - DirectAdmin - dovecot
by Floris van den Berg 02 May '06

02 May '06

Since version 1.0 I experience strange problems with dovecot. At the moment I have beta 7 installed. I use FreeBSD 6.0. * Pop3 works * Imap works, but only when i telnet to localhost * In all other cases I can't connect to the server. Tried with squirrelmail, uebimau and thunderbird. Squirrelmail after a long time waiting: "ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server." Happens too with firewall switched off. Happens too when i restart exim and dovecot. /var/log/maillog mentions something about Inactivity. When i do tail -f /var/log/maillog and try to connect using squirrel, i see hardly any imap messages fly by, except 'inactivity'. Any ideas? Floris

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[Dovecot] beta7 imap core, no assert
by Jeff A. Earickson 02 May '06

02 May '06

Timo, I noticed this core dump from imap the other day from one of our users; there was no assertion. GDB output attached, I have saved the core if you need more information. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] backup strategie - any ideas and tips
by Götz Reinicke 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi, we run a dovecot mail-server with about 50GB of e-mail and at the moment users are responsebil for macking ther own backup of e-mails. But I'd like to have also a backup of the mail, beckause not all users do ther backups ... We use mbox-format-mailboxes. Any ideas how to backup the mailboxes without stopping the server, doing a backup to disk/tape/...? Thanks for any ideas ant tips! Regards Götz Reinicke -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de

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[Dovecot] mail messages moving between mailfolders
by taras＠elantech.ru 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hello to all! I'm using IMAP-based antispam self-learning. I have a folder "spam" in each Maildir in which I place spam-tagged messages during delivery. If antispam filter makes mistake, user can drag'n'drop message to/from "spam" folder. I running perl-script periodicaly and retrain spam-filter (dSpam). Now I must scan all messages, but it's not a good practice (server load depends from mail volume, not user activity) so I want add a "hook" to IMAP-server, i.e. I want server to report me something like "date: file1 -> file2" via any IPC (socket?) or log file while user moves messages across different mail folders. Overload from antispam retraining will be function from user activity with such feature added. P.S.: Now I'm using courier, but want to try dovecot. Sorry for bad English. With respect, Taras. -- С уважением, Савчук Тарас "ЭЛАНТЕК" +7 (495) 589 68 81 +7 (926) 575 22 11 http://www.elantech.ru

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[Dovecot] fedora core 4 + mysql 5 + dovecot
by dave 02 May '06

02 May '06

hi all just a quick question i have dovecot (0.99.14 yum install) running on my fc4 server to get this working, i had to downgrade from mysql 5 to fedora's mysql rpm's i really would prefer to use mysql 5, but to satisfy the dependencies, i had to go to mysql 4 now, i just want to know if there is an rpm (linux rather than specific fc4 version is fine) out there for dovecot, that i can use with mysql 5 definitely prefer rpm's to src as i don't really like getting into the nitty gritty of config/setup thanks dave -- http://dtracorp.com

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-1.0.beta7 Build Fedora 3 Error
by Luke Jackson 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hello I'm attempting to configure Dovecot with mysql support so I'm able to have a single database of users and point both postfix and dovecot to this db. I currently have an rpm src that I have download and placed in my RPMBUILDROOT of my linux box. Next I configured the .spec file and attempted to run a rpmbuild -bb Near the end of the install phase I receive an error which has me stumped. I ran rpmbuild again and used the -bi --short-circuit options and logged the output for you to see. Any help would be greatly appreciated..... rpmbuild -bi --short-circuit dovecot-fc5.spec Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.44599 Making install in src make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src' Making install in lib make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib' Making install in lib-dict make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-dict' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-dict' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-dict' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-dict' Making install in lib-sql make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-sql' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-sql' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-sql' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-sql' Making install in lib-ntlm make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-ntlm' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-ntlm' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-ntlm' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-ntlm' Making install in lib-settings make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-settings' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-settings' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-settings' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-settings' Making install in lib-charset make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-charset' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-charset' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-charset' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-charset' Making install in lib-mail make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-mail' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-mail' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-mail' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-mail' Making install in lib-imap make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-imap' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-imap' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-imap' make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-imap' Making install in 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passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -lpam -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lresolv -lldap -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lm -export-dynamic -ldl gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -g -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/kerberos/include -o dovecot-auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-gssapi.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lpam -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lldap -L/usr/lib/mysql /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a -lcrypt -lnsl -lc -lnss_files -lnss_dns -lresolv -lz -lm -ldl make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/auth' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src' RPM build errors: /BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib/sha1.c:233: first defined here /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `sha1_result' changed from 190 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) to 126 in /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.44599 (%install) Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.44599 (%install) Thanks, -m3

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[Dovecot] How to notify dovecot that maildir contents is changed by third-party helper ?
by Илья Евсеев 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi, folks! How to notify dovecot that maildir contents is changed by third-party helper? My script performs spam cleanup, but all index/cache files (dovecot-uidlist, dovecot.index, dovecot.index.cache and dovecot.index.log) still unchanged, so, Web-frontend (IlohaMail over IMAP) displays taht mailbox contents isn't refreshed. Dovecot 1.0-alpha5 under FreeBSD 4.11. mail = maildir:/var/vmail/default/%1n/%n WBR, Ilya ------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash # # CleanupMailboxSpam # # Tracks mail directories of Dovecot IMAP server # and moves/removes all messages marked as spam by SpamAssassin: # # * When mailbox contains "KillSpam.<number>" subfolder, # all spam messages with score >= <number> are removed. # * When mailbox contains "Spam" subfolder, # all remaining spam messages are moved to this subfolder. # * When mailbox contains "KillSpam" subfolder, # all remaining spam messages are removed. # # TODO: update indexes and caches on altered mail folders!!! # # Only for testing: doit=echo; export doit; ... # This prints all modification commands instead of executing them. # # Written at Apr 2006 by evseev(a)sertolovo.ru # VMAIL_TOPDIR=/var/vmail FIND_DEPTH=4 # Debugging values VMAIL_TOPDIR=/var/vmail/default/e/evseev FIND_DEPTH=1 INBOX_DIRNAME=cur KILLSPAM_DIRNAME='.KillSpam' SPAM_DIRNAME='.Spam' MSGHEADLEN=30 RM="/bin/rm -f" MV="/bin/mv -f" #========= Routines ==========================================# IsSpamFile() { local msgfile="$1" score2clean="$2" local spamstatus=$(head -$MSGHEADLEN "$msgfile" | egrep '^X-Spam-Status: Yes') test -z "$spamstatus" && return 1 if [ -n "$score2clean" ]; then local spamscore=${spamstatus##*score=} spamscore=${spamscore%%.*} test "$spamscore" -lt "$score2clean" && return 1 fi return 0 } KillSpamInFolder() # $1 = kill-label folder to check { local dir2clean=$(dirname $1)/$INBOX_DIRNAME local score2clean=$(basename $1) score2clean=${score2clean##${KILLSPAM_DIRNAME}.} test "$score2clean" -ge 1 -a "$score2clean" -le 50000 > /dev/null 2>&1 || score2clean= find "$dir2clean" -type f | while read f; do IsSpamFile "$f" "$score2clean" && $doit $RM "$f" done } MoveSpamToFolder() # $1 = spam folder to consume spam { local dir2check=$(dirname $1)/$INBOX_DIRNAME find "$dir2check" -type f | while read f; do IsSpamFile "$f" && $doit $MV "$f" "${1}/$INBOX_DIRNAME" done } DoOnSubFolders() # $1 = dirmask to find, $2 = action to apply { find $VMAIL_TOPDIR/ -mindepth $FIND_DEPTH -maxdepth $FIND_DEPTH \ -type d -iname "$1" \ | while read d; do "$2" "$d" done } #========= Main ==============================================# DoOnSubFolders "${KILLSPAM_DIRNAME}?*" KillSpamInFolder DoOnSubFolders "${SPAM_DIRNAME}" MoveSpamToFolder DoOnSubFolders "${KILLSPAM_DIRNAME}" KillSpamInFolder ## EOF ##

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[Dovecot] Documentation for ACL support
by Michael Renner 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi, the changelog of beta4 suggested that ACL support was added but I couldn't find any documentation for it neither in the tarball nor in the wiki. Timo, do you already have some writeups regarding the ACLs or do I have to RTFS? best regards, Michael

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA troubles (input in flex scanner failed)
by Mark Moses 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi all, I'm running fedora core 5 with postfix 2.2.8 (modified rpm version) and dovecot 1.0 beta7 and dovecot-lda nighly cvs snapshot from 14-04-2006 I might need to add that amavisd-new is configured as a content-filter. I have postfix running using virtual users in an mysql database and I have setup dovecot lda in postfix like the wiki says here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#head-dacb9b9a1f19c3ea86bb6f8caa3d64e3ddad9ef8 When I sent an email using this setup I get the following error in my maillog: May 1 20:41:29 calimero postfix/pipe[15760]: 8337934FABB: to=< mark(a)mydomain.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=bounced (Command died with status 2: "/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver". Command output: input in flex scanner failed ) I really don't know if this is a configuration problem or a bug and how I can get more information about the error note: I haven't included config-files, but if they are needed I will provide those of course Hope someone can point me in the right direction. Sincerely, Mark

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[Dovecot] Re: fedora core 4 + mysql 5 + dovecot
by Roger Weeks 01 May '06

01 May '06

Building a newer version of Dovecot on Fedora is dead simple: ./configure --with-mysql make make install And you absolutely DO NOT want to run Dovecot with MySQL authentication using the 0.99 builds. There are many many bugs. Go get yourself the latest 1.0 beta version instead. -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network On Apr 30, 2006, at 2:00 AM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:59:04 +1000 > From: dave <dave(a)dtracorp.com> > Subject: [Dovecot] fedora core 4 + mysql 5 + dovecot > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <44546E48.1060605(a)dtracorp.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > hi all > > just a quick question > i have dovecot (0.99.14 yum install) running on my fc4 server > > to get this working, i had to downgrade from mysql 5 to fedora's > mysql rpm's > > i really would prefer to use mysql 5, but to satisfy the > dependencies, i > had to go to mysql 4 > > now, i just want to know if there is an rpm (linux rather than > specific > fc4 version is fine) out there for dovecot, that i can use with > mysql 5 > > definitely prefer rpm's to src as i don't really like getting into the > nitty gritty of config/setup > > thanks > dave

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA with sendmail/Mailscanner (fwd)
by Gerhard Wiesinger 01 May '06

01 May '06

Hello! Noone has running a sendmail/Mailscanner/procmail/mbox environment? Ciao, Gerhard ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:27:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists(a)wiesinger.com> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot LDA with sendmail/Mailscanner Hello! I'm running dovecot in a sendmail/Mailscanner/procmail/mbox environment. I want to use dovecot lda because index files aren't updated when using sendmail as lda. Has someone this combination running and some configuration hints so that sendmail, Mailscanner and procmail ist working well. Does procmail work with lda, too? Thank you for the answer. Ciao, Gerhard

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD 6 - DirectAdmin - dovecot
by Floris van den Berg 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Since version 1.0 I experience strange problems with dovecot. At the moment I have beta 7 installed. I use FreeBSD 6.0. * Pop3 works * Imap works, but only when i telnet to localhost * In all other cases I can't connect to the server. Tried with squirrelmail, uebimau and thunderbird. Squirrelmail after a long time waiting: "ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server." Happens too with firewall switched off. Happens too when i restart exim and dovecot. /var/log/maillog mentions something about Inactivity. When i do tail -f /var/log/maillog and try to connect using squirrel, i see hardly any imap messages fly by, except 'inactivity'. Any ideas? Floris

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[Dovecot] Question - where's the mail?
by Bob Gustafson 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

I am running dovecot and dovecot-lda. Mail is delivered from my ISP via cron script using fetchmail. Over the last few days, there has been a selinux problem which gave permission denied problems whenever deliver would try to store mail in Maildir. I have a big blank spot in my incoming email from about Wed evening (when the latest FC5 upgrade (..) was installed to a few hours ago when I recognized that I may have a problem. Question: What does dovecot deliver do with a message that it cannot store due to permission problems?

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[Dovecot] kevent error (cvs version april-11), can't to login
by John Wong 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

after upgrade to cvs version(april-11), i can't to login my dovecot imap server the maillog error like this: ---------------------------------------------------------- Unrecognized event: kevent {.ident = 2, .filter = 0xfffffffe, .flags = 0x 0001, .fflags = 0x00000000, .data = 0x00004000} ---------------------------------------------------------- april-5 cvs version work fine i use openbsd/i386, thank you

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Re: [Dovecot] mysql authentication problems
by Pedro Vieira 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Problem solved.... that "d" that was missing was the source of all my problems. Thank you all for your help! :) Pedro Jon Baker wrote: > Can you see a file located at /var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock? > > What is the contents of my.cnf? > > On Apr 27, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Pedro Vieira wrote: > >> I have mysql running and I can log in from command line, make queries >> both from command line and external software (apache+php)... >> >> Jon Baker wrote: >>> What happens if you type mysql at the command line? >>> >>> On Apr 27, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Pedro Vieira wrote: >>> >>>> Already did it... now i have this error: >>>> >>>> dovecot-auth: MySQL: Can't connect to database dovecot: Can't >>>> connect to local MySQL server through socket >>>> '/var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock' (2) >>>> >>>> >>>> I already have smoke comming out of my head.... :S >>>> >>>> Jon Baker wrote: >>>>> Um... uncomment your socket line perhaps? >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 27, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Pedro Vieira wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> db_host = localhost >>>>>> db_port = 3306 >>>>>> #db_unix_socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysql.sock >>>>>> db = mydovecotdb >>>>>> db_user = mydovecotuser >>>>>> db_passwd = mydbpasswd >>>>>> db_client_flags = 0 >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> > >

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[Dovecot] HELP: Logout RETR bytes log
by Daniel Lafraia 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hi, Looks like there's a bug while logging RETR bytes. Is this really a bug? What should I check in order make it work? /etc/dovecot.conf pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%T, retr=%r/%R, del=%d/%m, size=%s Sample log: dovecot: Apr 26 18:03:55 Info: pop3(xxxx): Logout. top=0/0, retr=1/ del=1/1, size=3556 dovecot: Apr 26 18:03:46 Info: pop3(xxxx): Logout. top=0/0, retr=4/ del=4/4, size=66191 dovecot: Apr 26 09:55:46 Info: pop3(xxxx): Logout. top=1/1471, retr=1/ del=1/1, size=18330 dovecot: Apr 26 18:03:17 Info: pop3(xxxx): Logout. top=0/0, retr=7/ del=7/7, size=31217 dovecot: Apr 26 18:02:08 Info: pop3(xxxx): Logout. top=0/0, retr=1/ del=1/1, size=3912 dovecot: Apr 26 09:57:54 Info: pop3(xxxx): Logout. top=2/3186, retr=2/ del=2/2, size=21819 Any hints? Please reply to daniel(a)vagalume.com.br Thanks Daniel Lafraia www.vagalume.com.br

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[Dovecot] Maildir + NFS + multiple machines = spectacular failure
by Apps Lists 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

I'm running beta7 on two machines, with maildir on NFS. I have lockd running on all machines. I've found that Dovecot is highly unstable with NFS when accessing a mailbox on more than one machine at the same time. Both dovecot machines have: mmap_disable = yes lock_method = fcntl NFS is version 3, exported from a third linux machine. All machines are running 2.6.9 kernel. Any ideas what's going wrong here? Steve *** dev4 *** Apr 28 09:17:40 dev4 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Duplicate file in uidlist file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: 1146230258.P2889Q0M407851.dev4.neonova.net:2, Apr 28 09:17:41 dev4 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Corrupted transaction log file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Extension introduction for unknown id 0 Apr 28 09:17:41 dev4 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): file mail-index.c: line 883 (mail_index_sync_from_transactions): assertion failed: (hdr.log_file_int_offset == (*map)->hdr.log_file_int_offset) Apr 28 09:17:41 dev4 dovecot: child 2889 (imap) killed with signal 6 *** dev3 *** Apr 28 09:17:39 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Duplicate file in uidlist file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: 1146230254.P2888Q0M651598.dev4.neonova.net Apr 28 09:17:41 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Fixed index file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index: first_recent_uid_lowwater 4036 -> 1772 Apr 28 09:17:44 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was lowered (4036 -> 1774) Apr 28 09:17:45 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Duplicate file in uidlist file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: 1146145480.P5976Q0M245663.dev3.neonova.net:2, Apr 28 09:17:46 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Fixed index file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index: first_recent_uid_lowwater 4038 -> 1774 Apr 28 09:17:47 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was lowered (4038 -> 1775) Apr 28 09:17:48 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Duplicate file in uidlist file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: 1146145480.P5976Q0M245663.dev3.neonova.net:2, Apr 28 09:17:49 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was lowered (4039 -> 1775) Apr 28 09:17:50 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Corrupted transaction log file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Extension introduction for unknown id 0 Apr 28 09:17:50 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): file mail-index.c: line 881 (mail_index_sync_from_transactions): assertion failed: (hdr.messages_count == (*map)->hdr.messages_count) Apr 28 09:17:50 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was lowered (4039 -> 1775) Apr 28 09:17:51 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Corrupted transaction log file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1775, but next_uid = 4039 Apr 28 09:17:51 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Corrupted transaction log file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1775, but next_uid = 4039 Apr 28 09:17:52 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index Apr 28 09:17:52 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Disconnected: Mailbox is in inconsistent state, please relogin. Apr 28 09:17:52 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Fixed index file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index: first_recent_uid_lowwater 4039 -> 1776

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Re: [Dovecot] Maildir + NFS + multiple machines = spectacular failure
by Apps Lists 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

> Of course. > We upgraded to the last kernel available (in that moment) for RHEL4: > 2.6.9-34.ELsmp > The release notes mentioned that some important issues related to > locking in client > NFS environment were missing in the kernel included in the distribution. > Darn. That's the same kernel I'm running. Must not be my lucky day. Steve > Regards. > > Apps Lists wrote: > >>>Hi all. >>>We also had problems with client NFS locking using RHEL4, kernel >>> 2.6.9 Some of them were solved updating the kelnel from RedHat. >>>Hope this helps. >>> >>> >>> >> >>Hi Luis. >> >>Can you tell me which kernel you upgraded to? >> >>Thanks. >> >>Steve >> >> >> >> >>>Regards. >>> >>>Apps Lists wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>I'm running beta7 on two machines, with maildir on NFS. I have lockd >>>> running on all machines. I've found that Dovecot is highly unstable >>>> with NFS when accessing a mailbox on more than one machine at the >>>> same time. >>>> >>>>Both dovecot machines have: >>>> >>>>mmap_disable = yes >>>>lock_method = fcntl >>>> >>>>NFS is version 3, exported from a third linux machine. All machines >>>> are running 2.6.9 kernel. >>>> >>>>Any ideas what's going wrong here? >>>> >>>>Steve >>>> >>>> >>>>*** dev4 *** >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:40 dev4 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Duplicate file in uidlist >>>> file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: >>>>1146230258.P2889Q0M407851.dev4.neonova.net:2, >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:41 dev4 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Corrupted transaction log >>>> file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Extension >>>> introduction for unknown id 0 >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:41 dev4 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): file mail-index.c: line >>>> 883 (mail_index_sync_from_transactions): assertion failed: >>>>(hdr.log_file_int_offset == (*map)->hdr.log_file_int_offset) >>>> >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:41 dev4 dovecot: child 2889 (imap) killed with signal 6 >>>> >>>> >>>>*** dev3 *** >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:39 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Duplicate file in uidlist >>>> file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: >>>>1146230254.P2888Q0M651598.dev4.neonova.net >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:41 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Fixed index file >>>>/var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index: >>>>first_recent_uid_lowwater 4036 -> 1772 >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:44 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): >>>>/var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was >>>> lowered (4036 -> 1774) >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:45 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Duplicate file in uidlist >>>> file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: >>>>1146145480.P5976Q0M245663.dev3.neonova.net:2, >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:46 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Fixed index file >>>>/var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index: >>>>first_recent_uid_lowwater 4038 -> 1774 >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:47 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): >>>>/var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was >>>> lowered (4038 -> 1775) >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:48 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Duplicate file in uidlist >>>> file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: >>>>1146145480.P5976Q0M245663.dev3.neonova.net:2, >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:49 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): >>>>/var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was >>>> lowered (4039 -> 1775) >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:50 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Corrupted transaction log >>>> file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Extension >>>> introduction for unknown id 0 >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:50 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): file mail-index.c: line >>>> 881 (mail_index_sync_from_transactions): assertion failed: >>>>(hdr.messages_count == (*map)->hdr.messages_count) >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:50 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): >>>>/var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was >>>> lowered (4039 -> 1775) >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:51 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Corrupted transaction log >>>> file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append >>>> with UID 1775, but next_uid = 4039 >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:51 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Corrupted transaction log >>>> file /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append >>>> with UID 1775, but next_uid = 4039 >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:52 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Unexpected transaction log >>>> desync with index /var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:52 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Disconnected: Mailbox is >>>> in inconsistent state, please relogin. >>>> >>>>Apr 28 09:17:52 dev3 dovecot: IMAP(jtest): Fixed index file >>>>/var/mailstore/72/af/375887/Maildir/dovecot.index: >>>>first_recent_uid_lowwater 4039 -> 1776 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>-- >>>+----------------------------------------------^-----------------------+ >>> | Luis Meléndez Aganzo ^ Email: luism(a)uco.es >>> | | Servicio de Informática ^ Tlf: >>> 34-(9)57-211022 | | Analista - Área de Sistemas ^ >>> Fax: 34-(9)57-218116 | | Universidad de Córdoba (SPAIN) >>> ^ http://www.uco.es | >>> +----------------------------------------------^-----------------------+ >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > +----------------------------------------------^-----------------------+ > | Luis Meléndez Aganzo ^ Email: luism(a)uco.es | > | Servicio de Informática ^ Tlf: 34-(9)57-211022 | > | Analista - Área de Sistemas ^ Fax: 34-(9)57-218116 | > | Universidad de Córdoba (SPAIN) ^ http://www.uco.es | > +----------------------------------------------^-----------------------+

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[Dovecot] mysql authentication problems
by Pedro Vieira 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hello all.. I'm trying to configure dovecot do athenticate using mysql, but I?m having some troubles... After configuring the mysql athentication in dovecot-mysql.conf and in dovecot.conf, when I try to login I get this mesage in my logs: Dovecot-auth: MySQL: Can't connect to database dovecot: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) Any ideia why this happens and how to fix it? Thanks in advance, Pedro

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[Dovecot] imaptest, with options!
by Jens Laas 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

I hacked some command line options into imaptest. I dont think I broke it.. Place into dovecot-source root as usual and compile with: gcc imaptest.c -o imaptest -Wall -W -I. -Isrc/lib -DHAVE_CONFIG_H src/lib/liblib.a As per Timo's instructions. # imaptest -h imaptest [USER@IP:PORTNO] [pass=PASSWORD] [mbox=MBOX] [clients=CC] [msgs=NMSG] [use_authenticate] [PORTNO] USER = template for username. "u%04d" will generate users "u0001" to "u0100" MBOX = path to mbox from which we read mails to append. CC = number of concurrent clients. [20] NMSG = target number of messages in INBOX. [100] If use_authenticate is given AUTHENTICATE will be used instead of LOGIN. Have fun! Jens ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Old C programmers don't die ... they're just cast into void*' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jens Låås Email: jens.laas(a)data.slu.se Department of Computer Services, SLU Phone: +46 18 67 35 15 Vindbrovägen 1 P.O. Box 7079 S-750 07 Uppsala SWEDEN -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] IMAP & pop3 under /var/spool/mail
by Obantec Support 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hi is it possible to run both under /var/spool/mail and if so how do i tell my LDA to deliver to the correct format mbox or maildir Mark

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RE: [Dovecot] being courier_imap compatible
by Bill Boebel 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

On Wed, April 26, 2006 16:12, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad(a)shire.net> said: > OK, I am running (for many years now) an existing courier_imap maildir++ > setup with exim as the MTA. > I set up a namespace for dovecot, using the wiki as a guide, so: > > namespace private { > separator = . > prefix = INBOX. > location = . > inbox = yes > hidden=no > } > > However, clicking on the folder does not show any messages at all. > dovecot is not creating a subscription file inside the maildir > (Mail.app does not allow you to subscribe to folders -- it subscribes > to all existing folders for you) > > And if I try and create a new folder inside the account I get a > "CREATE" command failed, server error: unknown namespace This is what we're using and our Courier maildirs are able to work with Dovecot... default_mail_env = maildir:~/ namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = no } namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes hidden = yes } Also, here are patches to make Dovecot use Courier's subscription file properly... --- src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.h: -#define SUBSCRIPTION_FILE_NAME "subscriptions" +#define SUBSCRIPTION_FILE_NAME "courierimapsubscribed" --- src/lib-storage/subscription-file/subscription-file.c @49 unsigned int i; // BB - added variable @55 /* BB - changed loop to skip over lines with just INBOX and remove INBOX. from the beginning of the line, for courier-imap compatibility */ for (i = 0;; i++) { while ((line = i_stream_next_line(input)) == NULL) { switch (i_stream_read(input)) { case -1: if (input->stream_errno != 0 && (input->stream_errno != ESTALE || !ignore_estale)) { subsfile_set_syscall_error(storage, "read()", path); *failed_r = TRUE; } return NULL; case -2: /* mailbox name too large */ mail_storage_set_critical(storage, "Subscription file %s contains lines longer " "than %u characters", path, MAX_MAILBOX_LENGTH); *failed_r = TRUE; return NULL; } } /* BB - remove INBOX. from the beginning of the line, for courier-imap compatibility */ if (strcmp(line, "INBOX") == 0) continue; if (strncmp(line, "INBOX.", 6) == 0) line += 6; break; } /* BB - end changes */ @147 /* BB - prepend INBOX. for courier-imap compatibility */ -if (o_stream_send_str(output, line) < 0 || +if (o_stream_send_str(output, "INBOX.") < 0 || + o_stream_send_str(output, line) < 0 || @150 -line = t_strconcat(name, "\n", NULL); +/* BB - prepend INBOX. for courier-imap compatibility */ +line = t_strconcat("INBOX.", name, "\n", NULL);

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Re: [Dovecot] auth-request.c: assertion failed: (*name != '\0')
by Tom Sommer 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

On Thu, April 27, 2006 12:13, Simon Waters wrote: > On Thursday 27 Apr 2006 10:44, Tom Sommer wrote: > >> >> password_query = SELECT username as user, NULL as password FROM users >> WHERE username = '%u' AND password = PASSWORD('%w') >> >> >> as advised in a previous discussion in this list > > I'm confused here, in my Postgres config "password_query" returns; > > > select password from from users where userid='%u' > > Which seems more logical naming convention and still matches the PGSQL > documentation. I don't understand your question, obviously I edited my password_query, ref: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-October/009695.html Regards -- Tom Sommer http://tomsommer.dk Regards -- Tom Sommer http://tomsommer.dk

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[Dovecot] dovecot.rawlog
by Obantec Support 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hi Dovecot stable 1.0 on FC3 i enabled rawlog via the conf file and for 1 user all i see is in out files but 0B's 2 others i have added work as expected. Mark

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[Dovecot] more LDA woes
by Alan Premselaar 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OK. So, I got over some of the segfault problems I was having with dovecot 1.0beta7 and have even downloaded and installed the latest CVS version which is properly providing quota information to thunderbird (although Mail.app doesn't show the quota details) now i've also downloaded the CVS version of dovecot-LDA and have run autogen.sh and during the configure it gets stuck at: ... checking rxposix.h usability... no checking rxposix.h presence... no checking for rxposix.h... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile and it's been sitting like that for over an hour now (I had to take care of some other things and just let it sit) i ran configure with the following: ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot (this is the directory for the CVS version of dovecot) any ideas? Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEUC4kE2gsBSKjZHQRAnrUAJ4oUbHFqqcLl7qxv6WE4FN94J9l4QCfSAOt odz/cQtZEsIMJR+IJ6qAggs= =GVpH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] setuid(5000) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
by Jon Baker 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

I have combed google for days searching for an answer to this but cannot find anything anywhere, I'm hoping that posting to this list will get me the solution. I have FC4 running dovecot v1.0.beta7 to serve my POP3 (I had to install v1.0.beta7 because it's on a x86_64 and I need mysql support). It runs great for about two hours, after which I start getting the resource temporarily unavailable error. I can't get the error to go away by restarting dovecot, the only way I can figure out to do it is to restart the box. This is terribly annoying... please help! Thanks!

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Re: [Dovecot] being courier_imap compatible
by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

On Apr 26, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Dean Blackburn wrote: > Apple Mail is, from IMAP's perspective, broken. It's impossible to > unsubscribe, which in turn makes troubleshooting like this a PITA. > > We use Apple Mail successfully onsite with Dovecot, but we did ALL > our client testing in Thunderbird, which gives (mostly) good error > messages. Once you have namespaces happy in Tbird, you can start > cycling through the (few) options that are tweakable in Mail until > it works without complaining (as much). What you really need is for dovecot to be able to log all incoming imap commands. However, I have log and debug stuff, everything that I can find, turned on, and I cannot get dovecot to dump the requests it is getting. Note that Apple Mail has no problems with courier Chad > > :) > > -deano > > > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >> OK, I am running (for many years now) an existing courier_imap >> maildir++ setup with exim as the MTA. Has been fine. I have my >> own custom ldap schema for user account definition and authorization. >> >> I installed dovecot 1.0 beta 7 as a test and have it listening on >> a different port. I would like, if possible, to set things up so >> that a user could use either dovecot or courier. Having to re- >> subscribe to folders is OK when moving to dovecot. (It would be >> nice to be able to make a symbolic link from courier's >> subscription file to the dovecot one though) >> >> (My client for testing is the Mac OS X (10.4.6) Mail client >> Mail.app -- it seems to do an auto subscribe to folders) >> >> I set up a namespace for dovecot, using the wiki as a guide, so: >> >> 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 = INBOX. >> >> # 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 >> hidden=no >> } >> >> (location has to be . or something similar since my ldap schema is >> purely virtual users and returns the actual root of the maildir) >> >> I am able to get the root mailbox (INBOX) to work. I can see new >> mail and look at mail messages etc. >> >> I create a new account in Mail.app that logs in to an existing >> account (to make sure there is no client cached info involved). >> It logs in and is able to see the imap folders that exist for this >> account. >> >> However, clicking on the folder does not show any messages at >> all. dovecot is not creating a subscription file inside the >> maildir (Mail.app does not allow you to subscribe to folders -- it >> subscribes to all existing folders for you) >> >> And if I try and create a new folder inside the account I get a >> "CREATE" command failed, server error: unknown namespace >> >> How can I get the folders to work with dovecot using my existing >> maildir++ setup? >> >> Thanks >> Chad >> >> --- >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC >> Your Web App and Email hosting provider >> chad at shire.net >> >> >> > --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net

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[Dovecot] being courier_imap compatible
by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

OK, I am running (for many years now) an existing courier_imap maildir ++ setup with exim as the MTA. Has been fine. I have my own custom ldap schema for user account definition and authorization. I installed dovecot 1.0 beta 7 as a test and have it listening on a different port. I would like, if possible, to set things up so that a user could use either dovecot or courier. Having to re-subscribe to folders is OK when moving to dovecot. (It would be nice to be able to make a symbolic link from courier's subscription file to the dovecot one though) (My client for testing is the Mac OS X (10.4.6) Mail client Mail.app -- it seems to do an auto subscribe to folders) I set up a namespace for dovecot, using the wiki as a guide, so: 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 = INBOX. # 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 hidden=no } (location has to be . or something similar since my ldap schema is purely virtual users and returns the actual root of the maildir) I am able to get the root mailbox (INBOX) to work. I can see new mail and look at mail messages etc. I create a new account in Mail.app that logs in to an existing account (to make sure there is no client cached info involved). It logs in and is able to see the imap folders that exist for this account. However, clicking on the folder does not show any messages at all. dovecot is not creating a subscription file inside the maildir (Mail.app does not allow you to subscribe to folders -- it subscribes to all existing folders for you) And if I try and create a new folder inside the account I get a "CREATE" command failed, server error: unknown namespace How can I get the folders to work with dovecot using my existing maildir++ setup? Thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net

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[Dovecot] ldap and user_filter
by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

I have my own custom schema for email that I have been using for years with courier_imap and exim. I am experimenting with dovecot and trying to set up my conf so that it logs in using the ldap database. In the dovecot-ldap.conf there is a section # Filter for user lookup. Some variables can be used (see # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables for full list): # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain #user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) In order to match my scheme I changed it to user_filter = (&(objectClass=shireNetEmailaccount) (shireNetEmailAddress=%u)) This should match my courier setup of ##NAME: LDAP_MAIL:0 # # Here's the field on which we query #LDAP_MAIL mail LDAP_MAIL shireNetEmailAddress --- Anyway, it appears from the logs that my user_filter is being ignored as I get the following in the log dovecot: Apr 26 11:24:35 Info: auth(default): ldap(chad(a)rkba.com, 67.171.127.191): base=dc=shire, dc=net scope=subtree filter=(& (objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=chad(a)rkba.com)) fields=shireNetUserPassword which shows the original default user_filter What do I need to do to have it use the one I give in the dovecat- ldap.conf and not the default? The dovecot-ldap.conf is being used as it is going against my ldap server thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net

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RE: [Dovecot] Bug: maidirsize double counting moved messages
by Bill Boebel 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Sorry, I left in a comment from testing: < if (mbox->storage->copy_with_hardlinks && < mail->box->storage == mbox->ibox.box.storage) { --- > if (mbox->storage->copy_with_hardlinks) { On Wed, April 26, 2006 10:37, Bill Boebel <bill(a)webmail.us> said: > On Fri, April 21, 2006 15:01, Bill Boebel <bill(a)webmail.us> said: > > The maildirsize file is double counting messages when moving them from > > folder to folder when "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no": > > > > When I change "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks" to "yes", this problem only > > occurs when moving in and out of the INBOX, but not when moving from > > subfolder to subfolder: > > Well... I don't think this is the correct fix below, but it did the trick in our > environment when maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes. I think the real problem is that > quota_default_alloc() is getting called twice. Once from somewhere in > mail_storage_copy() -> maildir_copy() -> mailbox_save_init(), and a second time > somewhere after that. > > src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-copy.c > @136 > > < if (mbox->storage->copy_with_hardlinks/* && > < mail->box->storage == mbox->ibox.box.storage*/) { > --- > > if (mbox->storage->copy_with_hardlinks) { > > >

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[Dovecot] problems getting dovecot-LDA to work
by Alan Premselaar 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've setup a test machine and have been playing with dovecot-1.0beta7 and dovecot-lda in preparation for a migration from 0.99.x series. (hopefully with the ability to support imap-quotas) anyways, i've got it all compiled fine (as far as I can tell) and following the directions on the wiki for setting up dovecot LDA with sendmail. (I've had to alter the configuration a bit since using the mailertable didn't work with my actual hostname). when I try to use /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver via sendmail, i get a EX_TEMPFAIL. I logged into the machine as the user I'm trying to deliver mail for and do the following: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d alan and get the following error: deliver: Error: Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /var/spool/mail/alan (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) deliver: Fatal: Failed to create storage for 'alan' with mail '/var/spool/mail/alan' in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf I have the following: protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)pluto.valueclick.ne.jp auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u } I tried setting the default_mail_env with the same settings but got the same results (i did a complete restart of the dovecot services) I've even specified the config file with: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -c /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf -d alan with the same results. Google is not my friend with this problem. Can anyone point me in the right direction to solve this problem? Thanks, alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFETuHuE2gsBSKjZHQRArJlAJ0WDUgyH70sy00uX9FPIPJT+P8VagCg64qA bKDyLOaFibUU8RdaJjbOF7E= =ZY44 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Public Shares, Groups and Undeletable Sent E-mails?
by Gavin Henry 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Dear all, We would like to setup, if possible, for example: We have 4 example groups, we various users in those groups: Directors director1,director2 Support manager1,support1,support2,support3 Enquiries manager2,enquiry1,enquiry2,enquiry3 Accounts manager3, accounts1,account2 Shared Mailboxes: Support: Support, user1, user2, user3 Accounts: Directors, Support So basically, we want 2 public folder shares, with the names: Support Accounts Everyone in the Support group and user1-3 should be able to subscribe to the "Support" share. Everyone in the Directors and Support groups should be able to subscribe to the Accounts shares (only an example ;-) ). We also need to set it up that the Managers have visible in the available shares, all the employees that they look after. No private e-mail allowed. Symlinks for this? Is this possible? We already have the subscribtion file and index files saved in their own homedirs. Not sure how to even think about dovecot-shared file and symlinks etc? Lastly, can it be set so a user can't delete their sent e-mails? chattr -i on Sent folder, of ACL in Dovecot? Here's hoping this is all possible ;-) Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] login_process_per_user I cant find this???
by Max Stam 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi All Just trying to config dovecot and I'm guessing there's been a change in the app. In the dovecot.conf and on http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig I see "Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_user is yes, this is the number of extra processes waiting for users to log in." but as a config option I only see "login_process_per_connection = yes" Has "login_process_per_user" been changed to "login_process_per_connection = yes"? Thanks Max

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[Dovecot] Sanity checking on dovecot
by Jon Callas 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

I'm setting up a new server. I have a couple of dozen users, and several domains. I've set up Postfix as my MTA, and it's dropping things into maildirs. Now I want to get Dovecot to work for POP/IMAP. (Getting SMTP AUTH to work is also on the agenda, but slightly tangential.) Postfix is putting things into /var/mail/vhosts, an example line in my vmailbox file is: test(a)callas.org callas.org/test/ Dovecot is installed via darwinports. (Oh, yeah, this server is an Intel dual-core Mac Mini running OS X 10.4 -- *not* OSX Server.) So I need to figure out how to get dovecot to authenticate in my users. From reading <http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers> and <http:// wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication> it will be easiest for me to set up a passwd-file authentication. So I would make some file somewhere in passwd-file format. As an example, I might set up "test(a)callas.org" as: test@callas.org:{plain}pass:1000:1000:Test User:<I think no home dir is needed>::mail=maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/callas.org/test/ Is this reasonable? Is there something easier that I'm missing? Jon

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[Dovecot] Plan/Status of MBX support?
by Jiaying Xu 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hi, All, I've been happy user of dovocot as far. It is easy to configure, reliable and secure. Hat off to all developers who make this possible! I know dovecot is on the mailbox format front, it supports both mbox and maildir format well, and is developing and experimenting a new flexible format, dbox. But is there any plan to add mbx (i.e., indexed mbox format) support, to complete the set? There is some circumstance that mbox format is chosen over the mordern maildir format, For example in our situation, we receive many, many small messages and it would be expensive to create so many files with maildir. And we do a lot of searching - again a single mbox is faster in searching. Now the problem is, we have to use the tranditional mbox format with dovecot, as it does not support indexed mbox format, which makes deleting messages costly. Also the long-time file locking (due to the slow operation on the dovecot side) causes our MTA (exim, by the way) holds a huge queue. That drives up the system load to mad (load average above 500 is not unusual in our case). If dovecot support index mbox format, we be in the havean! But is there a plan to add this support in the near future? Thanks, JY

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[Dovecot] Test migration (IMAP copy) and INTERNALDATE?
by Apps Lists 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

We're trying some migration tests ... from CommuniGate to Dovecot. The migration program does an APPEND into the new mailbox: src>: a0 FETCH 2900 (FLAGS INTERNALDATE RFC822.PEEK) src<: * 2900 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "29-Aug-2005 18:36:54 +0000" RFC822 {1194157} src<: ) dst>: bAPP APPEND "INBOX" (\Seen) "29-Aug-2005 18:36:54 +0000" {1194157} dst<: + OK It appears to be trying to set the message date... in this example, to 29 Aug 2005. Dovecot seems to be ignoring it. Am I doing something wrong, or does Dovecot not allow this? Steve

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA with sendmail/Mailscanner
by Gerhard Wiesinger 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Hello! I'm running dovecot in a sendmail/Mailscanner/procmail/mbox environment. I want to use dovecot lda because index files aren't updated when using sendmail as lda. Has someone this combination running and some configuration hints so that sendmail, Mailscanner and procmail ist working well. Does procmail work with lda, too? Thank you for the answer. Ciao, Gerhard

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[Dovecot] LOCK FILE
by Alex 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

i'm working with exim 4.60, with mbox, and dovecot dovecot-1.0.beta7, and filesystem quotas default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail::INBOX=%h/mbox:INDEX=/tmp/%u lock_method = dotlock fcntl mbox_read_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl The home of users is /home/usuaris/user Where place dovecot the lock file?

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[Dovecot] maildir memory usage
by lenny＠edpausa.com 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Dovecot beta 5 + dovecot lda, solaris 9 sparc. Dovecot seems to use a lot of memory with large Maildir folders, ( 300-500 mb folder - 100-200 mb process), something I never noticed with similarly large mboxes. Is that expected behavior or are my observations incorrect.

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[Dovecot] Just setup Dovecot and having a small problem.
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

I've just installed Dovecot and am running into a bit of a problem with it. I'm using virtual email accounts and everything seems to be working up to a certain point. Let me break down how the server is setup. Each domain belongs under the directory /mail so it's path is basically: /mail/domain.tld. Within each domain directory there are two sub-directories etc and mail. Under /mail/domain.tld/etc I have two files setup aliases and passwd, the aliases file handles all mail aliasing for that domain and the passwd file holds the users account name and password. The password file has the accounts stored in the following format: user@domain.tld:(encrypted password):500:500:Virtual User:/mail/domain.tld/mail/user:/dev/null The password enctryption is basically htpasswd() style encryption. Now the problem I'm having is I keep getting authentication errors when I try to login via POP3 (I'm testing via command line so I do `telnet localhost 110`). At first I had only auth_debug_passwords=yes set and I was seeing this in the log file: Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Isecured^Ilip= 127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Iresp=AHRvbUBkZXRyb2l0b25saW5lLmNvbQBuZXdiZXJn Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): pam(user(a)domain.tld,127.0.0.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /mail/domain.tld/etc/passwd: Read 1 users Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(user(a)domain.tld, 127.0.0.1): unknown user Apr 23 18:54:20 www dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser= user(a)domain.tld So I can see it's reading the proper password file but it claims that user doesn't exist, however, that user does exist. When I turn on auth_verbose=yes and I'm still seeing the same errors in the log file. Can someone tell me what I'm missing here? I'm really on a time crunch with this, our mail server died friday morning and it's been put on me to fix it. They insist I use UW IMAP but I can't get it to work with the vitrtual users like the previous guy did. I've used Dovecot before but it's been two years and I can't remember how I got everything working before. They want things back to normal by Monday morning (tomorrow) so now I'm a bit stressed since I've lost most my weekend rebuilding the server and users. Any help would be appreciated. I thought I had this setup just right but I just can't get passed it telling me the user doesn't exsist.

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[Dovecot] PINE + dovecot
by Richard Randriatoamanana 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Hi list, I have installed dovecot on fedora4 and I migrated courier-imap to dovecot with instructions given on the site. everthing works fine for thunderbird, horde, evolution and mail/macosx.. but i have some pbs with pine because it doesnt read .subscriptions and directories aren't seen as it should be seen like in the .subscription. maybe i should reconfigure the .pinerc correctly, but what should I put in place then? does anyone have a .pinerc template that reads like other mail browsers with dovecot? Thanks in advance Cheers. Richard

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Re: [Dovecot] IMAP/Plain Text issue with Dovecot
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

On 4/24/06, Peter Fern <dovecot(a)obfusc8.org> wrote: > > Tom Ray wrote: > > > I finally got Dovecot working pretty good I just have one small > > problem. I can't seem to log in via IMAP, now everything works great > > through POP but when I try to login via IMAP I get the following error: > > > > "PLAIN authentication failed. None of the authentication methods > > supported by your IMAP server are supported this computer" > > > > Anyone seen this before? > > > From the config file: > > # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless > # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and > # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if > # you connect from those addresses. > disable_plaintext_auth = yes When I do this both IMAP AND POP stop working. When I have it set to disable_plaintext_auth = no I can get POP working but IMAP throws back errors. Any other thoughts?

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[Dovecot] Solved problem with index corruption (new mail not seen)
by Tom Alsberg 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Having had many problems in the past with IDLE not working, new messages not being seen from Thunderbird, and sometimes garbage seen as part of mailboxes, I eventually added some workaround/sanity check patch to the imap_sync_deinit code to reread the offsets from the index and that solved the problem. Now with beta7 (I've previously used beta2), this seems not to be necessary anymore. I installed vanilla beta7 and couldn't reproduce the problem in any way! I'm not sure what has changed there, and haven't yet checked if I see anything relevant, so this is just to let you know, and ask - any idea which change could have caused this. Happily I will soon be going on with working around other issues I have here, and start bugging you in the list again. Cheers, -- Tom -- 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] IMAP/Plain Text issue with Dovecot
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

I finally got Dovecot working pretty good I just have one small problem. I can't seem to log in via IMAP, now everything works great through POP but when I try to login via IMAP I get the following error: "PLAIN authentication failed. None of the authentication methods supported by your IMAP server are supported this computer" Anyone seen this before?

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[Dovecot] Saving Maildir with Samba
by Brad Bateman 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

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Re: [Dovecot] Just setup Dovecot and having a small problem.
by Tom Ray 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

On 4/23/06, Angel Pavlov <angel(a)coffeejob.com> wrote: > > Tom Ray wrote: > > I've just installed Dovecot and am running into a bit of a problem with > it. I'm using virtual email accounts and everything seems to be working up > to a certain point. Let me break down how the server is setup. > > Each domain belongs under the directory /mail so it's path is basically: > /mail/domain.tld. Within each domain directory there are two sub-directories > etc and mail. Under /mail/domain.tld/etc I have two files setup aliases and > passwd, the aliases file handles all mail aliasing for that domain and the > passwd file holds the users account name and password. The password file has > the accounts stored in the following format: > > user@domain.tld:(encrypted <user@domain.tld:%28encrypted>password):500:500:Virtual User:/mail/domain.tld/mail/user:/dev/null > > The password enctryption is basically htpasswd() style encryption. Now the > problem I'm having is I keep getting authentication errors when I try to > login via POP3 (I'm testing via command line so I do `telnet localhost > 110`). At first I had only auth_debug_passwords=yes set and I was seeing > this in the log file: > > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): client in: > AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Isecured^Ilip= > 127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Iresp=AHRvbUBkZXRyb2l0b25saW5lLmNvbQBuZXdiZXJn > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): pam(user(a)domain.tld,127.0.0.1): > pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file > /mail/domain.tld/etc/passwd: Read 1 users > Apr 23 18:54:19 www dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file(user(a)domain.tld, > 127.0.0.1): unknown user > Apr 23 18:54:20 www dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser= > user(a)domain.tld > > So I can see it's reading the proper password file but it claims that user > doesn't exist, however, that user does exist. When I turn on > auth_verbose=yes and I'm still seeing the same errors in the log file. > > Can someone tell me what I'm missing here? I'm really on a time crunch > with this, our mail server died friday morning and it's been put on me to > fix it. They insist I use UW IMAP but I can't get it to work with the > vitrtual users like the previous guy did. I've used Dovecot before but it's > been two years and I can't remember how I got everything working before. > They want things back to normal by Monday morning (tomorrow) so now I'm a > bit stressed since I've lost most my weekend rebuilding the server and > users. > > Any help would be appreciated. I thought I had this setup just right but I > just can't get passed it telling me the user doesn't exsist. > > > try : > > 1. htpasswd file formated : user@domain.tld:(encrypted<user@domain.tld:%28encrypted>password) > 2. Without PAM > > good luck ! > > Angel > I'm still getting told that the user doesn't exist. It's loading the proper password file, but it just doesn't see the user...it should be parsing it right correct?

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[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot-lda with imap and Maildir
by Angel Pavlov 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hello all, I've installed dovecot-lda today and it's working fine. But with Maildir mailboxes and imap (connected) I have some strange log messeges : Apr 23 14:28:49 shark postfix/pipe[3211]: A244E3040A2: to=<angel(a)coffeejob.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0, status=sent (coffeejob.com) Apr 23 14:28:49 shark postfix/qmgr[26922]: A244E3040A2: removed Apr 23 14:28:49 shark dovecot: imap(angel(a)coffeejob.com): Corrupted transaction log file /var/spool/mail/coffeejob.com/angel/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x8080, offset=420, size=0) Apr 23 14:28:49 shark dovecot: imap(angel(a)coffeejob.com): Unexpected transaction log desync with index /var/spool/mail/coffeejob.com/angel/Maildir/dovecot.index I'm using dovecot-lda from cvs (2006-04-23) and dovecot-1.0_beta3 ( from gentoo )* *Someone have an idea how to solve this problem ? Angel

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 36, Issue 72
by Jiaying Xu 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hi, I am not sure if I can post or not. I believe I subscribed and I sent a post to dovecot(a)dovecot.org yesterday but has not seen my post yet. Sorry if I am too dumb to understand how this mailing list works. JX

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[Dovecot] Bug: quota-maildir.c, array accessed out of bounds
by Bill Boebel 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Timo, In src/plugins/quota/quota-maildir.c, in the maildirsize_read() function, if the maildirsize file is greater that 5120 bytes, this code breaks because the while loop executes multiple times, incrementing size to a value larger than 5120, and then size is later used to referece the buf array out of bounds. To fix it you could add a break statement after "size+= ret;" so that the while loop is always only executed once: char buf[5120+1]; ... size = 0; while ((ret = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)-1)) != 0) { if (ret < 0) { if (errno == ESTALE) break; mail_storage_set_critical(storage, "read(%s) failed: %m", path); } size += ret; } if (ret < 0 || size == sizeof(buf)-1) { /* error / recalculation needed. */ (void)close(fd); t_pop(); return ret < 0 ? -1 : 0; } /* file is smaller than 5120 bytes, which means we can use it */ root->total_bytes = root->total_count = 0; /* skip the last line if there's no LF at the end */ while (size > 0 && buf[size-1] != '\n') size--; buf[size] = '\0';

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[Dovecot] PAM authentication woes with MacOSX
by Jim Reid 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Hi. I've just compiled and installed 1.0beta7 on MacOSX 10.4.6. I have lost the battle with PAM authentication. When I connect to the IMAP server and provide the correct user name and password, the mail client is told authentication failed. Here's what's in the log: Apr 21 22:47:43 shaun dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=195.54.233.68 rip=195.54.233.69 resp=AGppbQB1bmxpbmsoLik= Apr 21 22:47:43 shaun dovecot: auth(default): pam(jim,195.54.233.69): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Apr 21 22:47:45 shaun dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 user=jim Apr 21 22:47:53 shaun dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 3 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=195.54.233.68 rip=195.54.233.69 resp=AGppbQB1bmxpbmsoLik= Apr 21 22:47:53 shaun dovecot: auth(default): pam(jim,195.54.233.69): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Apr 21 22:47:53 shaun dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 3 user=jim Apr 21 22:47:55 shaun dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<jim>, method=PLAIN, rip=195.54.233.69, lip=195.54.233.68, TLS After some googling, I found a posting from this list that claimed the following PAM setup would work for MacOSX: # dovecote: auth account password session auth required pam_nologin.so auth sufficient pam_securityserver.so auth sufficient pam_unix.so auth required pam_deny.so account required pam_permit.so password required pam_deny.so session required pam_uwtmp.so It didn't. :-( If it had, I wouldn't be posting this. :-) BTW, that posting said the wiki entry for PAM didn't work on MacOSX. Which is true. I tried that unsuccessfully too. Can anyone shed any light on what's been misconfigured or how to turn on enough debugging to show where I'm going wrong? Thanks. BTW, here's what I think is the relevant bit of dovecote.conf: auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { args = dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root }

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[Dovecot] Bug: maidirsize double counting moved messages
by Bill Boebel 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

The maildirsize file is double counting messages when moving them from folder to folder when "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no": 1024000000000S 99337571 19370 14010590 2 <--- moved from subfolder to subfolder -7005295 -1 14010590 2 <--- moved from subfolder to INBOX -7005295 -1 14010590 2 <--- moved from INBOX to subfolder -7005295 -1 14010590 2 <--- moved from subfolder to subfolder -7005295 -1 When I change "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks" to "yes", this problem only occurs when moving in and out of the INBOX, but not when moving from subfolder to subfolder: 7005295 1 <--- moved from subfolder to subfolder -7005295 -1 14010590 2 <--- moved from subfolder to INBOX -7005295 -1 14010590 2 <--- moved from INBOX to subfolder -7005295 -1 7005295 1 <--- moved from subfolder to subfolder -7005295 -1

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[Dovecot] Question about mail storage
by Stewart Dean 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

I am in the throes of trying to understand all the issues of transforming an old UW Imap server with mbox (I think) INBOX format running sendmail and procmail serving 3500 users to dovecot and maildir format. Currently, the folders are under ~/mail and the INBOXes are under /var/spool/mail. If I understand correctly, the typical default Dovecot/maildir format installation will have both the INBOX and folders (prefixed with a period), so they take the format: .<foldername>) under ~/Maildir. Right? I am planning to do a gradual phaseover of one chunk of ids at a time........ "I am in a maze of twisty tunnels, all alike. A dwarf runs by........" Some questions: 1) In the UW IMap docs, formats.txt discusses a bunch of different mailbox formats. I am unclear as to whether I currently have what Crispin describes at .unix format or .mbx format. > . unix This is the traditional UNIX mailbox format, in use for nearly > 30 years. It uses a line starting with "From " to indicate > start of message, and stores the message status inside the > RFC822 message header. > > unix is not particularly efficient; the entire mailbox file > must be read when the mailbox is open, and when reading message > texts it is necessary to convert the newline convention to > Internet standard CR LF form. unix preserves UIDs, and allows > the creation of keywords. > > Only one process may have a unix-format mailbox open > read/write at a time. > and ... > . mbx This is the current preferred mailbox format. It can be > handled quite efficiently by c-client, without the problems > that exist with unix and mmdf formats. Messages are stored > in Internet standard CR LF format. > > mbx permits shared access, including shared expunge. It > preserves UIDs, and allows the creation of keywords. How do I tell them apart? Alternately, how do I tell if what I now have (some sort of one big single-file INBOX) is mbox? Or is what he's referring to as unix just mbox 2) How to change Where Things End Up a) The users' ~/.procmailrc pretty much consists of: MAILDIR=$HOME/mail Am I correct in assuming that this should be changed to: MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ ? b) Mail appears to end up in /var/spool/mail/<username> because that's the procmail default (ORGMAIL). To redirect individual users (because this will be a gradual changeover), am I correct in assuming that putting: DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ in ~/.procmailrc will redirect incoming mail? 3) I see that, in the default configuration, /everything/ will now be under ~/Maildir and thus in the home directories. Is there a reason to get away from a separate INBOX directory (we use /var/spool/mail)? I'd have to rebuild the homedir filesystems to accommodate the INBOX demands. This isn't all that big a deal, I'd like to understand the rationale..or should I just bow to the inevitable? 4) Pardon my stupidity, but how is the Dovecot INBOX under maildir++ organized? a) Is it a separate directory under ~/Maildir (say ~/Maildir/INBOX or some such) that has a separate file for each message or b) are the INBOX messages just mixed in with the folders under ~/Maildir. If so, how are they differentated? Enlighten my ignorance,.please! I've been reading docs today until my brain feels like custard, but I couldn't seem to get clear definitive answers to these questions........ Thanks in advance. -- ==== 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

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[Dovecot] How to configure virtual use suport.
by Slawomir Orlowski (Cympak) 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hello, I have RHEL v4 Linux. I have always been using exim with teapop (po3 client) for my emails. I would like to try dovecot (imap) because I would like to implement squirrelmail. I'm hosting several domains with email each on different IP. I have the some user names in different domains with my pop3 teapop. Can I have it with dovecot. I managed to configure exim to deliver messages for localuser to Maildir directory. directory = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}/Maildir and for virtual_users to Maildir directory. directory = /var/spool/mail/${domain}/${local_part}/Maildir This is working. Email are delivered. But I cannot to connect with my Outlook Express to imap server and download them. I cannot see how dovecot would differentiate between users with the some named in different domains. I believe that me configurations is not right. I would like for starters to have real user to be checked (like in teapop) against /etc/password /etc/shadow file, and virtual user against /etc/mail/passwd.domain file which would contain login:passwd pairs. Do I need like with teapop different IP for every domain ? How do I do that? Any advice would be appreciated. I'm going for a few days vacation I hope that somebody will be able to give me some hints. I have attached my dovecot.conf file. regards Slawomir Orlowski

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[Dovecot] INBOX as mbox, other mailboxes as maildir
by Paul de Weerd 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

All, I'm trying to teach dovecot to use the mbox format for /var/mail/%u and maildir for /home/%u/Mail/ but I'm having quite a hard time. This is Dovecot v1.0.beta3 under OpenBSD 3.9 on sparc64. I've been fiddling with default_mail_env and also tried separate namespaces, but all to no avail. Here's some of the things I tried : default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u ... default_mail_env = INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u:MAIL=maildir:/home/%u/Maildir/ ... namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes location = mbox:/var/mail/%u } namespace private { separator = / prefix = "Folders/" location = maildir:/home/%u/Mail } ... But all it does is complain that my mbox files dont have a cur/ directory in them or create mbox-type files in /home/%u/mail/, in stead of saving my mail in a maildir under /home/%u/Mail/. So using namespaces doesn't seem to be such a good idea after all, I can have extra maildirs under Folders/ in ~/Mail, but that's not where my IMAP client saves its sent mail. I'm quite obviously doing something wrong, is this possible at all ? What is the correct incantation for the default_mail_env setting for such a setup ? Any clues would be greatly appreciated, Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/

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Re: [Dovecot] mountpoint_get broke the quota plugin
by Bill Boebel 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

On Fri, April 21, 2006 9:35, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> said: > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 08:17 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote: > > Looks like the new mountpoint_get code broke the quota plugin. > > That's because linker is being smart and not linking the mountpoint code > in because it's not used by the binary itself. Fixed now in CVS by > linking mountpoint.o file manually to imap and deliver binaries. Cool. Thanks for fixing this. Bill

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[Dovecot] multiple domains for the same user
by pyroneus 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

I have postfix and dovecot set up to use virtual domains. I am now experiencing a problem that when I log in as user1(a)domain1.tld and then log in as user1(a)domain2.tld all the emails are downloaded for user1(a)domain2.tld as it thinks all the messages are new. is there anyway to stop dovecot from saying that all the messages are new?

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[Dovecot] dovecot.rawlog for imap-login
by Jared 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

I'm trying to see what users are sending for login. I added the rawlog binary in front of the imap-login in the config file. I'm not seeing any rawlogs. I added the dovecot.rawlog in the dovecot user directory (since that's what the imap-login process seems to run as) and it's permission are wide open. Still nothing. Help?

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[Dovecot] Very Complex Master Password Challenge
by Marc Perkel 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

This might require adding some new code to Dovecot to pull this off. But it would be extremely powerful if I could get this to work. Here's the situation. Having a master password is great for helping users and doing tech support. But - suppose I'm hosting many domains and I want to create master passwords for each domain separately so that the owners of the domain can log in as any user within that domain? Here's the way I have things set up. I have a directory of passwd/shadow pairs for each domain as follows: /etc/vmail/passwd.domain1.com /etc/vmail/shadow.domain1.com /etc/vmail/passwd.domain2.com /etc/vmail/shadow.domain2.com Additionally I have a master domain used for management of the other domains. The master domain is an email account for each domain under the domain junkemailfilter.net. domain1.com(a)junkemailfilter.net domain2.com(a)junkemailfilter.net The password and shadow files are like the others: /etc/vmail/passwd.junkemailfilter.net /etc/vmail/shadow.junkemailfilter.net So - the idea is that the owners of the domain have access to the email accounts on junkemailfilter.net and what I'm hoping to do is that they can use this as the master password for their domain only. Example: domain1.com(a)junkemailfilter.net domain2.com(a)junkemailfilter.net I suppose that the master password feature needs another new feature to limit the scope of what it is allowed to be a master password for. Something perhaps like: passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/vmail/shadow.junkemailfilter.net master = yes scope = *@%u } In the above example "%u" is the user part of the master password. So that that master user would be for example "domain1.com(a)junkemailfilter.net" and it would be the master password only for users of domain1.com and not domain2.com. So - if you can follow this - then you will see that this would be a really cool feature to have. And - I'm guessing that it might be easy to implement.

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[Dovecot] okay, working, but not quite pretty...
by Chris Lea 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi all. I got my previous problem fixed. Effective uid and gid fix in dovecot.conf file made it work. However, I'm still seeing this in my /var/log/dovecot.conf dovecot: 2006-04-13 21:09:00 Info: imap(chl(a)iaminla.com): Effective uid=1000, gid=1000 The uid and gid *should* both be 1009, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to configure that. I looked around the list and couldn't find the answer. Help a noob out please? I promise I'll write up a detailed howto for my debian + postfix + dovecot using static userdb's when I have it all working. :) -- --------------------------------------------------------------- "When moderate to highly intelligent people get bored, bad things happen." -- Ann Moreno (310) 709-4021 http://www.chrislea.com ---------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Master Password not working
by Marc Perkel 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Trying to get the master password to work. What am I doing wrong? Trying this test: /etc/dovecot.masterusers master:{plain}test 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 } } } telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.ctyme.com (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. 1 login master*marc(a)perkel.com test 1 NO Authentication failed. Thanks in advance.

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[Dovecot] dovecot died
by Obantec Support 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi Still running 1.0 stable (an old release i know but until i see more stable reports on beta7 i will hold out). last night is the first time in months the dovecot has died. maillog has repeated lines of this. Apr 16 02:31:37 proteus2 dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot.log just shows last login Apr 16 02:31:36 Info: pop3-login: Login: username [IP] i restarted it Apr 16 08:38:04 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up and now it seems ok. anyone got a monitor script for watching the dovecot daemon and send a start if it dies? Mark

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[Dovecot] hard link between courierimapuiddb and dovecot-uidlist?
by Jeff Tucker 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi, guys. I'm attempting to transition between Courier IMAP and Dovecot. I may not be able to transition all the courierimapuiddb files instantly or even transition all my servers at the same time. Ideally, it wouldn't matter. Users can login and get to a Courier IMAP machine or a Dovecot machine and read their email (all mounted via NFS). My question is: is there any reason I can't just do a hard link between courierimapuiddb and dovecot-uidlist? That way, I can transition users over to Dovecot at my leisure. And, if I need to, I can move back to Courier. The hard link is essentially free and lets me make sure these files stay synced. Thanks Jeff

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[Dovecot] Beta 7 maildir++ "unlimited quota"
by Apps Lists 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi. It looks like Beta 7 is treating a zero quota in maildirsize as a literal quota value. The maildir++ specification says a zero quota means unlimited. Steve

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[Dovecot] Error by POP3 login
by Marc-André Appel 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hello! After the success to get Dovecot finally running i have now another problem, but don't know what is wrong there, this is the message i got: pop3(contact(a)maddy.cc): Failed to create storage with data: /var/vmail/maddy.cc/contact/ What does it mean? Thanks for help! -- Marc-André Appel 1, Caball d'en Boux F-66740 Villelongue dels Monts France +33.(0)6.86.82.41.31

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[Dovecot] UIDL documentation
by Mark E. Mallett 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi, I see this in the 1.0-beta7 dovecot-example.conf file: # If you want UIDL compatibility with other POP3 servers, use: # UW's ipop3d : %08Xv%08Xu # Courier version 0 : %f # Courier version 1 : %u # Courier version 2 : %v-%u # Cyrus (<= 2.1.3) : %u # Cyrus (>= 2.1.4) : %v.%u # Older Dovecots : %v.%u # # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which was # Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good # idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe. # # NOTE: Nowadays this is required to be set explicitly, since the old # default was bad but it couldn't be changed without breaking existing # installations. %08Xu%08Xv will be the new default, so use it for new # installations. and on the wiki at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration there is this: By default Dovecot generates POP3 UIDs differently than UW-IMAP. If you want to preserve them, with 0.99.x you'll have to patch Dovecot. With 1.0-tests you can use: pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu In the dovecot-example.conf file, it appears that the mentions of "%08Xu%08Xv" as being fail-safe and being the new default may be typos, since that format doesn't seem to come from anywhere. Should they not say "%08Xv%08Xu" ? (It'll still provide the same sort of unique value, only with the ends reversed; i.e. it should still work ok. But consistency and compatibility is nice.) mm

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[Dovecot] unlink a directory
by Alfred Tuinman 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi, Occasionally I get an error message in my dovecot log when, in evolution, I click on the inbox: dovecot: Apr 21 00:07:06 Error: imap(admin): unlink(/home/admin/.maildir/cur/1145393825.P23027Q0M159929.terminator.odyssey.nl:2,ST) failed: Is a directory Instead of the message being delivered as a file it appears to be written as a directory. Deleting those directories solves the error message from reappearing. Any ideas? I use FC5, dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7, postfix-2.2.8-1.2, procmail-3.22-16.2.1 Regards, Alfred

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[Dovecot] Permissions for Public Namespace?
by Gavin Henry 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Dear List, We've been following: http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders But all we can do is subscribe. Our users can't create folders, move e-mails into the top level folder etc. Am I not grasping the shared folders idea correctly? Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] beta7: assert, Solaris 9
by Jeff A. Earickson 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Hi, An assertion that I haven't seen before: Apr 20 11:15:32 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(user): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion failed: (start_pos < data_size) gdb output from the core file of imap is attached. My setup: Solaris 9, mbox format, INBOX is NFS mounted from a Solaris 10 system, imap and imaps only. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Maildir++ Unlimited Quota.
by Apps Lists 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Does this Maildir++ implementation have an "unlimited" quota? It looks like all of the other Maildir++ software uses "0" for this ... it doesn't seem to work on Dovecot. Steve

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird IMAP + TLS error
by Joao Inacio 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Hi, i'm having a weird message connecting to an account using IMAP + TLS from thunderbird (evolution works great, so does SSL in thunderbird, haven't tested anywhere else yet): "You cannot login to <domain> because the server has disabled login. You may need to connect via SSL or TLS. Please check..." in auth.log all i have is: "imap-login: Aborted login: rip=<my ip>, lip=<server ip> Any thoughts? -- João Inácio http://www.jcinacio.com

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[patch] Re: [Dovecot] Test migration (IMAP copy) and INTERNALDATE?]
by Apps Lists 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

I haven't been able to find what is responsible for altering the time on APPENDed mail, but was able to come up with a temporary workaround ... simply calling utime() later on in the process resolves it. Below is my patch. Steve --- dovecot-1.0.beta7-orig/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-save.c 2006-03-25 05:53:43.000000000 -0500 +++ dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-save.c 2006-04-19 09:47:32.000000000 -0400 @@ -70,9 +70,20 @@ t_strconcat(ctx->newdir, "/", basename, NULL) : t_strconcat(ctx->curdir, "/", dest, NULL); - if (link(tmp_path, new_path) == 0) + if (link(tmp_path, new_path) == 0) { ret = 0; - else { + if (ctx->received_date != (time_t)-1) { + struct utimbuf buf; + /* set the received_date by modifying mtime */ + buf.actime = ioloop_time; + buf.modtime = ctx->received_date; + if (utime(new_path, &buf) < 0) { + ctx->failed = TRUE; + mail_storage_set_critical(STORAGE(ctx->mbox->storage), + "utime(%s) failed: %m", new_path); + } + } + } else { ret = -1; if (ENOSPACE(errno)) { mail_storage_set_error(STORAGE(ctx->mbox->storage), @@ -332,18 +343,6 @@ t_push(); path = t_strconcat(ctx->tmpdir, "/", ctx->files->basename, NULL); - if (ctx->received_date != (time_t)-1) { - /* set the received_date by modifying mtime */ - buf.actime = ioloop_time; - buf.modtime = ctx->received_date; - - if (utime(path, &buf) < 0) { - ctx->failed = TRUE; - mail_storage_set_critical(STORAGE(ctx->mbox->storage), - "utime(%s) failed: %m", path); - } - } - output_errno = ctx->output->stream_errno; o_stream_destroy(&ctx->output); > Ok, this is looking less like a feature request and more like a bug > report. > > The function maildir_save_finish() in > lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-save.c is being passed the correct > time information, and is setting the mtime properly with a call to > utime(). > > It is doing this operation on a file that lives in /tmp. > > For example: > > -rw------- 1 121030 mail 26548 Mar 15 03:22 > /var/mailstore/94/6d/121030/Maildir/.Deleted > Messages/tmp/1145379992.P26598Q0M182281.dev3.neonova.net > > Perfect. March 15th. > > Something then happens... what, I haven't yet found... but the message > gets moved from /tmp/: > > /var/mailstore/94/6d/121030/Maildir/.Deleted > Messages/cur/1145379992.P26598Q0M182281.dev3.neonova.net:2,S > > and then loses the timestamp of March 15th ... it picks up the current > date. > > Steve > > > >> We're trying some migration tests ... from CommuniGate to Dovecot. >> The migration program does an APPEND into the new mailbox: >> >> src>: a0 FETCH 2900 (FLAGS INTERNALDATE RFC822.PEEK) >> src<: * 2900 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) INTERNALDATE "29-Aug-2005 18:36:54 >> +0000" RFC822 {1194157} >> src<: ) >> dst>: bAPP APPEND "INBOX" (\Seen) "29-Aug-2005 18:36:54 +0000" >> {1194157} dst<: + OK >> >> It appears to be trying to set the message date... in this example, >> to 29 Aug 2005. >> >> Dovecot seems to be ignoring it. >> >> Am I doing something wrong, or does Dovecot not allow this? >> >> Steve

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[Dovecot] Does NIS/yp work for authentication
by Stewart Dean 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

If a host is running NIS (passwd file ends in +::0:0:::) authentication, will dovecot be able to authenticate with auth_userdb = passwd directly and automagically or do you have to do a ypcat passwd > pwfile periodically to generate a passwd file that dovecot can use? ? Thanks! -- ==== 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

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[Dovecot] Connection closed by foreign host.
by Stephen Allen 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

I'm writing this on behalf of someone else... They successfully setup Dovecot, and can login to Dovecot using telnet but as soon as they are logged in, they get the message "Connection closed by foreign host" and are disconnected. The user is a valid Linux user and the mail file exists under /var/mail. They say no errors are written to /var/log/maillog. # telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. USER mymailuser +OK PASS 123456 +OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. # Can anyone give me ideas where we would begin troubleshooting this? Many thanks, Steve :)

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DSPAM Plugin Deployment (Was Re: [Dovecot] Unoffical Survey - What MTA/Spam filtering do you use?)
by Timothy White 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

On 4/19/06, Johannes Berg <johannes(a)sipsolutions.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 22:56 +0200, Marcus Rueckert wrote: > > > libdspam instead of system("dspam...") > > That's a lot of work, how about calling to the dspam server instead? I'm about to start building a system for ~10,000 users, using dovecot, and was going to use dspam with it... Is this plugin ready for that kind of use? I'll have a global sieve running, cause users won't be able to have their own sieves. Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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Re: [Dovecot] Sieve Filtering?
by Bob Gustafson 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Sorry, sent my message (below) to the wrong guy. Dovecot-lda does a pretty good job of implementing the code to support sieve filters. My note was a testimonial to that fact. Just follow the Dovecot wiki instructions. Bob G On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 12:17 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: > Hi Bob, > > > * Bob Gustafson <bobgus(a)rcn.com>, Sunday, April 16, 2006, 6:12:55 AM: > > > I am using 1.0beta7 with dovecot.lda from CVS (see build and configure > > instructions in the dovecot wiki ) > > > My system is Fedora 5 running on a Raid 1 two disk pair. Boot, swap, and > > root are all raided as separate partitions and root is an LVM volume. > > > The only configuration problem was that dovecot as installed on Fedora 5 > > is in /usr/ and the compiled dovecot and dovecot-lda install in > > /usr/local/. I wanted to use the run-tme config files in /etc/ and some > > tweeks were necessary to the startup scripts. > > > I use Postfix on the mail machine and the remote clients are > > Netscape/mail, Evolution, and MacOSX mail. > > > Has been running fine for a few days. > > > Bob G > > What does this have to do with sieve Filtering??? > > Timo > > PS.: Please have a look at http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html

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[Dovecot] LDA Plugin Maybe?
by Timothy White 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

I was just looking into setting up DSPAM, with the Dovecot LDA. Essentially, what I was probably going to do, was use DSPAM as the Delivery agent, after postfix, and then have it pass it off to dovecot, or something along those lines. I just had an idea, if we start using libdspam, in the dspam plugin, or one of the other suggested methods, we could have a similar plugin in the LDA, so that if it's marked as spam, deliver it straight into the Spam folder! Also, with Sieve, can we make it create a folder if the folder doesn't exist, and can it modify the subscriptions file? Thanks Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Debian stable backport for 1.0beta7
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Just to let you know .debs are available at http://www.backports.org/ -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] POP3 login error, permissions problem?
by Marc-André Appel 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

Hello everybody! I was searching around for an solution of my problem what surely is just a little thing, but nothing helped me out. Here the error in the mail.log: pop3(contact(a)maddy.cc): Failed to create storage with data: /var/vmail/maddy.cc/contact/ pop3-login: Login: contact(a)maddy.cc [84.4.228.150] dovecot: child 30083 (pop3) returned error 89 Who has to be the owner/group for /var/vmail/maddy.cc and /contact ? Because i have the user 'virtual' who manages the maildirs and the accounts (via PostgreSQL) and the user dovecot, but i tried already different scenarios with both and still no success. Do you still have some hints what i do wrong? Have you an idea what is happen here? Thank you very much -- Marc-André Appel 1, Caball d'en Boux F-66740 Villelongue dels Monts France +33.(0)6.86.82.41.31

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Re: [Dovecot] migrate from cyrus with virtual domains
by Andrey Kolbasenko 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

> Check out the auth_username_translation and auth_username_format variables > in dovecot-example.conf. One of those might allow you to do what you want. > > Bill Thank's for reply, but I think this variable <auth_username_translation> switch all dot to @, not only first. And I can't find <auth_username_format> variable in dovecot-example.conf and all docs about dovecot. Andrey

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RE:[Dovecot] migrate from cyrus with virtual domains
by Bill Boebel 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

On Tue, April 18, 2006 5:16, Andrey Kolbasenko <edge(a)stv.ru> said: > But i don't know how i can switch my users to dovecot, wich have > dotted logins in their mail clients configuration: > user1.domain1.org Check out the auth_username_translation and auth_username_format variables in dovecot-example.conf. One of those might allow you to do what you want. Bill

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[Dovecot] migrate from cyrus with virtual domains
by Andrey Kolbasenko 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

Hi All! I have worked cyrus+web-cyradm+mysql+virtualdomains configuration, and want migrate from cyrus to dovecot by some reason. But i don't know how i can switch my users to dovecot, wich have dotted logins in their mail clients configuration: user1.domain1.org user2.domain1.org user1.domain2.org ... I want preserve this dotted authentication theme, but don't know how do it with dovecot. --- Wbr, Andrey Kolbasenko

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[Dovecot] selinux
by Alfred Tuinman 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

Probably a very know problem but I fail to find a solution. selinux enforced makes the /etc/init.d/dovecot start command fail If I change it to permiscious mode then it works. Any idea how to solve this? I use FC5 with dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7 Thanks, Alfred

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[Dovecot] unofficial Survey about your Dovecot server :) to compare with my own server setup...
by Flavio Domingos 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

Hi Borthers/Sisters Thanks for all the developer(s) and for all the hard work spent on build this great piece of software! I loved Dovecot since it is really easy to set up and really fast but I am really new to it (only 2 weeks and half). Right now, our server configuration is: Server: Apple Xserve G5 dual RAM: 4GB Number of Users: ~ 150 IMAP only users Authentication: LDAP Mailboxes sizes: ~200GB Dovecot version: 1.0 Beta 5 (I am looking forward to beta 7 that was released today) Email client software: mostly Thunderbird 1.5 Right now, we are experiencing occasional problem with imap users unable to connect to the server. With beta 3, we had to restart the dovecot/imap processes almost every 3 hours. with Dovecot beta5 we still have to restart the processes but it seems to occur every 3 days (Friday and Yesterday) and only in a peak time (around 3pm). I am waiting to occur it again and I will be able to grab more information about the number of processes, users, virtual memory, etc, etc. So, at this point, I don't have much information to debug the problem. Let's wait. I guess we have here a nice machine (xserve) and not a huge number of users (~150). So, I would expect that our server would handle the load. But having to restart Dovecot once a while, as I described, is not an option (users are getting frustrated). :( Maybe with Beta 7 with the feature "Added shutdown_clients setting to control if existing imap/pop3 processes should be killed when master is" can stop our nightmares :) By the way, our dovecot.conf is basically the default sent with the software. We haven't changed much there! Meanwhile, I'd like to know, if possible, whar are you using to run Dovecot like hardware, OS version, number of users and problems that you are experiencing. I'd like to compare with my setup and if it is the case, migrate to pure Linux or FreeBSD if it is more stable than OS/X! Best Regards, Flavio Domingos - San Francisco/CA -

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[Dovecot] Error 127 / dovecot-auth problem?
by Marc-André Appel 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

Hello everybody! I try now since 2 days to get Dovecot working. First i tried it with apt-get install dovecot-imap dovecot-pop3 (Debian Sarge), but couldn't start it, syslog told: Apr 15 17:04:05 wpc2386 dovecot: Dovecot starting up Apr 15 17:04:06 wpc2386 dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Apr 15 17:04:06 wpc2386 dovecot: child 1310 (auth) returned error 127 Apr 15 17:04:06 wpc2386 imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Apr 15 17:04:06 wpc2386 imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Apr 15 17:04:06 wpc2386 pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Apr 15 17:04:06 wpc2386 last message repeated 2 times Because there's "(auth)" i tried to start dovecot-auth manually to see what happens, and i got this error-message: /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth: error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory A "find / * | grep libmysqlclient*" gives me a list of libs, but not a libmysqlclient.so.12. So my question is, where do i get this library? Or what do i have to do? Many thanks to you! -- Marc-André Appel 1, Caball d'en Boux F-66740 Villelongue dels Monts France +33.(0)6.86.82.41.31

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[Dovecot] Sieve Filtering?
by Gavin Young 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

I am wanting to set-up some basic sieve filtering on our Dovecot 1.0b7 box. Is this possible in 1.0b7? I'm completely new to sieve filtering so a basic dovecot sieve filtering how to would be fantastic! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Gavin

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[Dovecot] can't connect to smtp, or login to imap, pop3
by dtra-fyf 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

hi all i'm using fedora core 4, with postfix and dovecot (0.99) installed via yum i can send mail from the server (using mail), and i can receive mail in my user mailbox on the server but i can't send email using a client like thunderbird (it won't connect to the smtp server) and i can't download email from pop3 using thunderbird it always says authentication failed when i try to login using squirrelmail, it always says username and password incorrect but i know for sure the username and password are correct dovecot conf file is as folows -------imap_listen = [::] -------pop3_listen = [::] -------imaps_listen = [::] -------pop3s_listen = [::] -------ssl_cert_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot.pem -------ssl_key_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem -------mbox_locks = fcntl -------auth = default -------auth_mechanisms = plain -------auth_userdb = passwd -------auth_passdb = pam -------# i've tried with and without the next line, with no effect -------user = dovecot everything else is commented out this is the log file for dovecot -------dovecot: Apr 14 23:34:35 Info: Dovecot starting up -------pop3-login: Apr 14 23:34:52 Info: Disconnected [::ffff:###.##.###.###] -------imap-login: Apr 14 23:35:09 Info: Aborted login [::ffff:127.0.0.1] my iptables are as follows -------*filter -------:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] -------:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -------:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] --------A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 993 -j ACCEPT --------A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 110 -j ACCEPT --------A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT --------A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 143 -j ACCEPT --------A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT let me know, and i'll see if i can post the postfix conf/log file as well any ideas? thanks dave

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[Dovecot] Quota again
by Stian Jordet 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

Hi, quota is now working well, except that both quota-fs and quota-maildir is showing incorrect values. I have to use this patch to get correct numbers. I _know_ it's totally wrong, and that the cause have to be something else, I just want to know if this is something with my setup, or what? With these changes the values are correct (Indeed the quota-fs is correct, the quota-maildir is at least better...) Best regards, Stian --- quota-fs.c.old 2006-04-14 22:46:17.000000000 +0200 +++ quota-fs.c 2006-04-14 13:55:26.000000000 +0200 @@ -285,9 +285,9 @@ } #endif *value_r = (uint64_t)dqblk.dqb_curblocks * - (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024; + (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024 / 4096; *limit_r = (uint64_t)dqblk.dqb_bsoftlimit * - (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024; + (uint64_t)root->mount->blk_size / 1024 / 4; return 1; } --- quota-maildir.c.old 2006-04-14 22:46:17.000000000 +0200 +++ quota-maildir.c 2006-04-14 13:56:02.000000000 +0200 @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ if (strcmp(name, QUOTA_NAME_STORAGE) == 0) { *limit_r = root->message_bytes_limit / 1024; - *value_r = root->total_bytes / 1024; + *value_r = root->total_bytes / 10; } else if (strcmp(name, QUOTA_NAME_MESSAGES) == 0) { *limit_r = root->message_count_limit; *value_r = root->total_count;

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[Dovecot] ERROR
by Alex 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

What is this error? Apr 14 18:38:11 alexcasa dovecot: child 12276 (pop3) returned error 89 I'm working with dovecot-1.0.beta7 imaps works fine

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[Dovecot] dovecot error: unrecognized event
by david williams 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

I'm setting up a new server with dovecot 1.0b7. Whenever I try to connect with a mua (thunderbird or outlook) I get this error in the log: kernel: pid 53279 (pop3), uid 15008: exited on signal 6 Apr 14 10:52:54 dovecot: POP3(williams): Unrecognized event: kevent {.ident = 2, .filter = 0xfffffffe, .flags = 0x0001, .fflags = 0x00000000, .data = 0x00004000} Apr 14 10:52:54 dovecot: child 53279 (pop3) killed with signal 6 The system is freebsd 6 with maildir in nfs mounted home dirs. Any ideas on what the problem is?

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[Dovecot] configure option to add QUOTA to IMAP CAPABILITY?
by Apps Lists 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

I'd really like to see a configure option to add "QUOTA" to the CAPABILITY response. I always forget to modify configure and add it manually when compiling new versions. Thanks! Steve

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[Dovecot] 1.0.beta6 released
by Timo Sirainen 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

Fixes, mostly: * The login and master usernames were reversed when using master_user_separator (now the order is UW-IMAP compatible). * Killing dovecot master process now kills all IMAP and POP3 processes also. + -a parameter to dovecot prints now all settings that Dovecot uses. -n prints all settings that are different from defaults. + Added pop3_lock_session setting + %M modifier returns string's MD5 sum. Patch by Ben Winslow - PLAIN SASL authentication wasn't working properly, causing failed logins with some clients (broken in beta4) - Fixes to Maildir++ quota, should actually work now - Don't crash if passwd-file has entries without passwords (eg. deny=yes databases) - Fixed prefetch userdb to work nicely with other userdbs - If master process runs out of file descriptors, don't go to infinite loop (unlikely to have happened unless the OS's default fd limit was too low) - Fixed non-plaintext password lookups from LDAP. Patch by Lior Okman - %U modifier was actually lowercasing the string. Patch by Ben Winslow

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[Dovecot] Re: unofficial Survey about your Dovecot server :) to compare with my own server setup...
by Roger Weeks 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

I've posted this to the Wiki as requested. Servers: 2 SuperMicro single-Xeon (dual-capable) 2.8, 1gb RAM, mirrored SATA boot Storage: 1 SuperMicro dual-Zeon 2.8, 2gb RAM, 600GB RAID5 SATA shared via NFS over GigE OS: RHEL 4 Users: 10,000 mostly POP users, SquirrelMail IMAP Auth: MySQL Maildir size: daily averages about 50gb Dovecot version: 1.0 beta 5 Client Software: squirrelmail, outlook, outlook express, thunderbird, eudora, Apple Mail, Claris Emailer, and other odd clients too numerous to mention This system is intentionally over-engineered, to replace the single server Courier-IMAP system that it replaced. Load on each Dovecot/ SquirrelMail server is very low and allows for a lot of growth. Our incoming MTA is Exim, on another pair of SuperMicro machines writing to the same NFS over GigE. -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network

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[Dovecot] Feature request for pop3
by Adnae Mac Uthidir 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

Dear List, is it possible to integrate a function for timelimits the pop3-connects? I require this function for an email-masshosting-project. My problem is, the most customers will lookup all 30 seconds or 1 minutes for new mails, that is stupid so I mean. My idea is a function where the customer must wait (for example) 3 minutes for a pop3-connect and lookup for new emails. Is it possible? Thx for your help and for the very good software best regards, Sascha

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[Dovecot] Compile issues dovecot-1.0.beta7
by Mark E. Mallett 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

Hi, I haven't tried compiling 1.0 series since -test52, figured I'd give it a shot. There were a couple of minor problems. This is building on a fairly ancient BSD/OS box, so the issues may not be universal, but I suspect these ones are. ==================== Building in src/lib-dict/dict.c : loading the 'dict' program fails because it can't find various RAND and other functions. Adding -lcrypto fixes. I did this by hand rather than adjusting the configure script; looks like the need for -lcrypto is detected in other cases, but not here. ==================== In src/plugins/quota/quota-fs.c , line 276: #ifdef HAVE_QUOTACTL if (quotactl(QCMD(Q_GETQUOTA, USRQUOTA), root->mount->device_path, root->uid, (void *)&dqblk) < 0) { I believe the first two arguments are backwards, i.e., should be: if (quotactl(root->mount->device_path, QCMD(Q_GETQUOTA, USRQUOTA), root->uid, (void *)&dqblk) < 0) { I have a vague recollection of seeing this already being reported, but can't instantly find it, so what the hey. ==================== Yours, -mm-

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Re: [Dovecot] unofficial Survey about your Dovecot server :) to compare with my own server setup...
by Rory Campbell-Lange 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Server: VA-Linux 2U rackmount Board/CPU: dual PIII 800Mhz Disks: Megaraid R5, 10000rpm disks RAM: 1GB Users: 150 Imap only OS: Debian testing Auth: postgresql Mbx-size: 100MB-2GB (52GB live) Dovecot: 1.0.beta2 Client-SW: OSX Mail (95%), Squirrelmail, Outlook We use exim to authenticate against the same database. Because we have fairly draconian attachment size limits, the 52GB of mail we are serving contains a _lot_ of mail. Dovecot is working extremely well for us at this site, and several other smaller sites all using a combination of OSX Mail and Outlook. Regards, Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(a)campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

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[Dovecot] 1.0.beta7
by Timo Sirainen 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Sorry, the authentication problem still wasn't actually fixed in beta6. Now, this time I tested every possible authentication case that it really works. I'll soon create a CVS branch which is going to stabilize into the 1.0 release. I won't add new features there so it shouldn't really get broken anymore, at least because of new features.. So, two changes in this release: + Added shutdown_clients setting to control if existing imap/pop3 processes should be killed when master is. - Master login fixes, PLAIN authentication was still broken..

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[Dovecot] problem with out-of-box fedora rpm
by Marc Newman 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Hi Folks, Most of the available howtos suggest that an out of the box binary rpm should at least be able to start on a similarly out of the box Fedora Core 4 installation. However, whenever I run /sbin/service dovecot start I get a failed message. Dovecot was installed using the standard package that ships with FC4 (i386 0.99.14). The only slightly anomalous feature of my system is that wlan0 not eth0 is the primary network interface. This hasn't upset anything else though. I even tried disabling the firewall briefly to see if that had any effect, and it doesn't. So, two questions. Firstly, any ideas on why it might be failing to start? Secondly, where might I look (like, which logs/where) for clues? /var/log/messages doesn't contain any references to dovecot (I grepped it), so I'm out of ideas. My sendmail configuration is working perfectly, and I can send and receive emails fine. But I need pop3 access for some of my users. Just to recap, I haven't even got to the point of testing whether its listening, or configuring authentication. It will not start out of the box. Am I missing some essential configuration step? Marc.

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[Dovecot] dspam plugin
by Ryan Kolak 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone.. been struggling with building a mailserver and i'm almost done. One of the last pieces is integrating dovecot with dspam so that I'm users can train their spam filters easily (sieve filtering is the last piece left.. that should be interesting.. lol) Anyway, I think i found an issue with memory allocation, and I'm not sure if its due to changes to the code base or if its a 64 bit memory issue. When i try to move a message into or out of the spam folder, it fails, and with debugging on, there are strange entries in the syslog. Added a few more debugging statements, and I get the following showing up: Apr 11 00:04:41 uberserver imap: found signature 443b336a271581061887518 Apr 11 00:04:41 uberserver imap: working with signature (<E4>Z Apr 11 00:04:41 uberserver imap: in call dspam Apr 11 00:04:41 uberserver imap: /usr/bin/dspam --source=error --stdout - --class=spam --signature=(<E4>Z Apr 11 00:04:41 uberserver dspam[1361]: Unable to determine the destination user Apr 11 00:04:41 uberserver dspam[1361]: DSPAM agent misconfigured: aborting The line with the correct signature showing up is simply outputing 'signature' after: signature = mail_get_first_header(mail, SIGHEADERLINE); The 'working with signature' that shows the corrupted signature is right before call_dspam is called, and it outputs siglist->sig: ... syslog(LOG_INFO, "working with signature %s ", siglist->sig ); if ((*enh_error = call_dspam (siglist->sig, is_spam))) { ... This leads me to believe that there's a problem with: list_append(listpool, &siglist)->sig = p_strdup(listpool, signature); but I'm really not sure how dovecot deals with allocating pooled memory, as that's what it appears to be doing. I'm not sure what information might be useful to anyone in helping me look into this and the searches i've been able to do have been unsuccessful. Thanks in advance, Ryan - -- PGP Fingerprint - E15C CC7D 5830 AB8A C2AE 5C5E 80D8 6B63 D40B 015C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEOz9YgNhrY9QLAVwRAkK9AJ9Tf5eDFtNs2oYG6BpNxPNUUxZ3VwCfRhYo ify05xCWACczHUHvOBFyQYg= =en2A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] unofficial Survey about your Dovecot server :) to compare with my own server setup...
by Denis Sbragion 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

On Thu, April 13, 2006 01:56, Curtis Maloney wrote: > I like the idea of a roundup survey of what situations people are using Dovecot Server: HP ProLiant ML 110 (P4 3 GHz), standard scsi disks OS: fedora core 4 RAM: 512 Mb Users: ~ 10 Auth: passwd/shadow Maildir size: ranging from few Kbs to about 2 Gbs Dovecot version: 1.0 beta 2 Client Software: squirrelmail 1.4.6 The server provides many different services (file server, CVS, internet proxy, database server, spam/virus filtering, daily backups, etc) with Dovecot being just one of them. Migrated from Eudora/UW-IMAP in just few days without any major problem and now it is unning flawlessy since few months. One of the most appreciated pros is the use of maildirs, which are backup friendly. A new mail basically results in a single new small file, instead of a change in a big mailbox file, which helps a lot with differential/incremental backups. Bye, -- Denis Sbragion InfoTecna Tel: +39 0362 805396, Fax: +39 0362 805404 URL: http://www.infotecna.it

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[Dovecot] Failing to compile beta7
by Greg Deputy 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

I'm running a debian box, and trying to compile beta7, but getting the error below. Any suggestions on what I'm missing would be greatly appreciated. End of output from Make: ... gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o dovecot-auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-gssapi.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lm -ldl /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x5c): In function `sha1_result': : multiple definition of `sha1_result' ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x7f4):/root/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/lib/sha1.c: 233: first defined here /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `sha1_result' changed from 158 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) to 126 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.beta7/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.beta7' make: *** [all] Error 2

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[Dovecot] imap process uid mapping question
by Chris Lea 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Hi all. I'm new to dovecot. I promise I've looked over the docs and lists for an answer to this, but I didn't find anything. If I missed something I apologize. I'm running dovecot 1.0.beta2 on debian testing. It's almost working, I'm getting permissions errors when the imap server actually goes to read the messages out of the cur Maildir directory. The logs spit these out: dovecot: 2006-04-12 22:32:39 Error: imap(chl(a)iaminla.com): open(/var/vmail/iaminla.com/chl/cur/1144905139.V306I31c02bM482275.chldebian… failed: Permission denied The ls of that directory looks like this: chldebian:/etc/dovecot# ls -al /var/vmail/iaminla.com/chl/cur/ total 12 drwxrwsr-x 2 vmail vmail 4096 2006-04-12 22:12 . drwxrwsr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 2006-04-12 22:13 .. -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 1098 2006-04-12 22:12 1144905139.V306I31c02bM482275.chldebian.chrislea.com:2, I have this line in my dovecot.conf mail_extra_groups = vmail so I assume that the process is running as some other user. My full dovecot.conf is here http://www.chrislea.com/dovecot.conf I'd really appreciate it if anyone has any ideas. Again, I apologize if this was already covered and I missed it. Thanks! - chl -- --------------------------------------------------------------- "When moderate to highly intelligent people get bored, bad things happen." -- Ann Moreno (310) 709-4021 http://www.chrislea.com ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Dovecot] LDA Questions
by Timothy White 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

On 4/13/06, Peter Fern <dovecot(a)obfusc8.org> wrote: > > > Actually, me too - I'd like to use it to drop spam into a specific > folder globally for use with the dspam plugin, but still allow users to > have their own sieve filters in place. This was exactly what I was wanting to use it for ;-) How does it work currently? What sieve script do you currently use? I assume the DSPAM plug only runs when a message is moved in or out of the folder, via imap, not via lda. Tim -- Linux Counter user #273956

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[Dovecot] Re: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE
by Knute Johnson 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

>On Apr 11, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Knute Johnson wrote: > >> I have a new install of FC5 running dovecot 1.0.0 beta 2.7. I get my >> mail with POP3 but I have a user using IMAP. They both work great but >> I keep getting a message from dovecot in my mail saying DON'T DELETE >> THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA. I think it is there to help keep >> track of IMAP messages. Since I use POP3 is there any way not to have >> it show up all the time? I've deleted it, I've deleted my account and >> re-added it but it keeps coming back. Dovecot is also making a 'mail' >> directory in my ~ that I don't think I need. What can I do about this? > >Umm. So you're using Dovecot for both POP3 and IMAP? Dovecot >shouldn't show that "internal data" message to clients at all, unless >something breaks it (does it contain X-IMAP header?) Timo: Sorry for the slow response, I was out of town for a couple of days. Below is the complete message. It isn't available when I get my mail via POP3 but is there every time I run 'mail' from the command line. Thanks, knute... >From MAILER_DAEMON Mon Apr 10 22:33:26 2006 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:33:26 -0700 From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER- DAEMON(a)rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA Message- ID: <1144733606(a)rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> X-IMAP: 1144726293 0000000011 Status: RO This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values. -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...

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[Dovecot] dovecot-dspam-plugin not launching dspam
by Stefan Schmidt 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

hello, i added the dovecot-dspam-plugin [1] to my dovecot-installation. when trying to move a mail out of or into the predefined spamfolder with thunderbird a messagebox shows : "dspam failed" and the message remains in its original position. i am using virtual mail users contained in a postgresql-database [2]. normal imap access and dspam training from the commandline works fine. a posting concerning probably the same issue has been posted on the dspam-mailinglist [3], but there haven't been any helpful replies so far. furthermore i suspect the plugin is missing the --user option when calling dspam, since this seems to be mandatory [4,5], but unfortunately adding this option in the plugin doesn't change its behavior. i am working on a debian system and currently using dovecot 1.0.beta3-3, dspam 3.6.4-2+b1 and the dspam-plugin "for dovecot beta 2 and 3". 1) calling dspam from the commandline with the same parameters as in the (slightly modified) plugin works fine :/# su virtual :/$ /usr/bin/dspam --user retrain --source=error --stdout --class=spam --signature=4,4434846e237406491211187 --debug -> /var/log/dspam.debug No QuarantineAgent option found. Using standard quarantine. DSPAM Instance Startup input args: /usr/bin/dspam --debug --user retrain --source=error --stdout --class=spam --signature=4,4434846e237406491211187 pass-thru args: processing user retrain uid = 0, euid = 0, gid = 0, egid = 101 loading preferences for user retrain Loading preferences for uid 7 Loading preferences for uid 0 Loading preferences for uid 0 default preferences empty. reverting to dspam.conf preferences. Loading preferences from dspam.conf using /var/spool/dspam/opt-in/local/retrain.dspam as path using /var/spool/dspam/opt-out/local/retrain.nodspam as path sedation level set to: 0 loading preferences for user some_virtual_account(a)mydomain.com Loading preferences for uid 4 Loading preferences for uid 0 Loading preferences for uid 0 default preferences empty. reverting to dspam.conf preferences. Loading preferences from dspam.conf processing signature. length: 1344 reversing 112 tokens Control: [10 10] [11 9] Delta: [1 -1] reclassifying iteration 1 result: 0 libdspam returned probability of 1.000000 message result: SPAM DSPAM Instance Shutdown. Exit Code: 0 2) when dspam is called via the (slightly modified) dovecot-dspam-plugin it aborts (the unmodified version aborts the same way) -> /var/log/mail.err dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<someuser(a)mydomain.com>, method=plain, rip=123.123.123.123, lip=123.123.123.123 imap: /usr/bin/dspam --user retrain --source=error --stdout --class=spam --signature=4,4434846e237406491211187 dspam[25157]: Unable to determine the destination user dspam[25157]: DSPAM agent misconfigured: aborting -> /etc/dspam/dspam.conf [extract] Home /var/spool/dspam StorageDriver /usr/lib/dspam/libpgsql_drv.so TrustedDeliveryAgent "/usr/bin/procmail" OnFail error Trust root Trust dspam Trust mail Trust mailnull Trust smmsp Trust daemon Trust virtual TrainingMode teft TestConditionalTraining on Feature chained Feature whitelist Algorithm graham burton PValue graham Preference "spamAction=deliver" Preference "signatureLocation=headers" AllowOverride trainingMode AllowOverride spamAction spamSubject AllowOverride statisticalSedation AllowOverride enableBNR AllowOverride enableWhitelist AllowOverride signatureLocation AllowOverride showFactors AllowOverride optIn optOut AllowOverride whitelistThreshold HashRecMax 98317 HashAutoExtend on HashMaxExtents 0 HashExtentSize 49157 HashMaxSeek 100 HashConnectionCache 10 Notifications off PurgeSignatures 14 PurgeNeutral 90 PurgeUnused 90 PurgeHapaxes 30 PurgeHits1S 15 PurgeHits1I 15 LocalMX 127.0.0.1 SystemLog on UserLog on Opt out ProcessorBias on Include /etc/dspam/dspam.d/ -> /etc/dspam/dspam.d/pgsql.conf [extract] PgSQLServer 127.0.0.1 PgSQLPort 5432 PgSQLUser dspam PgSQLPass mypassword PgSQLDb libdspam7drvpgsql PgSQLVirtualTable dspam_virtual_uids PgSQLVirtualUIDField uid PgSQLVirtualUsernameField username -> dspam-headers from samples message X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Thu Apr 6 03:32:07 2006 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.7524 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 44346f97188755315134984 ciao, stefan [1] http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/dovecot-dspam-integration [2] http://www.gjdv.at/snippets/linux/virtual_mail_hosting [3] http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/dspam-users/2872.html [4] http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/dspam-users/2852.html [5] http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/dspam-users/2850.html

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[Dovecot] Master Password
by Marc Perkel 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

OK - I'm confused. Trying to use the master password feature. What do I need to do to generate the password? What do I do to make the /etc/dovecot.masterusers file? thanks in advance. When I get this to work I will update the Wiki so that someone like me can understand it. auth_master_user_separator=* passdb passwd-file { # Master users that can log in as anyone args = /etc/dovecot.masterusers master = yes #pass =yes }

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[Dovecot] BAD Error in IMAP Command
by Adam L 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Hello. I have dovecot .99.14, sendmail, squirrelmail installed. Squirrelmail logins in fine and works with the IMAP server. I set up Outlook to connect to the imap server and it hangs. I telneted to the IMAP port and receive the following: * OK dovecot ready. a1 login aalang a1 BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. BYE BYE BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. I try STATUS and same thing happens. I searched the Internet for a bit and I didn't find anything that seemed helpful. Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-LDA & permissions
by Duncan Hutty 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

I set up postfix/dovecot with the dovecot-LDA according to the dovecot wiki, in particular: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#head-dacb9b9a1f19c3ea86bb6f8caa3d64e3ddad9ef8 For separation of privileges, I want to have one uid per virtual domain rather than have the vmail user own all directories under the mailstore. Therefore the LDA, deliver, in order to deliver must fulfill one of the following: a) it must be started as root b) it must be setuid c) it must have write access to the user's mailstore even as an unprivileged user itself. But a) postfix declines to this: postfix/pipe[26267]: fatal: user= command-line attribute specifies root privileges which is probably a good thing. b) will work, but I'm really wary of making anything setuid c) could be done if the group that deliver runs as (as defined in the user= attribute in master.cf) is the same as the group of each mailstore directory and that this group has write permissions *and* the sticky bit of each mailstore directory is set so that the file created by deliver is owned by the uid of the mailstore owner not deliver's uid. This is not exactly a question as such because I believe, subject to a little testing, that I have a working mail setup. However, I believe in doing things the right way wherever possible and I'm sure someone must have come across this before, so I'm submitting to the list inviting comment. How are most of you doing this? Are you just using a single uid for all virtual users? -- Duncan Hutty System Administrator, ECE Carnegie Mellon University Please use informative subject lines

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[Dovecot] password length
by Mark Richards 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

After setting up a very sweet Dovecot installation (with OpenLDAP) we're finding something strange: passwords are accepted but only the first 8 characters and anything less than 8 characters is an invalid password For several reasons, including allowing longer passwords to make them more difficult to crack, I'd rather be able to use longer passwords. LDAP seems to have attributes for minimum and maximum password lengths. Ours is set currently at 256 char maximum. So my guess is that Dovecot may be doing something, or there's a configuration item I missed. Checked all the docs and the wiki. Anyone? Mark Richards

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[Dovecot] strip domains
by Netlink Tech 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Hello, Running FC5 x86_64 with dovecot-1.0-0_8.beta3.rhfc5.at Using system user/passwds for 99.99% of users...have sql user/pass enabled to test virtual users from mysql. How do I strip off the domain when users provide user(a)domain.com so that my userdb and passdb use just 'user'? (disregarding sql auth...I'm not concerned with that right now). My dovecot.conf auth config: passdb pam { args = dovecot } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb passwd { } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-sql.conf } Can I just pass userdb the 'user' using an args= statement? %d? ...and then also to the passdb? Thanks, Curt

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[Dovecot] Master Login
by Marc Perkel 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

How do you make the master login work?

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[Dovecot] Re: strip domains
by Roger Weeks 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

So if I understand this correctly, %u matches the whole username in the sql database, but %n only matches the name before @? One thing we discovered in migrating from courier-imap to Dovecot is that courier-imap supported user@domain as a valid login name, where by default using %u in the SQL query, Dovecot does not. So it would have been useful for us to avoid a number of tech support calls for users who have user@domain configured in their mail clients. -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network On Apr 12, 2006, at 7:16 AM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:05:24 +0300 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] strip domains > To: Netlink Tech <tech(a)netlinkcom.com> > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:36 -0500, Netlink Tech wrote: > In general I don't see this as very useful feature. Why are your users > logging in with @domain? Or why not change your passdbs/userdbs to > just > contain the domain, and set auth_default_realm so everyone always logs > in with domains? > > > Here you can modify your SQL command to use %n instead of %u. > > >> userdb passwd { >> } >> > >> userdb sql { >> args = /etc/dovecot-sql.conf >> } >> > > And here again you can use %n. >

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[Dovecot] Scheduled Outages
by Roger Weeks 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

What's "after hours" for an ISP with customers all over the world? That's why we have regular once-per-month scheduled outages. Same time, every month. Email reminders go out to customers and are announced on our web pages. People can't argue with a month's advance notice. -- Roger J. Weeks Systems & Network Administrator Mendocino Community Network On Apr 12, 2006, at 5:49 AM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:27:36 -0500 > From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.beta6 released > To: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-dovecot(a)reub.net> > Cc: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi>, Chris Wakelin > <c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk>, Jens Laas <jens.laas(a)data.slu.se>, > dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <1144844856.24974.1.camel(a)les-home.futuresource.com> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 06:51, Reuben Farrelly wrote: > >> That's why there's "scheduled downtime" and "after hours" to do >> these things, in >> case stuff goes wrong, as some users of horde with dovecot have >> found out lately ;) > > What's 'after hours' for a company with users all around the world? > Interesting concept, though... > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] http://wiki.dovecot.org/ IS NOT RUNNING
by Alexandre Busquets 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

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[Dovecot] Full text search indexing
by Timo Sirainen 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

SEARCH is probably the slowest command that Dovecot has, especially when searching texts from message bodies. There exists a lot of text search engines, but unfortunately as far as I know there exists only one that can be used with IMAP. The reason why IMAP is special is because it requires that when searching eg. "ello", it must match also mails which contain eg. word "hello". Most search engines support only matching either complete words or matching from the beginning of the words. So, the one usable engine which I know of is Cyrus's squat indexing. It works basically by indexing the mails in 4 byte blocks and storing them in a trie. So if there exists a string "he llo", it indexes "he l", "e ll" and " llo" strings. When searching it then gets the first 4 bytes of the search keyword, looks them up from the squat index and then once it gets a list of matched mails, it reads the mails and does a proper search for only them. So the squat index doesn't give exact results, but only narrows down the number of mails which have to be searched. The biggest problem with those squat indexes is that it doesn't support incremental updates, so there has to be some nightly runs to rebuild the indexes from scratch. And with lots of users that's not practical, so I think that's the reason why the squat indexes aren't all that commonly used with Cyrus. I was thinking about taking the basic ideas from the Cyrus squat indexer but making it possible to update it incrementally so Dovecot could do it automatically. Also to reduce space I was thinking about sorting the 4 byte strings so instead of eg. "abcd", "dcba" and "abdc" all being indexed, they could all be stored as "abcd" (so the search key would also have to be sorted before use). But that might cause larger result sets making the search slower, so I'll have to test if it's worth it. Unicode characters might also be a problem. If the characters are stored in 16bit characters, it would waste space. If they're stored in UTF-8 the 4 bytes might not be enough to give a useful index (as a single character might take even 5 bytes). One thing I was thinking was to not index in 4 byte blocks, but 4 character blocks in UTF-8, so the trie could be 4..20 levels deep depending on what unicode characters are used (in finnish text it would probably be max. 7 levels deep). So, now would be a good time to tell if you can think of some better ideas how to do this, especially if you know about some new algorithms specifically designed for this kind of searching. :) Pretty much all the algorithms I've found about this were suffix trees/arrays and this basic trie thing.

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[Dovecot] beta7: TLS, Success!!
by Jeff A. Earickson 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Timo, With my setup (Solaris 9, IMAP only, TLS, plain auth, mbox format), beta 7 is now working correctly. Thanks for your efforts! Jeff Earickson Colby College

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Re: [Dovecot] strip domains]
by Michael Baird 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Michael Baird <mike(a)tc3net.com> To: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] strip domains Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:42:43 -0400 On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:17 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 09:48 -0400, Michael Baird wrote: > > I don't > > know why there is so much resistance to supporting functionality that is > > mostly a standard feature with other pop3/imap servers, and which also > > makes it *much* easier to migrate to dovecot from other solutions which > > support the domain stripping. > > I don't remember having seen all that much requests for this feature. > Perhaps lately several people have asked for it, but for the last 3 > years there haven't been all that many people. > > If I added a new setting for every single feature people asked, > dovecot-example.conf would be much larger than it currently is. And it > already is too large I think. I'm not asking for every new feature, just one that I think fits in with the current design of dovecot already and is a standard feature provided by other servers. You already provide the ability built in to "strip domains" per say, with the %u and %d values built in. To accomplish what I would like to do, I only need to be able to pass whatever combination of these values I wish to my passdb and userdb functions of choice. Regards Michael Baird

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[Dovecot] [patch] MD5 variable modifier
by Ben Winslow 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Hello, I've taken a different (better) approach to getting tpop3d-compatible UIDLs: the first attached patch (...md5_modifier.diff) adds a variable expansion modifier (%M) to return the md5sum of the expanded variable in hex. With the patch, you can get tpop3d-compatible UIDLs by setting pop3_uidl_format to %Mf. While testing interactions with other modifiers (e.g. %MUf to get the md5sum in uppercase), I noticed that %U is broken -- it lowercases the input just as %L does. The second patch (...ucase_modifier_fix.diff) is a one-liner to fix that. Finally, the third attached patch (...apop_aesthetics.diff) is another trivial patch to add a space between the server greeting and the APOP challenge. I think it looks better when telnetting to the server to diagnose something, and since spaces are stripped from the end of the login_greeting, editing the code is the only way to add the space. Cheers, -- Ben Winslow <rain(a)bluecherry.net>

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[Dovecot] Beta 7 fixes the Horde issue!
by interfaSys sàrl - Rich Internet Applications 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Thank you for beta 7. Everything works well this time (for us at least). Best regards, Olivier Paroz interfaSys sàrl

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[Dovecot] Postfix dovecot SASL and LDAP not working...
by Brice Figureau 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Hi, I'm trying to setup a new mail server where postfix 2.3-20060405 would use Dovecot's SASL and users located in LDAP. It's with dovecot-1.0-beta5. On the postfix side, I followed the SASL_README and have the following in main.cf: smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes On the dovecot side I have the following related to auth: auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 # LDAP database passdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf for # example args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } # LDAP database userdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf for # example args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb prefetch { } user = root ## ## dovecot-lda & postfix SASL specific settings ## socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mode = 0666 } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } pop or imap authentification with LDAP works fine: Apr 11 17:43:08 localhost dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Isecured^Ilip=127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Iresp=AGJyaWNlAHRvdG8= Apr 11 17:43:08 localhost dovecot: auth(default): ldap(raymond,127.0.0.1): base=ou=people, dc=daysofwonder, dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=CourierMailAccount)(uid=raymond)) fields=uid,userPassword,homeDirectory,uidNumber,gidNumber,mailbox Apr 11 17:43:08 localhost dovecot: auth(default): ldap(raymond,127.0.0.1): uid(user)=raymond userPassword(password)={PLAIN}toto homeDirectory(userdb_home)=/home/raymond uidNumber(userdb_uid)=1000 gidNumber(userdb_gid)=1000 mailbox(userdb_mail)=/home/raymond/Maildir Apr 11 17:43:08 localhost dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=raymond^I Apr 11 17:43:08 localhost dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I1^I15439^I1 Apr 11 17:43:08 localhost dovecot: auth(default): ldap(raymond,127.0.0.1): base=ou=people, dc=daysofwonder, dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=CourierMailAccount)(uid=raymond)) fields=homeDirectory,uidNumber,gidNumber,uid,mailbox Apr 11 17:43:08 localhost dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER^I1^Iraymond^Isystem_user=raymond^Ihome=/home/raymond^Iuid=1000^Igid=1000^Imail=/home/raymond/Maildir Apr 11 17:43:08 localhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<raymond>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured postfix SASL doesn't work, but more important don't print any debug messages, nor try to contact the LDAP server at all: Apr 11 18:00:59 localhost postfix/smtpd[15637]: connect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Apr 11 18:01:13 localhost dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I3^Iplain^Iservice=smtp^Iresp=YnJpY2UAYnJpY2UAdG90bw== Apr 11 18:01:14 localhost dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I3^Iuser=raymond Apr 11 18:01:14 localhost postfix/smtpd[15637]: warning: localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]: SASL plain authentication failed: I tried several variations of the config, like without userdb prefetch, moving postfix socket config block in another auth block... Nothing worked. Since the samples are mentioning only pam as userdb and passdb source, maybe it can't work with LDAP ? Any idea on how to solve this issue ? Thanks, Regards, -- Brice Figureau

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[Dovecot] Horde problem not fixed in beta6
by interfaSys sàrl - Rich Internet Applications 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

We experience the same problem between Horde and Dovecot 1.0 beta 6. Beta 3 is still the only working solution right now. Best regards, Olivier Paroz interfaSys sàrl

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[Dovecot] DOVECOT+SQLITE
by Alexandre Busquets 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Has somebody experience with DOVECOT+SQLITE? Which will be the config variables? auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf ------------------------------------------------------ db_host = localhost db_port = 3306 db_unix_socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock db = test db_user = test db_passwd = test db_client_flags = 0 default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT clear FROM users WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT pop as home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = '%u' ------------------------------------------------------ Is possible use sqlrelay

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[Dovecot] DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE?
by Knute Johnson 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

I have a new install of FC5 running dovecot 1.0.0 beta 2.7. I get my mail with POP3 but I have a user using IMAP. They both work great but I keep getting a message from dovecot in my mail saying DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA. I think it is there to help keep track of IMAP messages. Since I use POP3 is there any way not to have it show up all the time? I've deleted it, I've deleted my account and re-added it but it keeps coming back. Dovecot is also making a 'mail' directory in my ~ that I don't think I need. What can I do about this? Thanks, -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...

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[Dovecot] IMAPS - timeout while moving mails
by Petar Bogdanovic 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Hi, I'm using Dovecot v1.0.beta5 (NetBSD 3.0, i386) and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 (XP, i386). My dovecot.conf is pretty simple, because I just use dovecot for me as the only user. However, when I try to move a 'larger' amount of mails (>200) from my local TB-mbox to the remote IMAPS-storage, the process hangs after about 150 - 160 transferred mails (the 'blocking' mail is _never_ the same). I don't have the slightest clue why - there is nothing in the logs - even if I turn 'verbose_ssl' on. After a while, TB tells me, that the server timed out and dovecot says: "imap(petar): Disconnected" Usually - if I close my MUA correctly - dovecot says: "imap(petar): Disconnected: Logged out" Is somebody maybe experiencing something similar? Thank you very much & with kind regards, Petar Bogdanovic

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[Dovecot] 1.0beta5 released
by Cesar Mesias 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Dear friends, I am trying to upgrade dovecot 1.0-alpha3 to dovecot 1.0-beta 5, but I have some problems to do that. When I install its rpm I get a message which indicates I have to install some dependences such as openssl-0.9.7f-7.i386, sqlite-3.2.8-1.9.el4 and libk5crypto.so.3. I haven't had any problems with openssl and sqlite but I always get a message that I need to have the libraries of libk5crypto. I realised that I have these libraries, but I get the same message, which is the following: [root@server]rpm -ivh openssl-0.9.7f-7.i386.rpm warning: openssl-0.9.7f-7.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 error: Failed dependencies: libk5crypto.so.3(k5crypto_3_MIT) is needed by openssl-0.9.7f-7.i386 libkrb5.so.3(krb5_3_MIT) is needed by openssl-0.9.7f-7.i386 I appreciate so much if you could send me the steps that I have to do to make the upgrade without problems. I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 I am looking forward from hearing you soon. Thanks for your time. Regards, Cesar

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[Dovecot] sqlrelay
by Alexandre Busquets 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Is possible works with sqlrelay

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[Dovecot] beta5 no ssl (imaps) connection
by Elimar Riesebieter 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Hi all, running beta 5 doesn't allow ssl connections: SASL authentication failed Same config runs well with beta3. I tried as well latest CVS, but this gives me the same error. Verbose debug output: dovecot: 2006-04-09 17:17:51 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=192.168.200.1 rip=192.168.200.202 dovecot: 2006-04-09 17:17:51 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: 2006-04-09 17:17:51 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> dovecot: 2006-04-09 17:18:51 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.200.202, lip=192.168.200.1, TLS If I logged in on the dovecot server itself, the connection is estabilished. I guess it's only a change in the config, but which? Elimar -- Do you smell something burning or ist it me?

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[Dovecot] phantom new mail (mailboxes keep on being reported as having new mail)
by Grobian 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Hi, I'm using dovecot 1.0_beta3 on Gentoo Linux, and am experiencing a problem of what I call 'phantom mail'. This problem I have for a long time (pre 1.0), but at the moment I'm using 1.0_beta3 and the problem still is in there. My setup is as follows: - regular x86 box - running Exim and Dovecot - Exim saves new mail in maildir format in a local filesystem /mail/user/blabla - Dovecot reads and serves IMAP from local filesystem /mail/user/blabla - client is Mutt and/or Thunderbird from any OS (Mac, Linux, Windows) via IMAP Situation that happens: I get new mail in a folder, say =news (in Mutt style, it's .news dir in the maildir directory). I read the item, Mutt (or Thunderbird) marks the item as read (moving it over to cur aswell I think), save the folder, then move on to another folder. At this point dovecot IMAP server indicates to the client that there is new mail in the folder =news. If I visit the folder with the client, I see no new mail, and sometimes I have two or three of those folders, and I can keep on cycling with Mutt till I get bored :). Before upgrading Dovecot, I knew of no way to resolve this problem; eventually, it seemed that at some point the folder seemed to figure out itself that there was indeed no new mail. Sometimes I could trick it by letting Mutt mark the mail as new again, and then save the folder. Didn't always work. Now, I think a week or two ago I upgraded Dovecot and had to manually move all the .subscription files, and I also in one go decided to remove the dovecot* and .imap* files. That cleaned up, and at first that looked like it solved my problem. Not. So I figured out throwing away dovecot's index stuff (rm dovecot* in the directory that shows phantom mail) resolves the problem. However, this method starts to get annoying so to say. So, I did some investigation and found out that the dovecot-uidlist file seems to be not up-to-date on a folder that shows phantom mails: # awk '{ print $2 }' dovecot-uidlist | sort > tmp.uids # ls cur | sort | diff -u - tmp.uids --- - 2006-03-08 17:45:26.428168000 +0100 +++ tmp.uids 2006-03-08 17:45:19.000000000 +0100 @@ -47,4 +47,5 @@ 1141340181.H111425P8973.hermes.orakel.ods.org:2,S 1141387968.P13010Q0M35974.hermes:2,S 1141528391.H769531P12886.hermes.orakel.ods.org:2,S -1141830301.H349821P23427.hermes.orakel.ods.org:2,S +1141544380 +1141830301.H349821P23427.hermes.orakel.ods.org It seems the dovecot uidlist doesn't have the right name for the file on disk, probably therefore "seeing" a new file all the time and reporting the folder as having new mail. The 1141544380 entry comes from the first row of the dovecot-uidlist file: 1 1141544380 51 I guess it's just some sort of line to keep track of the last timestamp and the number of messages or something. If my theory is right here then it looks as if the 'bad entry' is actually more recent than this most recent timestamp reports. But this is only speculation of course. Enough for this lenghty mail I guess. Is this a known issue, or can it be caused by the way I set up my system? I must note that this only happens for some folders, not all of them. I have folders which get a lot of mail, but don't have this happening on. Any clues go resolve this are welcome. Regards, -- Fabian Groffen

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot's as ip/user based login filter?
by Sysadmin 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Tere. > Actually I do not know wheter Dovecot can do it by itself. > On my server I use a customized PAM-Module to authenticate and authorize > my users. The module also performs a check on the host where the users > comes from and checks wheter there is a rule to allow/deny access from > this host. > > I know this setup sounds an bit exotic, but it works quite nice for me > with the advantage to use this feature within other services than dovecot. > > It's sounds wonderful. Can You kindly share this customized pam module for me? -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] SSHA Password Hashing
by Gavin Young 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

We are currently running a production mail server using version 0.990.99.11-2 (latest RPM from RHEL/CentOS). We would like to migrate more virtual domains off our courier imap server to dovecot but the courier imap user passswords are stored in LDAP and are SSHA hashed which is not supported by our current version of dovecot (CRYPT only). >From reading the mailing lists this feature is now available but I am hesitant to move a production server to a beta software release. Apart from waiting for a 1.0-final RPM, what is the simplest/best way for us to allow dovecot to read existing SSHA hashed passwords within LDAP? Any help would be much appreciated. Gavin

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[Dovecot] anyone running with Horde mail?
by interfaSys sàrl - Rich Internet Applications 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

We have the exact same problem. Everything is fine with beta3, but the latest betas have problems with Horde. We are using FreeBSD and Horde 3.1. The logs show connections from 127.0.0.1. Login is successful, but the user is immediately disconnected. Best regards, Olivier Paroz interfaSys sàrl > Yes, our horde/imp webmail servers use dovecot beta3 with no > problems. > > We are running horde 2.2.5 on on Solaris 10 boxes. Dovecot uses pam > on the imap server (a Solaris 9 box). I've had no luck with beta4 > or beta5 so far. > > Jeff Earickson > Colby College

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[Dovecot] Re: LDAP authentication via PAM
by Oscar A. Valdez 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Luis Meléndez escribió: > Oscar A. Valdez wrote: > > I've configured dovecot to authenticate against a Fedora Directory > > Server. The mail server on which dovecot is installed has the > > nss_ldap and pam_ldap packages installed, and /etc/dovecot.conf has the > > following two lines: > > > > auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf > > auth_passdb = pam > > ... > > Is it possible to access the user database through PAM (auth_userdb = > > pam)? Since I'm running the nss_ldap and pam_ldap modules, it'd really > > be an LDAP query for users, and a query in /etc/passwd and /etc/group > > for dovecot (since it's a local user and group on the mail server). > > If you are using nss_ldap and have edited /etc/nsswitch.conf > accordingly, you should get it done with: > > auth_userdb = passwd > > It doesn't mean to use /etc/passwd, but the O.S. nss mechanism. Before trying to Luis' suggestion, I had the following in /var/log/messages: dovecot(pam_unix)[4691]: check pass; user unknown dovecot(pam_unix)[4691]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= dovecot-auth[4691]: pam_ldap: could not open secret file /etc/ldap.secret (No such file or directory) I suppose the first two entries are the lookup for the dovecot user in the DS, where it doesn't exist. And since I want anonymous binds to the DS, I haven't created file /etc/ldap.secret. Users were able to authenticate and get their mail. After changing to auth_userdb = passwd, all the messages went away, but the users weren't able to get their mail: Evolution gave me the following error: "Unable to get a valid greeting" from the mailserver. I went back to auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf, and then back to auth_userdb = passwd. Users can get their mail, but the messages are back in the log file. I'd appreciate help in understanding this behavior. -- Oscar A. Valdez

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Re: [Dovecot] anyone running with Horde mail?
by interfaSys sàrl - Rich Internet Applications 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

I have: Imp, turba, ingo, kronolith, nag and mnemo. Auth is done through IMP. servers.php contains this: $servers['dovecot'] = array( 'name' => 'IMAP Server', 'server' => 'localhost', 'hordeauth' => 'full', 'protocol' => 'imap/notls', 'port' => 143, 'folders' => '', 'namespace' => '', 'maildomain' => '', 'smtphost' => '', 'smtpport' => 25, 'realm' => '', 'preferred' => '', 'acl' => array( 'driver' => 'rfc2086', ), 'dotfiles' => true, 'hierarchies' => array() ); PEAR Auth_SASL is installed Best regards, Olivier Paroz interfaSys sàrl > I have it working now with FreeBSD, the latest HOrde, and the > latest dovecot. > > What other Horde components do you have installed, and how do you > have > the authentication set up.

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[Dovecot] Test version for production servers for shared folders
by Gavin Henry 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Dear List, Is the latest test version suitable for production systems? Our current servers use 0.99 on FC4 and we would like to add shared folders via the test version. Has anyone migrated this way before? Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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[Dovecot] Log format top=0/0 elements meaning?
by Sysadmin 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hello. Typical log text - top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 I can figure out what means retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0, but what about top=0/0? It's static data, haven't seen any others numbers, than zeros there? -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] Added Howto for installing RPMs of beta versions for Fedora Core
by Gavin Henry 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Might as well update the wiki ;-) http://wiki.dovecot.org/PrebuiltBinaries -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot's as ip/user based login filter?
by Sysadmin 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Tere. > > If you're using PAM authentication then just use pam_group to restrict > it to a specific group. > > I'm using pam, but how to use this pam_group to allow connect all users from my networks a'la 192.168.0.0/24 and only some users from other network a'la 0.0.0.0 to connect to the port 993? -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] Dovecot's as server based and mail filters and addressbooks holder?
by Sysadmin 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hello. I'm just wondering, that maybe is the time to change the imap -s format or add some more features, are in these day's most people, me also are so called mobile users. And imap is good solution for us but however still some basic things are missing, fore example: 1) Server side mail filters. I read mails from home, from office and from webmail. Now when I need to make mail filter, for example to collect all dovecot mails into one subfolder, I can do it in one computer, and they works, if the computer is online, but if I need to change them, reading email from the another computer, I can't do it. 2) Server side address book. Yes, I know, ldap is solution, but installing and configuring the ldap server for some simple global address book, is kind of overkill. And these rules/address book can be from client to see as subfolder, so every imap capable client can deal with them? Is this real on not? -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] anyone running with Horde mail?
by Alan McKay 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hey again folks ;-) Seems my auth is working afterall when I telnet to the IMAP port. But darned if I can get it working with Horde web mail. Is anyone out there doing this just first of all to confirm to me that the combination works OK. I don't care so much about shadow auth since apparantly my pam auth is working just fine. thanks, -Alan -- "True Budo is done for the sake of building peace. Train every day so as to make peace between this spirit and all things manifested on the face of the Earth" - Ueshiba Morihei

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