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[Dovecot] Authentication using native MySQL PASSWORD() function
by Tom Sommer 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Hi, I have a little problem, I need to adapt a setup that currently uses the native MySQL PASSWORD() function to encrypt passwords for e-mail accounts. I plan on using Dovecot with SQL to authenticate on my server, is there a password scheme that fits this authentication method? Any help is appreciated -- Tom Sommer

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[Dovecot] Strange Disconnect Problem
by Marc Perkel 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

It's only happening with one user but for some reason I can't get this person logged in. And I'm using his ID on my computer and my ID works. Using two different IMAP clients. What would be causeing the "disconnected" to happen? dovecot: Oct 17 10:56:43 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<lowsley(a)cbsyellowpgs.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=65.37.192.182, lip=69.50.231.10 dovecot: Oct 17 10:56:47 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: user=<john(a)sembrot.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=204.95.16.61, lip=69.50.231.10

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[Dovecot] Shared Folder usage alpha3
by Ralf Zerres 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Dear List, this is my first mail to this list. I'v tried to carefully review all given information towards the Shared Folder subject I could find in the archive / mailing list / wiki. And so far I'm also aware that Timo hasn't put it on the active tasklist for the 1.0 release. Citing the track http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2003-October/002493.html I was wandering, wether any further attempt has been made, to use the given functionality for real work. To be more precise, wether anybody has done - delivery of mailboxes to a shared maildir - offering these maildirs through a given namespace Before bothering here without any local experience, I'v set up a dov-server (1.0alpha3) on a debian sid. As an MTA postfix is doing the job. Within postfix I did set up a virtual domain and the needed maps (mailbox, alias). I'm able to deliver successful with the standard postfix functionality to the given filesystem structure (fs=ext3). If it is on any help, I can post the relevant config files. As good practice, all mail is delivered to given mailbox-owner with 0600 permission for the new subdir. Hence, can't be seen by any shared-maildir user (unless owner uid matches:) >From here on I'v tried to switch from debians default postfix delivery-strategy (mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION") to given dovcot deliver process (mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver). The primary aim is to define a strategy to deliver with 0660 rights which will enable group read-write access to the given Mailstore. I have adopted the dovecot.conf enableing a listening socket ... default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir: \ INDEX=/home/%u/MaildirIndex namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } namespace public { # the prefix needs to be postponed with the separator prefix = Public/ # the location path given as [<mailbox-type>:]<path>/mailbox location = maildir:/home/SharedMaildirs separator = / inbox = no hidden = no } auth default { ... # using deliver through a socket socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0666 } } } and configured the subsequent dovecot-deliver.conf ... auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail = maildir:%h/Maildir/ umask = 0007 auth_verbose = yes use_syslog = yes just to see, whether a manual call /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-deliver -d <user> <testmail would do the trick. Well, I got the delivered mail, but files are not installed with the etimated previledges. Can someone can point me to the clou? Greetings Ralf PS: I also read about posix-acl's support. But my test's didn't allow a successful read ....

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[Dovecot] Alpha4 pre-release, please upgrade
by Timo Sirainen 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Please try if http://dovecot.org/nightly/dovecot-latest.tar.gz (or the CVS directly) works with you. I made a lot of changes to dovecot-auth, so I wouldn't want to make alpha4 release without some more testing in different environments. I'll release alpha4 in a few days, but it'll be basically same as this unless more bugs get fixed. Some of the changes include: - IMAP: We might have sent extra EXPUNGE messages when output buffer got full. This could have caused various sorts of very bad behavior. This is the main reason why everyone should upgrade as soon as possible. - POP3: We sent duplicate replies for LIST command when output buffer got full. Probably caused Thunderbird's duplicate deletion bugs? (Although I thought someone checked that Dovecot's reply was correct when the bug occurred?) - pop3_uidl_format setting is now required to be explicitly set in configuration file for pop3 to work at all. I want to get rid of the old default setting which breaks Outlooks, and simply changing the default would break existing setups. - Multiple passdbs and userdbs of same type can now be added with different parameters. Some people asked about this earlier. - Authentication cache works now with other than SQL and LDAP passdbs. Some passdbs such as PAM require some additional settings to work. See example config file. - Some other fixes to authentication cache related to failure handling and non-plaintext authentication. - deny passdb wasn't working for non-plaintext authentication.

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[Dovecot] auth
by Riccardo Bini 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

It's possible to have an auth order so if the first is true skip the other ones? Bye Rick

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[Dovecot] pop3 behaviour
by Krzysztof Janiszewski - IT Partner 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Hi! I'v installed dovecot over um-pop3 today. Dovecot has only pop3 enabled. imap will be enabled later. But there is one issue - on some accounts, after receiving mail to Outlook Express, mail is not deleted from /var/mail/username mbox file, and on most it is deleted. Why it works in that way? Best regards Krzysztof

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[Dovecot] how to configure dovecot, Error
by Roland Schmid 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Hi, we are using Squirrelmail, imapd is dovecot. OS is Debian Sarge. When I want to login with Squirrelmail the connection to the imap-server is aborted. /var/log/mail.log gives the these log-entries: Oct 25 14:39:36 webserver dovecot: imap(rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de/mail: Permission denied Oct 25 14:39:36 webserver dovecot: imap(rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de): MAIL environment missing and autodetection failed (home /home/rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de) Oct 25 14:39:36 webserver dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<rs.messegrafik-schreiber.de>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Oct 25 14:39:36 webserver dovecot: child 31339 (imap) returned error 89 Need help, thanks. Roland

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[Dovecot] Pop3 Pipeing
by Mark Smith 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

How would I go about and setup pop3 pipeing with dovecot I have instaled Perldesk and there instructions is for only Exim or Sendmail. Regards, _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger 7.5 is now out. Download it for FREE here. http://messenger.msn.co.uk

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha4: mbox-lock asserts and cores
by Jeff A. Earickson 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Timo, I upgraded from alpha3 to alpha4 yesterday, and I am seeing a few of the following asserts: imap(user): file mbox-lock.c: line 379 (mbox_lock_fcntl): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_UNLCK) Gdb info on a couple of the cores is attached. It looks like the arg lock_type for mbox_lock_fcntl() is not getting passed in correctly, like the enum "enum mbox_lock_type type" in mbox_lock_list() is not getting set or used correctly so that lock_data[type].func is wrong. Hmmm. My setup: Solaris 9, mbox, dovecot built with gcc 4.0.2. The filesystem for INBOXes is NFS mounted from another Solaris 9 system, but the index files reside on local filesystems. My setting for "lock_method = fcntl", per your release notes. I did not change the default setting of "mmap_disable = no" because my index files are local. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] USER environment missing
by Ed 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

I am new to dovecot, and while I have the pop server running fine, I am having trouble with the imap server. It starts, but when I try to connect, I get an error: telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. imap(??): Fatal: USER environment missing Connection closed by foreign host. Not sure where to start on this one. (or what to show you). I am running under Ubuntu Linux, usiang postfix, fetchmail, etc.. (not sure that matters). -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/143 - Release Date: 10/19/2005

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[Dovecot] alpha4 and zlib-plugin?
by Jeff A. Earickson 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Hi, I saw the zlib-plugin reference in the alpha4 ChangeLog notes are searched the list for info about it. The only reference I found was from Timo back in March 2005. Questions: 1) Is this going to become a standard part of version 1.0? 2) Any plans or ability to make it read/write to a gzipped mailbox, or is this possible? Or will it always be read-only? 3) How does a mailbox get gzipped? From within dovecot somehow, or only by external action? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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Re: [Dovecot] pop3 behaviour
by Krzysztof Janiszewski - IT Partner 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Hello! > Do you have reason to believe that the clients are issuing a delete > command and that the mail is incorrectly being left on the server OR do > they have a 'keep mail on server' option checked? I'm sure thet they have 'keep mail on server' unchecked. When uw-ipop3d was used, mail was correctly deleted. Best regards Krzysztof

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[Dovecot] Two "pre-migration" questions
by Alan Mead 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

I have read the migration docs. They seem to relate to migrating from one imap product to dovecot on the same server. I'm interested in migrating my Maildir-formatted email from one server to another. 1. Can I tar my ~/mail directory on serverX.com, untar it on a different physical serverY.com (initially with a different domain name), and still see my mail when I access imap.serverY.com <http://imap.serverY.com> (dovecot's running on serverY.com .. but let me know if there are any tricks that I need to make this work). 2. If I maintain large mailboxes and check my mail frequently, how does the dovecot server load compare to something like apache or Samba? I ask because I have a vanity domain that I mostly use for email and I want to ensure that I can migrate my precious emails to a new service provider. And the provider that I'm considering offers low-cost virtual dedicated servers but meters usage (including RAM and CPU). One of the reasons I have question #1 is that the server name seems to be part of the email file names... amead:/home/amead> ls mail/cur | head -2 2022292282.22297_0.vulcan.rootr.net:2,S 2022312282.3225_0.vulcan.rootr.net:2,S (rootr.net <http://rootr.net> is my current provider, not my vanity domain; vulcan is the name of their mailserver) I don't know what effect this will have, if any? Thanks! -Alan

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Dovecot disconnecting users at login for inactivity]
by Chris Liljenstolpe 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

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[Dovecot] choosing syslog facility?
by Dominik Werder 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Hello! How can I log dovecots messages into a separate file? Is it possible to set a custom syslog facility name somehow? I can't set the log file in dovecot because dovecot does not automatically rotate the logs like syslog does.. thank you! Dominik

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[Dovecot] alpha4 - Unknown passdb driver 'pam'
by Willem Riede 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Does anybody see this? Oct 24 19:41:44 athena dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha4 starting up Oct 24 19:41:45 athena dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Oct 24 19:41:45 athena dovecot: auth(default): Unknown passdb driver 'pam' Oct 24 19:41:45 athena dovecot: child 3374 (auth) returned error 89 This is on Fedora FC5-devel x86_64 (opteron), which is certainly pam based. FWIW, if I switch to passwd dovecot alph4 runs fine (so far). Regards, Willem Riede.

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[Dovecot] Pop3 Pipeing
by Mark Smith 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Does anyone know how to pipe with dovecot-pop3d? Please help Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters

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[Dovecot] debian dovecot upgrade
by Brent Clark 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hi all I find this highly upsetting, I just upgrade my debian dovecot, and I specified that I dont want to upgrade the conf file. and on restarting, I get this in my syslog. Oct 24 17:33:33 mail dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 starting up Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: imap-login: Can't load certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: error:25066067:DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: imap-login: Can't load certificate file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: error:25066067:DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: child 5983 (login) returned error 89 Oct 24 17:33:34 mail dovecot: child 5985 (login) returned error 89 mail:~# Wierd thing is, at no time am I asking for ssl, and in my conf file I have it hashed out. mail:~# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf | grep ssl # --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl #ssl_listen = #ssl_disable = no #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem #ssl_ca_file = #ssl_verify_client_cert = no #ssl_parameters_file = /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat #ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 #ssl_cipher_list = all:!LOW #verbose_ssl = no #ssl_require_client_cert = no mail:~# I tried on the command line # dovecot -F -c dovecot.conf my version is: mail:~# dovecot --version 1.0.alpha3 mail:~# Would anyone perhaps know why I cant get the daemon started. Kind Regards Brent Clark

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[Dovecot] dual auth with real users and virtual users
by Erick Perez 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hi, im using 0.99 stable in RPM form, Im using this for postfix+dovecot+real unix users, now i tried to enable virtual support with this: protocols = imap pop3 ssl_disable = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info login_user = dovecot mail_extra_groups = mail auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_passdb = pam auth_userdb = passwd auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/vhosts/userdb auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/vhosts/passwd The above configuration works for local users but is not working for virtual users, it produces the error: dovecot-auth: Oct 21 00:19:14 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(erickperez) failed: Authentication failure obviously the user erickperez exists in /etc/vhosts/userdb so PAM will fail. Im using 0.99 release. Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez Linux User 376588 http://counter.li.org/ (Get counted!!!) Panama, Republic of Panama

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha4: drowning in asserts/cores
by Jeff A. Earickson 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Timo, I have had to drop back to alpha3 because I found a pile of core files on my imap server this morning, from the weekend. They are all from the assert: imap(user): file mbox-lock.c: line 379 (mbox_lock_fcntl): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_UNLCK) I reported this issue to the list last Friday. Help... Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Case of %n (feauture request)
by Alexander Shikoff 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hello, I'm using dovecot not for a long time but I've newer seen most powerful and handy POP3/IMAP server. Thank Timo for dovecot; thank community for help! I would like to notice that %n is case-sensitive: it always stores user part of login without case conversions. As a result there are some inconveniences with virtual user organization, for example: password_query = SELECT `password` FROM `users` WHERE login = '%u' user_query = SELECT "mbox:/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n:INDEX=MEMORY" AS `mail`, 101 AS `uid`, 101 AS `gid` FROM users WHERE login = '%u' In this example authentication works perfectly but user can not access it's mailbox because all mailbox names are lower-case. I think it would be more handy to make %d, %n and %u aliases lower-case and introduce three new aliases %D %N %U which store values without case conversions. But I'm not enough skilled in C to write a patch... and now I'm waiting for comments on this and answer from the developer. Thanks in advance, Alexander. -- Kind Regards, Alexander Shikoff minotaur(a)crete.org.ua

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Re: [Dovecot] Same email recieved
by Bob Hope 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Andrew Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 12:46 -0500, Bob Hope wrote: > >> They are using Outlook. I'm not seeing anything about UIDs of mails >> in dovecot.conf. I'm using dovecot 0.99.14 presently. >> >> Regards, >> >> Savage >> > > > Ah, afraid I can't really help then, I haven't used the .99 series of > Dovecot for over a year now and there seem to be quite a few issues with > it. > > Regards > Andrew > -- > Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru > Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ > Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ > Random quote 1: "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. > NO (or Linux) is the answer." - Unknown > > > > Well, I suppose I could upgrade to 1.0 then. I'll give that a try and drop a note here if it works. Thanks, Savage

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[Dovecot] dovecot + postfix + freebsd help
by glemme 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Hi. I'm currently setting up dovecot to work with my server. My inboxes from postfix are stored in /usr/var/spool/mail/ and then the username, so for me that would be / usr/var/spool/mail/viktor my homedirectory is /usr/home/glemme/homes/viktor/ so from what i can understand. My settings should be: default_mail_env = mbox:%h/Mail:INBOX:/usr/var/spool/mail/%u But guess what, I am probably wrong. my mailapp tells me my inbox is empty and my log claims this: dovecot: Oct 22 16:39:35 Info: imap(viktor: Effective uid=1015, gid=1004 dovecot: Oct 22 16:39:35 Info: imap(viktor: mbox: data=/usr/home/ glemme/homes/viktor/Mail:INBOX:/usr/var/spool/mail/viktor dovecot: Oct 22 16:39:35 Info: imap(viktor): mbox: INBOX defaulted to /usr/home/glemme/homes/viktor/Mail/inbox dovecot: Oct 22 16:39:35 Info: imap(viktor): mbox: root=/usr/home/ glemme/homes/viktor/Mail, index=/usr/home/glemme/homes/viktor/Mail, inbox=/usr/home/glemme/homes/viktor/Mail/inbox Why is it defaulting from the right INBOX to the wrong one? HELP! /glemme

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha2: how to reject specific users?
by Jeff A. Earickson 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Hi, In Qualcomm's qpopper, you can specify a list of users to reject at authentication, even if they are otherwise valid, by putting them in a file (/etc/pop.nonauth). I use this to occasionally ban users who bang on the system needlessly until they Get a Clue. I looked thru the wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication pages and didn't see anything like this feature. Does it exist in 1.0? BTW, running 1.0alpha2 in production since Sunday night, working great. Zero core dumps, only minor chatter about "Corrupted index cache file" in the syslog, no problems. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] latest dovecot rpm for RedHat Enterprise 3
by Erick Perez 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Does anyone have a repository with the latest dovecot for RHEL3 ? I have only found dovecot-1.0.0.4-200502 which is for february 2005. I dont know how to build rpms from .tar so i will not venture on that without some magic tool. Thanks,

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[Dovecot] Performance issues in Alpha4 gone
by Daniel 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Hi The performance issues I noticed on my system/setup with Alpha3 seem to be gone with Alpha4. As soon as I installed it I noticed imap seemed more responsive. Just thought I would let the list know. Regards Daniel

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[Dovecot] imaps on alternate ports
by Andrew D. Clark 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

I'm trying to test out dovecot 1.0 alpha 3 prior to an upgrade from dovecot-0.99.14, but I cannot get imaps listening on anything other than 993. I've tried putting listen = *:2023 in the global section or in the imap { } section. No luck. What is the proper format for a config that only runs imaps and only listens on a particular port? -- Andrew Clark Campus Network Programmer University of California, Santa Barbara andrew.clark(a)ucsb.edu (805) 893-5311

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[Dovecot] alpha4: flock change
by Jeff A. Earickson 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Timo, The comments in dovecot-example.conf regarding lock_method for Solaris users needs to note your change. Your changelog says: - Default lock_method changed to flock instead of the old fcntl. Solaris users will need to set it back to fcntl. This makes sure that Dovecot's indexes aren't accidentally used with NFS. But there is no warning about this in the file for Solaris users. There should be; it will bite somebody later. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Support for GSSAPI SASL Mechanism
by Jelmer Vernooij 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Attached is a patch against current CVS that adds support for the GSSAPI SASL mechanism. It was written from scratch, after reading the patch from Colin Walters against a much older version of dovecot. Other then support for the 'GSSAPI' mechanism, it contains the following changes: - - Added 'auth_krb5_keytab' option for overriding default keytab location. The gssapi library already uses the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME to allow overriding of the keytab location, so I didn't have to make any changes on the login process side. - - Added 'need_passdb' member to mech_module and allow having no passdb's specified if no mechanisms need them (only useful for GSSAPI at the moment) Cheers, Jelmer - -- Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer(a)samba.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDVgaEPa9Uoh7vUnYRAscGAJ9Fa4E5ze5IX3UeAfjwg7kzj5tgtQCcDva7 O5VTeOeJ7zpmHullxQN6q1Y= =60w7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Index: configure.in =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/configure.in,v retrieving revision 1.214 diff -u -r1.214 configure.in --- configure.in 23 Sep 2005 13:28:40 -0000 1.214 +++ configure.in 19 Oct 2005 08:25:31 -0000 @@ -118,6 +118,15 @@ fi, want_bsdauth=yes) +AC_ARG_WITH(gssapi, +[ --with-gssapi Build with GSSAPI authentication support (default)], + if test x$withval = xno; then + want_gssapi=no + else + want_gssapi_yes + fi, + want_gssapi=yes) + AC_ARG_WITH(ldap, [ --with-ldap Build with LDAP support], if test x$withval = xno; then @@ -1192,6 +1201,17 @@ ]) fi +have_gssapi=no +if test $want_gssapi = yes; then + AC_CHECK_PROG(KRB5CONFIG, krb5-config, YES, NO) + if test $KRB5CONFIG = YES; then + AUTH_LIBS="$AUTH_LIBS `krb5-config --libs gssapi`" + AUTH_CFLAGS="$AUTH_CFLAGS `krb5-config --cflags gssapi`" + AC_DEFINE(MECH_GSSAPI,, Build with GSSAPI support) + have_gssapi=yes + fi +fi + if test $want_ldap = yes; then AC_CHECK_LIB(ldap, ldap_init, [ AC_CHECK_HEADER(ldap.h, [ @@ -1486,5 +1506,6 @@ echo "Building with IPv6 support .......... : $want_ipv6" echo "Building with pop3 server ........... : $want_pop3d" echo "Building with mail delivery agent .. : $want_deliver" +echo "Building with GSSAPI support ........ : $have_gssapi" echo "Building with user database modules . :$userdb" echo "Building with password lookup modules :$passdb" Index: dovecot-example.conf =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/dovecot-example.conf,v retrieving revision 1.155 diff -u -r1.155 dovecot-example.conf --- dovecot-example.conf 16 Oct 2005 14:59:12 -0000 1.155 +++ dovecot-example.conf 19 Oct 2005 08:25:31 -0000 @@ -568,9 +568,13 @@ # automatically created and destroyed as needed. #auth_worker_max_count = 30 +# Kerberos keytab to use for the GSSAPI mechanism. Will use the system +# default (usually /etc/krb5.keytab) if not specified. +#auth_krb5_keytab = + auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: - # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous + # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous gssapi mechanisms = plain # Index: src/auth/Makefile.am =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/Makefile.am,v retrieving revision 1.47 diff -u -r1.47 Makefile.am --- src/auth/Makefile.am 7 Aug 2005 11:41:19 -0000 1.47 +++ src/auth/Makefile.am 19 Oct 2005 08:25:31 -0000 @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ mech-cram-md5.c \ mech-digest-md5.c \ mech-ntlm.c \ + mech-gssapi.c \ mech-rpa.c \ mech-apop.c \ passdb.c \ Index: src/auth/auth.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/auth.c,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -u -r1.19 auth.c --- src/auth/auth.c 16 Oct 2005 14:06:59 -0000 1.19 +++ src/auth/auth.c 19 Oct 2005 08:25:31 -0000 @@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ } t_pop(); - if (auth->passdbs == NULL) - i_fatal("No password databases set"); if (auth->userdbs == NULL) i_fatal("No user databases set"); return auth; @@ -130,6 +128,9 @@ struct mech_module_list *list; for (list = auth->mech_modules; list != NULL; list = list->next) { + if (list->module.need_passdb && + !auth->passdbs) + break; if (list->module.passdb_need_plain && !auth_passdb_list_have_plain(auth)) break; Index: src/auth/mech-anonymous.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/mech-anonymous.c,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -r1.13 mech-anonymous.c --- src/auth/mech-anonymous.c 23 Apr 2005 09:11:49 -0000 1.13 +++ src/auth/mech-anonymous.c 19 Oct 2005 08:25:31 -0000 @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ MEMBER(flags) MECH_SEC_ANONYMOUS, + MEMBER(need_passdb) TRUE, MEMBER(passdb_need_plain) FALSE, MEMBER(passdb_need_credentials) FALSE, Index: src/auth/mech-apop.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/mech-apop.c,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 mech-apop.c --- src/auth/mech-apop.c 23 Apr 2005 09:11:49 -0000 1.16 +++ src/auth/mech-apop.c 19 Oct 2005 08:25:31 -0000 @@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ MEMBER(flags) MECH_SEC_PRIVATE | MECH_SEC_DICTIONARY | MECH_SEC_ACTIVE, + MEMBER(need_passdb) TRUE, MEMBER(passdb_need_plain) FALSE, MEMBER(passdb_need_credentials) TRUE, Index: src/auth/mech-cram-md5.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/mech-cram-md5.c,v retrieving revision 1.20 diff -u -r1.20 mech-cram-md5.c --- src/auth/mech-cram-md5.c 8 Jan 2005 21:37:32 -0000 1.20 +++ src/auth/mech-cram-md5.c 19 Oct 2005 08:25:32 -0000 @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ MEMBER(flags) MECH_SEC_DICTIONARY | MECH_SEC_ACTIVE, + MEMBER(need_passdb) TRUE, MEMBER(passdb_need_plain) FALSE, MEMBER(passdb_need_credentials) TRUE, Index: src/auth/mech-digest-md5.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/mech-digest-md5.c,v retrieving revision 1.34 diff -u -r1.34 mech-digest-md5.c --- src/auth/mech-digest-md5.c 8 Jan 2005 21:37:32 -0000 1.34 +++ src/auth/mech-digest-md5.c 19 Oct 2005 08:25:32 -0000 @@ -619,6 +619,7 @@ MEMBER(flags) MECH_SEC_DICTIONARY | MECH_SEC_ACTIVE | MECH_SEC_MUTUAL_AUTH, + MEMBER(need_passdb) TRUE, MEMBER(passdb_need_plain) FALSE, MEMBER(passdb_need_credentials) TRUE, Index: src/auth/mech-login.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/mech-login.c,v retrieving revision 1.12 diff -u -r1.12 mech-login.c --- src/auth/mech-login.c 23 Apr 2005 09:11:49 -0000 1.12 +++ src/auth/mech-login.c 19 Oct 2005 08:25:32 -0000 @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ MEMBER(flags) MECH_SEC_PLAINTEXT, + MEMBER(need_passdb) TRUE, MEMBER(passdb_need_plain) TRUE, MEMBER(passdb_need_credentials) FALSE, Index: src/auth/mech-ntlm.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/mech-ntlm.c,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -u -r1.19 mech-ntlm.c --- src/auth/mech-ntlm.c 23 Apr 2005 09:11:49 -0000 1.19 +++ src/auth/mech-ntlm.c 19 Oct 2005 08:25:32 -0000 @@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ MEMBER(flags) MECH_SEC_DICTIONARY | MECH_SEC_ACTIVE, + MEMBER(need_passdb) TRUE, MEMBER(passdb_need_plain) FALSE, MEMBER(passdb_need_credentials) TRUE, Index: src/auth/mech-plain.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/mech-plain.c,v retrieving revision 1.31 diff -u -r1.31 mech-plain.c --- src/auth/mech-plain.c 23 Apr 2005 09:11:49 -0000 1.31 +++ src/auth/mech-plain.c 19 Oct 2005 08:25:32 -0000 @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ MEMBER(flags) MECH_SEC_PLAINTEXT, + MEMBER(need_passdb) TRUE, MEMBER(passdb_need_plain) TRUE, MEMBER(passdb_need_credentials) FALSE, Index: src/auth/mech-rpa.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/mech-rpa.c,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -u -r1.19 mech-rpa.c --- src/auth/mech-rpa.c 23 Apr 2005 09:11:49 -0000 1.19 +++ src/auth/mech-rpa.c 19 Oct 2005 08:25:32 -0000 @@ -614,6 +614,7 @@ MEMBER(flags) MECH_SEC_DICTIONARY | MECH_SEC_ACTIVE | MECH_SEC_MUTUAL_AUTH, + MEMBER(need_passdb) TRUE, MEMBER(passdb_need_plain) FALSE, MEMBER(passdb_need_credentials) TRUE, Index: src/auth/mech.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/mech.c,v retrieving revision 1.54 diff -u -r1.54 mech.c --- src/auth/mech.c 7 Jan 2005 19:55:50 -0000 1.54 +++ src/auth/mech.c 19 Oct 2005 08:25:32 -0000 @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ extern struct mech_module mech_ntlm; extern struct mech_module mech_rpa; extern struct mech_module mech_anonymous; +#ifdef MECH_GSSAPI +extern struct mech_module mech_gssapi; +#endif void mech_init(void) { @@ -65,6 +68,9 @@ mech_register_module(&mech_ntlm); mech_register_module(&mech_rpa); mech_register_module(&mech_anonymous); +#ifdef MECH_GSSAPI + mech_register_module(&mech_gssapi); +#endif } void mech_deinit(void) @@ -77,4 +83,7 @@ mech_unregister_module(&mech_ntlm); mech_unregister_module(&mech_rpa); mech_unregister_module(&mech_anonymous); +#ifdef MECH_GSSAPI + mech_unregister_module(&mech_gssapi); +#endif } Index: src/auth/mech.h =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/mech.h,v retrieving revision 1.35 diff -u -r1.35 mech.h --- src/auth/mech.h 9 Jan 2005 16:54:48 -0000 1.35 +++ src/auth/mech.h 19 Oct 2005 08:25:32 -0000 @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ const char *mech_name; enum mech_security_flags flags; + unsigned int need_passdb:1; unsigned int passdb_need_plain:1; unsigned int passdb_need_credentials:1; Index: src/master/auth-process.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/master/auth-process.c,v retrieving revision 1.82 diff -u -r1.82 auth-process.c --- src/master/auth-process.c 1 Oct 2005 10:52:16 -0000 1.82 +++ src/master/auth-process.c 19 Oct 2005 08:25:33 -0000 @@ -458,6 +458,8 @@ env_put("SSL_REQUIRE_CLIENT_CERT=1"); if (set->ssl_username_from_cert) env_put("SSL_USERNAME_FROM_CERT=1"); + if (set->krb5_keytab) + env_put(t_strconcat("KRB5_KTNAME=", set->krb5_keytab, NULL)); restrict_process_size(set->process_size, (unsigned int)-1); } Index: src/master/master-settings.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/master/master-settings.c,v retrieving revision 1.92 diff -u -r1.92 master-settings.c --- src/master/master-settings.c 16 Oct 2005 14:59:17 -0000 1.92 +++ src/master/master-settings.c 19 Oct 2005 08:25:33 -0000 @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ DEF(SET_STR, username_chars), DEF(SET_STR, username_translation), DEF(SET_STR, anonymous_username), + DEF(SET_STR, krb5_keytab), DEF(SET_BOOL, verbose), DEF(SET_BOOL, debug), @@ -353,6 +354,7 @@ MEMBER(username_chars) "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@", MEMBER(username_translation) "", MEMBER(anonymous_username) "anonymous", + MEMBER(krb5_keytab) NULL, MEMBER(verbose) FALSE, MEMBER(debug) FALSE, Index: src/master/master-settings.h =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/master/master-settings.h,v retrieving revision 1.60 diff -u -r1.60 master-settings.h --- src/master/master-settings.h 1 Oct 2005 10:52:16 -0000 1.60 +++ src/master/master-settings.h 19 Oct 2005 08:25:33 -0000 @@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ const char *username_chars; const char *username_translation; const char *anonymous_username; + const char *krb5_keytab; int verbose, debug; int ssl_require_client_cert; --- /dev/null 2005-10-17 12:49:06.896857000 +0200 +++ src/auth/mech-gssapi.c 2005-10-19 10:17:45.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,321 @@ +/* + * GSSAPI Module + * + * Copyright (c) 2005 Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer(a)samba.org> + * + * Related standards: + * - draft-ietf-sasl-gssapi-03 + * - RFC2222 + * + * Some parts inspired by an older patch from Colin Walters + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published + * by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or + * (at your option) any later version. + */ + +#include "common.h" +#include "mech.h" +#include "passdb.h" +#include "str.h" +#include "buffer.h" +#include "hex-binary.h" +#include "safe-memset.h" +#include "hostpid.h" + +#ifdef MECH_GSSAPI + +#include <gssapi/gssapi.h> + +struct gssapi_auth_request { + struct auth_request auth_request; + gss_ctx_id_t gss_ctx; + gss_cred_id_t service_cred; + + enum { + GSS_STATE_SEC_CONTEXT, + GSS_STATE_WRAP, + GSS_STATE_UNWRAP + } sasl_gssapi_state; + + gss_name_t src_name; + + pool_t pool; +}; + +static void auth_request_log_gss_error(struct auth_request *request, OM_uint32 status_value, int status_type, const char *description) +{ + OM_uint32 message_context = 0; + OM_uint32 major_status, minor_status; + gss_buffer_desc status_string; + + do { + major_status = gss_display_status(&minor_status, status_value, + status_type, GSS_C_NO_OID, &message_context, + &status_string); + + auth_request_log_error(request, "gssapi", "While %s: %s", + description, (char *)status_string.value); + + major_status = gss_release_buffer(&minor_status, &status_string); + } while (message_context != 0); +} + +static struct auth_request *mech_gssapi_auth_new(void) +{ + struct gssapi_auth_request *request; + pool_t pool; + + pool = pool_alloconly_create("gssapi_auth_request", 512); + request = p_new(pool, struct gssapi_auth_request, 1); + request->pool = pool; + + request->gss_ctx = GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT; + + request->auth_request.pool = pool; + return &request->auth_request; +} + +static OM_uint32 obtain_service_credentials(struct auth_request *request, gss_cred_id_t *ret) +{ + OM_uint32 major_status, minor_status; + string_t *principal_name; + gss_buffer_desc inbuf; + gss_name_t gss_principal; + + principal_name = t_str_new(40); + str_append(principal_name, t_str_lcase(request->service)); + str_append(principal_name, "@"); + str_append(principal_name, my_hostname); + + auth_request_log_info(request, "gssapi", + "Obtaining credentials for %s", str_c(principal_name)); + + inbuf.length = str_len(principal_name); + inbuf.value = (void*) str_c(principal_name); + + major_status = gss_import_name(&minor_status, &inbuf, + GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE, &gss_principal); + + str_free(principal_name); + + if (GSS_ERROR(major_status)) { + auth_request_log_gss_error(request, major_status, GSS_C_GSS_CODE, + "importing principal name"); + return major_status; + } + + major_status = gss_acquire_cred(&minor_status, gss_principal, 0, + GSS_C_NULL_OID_SET, GSS_C_ACCEPT, ret, NULL, NULL); + + if (GSS_ERROR(major_status)) { + auth_request_log_gss_error(request, major_status, GSS_C_GSS_CODE, + "acquiring service credentials"); + auth_request_log_gss_error(request, minor_status, GSS_C_MECH_CODE, + "acquiring service credentials"); + return major_status; + } + + gss_release_name(&minor_status, gss_principal); + + return major_status; +} + +static void gssapi_sec_context(struct gssapi_auth_request *request, + gss_buffer_desc inbuf) +{ + OM_uint32 major_status, minor_status; + gss_buffer_desc outbuf; + + major_status = gss_accept_sec_context ( + &minor_status, + &request->gss_ctx, + request->service_cred, + &inbuf, + GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS, + &request->src_name, + NULL, /* mech_type */ + &outbuf, + NULL, /* ret_flags */ + NULL, /* time_rec */ + NULL /* delegated_cred_handle */ + ); + + if (GSS_ERROR(major_status)) { + auth_request_log_gss_error(&request->auth_request, major_status, GSS_C_GSS_CODE, + "processing incoming data"); + auth_request_log_gss_error(&request->auth_request, minor_status, GSS_C_MECH_CODE, + "processing incoming data"); + + auth_request_fail(&request->auth_request); + return; + } + + if (major_status == GSS_S_COMPLETE) { + request->sasl_gssapi_state = GSS_STATE_WRAP; + auth_request_log_info(&request->auth_request, "gssapi", + "security context state completed."); + } else { + auth_request_log_info(&request->auth_request, "gssapi", + "Processed incoming packet correctly, waiting for another."); + } + + request->auth_request.callback(&request->auth_request, + AUTH_CLIENT_RESULT_CONTINUE, + outbuf.value, outbuf.length); + + major_status = gss_release_buffer(&minor_status, &outbuf); +} + +static void gssapi_wrap(struct gssapi_auth_request *request, + gss_buffer_desc inbuf) +{ + OM_uint32 major_status, minor_status; + gss_buffer_desc outbuf; + char ret[4]; + + /* The clients return data should be empty here */ + + ret[0] = 0x01; /* Only authentication, no integrity or confidentiality protection (yet?) */ + ret[1] = 0xFF; + ret[2] = 0xFF; + ret[3] = 0xFF; + + inbuf.length = 4; + inbuf.value = ret; + + major_status = gss_wrap(&minor_status, request->gss_ctx, 0, + GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT, + &inbuf, NULL, &outbuf); + + if (GSS_ERROR(major_status)) { + auth_request_log_gss_error(&request->auth_request, major_status, GSS_C_GSS_CODE, + "sending security layer negotiation"); + auth_request_log_gss_error(&request->auth_request, minor_status, GSS_C_MECH_CODE, + "sending security layer negotiation"); + auth_request_fail(&request->auth_request); + return; + } + + auth_request_log_info(&request->auth_request, "gssapi", + "Negotiated security layer"); + + request->auth_request.callback(&request->auth_request, + AUTH_CLIENT_RESULT_CONTINUE, + outbuf.value, outbuf.length); + + major_status = gss_release_buffer(&minor_status, &outbuf); + + request->sasl_gssapi_state = GSS_STATE_UNWRAP; +} + +static void gssapi_unwrap(struct gssapi_auth_request *request, + gss_buffer_desc inbuf) +{ + OM_uint32 major_status, minor_status; + gss_buffer_desc outbuf; + + major_status = gss_unwrap(&minor_status, request->gss_ctx, + &inbuf, &outbuf, NULL, NULL); + + if (GSS_ERROR(major_status)) { + auth_request_log_gss_error(&request->auth_request, major_status, GSS_C_GSS_CODE, + "final negotiation: gss_unwrap"); + auth_request_fail(&request->auth_request); + return; + } + + if (outbuf.length <= 4) { + auth_request_log_error(&request->auth_request, "gssapi", + "Invalid response length"); + auth_request_fail(&request->auth_request); + return; + } + + request->auth_request.user = p_strndup(request->auth_request.pool, + ((unsigned char*) outbuf.value)+4, + outbuf.length-4); + + auth_request_success(&request->auth_request, NULL, 0); +} + +static void +mech_gssapi_auth_continue(struct auth_request *request, + const unsigned char *data, size_t data_size) +{ + struct gssapi_auth_request *gssapi_request = + (struct gssapi_auth_request *)request; + gss_buffer_desc inbuf; + + inbuf.value = (char*) data; + inbuf.length = data_size; + + switch (gssapi_request->sasl_gssapi_state) { + case GSS_STATE_SEC_CONTEXT: gssapi_sec_context(gssapi_request, inbuf); break; + case GSS_STATE_WRAP: gssapi_wrap(gssapi_request, inbuf); break; + case GSS_STATE_UNWRAP: gssapi_unwrap(gssapi_request, inbuf); break; + } +} + +static void +mech_gssapi_auth_initial(struct auth_request *request, + const unsigned char *data, size_t data_size) +{ + OM_uint32 major_status; + struct gssapi_auth_request *gssapi_request = + (struct gssapi_auth_request *)request; + + major_status = obtain_service_credentials(request, &gssapi_request->service_cred); + + if (GSS_ERROR(major_status)) { + auth_request_internal_failure(request); + return; + } + gssapi_request->src_name = GSS_C_NO_NAME; + + gssapi_request->sasl_gssapi_state = GSS_STATE_SEC_CONTEXT; + + if (data_size == 0) { + /* The client should go first */ + request->callback(request, + AUTH_CLIENT_RESULT_CONTINUE, + NULL, 0); + } else { + mech_gssapi_auth_continue(request, data, data_size); + } +} + + +static void +mech_gssapi_auth_free(struct auth_request *request) +{ + OM_uint32 major_status, minor_status; + struct gssapi_auth_request *gssapi_request = + (struct gssapi_auth_request *)request; + + major_status = gss_delete_sec_context(&minor_status, + &gssapi_request->gss_ctx, + GSS_C_NO_BUFFER); + + major_status = gss_release_cred(&minor_status, &gssapi_request->service_cred); + + pool_unref(request->pool); +} + +const struct mech_module mech_gssapi = { + "GSSAPI", + + MEMBER(flags) 0, + + MEMBER(need_passdb) FALSE, + MEMBER(passdb_need_plain) FALSE, + MEMBER(passdb_need_credentials) FALSE, + + mech_gssapi_auth_new, + mech_gssapi_auth_initial, + mech_gssapi_auth_continue, + mech_gssapi_auth_free +}; + +#endif Index: AUTHORS =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/AUTHORS,v retrieving revision 1.11 diff -u -r1.11 AUTHORS --- AUTHORS 19 Aug 2004 03:56:01 -0000 1.11 +++ AUTHORS 19 Oct 2005 08:38:49 -0000 @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Joshua Goodall <joshua(a)roughtrade.net> (src/auth/password-scheme-cram-md5.c, src/util/dovecotpw.c) +Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer(a)samba.org> (src/auth/mech-gssapi.c) + This product includes software developed by Computing Services at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.cmu.edu/computing/) (src/lib/base64.c, src/lib/mkgmtime.c)

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[Dovecot] "passdb" userdb
by Thomas Hummel 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Hello Timo, How exactly would translate the "passdb" userdb example which is in the Wiki for SQL auth with LDAP auth, both in dovecot.conf and dovecot-ldap.conf ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] Large IMAP operations tend to timeout and cause problems?
by Alen Salamun 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Hello all! I have moved from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot some month ago. It is quite stable on everyday use (1.0alpha4) but it has constant problems with large IMAP/SSL operations. We use Maildir format. For example if I select 400 messages, mark them deleted and use "purge command" in Thunderbird (to actually delete them) TB starts to do something and runs and runs and runs....Then I get script timed out errror and I have to restart TB. That never happened with Courier-Imap. Same thing happens for example moving 1000msgs to another folder or something like that. Another thing is still that from time to time dovecot indexes get corrupted and users can't access some folders. Then I have to delete dovecot* in that Maildir folder and it works again. Any thoughts on that please? BR, Alen

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[Dovecot] Alpha1..2.. and 3 with Tru64
by Alfonso Sparano 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Hi all, I've found a little problem to compile dovecot on a tru64 os v5.1. The problem is the lack of the "inttypes.h" into the included header in the project. Without this include the make process will fail because it can't find the uint32 type. So is sufficient to add the line '#include <inttypes.h>' in the src/lib/lib.h of the tgz distribution package. Alfonso Sparano

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[Dovecot] passwd and virtual users
by Erick Perez 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Hi, im runnign dovecot 0.99.14 with standard pop3 auth and a default .conf file. Everything works fine. But now I need to enable virtual users for several domains in the same server while keeping the local auth. my postfix is already working for the virtual domains. What do i need to modify to enable /etc/passwd auth (already done) and virtual domains auth? in the virtual part, i have no idea. Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez

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[Dovecot] Failed authentication to a mysql database (bug or PEBKAC?)
by jigen 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi, dovecot has a little crazy behaviour connecting to a mysql db: if you specify "127.0.0.1" as host instead of "localhost" it seems to work, also with a password. BUT, if you assign host=localhost without a password, it works too (as Ger Visschers says).... One more question: how I can specify more different mysql-db conteining different users? I try in the following way: passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_django.conf args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_debord.conf } and also: passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_debord.conf } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_django.conf } but it always seems to remember only the last args value and it tries to connect only one db... bye jigen -- jigen <jigen(a)metalabs.org> MeTA~LAbS

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[Dovecot] Message not found errors
by Andrew Hutchings 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi, I'm getting a very small amount of users getting message not found errors while downloading mail via POP. By the time they inform me and I switch on rawloging for them it works again. Any ideas where this is going wrong? Or at least a way I can diagnose it? It seems to have been happening since Alpha 1. Currently using pre-release of Alpha4. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ Random quote 192: Geeks like learning new things, and when they pop out at the end of the process they're entirely brainwashed. - The way that MicroSoft's trainers view technical staff.

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[Dovecot] 1 user has random pam auth issues
by Obantec Support 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi Dovecot 1.0 stable on FC3 i see this in my logs from 1 user Oct 19 07:20:36 proteus2a dovecot(pam_unix)[2937]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=1.2.3.4 user=testuser IP & user changed by me. at other times he has no issues. no other users are reporting this. could it be his ADSL is flaky or is there another scenario. Mark

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[Dovecot] Pocket Outlook weirdness
by Vadim Zaliva 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi! I am trying to access my IMAP server running dovecot from my Pocket PC running PocketOutlook. I observe very strange behavior: it starts to fetch messages from INBOX and shows list them on the screen as it fetches, then all messages disappear from the screen and it says "fetching folders". After the end of update operation it shows me empty list of messages. Have anybody have seen such problem? In general, are there reports of successful pocket outlook + dovecot users? Any suggestions are appreciated! I really want to make this thing work. Sincerely, Vadim

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[Dovecot] v. minor bug alpha4pre
by Andrew Hutchings 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi, When upgrading to Alpha4pre I also changed UIDL format from %08Xv%08Xu to %08Xu%08Xv to be in line with future dovecot default. This caused the following error to happen on about 1% of mailboxes: file ostream-file.c: line 370 (stream_send_io): assertion failed: (fstream->io != NULL) Deleting dovecot-uidlist and indexes fixes this so its more of an FYI really. I always delete indexes on an upgrade anyway so I'm pretty sure interpretation of the uidlist file if the problem. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ Random quote 3: "We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." - Unknown

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[Dovecot] Moving old files
by Jon 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi, I wish to automatically remove mail files not accessed for some time. I have done this in the file system and it works fine although it is a bit slow when the mail client access the mailbox after changes. Are there any way of having dovecot moving the files so that index and subscriptions are kept more same? Can one use Dovecot from the command line? Best Regards - Jon

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[Dovecot] POP Question
by Marc Perkel 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

After upgrading to Alpha 4 I have two people complaining about a POP problem. Aparently they are getting their email sent to them over and over. They have it set to "leave messages on server" but apparently whatever keeps track of that is broken. So - how is it determined with POP what is new and what is read?

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[Dovecot] qpoppers XUIDL
by Dominik Werder 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Hello, does anybody know how to make XUIDLs compatible to qpopper? I'm migrating from qpopper and one of my test-migration-accounts leaves the mail on the server. As soon as I switch to dovecot it downloads the mails again and again.. bye! Dominik

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[Dovecot] Numpty question about EXISTS...
by Steve [Dovecot] 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

I'm fiddling with Ruby and its IMAP class. I'm trying to write something which (at this stage) can be thought of as a variant on xbiff which doesn't need poll the server to establish the presence of new mail... I'd like to establish a notification when the contents of a folder changes... which is likely to be when a different IMAP client moves a message into a new folder. I've been lead to believe that I can use the "EXISTS" response to trigger the 'new message present in IMAP folder" event in my program... but I don't seem to receive them when I would expect to when connected to my Dovecot server. I get one "EXISTS" message when I call "select" - but that's it - it doesn't seem to notice when another client moves messages in/out of the folder. Are my assumptions about IMAP incorrect - i.e. must I still poll? Can Dovecot be configured to send EXIST responses (or any other form of notification) when messages are moved into a folder? Any hints appreciated. Steve

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[Dovecot] Debian - upgrade done, plain text auth fails
by Diederik de Vries 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Hi there, I have a problem concerning authentication of dovecot. Yesterday I did a apt-get update on my Debian Testing machine, which had a new version of Dovecot (common/imap/pop3). It now runs 1.0alpha3 Local authentication works fine (Squirrelmail (IMAP), and local 110 connections work). However: pop3 from outside 127.0.0.1 plain barfs when entering the `u` for `user`. What the ....?: === +OK Dovecot ready. u-ERR invalid POP3 command De verbinding met de host is verbroken. (Connection with host is lost) == However, on localhost: === diedx:/etc/dovecot# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to diederik.nl. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user died +OK pass nothere +OK Logged in. list +OK 208 messages: 1 1679750 2 22179 3 2116 === Works like a charm. I had this problem earlier, so then I switched the disable_plaintext_auth = no. This does not seem to work at this moment. Anyone? Config attached. Thanks! Diederik de Vries Rotterdam, The Netherlands ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file # '#' character and everything after it is treated as comments. Extra spaces # and tabs are ignored. If you want to use either of these explicitly, put the # value inside quotes, eg.: key = "# char and trailing whitespace " # Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment # any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples # with real defaults being based on configure options. The paths listed here # are for configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var # --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl # Base directory where to store runtime data. #base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s #protocols = imap imaps protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. If you want to specify ports # for each service, you will need to configure these settings inside the # protocol imap/pop3 { ... } section, so you can specify different ports # for IMAP/POP3. listen = * # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above if not specified. #ssl_listen = # Disable SSL/TLS support. #ssl_disable = no # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but # root. #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem # File containing trusted SSL certificate authorities. Usually not needed. #ssl_ca_file = # Request client to send a certificate. #ssl_verify_client_cert = no # SSL parameter file. Master process generates this file for login processes. # It contains Diffie Hellman and RSA parameters. #ssl_parameters_file = /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat # How often to regenerate the SSL parameters file. Generation is quite CPU # intensive operation. The value is in hours, 0 disables regeneration # entirely. #ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 # SSL ciphers to use #ssl_cipher_list = all:!LOW # 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 = no # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). #log_path = # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default #info_log_path = # Prefix for each line written to log file. % codes are in strftime(3) # format. #log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " ## ## Login processes ## # Directory where authentication process places authentication UNIX sockets # which login needs to be able to connect to. The sockets are created when # running as root, so you don't have to worry about permissions. Note that # everything in this directory is deleted when Dovecot is started. #login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login # chroot login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this is if you # wish to run the whole Dovecot without roots. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Rootless #login_chroot = yes # User to use for the login process. Create a completely new user for this, # and don't use it anywhere else. The user must also belong to a group where # only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process. # Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds #login_user = dovecot # Set max. process size in megabytes. If you don't use # login_process_per_connection you might need to grow this. #login_process_size = 32 # Should each login be processed in it's own process (yes), or should one # login process be allowed to process multiple connections (no)? Yes is more # secure, espcially with SSL/TLS enabled. No is faster since there's no need # to create processes all the time. #login_process_per_connection = yes # Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_connection is # yes, this is the number of extra processes waiting for users to log in. #login_processes_count = 3 # Maximum number of extra login processes to create. The extra process count # usually stays at login_processes_count, but when multiple users start logging # in at the same time more extra processes are created. To prevent fork-bombing # we check only once in a second if new processes should be created - if all # of them are used at the time, we double their amount until limit set by this # setting is reached. This setting is used only if login_process_per_use is yes. #login_max_processes_count = 128 # Maximum number of connections allowed in login state. When this limit is # reached, the oldest connections are dropped. If login_process_per_connection # is no, this is a per-process value, so the absolute maximum number of users # logging in actually login_processes_count * max_logging_users. #login_max_logging_users = 256 # Greeting message for clients. #login_greeting = Dovecot ready. # Space-separated list of elements we want to log. The elements which have # a non-empty variable value are joined together to form a comma-separated # string. #login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c # Login log format. %$ contains login_log_format_elements string, %s contains # the data we want to log. #login_log_format = %$: %s ## ## Mail processes ## # Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, # new users aren't allowed to log in. #max_mail_processes = 1024 # Show more verbose process titles (in ps). Currently shows user name and # IP address. Useful for seeing who are actually using the IMAP processes # (eg. shared mailboxes or if same uid is used for multiple accounts). #verbose_proctitle = no # Show protocol level SSL errors. #verbose_ssl = no # Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. #first_valid_uid = 500 #last_valid_uid = 0 # Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel. Users having # non-valid GID as primary group ID aren't allowed to log in. If user # belongs to supplementary groups with non-valid GIDs, those groups are # not set. #first_valid_gid = 1 #last_valid_gid = 0 # Grant access to these extra groups for mail processes. Typical use would be # to give "mail" group write access to /var/mail to be able to create dotlocks. #mail_extra_groups = # ':' separated list of directories under which chrooting is allowed for mail # processes (ie. /var/mail will allow chrooting to /var/mail/foo/bar too). # This setting doesn't affect login_chroot or auth_chroot variables. # WARNING: Never add directories here which local users can modify, that # may lead to root exploit. Usually this should be done only if you don't # allow shell access for users. See # /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/configuration.txt for more information. #valid_chroot_dirs = # Default chroot directory for mail processes. This can be overridden for # specific users in user database by giving /./ in user's home directory # (eg. /home/./user chroots into /home). Note that usually there is no real # need to do chrooting, Dovecot doesn't allow users to access files outside # their mail directory anyway. #mail_chroot = # Enable mail process debugging. This can help you figure out why Dovecot # isn't finding your mails. #mail_debug = no # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/mail-storages.txt. # There's a few special variables you can use, eg.: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there's no domain # %h - home directory # # See /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # #default_mail_env = # If you need to set multiple mailbox locations or want to change default # namespace settings, you can do it by defining namespace sections: # # You can have private, shared and public namespaces. The only difference # between them is how Dovecot announces them to client via NAMESPACE # extension. Shared namespaces are meant for user-owned mailboxes which are # shared to other users, while public namespaces are for more globally # accessible mailboxes. # # REMEMBER: If you add any namespaces, the default namespace must be added # explicitly, ie. default_mail_env does nothing unless you have a namespace # without a location setting. Default namespace is simply done by having a # namespace with empty prefix. #namespace private { # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator for all # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a good one. #separator = / # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be different for # all namespaces. For example "Public/". #prefix = # Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as # default_mail_env, which is also the default for it. #location = # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which namespace # has it. #inbox = yes # If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via NAMESPACE # extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful when converting # from another server with different namespaces which you want to depricate # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden namespaces with # prefixes "~/mail/", "~%u/mail/" and "mail/". #hidden = yes #} # Space-separated list of fields to initially save into cache file. Currently # these fields are allowed: # # flags, date.sent, date.received, size.virtual, size.physical # mime.parts, imap.body, imap.bodystructure # # Different IMAP clients work in different ways, so they benefit from # different cached fields. Some do not benefit from them at all. Caching more # than necessary generates useless disk I/O, so you don't want to do that # either. # # Dovecot attempts to automatically figure out what client wants and it keeps # only that. However the first few times a mailbox is opened, Dovecot hasn't # yet figured out what client needs, so it may not perform optimally. If you # know what fields the majority of your clients need, it may be useful to set # these fields by hand. If client doesn't actually use them, Dovecot will # eventually drop them. # # Usually you should just leave this field alone. The potential benefits are # typically unnoticeable. #mail_cache_fields = # Space-separated list of fields that Dovecot should never save to cache file. # Useful if you want to save disk space at the cost of more I/O when the fields # needed. #mail_never_cache_fields = # Like mailbox_check_interval, but used for IDLE command. #mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 # Allow full filesystem access to clients. There's no access checks other than # what the operating system does for the active UID/GID. It works with both # maildir and mboxes, allowing you to prefix mailboxes names with eg. /path/ # or ~user/. #mail_full_filesystem_access = no # Maximum allowed length for mail keyword name. It's only forced when trying # to create new keywords. #mail_max_keyword_length = 50 # Save mails with CR+LF instead of plain LF. This makes sending those mails # take less CPU, especially with sendfile() syscall with Linux and FreeBSD. # But it also creates a bit more disk I/O which may just make it slower. #mail_save_crlf = no # Use mmap() instead of read() to read mail files. read() seems to be a bit # faster with my Linux/x86 and it's better with NFS, so that's the default. # Note that OpenBSD 3.3 and older don't work right with mail_read_mmaped = yes. #mail_read_mmaped = no # Don't use mmap() at all. This is required if you store indexes in remote # filesystems (NFS or clustered filesystem). #mmap_disable = no # Don't write() to mmaped files. This is required for some operating systems # which use separate caches for them, such as OpenBSD. #mmap_no_write = no # Locking method for index files. Alternatives are fcntl, flock and dotlock. # Dotlocking uses some tricks which may create more disk I/O than other locking # methods. #lock_method = fcntl # By default LIST command returns all entries in maildir beginning with dot. # Enabling this option makes Dovecot return only entries which are directories. # This is done by stat()ing each entry, so it causes more disk I/O. # (For systems setting struct dirent->d_type, this check is free and it's # done always regardless of this setting) #maildir_stat_dirs = no # Copy mail to another folders using hard links. This is much faster than # actually copying the file. This is problematic only if something modifies # the mail in one folder but doesn't want it modified in the others. I don't # know any MUA which would modify mail files directly. IMAP protocol also # requires that the mails don't change, so it would be problematic in any case. # If you care about performance, enable it. #maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no # Which locking methods to use for locking mbox. There's four available: # dotlock: Create <mailbox>.lock file. This is the oldest and most NFS-safe # solution. If you want to use /var/mail/ like directory, the users # will need write access to that directory. # fcntl : Use this if possible. Works with NFS too if lockd is used. # flock : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # lockf : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # # You can use multiple locking methods; if you do the order they're declared # in is important to avoid deadlocks if other MTAs/MUAs are using multiple # locking methods as well. Some operating systems don't allow using some of # them simultaneously. #mbox_read_locks = fcntl #mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl # Maximum time in seconds to wait for lock (all of them) before aborting. #mbox_lock_timeout = 300 # If dotlock exists but the mailbox isn't modified in any way, override the # lock file after this many seconds. #mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 # When mbox changes unexpectedly we have to fully read it to find out what # changed. If the mbox is large this can take a long time. Since the change # is usually just a newly appended mail, it'd be faster to simply read the # new mails. If this setting is enabled, Dovecot does this but still safely # fallbacks to re-reading the whole mbox file whenever something in mbox isn't # how it's expected to be. The only real downside to this setting is that if # some other MUA changes message flags, Dovecot doesn't notice it immediately. # Note that a full sync is done with SELECT, EXAMINE, EXPUNGE and CHECK # commands. #mbox_dirty_syncs = yes # Like mbox_dirty_syncs, but don't do full syncs even with SELECT, EXAMINE, # EXPUNGE or CHECK commands. If this is set, mbox_dirty_syncs is ignored. #mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no # Delay writing mbox headers until doing a full write sync (EXPUNGE and CHECK # commands and when closing the mailbox). This is especially useful for POP3 # where clients often delete all mails. The downside is that our changes # aren't immediately visible to other MUAs. #mbox_lazy_writes = yes # umask to use for mail files and directories #umask = 0077 # Drop all privileges before exec()ing the mail process. This is mostly # meant for debugging, otherwise you don't get core dumps. It could be a small # security risk if you use single UID for multiple users, as the users could # ptrace() each others processes then. #mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. #mail_process_size = 256 # Log prefix for mail processes. # See /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/variables.txt for list of possible # variables you can use. #mail_log_prefix = "%Us(%u): " ## ## IMAP specific settings ## protocol imap { # Login executable location. #login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login # IMAP executable location #mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # This would write rawlogs into ~/dovecot.rawlog/ directory: #mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # Maximum IMAP command line length in bytes. Some clients generate very long # command lines with huge mailboxes, so you may need to raise this if you get # "Too long argument" or "IMAP command line too large" errors often. #imap_max_line_length = 65536 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #mail_use_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # Send IMAP capabilities in greeting message. This makes it unnecessary for # clients to request it with CAPABILITY command, so it saves one round-trip. # Many clients however don't understand it and ask the CAPABILITY anyway. #login_greeting_capability = no # Workarounds for various client bugs: # delay-newmail: # Send EXISTS/RECENT new mail notifications only when replying to NOOP # and CHECK commands. Some clients ignore them otherwise, for example # OSX Mail. Outlook Express breaks more badly though, without this it # may show user "Message no longer in server" errors. Note that OE6 still # breaks even with this workaround if synchronization is set to # "Headers Only". # outlook-idle: # Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no mail # arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is still # fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new mail # arrives. # netscape-eoh: # Netscape 4.x breaks if message headers don't end with the empty "end of # headers" line. Normally all messages have this, but setting this # workaround makes sure that Netscape never breaks by adding the line if # it doesn't exist. This is done only for FETCH BODY[HEADER.FIELDS..] # commands. Note that RFC says this shouldn't be done. # tb-extra-mailbox-sep: # With mbox storage a mailbox can contain either mails or submailboxes, # but not both. Thunderbird separates these two by forcing server to # accept '/' suffix in mailbox names in subscriptions list. #imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } ## ## POP3 specific settings ## protocol pop3 { # Login executable location. #login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login # POP3 executable location #mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 # Don't try to set mails non-recent or seen with POP3 sessions. This is # mostly intended to reduce disk I/O. With maildir it doesn't move files # from new/ to cur/, with mbox it doesn't write Status-header. #pop3_no_flag_updates = no # Support LAST command which exists in old POP3 specs, but has been removed # from new ones. Some clients still wish to use this though. Enabling this # makes RSET command clear all \Seen flags from messages. #pop3_enable_last = no # POP3 UIDL format to use. You can use following variables: # # %v - Mailbox UIDVALIDITY # %u - Mail UID # %m - MD5 sum of the mailbox headers in hex (mbox only) # %f - filename (maildir only) # # 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 # # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which is # 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. #pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u # POP3 logout format string: # %t - number of TOP commands # %T - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command # %r - number of RETR commands # %R - number of bytes sent to client as a result of RETR command # %d - number of deleted messages # %m - number of messages (before deletion) # %s - mailbox size in bytes (before deletion) #pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%T, retr=%r/%R, del=%d/%m, size=%s # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #mail_use_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 # Workarounds for various client bugs: # outlook-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. # oe-ns-eoh: # Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is # missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing. #pop3_client_workarounds = } ## ## Authentication processes ## # Executable location #auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth # Set max. process size in megabytes. #auth_process_size = 256 # Authentication cache size in kilobytes. #auth_cache_size = 0 # Time to live in seconds for cached data. After this many seconds a cached # record is forced out of cache. #auth_cache_ttl = 3600 # Space separated list of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms that need # them. You can leave it empty if you don't want to support multiple realms. # Many clients simply use the first one listed here, so keep the default realm # first. #auth_realms = # Default realm/domain to use if none was specified. This is used for both # SASL realms and appending @domain to username in plaintext logins. #auth_default_realm = # List of allowed characters in username. If the user-given username contains # a character not listed in here, the login automatically fails. This is just # an extra check to make sure user can't exploit any potential quote escaping # vulnerabilities with SQL/LDAP databases. If you want to allow all characters, # set this value to empty. #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ # Username character translations before it's looked up from databases. The # value contains series of from -> to characters. For example "#@/@" means # that '#' and '/' characters are translated to '@'. #auth_username_translation = # Username to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism #auth_anonymous_username = anonymous # More verbose logging. Useful for figuring out why authentication isn't # working. auth_verbose = yes # Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes. Shows for example SQL # queries. auth_debug = yes # Maximum number of dovecot-auth worker processes. They're used to execute # blocking passdb and userdb queries (eg. MySQL and PAM). They're # automatically created and destroyed as needed. #auth_worker_max_count = 30 auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous mechanisms = plain # # Password database is used to verify user's password (and nothing more). # You can have multiple passdbs and userdbs. This is useful if you want to # allow both system users (/etc/passwd) and virtual users to login without # duplicating the system users into virtual database. # # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # # PAM authentication. Preferred nowadays by most systems. # Note that PAM can only be used to verify if user's password is correct, # so it can't be used as userdb. If you don't want to use a separate user # database (passwd usually), you can use static userdb. passdb pam { # [-session] [<service name>] # # -session makes Dovecot open and immediately close PAM session. Some # PAM plugins need this to work. # # If service name is "*", it means the authenticating service name # is used, eg. pop3 or imap. #args = dovecot } # /etc/passwd or similar, using getpwnam() # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. #passdb passwd { #} # /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam(). Deprecated by PAM nowadays. #passdb shadow { #} # passwd-like file with specified location #passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # checkpassword executable authentication # NOTE: You will probably want to use "userdb passdb" with this. #passdb checkpassword { # Path for checkpassword binary #args = #} # SQL database #passdb sql { # Path for SQL configuration file, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf for example #args = #} # LDAP database #passdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf for example #args = #} # vpopmail authentication #passdb vpopmail { #} # # User database specifies where mails are located and what user/group IDs # own them. For single-UID configuration use "static". # # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers # # /etc/passwd or similar, using getpwnam() # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. userdb passwd { } # passwd-like file with specified location #userdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # static settings generated from template #userdb static { # Template for settings. Can return anything a userdb could normally # return, eg.: uid, gid, home, mail, nice # # A few examples: # # args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/%u # args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/%u mail=mbox:/home/%u/mail nice=10 # #args = #} # SQL database #userdb sql { # Path for SQL configuration file, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf for example #args = #} # LDAP database #userdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf for example #args = #} # vpopmail #userdb vpopmail { #} # "passdb" user database means that the passdb already provided the # needed information and there's no need to do a separate userdb lookup. # This can be made to work with SQL and LDAP databases. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthSpecials userdb passdb { } # User to use for the process. This user needs access to only user and # password databases, nothing else. Only shadow and pam authentication # requires roots, so use something else if possible. Note that passwd # authentication with BSDs internally accesses shadow files, which also # requires roots. Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # That user is specified by userdb above. user = root # Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't # work if this is set, and there's no point chrooting if auth_user is root. # Note that valid_chroot_dirs isn't needed to use this setting. #chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create #count = 1 # Require a valid SSL client certificate or the authentication fails. #ssl_require_client_cert = no } # It's possible to export the authentication interface to other programs, # for example SMTP server which supports talking to Dovecot. Client socket # handles the actual authentication - you give it a username and password # and it returns OK or failure. So it's pretty safe to allow anyone access to # it. Master socket is used to a) query if given client was successfully # authenticated, b) userdb lookups. # listener sockets will be created by Dovecot's master process using the # settings given inside the auth section #auth default_with_listener { # mechanisms = plain # passdb passwd { # } # userdb pam { # } # socket listen { # master { # path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master # # WARNING: Giving untrusted users access to master socket may be a # # security risk, don't give too wide permissions to it! # #mode = 0600 # # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) # #user = # #group = # } # client { # path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-client # mode = 0660 # } # } #} # connect sockets are assumed to be already running, Dovecot's master # process only tries to connect to them. They don't need any other settings # than path for the master socket, as the configuration is done elsewhere. # Note that the client sockets must exist in login_dir. #auth external { # socket connect { # master { # path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master # } # } #}

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[Dovecot] A Couple Assertion Failures
by Todd Burroughs 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Here's a couple of assertion failures from CVS version as of Oct. 6. There's also a segfault but the core file was empty so I don't know if the log entries are much help. BTW, the searching speed using pine has dramatically improved, nice work! Todd ----------------------------------------- dovecot: Oct 12 12:04:28 Error: 20278 imap(username): file mail-index-sync-ext.c: line 155 (get_ext_header): assertion failed: (memcmp((char *)(ext_hdr + 1), ext->name, strlen(ext->name)) == 0) dovecot: Oct 12 12:04:28 Error: child 20278 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff158 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x00004f36 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #6 0x0809b23a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x4f36 <Address 0x4f36 out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 No locals. #7 0x0809b654 in i_panic ( format=0x80a886c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x0808d787 in get_ext_header (map=Variable "map" is not available. ) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:157 ext_hdr = Variable "ext_hdr" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbffff158 in ?? () #2 0x00000006 in ?? () #3 0x00004f36 in ?? () #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x0809b23a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x4f36 <Address 0x4f36 out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 #7 0x0809b654 in i_panic ( format=0x80a886c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 #8 0x0808d787 in get_ext_header (map=Variable "map" is not available. ) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:157 #9 0x0808db69 in sync_ext_reorder (map=0x80cd520, ext_id=1, old_size=2) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:273 #10 0x0808e32e in mail_index_sync_ext_intro (ctx=0xbffff590, u=0x80b6688) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:340 #11 0x0808eb60 in mail_index_sync_keywords (ctx=0xbffff590, hdr=0x0, rec=0x80c7a74) at mail-index-sync-keywords.c:107 #12 0x0808678b in mail_index_sync_record (ctx=0xbffff590, hdr=0x80c8764, data=0x80c7a74) at mail-index-sync-update.c:520 #13 0x08086cb6 in mail_index_sync_update_index (sync_ctx=0x80c7618, sync_only_external=0) at mail-index-sync-update.c:674 #14 0x08084cf3 in mail_index_sync_commit (ctx=0x80c7618) at mail-index-sync.c:629 #15 0x080708a9 in mbox_sync (mbox=0x80c5c00, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1707 #16 0x08071589 in mbox_storage_sync_init (box=0x80c5c00, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at mbox-sync.c:1770 #17 0x0808f751 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x0, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at mail-storage.c:336 #18 0x0805ee18 in imap_sync_nonselected (box=0x80c5c00, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at imap-sync.c:171 #19 0x08058236 in _cmd_select_full (cmd=0x80bfbf8, readonly=0) at cmd-select.c:39 #20 0x080583c1 in cmd_select (cmd=0x80bfbf8) at cmd-select.c:92 #21 0x08059a5b in _client_input (context=0x80bfbb8) at client.c:338 #22 0x080a0a7a in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80be9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:190 #23 0x0809fff9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80be9b0) at ioloop.c:230 #24 0x08060996 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa54, envp=0xbffffa5c) at main.c:232 (gdb) p (char *)(ext_hdr + 1) Variable "ext_hdr" is not available. (gdb) p *ext Variable "ext" is not available. ----------------------------------------------------- dovecot: Oct 09 20:43:20 Error: 18254 imap(username): file mail-index.c: line 856 (mail_index_sync_from_transactions): assertion failed: (hdr.log_file_int_offset == (*map)->hdr.log_file_int_offset) dovecot: Oct 09 20:43:21 Error: child 18254 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff2a8 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x0000474e in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #6 0x0809b23a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x474e <Address 0x474e out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 No locals. #7 0x0809b654 in i_panic ( format=0x80a886c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x0807fd5d in mail_index_map (index=0x80c6000, force=135040256) at mail-index.c:837 map = (struct mail_index_map *) 0x80c7230 ret = Variable "ret" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbffff2a8 in ?? () #2 0x00000006 in ?? () #3 0x0000474e in ?? () #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x0809b23a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x474e <Address 0x474e out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 #7 0x0809b654 in i_panic ( format=0x80a886c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 #8 0x0807fd5d in mail_index_map (index=0x80c6000, force=135040256) at mail-index.c:837 #9 0x08085186 in mail_index_sync_begin (index=0x80c6000, ctx_r=0x0, view_r=0x0, log_file_seq=0, log_file_offset=Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0x93 ) at mail-index-sync.c:336 #10 0x08070423 in mbox_sync (mbox=0x80c6c08, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1599 #11 0x0806a101 in mbox_transaction_commit (_t=0x80c87f8, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-transaction.c:56 #12 0x0808f913 in mailbox_transaction_commit (t=0x0, flags=0) at mail-storage.c:421 #13 0x0805f090 in imap_sync_deinit (ctx=0x80c79b0) at imap-sync.c:70 #14 0x0805f14c in cmd_sync_continue (cmd=0x80bfbf8) at imap-sync.c:184 #15 0x080567d0 in cmd_fetch_finish (ctx=Variable "ctx" is not available. ) at cmd-fetch.c:106 #16 0x08056a1b in cmd_fetch (cmd=0x80bfbf8) at cmd-fetch.c:176 #17 0x08059a5b in _client_input (context=0x80bfbb8) at client.c:338 #18 0x080a0a7a in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80be9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:190 #19 0x0809fff9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80be9b0) at ioloop.c:230 #20 0x08060996 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa54, envp=0xbffffa5c) at main.c:232 ------------------------------------- dovecot: Oct 17 14:16:00 Error: 29119 imap(username): Corrupted index file /mailhome/new/k/t/username/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: File too small dovecot: Oct 17 14:16:03 Error: 29119 imap(username): Corrupted index file /mailhome/new/k/t/username/mail/.imap/sent-mail/dovecot.index: File too small dovecot: Oct 17 14:16:03 Error: 29119 imap(username): Corrupted transaction log file /mailhome/new/k/t/username/mail/.imap/sent-mail/dovecot.index.log: hdr.size too large (2104) dovecot: Oct 17 14:16:05 Error: child 29119 (imap) killed with signal 11

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[Dovecot] Permission denied but works anyway
by Bob Hall 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

I've just updated from 99.14 to 1.0.a3 on a FreeBSD box. Everything went fine, except for a bit of flakyness from Thunderbird. When first checking a mail box in Thunderbird (running on Win2k), I get a message saying that the command can't be carried out and the server answered "Permission denied". I click OK and everything works fine. As long as Thunderbird stays open, the message doesn't pop up again. It only happens when I first check the Inbox for a given account. No problems with Eudora on Win2k or mutt on FBSD. I've googled with various keywords but I can't find anything on this. I have an extremely vague recollection of seeing a post on this, but I can't find anything.

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[Dovecot] verbose pop3 logging
by Ilo Lorusso 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

Hi Im new to dovecot and am looking for some options in the /etc/dovecot.conf to make dovecot a bit more verbose in terms pop3 usage, What ip a user is coming from? How many mails the user downloaded? Timing? Errors occurred while downloading mail?? Is this all possible with dovecot?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot v1.0a3 on OpenBSD 3.7
by Jeff Simmons 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

I've been trying to get Dovecot 1.0a3 running on OpenBSD 3.7, with little luck. I'm getting the following: Oct 16 17:00:50 mailtest dovecot: pop3(testuser):open(/var/mail/.temp.mail.mailtest.com.7078.43c0f93e9fecb54a) failed: Permission denied Oct 16 17:00:50 mailtest dovecot: pop3(testuser): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/testuser: Permission denied Oct 16 17:00:50 mailtest dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<testuser>, method=PLAIN , rip=63.201.8.122, lip=64.4.143.26, TLS Oct 16 17:00:50 mailtest dovecot: pop3(testuser): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 I've read in the archives that this can be fixed by setting mail_extra_groups = mail in dovecot.conf, but OpenBSD has /var/mail owned by root:wheel mod 755, and /var/mail files owned by fileowner:users mod 600, and no mail group. Anyone know how I can fix this? Jeff Simmons jsimmons(a)goblin.punk.net Simmons Consulting - Network Engineering, Administration, Security "It was on fire when I got here."

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Re: [Dovecot] Backup Maildir
by Odhiambo Washington 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

* On 06/10/05 13:10 -0400, Geo Carncross wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:10 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > * On 06/10/05 16:06 +0100, Gabe Granger wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I'm currently doing nightly full backups of /home. I'm not sure if a > > > full back up is the best way to do backups. I know with my > > > fileserver i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would > > > file on those type of files. I guess my question to the group is, > > > how do you guys backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it? > > > > > > This is an interesting question, especially because it relates to mail! > > I am a systems admin, but this is one area that I seriously flop in. > > > > How do you backup e-mails for users when during the backup, they are > > deleting the e-mails from the Maildir (POPping) and at the same, and > > the SMTP server is also writing to it. This is very real on a busy > > mail server. > > > > So, how do people make backups of client's e-mails (Maildir)??? > > The ostrich approach works very well for Maildir. Deleting entries or > new entries either show up or they didn't. Please describe this ostrich approach, or show me how. We only know of Ostriches for meat these sides :-) Best regards, Odhiambo Washington Systems Admin, Wananchi Online Ltd. Are you hosting your domain name with the leaders??: See http://webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/Country/KE DISCLAIMER : http://ns2.wananchi.com/~wash/Email/disclaimer.txt ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Odhiambo WASHINGTON . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) http://www.wananchi.com/email/ . 1ere Etage, Loita Hse, Loita St., Mobile: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Q: What is the difference between open-source and commercial software? A: If you have a problem with commercial software you can call a phone number and they will tell you it might be solved in a future version. For open-source software there isn't a phone number to call, but you get the solution within a day.

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[Dovecot] E-mail marked as unread
by Andy Cravens 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

I have a problem where an e-mail will be marked as unread even though it has been read. When I click on the message the status changes to "read" however, when I go to check for new mail the status changes back to "unread." If I move the message to the trash folder and then move it back to my inbox, the problems stops. Unfortunately, a different e-mail is affected by this problem a few minutes later. I'm using alpha 3 on Solaris 9 and my client is Mozilla 1.7.7 on Solaris 9. No messages in the log to indicate a problem. Anybody else seen this?

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[Dovecot] Invalid Headers
by Brant Fitzsimmons 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hello all, I have been trying to compare Dovecot to Cyrus and in trying to to migrate some mail from Dovecot to Cyrus I am unable to do so because of an invalid header. The From header is incorrectly written as From> as opposed to the correct From: . Any idea what may be causing this and how to fix it? My setup is Fetchmail->Postfix->amavis-new->clamav->dovecot for dovecot and Fetchmail->Postfix->amavis-new->clamav->cyrus for cyrus. When receiving mail in the cyrus setup I don't have the problem. Any thoughts? -- Brant Fitzsimmons brant(a)bfcomputerconsulting.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Strange times are these in which we live when the old and the young are taught falsehoods in the schools of learning. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and a fool." -Plato

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[Dovecot] A Couple Of Issues (APOP Causes Auth SIGSEGV, Umask Setting Ineffective)
by Sabahattin Gucukoglu 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm very happy with Dovecot and wish the best for its continued development. It's a true testament to brilliant componentised design and Unix philosophy. Configuration made easy because of the way the file is parsed and a single point of startup make it ridiculously straightforward (and lovely) to administer. But of course, we all already know this ... I'm sorry that I can't provide traces at the moment, I'm working from an optimised set of binaries. (-O3 -march=i586 -fomit-frame-pointer) GCC 3.4.4, Gentoo X86 2005.0, Linux 2.6.13, Glibc 2.6.5. Pegasus Mail 4.30B1 is the client on Win32. Dovecot is still Alpha2 (I will upgrade when Gentoo has updated their ebuild). Of course if you advise I'll look at rebuilding newer versions or patched versions with(out) debug symbols. 1. When I attempt APOP login of any variety on the POP3 server auth dies with signal 11. passwd-file is of course listed as a password database, alongside shadow. I get back "-ERR Internal authentication failure - please try again later." or something like this and all subsequent authentication in that session won't work (of course, auth is dead). The password entry is in /etc/dovecot.secrets (perms=0700,uid=0,gid=0) and looks like: username:{PLAIN}cleartextpassword 2. Umask setting gone strange. I set it, per example comment, to "7077" rather than default of 0077 (just to be precise...). When directories are subsequently created, user owning it doesn't even get read/write permissions (just x) and group gets rw but not x! It has not even to do with my system umask (022) set by login. I've set it to 0000 for now in dovecot (/etc/skel has .mail put in people's homedirs with 0700, so there's no worry, but of course I'd like to see that one fixed). If you need more info please let me know. Hope this is enough. Cheers, Sabahattin - -- If an email tells you to forward it to all your friends, please temporarily forget that I am your friend. Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 20 88008915 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 Email/MSN: <mail(a)Sabahattin-Gucukoglu.com> Skype: SabahattinGucukoglu (requires authorisation, add me to your list first) SpeakFreely: Chalcedony.Sabahattin-Gucukoglu.com (Please use CELP compression if your processor allows) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 iQA/AwUBQzqINyNEOmEWtR2TEQLs1gCdGhobU2SQAuwA5fMIVFkEXG9dqfMAn3+7 9ebHqEFut7NapNhf7gERxhQ6 =b7zN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot doesn' compile with gnutls
by Elimar Riesebieter 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi all, tried to build dovecot-1.0.alpha3 with gnutls. The build stops something like: ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:420: warning: 'gnutls_dh_params_set' is \ deprecated (declared at /usr/include/gnutls/compat8.h:82) ssl-proxy-gnutls.c: In function 'read_rsa_parameters': \ ssl-proxy-gnutls.c:446: warning: 'gnutls_rsa_params_set' is \ deprecated (declared at /usr/include/gnutls/compat8.h:77) make[4]: *** [ssl-proxy-gnutls.o] Error 1 Building with openssl 0.9.8 there are connection errors: dovecot: Oct 15 22:46:48 Error: imap-login: Can't load certificate \ file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: error:25066067:DSO support \ routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library Any hints? Please notice I prefer gnutls ;-) Thanks Elimar -- On the keyboard of life you have always to keep a finger at the escape key;-)

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[Dovecot] ssl + dovecot + debian sid
by Novák Áron 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi! On the unstable version of Debian I try to use Dovecot POP3-ssl server. I both tried out the debian package(1.0.alpha3-2.0.1) from the official repository and compiling from source(1.0 alpha3 version). The error is always the same: Oct 15 09:28:04 www dovecot: pop3-login: Can't set cipher list to 'all:! LOW': error:25066067:DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library Is it a bug of dovecot or a bug of the openssl package? My relevant libssl packages: Package: libssl0.9.8 State: installed Version: 0.9.8-3 ------- Package: libssl0.9.7 State: installed Version: 0.9.7g-5 Thanks: Aron Novak

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[Dovecot] a few questions about my experience with alpha1
by Glenn Leavell 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi all, I've just switched from 0.99.10.6 to alpha1 on a Solaris 9 system, and I have a few questions: 1) I'm using "verbose_proctitle = yes" but I don't see the special username or IP address information in the output of ps. I've used: ps -fu dovecot ps -ef | grep dovecot /usr/ucb/ps aux | grep dovecot The process table simply shows the /usr/local/sbin/dovecot, dovecot-auth, and imap-login processes. Is there something else that I need to do, or is there a special way that I should use ps? 2) After sending dovecot a HUP signal, the logs will report something like: Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration And everything seems to work fine. However, *sometimes* after sending a HUP signal, logging will stop indefinitely. Has anyone else noticed anything similar? 3) We use UW in production, and I'm new to any real use of namespaces. Almost all of our clients use the root "~/Mail/" to find their folders (in $HOME/Mail/) and their INBOXes are located in $HOME/.inbox. A few people actually find their folders with the direct path Mail/foldername. So, I'm trying to configure Dovecot to work with any of these roots / prefixes: ~/Mail/ Mail/ "" (empty/blank) I'm using the namespace configuration below, and it seems to work with any of the above prefixes. However, the logging that I see makes me wonder if I'm doing it the best way. Note the attached log file. All of this output was generated with this single IMAP command: A01 LOGIN bozo mypassword Here's my configuration: **************************************************************************** # Default namespace private { separator = / prefix = location = mbox:%h/Mail/:INBOX=%h/.inbox:INDEX=%h/Mail/ inbox = yes hidden = no } # This is the standard ~/Mail/ namespace that our clients tend to use namespace private { separator = / prefix = ~/Mail/ location = mbox:%h/Mail/ hidden = yes } # This namespace is for a few folks who might actually try to # directly access "Mail/foldername" -- as if they were accessing a real # filesystem path. namespace private { separator = / prefix = Mail/ location = mbox:%h/Mail/ hidden = yes } **************************************************************************** So, is this the best way to configure the namespaces for what I'm trying to accomplish? And any pointers on how to interpret what Dovecot is working through with regard to the attached logs would be appreciated. Notice the "Sending log messages too fast, throttling.." message (again, generated from that single login command). What might be causing that? By the way, is there any real difference between the use of %h/Mail and the possible use of ~/Mail in the location fields above? Thanks very much! -- Glenn Leavell <glenn(a)usg.edu> Office of Information and Instructional Technology Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia

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[Dovecot] Problem with pop3 and alpha3
by aspar＠unisa.it 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi all, I have a problem with dovecot-alpha3 and pop3 protocol (on a tru64 5.1a...) In my Maildir/cur there are 8144 mails and if I use pop3 protocol I receive in the output 8146 line instead of 8144. The problem is that 2 mails are duplicated . The output of List command is like: 1 51265 2 261783 . . . 2987 30291 2987 30291 (duplicated line) 2988 16631 . 4601 1231 4602 8921 4602 8921 (Another duplicated line) 4603 1313 I've deleted dovecot.* and dovecot-uidlist in the Maildir path but the problem remains. Suggest? Is a bug? I've tried also to remove the first 1000 messages but the problem now is on the mail number 2635 and not 1987 like I can think. Alfonso ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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[Dovecot] Possible bug: why is the owner of home-directory important?
by Qweb - Yavuz Aydin 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Dear all, I am trying to migrate one of our systems to dovecot. We were using uw-imapd in black-box-mode before. Since the home-directory of a user is not unique per definition on our systems, we have kind of a different setup. As an example: I got a user, let's say user1. It's home directory is /local/web/websites/5850844095/www. This directory has the following permissions: # ls -la /local/web/websites/5850844095/|grep www drwxr-x--- 7 www-data g5850844095 4096 Oct 13 12:28 www (user1 is member of the group g5850844095) Why is logging in not working properly? See: # telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1 LOGIN user1 password 1 OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. And in the logfile I see: Oct 13 13:09:47 s1 dovecot: chdir(/local/web/websites/5850844095/www) failed with uid 1020: Permission denied Oct 13 13:09:47 s1 dovecot: child 1527 (imap) returned error 89 However, when I change the permissions on the home-dir to 755, it works. The point is, none of my mailboxes (INBOX or others) are in my home-dir, so why does dovecot need my home-directory? I hope someone can help. PS1 the default_mail_env reads: default_mail_env = mbox:/local/mail/imap/%u/:INBOX=/local/mail/spool/%u PS2 This is on a Debian Sarge (3.1) system. -- Best regards, Yavuz Aydin Qweb Internet Services

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[Dovecot] after updating to dovecot 1.0a series, nokia 9500 communicator crashes while checking imap mailboxes?
by Eero Volotinen 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

After updating from Dovecot 0.99.x series to Dovecot 1.0A, Nokia 9500 communicator crashes frequently while checking imap mailboxes over wlan? Any ideas? Any people with same problem? Looks like it dovecot relates since, it works with 0.99.x series. -- Eero

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[Dovecot] Cyrus migration - Header version 6 not supported
by Arnaud Limbourg 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hello, I was previously running a cyrus server which I realized later on is overkill for what my needs so I would like to switch to dovecot. Unfortunately the cyrus2courier utility to migrate the mails gives me the error Header version 6 not supported I was using cyrus 2.2.3. Does anybody have any advice on how I could migrate all the mails ? Thank you. Arnaud.

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[Dovecot] Need help with SQL queries after updating to 1.0a3
by Jonathan Vanasco 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

I upgraded to 1.0a3 - i have everything in the config migrated over, but I'm unsure about the way i should be querying postgres my db handles virtual accounts only, and is set as such: CREATE TABLE accounts ( local_part VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL, domain VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL, password VARCHAR(64) NULL, home_dir VARCHAR(256) NOT NULL, uid INTEGER DEFAULT '1003', gid INTEGER DEFAULT '1003', active CHAR(1) DEFAULT 'Y' ); so an entry would be something like: user | domain.com | md5('passwprd') | /path/to/maildir/ | 1003 | 1003 | Y I've rewritten the password query as such: password_query = SELECT local_part || '@' || domain as user, password FROM accounts WHERE local_part = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND active = 'Y' ; but i can't get things to work with the user query user_query = SELECT home_dir AS home, uid, gid FROM accounts WHERE local_part = '%n' AND domain = '%d' ; can anyone point me in the right direction? the docs in the distribution aren't very clear, and the wiki seems to have more .9 info than 1.0 info this is what i've gotten of of auth_debug: Oct 11 11:53:37 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=66.250.131.114 rip=209.73.1.130 resp=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Oct 11 11:53:37 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): sql(test(a)mydomain.com, 209.73.1.130): query: SELECT local_part || '@' || domain as user, password FROM accounts WHERE local_part = 'test' AND domain = 'mydomain.com' AND active = 'Y' ; Oct 11 11:53:37 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=test@ mydomain.com Oct 11 11:53:37 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 26 93326 1 Oct 11 11:53:37 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): passdb(test@ mydomain.com,209.73.1.130): passdb didn't return userdb entries Oct 11 11:53:37 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): userdb(test@ mydomain.com,209.73.1.130): user not found from userdb Oct 11 11:53:37 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND 26 Oct 11 11:53:37 rsrr1 dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<test@ mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=209.73.1.130, lip=66.250.131.114, TLS

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[Dovecot] Dovecot versus libsafe 2.0.15
by _ 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi, I encountered a problem using Dovecot (todays CVS, 11/10/2005) with libsafe, systemwide install. Dovecot silently dies. Here is the end of the systrace output I got: bind(6, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(143), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}}, 16) = 0 getsockname(6, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(143), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}}, [16]) = 0 listen(6, 8) = 0 fcntl64(0x6, 0x3, 0, 0x8072ed8) = 2 fcntl64(0x6, 0x4, 0x802, 0x8072ed8) = 0 fcntl64(0x6, 0x1, 0, 0x8072ed8) = 0 fcntl64(0x6, 0x2, 0x1, 0x8072ed8) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 8 setsockopt(8, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0 setsockopt(8, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, [1], 4) = 0 bind(8, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(993), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}}, 16) = 0 getsockname(8, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(993), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}}, [16]) = 0 listen(8, 8) = 0 fcntl64(0x8, 0x3, 0, 0x8072ed8) = 2 fcntl64(0x8, 0x4, 0x802, 0x8072ed8) = 0 fcntl64(0x8, 0x1, 0, 0x8072ed8) = 0 fcntl64(0x8, 0x2, 0x1, 0x8072ed8) = 0 dup2(4, 0) = 0 dup2(4, 1) = 1 dup2(4, 2) = 2 fork() = 8739 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) --- _exit(0) = ? kind regards Sascha Warner

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[Dovecot] Cannot see new messages in Inbox
by Mark Farmer 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi, just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on this. I'm having a rather odd problem in that I cannot see new emails in my IMAP inbox, this is true for both Thunderbird & Squirrelmail. I know the mails are arriving & being delivered correctly as I see the logs for postfix & procmail, and I can also list them from a command prompt on the Linux mail server. The really odd thing is that I can see new mail in other folders within the same mailbox (maildir) without issue, it's only the inbox that seems to be exhibiting the problem. Nothing has changed on the server and all permissions look fine. The only thing I can think of is that I reinstalled my other machine with Linux the other day & setup Thunderbird as normal - I didn't have any problem at the time but yesterday I noticed the problem. I have tried stopping & restarting the dovecot service a few times but this hasn't helped. I've had this running for months now & this just seems to have cropped up, very strange. Any thoughts anyone? farmorg

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[Dovecot] How to set up a passwd file for virtual hosting
by Richard Freeman 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi, Exim4 is running fine and I am trying to set up Dovecot 0.99 to handle virtual users (http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/VirtualhostingWithExim) so I don't have to set up user accounts for each e-mail address I want to server out via pop3. I need to create a user and passd file, a bit like /etc/passwd, but in a different location for my dovecot virtual users. I can create a blank file such as /etc/dovecot/users (beware my increasing vi skills...) but how do I add users and passwords to this? Can I just type them in and separate them with colons? If so, how would I add a password to the file? I am happy using the passwd command which alters my user passwords in /etc/passwd. Can I use it or something similar to create the passwords for the users in my new file /etc/dovecot/users ? Is there any way I can use an MD5 hash or CRYPT format for the passwords? Yours, Richard

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD Ports Issues
by Barry Jeung 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Installed dovecot for the first time, using the FreeBSD port. Found 2 issues with the port, and I've only been able to resolve one of them. First of all, the port, (or perhaps dovecot) does work with mysql 4.1 encryption. I had to create a user with access to the mysql table, then do 'set password = old_password('password');' in order to get dovecot to talk to the server. The second issue, is that dovecot seems to be ignoring my user_query settings. I have the following in dovecot-sql.conf: password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT maildir, 125 as uid, 125 as gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' The password query works, however the user query seems to default to something else, and no matter how I change the user_query line in dovecot-sql.conf, it uses the same query. Here's an excerpt from my logs: dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:30 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 starting up dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:31 Info: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to (null) (postfix) dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Info: auth-worker(default): sql(user(a)example.com,1.2.3.4): query: SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'user(a)example.com' dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=5.6.7.8 rip=1.2.3.4 resp=AGJqZXVuZ0Bjb2JhbHQtaXQuY29tAHRlc3Q= dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=user(a)example.com dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 13590 1 dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Info: auth-worker(default): sql(user(a)example.com,1.2.3.4): SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = 'user(a)example.com' dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Error: auth-worker(default): sql(user(a)example.com,1.2.3.4): User query failed: Table 'postfix.users' doesn't exist dovecot: Oct 11 03:19:35 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<user(a)example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=67.188.145.230, lip=209.25.157.150, TLS So obviously the query fails because that table doesn't exist. However that's not the query that I have in the configuration file. As a matter of fact, I have no idea where it's pulling that query from. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

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[Dovecot] How to deny access from some ip or network
by Alisher Minarov 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Version: dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.4 OS: Linux mail.server 2.6.9-1.667smp #1 SMP How I should call daemon in hosts.deny file to deny access from some ip or network? Or it can be do by dovecot itself?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot on FC3 with Active Directory authentication
by Jeff Ramsey 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

I am building an IMAP server that uses Dovecot/Sendmail on FC3 to replace our POP server that uses Dovecot (via POP)/Sendmail on FC2. My new server is authenticating users via winbind/smb against my WIndows 2003 Active Directory. The authentication is working great. The problem come up when a user gets an email and has not ever logged into the IMAP server via SSH, local, or GDM, therefore that user has no home directory. /etc/pam.d/ssh, /etc/pam.d/login, and /etc/pam.d/gdm all have a line calling mkhomedir.so, which is using the /etc/skel home directory skeleton to create the user's home dir upon successful login, however, when I add that line to /etc/pam.d/dovecot, I get a permission denied error in /var/log/maillog. I'm assuming this is because dovecot is running as the user at this point, and therefore does not have the necessary permissions to create a folder under / home/DOMAIN/, which is where the home dir is supposed to be. If I manually create the folder, and set it's permissions, or if the user logs in via any of the before-mentioned methods, dovecot and sendmail work great. Does anyone else run a similar setup? If so, how did you overcome this problem? If not, can some Linux gurus recommend either altering the write permissions on the /home/DOMAIN directory, or should I try to call the mkhomdir app earlier in the process somehow? Any help would be appreciated. I'm trying to make this as seamless as possible. Basically, I can manually create all the home dirs well enough, but when I add a new user to the Active Directory, it would be nice if this part was automated as much as possible. Thanks, Jeff Ramsey MIS Administrator Tubafor Mill, Inc.

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[Dovecot] Mapping username only for auth
by Andy Cravens 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

I am running Dovecot alpha 3 with authentication from the local shadow file. I'd like to change the authentication to use our radius server. I can probably do this through pam. The usernames on the mail server are set up as first initial + last name ( jdoe for John Doe ). The usernames on the radius server are the employee number. Is there a way to map the username to the employee number in dovecot before handing off the authentication to the radius server? I want the usernames on the mail server to remain first initial + last name. I don't mind maintaining a mapping file to go from username to employee number because I can automate this task. Has anybody done this?

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[Dovecot] saslauthd/dovecot/root
by Andrew Instone-Cowie 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi, I am using SMTP-AUTH over TLS with sendmail, to allow remote users to authenticate and send mail via my server, and this uses saslauthd to authenticate users. I have set up saslauthd with the "MECH=rimap" mechanism, so it uses the local IMAP server, Dovecot, for authentication. I want to do this because Dovecot is set up to use /etc/passwd for user credentials (so I don't have multiple password files to manage), and Dovecot handles restricting the range of valid UIDs (including blocking root). (Using the default MECH=shadow with saslauthd allows all users to authenticate, which I don't want) For real "normal" users, this all works fine - right password = user can relay mail, wrong password = relaying denied. So far so good. If I try to authenticate as root (which I want NEVER to work), with the wrong password, Dovecot correctly refuses to allow root IMAP access and saslauthd/sendmail denies the relay. But if I try to authenticate as root with the correct password (which I still want NOT to work!), Dovecot still refuses IMAP access, and puts this in the maillog: Oct 5 14:16:18 hadrian dovecot: Logins with UID 0 not permitted (user root) Oct 5 14:16:18 hadrian imap-login: Internal login failure: root [127.0.0.1] But saslauthd seems to treat this as a successful authentication and still allows root to relay email! So: Dovecot problem or saslauthd problem? Server is running CentOS 4.1, fully patched. Packages are dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1, cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-5.EL4, sendmail-8.13.1-2. Thanks Andrew

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[Dovecot] Confused
by Matt Juszczak 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi all, I really don't know where to go from here. I've traced and pasted, but never heard responses.... I'm getting the following (see bottom of this email) in a single day of dmesg....most of the time the error message in the log file is something like: Oct 5 09:21:43 mail1 dovecot: imap(*****): file mbox-save.c: line 280 (mbox_save_init_file): assertion failed: (mbox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) Some of them also have something to do with storage space. Any ideas at all? Thanks :) Regards, Matt ---dmesg snip---- pid 20905 (imap), uid 34411: exited on signal 6 pid 42237 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 42757 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 43036 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 41987 (imap), uid 32768: exited on signal 6 pid 99572 (imap), uid 35371: exited on signal 6 pid 99759 (imap), uid 35371: exited on signal 6 pid 49474 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 82739 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 67938 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 68042 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 68115 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 68169 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 68869 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 72285 (imap), uid 31502: exited on signal 6 pid 98711 (imap), uid 32277: exited on signal 6 pid 99429 (imap), uid 32277: exited on signal 6 pid 36768 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 38110 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 38115 (imap), uid 34959: exited on signal 6 pid 53649 (imap), uid 34910: exited on signal 6 pid 53943 (imap), uid 34910: exited on signal 6 pid 70003 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6 pid 23368 (imap), uid 31646: exited on signal 6 pid 59048 (imap), uid 34709: exited on signal 6 pid 59164 (imap), uid 34709: exited on signal 6 pid 59347 (imap), uid 34709: exited on signal 6 pid 13848 (imap), uid 33345: exited on signal 6

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[Dovecot] Dovecot error: Unknown protocol 'imap\
by Paul E Virgo 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

First, thanks to Timo for the patch -- fixed missing protocol name error on my Solaris box. Now, I've moved the whole distro, part and parcel, to a Centos 4.0 Linux box, with the HOPE of getting it working there. But when I've set all of it up, I get the error message, mentioned in the 'Subject' line, in my /var/log/dovecot file. Any clues? PEV

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[Dovecot] Dovecot pop3 locking up
by Neil Wilson 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hi guys and girls, I am having a problem with Dovecot. It seems like it's the dovecot auth daemon that is locking up(I'm guessing) I am running SuSe 9.3 Pro, and Dovecot 0.99.14 Everything works perfectly for a few days, and then eventually I end up with tons of what look to be "stale" processes.(I'm guessing roughly 300 like below.) 4204 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 24722 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 24723 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 24724 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 24921 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth When I "telnet 127.0.0.1 110" I get a login, and I can type "User blabla" I get an "OK" then I type in "pass blabla" and then I don't get any response, and I have to kill my session with "Ctrl ]" and then "quit". I am using both POP3 and IMAP, but it seems to be only the POP3 daemon that dies. There are roughly 60 users on the network, and it dies after roughly 5 days of usage, and I then have to restart Dovecot by running /etc/init.d/dovecot stop and then start Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Neil Wilson

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[Dovecot] deliver: select destination folder
by Dominik Werder 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

Hello, I wanted a commandline switch within deliver to select the destination folder within an IMAP account, so I added the -f switch, heres the diff, the implementation is only "proof of concept" hehe, I didnt checked if theres any security riscs in doing this. Could we add something like this to dovecot? diff deliver.c.orig deliver.c 342c342 < const char *destination, *mail; --- > const char *destination, *mail, *folder; 355a356 > folder = NULL; 364a366,373 > } else if (strcmp(argv[i], "-f") == 0) { > /* destination folder */ > i++; > if (i == argc) { > i_fatal_status(EX_USAGE, > "Missing folder argument"); > } > folder = argv[i]; 378a388,391 > if (folder == NULL) { > folder = "INBOX"; > } > 449c462 < if (save_mail(storage, "INBOX", input) < 0) --- > if (save_mail(storage, folder, input) < 0) bye! Dominik

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[Dovecot] Problem with pop3 and alpha3
by Alfonso Sparano 16 Oct '05

16 Oct '05

I don't know. I'm not tried with a real client but only with telnet. I would like to be sure that everything is correct before try with outlook/Eudora/thunderbird at all. -----Messaggio originale----- Da: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] Per conto di Andrew Hutchings Inviato: domenica 16 ottobre 2005 10.21 A: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Oggetto: Re: [Dovecot] Problem with pop3 and alpha3 On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 10:06 +0200, aspar(a)unisa.it wrote: > Hi all, I have a problem with dovecot-alpha3 and pop3 protocol (on a tru64 > 5.1a...) > > In my Maildir/cur there are 8144 mails and if I use pop3 protocol I receive in > the output 8146 line instead of 8144. The problem is that 2 mails are > duplicated . The output of "List" command is like: > > 1 51265 > 2 261783 > . > . > . > 2987 30291 > 2987 30291 (duplicated line) > 2988 16631 > .. > 4601 1231 > 4602 8921 > 4602 8921 (Another duplicated line) > 4603 1313 > . > > I've deleted dovecot.* and dovecot-uidlist in the Maildir path but the problem > remains. > > Suggest? Is a bug? > I've tried also to remove the first 1000 messages but the problem now is on the > mail number 2635 and not 1987 like I can think. > > Alfonso Is the client generating mail not found errors when this happens? If so it may be related to the problem I am seeing. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ Random quote 37: "Now, with penguins, (cuddly such), "contented" means it has either just gotten laid, or it's stuffed on herring. Take it from me, I'm an expert on penguins, those are really the only two options." - Linus Torvalds

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[Dovecot] new to dovecot
by John O'Loughlin 15 Oct '05

15 Oct '05

Hello all I'm new to dovecot (and imap in general!) having installed only only today. My current set up is exim as MTA with procmail delivering /var/spool/mail/%user (which gets nfs exported). We also have a pop3 server running as well. I'm moving to new machine and though I'd look at dovecot and squirrelmail. In /etc/dovecot.conf I'm confused by the default_mail_env, what exactly are we trying to set here? We have $MAIL set already, so for example what does the line: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u try to set Cheers John

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[Dovecot] Does anyone have SQL working in 1.03?
by Jonathan 15 Oct '05

15 Oct '05

This just isn't working for me. I've tried everything. Trailing the logs with debug and vebose... we connect fine === Oct 15 22:51:35 rsrr1 dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Oct 15 22:51:37 rsrr1 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 starting up Oct 15 22:51:38 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): pgsql: Connected to vmail === and then we die: === Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): sql (username(a)domain.com,69.86.67.250) query: SELECT password FROM accounts WHERE local_part = 'username' AND domain = 'domain.com' AND active = 'Y' LIMIT 1; Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=username(a)domain.com Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 24 33278 1 Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): passwd (username(a)domain.com,69.86.67.250) unknown user Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): passdb (username(a)domain.com,69.86.67.250) passdb didn't return userdb entries Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): userdb (username(a)domain.com,69.86.67.250) user not found from userdb Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND 24 Oct 15 23:02:07 rsrr1 dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<username(a)domain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=69.86.67.250, lip=66.250.131.114, TLS === I've tried both of these selects on the password: password_query = SELECT local_part || '@' || domain as user, password FROM accounts WHERE local_part = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND a ctive = 'Y' ; password_query = SELECT password FROM accounts WHERE local_part = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND active = 'Y' LIMIT 1; and this, and some variants, on the user user_query = SELECT home_dir AS home, uid, gid FROM accounts WHERE local_part = '%n' AND domain = '%d' LIMIT 1; all mimic the functionality of the conf example files.

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[Dovecot] Same email recieved
by Bob Hope 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Some of my users seem to be receiving the same e-mail over and over. This doesn't happen all the time, just once in a while it seems to get stuck in a loop. Is it possible that dovecot is the culprit here or is this a problem with something else? I'm running Postfix/amavisd/dovecot on Slackware 10.1. Regards, Savage

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[Dovecot] 1.0a3: assert and core dump
by Jeff A. Earickson 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Timo, A rare assert and core dump out of 1.0alpha3. My setup: Solaris 9, mbox format, using imap only. Built dovecot with gcc 4.0.1. The syslog for this was: Oct 14 11:57:56 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] imap-login: Login: user=<epmccull>, method=PLAIN, rip=137.146.210.59, lip=137.146.210.52, TLS Oct 14 11:58:56 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] imap-login: Login: user=<epmccull>, method=PLAIN, rip=137.146.210.59, lip=137.146.210.52, TLS Oct 14 11:59:03 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(epmccull): Corrupted index cache file /home/students/e/epmccull/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Oct 14 11:59:38 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(epmccull): Corrupted index cache file /home/students/e/epmccull/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Cache record offset 1768 points outside file Oct 14 11:59:39 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(epmccull): Corrupted index cache file /home/students/e/epmccull/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: used_file_size too small Oct 14 11:59:39 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] imap(epmccull): file mbox-lock.c: line 518 (mbox_lock): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK || mbox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) Attached is a gdb session on the core dump. Thanks. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0 alpha3 slower?
by Danel 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Hi Is 1.0 alpha3 a bit slower than the dovecot-1.0.stable branch? Regards Daniel

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[Dovecot] Message not
by Andrew Hutchings 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hi, I'm sure this is a bug fixed in CVS or something stupid I did in the config but here goes: I am getting at least one complaint a day about POP login customers getting 'Message not found' errors while getting their mail. The only thing I can find in the messages that could be related is: Oct 12 15:40:18 svr21 dovecot: pop3(user): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 It doesn't happen on a very high percentage of logins which makes me think its a locking problem of some kind. Any ideas? Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ Random quote 186: "... the whole documentation is not unreasonably transportable in a student's briefcase." - John Lions describing UNIX 6th Edition

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[Dovecot] dovecot won't launch
by Chad Cunningham 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Hi, I downloaded the latest dovecot (1.0 alpha 3) and tried numerous installs which get me nothing. No errors, no crashes, no segfaults and no running dovecot. It just seems to silently exit. I was trying to build with mysql support but I've also tried a plain old install, just configure, make install, etc. I get nada. strace doesn't show anything, at least as far as I can tell. No messages are logged. No output to the console. Any ideas? My only guess, no idea if it matters, is that dovecot doesn't like the fact that this is a VPS (User Mode Linux, Fedora Core 3). But I don't see any reason why not, other mail servers are pretty happy... Here's the strace: -bash-3.00# strace dovecot execve("/usr/local/sbin/dovecot", ["dovecot"], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="monkey", ...}) = 0 set_tid_address(0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) brk(0) = 0x805eed0 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24400, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 24400, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40017000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libssl.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\226"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=211948, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 212692, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4001d000 old_mmap(0x4004e000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x31000) = 0x4004e000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libcrypto.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P\251\2"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=935112, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 953048, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x40051000 old_mmap(0x40125000, 69632, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xd3000) = 0x40125000 old_mmap(0x40136000, 15064, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40136000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240S\1"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1504728, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4013a000 old_mmap(NULL, 1219876, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4013b000 mprotect(0x4025e000, 27940, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x4025f000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x123000) = 0x4025f000 old_mmap(0x40263000, 7460, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40263000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360J\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=80948, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 79792, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x40265000 old_mmap(0x40278000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13000) = 0x40278000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`\370\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=413704, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 413000, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x40279000 old_mmap(0x402dc000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x63000) = 0x402dc000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libcom_err.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\354\10"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=5668, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 8636, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x402de000 old_mmap(0x402e0000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1000) = 0x402e0000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`2\0\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=134640, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 134560, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x402e1000 old_mmap(0x40301000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x20000) = 0x40301000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360#\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=79572, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 80040, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x40302000 mprotect(0x40311000, 18600, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x40312000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xf000) = 0x40312000 old_mmap(0x40314000, 6312, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40314000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\v\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=15208, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40316000 old_mmap(NULL, 12388, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x40317000 old_mmap(0x40319000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1000) = 0x40319000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\25"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=62152, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 65028, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4031b000 old_mmap(0x4032a000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xe000) = 0x4032a000 close(3) = 0 mprotect(0x40319000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x40312000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x4025f000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x40015000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 24400) = 0 time(NULL) = 1129055371 brk(0) = 0x805eed0 brk(0x807fed0) = 0x807fed0 brk(0x8080000) = 0x8080000 uname({sys="Linux", node="monkey", ...}) = 0 getpid() = 8518 geteuid32() = 0 open("/usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=29028, ...}) = 0 pread(3, "## Dovecot 1.0 configuration fil"..., 2048, 0) = 2048 pread(3, "and RSA parameters.\n#ssl_paramet"..., 2019, 2048) = 2019 pread(3, "d in it\'s own process (yes), or "..., 2017, 4067) = 2017 pread(3, "es\n# (eg. shared mailboxes or if"..., 1977, 6084) = 1977 pread(3, "d in\n# doc/mail-storages.txt. Th"..., 1990, 8061) = 1990 pread(3, "erent namespaces which you want "..., 2014, 10051) = 2014 pread(3, "ll with Linux and FreeBSD.\n# But"..., 1999, 12065) = 1999 pread(3, "le. Works with NFS too if lockd "..., 2018, 14064) = 2018 pread(3, "se you don\'t get core dumps. It "..., 2018, 16082) = 2018 pread(3, "ss never abort IDLE command, so "..., 2015, 18100) = 2015 pread(3, "us (<= 2.1.3) : %u\n # Cyrus"..., 2040, 20115) = 2040 pread(3, "of allowed characters in usernam"..., 2041, 22155) = 2041 pread(3, "nd immediately close PAM session"..., 2013, 24196) = 2013 pread(3, "#userdb sql {\n # Path for SQL"..., 2046, 26209) = 2046 pread(3, "r/run/dovecot-auth-master\n# "..., 2031, 28255) = 773 pread(3, "", 1258, 29028) = 0 close(3) = 0 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(3) = 0 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(3) = 0 open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1696, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000 read(3, "#\n# /etc/nsswitch.conf\n#\n# An ex"..., 4096) = 1696 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24400, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 24400, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40017000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libnss_files.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`\33\0 \000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=47244, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 41628, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x4032b000 old_mmap(0x40334000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE| MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x8000) = 0x40334000 close(3) = 0 mprotect(0x40334000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 24400) = 0 open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1274, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000 read(3, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 4096) = 1274 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 4096) = 0 access("/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap", X_OK) = 0 access("/etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem", R_OK) = 0 access("/etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem", R_OK) = 0 getegid32() = 0 lstat64("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 close(3) = 0 lstat64("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open(".", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 open("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE| O_NOFOLLOW) = 4 fchdir(4) = 0 open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory) open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 5 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 getdents64(5, /* 2 entries */, 4096) = 48 getdents64(5, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 close(5) = 0 fchdir(3) = 0 close(3) = 0 lstat64("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 close(3) = 0 lstat64("/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 access("/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login", X_OK) = 0 open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1274, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000 read(3, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 4096) = 1274 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 4096) = 0 access("/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth", X_OK) = 0 open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 dup(3) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 5 setsockopt(5, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0 setsockopt(5, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, [1], 4) = 0 bind(5, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(143), sin_addr=inet_addr ("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = 0 getsockname(5, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(143), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, [16]) = 0 listen(5, 8) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 6 setsockopt(6, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0 setsockopt(6, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, [1], 4) = 0 bind(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(993), sin_addr=inet_addr ("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = 0 getsockname(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(993), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, [16]) = 0 listen(6, 8) = 0 fcntl64(6, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(6, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 fcntl64(6, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 dup2(4, 0) = 0 dup2(4, 1) = 1 dup2(4, 2) = 2 fork() = 8519 exit_group(0) = ?

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[Dovecot] Building dovecot with SSL support on Solaris
by Christian Schmidt 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Hi all, I'm just trying to build dovecot-1.0.alpha3 on a Solaris 9 machine with SSL support. No matter which options I call ./configure with - it always results in: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : none Building with SSL support ........... : no <-- ! Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with user database modules . : static passdb passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword (modules) Some more details: $ uname -a SunOS ns 5.9 Generic_117171-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R $ /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004 On another system, the build succeeds - including SSL support: $ uname -a SunOS excalibur 5.9 Generic_117171-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 $ /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004 I have tried lots of hints Google found in the mailing list archives, but none of them succeeded. I'm looking forward to getting any further hints. If you need some further information, I will post it. Regards & thanks in advance, Christian -- Alle Dinge geschehen aus Notwendigkeit. Es gibt in der Natur kein Gutes und kein Schlechtes. -- Baruch de Spinoza

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[Dovecot] Backup Maildir
by Gabe Granger 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Hi All, I'm currently doing nightly full backups of /home. I'm not sure if a full back up is the best way to do backups. I know with my fileserver i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would file on those type of files. I guess my question to the group is, how do you guys backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it? -- Gabe Granger Pancentric results-driven communications and e-solutions +44 (0) 20 8877 0230 http://www.pancentric.com

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[Dovecot] SOLVED: chdir failed: Permission denied
by Joe Sislow 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Ok, so if anyone runs into a problem where dovecot reports chdir(/home/BLAH) failed with uid NNN: Permission denied in Fedora Core 4 or otherwise, it seems to be a SELinux problem. Turn OFF SELinux and the problem goes away.

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[Dovecot] time out error and email with attachments
by Roberto Cipollini 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

I'm facing some problem with emails and attachments. I'm not sure it's dealing with MTU (it is set to the maximum number before a fragmentation occurs). I have no errors from pop3, but the following message is the best I can show you just to understand my problem. The log shows this: "imap(roberto.cipollini(a)allmediasolution.com): Oct 04 17:35:03 Error: Timeout while waiting for release of exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /mail/allmediasolution.com/roberto.cipollini/.INBOX/.imap.index " I think that the pop3 process is locking the index file (thunderbird was waiting to download the file) and the imap (i tried to get the file from webmail) is going time out. Can anyone tell me how to fix the time out? any suggestion? do you need more information/logs? can I try different setting in dovecot conf? thanks for any kind of help. Roberto

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[Dovecot] 1.0.a3 does not start on FreeBSD 5.21
by Adamson H 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Hi, This morning I portupgraded dovecot 0.99.14 to 1.0.a3 on two of my FreeBSD servers and found that the new dovecot refused to start on FreeBSD 5.21 server. However, it works ok on FreeBSD 5.4. Please help me with the FreeBSD 5.21 one. #uname -a FreeBSD fileserver.xxx.local 5.2.1-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE- p14 #3: Sun Aug 7 13:24:38 CST 2005 xxx@xxx.xxx.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GATEWAY i386 ## /etc/rc.conf dovecot_enable="YES" ## /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf ssl_disable = yes (I only changed the above line in dovecot.conf.sample.) ## ports fileserver# make clean ===> Cleaning for libiconv-1.9.2_1 ===> Cleaning for libtool-1.5.20 ===> Cleaning for perl-5.8.7 ===> Cleaning for cyrus-sasl-2.1.21 ===> Cleaning for openssl-0.9.8_1 ===> Cleaning for dovecot-1.0.a3 ## error messages Oct 9 11:50:01 fileserver dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 starting up Oct 9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down Oct 9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: child 42837 (login) returned error 89 Oct 9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: child 42836 (login) returned error 89 Oct 9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: child 42838 (login) returned error 89 Oct 9 11:50:02 fileserver dovecot: child 42835 (auth) returned error 89 Thanks in advance for your help. Adamson Huang

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[Dovecot] chdir failed: Permission denied
by Joe Sislow 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Hi there, Upgrading to Fedora Core 4 from an old server running Red Hat 7.3. I'm moving accounts over by hand, and I'm having the following error crop up for *everyone*. chdir(/home/BLAH) failed with uid 500: Permission denied Now, that UID is correct, the user has that access, and there are no permissions problems changing to that directory. I've got the mail in /var/mail/XXX for each user as a simple mbox. I was browsing through the code to check for what *exactly* dovecot is doing when it's trying to change directory there. The error reporting is a bit spotty. It could be that it can't change to that directory (unlikely). It could be that something in that path is a problem (also unlikely, as the /home directory is world readable and executable), or, it could have something to do with a file or directory it's trying to create. I'm not sure. Could someone let me in on what files or directories that dovecot tries to create by default? This permission denied error doesn't make any sense (I created a brand new user with nothing there, made all of his directories readable/writeable, and executable by EVERYONE, and it STILL gives me this error.

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[Dovecot] passdb error
by Richard Wilkinson 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

I have just installed Dovecot on Redhat 9 system when starting dovecot I get the following error Unknown passdb driver 'pam' This is a new venture for me so any help would be appreciated Thanks rw

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0alpha3 passdb
by Karl Chen 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

I upgraded dovecot from 0.99.20050712-2 to 1.0.alpha3-1 (Debian testing). In /etc/dovecot.conf I had: passdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd I modified dovecot.conf from 1.0alpha3 to have: passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/imap.passwd } Is that correct? Authentication no longer works, and /var/log/mail.info shows: Oct 7 22:35:39 XXX dovecot: auth(default): passdb(XXX,XXX): passdb didn't return userdb entries Oct 7 22:35:39 XXX dovecot: auth(default): userdb(XXX,XXX): user not found from userdb Oct 7 22:35:39 XXX dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=<XXX>, method=PLAIN, rip=XXX, lip=XXX, TLS Help, please. -- Karl 2005-10-07 22:39

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[Dovecot] Still Seeing Some SIGALRM's
by Todd Burroughs 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

I'm still seeing some of these in the CVS version as of Oct. 6: dovecot: Oct 07 11:09:42 Error: child 2410 (imap) killed with signal 14 It's happening quite a bit less since this fix: 2005-09-30 18:25 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> * src/lib-index/mail-index-lock.c: Don't leak alarm() with in-memory indexes Todd

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[Dovecot] Starting Dovecot at the boot time.
by SUPER POSTFIX 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Dear All, I am new to Dovecot, so please help me to overcome the following problem. I have installed postfix + Dovecot in Redhat EL 3. I have installed them from the source codes. Problem is that how can I start Dovecot at the boot time? Regards Indrajith

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[Dovecot] Vacation How To
by Nicholas Winn 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

I need help with vacation support for dovecot-stable on a Sendmail / Procmail / Dovecot using MailDir. What do I need to use to setup vacation messages? -- Best Regards, Nicholas Winn www.streamfire.net <http://www.streamfire.net> 404.667.2253 "If you make it idiot proof, someone will make a better idiot" - Taz

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Setup as just a local IMAP server.
by David Terei 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Hey All, Id just like to start by thanking Timo Sirainen and any others that helped produce such a great IMAP server, it was a breeze to set up with no previous experience in mail servers. What I am trying to do is setup a spare computer to run Dovecot and that It stores all my email from my accounts which are all accessed through POP. This way instead of being tied to one mail client (and hence OS and Computer) I just set up my mail client to access Dovecot and then I'm done. So I am trying to set up an IMAP server to store my emails instead of just storing them on my local hard disk really. Now so far Ive set up Dovecot and Its working fine, but How would I get my email accounts mail to be placed in the Inbox of my IMAP account? I'm think I would need to use either fetchmail or getmail to grab my mail. After that do these programs just save it in the appropriate IMAP folder on disk (which would be new?) or do I need a MTA such as qmail setup and fetchmail or getmail passes the email to the MTA which just transfers it locally on the same computer? So any help would be greatly appreciated as well as advice on which software to use, the getmail site attacks fetchmail quite strongly, but I'm not sure of its performance being written in Python as I'm running on an old Pentium MMX(100MHz) using OpenBSD 3.7. Sorry for the long email I never can seem to keep them short :) Cheers, David Terei

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[Dovecot] extra characters after mailbox names
by Paul 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

After installing alpha3, when I view a list of my IMAP mailboxes in Pine 4.64 on Linux, several of the mailbox names are followed by odd characters: ., ~, and _. So the list of mailboxes looks like: INBOX saved_ sent-mail~ Biz Service. Home_ and so forth. The distribution of the characters remains the same throughout the Pine session, but is different every time I restart Pine. It doesn't happen in Pine 4.63 or any other client, but I associate it with Dovecot rather than Pine because it started exactly when I upgraded Dovecot today, rather than five days ago when I upgraded Pine. Paul

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RE: [Dovecot] Starting Dovecot at the boot time.
by Diehl, Brian 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

chkconfig --level 345 dovecot on you can also do a ntsysv [runlevel] ________________________________ From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of SUPER POSTFIX Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:30 AM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Starting Dovecot at the boot time. Dear All, I am new to Dovecot, so please help me to overcome the following problem. I have installed postfix + Dovecot in Redhat EL 3. I have installed them from the source codes. Problem is that how can I start Dovecot at the boot time? Regards Indrajith

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[Dovecot] Starting Dovecot at the boot time.
by SUPER POSTFIX 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Dear All, I am new to Dovecot, so please help me to overcome the following problem. I have installed postfix + Dovecot in Redhat EL 3. I have installed them from the source codes. Problem is that how can I start Dovecot at the boot time? Regards Indrajith

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and dracd?
by Dominik Werder 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Hello everyone, how can I get dovecot to work with drac? I have already compiled this little module from the wiki, but I dont know how to tell dovecot to load the module... thanks! Dominik

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[Dovecot] Still crashing with test-80
by Matt Juszczak 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Here is the log over a 12 hour period: pid 91923 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 98265 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 95547 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 235 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 239 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 318 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 386 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 415 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 427 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 434 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 468 (pop3), uid 25039: exited on signal 6 pid 653 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Here is the GDB Backtrace: orion# gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap dovecot-auth.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)... warning: core file may not match specified executable file. Core was generated by `dovecot-auth'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x181327af in ?? () (gdb) bt full #0 0x181327af in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0x18127856 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x0000028d in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #5 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #6 0x00000286 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #7 0x181abf4c in ?? () No symbol table info available. #8 0xbfbfea78 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #9 0x1819b0df in ?? () No symbol table info available. #10 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #11 0xbfbfea48 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #12 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #13 0x1819b0aa in ?? () No symbol table info available. #14 0x00000001 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #15 0x18095400 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #16 0xffffffdf in ?? () No symbol table info available. #17 0xffffffff in ?? () No symbol table info available. #18 0xffffffff in ?? () No symbol table info available. #19 0xffffffff in ?? () ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- No symbol table info available. #20 0x18072a11 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #21 0x18095000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #22 0x00000150 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #23 0x0807a000 in mail_cache_header_fields_read () No symbol table info available. #24 0x08071000 in istream_raw_mbox_next () No symbol table info available. #25 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #26 0x080710d0 in istream_raw_mbox_seek () No symbol table info available. #27 0x083c1ac0 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #28 0xbfbfea98 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #29 0x0805efd4 in imap_thread () No symbol table info available. Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) (gdb) Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide. -Matt

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[Dovecot] I need to enable percent hack in dovecot logins
by Eero Volotinen 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

I am using dovecot with vpopmail and qmail and problems is percent hack that works with qmail-pop3d does not work with dovecot. So login works like that: firstname.lastname%domain.ext I need that function to work with dovecot too, and I am using stable 0.99.x series of dovecot. Problem is that some Apple machines client can't use at-symbol in their login names. So, where I need to hack sources to convert % -> @ to get login working. By default percent-hack does not work with dovecot. Any help? Thanks. -- Eero

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[Dovecot] Re: partial sync?
by Paul 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Jim Tittsler asked: > I haven't encountered that one. Does it persist? I've seen it four times now in the five hours since the upgrade. Never twice in the same mailbox, for what that's worth. I'll keep an eye on it. Paul

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[Dovecot] Changing pop3_uidl_format
by Jeff Simmons 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

I recently set up an OpenBSD - Dovecot mail server for a client. Naturally (according to Murphy's Law) they want to use Outlook 2003, pop3s, and leave messages on the server. And just as naturally, the UIDLs don't seem to be working, and when they download mail, they get EVERY email stored on the server, not just the new ones. Other than switching them over to IMAP, I found the following in the Wiki documentation: #POP3 UIDL format to use. You can use following variables: # %v - Mailbox UIDVALIDITY # %u - Mail UID # %m - MD5 sum of the mailbox headers in hex (mbox only) # %f - filename (maildir only) #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 #Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which is #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. pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u So my question is, what happens if I just change pop3_uidl_format to %08Xu%08Xv and restart the server? Will it just change things over to the way I want them, or will it blow up all the existing mail already being stored there? Inquiring minds want to know. Thanks for any help you can provide. -- Jeff Simmons jsimmons(a)goblin.punk.net Simmons Consulting - Network Engineering, Administration, Security "It was on fire when I got here."

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[Dovecot] partial sync?
by Paul Adams 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

I just installed the latest alpha on Debian Sarge and am getting a lot of this sort of error: Oct 4 16:18:58 tarsier dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=70.209.254.178, lip=192.168.50.105, TLS Oct 4 16:19:04 tarsier dovecot: imap(jeff): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/jeff/mail/Junk (329 > 274, seq=2, idx_msgs=55) Oct 4 16:19:07 tarsier dovecot: imap(jeff): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/jeff/mail/inbox (4813 > 2434, seq=2, idx_msgs=1771) and Oct 4 16:25:40 tarsier dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=70.209.254.178, lip=192.168.50.105, TLS Oct 4 16:26:33 tarsier dovecot: imap(jeff): UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /home/jeff/mail/spam which I never saw before. What does it mean? Should I be concerned? Paul

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[Dovecot] using local-part delimiters in LDA delivery?
by OpenMacNews 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

hi all, i've exim 4.53RC2 + dovecot-cvs on OSX 10.4.2. i'm working on implementing recipient-delimiters for delivery from exim to a user's imap store using dovecot's cvs-lda. reading on the wiki (Jakob's latest comments?): " ... the part after the delimiter is passed to the lda as an additional parameter. so dovecot-lda should handle that parameter and leave the separator handling to the MTA. The MTA has to handle it anyway." it looks likes it's possible ... with appropriate changes in exim to my router: dovecot_localuser: driver = accept domains = +local_domains local_part_suffix = +* local_part_suffix_optional transport = dovecot_lda and transport: dovecot_lda: driver = pipe command = /.../deliver \ -c /.../dovecot-deliver.conf \ -d $local_part@$domain message_prefix = "" message_suffix = "" delivery_date_add envelope_to_add return_path_add log_output user = MY_MAIL_USER i'd like to be able to build delivery conditions in dovecot so that, e.g. mail to: bob(a)mydomain.com is delivered to "bob"'s default INBOX. but, mail to: bob+spam(a)mydomain.com is delivered to any specified (either a server-wide common relative path, or a user-specified) SUBFOLDER, say "bob/INBOX/.../.../spam_to_look_at" defined by a dovecot-rule invoked by the delimiter "spam" ... this is a little different than the approach Mark mentioned of delivering directly to folder_name specified by the local-part-after-delimiter ... questions: (1) until the two conf files merge, i'm guessing there needs to be some conditional logic in dovecot-deliver.conf rather than in dovecot.conf. correct? or should i be thinking SIEVE rules? (2) exactly WHAT "additional part" do i grab in dovecot? thx! richard

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[Dovecot] can't access dovecot IMAP account w/TBird ... ok w/ other clients
by OpenMacNews 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi all, i'm using dovecot --version 1.0.alpha3 dovecot --build-options Build options: ioloop=poll openssl postgresql Passdb: checkpassword pam passwd passwd-file sql Userdb: checkpassword passdb passwd passwd-file sql static on OSX 10.4.2. i've set up for maildir: format PLAIN text AUTH, w/ "disable_plaintext_auth = yes" TLS support Private/, Public/ Shared/ namespaces login and access with my Mulberry MUA has been just fine. however, attemtping to access with Thunderboird v107 has been completely unsuccessful. T-Bird's "Server Settings" for my user are config'd as: Server Type: IMAP MailServer Server name: mail.testdomain.com Port: 993 Default: 993 User name: testuser(a)testdomain.com [X] User secure connection (SSL) [ ] User secure authentication on access, T-Bird's status bar shows "Openeing folder ...", but never continues on any further. i never see my mailboxes, Namespaces, etc, as I do in Mulberry. my dovecot log shows: dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=172.30.11.5 rip=172.30.11.6 dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGJsYWtlcnNAb3BlbmV4ZWMuY29tAGJsYWtlcnM= dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=testuser(a)testdomain.com dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 111 28213 1 dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 111 testuser(a)testdomain.com uid=42 gid=42 dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: imap(testuser(a)testdomain.com): Effective uid=42, gid=42 dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: imap(testuser(a)testdomain.com): Namespace: type=private, prefix=Private/, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: imap(testuser(a)testdomain.com): maildir: data=/var/Mail/MailHome/Domains/testdomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir:… dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: imap(testuser(a)testdomain.com): maildir: root=/var/Mail/MailHome/Domains/testdomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir, index=/var/Mail/MailHome/indexes/testdomain.com/testuser, control=, inbox= dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: imap(testuser(a)testdomain.com): Namespace: type=public, prefix=Public/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: imap(testuser(a)testdomain.com): maildir: data=/var/Mail/MailHome/Domains/testdomain.com/Public/Maildir:INDEX=/var/Ma… dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: imap(testuser(a)testdomain.com): maildir: root=/var/Mail/MailHome/Domains/testdomain.com/Public/Maildir, index=/var/Mail/MailHome/indexes/testdomain.com/public, control=, inbox= dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: imap(testuser(a)testdomain.com): Namespace: type=shared, prefix=Shared/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: imap(testuser(a)testdomain.com): maildir: data=/var/Mail/MailHome/Domains/testdomain.com/Shared/Maildir:INDEX=/var/Ma… dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: imap(testuser(a)testdomain.com): maildir: root=/var/Mail/MailHome/Domains/testdomain.com/Shared/Maildir, index=/var/Mail/MailHome/indexes/testdomain.com/shared, control=, inbox= dovecot: 2005.10.02 14:29:26 Info: imap-login: Login: u:<testuser(a)testdomain.com>, rIP:[10.0.0.6], lIP:[10.0.0.5], IMAP, plain, TLS which looks ok to me (?). fwiw, TBird can access TLS+Plain accounts on CGatePro & CyrusIMAP accounts i've tried w/ no problem ... any suggestions/thoughts? cheers, richard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkNAUvsACgkQGnqMy4gvZ6GT7QCghiGiPyybvS8H8aFbVzwdAtT2 s/0An3pi2t8xa1aWrd3WDrnxdC8CaHo0 =a69w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] A little request
by Riccardo Bini 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Hi all, I have a little request: It's possible to have the full user name in the logs? I mean this: dovecot: pop3(info): Logout. top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 info(a)example.com instead of info. I use 10 real users and many vpopmail users. I get in the log too many (info)... 8-( Thx Rick

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[Dovecot] sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot start doesn't work
by Sam Fung 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

I've been trying to get dovecot working with postfix with virtual domain setting. I noticed that if I started dovecot with "sudo /usr/sbin/dovecot", everything would work fine. But if I started with "sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot start", I would get the following permission error. I checked "ps -ef | grep dovecot" and didn't find anything different. Sep 29 16:54:35 localhost imap-login: Login: xyz(a)example.com [::ffff: 192.168.0.4 <http://192.168.0.4>] Sep 29 16:54:36 localhost imap(xyz(a)example.com): mkdir_parents(/var/spool /virtual_mailboxes/example.com/xyz/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied Here's the directory for storing virtual domain email. [localhost ~]$ sudo ls -al /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/example.com total 24 drwx------ 3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:43 . drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 4096 Sep 21 21:57 .. drwx------ 3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:55 xyz [localhost ~]$ sudo ls -al /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/example.com/xyz total 32 drwx------ 3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:55 . drwx------ 3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:43 .. -rw------- 1 vuser vuser 1209 Sep 29 19:10 Inbox

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[Dovecot] Using procmail with virtual users...
by Arnaud Guiton 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Hello all, I've a working dovecot installation on my machine, using exim3, virtual users and maildirs. I would like to add procmailrc rules for these (virtual) users, but i've not succeeded with that. The authentication is done with a passwd-file looking like this : testuser:password:uid:gid::/home/mail/testuser::chroot:maildir:/home/mail/testuser/Maildir/ i've put .procmailrc files in /home/mail/testuser/.procmailrc, but it this not taken into account, because the MTA never calls the procmail router as it resides after the dovecot one. How is the proper way of using procmail with virtual user (and is it at least possible) ? Thanks, -- Arnaud

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[Dovecot] Red Hat ES 4 - dovecot-auth: Unknown password scheme SMD5
by mel llaguno 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

I have a couple of questions regarding the default dovecot packaged with RedHat ES 4. The dovecot version is 0.99.11-2.EL4.1 which I assume is considerably behind the current stable version of 0.99.14. Is it the fact that I am using an older version of dovecot that SSHA passwords in an openldap directory are not recognized and give the following error: dovecot-auth: Unknown password scheme SMD5 ? LDAP is working as expected for NFS maildirs. I have dovecot 0.99.13 working on fedora core 3, but the stability of fedora leaves much to be desired and would like to get a stable, low maintenance install of dovecot on an enterprise supported linux. Redhat does not have packages for 0.99.14 and I would rather compile from source if possible. I've specified --with-ldap as part of the configure script, but am wondering if there is anything more to add to support SSHA passwords. Until dovecot 1.0 is proven in the field, it is not a consideration for the production environment this server is being used for. Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Mel Llaguno

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[Dovecot] Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused
by Chris Wakelin 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

We've being running with Dovecot 1.0-stable since Tuesday, and on the whole it's gone very well (meaning nobody's noticed!). My best estimate is we're using half the disk accesses and 2/3 the CPU of UW-IMAP/Qpopper. We've quite a mixture of error messages in the logs, the most worrying of which is that several times we've had a few seconds of "xxx-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused" (where xxx is pop or imap). It seems to sort itself out shortly afterwards. We're using userdb=passwd, passdb=passwd (authenticating via NIS). From Tuesday we'll be using passdb=pam (pam_ldap to Active Directory). My first guess is that some dovecot-auth process stops responding and gets killed off. Is this right? Other errors we're seeing include 1) pread_full() failed with mbox file /export/mail/c/37/sau04djp/INBOX: No such file or directory (when there is!) 2) mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (especially with .prayer folders - configuration folders for our Webmail) 3) file mbox-lock.c: line 505 (mbox_lock): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK || ibox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) presumably some of these are fixed in alpha2. Best Wishes, Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] Problem running latest 1.0-alpha3
by dovecot＠spam.turbolink.net 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

I've tried upgrading from dovecot-1.0 stable to the latest dovecot-1.0.alpha3. I've done a configure with: ./configure --with-notify=none --with-ioloop=poll And all I get is this when I run: dovecot: Sep 29 16:45:28 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha3 starting up dovecot: Sep 29 16:45:29 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Sep 29 16:45:29 Error: auth(default): Fatal: sigaction(SIGRTMIN) failed: Invalid argument dovecot: Sep 29 16:45:29 Error: child 4828 (auth) returned error 89 Linux kernel 2.4.24, FS in use are XFS and NFS Any clues? - Mike

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[Dovecot] redirect and sieve BUG
by List Subscriptions [Obfusc8.Org] 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

I've only just subscribed to the list, but in reading through the back-issues have come across a bug with dovecot-lda that was reported previously, and I can reproduce. Using dovecot-lda CVS with Revision 1.21 of deliver.c (as newer versions won't compile against 1.0-alpha3), with dovecot 1.0-alpha3 and postfix 2.1.5 Rredirects mangle some headers - the 'To:' header ends up as: To: undisclosed-recipients: ; And there is no subject header. Running sendmail from the cmdline with: sendmail -i -f '<>' -- destination at address.com <msgtext> as suggested to test by *Timo Sirainen *results in a correctly formatted message. The mail_send_forward function in mail-send.c looks sane from what I can see, but then I'm not a C coder... Any clues guys? Cheers, Pete

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[Dovecot] Maildir and counting inodes
by Andy Cravens 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

I've been testing with alpha 3 and I am about ready to go production. I am switching from mbox to maildir and I'd like to know if there is a formula or rule of thumb for determining if your file system will have enough inodes to handle all the mail message files. I could write a script to look at each user's mbox files, count the number messages and calculate the average number of emails per user, then add a fudge factor for expected growth. However, I doubt anybody actually goes to this much trouble to plan ahead. Or do they? I'm running Solaris 9 and when I created the file system I just used the defaults. If I need to change anything, I'd rather do it before going production. Thanks for any info you can provide on this subject.

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[Dovecot] error and time out
by Roberto Cipollini 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

I can't download my email if the email has one attachment. It goes in time out. This is the log: (how to verbose more information in dovecot.log?) version: fedora core 4 and dovecot 0.99-14-4 Can anyone tell me if this can be the problem to not able to retrieve the email from dovecot? ==> /etc/dovecot.log <== dovecot-auth: Sep 28 17:37:03 Info: Login process 8 disconnected dovecot-auth: Sep 28 17:37:03 Info: Login process 8 connected dovecot-auth: Sep 28 17:37:03 Info: Login process 8 sent handshake: PID 22677 dovecot: Sep 28 17:37:29 Warning: Killed with signal 15 dovecot-auth: Sep 28 17:37:29 Info: Login process 8 disconnected dovecot-auth: Sep 28 17:37:29 Info: Login process 12 disconnected

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[Dovecot] Permission denied: failed to chdir to /home/paul
by Paul Ororke 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Hi, I've been trying to set up Exin and Dovecot and think I've almost gotten there. However I'm not recieving mail to my inbox and I get messages like the following in /var/log/exim/main.log: 2005-09-28 04:14:47 1EKZtf-0003gQ-26 <= users-return-105525-paul= paulororke.net(a)openoffice.org H=s002.sfo.collab.net<http://s002.sfo.collab.net>( openoffice.org <http://openoffice.org>) [64.125.133.202<http://64.125.133.202>] P=smtp S=3120 id=200509280613.08050.dlewis(a)delewis.com 2005-09-28 04:14:47 1EKZtf-0003gQ-26 == paul(a)paulororke.net R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: failed to chdir to /home/paul How do I make it so that this doesn't happen?

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[Dovecot] ManageSIEVE services with Dovecot cvs-LDA?
by OpenMacNews 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

hi all, has anyone had any success in getting the current dovecot cvs-lda's implementation of CyrusSIEVE responding to a ManageSIEVE client? in particular, i'm hoping that one can use, e.g., Mulberry's Client- & Server-side sieve editor: <http://www.cyrusoft.com/sieve/sievescreens.html> if i telnet to my dovecot box's sieve port ( = 2000) i get no response at all ... telnet localhost 2000 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host net-stat shows nothing on port 2000, and, afaik, there's no mention of a server on the wiki ... so i'm either doing something wrong, or "it" is simply not there. has a sieve server been implemented? any plans? thx! richard

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[Dovecot] Problem with logging in on pop3
by michal 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

I switched from dovecot 0.99 to 1.0 stable alpha and now i cannot get my pop3 to work. I checked the logs and this what i`m getting when i try to login using outlook: Login: user=<michael>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.200, lip=192.168.1.20 Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): Effective uid=515, gid=100 Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): maildir: access(/home/michael/Maildir, rwx): failed: No such file or directory Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): maildir: couldn't find root dir Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): mbox: root exists (/home/michael/mail) Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): mbox: INBOX exists (/var/mail/michael) Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): mbox: root=/home/michael/mail, index=/home/michael/mail, inbox=/var/mail/michael Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): open(/var/mail/.temp.mail.bio-world.com.18859.4e2d002619befc19) failed: Permission denied Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/michael: Permission denied Sep 27 17:21:26 mail dovecot: pop3(michael): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 Anybody have any idea how to fix that pls ?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Error: Master requested auth for nonexisting client
by Paul E Virgo 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hello, The subject line says it all. It seems to be happening with regards to my default auth setting in the dovecot.conf file. I currently have it set to 'plain'. Am I missing something? FWIW, I am using the latest, stable (alpha) release: 1.0.alpha3 PE Virgo

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Re: [Dovecot] Misbehavior with Dovecot and Mulberry
by Jon Roma 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Sorry about that last -- Windows seems to have mangled the attachment. Retrying here.

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[Dovecot] stable 1.0 on FC3
by Obantec Support 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hi should this worry me dovecot: POP3(chelan): file mail-index-view-sync.c: line 60 (view_sync_get_expunges): assertion failed: (ret == 0) using mbox format under /var/spool/mail/ Mark -- Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller

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[Dovecot] mail not found
by Michael Collins 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

This is in my dovecot.conf default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%1u/%u/ my mail ia in/var/mail/vhosts/anawebdesigns.com/user1/cur, new, tmp As you can guess these are virtual accounts. Auth works but mail is not found. How do I need to modify the line in dovecot.conf? Thanks. -- -- Michael H. Collins It's us against them. Ride like you stole it. If you love some code, set it free. Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Re: Re: Re: [Dovecot] virtual domain
by Barry Kwok 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

>On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 13:29 +0800, Barry Kwok wrote: >> userdb static { >> args = uid=503 gid=503 mail=mbox:/var/spool/virtual/%d/%n >> } > >Drop the "mail" part from here. You already have it in default_mail_env, >and it's correct there. Here you're saying that the .../%d/%n is the >mail directory, not file. If it refuses to start up without the mail= >part, replace it with home=/tmp instead. > >> Why I need a IMAP folder in a POP3 only server > >Dovecot is mostly an IMAP server, POP3 was just an afterthought. > >> and can I change that folder to /tmp directory. > >Yes, as long as nothing actually gets written there (and with >INDEX=MEMORY and POP3 nothing should get written there). > > Thank you Timo, I have just tried. But I found that I must add the mail=mbox:/var/spool/virtual/%d/%n part. Without this part, the dovecot seems not checking the right location of mail spool and simply say that "no new email". Now I added this part together with "home=/tmp" part into userdb config and It works now with IMAP folder in /tmp directory. But I want to ask if there is any file locking problem as I am running virtual email with vmail as owner for all mbox accounts. And it seems that they are all share the same IMAP folder located in /tmp directory.

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[Dovecot] Hostname passed to PAM as rhost
by Tom Alsberg 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

(I am sorry to bother the list with something I should have verified myself right now - I simply do not have access to the source code here) Thinking of some limit I wanted to put with authentication, I am wondering - when Dovecot authenticates a user using PAM, now that (in 1.0) it passes the rhost item to PAM, it passes a hostname, not an IP address. Does it double-verify the DNS record before it trusts this to be the hostname (first checking the IP address in in_addr.arpa and then checking that the hostname indeed maps back to the same IP address)? That is necessary in order to trust the client address when determining authentication strength in the PAM module based on the client location (specifically we want stronger authentication when the client comes outside of our network, while inside a plain password suffices), as else anybody could "spoof" the hostname by changing the IN PTR record of his IP address to point back to some "trusted" hostname (given he has control of the DNS zone his host is in, which is completely possible given the server knows nothing about it). Thanks, -- 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] POP3 problem
by michal 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hey all this is my first post to this list. I have fresh Red Hat AS 4.0 with postfix 2.1. This will be my mail server. I have one problem with pop3. My mail server is working properly. I did the following test: Sent an email to some other server(yahoo.com)->email got there fine. >From that other server(yahoo.com) replaied-> to the new server and email got there fine,checked using pine. Now in x windows on the mail server if i lunch email client software and set up the account, then i can send and receive emails fine so pop3 is working. But when i go to different machine like PC set up outlook then i cannot receive emails. I get error in outlook that the connection has failed. So i telnet 192.168.1.10 110 and I have gotten response from the server 250 dovecot OK. I really dont what to do at this time. I have been trying couple different things without any luck..... need some help? Mike

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[Dovecot] How safe is mbox_very_dirty_syncs?
by Chris Wakelin 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

I've tried turning on mbox_very_dirty_syncs for myself (and a few other brave souls running 1.0-alpha3 rather than 1.0-stable) again to see what perfomance gain it gives (see thread http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-July/007956.html) Now we aren't running UW-IMAP at all, how safe is mbox_very_dirty_syncs assuming the only other process writing to mailboxes is our MTA (exim) which simply appends messages to the end? Is it safer still using Dovecot 1.0-alphas and the LDA? Does it matter if there are concurrent connections to the mailbox? Best Wishes, Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] new mailbox format v2
by Timo Sirainen 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Updated version. The previous one was a bit too complicated with flag updates for pretty minimal benefits. Changes: - writing/reading mail flags can be disabled to get better performance without it requiring any changes to how the files are normally handled (so mixed more works fine). - writing flags now requires getting shared locks. so there's the overhead of locking but flag writers don't have to wait for each others. - reading requires no locking anymore. the comment in the previous version about reading only half a mail being a problem doesn't actually matter, since if a client tries to read an expunged mail Dovecot already disconnects the client immediately (since most clients can't handle such situation well anyway). - no more problems with mailbox readers locking out expungers - note about fcntl() locking being able to provide even higher concurrency - works just fine with plain dotlocks, so works fine with NFS And looks like I forgot to explain the "mail header padding" before. I'm not exactly sure if it's useful or not, but it doesn't hurt to have it there if it's wanted. The idea was anyway that if you're writing more than one flag at a time, having a 512 byte padding would make sure that when writing the few bytes the OS will only have to read one sector from disk (512 bytes in all todays OSes I believe?) to get the non-written parts of the sector instead of possibly reading two sectors. So it might help with trading disk reads for some wasted disk space. Generic ------- The point is to have a mailbox format where the mailbox can consist of one or more files. Grouping multiple files in a single file makes it faster to read, but it's slower to expunge mails from the beginning of the file. So this format would allow sysadmin to specify rules on how large the files would be allowed to grow. Index File ---------- Named "index". Index file gives a mapping between UIDs <-> filenames: Header: <uidvalidity> <last-used-uid> Record: <uid-first> <uid-last> <filename> Record: .. eg.: 1127468129 5 1 3 msg.1 4 4 msg.4 All of the UIDs don't have to actually exist in the file if they have been expunged. The record should be removed once all of the UIDs have been removed from it (and the file itself been deleted). The same file may appear multiple times in the index. For example: 1 2 msg.1 3 3 msg.3 4 5 msg.1 This means that UIDs 1, 2, 4 and 5 are in file msg.1, but UID 3 is in file msg.3. The filename doesn't matter as long as it's unique, but probably wouldn't hurt to include its first UID in the filename so humans can find mails more easily. The filename however must not end with ".lock". The file is modified by creating first exclusively owned "index.lock" file, updating it and then rename()ing it over the index file. This lock file shouldn't be held for a long time, so if it exists, and it doesn't get modified at all within 30 seconds, it can be overwritten. Before rename()ing over the index file, you should check with stat() that the index.lock file is still the same as you expect it to be (in case your process was temporarily stopped for over 30 secs). The index file's mtime timestamp must grow after each modification. This makes it easy to check if new mail has been added to the mailbox. Mail File --------- File header: Bytes Format Description 8 hex Header size 16 hex Append offset 4 hex Mail header size 4 hex Mail header padding 4 hex Keyword count in mail headers Mail header: Bytes Format Description 8 hex UID 16 hex Mail size 1 1/0 Answered flag 1 1/0 Flagged flag 1 1/0 Deleted flag 1 1/0 Seen flag 1 1/0 Draft flag 1 1/0 Expunged flag n 1/0 Keywords The file layout then goes: <File header> - possible padding due to Header size <Mail header #1> - possible padding due to Mail header size <Mail data #1> - possible padding due to Mail header padding (ie. next Mail header's offset is divisible with Mail header padding) <Mail header #2> etc.. The UIDs must be ascending within the file (but as said above, some UIDs between them may exist in other files). If mail has been marked with expunged-flag, it should be treated as if it was already expunged. The mail will really be expunged later in some nightly run. Reading the files requires no locking. If while reading you happen to hit unexpected end of file, it means that mails were expunged from the file. After that you'll look at the index file again to see which file the mail went and continue from there on. If the mail isn't found, it means it got expunged. Expunging happens by locking the file and then copying all non-expunged mails after the first expunged one to new file. Then update the index file with the new location for the UIDs, and at last ftruncate() at the position of first expunged mail in the original file. Flag updates require locking the file as well, otherwise we might try to write past the end of file when another process is expunging the mails. Shared locking can be used for flag update locking since each flag update can be atomically changed by writing one byte. Appending mails can be done by either locking existing file and appending to it, or creating a new file. If appending to a new file, create it with .lock suffix and then check that the file without .lock wasn't already just created to prevent race conditions. When appending to existing file, check "Append offset" from file's header. If that offset is at the end of file, just append there. Otherwise read the mail's header from there. If it has a non-zero UID and index file says that the same UID exists in this file, jump over the mail and do the same checks for all the rest of the mails in the file. Once the check doesn't match or you reach EOF, update the append offset in the header to that offset and write your mail there. Initially write the UID in mail's header as zeroes ('0', not NUL). Once the append is completely finished, you'll have to update it with the new UID. You'll do this by locking index file, reading the latest last-used-uid and using the next value for your UID. Once you've written it, rewrite the index file with updated last-used-uid field and your UID added to it. After this, update the append offset in the mail file and unlock it. If fcntl() locking is used, locking only specific ranges can give more concurrency. Flag updates only need to lock the part of the file they're modifying. Expunges need to lock the part which it's removing. Appending needs to lock from <end of file-1> to end of file (ie. l_len=0). Keywords file ------------- Named "index.keywords". This contains mappings between keyword numbers and names. TODO: write how it's updated Recent file ----------- "index.recent.<uid>" file tells what the last non-recent UID was. The file doesn't have any data inside it. When opening the mailbox you should find and rename() the existing index.recent.<uid> file to the new index.recent.<last-uid>. A successful rename() means the mails between <uid>+1 .. <last-uid> are recent for you. A failed rename() means that someone else managed to do it. You should look for the file again and if it was renamed to less than <last-uid>, you should try again. Nightly cleanups ---------------- Because expunged mails may be left lying around for a while, there probably should be some nightly check that cleans them up. Other cleanups that may be necessary after crashes are: - .lock files - expunged data at the end of files (can be checked with same rules as how appending determines the offset where to append) Alternative ways to use ----------------------- Expunging mails isn't very filesystem quota friendly since it requires creating another file to copy the expunged mails to. This could also be done by just moving the data within the file. This however requires that all file reads must also be shared-locked. Also it has the problem of leaving the mailbox corrupted if the copying gets aborted in the middle. For the best performance the mail flags could be stored only in Dovecot's index files. In that case the flag update locking isn't slowing down expunges (and if fcntl() locks can't be used, doesn't slow down appends either). Also there's no need for keywords/recent files. Compatibility ------------- If needed, it would be possible to create new/ and tmp/ directories under the mailbox to allow mail deliveries to be in maildir format. The maildir files would be then either just moved or maybe be appended to existing mail files.

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[Dovecot] Mail directory funkiness
by Ted Kaczmarek 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

I am using dovecot-0.99.14-4.fc4 on FC4, was testing using mbox and than switched to using Maildir. default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir >From evolution when I create a folder the folder is created in ~/mail instead of ~/Maildir I am still rather new to dovecot, but this does not make sense. I made sure to restart dovecot, even added a .procmailrc. cat .procmailrc MAILDIR=/home/tedkaz/Maildir :0 ./ I am going to grab the latest version and test with that, but if if anyone has insight into how I got here it would be appreciated :-) Likely a pilot error. Regards, Ted

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Re: Re: [Dovecot] virtual domain
by Barry Kwok 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

>On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 21:33 +0800, Barry Kwok wrote: >> we are currently using vm-pop3d to implement virtual domains. But due to some locking problem in vm-pop3d, we want to test the possibility to change to dovecot. >> Currently, in vm-pop3d, the passwd file is located in >> /etc/virtual/domain1.com/passwd >> /etc/virtual/domain2.com/passwd > >passdb passwd-file { > args = /etc/virtual/%d/passwd >} > >This requires Dovecot 1.0.alpha2 or later. > >> and the passwd format is: >> user: md5 encrpted password > >In MD5crypt format? ie. $1$something? Then it should work directly. > >> and the email is store in >> /var/spool/virtual/domain1.com/user >> /var/spool/virtual/domain2.com/user > >As mboxes? For IMAP you'll need also some directory where non-INBOXes >are stored, and with POP3 Dovecot also wants a directory where it can >store index files. > >If you don't want either, you could do something like: > >default_mail_env = mbox:/tmp:INBOX=/var/spool/virtual/%d/%u:INDEX=MEMORY Thank you. Timo. I have installed Dovecot 1.0 alpha3 and tested. It is a mbox POP3 only server. The relevent part of dovecot.conf I have changed: default_mail_env = mbox:/tmp:INBOX:/var/spool/virutal/%d/%u:INDEX=MEMORY passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/virtual/%d/passwd } userdb static { args = uid=503 gid=503 mail=mbox:/var/spool/virtual/%d/%n } I can login with user(a)domain1.com but there is error in logfile: Sep 27 13:15:16 ns2 dovecot: pop3(user(a)domain1.com): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /mail: Permission denied Sep 27 13:15:16 ns2 dovecot: pop3(user(a)domain1.com): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/spool/virtual/domain1.com/user Sep 27 13:15:16 ns2 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user(a)domain1.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Sep 27 13:15:16 ns2 dovecot: child 19147 (pop3) returned error 89 I then created a /mail directory with file mode 777, then it is OK. Why I need a IMAP folder in a POP3 only server and can I change that folder to /tmp directory.

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[Dovecot] Misbehavior with Dovecot and Mulberry
by Jon Roma 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

I'm having a bit of misbehavior wherein Dovecot seems to refuse to cooperate with my Mulberry MUA. By and large, everything works great. I can move mail back and forth happily. I can compose a note and copy the outgoing mail to my Dovecot "Sent" folder using my default Mulberry settings. But if I reply or forward a mail, I get a Mulberry error popup saying that it "couldn't decode the response from the server" and that the operation was unsuccessful. This was somewhat mystifying (especially since this does work for a newly composed message as opposed to a reply/forward), so I turned on Mulberry logging. This is what I see (with unrelated operations clipped from the log). First, the first case where I create a new message, send it, and save a copy in my Sent folder: --> #6.3408 Mon Sep 5 23:24:27 2005 A00085 APPEND Sent (\Seen) {418+} * 5544 EXISTS * 1 RECENT A00085 OK Append completed. All's well there. Mulberry does a FETCH to grab the new message (reply) from my Sent folder and then does a SORT so that it can order it properly in the display. This too succeeds but is probably irrelevant to us. After a couple NOOP commands come and go in the background, I try to reply to a message in one of my mailboxes. In this case it happens to be the one in my Sent folder. So Mulberry issues a FETCH (you can see the original mail there in the FETCH response from Dovecot). It then does a STORE of the original mail, apparently to update the \Answered flag. It then tries to APPEND the reply to the Sent folder, but this time, the server comes back with a NO. See below --> #6.3408 Mon Sep 5 23:24:43 2005 A00089 FETCH 5544 (BODY[1]) * 5544 FETCH (BODY[1] {63} ) A00089 OK Fetch completed. --> #6.3408 Mon Sep 5 23:25:13 2005 A00090 FETCH 5544 (RFC822.HEADER) * 5544 FETCH (RFC822.HEADER {355} Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:24:27 -0500 From: Jon Roma <roma(a)uiuc.edu> To: Jon R Roma <roma(a)uiuc.edu> Subject: Test 1 Message-ID: <DDDD999F0F4E38F8C1510CC8(a)jrr2.isdn.uiuc.edu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ) A00090 OK Fetch completed. --> #6.3408 Mon Sep 5 23:25:13 2005 A00091 STORE 5544 +FLAGS (\Answered) * 5544 FETCH (FLAGS (\Answered \Seen \Recent)) A00091 OK Store completed. --> #6.3408 Mon Sep 5 23:25:13 2005 A00092 APPEND Sent (\Seen) {610+} A00092 NO I am having similar problem saving a draft to my Drafts folder and suspect the same thing is behind both of these. I didn't create a Mulberry trace log for this but can do so if need be. I am running 1.0-test80 with Timo's patch to fix the "time off by 200 minutes" error with mbox. All my folders are maildir at this point -- I've converted them out of my UW mbx format store. My client is Mulberry 3.1.6 for Windows and the OS is AIX 5.1. This weird behavior is a mystery to me!

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[Dovecot] Problems with alpha3 + openssl-0.9.8
by Andy Cravens 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Has anybody successfully compiled alpha 3 with the newly released openssl-0.9.8? I just wasted the weekend trying to get dovecot to compile using the new openssl libs. Openssl-0.9.7d works like dream. Just wanted to know if anybody had this combo working.

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha3 packages for debian
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Sorry this took even longer than I thought but they should be arriving in unstable this afternoon. I also have a backport for stable available at http://www.braincells.com/backports This directory is not aptable so manually install the packages for now. (Hopefully backports.org will have their sarge repository open soon. When that happens they will move there.) The configuration file format has changed so you will want to carefully check /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf when upgrading. I forgot to put a note about that in NEWS.debian sorry. I think I might have forgotten a couple of config file tweaks people have suggested and in general, if you sent me mail in the past month or so and I didn't respond or the problem still isn't fixed, please give me a nudge. This is why you really ought to use the Debian bug tracking system rather than mailing the maintainer. Anyway, enjoy. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-Pop3d
by Mark Smith 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

What port does Dovecot-Pop3d run on? 110? If so I can't get it to work "netstat -ltnp | grep ':110'" shows nothing. and dovecot-pop3d is installed. Regards, _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN Search Toolbar now includes Desktop search! http://toolbar.msn.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] virtual domain
by Barry Kwok 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

we are currently using vm-pop3d to implement virtual domains. But due to some locking problem in vm-pop3d, we want to test the possibility to change to dovecot. Currently, in vm-pop3d, the passwd file is located in /etc/virtual/domain1.com/passwd /etc/virtual/domain2.com/passwd and the passwd format is: user: md5 encrpted password and the email is store in /var/spool/virtual/domain1.com/user /var/spool/virtual/domain2.com/user and we login as user(a)domain1.com, user(a)domain2.com . We want to maintain this format as login id and the password format. What should be changed in dovecot.conf? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] DSA support for TLS?
by OpenMacNews 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

hi all, i've dovecot TLS working correctly w/ locally generated *RSA* CA cert, domain privkey & self-signed domain cert. to that end, my dovecot.conf includes: ssl_key_file = /var/Security/mail.testdomain.com.privkey.rsa.pem ssl_cert_file = /var/Security/mail.testdomain.com.cert.rsa.pem ssl_ca_file = /var/Security/MyCertificateAuthority.CA.cert.rsa.pem ssl_verify_client_cert = no ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!NULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!LOW:@STRENGTH however, if I try to setup for DSA use: ssl_key_file = /var/Security/mail.testdomain.com.privkey.dsa.pem ssl_cert_file = /var/Security/mail.testdomain.com.cert.dsa.pem ssl_ca_file = /var/Security/MyCertificateAuthority.CA.cert.dsa.pem ssl_verify_client_cert = no ssl_parameters_file = /var/Security/dsaparam.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate = 0 an attempt @ dovecot launch results in a logged error of: dovecot: Sep 11 11:58:43 Error: imap-login: Can't load private key file /var/Security/mail.testdomain.com.privkey.dsa.pem: error:0607907F:digital envelope routines:EVP_PKEY_get1_RSA:expecting an rsa key wherein it looks like dovecot is _still_ seeking an RSA key. fwiw, % cat /var/Security/mail.testdomain.com.privkey.dsa.pem -----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY----- ... i've searched the dovecot wiki, and although the _only_ reference i find to dsa/diffie is @: http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MainConfig " ... SSL parameter file. Master process generates this file for login processes. It contains Diffie Hellman and RSA parameters. ssl_parameters_file = /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat ... " it does seem to imply that DSA certs are, at least, supported. comments? cheers, richard

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Re: [Dovecot] ManageSIEVE services with Dovecot cvs-LDA?
by OpenMacNews 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

i can't find a trace of any sieve mgmt services in dovecot as yet, and haven't found anything in this list ... so, if i *am* missing it, if someone would be kind enuf to point me in the right direction, i'd appreciate it! 8-} in the meantime, a little more info for those interested ... the latest spec for sieve management, "A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts", can be found at: <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-martin-managesieve-05.txt> iiuc, one of the authors, Tim Martin / Mirapoint Inc., is the "Tim" of "timsieved" -- Cyrus' ManageSIEVE 'server' bundled with cyrus-imap. i can strip timesieved it out of a successful build of cyrus-imap, but it seems to be dependent on cyrus-sasl ... as such, i'm not sure how to integrate it with dovecot's SASL auth methods. i have a feeling that such fuctionality would have to be re-implemented in dovecot alongside of sieve itself ... and probably should, if it were to be included. the courier-imap mailing lists also have folks searching for an alternative to timsieved ... richard

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[Dovecot] redirect and sieve
by Rudy Gevaert 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hello, I have set up postfix to use dove-cot lda. This works perfect. Sieve works a bit... I would like to user the redirect feature of sieve. Having followed the wiki I added the following in my .dovecot.sieve : require "redirect"; if header :contains "subject" ["order", "buy"] { redirect "orders(a)company.dom"; } With this setup I get the following error: Sep 22 11:25:38 zalm deliver: sieve parse error for rgevaert: line 1: unsupported feature Remove the require line makes a forward. But this doesn't forward the message I set, but makes a new empty message... : - From Rudy.Gevaert(a)UGent.be Thu Sep 22 14:31:46 2005 - Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:29:01 +0200 (CEST) - From: Rudy.Gevaert(a)UGent.be (Rudy Gevaert) - To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Is this a bug? Or have i missed something? Thanks in advance, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert e-mail: Rudy.Gevaert(a)UGent.be Directie ICT, Afdeling Infrastructuur Groep Systemen tel: +32 9 264 4734 Universiteit Gent fax: +32 9 264 4994 Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie www.UGent.be -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

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[Dovecot] v1.0.alpha2, virtual domain authentication
by Jean-Marc Pigeon 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Bonjour a tous, In Dovecot v1.0.alpha2, authentication according domain seems not working passdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/test.%d %d is not resolved as "domain.name" I browsed on mailing list post and found the problem already reported... What I can't figure out is the answer about it... > Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi > Fri Jul 22 15:44:02 EEST 2005 > > Trying this and it doesn't work: > > > > passdb = passwd-file /etc/vmail/test.%d > > > > Apparently it doesn't expand the %d according to the log file. > > This has been asked enough now so I just implemented it in CVS. Could be > still optimized a bit, but I think it's fast enough. Could somebody on the list be kind enough to give me some light about this? (is code to do this already implemented (CVS) but not tested yet????) Thanks for your help. A bientot -- ========================================================================== Jean-Marc Pigeon Internet: Jean-Marc.Pigeon(a)safe.ca SAFE Inc. Phone: (514) 493-4280 Fax: (514) 493-1946 REGULUS, a real time accounting/billing package for ISP REGULUS' Home base <"http://www.regulus.safe.ca"> ==========================================================================

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDAP authentication not working
by Kondwani Masiye 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hie all, I am new to both Dovecot and this list. I am trying to set up a Dovecot and Sendmail mail server with OpenLDAP user database for authentication. The sendmail setup is working fine, but authentication for Dovemail is not working. When I try to authenticate using POP3, I get an "authentication failed" error, and the logs show the following: Sep 19 16:53:21 tempo slapd[6316]: conn=74 op=2 SRCH base="dc=domain,dc=net" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=kondie))" Sep 19 16:53:21 tempo slapd[6316]: conn=74 op=2 SRCH attr=uid userPassword Sep 19 16:53:21 tempo slapd[6316]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) index_param failed (18) Sep 19 16:53:21 tempo slapd[6316]: conn=74 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Sep 19 16:53:21 tempo dovecot: auth(default): ldap(kondie,127.0.0.1): password mismatch Sep 19 16:53:25 tempo dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login [127.0.0.1] Sep 19 16:53:25 tempo slapd[6313]: conn=72 fd=14 closed I know the password is correct because I am using the same LDAP database from a different server using UW Imap and it works. My dovecot-ldap.conf file below: hosts = localhost dn = cn=dovecot,dc=domain,dc=net ldap_version = 3 base = dc=domain,dc=net deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT And the relevant parts (I think) from dovecot.conf file: I have googled all over and also the archives of this list for the last few months but I have not been able to work out what the problem is. As a matter of fact, I have tried to set it up the way it is described here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotOpenLdap - but no luck. Could someone please assist in resolving this problem. Any pointers are welcome. Regards, Kondie Masiye -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: 16/09/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: 16/09/2005

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[Dovecot] Fatal: EOF reading environment from master
by Marcathian Alexander 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

I have been running dovecot as an imap server since 22nd July 2005. The server was started from xinetd using /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-auth The sever run successfully until the machine was shut down in a power outage on 12 Aug 2005. Dovecot has failed to start since the reboot. When starting it with the imap-auth it gives the following error: fatal: EOF reading environment from master I have uninstalled dovecot, downloaded, compiled, and installed the stable of 14Aug 2005 and got the same error. I then installed the 0.99.14 version ang got the same error. Can i have assistance in solving and/or diagnosing the problem? -- Marcathian Alexander SDE Assistant Sustainable Development and Environment Section Ministry of Physical Development, Environment & Housing Open Source Software Evaluation Project - WebMail/Groupware/Collaboaration [Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)

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[Dovecot] LDA with postfix lock problem
by Rudy Gevaert 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hello, I'm trying to set up dovecot as the delivery agent for postfix. I configured postfix with: mailbox_command = = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver In the logs I see the following error: Sep 20 17:19:26 zalm deliver: open(/var/mail/.temp.zalm.8045.65c09c28953ea20c) failed: Permission denied Sep 20 17:19:26 zalm deliver: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/rgevaert: Permission denied Sep 20 17:19:26 zalm postfix/local[8044]: 9790BBE4A: to=<rgevaert(a)zalm.ugent.be>, relay=local, delay=0, status=deferred (temporary failure) Info: zalm:~# ls -ld /var/mail drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Sep 20 16:56 /var/mail Giving o write access to the folder fixed it, but not in a way it has to be :) I already added mail_extra_groups = mail to dovecot.conf But this doesn't help. What have I missed. Thanks in advance, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert e-mail: Rudy.Gevaert(a)UGent.be Directie ICT, Afdeling Infrastructuur Groep Systemen tel: +32 9 264 4734 Universiteit Gent fax: +32 9 264 4994 Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie www.UGent.be -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

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[Dovecot] auth protocol, buffers
by Thomas Hummel 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hello Timo, I'm curious about 2 points (I'm using alpha2 but these are general questions) : Background : . I connect to dovecot-1.0.alpha2 through thunderbird . I use ldap pass/userdb and PLAIN mech . I've only got one auth block in dovecot.conf (all pass/userdb/mech except ldap/PLAIN are commented) 1) I notice that, for one thunderbird connection trial, imap-login issues 2 AUTH messages. Why ? What info does the "resp=" hold the second time ? It goes like this : Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha2 starting up Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGRvdmV0ZXN0AGZvbw== Info: auth(default): ldap(dovetest,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): base=ou=personnes, dc=pasteur, dc=fr scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dovetest)) fields=uid,userPassword Info: auth(default): ldap(dovetest,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): userPassword(password)={CRYPT}sa8ufSVwLUHVU uid(user)=dovetest Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=dovetest Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx resp=AGRvdmV0ZXN0AGZvbw== Info: auth(default): ldap(dovetest,157.99.64.42): base=ou=personnes, dc=pasteur, dc=fr scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dovetest)) fields=uid,userPassword Info: auth(default): ldap(dovetest,157.99.64.42): userPassword(password)={CRYPT}sa8ufSVwLUHVU uid(user)=dovetest dovecot: Sep 20 17:58:27 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 user=dovetest 2) Which buffer/string handling function (among those in your lib) should I use to safely allocate a string and/or copy a string into another ? (instead of using str[n|l]cpy for instance) ? Thank you. -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] 1.0 alpha3 released
by Timo Sirainen 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

I'm a bit too busy nowadays because of school so I haven't had time to look at everyone's bug reports and some other mails. They're still marked as unread in my mailbox, so hopefully I'll get to them soon. And I don't mind you resend them if I don't answer in a few weeks :) Changes: - Fixed maildir syncing errors about wrong UIDs - Maildir was re-read all the time, even if we knew nothing had changed there - SSL/TLS connections used to have extra ~0.2s latencies because kernel was waiting for more data before sending it (at least with Linux). Fixed it by corking/uncorking before/after sending. I don't think the socket latencies are this bad normally though, I should probably look more into it if we're setting some socket flags badly (or does it happen specifically because we were using corking for the socket before SSL and kernel increased the timeouts because it thinks we're going to be using corking?). - Marking index file corrupted caused its recreation to still use old transaction log file, which usually caused the index to get corrupted again - Added --build-options parameter to dovecot binary (by Andrey Panin) - Parse obs-phrase correctly in mail address parser (by Chris Wakelin)

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[Dovecot] dovecot with ssl only works on foreground mode
by blaq b0x 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hi, I've set up dovecot to use imaps/pops with certificates that I signed with my own CA. When I try to start it using service dovecot start it fails. I've tried disabling imaps in the config file and it starts fine so it seems it's the certificate part of the config. If,however, I start it with '/usr/sbin/dovecot -F' or even '/usr/sbin/dovecot' it starts! I've looked over the dovecot startup script but, can't seem to see anything that would hinder startup. I didn't have this problem with self-signed certs??? Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks, __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Multiple authentication databases
by Alexander Shikoff 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hello, I'm trying to setup multimple auth. databases with Dovecot 1.0 alpha2. I wrote in dovecot.conf next lines (as was described at http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MultipleAuth) auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain user = root passdb sql { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } passdb pam { args = pop3 } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb passwd { } } If user is virtual and placed in SQL database all works perfectly. But system users can not login: Sep 23 12:27:58 orion dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.5.23 rip=192.168.3.2 resp=AGRtaXRyeQBtb240bHVjY2tpdDQ= Sep 23 12:27:58 orion dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(user,192.168.3.2): query: SELECT `password` FROM `users` WHERE login = 'user' Sep 23 12:27:58 orion dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(user,192.168.3.2): unknown user Sep 23 12:27:58 orion dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=user Sep 23 12:27:58 orion dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 19 50448 1 Sep 23 12:27:58 orion dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(user,192.168.3.2): SELECT "mbox:/var/mail/virtual//user:INBOX=/var/mail/virtual//user:INDEX=MEMORY" AS `mail`, 101 AS `uid`, 101 AS `gid` FROM users WHERE login = 'user' Sep 23 12:27:58 orion dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(user,192.168.3.2): User not found Sep 23 12:27:58 orion dovecot: pop3-login: Internal login failure: user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.3.2, lip=192.168.5.23 Sep 23 12:27:58 orion dovecot: child 50447 (auth) killed with signal 11 Sep 23 12:27:58 orion dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to 127.0.0.1 (exim) How can I setup multiple auth. databases correctly? Please, help! Thanks in advance, Alexander -- Kind Regards, Alexander Shikoff minotaur(a)crete.org.ua Mob.: +380 67 946 31 49

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[Dovecot] Secure file messages
by zeotavio 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hi Qualquer pessoa sabe o que isto significa? dovecot-auth: pam_succeed_if: requirement "uid < 100" not met by user "marinho" This message appears for several users. (in the file /var/log/secure) I am grateful for your attention. José Otávio.

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[Dovecot] Maildir and folders not under INBOX
by Oliver Schulze L. 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hi, I'm planning to migrate from dovecot/mbox to dovecot/maildir both using imap. I have read that when using the Maildir storage format, all folders are stored under the INBOX. Is this true in dovecot too? I want to have a configuration like the current: - new mail is delivered in /var/mail/USER - user folders are in /home/USER/mail I want to ask if this is posible in dovecot? Maybe using a config like this: default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:INBOX=/var/mail/%u/Maildir Thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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[Dovecot] Moving messages takes a longgggggg..... time. (Timeouts?) dovecot.conf help?
by Rob Frohne 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Hi, I'm trying to get dovecot set up better. I am using 1.0alpha3. It takes a long long time to move messages for some reason. It seems it may be a timeout thing, because neither the client or server is using any cpu time or disk i/o or network to speak of. (To move maybe 400 messages, it seems to take maybe half an hour, maybe longer.) With alpha 2 I was getting messages from Thunderbird saying that the server was unable to move messages, would I like to continue. I haven't seen any of these lately, but when I updated to alpha3 I also made some dovecot.conf changes. I'm running this on OS X with a 450 MHz cube with 1.2 Gig of ram and a 7200 RPM hard drive. I have a lot of rules that move messages to various mailboxes and I get a lot of mail, so this is important to me. I have a very large Maildir set of mailboxes (about 40 of them with up to 70,000 messages in each mailbox). I have finally got it so that it will load the mailbox headers pretty quickly in Thunderbird. It takes about 15 to 30 seconds to load a message, but that is acceptable to me. Here is my dovecot.conf. Can anyone give me some tips? ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file # '#' character and everything after it is treated as comments. Extra spaces # and tabs are ignored. If you want to use either of these explicitly, put the # value inside quotes, eg.: key = "# char and trailing whitespace " # Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment # any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples # with real defaults being based on configure options. The paths listed here # are for configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var # --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl # Base directory where to store runtime data. base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s #protocols = imap imaps # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. If you want to specify ports # for each service, you will need to configure these settings inside the # protocol imap/pop3 { ... } section, so you can specify different ports # for IMAP/POP3. #listen = * # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above if not specified. #ssl_listen = # Disable SSL/TLS support. ssl_disable = yes # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but # root. Included doc/mkcert.sh can be used to easily generate self-signed # certificate, just make sure to update the domains in dovecot-openssl.cnf #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem # File containing trusted SSL certificate authorities. Usually not needed. #ssl_ca_file = # Request client to send a certificate. #ssl_verify_client_cert = no # SSL parameter file. Master process generates this file for login processes. # It contains Diffie Hellman and RSA parameters. #ssl_parameters_file = /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat # How often to regenerate the SSL parameters file. Generation is quite CPU # intensive operation. The value is in hours, 0 disables regeneration # entirely. #ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 # SSL ciphers to use #ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW # 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 = no # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). #log_path = # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default #info_log_path = # Prefix for each line written to log file. % codes are in strftime(3) # format. #log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " ## ## Login processes ## # Directory where authentication process places authentication UNIX sockets # which login needs to be able to connect to. The sockets are created when # running as root, so you don't have to worry about permissions. Note that # everything in this directory is deleted when Dovecot is started. #login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login # chroot login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this is if you # wish to run the whole Dovecot without roots. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Rootless #login_chroot = yes # User to use for the login process. Create a completely new user for this, # and don't use it anywhere else. The user must also belong to a group where # only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process. # Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds #login_user = dovecot # Set max. process size in megabytes. If you don't use # login_process_per_connection you might need to grow this. login_process_size = 4096 # Should each login be processed in it's own process (yes), or should one # login process be allowed to process multiple connections (no)? Yes is more # secure, espcially with SSL/TLS enabled. No is faster since there's no need # to create processes all the time. login_process_per_connection = no # Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_user is # yes, this is the number of extra processes waiting for users to log in. #login_processes_count = 3 # Maximum number of extra login processes to create. The extra process count # usually stays at login_processes_count, but when multiple users start logging # in at the same time more extra processes are created. To prevent fork-bombing # we check only once in a second if new processes should be created - if all # of them are used at the time, we double their amount until limit set by this # setting is reached. This setting is used only if login_process_per_use is yes. #login_max_processes_count = 128 # Maximum number of connections allowed in login state. When this limit is # reached, the oldest connections are dropped. If login_process_per_user # is no, this is a per-process value, so the absolute maximum number of users # logging in actually login_processes_count * max_logging_users. #login_max_logging_users = 256 # Greeting message for clients. #login_greeting = Dovecot ready. # Space-separated list of elements we want to log. The elements which have # a non-empty variable value are joined together to form a comma-separated # string. #login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c # Login log format. %$ contains login_log_format_elements string, %s contains # the data we want to log. #login_log_format = %$: %s ## ## Mail processes ## # Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, # new users aren't allowed to log in. #max_mail_processes = 1024 max_mail_processes = 4096 # Show more verbose process titles (in ps). Currently shows user name and # IP address. Useful for seeing who are actually using the IMAP processes # (eg. shared mailboxes or if same uid is used for multiple accounts). #verbose_proctitle = no verbose_proctitle = yes # Show protocol level SSL errors. #verbose_ssl = no verbose_ssl = yes # Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. #first_valid_uid = 500 #last_valid_uid = 0 # Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel. Users having # non-valid GID as primary group ID aren't allowed to log in. If user # belongs to supplementary groups with non-valid GIDs, those groups are # not set. #first_valid_gid = 1 #last_valid_gid = 0 # Grant access to these extra groups for mail processes. Typical use would be # to give "mail" group write access to /var/mail to be able to create dotlocks. #mail_extra_groups = mail_extra_groups = mail # ':' separated list of directories under which chrooting is allowed for mail # processes (ie. /var/mail will allow chrooting to /var/mail/foo/bar too). # This setting doesn't affect login_chroot or auth_chroot variables. # WARNING: Never add directories here which local users can modify, that # may lead to root exploit. Usually this should be done only if you don't # allow shell access for users. See doc/configuration.txt for more information. #valid_chroot_dirs = # Default chroot directory for mail processes. This can be overridden for # specific users in user database by giving /./ in user's home directory # (eg. /home/./user chroots into /home). Note that usually there is no real # need to do chrooting, Dovecot doesn't allow users to access files outside # their mail directory anyway. #mail_chroot = # Enable mail process debugging. This can help you figure out why Dovecot # isn't finding your mails. #mail_debug = no mail_debug=yes # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # doc/mail-storages.txt. There's a few special variables you can use, eg.: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there's no domain # %h - home directory # # See doc/variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # #default_mail_env = mbox:~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes:INBOX=/var/mail/%u default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir # If you need to set multiple mailbox locations or want to change default # namespace settings, you can do it by defining namespace sections: # # You can have private, shared and public namespaces. The only difference # between them is how Dovecot announces them to client via NAMESPACE # extension. Shared namespaces are meant for user-owned mailboxes which are # shared to other users, while public namespaces are for more globally # accessible mailboxes. # # REMEMBER: If you add any namespaces, the default namespace must be added # explicitly, ie. default_mail_env does nothing unless you have a namespace # without a location setting. Default namespace is simply done by having a # namespace with empty prefix. #namespace private { # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator for all # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a good one. #separator = / # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be different for # all namespaces. For example "Public/". #prefix = # Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as # default_mail_env, which is also the default for it. #location = # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which namespace # has it. #inbox = yes # If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via NAMESPACE # extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful when converting # from another server with different namespaces which you want to depricate # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden namespaces with # prefixes "~/mail/", "~%u/mail/" and "mail/". #hidden = yes #} # Space-separated list of fields to initially save into cache file. Currently # these fields are allowed: # # flags, date.sent, date.received, size.virtual, size.physical # mime.parts, imap.body, imap.bodystructure # # Different IMAP clients work in different ways, so they benefit from # different cached fields. Some do not benefit from them at all. Caching more # than necessary generates useless disk I/O, so you don't want to do that # either. # # Dovecot attempts to automatically figure out what client wants and it keeps # only that. However the first few times a mailbox is opened, Dovecot hasn't # yet figured out what client needs, so it may not perform optimally. If you # know what fields the majority of your clients need, it may be useful to set # these fields by hand. If client doesn't actually use them, Dovecot will # eventually drop them. # # Usually you should just leave this field alone. The potential benefits are # typically unnoticeable. #mail_cache_fields = # Space-separated list of fields that Dovecot should never save to cache file. # Useful if you want to save disk space at the cost of more I/O when the fields # needed. #mail_never_cache_fields = # Like mailbox_check_interval, but used for IDLE command. #mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 mailbox_idle_check_interval = 15 # Allow full filesystem access to clients. There's no access checks other than # what the operating system does for the active UID/GID. It works with both # maildir and mboxes, allowing you to prefix mailboxes names with eg. /path/ # or ~user/. #mail_full_filesystem_access = no # Maximum allowed length for mail keyword name. It's only forced when trying # to create new keywords. #mail_max_keyword_length = 50 mail_max_keyword_length = 250 # Save mails with CR+LF instead of plain LF. This makes sending those mails # take less CPU, especially with sendfile() syscall with Linux and FreeBSD. # But it also creates a bit more disk I/O which may just make it slower. #mail_save_crlf = no # Use mmap() instead of read() to read mail files. read() seems to be a bit # faster with my Linux/x86 and it's better with NFS, so that's the default. # Note that OpenBSD 3.3 and older don't work right with mail_read_mmaped = yes. #mail_read_mmaped = no # Don't use mmap() at all. This is required if you store indexes in remote # filesystems (NFS or clustered filesystem). #mmap_disable = no # Don't write() to mmaped files. This is required for some operating systems # which use separate caches for them, such as OpenBSD. #mmap_no_write = no # Locking method for index files. Alternatives are fcntl, flock and dotlock. # Dotlocking uses some tricks which may create more disk I/O than other locking # methods. #lock_method = fcntl # By default LIST command returns all entries in maildir beginning with dot. # Enabling this option makes Dovecot return only entries which are directories. # This is done by stat()ing each entry, so it causes more disk I/O. # (For systems setting struct dirent->d_type, this check is free and it's # done always regardless of this setting) #maildir_stat_dirs = no # Copy mail to another folders using hard links. This is much faster than # actually copying the file. This is problematic only if something modifies # the mail in one folder but doesn't want it modified in the others. I don't # know any MUA which would modify mail files directly. IMAP protocol also # requires that the mails don't change, so it would be problematic in any case. # If you care about performance, enable it. #maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes # Which locking methods to use for locking mbox. There's four available: # dotlock: Create <mailbox>.lock file. This is the oldest and most NFS-safe # solution. If you want to use /var/mail/ like directory, the users # will need write access to that directory. # fcntl : Use this if possible. Works with NFS too if lockd is used. # flock : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # lockf : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # # You can use multiple locking methods; if you do the order they're declared # in is important to avoid deadlocks if other MTAs/MUAs are using multiple # locking methods as well. Some operating systems don't allow using some of # them simultaneously. #mbox_read_locks = fcntl #mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl # Maximum time in seconds to wait for lock (all of them) before aborting. #mbox_lock_timeout = 300 # If dotlock exists but the mailbox isn't modified in any way, override the # lock file after this many seconds. #mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 # When mbox changes unexpectedly we have to fully read it to find out what # changed. If the mbox is large this can take a long time. Since the change # is usually just a newly appended mail, it'd be faster to simply read the # new mails. If this setting is enabled, Dovecot does this but still safely # fallbacks to re-reading the whole mbox file whenever something in mbox isn't # how it's expected to be. The only real downside to this setting is that if # some other MUA changes message flags, Dovecot doesn't notice it immediately. # Note that a full sync is done with SELECT, EXAMINE, EXPUNGE and CHECK # commands. #mbox_dirty_syncs = yes # Like mbox_dirty_syncs, but don't do full syncs even with SELECT, EXAMINE, # EXPUNGE or CHECK commands. If this is set, mbox_dirty_syncs is ignored. #mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no # Delay writing mbox headers until doing a full write sync (EXPUNGE and CHECK # commands and when closing the mailbox). This is especially useful for POP3 # where clients often delete all mails. The downside is that our changes # aren't immediately visible to other MUAs. #mbox_lazy_writes = yes # umask to use for mail files and directories #umask = 0077 # Drop all privileges before exec()ing the mail process. This is mostly # meant for debugging, otherwise you don't get core dumps. It could be a small # security risk if you use single UID for multiple users, as the users could # ptrace() each others processes then. #mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. #mail_process_size = 256 mail_process_size = 4096 # Log prefix for mail processes. See doc/variables.txt for list of possible # variables you can use. #mail_log_prefix = "%Us(%u): " ## ## IMAP specific settings ## protocol imap { # Login executable location. #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login # IMAP executable location #mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap # This would write rawlogs into ~/dovecot.rawlog/ directory: #mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap # Maximum IMAP command line length in bytes. Some clients generate very long # command lines with huge mailboxes, so you may need to raise this if you get # "Too long argument" or "IMAP command line too large" errors often. #imap_max_line_length = 65536 imap_max_line_length = 262144 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #mail_use_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # Send IMAP capabilities in greeting message. This makes it unnecessary for # clients to request it with CAPABILITY command, so it saves one round-trip. # Many clients however don't understand it and ask the CAPABILITY anyway. #login_greeting_capability = no # Workarounds for various client bugs: # delay-newmail: # Send EXISTS/RECENT new mail notifications only when replying to NOOP # and CHECK commands. Some clients ignore them otherwise, for example # OSX Mail. Outlook Express breaks more badly though, without this it # may show user "Message no longer in server" errors. Note that OE6 still # breaks even with this workaround if synchronization is set to # "Headers Only". # outlook-idle: # Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no mail # arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is still # fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new mail # arrives. # netscape-eoh: # Netscape 4.x breaks if message headers don't end with the empty "end of # headers" line. Normally all messages have this, but setting this # workaround makes sure that Netscape never breaks by adding the line if # it doesn't exist. This is done only for FETCH BODY[HEADER.FIELDS..] # commands. Note that RFC says this shouldn't be done. # tb-extra-mailbox-sep: # With mbox storage a mailbox can contain either mails or submailboxes, # but not both. Thunderbird separates these two by forcing server to # accept '/' suffix in mailbox names in subscriptions list. #imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep } ## ## POP3 specific settings ## protocol pop3 { # Login executable location. #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login # POP3 executable location #mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 # Don't try to set mails non-recent or seen with POP3 sessions. This is # mostly intended to reduce disk I/O. With maildir it doesn't move files # from new/ to cur/, with mbox it doesn't write Status-header. #pop3_no_flag_updates = no # Support LAST command which exists in old POP3 specs, but has been removed # from new ones. Some clients still wish to use this though. Enabling this # makes RSET command clear all \Seen flags from messages. #pop3_enable_last = no # POP3 UIDL format to use. You can use following variables: # # %v - Mailbox UIDVALIDITY # %u - Mail UID # %m - MD5 sum of the mailbox headers in hex (mbox only) # %f - filename (maildir only) # # 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 # # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which is # 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. #pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u # POP3 logout format string: # %t - number of TOP commands # %T - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command # %r - number of RETR commands # %R - number of bytes sent to client as a result of RETR command # %d - number of deleted messages # %m - number of messages (before deletion) # %s - mailbox size in bytes (before deletion) #pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%T, retr=%r/%R, del=%d/%m, size=%s # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #mail_use_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 # Workarounds for various client bugs: # outlook-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. # oe-ns-eoh: # Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is # missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing. #pop3_client_workarounds = } ## ## Authentication processes ## # Executable location #auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth # Set max. process size in megabytes. #auth_process_size = 256 # Authentication cache size in kilobytes. #auth_cache_size = 0 # Time to live in seconds for cached data. After this many seconds a cached # record is forced out of cache. #auth_cache_ttl = 3600 # Space separated list of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms that need # them. You can leave it empty if you don't want to support multiple realms. # Many clients simply use the first one listed here, so keep the default realm # first. #auth_realms = # Default realm/domain to use if none was specified. This is used for both # SASL realms and appending @domain to username in plaintext logins. #auth_default_realm = # List of allowed characters in username. If the user-given username contains # a character not listed in here, the login automatically fails. This is just # an extra check to make sure user can't exploit any potential quote escaping # vulnerabilities with SQL/LDAP databases. If you want to allow all characters, # set this value to empty. #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ # Username character translations before it's looked up from databases. The # value contains series of from -> to characters. For example "#@/@" means # that '#' and '/' characters are translated to '@'. #auth_username_translation = # Username to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism #auth_anonymous_username = anonymous # More verbose logging. Useful for figuring out why authentication isn't # working. auth_verbose = yes # Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes. Shows for example SQL # queries. #auth_debug = no # Maximum number of dovecot-auth worker processes. They're used to execute # blocking passdb and userdb queries (eg. MySQL and PAM). They're # automatically created and destroyed as needed. #auth_worker_max_count = 30 auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous mechanisms = plain # # Password database is used to verify user's password (and nothing more). # You can have multiple passdbs and userdbs. This is useful if you want to # allow both system users (/etc/passwd) and virtual users to login without # duplicating the system users into virtual database. # # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # # PAM authentication. Preferred nowadays by most systems. # Note that PAM can only be used to verify if user's password is correct, # so it can't be used as userdb. If you don't want to use a separate user # database (passwd usually), you can use static userdb. passdb pam { # [-session] [<service name>] # # -session makes Dovecot open and immediately close PAM session. Some # PAM plugins need this to work. # # If service name is "*", it means the authenticating service name # is used, eg. pop3 or imap. args = imap #args = dovecot } # /etc/passwd or similar, using getpwnam() # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. #passdb passwd { #} # /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam(). Deprecated by PAM nowadays. #passdb shadow { #} # passwd-like file with specified location #passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # checkpassword executable authentication #passdb checkpassword { # Path for checkpassword binary #args = #} # SQL database #passdb sql { # Path for SQL configuration file, see doc/dovecot-sql.conf for example #args = #} # LDAP database #passdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf for example #args = #} # vpopmail authentication #passdb vpopmail { #} # # User database specifies where mails are located and what user/group IDs # own them. For single-UID configuration use "static". # # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers # # /etc/passwd or similar, using getpwnam() # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. userdb passwd { } # passwd-like file with specified location #userdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # static settings generated from template #userdb static { # Template for settings. Can return anything a userdb could normally # return, eg.: uid, gid, home, mail, nice # # A few examples: # # args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/%u # args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/%u mail=mbox:%h/mail nice=10 # #args = #} # SQL database #userdb sql { # Path for SQL configuration file, see doc/dovecot-sql.conf for example #args = #} # LDAP database #userdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf for example #args = #} # vpopmail #userdb vpopmail { #} # User to use for the process. This user needs access to only user and # password databases, nothing else. Only shadow and pam authentication # requires roots, so use something else if possible. Note that passwd # authentication with BSDs internally accesses shadow files, which also # requires roots. Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # That user is specified by userdb above. user = root # Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't # work if this is set, and there's no point chrooting if auth_user is root. # Note that valid_chroot_dirs isn't needed to use this setting. #chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create #count = 1 # Require a valid SSL client certificate or the authentication fails. #ssl_require_client_cert = no } # It's possible to export the authentication interface to other programs, # for example SMTP server which supports talking to Dovecot. Client socket # handles the actual authentication - you give it a username and password # and it returns OK or failure. So it's pretty safe to allow anyone access to # it. Master socket is used to a) query if given client was successfully # authenticated, b) userdb lookups. # listener sockets will be created by Dovecot's master process using the # settings given inside the auth section #auth default_with_listener { # mechanisms = plain # passdb passwd { # } # userdb pam { # } # socket listen { # master { # path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # #mode = 0600 # # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) # #user = # #group = # } # client { # path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-client # mode = 0660 # } # } #} # connect sockets are assumed to be already running, Dovecot's master # process only tries to connect to them. They don't need any other settings # than path for the master socket, as the configuration is done elsewhere. # Note that the client sockets must exist in login_dir. #auth external { # socket connect { # master { # path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # } # } #} Thanks! Rob

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[Dovecot] signing dovecot certs with own Cert. Auth.
by blaq b0x 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Hi, I'm trying to get apache, sendmail , and dovecot to use SSL certs signed by my own CA. I've got the apache certs working fine. However, dovecot ( I haven't even tried sendmail yet) doesn't seem to accept any of the certificates that I create for it. There is a script that comes with dovecot that creates self-signed certificates for you but, I need certificates signed by my own CA. I found this tutorial http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/personal/macmini/certs.html it shows you how to create a csr for dovecot that you can send to a CA. I signed it using CA.pl -sign. however, the certificate isn't accepted by dovecot. Unfortunately, dovecot doesn't log anything to maillog at failed startup. Just looking at the certificate contents I noticed that the self-signed certificates don't have all kinds of publisher information at the beginning of them like the apache certs. So I think what I'm missing is the difference between all the different cert types. I know that there are pem and cert ssl cert types, at least different extensions. Can anyone tell my what the difference is? are the certs suitable for apache and others for mail applications? is there a converter? Could it be the way that I'm signing the certificates? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Reply With Quote __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] login_process_per_user referred to but not present in dovecot.conf?
by Rob Frohne 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Hi, I find login_process_per_user referred to in the comments in dovecot.conf, but never set. Is this a typo and should it be login_process_per_connection or what? Thanks, Rob

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[Dovecot] Lost transaction log file in alpha2
by James Berry 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I had run alpha1 pretty uneventfully for several weeks. I upgraded to alpha2 a couple of days ago and have since suffered two incidents of "Lost transaction log", resulting in the client being unable to access the mailbox until I "rm dovecot.index.log*" Sep 14 10:48:35 caddy dovecot: imap(jberry): Lost transaction log file /Users/jberry/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 1 I should point out that this is a server with a single imap user (myself) and that I know only one imap client was trying to access the server at that point in time (though the client sw Mail.app may have had multiple connections to the server). Any suggestions/ideas/thoughts on whether something might have changed in alpha2 to start causing this? James.

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[Dovecot] auth-master socket access
by Lieven Van Acker 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Hey, I'm doing a setup of dovecot (cvs) + postfix + dovecot lda (cvs). Is there any solution to the /var/run/dovecot/auth-master access restrictions, prohibiting the user running dovecot-deliver from communicating with the master (aside from the dirty and unsafe hack to reset the permissions of the /var/run/dovecot dir after starting dovecot)? Thanks, Lieven

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[Dovecot] Can't donwload mails with some attacchments
by Lethux 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Hi. Does anyone find the same problem with attachments bigger than few Ks? The client (thunderbird) waits for the file to be downloaded. It can be waiting for several minuts and tryies before having it from dovecot. Can it be something against the lock of the file, the processes or something else? Any workaround or bugfix in the stable/alpha rel? thanks. L.

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[Dovecot] Shared access to mail accounts.
by Rory Campbell-Lange 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

We are intending to have some project mail accounts which many people (up to 10) will share. Will this work? Our configuration uses imap only, with maildir format mail storage. Thanks Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(a)campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

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[Dovecot] Is Alpha2 slower than Alpha1?
by Marc Perkel 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I changed servers at the same time as changing from Alpha1 to Alpha2 but I'm on a faster server so it should be faster. But it seems slower especially deleting server side messages. Using mbox . Anyone else seeing tis?

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[Dovecot] Basic namespaces question
by David King 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I can't find a generalised "What the heck are namespaces all about?" anywhere, can anyone point me to a decent one? More directly, my question is this: if I set up two non-hidden private namespaces (one for mbox and one for maildir), will a well-written IMAP client automagically list folders from both as if they were part of (or below) the same hierarchy, or do I have to set up two accounts, one with a prefix of (say) #mbox and one of #maildir? One step further, I'd like to eventually get mail from /var/mail/%u in mbox format, and in "maildir:%h/.maildir" or "mbox:%h/.mail", whichever exists (I'm migrating from imap-uw, and would like the benefits of maildir without forcing users to change their mailstores in case they use pop3 or tools like mail(1)). I'm willing to do some coding for it, but I imagine that it would be non-trivial if namespaces aren't automatically integrated

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[Dovecot] courier imap --> dovecot imap
by Paul 'Google' Smit 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Dear Readers of tha list... Please help me out! I currenty have Dovecot Imap installed but I still have some old Courier Imap files from an old server which I want to use. Can I, in any way, import of convert them so I can use it? Regards, Millman ------------------------------- Linux: Fedora Core 4 Sendmail: 8.13.4-2 Dovecot: 0.99.14-4 Squirrelmail: 1.4.6-0 -------------------------------

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[Dovecot] trying to see different files
by David Willoughby 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

i am wanting to sort my email into different files per the different email lists i use. i've posted this before but nobody responded. is it possible to use dovecot and sort my mail into /home/dlw/Mail/file1, file2 etc.... ? -- David Willoughby email: dlw(a)d1w.org icq: 1852393

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[Dovecot] bug? Maildir ... sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox
by Peter Gervai 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Version: 1.00alpha2 Error: imap(grin): Maildir /home/grin/Maildir sync: UID < next_uid (94 < 95, file = 1127311363.H977932P25148.gollum:2,) imap(grin): Maildir /home/grin/Maildir sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (95 > 94, file = 1127311363.H977932P25148.gollum:2,) This error reappears frequently. Doesn't go away by restarting dovecot, but does go away when I delete all index and cache and whatnot (and restart dovecot). Appears in 10 minutes again... Could be sylpheed-claws-whatever-alpha imap problem, but whatever the client does dovecot shouldn't be fall apart I believe. Peter

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[Dovecot] Another address-spec problem
by Chris Wakelin 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I've had complaints from users about "MISSING_DOMAIN" in header fields and I've tracked it down to having "." in an unquoted display name. By my reading of RFC2822 (especially section 4.1) A N Other <a.n.other(a)somewhere.org> "A. N. Other" <a.n.other(a)somewhere.org> are legal, but A. N. Other <a.n.other(a)somewhere.org> is "obsolete", but should be supported by the server (no clients should do it). I think the relevant syntax is phrase = 1*word / obs-phrase word = atom / quoted-string obs-phrase = word *(word / "." / CFWS) and rfc822_parse_phrase() should be modified to cope with "obs-phrase". I'll have a go, but if Timo or anybody knows how to do it properly, that would be better! Chris -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] Debian packages of alpha2?
by Ben Beuchler 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Is anyone maintaining Debian packages of alpha2? The official packages aren't even up to -stable yet. -Ben

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[Dovecot] virtual passwords
by Michael Collins 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

I just set up postfix with some virtual domains and users. Dovecot made some dbs in /etc/dovecot. a passdb and userdb. the passdb file has passwords in there and I want to at least know what it is. I have tried to do 'echo -n mypassword | openssl md5 -hex' and insert that into them but it seems to not work. Probably something I am doing wrong. I looked at the archive and could not figure out how to search it. Anyway how do i change a password? Thanks. this is passdb: andreux@bla.com:$1$G/FqlOG5$Vj0xmc9fKY.UVr8OWr/7C1 andrew@bla.com:$1$G/FqlOG5$Vj0xmc9fKY.UVr8OWr/7C1 sikki@bla.com:$1$G/FqlOG5$Vj0xmc9fKY.UVr8OWr/7C1 amanda@bla.com:$1$G/FqlOG5$Vj0xmc9fKY.UVr8OWr/7C1 info@bla.com:$1$G/FqlOG5$Vj0xmc9fKY.UVr8OWr/7C1 help@bla.com:$1$G/FqlOG5$Vj0xmc9fKY.UVr8OWr/7C1 andrew@blu.biz:$1$G/FqlOG5$Vj0xmc9fKY.UVr8OWr/7C1 andreux@blu.biz:$1$G/FqlOG5$Vj0xmc9fKY.UVr8OWr/7C1 eric@blu.biz:$1$G/FqlOG5$Vj0xmc9fKY.UVr8OWr/7C1 jjenkins@blu.biz:$1$G/FqlOG5$Vj0xmc9fKY.UVr8OWr/7C1 -- -- Michael H. Collins It's us against them. Ride like you stole it. If you love some code, set it free. Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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[Dovecot] problem with postgreSQL connect=
by octane indice 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Hello I'm using dovecot with virtual accounts stored in a postgreSQL db. I use in the dovecot.conf: auth_userdb = pgsql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-pgsql-user.conf (and same for pass). In the file dovecot-pgsql-user.conf, I use: connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=vmail user=lecteur password=lire user_query = SELECT '/var/spool/vhosts/'||nom_domaine||'/'||nom_boite AS mail,5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid FROM boites WHERE email = '%u' It doesn't work. If I write: connect = dbname=vmail user=lecteur user_query = SELECT '/var/spool/vhosts/'||nom_domaine||'/'||nom_boite AS mail,5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid FROM boites WHERE email = '%u' It works. Of course the query with psql works: psql -U lecteur -h 127.0.0.1 vmail -c "SELECT '/var/spool/vhosts/'||nom_domaine||'/'||nom_boite AS mail,5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid FROM boites WHERE email = '%u' " with the password 'lire' My question: do I make something wrong? I want to use the network, because in future, dovecot will not be on the same host than postgreSQL. Thanks --------------------------------------------- Etes vous un consom'Acteur ? Toutes les saveurs équitables sont sur http://www.epicerie-equitable.com

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[Dovecot] Lost transaction log file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index.log.2 seq 1
by Rob Frohne 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Hi, I got a bunch of the following errors: Lost transaction log file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index.log.2 seq 1 when I was trying to apply some rules to move messages from one mailbox to another. Things hadn't been working well and I had recently upgraded to alpha 2, so I moved all dovecot* files in my Maildir/. Things then seem to work better. Rob -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla College http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/

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[Dovecot] Weird series of errors with dovecot-stable
by Ben Beuchler 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

I'm using the dovecot-stable from 7/30, authenticating against an OpenLDAP server. From time to time, dovecot stops responding to new queries. It seems to be a self-correcting problem, lasting about 20 minutes. Here's how it starts: Aug 18 19:38:23 cliff dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [150.253.42.12] Aug 18 19:38:36 cliff dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [68.46.174.217] Aug 18 19:39:35 cliff dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [150.253.42.12] Normally I see almost no "Disconnected: Inactivity" messages, but when this problem shows up I get an almost non-stop barrage of them. In fact, over the 20 minutes or so, there's about 150 of those entries, so I filtered them out of the log snippets. I also filtered out any "normal" activity during the time period. Here's what's left: Aug 18 19:40:29 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): file mech.c: line 117 (auth_request_destroy): assertion failed: (request->refcount > 0) Aug 18 19:40:29 cliff dovecot: child 22347 (auth) killed with signal 6 Aug 18 19:42:04 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): ldap(vmail,150.253.80.31): unknown user Aug 18 19:42:41 cliff dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [24.26.184.219] Aug 18 19:43:25 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): Login process has too old (126s) requests, killing it. Aug 18 19:43:25 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): Login process has too old (126s) requests, killing it. Aug 18 19:43:25 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): Login process has too old (126s) requests, killing it. Aug 18 19:43:25 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): Login process has too old (126s) requests, killing it. Aug 18 19:43:25 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): Login process has too old (126s) requests, killing it. Aug 18 19:43:31 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): Login process has too old (121s) requests, killing it. Aug 18 19:43:43 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): Login process has too old (121s) requests, killing it. Aug 18 19:43:43 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): Login process has too old (122s) requests, killing it. Aug 18 19:43:49 cliff dovecot: imap-login: Master sent reply with unknown tag 1 Aug 18 19:43:49 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): file mech.c: line 117 (auth_request_destroy): assertion failed: (request->refcount > 0) Aug 18 19:43:49 cliff dovecot: child 22557 (auth) killed with signal 6 Aug 18 19:43:49 cliff dovecot: child 22562 (login) returned error 89 Aug 18 19:45:31 cliff dovecot: imap-login: Master sent reply with unknown tag 1 Aug 18 19:45:31 cliff dovecot: imap-login: Master sent reply with unknown tag 1 Aug 18 19:45:31 cliff dovecot: imap-login: Master sent reply with unknown tag 1 Aug 18 19:45:31 cliff dovecot: imap-login: Master sent reply with unknown tag 1 Aug 18 19:45:31 cliff dovecot: imap-login: Master sent reply with unknown tag 1 Aug 18 19:45:32 cliff dovecot: child 22522 (login) returned error 89 Aug 18 19:45:32 cliff dovecot: child 22561 (login) returned error 89 Aug 18 19:45:32 cliff dovecot: child 22563 (login) returned error 89 Aug 18 19:45:32 cliff dovecot: child 22564 (login) returned error 89 Aug 18 19:45:32 cliff dovecot: child 22566 (login) returned error 89 Aug 18 19:47:54 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): file mech.c: line 117 (auth_request_destroy): assertion failed: (request->refcount > 0) Aug 18 19:47:54 cliff dovecot: child 22599 (auth) killed with signal 6 Aug 18 19:48:18 cliff dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [69.81.39.120] Aug 18 19:48:18 cliff dovecot: imap-login: SSL_read() syscall failed: EOF [69.81.39.120] Aug 18 19:51:32 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): file mech.c: line 117 (auth_request_destroy): assertion failed: (request->refcount > 0) Aug 18 19:51:32 cliff dovecot: child 22628 (auth) killed with signal 6 Aug 18 19:54:14 cliff dovecot: auth(ldap): file mech.c: line 117 (auth_request_destroy): assertion failed: (request->refcount > 0) Aug 18 19:54:14 cliff dovecot: child 22655 (login) returned error 89 Aug 18 19:54:14 cliff dovecot: child 22683 (login) returned error 89 Aug 18 19:54:14 cliff dovecot: child 22686 (auth) killed with signal 6 Aug 18 19:54:14 cliff dovecot: child 22689 (login) returned error 89 Aug 18 19:54:14 cliff dovecot: child 22690 (login) returned error 89 Aug 18 19:54:14 cliff dovecot: child 22699 (login) returned error 89 Then, magickally, it begins working again. Any thoughts? -Ben

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[Dovecot] ldap: No password in reply
by Rudy Gevaert 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

Greetings, I'm trying to set up dovecot with ldap (and postfix) by following the page on the wiki. I configured everything, but something is wrong: dovecot: Sep 21 12:03:59 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=157.193.40.36 rip=157.193.44.68 dovecot: Sep 21 12:03:59 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Sep 21 12:03:59 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 b2xlX3dvYmJsZQBvbGVfd29iYmxlAHdvYmJsZQ== dovecot: Sep 21 12:03:59 Info: auth(default): ldap(ole_wobble,157.193.44.68): base=ou=accounts,dc=zalm,dc=UGent,dc=be scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=ole_wobble)) fields=uid,userPassword dovecot: Sep 21 12:03:59 Info: auth(default): ldap(ole_wobble,157.193.44.68): uid(user)=ole_wobble dovecot: Sep 21 12:03:59 Error: auth(default): ldap(ole_wobble,157.193.44.68): No password in reply dovecot: Sep 21 12:03:59 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=ole_wobble temp dovecot: Sep 21 12:04:01 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: user=<ole_wobble>, method=PLAIN, rip=157.193.44.68, lip=157.193.40.36, TLS This is my database: dn: dc=zalm,dc=UGent,dc=be objectClass: top objectClass: dcObject objectClass: organization o: Universiteit Gent dc: zalm dn: cn=admin,dc=zalm,dc=UGent,dc=be objectClass: simpleSecurityObject objectClass: organizationalRole cn: admin description: LDAP administrator userPassword:: e2NyeXB0fVpsbWpDb21kL3JSbkU= dn: ou=accounts,dc=zalm,dc=UGent,dc=be objectClass: top objectClass: organizationalUnit ou: accounts dn: cn=dovecot,ou=accounts,dc=zalm,dc=UGent,dc=be objectClass: top objectClass: person cn: dovecot sn: dovecot userPassword:: e0NSWVBUfXp6bGxQa1JoV1Nmb00= dn: uid=ole_wobble,ou=accounts,dc=zalm,dc=UGent,dc=be objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: posixAccount cn: Ole Wobble Olson sn: Olson uid: ole_wobble uidNumber: 3000 gidNumber: 8 homeDirectory: /home/postoffice userPassword:: e0NSWVBUfXBrOGN6SnlZVG5IL28= dn: uid=ole_wubble,ou=accounts,dc=zalm,dc=UGent,dc=be objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: posixAccount cn: Ole Wubble Olson sn: Olson uid: ole_wubble uidNumber: 3001 gidNumber: 8 homeDirectory: /home/postoffice What could be wrong? Thanks in advance, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert e-mail: Rudy.Gevaert(a)UGent.be Directie ICT, Afdeling Infrastructuur Groep Systemen tel: +32 9 264 4734 Universiteit Gent fax: +32 9 264 4994 Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie www.UGent.be -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

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[Dovecot] ALL TCP/IP connection REST when one mail contains format error
by Yi Xuan 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

Hi, I have setup a dovecot pop3 server on IP_A and using mbox format I have 6 users behind a NATed network, the public IP is IP_B. And one mail of one user seems contain format error. He always cannot receive the 5th mail from anywhere. Then when he receive mail in the intranet, all the TCP/IP connection REST between IP_A and IP_B. http/ssh/pop/smtp etc. all NG. After I delete the 5th mail from webmail, then the services work well. 1.It seems unreasonable, Can dovecot improve it and let it donot influence other users and other service? 2.What may cause mbox format error? and how can we avoid it? Best regards,

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[Dovecot] Two strange behaviours with dovecot+postfix+squirrelmail
by Francisco Neira 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

Hi all, About a week ago I was forced to migrate my main (production) email server from RH9 to Centos4.1. The installation has dovecot-0.99.11 + postfix-2.1.5 and >600 mbox accessed email accounts. Number 1. Some users accessing thru squirremail (installed in my webserver) can read their INBOX at /var/spool/mail directory but when trying to delete a message they receive the following error message from squirrelmail: ERROR: Could not complete request. Consulta: COPY 1279 "mail/Trash" Reason Given: Internal error occured. Error report written to server log. [2005-09-16 15:08:04] and the error logged is the following: Sep 16 15:09:27 mail imap(username): mkdir_parents(/home/username//mail/.imap/Trash) failed: Permission denied I never stated that .imap/Trash when configuring dovecot and the strangest thing is that my account, as most of others, can delete messages moving from /var/spool/mail/my_name to /home/my_name/mail/Trash Number 2. Randomly, some users connecting from Mozilla Thunderbird via IMAP get an error message telling that there has been an error connecting to INBOX. Watching the maillog I found the following: Sep 16 13:07:43 mail imap(otheruser): File isn't in mbox format: /var/spool/mail/otheruser I accessed the user's inbox file with vi and found that there was a "--604" at the beginning of the file. In other case I found that the file was beginning with a truncated email message. Trying to "walk on the safer side", I changed the mbox_lock setting from "fcntl" to "dotlock" in the /etc/dovecot.conf file. Any suggestions and comments about his will be highly appreciated. Forgive me about my English, it is not my native lanaguage. Regards, -- Francisco Neira B. Administrador de Red Defensoria del Pueblo Lima, Peru, -05:00 UTC

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[Dovecot] NO: Unsupported authentication mechanism
by Steve [Dovecot] 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

I'm happily using dovecot as my IMAP server and accessing mails using Thunderbird... but I want to use the Net::IMAP facilities in the Ruby standard library to write some scripts to automate various spam-related tasks & housekeeping. My Ruby script: require "net/imap" imap = Net::IMAP.new('localhost') imap.authenticate('LOGIN','myuser','mypassword') # More stuff using imap... From the documentation LOGIN uses plaintext authentication - which I understand is always acceptable for Dovecot when connecting from localhost. On the 3rd line I get a "NO response" exception raised (indicating that the IMAP server replied "NO") and the error message "Net::IMAP::NoResponseError: Unsupported authentication mechanism" If I change 'LOGIN' to 'CRAM-MD5' (the other value supported by Net::IMAP) then I get a similar (but not identical) error: "Net::IMAP::NoResponseError: Authentication failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism" If I use anything other than either 'LOGIN' or 'CRAM-MD5' I get an error from the Net::IMAP library saying "Unknown auth type" - which is reasonable. N.B. I've tried both where 'myuser' and 'mypassword' are valid - and not... this doesn't affect the error messages. There doesn't seem to be anything of interest in /var/log/messages... Can anyone tell me what is going wrong, and how to resolve this?

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[Dovecot] FreeBSD port
by David King 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

FreeBSD users: I notice that the version of Dovecot in the FreeBSD ports system is back at .99. Are there any objections to my submitting an update to the FreeBSD ports for version 1.0a? Is it better to wait for 1.0 to be progressed a little or is it considered to be ready? 1.0a compiles and seems to run fine (on 5.3), so are there any obvious patches that would be needed for the FreeBSD build? -- Don't forget that 19 September is National Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day! http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha2: two asserts/cores
by Jeff A. Earickson 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Hi, Two cores over the weekend, same assert message in syslog: imap(user): file message-body-search.c: line 393 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset <= part->physical_pos) Setup: Solaris 9, imap usage only, mbox format, dovecot compiled with gcc 4.0.1. gdb sessions of the two core files attached. Let me know if you need further analysis of the cores. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] vmailmgr user database
by Mij 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

hola guys Is a module for vmailmgr userdb being under work by someone? If not, i'd like to help out. Is there a standard API to implement or such? Is there some further documentation to avoid a full inspection of the sources? thank you

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[Dovecot] Very minor feature request
by Steffen Kaiser 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Hello, I'd suggest a way to get to know the "capabilities" of a compiled Dovecot. The background is that I've run the sequence ./configure --with-ldap && make && make install twice, all three commands tell me that all is fine (ldap is listed in the modules), but still dovecot told me that ldap is no Usedb module. A "make clean" before solved the problem -- well, something one should anyway. Besides, the "dovecot --capabilities" should also list all the defaults. Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] support multiple files.
by David Willoughby 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

i currently use procmail to sort my different mailing lists into differnet files for sanity puproses is there a way dovecot can find all these files? i have default_mail_env set to mbox:~/Mail/ could i use *:~/Mail/ as every file in /Mail is a mail file? -- David Willoughby email: dlw(a)d1w.org icq: 1852393

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Re: [Dovecot] Misbehavior with Dovecot and Mulberry
by Jon Roma 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Well, ironically after my tests succeeded, my reply to the Dovecot list just now failed to append to the Dovecot maildir folder. So I guess it works sometimes and not other times. :( The error message is the same "failed: Invalid argument". Jon Roma <roma(a)uiuc.edu> wrote: > > > Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 23:57 -0500, Jon Roma wrote: >>> --> #6.3408 Mon Sep 5 23:25:13 2005 >>> A00092 APPEND Sent (\Seen) {610+} >>> A00092 NO >> >> That happens if some function returned -1 but didn't set any error. >> Shouldn't happen.. >> >>> I am running 1.0-test80 with Timo's patch to fix the "time off by >>> 200 minutes" error with mbox. All my folders are maildir at this >>> point -- I've converted them out of my UW mbx format store. My >>> client is Mulberry 3.1.6 for Windows and the OS is AIX 5.1. >> >> So, they are maildirs? Do these changes help: >> >> Index: src/imap/cmd-append.c >> =================================================================== >> RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/imap/cmd-append.c,v >> retrieving revision 1.64 >> retrieving revision 1.65 >> diff -u -r1.64 -r1.65 >> --- src/imap/cmd-append.c 28 Jun 2005 11:15:57 -0000 1.64 >> +++ src/imap/cmd-append.c 18 Sep 2005 16:58:01 -0000 1.65 >> @@ -292,8 +292,7 @@ >> int failed; >> >> if (ctx->save_ctx != NULL) { >> - if (mailbox_save_continue(ctx->save_ctx) < 0 || >> - client->input->closed) { >> + if (mailbox_save_continue(ctx->save_ctx) < 0) { >> /* we still have to finish reading the message >> from client */ >> mailbox_save_cancel(ctx->save_ctx); >> Index: src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-save.c >> =================================================================== >> RCS file: >> /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-save.c,v >> retrieving revision 1.57 >> retrieving revision 1.58 >> diff -u -r1.57 -r1.58 >> --- src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-save.c 14 Aug 2005 19:02:54 >> -0000 1.57 +++ src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-save.c 18 Sep 2005 >> 16:58:31 -0000 1.58 @@ -217,6 +217,10 @@ >> return -1; >> >> if (o_stream_send_istream(ctx->output, ctx->input) < 0) { >> + mail_storage_set_critical(STORAGE(ctx->mbox->storage), >> + "o_stream_send_istream(%s) failed: %m", >> + t_strconcat(ctx->tmpdir, "/", >> + ctx->files->basename, NULL)); >> ctx->failed = TRUE; >> return -1; >> } >> > > Timo: > > Yes, my mailboxes are maildirs. > > Your patch seems to have fixed the problem -- I can now append outgoing > mail to a Dovecot maildir 'Sent' mailbox as it gets sent. And I can now > also save a draft in my Dovecot maildir 'Drafts' mailbox when desired. > > What this means is that I no longer need UW (Yay!) -- I was saving my > outgoing mail and drafts in a skeletal UW tree pending resolution of > this problem. > > There is still an anomaly when using the Mulberry client to move mail > from the UW tree to Dovecot (which I now want to do in preparation for > getting rid of UW imapd. > > Using Mulberry to move mail from UW to Dovecot only works with some > messages and not others. Maybe this is not important -- I can slurp > my last two UW mboxes into a Dovecot namespace and then move them as > desired into the default namespace. > > But perhaps this behavior is something you are interested in -- here's > the transcript on the client side. > > First a copy/move that succeeded. I am in the source folder (under UW) > and have chosen a message that I want to move to the Dovecot 'Sent' > folder is the destination. > > --> #25.2768 Sun Sep 18 13:10:26 2005 > A00145 FETCH 170 (BODY[1]) > * 170 FETCH (BODY[1] {280} > ) > A00145 OK FETCH completed > > --> #1.2768 Sun Sep 18 13:10:34 2005 > A00010 APPEND Sent (\Seen) "15-Sep-2005 18:00:43 -0500" {813+} > --> #25.2768 Sun Sep 18 13:10:34 2005 > A00146 FETCH 170 (BODY.PEEK[]) > * 170 FETCH (BODY[] {813} > ) > A00146 OK FETCH completed > > A00010 OK Append completed. > > --> #1.2768 Sun Sep 18 13:10:35 2005 > A00011 STATUS Sent (MESSAGES RECENT UNSEEN UIDVALIDITY UIDNEXT) > * STATUS "Sent" (MESSAGES 5547 RECENT 1 UIDNEXT 5552 UIDVALIDITY > 1125869336 UNSEEN 0) > A00011 OK Status completed. > > --> #25.2768 Sun Sep 18 13:10:35 2005 > A00147 STORE 170 +FLAGS (\Deleted) > * 170 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen \Deleted)) > A00147 OK STORE completed > > This move succeeded. > > Now I choose a different message in Mulberry and try to do the same > move operation. This one fails. > > --> #25.2768 Sun Sep 18 13:10:35 2005 > A00148 FETCH 171 (BODY[1]) > * 171 FETCH (BODY[1] {268} > ) > A00148 OK FETCH completed > > --> #1.2768 Sun Sep 18 13:10:44 2005 > A00012 APPEND Sent (\Seen) "15-Sep-2005 19:52:14 -0500" {832+} > --> #25.2768 Sun Sep 18 13:10:44 2005 > A00149 FETCH 171 (BODY.PEEK[]) > * 171 FETCH (BODY[] {832} > ) > A00149 OK FETCH completed > > A00012 NO Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more > information. [2005-09-18 13:10:44] > > The corresponding syslog message is > > Sep 18 13:10:44 zippy dovecot: IMAP(roma): o_stream_send_istrea > (/var/imap/dovecot/roma/.Sent/tmp/1127067044.P44216Q3.zippy.cso.uiuc.edu) > failed: Invalid argument > > Maybe this isn't important, but I send it in case you think it's something > you want to look at. > > I'll leave the relevant mailbox around so I can try this again if > necessary. > > Thanks for the patch!

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[Dovecot] "racing" error ???
by Andy Cravens 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Anybody know what this racing error means? I've got hundreds of them in my Dovecot log file. I tried to search the archives but couldn't find a search link. Nothing on Google search either. dovecot: Aug 30 16:55:54 Error: IMAP(testuser): maildir_file_do(/export/home/testuser/mail) racing -- Andy Cravens

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[Dovecot] Newbie question
by Andrés Rusconi 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Hi, my name is Andrés Rusconi, from Tucumán, Argentina. Sorry my English, please. I am a very happy new user of Dovecot: I gained speed and simplicity with him. But I noticed that in clients who use Outlook, the deleted messages do not copy to the trash folder. This is not critical, but did not happen with Courier, and the users askme about this behavior. If some of you has somehow solved this small question, I will thank for their commentary. Saludos Andrés

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[Dovecot] rawlog missing from 1.0a1?
by Gregory Bond 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

The code is in utils/rawlog.c but it never seems to be called anywhere?

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[Dovecot] Master account
by Diego M. Vadell 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Hi, Is there an administrator o master account in dovecot, which could be able too access all mailboxes? I need to periodically delete some emails (older than a number of days). I wanted to use imapfilter, a program that uses imap to access mailboxes to do that, but as the users can change their passwords, I can't do it. Is there a way to do that? Thanks in advance, -- Diego.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot & SquirrelMail
by Mark Smith 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

At the moment SquirrelMail can only view the INBOX folder. Trash, Sent, Drafts and other folders i create are not listed. I remember there is a config in dovecot.conf to view where the default box is. I'm not sure how it should be set. My Inbox is in: /var/mail/$user/ The Other Dirs are in: /home/user/mail/ What should the config look like? Please Help Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters

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[Dovecot] zombies in dovecot-auth processes
by jan 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Hi all, I use dovecot-1.0-alpha2. Way can't auth process shutdown in a clean way. I allways discover lot of zombies for dovecot-auth, in a short time before shootingdown by linux. But everything work fine for client side. Example: dovecot 22931 0.0 0.0 3840 1104 ? S 12:12 0:00 pop3-login dovecot 22932 0.0 0.0 3844 1108 ? S 12:12 0:00 pop3-login root 22933 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 12:12 0:00 [dovecot-auth] <defunct> root 22935 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 12:12 0:00 [dovecot-auth] <defunct> dovecot 22938 0.0 0.0 3848 1116 ? S 12:12 0:00 imap-login root 22975 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 12:12 0:00 [dovecot-auth] <defunct> dovecot 22977 0.0 0.0 3844 1112 ? S 12:12 0:00 imap-login root 22978 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 12:12 0:00 [dovecot-auth] <defunct> Best Reg. //Jan Holmberg

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[Dovecot] Local authentication without password
by Sebastjan Trepca 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Hi, is it possible to configure dovecot so that users from a specific IP (let's say 127.0.0.1) don't have to send password? They would be authenticated no matter if passwords match or not. Thanks, Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] Error indexing mbox file (LF error)
by Kevin Old 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Hello everyone, I'm getting the error below for 2 different users on my system of 150+ users: Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3-login: Login: cah [::ffff:172.16.3.107] Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3(cah): Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/cah: LF not found where expected Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3(cah): Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/cah: LF not found where expected Sep 12 09:32:49 uavco pop3(cah): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-09-12 09:32:49] I've read in the archives that it's the blank line at the beginning of the mbox file, and once deleted everything works fine. The thing is, it keeps happening and I can't figure out why. Email clients that send mail to these accounts are the latest Outlook Express. As I said, I have 150+ users on the same system and they are fine. I'm not sure if protocol makes a difference, but we are using POP3 only. Any ideas what I can do to fix/prevent/correct this either programatically or with a patch of some sort? Is this actively being worked on? I'm running FC4 with dovecot-0.99.14-4.fc4. Any help is appreciated! Kevin -- Kevin Old kevinold(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] Dual INBOX Locations
by Calum Power 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

G'day list, Just a quick question - I need to configure Dovecot to do the following: * check default_mail_env for the users' inbox in MBOX format * If the above fails, serve the user an inbox from a secondary location, in MAILDIR format. I have read up on Namespaces, however I can't seem to get this to work - login just fails when Dovecot cannot find the inbox in default_mail_env Any advice, anyone? :) Thanks, Calum -- Calum Power Systems Administrator Server101 Pty. Ltd. Fast, Reliable Web Hosting!

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[Dovecot] Authentication Failure
by Dovecot 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

I installed Dovecot on our FC3 sendmail server and get this from our Dallas office ( out of state to me ). dovecot(pam_unix)[13823]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost Only one Dallas user can get mail (pop3 or imap). All local users work fine. I ended upgoing back to UW and all works fine. What should I look for? Thanks

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[Dovecot] problems with Auth and Alpha 1a
by Søren Peter Skou 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Hi all I'm not quite sure how to explain this problem, so I'll just go from the top ;-). System is setup on a FreeBSD with IMAP and POP3, both can use PAM and SQL (MySQL) as login methods, though only POP3 is accessible from "the world" - IMAP is restricted via firewall to only localhost. Simple eh? The problem is that dovecot apparently drops the SQL part from time to time. Though this can be fixed by HUPing the dovecotdaemon I'd rather that I didn't have to. I've narrowed the problem to something like this: Over time, Dovecot/POP3/SQL combination dies - I've yet to examine if the problem is on IMAP as well as this is only recently reported. I have never experienced this myself since I'm using Dovecot/IMAP/PAM and this seems to be rock solid. The configuration looks like this: OS: FreeBSD n/a 6.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 6.0-BETA3 #0: MySQL: 5.0.9-beta-log Dovecot: alpha 1 (I'll test Alpha 2 to see if the problem persists) Compilation options for dovecot: ./configure \ --enable-ipv6=no \ --with-ldap=no \ --with-vpopmail=no \ --with-mysql \ --with-ssl=no dovecot.conf: base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 ssl_disable = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no login_user = dovecot login_process_per_connection = no login_greeting = Ready max_mail_processes = 1024 first_valid_uid = 1 first_valid_gid = 1 protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/mysql.conf } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/mysql.conf } user = root } -- END -- sql.conf: driver = mysql connect = host=localhost port=3306 dbname=N/A user=N/A password=N/A client_flags=0 default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT password FROM mail WHERE username = '%n' and domain= '%d' user_query = SELECT concat('/VIRTUAL_MAIL/',domain,'/',username,'/') as home,concat('/VIRTUAL_MAIL/',domain,'/',username,'/') as mail, 1 as uid, 6 as gid FROM mail WHERE username = '%n' and domain = '%d' -- END -- I'm sort of at a loss here since everything "seems to be working" (tm) for one part, but not another Hope someone has an idea ;-) Søren P. Skou

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[Dovecot] what does this mean: Warning: Error in custom flags file / Corrupted Indexes
by rick tait 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Hi everyone: I am seeing a whole LOT of these messages in my dovecot logfile: imap(rickt): Sep 12 17:14:03 Warning: Error in custom flags file / home/rickt/mail/.imap/TRASH/.customflags: Duplicated ID 0 imap(rickt): Sep 12 17:14:03 Warning: Error in custom flags file / home/rickt/mail/.imap/TRASH/.customflags: Duplicated ID 1 and also these: imap(mbwnews): Sep 12 17:10:16 Error: Corrupted index file /home/ mbwnews/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: used_file_size larger than real file size (2016 vs 1608) imap(mbwnews): Sep 12 17:10:18 Error: Corrupted index file /home/ mbwnews/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: used_file_size larger than real file size (2016 vs 1608) And not just referring to my inbox, other users as well. I hava bog standard install of 0.99.10.8, on an openbsd 3.6 box. every now and then i get an error from my or my users' IMAP email client saying that it couldn't access a particular inbox. a few clicks of "OK" or "Cancel" etc and the problem seems to go away. all kinds of errors (similar to above) in the imapd logfile though, seem to correspond with the timing of the abovementioned IMAP mail client errors. one thing: my users DO use procmail, so there is a chance that their IMAP client might have a mailbox open that procmail may be trying to append to. i wonder if this is a locking issue? i guess what i'm asking is - 2 thing: 1) how can i get these pesky imap client errors to go away so my users mailboxes can be successfully selected? 2) what do the indexing errors mean? are the 2 things related? Thanks so very much in advance everyone! Best, Rick. rick tait | e: rickt(a)rickt.org | t: 323.829.5703

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[Dovecot] Crashing error message
by Matt Juszczak 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Sep 16 09:43:46 orion dovecot: imap(user): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 375 (mbox_sync_read_and_move): assertion failed: (need_space == (uoff_t)-mails[idx].space) Got this message with all my signal 6 crashes.... Any ideas on interpretation? Thanks! -Matt

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[Dovecot] Timeout while waiting for lock....
by Rob Frohne 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Hi, I'm very new to administering mail, and this is surely a newbie question. I have my own IMAP mail server because I use my email as a way of filing important things, and I subscribe to a number of lists that I like to archive. I have about 40 mailboxes with up to 80,000 messages in some, and one with 40,000 messages is almost a Gigabyte in size. The total size is around 4 Gigabytes. Things were working quite well until I upgraded to OS X 10.4 and its new Mail.app mail client and then everything was too slow. I was using the UW IMAP server (2002d if I recall right) and Mail.app 1.3.9. I tried upgrading the server to the latest, but it didn't improve things noticeably. I swapped to dovecot 1.0alpha1, and used the mbox format, but that wasn't any better. I read that Maildir format was better, so I converted my mail to that format and tried that. It didn't seem much better. I tried to compile Cyrus on OS X and ran into all kinds of difficulty. I finally tried Cyrus on a Linux box, and turned off all my rules that move messages around. In comparing this to dovecot on my OS X box, Cyrus loads the messages significantly faster. I think there are some problems with my dovecot setup though. My mail.log is filled with this type of thing. Sep 15 16:43:51 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<frohro>, method=PLAIN, rip=172.17.128.191, lip=10.7.3.11 Sep 15 16:44:43 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index.log Sep 15 16:44:57 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<frohro>, method=PLAIN, rip=172.17.128.191, lip=10.7.3.11 Sep 15 16:45:51 cubex-wwc-edu dovecot: imap(frohro): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file /Users/frohro/Maildir/dovecot.index.log I've tried mutt, evolution, kmail, and am now using Thunderbird, and am working on getting Mail.app to import an archive of my 4 Gigs of mail, thinking if nothing else works, I can have a copy of that on the clients I use, though I like having it on the server better. Can anyone suggest something to fix my problems, besides deleting all my email? Thanks, Rob

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[Dovecot] SSL/TLS stopped working in 1.0 alpha2
by Andy Cravens 15 Sep '05

15 Sep '05

I have both 1.0 alpha1 and alpha2 installed on my test mail server. SSL/TLS does not work on alpha2. I'm using the same config file for both. No errrors in dovecot.log either. Is there a way to increase debugging info without recompiling?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Deliver Problem
by Marc Perkel 15 Sep '05

15 Sep '05

Trying to use the deliver utility and getting this error: error: net_connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Re: mailbox corruption
by Yannick Majoros 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Kelly Sauke wrote: >Wietse Venema wrote: > > > >>Yannick Majoros: >> >> >> >> >>>>What else is accessing the mailbox files? Any scripts running around >>>>that access mail without proper file locking, like scripts that >>>>replicate mail to another box? >>>> >>>>Whay file system is being used? >>>> >>>>If you can't figure out which is broken, then you'll have to use >>>>maildir files. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>No scripts. If amavisd-new is safe, then nothing else should access >>>mailboxes. Only via dovecot POP3/IMAP. Do you think it is worth to go >>> >>> >>> >>> >>amavisd-new accesses mailboxe files, and what file locking >>mechanism would that be using? >> >> Wietse >> >> >> >> >> >For what its worth, I'm seeing the exact same corruption as Yannick is >talking about and the only two pieces of software installed on my >machine are postfix and dovecot. One of those two is the culprit, not >sure which one. > > > Yep, I would think the same. This is not an evidence, but a strong doubt: the same problem is still present after replacing MailScanner by amavisd-new. It could be that it happens less often, although, but I need some time to make real stats... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yannick Majoros http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~majoros Informaticien AUTO-INMA/FSA/UCL CSAM 4, avenue G. Lemaître B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium Tel: +32-10-47.80.10 Fax: +32-10-47.21.80 #JAPH : http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~majoros/japh.txt Si vous avez des problèmes pour afficher ce message (accents qui ne passent pas, signature électronique, ...) votre système de mail n'est pas conforme aux standards, voir http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~majoros/email.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] web-based mail
by str tux 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Hello List, I just installed dovecot and i love the simplicity of the default config; it simply works. Now I want to setup and web-based in addition to the default pop3 and imap client access - what u guys can recommend? Thanks. str

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-LDA problems (CVS version) Signal 11 and empty 'mail' dir
by Steffen Kaiser 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Hello, I'm trying dovecot-lda (deliver.c has CVS version 1.18). When I try to deliver a mail, an empty directory is created name $HOME/mail. This is neither the configured (via LDAP) nor the default "mail" setting in the /usr/local/etc/dovecot-deliver.conf. When the $HOME directory does not exist, but the user itself: Sep 1 11:47:12 localhost deliver: mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/skaise2a/mail: Permission denied Sep 1 11:47:13 localhost sm-mta[4684]: j819lCgd004682: SYSERR(root): mailer local died with signal 11 Default mail: mail = maildir:%h/.mailboxes:INDEX=/usr/local/var/spool/dovecot/indexes/%Lu Configured via LDAP for user skaise2a: maildir:/mailcache/skaise2a:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/indexes/skaise2a:CONTROL=/var/cache/dovecot/control/skaise2a I have only found the error message in dovecot's src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c function create_root_dir(). The Dovecot logs indicate that dovecot-lda is requesting the information from it and the message is - once the empty directory could be created - delivered into the configured IMAP root. Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] mailbox corruption
by Yannick Majoros 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Hello, Here is the description of a problem we habe been having for some time. Originally posted on the postfix-users mailing list, but no solution found to date. >>>> We have been having problems with our mail system for a couple of >>>> months. Every now and then, some mailboxes get corrupted: a >>>> half-truncated message, usually without headers, is at the beginning >>>> of the mailbox, causing it to become unaccessible. >>>> >>>> For information, we use: >>>> >>>> - fedora core 4 >>>> - postfix-2.2.2-2 rpm >>>> - dovecot-0.99.14-4.fc4 rpm >>>> - mailscanner-4.36.4-1 rpm >>>> >>>> >>> >>> This ^^^^^^^^^^ is probably your problem. >>> >>> >> > > I wouldn't be so quick to blame mailscanner. I have fc4, postfix rpm > and dovecot. Nothing else and I get the same corruption he is talking > about. > > > Ok, I removed MailScanner and I still have the very same problem. Locking _does_ work for postfix and dovecot (discussed with Wietse, partly by mail). Any idea? As an alternative, is there a way of handling the problem better? Dovecot just locks on these corrupt mailboxes :-/ I didn't try Dovecot 1.0, as it is alpha and I don't have any package for that anyway (production system :-/ ). Thank you, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yannick Majoros http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~majoros Informaticien AUTO-INMA/FSA/UCL CSAM 4, avenue G. Lemaître B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium Tel: +32-10-47.80.10 Fax: +32-10-47.21.80 #JAPH : http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~majoros/japh.txt Si vous avez des problèmes pour afficher ce message (accents qui ne passent pas, signature électronique, ...) votre système de mail n'est pas conforme aux standards, voir http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~majoros/email.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Solaris build failed
by GARY GENDEL 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

dovecot-v1.0-alpha build failed for Solaris 11 (OpenSolaris Nevada). The problematic line is in socket.c line 228. The fix should be to change SOL_TCP to IPPROTO_TCP found in netinet/in.h. This change should work universally on all platforms. Gary

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[Dovecot] what does this mean: Warning: Error in custom flags file / Corrupted Indexes
by rick tait 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Hi everyone: I am seeing a whole LOT of these messages in my dovecot logfile: imap(rickt): Sep 12 17:14:03 Warning: Error in custom flags file / home/rickt/mail/.imap/TRASH/.customflags: Duplicated ID 0 imap(rickt): Sep 12 17:14:03 Warning: Error in custom flags file / home/rickt/mail/.imap/TRASH/.customflags: Duplicated ID 1 and also these: imap(mbwnews): Sep 12 17:10:16 Error: Corrupted index file /home/ mbwnews/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: used_file_size larger than real file size (2016 vs 1608) imap(mbwnews): Sep 12 17:10:18 Error: Corrupted index file /home/ mbwnews/mail/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index: used_file_size larger than real file size (2016 vs 1608) And not just referring to my inbox, other users as well. I hava bog standard install of 0.99.10.8, on an openbsd 3.6 box. every now and then i get an error from my or my users' IMAP email client saying that it couldn't access a particular inbox. a few clicks of "OK" or "Cancel" etc and the problem seems to go away. all kinds of errors (similar to above) in the imapd logfile though, seem to correspond with the timing of the abovementioned IMAP mail client errors. one thing: my users DO use procmail, so there is a chance that their IMAP client might have a mailbox open that procmail may be trying to append to. i wonder if this is a locking issue? i guess what i'm asking is - 2 thing: 1) how can i get these pesky imap client errors to go away so my users mailboxes can be successfully selected? 2) what do the indexing errors mean? are the 2 things related? Thanks so very much in advance everyone! Best, Rick. rick tait | e: rickt(a)rickt.org | t: 323.829.5703

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[Dovecot] Changing location of dovecot.conf file
by Andy Cravens 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

I've been looking through the configure options and can't seem to find a place to specify where dovecot.conf lives. I want the default location to be in /etc and not under the dovecot install directory tree. -- Andy

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[Dovecot] An alternate "dovecot-auth" daemon using cyrus-sasl
by buc 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

We use dovecot in a heterogeneous environment (Windows/Linux desktops and Linux servers). For unified authentication we use a sheaf "Samba/Openldap" (i.e., Samba NT domain with openldap backend and pam/nss_ldap for Linux). Windows users are authenticated well everywhere, but there is one old issue. As "SPA" (NTLM) against NT domain is not supported by dovecot, it is necessary to use default "plain" method. In addition to security problems, it does also a problem of password unification. Each time a user changes the password, he should do it one more time for the mail program. I know that dovecot supports NTLM, however against local database only (not for NT domain controller). In early versions support of cyrus-sasl (which supports NTLM now) had been incorporated, however it like not work and now is removed. Fortunately, there is a possibility to substitute dovecot-auth executable. Therefore I have tried to make an alternate variant of dovecot-auth, which supports all that we need. For us, it seems to be more useful to create an auth daemon using cyrus-sasl, rather than to add domain support to existing ntlm code. First of all, it is easier for implementation. Besides it enables use of all mechanisms supported by cyrus-sasl (present and future), including GSSAPI. Anyway, it will be the useful additive to dovecot. I have made appropriate patches for both dovecot-1.0-stable and dovecot-1.0.alpha1. The idea is to copy "src/auth" to "src/auth-cyrus", strip all unneeded from newly created directory and add cyrus-sasl support. The resulting code probably looks not so elegantly as if it has been written separately, however this way allows to not make a lot of things from the scratch. The patch against 1.0.alpha1 is here: http://dmitry.butskoy.name/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.alpha1-cyrus.tar.gz . To be more readable, it is not a flat patch (due to a lot of whole files add/remove). It is a tarball with 3 files: a list of files to initial copy from auth/ to auth-cyrus/, a patch for resulting tree, and a script which automates this steps (:-)). (The script should be run in the root of the main source, i.e. a dir with src/ and doc/ subdirs). I already have successfully tested this patch with PLAIN method. However before testing of other methods, it would be desirable that somebody have looked at it. Whether someone could check up my patch (just fluently having read), at least for obvious bugs and typos? Dmitry Butskoy <Dmitry(a)Butskoy.name> Saint-Petersburg, Russia Red Hat Certified Engineer 809003662809495

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[Dovecot] Dovecot feature request: move /var/mail/uid to INBOX
by Steffen Kaiser 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello, UW-Imap has a (questional, but for me useful) feature to slurp all mails pending in /var/mail/uid into the user's INBOX whenever the user successfully logs on and the INBOX is not configured as /var/mail/uid. The usefulness for me is that users have a relatively small quota, so the noisy "over quota" messages pop up for everyone now and then, regardless how frequent one reads the mail. When I now set a large quota for the "pending INBOX", where the user (aka dovecot) can only delete mails from, I circumvent those messages, prevent that users use the (large) INBOX as yet another place to pile up data (the user does not know about the pending INBOX at all) and let the users have "full" control over their folders. The disadvantage is that it works for "real" users only. Another disadvantage is that one would expect "LDA"-features in the server portion of Dovecot, e.g. Sieve :-), or the server would need to spawn the Dovecot-LDA somehow. (Next thing is that, currently, the mails are delivered into the home directory of the users, what leads to several annoyances when someone is away for some time and finds his home directory locked, because the mass of mails locked the directory. Mostover, those IMAP servers I ran so far didn't allowed the user to delete a mail via IMAP often, because some temp or arbitary file couldn't created in the IMAP root. Because the user is already logged on onto Dovecot, there should be less problems deleting mails when the quota exceeds while slurping them in. At least I had extremly good experiences with this mechanism, when I used UW-Imap and the INBOX was located as mbx in the user's homedirectory.) Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] Authenfication on 2 databases
by LeeJaY 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello, I have 2 databases MySQL. I would like to do that: If the user does not existe in the first base, it goes in the second database. my configuration auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-sql-1.conf } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-sql-2.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-sql-1.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-sql-2.conf } } but it don't work, my version est 1.0.alpha1 if you not understand this message, i am sorry, my english is bad

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[Dovecot] reading subfolders with mail.app
by Patrick Galbraith 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hi all, I have been having a hard time using Fedora Core 4 with dovecot +sendmail. Namely, I cannot read my home dir's procmail filtering dir (where I have some subfolders) in ~/mail. I cannot create mailboxes either. I'm wondering if this is a client issue, and whether I need to switch to Maildir, which I'd like to do, but don't know how to with sendmail (with postfix, it's a piece of cake). Any advice on what my problem is? I'm all ears! regards, Patrick

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha2 released
by Timo Sirainen 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Changes: - Some cache file corruption fixes (shouldn't be any left?) - Some index file fixes with mmap_disable=yes - Some mbox syncing fixes - Timezones in mbox From-lines were handled wrong - Added pop3_reuse_xuidl setting. Patch by Chris Wakelin - "stack frame changed" crashfix for FETCH BODYSTRUCTURE - Added %R (reverse string) and %H (hash string) variable modifiers. These can be useful if you want to automatically split users to multiple partitions (eg. %3RHu gives values 0..2 based on the given username). See doc/variables.txt for more information. The POP3 bug mentioned in ChangeLog doesn't actually exist, so don't be alarmed by it :)

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[Dovecot] variable expansion in dovecot.conf?
by OpenMacNews 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

hi all, does dovecot.conf support the definition/use of user variables? e.g., in principle, my_DIR = /path/to/something/ then, default_mail_env = maildir:${my_DIR}/%d/Accounts/%1u/%u/Maildir or, for that matter, default_mail_env = blahblah then, namespace private { ... location = $default_mail_env ... i finallly figured out -- through randon thrashing -- that the simple "$" format has been causing me grief ... and, cursory searching has not dug up anything (yet) in the man/wiki/etc. possible? reference docs for it? thx! (ack to my margarita for now ...) richard

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