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[Dovecot] Connection dropped by imap server Query: CAPABILITY
by Srinivas 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Hi all, I have installed squirrelmail-1.4.4 and dovecot 0.9.11 on a debian sarge machine. The tls/ssl support is disabled from both squirrelmail and dovecot imap server. When i try to login i get the following error message: ERROR: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: CAPABILITY If i give wrong password, it gives the message Unknown user or password incorrect. which is fine. The file /var/log/mail.err, is appended with the following message: Jul 5 18:40:20 server dovecot: chdir(/home/username) failed with uid 1240: Permission denied Jul 5 18:40:20 server dovecot: child 20807 (imap) returned error 89 when i run the command: dovecot -c /etc/dovecot.conf it gives the following error: Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use Later i enabled tls in squirrelmail and dovecot.conf. i got the following error: Warning: fgets(): SSL: fatal protocol error in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/imap_general.php on line 88 ERROR: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: CAPABILITY Any suggestions? Thank you Srinivas _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] cannot download eMails from POP3
by Bastian 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Hi dovecot users, IŽve got a problem with downloading emails: dovecot is installed and configured, I can login but I cannot download mails wich are at my harddisc. After trying to download an email thatŽs in the logfile: pop3-login: Jul 05 10:41:00 Info: Login: webmaster(a)myDomain.de [xx.xxx.xx.xxx] dovecot-auth: Jul 05 10:41:00 Info: Login process 9 disconnected dovecot-auth: Jul 05 10:41:00 Info: Login process 9 connected dovecot-auth: Jul 05 10:41:00 Info: Login process 9 sent handshake: PID 5754 QueryŽs are successfully, like they are required in dovecot-mysql.conf: First password clear, then home directory (/var/opt/vmail/myDomain.de/webmaster), uid and gid. My eMails are at /var/opt/vmail/myDomain.de/webmaster/Maildir/new, does dovecot automatically search for emails in Maildir/new? IŽve no idea, why I cannot download any eMails :( Can you help me? Thank you Bye, Bastian

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[Dovecot] Altering newly created mailboxes
by Thomas Wouters 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

There seems to be a bug in updating uid/uidvalidity when copying mail to an empty or newly created mailbox: <new connection> . OK Logged in. . CREATE testfolder4 . OK Create completed. . SUBSCRIBE testfolder4 . OK Subscribe completed. . SELECT otherfolder * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 3 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1121171128] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 4] Predicted next UID . OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. . UID COPY 1 testfolder4 . NO Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-07-12 15:05:45] . SELECT testfolder4 . NO Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-07-12 15:05:49] <wait a while, doing nothing else> . SELECT testfolder4 * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 1 EXISTS * 1 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1121173545] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID . OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. The errorlog entries for those two errors are: Jul 12 15:05:45 dovecot0 dovecot: IMAP(ynnoz): Corrupted index file /var/run/dovecot-index/ynnoz/.testfolder4/dovecot.index: uid_validity = 0, next_uid = 2 Jul 12 15:05:49 dovecot0 dovecot: IMAP(ynnoz): Corrupted index file /var/run/dovecot-index/ynnoz/.testfolder4/dovecot.index: uid_validity = 0, next_uid = 2 I also managed to trigger an assertion failure this way, by trying another COPY after that first failure: . UID COPY 1 testfolder6 . NO Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-07-12 15:16:54] . UID COPY 1 testfolder6 Connection closed by foreign host. The errors for that connection are: Jul 12 15:16:54 dovecot0 dovecot: IMAP(ynnoz): Corrupted index file /var/run/dovecot-index/ynnoz/.testfolder6/dovecot.index: uid_validity = 0, next_uid = 2 Jul 12 15:17:01 dovecot0 dovecot: IMAP(ynnoz): Corrupted index file /var/run/dovecot-index/ynnoz/.testfolder6/dovecot.index: uid_validity = 0, next_uid = 2 Jul 12 15:17:01 dovecot0 dovecot: IMAP(ynnoz): file mail-index-transaction.c: line 128 (mail_index_buffer_convert_to_uids): assertion failed: (*seq != 0) Jul 12 15:17:01 dovecot0 dovecot: child 6666 (imap) killed with signal 6 Another assertion error I triggered was by trying another SELECT right after the failed SELECT (after the failed COPY): Jul 12 15:14:04 dovecot0 dovecot: IMAP(ynnoz): Maildir /var/spool/mail/.4a/S/tmp/ynnoz/.testfolder5 sync: UIDVALIDITY changed (1121174026 -> 1121174044) Jul 12 15:14:09 dovecot0 dovecot: IMAP(ynnoz): Corrupted transaction log file /var/run/dovecot-index/ynnoz/.testfolder5/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1, but next_uid = 2 Jul 12 15:14:12 dovecot0 dovecot: IMAP(ynnoz): file mail-index-view.c: line 595 (mail_index_view_open): assertion failed: (index->map != NULL) Jul 12 15:14:12 dovecot0 dovecot: child 6654 (imap) killed with signal 6 I was able to reproduce this on a near-virgin test76 -- it has one patch that should not interfere; we use default_mail_env = maildir:%Nu:INDEX=/var/run/dovecot-index/%u where %N is a new var_expand character that looks up the argument in a NIS map (we store actual maildir location there, for scalability.) The INDEX setting we use might matter, though. But it feels like a missing update-uid or invalidate-uid call somewhere, I just don't know where :) -- Thomas Wouters <thomas(a)xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!

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[Dovecot] Re: separate SSL certificates for pop3s and imaps
by sean finney 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:58:35PM +0300, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Hi, > > I'm migrating a uw-imap installation to dovecot. With uw-imap I had > different SSL certificates and keys for ipop3d and imapd. How can I > configure dovecot to do the same with its pop3s and imaps services? i run dovecot in a multihomed server with three different names: mail.foo.edu smtp.foo.edu imap.foo.edu which, for ssl purposes, means we need three different certs to keep applications happy. my approach is to start a seperate dovecot process for each address, and manage the configuration in three seperate files, each one telling dovecot to specifically bind to only one address, and use a seperate runtime directory specific to that address. so for example, in my initscript, instead of just doing something like: start() { echo -n $"Starting $prog: " daemon $prog -c /etc/dovecot.conf RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog return $RETVAL } i do something like: start() { echo -n $"Starting $prog: " for s in imap mail smtp; do mkdir -p /var/run/dovecot/${s}.foo.edu daemon $prog -c /etc/dovecot/${s}.foo.edu.conf done RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog return $RETVAL } where the value of the ssl cert config is different in each of the files. you could extend this to also have one config file to only listen for pop and the other only for imap. hth, sean

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[Dovecot] Creating encrypted passwords for new users /etc/imap.passwd
by John_R._McWade 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Hello. I've been attempting to locate information on how to actually create the encrypted passwords for a new user in /etc/imap.passwd file. Im really going into this blindly, not having ever used dovecot before, and really just need to be pointed to any existing resources on this topic. This is a setup of dovecot (w/ sendmail,squirrelmail) on FC2. I've got one successful auth so far as a test user, with their info cut/pasted directly from /etc/passwd (it works) whereas using {PLAIN}password causes dovecot to drop the connection with an aborted login. So what I'm actually looking for is a resource or a quick response regarding the actual creation of the encrypted password in /etc/passwd style. Any clues on where I should look for this info? John

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[Dovecot] io leak when dnotify is enabled but not available
by Johannes Berg 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Hi, When dnotify is enabled, but not in the kernel, there's an io leak: $ /sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS] Logged in as johannes a select inbox * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 787 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1106061449] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 790] Predicted next UID a OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. b IDLE imap(johannes): Error: fcntl(F_NOTIFY) failed: Invalid argument imap(johannes): Error: fcntl(F_NOTIFY) failed: Invalid argument + idling DONE b OK Idle completed. q logout * BYE Logging out q OK Logout completed. imap(johannes): Warning: I/O leak: 0x10068ff0 (8) Attached patch fixes it, I hope the patch is correct :) johannes

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[Dovecot] stat() failed with mbox /var/mail/%u
by Jungshik Shin 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Hello, Over the last 12 hours or so, I've been wrestling with a mysterious dovecot issue. After upgrading a mail server I'm helping my friend with maintaining from Fedora Core1 to Fedora Core4, I realized that I couldn't use UW-IMAP4 anymore (well, I can compile it myself, but it turned out that UW-IMAP was the main cause of the server's having load average as high as 30 from time to time so that I decided to move onto dovecot). Although I loved to migrate to maildir, I didn't dare to tackle the migration (I have a lot more important things to do :-)) to maildir. Instead, I thought that dovecot's indexing of mbox files should make the performance of the server a lot better than UW-IMAP. (in addition, we upgraded the HW from P3 800MHz single to P4 dual 3GHz). Last night, I experimented with several mboxes of one user's account (INBOX in /var/mail/<userid> and others in ~/mail/) and it worked perfectly well. So, I moved mboxes of other users and launched 'dovecot' informing users that the mail server is back up again. However, it didn't work with inbox (for IMAP) and POP3. There's no problem accessing mail folders in '~/mail', but accessing /var/mail/%u (inbox for IMAP) and using the same folder with POP3 didn't work. The error I got in the log file is: Jul 8 01:17:24 biosoft dovecot: pop3-login: Login: xyz123 [::ffff:1xx.2yy.zz.178] Jul 8 01:17:24 biosoft dovecot: POP3(xyz123): stat() failed with mbox file /var/mail/xyz123: Permission denied Jul 8 00:34:45 biosoft dovecot: imap-login: Login: xyz123 [::ffff:1xx.2yy.zz.178] Jul 8 00:34:45 biosoft dovecot: auth(default): Error sending status request (Operation not permitted) Jul 8 00:34:45 biosoft dovecot: imap-login: Login: xyz123 [::ffff:1xx.2yy.zz.178] Jul 8 00:34:45 biosoft dovecot: IMAP(xyz123): stat() failed with mbox file /var/mail/xyz123: Permission denied ls -ld / /var /var/mail/ /var/mail/xyz123 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jul 7 19:28 / drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Jul 7 23:35 /var drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 4096 Jul 8 00:36 /var/mail/ -rw-rw---- 1 xyz123 mail 130751237 Jul 7 23:37 /var/mail/xyz123 I tried various combinations of permissions and ownerships for /var/mail (1777, 2775) and /var/mail/<userid>, but nothing made any difference. I also tweaked mbox locking methods ('dotlock fcntl' or 'fcntl' alone) When I came across this problem with the latest stable (2005-07-06), I went back to FC4's default package (0.99??), but with a slightly different error message in the log file, basically I had the same problem. I kept the default values for most configuration parameters. What I changed are listed below: mail_extra_groups = mail pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu protocols = imap imaps pop3s default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u Also attached is the entire /etc/dovecot.conf I'm really desperate to get some enlightening answers on this problem, for which I'll really appreciate you. Thanks tons in advance, Jungshik ## 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=/usr/share/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 pop3s # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. You can specify ports with # "host:port", although with multiple protocols you probably want to move this # setting inside 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. 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 = /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /usr/share/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 = yes # 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_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. ## ## 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 = 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 = # 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 = default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # 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 mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = 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 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 # 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: # oe6-fetch-no-newmail: # Never send EXISTS/RECENT when replying to FETCH command. Outlook Express # seems to think they are FETCH replies and gives user "Message no longer # in server" error. Note that OE6 still breaks even with this workaround # if synchronization is set to "Headers Only". # outlook-idle: # Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no mail # arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is still # fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new mail # arrives. # 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-negative-fetch: # Thunderbird sometimes messed up some calculations and wants to read # the message past it's end, giving negative size to FETCH BODY[]<..> # command. This workaround just hides the error message. #imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } ## ## 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 = %08Xv%08Xu # 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 ## # You can have multiple authentication processes. With plaintext authentication # the password is checked against each process, the first one which succeeds is # used. 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. # 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 = no # Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes. Shows for example SQL # queries. #auth_debug = no auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous mechanisms = plain # Password database specifies only the passwords for users. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # shadow: /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam() # pam [<service> | *]: PAM authentication # checkpassword <path>: checkpassword executable authentication # passwd-file <path>: passwd-like file with specified location # vpopmail: vpopmail authentication # ldap <config path>: LDAP, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf # sql <config path>: SQL database, see doc/dovecot-sql.conf passdb = pam # User database specifies where mails are located and what user/group IDs # own them. For single-UID configuration use "static". # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # passwd-file <path>: passwd-like file with specified location # static uid=<uid> gid=<gid> home=<dir template>: static settings # vpopmail: vpopmail library # ldap <config path>: LDAP, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf # sql <config path>: SQL database, see doc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb = passwd # 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. #chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create #count = 1 # Require a valid SSL client certificate or the authentication fails. #ssl_require_client_cert = no } # PAM doesn't provide a way to get uid, gid or home directory. If you don't # want to use a separate user database (passwd usually), you can use static # userdb. #auth onlypam { # mechanisms = plain # userdb = static uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/%u # passdb = pam # user = dovecot-auth #} #auth ldap { # mechanisms = plain # userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf # passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf # user = dovecot-auth #} #auth virtualfile { # mechanisms = plain digest-md5 # userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap # passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap # user = dovecot-auth #} # 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 # } # } #}

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[Dovecot] "Leave a copy on server" not marking messages as read...
by Matt Juszczak 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

Hi all, Our customers who have "Leave a copy on server" with POP3 continue to check their email, and each time they check it it re-downloads all emails (so it doesn't seem to be updating those messages already downloaded). Any ideas? Thanks! -Matt

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[Dovecot] IMAP Folders
by Matt Juszczak 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

Hi all, We're using the mbox format and I tried setting up IMAP on my boss's computer tonight. He likes subfolders, and although they work, he can't seem to remove subfolders once he created them, nor create new folders without using something other than his mail client (like mkdir from the command line). Any ideas on this? Does dovecot just not officially support IMAP and subfolders with the mbox format? Or could it be a permissions issue? -Matt

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[Dovecot] RE: dovecot not able to access sentmail folder in home directory(chdir)
by vineet 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

problem is solved the problem was with the access permissions to the folder having the users' folders make sure that dovecot has the permission to access the folders containg the users' folders vineet _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] test76 segfaults?
by Johannes Berg 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

Hi, I was just trying to port my dspam plugin to the latest test release but ran into trouble so I decided to test the code itself first. I have the following maildir: johannes:~/.mail$ find . ./cur ./new ./new/test ./tmp ./.SPAM ./.SPAM/cur ./.SPAM/new ./.SPAM/tmp Now I run $ exec /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS] Logged in as johannes A SELECT INBOX * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 1 EXISTS * 1 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1120680468] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID A OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. B COPY 1 SPAM imap(johannes): Error: Corrupted index file /home/johannes/.mail/.SPAM/dovecot.index: uid_validity = 0, next_uid = 2 Segmentation fault However, it actually did copy something: johannes:~/.mail$ find . ./cur ./cur/test:2, ./new ./tmp ./.SPAM ./.SPAM/cur ./.SPAM/new ./.SPAM/new/1120680473.P1535Q0M900310.johannes ./.SPAM/tmp ./.SPAM/dovecot.index ./.SPAM/dovecot-uidlist ./.SPAM/dovecot-uidlist.lock ./.SPAM/dovecot.index.log.2 ./.SPAM/dovecot.index.log ./dovecot.index.log ./dovecot.index ./dovecot.index.cache ./dovecot-uidlist The mail in that, for reference, is just this: --- A: xxx Subject: hallo! From: johannes X-DSPAM-Signature: asdf wow! --- johannes

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[Dovecot] I need sleep (dovecot auth / postfix 2.3)
by /dev/rob0 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

I need the new sleep feature (smtpd_*_restrictions) of Postfix 2.3 snapshots, but I'm using the Dovecot auth patch. The 2.2.1 patch had problems in the snapshots I tried. Fortunately the problems were very simple. rob0@room101:~/src/mail/postfix-2.3-20050630$ patch -p1 < ~/dl/postfix-2.2.1-dovecot-auth.patch [snip] patching file src/smtpd/Makefile.in Hunk #1 FAILED at 1. Hunk #2 FAILED at 296. 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/smtpd/Makefile.in.rej patching file src/smtpd/smtpd.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 854. Hunk #2 succeeded at 1006 (offset 16 lines). Hunk #3 succeeded at 1173 (offset 1 line). Hunk #4 succeeded at 1306 (offset 20 lines). Hunk #5 succeeded at 1562 (offset 33 lines). Hunk #6 succeeded at 1692 (offset 54 lines). Hunk #7 succeeded at 1834 (offset 72 lines). Hunk #8 succeeded at 2918 (offset 135 lines). Hunk #9 succeeded at 2952 (offset 73 lines). Hunk #10 succeeded at 3262 (offset 152 lines). Hunk #11 succeeded at 3301 (offset 73 lines). Hunk #12 succeeded at 3551 (offset 154 lines). 1 out of 12 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/smtpd/smtpd.c.rej [snip] I fixed the failures manually. Attached is a patch which only changes those two files ... it's a supplement to the existing patch as provided by Timo: http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix/postfix-2.2.1-dovecot-auth.patch I have not yet tested either sleep or AUTH, because I *do* need sleep for real. :) But it did compile with no errors nor [noted] warnings. I do have this running. -- mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header

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[Dovecot] Username mapping
by nodata 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

Hello. We're using dovecot with mysql for authentication, with postfixadmin for the admin web interface. We are moving users from passwd file usernames to email@domain style logins. Is there a better way to allow both sets of usernames (old and new) to work with dovecot than by adding extra copies of rows to the mailboxes table and changing the username? i.e. does dovecot support some kind of username mapping or aliasing? Thanks a lot

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[Dovecot] dovecot not able to access sentmail folder in home directory(chdir)
by vineet 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

using dovecot version 0.99.11 while accessing through squirrelmail or even connecting manually(using openssl) to the server dovecot is not able to access the folder the mail.err log file has the following entry: dovecot: (/home/user) permission denied error no 89 returned by child process the squirrel mail error was connection dropped by imap server Query capability thanks vineet _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1 for production? which one?
by Jeff A. Earickson 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Hi, I've been lurking on the list since Spring, planning to replace UW-IMAP with dovecot 1.0 sometime this summer. The recent thread on "1.0" has not given me a good feeling about seeing it before summer's end. So I wonder if I should use dovecot-1.0-test-xx code or dovecot-stable-[date] code (which seems to change every day, how stable is that???). This is confusing, advice please. My setup: Solaris 9, mbox format. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Root password or key access to pop3?
by Matt Juszczak 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Hi all, We're an ISP, and are currently looking for a way for our tech support guys to access customer's email without having shell access to the server, or knowing the customer's password. We'd like to install a custom webmail client that would only show the user's inbox and the ability to delete the messages. The problem is, that we would have to know the user's password in order for my PHP pop3 code to go out and fetch the mail. Is there a way I can setup and/or patch dovecot so that any connection from <said IP address> can use the password "jq3erjq3535" for any account, and it will authenticate them? Or is this some kind of custom patch I would need to write? Thanks! -Matt

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[Dovecot] error connecting dovecot from squirrelmail
by Srinivas 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

the problem is: 1. the error in the mailerr file is: Jul 4 19:42:26 obelix dovecot: chdir(/home/user) failed with uid 1229: Permission denied Jul 4 19:42:26 obelix dovecot: child 16385 (imap) returned error 89 2. the error msg given by Squirrelmail is: ERROR: connection dropped by imapserver QUERY: CAPABILITY the dovecot and squirrelmail settings are same on both the servers 3. the mailbox settings in dovecot.conf: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u OS: Debian Sarge stable thanks srinivas _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] BOGUS files
by Obantec Support 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi what does this mean BOGUS.watasiuk.8B8I (watasiuk is a username). FC3 Mark -- Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller

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[Dovecot] dovecot - outlook users keep getting locked out of imap
by Anthony Kolasny 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Greetings: My outlook users accessing mail via dovecot's imaps have been consistantly getting locked out of their email. It happens about once a week per outlook user. It appears to happen when the are cliking on emails with attachments. When this happens, there are two imap deamons running for that user. I kill both deamons and things start working again. Squirrelmail, thunderbird and pine users haven't had this issue. I'm running a version of dovecot dated dovecot-stable-20050610. All user accounts have their mail on nfs mount points. The INBOX directory is local to the imap server but we have a smtp server that gets this data via nfs. Below is the dovecot.conf info: base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /usr/local/imaps/certs/dovecot_cert.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/local/imaps/certs/dovecot_key.pem disable_plaintext_auth = yes login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_process_size = 128 login_processes_count = 9 login_max_processes_count = 256 login_max_logging_users = 512 verbose_proctitle = yes mail_extra_groups = mail default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mmap_disable = no lock_method = fcntl mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_lock_timeout = 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 mbox_dirty_syncs = yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } protocol pop3 { } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = pam userdb = passwd user = root } Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Anthony

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[Dovecot] dovecot restart bug?
by Andrew Hutchings 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Using my initd script (no idea of the origin now) to do a restart I randomly get: Jun 28 13:56:05 svr24 dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Jun 28 13:56:05 svr24 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test74 starting up Jun 28 13:56:06 svr24 dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jun 28 13:56:06 svr24 dovecot: auth(default): net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.23322) failed: No such file or directory Jun 28 13:56:06 svr24 dovecot: child 23322 (auth) returned error 89 It then suddenly starts working again, is this something to do with that new mysql timeout feature? This started happening when I migrated from test72 to test73. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ A-Wing Internet Services - http://www.a-wing.co.uk/ Random quote 111: "It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me." - BILL GATES

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[Dovecot] dovecot problem or not ?
by Mircea Hutanu 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi, I've setup a postfix mailserver with dovecot and postgres database for virtual domains with virtual users, but I have some problems getting the accounts to work. I've used instruction from this tutorial : http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql I want users to be able to get their email with imap or pop3, but I didn't manage to solve this problem. The server makes mbox style user accounts, I can send email to them but when I try to read emails from virtual accounts I get the following error : Jun 28 14:42:52 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 10 connected Jun 28 14:42:52 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 10 sent handshake: PID 10491 Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = 'user(a)foo.org' Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT '/home/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = 'user(a)foo.org' Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3(user(a)foo.org): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/foo.org/mails/user/mail: Permission denied Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3(user(a)foo.org): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/home/virtual/foo.org/mails/user Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo pop3-login: Login: user(a)foo.org [127.0.0.1] Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot-auth: Login process 8 disconnected Jun 28 14:42:58 voodoo dovecot: child 10492 (pop3) returned error 89 The error " mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/foo.org/mails/user/mail: Permission denied" appears because, using mbox, the home for virtual accounts is /home/virtual/foo.org/mails/user, where user is allready the mbox file, to the sistem can't create the directory structure for IMAP settings. What I'm doing wrong ? Did someone else got this problem ? Thanks ! -- ------------------------------ Mircea Hutanu voodookid(a)gmail.com ------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Automating message archiving
by Steffen Kaiser 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hallo, I recently stumple over some discussion about Sieve and what's the advantage to integrate it into the server rather than the LDA. Most of the filtering capabilites local users want to have performed are related to the INBOX or more preciesly the way to filter the message coming in. However, there are few tasks left: 1) Auto-archive old mail. 2) Drop old mail. 3) "Seen" mails are moved from INBOX to somewhere else. To 1) Several people love to store each single mail, but because the system becomes very slow when they open a mailbox with, day, 5000 messages (Mozilla even core dumps sometimes); they archive the mails by year or month, if they got elder than, say, 6 month. I do not want to discuss this habbit, it's like it is and I have the trouble with it. To 2) There is the doing of dropping all messages flagged as SPAM into a specific folder. It would be nice if the does messages are deleted, when they grew get elder. To 3) I don't grasp the idea, but it seems that notebook users want to look, what messages are new, flag and download selected ones; when they connect next time the "old, already seen" ones should be invisible, but still accessable on demand in another folder. Maybe it has to do with that the client sometimes reads the whole IMAP INBOX again, instead just the new ones. I've seen this behaviour with Mozilla myself in conjunction with a variaty of IMAP servers now and then. Those things must be user-configurable, of course ;-), I hoped Sieve would solve this problems, but it doesn't. The MVMF mentioned in the mailing list, doesn't as well. Does somebody has some solution for these tasks, besides to setup a cronjob and hack a webinterface? Is there some Dovecot tool that one can use to manipulate the mail storage? UW-IMAP ships such thing (mailutil), but it does not support Maildir and it would be nice, when the Dovecot extensions are created well. Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] Authenticate login failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism
by Orchun Kolcu 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Hi, I just switched (or tried to) from UW-IMAP to dovecot. When I try to login through the telnet client I get: 1 NO Authentication failed and in the log I get: imap-login: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism If I try to login through the IMAP client (Thunderbird), in the log I get the slightly different: imap-login: Authenticate login failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism Here's the auth setup from the conf: auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = pam imap userdb = passwd user = root } And here's /etc/pam.d/imap for good measure: auth required pam_nologin.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth The server is a fairly standard Redhat 8 setup. Any idea what's going on? Thanks! -- Orchun Kolcu orchunk(a)fastem.com -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service

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Re: [Dovecot] error while connecting from squirrelmail
by Srinivas 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

dovecot and squirrelmail configuration successfull!! The problem was: There were many other options related to ssl,which were enabled, like ssl_cert_file,ssl_parameters_file and so on. i disabled them all, and it's working fine now. Now, only, ssl_disable = no is uncommented. Thank you all. Srinivas _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] newbie - trying to set up pop3 access for multiple domains
by Andy Green - Green Consulting 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

I'm hosting multiple domains, and I'm having problems getting dovecot to play nicely. The only protocol I've got enabled in the conf file is pop3, yet the maillog shows the following entries when I try to authenticate: mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /mail: Permission denied Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/mail/vhosts/<domain name here>/<user name here> returned error 89 Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: [Dovecot] error while connecting from squirrelmail
by Srinivas 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

>Only two things I can think of: >1. Dovecot was not configured for imap with ssl (check that >ssl_disable is not set to yes). Also check the protocols statement >that it supports imaps. > >2. Check that you do not have access lists blocking off 993 to your >squirrelmail. This is often encountered if using tcp wrappers and >you're running dovecot through (x)inetd. > >Regards, Neil The ssl_disable is set to no and the protocols statement contains all the four protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s. But i couldn't make out the 2nd point, you suggested.Can you, please, describe it a little more ? Srinivas _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] error while connecting from squirrelmail
by Srinivas 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hi all, I am new to dovecot and squirrelmail and I am trying to configure squirrelmail with dovecot as its imap server. When i disable "Secure Imap (TLS)" option (2-A-7) from squirrelmail configure menu, it's working fine. But when i try to enable tls support, squirrelmail is giving the following error: Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to 192.xx.xx.xx:993 in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/imap_general.php on line 445 ERROR Error connecting to IMAP server: tls://192.xx.xx.xx. 111 : Connection refused Go to the login page The port numbers of the imap server are as follows: imap_listen 143 pop3_listen 110 imaps_listen 993 pop3s_listen 995 Squirrelmail and the dovecot imap server are running on different machines, so it is essential to enable tls support. All the machines are running Debian Sarge. Can anyone suggest a solution for the above problem ? Thank you. Srinivas _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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[Dovecot] root login is refused, but....
by Roberto Tagliaferri 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

If i try to connect as root (dovecto 1.0) with wrong password doveco exit with an auth error robyt:~# telnet dns pop3 Trying x.x.x.x Connected to dns. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user root +OK pass [wrong] -ERR Authentication failed. but if the password is correct dovecot exit but with another error: user root +OK pass [correct] -ERR [IN-USE] Internal login failure. Refer to server log for more information. Connection closed by foreign host. robyt:~# Why dovecot don't close the connection at user root? With this system i may know the root password.. -- Roberto Tagliaferri Responsabile Progettazione & Produzione TosNet s.r.l. - Internet Service Provider r.tagliaferri(a)tosnet.it www.tosnet.it

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[Dovecot] Dovecot doesn't use vchkpw properly :(
by Casey Allen Shobe 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hey all, It seems that dovecot does NOT call vchkpw properly when using vpopmail-style authentication, I can only guess that it reads the vpasswd{,.cdb} files directly. This is indicated by the syslog log for the mail facitily which reads: Jun 30 16:51:30 [vpopmail] vchkpw-smtp: (PLAIN) login success blah@blah.com:24.17.153.137 Jun 30 17:16:25 [pop3-login] Login: blah(a)blah.com [24.17.153.137] Jun 30 17:47:42 [imap-login] Login: blah(a)blah.com [216.57.201.58] pop3-login and imap-login are dovecot processes - vchkpw is never called or there would also be log entries for it. I've verified this with the vpopmail list, who agree that the problem lies within dovecot. This might not be quite so annoying, but we are using vpopmail compiled with the --enable-learn-passwords option, which will populate the password files with cleartext versions of the passwords where they are missing. Because of dovecot not calling vchkpw, this doesn't work for POP3/IMAP logins, only SMTP (using qmail-smtpd). People don't send mail from every account they poll, and we need to get all of the passwords in cleartext form so that we can complete migration to a PostgreSQL password database which multiple applications will use to authenticate. Are there plans to make dovecot use vchkpw in the normal checkpassword manner? If not, I'd like to request it. We will probably switch back to qmail-pop3d and bincimap for the time being to finish collecting passwords if we can't get a quick fix...I think we can do that without much impact. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | http://casey.shobe.info cshobe(a)seattleserver.com | cell 425-443-4653 AIM & Yahoo: SomeLinuxGuy | ICQ: 1494523 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com

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RE: [Dovecot] LF not found where expected
by Miles Mawyer 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Thanks for the reply. I think I'd found the issue. It seems to be the empty line that is ending up at the top of mail file. I removed that blank line out of one of the mail box files, and it started working without an issue. I'm not sure what is causing the empty line in the mbox file however. Most of my clients use pop3 to download their messages through dovecot. Could this be happening if the client only downloads part of their messages? Pretty easy for me to straighten out, but I didn't know if this was a bug that needed to be addressed. ... Miles Mawyer -=- Webmaster . Centralva.net ... ... mmawyer(a)rosecomputers.com ... ... 434.385.5053 ... -----Original Message----- From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:52 AM To: Miles Mawyer Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] LF not found where expected On 27.6.2005, at 18:45, Miles Mawyer wrote: > pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Error indexing mbox file > /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected These usually happen because the mbox file has two adjacent From-line, ie: From foo ... From bar ... Message-headers: ... That shouldn't happen normally though. Sounds like something is wrong with how your mails are written. Are all the software that are writing to the mbox using same lock methods? Anyway, 1.0-test/stable versions of Dovecot can handle the adjacent From-lines too without failing.

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[Dovecot] How to lock a user out?
by Kai Wang 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Hi, We are considering to migrate to Dovecot. We can running uw-imap and have a local path which allow us to lock a user by creating a .lockdir directory in the user home directory and put our warning message to .lockdir/mbox. The locked user can still receive messages in ~/mbox. But can not access any messages except ~/.lockdir/mbox. I wonder if Dovecot has any similar feature which we can use to lock a user out without affecting the mail delivery? Kai Wang University of Calgary

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test74
by Timo Sirainen 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Not much has happened, but the APPEND bugfix is important since it was broken in test73 (at least). Summer makes me tired and lazy. :( I've been trying to get keywords implemented in maildir. Hopefully works soon.. After that I'll create 1.0-stable2 (ugh. any other naming ideas?) branch of the code before merging the new master/config code. - Fixed APPEND .. I hope? At least works much better than before - pop3_uidl_format = %m now doesn't return broken 0 MD5 sums when the MD5 sum wasn't written in indexes for some reason (eg. appended/copied to INBOX with IMAP and trying to access mail with POP3). - Authentication cache wasn't working when Dovecot was used for proxying - Index cache file wasn't keeping track of how much of the file was deleted, so it may not have ever shrinked - Maildir+NFS: Fixed skipping mails when moving files from new/ to cur/ - Maildir: We didn't notice if messages were directly deleted from new/

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[Dovecot] imap corrupted indexes
by Emmett Pate 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I've searched the archives and find a lot of references to corrupted indexes but can't seem to find any solutions. It seems like folks either have the problem or they don't. We recently migrated from a RedHat Linux server to an OpenBSD 3.7 server (both using dovecot). Imap was working flawlessly on the RedHat box but now gives numerous index errors. I then upgraded to dovecot-1.0-test66 compiled from ports - still no luck. Here's an example of the errors: Jun 27 12:02:23 mail dovecot: IMAP(epate): Corrupted transaction log file /home/epate/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Keyword record UIDs are broken Jun 27 12:02:24 mail dovecot: IMAP(epate): Lost transaction log file /home/epate/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 7 I found references to "disabling indexing" but they don't say how. Would this be a reasonable temporary solution? Any other suggestions? Thanks for your help, Emmett Pate

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[Dovecot] Sudden IMAP problem - UID Errors
by Jamie Heckford 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, We have quite happily been running dovecot with no issues at all for approx. two years now and have had no problem whatsoever. Great work :) BUT (there is always a but!).... yesterday one of our users started complaining that they were having issues with their mail. I checked and although they can still view their IMAP mailbox ok it constantly throws up error messages such as: "The UID of a message changed unexpectedly. This typically indicates a server bug. Your program may not function properly after this. MsgSeqNum 131: Previous UID: 21402, New UID: 21555 Protocol: IMAP" and "Your server has reported a UID which does not comply with the IMAP standard. This typically indicates a server bug. Your program may not function properly after this." This is using Outlook 2003 as the IMAP client, and is only affecting a single user. Server is dovecot-0.99.14 running on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #1: Thu Apr 15 10:00:08 GMT 2004 Anybody seen this before or have any suggestions? Also is there a way I can make the logging more verbose as I only get info on date/user/ip when they login. I did see a --raw-log or similar compile flag, is this whats needed? I suspect this is Outlook being stupid and not dovecot though. Any help would be greatly received. Many thanks! -- Jamie Heckford Network Manager Trident Microsystems Ltd. t: +44(0)1737-780790 f: +44(0)1737-771908 w: http://www.trident-uk.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] UID confusion
by Andrew Hutchings 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, 2 or 3 customers have reported that they are having problems downloading their mail via. POP3. I have attached the rawlogs of their transactions and the UID list at the time. Is this because I am using an incompatible UID format or is something else at fault? Deleting the UID list and indexes fixes the problem. I am using Test72. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ A-Wing Internet Services - http://www.a-wing.co.uk/ Random quote 148: "We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993" - Microsoft (27 Jul 1998, filing its first court responses to federal antitrust) STAT UIDL DELE 12 DELE 13 DELE 14 DELE 15 DELE 16 DELE 17 DELE 18 DELE 19 DELE 20 DELE 21 DELE 22 DELE 23 DELE 24 DELE 25 DELE 26 DELE 27 DELE 28 DELE 29 DELE 30 DELE 31 DELE 32 DELE 33 DELE 34 DELE 12 DELE 31 DELE 20 DELE 14 DELE 32 DELE 19 DELE 21 DELE 33 DELE 23 DELE 28 DELE 22 DELE 34 DELE 27 DELE 30 DELE 24 DELE 18 DELE 17 DELE 29 DELE 26 DELE 25 DELE 15 +OK 37 3133628 +OK 1 1102086912.6586 2 1102086912.6604 3 1102086912.6606 4 1102086912.6607 5 1102086912.6613 6 1102086912.6614 7 1102086912.6624 8 1102086912.6627 9 1102086912.6628 10 1102086912.6637 11 1102086912.6638 12 1102086912.6642 13 1102086912.6643 14 1102086912.6644 15 1102086912.6645 16 1102086912.6646 17 1102086912.6647 18 1102086912.6649 19 1102086912.6650 20 1102086912.6651 21 1102086912.6652 22 1102086912.6653 23 1102086912.6655 24 1102086912.6656 25 1102086912.6657 26 1102086912.6658 27 1102086912.6659 28 1102086912.6660 29 1102086912.6661 30 1102086912.6662 31 1102086912.6663 32 1102086912.6664 33 1102086912.6665 34 1102086912.6666 35 1102086912.6668 36 1102086912.6669 37 1102086912.6670 . +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. +OK Marked to be deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Message is deleted. -ERR Too many bad commands. 1 1102086912 6671 6586 1119365297.H428351P22768.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6604 1119430792.H16069P15059.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6606 1119435803.H269574P27211.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6607 1119438782.H651475P11876.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6613 1119444180.H435092P3752.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6614 1119446623.H168979P14147.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6624 1119519980.H840253P23730.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6627 1119534126.H915877P9542.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6628 1119534129.H58338P9545.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6637 1119590807.H77202P16581.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6638 1119594010.H314838P14558.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6642 1119631309.H826676P15985.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6643 1119634096.H108358P8422.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6644 1119651249.H740483P15403.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6645 1119652382.H85165P25444.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6646 1119662861.H891233P15682.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6647 1119666011.H343203P9515.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6648 1119678421.H726408P9343.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6649 1119682873.H656272P7774.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6650 1119709610.H933163P23969.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6651 1119711088.H95605P27225.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6652 1119717756.H183955P3515.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6653 1119726592.H247339P1807.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6654 1119727779.H102401P8785.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6655 1119749596.H731030P9216.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6656 1119760115.H508676P14834.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6657 1119761702.H762025P27895.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6658 1119774991.H8003P28710.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6659 1119780623.H432714P11671.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6660 1119797027.H333204P330.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6661 1119799332.H700308P15617.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6662 1119800637.H600428P30602.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6663 1119807991.H64209P14572.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6664 1119808834.H473596P22065.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6665 1119838893.H830072P23165.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6666 1119838934.H873217P23186.svr34.nsnoc.com:2,S 6667 1119860409.H899984P26859.svr34.nsnoc.com:2, 6668 1119860596.H249033P27907.svr34.nsnoc.com 6669 1119867953.H904781P22645.svr34.nsnoc.com 6670 1119867978.H374439P22691.svr34.nsnoc.com

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[Dovecot] getpeername() and SSL
by Andreas Goertz 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi Timo, first of all: i'm using 0.99.14. You helped me to raw-log the client-IP using something like this in rawlog.c: if (net_getpeername(0, &ip, NULL) == 0) { str = t_strdup_printf("IP: %s\n", net_ip2addr(&ip)); write_full(log_out, str, strlen(str)); } Now i got the problem, that this doesn't work when the client is connected using SSL. After some testing i think, the problem is, that after calling net_getpeername() the ip-family is AF_UNIX, not AF_INET, so net_ip2addr() returns null, but i'm not sure ;-) And i have no clue, how to solve this and find out the ip... Do you have another hint for me? Thanks in advance. Regards, Andreas.

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[Dovecot] Blank messages and problems starting Dovecot
by Lars Karset Grimsrud 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

When I use Evolution for viewing my e-mail and display full headers, no content is shown. The number of messages indicated in Evolution is however correct. Logging into webmail (Squirrelmail) doesn't work either, saying "Error connecting to IMAP server: localhost. 13 : Permission denied". I have verified that ~/Maildir/new actually contains valid e-mails. Does anyone have suggestions on how to debug this problem? A connection is established if I telnet. I use Fedora Core 4. Another problem I have, is changing log_path and info_log_path to something useful. If I change either to i.e. /tmp/dovecot.log, dovecot refuses to start (service dovcot restart) with noe error message. If it helps, my /etc/dovecot.conf is here: http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~grimsrud/info/dovecot.conf.txt -- Lars Karset Grimsrud <grimsrud(a)stud.ntnu.no>

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[Dovecot] password scheme
by Nathalie Boulos 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, I have dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.4 running on fedora core 3, and authenticating with openLDAP on a remote server. When i try to authenticate, i get the error "Unknown password scheme SSHA". I read that earlier on this mailing list, SSHA was not suported by dovecot. Is it supported now? what should i do to make my password authentication work? The users in the openLDAP database have userPassword {SHA} already used by other services, so i cannot change them. Any suggestions? Regards, Nathalie ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] LF not found where expected
by Miles Mawyer 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I'm using Dovecot 0.99.13 on a fedora core 3 server. I keep getting these errors from time to time. There user ends up retrieving no mail (but no error in their client, be it web mail or pop3 client) What usually fixes it is this procedure: Cp mbox file to mbox_ Remove original mbox Send a test message to recreate mbox. Cat mbox_ >> mbox Problem solved! Can anybody tell me what causes this? pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:16:38 Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-06-27 11:16:38] pop3-login: Jun 27 11:17:06 Info: Login: mjmurray [64.203.167.125] pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:06 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:06 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected pop3(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:06 Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-06-27 11:17:06] imap-login: Jun 27 11:17:28 Info: Login: mjmurray [127.0.0.1] imap(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:28 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected imap(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:17:28 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected imap-login: Jun 27 11:19:12 Info: Login: mjmurray [127.0.0.1] imap(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:19:12 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected imap(mjmurray): Jun 27 11:19:12 Error: Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/mjmurray: LF not found where expected ... Miles Mawyer -=- Webmaster . Centralva.net ... ... mmawyer(a)rosecomputers.com ... ... 434.385.5053 ...

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[Dovecot] possible bug with incoming mail
by Luke Ehresman 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I've been using Dovecot for a couple months now and am very impressed. Thanks for a great package. However, I have noticed a problem that I haven't been able to solve. When a new message comes into my inbox, the last message that was received is marked as new as well as the new one. I originally thought this was a bug in my client (mutt) but I have verified that the same thing happens with Thunderbird, Sylpheed, mutt, and pine. My configuration is as follows: ------------------------------- using mbox: default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/vfolders/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n using imaps Linux version 2.6.11-hardened-r1 (root@gondor) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)) #2 Thu May 5 13:14:52 EDT 2005 Thanks for any help you can give, Luke

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + MySQL no auth
by Dylan Baxter 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I haven't been able to login to my mail server using MySQL authentication and I believe I've found the issue. My POP log says: dovecot: Jun 07 09:58:56 Error: auth(default): sql(dylan(a)domain.com,127.0.0.1): Password query must return a field named "password" dovecot: Jun 07 09:58:56 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected [127.0.0.1] The password field in MySQL is called "passwd". Am I to understand that there is no way around this? I must rename the field to "password"? My config files all check out. I'm pretty sure I'm at a road block here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, aren't there anough Dovecot users to warrant a forum and/or IRC channel? I cant seem to find either (but thank you for the mailing list!). Thanks all for any help! Dylan

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[Dovecot] Restrictions on User Basis
by Net Cerebrum 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, I am running dovecot on Fedora Linux in our organization and use IMAP as well as POP3 protocols for mail retrieval. I want to impose the following user based restrictions: (a) I want to permit only selective users to access either POP3 or IMAP server or both. (b) The server can be accessed from LAN as well as WAN. However I want to allow only selective users to be able to access POP3 or IMAP server from the WAN side (or on the basis of IP addresses). What do I need to do to impose these restrictions ? Thanks,

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[Dovecot] APPEND issue with Thunderbird
by Todd Burroughs 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I'm getting a strange problem with APPEND and Thunderbird 0.8. This was working fine in the CVS version from June 8 and is not so fine as of June 20. It works fine using Pine. It appears that imap is hanging when trying to append to a folder. Right now, an imap process has the file open for about 1/2 hour. It wrote the headers out, but not the body. When Thunderbird disconnects from it, it closes the file, but does not finish writing the email. Here's the difference in the commands sent by Pine and Thunderbird from rawlogs. These are different accounts. (Thunderbird) (.in file) 2 append "Sent" (\Seen) {520+} Message-ID: <42BAC447.7050901(a)hostopia.com> (rest of headers and message follows) The .out file is empty --------------------------------------- (Pine) (.in file) 00000003 CAPABILITY 03000004 APPEND Sent {392} Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:35:42 -0400 (EDT) (rest of headers and message follows) 03000005 LOGOUT (.out file) * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2005-06-22 19:36:20 * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS 00000003 OK Capability completed. + OK 03000004 OK Append completed. * BYE Logging out 03000005 OK Logout completed. ----------------------------------------- Todd

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[Dovecot] IP Based Access
by kasharif＠citech-bd.com 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, Can someone tell me how can I restrict 110 port access other than my IP block? if it through tcp-wrapper then how can i do that? Thanking Sharif

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[Dovecot] FAM support?
by Michael Tibben 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, Is there any planned support for FAM http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ in dovecot? One of my favourite features of Courier IMAP server is that it alerts my email client through IMAP when email has arrived. Regards, Mick

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[Dovecot] pop3 retr error
by Marten Lehmann 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hello, I'm getting the following error while Mozilla Mail is downloading >4000 emails: The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving message. Mail server xxx responded: Message is deleted. So what's the error? Can't I retrieve a message, that has been marked as deleted before? If the Mesage-ID wouldn't exist, the error message would be different. I don't know what Mozilla Mail is doing and on which message id it is failing. Also, there's no output in the logfiles. Any ideas? Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] quetion about duplicate messages
by Michiel van Es 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi, we recently switched from Imap-Uw to Dovecot as a pop3 server. I was wondering why people who have the flag 'Leave messages on server' in their email client (Outlook, Outlook Expres) that they receive duplicates of their stored mail? Is it because Dovecot doesn't know that the messages has already been popped by Imap Uw or is the email client which thinks there are new messages on the server and if so..how can I avoid this behaviour? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Kind Regards, Michiel

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[Dovecot] dovecot and solaris 9
by Sander 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Hi, Does anyone know where to find a how-to to get dovecot working with Solaris. Specifically how to setup plain authentication? Thanks in advance, Sander

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0
by Jeff Graves 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Either Timo's got most of the bugs worked out or everyone is on vacation this week (traffic on the list has been very light). Good Job! Jeff Graves, MCSA Customer Support Engineer Image Source, Inc. 10 Mill Street Bellingham, MA 02019 508.966.5200 - Phone 508.966.5170 - Fax jeff(a)image-src.com - Email www.image-src.com

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[Dovecot] [newbie question]to receive mail
by neo anderson 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

sorry, i forget to attach the result that run by mail command. the "mail" command i use it shows the mail as follow: ========== mail command beg 12 mail-user(a)[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Thu Jun 23 11:21 48/1478 "this is a test mail" ========== mail command end ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] [newbie question]to receive mail
by neo anderson 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

hi, i'm newbie to dovecot. lately i install postfix on a server for providing mail service. however, i encounter a problem in receiving mail, i.e., to get mail download to the remote client. (i'm able to send mail through mozilla client, but can't get the sent mail download to the client). what reasons may cause such problem? check several points that i suppose it may have problem, yet can't figure out where the problem may be resulted from. for instance, ========== telnet beg telnet target-server-ip 143 ... * OK dovecot ready. telnet target-server-ip 25 ... 220 host-name.domain.com ESMTP Postfix (ehlo localhost) <---------- hidden command i enter 250-host-name.domain.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 20971520 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-AUTH LOGIN GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN 250-AUTH=LOGIN GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN 250 8BITMIME (quit) <---------- hidden command i enter 221 Bye telnet target-server-ip 110 .... +OK dovecot ready ========== telnet end btw, i'm able to read and write mail through mail program in the target server; simply can't get the mail downloaded to the other client with mozilla mail client (out look also doesn't work). mozilla mail client is version 1.7 . target server using centos 4.0. postfix 2.1.5 dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 i appreciate any help, sincerely. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] miugrating mail to new server
by Gabe Granger 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Hi All, I've just a new server to help with migration of our email, the old email server is using mbox and the new is using Maildir. I've managed to some user mail migrated fine. The new server is only a temp server as I have too many users to migrate easily in one go(Also I want to nuke the current mailserver, remove SuSE and install Debian on it). So what i'm doing it moving users one by one to temp server and converting to Maildir. My question is. I notice that all email files in maildir format end with .<host> when I go to migrate everything to back over to the original server is this going to cause me problem? Ie will the original server now have to be named the same as the temp server so that the maildir format files end with the same .<host> or does that not matter? Any help, advise would be great. Gabe

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[Dovecot] question about
by Michiel van Es 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Hi, I am running Dovecot (dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 on centos 4) and we are switching from newer machines. I copied all usernames from /etc/passwd,/etc/group and /etc/shadow to the new machine. I do not want that every user has it's own /home/$user directory.. When I test my dovecot installation with a telnet 'servername' 110 user test pass test I get this error: ################################################################################ Jun 20 13:22:47 mx01 pop3(aaptest): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /home/aaptest/mail: Permission denied Jun 20 13:22:47 mx01 pop3(aaptest): MAIL environment missing and autodetection failed (home /home/aaptest) Jun 20 13:22:47 mx01 dovecot: child 3393 (pop3) returned error 89 ############################################################################## So I changed the MAIL environment to /var/spool/mail (using Sendmail and mbox) Now I get this error: ###############################################################################3 Jun 20 13:27:37 mx01 pop3-login: Login: aaptest [::ffff:10.101.3.37] Jun 20 13:27:37 mx01 pop3(aaptest): open(/var/spool/mail//inbox, O_CREAT) failed: Permission denied Jun 20 13:27:37 mx01 pop3(aaptest): mkdir_parents(/var/spool/mail//.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied ################################################################################# Wht is Dovecot trying to AUTOcreate IMAP folders? I do not want Dovecot to do this hence I tell Dovecot to serve only pop3 and pop3s: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s protocols = 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. You can specify ports with # "host:port". #imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] Does anyone know how I can dissable this IMAP-AUTOcreate behaviour? Thanks in advance. Michiel

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[Dovecot] test73 not compiling with iconv?
by Sean Porter 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

I've recently upgraded from test53 to test73 from a source compile on FreeBSD 5.3, and am getting some [BADCHARSET] errors in 73 that I wasn't getting in 53 (specifically with Squirrelmail). When I run one of Squirrelmail's built-in filters, I get the following error: ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 UNSEEN Subject {14} *****SPAM***** Reason Given: [BADCHARSET] Unknown charset Googling around, I found the admonition on the wiki about chrooted environments: http://wiki.dovecot.fi/moin.cgi/QuestionsAndAnswers#head- e146cada4e103a4a93a736998c64f23b1a8cd312 so I disabled all chroot directives in my config and ran as root, just to see if that was the error. No luck. When running configure with "./configure --with-mysql --with- storages=maildir --with-ssl=openssl", I noticed that I got this error regarding iconv: checking for iconv... no, consider installing GNU libiconv Oddly enough, I do have libiconv-1.9.2 installed in /usr/local: /usr/local/lib/libiconv.a /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so@ -> libiconv.so.3 /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 /usr/local/include/iconv.h and an iconv -l shows support for the charset in question. I tried adding the prefix directive to configure: ./configure --with-mysql --with-storages=maildir --with-ssl=openssl -- with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local and got the same message. I presume that 53 picked up iconv headers and libraries from LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and now 73 isn't getting it even set explicitly -- I see some ChangeLog entries for iconv files in dovecot source in May, but nothing more. How can I verify that dovecot compiled with libiconv support? Anyone else see the same thing? Thanks, Sean

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[Dovecot] Hang-up problems with outlook 2003 and test 1.0
by Alfonso Sparano 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Hi all, I'm testing dovecot 1.0 on a tru64 v5.1 and on a rhel3 platforms. I've a problem when I use outlook 2003 to download mails: outlook stop responding and hang-up when I use imap protocol. Someone have the same problem? What should I do? This is my configuration: protocols = pop3 imap disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_save_crlf = yes mail_read_mmaped = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = passwd userdb = passwd user = root } Alfonso

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RE: [Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?
by Jeff Graves 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

I don't know C or C++ but here's the patch I wrote for lowercase auth on test69. Hopefully it's a starting point for anyone who wants to try and tackle this but well beyond my abilities. Jeff Graves, MCSA Customer Support Engineer Image Source, Inc. 10 Mill Street Bellingham, MA 02019 508.966.5200 - Phone 508.966.5170 - Fax jeff(a)image-src.com - Email www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Peter Evans Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:33 PM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames? Dan Hollis (test3943395(a)anime.net) wrote: > So that's three people then. me, jeff graves and peter hessler. More than > two :-) > What's the exact 'minimum required users for a feature' number? :-) Feel free to code it yourself and submit a patch to Timo. I guess you want to start with 1.0-test-reallybignumber as a base. If I had the energy, I might do this. P

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[Dovecot] GSSAPI support status
by Fredrik Tolf 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi list! I'm wondering, what is the current status of GSSAPI (krb5) support in Dovecot? I know from googling that there used to be a patch for it around a year ago, but I haven't seen a trace of that patch ever since, and GSSAPI doesn't even seem to be mentioned in the Dovecot source tree (at least not according to "grep -irl"). Is GSSAPI planned at all, as it stands? If not, is there a way for me to get my hands on the original patch, so that I can fix it up for the current version of Dovecot? I'm eagerly waiting for the day that I can switch from UW-IMAP to Dovecot, but I don't want to until I can get GSSAPI authentication. Thanks for reading! Fredrik Tolf

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[Dovecot] "Angle" address with empty "display name"
by Chris Wakelin 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Some clients are sending from addresses like <someone(a)somewhere.org> i.e. without a "friendly" name. It seems to me from RFC2822 that you should either have "Display Name <someone(a)somewhere.org>" or just "someone(a)somewhere.org" (both without the quotes). Dovecot, not unreasonably, treats "<someone(a)somewhere.org>" as having an empty Display Name, but this seems to confuse at least one client - our webmail ;) - which then displays "?" for the "from" address. The patch below tries to make dovecot treat empty display name as non-existent display name (so that the IMAP "ENVELOPE" command responds with "NIL" instead of "" in the relevant places). Best Wishes, Chris --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-mail/message-address.c.orig Fri Apr 8 12:30:34 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-mail/message-address.c Mon Jun 20 10:42:23 2005 @@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ return -1; ctx->addr.name = p_strdup(ctx->pool, str_c(ctx->str)); + if (*ctx->addr.name == '\0') { + /* Cope with "<address>" without display name */ + ctx->addr.name = NULL; + } if (parse_angle_addr(ctx) < 0) { /* broken */ ctx->addr.domain = p_strdup(ctx->pool, "SYNTAX_ERROR"); -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- 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] MySQL user_query ignored
by Helmut Zeilinger 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi all, i installed Dovecot 0.99.14. Everything works fine except that the mysql setup directive "user_query" seems to be ignored - however the password_query works. Instead the default user query in db-mysql.c always takes effect. Might this be a bug or is something worng wit my setup below? (To keep on working i changed the default query in db-mysql.c..) Helmut dovecot-mysql.conf: db_host = localhost #db_port = 3306 db_unix_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db = mail db_user = mail db_passwd = db_client_flags = 0 default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE login = '%n' and domain='%d' user_query = SELECT '/var/mail/%d/%n' as home, 506 as uid, 100 as gid FROM users WHERE login = '%n' and domain='%d'

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[Dovecot] "LDAP: No username in reply" error
by Jim Canon 18 Jun '05

18 Jun '05

Hi All, I am using the latest Dovecot stable with Fedora Core 4. I am trying to use it with LDAP, but I am getting the following error in my mail log when I attempt to check my mail: Jun 18 09:12:24 relm dovecot-auth: LDAP: No username in reply Jun 18 09:12:24 relm imap-login: Internal login failure: yaw(a)yaw.org [192.168.1.20] Here is the slapd log: Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=37 op=36 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=yaw(a)yaw.org))" Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=37 op=36 SRCH attr=uid userPassword Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=37 op=36 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1954]: conn=37 op=37 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=yaw(a)yaw.org))" Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1954]: conn=37 op=37 SRCH attr=uid homeDirectory uidNumber gidNumber Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1954]: conn=37 op=37 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1952]: conn=566 fd=21 closed Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=37 op=38 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=yaw(a)yaw.org))" Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=37 op=38 SRCH attr=uid userPassword Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=37 op=38 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1957]: conn=37 op=39 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=yaw(a)yaw.org))" Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1957]: conn=37 op=39 SRCH attr=uid homeDirectory uidNumber gidNumber Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1957]: conn=37 op=39 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Jun 18 08:28:12 setzer slapd[1952]: conn=565 fd=18 closed Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1952]: conn=568 fd=18 ACCEPT from IP=192.168.1.3:54510 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=568 op=0 BIND dn="uid=ispman,ou=admins,o=ispman" method=128 Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=568 op=0 BIND dn="uid=ispman,ou=admins,o=ispman" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=568 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=1 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dovecot))" Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=2 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(memberUid=dovecot))" Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=2 SRCH attr=gidNumber Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1956]: conn=568 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1952]: conn=569 fd=21 ACCEPT from IP=192.168.1.3:54511 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=0 BIND dn="uid=ispman,ou=admins,o=ispman" method=128 Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=0 BIND dn="uid=ispman,ou=admins,o=ispman" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=1 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dovecot))" Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1953]: conn=569 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=569 op=2 SRCH base="o=ispman" scope=2 filter="(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(memberUid=dovecot))" Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=569 op=2 SRCH attr=gidNumber Jun 18 08:28:13 setzer slapd[1955]: conn=569 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= I can supply more information if needed. I'm not actually sure what the error message means. Any ideas? Thanks, Jim

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[Dovecot] imap crash
by Todd Burroughs 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

This is from the June 16 CVS, it also happens with June 15 but not with June 8. Basically, imap segfaults when opening my mbox. Some details are below: Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x08094e5c in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x80c8e10, hdr_r=0xbffff64c) at message-parser.c:755 755 if (msg[0] == '\n' || (gdb) bt full #0 0x08094e5c in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x80c8e10, hdr_r=0xbffff64c) at message-parser.c:755 msg = (const unsigned char *) 0x0 i = Variable "i" is not available. (gdb) p *ctx $1 = {line = {name = 0x0, name_len = 0, value = 0x0, value_len = 0, full_value = 0x0, full_value_len = 0, middle = 0x0, middle_len = 0, name_offset = 14794827, full_value_offset = 0, continues = 0, continued = 0, eoh = 0, no_newline = 0, use_full_value = 0}, input = 0x80c9cfc, hdr_size = 0x0, name = 0x80cf030, value_buf = 0x0, skip = 0, skip_initial_lwsp = 0, has_nuls = 0} (gdb) p *hdr_r $2 = (struct message_header_line *) 0x0 (gdb) bt #0 0x08094e5c in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x80c8e10, hdr_r=0xbffff64c) at message-parser.c:755 #1 0x0806bfaf in mbox_sync_parse_match_mail (mbox=0x80c3ba8, view=0x80c8ea8, seq=2028) at mbox-sync-parse.c:521 #2 0x080689d0 in mbox_file_seek (mbox=0x80c3ba8, view=0x80c8ea8, seq=2028, deleted_r=0xbffff748) at mbox-file.c:164 #3 0x0806a91f in mbox_mail_seek (mail=0x80c9200) at mbox-mail.c:63 #4 0x0806ab2a in mbox_mail_get_stream (_mail=0x80c9200, hdr_size=0x0, body_size=0x0) at mbox-mail.c:176 #5 0x0808cc55 in mail_get_stream (mail=0xfffffffe, hdr_size=0x0, body_size=0x0) at mail.c:106 #6 0x080760ef in index_mail_get_header_stream (_mail=0x80c9200, _headers=0x80c95d8) at index-mail-headers.c:606 #7 0x0808cc31 in mail_get_header_stream (mail=0xfffffffe, headers=0x80c95d8) at mail.c:97 #8 0x080769d0 in index_storage_search_next (_ctx=0x80c9188, mail=0x80c9200) at index-search.c:492 #9 0x0808d525 in mailbox_search_next (ctx=0x0, mail=0x80c9200) at mail-storage.c:405 #10 0x08057bee in cmd_search (cmd=0x80bcb98) at cmd-search.c:33 #11 0x080594f5 in _client_input (context=0x80bcb58) at client.c:334 #12 0x0809e1ca in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #13 0x0809d8e9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop.c:218 #14 0x080603e7 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa44, envp=0xbffffa4c) at main.c:228

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[Dovecot] dovecot.index.cache 1/3rd of INBOX size
by Chris Wakelin 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

I've noticed that my dovecot.index.cache file has got very large (24MB, which is more than 1/3 of my INBOX size). I've tried deleting (well, renaming) the dovecot.index.* files, and re-opening my INBOX, and the new dovecot.index.cache is only 90KB so far. I'm using dovecot-1.0-stable and mbox format. My mail_cache_fields and mail_never_cache_fields are set to the default. Looking back in the list archives, I found a message from Timo that suggested the cache entries are created for each message when the indexes are created, rather than when each message is accessed, so it ought not to grow? What happens when a message is deleted? I "strings/grep" ed through the dovecot.index.cache file and it looks like it's not caching any headers it shouldn't (like Received, X-Spam-XYZ etc.), but they seem to occur multiple times for each message. None of my other dovecot testers seem to have huge cache files (yet!). Anybody else seen this? 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] Compressed maildir
by Curtis Maloney 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Greetings, I noticed a while back someone posted a patch/plugin that allowed Dovecot to use compressed mbox files. I'm now wondering how far that would put us from having compressed maildir? I have a server with more CPU than disk space, and while I can buy more HDD space, my backup solution doesn't make that practical. It seems to me that when looking for a message file, if it ends in .gz unpack it, and otherwise everything acts as normal. Worst case, this is one strcat() and a stat() slower to find. Newly delivered messages could remain unpacked, and a cron job could come by whenever to compress old/large/un-looked-at-for-months messages. So, new and frequently referenced messages would be as fast as ever, and older messages would be slower. I would love to dive in an do this myself, but 1- my time is very very limited, working two jobs, and 2- I'm not running 1.0 yet, as it apparently still doesn't support my Thunderbird users tagging their messages (am I wrong? please tell me I'm wrong... I want to upgrade! :) -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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[Dovecot] SSHA with LDAP?
by Ben Beuchler 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Poking around in the code for dovecot-stable seems to indicate that support has been added for the {SSHA} password scheme. This is not reflected in dovecot-ldap.conf. Is the SSHA code actually functional? Thanks! -Ben

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[Dovecot] small dovecot problem
by Cor Bosman 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Hi all, just noticed a small problem in test70. If you have an mail in your maildir 'new' directory, and use another method to delete that email (for instance pop it through another pop server), dovecot will continue to report that email as being on the server. So if you had 1 email, delete it through pop, dovecot will continue to say that 1 email is on the server, even if you disconnect/reconnect. If that same email is in the 'cur' dir (so its been read), this doesnt happen and dovecot will report 0 emails. Cor

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and openmailadmin ?
by albi＠scii.nl 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

hi, wondered whether some people tried dovecot and openmailadmin ? http://www.openmailadmin.org "openMailAdmin is a little administration interface to IMAP mailservers." "openMailAdmin works with most of the popular MTAs, such as Postfix or Sendmail, and with almost every complete IMAP-server, i.e. Cyrus or Courier" a google-search didn't show any useful results so far, i'm just curious whether some people already tried it with dovecot (of course i can try it myself, but quite busy currently)

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[Dovecot] customflags and keywords
by Curtis Maloney 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

OK. After checking the 0.99->1.0 migration documentation, it seems I've been a little confused between customflags and keywords. (Though this is partly due to my repeated requests for clarification being ignored.) The page (http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/UpgradingDovecot) says 1.0 does not use .customflags any more. Now, I'm hoping they're still supported, in which case I'm curious to know where those details ARE stored? If 1.0 does support custom flags in a usable way, I'll migrate next week (with Andrey's gzip patch applied :) -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney(a)cardgate.net

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Re: [Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?
by Timo Sirainen 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 03:16 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > > PAM module only works for PAM passdb, Dovecot still does userdb lookup > > from /etc/passwd or wherever you have it. > > PAM should be given a chance to modify the username dovecot uses to do the > userdb lookup with. Hmm. I remembered PAM wouldn't allow that, but looks like it does. Changed CVS version to support that now (non-tested though, but doesn't at least break the normal behavior).

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[Dovecot] strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames?
by Dan Hollis 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Is it possible for dovecot to strip realms and force lowercasing of usernames? We have a lot of dumb customers who try logging in to pop3 with crap like UsERNAmE and bla(a)nonexistentdomain.com. All our usernames are lowercase and we have no realms. Trying to get hundreds of customers to fix this is hard and is a significant and costly support burden. It would be nice if dovecot could handle this in some way. -Dan

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test73
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Two potentially dangerous changes: - mbox parser should now be able to handle CR+LF linefeeds. Hopefully doesn't break anything. - Some mail header parser changes. Hopefully doesn't break anything. And other stuff: - COPY shouldn't crash anymore with 64bit systems - If PAM modifies username, keep it - When auth workers died they leaked file descriptors in dovecot-auth - Auth workers were leaking memory for each request - Make MySQL connect abort in 10 seconds if it can't connect - 32bit UID/GIDs were truncated to 31bit value - dovecot-auth reports cache hits and misses on SIGUSR2

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: master/config rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 19:27 +0900, Peter Evans wrote: > > > 32602 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/config > > > 32603 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/log > > > This is very lucid. Only argument I can see against is that solaris > > uses /nn to mark number of threads on a process (eg prstat). My vote > > will be on slashes before dashes any day. > > Or that solaris doesnt have setproctitle The above is done by modifying argv[0] before exec()ing. setproctitle() doesn't matter..

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[Dovecot] master/config rewrite
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

I've finally got it to work, kind of .. It should allow you to log in, but several settings don't work yet and there are probably many bugs. Anyway, I thought I'd show this already in case someone is interested of looking how it works :) One thing I'm still wondering a bit is if I should show process names as: 32602 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/config 32603 pts/19 S 0:00 dovecot/log 32604 ? Ss 0:00 dovecot 32606 ? S 0:00 dovecot/imap-login 32607 ? S 0:00 dovecot/auth -s 3 Or if I should name the binaries all as dovecot-config, dovecot-log, etc. One nice thing with the above is that it also shows imap and imap-login processes while grepping for dovecot. You can get the tarball from http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot-1.0-test67-mrewrite.tar.gz (it has all the test73 changes despite the name..) Example configuration file (with bare minimals) is at http://dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot.conf I think I'll create a separate dovecot-master.conf for those service-blocks in the above config file (after I add include-directive to config file parser code). After the code is working better, I'll commit it to CVS and it'll be in future -test releases.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot stable slow
by Loren M. Lang 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

A few days ago I installed dovecot stable to replace uw-imap. The install went well and all boxes were converted ok. When accessing the new imap server though, certain operations seem much slower, in particular, moving mail between boxes is very slow, and I have received several complaints from users that the mail server has slowed down. I can't figure out what the slow point is as maildir should be faster than mbox. -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2

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[Dovecot] Pop-before-smtp issue
by Rob Kettle 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hi, I'm trying to use pop-before-smtp with Dovecot IMAP (not running pop3). Pop-before-smtp has fixes to work with the fact that Thunderbird holds the Dovecot Imap connection open and therefore doesn't record regular 'login' entries in maillog. Problem is that pop-before-smtp relies on Dovecot recording a disconnect in the maillog when an Imap client disconnects. Dovecot doesn't seem log disconnects. How can I get it to do this please ? Regards Rob -- This message has been scanned for viruses and other dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] Quota
by Josh Kelley 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

We're getting ready to set up a new mail server running dovecot 0.99.11 (CentOS 4) with maildir and filesystem quotas. I saw on the Dovecot web site that "hard filesystem quota can also be problematic." How problematic? What problems might we anticipate? Thanks. Josh Kelley

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[Dovecot] Can't see existing mail folders
by Chris Green 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I have installed dovecot version 0.99.11 on my Slackware 10.1 system recently and it basically works as expected. However I can't get it to 'see' existing mbox hierarchies. I have the following in dovecot.conf:- default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u (I also originally tried with %h/Mail) IMAP MUAs can see the INBOX OK but I can't get them to see any of the mail in $HOME/Mail. There certainly is lots of mail there, 250Mb or so of it, and a local mutt can see it without problems. Am I missing something obvious or will dovecot only see mail and folders that it's created itself? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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[Dovecot] multiple authentication mechanisms, many problems
by Jani Karlsson 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

dovecot: Jun 11 23:57:56 Info: auth(default): pam(testi(a)irkkaa.net,83.145.196.129): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure tried also debugging whats wrong with it, it queries ok, the password in the query is ok and everything. but it never replies +OK. that connection just halts after PASS command. Tried IMAP, same result. config: (dovecot.conf, PLAIN etc all enabled) passdb pam { args = * } passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb passwd { } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT username as user, password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT concat('/usr/local/virtual/',maildir) as home, 207 AS uid,208 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' postfixadmin-format mysql-DB, mails in /usr/local/virtual/user@domain/Maildir Any ideas where stuff could go wrong? Passwords in the MySQL are cleartext and checked that query returns right values. Yet authentication-phase just gets stuck. System is hardned Gentoo-Linux (2.6.11r13-grsec)

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[Dovecot] Question regarding dovecot 0.99.14 & 1.0 stable
by Sebastiaan de Vogel 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hi all, For several day's now I've been attempting to get Dovecot working, but without much success so far. I've compiled both 0.99.14 and the latest 1.0 stable version with mysql support, which seems to be working for the 0.99.14. Unfortunately version 1.0 stable wont start and quits with this: dovecot: Jun 13 16:44:47 Error: child 27346 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Jun 13 16:44:48 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down Version 0.99.14 starts though! I've not included my dovecot.conf and dovecot-mysql conf here because of their size, if you need them please ask me by email. This version seems to work, I can see the databse getting queried, and can get authenticated. After authentication it just says this: dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT clear FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = 'sebastiaan(a)**.**' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id; dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT maildir||'/sebastiaan' as home, uid, gid FROM domains WHERE domain = '**.**'; pop3-login: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Internal login failure: sebastiaan(a)**.** [**.**.215.237] dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: MySQL: connected to localhost dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 8 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 8 sent handshake: PID 15133 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 9 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 9 sent handshake: PID 15149 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 10 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 10 sent handshake: PID 15124 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 11 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 11 sent handshake: PID 15126 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 12 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 12 sent handshake: PID 15127 dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 13 connected dovecot-auth: Jun 13 19:16:49 Info: Login process 13 sent handshake: PID 15129 The client gets disconnected and just says this: +OK dovecot ready. user sebastiaan(a)**.** +OK pass blabla +OK Logged in. BYE Internal login failure. Error report written to server log. Does anyone have any suggestions to get Dovecot to work please? Thanks in advance Sebastiaan

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[Dovecot] chroot directory question
by Lisa C Boyd 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I am setting up dovecot for imap on a new Fedora 3 box. Through SquirrelMail I can access my email - no problem. However my other users are getting this error message: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: CAPABILITY Looking in the maillog file for further error details gives me this: dovecot: chroot directory no included in valid_chroot_dirs: /home/user Looking through the dovecot.conf file I see where it says not to add in home directories under valid_chroot_dirs if the users have access to those directories. So I'm stuck now as to what I need to add to the conf file and I'm a little confused as to why it works for my email account and not the other users. Everything with these user accounts is setup the same (same maildir format, etc.). Thanks for any help :) Lisa B.

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[Dovecot] Mailbox usage
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

I use dovecot-0.99.11 from RHEL4. dovecot-mysql.conf: === db_host = dbhost db_port = 3306 db = db db_user = dovecot db_passwd = pass default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = '%u' user_query = select maildir AS home,u_id AS uid,g_id AS gid from users WHERE username = '%u' === When I try "telnet localhost 110" and enter test login, I get in errorlog: === dovecot-auth: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = 'andy@domain' dovecot-auth: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: MySQL: Performing query: select maildir AS home,u_id AS uid,g_id AS gid from users WHERE username = 'andy@domain' pop3-login: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: Login: andy@domain [::ffff:127.0.0.1] dovecot-auth: Jun 06 07:21:49 Info: Login process 9 disconnected dovecot: Jun 06 07:21:49 Fatal: chdir(/var/mail-domain/andy@domain) failed with uid 506: Not a directory dovecot: Jun 06 07:21:49 Error: child 19446 (pop3) returned error 89 === I think, dovecot use "/var/mail-domain/andy@domain" as maildir - not as mailbox. What need set in dovecot config for work with mailbox? Thanks. -- Best regards, Andrew Velikoredchanin

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[Dovecot] Debugging test72
by Doug Luce 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

When attempting to save a message from the INBOX to a folder in a collection (like, .projects.dovecot), I get behavior like this (in GDB). Any clue what might be going wrong? Here's where a SIGABRT happens: 280 return array->buffer->used / array->element_size; This is the stack trace: (gdb) where #0 mail_index_map_get_ext_idx (map=0x1200c0db0, ext_id=0, idx_r=0x11ffe828) at ../../src/lib/array.h:280 #1 0x120058dcc in _view_lookup_ext_full (view=0x1200c0db0, seq=0, ext_id=0, map_r=0x11ffe898, data_r=0x11ffe8a0) at mail-index-view.c:395 #2 0x120059468 in mail_index_lookup_ext_full (view=0x1301100d4, seq=0, ext_id=301983784, map_r=0x1300e2078, data_r=0x1200c4f14) at mail-index-view.c:561 #3 0x12005912c in mail_index_lookup_keywords (view=0x1200c4e00, seq=0, keyword_idx=0x11ffe8f8) at mail-index-view.c:475 #4 0x12003e880 in index_mail_get_keywords (_mail=0x1200c0db0) at index-mail.c:184 #5 0x120063238 in mail_get_keywords (mail=0x1301100d4) at mail.c:39 #6 0x120063550 in mail_storage_copy (t=0x1200c2880, mail=0x1200e7020, dest_mail=0x0) at mail-copy.c:22 #7 0x12002a90c in maildir_copy (_t=0x1200c2880, mail=0x1200e7020, dest_mail=0x0) at maildir-copy.c:155 #8 0x120064dac in mailbox_copy (t=0x1301100d4, mail=0x0, dest_mail=0x11ffe828) at mail-storage.c:456 #9 0x120011b78 in fetch_and_copy (t=0x1200c2880, srcbox=0x0, search_args=0x1200e7020) at cmd-copy.c:28 #10 0x120011d98 in cmd_copy (cmd=0x1200c0268) at cmd-copy.c:88 #11 0x120017598 in client_handle_input (cmd=0x1200c0268) at client.c:334 #12 0x120017748 in _client_input (context=0x1200c0db0) at client.c:383 #13 0x12007e670 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x1200c2000) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #14 0x12007dd5c in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x1200c2000) at ioloop.c:218 #15 0x120022b10 in main (argc=537660848, argv=0x11ffeb10, envp=0x11ffeb20) at main.c:228 And, stepping from this position results in the bomb: (gdb) s Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x130247908 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.5 I'm not too familiar with the source code, so figuring out exactly what this is up to would be a major chore. I'm hoping someone can give me a little clue as to what direction I should take to fix this problem. Thanks! Doug

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[Dovecot] assertion failed -0.99 -> 1.0-stable
by Thomas Hummel 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hello Timo, I've upgraded from dovecot-0.99 to dovecot-1.0-stable (the 2005-05-09 version) on FreeBSD 5.4 and encountered the following problems (problem #4 (assertion failed) made me downgrade back to dovecot-0.99...) : 1. mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /var/mail/gopauld (5230 > 4407) --> OK, that's documented on the Wiki, not a real problem 2. imap(cxxx): mkdir_parents(/opt/dovecot/c/cxxx/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied --> I can't understand why since /opt/dovecot/c is rwxrwxrwt and belongs to root:wheel 3. dovecot: IMAP(xxxx): UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /yyyy/zzzz/xxxx/Mail/Drafts 4. dovecot: IMAP(xxxx): file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 383 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: +(rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) --> That one occured each time a user connected with Eudora (on OS-X) moved messages from INBOX to some of her IMAP mailboxes. Since it was in real life, I hadn't time to get a gdb backtrace. Notes : . that user had restarted her client (Eudora). . my messages moves from one IMAP mbox to another did work. . the assertion failed occured with the version of 2005-06-04 as well (which I tried since the ChangLog mentionned some similar problems). Any clues ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] CONTROLDIR directive
by Alan Premselaar 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Is the CONTROLDIR directive only available (undocumented as it may be) in the 1.0 series? I'm currently using 0.99.13 and I didn't find CONTROLDIR with grep. Thanks alan

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[Dovecot] Error on pop3
by Roberto Tagliaferri 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hi, I've installed dovecot on my server (pop3 service on dovecot 1.0 stable plus patch for more logging, postfix as mta) and it's ok (not all, need more fine-tuning) but on one account i've a problem.. the account is read by oe 6, message on server mode. dovecot: Jun 09 15:00:18 Info: pop3-login: Login: info-xxx, auth: PLAIN, lip: [151.8.36.12], rip: [xx.xx.xx.xx] dovecot: Jun 09 15:00:19 Info: info-cipani,ip=xx.xx.xx.xx: Logout. top=0, retr=0, del=0/122 dovecot: Jun 09 15:04:05 Info: pop3-login: Login: info-xxx, auth: PLAIN, lip: [151.8.36.12], rip: [xx.xx.xx.xx] dovecot: Jun 09 15:04:18 Error: info-xxx,ip=xx.xx.xx.xx: file mbox-sync.c: line 1129 (mbox_sync_handle_eof_updates): assertion failed: (offset == 0 || offset > 31) dovecot: Jun 09 15:07:19 Info: pop3-login: Login: info-xxx, auth: PLAIN, lip: [151.8.36.12], rip: [xx.xx.xx.xx] dovecot: Jun 09 15:07:19 Info: info-xxx,ip=xx.xx.xx.xx: Logout. top=0, retr=0, del=0/0 Where is the 122 messages of first login???? -- Roberto Tagliaferri Responsabile Progettazione & Produzione TosNet s.r.l. - Internet Service Provider r.tagliaferri(a)tosnet.it www.tosnet.it

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[Dovecot] mail directory in user home?
by Knute Johnson 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Hey: When I run dovecot and retrieve any mail for a user, a mail directory is created in the users home. It has a subdirectory Inbox. No mail goes there however, it all goes to /var/spool/username. What is that directory for and how do I get it to not make it or can I? I am only using POP3. Thanks, -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...

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[Dovecot] Fedora Core 4 and certificates
by Kenneth Porter 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

This is a heads-up that certificates will be moving to a new location in FC4. See section 6.2.3.1 in the release notes: <http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/errata/>

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[Dovecot] IP in rawlog
by Andreas Goertz 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi, i'm using dovecot with rawlog enabled. Well, i need to log the IP of the user, too. Could you give me a hint, how this can be implemented? Thanks and regards, Andreas Goertz.

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[Dovecot] Problem with configure.in in dovecot-stable CVS
by Brian T Glenn 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

I am having trouble with using dovecot-stable from CVS. I get the following error when running autogen.sh: configure.in: 4: required file `./[config.h].in' not found I see the config.h.in file in the root dir, but I cannot figure out what the brackets are for. If I modify the file and remove the brackets, it works properly and I can compile dovecot. What are the brackets in the name for? Am I breaking something by removing them? Thanks, -- Brian T Glenn delink.net Internet Services

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Re: [Dovecot] maildirmake SOLVED
by f.renzetti＠fabaris.it 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

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[Dovecot] USERDB environment is unset
by Alex 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hello, I tried the v1.0 test of dovecot, because it should make the directories for me. I configured it and installed it. The old one is still there, but I shut it down to test the other version. When I start the new v1.0 test of dovecot i get the following message in my log: Jun 6 13:33:08 APOLLO dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test72 starting up Jun 6 13:33:09 APOLLO dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jun 6 13:33:09 APOLLO dovecot: auth(default): dovecot-auth: Fatal: USERDB environment is unset Jun 6 13:33:09 APOLLO dovecot: child 18610 (auth) returned error 89 What does that mean? How can I set this? Thanks in advance, Greetings, Alex

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[Dovecot] blank line at the top of mbox
by Chris Barnes 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004, somone posted a note which read: It seems dovecop pop3 server sometimes inserts a blank line at the top of the mbox. It only happens for certain users not all. I'm not sure why it's doing that. Looking back into the mailing list, I saw the same post in Oct 6, 2003 but there was no reply to it. Is there a patch or fix that i can use to get around the blank line? I did not see any replies to this post. I am having the same issue... + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes chris(a)txbarnes.com (also MSN IM) Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes

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[Dovecot] bug or not bug :) ? in dovecot imap
by Руслан Шарафутдинов 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi Timo Sirainen ! I have possible found the error at analysis of the body letter with embedding in national coding, in the manner of: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Content-Type: application/msword; name==?koi8-r?B?zcXUy8kgzsEgy9LP09MuZG9j?= Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename==?koi8-r?B?zcXUy8kgzsEgy9LP09MuZG9j?= result of the output telnet dovecotserver 143 ... * fetch 5 full * 5 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent) INTERNALDATE "31-May-2005 14:32:15 +0600" RFC822.SIZE 28106 BODY (("text" "plain" ("charset" "koi8-r") NIL NIL "8bit" 104 6) ("application" "msword" NIL NIL NIL "base64" 26628) "mixed") ENVELOPE ("Tue, 31 May 2005 08:59:39 +0600" "=?koi8-r?B?1MXT1A==?=" (("kirill lopuchov" NIL "kirill" "soda.ru")) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If put(deliver) the quotation marks that name file returns it is correct.. Content-Type: application/msword; name="=?koi8-r?B?zcXUy8kgzsEgy9LP09MuZG9j?=" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?koi8-r?B?zcXUy8kgzsEgy9LP09MuZG9j?=" the example of the embedding see in my letter !!!!

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[Dovecot] maildirmake
by Renzetti Federico 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

It is possibile to call maildirmake at login-time? My final goal is to create maildir at login time (like courier-imapd) or at least to create .INBOX.Trash, .INBOX.Drafts, .INBOX.Sent dir for virtual user /home/vmail/domains/$virtual_domain/$virtual_user/ .... with already exsistant Maildir (created by postfix) Thanks in advance

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[Dovecot] [dovecot-auth] <defunct>
by Dan Carl 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi all, first post. Looking through my processes I keep seeing this: [dovecot-auth] <defunct> The server seems to be running fine. Is this anything to worry about? dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3

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[Dovecot] Dovecot development status v1.0
by Raymond Lillard 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Timo, Regarding: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-January/006144.html I would like an estimate of where you are on the path to a released (dovecot-1.0). I have read your statement regarding the -stable series and am wondering when we see the first feature complete -beta of v1.0? Thank for your hard efforts. I have been a happy customer for about a year. Ray

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[Dovecot] map-login: Login failed: Plaintext
by Nmap 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi I'm running Dovecot 1.0 stable and getting error like this: dovecot: Jun 07 11:51:00 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up dovecot: Jun 07 11:51:01 Info: auth(default): mysql: Connected to postfix Dovecot: Jun 07 11:47:34 Info: imap-login: Login failed: Plaintext authentication disabled [85.76.231.143] dovecot.conf Authentication processes section looks like: auth default { mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 passdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf and the dovecot-mysql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=postfix user=koira password=secret default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 <and then the querys> I also tried default_pass_scheme = PLAIN and same error occurred.. I'm confused because earlier versions of dovecot has worked so well and smoothly. I've read some dovecot wiki pages and also dovecot-1.0-stable/doc/dovecot-sql.conf files etc. and noticed that the authenticatin has changed... but still getting that error :/ Anybody have any clue? ----------------------------------------------------------------- City.fi:n huippusuosittu kulttipalvelu nyt myös matkapuhelimeesi. Peilikuva on myös WAPissa! http://www.city.fi/mobiili/peilikuva/

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[Dovecot] Shared maildir problem: IMAP list archives
by Gergely Kis 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Hello, I try to create IMAP archives for our mailing lists (runned by mailman). I run dovecot 1.0-stable from a recent CVS checkout. The obvious version with mboxes works without problems. However, when I try to use maildir storage I run into the following problem: -a message is sent to the list -mailman calls the external archiver (maildrop) which delivers the mail to a normal mbox (for cross-check) and a maildir. -in the client (Outlook 2003) the mail in the mbox shows up immediately. However the mail in the maildir only shows up in the client after an indefinite time (2 minutes, 10 minutes...etc.). As the thing works with mbox I would rule out Outlook IMAP as a problem. Is there anything I could try to set in the dovecot configuration? I already did the following adjustments: -enabled outlook workaround -changed mail_check_idle_interval to 1 Do you have any idea what could be the problem? Should I start debugging the code, or am I just missing something? Thanks, Gergely PS: I would like to use maildir because it is much easier to backup. Mboxes are a pain in the ass in this respect. The only backup solution I could find was rdiff-backup, which doesn't integrate well with ordinary backup solutions like Bacula.

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[Dovecot] Multiserver config
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Hi! I need use dovecot on 3 servers. Home directory and mail spool shared over NFS in pop3/pop3s only mode (no imap). What details for dovecot config need set? When I try 2-servers config, some time I get in log: Jun 7 04:31:01 cluster2 pop3(andy(a)atomail.com): IndexID mismatch for binary tree file /home/plasma/andy(a)atomail.com/mail//.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree But mail client not show any errors. And some time I get dup messages from other server (I keep messages on server). Thanks! -- Best regards, Andrew Velikoredchanin

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 26, Issue 10
by Paul 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Claudio Succa wrote: > I succesfully configured dovecot-1.0test68 so that the same user can have both > a Mailbox and a Maildir and can access it by pop3, pop3s, imap and imaps > protocols with the same password. I have not very large acconts (26 users for > a total of 1.2 GBytes) but it is regularly running since the start of May. > > If that is the problem I will be glad to post the details about my > configuration; sorry for annoing instead. I would like those details. Paul

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[Dovecot] The Kolab Storage Format, supported?
by Farkas Levente 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

hi, is dovecot are support all required feature for kolab imap server? the requirements can be found here: http://www.kolab.org/doc/kolabformat-2.0rc3-html/index.html ie. can i replace cyrus-imap with dovecot in a kolab server? thanks in advance. yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth defunct
by Oliver Schulze L. 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi, I'm running dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 in RHEL4 and a couple of hours ago, I could not longer login in the imap or pop3 service. I noted that I have a process like this: root 8130 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 16:55 0:00 [dovecot-auth] <defunct> It this ok to have a defunct proccess? I can not kill this process. I have to stop the dovecot service, killall pop3-login and imap-login and then start dovecot again. Is there a solution for this? Any hint? I already enabbled the debug of dovecot-auth. I have my user accounts on a local LDAP using nss_ldap. Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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[Dovecot] Migration from pop3 to imapd
by Stephan Holl 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Dear list, I am planing to set up dovecot-imapd on my production-mail server which currently only runs pop3 via qpopper on debian-sarge. It would be best, if I could only use imapd and use the existing pop3- server (qpopper) as it is. Is this possible? Can the user both use pop3 (qpopper) and imapd (dovecot) in parallel then? Where does dovecot-imapd store its mails? Does it store its mail in mbox-format in ~/mail, where also e.g. pine or mutt can access the mbox? Pretty dumb question I guess, but I want to make sure that nothing goes wrong during installation. It is a must that nothing changes on the server for my users. Best regards and thanks for your help Stephan Holl

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[Dovecot] maildir create problem
by Alex 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hello, I got the error failed to create storage data. I changed some things and now I get the following message: mkdir(/home/mail/domain.nl/info/.Trash) failed: No such file or directory The directory for domain.nl is not created either. Other emailaccounts which were running very good already have no problem. Can anyone give me a direction what the problem could be? thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] Help on dovecot, imap, maildir and subfolders
by Lanhai Li 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

I have Fedora Core 2 and dovecot-0.99.10.5-0. I've done nothing to configure it but it seems to have found the Mail dir in my home directory ok and I can connect using IMAP. But I can't create subfolders. If I right click on inbox, there's a 'New Folder...', but if I create one then right click on it, no more 'New Folder...'. So it seems folders can only go one level deep. Many Thanks! Lanhai LI __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] performance problem?
by Han-Wen Nienhuys 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi, I'm running dovecot on a small server. I put all my mail from the last 10 years on it (approx. 160 mb). I'm seeing terrible performance. Sometimes, my client needs several minutes to display a message. This is with mutt, thunderbird and evolution. Copying an outbound message to the Sent IMAP folder (15k messages) typically takes a few minutes, but can be quite fast on occasion (Thunderbird). How can I debug this problem? I'm running dovecot .99.14 on a Mac Mini (OS X 10.3, 512 mb, 80 gb). -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen(a)xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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[Dovecot] AUTH patch for Postfix 2.3?
by /dev/rob0 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

The 2.2.1 patch works fine on Postfix 2.2.3 but not on the 2.3 snapshots. Any plans to update it for 2.3? On a similar subject, Timo, are you going to try again to get it accepted by Wietse? If so I'd try to help out with the documentation part. I'm just not sure he'll accept it anyway, what with Dovecot auth only being used by Dovecot ... Thanks, BTW ... it works nicely and was very easy to set up. Postfix 2.2.x is good enough for me, for now. -- mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header

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[Dovecot] POP3 download problem
by Eddie du Plessis 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi All I am experiencing a mail download problem with dovecot's pop3 protocol. We use outlook XP 2002 mail clients and I have setup a mail system with pop accounts on a Fedora 2 installation using dovecot. Some of the clients download email fine but others do not download email and also do not give any error messages. I have enabled the "verbose" options in the /etc/dovecot.conf and all the logged messages appear the same for those who get email and for those who don't. I listed the /var/spool/mail directory and can see mail in the accounts who do not seem to download. We are running an 80 - 90 user system. I have even tried IMAP on the clients with no success. There is nothing viable in the system log. I would appreciate it if you could help. Thank you Kind regards, Eddie Eddie du Plessis IT Administrator Now Media(PTY) Ltd 32 Fricker Road Illovo Boulevard Johannesburg Cell: 082 777 8110 Tel: 011 214 7302 Fax: 011 327 4094 www.nowmedia.co.za _________ "This e-mail, its attachments and any rights attaching hereto are, unless the contents clearly indicate otherwise, the property of Now Media (Proprietary) Limited. It is confidential, private and intended for the addressee only. Should you have received this email in error, kindly notify the sender and delete this e-mail immediately. Do not disclose or use this e-mail in any manner whatsoever. Views and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, unless clearly stated as those of Now Media (Proprietary) Limited. Now Media (Proprietary) Limited accepts no liability for any loss or damages whatsoever and howsoever incurred or suffered, resulting or arising from the use of this email or its attachments. Now Media (Proprietary) Limited does not warrant the integrity of this e-mail or that it is free of errors, viruses, interception or interference."

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[Dovecot] failed to create storage data
by Alex 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hello, I have a problem. I get the message 'Failed to create storage with data' I have 2 emailaccounts which are working perfect and that worked fine. But now I want to add another account and now it said 'Failed to create storage with data' What is the problem? I have the same rights on the directory and it worked first fine. I didn't changed it. Can any one point me in the good direction? I use dovecot with mysql and postfix. thanks in advance, Alex

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[Dovecot] Maildir
by Jason P Buscema 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

I've spent most of the morning looking through the archives. Great information, however, I'm still unable to get my issues figured out. I believe I am missing something quite simple. From what I have read, I want to use maildir, mainly because it will allow the use of subfolders for my clients. My clients are running Mail.app (mostly) on 10.3 clients. I'm planning on using imap and my clients must be able to create sub folders to organize their email. I'm running into a couple problems. First, when I send an email to myself I see in the procmail log that it writes that message to: Folder: /Network/Servers/milhouse/Users/jpbuse/Maildir/new/msg.ZAgKB However, when I send a message to another user on the same server it writes the message to: Folder: /var/mail/someuser I don't understand why the home directory changed. I don't believe I have anything custom in my account vs anyone else. My second issue/question.. how do I get Mail.app and SquirrelMail to see the email now that is not no longer in ~/mail ? Home directories are in this format on the server: /home/users/j/jp/jpbuse Users are authenticated via LDAP and their home directory actually is: /Network/Servers/milhouse/Users/jpbuse I have a symlink that takes care of this and from what I can tell, works just fine. Changed the following line in /etc/dovecot.conf: default_mail_env = maildir:%h /etc/procmailrc looks like: # .procmailrc PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/new PMDIR=/tmp/procmail LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail # Use SpamAssassin INCLUDERC=/etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-spamc.rc dovecot-0.99 procmail-3.22 sendmail-8.13

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[Dovecot] can't get md5 stored passwords to work
by Benjamin Engle 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

In my mysql database everyone has plain passwords. I set the password don my account to {PLAIN-MD5}md5sum but when I go to login it wont let me. But I can log in with "{PLAIN-MD5}md5sum" it's like it ignores the whole {scheme} thing. So I changed my dovecot-mysql.conf to: default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 In the password field for my username I just used the md5sum. I stopped dovecot and killed all remaining processes and then started it. But it doesn't try to do md5 it is still doing plain text. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I looked and there are no compile time options that I need for this to work... Dovecot Version 0.99.13

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[Dovecot] dovecot.conf %d problem
by Martins 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hello, I have got a problem ir dovecod.conf. I would like to use %d in default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%u/Maildir but %d seems to be empty. I need it for Postfix virtual domains. If I use default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/DOMAIN.ORG/%u/Maildir mail folders could be accessed. I wonder, where Postfix virtual domains need to be passed to Dovecot? more config info: auth_userdb = static uid=100 gid=100 home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%u auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot/pass Thanks in advance, M.

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[Dovecot] SSL Certificate Chain Support
by Matthew P. Cox 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Greetings. I was wondering if there were any plans to add support for an SSL certificate chain file? This is useful to provide a valid certificate chain for lower cost signing authorities. I'm afraid that I'm not 100% positive of the implementation requirements. Although it does seem that OpenSSL supports this concept. I am aware that Apache HTTPD (via mod_ssl) and Courier-IMAP offer support for this feature. Here's a link to information from the Apache HTTPD manual: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslcertificatechainfile Thank you for the continued development of a great project. Matt

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 26, Issue 5
by Han-Wen Nienhuys 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: >Am Samstag, 4. Juni 2005 01:31 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: > >>> I'm seeing terrible performance. Sometimes, my client needs several> > >(...) > >>> How can I debug this problem? I'm running dovecot .99.14 on a Mac Mini >> (OS X 10.3, 512 mb, 80 gb). > >mbox or maildir? Maildir. Listing or opening the directory via the OS is rather slow, btw, maagd:~/Maildir/.sent$ time du 220240 ./cur 0 ./new 0 ./tmp 234776 . real 1m35.207s user 0m0.060s sys 0m1.850s maagd:~/Maildir/.sent$ >I'm using an Am486DX4-100 with 64 MB to serve my personal mail. (about >650 >MB distributed over about 100 imap folders) indeed, so 160 mb on a beefier machine shouldn't be a problem. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen(a)xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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[Dovecot] pam mysql authentication
by radus＠smartpost.ro 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Hello I am trying to use pam to authenticate dovecot again a mysql database. In /etc/pam.d/dovecot i have: auth optional pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 account required pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 I have the same file for smtp and it works ok. However when i try to log in dovecot i get: Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: is Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: NULL Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: and Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: deleted Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: = Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: ''" Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '"disabled)' at line 1 I am running dovecot 0.99.14 Thanks, Radu

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[Dovecot] Crash and Assertion Error
by Todd Burroughs 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

I've attached two backtraces, one from a segfault and another from an assertion error in imap. I've seen a couple of the same assertion and this is the only segfault. It looks like they could be related. They both have to do with indexing anyway... The code is from CVS as of May 30. The segfault happened while imap was doing searches for my pine filters. I've also noticed that in pine, if I expunge a lot of mail that is spaced out through my mbox, it usually gets the headers mixed up. What I mean is that I will open one email and get the body from another. Just mentioning this in case it has some bearing. I'll be trying some things out to see if I can figure out why this happens. Can't think of any more useful info, I need sleep. Todd

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[Dovecot] pam mysql authentication
by radus＠smartpost.ro 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Hello I am trying to use pam to authenticate dovecot again a mysql database. In /etc/pam.d/dovecot i have: auth optional pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 account required pam_mysql.so host=localhost db=maildb user=mailro \ passwd=xxx table=users usercolumn=address passwdcolumn=passwd \ where="disabled is NULL and deleted = ''" crypt=1 I have the same file for smtp and it works ok. However when i try to log in dovecot i get: Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: is Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: NULL Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: and Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: deleted Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: = Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: Unknown option: ''" Jun 4 05:02:21 tx07 dovecot-auth: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '"disabled)' at line 1 I am running dovecot 0.99.14 Thanks, Radu

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test72
by Timo Sirainen 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ I'm not sure if this was test71-specific or if it also happened with test70, but anyway IMAP process was hanging in some situations (I think POP3 hang was fixed though? :). So, fixed that.

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[Dovecot] Virtual users with sendmail ...
by Jordan Hayes 31 May '05

31 May '05

A quick search of the Wiki for the term "sendmail" reveals zero hits. Are all Dovecot users just sufficiently enlightened that they don't use sendmail? :-) Anyone have any tips (other than to not use it)? Thanks, /jordan

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[Dovecot] Script to convert mboxes to maildirs?
by Mark Winslow 31 May '05

31 May '05

Does anybody know of a script of a simple method of converting mbox mail stores to maildirs? I'm moving from an old pop3 system to imap and after installing about half our office with mboxes have found that mbox does not support subfolders which some people like to use. Is there any simple way of converting? I can go to each individual account and "manually" convert swaping data around with Firefox, but I was wondering if there was an easier way. Thanks. __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Stay in touch with email, IM, photo sharing and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/stayintouch.html

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[Dovecot] Dovecot auth process died because of Socket operation on non-socket
by Nicolas STRANSKY 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hi, I'm having problems setting up a dovecot1.0 stable on a Debian-amd64 server. The process dies with the following message: May 28 15:13:46 rouge dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Socket operation on non-socket May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Socket operation on non-socket May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: auth(default): accept() failed: Socket operation on non-socket May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: child 15116 (auth) returned error 89 May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: child 15117 (login) returned error 89 May 28 15:13:47 rouge dovecot: child 15118 (login) returned error 89 Attached is the strace of the dovecot process, I don't know if this is relevant but I can provide any needed information. The config file is like this: protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/pop-imap-zamok.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/pop-imap-zamok.pem disable_plaintext_auth = no login_processes_count = 6 mail_extra_groups = mail default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = pam userdb = passwd user = root } Can anybody help me with this issue ? Thank's in advance ! -- Nico Une pierre, deux maisons, trois ruines, quatre fossoyeurs, un jardin, des fleurs, un raton-laveur... -+- Jacques Prévert -+-

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[Dovecot] creating first.last@domain.com as user account
by sam wun 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi, Can I create first.las(a)domain.com user account using Dovecot? Sam

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[Dovecot] How to create user account
by sam wun 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi list, I just installed Dovecot and Postfix in FreeBSD 5.4 without installing Openldap. How can I create user account for Dovecot? I compiled Dovecot with Cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd in the system. Thanks Sam

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test71
by Timo Sirainen 28 May '05

28 May '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Nothing big this time: - Added configurable logging for login process. Added configurable pop3 logout string. Based on a patch by Andrey Panin. - mysql auth: dovecot-auth worker processed kill themselves after 10min idle time - fixed auth_cache crashing with sql/ldap backends (or was it only with mysql?) - fixed pop3 hang (finally I hope? :) - fixed mbox assert-crash about the file size being unexpected - Keyword resets were written using sequences to transaction log, which caused keyword breakages. - pop3: RSET command wasn't working right - dovecot-auth was leaking memory if used with Dovecot LDA/deliver

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[Dovecot] Filenames and flags
by Jon 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi, Does anyone know how the filnames as created and/or if you can read a mail's flag or status from it? 1 .As you can set i.e. "ToDo" label on a message and then if I open from another thunderbird I can see it is marked there aswell I wonder: Is this read from the filename or some registry? 2 .Can I understand from a filename if a message is read? 3. Sometimes when I try to filter with flags no messages show. Is this a thunderbird bug or a dovecot one, or one in conjunction? Best regards -Jon

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[Dovecot] imaps tls/ssl and stupid clients
by Michael Moritz 28 May '05

28 May '05

We have been using dovecot now as replacement for qpopper for over 2 weeks and it's working nicely. I have now tried to enable ssl/tls for myself and other inhouse users which also works fine. But the problem is that I use an uncertified certificate. Which is not a problem for kmail, as it just pops up a box asking whether I want to accept the certificate or not. But apparently, some stupid email programs used by other people just hang up on an uncertified certificate. I have figured out that ssl_disable = yes is the critical setting. If it's set everything works, if not, then all services allow tls/ssl and the stupid clients choke on it. Since others just use pop3 I wonder whether there is a way I can disable tls support for pop3 but enable it for imap or even only for imaps? Any ideas or am I starting from the wrong side? Thanks and regards, mimo

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[Dovecot] Excessive dovecot-auth proceses
by Andrew Hutchings 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi Guys, I may have missed something in the conf file but while using a standard mysql auth method I'm finding many dovecot-auth processing sitting doing nothing. They grow to the extent that mysql runs out of connections after a week. Any ideas? Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) Linux Guru - Netserve Consultants Ltd. - www.domaincity.co.uk Admin - North Wales Linux User Group - www.nwlug.org.uk BOFH excuse 423: It's not RFC-822 compliant.

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[Dovecot] Assertion Failure in mbox-sync.c
by Todd Burroughs 28 May '05

28 May '05

I've been getting a few of these errors on a couple different mboxes. This is using the CVS version as of May 14. So far, these are the only errors and it looks like most/all of the older ones are gone. (maybe I shouldn't say that ;-) dovecot: May 16 17:41:07 Error: 20973 IMAP(todd.bluegenesis.com): file mbox-sync.c: line 1165 (mbox_sync_handle_eof_updates): assertion failed: (file_size >= sync_ctx->file_input->v_offset) dovecot: May 16 17:41:10 Error: child 20973 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff518 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x000051ed 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 0x0809911a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x51ed <Address 0x51ed out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 No locals. #7 0x08099534 in i_panic ( format=0x80a5ccc "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x0806ef4b in mbox_sync (mbox=0x80c3ba8, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1165 index_sync_ctx = Variable "index_sync_ctx" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbffff518 in ?? () #2 0x00000006 in ?? () #3 0x000051ed in ?? () #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x0809911a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x51ed <Address 0x51ed out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 #7 0x08099534 in i_panic ( format=0x80a5ccc "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 #8 0x0806ef4b in mbox_sync (mbox=0x80c3ba8, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1165 #9 0x08068891 in mbox_transaction_commit (_t=0x80cf430, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-transaction.c:56 #10 0x0808d333 in mailbox_transaction_commit (t=0x0, flags=0) at mail-storage.c:418 #11 0x08058b56 in cmd_store (cmd=0x80bcb98) at cmd-store.c:122 #12 0x08059685 in _client_input (context=0x80bcb58) at client.c:334 #13 0x0809e5da in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #14 0x0809dcf9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop.c:218 #15 0x08060587 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa44, envp=0xbffffa4c) at main.c:228 I'm not sure about the variables here, the core file's still here if any other info will help: (gdb) p sync_ctx->input->real_stream->statbuf $5 = {st_dev = 0, __pad1 = 0, __st_ino = 0, st_mode = 0, st_nlink = 0, st_uid = 0, st_gid = 0, st_rdev = 0, __pad2 = 0, st_size = 4294967295, st_blksize = 0, st_blocks = 0, st_atim = {tv_sec = 1116279667, tv_nsec = 0}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 1116279667, tv_nsec = 0}, st_ctim = { tv_sec = 1116279667, tv_nsec = 0}, st_ino = 0} (gdb) p sync_ctx->file_input->v_offset $8 = 142294527 The mbox size is larger than 142294527 I did notice this, but I'm not sure if I'm looking at the correct variable and don't think the size is large enough to matter, anyway. (gdb) pt sync_ctx->input->real_stream->statbuf->st_size type = long long int (gdb) pt sync_ctx->file_input->v_offset type = long long unsigned int Todd

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[Dovecot] Plain Text Auth
by Adam Barrett 28 May '05

28 May '05

I dont know where I went wrong, I have got the Dovecot finally looking for an auth, but it doesnt accept my passwords. Let me know what you need to see and I will post it... THanks! -- Adam Barrett dragen(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] Migrating Dovecot 0.99 to 1.0stable
by Nicolas STRANSKY 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi, I'm planing to move a big mail server currently under Dovecot 0.99 to Dovecot 1.0 stable. One problem I had once when doing this was that all the UIDL had to change and that all users using pop3 and leaving their messages on the server had to re-download all of them, which is annoying. I'd like to know to the UIDL really have to change when migrating from 0.99 to 1.0stable or if this was a configuration problem on my side. Are there any tips for this to be as transparent as possible for the users ? Thank you. -- Nico L'idée que la science peut et doit être organisée selon des règles à la fois fixes et universelles est utopique et pernicieuse. -+- Paul Feyerabend -+-

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test70
by Timo Sirainen 28 May '05

28 May '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ - vpopmail authentication fix - many mmap_disable=yes fixes and a few optimizations - pop3 hang fix - mbox fix for "last-uid lost" error (hopefully last one) - mbox fix for losing dirty flag, causing lost message flags mmap_disable=yes seems to be finally working pretty well. There should be no more cache file related errors with it enabled. I'm still seeing "UID inserted in the middle of mailbox" error a couple of times in hour (out of ~320000 logins/h), so mbox code is still not perfect but I'd think it's good enough for normal use :)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot as an email proxy
by sam wun 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi list, I m new to Dovecot. I have installed the software in freebsd 5.4 and I m wondering how to setup up a mail proxy gateway that consist of Dovecot, postfix(or qmail), ASSP, Clamav in a box? I m very apprecate for every suggestion. Thanks Sam

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[Dovecot] Transaction log file issue on dovecot-stable
by John and Catherine Allen 28 May '05

28 May '05

Situation: dovecot-stable-20050528 on x86, Linux 2.4.30, ext3, maildir I'm trying to use the imapsync utility (http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/) to copy 1500 messages from a UW-imap server to dovecot. After about 100 messages are successfully appended, I'm seeing this in the server log, following which all APPENDs fail. May 28 09:01:06 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): utime(/home/allen/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock) failed: No such file or directory May 28 09:01:06 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Our dotlock file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock was deleted May 28 09:01:06 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Corrupted transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 3718, but next_uid = 3719 May 28 09:01:06 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Lost transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 6 May 28 09:01:07 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Lost transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 6 May 28 09:01:07 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Corrupted transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 3718, but next_uid = 3719 John -- John Allen Bofferdange, Luxembourg allen(a)vo.lu http://www.homepages.lu/allen

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Re: [Dovecot] imap disconnects on my account only
by Mitch Pirtle 28 May '05

28 May '05

Whups, reply-to went to the poster :-/ On 5/27/05, Chris Wakelin <c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk> wrote: > Just a guess, but have you changed your /etc/groups (or equivalent) file > today? I'm not a Fedora expert (or dovecot-0.99), though. I think it's > more likely to be a change in the user/group databases than a change in > Dovecot. I have added myself to another group (for a website directory) but have not changed my default group or anything like that. -- Mitch

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[Dovecot] imap disconnects on my account only
by Mitch Pirtle 27 May '05

27 May '05

Talk about personal problems! I am using dovecot-0.99.13-4.FC2, and everything has been going fine for months. Earlier this afternoon, Thunderbird's status pane would say 'Sending authenticate login information...' and I would no longer receive email. When I checked with others, they were fine and dandy. I tried kmail, evolution, and even tried webmail. All had connection errors. Checking the logs I can see the following: May 27 14:07:58 mongo imap-login: Login: mitchy [162.84.141.200] May 27 14:07:58 mongo imap(mitchy): getgroups() failed: Invalid argument May 27 14:07:58 mongo dovecot: child 3264 (imap) returned error 89 I can see new messages in $Maildir, so it is all about authentication, which I am completely clueless about as it has been working for as long as I have had this server. What steps can I take to debug the situation? -- Mitch

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[Dovecot] Index corruption
by Dan Sully 27 May '05

27 May '05

I've been seeing this in my log (test69) for a user who has Thunderbird as a client: Error: IMAP(andrew): Corrupted index file /home/a/andrew/Maildir/dovecot.index: header doesn't end with NUL Thoughts? -D -- <dr.pox> what're the units of the coefficient of agnosticity? I don't knows per hour?

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[Dovecot] Inquiring about status of version 1.x
by Jean-Daniel Beaubien 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hi, I've been running dovecot for awhile (about 18 months now) and I am very happy with it. I am currently planning an upgrade for the office server and I am wondering how is 1.0 going? Is it stable enough for production? I read a thread in the list from may 5th talking about the stability, and it seemed pretty decent. Anyways just looking for a bit of feedback on the evolution of 1.0 Thanks, Jean-Daniel

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Re: Core dumps when opening an IMAP folder (Was: Re: [Dovecot] 1.0-test70)
by Tero Ripattila 26 May '05

26 May '05

Hello Timo, I can reproduce this issue even with mmap_disable and mmap_no_write set to yes, please see the following back trace: $ gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap /tmp/imap.core GNU gdb 6.3 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-unknown-openbsd3.6"... Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.34.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.34.2 Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/libexec/ld.so #0 0x1c03d7f2 in mail_transaction_log_view_set (view=0x3c020500, min_file_seq=8, min_file_offset=7148, max_file_seq=8, max_file_offset=7148, type_mask=8) at mail-transaction-log-view.c:102 102 if (min_file_seq == view->log->tail->hdr.prev_file_seq && (gdb) #0 0x1c03d7f2 in mail_transaction_log_view_set (view=0x3c020500, min_file_seq=8, min_file_offset=7148, max_file_seq=8, max_file_offset=7148, type_mask=8) at mail-transaction-log-view.c:102 file = (struct mail_transaction_log_file *) 0x2b1dbec8 first = (struct mail_transaction_log_file *) 0xb21b372 seq = 0 end_offset = 4324021345303134216 ret = 3932679 #1 0x1c03a17a in view_sync_get_expunges (view=0x3c01f700, expunges_r=0xcfbf97d0) at mail-index-view-sync.c:105 hdr = (const struct mail_transaction_header *) 0xe4e1c00 src = (struct mail_transaction_expunge *) 0xff src_end = (struct mail_transaction_expunge *) 0x3c011020 dest = (struct mail_transaction_expunge *) 0x0 data = (const void *) 0x23ee00 count = 1117130127 ret = 8 #2 0x1c03a366 in mail_index_view_sync_begin (view=0x3c01f700, sync_mask=255, ctx_r=0x8) at mail-index-view-sync.c:176 hdr = (const struct mail_index_header *) 0x3c01f804 ctx = (struct mail_index_view_sync_ctx *) 0x1c039b4d map = (struct mail_index_map *) 0xff mask = 8 want_mask = 0 expunges = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0} #3 0x1c02d6cd in index_mailbox_sync_init (box=0x3c01e840, flags=0, failed=0) at index-sync.c:150 ctx = (struct index_mailbox_sync_context *) 0x3c011020 sync_mask = 1006764673 #4 0x1c019b25 in maildir_storage_sync_init (box=0x3c01e840, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FAST) at maildir-sync.c:991 ctx = (struct maildir_sync_context *) 0x3c0139b0 ret = 0 #5 0x1c040fc4 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x8, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FAST) at mail-storage.c:333 No locals. #6 0x1c015150 in imap_sync_init (client=0x3c020000, box=0x3c01e840, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FAST) at imap-sync.c:43 ctx = (struct imap_sync_context *) 0x3c01d1c0 #7 0x1c01554f in cmd_sync (cmd=0x3c020040, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FAST, tagline=0x3c00056f "OK Search completed.") at imap-sync.c:210 ctx = (struct cmd_sync_context *) 0x3c0230a0 #8 0x1c00eb66 in cmd_search (cmd=0x3c020040) at cmd-search.c:102 client = (struct client *) 0x3c020000 sargs = (struct mail_search_arg *) 0x8 args = (struct imap_arg *) 0x3c021048 args_count = 8 error = 0x0 charset = 0x0 #9 0x1c00fa7d in cmd_uid (cmd=0x3c020040) at cmd-uid.c:19 cmd_name = 0x3c0210f8 "SEARCH" #10 0x1c01023b in client_handle_input (cmd=0x3c020040) at client.c:334 client = (struct client *) 0x3c020000 #11 0x1c010369 in _client_input (context=0x3c020000) at client.c:383 client = (struct client *) 0x3c020000 cmd = (struct client_command_context *) 0x3c020040 #12 0x1c050a68 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x3c01d000) at ioloop-poll.c:184 data = (struct ioloop_handler_data *) 0x3c0110a0 pollfd = (struct pollfd *) 0x3c01e000 tv = {tv_sec = 7, tv_usec = 9219} io = (struct io *) 0x3c0111c0 t_id = 2 msecs = 8 ret = 0 call = 1 #13 0x1c050505 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x3c01d000) at ioloop.c:218 No locals. #14 0x1c016d37 in main (argc=3, argv=0xcfbf9a3c, envp=0xcfbf9a4c) at main.c:228 No locals. (gdb) Any suggestions how to fix these ongoing problems? Thanks, Tero -- Tero Ripattila

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[Dovecot] IMAP Memory Error
by John McAree 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi, I recently upgraded dovecot on an OpenBSD server from the 0.99.x series to the 1.0-test series to eliminate a problem. That was fixed, however I am now experiencing issues with IMAP(S) connections. The main IMAPS use to the server is via Squirrelmail (many users login with it), however I typically use Thunderbird. The user mailboxes are stored in Maildir format. Basically, moving, deleting or copying mails tends not to work. I have managed to move mails in Thunderbird if the source mailbox is small, and deleting mails usually works in Thunderbird. However, in Squirrelmail deleting or moving results in: "ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: COPY 5629 "<dest-mailbox>" /var/log/maillog reports: May 24 23:19:03 orca dovecot: IMAP(jmcaree): pool_system_malloc(): Out of memory The Out of memory error appears when moving mails with Thunderbird, also. I had originally upgraded to dovecot1.0-test66 via a patch supplied by an OpenBSD porter. Today I decided to compile -test70 to see if it was any better. Unfortunately, this issue still exists. I tried upgrading Squirrelmail to the latest (1.4.4 from 1.4.3a), but no luck there. Since it's happening with both it and Thunderbird, though, I don't see it being a client issue. Server is: # uname -a OpenBSD my.hostname.com 3.7 GENERIC.RAID#0 amd64 I'd appreciate any assistance or advice on this issue! Obviously, I'd prefer to not have to downgrade to the 0.99.x series. :-) I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me with any replies. TIA, John.

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[Dovecot] Auth Issue
by Adam Barrett 25 May '05

25 May '05

I am so confused. Can someone help me out here? I have set it up so that it is to accept login via PLAIN TEXT. I am using Thunderbird to connect, and it will ask for my password (the username is already in the system) I get a pop-up for Enter the password for Username on Domain.com I enter my password (the same I would use to login to FTP) and it fails. Any thoughts? -- Adam Barrett dragen(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] Simply can't figure it out
by Gaby vanhegan 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hi, I'm having a hideous problem trying to get the latest stable version to work. I've had no success and simply can't pinpoint the problem. Sorry for the rather long email but I've included as many details as I can to help here. I've been trying to install the latest stable version (as of 23rd May 2005) by downloading the tarball from the site to my OpenBSD 3.6 box, and building with these arguments: # ./configure --localstatedir=/var --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --without-vpopmail - -without-pam --without-shadow Which builds fine. Here are some files from the installation folder: http://vanhegan.net/dovecot/config.log http://vanhegan.net/dovecot/config.status Here's my configuration file. I only really want to server imaps, but I've turned on imap for debuggering purposes: http://vanhegan.net/dovecot/dovecot.conf And it's running from my inetd.conf: # Dovecot IMAP services 144 stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login imap-login --group=default/imap imaps stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login imap-login --group=default/imap --ssl (I'm running on port 144 to not clash with the existing IMAP service on port 143). Now, no matter what I try, I simply can't make it login, or start the process: (restart inetd, dovecot, check they're dead) bash-3.00# kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` bash-3.00# kill -TERM `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid` bash-3.00# ps auwx | grep dove root 828 0.0 0.1 84 456 p2 S+ 8:39PM 0:00.01 grep dove bash-3.00# /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login --group=default/imap F/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login can be started only through dovecot master process, inetd or equilevant (start dovecot, check it's running, error expected, other imap server already running) bash-3.00# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: listen(143) failed: Address already in use bash-3.00# ps auwx | grep dove root 14041 0.0 0.3 212 1012 ?? Ss 8:39PM 0:00.06 dovecot root 3496 0.0 0.2 276 608 ?? S 8:39PM 0:00.02 dovecot-auth root 10928 0.0 0.1 104 456 p2 S+ 8:40PM 0:00.01 grep dove (try and login) bash-3.00# /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login --group=default/imap Fatal: EOF while reading environment from master bash-3.00# tail /var/log/dovecot dovecot: May 23 20:34:19 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:35:06 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:00 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:04 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:07 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:07 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:07 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:38:57 Warning: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: May 23 20:39:39 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up dovecot: May 23 20:40:25 Error: login: Unknown protocol 'imap?W' (try an SSL login) bash-3.00# openssl s_client -connect localhost:993 CONNECTED(00000004) 24195:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:/usr/src/lib/libssl/ssl/../src/ssl/s23_clnt.c:475: bash-3.00# tail /var/log/dovecot dovecot: May 23 20:35:06 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:00 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:04 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:07 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:07 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:37:07 Error: login: Missing protocol from server name 'imap' dovecot: May 23 20:38:57 Warning: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: May 23 20:39:39 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up dovecot: May 23 20:40:25 Error: login: Unknown protocol 'imap?W' dovecot: May 23 20:44:20 Error: login: Unknown protocol 'imap?W' HELP PLEASE!!! I've scoured t'internet and the closest I can find is this: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-February/006284.html Which got me past the "missing protocol from server" problem but hasn't got anywhere. I've since fallen back to the version in ports from OpenBSD 3.6 but really want to get this going. Any ideas? Gaby -- Junkets for bunterish lickspittles since 1998! gaby(a)vanhegan.net http://weblog.vanhegan.net

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[Dovecot] Newbie-ish Questions
by Joe Dauncey 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hi, I'm in the process of migrating from local Maildir, to IMAP-enabled Maildir (terms are made up by me). I have my Maildir directories all under $HOME/Mail I have a procmail script that sorts everything into different folders under $HOME/Mail, and leaves the rest in a Maildir folder chosen by me, that I think of as my INBOX. Now, I am assuming that the folder I identify as INBOX is the one that a client will interpret as the INBOX? I really want the INBOX to be one of the folders under $HOME/Mail, but at the moment dovecot only will only consider the folder $HOME/Mail as the INBOX, so I have to send my 'inbox' mail to $HOME/Mail, rather than what I would prefer, which would be $HOME/Mail/INBOX (or something like that). The seting I have in dovecot.conf is: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Mail Is this is the only way, or am I doing something wrong? Should I be using default_mail_env to define the inbox? e.g. with: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Mail:INBOX=INBOX (or whatever my inbox mail folder name is) Maybe I've just got my Maildir folder set up completely wrong, and I'm supposed to accept the Maildir folder itself as the inbox? If so, please just send me on my way ;-) Also, since I don't know much about IMAP, where can I find out what the .subscriptions file is, and what it does, and also all the other files created by dovecot, like the .imap files and the .customflags Thanks, Joe -- Joe Dauncey

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[Dovecot] Read-only mail folders
by Chris Wakelin 24 May '05

24 May '05

Is it possible to have folders on read-only partitions in Dovecot 1.0-stable? We have a NetApp fileserver which would probably be accessed via NFS (though iSCSI is possible) and which stores readonly "snapshots" of every directory accessible as .snapshot (but usually hidden from the operating system). It would be very nice to set up a "snapshot" namespace something like :- namespace public { separator = / prefix = "#snapshot/" location = maildir:%h/Maildir/.snapshot/nightly.0 hidden = yes } so that users could recover messages from say yesterday's version of their mailbox. Unfortunately, Dovecot always seems to want to write to the directory, even when indexes are stored elsewhere (as recommended with NFS anyway, I think) using INDEX=whatever in the location line. 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 with an howto from the wiki.
by kramer＠freemail.it 24 May '05

24 May '05

hello, i'm reading and trying to configuring my mailserver following this howto on the dovecot wiki: http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql but i got always this problem: ERROR: permesso negato per la relazione postfix_virtual in english is "permission denied for the relation postfix_virtual". I dont know where the problem is, but if i send an email from localhost all works good, the problem appear when i try to test my mailserver sending an email from another mta. this is what i got as error: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command) excuse me in advance for my poor and ugly english. thanks! ciao, peppe --------------------------------------------------------------- Scegli il tuo dominio preferito e attiva la tua email! Da oggi l'eMail di superEva e' ancora piu' veloce e ricca di funzioni! http://webmail.supereva.it/new/ ---------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Brent Clark 23 May '05

23 May '05

Hi all I just compiled Dovecot v1.0-test70 and i tried using the dovecot-example.conf for a quick test to see if the daemon would work. But I keep getting the following error message in me /var/log/messages: May 17 12:33:46 mail dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test70 starting up May 17 12:33:47 mail dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down May 17 12:33:47 mail dovecot: auth(default): No password databases set May 17 12:33:47 mail dovecot: child 29405 (auth) returned error 89 This is is a section in my conf file. auth default { mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam #auth_userdb = passwd #auth_passdb = pam #userdb = /etc/passwd #passdb = /etc/passwd # passdb pam { # Service name or * as parameter. * means the authenticating service name # is used, eg. pop3 or imap. #args = dovecot # args= /etc/passwd # } # /etc/passwd or similar, using getpwnam() # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. # passdb passwd { # args= /etc/passwd # } # /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam(). Deprecated by PAM nowadays. # passdb shadow { # args= /etc/shadow # } # passwd-like file with specified location #passdb passwd-file { #} userdb passwd { } # passwd-like file with specified location #userdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # checkpassword executable authentication #passdb checkpassword { # Path for checkpassword binary #args = #} If anyone has some advice or tips, it would greatfully be appreciated. Kind Regards Brent Clark

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[Dovecot] Stability
by Casey Allen Shobe 23 May '05

23 May '05

I am currently using Dovecot 0.99.14-r1 as provided by Gentoo, in a Qmail + VPopmail configuration. I am curious as to how to configure it to ensure the most stability, as it serves >1000 clients. I would rather disable any indexing that give small speed improvements if they are not known to be stable. Advice? Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | http://casey.shobe.info cshobe(a)seattleserver.com | cell 425-443-4653 AIM & Yahoo: SomeLinuxGuy | ICQ: 1494523 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com

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[Dovecot] 1.0-stable loses flag changes sometimes?
by Chris Wakelin 23 May '05

23 May '05

I've been struggling with an odd bug in the latest 1.0-stable (20050427) release. Sometimes Dovecot seems to forget that a message has been read or deleted and marks it unread (or not deleted). As far as I've been able to determine, it seems to happen when 1) There have been several recent deliveries 2) Possibly some of those deliveries are of multiple messages 3) Possibly they are read very quickly (say only a second for each message) 4) Folder is an mbox (haven't tried Maildir) I've seen it with Thunderbird mostly, but did manage to recreate it once in "telnet" - the debug IMAP client ;) - using "IDLE" "FETCH" and "STORE msgid +FLAGS (\Seen)" commands. I managed to catch it in the act with one Thunderbird session, and it seemed to occur when Thunderbird, for some reason, issued an IMAP "CHECK" command. In this case it issued an extra "* 710 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent))" response (the new messages had been msgid 711-715). Incidentally, Thunderbird seems to do a "STORE .. +FLAGS (\Seen)" command even though this is implicit the "FETCH .. BODY[..]" command (and it gets informed of the flag change in the response). I've tried and tried to find a "formula" for re-creating the problem "on demand", but it only goes wrong occassionaly. My guess is it's some sort of timing thing with mbox sync (BTW we have "mbox_dirty_syncs = yes" and "mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no"). Has anybody else seen this? I'm hoping to roll out this version to our wider group of testers soon and would like to get this issue solved first if possible (it counts as an annoyance rather than a serious problem). 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] Info request
by Filip Cristian 23 May '05

23 May '05

Hello, I'am Filip Cristian System Administrator at Astral Telecom and i'am using on our email servers dovecot for pop*, imap* auth with mysql suport. I have noticed that in the 1.0-test* release you have support for multiple password databases. From what i have tested this it's working but only if you want to fallback to another supported password databases different that the privios. Is there a posibility to use multiple mysql authentication ? I mean to use two or more mysql hosts on wich to connect and search for the username if the user it's not in the first database? Best regards, -- Cristian Filip Network Administrator Astral Telecom Dostoievski 28, Cluj-Napoca Tel: 0364-100106 Fax: 0264-414688 http://www.astral.ro !DSPAM:4291eb3c217031927099527!

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[Dovecot] dovecot and php imap_open
by Daniel 23 May '05

23 May '05

Hi I'm have problems with dovecot and the php imap_open function. Can't seem to get it to work. I just get a "Aborted login [127.0.0.1]" in the dovecot logs. The php error is: [client 192.168.1.254] PHP Warning: imap_open(): Couldn't open stream {127.0.0.1:110/pop3/notls/norsh/novalidate-cert}INBOX in /var/www/html/mail/auth.php on line 89, referer: [client 192.168.1.254] PHP Notice: (null)(): Can't open mailbox {127.0.0.1:110/pop3/notls/norsh/novalidate-cert}INBOX: invalid remote specification (errflg=2) in Unknown on line 0, referer: Same type of error with ether imap or pop3. Anyone have a trick around this? Thanks for any help. Regards Daniel

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[Dovecot] pop3/commands.c query
by Jens Laas 23 May '05

23 May '05

Is this correct ? cmd_rset() if (mail_update_flags(mail, MAIL_SEEN, MODIFY_REMOVE) < 0) break; Args seems to be switched. /Jens ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 'This mail automatically becomes portable when carried.' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jens Låås Email: jens.laas(a)data.slu.se Department of Computer Services, SLU Phone: +46 18 67 35 15 Vindbrovägen 1 P.O. Box 7079 S-750 07 Uppsala SWEDEN -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: Re: [Dovecot] Newbie-ish Questions
by Joe Dauncey 23 May '05

23 May '05

I've just found out what it's doing, so I thought I'd include the useful symptom. Joe ----- Forwarded message from Joe Dauncey <joe(a)dauncey.net> ----- From: Joe Dauncey <joe(a)dauncey.net> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Newbie-ish Questions To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 08:18:04 +0100 Organization: dauncey.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Mailer: Mutt/v1.4.1i Curtis, Thanks for the explanation... Unfortunately it doesn't quite work. On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:27:21PM +1000, Curtis Maloney wrote: > Joe Dauncey wrote: > >Hi, > > > > Please remember in future to always include which version of Dovecot > you're running. It sometimes makes a big difference. In this case, it > probably doesn't. > I'm running version 0.99.13-3 on Fedora Core 3 > >I'm in the process of migrating from local Maildir, to IMAP-enabled > >Maildir (terms are made up by me). > >I have my Maildir directories all under $HOME/Mail > >I have a procmail script that sorts everything into different folders > >under $HOME/Mail, and leaves the rest in a Maildir folder chosen by me, > >that I think of as my INBOX. > > Note that you'll likely have to tell your mail client to check all the > mailboxes procmail delivers too for new mail, not just INBOX (as most > default to). > I can do this by subscribing to the folders I want right? > >Now, I am assuming that the folder I identify as INBOX is the one that a > >client will interpret as the INBOX? > >I really want the INBOX to be one of the folders under $HOME/Mail, but at > >the moment dovecot only will only consider the folder $HOME/Mail as the > >INBOX, so I have to send my 'inbox' mail to $HOME/Mail, rather than what I > >would prefer, which would be $HOME/Mail/INBOX (or something like that). > > > >The seting I have in dovecot.conf is: > >default_mail_env = maildir:~/Mail > > > >Is this is the only way, or am I doing something wrong? > > > >Should I be using default_mail_env to define the inbox? e.g. with: > >default_mail_env = maildir:~/Mail:INBOX=INBOX (or whatever my inbox mail > >folder name is) > > You're almost there. Put the inbox path in as INBOX=~/Mail/INBOX.. so > you wind up with: > default_mail_env = maildir:~/Mail:INBOX=~/Mail/INBOX > > And I believe it will work. > I have set it up as default_mail_env = maildir:~/Mail:INBOX=~/Mail/.INBOX I've moved $HOME/Mail/cur (and tmp, new and dovecot-uidlist) all into .INBOX However, when I connect remotely I cannot see any mails, but if I open it locally (using Mutt) I can still see the mails in $HOME/Mail/.INBOX So, I'm not sure if there's something wrong with my .INBOX, or if it's not even looking there. When I move new mail to the inbox in the remote client, it moves the mail to $HOME/Mail, and creates cur/tmp/new/.customflags directly into that folder, instead of using .INBOX, which is the folder underneath that! Is it buffering some information/setting/mapping somewhere? I've restarted the dovecot daemon each time. > >Maybe I've just got my Maildir folder set up completely wrong, and I'm > >supposed to accept the Maildir folder itself as the inbox? If so, please > >just send me on my way ;-) > > > >Also, since I don't know much about IMAP, where can I find out what the > >.subscriptions file is, and what it does, and also all the other files > >created by dovecot, like the .imap files and the .customflags > > A lot of those files you shouldn't touch. They're mostly for the > internal workings of the server. > > .subscriptions is because IMAP is designed for mail and news, and allows > users to "subscribe" to some folders, or opt to not see them. This can > have a lot more meaning if you have shared folders (available in 1.0) or > news groups (outside the realm of this discussion). > > .customflags is (AFAIK) for storing details about any client custom > flags. As an example, Thunderbird allows you to tag e-mails into one of > 5 custom categories. It uses custom flags to mark this on the server. > > -- > Curtis Maloney > -- Joe Dauncey ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Joe Dauncey

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Brent Clark 23 May '05

23 May '05

Hi all I have just finished installing / configuring my dovecot IMAP server. Im seeing something weird happing. It seems my Winblows Outlook users are experiencing a problem whereby when they delete an email, Outlook puts a line though the email, but the mail does not delete. Im not sure if this is a an outlook problem or a dovecot IMAP problem. I cant see anything in the conf file to suggest that it is a IMAP problem. If anyone has any tips or advice, it would greatfully be appreciated. Kind Regards Brent Clark

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[Dovecot] utime() failed: Value too large for defined data type
by Brian Hechinger 22 May '05

22 May '05

i have recently rebuilt dovecot on my mail server as i wanted to add SSL support for it. well, my OpenSSL libs are 64-bit, so what they hey, i'll build dovecot 64-bit as well. worked just fine, no issues at all. the setup is: Solaris 9/SPARC Sun C compiler Dovecot 0.99.14 after rebuilding it 64-bit, i now have a small problem however. I cannot save messages to IMAP folders from Mail.app on OSX 10.3.9. OE6 and mutt work fine, no problems there, but when I try to save a message from Mail.app, it tells me it couldn't save the message and i get the folloing in my log file on the mail server: May 19 16:24:37 wiggum.4amlunch.net imap(paula): [ID 702911 mail.error] utime() failed for /usr/home/paula/Maildir/.Sent Items/tmp/1116534277.P10885Q0M105223.wiggum.4amlunch.net: Value too large for defined data type does anyone have any clue as to what could be the cause of this? i would say simple 64-bit uncleanliness issue, but why doesn't it also affect OE6 or mutt? there is some way that Mail.app accesses IMAP that is specifically tickling this problem. thank you very much for your time, and if there is any other information you might need to track this down, please ask and i'll get it right away. -brian -- "I fear death only slightly more than I hate my life." --8-bit Theater

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[Dovecot] Active Directory Auth
by Juan Pablo Fava 19 May '05

19 May '05

Hi, this is my fist post :) I'm trying to authenticate users to Active Directory, but I don´t know how to set up dovecot-ldap.conf to do this. Specially user_filter and pass_filter attrs. Does someone have this configuration working? Thanks in advance. -- Juan Pablo Fava Ing. en Sistemas de Información

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[Dovecot] dovecot deliver question
by Reuben Farrelly 17 May '05

17 May '05

Hi Timo, How much of the code base is shared between dovecot-lda and the dovecot CVS? I'm asking because when I tried out 'deliver' a few weeks ago I was seeing all sorts of nasty index corruption errors in the logs...and obviously lots of fixes have gone into core dovecot (but haven't seen many go into dovecot-lda) Reuben

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-stable rpms
by Topher Fischer 17 May '05

17 May '05

I've been searching, and I can't find any rpms of dovecot stable for RHEL 4. Does anybody know where I can get one? Ever since we went from IMAP-UW to Dovecot, we've been having frequent problems with mbox corruption, and I've read that 1.0 fixes many of those types of problems. Has anybody else found an rpm for RHEL 4 of any Dovecot greater than 1.0? -- Topher Fischer System Administrator - TMCB 1140 GnuPG Fingerprint: 3597 1B8D C7A5 C5AF 2E19 EFF5 2FC3 BE99 D123 6674 javert42(a)cs.byu.edu

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[Dovecot] Error in config
by Brent Clark 16 May '05

16 May '05

Hi Im trying dovecot for the first time, and I would like to get shared mail folders to work. I came acress this content (copied and pasted below). and the error I get is: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 204: Expecting '=' ===================================================== default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes hidden = no } namespace public { separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/var/mail/public inbox = no hidden = no } namespace shared { separator = / prefix = Accounts/ location = maildir:/var/mail/accounts inbox = no hidden = no } =================================================== If anyone has and tips or advice etc, it would be most appreciated. Kind Regards Brent Clark

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[Dovecot] Corrupted transaction log file, dotlocks..?
by John and Catherine Allen 16 May '05

16 May '05

I'm new to Dovecot but I've been able to get it up and running on a test basis without too much difficulty. I'm running dovecot-stable-20050508 with maildir, under Linux (an old Gentoo setup that's been stable for about 2,5 years). Mail client is Thunderbird. However, in the course of experimentally copying the accumulated household email (95000 emails from the last 10 years) from the existing IMAP server (UW-IMAP) using imapsync, I'm seeing some problems. While copying the 1000 or so messages from the main INBOX, Dovecot seems to hang after 50-100 messages and the following lines appear in the server log: May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): utime(/home/allen/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock) failed: No such file or directory May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Our dotlock file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock was deleted May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Corrupted transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1827, but next_uid = 1828 May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Lost transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 4 May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Lost transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 4 May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Corrupted transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 1827, but next_uid = 1828 May 15 18:45:21 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Lost transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 4 [...20 identical lines deleted....] May 15 18:48:27 [dovecot] imap-login: Login: allen [192.168.0.1] May 15 18:48:57 [dovecot] imap-login: Login: allen [192.168.0.1] May 15 18:48:57 [dovecot] IMAP(allen): Transaction log file /home/allen/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted I can restart after deleting the dovecot files in ~/Maildir, but the problem recurs. In other folders I've been able to copy large numbers of emails successfully with imapsync. I've not experienced any problems while accessing the folders with Thunderbird. I can't relate these log messages to anything in the configuration file or the documentation, so I'm wondering if I can ask for help? John -- John Allen Bofferdange, Luxembourg allen(a)vo.lu http://www.homepages.lu/allen

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[Dovecot] redhat+dovecot+sendmail problem
by Magnus Polson 15 May '05

15 May '05

I got problem i don't know how to solve. Everything is working fine except that i cant send any html or attachments to the server....they never come to the inbox.. what can be wrong? -- _______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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[Dovecot] new-attrib lost when calling through pop3
by Marten Lehmann 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hi, I noticed, that all messages are moved from new/ to cur/ (using maildirs) after the authentication in pop3, even before the list command. I'm working with 1.0-stable-20050426. Why is this done? Shouldn't a message keep it's new-attrib as long as it isn't retrieved? This is how it worked with qmail-pop3d. Through imap, it works correctly. It's just sad if I can't distinguish between older and new emails with imap, just because I logged in through pop3 shortly before. Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] fcntl lock timout on maildir format Trash .index file under OpenBSD sparc64
by Dale J. Robertson 15 May '05

15 May '05

Whenever I attempt to retrieve or delete mail (Using thunderbird win client) operation takes several minutes. right before completion posts the following error to maillog: May 14 10:22:04 NAPUtil imap(djrobert): Timeout while waiting for release of shared fcntl() lock for index file /home/djrobert/Maildir/.Trash/.imap.index deleting the index file speeds up the operation once. subsequent operations are slow again I don't know what other process is placing a lock on the file. or how to clear it. I am running the 9914p0 package distributed with a march 11 3.7 snapshot (OS loaded from the same snapshot). I previously was running the release 3.6 OS and the Dovecot package that came with the CD. both installs exhibit the same behavior. Both Dovecot and postfix are configured with fcntl locking only. What the heck am I doing wrong? Thanks, Dale

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[Dovecot] Segfault in imap process
by Todd Burroughs 15 May '05

15 May '05

I'm running the CVS version from May 9. I've seen these errors in the log file before (every time I open my mailbox), but this is the first time it crashed. Todd dovecot: May 11 15:00:18 Error: 8438 IMAP(todd.bluegenesis.com): Corrupted index cache file /mailhome/new/t/b/todd.bluegenesis.com/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Duplicated field in header: hdr.RESENT-TO dovecot: May 11 15:02:00 Error: child 8438 (imap) killed with signal 11 Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. (gdb) bt full #0 0x08074d10 in index_mail_get_flags (_mail=0x80c86d0) at index-mail.c:162 data = (struct index_mail_data *) 0x80c8734 #1 0x0808c86d in mail_get_flags (mail=0xb7c71834) at mail.c:32 No locals. #2 0x0805a6a5 in fetch_flags (ctx=0x80bee70, mail=0x80c86d0, context=0x0) at imap-fetch.c:444 flags = Variable "flags" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0x08074d10 in index_mail_get_flags (_mail=0x80c86d0) at index-mail.c:162 #1 0x0808c86d in mail_get_flags (mail=0xb7c71834) at mail.c:32 #2 0x0805a6a5 in fetch_flags (ctx=0x80bee70, mail=0x80c86d0, context=0x0) at imap-fetch.c:444 #3 0x0805abdc in imap_fetch (ctx=0x80bee70) at imap-fetch.c:264 #4 0x0805676b in cmd_fetch (cmd=0x80bcb98) at cmd-fetch.c:165 #5 0x08059635 in _client_input (context=0x80bcb58) at client.c:334 #6 0x0809e1da in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #7 0x0809d8f9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop.c:218 #8 0x08060537 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa84, envp=0xbffffa8c) at main.c:228 (gdb) frame #0 0x08074d10 in index_mail_get_flags (_mail=0x80c86d0) at index-mail.c:162 162 data->flags = data->rec->flags & MAIL_FLAGS_MASK; (gdb) p data->rec $3 = (const struct mail_index_record *) 0xb7c71834 (gdb) p data->rec->flags Cannot access memory at address 0xb7c71838

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[Dovecot] dovecot through NFS
by Marten Lehmann 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hello, as our mail server load increases every day, I plan to scale the single mailserver in differnt units: 1x big storage server for all mailboxes, folders exported through NFS 1x smtp for mail-in (queue local, messages on storage server) 1x pop3/imap to retrieve the messages (config local, messages on storage server) Since we're using maildir only, there's no problem to get the messages into the mailboxes. But what about dovecot for retrieving them? NFS will be v3. Is locking still a problem with it? Might the indexes get corrupt? Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] Fedora Core 3 and Mail.app problems
by Gordon Turner 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hello, first thanks for all the work, I appreciate the attention to security :-) I have a performance issue I am trying to solve. On my new server it would appear that synchronizing changes between the client and server is taking longer then my previous setup. I have recently upgraded from my old server to a new home (the basis for my comparison), From: - Redhat 9.0, uw-imap, using self-signed ssl certificates, on an old p-II. - Only one email user (me), about 40 mail folders with a few dozen messages in each. - Performance was never an issue, Mail.app took maybe 20 seconds to sync up minor deletes etc. To a new home: - Clean install of Fedora Core 3 on a p4, dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3. - Copy of /home/gturner/mail directory to new server, ie existing mbox format from uw-imap. - Recreated new self-signed certificates on new server, manually added the self-signed certificates, connected with no problems. - Mail.app client, on OS X 10.3.9 (no Tiger yet). I deleted the account on Mail.app, and created it again, the first login/sync took a long time, which was expected. However after that, I noticed that when I first connect or delete a file the sync is slower then the old setup (FYI, I keep "Automatically synchronize changed mailboxes" checked on Mail.app). A result of this appears to be some corruption of some mailboxes, only one or two, nothing valuable. For example, I delete a file and then clear the trash while things are still syncing. So my current solution is to be patient. :-) Any suggestions? I know that I could covert everything over to maildir, but I would like some feedback to see if this would be reasonable. I also noticed that initially there are 3 'gturner imap' threads and the syncing seems to be flying along. Then the thread count goes to 5 or 6 and sync starts to crawl. I looked for a way to limit the number of spawned threads, but only saw stuff about 'waiting' threads or reference to 1.0. I have attached my dovecot.conf for reference. Any help is greatly appreciated, Gord Turner.

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[Dovecot] Outlook strange behaviour...
by Francois Meehan 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi all, I have a Dovecot server(dovecot-0.99.14) running with IMAP support, running on a Fedora 2 system. Outlook (2003) users receive duplicate mail, "the" second mail doesn't have a title, when clicking on it, we are getting "non fully downloaded" error message. When deleting the "orignal" mail, all duplicates gets deleted too. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Francois Random Thought: --------------- Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. - Edward Thorndike

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[Dovecot] problem with test69
by Cor Bosman 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi all, I noticed a problem with test69. I can recreate it with the following steps: - create a folder - copy about 200 emails from INBOX to this folder The copy succeeds, I can see with rawlog that it actually moves the 200 emails around. I can see on the spool that there are 200 emails. This is maildir, with spool over NFS. Now I immediately select the new folder. I now see only a part of the emails reported. And with rawlog I indeed see something like: * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft Junk) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft Junk \*)] Flags p ermitted. * 158 EXISTS * 158 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 3] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1115970206] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 217] Predicted next UID 2 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. My client faithfully reports 158 instead of 200. If I now close/open my client, and re-select, I see 200. This I can reproduce with several different clients, but its pretty obvious it isnt a client issue. I also reproduced this with different users. Anyone see this also? NFS issue? Cor

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0-test69 io hangs
by Jens Laas 13 May '05

13 May '05

I've been testing test69 with pop3 (under Linux and with mbox). I began testing with a large inbox (11000 mails) and it seems the communication between dovecot and the mailclient (evolution) stalls after 1000-2000 messages transferred. I've looked in to the (non-trivial) io functionality of dovecot. What I see is that io_loop_handler_run() in ioloop-poll.c does not signal any more data (and eventually the whole thing timeouts). Evolution downloads the mailbox fine via qpopper. I tried turning on rawlog: mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 I cannot find any logfile.. I must be missing something. Any help or ideas ? Cheers, Jens ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 'This mail automatically becomes portable when carried.' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jens Låås Email: jens.laas(a)data.slu.se Department of Computer Services, SLU Phone: +46 18 67 35 15 Vindbrovägen 1 P.O. Box 7079 S-750 07 Uppsala SWEDEN -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] "shared mailboxes"
by schnitzel meister 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hello, After a long search I've almost settled on dovecot as a pop3 and imap server. I have just one problem.. Rather than have a list support(a)company.com, I'd like to have a shared mailbox. The dovecot homepage explicitly states "Shared mailboxes aren't _yet_ supported." The sentence implies that they're planned - any idea when? Thanks

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[Dovecot] IDLE command timeout
by Sim Harbert 11 May '05

11 May '05

Is it possible to change the IDLE command timeout to be more than 30 minutes? I have a client on my PalmOne Treo 600 which will stay in IDLE mode as long as it can. I would like to set the timeout to something much higher than 30 minutes. Maybe several hours or even more. I don't see a configuration setting for this value in "/etc/dovecot.conf". Am I missing something? Thanks, -Sim

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Re: Re[2]: [Dovecot] 1.0-test69
by Andrew Hucthings 11 May '05

11 May '05

Its nothing special. Code is a bit sloppy as its a 5 minute bodge job, but it works. I use something similar to count number of logins. In mrtg.cfg: Target[pop2]: `/root/gotmail.php` MaxBytes[pop2]: 1000 Options[pop2]: gauge Title[pop2]: POP 21 Messages Statistics PageTop[pop2]: POP 21 Messages Statistics</H1> XSize[pop2]: 500 YSize[pop2]: 200 WithPeak[pop2]: dwmy YLegend[pop2]: No. of Messages ShortLegend[pop2]: Messages LegendI[pop2]:  Messages: LegendO[pop2]:  N/A: Gotmail.php: #!/usr/bin/php -q <?php $file = "/var/log/maillog"; $count=0; if($fp = fopen( $file, "r" )){ while(!feof($fp)){ $line = fgets($fp,128); if($p=strpos($line,"del=")) { $p2=strrpos($line,"/"); $str=substr($line,$p+4,$p2-$p-4); $count+=$str; } } fclose($fp); $file = "/var/log/mrtgpop2"; if($fp = fopen( $file, "r" )){ $line = fgets($fp,128); $linearray = split(" ", $line); $oldin=$linearray[0]; fclose($fp); } if($fp = fopen( $file, "w" )){ $write="$count 0\n"; fwrite($fp, $write); fclose($fp); } $nowin=$count-$oldin; echo "$nowin\n0\npop1.nsnoc.com\nPOP Messages\n"; echo "\n$oldin\n"; } ?> Regards Andrew On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:04 +0100, Jethro R Binks wrote: > Oooo, could you publish the code for extracting the data? > > (This patch looks cool, must upgrade soon!) > > > On Wed, 11 May 2005, Andrew Hucthings wrote: > > > Timo: Feature request here I think, I would love this patch (or > > similar) to be in the tree. Already creating mrtg graphs based on it to > > see what is really happening. > > > > Regards > > Andrew > > > > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:21 +0200, Luigi Rosa wrote: > > > Hello Andrey Panin <pazke(a)donpac.ru>, > > > Monday, May 9, 2005, 9:19:57 AM, you wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> Gonna see if I can write a minor patch for dovecot this week so that we > > > >> can see number of messages downloading in a pop3 session in the logfile. > > > >> Similar to the way UW does it, will be very useful for us at work trying > > > >> to trace customers POP problems, I will submit it if anyone will find it > > > >> useful. > > > > > > AP> Don't waste your time :) Take a look at the attached patch. > > > > > > > > > It's GREAT! > > > > > > Is there any chance that will be included in the main build tree? > > > > > > > > > > > > Ciao, > > > luigi > > > > > -- > > Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) > > Linux Guru - Netserve Consultants Ltd. - www.domaincity.co.uk > > Admin - North Wales Linux User Group - www.nwlug.org.uk > > BOFH excuse 371: Incorrectly configured static routes on the > > corerouters. > > > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Jethro R Binks > Computing Officer, IT Services > University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK > -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) Linux Guru - Netserve Consultants Ltd. - www.domaincity.co.uk Admin - North Wales Linux User Group - www.nwlug.org.uk BOFH excuse 43: boss forgot system password

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test69
by Timo Sirainen 11 May '05

11 May '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Several mbox fixes, upgrade recommended for test68 mbox users - Possibly fixes some IMAP hangs where Dovecot just stopped replying - Fixed delay-newmail workaround. It was badly broken before. And somewhat off topic advertisement: I got a bit distracted from Dovecot a week ago when a guy started mailing me about wanting to write an irssi2 client as a project to learn Ruby. Half a year ago I had written a semi-working irssi2 server but I got stuck with it because I wasn't interested about writing client for it. Now that the client actually works, irssi2's development has kind of exploded :) Irssi2 is a bit related to Dovecot too, in that it'll be integrated with it more or less tightly to provide instant messaging support. Nothing prevents extending irssi2-protocol to support all other kinds of realtime events either, for example to send new mail notifications. If you're interested, see: http://main.irssi.org/projects/irssi2.html And for the lazy, here's the introduction copy&pasted: Shortly put, irssi2 is to instant messaging what IMAP is to mail. You can safely exit your irssi2 client, and irssi2 server just keeps on going. When you connect back with your client, you can see all the discussion that happened while you were away (and even older discussion, too, if you want). You can also use multiple clients even at the same time, so you could for example keep one client always open at home and still be able to check what's going on with your mobile phone. Irssi2 clients are encouraged to keep their configuration in server side, so nothing should prevent you from temporarily using another irssi2 client from your friend's home with no other configuration needed than irssi2 server's address, your username and password. Irssi2 is designed to support multiple chat protocols (IRC, SILC, MSN, ICQ, etc.) but without ignoring hardcore IRC users. That means that unlike all other similar attempts (such as Jabber), irssi2's client-server protocol will actually allow fully featured irssi2 IRC client to be written with no compromises (but still the same client can be used to talk to MSN and elsewhere). Note that irssi2 isn't trying to replace IRC servers (yet ;). irssi2 server simply connects to normal IRC servers just as a regular IRC client. To prevent mixups with these terms, IRC servers are usually called "gateways" in irssi2.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Sendmail Maildir
by Gabriel Granger 11 May '05

11 May '05

Hi all, I'm using Debian (testing) for my office mail. I'm using sendmail and Dovecot to deliver email to clients over IMAP using mbox format. I want to move over and start using Maildir. I know that I can use different MTA's to do the job, but I really like sendmail, and I run additional sendmail servers across the my internal and external networks. I'm probably being anal, but I want to keep my MTA the same across the board. Does anyone here use sendmail + dovecot + maildir? if so what's the best way of going about this? Gabe

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[Dovecot] Assertion failed in dovecot 0.99.14
by Quadriplegic Leprechaun 11 May '05

11 May '05

Hi, I am using the dovecot imap server on Linux 2.6.8.1. I get the following error when running it: imap(quad): Panic: file index-sync.c: line 25 (index_storage_sync_size): assertion failed: (messages > ibox->synced_messages_count) This usually occurs when I use imapfilter to move messages from one folder to another, while my client (thunderbird) is connected. Quad

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[Dovecot] Outlook 2003 duplicates UIDL
by Alex Needham 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi I have Redhat ES4.0 with dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 installed. Reading a post Outlook Duplicates issue is still killing me, there seems to be asolution to this, I was wondering when this will be available on redhat es40? # 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 Rgds Alex

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[Dovecot] Standard dirs
by Claudio Succa 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi, thank to developers for such a flexible imap server. Is solves succesfully my needs to have a single passwd file for clients accessing both imap/imaps and pop3/pop3s protocols (on a diskless mail/web server with NFS maildirs and NFS indexes!). My question: With 1.0-test68 I have to set login_dir=/var/run/dovecot-login (just a dir not under /var/run/dovecot) instead of /var/run/dovecot/login. I guess that imap-login (running with uid=dovecot) can't access /var/run/dovecot/login if it is under /var/run/dovecot because it is set with permission 0700 and uid=root by dovecot. How can I run dovecot with its standard login_dir config? Claudio -- Claudio Succa PERTEL - Torino - Italy +39-011-437.4141 http://www.pertel.it http://www.uniassist.it http://www.progettocapolinea36.it

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[Dovecot] start_tls on the user and password ldap connection
by Farkas Levente 10 May '05

10 May '05

hi, it seems when dovecot use ldap user and password databases it's not possible to use tls connection and certificate with the ldap connection. wouldn't it be possible to use the same certificate on the ldap connection as used in the ssl_{cert,key}_file parameters in the dovecot conf (or would be possible to use it's own cert in the ldap conf file? yours. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] problems with ldap auth
by Nuno Lopes 10 May '05

10 May '05

I'm trying Dovecot v1.0-test43 with ldap authentication but can't seem to make it work. I'm getting the following errors in the log: dovecot: Sep 16 19:50:09 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test43 starting up dovecot: Sep 16 19:50:10 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down What can I do to see where the error is? I have this configuration working with dovecot 0.99.xx . And if I replace the ldap authentication scheme with another one it starts up right. Following some past mailing list sugestions I've also tried removing most of the auth modules from the compilation but it made no diference. You can see my configuration files in: http://iluvatar.portugalmail.pt/dovecot/dovecot.conf http://iluvatar.portugalmail.pt/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf (I've intalled the binaries in /opt/dovecot) Don't know how much more data I can provide to help finding out what the problem is here (I think this won't be enough unless there's a known bug). Thanks, -- Nuno Lopes

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[Dovecot] trouble getting digest-md5 & ldap working
by Udo Rader 09 May '05

09 May '05

hi, I am trying to set up dovecot with digest-md5 as authentication mechanism and openldap as passdb. My problem is ... that I just can't get it working. PLAIN authentication works as expected, but no luck with digest-md5. An excerpt from the two configuration files: dovecot.conf: --------CUT-------- auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf --------CUT-------- dovecot-ldap.conf: --------CUT-------- user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(|(mail=%u)(uid=%n))) pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(|(mail=%u)(uid=%n))) default_pass_scheme = plain --------CUT-------- My dovecot installation with plain authentication and OpenLDAP has been quite mature for a long time, so I doubt that it is an issue with openldap. >From Cryrus-SASL I know that in order to get DIGEST-MD5 running it is required to have plaintext passwords in the DIT, but that does not solve anything. syslog tells me this: dovecot-auth: May 08 21:25:09 Error: ldap(frodo): No password in reply So any ideas on where I went wrong? Udo Rader BestSolution.at GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at

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[Dovecot] transparent proxy
by Mark E. Mallett 09 May '05

09 May '05

I'm excited to see that dovecot 1.0-test series supports transparent proxy, but that excitement is muted by: - the recommendation to avoid 1.0 at present; - the requirement to use SQL authentication. I guess I could ignore the first, but the second is sticky. How hard would it be to hack a different sort of proxy server cue into the authentication? Perhaps one of: If authenticating via passwd, use a gid as an index into a server table (or perhaps have the group name be a server name), If passwd authentication fails, try a starting the proxy to a specific other server and see if one can log in there. Or something else.. I dunno, I'm just looking not to install a SQL server just for this. mm

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[Dovecot] index file corruption
by Andy Pastuszak 09 May '05

09 May '05

Hello everyone. I am new to the list, so forgive me if this has been discussed already. My configuration is as follows: Fedora Core 3, fully patched through yum through today. Dovecot 0.9.9.13 Postfix 2.1.5 Using Maildir with Mail stored in ~/Maildir My issue is that, for some odd reason the inbox file index gets corrupt, There is no rhyme or reason as to why it happens or when, but a simple rm -rf ~/Maildir/.INBOX fixes everything (I assume because Dovecot rebuilds the index file.) Has anyone else on the list seen this? Is there some workaround for it? Andy

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[Dovecot] Problem (?) with 1.0-stable
by Jakob Curdes 08 May '05

08 May '05

... Version from April 26, gives me the following errors in the imap log file : dovecot: May 04 09:56:58 Error: IMAP(m6933192-4): file mbox-sync.c: line 1262 (mbox_sync_do): assertion failed: (sync_ctx->ibox->mbox_sync_dirty) dovecot: May 04 09:56:58 Error: child 10721 (imap) killed with signal 6 This occurs sporadically and vanishes after some time. Is this something to worry about or not. I have mbox_dirty_syncs = yes Or does this just say "I am falling back to reading the whole mailbox"? Yours, Jakob Curdes

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[Dovecot] pop3 messages not deleted
by Marten Lehmann 08 May '05

08 May '05

Hello, I'm currently experiencing, that 0 messages are shown at the pop3-prompt: list +OK 0 messages: . But the cur-folder containes 74 files. How can this happen? Why aren't they removed physically? Regards Marten Lehmann

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[Dovecot] dovecot 0.99.14 and imaps (SSL) "hangs"
by Frode Nordahl 08 May '05

08 May '05

Hello, I just decided to try dovecot again after a long pause, and I must say that I am very impressed with the speed and resource usage, even when running with UNIX mailboxes. However, I have a problem with SSL. Every two minutes the connection is frozen, and the client has to reconnect after it times out waiting for a response from the server. My IMAP client fetches all headers, and then caches all messages in my mailboxes. However, if I do this while connected to dovecot using SSL (imaps, port 993) the connection times out roughly every two minutes, and the IMAP client must close the connection, reconnect and resume operations from where it left off. This makes resynching a 40000 message 300MB folder take VERY long :-) Using the same client, connected to the same server and syncing the same mailbox connecting to regular imap port (no TLS, port 143), everything works smoothly. The very same client, server and mailbox works flawlessly with uw-imapd and SSL. I have turned on rawlog, and everything seems to be OK. I am unable to dump the wire, because it's SSL, so not sure what to do to debug this. One thing I find a bit strange is that /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat is a 0 byte file. Is this normal? Client: Apple Mail 1.3.11 (v622) Server: dovecot 0.99.14, installed from ports on FreeBSD 5 dovecot.conf: Regards, Frode Nordahl

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[Dovecot] pop vs. imap inconsistancy
by jeff sacksteder 08 May '05

08 May '05

I am converting from courier and have noticed change in behaviour with Dovecot. I use maildirs with squirrelmail connecting by imap as well as a POP3 client. Courier would set the 'mail status-read' flag for any message which was downloaded with the POP3 interface. Dovecot apparently does not. Is this a bug or intended behaviour? If it is intentional, can it be changed with the config file?

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[Dovecot] Outlook Duplicates issue is still killing me
by Jeff Ramsey 08 May '05

08 May '05

Hi, I have one pop3 client who has three computers, and he has Outlook XP on two, and 2003 on the third. They are all set to leave a copy of messages on the server, and that causes a duplicate message for every message he gets. I then can tell him to uncheck the "leave a copy on the server" box, and pop his mail, and the duplicates will go away for two or three days, only to start up again. I have a stock Fedora Core 2 server with dovecot and Sendmail. I do a nightly yum, so as to stay up2date. My version of dovecot is 1.0-test42. Has anyone else seen this issue? What can I do to fix it, short of permanently unchecking that box in Outlook? (The user is my boss, and he likes to get his email on all three computers...) -- Jeff Ramsey MIS Administrator Tubafor Mill, Inc.

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[Dovecot] Compiling on Solaris 10
by Roger Oliver Clark 08 May '05

08 May '05

Trying to compile Dovecot on Solaris 10. I have tried the 99.14 release and today's 1.0-stable release. In both cases I get the following error message: if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/ lib-sql -I../../src/lib-settings -I../../src/lib-ntlm - DAUTH_MODULE_DIR=\""/usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth"\" -DPKG_LIBEXECDIR= \""/usr/local/libexec/dovecot"\" -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wall - W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar- subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT mycrypt.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo" -c -o mycrypt.o mycrypt.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo" ".deps/mycrypt.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/ mycrypt.Tpo"; exit 1; fi In file included from /usr/include/unistd.h:18, from mycrypt.c:6: /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h:336:2: #error "Compiler or options invalid; UNIX 03 and POSIX.1-2001 applications require the use of c99" make[3]: *** [mycrypt.o] Error 1 I am using gcc version 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath) to do the build. It fails with just ./configure ; make The only thing useful I found on Google was this: http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-dev@openssl.org/msg18884.html Can anybody help? Thank you, Roger

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[Dovecot] Public Folders Using Dovecot
by Net Cerebrum 08 May '05

08 May '05

Are IMAP Public Folders supported by Dovecot. How do I configure / implement them ? I have not been able to find any references / documentation about it. TIA,

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[Dovecot] Test68 and Namespaces
by Jim Summers 08 May '05

08 May '05

Hello List, I am in the process of building a new mail system here. I am hoping to eventually migrate my users from mbox storage to maildir. They have been using mbox forever and would rather get used to maildir slowly. So I have come upon the idea of using namespaces to provide the different mailstores. Since this isn't available in the current stable, or at least I could not figure out how to do it, I have been working with 1.0-test68 since it provides the ability to configure things with the namespaces. But I am seeing an error pop up in my maillog file when exiting the client, it is: ============================================ May 3 08:11:41 tbox dovecot: IMAP(sub4000): file mbox-sync.c: line 1371 (mbox_sync_do): assertion failed: (sync_ctx->mbox->mbox_sync_dirty) May 3 08:11:41 tbox dovecot: child 12717 (imap) killed with signal 6 ============================================ Wasn't sure if it is a code bug or if it is how I have the namespace entries setup. In my dovecot.conf file I have: ------------------------------------ namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes # prefix = "#mbox/" location = mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u } namespace private { separator = / prefix = md/ location = maildir:~/Maildir } namespace private { separator = / prefix = mail/ hidden = yes } namespace private { separator = / prefix = ~/mail/ hidden = yes } namespace private { separator = / prefix = ~%u/mail/ hidden = yes } ------------------------------------ All seems to work except the message showing up in the logs. My goal/setup is to provide: 1. mbox delivery in the mailspool(/var/mail) from sendmail 2. access to existing ~/Mail/ mbox storage. 3. ability to begin setting up / migrating to maildir in ~/Maildir Is my namespace config above overkill / borken / wrong? Ideas / suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated. Environment: Server to be: RedHat AS EL4 Clients: Thunderbird, Evolution, mutt, pine, mailreader on OS/X. TIA -- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma -------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] test-68 coredump
by Gregory Bond 08 May '05

08 May '05

I've tried upgrading from test-51 to test-68, with mixed results. It seems to fix the problem I had with imap and Thunderbird getting confused and not showing headers or body for some email. But something in dovecot is coredumping when I select certain mailboxes. Thunderbird just hangs when you select that mailbox, and mutt gets an EOF on the imap socket while "fetching message headers". Other mailboxes seem to run OK. The failing ones _might_ be empty or have only 1 message in them. Removing index files doesn't help. There is a core file in /var/run/dovecot, and file(1) says it's from dovecot-auth, but GDB can't make sense of the core with that executable, and the login has well and truly run when the core happens. (The core doesn't seem to be from the imap process either.) Any clues how I might debug this? [Solaris 2.8, gcc-3.3, dovecot test-68, imap+Maildir, Thunderbird 1.0.2 on OSX and mutt on Solaris]

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[Dovecot] quota-command?
by Marten Lehmann 08 May '05

08 May '05

Hello, if you log in at hotmail.com, gmx, lycos or yahoo, you can see something like "using 1.4mb of 250mb total". Is there any IMAP command to check to current quota usage? Our webmail-interface will not have access to the filesystem to summarize the size of each file, so an IMAP-command would be great. I don't know if this would be a new feature or just part of the Maildir++ quota-system, that is not yet supported by dovecot. Regards Marten

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[Dovecot] Migrating from courier-imap to dovecot
by Odhiambo Washington 08 May '05

08 May '05

Hello Gang, I am new to dovecot and the only reason (so far) I would like to use dovecot, and in production with 12k+ users, is the fact that it's supposed to be faster and less of a resource hog. Now, sometimes I am really good at reading the documentations but it sometimes happens that one overlooks something. I did read the migration notes three times! My users are in /etc/passwd and I am running dovecot in IMAP only mode. I did put default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir in dovecot.conf, then for one user, I did the following: cd ~wash/Maildir cp courierimapsubscribed .subscriptions # Then I edited to remove "INBOX." cp courierimapuiddb dovecot-uidlist The permissions are right, but when I login as this user, I don't see all the folders that had been there before when he was using courier-imap!! When I login to the web interface (we use Squirrelmail) and go to the Folder options, I can't see any folders to subscribe to either! Now my questions: 1. What am I overlooking?? 2. Does someone have a script that can be used to automate the copying of courierimapsubscribed to .subscriptions and that of courierimapuiddb to dovecot-uidlist, and the editing to remove the "INBOX."? I am sure I really don't have to reinvent the wheel, no? Meanwhile I am hitting google, while waiting for your answers. Thanks in advance. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash(a)wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ Ducharme's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

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[Dovecot] How to check for keywords in IMAP store?
by Steffen Kaiser 08 May '05

08 May '05

Hello, I'm checking my way to migrate from Courier to Dovecot. Wiki says that "there's currently no easy way to migrate them [the keywords]". Frankly, I lack the information to check if some client is using keywords at all. More importantly, is it OK to assume that when SELECT INBOX returns no \* in OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ...] that the IMAP server does not allow keywords at all? [BTW: Is there a searchable mail archive of the Dovecot list?] Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser

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[Dovecot] SquirrelMail IMAP protocol errors?
by Schettino, John Charles 08 May '05

08 May '05

I use Squirrelmail to filter messages, and it's doing this: raw log in: A009 UID SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL Header X-Spam-Level {4} **** A010 LIST "" "spam" raw log out: * SEARCH A009 OK Search completed. * BAD Error in IMAP command : Unknown command. * LIST (\NoInferiors \Marked) "/" "spam" A010 OK List completed. it goes on like that in the log for every filter. What exactly is the BAD Error there, and is it something I can fix?

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[Dovecot] Setting location for indexes
by dovecot.7.signal11＠spamgourmet.com 08 May '05

08 May '05

We have NFS-mounted user directories which cause significant problems with stale file handles: dovecot: IMAP(uid): fstat() failed with file /home/uid/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Stale NFS file handle (a) why can't it just close the file and re-open ? (b) is there a way to specify with the 'default_mail_env' (or in some other way) the location of **only** the indexes (and let dovecot autodetect all else?). I have already tried 'mmap_disable = yes', but that does not solve the problem, and if I set 'default_mail_env = INDEX=/var/spool/mail/INDEX/%u', I get errors like: IMAP(uid): Failed to create storage with data: INDEX=/var/spool/mail/INDEX/uid I don't want to specify mbox:~/mail/ or mbox:~/Mail/, because some users have one and some the other.

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Re: [Dovecot] headers don't match message
by Brian Bartholomew 08 May '05

08 May '05

Kevin <angrycoggy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > once i had everything moved and dovecot running i checked my mail > via imap. all the messages appeared however when i try to read a > message the message body doesn't match the header info that's showed > in the message list. Gregory Bond <gnb(a)itga.com.au> wrote: > I see this a lot using Thunderbird & an old-ish dovecot (test-46 I > think). it is triggered by leaving thunderbird connected at work, > going home and accessing the same IMAP server from mutt at home. If > I use mutt in read-only mode it's fine, but if I delete any messages > in mutt, then the work Thunderbird gets very very confused. I'm using one of the stable 1.0 releases for 184 accounts on Gentoo Linux on Sparc. I too am seeing the message header/body mismatch in Thunderbird. Is the index file handling sufficiently robust against surprises that I can delete the dovecot index files every night out from under the logged-in imap sessions? Brian

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[Dovecot] pop vs. imap inconsistancy
by jeff sacksteder 08 May '05

08 May '05

I am converting from courier and have noticed change in behaviour with Dovecot. I use maildirs with squirrelmail connecting by imap as well as a POP3 client. Courier would set the 'mail status-read' flag for any message which was downloaded with the POP3 interface. Dovecot apparently does not. Is this a bug or intended behaviour? If it is intentional, can it be changed with the config file?

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[Dovecot] Help configuring dovecot for SSL
by Knute Johnson 04 May '05

04 May '05

Hi: I'm running dovecot on a Fedora 3 box and would like to be able to make a TLS connection to it with my Pegasus Mail program running on my Winblows machine. Does anybody know if it is possible? If it is I could really use some help configuring my dovecot. I have tried for several days but I really don't know what I'm doing and need a direction to start. Thanks, -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...

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[Dovecot] Multiple Logins - Single Mail Account
by Net Cerebrum 04 May '05

04 May '05

I have a mail account which needs to be accessed by 4-5 people simultaneously through IMAP. As of now I have configured it on the respective clients using the same username and password so we have multiple people accessing the same account through their mail clients simultaneously and it is working flawlessly. Is this alright or can it lead to some problems or corruption of data later ? What is the best way to allow multiple people to access a single mailbox for read as well as write operations ? Thanks,

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[Dovecot] Segfault in imap
by Todd Burroughs 03 May '05

03 May '05

I'm running the current CVS version, as of April 26. There have been a few of these with the same problem. There was a NULL pointer dereference at mail-index-view.c:603 view->map == NULL Here's the log entry, etc. dovecot: May 03 08:30:08 Error: 10195 IMAP(support): UIDVALIDITY changed (1115122813 -> 1115123383) in mbox file /mailhome/new/m/2/support/mbox dovecot: May 03 08:30:13 Error: child 10195 (imap) killed with signal 11 Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. (gdb) bt full #0 mail_index_view_open (index=0x80c2fc0) at mail-index-view.c:603 view = (struct mail_index_view *) 0x80c5608 #1 0x08077ccd in index_storage_mailbox_init (ibox=0x80c3bc8, index=0x80c2fc0, name=0x80a6cfe "INBOX", flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at index-storage.c:345 storage = Variable "storage" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 mail_index_view_open (index=0x80c2fc0) at mail-index-view.c:603 #1 0x08077ccd in index_storage_mailbox_init (ibox=0x80c3bc8, index=0x80c2fc0, name=0x80a6cfe "INBOX", flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at index-storage.c:345 #2 0x080679c2 in mbox_alloc (storage=0x80bc788, index=0x80c2fc0, name=0x80a6cfe "INBOX", flags=0) at mbox-storage.c:500 #3 0x080684e0 in mbox_open (storage=0x80bc788, name=0x80a6cfe "INBOX", flags=0) at mbox-storage.c:545 #4 0x0806863f in mbox_mailbox_open (_storage=0x80bc788, name=0x80a6cfe "INBOX", input=0x0, flags=0) at mbox-storage.c:603 #5 0x0808ce88 in mailbox_open (storage=0x0, name=0x80a6cfe "INBOX", input=0x0, flags=0) at mail-storage.c:295 #6 0x08057f9f in _cmd_select_full (cmd=0x80bcb98, readonly=0) at cmd-select.c:32 #7 0x08058171 in cmd_select (cmd=0x80bcb98) at cmd-select.c:97 #8 0x08059635 in _client_input (context=0x80bcb58) at client.c:334 #9 0x0809e04a in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #10 0x0809d769 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80bb9b0) at ioloop.c:218 #11 0x08060537 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa44, envp=0xbffffa4c) at main.c:228 (gdb) p view->map $1 = (struct mail_index_map *) 0x0 (gdb) p index->map $2 = (struct mail_index_map *) 0x0 (gdb) p index->indexid $3 = 0

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[Dovecot] Error in rename uidlist while fetching through pop3
by James Berry 03 May '05

03 May '05

My dovecot server seems to randomly begin giving errors to pop3 users who try to fetch their email. Once this begins, they see no more new mail, though the mail is in cur. Running: dovecot-stable 20050501, Mac OS X 10.3.9 Log entries like this: May 2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: pop3-login: Login: kim [24.22.16.169] May 2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): rename(/Users/kim/Maildir/ dovecot-uidlist.lock, /Users/kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Input/output error May 2 19:35:18 caddy dovecot: POP3(kim): file_dotlock_replace(/Users/ kim/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Input/output error Is this a known problem, and/or is there a known way to recover from such a situation? I'm managed to throw out the uidlist, but that means they get a whole dump of new mail. -jdb

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[Dovecot] How to try dovecot-lda
by Joakim Verona 02 May '05

02 May '05

Hello, I'm interested in trying the dovecot-lda with sieve support. What would be the proper way to test it? I'm currently using a Fedore core 2 server, with spamassassin and procmail. To get the same effect with dovecot-lda, would I put a line like this in my .forward? spamassassin|dovecot-lda I'm just guessing, so please correct me if im wrong. Im thinking of setting up a separate mail account and copy my mail there to test the ported procmail to sieve recipies also. -- Joakim Verona www.verona.se

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