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Re: [Dovecot] Oddities with Debian unstable dovecot
by Lisandro Grullon 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

What method for mail boxes are you guys using mbox or maildir and which one would you recommend? Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon(a)citytech.cuny.edu "Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are." >>> Blair Zajac <blair(a)orcaware.com> 08/31/05 12:43 PM >>> Tomi Hakala wrote: > Blair Zajac wrote: > >>dovecot: Aug 30 13:14:06 Error: IMAP(ashley): Corrupted index cache file >>/home/ashley/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: record points outside file > > > Please try lastest CVS version, there are fixes for indexing > code which resolves this problem. > Thanks. I'll give that a shot. Regards, Blair

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Re: [Dovecot] Oddities with Debian unstable dovecot
by Blair Zajac 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Lisandro Grullon wrote: > What method for mail boxes are you guys using mbox or maildir and which one would you recommend? Thanks. I use maildir because it stores each message in a separate file. So this gets me: 1) Daily backups of a ~/Maildir are much smaller than a large mbox because most files don't change, while a single change to a large mbox file will require the entire mbox to be backed up. 2) Moving emails from folder to folder is much faster, as it's moving a single file and you don't have to delete an email from a middle of a mbox file. I have a 5 year old 450 Mhz Dell that easily and quickly manages over 2 Gbytes of email for several users. Regards, Blair

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[Dovecot] Oddities with Debian unstable dovecot
by Blair Zajac 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hello, I'm running an Debian etch box with unstable and ever since the last upgrade to dovecot, I've seen odd things. At times, I would see emails would go missing from the Inbox or other folders, and I couldn't move emails that were moved from the Inbox to another folder back into the Inbox. These have seen gone away since I removed all dovecot.* files and .index* files from my Maildir's and let Dovecot regenerate them as needed. The most current thing are these errors: dovecot: Aug 30 11:38:33 Error: IMAP(blair): file mail-transaction-log-view.c: l ine 183 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (max_file_offset == ( uoff_t)-1 || max_file_offset <= file->sync_offset) dovecot: Aug 30 13:05:21 Info: imap-login: Login: ashley [127.0.0.1] dovecot: Aug 30 13:14:06 Error: IMAP(ashley): Corrupted index cache file /home/ashley/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: record points outside file Anything I can do to help here? I don't have a core file, even though I have 'mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes'. The other odd thing I noticed is after running /etc/init.d/dovecot stop, I would have several imap processes left over in my uid. They don't do much: # strace -p 5014 Process 5014 attached - interrupt to quit gettimeofday({1125460345, 997748}, {420, 0}) = 0 gettimeofday({1125460345, 998465}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}], 2, 410) = 0 gettimeofday({1125460346, 410768}, {420, 0}) = 0 gettimeofday({1125460346, 410890}, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}], 2, 0) = 0 gettimeofday({1125460346, 411940}, {420, 0}) = 0 gettimeofday({1125460346, 412551}, NULL) = 0 However, lsof shows that the file descriptor 8 is a pipe back to fd 9 in the same process. Why would poll() be polling it's own file descriptor? Is this normal? Is this process waiting to do a fork later on and communicate with a child? # lsof -p 5014 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME imap 5014 blair cwd DIR 8,4 4096 6619138 /home/blair imap 5014 blair rtd DIR 8,4 4096 2 / imap 5014 blair txt REG 8,4 420168 4572306 /usr/lib/dovecot/imap imap 5014 blair mem REG 0,0 0 [heap] (stat: No such file or directory) imap 5014 blair mem REG 8,4 1178624 6636723 /home/blair/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache imap 5014 blair mem REG 8,4 20148 6636742 /home/blair/Maildir/dovecot.index imap 5014 blair mem REG 8,4 1265136 6996193 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.5.so imap 5014 blair mem REG 8,4 9592 6996195 /lib/tls/libdl-2.3.5.so imap 5014 blair mem REG 8,4 21568 6636721 /home/blair/Maildir/dovecot.index.log imap 5014 blair mem REG 8,4 88924 6995972 /lib/ld-2.3.5.so imap 5014 blair 0u IPv4 160155 TCP localhost.localdomain:imap2->localhost.localdomain:47852 (ESTABLISHED) imap 5014 blair 1u IPv4 160155 TCP localhost.localdomain:imap2->localhost.localdomain:47852 (ESTABLISHED) imap 5014 blair 2w FIFO 0,5 160165 pipe imap 5014 blair 3r CHR 1,9 16396 /dev/urandom imap 5014 blair 4u REG 8,4 1178624 6636723 /home/blair/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache imap 5014 blair 5r DIR 8,4 77824 6930433 /home/blair/Maildir/new imap 5014 blair 6r DIR 8,4 118784 6900850 /home/blair/Maildir/cur imap 5014 blair 8r FIFO 0,5 160244 pipe imap 5014 blair 9w FIFO 0,5 160244 pipe imap 5014 blair 10u REG 8,4 20148 6636742 /home/blair/Maildir/dovecot.index imap 5014 blair 11u REG 8,4 21568 6636721 /home/blair/Maildir/dovecot.index.log Regards, Blair -- Blair Zajac, Ph.D. <blair(a)orcaware.com> Subversion and Orca training and consulting http://www.orcaware.com/svn/

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[Dovecot] dovecot/pop-before-smtp
by Micah Stevens 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hi, This is off-topic I know, but if anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it. I'm running postfix 2.2.x, dovecot 0.99, and it's working great, I wanted pop-before-smtp functionality, so I fired up the suggested perl daemon in the dovecot docs.. This seems to work, I ran tests, it was picking up the ip's, putting them in the .db file, and postfix was able to read them. My issue is that it doesn't seem to continue to do this. It only works if I force it with a --reprocess flag. At that point, the latest set of ip's get inserted in the database, and all is well. Any ideas? I did check to make sure the daemon is running, and it is. Thanks! -Micah

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[Dovecot] Dovecot default inbox name?
by Andy Cravens 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

I'm installing dovecot and migrating from mbox to maildir. I've read several articles concerning this process but I can't seem to find the answer to one particular question. What is the default name of the inbox when using maildir format? I need to create this in advance for each user and I don't know what dovecot is expecting for the inbox directory name. -- Andy Cravens

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[Dovecot] Recommended dovecot version
by Diego M. Vadell 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hi, I'm running CentOS 4 in a X86_64 server with dovecot. I've been having some (already reported by others) problems. For example, sometimes - randomly - a mbox file wil get a couple of lines at the beggining of the mbox file (/var/spool/mail/user), before the first From line, and dovecot will complain that that file is not a mbox file. Also, neither sylpheed nor thunderbird would get new mail via imap a second time (I have to kill thunderbird, then run it again so it would give me the new mails). But I'm more concerned by the mbox corruption. so I want to upgrade, but to what? 0.99.14? But in www.dovecot.org says that dovecot-1.0 is recommended. But it also says -alpha! (not even beta: alpha). There is also a stable branch, but it's not the recommended one (or is it?). Can anyone point me to a stable version that addresses the mbox corruption issue, or if there isn't such a version, any idea of when it will be ready? Thank you. -- Diego.

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[Dovecot] New imap assertion failure
by Todd Burroughs 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

This is from the CVS version as of Aug. 28. It's the first time I've seen this assertion failure. Prior to this, I was using the CVS version from Aug. 15. dovecot: Aug 30 16:07:52 Error: 24929 IMAP(support): UIDVALIDITY changed (1125327213 -> 1125430510) in mbox file /mailhome/new/s/b/support/mbox dovecot: Aug 30 16:08:13 Error: 24929 IMAP(support): UIDVALIDITY changed (1123616948 -> 1125414730) in mbox file /mailhome/new/s/b/support/Drafts dovecot: Aug 30 16:08:16 Error: 24929 IMAP(support): UIDVALIDITY changed (1123616948 -> 1125414730) in mbox file /mailhome/new/s/b/support/Drafts dovecot: Aug 30 16:08:36 Error: 24929 IMAP(support): UIDVALIDITY changed (1122993637 -> 1125403981) in mbox file /mailhome/new/s/b/support/Tier-2 dovecot: Aug 30 16:08:39 Error: 24929 IMAP(support): file mail-index-view.c: line 596 (mail_index_view_open): assertion failed: (index->map != NULL) dovecot: Aug 30 16:08:40 Error: child 24929 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff548 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x00006161 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 0x0809af4a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x6161 <Address 0x6161 out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 No locals. #7 0x0809b364 in i_panic ( format=0x80a7fac "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x080874d6 in mail_index_view_open (index=Variable "index" is not available. ) at mail-index-view.c:615 view = Variable "view" is not available. (gdb) frame #9 0x08079ccd in index_storage_mailbox_init (ibox=0x80c78c0, index=0x80c8000, name=0x80bfe80 "Tier-2", flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at index-storage.c:367 367 ibox->view = mail_index_view_open(index); (gdb) p *index $3 = { dir = 0x80c80a0 "/mailhome/new/s/b/support/.imap/Tier-2", prefix = 0x80c80e8 "dovecot.index", cache = 0x80c68b0, log = 0x80c6788, mode = 384, gid = 4294967295, extension_pool = 0x80c8258, extensions = { buffer = 0x80c8288, element_size = 28}, expunge_handlers = { buffer = 0x80c81c8, element_size = 4}, sync_handlers = { buffer = 0x80c8dc8, element_size = 8}, sync_lost_handlers = { buffer = 0x80c8de8, element_size = 4}, filepath = 0x80c8c70 "/mailhome/new/s/b/support/.imap/Tier-2/dovecot.index", fd = 6, map = 0x0, hdr = 0x0, indexid = 0, lock_type = 2, shared_lock_count = 0, excl_lock_count = 0, lock_id = 14, copy_lock_path = 0x0, dotlock = 0x0, lock_method = MAIL_INDEX_LOCK_FCNTL, sync_log_file_seq = 1, sync_log_file_offset = 24, keywords_pool = 0x80c8460, keywords = {buffer = 0x80c8140, element_size = 4}, keywords_hash = 0x80c8658, keywords_ext_id = 0, last_grow_count = 0, error = 0x0, nodiskspace = 0, index_lock_timeout = 0, opened = 1, log_locked = 0, mmap_disable = 1, mmap_no_write = 0, readonly = 0, fsck = 0, sync_update = 0, mapping = 0}

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot default inbox name?
by Lisandro Grullon 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

This is a very interesting question, I would like to know the answer too. I wish I could help, but I don't know the answer to this question also. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon(a)citytech.cuny.edu "Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are." >>> Andy Cravens <acravens(a)uen.org> 08/30/05 12:30 PM >>> I'm installing dovecot and migrating from mbox to maildir. I've read several articles concerning this process but I can't seem to find the answer to one particular question. What is the default name of the inbox when using maildir format? I need to create this in advance for each user and I don't know what dovecot is expecting for the inbox directory name. -- Andy Cravens

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[Dovecot] Multiple mailbox formats, per-user mailbox format support
by Ragnar Rova 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Hello, I have a setup where each user has different mailbox formats (some use only /var/spool/mail/user) mailbox format, some is stored in mbx format ~/INBOX or ~/mbox and some is stored in maildir format in ~/Mail/ I currently use UW-IMAP to read /var/spool/mail/... and the mbx format mailboxes in ~/INBOX and mutt to read ~/Mail/... (the maildirs in ~/Mail/ are created by procmail rules) Does dovecot make it possible to also read the maildir directories i have in ~/Mail/ without having to reconfigure the delivery/imap system for all users? I know I should migrate to use one consistent mailbox format (thinking about maildir), but to avoid any migration It would be great if dovecot just would be able to read multiple inboxes in different formats differently configured on a per-user basis. I use postfix for delivery/transfer.

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Re: [Dovecot] MySQL user cant log in
by Marvin Stark 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Am Montag, den 29.08.2005, 10:54 -0700 schrieb Micah Stevens: > Is dovecot aware of the password format? i.e. are you storing in > plaintext, and dovecot is expecting md5's? > > -Micah Ah, thanks that was the problem. But now i got a new one. --- start dovecot.conf --- default_mail_env = %h/ --- start dovecot.conf --- --- start log --- Aug 30 16:02:01 vs6020 imap-login: Login: marv [xx.xx.xx.xx] Aug 30 16:02:01 vs6020 imap(marv): Failed to create storage with data: /home/marv/ Aug 30 16:02:01 vs6020 dovecot: child 3792 (imap) returned error 89 --- end log --- What to do? best regards, Marvin Stark

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[Dovecot] quick, quick, slow...
by Jeroen Scheerder 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Hi, I'm (still) evaluating dovecot for a switch from UW in the near future. All the following happens on a Solaris server. Functionally, all is well. However, I see strange phenomena. Normally, dovecot is pretty swift. Every now and then, though, things slow down to a crawl. Everything seems to be working, still, but a few orders of magnitude slower. A copy of an outgoing message (of a few lines) to my Out box, which normally succeeds nearly instantly, suddenly takes over 30 minutes, for example. Obvious things to look for would be conflicting locking strategies. As far as I know, though, my mail delivery agent (procmail) and all mail handling software use dotlocking, fcntl lockf, in that order), as does dovecot. In syslog there's nothing to see, except an occasional SSL_accept() syscall failed: EOF messsage, which I can correlate to my service monitoring software (nagios), which checks for the presence of the imaps service. When this happens and I quit my mail agent (Thunderbird), an imap process seems to remain on the server. Killing that does not resolve the extreme slowdown; that persists on consecitive reruns of my mailer. I'm at a loss here. Any hints?

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[Dovecot] Wiki of dovecot.conf file
by Tim Schaefer 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Thanks but that was of absolutely no help. Evidently the 1.0alpha version syntax is completely different from the .99 release. The 1.0 syntax for setting up dovecot.conf uses brackets "{}" for auth and other drastic differences, so most of the documentation is either vacant or out of date. I tried using the syntax used in the Wiki only to have it die. There are NO docs for the 1.0 release to help understand how to make MySQL work with Dovecot. I've hacked my way along and stumbled into some success, but overall I'd have to say there is a bug in the software that is preventing it from connecting. I do not know where else to look or what else to do other than start to hunt again for yet another pop server. I've spent the past week downloading, compiling, and trying to get various POP servers to work, only to have the wheels fall off at one point or another. I'm so fu**ing close to getting Dovecot to work, but may have to walk away from yet another disappointing software product. I might downshift to the .99 release and see if I can get that one to work. But thanks anyway for your desire to help, it prevented me from leaving a note and then pulling the trigger. :-) Tim

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[Dovecot] imaps only, and on a nonstandard port?
by Dan Stromberg 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

I'm trying to get dovecot configured to: 1) Only do imaps 2) Do imaps on port 500 I've tried "ssl_listen = *:500" both globally and in my "protocol imap" section, but neither seems to be working. Is there a way of doing this? Thanks!

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Re: [Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 28, Issue 61
by Lisandro Grullon 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Can you guys fixed that bug. WE know is a bug in the .c file. 2cents. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon(a)citytech.cuny.edu "Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are." >>> Joseph Tam <tam(a)math.ubc.ca> 08/29/05 7:06 PM >>> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:01:55 +0300 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Installation error on "make" > > On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 04:34 -0400, Lisandro Grullon wrote: >> /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h:332:2: #error "Compiler or options invalid for pre-UNIX 03 X/Open applications and pre-2001 POSIX applications" > > Some versions of Solaris 10 want "#define _XPG6" at the beginning of the > mycrypt.c file, but most other versions give error if it's there. Do you > have a final release of Solaris 10 or some pre-release? Maybe I should > put this check to configure if it happens with non-prereleases too.. Oh, yes please. This also happens when compiling on my Solaris 10 box I believe it is an up to date Solaris: > uname -a SunOS zoo 5.10 Generic_118822-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 Joseph Tam <tam(a)math.ubc.ca>

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 28, Issue 61
by Joseph Tam 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:01:55 +0300 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Installation error on "make" > > On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 04:34 -0400, Lisandro Grullon wrote: >> /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h:332:2: #error "Compiler or options invalid for pre-UNIX 03 X/Open applications and pre-2001 POSIX applications" > > Some versions of Solaris 10 want "#define _XPG6" at the beginning of the > mycrypt.c file, but most other versions give error if it's there. Do you > have a final release of Solaris 10 or some pre-release? Maybe I should > put this check to configure if it happens with non-prereleases too.. Oh, yes please. This also happens when compiling on my Solaris 10 box I believe it is an up to date Solaris: > uname -a SunOS zoo 5.10 Generic_118822-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 Joseph Tam <tam(a)math.ubc.ca>

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[Dovecot] Feature Request - wild idea - folders for executing programs
by Marc Perkel 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Timo, I have a wild idea for a feature that is somewhat unusual, would be very powerful, and easy to implement. What I want is ... Special folders that when someone drags a message into them - it pipes the message into a program. The reason I want this is - for example - reporting of spam. Suppose you want everyone to have a spam-missed folder so that if a spam gets through then the user drags it into the spam missed folder. But instead of storing it there it executes a program and pipes the message into it. In this case a learner program for the spam filter. The folder would be "write only" and attempting to read the folder would generally look like it was empty. Setup would look like this: executable-folder spam-missed { command = /usr/bin/sa-learn spam user = spamd group = spamd create_folder = yes accounts = * } The "create_folder" command says to add the folder to the users lists whether or not it is physically there. The folder appears even if there is no real folder. If it is "no" then it only exists if there is a real folder. The "user" and "group" is of course the UID and GID to run the "command" as. The "accounts" determines which accounts are affected. Default is everyone. Other uses is to control blacklists and whitelists. Dragging a message into the blacklist folder runs an executable that adds the sender to a blacklist, or a whitelist, or controls settings etc.

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[Dovecot] Sig11 and some corrupted indexes after 1.0-stable -> 1.0.alpha1
by Ben Beuchler 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

I just upgraded my production box from 1.0-stable to 1.0.alpha1. I've noted some new errors in my dovecot logs: Aug 28 23:23:56 cliff dovecot: IMAP(rsferra): Corrupted index cache file /mail/mcad.edu/rsferra/Maildir/.Sent Items/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed Aug 28 23:33:57 cliff dovecot: IMAP(acarr): Corrupted transaction log file /mail/mcad.edu/acarr/Maildir/.Deleted Messages/dovecot.index.log: unexpected end of file while reading header I'm not too worried about those, as I'm hoping they'll go away once all the indexes have been rebuilt. However, these are a bit more disconcerting: Aug 29 09:07:35 cliff dovecot: child 22484 (imap) killed with signal 11 Aug 29 09:07:36 cliff dovecot: child 22488 (imap) killed with signal 11 I don't see any other errors in the logs around those messages. Platform: Gentoo 2005.1, 2.6.10 SMP kernel, mail stored on XFS file system Any thoughts? -Ben

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[Dovecot] IMAP noticeably slower after 1.0-stable -> 1.0.alpha1
by Ben Beuchler 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Not much else to say... All LDAP interaction is noticeably slower, from logging in to moving messages between folders. Configuration options: ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --with-ldap --disable-ipv6 --without-pam --with-ssl=openssl --without-vpopmail --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot -Ben

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 alpha trouble on OS X
by Lars Skovgaard 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hi all! I've just upgraded dovecot from 0.99 to 1.0 alpha, and it seems to be working perfectly except for a strange problem with one of my imap- users Inbox. Every folder is accessible, including the Inbox. The inbox currently contains five mails. With at least three of these, when they are attempted moved, dovecot crashes immediately with the message "Unable to determine CPSProcessSerNum pid: 12345 name: imap". The destination folder seems to be of no importance. I can copy or move these mails from the command-line, but not from the mail-client. I can, however, open them and read them from the Inbox using Apple Mail or SquirrelMail, as well as from the command- line. I've checked the privileges, and the mails belong to the user and have the appropriate rw-privileges. Any new incoming mail seems to be accessible as expected, and can be moved as desired. I apologize if this has already been discussed, but I've searched the archives without finding anything. Best regards Lars Skovgaard

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/Active Directory/KRB client (OT)
by Lisandro Grullon 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Interesting, Thanks for sharing the info. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon(a)citytech.cuny.edu "Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are." >>> "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick(a)colby.edu> 08/29/05 9:59 AM >>> Gang, For those who asked about making a Solaris system a Kerberos client to Active Directory, the magic document to have is: http://www.connectathon.org/seam1.0/files/c0101.htm See the section "How to Configure a SEAM Client Using a Windows 2000 KDC". SEAM was Sun's Kerberos client stuff in Solaris 8; it is just there as part of Solaris 9 and 10. These instructions apply if one is using Solaris 9, 10, or a Windows 2003 KDC. The instructions probably give insight for other UNIX versions. The hard part is configuring the pam.conf file, and there are significant differences between Solaris 9 and 10. For dovecot, I use the "other" service, in Solaris 9 pam.conf looks like: other auth sufficient /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 debug other auth sufficient /usr/lib/security/pam_krb5.so.1 try_first_pass debug other account optional /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 other account optional /usr/lib/security/pam_krb5.so.1 debug other session required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 other session optional /usr/lib/security/pam_krb5.so.1 debug other password required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 For Solaris 10, it looks like: other auth requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 debug other auth required pam_dhkeys.so.1 debug other auth required pam_unix_cred.so.1 debug other auth sufficient pam_krb5.so.1 debug other auth required pam_unix_auth.so.1 debug other account requisite pam_roles.so.1 debug other account required pam_unix_account.so.1 debug other account required pam_krb5.so.1 debug other session required pam_unix_session.so.1 debug other password required pam_dhkeys.so.1 other password requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 other password requisite pam_authtok_check.so.1 other password sufficient pam_krb5.so.1 other password required pam_authtok_store.so.1 I hope this helps. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] dovecot/Active Directory/KRB client (OT)
by Jeff A. Earickson 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Gang, For those who asked about making a Solaris system a Kerberos client to Active Directory, the magic document to have is: http://www.connectathon.org/seam1.0/files/c0101.htm See the section "How to Configure a SEAM Client Using a Windows 2000 KDC". SEAM was Sun's Kerberos client stuff in Solaris 8; it is just there as part of Solaris 9 and 10. These instructions apply if one is using Solaris 9, 10, or a Windows 2003 KDC. The instructions probably give insight for other UNIX versions. The hard part is configuring the pam.conf file, and there are significant differences between Solaris 9 and 10. For dovecot, I use the "other" service, in Solaris 9 pam.conf looks like: other auth sufficient /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 debug other auth sufficient /usr/lib/security/pam_krb5.so.1 try_first_pass debug other account optional /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 other account optional /usr/lib/security/pam_krb5.so.1 debug other session required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 other session optional /usr/lib/security/pam_krb5.so.1 debug other password required /usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so.1 For Solaris 10, it looks like: other auth requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 debug other auth required pam_dhkeys.so.1 debug other auth required pam_unix_cred.so.1 debug other auth sufficient pam_krb5.so.1 debug other auth required pam_unix_auth.so.1 debug other account requisite pam_roles.so.1 debug other account required pam_unix_account.so.1 debug other account required pam_krb5.so.1 debug other session required pam_unix_session.so.1 debug other password required pam_dhkeys.so.1 other password requisite pam_authtok_get.so.1 other password requisite pam_authtok_check.so.1 other password sufficient pam_krb5.so.1 other password required pam_authtok_store.so.1 I hope this helps. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] MySQL user cant log in
by Marvin Stark 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hi, I configured dovecot IMAP for MySQL authentification. --- start dovecot.conf --- auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf --- end dovecot.conf --- --- start dovecot-mysql.conf --- db_host = localhost db_port = 3306 db_unix_socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock db = users db_user = users db_passwd = xxx db_client_flags = 0 password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = '%n' AND active = 'Y' user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' --- end dovecot-mysql.conf -- /var/log/mail.log looks fine: --- start mail.log --- Aug 29 14:40:43 vs6020 dovecot: Dovecot starting up Aug 29 14:40:44 vs6020 dovecot-auth: MySQL: connected to localhost --- end mail.log --- But if i try to log in authentification failed. I added the user test to the database and set the user test in my mail client(evolution) I dont know what it could be.. because connecting to mysql worked fine... best regards, Marvin Stark

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[Dovecot] Running pop3 on more than one port
by Andrew Gargan 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hi All This is possibly a silly question but after reading some of the docs and hunting a bit I could not find an answer. I need to run my pop3 service on both the standard 110 port and another (not really sure which yet) port. My ISP is doing shaping on port 110 destined traffic causing a nightmare with some of my machines pulling only some of their mail then crashing (and no its not anything else it is the ISP). How do I get pop3 of dovecot to bind to two ports? Regards Andrew Gargan Developer Interface Media (PTY) Ltd. Tel: 011 507 3003

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[Dovecot] mail directory error solved!
by Micah Stevens 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hi, I figured out my issue, in my database query for the mail dir, I was grabbing the home column instead of the mail column. Once I changed the name of the column returned it started working. Currently my queries are like such: password_query = SELECT `passwd` FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' and user_query = SELECT concat('/usr/local/virtual/',maildir, '.INBOX') as mail, 101 as uid, 103 as gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' My question now is currently I'm saving mail like this: mailroot/domain/user/.INBOX I assume I should be able to save it as: mailroot/domain/user/ the .INBOX is superfluous, is that correct, or will imap want to make directories at the same level at inbox? Thanks, -Micah

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[Dovecot] Increase logging?
by Micah Stevens 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Is there a way to increase the log level of the dovecot logs? I'm having a real hard time getting an worthwhile information out of the logs. It would be nice if it would display more of the actions it's taking. Thanks, -Micah

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[Dovecot] Success: MySQL Works on 0.99 But Not 1.0alpha
by Tim Schaefer 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Great news! yay! I downshifted to dovecot 0.99-14 and pop server is working! Finally a pop-server and postfix and all! And no Courier! or Qmail! Whatever changed in the 1.0 release regarding MySQL is broken, and is working in the .99-14 release. I can finally use my mail server! :-) I'll keep an eye out for the 1.x stable release, hopefully it will have MySQL support working. Maybe by then I'll be brave enough to get IMAP working and maybe even ( gulp ) LDAP. Good Luck to all of you! Timo go go go ! Tim

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[Dovecot] Authenticate user thru PAM
by Adrian Mak 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

my mailsystem is using postfix and virtual mailbox which stored in mysql db. SMTP AUTH is using PAM, pam-mysql to authenticate against a mysql db. I installed dovecot 0.99-14. In the dovecot example config file it mentioned that auth_passdb can check against thru PAM but auth_userdb didn't Does it mean that auth_userdb should use other means e.g. /etc/passwd, shadow, vpopmail, etc and in my case it is mysql. Right ?

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[Dovecot] Master Password
by Marc Perkel 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I want to set up a Master Password that will authenticate to any account. How would I do that? (Don't need to hear about why I shouldn't so don't waste my time replying with a security lecture)

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[Dovecot] mbox of list archives?
by Ted Kaczmarek 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Is their an mbox kicking around somewhere of all the list archives? Ted

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[Dovecot] per user quota with lda
by Renzetti Federico 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hi List Anybody could tell me how to set per-user quota with dovecot-lda? Thank in advance.

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[Dovecot] Multiple Mail Environments?
by Marc Perkel 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

The default_mail_env is very powerful, but .... If you have multiple databases wouldn't it make sense to have a separate mail environment for each database? For example: userdb passwd { default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u } # Linuxconf passwd-like file with specified location userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/vmail/passwd.%d default_mail_env = mbox:/vhome/%d/home/%n:INBOX=/vhome/%d/home/%n/INBOX:INDEX=/nobackup/imap-cache/%d-%n } Is this possible? If not - perhaps it should be? -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Installation error on "make"
by Lisandro Grullon 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I am not sure what the problem is. I try ./configure as the intallation point out;however, when I try make I am getting the bellow error. PS. I am running Solaris 10 X86, GNU gcc. 1. [04:05:24][root@www:~/dovecot-1.0.alpha1]$ make 2. make all-recursive 3. Making all in src 4. Making all in lib 5. Making all in lib-sql 6. Making all in lib-ntlm 7. Making all in lib-settings 8. Making all in lib-charset 9. Making all in lib-mail 10. Making all in lib-imap 11. Making all in lib-index 12. Making all in lib-storage 13. Making all in index 14. Making all in maildir 15. Making all in mbox 16. Making all in subscription-file 17. Making all in register 18. make all-am 19. Making all in lib-auth 20. Making all in auth 21. 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"\" -std=gnu99 -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; \ 22. then mv -f ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo" ".deps/mycrypt.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/mycrypt.Tpo"; exit 1; fi 23. In file included from /usr/include/unistd.h:18, 24. from mycrypt.c:5: 25. /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h:332:2: #error "Compiler or options invalid for pre-UNIX 03 X/Open applications and pre-2001 POSIX applications" 26. *** Error code 1 27. make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `mycrypt.o' 28. Current working directory /root/dovecot-1.0.alpha1/src/auth 29. *** Error code 1 30. The following command caused the error: 31. failcom='exit 1'; \ 32. for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \ 33. case $f in \ 34. *=* | --[!k]*);; \ 35. *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \ 36. esac; \ 37. done; \ 38. dot_seen=no; \ 39. target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ 40. list='lib lib-sql lib-ntlm lib-settings lib-charset lib-mail lib-imap lib-index lib-storage lib-auth auth master login-common imap-login imap pop3-login pop3 deliver util'; for subdir in $list; do \ 41. echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ 42. if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ 43. dot_seen=yes; \ 44. local_target="$target-am"; \ 45. else \ 46. local_target="$target"; \ 47. fi; \ 48. (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ 49. || eval $failcom; \ 50. done; \ 51. if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ 52. make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ 53. fi; test -z "$fail" 54. make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' 55. Current working directory /root/dovecot-1.0.alpha1/src 56. *** Error code 1 57. The following command caused the error: 58. failcom='exit 1'; \ 59. for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \ 60. case $f in \ 61. *=* | --[!k]*);; \ 62. *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \ 63. esac; \ 64. done; \ 65. dot_seen=no; \ 66. target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ 67. list='src doc'; for subdir in $list; do \ 68. echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ 69. if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ 70. dot_seen=yes; \ 71. local_target="$target-am"; \ 72. else \ 73. local_target="$target"; \ 74. fi; \ 75. (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ 76. || eval $failcom; \ 77. done; \ 78. if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ 79. make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ 80. fi; test -z "$fail" 81. make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' 82. Current working directory /root/dovecot-1.0.alpha1 83. *** Error code 1 84. make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all' 85. [04:05:28][root@www:~/dovecot-1.0.alpha1]$ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon(a)citytech.cuny.edu "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.". <Albert Einstein>

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[Dovecot] Authentication with encrypted passwords
by Sebastjan Trepca 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hello, I have a postgresql database which contains users that will access dovecot, but their passwords are hashed and I don't have them in plain text. I was reading documentation that you can add tell dovecot which password scheme should it use. For example: password_query = "select '{MD5}'||password from users where userid=%u" Which would mean that dovecot will hash the password with MD5 from client and match it with the one in database. Did I understand this correctly ? Thanks, Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] Namespace Feature
by Marc Perkel 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I've never used namespaces and don't quite know what they do. If I add a namespace then do things like shared folders magically appear to users? Also - I wonder if this is possible. I'd like to create a write only shared folder. I know this is unusual but I have a reason. I'd like to have a folder that people can drag spam into to report missed spam. I want to write only so people aren't reading each other's spam. I have a bot that comes by and reads this to train the bayesian filter. Right now I have to create these folders individually. -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Postfix/Dovecot
by Micah Stevens 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hi, I searched through the maillist archives and the docs, but didn't find anything that directly addresses my question, so here goes if anyone has some time to address it. I'm running a redhat el3 server, with Postfix as the MTA, and I'd like to setup Dovecot to provide IMAP/POP3 services. Postfix uses MySQL lookups to do mailbox lookups, and I configured dovecot to do the same thing. The mail is delivered to /usr/local/virtual/<domainname>/<end.address>/ in maildir format by Postfix. This is working fine. I've setup dovecot, and set it do user auth and user lookups to MySQL. This seems to be working fine as I get no mysql errors from the queries, and my login process (to IMAP from localhost) is fine. Here's a typical scenario: telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.domain (127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>). Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1login micah(a)9250x.com "rigid2" 1 OK Logged in. 2 select INBOX 2 NO If I look in the directory for micah(a)9250x.com I find: # ls cur new tmp The permissions are 777 for now to eliminate that possibility. The dovecot log file lists: imap-login: Aug 28 12:27:11 Info: Login: micah(a)9250x.com [127.0.0.1<http://127.0.0.1> ] each time I log in, and nothing after that indicating why it's not seeing any mail. Why isn't it seeing any mail? Do I need to make an Inbox directory and tell postfix to deliver there? From reading the docs, having the delivery into the main maildir directory should be okay, but I might be mis-reading. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.. Thank you, -Micah

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[Dovecot] thanks for changing the name of the alpha tarfile!
by Joakim Verona 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Its much easier to build RPM:s now, thanks :) -- Joakim Verona www.verona.se

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[Dovecot] Permission denied changing to mail directory
by Chris Hogan 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I have 3 domains using one mail server. I've set the dovecot mail directories to be /mail/mail/%d/%n When someone logs on, dovecot attempt to navigate to the domain directory first & we get a permission denied, and we get no further. Its very odd because (a) it was working up until 16:50 on Thursday & (b) the directories now have 777 access. Each user is (at present) a separate unix user & the directories are owned by root & have a file group of mail. I would have thought that the 777 access would have been enough. I don't know what we did on Thursday evening, but any ideas about how to fix the permissions problem? Chris

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and Active Directory Authentication
by Dave Smith 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

First off, sorry if this has been asked before - I have looked, honest. Is it possible to get dovecot to authenticate users against active directory, treating the AD as a plain ldap server? I have this working with cyrus saslauthd. Currentlt I get a long delay (30 seconds or so) then * BYE Disconnected for inactivity. All I get in the maillog is imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity [::ffff:127.0.0.1] I am using dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 on CentOS 4. If anybody has got this to work then please let me know - otherwise I will be forced to use Cyrus........ Cheers Dave Smith

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Delivery Bug
by Marc Perkel 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Ran into an interesting bug in Dovecot delivery. A friend forwards an email to me as an atachment. When I receive it - it comes in as two separate messages. One is the forwarding message which is empty, and the other is the original message that was forwarded but it comes in as if I had got the email directly. If I use exim to deliver the message to the mailbox it works. But when exim pipes the message into dovecot deliver it gats split. -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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Re: [Dovecot] Authenticate user thru PAM
by Chris Wakelin 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Adrian Mak wrote: > my mailsystem is using postfix and virtual mailbox which stored in mysql db. > SMTP AUTH is using PAM, pam-mysql to authenticate against a mysql db. > > I installed dovecot 0.99-14. In the dovecot example config file > it mentioned that auth_passdb can check against thru PAM but auth_userdb didn't > > Does it mean that auth_userdb should use other means e.g. /etc/passwd, > shadow, vpopmail, etc and in my case it is mysql. Right ? Yes, at least in 1.0-alpha1/stable, so I guess the same for 0.99. Dovecot can authenticate via mysql directly, of course (but I've never done it, so don't ask me how!) 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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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and Active Directory Authentication
by Chris Wakelin 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Dave Smith wrote: > First off, sorry if this has been asked before - I have looked, honest. > > Is it possible to get dovecot to authenticate users against active > directory, treating the AD as a plain ldap server? I have this working > with cyrus saslauthd. > I have it working with PAM and pam_ldap in 1.0-stable/alpha1, but with userdb = passwd (we have users in NIS as well as AD). Search the mail archives for details! LDAP auth won't work directly as it expects to find a hashed version of the password. > I am using dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 on CentOS 4. Probably a good idea to upgrade to dovecot-1.0-stable or dovecot-1.0-alpha1 (0.99.11 is pretty old, even 0.99.14 is pretty well obsolete). 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] Wiki of dovecot.conf file
by Tim Schaefer 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

What would be extremely helpful is a really clean explanation of how to set up connections for MySQL. It would have to start with basic information and some real-world examples that make no assumptions, and clearly spell it out without confusion. In fact good examples reduce the need to subscribe to mailing lists and ask dumb questions! The current assumptions in the docs to date are that somehow non-geeks and those of us who have learned far more about email servers than we ever wanted to will somehow "get it" without decent examples. This has got to be the biggest problem using Dovecot. I've tried just about every pop-server I can find and I am about to give up on Dovecot if I can't get the connection to MySQL to work. I just want decent pop server that understands Maildir, now that I went through Cyrus SASL hell and got that working--again with incredibly poor documentation. And I don't give a rats-ass about IMAP, just need a pop server. Maybe IMAP later, for now just a pop server that understands Maildir and comes from open source. I'm using Postfix but it shouldn't matter. So far I've tried the following pop servers: nupop-1.3.9 -- can't compile qmail-1.03 -- a f**ing nightmare cyrus-imap/pop -- poor-to-no docs for pop server -- another nightmare vm-pop3d-1.1.6 -- works only on mbox flexpop-1.0.1 -- no docs , doesn't compile popular-1.5.5 -- docs are too sketchy for installation, too complicated and doesn't work I thought Dovecot would be the last one I have to screw with, but maybe I'm wrong... Thanks, Tim

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[Dovecot] Compile trouble with mysql
by Tim Schaefer 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Hi, I had a devil of a time compiling Dovecot with MySQL, but got it as follows: MYSQL=/usr export CPPFLAGS="-I${MYSQL}/include -I${MYSQL}/lib -I/usr/local/ssl/ -I/usr/local/ssl/include/ " export LDFLAGS="-L${MYSQL}/lib -R${MYSQL}/lib -I${MYSQL}/include -I${MYSQL}/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib" export SSL_FLAGS="-I/usr/local/ssl/ -I/usr/local/ssl/include/" export SSL_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib" ./configure --localstatedir=/var --with-mysql=/usr ... Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : dnotify Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with user database modules . : static passdb passwd passwd-file checkpassword mysql (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword mysql (modules) This is basically for somebody who RPM'd MySQL into /usr . I also figured out the less you give ./configure the better off you are. And...maybe you could help **me**.. :-) If you could post a few samples of how to actually connect to MySQL that would be great, for some reason I STILL cannot connect to MySQL even though I know the user/pass works for my dovecot userid. I know MySQL is compiled into dovecot but still cannot get the connect to work. I've tried: my dovecot.conf: auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } } my dovecot-mysql.conf: driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=dovecot user=dovecot password=dovecot port=3306 connect = host=mydomain dbname=dovecot user=postfix password=postfix port=3306 connect = host=mydomain dbname=dovecot user=dovecot password=dovecot port=3306 connect = host=localhost dbname=dovecot user=dovecot password=dovecot port=3306 connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=dovecot user=dovecot password=dovecot port=3306 I get: Aug 26 10:45:35 dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener): mysql: Connect failed to (null) (dovecot): Access denied for user 'dovecot'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry Aug 26 10:45:35 dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to (null) (dovecot): Access denied for user 'dovecot'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry Aug 26 10:47:17 dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Aug 26 10:47:21 dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to (null) (dovecot): Access denied for user 'dovecot'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry Help! Tim

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[Dovecot] Compile trouble with mysql
by Tim Schaefer 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

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[Dovecot] Dovecot.1.0.alpha1+mysql+mysql
by jigen 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Hi, we are trying to track down the problem that prevents two mysql password databases from working. Instead of connecting to each database, it looks like dovecot tries to connect *twice* to the second specified. Do do this we just inserted some i_warning()s in the code. We noticed that passdb_sql_init (auth/passdb-sql.c) is called twice, once per configuration file, with the correct argument (path to config file). However, as you can see in the following maillog piece, this function calls sql_connect with the SAME parameters (the parameters of the second database). So the first call works and dovecot connects to the host correctly (lines 7-8), but in the second call dovecot finds the connection already up and obviously doesn't try again (last line). Could this be the origin of the problem? Now we are trying to understand why the argument to sql_connect isn't updated correctly. Maybe a bug in the linked list of sql_connection's? [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): passdb_sql_init("/etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_django.conf") [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): now calling sql_connect(passdb_sql_conn->db): [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): passdb_sql_conn->config_path="/etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_debord.conf" [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): passdb_sql_conn->set.connect="host=debord port=3306 dbname=posta_debord user=posta password=foobar" [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): driver_mysql_connect: host=debord, user=posta, password=foobar. [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): driver_mysql_connect: conn=0x3c00a6b0 [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): actually connecting to debord [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to debord (posta_debord) [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): passdb_sql_init("/etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_debord.conf") [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): now calling sql_connect(passdb_sql_conn->db): [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): passdb_sql_conn->config_path="/etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_debord.conf" [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): passdb_sql_conn->set.connect="host=debord port=3306 dbname=posta_debord user=posta password=foobar" [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): driver_mysql_connect: host=debord, user=posta, password=foobar. [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): driver_mysql_connect: conn=0x3c00a6b0 [...] dovecot: auth-worker(default): already connected to debord!!!! altivec & jigen

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Virtual Users & Sendmail
by Chris Hogan 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Not directly Dovecot, but a configuration problem. We have a working set-up with Dovecot+Procmail+Sendmail, using POP-before-SMTP. We want to be able to offer email accounts to some local schools, using SquirrelMail (keeps their costs & maintenance down). The whole arrangement is working, but we don't want to have to have 300+ School children as users of our Red Hat Enterprise server, so I've set up a passwd style file for authentication. This all works fine, they can access mailboxes & send emails, but to receive Sendmail is checking that they are unix users & bounces messages back if they aren't in /etc/passwd too. Has anybody ever got Sendmail working with Dovecot virtual users? Or is it time I switched to Postfix? Chris Hogan

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha1: assert and core
by Jeff A. Earickson 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Hi, I've been running 1.0alpha1 in production since August 18, and got my first assert and core yesterday. Otherwise it has been running flawlessly. My setup: Sun E220R, Solaris 9, compiled dovecot with gcc 4.0.1, configured dovecot like so: #!/usr/bin/sh VERSION=1.0-alpha1 CC=gcc CFLAGS="-g -O" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib \ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot.$VERSION --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl > configure.out The syslog message: Aug 25 04:15:43 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(user): file mbox-sync-update.c: line 442 (mbox_sync_update_header_from): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.uid == 0 || ctx->mail.uid_broken || ctx->mail.uid == mail->uid) Gdb analysis of the resulting core file is attached, I hope this helps. The user's mailbox is 41003432 bytes in size. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Re:Dovecot] Finally PEBKAC was Failed authentication to a mysql database (bug or PEBKAC?)]
by jigen 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

-----Forwarded Message----- From: jigen <jigen(a)metalabs.org> To: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> Subject: Re:Dovecot] Finally PEBKAC was Failed authentication to a mysql database (bug or PEBKAC?) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:33:11 +0200 On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 16:56, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Dovecot just passes these values to Mysql library without doing anything > to them itself. So if it happens, it's Mysql library bug. It isn't a bug of mysql or dovecot. It's the most simple problem: mysql permissions :P In mysql 127.0.0.1 and localhost are differents things, and if you copy the user (posta in my case), it doesn't copy the password (and so it works without a password). And more: if you put password, you have to flush privileges. Finally PEBKAC :| > > One more question: how I can specify more different mysql-db conteining > > different users? > > I try in the following way: > > passdb sql { > > args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_debord.conf > > } > > passdb sql { > > args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_django.conf > > } > > This should work. After trying to authenticate against the first one it > should try the second. Although I'm not sure if I've tried two passdb > sqls before, maybe Dovecot has problems with that.. Well, I'll try once > I get home. I'm working on this problem, but at the moment it doesn't work. It always connects only to second db. Another PEBKAC? This is my configuration file, maybe there's something wrong. (i've cut out commented lines) ----dovecot.conf---- base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable = yes ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/django_posta.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/django_posta.pem verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes first_valid_uid = 507 last_valid_uid = 507 first_valid_gid = 507 last_valid_gid = 507 default_mail_env = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n@%d/ mail_full_filesystem_access = yes protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_debord.conf } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql_django.conf } userdb static { args = uid=507 gid=507 } user = root count = 2 } --------------- ciao jigen

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[Dovecot] Thread sorting problem
by Greg Trounson 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

I've just installed Dovecot on a Debian Sarge machine and am seeing some very strange thread sorting. In Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird on both Fedora and Debian clients my threads served up by Dovecot look like this (number denotes message time): |-11 | `-12 |-2 |-3 |-4 | `-5 | `-6 | `-7 | `-8 |-1 `-9 `-10 Where the exact same threads served by Sendmail/imap look like this: |-1 |-2 |-3 |-4 | `-5 | `-6 | `-7 | `-8 |-9 | `-10 |-11 | `-12 Squirrelmail shows the threads correctly in both cases too, so I suspect there might be something funny going on with how Thunderbird handles Maildir threads. I notice that Dovecot doesn't support the THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT capability, might that have something to do with it? thanks, Greg

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[Dovecot] verbose imap logging
by Jens Laas 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Implements more verbose imap logging (when client exits). Similar to existing logging in POP3. Due to the nature of imap and my incomplete understanding (of the dovecot code) the session statistics reported have varying accuracy. Much better than nothing IMO. 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] thunderbird pop3 delete bug workaround
by Jens Laas 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Following is patch that allows tbird to download and redelete the last deleted message. Not particularily nice but for "normal" usage the bug/workaround is not triggered. Tested with huge inbox. --- src/pop3/client.h.orig 2005-08-23 15:00:48.000000000 +0200 +++ src/pop3/client.h 2005-08-23 15:02:18.000000000 +0200 @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ unsigned int top_count; unsigned int retr_count; + unsigned int last_deleted; + int tbirdbug; + uoff_t *byte_counter; uoff_t byte_counter_offset; --- src/pop3/commands.c.orig 2005-08-24 13:24:33.000000000 +0200 +++ src/pop3/commands.c 2005-08-24 13:26:49.000000000 +0200 @@ -47,8 +47,15 @@ if (client->deleted) { if (client->deleted_bitmask[num / CHAR_BIT] & (1 << (num % CHAR_BIT))) { - client_send_line(client, "-ERR Message is deleted."); - return NULL; + if((client->tbirdbug<256) && (num == client->last_deleted)) + { + client->tbirdbug++; + } + else + { + client_send_line(client, "-ERR Message is deleted."); + return NULL; + } } } @@ -109,6 +116,7 @@ client->deleted_count++; client->deleted_size += client->message_sizes[msgnum]; client_send_line(client, "+OK Marked to be deleted."); + client->last_deleted = msgnum; return TRUE; } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- '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] Dovecot Deliver?
by Marc Perkel 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

I guess Dovecot has an LDA called deliver. What is it and how do I use it? Or is it ready to be used. can't find any docs on it. -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] public/private email accounts
by Ashvin Meetoo 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi, I am running FC4 with postfix/dovecot/amavisd-new etc on my box with 50 staff email accounts (say 10 per 5 departments)... everything is working ok... I want to create 5 more accounts for each department (to be redirected to respective staffs, e.g. sales(a)xyz.com) as well one for everyone... that can be easily done by creating an account and modifying the .forward file in the /home/<user> folder. My great concern is that if by a virus attachment or spam is not detected and sent to everyone(a)xyz.com, it will be replicated to 50 email addresses... what I want is to have the 6 accounts mentionned above to be used only by the personnel and not the outside world... is there a way of doing this? Thank you. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Well, "Hard filesystem quota can also be problematic"
by Jeroen Scheerder 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

"Hard filesystem quota can also be problematic", quoth <http://www.dovecot.org/>. Since we actually use quota for our userbasg, this merited further investigation. Using 1.0-stable, we enabled quota on /var and /users filesystems, and set very low quota for a test account. Then we had some mail delivered on it, and we moved some messages about. At some point, Thunderbird started to croak about "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [<timestamp>].", "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: .", "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Out of disk space." This I can live with. Hoever, at some point in our experiments we also found that a mailbox (mbox format) that did contain a few dozen messages suddenly was truncated to 0 bytes. Not so hot. Can anyone tell me whether or not there is, or will be, some way of using dovecot on a system with quota without risk of data loss when quota limits are reached? How do people cope with this? Regards, Jeroen. p.s. That first error message gave rise to the enclosed patch. diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/doc/auth-protocol.txt dovecot-1.0-stable/doc/auth-protocol.txt *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/doc/auth-protocol.txt Wed Jul 27 08:08:35 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/doc/auth-protocol.txt Mon Jan 31 17:37:54 2005 *************** *** 171,173 **** ! FAIL reply means an internal error occurred. Usually either a configuration mistake or temporary error caused by lost resource (eg. database down). --- 171,173 ---- ! FAIL reply means an internal error occured. Usually either a configuration mistake or temporary error caused by lost resource (eg. database down). diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/doc/index.txt dovecot-1.0-stable/doc/index.txt *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/doc/index.txt Wed Jul 27 08:08:39 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/doc/index.txt Mon Jan 31 17:37:54 2005 *************** *** 89,91 **** processes has to scan the mailbox, other processes simply check from the ! log file what changes occurred. --- 89,91 ---- processes has to scan the mailbox, other processes simply check from the ! log file what changes occured. diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/imap/client.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/imap/client.h *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/imap/client.h Wed Jul 27 08:08:26 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/imap/client.h Mon Jan 31 17:37:54 2005 *************** *** 68,70 **** /* Read a number of arguments. Returns TRUE if everything was read or ! FALSE if either needs more data or error occurred. */ int client_read_args(struct client *client, unsigned int count, --- 68,70 ---- /* Read a number of arguments. Returns TRUE if everything was read or ! FALSE if either needs more data or error occured. */ int client_read_args(struct client *client, unsigned int count, diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/imap/cmd-idle.c dovecot-1.0-stable/src/imap/cmd-idle.c *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/imap/cmd-idle.c Wed Jul 27 08:08:30 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/imap/cmd-idle.c Mon Jan 31 17:37:54 2005 *************** *** 159,161 **** } else if (ctx->sync_pending) { ! /* more changes occurred while we were sending changes to client */ --- 159,161 ---- } else if (ctx->sync_pending) { ! /* more changes occured while we were sending changes to client */ diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib/file-cache.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib/file-cache.h *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib/file-cache.h Wed Jul 27 08:06:28 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib/file-cache.h Mon Jan 31 17:37:55 2005 *************** *** 12,14 **** /* Read data from file, returns how many bytes was actually read or -1 if ! error occurred. */ ssize_t file_cache_read(struct file_cache *cache, uoff_t offset, size_t size); --- 12,14 ---- /* Read data from file, returns how many bytes was actually read or -1 if ! error occured. */ ssize_t file_cache_read(struct file_cache *cache, uoff_t offset, size_t size); diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib/istream.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib/istream.h *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib/istream.h Wed Jul 27 08:06:32 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib/istream.h Mon Jan 31 17:37:54 2005 *************** *** 60,62 **** /* Like i_stream_next_line(), but reads for more data if needed. Returns NULL ! if more data is needed or error occurred. */ char *i_stream_read_next_line(struct istream *stream); --- 60,62 ---- /* Like i_stream_next_line(), but reads for more data if needed. Returns NULL ! if more data is needed or error occured. */ char *i_stream_read_next_line(struct istream *stream); diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib/read-full.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib/read-full.h *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib/read-full.h Wed Jul 27 08:06:38 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib/read-full.h Mon Jan 31 17:37:54 2005 *************** *** 3,5 **** ! /* Read data from file. Returns -1 if error occurred, or 0 if EOF came before everything was read, or 1 if all was ok. */ --- 3,5 ---- ! /* Read data from file. Returns -1 if error occured, or 0 if EOF came before everything was read, or 1 if all was ok. */ diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib/strfuncs.c dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib/strfuncs.c *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib/strfuncs.c Wed Jul 27 08:06:47 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib/strfuncs.c Mon May 16 23:15:10 2005 *************** *** 100,102 **** if (len < 0) { ! /* some error occurred */ len = 0; --- 100,102 ---- if (len < 0) { ! /* some error occured */ len = 0; diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib/write-full.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib/write-full.h *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib/write-full.h Wed Jul 27 08:06:43 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib/write-full.h Mon Jan 31 17:37:55 2005 *************** *** 3,5 **** ! /* Write data into file. Returns -1 if error occurred, or 0 if all was ok. If there's not enough space in device, -1 with ENOSPC is returned, and --- 3,5 ---- ! /* Write data into file. Returns -1 if error occured, or 0 if all was ok. If there's not enough space in device, -1 with ENOSPC is returned, and diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h Wed Jul 27 08:07:00 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-imap/imap-parser.h Mon Jan 31 17:37:55 2005 *************** *** 88,90 **** need to do that. Returns number of arguments read (may be less than count ! in case of EOL), -2 if more data is needed or -1 if error occurred. --- 88,90 ---- need to do that. Returns number of arguments read (may be less than count ! in case of EOL), -2 if more data is needed or -1 if error occured. diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-mail/message-parser.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-mail/message-parser.h *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-mail/message-parser.h Wed Jul 27 08:06:56 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-mail/message-parser.h Mon Jan 31 17:37:55 2005 *************** *** 112,114 **** input stream is non-blocking and more data needs to be read, -1 when all is ! done or error occurred (see stream's error status). */ int message_parse_header_next(struct message_header_parser_ctx *ctx, --- 112,114 ---- input stream is non-blocking and more data needs to be read, -1 when all is ! done or error occured (see stream's error status). */ int message_parse_header_next(struct message_header_parser_ctx *ctx, diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-sql/sql-api.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-sql/sql-api.h *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-sql/sql-api.h Wed Jul 27 08:06:51 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-sql/sql-api.h Mon Jan 31 17:37:55 2005 *************** *** 23,25 **** /* Go to next row, returns 1 if ok, 0 if this was the last row or -1 if error ! occurred. This needs to be the first call for result. */ int sql_result_next_row(struct sql_result *result); --- 23,25 ---- /* Go to next row, returns 1 if ok, 0 if this was the last row or -1 if error ! occured. This needs to be the first call for result. */ int sql_result_next_row(struct sql_result *result); diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-sync.c dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-sync.c *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-sync.c Wed Jul 27 08:08:03 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-sync.c Mon Jan 31 17:37:55 2005 *************** *** 7,9 **** We want to be as efficient as we can. The most efficient way to ! check if changes have occurred is to stat() the new/ and cur/ directories and uidlist file - if their mtimes haven't changed, --- 7,9 ---- We want to be as efficient as we can. The most efficient way to ! check if changes have occured is to stat() the new/ and cur/ directories and uidlist file - if their mtimes haven't changed, *************** *** 14,16 **** then make a modification. Such modifications wouldn't get noticed ! until a new modification occurred later. --- 14,16 ---- then make a modification. Such modifications wouldn't get noticed ! until a new modification occured later. diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.c dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.c *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.c Wed Jul 27 08:07:58 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.c Mon Jan 31 17:37:55 2005 *************** *** 12,14 **** #define CRITICAL_MSG \ ! "Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information." #define CRITICAL_MSG_STAMP CRITICAL_MSG " [%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S]" --- 12,14 ---- #define CRITICAL_MSG \ ! "Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information." #define CRITICAL_MSG_STAMP CRITICAL_MSG " [%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S]" diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h Wed Jul 27 08:07:25 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h Mon Jan 31 17:37:55 2005 *************** *** 225,227 **** /* Deinitialize mailbox list request. Returns FALSE if some error ! occurred while listing. */ int mail_storage_mailbox_list_deinit(struct mailbox_list_context *ctx); --- 225,227 ---- /* Deinitialize mailbox list request. Returns FALSE if some error ! occured while listing. */ int mail_storage_mailbox_list_deinit(struct mailbox_list_context *ctx); *************** *** 239,241 **** ! /* Returns the error message of last occurred error. */ const char *mail_storage_get_last_error(struct mail_storage *storage, --- 239,241 ---- ! /* Returns the error message of last occured error. */ const char *mail_storage_get_last_error(struct mail_storage *storage, *************** *** 252,254 **** const char *name, enum mailbox_open_flags flags); ! /* Close the box. Returns FALSE if some cleanup errors occurred, but the mailbox was closed anyway. */ --- 252,254 ---- const char *name, enum mailbox_open_flags flags); ! /* Close the box. Returns FALSE if some cleanup errors occured, but the mailbox was closed anyway. */ *************** *** 373,378 **** /* Get the time message was received (IMAP INTERNALDATE). ! Returns (time_t)-1 if error occurred. */ time_t (*get_received_date)(struct mail *mail); /* Get the Date-header in mail. Timezone is in minutes. ! Returns (time_t)-1 if error occurred, 0 if field wasn't found or couldn't be parsed. */ --- 373,378 ---- /* Get the time message was received (IMAP INTERNALDATE). ! Returns (time_t)-1 if error occured. */ time_t (*get_received_date)(struct mail *mail); /* Get the Date-header in mail. Timezone is in minutes. ! Returns (time_t)-1 if error occured, 0 if field wasn't found or couldn't be parsed. */ *************** *** 380,385 **** /* Get the full virtual size of mail (IMAP RFC822.SIZE). ! Returns (uoff_t)-1 if error occurred */ uoff_t (*get_virtual_size)(struct mail *mail); /* Get the full physical size of mail. ! Returns (uoff_t)-1 if error occurred */ uoff_t (*get_physical_size)(struct mail *mail); --- 380,385 ---- /* Get the full virtual size of mail (IMAP RFC822.SIZE). ! Returns (uoff_t)-1 if error occured */ uoff_t (*get_virtual_size)(struct mail *mail); /* Get the full physical size of mail. ! Returns (uoff_t)-1 if error occured */ uoff_t (*get_physical_size)(struct mail *mail); diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-storage/subscription-file/subscription-file.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-storage/subscription-file/subscription-file.h *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/lib-storage/subscription-file/subscription-file.h Wed Jul 27 08:08:08 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-storage/subscription-file/subscription-file.h Mon Jan 31 17:37:55 2005 *************** *** 9,11 **** ! /* Deinitialize subscription file listing. Returns FALSE if some error occurred while listing. */ --- 9,11 ---- ! /* Deinitialize subscription file listing. Returns FALSE if some error occured while listing. */ diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/login-common/ssl-proxy-gnutls.c dovecot-1.0-stable/src/login-common/ssl-proxy-gnutls.c *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/login-common/ssl-proxy-gnutls.c Wed Jul 27 08:08:22 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/login-common/ssl-proxy-gnutls.c Mon Jan 31 17:37:55 2005 *************** *** 82,84 **** if (verbose_ssl) { ! /* fatal error occurred */ if (error == GNUTLS_E_FATAL_ALERT_RECEIVED) { --- 82,84 ---- if (verbose_ssl) { ! /* fatal error occured */ if (error == GNUTLS_E_FATAL_ALERT_RECEIVED) { diff -r -c1 dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/login-common/ssl-proxy.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/login-common/ssl-proxy.h *** dovecot-1.0-stable-patched/src/login-common/ssl-proxy.h Wed Jul 27 08:08:14 2005 --- dovecot-1.0-stable/src/login-common/ssl-proxy.h Mon Jan 31 17:37:55 2005 *************** *** 9,11 **** /* establish SSL connection with the given fd, returns a new fd which you ! must use from now on, or -1 if error occurred. Unless -1 is returned, the given fd must be simply forgotten. */ --- 9,11 ---- /* establish SSL connection with the given fd, returns a new fd which you ! must use from now on, or -1 if error occured. Unless -1 is returned, the given fd must be simply forgotten. */

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird got "Mail Server does not support secure authentication" ???
by Adrian Mak 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

System: Redhat AS3 postfix 2.2.5 cyrus-sasl 2.1.15 pam-mysql 0.6 dovecot 0.99.14 ( compile from source tarball) The same email account and machine, using thunderbird 1.06 to get email thru dovecot pop3, it returned "Mail Server does not support secure authentication" But in outlook express , there is no such problem I have tested SASL thru pam-mysql is work properly before install dovecot Below is my dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * ssl_disable = yes login = imap login = pop3 login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login imap_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap pop3_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 disable_plaintext_auth = no login_user = dovecot first_valid_uid = 1000 last_valid_uid = 1000 valid_chroot_dirs = /var/spool/virtual default_mail_env = /var/spool/virtual/%u auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot/mysql.conf auth_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_user = dovecot-auth /etc/dovecot/mysql.conf db_host = localhost db_port = 3306 db_unix_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock db = postfix db_user = postfixuser db_passwd = userpostfix db_client_flags = 0 password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT maildir, 1000 AS uid, 1000 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u'

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[Dovecot] Problem with AUTH causes serverside lockup
by Tom Sommer 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

Hello all, I am running Dovecot alpha1, and after about 24 hours of the server working fine, it starts to lock up when I open Thunderbird to check mail. Basically I can see new mail, but when I click it, it just hangs at "Loading message...". I get the following in my maillog: Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=194.192.14.150 rip=80.197.147.147 Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=194.192.14.150 rip=80.197.147.147 Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=194.192.14.150 rip=80.197.147.147 Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 [BASE64 SUM] Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir last message repeated 2 times Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=194.192.14.150 rip=80.197.147.147 Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=194.192.14.150 rip=80.197.147.147 Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Aug 23 09:25:28 palantir dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 [BASE64 SUM] And then it just hangs untill it finally says Aug 23 09:26:17 palantir dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: method=plain, rip=80.197.147.147, lip=194.192.14.150 When I do: # killall dovecot # dovecot (restarting dovecot) then it works fine again. -- Tom Sommer

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[Dovecot] Wiki of dovecot.conf file
by Marc Perkel 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

I made yet another new wiki page documenting the mail configuration file. Looks really nice. We can all start working on improving the docs in this file and eventually merge the docs here back into the example config file. http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MainConfig -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Segfault in imap
by Todd Burroughs 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

Found a new segfault in imap. The first log entry always happens on my mailbox, but doesn't seem to affect anything. This is CVS version from Aug. 15. dovecot: Aug 21 17:16:56 Error: 28017 IMAP(todd): Corrupted index cache file /mailhome/new/t/b/todd/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Duplicated field in header: hdr.RESENT-TO dovecot: Aug 21 17:19:44 Error: child 28017 (imap) killed with signal 11 (gdb) bt full #0 0x08076b50 in index_mail_get_flags (_mail=0x80cbd20) at index-mail.c:152 data = (struct index_mail_data *) 0x80cbd84 #1 0x0808eb4d in mail_get_flags (mail=0xb7de7088) at mail.c:32 No locals. #2 0x0805a9d5 in fetch_flags (ctx=0x80c1ed0, mail=0x80cbd20, context=0x0) at imap-fetch.c:445 flags = Variable "flags" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0x08076b50 in index_mail_get_flags (_mail=0x80cbd20) at index-mail.c:152 #1 0x0808eb4d in mail_get_flags (mail=0xb7de7088) at mail.c:32 #2 0x0805a9d5 in fetch_flags (ctx=0x80c1ed0, mail=0x80cbd20, context=0x0) at imap-fetch.c:445 #3 0x0805af0c in imap_fetch (ctx=0x80c1ed0) at imap-fetch.c:265 #4 0x0805693b in cmd_fetch (cmd=0x80bfba8) at cmd-fetch.c:166 #5 0x0805999b in _client_input (context=0x80bfb68) at client.c:334 #6 0x080a045a in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80be9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #7 0x0809f9d9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80be9b0) at ioloop.c:230 #8 0x08060877 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa44, envp=0xbffffa4c) at main.c:229 (gdb) p *data $1 = {flags = 0, date = 0, received_date = 1124608407, virtual_size = 2870, physical_size = 2856, sent_date = {time = -1, timezone = 0}, parse_line = { field_idx = 0, start_pos = 0, end_pos = 0, line_num = 0, cache = 0}, parse_line_num = 0, parts = 0x0, envelope = 0x0, body = 0x0, bodystructure = 0x0, uid_string = 0x0, envelope_data = 0x0, seq = 11473, rec = 0xb7de7088, cache_flags = 0, access_part = 3, stream = 0x80cc224, filter_stream = 0x0, hdr_size = {physical_size = 2545, virtual_size = 2545, lines = 57}, body_size = {physical_size = 311, virtual_size = 325, lines = 14}, parser_ctx = 0x0, parsing_count = 0, keywords = { buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, all_cache_fields = 0x0, all_cache_fields_count = 0, save_sent_date = 0, save_envelope = 0, save_bodystructure_header = 0, save_bodystructure_body = 0, parsed_bodystructure = 0, hdr_size_set = 1, body_size_set = 1, messageparts_saved_to_cache = 0} (gdb) p *data->rec Cannot access memory at address 0xb7de7088

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[Dovecot] pop-before-smtp in SQL?
by Lorens 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

I need pop-before-smtp (let's not discuss the advisability of the method), but I'm annoyed at the inefficiency of the classical perl script that parses the logs. A long time ago I modified the perl to add the tuple (IP, time) to an SQL table that the MTA looks at, and to clean up periodically. I found that this was the best way to deal with multiple servers that have to share an SQL database anyway. Wouldn't it be quite trivial to make dovecot write to an SQL table upon sucessful login, instead of all this log file parsing by an additional daemon?

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[Dovecot] Poprelayd released for Dovecot
by dan1 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hello all. I just wanted to tell you that poprelayd is now compatible with Dovecot. I have just created a parser for the Dovecot server. This might be interesting either for you or your future customers. Maybe you will want to make some advertisement for it ? I remind that poprelayd is a service that allows a POP user to use the SMTP server of the same machine to send e-mails (making relays) for 15 minutes long after the pop login. This comes very handy for people wanting to send e-mails through their servers and also for a larger use. If you could try it that would also give some interesting feedbacks. This is the link: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1338704&forum_id=21494 BTW, I would need something from you: The POP login information that we can find for Dovecot in the /var/log/maillog is [::ffff:IP_ADDRESS]. Here is an example: Aug 19 23:23:02 anoigo pop3-login: Login: john [::ffff:82.208.12.243] Will this be kept the same all the time or is this ffff value a variable ? Will it be kept like this all the life of Dovecot ? Also, I would need to know if the 'pop3-login' and 'Login:' information there will also be kept. Thanks. Regards, Daniel

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda user quota
by Renzetti Federico 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Sorry again people! Now my trouble is: /Your message was automatically rejected by Sieve, a mail filtering language. The following reason was given: Internal quota calculation error/ Any ideas? THK.

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[Dovecot] Re: Dovecot inotify problem
by Johannes Berg 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hi Reuben, I hope you don't mind me copying the dovecot list again. > dovecot: Aug 21 04:08:22 Error: IMAP(reuben): inotify_rm_watch() failed: > Invalid argument Odd. > This is with a 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 release. I've posted to LKML because there is > also a kernel stack produced at one point which looks inotify related (but the > messages above are contant). > See http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0508.2/1180.html and the > followup from akpm. Thanks for the link. I don't think akpm is right, unless something is really odd here. Could you add debugging output for me please? Maybe something like (this is not a patch you can apply, look at line 164 in src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c) ctx->inotify_fd = inotify_init(); + i_warning("inotify_init returned fd %d", ctx->inotify_fd); if (ctx->inotify_fd == -1) { and line 106: IN_CLOSE | IN_MODIFY); + i_warning("inotify_add_watch returned %d", watchdescriptor); if (watchdescriptor < 0) { and line 145: } + inotify_rm_watch("removing wd %d from inotify fd %d", io->notify_context, ctx->inotify_fd); if (inotify_rm_watch(ctx->inotify_fd, io->notify_context) < 0) Or something similar. If that doesn't help and output looks consistent (we're not removing a watch descriptor from a wrong fd etc.), can you try removing the fd_close_on_exec call please (line 171)? I don't know if that could cause trouble (I don't even think that the imap binary ever forks) but you never know. johannes

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[Dovecot] Created Testimonials Page in wiki
by Marc Perkel 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

I created a testimonials page. Feel free to add to this. http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Testimonials -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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Dovecot IDLE problem (was Re: [Dovecot] inotify support in dovecot)
by Reuben Farrelly 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

Hi, I've come across some possibly buggy behaviour with regards to Dovecot and the use of the IDLE keyword. Found this while testing out inotify support for Johannes - although after asking him and him reproducing it, he is of the opinion that it's not a inotify specific problem. The behaviour is that when the client is idling, Dovecot seems to only alert to the first new message received, and if a subsequent new message comes in before the client finishes idling, that second new message is not notified to the connected client. To reproduce: $ maildirmake /tmp/imap-test $ cat >/tmp/1 <<EOF From: test To: test Subject: test test! <Ctrl-D> $ MAIL=Maildir:/tmp/imap-test /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap ... A SELECT INBOX B IDLE [now, in a different terminal, copy /tmp/1 to /tmp/imap-test/new, you should instantly be notified of it in your imap session] ** Dovecot correctly responds with: * 1 EXISTS * 1 RECENT [if a second message is delivered, eg by copying /tmp/1 to /tmp/imap-test/new/2 then you should be notified as well, but this never occurs] DONE C LOGOUT $ Timo - what do you think? Reuben

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Feature List
by Marc Perkel 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

I've added a new page to the Wiki that's sort of a Dovecot feature list overview. What I have is a good start but if anyone wants to jump in and contribute, go for it. I added it because there isn't any other place I saw that gives new people an overview of what Dovecot does. I personally passed Dovecot over a few times before somone pointed me back to it. http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotFeatures Just my way of giving something back to the Dovecot community. -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Failed authentication to a mysql database
by Alexandru Craiu 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

Hi, I use devecot-1.0.alpha1 and I can't connect to mysql when user have password. If user don't have password I can connect to mysql server. Aug 21 08:28:30 ca dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.alpha1 starting up Aug 21 08:28:32 ca dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to localhost (syscp): Access denied for user 'syscp'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry I have a system and with ssh access. Best regards, Alexandru Craiu ________ Information from NOD32 ________ This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System for Linux Mail Server. part000.txt - is OK http://www.nod32.com

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Problem
by Rob Kettle 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

Hi, is there a way to get Dovecot to output a Logout line that includes the IP address that has logged out please ? This would make it a lot easier to use with pop-before-smtp. Thanks 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] Sieve Documentation
by Marc Perkel 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

Where do I find the docs on Dovecot Sieve and is there a global sieve config file that I can configure for everyone?

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[Dovecot] 1.0 alpha1 and postfix dovecot auth
by Kevin 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Does the postfix-2.2.1-dovecot-auth patch not work with 1.0alpha1? I was using the stable branch and it was working fine. Tried out 1.0alpha1 and now when I connect to postfix it logs this error. Aug 19 11:25:19 redefine postfix/smtpd[17343]: fatal: SASL: connect failed: No such file or directory I've tried with postfix-2.2.4 and 2.2.5. Right now I'm using auth default but I also tried auth default_with_listener. Anybody else using this patch seeing this?

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Re: [Dovecot] lock file
by Obantec Support 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Waters" <simonw(a)zynet.net> To: "Obantec Support" <support(a)obantec.net> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] lock file > On Thursday 18 Aug 2005 12:19 pm, Obantec Support wrote: <snip> > > What is your question? > > Yes it is a lock file, by default (if you must use mbox) Dovecot overrides > them in 30s I believe. > > Either work out if it is genuine, and delete it if not. > > You only need to use dotlock locking if you are using NFS (or similar), and > using "mbox". Hopefully this only affects a small number of big mail servers, > and most of them would presumably switch to maildir when deploying dovecot > over NFS anyway. > > Hi not using NFS. my question is what is it, why is it happening and how do i get my users mbox working again. as soon as i delete it it comes back with 1B contents 0 Mark

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[Dovecot] test80: assert/core debug info
by Jeff A. Earickson 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Timo, Attached is gdb information from core dumps related to the following assert in test-80: IMAP(username): file mbox-sync-update.c: line 442 (mbox_sync_update_header_from): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.uid == 0 || ctx->mail.uid_broken || ctx->mail.uid == mail->uid) My setup: Solaris 9, mbox format. test-80 compiled with gcc 4.0.1 using the following configure options: CC=gcc CFLAGS="-g -O" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib \ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot.test80 --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl --with-rawlog --enable-debug Note that system mailboxes are NFS mounted from the mail server to the IMAP server, which may cause you to groan. The attached debug session was done with gdb 6.3, also compiled with gcc 4.0.1. Note that some of the variables I queried were undefined (or otherwise unknown to gdb). The variable "first_nonexpunged" at line 470 of mbox-sync-rewrite.c is undefined, and I wondered why it was scoped so locally. The value of mails[idx] being undefined at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:353 also seems like bad news. Hope this helps. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] auth-master socket creation problem?
by Marc Perkel 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

I tried activating this code in the example config file and it failed to create the socket. You might want to look inti this. Running alpha1. #auth external { # socket connect { # master { # path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # } # } #}

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[Dovecot] Lost transaction log file
by Brent Clark 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Hi list I seem to be getting quite a bit of this type of messages in my syslog. Aug 19 09:14:45 mail dovecot: IMAP(bclark): Lost transaction log file /home/bclark/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 4 Aug 19 09:14:45 mail dovecot: IMAP(bclark): Lost transaction log file /home/bclark/Maildir/dovecot.index.log seq 4 Would anyone know how I can go about fixing / understanding this. Any tips / advice would greatfully be appreciated. Kind Regards Brent Clark

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[Dovecot] ( Dovecot + Postfix + MySQL + Postfixadmin )
by Pratchaya Chatuphian 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

( Dovecot + Postfix + MySQL + Postfixadmin + Spamassassin + Clamav + Amavisd-new ) I need help and sample how to. Anyone can help me sir ? Thank you for advance . Pratchaya

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[Dovecot] compiling dovecot-lda from cvs
by Jakob Hirsch 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

current dovecot-lda fails to compile: deliver.c: In function 'main': deliver.c:543: error: 'script_path' undeclared (first use in this function) deliver.c:543: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once deliver.c:543: error: for each function it appears in.) deliver.c:544: warning: implicit declaration of function 'stat' deliver.c:544: error: 'st' undeclared (first use in this function) make[3]: *** [deliver.o] Error 1

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[Dovecot] logging beg - again
by Peter Gervai 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Hello, [Old problem; if it was fixed, I cannot see it (checked Changelog, wiki, source, as much as my grepping counts). Any help appreciated.] I have been begging since 2003 to be able to trash qpopper and use dovecot, but statistical logging of dovecot has been pretty much absent. Qpopper does this: Aug 19 11:18:02 mail in.qpopper[8099]: Stats: userid 0 0 12 51773 user.example.com 193.291.612.5 [pop_updt.c:296] Which provides us with user id, user host and ip, which is fine with dovecot. Provides furthermore unread mail count and bytes, and read but undeleted mail count and bytes. This is essential to handle low-IQ user problems basically coming down to "WE CANNOT USE EMAIL FIX IT". This topic was touched several times: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:dovecot.org+logging&hl=en&lr=&start=0&s… including my original question at http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2003-October/002514.html someone even dropped in a patch http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2003-June/001618.html which seem to have disappeared in the flow of time. Probably is a member of the TODO list since then, but I cannot find the exact spot. Some comments from Timo was dropped at http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2003-May/001545.html http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2003-September/002277.html (and reply http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2003-September/002281.html ) http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2003-November/002524.html So, is there any possibility to log the entry and exit statistics of a session, regarding the amount of mail? Thanks, Peter

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[Dovecot] Multiple folders/fetchmail
by Andreas Jung 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Hi, my emails are processed using procmail and stored the following way: /home/ajung/Maildir/new|cur|tmp /home/ajung/Maildir/Plone|new|cur|tmp /home/ajung/Maildir/Python|new|cur|tmp When I fetch my mail using fetchmail I can only get the mails from "Maildir". However I can not access other folders like "Plone" or "Python" (using fetchmail -r Plone). I tried to tweak mail_default_env but without access. So any ideas how to configure dovecot the way I need it? Thanks in advance, Andreas

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha1, multiple lock methods?
by Jeff A. Earickson 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hi, I just upgraded from test80 to 1.0alpha1. I wanted to try something new on the lock_method, so I set: lock_method = fcntl, dotlock I got syslog complaints like: IMAP(username): Unknown lock_method: fcntl, dotlock Can one specify multiple file locking mechanisms? If so, what is the syntax (and can the syntax be shown in the comments of the .conf file)? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0 alpha1 released
by Timo Sirainen 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

As promised a few days ago, 1.0.alpha1 release is now available from Dovecot web page. Changes since 1.0-test80 include only one mbox assert crashfix and removed fsync() call when writing to transaction log, making it a bit faster. I changed the version number also since 1.0-tests to 1.0.alpha. I know '-' is problematic to binary package builders, maybe the new versioning is better?

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[Dovecot] Discussion of new sending protocol proposal for IMAP
by Marc Perkel 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Timo, I joined the lemonade list for the new IMAP sending protocol and I mage the following suggestion about using IMAP as a front end for SMTP. The idea would be that a client could authenticate to IMAP, then ask for a tunnel to the SMTP server. - Here's my message. I thought I'd get people thinking. --------------------- OK thanks. I would clarify what I'm proposing. I looked at the current proposal and what I'm proposing might be in addition to rather than instead of the current proposal. LDELIVER as it is now offers capabilities of sending messages and forwarding attachments without downloading them, leaving more power on the server side. This is important for mobile clients with limited power on the client end. What I'm suggesting is something in addition to LDELIVER where we add SMTP-TUNNEL as a capability. This is for laptop users who have to deal with finding an outgoing smpt server and who might be behind a firewall that blocks smtp ports. What is different about my proposal is that what I'm suggesting isn't a straight pass through at the beginning. The client has to talk to IMAP, then authenticate, and then upon successfil authentication would ask for an SMTP connection to the local smtp server. At that point it is a tunneled connection. 1) This allows the IMAP ports to be used for SMTP and avoid port blocking. 2) It uses the same IMAP authentication for SMTP so outgoing SMTP nee not be configured separately. It merely acts as an authenticated condiut to get to SMTP. 3) It would in no way interfere with future advancements in SMTP technology at others were concerned about. 4) Client and server recoding would be trivial. 5) This could be used in place of SMTP-AUTH and would eliminate the need for authenticated SMTP making server smtp configuration easier. So - if you look at it as an addition then you don't have to choose between them. Stephane Maes wrote: > Marc, > > Based on the suggestions that we have received so far, we will publish > a proposed update. We are looking at smtp proxy options. > > Note that LDELIVER contributes also in supporting server side > recomposition with upload of only body / header part diffs. I am not > sure that tunneling would allow this. But I am looking into it. > > Thanks > > Stephane > > PS I still have an action item to provide the use cases / reasons / > pros of using it. I will distribute soon on the list. > _____ > Stephane H. Maes, PhD, > Director of Architecture - RTCC & Mobile, Oracle Corporation. > Ph: +1-203-300-7786 (mobile/SMS); Fax / UM: +1-650-607-6296. > e-mail: stephane.maes(a)oracle.com > IM: shmaes (AIM, Y!,Skype) or stephane_maes(a)hotmail.com (MSN Messenger) > -----Original Message----- > From: lemonade-bounces(a)ietf.org <lemonade-bounces(a)ietf.org> > To: lemonade(a)ietf.org <lemonade(a)ietf.org> > Sent: Thu Aug 18 08:41:10 2005 > Subject: [lemonade] Outside the box suggestion about Lemonade > > Hello, > > I'm Marc Perkel - and I'm new to this list. I run a span filtering > service called junkemailfiltercom and do some web hosting. > > I've read sme of the discussion about LDELIVER and I just wanted to > throw out a wild idea and see where it goes. > > The Problem: Sending email without having to separately config > outgoing SMTP so that an IMAP connection can be used especially by > moble users to send email. > > So - suppose that instead of adding something complex - why not just > establish a tunnel to SMTP over IMAP? > > Here's what I propose. The client when sending email would establish a > second IMAP connection to the server. One of the CAPABILITIES will be > SMTP-TUNNEL. After sending the command the IMAP server opens a > connection to the SMTP server and acts as a straight pipe through > until the connection is closed. > > The advantage of this is that you can take your existing SMTP code and > instead of connecting it on port 25 you connect it on port 143. Then > everything you could do with SMTP is available. You would just need to > add a smal layer to the SMTP layer to authenticate to the IMAP server > and tell it to open a tunnel to the SMTP server. On the server side > you just connect to localhost:25 or whatever you configure it to and > pass data. > > Basically what I'm suggesting is that IMAP act as a tunnel to SMTP > providing and authenticated connection using the same credentials as > the imap client uses. > > Unless I'm missing something - and I might be - seems to me this would > be dirt simple to implement and wouldn't impose any of the limitations > to the SMTP protocol that other people here are concerned about. > > Who likes this idea? > > > _______________________________________________ > lemonade mailing list > lemonade(a)ietf.org > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lemonade > > > > > > -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com _______________________________________________ lemonade mailing list lemonade(a)ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lemonade

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda compilation problem and feature request
by Michael Goth 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hi! I tried to compile deliver from CVS (as described in the wiki), but unfortunately make stopped with the following error: In file included from sieve_interface.h:37, from script.h:31, from addr.y:34: sieve_err.h:7:24: et/com_err.h: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [addr.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-lda-CVS/src/libsieve'make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-lda-CVS/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-lda-CVS' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any suggestions how to fix this? And a second question about deliver: Is it possible to use a system wide default sieve script which applies to all users that do not have their own sieve script? That would be a great feature to easily set up (and maintain) some defaults for virus/spam filtering. Maildrop does it like this ;-) Thanks, Michael

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[Dovecot] 2nd postgresql server to connect when 1st fail
by Krzysztof A. Adamski 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

I need to have mail service working even when my postgresql server will fail. In postfix i set 2 different servers and if 1st fail, postfix try to use 2nd. Is there any way to do this in dovecot? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Zostan internetowa dziewczyna wakacji! > http://link.interia.pl/f18ac

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[Dovecot] lock file
by Obantec Support 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hi 1 user has a file username.lock with this inside 30457:proteus2a.obantec.net proteus2a.obantec.net is the server. no mail is being delivered to username (mbox style in /var/spool/mail/username) there looks to be 66+ emails in the queue "sending" most to his account. Dovecot 1.0 stable on FC3 Mark

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[Dovecot] Failed authentication to a mysql database (bug or PEBKAC?)
by g.visschers＠sr-solutions.nl 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hello, I too got a problem with dovecot trying to login to MySQL. It connects fine without a password, when i add a password the sql server rejects the connection I know the problem, but don't know enough C++ to fix it. The exerpts from the mysql log are: without password: 050818 11:33:29 8 Connect dovecot@server2 on postfix with password: 050818 11:45:19 12 Connect Access denied for user 'dovecot'@'server2' (using password: YES) As soon as i add a password to the connet string some "'" appear around the username and hostname, which makes the username invalid. Ger Visschers. PS: I'm using dovecot-stable 20050817

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + Postfixadmin + MySQL + Postfix
by Pratchaya Chatuphian 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Anyone can suggest/help me about config/How-to Dovecot + Postfixadmin + MySQL + Postfix. sir I need your help about How-to / step by step /configuration sir. Thank you for advance Pratchaya

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[Dovecot] Test 80 Problem
by Marc Perkel 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

dovecot: Aug 17 15:40:36 Error: IMAP(sflandmark(a)sflandmark.com): Corrupted index file /nobackup/imap-cache/sflandmark.com-sflandmark/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: header doesn't end with NUL dovecot: Aug 17 15:40:36 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<sflandmark(a)sflandmark.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: Aug 17 15:40:37 Error: IMAP(sflandmark(a)sflandmark.com): Corrupted index file /nobackup/imap-cache/sflandmark.com-sflandmark/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: header doesn't end with NUL dovecot: Aug 17 15:40:37 Error: IMAP(sflandmark(a)sflandmark.com): Corrupted index file /nobackup/imap-cache/sflandmark.com-sflandmark/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: header doesn't end with NUL Comment: if the cache is bad it should wipe it out and start over. -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Failed authentication to a mysql database (bug or PEBKAC?)
by Michael Gabb 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Hello, I'm trying to setup a mailserver running postfix and dovecot with mysql as database backend. Postfix is already running and delivers mails just fine. Unfortunately, dovecot has great problems connecting to the database (using username + password). If I disable the password, everthing works fine. But, thats harakiri, security wise ;-) I tried dovecot-1.0-stable and the latest cvs-nightly (I think from August 9.). With both versions, I get the following error (there are little differences between the to versions, but the meaning ist the same...) dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to localhost (my_dbname): Access denied for user 'my_user'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry My connect string is as follows: connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=my_user password=my_password dbname=my_dbname Both versions are compiled with the following settings: ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=/usr/lib --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --enable-ipv6 --with-rawlog --with-ssl=openssl --with-pop3d --with-mysql "make" runs cleanly. Then I use "checkinstall" intead of "make install" because I want to generate an rpm package, but that shouldn't make any difference. Im using the following packages from suse (since im building the server upon a SuSE 9.3): mysql-4.1.10a-3.2, mysql-devel-4.1.10a-3, mysql-client-4.1.10a-3 and mysql-shared-4.1.10a-3 I don't have any clue, why the connect fails. The password and the username are both correct (triple verified ;-)) and the user has SELECT- and USE- Permission for my_dbname. Is there any known bug i didn't know about? Or is this a typical PEBKAC situation? Thanks in advance, Michael -- www.megamimi.de.vu

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[Dovecot] Sending email with IMAP instead of SMTP?
by Marc Perkel 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Here's a kind of "outside the box" thought. Why not extend the IMAP protocol to send email? Instead of having to use SMTP if an addition were made to the IMAP protocol then IMAP could transport outgoing mail to the server the same way it moves messages to the server. On the server end Dovecot would deliver outgoing email to the host MTA via localhost:25. The advantage would be that clients need not have to deal with a separate configuration for outgoing email. If they have an IMAP connection and already authenticated and perhaps encrypted, then they can transport outgoing mail over the same connection. Of course - email clients would have to have this feature added as well, but it should be trivial. It could be as easy as moving a message to an "out" box on the server, but the out box really is outgoing email rather than a real imap folder. Am I the first one to think of this?

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[Dovecot] Migrating UW-POP3 mbox storage to Dovecot POP3 mbox storage
by Rickard Svorén 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Hi We have an mailserver running RedHat Linux 9.0 with UW-IMAP (imap-2001a- 18.progeny.1.src.rpm), we have user mailboxes in /var/spool/mail/username using the default mbox storage method. Some users have home directories and some dont. They only connect through the POP3 server, not IMAP. We are now migrating both hardware and software to an new server running RHEL 4, i have copied all user mbox files from the old RH9 server to the new RHEL 4 server (/var/spool/mail) but when the users are trying to get their mail they can login but Dovecot is complaining about some IMAP dirs missing, see attached docs. I would like to still use POP3 and mbox with Dovecot, is this possible ? I would rather not have to change the user files. Errors from /var/log/maillog: Aug 11 13:25:15 newmail pop3-login: Login: user0001 [::ffff:82.237.232.61] Aug 11 13:25:15 newmail pop3(user0001): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder /local/home/user0001/mail: Permission denied Aug 11 13:25:15 newmail pop3(user0001): Failed to create storage with data: mbox:/var/spool/mail/user0001 Aug 11 13:25:15 newmail dovecot: child 9371 (pop3) returned error 89 >From dovecot.conf: #protocols = imap imaps protocols = pop3 #default_mail_env = default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u Best Regards, Rickard

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-lda, sieve and virtual users
by David Blundell 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

At the moment I use a script to sort spam etc for virtual users into appropriate folders. I would like to be able to replace this with a per-user sieve script so users can customise their filtering through Imp web-mail. The wiki says that per-user Sieve code should be stored in the users home directories - are there any plans to provide sieve script support for virtual users? Thanks in advance, David

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot deliver - direct IMAP folder delivery.
by Marc Perkel 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Gordon Tyler wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: > >> I'm using Exim for my MTA. I set up a trick to deliver directly to >> IMAP folders by using a "-" to separate the name from the folder. >> >> user-folder(a)domain.com >> >> This delivers to user(a)domain.com and puts it in the IMAP "folder" for >> that user. The folder has to already exists for this to work. It's >> very popular with my users too because it's like each folder has it's >> own email address. > > > I'd be interested to know how you configured Exim to do this? I use > Exim with Maildrop as LDA. > > Ciao, > Gordon > > Gordon, A lot of this is specific to my setup. But Exim is addaptable to any setup. You'll have to recode it for your configuration. Router: ################################################### # This router matches virtual local user imap folders. # Folders are addresses folder-name@domain virtual_localuser_folder: driver = accept local_part_suffix=-* condition = ${lookup {$local_part} lsearch {/etc/vmail/passwd.$domain} {$value}} domains = +virtual_local_domains require_files = /etc/vmail/passwd.$domain:\ /vhome/$domain/home/$local_part/${sg {$local_part_suffix}{-}{}} retry_use_local_part transport = virtual_local_folder_delivery user = root Transport: virtual_local_folder_delivery: driver = appendfile allow_symlink create_directory delivery_date_add directory_mode = 600 envelope_to_add file = /vhome/$domain/home/$local_part/${sg {$local_part_suffix}{-}{}} group = mail mode = 600 return_path_add user = ${extract{2} {:} {${lookup {$local_part} lsearch {/etc/vmail/passwd.$domain} {$value}}}}

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[Dovecot] Feature Requests
by Jonathan Vanasco 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

I put them on the wiki page, but I'm not sure if they're read often or whatever. a - Sqlite support I know its been talked about, but it wasn't on the request/todo page until i threw it on there, so i wanted chime in for it as well b - User configurable ports ports are hardcoded in the c source file. it would be nice if these were the defaults, and could be overwritten on the configure file. this way we can run dovecot to test on the same machine as an active imap server, or just have more control over how we run it

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[Dovecot] warning: dovecot list is being harvested
by Dan Hollis 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Just a warning to dovecot listmembers. The list is being harvested. test3943395 is a unique address I created only for communication to the dovecot list. The following spam came from: Received: from dial-dynamic-62-69-52-187.surfdial.murphx.net (dial-dynamic-62-69-52-187.surfdial.murphx.net [62.69.52.187]) by sasami.anime.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id j7FLxtv03775 for <test3943395(a)anime.net>; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:59:56 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:59:46 +0100 From: Neateye <nitaigouranga(a)aol.com> To: Test3943395 <test3943395(a)anime.net> Subject: Gouranga Call out Gouranga be happy!!! Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga .... That which brings the highest happiness!!

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[Dovecot] Re: Starting Dovecot Imap [FAILED]
by Jakob Hirsch 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

hettige(a)mfac.kln.ac.lk wrote: >>>got "Starting Dovecot Imap [FAILED]" >>>Can somebody explain WHY? >>Maybe, if you posted the dovecot version and what is in your logfile >>when you try to start dovecot. > dovecot vesion is dovecot-0.99.14-4.fc4 with fedora core 4 There should be something in /var/log/maillog that could tell you _why_ starting dovecot failed. And please keep list-traffic on the list.

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[Dovecot] Wrong dates in Outlook
by Alexander Tamm 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Hello, We're migrating from Ipswitch Imail to Dovecot. There seems to be a problem with Outlook after converting the emails with mb2md and whole bunch of perl scripts to correct all the idiotic mistakes that Imail has made. Outlook will display the date and time of the conversion as the date of the message, rather than using the Date: header. The same does not occur in Thunderbird or Horde/IMP. Any ideas? Alex

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[Dovecot] test80: in production, occasional assert
by Jeff A. Earickson 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Timo, Test-80, running on our production IMAP server. Setup: Solaris 9, compiled with gcc 4.0.1, mbox format, configured like so: VERSION=test80 CC=gcc CFLAGS="-g -O" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib \ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot.$VERSION --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl --with-rawlog --enable-debug > configure.out Still seeing occasional assert messages in the syslog: IMAP(username): file mbox-sync-update.c: line 442 (mbox_sync_update_header_from): assertion failed: (ctx->mail.uid == 0 || ctx->mail.uid_broken || ctx->mail.uid == mail->uid) How do I give you useful debug info? Run the offending mailbox thru mboxcrypt.pl, try to reproduce with the mailbox, send the mailbox in? Otherwise test-80 is working great... Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Failed authentication to a mysql database (bug or PEBKAC?)
by jigen 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Hi, There is same problem on OpenBSD3.7 and NetBSD2.0.2, dovecot 1.0.test80. With dovecot0.99.14 all works well. Here is a ktrace on obsd: http://jigen.indivia.net/kdump.text tnx, bye -- .jigen

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[Dovecot] "logins with UID ... are not permitted"
by Udo Rader 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

hi, I've just upgraded our dovecot installation to the most recent debian package (0.99.20050712) and now I'm running into some weird problems. Virtual (LDAP based) users cannot login anymore, the logfile shows this: -------CUT------- dovecot: Aug 02 12:34:25 Error: Logins with UID 200 (user some.user) not permitted (see first_valid_uid in config file) -------CUT------- yet /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf has this for the mentioned parameter: first_valid_uid = 1 first_valid_gid = 1 "regular" users can login however ... any ideas? udo -- bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at

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[Dovecot] postfix+dovecot+sieve?
by Jon Salz 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Quick newbie question... is anybody using postfix+dovecot+sieve? Postfix doesn't natively support Sieve, and neither does Dovecot, so I'm not quite sure how to simply add Sieve to my configuration. Thanks in advance... - Jon

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[Dovecot] Resource temporarily unavailable?
by Marc Perkel 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

What would cause this? dovecot: Jul 31 19:31:17 Error: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Resource temporarily unavailable -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Re: Dovecot Crashing
by Matt Juszczak 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Here is the backtrace: This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)... warning: core file may not match specified executable file. Core was generated by `dovecot-auth'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x181317af in ?? () (gdb) bt full #0 0x181317af in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0x18126856 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x0001303a in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #5 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #6 0x00000286 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #7 0x181aaf4c in ?? () No symbol table info available. #8 0xbfbfea78 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #9 0x1819a0df in ?? () No symbol table info available. #10 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #11 0xbfbfea48 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #12 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #13 0x1819a0aa in ?? () No symbol table info available. #14 0x00000001 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #15 0x18094400 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #16 0xffffffdf in ?? () No symbol table info available. #17 0xffffffff in ?? () No symbol table info available. #18 0xffffffff in ?? () No symbol table info available. #19 0xffffffff in ?? () No symbol table info available. #20 0x18071a11 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #21 0x18094000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #22 0x00000140 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #23 0x08079000 in mail_cache_register_fields () No symbol table info available. #24 0x08070000 in mbox_storage_sync_init () No symbol table info available. ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #25 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #26 0x08478040 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #27 0x0848f100 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #28 0xbfbfea98 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #29 0x0805e684 in imap_thread () No symbol table info available. Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) (gdb)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot crashing
by Matt Juszczak 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Hi all, 1.0-test76 is crashing about every two weeks. Got this in the log file: pid 76217 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) pid 61724 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) pid 52961 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) pid 81257 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Also a bunch of these around the same time... arplookup 123.456.227.254 failed: host is not on local network arplookup 123.456.227.254 failed: host is not on local network arplookup 123.456.227.254 failed: host is not on local network arplookup 123.456.227.254 failed: host is not on local network arplookup 123.456.227.254 failed: host is not on local network (I changed the first two octets). Anyway, it seems that dovecot is crashing. A simple restart brings it back up. Its odd that it would work for a while and then crash, is there some kind of remote exploit causing it to crash? It says core dumped, but I'm not sure where it would put the core. Also, all of our stuff is LDAP. We dont talk to local passwd files at all. Is there a way I can run the dovecot-auth process as non root? I know there's an option in the config but i tried it and it did not seem to want to restart (the process). Thanks, Matt

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RE: [Dovecot] mysql authentication
by Justin Finkelstein 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

I hadn't set the default_pass_scheme. Thanks for pointing that out! j. -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: 15 August 2005 10:11 To: Justin Finkelstein Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mysql authentication On 15.8.2005, at 11:33, Justin Finkelstein wrote: > SELECT clear AS password FROM users LEFT JOIN domains ON > domains.domain_id = users.domain_id WHERE domain="%d" AND > username="%d" AND users.enabled = 1 AND domains.enabled = 1 So the password is in cleartext? Have you changed default_pass_scheme to plain? > dovecot-auth: mysql(justin(a)redwiredesign.co.uk): Password mismatch > > Is there a way that I can see how dovecot's doing the comparison? I > have set the following in dovecot.conf: No. I think it's maybe a bit too much to log passwords.. It's usually just that the scheme is wrong anyway. > I've read the wiki on raw logging, but I don't know: (a) how to enable > this through the port (b) whether this is even applicable as > apparently all it > logs is the imap traffic. Rawlog isn't able to log preauthentication traffic.

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[Dovecot] mysql authentication
by Justin Finkelstein 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

I've just managed to get dovecot to install on one of our FreeBSD 5.4 servers, using the ports collection. I've set up dovecot to query the mysql database I'm using, and the query I'm using is: SELECT clear AS password FROM users LEFT JOIN domains ON domains.domain_id = users.domain_id WHERE domain="%d" AND username="%d" AND users.enabled = 1 AND domains.enabled = 1 If I perform this query by hand, I get a single row with the field 'password' which contains the password I'm using the perform my intial test. However, dovecot won't authenticate, and returns this error: dovecot-auth: mysql(justin(a)redwiredesign.co.uk): Password mismatch Is there a way that I can see how dovecot's doing the comparison? I have set the following in dovecot.conf: auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes I've read the wiki on raw logging, but I don't know: (a) how to enable this through the port (b) whether this is even applicable as apparently all it logs is the imap traffic. Any suggestions? j. Redwire Design Limited Studio 12 37 Tanner Street London SE1 3LF [ www.redwiredesign.com ] [ 020 7403 1444 ] - voice [ 020 7378 8711 ] - fax

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot & SquirrelMail
by admin＠downend.org 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Update On the Following: Hey Everyone got some good news and some wierd things... Firstly, netstat -ltnp | grep ':143' -- does not show an output telnet localhost 143 -- Cannot Connect Secondly, I have no firewall installed. Thirdly, If I type "mail" as the user in SSH I can read my mail and I can send mail from other servers... which is strange considering it cannot connect Fourthly, /etc/init.d/dovecot start (Just start) -- Does not show an output. pidof dovecot -- Does not state a process for dovecot Any ideas what I should do... or anyone knows the reason. I checked mail.err and comes up with the following: Aug 14 07:15:04 aries imap-login: Can't load private key file /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pe.................. and of course because of the above SquirrelMail cannot detect the Dovecot Imap Server. I would appreciate some step to step guidience as it is getting important. I also appreciate the people who have helped me and thank you for not being cocky... or big headed... Once dovecot is running I won't be touching it for a very long time :) Regards, Mark Smith Quoting Allen Parker <infowolfe(a)gmail.com>: > On 8/14/05, admin(a)downend.org <admin(a)downend.org> wrote: > > Hi I am back thought I should start a new mail... since i lost track of > > previous. Anyways, > > > > Does Dovecot require courier-authdaemon or whatever it is called to run? > > When running the following i recieve the following output should I kill > inet > > from 143 or not. > > > > aries:/etc/init.d# netstat -ltnp | grep ':143' > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > 24715/inetd > > more than likely, you should check in your distribution's inetd.conf > (under xinetd, normally /etc/xinetd.d/ is where configurations are > kept) and remove any reference to an imap server in there since you're > not launching dovecot from inetd... you should be seeing errors like > "unable to bind to port" in your syslog coming from dovecot.. (i > personally don't use inetd for launching things... but to each their > own) > > hope this helps > > > I am recieving the same response with the dovecot init file: > > > > aries:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/dovecot > > aries:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/dovecot > > > > aries:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart > > aries:/etc/init.d# > > > > > > There is no output possible because of inet? > > Any Help will be great! > > Thanks! > > > > > -- > ________________________________________ > To avoid being added to my spam filter: > 1. Utilize list replies unless otherwise requested. > 2. If you DO send me a personal email, use english. > 3. HTML isn't cute. It belongs on the web, not in my inbox. >

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[Dovecot] Error message? less messages
by Jakub Tencl 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Hello, I was upgrade dovecot and after installing i had see this message: Starting mail server: dovecotWarning: Ignoring deprecated 'login' section handling. Use protocol imap/pop3 { .. } instead. Some settings may have been read incorrectly. Warning: Ignoring deprecated 'login' section handling. Use protocol imap/pop3 { .. } instead. Some settings may have been read incorrectly. What is it? I red the dovecot.conf and i thing there isn't some bad or there is? Please could you advice me? And on the server when MS Outlook Express download the messages, on the local computer/station have a less messages then on the server, how can be possible? When i create account on the station again it is good for this time. Thanx for reply Jakub Tencl

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test80
by Timo Sirainen 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ If nothing new comes up in a few days, this will become the first release in 1.0alpha series. Authentication code got some larger changes, so something might be broken in it. - inotify patch by Johannes Berg - Send untagged FLAGS / PERMANENTFLAGS replies if keywords list changed. - Don't even open mbox file when changing flags and mbox_lazy_writes=yes - Fixed assert crash in maildir syncing if another process was renaming the maildir files - Dovecot went to infinite loop with certain kinds of FETCH commands - mbox: Don't crash in some situations with broken X-UID headers - Preserve TZ environment so timezones work in AIX - some other fixes

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[Dovecot] After Debian testing upgrade, dovecot doesn't work
by Martin Marques 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Today I upgraded my Debian testing server (just personal testing server), and one of the updates was dovecot-common and dovecote-imapd. I passed through the dovecot.conf file changing things so that I would have similar features as before, and everything looked OK. Now, after restarting, and all, I try to connect the the imap server with my user acount, and it passes OK, but when I try to see my INBOX folder the conection gets reset, and I have this in the mail.log file: Aug 11 15:20:53 bugs dovecot: imap-login: Login: martin [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Aug 11 15:20:54 bugs dovecot: child 8085 (imap) killed with signal 10 I erased the .imap folder in ~martin/mail/ but with no luck. What happened, and how can I fix this. bugs:/etc/dovecot# dpkg -l | grep dovecot ii dovecot-common 0.99.20050712-2 secure mail server that supports mbox and ma ii dovecot-imapd 0.99.20050712-2 secure IMAP server that supports mbox and ma ii dovecot-pop3d 0.99.20050712-2 secure POP3 server that supports mbox and ma -- 11:55:01 up 155 days, 1:49, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.72, 0.86 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Lic. Martín Marqués | select 'mmarques' || '@' || 'unl.edu.ar' Centro de Telematica | DBA, Programador, Administrador Universidad Nacional del Litoral -----------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Assertion failure in mail-index-transaction.c
by Todd Burroughs 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

This just started happening with the current CVS version (2005-07-23). The "user" is a monitoring tool that we use called Sitescope. It has been monitoring dovecot for a long time and I've never seen an error before this. Deleting the .imap directory seems to have resolved the problem. This did not start until several hours into running the new version. dovecot: Jul 25 19:45:38 Error: 16590 IMAP(sitescope): file mail-index-transaction.c: line 588 (mail_index_update_flags_range): assertion failed: (seq1 <= seq2 && seq1 > 0) dovecot: Jul 25 19:45:39 Error: child 16590 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff2c8 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x00004207 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 0x0809acca in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x4207 <Address 0x4207 out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 No locals. #7 0x0809b0e4 in i_panic ( format=0x80a7a8c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x08083411 in mail_index_update_flags_range (t=0x80d2320, seq1=0, seq2=0, modify_type=MODIFY_ADD, flags=128) at array.h:99 rec = Variable "rec" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbffff2c8 in ?? () #2 0x00000006 in ?? () #3 0x00004207 in ?? () #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x0809acca in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x4207 <Address 0x4207 out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 #7 0x0809b0e4 in i_panic ( format=0x80a7a8c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 #8 0x08083411 in mail_index_update_flags_range (t=0x80d2320, seq1=0, seq2=0, modify_type=MODIFY_ADD, flags=128) at array.h:99 #9 0x0806e262 in mbox_sync_read_index_syncs (sync_ctx=0xbffff710, uid=1, sync_expunge_r=0xbffff58c) at mbox-sync.c:213 #10 0x0806ec1e in mbox_sync_loop (sync_ctx=0xbffff710, mail_ctx=0xbffff680, partial=Variable "partial" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1070 #11 0x080704c0 in mbox_sync (mbox=0x80c4bc0, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1441 #12 0x08071379 in mbox_storage_sync_init (box=0x80c4bc0, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at mbox-sync.c:1766 #13 0x0808f221 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x0, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at mail-storage.c:334 #14 0x0805ed08 in imap_sync_nonselected (box=0x80c4bc0, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at imap-sync.c:171 #15 0x08058166 in _cmd_select_full (cmd=0x80beba8, readonly=0) at cmd-select.c:39 #16 0x080582f1 in cmd_select (cmd=0x80beba8) at cmd-select.c:92 #17 0x0805997b in _client_input (context=0x80beb68) at client.c:334 #18 0x080a029a in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80bd9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #19 0x0809f8c9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80bd9b0) at ioloop.c:218 #20 0x08060847 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa24, envp=0xbffffa2c) at main.c:229 (gdb) p seq1 $1 = 0 (gdb) p seq2 $2 = 0 (gdb) p *t $3 = {refcount = 1, view = 0x80d0120, appends = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, first_new_seq = 466, last_new_seq = 0, expunges = { buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, updates = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, last_update_idx = 0, pre_hdr_change = '\0' <repeats 119 times>, pre_hdr_mask = '\0' <repeats 119 times>, post_hdr_change = '\0' <repeats 119 times>, post_hdr_mask = '\0' <repeats 119 times>, ext_rec_updates = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, ext_resizes = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, ext_resets = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, keyword_updates = { buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, keyword_resets = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, cache_trans_ctx = 0x0, hide_transaction = 0, no_appends = 0, external = 1, pre_hdr_changed = 0, post_hdr_changed = 0, log_updates = 1}

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[Dovecot] Dovecot hangs randomly
by Jacob Elder 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

I have been run into a weird problem with dovecot. We have 4 identical servers running dovecot, serving both IMAP and POP3 clients. Every few hours, clients start timing out after the PASS command. Here is what the process tree looks like at that time: 6718 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot 6719 ? S 0:00 \_ dovecot-auth 6881 ? S 0:00 | \_ dovecot-auth 6883 ? S 0:00 | \_ dovecot-auth 6890 ? S 0:00 | \_ dovecot-auth 6928 ? S 0:00 | \_ dovecot-auth 6929 ? S 0:00 | \_ dovecot-auth 6934 ? S 0:00 | \_ dovecot-auth 6936 ? S 0:00 | \_ dovecot-auth 6939 ? S 0:00 | \_ dovecot-auth 6720 ? S 0:00 \_ imap-login 6721 ? S 0:00 \_ imap-login 6722 ? S 0:00 \_ imap-login 6782 ? S 0:00 \_ pop3-login 6808 ? S 0:00 \_ pop3-login 6884 ? S 0:00 \_ pop3-login 6885 ? S 0:00 \_ pop3-login 6886 ? S 0:00 \_ pop3-login 6887 ? S 0:00 \_ pop3-login 6888 ? S 0:00 \_ pop3-login 6889 ? S 0:00 \_ pop3-login 6931 ? S 0:00 \_ pop3-login 6937 ? S 0:00 \_ pop3-login 6940 ? S 0:00 \_ pop3-login After running invoke-rc.d dovecot stop, the process tree looks like this: 6782 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 6808 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 6881 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 6883 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 6884 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 6885 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 6886 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 6887 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 6889 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 6890 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 6928 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 6929 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 6931 ? S 0:00 pop3-login 6934 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 6936 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth 6939 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth If I run "killall -9 dovecot-auth pop3-login; invoke-rc.d dovecot start", service resumes for a few hours. This happens both on 2.6.8 and 2.4.27. This is Debian testing, 512 MB RAM, about 20 users per server. We use libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap for all users other than root. Samba, SSH, saslauthd (for Postfix), login, etc all work as expected. There is a 5th server that is identical to the other 4 except is NOT using libpam-ldap, and dovecot does not hang on this machine. Any ideas? -- Jacob Elder

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[Dovecot] Documentation
by Enrique 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Hello, I have added a few questions and answers to the wiki, about stuff that caused me long hunts when trying to set up dovecot with maildir storage. Some of it I have gleaned from the source. Some of it is actually already documented, but I had not been able to spot it when I needed it. At the time of writing I had a particular advantage: I did not know, or had mostly forgotten, the peculiarities of the imap protocol. I say 'advantage', because I think that when writing documentation it is important, yet difficult, to see things from the perspective of a user that is quite ignorant, although not stupid. These need the documentation most, and they are in majority. (Some will say the "stupid" ones are in majority, but writing for them is almost futile anyway. Anyway, I doubt they are a majority; average intelligence is adequate for all normal tasks. What we often judge and condemn as "stupidity" is most often the result of a different perspective that _we_ are too limited to understand.) Since I am not yet too spoiled, and yet recently had my hands (or rather my eyes) in the source, this may be a golden opportunity to produce some more documentation. I therefore urge you to suggest what I should look at and write about. Do you have any ideas about how the documentation should be organized? some questions are not strictly dovecot or even imap questions, yet they arise quite naturally for an administrator that is migrating to dovecot or to imap in general. The existing migration documentation was not as usefull to me as it could have been because I was both migrating to imap from a non-imap solutions, and from mbox to maildir, both at the same time. That placed me in a particularly "ignorant" position. It is quite likely that much of what I write is not exactly true. I have suggested procmail as a delivery agent for maildir stores, because it is the only one I know about at the moment. I just occurred to me that I have not even checked if /bin/mail (on GNU/Linux systems) can do it. Any ideas? I have not (yet) found out anything about the CONTROL= part of the mail environment. Should I write something about it? Is it usefull for system administrators to know about it? What is it? Regards -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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[Dovecot] Binc IMAP "IMAPdir" style layout
by Martin Lucina 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Hi, I'm in the process of migrating several years worth of mail to be accessible via an IMAP server. Some time ago, I evaluated both Binc IMAP and Dovecot and found Dovecot to be much faster on large folders, which is quite important to me. One thing I did not however manage to determine from the documentation on namespaces is whether or not it is possible to implement what Binc IMAP calls an "IMAPdir" style layout. IMAPdir lets me layout mailboxes in the filesystem like so: $HOME/ Maildir/ <---- users mail goes here Mail/ <---- IMAP root INBOX -> ../Maildir/ <---- (symlink) folder/ <---- some other mailbox in Maildir format folder.subfolder/ <---- '.' is the hierarchy separator folder.subfolder-2/ other-folder/ So IMAP clients subscribe to 'INBOX' and 'folder' and 'folder/subfolder' respectively. This gives me two features that I want: 1) The ability to easily access all my mail using a command line Maildir capable client such as nail, for when I'm connection over a super-slow SSH over GPRS connection. Also, I can actually see my folders (and their subfolders) without having to look for Maildir++ style names with 'ls -a' (e.g. Maildir/.subfolder/). 2) Mail folders are organized logically, unlike the standard Maildir++ layout where everything is a subfolder of 'INBOX', which strikes me as stupid. Is such a thing possible with Dovecot? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, -mato

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[Dovecot] Plugin development
by Sebastjan Trepca 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Hi, I have a few questions regarding copy and save_finish methods. How can I get a filename or processing mail from the parameters you get in that methods? How could I use the logger you use for dovecot inside my plugin? Thanks, Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] migration from bincimap to dovecot (imaps)
by Andrea Riela 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I've installed dovecot 0.99.14 (last port on my freebsd system), and now I've to migrate from bincimap. My system uses qmail with vpopmail (uid/gid 89) and Maildir format. Well, now the authentication is ok, but when I try to connect to mailbox I receive an error like "IMAP command SELECT failed". My dovecot.conf: protocols = imaps imaps_listen = 192.168.17.10:993 ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /var/qmail/certs/mail.nesys.it_cert.pem ssl_key_file = /var/qmail/certs/mail.nesys.it_key.pem log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_user = dovecot first_valid_uid = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 first_valid_gid = 89 last_valid_gid = 89 ... default_mail_env = maildir:/usr/local/vpopmail/domains/%d/%u/Maildir ... auth_userdb = vpopmail auth_passdb = vpopmail auth_user = root My Maildir directory: elessar# ls -la total 520 drwx------ 5 vpopmail vchkpw 512 Jul 11 12:40 . drwx------ 3 vpopmail vchkpw 512 Feb 7 12:10 .. - -rw------- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 23 Jul 11 10:43 .bincimap-subscribed - -rw------- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 307344 Jul 11 12:40 bincimap-cache - -rw------- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 75 Jul 11 12:39 bincimap-uidvalidity drwx------ 2 vpopmail vchkpw 190464 Jul 11 12:40 cur drwx------ 2 vpopmail vchkpw 512 Jul 11 12:39 new drwx------ 2 vpopmail vchkpw 512 Jul 11 12:18 tmp - -rw------- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 75 Jun 23 15:09 uidvalfilename I've forgotten something? Any advice will be appreciated :) Regards Andrea -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFC0k92MakHrsrHP9wRAgIrAJ9rkNALg2l/ZoJ5+YyChw5SLhXDtACgyA4T VHnceVpLb1VO9Nm5GeyLIN8= =SEHK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] IMAP can't read inbox: istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size assertion failed
by Paul Schreiber 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Yesterday, I upgraded my debian packages from 0.99.14 to 0.99.20050712-2. IMAP service has not been reliable since, and I was seeing crashes with one user. I tried deleting the user's .subscriptions and .imap folders, and forcing the client (Mac OS X's Mail.app) to redownload everything, but that resulted in an empty inbox. Here's what I have: # dpkg -l dovecot* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=====================-=====================-========================================================== ii dovecot 0.99.14-1 dummy package for upgrades to dovecot IMAP and POP3 server ii dovecot-common 0.99.20050712-2 secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxe ii dovecot-imapd 0.99.20050712-2 secure IMAP server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxe ii dovecot-pop3d 0.99.20050712-2 secure POP3 server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxe Here's what's in mail.log: Aug 13 15:09:10 sandbox dovecot: imap-login: Login: stan [70.48.39.107] Aug 13 15:09:10 sandbox dovecot: IMAP(stan): file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 383 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: (rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) Aug 13 15:09:10 sandbox dovecot: child 6748 (imap) killed with signal 6 I got a core dump. Here it is: # gdb /usr/lib/dovecot/imap core (gdb) bt full #0 0x4004d83b in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0x4004efa2 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #2 0x08096fcb in i_set_failure_file () #3 0x08096ac7 in i_panic () #4 0x0807070f in istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size () #5 0x0806d1de in mbox_sync_has_changed () #6 0x0806eb50 in mbox_sync () #7 0x0806f9e7 in mbox_storage_sync_init () #8 0x0805ead5 in imap_sync_nonselected () #9 0x08057508 in _cmd_select_full () #10 0x080576d1 in cmd_select () #11 0x08058bf6 in _client_input () #12 0x0809c0c1 in io_loop_handler_run () #13 0x0809b65b in io_loop_run () #14 0x080602aa in main () I downgraded to 0.99.14 and put in the old configuration file and it seems to be working now. What's going on? Paul

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[Dovecot] Authentication based on client host
by Sebastjan Trepca 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Hi, I am wondering if it's possible to authenticate users that come from specific IP differently then other users. I will be authenticating them by postgresql so something like this would be very useful: password_query = SELECT password from get_user('%username','%host') Is that possible? Can it be done any other way? Thanks, Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] Upgraded from 0.99 to 1.0 stable on FC3
by Obantec Support 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Hi I upgraded to 1.0 stable and saw this in the maillog UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /var/spool/mail/thejohns_brian i am using mbox files with default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u Is this a problem that i should worry about? Mark

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[Dovecot] hangs on dovecot test77, mutt
by Tzafrir Cohen 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Hi My toy mail server runs dovecot. My client is mutt, which I use normally use a a remote screen session. I normally connect to imap locally: account-hook imap://localhost/ 'set tunnel="/usr/local/bin/imap-local"' After a long frustration from the new mail notification in 0.99, I have decided to bite the bullet and try the -test series. Ever since I have not had stable mutt sessions. Occasionally mutt hangs on the imap connection. Usually when openning a new mailbox. But sometimes even when closing an existing mailbox. Occasionally mutt will even crash (which is annoying, but certainly not a bug of dovecot). How do I debug this? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir(a)jbr.cohens.org.il | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzafrir(a)cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend

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[Dovecot] dovecot update ?
by Brent Clark 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Hi list Im currently run debian sarge / testing. I upgraded my dovecot this morning on my mail server this morning, and my dovecot stopped working for my mail users email clients. I told debconf to replace the dovecot.conf (Baring in mind I saved my conf file). The output I was getting was as so: ====================================================================== Aug 11 10:09:56 mail dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test70 starting up Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Ilip=192.168.111.11^Irip=192.168.111.225^Iresp=AGdjaXZvbG FuaQBwYXNzd29yZA== Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=gcivolani Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I1^I2040^I1 Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER^I1^Igcivolani^Isystem_user=gcivolani^Iuid=1009^Igid=1009^Ihome=/home/gcivolani Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: gcivolani [192.168.111.225] Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: IMAP(gcivolani): Effective uid=1009, gid=1009 Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: IMAP(gcivolani): Namespace: type=public, prefix=Public/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: IMAP(gcivolani): maildir autodetect: stat(/tmp/cur) failed: No such file or directory Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: IMAP(gcivolani): mbox autodetect: data=/tmp Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: IMAP(gcivolani): mbox autodetect: INBOX file: is a directory (/tmp) Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: IMAP(gcivolani): mbox autodetect: has .imap/: stat(/tmp/.imap) failed: No such file or directory Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: IMAP(gcivolani): mbox autodetect: has inbox: stat(/tmp/inbox) failed: No such file or directory Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: IMAP(gcivolani): mbox autodetect: has mbox: stat(/tmp/mbox) failed: No such file or directory Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: IMAP(gcivolani): Failed to create storage for 'Public/' with data: /tmp Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: child 2052 (imap) returned error 89 Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Ilip=192.168.111.11^Irip=192.168.111.225^Iresp=AGdjaXZvbG FuaQBwYXNzd29yZA== Aug 11 10:10:21 mail dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=gcivolani ======================================================================== I killed dovecot and restarted it with my old conf fike (I have attached my conf file). I then proceed by uninstalling this version of dovecot and reinstalled the previous version (still using the old conf file) On doing so I, started getting this error message in my syslog: ======================================================================== Aug 11 12:24:46 mail dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=IMAP^Ilip=192.168.111.11^Irip=192.168.111.225^Iresp=AGdjaXZvbG FuaQBwYXNzd29yZA== Aug 11 12:24:46 mail dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK^I1^Iuser=gcivolani Aug 11 12:24:46 mail dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST^I115^I4435^I1 Aug 11 12:24:46 mail dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER^I115^Igcivolani^Isystem_user=gcivolani^Iuid=1009^Igid=1009^Ihome=/home/gcivolani Aug 11 12:24:46 mail dovecot: IMAP(gcivolani): Effective uid=1009, gid=1009 Aug 11 12:24:46 mail dovecot: IMAP(gcivolani): maildir: data=/home/gcivolani/Maildir Aug 11 12:24:46 mail dovecot: IMAP(gcivolani): maildir: root=/home/gcivolani/Maildir, index=/home/gcivolani/Maildir, control=, inbox= Aug 11 12:24:46 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: gcivolani [192.168.111.225] ======================================================================== Although dovecot's port was up and running, my users still could not read or see there folders. It was only once I realised that when I copied and renamed my .subscription file to subscription, did it all work. Obviously the mistake was on myside but telling debconf to over write the conf file, but I find it a bit weid that when on killing dovecot and then restarting the with the old conf file, it still did not work. To be honest, im a bit lost as to how im going to rectify this, but I know that I want to upgrade my packages. If you can help in anyway, it would be most appreciated. Kind Regards and thanks in advance. Brent Clark ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file # '#' character and everything after it is treated as comments. Extra spaces # and tabs are ignored. If you want to use either of these explicitly, put the # value inside quotes, eg.: key = "# char and trailing whitespace " # Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment # any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples # with real defaults being based on configure options. The paths listed here # are for configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var # --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl # Base directory where to store runtime data. base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s protocols = imap imaps # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. If you want to specify ports # for each service, you will need to configure these settings inside the # protocol imap/pop3 { ... } section, so you can specify different ports # for IMAP/POP3. listen = * # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above if not specified. #ssl_listen = # Disable SSL/TLS support. #ssl_disable = 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 = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem # File containing trusted SSL certificate authorities. Usually not needed. #ssl_ca_file = # Request client to send a certificate. #ssl_verify_client_cert = no # SSL parameter file. Master process generates this file for login processes. # It contains Diffie Hellman and RSA parameters. #ssl_parameters_file = /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat # How often to regenerate the SSL parameters file. Generation is quite CPU # intensive operation. The value is in hours, 0 disables regeneration # entirely. #ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 # SSL ciphers to use #ssl_cipher_list = all:!low # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if # you connect from those addresses. disable_plaintext_auth = no # Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to # use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). #log_path = # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default #info_log_path = # Prefix for each line written to log file. % codes are in strftime(3) # format. #log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " ## ## Login processes ## # Directory where authentication process places authentication UNIX sockets # which login needs to be able to connect to. The sockets are created when # running as root, so you don't have to worry about permissions. Note that # everything in this directory is deleted when Dovecot is started. #login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login # chroot login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this is if you # wish to run the whole Dovecot without roots. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Rootless #login_chroot = yes # User to use for the login process. Create a completely new user for this, # and don't use it anywhere else. The user must also belong to a group where # only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process. # Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds #login_user = dovecot # Set max. process size in megabytes. If you don't use # login_process_per_connection you might need to grow this. #login_process_size = 32 # Should each login be processed in it's own process (yes), or should one # login process be allowed to process multiple connections (no)? Yes is more # secure, espcially with SSL/TLS enabled. No is faster since there's no need # to create processes all the time. #login_process_per_connection = yes # Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_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 = yes # Show protocol level SSL errors. #verbose_ssl = no # Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. #first_valid_uid = 500 #last_valid_uid = 0 # Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel. Users having # non-valid GID as primary group ID aren't allowed to log in. If user # belongs to supplementary groups with non-valid GIDs, those groups are # not set. #first_valid_gid = 1 #last_valid_gid = 0 # Grant access to these extra groups for mail processes. Typical use would be # to give "mail" group write access to /var/mail to be able to create dotlocks. #mail_extra_groups = # ':' separated list of directories under which chrooting is allowed for mail # processes (ie. /var/mail will allow chrooting to /var/mail/foo/bar too). # This setting doesn't affect login_chroot or auth_chroot variables. # WARNING: Never add directories here which local users can modify, that # may lead to root exploit. Usually this should be done only if you don't # allow shell access for users. See doc/configuration.txt for more information. #valid_chroot_dirs = # Default chroot directory for mail processes. This can be overridden for # specific users in user database by giving /./ in user's home directory # (eg. /home/./user chroots into /home). Note that usually there is no real # need to do chrooting, Dovecot doesn't allow users to access files outside # their mail directory anyway. #mail_chroot = # Enable mail process debugging. This can help you figure out why Dovecot # isn't finding your mails. mail_debug = yes # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # doc/mail-storages.txt. There's a few special variables you can use, eg.: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there's no domain # %h - home directory # # See doc/variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # #default_mail_env = #default_mail_env = maildir: #default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir # If you need to set multiple mailbox locations or want to change default # namespace settings, you can do it by defining namespace sections: # # You can have private, shared and public namespaces. The only difference # between them is how Dovecot announces them to client via NAMESPACE # extension. Shared namespaces are meant for user-owned mailboxes which are # shared to other users, while public namespaces are for more globally # accessible mailboxes. # # REMEMBER: If you add any namespaces, the default namespace must be added # explicitly, ie. default_mail_env does nothing unless you have a namespace # without a location setting. Default namespace is simply done by having a # namespace with empty prefix. # default namespace #namespace private { # separator = / # prefix = # inbox = yes #} # for backwards compatibility: #namespace private { # separator = / # prefix = mail/ # hidden = yes #} #namespace private { # separator = / # prefix = ~/mail/ # hidden = yes #} #namespace private { # separator = / # prefix = ~%u/mail/ # hidden = yes #} #namespace public { # separator = / # prefix = Public/ # location = /tmp #} # Space-separated list of fields to initially save into cache file. Currently # these fields are allowed: # # flags, date.sent, date.received, size.virtual, size.physical # mime.parts, imap.body, imap.bodystructure # # Different IMAP clients work in different ways, so they benefit from # different cached fields. Some do not benefit from them at all. Caching more # than necessary generates useless disk I/O, so you don't want to do that # either. # # Dovecot attempts to automatically figure out what client wants and it keeps # only that. However the first few times a mailbox is opened, Dovecot hasn't # yet figured out what client needs, so it may not perform optimally. If you # know what fields the majority of your clients need, it may be useful to set # these fields by hand. If client doesn't actually use them, Dovecot will # eventually drop them. # # Usually you should just leave this field alone. The potential benefits are # typically unnoticeable. #mail_cache_fields = # Space-separated list of fields that Dovecot should never save to cache file. # Useful if you want to save disk space at the cost of more I/O when the fields # needed. #mail_never_cache_fields = # Like mailbox_check_interval, but used for IDLE command. #mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 # Allow full filesystem access to clients. There's no access checks other than # what the operating system does for the active UID/GID. It works with both # maildir and mboxes, allowing you to prefix mailboxes names with eg. /path/ # or ~user/. #mail_full_filesystem_access = no # Maximum allowed length for mail keyword name. It's only forced when trying # to create new keywords. #mail_max_keyword_length = 50 # Save mails with CR+LF instead of plain LF. This makes sending those mails # take less CPU, especially with sendfile() syscall with Linux and FreeBSD. # But it also creates a bit more disk I/O which may just make it slower. #mail_save_crlf = no # Use mmap() instead of read() to read mail files. read() seems to be a bit # faster with my Linux/x86 and it's better with NFS, so that's the default. # Note that OpenBSD 3.3 and older don't work right with mail_read_mmaped = yes. #mail_read_mmaped = no # Don't use mmap() at all. This is required if you store indexes in remote # filesystems (NFS or clustered filesystem). #mmap_disable = no # Don't write() to mmaped files. This is required for some operating systems # which use separate caches for them, such as OpenBSD. #mmap_no_write = no # Locking method for index files. Alternatives are fcntl, flock and dotlock. # Dotlocking uses some tricks which may create more disk I/O than other locking # methods. #lock_method = fcntl # By default LIST command returns all entries in maildir beginning with dot. # Enabling this option makes Dovecot return only entries which are directories. # This is done by stat()ing each entry, so it causes more disk I/O. # (For systems setting struct dirent->d_type, this check is free and it's # done always regardless of this setting) #maildir_stat_dirs = no # Copy mail to another folders using hard links. This is much faster than # actually copying the file. This is problematic only if something modifies # the mail in one folder but doesn't want it modified in the others. I don't # know any MUA which would modify mail files directly. IMAP protocol also # requires that the mails don't change, so it would be problematic in any case. # If you care about performance, enable it. #maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no # Which locking methods to use for locking mbox. There's four available: # dotlock: Create <mailbox>.lock file. This is the oldest and most NFS-safe # solution. If you want to use /var/mail/ like directory, the users # will need write access to that directory. # fcntl : Use this if possible. Works with NFS too if lockd is used. # flock : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # lockf : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # # You can use multiple locking methods; if you do the order they're declared # in is important to avoid deadlocks if other MTAs/MUAs are using multiple # locking methods as well. Some operating systems don't allow using some of # them simultaneously. #mbox_read_locks = fcntl #mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl # Maximum time in seconds to wait for lock (all of them) before aborting. #mbox_lock_timeout = 300 # If dotlock exists but the mailbox isn't modified in any way, override the # lock file after this many seconds. #mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 # When mbox changes unexpectedly we have to fully read it to find out what # changed. If the mbox is large this can take a long time. Since the change # is usually just a newly appended mail, it'd be faster to simply read the # new mails. If this setting is enabled, Dovecot does this but still safely # fallbacks to re-reading the whole mbox file whenever something in mbox isn't # how it's expected to be. The only real downside to this setting is that if # some other MUA changes message flags, Dovecot doesn't notice it immediately. # Note that a full sync is done with SELECT, EXAMINE, EXPUNGE and CHECK # commands. #mbox_dirty_syncs = yes # Like mbox_dirty_syncs, but don't do full syncs even with SELECT, EXAMINE, # EXPUNGE or CHECK commands. If this is set, mbox_dirty_syncs is ignored. #mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no # Delay writing mbox headers until doing a full write sync (EXPUNGE and CHECK # commands and when closing the mailbox). This is especially useful for POP3 # where clients often delete all mails. The downside is that our changes # aren't immediately visible to other MUAs. #mbox_lazy_writes = yes # umask to use for mail files and directories #umask = 0077 # Drop all privileges before exec()ing the mail process. This is mostly # meant for debugging, otherwise you don't get core dumps. It could be a small # security risk if you use single UID for multiple users, as the users could # ptrace() each others processes then. #mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. #mail_process_size = 256 # Log prefix for mail processes. See 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: # delay-newmail: # Send EXISTS/RECENT new mail notifications only when replying to NOOP # and CHECK commands. Some clients ignore them otherwise, for example # OSX Mail. Outlook Express breaks more badly though, without this it # may show user "Message no longer in server" errors. Note that OE6 still # breaks even with this workaround if synchronization is set to # "Headers Only". # outlook-idle: # Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no mail # arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is still # fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new mail # arrives. # netscape-eoh: # Netscape 4.x breaks if message headers don't end with the empty "end of # headers" line. Normally all messages have this, but setting this # workaround makes sure that Netscape never breaks by adding the line if # it doesn't exist. This is done only for FETCH BODY[HEADER.FIELDS..] # commands. Note that RFC says this shouldn't be done. #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 = %v.%u # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #mail_use_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 # Workarounds for various client bugs: # outlook-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. # oe-ns-eoh: # Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is # missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing. #pop3_client_workarounds = } ## ## Authentication processes ## # Executable location #auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth # Set max. process size in megabytes. #auth_process_size = 256 # Authentication cache size in kilobytes. #auth_cache_size = 0 # Time to live in seconds for cached data. After this many seconds a cached # record is forced out of cache. #auth_cache_ttl = 3600 # Space separated list of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms that need # them. You can leave it empty if you don't want to support multiple realms. # Many clients simply use the first one listed here, so keep the default realm # first. #auth_realms = # Default realm/domain to use if none was specified. This is used for both # SASL realms and appending @domain to username in plaintext logins. #auth_default_realm = # List of allowed characters in username. If the user-given username contains # a character not listed in here, the login automatically fails. This is just # an extra check to make sure user can't exploit any potential quote escaping # vulnerabilities with SQL/LDAP databases. If you want to allow all characters, # set this value to empty. #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ # Username character translations before it's looked up from databases. The # value contains series of from -> to characters. For example "#@/@" means # that '#' and '/' characters are translated to '@'. #auth_username_translation = # Username to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism #auth_anonymous_username = anonymous # More verbose logging. Useful for figuring out why authentication isn't # working. auth_verbose = yes # Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes. Shows for example SQL # queries. auth_debug = yes # Maximum number of dovecot-auth worker processes. They're used to execute # blocking passdb and userdb queries (eg. MySQL and PAM). They're # automatically created and destroyed as needed. #auth_worker_max_count = 30 auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous mechanisms = plain # # Password database is used to verify user's password (and nothing more). # You can have multiple passdbs and userdbs. This is useful if you want to # allow both system users (/etc/passwd) and virtual users to login without # duplicating the system users into virtual database. # # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # # PAM authentication. Preferred nowadays by most systems. # Note that PAM can only be used to verify if user's password is correct, # so it can't be used as userdb. If you don't want to use a separate user # database (passwd usually), you can use static userdb. #passdb { # args=/etc/passwd #} passdb pam { } userdb 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 { # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # checkpassword executable authentication #passdb checkpassword { # Path for checkpassword binary #args = #} # /etc/passwd or similar, using getpwnam() # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. userdb passwd { } # passwd-like file with specified location #userdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # static settings generated from template #userdb static { # Template for settings. Can return anything a userdb could normally # return, eg.: uid, gid, home, mail, nice # # A few examples: # # args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/%u # args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/%u mail=mbox:%h/mail nice=10 # #args = #} # User to use for the process. This user needs access to only user and # password databases, nothing else. Only shadow and pam authentication # requires roots, so use something else if possible. Note that passwd # authentication with BSDs internally accesses shadow files, which also # requires roots. Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # That user is specified by userdb above. user = root # Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't # work if this is set, and there's no point chrooting if auth_user is root. # Note that valid_chroot_dirs isn't needed to use this setting. #chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create #count = 1 # Require a valid SSL client certificate or the authentication fails. #ssl_require_client_cert = no } # It's possible to export the authentication interface to other programs, # for example SMTP server which supports talking to Dovecot. Client socket # handles the actual authentication - you give it a username and password # and it returns OK or failure. So it's pretty safe to allow anyone access to # it. Master socket is used to a) query if given client was successfully # authenticated, b) userdb lookups. # listener sockets will be created by Dovecot's master process using the # settings given inside the auth section #auth default_with_listener { # mechanisms = plain # passdb passwd { # } # userdb pam { # } # socket listen { # master { # path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # #mode = 0600 # # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) # #user = # #group = # } # client { # path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-client # mode = 0660 # } # } #} # connect sockets are assumed to be already running, Dovecot's master # process only tries to connect to them. They don't need any other settings # than path for the master socket, as the configuration is done elsewhere. # Note that the client sockets must exist in login_dir. #auth external { # socket connect { # master { # path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # } # } #}

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth: BUG: login gave a PID of existing connection
by m.durnthaler＠aon.at 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

hi, first of all i have to say that i´m new to dovecot and to mailinglist. i´m trying to setup my owen imap-server on fc3, but i have some trouble with dovecot. wenn i try to log in with telnet lovalhost 143 /var/log/maillog says: dovecot-auth: BUG: login gave a PID of existing connection. can someone please give me an hint or a link to solve this problem. yours, martin. ------------------------------------------- Versendet durch aonWebmail (webmail.aon.at)

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[Dovecot] crash (assertion failed: (uidlist->lock_count == 1)
by Jakob Hirsch 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Hi, with 1.0-test79 Aug 3 16:18:23 ymmv dovecot: IMAP(jh): file maildir-uidlist.c: line 536 (maildir_uidlist_rewrite): assertion failed: (uidlist->lock_count == 1) Aug 3 16:18:23 ymmv dovecot: child 10780 (imap) killed with signal 6 Any idea what that is? I did no special operation, just selected a mail to read with thunderbird (1.06). After restarting TB it worked.

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[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot and system crashing
by Colin Kingsbury 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Hi all, I am running dovecot on a linux server (FC3) in conjunction with Sendmail. My configuration is quite vanilla and I am having the following problem: occasionally (once every 3-10 days) the dovecot server will become unresponsive and attempting to access mail via pop3 will produce an error message on the client side. As best as I can tell, the dovecot process dies because if I restart it with /sbin/service dovecot restart I get [failed] on the stop and [ok] on the start. Now, here's the interesting part: within 5 minutes of this happening, the whole machine becomes completely unresponsive and requires a power-cycle to restart it. In between dovecot dying and the server going down, the other applications (apache, mysql) continue to run. Naturally, there are no messages in the syslog or the maillog and it is set to log all messages of info or higher. Any suggestions on how to attack this would be greatly appreciated. Best, -cwk.

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot & SquirrelMail
by admin＠downend.org 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

aries:/etc/init.d# netstat -ltnp | grep ':143' aries:/etc/init.d# Right I found that cyrus was in the inet config uncommented and now I recieve outputs for dovecot :) As for SquirrelMail Config test: Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to localhost:143 in /var/www/mail/src/configtest.php on line 247 ERROR: Error connecting to IMAP server "localhost:143".Server error: (111) Connection refused Right so obiously I need to put dovecot in the inet conf any ideas what to put in? Thanks Mark Quoting Allen Parker <infowolfe(a)gmail.com>: > On 8/14/05, admin(a)downend.org <admin(a)downend.org> wrote: > > Hi I am back thought I should start a new mail... since i lost track of > > previous. Anyways, > > > > Does Dovecot require courier-authdaemon or whatever it is called to run? > > When running the following i recieve the following output should I kill > inet > > from 143 or not. > > > > aries:/etc/init.d# netstat -ltnp | grep ':143' > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > 24715/inetd > > more than likely, you should check in your distribution's inetd.conf > (under xinetd, normally /etc/xinetd.d/ is where configurations are > kept) and remove any reference to an imap server in there since you're > not launching dovecot from inetd... you should be seeing errors like > "unable to bind to port" in your syslog coming from dovecot.. (i > personally don't use inetd for launching things... but to each their > own) > > hope this helps > > > I am recieving the same response with the dovecot init file: > > > > aries:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/dovecot > > aries:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/dovecot > > > > aries:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart > > aries:/etc/init.d# > > > > > > There is no output possible because of inet? > > Any Help will be great! > > Thanks! > > > > > -- > ________________________________________ > To avoid being added to my spam filter: > 1. Utilize list replies unless otherwise requested. > 2. If you DO send me a personal email, use english. > 3. HTML isn't cute. It belongs on the web, not in my inbox. >

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[Dovecot] Mailbox written with normalized headers
by Kenneth Porter 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Over on the SpamAssassin list someone noted that some spam generators add leading spaces to the subject line, but it was impossible to detect this when using Dovecot for POP3 service. Some quick testing shows that dovecot-0.99.13-4.FC2 writes the mailbox back with the extra spaces in the header squeezed out. I think Dovecot should avoid reformatting headers any more than necessary to avoid interfering with spam detectors.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot & SquirrelMail
by admin＠downend.org 14 Aug '05

14 Aug '05

Hi I am back thought I should start a new mail... since i lost track of previous. Anyways, Does Dovecot require courier-authdaemon or whatever it is called to run? When running the following i recieve the following output should I kill inet from 143 or not. aries:/etc/init.d# netstat -ltnp | grep ':143' tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 24715/inetd I am recieving the same response with the dovecot init file: aries:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/dovecot aries:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/dovecot aries:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart aries:/etc/init.d# There is no output possible because of inet? Any Help will be great! Thanks!

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[Dovecot] debs for 1.0?
by Lorens 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Hi, 0.99 is running nicely on my sarges, but I need pop3_uidl_format = %f for Courier compatibility. I can't find any debs more recent than test22 of over a year ago (those are at http://src.braincells.com/dovecot-test/) Even though google turns up http://hemma.tobbe.nu/debian/mini-dinstall/incoming/dovecot_1.0.test46-1_i3… searching for dovecot on packages.debian.org (any distribution or source) only yields 0.99.14 and 0.99.20050712. I know Jaldhar called for vounteers to take over, but I don't feel qualified... but I've managed to do away with all non-deb installations, so if I have to I'll make a .deb myself, is there maybe an already-written script to do that with dovecot? Thanks for suggestions.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot & SquirrelMail HELP!
by admin＠downend.org 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Hi All, I just installed Dovecot-Imap because uw-imap is awful... and Dovecot seems like a good Imap Server. Anyway I am using a Debian Server and apt-get install dovecot Seems to be working... I can telnet to port 143 and run /var/run/dovecot/login However SquirrelMail Config test cannot detect if, If anyone knows a guide to make Dovecot work with SquirrelMail please let me know... THis is quite urgent matter and need to fix this ASAP! Thanks! Mark Smith

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Fwd: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot & SquirrelMail HELP!
by admin＠downend.org 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

aries:/etc/postfix# netstat -ltnp | grep ':143' tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 22272/cyrmaster Well we are getting somewhere :) Just one now... Cyrus has been removed and purged off the system.. i found something about cyrus commented in postfix config, i have removed it, restarted and reloaded postfix still there aries:/etc/postfix# pidof cyrmaster 22272 aries:/etc/postfix# kill 22272 and it is still alive argg!!! Quoting Johannes Berg <johannes(a)sipsolutions.net>: > On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 02:03 +1000, admin(a)downend.org wrote: > > > > I have installed previous Imap Servers could that be it? > > > > How can I check if port 143 is being used by another imap server? > > > > > > netstat -tan|grep 143 > > > > I recieved the following output: > > > > aries:~# netstat -tan|grep 143 > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > There's something listening on 143. Run the following as root: > > netstat -ltnp | grep ':143' > > to see which process it is. > > johannes > ----- End forwarded message -----

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[Dovecot] vpopmail directory permissions denied
by bclements＠io-networks.com 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

I've moved from a postfix setup to a qmail/vpopmail setup I've setup the dovecot.conf file for vpopmail That works fine, users can log in, but the problem is when they go to see their folders. Nothing is there. INBOX, Drafts, nothing. This is using any imap client, imp, evolution, outlook, outlook express This is using 99.14 and the latest vpopmail/qmail I looked at the directory structure and everything is there. The dovecot log file says something about permissions denied. I am using freebsd 4.10 Anybody have a clue on whats going on? -Brent ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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[Dovecot] Mail disappearing
by bclements＠io-networks.com 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

My users are complaining that their mail is dissappearing out of folders or if they go into a folder, the mail will be there one minute, the next it isn't. Anybody see this before...and if so..is there a fix? I'm running dovecot 99.11 Brent ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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[Dovecot] Need Help with Dovecot-Imapd and SquirrelMail
by admin＠downend.org 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Hi All, I just installed Dovecot-Imap because uw-imap is awful... and Dovecot seems like a good Imap Server. Anyway I am usnig a Debian Server and apr-get install dovecot Seems to be working... I can telnet to it and /var/run/dovecot/login However SquirrelMail Config test cannot detect if, If anyone knows a guide to make Dovecot work with SQuirrelMail please let me know... THis is quite urgent. Thanks! Mark Smith

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[Dovecot] Re: dovecot 0.99.20050712-1
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Nick Maynard wrote: > Yep - I too saw that posting on the dovecot list... sadly after I posted > to this one. I thought the best thing to do was probably to wait > quietly, but I suppose giving him a friendly poke can't do any harm > (Hello, Jaldhar!). > > Thanks all, > Apologies for the delay but I have now prepared a backport. The problem is I don't know how to upload it to backports.org but while I get that sorted out you can get the files from http://www.braincells.com/backports/ (It's not aptable, you'll have to download the packages and manually install them with dpkg -i) -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] Starting Dovecot Imap [FAILED]
by hettige＠mfac.kln.ac.lk 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

I want to configure dovecot in FC 4. Set the "protocols = Imap Imaps Pop3 Pop3s" in dovecot.conf Test the service by giving "service dovecot start" command and finally I got "Starting Dovecot Imap [FAILED]" Can somebody explain WHY? Saman ---------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] new inotify patch
by Johannes Berg 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Hi, As discussed on IRC, the attached patch changes the notification API and fixes inotify. johannes

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[Dovecot] Strange index problem
by Andrew Hutchings 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi, OK, I have 2 servers accessing the same mailboxes via NFS (indexes on each servers local HDD). They are on a round robin connection system. I have had a mailbox (customer using Eudora for Mac and storing mail for a certain amount of days) that on one server says there are 281 messages and the other says there are 194 messages. Of course this leads to re-downloading the difference. The mails that are invisible to the second machine are not sequential, they are at random places in the mailbox. Deleting the indexed on the machine that is inconsistent seems to fix it. We seem to get this problem about once a week or 2 over 6000 mailboxes. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ Random quote 147: "The Internet? We are not interested in it" - Bill Gates, 1993

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[Dovecot] Re: Problem with dovecot and system crashing
by Paul Vatta 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

We have experienced similar problems with version 0.99.11 that comes with Redhat Enterprise Linux 4. If I'm not wrong, it appears to be related to the number of file descripters available to the dovecot user. To abate the situation, we stop the service, kill any remaining dovecot processes (some hang around), and then restart dovecot. Sometimes it appears that the limit of connection processes isn't honoured (as defined in the conf file) so the number can spiral out of control. I hope this helps in the absense of a workaround. Let me know if there is an obvious configuration setting to remedy this.

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[Dovecot] out of disk space notification
by David Weilers 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi Dovecot readers, My server (squirrelmail) provides me with the following error-message when selecting a mailbox (trash): ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: SELECT "Trash" Reason Given: Out of disk space The user is not over quota but for some reason dovecot still thinks this to be true. Can anyone give me a hint for finding a solution for this problem. I have installed: dovecot-0.99.10.9-2.0.rh9.dag Thanks in advance.. David

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[Dovecot] corrupted binary tree and index data files
by Gary Sandine 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi. I am using dovecot 0.99.14 as an imaps server with mbox folders (in an NFS-mounted directory) in x86 Debian testing. I have searched the archives of this list and have seen other evidence of the problems I am having. I get lots of log messages like these: Jul 29 07:47:09 HOST imap(USER): Corrupted binary tree file /home/USER/IMAP_MBOX_DIR/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't higher than existing (290 <= 291) ... Jul 29 07:47:13 HOST imap(USER): Corrupted index data file /home/USER/IMAP_MBOX_DIR/.imap/INBOX/.imap.index.data: Field 1 size points outside file (14648 / 14656) for record 290 This is from the midst of a herd of messages starting at 82 <= 144: Jul 28 08:01:31 HOST imap(USER): Corrupted binary tree file /home/USER/IMAP_MBOX_DIR/FOLDER_DIR/.imap/MBOX1/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't higher than existing (82 <= 144) ... Jul 28 08:01:32 HOST imap(USER): Corrupted binary tree file /home/USER/IMAP_MBOX_DIR/FOLDER_DIR/.imap/MBOX1/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't higher than existing (143 <= 144) Jul 28 08:01:32 HOST imap(USER): Corrupted binary tree file /home/USER/IMAP_MBOX_DIR/FOLDER_DIR/.imap/MBOX1/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't higher than existing (144 <= 144) Jul 28 08:01:32 HOST imap(USER): Corrupted binary tree file /home/USER/IMAP_MBOX_DIR/FOLDER_DIR/.imap/MBOX1/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't higher than existing (92 <= 154) Jul 28 08:01:32 HOST imap(USER): Corrupted binary tree file /home/USER/IMAP_MBOX_DIR/FOLDER_DIR/.imap/MBOX1/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't higher than existing (93 <= 154) ... Jul 28 08:01:32 HOST imap(USER): Corrupted binary tree file /home/USER/IMAP_MBOX_DIR/FOLDER_DIR/.imap/MBOX1/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't higher than existing (101 <= 154) Jul 28 08:01:34 HOST imap(USER): Corrupted binary tree file /home/USER/IMAP_MBOX_DIR/FOLDER_DIR/SUBFOLDER_DIR/.imap/MBOX2/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't higher than existing (79 <= 80) Jul 28 08:01:34 HOST imap(USER): Corrupted binary tree file /home/USER/IMAP_MBOX_DIR/FOLDER_DIR/SUBFOLDER_DIR/.imap/MBOX2/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't higher than existing (80 <= 80) Jul 28 08:11:27 HOST imap(USER): Corrupted binary tree file /home/USER/IMAP_MBOX_DIR/FOLDER_DIR/.imap/MBOX1/.imap.index.tree: UID to be inserted isn't higher than existing (102 <= 164) ... I don't know how to reproduce this. It happens (repeatedly) for some users and seems to be independent of the number of mboxes, mbox sizes, mail client, .... I have tried deleting .imap directories, and this helps for a while, but the problem always comes back for a few users. The proposed solution for "Corrupted binary tree" or "Corrupted index data file" log messages is usually to change to a different version of dovecot. I will try that, but want to check in here first in case something obvious is happening that I don't understand. Thanks, -- Gary Sandine <gars(a)lanl.gov>

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[Dovecot] Header problems
by Andrew Hutchings 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Hi, I don't know if this has been covered or not as I have been out of action most of the last few weeks getting married and stuff. My query / slight problem is when I re-install an IMAP client or change client all mails that have been read so far show an empty header with the date set back to 1970 but the mails are fully readable. New mails that weren't read in a previous client show fine. Could this be something do to with me using fcntl? I am using the latest test version with Maildir boxes. I haven't got any diagnostic data of this yet, I want to make sure this isn't a common problem first. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) - Linux Guru Netserve Consultants - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ Linux CDs and DVDs - http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/ Random quote 114: "Both the PC industry and consumers alike would be better off with some modest limits on Microsoft's zeal." - JOHN BLACKFORD, Editor, Computer Shopper

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[Dovecot] directory names - have to begin with a dot?
by Tom Alsberg 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hi there... Two questions: (1) Is there an easy way to have Dovecot recognize subdirectories that do not begin with a dot as sub-hierarchies? (2) Is there a way to have the root folder map to a certain other mbox/maildir? I want a setup like this: / -> $HOME/mbox /INBOX -> /var/spool/<username> /folder -> $HOME/mail/folder /folder/foo -> $HOME/mail/folder/foo /folder/bar -> $HOME/mail/folder/bar /folder/foo/bar -> $HOME/mail/folder/foo/bar (Assuming / as a hierarchy separator - that is, /folder/foo/bar is the IMAP folder 'bar' inside 'foo' inside 'folder') The idea is something resembling and compatible with the default behaviour of elm/pine/mutt/KMail/evolution, so a user can use both those locally and whatever IMAP client remotely in a similiar organisation... I would love some further documentation regarding the working of Dovecot's folder lookup and how to achieve different IMAP folder organisations with dovecot. I have not yet looked deep enough into the sources to understand where most of the flexibiliy stems. Cheers, -- Tom P.S. anyone checked my trivial patch for settings parsing after closing braces? -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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[Dovecot] auth_passdb using MySQL fails at starup
by Josh Joslyn 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

I've got dovecot v0.99.14, MySql 4.1.11 and postfix on fedora core 4. when using uxix socket I get: dovecot-auth: MySQL: Can't connect to database vmail: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) when using tcp socket I get: dovecot-auth: MySQL: Can't connect to database vmail: Can't create TCP/IP socket (13) * the mysql.sock exists * I can connect to mysql -u vmail and select on the table mailbox * I can run mysqladmin successfully using the port or the socket As you can see below I modified the password query to be very simple. I am surprised to get the error on startup since the password query should not be executed at this point. The problem is not MySql as I am able to query all day long the the vmail database table called mailbox with the vmail user. Not sure what else I can check Dovecot error message lacks the reason it can not connect - unless the (13) means anything to anybody??? Anybody have any ideas??? dovecot.conf : . auth_assdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf dovecot-mysql.conf : db_host = localhost db_unix_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock #db_port = 3306 db = vmail db_user = vmail db_passdb = temp password_query = SELECT 'test' as password from mailbox vmail.sql: create database vmail; use vmail; grant insert,select,update,delete on vmail.* to 'vmail'@'localhost' identified by 'temp'; CREATE TABLE mailbox ( user varchar(20) not null, domain varchar(30) not null, password varchar(20) not null, status char, PRIMARY KEY (user,domain) ); insert into mailbox values('someone', 'domain.org', 'secret', 'Y');

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[Dovecot] Copying keyworded messages kills IMAP process(test78)
by Sebastjan Trepca 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hi, when I try to copy/move messages with keywords, IMAP process dies: dovecot: Jul 24 23:49:47 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<seba>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.192 <http://192.168.0.192>, lip=192.168.0.188<http://192.168.0.188> dovecot: Jul 24 23:49:47 Info: IMAP(seba): Effective uid=1000, gid=100 dovecot: Jul 24 23:49:47 Info: IMAP(seba): maildir: data=/home/seba/Maildir dovecot: Jul 24 23:49:47 Info: IMAP(seba): maildir: root=/home/seba/Maildir, index=/home/seba/Maildir, control=, inbox= dovecot: Jul 24 23:49:53 Error: child 22903 (imap) killed with signal 11 I'm using dovecot-test78 on Suse 9.2 with hardlink support. Regards, Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] Dieing?
by Matt Juszczak 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Our dovecot process died out of no where today, with no sign of reasons why. I'm running a beta from a few weeks ago of 1.0 ... are there any security vulns I should know about that might have caused this crash (someone trying something?) Thanks, Regards, Matt

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[Dovecot] How is the correct "auth" method selected in 1.0-stable?
by Ben Beuchler 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

In the example config for 1.0-stable, I see several "auth <blah> {}" blocks. The only one uncommented is the "auth default{}" block. How does dovecot decide which one to use? If I want it to use LDAP, should I just modify the "userdb" and "passdb" entries in the "auth default" block? Or should I be using the "auth ldap" block and somehow telling dovecot to use it? Thanks! -Ben

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[Dovecot] POP and IMAP at the same time
by Marc Perkel 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

If a user was accessing their mailbox with POP and another process accessed it with IMAP - would that create an error? Trying to track down an unusual bug.

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[Dovecot] error sha1
by Alex Romijn 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hello, I have a problem. When I do 'make' it gives the following error: gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o dovecot-auth auth-cache.o au th-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-module.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech- cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb- bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o pass db-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o u serdb.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-static.o userd b-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a ../lib-settings/li bsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -L/usr/lib /mysql /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lc -lnss_files -lnss_d ns -lresolv -lz -ldl /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x60): In function `sha1_result': : multiple definition of `sha1_result' ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x7f4):/usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0-stable/s rc/lib/sha1.c:233: first defined here /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `sha1_result' changed from 158 in ../lib/li blib.a(sha1.o) to 126 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0-stable/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0-stable/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0-stable' make: *** [all] Error 2 What is wrong? And how can I fix this? thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] what does it mean first_uid
by G�khan Alkan 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

i installed qmail + vpopmail + dovecot.i installed dovecot without problems.but i run telnet localhost 143 x login user password it seems to error about first_uid.and i change first_uid vpopmail_uid (89) its ok.but i dont understand first_uid.and sholud i change last_uid , first_gid ,last_guid . do you recommend it thanks everynbody ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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[Dovecot] mechanisms?
by Marc Perkel 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

ok - if I'm using a password/shadow file arrangement, what auth mechanisms besides "plain" should I turn on? -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0-test77 endless loop hang
by Todd Vierling 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Client: Bynari Insight Connector 3.0.5. (http://www.bynari.net/) This is an IMAP-based plugin for Outlook that can also store Outlook collaboration objects (calendar, tasks, notes, etc.) in IMAP messages on the server side. It does not require special server extensions, and it was actually (mostly) working with 1.0-stable. Below is a rawlog dump showing what is going back and forth. After fetching the second message, the imap process pegs the CPU and sends no more data. This also triggers a bug in the Bynari product, for which I've entered a bug report too. (mmm, mutual bug triggering :) The Connector opens two simultaneous IMAP connections: one for subscription control and one for data transfer. So I've noted the log dumps. I've also checked, and Pine is having no troubles reading any of the messages in the INBOX folder. The last BODYSTRUCTURE line (with a bunch of NILs) makes me wonder if there's something wrong with the indexing. Or perhaps something is not carrying forward the requested FETCH data to the second and later messages in a multi-message fetch? I can go further to check a gdb trace or something similar, but I wanted to mention this problem here first in case it's obvious where this endless loop may be happening. Non-default config variables (all work fine with Pine): default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir protocol imap { ... imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle ... } ===== subscription control connection (IN) 00000002 CAPABILITY 00000003 NAMESPACE 00000004 Subscribe INBOX 00000005 LSUB "" %* 00000006 LSUB "" %* ===== subscription control connection (OUT) * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2005-08-01 16:49:30 * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS 00000002 OK Capability completed. * NAMESPACE (("" "/")) NIL NIL 00000003 OK Namespace completed. 00000004 OK Subscribe completed. * LSUB () "/" "INBOX" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Outbox" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Sent Items" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Deleted Items" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Calendar" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Contacts" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Journal" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Notes" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Tasks" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Drafts" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Junk E-mail" 00000005 OK Lsub completed. * LSUB () "/" "INBOX" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Outbox" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Sent Items" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Deleted Items" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Calendar" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Contacts" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Journal" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Notes" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Tasks" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Drafts" * LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Junk E-mail" 00000006 OK Lsub completed. ===== data connection (IN) 00000002 CAPABILITY 00000003 NAMESPACE 00000004 Subscribe INBOX 00000005 NOOP 00000006 SELECT INBOX/Contacts 00000007 UID FETCH 1:* FLAGS 00000008 NOOP 00000009 SEARCH HEADER X-Bynari-Folder-Class "" 0000000a FETCH 1 (UID ENVELOPE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date X-Priority X-Bynari-Folder-Class X-PR-CONTAINER-CLASS X-Message-Flag Received)] INTERNALDATE RFC822.SIZE FLAGS) 0000000b NOOP 0000000c SELECT INBOX 0000000d UID FETCH 1:* FLAGS 0000000e NOOP 0000000f SEARCH HEADER X-Bynari-Folder-Class "" 00000010 FETCH 1:51 (UID ENVELOPE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date X-Priority X-Bynari-Folder-Class X-PR-CONTAINER-CLASS X-Message-Flag Received)] BODYSTRUCTURE INTERNALDATE RFC822.SIZE FLAGS) ===== data connection (OUT) * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2005-08-01 16:49:32 * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS 00000002 OK Capability completed. * NAMESPACE (("" "/")) NIL NIL 00000003 OK Namespace completed. 00000004 OK Subscribe completed. 00000005 OK NOOP completed. * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 1 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1122927796] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID 00000006 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 1) 00000007 OK Fetch completed. 00000008 OK NOOP completed. * SEARCH 1 00000009 OK Search completed. * 1 FETCH (UID 1 INTERNALDATE "01-Aug-2005 16:23:17 -0400" RFC822.SIZE 319 FLAGS (\Seen) ENVELOPE ("Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:23:17 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)" "Hidden synchronization message" ((NIL NIL "Bynari" "MISSING_DOMAIN")) ((NIL NIL "Bynari" "MISSING_DOMAIN")) ((NIL NIL "Bynari" "MISSING_DOMAIN")) NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL) BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE X-PRIORITY X-BYNARI-FOLDER-CLASS X-PR-CONTAINER-CLASS X-MESSAGE-FLAG RECEIVED)] {135} Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:23:17 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) X-Bynari-Folder-Class: IPF.Contact X-PR-CONTAINER-CLASS: IPF.Contact ) 0000000a OK Fetch completed. 0000000b OK NOOP completed. * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 522 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 111] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1122905893] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 577] Predicted next UID 0000000c OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 1) * 2 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 2) * 3 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 3) * 4 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 4) * 5 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 5) * 6 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 6) * 7 FETCH (FLAGS 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(FLAGS (\Seen) UID 506) * 507 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 507) * 508 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 508) * 509 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 509) * 510 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 510) * 511 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 511) * 512 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 512) * 513 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 513) * 514 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 514) * 515 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 515) * 516 FETCH (FLAGS (\Answered \Seen) UID 516) * 517 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 517) * 518 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 564) * 519 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 570) * 520 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 571) * 521 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 572) * 522 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 576) 0000000d OK Fetch completed. 0000000e OK NOOP completed. * SEARCH 0000000f OK Search completed. * 1 FETCH (UID 1 INTERNALDATE "05-Jan-2002 06:03:50 -0500" RFC822.SIZE 1606 FLAGS (\Seen) ENVELOPE ("Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:03:14 +0100" "further m4 change" (("Marc Espie" NIL "espie" "schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr")) (("Marc Espie" NIL "espie" "schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr")) ((NIL NIL "Marc.Espie" "liafa.jussieu.fr")) (("Todd Vierling" NIL "tv" "wasabisystems.com")) NIL NIL "<Pine.WNT.4.40.0111140959180.284-100000@todd>; from tv(a)wasabisystems.com on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:21:15AM -0500" "<20020105120314.A17920(a)schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr>") BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE X-PRIORITY X-BYNARI-FOLDER-CLASS X-PR-CONTAINER-CLASS X-MESSAGE-FLAG RECEIVED)] {769} Received: from mononoke.wasabisystems.com (lion.ninthwonder.com [151.199.66.147]) by mail.duh.org (8.11.3nb1/8.11.3/dsb-1.2a1) with ESMTP id g05B2d618330 for <tv+wasabi(a)duh.org>; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 06:02:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by mononoke.wasabisystems.com (Postfix) id 015A030709; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 06:03:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr (schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr [132.227.81.123]) by mononoke.wasabisystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741E030706 for <tv(a)wasabisystems.com>; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 06:03:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from espie@localhost) by schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr (8.11.3/8.10.1) id g05B3Fa00656 for tv(a)wasabisystems.com; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:03:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:03:14 +0100 BODYSTRUCTURE ("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "7bit" 207 3 NIL ("inline" NIL) NIL)) * 2 FETCH (UID 2 INTERNALDATE "30-Dec-2001 21:59:14 -0500" RFC822.SIZE 1083 FLAGS (\Seen) ENVELOPE ("Sun, 30 Dec 2001 19:07:28 -0800" "Registration information at I-Appliance BBS (http://www.linux-hacker.net)" ((NIL NIL "codeman" "linux-hacker.net")) ((NIL NIL "codeman" "linux-hacker.net")) ((NIL NIL "codeman" "linux-hacker.net")) ((NIL NIL "tv" "duh.org")) NIL NIL NIL "<200112310307.fBV37SV08829(a)www.linux-hacker.net>") BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE X-PRIORITY X-BYNARI-FOLDER-CLASS X-PR-CONTAINER-CLASS X-MESSAGE-FLAG RECEIVED)] {376} Received: from www.linux-hacker.net (www.linux-hacker.net [12.110.32.118]) by mail.duh.org (8.11.3nb1/8.11.3/dsb-1.2a1) with ESMTP id fBV2vqg21976 for <tv(a)duh.org>; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:57:52 -0500 (EST) Received: (from admin@localhost) by www.linux-hacker.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) id fBV37SV08829; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 19:07:28 -0800 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 19:07:28 -0800 BODYSTRUCTURE ("text" "plain" ("charset" "us-ascii") NIL NIL "7bit" 470 17 NIL NIL NIL)) -- -- Todd Vierling <tv(a)duh.org> <tv(a)pobox.com> <todd(a)vierling.name>

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[Dovecot] Moving folder issue
by Andrew Hutchings 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hi, My wife who has thousands of IMAP boxes keeps getting errors when moving mailboxes in Thunderbird in Windows. I am using the same server (dovecot test 77) with Thunderbird in Linux and don't see the problem. What happens is she moves the mail box and Thunderbird comes up with an error saying it can't access the old box (odd!?). It has however completed the move. The following is what I got from logging, any ideas?: in log: 1843 lsub "" "eBay.Sales - Current.Ready to post.lollipop letters.*" 1844 close 1845 rename "eBay.Sales - Current.Ready to post.lollipop letters" "eBay.Sales - Complete.lollipop letters" 1846 subscribe "eBay.Sales - Complete.lollipop letters" 1847 unsubscribe "eBay.Sales - Current.Ready to post.lollipop letters" 1848 select "eBay.Sales - Complete.lollipop letters" out log: 1843 OK Lsub completed. 1844 OK Close completed. 1845 OK Rename completed. 1846 OK Subscribe completed. 1847 OK Unsubscribe completed. 1848 NO Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-08-01 20:59:50] server log: Aug 1 20:59:50 sever dovecot: IMAP(natalie): stat() failed with file /home/natalie/Maildir/.eBay.Sales - Current.Ready to post.lollipop letters/dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory 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 4: "Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux" - Unknown

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[Dovecot] Canot move messages out of my inbox
by _ 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm using thunderbird on top of Maildir, dovecot latest. For some weeks i cannot move messages out of the inbox folder anymore. Looking at the logfile, i see Error: child 19591 (imap) killed with signal 1 which by now is the only error i can see. I have already compared permissions on working folders with the inbox, all are the same (rwx, owner, owner). Any ideas? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2rc1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC60HQA+RTBSZx+AcRAnXEAJ9fpA4qbQaGf34fHMnMior515/LRACfYgj5 W+uOx4kJfKdKEJVckvp2Xcc= =Kezu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] settings parsing section/context return bug
by Tom Alsberg 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

There seems to be a minor bug in the settings parsing code (as of today's dovecot-stable snapshot - 20050731) - after the closing bracket of protocol (imap/pop3) {} section, the parser still regards all options as affecting only that protocol and not globally (I have some options, protocol imap {}, protocol pop3 {}, and then some more options - now those latter options seem to only affect POP3). It seems to be solved by the attached patch. Merely that the sub-section level has to be decreased after checking that it is positive (for returning the protocol in context to ANY). Would that change (prefix to postfix decrement) break anything else? If not, can it be applied? -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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[Dovecot] 1.0 stable 20050725 assert, signal 6
by Jeff A. Earickson 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hi, I was brave enough to upgrade from UW-imap to stable 1.0 20050725 today for our IMAP service. I have seen a few of the following in my syslog: Jul 26 15:37:18 emerald dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(bjkupke): file mbox -sync-update.c: line 372: assertion failed: (ctx->mail.uid == 0 || ctx->mail.uid == mail->uid) Jul 26 15:37:18 emerald dovecot: [ID 684838 mail.error] child 16755 (imap) kille d with signal 6 Only for user bjkupke; his mailbox is not corrupted when I open it with Pine. My setup: Solaris 9, configured dovecot like so: CC=cc CFLAGS="-g" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib \ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl --with-rawlog --enable-debug > configure.out Using Sunstudio 9 compiler. I can't find any core files lying around. Bug? Problem? Suggestions please? BTW, are there searchable dovecot list archives someplace? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Compile trouble with mysql
by Michael Goth 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hello! I tried to compile the latest 1.0-test (79) with mysql support, but there is the following error: ... /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x5c): In function `sha1_result': : multiple definition of `sha1_result' ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x830):/usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0-test79/src/lib/sha1.c:233: first defined here ... So 'sha1_result' is defined by mysqlclient and dovecot. This is an issue I already reported some time ago. According to a search in the list archives, it seems no one else has this problem. But there must be more people using dovecot with MySQL support. Probably this only happens with the statically linked MySQL version from mysql.org? I'd really appreciate any help on this, as I have to set up a new mail server quickly (and Courier just doesn't work the way I want it to). Thanks, Michael

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[Dovecot] Help with Virtual user setup.. need pointers
by Andre Bunting 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

I have been reading this : http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql I decide to use the postgresql instead of mysql.. but now i am in problem.. I cant seem to get postfix-pgsql sasl2-bin libsasl2-modules libpam-pgsql rpms or files for the fedora core 4.. Is there anyone who is using Fedora Core 4.. and have dovecot.. with postifx running virtual users ... or is there another way besides the link ontop to do this ? Andre Bunting Information Technology Manager Integrated Telecommunication Consultants Limited Unit No.1 - Ground Floor, 23 -27 Eastern Main Road, Barataria, Trinidad, West Indies. Telephone : 675-1438 Cell: 748-8587

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[Dovecot] when will the version 1.0 released ...
by wiki kaha 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi all. I work with the version 0.99.14 on an openbsd. There are an issue with b-tree and maybe something more. I know about the 1.x-test versions but they will never be in the ports on freebsd and openbsd because of the funny title "*-test..." This looks like an RC and the half world is waiting for a release. Is there no way to release a version so that the port world can go around :) I'm looking forward. ps: great software! regards ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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[Dovecot] Default_mail_env..
by Guillermo Llenas 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi, I 'm new to Dovecot and we are trying to do some tests in a production environment. We use mysql to authenticate and dovecot imap only. But our structure directory is something special. All of ours accounts are stored in maildir and the path is the following: For example the account pepe(a)inter.net /export/maildir/inter.net/p/e/pepe and into pepe we have cur, tmp, new. This is a problem because we cannot modify the database adding home for all users, so in the other side I played with the default_mail_env default_mail_env = maildir:/export/maildir/%d/%1u/%2u/%n:INBOX=/export/maildir/%d/%1u/%2u/%n but didn't wok out. Because imap(pepe(a)inter.net): Aug 01 18:26:04 Fatal: Failed to create storage with data: INBOX=/export/maildir/inter.net/p/pe/pepe I need only export / maildir / domain / first letter of the username / second letter / and last username Is there any way to do this ?, thanks in advance -- Guillermo Llenas Tecnología Inter.net Argentina ________________________ +54 011 6328-1500 fax 0054 11 6328-1530 www.ar.inter.net guillermo.llenas(a)team.ar.inter.net

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[Dovecot] where is "pam_listfile.so" for static userdb?
by OpenMacNews 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

hi all, i'm setting up Dovecot on OSX to use PAM authentication against a flat_file/static userdb (tho i will _eventually_ mv to pgsql ...). iiuc, to do so i need something like: =================================== (EDITOR) /etc/pam.d/dovecot.imap auth required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=allow file=/var/dovecot/imapusers onerr=fail =================================== for a userdb listing in "/var/imapuser". all simple & good, except -- -- where's "pam_listfile.so" on OSX? % ls /usr/lib/pam/ pam_afpmount.so pam_nologin.so pam_securetty.so pam_uwtmp.so pam_deny.so pam_permit.so pam_securityserver.so pam_wheel.so pam_netinfo.so pam_rootok.so pam_unix.so do i have to grab-n-install it from somewhere? or are one of these ^ an 'equivalent' ... this _should_ be simple :-} thanks, richard

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[Dovecot] Feature request - umask for index files
by Marc Perkel 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

I'd like a separate feature for setting umask for index and cache files differently from email files. The reason is that I'm putting indexes in a separate location and I need group create rights in directories. Otherwise what happens is that the first user creates the directories, but the second user for the domain that has a different UID gets an error. default_mail_env = mbox:/vhome/%d/home/%n:INBOX=/vhome/%d/home/%n/INBOX:INDEX=/nobackup/imap-index/%d/%n -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] wiki's howto and mailman
by kramer＠freemail.it 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

hello, i've implemented this on my mailserver : http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql but now mailman is broken. This is the error i got from postfix: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command) of course the user mylist(a)mydomain.org does not exsist on the postgres db, but how i can fix this issue? someone wanna help, please? thanks, 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] Not the server can do anything about it, but...
by Stewart Dean 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

WIBNI if the clients' message composition windows displayed the size of the prospective outgoing message as a color-coded BIG number... <50K green <200K yellow <500K orange >1MB red ...or some such.. Idiot clueless users occasionally send inadvertantly huge messages...the problem is that there is currently no feedback loop (like this suggestion)....nobody would mail a 100 pound hardcopy 'quick' USPS note to Aunt Mildred, but they're often doing the equivalent in email. If you bump into any client designers, give them the suggestion -- ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean(a)bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035

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[Dovecot] Just converted to Dovecot
by Marc Perkel 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

I'm using Test79 - wish me luck! Seems to be working ....... -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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Re: [Dovecot] Supporting charsets
by Alan Premselaar 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Peter Evans wrote: > Armando Soto Baeza (asbaeza(a)catsanet.com.mx) wrote: > >>We are trying to use support for japanese language, but when composing in >>squirrelmail or while resending either in squirrel or in Outlook, we do >>not get the right symbols. > > > Send me an email, in Japanese. > 私に日本語メール送ってくれませんか？ > > 妻もＤＯＶＥＣＯＴを使っているけどほとんど問題なし。 > > > ぴ > > > I'm also using Dovecot in a Japanese intensive environment with no problems. I would venture to guess that this is either a problem with the squirrelmail installation or the MTA. I'm also using a recent version of Squirrelmail in Japanese without any problems. Earlier versions had some issues (like if you had SM set to english menu mode and tried to read or send Japanese, it would appear as 'mojibake' ... that seems to have been fixed in the most recent release) for what it's worth, this mail that I'm replying to came across without any issues whatsoever. alan

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[Dovecot] Outlook + Outlook Express
by Andrew Gargan 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hi I am having problems with users accessing their maildir mail stores through dovecot I am working on version 0.99.11-1 (on fedora core) It seems to be when the email size is large (450KB +) The errors are (the server disconnected unexpectedly) Have turned on the three Outlook and Outlook Express workarounds I found but no luck. Have read through logs and looked for clues but am just getting no where ... All the linux boxes here seem to be able to handle things fine ... (kmail evolution etc.) Thunderbird is also giving me hassles when trying to pull large mail files. The server is a 2.8 P4 HT with 1024 MB RAM 200GB SATA RAID. +- 7 domains and +-1200 users. Squirrel Mail seems fine and users are using that to get around the problem for now but I really need the pop3 access working ... My MTA is postfix and I am using virtual mailboxes using mysql_lookups. I am also running MailScanner and ClamAV and SpamAssassin (using the hold queue method) Regards Andrew Andrew Gargan Developer Interface Media (PTY) Ltd. Tel: 011 507 3003

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[Dovecot] Handling virtual domains
by Phillip Davis 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Hello all, I'm Having a sticky problem, and Im pretty sure I've configured dovecot wrong, I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. I have a system running sendmail. I need to sue virtual domains, as several domains will be hosted on this box. I am using squirrelmail for webmail and it has a vlogin plugin that allows me to use virtual domains, and it is working correctly, so far as I can tell. If a user goes to their email domain via http://www.domain.com/webmail/ and logs in, it correctly converts their login from just user that they typed in to user(a)domain.com, and if another domain was domain2.com and they went to http://www.domain2.com/webmail it will send user(a)domain2.com to dovecot. This is where I think I'm doing it wrong. Dovecot seems to just try that username which doesnt exist to the local OS of course, its just user, not user(a)domain.com. I read the part about dovecot using the auth_passdb and auth_userdb but was really confused how it works. if I use those, does it expect sendmail to deliver mail for those virtual domains to a new path I have supplied? also do I have to create a new and separate login and password flat file for it to authenticate? if so, how do I configure sendmail to deliver only those specific mails from each separate user from different virtual domains to be delivered? I'm just trying out the virtual domain thing, and I'm definitely really really confused because it seems each piece of software I have running here wants to do it differently. any pointers, hits or help would greatly be appreciated. -- Phil Phil(a)daviszone.org

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[Dovecot] MySQL authentication
by Andrew Gargan 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Hi I am wanting to install : dovecot 1.0-stable I currently have dovecot 0.99.11-1 which came packaged on Fedora Core 3 It is doing auth off a MySQL db an working well I have downloaded the latest stable tarball and extracted ... I don't see how to enable mysql lookups at compile time... Help please ... I am getting a lot of pressure from the people at work ... Regards Andrew Andrew Gargan Developer Interface Media (PTY) Ltd. Tel: 011 507 3003

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[Dovecot] Need Help About My Problem ( Dovecot / Postfix / MySQL / Postfixadmin )
by Pratchaya Chatuphian 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Dear , Dovecot List ( Everyone ) I have some problem about dovecot/postfix/mysql Would u like to tell me about the solution ? sir Thank you very much for advance. Sir Best Regards, Pratchaya ================================== ================================== ================================== This is my problem/error sir 1. ERROR = "" A NO "" and 2. ERROR = "" -ERR No INBOX for user. " I run Dovecot + Postfix + Postfixadmin + MySQL When i work with command line .. i have problem like this ( When i 'm in command line ) ##############################*###### [root@server etc]# telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. A LOGIN test...(a)pepocono.com 123456 A OK Logged in. A SELECT inbox A NO A LOGOUT * BYE Logging out A OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host ##############################*###### [root@server etc]# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. USER test...(a)pepocono.com +OK PASS 123456 +OK Logged in. -ERR No INBOX for user. Connection closed by foreign host. [root@jenus etc]# ##############################*####### My Config ==============================*======== dvecot.conf ==============================*======== default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%1u/*%u/Maildir auth = plain auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = mysql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.c*onf auth_passdb = mysql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.c*onf auth_user = mailusers ==============================*======== dvecot-mysql.conf ==============================*======== db_host = localhost db_unix_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock db = postfix db_user = postfix db_passwd = postfix db_client_flags = 0 password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' #user_query = SELECT concat('/var/mail/virtual/', maildir) as home, 10000 as uid, 10000 as gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' #user_query = SELECT '10000' AS uid, '10000' AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' #user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE user = '%u' user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE user = '%u' AND active = '1' ( i use all case #comment but it'doesn't work ) ==============================*======== main.cf ==============================*======== virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/virtual virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/postfixmysq*l/mysql_virtual_domains_maps.c*f virtual_mailbox_limit = 51200000 virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/postfixmysq*l/mysql_virtual_mailbox_maps.c*f virtual_alias_domains = $virtual_alias_maps virtual_minimum_uid = 10000 virtual_uid_maps = static:10000 virtual_gid_maps = static:10000 # Additional for quota support virtual_create_maildirsize = yes virtual_mailbox_extended = yes virtual_mailbox_limit_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/postfixmysq*l/mysql_virtual_mailbox_limit_*maps.cf virtual_mailbox_limit_override = yes virtual_maildir_limit_message = Sorry, the user's maildir has overdrawn his diskspace quota, please try again later. virtual_overquota_bounce = yes ========================= Note ( more information ) :: ========================= mailusers uid=10000 gid = 10000 home = /var/mail/virtual

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[Dovecot] Preventing IMAP folder removal?
by John R. Dennison 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Is there a way to configure Dovecut (version: dovecot-stable) to prevent the removal of an IMAP folder? We are planning on rolling out the @Mail webmail client to our user base in the next few weeks. This package has an internal Spam folder that we use to deliver spam into to allow our users to get to both their main mailbox and also their spam repository in one location. We are a Maildir shop, so the folder appears as: '~username/Maildir/..Spam' We want to use a sym-link to point '..Spam' to a location on another filesystem. Our testing shows that dovecot will happily follow a sym-link properly and no badness occurs as a result. Our concern, however, is that a user will attempt to remove their Spam folder, which will break the symlink and the next time a spam message is delivered the folder will be re-created as a directory and will reside on the same filesystem as their Maildir. Preventing the removal of the folder would be the easiest solution. If such a restriction is not already present in dovecot, might something be added to allow admins to lock down removal of folders? If this question has already been asked and answered on the list I apologize - I did quickly browse some of the back list and did not see a reference to the topic, but I admit, I may have missed it. Thank you in advance, John -- "I'm sorry but our engineers do not have phones." As stated by a Network Solutions Customer Service representative when asked to be put through to an engineer. "My other computer is your windows box." Ralf Hildebrandt

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[Dovecot] Index File Permissions - Perhaps feature Request
by Marc Perkel 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Trying an experiment to put the index files on a different volume than the mailbox files The idea being that the mailbox files are in a limited space slow raid1 array and the index files are somewhere else that is fast and not backed up. I'm using a virtual file structure as follows: /vhome/%d/home/%n The index files are set to: /nobackup/indexes/%d/%n Upon startup it created the index files correctly making all the missing directories. But I have an issue with the permissions. The problem is that it works for the first user, but the second user will have a permission error on the /%d/ level because of the 700 permissions. So - I would like to specify that directories that are automatically created have 770 permissions instead of 700, and, that perhaps I might want to ser the group permissions to 660 instead of 600. This might make Dovecot more ready for shared mailboxes in the future.

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[Dovecot] Master Password Setup
by Marc Perkel 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

This should be easy but can someone tell me how to do this. I want to set up a master password to read anyone's email account for tech support reasons. How would you do that?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot, Postfix, Mysql and Virtual Users
by Andre Bunting 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

I have been reading up : http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql to create virtual users who can access the email. Can i follow these steps with a few changes to get to use mysql instead of Postgresql ? Also i dont know if u all can help.. but i have tried to do : SASL2 authentication configuration in main.cf(Postfix): smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_local_domain = domain.org smtp_sasl_auth_enable = no And when i start postfix with these settings i get an error saying"invlaid boolean" .. can anyone help ? Regards, Andre

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[Dovecot] Small Feature Dovecot Should Have
by Marc Perkel 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

There should be a config command that allows you to change the default ".subscriptions" file to ".mailboxlist" for WU-IMAP compatibility. Yes - I can rename them all but it would be handy for testing purposes and it should be trivial to add this feature. I'm still someone who is going to convert soon, but still testing and waiting for stability.

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[Dovecot] Supporting charsets
by Armando Soto Baeza 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hi there! We are trying to use support for japanese language, but when composing in squirrelmail or while resending either in squirrel or in Outlook, we do not get the right symbols. The server and client PCs have all the required software. Indeed, we receive japanese written messages and can display them well. The problem arises when we resend or compose a message. In the squirrel configuration, we found that our imap has to support the charsets we want to use. The question is, how can we add this to dovecot. We are using release 0.99.14-1 on GNU Debian 3.1 r0 (sarge) Any idea? Thanks for helping -- Alta tecnologia para la empresa mexicana

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[Dovecot] last access file for 1.0-stable?
by Jeff A. Earickson 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi, I am almost ready to convert from UW-imap to dovecot 1.0 stable for my imap use. I hacked UW-imap to touch a file in the user's home directory so I can always tell the last time they used imap. My hack looks something like this: if(authenticated) { touchfile = (char *) malloc((strlen (home) + 15); sprintf(touchfile,"%s/.imapd.last",homedir); fd = open(touchfile,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC,0600); if(fd < 0) syslog (LOG_NOTICE|LOG_AUTH,"touchfile failed for %s:%s",user,strerror(errno)); else close(fd); free(touchfile); } Where to do this in the dovecot code? Is there something like this already available? I realize that the index/cache files contain last-access data, but if the cache files become corrupted and have to be removed, then this last-access information is lost. I would like something independent of the cache files. Advice please... Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Commercial support
by Timo Sirainen 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

1.0 release is slowly (but surely :) getting nearer and I'd like to be able to offer commercial support for it for those who want or need it. I have a few different plans for how to do that, but I haven't really decided yet what to do. So I thought I'd ask a few questions here to see how much interest there is currently, which could help me make some decisions sooner. You should probably reply privately to me so this list won't get spammed. So, assume that Dovecot v1.0 will really be stable, will have real documentation, and the support isn't going to be completely in hands of just one or two guys. I think there would basically be two types of support available: 1. Basic support Guaranteed replies to questions within some time interval. - what response times? a few days? - phone support needed? - what would you be willing to pay for it? 2. Mission critical support For those who *really* can't afford any unexpected downtime, and so would be willing to pay more for quick response times. Problems divided to different categories (eg. normal, high, critical) with different response times. - what response times? a few days for normal, about one day for high, less for critical? - sanctions? - customized modifications, kept up-to-date for new Dovecot versions? - what would you be willing to pay for it? I'm not sure if there should be "outsourced email server maintenance" option too. Or maybe some really low cost support for a limited number of questions. Any other ideas, suggestions or tips? Did I miss something important? And finally, would you like to have a job related to Dovecot? :)

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[Dovecot] virtual mailboxes with postfix
by David Cake 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

I have set up postfix with virtual mailboxes stored via mysql, and using postfixadmin, and dovecot as pop/imap server My postfix and mysql setup are pretty much standard for postfixadmin, as described here <http://postfixwiki.org/index.php?title=Virtual_Users_and_Domains_with_Couri…> (except for the parts about courier-imap.) Everything appears to be working fine except actually checking and authenticating mail via dovecot. I am fairly sure all I really need is the appropriate incantations in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and dovecot-mysql.conf - does anyone have this set up and working? I should add that I want to allow both virtual mailboxes, and also local accounts, so I presumably need to support two different kinds of authentication. Regards David

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[Dovecot] removing (hopefully) unneeded access to $HOME
by adsmith＠math.duke.edu 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi, Thanks for dovecot. It's the best IMAP server ever. Okay, here's my problem: I use mbox INBOXes from /var/spool/mail/%u, and the INDEX lies in /var/spool/mail/dovecot/%d/%u. Users' other folders are found in /%h/mail. Now, I notice that when a user is accessing her INBOX, the imap process cwd's to the user's home, which I'd like to prevent as much as possible. E.g., when the user's client is only watching INBOX, I still see: [root@tock:~]$ lsof | grep home_kt imap 6422 kt cwd DIR 0,17 12288 7602177 /home/kt (other.host:/home/kt) Is there a way I can tweak the dovecot settings so that this cwd isn't holding open the NFS mount? Many thanks, Abe Smith -- # Abraham David Smith, <adsmith(a)math.duke.edu> # # http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/grad/adsmith # # Mathematics Graduate Student, Duke University #

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Re: [Dovecot] pop3 authentication failure - password mismatch
by James Sun 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

On 7/22/05, Girish Patangay <girish(a)intoto.com> wrote: > Shouldn't you be using "shadow" instead of passwd for the passdb? > > Just a curious question. > Yes! You are right. "shadow" should work as well. I just give it a try and auth worked! Thanks. However, I am not hitting another problem : no proper permission. If I understand correctly I have set it in dovecot.conf file to use "root" for processing. How come I don't have enough permission? Jul 23 02:26:56 hsiufen dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up Jul 23 02:28:10 hsiufen dovecot: pop3-login: Login: jam [24.6.106.170] Jul 23 02:28:10 hsiufen dovecot: POP3(jam): open(/var/mail/.temp.hsiufen.net.15682.f3c4cf83d750e6e4) failed: Permission denied Jul 23 02:28:10 hsiufen dovecot: POP3(jam): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/jam: Permission denied Jul 23 02:28:31 hsiufen dovecot: Killed with signal 2 Any ideas? Jun

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[Dovecot] Re: Bug#319504: Bug in 0.99.14 mbox handling - mail UIDs are renumbered without bumping UIDVALIDITY
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, David McBride wrote: > Package: dovecot-imapd > Version: 0.99.14-1 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > I think I've identified a bug in Dovecot 0.99.14 as packaged and > distributed by Debian Sarge. I believe the bug lies in the original > Dovecot source, not with any modifications made by Debian. > > Specifically, this bug deals with Dovecot's handling of message unique > identifiers (UIDs) for IMAP clients when using the mbox mailbox storage > format. > David, can you check if the problem persists with 0.99.20050712-1 which is in sid? This is actually the 1.0stable branch of dovecot and has many fixes not included in 0.99.x The package should work correctly on sarge (a proper sarge backport is forthcoming) but you will also need libpq4 from sid and you'll need to make sure dovecot-common is also upgraded to 0.99.20050712-1 also. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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[Dovecot] dovecot permission denied problems.
by John Mc Donald 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

I am trying to setup dovecot on a FC4 machine. Access to the machine is provided through pam. When I login to the machine my home directory is mounted over nfs from a central file server. I have dovecot installed and running but it can't seem to access my home directory. When I try and access my mail I get the following three lines in /var/log/maillog: > Jul 25 12:46:04 escher imap-login: Login: ###### [::ffff:###.###.###.###] > Jul 25 12:46:04 escher dovecot: chdir(/home/######) failed with uid > ####: Permission denied > Jul 25 12:46:04 escher dovecot: child 13182 (imap) returned error 89 The uid that is used is the one associated with my home directory. As far as I understand it when you connect to dovecot the imap connection setuid's to the uid of the authenticated user so there should be no permission problems. To try and help in the debugging process I also setup a local user "testimap" using > /usr/sbin/useradd -d /tmp/testimap testimap I then try to use thunderbird to connect to it and I get the following in /var/log/maillog > Jul 25 12:54:54 escher imap-login: Login: testimap > [::ffff:###.###.###.###] > Jul 25 12:54:54 escher imap(testimap): mbox: Can't create root IMAP > folder /tmp/testimap/mail: Permission denied > Jul 25 12:54:54 escher imap(testimap): MAIL environment missing and > autodetection failed (home /tmp/testimap) > Jul 25 12:54:54 escher dovecot: child 13360 (imap) returned error 89 Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here? TIA, John. -- ================================== John Mc Donald, Dept. of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Email : johnmcd(a)cs.nuim.ie Tel: +353-1-7084589 Fax: +353-1-7083848 Web: http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~johnmcd GnuPG Key: http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~johnmcd/public_key.asc ==================================

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[Dovecot] inotify support in dovecot
by Reuben Farrelly 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi, I note that dovecot supported inotify from -test77, and now the Linux kernel supports it starting from linux-2.6.13-rc3. So in theory I should be set to go. I'm using an -mm kernel, and it was built with inotify, on FC4/devel. However when trying to build with it using --with-notify=inotify, I always seem to be getting this message: checking for poll... yes configure: error: inotify requested but not available, check for existence of <linux/inotify.h> /bin/sh ./config.status --recheck What is required for inotify to be recognised and built into dovecot? I've tried copying the header from linux-2.6/include/linux/inotify.h to the /usr/include/linux directory, but that didn't help - and seems wrong to do anyway. Has anyone else had any experiences with inotify/dovecot? reuben

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test79
by Timo Sirainen 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Now checks that field alignmentations are in indexes as they're expected. test78 crashed if it was wrong, earlier versions ignored the problem (and crashed with 64bit systems). Now if it's wrong, it prints error to log file and recreates the index. That means you probably should delete all dovecot.index files to avoid tons of errors in log files. Only mbox users need to do this. - LSUB: Don't crash if .subscriptions file can't be opened. Also in general give proper "permission denied" error if LIST/LSUB failed because of permission problems. - Maildir: Fix deadlocking when saving messages (noticeable with copying lots of messages with Thunderbird) - LDAP: user_global_uid/gid wasn't working. Also now they support having user/group names from /etc/passwd instead of just numbers. - passwd-file now supports variables in filename, so you can do eg. args = /etc/passwd.%d - Open/close PAM session if -session option is given. Patch by Pasi Sjöholm. - Added tb-extra-mailbox-sep workaround for Thunderbird+mbox problems.

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0-stable (050721) rpm for FC3
by James Sun 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

OK, thanks for the all the helps I got from the list. I finally managed to get stable 1.0 (050721) built and running. To avoid the same hassels for others, I made an rpm. You can check it out at http://linux.junsun.net/rpms My main motivation to upgrade to this version is to avoid the "Status: O" header re-write bug in 0.99 versions. Cheers. Jun

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[Dovecot] ssl_cipher_list
by Robert Allerstorfer 24 Jul '05

24 Jul '05

Hi, I have noticed the 'ssl_cipher_list' directive in the 1.0-test snapshots which is not in 0.99. It's default value seems to be "all:!low". However, this would not be compatible with openssl's cipher listing format. Thus, I would vote to change it's format to be openssl compatible. To be compatible, it has to be changed to "ALL:!LOW" (just upercased in this case). IMO, this would be helpful because executing openssl ciphers -v 'all:!low' would not return any cipher, but openssl ciphers -v 'ALL:!LOW' would return the expected cipher list such as ADH-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=None Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 ADH-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=None Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 EXP1024-DHE-DSS-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(1024) Au=DSS Enc=RC4(56) Mac=SHA1 export EXP1024-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA(1024) Au=RSA Enc=RC4(56) Mac=SHA1 export EXP1024-DHE-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(1024) Au=DSS Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1 export EXP1024-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA(1024) Au=RSA Enc=DES(56) Mac=SHA1 export EXP1024-RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA(1024) Au=RSA Enc=RC2(56) Mac=MD5 export EXP1024-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA(1024) Au=RSA Enc=RC4(56) Mac=MD5 export EXP-KRB5-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-KRB5-RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=RC2(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-KRB5-DES-CBC-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=DES(40) Mac=MD5 export EXP-KRB5-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=RC4(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-KRB5-RC2-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=RC2(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-KRB5-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export KRB5-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 KRB5-DES-CBC3-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=3DES(168) Mac=MD5 KRB5-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=RSA Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 EXP-EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=DSS Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 EXP-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC2(40) Mac=MD5 export RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 EXP-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export ADH-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=None Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 EXP-ADH-DES-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=None Enc=DES(40) Mac=SHA1 export ADH-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=None Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 EXP-ADH-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=DH(512) Au=None Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export DES-CBC3-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=MD5 RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC2(128) Mac=MD5 EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC2(40) Mac=MD5 export RC4-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 EXP-RC4-MD5 SSLv2 Kx=RSA(512) Au=RSA Enc=RC4(40) Mac=MD5 export I want dovecot to only accept high encrypted ciphers, thus it should support ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!ADH!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:+HIGH:+MEDIUM corresponding to a openssl list such as DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 AES256-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(256) Mac=SHA1 KRB5-DES-CBC3-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=3DES(168) Mac=MD5 KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 DES-CBC3-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=3DES(168) Mac=SHA1 DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 AES128-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AES(128) Mac=SHA1 DHE-DSS-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=DH Au=DSS Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 KRB5-RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 KRB5-RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=KRB5 Au=KRB5 Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 RC4-SHA SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=SHA1 RC4-MD5 SSLv3 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=RC4(128) Mac=MD5 This would really make "Dovecot (...) written with security primarily in mind" Thanks for consideration! rob.

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[Dovecot] feature or bug on delete?
by Cor Bosman 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

RFC 3501 mentions this: The DELETE command MUST NOT remove inferior hierarchical names. For example, if a mailbox "foo" has an inferior "foo.bar" (assuming "." is the hierarchy delimiter character), removing "foo" MUST NOT remove "foo.bar". It is an error to attempt to delete a name that has inferior hierarchical names and also has the \Noselect mailbox name attribute (see the description of the LIST response for more details). It is permitted to delete a name that has inferior hierarchical names and does not have the \Noselect mailbox name attribute. In this case, all messages in that mailbox are removed, and the name will acquire the \Noselect mailbox name attribute. This is what dovecot does: . create foo . OK Create completed. . create foo/bar . OK Create completed. . list "" "*" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "foo" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "foo/bar" . OK List completed. (some other output removed here) . delete foo . OK Delete completed. . list "" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "foo/bar" . OK List completed. Reading the above section, shouldnt I be seeing a: * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "foo" Regards, Cor

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[Dovecot] Assertion failure in mail-index-transaction.c
by Todd Burroughs 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

I just noticed one instance of this in the current CVS version: dovecot: Jul 18 15:25:48 Error: 5962 IMAP(mailuser): mbox sync: Expunged message reappeared in mailbox /mailhome/new/o/h/mailuser/mbox (UID 2834 < 2872) dovecot: Jul 18 15:25:48 Error: 5962 IMAP(mailuser): file mail-index-transaction.c: line 129 (mail_index_buffer_convert_to_uids): assertion failed: (*seq != 0) dovecot: Jul 18 15:25:48 Error: child 5962 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff438 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x0000174a 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 0x0809a96a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x174a <Address 0x174a out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 No locals. #7 0x0809ad84 in i_panic ( format=0x80a772c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x08082711 in mail_index_buffer_convert_to_uids (t=0x80d14b8, array=0x80d14d0, range=1) at mail-index-transaction.c:129 view = (struct mail_index_view *) 0x80cfdc0 rec = Variable "rec" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbffff438 in ?? () #2 0x00000006 in ?? () #3 0x0000174a in ?? () #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x0809a96a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x174a <Address 0x174a out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 #7 0x0809ad84 in i_panic ( format=0x80a772c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 #8 0x08082711 in mail_index_buffer_convert_to_uids (t=0x80d14b8, array=0x80d14d0, range=1) at mail-index-transaction.c:129 #9 0x08083b87 in mail_index_transaction_commit (t=0x80d14b8, log_file_seq_r=0xbffff65c, log_file_offset_r=0xbffff660) at mail-index-transaction.c:183 #10 0x080703f4 in mbox_sync (mbox=0x80c5bc0, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1623 #11 0x080710c9 in mbox_storage_sync_init (box=0x80c5bc0, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at mbox-sync.c:1700 #12 0x0808ef01 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x0, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at mail-storage.c:334 #13 0x0805eb58 in imap_sync_nonselected (box=0x80c5bc0, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at imap-sync.c:166 #14 0x080580f6 in _cmd_select_full (cmd=0x80beba8, readonly=0) at cmd-select.c:39 #15 0x08058281 in cmd_select (cmd=0x80beba8) at cmd-select.c:92 #16 0x0805986b in _client_input (context=0x80beb68) at client.c:334 #17 0x0809ff3a in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80bd9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #18 0x0809f569 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80bd9b0) at ioloop.c:218 #19 0x08060657 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa34, envp=0xbffffa3c) at main.c:228 (gdb) p seq $1 = (uint32_t *) 0x80d4d18 (gdb) p *seq $2 = 0 (gdb) p view->map $3 = (struct mail_index_map *) 0x80c5fd0 (gdb) p *view->map $4 = {refcount = 3, hdr = {major_version = 7 '\a', minor_version = 0 '\0', base_header_size = 120, header_size = 200, record_size = 36, compat_data = "\001\b\004", indexid = 1113829460, flags = 0, uid_validity = 1113827022, next_uid = 2872, messages_count = 929, recent_messages_count = 0, seen_messages_count = 810, deleted_messages_count = 0, first_recent_uid_lowwater = 0, first_unseen_uid_lowwater = 1149, first_deleted_uid_lowwater = 2846, log_file_seq = 8, log_file_int_offset = 27912, log_file_ext_offset = 27912, sync_size = 9241460, sync_stamp = 1113863658, day_stamp = 1121659200, day_first_uid = {2855, 2849, 2849, 2753, 2753, 2753, 2491, 187}}, hdr_base = 0x80c60b0, records = 0x80c61d8, records_count = 929, extension_pool = 0x80ce490, extensions = { buffer = 0x80ce4c0, element_size = 28}, ext_id_map = {buffer = 0x80ce588, element_size = 4}, mmap_base = 0x0, mmap_size = 0, mmap_used_size = 0, buffer = 0x80c61b8, hdr_copy_buf = 0x80c6090, keyword_idx_map = { buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, write_to_disk = 0} (gdb) p t $5 = (struct mail_index_transaction *) 0x80d14b8 (gdb) p *t $6 = {refcount = 1, view = 0x80cfdc0, appends = {buffer = 0x80d4830, element_size = 8}, first_new_seq = 930, last_new_seq = 953, expunges = { buffer = 0x80d4810, element_size = 8}, updates = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, last_update_idx = 0, pre_hdr_change = '\0' <repeats 119 times>, pre_hdr_mask = '\0' <repeats 119 times>, post_hdr_change = '\0' <repeats 28 times>, "O\v", '\0' <repeats 89 times>, post_hdr_mask = '\0' <repeats 28 times>, "\001\001\001\001", '\0' <repeats 87 times>, ext_rec_updates = {buffer = 0x80d4750, element_size = 8}, ext_resizes = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, ext_resets = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, keyword_updates = {buffer = 0x0, element_size = 0}, keyword_resets = {buffer = 0x80d4730, element_size = 8}, cache_trans_ctx = 0x0, hide_transaction = 0, no_appends = 0, external = 1, pre_hdr_changed = 0, post_hdr_changed = 1, log_updates = 1} (gdb) p j $7 = 2 (gdb) p range $8 = 1

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[Dovecot] pop3 authentication failure - password mismatch
by James Sun 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

I tried to run dovecot 1.0 built by myself but encountered the above problem. See the error traces below. First of all, the password and user are correct, as it worked with the 0.99 rpm version of dovecot. I also hand verified with ssh. I also attached the dovecot config file below. Any ideas? Jun fetchmail output on client: ------------------------------------- fetchmail: POP3< +OK Dovecot ready. fetchmail: POP3> CAPA fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3< CAPA fetchmail: POP3< TOP fetchmail: POP3< USER fetchmail: POP3< UIDL fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING fetchmail: POP3< SASL PLAIN fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> USER jam fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Authentication failed. fetchmail: Authentication failed. maillog on dovecot server: -------------------------------------- Jul 22 18:28:18 hsiufen dovecot: auth(default): passwd(jam,24.6.106.170): password mismatch Jul 22 18:28:19 hsiufen dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login [24.6.106.170] Jul 22 18:29:32 hsiufen dovecot: Killed with signal 2 dovecot.conf ------------------ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * ssl_disable = no disable_plaintext_auth = no protocol imap { login_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/imap } protocol pop3 { login_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/pop3 } auth_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = passwd userdb = passwd user = root }

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[Dovecot] Stable Version
by Marc Perkel 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

I'm very new to Dovecot - still testing it - and planing to convert in the futire. I see a lot of rapid development here which I like. But I'm wondering if there is any kind of schedule for blessing 1.0 as official - or - what the custom is for a stable release. Just trying to think about when to jump in. I'm fairly brave, but the feature I need we just added today. -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test78
by Timo Sirainen 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixes: - Crashes in non-x86 64bit systems - Bugs in cache file header caching (you probably should delete all dovecot.index.cache files to be sure the bug won't haunt you in future) - FETCH ENVELOPE patch by Chris Wakelin (I'll try to figure out what to do with the list patch later) Known bugs left: - Thunderbird + maildir: moving lots of messages from mailbox to another may cause deadlock (lock timeouts in half a minute or so and fails the operation). - I guess I should try to look at the Thunderbird + POP3 + lots of messages -> DELE error too again.. - I've heard that 1.0-tests are a lot slower than 0.99.x or 1.0-stable when checking new mail (with kmail), ie. client asking STATUS of all mailboxes. I've looked at their strace outputs and the difference (5-10x slower) comes from 1.0-test waiting longer in poll() for client input, which doesn't really make any sense to me. Can anyone verify this or think of reasons why this could happen? Maybe I'm setting some socket option differently, although I don't think I've changed anything..

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[Dovecot] 1.0-stable and nfs
by Cyril Feraudet 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hi all, I've a little pb with 1.0-stable on nfs share without lockd : with : - lock_method = dotlock - mmap_disable = yes I've : - dovecot: Jul 22 11:58:33 Error: IMAP(xxxxxxxx): open() failed with index file (null): Bad address with : - lock_method = dotlock - mmap_disable = no I've : - dovecot: Jul 22 11:59:47 Error: IMAP(xxxxxxxx): lock_method=dotlock and mmap_disable=no combination isn't supported. You don't _really_ want it anyway. Someone have an idea ? Thanks, Cyril Feraudet

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[Dovecot] dovecot starts and exit immediately? - help needed
by James Sun 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Since nobody answered my previous question on dovecot marking new mails as old mails, I decided to build a version of dovecot of my own to debug. I downloaded and compiled dovecot 1.0 (stable). After setting up the conf file, I ran dovecot but it exited immediate with status 0. As a result, remote client cannot connect and retrieve mails. There is no man page, and I only found two command line options, -F and -c. None of these options seem to matter. Any suggestions? I must have done something simple and wrong here. Jun

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[Dovecot] Bug in 0.99.14 mbox handling - mail UIDs are renumbered without bumping UIDVALIDITY
by David McBride 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Package: dovecot-imapd Version: 0.99.14-1 Severity: important Hi, I think I've identified a bug in Dovecot 0.99.14 as packaged and distributed by Debian Sarge. I believe the bug lies in the original Dovecot source, not with any modifications made by Debian. Specifically, this bug deals with Dovecot's handling of message unique identifiers (UIDs) for IMAP clients when using the mbox mailbox storage format. Some background for those not familiar with the details; (I had to look a lot of this stuff up; see also http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2060.txt) --- 8< -------------------------------------------------------------- All IMAP servers are required to maintain unique identifiers for each email in an IMAP mailbox that are persistent between sessions. Dovecot stores the unique identifiers for each email in an mbox in an X-UID header. Clients which maintain a local cache of already-retrieved emails use an email's UID as a key; thus, if the UID of a particular email were to change on a server then the client's cached state would be invalid. To cope with the case that the UIDs need to be invalidated, whether because the original store has been lost or for some other reason, there is also the UIDVALIDITY number. This 32bit integer must be increased to some higher value to indicate that any previously cached email ids are now invalid. In Dovecot-managed mbox files, this number is stored in the X-IMAPbase header in the first message of that mbox and is typically the uid-invalidation time expressed in unix timestamp format (ie the number of seconds elapsed since the epoch.) --- 8< -------------------------------------------------------------- Okay, the actual bug: Dovecot routinely (and apparently unneccessarily) renumbers all of the UIDs in our mbox-backed mailboxes without updating the UIDVALIDITY count. This results in caching mail clients (such as Evolution and Thunderbird) presenting the incorrect email to the user when browsing their mail. Configuration: We are using Dovecot as a standalone daemon (ie without using inetd.) We have configured the default mail environment with the following string: default_mail_env = mbox:%h/Mail/:INBOX=%h/.email:INDEX=MEMORY ie each end-user's primary INBOX is an mbox, ~/.email, and other IMAP folders are also stored as mboxes in the directory ~/Mail/. Indexes are maintained in memory but are not stored on disk. I don't think any of the rest of the configuration is relavant, but I'm happy to detail anything else about the setup if needed. Reproducing the bug: I'm afraid I don't have a proper protocol dump demonstrating this bug, so I'm just going to describe all of the end-user steps to recreate the problem: 1) Connect to the Dovecot IMAP service with a caching mail client, such as Evolution or Thunderbird. Download a local copy of the IMAP server contents of a test mbox-backed mailbox to the local cache. For example, I have a test mbox with old root mail. Messages are numbered from 1 to 163. The most recent message has an X-UID: field of 163. 2) Delete one of the messages in the middle of the mailbox. For example, mark the second-oldest message in the mailbox, which has a UID of 2, for deletion. Expunge the mailbox. 3) The UIDs of the other messages at this point have not been altered. Disconnect from the IMAP server. (With Evolution, I actually had to restart the program to reproduce this bug.) 4) Reconnect to the IMAP service, and allow the client to re-sync. You will find that the X-UID of all of the messages after the one that was deleted have been decremented -- and, if you're using a caching client, all of the message *bodies* will appear to have been shifted down by one. Reading the headers in the mbox file directly, Dovecot has renumbered all of the UIDs from 1 to N but not altered the UIDVALIDITY field: dwm@kalimdor $ grep X-UID: Root X-UID: 1 X-UID: 2 [... all numbers between 2 and 161 follow ...] X-UID: 161 X-UID: 162 dwm@kalimdor $ grep X-IMAPbase: Root X-IMAPbase: 1063356421 162 1063356421 == Sept 2003, when the mailbox was first created. This is a bug. Either Dovecot should not renumber the UIDs of each message, or (if it really is necessary), it should increase the UIDVALIDITY field to some higher number to invalidate the caches stored by any remote clients. This bug wasn't observed when using previous versions of Dovecot (we were previously using 0.99.10.6 before this upgrade without noticing anything broken.) I'm hoping someone familiar with the source tree can identify and suggest a fix relatively quickly; failing that, I'll take a look around to see if I can work out where the problem is and implement a fix it myself. Cheers, David -- David McBride <dwm(a)tastycake.net>

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[Dovecot] Changes made to imap descriptor handling in test78?
by Dominic Marks 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hello, What has changed from test77 to test78 in the way imap manages its descriptors? I upgraded to test78 this morning on a small site which I use as a testbed for testing various things. Running the same copy of my kqueue patch with test77 works quite well [*], with test78 imap has some problems. Here is some debugging output I recorded: Jul 14 12:55:27 egg dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<dom>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, SSL Jul 14 12:55:30 egg dovecot: IMAP(dom): kqueue was given an unknown descriptor 1, -1: No such file or directory The second line points refers to io_loop_handler_remove, the tcp/ip socket (1) is having the read filter (-1) removed, suspending events from the socket, or at least, that is what should be happening. From kevent(2) for ENOENT: [ENOENT] The event could not be found to be modified or deleted. This suggests to me that we are incorrectly calling io_loop_handler_remove before we should. This error happens immediately after a client opens their mailbox. I have checked pop3 and it does not share the problem. I'm going to have a look at the CVS mail archive to see if I can work out what has changed. [*] Occasionally I was receiving ENOENT in test77 also in io_loop_handler_remove, but only occasionally, perhaps a few times a day for each client. This also didn't occur when opening the mailbox, but some time later. I'm still looking for the trigger for that. Cheers, -- Dominic Marks

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[Dovecot] dovecot pop3s delivers new messages as old (unread) messages ...
by James Sun 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

I just set up dovecot on fedora core 3 with only pop3s protocol enabled. On my client machine, I use fetchmail to get the mail and then go through procmail and eventually ready by mutt. Everything seems to work fine, except that all new emails are marked old unread emails (i.e., marked with 'O' flag instead of 'N'). This is annoying because some open source lists are so large that I really rely on the "N" flag to read my emails. I tested the same client setting with gmail and my isp (comcast) pop3 accounts. They work fine - new mails are marked as "N". This makes me suspect dovecot is not set up correctly or something on the pop3 server machine is not right. Anybody has an idea? Thanks in advance. Jun Here are more detailed info: -bash-3.00# rpm -qa | grep dovecot dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3 /etc/dovecot.conf: ---------------------------- protocols = pop3s imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] imaps_listen = [::] pop3s_listen = [::] ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3 mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root auth_verbose = no .fetchmailrc on client machine -------------------------------------- poll mypop.server.com protocol pop3 user "jsun" password "xxxx" is jsun here ssl

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[Dovecot] Double Emails
by Matt Juszczak 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hi all, I originally posted this on postfix's mailing list but then realized that this COULD be a pop3 server problem since that downloads and deletes mail. This has only been happening since I upgraded from .99 to 1.0-7 ... Our users have been reporting double messages in their inbox, as well as emails that they deleted a long time ago reappearing. The only thing in my maillog is a bunch of: mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/sdf/mail/Level3 (6293 > 3) Thats happening for IMAP folder and /var/mail/* mbox folders alike. I can't seem to figure out the problem, but we have at least 50 customers calling in today alone to complain about double messages. More are probably experiencing it and just not calling. Any ideas? Thanks! -Matt

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Re: [Dovecot] Update notifier
by Sebastjan Trepca 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Great! Yes, of course, I just didn't knew that plugins are supported. Are there any documents on this subject? How do you add a plugin to dovecot? Just compile it and copy it to dovecot's lib/imap (like in example) ? Thanks, Sebastjan On 7/22/05, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 12:08 +0200, Sebastjan Trepca wrote: > > I'm trying to add a code in dovecot that will notify my services when > > a message is updated/added/moved/copied. I checked dovecot code a bit > > and mail-storage.c seems to be a nice place for tracking but I'm not > > sure if I can track all changes there. > > There are no update/move commands in IMAP, so you'll just need to hook > into saving and copying. Normally copying also goes through save unless > you're using maildir + maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes. > > See quota plugin for example how to hook into saving and copying: > http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/quota.tar.gz > > Probably better to do it as a plugin than directly modify the sources, > so you don't have to keep patching it for each new release. > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBC4PdEyUhSUUBViskRApj9AJoCzEM8iNRNaEIcHdGxZDKoSbatFQCfaTMc > 62w52fPQr0uE8wb1A8y9kUY= > =9gtQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >

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[Dovecot] Another minor IMAP LIST issue
by Chris Wakelin 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

I've just noticed that Dovecot 1.0-stable and 1.0-test78 don't include mbox folders with names beginning with "." in the IMAP LIST output. These are often used to store "hidden" folders for storing things like IMAP client configuration (e.g. Pine 4.x, IMHO, Prayer). Usually the user shouldn't be able to see these, but there are occassions when they might. It seems to me to be better to let the client decide. As I understand it, the IMAP RFC suggests that if you can "SELECT folderpath" a folder, you should also be able to list it with 'LIST "" "folderpath"' I've written a patch against 1.0-stable (it also works with test78) to add an extra namespace option "showdotfiles" (default "no"), to include folders beginning with "." (but excluding ".imap" and "." and ".." for obvious reasons!). It's used as follows :- # default namespace namespace private { separator = "/" prefix = inbox = yes showdotfiles = yes } # for backwards compatibility with UW-IMAP: namespace private { separator = "/" prefix = "mail/" hidden = yes showdotfiles = yes } ... Let me know if you find it useful! 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 diff -ruN dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/imap/cmd-list.c dovecot-1.0-stable/src/imap/cmd-list.c --- dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/imap/cmd-list.c Fri Mar 18 20:00:44 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/imap/cmd-list.c Wed Jul 20 16:36:51 2005 @@ -293,6 +293,8 @@ list_flags = ctx->list_flags; if (*ns->prefix == '\0' || ns->inbox) list_flags |= MAILBOX_LIST_INBOX; + if (ns->showdotfiles) + list_flags |= MAILBOX_LIST_DOTFILES; ctx->list_ctx = mail_storage_mailbox_list_init(ns->storage, cur_ref, cur_mask, list_flags); diff -ruN dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/imap/namespace.c dovecot-1.0-stable/src/imap/namespace.c --- dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/imap/namespace.c Mon Jan 31 16:37:54 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/imap/namespace.c Wed Jul 20 16:36:51 2005 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ { struct namespace *ns; const char *sep, *type, *prefix; - int inbox, hidden, subscriptions; + int inbox, hidden, showdotfiles, subscriptions; ns = p_new(pool, struct namespace, 1); @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ prefix = getenv(t_strdup_printf("NAMESPACE_%u_PREFIX", num)); inbox = getenv(t_strdup_printf("NAMESPACE_%u_INBOX", num)) != NULL; hidden = getenv(t_strdup_printf("NAMESPACE_%u_HIDDEN", num)) != NULL; + showdotfiles = getenv(t_strdup_printf("NAMESPACE_%u_SHOWDOTFILES", num)) != NULL; subscriptions = getenv(t_strdup_printf("NAMESPACE_%u_SUBSCRIPTIONS", num)) != NULL; @@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ ns->prefix = p_strdup(pool, prefix); ns->inbox = inbox; ns->hidden = hidden; + ns->showdotfiles = showdotfiles; ns->subscriptions = subscriptions; ns->storage = mail_storage_create_with_data(data, user); if (ns->storage == NULL) { diff -ruN dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/imap/namespace.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/imap/namespace.h --- dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/imap/namespace.h Mon Jan 31 16:37:54 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/imap/namespace.h Wed Jul 20 16:36:51 2005 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ char *prefix; size_t prefix_len; - int inbox, hidden, subscriptions; + int inbox, hidden, showdotfiles, subscriptions; struct mail_storage *storage; }; diff -ruN dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-list.c dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-list.c --- dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-list.c Mon Jan 31 16:37:55 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-list.c Wed Jul 20 16:36:51 2005 @@ -225,13 +225,19 @@ enum imap_match_result match, match2; int ret, noselect; - /* skip all hidden files */ - if (fname[0] == '.') + /* skip all hidden files unless show dotfiles is set*/ + if (fname[0] == '.' && !(ctx->flags & MAILBOX_LIST_DOTFILES)) return 0; /* skip all .lock files */ len = strlen(fname); if (len > 5 && strcmp(fname+len-5, ".lock") == 0) + return 0; + + /* skip ".imap" "." and ".." directories in case we show dotfiles */ + if (((len == 5) && strcmp(fname, ".imap") == 0) || + ((len == 1) && fname[0] == '.') || + ((len == 2) && strcmp(fname, "..") == 0)) return 0; /* check the mask */ diff -ruN dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h --- dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h Mon Jan 31 16:37:55 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h Wed Jul 20 16:36:51 2005 @@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ MAILBOX_LIST_SUBSCRIBED = 0x01, MAILBOX_LIST_FAST_FLAGS = 0x02, MAILBOX_LIST_CHILDREN = 0x04, - MAILBOX_LIST_INBOX = 0x04 + MAILBOX_LIST_INBOX = 0x04, + MAILBOX_LIST_DOTFILES = 0x08 }; enum mailbox_flags { diff -ruN dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/master/mail-process.c dovecot-1.0-stable/src/master/mail-process.c --- dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/master/mail-process.c Tue Feb 8 10:30:11 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/master/mail-process.c Wed Jul 20 16:36:51 2005 @@ -175,6 +175,8 @@ env_put(t_strdup_printf("NAMESPACE_%u_INBOX=1", i)); if (ns->hidden) env_put(t_strdup_printf("NAMESPACE_%u_HIDDEN=1", i)); + if (ns->showdotfiles) + env_put(t_strdup_printf("NAMESPACE_%u_SHOWDOTFILES=1", i)); t_pop(); } } diff -ruN dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/master/master-settings.c dovecot-1.0-stable/src/master/master-settings.c --- dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/master/master-settings.c Mon Jan 31 16:37:55 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/master/master-settings.c Wed Jul 20 16:36:51 2005 @@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ DEF(SET_STR, location), DEF(SET_BOOL, inbox), DEF(SET_BOOL, hidden), + DEF(SET_BOOL, showdotfiles), { 0, NULL, 0 } }; diff -ruN dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/master/master-settings.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/master/master-settings.h --- dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/master/master-settings.h Mon Jan 31 16:37:55 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/master/master-settings.h Wed Jul 20 16:36:51 2005 @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ int inbox; int hidden; + int showdotfiles; }; struct server_settings {

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[Dovecot] subscriptions vs mailboxlist
by Marc Perkel 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Is there a way to change the name of the .subscriptions file that dovecot looks for to .mailboxlist to be compatible with WU-IMAP? It would be handy for testing and conversion if you had that. BTW - I'm a new user and your software is very well designed. -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] Errors after moving to Maildir from mbox format
by Gabe Granger 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hi All, Over the weekend I bit the bullet and migrated my entire office from server to another and converted everything from MBOX to Maildir. Althought it took ages and their we're a few little problems along the way, the migration was a complete success with no users reporting any problems(Mbox used to always cause file lock ups) or even noticing anything had changed... Which is great!:) I'm starting to see some issues currently only with my Mail. In the log files I'm getting loads of the following for at lease 20 different emails Jul 19 12:12:27 server imap(Some-user): Error parsing IMAP envelope: "Tue, 27 May 2003 16:33:07 +0100" "Re: 2U rack cases + PSU" (("Some User" NIL "some-user" "somedomain.foo")) (("Some User" NIL "some- user" "somedomain.foo")) (("Some Userr" NIL "some-user" "somedomain.foo")) (("Some User" NIL "some-user" "some-other- domain.foo")) NIL NIL "<000f01c32462$699a7130$7264a8c0@Microtech>" NIL I did a find in my Mail.app on my mac and discovered that although my client can find the message based on Subject, it fails to locate its mailbox/mailfolder when I select the message I get the following response The message from Some User <some=user(a)some-other-domain.foo> concerning “RE: 2U rack cases + PSU” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it. The account is fully online, does or has anyone here come across this error? I'm guessing there is a problem within the email file itself. I'm using ServerSide Debian 3.1 Sendmail 8.13 Dovecot 0.99.14-1 ClientSide OSX 10.4 Mail.app Any help / pointers would be great. Gabe

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[Dovecot] Corrupted indices (and accidental checkin)
by Thomas Wouters 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

I've seen a number of corrupted-index problems pop up on our test-dovecot servers (used by a few people at the office), and I'm wondering why corrupt indices don't just automatically get deleted ? Something like: if (!MAIL_INDEX_IS_IN_MEMORY(index)) { unlink(index->filepath); } in src/lib-index/mail-index.c:mail_index_set_error() comes to mind. It seems to me like it should work, anyway. You can still treat the error like it's currently treated (as fatal), but at least it won't pop up the next time you try to perform the same action, or trigger the same corrupted entry another way. By the way, I also noticed what is probably an accidental checkin in src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c:maildir_get_control_path(), where it tries to migrate control files from the default location to the configured location. I think Timo wrote that patch for my colleage Cor, and then accidentily checked it in with: ---------------------------- revision 1.100 date: 2005-06-09 14:31:43 +0000; author: cras; state: Exp; lines: +22 -4 Replaced ':' and ',' character usages with #defines, so they can be changed easily if needed. The patch is 'broken' anyway; it tries to use rename() to move the old control files to the new location, but that doesn't quite work between different filesystems (and that happens to be what we want to do ;). A better way to handle it would probably be to read in the data from the old location, and then write it out to the new location, in a normal load/save procedure. But I think we'll just do the move manually, after all, as it's just a few dozen different accounts at the moment. I'm not sure about the value of the 'implicit' controlfile migration that dovecot currently does. -- 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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