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[Dovecot] Do index files need removing when upgrading 1.0-stable to 1.0-alpha1 or later?
by Chris Wakelin 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hi Timo, Just a quick question: do index files still need removing when upgrading from 1.0-stable (as in the testXX series) or will Dovecot regenerate them automatically? I'm expecting to go with 1.0-stable on Tuesday for my 20,000 users (as that's what I've been testing), but if we see lots of index issues, I may want to upgrade to alpha1 (or later) fairly soon afterwards and it would be annoying to have do delete thousands of indexes! 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] 1.0alpha1: stack frame core
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hi, Today's core dump from 1.0alpha1 came from a syslog message of: IMAP(user): pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed gdb info on the resulting core dump attached. Question: how many people are building/using dovecot 1.0alpha1 with gcc 4.0.1 versus gcc 3.4.x? I am wondering if these issues come from the compiler instead of dovecot itself? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha1: another imap core, no assert
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Timo, Output of gdb session on the core file attached. This one only produced the following syslog: IMAP(user): UIDs broken with partial sync in mbox file /var/mail/r/user with no assert. Setup: Solaris 9, gcc 4.0.1 for dovecot build. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha1: corrupted cache file complaints?
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hi, I have seen the following in my syslogs for 1.0alpha1: Corrupted index cache file [filename]: record points outside file and : indexid changed : record list is circular : Cache record offset 9772 points outside file : invalid record size Are these errors minor? Major? Self-healing? Should the cache files be blown away to fix these errors? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] LF not found and other errors
by Sergio Storari 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hi I have installed dovecot 0.99.14-r1 + postfix 2.1.5-r2 in a gentoo OS Looking into the mail.err log I see the following errors: Sep 6 12:26:23 mail pop3(u0185): Error indexing mbox file /var/spool/mail/u0185: LF not found where expected Sep 6 12:26:23 mail pop3(u0185): Error indexing mbox file /var/spool/mail/u0185: LF not found where expected Sep 6 12:26:23 mail pop3(u0185): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [20 05-09-06 12:26:23] Sep 6 12:55:44 mail imap(u0185): Error indexing mbox file /var/spool/mail/u0185: LF not found where expected Sep 6 12:55:44 mail last message repeated 7 times Sep 6 12:58:42 mail imap(u0266): Corrupted index data file /home/u0266/.imap/Inviati/.imap.index.data: Data position of rec ord 281 points outside file (62664 + 32 > 58096) Sep 6 12:58:42 mail imap(u0266): Corrupted index data file /home/u0266/.imap/Inviati/.imap.index.data: Missing location fie ld for record 281 Sep 6 13:24:19 mail last message repeated 14 times Sep 6 13:24:20 mail last message repeated 3 times Sep 6 13:47:10 mail imap(u0043): Error indexing mbox file /home/u0043/INBOX.Trash: LF not found where expected These errors seem to be related both to imap and pop3 but I don't know how to solve the probelm. I searched for these errors on the web and maillists and about the "LF not found", it seems a problem related to dovecot versions older than v0.99.10.5, but my version is 0.99.14-r1. Any ideas? Regards Sergio -------------------------------------------------------------- Sergio Storari Engineering department in Ferrara (ENDIF) via Saragat, 1 44100 Ferrara FE TEL: +390532974951 FAX: +390532974870 -------------------------------------------------------------- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/91 - Release Date: 06/09/2005

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[Dovecot] Minor patch for vpopmail support
by John Peacock 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

It doesn't seem like this code path has been tested recently, since it fails to compile without the following patch (works fine with it): --- src/auth/userdb-vpopmail.c 7 Aug 2005 11:41:19 -0000 1.17 +++ src/auth/userdb-vpopmail.c 11 Sep 2005 11:57:42 -0000 @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ } } - reply = auth_stream_reply_init(); + reply = auth_stream_reply_init(auth_request); auth_stream_reply_add(reply, NULL, vpw->pw_name); auth_stream_reply_add(reply, "uid", dec2str(uid)); auth_stream_reply_add(reply, "gid", dec2str(gid)); Thanks John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747

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[Dovecot] subscriptions or .subscriptions?
by Andy Cravens 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

I may have found a problem with the documentation concerning the subscriptions file. On the Dovecot web site there is a document that outlines the conversion from UW IMAP to Dovecot. The document says Dovecot's folder list is stored in ".subscriptions" However, I have found that Dovecot's folder list is really "subscriptions" without the preceding dot. Did Dovecot version 1.0.alpha1 remove the dot from the subscriptions filename? .subscriptions does not seem to work at all. http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Migration#head-5dde807bf059dea93fc2303e202…

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[Dovecot] buglet in dovecot.conf, 1.0alpha1
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Timo, The dovecot.conf file comments talk about login_process_per_user but this variable does not appear in the file. Do you mean login_process_per_connection instead? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha1: too many open files
by Jeff A. Earickson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Help... Dovecot 1.0alpha1 hung up today with nothing working and the following spewing to my syslog: pipe() failed: Too many open files My setup: Solaris 9, just using imap, mbox format. The various "max" settings in dovecot.conf use the defaults. Suggestions on what to change in fovecot.conf to keep this from happening? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Problem in dovecot 0.99 - login username case sensitive create fake maildirs
by Max CtRiX 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hello, I have noticed a weird behaviour in dovecot 0.99 which, I hope, is not replicated in 1.0-alpha. First I have to say that it works very well. So if I login with user foo(a)bar.com, the maildir is created. But when I log in with User FOO(a)BAR.COM, or FOO(a)BAR.com, then two other maildirs are created. Authentication is ok (I'm using mysql backend) but no mails are obviously found. Maybe a solutions would be adding some config item to turn lowercase the maildir path or authentication tokens (received from client) at login time. Or maybe I am missing something. Is there a solution for this problem out there ? Thanks, Massimo

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[Dovecot] POP3 problem about multi users from one IP address concurrent
by Yi Xuan 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hi,all I have a POP3 problem about multi users from one IP address concurrent. [Issue description] The network architecture is as following. I have setup a mail server(sendmail/dovecot) in PlaceA with IP_A. And about 6 users are receving mail from the same IP_B( NATed public IP) in PlaceB. Their mails are many( about 1Mb/hour each) and ususally set fetch time as 10min/fetch. Then they complain that their mails often cannot be downloaded. [Reason investigation] I noticed that 1.when one of them fail to fetch mail. All TCP IP connection between IP_A and IP_B will be RST.which means that http/ssh/pop/smtp all not work for a while. And after about 10 minute, the http/ssh can work well. 2.I have asked them to backup and delete pop accounts and use webmail through imap provided by dovecot.And that seems work well but inefficient. I think this maybe because of multi users from one IP address concurrent, [Question] Would you pls provide some suggestion or solution about this issue? Is this a bug of dovecot or just a mis-configuration I don`t know? Thanks in advance for any advice. Best regards, Yi Xuan

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[Dovecot] Fatal: EOF while reading environment from master Error
by Phil Bettinson 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hello all! I guess it's a standard reason for joining a mailing list, but I have a problem. For some reason, whenever I try to start dovecot, be it from the xinet.d or from the commandline, I get this rather bizzare error. I can't even work out what it means, so I can't even begin to debug it. There is nothing extra in /var/log/messages, so I'm out of ideas. I've tried it with the default config, as well as with a config that I adjusted to fit the environment. I'm currently out of ideas. I did notice that there is a brief thread on this in the mailing-list archive, but it doesn't seem to point to a solution. Hopefully someone can help. I'm running it with the command /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login I am using the 1.0.alpha1 version, running on RedHat AS 3. thanks in advance. Phil System Administrator, National Library of Wales.

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[Dovecot] Inbox weirdness
by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

I recently had a system crash and my inbox became inaccessible via IMAP. ls -ld /var/spool/mail drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Sep 1 07:54 /var/spool/mail ls -l /var/spool/mail/ignacio -rw-rw---- 1 ignacio mail 7222021 Sep 1 07:54 /var/spool/mail/ignacio /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE] Logged in as ignacio A142 SELECT INBOX imap(ignacio): Error: open(/var/mail/ignacio.lock) failed: Permission denied imap(ignacio): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/ignacio: Permission denied imap(ignacio): Error: open(/var/mail/ignacio.lock) failed: Permission denied imap(ignacio): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/ignacio: Permission denied A142 NO Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-09-01 08:00:34] rpm -q dovecot dovecot-(none):0.99.14-4.fc4.i386 System is running Fedora Core 4. SELinux is not a factor in the problem. http://fedora.ivazquez.net/private/dovecot.conf Thanks in advance for any help in resolving this issue. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Errors - Using Debian
by Mark Smith 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

I recieve this error when trying to apt-get dovecot-common [Error Starts] apt-get install dovecot Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d The following NEW packages will be installed: dovecot dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/568kB of archives. After unpacking 1163kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Selecting previously deselected package dovecot-imapd. (Reading database ... 14230 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking dovecot-imapd (from .../dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package dovecot-pop3d. Unpacking dovecot-pop3d (from .../dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package dovecot. Unpacking dovecot (from .../dovecot_0.99.14-1_all.deb) ... Setting up dovecot-common (0.99.14-1) ... Creating generic self-signed certificate: /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem (replace with hand-crafted or authorized one if needed). hostname: Unknown host dpkg: error processing dovecot-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dovecot-imapd: dovecot-imapd depends on dovecot-common (>= 0.99.12-1); however: Package dovecot-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing dovecot-imapd (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dovecot-pop3d: dovecot-pop3d depends on dovecot-common (>= 0.99.12-1); however: Package dovecot-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing dovecot-pop3d (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dovecot: dovecot depends on dovecot-imapd; however: Package dovecot-imapd is not configured yet. dovecot depends on dovecot-pop3d; however: Package dovecot-pop3d is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing dovecot (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: dovecot-common dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d dovecot E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [Error Ends] What Should I do?? I am Using Debian Sarge PLEASE HELP _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters

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[Dovecot] "$default_mail_env/cur" not found with passwd-file authentication on v1.0-test80
by OpenMacNews 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

hi all, i've built dovecot: Sep 09 18:04:24 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test80 starting up on OSX 10.4.2. in addition to pgsql auth, which is working 4 me, i'd like to step-by-step verify simple passwd-file authentication/testing. unfortunately, i'm having a problem with the login process NOT FINDING the ".../cur" dir. here are the details .... my config includes: ... default_mail_env = maildir:/var/Data/Mail/%d/Accounts/%1u/%u/Maildir:INDEX=/var/Data/Mail/indexes/%d/%n ... auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb passwd-file {args = /var/Settings/Security/test_user_file} passdb passwd-file {args = /var/Settings/Security/test_user_file} ... } ... my 'test_user_file' has a test user "testuser(a)testdomain.com" with an appropriately CRYPT'd pwd % grep /var/Settings/Security/test_user_file testuser testuser@mydomain.com:XXXXXXXXXX:65001:65001:/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir:::: when i login via telnet/shell, i get: % telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK IMAP ready x login testuser(a)mydomain.com testuser x OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. and my log shows: dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AGJsYWtlcnNAb3BlbmV4ZWMuY29tAGJsYWtlcnM= dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=testuser(a)mydomain.com dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 1486 1 dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 testuser(a)mydomain.com uid=65001 gid=65001 home=/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<testuser(a)mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Effective uid=65001, gid=65001 dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Namespace: type=private, prefix=Private/, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): maildir autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: data=$default_mail_env dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: INBOX file: stat($default_mail_env) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: has .imap/: stat($default_mail_env/.imap) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: has inbox: stat($default_mail_env/inbox) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: has mbox: stat($default_mail_env/mbox) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Error: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: $default_mail_env (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Error: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Failed to create storage for 'Private/' with data: $default_mail_env dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Error: child 1496 (imap) returned error 89 ignoring, for the moment the mbox 'complaints', and worrying first about the first: dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): maildir autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur) failed: No such file or directory i'm a bit stymied .... if i understand correctly, that: autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur) is looking for: "/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir/cur", which, on my system, exists: % ls -d /var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir/cur /var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir/cur as i've had all this working fine with pgsql authentication, i have this sneaking suspicion that i'm missing something obvious here. thoughts? suggestions? thx! richard

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[Dovecot] Lot of crashing messages
by Matt Juszczak 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Receiving a lot of the following messags with 1.0-76: pid 633 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Any ideas? Sometimes, our entire port 110/143 servers begin refusing connections. Hardware checks out fine. Thanks in advance, Regards, Matt

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-alpha1 and Thunderbird Sent problems
by Nicholas Young 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

I have dovecot 1.0alpha1 setup in a semi test environment running on Solaris 2.6. When using Thunderbird 1.0.6 from Windows occasionally the client will hang after sending a message and before copying it to the Sent folder on dovecot. Sendmail logs indicate that the message has been sent correctly. The mail directory is not shared over NFS. It is in maildir format. Restarting Thunderbird and sending exactly the same message will work. This seems to imply that it is not message dependant. Once the error has occured once it continues to occur until the client is restarted. We have file system quotas however they are very large for a very small amount of mail. The filesystem is about 80% free space and about 98% free inodes. I cannot replicate the issue under Linux using Thunderbird that is current for FC3. Some hacked version 1.0.2-1.3.3 Imap workarounds turned on under dovecot are outlook-idle for imap. The issue has not been seen under Outlook. Outlook is using a local Sent-Items folder instead of an Imap one however. The connection is running over SSL so I can not sniff the traffic on the wire, I have not tried using the rawlog settings yet. I plan to start this now, however the sporadic nature of the problem may delay useful information from here. The dovecot logs are not showing error messages, just: dovecot: Sep 09 09:24:35 Info: imap-login: Login: user=.... TLS Any suggestions on where to start would be great. This issue was not reported to me when running dovecot-1.0-stable-20050718. Thanks for any help/suggestions on where to go from here. -- Nich

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[Dovecot] chdir() on NFS
by Ramón Macías Zamora 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Hi Christian, my english is very bad excuseme for that. I see that you resolve the problem describe more ahead, how compile dovecot?, can you send by mail the binary? Thanks Saludos RMZ Icesa - Orve S. A. 2261000 ext 307 Sitio de interés para Linux: www.openecuador.com [Dovecot] chdir() on NFS Christian Andersen <mailto:dovecot%40dovecot.org?Subject=%5BDovecot%5D%20chdir%28%29%20on%20NFS &In-Reply-To=55579.129.241.163.43.1079702906.squirrel%40129.241.163.43> chrian at stud.ntnu.no Fri Mar 19 19:33:39 EET 2004 * Previous message: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/003068.html> [Dovecot] chdir() on NFS * Next message: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/003070.html> [Dovecot] chdir() on NFS * Messages sorted by: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/date.html#3069> [ date ] <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/thread.html#3069> [ thread ] <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/subject.html#3069> [ subject ] <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/author.html#3069> [ author ] _____ Christian Andersen said: > > Hi, > I'm having problems accessing home directories though NFS. This setup uses > LDAP and Kerberos. Users defined on the local host work fine. This is what > dovecot writes in the logs while trying to log in as the user johndoe: > > ---- > Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP > server... > Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server > after 1 attempt(s) > Mar 19 14:10:54 jack imap-login: Login: johndoe [10.0.0.30] > Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot: chdir(/home/johndoe) failed: Permission > denied > Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot: child 3525 (imap) returned error 89 > ---- > > The authentication is OK, but dovecot fails to get access to the home > directory. What username does dovecot try to chdir() as? > > If I 'su' from to that user I have access to /home/johndoe, and a quick > test with Courier IMAP worked fine. Postfix has no problem delivering mail > in the users maildir using procmail. > > Some relevant config options: > > default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INDEX=/var/indexes/%n > auth_userdb = passwd > auth_passdb = pam > auth_user = root Problem solved, I guess... I recompiled from source and just replaced the dovecot binary in /usr/sbin. Trying to do 'rpmbuild -tb' and install the resulting rpm rendered everything unusable, but I guess that's just a matter of tweaking some options to 'configure'. What's the difference between the Fedora Core 1 version (0.99.10-6) and the latest stable version (0.99.10.4)? -- Christian Andersen <http://phuzz.org> _____ size=2 width="100%" align=center> * Previous message: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/003068.html> [Dovecot] chdir() on NFS * Next message: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/003070.html> [Dovecot] chdir() on NFS * Messages sorted by: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/date.html#3069> [ date ] <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/thread.html#3069> [ thread ] <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/subject.html#3069> [ subject ] <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/author.html#3069> [ author ] _____ <http://dovecot.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dovecot> More information about the dovecot mailing list

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[Dovecot] help help
by g.digiambelardini＠fabaris.it 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hi, I have a dovecot IMAP server whit the Horde/Imp webmail. I know that this request is OT, but I need an help. I created for each user a SPAM folder, where dovecot put every email tagged "SPAM", but with IMP I can't make a list of folders to poll for new mail, I tried to dcofigure IMP like that: // list of folders to poll for new mail $_prefs['nav_poll'] = array( 'value' => 'a:1:{s:5:"INBOX";b:1;s:6:"INBOX.Test";b:1;}', //'value' => 'a:0:{}', //'value' => '', 'locked' => false, 'shared' => false, 'type' => 'implicit'); but it don't work...... SOMEONE CAM HELP ME??? Di Giambelardini Gabriele System/Network Administrator __________________________________________ FABARIS s.r.l. Cel. +39 3488504467 Tel. +39 0765 22181 - Fax +39 0765 410100 Via G. Mameli, 90 02047 Poggio Mirteto (RI) Viale dell'Università, 25 00185 Roma (RM) www.fabaris.it __________________________________________

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Re: [Dovecot] help help
by Brett Parker 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

g.digiambelardini(a)fabaris.it <g.digiambelardini(a)fabaris.it> wrote: > > > Hi, I have a dovecot IMAP server whit the Horde/Imp webmail. > I know that this request is OT, but I need an help. > I created for each user a SPAM folder, where dovecot put every email tagged > "SPAM", but with IMP I can't make a list of folders to poll for new mail, I > tried to dcofigure IMP like that: > > // list of folders to poll for new mail > $_prefs['nav_poll'] = array( > 'value' => 'a:1:{s:5:"INBOX";b:1;s:6:"INBOX.Test";b:1;}', ^ should be 10 (number of chars in INBOX.Test). > //'value' => 'a:0:{}', > //'value' => '', > 'locked' => false, > 'shared' => false, > 'type' => 'implicit'); > > but it don't work...... > SOMEONE CAM HELP ME??? Hope that helps, -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk

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[Dovecot] Ip addr + login name
by mike 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hi everybody, Is there a way to bind client ip address that connects to pop3 with the login name? For example if the client ip address is 192.168.2.40 then his login name is 'test' and he can log in with only that account name. I think it is possible to do it with an external authentication program. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] More verbose logging of POP transactions?
by Philip Hallstrom 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hi all - I'm brand new to dovecot (0.99.14 on freebsd 5) and am just playing with it a bit. POP works just fine, but the only thing that shows up in my logs is this: Sep 7 11:46:25 freebsd5 pop3-login: Login: philip [10.28.61.200] Thought maybe syslog was quietly eating things, but told dovecot to use it's own log file and it didn't improve. Is there a way to turn on more detailed logging about what the user did? Along the lines of what uw-imap's pop gives you in terms of number of messages available, downloaded, deleted, etc.? I'm also interested in how much was transferred size wise... If I mised it in the conf file just let me know, but I didn't see anything... Thanks! -philip

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[Dovecot] Dovecot - IMP - POP autentication problem
by Carlos Bergero 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi, Recently I have to rush one of my mail servers to a new installation, actually GNU Linux/Debian Sarge, the system run dovecot 0.99.14 for pop and imap, and the web server, other machine, uses horde2/imp3. The problem is the following, pop clients including the imp3 cant log properly apparently, the even when a connection is made to pop3 dovecot trys to make a secure connection, I found this after sniffing the connection between the web server and the mail server, for some reason, imp cant handle it well and the some clients like OutLook also have troubles working this out. For now I work around this problem by disabling the ssl/tsl support, but that's not the solution I need. So the question is can I disable this feature without loosing the secure connection and how can I do it? Cheers, rak

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha1: new assert/core
by Jeff A. Earickson 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi, I saw a new assert and core dump today in 1.0alpha1. Setup is Solaris 9, dovecot built with gcc 4.0.1, running as imap server for mbox format. The syslog said: IMAP(user): file message-body-search.c: line 393 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset <= part->physical_pos) A gdb analysis of the core dump is attached. BTW, I save core dumps in case you need further debugging done for an assert. On another note, I have also had issues with dovecot locking up with "Too many open files" syslog error messages. Last night, after several hours of "too many open files" complaints, the master dovecot process just died -- no core dump and no complaint to syslog. Per advice of the list, I have doubled the rlim_fd_cur and rlim_fd_max kernel parameters and rebooted my imap server. I also saw in my syslog: Sep 6 16:48:53 emerald dovecot: [ID 956436 mail.error] pipe() failed: Too many open files Sep 6 16:48:53 emerald dovecot: [ID 257797 mail.crit] dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number With students back, they have been giving dovecot a real hard workout. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot/pop-before-smtp
by Lorens 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:50:12PM -0700, Micah Stevens wrote: > Okay, just tried this. Doesn't work. I'm using 0.99 as packaged for RHEL 3. > Would that make a difference? Yes. The syntax changed. > login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/popbsmtp.sh > /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login I'm fairly certain that login_executable is not the same thing as the mail_executable. > Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use login executable > /usr/libexec/dovecot/popbsmtp.sh /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login: No such > file or directory Especially as the popbsmtp script should be launched for each login, and not at daemon start. In 1.0 there are two executables, mail_executable launched for logins, and (from memory) auth_executable launched at daemon start, so I suppose login_executable is the wrong one :-) I diagnose the error you get as meaning that the space is not ed separat out, and that dovecot tries to fork the executable named /usr/libexec/dovecot/popbsmtp.sh /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login which obviously won't work. > Permissions are 777 on the popbsmtp.sh script. I double checked this. > > I tried to just copy the config as stated, but dovecot didn't parse it, > that's why I'm assuming it's for 1.x versions: Correct. Not good enough at 0.99 to say what the equivalent would be (I found that I needed 1.0 before I tried to do pbsmtp). > So I'm stuck, I also tried putting an insert statement on the user_query, > but that fails as Lorens mentioned. Problem with direct SQL is that I can't manage to make dovecot execute two SQL statements. If you're using a db with stored procedures you could maybe squeeze through that loophole, but your best bet is to find out what user_executable should be (maybe the same thing?) > Back to pop-before-smtp which doesn't work either, but it works better. :) :-) HTH

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test75 and roadmap for v1.0
by Timo Sirainen 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ Keywords are finally stored in maildir filenames and listed in "dovecot-keywords" file. It should be possible to just rename 0.99.x's .customflags file to dovecot-keywords (but it can't be renamed back after modification). Also fixed another uid/sequence mixup bug with setting keywords in general (in mbox too). Fixed SHA1 checksum generation with big-endian machines (used only in passwords). I think I'll forget about the master/config rewrite for a while and leave it for Dovecot v2.0. That would mean the next release will be called 1.0-alpha1. After that there should be only bugfixes and some smaller features and optimizations left. I looked through my TODO and found the following missing features / optimizations that pretty much have to be done before v1.0. Anything important missing? - keywords: - add some limits to how many there can be - send FLAGS/PERMANENTFLAGS untagged replies when they change (required by IMAP RFC) - remove unused keywords from keyword list? (only when adding new ones) - mail cache file - cache _all_ headers that are marked to be cached when headers are being parsed, not just the ones client is requesting at that time. - compression should drop fields with last_used < (latest_mail_index_date - month) - when parsing mbox or saving message, parse the mail through index-mail so things gets saved into cache immediately - mbox - when we're updating flags with lazy writing, we're still parsing the mbox, just not writing to it! - always add empty line after mail. - make the parser require it too? syncing should make sure there always exists two LFs at end of file. raw-mbox-stream should make sure the last message ends with LF even if it doesn't exist in the file - COPY doesn't work to same mailbox (lock assert crash) - keep mbox lock for two extra seconds after sync to make sure we notice changes made by other mbox writer software - maildir - hardlink copying doesn't update indexes (does it even work?) - deliver needs quota integration somehow so it returns out-of-quota failure as fatal instead of temporary Probably after v1.0: - Full NFS support - Try to handle out-of-quota/disk space situations well

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[Dovecot] 1.0.alpha1: Namespaces
by Wolfram Schlich 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Hi, I'm currently using 1.0.alpha1 without luck regarding a namespace issue. Maybe it's a general understanding problem on my side, but let's see :-) I would like to have my mail stored in Maildir format below ~/.maildir/, which works fine so far. I want any (sub)folders to be created like this: ~/.maildir/ /cur /new /tmp /.Folder/ /cur /new /tmp /.Subfolder/ /cur /new /tmp BUT ;) Dovecot seems to disregard my namespace settings: --8<--[ /etc/dovecot.conf ]--8<-- default_mail_env = maildir:~/.maildir:INDEX=MEMORY namespace private { separator = / # prefix = # location = maildir:~/.maildir inbox = yes hidden = no } --8<-- Every new (sub)folder I create is stored as ~/.maildir/.Folder resp. ~/.maildir/.Folder.Subfolder in the filesystem. Are namespaces the right way? Is it possible at all? Thanks in advance. -- Wolfram Schlich

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Re: [Dovecot] An alternate "dovecot-auth" daemon using cyrus-sasl
by Andrey Panin 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

On 249, 09 06, 2005 at 01:35:58PM +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote: > Andrey Panin wrote: > > >On 248, 09 05, 2005 at 03:48:19PM +0400, buc wrote: > > > > > >>We use dovecot in a heterogeneous environment (Windows/Linux desktops > >>and Linux servers). For unified authentication we use a sheaf > >>"Samba/Openldap" (i.e., Samba NT domain with openldap backend and > >>pam/nss_ldap for Linux). > >> > >> > >So why you can't use dovecot with openldap as passdb ? > > > Yes, now we use dovecot with pam, which uses openldap by pam_ldap etc... > But PAM can handle plain passwords only, therefore it is not suitable > for NTLM. > I have not found it in examples, but may be dovecot`s ntlm can take > appropriate password hashes from openldap directly? > (sambaLMPassword/sambaNTPassword) Yes, dovecot can handle LM/NTLM password hashes and it can fetch them from OpenLDAP directly (look at doc/dovecot-ldap.conf) In general you can store passwords in any supported form, just add proper password scheme prefix. For example: {NTLM}69943C5E63B4D2C104DBBCC15138B72B For more information read here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication > >>Windows users are authenticated well everywhere, but there is one old > >>issue. As "SPA" (NTLM) against NT domain is not supported by dovecot, it > >>is necessary to use default "plain" method. In addition to security > >>problems, it does also a problem of password unification. Each time a > >>user changes the password, he should do it one more time for the mail > >>program. > >> > >>I know that dovecot supports NTLM, however against local database only > >>(not for NT domain controller). In early versions support of cyrus-sasl > >>(which supports NTLM now) had been incorporated, however it like not > >>work and now is removed. > >>Fortunately, there is a possibility to substitute dovecot-auth > >>executable. Therefore I have tried to make an alternate variant of > >>dovecot-auth, which supports all that we need. > >> > >>For us, it seems to be more useful to create an auth daemon using > >>cyrus-sasl, rather than to add domain support to existing ntlm code. > >>First of all, it is easier for implementation. Besides it enables use of > >>all mechanisms supported by cyrus-sasl (present and future), including > >>GSSAPI. Anyway, it will be the useful additive to dovecot. > >> > >> > > > >Dovecot doesn't support cyrus-sasl for a good reason - it's a mess. > > > > > Certainly, I do not suggest to switch to use cyrus-sasl in upstream dovecot. > > But can give this patch the right to a life? Somewhere in "unofficial > patches"... > > >>I have made appropriate patches for both dovecot-1.0-stable and > >>dovecot-1.0.alpha1. > >>The idea is to copy "src/auth" to "src/auth-cyrus", strip all unneeded > >>from newly created directory and add cyrus-sasl support. The resulting > >>code probably looks not so elegantly as if it has been written > >>separately, however this way allows to not make a lot of things from the > >>scratch. > >> > >> > >>The patch against 1.0.alpha1 is > >>here: http://dmitry.butskoy.name/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.alpha1-cyrus.tar.gz . > >>To be more readable, it is not a flat patch (due to a lot of whole > >>files add/remove). It is a tarball with 3 files: a list of files to > >>initial copy from auth/ to auth-cyrus/, a patch for resulting tree, and > >>a script which automates this steps (:-)). (The script should be run in > >>the root of the main source, i.e. a dir with src/ and doc/ subdirs). > >> > >>I already have successfully tested this patch with PLAIN method. > >>However before testing of other methods, it would be desirable that > >>somebody have looked at it. > >> > >>Whether someone could check up my patch (just fluently having read), > >>at least for obvious bugs and typos? > >> > >> > > Dmitry Butskoy <Dmitry(a)Butskoy.name> > Saint-Petersburg, Russia > Red Hat Certified Engineer 809003662809495 > > -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] upgrading: should I and what will change?
by Joshua Paine 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

I've been running dovecot 0.99.11 with postfix and postgresql in a production environment with about 25 real users and a couple hundred aliases split over a few domains for nearly a year now. No problems of any kind that I have noticed. Should I upgrade to the latest dovecot? What changes, if any, will I have to make? I've looked through the archives for a couple months without seeing much, and I don't see anything specific in the docs about upgrading. -Joshua <><

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-LDA & OpenBSD
by Björn Ketelaars 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Im having a bit of a problem with compiling dovecot-lda on OpenBSD. I used information from wiki.dovecot.org but this, unfortunately, resulted in some errors. Am I missing something? make all-recursive Making all in src Making all in libsieve if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib -I/mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib-mail -I/mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib-storage -I/mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib-storage/index/mbox -DSYSCONFDIR=\""/usr/local/etc"\" -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -MT deliver.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/deliver.Tpo" -c -o deliver.o deliver.c; then mv -f ".deps/deliver.Tpo" ".deps/deliver.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/deliver.Tpo"; exit 1; fi In file included from common.h:4, from deliver.c:5: /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib/lib.h:6:22: config.h: No such file or directory In file included from /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib/lib.h:23, from common.h:4, from deliver.c:5: /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib/compat.h:17:4: #error uoff_t size not set In file included from /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib/lib.h:23, from common.h:4, from deliver.c:5: /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib/compat.h:37: error: conflicting types for `socklen_t' /usr/include/sys/types.h:95: error: previous declaration of `socklen_t' In file included from common.h:5, from deliver.c:5: /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h:428: error: syntax error before "mail_get_virtual_size" /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h:428: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `mail_get_virtual_size' /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h:428: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h:431: error: syntax error before "mail_get_physical_size" /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h:431: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `mail_get_physical_size' /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib-storage/mail-storage.h:431: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from deliver.c:13: /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib/istream.h:5: error: syntax error before "uoff_t" /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib/istream.h:20: error: syntax error before "uoff_t" /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib/istream.h:25: error: syntax error before "uoff_t" /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib/istream.h:51: error: syntax error before "uoff_t" /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib/istream.h:54: error: syntax error before "uoff_t" In file included from deliver.c:15: /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib/ostream.h:7: error: syntax error before "uoff_t" /mnt/files/dovecot-1.0-test80/src/lib/ostream.h:57: error: syntax error before "uoff_t" *** Error code 1 Stop in /mnt/files/dovecot-lda-0.1/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /mnt/files/dovecot-lda-0.1/src (line 384 of Makefile). *** Error code 1 Stop in /mnt/files/dovecot-lda-0.1 (line 283 of Makefile). *** Error code 1 Stop in /mnt/files/dovecot-lda-0.1 (line 188 of Makefile). -- Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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[Dovecot] how to migrate from one server to another?
by Bram Mertens 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Hi I have purchased and installed a new PC and would like to transfer my mail (in Maildir format) to it. Are there any precautions I must take before copying the mail over? I will disable mail delivery temporarily so no new mail gets written to disk but I don't know if dovecot has to be stopped before copying/editing mail for backup or migrating purposes. Anything else I must pay attention to? TIA Bram

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[Dovecot] dovecot + openwebmail
by Peter McEvoy 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Hi, I'm trying to add some sanity to a badly thought out mail system that, for various reasons, cant be fixed from the bottom up at this moment in time. The system is debian sarge, exim 4.5, doing virtual domains and delivering into mboxes in /var/spool/virtual/$domain/$user , there is webmail access and this allows user to create folders in (dont shoot me!) /etc/openwebmail/users/$domain/$username/mail/ , the files in this directory appear to be mboxes in that each mail begins with a From: line, the naming of these files is completely arbitrary. Im trying to add imap access that would ideally give users access to the mail in /var , and also in the openwebmail dirs, though the latter is not essential, just desirable. All mails are owned by user mail. I've installed dovecot-imapd version 0.99.14-1, but if this doesnt have the namespace additions from version 1.0-test, I can easily install that. Reading the wiki, it seems I can achieve this with namespaces, something like namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes prefix = location = mbox:/etc/openwebmail/users/%d/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/virtual/%d/%u } But, Im not quite sure where this would go in the config file, going by the example config you can just shoehorn them into the middle of the file, but I'm not 100% sure... I had been trying to use things like.. default_mail_env = mbox:/var/folders/%d/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/virtual/%d/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n Having created the necessary folders in /var , but I didnt have much success (the authentication part worked straight away using my passwd file), And having read more and been told about namespaces on the irc channel, it seemed like I should go that way anyway. If anyone could give me a steer in the right direction, or even tell me i'm wasting my time (tho dont bother telling me how much better maildir etc is, i know!) Thanks for your time. -- Pete

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[Dovecot] dovecot and communitgate (stalker)
by tyco 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

hi there, i am totally new to dovecot and use communigate pro stalker.com as my mailserver. everything in communigate is fine. the only problem i do have is imap speed. i just got a login at a dovecot server and i must say WOW its so fast amazing. since communigate does not support indexing on mdir direcotries i need to find a solution. so i am wondering if it would be possible to use dovecot imap server on top of communigate as an imap server? i know that this would not work for special cgp features like shared mailboxes. etc.... thnax christof

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 and ldap; does this combination works?
by Vedran Furac 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Hi! After upgrading from dovecot 0.9.14 to 1.0 crashes immediately after starting when using ldap as userdb and passdb. You can find more information here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320388 I'm confused with two users: login_user and auth_user. Witch of them has to be in ldap? If anyone here has a working dovecot+ldap configuration, could he show me his configuration? Regards Vedran

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-LDA: Development questions
by Steffen Kaiser 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Hello, I'm tinkering with Dovecot-LDA in order to achieve: + Better intergration into sendmail, and + tweaking its way to act on errors. Attached patch is a "brainstorming" like suggestion: a) when sendmail is dropping a message, it spawns the LDA, captures stderr/stdout and, if the LDA returns an exit code != 0, generates either a DSN or, when EX_TEMPFAIL, queues the mail. Hence, it is not necessary to have mail_send_rejection() to spawn another sendmail instance. The attached patch suggest to introduce an "operation_mode", in which Dovecot-LDA behaves differently for different environments. b) Some errors, like when spooling the message into the users folders fails, because the user is out of quota, one should prefer tempfailing the message, rather than a permanent error. Attached patch includes an option "-f", which has main() to return EX_TEMPFAIL. This is the way maildrop is acting, BTW. === Sendmail supports "account+detail" syntax out-of-the-box; that is for recipient matching only the portion left of the plus-sign is significant, the trailing portion may be used by the LDA as a hint to spool the message. Usually the information is passed via command line to the LDA. The libsieve seems to already support this notation, see tokens DETAIL, subaddress, :detail and the README file: Derrick Brashear (shadow+sieve@andrew...) Did somebody used or have some idea how to make use of the "+detail" stuff of libsieve? Basically the main problem in my opinion is what to query, because the information (final physical mailbox and/or owner) one can query is neither a header nor an envelope information (besides that the envelope information is not available to the LDA anyway). Consider a BCC to one recipient that expands to numerous maildrops, then the maildrop of actual delivery attempt can not be derived from neither the envelope nor the header information. The only way to integrate the +detail stuff into Dovecot-LDA seems to be when "keep" is performed (or no Sieve script is present). Then one could spool the message into folder "detail", if it already exists -- one should be allow other people to create mailboxes ;-) This is no action of the Sieve library, but of the LDA calling sieve. The Wiki mentions in the section about to setup exim: envelope_to_add What's this setting is doing? In src/sieve-cmu.c, static int getenvelope, there is: } else if (!strcasecmp(field, "to")) { *contents = m->temp; m->temp[0] = /*FIXME:msg_getrcptall(m, m->cur_rcpt)*/m->authuser; m->temp[1] = NULL; return SIEVE_OK; So it seems appropriate to tweak dovecot_sieve_run() into: mdata.authuser = username; mdata.recipient = detail_on_commandline ? concat(username, "+", detail_on_commandline) : username ; Or better: Have the complete recipient passed via command line option? and alter getenvelope(): m->temp[0] = m->recipient; I think this tweaks would be better than have the "-d" option support the plus-syntax. === Currently, the compiled Sieve script is placed into the same directory the script is located itself. How about to _always_ file the compiled script into [CONTROLDIR]/.dovecot.sievec? That would come over the problem with the system-wide default sieve script. Otherwise: The README mentions a test application and I found a sievec and sieved application (Sieve compile / decompiler) I presume. I can not just run "make sievec" to have it compile, does somebody played around with the Sieve stuff in LDA? Regards, -- Steffen Kaiser

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Re: [Dovecot] qpopper UIDLs and migrating to dovecot/maildir
by Chris Wakelin 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

OK, here's the patch against dovecot-1.0-stable. (I just applied it to dovecot-stable-20050901. My version of stable has a few more patches applied, so I needed to apply the patch to a clean version!) Best Wishes, Chris grant beattie wrote: > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:30:27AM +0100, Chris Wakelin wrote: > > >>Right! Here's a patch against dovecot-1.0.alpha1 which adds an extra option: >> >>pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes >> >>which if set will use the contents of the (first) X-UIDL header, if it >>exists, instead of the result of expanding pop3_uidl_format. It will use >>pop3_uidl_format if there is no X-UIDL header. >> >>This is typically for people migrating from Qpopper who don't want their >>users to get all the mail they've left on the server a second time, but >>should also work for any other POP server that happens to write X-UIDL >>headers, if any such exist ;) >> >>I've only done rudimentary testing, but it seems to work! I also have a >>version of the patch for dovecot-1.0-stable (which is what we'll be >>using next week!) if anybody's interested (only minor differences, use >>'mail->get_header(mail, "X-UIDL")' instead of >>'mail_get_first_header(ctx->mail, "X-UIDL")') > > > this is great stuff, thanks! > > I'm using the 1.0alpha1 diff and it seems to be working fine so far. > as we will probably be running 1.0 stable in production, would you > mind forwarding me the diff against 1.0 stable? > > this is an extremely useful feature, making it even easier to migrate > from alternate POP3 servers than Dovecot already is. :) > > grant. > -- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- 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/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 Mon Sep 5 10:29:22 2005 @@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ env_put("FULL_FILESYSTEM_ACCESS=1"); if (set->pop3_no_flag_updates) env_put("POP3_NO_FLAG_UPDATES=1"); + if (set->pop3_reuse_xuidl) + env_put("POP3_REUSE_XUIDL=1"); if (set->mbox_dirty_syncs) env_put("MBOX_DIRTY_SYNCS=1"); if (set->mbox_very_dirty_syncs) 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 Sun Aug 7 14:00:41 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/master/master-settings.c Mon Sep 5 10:29:22 2005 @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ /* pop3 */ DEF(SET_BOOL, pop3_no_flag_updates), DEF(SET_BOOL, pop3_enable_last), + DEF(SET_BOOL, pop3_reuse_xuidl), DEF(SET_STR, pop3_uidl_format), DEF(SET_STR, pop3_client_workarounds), @@ -297,6 +298,7 @@ /* pop3 */ MEMBER(pop3_no_flag_updates) FALSE, MEMBER(pop3_enable_last) FALSE, + MEMBER(pop3_reuse_xuidl) FALSE, MEMBER(pop3_uidl_format) "%v.%u", MEMBER(pop3_client_workarounds) NULL, 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 Mon Sep 5 10:29:22 2005 @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ /* pop3 */ int pop3_no_flag_updates; int pop3_enable_last; + int pop3_reuse_xuidl; const char *pop3_uidl_format; const char *pop3_client_workarounds; diff -ruN dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/pop3/commands.c dovecot-1.0-stable/src/pop3/commands.c --- dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/pop3/commands.c Sun May 8 10:45:32 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/pop3/commands.c Mon Sep 5 10:29:22 2005 @@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ struct var_expand_table *tab; struct mail *mail; string_t *str; + const char *xuidl; int ret, found = FALSE; tab = t_malloc(sizeof(static_tab)); @@ -532,7 +533,15 @@ str_truncate(str, 0); str_printfa(str, ctx->message == 0 ? "%u " : "+OK %u ", mail->seq); - var_expand(str, uidl_format, tab); + if (reuse_xuidl) { + xuidl=mail->get_header(mail, "X-UIDL"); + if (xuidl != NULL) + str_append(str, xuidl); + else + var_expand(str, uidl_format, tab); + } + else + var_expand(str, uidl_format, tab); ret = client_send_line(client, "%s", str_c(str)); t_pop(); diff -ruN dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/pop3/common.h dovecot-1.0-stable/src/pop3/common.h --- dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/pop3/common.h Mon Jan 31 16:37:55 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/pop3/common.h Mon Sep 5 10:29:22 2005 @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ extern struct ioloop *ioloop; extern enum client_workarounds client_workarounds; -extern int enable_last_command, no_flag_updates; +extern int enable_last_command, no_flag_updates, reuse_xuidl; extern const char *uidl_format; extern enum uidl_keys uidl_keymask; diff -ruN dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/pop3/main.c dovecot-1.0-stable/src/pop3/main.c --- dovecot-1.0-stable.orig/src/pop3/main.c Mon Jan 31 16:37:55 2005 +++ dovecot-1.0-stable/src/pop3/main.c Mon Sep 5 10:29:22 2005 @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ enum client_workarounds client_workarounds = 0; int enable_last_command = FALSE; int no_flag_updates = FALSE; +int reuse_xuidl = FALSE; const char *uidl_format; enum uidl_keys uidl_keymask; @@ -166,6 +167,7 @@ parse_workarounds(); enable_last_command = getenv("POP3_ENABLE_LAST") != NULL; no_flag_updates = getenv("POP3_NO_FLAG_UPDATES") != NULL; + reuse_xuidl = getenv("POP3_REUSE_XUIDL") != NULL; uidl_format = getenv("POP3_UIDL_FORMAT"); if (uidl_format == NULL)

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[Dovecot] 1.0a1 Coredumps / errors when moving multiple
by Gregory Bond 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

I've just tried upgrading 1.0t51 to 1.0a1 and it has been........ difficult. I've been getting logs of Sig11s and other errors, and have trouble tracking them down. Main problem seems to be with moving / copying messages. One at a time works (mostly), multiple will coredump the imap process (not yet managed to get a proper core out though...) I'm using imap & Maildir, maildir on NFS & Indexes on UFS, Solaris 8. Server is postfix / procmail (delivering pre-sorted into various Maildir folders) and Dovecot 1.0a1. Client is thunderbird on OS/X. If I turn off mbox_copy_with_hardlinks, then instead of a coredump I get a hang and an error message: > IMAP(gnb): Maildir /home/gnb/Maildir sync: UID inserted in the middle > of mailbox (3871 > 3870, file = 1125740849.23189_0.lenford:2,Saa) This is after I've removed all the cache/index files and even all the dovecot-uid files.... I'm back on 1.0t51 for now, but could have another crack at this if there are any hints.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot logging
by Black Vette 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Fedora Core 4 dovecot-0.99.14-4.fc4 I'm trying to diagnose some mail issues. I do not believe Dovecot is the problem. If I could see the Dovecot logs, it might be helpful in resolving my issue. In /etc/dovecot.conf I have tried to set the following: log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log I have 'touch /var/log/dovecot.log'. When I try to restart dovecot 'service dovecot restart', it fails and I'm not able to see the reason why it is failing. Where am I going wrong getting this working? Also, are there various debug levels? I saw 'debug' mentioned on the list, but I was unable to see anything about it in the config file. Thanks, Mike __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Dovecot] qpopper UIDLs and migrating to dovecot/maildir
by Paul Vatta 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Hi Chris, We migrated to Dovecot from Qpopper/UW-IMAP in July. We previously looked at altering the Dovecot code, client-side duplicate email cleanup utilities (for Eudora), and enforcing "download-then-delete from the server" prior to the migration. We got around the "downloading of previously downloaded emails" problem by moving all previously downloaded emails to a new folder called "ConvertedMail" during the conversion process from mbox (Qpopper) to maildir. This assumes you're going to maildir though. The benefit in this is that the POP client only retrieves email from th inbox folder, and after conversion, this will mean only new emails. If the POP client's previous download of older email dissappeared (for whatever reason), a Web Mail client accessing the mailstore via IMAP would allow access to the ConvertedMail folder. Regards, Paul

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[Dovecot] login: Missing Protocol from server name 'imap'
by Phil Bettinson 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Hello All (possibly again) I did send a messge earlier, but it may have been eaten by the mail system. I've now managed to get dovecot started, and I'm now getting "Missing protocol from server name 'imap'" This is somewhat confusing. Does it mean that I have somewhere called my server imap? or is it talking about it missing a protocol called imap? if it's meant to be "missing protocol imap definition" or somesuch, I have filled that out, but can't for the life of me figure out what the error message is actually trying to tell me! I'm running dovecot alpha1 on RedHat as3. I have the feeling I've been staring at the problem for too long, and somone will just say "have you tried this!", but it's worth a shot. Thanks in advance Phil

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[Dovecot] qpopper UIDLs and migrating to dovecot/maildir
by grant beattie 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

hi all, I am hoping to convert a 350K user qpopper installation using mbox to dovecot and maildir (pop3 only). many of the users "leave mail on server", and qpopper's UIDL format isn't (yet) supported by dovecot. since the UIDLs have been written by qpoppper to the existing mbox files (and will be preserved when the mboxes are converted to maildir) it would be possible to do this seamlessly if dovecot could read the UIDLs from the messages and populate the index files as needed. is anything like this already possible? it doesn't matter what UIDLs new messages get, since they would never have been downloaded by the user via qpopper. any ideas would be appreciated. grant.

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[Dovecot] "stable" v. "alpha"
by Ben Beuchler 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Is "alpha" the new "-stable"? Should I switch? Gracias! -Ben

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RE: [Dovecot] Purge / Delete Problem using IMAP
by A Ve 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

> On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 23:46 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, A Ve wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am using dovecot 0.99.14 RPM on a Fedore Core 4 Server. > > > Everything was running fine for weeks (IMAP), and 2 days ago I was > > > not able to delete/purge any Mail in INBOX. I am > > > using Outlook 2003 as an IMAP-Client. > > > > Okay, this is *really* weird. I've been having the same > > problem here. Now I'm beginning to suspect that it might be > > distro-specific. > > Confirmed. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167043 Right. :-| Fixed it disableing selinux totally and removing it ! This is not the first time, that selinux is disturbing a daemon to work (http, postfix ...) Thanks for hint, this solved my problem ... Regards, AVE.

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[Dovecot] Purge / Delete Problem using IMAP
by A Ve 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Hi, I am using dovecot 0.99.14 RPM on a Fedore Core 4 Server. Everything was running fine for weeks (IMAP), and 2 days ago I was not able to delete/purge any Mail in INBOX. I am using Outlook 2003 as an IMAP-Client. I tried to delete/purge the Inbox with other mail-clients (Mozilla Thunderbird, Mulberry) too, same effect: I can read mail, I can copy them by drag-n-drop to a local Client-Folder (eg: Outlook) , but I can delete them. Strange enough, the mails are marked as read, but when I login again, all Mail are marked as new/unread ! When I log to the node, and start mutt (which is using the spool-file /var/spool/mail/username), then I am able to read-n-delete all Mails... The File Permisson of the File: 755, Owner: Username, Group: Mail. Did I miss something ? How can this stop working from one day to another ? I seems to me, like the INBOX is not writable to me ... From the UNIX Side, it is ... :-/ Any Comment/Feedback would be helpfull. This is really strange. Regards, AVE.

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[Dovecot] string expansion *in* dovecot config?
by OpenMacNews 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

hi all, is it possible to define/use 'MACROS' (string expansion, ala Exim) in dovecot's config file? specifically, e.g. -- rather than: login_executable = /some/crazy/path/to/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login i'd LIKE to do something like MY_PATH = /some/crazy/path/to login_executable = MY_PATH/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login i'm reading the wiki docs, and it's just not obvious to me ... thanks! richard

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[Dovecot] Weird internaldate behavior with 1.0-test80 and mbox folder
by Jon Roma 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Has anyone else encountered weird date behavior with mbox-style folders? I am nearly ready to bite the bullet and convert my UW imap hierarchy (which is in mbx format) to Dovecot. In so doing, I need to convert each UW-specific mbx-format mailboxes to the more portable mbox format, which Dovecot can read. (This is done with the 'mbxcvt' utility that's part of UW.) I am then planning to copy those mbox-format folders into a staging area in a directory I've defined to Dovecot as a mbox-format namespace. The plan was then to use my normal GUI to reorganize my old data and copy it into proper maildir folders into Dovecot's default namespace. Since I'm naturally paranoid, I did a dry run of a couple folders first and discovered a rather strange anomaly -- all the mail in the converted folder is displayed by Dovecot with a timestamp exactly 200 minutes (3 hours 20 minutes) into the future! Investigating this via telneting to the respective IMAP ports shows that UW imapd shows the correct timestamp both in the original mbx-format folder and the converted mbox-format folder -- so it appears that Dovecot is skewing the time. This doesn't look like a timezone issue since 200 minutes ahead from CST6CDT would be a pretty strange timezone -- not even Newfoundland has this odd a TZ value! :) (For the curious, Newfoundland is a Canadian province whose time zone is TZ=NST3:30NDT, therefore being a half-hour "off" from the rest of North America.) I have distilled this into a degenerate case of a single folder with a single message and can reproduce. As mentioned, I am running 1.0-test80. My platform is AIX 5.1. I created the test by sending a message to myself using date | mail -s "Test at $(date)" roma(a)uiuc.edu and using my MUA (Mulberry) to file it into the test folder, which defaults to mbx format in UW's namespace. Here's what UW shows when I select/fetch the "original" message: * namespace * NAMESPACE (("" "/")("#mhinbox" NIL)("#mh/" "/")) (("~" "/")) (("#shared/" "/")("#ftp/" "/")("#news." ".")("#public/" "/")) * OK NAMESPACE completed * select "~/Test" * 1 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1124811965] UID validity status * OK [UIDNEXT 3] Predicted next UID * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)] Permanent flags * OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed * fetch 1 internaldate * 1 FETCH (INTERNALDATE "23-Aug-2005 11:16:37 -0500") * OK FETCH completed * fetch 1 envelope * 1 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:30 -0500" "Test at Tue Aug 23 11:16:29 CDT 2005" (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) ((NIL NIL "roma" "uiuc.edu")) NIL NIL NIL "<200508231616.j7NGGUrc022618(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu>")) * OK FETCH completed Next I use the UW 'mbxcvt' to convert the folder, leaving it in mbox format in a different folder (~/Test-mbox) -- still in UW's namespace. Here's what the telnet connection shows: * namespace * NAMESPACE (("" "/")("#mhinbox" NIL)("#mh/" "/")) (("~" "/")) (("#shared/" "/")("#ftp/" "/")("#news." ".")("#public/" "/")) * OK NAMESPACE completed * select "~/Test-mbox" * 1 EXISTS * 1 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1124813840] UID validity status * OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)] Permanent flags * OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed * fetch 1 internaldate * 1 FETCH (INTERNALDATE "23-Aug-2005 11:16:37 -0500") * OK FETCH completed * fetch 1 envelope * 1 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:30 -0500" "Test at Tue Aug 23 11:16:29 CDT 2005" (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) ((NIL NIL "roma" "uiuc.edu")) NIL NIL NIL "<200508231616.j7NGGUrc022618(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu>")) * OK FETCH completed Now, copying the same mbox-format folder into dovecot's namespace and telneting to my Dovecot port gives the following: * namespace * NAMESPACE (("" ".")("Stage/" "/")) NIL NIL * OK Namespace completed. * select "Stage/Test" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 1 EXISTS * 1 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1124815188] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 2] Predicted next UID * OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. * fetch 1 internaldate * 1 FETCH (INTERNALDATE "23-Aug-2005 14:36:37 -0500") * OK Fetch completed. * fetch 1 envelope * 1 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:30 -0500" "Test at Tue Aug 23 11:16:29 CDT 2005" (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) (("Jon Roma" NIL "roma" "zippy.cso.uiuc.edu")) ((NIL NIL "roma" "uiuc.edu")) NIL NIL NIL "<200508231616.j7NGGUrc022618(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu>")) * OK Fetch completed. Notice the "internaldate" response. Dovecot reports the correct time zone, but the internaldate value is 200 minutes ahead of what it should be!!! This is an interesting mystery; I seem to be living three hours and 20 minutes in the future. I've attached the entire contents of the mbox-style mailbox that Dovecot misinterprets. Thanks in advance. >From MAILER-DAEMON Tue Aug 23 11:39:48 2005Date: 23 Aug 2005 11:39:48 -0500 From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA X-IMAP: 1124815188 0000000001 Status: RO This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values. >From roma(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu Tue Aug 23 11:16:37 2005 -0500 Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: Received: via dmail-4.1(10) for +INBOX; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:37 -0500 (CDT) Return-Path: <roma(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu> Received: from zippy.cso.uiuc.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cso.uiuc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7NGGUCQ027294 for <roma(a)uiuc.edu>; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:30 -0500 Received: (from roma@localhost) by zippy.cso.uiuc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j7NGGUrc022618 for roma(a)uiuc.edu; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:30 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:16:30 -0500 From: Jon Roma <roma(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu> Message-Id: <200508231616.j7NGGUrc022618(a)zippy.cso.uiuc.edu> To: roma(a)uiuc.edu Subject: Test at Tue Aug 23 11:16:29 CDT 2005 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on zippy.cso.uiuc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=2.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 X-UID: 1 Tue Aug 23 11:16:29 CDT 2005

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Phillip Needham 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

I am trying to get away from courier imap because it is flaky the way it uses FAM (or gamin in my case), and the developers seem to have a chip on their collective shoulder, and it is too complex. I found dovecot because it is ships with CentOS 4 (ie Red Hat Enterprise 4). It looks like just what I need: simple, fast. But I can't use it! I can't authenticate. If any of these statements were untrue, I would use it happily: o it doesn't support simple bind authentication against LDAP o I don't want to make passwords readable, and this version (0.99.14) doesn't support SSHA anyway o it won't talk to the saslauthd I already have configured o I can't find how to implement a new auth module for dovecot I am wondering why, in the quest to fill a niche with a simple, fast, secure IMAP server, the authors felt the need to re-implement a robust and well-tested infrastructure (saslauthd) with a less-featureful and untested one?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot imap with Postfix and using Thunderbird as client
by Ben Ware 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi, I just recently installed dovecot, and I am having the following problem: If I send an email to my account on this new machine, I can log in via SSH and use the unix mail command, and instantly my email is visible. If I turn on Thunderbird, it will show my new message. If Thunderbird was already on and had already checked the mailbox, even if I click on get new mail for that specific mailbox, the new mail does not show up until I restart thunderbird. Is there something that I have set wrong in the config files that is preventing the IMAP part of dovecot from refreshing the messages quickly for me to see? I dont see anything in the log files at all except for it showing me logging in. Thanks, Ben

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[Dovecot] 'Bind'-method authentication for LDAP
by Phillip Needham 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Has there been any thought given to implementing authentication via an LDAP 'bind', rather than by a password lookup and hash comparison? doing a bind would obviate the need to make the passwords readable by the dovecot process and would lend itself to improved security. Phillip Needham Principal, iBright Consulting phillip(a)ibright.net 614-783-3301

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[Dovecot] another assert/core with 1.0alpha1
by Jeff A. Earickson 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Same as reported before: Assert: 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) Setup: 1.0alpha1 on Solaris 9, built with gcc 4.0.1 Debug output of the core is attached. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Dovecot version for production server
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Hi! What version of dovecot I can secure install in production server? -- Best regards, Andrew Velikoredchanin

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

31 Aug '05

whaooo that is interesting, Thank you so much for the explanation. I guess my choice now is to go with maildir as Blairpoint out because I am running in single host mode. Probably in the future I will run a big enough enviroment as a cluster data center them I will op for mbox. Thank you again Blair and Tomi for educating me in the topic.Lisandro ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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." >>> Tomi Hakala <tomi.hakala(a)clinet.fi> 08/31/05 3:08 PM >>> Lisandro Grullon wrote: > What method for mail boxes are you guys using mbox or maildir and which one > would you recommend? Thanks. I'd say it depends, I'm working with clustered filesystems in SAN environments where mbox is significantly faster than maildir since single mbox file generates much less overhead in form of distributed file locking accross cluster nodes. On single host systems with good file system I'd probably go with maildir. Maybe someday I'll manage to do some benchmarking between mbox and maildir with Dovecot. -- Tomi Hakala

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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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