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[Dovecot] authenticate authenticated users
by Tzafrir Cohen 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hi I'm using dovecot on a LAN server. I sometimes read mail from the server itself locally with mutt and sometimes remotely with mutt or mozilla . I would like to avoid typing my password whenever necessary but without writing a plain-text equivalent copy of it locally. It feels quite silly to have to type the password locally becase the imapd does not know that the process is indeed a process of the user tzafrir. It has all the information it neeeds to check that. wu-imapd has something called "pre-authentication": the imapd is run by the user unpriviliged to access mail in the user's home directory. As a bonus this works quite nicely with ssh public key authentication. I know that at least mutt and pine support running a custom command for creating an imap connection. But then again, wu-imapd is built quite, well, differently. Any ideas? -- Tzafrir

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[Dovecot] FW: Failed to create storage with data
by Christopher Cheng 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

I've found out the problem already. After postfix delivered the mail to my mailbox, I can login now... -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Cheng [mailto:mylist@chrishome.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:55 PM To: 'dovecot(a)dovecot.org' Subject: Failed to create storage with data I am trying to setup dovecot with postfix and postgres. After I got dovecot connected to postgres and use Outlook Express to try to login, I have the following problem: Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain imap-login: Login: chris [::ffff:192.168.1.2] Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain dovecot-auth: Login process 9 disconnected Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain imap(chris): Failed to create storage with data: /var/local/mail/mydomain.com/chris Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain dovecot: child 24616 (imap) returned error 89 The status of the directory /var/local/mail/mydomain.com/chris is 777, so I have no clue why it doesn't work.

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[Dovecot] Failed to create storage with data
by Christopher Cheng 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

I am trying to setup dovecot with postfix and postgres. After I got dovecot connected to postgres and use Outlook Express to try to login, I have the following problem: Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain imap-login: Login: chris [::ffff:192.168.1.2] Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain dovecot-auth: Login process 9 disconnected Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain imap(chris): Failed to create storage with data: /var/local/mail/mydomain.com/chris Jan 4 23:38:22 bluemountain dovecot: child 24616 (imap) returned error 89 The status of the directory /var/local/mail/mydomain.com/chris is 777, so I have no clue why it doesn't work.

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[Dovecot] compact folders, expunge, etc
by Mail Admin 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Test58 and test59 breaks "compact folders" and "expunge" in thunderbird and evolution. Messages marked for deletion just sit there as if compacting folders or expunging have no effect. Thunderbird continues to behave erratically with dovecot test builds. I haven't been able to test the imap_client_workarounds=tb-negative-fetch option yet as I'm still running test52. Thunderbird displays blank messages when they are opened, but "Edit as new" shows the message contents. Thunderbird also displays messages that appear to be truncated like: > Hi Peter, > > I will not This body part will be downloaded on demand. Thanks, Derek

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[Dovecot] PLAIN-MD5 passwords?
by Peter Clark 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

After I found out that {CRYPT} doesn't support passwords longer than 8 characters, I decided to switch over to MD5 for user passwords in my LDAP database. However, while I have no problem with Postfix + SASL, Dovecot fails to authenticate. Relevant bits from /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf: user_attrs = mailAddress,,,,, # The search string is identical to what's found in /etc/saslauthd.conf: user_filter = (&(|(uid=%u)(mailAddress=%u))(status=active)) pass_attrs = mailAddress,userPassword pass_filter = (&(|(uid=%u)(mailAddress=%u))(status=active)) default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 When I try to connect using either KMail or SquirrelMail (which worked just fine before I switched schemes), the following error appears in /var/log/syslog: ldap(user(a)mydomain.tld): password mismatch But when I try 'testsaslauthd -u user(a)mydomain.tld -p longpassword' it authenticates just fine. I have the line 'password-hash {MD5}' in /etc/ldap/slapd.conf, and I used 'slappasswd -h {MD5}' to create the MD5 versions of the passwords. Dovecot is v. 0.99.11. If I can't figure out how to get it to work with MD5, I guess I'll have to go back to CRYPT, but it would be nice to have longer passwords... :Peter

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[Dovecot] Wanted: gnutls11 support
by Jaldhar H. Vyas 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

I talked to Timo about this before and even provided the beginnings of a patch but don't have enough time to really do a proper job. Anyway, dovecot doesn't work with recent versions of the GNU TLS library. As a result, I compile the Debian package with OpenSSL. However some of the other libraries used, such as OpenLDAP are linked against GNU TLS so Dovecot is linked against both. And it is suspected this is leading to bugs. So could some kind soul provide Timo with a patch he can include in 0.99.13? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)debian.org> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

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Re: [Dovecot] Maildir owner importance
by Roi Efrati 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

That last line actually made it possible for me to be able to log into the server :) I am still getting errors from PAM but it starting to look good. Is there a good HowTo on setting Dovecot to comunicate directly to MySql without using PAM in the middle ? Also, Since Postfix is still not working on my server, I can't actually recive Emails. Is there somewere an example of the files that need to be in the maildir that I can put them in there and test that the email client get's the mail out ? On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:36:34 +0200, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > > If you have passwords in Mysql, you probably don't want to use > passwd-file as your auth_userdb. Rather just use: > > auth_userdb = static uid=100 gid=101 home=/var/local/virtualdir/%d/%u >

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[Dovecot] SASL AUTH
by Tom Allison 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

I'm reading through the dovecot wiki pages for virtual hosting with postgresql/postfix/dovecot/debian and it looks pretty nice but I think I'm going to skip the SASL authentication since I'm in a trusted network. I think all I need to do is skip section 5 entirely and bypass all the sasl references in the postfix section. Technically, I don't think any of the SASL has much to do with the dovecot configuration.

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[Dovecot] random pool depletion
by Johannes Berg 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

I'm facing a problem with dovecot 1.0 test-59; ever since I installed it and use it my random pool is always depleted whenever someone opens an imap connection. This wouldn't be too bad if the machine was used interactively, but since it is not and other services read directly from /dev/random those are sometimes blocked due to dovecot depleting the pool by reading /dev/urandom. Thus my question: is it really necessary to use random numbers from /dev/urandom for temporary filenames? And even if, couldn't it use less? It apparently uses 8 bytes every time. johannes

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[Dovecot] delivery agent in 1.0?
by "Branko F. Gračnar" 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi :) Is there any plan to include delivery agent in 1.x? I would be very happy, if there would be lmtp delivery agent included with dovecot 1.x... This would make creating large mailsystem cluster creation very simple + indexes would be always up2date. Brane -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFBytD9N7LHXgqRB4IRAi67AKCn/A1t3tCsMX0nhL8l4sgzTfDhlACgj1j5 NdgMzA3v0dLx6Bnui62rLRc= =4UGm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Authentication difficulties
by Timo Sirainen 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

There are constantly pretty basic questions in this list (and in my inbox) about how to get user authentication work correctly. This means that the documentation how it all works is either bad, or people don't find it easily. Any ideas how to improve it? I did this now: - Documentation link in dovecot.org now points directly to Wiki, so people don't go read the outdated documents - Upcoming 1.0-tests and 0.99.13 will contain doc/USE-WIKI-INSTEAD file pointing to Wiki: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2004-December/003928.html - Updated comments in dovecot-example.conf: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2004-December/003924.html - Added pointers to Wiki in dovecot-example.conf: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2004-December/003927.html How good are the Wiki documents about user authentication in general? The content should probably be split somehow to "getting started" vs. "everything there is to know about it" and "system users" vs. "virtual users". I'm not really sure how to best do that though. I think the Wiki in general could be better organized. Wish I knew how.

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[Dovecot] Maildir owner importance
by Roi Efrati 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

I have set up a directory (/var/local/virtualdir/) as the maildir with a special user/group (virtualmail) and in it I create directories for each domain (example1.tld, example2.tld etc) and sub dir's for each mailbox). Only at the moment, apart from the first one, they are all created as with user root as the owner. How important is to have all the directory tree owned by the same user group (virtualmail:virtualmail) ?

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[Dovecot] bug in 99.13-rc2 in ldap md5 patch
by Farkas Levente 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

hi, it takes me another hour do debug it again, although i already report it for both joshua and timo. the original patch for openldap's md5 crypt has a small bug. in passdb-ldap.c the schema is already PLAIN-MD5 since that was set in the other part of the original patch in password-scheme.c. do anybody use dovecot with ldap and md5 password? i don't think so:-( this patch would be useful to apply before the final 0.99.13. anyway in the current 1.0 series the PLAIN-MD5 and LDAP-MD5 schema are different. at least plain_md5_verify and plain_md5_generate differ from ldap_md5_verify and ldap_md5_generate. why? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" --- dovecot-0.99.13/src/auth/passdb-ldap.c.lfarkas 2004-12-22 17:06:25.000000000 +0100 +++ dovecot-0.99.13/src/auth/passdb-ldap.c 2004-12-22 17:06:56.000000000 +0100 @@ -109,12 +109,11 @@ } /* Special case for OpenLDAP's MD5 type */ - if (strcasecmp(scheme, "MD5") == 0) { + if (strcasecmp(scheme, "PLAIN-MD5") == 0) { buf = buffer_create_static(data_stack_pool, 16); if (base64_decode(password, strlen(password), NULL, buf) == 1 && buffer_get_used_size(buf) == 16) { password = binary_to_hex(buffer_get_data(buf, NULL), 16); - scheme = "PLAIN-MD5"; } }

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[Dovecot] 0.99.13-rc3
by Timo Sirainen 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ One more. Added LDAP-MD5 password scheme and changed non-$1$-MD5 passwords to use it. This is how it's done in 1.0-tests.

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[Dovecot] dovecot_auth / pam_mysql login errors
by Roi Efrati 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

I am getting this errors at the maillog file : Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: pam_sm_authenticate called. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: host changed. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: database changed. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: dbuser changed. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: dbpasswd changed. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: table changed. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: usercolumn changed. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: passwdcolumn changed. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: crypt changed. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: sqllog changed. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: db_connect called. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: returning 0 . Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: db_checkpasswd called. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: pam_mysql: where clause = Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: SELECT password FROM email_users WHERE log in='myname' Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: sqlLog called. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: returning 0 . Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: returning 0. ## And then: Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: pam_mysql: setcred called but not implemen ted. Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv dovecot-auth: pam_mysql: acct_mgmt called but not implem ented. Dont panic though :) Dec 29 12:22:10 websrv pop3-login: Internal login failure: myname [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] As much as I was trying to find reading material on them I have not maneged to find something that will help me. If anybody can shed some light on how to fix my server...

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[Dovecot] Deleting a message through IMAP
by Doug Eubanks 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

I have been having a problem with the test releases...I am now using Test 59. When I delete a message using SquirrelMail (IMAP) the message stays in the message list....but you can't open it anymore because it can't be found, if I logout and log back in...the message is gone from the list. I thought it could be a problem with the cache, so I added mail_never_cache_fields = MessagePart Envelope Body only to recieve Dec 24 09:23:34 news dovecot: IMAP(admin): mail_never_cache_fields: Invalid cache field name 'Body', ignoring Any ideas? This problem has plagued me for a while and I always go back to using the and older test like 22 and the problem isn't there... Doug

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[Dovecot] Moving existing MD5 passwords to LDAP?
by Ben Beuchler 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

I have a dovecot installing working quite well for around 1000 users using passwd-file authentication. I'm moving to LDAP and would sure love to be able to migrate the existing MD5 passwords. I've tried using ldapmodify to set "userPassword" to {CRYPT}$1$H8JE0k5X$y.ptShgYbOgWF.99lX88N1 and {MD5}$1$H8JE0k5X$y.ptShgYbOgWF.99lX88N1 In both cases, ldapmodify exits without errors but I cannot bind using the new password. Any ideas? -Ben -- Ben Beuchler There is no spoon. insyte(a)emt-p.org -- The Matrix

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[Dovecot] bidirectional synchronization of dovecot-managed maildirs
by James Leifer 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Hello and happy holidays, I've been thinking about high performance bidirectional synchronizing the mail on my laptop (which is frequently disconnected) and my workstation at work (which is always on and receives all inbound mail). Both run dovecot on top of maildir. I've been playing with offlineimap, unison (which I already use for all my non-mail files), as well as the gnus agent (in IMAP "disconnected mode"). None of these solutions is really satisfactory: * offlineimap treats a message refile between folders as a delete-plus-resend; * unison doesn't understand the semantics of flag changes at the end of files in maildirs; it also has to stat all the files (which can become slow) to detect changes; * gnus agent can't refile messages between folders when in disconnected mode. Perhaps there are better disconnected IMAP modes available for other MUAs, but, it seems like a more general solution would be appropriate. In particular, the "uniq" field of a maildir filename is an easy way of tracking the identity of a message as it gets refiled. My question: would it be difficult to patch dovecot so that it maintained the *same* uniq when copying messages between folders? What about adding hooks that get triggered whenever dovecot copies or deletes messages? These hooks could log the changes. Later, when one tries to sync, one merges the changes from both replicas and then applies them. I'm aware that dovecot has an option to do copies as hardlinks, which is a good start, but still requires one to stat the files to discover which have the same inode. This is *much* slower than simply listing the directories and comparing maildir "uniq" fields. I'm aware that this invariant wouldn't be maintained if other programs modified the maildirs under dovecot's nose, but I'm willing to exclude this possibility. Suggestions? Best regards, -James Leifer

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[Dovecot] dspam plugin
by Johannes Berg 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

The first version is available at http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/edit/Projects/dovecot-dspam-integration/co… I'm calling dspam for every message, that seemed easier for now. I will probably integrate Tom's idea about storing the messages until a cron-job picks them up at night by just storing signatures into mysql, in which case its easy to do with a single query: INSERT INTO new_spam (user, signature, isspam) VALUES (<user>, <signature>, <isspam>) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE isspam = <isspam> with given values for <user>, <signature> and <isspam> and a key on (user, signature). For now, however, calling dspam for every message works good enough for me, and seems to work. Regards, Johannes

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[Dovecot] Worthwile to use quotas?
by Peter Clark 24 Dec '04

24 Dec '04

I'm aware that dovecot doesn't support Maildir++ quotas yet (pity). However, is it still worthwhile to set up something like Postfix + Maildrop to use quotas, or is dovecot's lack of support just going to throw a wrench in the works? Thanks, :Peter

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[Dovecot] Lots of SIG11 with test57
by Nicolas STRANSKY 24 Dec '04

24 Dec '04

Hi, Here is the backtrace. -- Nico Que de tout inconnu le sage se méfie. -+- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), Le Renard, le Loup et le Cheval (Fables XII.17) -+- Here is the full backtrace : GNU gdb 6.1-debian Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. warning: current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: Erreur d'entrée/sortie Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 mail_index_sync_init_expunge_handlers (ctx=0xbffff8b0) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:36 36 mail-index-sync-ext.c: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type. in mail-index-sync-ext.c (gdb) bt full #0 mail_index_sync_init_expunge_handlers (ctx=0xbffff8b0) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:36 handlers = (const mail_index_expunge_handler_t * const *) 0x80cae68 extensions = (const struct mail_index_ext *) 0x6738 id_map = (const uint32_t *) 0x1 eh = {handler = 0, context = 0x0, record_offset = 0} handlers_count = 1 id_map_size = 1860 size = 3082539416 idx_ext_id = 3082539384 map_ext_id = 0 #1 0x080831ec in sync_expunge (e=0xb7bbd178, ctx=0xbffff8b0) at mail-index-sync-update.c:113 view = (struct mail_index_view *) 0x80caac8 map = (struct mail_index_map *) 0x80cd5b0 count = 3082539384 seq = 3082539384 seq1 = 1862 seq2 = 1862 expunge_handlers = (struct mail_index_expunge_handler *) 0xb7bbd178 i = 0 expunge_handlers_count = 3082539376 #2 0x08083a90 in mail_index_sync_record (ctx=0xbffff8b0, hdr=0x80cd4f4, data=0xb7bbd178) at mail-index-sync-update.c:400 rec = (const struct mail_transaction_expunge *) 0xb7bbd178 end = (const struct mail_transaction_expunge *) 0xb7bbd198 ret = 0 #3 0x08083f47 in mail_index_sync_update_index (sync_ctx=0x0, sync_only_external=1) at mail-index-sync-update.c:628 index = (struct mail_index *) 0x80c6e68 view = (struct mail_index_view *) 0x80caac8 map = (struct mail_index_map *) 0xf148 sync_map_ctx = {view = 0x80caac8, cur_ext_id = 4294967295, expunge_handlers = 0x80d3da0, extra_context_buf = 0x0, extra_context = 0x0, type = MAIL_INDEX_SYNC_HANDLER_INDEX, sync_handlers_initialized = 0, expunge_handlers_set = 0, expunge_handlers_used = 0, cur_ext_ignore = 0} thdr = (const struct mail_transaction_header *) 0x80cd4f4 data = (const void *) 0xb7bbd178 old_lock_id = 61768 seq = 135033704 i = 0 first_append_uid = 0 offset = 4430000952 ret = 1 skipped = 0 check_ext_offsets = 0 #4 0x080824e8 in mail_index_sync_commit_external (ctx=0x80caa80, seq=0, offset=61864) at mail-index-sync.c:287 ret = 0 #5 0x080826af in mail_index_sync_begin (index=0x80c6e68, ctx_r=0x0, view_r=0x0, log_file_seq=0, log_file_offset=18446744073709551615, sync_recent=0, sync_dirty=0) at mail-index-sync.c:367 ctx = (struct mail_index_sync_ctx *) 0x80caa80 seq = 1 offset = 61864 lock_id = 8 seen_external = 135042384 #6 0x08062f1f in maildir_sync_index_begin (ibox=0x80c9550) at maildir-sync.c:579 sync_ctx = (struct maildir_index_sync_context *) 0x80caa30 #7 0x08063616 in maildir_sync_context (ctx=0x80b2240, forced=0) at maildir-sync.c:912 ret = 0 new_changed = 1 cur_changed = 1 #8 0x080637cb in maildir_storage_sync_init (box=0x80c9550, flags=0) at maildir-sync.c:975 ctx = (struct maildir_sync_context *) 0x80b2240 ret = 0 #9 0x0808b876 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x0, flags=0) at mail-storage.c:329 No locals. #10 0x0805e97d in imap_sync_nonselected (box=0x0, flags=0) at imap-sync.c:153 ctx = (struct mailbox_sync_context *) 0x80c9550 sync_rec = {seq1 = 134986640, seq2 = 134987528, type = 7} status = {messages = 1102598494, recent = 513357221, unseen = 131740, uidvalidity = 0, uidnext = 134984600, first_unseen_seq = 134987528, diskspace_full = 0, keywords_count = 134987528, keywords = 0x7} #11 0x08057943 in get_mailbox_status (client=0x80bbc68, storage=0x0, mailbox=0x80c9550 "š\226\f\b\220»\v\b \203\a\b@\203\a\b", items=0, status=0x0) at cmd-status.c:68 box = (struct mailbox *) 0x80c9550 failed = 1 #12 0x08057a7b in cmd_status (client=0x80bbc68) at cmd-status.c:110 args = (struct imap_arg *) 0x80bbe58 status = {messages = 135003808, recent = 134895249, unseen = 434, uidvalidity = 22, uidnext = 134987168, first_unseen_seq = 134982184, diskspace_full = 0, keywords_count = 134582362, keywords = 0x80bfea0} items = 23 storage = (struct mail_storage *) 0x80bbb90 mailbox = 0x80bbf08 "Crans.All-bureau" str = (string_t *) 0x80bbb90 #13 0x08058b75 in client_handle_input (client=0x80bbc68) at client.c:324 No locals. #14 0x08058c48 in _client_input (context=0x80bbc68) at client.c:368 client = (struct client *) 0x80bbc68 #15 0x0809d2d8 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80ba9e8) at ioloop-poll.c:184 data = (struct ioloop_handler_data *) 0x80baa10 pollfd = (struct pollfd *) 0x80baa28 tv = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 801471} io = (struct io *) 0x80bbda0 t_id = 2 msecs = 0 ret = 0 call = 1 #16 0x0809c858 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80ba9e8) at ioloop.c:218 No locals. #17 0x080605f9 in main (argc=1, argv=0x0, envp=0x0) at main.c:224 No locals.

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[Dovecot] Purging /var/mail/username ?
by Michael Hipp 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

Dovecot is delivering mail to my ~/.mail directory wonderfully. But /var/mail/michael is growing steadily. Is it the job of Dovecot to purge this file regularly? Is there a setting somewhere for this? Thanks, Michael

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Re: [Dovecot] Purging /var/mail/username ?
by Jonas Smedegaard 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23-12-2004 18:48, Michael Hipp wrote: > From reading http://www.dovecot.org/doc/mail-storages.txt it appears > maildir stores everything in ~/Maildir. That's another good reason to > switch to it - so everything is in one place. There's good reasons to use Maildir, and there's good reasons to stay with mbox, but avoiding /var/mail is not one of them. mbox is the "classical" format, and Timo (I assume) chose to setup dovecot to use the "classical" location scheme as well, which is to store incoming mail below /var/mail and let users pull it from there and store it however they want at their personal folder below /home. If you are new to all this, actually there is probably a good point in staying close to the "classical" way of doing things, so that you can get help from more sources. I suggest keep receiving mail below /var/mail as mbox files, and play around with mbox and Maildir storage for different (test-)users below /home. Good luck, whatever you choose. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFByw6+n7DbMsAkQLgRAuj3AJ9QuWo3RD3NXCQV+tq0PH4+K4o4FgCeLTCE 2WASXMMup7CbMQwWn8+btjQ= =rF9V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] error when popping mail over DSL
by Jeff Ramsey 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

Hi, I have a user who is getting a strange error when popping his mail over a DSL line. The error in my log file is as follows: file client.c: line 237 (client_send_line): assertion failed: ((size_t)ret == str_len(str)) I can POP his mail just find here locally connected to the server via 100bT, but over his DSL link, he gets this error. His mailbox size is 24MB, and he is using outlook w/ the option 'leave a copy of messages on the server'. He has Outlook 2003 and we use Dovecot 1.0 test 42. Is there a timeout limit on the pop3 server? -- Jeff Ramsey MIS Administrator Tubafor Mill, Inc.

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[Dovecot] Need subfolders - convert to Maildir & how?
by Michael Hipp 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

I just installed Dovecot and it is working great. But I need subfolders. Does this mean I need to convert to Maildir format? I found several tools to do the conversion, but is there anything that needs to be changed in Dovecot to make the switch? Any advice appreciated. Thank you, Michael Hipp Heber Springs, AR, USA

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[Dovecot] Mixing mbox and maildir
by Kenneth Porter 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

Is there some way to add a maildir folder to a mbox hierarchy? My folders are all mbox, but I want to migrate some client-side mail from a client (PMMail2000) that stores messages as individual files, and it might be easiest just to dump all the files into a maildir directory with suitable naming.

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[Dovecot] moving messages with bash
by Todd Slater 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

I use bogofilter and a script or two to manage junk mail on my home box (fetchmail from POP3, postfix and procmail to local maildirs, mutt for MUA). Since these mails are just files I figured it never mattered that I moved them from one folder to another via a bash script, but some posts on this list make me think I shouldn't do that on a server running dovecot (IMAP). What I currently have is a MakeJunk folder (maildir) that I drop spam that was missed into, then a cron job runs mail in that folder through bogofilter and moves it to a Junk folder. Is it sane to do that with simple mv, or do I need to use some special imap command? Confused, Todd

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[Dovecot] 0.99.13-rc2
by Timo Sirainen 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Another one. Unless there are some bugs this will be the final version in a few days. * GNUTLS support hasn't been working for a while, so it's not even tried to be used anymore unless explicitly wanted. + Added CRAM-MD5 authentication mechanism. Patch by Joshua Goodall + Added SMD5 password scheme support and changed MD5 scheme with LDAP to act as PLAIN-MD5 rather than as MD5crypt. Patch by Joshua Goodall + Workaround for some POP3 client bugs: if message doesn't contain the "end of headers" empty line, add it automatically. - SQL and LDAP authentication was broken - SEARCH UNKEYWORD wasn't working

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[Dovecot] Stalled Authentication, Great Clues
by Richard Petty 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

I've just installed Dovecot 0.99.12.1 onto a White Box EL 3 server. I'm mostly following the email server setup instructions at http://www.wanderingbarque.com/mailserver.html and getting Dovecot to work is the last task to complete. I've compiled Dovecot with LDAP support. I'm authenticating Postfix via SASL to the LDAP database just fine, and I also authenticate and manipulate LDAP info from JAMM very well, too. However, Dovecot authentication seem to hang up when a correct password is submitted (POP or IMAP... it doesn't matter). Here's an example of the problem: [root@kayak /etc] telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.bramble.com (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. user repetty(a)bizzy.mine.nu +OK pass bogeybogey sadf hello? ^] telnet> q Connection closed. As you can see, once I hit the return key to submit the password I do not get another prompt. In fact, Dovecot doesn't respond at all although it seems to respond to the escape character just fine. Additionally, dovecot-auth starts soaking up CPU time... until I kill the process (dovecot-auth must be killed manually.) 22:15:32 up 32 days, 21:40, 5 users, load average: 1.05, 1.02, 0.98 121 processes: 119 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle total 50.5% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 48.8% cpu00 66.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 33.2% cpu01 34.4% 0.0% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 64.3% Mem: 318260k av, 300740k used, 17520k free, 0k shrd, 24380k buff 141540k actv, 28364k in_d, 3864k in_c Swap: 655352k av, 80868k used, 574484k free 94736k cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 23846 dovecot 25 0 1928 1928 1352 R 49.7 0.6 27:30 0 dovecot-auth 23847 dovecot 15 0 1072 1072 868 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 1 imap-login 23848 dovecot 15 0 1072 1072 868 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 1 imap-login 23849 dovecot 15 0 1160 1160 936 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 1 imap-login 23850 dovecot 15 0 1136 1136 928 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 pop3-login 23851 dovecot 15 0 1140 1140 928 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 1 pop3-login 23852 dovecot 15 0 1140 1140 928 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 pop3-login 23858 dovecot 15 0 1068 1068 868 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 imap-login 23870 dovecot 15 0 1064 1064 864 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 1 pop3-login 23886 dovecot 15 0 1060 1060 864 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 1 pop3-login 23916 dovecot 15 0 1064 1064 864 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 pop3-login From the client's point of view, the server never seems to come back after the account password is submitted. Dovecot's log shows that it eventually times out the client, although the client never seems to get wind of this: pop3-login: Dec 19 22:13:08 Info: Disconnected: Inactivity [192.168.0.6] I know that Dovecot is connecting to the LDAP server because if I mess up the Dovecot LDAP password in the dovecot.conf file I get an authentication error (as I should): dovecot-auth: Dec 19 20:52:19 Error: LDAP: ldap_simple_bind_s() failed (dn cn=dovecot,dc=dillo,dc=info): Invalid credentials Again, if client submits an incorrect email account password everything works as it should: Dovecot tells the client that the password is incorrect, over and over, if necessary. However, if the password is entered correctly then Dovecot hangs up for good. --Richard

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[Dovecot] Postfix + dovecot-auth
by Timo Sirainen 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

I wrote a patch to Postfix which now supports SMTP AUTH using dovecot-auth. This time it doesn't need any Dovecot libraries and it's backwards compatible with Cyrus SASL by default. You'll just need to set one variable in Postfix config file to enable it. Patches and instructions in: http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix/ Not very well tested yet though. And it doesn't work with 1.0-test59, you'll need to have at least today's nightly snapshot.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test59 on OpenBSD: Undefined symbol `_strtoull' referenced
by Wouter Van Hemel 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

Hello, dovecot-1.0-test59 compilation fails on an old OpenBSD version with: var-expand.c:19: Undefined symbol `_strtoull' referenced from text segment collect2: ld returned 1 exit status *** Error code 1 Stop in /root/dovecot-1.0-test59/src/auth (line 392 of Makefile). [...] OpenBSD should have strtoull starting from about version 3.2.

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[Dovecot] Just delete that index
by Doug Luce 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

I get a few messages of this ilk each day: Dec 16 01:56:31 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): Corrupted index cache file /home/doug/Maildir/.users.joe/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed I usually address this by deleting dovecot.* in the directory of issue. I was thinking that I could instead just have the server delete these files and attempt to recreate them, and skipping that error message unless the re-created files are also corrupted. Any problems with this approach? Thanks, Doug

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[Dovecot] panic with search
by Kazuo Moriwaka 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

Hello, My imap daemon get SIGABRT with following message. "pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed" This is caused with cvs head sources.(and or not with my last 2 patches.) This causes while doing search command. This is IMAP command log: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS] Logged in as mailtest * select inbox * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 135 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1102574212] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 139] Predicted next UID * OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. * search body "hoge" imap(mailtest): Panic: pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed Aborted --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'll attach backtrace just before print panic messages. If maildir and messages are need for debug, please request to me. thanks, -- Kazuo Moriwaka moriwaka(a)valinux.co.jp (gdb) bt #0 printf_string_upper_bound (format_p=0xbffff848, args=0xbffff884 "`$B}?(x??(Bq\n\b$B8y(B\f\b\210w\f\b$B8x(B?\017e\n\b\210w\f\b$BPw(B\f\b") at printf-upper-bound.c:78 #1 0x080a7640 in default_handler (prefix=0x80c226a "Panic: ", f=0x41149fe0, format=0x80c3300 "pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed", args=0xbffff884 "`$B}?(x??(Bq\n\b$B8y(B\f\b\210w\f\b$B8x(B?\017e\n\b\210w\f\b$BPw(B\f\b") at failures.c:99 #2 0x080a76b8 in default_panic_handler (format=0x80c3300 "pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed", args=0xbffff884 "`$B}?(x??(Bq\n\b$B8y(B\f\b\210w\f\b$B8x(B?\017e\n\b\210w\f\b$BPw(B\f\b") at failures.c:115 #3 0x080a786a in i_panic (format=0x80c3300 "pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed") at failures.c:173 #4 0x080afd33 in pool_data_stack_realloc (pool=0x80c7788, mem=0x80c77d0, old_size=256, new_size=8192) at mempool-datastack.c:110 #5 0x080a650f in buffer_alloc (buf=0x80c77b0, size=8192) at buffer.c:32 #6 0x080a6c74 in buffer_check_limits (buf=0x80c77b0, pos=1, data_size=4096) at buffer.c:57 #7 0x080a6a49 in buffer_copy (_dest=0x80c77b0, dest_pos=1, _src=0x80c7950, src_pos=0, copy_size=4096) at buffer.c:227 #8 0x080a6acd in buffer_append_buf (dest=0x80c77b0, src=0x80c7950, src_pos=0, copy_size=4096) at buffer.c:240 #9 0x080a0a71 in message_search_body_block (ctx=0xbffffa00, block=0x80c7950) at message-body-search.c:229 #10 0x080a0e4e in message_search_body (ctx=0xbffffa00, input=0x80de170, part=0x80dede0) at message-body-search.c:336 #11 0x080a1135 in message_body_search_ctx (ctx=0xbffffa60, input=0x80ddf08, part=0x80dede0) at message-body-search.c:408 #12 0x080a11ff in message_body_search (key=0x80d4f60 "hoge", charset=0x0, unknown_charset=0xbffffabc, input=0x80ddf08, part=0x80dede0, search_header=0) at message-body-search.c:433 #13 0x0807f58a in search_body (arg=0x80d4f38, context=0xbffffb40) at index-search.c:467 #14 0x08098278 in search_arg_foreach (arg=0x80d4f38, callback=0x807f4f0 <search_body>, context=0xbffffb40) at mail-search.c:81 #15 0x080982a8 in mail_search_args_foreach (args=0x80d4f38, callback=0x807f4f0 <search_body>, context=0xbffffb40) at mail-search.c:93 #16 0x0807f82b in search_arg_match_text (args=0x80d4f38, ctx=0x80dec88) at index-search.c:545 #17 0x08080011 in search_match_next (ctx=0x80dec88) at index-search.c:813 #18 0x080800bf in index_storage_search_next (_ctx=0x80dec88) at index-search.c:837 #19 0x08098e38 in mailbox_search_next (ctx=0x80dec88) at mail-storage.c:397 #20 0x0805787c in imap_search (client=0x80d0cf8, charset=0x0, sargs=0x80d4f38) at cmd-search.c:32 #21 0x08057baf in cmd_search (client=0x80d0cf8) at cmd-search.c:97 #22 0x08059c2e in client_handle_input (client=0x80d0cf8) at client.c:324 #23 0x08059d2e in _client_input (context=0x80d0cf8) at client.c:368 #24 0x080ae2f8 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80cfa58) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #25 0x080ad4c1 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80cfa58) at ioloop.c:218 #26 0x080637d0 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffdd4, envp=0xbffffddc) at main.c:224 (gdb) up #1 0x080a7640 in default_handler (prefix=0x80c226a "Panic: ", f=0x41149fe0, format=0x80c3300 "pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed", args=0xbffff884 "`$B}?(x??(Bq\n\b$B8y(B\f\b\210w\f\b$B8x(B?\017e\n\b\210w\f\b$BPw(B\f\b") at failures.c:99 99 (void)printf_string_upper_bound(&format, args); (gdb) up #2 0x080a76b8 in default_panic_handler (format=0x80c3300 "pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed", args=0xbffff884 "`$B}?(x??(Bq\n\b$B8y(B\f\b\210w\f\b$B8x(B?\017e\n\b\210w\f\b$BPw(B\f\b") at failures.c:115 115 (void)default_handler("Panic: ", log_fd, format, args); (gdb) up #3 0x080a786a in i_panic (format=0x80c3300 "pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed") at failures.c:173 173 panic_handler(format, args); (gdb) up #4 0x080afd33 in pool_data_stack_realloc (pool=0x80c7788, mem=0x80c77d0, old_size=256, new_size=8192) at mempool-datastack.c:110 110 i_panic("pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed"); (gdb) list 105 /* @UNSAFE */ 106 if (new_size == 0 || new_size > SSIZE_T_MAX) 107 i_panic("Trying to allocate %"PRIuSIZE_T" bytes", new_size); 108 109 if (dpool->data_stack_frame != data_stack_frame) 110 i_panic("pool_data_stack_realloc(): stack frame changed"); 111 112 if (mem == NULL) 113 return pool_data_stack_malloc(pool, new_size); 114 (gdb) p dpool $18 = (struct datastack_pool *) 0x80c7788 (gdb) p *dpool $19 = {pool = {get_name = 0x80afbd5 <pool_data_stack_get_name>, ref = 0x80afbdf <pool_data_stack_ref>, unref = 0x80afc0d <pool_data_stack_unref>, malloc = 0x80afc70 <pool_data_stack_malloc>, free = 0x80afcc4 <pool_data_stack_free>, realloc = 0x80afcec <pool_data_stack_realloc>, clear = 0x80afdd0 <pool_data_stack_clear>, alloconly_pool = 1, datastack_pool = 1}, refcount = 1, data_stack_frame = 5} (gdb) p *dpool->data_stack_frame Cannot access memory at address 0x5 (gdb) p dpool->data_stack_frame $20 = 5 (gdb) p data_stack_frame $21 = 7

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[Dovecot] Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/seb: LF not found where expected
by Sebastian 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

Howdy all, Dec 19 14:24:53 dev imap(seb): Error indexing mbox file /var/mail/seb: LF not found where expected I just installed version dovecot-0.99.12.1 for the first time on FreeBSD 4.10 stable. This error occurs when I try to check my mail from a remote client and I have new messages. Here is my configuration: http://unf.be/dovecot.conf It's very close to the default install. In attempts to remedy the problem, I set "mail_read_mmaped = no", but the problem persists. I'm not sure if it's relevent, but I'm receiving mail with postfix and my mail file has lines that end with \r\n Thanks in advance for any help Sebastian -- ------------- buddhahead(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] Auth Mechanism
by Tom Allison 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

Uh... I'm trying to debug an application and keep running into this: DEBUG: Sending: 1 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5 DEBUG: Sent 25 bytes DEBUG: Read: 1 NO Authentication failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism DEBUG: Read: * BYE Disconnected for inactivity. So is this really asking for "digest-md5" or am I S.O.L? IIRC these are different protocols, but it's a bit early for my head to get this together.

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[Dovecot] Authentication problems
by Rory Campbell-Lange 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

Hi. I aim to provide pop3 and imap services to a few users. At the moment I only offer imap for squirrelmail users. However, I can't login successfully for pop3. It appears to be trying to auth against PAM, rather than directly using the passwd-file. Thoughts? Thanks, Rory Config: uthenticatprotocols = pop3 imap ssl_disable = yes login = imap login = pop3 mail_extra_groups = mail auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/dovecot.passwd.conf auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes Password file: # squirrelmail imap users user1:xe9l8sIMpcTsg:1008:1008::::chroot:Maildir:/home/cmp/Maildir/user1 user2:m7VKCgWVmZYMY:1008:1008::::chroot:Maildir:/home/cmp/Maildir/user2 user3:ELh9mthLVjEG2:1008:1008::::chroot:Maildir:/home/cmp/Maildir/user3 # normal users xyz1:QtR.iN1DbL/UM:1004:1004::::chroot:mbox:/var/mail/xyz1 xyz2:y38.qLIgrvYic:1002:1002::::~/Mail:mbox:/var/mail/xyz2:INDEX=/home/xyz2 ... Problem shown in log: Dec 19 16:45:30 localhost dovecot-auth: PAM: pam_authenticate(xyz2) failed: User not known to the underlying authentication module Dec 19 16:45:30 localhost pop3-login: Aborted login [ipaddress] -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(a)campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test59
by Timo Sirainen 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ No-one had been testing 1.0-tests with Evolution? It was pretty much completely broken with messages having attachments. - test58's output stream code change were entirely wrong and caused bad breakages with mbox. - Named pipes are now treated as write-only mboxes (blocks if no-one is reading, perhaps it should timeout in a few seconds?) - FETCH BODY[n.xxx] replies were all wrong - LDAP authentication was crashing - pop3_uidl_format=%f from Andrey test60 will probably have keyword support. Its index file code is already working, with ability to set over 500k different keywords per mailbox (because message record size is limited to 65535 bytes - should be enough for everyone :). Code is still missing to notify other session about keyword changes, and storing the keywords into mbox/maildir. For mbox I can use X-Keywords header. There should probably be some configurable limit to how many keywords to set per mailbox.. Dovecot shouldn't mind if the X-Keywords header is huge, but other programs might. For maildir then.. I think I'll just implement it backwards compatible with 0.99.x, ie. store in maildir filename with a-z letters. That would make max. 26 keywords per mailbox. Except maybe I shouldn't limit it to that. The rest could be stored only in indexes. That however would make it necessary to keep indexes backwards compatible forever so data is not lost.

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[Dovecot] 0.99.13-rc1
by Timo Sirainen 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ I guess the RCing in 0.99.12 didn't help that much. SQL/LDAP authentication crashed because memory was freed wrong. Please test so it would actually work in 0.99.13. Also fixed SEARCH UNKEYWORD which wasn't working. Also added 1.0-test's oe-ns-eoh POP3 workaround built-in.

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[Dovecot] Cygwin and index code
by Johannes Berg 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

As I can currently only work with windows (eek) I thought I'd try dovecot there. I already sent a patch to make dovecot compile under cygwin, but it still doesn't really work, here's part of a session that I started while my maildir was totally empty (only cur/new/tmp in ~/Maildir) $ ./imap.exe * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS] Logged in as jmberg A01 SELECT INBOX imap(jmberg): Warning: Compressing cache file /home/jmberg/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache imap(jmberg): Error: open() failed with file /home/jmberg/Maildir/dovecot.index.tmp: Permission denied A01 NO Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2004-12-17 15:51:06] A02 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out A02 OK Logout completed. A second session (some files were created by the first) yields this: $ ./imap.exe * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS] Logged in as jmberg A01 SELECT INBOX imap(jmberg): Error: open() failed with file /home/jmberg/Maildir/dovecot.index.tmp: Permission denied imap(jmberg): Error: rename(/home/jmberg/Maildir/dovecot.index.tmp, /home/jmberg/Maildir/dovecot.index) failed: Permission denied A01 NO Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2004-12-17 15:52:25] A02 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out A02 OK Logout completed. I think this is probably due to the indexing code opening the .tmp file and then unlinking it and trying to re-create it while the first is still open. Or something, I really am not sure. *Maybe* the index code might be made work if it creates a new temporary file-name every time it re-creates the file, but I don't understand the code well enough (yet) to give a better analysis of the problem. However, I do not think that this is really important. I certainly don't want to run dovecot on windows (I only saw cygwin compile in the todo and since I have a cygwin setup anyway I thought I'd try). The whole thing doesn't work anyway: [after correcting users, making directories, make install...] $ /usr/local/sbin/dovecot.exe dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:17 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test58 starting up dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: login: fd_read() failed: Function not implemented dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: close(mail client) failed: Bad file descriptor dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: Login process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: imap-login: dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 32): Invalid argument dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: login: fd_read() failed: Function not implemented dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: close(mail client) failed: Bad file descriptor dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: imap-login: dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 32): Invalid argument dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: login: fd_read() failed: Function not implemented dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: close(mail client) failed: Bad file descriptor dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: imap-login: dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 32): Invalid argument dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: auth(default): dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 256): Invalid argument dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: child 2176 (auth) returned error 89 dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: child 2192 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: child 2212 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Dec 17 16:03:18 Error: child 2232 (login) returned error 89 Maybe someone cares. If not, well, I had a less boring train ride ;) johannes

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[Dovecot] building on cygwin
by Johannes Berg 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

Hi, attached patch makes dovecot build on cygwin (only have a windows computer at the moment :-/ ) It spews a lot of warnings, for example "unsigned int format but uint32_t argument". johannes Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/: config.h Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/: config.log Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/: config.status Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/doc: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/: libtool Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/auth: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/auth: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/imap: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/imap: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/imap-login: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/imap-login: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-auth: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-auth: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-charset: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-charset: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-imap: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-imap: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-index: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-index: Makefile diff -ur --strip-trailing-cr dovecot-1.0-test58/src/lib-index/mail-cache-decisions.c dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-index/mail-cache-decisions.c --- dovecot-1.0-test58/src/lib-index/mail-cache-decisions.c 2004-11-24 19:40:17.000000000 +0100 +++ dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-index/mail-cache-decisions.c 2004-12-16 15:31:24.659497600 +0100 @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ #include "mail-cache-private.h" void mail_cache_decision_lookup(struct mail_cache_view *view, uint32_t seq, - unsigned int field) + uint32_t field) { struct mail_cache *cache = view->cache; const struct mail_index_header *hdr; @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ } void mail_cache_decision_add(struct mail_cache_view *view, uint32_t seq, - unsigned int field) + uint32_t field) { struct mail_cache *cache = view->cache; uint32_t uid; Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-mail: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-mail: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-ntlm: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-ntlm: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-settings: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-settings: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-sql: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-sql: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage/index: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage/index: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage/index/maildir: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage/index/maildir: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage/index/mbox: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage/index/mbox: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage/register: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage/register: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage/register: mail-storage-register.c Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage/subscription-file: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/lib-storage/subscription-file: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/login-common: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/login-common: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/master: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/master: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/pop3: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/pop3: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/pop3-login: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/pop3-login: Makefile Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/util: .deps Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/util: Makefile diff -ur --strip-trailing-cr dovecot-1.0-test58/src/util/dovecotpw.c dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/util/dovecotpw.c --- dovecot-1.0-test58/src/util/dovecotpw.c 2004-07-30 05:16:23.000000000 +0200 +++ dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/src/util/dovecotpw.c 2004-12-16 15:34:03.818356800 +0100 @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ #include <ctype.h> #include <fcntl.h> -#include <libgen.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/: stamp-h1 Only in dovecot-1.0-test58.mod/: stamp.h

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[Dovecot] spam plugin
by Johannes Berg 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

Here's a new version, it compiles (and appears to work) except the part in "copy_reclassified". Can anyone help me (probably only Timo knows how) with that? http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/edit/Projects/dovecot-dspam-integration/ps… johannes

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test58
by Timo Sirainen 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Fixed APPEND hanging in some situations. Didn't happen with mail_save_crlf=yes. - Added pop3_uidl_format setting. No need to patch sources anymore if you don't want the default. Does anyone want pop3_uidl_xuidl_header yes/no setting, with fallbacking to pop3_uidl_format if X-UIDL header isn't found? Shouldn't be difficult to do.. - Added mbox_very_dirty_syncs setting which tries to avoid re-reading mbox as long as possible. - CREATE dir/ wasn't working - If login_process_per_connection=no and auth process count > 1, each auth process listens in different socket. Login processes then connect to all these sockets and send requests to them in round robin. - Multiple auth sections in config file work now a bit better. dovecot-auth might still complain about timeouts though.

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[Dovecot] permissions and location of .subscriptions
by Tom 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

What is the correct set of permissions for the file .subscriptions and what is the correct directory location? Thanks, Tom

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[Dovecot] deploying dspam
by Johannes Berg 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Hi everyone, I've been thinking of phasing out my spamassassin installation (it's hardly doing me any good these days) in favour of dspam. Now since I'm working on this anyway, I thought I'd configure it so when users get any spam, it is delivered into a special folder. I figure I need the 1.0 test series for this, so I can make that folder fixed. But, I also want to allow them to move spam in and out of that folder and dspam can learn it. Anyway, I found a message dating back a while where Timo says this could easily be implemented in a plugin (in the 1.0 test series), but I can't put my finger on how to do it. Does anyone have an example plugin that can run commands when mail is moved in or out of a special folder? Or is there any plugin-writing documentation? Thanks, johannes

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Re: [Dovecot] deploying dspam
by Gunter Ohrner 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2004 11:46 schrieben Sie: > > script. Even there you can optimize a lot by changing some of the > > queries to allow indizes to take effect. > Have you done that, Yes. > and if so would you share? Yes, of course. I already submitted it to the dspam author but did not get any reaction so I don't know if he considered to include it. In dspam 3.0 the rule to clean up dspam_token_data was terribly stressing my system, changing it to the equivalent (I hope ;) - delete from dspam_token_data where ((innocent_hits=0 and spam_hits < 5) - or (innocent_hits=1 and spam_hits < 3) or (innocent_hits=2 and - spam_hits = 0)) and @a-to_days(last_hit) > 30; reduced the queries run time by a factor of 10 to 50 easily. I simply "flattened" the atrithmetic expression within the "where" clause to allow the indices to support this query. > But this is getting too much OT, maybe we should move over to the dspam > mailing list :) I'm not subscribed there - maybe now everything is said and everyone will excuse this OT mail? ;) Greetings, Gunter -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + http://aachen.uni-dsl.de/ - Der direkte Draht in's Hochschulnetz! + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 362) BSI: Eine Art Ghostbuster-Truppe für Sicherheitsfragen (Spiegel Online) -- http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Fachbegriffe.der.Informatik.htm l#362 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + PGP-verschlüsselte Mails bevorzugt! + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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Re: [Dovecot] deploying dspam
by Johannes Berg 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Tom Allison wrote: > Shared Folder? > Wouldn't you have to do something like this anyways? Something like this in a very broad sense: I have exactly _one_ special folder, supposed to always contain only spam. > If you don't like the folders idea, then tagged the SUBJECT lines and > deliver everything as per usual. I don't do this, I opt for the > multiple folders.. Oh, I like the folders idea! I just don't like having to put the maintenance burden on me as a user. Why shouldn't the system do all this /behind the scenes/ with a little special help from the IMAP server? > It's one option. Just to provide some ideas on how it can work. But then, what's wrong with my other suggestion about making that scale by implementing your NewXY folders behind the scenes? johannes

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[Dovecot] IMAP Subdirectories
by Rory Campbell-Lange 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Hi Using Apple Mail I cannot make subdirectories within new directories I have made on a Debian Dovecot-driven IMAP server (version 0.99.11-3). Some users, having used Exchange, expect to be able to do this. However I can't make it happen, even after doing some tests by chmod-ing the top-level directories to 777 and enabling the mail_full_filesystem_access = yes option on a test install. Views, comments and remarks much appreciated! Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory(a)campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test57
by Timo Sirainen 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Two important fixes: - Fixes the recently reported dovecot-auth crashes with unexpected client input - Fixes mbox corruption in some not-so-common cases. Hopefully this is the last one. I added more asserts anyway which try to catch similiar mistakes and avoid losing data. Others: - Added oe-ns-eoh workaround for pop3. Fixes outlook/netscape problems with buggy mails. - lock_method = dotlock works now properly - Cache file compression crashed in some situations - auth_cache fixes from Andrey Also I have about 80% of the code written for keywords support. It's about the last major missing feature from v1.0, so naming should change into 1.0-alphas soon. From there on it should be mostly about stabilization, cleaning up the code and maybe some optimization.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot SQL auth problem? (1.0-test52-56)
by Andrew Hutchings 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Hi there, We are living dangerously and using the test versions on our production servers which are migrated from 3 different older servers (about 5000 accounts) therefore we have 3 different MySQL auths. All seems to be ok, but a guy in the office is using Thunderbird as pop3 access. The auth is saying: auth(sql): plain(?,xx.xxx.xx.xxx): invalid input I have hidden his IP for security reasons. The login should be user(a)domain.co.uk and his account works fine with outlook. With test 52 this killed the auth child with signal 6 and 11. Anyone have any ideas? Unrelated to this (I hope) we are also getting quite a few child xxxx (pop3) killed with signal 11 several times a minute. -- Andrew Hutchings Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru Netserve Consultants Ltd. http://www.domaincity.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] KMail + dovecot
by Timothy Murphy 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Is anyone running docecot on a home LAN. to give an IMAP feed to other machines on the LAN? I am running dovecot on my desktop, alfred. I want to collect email on my laptop, william, using KMail. As far as I can tell, dovecot is running perfectly. I can bring email from /var/spool/mail/tim on alfred to the same directory on william by running "fetchmail alfred" on william. I can then read it with KMail on william, so there is not real problem. However, KMail does not seem to be able to collect email directly from alfred, even though I have added an entry in KMail=>Settings=>Configure KMail=>Network=>Receiving giving type imap, Name (dovecot), Login, Password, Host (alfred), Port (143). and Prefix to Folders "/var/spool/mail". I don't see any error message anywhere, but when I click on File=>Check mail in dovecot it says "Checking account dovecot for new mail". but nothing appears to happen. Any suggestions or advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and PHP
by Don 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Has anyone successfully compiled PHP 5 with the -imap option using Dovecot server? I get the error: "Cannot find rfc822.h. Please check your IMAP installation". It seems that Dovecot has no development libraries so I am stuck? Will I have to scrap Dovecot and use another server like Cyrus? Thanks, Don --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.813 / Virus Database: 553 - Release Date: 12/13/2004

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[Dovecot] dovecot/openldap auth problems?
by Lee 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Hi folks. New to both dovecot and openldap. Trying to set up virtual domains using the wanderingbarque howto: http://www.wanderingbarque.com/mailserver.html Platform is RH enterprise 3. Only difference is I'm trying to use phamm instead of jamm: http://phamm.rhx.it/ dovecot doesn't seem to want to play nice with my openldap; everything else (postfix, etc) seems to work alright. So I'm looking for some hints as to what I'm doing wrong. thanks in advance! When I do an /sbin/service dovecot restart, here's the error from /var/log/ldap.log: <snip> Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => access_allowed: auth access to "cn=dovecot,dc=akforecast" "u serPassword" requested Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => dnpat: [1] .*,jvd=([^,]+),o=hosting,dc=akforecast nsub: 1 Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => dnpat: [2] .*,jvd=([^,]+),o=hosting,dc=akforecast nsub: 1 Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => dnpat: [3] .*,jvd=([^,]+),o=hosting,dc=akforecast nsub: 1 Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => dnpat: [4] o=hosting,dc=akforecast nsub: 0 Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => acl_get: [5] check attr userPassword Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: <= acl_get: [5] acl cn=dovecot,dc=akforecast attr: userPassword Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => acl_mask: access to entry "cn=dovecot,dc=akforecast", attr " userPassword" requested Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => acl_mask: to all values by "", (=n) Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: <= check a_dn_pat: * Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: <= acl_mask: [1] applying none (=n) (stop) Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: <= acl_mask: [1] mask: none (=n) Dec 11 13:59:22 salcha slapd[15734]: => access_allowed: auth access denied by none (=n) Anyone see any big,glaring 'yewidiut' errors? Or just hints as to what could be wrong? slapd.conf: # $OpenLDAP: pkg/ldap/servers/slapd/slapd.conf,v 1.8.8.7 2001/09/27 20:00:31 kurt Exp $ # # See slapd.conf(5) for details on configuration options. # This file should NOT be world readable. # include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/redhat/autofs.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/redhat/kerberosobject.schema # include /etc/openldap/schema/jamm.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/phamm.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/ISPEnv2.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/amavisd-new.schema password-hash {CRYPT} # Define global ACLs to disable default read access. # Do not enable referrals until AFTER you have a working directory # service AND an understanding of referrals. #referral ldap://root.openldap.org # Create a replication log in /var/lib/ldap for use by slurpd. #replogfile /var/lib/ldap/master-slapd.replog schemacheck on pidfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.pid argsfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.args loglevel 128 lastmod on database ldbm directory /var/lib/ldap suffix "dc=akforecast" rootdn "cn=manager,dc=akforecast" rootpw x index objectClass eq index cn,mail eq,subinitial # include /etc/openldap/slapd-phamm.acl access to dn=".*,jvd=([^,]+),o=hosting,dc=akforecast" attr=userPassword by self write by group/jammPostmaster/roleOccupant="cn=postmaster,jvd=$1,o=hosting,dc=akforecast" write by dn="cn=dovecot,dc=akforecast" read by anonymous auth by * none access to dn=".*,jvd=([^,]+),o=hosting,dc=akforecast" attr=quota by group/jammPostmaster/roleOccupant="cn=postmaster,jvd=$1,o=hosting,dc=akforecast" write by dn="cn=phamm,o=hosting,dc=akforecast" read by self read by * none access to dn=".*,jvd=([^,]+),o=hosting,dc=akforecast" by self write by group/jammPostmaster/roleOccupant="cn=postmaster,jvd=$1,o=hosting,dc=akforecast" write by dn="cn=phamm,o=hosting,dc=akforecast" read by * none access to dn="o=hosting,dc=akforecast" by self write by dn="cn=phamm,o=hosting,dc=akforecast" read by anonymous auth by * none access to * by * none ----------------------------------------------------------- /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf: [root@salcha openldap]# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf # NOTE: We don't support "authentication binds", so you'll have to give # dovecot-auth read access to userPassword field in LDAP server. With OpenLDAP # this is done by modifying /etc/ldap/slapd.conf. There should already be # something like this: # access to attribute=userPassword # by dn="<dovecot's dn>" read # add this # by anonymous auth # by self write # by * none # Space separated list of LDAP hosts to use. host:port is allowed too. #hosts = localhost hosts = localhost # Distinguished Name - the username used to login to the LDAP server #dn = dn = "cn=dovecot,dc=akforecast" # Password for LDAP server #dnpass = dnpass = dovecot # LDAP protocol version to use. Likely 2 or 3. ldap_version = 2 #ldap_version = 3 # LDAP base #base = uid=someone, dc=foo, dc=bar, dc=org base = o=hosting,dc=akforecast # Dereference: never, searching, finding, always deref = never # Search scope: base, onelevel, subtree scope = subtree # User attributes in order: # Virtual user name (user@domain) # Home directory # MAIL environment # System user name (for getting user's groups from /etc/group) # - For virtual users you don't want to use this, so this defaults to none. # System UID # System GID #user_attrs = uid,homeDirectory,,,uidNumber,gidNumber user_attrs = mail,homeDirectory,,,, # Filter for user lookup. Some variables can be used: # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain #user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) user_filter = (&(objectClass=JammMailAccount)(mail=%u)(accountActive=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) # Password checking attributes in order: # Virtual user name (user@domain) # Password, may optionally start with {type}, eg. {crypt} #pass_attrs = uid,userPassword pass_attrs = mail,userPassword # Filter for password lookups #pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_filter = (&(objectClass=JammMailAccount)(mail=%u)(accountActive=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) # Default password scheme. "{scheme}" before password overrides this. # Currently supported schemes include PLAIN, PLAIN-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, CRYPT #default_pass_scheme = CRYPT default_pass_scheme = PLAIN # You can use same UID and GID for all user accounts if you really want to. # If the UID/GID is still found from LDAP reply, it overrides these values. user_global_uid = 1051 user_global_gid = 1051 ---------------------------------------------------- /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: [root@salcha openldap]# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file # Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment # any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples # with real defaults being based on configure options. The paths listed here # are for configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var # --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl # Base directory where to store runtime data. #base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s protocols = imap imaps #protocols = imap # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. You can specify ports with # "host:port". #imap_listen = * #pop3_listen = * #imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 imap_listen = * # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above non-SSL equilevants if not specified. imaps_listen = * #pop3s_listen = # Disable SSL/TLS support. ssl_disable = no #ssl_disable = yes # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but # root. Included doc/mkcert.sh can be used to easily generate self-signed # certificate, just make sure to update the domains in dovecot-openssl.cnf #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/hosting.example/climate_cert.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/hosting.example/climate_private_key.pem # 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 # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if # you connect from those addresses. #disable_plaintext_auth = yes 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. #login_chroot = yes ## ## IMAP login process ## login = imap # Executable location. #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login # 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. 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 ## ## POP3 login process ## # Settings default to same as above, so you don't have to set anything # unless you want to override them. login = pop3 # Exception to above rule being the executable location. #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login ## ## Mail processes ## # Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, # new users aren't allowed to log in. #max_mail_processes = 1024 # Show more verbose process titles (in ps). Currently shows user name and # IP address. Useful for seeing who are actually using the IMAP processes # (eg. shared mailboxes or if same uid is used for multiple accounts). #verbose_proctitle = no # Show protocol level SSL errors. #verbose_ssl = no # Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. #first_valid_uid = 500 #last_valid_uid = 0 first_valid_uid = 1051 last_valid_uid = 1051 # 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 first_valid_gid = 1051 last_valid_gid = 1051 # 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 = valid_chroot_dirs = /vhosts/vmail # Default chroot directory for mail processes. This can be overridden by # giving /./ in user's home directory (eg. /home/./user chroots into /home). #mail_chroot = # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # doc/mail-storages.txt. There's a few special variables you can use: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain # %h - home directory # # You can also limit a width of string by giving the number of max. characters # after the '%' character. For example %1u gives the first character of # username. 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:/vhosts/vmail/%d/%n # Space-separated list of fields to cache for all mails. Currently these # fields are allowed followed by a list of commands they speed up: # # Envelope - FETCH ENVELOPE and SEARCH FROM, TO, CC, BCC, SUBJECT, # SENTBEFORE, SENTON, SENTSINCE, HEADER MESSAGE-ID, # HEADER IN-REPLY-TO # Body - FETCH BODY # Bodystructure - FETCH BODY, BODYSTRUCTURE # MessagePart - FETCH BODY[1.2.3] (ie. body parts), RFC822.SIZE, # SEARCH SMALLER, LARGER, also speeds up BODY/BODYSTRUCTURE # generation. This is always set with mbox mailboxes, and # also default with Maildir. # # Different IMAP clients work in different ways, that's why Dovecot by default # only caches MessagePart which speeds up most operations. Whenever client # does something where caching could be used, the field is automatically marked # to be cached later. For example after FETCH BODY the BODY will be cached # for all new messages. Normally you should leave this alone, unless you know # what most of your IMAP clients are. Caching more fields than needed makes # the index files larger and generate useless I/O. # # With maildir there's one extra optimization - if nothing is cached, indexing # the maildir becomes much faster since it's not opening any of the mail files. # This could be useful if your IMAP clients access only new mails. #mail_cache_fields = MessagePart # Space-separated list of fields that Dovecot should never set to be cached. # Useful if you want to save disk space at the cost of more I/O when the fields # needed. #mail_never_cache_fields = # Workarounds for various client bugs: # oe6-fetch-no-newmail: # Never send EXISTS/RECENT when replying to FETCH command. Outlook Express # seems to think they are FETCH replies and gives user "Message no longer # in server" error. Note that OE6 still breaks even with this workaround # if synchronization is set to "Headers Only". # outlook-idle: # Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no mail # arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is still # fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new mail # arrives. # outlook-pop3-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. #client_workarounds = # Dovecot can notify client of new mail in selected mailbox soon after it's # received. This setting specifies the minimum interval in seconds between # new mail notifications to client - internally they may be checked more or # less often. Setting this to 0 disables the checking. # NOTE: Evolution client breaks with this option when it's trying to APPEND. #mailbox_check_interval = 0 # 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 custom flag name. It's only forced when trying # to create new flags. #mail_max_flag_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. #mail_read_mmaped = no # 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 # Check if mails' content has been changed by external programs. This slows # down things as extra stat() needs to be called for each file. If changes are # noticed, the message is treated as a new message, since IMAP protocol # specifies that existing messages are immutable. #maildir_check_content_changes = no # Which locking methods to use for locking mbox. There's three 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. # # You can use both fcntl and flock too; if you do the order they're declared # with is important to avoid deadlocks if other MTAs/MUAs are using both fcntl # and flock. Some operating systems don't allow using both of them # simultaneously, eg. BSDs. If dotlock is used, it's always created first. #mbox_locks = dotlock fcntl # Should we create dotlock file even when we want only a read-lock? Setting # this to yes hurts the performance when the mailbox is accessed simultaneously # by multiple processes, but it's needed for reliable reading if no other # locking methods are available. #mbox_read_dotlock = no # 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 # 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. Note that setting # this to yes means that log file is opened as the logged in user, which # might not work. It could also 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 ## ## IMAP process ## # Executable location #imap_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap # 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. #imap_process_size = 256 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #imap_use_modules = no #imap_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap ## ## POP3 process ## # Executable location #pop3_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 # 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. #pop3_process_size = 256 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #pop3_use_modules = no #pop3_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 ## ## Authentication processes ## # An Authentication process is a child process used by Dovecot that # handles the authentication steps. The steps cover an authentication # mechanism (auth_mechanisms, how the client authenticates in the IMAP or # POP3 protocol), which password database should be queried (auth_passdb), # and which user database should be queried (auth_userdb, to obtain # UID, GID, and location of the user's mailbox/home directory). # # You can have multiple processes, though a typical configuration will # have only one. Each time "auth = xx" is seen, a new process # definition is started. The point of multiple processes is to be able # to set stricter permissions. (See auth_user below.) # # Just remember that only one Authentication process is asked for the # password, so you can't have different passwords accessible through # different process definitions (unless they have different # auth_mechanisms, and you're ok with having different password for # each mechanisms). # Authentication process name. auth = default # Specifies how the client authenticates in the IMAP protocol. # Space separated list of permitted authentication mechanisms: # anonymous plain digest-md5 cram-md5 # # anonymous - No authentication required. # plain - The password is sent as plain text. All IMAP/POP3 clients # support this, and the password can be encrypted by Dovecot to match # any of the encryption schemes used in password databases. # digest-md5 and cram-md5 - both encrypt the password so it is more # secure in transit, but are not well supported by clients, and # require that the password database use a matching encryption # scheme (or be in plaintext). # # See auth.txt for more details. # # If you are using SSL there is less benefit to digest-md5 and # cram-md5 as the communication is already encrypted. auth_mechanisms = plain # 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 = # Where user database is kept: # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # passwd-file <path>: passwd-like file with specified location # static uid=<uid> gid=<gid> home=<dir template>: static settings # vpopmail: vpopmail library # ldap <config path>: LDAP, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf # pgsql <config path>: a PostgreSQL database, see doc/dovecot-pgsql.conf #auth_userdb = passwd auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf # Where password database is kept: # passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar, using getpwnam() # shadow: /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam() # pam [<service> | *]: PAM authentication # passwd-file <path>: passwd-like file with specified location # vpopmail: vpopmail authentication # ldap <config path>: LDAP, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf # pgsql <config path>: a PostgreSQL database, see doc/dovecot-pgsql.conf #auth_passdb = pgsql /usr/local/etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf #auth_passdb = passwd auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf #auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth # Set max. process size in megabytes. #auth_process_size = 256 # 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. #auth_user = root auth_user = dovecot # 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. #auth_chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create #auth_count = 1 # 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 to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism #auth_anonymous_username = anonymous # More verbose logging. Useful for figuring out why authentication isn't # working. #auth_verbose = no # Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes. Shows for example SQL # queries. #auth_debug = no # digest-md5 authentication process. It requires special MD5 passwords which # /etc/shadow and PAM doesn't support, so we never need roots to handle it. # Note that the passwd-file is opened before chrooting and dropping root # privileges, so it may be 0600-root owned file. #auth = digest_md5 #auth_mechanisms = digest-md5 #auth_realms = #auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap #auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/passwd.imap #auth_user = imapauth #auth_chroot = # if you plan to use only passwd-file, you don't need the two auth processes, # simply set "auth_methods = plain digest-md5"

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[Dovecot] IMAP crashes with signal 10 (SIGBUS)
by Joseph Tam 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Any idea on what's causing this? Description: imap process crashed with SIGBUS. Versions: OS: Solaris 8, 9 Dovecot: 1.0-test57 Gcc: 3.2 Configure options: env CC=gcc CFLAGS="-O -g" ./configure \ --prefix=/var/dovecot \ --disable-ipv6 \ --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl \ --with-passwd-file \ --without-bsdauth \ --without-checkpassword \ --without-pam \ --without-passwd \ --without-shadow \ --without-vpopmail \ --without-static-userdb \ --without-libiconv-prefix \ --with-storages=mbox \ --with-pop3d Interestingly, eliminating optimisation seems to get rid of the problem, suggesting it might be a compiler problem. I've also tried gcc flags "-m32", "-m64", "-O3", "-O2", "-O1" and configure options "--with-file-offset-size=32 --with-mem-align=4" with no relief. IMAP dialogue: ... deleted cache, just in case ... >> 'MAIL=mbox:/nfs/ono/mail/:INBOX=/nfs/mail/ono:INDEX=/nfs/ono/dovecot/cache' imap << * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS] Logged in as ono >> x1 SELECT INBOX >> * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) >> * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. >> * 2 EXISTS >> * 2 RECENT >> * OK [UNSEEN 1] First unseen. >> * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1102645397] UIDs valid >> * OK [UIDNEXT 3] Predicted next UID >> x1 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. << x2 FETCH 1:2 (ENVELOPE) >> Bus Error - core dumped INBOX content: From abc(a)hushmail.com Thu Nov 18 18:04:46 2004 Received: from bogus.com ([221.15.172.119]) by mx.fake.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id iAJ24MIs000307; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:04:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <81360434043.65276@abc@hushmail.com> From: <abc(a)hushmail.com> To: <fake(a)fakeu.edu> Subject: blah Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:00:26 -0700 X-UID: 1 blah blah From def(a)yahoo.com Thu Nov 18 18:48:37 2004 Received: from bogus.com (client-200.121.192.53.speedy.net.pe [200.121.192.53] (may be forged)) by mx.fake.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id iAJ2mCIs001481 for <somebody(a)fakeu.edu>; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:48:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200411190248.iAJ2mCIs001481(a)blah.ca> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:39:36 +0000 From: <def(a)yahoo.com> To: somebody(a)fakeu.edu Subject: blah X-UID: 2 blah blah Backtrace: #0 mbox_file_seek (ibox=0x8d9b0, view=0x8dc38, seq=2, deleted_r=0xffbef40c) at mbox-file.c:119 #1 0x0002afbc in mbox_mail_seek (mail=0x935f0) at mbox-mail.c:48 #2 0x0002b1b0 in mbox_mail_get_stream (_mail=0x935f0, hdr_size=0x0, body_size=0x0) at mbox-mail.c:159 #3 0x00034894 in index_mail_get_headers (_mail=0x935f0, _headers=0x93d80) at index-mail-headers.c:540 #4 0x000343e4 in index_mail_headers_get_envelope (mail=0x935f0) at index-mail-headers.c:362 #5 0x000334cc in index_mail_get_special (_mail=0x935f0, field=MAIL_FETCH_IMAP_ENVELOPE) at index-mail.c:578 #6 0x0002b118 in mbox_mail_get_special (_mail=0x935f0, field=MAIL_FETCH_IMAP_ENVELOPE) at mbox-mail.c:128 #7 0x00020c80 in fetch_envelope (ctx=0x881d8, mail=0x935f0, context=0x0) at imap-fetch.c:347 #8 0x0002081c in imap_fetch (ctx=0x881d8) at imap-fetch.c:209 #9 0x0001c034 in cmd_fetch (client=0x83f50) at cmd-fetch.c:164 #10 0x0001f2a4 in client_handle_input (client=0x83f50) at client.c:324 #11 0x0001f370 in _client_input (context=0x83f50) at client.c:368 #12 0x000593b8 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x810c0) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #13 0x00058d34 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x810c0) at ioloop.c:218 #14 0x000272c8 in main (argc=0, argv=0xffbefa4c, envp=0xffbefa5c) at main.c:224 Joseph Tam <tam(a)math.ubc.ca>

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[Dovecot] Tricks to running as normal user?
by Ajaxster 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Hi, I'm running on HPUX 11.11 and have installed dovecot 0.99.12 in my home directory. I've been running it at home on FC2 and had no problems. At work, on HPUX, when I modify the dovecot.conf file like is suggested in the wikki <http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Rootless>, it will detach and I can telnet to the port I've chosen, but I don't get any response back after I connect. Not other processes are getting launched when I connect. I can run the libexec/imap and get capability information echoed to the terminal. I tried the test builds and they seem to be hanging during the parsing of the .conf file. The the process never goes into the background. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could try to get things running? Thanks very much. -- Jay

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[Dovecot] Verbose logging
by Daniel 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Hi How can I make dovecot have very verbose logging? Regards Daniel

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[Dovecot] Internal login failure
by Jaeson Schultz 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Hello, I am fairly new to Dovecot, so please forgive me if I am missing something obvious here. I have checked the archived dovecot mailing list messages and have Googled for everything I can think of, and I still have not found anything to help me solve this problem. I am running Postfix+Postgresql+Dovecot on my Fedora FC2 box. I have compiled both Postfix and Dovecot from source. I believe I have postfix running properly. No error messages show up in my logs when starting Postfix or Dovecot. Messages are being delivered by Postfix just fine: Dec 12 11:45:42 co-nundrum postfix/virtual[15759]: 15E82F8EF0: to=<jaeson(a)domain.name>, relay=virtual, delay=1, status=sent (delivered to maildir) However, when I try to login to Dovecot over IMAP I get an "Internal login failure" error: [jaeson@localhost jaeson]$ telnet co-nundrum imap Trying 207.7.137.6... Connected to co-nundrum. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1 LOGIN jaeson secret 1 OK Logged in. * BYE Internal login failure. Error report written to server log. Connection closed by foreign host. When I check the dovecot log file I see the following entries: dovecot-auth: Dec 12 01:15:59 Info: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT password FROM user_accounts WHERE username='jaeson' imap-login: Dec 12 01:15:59 Info: Internal login failure: jaeson [66.159.231.21] dovecot: Dec 12 01:15:59 Error: child 9845 (auth) killed with signal 11 Here are the entries from my dovecot.conf file. As you can see, I have set both auth_verbose and auth_debug = yes, but I don't seem to be getting any log messages with enough verbosity to indicate just what the problem is. base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * ssl_parameters_regenerate = 24 disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot login_process_size = 16 login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 3 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_logging_users = 256 max_mail_processes = 1024 verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes first_valid_uid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 65535 first_valid_gid = 5000 last_valid_gid = 65535 default_mail_env = maildir:/mail/%d/%u mail_save_crlf = yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no maildir_check_content_changes = no mbox_locks = fcntl umask = 0077 imap_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap imap_process_size = 256 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_passdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_user = root auth_count = 1 auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes Additionally, here are the entries in my dovecot-pgsql.conf file: connect = host=localhost dbname=mail_DB user=mailreader password=secret default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM user_accounts WHERE username='%u' user_query = SELECT '/mail/'||mailbox AS home, uid, gid FROM user_accounts WHERE username='%u' Finally, here is the configure command I used when building Dovecot from source: ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug --with-pgsql --with-cyrus-sasl2 --with-ssl=openssl --sysconfdir=/etc At this point, I think that the connections to my postgresql tables are all working properly, and the initial authentication with Dovecot appears to be working. Dovecot *does* accept my password and gives me the "OK Logged in." response message, but somewhere before it kicks off the IMAP process it dies with a SIGSEGV. Perhaps I have some file permissions out of whack? Has anyone else encountered this problem, or perhaps has any insight into what might be going wrong or how to find out more information? Thanks, Jaeson Schultz jaeson at jaeson dot net

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Re: Re: [Dovecot] login pam and mysql
by Marin Florian 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

I try 1.0 vresion, but seems to be a problem at mysql login. I'll look again at this version. Regards, > Hi Marin, > Try the 1.0 test versions, they allow as many login type as you want. > > Regards > Andrew > > > Marin Florian wrote: > > Hy, > > > > I use dovecot 0.99.12 on a FC2 and i try to obtain dual login pam and mysql, but > > seems that it's impossible. I must use or pam or mysql. Do you have any ideea > > how to obtain dual login. Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > _________________________________ > > Noile abonamente Astral OnLine > > 256 kbps ; 12 USD/luna > > http://www.astral.ro > > > > -- > Andrew Hutchings > Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru > Netserve Consultants Ltd. > http://www.domaincity.co.uk/ > _________________________________ Noile abonamente Astral OnLine 256 kbps ; 12 USD/luna http://www.astral.ro

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[Dovecot] login pam and mysql
by Marin Florian 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Hy, I use dovecot 0.99.12 on a FC2 and i try to obtain dual login pam and mysql, but seems that it's impossible. I must use or pam or mysql. Do you have any ideea how to obtain dual login. Thanks in advance. _________________________________ Noile abonamente Astral OnLine 256 kbps ; 12 USD/luna http://www.astral.ro

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[Dovecot] latest debs
by Paul 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Just wondering: Has anyone, or is anyone planning to, build debs for 0.99.12? Jaldhar Vyas, are you still around and doing such things? Paul

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[Dovecot] Re: Corrupted index files in 0.99.12.1
by Brady Wetherington 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

--- dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org Wrote: > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > On 13.12.2004, at 21:26, Brady Wetherington wrote: > > > A solution I already tried was having Dovecot run by being invoked from > > a copy of tcpserver, which used a .cdb 'rules' database which set > > certain environment variables based upon the users IP address. I > > patched > > my copy of Dovecot to listen for those environment variables and pay > > attention/ignore NO_IMAP based upon those environment variables, but it > > looks like environment variables get clobbered when dovecot invokes the > > authenticator process from within imap-login (And the code seems to say > > that it blows out the environment, too). And I'm willing to bet that it > > would only work on first invoke of dovecot from imap-login, too, even > > if > > it didn't blow out the environment (because the authentication process > > stays running). > > You could do this by first getting the remote IP address transferred to > dovecot-auth (http://dovecot.org/patches/pam-rhost.patch) then checking > the IP in vpopmail code to see if you want to check NO_IMAP with the > IP. That sounds like that's the direction I want to go - I will definitely take a look into that, and possibly tweak it if I can. The way I was thinking about doing it was either respecting one or the other of NO_IMAP or NO_WEBMAIL depending on if you're coming from a local address or a remote one. I might stick with tcpserver using a tcprules.cdb to set environment variables and modify the patch to pass those environment variable(s) onward...we'll see. Or I might just suffer with my many dovecots. > > > I also _think_ I found out the problem, what was corrupting my indexes, > > though I'm not sure. I think one of the messages in my Maildir was > > 'unreadable' by Dovecot (well, that's what the logs say). Which seems > > to > > completely blow out the index. I got rid of the file, so lets keep > > fingers crossed that that solves it... > > If there's a repeateable way to break Dovecot with some specific > message even after indexes have been recreated, I'd like to see the > message. > > Unless, of course, you meant that 'unreadable' was because there was no > file system permissions to read it? Yes, unfortunately, the file was unreadable because there was no file system permissions to read it. That actually made dovecot make indices which imply there's nothing in the mailbox. How a file with no FS perms got into my maildir is rather embarassing and I'll skip unless it's important, but it was there and it did hose my indexes.

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Re: [Dovecot] Ximian Evolution Issue
by Adam Todorski 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Thanks for your swift replies, I really appreciate it. I looked at my mail logs and couldn't find anything awry. Also, if I use Mozilla Thuderbird from any remote platform or Squirrelmail hosted on the mail server itself I have no problems, regardless of the number of messages in a folder. I realize that I should probably ask on Evolution forums, but I think you guys may be better equiped to answer. Thanks again, Adam

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[Dovecot] RE: Internal login failure
by Jaeson Schultz 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Hello, I should have sent my first message in plain text instead of HTML so it would show up better in the list archives. Anyhow, I am using the latest release of Dovecot, v0.99.12.1. Seeing as how I don't need the cyrus-sasl2 to be compiled in, I have just rebuilt dovecot without it. Unfortunately I am still getting the same results... [jaeson@shell01 ~]$ telnet co-nundrum imap Trying 207.7.137.6... Connected to co-nundrum. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 1 LOGIN jaeson secret 1 OK Logged in. * BYE Internal login failure. Error report written to server log. Connection closed by foreign host. The dovecot logs still indicate an "Internal login failure", but offers no extra explanation as to why. dovecot-auth: Dec 13 11:43:04 Info: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT password FROM user_accounts WHERE username='jaeson' imap-login: Dec 13 11:43:04 Info: Internal login failure: jaeson [216.39.112.19] dovecot: Dec 13 11:43:04 Error: child 25784 (auth) killed with signal 11 I am wondering that since I see the auth_passdb query, shouldn't I also be seeing a log entry for the auth_userdb query as well, or does this happen once the imap process is started? Any advice for how to track down the source of the problem is appreciated. ~Jaeson [This E-mail scanned for viruses]

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[Dovecot] Re: Corrupted index files in 0.99.12.1
by Brady Wetherington 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

--- dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org Wrote: > From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree(a)gmx.de> > Brady Wetherington <brady(a)netservnyc.com> writes: > > > Would my old, corrupted index files be of any use to anyone? I still > > have that directory sitting somewhere. Is it perhaps 'bad' to run two > > copies of Dovecot? I don't know exactly what I was doing, but I can > > easily imagine accessing one of my Dovecots using my webmail setup, and > > one using straight IMAP - is that an unsupported setup? > > I'd think the way to go is to use one Dovecot installation for both IMAP > logins by remote clients as well as the webmail system. > > -- > Matthias Andree I would think the exact same thing, and I would _love_ to run only one copy of Dovecot. But I run vpopmail, and I need to make IMAP available only to users who have IMAP 'enabled' (the guys who pay more money). But I need webmail available for _all_ users (even the cheapskates), and my webmail of course uses IMAP behind the scenes. So my solution is one copy of regular Dovecot on port 143, which respects the NO_IMAP flag from vpopmail, and one copy of modified Dovecot, which I patched to ignore the NO_IMAP flag, on port 144 - and then I configured my webmail software to talk to port 144. That copy of Dovecot will eventually only listen to the local network for connections, though currently it listens for anyone. A solution I already tried was having Dovecot run by being invoked from a copy of tcpserver, which used a .cdb 'rules' database which set certain environment variables based upon the users IP address. I patched my copy of Dovecot to listen for those environment variables and pay attention/ignore NO_IMAP based upon those environment variables, but it looks like environment variables get clobbered when dovecot invokes the authenticator process from within imap-login (And the code seems to say that it blows out the environment, too). And I'm willing to bet that it would only work on first invoke of dovecot from imap-login, too, even if it didn't blow out the environment (because the authentication process stays running). All this stuff is, I'm sure, a thousand times easier in something like courier-imap, but I like Dovecot, so I'd rather run two copies of Dovecot than one of courier-imap. So if anyone has any possible direction to go on a solution that lets me run only one Dovecot, I'd love that. Until then, I'm stuck with my hack-ey two-Dovecot solution. I also _think_ I found out the problem, what was corrupting my indexes, though I'm not sure. I think one of the messages in my Maildir was 'unreadable' by Dovecot (well, that's what the logs say). Which seems to completely blow out the index. I got rid of the file, so lets keep fingers crossed that that solves it...

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test57 LDAP dovecot-auth SIGABRT
by Thomas Hummel 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Hi, I'm experiencing the following problem when runnig dovecot-1.0-test set up to authenticate users against openldap, while the corresponding setup with dovecot-0.99.11 works fine : . my platform : FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p1 . dovecot version : dovecot-1.0-test57 . openldap version : openldap-2.1.27 - Description : When I talk IMAP to the dovecot server, I can connect on port 143 and receive the 'Dovecot ready' greeting message, but when I issue the command 'x LOGIN username userpass', the following message is written to the log file : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 'dovecot: Dec 13 16:40:26 Error: auth(default): dovecot-auth in free(): error: chunk is already free dovecot: Dec 13 16:40:26 Error: child 17260 (auth) killed with signal 6' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - here's a gdb backtrace of the dovecot-auth running process as it happens : (gdb) continue Continuing. Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x1826e1d7 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.5 (gdb) bt full #0 0x1826e1d7 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.5 No symbol table info available. #1 0x1826327e in raise () from /lib/libc.so.5 No symbol table info available. #2 0x182d5627 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.5 No symbol table info available. #3 0x18279389 in ldexp () from /lib/libc.so.5 No symbol table info available. #4 0x182793cd in ldexp () from /lib/libc.so.5 No symbol table info available. #5 0x1827a2c1 in ldexp () from /lib/libc.so.5 No symbol table info available. #6 0x1827a513 in ldexp () from /lib/libc.so.5 No symbol table info available. #7 0x1827a644 in free () from /lib/libc.so.5 No symbol table info available. #8 0x080502c7 in ldap_input (context=0x2c) at db-ldap.c:172 request = (struct ldap_request *) 0x806a580 timeout = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 0} res = (LDAPMessage *) 0x806a5a0 ret = 0 msgid = 405650150 #9 0x0805cea8 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x8075340) at ioloop-poll.c:184 data = (struct ioloop_handler_data *) 0x806a160 pollfd = (struct pollfd *) 0x2 tv = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 268537} io = (struct io *) 0x806a300 t_id = 2 msecs = 0 ret = 0 call = 1 #10 0x0805c8e5 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x8075340) at ioloop.c:218 No locals. #11 0x08051174 in main (argc=1, argv=0x0) at main.c:296 master = (struct auth_master_connection *) 0x8075500 i = 1 env = 0x4598 <Error reading address 0x4598: Bad address> pid = 0 master_p = (struct auth_master_connection **) 0x8075400 size = 1 (gdb) detach Detaching from program: /usr/local/dovecot-1.0-test57/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth, process 17804 (gdb) - here are the configure options I passed when compiling openldap and dovecot : - dovecot ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-1.0-test57 --with-ldap --with-cyrus-sasl2 --with-rawlog --with-ssl=openssl --with-storages=mbox,maildir - openldap ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/openldap-2.1.27 --with-threads --with-tls=openssl --enable-dynamic --with-cyrus-sasl --enable-ldbm --enable-crypt --enable-lmpasswd --enable-ldap --enable-meta --enable-rewrite --enable-null --enable-monitor --enable-bdb --with-ldbm-api=berkeley --enable-spasswd --enable-wrappers -- Thomas Hummel <hummel(a)pasteur.fr>

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[Dovecot] Problem with LDAP and Dovecot
by Peter Clark 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

I am trying to set up Dovecot so that it uses LDAP, but I keep getting this error message in /var/log/syslog: Dec 12 03:38:17 mydomain dovecot-auth: LDAP: ldap_search() failed (filter user_filter = (mail=user(a)mydomain.tld)) Bad search filter Relevant configuration files: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf: hosts = localhost dn = cn=dovecot,ou=sysAccounts,dc=mydomain,dc=tld dnpass = password ldap_version = 3 base = ou=mailAccounts,dc=mydomain,dc=tld deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = mail,,,,, user_filter = (mail=%u) pass_attrs = mail,userPassword pass_filter = user_filter = (mail=%u) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT user_global_uid = 5000 user_global_gid = 5000 /etc/dovecot.conf: protocols = imap imaps pop3s imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 imaps_listen = * pop3s_listen = * ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/mydomain.tld/Cert.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/mydomain.tld/PrivateKey.pem disable_plaintext_auth = yes login = imap login_user = dovecot login = pop3 verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 5000 first_valid_gid = 5000 last_valid_gid = 5000 mail_extra_groups = mail valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail/virtualmail default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/virtualmail/%n/Maildir auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_passdb = ldap /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf auth_user = dovecot auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = no In /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: access to attribute=userPassword by dn="cn=admin,dc=mydomain,dc=tld" write by dn="cn=dovecot,ou=sysAccounts,dc=mydomain,dc=tld" read by anonymous auth by self write by * none Output of 'slapcat | grep dovecot': dn: cn=dovecot,ou=sysAccounts,dc=mydomain,dc=tld cn: dovecot sn: dovecot I've even tried changing the dn to admin, but I still get the same error. What am I doing wrong? :Peter

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[Dovecot] Ximian Evolution Issue
by Adam Todorski 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Hi This may be a problem with Dovecot and it may be a problem with Evolution, I'm trying to narrow it down. I'm using Evolution 2.0.2 on Fedora Core 3 x86_64 to connect over SSL to Dovecot 0.99.11 on Debian testing (Sarge) on an i686 using Maildir for the mail store. Specifically, when I open a folder with more than a few dozen messages in it I get the following error (with the carroted fields populated): Error while Opening folder imap://<username>@<mailserver>/<folder>. Incomplete server response: no information provided for message <message number>. Thanks for any leads on this! Adam

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[Dovecot] Corrupted index files in 0.99.12.1
by Brady Wetherington 12 Dec '04

12 Dec '04

Hi - I've got two copies of Dovecot installed on my server (don't worry, talking to two different sockets for authentication, with two different sets of filenames using options in configure), and I found at least one instance where the index file for my INBOX (on my own account, in fact) got corrupted. So badly so that when I connected via IMAP and selected my INBOX, it said there were no messages there - but if I logged in via sqWebMail (ugh), it said all my messages were there. Note that it didn't give the 'NO can't use index file' message. I moved the .INBOX directory to another filename, and then re-logged in and found that all was well (it regenerated the index files correctly). Would my old, corrupted index files be of any use to anyone? I still have that directory sitting somewhere. Is it perhaps 'bad' to run two copies of Dovecot? I don't know exactly what I was doing, but I can easily imagine accessing one of my Dovecots using my webmail setup, and one using straight IMAP - is that an unsupported setup? I'd also be happy to discuss why I'm using two copies of Dovecot, but that's a whole other discussion :)

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Re: [Dovecot] Timeouts with outlook express
by Daniel 11 Dec '04

11 Dec '04

Hi Yes I have all the outlook workarounds enabled. Interestingly the progress bar dose not move until the whole email has been downloaded. Normally this moves bit by bit as the mail downloads. But as I said the email is downloading, there is network traffic. Any ideas? Regards Daniel On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 07:45 +0000, Andrew Hutchings wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Have you tried turning on th outlook-no-nuls workaround in dovecot? > > Regards > Andrew > > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 15:22 +0800, Daniel wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am using Dovecot 0.99.12.1 (just upgraded) on a site with about 1500 > > mailboxes. One thing I have noticed is when the client outlook express > > is receiving a large mail via pop3 it gets a time out. There is traffic. > > If you click on the "wait" button in the dialogue the mail continues to > > download. > > > > This seem to relate to the "Server Timeouts" setting under mail account > > Properties/advance. If this setting is set higher the dialogue come only > > after this time has passed. > > > > If the mail take a long time to download if say is very big the user may > > have to click "Wait" a number of time even if the time out setting is > > set to the largest amount. > > > > It funny because the mail is downloading, So the pop3 server has not > > stopped responding as outlook express say it has. Strange. > > > > What is happening here? and is there a work around for it. Do I have a > > setting wrong. > > > > Regards > > Daniel ROwe > > > >

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[Dovecot] SQL + AUTH command bug?
by Andrew Hutchings 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hi, While investigating the problem with Thunderbird auths I found the following happening: Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. CAPA +OK CAPA TOP USER UIDL RESP-CODES PIPELINING SASL PLAIN . AUTH PLAIN + + + -ERR Authentication failed. This is what is happening during a Thunderbird connection, when each '+' happens dovecot does an sql query on the sql server for user '?'. This was asserting mech.c until Timo did the bugfix last night. I currently have dovecot authing via 3 separate sql password tables as it is a migration from 3 old servers. If you try any other auth method (which shouldn't work anyway in my case) it doesn't talk to the SQL servers and just comes back as: -ERR Authentication failed. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru Netserve Consultants Ltd. http://www.domaincity.co.uk/

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Re: [Dovecot] When the 1.0 release is planed?
by Kim Culhan 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

On Thu, December 9, 2004 15:07, Andrew Velikoredchanin said: > Wouter Van Hemel: > >>> >>> What part of 1.0-test now not fully tested? >>> >>> >>> >> >> For me, the latest test releases have been pretty stable. But if you're >> not going to offer imap, you might as well run a simple pop server such as popa3d >> (http://www.openwall.com/popa3d/) It's quite secure AFAIK -- >> at least, it's written by Solar Designer and uses a multiple-fork model. > > No. popa3d not support mysql userdb. :( > > >> But it probably would help dovecot if you would give the test releases a >> try, the last bugs (if any) are hardest to find. That way, you would have a stable dovecot >> sooner. > > Yes, of couse. FWIW, dovecot CVS (development version) has been running here for several weeks with pop3s users having no problems we can find. -kim' __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Exim4 authentication patch
by Andrey Panin 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hello all, attached patch makes possible to use dovecot as an authentication backend for Exim 4. Reasons beyond this patch are simple: exim's authenticators require use of plaintext passwords and NTLM code in exim is quite outdated and hairy. Patch generated against Exim 4.43, but should apply to earlier versions too. Patch adds new 'dovecot' authenticator, which can be used as such: ntlm: driver = dovecot public_name = NTLM server_socket = /var/authentication_socket_path server_set_id = $1 cram: driver = dovecot public_name = CRAM-MD5 ... Authenticator has only one parameter 'server_socket', it's value used as path for dovecot's authentication socket. Authenticator can be used for server authentication only. Hope it will be useful for someone. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] mech-plain patch
by Andrew Hutchings 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hi Guys, Unoffical patch for mech-plain so the AUTH PLAIN command works with SQL (and possibly other DBs). Thunderbird should work again after this. --- mech-plain.c 2004-12-10 01:56:51.065987304 +0000 +++ mech-plain.c 2004-12-10 01:53:16.974534152 +0000 @@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ authid = (const char *) data; authenid = NULL; pass = ""; - count = 0; + if (data_size == 0) + return; + + count = 0; for (i = 0; i < data_size; i++) { if (data[i] == '\0') { if (++count == 1) Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru Netserve Consultants Ltd. http://www.domaincity.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] Help needed with debugging auth command
by Andrew Hutchings 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hi guys, OK, so I am trying to find out why the POP3 AUTH / IMAP AUTHORIZE command is not doing what it is supposed to (not sure if it just for me or what). I am getting as far as: sasl-server.c - line 123 - mech = auth_client_find_mech(auth_client, mech_name); auth_client_find_mech is in auth-client.c which is where I am getting lost. My guess is we are not returning back to sasl-server.c since we don't get an SASL auth or an 'Unsupported' error. If I try 'PLAIN' as the auth method as the parameter then it tries to login with no user or pass and fails. If I try anything else (I have configed to accept plain only) I get 'Authorization failed' and it doesn't even try to lookup the user/pass. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru Netserve Consultants Ltd. http://www.domaincity.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] SHA1
by Marco Herrn 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hi, I am currently installing doveot as POP and IMAP server, but I a have a few difficulties configuring it correctly. I use postgresql to store the user information. The passwords are stored SHA1 encrypted. Now I have the problem that dovecot isn't accepting the user. In dovecot-pgsql.conf I defined default_pass_scheme = SHA1 I am not quite sure about whether this is corrents, since it is not mentioned in the documentation, but it is mentioned in the wiki (under the name SHA) and it doesn't produce an error (as specifying SHA does). So I assume this is correct. But when I log in with a user I always geht the following log output: dovecot-auth: Dec 08 22:18:20 Info: PGSQL: Performing query: SELECT passwd FROM mailbox WHERE localpart = érwin' AND domainname ='poiu.de' dovecot-auth: Dec 08 22:18:20 Info: pgsql(erwin(a)poiu.de): Password mismatch imap-login: Dec 08 22:18:20 Info: Aborted login [82.82.66.4] dovecot-auth: Dec 08 22:18:20 Info: Login process 9 disconnected dovecot-auth: Dec 08 22:18:20 Info: Login process 9 connected dovecot-auth: Dec 08 22:18:20 Info: Login process 9 sent handshake: PID 22222 Is there a way to get a more excessive debugging? I already set auth_verbose and auth_debug to yes. Or does anyone have an idea what the problem can be here? Regards Marco -- It's better to be wanted for murder that not to be wanted at all. -- Marco Herrn _ ___ o ' (_)< _ _ _>(__'> o 0 (_X % >(_`> O o _; _;'7^'_ \;\ % (GnuPG/PGP-encrypted mail preferred) _;\ _.\ _.';;) ;,;_/; Key ID: 0x94620736 _ _'./_$'))_; );/$}/`fsc

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[Dovecot] When the 1.0 release is planed?
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hi! When the 1.0 release is planed?

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[Dovecot] Timeouts with outlook express
by Daniel 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Hi I am using Dovecot 0.99.12.1 (just upgraded) on a site with about 1500 mailboxes. One thing I have noticed is when the client outlook express is receiving a large mail via pop3 it gets a time out. There is traffic. If you click on the "wait" button in the dialogue the mail continues to download. This seem to relate to the "Server Timeouts" setting under mail account Properties/advance. If this setting is set higher the dialogue come only after this time has passed. If the mail take a long time to download if say is very big the user may have to click "Wait" a number of time even if the time out setting is set to the largest amount. It funny because the mail is downloading, So the pop3 server has not stopped responding as outlook express say it has. Strange. What is happening here? and is there a work around for it. Do I have a setting wrong. Regards Daniel ROwe

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[Dovecot] SQL + POP3 AUTH command bug - test 57
by Andrew Hutchings 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Hi guys, In addition to my previous message stating that POP3 'AUTH' command wasn't working correctly with SQL auths (making Thunderbird fail), the same is true of the AUTHENTICATE command in IMAP. Again I have created a temp fix by commenting out the lines that check for that command in imap-login/client.c If I get some time tonight I will write a patch to fix this properly. (Dovecot 1.0 test 57) Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru Netserve Consultants Ltd. http://www.domaincity.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] "correct" permissions for login dir
by Kirill Miazine 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

I'm in process of moving away from Cyrus to Dovecot. I have my own authentication daemon working fine. It sets up two sockets: drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 512 Dec 7 21:07 /var/state/dovecot/login srw-rw-rw- 1 krot krot 0 Dec 7 21:07 /var/state/dovecot/login/sock drwx------ 2 krot wheel 512 Dec 7 21:07 /var/state/dovecot/master srw-rw-rw- 1 krot wheel 0 Dec 7 21:07 /var/state/dovecot/master/sock When I fire up Dovecot, it warns me of "incorrect" permissons for login dir (/var/state/dovecot/login) and "fixes" the problem. I want /var/state/dovecot/login to be owned by user krot (which the main daemon is running as), not by root. I suggest that login directory is not touched if external authentication is used. Socket are not wiped out, why should permissions be fixed? (see in master/master-settings.c around line 560). I'm afraid that some day I will forget to make this tiny change to Dovecot and end up with a mail system which does not work at all, because the master daemon won't be able to create dovecot/login socket. 1.0-test "works pretty well". Does it mean well enough to replace Cyrus (which indeed works pretty well)? I have maildir-based folders. Most users have no idea what IMAP is (my sister uses IMAP because I set it up, others just say that they don't need IMAP...) and they just download everything using POP3. Sometimes they use SquirrelMail. Default usage pattern. Are the risks high? Currently I have test56 on my test installation (which is almost ready to take over). Timo, Dovecot has been a pleasure to work with so far! -- They make a desert and call it peace. -- Tacitus

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[Dovecot] 0.99.12 released
by Timo Sirainen 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

One change since -rc1 (the last one below). - Fix memory leaks in LDAP, MySQL and PGSQL userdb/passdb - Fix hanging when parsing mails that have over 4096 bytes in one line (SMTP servers normally don't allow over 1000 bytes so it shouldn't be much of a problem) - FETCH BODYSTRUCTURE sometimes gave a wrong reply (eg. with FETCH (BODYSTRUCTURE RFC822.SIZE) if it wasn't cached) - Never return more than one INBOX in LIST even if there are such files. They don't work anyway and it just confuses clients. - mbox: Don't allow creating INBOX directory by creating/renaming mailboxes under it. They just wouldn't work. - POP3: Don't return PLAIN in SASL list. We don't support initial SASL responses, so it only breaks with most clients that try to use it. - IMAP and POP3 login processes may have sent each line in two IP packets, one with the data and another with CR+LF. Some clients didn't work because of this.

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[Dovecot] problems with eudora
by Enrique Pedraza 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Hi everyone, i just installed dovecot in Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow). When accessing from a eudora 6.1 client, first it gave ssl authentication problems. I fixed disabling them in eudora, but now it authenticates ok and then it says that there is no inbox for that user. Any idea? Enrique Pedraza Valiente Formador en Lenguajes Avanzados y Nuevas Tecnologías cell: +34 678 51 75 19 http://epedraza.com

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[Dovecot] (mail_index_sync_update_index): assertion failed
by Doug Luce 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Anyone run into this one? I'm using test53... Dec 3 13:08:17 aurora dovecot: IMAP(doug): file mail-index-sync-update.c: line 1160 (mail_index_sync_update_index): assertion failed: (map->records_count == map->hdr.messages_count) Dec 3 13:08:17 aurora dovecot: child 65942 (imap) killed with signal 6 It doesn't seem to correlate with any particular action. The only change I make to the compilation is to comment out #define HAVE_FREEBSD_SENDFILE Thanks, Doug

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[Dovecot] Non standart mbox path
by Andrew Velikoredchanin 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Hi! I need set to dovecot non standart mbox path. For example, /var/service/mail/%u. How I can do it? I see default_mail_env parameter, but I don't undestend how it used. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0-test-56 mail doesn't show up with Mac Entourage clients
by Will Bending 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Hi. I'm seeing some issues where Entourage clients can see new mail, download it (or partially), but won't display the mail in the mailbox list. Mail shows up as having arrived, but never displays. These clients have worked in the past with versions of 0.99, but not in 1.0-test-56. I have dumped the connection traffic and it looks like Entourage aborts the IMAP session before it finishes fetching the mail. I have set up an IMAP server running test 56 and another running dovecot-0.99.11-1.1.fc3.rf and placed one email message in the inbox of a test account. The following is an error message I see in the 1.0 server's logs for some Entourage users experiencing this error, and is followed by a snippet of a tcpdump of the IMAP session on both machines showing where the Entourage client aborts the connection before completing the download of the message. Any help with or comments on this issue are greatly appreciated. Thanks, --will Error in dovecot.log from an Entourage client: dovecot: Dec 07 09:21:44 Error: IMAP(some_user): file mbox-lock.c: line 493 (mbox_lock): assertion failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK || ibox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) dovecot: Dec 07 09:21:44 Error: child 16735 (imap) killed with signal 6 **************************************************************************** tcpdump snippets: 0.99 server with Entourage client: 14:43:17.997889 IP noctis.shsu.edu.61359 > ab1-1-41.shsu.edu.imap: P 52:128(76) ack 156 win 65535 <nop,nop,timestamp 519041503 335641251> 0x0000: 4500 0080 adf9 4000 4006 384b 9e87 0bfc E.....@.@.8K.... 0x0010: 9e87 0b29 efaf 008f a87e ee7c fc30 de0e ...).....~.|.0.. 0x0020: 8018 ffff c716 0000 0101 080a 1eef f1df ................ 0x0030: 1401 7aa3 4130 3237 2055 4944 2046 4554 ..z.A027.UID.FET 0x0040: 4348 2032 2028 5549 4420 464c 4147 5320 CH.2.(UID.FLAGS. 0x0050: 494e 5445 524e 414c 4441 5445 2052 4643 INTERNALDATE.RFC 0x0060: 3832 322e 5349 5a45 2042 4f44 592e 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[Dovecot] problems with eudora (2)
by Enrique Pedraza 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

ah, dovecot version is dovecot-0.99.12-1.1.fc2.rf. tx Enrique Pedraza Valiente Formador en Lenguajes Avanzados y Nuevas Tecnologías cell: +34 678 51 75 19 http://epedraza.com

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[Dovecot] Lost BODY message
by Tom Allison 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

DEBIAN package information: ii dovecot-common 0.99.11-3 ii dovecot-imapd 0.99.11-3 ii bogofilter 0.93.1-1 Apologies for cross-posting, but I think the problem lies somewhere in here. Maybe someone can tell me something useful. Now, I've confirmed the following: I received a mail message that was not spam, of size 2132 originally. clamav scanned it and bumped the size up to 2356 (added headers) ls -l shows it at 1019. The message file (maildir) does not show any BODY. I didn't have my procmail logging on VERBOSE=yes at this time which is a real bummer. Nothing else shows up in the syslog or other logs. As near as I can tell, the following happened: postfix delivered the email to the procmail script in good shape. Now, either procmail or dovecot got goofy on this one. I'm also running bogofilter in the dovecot script, but there's nothing in the procmail log to indicate a problem (logging would have helped!). But the bogofilter database doesn't show any signs of corruption. Somewhere between the interplay of procmail, bogofilter, dovecot things went wrong. I've increased all the logging that I can to watch for the next event. BTW - how can I increase the verbosity of dovecot while staying in daemon mode?

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Re: [Dovecot] Problem with dovecot on home LAN
by Timothy Murphy 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 15:28, David Sheryn wrote: > > With fetchmail I get the error message: > > ============================================ > > [tim@william ~]$ fetchmail alfred > > fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != alfred > > fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != alfred > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This would appear to be you problem. You have an identity crisis > somewhere. Either your laptop or you dektop (or both) are confused as to > their (LAN, i.e. IP) network identity (note that this has nothing to do > with UUCP -- unless, of course, you are attempting to run UUCP over IP > which would be ill-advised.) > > It's not at all obvious where the misconfig lies, but I'd start with host > files / interface configs. I'm sure you are right that this is where the problem lies. Unfortunately I don't know what the solution is. There is no "identity crisis" normally, as I ssh from one machine to the other with no problem, and eg keep a yum repository on the desktop which I use to update Fedora-3 on the small number of machines on my two little LANs (Ethernet and WiFi). I googled for this error "Server CommonName mismatch" and found dozens fo hits, but none of them seemed to suggest a concrete solution. What slightly puzzles me is that dozens of people must be using dovecot for more or less the purpose I envisage - otherwise what are they using it for - so my little problem must have arisen many times before. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot on home LAN
by Timothy Murphy 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

At present I get email directly on my laptop in /var/spool/mail/* through uucp. I'd like to get the email in the same directory on my desktop (alfred), and then run a mail server on the destop and collect the email on my laptop (william) (or on other computers on my two little home LANs, ethernet and WiFi). I was advised that dovecot was a good imap server for this purpose (I tried cyrus-imapd, but decided it was too complicated), so I'm running dovecot on alfred (my desktop), with the following /etc/dovecot.conf (minus comments): ============================================ imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3 default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root auth_verbose = yes ============================================ I am able to access my desktop with telnet from my laptop: ============================================ [tim@william ~]$ telnet alfred 143 Trying 192.168.1.1... Connected to alfred. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. x login tim <password> x OK Logged in. ^] telnet> quit Connection closed. ============================================ Unfortunately, neither fetchmail not KMail on my laptop seem able to retrieve mail from my desktop. With fetchmail I get the error message: ============================================ [tim@william ~]$ fetchmail alfred fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != alfred fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != alfred 10 messages for tim at alfred. reading message tim@alfred.murphy.ie:1 of 10 (765 header octets) fetchmail: fetchmail: getaddrinfo(localhost.smtp) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from alfred fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) ============================================ My .fetchmailrc on william reads ============================================ poll alfred proto IMAP user "tim" password "whatever" ============================================ I have no better luck trying to retrieve mail with KMail on the laptop, after adding the following entry to KMail=>Settings=>Configure KMail=>Network=>Receiving ============================================== Name: dovecot Login: tim Password: <password> Host: alfred Port: 143 Prefix to folders: /var/spool/mail/ ============================================== (I also tried with "Prefix to folders:" empty.) When I start KMail on william I get the message "Checking account dovecot for new mail", but no mail comes over, and I see no error in the log files on either machine (although I may have missed something there). I should say that I am running Fedora-3 with all programs up-to-date. Apologies for the long message; any suggestions of advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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[Dovecot] Assert in mech.c
by Andrew Hutchings 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Hi guys, Seems to be my week for mailing :) I am getting the following in my mail log: Dec 7 11:54:08 svr21 dovecot: auth(sql8): file mech.c: line 143 (mech_auth_finish): assertion failed: (*requests != request) Is this assert important or can I remove it from my copy of the code? Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru Netserve Consultants Ltd. http://www.domaincity.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] imaps, certificate and authentification
by jean-Noël Chardron 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

hello, first sorry for my poor english I'm doing the migration from UW-imap to Dovecot I have two question about the authentification in the imaps (port 993) process In dovecot .conf I can enable (or disable) the différent port (pop, pops, imap, imaps) and may be restrict the access to the serveur with the ip adresse. Can I configure dovecot in imaps so it permit the access if the certificate is knowing by the server? Actually, this is the process to authenticate in WU-imap on imaps : the client connect to the server through a tunnel SSL (stunnel) and only if stunnel know the certificate, then the client can connect. and more, Is it possible when the client (with a certificate) connect to the serveur with imaps to authenticate the user without prompting the password, so the authentication is throught the certificate ? These are similar functionnality in the apache server with the restriction access to location et authentification with certificate. thanks -- Jean-Noel

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[Dovecot] 0.99.12.1 released
by Timo Sirainen 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

The only difference to 0.99.12 is that it now builds without GNU make. I didn't bother to change the version number so it's still 0.99.12 inside the tarball.

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[Dovecot] 0.99.12-1.1.fc1.rf broken?
by alex＠amcms.org 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi, I dont know if this is a dovecot problem, or the rpm build, me, or my computer ;) Was wondering if anyone else has been having problems using the 0.99.12-1.1.fc1.rf release from http://dag.wieers.com/packages/dovecot/ My specific problem is this. 1. Dovecot starts 2. You can login using telnet 3. You can issue a select inbox but nothing seems to happen By this stage dovecot is spiraling out of control, using up almost all my tiny cpu's processor, when usually it uses basically nothing. What appears to happen if you look at the logs is this. ======= Dovecot Log ======= dovecot: Dec 06 10:39:48 Error: login: Authentication process 5634 doesn't exist ======= Dovecot Info Log ======= imap-login: Dec 06 12:36:09 Info: Disconnected: Inactivity [127.0.0.1] Then, I noticed that if I tried to log in again I would have multiple dovecot-auth processes churning away at my processor.... I went thru the config file, and the new one with my changes, still the same. I also restarted dovecot several times, having to kill all the processes manually as service dovecot stop didnt seem to work. Is anyone else having this problem? And do they know how to fix it? Im running dovecot on fedora core 1, using mysql for authenticating. Thanks Alex

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[Dovecot] 1.0 test 52 - test 56 upgrade
by Andrew Hutchings 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi guys, I run a LVS cluster system which holds mail via a NFS server in Maildir format, and indexes on the local hard disks. When upgrading from 52-56 about half the index files failed to work correctly, many killing the server. Not really a problem, I just deleted them. Just thought the developer guys should know. Regards Andrew -- Andrew Hutchings Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru Netserve Consultants Ltd. http://www.domaincity.co.uk/

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test56
by Timo Sirainen 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ - Lots of fixes for mmap_disable = yes. It finally seems to be working pretty well. - POP3 idle timeouts changed to 10min I just wrote a simple stress test tool for IMAP and I've had one for POP3 for some months. The IMAP stress test was very helpful in finding out the bugs I fixed today. If anyone wants to try them, they're in: http://dovecot.org/tools/

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[Dovecot] problem with test56
by Cor Bosman 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi all, im doing some tests with the test56 release and im seeing some problems with APPEND (may be related to something else, I just see it with APPEND). When I ask someone to move some emails from one mailbox to another, after some messages (seemingly random), the client experiences a 'hang'. When tracing the process what seems to happen is that dovecot doesnt send a final OK after that specific email. It's kinda hard to attach a gdb at that point, so for now, maybe someone has seen this also? Cor

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] passdb cache fixes
by Andrey Panin 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hello, attached patches fixes some bugs in passdb cache. First patch fixes bug which causes passdb cache always return empty scheme for cached passwords. Second patch fixes dovecot-auth crash with passdb cache enabled. I'm not sure that it is proper fix, though. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] chained SSL certificates
by Cor Bosman 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi all, anyone got dovecot to work with chained SSL certificates? Cor

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[Dovecot] IMAP - many folders?
by piotr＠mallorn.ii.uj.edu.pl 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

Hi, I've been reading the list and it seems the answer to my (soon to be asked question) is no, at least with 0.99, but I'll ask to be sure. I have following setup: new mail goes to ~/Mail/Maildir, except for mailing lists which are moved by procmail to ~/Mail/mailing_lists/name, spam which goes to ~/Mail/spam. Read mail is moved by mutt to ~/Mail/read. Everything is in maildir format. Is it possibile to configure dovecot in such a way to allow user to access all those mail folders thorough imap/pop? User can access ~/Mail/Maildir by setting default_mail_env, but so far nothing else. -- Piotrek irc: #debian.pl Mors Drosophilis melanogastribus!

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[Dovecot] (_send_istream): assertion failed:
by Kim Culhan 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

This is on FreeBSD 5.3, is this fixed in -test or CVS ? Log message is below.. dovecot: Dec 05 07:48:08 Error: IMAP(kimc): file ostream-file.c: line 643 (_send_istream): assertion failed: (instream->v_offset <= in_size) dovecot: Dec 05 07:48:08 Error: child 42086 (imap) killed with signal 6 -kim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] 0.99.12-rc1
by Timo Sirainen 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

http://dovecot.org/rc/ Just gathered the patches in dovecot.org/patches/ and a few more that I think have been sent to this list before. If there's anything missing, please tell. - Fix memory leaks in LDAP, MySQL and PGSQL userdb/passdb - Fix hanging when parsing mails that have over 4096 bytes in one line (SMTP servers normally don't allow over 1000 bytes so it shouldn't be much of a problem) - FETCH BODYSTRUCTURE sometimes giving a wrong reply (eg. with FETCH (BODYSTRUCTURE RFC822.SIZE) if it wasn't cached) - Never return more than one INBOX in LIST even if there are such files. They don't work anyway and it just confuses clients. - mbox: Don't allow creating INBOX directory by creating/renaming mailboxes under it. They just wouldn't work. - POP3: Don't return PLAIN in SASL list. We don't support initial SASL responses, so it only breaks with most clients that try to use it.

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AW: [Dovecot] newbie question
by Grammes, Carsten 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

> If you really want to use maildir, you can have procmail deliver to > maildirs: > (in .procmailrc): > DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ > > Note the trailing slash - that's the kicker. > > Then tell Dovecot to use maildir. > > If you want to mix and match mailbox formats per user, then you'll > need to use an auth database that allows setting this (passwd-file, or > maybe ldap or sql). Thanks, Jon! I think now I get the picture. I will start playing around with procmail and the with dovecot auth options. Carsten

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[Dovecot] newbie question
by Grammes, Carsten 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hello all, just managed to install dovecot as imap server on a Suse Linux box. Now running fine with mbox format. A question regarding maildir or mbox. The MDA (in my case sendmail, Mlocal = procmail) stores mbox format. Do have to modify the local mailer to store maildir format or does dovecot convert automatically from mbox when I tell dovecot to use maildir format? Thanks, for any hint. Carsten

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[Dovecot] Maildir/mbox on a per-user basis
by Jon Nathan 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hello, The Wiki indicates that Dovecot can do either mbox or Maildir on a per-user basis: default_mail_env can be overridden in userdb for each user. This works with userdbs supporting the "mail" attribute (eg. passwd-file, SQL, LDAP). How exactly does one do this for passwd-file? Thanks, -Jon -- Jon Nathan jon(a)rupture.net

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[Dovecot] master or client
by Kirill Miazine 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hello, Dovecot auth protocol 1.0 defines differend command sets for client and master. How can a daemon distinguish a master connection from a client connection? Clients do send CPID and master does not. I have following auth configuration: auth external { socket connect { master { path = /var/state/dovecot/login/master-auth } } } I try to learn my authentication daemon to learn to speak with Dovecot. I fire up my master.py and try to login via pop3 as foo:bar. Below is what my master.py receives from Dovecot (master and client), VERSION commands are not shown: km@thinkpad:/home/km > ./krot/sbin/master.py CPID : ['11915'] CPID : ['11915'] CPID : ['16652'] CPID : ['11915'] AUTH : ['1', 'PLAIN', 'service=POP3', 'secured', 'lip=127.0.0.1', 'rip=127.0.0.1', 'resp=AGZvbwBiYXI='] REQUEST : ['9', '11915', '1'] CPID : ['16652'] (In the above output command and parameters are parsed.) The protocol specification is mentioning a separate SERVICE command in the client's greeting. I can't let my daemon die if the master issues DIE. Why should a server exit when it receives DIE? Can anybody provide an example dialog of an authentication request that is successful and a reques that fails because of a bad password. Thanks, Kirill -- They make a desert and call it peace. -- Tacitus

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[Dovecot] pop3 with lmos results in multiple downloads
by Juerd 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

One of our users wants to use POP3 with leave-mail-on-server (LMOS). That's great and works well for most people. But for some reason, they MUA (outlook) downloads messages more than once. As the MUA asks for messages, I'm sure it's Outlook's fault, but I was wondering if there is anything that can be done about this on the servern side, or if anyone knows how to fix Outlook. I'm sending this here, because they report that with non-dovecot servers it does work correctly. They do not want IMAP, because they want to use Outlook, which cannot support both Exchange and IMAP simultaneously. This user has multiple accounts, and only for some of them things go wrong. A temporary fix is to remove the mail from the server once, but after a few more messages arrive, the problem starts all over again. Please help. Regards, Juerd

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[Dovecot] imap: assertion failed
by Kim Culhan 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

This error is returned when reading a certain message using Squirrelmail. Any help on tracing the cause of this is greatly appreciated. >From the logs: dovecot: Nov 20 13:00:29 Error: IMAP(kimc): file ostream-file.c: line 643 (_send_istream): assertion failed: (instream->v_offset <= in_size) dovecot: Nov 20 13:00:29 Error: child 27873 (imap) killed with signal6 -kim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] Problem getting incoming mail to IMAP inbox
by Jeff Sutherland 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

I have dovecot-0.99.10.5 on Fedora Core 2 installed and otherwise operating using Maildir format for the folders, Kmail as the email client. Got through all the ssl and other security configuration fine, but have one last problem: I can't read the incoming mail from /var/spool/mail/%u. Tried several 'default_mail_env' settings, including none at all, to no avail. When I try to check in new mail to the inbox, the only messages are "Transmission Complete, no new messages" Tried this setting for example: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u but to no avail. Is something getting cocked up because the folders are all in maildir format and the incoming mail spool is in mbox format? I checked permissions, they seem ok. Kmail can pull the messages in just fine to its local folder inbox, it just seems that dovecot can't read the mail spool file for some reason. All the other maildir folders work fine. ????????? Regards, -Jeff -- Secure your email with Gnu Privacy Guard and Mozilla, the open source cross platform solution for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. See http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

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[Dovecot] Cannot list mailbox
by Fawad Halim 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hi, I have dovecot 0.99.11 on a Linux machine running against a maildir based mailbox. I am getting the following errors in the maillog: Nov 27 23:08:14 fawad3 imap(fawad): file imap-bodystructure.c: line 278 (part_parse_headers): assertion failed: (part->physical_pos >= input->v_offset - start_offset) Nov 27 23:08:14 fawad3 dovecot: child 14202 (imap) killed with signal 6 This happens when the mail reader tries to enumerate the messages in the INBOX. I am able to read the messages whose headers have already been cached by the mail reader. It is also able to read others folders without any problem. This problem has occured before, and I was able to get rid of it by identifying the junk mail message it was dying on. In this case, however, I'm not able to figure out which message is causing it to crash. I am able to read the same maildir in mutt, and Courier IMAP doesn't seem to have trouble with it either. I'd really appreciate if someone could tell me what I can do to get around this problem. Regards -fawad

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test CVS HEAD index problems
by Jim Lawson 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Running current CVS HEAD I get: dovecot: Dec 01 13:27:38 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test52 starting up dovecot: Dec 01 13:33:34 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.162.177.245] dovecot: Dec 01 13:41:07 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1100294646 -> 110192643 5) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:41:07 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1100294646 -> 110192643 5) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:42:39 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.x.x.x] dovecot: Dec 01 13:42:39 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1100294646 -> 110192643 5) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:42:39 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1100294646 -> 110192643 5) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:43:59 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.x.x.x] dovecot: Dec 01 13:43:59 Error: IMAP(jtl): Corrupted index cache file /users/j/t/jtl/.i map/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed dovecot: Dec 01 13:47:24 Error: IMAP(jtl): file mbox-lock.c: line 493 (mbox_lock): asse rtion failed: (lock_type == F_RDLCK || ibox->mbox_lock_type != F_RDLCK) dovecot: Dec 01 13:47:25 Error: child 17528 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: Dec 01 13:47:41 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.x.x.x] dovecot: Dec 01 13:50:49 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1101926435 -> 110192703 6) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:55:27 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.x.x.x] dovecot: Dec 01 13:55:27 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1101926435 -> 110192703 6) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl dovecot: Dec 01 13:56:15 Info: imap-login: Login: jtl [69.x.x.x] dovecot: Dec 01 13:56:15 Error: IMAP(jtl): UIDVALIDITY changed (1101926435 -> 110192703 6) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/j/t/jtl Using Thunderbird-0.9. Dovecot is running on RHEL 3, on top of Redhat/Sistina GFS (clustered filesystem.) Currently I'm keeping it on one node to avoid possible GFS locking issues. I'm running with mmap_disabled=yes, mbox format. Most of the 1.0-test builds I have done eventually corrupt their index files, and show strange behavior (click on a message in the folder view, and an entirely different message opens... delete three or four messages and expunge, the messages instantly reappear as unseen.). I typically wipe the .imap directories between different builds of Dovecot. I've been following the -test code for a couple of months now, just to see how it does, because we're running UW IMAPd and are excited to have a way to increase the performance of our mail cluster (indexes) without having to move away from mbox. Let me know if there's more information I could provide that would be helpful. Jim

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[Dovecot] Excessive imap_login processes
by Keith Edmunds 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

I'm running Dovecot on a very small mail server (never more than six users accessing IMAP, often fewer). I'm seeing the number of imap_login processes grow over time, and right now there are 23. All the "login_process_*" settings in dovecot.conf are commented (ie, at their defaults). Is this a known or expected issue? The version of Dovecot is 0.99.10.8, which I accept is perhaps a little old. Thanks, Keith

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test55
by Timo Sirainen 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Sorry :) The last fix I made a few minutes before test54 release didn't turn out to be exactly correct.

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[Dovecot] big troubel - damaged mailboxfolders
by Götz Reinicke 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hi, because the fedora project switcht from wu imap to dovecot, i followed this step. Today I'm very unhappy about this step, because there are more problems for me than advantages... But today the biggest problem is, that a lot!!! of mailboxes are damaged. within three year no mailbox was damaged using wu imap. The errormessage is: imap(cstrang): File isn't in mbox format: /var/mail/cstrang the server is fedora core 1, dovecot-0.99.11. May be I have something misconfigured, but where to look at? Any ideas, what causes the damage? And installing the test-version isnt an alternativ for my production server vor 500 users. Regards Götz Reinicke -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test55, threading does not include new messages
by Nicolas.Kowalski＠imag.fr 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hello. The dovecot server is 1.0-test55, with maildir storage. The MUA is pine 4.61, using thread sort. When I open a folder containing new messages (delivered through procmail), the threads do not include these messages. I have to close the folder, then open it again to make the threads complete. Thanks in advance. -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test53 and 'Junk in start of group' messages
by Nicolas.Kowalski＠imag.fr 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hello. I am using dovecot-1.0-test53 with Maildir mailstore, with pine 4.61 as MUA. I have several folders which cause error messages like 'Junk in start of group' in Pine when I read them. I googled a bit for this, and found that removing the index file should do the trick, but unfortunately, it does not. What can I do to make these annoying messages disappear ? Thanks in advance. -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] dovecot only answers to imap connections
by Mitch Pirtle 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hey list, Finally got up and running, and now am trying to figure out why dovecot would only accept imap connections - I have people that are happy with pop, but they can only authenticate when they use imap. Is there a conf setting for this somewhere that I am missing? -- Mitch

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test54
by Timo Sirainen 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Fixing crashes and other index problems with test53.

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[Dovecot] Entourage on Dovecot 09.11, is 1.0-test the answer?
by Michael Maggard 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Background: I'm running a RH9 box with Dovecot 0.99.11. Dovecot was installed using yum and the rpm found on http://dag.wieers.com/packages/dovecot/. With two exceptions I've been enormously happy with Dovecot. I'm even happier having recently successfully installed pop-before-smtp sop one exception down. However the other problem I've experienced is becoming critical. I've an ongoing issue with MS Entourage clients, a MS for Mac product, unable to authenticate to Dovecot. This had been attributed to MacOS 9/MS Entourage 2001 but with new systems in place I'm having the same issue with MacOS X/MS Entourage 2004 being unable to authenticate to Dovecot. MS acknowledges the issue in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/871016 with the errata: > 5 Known issues > 5.1 NTLM v1 authentication support > Entourage no longer supports NTLM v1 authentication. Entourage does support NTLM v2. Where I am now: There has been previous references to an Entourage authentication issue on the mailing list but it was resolved by "after I tried everything else with no success, upgrading from Dovecot 0.99.10.2 to 0.99.10.4 solved the problem." Well, I'm at 0.99.11 so apparently this is back, or something else is going on. >From several hours going over the mailing list it appears that Dovecot 1.0-test is the solution with it's extended NTLM support. However I'm not a very sophisticated sysadmin and so it was with trepidation I downloaded dovecot-1.0-test52 and started following the instructions. After a quick "yum install openssl-development" I thought I was good to go but alas "./configure --with-ssl=openssl" resulted in: > ./configure: line 26374: pkg-config: command not found > checking for SSL_read in -lssl... yes > checking openssl/ssl.h usability... no > checking openssl/ssl.h presence... no > checking for openssl/ssl.h... no > checking openssl/err.h usability... yes > checking openssl/err.h presence... yes > checking for openssl/err.h... Yes and make failed with a cascade of errors after: > In file included from /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:179, > from ssl-proxy-openssl.c:14: > /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:72:18: krb5.h: No such file or directory Why I'm posting: So, hoping I've given enough detail to be useful, here are my questions: * Am I correct that MS Entourage 2004 can't authenticate with Dovecot .99.11? Are there folks it does work for (how)? * Am I correct that Dovecot-1.0-test has support for NTLMv2 and would thus authenticate MS Entourage 2004? * Does anyone have a prebuilt (yum suitable) rpm of a recent Dovecot 1.0-test for RH9? Dag appears to only carry released versions, is there a source for -test ones? * Is there something trivial I'm overlooking in trying to build dovecot-1.0-test52? I'm assuming I'm missing /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h, is this correct? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I was pushing my skillset getting pop-before-smtp working. While I'm good at following directions and learning from them I'm just that; learning. -- Michael <michael(a)michaelmaggard.com>

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test53, sig11 when sorting by thread
by Nicolas.Kowalski＠imag.fr 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Hello. When trying to sort a folder by thread (with pine4.61), I get a sig11. The mailstore is Maildir, indexes stored in /var/indexes/%u. The syslog on the server shows this: Nov 29 11:37:55 olan dovecot: IMAP(kowalski): Corrupted index cache file /var/indexes/kowalski/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: record points outside file Nov 29 11:37:56 olan dovecot: child 14344 (imap) killed with signal 11 A backtrace of the core is attached. Thanks. PS: I tried with mbox mailstore, and got the same sig11. -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] test53 and signal 11 errors
by Sean Porter 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

I installed test53 tonight, and I've begun to see the following error in my maillog every time I attempt to retrieve mail from an imap client: dovecot: child 46128 (imap) killed with signal 11 I built from source on FreeBSD 4.9 with the following: ./configure --with-mysql --with-storages=maildir --with-ssl=openssl A little bit of Googling seems to indicate that this is a hardware issue(http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/), but I've not had this error under any other circumstances. What other information would be helpful to sort this out?

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test53
by Timo Sirainen 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ Sorry for not answering any questions for past two weeks, I'll try to get around answering them in next few days. I've also been thinking about if I should switch from CVS to Darcs. It seems to be exactly the kind of reversion control tool I had wanted to use. Anyone have comments for or against it? I'd still have read-only CVS repository generated from it, although I couldn't yet find a way to do it. Anyway, test53: - Recent flag counters should finally be correct - dovecot-shared file actually works correctly now - Cache file works with mmap_disable = yes (still some small issues though) - Lots of internal changes in indexing code, especially for mmap_disable = yes - DIGEST-MD5 authentication works again - etc. It's been running with me for 45mins without breaking. Guess it should work. :)

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AW: Re: [Dovecot] [OT] Apple Mail.app access to localhost imap whe n nonetwork
by valo＠valo.at 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

> This script is what I use -- note that you need to have it on the > server, and then call ssh to execute that script (on the server) > immediately. > #!/bin/sh > # arch-tag: dbfe44f6-0d80-40c4-948a-bac05a804bf5 > > export MAIL=/home/johannes/Maildir > export MAILBOX_CHECK_INTERVAL=60 > exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap Hi. IIRC you should exec dovecot as a whole, to use it properly. Also edit your dovecot.conf to only serve imap. christian

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[Dovecot] Orientation and configuration help
by J Moore 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

This sounds to me like a "RTFM" question, but I've read the Wiki, and looked through the m.l. archives as far back as July... I still don't have a clear answer, so I'm posting here :/ I'm currently using mutt as my mail client. It runs on the same host that runs the sendmail MTA for my domain. So sendmail "delivers" my mail to /var/mail/<username>, and I read it from that location w/ mutt, transferring the "new" mail to a folder in my home directory if I want to save it (/home/<username>/Mail/<foldername>). This arrangement has been convenient, useful and reasonably secure (I think): I can check mail from anywhere via SSH, and I don't have to worry about downloading virus-laden spam/shit to my Windoze (corporate) laptop. Now, I want to change; I want to use dovecot to provide IMAP access to my mail. I'd like to do this in such a way that I can still access mail using mutt when I want/need to do so. I've installed dovecot, and reviewed /etc/dovecot.conf. I think I need to do the following to get underway: 1) create a directory for Maildir-formatted folders: mkdir /home/<username>/Maildir 2) start the dovecot daemon Is that it? Will dovecot "take over" from mutt, and put mail in my home directory? Or do I need to configure sendmail to deliver to dovecot? Also, there are other users/email accounts on the mail server that I would like to leave "as-is". Over time, I may want to migrate them to dovecot as well, but I'm reluctant to switch everything over until I've had a chance to evaluate it. Should I run dovecot as a "rootless" installation to get it for a single user, or should I just set my single UID in dovecot.conf? Thanks, Jay

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[Dovecot] Which is the imap root directory? Conflicting documentation...
by Tom 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

So, which is the imap root directory? I am getting conflicting definitions from the documentation (copied below)... ------------------------ mbox storage requires detecting INBOX location and IMAP root directory. If MAIL environment points to file (+rw) it's treated as the INBOX file. If it points to directory (+rwx) which contains .imap/ (+rwx), inbox (+rw) or mbox (+rw) it's treated as IMAP root directory. If INBOX isn't known, imap_root/inbox file is used by default. If root directory isn't known, we try to find it from /, ~/mail or ~/Mail. Files created by Dovecot ------------------------ .subscriptions: One folder per line listing subscribed IMAP folders. There's only one of these files in the root mail directory (~/Maildir/ or ~/mail/.imap/). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ My .subscription file is located in ~/mail/ but the documentation states only one should be in ~/mail/.imap/ !!!! Thanks, OOOrah

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[Dovecot] problem setting up dovecot server
by Tanim Islam 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Hi all: I have a problem running my dovecot server. I get the following error message when trying to get mail from my account with INBOX in /var/spool/mail/tanim (username tanim). Nov 22 19:23:00 phobos imap(tanim): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/tanim: Permission denied What permissions should I set for the mailbox? I am running dovecot-0.99.11-1.1. Tanim -- Astronomy 109, Department of Astronomy P. O. Box 3818, University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903

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[Dovecot] Strace of Dovecot segfaulting.
by Chris Tooley 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Please find attached the strace of dovecot, configure for use with LDAP segfaulting and throwing no error. I need to get this thing to run. It happens on startup. Chris Tooley Networking Technologies Resource Center, LLC Networking and Consulting Services Manager 8650 Spicewood Springs Rd Suite 105 Austin, TX 78759 (512)250-8985 x802 (512)659-2498 (Mobile) (512)250-5909 (Fax) www.ntrc.net

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[Dovecot] Only one malfunction in months - now running dovecot-1.0-test52
by Kim Culhan 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Dont think there has been even one failure in some months of use but tonight we're seeing this running test-52 While running squirrelmail 1.5.1-CVS a certain message causes: dovecot: Nov 17 22:25:14 Error: IMAP(kimc): file ostream-file.c: line 643 (_send_istream): assertion failed: (instream->v_offset <= in_size) dovecot: Nov 17 22:25:14 Error: child 72172 (imap) killed with signal 6 FWIW squirrelmail shows: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: FETCH 5 BODY[1] If I retrieve the message with Outlook, it shows the message has no text and a single jpeg attachment. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Dovecot] SASL authentication
by Tom Allison 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

I was browsing the wiki and found a section on what appears to be as close to "exactly what I'm looking for" as I've seen in a long time. http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql However, I'm not inclined to do very much "blind" configuration on my machines without first understanding the what/why of it all. My theory is that this helps me with the RTFM syndromes later. Hopefully. My current dovecot installation is based on pgsql authentication with a single domain and files being placed in a $HOME. It's as if it were /etc/passwd based, but the passwords are different. I would very much like to migrate this into a system which supports multiple domains and this Wiki seems to be the best means for that. However, I didn't use SASL authentication. I was emotionally scarred trying to use SASL with a venture with Cyrus-IMAP under different circumstances. Could someone explain why SASL is a good thing in this case? Does it allow for something more, lead into future developements? Most of the rest of this general paper I do understand, but the SASL is the only part where I'm not sure if I must do that, want to do that, or can live without it.

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[Dovecot] NFS, test52, maildir, freebsd 4.x and OS X (Panther) Server
by Sean Porter 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

I've been working on setting up a Dovecot server with a maildir mailboxes stored over NFS. Initially, everything was working great, and then I started seeing this error as previously discussed on the list in my maillog: (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) Timo, in another thread, suggested to remove line 247 in mail-index-transaction.c in the test52 source, which I blithely ignored as I thought this would remove only the error message from the logfile and not fix the problem. At Mark Lidstone's helpful off-list insistence I did remove the line, recompile, and everything did seem to be working, until I encountered a different error. I started doing some light load testing from multiple clients (essentially, clicking like a rabid monkey on Get Mail in Thunderbird and hitting different mailbox links in Squirrelmail as the same user) and started running into this error in the logs: Nov 22 20:10:46 server dovecot: IMAP(mailuser(a)example.com): rename(/host/mail/mailboxes/mailuser(a)example.com/dovecot-uidlist.lock, /host/mail/mailboxes/mailuser(a)example.com/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Input/output error Nov 22 20:10:46 server dovecot: IMAP(mailuser(a)example.com): file_dotlock_replace(/host/mail/mailboxes/mailuser(a)example.com/dovecot- uidlist) failed: Input/output error Oddly, the dovecot-uidlist.lock file was unremovable on the NFS server (OS X Panther Server) with a simple 'rm', so I started digging into things a little further. It seems that the OS X NFS code is based on the FreeBSD 5.x codebase. The server that Dovecot (and my NFS client) lives on is FreeBSD 4.x, which doesn't support NFS locking at all(incidentally, the FreeBSD NFS Server is apparently incompatible with Linux NFS clients as well -- nice!). Per the suggestion in http://www.dovecot.org/doc/nfs.txt I'd already been storing my index files locally, but it appeared that the control files were somehow blowing up, even with NFS-safe dotlocking. All hope was nearly lost when I came across this tidbit in a post from Timo(http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2003-May/001489.html): - :CONTROL=dir in default_mail_env can specify where to save dovecot-uidlist and .customflags files. Useful for above problems. I then changed my dovecot.conf to retreive the mailboxes from the NFS mount, but store the indexes and the control files locally: default_mail_env = maildir:/host/mail/mailboxes/%u:INDEX=/home/dovecot/%u/indexes: CONTROL=/home/dovecot/%u/control All seems well so far. I know this is a relatively unique setup, but I thought it might help some of the other people that are running into NFS-related issues. Suggestion: perhaps the :CONTROL directive could be added to mail-storages.txt or dovecot-example.conf? A hint may also want to be added to http://www.dovecot.org/doc/nfs.txt. Sean

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[Dovecot] AppleMail causes dovecot error: file mbox-rewrite.c: line 429 assertion failed
by Adam Rosi-Kessel 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

I get the following error message in my syslog frequently when a user accesses the dovecot (IMAP) server from his OS X AppleMail client: Nov 24 09:45:42 myhost imap(someuser): file mbox-rewrite.c: line 429 (mbox_write_header): assertion failed: (hdr_parsed_size.physical_size == hdr_size) Nov 24 09:45:42 myhost dovecot: child 23277 (imap) killed with signal 6 Usually each message appears 5-6 times. The user on the other end doesn't notice any problems. Any idea why this occurs and what I can do to prevent it? I'm using dovecot from Debian sid, 0.99.11-3. Otherwise a fairly standard configuration. -- Adam Rosi-Kessel http://adam.rosi-kessel.org

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[Dovecot] Runtime root directory
by Brad Robel-Forrest 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

I'm considering modifying the Dovecot source to support a runtime designation for the root directory instead of relying on the prefix provided via configure. Once complete, it would be possible to move the root directory around somewhat ad-hoc after installation without having to rebuild the source. The primary driver for this is that I'd like to wrap a binary build of Dovecot within an OSX application bundle. These bundles can be placed anywhere the user desires, so Dovecot couldn't rely on a particular build-defined root directory. Before I get too far down the path, I'd like to know if there's a desire for this type of enhancement. If so, I'd like to provide a diff that would meet any other requirements for this change. There are two methods I was considering. Feel free to suggest a better alternative as I'm not ecstatic about either at the moment. 1. Find and change all uses of the prefix directory to instead prepend a value obtained from the environment (say, DOVECOT_ROOT_DIR). 2. Find and change all uses of the prefix directory to instead prepend a value obtained from the configuration file (say, a new setting called "dovecot_root_dir"). In either case, if the value was not available or not a valid directory, I would fall back to the build prefix. I would also make this functionality optional via configure--defaulted "off". -brad

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0-test52 and LDAP authentication
by Jonathan Salomon 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Hi all! I have upgraded Dovecot 0.99.11 installation that's worked with LDAP to Dovecot 1.0-test52 and I can't get LDAP to work. I noticed the /etc/dovecot.conf is slightly different, so I have adjusted changes. If I use the standard auth (passw & pam) everything works fine, however when I user ldap for auth Dovecot starts but then dies: dovecot: Nov 26 14:14:36 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Nov 26 14:14:36 Error: child 16454 (auth) killed with signal 11 As far as I can tell the /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf hasn't changed since 0.99.11 and the LDAP server is working properly. What is happening here? I did a 'strace -f dovecot 2>log' because I saw this in the mailing list archive, but it doesn't really tell me anything, so I have someone can tell me what is happening here. I have included the tail below. Thank you in advance! Jonathan [pid 16545] rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x8056330, [TERM], SA_RESTART}, <unfinished ...> [pid 16546] <... sendmsg resumed> ) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) [pid 16545] <... rt_sigaction resumed> {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 [pid 16546] --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- [pid 16545] rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, <unfinished ...> [pid 16546] write(2, "\1Ffd_send(-1) failed: Broken pip"..., 34 <unfinished ...> [pid 16545] <... rt_sigaction resumed> {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 [pid 16546] <... write resumed> ) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) [pid 16545] rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_IGN}, <unfinished ...> [pid 16546] --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- [pid 16545] <... rt_sigaction resumed> {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 [pid 16546] exit_group(82) = ? Process 16546 detached [pid 16545] open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 [pid 16545] fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 [pid 16545] fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 [pid 16545] getdents64(6, /* 2 entries */, 4096) = 48 [pid 16545] getdents64(6, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 [pid 16545] close(6) = 0 [pid 16545] getsockname(0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(143), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, [16]) = 0 [pid 16545] getsockname(1, <unfinished ...> [pid 16547] <... select resumed> ) = 1 (in [5]) [pid 16545] <... getsockname resumed> 0xfef3d050, [28]) = -1 ENOTSOCK (Socket operation on non-socket) [pid 16547] read(5, <unfinished ...> [pid 16545] sendmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 56}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0 <unfinished ...> [pid 16547] <... read resumed> "0\f\2\1\2e\7\n", 8) = 8 [pid 16545] <... sendmsg resumed> ) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) [pid 16547] read(5, <unfinished ...> [pid 16545] --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- [pid 16547] <... read resumed> "\1\0\4\0\4\0", 6) = 6 [pid 16545] write(2, "\1Ffd_send(-1) failed: Broken pip"..., 34 <unfinished ...> [pid 16547] time( <unfinished ...> [pid 16545] <... write resumed> ) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) [pid 16547] <... time resumed> NULL) = 1101483703 [pid 16545] --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- [pid 16547] time( <unfinished ...> [pid 16545] exit_group(82) = ? Process 16545 detached <... time resumed> [1101483703]) = 1101483703 geteuid32() = 0 geteuid32() = 0 time(NULL) = 1101483703 write(5, "0s\2\1\3cn\4\35ou=Groups,dc=2male"..., 117) = 117 time([1101483703]) = 1101483703 select(1024, [5], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [5]) read(5, "0\f\2\1\3e\7\n", 8) = 8 read(5, "\1\0\4\0\4\0", 6) = 6 time(NULL) = 1101483703 geteuid32() = 0 setgroups32(1, [97]) = 0 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 6 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1074, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xf6f0f000 read(6, "TZif\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\r\0\0\0\r\0"..., 4096) = 1074 close(6) = 0 munmap(0xf6f0f000, 4096) = 0 chroot("/var/run/dovecot/login") = 0 chdir("/") = 0 setuid32(97) = 0 setuid32(0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) getgid32() = 97 getegid32() = 97 setgid32(0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) setrlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC, {rlim_cur=1, rlim_max=1}) = 0 gettimeofday({1101483703, 638988}, {4294967236, 0}) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x8056320, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8056330, [INT], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x8056330, [TERM], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 6 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(6, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 getdents64(6, /* 2 entries */, 4096) = 48 getdents64(6, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(6) = 0 getsockname(0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(143), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, [16]) = 0 getsockname(1, 0xfef8b470, [28]) = -1 ENOTSOCK (Socket operation on non-socket) sendmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 56}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- write(2, "\1Ffd_send(-1) failed: Broken pip"..., 34) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- exit_group(82) = ? Process 16547 detached

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[Dovecot] [OT] Apple Mail.app access to localhost imap when no network
by Alan Schmitt 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Hello, Sorry for the offtopic subject, but I tried asking this on some Apple mailing lists and could not find an answer there, and as it's related to imap (provided by dovecot), someone might know something about this. The problem is the following: I have a local IMAP server provided by dovecot, so that I can store my mail in maildir format, and read it both using mutt and Apple Mail.app. Mail.app is configured to access localhost:143 to access mail. However, I discovered that when there is no network connection (no ethernet cable plugged in and no wifi network), Mail.app is saying that it's working in disconnected mode and refuses to access the imap server. Would someone have a suggestion as to what to do to allow connected access to localhost when no network is present? I'm very new to OS X (I come from Linux). Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot only answers to imap connections
by Mitch Pirtle 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Nope, just sticking with simple pop3 at this point ;-) The second issue I am having is that Thunderbird seems to 'freeze' from time to time on directories that have more than 1000 messages in them. I remember reading earlier that there were some performance tweaks for Thunderbird, but I lost the link :-( I cannot replicate the authentication problem, and will wait to see if it is a layer 8 protocol error (between the ears). Thanks for the help, you have been stupendous! -- Mitch On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:01:29 -0700, Saurabh Barve <sa(a)atmos.colostate.edu> wrote: > Are you using simple POP3 or secure POP3? If you are using secure POP3, > then you have to tell the clients that they need to accept your > certificate permanently, not just for that session. Otherwise, the mail > clients will complain about self-signed certificates every time they > log in.

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[Dovecot] Cannot see contents of ~/mail folder
by Saurabh Barve 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Hi, I just installed dovecot-0.99 on my Fedora Core 2 machine. When I start the secure IMAP daemon, I am able to see my Inbox, but not the other folders in the 'mail' folder in my home directory (sent-mail, saved-messages, etc.) These folders were created when I was using pine earlier on the machine. In my dovecot.conf file, I have set: default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u I am using Mozilla Mail as my mail client, if that makes a difference. Dovecot seems to be creating a directory called .imap inside the 'mail' folder, where it is storing the inbox and a Trash folder. I have set "mail_full_filesystem_access = no" so that users don't access any of their other files except the mail folder. From what I understand, I don't have to set IMAP path in Mozilla Mail. I tried doing that too, just to try it out, but as expected, it didn't work. What do I need to set in order to see my other folders in the 'mail' directory? Thanks, Saurabh. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- Saurabh Barve Phone : (970) 491-7714 E-mail : sa(a)atmos.colostate.edu System Administrator, Montgomery Research Group, Deptt of Atmos. Sci., CSU, Fort Collins, CO - 80523

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[Dovecot] ssl_ca_file
by Jacob Elder 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

I am very fond of Dovecot, but it would be nice to have a more useful SSL implementation. When do you think we'll see a non-beta version that supports ssl_ca_file? I am running 0.99.11-3 from Debian testing. -- Jacob Elder

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[Dovecot] Error in IMAP command GETACL: Unknown command..
by Ingo Lantschner (Lists) 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hi all, I have just installed dovecot on my Fedora Core 2 box. I would like to use it only for reading archived email from within my Mozilla 1.7.3. I syminked my old opera-files (*.mbs whoch seems to be same as mbox) into ~/mail. Seems to work fine, mostly I can open the mailfiles - sometimes it hangs with the following error: The current command did not succeed. The mailserver responded: Error in IMAP command GETACL: Unknown command.. And then: The current command did not succeed. The mailserver responded: Error in IMAP command MYRIGHTS: Unknown command.. ALthough I searched in Google and in the Wiki on dovecot, I did not find any hint - am I the first with this problem? TIA Ingo. -- Ingo Lantschner T (+43-1) 59 55 766 M (+43-664) 143 84 18 -- Ingo Lantschner T (+43-1) 59 55 766 M (+43-664) 143 84 18

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Re: [Dovecot] [OT] Apple Mail.app access to localhost imap when no network
by Alan Schmitt 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Le 22 nov. 04, à 14:30, Simon Waters a écrit : >> I tried that, and it did not work. I guess Mail.app must be trying to >> resolve some name (that is not localhost), and failing somehow. > > Stupid question, but does "localhost" resolve. Most systems it must > appear in > /etc/hosts for it to resolve. You can always specify 127.0.0.1 as the > server > to rule out name resolution. Thanks for this suggestion. "localhost" does resolve (I tried to ping it, and it worked), and 127.0.0.1 does not change anything. So I guess my initial guess was wrong, and Mail must be trying to see if the network is up before even trying to log in. Alan Schmitt

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[Dovecot] .INBOX required?
by Todd Slater 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Hi, Newbie to Dovecot and IMAP in general. The system in question is RH 9, Dovecot 0.99.11, Maildir, accessing mail with SquirrelMail, Thunderbird, Kmail, Mutt, Entourage and Mail.app. I've set up the maildir for users in ~/Maildir. Inside that I have other folders, .Sent, .Drafts, .Trash, .Junk, .MakeJunk, .MakeGood. ~/Maildir itself has the cur, new, and tmp folders, but I note that there is also an .INBOX folder. Mail to the account does end up in ~/Maildir/new and it's readable in the various MUA's (as Inbox). I'm just not certain why the .INBOX is there, and if I'm supposed to be creating the other folders as .INBOX.otherfolder. Thanks, Todd

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] add initial response support for NTLM and RPA
by Andrey Panin 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Hello, this patch adds initial response support for NTLM and RPA authentication mechanism. It can be useful if dovecot acts as authentication backend for SMTP server. RFC2554 permits initial response in AUTH command, so it's legal to send NTLM type 1 message or RPA token 1 in it. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] assertion failed: (!t->view->external)
by Peter Hessler 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Nov 18 17:29:54 gir dovecot: imap-login: Login: jmcvetta [69.106.50.255] Nov 18 17:30:02 gir dovecot: IMAP(jmcvetta): file mail-index-transaction.c: line 247 (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) Nov 18 17:30:02 gir dovecot: child 31094 (imap) killed with signal 6 I saw this in my maillog. I have no idea what that user is doing, but I can harrass him and find out if need be. I'm using 1.0-test52 on OpenBSD/macppc. -- There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. (3) Forbid your kids to do it.

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[Dovecot] [Fwd: Re: [Evolution] evo confused when searching message bodies on large folders?]
by Dan Stromberg 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Is this possibly a problem with dovecot 0.99.10.9? Maybe it's been fixed in a later release? Might it be a security issue? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external)
by Mark Lidstone 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone's seen anything like this? Nov 15 14:16:13 olympic dovecot: imap-login: Login: postmaster [192.168.0.32] Nov 15 14:17:05 olympic dovecot: IMAP(postmaster): file mail-index-transaction.c: line 247 (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) Nov 15 14:17:05 olympic dovecot: child 20184 (imap) killed with signal 6 Nov 15 14:17:19 olympic dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Nov 15 14:17:19 olympic dovecot: Dovecot v1.0-test52 starting up I'm running (as you might have guessed) test52 on Linux (i386) using maildirs. The client is Thunderbird. This only appears to be happening when viewing certain mail folders in the IMAP account. As a temporary fix, it seems to stop happening when I delete the ".imap*" files in the affected folder, but this is hardly an ideal solution. If you want any debug-type information please send me "idiots guide" type instructions as to how to do it - I'm not a software engineer :? Many thanks, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== ==

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[Dovecot] Rebuilind help
by Clinton Mills 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Okay see if you can see what I am doing wrong? Looking at the timestamp [root@ns3 sbin]# ls -la /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 471186 Nov 13 18:25 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot rebuilding [root@ns3 sbin]# /root/dovecot-0.99.11/configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var ...... [root@ns3 sbin]# make ...... [root@ns3 sbin]# sudo make install .... Looking at the timestamp [root@ns3 sbin]# ls -la /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 471186 Nov 17 13:35 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot The file was updated! [root@ns3 dovecot-0.99.11]# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: Can't open configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf: No such file or directory Any ideas on why it is looking in /usr/local? Thanks Clinton Hitcents.com Tel: (270) 796-5063 ext 105# Fax: (270) 796-3195 Cell: (270) 996-1122

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDAP, SQL auth process memory leaks fixed
by Timo Sirainen 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Pretty simple bug, fixed finally. For 0.99.x: http://dovecot.org/patches/sql-ldap-auth-leak.diff Next 1.0-test release (or next nightly snapshot) fixes it for 1.0-tests.

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[Dovecot] noob - Outlook Duplicate Problem Question
by Jeff Ramsey 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Hi, I use dovecot 0.99-11 with sendmail latest, and clamav-milter, and spamass-milter. Whole setup works great. We only use dovecot for pop3, no imap. We use primarily Outlook 2000-2003 for a client. I have a couple of users who prefer to leave a copy of each message on the server. I read the archives about the Outlook Duplicate Message problem regarding the setting 'Leave a copy on the Server'. I read that someone fixed this by changing the order of the UIDL from datestamp.message# to message#.datestamp. My question is if I make that change in my source for 0.99-11, will the 1.0 version have a fix for this included, or should I look for another pop3 server? I'd like to continue to use dovecot as it is very light and fast, but I'm trying to eliminate using source compiled binaries on my production servers, and letting YUM do my updates for me. I can compile this version from source, using the fix that was mentioned in the September Archives for this list, if I know that the problem (which is an MS problem, go figure) will be gone in future RPM binary packages. Thanks for any info or help. Jeff Ramsey MIS Administrator Tubafor Mill, Inc.

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test52
by Timo Sirainen 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ I have very high hopes that mbox support is finally stable in this version. I've been running some stress tests for an hour now without it breaking (well, there are two potential problems but I think they were just fixing previous breakages). Before it took only a few minutes at most to break. - fixes several mbox syncing problems, especially expunges potentially deleted parts of wrong messages - maildir: readdir() race conditions are fixed by keeping dovecot-uidlist lock a bit more than before (it really doesn't matter in most cases, we did this before as well but slightly less often. so this really fixes just the problematic cases without giving hardly any more overhead than there was before) - index header changed a bit. will rebuild indexes and print some cache indexid errors.. i should hide these errors too.. - fixed memory leaks in dovecot-auth

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[Dovecot] dovecot and outlook express and large messages
by Daniel 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi I have been using Dovecot 0.99.11 and 1.0-test52 on a server with about 2000 accounts. All has been working good until a few days ago. Now I'm stuck and can't work out whats going on. The problem seems to be only with Outlook/outlook express clients. If the mail is large with an attachment its fails. After you hit the send and receive button after a while Outlook express gives the error "Your POP3 server has not responded in 60 seconds". Network activity seem to be minimal between the client and the server. There is no log entry out of the ordinary to say what went wrong. I have tried out a number of changes to the dovecot.conf file, none make any difference. Thanks for any help. Regards Daniel Rowe

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[Dovecot] eudora issue
by kent crispin 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

There seems to be a protocol mismatch between eudora and dovecot when using pop. The login interchange with, for example, mozilla, is as follows: MO: [connects] DC: +OK dovecot ready. MO: CAPA DC: +OK DC: CAPA DC: TOP DC: USER DC: UIDL DC: RESP-CODES DC: STLS DC: SASL PLAIN DC: . MO: USER yyy DC: +OK MO: PASS xxxxxxxx DC: +OK Logged in. But with eudora, with apparently equivalent configuration, the sequence is as follows: EU: [connects] DC: +OK dovecot ready. EU: CAPA DC: +OK DC: CAPA DC: TOP DC: USER DC: UIDL DC: RESP-CODES DC: STLS DC: SASL PLAIN DC: . EU: auth PLAIN AG1tcgBtaXN0bGV0b2U= DC: -ERR Unsupported authentication mechanism. At this point eudora reports an error back to the user, and the connection fails. Can anyone shed any light on this? Is it just that there is an incompatibility in how eudora and dovecot view the protocol? Or is there some configuration option I need to tweak to make things work? Thanks for any help. Kent -- Kent Crispin kent(a)songbird.com SIP: 81202(a)fwd.pulver.com

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[Dovecot] (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) Is this a bug?
by Daniel 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi I am getting this a lot. Is this a bug? (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) can be fixed by deleting the /home/<user>/mail/.imap directory. It has happened a few times with me. Regards Daniel Rowe

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[Dovecot] (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external)
by Daniel 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi (mail_index_expunge): assertion failed: (!t->view->external) can be fixed by deleting the /home/<user>/mail/.imap directory. It has happened a few times with me. Regards Daniel Rowe

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[Dovecot] RE: dovecot and outlook express and large messages
by Daniel 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi Dose dovecot have problem working on a eth0:1 alias type interfaces? I just wondering if this could be my problem? Dovecot would do the authentication correctly and send small email but as soon as any load was put on it like downloading a mail with a large attachment it would fail. All network traffic would stop. No errors in the logs. As soon as I move the service to listen on a non alias interface eth0 all works fine. Very strange. I have taken a good look at our server to check that is not anything. I'm pretty sure we are good. I have also rebooted the box to see if that would fixed it which it didn't. Regards Daniel

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[Dovecot] dovecot with different POP3S / IMAPS Certs
by Vincent Jaussaud 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi, I'm new to dovecot, but actually planning to switch a wide WU-IMAP/POP installation to dovecot. With WU-IMAP, a different certificate can be used by pop3s and imaps, allowing both server to be reachable through different hostnames,without SSL complaints on the client side; this is mostly used for scalability. I'm trying to do the same thing with dovecot; that is having dovecot using a different certificate for it's pop3s instance and imaps instance. Unfortunately, in dovecot configuration file, only one certificate can be set; used by both pop3s / imaps. Any idea of the best way to handle this ? Thanks ! Vincent. -- Vincent Jaussaud Kelkoo.com Security Manager email: tatooin(a)kelkoo.com GPG key: 1024D/3BFE3FC7 2002-02-07 "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." -- President Thomas Jefferson. 1743-1826

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth leaves zombies
by Stefano Maffulli 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi all, I have installed and configured dovecot on two different machines, so I don't have much experience with this server. One installation is giving me serious problems, that I have a hard time tracing. From the beginning: the machine is a debian mix (stable/unstable) dovecot 0.9.11, real users authenticated via pam_ldap/nss_ldap. It serves ~70 users, all of them using Outlook, Outlook Express and IMP. The system seems to work just fine for a while, but after a some time, some dovecot-auth zombies start appearing. I can't really understand who/what is causing them. The only thing I see in the logs are these lines, very sporadically, but I still couldn't trace when they happened. Nov 5 09:40:28 csv-mail-01 dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... Nov 5 09:40:28 csv-mail-01 dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 attempt(s) (BTW, also apache2 sends similar messages, I don't know if they are related) Nov 5 09:52:14 csv-mail-01 apache2: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... Nov 5 09:52:14 csv-mail-01 apache2: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 attempt(s) After a while dovecot stops authenticating and needs to be killed and restarted (/etc/init.d/dovecot stop takes some time to actually stop dovecot processes). Do you have any clue of what is going on and where I can investigate further? I would like to say 'it's Outlook's fault', but I really can't. Any hint appreciated. regards stef

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RE: [Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(homedir) failed: Permission denied
by Καράμπης Παναγιώτης 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

matthias thnx a lot for your hint. We are 2 admins on this box and this makes things complicated. /home 's permissions where 705 and that's the reason for this. Solved thank u again mate:) ________________________________ Από: Matthias Andree [mailto:matthias.andree@gmx.de] Αποστολή: Κυρ 14/11/2004 1:52 πμ Προς: Καράμπης Παναγιώτης Κοιν.: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Θέμα: Re: [Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(homedir) failed: Permission denied Καράμπης Παναγιώτης <epp719(a)epp.teicrete.gr> writes: > hello all i run dovecot as my imap server on my university and squirrel as webmail. But squirrel returns an error: > ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server > CAPABILITY > > i tail my /var/log/dovecot and this is the output with whatever user i try to log in and view mails: > > dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Fatal: chdir(/home/epp719) failed with uid 2975: Permission denied > dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Error: child 17554 (imap) returned error 89 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > i give the: > root@(host edited):/root# ls -lad /home/epp719 Panagiotis, if the user epp719 and dovecot are in a common group, that may be the cause why it isn't working. > drwx---r-x 4 epp719 users 368 2004-11-13 17:49 /home/epp719 > and directory exists i tried also changing permissions on dir but same things happen. > both .qmail and Maildir exist in the home directory. What are the permissions of the / and /home directories? ls -lad /home -- can dovecot execute the / and /home directories? If these are drwx------ or similar, that might be the problem. Hope that helps. -- Matthias Andree

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[Dovecot] Fatal: chdir(homedir) failed: Permission denied
by Καράμπης Παναγιώτης 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

hello all i run dovecot as my imap server on my university and squirrel as webmail. But squirrel returns an error: ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server CAPABILITY i tail my /var/log/dovecot and this is the output with whatever user i try to log in and view mails: dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Fatal: chdir(/home/epp719) failed with uid 2975: Permission denied dovecot: Nov 13 17:51:27 Error: child 17554 (imap) returned error 89 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i give the: root@(host edited):/root# ls -lad /home/epp719 drwx---r-x 4 epp719 users 368 2004-11-13 17:49 /home/epp719 and directory exists i tried also changing permissions on dir but same things happen. both .qmail and Maildir exist in the home directory. I attach the dovecot.conf file... any help is appreciated! PS: Sorry about my english its not my native language.. oh i forgot squirrel gets data and attachments from mysql...

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[Dovecot] make error
by Ken Woodward (IS) 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Dear DINH and TIMO, Here are the last lines before the fatal error. It says that "set fnord ; amf=$2; \ " is the command that caused the error. Does this make any sense to you? "if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /r/downloads/dovecot-0.99.11/src *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: set fnord ; amf=$2; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ list='src doc'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' Current working directory /r/downloads/dovecot-0.99.11 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive-am' /r/downloads/dovecot-0.99.11>"\ ============================================================================ ============================= I can include my complete config.log which does complete with no indication of failure reported at the end, BUT, inside it does list fatal errors like: "configure:2802: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lcposix >&5 ld: fatal: library -lcposix: not found ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to conftest" AND "Undefined first referenced symbol in file socket /var/tmp//ccsUoghx.o ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:21217: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ " AND "Undefined first referenced symbol in file inet_addr /var/tmp//cceuY9Eo.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1) ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:21383: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ " ============================================================================ ================================= Thanks for your help. P.S. Was I supposed to send a new message to dovecot at dovecot dot org like this or reply to your message?

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[Dovecot] make error
by Ken Woodward (IS) 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Can anyone help with this? I get the following error when running "make". "configure" worked fine. I am installing the latest dovecot on a Solaris OS10 machine make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' **** Error code 1 Also could someone tell me if it is possible to search all the archives through the complete message bodies or are we limited to searching each month individually and only on the message subject? Thanks for any help, Sincerely, Ken

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[Dovecot] pem help
by Clinton Mills 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

When I run this: /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot.conf I get this Fatal: Can't use SSL certificate /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory But in my conf file these are commented out?? #ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem Why would I get this error? Thanks Clinton Mills

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[Dovecot] pop3d keeps downloading messages over and over again
by Gordon Thagard 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Solaris 9 SunOS 5.9 Generic_117171-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250 gcc version 3.3.2 dovecot-0.99.11 compile options: LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --disable-ipv6 --with-file-offset-size=32 --with-mem-align=4 --with-rawlog --with-ssl=openssl OK, this applies whether or not a user account is set to leave mail on the server or not. There are several things that might happen, depending on who knows what: 1. Mail pops fine. 2. The "DO NOT DELETE THIS EMAIL" keeps downloading over and over again. 3. All emails since the switch to this new test dovecot pop3d will be downloaded over and over again. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Gordon Thagard

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[Dovecot] duplicate woes
by Jeff Ramsey 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hi, I have FC2/Sendmail/Dovecot default setup. I turned on POP3 and POP3S in /etc/dovecot.conf. I started out getting duplicates only when I was using Outlook w/ 'Leave copy on server' option. Lately, I've been getting duplicates at seemingly random messages sent to and from seemingly random users. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff Ramsey Tubafor Mill, Inc.

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[Dovecot] Popping without home directories
by Andre Grove 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hello there I tend to e-mail user accounts to my servers with /sbin/nologin and /dev/null as their shell and home directories respectively. I have discovered that Dovcot does not like it when a user does not have a home directory. Obviosly the user POP3 and not IMAP! :P Is there a work around for this? I have a suspicion it is one of the chroot option, but I do not know the meaning chroot. Thanks Andre

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[Dovecot] Possible Bug
by Chris L. Franklin 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Okay in dovecot.conf I set the fallowing settings log_path = /var/log/dovecot info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot Then I setup log rotation for that file (using logrotate). But after it does the rotation. Dovecot dies. Now I know why this happens. But should it ? To over come this I now have it set to stop dovecot and start dovecot after it's done dealing with the log file. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] bug with LIST IMAP command
by DINH Viet Hoa 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

I am in mbox configuration, and I am getting INBOX listed 3 times. I suppose the first is /var/mail/login and the others are $HOME/Mail but they appear twice. However, it seems this is a bug. << $ telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to utopia.priv. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. 01 LOGIN login password 01 OK Logged in. 02 LIST "" "*" * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" INBOX * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "queue" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" INBOX * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" INBOX * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "INBOX/pingouin" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "sent" * LIST (\NoInferiors) "/" "sent/1" 02 OK List completed. 02 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out 02 OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. >> -- DINH V. Hoa, "c'est stressant comme taf" -- coin

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] NTLM update and crashfix
by Andrey Panin 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

Hello, attached patch allows LM authentication for older (Win9x) clients which do not pass NTLM response in type 3 message. It also fixes crash in dovecot-auth (empty credentials could be passed to hex_to_binary function if NTLM2 was negotiated). Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] noob - integrating dovecot with postfix
by Mitch Pirtle 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

Hi list, Just jumped providers and am now desperately trying to get IMAP running on a new server... But not getting the link between postfix and dovecot working. :-( My two problems are: 1) local mail seems to get into the ~/Maildirs, but not from the outside (this is a postfix issue?) 2) I cannot find information on how to tell postfix to use virtual domains/addresses and then connect dovecot to them (as they are now in non-standard locations and/or formats) I'm sure this is a FAQ, but cannot find an example that would walk me though this. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction? -- Mitch

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[Dovecot] Excessive imap-login and pop3-login processes
by Ben Beuchler 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

I'm running a Linux mail server with Postfix and Dovecot. I've noticed that the number of "imap-login" processes usually sits around 240, and "pop3-login" usually around 50 or so. The comments in the config file seem to indicate that, with my setup, I shouldn't see more than about 10 of each. Am I misunderstanding the config or is this expected behavior? login_process_per_connection = no login_processes_count = 10 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_logging_users = 256 The mail server receives about 1.5 - 3 logins per second and usually has around 75 simultaneous IMAP sessions. There are rarely more than 1 or 2 simultaneous POP3 sessions open. Thanks... -Ben -- Ben Beuchler There is no spoon. insyte(a)emt-p.org -- The Matrix

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0-test52 build notes
by Mark E. Mallett 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

I thought I would try to use 'configure' to lay out the dovecot install a little differently than the default. I prefer all the support files under one tree (e.g. in /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0) rather than distributed around the filesystem. And I'd be happiest if all of the support files were just at that top level rather than in subdirectories. e.g.: /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot.conf /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/imap-login /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot-auth etc. (I'm happy to have a "doc" subdirectory though.) And ideally I'd have the primary executable installed in a more generic place, but tagged with its version number, like /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-1.0 Note that I'm not suggesting this, just explaining what I am after. So the second to last thing I tried was: --program-suffix=-1.0 \ --bindir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --sbindir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --sysconfdir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --datadir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --localstatedir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ But that didn't really work, for the reasons listed in the "last" try below, plus all of the executables got the "-1.0" suffix, not just the "dovecot" program (not a big surprise..). And the last thing I tried: --bindir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --sbindir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --sysconfdir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --datadir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ --localstatedir=/usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0 \ which kinda got me where I wanted, except that if I want a dovecot-1.0 executable in /usr/local/sbin I need to add that by hand, and also that the build process added another subdirectory "dovecot": /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/ I can (and did) manually remove that final directory and flatten out the tree, and fortunately you've made it possible to specify in dovecot.conf the paths to all the executables and so forth. But it would be nice to be able to create this desired layout entirely via configure and not have to move things around after the fact. Is that even possible? Obviously, don't spend a lot of time on it.. but if I'm missing an option that would get me where I want, I'd be interested in knowing about it. Oh, and "strings src/master/dovecot | grep /usr/local" gives this: /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot.conf /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/imap /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/run/dovecot /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/dovecot-auth /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/imap-login /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/pop3-login /usr/local/lib/dovecot-1.0/dovecot/pop3 /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 So it looks like there are a couple of places where the configured paths aren't caught (or so it would seem). Yours, -mm-

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0-test52 compile notes
by Mark E. Mallett 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Compile issues on an older BSD/OS 4.2 system: src/lib/byteorder.h needs #include <netinet/in.h> to pick up in_addr struct src/lib/byteorder.c no "libgen" here (no basename()). Added it inline, no big deal, but you might want to have configure test for this and provide one if it's missing. Also, on this system there are no types like "uint8_t" and "uint64_t" -- instead there are the u_int8_t and u_int64_t et al types. I added some global typedefs, but I gather this is a somewhat common issue, so you might want to test for these. -mm-

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[Dovecot] Runas Question
by Chris L. Franklin 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Okay heres a weird question is there anyways to make dovecot run as root ? Heres why: I'm currently using XMail email server (smtp/pop3/virtual accounts). And I love using it. But it really must run as root. I've tryed all the non-root solutions for it. and really I'd prefer to have it run as root. And I'd like to really use dovecot as (on server with xmail). Currently I've got it running with some sendmail server and a few postfixs But really I'd like to get it working with Xmail. So if anyone has any Ideas or how to get Dovecot to run as root. PS. I know the Idea behind dovecot is security and how it's coded to be able to run using non-root accont. So please I'm really only looking for ways to get dove to run as root. And not new ways of reconfiguring my smtp servers so as they don't need to be run as root. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] strange timeout with ssl
by Arnaud Lacroix 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Hello, First sorry for my poor english. slack 9.1 dovecot-0.99.11 (thanks for this) compiled with openssl (0.9.7b) MUA : Mozilla 1.5 (win32) Under a ssl session, at first, it's work. But a later ago, i recieved alway, when i tried to contact the server imap : "connecting to <host> timed out ..." This fact is never without ssl. No dns problems. I don't know how can i help you my best because i don't see the problem. So, i give you this information. Hope it will be help you for a solution. But its seem to be ok. #openssl s_client -host localhost -port 993 -verify -debug ... ... --- SSL handshake has read 841 bytes and written 340 bytes --- New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is AES256-SHA Server public key is 1024 bit SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1 Cipher : AES256-SHA Session-ID: ED349971D46EC76E2F75BB80ED52A0D081CE10B609F4761E176361629C9AE6AD Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Key-Arg : None Start Time: 1099614038 Timeout : 300 (sec) Verify return code: 18 (self signed certificate) --- * OK dovecot ready. // timeout : * BYE Disconnected for inactivity. read:errno=0 Thanks very much. Regards, Arnaud Lacroix.

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[Dovecot] Unread mail problem
by Clinton Mills 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Okay, here is the set up. I have Outlook set up to keep mail on the server for 5 days. At some point I started downloading all my mail that was on the server over and over again, even though I already have the mail. The weird thing is that it did not download all the mail, just a few. For example it would download 6 messages, then 18, then 12, etc! After I tried it a few times I had 50 of the same message in Outlook? A small fix, but I do not want to so this ever time If I unclick save on server and then check my mail, it will delete all the mail in my mail box. Then I reclick the leave on server for 5 days and it will work fine! Any idea what is going on? Clinton Hitcents.com Tel: (270) 796-5063 ext 105# Fax: (270) 796-3195 Cell: (270) 996-1122

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test52 - assertion failed
by Tom Sommer 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Clicked on a folder in Thunderbird and got this in the log: Nov 6 22:49:11 one dovecot: imap-login: Login: ts(a)dreamcoder.dk [10.24.0.1] Nov 6 22:49:11 one dovecot: IMAP(ts(a)dreamcoder.dk): Corrupted index cache file dreamcoder.dk/ts/Maildir/.INBOX.Mailing Lists.bugzilla/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed Nov 6 22:49:11 one dovecot: IMAP(ts(a)dreamcoder.dk): file mail-cache-fields.c: line 338 (mail_cache_header_fields_get): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(dest) == sizeof(hdr) + (sizeof(uint32_t)*2 + 2) * hdr.fields_count) Nov 6 22:49:11 one dovecot: child 469 (imap) killed with signal 6 -- Tom

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RE: [Dovecot] Unread mail problem
by Mark Lidstone 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hi Clinton, I've come across the same problem several times before - Outlook keeps messing up it's list of seen UIDLs. Try using Thunderbird instead. I moved a load of people in our company to Thunderbird because they kept having that problem and it's not happened for them since. As a matter of interest - I've seen both Outlook and Outlook Express do this on dovecot, mercury/32 and Exchange (when using pop3 for pickup). I hope this helps, Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:mark.lidstone@bmtseatech.co.uk Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: Clinton Mills [mailto:clinton.mills@hitcents.com] Sent: 03 November 2004 14:13 To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Unread mail problem Okay, here is the set up. I have Outlook set up to keep mail on the server for 5 days. At some point I started downloading all my mail that was on the server over and over again, even though I already have the mail. The weird thing is that it did not download all the mail, just a few. For example it would download 6 messages, then 18, then 12, etc! After I tried it a few times I had 50 of the same message in Outlook? A small fix, but I do not want to so this ever time If I unclick save on server and then check my mail, it will delete all the mail in my mail box. Then I reclick the leave on server for 5 days and it will work fine! Any idea what is going on? Clinton Hitcents.com Tel: (270) 796-5063 ext 105# Fax: (270) 796-3195 Cell: (270) 996-1122

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] yet another NTLM update
by Andrey Panin 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hello, after more than week using dovecot as exim4 authentication backend, I noticed that some strange clients send type 3 messages with LM response only. Attached patch allows them to log in. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Logging and libwrap
by Jesse 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, A few things regarding logging and libwrap.. a) PAM_RHOST patch Back in July, dean gaudet helpfully posted a patch to dovecot PAM_RHOST the remote IP. Is this going to be included in the main dovecot tree? It seems like a worthwhile addition. The more informative and concise the logging the better. See http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-July/004011.html for the original message. b) Better logging Is it possible to get logging of when a client connects and disconnects? I'm very used to seeing this information and it's very useful for debugging user sessions. It's frustrating not being able to easily tell whether a user has opened a connection. Really many of the log messages could be more verbose. For instance, on disconnect, I see imap-login: Disconnected [ip.here] but the username they were logged in as isn't included. It would be nice to have that rather than having to dig back for a login message with the same IP. Heck, even the pid isn't logged. That would be nice too. c) libwrap Any chance of getting libwrap support built into dovecot? Right now I'm running dovecot out of xinetd, so that I can see when tcp connections are opened, and take advantage of tcpwrappers. But this causes the problem that dovecot thinks all connections come from the local host. Correlating logins to IPs gets to be a lot of hassle, with the information divided over so many lines, while needing multiple ways to track which messages from xinetd, dovecot and pam match each other. With some of the minor logging changes (more info on one line, notification of tcp connections), plus libwrap, it'd be much simpler and much more informative. :) Thanks for the great imap server. Just thinking of some improvements. :) --- Jesse <j(a)lumiere.net>

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[Dovecot] Test51 compile problems
by Greg Deputy 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

First of all, thanks for a great product. I've been able to get dovecot up and running with minimum pain. Very nice. Running Fedora Core 2 with postfix using mysql for virtual mailbox config. Got release version of dovecot working with a passwd-file, then I wanted to try it out with using the same mysql db as postfix, so I downloaded test51. I run ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-mysql And it seems happy. Completes with: Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll Building with SSL support ........... : no Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with user database modules . : static passwd passwd-file checkpassword mysql (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword mysql (modules) Then I run make, and it errors out with: gcc -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o dovecot-auth auth-cache.o auth-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 passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -ldl /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x5c): In function `sha1_result': : multiple definition of `sha1_result' ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x7f4):/root/dovecot-1.0-test51/src/lib/sh a1.c:242: first defined here /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `sha1_result' changed from 158 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) to 126 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [dovecot-auth] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0-test51/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0-test51/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0-test51' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] new crash in dovecot-auth test51
by Dan Sully 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

#0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 51 if ((io->condition & IO_NOTIFY_MASK) != 0) { (gdb) bt #0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 #1 0x0804fd68 in auth_client_connection_destroy_wait (conn=0x80877d8) at auth-client-connection.c:494 #2 0x08050acd in auth_callback (request=0x84716b8, result=134681554, reply=0x0, reply_size=0) at auth-client-connection.c:104 #3 0x08050950 in auth_client_input (context=0x80877d8) at auth-client-connection.c:286 #4 0x0805f170 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80898a8) at ioloop-epoll.c:243 #5 0x0805e698 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x8082b88) at ioloop.c:218 #6 0x080525a5 in main (argc=1, argv=0x0) at main.c:296 Linux 2.6.9 / glibc 2.3.3 / epoll (also does it with poll()) / vpopmail & passwd-db dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Warning: auth(vpopmail): Authentication client 8908: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Warning: auth(vpopmail): Authentication client 8908: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Warning: imap-login: Error sending request to auth server: Broken pipe dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Error: child 5689 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 28 09:31:28 Error: child 8908 (login) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Warning: auth(default): Authentication client 10685: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Warning: auth(default): Authentication client 10685: Transmit buffer full, killing it dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Error: child 5687 (auth) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Warning: imap-login: Error sending request to auth server: Connection reset by peer dovecot: Oct 28 09:51:26 Error: child 10685 (login) killed with signal 11 -D -- <iNoah> you know, most free operating systems come preinstalled with their own high horse.

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[Dovecot] GNUTLS bug?
by Grant Goodyear 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

We recently received a bug report about a compiler issue when using GNUTLS: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67628. I can confirm the same bug using 0.99.11. Help? Thanks, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer g2boojum(a)gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76

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[Dovecot] v0.99.11
by Knut Rauscher 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hello Timo, we are using dovcot v0.99.11 under Fedora Core 1. We tested following reproducible action with Outlook 2000 SP3, Outlook XP SP3 and Outlook 2003 SP1: folder test with subfolder test1 test test.test1 choose 'move folder' from the context (right-mouse-click) menu of test choose that we want to move folder test into his subfolder test1 (nonsense action, but quite a few employees trying to do that...) Outlook displays error message subscriptions shows correctly: test test1 BUT the directory structure of maildir is .test.test1.test.test1 .test.test1.test.test1.test Is this a mishap of Dovecot or Outlook? Regards, Knut

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[Dovecot] dovecot seems to be slow
by Götz Reinicke 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, after the update from wu-imap to dovecot, opening e-mails on the imap server seems slower than with wu-imap. I haven't measured any speed yet, but clicking on a message in a folder takes sometimes a couple of seconds to open the mail. Any ideas or performance tips or information you need? Regards Götz -- Götz Reinicke IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Mathildenstr. 20 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de

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[Dovecot] Hooking on renaming actions
by Adam Pordzik 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hello, A short question: is it possible to intercept user's action whe he renames a folder? My goal is to adjust shell-scripts or procmailrc to the new name. A --

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[Dovecot] Possible Feature request
by Chris L. Franklin 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I've Looked over the list of Auth methods that dovecot can use But i didn't see a option for a custom auth option. Would it be possible to add in a way for dovecot to call a script to check a users login info. have it able to retun the the homedir,gid/uid, and weather or not the password matched. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] Crash (segfault) while reading folder headers
by Steve Meyers 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Occasionally, while reading the headers of a folder, Dovecot crashes. The visible effect in my mail client is that it will tell me a folder has a new message, but when I click on it, it will take forever to load, and there will be no new messages. When another message comes in to that folder, the folder begins to work again. I generated a core from the latest crash, and the gdb dump is included below. After generating the core file, I removed the .imap.index* files from that folder, and it started working again. I am using Fedora Core 1, with dovecot as an RPM (version dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC1). It's a Pentium 4 CPU. Let me know if there is any more information that would help you resolve this. ============================================================== Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x08088225 in hash_lookup () (gdb) bt full #0 0x08088225 in hash_lookup () No symbol table info available. #1 0x08060784 in maildir_index_sync_readonly () No symbol table info available. #2 0x0805e586 in maildir_open_mail () No symbol table info available. #3 0x0806bf8a in index_mail_next () No symbol table info available. #4 0x0806aa33 in index_storage_fetch_next () No symbol table info available. #5 0x08055f0c in imap_fetch () No symbol table info available. #6 0x0805254a in cmd_fetch () No symbol table info available. #7 0x08054260 in cmd_uid () No symbol table info available. #8 0x08054a49 in _client_reset_command () No symbol table info available. #9 0x08054ad8 in _client_input () No symbol table info available. #10 0x0808b128 in io_loop_handler_run () No symbol table info available. #11 0x00000001 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #12 0x000025c7 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #13 0x080933f2 in imap_ext_commands () No symbol table info available. #14 0x09c03b30 in ?? () ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- No symbol table info available. #15 0x09c03a78 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #16 0xbfefc278 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #17 0x0808d918 in o_stream_flush () No symbol table info available. Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)

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[Dovecot] Filesystem requirements
by Nigel Metheringham 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

What are the filesystem requirements for dovecot - for example I see some people are running with atime updates switched off (as I intend to do so myself), so presumably dovecot has no need of an accurate atime implementation. How about directory atime? ctime/mtime etc? I'm intending to run on a linux box using local disk, so am currently considering using reiserfs (3.6) with noatime, nodiratime options since that appeared to work with good performance on the quick benchmark test I tried. I do not have a particularly high opinion of reiserfs reliability, but it normally appears to fail in a all-or-nothing way (ie filesystem unusable) rather than some files going corrupt or missing, so I can work round that with a backup regime. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)InTechnology.co.uk ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

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[Dovecot] Cache fields
by Alex S Moore 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Using 1.0-test51, or maybe test50. I this message in syslog: mail_cache_fields: Invalid cache field name 'MessagePart', ignoring >From the what I see, MessagePart is the default value. My <sysconfdir>/dovecot.conf has: mail_cache_fields = MessagePart Thanks, Alex

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[Dovecot] Problem with folder not showing content
by Tom Sommer 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, I'm having some problems with one of my IMAP folders in thunderbird. When creating a new account in thunderbird and importing from my dovecot test51 installation, using maildir - all folders work fine, except one which does not list it's content when I click it When I look on the server, I see all the mails inside the folder, but once I click the folder and ask thunderbird to download the messages - it just doesn't display any mails in it. Is there any way to repair this? -- Tom

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[Dovecot] Invalid BODY[..] - missing '>'
by Tom Sommer 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi, Sometimes when I browse messages in my folders, or move messages from one folder to another - I get this error in Thunderbird: http://pub.tsn.dk/screendumps/dovecot.bug.1.jpg -- Tom

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[Dovecot] Dovecot mysql authentication
by Petr Bartel 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Helo, Is somebody able to say me how I can set config files for dovecot to support $subject. Thanx a lot ~ Petr - -- Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. Linus Torvalds Petr Bartel ICQ 74097173 Irix a.s. e-mail bartel at irix dot cz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBf6j0zO0gscxrtkkRAmbUAJ4hpcStslq1iXIOgowACbQ6T0bNeACfdqIR OLs0ZEwTGMZH2r6oJStbZTI= =W6gq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Maildir unreliability
by Timo Sirainen 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Looks like maildir can't be used very realiably without quite a lot of locking. Writing and scanning the directory would have to be locked, but reading wouldn't (as long as the file hasn't been renamed which would require scanning to find it). So much for "no locks needed".. The problem is that opendir()/readdir() may temporarily not return some files if there has been changes in the directory since the opendir(). That means Dovecot thinks a message is expunged, while in fact it really isn't, and the next scan would usually show it again. Currently when that happens, Dovecot usually prints an error message about it and rebuilds indexes. Of course, in real life clients aren't often bombing the same mailbox with tons of changes in multiple connections, which is usually needed to trigger this. I wrote a test program which tests this: http://dovecot.org/tmp/readdir.c I'd like to hear if you can run it in some system without errors. I tested Linux 2.4 and 2.6 with ext2, ext3, xfs and reiser3, Solaris 8/ufs and OpenBSD 3.5/sparc64. Only OpenBSD passed the test, but I'm not sure if it's only because the computer was so slow and didn't switch between processes hard enough. I'd be especially interested about FreeBSD and various NFS systems. If it actually works properly in some systems, I guess I'll make the extra locking configurable.

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth crash
by Dan Sully 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

#0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 51 if ((io->condition & IO_NOTIFY_MASK) != 0) { (gdb) bt #0 io_remove (io=0x0) at ioloop.c:51 #1 0x0804fbd8 in auth_client_connection_destroy_wait (conn=0x8083f10) at auth-client-connection.c:494 #2 0x0805093d in auth_callback (request=0x847e0f0, result=134681075, reply=0x0, reply_size=0) at auth-client-connection.c:104 #3 0x080507c0 in auth_client_input (context=0x8083f10) at auth-client-connection.c:286 #4 0x0805f042 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x8082b88) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #5 0x0805e4e8 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x8082b88) at ioloop.c:218 #6 0x08052415 in main (argc=1, argv=0x0) at main.c:296 This is on Linux 2.6.7 / glibc 2.3.1, dovecot test-51 -D -- Down, not across.

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Re: [Dovecot] Maildir unreliability
by Timo Sirainen 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

On 25.10.2004, at 11:04, Peter Evans wrote: > Are you sure its maildir that is the issue, I am sure God Emperor DJB > would have issues with any such statement maligning the holy grail. > > The issue looks to me like it is attribute caching, and thus not > actually > specific to Maildir, just aggravated by it. Well, it's not maildir issue itself, but maildir more or less relies on readdir() not losing renamed files. I'm not sure what you mean by attribute caching, because it's not just with NFS. I'm sure if you point that out to DJB he just says it's not a real problem, because it doesn't happen hardly ever except with some stress test tools, or mailboxes with _many_ simultaneous users. Or maybe with a heavily loaded server. Or ... In any case, I'd rather make Dovecot resistant to this problem entirely rather than hope that everyone uses maildirs only in optimal conditions.

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[Dovecot] dovecot and new mail notification for subfolders in Mail.app
by Alan Schmitt 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hello, I am using dovecot as an IMAP server to which Mail.app (Apple Mail) connects. However I do not get any notification of new mails in folders other than the inbox, unless I disconnect and reconnect Mail.app or click on the folder with new mail. I'm pretty sure the problem comes from Mail.app. I have searched on Google for how to go around this issue, and have not yet found a solution. If someone here uses Mail.app and dovecot, I'd be really glad to have some advice as to what to do. (by the way, and this is probably related: new folders created in the maildir structure do not get reflected in Mail.app until I disconnect and reconnect). Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] index files
by Jonathan Salomon 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hi Timo, I am sorry to bug you about this, but I am a bit confused and I have approx 200 users so I don't want to screw this up. I am using the latest FC2 Dovecot RPM: dovecot-0.99.10.5-0.FC2. I am using NFS to mount the /home dirs on the fileserver from the mailserver with mbox. In the docs you said that I should probably use :INDEX=MEMORY. However I think this really pushes the server to its limits with large mailboxes (I have sometimes loads of 8+!). Also I want to use mailaccounts that are shared by users (to multiple users acces the same mailbox simulateously). If I write the index file to a location on the filesystem, will this improve performance and still work with simultaneous logins? Should I upgrade to version 1.00.something because I read somewhere you rewrote the mbox functions? Thanks again, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Request for testing: BSD kqueue ioloop handler
by Andrey Panin 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hello, attached patch adds experimental ioloop handler which uses BSD kqueue API. It compiles and survives my small test program, but not thoroughly tested because I have no suitable BSD machine to torture. Brave owners of (Free|Net|Open)BSD please test and report results :) Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] move iolist functions into separate file
by Andrey Panin 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hello, attached patch extracts iolist related functions into separate file and makes it a little more generic. This functions will be used by the new ioloop handler based on the BSD kqueue API. Please consider applying. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Period at end of folder in Pine
by doug＠dovecot.con.com 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

When using folder-name completion, Pine sticks a period at the end of dovecot mediated IMAP folder names. This is invalid, of course, and I end up having to backspace the period to use the proper name. Anyone have a clue on a workaround? I'd imagine this is a FAQ type issue.... Thanks, Doug

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[Dovecot] login with alias
by Gasha 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

Hi all, i'm setting up mail server and here is the question: if, for example "firstname.lastname(a)domain.com" is e-mail address, then how can i setup login as "firstname.lastname" and "password" not only "firstname". Of course, users want all things simple. But i don't want to use login names longer than 8 chars. Any ideas? Or should i try to create users as "firstname.lastname" in /etc/passwd file ?? Gasha

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test51
by Timo Sirainen 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

http://dovecot.org/test/ This release is built with autoconf 2.59 and libtool 1.9. We'll see how it works out :) The required changes were done by Matthias Andree. - The last fix for connection hanging made IDLE use 100% CPU - We don't use Maildir/.INBOX/ directory anymore, indexes are stored in Maildir-root - Don't crash with FETCH BODY[n.MIME] - Changed %p (protocol) -> %s (service) and %P (pid) -> %p. Hopefully people weren't using these much yet :) - Added simple caching for sql passdb requests. Should be implemented soon for sql userdb and ldap passdb/userdb. See auth_cache_size and auth_cache_ttl settings. By default it's disabled.

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[Dovecot] direct access or local IMAP access?
by Alan Schmitt 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

Hello, Thanks to much help from Timo Sirainen, I now have a running dovecot on my Mac, that works great both with mutt and Mail.app. I'm going to have a lot of mail stored there (about 40000 messages for 1.4GB in 30 folders), and I was wondering if it was better (in terms of performance and stability) to directly access the mail using the maildir hierarchy, or access it using local IMAP. Thanks a lot, Alan Schmitt -- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

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[Dovecot] assertion failed
by Tom Sommer 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

Using test51: Oct 22 23:37:21 one dovecot: 2657(ts(a)dreamcoder.dk): file mail-cache-fields.c: line 338 (mail_cache_header_fields_get): assertion failed: (buffer_get_used_size(dest) == sizeof(hdr) + (sizeof(uint32_t)*2 + 2) * hdr.fields_count) Oct 22 23:37:21 one dovecot: child 2657 (imap) killed with signal 6 What does it mean? -- Tom

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test51 / POP3 broken
by Brad 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

OS: OpenBSD 3.5 -stable/macppc dovecot: Oct 21 01:59:01 Info: pop3-login: Login: wendy [192.168.3.6] dovecot: Oct 21 01:59:02 Error: child 13213 (pop3) killed with signal 11 dovecot: Oct 21 02:03:32 Info: pop3-login: Login: robb [192.168.3.6] dovecot: Oct 21 02:03:32 Error: child 17627 (pop3) killed with signal 11 (gdb) bt #0 0x1813bb8 in maildir_transaction_save_commit_post () #1 0x180f504 in maildir_transaction_commit () #2 0x183aff4 in mailbox_transaction_commit () #3 0x180b204 in clients_deinit () #4 0x180be9c in client_command_execute () #5 0x180a808 in client_send_storage_error () #6 0x184f43c in io_loop_handler_run () #7 0x184eba4 in io_loop_run () #8 0x180c4d4 in main () #9 0x1809c78 in _start ()

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