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[Dovecot] Test suite?
by Kyle Lafkoff 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi I am building a RPM for dovecot. Is there a test suite available I could use during the build to verify proper functionality? Thanks! Kyle

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[Dovecot] v2.1.rc5 released
by Timo Sirainen 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc5.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc5.tar.gz.sig I'm still lagging behind reading emails. v2.1.0 will be released after I've finished that. RC5 is already stable and used in production, but I want to make sure that I haven't missed anything important that was reported previously. Most of the recent fixed bugs existed also in v2.0 series. Changes since rc3: * Temporary authentication failures sent to IMAP/POP3 clients now includes the server's hostname and timestamp. This makes it easier to find the error message from logs. + auth: Implemented support for Postfix's "TCP map" sockets for user existence lookups. + auth: Idling auth worker processes are now stopped. This reduces error messages about MySQL disconnections. - director: With >2 directors ring syncing might have stalled during director connect/disconnect, causing logins to fail. - LMTP client/proxy: Fixed potential hanging when sending (big) mails - Compressed mails with external attachments (dbox + SIS + zlib) failed sometimes with bogus "cached message size wrong" errors. (I skipped rc4 release, because I accidentally tagged it too early in hg.)

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Re: [Dovecot] auth-worker temporary failures causing lmtp 500 rejection
by Mark Zealey 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Hi Timo thanks for the patch; I have now analyzed network dumps & discovered that the cause is actually our frontend mail servers not dovecot - we were delivering to the wrong lmtp port which we then use in the mysql query hence getting empty records. Sorry about this! Mark ________________________________________ From: Mark Zealey Sent: 26 January 2012 14:37 To: Timo Sirainen Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] auth-worker temporary failures causing lmtp 500 rejection I've tried reproducing by having long running auth queries in the sql and KILLing them on the server, restarting the mysql service, and setting max auth workers to 1 and running 2 sessions at the same time (with long-running auth queries), but to no effect. There must be something else going on here; I saw it in particular when exim on our frontend servers had queued a large number of messages and suddenly released them all at once hence the auth-worker hypothesis although the log messages do not support this. I'll try to see if I can trigger this manually although we have been doing some massively parallel testing previously and not seen this. Mark ________________________________________ From: Timo Sirainen [tss(a)iki.fi] Sent: 26 January 2012 12:31 To: Mark Zealey Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] auth-worker temporary failures causing lmtp 500 rejection On 26.1.2012, at 12.14, Mark Zealey wrote: > I'm using dovecot 2.0.16 with a mysql user database. From time to time when we have a big influx of messages (perhaps more than 30 concurrent rcpt to:<> sessions at the same time so no auth-workers free?) or when we have a transient issue connecting to the database server, we see the message: > > Jan 25 16:38:23 mailbox dovecot: auth-worker: sql(foo(a)bar.com,1.2.3.4): Unknown user This happens only when the SQL query doesn't return any rows, but does return success. > and the lmtp process returns: > > 550 5.1.1 <foo(a)bar.com> User doesn't exist: foo(a)bar.com > > This would be correct for a permanent error where the user doesn't exist in our database, however it seems to be doing this on transient errors too. Is this an issue with the code or perhaps some setting I have missed? The problem is that temporary errors are returning "unknown user". Can you reproduce this somehow? Like if you stop MySQL it always returns that "Unknown user"?

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[Dovecot] auth-worker temporary failures causing lmtp 500 rejection
by Mark Zealey 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Hi there, I'm using dovecot 2.0.16 with a mysql user database. From time to time when we have a big influx of messages (perhaps more than 30 concurrent rcpt to:<> sessions at the same time so no auth-workers free?) or when we have a transient issue connecting to the database server, we see the message: Jan 25 16:38:23 mailbox dovecot: auth-worker: sql(foo(a)bar.com,1.2.3.4): Unknown user and the lmtp process returns: 550 5.1.1 <foo(a)bar.com> User doesn't exist: foo(a)bar.com This would be correct for a permanent error where the user doesn't exist in our database, however it seems to be doing this on transient errors too. Is this an issue with the code or perhaps some setting I have missed? Thanks, Mark

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[Dovecot] Persistence of UIDs
by Jean-Daniel Beaubien 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Hi everyone, I have a question concerning UIDs. How persistant are they? I am thinking about building some form of webmail specialized for some specific business purpose and I am thinking of building a sort of cache in a DB by storing the email addr, date, subject and UID for quick lookups and search of correspondance. I am doing this because I am having issue with multiple people searching thru email folders that have 100k+ emails (which is another problem in itself, searches don't seem to scale well when folder goes above 60k emails). So to come back to my question, can I store the UIDs and reuse those UIDs later on to obtain the body of the email??? Or can the UIDs change on the server and they will not be valid anymore?. My setup is: - dovecot 1.x (will migrate to 2.x soon) - maildir - everything stored on an intel 320 SSD (index and maildir folder) Thanks, -JD

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Re: [Dovecot] Imap Quota Exceeded - But Still Receiving Emails?
by Daniel L. Miller 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

On 1/25/2012 2:01 AM, Palatine Web Support wrote: > On 2012-01-25 05:38, Daniel L. Miller wrote: >> On 1/24/2012 8:35 AM, Palatine Web Support wrote: >>> >>> Here is my dovecot config: >>> >>> plugin { >>> quota = maildir:User Quota >>> quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M >>> } >> [..] >>> >>> So it picks up my set quota of 3MB but dovecot is not rejecting >>> emails if I am over my quota. >>> >>> Can anyone help? >>> >> Is the quota plugin being loaded? What is the output of: >> >> doveconf | grep -B 2 plug > > The modules are being loaded. From the log file with debugging enabled: > > Jan 25 09:59:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)xxx.com): Loading modules from > directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap > Jan 25 09:59:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)xxx.com): Module loaded: > /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so > Jan 25 09:59:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)xxx.com): Module loaded: > /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so > Jan 25 09:59:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)xxx.com): Effective uid=150, > gid=8, home=/var/vmail/xxx.com/support > Jan 25 09:59:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)xxx.com): Quota root: name=User > Quota backend=dirsize args= > Jan 25 09:59:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)xxx.com): Quota rule: root=User > Quota mailbox=* bytes=3145728 messages=0 > Jan 25 09:59:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)xxx.com): Quota rule: root=User > Quota mailbox=Trash bytes=104857600 messages=0 > Jan 25 09:59:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)xxx.com): maildir: > data=/var/vmail/xxx.com/support > Jan 25 09:59:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)xxx.com): maildir++: > root=/var/vmail/xxx.com/support, index=, control=, > inbox=/var/vmail/xxx.com/support > Jan 25 09:59:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)xxx.com): Namespace : Using > permissions from /var/vmail/xxx.com/support: mode=0700 gid=-1 > Jan 25 09:59:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)xxx.com): Disconnected: Logged > out bytes=82/573 > Jan 25 09:59:58 mail dovecot: IMAP(xxx(a)xxx.com): Disconnected: Logged > out bytes=269/8243 > I don't know if it makes any difference, but in your config file, try changing: plugin { quota = maildir:User Quota to plugin { quota = maildir:User quota (lowercase the "quota") -- Daniel

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 105, Issue 57
by Arun Gupta 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Dear Sir, Thanks for your reply and I really agreed your point about 'reject mail for users over quota', but I don't want to do it if it is possible to without reject mails to deliver mails from spool to user's home directory automatically, kindly provide solution. I will be highly obliged all of you. -- Thanks & Regards, Arun Kumar Gupta > formate) automatically > Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1201251327580.7664(a)flfnqz.fnat.pqnp.va> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII > > > Hi, > > I am using dovecot 2.0.16, and assigend globally procmailrc > (/etc/procmailrc) which delivers mails to user's home directory in maildir > formate. Also I assined quota to User through setquota (edquota) command, > If the quota excedded then this case user's mail store to > /var/spool/mail/user. After incresing quota how to delivered these mails > to user's home dir in maildir formate automatically. > > Thanks & Regards, > > Arun Kumar Gupta > Best practice is to reject mail for users over quota (as long as you do this during the smtp transaction... Otherwise, whats the point? (they can still fill up your server)... -- Best regards, Charles -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] Crash on mail folder delete
by Daniel L. Miller 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Attempting to delete a folder from within the trash folder using Thunderbird. I see the following in the log: Jan 25 15:36:22 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Panic: file mailbox-list-fs.c: line 156 (fs_list_get_path): assertion failed: (mailbox_list_is_valid_pattern(_list, name)) Jan 25 15:36:22 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3efba) [0x7f5fe9f86fba] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3f006) [0x7f5fe9f87006] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x17f5a) [0x7f5fe9f5ff5a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x47287) [0x7f5fea214287] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so(+0x6c71) [0x7f5fe8b9cc71] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so(+0x6d47) [0x7f5fe8b9cd47] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so(acl_mailbox_allocated+0x9e) [0x7f5fe8ba061e] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(hook_mailbox_allocated+0x62) [0x7f5fea2085b2] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_alloc+0xb2) [0x7f5fea2073d2] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete](cmd_delete+0x72) [0x409922] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete](command_exec+0x3d) [0x4109ad] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete]() [0x40f97e] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete]() [0x40fa5d] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete](client_handle_input+0x135) [0x40fc85] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete](client_input+0x5f) [0x4105af] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f5fe9f93406] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f5fe9f9448f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f5fe9f933a8] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f5fe9f803b3] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete](main+0x301) [0x418a61] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7f5fe9be3d8e] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete]() [0x4083f9] Jan 25 15:36:23 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Panic: file mailbox-list-fs.c: line 156 (fs_list_get_path): assertion failed: (mailbox_list_is_valid_pattern(_list, name)) Jan 25 15:36:23 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3efba) [0x7f33673dafba] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3f006) [0x7f33673db006] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x17f5a) [0x7f33673b3f5a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x47287) [0x7f3367668287] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so(+0x6c71) [0x7f3365ff0c71] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so(+0x6d47) [0x7f3365ff0d47] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so(acl_mailbox_allocated+0x9e) [0x7f3365ff461e] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(hook_mailbox_allocated+0x62) [0x7f336765c5b2] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_alloc+0xb2) [0x7f336765b3d2] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete](cmd_delete+0x72) [0x409922] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete](command_exec+0x3d) [0x4109ad] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete]() [0x40f97e] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete]() [0x40fa5d] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete](client_handle_input+0x135) [0x40fc85] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete](client_input+0x5f) [0x4105af] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f33673e7406] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f33673e848f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f33673e73a8] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f33673d43b3] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete](main+0x301) [0x418a61] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7f3367037d8e] -> dovecot/imap [dmiller(a)amfes.com 192.168.0.91 delete]() [0x4083f9] Jan 25 15:36:23 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 6074 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Jan 25 15:36:23 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 6589 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] FOSDEM
by Timo Sirainen 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

I'll be in FOSDEM giving a small lightning talk about Dovecot: http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/dovecot I'll also be around in FOSDEM the whole time, so if you're there and want to talk to me about anything, send me an email at some point. Poll to dovecot-news list people: Do you want to see these kind of news about my upcoming talks sent to the list? Probably happens a few times/year. A simple "yes" or "no" reply to this mail privately to me is enough.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot antispam plugint got an empty message
by Petr Bravenec 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

Few weeks ago I upgraded dovecot from 1.2 to 2.0.16 and antispam plugin to 2.0_pre20101222. Since the upgrade I'm not able to move messages to my Junk folder. In the maillog I have found this message: dspam[25060]: empty message (no data received) Message is copied from my INBOX to Junk folder, but dspam got an empty message and sent an error return code. So the moving operation is not successfull and the original message in INBOX was not deleted. The dspam was not trained (got an empty message). Looking to source code of dspam and antispam plugin I suspect the dovecot not to sending any content to plugin. Can you help me, please? Petr Bravenec

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Re: [Dovecot] Imap Quota Exceeded - But Still Receiving Emails?
by Daniel L. Miller 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

On 1/25/2012 1:39 AM, Palatine Web Support wrote: > On 2012-01-25 05:38, Daniel L. Miller wrote: >> On 1/24/2012 8:35 AM, Palatine Web Support wrote: >>> >>> Here is my dovecot config: >>> >>> plugin { >>> quota = maildir:User Quota >>> quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M >>> } >> [..] >>> >>> So it picks up my set quota of 3MB but dovecot is not rejecting >>> emails if I am over my quota. >>> >>> Can anyone help? >>> >> Is the quota plugin being loaded? What is the output of: >> >> doveconf | grep -B 2 plug > > Hi Daniel > > I tried the command and it returned the command was not found. I have > installed: > > apt-get install dovecot-common > apt-get install dovecot-dev > apt-get install dovecot-imapd > > > Which package does the binary doveconf come from? You need to make sure to reply to the list - not just to me. If you don't have doveconf...what version of Dovecot are you using? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] move mails from spool to users home dir(maildir formate) automatically
by Arun Gupta 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

Hi, I am using dovecot 2.0.16, and assigend globally procmailrc (/etc/procmailrc) which delivers mails to user's home directory in maildir formate. Also I assined quota to User through setquota (edquota) command, If the quota excedded then this case user's mail store to /var/spool/mail/user. After incresing quota how to delivered these mails to user's home dir in maildir formate automatically. Thanks & Regards, Arun Kumar Gupta -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] Imap Quota Exceeded - But Still Receiving Emails?
by Palatine Web Support 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

Hello I am trying to setup dovecot maildir quota, but even though it seems to be working fine, I am still receiving emails into my inbox even though I have exceeded my quota. Here is my dovecot config: plugin { quota = maildir:User Quota quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M } And my SQL config file for Dovecot (dovecot-sql.conf): user_query = SELECT '/var/vmail/%d/%n' as home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as mail, 150 AS uid, 8 AS gid, CONCAT('*:storage=', quota) AS quota_rule FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' CONCAT('*:storage=', quota) AS quota_rule quota_rule = *:storage=3M So it picks up my set quota of 3MB but dovecot is not rejecting emails if I am over my quota. Can anyone help? Thanks. Carl

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Re: [Dovecot] change smtp port
by Noel 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

On 1/23/2012 8:38 AM, Amira Othman wrote: > And there is no way to receive incoming emails not on port 25 ? > You can't randomly change the port you receive mail on because external MTAs have no way to find what port you're using. They will *always* use port 25 and nothing else. If your problem is that your Internet Service Provider is blocking port 25, you can contact them. Some ISPs will unblock port 25 on request, or might even have an online form you can fill out. If you can't get help from the ISP, you need a remailer service -- some outside proxy that accepts the mail for you and forwards connections to some different port on your computer. I don't know of any free services that do this; dyndns and others offer this for a fee, sometimes combined with spam/virus filtering. -- Noel Jones

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Re: [Dovecot] change smtp port
by Charles Marcus 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

On 2012-01-24 7:51 AM, Amira Othman <a.othman(a)cairosource.com> wrote: > Thanks for reply > > The problem that ISP for some reason port 25 is not stable and refuse > connection for several times so I tried to change port to 587 instead > of 25 to keep sending emails. And I though that I can stop using port > 25 as it's not always working from ISP As I said, you obviously do not understand how smtp works. This is made obvious by your questions, and failure to understand that port 25 is *the* port for receiving email on the public internet. Period. If your main problem with port 25 is *sending* (relaying outbound) mails, then you will need to take this up with your ISP. If they are unable or unwilling to address the problem, one option would be to setup your system to relay through some other smtp relay service on the internet using port 587 as you apparently read somwehere, but you don't do this by changing the main smtpd daemon to port 587, because as you discovered, you won't be able to receive *any* emails like this. That said, I fail to see any relevance to dovecot in this thread... -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] Trying to get metadata plugin working
by Thomas Koch 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, I'm working on a Kolab related project and wanted to use dovecot on my dev machine. However I'm stuck with the metadata-plugin. I "solved" the permissions problems but now I get dict: Error: file dict commit: file_dotlock_open(~/Maildir/shared-metadata) failed: No such file or directory Before that, I had dict { metadata = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-metadata but got problems since my normal user had no permission to access /var/lib/dovecot. I compiled the plugin from the most recent commit. My dovecot runs in a chroot. I can login with KMail and can create Groupware (annotated) folders, but the metadata file dict won't get created and I also can't set/get metadata via telnet. doveconf -N # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 auth_mechanisms = plain dict { metadata = file:~/Maildir/shared-metadata } mail_access_groups = dovecot mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " metadata" passdb { driver = pam } plugin { metadata_dict = proxy::metadata } protocols = " imap" service dict { unix_listener dict { group = dovecot mode = 0666 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " metadata imap_metadata imap_annotatemore" } Best regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro

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[Dovecot] Capabilities of imapc
by René Neumann 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi *, I can't find any decent information about the capabilities of imapc in the planned future dovecot releases. As I think about using imapc, I'll just give the two use-cases I see for me. Will this be possible with imapc? 1) One (or more) folders in a mailbox which are proxied? 2) Proxy a whole mailbox _and use the folders in it as shared folders_. That means account X on Server 1 (the dovecot box) is proxied via imapc to Server 2 (some other server). The folders of this account on Server 1 are then shared with account Y. When account Y uses these folders they are always up-to-date (so no action of account X is required). The second use-case is just some (ugly) workaround in case the first one is not possible. Thanks, René

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[Dovecot] dbox + SIS + zlib fixed
by Timo Sirainen 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

I think a few people have complained about this combination being somewhat broken, resulting in bogus "cached message size wrong" errors sometimes. This fixes it: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/9b2931607063

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[Dovecot] make imap search less verbose
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

We have an imap-client (SOGo) that doesn't handle this status output while searching: * OK Searched 76% of the mailbox, ETA 0:50 Is there any way to disable this output on the dovecot-side? -jf

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[Dovecot] Director questions
by Mark Moseley 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

In playing with dovecot director, a couple of things came up, one related to the other: 1) Is there an effective maximum of directors that shouldn't be exceeded? That is, even if technically possible, that I shouldn't go over? Since we're 100% NFS, we've scaled servers horizontally quite a bit. At this point, we've got servers operating as MTAs, servers doing IMAP/POP directly, and servers separately doing IMAP/POP as webmail backends. Works just dandy for our existing setup. But to director-ize all of them, I'm looking at a director ring of maybe 75-85 servers, which is a bit unnerving, since I don't know if the ring will be able to keep up. Is there a scale where it'll bog down? 2) If it is too big, is there any way, that I might be missing, to use remote directors? It looks as if directors have to live locally on the same box as the proxy. For my MTAs, where they're not customer-facing, I'm much less worried about the latency it'd introduce. Likewise with my webmail servers, the extra latency would probably be trivial compared to the rest of the request--but then again, might not. But for direct IMAP, the latency likely be more noticeable. So ideally I'd be able to make my IMAP servers (well, the frontside of the proxy, that is) be the director pool, while leaving my MTAs to talk to the director remotely, and possibly my webmail servers remote too. Is that a remote possibility?

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[Dovecot] LMTP ignoring tcpwrappers
by Harm Weites 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hello, we want to use dovecot LMTP for efficient mail delivery from our MX servers (running postfix 2.8) to our storage servers (dovecot 2.0.17). However, the one problem we see is the lack of access control when using LMTP. It apears that every client in our network who has access to the storage machines can drop a message in a Maildir of any user on that storage server. To prevent this behaviour it would be nice to use libwrap, just as it can be used for POP3/IMAP protocols. This, however, seems to be impossible using the configuration as mentioned on the dovecot wiki: login_access_sockets = tcpwrap service tcpwrap { unix_listener login/tcpwrap { group = $default_login_user mode = 0600 user = $default_login_user } } This seems to imply it only works for a login, and LMTP does not use that. The above works perfectly when trying to block access to IMAP or POP3 in /etc/hosts.deny, though a setting for LMTP is simply ignored. Is there a configuration setting needed for this to work for LMTP, or is it simply not possible (yet) and does libwrap support for LMTP requires a patch? Any help is appreciated. Regards, Harm

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[Dovecot] Quota is not working (Debian Squeeze - Dovecot 1.2)
by RaSca 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hi all, I'm trying to make quota work in Squeeze (Dovecot 1.2.15-7). The quota module is correctly loaded and, when receiving a message, from the log I see these messages: Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib10_quota_plugin.so Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.so Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): auth input: uid=5000 Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): auth input: gid=5000 Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): auth input: home=/mail/mailboxes/<mydomain>/testquota Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): Quota root: name=/mail/mailboxes/<mydomain>/testquota backend=maildir args= Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): maildir: data=/mail/mailboxes/<mydomain>/testquota@<mydomain> Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): maildir++: root=/mail/mailboxes/<mydomain>/testquota@<mydomain>, index=, control=, inbox=/mail/mailboxes/<mydomain>/testquota@<mydomain> Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): sieve: user's script path /mail/mailboxes/<mydomain>/testquota/.dovecot.sieve doesn't exist (using global script path in stead) Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): sieve: using sieve path for user's script: /mail/sieve/globalsieverc Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): sieve: opening script /mail/sieve/globalsieverc Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): sieve: executing compiled script /mail/sieve/globalsieverc Jan 16 11:20:04 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): Namespace : Using permissions from /mail/mailboxes/<mydomain>/testquota@<mydomain>: mode=0700 gid=-1 Jan 16 11:20:05 mail-1 dovecot: deliver(testquota@<mydomain>): sieve: msgid=<4F13F996.4000501(a)seat.it>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Now, since I've got a message like this: Quota root: name=/mail/mailboxes/<mydomain>/testquota@<mydomain> backend=maildir args= it seems that something is checked, but even if this directory is over quota, nothing happens. This is my dovecot conf: protocols = imap pop3 disable_plaintext_auth = no log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/mail/mailboxes/%d/%n@%d mail_privileged_group = mail mail_debug = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mmap_disable=yes fsync_disable=no mail_nfs_index = yes protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv mail_plugins = quota } protocol managesieve { } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master postmaster_address = postmaster@<mydomain> mail_plugins = sieve quota quota_full_tempfail = no log_path = } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb passwd { } userdb static { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/mail/mailboxes/%d/%n@%d allow_all_users=yes } user = root socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } plugin { quota = maildir:/mail/mailboxes/%d/%n@%d sieve_global_path = /mail/sieve/globalsieverc } The db connection works, this is /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf: driver = mysql connect = host=<myserver> dbname=mail user=<myuser> password=<mypassword> default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT username, password FROM mailbox WHERE username='%u' user_query = SELECT username AS user, maildir AS home, CONCAT('*:storage=', quota , 'B') AS quota_rule FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' and for the user testquota the user_query results in this: +-------------------+----------------------------+--------------------+ | user | home | quota_rule | +-------------------+----------------------------+--------------------+ | testquota@<mydom> | <mydom>/testquota@<mydom>/ | *:storage=1024000B | +-------------------+----------------------------+--------------------+ everything else is ok, for example I'm using sieve for the spam filter, and the SPAM is correctly put in the .SPAM dir. I turned on debug on dovecot, but I can't see if the query in some way fails. Can you please help me to understand what am I doing wrong? -- RaSca Mia Mamma Usa Linux: Niente è impossibile da capire, se lo spieghi bene! rasca(a)miamammausalinux.org http://www.miamammausalinux.org

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Re: [Dovecot] change smtp port
by Giles Coochey 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

On 2012-01-23 14:38, Amira Othman wrote: > And there is no way to receive incoming emails not on port 25 ? > > No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol

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Re: [Dovecot] change smtp port
by Ralf Hildebrandt 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

* Amira Othman <a.othman(a)cairosource.com>: > Hi all > > I am using postfix 2.8 with dovecot-1.2.17-0_116.el5 on cento 5.7 server . > when I changed smtp port from 25 to 587 from postfix configuration my mail > server stops to receive emails. That's normal. > I think it sounds strange and I don't understand why this happen any > one can help me Mail from other systems comes in via port 25. Once you change the port, nobody can send mail to your server. Easy, no? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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Re: [Dovecot] change smtp port
by Giles Coochey 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

On 2012-01-23 14:30, Amira Othman wrote: > Hi all > > I am using postfix 2.8 with dovecot-1.2.17-0_116.el5 on cento 5.7 > server . > when I changed smtp port from 25 to 587 from postfix configuration my > mail > server stops to receive emails. I think it sounds strange and I don't > understand why this happen any one can help me > > > > Regards If this SMTP server is your MX record, then you need to use port 25. Only use the 587 port for authenticated submissions from your own users for outgoing email. -- Message sent via my webmail account.

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[Dovecot] change smtp port
by Amira Othman 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hi all I am using postfix 2.8 with dovecot-1.2.17-0_116.el5 on cento 5.7 server . when I changed smtp port from 25 to 587 from postfix configuration my mail server stops to receive emails. I think it sounds strange and I don't understand why this happen any one can help me Regards

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[Dovecot] Sieve tempoary script folder
by Markus Fritz 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

Hello, I got the issue that sieve wants to write his tmp files to /etc/dovecot/. But I want sieve to write in a folder which it has write rights. I created a script to to put spam in the 'Spam' folder, put it in /etc/dovecot/.dovecot.sieve. When recieving a mail sieve want's to create a tmp file like /etc/dovecot/.dovecot.sieve.12033 How to change the desired tmp folder by sieve?

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[Dovecot] 2.1.rc3 (1a722c7676bb): doveadm mailbox list withholds child mailboxes
by Pascal Volk 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

Probably I've overlooked something. But a quick search in `hg log -k doveadm` didn't show appropriate information. doveadm mailbox list -u user(a)example.com doesn't show child mailboxes. mailbox = N/A || \*: Sent Trash INBOX Drafts Junk-E-Mail Supplier mailbox = Supplier*: Supplier mailbox = Supplier/*: Supplier/Dell Supplier/VMware Supplier/… The same problem exists in `doveadm mailbox status` Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: defaced.1201301(a)localdomain.org

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Re: [Dovecot] mail_max_userip_connections exceeded.
by Joseph Tam 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

Simon Brereton <simon.brereton(a)buongiorno.com> writes: > /var/log/mail.log.1:2490:Jan 19 12:02:55 mail dovecot: imap-login: > Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded > (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<user(a)example.com>, method=PLAIN, > rip=127.0.0.1, secured > > I never changed this from the default 10. When I googled this error > there was a thread on this list from May 2011 that indicated one would > need one connection per user per subscribed folder. However, I know > that user doesn't have 10 folders, let alone 10 subscribed folders! I > can increase, it but it's not going to scale well. And there are > people on this list with many 1000x users than I have - so how do they > deal with that? > > 127.0.0.1 is obviously webmail (IMP5). IMAP proxy or lack of proxy? IMAP proxy could be a problem if the user had opened more than 10 (unique) mailboxes. The proxy would keep this connection open until a timeout, and after some time, could accumulate more connections than your limit. The lack of proxy could solve your problem if for some reason your webmail software is not closing the IMAP connection properly (I assume IMP does a connect/authenticate/IMAP command/logout for every webmail operation). Every connection (even to the same mailbox) would open up a new connection. The proxy software will recognize the reconnnection and funnel it through its cached connection. You can lsof the user's IMAP processes (or troll through /proc/{imap-process} or what you have) to figure out which mailboxes it has opened. On my system, file descriptor 9 and 11 gives you the names of the index files that indicate which mailboxes are being accessed. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] Clients show .subscriptions folder
by Mark Sapiro 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

Since upgrading from dovecot-2.1.rc1 to dovecot-2.1.rc3, some clients are showing a .subscriptions file in the user's mbox path as a folder. Some clients such as T'bird on Mac OS X create this file listing subscribed mbox files. Other clients such as T'bird on Windows XP show this file as a folder in the folder list even though it cannot be accessed as a folder (dovecot returns CANNOT Mailbox is not a valid mbox file). I think this may be a result of uncommenting the inbox namespace in conf.d/10-mail.conf <http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/2c8d39467f21>. Is there a way to supress exposing this file to clients that don't use it? # dovecot -n # 2.1.rc3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 i686 CentOS release 5 (Final) auth_mechanisms = plain apop login auth_worker_max_count = 5 mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail mbox_write_locks = fcntl dotlock namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot.passwd driver = passwd-file } passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } } ssl_cert = </etc/httpd/conf/ssl/combined.crt ssl_key = </etc/httpd/conf/ssl/www.grizz.org.key userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 30 } # -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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[Dovecot] Performance of Maildir vs sdbox/mdbox
by Lee Standen 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Hi Guys, I've been desperately trying to find some comparative performance information about the different mailbox formats supported by Dovecot in order to make an assessment on which format is right for our environment. This is a brand new build, with customer mailboxes to be migrated in over the course of 3-4 months. Some details on our new environment: * Approximately 1.6M+ mailboxes once all legacy systems are combined * NetApp FAS6280 storage w/ 120TB usable for mail storage, 1TB of FlashCache in each controller * All mail storage presented via NFS over 10Gbps Ethernet (Jumbo Frames) * Postfix will feed new email to Dovecot via LMTP * Dovecot servers have been split based on their role - Dovecot LDA Servers (running LMTP protocol) - Dovecot POP/IMAP servers (running POP/IMAP protocols) - LDA & POP/IMAP servers are segmented into geographically split groups (so no server sees every single mailbox) - Nginx proxy used to terminate customer connections, connections are redirected to the appropriate geographic servers * Apache Lucene indexes will be used to accelerate IMAP search for users Our closest current live configuration (Qmail SMTP, Courier IMAP, Maildir) has 600K mailboxes and pushes ~ 35,000 NFS operations per second at peak Some of the things I would like to know: * Are we likely to see a reduction in IOPS/User by using Maildir alone under Dovecot? * What kind of IOPS/User reduction could we expect to see under mdbox? * If someone can give some technical reasoning behind why mdbox does less IOPS than Maildir? I understand some of the reasons for the mdbox IOPS question, but I need some more information so we can discuss internally and make a decision as to whether we're comfortable going with mdbox from day one. We're very familiar with Maidlir, and there's just some uneasiness internally around going to a new mail storage format. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] mail_max_userip_connections exceeded.
by Simon Brereton 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Hi I'm using Dovecot version 1:1.2.15-7 installed on Debian Squeeze via apt-get.. I have this error in the logs. /var/log/mail.log.1:2490:Jan 19 12:02:55 mail dovecot: imap-login: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<user(a)example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, secured I never changed this from the default 10. When I googled this error there was a thread on this list from May 2011 that indicated one would need one connection per user per subscribed folder. However, I know that user doesn't have 10 folders, let alone 10 subscribed folders! I can increase, it but it's not going to scale well. And there are people on this list with many 1000x users than I have - so how do they deal with that? 127.0.0.1 is obviously webmail (IMP5). So, how/why am I seeing this, and should I be concerned? Simon

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[Dovecot] Notify plugin: segmentation fault
by Ewald Dieterich 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

I'm trying to develop a plugin that uses the hooks provided by the notify plugin. The notify plugin segfaults if you don't set the mailbox_rename hook. I attached a patch to notify-plugin.c from Dovecot 2.0.16 that should fix this. Ewald

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[Dovecot] shared folder files not displaying in thunderbird
by Eric Broch 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Hello, I have dovecot installed with the configuration below. One of the subfolders created (using the email client) under the '/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects' share no longer (it used to) displays the files located in it. There are about 150 folders under the '/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects' share all of which display the files located in them, the one mentioned used to display the contents but no longer does. What would be the reason that one folder would no longer display existing files in the email client (Thunderbird) and the other folders would? And, how do I fix this? I've already tried unsubscribing and resubscribing the folder. This did not work. Would it now be simply a matter of unsubscribing the folder, deleting the dovecot files, and resubscribing to the folder? Eric # 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.7 (Final) auth_cache_size = 32 M auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_username_format = %Lu disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_greeting = Dovecot toaster ready. namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects prefix = projects. separator = . type = public } passdb { args = cache_key=%u webmail=127.0.0.1 driver = vpopmail } plugin/quota = maildir protocols = imap ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { args = cache_key=%u quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail }

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[Dovecot] Problems sending email direct into publich folders
by Bohlken, Henning 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Hi, i want to send mails direct into a public folder. If i send an email via my local postfix the mail will be handled as a normal private mail. Dovecot does create a mailbox in the private Namespace and do use not the mailbox in public one. I hope you can help me with my little problem. Here sone informations about my configuration: [root@imap1 etc]# ls -la /var/dovecot/imap/public/ insgesamt 16 drwxr-x--- 3 vmail vmail 4096 19. Jan 10:12 . drwxr-x--- 5 vmail vmail 4096 18. Jan 08:41 .. -rw-r----- 1 vmail vmail 0 19. Jan 10:11 dovecot-acl-list -rw-r----- 1 vmail vmail 8 19. Jan 10:12 dovecot-uidvalidity -r--r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 0 19. Jan 10:12 dovecot-uidvalidity.4f17de84 drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 19. Jan 10:12 .hrztest and here is me configuration: # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.i686 i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago) auth_username_format = %Ln disable_plaintext_auth = no login_greeting = Dovecot IMAP der Jade Hochschule. mail_access_groups = vmail mail_debug = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_plugins = quota acl mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date imapflags notify mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes location = maildir:/var/dovecot/imap/%1n/%n prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/dovecot/imap/public/ prefix = public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size quota = dict:user::file:/var/dovecot/imap/%1n/%n/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=50MB quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10% sieve = /var/dovecot/imap/%1n/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /var/dovecot/imap/%1n/%n/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags sieve_quota_max_scripts = 2 } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)jade-hs.de protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=501 gid=502 home=/home/vmail/%n allow_all_users=yes driver = static } userdb { driver = passwd } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota acl sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota acl imap_quota } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } -- HS Wilhelmshaven/Oldenburg/Elsfleth Jade Hochschule Hochschulrechenzentrum Dipl.-Ing. Henning Bohlken Friedrich-Paffrath-Str. 101 26389 Wilhelmshaven

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[Dovecot] Storing passwords encrypted... bcrypt?
by Charles Marcus 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Hi everyone, Was just perusing this article about how trivial it is to decrypt passwords that are stored using most (standard) encryption methods (like MD5), and was wondering - is it possible to use bcrypt with dovecot+postfix+mysql (or posgres)? -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] MASTER_AUTH_MAX_DATA_SIZE
by Mike Abbott 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

In 2.0.17 you increased LOGIN_MAX_INBUF_SIZE from 1024 to 4096. Should you also have increased MASTER_AUTH_MAX_DATA_SIZE from (1024*2) to (4096*2)? /* This should be kept in sync with LOGIN_MAX_INBUF_SIZE. Multiply it by two to make sure there's space to transfer the command tag */

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Re: [Dovecot] shared folder files not displaying in thunderbird
by Eric Broch 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Can anyone help me figure out why email in a sub-folder (created using Thunderbird) of a dovecot namespace will not display in Thunderbird? ... Hello, I have dovecot installed with the configuration below. One of the subfolders created (using the email client) under the '/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects' share no longer (it used to) displays the files located in it. There are about 150 folders under the '/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects' share all of which display the files located in them, the one mentioned used to display the contents but no longer does. What would be the reason that one folder would no longer display existing files in the email client (Thunderbird) and the other folders would? And, how do I fix this? I've already tried unsubscribing and resubscribing the folder. This did not work. Would it now be simply a matter of unsubscribing the folder, deleting the dovecot files, and resubscribing to the folder? Eric # 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.7 (Final) auth_cache_size = 32 M auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_username_format = %Lu disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_greeting = Dovecot toaster ready. namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared/projects prefix = projects. separator = . type = public } passdb { args = cache_key=%u webmail=127.0.0.1 driver = vpopmail } plugin/quota = maildir protocols = imap ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { args = cache_key=%u quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail }

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[Dovecot] Panic: file mbox-sync.c: line 1348: assertion failed
by Jürgen Obermann 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hallo, I have the following problem with doveadm: # gdb --args /opt/local/bin/doveadm -v mailbox status -u userxy/g029 'messages' "Software-alle/AK-Software-Tagung" GNU gdb 5.3 Copyright 2002 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 "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"... (gdb) run Starting program: /opt/local/bin/doveadm -v mailbox status -u g029 messages Software-alle/AK-Software-Tagung warning: Lowest section in /lib/libthread.so.1 is .dynamic at 00000074 warning: Lowest section in /lib/libdl.so.1 is .hash at 000000b4 doveadm(g029): Panic: file mbox-sync.c: line 1348: assertion failed: (file_size >= sync_ctx->expunged_space + trailer_size) doveadm(g029): Error: Raw backtrace: 0xff1cbc30 -> 0xff319544 -> 0xff319fa8 -> 0xff31add8 -> 0xff31b278 -> 0xff2a69b0 -> 0xff2a6bac -> 0x16808 -> 0x1b8fc -> 0x16ba0 -> 0x177cc -> 0x17944 -> 0x17a50 -> 0x204e8 -> 0x165c8 Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0xfe94dcdc in _lwp_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1 (gdb) bt full #0 0xfe94dcdc in _lwp_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1 No symbol table info available. #1 0xfe8e6fb4 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.1 No symbol table info available. #2 0xfe8c2078 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.1 No symbol table info available. #3 0xff1cb984 in default_fatal_finish () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #4 0xff1cbc38 in i_panic () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #5 0xff31954c in mbox_sync_handle_eof_updates () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #6 0xff319fb0 in mbox_sync_do () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #7 0xff31ade0 in mbox_sync_int () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #8 0xff31b280 in mbox_storage_sync_init () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #9 0xff2a69b8 in mailbox_sync_init () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #10 0xff2a6bb4 in mailbox_sync () from /opt/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 No symbol table info available. #11 0x00016810 in doveadm_mailbox_find_and_sync () No symbol table info available. #12 0x0001b904 in cmd_mailbox_status_run () No symbol table info available. #13 0x00016ba8 in doveadm_mail_next_user () No symbol table info available. #14 0x000177d4 in doveadm_mail_cmd () No symbol table info available. #15 0x0001794c in doveadm_mail_try_run_multi_word () No symbol table info available. #16 0x00017a58 in doveadm_mail_try_run () No symbol table info available. #17 0x000204f0 in main () No symbol table info available. (gdb) quit The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y My configuration ist as follows: # /opt/local/bin/doveconf -n # 2.0.16: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = imap.hrz.uni-giessen.de localhost mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 days mdbox_rotate_size = 16 M namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = Mail/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = caughtspam autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = caughtspam autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 3 } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de quota_full_tempfail = yes sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail service auth { client_limit = 11120 } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 16 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 640 M } service imap { process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 1 G } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/imap_hrz.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/imap_hrz.key syslog_facility = local0 userdb { driver = passwd } version_ignore = yes protocol lda { info_log_path = log_path = mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib sieve } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib autocreate imap_zlib } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib sieve } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } Greetings, Jürgen Obermann -- Hochschulrechenzentrum der | Mail: Juergen.Obermann(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de Justus-Liebig-Universitaet | WWW: http://www.uni-giessen.de/obermann/ Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 | Tel: 0641-99-13054 (0641-99-13001) D-35392 Giessen, Germany | Fax: 0641-99-13009

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[Dovecot] Quota won't work
by Markus Fritz 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

I tried to set a quota setting. I installed dovecot with newest version, patched it and started it. dovecot -n: # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 ext4 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_listen: 143 ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 namespace: type: private inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)opsys.de mail_plugins: sieve quota log_path: auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf: driver = mysql connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=mailserver user=mailuser password=****** default_pass_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 password_query = SELECT email as user, password FROM virtual_users WHERE email='%u'; user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/var/mail/', maildir) AS home, CONCAT('*:bytes=', quota) AS quota_rule \ FROM virtual_users WHERE email='%u' virtual_users has this: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `virtual_users` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `domain_id` int(11) NOT NULL, `password` varchar(32) NOT NULL, `email` varchar(100) NOT NULL, `quota` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '629145600', PRIMARY KEY (`id`), UNIQUE KEY `email` (`email`), KEY `domain_id` (`domain_id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; Also postfix is installed with this (not the hole cfg): virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual-mailbox-domains.cf virtual_mailbox_limit_inbox = no virtual_mailbox_limit_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-quota.cf virtual_mailbox_limit_override = yes virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual-mailbox-maps.cf virtual_maildir_extended = yes virtual_maildir_limit_message = "The user you are trying to reach is over quota." virtual_maildir_limit_message_maps = mail:/etc/postfix/mysql-quota.cf virtual_overquota_bounce = yes /etc/postfix/mysql-quota.cf: user = mailuser password = ****** hosts = 127.0.0.1 dbname = mailserver query = SELECT quota FROM virtual_users WHERE email='%s' I changed the quota of my mail account to 40, so 40Byte should be the maximum. My account is at a size of 600KB now. I still recieve mails, also they will be saved without errors. /var/log/mail.log says nothing to quota, just normal recieve and store entries. What to fix? -- Markus Fritz Administration opsys.de

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[Dovecot] LMTP Logging
by Mark Moseley 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Just had a minor suggestion, with no clue how hard/easy it would be to implement: The %f flag in deliver_log_format seems to pick up the From: header, instead of the "MAIL FROM:<...>" arg. It'd be handy to have a %F that shows the "MAIL FROM" arg instead. I'm looking at tracking emails through logs from Exim to Dovecot easily. I know Message-ID can be used for correlation but it adds some complexity to searching, i.e. I can't just grep for the sender (as logged by Exim), unless I assume "MAIL FROM" always == From:

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[Dovecot] v2.x services documentation
by Timo Sirainen 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

If you've ever wanted to know everything about the service {} blocks, this should be quite helpful: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Services

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[Dovecot] 2.1.rc3 (1a722c7676bb): doveadm mailbox list -> Segmentation fault
by Pascal Volk 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Oops, I did it again. -- The trapper recommends today: c01dcofe.1201514(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] v2.1.rc3 released
by Timo Sirainen 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc3.tar.gz.sig Whops, rc2 was missing a file. I always run "make distcheck", which should catch these, but recently it has always failed due to clang static checking giving one "error" that I didn't really want to fix. Because of that the distcheck didn't finish and didn't check for the missing file. So, anyway, I've made clang happy again, and now that I see how bad idea it is to just ignore the failed distcheck, I won't do that again in future. :)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot unable to locate mailbox
by Jason X, Maney 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Dear all, I hope someone can point me in the right direction. here. I have setup my Dovecot v2.0.13 on Ubuntu 11.10. The logs tells me that the mail location has failed as follows: ========= Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<userA>, method=PLAIN, rip=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, lip=www.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=1360, TLS Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: user molla: Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/userA Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. ========= Yet my config also come out strangely as below: ========= root@guyana:~# dovecot -n # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.0-12-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10 passdb { driver = pam } protocols = " imap pop3" ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } root@guyana:~# ========= My mailbox location setting is as follows: ========= cat conf.d/10-mail.conf |grep mail_location # path given in the mail_location setting. # mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # explicitly, ie. mail_location does nothing unless you have a namespace # mail_location, which is also the default for it. ========= I am wondering how best to work around this Dovecot problem. Please help. Regards Jason.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Solutions company update
by Timo Sirainen 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hi, A small update: My Dovecot support company finally has web pages: http://www.dovecot.fi/ We've also started providing 24/7 support.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot did not accept Login from Host
by email＠randpoger.org 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hi! My Dovecot is running and i can connect + login through telnet: -------------------------------------------- >> telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. >> 1 login user passwort 1 OK [...] Logged in -------------------------------------------- But through my domain i can only connect, but than i get an error: -------------------------------------------- >> telnet domain.de 143 Trying xx.xxx.xxx.xx... Connected to domain.de. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. >> 1 login user passwort 1 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. -------------------------------------------- My dovecot.conf: -------------------------------------------- protocols = imap imaps ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem mail_location= /var/mail/%u log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes protocol imap { } auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } -------------------------------------------- If i try to connect+login through an domain, dovecot write NOTHING into the .log Someone ideas about this?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot crashes totally
by Gordon Grubert 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hello, our dovecot server crashes totally without any really useful log messages. The error log can be found in the attachment. The only way to get dovecot running again is a complete system restart. Dovecot version: 2:2.0.15-0~auto+5 (2.0.15 (6b7242ead6ed)) Configuration : see attachment OS : Debian Squeeze amd64 Dovecot source : http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ \ stable-auto/dovecot-2.0 main This problem has already occurred with the version 2.0.13 where the log says as few as the current logs :-( Best regards, Gordon -- Leiter AG Technische Infrastruktur und Basisdienste Universitaetsrechenzentrum (URZ) E.-M.-Arndt-Universitaet Greifswald Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 12 17489 Greifswald Germany Tel. +49 3834 86-1456 Fax. +49 3834 86-1401

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[Dovecot] [Dovecot 2.1] ACL plugin makes imap service crash when using some clients
by interfaSys sàrl 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hello, I've just noticed that when Horde is connecting to Dovecot 2.1, it crashes the imap service if Dovecot is configured to use the ACL plugin. I'm not sure what's so special about the command Horde sends, but it shouldn't make Dovecot crash. Everything is fine when using Thunderbird. Here is the message in Dovecot's logs "Fatal: master: service(imap): child 89974 killed with signal 11 (core not dumped)" The message says that the core is not dumped, even though I did add drop_priv_before_exec=yes to my config file. I've tried connecting to the pid using gdb, but the process just hangs as soon as I'm connected. Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] resolve mail_home ?
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

I now have "mail_home = /srv/mailstore/%256RHu/%d/%n". Is there any way of asking dovecot where a user's home directory is? It's not in "doveadm user": $ doveadm user -f home janfrode(a)lyse.net $ doveadm user janfrode(a)tanso.net userdb: janfrode(a)tanso.net mail : mdbox:~/mdbox quota_rule: *:storage=1048576 Alternatively, is there an easy way to calculate the %256RHu hash ? -jf

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[Dovecot] little bug with Director in 2.1?
by Luca Di Vizio 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hi, in 2.1rc3 the "director_servers" setting does not accept hostnames as documented (with ip no problems). It works correctly in 2.0.17. Greetings, Luca

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[Dovecot] Using Dovecot-auth to return error code 450 (or other 4xx) to Postfix when user is on vacation
by IVO GELOV (CRM) 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hello to all members. I am using Dovecot for 5 years, but this is my first post here. I am aware of the various autoresponder scripts for vacation autoreplies (I am using Virtual Vacation 3.1 by Mischa Peters). I have an issue with auto-replies - it is vulnerable to spamming with forged email address. Forging can be prevented with several Postfix settings, which I did in the past - but was forced to remove, because our company occasionaly has clients with improper configurations and those settings prevent us to receive their legitimate mail (and this of course is not good for the business). So I have though about another idea. Since I use Dovecot-auth to verify mailbox existence - I just wonder is it possible to somehow indicate specific error code (and hopefully descriptive text also) to Postfix (e.g. 450 or some other temporary failure) when the owner of the mailbox is currently on vacation ? Best wishes, IVO GELOV

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[Dovecot] IMAP maillog error: file lib.c: line 37 (nearest_power): assertion failed: (num <= ((size_t)1 << (BITS_IN_SIZE_T-1)))
by Charles Thompson 15 Jan '12

15 Jan '12

Dear Mailing List, What does this error mean and how do I fix it? I am on a Centos 4.9 >From /var/log/maillog : Jan 14 11:54:51 hostname imap(username): file lib.c: line 37 (nearest_power): assertion failed: (num <= ((size_t)1 << (BITS_IN_SIZE_T-1))) Version information : root(a)hostname[/etc/rc.d/rc3.d]# dovecot --version ; dovecot -n ; cat /etc/*release* 0.99.11 Usage: dovecot [-F] [-c <config file>] Fatal: Unknown argument: -n CentOS release 4.9 (Final) root(a)hostname[/etc/rc.d/rc3.d]# Thank you. -- Sincerely, Charles Thompson *UNIX & Linux Administrator* Tel* : *(650) 906-9156 Web : www.kinesis.me Mail: mail(a)kinesis.me

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] support master user to login as other users by DIGEST-MD5 SASL proxy authorization
by Yubao Liu 14 Jan '12

14 Jan '12

Hi Timo, As http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers states, currently the first way for master users to log in as other users only supports PLAIN SASL mechanism, and because DIGEST-MD5 uses user name to calculate MD5 digest, the second way can't support DIGEST-MD5. I enhance the code to support DIGEST-MD5 too for the first way, please review the attached patch against dovecot-2.0 HG tip. The patch also contains a little fix to "nonce-count" string, RFC 2831 shows it should be "nc". I tested it on Debian Wheezy, it seems OK. Below are my verification steps. (Debian packaged 2.0.15 + http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/bed15faedfd4 + attached patch) $ doveconf -n # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae i686 Debian wheezy/sid auth_default_realm = corp.example.com auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/dovecot.keytab auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = gssapi digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_realms = corp.example.com auth_username_format = %n first_valid_gid = 1000 first_valid_uid = 1000 mail_location = mdbox:/srv/mail/%u/Mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = /srv/mail/%u/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /srv/mail/%u/sieve } protocols = " imap lmtp sieve" service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = Debian-exim mode = 0660 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = home=/srv/mail/%u driver = passwd } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " sieve" } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " sieve" } $ grep webmail2 /etc/dovecot/master-users webmail2:{DIGEST-MD5}458af98b24dce5db79f852d146d5a5ca $ gsasl -m DIGEST-MD5 --imap imap.corp.example.com -z dieken -a webmail2 -p 123456 -r corp.example.com Trying `gold.corp.example.com'... * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Dovecot ready. . CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 . OK Pre-login capabilities listed, post-login capabilities have more. . STARTTLS . OK Begin TLS negotiation now. . CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 . OK Pre-login capabilities listed, post-login capabilities have more. . AUTHENTICATE DIGEST-MD5 + cmVhbG09ImNvcnAuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20iLG5vbmNlPSI2Y0tvRWpoRkREQVpsRHM4Q05QTUx3PT0iLHFvcD0iYXV0aCIsY2hhcnNldD0idXRmLTgiLGFsZ29yaXRobT0ibWQ1LXNlc3Mi Enter quality of protection (optional, e.g. 'qop-int'): dXNlcm5hbWU9IndlYm1haWwyIiwgcmVhbG09ImNvcnAuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20iLCBub25jZT0iNmNLb0VqaEZEREFabERzOENOUE1Mdz09IiwgY25vbmNlPSJIUUZKQy9VbnFSb3lGb3orTWpOY2hnPT0iLCBuYz0wMDAwMDAwMSwgcW9wPWF1dGgsIGRpZ2VzdC11cmk9ImltYXAvaW1hcC5jb3JwLmV4YW1wbGUuY29tIiwgcmVzcG9uc2U9NjU0MTQ0NzM5MTFhNjNlMjE4ZDJmZjc0NmNjZjk0MjUsIGNoYXJzZXQ9dXRmLTgsIGF1dGh6aWQ9ImRpZWtlbiI= + cnNwYXV0aD04ZTNiZmZhMmNhOWM4YzczODU3Zjc2OWZiOGRlMTU3MQ== * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS Client authentication finished (server trusted)... Enter application data (EOF to finish): Session finished... . LOGOUT . OK Logged in * BYE Logging out $ sudo tail -f 30 /var/log/mail.log .... Jan 14 20:35:30 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011DIGEST-MD5#011service=imap#011secured#011lip=127.0.1.1#011rip=127.0.0.1#011lport=143#011rport=54455 Jan 14 20:35:30 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: CONT#0111#011cmVhbG09ImNvcnAuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20iLG5vbmNlPSJsQzM0dlQ3QkxUOHdlc2VOOWIybzhnPT0iLHFvcD0iYXV0aCIsY2hhcnNldD0idXRmLTgiLGFsZ29yaXRobT0ibWQ1LXNlc3Mi Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT#0111#011dXNlcm5hbWU9IndlYm1haWwyIiwgcmVhbG09ImNvcnAuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20iLCBub25jZT0ibEMzNHZUN0JMVDh3ZXNlTjliMm84Zz09IiwgY25vbmNlPSJQOTFta2VHZjFFS2kzQVgxMWVVT3FnPT0iLCBuYz0wMDAwMDAwMSwgcW9wPWF1dGgsIGRpZ2VzdC11cmk9ImltYXAvaW1hcC5jb3JwLmV4YW1wbGUuY29tIiwgcmVzcG9uc2U9OTllNzM2MDc0ZWE3YjE2NTE4NGQ3ZGVjY2E5ZGExNTgsIGNoYXJzZXQ9dXRmLTgsIGF1dGh6aWQ9ImRpZWtlbiI= Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: auth(webmail2,127.0.0.1,master): Master user lookup for login: dieken Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd-file(webmail2,127.0.0.1,master): lookup: user=webmail2 file=/etc/dovecot/master-users Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: passdb(webmail2,127.0.0.1,master): Master user logging in as dieken Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: password(dieken,127.0.0.1): Credentials: 458af98b24dce5db79f852d146d5a5ca Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: CONT#0111#011cnNwYXV0aD04YmU5ZjFmN2UyMTRlMjI3MmY2YjEwMDU0YmYwNmMwZg== Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT#0111#011 Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: OK#0111#011user=dieken Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST#0112451832833#01115973#0111#011b7ff18971fd6967b00e2ea0ed2ef6278 Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd(dieken,127.0.0.1): lookup Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: auth: Debug: master out: USER#0112451832833#011dieken#011home=/srv/mail/dieken#011system_groups_user=dieken#011uid=1000#011gid=1000#011master_user=webmail2 Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<dieken>, method=DIGEST-MD5, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1, mpid=15974, TLS Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: imap: Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/master_user=webmail2 Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/srv/mail/dieken Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Debug: fs: root=/srv/mail/dieken/Mail, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Jan 14 20:35:32 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /srv/mail/dieken/Mail: mode=0700 gid=-1 Jan 14 20:35:34 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=8/329 Jan 14 20:35:34 gold dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL alert: where=0x4008, ret=256: warning close notify [127.0.0.1] Jan 14 21:04:50 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=131/533 Jan 14 21:33:59 gold dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<dieken>, method=DIGEST-MD5, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1, mpid=16114, TLS Jan 14 21:34:03 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=8/329 Jan 14 21:36:56 gold dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1 Jan 14 21:36:56 gold dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1 Jan 14 21:36:58 gold dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<dieken>, method=DIGEST-MD5, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1, mpid=16135, TLS Jan 14 21:37:00 gold dovecot: imap(dieken): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=10/377 Regards, Yubao Liu

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[Dovecot] Server Time 45min ahead
by maximus12 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

Hi, I have the issue that my server clock is 45min fast. Therefore I would like to install ntp. I read a lot on the internet about dovecot and ntp. My issue is that 45 min are a lot an I would like to minimize mail server downtimes as much as possible. I don't care if the time corrections with ntp takes more than a few month. Does anyone know how I should proceed (e.g. how I have to setup ntp -> no time jump during installation and afterwards). Thanks a lot for your help! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Server-Time-45min-ahead-tp33126760p33126760.html Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] Dsync and compressed mailboxes
by Joseba Torre 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

Hi, I will begin two migrations next week, and in both cases I plan to use compressed mailboxes with mdbox format. But in the last minute one doubt has appeared: is dsync aware of compressed mailboxes? I'm not sure if dsync -u $USER mirror mdbox:compressed_mdbox_path works, or if I have to use something else (I guess that with a running dovecot dsync backup should work). Thanks.

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Geoffrey Broadwell 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

I'm working on a Dovecot plugin, but I'm pretty new to Dovecot, so there's a LOT to learn about the code base and it's pretty slow going. I've got a few things coded so far, but I want to make sure I'm headed down the right path and get some advice before I go too much further. A couple years ago, I wrote some code for our Courier implementation that sent a magic UDP packet to a small server each time a user modified their voicemail IMAP folder. That UDP server would then connect back to Courier via IMAP again and check whether the folder had any unread messages left in it. Finally, it would contact our phone switches to modify the state of the message waiting indicator (MWI) on that user's phone line appropriately. Fast forward to now, and we want to migrate wholesale to Dovecot 2.x. The servers are all in place, they've been well tested and burned in (with Dovecot 2.0.15 I believe), and the final migration is pretty much waiting on a port to Dovecot of the MWI update functionality. The good news is that I originally spent some effort to isolate the UDP packet generation and delivery, and I used purely standard portable code as per APUE2, so I think that chunk of code should be reusable with only minor modifications. I'm aware that internally Dovecot has its own memory, buffer, and string management functions, but it doesn't feel like a win to try to convert the existing code. It's small, completely isolated, and well reviewed -- I'd be more afraid of using the new (to me) Dovecot API incorrectly than I am that the existing code has bugs in buffer handling. By cribbing from other plugins and editing appropriately, I've also created the skeleton for my plugin: Makefile, docs, conf snippet, .spec (I'll be deploying the plugin as an RPM), and so on. I've got the beginnings of the .h and .c written, just enough to init and deinit the plugin by calling mail_storage_hooks_{add,remove}() with some stub hook functions. This all seems good so far; test builds are error-free and seem sane. So now the hard part is writing the piece that I can't just crib from elsewhere -- making sure that I hook every place in Dovecot that the user's voicemail folder can be changed in a way that would change it between having one or more unread messages, and not having any unread messages at all (or vice-versa, of course). At the same time, I want to minimize the performance impact to Dovecot (and the load on the UDP server) by only hooking the places I need to, filtering out as many false positives as I can without introducing massive complexity, and only pinging the UDP server when it's most likely to notice a change in the state of that user's voicemail server. It seems to me that I need to at least capture mailbox_allocated from the mail_storage hooks, for a couple reasons: 1. The state of the voicemail folder could be changed because the entire folder is created, destroyed, or renamed. 2. I want to only do further checks when I'm sure I'm looking at the voicemail folder. There's no reason to do work when the user is working with any other folder. So now the questions: Does all of the above seem sane so far? Do I need to hook mail_allocated as well, or will I be able to see any change I need to monitor just from the mailbox? Finally, I'm lost about what operations on the mailbox and the mails within it I need to check. Can anyone offer some advice (or doc pointers) on this? Thank you! -'f

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[Dovecot] dsync conversion and ldap attributes
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

I have: mail_home = /srv/mailstore/%256RHu/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/:INDEX=/indexes/%1u/%1.1u/%u userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } and the dovecot-ldap.conf.ext specifies: user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home, mailLocation=mail, mailQuota=quota_rule=*:storage=%$ Now I want to convert individual users to mdbox using dsync, but how to I tell location2 to not fetch "home" and "mail" from ldap and use different mail_location (mdbox:~/mdbox) ? I.e. I want converted accounts stored in mail_location mdbox:/srv/mailstore/%256RHu/%d/%n/mdbox. -jf

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[Dovecot] more than 200 imap processes for one user
by Götz Reinicke 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

HI, recently I noticed, that our dovecot server (RH EL 5.7 dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5_7.1) 'fires' up a lot of imap processes only for one user. I counted 214 :-) most of tham in the 'S' state and are started nearly at the same time within 5 minutes. Usually users do have about 4 to 10 .... Dose anyone has an idea, what could be the cause? Thanks for any suggestion and best regards . Götz -- Götz Reinicke IT-Koordinator Tel. +49 7141 969 420 Fax +49 7141 969 55 420 E-Mail goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Akademiehof 10 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de Eintragung Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 205016 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Jürgen Walter MdL Staatssekretär im Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg Geschäftsführer: Prof. Thomas Schadt

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[Dovecot] proxy, managesieve and ssl?
by Nicolas KOWALSKI 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

Hello, On a dovecot 2.0.14 proxy, I found that proxying managesieve works well when using 'starttls' option in pass_attrs, but does not work when using 'ssl' option. The backend server is also dovecot 2.0.14; when using the ssl option, it reports "no auth attempts" in the logs about managesieve-login, and meanwhile the MUA, Thunderbird with sieve plugin, reports [TRYLATER] account is temporary disabled; no problem when using starttls option on the proxy, all works well. I would like to use IMAPs, instead of IMAP+STARTTLS, from proxy to backend, and have Managesieve still working. Is this supported? Thanks, -- Nicolas

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[Dovecot] could not start dovecot - unknown section type
by Daminto Lie 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

Hi, I was wondering if I could get some help with the following error when trying to start dovecot service on Ubuntu Server 10.04. The error message is as follows * Starting IMAP/POP3 mail server dovecot Error: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 15: Unknown section type Fatal: Invalid configuration in /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf [fail] I have just managed to upgrade it from 1.2.19 to 2.0.17. Then, I tried to start the dovecot by running the command $ sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot start And I received the above message. Below is the configuration for dovecot.conf # 2.0.17 (684381041dc4+): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-37-generic-pae i686 Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS ext4 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 1001 last_valid_uid = 2000 log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%u/Maildir mail_privileged_group = mail passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { quota = maildir quota_rule = *:storage=3GB quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=20%% quota_rule3 = Spam:storage=10%% quota_warning = storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2 = storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener /var/run/dovecot-auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = mail mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } service imap-login { chroot = login executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login inet_listener imap { address = * port = 143 } user = dovecot } service imap { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap } service pop3-login { chroot = login user = dovecot } ssl = no userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = uid=1001 gid=1001 home=/home/vmail/%u allow_all_users=yes driver = static } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mail_plugins = quota postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA and address extensions - folders flood
by huret deffgok 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Hi list, This post is slightly OT, I hope no one will take offense. I was following the wiki on using dovecot LDA with postfix and implemented, for our future mail server, the address extensions mechanism: an email sent to "validUser+foldername(a)mydomain.com" will have dovecot-lda automagically create and subscribe the "foldername" folder. With some basic scripting I was able to create hundreds of folders in a few seconds. So my question is how do you implement this great feature in a secure way so that funny random people out there cant flood your mailbox with gigatons of folder. Thanks, kfx

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[Dovecot] Log imap commands
by forumer＠smartmobili.com 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Hi, I am trying to optimize an imap library and I am comparing with some existing webmail, for instance from roundcube I can log the imap commands with the following format : [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] S: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Dovecot ready. [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] C: A0001 ID ("name" "Roundcube Webmail" "version" "0.6" "php" "5.3.5-1ubuntu7.4" "os" "Linux" "command" "/") [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] S: * ID NIL [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] S: A0001 OK ID completed. [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] C: A0002 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5 [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] S: + RDM1MTE1NjkxOTQzODE4NDEuMTMyNjI4ODE3NUBzZC0zMDYzNT4= [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] C: d2ViZ3Vlc3RAc21hcnRtb2JpbGkuY29tIDczODMxNjUzZmVlYzdjNDVlNzRkYTg1YjIwMjk2NWM0 [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] S: A0002 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS FUZZY] Logged in [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] C: A0003 NAMESPACE [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] S: * NAMESPACE (("" ".")) NIL NIL [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] S: A0003 OK Namespace completed. [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] C: A0004 LOGOUT [11-Jan-2012 14:22:55 +0100]: [DBD1] S: * BYE Logging out ... And now I would like to do the same from my imap library so I have started wireshark but it's a bit messy and difficult to compare. I was wondering if dovecot allows to log imap communications ? Thanks

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[Dovecot] How to solve a "Connection queue full problem" - dovecot version 2.0.16
by Didier Gervaise 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Hello, I put in production dovecot yesterday. After an hour, nobody could log in ("Max number of imap connection" error message on Thunderbird) Afterward, I found these messages in the logs: Jan 10 09:21:20 mailsrv dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] imap-login: Disconnected: Connection queue full (no auth attempts): rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx In the panic, I changed these values in /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf default_process_limit = 20000 default_client_limit = 20000 This apparently solved the problem but now I have these messages when I start dovecot: Jan 11 14:41:08 mailsrvspare dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] master: Dovecot v2.0.15 starting up Jan 11 14:41:08 mailsrvspare dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.warning] config: Warning: service auth { client_limit=4096 } is lower than required under max. load (103024) Jan 11 14:41:08 mailsrvspare dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.warning] config: Warning: service anvil { client_limit=20000 } is lower than required under max. load (60003) What should I do ? - adding "service_count = 0" in service imap-login { ... } and removing the modifications I did in 10-master.conf ? or - should I configure differently default_process_limit and default_client_limit ? It is a small site (about 1000 users). Currently I have 666 imap processes and 136 imap-login processes. Additionnal infos: The Server is a Solaris 10 Sun X4540 32GB RAM mailsrv:~ % /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -n # 2.0.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: service auth { client_limit=4096 } is lower than required under max. load (103024) doveconf: Warning: service anvil { client_limit=20000 } is lower than required under max. load (60003) # OS: SunOS 5.10 i86pc default_client_limit = 20000 default_process_limit = 20000 disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 100 mail_debug = yes mail_plugins = " quota" mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { driver = pam } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = ?:storage=4G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning3 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/ } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)esrf.fr protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 } } service imap { process_limit = 2000 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = dovecot } user = dovecot } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " sieve" } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota" } Best Regards -- ________________________________________________________ Didier GERVAISE didier.gervaise(a)esrf.fr 04 76 88 27 28 System Administrator ---- Computing Services ESRF 6 rue Jules Horowitz 38043 Grenoble Cedex 09 ________________________________________________________

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[Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers
by Sven Hartge 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Hi *, I am currently in the planning stage for a "new and improved" mail system at my university. Right now, everything is on one big backend server but this is causing me increasing amounts of pain, beginning with the time a full backup takes. So naturally, I want to split this big server into smaller ones. To keep things simple, I want to pin a user to a server so I can avoid things like NFS or cluster aware filesystems. The mapping for each account is then inserted into the LDAP object for each user and the frontend proxy (perdition at the moment) then uses this information to route each access to the correct backend storage server running dovecot. So far this has been working nice with my test setup. But: I also have to provide shared folders for users. Thankfully users don't have the right to share their own folders, which makes things easier (I hope). Right now, the setup works like this, using Courier: - complete virtual mail setup - global shared folders configured in /etc/courier/shared/index - inside /home/shared-folder-name/Maildir/courierimapacl specific user get access to a folder - each folder a user has access is mapped to the namespace #shared like #shared.shared-folder-name Now, if I split my backend storage server into multiple ones and user-A is on server-1 and user-B is on server-2, but both need to access the same shared folder, I have a problem. I could of course move all users needing access to a shared folder to the same server, but in the end, this will be a nightmare for me, because I forsee having to move users around on a daily basis. Right now, I am pondering with using an additional server with just the shared folders on it and using NFS (or a cluster FS) to mount the shared folder filesystem to each backend storage server, so each user has potential access to a shared folders data. Ideas? Suggestions? Nudges in the right direction? Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot under Virtual Host environment??
by sparkietm 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Hi all, Could anyone point me to a walk-through of setting up Dovecot for multiple domains under a Virtual Host environment? I'd like to offer clients their own email domain for each virtual host e.g john(a)client_1.com, sue(a)client_2.com. I'm guessing this is fairly common set-up, but a search on "multiple domains" didn't bring much back. Also, would it be possible to offer each client webmail? Many thanks in advance Mark -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Dovecot-under-Virtual-Host-environment---tp33114381p3… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] dsync panic
by Jürgen Obermann 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Hello, when I try to convert from mbox to mdbox with dsync with one user it always panics: # /opt/local/bin/dsync -v -u userxy backup ssh root@minerva1 /opt/local/bin/dsync -v -u userxy dsync-local(userxy): Info: Papierkorb: uidnext changed: 161 != 1 dsync-local(userxy): Info: INBOX: uidnext changed: 9139 != 9105 dsync-local(userxy): Info: Trash: uidnext changed: 3924 != 3915 dsync-local(userxy): Info: Drafts: uidnext changed: 1563 != 1 dsync-local(userxy): Info: Gesendet: uidnext changed: 369 != 1 dsync-local(userxy): Info: Sent: uidnext changed: 1955 != 1 dsync-remote(userxy): Panic: Trying to allocate 2147483648 bytes dsync-remote(userxy): Error: Raw backtrace: 0xff14bc30 -> 0xff1658c0 -> 0xff15744c -> 0xff157520 -> 0xff159d90 -> 0xff156540 -> 0xff15cf5c -> 0xff156540 -> 0xff157100 -> 0xff16d158 -> 0xff16cfe8 -> 0xff26e350 -> 0x251c4 -> 0x2547c -> 0x21110 -> 0x20494 -> 0x1f230 -> 0x1f3d4 -> 0xff15e46c -> 0xff15f738 -> 0xff15e530 -> 0xff140ec8 -> 0x1525c -> 0x14608 Abort dsync-local(userxy): Error: read() from worker server failed: EOF dsync-local(userxy): Error: Unexpected reply from server: My local configuration is: # /opt/local/bin/doveconf -n # 2.0.16: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = imap.hrz.uni-giessen.de localhost mail_fsync = always mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = Mail/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = caughtspam autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = caughtspam autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de quota_full_tempfail = yes sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail service auth { client_limit = 11120 } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 16 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 640 M } service imap { process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 1 G } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/imap_hrz.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/imap_hrz.key syslog_facility = local0 userdb { driver = passwd } version_ignore = yes protocol lda { info_log_path = log_path = mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib sieve } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib autocreate imap_zlib } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib sieve } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } On the remote side the configuration is # 2.0.16: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4u zfs auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = minerva1.hrz.uni-giessen.de mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_location = mdbox:/sanpool/mail%h/mdbox mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = mail_log notify quota zlib managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 days mdbox_rotate_size = 16 M mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = Mail/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/var/mail/public:CONTROL=/sanpool/mail/%u/Maildir/public:INDEX=/sanpool/mail/%u/Maildir/public prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = caughtspam autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = caughtspam autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts fts = squat mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size quota = fs:Home-Verzeichnis:noenforcing zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 3 } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de quota_full_tempfail = yes sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail service auth { client_limit = 11120 } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 16 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 640 M } service imap { process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 1 G } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/server.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/server.key syslog_facility = local0 userdb { driver = passwd } version_ignore = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = mail_log notify quota zlib autocreate fts fts_squat imap_quota imap_zlib } protocol lda { info_log_path = log_path = mail_plugins = mail_log notify quota zlib sieve } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = mail_log notify quota zlib sieve } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } Thank you, Jürgen Obermann Hochschulrechenzentrum der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 Tel. 0641-9913054

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[Dovecot] A small bug and a question about CONTEXT=SEARCH
by Anders 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Hi, I have been looking at search and sorting with dovecot and have run into some things. The first one I think may be a minor bug because a set of commands result in the socket connection being closed without warning: UID SEARCH RETURN (SAVE COUNT) CHARSET UTF-8 (UNDELETED TEXT "foo") UID SEARCH RETURN (COUNT MIN) CHARSET UTF-8 () $ The empty paranthesis before the reference to the previous search result ($) is not legal IMAP, but should not cause the socket to be closed I think. Then I have question about RFC5267 and the announcement of CONTEXT=SEARCH in the capabilities. I think this RFC is supported by dovecot, or maybe just part of the RFC is supported? At least when I include the CONTEXT ADDTO or REMOVEFROM keywords I get an error, but UPDATE and CANCELUPDATE seem to be supported. The RFC has been updated by the RFC describing the NOTIFY extension to IMAP so maybe it has been decided to not add these keywords until a later time? I am using dovecot version 2.0.15 (with patches from Apple). Best Regards Anders

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[Dovecot] rewriting mail_location
by Burckhard Schmidt 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Hello, I have LDAP as userdb. Entries containing attributes mail=alias.user1(a)some.domain.de and uid=user1 Mail to alias.user1(a)some.domain.de gets delivered into /datatest/user/alias.user1 instead of /datatest/user/user1 by lda. I have userdb { args = /usr/dovecot/etc/ldapuser.conf driver = ldap } with a ldapuser.conf: hosts ... base ... user_filter = (&(|(mail=%u)(mail=%n(a)some.domain) (uid=%u))(objectClass=posixAccount)) user_attrs = uid=mail_location=maildir:/datatest/user/%$, uidNumber=29,gidNumber=133 I hoped local part of attribute mail could be replaced by uid for local delivery with dovecots lda? Any hints how to do that? (With postfix I could rewrite the address to uid@host and use local_transport = dovecot.) postfix has virtual_transport = dovecot. LDAP entry: mail: alias.user1(a)some.domain.de uid: user1 homeDirectory: /dev/null uidNumber: 464 gidNumber: 100 mail to alias.user1(a)some.domain.de Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 postfix/qmgr[25221]: C434D1EE: from=<user@domain>, size=239, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: auth: Debug: master in: USER#0111#011alias.user1#011service=lda Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: auth: Debug: ldap(alias.user1): user search: base=ou=users,ou=...,c=de scope=subtree filter=(&(|(mail=alias.user1)(mail=alias.user1(a)some.domain.de)(uid=alias.user1))(objectClass=posixAccount)) fields=uid,uidNumber,gidNumber some substitutions are visibly: Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: auth: Debug: ldap(alias.user1): result: uid(location=maildir:/datatest/user/%$/maildir)=user1 gidNumber(133)=100 uidNumber(29)=464 Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: auth: Debug: master out: USER#0111#011alias.user1#011location=maildir:/datatest/user/user1/maildir#011133=100#01129=464 Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda: Debug: auth input: alias.user1 location=maildir:/datatest/user/user1/maildir 133=100 29=464 Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda: Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/location=maildir:/datatest/user/user1/maildir but alias "alias.user1" still used for delivery: Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda: Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/133=100 Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda: Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/29=464 Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda(alias.user1): Debug: Effective uid=29, gid=133, home= Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda(alias.user1): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/datatest/user/alias.user1/maildir:INDEX=/datatest/addons/index/alias.user1:CONTROL=/datatest/user/alias.user1/control:LAYOUT=fs Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda(alias.user1): Debug: fs: root=/datatest/user/alias.user1/maildir, index=/datatest/addons/index/alias.user1, control=/datatest/user/alias.user1/control, inbox=/datatest/user/alias.user1/maildir, alt= Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda(alias.user1): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /datatest/user/alias.user1/maildir: mode=0700 gid=-1 Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda(alias.user1): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda(alias.user1): Debug: Destination address: alias.user1@ubu1004 (source: user@hostname) Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 dovecot: lda(alias.user1): msgid=unspecified: saved mail to INBOX Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 postfix/pipe[25226]: C434D1EE: to=<alias.user1(a)some.domain.de>, relay=dovecot, delay=14, delays=14/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Jan 10 14:03:24 ubu1004 postfix/qmgr[25221]: C434D1EE: removed dovecot -n # 2.0.17 (684381041dc4+): /usr/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-34-generic-pae i686 Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS ext4 mail_gid = sysdov mail_location = maildir:/datatest/user/%n/maildir:INDEX=/datatest/addons/index/%n:CONTROL=/datatest/user/%n/control:LAYOUT=fs mail_plugins = autocreate mail_uid = sysdov passdb { args = failure_show_msg=yes imap driver = pam } service auth { client_limit = 30000 unix_listener auth-userdb { group = sysdov #effective 133 mode = 01204 user = sysdov #effective 29 } } userdb { args = /usr/dovecot/etc/ldapuser.conf driver = ldap } protocol lda { mail_plugins = autocreate } and ldapuser.conf: hosts ... base ... user_filter = (&(|(mail=%u)(mail=%n(a)some.domain) (uid=%u))(objectClass=posixAccount)) user_attrs = uid=mail_location=maildir:/datatest/user/%$, uidNumber=29,gidNumber=133 local part of mail should be replaced by uid for local delivery -- Regards --- Burckhard Schmidt

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[Dovecot] Proxy login failures
by Urban Loesch 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Hi, I'm using two dovecot pop3/imap proxies in front of our dovecot servers. Since some days I see many of the following errors in the logs of the two proxy-servers: ... dovecot: pop3-login: Error: proxy: Remote "IPV6-IP":110 disconnected: Connection closed: Connection reset by peer (state=0): user=<myuser>, method=PLAIN, rip=remote-ip, lip=localip ... dovecot: imap-login: Error: proxy: Remote "IPV6-IP":143 disconnected: Connection closed: Connection reset by peer (state=0): user=<myuser>, method=PLAIN, rip=remote-ip, lip=localip ... When this happens the Client gets the following error from the proxy: -ERR [IN-USE] Account is temporarily unavailable. System-details: OS: Debian Linux Proxy: 2.0.5-0~auto+23 Backend: 2.0.13-0~auto+54 Have you any idea what could cause this type of error? Thanks and regards Urban Loesch doveconf -n from one of our backendservers: # 2.0.13 (02d97fb66047): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.38.8-vs2.3.0.37-rc17-rol-em64t-timerp x86_64 Debian 6.0.2 ext4 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_cache_size = 40 M auth_cache_ttl = 12 hours auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ %p %w disable_plaintext_auth = no login_trusted_networks = our Proxy IP's (v4 and v6) mail_gid = mailstore mail_location = mdbox:/home/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=/home/dovecotindex/%d/%n mail_plugins = " quota mail_log notify zlib" mail_uid = mailstore managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave imapflags notify mdbox_rotate_size = 5 M passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-account.conf driver = sql } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size from mail_log_group_events = no quota = dict:Storage used::file:%h/dovecot-quota sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags sieve_max_redirects = 10 zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 5 } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 256 M } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = * port = 24 } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } vsz_limit = 512 M } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 256 M } ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-account.conf driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " quota mail_log notify zlib sieve zlib" } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 40 mail_plugins = " quota mail_log notify zlib imap_quota imap_zlib" } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = " quota mail_log notify zlib" pop3_logout_format = bytes_sent=%o top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s uidl_hash=%u }

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[Dovecot] Strange error: DIGEST-MD5 mechanism can't be supported with given passdbs
by Yubao Liu 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Hi all, I have no idea about that message, here is my configuration, what's wrong? Debian testing, Dovecot 2.0.15 $ doveconf -n # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae i686 Debian wheezy/sid auth_default_realm = corp.example.com auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/dovecot.keytab auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = gssapi digest-md5 auth_realms = corp.example.com auth_username_format = %n first_valid_gid = 1000 first_valid_uid = 1000 mail_location = mdbox:/srv/mail/%u/Mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = /srv/mail/%u/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /srv/mail/%u/sieve } protocols = " imap lmtp sieve" service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = Debian-exim mode = 0660 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = home=/srv/mail/%u driver = passwd } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " sieve" } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " sieve" } # cat /etc/dovecot/master-users xxx@corp.example.com:zzzzzzzz The zzzzz is obtained by "doveadm pw -s digest-md5 -u xxx(a)corp.example.com", I tried to add prefix "{DIGEST-MD5}" before the generated hash and/or add "scheme=DIGEST-MD5" to the passwd-file passdb's "args" option, both don't help. The error message: dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.15 starting up (core dumps disabled) dovecot: auth: Fatal: DIGEST-MD5 mechanism can't be supported with given passdbs gold dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling I opened debug auth log, it showed dovecot read /etc/dovecot/master-users and parsed one line, then the error occurred. Doesn't passwd-file passdb support digest-md5 password scheme? If it doesn't support, how do I configure digest-md5 auth mechanism with digest-md5 password scheme for virtual users? Regards, Yubao Liu

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[Dovecot] Postfix user map
by Timo Sirainen 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/f562bcaca215 implements "postmap" type sockets, which follow Postfix's tcp_table(5) protocol. So you can ask: get user@domain and Dovecot answers one of: - 200 1 - 500 User not found - 400 Internal failure So you can use this with Postfix: virtual_mailbox_maps = tcp:127.0.0.1:1234 With Dovecot you can enable it with: service auth { inet_listener postmap { listen = 127.0.0.1 port = 1234 } } Anyone have ideas if this could be improved, or used for some other purposes?

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[Dovecot] Solr plugin
by Daniel L. Miller 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

On 1/8/2012 3:40 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > On 1/6/2012 12:32 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote: >> On 1/6/2012 9:36 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> On 6.1.2012, at 19.30, Daniel L. Miller wrote: >>> > > Jan 8 15:40:09 bubba dovecot: imap(user1(a)domain.com): Error: > fts_solr: Lookup failed: 400 undefined field CC > Jan 8 15:40:09 bubba dovecot: imap: Error: > > Looking at the Solr output - looks like the CC parameter is being capitalized while all the other fieldnames are lowercase. -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] uid / gid and systemusers
by xamiw＠arcor.de 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Hi all, I'm facing a problem when a user (q and g in this example) is logging into dovecot. Can anybody tell some hint? Thanks in advance. George /var/log/mail.log: ... Jan 8 16:18:28 test dovecot: User q is missing UID (see mail_uid setting) Jan 8 16:18:28 test dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<q>, method=PLAIN, rip=AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD, lip=EEE.FFF.GGG.HHH TLS <--- edited by me Jan 8 16:18:28 test dovecot: dovecot: User g is missing UID (see mail_uid setting) Jan 8 16:18:28 test dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<g>, method=PLAIN, rip=AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD, lip=EEE.FFF.GGG.HHH TLS <--- edited by me /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: protocols = imaps disable_plaintext_auth = yes shutdown_clients = yes log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " ssl = yes ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail mbox_write_locks = fnctl dotlock auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb shadow { } } /etc/passwd: ... g:x:1000:1000:test1,,,:/home/g:/bin/bash q:x:1001:1001:test2,,,:/home/q:/bin/bash /etc/group: ... g:x:1000: q:x:1001:

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[Dovecot] FTS-Solr plugin
by Daniel L. Miller 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Solr plugin appears to break when mailbox names have an ampersand in the name. The messages appear to indicate '&' gets translated to '&--'. -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] change initial permissions on creation of mail folder
by mailinglist 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Installed dovcot from Debian .deb file. Creating a new account for system users sets permission for user-only. Where to change initial permissions on creation of mail folder and other subdirectories. Installed dovecot using "apt-get install dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d". Any time when I create a new account in my mail client for a system user, Dovecot tries to create ~/mail/.imap/INBOX. The permissions for mail and .imap are set to 0700. By this permissions INBOX can not be created leading to an error message in log files. When I manualy change the permissions to 0770, INBOX is created

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[Dovecot] failed: Too many levels of symbolic links
by David Egbert 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

All, My dovecot install works great except for one error I keep seeing this in my logs. The folder has 7138 messages in it. I am informed the user they needed to reduce the number of messages in the folder and believe this will fix the problem. My question is about where the problem lies. Is the problem related to an internal limit with Dovecot v2.0.15 or with my Debian (3.1.0-1-amd64)? Thanks --- dovecot: imap(XXXXX(a)XXXXX.com): Error: readdir(/XXXX/XXXX/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXX/XXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/XXX) failed: Too many levels of symbolic links David Egbert Paperclip Systems, LLC --- This message, its contents, and attachments are confidential and are only authorized for the intended recipient. Disclosure, re-distribution, or use of said information is strictly prohibited, and may be excluded from disclosure by applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, or their intermediary, please notify the sender and delete this message.

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Re: [Dovecot] Newbie: LDA Isn't Logging
by Michael Papet 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

I did some testing on a Debian testing VM. I built 2.0.17 from sources and copied the config straight over from the malfunctioning machine. LDA logging worked. So, it could be something about my system. But, running /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver still doesn't return a value on the command line as documented on the wiki. I've attached strace files from both the malfunctioning Debian packages machine and the built from sources VM. Unfortunately, I'm a new strace user, so I don't know what it all means. Michael --- On Tue, 1/3/12, Timo Sirainen <tss_no_spam(a)iki.fi> wrote: > From: Timo Sirainen <tss_no_spam(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Newbie: LDA Isn't Logging > To: "Michael" <mpapet_no_spam(a)yahoo.com> > Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Date: Tuesday, January 3, 2012, 4:15 AM > On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 22:48 -0800, > Michael wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm a newbie having some trouble getting deliver to > log anything. Related to this, there are no return > values unless the -d is missing. I'm using LDAP to > store virtual domain and user account information. > > > > Test #1: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -e -f mpapet(a)yahoo.com > -d zed(a)mailswansong.dom > < bad.mail > > Expected result: supposed to fail, there's no zed > account via ldap lookup and supposed to get a return code > per the wiki at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA. > Supposed to log too. > > Actual result: nothing gets delivered, no return code, > nothing is logged. > > As in return code is 0? Something's definitely wrong there > then. > > First check that deliver at least reads the config file. > Add something > broken in there, such as: "foo=bar" at the beginning of > dovecot.conf. > Does deliver fail now? > > Also running deliver via strace could show something > useful. > > >

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[Dovecot] Resetting a UID
by Tom Clark 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Hi, We've got a client with a Blackberry that hass deleted his emails off his Blackberry device. The BES won't re-download the messages as it believes it has already downloaded them (apparently it matches on UID). Is there any way of resetting a folder (and messages in the folder) UID? I know in courier you used to be able to touch the directory. Thanks, Tom Clark

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts)
by Robert Schetterer 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Am 09.01.2012 10:37, schrieb Simon Loewenthal: > On 09/01/12 10:27, Robert Schetterer wrote: >> Am 09.01.2012 10:16, schrieb J4K: >>> Morning everyone, >>> >>> On the 8th of Jan the TLS/SSL certificate I use with Dovecot expired. I >>> replaced it with a new on the 9th of Jan. I tested this with >>> Thunderbird and all is well. >>> >>> This morning people tell me they cannot get their email using their >>> mobile telephones : K9 Mail >>> >>> I have reverted the SSL cert back to the old one just in case. >>> Thunderbird will works. >>> >>> >>> Dovecot 1:1.2.15-7 running on Debian 6 >>> >>> The messages in the logs are: >>> >>> Jan 9 10:11:37 logout dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth >>> attempts): rip=90.131.95.130, lip=88.119.95.13, TLS: Disconnected >>> Jan 9 10:11:38 logout dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth >>> attempts): rip=90.131.95.130, lip=88.119.95.13, TLS: Disconnected >>> >>> In dovecot.conf I have this set : >>> >>> disable_plaintext_auth = no >>> >>> And the auth default mechanisms are set to: >>> mechanisms = plain login >>> >>> What is strange is the only item that changed is the SSL cert, which has >>> since been changed back to the old one (which has expired... ^^). >>> >>> Any ideas where I may look or change? >>> >>> Regards, S >> if you only changed the crt etc, and youre sure you did everything right >> >> perhaps you have forgot adding a needed intermediate cert ? >> >> read here >> http://www.trustico.co.uk/install/how-to-install-ssl-certificate.php >> >> Required Intermediate Certificates (CA Certificates) >> >> To successfully install your SSL Certificate you may be required to >> install an Intermediate CA Certificate. Please review the above >> installation instructions carefully to determine if an Intermediate CA >> Certificate is required, how to obtain it and correctly import it into >> your system. For more information please Contact Us. >> Alternatively, and for systems not covered by the above installation >> instructions, please use our Intermediate Certificate Wizard to find the >> correct CA Certificate or Root Bundle that is required for your SSL >> Certificate to function correctly. Find Out More Information > I know that the intermediate certs are messed up, which is why I rolled > back to the old expired certificate. I did not expect an expired > certificate to block authentication, and it does not mean that it does > block. The problem may be elsewhere. that might be a k9 problem ( older versions ) or in android older versions, is there a ignore ssl failure option as workaround what does thunderbird tell you about the new cert ? but for sure the problem may elsewhere > > -- > PGP is optional: 4BA78604 > simon @ klunky . org > simon @ klunky . co.uk > I won't accept your confidentiality > agreement, and your Emails are kept. > ~Ö¿Ö~ > -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts)
by J4K 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Morning everyone, On the 8th of Jan the TLS/SSL certificate I use with Dovecot expired. I replaced it with a new on the 9th of Jan. I tested this with Thunderbird and all is well. This morning people tell me they cannot get their email using their mobile telephones : K9 Mail I have reverted the SSL cert back to the old one just in case. Thunderbird will works. Dovecot 1:1.2.15-7 running on Debian 6 The messages in the logs are: Jan 9 10:11:37 logout dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=90.131.95.130, lip=88.119.95.13, TLS: Disconnected Jan 9 10:11:38 logout dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=90.131.95.130, lip=88.119.95.13, TLS: Disconnected In dovecot.conf I have this set : disable_plaintext_auth = no And the auth default mechanisms are set to: mechanisms = plain login What is strange is the only item that changed is the SSL cert, which has since been changed back to the old one (which has expired... ^^). Any ideas where I may look or change? Regards, S

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Re: [Dovecot] Possible mdbox corruption
by Daniel L. Miller 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

On 1/6/2012 12:32 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > On 1/6/2012 9:36 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On 6.1.2012, at 19.30, Daniel L. Miller wrote: >> >>> Jan 6 09:22:42 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): >>> Error: fts_solr: Indexing failed: 400 Illegal character ((CTRL-CHAR, >>> code 18)) at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [482765,16] >>> Jan 6 09:22:42 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker: Error: >>> >>> Google seems to indicate that Solr cannot handle "invalid" >>> characters - and that it is the responsibility of the calling >>> program to strip out such. A quick search shows me a both an >>> individual character comparison in Java and a regex used for the >>> purpose. Is there any "illegal character protection" in the Dovecot >>> Solr plugin? >> Yes, there is. So I'm not really sure what it's complaining about. >> Are you using the "solr" or "solr_old" backend? >> >> > "Solr". > > plugin { > fts = solr > fts_solr = url=http://localhost:8983/solr/ > } > Now seeing: Jan 8 15:40:09 bubba dovecot: imap(user1(a)domain.com): Error: fts_solr: Lookup failed: 400 undefined field CC Jan 8 15:40:09 bubba dovecot: imap: Error: -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Building 2.1.rc1 with cluence, but without libstemmer
by Jan Mikkelsen 08 Jan '12

08 Jan '12

Hi, I'm testing out 2.1.rc1, building against clucene 2.3.3.4. Without libstemmber, the build fails because it attempts to include SnowballAnalyzer.h which is not part of "core" clucene. Simple patch below to make dovecot 2.1.rc1 build with clucene but without libstemmer (or textcat). Looking at libstemmer itself, there are multiple versions. The version in clucene is put into libclucene-contribs-lib.so, but that version is older than libstemmer_c, which generates libstemmer.a, tested for in the dovecot 2.1.rc1 configure script. The dovecot code uses SnowballAnalyzer.h as a C++ wrapper around libstemmer. What versions of libstemmer, clucene and libtextcat is dovecot 2.1.rc1 intended to be used against? Is it worth bringing the wrapper class around libstemmer into dovecot to avoid funny dependencies against clucene and so that the -lstemmer test in configure is enough? For reference, I'm building on FreeBSD 9.0-RC3, system gcc. Regards, Jan Mikkelsen. diff -u -d -r dovecot-2.1.rc1/src/plugins/fts-lucene/lucene-wrapper.cc dovecot-2.1.rc1.patched/src/plugins/fts-lucene/lucene-wrapper.cc --- dovecot-2.1.rc1/src/plugins/fts-lucene/lucene-wrapper.cc 2011-11-09 08:45:26.000000000 +1100 +++ dovecot-2.1.rc1.patched/src/plugins/fts-lucene/lucene-wrapper.cc 2011-12-14 23:36:54.319796535 +1100 @@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ #include <CLucene.h> #include <CLucene/util/CLStreams.h> #include <CLucene/search/MultiPhraseQuery.h> +#if defined(HAVE_LUCENE_STEMMER) || defined(HAVE_LUCENE_TEXTCAT) #include "SnowballAnalyzer.h" +#endif /* Lucene's default is 10000. Use it here also.. */ #define MAX_TERMS_PER_DOCUMENT 10000

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[Dovecot] Possible mdbox corruption
by Daniel L. Miller 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

I thought I had cleared out the corruption I had before - perhaps I was mistaken. What steps should I take to help locate these issues? Currently using 2.1rc1. I see the following errors in my logs, including out of memory and message size issues (at 15:30): Jan 4 05:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed0a) [0x7f6e17cbfd0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed56) [0x7f6e17cbfd56] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f6e17c98d08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4f310) [0x7f6e17cd0310] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b965) [0x7f6e17cbc965] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7f6e17cbd0ec] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3292) [0x7f6e164b7292] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3a97) [0x7f6e164b7a97] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_set_build_key+0x2c) [0x7f6e166c4abc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x2d1) [0x7f6e166c5561] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xc630) [0x7f6e166ca630] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x40245f] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x4027dd] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f6e17ccc0f6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f6e17ccd17f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f6e17ccc098] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f6e17cb9123] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510](main+0x109) [0x401f29] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7f6e1791cd8e] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x401d19] Jan 4 05:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for user1(a)domain.com Jan 4 05:17:17 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 10896 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it)) Jan 4 06:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory Jan 4 06:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed0a) [0x7f0ec1a57d0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed56) [0x7f0ec1a57d56] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f0ec1a30d08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4f310) [0x7f0ec1a68310] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b965) [0x7f0ec1a54965] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7f0ec1a550ec] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3292) [0x7f0ec024f292] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3a97) [0x7f0ec024fa97] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_set_build_key+0x2c) [0x7f0ec045cabc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x2d1) [0x7f0ec045d561] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xc630) [0x7f0ec0462630] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x40245f] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x4027dd] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f0ec1a640f6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f0ec1a6517f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f0ec1a64098] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f0ec1a51123] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510](main+0x109) [0x401f29] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7f0ec16b4d8e] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x401d19] Jan 4 06:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for user1(a)domain.com Jan 4 06:17:17 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 11941 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it)) Jan 4 07:17:18 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory Jan 4 07:17:18 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed0a) [0x7faed4e56d0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed56) [0x7faed4e56d56] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7faed4e2fd08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4f310) [0x7faed4e67310] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b965) [0x7faed4e53965] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7faed4e540ec] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3292) [0x7faed364e292] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3a97) [0x7faed364ea97] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_set_build_key+0x2c) [0x7faed385babc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x2d1) [0x7faed385c561] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xc630) [0x7faed3861630] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x40245f] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x4027dd] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7faed4e630f6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7faed4e6417f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7faed4e63098] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7faed4e50123] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510](main+0x109) [0x401f29] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7faed4ab3d8e] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x401d19] Jan 4 07:17:18 bubba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for user1(a)domain.com Jan 4 07:17:18 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 13299 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it)) Jan 4 08:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory Jan 4 08:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed0a) [0x7ffd84382d0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed56) [0x7ffd84382d56] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7ffd8435bd08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4f310) [0x7ffd84393310] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b965) [0x7ffd8437f965] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7ffd843800ec] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3292) [0x7ffd82b7a292] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3a97) [0x7ffd82b7aa97] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_set_build_key+0x2c) [0x7ffd82d87abc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x2d1) [0x7ffd82d88561] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xc630) [0x7ffd82d8d630] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x40245f] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x4027dd] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7ffd8438f0f6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7ffd8439017f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7ffd8438f098] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7ffd8437c123] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510](main+0x109) [0x401f29] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7ffd83fdfd8e] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x401d19] Jan 4 08:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for user1(a)domain.com Jan 4 08:17:17 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 14413 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it)) Jan 4 09:17:19 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory Jan 4 09:17:19 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed0a) [0x7fb701bf5d0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed56) [0x7fb701bf5d56] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7fb701bced08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4f310) [0x7fb701c06310] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b965) [0x7fb701bf2965] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7fb701bf30ec] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3292) [0x7fb7003ed292] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3a97) [0x7fb7003eda97] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_set_build_key+0x2c) [0x7fb7005faabc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x2d1) [0x7fb7005fb561] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xc630) [0x7fb700600630] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x40245f] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x4027dd] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7fb701c020f6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7fb701c0317f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7fb701c02098] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7fb701bef123] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510](main+0x109) [0x401f29] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7fb701852d8e] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x401d19] Jan 4 09:17:19 bubba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for user1(a)domain.com Jan 4 09:17:19 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 15486 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it)) Jan 4 10:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory Jan 4 10:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed0a) [0x7f8dc590ed0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed56) [0x7f8dc590ed56] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f8dc58e7d08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4f310) [0x7f8dc591f310] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b965) [0x7f8dc590b965] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7f8dc590c0ec] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3292) [0x7f8dc4106292] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3a97) [0x7f8dc4106a97] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_set_build_key+0x2c) [0x7f8dc4313abc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x2d1) [0x7f8dc4314561] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xc630) [0x7f8dc4319630] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x40245f] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x4027dd] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f8dc591b0f6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f8dc591c17f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f8dc591b098] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f8dc5908123] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510](main+0x109) [0x401f29] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7f8dc556bd8e] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7510]() [0x401d19] Jan 4 10:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for user1(a)domain.com Jan 4 10:17:17 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 16472 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it)) Jan 4 11:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory Jan 4 11:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed0a) [0x7ff619c1dd0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed56) [0x7ff619c1dd56] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7ff619bf6d08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4f310) [0x7ff619c2e310] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b965) [0x7ff619c1a965] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7ff619c1b0ec] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3292) [0x7ff618415292] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3a97) [0x7ff618415a97] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_set_build_key+0x2c) [0x7ff618622abc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x2d1) [0x7ff618623561] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xc630) [0x7ff618628630] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7514]() [0x40245f] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7514]() [0x4027dd] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7ff619c2a0f6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7ff619c2b17f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7ff619c2a098] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7ff619c17123] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7514](main+0x109) [0x401f29] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7ff61987ad8e] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7514]() [0x401d19] Jan 4 11:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for user1(a)domain.com Jan 4 11:17:17 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 17522 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it)) Jan 4 12:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory Jan 4 12:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed0a) [0x7ffd988c1d0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed56) [0x7ffd988c1d56] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7ffd9889ad08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4f310) [0x7ffd988d2310] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b965) [0x7ffd988be965] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7ffd988bf0ec] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3292) [0x7ffd970b9292] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3a97) [0x7ffd970b9a97] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_set_build_key+0x2c) [0x7ffd972c6abc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x2d1) [0x7ffd972c7561] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xc630) [0x7ffd972cc630] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7515]() [0x40245f] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7515]() [0x4027dd] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7ffd988ce0f6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7ffd988cf17f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7ffd988ce098] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7ffd988bb123] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7515](main+0x109) [0x401f29] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7ffd9851ed8e] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7515]() [0x401d19] Jan 4 12:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for user1(a)domain.com Jan 4 12:17:17 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 18498 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it)) Jan 4 13:17:16 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory Jan 4 13:17:16 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed0a) [0x7f51b0163d0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed56) [0x7f51b0163d56] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f51b013cd08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4f310) [0x7f51b0174310] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b965) [0x7f51b0160965] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7f51b01610ec] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3292) [0x7f51ae95b292] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3a97) [0x7f51ae95ba97] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_set_build_key+0x2c) [0x7f51aeb68abc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x2d1) [0x7f51aeb69561] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xc630) [0x7f51aeb6e630] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7515]() [0x40245f] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7515]() [0x4027dd] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f51b01700f6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f51b017117f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f51b0170098] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f51b015d123] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7515](main+0x109) [0x401f29] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7f51afdc0d8e] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7515]() [0x401d19] Jan 4 13:17:16 bubba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for user1(a)domain.com Jan 4 13:17:16 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 19550 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it)) Jan 4 14:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory Jan 4 14:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed0a) [0x7f423b546d0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed56) [0x7f423b546d56] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f423b51fd08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4f310) [0x7f423b557310] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b965) [0x7f423b543965] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7f423b5440ec] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3292) [0x7f4239d3e292] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3a97) [0x7f4239d3ea97] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_set_build_key+0x2c) [0x7f4239f4babc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x2d1) [0x7f4239f4c561] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xc630) [0x7f4239f51630] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7516]() [0x40245f] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7516]() [0x4027dd] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f423b5530f6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f423b55417f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f423b553098] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f423b540123] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7516](main+0x109) [0x401f29] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7f423b1a3d8e] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7516]() [0x401d19] Jan 4 14:17:17 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 20638 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it)) Jan 4 14:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for user1(a)domain.com Jan 4 15:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory Jan 4 15:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed0a) [0x7f3ab5e51d0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed56) [0x7f3ab5e51d56] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f3ab5e2ad08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4f310) [0x7f3ab5e62310] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b965) [0x7f3ab5e4e965] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7f3ab5e4f0ec] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3292) [0x7f3ab4649292] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3a97) [0x7f3ab4649a97] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_set_build_key+0x2c) [0x7f3ab4856abc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x2d1) [0x7f3ab4857561] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xc630) [0x7f3ab485c630] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7517]() [0x40245f] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7517]() [0x4027dd] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f3ab5e5e0f6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f3ab5e5f17f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f3ab5e5e098] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f3ab5e4b123] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7517](main+0x109) [0x401f29] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7f3ab5aaed8e] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7517]() [0x401d19] Jan 4 15:17:17 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 21821 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it)) Jan 4 15:17:17 bubba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for user1(a)domain.com Jan 4 15:30:48 bubba dovecot: imap(user2(a)domain.com): Error: Cached message size smaller than expected (822 < 1493) Jan 4 15:30:48 bubba dovecot: imap(user2(a)domain.com): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/mail/amfes.com/lmiller/mdbox/mailboxes/Sent/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.cache: Broken physical size for mail UID 1786 Jan 4 15:30:48 bubba dovecot: imap(user2(a)domain.com): Error: read(/var/mail/amfes.com/lmiller/mdbox/storage/m.208) failed: Input/output error (FETCH for mailbox Sent UID 1786) Jan 4 16:17:20 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Fatal: pool_system_realloc(134217728): Out of memory Jan 4 16:17:20 bubba dovecot: indexer-worker(user1(a)domain.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed0a) [0x7ffc91276d0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3ed56) [0x7ffc91276d56] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7ffc9124fd08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4f310) [0x7ffc91287310] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b965) [0x7ffc91273965] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x7c) [0x7ffc912740ec] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3292) [0x7ffc8fa6e292] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x3a97) [0x7ffc8fa6ea97] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_set_build_key+0x2c) [0x7ffc8fc7babc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x2d1) [0x7ffc8fc7c561] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xc630) [0x7ffc8fc81630] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7517]() [0x40245f] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7517]() [0x4027dd] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7ffc912830f6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7ffc9128417f] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7ffc91283098] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7ffc91270123] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7517](main+0x109) [0x401f29] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7ffc90ed3d8e] -> dovecot/indexer-worker [user1(a)domain.com Sent - 5500/7517]() [0x401d19] Jan 4 16:17:20 bubba dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): child 22927 returned error 83 (Out of memory (vsz_limit=256 MB, you may need to increase it)) Jan 4 16:17:20 bubba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for user1(a)domain.com -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] v2.1.rc2 released
by Timo Sirainen 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/rc/dovecot-2.1.rc2.tar.gz.sig Lots of fixes since rc1. Some of the changes were larger than I wanted at RC stage, but they had to be done now.. Hopefully it's all over now, and we can have v2.1.0 soon. :) Some of the more important changes: * dsync was merged into doveadm. There is still "dsync" symlink pointing to "doveadm", which you can use the old way for now. The preferred ways to run dsync are "doveadm sync" (for old "dsync mirror") and "doveadm backup". + IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension to describe mailboxes + Added mailbox {} sections, which deprecate autocreate plugin + lib-fs: Added "mode" parameter to "posix" backend to specify mode for created files/dirs (for mail_attachment_dir). + inet_listener names are now used to figure out what type the socket is when useful. For example naming service auth { inet_listener } to auth-client vs. auth-userdb has different behavior. + Added pop3c (= POP3 client) storage backend. - LMTP proxying code was simplified, hopefully fixing its problems. - dsync: Don't remove user's subscriptions for subscriptions=no namespaces.

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[Dovecot] v2.0.17 released
by Timo Sirainen 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.17.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.17.tar.gz.sig Among other changes: + Proxying now supports sending SSL client certificate to server with ssl_client_cert/key settings. + doveadm dump: Added support for dumping dbox headers/metadata. - Fixed memory leaks in login processes with SSL connections - vpopmail support was broken in v2.0.16

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[Dovecot] ACL with IMAP proxying
by Alexis Lelion 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

Hello, I'm trying to use ACLs to restrict subscription on public mailboxes, but I went into trouble. My setup is made of two servers, and users are shared between them via a proxy. User authentication is done with LDAP, and credentials aren't shared between the mailservers. Instead, the proxies are using master password. The thing is that when the ACLs are checked, it actually doesn't give the user login, but the master login, which is useless. Is there a way to use the first part of destuser as it is done when fetching info from the userdb? Any help is appreciated, Thansk! Alexis -------------------------------------------------- ACL bug logs : 104184 Jan 6 12:09:35 mail02 dovecot: imap(user@domain): Debug: acl: acl username = proxy 104185 Jan 6 12:09:35 mail02 dovecot: imap(user@domain): Debug: acl: owner = 0 104186 Jan 6 12:09:35 mail02 dovecot: imap(user@domain): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (none) 104187 Jan 6 12:09:35 mail02 dovecot: imap(user@domain): Debug: Namespace : type=public, prefix=Shared., sep=., inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no location=maildir:/var/vmail/domain/Shared -------------------------------------------------- Output of "dovecot -n" # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 ext3 auth_debug = yes auth_master_user_separator = * auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_verbose = yes first_valid_uid = 150 lmtp_proxy = yes login_trusted_networks = mail01.ip mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = acl mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace { inbox = yes location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/var/vmail/domain/Shared prefix = Shared. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 recipient_delimiter = + sieve_after = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/after.d/ sieve_before = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/pre.d/ sieve_dir = /var/vmail/%d/%n/sieve sieve_global_path = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } postmaster_address = user@domain protocols = " imap lmtp sieve" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = mail02.ip port = 24 } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/mailcert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailkey.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol doveadm { auth_socket_path = director-userdb } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve } protocol imap { imap_id_send = name mail_plugins = acl imap_acl } protocol lmtp { passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-lmtp.conf driver = sql } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-lmtp.conf driver = ldap } }

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[Dovecot] doveadm + dsync merging
by Timo Sirainen 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

doveadm already supports some nice things, such as being able to remotely launch a doveadm command via TCP socket. It also supports executing a command for all users or to some specific users using a wildcard. dsync could use these features, so I merged dsync and doveadm into same binary for v2.1. I'll still install "dsync" symlink pointing to "doveadm", and running that way it should be fully backwards compatible with the old dsync binary and its parameters. I'm mainly now wondering about the command naming for running dsync via doveadm. Any suggestions? a) Use "doveadm dsync" prefix, and otherwise keep the names same: dsync mirror -> doveadm dsync mirror dsync backup -> doveadm dsync backup dsync server -> doveadm dsync server (for running dsync remotely via ssh/etc.) b) Don't have the dsync prefix: dsync mirror -> doveadm mirror dsync backup -> doveadm backup dsync server -> doveadm dsync-server (could be hidden from the doveadm commands list) c) Either a) or b), but rename "mirror" to "sync" or "dsync" or "replicate"? d) Something else?

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[Dovecot] Deduplication active - but how good does it perform?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

I have deduplication active in my first mdbox: type mailbox, but how do I find out how well the deduplication works? Is there a way of finding out how much disk space I saved (if I saved some :) )? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] dovecot-lda error
by Wesley M. 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hi, I use Dovecot 2.0.13 on OpenBSD 5.0 When i try to send emails i have the following error in /var/log/maillog Jan 5 11:23:49 mail50 postfix/pipe[29423]: D951842244C: to=, relay=dovecot, delay=0.02, delays=0.01/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (command line usage error. Command output: deliver: unknown option -- n Usage: dovecot-lda [-c ] [-a ] [-d ] [-p ] [-f ] [-m ] [-e] [-k] ) Jan 5 11:23:49 mail50 postfix/qmgr[13787]: D951842244C: removed In my /etc/postfix/master.cf : # Dovecot LDA dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=ODR user=_dovecot:_dovecot argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${ sender} -d ${user}@${nexthop} -n -m ${extension} How can i resolve that ? Thank you very much for your replies. Cheers, Wesley.

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[Dovecot] POP3 problems
by sottilette＠rfx.it 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Migrated a 1.0.2 server to 2.0.16 (same old box). IMAP seems working Ok. POP3 give problems with some clients (Outlook 2010 and Thunderbird reported). Seems authentication problem Below my doveconf -n (debug enbled, but no answer found to the problems) Any hints? Thanks, P. # doveconf -n # 2.0.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with: doveconf -n > dovecot-new.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:791: add auth_ prefix to all settings inside auth {} and remove the auth {} section completely doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:864: passdb {} has been replaced by passdb { driver= } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:935: userdb passwd {} has been replaced by userdb { driver=passwd } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:998: auth_user has been replaced by service auth { user } doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf:1131: ssl_disable has been renamed to ssl # OS: Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp i686 CentOS release 4.9 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot.info.log listen = * log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot.log mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mail_location = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_read_locks = dotlock fcntl passdb { driver = pam } protocols = pop3 imap service auth { user = root } ssl = no ssl_cert = /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { driver = passwd } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com }

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[Dovecot] assertion failed in mail-index.c
by Attila Nagy 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hi, I have this: Jan 04 15:55:21 pop3(jfm47): Panic: file mail-index.c: line 257 (mail_index_keyword_lookup_or_create): assertion failed: (*keyword != '\0') Jan 04 15:55:21 master: Error: service(pop3): child 3391 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - set service pop3 { drop_priv_before_exec=yes }) I don't know why this happened, but wouldn't be the "self healing" (seen in the wiki I think :) kick in here? I mean it's even better to completely remove the index than dying and make the mailbox inaccessible. Thanks,

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[Dovecot] Small LOGIN_MAX_INBUF_SIZE for GSSAPI with samba4 (AD)
by Ludek Finstrle 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hello, I faced the problem with samba (AD) + mutt (gssapi) + dovecot (imap). From dovecot log: Jan 2 17:58:42 server dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Input buffer full (no auth attempts): rip=192.167.14.16, lip=192.167.14.16, secured My situation: CentOS 6.2 IMAP: dovecot --version: 2.0.9 (CentOS 6.2) MUA: mutt 1.5.20 (CentOS 6.2) Kerberos: samba4 4.0.0alpha17 as AD PDC $ klist -e Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_1002_Mmg2Rc Default principal: luf@TEST Valid starting Expires Service principal 01/02/12 15:56:16 01/03/12 01:56:16 krbtgt/TEST@TEST renew until 01/03/12 01:56:16, Etype (skey, tkt): arcfour-hmac, arcfour-hmac 01/02/12 16:33:19 01/03/12 01:56:16 imap/server.test@TEST Etype (skey, tkt): arcfour-hmac, arcfour-hmac I fixed this problem with enlarging LOGIN_MAX_INBUF_SIZE. I also red about wrong lower/uppercase but it's not definitely my problem (I tried all possibilities of lower/uppercas in login). I sniffed the plain communication and the "a0000 AUTHENTICATE GSSAPI" line has around 1873 chars. When I enlarged the LOGIN_MAX_INBUF_SIZE to 2048 the problem disappeared and I'm now able to login to dovecot using gssapi in mutt client. I use also thunderbird (on windows with sspi) and it works ok with LOGIN_MAX_INBUF_SIZE = 1024. Does anybody have any idea why it's so large or how to fix it another way? It's terrible to patch each version of dovecot rpm package. Or is there any possibility to change constant? I have no idea how much this should affect memory usage. The simple patch I have to use is attached. Please cc: to me (luf at pzkagis dot cz) as I'm not member of the this list. Best regards, Ludek Finstrle

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[Dovecot] doveadm move from one user's mailbox to another user's mailbox?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Is something along the lines: doveadm move -u sourceuser destinationuser:/inbox search_query possible with 2.0.16? I want to move mails from a backup mailbox (which has no valid password assigned) to a "restore" mailbox (which *HAS* a password assigned to it). -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] migrate dovecot files 1.2.16 to 2.0.13 (OpenBSD 5.0)
by Wesley M. 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hi, I have a mailserver(Postfix+MySql) on OpenBSD 4.9 with Dovecot 1.2.16, all works fine. Now i want to do the same but on OpenBSD 5.0. I meet problems using dovecot 2.0.13 on OpenBSD 5.0. Some tests (on the box): telnet 127.0.0.1 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. telnet 127.0.0.1 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. Seems that pop3/imap doesn't work 'netstat -anf inet' tcp 0 0 *.993 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.143 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.995 *.* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *.110 *.* LISTEN Therefore, ports are open. When i use Roundcube webmail, i have errors : error imap connection If someone can help me on. Thank you very much. Files to migrate (already tried to modify them) : dovecot.conf / dovecot-sql.conf / and 'dovecot -n ' ###############::::::::dovecot.conf:::::::::::################################# base_dir = /var/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 ssl_cert = /etc/ssl/dovecotcert.pem ssl_key = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list = HIGH:MEDIUM:+TLSv1:!SSLv2:+SSLv3 disable_plaintext_auth = yes default_login_user = _dovecot default_internal_user = _dovecot login_process_per_connection = no login_process_size = 64 mail_location = maildir:/var/mailserv/mail/%d/%n first_valid_uid = 1000 mmap_disable = yes protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve quota postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mailr130.localdomain sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master } auth default { mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 apop passdb { driver=sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb { driver=sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } user = root socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = _postfix group = _postfix } master { path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mode = 0600 user = _dovecot # User running Dovecot LDA group = _dovecot # Or alternatively mode 0660 + LDA user in this group } } } plugin { sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage=~/sieve } plugin { quota = maildir quota_rule = *:storage=5G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=100M quota_warning = storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2 = storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Spam autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Spam autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts } plugin { antispam_signature = X-Spam-Flag antispam_signature_missing = move # move silently without training antispam_trash = trash;Trash;Deleted Items; Deleted Messages antispam_spam = SPAM;Spam;spam;Junk;junk antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/local/bin/sa-learn antispam_mail_sendmail_args = --username=%u antispam_mail_spam = --spam antispam_mail_notspam = --ham antispam_mail_tmpdir = /tmp } ###############::::::::dovecot-sql.conf:::::::################################## driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=mail user=postfix password=postfix default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT email as user, password FROM users WHERE email = '%u' user_query = SELECT id as uid, id as gid, home, concat('*:storage=', quota, 'M') AS quota_rule FROM users WHERE email = '%u' ################### dovecot -n######################################## # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: OpenBSD 5.0 i386 ffs auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 apop base_dir = /var/dovecot/ default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovecot first_valid_uid = 1000 mail_location = maildir:/var/mailserv/mail/%d/%n mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { antispam_mail_notspam = --ham antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/local/bin/sa-learn antispam_mail_sendmail_args = --username=%u antispam_mail_spam = --spam antispam_mail_tmpdir = /tmp antispam_signature = X-Spam-Flag antispam_signature_missing = move antispam_spam = SPAM;Spam;spam;Junk;junk antispam_trash = trash;Trash;Deleted Items; Deleted Messages autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Spam autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Spam autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts quota = maildir quota_rule = *:storage=5G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=100M quota_warning = storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2 = storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/run/dovecot-auth-master { group = _dovecot mode = 0600 user = _dovecot } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = _postfix mode = 0660 user = _postfix } user = root } service imap-login { service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 64 M } service pop3-login { service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 64 M } ssl_cert = /etc/ssl/dovecotcert.pem ssl_cipher_list = HIGH:MEDIUM:+TLSv1:!SSLv2:+SSLv3 ssl_key = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master mail_plugins = sieve quota postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mailr130.localdomain sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail } Cheers, Wesley. M www.mouedine.net

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[Dovecot] error bad file number with compressed mbox files
by Jürgen Obermann 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hello, can dsync convert from compressed mbox to compressed mdbox format? When I use compressed mbox files, either with gzip or with bzip2, I can read the mails as usual, but I find the following errors in dovecots log file: imap(userxy): Error: nfs_flush_fcntl: fcntl(/home/hrz/userxy/Mail/mymbox.gz, F_RDLCK) failed: Bad file number imap(userxy): Error: nfs_flush_fcntl: fcntl(/home/hrz/userxy/Mail/mymbox.bz2, F_RDLCK) failed: Bad file number These errors also appear when I use dsync to convert the compressed mbox to mdbox format on a second dovecot server: /opt/local/bin/dsync -v -u userxy backup mdbox:/sanpool/mail/home/hrz/userxy/mdbox dsync(userxy): Error: nfs_flush_fcntl: fcntl(/home/hrz/userxy/Mail/mymbox.gz, F_RDLCK) failed: Bad file number But now dovecot does not find the mails in the folder mymbox.gz on the second dovecot server in mdbox format! The relevant part of the dovcot configuration is: # 2.0.16: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v mail_fsync = always mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib mmap_disable = yes Thank you, -- Jürgen Obermann Hochschulrechenzentrum der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 Tel. 0641-9913054

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Re: [Dovecot] GPFS for mail-storage (Was: Re: Compressing existing maildirs)
by list＠airstreamcomm.net 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Great information, thank you. Could you remark on GPFS services hosting mail storage over a WAN between two geographically separated data centers? ----- Reply message ----- From: "Jan-Frode Myklebust" <janfrode(a)tanso.net> To: "Stan Hoeppner" <stan(a)hardwarefreak.com> Cc: "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi>, <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Subject: [Dovecot] GPFS for mail-storage (Was: Re: Compressing existing maildirs) Date: Tue, Jan 3, 2012 2:14 am On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 01:54:32AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Nice setup. I've mentioned GPFS for cluster use on this list before, > but I think you're the only operator to confirm using it. I'm sure > others would be interested in hearing of your first hand experience: > pros, cons, performance, etc. And a ball park figure on the licensing > costs, whether one can only use GPFS on IBM storage or if storage from > others vendors is allowed in the GPFS pool. I used to work for IBM, so I've been a bit uneasy about pushing GPFS too hard publicly, for risk of being accused of being biased. But I changed job in November, so now I'm only a satisfied customer :-) Pros: Extremely simple to configure and manage. Assuming root on all nodes can ssh freely, and port 1191/tcp is open between the nodes, these are the commands to create the cluster, create a NSD (network shared disks), and create a filesystem: # echo hostname1:manager-quorum > NodeFile # "manager" means this node can be selected as filesystem manager # echo hostname2:manager-quorum >> NodeFile # "quorum" means this node has a vote in the quorum selection # echo hostname3:manager-quorum >> NodeFile # all my nodes are usually the same, so they all have same roles. # mmcrcluster -n NodeFile -p $(hostname) -A ### sdb1 is either a local disk on hostname1 (in which case the other nodes will access it over tcp to ### hostname1), or a SAN-disk that they can access directly over FC/iSCSI. # echo sdb1:hostname1::dataAndMetadata:: > DescFile # This disk can be used for both data and metadata # mmcrnsd -F DescFile # mmstartup -A # starts GPFS services on all nodes # mmcrfs /gpfs1 gpfs1 -F DescFile # mount /gpfs1 You can add and remove disks from the filesystem, and change most settings without downtime. You can scale out your workload by adding more nodes (SAN attached or not), and scale out your disk performance by adding more disks on the fly. (IBM uses GPFS to create scale-out NAS solutions http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/network/sonas/ , which highlights a few of the features available with GPFS) There's no problem running GPFS on other vendors disk systems. I've used Nexsan SATAboy earlier, for a HPC cluster. One can easily move from one disksystem to another without downtime. Cons: It has it's own page cache, staticly configured. So you don't get the "all available memory used for page caching" behaviour as you normally do on linux. There is a kernel module that needs to be rebuilt on every upgrade. It's a simple process, but it needs to be done and means we can't just run "yum update ; reboot" to upgrade. % export SHARKCLONEROOT=/usr/lpp/mmfs/src % cp /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/config/site.mcr.proto /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/config/site.mcr % vi /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/config/site.mcr # correct GPFS_ARCH, LINUX_DISTRIBUTION and LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION % cd /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/ ; make clean ; make World % su - root # export SHARKCLONEROOT=/usr/lpp/mmfs/src # cd /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/ ; make InstallImages > > To this point IIRC everyone here doing clusters is using NFS, GFS, or > OCFS. Each has its downsides, mostly because everyone is using maildir. > NFS has locking issues with shared dovecot index files. GFS and OCFS > have filesystem metadata performance issues. How does GPFS perform with > your maildir workload? Maildir is likely a worst case type workload for filesystems. Millions of tiny-tiny files, making all IO random, and getting minimal controller read cache utilized (unless you can cache all active files). So I've concluded that our performance issues are mostly design errors (and the fact that there were no better mail storage formats than maildir at the time these servers were implemented). I expect moving to mdbox will fix all our performance issues. I *think* GPFS is as good as it gets for maildir storage on clusterfs, but have no number to back that up ... Would be very interesting if we could somehow compare numbers for a few clusterfs'. I believe our main limitation in this setup is the iops we can get from the backend storage system. It's hard to balance the IO over enough RAID arrays (the fs is spread over 11 RAID5 arrays of 5 disks each), and we're always having hotspots. Right now two arrays are doing <100 iops, while others are doing 4-500 iops. Would very much like to replace it by something smarter where we can utilize SSDs for active data and something slower for stale data. GPFS can manage this by itself trough it's ILM interface, but we don't have the very fast storage to put in as tier-1. -jf

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[Dovecot] Problem with huge IMAP Archive after Courier migration
by Preacher 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

I have a mail server running Debian 6.0 with Courier IMAP to store project related mail. Currently the maildir of the archive (one user) contains about 37GB of data. Our staff is acessing the archive via Outlook 2007 where they drag their Exchange inbox or sent files to it. The problem with courier is that is sometimes mixes up headers with message bodies, so I wanted to migrate to dovecot. I tried this on my proxy running Debian 7.0 with some test data and this worked fine (OK, spent some hours to get the config files done - Dovecot without authentication). Dovecot version here is 2.0.15. Tried it with our productive system today, but got Dovecot 1.2.15 installed on Debian 6.0 Config files and parameters I took from my test system were not compatible and I didn't get it to work. So I forced to install the Debisn 7.0 packages with 2.0.15 and finally got the server running, I also restarted the whole machine to empty caches. But the problem I got was that in the huge folder hierarchy the downloaded headers in the individual folders disappeared, some folders showed a few very old messages, some none. Also some subfolders disappeared. I checked this with Outlook and Thunderbird. The difference was, that Thunderbird shows more messages (but not all) than Outlook in some folders, but also none in some others. Outlook brought up a message in some cases, that the connection timed out, although I set the timeout to 60s. After being frustrated uninstalled dovecot, went back to Courier and folder contents are displayed correctly again. Anyone a clue what's wrong here? Finally some config information: proxy-server:~# dovecot -n # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae i686 Debian wheezy/sid auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd }

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[Dovecot] Maildir migration and uids
by David Jonas 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

I'm in the process of migrating a large number of maildirs to a 3rd party dovecot server (from a dovecot server). Tests have shown that using imap to sync the accounts doesn't preserve the uidl for pop3 access. My current attempt is to convert the maildir to mbox and add an X-UIDL header in the process. Run a second dovecot that serves the converted mbox. But dovecot's docs say, "None of these headers are sent to IMAP/POP3 clients when they read the mail". Is there any way to sync these maildirs to the new server and maintain the uids? The real goal is keep customers email clients happy when they are pointed at the new server. Am I just wishing?

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[Dovecot] Deliver all addresses to the same mdbox:?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

For archiving purposes I'm delivering all addresses to the same mdbox: like this: passdb { driver = passwd-file args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/passwd } userdb { driver = static args = uid=1000 gid=1000 home=/home/copymail allow_all_users=yes } Yet I'm getting this: Jan 3 19:03:27 mail postfix/lmtp[29378]: 3THjg02wfWzFvmL: to=<firstname.lastname@charite.de@backup.invalid>, relay=mail.charite.de[private/dovecot-lmtp], conn_use=20, delay=323, delays=323/0/0/0, dsn=4.1.1, status=SOFTBOUNCE (host mail.charite.de[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 550 5.1.1 <"firstname.lastname(a)charite.de"@backup.invalid> User doesn't exist: "firstname.lastname(a)charite.de"@backup.invalid (in reply to RCPT TO command)) (using soft_bounce = yes here in Postfix) In short: backup.invalid is delivered to dovecot by means of LMTP (local socket). I thought my static mapping in userdb would enable the lmtp listener to accept ALL recipients and map their $home to /home/copymail - why is that not working? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] Multiple Maildirs per Virtual User
by Ruslan Nabioullin 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

How would it be possible to configure dovecot (2.0.16) in such a way that it would serve several maildirs (e.g., INBOX, INBOX.Drafts, INBOX.Sent, forum_email, [Gmail].Trash, etc.) per virtual user? I am only able to specify a single maildir, but I want all maildirs in /home/my-username/mail/account1/ to be served. e.g., /etc/dovecot/passwd: my-username_account1:{PLAIN}password:my-username:my-group::::userdb_mail=maildir:/home/my-username/mail/account1/INBOX Thanks in advance, Ruslan -- Ruslan Nabioullin rnabioullin(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] What is normal CPU usage of dovecot imap?
by Mikko Lampikoski 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

I got Dual Core Intel Xeon CPU 3.00GHz, over 1000 mailbox and almost 1 dovecot login / second (peak time). Server stats says that load is continually over 2 and cpu usage is 60%. top says that imap is making this load. virtual users are in mysql database and mysqld is running on another server (this server is ok). Do I need better CPU or is there something going on that I do not understand? # dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-4-pve i686 Ubuntu 9.10 nfs log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen: *, [::] ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/**********.crt ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/**********.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/**********.key ssl_key_password: ********** disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes shutdown_clients: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no login_process_size: 128 login_processes_count: 10 login_max_processes_count: 2048 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 3 first_valid_uid: 99 last_valid_uid: 100 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n fsync_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl mbox_min_index_size: 4 mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_size: 2048 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 cache_size: 1024 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=99 gid=99 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail

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[Dovecot] Compressing existing maildirs
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

I've just enabled zlib for our users, and am looking at how to compress the existing files. The routine for doing this at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib seems a bit complicated. What do you think about simply doing: find /var/vmail -type f -name "*,S=*" -mtime +1 -exec gzip -S Z -6 '{}' + I.e. find all maildir-files: - with size in the name ("*,S=*") - modified before I enabled zlib plugin - compress them - add the Z suffix - keep timestamps (gzip does that by default) It's of course racy without the maildirlock, but are there any other problems with this approach ? -jf

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[Dovecot] Dsync fails on second sync for folders with dot in the name
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

I'm in the processes of running our first dsync backup of all users (from maildir to mdbox on remote server), and one problem I'm hitting that dsync will work fine on first run for some users, and then reliably fail whenever I try a new run: $ sudo dsync -u janfrode(a)example.net backup ssh -q mailbackup(a)repo1.example.net dsync -u janfrode(a)example.net $ sudo dsync -u janfrode(a)example.net backup ssh -q mailbackup(a)repo1.example.net dsync -u janfrode(a)example.net dsync-remote(janfrode(a)example.net): Error: Can't delete mailbox directory INBOX/a: Mailbox has children, delete them first The problem here seems to be that this user has a maildir named ".a.b". On the backup side I see this as "a/b/". So dsync doesn't quite seem to agree with itself for how to handle folders with dot in the name. -jf

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[Dovecot] lmtp-postlogin ?
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

We have last-login tracking for imap and pop, and I intend to use this for deciding which users to backup daily. But, it would also be nice to backup users who has only received messages, but not logged in lately.. So is it possible to implement "last-login" tracking for lmtp ? I naively tried copying the settings from imap, but it didn't work: service lmtp-postlogin { executable = script-login /usr/local/sbin/lmtp-postlogin.sh unix_listener lmtp-postlogin { } } service lmtp { executable = lmtp lmtp-postlogin <snip> -jf

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[Dovecot] Newbie: LDA Isn't Logging
by Michael Papet 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Hi, I'm a newbie having some trouble getting deliver to log anything. Related to this, there are no return values unless the -d is missing. I'm using LDAP to store virtual domain and user account information. Test #1: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -e -f mpapet(a)yahoo.com -d zed(a)mailswansong.dom < bad.mail Expected result: supposed to fail, there's no zed account via ldap lookup and supposed to get a return code per the wiki at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA. Supposed to log too. Actual result: nothing gets delivered, no return code, nothing is logged. Test #2: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f mpapet(a)yahoo.com -d dude(a)mailswansong.dom < good.mail Expected result: deliver to dude and return 0. Actual result: delivers, but no return code. Nothing logged. The wiki is vague about the difficulties of getting deliver LDA to log, but I thought I had it covered in my config. I even opened permissions up wide (777) on my log files specified below. Nothing gets logged. The ONLY thing changed in 15-lda.conf is as follows. protocol lda { # Space separated list of plugins to load (default is global mail_plugins). #mail_plugins = $mail_plugins log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda-info.log service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } I'm running plain Debian Testing and used dovecot from Debian's repository. The end-goal is to write a qpsmtpd queue plugin, but I need to figure out what's the matter first. Thanks in advance. mpapet

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[Dovecot] dsync / separator / namespace config-problem
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Guess I don't quite get namespaces, but we have the following namespace configured: $ doveconf namespace namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = subscriptions = yes type = private } But when I try running dsync it complains: $ sudo -u atmail dsync -u janfrode(a)tanso.net mirror mdbox:/tmp/janfrodeboks dsync(atmail): Error: user janfrode(a)tanso.net: Initialization failed: namespace configuration error: list=yes requires prefix=INBOX. to end with separator dsync(atmail): Fatal: User init failed I can fix this by adding "separator = ." to the namespace and dsync is happy, but is changing this now safe, or will this affect existing clients? -jf

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[Dovecot] Trouble with proxy_maybe and auth_default_realm
by Gedalya 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hello, I'm using proxy_maybe and auth_default_realm. It seems that when a user logs in without the domain name, relying on auth_default_realm, and the "host" field points to the local server, I get the Proxying loops to itself error. It does work as expected - log on to the local server without proxying, if the user does include the domain name in the login. (IP's and domain name masked below) No domain: Dec 29 11:49:07 imap01 dovecot: pop3-login: Error: Proxying loops to itself: user=<jedi(a)----.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=00.00.52.18, lip=00.00.241.140 Dec 29 11:49:27 imap01 dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<jedi(a)----.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=00.00.52.18, lip=00.00.241.140 With domain: Dec 29 11:52:13 imap01 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<jedi(a)---.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=00.00.52.18, lip=00.00.241.140, mpid=19969 Dec 29 11:52:18 imap01 dovecot: pop3(jedi(a)---.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/1, size=731 Otherwise, e.g. when the proxy host is indeed another host, auth_default_domain works fine, including or not including the domain seems to make no difference, and everything works. I'm using mysql, and I'm able to get around this problem including the following in the password query: IF(host='' or host='00.00.241.140', NULL, 'Y') as proxy_maybe # dovecot --version 2.0.15 # dovecot -n # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 auth_default_realm = ----.com auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 ntlm auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain dict { quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no login_greeting = How can I help you? mail_gid = vmail mail_uid = vmail passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 0.0.0.0 port = 7025 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes ----- dovecot-sql.conf.ext ---- driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=email user=email default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password, \ IF('%s' = 'pop3', host_pop3, host) as host, \ IF(host='' or host='00.00.241.140', NULL, 'Y') as proxy_maybe, \ concat(userid, '@', domain) as destuser, \ password as pass, \ '/stor/mail/domains/%d/%n' AS userdb_home, \ 'maildir:/stor/mail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir' as userdb_mail, \ concat('*:storage=', quota_mb, 'M') as userdb_quota_rule, \ 'vmail' AS userdb_uid, 'vmail' AS userdb_gid \ FROM email WHERE userid = '%n' AND domain = '%d' user_query = SELECT '/stor/mail/domains/%d/%n' AS home, \ 'maildir:/stor/mail/domains/%d/%n/Maildir' as mail, \ concat('*:storage=', quota_mb, 'M') as quota_rule, \ 'vmail' AS uid, 'vmail' AS gid \ FROM email WHERE userid = '%n' AND domain = '%d'

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[Dovecot] imap process limits problem
by Calvin Cochran 31 Dec '11

31 Dec '11

I am having a problem with the number of current processes that I cannot seem to diagnose adequately, and is a possible bug. This will be a bit long, but usually more info is better. I am running dovecot 2.0.16 on a CentOS 5 x86_64 server with the mailstore on gfs (output from dovecot -n at bottom). This is an imap issue. This is mostly to do with one client, but none of my tests indicate an issue with the client side. We have mail_max_userip_connections = 10 for imap, but they are not hitting the limit. We also have verbose_proctitle = yes to help in diagnosing the situation. Most of our clients, including this one, use SSL or TLS and connect on 993. As I understand it, that should have an imap-login process and an imap process per authenticated session. Based on some other diagnosis the client seems to have a PC using Outlook 2010 and an i-device (phone or pad, not sure), both on the office network, and both with imap connections to the server. Based on my analysis it seems like the client is connecting, authenticating, and then closing the session, but the imap-login process does not drop until it times out server side (I don't know a way to tell which device, the PC or i???). One odd thing is that the tcp sessions time out at 2 hours and 11 minutes (this is where the possible bug aspect comes in). I have put a strace on the process, and there does not appear to be any traffic, so I don't understand why the 30 min timeout isn't happening. Based on netstat and verbose_proctitle, at this moment there are 99 connections from the IP in question, all of which show in ps output as: dovecot/imap-login [1 connections (1 TLS)] My understanding is that means they have successfully authenticated, and that there should be line with dovecot/imap [username ip TLS] in ps output, but there isn't, so I am taking that to mean the client closed the imap session. The client ip address puts them on comcast (tcp resets?) and we do have a load balancer in front of two servers, just to add a little challenge to the diagnosis fun. The short term fix has been to increase the process limits. However, it is clearly not a workable solution to increase the limits by 100 every time someone starts accessing the server with their new i??? device. I appreciate your thoughts on this, and I am happy to provide additional useful debug info if I have missed something. Thanks, Calvin output from dovecot -n auth_mechanisms = plain apop cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain auth_worker_max_count = 400 default_process_limit = 400 disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 login_greeting = EMCS ready. mail_fsync = never maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes mmap_disable = yes passdb { driver = vpopmail } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size mail_log_group_events = no } protocols = imap pop3 shutdown_clients = no ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { driver = vpopmail } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 pop3_no_flag_updates = yes pop3_uidl_format = %f }

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[Dovecot] fts_solr break-imap-search 2.1
by Daniel L. Miller 31 Dec '11

31 Dec '11

Is "break-imap-search" still required using 2.1 with Solr to index TEXT & BODY searches? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] crashes on 2.0.16
by Cor Bosman 31 Dec '11

31 Dec '11

Hey all, I upgraded some servers today from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze, and after the upgrade I started getting dovecot crashes. I was on 2.0.13 but got these there as well, and hoped upgrading to 2.0.16 would help. It didn't. Anyone have an idea? Cor Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.245530] __ratelimit: 122 callbacks suppressed Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.245536] imap[19665]: segfault at 7f108efb7f60 ip 00007f108ecd37e0 sp 00007fff73c3d658 error 5 in libc-2.11.2.so[7f108ec5d000+158000] Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.245663] BUG: Bad page map in process imap pte:00000001 pmd:09767067 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.252563] page:ffffea0000000000 flags:(null) count:-84 mapcount:-84 mapping:(null) index:0 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.261186] addr:00007f108ef46000 vm_flags:08000070 anon_vma:(null) mapping:ffff88012b6e5238 index:2e9 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.270804] vma->vm_ops->fault: filemap_fault+0x0/0x460 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.276172] vma->vm_file->f_op->mmap: generic_file_mmap+0x0/0x60 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282424] Pid: 19665, comm: imap Tainted: G B 2.6.32.36-xsserver #1 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282429] Call Trace: Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282441] [<ffffffff81103ee5>] print_bad_pte+0x1d5/0x280 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282448] [<ffffffff8110568a>] unmap_vmas+0xa1a/0xa20 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282458] [<ffffffff8137e501>] ? sch_direct_xmit+0x81/0x1d0 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282465] [<ffffffff8110b60d>] exit_mmap+0xbd/0x190 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282473] [<ffffffff81059cbd>] mmput+0x4d/0x120 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282481] [<ffffffff8105f282>] exit_mm+0x112/0x150 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282488] [<ffffffff8106104d>] do_exit+0x13d/0x800 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282496] [<ffffffff81072f31>] ? __dequeue_signal+0xe1/0x200 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282503] [<ffffffff81061765>] do_group_exit+0x55/0xd0 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282510] [<ffffffff81075251>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x1e1/0x3e0 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282517] [<ffffffff8100b315>] do_signal+0x75/0x7d0 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282523] [<ffffffff81103203>] ? print_vma_addr+0xb3/0x120 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282533] [<ffffffff8143856e>] ? printk+0x41/0x43 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282541] [<ffffffff81036436>] ? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0xf6/0x1e0 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282547] [<ffffffff810365ee>] ? bad_area_access_error+0x4e/0x60 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282553] [<ffffffff8100bac7>] do_notify_resume+0x57/0x60 Dec 18 23:32:21 userimap1 kernel: [263492.282559] [<ffffffff8100cadc>] retint_signal+0x48/0x8c # 2.0.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32.36-xsserver x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 auth_cache_size = 1 M auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ default_vsz_limit = 2 G disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 20 lock_method = dotlock login_greeting = User-IMAP ready. login_trusted_networks = 194.109.26.128/27 mail_fsync = always mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mailbox_idle_check_interval = 1 mins maildir_stat_dirs = yes mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = maildir:%Nu:INDEX=/var/spool/mail/dovecot-control/indexes/%1u/%2u/%u:INBOX=%Nu:CONTROL=/var/spool/mail/dovecot-control/%1u/%2u/%u/INBOX prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.masterusers driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = cache_key=%u%r dovecot driver = pam } plugin { quota = fs:User quota } protocols = imap service auth { client_limit = 5000 } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 8 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 2 G } service imap { process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 2 G } shutdown_clients = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/xx ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/xx userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_capability = IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_max_userip_connections = 24 mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota" }

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[Dovecot] Upgrade/Migration
by sottilette＠rfx.it 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Current box: CentOS 4.x (32 bit), dovecot 1.02, mbox format New box (supposed): CentOS 6.x (32/64 bit ? ), dovecot 2.04, mbox format The server have about 3.000 active users (unix users); /var/mail is about 100 GB; /home/Users about 150 GB I read the docs and searched on the net, but still request hints for planning the migration. 32/64 bit? Tricks to avoid users get all messages ...? Better first update the old server from 1.02 to 2.0x or ..? Any hints/comment appreciated ;-) Thanks, P. 1.02 dovecot.conf: ----------------------- protocols = pop3 pop3s imap imaps listen = [::] log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot.info.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_full_filesystem_access = yes first_valid_uid = 100 mbox_read_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } -----------------------

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[Dovecot] mbox, hierarchical folders/folders and IMAP
by Alexander Chekalin 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hello, I'm now dealing with funny problem. I try to use Dovecot (2.1.rc1, actually) and mbox format to store old mailing, to keep logic of "one folder = one file". If I'd choose Maildir, I'd be able to create hierarchical folders (like "OldMail -> Maillists -> Dovecot"), and in fact on disk such a folders would be stored as real folders with dots in their names. In PHP it is easy to create with "imap_createmailbox()" function, I'd simple fire it 3 times (for "OldMail", for "OldMail.Maillists" and for "OldMail.Maillists.Dovecot"). But when I do the same with mbox, in fact it creates separate files (indeed, named "OldMail", "OldMail.Maillists" and "OldMail.Maillists.Dovecot") instead of creating filesystem folders ("OldMail/Maillists/Dovecot"). PHP is not guilty, Thunderbird won't create such folders as well. I can only create folders myself (say, with mkdir in the shell), chown it, and the it perfectly works in IMAP. Now I just wanted to know, are there any way to create IMAP-folders and subfolders using standard IMAP functionality? Thank you, Alexander

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[Dovecot] Using Amazon S3 storage for Maildir ?
by Forrest Aldrich 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

I wonder if anyone has tried using an IMAP server with Amazon S3 as a backend. There would be many factors to consider (speed, etc). However, moreso, I don't know that Maildir(++) would support multiple folders that might be linked into the cloud. For example, higher-I/O local incoming mail is on disk, some folders archived on S3. Could be easily done by simply creating another account and storing its Maildir in S3 -- Curious....

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[Dovecot] How to serve a subset of IMAP folders for hand held devices.
by David Pottage 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hello I am currently running dovecot 1.2.15 on my home server. I have over 200 folders in personal email account, and I have found that my smart-phone does not work well trying to display that many folders. I solved the problem by creating a second instance of dovecot running on a non standard port, and configured it to serve only a subset my email folders, so that way the email client on my smartphone works well and I can read the emails I am interested in on the move. The process of configuring two instances of dovecot on the same machine serving different views of the same mailbox was faily complex, so I think it would be worth documenting the process in an FAQ or suchlike for other users. I thought a good place to write up my method would be in the HowTo section of the Dovecot Wiki. Is that a good idea? Can I request an account to edit the Wiki, or should I send a draft text to an editor? Are there any Dovecot experts here who can review my methods and suggest improvements? -- David Pottage

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[Dovecot] /usr/lib/dovecot/imap ignores log settings?
by Asheesh Laroia 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Hi Dovecot peeps, I'm enjoying running /usr/lib/dovecot/imap directly as a PREAUTH IMAP pipe. I find that it outputs log messages whose severity is INFO to stdout. I'm running it as follows: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c /tmp/dovecot.conf and I see the following messages output to stdout: * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in as paulproteus imap(paulproteus): Info: Connection closed bytes=0/305 Naturally, the first line is great. My /tmp/dovecot.conf is: <cut here> # single-dbox mail_location = sdbox:~/Maildir/dbox log_path = syslog info_log_path = /dev/null </cut> I'm also attaching strace output, created by running this command: echo | strace /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c /tmp/dovecot.conf > /tmp/straced 2>&1 (The point of the "echo | " is to provide a newline and then EOF to /usr/lib/dovecot/imap.) You can see in the strace output that /usr/lib/dovecot/imap outputs the "Connection closed" message to file descriptor 2. I'd like that message to actually not be printed, which is why I set log_path to syslog. -- Asheesh.

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[Dovecot] Dsync Error Can't Delete Mailbox
by Asai 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Greetings, I'm getting this error in the dsync logs: Warning: Destination mailbox INBOX has been modified, need to recreate it before we can continue syncing dsync(foo(a)bar.org): Error: Can't delete mailbox INBOX: INBOX can't be deleted. In this situation, what should I do to remedy the problem? Just delete the backup and rebuild? -- --asai

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[Dovecot] Received date no longer email date?
by Brian L. Matthews 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

I just upgrade from dovecot 1.2 to dovecot 2.0.16. I use dovecot as a local IMAP server to archive email from my corporate email account (on Exchange). I don't have any automated archiving, I just periodically move messages from my Exchange inbox to the IMAP inbox. I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.8 using Entourage as my mail client. In the previous version of dovecot, the Received date of the email was preserved when I moved a message, but it's not in 2.0.16, it's set to the date and time I move the message. If I open a message, the date displayed is the date on the message as expected. I converted my config from 1.2 with $ doveconf -n -c dovecot.conf > dovecot-2.conf It spit out various warnings but, once I'd created a dovenull user, seemed to work fine. Here's my configuration info: $ dovecot --version 2.0.16 $ dovecot -n # 2.0.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 10.8.0 i386 disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = 127.0.0.1 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir passdb { args = login driver = pam } service auth { user = root } service imap-login { process_limit = 16 } service imap { process_limit = 64 } ssl = no userdb { driver = passwd } I'd like to get it back to preserving the Received date, any help you can provide will be appreciated. Brian

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[Dovecot] proxying, SSL, and client certificate
by Mike Abbott 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

How do I configure dovecot-2.0.x to present a client SSL certificate when proxying? If dovecot on server1.example.com has: passdb { driver = static args = proxy=y host=server2.example.com nopassword=y ssl=yes } and dovecot on server2.example.com has: ssl_verify_client_cert = yes auth_ssl_require_client_cert = yes then when a client connects to server1 and authenticates, a connection is established to server2 but the SSL handshake fails because server1 doesn't present a client certificate. I don't see where ssl_client_ctx is tied to a client certificate in ssl-proxy-openssl.c. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Lucene vs Solr with 2.1 single server
by Daniel L. Miller 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

For a single server, is the Lucene backend now "better" than running a Solr server? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Dovecot imap proxy to nginx, incompatible
by David Jonas 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

It appears that using dovecot to proxy to nginx imap proxy doesn't work. >From tcpdump and browsing the source it appears dovecot sends, C CAPABILITY\r\nL LOGIN <user> <pass>\r\n and nginx only responds to the CAPABILITY command. Is this a problem with dovecot sending the two commands without waiting for the first to complete or is it nginx's trouble with not handling it correctly? A quick test with a perl script confirms: #!/usr/bin/perl -w $|++; use IO::Socket; use strict; my ($host, $user, $pass) = @ARGV; my $s = new IO::Socket::INET(Proto => 'tcp', PeerAddr => $host, PeerPort => 143); die "Could not create socket $!\n" unless $s; while(<$s>) { print $_; last if /OK/; } print $s "C CAPABILITY\r\nL LOGIN $user $pass\r\n"; while(<$s>) { print $_; last if /OK/; } print $s "Q logout\r\n"; while(<$s>) { print $_; last if /OK/; } close($s); ## Output: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 QUOTA AUTH=PLAIN C OK completed * BYE Q OK completed

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[Dovecot] UIDL format
by sottilette＠rfx.it 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

How can be sure of the current POP3 UIDL? Below my current config (to be migrated to 2.0.x ASAP). Thanks, P. # dovecot -n # 1.0.2: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/mail/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/mail/dovecot.info.log protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps listen: * login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 100 mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_full_filesystem_access: yes mbox_read_locks: dotlock fcntl mbox_write_locks: dotlock fcntl mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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[Dovecot] imap be killed (core dump disabled)
by Dongyu.Zhen 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Hello everybody, When I modify the dovecot imap source ,in "src/imap/" dir, I meet the Error below: Error: child (imap) kill (core dump disabled). In fact, I want to record the imap operation through dovecot. So, I modify every source file in "src/imap/cmd-IMAP_OPERATION" ,when the imap command function is executed, it will write to a file cur time and operation. Could you tell me why the imap be killed? Thank you.

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[Dovecot] managesieve vacation script bounces/frozen with a 550 error.
by Jason X, Maney 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

Dear all, I have been trying to get this problem out of the way but I just cant seem to get it right. I hope someone can point me in the right direction here. I have come up with a vacation script as below, which can be send out from my Postfix SMTP server to my smarthost at the ISP, and yet for some reason it is not sent out at my ISP server. The guys at the ISP have sent me the full error they are getting on their Exim SMTP server. My dovecot version is: ========== dovecot --version 1.2.9 ========== ...and my managesieve configs are as follows: ========== dovecot -n |grep sieve protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps managesieve listen(managesieve): *:4190 login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve mail_plugins: sieve quota sieve: /var/vmail/sieve/%d/%u/sieve-script sieve_global_path: /var/vmail/sieve/default.sieve sieve_storage: /var/vmail/sieve/%d/%u ========== Error from my ISP smarthost: ========== +++ 1ReM7W-000Dm8-My has not completed +++ 2011-12-26 09:34:18 1ReM7W-000Dm8-My <= <> H=(myhostname.mydomain.com<http://havana.Speedlinkcargo.com>) [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] P=esmtps X=TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256 S=1451 id=dovecot-sieve-1324712058-257846-0@havana T="Out of office reply" 2011-12-26 09:34:18 1ReM7W-000Dm8-My ** jsxmoney(a)gmail.comR=send_to_gateway T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<jsxmoney(a)gmail.com>: host smtp.myisp.com<http://smtp2.yoafrica.com>[yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy]: 550 Bounces must have only a single recipient 2011-12-26 09:34:18 1ReM7W-000Dm8-My Frozen (delivery error message ========== My vacation sieve script is: ========== ## /* empty script */ require ["fileinto", "vacation"]; vacation # Reply at most once a day to a same sender :days 1 :subject "Out of office reply" # List of additional recipient addresses which are included in the auto replying. # If a mail's recipient is not the envelope recipient and it's not on this list, # no vacation reply is sent for it. :addresses "me(a)mydomain.com" "I'm out of office, please contact Joan Doe instead. Best regards Me"; ========== What I am not sure of is, is this a problem I need to fix or is it something my ISP need to work on, on their Exim? If its something they can work on can you also give me pointers so I can work with them to fix it? Many thanx, JXM.

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[Dovecot] Dovolená
by pasek＠valbek.cz 26 Dec '11

26 Dec '11

Dobrý den, od 23.12. do 30.12. jsem na dovolené. V případě nutnosti volejte na mobil. S pozdravem Bc. Ladislav Pašek vedoucí oddělení IT a vizualizace mobil: +420 776 140 489 e-mail: pasek(a)valbek.cz Valbek, s.r.o. Vaňurova 505/17, 460 02 Liberec 3 tel./fax: +420 485 103 336, +420 485 103 346 www.valbek.cz

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[Dovecot] dovecot / postfix mail bounce problem
by IcedEarth 25 Dec '11

25 Dec '11

Hello, i use a globalsieve rule to collect spam for all mail accounts in a specific mailbox. Here is the code: vi /var/vmail/globalsieverc require ["fileinto"]; # Move spam to junk folder if not address :is "to" "antispam(a)xxx.com" { if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" ["YES"] { redirect "antispam(a)xxx.com"; stop; } } But the spam mails are not delivered. cat /var/log/mail.info postfix/pipe[32301]: AD8F78E2128D: to=<antispam(a)xxx.de>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.14, delays=0.08/0/0/0.06, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail forwarding loop for antispam(a)xxx.de) Why is there a loop? I don't unterstand that. Any help? Thanks! Iced -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/dovecot---postfix-mail-bounce-problem-tp33029725p3302… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] sieve in sql or reporting
by Bradley Giesbrecht 24 Dec '11

24 Dec '11

With dovecot2 and pigeonhole sieve/managesieve is it currently possible to store sieve rules in an sql database? If not is there a way to query all accounts; looking for things like active vacation rules? Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht

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[Dovecot] Corrupted index cache file and high CPU usage
by hydra 24 Dec '11

24 Dec '11

I suspect, that dovecot v2.0.16 under Linux (tested on Gentoo 3.0.4 Hardened, Gentoo 3.0.6, Gentoo 3.1.4) causes 100% cpu utilization when index.cache is broken and doveadm is lanched. Dovecot uses LDAP as the userdb and provides IMAP and LDA. Because each user has a quota, the doveadm's expunge functionality is used to get rid of old trashed mail. The mail log: Dec 12 07:38:59 www dovecot: imap(user): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/data/mail/domain.tld/user/mail/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size Doveadm is launched as: doveadm -D expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 1w Mail is stored on ext4 and flush will use all of the CPU capacity like this: load average: 4.00, 4.01, 4.05 ps: root 26401 98.2 0.0 0 0 ? R Dec20 1369:49 [flush-253:1] lsblk: vg_data-mail (dm-1) 253:1 0 500M 0 /var/data/mail dovecot -n: # 2.0.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.4-hardened-r5 x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.0.3 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes hostname = mail.domain.tld lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = * mail_debug = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_home = /var/data/mail/domain.tld/%n mail_location = maildir:~/mail mail_plugins = " mail_log notify zlib quota" mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { autocreate = Sent autocreate2 = Trash autocreate3 = Spam autosubscribe = Sent autosubscribe2 = Trash autosubscribe3 = Spam fts = squat fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=100M quota_rule2 = Trash:ignore quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_quota_max_scripts = 5 sieve_quota_max_storage = 5M } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)domain.tld protocols = imap sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service quota-warning { executable = script /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = vmail } ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/mail.domain.tld-cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/postfix/mail.domain.tld-key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes protocol lda { info_log_path = log_path = mail_plugins = " mail_log notify zlib quota sieve" } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " mail_log notify zlib quota autocreate fts fts_squat imap_zlib imap_quota" } dovecot-ldap.conf.ext: hosts = localhost dn = user dnpass = pass base = base auth_bind = yes user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid,mailboxQuota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ user_filter = (&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(uid=%u)) pass_attrs = uid=user pass_filter = (&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(uid=%u)) iterate_attrs = uid=user iterate_filter = (objectClass=inetOrgPerson) I suspect, that this is something to do with Dovecot, because after deleting the dovecot.index.cache file, everything went back to normal. When this happens, I cannot unmount the drive nor a system reboot works. Thank you !

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[Dovecot] Limit maximum connections for user/IP on proxy
by Martin Abrahamsson 23 Dec '11

23 Dec '11

Hi, Is it possible to limit the maximum number of IMAP connections allowed for a user from each IP address, on the proxy server instead of on the mail store server? mail_max_userip_connections works well when the client is connection to the mail store without proxy, but when using proxies the POP/IMAP server will register the remote IP (rip) as the proxy server's IP address - thus a low limit will be reached quite easily. Thanks -- Martin Abrahamsson

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[Dovecot] Dovolená
by pasek＠valbek.cz 23 Dec '11

23 Dec '11

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[Dovecot] OS/Distro wars
by Alan Brown 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS

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[Dovecot] file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory ...
by LE NORCY Arnaud 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

Hello, i get this message every time that a user has enabled the vacation script (into Horde webmail) in my mail.err log file: Dec 22 10:18:16 mailserver dovecot: deliver(user324): file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory normally the reply is sent only once in the number of configured days.. but for all users the reply is sent every time... the day variable is "ignored.." because the file "dovecot.lda-dupes" is not wrotten i think.. ~# dpkg -l | grep dovecot ii dovecot-common 1:1.2.15-4 secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes ii dovecot-imapd 1:1.2.15-4 secure IMAP server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes ii dovecot-pop3d 1:1.2.15-4 secure POP3 server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes dovecot.conf : protocols = imap imaps pop3s managesieve mail_location = maildir:/ext/spool/imap/%1Mu/%u mail_uid = vmail mail_gid = vmail protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota sieves.fr } .. plugin { .. sieve_dir = /ext/spool/sieve/%1Mu/%u sieve = /ext/spool/sieve/%1Mu/%u/dovecot.sieve } rights are OK for user "vmail" in /ext/spool/sieve/%1Mu/%u/ ....; for example : /ext/spool/sieve/d/user324# ls -la total 20 drwxr-x--- 3 vmail vmail 4096 20 déc. 19:15 . drwxr-x--- 43 vmail vmail 4096 17 nov. 10:14 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 vmail vmail 10 20 déc. 18:38 dovecot.sieve -> ingo.sieve -rw-r----- 1 vmail vmail 65 20 déc. 19:15 dovecot.svbin -rw-r----- 1 vmail vmail 88 20 déc. 18:38 ingo.sieve drwxr-x--- 2 vmail vmail 4096 20 déc. 18:38 tmp any ideas?thanks Arnaud,

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[Dovecot] Patch for dovecot 1.2.16 (and .17) for vpopmail module
by Alessio Cecchi 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

Hi Timo, I love dovecot but I love also vpopmail and its functions for manage user limits (via vmoduser). Unfortunately in dovecot 1.2.x auth default set to use "vpopmail" is unable to apply this limits. Only if used with checkpassword limits works fine but in the dovecot.log only user (without @domain) is logged. So, based on the code of dovecot 2.0, I have created this very simple patch that correct this bug. Thanks for consideration -- Alessio Cecchi is: on LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice Assistenza Sistemi Linux -> http://www.cecchi.biz/ Hosting Linux -> http://www.hosting-linux.it @ PLUG -> ex-Presidente, adesso senatore a vita, http://www.prato.linux.it

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[Dovecot] Global Sieve Script Includes no longer works with 056934abd2ef
by Thomas Leuxner 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

Latest Dovecot Auto-Build 2.1.rc1-0~auto+42 (056934abd2ef) fails to include global Sieve Scripts. Not sure this is specific to Stephan's Repository. Rolling back to older version restores functionality. ==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log <== Dec 22 12:13:52 spectre dovecot: lmtp(32246): Connect from local Dec 22 12:13:52 spectre dovecot: lmtp(32246, tlx(a)leuxner.net) Error: jo99GvAQ8072fQAAqZii3w: sieve: failed to open script /var/vmail/domains/leuxner.net/tlx/.dovecot.sieve (view user logfile /var/vmail/domains/leuxner.net/tlx/.dovecot.sieve.log for more information) Dec 22 12:13:52 spectre dovecot: lmtp(32246, tlx(a)leuxner.net) jo99GvAQ8072fQAAqZii3w: msgid=<4EF310E0.6030006(a)Media-Brokers.com>: saved mail to INBOX $ cat /var/vmail/domains/leuxner.net/tlx/.dovecot.sieve.log sieve: info: started log at Dec 22 12:13:52. main_script: line 2: error: included global script 'global.sieve' does not exist. main_script: error: validation failed. [ Script Calling Global ] $ head /var/vmail/domains/leuxner.net/tlx/.dovecot.sieve require ["include","copy","fileinto","vacation"]; include :global "global.sieve"; […] $ ls -al /var/vmail/conf.d/leuxner.net/sieve/ total 12 dr-x------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 7 15:09 . dr-x------ 4 vmail vmail 4096 Mar 17 2010 .. -r-------- 1 vmail vmail 3647 Dec 7 15:09 global.sieve $ doveconf -n # 2.1.rc1 (056934abd2ef): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 auth_cache_size = 16 k auth_verbose = yes mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = acl quota stats namespace { list = yes location = mdbox:/var/vmail/public prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } namespace inbox { hidden = no inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = username_format=%u /var/vmail/auth.d/%d/passwd driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile:/var/vmail/conf.d/%d/acls:cache_secs=300 mail_log_events = expunge mailbox_delete quota = dict:user::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=1GB quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /var/vmail/conf.d/%d/sieve stats_refresh = 30s stats_track_cmds = yes } protocols = imap lmtp quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth-worker { user = doveauth } service auth { client_limit = 1224 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = doveauth } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 1.2.3.4 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 0 } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/SSL123_CA_Bundle.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/host_domain_tld.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/host_domain_tld.key syslog_facility = local1 userdb { args = username_format=%u /var/vmail/auth.d/%d/passwd driver = passwd-file } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = acl quota stats sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl quota stats imap_acl imap_quota mail_log notify imap_stats }

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[Dovecot] Backing Up To Windows File Server
by Asai 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

Greetings, Working with dsync and setting up backups to a Windows file server. Problem seems to be that Windows is renaming the dovecot mail files (maildir) to Windows friendly filenames, and losing the Dovecot name. For example, 1323817925.M36368P32049.triata.globalchangemultimedia.net,S=2255,W=2318:2,S becomes 1AETPH~X. Does anyone have any ideas about how to tell Windows to not do this? Or is it not possible? -- --asai

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[Dovecot] lmtp logging incomplete (does not tell what mailbox mail is actually being saved to!)
by Gary Chodos 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

We created a new virtual domain and created a user in that domain in our pgsql database. Instead of creating any directory structure in /home/virtual/mail/<domain>/<user>, I just sent a test email to see if dovecot's lmtp would autocreate. And it did! And mail appears to be delivered to an inbox.. but, logging is weird and I'm not sure everything is working as it should because: Dec 20 23:01:28 mx dovecot: lmtp(21458, user(a)example.com) lUDFG8tZ8U7SUwAAO3tENA: msgid=<20111221040122.GP13367(a)hostname.example.org>: saved mail to . so why doesn't dovecot log where mail is stored/saved? thanks, Gary

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[Dovecot] Problem listing SPECIAL-USE flags
by Patrick Ben Koetter 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Timo, we want to implement SPECIAL-USE in Thunderbird (TB), but we've run into problems. I believe you could help change that. Here's the problem: By default TB only lists subscribed (LSUB) folders when it accesses an IMAP server. However when I do a LSUB on recent Dovecot 2.1 code from mercurial I don't get to see the SPECIAL-USE flags. Therefore TB fails to identify which folders it should use and map to until someone tells it to list all folders (LIST) manually. Central part of the SPECIAL-USE idea was/is to require as little user interaction as possible to automatically setup a MUA to do the right thing. Speculating that probably most MUAs will do a LSUB by default and never will get to see SPECIAL-USE flags I think it is easier to have the server-side promote the flags. Do you think that would be possible? Just to verify I configured Dovecot as you would expect for SPECIAL-USE: I've set Dovecot 2.1 to autocreate and autosubscribe SPECIAL-USE mailboxes like this: namespace inbox { ... mailbox AltDrafts { special_use = \Drafts auto = subscribe } ... } This is what I get: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Dovecot 2.1 ready. t1 login alice(a)example.com secret t1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS FUZZY SPECIAL-USE] Logged in t2 LSUB "" "%" * LSUB () "." "Trash" * LSUB () "." "AltDrafts" * LSUB () "." "AltSent" * LSUB () "." "Archives" * LSUB () "." "AltTrash" * LSUB () "." "AltJunk" * LSUB () "." "AltArchive" * LSUB () "." "Junk" t2 OK Lsub completed. t3 LIST "" "%" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Sent) "." "AltSent" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "Archives" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Archive) "." "AltArchive" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Junk) "." "AltJunk" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Junk" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Trash) "." "AltTrash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Drafts) "." "AltDrafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" t3 OK List completed. t4 logout * BYE Logging out t4 OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. Thanks, p@rick -- state of mind () http://www.state-of-mind.de Franziskanerstraße 15 Telefon +49 89 3090 4664 81669 München Telefax +49 89 3090 4666 Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563

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[Dovecot] compile dovecot-sieve for dovecot 1.2.9 (ubuntu pkg)
by Julien Lacroix 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Cheers, I've a running Dovecot 1.2.9, installed from the ubuntu 10.04 Lucid LTS repository and trying to get the dovecot-sieve plugin (which seems to be not included in the lucid repo) compiled. Method 1 listed in http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot wont work, seems the rpm was build without --enable-header-install Is it sufficient to download the sources from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dovecot/dovecot_1.2.9.orig.tar… and use them for ./configure --with-dovecot=$path ? thanks and happy holidays julien

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[Dovecot] Can I block dovecot from deleting read messages, after being fetched?
by Vasiliu Adrian 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hi all, Is there an option to disable (server-side) the deletion of read mails after fetching them via POP3, regardless of the MUA config? Here are the issues I'm facing: - my boss wants to force everyone into a server-side "no delete message"-policy, for archiving, auditing and backup&recovery purposes - the requisite here is pop3, so imap is out - the mailusers are virtual users (held in a mysql db) - don't have the budget to set up a separate mail-arvhing server - don't want to use shaggy ways (aka immutable flag, r/w permissions for Maildirs, etc) dovecot --version 2.0.15 Help? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Sieve filter not working
by Lars Larsen 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hi, Dovecot, the "deliver" LDA and managesieve are all working. However, the sieve rules do not seem to work: System info: CenOS 2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP dovecot-pigeonhole-2.0.9-2.el6_1.1.x86_64 dovecot-2.0.9-2.el6_1.1.x86_64 /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: mbox_write_locks = fcntl protocols = imap pop3 sieve passdb { driver = pam } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } /etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-lda.conf: postmaster_address = postmaster(a)ourdomain.net hostname = mail.ourdomain.net sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes protocol lda { log_path = info_log_path = syslog_facility = messages mail_plugins = sieve } /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-sieve.conf plugin { sieve = ~/sieve/roundcube.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } /home/lars/sieve/roundcube.sieve: require ["fileinto"]; # rule:[admin-root] if anyof (header :contains "From" "root", header :contains "Subject" "logwatch") { fileinto "Admin"; }

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Re: [Dovecot] Why imap_open doesn't work as is expected to?
by Joseph Tam 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

I M <profymath(a)yahoo.com> writes: > Question: Why imap_open function doesn't work while getting a mailbox through telnet works perfectly? > Note:?imap.so is loaded!?imap.ini is parsed!? After the imap_open() invocation, you should check for error messages in your PHP logs, or dump all the errors using imap_errors(); Without more details, I would say you dropped one of those /option-flags or got the mailbox argument syntax wrong. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] Mail lost - maybe a bug???
by Marco Carcano 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hello everybody I'm struggling against what seems a really serious trouble: sometimes mail get lost I did all the possible checks, but they seems really lost - I know is absurd, but it seems so it has been noticed by two users on my server: intially I tought that was their mistake (mail deleted, mail into spam, ecc), but it wasn't I deeply checked mail logs, and it seems that mail are delivered (the path is postfix->amavis->dovecotlda) - log files says that messages are delivered, but sometimes we lost a message. I also tried to get into the Maildir and grep the subject of the lost email: if it was addressed to more recipients I'm able to get it on some of them, but not to all (look at the example below) I hope I have clearly explained everything, otherwise let me knowmydomain now an extract from the log file: Oct 27 11:20:29 srv001 postfix/smtpd[24562]: connect from usstlz- psecap06.emerson.com[144.191.128.17] Oct 27 11:20:30 srv001 postfix/smtpd[24562]: CE0B74E4A9F: client=usstlz-psecap06.emerson.com[144.191.128.17] Oct 27 11:20:31 srv001 postfix/cleanup[25157]: CE0B74E4A9F: warning: header Subject: =?utf-8?B? RW1lcnNvbiBHbG9iYWwgVXNlcnMgRXhjaGFuZ2UgMjAxMiBpbiBEw7xzc2VsZG9yZiA6IFJlaWNoZW4gU2llIGpldHp0IElocmUgUHLDpHNlbnRhdGlvbmVuIGVpbg ==?= from usstlz-psecap06.emerson.com[144.191.128.17]; from=<Emerson.News(a)emersonprocess.com > to=<oil(a)mydomain.ch> proto=ESMTP helo=<USSTLZ-PSECAP06.EMERSON.COM> Oct 27 11:20:31 srv001 postfix/cleanup[25157]: CE0B74E4A9F: message- id=<e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862(a)usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org> Oct 27 11:20:31 srv001 postfix/qmgr[11827]: CE0B74E4A9F: from=<Emerson.News(a)emersonprocess.com >, size=22689, nrcpt=3 (queue active) Oct 27 11:20:33 srv001 dovecot: imap(lromano): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=632/34319 Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/smtpd[25162]: connect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/smtpd[25162]: B16284E4AA2: client=localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/cleanup[25157]: B16284E4AA2: message- id=<e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862(a)usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org> Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/qmgr[11827]: B16284E4AA2: from=<Emerson.News(a)emersonprocess.com >, size=23094, nrcpt=3 (queue active) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 amavis[22923]: (22923-01) Passed CLEAN, [144.191.128.17] [155.177.20.144] <Emerson.News(a)emersonprocess.com> -> <user1(a)mydomain.local>,<user2(a)mydomain.local>,<user3(a)mydomain.local>, Message-ID: <e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862(a)usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org >, mail_id: 6rtF4927FAjt, Hits: -0.518, size: 22687, queued_as: B16284E4AA2, 3293 ms Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/lmtp[25158]: CE0B74E4A9F: to=<user1(a)mydomain.local >, orig_to=<oil(a)mydomain.ch>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=4.2, delays=0.95/0.01/0.01/3.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B16284E4AA2) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/lmtp[25158]: CE0B74E4A9F: to=<user2(a)mydomain.local >, orig_to=<oil(a)mydomain.ch>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=4.2, delays=0.95/0.01/0.01/3.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B16284E4AA2) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/lmtp[25158]: CE0B74E4A9F: to=<user3(a)mydomain.local >, orig_to=<oil(a)mydomain.ch>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=4.2, delays=0.95/0.01/0.01/3.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as B16284E4AA2) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/qmgr[11827]: CE0B74E4A9F: removed Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 dovecot: lda(user1): msgid=<e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862(a)usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org >: saved mail to INBOX Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/pipe[25165]: B16284E4AA2: to=<user1(a)mydomain.local >, relay=dovecot, delay=0.04, delays=0.01/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 dovecot: lda(user2): msgid=<e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862(a)usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org >: saved mail to INBOX Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/pipe[25168]: B16284E4AA2: to=<user2(a)mydomain.local >, relay=dovecot, delay=0.04, delays=0.01/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 dovecot: lda(user3): msgid=<e9447410-51fe-45ff-b624-197840b9a862(a)usstlz-pinfez02.emrsn.org >: saved mail to INBOX Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/pipe[25170]: B16284E4AA2: to=<user3(a)mydomain.local >, relay=dovecot, delay=0.05, delays=0.01/0.02/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Oct 27 11:20:34 srv001 postfix/qmgr[11827]: B16284E4AA2: removed Oct 27 11:20:36 srv001 postfix/smtpd[24562]: disconnect from usstlz- psecap06.emerson.com[144.191.128.17] as you can see there was a message for oil(a)mydomain.ch (I obviously changed the domain for privacy) - logs says that all the three users got the email, but the third user didn't. I do not know why and when it happens, but seldom we have this issue maybe is there some kind of bug in the maildrop version I use? by the way, I had this issue also before installing amavisd-new now some infos: CentOS 5.3 postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 amavisd-new-2.6.6-1.el5.rf dovecot-2.0.11-1_126 dovecot-managesieve-0.2.2-15 dovecot-pigeonhole-0.2.2-15 users are on a Kerberized OpenLDAP please help me because this is really driving me crazy - don't leave me alone, please Marco Carcano

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[Dovecot] APOP and AuthDatabase/SQL
by Peter Smith 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hi, We're running dovecot 1.2.15 and use SQL authentication. We'd like to be able to support APOP, but can't see how this would fit in with SQL auth. Currently we have: password_query = SELECT email as user, password FROM virtual_users WHERE email='%u' or (email LIKE '%n@%%' AND unhashed='%w') It seems that in order to auth APOP logins, we'd need to access variables containing the authentication string sent by the client, and also variables containing the auth string sent in the POP3 greeting. Incidentally, the RFC (1939) suggests using: <pid.time@hostname> for the greeting, but it looks as if dovecot uses something else? I'm seeing greetings such as: +OK Dovecot ready. <260f.4abcc.4ef11550.cJD6sQSUSnmPS1B/5RGF0Q==(a)myhostname.com> base64 encoding? Thanks in advance, Peter Smith

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[Dovecot] Why imap_open function doesn't work while getting a mailbox through telnet works perfectly?
by I M 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hi, everybody! Question: Why imap_open function doesn't work while getting a mailbox through telnet works perfectly? Note: imap.so is loaded! imap.ini is parsed!php flags is checked! Is it a bug?

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[Dovecot] Why imap_open doesn't work as is expected to?
by I M 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hi, everybody! Question: Why imap_open function doesn't work while getting a mailbox through telnet works perfectly? Note: imap.so is loaded! imap.ini is parsed!

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[Dovecot] Sieve too rfc compliant ;-)
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

It seems we have a few email addresses that are not RFC 5322 compliant, and now that we've started using sieve these are failing. The problem is that we have a few addresses with leading, trailing or double dots in the local part: jan..frode(a)tanso.net .janfrode(a)tanso.net janfrode.(a)tanso.net I believe these has been working fine with everything else in dovecot (lda, lmtp, imap, pop), but that sieve is more strict. I think it's fair enough that it's strict with messages generated by sieve scripts, but it would be nice if it could be more tolerant with messages addressed for the sieve script. So, is there any setting for making it more tolerant ? -jf

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Re: [Dovecot] Question about index reset in dovecot 2.0.15
by Maria Arrea 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hello Timo, thank you in advance. Full log here (1 hour time range) Dec 14 21:19:43 buzon postfix/pipe[27103]: 4423BC7C31: to=<fmcarrasco@domain>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.24, delays=0.03 /0/0/0.2, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) Dec 14 21:20:59 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=556/2245 Dec 14 21:44:30 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/07/47/fmcarrasco/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 21:44:30 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=42402/3153543 Dec 14 21:45:30 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<fmcarrasco>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=20035, TLS Dec 14 22:01:27 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/07/47/fmcarrasco/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 22:01:27 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=343/8671 Dec 14 22:02:58 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<fmcarrasco>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=2685, TLS Dec 14 22:13:46 buzon dovecot: lda(fmcarrasco): sieve: msgid=<f81a253ebaceca9bf0a6635027e4d747s>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Dec 14 22:13:46 buzon postfix/pipe[21152]: AAD36C8501: to=<fmcarrasco>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.34, delays=0.03/0.01/0/0.31, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) The other one: Dec 14 20:53:38 buzon dovecot: pop3(cfp): Connection closed top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/3605, size=446902389 Dec 14 21:38:34 buzon postfix/qmgr[4015]: A90CFC7C31: from=<scet2012a(a)confcfp.org>, size=23256, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 14 21:43:00 buzon postfix/qmgr[4015]: E7E61C7DED: from=<scet2012a(a)confcfp.org>, size=23244, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Sent/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=32118/127014 Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: Recent flags state corrupted for mailbox Trash Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Trash/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=38097/309083 Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: Recent flags state corrupted for mailbox Preinscripcion Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Preinscripcion/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=33263/164275 Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Emagister/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=35437/111594 Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=24811, TLS Dec 14 21:50:39 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=24822, TLS Dec 14 21:52:12 buzon postfix/cleanup[21212]: 9A22CC816C: message-id=<CAP3xem+Vzw4b_dmDnr=ajn9cfpA8TNotxAVbkM5xoBzxPfu_bQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Sent/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=554/169764 Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Trash/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=533/10963 Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Preinscripcion/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=629/39790 Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=613/496956 Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=464, TLS Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=465, TLS Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=466, TLS Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=467, TLS Dec 14 22:30:28 buzon dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<cfp>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.13, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=25194 I do not see any pattern about this problem of index reset, logs from other day, maybe the problem is I/O load based: Dec 15 13:16:06 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Connection closed bytes=357/20249 Dec 15 13:16:06 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Connection closed bytes=70/12804 Dec 15 13:16:12 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<ehlers>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.150, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=1005 Dec 15 13:16:12 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Connection closed bytes=103/818 Dec 15 13:16:19 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<ehlers>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.150, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=1419 Dec 15 13:16:19 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Error: Mailbox Archivador/Facultad/curso whiteboard: Corrupted index, uidvalidity=0 Dec 15 13:16:19 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Warning: mdbox /buzones/domain/11/53/ehlers/storage: rebuilding indexes Dec 15 13:16:19 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<ehlers>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.150, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=1426 Dec 15 13:16:19 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Connection closed bytes=459/3205 Dec 15 13:16:32 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/11/53/ehlers/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 15 13:16:32 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Disconnected: IMAP session state is inconsistent, please relogin. bytes=195/963 Dec 15 13:16:32 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<ehlers>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.150, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=2006 Dec 15 13:16:32 buzon dovecot: imap(ehlers): Connection closed bytes=274/80860 Dec 15 13:16:49 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<ehlers>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.150, lip=192.168.4.80, mpid=2735 Any idea? Regards Maria On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 22:10 +0100, Maria Arrea wrote: > I have seen some strange error log messages in our dovecot server (2.0.15, RHEL 5.7x64, mdbox+zlib, local storage, high load) > > Dec 14 22:01:27 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/07/47/fmcarrasco/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent > Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Sent/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent These messages shouldn't appear alone. Is there anything else logged about them? > Dec 14 20:56:46 buzon dovecot: imap(rcam): Error: Corrupted index cache file /indices_dovecot/indices/03/6b/rcam/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Broken virtual size for mail UID 132197 Possibly related to zlib.. Again it should have logged another error message just before this. > Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: Recent flags state corrupted for mailbox INBOX Possibly related to other errors. So .. none of the errors above really were what I'd call the actual cause of the problems. They were just after effects. > I have been googling without luck, why does this happen? I have tried with doveadm force-resync, maybe this could solve this issues. All of those should be fixed automatically. Do they keep happening if you don't do force-resync? How often do they happen anyway? Do they happen at any specific times (e.g. during doveadm purge)?

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[Dovecot] dovecot penalties and anvil
by Leonardo Rodrigues 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hi, I'm strugling to find some documentation on dovecot's anvil service and/or its penalties (that can be checked with doveadm penalty) ... but i'm not finding anything on that. is there any documentation on anvil/penalties that i should check other than a few messages on the mailing list archive ? thanks ! -- Atenciosamente / Sincerily, Leonardo Rodrigues Solutti Tecnologia http://www.solutti.com.br Minha armadilha de SPAM, NÃO mandem email gertrudes(a)solutti.com.br My SPAMTRAP, do not email it

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.1rc1 + 2.0.16 woes regarding fts_squat
by Robin 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

I can confirm the report posted in http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-November/062263.html that fts_squat no longer seems to be used after moving from 2.0.16->2.1 rc 1. I don't see crash reports in the logs, just "0 messages indexed". My search test tool just does a normal IMAP SEARCH for a long non-existent string. If there's another way to trigger re-indexing in 2.1, I don't see anything in the documentation for it. I've enabled mail_debug, but no log entries that shed light on the problem are available. Has the configuration for fts_squat changed? If anyone has a working fts_squat setup with Dovecot 2.1rc1, I'd appreciate hearing how you have it setup and working. During a large mail import with 2.0.16 today, I ran across a worrying message in the logs during an fts_squat reindex: out of memory. The plugin doesn't obey the mmap_disable configuration directive, which I've confirmed in the plugin source. The mailbox in question has only 17GB (mdbox style), with about 90,000 emails in it. Its "index" (for the purposes of normal IMAP retrieval as opposed to IMAP TEXT/BODY searching) is fine and uncorrupted. I freshly import these mailboxes between test iterations and any version changes anyway, so if there's corruption, it's happening within dovecot only. I'm using use Mail::IMAPClient to create + append mail over localhost, not any direct mdbox conversion trickery. In looking through the code, I see that mmap() is called for the *ENTIRE FILE*, which is guaranteed to fail on large indexes. I assume this was done out of expedience, but it's a "risky" sort of thing to do in a server process, even if 8GB RAM systems do seem to grow on trees. I intend to put this to work in a large installation (>10K users), so this IS of some concern for me in the long-term. Dec 12 22:48:52 linuxcode dovecot: imap(user1001): Error: mremap_anon(188084224) failed: Cannot allocate memory Dec 12 22:48:52 linuxcode dovecot: imap(user1001): Error: read(.../mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX2010/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.search.uids) failed: Cannot allocate memory Dec 12 22:48:52 linuxcode dovecot: imap(user1001): Error: mremap_anon(188280832) failed: Cannot allocate memory Dec 12 22:48:52 linuxcode dovecot: imap(user1001): Error: read(.../mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX2010/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.search.uids) failed: Cannot allocate memory Dec 12 22:50:47 linuxcode dovecot: imap(user1001): Error: Corrupted squat uidlist file .../mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX2010/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.search.uids: uidlist not found ================ dovecot -n output: # 2.0.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.7-smp i686 Slackware 13.1.0 auth_mechanisms = plain cram-md5 digest-md5 apop default_vsz_limit = 192 M disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 100 hostname = linuxcode info_log_path = /tmp/dovecot.log last_valid_gid = 60000 last_valid_uid = 60000 listen = * mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = " zlib acl" mdbox_preallocate_space = yes mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 days mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = scheme=plain /etc/cram-md5.pwd driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile } postmaster_address = postmaster@linuxcode quota_full_tempfail = yes service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 0 vsz_limit = 64 M } service imap { vsz_limit = 512 M } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } ssl = no userdb { args = blocking=no driver = passwd } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " zlib acl" } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " zlib acl fts fts_squat imap_acl imap_zlib" plugin { fts = squat fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 } } ================ CONFIGURE ================ LIBS=-lnsl CFLAGS='-O2 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -fstack-protector -fomit-frame-pointer' \ CXXFLAGS='-O2 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -fstack-protector -fomit-frame-pointer' \ LDFLAGS=-s ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-mysql --with-sqlite --with-pgsql --without-pam --with-sql \ --with-libwrap --with-libcap -with-ssl=openssl --with-solr \ --with-mem-align=16 --with-bzlib --with-zlib --localstatedir=/var ================ OS: Slackware 13.1 (32-bit, 2GB physical RAM, kernel setup for 2G/2G split) fully patched up =R=

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[Dovecot] Question about index reset in dovecot 2.0.15
by Maria Arrea 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

I have seen some strange error log messages in our dovecot server (2.0.15, RHEL 5.7x64, mdbox+zlib, local storage, high load) Dec 14 22:01:27 buzon dovecot: imap(fmcarrasco): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/07/47/fmcarrasco/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 22:00:27 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: /indices_dovecot/indices/16/58/cfp/mailboxes/Sent/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Dec 14 20:56:46 buzon dovecot: imap(rcam): Error: Corrupted index cache file /indices_dovecot/indices/03/6b/rcam/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Broken virtual size for mail UID 132197 Dec 14 21:50:38 buzon dovecot: imap(cfp): Error: Recent flags state corrupted for mailbox INBOX I have been googling without luck, why does this happen? I have tried with doveadm force-resync, maybe this could solve this issues. doveconf -n output # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga) ext4 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 10 secs auth_cache_size = 10 M auth_cache_ttl = 2 mins auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_worker_max_count = 3500 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ default_client_limit = 5000 default_process_limit = 6500 disable_plaintext_auth = no imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail tb-lsub-flags lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_fsync = never mail_gid = entrega mail_home = /buzones/domain/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n/home_usuario/ mail_location = mdbox:/buzones/domain/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n:INDEX=/indices_dovecot/indices/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n mail_max_userip_connections = 15000 mail_plugins = " zlib acl quota autocreate" mail_uid = entrega managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 days mdbox_rotate_size = 60 M passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { args = /etc/usuario_maestro.txt driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile autocreate = SPAM autocreate2 = Sent autocreate3 = Drafts autocreate4 = Trash autosubscribe = SPAM autosubscribe2 = Sent autosubscribe3 = Drafts autosubscribe4 = Trash lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes quota = dict:Cuota de usuario::file:/buzones/cuotas/%n quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% quota_warning = storage=90%% aviso_cuota 90 %u sieve = /buzones/domain/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n/home_usuario/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /buzones/domain/%2.26Hn/%2.200Hn/%n/home_usuario/sieve/ zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 9 } pop3_no_flag_updates = yes protocols = pop3 imap sieve service anvil { client_limit = 25000 } service auth { client_limit = 28000 unix_listener auth-master { user = entrega } unix_listener auth-userdb { user = entrega } user = root } service aviso_cuota { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener aviso_cuota { mode = 0666 } user = entrega } service imap-login { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login group = dovenull service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 1 G } service imap { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap process_limit = 6000 } service managesieve-login { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login inet_listener sieve { port = 2000 } process_limit = 2000 vsz_limit = 1 G } service managesieve { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve process_limit = 5000 } service pop3-login { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login process_limit = 4000 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 1 G } service pop3 { executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 process_limit = 4000 } ssl_ca = </etc/pki/generico/cacert.crt.pem ssl_cert = </etc/pki/generico/wildcard-us_es.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/generico/wildcard-key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 } protocol lda { hostname = domain info_log_path = log_path = mail_fsync = optimized mail_plugins = sieve zlib quota postmaster_address = evcorreo@domain syslog_facility = mail } protocol imap { mail_plugins = zlib autocreate quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = zlib pop3_enable_last = yes pop3_uidl_format = %g } Regards Maria

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[Dovecot] doveadm quota does not list all accounts
by Nikolaos Milas 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hello, I am running dovecot-2.0.13-1_128.el5 x86_64 RPM on CentOS 5.7. All accounts are virtual, hosted on LDAP Server. My problem is that the command: doveadm quota get -A stopped listing all accounts. I think this problem started after I changed in LDAP lookup configuration from "scope = subtree" to "scope = onelevel", because it did not occur before (I did no other changes). Now, the above command only lists 12 accounts. If I query for a particular user: doveadm quota get -u userx this works fine, but userx (and all users except those 12) is NOT listed when trying to display all users. How can I run the above command without problems again? Thanks in advance, Nick

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[Dovecot] Quota PostgreSQL INSERT trigger
by Adis Nezirovic 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Wiki instructions for creating insert trigger for PostgreSQL are wrong http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/Dict Calling INSERT on the table from within BEFORE INSERT trigger creates cascading trigger. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/trigger-definition.html Instead, one should return NEW record from the trigger, and it will be inserted after trigger execution. --- CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION merge_quota2() RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$ BEGIN IF NEW.messages < 0 OR NEW.messages IS NULL THEN -- ugly kludge: we came here from this function, really do try to insert IF NEW.messages IS NULL THEN NEW.messages = 0; ELSE NEW.messages = -NEW.messages; END IF; return NEW; END IF; LOOP UPDATE quota2 SET bytes = bytes + NEW.bytes, messages = messages + NEW.messages WHERE username = NEW.username; IF found THEN RETURN NULL; END IF; BEGIN IF NEW.messages = 0 THEN RETURN NEW; ELSE NEW.messages = - NEW.messages; RETURN NEW; END IF; EXCEPTION WHEN unique_violation THEN -- someone just inserted the record, update it END; END LOOP; END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql; DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS mergequota2 ON quota2; CREATE TRIGGER mergequota2 BEFORE INSERT ON quota2 FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE merge_quota2(); --- Best regards, Adis

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[Dovecot] Tuning Login processes for High-performance Mode
by Alessio Cecchi 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hi, I'm working for tuning a busy cluster of dovecot servers. Heach server as 4 core, 8GB of RAM and provide POP3 and IMAP access to mailbox. OS is Debian 6.0 and dovecot version is 1.2.15. I am unsure how to set "login_max_processes_count" and "login_max_connections" for reach the best situation when login_process_per_connection is set to no. I don't know what value to set login_max_processes_count. For example is better the first or the second configuration? login_process_per_connection=no login_processes_count=4 login_max_processes_count=8 login_max_connections=512 login_process_size=128 login_process_per_connection=no login_processes_count=4 login_max_processes_count=16 login_max_connections=256 login_process_size=128 Which is a suggested ratio from login_max_processes_count and login_max_connections ? Other values are correct? Thanks -- Alessio Cecchi is: @ ILS -> http://www.linux.it/~alessice/ on LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice Assistenza Sistemi GNU/Linux -> http://www.cecchi.biz/ @ PLUG -> ex-Presidente, adesso senatore a vita, http://www.prato.linux.it @ LOLUG -> Socio http://www.lolug.net

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[Dovecot] Calculation of suggested vsz_limit values
by Nikolaos Milas 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hello, I would like to ask on suggested vsz_limit values. Is there any way of calculating such values? How should we determine them? I don't want to risk wrong values (and possible errors) on a production system, if I upgrade to 2.0.16 where vsz_limit values are enforced (I read release notes)! If there is no standard way of calculation, could someone please check the following info and suggest some values? I am running dovecot-2.0.13-1_128.el5 x86_64 RPM on CentOS 5.7 (as a VM on a KVM Host). All accounts are virtual, hosted on LDAP Server. We have about 250 mailboxes of 4GB each (in practice, only a couple of mailboxes ever reach 1GB so we are "over-booking"). It is a relatively low-load server. Memory status and config follows below. Thanks, Nick The server memory condition is as follows: # vmstat procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------ r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 0 92 62400 212324 1299604 0 0 397 235 70 39 4 2 89 4 0 # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2010 1951 59 0 207 1269 -/+ buffers/cache: 474 1536 Swap: 2015 0 2015 ---------- Config Start ------------- # 2.0.13: dovecot.conf protocols = imap pop3 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/ mail_gid = 500 mail_uid = 500 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_plugins = quota protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = "delay-newmail " mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master info_log_path = log_path = mail_plugins = quota postmaster_address = sysadmin(a)example.com sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-usrdb-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-passdb-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=4G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+3%% quota_warning = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u quota_warning2 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u } service quota-warning { executable = script /opt/mail1.sh user = vmail unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service pop3-login { service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } ssl_ca = </etc/pki/CA/certs/chain.pem ssl_cert = </etc/pki/CA/certs/cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/CA/private/key.pem syslog_facility = local1 ---------- Config End -------------

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[Dovecot] Strange Login / Timeout Sessions
by Carlos Mennens 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

I have my webmail application tied to Postfix / Dovecot server & now for some reason the IMAP sessions oddly time out throughout the day and then logging back into the mail system over the web is painfully slow. The only thing I've seen that fixes it is to reload the Dovecot daemon in Linux: /etc/init.d/dovecot reload Once that command is ran, my webmail login is super fast and moving from folder to folder is extremely fast again. Then in about a few hours, the session will time out and this problem repeats. The problem is the same for everyone and not just a few user accounts. Anyone have any idea what I should be looking for or looking at? My Dovecot logs or mixed in /var/log/maillog which is extremely hard to watch live & gets mixed with Postfix, Amavisd, and Postgrey. Any ideas or suggestions to narrow this problem out? I'm running Dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5_7.1. I saw this load on the console today: Error: Dovecot is already running with PID 2334 (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf Below is my configuration file: [root@mail ~]# dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/certs/digicert.crt ssl_cert_file: ***OMIT*** ssl_key_file: ***OMIT*** login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix

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[Dovecot] One important question!
by I M 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Hello!Please, give me a feedback as soon as you can! I need some advice regarding "dovecot self signed certificate" configuration!If you have any experience in working with php IMAP-module that would be useful for me to know what would you say about below: Problem: I can connect to my INBOX through telnet, but I cannot do it through imap-functions (Certificate failure for ...)? My best,Edward.

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[Dovecot] Two important new Pigeonhole v0.3 features
by Stephan Bosch 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Hello Dovecot users, Pigeonhole v0.3 for Dovecot v2.1 has two new features I would like you to play with before I make a first release: 1) The new Sieve editheader extension (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5293) This allows modifying the headers of the message before delivery. This is actually the first implemented extension that can modify the message itself in any way. This feature adds quite a bit of new code that I'd like to see tested more thoroughly. 2) The new sieve-filter tool (documented in the sieve-filter(1) man page upon installation). This allows (re-)filtering messages that are already stored in a particular mailbox. It preserves the assigned IMAP flags and keywords and using the imap4flags extension these can also be modified. It also plays nice with the editheader extension. Judging by postings in this mailing list from the last few years, this is a highly-demanded feature and I'm glad that I finally got around to finish this thing. If the new sieve-filter tool is lacking certain features in your opinion, just let me know. Needless to say: read the man page carefully and watch out with important mail. This is currently only available from the mercurial repository, but if you prefer to have an .rc1 release first, just tell me and I'll make one. The automatic Debian repository already includes these features. Regards, Stephan.

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[Dovecot] IMAP and sieve
by moozer 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

I am currently setting up an IMAP server for archiving purposes. The goal is to drag an email to the IMAP folder, and then have a server-side sieve script to put it in the right folder. One of the sources used was this wiki entry http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot I added the mail_plugins = sieve to /etc/dovecot/15-lda.conf and after some exim4 fiddling, mails delivered are filtered by my sieve script. Doing the same for imap delivery (in /etc/dovecot/20-imap.conf) give the following error Dec 19 10:22:09 leon dovecot: imap: Error: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_sieve_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0: undefined symbol: mail_deliver_save_open Dec 19 10:22:09 leon dovecot: imap: Error: Can't load plugin sieve_plugin: Plugin is intended to be used only by binaries: lda lmtp (we're imap) Dec 19 10:22:09 leon dovecot: imap: Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins Dec 19 10:22:10 leon dovecot: imap: Error: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_sieve_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0: undefined symbol: mail_deliver_save_open Dec 19 10:22:10 leon dovecot: imap: Error: Can't load plugin sieve_plugin: Plugin is intended to be used only by binaries: lda lmtp (we're imap) Dec 19 10:22:10 leon dovecot: imap: Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins I notice this part: "plugin is intended to be used only by binaries: lda lmtp (we're imap)" So the question is if it is possible to run sieve server-side sieve scripts on emails copied using IMAP. Suggestions are most welcome. Moozer -- I am running debian testing # dovecot --version 2.0.15

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[Dovecot] DKIM Verification failures
by Nikolaos Milas 18 Dec '11

18 Dec '11

Hi, -- This message refers to the maillist itself rather than to dovecot software -- I have noticed that when I post to this list (only), I get DKIM Verification failure reports from: root(a)moncton.sidefx.com (e.g. for my last post: "DKIM failure report for job 4D27B5DC4E on mail.sidefx.com") root(a)mail.rmacd.com (e.g. for my last post: "DKIM failure report for job B69B3187F1 on mail.rmacd.com") root(a)mx0.roessner-net.de (e.g. for my last post: "DKIM failure report for job 6103B52092 on mx0.roessner-net.de") I have not had other DKIM failure reports from anywhere and I know that we should not have issues with it. An example from gmail: Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of nmilas(a)noa.gr designates 195.251.204.235 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=nmilas(a)noa.gr; dkim=pass header.i=(a)noa.gr So, whom should I contact to investigate this problem? Thanks, Nick

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[Dovecot] logging deletion of emails through IMAP?
by John Brock 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Version 1.2.16: Is there some way to enable logging for when emails are deleted via IMAP? All I see are log entries for users logging in/logging out. It would be nice to know when an email is deleted, and from which IP address the user was logged in when s/he deleted the email. -- John Brock Adeptive Software 303-554-0301 x1

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[Dovecot] simultaneous scripts not running via sieve_before
by Scott Lewis 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Hi again everyone, So I've finally got sieve integration happening on my REHL Postfix/Dovecot server, with private user scripts happily running when users create them. (we user SquirrelMail, so the avelsieve plugin runs the sieve integration). Now I'd like to utilise additional per-user scripts (probably via sieve_before), but I've not been able to get my additional scripts to execute. I am doing the following: a) getting avelsieve to write my redirect script (ie. logging on as user, completing private script wizard, and activating it) b) compiling .dovecot.sieve with sievec c) copying the resultant .dovecot.svbin to sieve/ directory (and renaming it eg redirect.svbin still, it appears that each /home/%u/.dovecot.sieve file is the only one taking effect. Any thoughts on how to make the other ones active? (The idea behind this is to automatically forward all of joeuser@mydomain's incoming mail to somewhere like joeusersbackup(a)gmail.com, for backup reasons. One day, I'll work out how to configure postfix to do this for all outgoing email too, but that's for another day :) Below are what my .conf files look like. Thanks in advance, Scott /etc/dovecot.conf: [code] protocols = imap imaps managesieve listen = * protocol imap { #mail_plugins = sieve quota } ## ## ManageSieve specific settings ## protocol managesieve { # debugging mail_debug = yes #login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login #mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve #managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 #managesieve_logout_format = bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) #managesieve_implementation_string = Cyrus timsieved v2.2.13 } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve quota sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_extentions = +include sieve_dir=~/sieve sieve_before = /home/%u/sieve/redirect.svbin sieve_global_path = /etc/globalsieverc.svbin [/code]

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[Dovecot] Autosubscribe new folders
by For＠ll 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

Hi, I have a sieve filter: require ["fileinto","reject","body"]; if header :contains "subject" "NOTE" { if body :content "application/pdf" :contains "" { redirect "notes(a)domena.com"; } else { reject text: Lack attachment PDF! . ; stop; } } When I get a new message, in user folder is automaticly created folder like subject but is not subscribed. What I must settings in dovecot to automaticly subscribe folders to subscriptions files.?

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[Dovecot] dovecot-antispam: pipe backend with spamc failing to parse args
by Micah Anderson 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

I'm trying to get the pipe backend to work with the new dovecot-antispam (I was very pleased to see the new version, thanks Johannes!) Before I would run the following over the maildir: spamc -d 10.0.1.109 -L ham < $file 2>&1 > /dev/null now, i'm using dovecot-antispam and mdbox and have the following configured: antispam_backend = pipe antispam_signature = X-Spam-Flag antispam_signature_missing = error antispam_trash_pattern = trash;Trash;Deleted * antispam_spam_pattern_ignorecase = SPAM antispam_pipe_tmpdir = /var/tmp antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg = -L spam antispam_pipe_program_notspam_arg = -L ham antispam_pipe_program = /usr/bin/spamc antispam_pipe_program_args = -d 10.0.1.109 Now, when I move a message to Spam, dovecot-antispam detects it and attempts to run, but it fails: Dec 14 16:22:45 grosbeak [username 10.0.1.74 uid]: antispam: run program failed with exit code 64 Exit code 64 is spamc's exit code for "command line usage error" - but I can't see exactly the command that is being constructed by dovecot-antispam to know where the error is. Any ideas? micah --

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[Dovecot] Quota warnings not being sent
by Nikolaos Milas 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

Hello, I am running dovecot-2.0.13-1_128.el5 x86_64 RPM on CentOS 5.7 with the config shown below. All accounts are virtual, hosted on LDAP Server. My problem is that the quota warning mail is not sent as expected. For example, in the logs I get: Dec 12 08:42:40 vmail dovecot: lda(imaptester): Error: quota: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/quota-warning) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(vmail) egid=500(vmail) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/quota-warning, euid is not dir owner) Here is /var/run/dovecot/: # ls -la /var/run/dovecot/ total 32 drwxr-xr-x 4 root dovecot 4096 Dec 9 21:27 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 14 12:27 .. srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 anvil srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 anvil-auth-penalty srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 auth-client srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Dec 9 21:27 auth-login srw-rw---- 1 vmail vmail 0 Dec 9 21:27 auth-master srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 auth-userdb srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Dec 9 21:27 auth-worker srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 config srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 dict srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 director-admin srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 dns-client srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 doveadm-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Dec 9 21:27 dovecot.conf -> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 17 2011 empty drwxr-x--- 2 root dovenull 4096 Dec 9 21:27 login -rw------- 1 root root 5 Dec 9 21:27 master.pid srw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 9 21:27 quota-warning Follows my config (at the end of this message). How should I change permissions to resolve the issue? Would it be enough to change ownership of the whole directory /var/run/dovecot/ and its contents to vmail:vmail? What configuration directives determine the ownership and the access permissions for these sockets? Please advise. Thanks in advance, Nick ------------------------------------------ # 2.0.13: dovecot.conf protocols = imap pop3 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/ mail_gid = 500 mail_uid = 500 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_plugins = quota protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = "delay-newmail " mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master info_log_path = log_path = mail_plugins = quota postmaster_address = sysadmin(a)example.com sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-usrdb-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-passdb-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=4G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+3%% quota_warning = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u quota_warning2 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u } service quota-warning { executable = script /opt/mail1.sh user = root unix_listener quota-warning { } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service pop3-login { service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } ssl_ca = </etc/pki/CA/certs/chain.pem ssl_cert = </etc/pki/CA/certs/cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/CA/private/key.pem syslog_facility = local1 ---------------------------------------------

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Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up To Windows File Server
by Luigi Rosa 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Asai said the following on 14/12/11 17:52: > Thanks, Luigi, I may fall back to that. Should you need it, here's the script I use to do it. In my configurations /var/spool/mail contains one dir for each domain and each of that dir contains a maildir for each domain. So the email of foobar(a)acme.com is in /var/spool/mail/acme.com/foobar/ The 4th line checks lost&found because /bar/spool/mail is a different file system. I create the .tgz file on local /tmp for performance reasons. TARGET=/backup for DOMAINPATH in /var/spool/mail/* do if [ "${DOMAINPATH}" != "/var/spool/mail/lost+found" ] then DOMAIN=`echo $DOMAINPATH | cut -d '/' -f 5` for USERPATH in ${DOMAINPATH}/* do USER=`echo $USERPATH | cut -d '/' -f 6` tar cvzf /tmp/$DOMAIN-$USER.tgz $USERPATH > /dev/null cp -f /tmp/$DOMAIN-$USER.tgz $TARGET/mail rm -f /tmp/$DOMAIN-$USER.tgz done fi done Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ I don't think we have the right or the wisdom to interfere, however a planet is evolving. --James Kirk, "The Omega Glory" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7o3jYACgkQ3kWu7Tfl6ZSfpQCgvzhOJH6mnJMu8ZzvKu5y8um+ 46wAoKd0eXxBNPad9EZao7VKjZBkACer =dhk0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Two recent issues
by Brad Schuetz 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

I've been using dovecot for years, been working great. However recently I've come across two issues. The first issue unfortunately I have little information on, mail_debug hasn't provided anything useful either (in fact it looks like the login request that fails doesn't even get logged at all). During the morning rush of email, this server has around 11k mailboxes on it, it *appears* that one of the auth processes dies resulting in "dovecot: imap-login: Error: read(imap) failed: Connection reset by peer" errors followed by "dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure ..." in the logs. I've yet to get any useful debugging information on this error so I'm not expecting much/any help on this one, but if anyone has any ideas on how I can get more debug besides running strace 24/7 in the hopes it catches something before the hard drive is full of strace output I'd love to hear it. The best I've gotten was a lucky strace once (at the time I didn't realize it was so lucky or I would have saved the output) that indicated the imap-login daemon was failing to connect to the auth process. The second issue is lmtp/lda (tried both) delivery to a mailbox that has filesystem quotas enabled and the group quota is maxed is resulting in the below panic and crash. This issue happens with 2.0.13, 2.0.15 and 2.0.16. Here's the logs showing that it knows the disk quota is exceeded and then a subsequent zlib panic. Like it's trying to deliver it anyway. --------------------- 11:21:07 [err] dovecot: lmtp(29691, admin(a)[redacted].com) Error: o_stream_send_istream(/email/d/r/[redacted]/[redacted]/admin/Maildir/tmp/1323458467.M245978P29691.fenrir.omnis.com) failed: Disk quota exceeded 11:21:07 [crit] dovecot: lmtp(29691, admin(a)[redacted].com) Panic: file ostream-zlib.c: line 144 (o_stream_zlib_send_flush): assertion failed: (zs->avail_in == 0) 11:21:07 [err] dovecot: lmtp(29691, admin(a)[redacted].com) Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x345443ca90] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x345443cae6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x345443c4a3] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so [0x2ba2d31547f6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so [0x2ba2d315481b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(o_stream_flush+0x2a) [0x345444f0ea] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(maildir_save_finish+0x6b) [0x3451c63b6b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so [0x2ba2d2f4ce7a] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_save_finish+0x30) [0x3451c2fbb0] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_storage_copy+0xb3) [0x3451c2aae3] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(maildir_copy+0x56) [0x3451c6fd36] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so [0x2ba2d2f4d0ba] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_copy+0x5a) [0x3451c301ba] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/li 11:21:07 [err] dovecot: master: Error: service(lmtp): child 29691 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) --------------------- Attached is the current "doveadm config" output. -- Brad Schuetz

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Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage
by Maria Arrea 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Hello Timo. If we can not safely restore from backup a user's mailbox with SiS enabled, we can not enable SiS. Any plan to include this backup recovery tool in dovecot 2.0.X or 2.1? Regards Maria > 5º We use bacula to save indexes & mdboxes, and we recover mailboxes using doveadm import when a user "makes a fatal mistake" wiping all her Inbox. If we enable SiS I am not really sure how can we safely restore a user's INBOX if that user has SiS attachments. Hm. Yes, that is problematic.. Even if you knew what SIS files were used, there's no simple way to restore those with proper refcounts. I think what really should be done is writing a tool that can create/restore backups, possibly de-SISing the attachments..

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[Dovecot] Panic when attempting index with Apache Solr : fts_solr plugin
by A Dovecot User 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Dovecot version: 2.1.rc1 Expat version: expat-2.0.1-10 Libcurl version: libcurl-7.21.0-10 OS: Fedora 14 i686 Configure command: ./configure --with-solr Solr version: 1.4.1 (also tried 3.5.0) Java version: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-55.1.9.10 (also tried Oracle Java 6u29) [root@mymailserver ~]# doveadm -D index -u username mailbox inbox doveadm(username): Info: INBOX: Caching mails seq=1..466 doveadm(username): Panic: file solr-connection.c: line 545 (solr_connection_post_more): assertion failed: (maxfd >= 0) doveadm(username): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3b9b1) [0x14b9b1] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x47) [0x14bac7] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x1211ae] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(solr_connection_post_more+0x293) [0xb1a7d3] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x2599) [0xb16599] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_build_more+0x31) [0x2273f1] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x3b2) [0x228272] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xa74e) [0x22d74e] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_precache+0xf) [0x937a6f] -> doveadm() [0x80520b6] -> doveadm() [0x804f4b5] -> doveadm(doveadm_mail_single_user+0x5b) [0x804f8db] -> doveadm() [0x804fd3f] -> doveadm(doveadm_mail_try_run+0x12e) [0x805019e] -> doveadm(main+0x3a4) [0x8056444] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x729e36] -> doveadm() [0x804f2c1] ---------------------- mail_plugins = acl antispam fts fts_solr plugin { fts = solr fts_solr = break-imap-search debug url=http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/ }

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Re: [Dovecot] Prevent re-download mails
by Francisco Wagner C. Freire 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hello, The clients re-download the messages on every connection, i current looking for the client versions with this problem. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Wouter van der Schagt <wouter(a)vdschagt.com>wrote: > > Looking for more info. > > Even with the same UIDL values, some e-mail clients will still redownload > the messages if a hostname changed. > > Anyway, annoying as it is, after the second download it will stop, you can > ask your users to simply delete the duplicates, it won't download a 3rd > time. > > - WS > >

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[Dovecot] v2.1.rc1 managesieve TLS
by Mike Constabel 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hi, TLS on imap port 143 works. But if I try TLS on managesieve port 4190, I get no connection. Dec 12 21:16:10 managesieve-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 5 secs): rip=192.168.10.117, lip=192.168.10.117, secured Dec 12 21:16:20 managesieve-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 5 secs): rip=192.168.10.117, lip=192.168.10.117, TLS handshaking: Disconnected # gnutls-cli --starttls -p 4190 192.168.10.117 Resolving '192.168.10.117'... Connecting to '192.168.10.117:4190'... - Simple Client Mode: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Dovecot Pigeonhole" "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave" "NOTIFY" "mailto" "SASL" "PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5" "STARTTLS" "VERSION" "1.0" OK "Dovecot ready." STARTTLS NO "Begin TLS negotiation now." ^ There is a NO and not an OK... Possible something wrong with my config, but I cannot find something... # doveconf -n # 2.1.rc1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 auth_cache_size = 1 M auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-debug.log default_client_limit = 2600 dict { expire = sqlite:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no hostname = mx4.constabel-it.de info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log expire acl mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive/2011 { auto = subscribe } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = scheme=PLAIN username_format=%u /etc/imap.userdb driver = passwd-file } plugin { expire = Trash expire2 = Trash/* expire3 = Spam expire_dict = proxy::expire quota = dict:User quota::file:/mailspool1/%d/%n/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=9000M:messages=1000000 sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster@localhost protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3" service auth { inet_listener { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 12345 } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </etc/postfix/psw-ssl/ssl.ca-bundle ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/psw-ssl/ssl.crt ssl_key = </etc/postfix/psw-ssl/ssl.key userdb { args = username_format=%Lu /etc/imap.userdb driver = passwd-file } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log expire acl sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log expire acl } protocol imap { imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log expire acl imap_quota imap_acl } protocol sieve { mail_debug = yes managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log expire acl } regards, Mike

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[Dovecot] Saving archive copy of all mail sent/received w/Dovecot+Postfix?
by Andrew M 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

I'm running Dovecot 2.0.15 and Postfix 2.7.7 with postfix handing off to Dovecot's LDA. I am hosting multiple virtual domains with multiple users and everything is working. I would now like to create a permanent archive of all sent/received mail with each virtual user's mail saved to its own sent file and received file. This needs to be independent of the user's regular Maildir store since he can't delete or modify the permanent archive. Any suggestions on how to best accomplish this either via postfix or dovecot? Postfix has in main.cf virtual_transport = dovecot and in master.cf dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=virtual:virtual argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot /dovecot-lda -d ${recipient} -f ${sender} dovecot uses this: [root@xxx andrew]# dovecot -n # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.14-103.fc14.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) ext4 auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = scheme=plain username_format=%u /etc/postfix/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap lmtp service auth { inet_listener { port = 12345 } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/xxx.com.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/xxx.com.key userdb { args = username_format=%u uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n driver = static } Thanks, Andrew

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[Dovecot] mail_max_userip_connections=10
by Tom Clark 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hi, A couple of questions rather than a problem for once! We've got our Dovecot server running smoothly now apart from our MD. He's having problems with mail_max_userip_connections. He has 3 (Phone/Laptop/Tablet) items that all connect to the server at about the same time. Which means he's frequently running over the max_userip_connections. My questions are: Is there anyway of whitelisting an IP so that it can ignore mail_max_userip_connections=10? What should we set mail_max_userip_connections too realistically? 10 seems a bit low? Thanks Tom

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[Dovecot] question regarding postfixadmin
by oni-neko＠gmx.net 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hello! I hope someone here is already using postfixadmin with dovecot and can help me out =) the install-readme for postfixadmin mentions, that the mail-home should be set to default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%u/ but my dovecot is already installed and working with another config, namely mail_location = maildir:/var/dovecotmail/%n/Maildir. Do i have to change this, or is postfixadmin able to read this or can i set this value in postfixadmin somewhere? i´d rather avoid moving all mailfolders around just because of that, and unfortunately the paths don´t really lend themself to an easy solution via symlink ^_^ thanks for any replies best regards sil -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de

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[Dovecot] Prevent re-download mails
by Selcuk Yazar 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hi, today we have a problem our mail server about user accounts. (something about prefetch) anyway i corrected, but some clients re-download emails again. how can i stop this .I've read about some forums about UIDVALIDITY ? is it posibble prevent clients redownload emails with pop3 ? thanks in advance. -- Selçuk YAZAR

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[Dovecot] postlogin script
by Selcuk Yazar 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hi, I have Postfix + OpenLdap + DoveCot configuration, and it's running succesfuly, i wantto convert users pop3 password NTPassword and LMPassword, so i ne plain passwor dof users, how can i do that. (Normaly using perl's ntlmgen function i convert password , but in plain) thanks in advance

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Re: [Dovecot] IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension
by Alan Brown 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:49:49 +0200 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] IMAP SPECIAL-USE extension > > I did this: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/9b9a206395f7 Just to add to the confusion: Pine/Alpine uses "sent-mail" :(

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[Dovecot] Documentation clarifiction on mmap_disable
by Marcio Merlone 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Greetings, On http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig I read: "mmap_disable = no Don't use mmap() at all. This is required if you store indexes to shared filesystems (NFS or clustered filesystem). " Does that mean: 1. mmap is required when using NFS or 2. it is required to don't use mmap at all when using NFS? Sorry if this is obvious. Best regards. -- *Marcio Merlone*

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[Dovecot] database failover
by Nick Edwards 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Trying to get dovecot to _only_ use local copy of database, only querying another database server (same database, just replicated) if local copy is not responding, I have google fu'd a bit and found my only answer in so far as dovecot did this once upon as time, but it was only due to a dovecot bug, that has since been fixed, is that so? The wiki shows no information of failover, just load sharing, or is it an undocumented feature, or can dovecot not do failover, if not, can it be made so? Trying to cut down on network traffic, postfix does this nicely, I thought dovecot did too.

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.1.rc1: sieve and folders with umlauts
by Mike Constabel 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hi, now the umlauts problem with sieve: # cat /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/.dovecot.sieve ## Generated by Roundcube Webmail SieveRules Plugin ## require ["fileinto"]; # rule:[Test] if anyof (header :contains "Subject" "test") { fileinto "m&APY-"; } Error: DBBjDsXL5U7mIAAA/TNBsA: sieve: execution of script /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful (user logfile /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) # cat /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/.dovecot.sieve.log sieve: info: started log at Dec 12 10:40:04. error: msgid=<20111212094004.DB86918594(a)mx4.constabel-it.de>: failed to store into mailbox 'm&APY-': Mailbox doesn't exist: m&-APY-. Here the same: 'm&APY-' != "m&-APY-" Mike

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.1.rc1 and folders with umlauts
by Mike Constabel 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Hi, if I try to crate a folder in Thunderbird 8 which contains umlauts this happens: - Create folder "Tür" - Thunderbird show T&APw-r in folder list In log: Dec 07 17:45:39 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/T&APw-r doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Dec 07 17:45:39 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 # ll /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/ insgesamt 32K drwx------ 8 vmail vmail 4,0K 7. Dez 17:45 . drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 4,0K 7. Dez 17:45 .. drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4,0K 29. Nov 11:11 Drafts drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4,0K 29. Nov 11:04 INBOX drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4,0K 29. Nov 11:11 Junk drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4,0K 29. Nov 11:11 Sent drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4,0K 7. Dez 17:45 T&APw-r drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 4,0K 7. Dez 17:44 Trash If I click in TB on the folder, TB gives an empty message, the log shows: Dec 07 17:42:53 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1 Dec 07 17:42:53 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: quota: No quota setting - plugin disabled Dec 07 17:42:53 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mdbox:~/mdbox Dec 07 17:42:53 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: fs: root=/mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Dec 07 17:42:53 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 Dec 07 17:43:02 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/&ANY-de doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Dec 07 17:43:02 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 Dec 07 17:44:19 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/&-ANY-de doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Dec 07 17:44:19 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 Dec 07 17:44:19 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/Trash/&-ANY-de doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Dec 07 17:44:24 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/Trash/T&APw-r doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Dec 07 17:45:39 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox/mailboxes/T&APw-r doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Dec 07 17:45:39 imap(test1(a)in-preetz.de): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /mailspool1/in-preetz.de/test1/mdbox: mode=0700 gid=-1 On another server with # 2.0.13 (537d4b6d9a7a): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 i686 Debian 6.0.2 an an server with # 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.9 umlauts are working. Is there an problem with my config or with the rc1? thanks, Mike dovecot -n for not working 2.1.rc1: # 2.1.rc1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 auth_cache_size = 1 M auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-debug.log default_client_limit = 2600 disable_plaintext_auth = no hostname = mx4.constabel-it.de info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = scheme=PLAIN username_format=%u /etc/imap.userdb driver = passwd-file } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Junk autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Junk autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster@localhost protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3" service auth { inet_listener { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 12345 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { address = 192.168.10.117 port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </etc/postfix/psw-ssl/ssl.ca-bundle ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/psw-ssl/ssl.crt ssl_key = </etc/postfix/psw-ssl/ssl.key userdb { args = username_format=%Lu /etc/imap.userdb driver = passwd-file } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log } protocol imap { imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log } dovecot -n for working 2.0.13: # 2.0.13 (537d4b6d9a7a): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 i686 Debian 6.0.2 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-debug.log lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /etc/imap.userdb driver = passwd-file } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Junk autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Junk autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = " imap lmtp sieve" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/imap.userdb driver = passwd-file } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " autocreate" }

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[Dovecot] 2.1.rc1 (51d87deb5c26): %{gid} modification problem
by Pascal Volk 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

I tried to apply the X modifier to the %{gid} variable: 'mail_attachment_dir = /srv/mail/.SiS/%X{gid}'. But the name of the created directory is '0', instead of '11172'. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: c01dcofe.1134416(a)localdomain.org

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Re: [Dovecot] using dsync to convert mailboxes looses caching options
by Mark Zealey 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

With 2.0.16 hdr.xxx fields get copied fine (but of course without timestamp). With the patch you provided they don't get copied whether using mirror or backup & starting from scratch. I'm doing a Maildir to sdbox migration otherwise don't think I'm doing anytihng strange. Mark ________________________________________ From: Mark Zealey Sent: 08 December 2011 09:35 To: Timo Sirainen Cc: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: RE: [Dovecot] using dsync to convert mailboxes looses caching options OK I'll test the header copying more fully. The reason we want to preserve caching decisions is to avoid an IO storm when users log in to their mailboxes after an sdbox upgrade so it would be great to be able to have some way to warm caches. Mark

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[Dovecot] using dsync to convert mailboxes looses caching options
by Mark Zealey 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hi there, We're trying to convert users from Maildir to sdbox at present; I'm using dsync to achieve this (2.0.16) however when the user's have been converted we only get minimal information in the caching files. Is there some way to preserve all the caching decisions that were previously made so that when the user logs in to the new mailbox we don't have to cause an io storm rebuilding the cache that we know was good? Dovecot seems to be partially doing this - if i remove the logs/cache from the source mailbox no cache files are built in the conversion; if i put them back then we get a cache file built but it only contains a few bits of information (guid, date.save). Looking into this a bit further i find that when the caches are present at source the fields are preserved but the 'last used' date and caching decisions are not which I suspect means dsync doesn't bother caching on import - only fields with a yes decision in the source are copied (but their decision is only copied as a tmp with the date of import). For example: Source idxview cache: -- Cache fields -- # Name Type Size Dec Last used 0: flags bit 4 tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 1: date.received fix 4 yes 2011-11-26 16:17 2: size.virtual fix 8 tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 3: imap.bodystructure str - tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 4: mime.parts var - tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 5: hdr.IMPORTANCE hdr - tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 6: hdr.X-PRIORITY hdr - tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 7: hdr.CONTENT-TYPE hdr - tmp 2011-11-25 16:09 ... 18: date.sent fix 8 no 1970-01-01 01:00 19: date.save fix 4 yes 2011-11-26 16:17 20: size.physical fix 8 no 1970-01-01 01:00 21: imap.body str - no 1970-01-01 01:00 ... (24 total entries. stripped ones are just hdr. with a tmp decision) dst cache: # Name Type Size Dec Last used 0: flags bit 4 tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 1: date.sent fix 8 no 1970-01-01 01:00 2: date.received fix 4 tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 3: date.save fix 4 tmp 2011-11-26 16:19 4: size.virtual fix 8 tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 5: size.physical fix 8 no 1970-01-01 01:00 6: imap.body str - no 1970-01-01 01:00 7: imap.bodystructure str - tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 8: imap.envelope str - no! 1970-01-01 01:00 9: pop3.uidl str - no 1970-01-01 01:00 10: guid str - tmp 2011-11-26 16:19 11: mime.parts var - tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 12: hdr.IMPORTANCE hdr - tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 13: hdr.X-PRIORITY hdr - tmp 1970-01-01 01:00 ... and dst cached message for example: RECORD: seq=57, uid=12207, flags=0x09 (Seen Answered) - ext 1 modseq : 1 (0100000000000000) - ext 3 cache : 5516 (8c150000) - cache offset=5516 size=92, prev_offset = 0 - guid: 1321895282.XXXt,S=7399760,W=7496225 - date.save: 1322324286 (3e11d14e) src idx record for this message contains pretty much all fields. Thanks, Mark

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[Dovecot] POP - preventing re-download with server move
by Trutwin, Joshua 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hi, Curious if anyone has any good suggestions to handle this. I try to get my hosting users to use IMAP but most use Outhouse and the IMAP support is somewhat annoying for many so I typically have them change their settings when using POP to leave copies on the server. That way when they get the inevitable virus or wanna use webmail they have a backup copy and webmail sees their saved mail. So now I have to move my sites to a new server and I'm trying to avoid having all these messages re-downloaded by POP clients. Some of the sites I've moved with low email usage have just dealt with the re-download and cleaned up afterwards. I have a few other accounts though that I'm more concerned about that have massive amounts of stored email. The mail is stored in Maildirs - a sample file: 1280409166.23580.foo:2,S If I move this to server "bar" would renaming the file to 1280409166.23580.bar:2,S prevent this somehow? Old server uses qmail-pop, new server uses dovecot 2.0. Thanks for any tips, Josh

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[Dovecot] noaclright
by Knud Dombrowsky 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hi, I recently upgraded to openSuse 12.1 which comes with dovecot 2.0.14. Because of mail-client-problems I am running one dovecot which requires authentication via a client-certificate and another one which can be used without a certificate. (Configurations can be found below.) Since the upgrade our shared mailbox is no longer visible. I tried to repair this by setting the ACLs once again (using imap-acl in Thunderbird) but every time I try to set a new ACL the tool says "noaclright" and dovecot logs the following messages: Dec 7 14:31:14 mailbox dovecot: imap(<sharing-user>): Error: fstat(/home/<sharing-user>/Maildir/.<shared-folder>/dovecot-acl.lock) failed: No such file or directory Dec 7 14:31:14 mailbox dovecot: imap(<sharing-user>): Error: file_dotlock_open(/home/<sharing-user>/Maildir/.<shared-folder>/dovecot-acl) failed: No such file or directory Needless to say the file exists and its contents looks like it should. (Every line is an ACL like "user=testuser ilrws") I took a look at the changelog from 2.0.14 onwards and since it says nothing about my problem I am not looking forward to compiling dovecot myself and installing it. Any ideas why this is happening? Is this a known problem? Any help is appreciated, Knud ------------Dovecot-on-port-992----------------------------------------- mailbox:~ # dovecot -n # 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64 openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master default_client_limit = 1600 default_process_limit = 512 listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/.INBOX managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes quota = maildir:alle Nutzer quota_rule = *:storage=1GB sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { port = 992 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/graband-ca.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mailbox5.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailbox.gpbs.net.key.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl imap_acl quota imap_quota } ------------Dovecot-on-port-993----------------------------------------- mailbox:~ # dovecot -c /etc/dovecot-cert/dovecot.conf -n # 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot-cert/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64 openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot-cert/auth-master auth_ssl_require_client_cert = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot-cert/ default_client_limit = 1600 default_process_limit = 512 listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/.INBOX managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes quota = maildir:alle Nutzer quota_rule = *:storage=1GB sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap quota_full_tempfail = yes service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/graband-ca.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mailbox5.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailbox.gpbs.net.key.pem ssl_verify_client_cert = yes userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl imap_acl quota imap_quota } -----------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] overriding userdb connection host for doveadm-user
by Micah Anderson 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

I've got my users in a replicated database setup and dovecot configured with two connect lines in dovecot-sql.conf: connect = host=127.0.0.1 port=3306 dbname=users user=user password=pass connect = host=127.0.0.2 port=3306 dbname=users user=user password=pass this works really well to help balance the load. However, when a new user is created, the replication information sometimes has not made it to the slave database before my user creation process tries to send that new user an email about their new email account. If it hasn't and the email gets sent, then it bounces because postfix thinks the user doesn't exist yet. Replication usually happens within seconds, but could be delayed due to problems. I would like a way to see if the new user's information has been replicated yet before sending the email. I was thinking I could use 'doveadm user' to lookup the user, but I am not sure that I can specify one of the specific 'connect' lines in my configuration to check. Is there a way to override that configuration variable to do this test? I tried various incarnations of passing '-o connect=host='... but doveadm user would just ignore them. thanks for any suggestions! micah ps - yes, I can make my user creation process just 'sleep' for an arbitrary amount of time and by that time the replication should have occured, but that is a bit of a shot in the dark, and doesn't handle longer replication delays that could potentially happen. --

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[Dovecot] lmtp panic in proxy lmtp director
by Xavier Pons 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hi, we are getting some core dumps with signal 6 in ltmp on a dovecot director proxy server, like this: Dec 5 14:31:51 sproxy1 dovecot: lmtp(29999): Panic: file lmtp-proxy.c: line 376 (lmtp_proxy_output_timeout): assertion failed: (proxy->data_input->eof) Dec 5 14:31:51 sproxy1 dovecot: lmtp(29999): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0() [0x363323d99a] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0() [0x363323d9e6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x3633216f8f] -> dovecot/lmtp() [0x406e57] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handle_timeouts+0xd4) [0x3633248ff4] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x5b) [0x3633249bdb] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x3633248c58] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x3633236fc3] -> dovecot/lmtp(main+0x154) [0x403f84] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x373cc1ec5d] -> dovecot/lmtp() [0x403d69] Dec 5 14:31:51 sproxy1 abrt[30067]: saved core dump of pid 29999 (/usr/libexec/dovecot/lmtp) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1323091911-29999.new/coredump (1368064 bytes) Dec 5 14:31:51 sproxy1 dovecot: master: Error: service(lmtp): child 29999 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) we have something misconfigured or it's a bug on this dovecot version? our doveconf -n is: # 2.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final) auth_cache_size = 3 k auth_cache_ttl = 15 mins auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ default_client_limit = 30000 default_process_limit = 5000 director_doveadm_port = 990 director_mail_servers = 10.80.82.21 10.80.82.22 director_servers = 10.80.82.11 10.80.82.12 doveadm_proxy_port = 24245 lmtp_proxy = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y starttls=any-cert driver = static } postmaster_address = xavier.pons(a)uib.es protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { client_limit = 27048 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot mode = 0660 } } service director { fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } inet_listener { port = 991 } inet_listener director-doveadm { port = 990 } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0660 } unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 24245 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 30025 } } service managesieve-login { executable = managesieve-login director } service pop3-login { executable = pop3-login director inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/imap.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/imap.uib.es_privatekey.pem syslog_facility = local1 verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = director-userdb passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-pass.conf.lmtp driver = ldap } } protocol doveadm { auth_socket_path = director-userdb } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } Xavier -- xavier.pons(a)uib.es Centre de Tecnologies de la Informació Universitat Illes Balears

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[Dovecot] Make entire mailbox read-only (ACLs?)
by David Jonas 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hello, Is there a way of locking a mailbox, effectively making it read-only to IMAP clients? I've read through http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ACL. I created dovecot-acl with the content "owner lr" in .INBOX which seems to keep me from copying messages into the folder, but not out. I have the plugin configured correctly, it seems, since MYRIGHTS command shows the correct value: 30 MYRIGHTS "INBOX" * MYRIGHTS "INBOX" lr Am I barking up the wrong tree? Is there an easier way to lock a mailbox? post-login scripting perhaps? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Major bug with hardlinks and lmtp
by Brad Schuetz 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

In working on trying to fix the crash issue from my last email I had enabled LMTP delivery to try it out instead of using the LDA. I have discovered that when a single piece of email is to be delivered to multiple users the message is being hard linked instead of copied into each mail box. This is a major problem that makes LMTP unusable in an environment where each mailbox has it's own UID since the hard linked file will only be readable by one of the users. I assume this is related to "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes", however this setting doesn't say anything about hardlinking across different email accounts. -- Brad Schuetz

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[Dovecot] Per-User MySQL Quota (postfixadmin)
by Sehic, Haris 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

Hi, need some help setting per-user quota and postfixadmin. Setup is working on 1.2 dovecot. Tryin 2.1 dovecot now, quota is working but overriden quota rule set by 'user_query =' in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext takes no efffekt. What's wrong here? Greets Haris

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[Dovecot] Wish list item: %g/%{gid} variable
by Pascal Volk 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

I think it would be very useful to have a user's GID in a variable. So i could use for example: mail_attachment_dir = /srv/mail/.SiS/%{gid} I use one GID per domain and the aliases fqhns of the domain. When for example example.com would be an alias for exmaple.net (gid: 12345), the attachments would be stored inside /srv/mail/.SiS/12345/, no matter if a message was sent to john.doe(a)example.com or to john.doe(a)example.net. "quota = dict:domain:%{gid}:proxy::quota" would then also work. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: c01dcofe.1134217(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] "Unstable" vs "Development" vs "Nightly"
by Terry Carmen 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

I'm currently running v2.1rc1, but have been seeing errors like: Dec 8 11:31:55 it kernel: auth[18914]: segfault at 48 ip 00fe2f74 sp bfcaccd0 error 4 in libauthdb_imap.so[fdd000+f000] The unstable and nightly builds are newer, but are they likely to be more or less stable than the version I'm currently running? I'd like to install a newer version, but am trying to get a feel for how usable they're likely to be. Thanks, Terry

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[Dovecot] Error: Corrupted index cache file /xxx/yyy/zzz/indexes/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
by florent＠coppint.com 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

Hi all, I got a problem with a Dovecot IMAP/POP installation. Since a recent failure of our distributed file system (no loss of data btw), Dovecot seems to have a problem with index cache files. For a lot of accounts, I have this error in logs: Error: Corrupted index cache file /xxx/yyy/zzz/indexes/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size If I delete all files from /indexes/ directory, it still occurs... Do you see what can cause this problem ? Or what information can I provide to help ? Our distributed FS is MooseFS. Dovecot is configured like if it was NFS (no mmap, etc...). Thank you for your help :) Flo

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Re: [Dovecot] sql dict: commit failed: MySQL server has gone away
by Mark Zealey 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Thanks Timo, this patch applied clean against 2.0.16 just running it on live for the past few minutes & seems to have fixed the issues. Mark ________________________________________ From: Mark Zealey Sent: 08 December 2011 07:14 To: Timo Sirainen Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] sql dict: commit failed: MySQL server has gone away Correct we're not enforcing the quotas at present just want an easy way to monitor everyone's mailbox usage. Thanks for the patch; will it work ok against 2.0.16? if so I'll recompile and give it a test today. Mark

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[Dovecot] 2.1.rc1 (1e118913348b): Panic: file mail-user.c: line 128 (mail_user_ref): assertion failed: (user->refcount > 0)
by Pascal Volk 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hi Timo, right after delivering the message to the INBOX the lmtp crashes. I wonder about the "Sent" in the attached backtrace. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: c01dcofe.1134117(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] problems when using dsync between servers
by Yann Dupont 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hello, I'm trying to migrate from maildir++ to mdbox. The maildir++ is a leftover of our previous setup (was using courier) We have 3 virtuals servers for our +70000 accounts. Now, I'd like to use mdbox, so I'm trying using dsync for that. I setup a new virtual server, configured for mdbox. 1st, I tried a basic setup: I established a file with all my accounts (taken from LDAP) and then I use this script : FILENAME=$1 while read LINE do dsync -u $LINE backup $LINE@my_new_server done < $FILENAME But it's quite slow and dsync hangs. So I tried another approach using multi threaded python. Much faster (using all the cores), but dsync still hangs on some accounts. After a certain time dsync exit with an error like that : Panic: file dsync-worker-local.c: line 1688 (local_worker_save_msg_continue): assertion failed: (ret == -1) dsync-remote(E072184L): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3fd8a) [0x7f34fc577d8a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x32) [0x7f34fc577e72] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f34fc55119f] -> dsync() [0x40ff0b] -> dsync() [0x410142] -> dsync(dsync_worker_msg_save+0x99) [0x40f639] -> dsync() [0x40e24a] -> dsync() [0x40d8ef] -> dsync() [0x40dbfc] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x48) [0x7f34fc5830d8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f34fc58403f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f34fc583068] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f34fc5713a3] -> dsync(main+0x9e1) [0x4078b1] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f34fbde9c4d] -> dsync() [0x406cf9] This is on a RUNNNING server. My aim was to make some pass on the running server, then stop it and make a last pass to finish the process. Is dsync supposed to run only on a stopped server ? Is my approach totally wrong ? -- Yann Dupont - Service IRTS, DSI Université de Nantes Tel : 02.53.48.49.20 - Mail/Jabber : Yann.Dupont(a)univ-nantes.fr

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[Dovecot] sql dict: commit failed: MySQL server has gone away
by Mark Zealey 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Following on from this thread: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-September/052704.html <https://owa2010.webfusion.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=a447887e3d204944a8c766142df4…> in 2.0.16 I am seeing the same issues. I believe this would be related to some timeouts set on our mysql servers which are pretty low (30 or 60 seconds or so to drop idle connections). This is happening for imap, pop and lmtp processes when they try to update quotas stored in a mysql database; presumably it is the dict process that actually has these issues - the lmtp delivery isn't lasting longer than 1 second so shouldn't be seeing any timeouts there. This is always followed by the "Error: dict quota: Quota update failed, it's now desynced" line; presumably it is telling the truth but I'm not sure how I could tell. We are also seeing this "MySQL server has gone away" issue in login processes but it isn't causing an issue there as presumably dovecot transparently retries rather than just giving up as it seems to in the quota updates. Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated. Mark

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[Dovecot] Assertion failure in 2.0.16 - SEARCH ()
by Daniel Colascione 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nov 25 22:25:39 dancol dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 25115 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Nov 25 22:25:59 dancol dovecot: imap(dancol): Panic: file mail-search-build.c: line 59 (mail_search_build_key_int): assertion failed: (sarg->value.subargs != NULL) Nov 25 22:25:59 dancol dovecot: imap(dancol): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3d291) [0xb7636291] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3d2ff) [0xb76362ff] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0xb760bb7a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x24109) [0xb7692109] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x24177) [0xb7692177] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_search_build+0x82) [0xb7692242] - -> dovecot/imap [dancol 127.0.0.1 SEARCH](imap_search_args_build+0x4a) [0x805db5a] -> dovecot/imap [dancol 127.0.0.1 SEARCH](cmd_search+0xbf) [0x80537ef] -> dovecot/imap [dancol 127.0.0.1 SEARCH]() [0x80568cc] -> dovecot/imap [dancol 127.0.0.1 SEARCH]() [0x80569a2] -> dovecot/imap [dancol 127.0.0.1 SEARCH](client_handle_input+0x175) [0x8056c25] -> dovecot/imap [dancol 127.0.0.1 SEARCH](client_input+0x5f) [0x80574cf] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x51) [0xb76430d1] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xd3) [0xb7644193] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x40) [0xb7643050] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x2a) [0xb762ec1a] -> dovecot/imap [dancol 127.0.0.1 SEARCH](main+0x315) [0x805fef5] -> /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb74b6c76] -> dovecot/imap [dancol 127.0.0.1 SEARCH]() [0x804eb81] $ telnet localhost imap Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. . LOGIN dancol XXXXXXXX . OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in . SELECT rss * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 8 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1322264663] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 11] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] Highest . OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. . SEARCH () Connection closed by foreign host. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAk7QiNcACgkQ17c2LVA10VvhHACgihmbmTjVNl/PbKcreIDRTKpC 5wkAoJd9FHXM4GhPfnVUjwrpdsqnVQ6E =RlpQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] POP3/IMAP crash signal 10
by Patrick Wood 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hi, I'm building a Postfix/Dovecot mail server and while I am able to send/receive emails using telnet, after establishing a connection to Dovecot via a client (Mail Live, Thunderbird etc) the following appears in the logs: Nov 28 14:11:02 mailserver dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] pop3-login: Login: user=<user(a)domain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, mpid=282 78 Nov 28 14:11:02 mailserver dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] master: Error: service(pop3-login): child 28277 killed with signal 10 (core not dumped - set service pop3-log in { drop_priv_before_exec=yes }) Nov 28 14:11:02 mailserver dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] pop3(user(a)domain.com): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/5, size=3250 I also experience very poor connectivity to the server, with Microsoft Mail and Thunderbird regularly failing to connect (connection errors in the client and no login attempt in the dovecot logs). I assume this is related to the issue above. I am running dovecot 2.0.16 on Solaris 10 SPARC using a ZFS filesystem for mailbox storage. Here is my configuration: # 2.0.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4u zfs auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:/storage0/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_plugins = quota passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=1G } postmaster_address = root(a)domain.com sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota quota imap_quota } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } I'm tearing my hair out! Hopefully someone can see something I'm missing

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[Dovecot] Questions about Proxy/Director (was: Re: Indexes to MLC-SSD)
by Patrick Westenberg 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Jan-Frode Myklebust schrieb: > Yes, and in ascii-art this becomes :-) > > MTA -(lmtp)--> dovecot-director ---(lmtp)---> backend-server1 > \---(lmtp)---> backend-server2 > > > IMAP-user -(imap)--> dovecot-director --(imap) --> backend-server1 > \--(imap) --> backend-server2 I failed creating a nice ascii view ;-) However, I have some more questions: - What happens if the MTA accepted a message but the backend-server fails and is unable to store it? - What about load-balancing and/or failover? Maybe all users on backend-server1 are fetching their mails causing high load while backend-server2 is idle. Is it possible to specify more than one backend-server IPs as I can do for the database hosts for userdb queries?

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