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[Dovecot] pam authentication error
by Oliver Berse 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Hi all, I compiled Dovecot 1.2.16 (on Debian 5/lenny) and followed the quick configuration guide (wiki.dovecot.org/QuickConfiguration) I just need plaintext authentication. After starting Dovecot I get "Last died with error" and in var/log/mail.err: Nov 23 15:06:55 debian dovecot: auth(default): Fatal: Support not compiled in for passdb driver 'pam' Nov 23 15:06:55 debian dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down In /etc/pam.d/dovecot: auth required pam_unix.so account required pam_unix.so In /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf: passdb pam { args = * } So, what may be wrong with my configuration? Oliver

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[Dovecot] Trying to populate dovecot with outlook contacts
by Spyros Tsiolis 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Duh ! Wrong list. Apologies to all and many thanks for the people who rushed to explain. spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] Namespace help
by Joy 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Dear All, I am currently using courier-imap which uses INBOX. namespace configuration now i am willing to use dovecot instead of courier-imap but without INBOX. namespace configuration means default namespace of dovecot which helps me to sort out no of mail client issues as well. I know that i can change the default namespace configuation of dovecot to work with courier-imap namespace but not willing to do that so suggest me something which can help me doing the same. Is it possible using postlogin script or something else ? Thanks Regards Piyush Joshi

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[Dovecot] multiple IMAP ports, each announcing different capabilities
by Clemens Schrimpe 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Hello - is it syntacticly possible to define different "imap_capability" settings per each inet-listener? I might have to provide a service through a caching proxy sitting in front of dovecot, which might involve restrictions re: the announced imap capabilities. Any hint is highly appreciated! Greetings, Clemens

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[Dovecot] "list" ACL privilege ignored for LSUB command?
by Willie Gillespie 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hello, I am new to this list, so feel free to correct me if I do something wrong. I don't have a problem, just a question. The RFC which covers IMAP ACLs [1] states that one of the standard rights is: l - lookup (mailbox is visible to LIST/LSUB commands, SUBSCRIBE mailbox) If I have a shared or public namespace and have a mailbox for which I do not have lookup rights, Dovecot seems to do great with the LIST commands at not showing it to me. Two things I noticed though: SUBSCRIBE-ing to the mailbox is still successful LSUB will list mailboxes which I do not have lookup rights to I imagine the first issue is easy enough to correct since it's just another check before actually subscribing. The second issue seems a little more difficult in my mind since Dovecot seems to just dump the subscription files to the client without checking whether the mailbox is allowed or not. I imagine a similar issue popped up with the LIST command and that's why the dovecot-acl-list files exist. Anyway, am I right in my observations, or am I completely overlooking something obvious? Thanks! Willie [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4314#section-2.1 Dovecot's wiki also indicates support for this in http://wiki1.dovecot.org/ACL#ACL_files I'm using version 1.2.9 with the acl and imap_acl mail_plugins in case that matters.

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[Dovecot] Soft Quota for moving messages
by Tim Traver 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi all, ok, I have an account that is over quota, but they are unable to move things to the trash, because the system is giving an error because of course it is over quota. Is there a quota setting that will let them move things to the trash without error? this of course would be so they could decrease their disk usage and become under quota again... Thanks, Tim.

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[Dovecot] Workaround for evolution?
by Axel Thimm 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi, evolution has a bug when it comes to closing and IDLE' connection: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628515 evolution does not send a DONE command, and dovecot properly answers with an error. evolution ignores this and seems to wait on another response. Timo, do you think there could be a setting for tolerating missing DONEs? Thanks! -- http://thimm.gr/ - http://ATrpms.net/

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[Dovecot] What is that error all about: "Timeout leak: 0x4bd230"
by Christian Rohmann 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hey dovecot-users, we are running dovecot 1.2.15 and are seeing some odd errors in our logfiles: --- dovecot.log --- 2010-11-22 12:34:56 imapserver local2.warning dovecot dovecot: IMAP(username(a)domain.tld): Timeout leak: 0x4bd230 --- /dovecot.log --- Those errors only appear if connections are done using IMAP (via Horde's IMP Webmail). With POP3 we don't see any of those errors. We actually don't see anything in general being broken or wrong (no errors on the webmail machines, no user complaints), but these errors are constantly being logged. Where would one start to look for the cause? Thanks for your help, Regards Christian

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[Dovecot] Confused about Maildir
by Glen Lee Edwards 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

I'm trying to configure Dovecot 2.0.7. In the Dovecot Wiki for Maildirs it says that Maildirs are almost always located in ~/Maildir. I'm a Linux end user, not a programmer, so I may be wrong in this; but isn't the notation "~/" used for system users only to reference their home page; /home/<user>? If that's the case, then does that mean that Maildirs can only be used with system users and not with vmail accounts? Glen

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[Dovecot] dsync mbox->mdbox II: highest_modseq changed
by Axel Thimm 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Hi again, after replacing CRLF in 4 mboxes dsync was able to sync all of the 30+GB mailstore to mdbox. Now the (repeated) calling of dsync yields info messages of the kind dsync(athimm): Info: old/speicher: highest_modseq changed: 1 != 10 dsync(athimm): Info: root/root-heretic: highest_modseq changed: 1 != 10 dsync(athimm): Info: lists/ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma: highest_modseq changed: 11 != 14 I actually have 987 such messages for a total of 1115 mboxes. I checked a couple of them to see whether this is a CRLF issue and found no CRLF, so it's probably something different. As long as the mboxes were still being delivered to or read from I thought it was normal, but I'd like to see a silent dsync which would give me more confidence in the migration process. So I kept from delivering to the mbox store as well as reading from it and performed multiple dsyncs. The output of dsync became stable, e.g. the "highest_modseq changed" messages were exactly the same. Before nuking all indexes from the mbox storage and the mdbox itself and then repeating the whole process (which does take a long time), I wanted to know whether I should debug something. Thanks! -- http://thimm.gr/ - http://ATrpms.net/

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[Dovecot] 2.0 hg build failing...
by Ralf Hildebrandt 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

>From the make output: libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wl,--as-needed -o .libs/auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o mech-otp-skey-common.o mech-plain-common.o auth-penalty.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-settings.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-checkpassword.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-external.o mech-gssapi.o mech-ntlm.o mech-otp.o mech-skey.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o mech-winbind.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-sia.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o passdb-static.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-checkpassword.o userdb-nss.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o db-ldap.o passdb-ldap.o userdb-ldap.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-otp/libotp.a ../../src/lib-sql/.libs/libsql.a ../../src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so -lcrypt -lpam -ldl -lrt -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/dovecot-2/lib/dovecot auth-penalty.o: In function auth_penalty_anvil_callback': /usr/src/dovecot-2.0/dovecot-2.0/src/auth/auth-penalty.c:73: undefined reference to anvil_client_is_connected' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [auth] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory /usr/src/dovecot-2.0/dovecot-2.0/src/auth' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/src/dovecot-2.0/dovecot-2.0/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/dovecot-2.0/dovecot-2.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 -- 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] Doveadm
by Alex Baule 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Tks timo! I will take a look in this socket to use it with my schedule. Em 18/11/2010 16:48, "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi>escreveu: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:21 -0200, Alex Baule wrote: > I will create a schedule to expurge older ema... Yes, in that case the dates are looked up from dovecot.index.cache files. > Maybe i will create a application that makes a pipe to doveadm and call it > to do the job. BTW. It's possible to talk to doveadm server as well via unix/tcp sockets. By default there is $base_dir/doveadm-server unix socket.

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[Dovecot] lda sieve error using global after sieve script
by Tim Traver 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Hi all, ok, so I've implemented an after sieve script with the following line in the plugins area : sieve_after = /home/mailboxes/sieve/to_spam_folder.sieve It seems to work ok on some accounts, but then I'm getting the following error in the deliver error log for many accounts : Error: sieve: script /home/mailboxes/sieve/to_spam_folder.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep here is the script : require ["fileinto"]; # rule:[Spam and Virus Tag] if anyof (header :contains "Subject" "[VIRUS-TAG]", header :contains "Subject" "[SPAM-TAG]") { fileinto "Spam"; stop; } which is a very basic script that files stuff into the spam folder. I've checked some of the accounts, and the folder is there, and all appears to be ok... I'm not sure if its a compiling error or something, and I'm not sure if that error message means the message didn't even get delivered anywhere. it sounds like it gets discarded...does it? any help would be appreciated. here is my dovecot -n : [root@mda1 /local/logs]# dovecot -n # 2.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE i386 auth_username_format = %Lu auth_username_translation = %@ auth_verbose = yes dotlock_use_excl = yes first_valid_uid = 100 listen = * lock_method = dotlock log_path = /local/logs/dovecot.errors mail_fsync = always mail_gid = 100 mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_uid = 100 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 mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /bin/checkpassword_dovecot_auth driver = checkpassword } plugin { quota = maildir sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /home/mailboxes/sieve/to_spam_folder.sieve sieve_dir = ~/Maildir/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags } protocols = none quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = sn mode = 0600 user = sn } } ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /bin/checkpassword_dovecot_deliver driver = checkpassword } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lda { info_log_path = /local/logs/dovecot-deliver.log log_path = /local/logs/dovecot-deliver-errors.log mail_plugins = quota sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol sieve { managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;ascii-numeric fileinto reject vacation imapflags notify include envelope body relational regex subaddress copy } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh }

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[Dovecot] version_ignore=yes
by interfaSys sàrl 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hello, When upgrading Dovecot, I get this: Dovecot version mismatch: Master is v2.0.6, imap-login is v2.0.7 (if you don't care, set version_ignore=yes) This should not occur as version_ignore=yes is in dovecot.conf, at the top. Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] Question about mbox_snarf and dovecot2.0
by Jonathan Siegle 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hello, I'm running revision 10622:de9d6dae7fe5 on AIX 5.3 with some local mods for our inbox hash function. I'm having a problem doing a "select inbox" when I use the mbox_snarf plugin. When I run truss on the process I see the following stat calls: 614528: kread(9, " 1 s e l e c t i n b".., 4096) = 15 614528: statx("/gpfs/inbox/14/tstem38", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFF2F8, 176, 0) = 0 614528: statx("/gpfs/users/t/s/tstem38/IMAP//gpfs/inbox/14/.imap/tstem38", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFED98, 176, 0) Err#2 ENOENT 614528: statx("/gpfs/users/t/s/tstem38/IMAP//gpfs/inbox/14/tstem38", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFEDD8, 176, 0) Err#2 ENOENT 614528: statx("/gpfs/users/t/s/tstem38/IMAP", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFEC88, 176, 0) = 0 614528: statx("/gpfs/users/t/s/tstem38/IMAP//gpfs/inbox/14/tstem38", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFEDD8, 176, 0) Err#2 ENOENT 614528: statx("/gpfs/users/t/s/tstem38/IMAP", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFEC88, 176, 0) = 0 and the client gets: 1 NO [CANNOT] Invalid mailbox name For pathing I have: plugin.conf: mbox_snarf = /gpfs/inbox/%Ju/%u and mail.conf:mail_location = mbox:%h:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%Ju/%u I verified that not using the mbox_snarf works just fine. I have no namespaces enabled. Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and user's quota
by oriol llistes 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi, We are planning to use Dovecot-2.0.5 (Maildir format) as IMAP server. Currently, we are using Postfix+UW-Imap (mbox format) with the following configuration: - Postfix: Sends new messages to /var/mail/user - UW-IMAP: Reads mails from /var/mail/user and moves them to ~/nsmail/mbox Using that configuration, when a user overtakes his HOME’s quota, the MTA is still able to send new messages to the user, although he cannot read it until he frees HOME space. Can we configure Dovecot to work in the same way? I mean… 1)Postfix must use /var/mail partition for new mails. 2)Dovecot must move these mails to user’s HOME. 3)User’s HOME must be in Maildir format. If that is not possible, how can we achieve an equivalent solution? Thanks in advance. Oriol.

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[Dovecot] Doveadm
by Alex Baule 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

How doveadm purge a email ? It's search using the index or scan every directory and open the email to match the search criteria ?

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[Dovecot] problems with folders in another server (2nd. issue)
by Jose Luis Faria 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hello ppl, we are using two servers, with dovecot 2.0.5, Sx and Sy, with: cat dovecot-ldap-ext: ... pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,=y=proxy,mailHost=host ... When I access server Sx via IMAP I see all my folders. When I access server Sy via IMAP it do not proxy to Sx. I want to see my IMAP folders independently of the server. any help? -- :) cumprimentos ---------------------- José Luís Faria Network Eng./Administrador de Sistemas Departamento de Informática Universidade do Minho Braga, Portugal

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[Dovecot] dovecot with Active Directory problem
by marie ot 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hello, I am using dovecot-2.0.6 with NetBSD amd64. Active Directory is used as an authentication server. (Windows Server 2008 R2) However, the message of "Operations error" was displayed first and it did not move. It solved it by understanding that this is because the authority of the user who used it for bind was insufficient, and adding to "Account Operators" group. # Though it is not the best. The error "Error: re_encode_request new request is" occurs, and it doesn't operate still as follows. Postfix operates though connects with LDAP. The following are samples. ------------------------ # Active Directory Server settings domain = example.com server_host = ldap://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:389 search_base = dc=example, dc=com version = 3 timeout = 30 # Active Directory Searcher settings bind = yes bind_dn = cn=Mail Administrator, cn=Users, dc=example, dc=com bind_pw = ********* # Filter Query query_filter = (&(&(objectCategory=person)(|(mail=%s)(userPrincipalName=%s)))(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))) result_attribute = userPrincipalName result_filter = %s/ chase_referrals = no ------------------------ The packet was done with wireshark by using this definition and a capture doing and a similar test were done to dovecot. It is a setting of dovecot. ------------------------ hosts = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:389 dn = cn=Mail Administrator, cn=Users, dc=example, dc=com dnpass = ********* auth_bind = no ldap_version = 3 base = dc=example, dc=com user_attrs = unixHomeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid user_filter = (&(&(objectCategory=person)(userPrincipalName=%u))(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))) pass_attrs = userPrincipalName=user,unixUserPassword=password pass_filter = (&(&(objectCategory=person)(userPrincipalName=%u))(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))) iterate_attrs = userPrincipalName=user iterate_filter = (&(objectCategory=person)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))) default_pass_scheme = MD5 ------------------------ # Schema of LDAP is matched to Windows Services for UNIX, # and the password is made a hush with MD5. Both dovecot and postfix the first "bindRequest" was quite the same demand and the results. Next, dovecot demanded query of "userPrincipalName" and "unixUserPassword". It seems to be ok for the result. # This fails if it doesn't add to "Account Operators" group. However, "name" and "simple" were issued by the blank (anonymously?) as for the following next demand (bindRequest). In addition, query of "userPrincipalName" and "unixUserPassword" is issued to "cn=Configuration, dc=example, dc=com" afterwards. And, "Operations Error" is returned because of this. Error description in LDAP packet: ------------------------ errorMessage: 000004DC: LdapErr: DSID-0C0906DC, comment: In order to perform this operation a successful bind must be completed on the connection., data 0, v1db0 ------------------------ Because LDAP is unprofessional, it has not understood though the source code was seen. Do you serve as a reference? Thanks powerful codes.

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[Dovecot] problems with folders in another server
by Jose Luis Faria 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hello ppl, we are using two servers, with dovecot 2.0.5, Sx and Sy, with: cat dovecot-ldap-ext: ... pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,=y=proxy,mailHost=host ... When I access server Sx via IMAP I see all my folders. When I access server Sy via IMAP I only see the INBOX. I want to see my IMAP folders independently of the server. any help? -- :) cumprimentos ---------------------- José Luís Faria Network Eng./Administrador de Sistemas Departamento de Informática Universidade do Minho Braga, Portugal

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[Dovecot] Multiple MYSQL hosts as passdb backend
by moody_cz 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hello, I use mysql as passdb backend for my dovecot 2.0.6 installation. I have 2 mysql 5.0.77 servers with master/slave replication enabled. My goal is to ensure dovecot's ability to provide its services even when one of the mysql hosts are unavailable. Here is my passdb backend conf: passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/mysql.conf } and mysql.conf: default_pass_scheme = PLAIN driver = mysql connect = host=10.0.0.3 host=10.0.0.4 dbname=some_database user=some_user password=some_password password_query = some_query Everything works fine as long as 10.0.0.3 is up and running. However, when I shutdown mysql server on 10.0.0.3, dovecot won't even try the other host 10.0.0.4 as it is told to do in the conf. My dovecot verbose log says: Nov 16 14:29:24 auth: Error: mysql: Query failed, retrying: MySQL server has gone away Nov 16 14:29:24 auth: Error: mysql: Connect failed to 10.0.0.3 (some_database): Can't connect to MySQL server on '10.0.0.3' (111) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry Nov 16 14:30:28 auth-worker: Error: mysql: Query timed out (no free connections for 64 secs): some_sql_query Nov 16 14:30:28 auth-worker: Error: sql(mail_user,127.0.0.1): Password query failed: Not connected to database Nov 16 14:30:28 auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Lookup timed out Nov 16 14:30:28 auth: Error: mysql: Connect failed to 10.0.0.3 (some_database): Can't connect to MySQL server on '10.0.0.3' (111) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry Nov 16 14:31:33 pop3-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<mail_user>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured What am I doing wrong? Thanks for reply in advance. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Multiple-MYSQL-hosts-as-passdb-backend-tp30234196p302… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] Debian package init scripts
by Jan Behrend 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Dearest list, I am using dovecot with heartbeat-2 and I noticed that the init scripts in the Debian packages from http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ do not conform to the LSB standard: http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.1/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-gener… E.g. the return code for "program is not running" is not 3. Is there is special reason for this? Cheers Jan -- MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT fuer Radioastronomie Jan Behrend - Rechenzentrum ---------------------------------------- Auf dem Huegel 69, D-53121 Bonn Tel: +49 (228) 525 359, Fax: +49 (228) 525 229 jbehrend(a)mpifr-bonn.mpg.de http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

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[Dovecot] add basic systemd support to dovecot
by Christophe Fergeau 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi all, In the last days, I've been trying to add support for systemd[1] socket activation to dovecot. The basic idea is that systemd takes care of opening the sockets needed by dovecot to communicate with external processes, and when a connection happens on one of these sockets, systemd spawns dovecot, and then dovecot uses these sockets instead of creating its own sockets. The main reason why I hacked on this was that I wanted to get on-demand startup of dovecot on my home box. WIth the patch attached to this email, I'm now able to do that. The patch includes a dovecot.socket file which should be seen as a sample file, however I'm not sure what is the best way to handle this file (systemd uses it to know which sockets dovecot needs). What I wanted to ask the list for now is if such a patch is wanted, and to get feedback on how things are done in it, and what should be improved in it. [2] and [3] might be useful reading while looking at the patch. Thanks in advance for the feedback! Christophe [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd [2] http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/daemon.html [3] http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/sd-daemon.html

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[Dovecot] Ongoing performance issues with 2.0.x
by Ralf Hildebrandt 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Due to the ongoing performance issues with 2.0.x I switched back to 1.2.15 yesterday evening, with no changes to the machine or my users. (I migrated from 1.2.15 to 2.0.x by converting the existing config) Today, we have MUCH LESS load, with the same number of logins/min. I cannot say what exactly causes this immense increase in load, but one observation is that the time spent in system() has now dropped (user and iowait have stayed contant) to a third of the values I was seeing with 2.0.x. This evening I'll post some graphs showing two comparable 24 hour ranges. -- 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] \Noselect eliciting bug?
by David Ford 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Timo, examine these two simplified sets if you will. This, is a properly working $inbox folder: d /home/david/.maildir /home/david/.maildir/dovecot.* d /home/david/.maildir/cur d /home/david/.maildir/new d /home/david/.maildir/tmp /home/david/.maildir/subscriptions This one is not, $inbox becomes \Noselect: d /home/david/.maildir /home/david/.any-file /home/david/.maildir/dovecot.* d /home/david/.maildir/cur d /home/david/.maildir/new d /home/david/.maildir/tmp /home/david/.maildir/subscriptions i can make directories willy nilly starting with a dot, but a -file- starting with a dot breaks my mailbox. it doesn't affect any other folder, just $inbox 2.0.6

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[Dovecot] Recommended quota backend for a virtual users setup using ldap and sdbox
by Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Just that, wich is the recommended quota backend for sdbox in terms of performance and flexibility running a setup of virtual users with ldap??... thank's in advance...

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[Dovecot] child 23925 killed with signal 6
by Jan Behrend 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Dearest list, just now I migrated a pine user to dovecot. Nothing special so far, but then I saw this in my syslog and the user reported, that he got this error message: MAIL FOLDER "INBOX" CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR Obviously this problem is related to his local filter rules: If commented out everything works like a charm. The corresponding filter rule looks for a "From"-Line in the email header but the filter string itself is empty. I know this filter rule does not make a lot of sense, but nevertheless it shouldn't crash the imap process. If there is any additional information you need please ask. --- snip --- Nov 16 11:25:07 imap-mgt dovecot: imap(username): Panic: file istream-header-filter.c: line 520 (i_stream_create_header_filter): assertion failed: (ret < 0) Nov 16 11:25:07 imap-mgt dovecot: imap(username): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3e81b) [0x7f82a3bc381b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3e876) [0x7f82a3bc3876] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f82a3b9dacf] -> /usr/lib/do vecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_stream_create_header_filter+0x27b) [0x7f82a3babf9b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_get_header_stream+0x154) [0x7f82a3e4cf04] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_search_next_nonblock+0x530) [0x7f82a3e4e7 e0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_search_next_nonblock+0x20) [0x7f82a3e36630] -> dovecot/imap() [0x416284] -> dovecot/imap(imap_search_start+0x106) [0x4166f6] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_search+0xc5) [0x40d535] -> dovecot/imap() [0x41032d] -> dovecot/imap() [0x41040d] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x135) [0x410635] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x410f5f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xb5) [0x7f82a3bcf205] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x7f82a3bce338] -> /usr/lib /dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f82a3bbd0e3] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x2d1) [0x418f91] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f82a3436c4d] -> dovecot/imap() [0x408c39] Nov 16 11:25:07 imap-mgt dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 23925 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped) --- snip --- doveconf -n: # 2.0.7 (3aced5ececd7): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.6 xfs auth_gssapi_hostname = imap.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de auth_mechanisms = plain login gssapi auth_verbose = yes listen = 134.104.18.77 mail_gid = 40000 mail_location = mdbox:/var/mail/%Ln mail_uid = 40000 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 namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-passdb.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /home/global-after.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 134.104.18.77 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 134.104.18.77 port = 4190 } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/imap-server.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/imap-server.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " sieve" } protocol imap { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/imap-server.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/imap-server.key } protocol pop3 { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/pop3-server.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/imap-server.key } -- MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT fuer Radioastronomie Jan Behrend - Rechenzentrum ---------------------------------------- Auf dem Huegel 69, D-53121 Bonn Tel: +49 (228) 525 359, Fax: +49 (228) 525 229 jbehrend(a)mpifr-bonn.mpg.de http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

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[Dovecot] local users and virtual users
by Egbert Jan van den Bussche 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi list, I'm facing this problem: I have a e few local (system) users and a bunch of virtual users (in MySQL). To make it easy for the big group, I've set a default domain which is not the domain of the server (which is just the servername). So the big group logs in with there short name without @<domain>. BUT the few system users (in passwd) cannot login to pop or imap because they get the non-local domain attached and cannot be found in the mysql db but they cannot be found in passdb either with their long name. The same applies when system users give their longname with the local domain which IS the localname of the server. This name is not in mysql nor passdb either. Is there a way to find local users in passdb when the come in with a long name? Do I need another passwd like file (i hope not...) Recap: local Domain is :mail-dev.hobby.nl default domain added bij dovecot is kader.hcc.nl kader users are found in mysql regardless if they give @kader.hcc.nl or not (then it is added) system user are never found since longname is not in mysql nor in passdb. dovecot -n: root@mail-dev:/etc/dovecot# dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-25-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS log_path: /var/log/dovecot/error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap pop3 imaps pop3s managesieve listen: *, [::] ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-mail.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-mail.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes 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_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_max_userip_connections(default): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 3 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 200 mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes dotlock_use_excl: no mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes 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_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): convert autocreate mail_plugins(imap): convert autocreate mail_plugins(pop3): convert autocreate mail_plugins(managesieve): 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 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(managesieve): lda: postmaster_address: postmaster deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ rejection_reason: Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login realms: kader.hcc.nl hobby.nl default_realm: kader.hcc.nl cache_size: 1024 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam args: failure_show_msg=yes cache_key=%u dovecot passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd args: mail=maildir:~/Maildir userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: convert_mail: mbox:/disk/mail/convert/%n autocreate: Trash autocreate2: Sent autocreate3: Drafts autocreate4: Spam autosubscribe: Trash autosubscribe2: Sent autosubscribe3: Drafts autosubscribe4: Spam Pse help. TIA! Egbert Jan

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + vpopmail + shared folders
by qmail＠top-consulting.net 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

I'm using dovecot 1.2.14 with vpopmail. I've enabled shared folders and the default setup was not working. The default setup being this line: location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u Going through the Archives I saw a message from Timo that said to apply a patch and use this line instead: location = maildir:/usr/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u It seems like the patch is already existing in version 1.2.14 and that line works well for shared folders for domains directly under /usr/home/vpopmail/domains. However, with vpopmail after a certain number of domains, it starts putting them in /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/A, ..domains/B, etc. Shared folders do not work for those domains since my location line is forcing it to look directly in /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/xyz.com instead of /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/A/xyz.com Any workaround this ? How come we can't use %h or ~/ directly ?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot ldap connection reconnecting after inactivity
by Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi people, I have a setup configured using ldap, I have noticed that after a period of user inactivity if a client open connections to dovecot first attemps fails with this: Nov 16 19:34:43 cl05-02 dovecot: auth: Error: ldap(user(a)xxx.xx.xx,172.29.13.26): Connection appears to be hanging, reconnecting After the connections to ldap has been restablished everything starts working ok, is this a expected behavior or I'm missing something?? Best regards

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[Dovecot] dovecot-antispam-plugin for dovecot-2.0
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

I'm migrating a customized dovecot-antispam-plugin from dovecot-antispam-plugn-1.3 which doesn't run in dovecot-2.0 Are any body using dovecot-antispam-plugin adapted to 2.0 from mercurial on a production system? This is the adapted version to dovecot 2.0 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-antispam-plugin/

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[Dovecot] 2.0.7: emails read emails become unread
by Kádár Tamás (KTamas) 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi My users are reporting that in public folders, emails that were past read suddenly got unread, sometimes even after marking them as read again. Didn't have such problems with 2.0.6 I think. My dovecot -n: # 2.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.6 auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = acl maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/home/_shared/projects:INDEX=~/Maildir/_shared prefix = shared. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename flag_change append mail_log_fields = uid box msgid from subject size vsize flags mail_log_group_events = yes } protocols = imap pop3 service imap { executable = imap } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 40 mail_plugins = acl imap_acl }

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.7 (8793036f6de8) seems to miss some defaults for vsz_limit
by Thomas Leuxner 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Latest Mercurial seems to miss defaults for some services e.g. 'managesieve' and 'lmtp'. Example error message upon start: dovecotdoveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: service(managesieve-login): vsz_limit is too low failed! Regards Thomas

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Re: [Dovecot] Mail history function?
by Jakob Curdes 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Please keep replies to the list so that others can participate. > I sugest the notify, because the admin can know if a user open a > email, copy to another folder, delete the email....etc. > > but using the MTA it can be a solution too. > At least in Germany, doing this is quite risky as this gives lots of information about the person. German law limits the use of profiles like these quite strictly; in general an employer has no business to log all these actions generally. This does not mean it can be helpful for diagnosing problems, but I would not recommend to do so as a general procedure. On the other hands, it is a de-facto requirement today that you can trace every communiction that has entered the company. The only place where you can do this without potentiall missing some messages is the MTA. This is why all the archival tools want to couple to the MTA... JC

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[Dovecot] mailboxes and IMAP folders mirroring ?
by Frank Bonnet 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hello This is a bit off Dovecot but ... I'm searching some software to mirror mailboxes and IMAP forlders from the mailhub to another (clone) computer. Actually I use rsync daily but I wonder if it exists some software that are real time mirroring capable ? I'm using Dovecot 1.2.14 and Postfix with MBOX format. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Mail history function?
by Oliver Berse 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

I'm a newbie at Dovecot. For a company groupware I need a kind of a history function for mails to see which user sent which mail to whom / got which mail from whom. So I have to get the message ID of in- and outgoing mails (and write related data to a mysql database). My first idea was to monitor the log file with a daemon and search for strings like "deliver(x(a)y.z): 2010-11-15 17:34:56 Info: msgid=<AANLkTikoRgUiEg2KgUW2gLmULD4TX-bPst4yhUbuHoEH(a)a.b>". I'm not sure if this is the right approach. Does anyone know a better solution with Dovecot? thanks, Oliver

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[Dovecot] qmail + dovecot-lda
by ckubu 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

hallo, i am changing my mailsetups to qmail+vpopmail+dovecot. is it possible to let dovecot's lda deliver mail into mailboxes but also deliver mails to forward-addresses in .qmail-files, if exists? b.t.w. i know, its not an dovecot issue, but maybe anyone knows: i have setup defaultdelivery in qmail-control directory, but vadddomain ignors it. is there a way to make that entry the default for .qmail-default files? thanks christoph

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[Dovecot] Single-instance storage Thank You
by Daniel L. Miller 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Timo, On following my previous thread that went somewhat off-topic, I noticed - or rather failed to notice - any response from you. This leaves me to draw one of the following conclusions: 1. You didn't see it. 2. You ignored it. 3. You saw it, took offense, and disregarded it. 4. You saw it, accepted the compliment for what it was - and didn't bother to respond. On the chance any of options 1-3 apply - please allow me to state as clearly as possible: your creation, that of Dovecot in general, and single-instance mdbox storage in particular, have significantly contributed to my own ease of system administration - and I offer my sincere thanks and admiration. -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Help - custom vpopmail
by Rick Romero 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Hi, First, I'm not sure if dovecot should alter this, but it seems vpopmail writes the IP into the 'remote_ip' field instead of the auth type. Dovecot still writes the auth type. I want both. So I modified my vpopmail install to write an additional field into the lastauth table. My custom vpopmail writes the remote IP into remote_ip, and the auth type into a 'type' field. I tested with qmail's POP3 daemon to verify vchkpw would fill the table correcly. But I'm not sure how to get dovecot to do it: I know this is close, but there is something not right in src/auth/userdb-vpopmail.c line 99. vset_lastauth(vpop_user, vpop_domain, &auth_request->remote_ip, t_strdup_noconst(auth_request->service)); I'm, by far, NOT a C programmer - Feel free to laugh at my code publicly :) Thanks, Rick

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[Dovecot] v2.0.7 released
by Timo Sirainen 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.7.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.7.tar.gz.sig * master: default_process_limit wasn't actually used anywhere, rather the default was unlimited. Now that it is enforced, you might notice that the default limit is too low and you need to increase it. Dovecot logs a warning when this happens. * mail-log plugin: Log mailbox name as virtual name rather than physical name (e.g. namespace prefix is included in the name) + doveadm dump: Added imapzlib type to uncompress IMAP's COMPRESS DEFLATE I/O traffic (e.g. from rawlog). - IMAP: Fixed LIST-STATUS when listing subscriptions with subscriptions=no namespaces. - IMAP: Fixed SELECT QRESYNC not to crash on mailbox close if a lot of changes were being sent. - quota: Don't count virtual mailboxes in quota - doveadm expunge didn't always actually do the physical expunging - Fixed some index reading optimizations introduced by v2.0.5. - LMTP proxying fixes

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[Dovecot] auth-worker ownership issue
by Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I installed 2.0.7 this evening and I'm getting these messages in /var/log/maillog : Nov 8 23:36:53 myserver dovecot: auth: Fatal: net_connect_unix(auth-worker) in directory /var/run/dovecot failed: Permission denied (euid=89(vpopmail) egid=89(vchkpw) missing +r perm: auth-worker, euid is not dir owner) Nov 8 23:36:53 myserver dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling If I change the ownership of /var/run/dovecot/auth-worker to vpopmail, dovecot starts working properly. However, restarting the service results in this file being re-owned by dovecot. Am I missing a config option somewhere? I'm using dovecot with qmail and vpopmail 5.4.32. Thanks, - --------------------------- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold xenophage(a)godshell.com - --------------------------- "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology." - - Niven's Inverse of Clarke's Third Law -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkzY1OUACgkQ8CjzPZyTUTQVtQCgi3E0N9IL/kBdT59p0CxpU11u 5YMAoIA+2338GzFkRDt8ymusl73tJM07 =cVkA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Virtual Folder by user.
by Henrique Fernandes 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Can i only set a virtual folder for especific users ? dovecot 2.0.6. Thanks! []'sf.rique

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[Dovecot] REpeated POP3 mail
by The Doctor 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

I know I have brought this up before. Question: How can one debug the pop3 process from repeated e-mail ? -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor(a)nl2k.ab.ca God, Queen and country! Never Satan President Republic! Beware AntiChrist rising! http://twitter.com/rootnl2k http://www.facebook.com/dyadallee Lest we Forget!!

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[Dovecot] dsync mbox->mdbox: Unexpectedly lost From-line and other issues from a big conversion.
by Axel Thimm 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Hi, I'm trying to convert a 33GB mail store from mbox to compressed mdbox (largest mbox is 2.7GB). The source store is live, e.g. there are mails delivered into it and mails are being read. Actually it is my own mail. :) Although my test runs were very successful I have run into trouble with the first run on the whole store. After fighting a bit around with errors like Error: Trying to open a non-listed mailbox with guid=f59c5b31b8f3df4c70180000e7dd553b I did several reruns in case these errors would be fixed on the next iteration, but my mdbox storage wasn't growing anymore. I decided to restart after removing all old index files from the source store in case I had some corruption somewhere. Since on mbox/maildir index files are completely recreatable this would just slow down thing at the worst. Indeed many of the errors went away, and I managed to convert about 10-20%, but then I hit another array of errors that would persist even after restarting: > $ grep -v Info: dsync2.log.old* > dsync2.log.old1:dsync(user): Error: Next message unexpectedly lost from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-devel at 58706201 (cached) > dsync2.log.old1:dsync(user): Error: read(msg input) failed: Invalid argument > dsync2.log.old1:dsync(user): Error: Next message unexpectedly lost from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/gnupg.org/gnupg-users at 6507197 (cached) > dsync2.log.old1:dsync(user): Error: Unexpectedly lost From-line from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/gnupg.org/gnupg-users at 6486645 > dsync2.log.old2:dsync(user): Error: mdbox /home/user/mdbox/mailboxes/lists/mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-devel/dbox-Mails: map uid lost for uid 26483 > dsync2.log.old2:dsync(user): Error: msg guid lookup failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-11-15 02:36:21] > dsync2.log.old2:dsync(user): Warning: mdbox /home/user/mdbox/storage: rebuilding indexes > dsync2.log.old2:dsync(user): Error: Corrupted dbox file /home/user/mdbox/storage/m.1725 (around offset=697710): msg header has bad magic value > dsync2.log.old2:dsync(user): Warning: dbox: Copy of the broken file saved to /home/user/mdbox/storage/m.1725.broken > dsync2.log.old2:dsync(user): Warning: Transaction log file /home/user/mdbox/storage/dovecot.map.index.log was locked for 295 seconds > dsync2.log.old2:dsync(user): Error: Next message unexpectedly lost from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-devel at 58706201 (cached) > dsync2.log.old2:dsync(user): Error: read(msg input) failed: Invalid argument > dsync2.log.old2:dsync(user): Error: Next message unexpectedly lost from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/gnupg.org/gnupg-users at 6507197 (cached) > dsync2.log.old2:dsync(user): Error: Unexpectedly lost From-line from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/gnupg.org/gnupg-users at 6486645 > dsync2.log.old2:dsync(user): Error: Unexpectedly lost From-line from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/gnupg.org/gnupg-users at 6507197 > dsync2.log.old2:dsync(user): Warning: Mailbox changes caused a desync. You may want to run dsync again. > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Error: mdbox /home/user/mdbox/mailboxes/lists/mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-devel/dbox-Mails: map uid lost for uid 26484 > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Error: msg guid lookup failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-11-15 09:49:26] > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Warning: mdbox /home/user/mdbox/storage: rebuilding indexes > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Error: Corrupted dbox file /home/user/mdbox/storage/m.1725 (around offset=758233): msg header has bad magic value > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Error: link(/home/user/mdbox/storage/m.1725, /home/user/mdbox/storage/m.1725.broken) failed: File exists > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Warning: Transaction log file /home/user/mdbox/storage/dovecot.map.index.log was locked for 271 seconds > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Warning: Transaction log file /var/cache/dovecot/indexes/user/lists/lists.fedoraproject.org/.imap/users/dovecot.index.log was locked for 180 seconds > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Error: Next message unexpectedly lost from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-devel at 58706201 (cached) > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Error: read(msg input) failed: Invalid argument > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Error: Next message unexpectedly lost from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/gnupg.org/gnupg-users at 6507197 (cached) > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Error: Unexpectedly lost From-line from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/gnupg.org/gnupg-users at 6486645 > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Error: Unexpectedly lost From-line from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/gnupg.org/gnupg-users at 6507197 > dsync2.log.old3:dsync(user): Warning: Mailbox changes caused a desync. You may want to run dsync again. > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Warning: Transaction log file /var/cache/dovecot/indexes/user/lists/lists.fedoraproject.org/.imap/scm-commits/dovecot.index.log was locked for 244 seconds > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Warning: Transaction log file /var/cache/dovecot/indexes/user/lists/lists.fedoraproject.org/.imap/scm-commits/dovecot.index.log was locked for 186 seconds > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Error: mdbox /home/user/mdbox/mailboxes/lists/mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-devel/dbox-Mails: map uid lost for uid 26485 > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Error: msg guid lookup failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-11-15 12:40:24] > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Warning: mdbox /home/user/mdbox/storage: rebuilding indexes > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Error: Corrupted dbox file /home/user/mdbox/storage/m.1725 (around offset=1324287): msg header has bad magic value > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Error: link(/home/user/mdbox/storage/m.1725, /home/user/mdbox/storage/m.1725.broken) failed: File exists > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Warning: Transaction log file /home/user/mdbox/storage/dovecot.map.index.log was locked for 394 seconds > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Warning: Transaction log file /var/cache/dovecot/indexes/user/lists/lists.fedoraproject.org/.imap/scm-commits/dovecot.index.log was locked for 249 seconds > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Warning: Transaction log file /var/cache/dovecot/indexes/user/lists/lists.fedoraproject.org/.imap/scm-commits/dovecot.index.log was locked for 283 seconds > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Error: Next message unexpectedly lost from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-devel at 58706201 (cached) > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Error: read(msg input) failed: Invalid argument > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Error: Next message unexpectedly lost from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/gnupg.org/gnupg-users at 6507197 (cached) > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Error: Unexpectedly lost From-line from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/gnupg.org/gnupg-users at 6486645 > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Error: Unexpectedly lost From-line from mbox file /home/user/mail/lists/gnupg.org/gnupg-users at 6507197 > dsync2.log.old4:dsync(user): Warning: Mailbox changes caused a desync. You may want to run dsync again. The quoted broken mdbox file and its successor differ quite late in the file itself: > $ ls -ltrA mdbox/storage/| tail > -rw------- 1 user user 2096503 2010-11-15 01:53 m.1719 > -rw------- 1 user user 2095681 2010-11-15 01:53 m.1720 > -rw------- 1 user user 2095121 2010-11-15 01:53 m.1721 > -rw------- 1 user user 2091386 2010-11-15 01:53 m.1722 > -rw------- 1 user user 2095194 2010-11-15 01:53 m.1723 > -rw------- 1 user user 2095317 2010-11-15 01:54 m.1724 > -rw------- 1 user user 697754 2010-11-15 01:54 m.1725.broken > -rw------- 1 user user 28818176 2010-11-15 13:04 dovecot.map.index > -rw------- 1 user user 14884 2010-11-15 14:49 dovecot.map.index.log > -rw------- 1 user user 1661548 2010-11-15 14:49 m.1725 > $ cmp mdbox/storage/m.1725.broken mdbox/storage/m.1725 > mdbox/storage/m.1725.broken mdbox/storage/m.1725 differ: byte 697638, line 7642 I'm running the process as the user himself with > $ dsync -vD backup mdbox:~/mdbox while my config looks like $ doveconf -n # 2.0.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32.21-168.fc12.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 12 (Constantine) mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/% u:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/indexes/%u mail_plugins = " 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 mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve zlib_save = bz2 } service imap { executable = imap postlogin } service postlogin { executable = script-login rawlog } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol lda { info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver-errors.log mail_plugins = sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " zlib imap_zlib" } I think I probably have some corrupt mbox files that give dovecot some headache. I'd like to spot them and correct them, so I tried let's convert to maildir first, which I can debug more easily. Unfortunatly the conversion speed to maildir is about 25 times slower than converting to mdbox (wow!), and it would take almost 5 days to convert to maildir. This is no sane timeframe for debugging, so I'd rather try different tactics with mdbox. One thing I'm going to try is to do an offline conversion of a snapshot of the store. Anyway I wanted to document the issues I saw in case it is something that is a bug in dovecot. -- http://thimm.gr/ - http://ATrpms.net/

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[Dovecot] Email backend monitor script for Director
by Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Hi people, I know I saw this at some point in the list but can't find it, I need a script wich monitor the health of the email backend and if a node fails remove it from the director server, once is up again add it, I plan tu run the script at the load balancer, if you have some let me know.. thank's in advance

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[Dovecot] POP users complaining about multiple copies of mail
by H. Wade Minter 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Hello, We just switched from UW to Dovecot for our mail server. The transition went smoothly, except we have some users complaining about their email clients re-downloading mail or getting multiple copies of emails. When we go into their accounts, we only see one copy of the email, so I'm assuming there's something odd in the communication between their client and us that's causing the mail to get downloaded repeatedly. The clients that we've heard about are Outlook and one called "Goldmine". Has anyone run across this before? Scanning the archives didn't show me anything. This is Dovecot 1.2.12-1ubuntu8 on Ubuntu 10.10. Here's my config: # 1.2.12: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.4-rscloud x86_64 Ubuntu 10.10 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ca.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/wildcard.skiltech.com.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/wildcard.skiltech.com.key 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 login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_privileged_group: mail 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_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve 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 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_enable_last(default): no pop3_enable_last(imap): no pop3_enable_last(pop3): yes pop3_enable_last(managesieve): no pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(managesieve): lda: postmaster_address: postmaster mail_plugins: sieve quota_full_tempfail: yes deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ rejection_reason: Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve

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Re: [Dovecot] proctitle woes in 2.0.7 vs. 2.0.6
by Patrick Fay 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

> Message: 7 > Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:45:34 +0000 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] proctitle woes with 2.0.7 vs. 2.0.6 > To: Clemens Schrimpe <csch(a)kiez.net> > Cc: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Message-ID: <1289839534.1764.138.camel(a)kurkku.sapo.corppt.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 02:25 +0100, Clemens Schrimpe wrote: >>>> It seems, that while anvil has gained some verbosity, >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>>> auth and imap-login (and maybe pop-login) seem to have lost their >>>> "voice". >>>> >>>> Is there any intention behind this or did I ran into a "bug"? > > The bug was in a bit unexpected place. Fixed: > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/656da7e0d6b9 > Hi, Is there any chance this bug is related to MacOS proc titles being mis-identified (e.g. containing garbage) in the 1.2.x tree? Patrick

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[Dovecot] Trying to building a customized auth plugin
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

I'm on dovecot 2.0.7 and I trying to building a customized auth plugin. I take passdb-passwd-file.c and userdb-passwd-file.c to try to build with a simple gcc comand out of dovecot environment as in example: export DOVECOT=/path/to/untar/dovecot-2.0.7 gcc -fPIC -shared -g -Wall -I$DOVECOT \ -I$DOVECOT/src/lib \ -I$DOVECOT/src/lib-auth \ -I$DOVECOT/src/lib-sql \ -I$DOVECOT/src/lib-settings \ -I$DOVECOT/src/lib-ntlm \ -I$DOVECOT/src/lib-master \ -I$DOVECOT/src/auth \ passdb-passwd-file.c -o passdb-passwd-file.o With this, I get errors relate with uoff_t Is possible to build this plugin by this way? Another way is patching against one plugin on dovecot RPM, but I prefer this on a separated RPM.

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[Dovecot] Single-instance storage is bad for you!
by Daniel L. Miller 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

This single-instance storage is going to encourage bad habits! I just found myself preparing an e-mail that needs to be sent to multiple recipients - including several within my own organization - yet it's not necessary for everyone (in-house) to get the large attachment. As I was getting ready to split the message into two parts for distribution I remembered - I can just send it to EVERYBODY in-house and it only occupies a single instance - which it would anyway just being in my "sent" folder! Blasting away... You're quite the enabler, Timo! Now any mail admin who tries to lecture users on only sending attachments to those in-house personnel who really need it, because otherwise it's wasteful of precious server storage space, is going to hear the response, "Dude - don't stress out so much - just setup Dovecot with SIS!". Thanks again! -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] service_count=0 for imap and pop3
by Mark Moseley 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

This is copy-pasted from Timo's comment in the "Todays Performance Data for 2.0.x" thread, but I didn't want to hijack that thread. In it, Timo says: <snip> service imap { service_count = 0 } (i.e. reuse imap processes) reduced the system CPU usage to almost nothing. But if you use different UIDs for different users you can't do that. </snip> Is that safe to do in imap and/or pop3? Or at least no more insecure than using service_count=0 for imap-login and pop3-login? Since I saw that comment I've been googling around and grepping the wiki but I can only find instances of using it with "service imap-login", not "service imap" or "service pop3". The mention in Timo's comment that it reduces the CPU usage by a lot got my attention, esp for pop3. We're already using service_count=0 for pop3-login and imap-login.

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Re: [Dovecot] Local node indexes in a cluster backend with GFS2
by Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Should I set mmap_disable = yes when storing indexes in a GFS2 shared filesystem?? 2010/11/15 Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes <alietsantiesteban(a)gmail.com> > Ok, I will create a LUN also as a shared clustered storage for indexes, any > consideration to have into account when the indexes are shared by many > nodes... > thank you all... > > 2010/11/15 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > > On 15.11.2010, at 6.44, Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes wrote: >> >> > mail_location = >> > sdbox:/var/vmail/%d/%3n/%n/sdbox:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%3n/%n >> > >> > /var/vmail is shared clustered filesystem with GFS2 shared by node1 and >> > node2 >> > >> > /var/indexes is a local filesystem at the node, so each node has his own >> > /var/indexes stuff on ext3 and raid1 for improving performance, I mean >> each >> > node a different /var/indexes of its own. >> >> This is a bad idea. With dbox the message flags are only stored in index >> files, so if you lose indexes you lose all message flags. Users won't be >> happy. >> > >

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Radio Tron 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

http://aigipe.it/here.php

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[Dovecot] Dovecot will not start, error in stat(/var/run/dovecot)
by Frank Collette IV 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Error: stat(/var/run/dovecot) failed: Invalid argument Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf Can someone please help me resolve this issue? I'm willing to pay if required to get this back up! I've been down since 11PM Saturday. Thanks, Frank

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[Dovecot] proctitle woes with 2.0.7 vs. 2.0.6
by Clemens Schrimpe 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Hello - I just noticed, that there seems to be a change in the way "process titles" are being set between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7: Behavior of 2.0.6: (ps aux | fgrep dovecot) ------------------ root 30803 0.0 0.0 601540 708 ?? S 1:08AM 0:00.00 dovecot/log _dovecot 30802 0.0 0.0 601544 624 ?? S 1:08AM 0:00.00 dovecot/anvil root 30801 0.0 0.0 600460 472 ?? Ss 1:08AM 0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot _dovecot 30819 0.0 0.0 607304 1672 ?? S 1:08AM 0:00.01 dovecot/auth [0 wait, 0 passdb, 0 userdb] _dovenul 30818 0.0 0.0 603512 1724 ?? S 1:08AM 0:00.01 dovecot/imap-login [10.11.12.13] root 30805 0.0 0.1 601776 3640 ?? S 1:08AM 0:00.02 dovecot/config Behavior of 2.0.7: ------------------ _dovecot 35104 0.0 0.0 607308 1676 ?? S 1:11AM 0:00.01 dovecot/auth _dovenul 35103 0.0 0.0 603516 1736 ?? S 1:11AM 0:00.01 dovecot/imap-login root 35099 0.0 0.1 601780 3652 ?? S 1:11AM 0:00.02 dovecot/config root 35097 0.0 0.0 601544 716 ?? S 1:11AM 0:00.00 dovecot/log _dovecot 35096 0.0 0.0 601552 692 ?? S 1:11AM 0:00.00 dovecot/anvil [4 connections] root 35095 0.0 0.0 600464 460 ?? Ss 1:11AM 0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot (of course the configuration remained 100% identical - I just compiled 2.0.7, again using the same ./configure parameters and did a "make install") It seems, that while anvil has gained some verbosity, auth and imap-login (and maybe pop-login) seem to have lost their "voice". Is there any intention behind this or did I ran into a "bug"? Greetings from Berlin - Clemens

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[Dovecot] v1.2.16 released
by Timo Sirainen 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.16.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.16.tar.gz.sig Just some small fixes. - imap: Fixed SELECT QRESYNC not to crash on mailbox close if a lot of changes were being sent. - pop3: Fixed a potential hang - mbox: Creating new mailboxes should base permissions on mail root dir, not always use 0600. - auth: Disable auth caching entirely for master users.

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[Dovecot] Local node indexes in a cluster backend with GFS2
by Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Hi, all this days I'm testing a dovecot setup using lvs, director and a cluster email backend with two nodes using rhel5 and gfs2. In the two nodes of the email backend I configured mail location this way: mail_location = sdbox:/var/vmail/%d/%3n/%n/sdbox:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%3n/%n /var/vmail is shared clustered filesystem with GFS2 shared by node1 and node2 /var/indexes is a local filesystem at the node, so each node has his own /var/indexes stuff on ext3 and raid1 for improving performance, I mean each node a different /var/indexes of its own. Now, if the director was using node2 for the email for user1 and I removed node2 now all the connections for that user are redirected to node1, that node has its local /var/indexes, when this ocurr I can not see the emails that in fact are in the mailboxes, I guess should be indexes not current with the user mails. Is supposed indexes to be rebuilt automatically when the node switches?? Or I have to configure the indexes in the shared storage so the two node update the information concurrently? I will appreciate your help... best regards

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[Dovecot] Filter from Outlook fails after migration
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

We have some users which use Outlook 2003. After migration de Maildir from Courier to Dovecot, this user have some errors on their accounts because Outlook filters don't run. Some of this folders name contain chars like '-' but another folder with only letters fails too. Then ¿Does any people have similar errors with Outlook 2003? Dovecot version 1.2.15

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[Dovecot] Dovecot occasionally stops with Fatal: kevent(): Invalid argument
by Attila Nagy 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Hi, FreeBSD/amd64 8-STABLE, Dovecot 2.0.6, stops in random times with: Nov 14 18:42:14 be dovecot: master: Fatal: kevent(): Invalid argument Any ideas? Thanks,

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[Dovecot] Backing up dovecot
by Spyros Tsiolis 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Hello people, Well, what the subjects says :-) I have a dovecot/Horde installation and would like to know : a. How safe will I be backing up dovecot b. What folders/files to backup Let me see now; I am running dovecot v1.2.15 Here's a dump of "dovecot -n" : ---------------------------------------------------------------- [root@mailgate ~]# dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5PAE i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log ssl: required ssl_parameters_regenerate: 48 verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: * Dovecot ready * login_max_processes_count: 32 mail_location: maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir mail_plugins: zlib auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u userdb: driver: passwd ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you all, Best regards, spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] Is Dovecot Director stable for production??
by Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Today I will try Dovecot Director for a setup using a Cluster Backend with GFS2 on rhel5, my question is if is Director stable for use in production for large sites, I know is mainly designed for NFS but I believe it will do the job also for a cluster filesystem like GFS2 and should solve the mail persistence problem with a node and locking issues. I plan to add a layer behind a load balancer to do the stuff, I will appreciate if you guys can point me to best practices in configuring the director, or how the thing works since is new for me, I have seen the example conf but I don't have clarity in some of the concepts and the wiki is empty. I use 2.0.6, thank's for a great job with dovecot. best regards, Aliet

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[Dovecot] Daemon will not start, invalid argument in stat of base_dir (error within)
by Frank Collette 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

Running CentOS 5 and Dovecot 1.2.16 Receiving error: Error: stat(/var/run/dovecot) failed: Invalid argument Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf I've put the default dovecot.conf in place and still get the same thing. I've tried removing the /var/run/dovecot folder and letting it re-create it with no success. It creates the /var/run/dovecot folder but that is all. I've tried setting the base_dir to /tmp/dovecot to test and get the exact same error. I'm at a loss as are many other people so am hoping someone here might be able to help!

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[Dovecot] dovecot sieve enotify question
by Robert Schetterer 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

Hi, sorry not dovecot but heres the question is it possible to use dovecot sieve enotify not only for notify mail i.e arrived but with add the incomming mail as attachment to the notification ? i.e. i have found a example require ["enotify", "fileinto", "variables"]; if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { set "from_addr" "admin(a)example.com"; set "subject" "Spam"; notify :message "${from_addr}: ${subject}" "mailto:user@example.com"; } is there a way to add the orginal mail as attach to the notfication mail , and finally perhaps delete it this would like a redirect/forward with right from_addr ( which should always be the default mailboxname/emailaddress -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] squirrelmail inbox empty
by Paul Cartwright 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

I am running Dovecot + Postfix +Squirrelmail on Debian Lenny.Fetchmail pulls the mail, dovecot spreads it around. I had squirrelmail setup & I tested it from within my router ( internal LAN). yesterday I had to go babysit my grand daughter, and I setup port forward for IMAP port 143, and I can use squirrelmail through firefox on my laptop. All the other folders have all the mail from the time I left til now. Yesterday I was reading inbpox mail, deleted a few junks, etc, and suspended my laptop. When I came back my inbox was empty, and I've never seen any more messages in it. I know I should have LOTS of older+new messages that don't get filtered. Unfortunately ssh doesn't seem to work from this linux side, it does from the windos side ( ssh keys?), so I can't get in to look at the logs.. I already removed ( I think ) all the inbox index files... & restarted, but no joy. I am not sure if it is getting filtered from the ibox, or if I just can't see it. I am not familiar with how squirrelmail works with local IMAP folders, so I am unsure where to look or what logs to browse. I will be home later today. suggestions clues or otherwise?? -- Paul Cartwright

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[Dovecot] dovecot startup error message
by Spyros Tsiolis 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hello kind people, Any help on this would be appreciated. Dovecot v1.2.16. Freshly installed today. Comes up with this during service startup (CentOS 5.5 -> "service dovecot start" <ENTER> : --------------------------- Restarting DovecotFatal: ssl_listen: Can't resolve address required: Name or service not known --------------------------- Here's "dovecot -n" : --------------------------- # 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log ssl_listen: required ssl_parameters_regenerate: 48 verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: * Dovecot ready * login_max_processes_count: 32 mail_location: maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir mail_plugins: zlib auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u userdb: driver: passwd --------------------------- Any help would greatly appreciated as this is a _live_ system and was supposed to work hours ago (whoooops !) :-) thank you kindly, spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] Fw: dovecot startup error message - RESOLVED (?)
by Spyros Tsiolis 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hello , Went to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, hunted down "ssl_listen =" which I had set it up to "ssl_listen = required" and commented it out. Tried "service dovecot start" and it started. The USD2,000,000 question being : what does this do (I know , I know, I cannot remember, I documented all this for v1.2.14) and will I need it in the future ? THank you people, spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis --- On Fri, 12/11/10, Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > From: Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol(a)yahoo.co.uk> > Subject: [Dovecot] dovecot startup error message > To: "Dovecot" <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Date: Friday, 12 November, 2010, 20:15 > Hello kind people, > > Any help on this would be appreciated. > > Dovecot v1.2.16. Freshly installed today. Comes up with > this during > service startup (CentOS 5.5 -> "service dovecot start" > <ENTER> : > > --------------------------- > Restarting DovecotFatal: ssl_listen: Can't resolve address > required: Name or service not known > --------------------------- > > Here's "dovecot -n" : > > --------------------------- > # 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 > (Final) ext3 > base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ > log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log > info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log > ssl_listen: required > ssl_parameters_regenerate: 48 > verbose_ssl: yes > login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login > login_executable: > /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login > login_greeting: * Dovecot ready * > login_max_processes_count: 32 > mail_location: maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir > mail_plugins: zlib > auth default: > verbose: yes > debug: yes > debug_passwords: yes > passdb: > driver: passwd-file > args: /etc/dovecot/passwd > passdb: > driver: pam > userdb: > driver: static > args: uid=vmail gid=vmail > home=/home/vmail/%u > userdb: > driver: passwd > --------------------------- > > Any help would greatly appreciated as this is a _live_ > system > and was supposed to work hours ago (whoooops !) :-) > > thank you kindly, > > spyros > > > > > > > > ---- > "I merely function as a channel that filters > music through the chaos of noise" > - Vangelis > > > >

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[Dovecot] Occasional fchown errors?
by Knute Johnson 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hi: I get the occasional error below. Is there something I don't have configured correctly? Or should I just ignore this? It is not always this file, sometimes it is the cache.lock file or the log.newlock file. I have a mail client running on my computer and my phone at the same time, could that have something to do with it? Nov 10 08:32:59 rabbitbrush dovecot: IMAP(bob): fchown(/home/bob/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 8(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1000(bob), group based on /var/mail/bob) From dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd Thanks very much, -- Knute Johnson

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[Dovecot] questions of how to connect to pop3s
by Scott Berry 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hello there, I am new to Dovecot and I am using version1.2.12. I have included the dovecot -n output: root@ubuntuSnoopBear:/home/scott# dovecot -n \# 1.2.12: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic-pae i686 Ubuntu 10.10 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 pop3s listen: 995 ssl_key_password: nerdie1tech login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: pilotalknet.dyndns.org ready. mail_privileged_group: mail mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd What I need to ensure is that everything is correctly set for a pop3s server. I also need to know how to tell someone how to configure their mail client as the pop3 and smtp server. For example do I say pop.pilotalknet.ldyndns.org and smtp.pilotalknet.dyndns.org? The hostname is: pilotalknet.dyndns.org also is it still possible to check the working of the connection via a telnet connection doing: telnet pilotalknet.dyndns.org:995 or do I have to do something different? what I am achieving with the telnet connection is to ensure the pop server comes up with the greeting from dovecot. Thanks much.

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Radio Tron 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

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[Dovecot] alternate sendmail binary for sieve redirect OT
by Robert Schetterer 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hi , this isnt really a dovecot/postfix question in dove lda, there is sendmail_path = someone tried other progs here like mini_sendmail ? http://www.acme.com/software/mini_sendmail/ i.e for using a default from forwarder address when sending redirects by sieve....is a stupid idea? background, some other mail providers use a default sender forwarder mailaddress when redirect this may avoid problems at forwarding with spf etc any other idea to reach this goal, pipe etc? -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] dove 2.0.7 virtual no mails INBOX pop3
by Robert Schetterer 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hi Timo, i have no mails from INBOX over pop3 other folders work ok as well as imap like set Virtual POP3 INBOX namespace default { # type = private separator = / prefix = "" list = yes # hidden = no subscriptions = yes } namespace virtual { # type = private prefix = "virtual/" separator = / # location = virtual:/etc/dovecot/virtual:LAYOUT=maildir++ location = virtual:/etc/dovecot/virtual hidden = yes list = no subscriptions= no } namespace real { # type = private prefix = "RealMails/" separator = / list = no hidden = yes } namespace { type = shared separator = / # Mailboxes are visible under "shared/user@domain/" # %%n, %%d and %%u are expanded to the destination user. prefix = "shared/%%u/" #prefix = "shared/%%d/%%u/" # Mail location for other users' mailboxes. Note that %variables and ~/ # expands to the logged in user's data. %%n, %%d, %%u and %%h expand to the # destination user's data. #location = maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%%u/:INDEX=~/shared/%%d/%%u/ location = maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%%d/%%u/:INDEX=~/shared/%%d/%%u/ #Use the default namespace for saving subscriptions. subscriptions = no # List the shared/ namespace only if there are visible shared mailboxes. list = children inbox = no } /etc/dovecot/virtual/INBOX/dovecot-virtual RealMails/* -RealMails/Trash -RealMails/Trash/* -RealMails/Sent -RealMails/Sent/* -RealMails/Templates -RealMails/Templates/* -RealMails/Drafts -RealMails/Drafts/* -RealMails/Archives -RealMails/Archives/* unseen -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] correct syntax for multiple ports
by Kilburn Abrahams 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hi, What is the correct format to specify multple ports in dovecot 2. With dovecot 1.2 listen = *:143 *:6188 worked fine. I cannot find any mention in the wiki2 about the different combinations of listen, address and port parameters and dovecot complains about the combinations I tried. Does not seem to work 1. inet_listener imap { listen = *:143 *:6188 } 2. inet_listener imap { address = *:143 *:6188 } 3. inet_listener imap { port = 143, 6188 or port = 143 6188 } This start dovecot, but roundcube will not connect on port 143, although Thunderbird will connect on 1432 and 6188 listen = *, :: 1. inet_listener imap { port 143 port = 6188 } Regards K

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[Dovecot] Phantom email message
by Marc Perkel 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Got sort of a strange problem on one email account. Everything works fine with Thunderbird/IMAP showing the correct unread message count. But on my DroidX smartphone one of my email accounts always shows one unread message, but I can't bring any unread messages up. It's like there's something there making it think there's a message when there isn't. The email client is K-9 mail Anyone have any ideas?

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[Dovecot] --exec-mail
by David Woodhouse 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Most of my IMAP access is achieved by 'ssh $mailhost exec dovecot --exec-mail imap'. I'm testing Dovecot 2.0, and this doesn't seem to work any more — and I can't seem to work out how to make it work. The wiki page at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 has no mention of it. I looked through the git history to find the commit that broke it and see if I could find the replacement that way, but it was the commit entitled 'Initial commit for v2.0 master rewrite.', and wasn't particularly edifying. Once upon a time in the dim and distant past, I believe I used to run /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap directly. But that doesn't set the environment up correctly, so isn't the right way to do it... is it? -- dwmw2

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[Dovecot] setting up Dovecot
by Scott Berry 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hello there, I am a new user of Dovecot. I am using version 1.2.12. Here is the config file: I attached the dovecot.conf file as a screenshot using dovecot -n because I am blind and haven't quite figured out how to copy from the terminal to Gnome yet. My intentions here are as follows: 1. To allow only pop3s because I want to use ssl for security. 2. I am going to be using fetchmail to grab the mail and give it to dovecot. 3. There will be three people adventually grabbing their mail through pop3s. Another question I have is when you tell someone to configure their mail client through pop3s how does that work as far as the server name meaning like most ISp's have pop.whatever.whatever.? Also I am using a smarthost with postfix to send out the mail through Google how do I tell someone how to configure the smtp server in their mail client such as Isp's such as smtp.whatever.whatever. I am using Windows for two of the clients with Windows Mail on a Vista machine and Windows Mail on a Windows 7 machine and Evolution on a Ubuntu linux machine. Looks to me like everything is copeastetic except for how to log in. The SSL cert file in "/etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem" is a bit tricky cause I didn't create the cert so I am not sure of the password but I did try my normal root password. Not sure if that works. Other than this actually Dovecot is quite easy to config.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.7 Virtual plugin
by Henrique Fernandes 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Well, it seens the virtual plugins is not working correctly or i miss undertood how to configurate it. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual as this wiki says, I should be possible to make an ndeamespace namespace { prefix = virtual/ separator = / location = virtual:~/Maildir/virtual } And in side of ~/Maildir/virtual create virtual folders and inside of those folders create dovecot-vitual. But it does not work. Right if i make this conf, on my imap client it shows a folder called virtual ( the prefix, or whtever i put in there ) and show nothing, only shows something if i create a dovecot-virtual inside of ~/Maildir/virtual/ i would appreciate if someone explain what i am doind wrong. Thanks! my dovecot -n # 2.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/TesteEmail/Maildir mail_plugins = " virtual" namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / } namespace virtual { location = virtual:~/TesteEmail/virtual/ prefix = virtual/ separator = / } passdb { driver = pam } ssl = no userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " virtual virtual" } []'sf.rique

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[Dovecot] Authentication Failure
by Carlos Mennens 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

I am unable to login to my new mail server running Dovecot and Postfix for some reason. When I check the mail logs, I am seeing: Nov 11 16:06:29 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=10.1.10.204, lip=192.168.0.200, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:14094418:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert unknown ca: SSL alert number 48 Nov 11 16:06:36 mail dovecot: auth: Error: pam(carlos,10.1.10.204): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure (/etc/pam.d/dovecot missing?) Nov 11 16:06:53 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 3 attempts): user=<carlos>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.1.10.204, lip=192.168.0.200, TLS Nov 11 16:07:12 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 3 attempts): user=<carlos(a)iamghost.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.1.10.204, lip=192.168.0.200, TLS Below is my configuration file for Dovecot: # 2.0.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35 x86_64 auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_location = maildir:~/mail passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mail.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail.key userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep } Does anyone know what is causing this error or how I can resolve this?

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[Dovecot] $MAIL environment variable to override mail_location works in v1.2.16 but not in v2.0.7 for /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
by Giam Teck Choon 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Hi, For the past day, I have been researching about making dovecot to support mailfront (http://untroubled.org/mailfront/) imapfront-auth natively and able to use mailfront imapfront-auth with dovecot imap v1.2.16 without starting any dovecot related services and no /etc/dovecot.conf file is required. More information about this can be read at: http://lists.untroubled.org/?list=bgware&cmd=showthread&month=201011&thread… However, same trick can't be used for dovecot v2.0.7. First error is /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf must be exists so I just simply touch /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf with empty content to bypass that error. I noticed v2.0.7 is not using $MAIL environment variable to override mail_location? I have read the following: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation Any idea to override mail_location setting? I have tried various setting of environment variables such as below: --------------------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<--------------------- #!/bin/sh # $MAIL, $HOME, $MAILDIR, $MAILBOX are the same in mailfront # imapfront-auth if [ -n "$MAIL" ]; then # make dovecot imap escape colon by replacing single : to :: export MAIL=maildir:`echo $MAIL | sed 's@:@::@g'` fi export USERDB_KEYS="$USERDB_KEYS mail" # For knowing all env. uncomment the below line and # see /tmp/imapd-log.txt # printenv >>/tmp/imapd-log.txt exec "$@" --------------------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<--------------------- The above script is being placed between imapfront-auth and dovecot imap (/usr/libexec/dovecot/imap). Thanks for any kind assistance. Kindest regards, Giam Teck Choon

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[Dovecot] dovecot dictionary attacks
by PA 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Hi, I been using dovecot for awhile and its been solid, however I been having some issues with dictionary attacks. I installed fail2ban and for the most part is working fine. However today I got another spammer relaying through my server. Looking at the logs I see the following dictonary attack from 94.242.206.37 Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: rip=94.242.206.37, lip=209.213.66.10 Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=209.213.66.10 rip=94.242.206.37 resp=<hidden> Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(aarhus,94.242.206.37): lookup Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=209.213.66.10 rip=94.242.206.37 resp=<hidden> Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(abaft,94.242.206.37): lookup Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(abaft,94.242.206.37): unknown user Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=209.213.66.10 rip=94.242.206.37 resp=<hidden> Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(aarhus,94.242.206.37): unknown user Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=209.213.66.10 rip=94.242.206.37 resp=<hidden> Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(aaron,94.242.206.37): lookup Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(aaron,94.242.206.37): unknown user Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=209.213.66.10 rip=94.242.206.37 resp=<hidden> Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(ababa,94.242.206.37): lookup ..... And so on.. Then that ip gets banned by fail2ban [root@pop ~]# grep 94.242.206.37 /var/log/fail2ban.log 2010-11-10 03:04:42,416 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [dovecot] Ban 94.242.206.37 However on my smtp mail server that ip is already sending out all sorts of spam with the sasl username of Paramus. This username Paramus never shows up on the dovevot dictionary attack, as a matter of fact the user Paramus is nowhere to be found on the dovecot log at all and I have logs going back months. Does anyone have any idea what could of happened here. I mean if the user/passwd was already harvested by 94.242.206.37 why would they bother to start another dict. attack. I'm just not sure how they guess the username/password as its not on any logs that goes back months and I don't have a dovecot record for that user. /var/log/maillog:Nov 10 02:46:16 mrelay3 postfix/smtpd[27776]: 3B64928015: client=unknown[94.242.206.37], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=paramus /var/log/maillog:Nov 10 02:47:54 mrelay3 postfix/smtpd[27776]: 247AB28016: client=unknown[94.242.206.37], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=paramus /var/log/maillog:Nov 10 02:48:00 mrelay3 postfix/smtpd[27785]: 87DE128016: client=unknown[94.242.206.37], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=paramus /var/log/maillog:Nov 10 02:56:00 mrelay3 postfix/smtpd[27792]: 9728628015: client=unknown[94.242.206.37], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=paramus /var/log/maillog:Nov 10 03:05:38 mrelay3 postfix/smtpd[27808]: D529F28015: client=unknown[94.242.206.37], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=paramus /var/log/maillog:Nov 10 03:06:00 mrelay3 postfix/smtpd[27808]: DDF7C2801B: client=unknown[94.242.206.37], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=Paramus Any help would be appreciated. paul

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[Dovecot] Sieve problem with managesieve
by Simone Caruso 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

I have a problem with a sieve script.. my config is dovecot 1.2.15 with managesieve, and roundcube. Now i have this script WORKING: -- require ["fileinto"]; # rule:[TracSvil] if anyof (header :contains "From" "xxx(a)example.com") { fileinto "INBOX.Trac Svil"; stop; } -- And this script NOT working: require ["fileinto"]; # rule:[TracSvil] if anyof (header :is "From" "trac(a)ardeek.com") { fileinto "INBOX.Trac Svil"; stop; } Can someone explain me the difference between these script? there is any error in the second script? Greetings! -- Simone Caruso IT Consultant p.iva: 03045250838

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[Dovecot] dovecot dictionary attacks
by Paul Amaral 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Hi, I been using dovecot for awhile and its been solid, however I been having some issues with dictionary attacks. I installed fail2ban and for the most part is working fine. However today I got another spammer relaying through my server. Looking at the logs I see the following dictonary attack from 94.242.206.37 Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: rip=94.242.206.37, lip=209.213.66.10 Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=209.213.66.10 rip=94.242.206.37 resp=<hidden> Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(aarhus,94.242.206.37): lookup Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=209.213.66.10 rip=94.242.206.37 resp=<hidden> Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(abaft,94.242.206.37): lookup Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(abaft,94.242.206.37): unknown user Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=209.213.66.10 rip=94.242.206.37 resp=<hidden> Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(aarhus,94.242.206.37): unknown user Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=209.213.66.10 rip=94.242.206.37 resp=<hidden> Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(aaron,94.242.206.37): lookup Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(aaron,94.242.206.37): unknown user Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=209.213.66.10 rip=94.242.206.37 resp=<hidden> Nov 10 03:04:38 pop dovecot: auth(default): shadow(ababa,94.242.206.37): lookup ..... And so on.. Then that ip gets banned by fail2ban [root@pop ~]# grep 94.242.206.37 /var/log/fail2ban.log 2010-11-10 03:04:42,416 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [dovecot] Ban 94.242.206.37 However on my smtp mail server that ip is already sending out all sorts of spam with the sasl username of Paramus. This username Paramus never shows up on the dovevot dictionary attack, as a matter of fact the user Paramus is nowhere to be found on the dovecot log at all and I have logs going back months. Does anyone have any idea what could of happened here. I mean if the user/passwd was already harvested by 94.242.206.37 why would they bother to start another dict. attack. I'm just not sure how they guess the username/password as its not on any logs that goes back months and I don't have a dovecot record for that user. /var/log/maillog:Nov 10 02:46:16 mrelay3 postfix/smtpd[27776]: 3B64928015: client=unknown[94.242.206.37], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=paramus /var/log/maillog:Nov 10 02:47:54 mrelay3 postfix/smtpd[27776]: 247AB28016: client=unknown[94.242.206.37], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=paramus /var/log/maillog:Nov 10 02:48:00 mrelay3 postfix/smtpd[27785]: 87DE128016: client=unknown[94.242.206.37], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=paramus /var/log/maillog:Nov 10 02:56:00 mrelay3 postfix/smtpd[27792]: 9728628015: client=unknown[94.242.206.37], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=paramus /var/log/maillog:Nov 10 03:05:38 mrelay3 postfix/smtpd[27808]: D529F28015: client=unknown[94.242.206.37], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=paramus /var/log/maillog:Nov 10 03:06:00 mrelay3 postfix/smtpd[27808]: DDF7C2801B: client=unknown[94.242.206.37], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=Paramus Any help would be appreciated. paul

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[Dovecot] Getting the Sender from a Email
by Alex Baule 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Hi Timo.... I need to get the Sender from a Email. Using this mail_get_first_header(mail, "From", &header) , i get the email in this format "Name <user@dom>" , in dovecot there is a way to get only the user@dom ? Tks !

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[Dovecot] dovecot2.0+ldap auth problems
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

I'm using a config from dovecot 1.2 adapted to 2.0 After update config, and restart dovecot service: If I do a doveadm user user1 then it is found correctly. If I do a doveadm auth user1 then it is ask for the password user, and it's running correctly. But if I tray to login by telnet using IMAP then I get: . login user1 pass1 Connection closed by foreign host. I can see at logs a Info line with: Internal login failre with auth failed It's very odd that with doveadm runs ok and but not with IMAP.

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[Dovecot] Help! LDAP/AD Problem with dovecot
by Christian Fischer 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Hey Folks, i am trying to get Dovecot LDA to work with Active Directory dovecot --version 1.2.9 While using Postfix to deliver mail, dovecot does only imap-Services, passdb is auth bind and userdb is static. NOW i want to use Sieve Scripts. So LDA of dovecot is required. So userdb lookup is required. With use of virtual Mailboxes i have a working postfix setup, which needs to be transferred to dovecot. dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf uris = ldap://192.168.0.42 auth_bind = yes dn = myldapuser@mydomain dnpass = mypass #ldap_version = 3 base = DC=base,DC=com deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = sAMAccountName=mail=maildir:/home/vmail/%$/.EMAIL, =uidNumer=5000, =gidNumber=5000 user_filter = (&(objectClass=user)(|(sAMAccountName=%u)(mail=%u)(othermailbox=%u))) pass_attrs = sAMAaccountName=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=person)(sAMAaccountName=%u)) My errors are: - While logging in with IMAP 2010-11-10 00:32:30 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=16293, input bytes=0 - manual execution of deliver -d myuser(a)domain.tld: 010-11-10 00:34:16 deliver(myuser(a)domain.tld): Error: userdb lookup(...): Connecting timed out As i said - postfix works! Thankx for any help!

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[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot delivery (version 2.0.7)
by Maxime Longuepee 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Hi! I've been having an issue with dovecot since yesterday and can't figure it out. All my users can send mail without any problem but all incomming mail are deffered. Here is the log from postfix complaining the mail has been deferred: Nov 9 23:35:51 www postfix/pipe[50019]: A20EB145FC2C: to=, relay=dovecot, delay=819, delays=819/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure) And here is the log from dovecot complaining it can't complete the operation /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log: Nov 09 23:35:51 lda(EMAIL REMOVED FOR PRIVACY): Fatal: setresgid(6(mail),6(mail),6(mail)) failed with euid=143(dovecot): Operation not permitted If anyone could help me, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!

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[Dovecot] need to block user by IP address (tried denyhosts, xinetd, iptables etc)
by Tom 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Hi, I am kind of restricted to using packaged versions of software due to company policy, and we have f12 on our mail server with dovecot-1.2.15-2.fc12.i686 package. we have recently had some brute force attacks on the pop3 and imapd and this results in many processes being used for login attempts. Our dovecot is hosted on a Virtual Private Server which restricts access to IPTABLEs and also make a limit on the number of processes that can be running So I can't restrict the attackers IP addresses via IPTABLES, as we don't have access to that. I can't really patch dovecot as we are reliant on the distro packages. I spent some time trying to get dovecot to run under xinetd but had no luck, and I read some reports that it was not possible using recent versions. I was hoping some advice on what avenue I should proceed with to automatically block brute force attacks on the dovecot server, (that dont use iptables) Thanks, Tom

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[Dovecot] emails getting mangled when dragging from Exchange account to IMAP shared folders
by Scott Goodwin 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

I'm having the most frustrating issue, and I'm at a loss for what is happening. I'm not even sure it is with Dovecot, but that's why I'm posting this here... if it isn't a dovecot issue, maybe someone can get me headed in the right direction? I've posted relevant dovecot and config info at the bottom of this post. Here's the scenario: We recently migrated our email from Postfix+Dovecot+Amavis+SA to Exchange (not my choice, unfortunately). Now, users have to use Outlook (as opposed to before, when they could choose between Outlook and Thunderbird), and have the new Exchange account set up, as well as their old IMAP account, which they still use for shared project folders. So, emails come in to Exchange, then they drag the emails from the Exchange mailbox to the shared branch under their IMAP account, and into the appropriate job folder. Emails to one specific user in my organization (let's call him Roy(a)Ocean.org) is having his emails mangled when dragging certain items from his Exchange mailbox to the IMAP account. I can't reproduce the issue with any other user. Also, this only seems to happens with emails from one other specific domain (let's call them tornado.org) So, in summary, user1(a)Tornado.orgsend an email to Roy(a)Ocean.organd Sue(a)Ocean.org. Both drag the email from their Exchange box into any folder (shared or otherwise) in the IMAP tree. Sue's copy makes it in just fine, while Roy's copy gets mangled. Here's the headers of the resultant email after Roy has dragged it into the shared folder: ======================================== From: "User1" <User1(a)tornado.org> To: "Roy", "Sue" References: <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A527293372B11(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A527293372D9A(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272933A2C3D(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272933A310E(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272933A3683(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272933A3B97(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272933D103B(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272933D192F(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272933D1B12(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272933FD341(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272933FD8F8(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272933FD9A0(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272933FDFDD(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272934C8927(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272934C8B46(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272934C8D76(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272934C8D7A(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920 ======================================== And here's the email body: ======================================== D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272934C8D95(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272934C8DB6(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272934C8F0D(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272935008B5(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A527293500C27(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272935011BC(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A527293525B1D(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A527293525D81(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A527293526139(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A527293526416(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272935524A6(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272935524C9(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A527293589E1C(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272935BF6A9(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272935E7414(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272935E75E2(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272935E75E8(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920 D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272935E75F4(a)abc027.abc.local> <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A5272935E800E(a)abc027.abc.local> Subject: RE: Some Subject Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:11:01 -0700 Message-ID: <B3457C1920D7A2438CCC19EF2A52729364D0A0(a)abc027.abc.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0118_01CB7755.52354760" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: 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 Content-Language: en-us X-OlkEid: C664F3259FA9393D4124CD409B5CAE330696EE82 content-class: urn:content-classes:message This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0118_01CB7755.52354760 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <SNIP> =========================================================================== Obviously, it's breaking the message in the References header, and I've tracked down the following byte sequence at the breaking point: 0D:09:0A:09 ...which is CR,TAB,CR,LF. What puzzles me is why Roy's gets broken here, when the others' do not; they're the exact same email, so you'd think they would all get broken. I can't figure out A) where that byte sequence is coming from (our Exchange server, Tornado.net's exchange server, or one of the two of our external spam filtering service... they use BigFish.com, and we use MxLogic), or B) if that's even the issue. I've rebuilt Roy's entire machine, reconfigured Outlook from scratch, still happening. When he logs onto another machine and sets up his Exchange account on another outlook, it still happens. Our Exchange administrator (I don't have access to Exchange) says there is nothing wrong with his Exchange account, for what it's worth. I don't expect anyone to have the solution here, since there are many variables, and there is other info that would probably be needed. What I DO want is to be pointed in the right direction on how I might track this down. For example, what is the path that this mangled email would take in this case? Even with full logging in Dovecot and postfix, I can't see any info on the path that this email follows in our system, and where it might be getting mangled. Does it actually go through the same path as an email that was actually sent to the IMAP account, or is it different when it is dragged in from another account in the same mail client? Is this more likely a problem with Postfix, or Sieve, or....? (I've disabled Amavis and SA to get them out of the picture, and same problem). Here's the dovecot config info; please let me know if you want any other config info, and thanks ahead of time! # dovecot --version 1.1.19 # dovecot -n # 1.1.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.28-hardened-r9 x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.13 protocols: imaps imap managesieve listen(default): 127.0.0.1:143 listen(imap): 127.0.0.1:143 listen(managesieve): 127.0.0.1:2000 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(managesieve): ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/imapd.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/imapd.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(managesieve): no valid_chroot_dirs: /var/mail first_valid_uid: 206 last_valid_uid: 206 first_valid_gid: 206 last_valid_gid: 206 maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): acl mail_plugins(imap): acl mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(managesieve): ~ sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(managesieve): ~/.dovecot.sieve namespace: type: private separator: . location: maildir:~/Maildir inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: . prefix: shared. location: maildir:/var/mail/shared list: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)jensenmaritime.com hostname: mail.jensenmaritime.com mail_plugins: cmusieve mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda sieve_global_path: /var/mail/.dovecot.sieve sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/deliver-auth auth lda: default_realm: jensenmaritime.com user: postmaster passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/lda-ldap.conf userdb: driver: static args: allow_all_users=yes user=%Lu uid=206 gid=206 home=/var/mail/%Lu socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/deliver-auth mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail auth default: mechanisms: PLAIN LOGIN default_realm: jensenmaritime.com user: postmaster passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/default-ldap.conf userdb: driver: static args: user=%Lu uid=206 gid=206 home=/var/mail/%Lu socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: acl: vfile # grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf uris = ldap://127.0.0.1:389/ ldap_version = 3 base = ou=users,ou=accounts,dc=jensenmaritime,dc=com scope = onelevel auth_bind = yes pass_filter = (&(objectClass=CourierMailAccount)(!(disableimap=*))(mail=%Lu)) pass_attrs = auth_username_format=%Lu # uname -a Linux milne 2.6.28-hardened-r9 #4 SMP Mon Jun 7 10:50:28 PDT 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux (Using Gentoo 64-bit Linux)

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Re: [Dovecot] Todays Performance Data for 2.0.x
by Timo Sirainen 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Dividing the imap processes's system CPU usage by number of imap processes: imap : 0.478872 of 975 imap : 0.460797 of 1242 imap : 0.409641 of 2482 imap : 0.424035 of 4711 imap : 0.488494 of 6148 imap : 0.56809 of 7031 imap : 0.734864 of 6965 So it's about 0.5 seconds of system CPU per imap login. I also get something like 0.3 seconds of system CPU per imap login on my system. Also setting: service imap { service_count = 0 } (i.e. reuse imap processes) reduced the system CPU usage to almost nothing. But if you use different UIDs for different users you can't do that. So, yeah, looks like the process initialization is wasting time somewhere. I'll look further into it.

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[Dovecot] Can't expand ~ for mail root dir
by Leo Baltus 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Hi, I am not an this list, I hope it gets through: We just moved from dovecot-1.2.12 to dovecot-2.0.6. One of our users wants his mail directly in his homedir which worked fine so far but with 2.0.6: Nov 09 15:19:25 imap(foo.bar(a)example.com): Error: user foo.bar(a)example.com: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: No home directory for system user. Can't expand ~ for mail root dir in: ~:INBOX=/e/ml/tech1/home/foo from dovecot.conf: userdb { args = /some/path/to/passwd driver = passwd-file } passwd: foo.bar@example.com::1019:1019:Foo Bar:/e/ml/tech1/home/foo::userdb_mail=maildir:~:INBOX=/e/ml/tech1/home/foo We've changed that for now: foo.bar@example.com::1019:1019:Foo Bar:/e/ml/tech1/home/foo::userdb_mail=maildir:/e/ml/tech1/home/foo:INBOX=/e/ml/tech1/home/foo ~/mail did work but was not desired by the user: foo.bar@example.com::1019:1019:Foo Bar:/e/ml/tech1/home/foo::userdb_mail=maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/e/ml/tech1/home/foo ~/ didn't work either: foo.bar@example.com::1019:1019:Foo Bar:/e/ml/tech1/home/foo::userdb_mail=maildir:~/:INBOX=/e/ml/tech1/home/foo -- Leo Baltus, internetbeheerder /\ NPO ICT Internet Services /NPO/\ Sumatralaan 45, 1217 GP Hilversum, Filmcentrum, west \ /\/ beheer(a)omroep.nl, 035-6773555 \/

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[Dovecot] mdbox & trash
by Daniel L. Miller 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Is there a way I can setup "trash" folders to be stored in a different subdirectory using mdbox? The goal is to provide a way to identify the trash folders for my backup solution (rsync) and avoid copying trash. -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] how can I use different LDAP config for LDA and AUTH?
by Zhou, Yan 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Hi there, I am setting up mail client with DoveCot and, at the same time, use Postfix to deliver message to DoveCot via LDA. I want to support having user name "jsmith" on my mail client, and that gets all messages for email address: dovecotdemo@domain. (The user name is different from what is in the email address). In addition, all user & password look up is handled by LDAP. Here is my problem: 1. my mail client will login as "jsmith", that goes through LDAP to find mail/home/password for this user. (this matches user name) 2. When postfix delivers a message, DoveCot LDA will find a match with email address "dovecotdemo@domain", it goes through the same LDAP configuration. (this matches email address). You can see the two search criteria are different, but by default they use the same passdb and userdb configuration. I want to use a different LDAP config. file for LDA to use, where it will match the email address (so that it is different from the default dovecot-ldap.conf, which is used by authentication). DoveCot Deliver can specify a separate configuration file with "-c", so I tried that. But I cannot get LDA to use a different configuration. Would should be an example of config file used by Deliver? Anyone running into this problem? Thanks, Yan NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. This message has been content scanned by the Axway MailGate. MailGate uses policy enforcement to scan for known viruses, spam, undesirable content and malicious code. For more information on Axway products please visit www.axway.com.

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[Dovecot] dovecot sieve plugin
by maximatt 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

hi... ¿exist some way to extract message body contect to a variable with dovecot sieve plugin? ¿:(? it's needed to do something like these: if address :matches ["From"] ["*"] { set "sender" "${0}"; <extract body content> # i try using something like "if body :raw :contains ["*"]" and use ${1} but i cant make work. set :encodeurl "body" "something more <body content>"; notify :message "Test msg from ${sender}" "mailto:someone@domain.com ?body=${body}"; } thanks in advance! ;) PD: sorry if these message could be off toppic. :( -- *Salu2 ;)*

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[Dovecot] 2.0, hourly performance stats
by Ralf Hildebrandt 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

I'm getting constantly high numbers of page reclaims & involuntary context switches for dovecot/auth. page reclaims = minor faults = cpu switching back to system-mode, But why is the auth process doing that so excessively? Same for the large number of involuntary context switches... Attached is my "dovecot -n" output. Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:40:34 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs auth 205.93 1.32 2.76 25280 0 0 0 0 0 261 1425 ssl-params 288.71 0.40 0.48 468 0 0 8 0 0 8 1 pop3 0.59 0.80 0.20 651 0 0 48 16 0 12 13 managesieve 0.51 0.00 0.28 576 0 0 416 0 0 13 7 imap 4677.82 0.19 0.89 1480 0 0 488 16 0 23550 136 pop3-login 181.77 0.32 0.28 780 0 0 8 0 0 46 9 Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:00:02 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs auth 303.62 1.10 2.20 26208 0 0 0 0 0 235 1362 ssl-params 301.12 0.00 0.12 467 0 0 8 0 0 7 1 pop3 0.26 0.40 0.36 618 0 0 0 8 0 5 18 managesieve 0.53 0.00 0.28 576 0 0 352 0 0 13 7 imap 2856.91 0.12 0.46 655 0 0 0 0 0 13465 105 pop3-login 228.84 0.76 0.24 779 0 0 0 0 0 90 14 Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:00:02 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs auth 243.12 0.99 4.56 23762 0 0 0 0 0 222 1419 ssl-params 301.25 0.40 0.80 471 0 0 8 0 0 6 4 pop3 0.43 0.40 0.80 623 0 0 0 8 0 6 4 managesieve 0.43 0.00 0.20 577 0 0 536 0 0 14 7 imap 3.63 0.16 0.36 669 1 0 856 0 0 63 93 pop3-login 181.81 0.60 0.40 782 0 0 0 0 0 52 53 Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:00:02 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs auth 232.83 1.72 2.26 25613 0 0 0 0 0 254 1175 ssl-params 149.63 0.00 0.16 469 0 0 40 0 0 10 1 pop3 25.68 0.28 0.12 741 0 0 9696 16 0 109 14 managesieve 0.25 0.40 0.28 576 0 0 8 0 0 11 2 imap 0.32 0.00 0.16 625 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 pop3-login 69.88 0.48 0.24 779 0 0 0 0 0 27 6 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:02 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs managesieve 0.29 0.00 0.36 576 0 0 8 0 0 7 16 imap 0.58 0.80 0.36 637 0 0 0 0 0 10 9 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:00:01 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs auth 421.98 1.32 1.66 24216 0 0 0 0 0 267 723 ssl-params 538.47 0.00 0.16 470 0 0 8 0 0 7 1 pop3 0.19 0.80 0.96 671 1 0 760 8 0 22 221 managesieve 0.63 0.40 0.13 578 0 0 192 0 0 9 11 managesieve-lo 18616.9 86.77 32.49 319768 1 0 168 0 0 63448 48838 imap 42.28 0.00 0.52 676 0 0 0 0 0 182 63 pop3-login 361.68 0.76 0.40 780 0 0 0 0 0 52 2 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:00:02 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs auth 592.76 0.97 1.40 23640 8 0 8272 0 0 307 321 ssl-params 676.93 0.00 0.24 468 0 0 136 0 0 18 10 pop3 6.10 0.24 0.44 672 1 0 1688 8 0 35 40 managesieve 0.71 0.12 0.14 572 5 0 1632 0 0 17 38 managesieve-lo 1023.50 1.45 0.46 6066 1 0 184 0 0 1104 317 imap 0.87 0.80 0.44 674 1 0 640 0 0 18 25 pop3-login 361.79 0.72 0.32 780 0 0 112 0 0 56 11 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 03:00:02 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs auth 600.71 0.96 1.18 22902 0 0 56 0 0 235 212 ssl-params 242.66 0.00 0.16 471 0 0 136 0 0 15 6 pop3 0.20 0.16 0.28 675 1 0 1312 8 0 32 15 managesieve 0.46 0.00 0.36 580 1 0 480 0 0 11 12 managesieve-lo 286.21 0.60 0.44 1048 1 0 184 0 0 50 88 imap 0.34 0.80 0.28 675 0 0 0 0 0 9 20 pop3-login 361.43 0.84 0.32 780 0 0 112 0 0 55 13 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 04:00:01 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs auth 587.34 0.90 1.52 22075 14 0 14288 0 0 443 375 ssl-params 275.27 0.00 0.12 469 0 0 136 0 0 14 15 pop3 23.90 0.37 0.80 2906 5 0 36856 24 0 3885 136 managesieve 0.45 0.12 0.16 577 1 0 472 0 0 10 20 managesieve-lo 357.38 0.14 0.52 1271 1 0 184 0 0 100 28 imap 0.42 0.00 0.40 671 0 0 0 0 0 9 56 pop3-login 363.16 0.12 0.64 782 0 0 112 0 0 263 23 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:00:01 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs auth 1005.53 0.91 1.60 21583 0 0 0 0 0 238 92 ssl-params 172.31 0.40 0.80 469 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 pop3 0.11 0.16 0.28 667 0 0 0 8 0 11 18 managesieve 0.42 0.80 0.20 577 0 0 520 0 0 13 4 managesieve-lo 84.84 0.80 0.52 1049 0 0 0 0 0 45 11 imap 0.51 0.12 0.76 664 0 0 0 0 0 10 11 pop3-login 361.78 0.64 0.28 773 0 0 0 0 0 13 2 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:00:01 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs auth 467.35 0.16 0.17 797 0 0 0 0 0 8 9 ssl-params 273.33 0.00 0.16 470 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 pop3 0.14 0.12 0.36 667 0 0 0 8 0 14 1 managesieve 0.20 0.00 0.28 576 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 managesieve-lo 640.83 0.13 0.44 1272 0 0 0 0 0 87 17 imap 0.33 0.40 0.32 665 0 0 0 0 0 10 47 pop3-login 362.87 0.60 0.24 774 0 0 0 0 0 13 3 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:00:02 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs auth 468.95 0.96 1.34 21628 0 0 0 0 0 243 218 ssl-params 83.87 0.00 0.12 469 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 pop3 0.11 0.16 0.24 667 0 0 0 8 0 11 6 managesieve 0.83 0.00 0.88 577 0 0 536 0 0 9 12 managesieve-lo 231.47 0.18 0.96 1381 0 0 0 0 0 106 17 imap 0.71 0.12 0.80 665 0 0 0 0 0 10 47 pop3-login 292.13 0.56 0.28 779 0 0 0 0 0 46 7 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:00:02 +0100 type real user sys reclaim faults swaps bin bout signals volcs involcs auth 452.63 0.83 1.44 20188 0 0 16 0 0 286 121 ssl-params 289.68 0.00 0.80 470 0 0 136 0 0 14 6 pop3 1.37 0.80 0.17 681 1 0 1936 16 0 55 28 managesieve 0.24 0.40 0.20 580 0 0 256 0 0 14 5 managesieve-lo 1952.41 4.93 1.58 18647 0 0 8 0 0 3673 1339 imap 0.17 0.40 0.19 665 0 0 0 0 0 6 48 pop3-login 96.75 0.60 0.28 777 0 0 112 0 0 41 14 -- 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] Expunge -A cannot find users
by Kilburn Abrahams 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Hi List, If I use doveadm expunge in this format expunge will delete the email doveadm expunge -u test(a)planetseafood.com mailbox Archive ON '8-Nov-2010' But in this format doveadm expunge -A mailbox Archive ON '8-Nov-2010', it will list all the users in the database and display the following and no messages are expunged. doveadm(test@planetseafood.com@planetseafood.com): Info: User no longer exists, skipping. The iterate_query = SELECT username AS username, domain FROM mailbox which is correct for the DB layout. I am not using the expire plugin. Is this a permissions issue? Thanks Kilburn

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[Dovecot] Estimación de horas del cambio a Dovecot 2.0
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Actualmente tenemos dovecot 1.2.15 que ha demostrado ser bastante estable, pero con el que podemos tener problemas de corrupción en ficheros de índices de Dovecot (dovecot-uidlist). Este problema, podría llegar a ocasionar la descarga de todos los correos desde el cliente del usuario. En Dovecot 2.0 tenemos una mejor gestión sobre NFS mediante un nuevo sistema llamado director. Con este director se consigue que dovecot haga a su vez de proxy/balanceador e intente direccionar las conexiones de un usuario a un mismo servidor si este permite conexiones. En resumen, conseguimos evitar escrituras "concurrentes" sobre cachés de NFS que podrían ocasionar corrupción en determinados índices de dovecot. Para este cambio básicamente deberíamos repetir ciertas pruebas que hemos realizado para dovecot 1.2 así como ciertas tareas. 1. Actualizar configuración 2. Actualizar plugin TrataSPAM (MarcaSPAM/DesmarcaSPAM) Usando skel creado por Timo durante las sesiones de Málaga. 3. Pruebas de tiempos de indexado con SQUAT 4. Búsquedas concurrentes. 5. Pruebas de IMAP IDLE. 6. Migración { Keywords, suscriptions, flags, status...} 7. Condiciones de estrés. 8. Actualizar Doc. En una primera estimación. El total de estas tareas no debería superar las 45-50 horas. A cambio obtendríamos: 1. Un mejor soporte por parte de Timo. 2. doveadm para realizar búsquedas, gestión del director, pruebas de depuración... 3. Mejoras en el comportamiento ante storage en NFS. 4. Mejoras en la coordinación con SOLR para cuando comencemos con el buscador avanzado con ficheros adjuntos. 5. Mejoras para conexiones concurrentes. La razón por la que no empezamos directamente con dovecot 2.0 es porque no preveíamos que fuera relativamente estable en poco tiempo. Observando la lista de correos y después de la conversación con Timo, la última release de dovecot 2.0 es lo suficientemente estable como para usarse en sistemas de producción. Si lo creéis necesario, podemos organizar una reunión para tomar la decisión, aunque sí que esta reunión debería ser para esta semana o a principios de la siguiente.

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[Dovecot] dovecot + sieve
by maximatt 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Hi, In ower mail system we use postfix and dovecot v1.2.10 with sieve plugin and i think is work fine but..... i need to have access to variables values like in these test script require ["enotify", "variables", "envelope"]; keep; notify :importance "1" :message "TEST SIEVE ${from}: ${subject}" "mailto:i_not_exist@hotmail.com"; but when i receive message, the values for "${from}" and "${subject}" are empty. i don't know the reasons about these (i'm some lost with these issue).. if help ... i put in master.cf (postfix) these value for dovecot delivery: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mail:mail argv=/etc/dovecot/libexec/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} ¿is here the problem or what could be? thanks in advance! *Salu2 ;)*

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 91, Issue 18
by Alan Brown 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

> From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] emails getting mangled when dragging from > Exchange account to IMAP shared folders > On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 16:18 -0700, Scott Goodwin wrote: >> FYI, I got rawlog working and it shows the same break in the raw logs as in >> the broken headers. >> Below is a snippet from the rawlog (names and other identifiers redacted). >> The offending sequence is always in the References headers section, and you >> can see the line breaks there that show this. So it sounds like this can't >> be an issue with Dovecot, am I right? > > Yeah, sounds like Outlook breaks with huge headers. That's one huge > References header you have. Summarising mail standards (WRT headers) There is a limit of 4096 characters per line. If Outlook is breaking at less than that it's a bug. If the References: line is longer than that then it should have been truncated by the sending MUA - there's no provision for multiline References headers (which are a non-standardised import from Usenet anyway).

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[Dovecot] Sieve not working
by Christoph Pleger 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hello, I installed dovecot 2.0.6 and pigeonhole 0.2.1 on my system, but I guess that sieve is not working, because netstat does not show that anything is listening to ports 2000 and 4190. Regards Christoph # 2.0.6 (601065674f74): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.6 auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 122 last_valid_uid = 122 mail_gid = vmail mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox 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 passdb { args = scheme=MD5-CRYPT username_format=%Ln /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap lmtp 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 = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = username_format=%Ln /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " sieve" }

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[Dovecot] Last login tracking with login_executable
by Denny Lin 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hi, I'm using Dovecot 1.2.14, and I've read PostLoginScripting on the wiki. Is there any way to make Dovecot use the same username/password for database access as userdb and passdb queries? Specifying the password with -p doesn't seem like a good idea, so I'm wondering if it can be handled by Dovecot directly. Or is it possible to track last logins with a plugin similar to quota? -- Denny Lin

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[Dovecot] Keep a copy of email.
by Henrique Fernandes 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Can dovecot-lda, keep a copy of any email that it receives in a diferente folder ? Like if user(a)domain.com get an email. It goes to user(a)domain.com inbox and goes to other folder..diferente that his mailboxes ? I want this with all users. Can it be done ? If not, does any one have any ideia how could it be done ? We are having serius problems with backups, with this we gona be able to at least save one or two days of each emails, than rotate them again. I though about using postfix always_bcc, but would be everyones emails only in one account. Though in migh use sieve for filter this acount and separete it for each folder.. but i don't guess sieve could get a parameter from the email to make a filter.. or can it ? like, if email from user2(a)domain.com it goes to user2 folder, but this user2 would be variable, otherwise i have to create a sieve too bigm and would work i guess. Well, i am open to ideas. Thanks! []'sf.rique

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[Dovecot] anti-spam+anti-malware suggestions
by Jose Luis Faria 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hello people, I am using now qmail in cluster with LDAP + Interscan Messaging Security Suite from Trendmicro. I need to develop a new solution with: - postfix - dovecot - anti-spam - anti-malware. I am thankful any help or suggestion for anti-spam and anti-malware. Thanks in advance! -- :) cumprimentos ---------------------- José Luís Faria Network Eng./Administrador de Sistemas Departamento de Informática Universidade do Minho Braga, Portugal

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[Dovecot] Getting plugin config by user
by Alex Baule 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

There is a native way to set/get a configuration to one plugin, to various users ? Like this: my_plugin{ user_a=configurations user_b=configurations user_...... user_z=configurations } I Have plugin and it can be enable/disabled by user. And i have a lot of users, like 10 m. i think if i do like this: my_plugin { configurations=user_a,user_b,user....,user_z } Can get much memory to read every line of configuration... Tks !

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[Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...
by Charles Marcus 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Timo, If I want to provide decent body search capability, what is the best/most reliable/easiest to implement method to use? -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] Authentication a la Postfix's Mynetworks
by Asai 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Is it possible to automatically authenticate Dovecot users using the same type of mechanism which makes Postfix able to simply check SMTP users using the mynetworks variable? Basically I would like to be able to authenticate users on my designated networks automatically, and require a password for those outside this network. Is this possible? -- --asai

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[Dovecot] Error: user Initialization failed: namespace configuration error: inbox=yes namespace missing
by Per Jessen 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

In my email archiving setup, no user will have an inbox (regular mail is taken care of by another system). Is it not possible to configure a dovecot setup without an inbox? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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[Dovecot] create Sub-Subfolders
by Richard Gliebe 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hi all, this is my first post to this list, and hope someone can help me ;-) I'm running dovecot.x86_64 1.0.7-7.el5 on a CentOS release 5.5 (Final) box. when a user tries to create a sub-subfolder in Archiv, he gets the message: "Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes" Mailclient is MS Outlook 2003 SP3 is there a spezial configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf needed? MailLocation is by default in /etc/dovecot: # See doc/wiki/Variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # 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 # # <doc/wiki/MailLocation.txt> # #mail_location = Users have there IMAP folders in "~/mail" # pwd /home/bema/mail # ls -l total 552 -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 9 16:21 Archiv -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 7 12:04 Aufgaben -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 4 16:05 Drafts -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 7 12:03 Gel&APY-schte Objekte -rw------- 1 bema bema 553349 Aug 7 12:05 Gesendete Objekte -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 7 11:50 Junk-E-Mail -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 7 12:04 Postausgang -rw------- 1 bema bema 887 Aug 7 12:05 Sent -rw------- 1 bema bema 0 Aug 4 16:05 Trash many thanks Richard

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[Dovecot] SIS Error
by Daniel L. Miller 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Came across this in the logs... Nov 3 16:08:00 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Error: Attachment file /var/mail/attachments/dc/73/dc7398c85dd02efe8a14fe6cc019b2cf07eec600-d5ca962aaae7d14c587400003bc41c5f size mismatch: 122626 != 165655 There's about a dozen different file entries listed in the error log. I'm using 2.0.6, mdbox, and the mails are stored on a local XFS partition. I did recently start running xfs_fsr to defragment - could that do anything? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Anvil client_limit reached
by Juergen Obermann 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Hello, we have the following problem: Nov 3 09:43:33 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.warning] master: Warning: service(anvil): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Nov 3 09:51:33 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] imap-login: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil) failed: Connection refused Nov 3 09:51:33 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.crit] imap-login: Fatal: Couldn't connect to anvil Nov 3 09:52:42 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] pop3-login: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil) failed: Connection refused Nov 3 09:52:42 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.crit] pop3-login: Fatal: Couldn't connect to anvil Nov 3 09:52:42 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] imap-login: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil) failed: Connection refused Nov 3 09:52:42 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.crit] imap-login: Fatal: Couldn't connect to anvil At that time I counted 2030 imap processes from 995 users and 1106 imap-login processes. What can I do to set an appropriate client_limit for anvil? The configuration is: # doveadm config -n # 2.0.5: /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v auth_verbose = yes default_client_limit = 3000 default_process_limit = 300 disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = xxx.xxx.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 = quota 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 } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de protocols = imap pop3 service auth { client_limit = 5720 } service imap { process_limit = 4096 } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/server.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/server.key syslog_facility = local0 userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes version_ignore = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } minerva{root}2509:/ # grep anvil /var/log/locallog minerva{root}2510:/ -- 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] sdbox-format and sa-learn(spamassassin)
by Ingo Thierack 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Hello, is it somehow possible to use sa-learn on sdbox-mailboxes? Maybe i can use dsync to "mirror" the mailboxes(only the spam-subfolder) to another location and convert it to mbox or maildir and act then on it with sa-learn? I know the antispam-Plugin, but until now no success, to get it running. So I think about an way, to learn via sa-learn on an file which i can process. Regards Ingo

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[Dovecot] remote hot site, IMAP replication or cluster over WAN
by Stan Hoeppner 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Taking a survey. 1. How many of you have a remote site hot backup Dovecot IMAP server? 2. How are you replicating mailbox data to the hot backup system? A. rsync B. DRBD+GFS2 C. Other Thanks. -- Stan

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[Dovecot] automatic un-subscribe ?
by Per Jessen 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Is there a way for an unsubscribe from a previously (auto-)subscribed folder? I'm building an email archiving system, and archived mails are organized by annum. A user will have e.g. 3 years of archive available. Currently that would mean this user would be auto-subscribed to private folders named 2007, 2008, 2009 and current. Starting January 2011 though that would change to 2008, 2009, 2010 and current. Is there a way of auto-unsubscribing 2007 ? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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[Dovecot] deliver + quota
by Manuel Mausz 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hi list, can someone please explain me the following behaviour of deliver in combination with fs-quota and reading from stdin: > # repquota -a | grep ud_3p5 > ud_3p5 -- 4464 10240 12288 10 0 0 > # stat -c "%s" /tmp/mymail > 4524853 so there's enough space for this mail > # su ud_3p5 -s/bin/sh -c "cat /tmp/mymail | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -e; echo \$?" > sda6: warning, user block quota exceeded. > sda6: write failed, user block limit reached. > Not enough disk space > 77 vs. > # su ud_3p5 -s/bin/sh -c "/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -p /tmp/mymail -e; echo \$?" > 0 Must have something to do with create_raw_stream inside deliver.c System is running Dovecot v1.2.13 Thanks, / manuel

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[Dovecot] Running 2.x in production
by Monika Janek 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hi! I'm setting up a new server and migrating from Cyrus to Dovecot. What would be the most stable version to install on a production system. Would 2.x be alright? I'm feeling lucky. System is Debian Lenny. Thanks for any information! Monika -- Monika Janek Systems Administrator, Side Effects Software Toronto, Ontario Canada 416-504-9876 x207 www.sidefx.com

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[Dovecot] Know when a Folder is Expunged or Deleted
by Alex Baule 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hi Timo and Everyone.... There is a way to know when a folder it's been deleted ? And if this folder is empty ? Let's explain why... I intercept the expunge function, to treat my files expunged, but when i expunge a folder, this function it's not called, and my emails don't get my treatment to be expunged. Basically i need to do something like this: It's empty ? No --> return OK but Dont Delete folder, because it's not empty. Yes --> Return OK and Delete the Folder to be expunged. Tks !

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[Dovecot] Virtual inbox folder bug
by Antonio Henrique Oliveira 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hi all, I've been using dovecot as our internal mail server for quite some time. It works very well. Each of our mailboxes have 1000+ messages (some have more than 4-5000 messages). I have recently started using virtual folders and, using an adaptation of an example script in the dovecot site (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual) to have a virtual folder changed to act as inbox. All of my email is delivered in some folder other than the real inbox via sieve scripts. My inbox is, therefore, a virtual folder, which only displays the unread emails on all the folders in the account. Everything works fine *except* that, when I mark an email as read or when I open an email directly on the inbox, it does not disappear from the inbox (as it should since it is not unread after being open or being marked as read). I'm not sure if this is a bug, a "feature", or a misconfiguration.... :) I'm using dovecot 1.2.13 on Debian Etch (installed using the backports repository). Attached is the file with the output of "dovecot -n", the script for the virtual folder and the custom login script to change the virtual folder to act as the inbox. I'm using Thunderbird 3.1.6 on Windows XP SP3 as the main mail client and also using an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy) to access the same account. Regards, -- Anto'nio Henrique A. Proenca de Oliveira "Although we can never go back, like an old sweet song with a strong refrain, memories remain" - (Someone) Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html $Id: .signature,v 1.5 2008/03/13 11:22:00 tat Exp tat $

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[Dovecot] Config review (2.0.5)
by Ralf Hildebrandt 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Since I have these performance problems after migration to 2.0.5 I'm publishing my config for review. Can anybody spot any obvious signs of trouble? # 2.0.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic-pae i686 Debian squeeze/sid auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no auth_master_user_separator = * mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # wegen webmail! mail_max_userip_connections = 1024 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 # Namespace für courier-compatibilitaet namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } # fuer user*masteruser logins passdb { args = /usr/dovecot-2/etc/dovecot/dovecot.masteruser driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } # Authorisierung via PAM, /etc/pam.d/dovecot auth_cache_size = 64 M passdb { args = cache_key=%u driver = pam } # User via passwd userdb { driver = passwd } # plugin Konfiguration plugin { # mailboxen anlegen und subscriben autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = spam autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = spam autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts # FullTextSearch fts = squat # Quota quota = maildir quota_rule = INBOX.Trash:storage=+2048M quota_warning = storage=99%% quota-warning 99 %u quota_warning2 = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning3 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning4 = storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u # Sieve sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve # Trash (wenn Mailbox voll, dann Trash und spam leeren) trash = /usr/dovecot-2/etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf } # Wir sprechen alles protocols = imap sieve pop3 # unix domain socket fuer Postfix service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } # imap-login Prozess # high performance mode service imap-login { service_count = 0 } # der eigentliche IMAPD service imap { drop_priv_before_exec = yes process_limit = 2048 } # managesieve-login, wird nur genutzt von webmail aus service managesieve-login { service_count = 0 inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } # der eigentliche managesieve service managesieve { drop_priv_before_exec = yes process_limit = 128 } # pop3-login Prozess # high performance mode service pop3-login { service_count = 0 # kein pop3, nur pop3s! inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } } # der eigentliche pop3 service pop3 { drop_priv_before_exec = yes process_limit = 512 } # die ganzen SSL Zertifikate ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/cert-188235905-postamt.charite.de-g02.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/postamt.key # schoene Ausgabe in ps auxwww verbose_proctitle = yes version_ignore = yes mail_fsync = never maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes # globale settings, die anderen werden ja nach Protokoll individuell ergaenzt! mail_plugins = notify mail_log # imap kann am meisten protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota imap_quota trash fts fts_squat autocreate } # pop3 hat workarounds protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_lock_session = yes pop3_uidl_format = %v-%u } # LDA macht noch zusaetzlich sieve quota trash protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve quota trash postmaster_address = postmaster(a)charite.de quota_full_tempfail = yes syslog_facility = local4 } # der schickt die Quota warnmails service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/scripts/quota-warning2 user = root unix_listener quota-warning { mode = 0666 user = vmail group = users } } -- 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 1.1.20 on OS X - ACL deliver Problem
by R. Svejda 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

I am trying to create an archive postoffice by bcc all e-mail from the "real" mail server to an existing OS X server and by setting all ACL to read-only. Problem: deliver reports: "Fatal: mail_full_filesystem_access=yes is incompatible with ACLs" It seems, that the failure is independent of the existence of an ACL file. I cannot change machines (must be OS X) and I do not like to compile anything on that box (but I could re-configure stuff). Can anybody help how to get around this error with existing hard and software? Thanks in advance, Radim from /var/log/mailaccess.log (fatal error towards the end) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib01_acl_plugin.so deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib10_quota_plugin.so deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so Nov 1 20:02:26 osxmini2010 dovecot[3662]: auth(default): master in: USER 1 rsw service=deliver Nov 1 20:02:26 osxmini2010 dovecot[3662]: auth(default): od(rsw): lookup user=rsw Nov 1 20:02:26 osxmini2010 dovecot[3662]: auth(default): od(rsw): directory lookup for: user=rsw deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: auth input: rsw deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: auth input: uid=1026 deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: auth input: gid=20 deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: auth input: quota=maildir:User quota:noenforcing deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: auth input: quota_rule=*:storage=1024000 deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: auth input: mail=maildir:/var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: auth input: mail_location=maildir:/var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: auth input: sieve=/var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E/dovecot.sieve deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: auth input: sieve_dir=/var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: auth input: sieve_storage=/var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E Nov 1 20:02:26 osxmini2010 dovecot[3662]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](rsw): uid=1026 gid=20 state=0xe quota=1000 guid=3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E name=RSw loc=osxmini2010.fos4.intra alt=(null) fwd=(null) Nov 1 20:02:26 osxmini2010 dovecot[3662]: auth(default): od(rsw): user RSw exists more than once Nov 1 20:02:26 osxmini2010 dovecot[3662]: auth(default): od(rsw): record name=RSw, uid=1026, gid=20 deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: Quota root: name=User quota backend=maildir args=noenforcing deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=1048576000 messages=0 deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: Quota warning: bytes=1048576000 (100%) messages=0 command=/usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-exceeded.sh deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: maildir: data=/var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: maildir++: root=/var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: acl: acl username = rsw deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: acl: owner = 1 deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (null) deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: acl: acl username = rsw deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: acl: owner = 1 deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Info: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (null) deliver(rsw): Nov 01 20:02:26 Fatal: mail_full_filesystem_access=yes is incompatible with ACLs Nov 1 20:02:26 osxmini2010 dovecot[3662]: auth(default): od(rsw): user=RSw, quota=*:storage=1024000 Nov 1 20:02:26 osxmini2010 dovecot[3662]: auth(default): od(rsw): data store location=maildir:/var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E Nov 1 20:02:26 osxmini2010 dovecot[3662]: auth(default): master out: USER 1 rsw uid=1026 gid=20 quota=maildir:User quota:noenforcing quota_rule=*:storage=1024000 mail=maildir:/var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E mail_location=maildir:/var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E sieve=/var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir=/var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E sieve_storage=/var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/3BB7256A-B055-4DC3-AD4E-79B34DCAB96E <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< from dovecotd -n (aka dovecot -n on normal Linux) PS: despite Darwin "10.4.1" it is a updated 10.6. Snow Leopard Server >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> # 1.1.20apple0.5: /private/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 10.4.1 x86_64 hfs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot syslog_facility: local6 protocols: managesieve pop3 imap listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(pop3): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 ssl_disable: yes ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL disable_plaintext_auth: no 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 login_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_user: _dovecot login_process_per_connection: no max_mail_processes: 200 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 6 first_valid_gid: 6 mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_process_sharing(default): full mail_process_sharing(imap): full mail_process_sharing(pop3): full mail_process_sharing(managesieve): none mail_max_connections(default): 5 mail_max_connections(imap): 5 mail_max_connections(pop3): 5 mail_max_connections(managesieve): 20 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota acl mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota acl mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(pop3): sieve_storage(managesieve): /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/%u sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(pop3): sieve(managesieve): /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/%u/dovecot.sieve lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)example.com hostname: osxmini2010.fos4.intra mail_plugins: cmusieve quota acl quota_full_tempfail: yes sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master log_path: /var/log/mailaccess.log info_log_path: /var/log/mailaccess.log auth default: mechanisms: plain login gssapi master_user_separator: * verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/masteruser.passdb master: yes passdb: driver: od userdb: driver: od args: partition=/etc/dovecot/partition_map.conf enforce_quotas=no socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: _dovecot group: mail plugin: quota_warning: storage=100%% /usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-exceeded.sh quota: maildir:User quota sieve: /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts/%u/dovecot.sieve acl: vfile <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

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Re: [Dovecot] Upgrading from 1.2.8 to 2.0.6: INBOX not selectable in Thubderbird (greyed and italic)
by Michele Bergonzoni 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

> Timo Sirainen wrote: >> What about full doveconf -n output? I couldn't reproduce with just >> those namespace settings. root@mason:/usr/local# dovecot/bin/doveconf -n # 2.0.6: /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.6/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.4.34.5 i686 Slackware 9.0.0 disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_trusted_networks = 192.168.2.80 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace { inbox = yes location = maildir:~/Maildir prefix = INBOX. type = private } namespace { list = yes location = maildir:/usr/local/shared prefix = shared. subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { args = /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.6/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)labs.it protocols = imap pop3 ssl_ca = </etc/certificati/star.labs.it.chain.crt ssl_cert = </etc/certificati/star.labs.it.crt ssl_key = </etc/certificati/star.labs.it.key userdb { args = /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.6/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep } Noncomment lines of ldap.conf are: hosts = localhost:10389 dn = cn=Manager,dc=labs,dc=it dnpass = <...omissis...> tls = no base = ou=People, dc=labs, dc=it user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,qmailUID=uid,qmailGID=gid, mailMessageStore=mail pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password default_pass_scheme = SSHA (Sorry Timo, I replied to you instead of the list) Well, this is a quite old system with 2.4 kernel and /lib/libc-2.3.1.so (dating back to 2003). If this turns out to be the problem, shame to me for not upgrading this beast. Stan wrote: > What errors are in your Tbird Activity Manager? Those may be > helpful. Activity manager and error console are both completely silent. > Upgrading a server component as client component simultaneously is a > recipe for disaster You are perfectly right: I had the problem with 3.1.5, and upgraded it just before writing to the list. I also removed all the TB profiles in C:\Documents and settings, and deleted/created the account a few times. Since Timo said it is not immediate to reproduce, I post the whole IMAP conversation up to that point: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. 1 authenticate plain + <...omissis...> 1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE 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] Logged in 2 namespace * NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) NIL (("shared." ".")) 2 OK Namespace completed. I hope I am not wasting your time on a problem affecting only systems of age > 8 years. Thanks and regards to all, Bergonz

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Re: [Dovecot] Mailing lists in Dovecot?
by Peter Reinhold 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Someone wrote (Probably you), and the time was 16:45 01-11-2010 >>I was wondering if anyone could recommend a >>simple mailing list manager that plays well >>with a Postfix/Dovecot setup, with virtual domains? >depends on what you exactly needs. postfix alone >may do the job, or it may not. anyway, post to >the postfix-users list with more details. I am using a postfix virtual users/domains setup (hosting multiple domains with multiple users), with SQL lookup. What I need is to be able to define a mailing list on a given domain, so that mails received on that one address will be sent to a multiple of users, with the sender e-mail changed to be the address of the mailing list, so replies are sent straight to the list, and not the original sender. >Otherwise, mailman isn't hard to setup. and you >get the benefits of a "real" list manager. I looked at this, does this play well with Dovecot in the above mentioned configuration? Kind Regards, Peter Reinhold - peter(a)reinhold.dk > http://www.reinhold.dk & http://www.geekhouse.dk < -- QOTD : Abel Spendabel, vil du se min sabel, jeg er DRÆBER kapabel! .. Morten K, unavngivet træf, '97

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[Dovecot] Wrong protocol in socket (director-doveadm vs director) ?
by Edward Carraro 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

I just noticed this error in my logs: director: Error: doveadm not compatible with this server (mixed old and new binaries?) director: Error: director(10.161.192.28:541/right): Wrong protocol in socket (director-doveadm vs director) The first error I removed by changing director_doveadm_port = 541 to director_doveadm_port = 542 Not really sure why that fixed it. The second error I don't know how to clear. I found this thread, http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-July/051022.html but it didn't work for me. If I create a new service for dovecot-doveadm service director-doveadm { inet_listener { port = 542 } } Then I get a new error saying: service(director-doveadm): executable is empty here is my original 10-director.conf file (i'm using dovecot 2.0.6) director_doveadm_port = 541 service director { unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0600 } inet_listener { port = 541 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director } service pop3-login { executable = pop3-login director } service managesieve-login { executable = managesieve-login director } protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/director-userdb passdb { driver = static args = proxy=y nopassword=y port=24 } }

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.5 crash when It cannot remove maildir
by Len7hir 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

This is scenario that cause segmentation fault in my Dovecot. Maybe I do something wrong, but I don't know what... We run: mailbox_delete mailbox_delete do: mailbox_open(box) < 0 and after we have: box->v.delete(box) which run index_storage_mailbox_delete index_storage_mailbox_delete do: mailbox_close(box); and now mailbox is closed (this close box->view and mailbox open) Try to delete folder, but can't do this... example becaus it is system folder, or NFS failure... set error message and return -1. Now we are returning to mailbox_delete. And we have: if (ret < 0 && box->marked_deleted) and this is true mailbox_mark_index_deleted(box, FALSE) if (box->marked_deleted && del) this is false mail_index_transaction_begin(box->view, trans_flags); mail_index_view_ref(view) and segmentation fault, because view is 0x0 #0 mail_index_view_transaction_ref (view=0x0) at mail-index-view.c:81 #1 0xb7ef3214 in mail_index_transaction_begin (view=0x0, flags=MAIL_INDEX_TRANSACTION_FLAG_EXTERNAL) at mail-index-transaction.c:268 #2 0xb7eb7a73 in mailbox_mark_index_deleted (box=0x80c8268, del=false) at mail-storage.c:682 #3 0xb7eb80a9 in mailbox_delete (box=0x80c8268) at mail-storage.c:757 #4 0x0805001f in cmd_delete (cmd=0x8095978) at cmd-delete.c:46 #5 0x0805625c in client_command_input (cmd=0x8095978) at imap-client.c:741 #6 0x0805630b in client_command_input (cmd=0x8095978) at imap-client.c:791 #7 0x0805646d in client_handle_input (client=0x8095390) at imap-client.c:857 #8 0x08056f1f in client_input (client=0x8095390) at imap-client.c:908 #9 0xb7e6f110 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x806c370) at ioloop-epoll.c:212 #10 0xb7e6da98 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x806c370) at ioloop.c:350 #11 0xb7e5b26a in master_service_run (service=0x806c2c0, callback=0x805f800 <client_connected>) at master-service.c:496 #12 0x0805f6da in main (argc=1752462689, argv=0x73616d2d) at main.c:358 This is Dovecot error or I do something wrong? -- Len7hir

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[Dovecot] Problem with namespace (maybe bug?)
by l.chelchowski 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hi! Could you tell me what is wrong with an "existence" of mailbox? Please see the two examples: . list "" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Junk" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Archives" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Public/AddressBook" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Public/PublicMails" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "Shared/dziobak" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "Shared/tester2" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Shared/dziobak/root" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "Shared/tester2/sdfgsg" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "Shared/tester2/sdfgsg/gsdfgf" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "Shared/tester2/sdfgsg/gsdfgf/vtyjyfgj" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "Shared/tester2/sdfgsg/gsdfgf/vtyjyfgj/rtdhrthxs" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Shared/tester2/sdfgsg/gsdfgf/vtyjyfgj/rtdhrthxs/zhfhg" . OK List completed. This looks OK. . list (subscribed) "" "*" * LIST (\Subscribed) "/" "Trash" * LIST (\Subscribed) "/" "Junk" * LIST (\Subscribed) "/" "Sent" * LIST (\Subscribed) "/" "Drafts" * LIST (\Subscribed \NonExistent) "/" "Public/AddressBook" * LIST (\Subscribed \NonExistent) "/" "Public/PublicMails" * LIST (\Subscribed \NonExistent) "/" "Public/" * LIST (\Subscribed) "/" "Archives" * LIST (\Subscribed \NonExistent) "/" "Shared/dziobak/root" * LIST (\Subscribed \NonExistent) "/" "Shared/tester2/sdfgsg" * LIST (\Subscribed \NonExistent) "/" "Shared/tester2/sdfgsg/gsdfgf" * LIST (\Subscribed \NonExistent) "/" "Shared/tester2/sdfgsg/gsdfgf/vtyjyfgj" * LIST (\Subscribed \NonExistent) "/" "Shared/tester2/sdfgsg/gsdfgf/vtyjyfgj/rtdhrthxs" * LIST (\Subscribed \NonExistent) "/" "Shared/tester2/sdfgsg/gsdfgf/vtyjyfgj/rtdhrthxs/zhfhg" * LIST (\Subscribed \NonExistent) "/" "Shared/" . OK List completed. Why the public and shared mailboxes have flag \NonExistent? Here is a cut of dovecot -n # 1.2.14: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE i386 namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: Public/ location: maildir:/home/public/Maildir:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/index/public list: children namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: Shared/%%u/ location: maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/index/shared/%%u list: children plugin: autocreate: Trash autocreate2: Junk autocreate3: Sent autocreate4: Drafts autocreate5: Archives autosubscribe: Trash autosubscribe2: Junk autosubscribe3: Sent autosubscribe4: Drafts autosubscribe5: Public.AddressBook autosubscribe6: Public.PublicMails autosubscribe7: Archives acl: vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/acls acl_shared_dict: file:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/shared/shared-mailboxes.db Could you tell me where is the problem, is it a bug or my config mistake? -- Pozdrawiam Łukasz

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[Dovecot] Help with implementing quota warning
by Joy 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Dear All, I am using the latest version of doveot-2.0.6 and using dovecot-lda to deliver mail in to Maildir. I have successfully implemented the global quota as well as per user quota using ldap for storing per user quota. Now i am trying to send warning message when user exceed quota limit of 80% and 95% but unable to implement the same. Here is the output of doveconf -n # 2.0.6: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686 Ubuntu 10.10 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no hostname = mail.example.net lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = * log_path = /var/log/imap login_greeting = IMAP4 and POP3 server ready to serve you. mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " acl quota" passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot-acl/acl:cache_secs=3600 autocreate = Sent Items autocreate2 = Drafts autocreate3 = Spam autocreate4 = Deleted Items autosubscribe = Sent Items autosubscribe2 = Drafts autosubscribe3 = Spam autosubscribe4 = Deleted Items quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_warning = storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 %u } postmaster_address = admin(a)example.net protocols = imap pop3 service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = dovecot } ssl = no userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " acl quota" } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " acl quota autocreate imap_acl imap_quota" } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = " acl quota" } Here is quota-warning.sh content #!/bin/sh PERCENT=$1 USER=$2 cat << EOF | /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d $USER -o "plugin/quota=maildir:User quota:noenforcing" From: postmaster(a)teamgenesys.net Subject: quota warning Your mailbox is now $PERCENT% full. Please delete unnecessary mail or request more space. This is an automated message, please do not respond. EOF All the users are virtual users and running under vmail id. I am getting the following error in log file when user reaches 80% of defined quota limit Error: quota: net_connect_unix(/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh) failed: Connection refused Is it configuration issue or anyting else ?? Thanks hoping to get response ....

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.5 - multiple auth processes.
by Marek Miska 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hi. On Dovecot 1.2.x it is possible to run multiple auth daemons. Is it possible on dovecot 2.0.x ? (Setting "process_min_avail" for auth service gives this error message: "doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: service(auth): process_min_avail is higher than process_limit") Sample configuration for dovecot 1.2.8: auth default { count = 10 mechanisms = plain passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = root } auth lda { mechanisms = plain passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = root socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0666 } } }

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[Dovecot] mail_attachment_hash
by Daniel L. Miller 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

What happens if this setting gets changed - after the system has been running for some time? Are the old attachments lost? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Help Dovecot / vpopmail auth process...
by postmaster＠cyborspace.com 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Please forgive my previous posts, sending mail manually since i cant get the auth to work. Thought i had the body cut and pasted correctly. I am pulling my hair out, i think I know what is wrong - i just cant find out how to fix it. Using Debian - lenny it appears that the auth process - is not looking for / seeing the proper file or database for the lookup. i would like it to point to the cdb file stored ~/domains/%d/ <---- assuming the %d = domains - and the file would then be vpasswd.cdb...... Let me know if i need to post anything else to help. 2010-10-30 15:35:58.147617500 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth 2010-10-30 15:35:58.147852500 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=27491) 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149434500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x10, ret=1: before/accept initialization [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149436500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: before/accept initialization [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149437500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 read client hello A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149437500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write server hello A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149438500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write certificate A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149444500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write server done A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149445500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 flush data [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149446500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client certificate A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149446500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client certificate A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177505500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 read client key exchange A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177507500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 read finished A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177508500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write change cipher spec A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177508500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write finished A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177509500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 flush data [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177532500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x20, ret=1: SSL negotiation finished successfully [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177533500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=1: SSL negotiation finished successfully [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.287127500 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=172.16.150.30 rip=70.62.148.223 lport=993 rport=46817 2010-10-30 15:35:58.287210500 auth: Debug: client out: CONT 1 2010-10-30 15:35:58.307138500 auth: Debug: client in: CONT 1 AHJ4YmF1ZXJAcGhhdGFuaGFwcHkuY29tADUxNjIzMQ== 2010-10-30 15:35:58.307139500 auth: Debug: vpopmail(rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com,70.62.148.223): lookup user=rxbauer domain=phatanhappy.com 2010-10-30 15:35:58.307140500 auth: Info: vpopmail(rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com,70.62.148.223): unknown user 2010-10-30 15:36:00.308541500 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 1 user=rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com 2010-10-30 15:36:00.379057500 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=172.16.150.30 rip=70.62.148.223 lport=993 rport=46817 resp=AHJ4YmF1ZXJAcGhhdGFuaGFwcHkuY29tADUxNjIzMQ== 2010-10-30 15:36:04.380615500 auth: Debug: vpopmail(rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com,70.62.148.223): lookup user=rxbauer domain=phatanhappy.com 2010-10-30 15:36:04.380707500 auth: Info: vpopmail(rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com,70.62.148.223): unknown user 2010-10-30 15:36:06.380535500 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 2 user=rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com dovecot --version 2.0.6 dovecot -n # 2.0.6: /usr/local/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 /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf:350: namespace private {} has been replaced by namespace { type=private } # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.6 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /dev/stderr default_client_limit = 2000 default_process_limit = 200 default_vsz_limit = 512 M first_valid_uid = 100 hostname = mail.cyborspace.com info_log_path = /dev/stderr log_path = /dev/stderr log_timestamp = mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { driver = vpopmail } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)cyborspace.com service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = 172.16.150.30 port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { address = 172.16.150.30 port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { driver = vpopmail } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes A A A A A

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[Dovecot] Namespace subscription issue
by Brad Davidson 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

I'm a little confused about how public namespaces work with subscriptions. If I set subscriptions=no and subscribe to the folders, the subscription entries go into the user's private subscription file and that's fine. However, I am unable to pull their status with the LIST-EXTENDED extension. Normal listing works OK: A0004 LIST "" "*" RETURN (STATUS (MESSAGES UNSEEN)) * LIST (\NonExistent) "/" "Public" * LIST () "/" "Public/Public One" * STATUS "Public/Public One" (MESSAGES 0 UNSEEN 0) * LIST () "/" "Public/Public One/Sub 1" * STATUS "Public/Public One/Sub 1" (MESSAGES 0 UNSEEN 0) * LIST () "/" "Public/Public One/Sub 2" * STATUS "Public/Public One/Sub 2" (MESSAGES 0 UNSEEN 0) * LIST () "/" "Public/Public Two" * STATUS "Public/Public Two" (MESSAGES 0 UNSEEN 0) * LIST () "/" "Public/Read-only" * STATUS "Public/Read-only" (MESSAGES 1 UNSEEN 0) A0004 OK List completed. Listing SUBSCRIBED (or LSUB) fails: A0003 LIST (SUBSCRIBED) "" "*" RETURN (STATUS (MESSAGES UNSEEN)) * LIST (\Subscribed) "/" "Public/Public One" * NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Public.Public One * LIST (\Subscribed) "/" "Public/Public One/Sub 1" * NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Public.Public One.Sub 1 * LIST (\Subscribed) "/" "Public/Public One/Sub 2" * NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Public.Public One.Sub 2 * LIST (\Subscribed) "/" "Public/Public Two" * NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Public.Public Two * LIST (\Subscribed) "/" "Public/Read-only" * NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Public.Read-only A0003 OK List completed. If I set subscriptions=yes it works OK, but then the subscriptions are shared unless I override SUBSCRIPTIONS in the mail location. Is this working as designed? Here's what I ended up doing - is there a better way? namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = maildir:%h/Maildir prefix = ~/mail/ separator = / type = private } namespace { type = public separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/var/mail/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/public:SUBSCRIPTIONS=~/Maildir/ public/subscriptions subscriptions = yes } --- Brandon 'Brad' Davidson Virtualization Systems Administrator University of Oregon Information Services (541) 346-8098 brandond(a)uoregon.edu

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[Dovecot] What causes the quota information to get updated?
by Patrick Westenberg 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hello, if new mails arrive, the quota information is updated and reported via imap immediately. However, after deleting a message, nothing happens. Even if I delete all messages and the mailbox e.g. was over quota, new mails won´t be accepted because the mailbox is over quota. Is this the way it should be or a misconfiguration? # 2.0.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.5 auth_mechanisms = plain login log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_debug = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = quota mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { quota = dict:User quota::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota quota_rule2 = INBOX.Trash:storage=+50M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=5%% quota-warning 5 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_global_path = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } protocols = imap sieve service imap-login { service_count = 1 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } service_count = 1 } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/imap_wk-serv_net.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/certs/imap_wk-serv_net.key userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota }

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[Dovecot] LDAP acl_groups - can multivalue LDAP be used
by ian+dovecot＠comtek.co.uk 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hi, Is there some kind of way to get acl_groups out of LDAP without having to maintain an entry with a list of groups 'a,b,c' and so on? Our groups have a list of 'member' attributes with CNs pointing at users. Ideally there would be a way to look this up directly. Alternately I could perhaps use an OpenLDAP overlay to show 'group' attributes for each user's ldap entry. I would then like to be able to tell it to get all 'group' attributes and comma-separate them. The best option I've seen so far is something like http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-March/047731.html which seems to involve a completely separate LDAP session from a login script. Thanks in advance for any help, Ian

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[Dovecot] problem with folder creation
by John Watson 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

I am running dovecot 1.2.12 on Free BSD 8.1. We also have postfix and a version of squirrelmail for the UI. We are using MySql database to store the email account info. I wrote a script to insert about 100K users into mysql. Those accounts seem to work well and I'm able to see things like 'Drafts', 'Trash' and 'Sent'. Now I am working on code to create new accounts - one at a time. The accounts get created and I can send and receive email from them but when I go go Drafts, Sent or Trash I get an error that says: ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: SELECT "INBOX.Drafts" Reason Given: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX.Drafts When I go out and look at the mailbox folders for these users I only see "cur", "new", and "tmp" whereas on other accounts that work well I also see things like INBOX.Drafts etc. I have examined the sql that is inserting the accounts in bulk versus the one by one case and can not see any differences (other than a new mailbox name/password etc). Everything that I'm reading online indicates that Dovecot should just create these extra folders on the server and there is really nothing for either an admin or a user to do. Does anyone have any more information on this? Thanks in Advance John Watson

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[Dovecot] Doveadm-Expunge v2.0.5
by Kui Zhang 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hello Few questions regarding Doveadm-Expunge. 1. I have lazy expunge configure with this name space: .EXPUNGED Storage type: mdbox doveadm -Dv expunge -u user@domain mailbox ".EXPUNGED/*" savedbefore 7d I get some interesting outputs. doveadm(user@domain): Debug: expunge: box=.EXPUNGED/INBOX/mon uid=791 doveadm(user@domain): Debug: expunge: box=.EXPUNGED/INBOX/mon uid=792 doveadm(user@domain): Debug: expunge: box=.EXPUNGED/INBOX/mon uid=793 .... doveadm(user@domain): Info: expunge: box=INBOX/mon, uid=196, msgid=<E1OwJm4-0000j4-1l@domain>, size=1856 doveadm(user@domain): Info: expunge: box=INBOX/mon, uid=197, msgid=<E1OwJmP-0000pr-4M@domain>, size=1756 doveadm(user@domain): Info: expunge: box=INBOX/mon, uid=198, msgid=<E1OwJpP-0002Hp-Pu@domain>, size=1810 doveadm(user@domain): Info: expunge: box=INBOX/mon, uid=199, msgid=<E1OwJqw-0002y7-AF@domain>, size=1766 doveadm(user@domain): Info: expunge: box=INBOX/mon, uid=200, msgid=<E1OwJud-0004ba-Fe@domain>, size=1890 ... So what is the diff between "Debug: expunge" and "Info: expunge". Anything done to "Info: expunge"? I am assuming the "debug: expunge" are the only entries with actions. And "Info: expunge" is not doing anything. I ran doveadm purge -u user@domain after. I did not notice any missing emails. Sorry for the trivial question, I just want to make sure not mail would disappear, all of sudden. 1.A. Would not it be faster not to enumerate for large mailboxes (30-40GB - Maildir)? Is it possible to add a switch, to select single user expunge behavior? ref: http://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg32322.html 2. Also. expunge does not appear to remove empty mailboxes, is this a bug or intentional? If intentional, why? Any way to automated removal of empty mailboxes? Thank you KuiZ

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[Dovecot] Maildir and Index max size
by Emmanuel Gonzalez Carmona 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hi all, I was wondering if any of you had configured a Mailbox with >= 5GB of space with LDA indexing enabled on it. I'm trying to understand the limits to Dovecot (if there are any) regarding maildirs/indexes max size. Reading in the documentation i didn't found anything concerning this issue. Any experience with this? Emmanuel Gonzalez Carmona

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[Dovecot] double mail
by Marcin 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hello, I installed new mail server postfix + dovecot with beckend in postgresql. But when users not deleted mail from server then received all mails from maildir a few everyday..In dovecot logs I can't see any problem. He use outlook or thunderbird with pop3. What is problem whit this? dovecot --version 1.0.7 dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info.log syslog_facility: local0 listen: * ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem 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 login_processes_count: 20 first_valid_uid: 100 mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/mail/virtual/%n 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/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix

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[Dovecot] mdbox - how do I fix corrupted indexes?
by Odhiambo Washington 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

I am unable top pop mail from my server, using mdbox: Nov 02 16:35:08 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<wash(a)domain.co.ke>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.40.79, lip=192.168.40.252, mpid=36052 Nov 02 16:35:09 pop3(wash(a)domain.co.ke): Error: Corrupted dbox file /var/spool/virtual/domain.co.ke/wash/mdbox/storage/m.1 (around offset=1941): Ex t refs metadata corrupted: 3861 783856 75/80/75805ed445f1b8b31508dba8d86280a37a74aec1-fabfb11f9f80654ced090000dcbe1dcb Nov 02 16:35:09 pop3(wash(a)domain.co.ke): Error: Corrupted dbox file /var/spool/virtual/domain.co.ke/wash/mdbox/storage/m.1 (around offset=1941): ui d=5 points to broken data at offset=1911 Nov 02 16:35:09 pop3(wash(a)domain.co.ke): Error: Corrupted dbox file /var/spool/virtual/domain.co.ke/wash/mdbox/storage/m.1 (around offset=1941): Ex t refs metadata corrupted: 3861 783856 75/80/75805ed445f1b8b31508dba8d86280a37a74aec1-fabfb11f9f80654ced090000dcbe1dcb Nov 02 16:35:09 pop3(wash(a)domain.co.ke): Error: Corrupted dbox file /var/spool/virtual/domain.ke/wash/mdbox/storage/m.1 (around offset=1941): ui d=5 points to broken data at offset=1911 Nov 02 16:35:09 pop3(wash(a)domain.co.ke): Warning: mdbox /var/spool/virtual/ domain.co.ke/wash/mdbox/storage: rebuilding indexes Nov 02 16:35:09 pop3(wash(a)domain.co.ke): Info: Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=11/5110, del=10/11, size=803031 This process of "rebuilding indexes" is never ending! -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!

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[Dovecot] problem namespace
by fakessh ＠ 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hello dovecot network hello timo hello all others reader I do not use the namespace notation in my dovecot configuration. I use Maildir mailboxes that get stuck in /home users. my question is simple I advise you to use the namespace and what should be its own configuration. I use lda to issue the emails my dovecot -n ~]# /usr/sbin/dovecot -n # 2.0.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32.2-xxxx-grs-ipv4-32 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) auth_mechanisms = plain login base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ dict { expire = db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db } imap_capability = +IDLE listen = [::] log_path = /var/log/maillog log_timestamp = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date spamtest spamtestplus virustest passdb { driver = pam } plugin { expire = Trash/* 7 expire_dict = proxy::expire plugin = autocreate managesieve sieve sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/sieve-scripts/roundcube.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_path = whatever } protocols = sieve imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0666 } vsz_limit = 256 B } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { address = * port = 993 } process_limit = 128 vsz_limit = 64 B } service managesieve-login { inet_listener managesieve-login { address = * port = 2000 } process_limit = 128 vsz_limit = 64 B } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { address = * port = 995 } process_limit = 128 vsz_limit = 64 B } ssl_ca = </etc/pki/tls/certs/root.crt ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/r13151.ovh.net.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/r13151.ovh.net.key ssl_verify_client_cert = yes userdb { driver = passwd } version_ignore = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_max_line_length = 64 k mail_plugins = autocreate expire } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = autocreate expire pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s } protocol lda { hostname = r13151.ovh.net mail_plugins = autocreate sieve expire postmaster_address = postmaster(a)fakessh.eu sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot managesieve_logout_format = bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 } - -- http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x092164A7 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 092164A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFMzr6ItXI/OwkhZKcRAhW6AJ9K4aO2G8yjYmXEzCjFSo9ZlpoWdgCfUGbB n6Ou4PPn52GNz95pJVe1tqw= =Qg1z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Differences between IPv4 and IPv6 authentication
by Tony Meyer 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hi, I have Dovecot listening on both IPv4 and IPv6, and can connect on both interfaces, but cannot authenticate over IPv6, using exactly the same credentials as IPv4. I assumed that the same authentication mechanisms would be used, regardless of the protocol being used - are there differences somewhere? For example: ~$ telnet server1.teststable.simplyspamfree.com 143 Trying 2a01:4f8:100:12c1:bc:28:b2:34... Connected to server1.teststable.simplyspamfree.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Training System v2.8.30038 ready. 0 login training XXXXXXXX 0 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. 0 logout * BYE Logging out 0 OK Logout completed. ~$ telnet -4 server1.teststable.simplyspamfree.com 143 Trying 188.40.178.56... Connected to server1.teststable.simplyspamfree.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Training System v2.8.30038 ready. 0 login training XXXXXXXX 0 OK [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 QUOTA] Logged in 0 logout * BYE Logging out 0 OK Logout completed. Any insight would be appreciated, thanks! Cheers, Tony ~$ dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.3-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.6 log_path: /var/log/spamexperts/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S listen: *, [::] disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 100 mail_privileged_group: mail fsync_disable: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable: /home/spamexperts/post-login.sh mail_plugins: acl quota imap_quota expire imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql-maint.conf passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql-maint.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf plugin: quota: maildir acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-acls expire: Caught 30 expire_dict: proxy::expire dict: expire: mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-expire-mysql.conf

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[Dovecot] fts_solr on debian lenny dovecot 1.2.15
by a＠test123.ru 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hello, I cannot run FTS SOLR engine. OS is debian lenny. I re-compiled debian package (from backports) with --with-solr option. Dovecot loads fts_solr plugin. I know that it loads plugin because if I remove lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so, dovecot does not start. But it does not attempt to communicate with SOLR. Simple check: stop solr tomcat, and open 8080 port in netcat: $nc -l -p 8080 dovecot never tries to connect to 8080 when I search message by IMAP. I removed indexes, it did not help. Config is: ================== # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.24-28-openvz i686 Debian 5.0.6 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot log_path: info_log_path: log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S syslog_facility: mail protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(pop3): * listen(managesieve): localhost:2000 ssl_listen: ssl: yes ssl_ca_file: ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/test123/test123.full.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/test123/priv/test123.key ssl_key_password: ssl_parameters_regenerate: 168 ssl_cipher_list: ssl_cert_username_field: commonName ssl_verify_client_cert: no disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: no shutdown_clients: yes nfs_check: yes version_ignore: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login login_user: dovecot login_greeting: Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements: user= method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format: %$: %s login_process_per_connection: yes login_chroot: yes login_trusted_networks: login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 3 login_max_processes_count: 128 login_max_connections: 256 valid_chroot_dirs: mail_chroot: max_mail_processes: 512 mail_max_userip_connections: 10 verbose_proctitle: no first_valid_uid: 500 last_valid_uid: 500 first_valid_gid: 1 last_valid_gid: 0 mail_access_groups: mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: mail_gid: mail_location: maildir:~/mail:INDEX=~/index mail_cache_fields: mail_never_cache_fields: imap.envelope mail_cache_min_mail_count: 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval: 30 mail_debug: no mail_full_filesystem_access: no mail_max_keyword_length: 50 mail_save_crlf: no mmap_disable: no dotlock_use_excl: yes fsync_disable: no mail_nfs_storage: no mail_nfs_index: no mailbox_list_index_disable: yes lock_method: fcntl maildir_stat_dirs: no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: no maildir_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_read_locks: fcntl mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mbox_lock_timeout: 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout: 120 mbox_min_index_size: 0 mbox_dirty_syncs: yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_lazy_writes: yes dbox_rotate_size: 2048 dbox_rotate_min_size: 16 dbox_rotate_days: 1 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: no mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_process_size: 256 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota fts fts_solr mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota fts fts_solr mail_plugins(pop3): quota fts fts_solr mail_plugins(managesieve): 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 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve mail_log_prefix: %Us(%u): mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 10 imap_max_line_length: 65536 imap_capability: imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): imap_logout_format: bytes=%i/%o imap_id_send: imap_id_log: imap_idle_notify_interval: 120 pop3_no_flag_updates: no pop3_enable_last: no pop3_reuse_xuidl: no pop3_save_uidl: no pop3_lock_session: no pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_logout_format: top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s dict_db_config: dict_process_count: 1 managesieve_max_line_length: 65536 managesieve_logout_format(default): bytes=%i/%o managesieve_logout_format(imap): bytes=%i/%o managesieve_logout_format(pop3): bytes=%i/%o managesieve_logout_format(managesieve): bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) managesieve_implementation_string: dovecot lda: postmaster_address: root123(a)test123.ru hostname: test123.ru sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins: quota sieve log_path: info_log_path: auth default: mechanisms: cram-md5 plain login realms: default_realm: cache_size: 0 cache_ttl: 3600 cache_negative_ttl: 3600 executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth user: nobody chroot: username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ username_translation: username_format: master_user_separator: anonymous_username: anonymous krb5_keytab: gssapi_hostname: winbind_helper_path: /usr/bin/ntlm_auth failure_delay: 2 verbose: no debug: no debug_passwords: no ssl_require_client_cert: no ssl_username_from_cert: no use_winbind: no count: 1 worker_max_count: 30 process_size: 256 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf deny: no pass: no master: no userdb: driver: passwd args: userdb: driver: prefetch args: userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: mail master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: mail plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_rule: Trash:storage=50Mb quota_rule: Deleted Items:storage=50Mb acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls trash: /etc/dovecot/trash.conf fts: solr fts_solr: url=http://localhost:8080/solr debug sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve sieve_global_path: /var/vmail/sieve/default.sieve sieve_before: /var/vmail/sieve/default.sieve ============= Despite of "debug" flag, nothing about solr appears in mail.err log. Can someone help me to figure out what is wrong?

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[Dovecot] Converting to 2.0 and LMTP have userdb and auth-worker complaints
by Maple Thorpe 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Using rpms and converted dovecot.conf with doveconf. Need assistance to determine how to resolve 'auth-worker' and userdb complaint. logging into mysql from commandline with mail admin acct and using dovecot sql query is successful but the following fails: doveadm auth -x service=imap -x lip=127.0.0.1 john Password: passdb: john auth failed extra fields: temp doveadm(root): Fatal: Couldn't connect to auth socket sudo /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap -u john Error: userdb lookup(john): Disconnected unexpectedly Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. sudo /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap -u john(a)homenet.lan Error: userdb lookup(john(a)homenet.lan): Disconnected unexpectedly Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Additional info: ------------------ dovecot log messages ------------------ Nov 02 03:27:39 master: Info: Dovecot v2.0.1 starting up (core dumps disabled) Nov 02 03:27:50 lmtp(17281): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox= Nov 02 03:27:50 lmtp(17281): Info: Connect from local Nov 02 03:27:50 auth: Fatal: net_connect_unix(auth-worker) failed: Permission denied Nov 02 03:27:50 lmtp(17281): Error: userdb lookup(john(a)homenet.lan): Disconnected unexpectedly Nov 02 03:27:50 lmtp(17281): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox= Nov 02 03:27:50 lmtp(17281): Info: Connect from local Nov 02 03:27:50 lmtp(17281): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox= Nov 02 03:27:50 lmtp(17281): Info: Connect from local Nov 02 03:27:50 lmtp(17281): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox= Nov 02 03:27:50 lmtp(17281): Info: Connect from local Nov 02 03:27:50 lmtp(17281): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox= Nov 02 03:27:50 lmtp(17281): Info: Connect from local Nov 02 03:27:50 master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling Nov 02 03:28:50 auth: Fatal: net_connect_unix(auth-worker) failed: Permission denied Nov 02 03:28:50 lmtp(17281): Error: userdb lookup(john(a)homenet.lan): Disconnected unexpectedly Nov 02 03:28:51 master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling ------------------ postfix log messages ------------------ Nov 2 03:27:50 roxie postfix/lmtp[17342]: 98F39122892: to=<john(a)homenet.lan>, relay=mail.homenet.lan[private/dovecot-lmtp], conn_use=8, delay=38251, delays=38069/182/0.01/0.07, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (host mail.homenet.lan[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 451 4.3.0 <john(a)homenet.lan> Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. (in reply to RCPT TO command)) ------------------ doveconf -n ------------------ # 2.0.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686 i686 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir/ passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } plugin { trash = /etc/dovecot/trash.conf } protocols = imap lmtp service auth-worker { group = postfix user = postfix } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = postfix } service imap { executable = imap } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } shutdown_clients = no ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/mail-server-ssl.cert ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/mail-server-ssl.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } userdb { driver = prefetch } protocol imap { imap_max_line_length = 65536 } ------------------ dovecot-mysql.conf ------------------ driver = mysql connect = "host=127.0.0.1 dbname=virtual user=virt password=letmein password_query = \ SELECT userid AS user, password, \ home AS userdb_home, uid AS userdb_uid, gid AS userdb_gid \ FROM vusers WHERE userid = '%Ln' AND domain = '%Ld' # For deliver lookups: user_query = \ SELECT home, uid, gid FROM vusers WHERE userid = '%Ln' AND domain = '%Ld' # For using doveadm -A: iterate_query = SELECT userid AS username, domain FROM users ------------------ dirs ------------------ ls -l /var/spool/postfix/private/ total 0 srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 anvil srw-rw---- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 2 03:27 auth srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 bounce srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 defer srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 discard srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 07:46 dovecot srw-rw---- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 2 03:27 dovecot-lmtp srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 error srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 lmtp srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 local srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 proxymap srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 proxywrite srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 relay srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 retry srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 rewrite srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 scache srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 smtp srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 smtp-amavis srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 tlsmgr srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 trace srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 verify srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Nov 1 16:18 virtual ls -l /var/run/dovecot/ total 12 srw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 03:27 anvil srw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 03:27 anvil-auth-penalty srw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 03:27 auth-client srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Nov 2 03:27 auth-login srw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 03:27 auth-master srw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 03:27 auth-userdb srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Nov 2 03:27 auth-worker srw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 03:27 config srw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 03:27 dict srw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 03:27 director-admin srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 03:27 dns-client srw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 03:27 doveadm-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Nov 2 03:27 dovecot.conf -> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 25 08:12 empty srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 03:27 lmtp drwxr-x--- 2 root dovenull 4096 Nov 2 03:27 login -rw------- 1 root root 6 Nov 2 03:27 master.pid A nudge into the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Problem with excel and word attachements ?
by Frank Bonnet 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hello We are in (random) troubles with some emails that contains word and excel attachements ( others attachements are OK ) I don't really think Dovecot is implied in this trouble but I want to be sure ... The problem is users cannot open attachements from their clients ( thunderbird 3.1 ) it stays in "download" mode until timeout. Maybe there is a Dovecot's workaround to solve that boring problem ? Thank you

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[Dovecot] Shared mailboxes in dovecot
by Jay Mobile 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hi, i hve a requirement of setting up two folders which should be shared only to selected users only. Pls note that my users are virtual and reside on mysql db. im using maildir as storage. lets assume user A wants to share a folder named shared with user B only. how can i get this done? Regards Jay

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[Dovecot] Linux Bootup: Dovecot Failure
by Christopher Metter 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi there! Im using a dovecot system in combination with postfix(with dovecot lda) and ldap. Till today it ran well, but before switching to live, i did some system updates and at the reboot following message occured: Starting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecoUnexpected first line <localhost: timed out, nothing received> (First it says: "Starting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecot ", but then something fails and overrides the "t" of dovecot with "Unexpected.... ") I don't know when this error occured first, but it only goes away if i delete dovecot from autostart at bootup (by renaming dovecot-file in /etc/rc2.d/ ) No error shown in /var/log/mail.* or syslog Apart from showing this message, system is running perfectly. Users can login, receive their mail and produce new mail-traffic with postfix ;) ATM i really dont know what to do, im near switching to live status of this system and that message is annoying me. Didnt find any information on the net. Hope someone on this list can give an helpful advice Dovecot version: 1.2.15 Greetings from Germany, Christopher Metter dovecot -n: http://nopaste.info/0447cd09ba.html Boot log: http://nopaste.info/index.html

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[Dovecot] Mailing lists in Dovecot?
by Peter Reinhold 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could recommend a simple mailing list manager that plays well with a Postfix/Dovecot setup, with virtual domains? It really just has to be very simple, basically, an alias would work, if I could rewrite the sender address/name, and I don't really need the possibility for users to subscribe via e-mail based commands. I've looked at the XEXEC plugin as a possible method of doing this, via some Perl perhaps, anyone has any experience using this they would like to share? Mvh, Peter Reinhold / peter(a)reinhold.dk

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[Dovecot] auth child abort - "Requested NTLM scheme, but we have only SSHA256"
by LEVAI Daniel 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi! I noticed these messages in my logs. It seems that the user checked the "encrypted password" in her outlook or something, and wants NTLM auth. I'm storing all the passwords as SSHA256, and when the user tries to auth, this happens: => dovecot.info auth: Info: password(<username>,<user_ip>): Requested NTLM scheme, but we have only SSHA256 auth: Debug: sql(<username>,<user_ip>): query: SELECT username AS user, password, home AS userdb_home, uid AS userdb_uid, gid AS userdb_gid, userdb_import AS userdb_userdb_import FROM userdb WHERE auth_username = '<username>' AND login = 'enabled' => dovecot.log auth: Error: sql(<username>,<user_ip>): Multiple password values not supported auth: Panic: file passdb-sql.c: line 113 (sql_query_callback): assertion failed: (password == NULL || scheme != NULL) master: Error: service(auth): child 10679 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - set service auth { drop_priv_before_exec=yes }) Is this an error condition if I store the password in a different scheme than what user is requesting? Thanks, Daniel -- LÉVAI Dániel PGP key ID = 0x83B63A8F Key fingerprint = DBEC C66B A47A DFA2 792D 650C C69B BE4C 83B6 3A8F

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[Dovecot] Testing pop3/imap4 and mdbox corrupted indexes?
by Odhiambo Washington 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

I have two questions: 1. What method/tool (other than a MuA) can I use to test my Dovecot setup from Windows CLI when ssl is enabled? I have tried connecting to to the pop3/imap4 services from a Windows PC but here is what I get: [pop3] +OK Dovecot-2.0-sis ready. user wash(a)domain.co.ke -ERR Plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure (SSL/TLS) connections. [imap4] OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED AUTH=DIGEST-MD5] Dovecot-2.0-sis ready. login wash(a)domain.co.ke S3ecreat BAD [ALERT] Plaintext authentication not allowed without SSL/TLS, but your client did it anyway. If anyone was listening, the password was exposed. NO [PRIVACYREQUIRED] Plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure (SSL/TLS) connections. 2. When mdbox indexes are corrupted, are they automatically repaired/rebuilt or must I specify this in the configuration? How long does it take? Nov 01 12:08:04 pop3(wash(a)domain.co.ke): Error: Corrupted dbox file /var/spool/virtual/domain.co.ke/wash/mdbox/storage/m.1 (around offset=1941): Ex t refs metadata corrupted: 3861 783856 75/80/75805ed445f1b8b31508dba8d86280a37a74aec1-fabfb11f9f80654ced090000dcbe1dcb Nov 01 12:08:04 pop3(wash(a)domain.co.ke): Error: Corrupted dbox file /var/spool/virtual/domain.co.ke/wash/mdbox/storage/m.1 (around offset=1941): ui d=5 points to broken data at offset=1911 Nov 01 12:08:04 pop3(wash(a)domain.co.ke): Warning: mdbox /var/spool/virtual/ domain.co.ke/wash/mdbox/storage: rebuilding indexes When I connect using outlook, I see this on Outlook: Task 'wash(a)domain.co.ke - Receiving' reported error (0x800CCC90) : 'Your incoming (POP3) e-mail server has reported an internal error. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP). The server responded: -ERR Message 5 expunged.' This rebuild process seems to be taking too long:) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!

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[Dovecot] Testing simscan
by postmaster＠cyborspace.com 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

I am pulling my hair out, i think I know what is wrong - i just cant find out how to fix it. Using Debian - lenny it appears that the auth process - is not looking for / seeing the proper file or database for the lookup. i would like it to point to the cdb file stored ~/domains/%d/ <---- assuming the %d = domains - and the file would then be vpasswd.cdb...... Let me know if i need to post anything else to help. 2010-10-30 15:35:58.147617500 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth 2010-10-30 15:35:58.147852500 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=27491) 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149434500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x10, ret=1: before/accept initialization [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149436500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: before/accept initialization [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149437500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 read client hello A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149437500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write server hello A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149438500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write certificate A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149444500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write server done A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149445500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 flush data [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149446500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client certificate A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149446500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client certificate A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177505500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 read client key exchange A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177507500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 read finished A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177508500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write change cipher spec A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177508500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write finished A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177509500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 flush data [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177532500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x20, ret=1: SSL negotiation finished successfully [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177533500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=1: SSL negotiation finished successfully [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.287127500 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=172.16.150.30 rip=70.62.148.223 lport=993 rport=46817 2010-10-30 15:35:58.287210500 auth: Debug: client out: CONT 1 2010-10-30 15:35:58.307138500 auth: Debug: client in: CONT 1 AHJ4YmF1ZXJAcGhhdGFuaGFwcHkuY29tADUxNjIzMQ== 2010-10-30 15:35:58.307139500 auth: Debug: vpopmail(rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com,70.62.148.223): lookup user=rxbauer domain=phatanhappy.com 2010-10-30 15:35:58.307140500 auth: Info: vpopmail(rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com,70.62.148.223): unknown user 2010-10-30 15:36:00.308541500 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 1 user=rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com 2010-10-30 15:36:00.379057500 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=172.16.150.30 rip=70.62.148.223 lport=993 rport=46817 resp=AHJ4YmF1ZXJAcGhhdGFuaGFwcHkuY29tADUxNjIzMQ== 2010-10-30 15:36:04.380615500 auth: Debug: vpopmail(rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com,70.62.148.223): lookup user=rxbauer domain=phatanhappy.com 2010-10-30 15:36:04.380707500 auth: Info: vpopmail(rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com,70.62.148.223): unknown user 2010-10-30 15:36:06.380535500 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 2 user=rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com dovecot --version 2.0.6 dovecot -n # 2.0.6: /usr/local/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 /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf:350: namespace private {} has been replaced by namespace { type=private } # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.6 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /dev/stderr default_client_limit = 2000 default_process_limit = 200 default_vsz_limit = 512 M first_valid_uid = 100 hostname = mail.cyborspace.com info_log_path = /dev/stderr log_path = /dev/stderr log_timestamp = mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { driver = vpopmail } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)cyborspace.com service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = 172.16.150.30 port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { address = 172.16.150.30 port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { driver = vpopmail } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes A A A A A

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[Dovecot] Testing simscan
by postmaster＠cyborspace.com 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

I am pulling my hair out, i think I know what is wrong - i just cant find out how to fix it. Using Debian - lenny it appears that the auth process - is not looking for / seeing the proper file or database for the lookup. i would like it to point to the cdb file stored ~/domains/%d/ <---- assuming the %d = domains - and the file would then be vpasswd.cdb...... Let me know if i need to post anything else to help. 2010-10-30 15:35:58.147617500 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth 2010-10-30 15:35:58.147852500 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=27491) 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149434500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x10, ret=1: before/accept initialization [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149436500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: before/accept initialization [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149437500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 read client hello A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149437500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write server hello A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149438500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write certificate A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149444500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write server done A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149445500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 flush data [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149446500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client certificate A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.149446500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client certificate A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177505500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 read client key exchange A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177507500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 read finished A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177508500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write change cipher spec A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177508500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write finished A [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177509500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 flush data [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177532500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x20, ret=1: SSL negotiation finished successfully [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.177533500 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=1: SSL negotiation finished successfully [70.62.148.223] 2010-10-30 15:35:58.287127500 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=172.16.150.30 rip=70.62.148.223 lport=993 rport=46817 2010-10-30 15:35:58.287210500 auth: Debug: client out: CONT 1 2010-10-30 15:35:58.307138500 auth: Debug: client in: CONT 1 AHJ4YmF1ZXJAcGhhdGFuaGFwcHkuY29tADUxNjIzMQ== 2010-10-30 15:35:58.307139500 auth: Debug: vpopmail(rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com,70.62.148.223): lookup user=rxbauer domain=phatanhappy.com 2010-10-30 15:35:58.307140500 auth: Info: vpopmail(rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com,70.62.148.223): unknown user 2010-10-30 15:36:00.308541500 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 1 user=rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com 2010-10-30 15:36:00.379057500 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=172.16.150.30 rip=70.62.148.223 lport=993 rport=46817 resp=AHJ4YmF1ZXJAcGhhdGFuaGFwcHkuY29tADUxNjIzMQ== 2010-10-30 15:36:04.380615500 auth: Debug: vpopmail(rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com,70.62.148.223): lookup user=rxbauer domain=phatanhappy.com 2010-10-30 15:36:04.380707500 auth: Info: vpopmail(rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com,70.62.148.223): unknown user 2010-10-30 15:36:06.380535500 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 2 user=rxbauer(a)phatanhappy.com dovecot --version 2.0.6 dovecot -n # 2.0.6: /usr/local/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 /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf:350: namespace private {} has been replaced by namespace { type=private } # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.6 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /dev/stderr default_client_limit = 2000 default_process_limit = 200 default_vsz_limit = 512 M first_valid_uid = 100 hostname = mail.cyborspace.com info_log_path = /dev/stderr log_path = /dev/stderr log_timestamp = mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { driver = vpopmail } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)cyborspace.com service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = 172.16.150.30 port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { address = 172.16.150.30 port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { driver = vpopmail } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes A A A A A

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[Dovecot] [OT] dovecot appliance
by Johan Hendriks 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hello all. I am reading the mailinglist for a long time now, and there was a thread i believe called webgui or something. In this thread there was a company i believe german, that was working on a dovecot appliance with a web based gui to administrate a dovecot mail server. The problem is i did not save the URL of that company. Does anyone know which company make the appliance. Or does anyone knows a good webbased tool for dovecot. The reason is that in a windows environment, with only a few FreeBSD machine's , my collega's get frustrated if they can not use a mouse. They even want a mouse on there smartphone's :D I am doing the administration of the mail server, but when i am not there, it would be nice if they can do things them selves. thanks for your time. regards, Johan Hendriks

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Re: [Dovecot] Cron Mail deliver process dying from postfix sendmail.
by Wietse Venema 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Ravindra Gupta // Viva: > Dear Team, > > I am using postfix to sending the mail,but some time postfix is working > very slow.Please give the advice how to improve profermance of postfix to > send the fast mail. Please DO NOT ask a NEW question by replying to OLD MAIL.

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[Dovecot] Cron Mail deliver process dying from postfix sendmail.
by Jerrale G 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.sheltoncomputers.com X-SC-Mail-Server-Queue-ID: B84AF1B60004 X-SC-Mail-Server-Sender: rfc822; system17(a)sheltoncomputers.com Arrival-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:37:02 -0400 (EDT) Final-Recipient: rfc822; admin(a)sheltoncomputers.com Original-Recipient: rfc822; root Action: failed Status: 5.3.0 Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; internal software error Part 1.2 Subject: Cron <root@server1> /etc/weeklybackup From: system17(a)sheltoncomputers.com (Cron Daemon) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:37:02 -0400 (EDT) To: system17(a)sheltoncomputers.com Return-Path: <system17(a)sheltoncomputers.com> Received: by mail.sheltoncomputers.com (SC Mail Server, from userid 0) id B84AF1B60004; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:55:50 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> Message-ID: <20101029085550.B84AF1B60004(a)mail.sheltoncomputers.com> why would this be happening? the deliver process dies and this didn't start happening until I added "-e", as someone here volunteered a great idea, to the transport of postfix. There is an alias in postfix for this admin address as a catch all box for creating tickets to the right departments for abuse@ postmaster@ and admin@. ALL other mail delivers perfectly but I dont know whats with crontab on this mail server. Thanks Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] Upgrading from 1.2.8 to 2.0.6: INBOX not selectable in Thubderbird (greyed and italic)
by Michele Bergonzoni 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

I recently upgraded from 1.2.8 to 2.0.6, I am using Maildir, and Thunderbird is showing the INBOX grayed out and in italics, and does not show new messages in it (it shows messages previously downloaded). This occurs when Thunderbird is restarted (if I upgrade dovecot, TB keeps working fine until I shut it down, and at next startup it greys out the inbox). All the subfolders of INBOX work fine. Accessing with horde+imp webmail works fine. I'm using TB 3.1.6 After some traffic capturing, The first difference I see in the IMAP exchange is the answer to 6 list "" "INBOX" Which for 1.2.8 is: LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX" and for 2.0.6 is: LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "INBOX" Of course for the same user and same maildir. I enabled tb-extra-mailbox-sep in 2.0, but it doesn't appear to differ (I don't really think it should). Any help will be very much appreciated. My 1.2.8 config for the namespaces is: namespace private { prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes location = maildir:~/Maildir } namespace public { prefix = shared. location = maildir:/usr/local/shared list = yes subscriptions = no } And the config for 2.0.6 is the same with new syntax: namespace { type = private prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes location = maildir:~/Maildir } namespace { type = public prefix = shared. location = maildir:/usr/local/shared list = yes subscriptions = no } Regards, Michele Bergonzoni

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[Dovecot] Can you POP a specific folder in Dovecot?
by Peter Reinhold 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hi all, I am in the middle of migrating from an old, Windows based mailserver, and have run into a small challenge I hope someone here can help me with. In my old setup, a user could have folders on the server, and by using his login with the mailbox appended, could pop a given folder specifically. For instance, logging in with user(a)example.com would pop INBOX, and logging in with user-folder(a)example.com would pop just that specific folder. Is it possible to do something like this in Dovecot, or is the only possible way of popping folders by using the virtual plugin? Med Venlig Hilsen, Peter Reinhold, peter(a)reinhold.dk / peter(a)geekhouse.dk

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[Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole v0.2.1 for Dovecot v2.0.4
by Stephan Bosch 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hello Dovecot users, There haven't been that many Pigeonhole developments lately, not even really significant bugs were reported. That is why this release is pretty small in terms of changes. However, one issue got some attention: the fact that not recompiling Pigeonhole for Dovecot v2.0.3 would result in rather interesting message delivery. Normally, Dovecot would complain about a version mismatch, but unfortunately Pigeonhole's Sieve plugin didn't record the Dovecot version it was compiled with. Starting with this release, such problems should not occur again. Changelog v0.2.1: + Incorporated distinction between original and final envelope recipient in Sieve interpreter, as recently introduced in Dovecot. + Regex extension: added support for regex keys composed from variables. - LDA Sieve plugin: added _version symbol to enable Dovecot's plugin version check. Without this check, people can forget to recompile the plugin, which can lead to unexpected effects. - LDA Sieve plugin: turned debug message about an unconfigured home directory into a proper error and added script path information. - Fixed unnecessary reporting of dummy extensions in ManageSieve SIEVE capability; the comparator-i;octet and comparator-i;ascii-numeric 'extensions' were reported explicitly. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.0/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.1.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.0/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.1.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.0 wiki for more information. Have fun testing this new release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] problem with virtual plugin/index files?
by Lutz Preßler 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hello, with latest 2.0.6 (601065674f74), the following virtual mailbox is not behaving correctly. I'm quite sure that the problem has not existed in some earlier 2.0.x (maybe only INBOX as mailbox then though): ~user/Maildir/virtual/.week/dovecot-virtual contains INBOX INBOX.* -INBOX.Trash inthread refs younger 604800 This works as expected for the first time. But later on, also older messages/ threads are included until I delete the virtual/.week/dovecot.index*. Greetings, Lutz -- Lutz Preßler <Lutz.Pressler(a)SerNet.DE> http://www.SerNet.DE/ SerNet Service Network GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, D-37081 Göttingen Tel.: +49-551-370000-2, FAX: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen

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[Dovecot] dsync, separator, but really - Default Namespace
by Daniel L. Miller 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Just made the leap from 1.2 to 2.0.6 - and several maddening config typos I think I have a working system again! Getting closer to converting from maildir to mdbox, but first... Trying to use dsync gives me: dsync(root): Fatal: Mail locations must use the same virtual mailbox hierarchy separator (specify separator for the default namespace) Ok - I 've never configured namespaces before...time to learn. So my first attempt - is the following config the same as having no explicit namespace declaration?: # My Default Namespace namespace { type = private separator = '.' prefix =. location = /var/mail/%d/%n/Maildir inbox = yes hidden = no list = yes subscriptions = yes } -- Daniel

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole-0.2.1 installation in wrong lib dir?
by Wolfgang.Friebel＠desy.de 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 17:47 +0200, Wolfgang.Friebel(a)desy.de wrote: >> Therefore the executable will fail to run: >> >> ldd /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login >> libdovecot-login.so.0 => not found >> libdovecot.so.0 => not found >> To me this looks like a bug in the generated Makefile. > > There should be -R/usr/lib64/dovecot parameter in the linking command. > Do you have a different -R path or no path at all? What is the full > linking command for managesieve-login? > There is no -R option in the linking command, it is also not among the variables defined in src/managesieve-login/Makefile. The link step is /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/usr/kerberos/include -o managesieve-login client.o client-authenticate.o managesieve-login-settings.o managesieve-proxy.o ../../src/lib-managesieve/libmanagesieve.a -ldovecot-login -L/usr/lib64/dovecot -ldovecot -lrt libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/usr/kerberos/include -o managesieve-login client.o client-authenticate.o managesieve-login-settings.o managesieve-proxy.o ../../src/lib-managesieve/libmanagesieve.a -ldovecot-login -L/usr/lib64/dovecot -ldovecot -lrt And you probably want to know the contents of dovecot-config: DOVECOT_CFLAGS="-std=gnu99 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/usr/kerberos/include " DOVECOT_LIBS=" -lrt" DOVECOT_SSL_LIBS="-L/usr/kerberos/lib64 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lz " LIBDOVECOT='-L/usr/lib64/dovecot -ldovecot' LIBDOVECOT_LOGIN=-ldovecot-login LIBDOVECOT_SQL=-ldovecot-sql LIBDOVECOT_LDA=-ldovecot-lda LIBDOVECOT_STORAGE=-ldovecot-storage LIBDOVECOT_INCLUDE=-I/usr/include/dovecot dovecot_pkgincludedir=/usr/include/dovecot dovecot_pkglibdir=/usr/lib64/dovecot dovecot_pkglibexecdir=/usr/libexec/dovecot The binaries in dovecot seem to have been produced using libtool, where the correct library paths are included using -Wl,--rpath... Could it be that the missing -R is related to --disable-static and --disable-rpath options to configure which I took over from the ATrpms dovecot spec file? Then it would rather be my ignorance of the dependencies between these options, libtool, dovecot and pigeonhole. -- Wolfgang Friebel Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Phone/Fax: +49 33762 77372/216 Platanenallee 6 Mail: Wolfgang.Friebel AT desy.de D-15738 Zeuthen Germany

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[Dovecot] Problem with quota and mdbox and quota warning
by Patrick Westenberg 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Hi again, I just recognized that my dovecot forgets the quota for a mailbox. This is what the maildirsize looks like: 1 read mail present, 1 new/unread mail 2097152S 0 0 909936 1 and later, with 2 read mails: 2097152S 0 0 There are no errors logged. Moreover, my quota warning script doesn´t work because dovecot doesn´t recognize my specified folder. I specified /usr/local/etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh but the log shows that dovecot looks somewhere else: Error: quota: connect(/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/quota-warning) failed: Permission denied # 2.0.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.5 disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_gid = vmail mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = quota mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule2 = INBOX.Trash:storage=+50M quota_warning = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning2 = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_global_path = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } protocols = lmtp imap sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { service_count = 1 } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } service_count = 1 } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh user = vmail } ssl = no userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota }

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[Dovecot] migration 1.1.7 to 2.0.6
by Brian D 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

I'm thinking of migrating from 1.1.7 (default RPM on SUSE 11.1) to 2.0.6 compiled from source using the default locations. Any Gotchas to expect that are different to an upgrade from 1.2? Any hints from moving from RPM to compiling from source and retaining the default configuration under /usr/local? TIA -- Brian Duffell RiscPC600 | VRPC Sa-Adjust RISC OS 6.10 96Mb Linux PCs on RISC OS network | <www.darlingtonmasters.org.uk>

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[Dovecot] Can quota_rule be inherited by child mailboxes?
by ian+dovecot＠comtek.co.uk 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Is there a way to make quota_rule apply to subfolders? I've got some symlinked mailboxes which I want to exclude from quotas. This would work, but is verbose: quota_rule6 = USERS.aaa:ignore quota_rule7 = USERS.bbb:ignore ... quota_rule9999 = USERS.zzz:ignore But simply writing this: quota_rule7 = USERS:ignore doesn't apply to USERS.xxx and so on. The wiki says '*' isn't supported as a wildcard and frankly I'm struggling with the source code! Thanks in advance, Ian -- ======================================================================= Ian Crowther Tel: +44 845 4501626 Unit 108, 10th Avenue, IT Dept, Comtek Fax: +44 845 4501627 Zone 3, Deeside Industrial Network Systems UK Ltd Park, CH5 2UA, Flintshire =======================================================================

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[Dovecot] Quota warning email
by Patrick Westenberg 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Hi @all, is there any way to inform a mailbox user via mail that his mailbox reached a specified limit? Regards Patrick

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[Dovecot] Convert Plugin
by Dr Matthew Williams 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Hello, I have been investigating mailbox conversions and have used the convert plugin under Dovecot V1.x. I cannot find the plugin in the list on the wiki for Dovcot V2.x, is it not included for a reason? I understand that I can do a post-login script to do the conversion, any guidance on best practices? Thanks, Matthew. -- Dr Matthew Williams MEng PhD MBCS Systems Administrator - IT Services - Bangor University Prifysgol Bangor Tel: (44) (0)1248 382414 Adeilad Deiniol Mob: (44) (0)7979 778269 Ffordd Deiniol URL: www.bangor.ac.uk Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UX EMail: matthew.williams(a)bangor.ac.uk

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[Dovecot] Per User Quotas with LDAP on Dovecot 1.x
by Camron W. Fox 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Alle, We're running Dovecot V1.0.7 on RHEL5.5, using maildir. We would like to user per user quotas with an OpenLDAP (V2.3.43) backend. We have setup a default quota in /etc/dovecot.conf: quota = maildir:storage=10240:ignore=Trash And have the following userdb configs in /etc/doveconf.conf: userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } and the following user_attrs defined in /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf user_attrs = uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid,mailQuotaSize=quota=maildir:ignore=Trash:storage,mail_plugins The user's quota setting is: dn: uid=loadtest,ou=people,dc=subaru,dc=nao,dc=ac,dc=jp mailQuotaSize: 1024000 Dovecot-imap appear to recognize the quota from ldap, as the Thunderbird quota plugin reads the correct info from LDAP if the mailQuotaSize entry exists, and the default storage=10240 from doveconf.conf if there is no LDAP attr. However, deliver bounces the mails with a quota exceeded message: deliver(loadtest): Sep 28 10:46:23 Info: msgid=<20100928204620.B83876402EA(a)loa.subaru.nao.ac.jp> : save failed to INBOX: Quota exceeded deliver(loadtest): Sep 28 10:46:23 Info: msgid=<20100928204620.B83876402EA(a)loa.subaru.nao.ac.jp> : Rejected: Quota exceeded Are we misunderstanding the way quotas are supposed to work in 1.x, or are we just missing something, period? Any help would be appreciated. Best Regards, Camron -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc. E-mail: cwfox(a)us.fujitsu.com

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[Dovecot] imap can't reconnect to auth-master after setuid
by Mike Abbott 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

With service imap { client_limit = 5, service_count = 0 }, when the auth process crashes the existing imap processes cannot reconnect to the auth-master socket because they have long ago dropped root privileges. Is the right solution to this: (1) change the perms on the auth-master socket so processes running as vmail:vmail can connect to it, or (2) change the code so that multi-client imap processes stop accepting new clients when they notice an auth bounce? If (1), the wiki should be updated to mention this. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] auth crash in 2.0.3
by Mike Abbott 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Here's another one-off crash in dovecot-2.0.3's auth process. Looks like request->mech == NULL in auth_request_initial(). I don't see any obvious fixes to this code between 2.0.3 and 2.0.6 so it may still be present in 2.0.6. Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000018 0 auth 0x000000010d89381b auth_request_initial + 85 1 auth 0x000000010d891844 auth_penalty_anvil_callback + 207 2 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x000000010d8ea44f anvil_client_connect + 364 3 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x000000010d8f77e9 io_loop_handler_run + 234 4 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x000000010d8f82bb io_loop_run + 56 5 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x000000010d8edf98 master_service_run + 27 6 auth 0x000000010d89b18a main + 674 7 auth 0x000000010d88ec14 start + 52 There were several "Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server" errors from imap-login and pop3-login in the minutes before this crash.

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 90, Issue 102
by Alan Brown 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

> From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders(a)cyber-office.net> > Subject: [Dovecot] RHEL5/CentOS5 YUM repo, rpm, or spec file for 2.0? > > I don't remember sing any mention come across the list reference the > Subject line and nothing shows up within the first three pages of a > Google search. > > Anyone know of a YUM repo. RPM or spec file for Dovecot 2.0 and friends? Try the following 2 URLs: http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/ http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/mail/ ATrpms has builds too, but they're usually out of date.

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[Dovecot] blackberry emails
by dhottinger＠harrisonburg.k12.va.us 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Does anyone have clients using blackberrys to access their emails on a dovecot server? If so are there any gotcha's that I need to configure in dovecot for this to work? Looks like all emails go to and from a blackberry server before getting to clients. thanks, ddh -- Dwayne Hottinger Network Administrator Harrisonburg City Public Schools "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein "The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, preserved their neutrality." -- Dante

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[Dovecot] Corrupted transaction log file
by Andre Nathan 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hello I run dovecot 2.0.6 on a two-machine cluster using OCFS2 as the file system. I have some error messages like these in my log: Oct 25 01:07:50 box5 dovecot: lmtp(8886, suporte=100br.com(a)lmtp1.prv.f1.k8.com.br) Error: Corrupted transaction log file /var/lib/imap/user/a3/suporte=100br.com/stor age/dovecot.map.index.log seq 29: Transaction log corrupted unexpectedly at 21536: Invalid size 0 (type=0) (sync_offset=21908) Oct 25 01:07:50 box5 dovecot: lmtp(8886, suporte=100br.com(a)lmtp1.prv.f1.k8.com.br) Error: Index /var/lib/imap/user/a3/suporte=100br.com/storage/dovecot.map.index: Lost log for seq=29 offset=21796 Oct 25 01:07:55 box5 dovecot: lmtp(8885, suporte=100br.com(a)lmtp1.prv.f1.k8.com.br) Error: Log synchronization error at seq=30,offset=312 for /var/lib/imap/user/a3/su porte=100br.com/storage/dovecot.map.index: Append with UID 5404, but next_uid = 5405 Oct 25 02:37:53 box5 dovecot: lmtp(8885, suporte=hostnet.com.br(a)lmtp1.prv.f1.k8.com.br) Error: Log synchronization error at seq=47,offset=22944 for /var/lib/imap/user/03/suporte=hostnet.com.br/storage/dovecot.map.index: Extension record update for invalid uid=21815 These two accounts happen to be accessed simultaneously by a number of people, but there are similar errors for "normal" accounts too, just not the same amount of logs. Is it not considered safe to do this kind of simultaneous access in a distributed filesystem like OCFS2? Is there a way to fix this error? Would a "doveadm force-resync" do it? Thanks, Andre

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[Dovecot] lmtp proxy signal 11 in dovecot 2.0.6
by Oliver Eales 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hello, i am using the lmtp proxy and dovecot 2.0.6 When (in my case caused by an erroneous config in the backend lmtp server), the backend lmtp cannot find the user, the proxy dies with a signal 11. 220 backend Dovecot LMTP ready LHLO proxy MAIL FROM:<user@domain> 250-backend 250-8BITMIME 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250 PIPELINING 250 2.1.0 OK RCPT TO:<user> 550 5.1.1 <user> User doesn't exist: user ..signal 11 within the LMTP proxy. Trace from lmtp proxy: #0 0x00007f7a979f24d3 in i_stream_next_line () from /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007f7a979f25b8 in i_stream_read_next_line () from /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00007f7a97c3125c in lmtp_client_input () from /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so.0 No symbol table info available. #3 0x00007f7a979f75db in io_loop_handler_run () from /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #4 0x00007f7a979f66f8 in io_loop_run () from /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #5 0x00007f7a979e4f53 in master_service_run () from /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 No symbol table info available. #6 0x00007f7a98330933 in main () from /usr/lib/dovecot/lmtp No symbol table info available. Regards, Oliver

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[Dovecot] Command died with signal 11: "/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda"
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hi.. after upating from 2.0.1 to 2.0.4 postfix often reports errors when deliveing mails to dovecot: "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" -> Command died with signal 11: "/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda" anyone seens this before ?

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[Dovecot] stats plugin + UID command continuation
by Mike Abbott 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

When using the stats plugin for dovecot-2.0, UID commands that "continue" cause infinite recursion and crash. For example, "A22 UID FETCH 151 BODY[]" when the body is 3MB or so always crashes. For smaller messages, this command logs the duration twice. Here is a patch to fix it: --- stats-plugin.c.orig 2010-10-26 20:18:13.000000000 -0500 +++ stats-plugin.c 2010-10-26 20:19:10.000000000 -0500 @@ -197,6 +197,9 @@ commands = array_get_modifiable(&imap_commands, &count); for (i = 0; i < count; i++) { + if (strcasecmp(commands[i].name, "UID") == 0) + continue; + hash_table_insert(orig_cmds, (char *)commands[i].name, commands[i].func); commands[i].func = stats_command;

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[Dovecot] Smart boxes
by Marcelo Salhab Brogliato 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hi, I'm using dovecot as IMAP server. I access my mails trough Mail (Mac client), iPhone and webmail. In Mail I use a smartbox that shows all my unread messages, no matter where it is. I really want this feature at my iPhone, so I'm thinking about developing a plugin that will create the smart unread box and follow these rules: - Every new mail arrived, it will create a hard link to directory .smart.unread (in case of Maildir); - Every mark as unread, it will create a hard link; - Every mark as read, it will remove the hard link; - Every mail delete, it will remove all files with same inode. This way, a smartbox with all unread messages will be available into webmail, iPhone and every IMAP client. What do you think about it? Is there a simple way? If it is a cool feature, I'll develop it and post the plugin here. Regards, Marcelo

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[Dovecot] Dovecot's maildir format / is rm safe
by ian＠comtek.co.uk 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Is it considered 'safe' to delete directly from a dovecot Maildir? I mean things of the form: rm Maildir/cur/1288062016.M581217P9422.alpha,S=1873,W=1900:2,S The wiki tells me 'If you wish to modify them in any way, create a new message instead and expunge the old one. ' but it doesn't mention deleted files. Specifically I'm wondering what happens with: dovecot.index dovecot.index.cache dovecot.index.log dovecot-uidlist Since (http://wiki.dovecot.org/IndexFiles) tells me these files index each message is there a chance of Dovecot breaking badly if it can't find them? Is it intelligent enough to automatically update the above files when it finds a missing message file? Would simply deleting the 4 files be appropriate? I have users with 4 gig mailboxes so I really wouldn't want to be deleting those files in a script every night if its a long winded process to regenerate them. Thanks in advance for any help, Ian

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[Dovecot] Solicitud de atributo mailPlugins en el ldap
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Antes del piloto o durante el piloto deberíamos tener este atributo disponible en el ldap. El campo debe de ser único y admitir información en una línea. En un principio, para los usuarios con búsquedas tendría el contenido "fts fts_squat" Para la segunda fase será un requisito casi indispensable, puesto que por este campo configuraremos algunos parámetros específicos de Solr y que sean diferentes para algunos usuarios.

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[Dovecot] RHEL5/CentOS5 YUM repo, rpm, or spec file for 2.0?
by Roderick A. Anderson 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

I don't remember sing any mention come across the list reference the Subject line and nothing shows up within the first three pages of a Google search. Anyone know of a YUM repo. RPM or spec file for Dovecot 2.0 and friends? TIA, Rod --

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[Dovecot] post-login scripting using PHP
by Maciej Uhlig 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

I'd like to write post-login script using PHP. I noticed every shell post-login script ends with: exec "$@", which effectively executes dovecot's script-login. However, while I try to do the same (?) in PHP: $prog = $argv[1]; exec ("$prog"); it doesn't work. The client timeouts, dovecot (2.0.6) says "Disconnected for inactivity". May be I don't clearly see the way post-login scripting should work. Any hint to make it done? Regards, MU

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[Dovecot] Exchange-replacement with SOGo
by Timo Sirainen 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

I thought some people here would be interested: Recently SOGo added support for OpenChange, which means Outlook can natively access it via MAPI the same way as Exchange. Everything is open source, and the great thing about SOGo is that it uses existing IMAP server for mails rather than reimplementing yet another one itself. They seem to prefer Cyrus, but apparently Dovecot should work too. For non-mail (calendar, etc) it uses SQL, but I heard it's not too difficult to replace that either if someone would prefer some NoSQL database or something. http://www.sogo.nu/ http://www.openchange.org/

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[Dovecot] doveadm-expunge not expunging when ran from cron
by LEVAI Daniel 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Hi! I noticed that this command ... : for USERNAME in ${USERS};do /usr/local/bin/doveadm -Dv expunge -u "${USERNAME}" mailbox sa.* SAVEDBEFORE 1d done ... does not expunge mails if ran from crontab. It shows in the Debug output what would have been done, but it doesn't really expunge those mails. This command runs daily, and every day the list of expunged mails (in the Debug output) just grows and grows, and the sa.* directories stay the same (except the new mails of course). However, if I run it from a terminal it really expunges the mails. Example output: doveadm(root): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so doveadm(root): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/doveadm doveadm(root): Debug: Skipping module doveadm_expire_plugin, because dlopen() failed: Cannot load specified object (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(root): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so doveadm("${USERNAME}"): Debug: expunge: box=sa.spam uid=6657 doveadm("${USERNAME}"): Debug: expunge: box=sa.spam uid=6658 doveadm("${USERNAME}"): Debug: expunge: box=sa.spam uid=6659 doveadm("${USERNAME}"): Debug: expunge: box=sa.spam uid=6660 doveadm("${USERNAME}"): Debug: expunge: box=sa.spam uid=6661 doveadm("${USERNAME}"): Debug: expunge: box=sa.spam uid=6662 [...] If ran from cron, then the same uids show up every day, and new ones gets added (as new mails gets copied into those directories). Is there something fishy going on in doveadm-expunge if it has no controlling terminal? Thanks, Daniel -- LÉVAI Dániel PGP key ID = 0x83B63A8F Key fingerprint = DBEC C66B A47A DFA2 792D 650C C69B BE4C 83B6 3A8F

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[Dovecot] Prevent dovecot.sieve.log logs
by Thiago Henrique 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Hello, When an account overquota happens, a log is generated: /var/lib/imap/sieve/username/dovecot.sieve.log Is there a way to prevent this? My `dovecot -n` : ################################################################################ # 2.0.6 (a7d99b69523a): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35-23-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@= auth_worker_max_count = 10 disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = server.com login_greeting = K8 IMAP/POP3 server mail_gid = dovemail mail_plugins = " quota" mail_uid = dovemail managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include imapflags notify mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext driver = sql master = yes pass = yes } plugin { autocreate = SPAM autosubscribe = SPAM quota = dict:User quota::file:/var/lib/imap/user/%2.256RHn/% n/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=1GB sieve = /var/lib/imap/sieve/%2.256RHn/%n/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /var/lib/imap/sieve/%2.256RHn/%n sieve_extensions = comparator-i;ascii-numeric copy envelope fileinto imapflags include notify regex reject relational subaddress vacation sieve_max_script_size = 512KB sieve_quota_max_scripts = 2 } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { process_limit = 1 process_min_avail = 1 } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = server.com port = 143 } } service imap { process_limit = 1024 process_min_avail = 10 } service lmtp { inet_listener { address = server.com port = 2003 } process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 10 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = server.com port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { address = server.com port = 2000 } } service managesieve { process_limit = 20 process_min_avail = 10 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = server.com port = 110 } } service pop3 { process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 10 } ssl = no userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_idle_notify_interval = 2 mins imap_max_line_length = 64 k mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota autocreate" } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " sieve quota autocreate" } protocol sieve { mail_plugins = " sieve" managesieve_implementation_string = K8 ManageSieve managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;ascii-numeric copy envelope fileinto imapflags include notify regex reject relational subaddress vacation } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = " quota autocreate" } ################################################################################ Thanks, -- Thiago Henrique

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[Dovecot] 2.0.2 : crashes with LDA
by Jakob Curdes 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Hello, I just migrated to 2.0.2 and see some <xx(a)localhost.redirectme.net> (expanded from<xx@localhost>): Command died with signal 6: "/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -c /etc/dovecot2.conf". Command output: doveconf: Panic: file settings-parser.c: line 1838 (settings_copy_deflist_unique): assertion failed: (dest_count == ccount) doveconf: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x9395c0] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x45) [0x9396b5] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x938c78] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x9183c7] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x9182de] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(settings_parser_apply_changes+0x6f) [0x91849f] -> /usr/local/bin/doveconf(config_filter_parsers_get+0x25f) [0x804e8af] -> /usr/local/bin/doveconf(config_parse_file+0x6a8) [0x80502f8] -> /usr/local/bin/doveconf(main+0x21f) [0x804c43f] -> /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x5c8e9c] -> /usr/local/bin/doveconf [0x804b291] This does not happen always; most mails get delivered normally through the LDA. A command line call of doveconf yields no problems. Any hints? Best regards, Jakob Curdes

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[Dovecot] merge mdboxes
by Tobias Daucher 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Hi there, after migration we have a very big problem... there are two mailboxes in /var/mail/username/mailboxes/ /var/mail/username/mailboxes/inbox /var/mail/username/mailboxes/inbox2 i DO have to merge these boxes, but i found no tools for this step. is there any way with doveadm oder dsync to move alle messages from mdbox inbox2 into mdbox inbox? i hope you all can tell me a way to do this - its a very very big problem at the moment. By the way - logging in via imap with thunderbird und move them on that way is not my favorite solution cause i have to do this for hundreds of users... i hope you can help me! thanks a lot! Tobias Daucher

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Re: [Dovecot] 2.0.3 Bug - hanging issue
by Alan Brown 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

> From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] 2.0.3 Bug - hanging issue > > On 25.10.2010, at 14.13, Alan Brown wrote: > >> > Oct 25 12:36:34 msslat dovecot: imap(keh2): Error: user keh2: Initialization failed: Namespace '#mbox/': mkdir(/stage/mail/imap1/keh2/mail) failed: Permission denied (euid=2291(keh2) egid=101(luci) missing +w perm: /stage/mail/imap1, euid is not dir owner) >> > >> > Because the parent directory was rwxr-xr-x root.root > Right.. > >> > The problem is that for some reason dovecot then wedged and a lot of other stuff piled up behind it, causing people to complain their mail wasn't coming through. Load average climbed to over 100. >> > >> > Creating the user directories freed things up... > So the problem is that if there's a misconfiguration, load goes up? I don't really know if there's much to do about this. I guess it could wait a second or so before disconnecting client to avoid it reconnecting back too fast.. > The client wasn't reconnecting as far as I can tell. It looked to me like the server process wedged after this error - we only got the error message logged once. The problem is that after it occurred no new clients could complete connections, but existing clients worked ok. Incoming connections were accepted, but then nothing would happen. As far as I can tell the parent would fork new child processes but they couldn't complete initialisation. Mail clients simply complained of a timeout during connection. This was affecting all users. With regard to error disconnections - yes a delay is a good idea.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Linux 2 Dovecot OSX migration
by "Robert M. Münch" 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA384 Hi, we are moving all our internal IT to an OSX server. Having used Dovecot on Linux for a couple of years now I want to transfer all IMAP folders so that users won't see a difference. Are there are any tips & tricks how to migrate Dovecot to Dovecot? I hope this is a simple thing to do. - -- Robert M. Münch Mobil: +49 177 245 2802 http://www.saphirion.com Smarter|Better|Faster Saphirion Ltd & Co KG Schumannstr. 3 D - 76185 Karlsruhe Tel : +49 721 5978501 Fax: +49 721 5978502 Registergericht: Amtsgericht Mannheim HRA 105339 Alleinige persönlich haftende Gesellschafterin: Quiyo Verwaltungs Limited Registered Office: 76 High Street, Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes, MK 16 8AQ, Great Britain. Company Number: 5705018 Vertretungsberechtigter Geschäftsführer: Robert M. Münch Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer gemäß § 27 a Umsatzsteuergesetz: DE 24939452. Inhaltlich Verantwortlicher gemäß § 10 Absatz 3 MDStV: Robert M. Münch (Anschrift wie oben) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 10.0.2 (Build 13) Charset: iso-8859-1 wsBVAwUBTMWpCHSQa/BbHGLwAQlrXAgAnsZxkz3V0Q0wqTT8oEV2U/xOAhxkK+f2 j/+RPzz9dddN8PWB/SM0fbRKZL1lHwl+H0OXksjIWRiLDruVMwscybS73W9a+9Lc L1CJZ+hSPKsDIPuK6XDxuxfz80q795dtdqcJq7eVrXuWpDx/mZPYiHYjPkaEEism TmQ1Kj8tT45cptJdp4n8P5knigdyaNXnAVy0+Lv3xXrdZA7h1kjkMGw059lV0cFp LhWjcY6cQj2niqT1FjXKe+diFjzJoABLPb12ZiUwQ/+6gZR/vgCjNOte+JSWp/Wt m0wk2MwmtmF9oQYEka255v5bHlgOpCx6UySyYQFS8ahSugdpMKgI/g== =ZS+i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] delivering mail to public mbox with permission 660?
by RParr 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

I am migrating a couple old RH servers running sendmail and UW-IMAP to a new Ubuntu 10.04 servers running Postfix and Dovecot. I have everything working reasonably well except that the permissions of newly created mbox mail folders is always 600. I have reviewed the archives, google, and double checked everything is as suggested in the Dovecot Wiki / SharedMailboxes / Permissions. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 packages postfix 2.7.0-1, dovecot-common, dovecot-imapd, dovecot-pop3d, and dovecot-postfix (all version 1.2.9-1ubuntu6.1). I plan to install amavisd-new, et.al. for spam filtering and anti-virus but have held off until I get Postfix and Dovecot working 100%. I have configured Postfix and Dovecot to use mbox mailboxes. I chose mbox becaus I have a LOT of shared mbox folders to migrate and decided it best to first migrate to Postfix/Dovecot mbox and later worry about migrating to maildir (as suggested on the Dovecot wiki mailbox format page). I have configured private (also as default) and public namespaces with the public mailboxes stored in /var/mail/public. /var/mail/public has rwxrws--- and is group tarts (the shared "company" group for this server). Initially I had procmail configured via the mailbox_command. Initial test mail sent to user tarts triggered creation of /var/mail/tarts with 660 permissions as expected. I then changed the configuration to use deliver via the mailbox_command. I did this because procmail appears to be unmaintained and to benefit from deliver's support for indexing at time of delivery and seive. I then added user testuser with primary group testuser and supplemental group tarts. I made sure testuser's home directory and mail sub dir had rwxrws--- permissions. I sent test mail to user testuser and had both user tarts and user testuser create some subfolders in public (via Thunderbird accounts) THE PROBLEM is that mbox folders that hold messages are created with permssion 600. My understanding, from the Dovecot wiki and other docs/postings is that the folders should be 660 given the /var/mail permssions of rwxrwsrwt and ~/mail permssions of rwxrws--- MY QUESTION is how do I correct the configuration and/or directory permissions so that mbox folders and .imap indices (especially public/ ones) are created with 660 permissions thus allowing users who belong to a common group (eg tarts) to access the public mailboxes? It appears all Dovecot configuration options to establish directory/box perms or mask, such as umask, have been deprectated and no longer work. The primary option appears to be using the permissions yet that is not working for me here. ----------------------------------- /home/: drwxrws--- 4 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-19 13:59 tarts/ /home/tarts: drwxrws--- 4 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-19 13:50 mail/ ----------------------------------- /d/home/: drwxrws--- 4 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:59 testuser/ /d/home/testuser: drwxrws--- 4 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:59 mail/ /d/home/testuser/mail: total 20 drwxrws--- 4 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:59 ./ drwxrws--- 3 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:44 ../ drwxrws--- 3 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:45 .imap/ -rw-rw---- 1 testuser testuser 36 2010-10-19 13:59 .subscriptions -rw------- 1 testuser testuser 0 2010-10-19 13:50 Trash drwxrws--- 2 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:54 test1/ -rw------- 1 testuser testuser 0 2010-10-19 13:54 test2 /d/home/testuser/mail/.imap: total 12 drwxrws--- 3 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:45 ./ drwxrws--- 4 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:59 ../ drwx--S--- 2 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:50 INBOX/ /d/home/testuser/mail/.imap/INBOX: total 24 drwx--S--- 2 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:50 ./ drwxrws--- 3 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:45 ../ -rw------- 1 testuser testuser 16384 2010-10-19 14:00 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 testuser testuser 864 2010-10-19 14:00 dovecot.index.log /d/home/testuser/mail/test1: total 8 drwxrws--- 2 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:54 ./ drwxrws--- 4 testuser testuser 4096 2010-10-19 13:59 ../ -rw------- 1 testuser testuser 0 2010-10-19 13:54 sub1 ----------------------------------- /var: drwsrwsrwt 3 root mail 4096 2010-10-18 10:23 mail/ /var/mail: total 896 drwsrwsrwt 3 root mail 4096 2010-10-19 13:51 ./ drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2010-03-05 13:57 ../ -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mail 1386 2010-10-12 16:54 nobody drwsrws--- 5 root tarts 4096 2010-10-19 13:51 public/ -rw-rw---- 1 tarts mail 894107 2010-10-19 08:59 tarts -rw------- 1 testuser mail 632 2010-10-19 13:51 testuser /var/mail/public: total 24 drwsrws--- 5 root tarts 4096 2010-10-19 13:51 ./ drwsrwsrwt 3 root mail 4096 2010-10-19 13:51 ../ drwxrws--- 3 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-19 13:51 .imap/ drwxrws--- 3 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-16 15:02 test1/ drwxrws--- 2 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-16 15:01 test2/ -rw------- 1 testuser tarts 633 2010-10-19 13:51 test3 /var/mail/public/.imap: total 12 drwxrws--- 3 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-19 13:51 ./ drwsrws--- 5 root tarts 4096 2010-10-19 13:51 ../ drwx--S--- 2 testuser tarts 4096 2010-10-19 13:51 test3/ /var/mail/public/.imap/test3: total 28 drwx--S--- 2 testuser tarts 4096 2010-10-19 13:51 ./ drwxrws--- 3 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-19 13:51 ../ -rw------- 1 testuser tarts 16384 2010-10-19 13:51 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 testuser tarts 628 2010-10-19 13:51 dovecot.index.log /var/mail/public/test1: total 16 drwxrws--- 3 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-16 15:02 ./ drwsrws--- 5 root tarts 4096 2010-10-19 13:51 ../ drwxrws--- 3 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-16 15:02 .imap/ -rw------- 1 tarts tarts 614 2010-10-16 15:02 sub1 -rw------- 1 tarts tarts 0 2010-10-16 15:01 sub2 /var/mail/public/test1/.imap: total 12 drwxrws--- 3 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-16 15:02 ./ drwxrws--- 3 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-16 15:02 ../ drwx--S--- 2 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-16 15:02 sub1/ /var/mail/public/test1/.imap/sub1: total 12 drwx--S--- 2 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-16 15:02 ./ drwxrws--- 3 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-16 15:02 ../ -rw------- 1 tarts tarts 408 2010-10-16 15:02 dovecot.index.log /var/mail/public/test2: total 8 drwxrws--- 2 tarts tarts 4096 2010-10-16 15:01 ./ drwsrws--- 5 root tarts 4096 2010-10-19 13:51 ../ Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts, Portland, U.S.A.

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[Dovecot] v2.0.6 released
by Timo Sirainen 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.6.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.6.tar.gz.sig * Pre-login CAPABILITY includes IDLE again. Mainly to make Blackberry servers happy. * auth: auth_cache_negative_ttl default was 0 in earlier v2.0.x, but it was supposed to be 1 hour as in v1.x. Changed it back to 1h. If you want it disabled, make sure doveconf shows it as 0. + dbox: Added support for saving mail attachments to external files, with also support for single instance storage. This feature hasn't had much testing yet, so be careful with it. + doveadm: Added import command for importing mails from other storages. + Reduced NFS I/O operations for index file accesses + dbox, Maildir: When copying messages, copy also already cached fields from dovecot.index.cache + mdbox: Added mdbox_preallocate_space setting (Linux+ext3/XFS only) - Maildir: LDA/LMTP assert-crashed sometimes when saving a mail. - Fixed leaking fds when writing to dovecot.mailbox.log. - Fixed rare dovecot.index.cache corruption - IMAP: SEARCH YOUNGER/OLDER wasn't working correctly

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[Dovecot] 2.0.3 Bug - hanging issue
by Alan Brown 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

We had this this morning: Oct 25 12:36:34 msslat dovecot: imap(keh2): Error: user keh2: Initialization failed: Namespace '#mbox/': mkdir(/stage/mail/imap1/keh2/mail) failed: Permission denied (euid=2291(keh2) egid=101(luci) missing +w perm: /stage/mail/imap1, euid is not dir owner) Oct 25 12:36:34 msslat dovecot: imap(keh2): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. Oct 25 12:36:35 msslat dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<keh2>, method=PLAIN, rip=128.40.73.160, lip=128.40.73.13, mpid=26736 Oct 25 12:36:35 msslat dovecot: imap(keh2): Error: user keh2: Initialization failed: Namespace '#mbox/': mkdir(/stage/mail/imap1/keh2/mail) failed: Permission denied (euid=2291(keh2) egid=101(luci) missing +w perm: /stage/mail/imap1, euid is not dir owner) Oct 25 12:36:35 msslat dovecot: imap(keh2): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. Because the parent directory was rwxr-xr-x root.root The problem is that for some reason dovecot then wedged and a lot of other stuff piled up behind it, causing people to complain their mail wasn't coming through. Load average climbed to over 100. Creating the user directories freed things up...

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Re: [Dovecot] 2.0.3 Bug - hanging issue
by Alan Brown 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

> From: Charles Marcus <CMarcus(a)Media-Brokers.com> > On 2010-10-25 9:13 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > > > We had this this morning: > 2.0 is still getting a good number of bug fixes so if you're going to > use it you should be prepared to upgrade to the latest and see if the > problem is already fixed before reporting a possible bug. I have been, but I've seen no similar reports and it may still be in 2.0.6. I will update to that version during a planned maintenance window tomorrow.

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[Dovecot] virtual plugin broken ? dovecot 2.0.6
by Robert Schetterer 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hi Timo, looks like virtual plugin is broken now with my setup dovecot 2.0.6 cant say to which version it stopped working ( didnt tested it trough all ) but has worked i see nothing special in log why it stopped working it should show unseen mail i.e in folder Junk too with pop3 clients, but only shows new inbox mails after all i am confused what using better pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv ( most compatible ) or pop3_uidl_format = %g ( better with virtual ) pop3_reuse_xuidl = ? what ist the most compatible/konservative setting with maildir on a cluster filesystem pop3_save_uidl = ? what ist the most compatible/konservative setting with maildir on a cluster filesystem --log Oct 25 17:24:44 mail02 dovecot: pop3: Debug: Added userdb setting: plugin/namespace_2_inbox=yes /etc/dovecot/.INBOX/dovecot-virtual RealMails/* RealMails/INBOX RealMails/INBOX/* -RealMails/Trash -RealMails/Trash/* -RealMails/Sent -RealMails/Sent/* -RealMails/Templates -RealMails/Templates/* -RealMails/Drafts -RealMails/Drafts/* -RealMails/Archives -RealMails/Archives/* unseen --sql CASE '%s' WHEN 'pop3' THEN NULL ELSE 'yes' END AS namespace_1_inbox, \ CASE '%s' WHEN 'pop3' THEN 'yes' ELSE NULL END AS namespace_2_inbox, \ ---dovecot -n # 2.0.6 (aaca506ea33b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-25-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain auth_worker_max_count = 300 dict { acl = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-acl-sql.conf.ext expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire-sql.conf.ext quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 1001 first_valid_uid = 1001 hostname = last_valid_gid = 1001 last_valid_uid = 1001 listen = * login_greeting = imap, pop ready mail_access_groups = vmail mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_gid = 1001 mail_location = maildir:~/ mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = expire virtual fts fts_squat mail_log autocreate notify acl mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = 1001 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 mmap_disable = yes namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = virtual:/etc/dovecot/virtual:LAYOUT=maildir++ prefix = virtual/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = private } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = RealMails/ separator = / type = private } namespace { inbox = no list = children location = maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%%d/%%u/:INDEX=~/shared/%%d/%%u/ prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext driver = sql master = yes pass = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Junk autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autocreate5 = Templates autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Junk autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts autosubscribe5 = Templates expire = Trash expire2 = Trash/* expire3 = Junk expire4 = Junk/* expire_dict = proxy::expire fts = squat home = /usr/local/virtual/%d/%u mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size mail_log_group_events = yes quota = dict:::proxy::quotadict quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = /usr/local/virtual/%d/%u/dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/sieve/global.sieve sieve_dir = /usr/local/virtual/%d/%u/sieve sieve_global_dir = /etc/dovecot/sieve/ sieve_global_path = /etc/dovecot/sieve/global.sieve } postmaster_address = hostmaster(a)mail02.mailspooler.com protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail service auth-worker { user = root } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service dict { extra_groups = vmail unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0660 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login /usr/local/bin/postlogin_imap.sh user = root } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin process_limit = 1024 vsz_limit = 256 M } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 2000 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service pop3-postlogin { executable = script-login /usr/local/bin/postlogin_pop3.sh user = root } service pop3 { executable = pop3 pop3-postlogin process_limit = 1024 } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { mode = 0666 user = vmail } user = dovecot } ssl_ca = </etc/postfix/wildcard.pem ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/wildcard.crt ssl_key = </etc/postfix/wildcard.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota sieve virtual acl fts fts_squat mail_log notify expire } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail imap_id_log = * imap_id_send = * imap_idle_notify_interval = 2 mins imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o imap_max_line_length = 128 k mail_max_userip_connections = 100 mail_plugins = imap_acl acl fts fts_squat mail_log autocreate notify expire virtual quota imap_quota } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota sieve virtual acl fts fts_squat mail_log notify expire } protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 30 mail_plugins = expire virtual quota mail_log fts fts_squat notify pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = yes pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] Auto delete older messages in SPAM folder
by Thiago Henrique 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hello, I use Cyrus in my mailservers and I intend to migrate it to Dovecot. Cyrus has a setting that purge the emails from a mailbox under a pre-defined criteria. For example: EVENTS { ... # At 12:01 delete messages older than 60 days in SPAM folder deletespam cmd="ipurge -d 60 -f user/*/SPAM" at=1201 } Is there in Dovecot any setting like this ? Thank you. -- []'s Thiago Henrique Network Administration Digirati Networks K8 Networks

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[Dovecot] Problems converting to maildir with dsync in 2.0.6
by Nicholas Riley 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

I'm trying to convert from an old Dovecot (1.0.15) and mbox to a new Dovecot and maildir. I'm running into several problems with dsync which are causing my mboxes not to convert. If I use LAYOUT=fs (as I'd prefer) I get an error because I have a mailbox called "subscriptions", and none of my messages convert. Is there a way to get dovecot to put its own metadata in dotfiles instead? (I guess I can rename my mailbox too :-) % dsync mirror mbox:~/Mail dsync(nriley): Error: read() failed with subscription file /home/nriley/Maildir/subscriptions: Is a directory dsync(nriley): Error: Can't update subscription +/INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-10-21 20:17:55] [...] Also, what "server log" is it referring to above? So I tried without LAYOUT=fs, and dsync successfully converts some mailboxes, then crashes: % dsync mirror mbox:~/Mail dsync(nriley): Error: Maildir: 6ef533cd4cdb1fd454b0226bfc851bb3:2, changed UID 1846529 -> 1846531 dsync(nriley): Panic: file maildir-save.c: line 892 (maildir_save_sync_uidlist): assertion failed: (ret > 0) dsync(nriley): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xb7ea21f1] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x47) [0xb7ea2317] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0xb7ea2544] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(maildir_transaction_save_commit_ pre+0x858) [0xb7f2ab58] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0xb7f2501f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_transaction_commit_fu ll+0x85) [0xb7f67eb5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_transaction_commit+0x94) [0xb7f24c14] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_transaction_commit_get_c hanges+0x42) [0xb7efeaa2] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x8056ed2] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x80570f0] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_worker_select_mailbox+0x2e) [0x8055b2e] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x80507e6] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x8050a3b] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_brain_msg_sync_new_msgs+0x12) [0x8050c12] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_brain_msg_sync_more+0x2e1) [0x8050261] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_brain_sync+0x309) [0x804e949] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x804f953] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_brain_sync+0x72e) [0x804ed6e] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x804f7d0] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_brain_sync+0x55d) [0x804eb9d] -> /usr/bin/dsync(dsync_brain_sync_all+0x18) [0x804f668] -> /usr/bin/dsync(main+0x5a1) [0x804da51] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7d29455] -> /usr/bin/dsync [0x804d2e1] [1] 30528 abort dsync mirror mbox:~/Mail I tried running it in GDB but that crashed GDB, so hopefully the above info is OK... % gdb --args dsync mirror mbox:~/Mail (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/dsync mirror mbox:\~/Mail [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New process 30652] Executing new program: /usr/bin/doveconf warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: generic error [New process 30652] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [1] 30651 segmentation fault gdb -q --args dsync mirror mbox:~/Mail I'm using the Debian packages from rename-it.nl. Here is doveconf -n output: # 2.0.6 (aaca506ea33b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-linode22 i686 Debian 5.0.6 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 namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } -- Nicholas Riley <njriley(a)illinois.edu>

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[Dovecot] Recommendation for OCFS2 filesystem type
by Andre Nathan 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hello When creating an OCFS2 filesystem, one can specify a "filesystem type" option: -T filesystem-type Specify how the filesystem is going to be used, so that mkfs.ocfs2 can chose optimal filesystem parameters for that use. The supported filesystem types are: mail Appropriate for file systems which will have many meta data updates. Creates a larger journal. datafiles Appropriate for file systems which will host a rela‐ tively small number of very large files. A small journal is selected. Cluster size will be at least 128K. Considering I'm using a separate partition for the dovecot indices, and that I'm using mdbox, would it be more appropriate to use 'datafiles' for the mail location partition and 'mail' just for the indices? Or would 'mail' be appropriate for both even with the larger files created by mdbox? Thanks, Andre

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[Dovecot] Shared folders, please help.!
by Johan Hendriks 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hello all, First of all sorry for this, it has been discussed many times, but i can not make it work. I tried for a long time now. I do something wrong, but i do not know what. First of all, i have virtual users, with virtual domains. Mail is stored in /usr/local/virtual/domain name/user So if my domain is domain.com and my e-mail address is johan(a)domain.com the directory is /usr/local/virtual/domain.com/johan i followed the wiki, and my configuration looks like the following. beasty dovecot # dovecot -n # 2.0.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE amd64 ufs auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes dict { acl = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-acl-sql.conf quotadict = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 1004 first_valid_uid = 1004 last_valid_gid = 1004 last_valid_uid = 1004 log_timestamp = .%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S . mail_access_groups = vmail mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 1004 mail_location = maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n mail_uid = 1004 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 mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { inbox = no list = children location = maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%%d/%%n/shared/:INDEX=/shared/%%n prefix = shared/%%d/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } plugin { acl = vfile acl_anyone = allow acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Junk autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts autocreate5 = Templates autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Junk autosubscribe3 = Sent autosubscribe4 = Drafts autosubscribe5 = Templates quota = dict:::proxy::quotadict quota_warning = storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2 = storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 } protocols = imap pop3 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 } } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 192.168.50.200 port = 143 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = 192.168.50.200 port = 110 } } ssl = no userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_idle_notify_interval = 2 mins imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o imap_max_line_length = 64 k mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate acl imap_acl mail_log notify } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota trash pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins = quota acl mail_log notify postmaster_address = postmaster(a)test.com sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail } That is my config file. My dovecot-dict-acl-sql.conf looks like the following connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=password map { pattern = shared/shared-boxes/$to/$from table = user_shares value_field = dummy fields { from_user = $from to_user = $to } } That is slightly different than the wiki says, if i use that , it gives me an error. the pattern on the wiki looks like this pattern = shared/shared-boxes/users/$to/$from if i login as user johan and set ACL on my INBOX i do it this way. i telnet to the server and issue the following beasty dovecot # telnet 192.168.50.200 143 Trying 192.168.50.200... Connected to beasty.localdomain.local. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] imap, pop ready a login johan(a)domain.com mypass a OK [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 QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in b SETACL INBOX hans(a)domain.com lr b OK Setacl complete. c GETACL INBOX * ACL "INBOX" "hans(a)domain.com" lr "johan(a)domain.com" lrwstipekxacd c OK Getacl completed. This looks good i guess, also my database is filled, with the from and to ! But i can not see the mailbox if i login as user hans. beasty dovecot # telnet 192.168.50.200 143 Trying 192.168.50.200... Connected to beasty.localdomain.local. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] imap, pop ready a login hans(a)domain.com hanspass a OK [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 QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in b list "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Junk" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Templates" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX" b OK List completed. c list "" /shared/* c OK List completed. If been trying this for a very long time now, but can not see what i am missing. It must be something i ovelook, but i really can not find out what. I also tried some other configs from the mailing list, but still the same, no go. Thank you for your time to help another one with this issue. i am a little ashamed :D regards, Jo

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[Dovecot] problem with subscriptions=no and changed separator ?
by Lutz Preßler 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hello, Dovecot 2.0.5+ (Debian "automatic package" 2.0.5-0~auto+5). If I use the following namespace definitions namespace personal { inbox = yes location = maildir:~/Maildir separator = ^ prefix = type = private } namespace others { type = shared separator = ^ prefix = shared^%%u^ location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u subscriptions = no list = children } namespace virtual { location = virtual:~/Maildir/virtual:LAYOUT=maildir++ separator = ^ prefix = virtual^ type = private } (virtual should not matter, but I have not tested without.) I have problems with subscriptions for the shared mailboxes: SUBSCRIBE ^shared^user^box leads to entry shared^user^box in ~/Maildir/subscriptions file. All subscriptions for folders in personal namespace use the "layout" separator (".") thought. LSUB "" "*" does not show the just subscribed folder, but it does after I manually change the entry to read shared.user.box Bug? Thanks for your work, Lutz -- Lutz Preßler <Lutz.Pressler(a)SerNet.DE> http://www.SerNet.DE/ SerNet Service Network GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, D-37081 Göttingen Tel.: +49-551-370000-2, FAX: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen

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[Dovecot] shared folders general question
by Johan Hendriks 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hello all. Thanks to the patience off Timo i finally got my shared folders working. I have one more question. Is it possible if you share the inbox, that all subfolders will be visable to. I can not see the subfolders of the shared inbox. This is not very useful if the user which shares his inbox, has sieve rules active that stores e-mail directly into subfolders. Thanks regards, Johan

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[Dovecot] 2.0.5 Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server.
by Veiko Kukk 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hello, Upgraded from 1.2.x to 2.0.5, converted configuration as described in http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 and now I'm unable to log in to imap server. Dovecot error.log shows: Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=13338, input bytes=0 Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=13364, input bytes=0 Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=13337, input bytes=0 Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=13350, input bytes=0 Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=13335, input bytes=0 Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=13360, input bytes=0 I'm using pam with winbind for authentication. /etc/pam.d/dovecot contains: auth required pam_winbind.so account sufficient pam_winbind.so And it used to work perfectly with 1.1 and 1.2 series of dovecot. What could be the problem with 2.0.5? -- Veiko

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[Dovecot] Manual login to SSL-protected port?
by Ron Leach 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

List, good afternoon, Dovecot and mail clients work fine. Several recent postings mention trying telnet to check this or that and, since I was considering using a spreadsheet plug-in to analyse some mail statistics by directly connecting to the server, I thought I'd try to test what the command sequence was that I might be able to use, and what message data was available (headers etc). We use only SSL-protected ports. Is it possible to manually login to dovecot when dovecot uses SSL-protected imap ports? I've tried telnet and the telnet localhost 993 login user pass resulted in connection closure, as I (think I) would expect because telnet doesn't use SSL (does it?). I checked man telnet and it described authentication options but when I tried telnet localhost 993 auth enable ? to check what auth protocols it allows, the connection closed. I tried SSH but it just 'hung' - presumably SSH expects an SSH server at the other end, not dovecot. Is it possible to manually login to a dovecot SSL imap port? regards, Ron

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[Dovecot] Public Folders for spam/nospam -> don't get it
by Denny Schierz 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

hi, Dovecot: 2.0.5 I want to use public folders (maildir), for my spam mails to feed spamassassin, but I don't get it working. My Evolution 2.28.3 (nothing else tested) can't subscribe the folders: namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = INBOX/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { hidden = no inbox = no list = children location = maildir:/home/vmail/public:LAYOUT=fs prefix = public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } angelica:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# ls -l /home/vmail/public/ total 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 11 Oct 23 14:14 dovecot-acl -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 45 Oct 23 13:56 dovecot-acl-list -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 48 Oct 24 19:22 dovecot.mailbox.log drwxr-xr-x 2 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 23 14:03 nospam drwxr-xr-x 2 vmail vmail 4096 Oct 23 14:03 spam -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 12 Oct 24 19:22 subscriptions # cat /home/vmail/public/dovecot-acl anyone lrp, also in subfolders spam/nospam I tested several configurations, but nothing works. Sometimes I can see the folders, but can't subscribe them (invalid/unknown namespace), sometime I don't see the folders ... does anyone has an answer for me ? cu denny

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[Dovecot] ldap whithout base
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

It's possible to configure a ldap passdb and userdb without base? Now, it's running but it can't authenticate users and it sent a message like that after . login . NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure.

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[Dovecot] Segfault in libdovecot-sieve
by andre＠digirati.com.br 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hello, I've been getting these messages in dmesg: [1663649.206652] lmtp[4961]: segfault at 18 ip 00007fb5b6aab1f0 sp00007fff7e3b5468 error 4 in libdovecot-sieve.so.0.0.0[7fb5b6a6d000 +66000] Dovecot's version is 2.0.3. Is this known? What other kind of information could be useful to help find this issue? Thanks,Andre

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[Dovecot] Maildir filename extensions S=<size> and W=<vsize>
by Ralf Hildebrandt 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

I'd like to add S=<size> and W=<vsize> to the filenames in my Maildir storage for newly delivered mails. But I cannot find where I can make Dovecot's LDA add those. Anybody? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir says: A maildir filename with those fields would look something like: 1035478339.27041_118.foo.org,S=1000,W=1030:2,S which is exactly what I want, but it doesn't tell me how! -- 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] fallocate and glibc 2.10
by Paul Howarth 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

In glibc 2.10 (32 bit) fallocate() exists but fallocate64() doesn't. When _FILE_OFFSET_BITS==64, fallocate() is a redirect to fallocate64() and the program can't be linked (fails to find symbol fallocate64). See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/500487 Attached patch detects fallocate() more robustly to guard against this problem. Cheers, Paul.

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[Dovecot] "Maintenance instance"
by Ralf Hildebrandt 24 Oct '10

24 Oct '10

Does any of you have a "Maintenance instance" of dovecot? Something that will accept any user/pass combination (and thus doesn't make MUAs fail in utter unforeseen ways), and gives any user logging in a canned mail (e.g. "We're doing maintenance, go away") -- 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] different certificates on different services ?
by ckubu 24 Oct '10

24 Oct '10

Hi, on dovecot 2.0.x, is it possible to serve different certificates on different services (pops,imaps) with one dovecot instance ? regards, Christoph Kuchenbuch

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