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Re: [Dovecot] imap/pop proxy and filter
by Mike Korizek 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

On 12/07/2010 12:18 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 12/06/2010 06:04 PM, Mike Korizek wrote: >> I use dovecot as imap/pop proxy. >> Is it possible to filter the messages before they get delivered to the >> client? >> > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve My understanding was, that Sieve requires LDA but I do not have local mailboxes as I only use the imap/pop proxy functionality. Can I use Sieve for mail filtering despite I do not have local mailboxes? Thanks, Mike

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[Dovecot] imap limits please ?
by Spyros Tsiolis 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

Hello, Finally managed to sync an outlook client to dovecot. Looks like it's working. Questions though ; : What are the limits? Number of Folders ? Number of mails per folder ? E.g. for a client of mine, I know that she uses about 5Gb of data at the moment (and counting). Now, this same outlook client consists of the following : 1. about thirty (30) folders ranging from 1000 messages per folder to 100 messages per folder 2. A "Sent Items" folder with about 4,000 messages (and counting) 3. A "Deleted Items" folder with about 5,500 messages (and counting) System, now, is a CentOS 5.5 32-bit on an hp/compaq dl360 (G3) with RAID1 76,3Gb Disks UW320 and four (4Gb) of RAM Output of "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_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 answer would be greatly appreciated since I am trying to know the systems' limits. Thank you kindly all, spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] CentOS 5 + selinux
by Marcelo Roccasalva 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

I've just installed CentOS 5.5 and dovecot 2.0.7. Out of the box, it worked ok with local user accounts. Then I enable selinux and I could no loger login to imap server. I can deal with that via a local policy. But I found dovecot tried to open /etc/shadow: type=AVC msg=audit(1291490764.101:670): avc: denied { read } for pid=16130 comm="auth" name="shadow" dev=md2 ino=96335 scontext=user_u:system_r:dovecot_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:shadow_t:s0 tclass=file type=AVC msg=audit(1291500097.318:818): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=17350 comm="auth" path="/etc/shadow" dev=md2 ino=95396 scontext=user_u:system_r:dovecot_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:shadow_t:s0 tclass=file even it is configured for pam passdb: # dovecot -n # 2.0.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } I straced the process and it efectively tries to open /etc/shadow. I don't want to disable selinux but I'm not happy letting dovecot read my /etc/shadow. Is there a guide to selinux and dovecot? -- Marcelo "¿No será acaso que ésta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?" (Mafalda)

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[Dovecot] 1.2.15 - segfault if host field attribute not present in ldap. (proxy)
by Mohit Chawla 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

In case this is relevant: kernel: [17549.714369] imap-login[11704]: segfault at 0 ip b75c3d23 sp bf888178 error 4 in libc-2.11.2.so[b7551000+140000] If no host field attribute is present in ldap (like mailHost for qmail-ldap), and we are trying to use proxy, then dovecot segfaults. If more information's needed, let me know. Also, somewhat unrelated, but maybe the wiki needs to be edited since using a template as =proxy_maybe=y works, while in wiki its kinda opposite. I don't know of specifics, but should I try using a recent release ?

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[Dovecot] Problem with ACLs
by Micha Krause 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

Hi, i want to use unix groups in my ACLs. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ACL says, I can do that with a post-login script (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting) I have verified, that the script is running, and that ACL_GROUPS is correct. But I still can't access the Mailbox. Logfile says: Dec 3 11:19:35 mailint1 dovecot: imap(micha): Debug: acl vfile: reading file /var/mail/mailboxes/shared/mails/server-root/dovecot-acl Dec 3 11:19:35 mailint1 dovecot: imap(micha): Debug: acl vfile: reading file /var/mail/mailboxes/shared/mails/dovecot-acl Im using: dovecot 2.0.7 (5e82c5b1b4a9) Micha Krause

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[Dovecot] Internal Error form delivery from LDAP lookup.
by Jorgen Lundman 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

Solaris-x86-10u8 Dovecot-1.2.7 Large mail setup, with quite a few MX servers working well. Generally everything is super. But every now and then, we get "bouts of bad weather" - which only lasts a short time, and curiously nearly always occur when mail is sent to customer mailing lists. I suspect mostly because of that 1 message has multiple recipients within the same domain. Perhaps. Delivery setup as: main.cf: virtual_transport = dovecot dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 dovecot_destination_concurrency_limit=300 master.cf: dovecot unix - n n - 70 pipe flags=DRhu user=dovecot:dovecot argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} Errors look something like: example.com Dec 06 08:46:25 deliver(rbc-005(a)example.com): Info: msgid=<A22A602A940A45A49EA2C4CC53D27655(a)UQC.local>: saved mail to INBOX Dec 06 08:46:25 deliver(rbc-002(a)example.com): Info: msgid=<A22A602A940A45A49EA2C4CC53D27655(a)UQC.local>: saved mail to INBOX Dec 06 08:46:28 deliver(rbc-004(a)example.com): Error: userdb lookup(rbc-004(a)example.com) failed: Internal failure Dec 06 08:46:28 deliver(rbc-011(a)example.com): Error: userdb lookup(rbc-011(a)example.com) failed: Internal failure Dec 06 08:46:28 deliver(rbc-013(a)example.com): Error: userdb lookup(rbc-013(a)example.com) failed: Internal failure Dec 06 08:46:28 deliver(rbc-006(a)example.com): Error: userdb lookup(rbc-006(a)example.com) failed: Internal failure Later on, when it retries, everything goes according to plan and delivery is achieved. Now this is actually due to slapd saying: Dec 6 08:46:25 vmx15.unix slapd[3958]: [ID 763815 local4.debug] connection_input: conn=72057 deferring operation: too many executing And since it happens most frequently with mailing-lists, or mails with many recipients, I would guess it is due to a large number of lookups happening in a very short time. Since dovecot_destination_recipient_limit=1, I believe 'deliver' is only ever called with just one recipient for "-d", and 'deliver' probably-does-not (?) query LDAP for any of the other "To:" addresses in the message body. Is that the case? Secondary, the dovecot-ldap.conf for dovecot-auth has: hosts = 127.0.0.1 172.20.12.33 172.20.12.23 172.20.12.113 So even though localhost's slapd was busy at the time, the other three hosts were definitely not. Is LDAP fail-over ... failing... in this case? How many concurrent queries does dovecot-auth perform? Any way to tweak this value? Admittedly, postfix/dovecot does handle this situation correctly, as 'temporary failure' and mail delivery is merely delayed. But at the same time, it *could* be something with an easy fix as well. Thoughts? Lund -- Jorgen Lundman | <lundman(a)lundman.net> Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo | +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) Japan | +81 (0)3 -3375-1767 (home)

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Re: [Dovecot] Doveadm import emails
by Timo Sirainen 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

On 5.12.2010, at 14.47, Alex Baule wrote: > I have a maildir with 6800 emails and i try to import this to 1000 users. > The import begins well, but in the user 150 the script stop because doveadm > say the directory have wrong file permissions, but the script dont change > notthing and the permissions its ok. What exactly is the error message? Is it always the same specific user, or if you reorder users is it always the 150th?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot v2.1 plans
by Timo Sirainen 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

Now that v2.0 seems to be getting stable, I finally started v2.1 branch: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/ So far there are just some API changes to fix some annoyances and to make it simpler. They'll probably keep coming for a while more to make future work easier. As for larger upcoming features, I'm hoping for: - simplify index files and make it write only via lib-fs (but keep backwards compatibility & make v2.0 forwards compatible) - make lib-storage API support asynchronous and support parallel lookups - use async disk io as much as possible & get rid of all lock waits inside lib-storage -> it'll be ok to have lots of imap/pop3 connections per process, at least for some storage backends - write imap-client lib-storage backend (make it fast using above async stuff - using configurable number of IMAP connections) - this could maybe also be used to access other users' shared mailboxes when it can't be done directly - design a mailbox format (maybe based on dbox) for key-value databases, implement it via lib-fs and implement a lib-fs backend for one such database - merge Apple's CATENATE and URLAUTH patch But if some company desperately wants me to work on other stuff, that list can change. BTW. I'm moving back to Finland in two weeks. Maybe I'll also get some studying done towards my Master's degree. :)

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[Dovecot] Centos 5.5 upgrade to dovecot 1.2
by Agim Cami 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

Hello, I am trying to upgrade dovecot from 1.0.7 (the dovecot verison in base repo) to 1.2. The installation of .rpm got from atrpms.net aborted with a dependency error : error: Failed dependencies: libpq.so.5()(64bit) is needed by dovecot-1.2.16-1_114.el5.x86_64 This is strange because the libraries are there : yum list libpq* Installed Packages libpqxx.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed libpqxx-devel.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed Any advice on this ? Thanks! Hello, I am trying to upgrade dovecot from 1.0.7 (the dovecot verison in base repo) to 1.2. The installation of .rpm got from atrpms.net aborted with a dependency error : error: Failed dependencies: libpq.so.5()(64bit) is needed by dovecot-1.2.16-1_114.el5.x86_64 This is strange because the libraries are there : yum list libpq* Installed Packages libpqxx.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed libpqxx-devel.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed Any advice on this ? Thanks! Hello, I am trying to upgrade dovecot from 1.0.7 (the dovecot verison in base repo) to 1.2. The installation of .rpm got from atrpms.net aborted with a dependency error : error: Failed dependencies: libpq.so.5()(64bit) is needed by dovecot-1.2.16-1_114.el5.x86_64 This is strange because the libraries are there : yum list libpq* Installed Packages libpqxx.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed libpqxx-devel.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed Any advice on this ? Thanks! Hello, I am trying to upgrade dovecot from 1.0.7 (the dovecot verison in base repo) to 1.2. The installation of .rpm got from atrpms.net aborted with a dependency error : error: Failed dependencies: libpq.so.5()(64bit) is needed by dovecot-1.2.16-1_114.el5.x86_64 This is strange because the libraries are there : yum list libpq* Installed Packages libpqxx.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed libpqxx-devel.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed Any advice on this ? Thanks! Hello, I am trying to upgrade dovecot from 1.0.7 (the dovecot verison in base repo) to 1.2. The installation of .rpm got from atrpms.net aborted with a dependency error : error: Failed dependencies: libpq.so.5()(64bit) is needed by dovecot-1.2.16-1_114.el5.x86_64 This is strange because the libraries are there : yum list libpq* Installed Packages libpqxx.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed libpqxx-devel.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed Any advice on this ? Thanks! Hello, I am trying to upgrade dovecot from 1.0.7 (the dovecot verison in base repo) to 1.2. The installation of .rpm got from atrpms.net aborted with a dependency error : error: Failed dependencies: libpq.so.5()(64bit) is needed by dovecot-1.2.16-1_114.el5.x86_64 This is strange because the libraries are there : yum list libpq* Installed Packages libpqxx.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed libpqxx-devel.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed Any advice on this ? Thanks! Hello, On a Centos 5.5 installation, I am trying to upgrade dovecot from 1.0.7 (the dovecot verison in base repo) to 1.2. The installation of .rpm got from atrpms.net aborted with a dependency error : error: Failed dependencies: libpq.so.5()(64bit) is needed by dovecot-1.2.16-1_114.el5.x86_64 This is strange because the libraries are there : yum list libpq* Installed Packages libpqxx.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed libpqxx-devel.x86_64 2.6.9-3.el5.rf installed Any advice on this ? Thanks!

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.16 compiling error
by Timo Sirainen 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

On 3.12.2010, at 8.36, Mart Pirita wrote: > RedHat 9 based distro, 2.6.24.2 kernel, OpenSSL 1.0.0a 1 Jun 2010 Hmm. v1.0.0a, really?.. > /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-1.2.16/src/login-common/ssl-proxy-openssl.c:950: undefined reference to `OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms' I just hate OpenSSL. You can comment out that line from the code until I figure out what to do about this. That function was supposed to have existed since forever in OpenSSL. Or did the compiling log any warnings?

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[Dovecot] 2.0.8 & enable-header-install
by Tamsy 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

Dear List, up to Dovecot 2.07 I used "--enable-header-install" for the Sieve Plugin when configuring Dovecot before compiling. With 2.0.8 I get the following message when running the configure script: "configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-header-install" Is this intentionally? Is there a substitute directive for Sieve when compiling Dovecot 2.08? Rgds Tamsy

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[Dovecot] Strange config behaviour while using /etc/dovecot/auth.d/somename.auth
by Mark Alan 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

While using Ubuntu 10.10 + Dovecot 1.2.12 + Postfix 2.7.1-1: To export the authentication interface to Postfix, besides the usual smtpd_sasl_* lines at postfix, I am using: the following /etc/dovecot/auth.d/somename.auth file: socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } But after restarting dovecot and doing a 'sudo dovecot -n' I get: ... socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix As 660<>432, is this Dovecot 1.2.12's expected behaviour? Thank you. M.

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[Dovecot] Passwords not returned without auth_bind ?
by Mohit Chawla 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

Hi, Maybe I am missing something simple, but I can't get users authenticated using password lookups, as opposed to auth_bind. This is how the log looks like when using password lookup: dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=2449 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH#0111#011PLAIN#011service=imap#011secured#011lip=127.0.0.1#011rip=127.0.0.1#011lport=143#011rport=43458#011resp=<hidden> dovecot: auth(default): ldap(foo,127.0.0.1): pass search: base=uid=foo,ou=people,dc=djb,dc=hell,dc=qua scope=base filter=(accountStatus=noaccess) fields=(none) slapd[1834]: conn=1083 op=1 SRCH base="uid=foo,ou=people,dc=djb,dc=hell,dc=qua" scope=0 deref=0 filter="(accountStatus=noaccess)" slapd[1834]: conn=1083 op=1 SRCH attr=(none) slapd[1834]: conn=1083 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= dovecot: auth(default): ldap(foo,127.0.0.1): unknown user dovecot: auth(default): ldap(foo,127.0.0.1): pass search: base=ou=people,dc=djb,dc=hell,dc=qua scope=subtree filter=(accountStatus=active) fields=uid,userPassword,homeDirectory,uidNumber,gidNumber,mailQuotaSize slapd[1834]: conn=1084 op=1 SRCH base="ou=people,dc=djb,dc=hell,dc=qua" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(accountStatus=active)" slapd[1834]: conn=1084 op=1 SRCH attr=uid userPassword homeDirectory uidNumber gidNumber mailQuotaSize dovecot: auth(default): ldap(foo,127.0.0.1): result: uid(user)=foo uidNumber(userdb_uid)=1008 gidNumber(userdb_gid)=1008 homeDirectory(userdb_home)=/home/foo mailQuotaSize(userdb_quota_rule=*:bytes=%$)=*:bytes=10000000 dovecot: auth(default): ldap(foo,127.0.0.1): No password returned (and no nopassword) slapd[1834]: conn=1084 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL#0111#011user=foo *dovecot-ldap.pass* uris = ldap://10.5.3.101 dn = uid=dove,ou=people,dc=djb,dc=hell,dc=qua dnpass = debian auth_bind = no ldap_version = 3 base = ou=people,dc=djb,dc=hell,dc=qua scope = subtree pass_filter = (accountStatus=active) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,\ homeDirectory=userdb_home,uidNumber=userdb_uid,gidNumber=userdb_gid,mailQuotaSize=userdb_quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ *dovecot-ldap.deny* uris = ldap://10.5.3.101 ldap_version = 3 base = uid=%u,ou=people,dc=djb,dc=hell,dc=qua scope = base auth_bind = no pass_filter = (accountStatus=noaccess) pass_attrs = (none) *dovecot.conf* # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 i686 Debian squeeze/sid log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 ssl: no 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(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota mail_plugins(imap): quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve managesieve_logout_format(default): bytes=%i/%o managesieve_logout_format(imap): bytes=%i/%o managesieve_logout_format(managesieve): bytes=%i%o lda: postmaster_address: bar(a)djb.hell.qua mail_plugins: quota sieve deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail log_path: /var/log/ldaone info_log_path: /var/log/ldatwo debug: yes auth default: debug: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.deny deny: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.pass userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.user socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 438 plugin: quota: maildir sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve

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[Dovecot] SIS errors - was Error from mobile client (Palm Pre)
by Daniel L. Miller 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

Continuing to see errors on this with some new messages. Is it possible this has anything to do with zlib plugin, or possibly having a mix of zlib compressed & uncompressed messages with mdbox? I recently added zlib to deliver plugin list. -- Daniel L. Miller, VP - Engineering, SET AM Fire & Electronic Services, Inc. [AMFES] dmiller(a)amfes.com 702-312-5276

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[Dovecot] typo
by Mike Abbott 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

Typo on line 292 of src/lib-master/master-login-auth.c in 2.0.8: tuah.

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[Dovecot] thunderbird crashed-mail_max_userip
by Paul Cartwright 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

thunderbird just crashed, and I've never seen this before. Any idea what happened? this was in the dovecot log: 2010-12-02 13:06:40 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured 2010-12-02 13:06:40 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured 2010-12-02 13:06:40 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured 2010-12-02 13:06:40 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured 2010-12-02 13:06:41 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured 2010-12-02 13:06:41 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured 2010-12-02 13:06:41 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured 2010-12-02 13:06:41 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured 2010-12-02 13:06:42 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured 2010-12-02 13:06:42 imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded (mail_max_userip_connections): user=<pbc>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

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[Dovecot] v2.0.8 released
by Timo Sirainen 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.8.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.8.tar.gz.sig There are many small fixes all around, plus some more noticeable changes: * Services' default vsz_limits weren't being enforced correctly in earlier v2.0 releases. Now that they are enforced, you might notice that the default limits are too low and you need to increase them. This problem will show up in logs as "out of memory" errors. See default_vsz_limit and service { vsz_limit } settings. * LMTP: In earlier versions if mail was delivered to user+detail@domain address, LMTP server always attempted to deliver the mail to mailbox named "detail". This was rather unintentional and shouldn't have been the default. lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox=yes setting now preserves this behavior (default is no). + Added systemd support (configure --with-systemdsystemunitdir). Based on patch by Christophe Fergeau. + Replaced broken mbox-snarf plugin with a new more generic snarf plugin. - dbox: Fixes to handling external mail attachments - verbose_proctitle=yes didn't work for all processes in v2.0.7 - imap, pop3: When service { client_count } was larger than 1, the log messages didn't use the correct prefix. Last logged in user's prefix was always used, regardless of what user's session actually logged it. Now the proper log prefix is always used. - MySQL: Only the first specified host was ever used

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[Dovecot] Debian Dovecot Repo and Lenny
by Stephan Jauernick 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am running a Debian Lenny and i want to install/update Dovecot but i am getting these Dependency Problems: dovecot-common: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.10) but 2.7-18lenny6 is to be installed Depends: libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) but it is not installable Depends: libk5crypto3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) but it is not installable Depends: libkrb5-3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) but it is not installable Depends: libmysqlclient16 (>= 5.1.21-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpq5 (>= 8.4~0cvs20090328) but 8.3.12-0lenny1 is to be installed Depends: libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.6.22) but 3.5.9-6 is to be installed Depends: libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8m-1) but 0.9.8g-15+lenny9 is to be installed dovecot-imapd: Depends: libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8m-1) but 0.9.8g-15+lenny9 is to be installed dovecot-pop3d: Depends: libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8m-1) but 0.9.8g-15+lenny9 is to be installed This are my sources.list entries for dovecot: deb http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ stable-auto/dovecot-2.0 main deb-src http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ stable-auto/dovecot-2.0 main Also when could i expect a release/deb package which includes this Commit(or how can in package it myself)? * src/lib/askpass.c: askpass: Allow reading password from stdin even if it's not a tty. [719ce27f9955] I need it because postfixadmin fails otherwise while using the doveadm tool. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Protect messages and files using GnuPG and OpenSSL! Comment: GnuPG-Pack: http://home.arcor.de/rose-indorf Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEVAwUBTPjoyOlWJjWCxiMpAQLpWQf6Axy22rqAEKGGyWK7eR/eBViFrtIgVP7R SNXnNe/b9QfbsSKsvBaZFtueiOm2GtfLC/8kQefzEfNoGHPqGPlSbJ5PQNZjgI9C wAkfFRD4dxH8YeACKk36HTPUJZOCHnxXXxBhdA39/ba8s+CNp0n6ct9ShG7tnmQe 382jYcxQMw1SOeXkf4sq4TPxqwR60Ij4ocUkzI2fHHoRXfIrlBsl/dsmyjhaJKt8 qElk2NK8IRSb7qMZSeV6a2y56QD9kgoBE7UDjGnwZ6SlMWXZ1L7rC3SvtJ8serkO vno3pzsG7dNwSVIyD4QkNneqH6OR+xZ8j6jHhOfg62W/xPdMxOZwRA== =1BUd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] how do I fix this
by donovan jeffrey j 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

On Dec 3, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 3.12.2010, at 13.31, donovan jeffrey j wrote: > >> so i can just take the files from /cur and copy them into the other directory ? >> >> like >> >> cd /Volumes/x/var/spool/imap/dovecot/9EE12CA8-CC7B-4889-ABBA-525E5D522831/cur >> >> cp -Rf * /Volumes/x/var/spool/imap/dovecot/330CE746-6F8D-4708-8877-A97FAFB9AAD/cur > > Yes. > >> what a bout syncing or index do I have to do anything like a restart or will dovecot pickup on the fly? > > Dovecot picks them up automatically. > thanks there was a little change perms that i needed to do, the cp made the owner of *.files root :) a mv should have been my choice but I did not want to risk loosing to some index land. thanks for your help. -j

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[Dovecot] Indexes.
by Henrique Fernandes 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hello people! I have huge problems with IO wait becase dovecot configured to use maildir is under OCFS2 1.4. Now i have an question to OCFS2 each disk action is really heavy becaue it has no index. Now i am thinking in what can be done to heltp my system to use less disk. Looking for index and etc in dovecot i found this, this disables the index file on disk and leave it on ram or it disable the index files ? If you really want to, you can also disable the index files completely by appending :INDEX=MEMORY I am only trying to get dovecot to work faster. Right now we have to waing some seconds to dovecot list all emails or read an email. I am also thinking in right index to an NFS but i don't know if this makes any diferences in performance. Thanks to all! I use 3 servres wrinting on OCFS2 one is mailman, and other two are to email, I have ipvs to load balance the conections. []'sf.rique

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[Dovecot] Dovecot lmtp
by Benedetto Vassallo 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hello to all, I am setting up a mail server using sendmail and dovecot 2.0.7 with maildir storage. I want to use dovecot lmtp as local mail delivery agent becouse when I send a message to multiple recipients it deliver the message to all recipients with hard links instead of store n copies of the message. The only think I can't set up is make dovecot-lmtp reading the .forward file in the user's home directory. I think I am missing something, becouse dovecot-lda read that file but don't do hard links when deliver the mail. What I am missing? Thank you -- Benedetto Vassallo Sistema Informativo di Ateneo Settore Gestione Reti Hardware e Software U.O. Sviluppo e manutenzione dei sistemi Università degli studi di Palermo Red Hat Certified Engineer Certificate Number: 804007793324656 Phone: +3909123860056 Fax: +390916529124 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using the University of Palermo web mail interface.

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[Dovecot] SSL issues on separate IPs
by Tim Traver 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hi Timo, I have set up 2.07 to answer on several different IP's with different SSL certs, like the following : local 209.132.xx.4 { ssl_cert = </shared/templates/res/1040/certs/*.xxxxx.com.crt-pem-298 ssl_key = </shared/templates/res/1040/certs/*.xxxxx.com.key-298 } I have several of these, and there appears to be a problem with one in particular that is dropping connections, and I'm not sure why. In this case it is a wildcard cert issued from godaddy, and I have the cert file in pem format with the chain on it. I have another completely separate local IP setup with a different cert on it that works without any problems. This particular one drops the connection when I try to connect to IMAP using TLS on port 143, or using the IMAP SSL port of 993. When I try it using Thunderbird, I am using the default settings for both tests. The Thunderbird error I get is "The server has disconnected. The server may have gone down or there may be a network problem." I don't see any errors in the dovecot error log or the system error log, and when using doveadm who to view the current connections, it does not show a connection. I tried enabling the logs for SSL errors, but nothing appears for my IP when attempting to connect. FreeBSD 8.1 with openssl 0.9.8n. The IP's are on the box and are on the loopback interface if that makes any difference for a direct server return load balancing system. But, I don't know how that would make a difference since one of the separated IP's works with its cert, and the other one disconnects. Thanks, Tim. Here is my dovecot -n output : # 2.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE i386 auth_username_format = %Lu auth_username_translation = %@ auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no 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_plugins = " quota" 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:User quota quota_rule = Trash:storage=+100M sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /home/mailboxes/sieve/to_spam_folder.sieve sieve_dir = ~/Maildir/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags } protocols = imap pop3 sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = sn mode = 0600 user = sn } } 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 verbose_ssl = yes protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } 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 imap4flags notify include envelope body relational regex subaddress copy } local 209.132.77.4 { ssl_cert = </shared/templates/res/1040/certs/*.xxxxx.com.crt-pem-298 ssl_key = </shared/templates/res/1040/certs/*.xxxxx.com.key-298 } local 209.132.79.1 { ssl_cert = </shared/templates/res/1000/certs/*.ssl.xxxxx.com.crt-278 ssl_key = </shared/templates/res/1000/certs/*.ssl.xxxxx.com.key-278 }

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[Dovecot] Static userdb with LDAP passdb but without "allow_all_users=yes"?
by Andreas Ntaflos 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hi, Is it possible to have a static user database along with an LDAP password database and *not* be forced to set "allow_all_users=yes" for the userdb? The wiki page on static user database says "Normally static userdb handles this by doing a passdb lookup instead." How should the passdb behave in order for this to work? In my tests (on a test server) I am using Dovecot 2.0.7 and Postfix 2.7.0 on Ubuntu 10.04.1. I use (or am trying to use) LMTP with Dovecot and Postfix according to the HOWTO in the wiki [1] as well as dynamic address verification with LMTP [2]. Users are virtual, using a static userdb and passwords from LDAP. I also serve local system users which is why I also have userdb and passdb pam, but this isn't the issue here. Delivering mail to an existing virtual user works fine as far as I can see but when a non-existent user is the recipient Dovecot complains that the passdb doesn't support lookups: postfix/smtpd[26469]: connect from remote-smtp.example.net[10.0.0.10] postfix/cleanup[26474]: 772A760B25: message- id=<20101125172409.772A760B25(a)mailtest.example.com> postfix/qmgr[27672]: 772A760B25: from=<double- bounce(a)mailtest.example.com>, size=276, nrcpt=1 (queue active) dovecot: lmtp(22109): Connect from local dovecot: auth: Error: static(not-a-user(a)test01.example.com): passdb doesn't support lookups, can't verify user's existence dovecot: lmtp(22109): Error: user not-a-user(a)test01.example.com: Auth USER lookup failed dovecot: lmtp(22109): Disconnect from local: Client quit postfix/lmtp[26475]: 772A760B25: to=<not-a-user(a)test01.example.com>, relay=mailtest.example.com[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=0.18, delays=0.17/0.01/0/0, dsn=4.3.0, status=undeliverable (host mailtest.example.com[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 451 4.3.0 <not-a- user(a)test01.example.com> Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. (in reply to RCPT TO command)) postfix/qmgr[27672]: 772A760B25: removed postfix/smtpd[26469]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from remote- smtp.example.net[10.0.0.10]: 450 4.1.1 <not-a-user(a)test01.example.com>: Recipient address rejected: unverified address: ho st mailtest.example.com[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 451 4.3.0 <not-a- user(a)test01.example.com> Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. (in reply to RCPT TO command); from=<andreas.ntaflos(a)example.net> to=<not-a-user(a)test01.example.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<remote-smtp.example.net> postfix/smtpd[26469]: disconnect from remote-smtp.example.net[10.0.0.10] I've uploaded this log file excerpt for your viewing convenience to https://daff.pseudoterminal.org/misc/dovecot/failed_delivery.log More relevant information (doveconf -n, dovecot-ldap.conf) is found below. I can also provide a log excerpt from a successful delivery to an existing virtual user, if needed. To summarise: I want to use LMTP, dynamic address verification, a static user database and an LDAP password database. Can it be done without having to rely on the MTA (Postfix) to verify existing users? Thanks in advance! Andreas [1] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixDovecotLMTP [2] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix dovecot-ldap.conf: uris = ldap://ldap.example.com:389 tls = yes tls_ca_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt base = ou=virtualDomains,dc=example,dc=com dn = uid=dovecot,ou=services,dc=example,dc=com dnpass = xxx pass_attrs=uid=user, userPassword=password pass_filter=(&(objectClass=hostedAccount)(uid=%u)(accountEnabled=TRUE)) iterate_attrs = uid=user iterate_filter = (objectClass=hostedAccount) doveconf -n: https://daff.pseudoterminal.org/misc/dovecot/doveconf-n.txt -- Andreas Ntaflos Vienna, Austria GPG Fingerprint: 6234 2E8E 5C81 C6CB E5EC 7E65 397C E2A8 090C A9B4

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Re: [Dovecot] Indexes.
by Robert Schetterer 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Am 02.12.2010 14:53, schrieb Henrique Fernandes: > I have abou 9000 clients. many clients > > 500 GB of storage used small store anyway you shouldnt run into problems with that > > About the mail option at ocfs2 store creating, i guess the other guy > that format the storage system did not use. what a pitty , mail option help with small files performance like indexes and mail etc as far i remember > > We are looking into ocfs2 1.6 that was out few months ago. But we are > not able to get it running on or Centos5.5 yet. hm centos is more redhat style i speculate Red Hat GFS would have been the better choice is there a list at centos/redhat/ocfs you might can asked about bugs with your ocfs2/distro combination ? > > Are you talking abvout this optimizations? > > Dovecot supports reading a few fields from the <base filename>: > > * > > ,S=<size>: <size> contains the file size. Getting the size > from the filename avoids doing a stat(), which may improve the > performance. This is especially useful with Maildir++ quota > <http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/Maildir>. > > * > > ,W=<vsize>: <vsize> contains the file's RFC822.SIZE, ie. the > file size with linefeeds being CR+LF characters. If the > message was stored with CR+LF linefeeds, <size> and <vsize> > are the same. Setting this may give a small speedup because > now Dovecot doesn't need to calculate the size itself. > > A maildir filename with those fields would look something like: > 1035478339.27041_118.foo.org > <http://1035478339.27041_118.foo.org>,S=1000,W=1030:2,S as far i remember keep close to nfs recommands http://wiki2.dovecot.org/NFS FS caching problems NFS caching is a big problem when multiple computers are accessing the same mailbox simultaneously. The best fix for this is to prevent it from happening. Configure your setup so that a user always gets redirected to the same server (unless it's down). This also means that mail deliveries must be done by the same server, or alternatively it shouldn't update index files. Dovecot flushes NFS caches when needed if you set mail_nfs_storage=yes, but unfortunately this doesn't work 100%, so you can get random errors. Disabling NFS attribute cache helps a lot in getting rid of caching related errors, but this makes the performance MUCH worse and increases the load on NFS server. This can usually be done by giving actimeo=0 or noac mount option. Index files As described above, it's better to redirect users to the same server whenever possible. If you do this, it might also be a good idea to keep index files stored locally in that server. If user gets occasionally redirected to another server, the indexes will then be created locally there. This isn't a problem. However you might want to create a cronjob to delete old index directories. If you choose to keep the index files stored in NFS, you'll need to set mmap_disable=yes. Both the mmap_disable and indexing to NFS will result in a notable performance hit. If you're not running lockd you'll have to set lock_method=dotlock, but this degrades performance. Note that many NFS installations have problems with lockd. If you're beginning to get all kinds of locking related errors, try if the problems go away with dotlocking. ------------- but i agree, there should be more info with cluster file systems in the wiki perhaps Timo has time to send recommands by mail, i am not sure that mine are optimal ( whatever i have no problems yet ) > > > I will try send an image on the load of machine. > > > []'sf.rique > > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Robert Schetterer > <robert(a)schetterer.org <mailto:robert@schetterer.org>> wrote: > > Am 02.12.2010 14:10, schrieb Henrique Fernandes: > > With recomendation settings do you have ? > > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/SharedDisk > > and a few more optimizes about maildir > > > > how many clients ? > > i started the server not long ago so they are less yet ( about 100 > maildirs ) > but i have my own account in it which has massive mails ( 10 GB store > with over 1000 mails daily in out , and perhaps 10000 mails in store) > > > > > sorry, i did not say i use dovecot 2.0.6 > > looks fine, update to 2.0.8 if ready > > > did you use the mail option at ocfs2 store creation ? > > what os/distro do you use , i remember bugs with ocfs with some distro > versions > > > > > []'sf.rique > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Robert Schetterer > > <robert(a)schetterer.org <mailto:robert@schetterer.org> > <mailto:robert@schetterer.org <mailto:robert@schetterer.org>>> wrote: > > > > Am 02.12.2010 13:13, schrieb Henrique Fernandes: > > > Hello people! > > > > > > I have huge problems with IO wait becase dovecot configured > to use > > maildir > > > is under OCFS2 1.4. Now i have an question to OCFS2 each disk > > action is > > > really heavy becaue it has no index. > > > > > > Now i am thinking in what can be done to heltp my system to use > > less disk. > > > > > > Looking for index and etc in dovecot i found this, this > disables > > the index > > > file on disk and leave it on ram or it disable the index files ? > > > > > > If you really want to, you can also disable the index files > > completely by > > > appending :INDEX=MEMORY > > > > > > > > > I am only trying to get dovecot to work faster. Right now we > have > > to waing > > > some seconds to dovecot list all emails or read an email. > > > > > > I am also thinking in right index to an NFS but i don't know if > > this makes > > > any diferences in performance. > > > > > > Thanks to all! > > > > > > I use 3 servres wrinting on OCFS2 one is mailman, and other two > > are to > > > email, I have ipvs to load balance the conections. > > > > > > > > > []'sf.rique > > > > > > > hm , i have no problems with ocfs2 (1.4.3-1: amd64 ) on drbd > ubuntu > > lucid > > using dovecot vers 2 recommended settings for cluster file systems > > i have my index files in the maildir dir > > > > -- > > Best Regards > > > > MfG Robert Schetterer > > > > Germany/Munich/Bavaria > > > > > > > -- > Best Regards > > MfG Robert Schetterer > > Germany/Munich/Bavaria > > -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] Virtual folder root cannot be opened, virtual folders ok
by Tom Talpey 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

I am running dovecot 1.2.16 and not able to figure out an error that happens whenever I select the root of a virtual mailbox tree. At the moment I have a simple maildir store, accessed via IMAP, and have successfully added a virtual fs namespace with two subdirectories. I have created dovecot-virtual entries in the subdirs and they are working fine; they show the expected messages, etc. My problem is with the top-level virtual directory. If I happen to select it in Thunderbird (Eudora, actually), I receive a popup "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded:Mailbox doesn't exist: Mobile." It also fails in the same way during search, which interrupts it and makes other client operations fail. I have tried placing a dovecot-virtual rule in the directory, leaving the directory empty, moving it in or out of the maildir tree, tweaking namespace and INDEX/LAYOUT options all with the same result - the subdirs are fine, the virtual root fails. I must be missing something obvious. Clue, please? Thanks! Relevant configuration: [~] # dovecot -n # 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.33.2 i686 ext4 ... mail_location: maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir mail_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_plugins: fts fts_squat virtual namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: Mobile/ location: virtual:%h/Mobile:INDEX=MEMORY list: yes subscriptions: yes ... [~] # ls -lsaR /var/MailRoot/domains/<d>/<u>/Maildir/Mobile Mobile: 4 drwx------ 4 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 30 16:06 ./ 20 drwx------ 243 xmail xmail 20480 Nov 30 20:55 ../ 4 -rw------- 1 xmail xmail 19 Nov 26 17:18 .virtual-subscriptions 4 drwx------ 2 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 29 10:54 Mail1/ 4 drwx------ 2 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 29 10:54 Mail2/ 4 -rw------- 1 xmail xmail 14 Nov 30 16:06 dovecot-virtual Mobile/Mail1: 4 drwx------ 2 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 29 10:54 ./ 4 drwx------ 4 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 30 16:06 ../ 4 -rw------- 1 xmail xmail 27 Nov 26 17:16 dovecot-virtual Mobile/Mail2: 4 drwx------ 2 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 29 10:54 ./ 4 drwx------ 4 xmail xmail 4096 Nov 30 16:06 ../ 4 -rw------- 1 xmail xmail 22 Nov 26 17:16 dovecot-virtual [~] #

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[Dovecot] Virtual mailboxes and subfolders
by François-Xavier Payet 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hello again, I'd like to know if there is a way to have subfolders in virtual mailbox? In my virtual namespaces, I have some virtual maiboxes named like this : Mailbox Mailbox.SubMailbox (the separator is '.') But when I try to access the submailbox, depending on my client, it either : - Tells me the mailbox doesn't exists (Roundcube) - Don't show me any error, but don't display any mail in the mailbox (Apple Mail.app) So I'd like to know if this is because I can't make subfolders of virtual mailboxes, or if I'm doing something wrong. Thanks. François-Xavier Payet dovecot -n : # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.7 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps managesieve login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-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(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): virtual mail_plugins(imap): virtual mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve namespace: type: private separator: . location: virtual:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: RealMail. location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir hidden: yes list: no subscriptions: yes lda: log_path: /var/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master postmaster_address: foux(a)da-foux-server.tfdn.org mail_plugins: sieve virtual auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: sieve: /var/vmail/%d/%n/sieve sieve_dir: /var/vmail/%d/%n/.sieve

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[Dovecot] Have inbox at the same place
by Spyros Tsiolis 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hello again, I have an installation with dovecot and I am accessing it through linux mint and thunderbird v3.0.10 As thunderbird "subscribes" to dovecot, it does the following : Inbox Trash MyName(a)Mydomain.gr Local Folders Local Folders MyName(a)Mydomain.gr subfolder A Subfolder B Subfolder C Subfolder D Subfolder E Local Folders Outbox OK, I have to admit a have a couple of folders more than what I need. But this is fine. My problem is that *everything* is in its respective place (say, *all* subfolders have their respective e-mail properly laid in there), but the messages I keep on the inbox is the "Inbox" folder. What I would like to have is my Inbox messages under (or *on*) MyName(a)Mydomain.gr folder. Also, trash mail goes to : Trash MyName(a)Mydomain.gr folder. Could this also be under the more generic MyName(a)Mydomain.gr folder further down the tree ? (Hope you understand this :-) The tree above is represented exactly as it looks like on thunderbird (with the indentations and everthing). The "dovecot -n" output follows : ------------------------------------------------------------------- # 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Is this possible ? TIA, Spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] how do I fix this
by donovan jeffrey j 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Greetings yesterday i was resetting an account from a script. and the user was deleted an re-added. subsequently the user now has two dovecot directories. One is active and working, accepting mail, and the other sits with all previous messages. is there anyway to merge these two buggers ? /Volumes/x/var/spool/imap/dovecot mail:dovecot root# ls -la | grep jsmith drwx------ 16 jsmith mail 544 Dec 2 08:39 330CE746-6F8D-4708-8877-A97FAFB9AADD drwx------ 20 jsmith mail 680 Dec 1 10:17 9EE12CA8-CC7B-4889-ABBA-525E5D522831 thanks for any info -j

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[Dovecot] Permission denied error log messages
by Tim Traver 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hi Timo, ok, I have a large 2.07 NFS setup, and I have been monitoring error messages to make sure I catch things, and I've come across a lot of messages that come in pairs and look like this : Dec 01 17:48:35 lda(paul(a)xxxxxx.com): Error: write(/home/mailboxes/data/301/paul@xxxxxx.com/Maildir/tmp/1291254514.M620308P83269.mta2.scaledsystems.com) failed: Permission denied Dec 01 17:48:35 lda(paul(a)xxxxxx.com): Error: sieve: msgid=unspecified: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-12-01 17:48:34] I run the dovecot installation as a single user, and that user owns ALL of my virtual accounts directories. I checked, and there aren't any permissions that aren't correct. All the way up the tree has the same owner and group, and there are plenty of messages that make it through without any issue. The NFS servers don't have enough load on them to return errors for file operations, so I don't believe it is that. We use high end NetApp equipment and have never had any problems with them. I'm baffled as to why it gets permission denied message on the tmp directory. There does not seem to be a recognizable pattern for times, or particular accounts. I've just got a heck of a lot of these messages in the deliver log error files... I use qmail control files to feed the lda delivery for messages. When these errors happen, is the message lost? or is it still queued up in qmail's queue when the lda gives a fatal error like that? Thanks, Tim. here is my dovecot -n output : # 2.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p3 i386 auth_username_format = %Lu auth_username_translation = %@ auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no 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_plugins = " quota" 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:User quota quota_rule = Trash:storage=+100M sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /home/mailboxes/sieve/to_spam_folder.sieve sieve_dir = ~/Maildir/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags } protocols = imap pop3 sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = sn mode = 0600 user = sn } } 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 pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } 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 imap4flags notify include envelope body relational regex subaddress copy }

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[Dovecot] default directory for sent,trash,..
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

hi.. is there any way to set default pathes for sent,trash and so on ? Every Client that connects uses different dirs (Outlook, Thunderbird, Android,..) thx

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[Dovecot] All messages in double in a virtual mailbox.
by François-Xavier Payet 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hello, I've got some virtual maiboxes that are configured as follows : !RealMail.Sent RealMail.Sent all In all those mailboxes, all the messages appears in double. I don't think it's the expected behaviour, but I perhaps missed something. Here's my dovecot -n : # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.7 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps managesieve login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-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(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): virtual mail_plugins(imap): virtual mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve namespace: type: private separator: . location: virtual:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/virtual inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: RealMail. location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir hidden: yes list: no subscriptions: yes lda: log_path: /var/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master postmaster_address: foux(a)da-foux-server.tfdn.org mail_plugins: sieve virtual auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: sieve: /var/vmail/%d/%n/sieve sieve_dir: /var/vmail/%d/%n/.sieve Thanks for your help François-Xavier Payet

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[Dovecot] dovecot is confused about mail_location
by Eric Raymond 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

IMAP logins via fetchmail are failing on my mailserver root@grelber:/home/esr# tail -f /var/log/mail.err Nov 24 16:56:48 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy Nov 24 16:56:48 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed Nov 24 16:57:39 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy Nov 24 16:57:39 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed Nov 24 16:57:52 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy Nov 24 16:57:52 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed Nov 24 17:05:15 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy Nov 24 17:05:15 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed Nov 24 17:09:41 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/cathy Nov 24 17:09:41 grelber dovecot: IMAP(cathy): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed However: root@grelber:/home/esr# dovecot -n # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail:/var/mail/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd And cathy is a real user: root@grelber:/home/esr# grep cathy /etc/passwd cathy:x:1001:1001:Cathy Raymond,,,:/home/cathy:/bin/bash oot@grelber:/home/esr# ls -l /var/mail/cathy -rw------- 1 cathy mail 14296599 2010-11-24 17:30 /var/mail/cathy Dovecot appears confused about whether or not mail_location is set. Just to make matters more perplexing, when *I* fetch from IMAP - using a fetchmail configuration identical except for username - it works. This is driving me nuts. Help? -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> "Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell `Fire!' in a crowded theater." -- Peter Venetoklis

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[Dovecot] Differences between Versions 1 and 2?
by Don Buchholz 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

What are the major differences between Versions 1.x and 2.0? I am beginning to set up a new mail server for a small group of users (~20 accounts). Options are the "0.99" version pre- packaged with RHEL-4, or building v1.2.16 or v2.0.7. Just wondering what the list recommends for a new installation. Thanks, - Don

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[Dovecot] dovecot setting compatibility
by Bruno Sousa 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Hi, Is dovecot version 1.0.rc15-2etch4 (I know it's old) compatible with the setting "mail_max_userip_connections"? regards, -- Bruno

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[Dovecot] LMTP with address extension
by ckubu 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

hallo, I have a problem configuring lmtp service. I use postfix+dovcot2.0.7 with "recipient_delimeter = -". If i switch to dovecot-lda, all works fine, but going to lmtp service it dosn't. Maybe it works with default delimeter "+", but i plan to move from qmail system with many existent mailboxes. Enclosed some configuration/logentries. Can you give me a hint ? Best Wishes Christoph -- dovecot logfile: ================ dovecot: auth: Debug: master in: USER#0112#011test-tr(a)my-domain.de#011service=lmtp dovecot: auth: Debug: sql(test-tr(a)my-domain.de): SELECT '/var/vmail/' || maildir as home, '5000' AS uid, '5000' AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'test-tr(a)my-domain.de' and active = true dovecot: auth: sql(test-tr(a)my-domain.de): Unknown user dovecot: auth: Debug: master out: NOTFOUND#0112 dovecot: lmtp(3525): Debug: auth input: dovecot: lmtp(3525): Disconnect from local: Client quit postfix transport configuration: ================================ virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp doveconf -n: ============ # 2.0.7: /usr/local/dovecot-2.0.7/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-vserver-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid ext3 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 apop auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 5000 first_valid_uid = 5000 hostname = mx.warenform.de last_valid_gid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 5000 listen = 1.2.3.4 mail_debug = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_plugins = autocreate 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 = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/sql-connect.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { autocreate = Spam autosubscribe = Spam sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/sieve/global/ sieve_global_path = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } postmaster_address = admin(a)my-domain.de protocols = imap pop3 sieve lmtp service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1 , 1.2.3.4 } inet_listener imaps { address = 1.2.3.4 } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = 1.2.3.4 }} shutdown_clients = no ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/ssl/servercert.pem ssl_key = </etc/postfix/ssl/servercert.pem syslog_facility = local1 userdb { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/sql-connect.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = autocreate sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = autocreate sieve } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 24 mail_plugins = autocreate autocreate ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/ssl/imap_warenform_de.crt ssl_key = </etc/postfix/ssl/imap_warenform_de.key } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/ssl/pop_warenform_de.crt ssl_key = </etc/postfix/ssl/pop_warenform_de.key }

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[Dovecot] Virtual Users, PAM authentication, MySql backend
by Álvaro Leão 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Hi, I'm sorry if this is a silly question, but i know that is not possible in Courier, so, I need to check if I can do it with Dovecot. Can I use PAM authentication, witch get the users data from a external database (like mysql)? I've found many ways to do this stuff disconnectedly (like pam authentication with passwd ), but i can put all together? I can't use the passwd... Thank's, Álvaro

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[Dovecot] 2.0.7 (a131a498731f): Core Dump on parsing Config
by Thomas Leuxner 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Trying to fix the 'lmtp' temp error, the latest HG core dumps right away: Nov 30 04:15:41 spectre dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.7 (a131a498731f) starting up Nov 30 04:15:41 spectre dovecot: master: Error: service(log): child 30087 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Nov 30 04:15:41 spectre dovecot: master: Error: service(log): command startup failed, throttling Dump seems to be not very useful though. $ gdb /usr/lib/dovecot/imap /var/run/dovecot/core GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/imap...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/dovecot/imap...done. (no debugging symbols found)...done. warning: core file may not match specified executable file. Core was generated by `/usr/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x0000000000408719 in str_c@plt () #0 0x0000000000408719 in str_c@plt () No locals. #1 0x00000000016711f8 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00007f95ccf52b90 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. Current language: auto The current source language is "auto; currently asm". # 2.0.7 (5e82c5b1b4a9): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid auth_verbose = yes mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = acl quota 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 { hidden = no inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = yes location = maildir:/var/vmail/public:LAYOUT=fs:INDEX=~/public prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { args = username_format=%u /var/vmail/auth.d/%d/passwd driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile:/var/vmail/conf.d/%d/acls:cache_secs=300 mail_log_events = expunge mailbox_delete quota = dict:user::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=1GB quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /var/vmail/conf.d/%d/sieve } protocols = imap lmtp service auth-worker { user = doveauth } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = doveauth } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 1.2.3.4 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 0 } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/host_domain_tld.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/host_domain_tld.key syslog_facility = local1 userdb { args = username_format=%u /var/vmail/auth.d/%d/passwd driver = passwd-file } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = acl quota sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl quota imap_acl imap_quota mail_log notify }

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[Dovecot] 2.07 Debian Segfault has gone.....
by Bernd Schmelter 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

....since new package available :-) tnx Benn dovecot --version: 2.0.7 (6e6d3a1cf799) ..Upgrade: dovecot-imapd:i386 (2.0.7-0~auto+33, 2.0.7-0~auto+34)...

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[Dovecot] How to know if dovecot director is running OK?
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

I'm using director on dovecot 2.0 At present, I know that two instances are connected, If I stop of one system, then I can watch how to the connections are closed on port 5000. I defined 5000 as director port. I have one user (user1) connected to kvm1 (192.168.13.100) and kvm2 (192.168.13.101) servers vía telnet telnet kvm1 143 and then login telnet kvm2 143 and then login If try to execute doveadm director status I can watch the two server like that: [root@kvm1 ~]# doveadm director status mail server ip vhosts users 192.168.13.100 100 0 192.168.13.101 100 0 If I try to find if a server has been asigned to user, but I don't know if it is running correctly [root@kvm1 ~]# doveadm director status user1 Current: not assigned Hashed: 192.168.13.101 Initial config: 192.168.13.101 [root@kvm2 ~]# doveadm director status user1 Current: not assigned Hashed: 192.168.13.101 Initial config: 192.168.13.101 Is there any way to test if it really running?

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[Dovecot] 2.0.7 (a131a498731f) segfaults on Debian
by Bernd Schmelter 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

after aptitude upgrade it segfaults. syslog: Nov 30 15:42:05 serv dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.7 (a131a498731f) starting up (core dumps disabled) Nov 30 15:42:05 serv kernel: [ 50.920530] dovecot[1474]: segfault at 0 ip 0804fa9c sp bf87ba80 error 4 in dovecot[8048000+c000] Nov 30 15:42:05 serv kernel: [ 50.921140] dovecot[1475]: segfault at 0 ip 0804fa9c sp bf87bab0 error 4 in dovecot[8048000+c000] Nov 30 15:42:05 serv kernel: [ 50.921550] dovecot[1476]: segfault at 0 ip 0804fa9c sp bf87bab0 error 4 in dovecot[8048000+c000] Nov 30 15:42:05 serv dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): child 1474 killed with signal 11 (core dumps disabled) Nov 30 15:42:05 serv dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): command startup failed, throttling Nov 30 15:42:05 serv dovecot: master: Error: service(log): child 1475 killed with signal 11 (core dumps disabled) Nov 30 15:42:05 serv dovecot: master: Error: service(log): command startup failed, throttling Nov 30 15:42:05 serv dovecot: master: Error: service(ssl-params): child 1476 killed with signal 11 (core dumps disabled) Nov 30 15:42:05 serv dovecot: master: Error: service(ssl-params): command startup failed, throttling apt-history: Start-Date: 2010-11-30 15:33:35 Upgrade: hdparm:i386 (9.27-2.1, 9.32-1), libx11-data:i386 (1.3.3-3, 1.3.3-4), dovecot-imapd:i386 (2.0.7-0~auto+30, 2.0.7-0~auto+33), dovecot-pop3d:i386 (2.0.7-0~auto+30, 2.0.7-0~auto+33), libx11-6:i386 (1.3.3-3, 1.3.3-4), dovecot-common:i386 (2.0.7-0~auto+30, 2.0.7-0~auto+33) End-Date: 2010-11-30 15:34:26 imho the upgraded packages havn`t relations to dovecot Benn -- GRATIS! Movie-FLAT mit über 300 Videos. Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome

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[Dovecot] "doveadm auth user" requiring a tty
by Axel Luttgens 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Hello, "doveadm auth user password" may be scripted without a glitch. But this comes with the usual problem of a "ps" command showing the password, which may be especially annoying in case of a single-letter typo: the almost correct password is then visible for about two seconds... Clearing the password argument (zeroing it) in doveadm-auth.c, in the hope to reduce the window during which the password may be catched, didn't prove successful. "doveadm auth user" could be an alternative, but it imperatively requires a tty, which may not always easily nor efficiently be available in a scripting environment. I thus ended with this very quick and dirty hack (I guess this should be named that way): --- askpass.original.c 2010-05-31 18:36:52.000000000 +0200 +++ askpass.c 2010-11-27 19:12:03.000000000 +0100 @@ -16,8 +16,24 @@ char ch; int fd; + // A very crude attempt... this supposes that STDIN not being a tty + // may never happen outside of "doveadm auth", and that STDIN will + // always be clean. + //if (!isatty(STDIN_FILENO)) + // i_fatal("stdin isn't a TTY"); if (!isatty(STDIN_FILENO)) - i_fatal("stdin isn't a TTY"); + { + pos = 0; + while (read(STDIN_FILENO, &ch, 1) > 0) { + if (pos >= buf_size-1) + break; + if (ch == '\n' || ch == '\r') + break; + buf[pos++] = ch; + } + buf[pos] = '\0'; + return; + } fputs(prompt, stderr); fflush(stderr); but this for sure must overlook a lot of things. What would be the best way to achieve a scriptable "doveadm auth", say through php's proc_open(), without possibly compromise passwords? TIA, Axel

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[Dovecot] Plan: ACL changes
by Timo Sirainen 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Global ACLs are intended to apply to a few mailboxes for all users. For example you could have a master user called "spam" that would have access to each user's "spam" mailbox, but nothing else. Global ACLs are kind of ugly. A mailbox's ACL is found from exactly the same name as what the mailbox's virtual name is. So for example if you have namespace { separator = / prefix = foo/ } And you have a mailbox called foo/bar, the global ACL is looked up from the <global dir>/foo/bar. The problem there of course is what if you want to set global ACLs for "foo". You can't have both directory and a file called "foo". So if this happens, Dovecot instead looks up the ACLs from <global dir>/foo/.DEFAULT file. The name for this file is slightly confusing, and also of course if there really is a mailbox called ".DEFAULT" it won't really work well. Global acl is currently configured by giving its path to acl setting, such as: plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/global-acls } So plan #1: deprecate this usage. If global-acls is a directory, keep using the old method. But the new preferred method would be for it to be a file that contains all of the global ACLs. Typically there should be very few entries, so this should also be more efficient. Also this would allow setting default ACLs for namespaces by using wildcards. For example you could have: * masteruser +lrw spam spamuser +lr test/* testuser +lr etc. The * would match only within a single namespace, so if you had more than one, the * entry would match only the one having prefix="". The * entry would be especially helpful for master users who you intend to have access to user's all mailboxes. Currently there is no good way to implement this. Plan #2: Add support for per-user default namespace ACLs. In the mail root directory if "dovecot-default-acl" file exists, it's used as the default ACLs. I'm not entirely sure what should happen if it conflicts with the global ACLs. Probably they both should be simply merged, since both can only be created by an admin. Probably the per-user ACL should be allowed to override the global ACLs. Any thoughts? Since neither of these would break backwards compatibility, I could add them to v2.0.x.

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[Dovecot] 2.0.7 (0757f4f5b882): LMTP Server refuses queued mail
by Thomas Leuxner 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Hi, not sure what is wrong with the mail, but the Dovecot LMTP won't accept it. This is actually the first ever occurrence, so I'm attaching the evidence for further diagnosis: […] Nov 26 18:01:49 spectre dkim-filter[1723]: A7BEA4086: no signature data Nov 26 18:01:49 spectre postfix/qmgr[6175]: A7BEA4086: from=<bounce-1841919-268661(a)news.juno.co.uk>, size=131577, nrcpt=1 (queue active) […] Nov 26 18:01:49 spectre postfix/lmtp[27788]: 19FB54088: to=<tlx(a)leuxner.net>, relay=spectre.leuxner.net[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=0.27, delays=0.25/0/0/0.01, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (host spectre.leuxner .net[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 451 4.3.0 Temporary internal failure (in reply to end of DATA command)) $ mailq -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient------- 19FB54088 131807 Fri Nov 26 18:01:49 bounce-1841919-268661(a)news.juno.co.uk (host spectre.leuxner.net[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 451 4.3.0 Temporary internal failure (in reply to end of DATA command)) tlx(a)leuxner.net -- 129 Kbytes in 1 Request. Regards Thomas

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[Dovecot] Error from mobile client (Palm Pre)
by Daniel L. Miller 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Where I used to be able to access the server without incident, I can no longer receive mail on the mobile device. I'm seeing this in the server log: Nov 27 23:45:05 bubba dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<dmiller(a)amfes.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=173.117.196.198, lip=192.168.0.72, mpid=17422, TLS Nov 27 23:45:07 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Error: FETCH [1.2] for mailbox INBOX UID 10652 got too little data: 0 vs 23553 Nov 27 23:45:07 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.cache: Broken MIME parts for mail UID 10652 Nov 27 23:45:07 bubba dovecot: imap(dmiller(a)amfes.com): Disconnected: FETCH failed bytes=88/4202 I HAVE made some tweaks to config - primarily adding plugins I never used before. These now include zlib and imap_zlib (I've tried removing imap_zlib - no change). -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] (vaguely) related to: "doveadm auth user" ...
by Clemens Schrimpe 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

While digging through the code I remember having seen something like an (yet undocumented) "update_query" for SQL (and I guess something similar for the LDAP faction as well)?! Can that be used to augment the "doveadm pw" function to actually /set/ the password for a given user instead of just "calculating" the hash, so that an operator can copy&waste it into the respective passdb? Just curious ... I guess it would be nice to have "doveadm" become as central point of administration (yeah, yeah - we would still need a "create user" and "delete user", etc. -- but we would at least be further on our way, wouldn't we? :-) Just 2¢ from Clemens

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[Dovecot] SQL insert?
by Oliver Berse 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Hi, I want to log some informations about a mail in a mysql database when the mail is saved to inbox (for a groupware). I use Dovecot 1.2.16 and the log message "msgid=<xxx>: saved mail to inbox" is generated in deliver.c. I find all the needed data in that file. But I'am not sure how to use the functions in sql-api.h or sql-api-private.h to send a simple SQL insert statement to the database. Can anyone give me a hint how to do this? best regards, Oliver

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and loading OpenSSL libraries
by Paul Griffith 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Hi, I am running into a interesting issue with Dovecot. I compiled Dovecot 2.0.7 with LD_RUN_PATH set to /xsys/lib and it was able to find and link against the correct OpenSSL libraries (/xsys/lib), the generated Makefile look OK. Here is a snippet of the SSL cflags and libs. SSL_CFLAGS = -I/xsys/include SSL_LIBS = -L/xsys/lib -lssl -lcrypto -ldl After I compil, install and run Dovecot I get the following error. ssl-params: Error: dovecot/ssl-params: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory It seems that Dovecot can't find the SSL libraries, even if I set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. I always assume that the Dynamic Loaded (dl) library would pickup LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If I add /xsys/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and regenerate my /etc/ld.so.cache file, Dovecot works without any error messages. Any ideas why SSL_CFLAGS, SSL_LIBS and LD_LIBRARY_PATH aren't been honored ? 78 % /xsys/pkg/dovecot/bin/doveconf -n # 2.0.7: /xconf/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-89.0.29.EL.CSE.smp i686 CentOS release 4.6 (Final) ext3 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Lu doveadm_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/doveadm-server imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_location = mbox:/local/home/%u:INBOX=/local/home/%u/inbox mail_plugin_dir = /xsys/pkg/dovecot/lib/dovecot passdb { driver = pam } pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu protocols = imap pop3 ssl_cert = </xconf/openssl/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key = </xconf/openssl/certs/imapd.pem userdb { driver = passwd } Thanks Paul

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[Dovecot] maildir-dbox hybrid
by Roland Stuehmer 28 Nov '10

28 Nov '10

Hi! How can I convert old mailboxes in "maildir-dbox hybrid" to a current dbox? I have a Dovecot installation that was upgraded from 1.2.x to 2.0.x. Having used the old convert plugin during the 1.2-times I am now stuck with mailboxes which are partially converted (maildir-dbox hybrid state). On <http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0> it just says to contact the mailinglist. :) | If you have any Maildir files in your dbox, you need to convert them | somehow (contact Dovecot mailing list) Regards, Roland. P.S.: I am currently using version: 2.0.5 (b8803a1e2dc2)

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[Dovecot] dovecot genesis v2.0.X
by Jim Pazarena 28 Nov '10

28 Nov '10

V2 of dovecot has had the following releases (to recap) 2.0.0 2010-08-16 2.0.1 2010-08-24 2.0.2 2010-09-08 2.0.3 2010-09-17 2.0.4 2010-09-26 2.0.5 2010-10-01 I am on FreeBSD, and the port committers want to wait till dovecot V2 "stabilizes" prior to adding it to the FreeBSD ports base. So, my question is, respectfully, is dovecot V2.0.5 stable enough for prime-time on a busy ISP mail server? I'll install it myself independent of the FreeBSD ports tree if so. Thanks,

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[Dovecot] (Dis)advantage of using lmtp?
by Christian Schmidt 28 Nov '10

28 Nov '10

Hi all, are there any (dis)advantages in "connecting" dovecot and an MTA (in our case: exim) using LMTP over using other methods (e.g. the exim transports definitions that can be found in the wiki)? Thank you very much! Gruss/Regards, Christian Schmidt

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[Dovecot] Mailbox Delete
by Alex Baule 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

Hi Timo.... I Modify the plugin autocreate, that create and subscribe a mailbox to user. My modification consist in do the inverse, if my user don't have permission to create and subscribe a folder, the plugin remove and unsubscribe. My function is called in the same place that create and subscribe is called, just seeing if my flag is "create or delete". My function i copy from doveadm + autocreate create mailbox. The delete is made, and works, but i got some errors before the delete. I thing that is missing something in this function, like delete something else.... static void emexis_antispam_mailbox_delete(struct mail_namespace *namespaces, const char *name) { struct mail_namespace *ns; struct mailbox *box; ns = mail_namespace_find(namespaces, &name); if (ns != NULL){ box = mailbox_alloc(ns->list, name, 0); if (mailbox_delete(box) < 0) { struct mail_storage *storage = mailbox_get_storage(box); i_error("Can't delete mailbox %s: %s", name,mail_storage_get_last_error(storage, NULL)); } if (mailbox_mark_index_deleted(box, TRUE) < 0){ struct mail_storage *storage = mailbox_get_storage(box); i_error("Can't delete INDEX %s: %s", name,mail_storage_get_last_error(storage, NULL)); } mailbox_free(&box); } } I got this errors. Nov 26 17:39:29 brc dovecot: imap(alex(a)exemplo.com.br): Panic: file index-status.c: line 144 (index_storage_get_status): assertion failed: (box->opened) Nov 26 17:39:29 brc dovecot: imap(alex(a)exemplo.com.br): Error: Raw backtrace: /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xb769275e] -> /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xb76927bd] -> /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xb7691db4] -> /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_get_status+0x38d) [0xb770aced] -> /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/lib20_emexis_uis_plugin.so [0xb75009a1] -> /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_delete+0x4e) [0xb76ed36e] -> /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/lib20_emexis_uis_plugin.so [0xb74fff10] -> /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/lib20_emexis_uis_plugin.so [0xb7500280] -> /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/lib20_emexis_uis_plugin.so [0xb7500fa9] -> /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(hook_mail_namespaces_created+0x31) [0xb76ee011] -> /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_namespaces_init+0x7c4) [0xb76e71d4] -> /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_storage_service_next+0x21c) [0xb76f4b9c] -> /opt/addons/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-stor Nov 26 17:39:29 brc dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 2830 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) TKS Timo !!!

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[Dovecot] sieve fileinto public shared mbox?
by RParr 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Could someone verify if 1) sieve can fileinto shared public mbox? 2) if it can, what I might be doing wrong? I am getting errors in the log when I try to have sieve fileinto a shared public mbox. 11/04/10 06:08:12 pm n3 dovecot deliver(tarts): sieve: msgid=<201011050108.oA5187sm003711(a)JaySmith.com>: failed to store into mailbox 'public/SPAM/SPAMMM': Mailbox doesn't exist: public/SPAM/SPAMMM 11/04/10 06:08:12 pm n3 dovecot deliver(tarts): sieve: execution of script /home/tarts/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful ---------------------------------------------------- require "include"; require "fileinto"; require "regex"; require "relational"; require "comparator-i;ascii-numeric"; if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "X-Spam-Score" "12" { fileinto "public/SPAM/SPAMMM"; stop; } elsif header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "X-Spam-Score" "8" { fileinto "SPAM/MySPAMM"; stop; } elsif header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "X-Spam-Score" "4" { fileinto "SPAM/MySPAM"; stop; } ------------------------------------------------------- sieve fileinto user tarts own directories SPAM/MySPAM works fine. I have defined 2 namespace namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } namespace public { separator = / prefix = public/ location = mbox:/var/mail/public subscriptions = no } and I have mail_access_groups = tarts The /var/mail/public/SPAM/... folders do exist and user tarts can move/copy mail into them just fine; they have permissions as follows: public/SPAM: total 28 drwxrws--- 3 mail tarts 4096 2010-11-04 18:11 ./ drwsrws--- 8 mail tarts 4096 2010-10-27 18:18 ../ drwxrws--- 5 testuser tarts 4096 2010-11-04 14:49 .imap/ -rw-rw---- 1 testuser tarts 2019 2010-11-04 14:58 SPAM -rw-rw---- 1 tarts tarts 2003 2010-11-04 14:58 SPAMM -rw-rw---- 1 mail tarts 7175 2010-11-04 18:11 SPAMMM public/SPAM/.imap: total 20 drwxrws--- 5 testuser tarts 4096 2010-11-04 14:49 ./ drwxrws--- 3 mail tarts 4096 2010-11-04 18:11 ../ drwxrws--- 2 testuser tarts 4096 2010-11-04 14:49 SPAM/ drwxrws--- 2 tarts tarts 4096 2010-11-04 14:49 SPAMM/ drwxrws--- 2 tarts tarts 4096 2010-11-04 14:49 SPAMMM/ public/SPAM/.imap/SPAM: total 28 drwxrws--- 2 testuser tarts 4096 2010-11-04 14:49 ./ drwxrws--- 5 testuser tarts 4096 2010-11-04 14:49 ../ -rw-rw---- 1 tarts tarts 16384 2010-11-04 14:50 dovecot.index.cache -rw-rw---- 1 testuser tarts 836 2010-11-04 14:58 dovecot.index.log public/SPAM/.imap/SPAMM: total 28 drwxrws--- 2 tarts tarts 4096 2010-11-04 14:49 ./ drwxrws--- 5 testuser tarts 4096 2010-11-04 14:49 ../ -rw-rw---- 1 tarts tarts 16384 2010-11-04 14:49 dovecot.index.cache -rw-rw---- 1 tarts tarts 748 2010-11-04 14:58 dovecot.index.log public/SPAM/.imap/SPAMMM: total 32 drwxrws--- 2 tarts tarts 4096 2010-11-04 14:49 ./ drwxrws--- 5 testuser tarts 4096 2010-11-04 14:49 ../ -rw-rw---- 1 tarts tarts 17408 2010-11-04 18:03 dovecot.index.cache -rw-rw---- 1 tarts tarts 1660 2010-11-04 18:11 dovecot.index.log

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[Dovecot] Use a different usename than the recipient address (that require a lookup)?
by Zhou, Yan 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hi there, I am integrating Postfix and DoveCot, both use LDAP to look up user/email address info. My question is this: can I create a user "jsmith" to get all emails with the recipient address: dovecotdemo@domain? Because of using LDAP, I need to do a lookup to know that the user "jsmith" is getting emails for "dovecotdemo@domain", NOT "dovecotdemo" (there will be no such user). In postfix's master.cf, I can use LDA to deliver to DoveCot, which needs to know the user name where the message should be delivered to. But I would not know that at the time because I need to do a lookup in LDAP. Does the DoveCot delivery agent have any way to allow me return a different user name after LDAP lookup? I would not want to modify a couple of files to accomplish that, because I would have to do that for every email address created. 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] (summarized) wishlist :-)
by Clemens Schrimpe 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hello All (and Timo in particular :-) -- While reading through some of the conversations on this list over the past two weeks or so, I always thought "how would <this> particular problem affect you and how would you address it in your environment?". This results in a few suggestions, or "thing to wish for", which I thought others may find useful, hence I'm posting this here. 1) the whole "post login scripting" is a mighty tool, yet it presently lacks a few more words in the documentation, i.e., the syntax of the corresponding config files isn't /entirely/ clear to me. Yes, I can replay the examples given, but I'm not fully sure, what happens when, etc. I'm perfectly willing, though, to contribute to that, by documenting findings in the Wiki2 (I'm just using 2.0.x, sorry). I'd appreciate a few more examples, so if anyone has a funny, working configuration, making good use of "post login scripting", I'd appreciate it, if you'd "show" them! :-) Anyway: A bit more "control" over PLS would be nice. For example, I'd like to have a script invoked every time a new "session" starts (new IMAP/POP3 connection from a unique ID), as many clients open multiple connections at once and usually I wouldn't want to see the second, third, nth connection - just the first. "Nice" would also a "post logout scripting" feature - again: Both for "all" connections, as well as just for the "last" one. Yes, this certainly requires a bit more discussion, I know - but I hope to trigger just that with this message! :-) 2) The "local x.x.x.x {" feature is very nice, yet it could use some "polishing", I guess. Inclusion of ports and wildcards for either addresses or ports, for instance. I'm imagining a syntax like this: local 1.2.3.4 { ... } like now to remain backward compatible local 1.2.3.4:* { ... } same result, just different new syntax -> don't care about port local 1.2.3.4:4711 { ... } add port restriction local *:4711 { ... } don't care for address, but match on port and -of course- (yes, I am really USING IPv6), the use of "[2001:xxxx:yyyy::zzzz]" instead of "1.2.3.4" in the examples show above. If one would like to become really funky, the optional "/xx" addition to specify a prefix-length would leave no more wishes open. (Well ... maybe the use of "names" derived from DNS instead of literal addresses, of course :-) [if this feature becomes clearer to me, I'd -again- be happy to help document it within the Wiki2] 3) The "iterate_query" in the SQL interface (I assume, there is something similar in the LDAP realm?) could be supplied with a few (optional, of course) "%x" variables, i.e., "%s" could deliver the "service" again, like with the other queries. This could tell the database engine, what the "show me all users" query is being used for ("quota", "expunge", ... basically all functions of doveadm, where you can supply a "-A" parameter). A "%{env:HOST}" could be used to tell the DB interface, which node of a multi-node installation is "asking". I.e., if you have your users distributed over multiple nodes, each one might want to perform "cleanups" only for their own users, saving a lot of bandwidth for unnecessary NFS traffic, etc. That's it - for now. Otherwise I'm pretty happy with dovecot, let me make that very clear here! :-) :-) :-) Clemens

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[Dovecot] ioloop.c panic
by Brad Davidson 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Timo, Just this morning I upgraded from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7 (hg changeset 66a523135836). A few hours later we had some power problems that caused the networking to drop out at one site. The directors on the surviving site all had a few imap-login processes crash with the following error: Nov 23 09:15:30 cc-director1 dovecot: imap-login: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 35 (io_add): assertion failed: (fd >= 0) Nov 23 09:15:31 cc-director1 dovecot: imap-login: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 35 (io_add): assertion failed: (fd >= 0) Nov 23 09:55:48 cc-director1 dovecot: imap-login: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 35 (io_add): assertion failed: (fd >= 0) Nov 23 09:55:51 cc-director2 dovecot: imap-login: Panic: file ioloop.c: line 35 (io_add): assertion failed: (fd >= 0) I don't have core dumps enabled, so I can't provide any more information than that. I could enable cores, but I honestly would be hard-pressed to replicate the network cut-out anyway so I'm not optimistic that any cores for this message would ever be forthcoming. Thanks, -Brad --- Brandon 'Brad' Davidson Virtualization Systems Administrator University of Oregon Information Services (541) 346-8098 brandond(a)uoregon.edu

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[Dovecot] ldap passdb + mdbox
by Daniel L. Miller 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

I previously had a static userdb and an ldap passdb. Everything's been working fine, both 1.2 and 2.0 - but now I need to support the nightly mdbox purge operation. I added the iterate params to my ldap configuration, but (I'm guessing) that with a defined static userdb it won't work. How should I setup my ldap userdb? Do I use prefetch? Current config: passdb { driver = ldap args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb { driver = static args = uid=vmail gid=mail home=/var/mail/%d/%n mail=mdbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/mdbox allow_all_users=yes } dovecot-ldap.conf: ## dn credentials shouldn't be needed since using auth-bind - but here anyway dn = xxx,dc=amfeslan,dc=local dnpass = xxx ## auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = uid=%n,ou=users,dc=amfeslan,dc=local ldap_version = 3 base = ou=Users, dc=amfeslan, dc=local user_attrs = dbox:%d/%n/Maildir=mail,%d/%n=home user_filter = (mail=%u) pass_attrs = mail=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(mail=%u)) iterate_attrs = mail=user iterate_filter = (&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(mail=*)) -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] auth on tcp socket?
by Hajo Locke 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hello, is it possible to provide service auth on tcp-socket instead of unix-socket? I changed my conf and dovecot 2.0.5 is restarting but on telnet test it throws: dovecot: auth: Fatal: getsockname(12) failed: Socket operation on non-socket Want to separate smtp and imap to different servers but keep using dovecot auth for postfix-sasl. Whats to do? hmm, is postfix able to use non-unix socket for dovecot-sasl? Thanks, Hajo

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[Dovecot] proxy (director) and destination ports
by Oliver Eales 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hello, i am delivering Mail from postfix via LMTP to dovecot. I am using the director also for LMTP. As long as i connect to the dovecot LMTP TCP socket from postfix everything is working. postfix main.cf: virtual_transport= lmtp:localhost:30025 But when i try to switch to the local socket postfix main.cf: virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp The dovecot proxy tries to connect to the backend server port 0 which is obviously not working. The proxy always seems to connect to the same port on the backend as it was accessed itself. Nov 24 14:55:09 auth: Debug: master out: PASS 1 user=1000000000030 proxy Nov 24 14:55:09 lmtp(7330): Debug: auth input: user=1000000000030 proxy host=10.1.1.151 proxy_refresh=450 Nov 24 14:55:09 lmtp(7330): Error: lmtp client: connect(10.1.1.151, 0) failed: Connection refused Nov 24 14:55:11 director: Error: director(15.189.34.59:13459/out): connect() failed: Connection refused Is it possible to set the destination port (30025) of the backend server to the proxy ? Regards, Oliver

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[Dovecot] Director
by Diego Damian Garcia 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hi. I am try to setup director in dovecot 2.0.7-1_123 but I don´t unserstand how this work. Have any tutorial with instructions to setup the director to autenticate users and send to the real mail servers? Sincerely Thanks. Diego.

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[Dovecot] Director and deliver
by Thomas Hummel 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hello Timo, Although I haven't tried neither director nor deliver, I'm planning to try both. I've been catching up with threads on this list talking about director but I'm not sure about how deliver would fit into a setup using director. Since deliver would touch indexes and dovecot-uidlist, wouldn't it need to be proxied as well through director ? Is that the case ? If not, how can we use deliver as LDA in a setup where n directors would proxy to m dovecot backends ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] maildir maintenance?
by Brian Kroth 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hi, I'm running version 1.2.15 (so no doveadm) with around 6000 maildir users, some of which are very large. For completeness, the details of the setup are as follows: - The maildirs are stored via NFS. - The indexes are on a volume local to the dovecot server. - Only one IMAP server currently. - A separate sendmail/procmail server delivers via NFS. I recently wrote the attached script (could probably be improved) meant in theory to be run as a nightly cron job to do the follow: 1) Remove old messages marked as deleted. (I didn't really like the expunge/trash plugins the last time I looked at them.) 2) Rebuild the indexes to account of those changes. (So that the users aren't delayed by dovecot rebuilding them.) 3) Rebuild FTS indexes. (Again to avoid delay.) 4) Rebuild the maildirsize file. (It seems to become slightly inaccurate over time.) To the devs, I'm wondering if this seems sane? To other users of dovecot, I'm wondering what, if any sort of maintenance operations you tend to do in your setups? Thanks, Brian

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[Dovecot] Quota by max file size
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Is It possible have a quota for max file size? Per example, If the client try to save a very big mail as draft, p.e. 100M, and the limit of Exim configuration is 20M, the mail is really saved in Maildir at sent or Draft but it can't be sent. I think maybe is easy to create a plugin, get the saved stream size and then if it is over quota max file size, abort save and notice to use about the limit, but at first I want to know that really daesn't similar exists.

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[Dovecot] iPhone leaves imap process active
by Jim 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

A quick search of the archives didn't reveal a fix, so I thought I'd ask the list. I was running Dovecot 2.0.2, and noticed a lot of CPU being used up. I discovered a number of IMAP processes burning a lot of cycles, when no connections should have been active. I traced this to the iPhone leaving the IMAP connection apparently active. I just upgraded to Dovecot 2.0.7, and I'm still seeing connections left active, but haven't seen the high CPU usage yet, but I've only been running 2.0.7 for about 30 minutes. I tried adding kill_idle to the IMAP config, but that doesn't seem to have helped. Turning off the iPhone does kill the connection, so I know that the iPhone is really keeping the connection alive, but if I can find a way to keep these connections down, I'd really rather have that ability. Here's my config: wrights-Mac-mini:/Users/transmit wright$ doveconf -n # 2.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 10.4.0 i386 hfs auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 default_internal_user = _dovecot disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 27 first_valid_uid = 27 last_valid_gid = 27 last_valid_uid = 27 mail_gid = 27 mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n mail_privileged_group = postfix mail_uid = 27 namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } service imap-login { process_limit = 64 } service imap { idle_kill = 150 secs process_limit = 128 } service pop3-login { process_limit = 64 } service pop3 { process_limit = 128 } ssl = no userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com } wrights-Mac-mini:/Users/transmit wright$

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[Dovecot] dovecot/imap-login TLS?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

# ps auxwww|egrep -i imap-login dovenull 11879 1.4 0.9 83484 77656 ? S Nov20 19:12 dovecot/imap-login [822 connections (822 TLS)] What exactly is TLS in this context? All connections from imap -> imap-login? All clients connecting to an imap process? -- 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] auth_username_chars - special chars
by Hajo Locke 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Hello, i use dovecot 1.2.11 with auth by mysql. auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@üÜöÖäÄ for some reasons more special chars in username are needed. in fact the % char is meant. Is this recommend to use with mysql? should i expect some problems when using chars with special function within mysql? Config is now: auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb prefetch { } } password_query = SELECT `inbox` as `user`, `password`, `home` as userdb_home, `uid` AS userdb_uid, `gid` AS userdb_gid FROM `mail_users` WHERE `login` = '%u' AND `active`='Y' Thanks for your ideas, Hajo

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[Dovecot] dovecot transport with postfix and recipient restrictions.
by Mauro 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

I'm using dovecot deliver with my postfix smtp. In postfix configuration I have: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/maps/recipient_checks and in recipient_checks I have: mail(a)example.com REJECT. It doesn't work. Perhaps the recipient restriction has to be put in dovecot side? How can I do this.

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Re: [Dovecot] change subject with dovecot+sieve
by Esteban Torres Rodríguez 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:05 +0100, Esteban Torres Rodríguez wrote: I'm using to make the filter sieve and would like to reject filter and change the subject of emails that filter. I have created the filter and it works correctly, but reject comes with the following subject: "Mail Delivery Subsystem" How I can do? You didn't mention what Dovecot version. That should be the From: field. Depending on what Sieve you use the Subject: should be different. But anyway.. looking at the current Pigeonhole code, it doesn't look like it uses LDA's rejection_subject or rejection_reason settings at all. Stephan, can you add support for those? Or is there a reason why you can't use mail_send_rejection()? Maybe those APIs could be changed to avoid all of this code duplication.. Versions: -dovecot-1.1.7-0_84.el5 -dovecot-sieve-1.1.5-8.el5 The rule I am using is: require ["reject"]; if anyof (address :is "from" "nagios(a)domain1.com") { redirect "newaddress(a)domain2.com"; } elsif anyof (not address :is "from" "nagios(a)domain1.com") { reject text: Hello world. bye . ; } subject label does not work: :subject "This is the new subject"

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[Dovecot] Automatic expire on post-login
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

I need to clear two folder from Maildir at login. Exatly, delete all mails older than 30 days on Trash and 1 day on spam folder. I'm using dovecot 2.0 and I think about use a post-login script calling doveadm -u $user expunge but post-login scripts in dovecot 2.0 are very complex Is there possible to get the environment vars like on dovecot 1.2 ? I think this action must be done by expire plugin, but it isn't the work method if as I understand after read wiki2.dovecot.org about expire plugin, It run only with a cronjob.

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[Dovecot] mdbox nightly cronjob
by Daniel L. Miller 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Is 'doveadm expunge -A ALL DELETED' a "safe" command to issue prior to a 'doveadm purge -A'? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Managesieve + procmail
by Lox 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hello, I have an Ubuntu Lucid Postfix/Dovecot server. I have a web ui to manage my websites, emails and so that makes use of Procmail but would I like my users to be able to use Managesieve filters. It it possible to "chain" them ? How? Best regards. -- Lox lox.dev(a)knc.nc

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[Dovecot] doveadm purge output
by Daniel L. Miller 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Running "doveadm purge" with both -D and -v parms, and both -A and -u options, I don't see much in the way of output. doveadm -v purge -u username just returns with no output doveadm -v purge -A returns no output for most users - for my own mailbox it yields "20 / 21" -D returns the same, along with messages about skipping plugin modules. Is this normal? I'm thinking not - since after deleting messages in the client, emptying the trash, compacting from the client, and then performing a purge - I see no difference in mailbox files. -- Daniel

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Re: [Dovecot] zlib + mdbox
by interfaSys sàrl 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

I am. The only issue I'm seeing is Blackberry devices that can't idle after a while. It was the same with Maildir, so maybe it's a zlib issue or something else all together. > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:19:18 -0800 > From: "Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller(a)amfes.com> > Subject: [Dovecot] zlib + mdbox > To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Message-ID: <4CEC7626.4010401(a)amfes.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Is anyone currently using zlib with mdbox? Any issues? >

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[Dovecot] Troube with GSSAPI auth
by asd dsa 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hi all. I have a troube with GSSAPI (Dovecot 2.0.7) auth: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 GSSAPI service=imap lip=192.168.1.56 rip=192.168.1.2 lport=143 $ auth: Debug: gssapi(?,192.168.1.2): Obtaining credentials for imap@ auth: Info: gssapi(?,192.168.1.2): While acquiring service credentials: An invalid name was supplied auth: Info: gssapi(?,192.168.1.2): While acquiring service credentials: Unknown code krb5 216 Kerberos key imap/hostname@REALM installed, dovecot.conf: auth_debug = yes auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/krb5.keytab auth_mechanisms = gssapi disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 1 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_gid = 89 mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%n mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = 89 service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = * port = 143 } } ssl = no userdb { driver = static } Any ideas?

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[Dovecot] IMAP aggregation and MUPDATE protocolo
by Ernesto Revilla Derksen 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hi. I'm just having a look about aggregating several IMAP sources and a IMAP aggregator proxy would come very handy. I just read: http://www.cyrusimap.org/mediawiki/index.php/Cyrus_Murder_Design and found it very interesting. Anyone did something similar based on: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3656 Thanx. Erny -- Ernesto Revilla Yaco Sistemas +34 954 500 057

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[Dovecot] two mailboxes - sieve?
by Egbert Jan van den Bussche 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hi helpful list! I have this user that has two different accounts om the mail server. One is a system account, the other is a virtual account (for what it is worth...). This user would like to have all his email to the virtual mail box (maildir format) automatically moved (or delivered) to the system mailbox (also maildir fornat). Both are on the same machine and use the same postfix/dovecot installation. Something tells me that I might need the sieve plugin for lda here since dovecot is the local delivery transport. I have no knowledge whatsoever about sieve or its scripting. What do I need to o apart from enabling the sieve plugin in dovecot.conf? Or is there another simple solution for this problem directly in Postfix or with fetchmail? A simple working example would be wonderful! TIA Egbert Jan (NL)

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[Dovecot] zlib + mdbox
by Daniel L. Miller 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Is anyone currently using zlib with mdbox? Any issues? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] gnus/dovecot open transactions panic
by Greg Troxel 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

I have been using dovecot with gnus for a long time. Recently, I started getting failures, and I think it's a dovecot problem triggered by gnus being more aggressive, but I'd like to hear opinions about whether I should pursue this as a gnus bug. The log shows: Oct 25 19:27:36 gdtserver dovecot: IMAP(gdt): Panic: Trying to close mailbox foo.bar with open transactions Oct 25 19:27:36 gdtserver dovecot: dovecot: child 26231 (imap) killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - set mail_drop_priv_before_exec=yes) and this seems to be triggered when dovecot is going GCC: to a local mailbox (not imap) when sending, but also semi-randomly. most of dovecot -n: (I'm sure that I'm not having auth problems and would rather not post that part): # 1.2.14: /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: NetBSD 5.1_RC1 i386 protocols: imaps login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/pkg/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 4 login_max_processes_count: 16 max_mail_processes: 32 first_valid_uid: 128 mail_location: maildir:~/IMAP I have 162 mailboxes polled by gnus on this dovecot instance. I get the panic on various mailboxes and I can't see a pattern. I do get Checking new news... nnimap-send-command: SIGPIPE raised on process *nnimap*; closed it From gnus. I then look at the listed one in the panic, and *imap-log* From gnus. This just may be an artifact of pipelining, but the panic-list mbox has 30 more after it that were sent, as in: 19:35:43 506 EXAMINE "mbox.named-in-panic" (QRESYNC (1208908407 1)) [30 more lines] I'm guessing that this is a dovecot problem. I realize I should update to 1.2.15 :-) but I didn't see anything in the 1.2.15 release notes that looks like a match.

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[Dovecot] change subject with dovecot+sieve
by Esteban Torres Rodríguez 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

I'm using to make the filter sieve and would like to reject filter and change the subject of emails that filter. I have created the filter and it works correctly, but reject comes with the following subject: "Mail Delivery Subsystem" How I can do?

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Re: [Dovecot] Doveadm
by Alex Baule 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Tks timo, my plugin is under imap and pop protocol, i will put it in global conf. The syntax for doveadm in socket, is the same as the doveadm app? Ex. Doveadm expurge -u user mailbox inbox savedbefore 3w Than i create a connection to unix socket and write in socket the "expunge -u user mailbox inbox savedbefore 3w" I made a small socket program, doing this but it doesnt work... Tks Timo Em 19/11/2010 18:16, "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi>escreveu: On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 15:15 -0200, Alex Baule wrote: > Hi Timo.... > > I have a doubt about the dov... Yes, just like all other Dovecot processes, as long as you keep the mail_plugins setting global (instead of e.g. inside protocol imap {}). > if have a plugin using in IMAP, it's use this > same plugin to do the work (ex> expurge, copy,etc... As long as "doveconf mail_plugins" shows your plugin there, it's used.

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[Dovecot] LDAP Filter
by Joy 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Dear All, All my users reside in ldap and i am using filter to restrict access to imap and pop service which is working good but as my webmail also uses the imap service, restricting imap will also cause my users to login to webmail. I am looking for a way to bypass the same for a particular ip or loop back ip. Hoping to get answer ... Thanks Regards Piyush Joshi

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[Dovecot] Doveoct crashes: UID
by Peer Heinlein 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

We're running Dovecot 2.0.2 and sometimes a user creates several imap- prozesses, all of them hanging with the UID-command, using 100% of the CPU resources: root@mail:~# ps ax | grep UID 8005 ? R 266:52 dovecot/imap [user(a)example.com 192.168.5.5 UID] 10342 ? R 250:33 dovecot/imap [user(a)example.com 192.168.5.5 UID] 10539 ? R 248:28 dovecot/imap [user(a)example.com 192.168.5.5 UID] 11150 ? R 245:03 dovecot/imap [user(a)example.com 192.168.5.5 UID] 11525 ? R 243:55 dovecot/imap [user(a)example.com 192.168.5.5 UID] This situation is triggered by two users only. Looks like their mailclient is sending a special command, that triggers the crash. Is it a bug or another problem? Is this a bug already fixed in Dovecot 2.0.3? - Fixed an infinite loop introduced by v2.0.2's message parser changes. Unfortunetaly I can't try an update at the moment. :-( Peer -- Heinlein Professional Linux Support GmbH Linux: Akademie - Support - Hosting http://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: 030 / 40 50 51 - 0 Fax: 030 / 40 50 51 - 19 Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: HRB 93818 B / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein -- Sitz: Berlin

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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 16 Nov '10

16 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 13 Nov '10

13 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

http://sites.google.com/site/jfgkewjgkjwgjwgwhq/phtv4a

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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 12 Nov '10

12 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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