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[Dovecot] Question about mailformat migration
by Davide 27 Dec '13

27 Dec '13

Hi to all, my question is if it's possible to retrive only mail location and mailformat with user_query and for authentication to use vpopmail plugins for dovecot version 2.2.5 i want to put a column in my mysql tables that inherit to user (vpopmail db) like "maildir format" -- *Davide Marchi* *T*eorema *F*errara *Srl* Via Spronello, 7 - Ferrara - 44121 Tel. *0532783161* Fax. *0532783368* E-m@il: *davide.marchi(a)mail.cgilfe.it* Skype: *davide.marchi73* Web: *http://www.cgilfe.it* *CONFIDENZIALITA'* *Ai sensi del D.Lgs. 196/2003 si precisa che le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate ed a uso esclusivo del destinatario/dei destinatari. Qualora il messaggio in parola Le fosse pervenuto per errore, La invitiamo ad eliminarlo senza copiarlo e a non inoltrarlo a terzi, dandocene gentilmente comunicazione.* *Per favore, pensa all'ambiente. Stampa questa email solo se necessario.*

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[Dovecot] obox_fs and Dropbox, someone uses it?
by Alessio Cecchi 27 Dec '13

27 Dec '13

I purchased the license for the Dovecot Object Storage for Dropbox to test this functionality on a personal domain. Unfortunately I can not make it work, I create the token for my Dropbox account from here https://dropbox.dovecot.fi/ and setup in dovecot configuration. When I try to login with an user I found these errors in log file: ============ Dec 27 10:52:16 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<dovecot1(a)test.it>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=8844, secured, session=<xxCXDIHuTQB/AAAB> Dec 27 10:52:16 mail dovecot: metacache-worker(8839): Error: fs-dropbox: GET 1/metadata/sandbox/dovecot1(a)test.it/idx/?file_limit=25000 failed: 401 Unauthorized Dec 27 10:52:16 archiviomail dovecot: metacache-worker(8839): Error: Failed to iterate dovecot1(a)test.it/idx/: GET 1/metadata/sandbox/dovecot1(a)test.it/idx/?file_limit=25000 failed: 401 Unauthorized Dec 27 10:52:16 mail dovecot: imap(dovecot1(a)test.it): Error: user dovecot1(a)test.it: Initialization failed: Namespace '': obox: USER-REF: /var/run/dovecot/metacache returned failure Dec 27 10:52:16 mail dovecot: imap(dovecot1(a)test.it): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. Dec 27 10:52:16 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<dovecot1(a)test.it>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=8846, secured, session=<NTSaDIHuTgB/AAAB> ============= I do not think it's a problem of my configuration, if instead of Dropbox use AWS S3 works fine, seems to be a token problem (401 Unauthorized). The plugin configuration is this: ### Dropbox plugin { obox_fs = fscache 10G:/var/lib/dovecot/cache:dropbox:https://XXXX:YYYY@dropbox/ } Anyone successfully used this setup?

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[Dovecot] German Umlauts in folder name and sieve
by Christian Rößner 27 Dec '13

27 Dec '13

Hi, I had created an imap folder that has German Umlauts in it: „RA Rößner - Merle“ When finished, the result looks like this on filesystem: drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 Dec 27 11:02 RA Ro&AwgA3w-ner - Merle/ I wrote this sieve script (with SOGo): if anyof (address :regex "from" "@.*\\.ra-roessner-merle\\.de") { fileinto "RA Ro&AwgA3w-ner - Merle"; stop; } That creates a new IMAP folder with exactly this strange name. Can I change this somehow? # 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.11.2-hardened x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.2 auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 ntlm auth_verbose = yes default_vsz_limit = 512 M hostname = mail.roessner-net.de imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c %k mail_access_groups = vmail mail_attachment_dir = /var/mail/virtual/copymail/attachments mail_gid = vmail mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = quota acl fts fts_lucene zlib mail_log notify mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave mdbox_rotate_size = 128 M namespace { list = children location = mdbox:%%h/mdbox prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive { auto = subscribe special_use = \Archive } mailbox "Deleted Messages" { special_use = \Trash } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk-E-Mail { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } mailbox junkmail { special_use = \Junk } prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/mail/virtual/shared-mailboxes.db fts = lucene fts_autoindex = yes fts_lucene = whitespace_chars=@. quota = dict:User quota::file:%h/mdbox/dovecot-quota quota_grace = 10%% quota_rule = *:storage=300M:messages=20000 quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u quota_warning3 = -storage=100%% quota-warning below %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { extra_groups = ssl-cert unix_listener auth-worker { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = vmail } service auth { extra_groups = ssl-cert unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = vmail } service config { unix_listener config { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp-dovecot { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service quota-status { client_limit = 1 executable = quota-status -p postfix inet_listener { port = 12340 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh user = vmail } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mail.roessner-net.de.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail.roessner-net.de.key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota acl fts fts_lucene zlib mail_log notify sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota acl fts fts_lucene zlib mail_log notify sieve } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = quota acl fts fts_lucene zlib mail_log notify imap_quota imap_acl imap_zlib } Thanks in advance -Christian Rößner -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein

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[Dovecot] Question re: indexes
by Charles Marcus 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

Hi all, On the old/current dovecot server, I have disabled on disk indexes: mail_location = maildir:~/:INDEX=MEMORY On the new server, I removed the 'INDEX=MEMORY' part, and I now see some new index related files, but what I don't see is the main dovecot.index file... I only have: dovecot.index.cache and dovecot.index.log So... where is the main dovecot.index file? -- Best regards, */Charles/*

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[Dovecot] SHA512-CRYPT scheme fails password verification
by Jouko Nikula 25 Dec '13

25 Dec '13

Hello, If I try to use the crypt schemes provided by libc. I fail as follows: jnikula@jlaptop:~/$ doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT -p 123456 {SHA512-CRYPT}$6$to2umWLDtqvzS8SV$ZGpBeGNKuUN/2HKG6I2BEAt.Gzrz/y.SZDkos2GT2ik8obnp3XCFWfVsKVriJa6jjHULmLIqCSSyaF5YrTH7u. jnikula@jlaptop:~/$ doveadm pw -t {SHA512-CRYPT}$6$to2umWLDtqvzS8SV$ZGpBeGNKuUN/2HKG6I2BEAt.Gzrz/y.SZDkos2GT2ik8obnp3XCFWfVsKVriJa6jjHULmLIqCSSyaF5YrTH7u. -p 123456 doveadm(jnikula): Fatal: reverse password verification check failed: Password mismatch Using SHA512 sum scheme (-s SHA512) works ok in the same manner. I have dovecot version 2.2.9 on Linux 3.11.0-14-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 13.10 and I get the same results on 32-bit Debian as well. Does anyone have idea what's wrong? Thanks in advance, Jouko Nikula

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[Dovecot] Patch for Dovecot's quota policy daemon
by Peer Heinlein 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

Hi Timo, we wrote a simple Patch for the Dovecot quota policy daemon. If a user is over quota, I prefer blocking the user sending e-mails, so I need a policy daemon, that's able to use the envelope or sasl sender as lookup key. I'd be happy if that patch can become part of the normale Dovecot releases. Peer -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: Fwd: Quota-Patch Datum: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:33:45 +0100 Von: Stephan Seitz <s.seitz(a)heinlein-support.de> Organisation: Heinlein Support GmbH An: Peer Heinlein <p.heinlein(a)heinlein-support.de> Parameter r Code ENUM QUOTA_MATCH_RECIPIENT Stringmatch recipient= ${recipient} This macro expands to the complete recipient address. A command-line argument that contains ${recipient} expands to as many command-line arguments as there are recipients. This information is modified by the hqu flags for quoting and case folding. Parameter S Code ENUM QUOTA_MATCH_SASLSENDER Stringmatch sasl_sender= ${sasl_sender} This macro expands to the SASL sender name (i.e. the original submitter as per RFC 4954) in the MAIL FROM command when the Postfix SMTP server received the message. This feature is available as of Postfix 2.2. Parameter U Code ENUM QUOTA_MATCH_SASLUSER Stringmatch sasl_username= ${sasl_username} This macro expands to the SASL user name in the AUTH command when the Postfix SMTP server received the message. This feature is available as of Postfix 2.2. Parameter s Code ENUM QUOTA_MATCH_SENDER Stringmatch sender= ${sender} This macro expands to the envelope sender address. By default, the null sender address expands to MAILER-DAEMON; this can be changed with the null_sender attribute, as described above. This information is modified by the q flag for quoting. -- Heinlein Support GmbH Schwedter Str. 8/9b, 10119 Berlin http://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: 030 / 405051-42 Fax: 030 / 405051-19 Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: HRB 93818 B / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein -- Sitz: Berlin

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[Dovecot] Eliminate legacy INBOX namespace - how?
by Charles Marcus 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

Hi all, Our mailstore was converted from a Courier-IMAP system last year, but I am planning a migration to a shiny new VM, and would really like to clean things up and do away with the legacy INBOX namespace. My goal is to simplify IMAP client setup - no special 'INBOX' namespace needed, they just enter the server info and credentials. Also important because I will be rolling out SOGo, which has a nice web interface, and I want the mailstore to be as close to default dovecot settings as possible - although I do plan on converting from maildir to mdbox when I do the conversion I also don't want other folders to show up as subfolders of the Inbox in IMAP clients, they should all show up on the same level as the Inbox. I've read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier, but I don't see anything about how to eliminate this stupid legacy INBOX. namespace, so that new IMAP clients won't show all folders as subfolders of the INBOX unless/until they add the INBOX namespace prefix in the advanced settings. I've also been reading http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces, but I'm still confused as to how to go about this. Currently I have: namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = INBOX. separator = . } The wiki recommends avoiding the 'alternative' of having two different namespaces, so I don't want to do that. Also - it would be ok if existing clients had temporary issues displaying folders properly until the INBOX prefix was removed (I would give everyone plenty of advance warning). Anyone ever done this before? Any suggestions Timo? Note: I am planning a migration to a new mail server (VM), so could make any filesystem layout changes when I do this if necessary. Thanks, -- Best regards, */Charles/*

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[Dovecot] Sieve Addon in thunderbird is not showing Vacation in action list
by Anant 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hello guys, I am using "dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.2" ( Sieve <http://www.sieve.info/> Support for Dovecot <http://www.dovecot.org/> ) , Now I can set Vacation mail using Roundcube and it is working fine. now i want to set Vacation/outofoffice mail from thunderbird 24.0 , I have installed pluginsieve-0.2.3d.xpi <https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/blob/master/nightly/0.2.3/sieve-0.2.3d.xpi?r…> for thunderbird from "https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/tree/master/nightly" But I am not able to set vacation as it is not giving me an option with reply option. *Even if i will create a vacation mail in Roundcube , my thunderbird plugin was unable to understand that filter. getting an error / //Error while parsing script.// // } expected but found: vacation :subject "not available" "not here"; } .../ and my source code for sieve filter is look like ///require ["vacation"];// //# rule:[vacation]// //if true// //{// // vacation :subject "not available" "not here";// //}/ *I am only able to Enable one filter at a time in thunderbird. And I am not sure it is the right place to post that stuff.. So please guide me as well if I am wrong. Regards, Anant Saraswat

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[Dovecot] Is the users password available from a mail_filter?
by martijn.list 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hi, I'm working on a Dovecot encryption module which uses the mail filter plugin to encrypt/decrypt the message "on the fly". I was wondering whether it is possible to access the password (or a hashed password) of the user. It seems that only the user (using the %u parameter) is available to the mail_filter plugin. Any idea how to get hold of the (possibly hashed) password? Kind regards, Martijn Brinkers

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[Dovecot] search gives variable/different results
by W. de Hoog 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hi, When I perform a search using doveadm every time it returns different results. For example: $ doveadm search mailbox shared/\* TO stromvers 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 6 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 7 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 8 $ doveadm search mailbox shared/\* TO stromvers 6a8ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 1 6a8ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 3 6a8ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 4 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 1 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 2 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 3 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 6 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 7 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 8 $ doveadm search mailbox shared/\* TO stromvers 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 6 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 7 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 8 $ doveadm search mailbox shared/\* TO stromvers 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 7 938ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 8 $ doveadm search mailbox shared/\* TO stromvers 6a8ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 1 6a8ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 3 6a8ff10527d6be515f5900007b46f991 4 $ dovecot -n # 2.2.9 (5c170e0786f3): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.12.0-031200-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 13.10 auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_plugins = fts fts_squat mail_privileged_group = mail namespace { hidden = yes inbox = yes list = no location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u prefix = "#mbox/" separator = / } namespace { list = yes location = sdbox:/home/imapshared-sdbox prefix = shared/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } namespace inbox { location = sdbox:~/sdboxmail mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { fts = squat fts_autoindex = yes fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = " imap" ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_ssl = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags } -- Willem-Jan de Hoog

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[Dovecot] [help]how to config the dovecot authentication by the other servers
by wuwei 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

hi i am the postfix+dovecot.for example,there are three servers: server 1 for postfix server 2 for dovecot server 3 for auth server how could i let the dovecot(2.29) authenticated by the other servers? i config the postfix auth-type to dovecot.how could i config the dovecot authenticated by the server 3 with tcp/ip socket?or is there are any samples?i have found in http://wiki2.dovecot.org/. *at first i try to use memcached ,these are the configure:* *./dovecot-dict-auth.conf.ext* uri = memcached:host=172.24.140.252:port=12000 password_key = dovecot/passdb/%u user_key = dovecot/userdb/%u value_format = json iterate_disable = yes default_pass_scheme = plain * ./10-auth.conf* auth_mechanisms = plain login !include auth-dict.conf.ext *./auth-dict.conf.ext* passdb { driver = dict args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-auth.conf.ext } userdb { driver = prefetch #args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-auth.conf.ext } *in memcached i put some data in：* set dovecot/passdb/test(a)test.com 0 0 103 {'uid':'123','gid':'123','home':'/home/username','username':'test(a)test.com','password':'test(a)test.com'} STORED set dovecot/passdb/test 0 0 103 {'uid':'123','gid':'123','home':'/home/username','username':'test(a)test.com','password':'test(a)test.com'} STORED set test 0 0 103 {'uid':'123','gid':'123','home':'/home/username','username':'test(a)test.com','password':'test(a)test.com'} STORED set test(a)test.com 0 0 103 {'uid':'123','gid':'123','home':'/home/username','username':'test(a)test.com','password':'test(a)test.com'} STORED i reload dovecot and postfix.postfix connect to dovect is ok!i open the debug log .the memcached tell that it has received a connection.and the dovecot also said has connect to the memcached ,but after 30s,the connect to the memcached auto broken by out of time.here some logs: * dovcot logs:* Dec 23 16:45:57 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth Dec 23 16:45:57 auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-token-secret.dat Dec 23 16:45:57 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=0) Dec 23 16:46:08 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 login service=smtp nologin lip=172.24.140.228 rip=192.168.3.29 Dec 23 16:46:08 auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT 1 VXNlcm5hbWU6 Dec 23 16:46:22 auth: Debug: client in: CONT 1 OTY1ZWI3MmM5MmE1NDlkZA== (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) Dec 23 16:46:22 auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT 1 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 Dec 23 16:46:39 auth: Debug: client in: CONT 1 OTY1ZWI3MmM5MmE1NDlkZA== (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) Dec 23 16:46:39 auth-worker(27884): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth Dec 23 16:46:39 auth-worker(27884): Debug: dict(965eb72c92a549dd,192.168.3.29): lookup shared/dovecot/passdb/965eb72c92a549dd Dec 23 16:47:11 auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL 1 user=965eb72c92a549dd temp Dec 23 16:47:09 debian228 dovecot: auth-worker(27884): Error: memcached: Lookup timed out in 30.000 secs Dec 23 16:47:09 debian228 dovecot: auth-worker(27884): Error: dict(965eb72c92a549dd,192.168.3.29): Lookup failed i don't know why it happened.and why it look up key with prefix "shared/".until now i found that the key is password "965eb72c92a549dd"(password is the same as username before).what will happened if there two people with the same password.it seams that i should use the userdb! is someone could give me a sample?what could i do if there has two or more memcached servers?so ,i think of that if there has some config to connect to the tcp socket server.and the server implement by java or any other language by the developer itself. thank you for you help! -- View this message in context: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/help-how-to-config-the-dovecot-authent… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] [dovecot-2.2.5] Duplicates in mdbox
by radek 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hi I have strange situation with one of mailboxes in mdbox format. Some messages are duplicated, not all. I am sure that is not sieve or another mail client issue, because access is via roundcube without sieve plugin. In maillog I have not found any suspicious information about this problem and i can see that from postfix do dovecot-lda was piped only one copy of message. Radek

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[Dovecot] Horde + dovecot metadata support
by Andreas Schulze 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hello, Horde (http://horde.org) has the ability to store its preferences direct into a users imap mailbox using imap metadata extension. There are two implementations of the imap extension. 1. a dovecot plugin: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-metadata-plugin 2. dovecot itself: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-November/093243.html I setup Horde and dovecot-2.2.5 to use this extension and it works well using 1.) Now, with dovecot-2.2.9, the plugin fail to compile (unrelated problem on my side). So I tried 2.) But here I get a Horde-Error "Error in IMAP command GETMETADATA: Invalid arguments." I enables mail_debug but saw no helpfull logging. mail_attribute_dict = file:/tmp/%Lu/dovecot-attributes remote horde.testserver.ip/32 { imap_metadata = yes mail_debug = yes } Also I created directory /tmp/$my_login_id (mode 777) but dovecot also created no files. neither it logs anything about it. This is a sample imap session generated by horde: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. 1 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN *** 1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE BINARY MOVE METADATA QUOTA] Logged in 2 NAMESPACE * NAMESPACE (("" ".")) NIL NIL 2 OK Namespace completed. 3 LIST () "" (*) * LIST () "." INBOX 3 OK List completed. 4 GETMETADATA "*" (/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type) 4 BAD Error in IMAP command GETMETADATA: Invalid arguments. 5 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out 5 OK Logout completed. Are there any hints or is the metadata extension just not fully implemented in dovecot? Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Schulze Internetdienste | P252 DATEV eG 90329 Nürnberg | Telefon +49 911 319-0 | Telefax +49 911 319-3196 E-Mail info @datev.de | Internet www.datev.de Sitz: 90429 Nürnberg, Paumgartnerstr. 6-14 | Registergericht Nürnberg, GenReg Nr.70 Vorstand Prof. Dieter Kempf (Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Wolfgang Stegmann (stellvertretender Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Michael Leistenschneider Dipl.-Kfm. Dr. Robert Mayr Jörg Rabe v. Pappenheim Dipl.-Vw. Eckhard Schwarzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Reinhard Verholen

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[Dovecot] auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files
by boyd yang 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hi All, I got below errors when I do some 2000 users concurrency test against dovecot 2.1.7. Dec 23 10:18:52 auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files Dec 23 10:18:52 auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files Dec 23 10:18:52 auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files Dec 23 10:18:52 auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files Dec 23 10:18:52 auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files Dec 23 10:18:52 auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files Dec 23 10:18:52 auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files Dec 23 10:18:52 auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files Dec 23 10:18:52 auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files Dec 23 10:18:52 auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files Dec 23 10:18:52 auth: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files I seems the auth process become the bottleneck as there is only one auth process. service auth-worker { process_limit = 1000 } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 48 service_count = 0 } service imap { process_limit = 10240 process_min_avail = 8 } I find that the auth process does not open too many files with lsof, and my limit is very big(1000000). How to fix this? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] move mailbox to LAYOUT=fs
by Andreas Schulze 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hello, I think about migrating small servers storage to LAYOUT=fs (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir#Directory_layout) Is there a smooth way to adjust the existing folders? Andreas

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[Dovecot] TLS SNI with Dovecot
by Michael Neurohr 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hi! I've been using Dovecot for one single Domain with SSL certificates. Now I would like to use Dovecot with several Domains and proper SSL certificates. I tried to setup TLS SNI but it does not work. What I basically did was just adding local_name imap.samsoft.at { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver/imap.samsoft.at.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver/imap.samsoft.at.key } for the additional domain. When trying to login via IMAP, I see the following lines in the log file: =================================================================== Dec 22 21:01:05 mx0 dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL alert: where=0x4004, ret=554: fatal bad certificate [151.236.5.22] Dec 22 21:01:05 mx0 dovecot: imap-login: Warning: SSL failed: where=0x2002: SSLv3 read client certificate A [151.236.5.22] Dec 22 21:01:05 mx0 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=151.236.5.22, lip=151.38.7.25, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate: SSL alert number 42, session=<Rg5EzyXutgCX7AaF> =================================================================== The actual Dovecot config is pasted below. How can I solve that and server different certificates on the same IP Address? Thanks, Michael doveconf -n # 2.2.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-042stab076.8 i686 CentOS release 6.5 (Final) simfs auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n mail_plugins = notify mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave imapflags namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { antispam_backend = dspam antispam_dspam_args = --source=error;--signature=%%s;--user;%u antispam_dspam_binary = /usr/bin/dspam antispam_signature = X-DSPAM-Signature antispam_signature_missing = move antispam_spam = Spam antispam_trash = trash;Trash;Deleted Items;Deleted Messages sieve = /var/mail/vhosts/sieve-scripts/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/mail/vhosts/sieve-scripts/before sieve_dir = /var/mail/vhosts/sieve-scripts/%d/%n/sieve sieve_extensions = +imapflags } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)changed.at protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = dovecot } service dict { unix_listener dict { user = vmail } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } ssl = required ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver/ca-bundle.crt ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver/mx0.domain1.at.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver/mx0.domain1.at.key userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = antispam } local_name imap.samsoft.at { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver/imap.samsoft.at.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mailserver/imap.samsoft.at.key }

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[Dovecot] Duplicated (but only for unread) messages after second rsync pass...
by Charles Marcus 22 Dec '13

22 Dec '13

Ok, I know I should probably be using dsync for this, but I'm more familiar with rsync, and didn't think this would be a problem. Here is what I am doing, and what is apparently happening (only done this once, but I'm guessing it will happen each time): rsync -avHP /mnt/vmail/example.com/user1/ /var/vmail/example.com/user1/ chown -R vmail:vmail /var/vmail/example.com Ok, so far so good, everything works fine accessing the mails (I'm using Thunderbird). Now I do another rsync, but this time I did the entire mailstore: rsync -avHP /mnt/vmail/example.com/ /var/vmail/example.com/ chown -R vmail:vmail /var/vmail/example.com Right after I started up dovecot again, I hot a bunch of these in the logs: 2013-12-22T09:52:51-05:00 newhost dovecot: imap(user1(a)example.com): Warning: Maildir /var/vmail/example.com/user1/: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID (old uid=45516, file=1387468268.Vfe02Ic1343fM845754.oldhost.sub.example.com:2,ST) 2013-12-22T09:52:51-05:00 newhost dovecot: imap(user1(a)example.com): Warning: Maildir /var/vmail/example.com/user1/: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID (old uid=45518, file=1387468645.Vfe02Ic73e0eM530539.oldhost.sub.example.com:2,ST) The problem is, it looks like every single message that was flagged as unread is now duplicated on the new system. Also - not that this is a problem, but all of the old messages have the fqdn of the old server in the individual email file names - oldhost.sub.example.com - while the new ones only have the local hostname (newhost) Did I do something wrong? Or is this going to be an unavoidable problem if I want to use rsync to do the final migration that using dsync would avoid? Thanks, -- Best regards, */Charles /*

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[Dovecot] Dovecot proxying with LDAP - an example?
by Graham Leggett 22 Dec '13

22 Dec '13

Hi all, I have been struggling trying to understand the syntax to configure dovecot as a proxy against an LDAP server. As a single server dovecot works great. Now I want to add the "mailHost" attribute which, if present, should indicate the DNS name of the host that contains the person's mailbox. If the mailHost matches the local hostname, the mailbox should be served locally as it already does now. If the mailHost is not the local hostname, dovecot should proxy the request to the given server using SSL on port 993. The docs at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy suggest that proxy_always is what I am looking for, but I cannot find any worked examples of how this might work. Has anyone attempted this before? What I have so far is this, but no proxying seems to take place: pass_attrs = mail=user,userPassword=password,\ mailMessageStore=userdb_mail,=proxy_always=y,mailHost=host,=ssl=yes Can anyone confirm? I am using dovecot v2.0.9 as provided out the box by RHEL6. Regards, Graham --

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[Dovecot] 'unknown user' using dovecot LDA
by Charles Marcus 22 Dec '13

22 Dec '13

Ok, one more issue to resolve. The old server was still using the postfix/virtual for delivery, but the new one is using the dovecot LDA. Now, when an email generated locally by a cron job is delivered, this shows in the log: 2013-12-22T10:29:55-05:00 host postfix/pickup[31400]: C67FD90F676B2: uid=0 from=<newsrv+rkhunter(a)example.com> 2013-12-22T10:29:55-05:00 host postfix/cleanup[22349]: C67FD90F676B2: message-id=<20131222152955.C67FD90F676B2(a)smtp2.example.com> 2013-12-22T10:29:55-05:00 host postfix/qmgr[31401]: C67FD90F676B2: from=<newsrv+rkhunter(a)example.com>, size=1555, nrcpt=1 (queue active) 2013-12-22T10:29:55-05:00 host dovecot: auth-worker(22365): passwd(user1(a)example.com): unknown user 2013-12-22T10:29:55-05:00 host dovecot: lda(user1(a)example.com): msgid=<20131222152955.C67FD90F676B2(a)smtp2.example.com>: saved mail to INBOX 2013-12-22T10:29:55-05:00 host postfix/pipe[22361]: C67FD90F676B2: to=<user1+rkhunter-report(a)example.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.06, delays=0.02/0/0/0.04, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service) 2013-12-22T10:29:55-05:00 host postfix/qmgr[31401]: C67FD90F676B2: removed The mail was delivered (as the log also clearly shows), but what is with the 'unknown user'? I'm not sure how I can test my maps with dovecot, but testing with postfix shows: # postmap -q user1(a)example.com mysql:/etc/postfix/maps/mysql/vmm.cf example.com/user1/ Which is correct. And my dovecot-sql-conf.ext contains: driver = mysql connect = "host=localhost dbname=db_name user=dbuser password=password" default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = \ SELECT username AS user, password \ FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = \ SELECT CONCAT('/var/vmail/', maildir) AS home \ FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM mailbox I confirmed the db info is identical to what postfix is using. Oh - and in order to make sure that all usernames are lowercased, shouldn't I change '%u' above to '%Lu'? Appreciate any suggestions on where to go next... thanks -- Best regards, */Charles/*

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[Dovecot] New server missing auth-worker entries in logs
by Charles Marcus 22 Dec '13

22 Dec '13

Hi all, Ok, I'm making progress on my new server, but there is an entry in the logs on the old/current server that is not showing p on the new one... lines like: dovecot: auth-worker(20284): mysql(localhost): Connected to database my_auth_db I've looked everywhere, compared settings, etc, and can't seem to find why I get this line on the old server and odn't on the new one. Anyone have a clue stick? Thanks

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[Dovecot] File descriptor leak in sieve-extprograms
by Kirill A. Shutemov 21 Dec '13

21 Dec '13

I've tried to use sieve-filter for my inbox (~6000 messages). It failed after some work with this backtrace: sieve-filter(kas): Error: socketpair() failed: Too many open files sieve-filter(kas): Panic: file script-client-local.c: line 155 (script_client_local_disconnect): assertion failed: (pid >= 0) sieve-filter(kas): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x66a71) [0x7f020e717a71] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x2a) [0x7f020e717ada] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f020e6d32ee] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/sieve/lib90_sieve_extprograms_plugin.so(+0x4baf) [0x7f020dae0baf] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/sieve/lib90_sieve_extprograms_plugin.so(+0x58ca) [0x7f020dae18ca] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/sieve/lib90_sieve_extprograms_plugin.so(script_client_fail+0x2f) [0x7f020dae199f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/sieve/lib90_sieve_extprograms_plugin.so(script_client_run+0xc4) [0x7f020dae1fd4] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/sieve/lib90_sieve_extprograms_plugin.so(+0x6134) [0x7f020dae2134] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(sieve_result_execute+0x3ac) [0x7f020ecd1adc] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(sieve_execute+0x4a) [0x7f020ece05aa] -> /usr/bin/sieve-filter(main+0x6a9) [0x403b49] -> /usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_ma in+0xf5) [0x7f020e327bc5] -> /usr/bin/sieve-filter() [0x404111] The reason is file descriptor leak in "script client local". script_client_local_close_output() shutdowns write side of descriptor and sets sclient->fd_out to -1, but never closes the descriptor. I've tried to fix this by the patch below. Tests works fine, but sieve-filter crashed in other way: sieve-filter(kas): Panic: epoll_ctl(del, 13) failed: Bad file descriptor sieve-filter(kas): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x66a71) [0x7f0ed406fa71] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x2a) [0x7f0ed406fada] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f0ed402b2ee] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x776f5) [0x7f0ed40806f5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x8009a) [0x7f0ed408909a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_stream_unref+0x25) [0x7f0ed40764c5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(o_stream_unref+0x26) [0x7f0ed4088136] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x80e48) [0x7f0ed4089e48] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x27) [0x7f0ed407fa47] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xd7) [0x7f0ed40807d7] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7f0ed407f5e8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/sieve/lib90_sieve_extprograms_plugin.so(script_client_run+0x9c) [0x7f0ed343af8c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/sieve/lib90_sieve_extprograms_plugin.so(+0x6114) [0x 7f0ed343b114] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(sieve_result_execute+0x3ac) [0x7f0ed4629adc] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(sieve_execute+0x4a) [0x7f0ed46385aa] -> /usr/bin/sieve-filter(main+0x6a9) [0x403b49] -> /usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f0ed3c7fbc5] -> /usr/bin/sieve-filter() [0x404111] I failed to unfold this in a reasonable time. Any ideas? diff --git a/src/plugins/sieve-extprograms/script-client-local.c b/src/plugins/sieve-extprograms/script-client-local.c index 56d32f707c09..f54ef82132cf 100644 --- a/src/plugins/sieve-extprograms/script-client-local.c +++ b/src/plugins/sieve-extprograms/script-client-local.c @@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ static int script_client_local_close_output(struct script_client *sclient) i_error("shutdown(%s, SHUT_WR) failed: %m", sclient->path); return -1; } - sclient->fd_out = -1; return 1; } diff --git a/src/plugins/sieve-extprograms/script-client.c b/src/plugins/sieve-extprograms/script-client.c index 06a5d5d54ba9..6fefca4c9f26 100644 --- a/src/plugins/sieve-extprograms/script-client.c +++ b/src/plugins/sieve-extprograms/script-client.c @@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ static void script_client_disconnect if (sclient->fd_in != -1 && close(sclient->fd_in) < 0) i_error("close(%s) failed: %m", sclient->path); - if (sclient->fd_out != -1 && sclient->fd_out != sclient->fd_out) + if (sclient->fd_out != -1 && sclient->fd_out != sclient->fd_in + && close(sclient->fd_out) < 0) i_error("close(%s/out) failed: %m", sclient->path); sclient->fd_in = sclient->fd_out = -1; -- Kirill A. Shutemov

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[Dovecot] Errors in log file
by Christian Rößner 21 Dec '13

21 Dec '13

Hi, just wonder about some errors I found with: doveadm log errors: … Dec 16 17:21:55 imap(roessner@****): Error: stat(/srv/mail/virtual/*****/roessner/.dovecot.sieve/tmp) failed: Not a directory … And this is correct, it is a link: .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/default.sieve I do not see, where I have an error in my config ;) root@mx ~ # doveconf -n # 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.11.2-hardened x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 2.2 ext4 auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes default_vsz_limit = 512 M disable_plaintext_auth = no imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c %k mail_access_groups = mail mail_attachment_dir = /srv/mail/copymail/attachments mail_gid = mail mail_location = maildir:/srv/mail/virtual/%d/%n mail_plugins = quota acl fts fts_lucene zlib mail_log notify listescape mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk-E-Mail { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/sbin/ispcp-decrypt.py driver = checkpassword } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/srv/mail/virtual/shared-mailboxes.db fts = lucene fts_autoindex = yes fts_lucene = whitespace_chars=@. quota = dict:User quota::file:/srv/mail/virtual/%d/%n/dovecot-quota quota_grace = 10%% quota_rule = *:storage=2G:messages=20000 quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u quota_warning3 = -storage=100%% quota-warning below %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)deltaweb.de protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { extra_groups = ssl-cert unix_listener auth-worker { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = vmail } service auth { extra_groups = ssl-cert unix_listener /var/spool/postfix.relay/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = vmail } service config { unix_listener config { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = ::1 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service quota-status { client_limit = 1 executable = quota-status -p postfix inet_listener { port = 12340 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh user = vmail } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mx_deltaweb_de.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mx_deltaweb_de.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota acl fts fts_lucene zlib mail_log notify listescape sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota acl fts fts_lucene zlib mail_log notify listescape sieve } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = quota acl fts fts_lucene zlib mail_log notify listescape imap_quota imap_acl imap_zlib } Any ideas? Thanks in advance :) Kind regards -Christian Rößner -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein

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[Dovecot] Ignoring mount points for secondary dovecot instance does not seem to work
by Jouko Nikula 21 Dec '13

21 Dec '13

Hello, I tried to ignore all mountpoints in Dovecot. I have two dovecot instances running: root@fileserver# doveadm instance list path name last used running /usr/local/var/run/dovecot dovecot 2013-12-21 08:09:34 yes /var/run/dovecot.smtp smtp-auth 2013-12-21 08:09:34 yes I give commands: root@fileserver# doveadm mount add '/*' ignore root@fileserver# doveadm -i smtp-auth mount add '/*' ignore And then restart dovecot. In the log I can see that the main instance is now ignoring my mountpoints, but the smtp-auth instance is still warning about my mountpoints. Is this a bug or am I missing something? My configurations are as follows: root@fileserver# doveconf -ni smtp-auth # 2.2.9: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.smtp # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae i686 Debian 7.1 auth_mechanisms = plain login base_dir = /var/run/dovecot.smtp/ first_valid_uid = 123 instance_name = smtp-auth log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_gid = mail mail_location = maildir:~/mail mail_uid = vmail passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } passdb { args = dovecot driver = pam } protocols = service auth-worker { user = vmail } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/imapd.pem userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } root@fileserver# doveconf -n # 2.2.9: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae i686 Debian 7.1 auth_mechanisms = plain login first_valid_uid = 123 log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_gid = mail mail_location = maildir:~/mail mail_uid = vmail passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } passdb { args = session=yes dovecot driver = pam } protocols = imap service auth-worker { user = vmail } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/imapd.pem userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } regards, - Jouko

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[Dovecot] Thank you!
by Steve Litt 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

Hi all, I've been on this list for 18 months but almost completely as a lurker. You know why? Because Dovecot never, ever, ever screws up on me or displays unexpected behavior, so I never have technical questions. Thank you for producing such a rock solid piece of software! SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

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Re: [Dovecot] configure lmtp to deliver to email addresses case insensitively
by Adrian Zaugg 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

Hi David > I believe RFC822 email addresses are case-insensitive, and (in some RFC 2821, Page 13, 1st paragraph: "The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive. Therefore, SMTP implementations MUST take care to preserve the case of mailbox local-parts. Mailbox domains are not case sensitive. In particular, for some hosts the user "smith" is different from the user "Smith". However, exploiting the case sensitivity of mailbox local-parts impedes interoperability and is discouraged." (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2821#section-2.4) > cases, especially ones where there's just a mail server) it's entirely > possible that people remember their account names with some capital > letters that aren't in user db. (System knows you as > "mrsmithy(a)mail.domain", while the user may remember the account as > "MrSmithy(a)mail.domain" or "MrsMithy(a)mail.domain"...). Also, people with I just want login names to be case sensitive but not email addresses, and in spite of being treated as case insensitive email addresses should retain their case, just like defined and suggested in the RFC. This reduces support calls because it's con-formant and we have a clear policy: Usernames are always lower case, non-email addresses, the same simple and short name for all our services. There is nothing easier than this. We use this since 17 years and it works without confusion. If a user now spots that suddendly any capitalization of usernames is working when logging in to the webmail, how can I explain that this doesn't work with other services like FTP? > smartphones may not notice that the phone "helpfully" uppercased the > first letter of a lowercase user name. Forcing case reduces support > calls, which is always a good thing. That's why email addresses should be allowed containing capitalizations. On smartphone people tend to use MUAs and there the username is saved and not entered each and every time, so for the username this is less true, I think. Back to dovecot: Using LDA as a transport for the dovecot store, it used to work perfectly (with dovecot 1.x). It's just LMTP that spits, because it looks up the local part in the userdb, which is PAM in our case. I won't change PAM to act case insensitive: I'm not in the position to change a common sense in the computing world as it always was. It's enough Microsoft did that and probably just because of that we're having this discussion here... However, it's maybe best to lowercase the local part in the exim lmtp-transport and leave dovecot's LMTP in peace. Best regards, Adrian.

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