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[Dovecot] Migrating mail from mbox to maildir using dovecot
by Donny Brooks 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hello, Currently our mail server is setup to use postfix and dovecot, which is fine except it is setup to use mbox format mail. That and procmail as we need to move to sieve but that is a different issue. I have searched until blue in the face and cannot find a 100% working solution that doesn't require alot of manual interaction to move the mail boxes from mbox to maildir. I have tried the mb2md.pl stuff but with over 150+ users that can get tedious having to log in as each one of them to migrate them. I also tried the convert plugin located here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert but it kept erroring about not able to convert the box and exiting. We have approx 200GB of mail total that needs to be migrated. Maybe I am just simply missing something but is there a way that we can migrate all the users with minimal end user interaction and minimal administration time? We need this done asap as our backups are killing us with the large mbox style files. Thanks in advance for any and all input to this. -- Donny B.

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[Dovecot] Authentication with lower case username ONLY
by Leander S. 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi, how do you guys force your users to authenticate with lower case letters ONLY? Or convert it? Is there a SASL Option to force that - or are you using scripts i.e. a bash script in combination with the command "tr" ... or a third solution I didn't think of yet? I'm using Postfix / Dovecot combination. Postfix is told to use Dovecots SASL Service to authenticate it's users. For my outgoing eMails I already wrote a script with tr which forms upercase usernames to lowercase ones ... but it's not enough. SpamAssassin is still confused and writes uppercase letters in it's Database etc. ... So that's why I'm looking for a more universal solution. P.S. I would basically prefer a convertation - but I would also be fine with a forced lower case auth system. Thanks & Regards

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[Dovecot] v2.0.0 released
by Timo Sirainen 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.0.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.0.tar.gz.sig As promised last Friday, here's the v2.0.0 release finally. I'm cautiously optimistic that v2.0.1 won't (have to) be released for a few weeks, since there was quite a lot of testing and fixing going on in the RC stage. Remember to read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 before upgrading from v1.x. Although there is automatic config conversion, it can't handle everything, so reserve some extra time for upgrading. If you find an upgrade problem that isn't listed on the wiki page, please add it there or email Dovecot mailing list about it. Pigeonhole Sieve and ManageSieve support can now be installed without patching Dovecot. Unfortunately there isn't a Pigeonhole release yet for v2.0, but its Mercurial code tree should be quite stable. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole There are no changes since v2.0.rc6. The largest changes since v1.2 are: * Dovecot uses two system users for internal purposes now by default: dovenull and dovecot. You need to create the dovenull user or change default_login_user setting. * Global ACLs are now looked up using namespace prefixes. For example if you previously had INBOX. namespace prefix and a global ACL for "INBOX.Sent", it's now looked up from "INBOX.Sent" file instead of "Sent" as before. * Maildir: File permissions are no longer based on dovecot-shared file, but the mailbox directory. + Redesigned master process. It's now more modular and there is less code running as root. + Configuration supports now per-local/remote ip/network settings. + dsync utility does a two-way mailbox synchronization. + LMTP server and proxying. + Added mdbox (multi-dbox) mail storage backend. + doveadm utility can be used to do all kinds of administration functions. Old dovecotpw and *view utilities now exist in its subcommands. + imap and pop3 processes can now handle multiple connections. + IMAP: COMPRESS=DEFLATE is supported by imap_zlib plugin + director service helps NFS installations to redirect users always to same server to avoid corruption

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[Dovecot] dsync crash
by Василий Шоков 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hello, When I run dsync -u v.shokov -Dv mirror sdbox:/dsync/v.shokov first time, process halting. On second time I receive this error: dsync(root): Debug: auth input: v.shokov system_groups_user=v.shokov uid=10000 gid=100 home=/home/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: Effective uid=10000, gid=100, home=/home/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/home/v.shokov/mail:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/v.shokov/mail, index=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov, control=, inbox= dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=.INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/mail/inbox/:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov/inbox dsync(root): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/v.shokov/mail/inbox, index=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov/inbox, control=, inbox=/home/v.shokov/mail/inbox dsync(root): Debug: Effective uid=10000, gid=100, home=/home/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=., inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=sdbox:/dsync/v.shokov dsync(root): Debug: fs: root=/dsync/v.shokov, index=, control=, inbox= dsync(root): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=.INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/mail/inbox/:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov/inbox dsync(root): Debug: maildir++: root=/home/v.shokov/mail/inbox, index=/var/dovecot_index/v.shokov/inbox, control=, inbox=/home/v.shokov/mail/inbox dsync(v.shokov): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/v.shokov/mail: mode=0700 gid=-1 dsync(v.shokov): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /dsync/v.shokov: mode=0777 gid=-1 dsync(v.shokov): Panic: file mailbox-list-fs.c: line 150 (fs_list_get_path): assertion failed: (mailbox_list_is_valid_pattern(_list, name)) dsync(v.shokov): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x224ae0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(default_fatal_handler+0x45) [0x224bd5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x224168] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x181866] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_get_path+0x1d) [0x14d9bd] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x182724] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(fs_list_iter_next+0x42) [0x182262] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_iter_next+0x12) [0x14da42] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x14ec7f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_iter_next+0x12) [0x14da42] -> dsync [0x80580a6] -> dsync [0x804ed08] -> dsync(dsync_brain_sync+0x447) [0x804e067] -> dsync [0x804ef29] -> dsync(dsync_brain_sync+0x3f6) [0x804e016] -> dsync(dsync_brain_sync_all+0x18) [0x804ec08] -> dsync(main+0x52b) [0x804d06b] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0x2e8f90] -> dsync [0x804c951] My Dovecot version is 2.0.2. My config file is: # 2.0.2: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.23.15-80.0.120asp i686 Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = yes listen = 10.62.1.250 lock_method = dotlock log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_fsync = never mail_location = maildir:/home/%u/mail:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/%u mmap_disable = yes namespace { hidden = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes location = maildir:~/mail/inbox/:INDEX=/var/dovecot_index/%u/inbox prefix = .INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot-acls } service auth { user = root } service imap-login { client_limit = 1000 inet_listener imaps { address = * } process_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 user = dovecot } service pop3-login { client_limit = 3 inet_listener pop3s { address = * } process_limit = 10 process_min_avail = 1 service_count = 1 user = dovecot } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot mail_plugins = acl } protocol lda { postmaster_address = root(a)rittal.ru } Kind regards, Vasiliy Shokov

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[Dovecot] sieve is broken in the latest revision
by interfaSys sàrl 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

All the sudden messages filtered by sieve are delivered to folders named after the recipient instead of sticking to the rules and delivering the messages to the INBOX. Is this an intended change? Instead of Maildir/.INBOX it goes to Maildir/.user(a)domain.com Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] autogen.sh fails
by interfaSys sàrl 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

autogen.sh fails on FreeBSD 8.1 m4 1.4.15 autoconf 2.67 Here is the error message: libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.in and libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree. libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. configure:20543: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FDdnl If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] Dsync error, Targer mailbox already exists
by Henrique Fernandes 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hey, why i am getting this error ? dsync(user(a)example.com): Error: Can't rename mailbox VoIP_08300a224c41694c0d0f000020ce4ec5 to VoIP: Target mailbox already exists It happens when i run dsync twice, but it should do only changes right ? dovecot 2.0 I am traying to convert all my user mboc to maildir so i made an script to help. The enveriment: Have dovecot looking into file conf and in mysql. Mysql over rides file conf. in file have mail_location mbox:path:INBOX:path2 so i run this comand: dsync -v -u user(a)domain.com mirror maildir:~/mail/ I run this command to all user in my server, about 8000 After the first dsync it will take a while, but dovecot is still running and looking at mail_location to mbox. So now, i run again dsync, but now i thought it would do only changes, email that arrived while i was converting, but is not doing this and i am getting that stuff, so i get duplicated mailbox. Anyway, my ideia after this second sync that should be much faster i would change in mysql to mail_location maildir:~/mail/ And from now on this user would receive mail to maildir location, and i would run now the dsync but now reversed. like this: dsync -v -u user(a)domain.com mirror mbox:/pathl:INBOX=path And it should be working now right ? Without any down time ? Does any one have a better ideia about how to sync this mails without down time ? Thanks for all! But the bigs quest here is about the error: dsync(user(a)example.com): Error: Can't rename mailbox VoIP_08300a224c41694c0d0f000020ce4ec5 to VoIP: Target mailbox already exists Any one ? []'sf.rique

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[Dovecot] quota dict play nice with existing tables
by Miha Vrhovnik 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi, I'm trying to set Dovecot 2.0 with postgresql dict. It's kind of working but not as I'd like to. Dovecot expects to get a dedicated table for quota management. When I've run *doveadm quota recalc -A* I've noticed in the logs that Dovecot tries to run DELETE statements. Fortunately it didn't succeed as I've only given it SELECT and UPDATE permissions on the fields that it needs. I'd like to configure it, in UPDATE only mode as rows already exist and there is no need to issue any other statement. Regards, Miha -- It's time to get rid of your current e-mail client ... ... and start using si.Mail. It's small & free. ( http://www.simail.si/ )

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[Dovecot] need help with shared mailboxes
by alex 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I have some problems with setting shared mailboxes . I use dovecot 1.2.11 with following namespaces : mail_location: maildir:~ namespace: type: private separator: . inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. hidden: yes list: no subscriptions: yes namespace: type: shared separator: . prefix: shared.%%n. location: maildir:/home/sites/%d/mail/%%n/Maildir/ list: children plugin: acl: vfile acl_shared_dict: proxy::acl dict: acl: mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-share-sql.conf In the private namespace I use to have only INBOX. space because I have migrate from courier and I ahave problemes with duplicate folders. The disk structure looks like : /home/sites/domain.tld/mail/user(withoutdomain)/Maildir What I'am trying to do is to give access to a user (user2(a)domain.tld) some other user mailbox (user1(a)domain.tld) in the /home/sites/domain.tld/mail/user1/Maildir I have created a file dovecot-acl with : owner lrwstipekxa user=user2(a)domain.tld rl - in the dovecot-share-sql.conf I have : connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=xxxx user=xxx password=postfixpass map { pattern = shared/shared-boxes/user/$to/$from table = user_shares value_field = dummy fields { from_user = $from to_user = $to } } and in the user_share table : +-------------------+------------------+-------+ | from_user | to_user | dummy | +-------------------+------------------+-------+ | user1(a)myhost.ro | user2(a)domain.tld | 1 | | user1 | user2 | 1 | +-------------------+------------------+-------+ (not sure what I need %n or %u) Now , in TB under the user2 , if I check subscribe , under the shared, I have a INBOX folder that is always check but nothing else. From what I understand I suppose to see user1 folders and I think it is something wrong with my config (namespaces, paths). If someone have succeeded to configure dovecot with shared mailboxes and namespaces that use . as separator please help me. Alex.

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[Dovecot] DC 2.0.2 | Panic: file istream-crlf.c: line 101
by interfaSys sàrl 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

There is a new error showing up in my logs Sep 14 11:04:57 lda(user(a)domain.com): Panic: file istream-crlf.c: line 101 (i_stream_crlf_read_crlf): assertion failed: (src == ptr + 1) It seems to only happen with one account Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] dspam + dovecot LDA
by Paweł Madej 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hello, Is there any possibility to make dspam transport validated emails directly to dovecot LDA? for now I use such schema: postfix > dspam > postfix > dovecot LDA but wanted to not return emails to postfix. I've found that such configuration is possible with dspam+ cyrus IMAP. Documentation of dovecot is great but I haven't found such solution. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Greets Paweł Madej Poland

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[Dovecot] weird dovecot+outlook problem
by Per Jessen 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I have some per-user, read-only mailboxes that I'm auto-subscribing users to. With Thunderbird I have no problems, but with Outlook, the contents of the 'To:' column is not shown until a user actually retrieves the mail. Does this ring a bell with anyone? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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[Dovecot] fts plugin for xapian ?
by Per Jessen 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I have googled it some, and found a couple of references, but nothing specific - has anyone already started work on such a plugin? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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[Dovecot] Problem with Sieve Vacation
by Birger Schacht 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, dovecot version 1.2.12 on freebsd 7.0 with dovecot-sieve-1.2+0.1.17 I have users in ldap and aliases in /etc/aliases and i use postfix. There is an alias testuser@hostname for tuser@hostname. When tuser uses sieve vacation and uses the :addresses options with his email address (tuser@hostname), the response is also sent, if a mail to testuser@hostname is sent. in the postfix master.cf the line for deliver is flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} -a ${original_recipient} is this a bug, or do i have some quirks in my configuration? birger ps: not on this list, so please cc answers to me - -- GPG: http://gpg-keyserver.de/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5DF89014F45C1912 GPG FP: 479E 1F02 12BD AA8A C4A9 0F19 5DF8 9014 F45C 1912 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyGC8wACgkQXfiQFPRcGRL0vwCgz/EZveKjTgNPkRvkzSQGd5sH RkEAnAqch133qYi2eCZ85IydBjDNuKWu =NSXZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] LMTP Proxy not logging users' IP
by Luca Palazzo 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi All, is there any way to enable logging of users' IP address in dovecot director host? It actually logs only: Sep 14 07:32:29 mailgw-lb dovecot: lmtp(17615): Connect from xx.xx.xx.xx Sep 14 07:32:29 mailgw-lb dovecot: lmtp(17615): Disconnect from xx.xx.xx.xx: Client quit Thanks Luca

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[Dovecot] Lost %d variable
by Aladdin 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I'm trying to set up sieve with dovecot, and for some reason, sieve is not getting the %d variable that is part of the path to where its script should be. Here's the version: ops:/var/log/mail# dovecot --version 1.2.13 And, here's the configuration (I've left it all for reference, but moved the lda & plugins portions together and marked them out): ops:/var/log/mail# dovecot -n # 1.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 i686 Debian 4.0 ext3 log_path: /var/log/mail/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/mail/dovecot.info log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_parameters_regenerate: 0 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 mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n:CONTROL=/var/mail/%d/%n:INDEX=/var/mail/%d/%n:INBOX= /var/mail/%d/%n 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_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 ----------- Start lda/sieve part -------------- lda: log_path: /var/log/mail/deliver-errors.log info_log_path: /var/log/mail/deliver.log postmaster_address: aladdin(a)csunv.com mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda mail_plugins: sieve plugin: sieve: /var/mail/%d/%n/.sieve ----------- End lda/sieve part -------------- auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/home/%u userdb: driver: passwd plugin: sieve: /var/mail/%d/%n/.sieve And, here is the log output: ops:/var/log/mail# cat deliver-errors.log 2010-09-11 18:23:46 deliver(aladdin): Error: sieve: failed to stat user's sieve script: stat(/var/mail//aladdin/.sieve) failed: Not a directory (using global script path in stead) 2010-09-11 18:23:46 deliver(aladdin): Error: stat(/var/mail//aladdin/tmp) failed: Not a directory Obviously, the double slashes shouldn't be there; there should be the domain name: /var/mail/csunv.com/aladdin The "regular" dovecot gets the path fine; that is also where it puts the mail, and I'm getting mail just fine. TIA, Allen

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[Dovecot] fetchmail and lmtp -> auth crashing
by Dirk Heinrichs 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi, while trying to get new mails into dovecot 2.0.1 via fetchmail and lmtp, auth process crashes: Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox dovecot: lmtp(29944): Error: userdb lookup(heini@localhost): Disconnected unexpectedly Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox fetchmail[29928]: Nachricht USER@ISP:1 von 2 wird gelesen (2204 Bytes im Nachrichtenkopf) (Log-Meldung unvollständig) Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox fetchmail[29928]: LMTP-Fehler: 451 4.3.0 <heini@localhost> Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): child 29949 killed with signal 11 (core not dumped) Sep 7 19:55:58 oldbox dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling # doveconf -n # 2.0.1 (a05834588ffb): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 i586 Debian squeeze/sid auth_debug = yes auth_gssapi_hostname = oldbox.altum.de auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/krb5.keytab auth_mechanisms = gssapi auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;octet comparator-i;ascii-casemap fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap lmtp service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 user = fetchmail } } ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%u driver = static } fetchmailrc: set postmaster "postmaster" set nobouncemail set no spambounce set properties "" set daemon 60 set syslog poll ISP with proto IMAP user 'USER' there with password 'password' is 'heini' here options stripcr fetchsizelimit 0 ssl expunge 500 smtphost /var/run/dovecot/lmtp Any ideas what could be wrong? Thanks... Dirk

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[Dovecot] dsync: mbox to maildir hangs
by Burckhard Schmidt 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hello, after successfully converting some mailboxes I have a problem: dsync does not finish its work. dovecot 2.0.2. mail-location maildir:~/maildir I have copied the old Inbox and folders into /mailstore1/import-inbox and /mailstore1/import-home to the new server. (used with Dovecot 1.0.13 before) For one account I have now 356 folders containing about 60000 emails. (35 folders with about 40000 emails had been converted without problems) I used: dsync -v -u account mirror mbox:/mailstore1/import-home/~account:INBOX=/mailstore1/import-inbox/account dsync shoes after two minutes a list of all folders like this dsync(account): Info: Mail/folderx: only in dest After about 8 minutes some folders are converted. But then it hangs inside a folder which is just converting. I see entries (emails) inside "folder/tmp" but not all. And the "folder/cur" is still empty. dsync uses about 75% of one cpu all the time. I was waiting more than 50 minutes but no progress. I have to use kill -9 to stop it. If I delete this folder it still happens with a different one. Are there any limitations? Any advice? Regards - Burckhard Schmidt

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[Dovecot] Pigeonhole proxy errors
by Cassidy Larson 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I'm trying to upgrade my proxy front-ends to 2.0.2. I have the latest Pigeonhole release installed, and whenever I connect to the sieve port this gets logged in the syslog: managesieve-login: Error: auth: connect(login) in directory / failed: Permission denied (euid=144(<unknown>) egid=144(<unknown>) missing +x perm: /, euid is not dir owner) I dont get any capabilities displayed on the client side. I'm not sure why it's referring to the '/' directory. On 1.2.x, I authenticate the user and proxy to the sieve process on appropriate users back-end storage node. Here is the sieve config in my dovecot config file: ------------ service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = a.b.c.d port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { address = a.b.c.d port = 2000 } } protocol sieve { managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole mail_debug=no } -------- Any help would be great. thanks!

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[Dovecot] It's broke but I can't see why
by Ian macdonald 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi All, My Dovecot was working I made a change and receive this error Sep 13 17:01:42 geomail dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=192.168.1.80, TLS Sep 13 17:01:43 geomail dovecot: dovecot: Relative home directory paths not supported (user user): I had changed mechanisms = plain to mechanisms = plain login I removed the extra login and it still reports the same error, I must have changed something else by mistake, but I just cannot see what I have done, I was stupid and the backup config is older and not working properly with shared files:-( dovecot -n gives # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-24-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-dovecot.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): deleted_to_trash acl imap_acl mail_plugins(imap): deleted_to_trash acl imap_acl mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: public/ location: maildir:/var/mail/public/:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/index/public list: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: shared/%%u/ location: maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u list: yes lda: postmaster_address: user@domain mail_plugins: acl auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd args: home= 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 plugin: deleted_to_trash_folder: Trash acl: vfile acl_shared_dict: file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db Thank you Ian

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0.2 compile issues on Solaris 10u8 Sparc
by Jerry K 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I am having compile problems with Dovecot v2.0.2 on a well patched Solaris 10u8 Sparc system using the included gcc compiler. Version 2.0.0 compiled with out any issues using the same configure syntax. My ./configure syntax looks like this: ./configure --with-ssl=openssl --with-shadow Yahoo and Google searches turned up nothing for me. Reviewing the file mountpoint.c between version 2.0.0 and 2.0.2 shows the files to be identical, so I have a problem somewhere else, I am just not sure where. TIA for any pointers, Jerry \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT module-dir.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/module-dir.Tpo -c -o module-dir.lo module-dir.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT module-dir.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/module-dir.Tpo -c module-dir.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/module-dir.o libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT module-dir.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/module-dir.Tpo -c module-dir.c -o module-dir.o >/dev/null 2>&1 mv -f .deps/module-dir.Tpo .deps/module-dir.Plo /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT mountpoint.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/mountpoint.Tpo -c -o mountpoint.lo mountpoint.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT mountpoint.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/mountpoint.Tpo -c mountpoint.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/mountpoint.o mountpoint.c: In function `mountpoint_get': mountpoint.c:88: error: field `ent' has incomplete type mountpoint.c:89: error: field `ext' has incomplete type mountpoint.c:172: warning: implicit declaration of function `resetmnttab' mountpoint.c:173: warning: implicit declaration of function `getextmntent' mountpoint.c:174: warning: implicit declaration of function `hasmntopt' make[4]: *** [mountpoint.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/d/dovecot-2.0.2/src/lib' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/d/dovecot-2.0.2/src/lib' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/d/dovecot-2.0.2/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/d/dovecot-2.0.2' make: *** [all] Error 2

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[Dovecot] using palm pre client with imap server
by zhong ming wu 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hello Anyone here tried to use palm pre built-in email client with imap server (TLS)? Mine does not work; only one line in the log. imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=xxx.xxx.19.21, lip=xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa dovecot -n # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-42.ELsmp i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot syslog_facility: local0 protocols: imap listen: xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa ssl_ca_file: /etc/pki/ca.crt.crl ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/private/ssl.crt.key.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/private/ssl.crt.key.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 29 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Mail auth default: user: squab username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz01234567890.-_@ username_format: %Lu passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/sql.conf

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[Dovecot] LMTP proxying strategy with multiple recipient delivery
by Luca Palazzo 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi Timo and All, how does Dovecot act when an MTA tries to deliver a multiple recipient message to a LMTP proxied system? Does it uses server affinity table for each recipient? I use lmtp_destination_recipient_limit = 1 setting in postfix to avoid multiple recipient delivery. Is it right? I use lmtp_destination_concurrency_limit = 1 too, but i think that it's useless or, maybe, it can make performance worst. Luca

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Re: [Dovecot] Upgraded dovecot - now it insists on imap TLS
by Alan Brown 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Marcus Rueckert wrote: > > What am I missing? > dovecot -n output would help. It would, but I found/fixed the problem already. I had to set the following: protocol imap { disable_plaintext_auth=no } The default has changed from "no" to "yes" between 1.1.20 and 2.0.1, but the conversion routine didn't pick it up (the wiki Documentation suggests the default is still "no". Perhaps this should be updated?) This still requires TLS on port 993, so there's no additional hole opened. Ironically, we published plans some time back to disable local-access plaintext imap logins in October and have been warning users to change their settings but 90% of them hadn't yet done so.

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[Dovecot] Virtual mailbox help
by Joy 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Dear All, I am trying to configure Virtual mailbox but having issue my squirrelmail is showing following error:- ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: LSUB "" "*" I have also check Thunderbird but having same issue. Please check my configuration and let me know any issue detected in it, Here is my configuration:- # 2.0.0: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.5 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = quota acl virtual namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/mail/public prefix = Public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } namespace { location = virtual:~/Maildir/.virtual:LAYOUT=maildir++ prefix = virtual. separator = . } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot/dovecot-acl/acl } After doing all configuration i created the following dir under .virtual dir. /home/domain/user/Maildir/.virtual/.Unseen /home/domain/user/Maildir/.virtual/.Unseen/ here created dovecot-virtual file with following text .. INBOX Unseen Restarted and set proper permission on all created directories then tried to login to client and getting the follwoing error in log file .. Sep 09 13:02:47 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<piyush>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=3505, secured Sep 09 13:02:48 imap(piyush): Panic: file strfuncs.c: line 72 (p_strndup): assertion failed: (max_chars != (size_t)-1) Sep 09 13:02:48 imap(piyush): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x9fefd9e1] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x9fefda5f] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x9fefdd18] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x9ff1a2df] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(t_strndup+0x30) [0x9ff1a310] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lib01_acl_plugin.so [0x9fd32747] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_iter_next+0x12) [0x9ff559f2] -> dovecot/imap [0x8051deb] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_list_full+0x424) [0x8052d34] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_lsub+0x19) [0x8053129] -> dovecot/imap [0x805671c] -> dovecot/imap [0x80567b9] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x2d) [0x805692d] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x805731f] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xf5) [0x9ff0a275] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x30) [0x9ff09250] -> /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x2a) [0x9fef672a] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x2b5) [0x805ff95] -> /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0x9fd66455] -> dovecot/imap [0x804eac1] Sep 09 13:02:48 master: Error: service(imap): child 3505 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Please let me know the issue ??

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