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[Dovecot] Howto disable imap listener in dovecot 2.0
by Erik Logtenberg 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi, How do I disable the imap listener in dovecot 2.0-beta-3? I only want to enable the imaps listener. In previous dovecot versions I could specify: prototols = imaps But in dovecot 2.0 this is no longer possible (imap and imaps are now both enabled with "protocols = imap"). I already made ssl a requirement with: ssl = required This is in the global section. I commented out the imap listener in master.conf, but "dovecot -a" still shows the config for the imap listener, so I suppose it's default configuration. Can I explicitly tell dovecot to not open an imap listener, but only an imaps listener? Kind regards, Erik.

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[Dovecot] mogilefs
by fernando＠dfcom.com.br 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi list, Have you ever heard or tried mogilefs? (http://danga.com/mogilefs/) Do you think suitable for dovecot/mail environments ? Regards, Fernando

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[Dovecot] Limit login attempts per connection?
by Tony Nelson 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Dovecot allows a large number of login attempts per connection. I'd like to reduce that number to, say, 1, and let my firewall keep the ducks at bay, but I can't find anything in /etc/dovecot.conf or by googling. How do I do it? Do I need to patch the source? dovecot-1.1.10-1.x86_64 on CentOS 5.4 -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>

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[Dovecot] Mailing list's prefix
by Timo Sirainen 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Do you think I'd break a lot of people's filters if I removed the prefix? :) Anyone strongly for/against removing it? It seems kind of annoying to me whenever I happen to think about it.

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[Dovecot] vacation script
by Papp Tamás 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

hi All, One of my users created this sieve script via roundcube's avelsieve implementation: # This script has been automatically generated by avelsieve # (Sieve Mail Filters Plugin for Squirrelmail) # Warning: If you edit this manually, then the changes will not # be reflected in the users' front-end! #AVELSIEVE_VERSIONYTo0OntzOjU6Im1ham9yIjtpOjE7czo1OiJtaW5vciI7aTo5O3M6NzoicmVsZWFzZSI7aTo3O3M6Njoic3RyaW5nIjtzOjU6IjEuOS43Ijt9 #AVELSIEVE_CREATED1268148005 #AVELSIEVE_MODIFIED1268148005 require ["fileinto","envelope","reject","vacation","relational","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","regex","body"]; if #START_SIEVE_RULEYTo2OntzOjQ6ImNvbmQiO2E6MTp7aTowO2E6MTp7czo0OiJ0eXBlIjtzOjM6ImFsbCI7fX1zOjQ6InR5cGUiO3M6MToiMSI7czo2OiJhY3Rpb24iO3M6MToiNiI7czoxMzoidmFjX2FkZHJlc3NlcyI7czoyMToic2lrZXQuZ2Fib3JAY2VudGVyLmh1IjtzOjg6InZhY19kYXlzIjtzOjE6IjciO3M6MTE6InZhY19tZXNzYWdlIjtzOjUzNzoiMjAxMC4gbeFyY2l1cyA5IC0gMTkga%2FZ69nR0IHN6YWJhZHPhZ29uIHZhZ3lvaywgDQpsZXZlbGVpbWV0IGxlZ2hhbWFyYWJiIG3hcmNpdXMgMjIt6W4gZm9nb20gb2x2YXNuaS4NCg0KVOF2b2xs6XRlbSBhbGF0dCBr6XJlbSwgaG9neSBz%2FHJn9XMgZXNldGJlbiBrb2xs6WfhaW1hdCBrZXJlc3NlLg0KDQpDc%2BFraSBab2x04W4gLSD8emVtZWx0ZXTpcw0KdGVsOiAwNiAxIDk5OSA0NDYwDQplLW1haWw6IGNzYWtpLnpvbHRhbkBjZW50ZXIuaHUNCg0KS2VyZXNrZWRlbG1pIPxneWVrYmVuIGtvbGzpZ%2BFpbSBhIGtlcmVza2VkZWxlbUBjZW50ZXIuaHUgZW1haWwgY%2B1tZW4sDQppbGxldHZlIGEgMDYgMSA5OTkgNDQ2MCB0ZWxlZm9uc3rhbW9uIOFsbG5hayByZW5kZWxrZXrpc%2BlyZS4gDQoNCg0K3GR29npsZXR0ZWw6DQpTaWtldCBH4WJvcg0KDQpDRU5URVIuSFUgS2Z0Lg0KIA0KSXJvZGE6IDExMzMgQnVkYXBlc3QsIFbhZyB1LiAxMy4NClRlbDogKDM2MSkgOTk5IDQ0NjAsIDk5OSA0NDYxDQpGYXg6ICgzNjEpIDk5OSA0NDYyLCA5OTkgNDQ5OQ0KIjt9END_SIEVE_RULE true { vacation :days 7 :addresses ["user(a)domain.hu"] text: 2010. mA(A;rcius 9 - 19 kA(s'zA(s'tt szabadsA(A;gon vagyok, ^M leveleimet leghamarabb mA(A;rcius 22-A(n fogom olvasni.^M [...some more text...] ^M TA(A;vollA(tem alatt kA(rem, hogy sA(z'rgL's esetben kollA(gA(A;imat keresse.^M ^M ^M .^M ; } The text is in hungarian. The autoreply function is wors fine, but the email address are not saved, so when the sender sents more mail, an autoreply email is received again and again. Dovecot version is 1.2.10-0~auto+106 from http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ . Is this a bug or maybe I miss something? Is there any dovecot option about this? Thank you, tamas

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[Dovecot] fchown error upgrading from 0.99 to 1.2
by Erick Perez 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi there, after upgrading from 0.99 to 1.2, the following errors appear in the error log: Mar 09 15:50:23 POP3(cwchbodega): Error: fchown(/home/cwchbodega/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log.newlock, -1, 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=653(cwchbodega), group based on /var/mail/cwchbodega) Mar 09 15:50:53 POP3(cwchbodega): Error: fchown(/home/cwchbodega/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=653(cwchbodega), group based on /var/mail/cwchbodega) Mar 09 15:50:53 POP3(cwchbodega): Error: fchown(/home/cwchbodega/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache.lock, -1, 12(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=653(cwchbodega), group based on /var/mail/cwchbodega) As I check the perms on the files, i see that: /var/mail/cwchbodega -rw-rw---- 1 cwchbodega mail and /home/cwchbodega/mail/.imap/INBOX/ [root@mail INBOX]# ls -la /home/cwchbodega/mail/.imap/INBOX/ total 280 drwx------ 2 cwchbodega cwchbodega 4096 Mar 9 15:50 . drwx------ 3 cwchbodega cwchbodega 4096 Dec 4 00:40 .. -rw------- 1 cwchbodega cwchbodega 5 Dec 4 00:40 .customflags -rw------- 1 cwchbodega cwchbodega 17312 Mar 9 15:50 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 cwchbodega cwchbodega 26624 Mar 9 15:56 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 cwchbodega cwchbodega 26128 Mar 9 15:56 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 cwchbodega cwchbodega 17016 Mar 9 08:43 .imap.index -rw------- 1 cwchbodega cwchbodega 143422 Mar 6 08:54 .imap.index.data -rw------- 1 cwchbodega cwchbodega 7696 Feb 22 08:26 .imap.index.log -rw------- 1 cwchbodega cwchbodega 13028 Mar 6 08:54 .imap.index.tree [root@mail INBOX]# Should I chown user:mail the contents of the INBOX folder? and use perms of 0600 ? thanks, -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Cel +(507) 6675-5083 ------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Timeout while waiting for release of fcntl() lock for mbox file /var/mail/mailbox
by Erick Perez 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi there, im currently using dovecot 0.99.11 (dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4) on Centos 4.4 i386 /var/log/maillog has started to produce several times per minute this entry: Mar 9 14:52:44 mail pop3(albrook): Timeout while waiting for release of fcntl() lock for mbox file /var/mail/albrook when this happens, users cannot receive email properly, but eventually (maybe a few minutes or a few hours) the email gets delivered. is this a problem in the 0.99 version? can i safely upgrade to 1.2? thanks,

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[Dovecot] Cannot create auth-master file
by Greg Frith 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi all, I'm trying to get postfix and dovecot working nicely together to process and store mail for both local (system) on one domain and virtual users and a few different domains. I've got postfix up and running quite nicely, but am having a few problems with Dovecot. Every time postfix tried to delivery a message to a virtual user using dovecot I get an error like the following in /var/log/mail.log: Mar 8 21:53:58 rhy postfix/pipe[6616]: 89C94846E: to=<gregf(a)gregsfamily.com>, orig_to=<greg(a)gregsfamily.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=8795, delays=8794/0.01/0/0.61, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure) At the same instant, in my dovecot log I'll get this error: deliver(gregf(a)gregsfamily.com): 2010-03-08 21:53:58 Error: Can't connect to auth server at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: Connection refused So, I'm guessing that this is a permissions issue (somewhere) and that the dovecot process is not able to create the file /var/run/dovecot/auth-master. The permissions on this folder are as follows: gregf@rhy:/etc/dovecot$ ls -al /var/run/dovecot/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 100 2010-03-08 21:44 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 660 2010-03-08 22:00 .. srw------- 1 vmail root 0 2010-03-08 21:43 auth-master srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-03-08 21:43 dict-server drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 60 2010-03-08 21:44 login I've searched around for hours, found several threads describing similar issues, but no solutions that have worked for me. If anyone is able to give me any pointers or suggestions I would be most grateful. My dovecot configuration is: gregf@rhy:/etc/dovecot$ sudo dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.28-18-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 9.04 ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps pop3s imap pop3 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/vmail/%d/%u mail_debug: yes 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 auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: vmail debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/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 :wq G

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[Dovecot] Using MySQL For Mailboxes?
by Carlos Mennens 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

I have always seen some people indicate they use MySQL for mailboxes in Postfix and I wondered how difficult something like this would be? I have 300 users on my company Postfix server right now. I am just using Postfix, Dovecot (IMAP4 only), & Roundcube (Webmail). I have MySQL loaded on the machine that runs Postfix but only to manage the database for Roundcube. Do you think that 300+ users is recommended for a MySQL database for mailboxes? Secondly, how difficult is it to configure this? Right now everyone user has a home directory and a mailbox in their private home folder. Is it hard to configure Postfix & Dovecot to use MySQL mailboxes? Just looking for some suggestions since I couldn't find a log of info via Google. *PS* I was told that Dovecot doesn't support MySQL mailboxes. I think it does. Am I wrong? http://howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?p=221396#post221396

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[Dovecot] Solaris + Postfix + Dovecot
by Zilon X 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Please, Where can I find a tutorial or sample config for Dovecot on Solaris? Thank you for any help!

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0beta3: Latest HG crashed upon LMTP Delivery
by Thomas Leuxner 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi, unsure how to provide more useful information, as I can not get LMTP to create a core dump. With the latest changes from Mercurial it dies upon message delivery: ==> /var/log/dovecot.log <== Mar 8 20:03:33 spectre dovecot: lmtp(11690): Connect from local Mar 8 20:03:33 spectre dovecot: lmtp(11690): Connect from local Mar 8 20:03:33 spectre dovecot: lmtp(11690): Connect from local Mar 8 20:03:33 spectre dovecot: master: service(lmtp): child 11690 killed with signal 11 (core not dumped) Mar 8 20:03:33 spectre dovecot: master: service(lmtp): command startup failed, throttling Thomas

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[Dovecot] Panic: file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 583 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: (rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1)
by mailinglists＠belfin.ch 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi We run dovecot 1.2.10 on Solaris 10 and had a few days ago this error message in the logs: Mar 6 21:48:55 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.crit] IMAP(username): Panic: file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 583 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: (rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) Mar 6 21:48:55 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] IMAP(username): Raw backtrace: 0xb1064 -> 0xb0aa0 -> 0x552a8 -> 0x554fc -> 0x55768 -> 0x55d90 -> 0x57590 -> 0x57ac4 -> 0x715e0 -> 0x642c4 -> 0x57bd4 -> 0x7138c -> 0x68478 -> 0x76c4c -> 0x76c80 -> 0x25a5c -> 0x2b028 -> 0x2bf38 -> 0x2bef4 -> 0x2c24c -> 0x2cba0 -> 0xb9660 -> 0xb8f10 -> 0x352e8 -> 0x2473c Mar 6 21:48:55 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] dovecot: child 25520 (imap) killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Thanks, Philipp

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[Dovecot] Pigeonhole Sieve date extension
by Edgar Fuß 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Probably I'm doing something stupidly wrong. I have dovecot 1.2.7 and sieve 0.1.13. I have a sieve script starting with # <some comment> require ["vacation", "date", "relational"]; I get main_script: line 2: error: require command: unknown Sieve capability 'date'. Just to make sure I haven't messed up the dovecot package: $ strings /usr/pkg/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_sieve_plugin.a | fgrep date_extension date_extension date_extension date_extension date_extension date_extension What's going on? It's probably some totally stupid typo on my side.

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[Dovecot] force to recalculate quotadict
by Andre Hübner 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hello, i use working quotasystem with sql-quotadict. The values stored in db are used to realize also a quotasystem in postfix to reject mails if they are bigger then remaining quota. if dataset in quotadict is missing for some reasons, postfix can't calculate quota and mail gets delivered even if user is already over quota. I am looking for a way to force dovecot/lda to recalculate users bytes/messages with command xy and not to wait for incomming mail. Currently i use: deliver -d $user -n -m folderwithunspeakablenamesonobodyusesthis and send a small message which gets lost but starts the calculation. This works but seems not to be the finest way. Is there a better way or my current procedure acceptable? Thanks, Andre

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Proxy - auth on proxy
by BaQs 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Good afternoon list, I'm really struggling making this feature work: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy

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Re: [Dovecot] force to recalculate quotadict
by Andre Hübner 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hello, > 1. remove the quota in the DB, > 2. make same changes. hmm, i see. but unfortunately this is not a way i can do. it would be acceptable in private scope but not for bussinesscustomers. to make a change i would manipulate customers maildata which is not allowed this way. a simple command to update complete quota for the single user would be the best way. now i tried to connect per telnet and use command Getquotaroot, seems also to work. this should be scriptable... ok thanks, i will try something... Andre

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[Dovecot] Saving Sent Messages to Sent Folder
by Charles Marcus 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hi Timo, There was another thread (it has come up at least a few times in the past few years I've been lurking) on the postfix list about having some kind of automatic 'Save to Sent' option to avoid the users mail client from having to upload messages twice (obviously the only ones of concern are ones with large attachments) - once to send it, and once to save the copy in the sent folder. I know and understand that doing this is not generally the job of the MTA, but hopefully most people can at least admit that there would be a (potentially huge, in the case of any large company that deals with a lot of large attachments in their email) savings in bandwidth (and user frustration) if a way could be found to do this reliably and at little to no 'cost' in terms of CPU/Disk IO, so I have a question about how this might be done... Given: Postfix can be configured to use the Dovecot LDA for delivering mail incoming. My question is simply, why wouldn't it be possible to create a Dovecot LSA ('submission agent'), that could be defined in postfix's master.cf file, which could then be configured to a) pipe the message to postfix, and b) if message is successfully sent, save a copy to the users Sent folder? Obviously, there would be some caveats - ie, postfix and dovecot would both have to be running on the same box (or at a minimum on the same local network)... Anyway, this is just something that really bugs me (and has for many, many years) every time I send a message with a large attachment, and have to watch it slowly process the message sending it, then again to save it to the Sent folder, so Ijust wanted to get your take on if this is even remotely feasible... -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] 2.0 beta 3 w/o libwrap?
by Scott Ellis 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

I'm trying to kickstart 2.0b3 on my NetBSD system (where 1.2.x works great!), and keep hitting: Fatal: service(tcpwrap) access(/software/dovecot-2.0beta3/libexec/dovecot/tcpwrap) failed: No such file or directory Indeed, that file doesn't exist...but I don't have nor want libwrap. It appears that doveconf includes tcpwrap... service tcpwrap { chroot = client_limit = 1 drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = tcpwrap extra_groups = group = privileged_group = process_limit = 0 process_min_avail = 0 protocol = service_count = 0 type = user = $default_internal_user vsz_limit = 4294967295 } ...but nothing else seems to. Running configure with --without-libwrap doesn't make any difference (configure doesn't find libwrap anyway). What am I missing here? How can I use dovecot 2.0 w/tcp wrappers? ScottE

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[Dovecot] Could use some help setting Dovecot up for the first time
by joe 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hi Everyone, I've managed to get most of postfix and dovecot running using the howto located on dovecot.org. So, I went to go test sending a email locally and i am getting this error which i cannot seem to resolve. Any help would be welcomed. Mar 07 19:14:55 deliver(test(a)fasti.net): Info: auth input: home=/var/vmail/test(a)fasti.net/ Mar 07 19:14:55 deliver(test(a)fasti.net): Info: auth input: mail=maildir:/var/vmail/test@fasti.net/ Mar 07 19:14:55 deliver(test(a)fasti.net): Info: auth input: uid=101 Mar 07 19:14:55 deliver(test(a)fasti.net): Info: auth input: gid=12 Mar 07 19:14:55 deliver(test(a)fasti.net): Info: auth input: quota=maildir:storage=0 Mar 07 19:14:55 deliver(test(a)fasti.net): Fatal: setgid(12) failed with euid=101(vmail), gid=6(mail), egid=6(mail): Operation not permitted -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] Simple authentication problem
by David Ramsey 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

I'm trying to configure dovecot on a SUSE system, and having trouble with the simplest possible authentication scheme: using the standard Linux users and passwords. My configuration is: dovecot -n # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.27.45-0.1-pae i686 openSUSE 11.1 (i586) protocols: imap pop3 ssl_listen: * ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_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 auth default: default_realm: renomustangcarclub.com passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd Attempts to log in: 99-26-248-100:~ dramsey$ telnet renomustangcarclub.com pop3 Trying 99.26.248.108... Connected to renomustangcarclub.com. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user dramsey +OK pass raskin -ERR Authentication failed. Looking in the mail log file: Mar 5 16:40:55 Microstar dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<dramsey(a)renomustangcarclub.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=99.26.248.100, lip=99.26.248.108 Any ideas?

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Re: [Dovecot] Number of users for one Solr instance
by Lee 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hi, This is my first mail, fyi. I dont know internals of the plugin but it depends more on Solr than Dovecot. Also the activity level and "real-timeness" of the index is important. Assuming this as the search only machine and relatively moderate usage, a big box with lots of RAM and 4-way server may work in your case. Lee

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[Dovecot] Number of users for one Solr instance
by Ernesto Revilla 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Dear all. (I'm new to the list.) Our regional government is considering, due to our proposal, migrate from Courier to Dovecot. 70k mailboxes. One of the most attractive features for them is the usage of indexes, and especially Solr FTS plugin. Their question is: How many users (range of users) could support one Solr instance used as index and search backend? Are there any deployment examples? I think, it would be easy to split users into different Solr instances, but it's not that easy to reorganize them, as we have to reindex if one user is moved from one instance to another. Regards. Erny Yaco Sistemas

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[Dovecot] plugin Again
by Alex Baule 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hello.... Someone know ho work the istream-concat ? I made a copy of istream-concat, and use to manipulate my encrypted body. But i got some questions about the stream->pos, stream->skip and position of the message and pointer to buffer. My messages have the W= with the email size decrypted, and it is a little lass that the email size crypto. For exemple: I have a email with 6000k in crypto and decrypto the size is 5985 k: The buffer from istream-concat is 4096, i read 4096 from get_stream_data, but the result of this read is minor , lets say 4080, but the next read must be from 4096. The "send to client" must be 4080, to send the correctly data decrypted. My Question is, what the variable used in istream-concat, to send the data to client ? I need to update the stream->pos with my data length ?? I dont know if i made understand my question.....

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.beta3: mdbox mailbox crashes upon login
by Thomas Leuxner 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hi, converted my personal mailbox from 'maildir' to 'mdbox' for testing today: # dsync convert -u user@domain mdbox:~/mdbox Set mail location to mdbox in 'mail.conf' and restarted server: mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox Dovecot panicked instantly upon login with different clients. Tried to disable several plugins to no avail: Feb 28 14:43:02 spectre dovecot: imap(user@domain): Panic: file mailbox-list-fs.c: line 170 (fs_list_get_path): assertion failed: (mailbox_list_is_valid_pattern(_list, name)) Feb 28 14:43:02 spectre dovecot: imap(user@domain): Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x7f0a0d891e72] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x7f0a0d891eda] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_error+0) [0x7f0a0d892283] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 [0x7f0a0db2b2c3] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib01_acl_plugin.so [0x7f0a0ccd70c3] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib01_acl_plugin.so(acl_mailbox_list_have_right+0x5c) [0x7f0a0ccdadbc] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib01_acl_plugin.so [0x7f0a0ccdb12c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_iter_next+0xa) [0x7f0a0dafc4da] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib01_acl_plugin.so [0x7f0a0ccdaa2a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib01_acl_plugin.so [0x7f0a0ccdb252] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_list_iter_next+0xa) [0x7f0a0dafc4da] -> dovecot/imap [user@domain 84.58.106.99 LIST] [0x40b549] -> dovecot/imap [user@domain 84.58.106.99 LIST](cmd_list_full+0x4e6) [0x40c446] -> dovecot/imap [user@domain 84.58.106.99 LIST] [0x40f9bc] -> dovecot/imap [user@domain 84.58.106.99 LIST] [0x40fa6d] -> dovecot/imap [user@domain 84.58.106.99 LIST](client_handle_input+0x45) [0x40fbe5] -> dovecot/imap [user@domain 84.58.106.99 LIST](client_input+0x62) [0x410622] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xcb) [0x7f0a0d89c8fb] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x18) [0x7f0a0d89ba78] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f0a0d88be33] -> dovecot/imap [user@domain 84.58.106.99 LIST](main+0x191) [0x418661] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f0a0d1191a6] -> dovecot/imap [user@domain 84.58.106.99 LIST] [0x4084e9] Feb 28 14:43:02 spectre dovecot: master: service(imap): child 10202 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Regards Thomas

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Re: [Dovecot] A dovecot book ?
by Carsten Laun-De Lellis 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Am 03.03.2010 23:55, schrieb Curtis Maloney: > On 03/04/10 09:10, Noel Butler wrote: >> There is only one authoritative source who should be writing it if a >> book is to be written and we all know who that author should be. > > I disagree. In the time I've been watching/using Dovecot (since the > 0.99 series) Timo has had many cases of improving Dovecot [even if > it's just a config option name] because of the points of view of other > people. > > For many reasons, I thinks it would be better if someone else > [preferably someone with a long history with Dovecot, of course] were > to write the book, and Timo signed off on it. > >> But for what version, as 1.x is in wide usage and will be for a long >> time, 2.0 is almost upon us, much of 1.x is not applicable to 2.x , so >> should Timo be writing 2 books? One excessively big book? Where is he >> to find time to write this whilst developing dovecot, and heaven forbid, >> enjoy the outside world with a real life :) > > Given a sizable portion of understanding Dovecot is understanding > email in general, I wonder just how much of the book would bifurcate > for covering the differing versions... > > -- > Curtis Maloney Hi all I have never thought on so many comments to my question and i am surely surprised about the direction how this discussion went. I totally agree with the one of you who mentioned the online documentation and the wiki. I know that it exists and i used it for setting up my mail server, but ... as i said, i am old fashioned and i can better work with books. It's just a personal preferrence. Well, i also know that many developers are still working on dovecot, especially Timo and that always new features, configuration options and so on are added, but ... it's the same with other applications in the community (e.g. postfix, apache, OpenLDAP, samba ....) and for all those applications books are available, and that was the reason, why i asked for a book. And to be honest. When i go thru the documentation part, most of the documents were not changed for at least 6 months. I am sure that between the writing and the publishing of a book new dovecot features will be introduced and not covered in the book. But everyone working with books knows that they can't be up to date, but they are a real good basis for me to start with the fundamentals and then add this information by new data from the web. And guys just to mention one big advantage of a book is, you can read it offline easily!! But there is one thing i want to mention at this point. Even if you agree with me about having a book or not. What i really like is the discussion about and the chance to do so, because dovecot is opensource. And for me this is in the end the result behind the idea of open source. Everyone has the chance to contribute, either by code, by suggestions, by comments ..... And that for me is more important than to have a book or not. Thank you all for your comments. Regards, -- Mit freundlichem Gruß Carsten Laun-De Lellis Dipl.-Ing. Elektrotechnik Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Hauptstrasse 13 D-67705 Trippstadt Phone: +49 (6306) 992140 Mobile: +49 (151) 27530865 email: carsten.delellis(a)delellis.net

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