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Re: [Dovecot] OT: best linux imap client for dovecot
by Frank Cusack 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

On 2/24/10 8:37 PM +0200 Timo Sirainen wrote: > 1) Online mode: Don't download all message headers at once at startup. > If I open a mailbox, I'm seeing only about 20 messages on screen. That's > all it needs to download. When I scroll the message list, download more > as needed. I disagree. You are conflating UI blocking with network blocking (download), probably because that's how TB does it. IMHO, when you open a mailbox, messages should fill in and be accessible immediately, ie as soon as the headers are downloaded. Beyond a screenful, the client should continue to download headers so that when you do scroll down, there is no delay. This is especially useful when you are on a slow link. You spend SO much time doing nothing, ie reading messages, while the client could be doing work for you, and then when you scroll you have to wait again? Also you have to adjust this behavior if server-side sorting is not available and the user wants something other than message order. If you're worried about "wasting" bandwidth, a valid concern, the client need only prefetch another screenful of messages at a time. If your client is configured to sync message bodies, it should go ahead and do that before you start actually reading them, so that you are not waiting on download. Apple Mail, for one, seems to implement things as I've described. Note I am in now way endorsing Apple Mail as a good IMAP client. -frank

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[Dovecot] antispam plugin
by Dan Swartzendruber 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

First off, I have to say I really like the antispam plugin. I am running a (relatively) new freebsd 8.0 server with postfix/dovecot/dspam/squirrelmail and it works great. Create a SPAM folder and tell the dovecot antispam plugin to use INBOX.SPAM as the spam folder and drag messages from INBOX to the spam folder and they are trained as spam. Here is the problem though: after training dspam for a couple of weeks, I had a couple hundred messages in the SPAM folder, so I selected them and hit the DELETE button and they were gone. Except they weren't. I had forgotten that by default squirrelmail moves deleted messages to a Trash folder under INBOX. So the messages were moved out of the SPAM folder, resulting in them being retrained as ham. Oops :( I then hit the purge link in squirrelmail and the messages were forever gone, so I couldn't rectify my gaffe. I have temporarily reconfigured squirrelmail to delete messages outright rather than save them in the Trash folder, but I don't like that as a long-term solution. What occurred to me is this: the current algorithm is: if message moves from * => SPAM, it is trained as spam, if it moves from SPAM => *, it is trained as ham. It would be nice if you could elaborate on that such that the ham rule was "if message moves from SPAM to X, it is ham" (and in my case, I would defined X as INBOX. Thoughts?

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[Dovecot] OT: best linux imap client for dovecot
by Axel Thimm 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Hi, I'm a long term dovecot user, packager and believer, but on the other side of the wire I've been a mutt user for longer than I can think. Which modern email client under Linux is working best with dovecot? I just did a grep on User-Agent:/X-Mailer: on my dovecot archive (which goes back to 2004) and found that the top ten are: 28% Thunderbird 25% Evolution 9% Apple Mail 9% Mutt 5% Mozilla 3% KMail 2% Outlook 2% SquirrelMail 1% Alpine 1% Mulberry ... So it looks like most Linux people here like to use Thunderbird and Evolution. This is not a my-email-client-is-better-than-your-email-client thread, I just want to know which client(s) make proper use of imap features for fast searches/copies/deletions etc. Thanks! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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[Dovecot] IMAP permissions?
by Larry Crouch 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Hello, Can Dovecot allow some users access to IMAP functionality while forcing other users to use POP3 only? -- Larry Crouch Alpha-USA

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[Dovecot] namespaces/virtual folder & archiving
by fernando＠dfcom.com.br 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Hi, I was following the earlier namespaces discussion and I would like to repost a doubt. I need to have some kind of archiving, it means, store old messages into a cheap storage. But I couldn´t think any other solution than symlinks. Then, I thought about store 'Sent Items' (as having old messages and less acessed). But I also needed to do with nfs and symlinks. So, it comes the namespaces discussion and a little brainstorm: 1) Could I have a namespace only with INBOX and the personal folders (drafts, sent items, etc) in another one - and those would be stored in huge sata disks while inbox in 300g sas disks ? 2) Could I maintain the prior configuration, but let the second namespace hidden and having the inbox subfolders (or any specific as sent items) as virtual folder ? I don´t know if this makes sense... 3) Could I have my normal Inbox and a folder (in another disk - ex. huge sata one) storing files older than 30 days and through virtual folders join these messages in a common virtual INBOX while acessing imap or pop3 ? What do you thing, would you have another better approach ? Best Regards, Fernando

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[Dovecot] Installation directories layout question
by Hunny Bunny 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Hello folkz, I'm trying to compile and install Dovecot 1.2.10 from sources. When I execute: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot make make install I reasonably expect to find dovecot libraries in /usr/local/dovecot/lib but it puts them into /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot. It add this extra 'dovecot' at the end of almost every installation path. Could somebody please clarify what extra configuration parameters should be set to make to change this strange dovecot installation directories layout. Thank you very much in advance, Alex

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[Dovecot] dovecot-2 new notify plugin
by Nikita Koshikov 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Hello list, Can someone point me to documentation, if such available, about new dovecot notify plugin or describe here what it for and how to use it.

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[Dovecot] body search very slow since upgrade from 1.0.15 to 1.2.10
by Stan Hoeppner 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Did you mislead me Timo? You said search in 1.1+ is faster than 1.0. I'm seeing approximately 20x *slower* search times in 1.2.10. Via Thunderbird, a full body search of my 11,000+ message IMAP folder hosted by 1.0.15 used to take less than 10 seconds. Since upgrading to 1.2.10 the search is taking over 3 minutes, the imap process servicing the client pegging one CPU at 100% for the duration of the search. Here's the mbox file: -rw------- 1 stan stan 50M Feb 23 07:41 1-Spam-l Doing the same search via grep results in a time of: real 0m0.361s user 0m0.204s sys 0m0.140s grep takes less than half a second, yet dovecot 1.2.10 takes 3 minutes for the same search? Actually grep is searching the entire file including headers, so it's doing more work than the imap process. Something is *SERIOUSLY* wrong here. Did I somehow nerfed something in dovecot.conf that's causing this? I deleted all the index files as per the upgrade instructions. However, checking the directories shows they're apparently rebuilt: [08:09:15][root@greer]/home/stan/mail/.imap/1-Spam-l$ la total 28M drwx------ 2 stan stan 4.0K Feb 23 07:41 . drwx------ 35 stan stan 4.0K Feb 15 11:14 .. -rw------- 1 stan stan 358K Feb 23 07:18 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 stan stan 27M Feb 23 07:41 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 stan stan 616 Feb 23 07:41 dovecot.index.log What do I need to check/change/do to get these search times back down to reasonable/respectable levels, i.e. around 10s? Thanks. -- Stan

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[Dovecot] 1.2.10: namespaces and still no luck
by Toni Mueller 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hi, I'm trying to set Dovecot up in a way that is compatible with console usage of the same mailboxes (ie, w/o IMAP). My mailboxen are almost all maildirs (I can ignore all other formats), and are laid out as follows: INBOX = ~/Maildir All other folders are maildirs in ~/Mail Eg. ~/Mail/archive, ~/Mail/sent, ~/Mail/some-mailing-list I configured this, along the lines of http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces: # I unset 'mail_location' namespace private { separator = '/' prefix = location = maildir:~/Maildir inbox = yes list = yes subscriptions = yes } namespace private { separator = / prefix = archives/ location = maildir:~/Mail hidden = no #subscriptions = yes inbox = no list = yes } which I thought should do it, but it doesn't. In TB (3, if it matters), I see: Inbox Trash archives Trash Inbox (shaded) directory (shaded) And that's about it. I don't see any of the pre-existing maildirs in ~/Mail. I also can't delete the two additional "Inbox" and "Trash" folders, and I can't subscribe to the second "Inbox", nor to "directory". I proceeded to create a new folder under "archives", which mostly ended up to be a new maildir + index files under ~/Mail, but it had a '.' in front of it. Also, the separator was automatically reset to '.' for the second namespace, as I found out when I renamed one of the directories from 'dir.1' to '.dir.1'. Am I still doing something wrong, or is this a bug or limitation in Dovecot, or in this version of it? Kind regards, --Toni++

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[Dovecot] Occasional problem with POP3-Download
by Andre Tann 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hello everyone, I have two mailservers [1] running dovecot. Mail store format is maildir. Every once in a while I have the following problem: When a User downloads his mail via POP3, the client says something like "the server has closed the connection unexpectedly, and gives this reason: [...blahblah...]". One can now cancel the download, and restart it, and the problem shows up again and again. The first few mails get downloaded, and then the process stops. Strange to say the "blahblah"-portion is a piece of text out of the email that doesn't want to get downloaded. Then I remove this single message out of the Maildir/cur-directory, and everything is fine again. It is easy to figure out which mail to delete because it's the first one that is not market as seen [...] filename...:2,S otherfilename...;2, <= this file must be deleted [...] For me it looks as if dovecot had a problem with some byte sequence in this mail, and for some reason it gives an error message to the client which is taken out of the mail. On the SuSE-Machine, before dovecot there was a courier-imapd running, which never showed this kind of problem, so it should not be a client problem. Hopefully my description is clear enough. Does anyone have an idea what's going on here? Thanks. Andre [1] One machine is a openSuSE 11.2 with # rpm -qa | grep dovecot dovecot12-backend-sqlite-1.2.9-0.1.1.i586 dovecot12-backend-mysql-1.2.9-0.1.1.i586 dovecot12-backend-pgsql-1.2.9-0.1.1.i586 dovecot12-1.2.9-0.1.1.i586 The other machine is a Debian Lenny with # dpkg -l | grep dovecot dovecot-common 1:1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 dovecot-imapd 1:1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 dovecot-pop3d 1:1.0.15-2.3+lenny1 -- Andre Tann

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[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0_b3 autocreate plugin bug.
by Nikita Koshikov 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

New dovecot-2_beta3 installation. dovecot plugins section: plugin { autocreate = Drafts autocreate2 = Sent autocreate3 = Spam autocreate4 = Trash autosubscribe = Drafts autosubscribe2 = Sent autosubscribe3 = Spam autosubscribe4 = Trash expire = Trash 30 Spam 30 expire_dict = proxy::expire quota = maildir:Mailbox quota quota_rule = *:storage=500M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=10%% quota_warning = storage=90%% /etc/dovecot/plugins/quota_warning.sh 90 trash = /etc/dovecot/plugins/dovecot-trash.conf } Trying to login, I got core dump and no mailboxes is created. If autocreate plugin is commented out - than login is success and default maildirs mailboxes(cur/new/tmp) become avaliable. Logs: ==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-debug.log <== Feb 23 16:38:36 imap: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot Feb 23 16:38:36 imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so Feb 23 16:38:36 imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Feb 23 16:38:36 imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib11_trash_plugin.so Feb 23 16:38:36 imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Feb 23 16:38:36 imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_expire_plugin.so Feb 23 16:38:36 imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so Feb 23 16:38:36 imap: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Feb 23 16:38:36 imap: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: Effective uid=8, gid=12, home=/data/mail/domain.com/test Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: Quota root: name=Mailbox quota backend=maildir args= Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: Quota rule: root=Mailbox quota mailbox=* bytes=524288000 messages=0 Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: Quota rule: root=Mailbox quota mailbox=Trash bytes=52428800 (10%) messages=0 Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=471859200 (90%) messages=0 command=/etc/dovecot/plugins/quota_warning.sh 90 Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: maildir++: root=/data/mail/domain.com/test/data, index=, control=, inbox=/data/mail/domain.com/test/data Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: Namespace: type=private, prefix=Company/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/mail/virtual, index=, control=, inbox= Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: trash plugin: Added 'Trash' with priority 1 Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: trash plugin: Added 'Spam' with priority 2 Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: Namespace : Permission lookup failed from /data/mail/domain.com/test/data/.Drafts Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/test/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: Namespace : Permission lookup failed from /data/mail/domain.com/test/data/.Drafts Feb 23 16:38:36 imap(test(a)domain.com): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /data/mail/domain.com/test/data: mode=0700 gid=-1 ==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-error.log <== Feb 23 16:38:36 master: Error: service(imap): child 21505 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) ==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log <== Feb 23 16:38:36 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<test(a)domain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS warning: Can not parse XML syscalls information; XML support was disabled at compile time. GNU gdb (Gentoo 7.0 p1) 7.0 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://bugs.gentoo.org/>... Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap...done. warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Ошибка ввода/вывода. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libldap-2.4.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libldap-2.4.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/librt.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/librt.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libz.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/lib11_trash_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/lib11_trash_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_expire_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_expire_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Reading symbols from /lib/libbz2.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libbz2.so.1 Core was generated by `dovecot/imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0xb7b324a8 in expire_rule_find (env=0xb7ec2360, name=0x808afa0 "Drafts", expunge_secs_r=0xbfbd5c90, altmove_secs_r=0xbfbd5c8c) at expire-env.c:141 141 expire-env.c: Нет такого файла или каталога. in expire-env.c (gdb) bt full #0 0xb7b324a8 in expire_rule_find (env=0xb7ec2360, name=0x808afa0 "Drafts", expunge_secs_r=0xbfbd5c90, altmove_secs_r=0xbfbd5c8c) at expire-env.c:141 rule = <value optimized out> secs = <value optimized out> expunge_min = 0 altmove_min = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "expire_rule_find" #1 0xb7b325d2 in expire_rule_find_min_secs (env=0xb7ec2360, name=0x808afa0 "Drafts", altmove_r=0xbfbd5ccb) at expire-env.c:168 secs1 = 134776268 secs2 = <value optimized out> #2 0xb7b32c3d in expire_mailbox_allocate_init (box=0x808ae28) at expire-plugin.c:259 No locals. #3 expire_mailbox_allocated (box=0x808ae28) at expire-plugin.c:279 euser = 0x80885e0 #4 0xb7f4e6be in hook_mailbox_allocated (box=0x808ae28) at mail-storage-hooks.c:180 hooks = 0x80885cc #5 0xb7f4d0ef in mailbox_alloc (list=0x8089808, name=0x8066c00 "Drafts", flags=0) at mail-storage.c:497 _data_stack_cur_id = 4 new_list = 0x8089808 storage = 0x808a010 box = 0x808ae28 #6 0xb7eada02 in autocreate_mailbox (namespaces=0x8087078) at autocreate-plugin.c:28 No locals. #7 autocreate_mailboxes (namespaces=0x8087078) at autocreate-plugin.c:50 user = 0x8087800 env_name = "\000\000\000\000\r\000\000\000\n\256\b\b\370\205\b\b\000\000\000" name = <value optimized out> i = 1 #8 autocreate_mail_namespaces_created (namespaces=0x8087078) at autocreate-plugin.c:101 No locals. #9 0xb7f4e5ce in hook_mail_namespaces_created (namespaces=0x8087078) at mail-storage-hooks.c:150 hooks = 0x80885c8 #10 0xb7f48ac0 in mail_namespaces_init (user=0x8087800, error_r=0xbfbd5ee4) at mail-namespace.c:264 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 mail_set = 0x8087e00 namespaces = 0x8087078 ns = <value optimized out> ns_p = 0x8087078 inbox_set = <value optimized out> error = <value optimized out> driver = 0xb7fb9238 "\274\207", <incomplete sequence \375\267> location_source = 0x0 i = 2 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "mail_namespaces_init" #11 0xb7f542fd in mail_storage_service_init_post (ctx=0x806f400, user=0x80719e8, mail_user_r=0xbfbd5f24, error_r=0xbfbd5ee4) at mail-storage-service.c:368 No locals. #12 mail_storage_service_next (ctx=0x806f400, user=0x80719e8, mail_user_r=0xbfbd5f24, error_r=0xbfbd5ee4) at mail-storage-service.c:855 user_set = 0x8071af0 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- home = 0x8072089 "/data/mail/domain.com/test" chroot = 0x8066380 "" temp_priv_drop = <value optimized out> #13 0xb7f554f0 in mail_storage_service_lookup_next (ctx=0x806f400, input=0xbfbd5f64, user_r=0xbfbd5f28, mail_user_r=0xbfbd5f24, error_r=0xbfbd5fb8) at mail-storage-service.c:891 user = 0x80719e8 error = <value optimized out> ret = <value optimized out> #14 0x0805f9c4 in client_create_from_input (input=<value optimized out>, login_client=0x80707a8, fd_in=134786600, fd_out=10, input_buf=0xbfbd5f9c, error_r=0xbfbd5fb8) at main.c:172 user = 0x80660fc mail_user = <value optimized out> client = <value optimized out> set = <value optimized out> #15 0x08060258 in login_client_connected (client=0x80707a8, username=0x806608a "test(a)domain.com", extra_fields=0x8066100) at main.c:236 input = {module = 0x8062bcb "imap", service = 0x8062bcb "imap", username = 0x806608a "test(a)domain.com", local_ip = {family = 2, u = {ip6 = { __in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = "\177\000\000\001Pl\a\b3Q\351\267\364/\376\267", __u6_addr16 = {127, 256, 27728, 2055, 20787, 47081, 12276, 47102}, __u6_addr32 = {16777343, 134704208, 3085521203, 3086888948}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 16777343}}}, remote_ip = {family = 2, u = {ip6 = { __in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = "\177\000\000\001", '\000' <repeats 11 times>, __u6_addr16 = {127, 256, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {16777343, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 16777343}}}, userdb_fields = 0x8066100} error = <value optimized out> input_buf = {data = 0x8070808, used = 3, priv = {0x0, 0x0, 0x3, 0x0, 0x0}} #16 0xb7ef3623 in master_login_auth_finish (client=0x80707a8, auth_args=0x80885e0) at master-login.c:180 conn = 0x80706b8 login = 0x806fc38 service = 0x806e2a8 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "master_login_auth_finish" #17 0xb7ef405b in master_login_auth_callback (auth_args=0x80660fc, context=0x80707a8) at master-login.c:343 client = 0x80707a8 reply = {tag = 1, status = MASTER_AUTH_STATUS_OK, mail_pid = 21417} service = 0x806e2a8 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "master_login_auth_callback" #18 0xb7ef4605 in master_login_auth_input_user (auth=0x806fc80) at master-login-auth.c:138 request = <value optimized out> id = <value optimized out> #19 master_login_auth_input (auth=0x806fc80) at master-login-auth.c:221 line = 0x80709cf "USER\t1\ttest@domain.com\tuid=8\tgid=12\thome=/data/mail/domain.com/test\tmail=maildir:~/data\tquota_rule=*:storage=100M" #20 0xb7f081a5 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x806e350) at ioloop-epoll.c:208 ctx = 0x806e470 event = 0x806e4b0 list = 0x8070998 io = 0x806ed60 tv = {tv_sec = 2147483, tv_usec = 0} t_id = 2 msecs = <value optimized out> ret = 1 i = 0 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- j = 0 call = <value optimized out> #21 0xb7f07220 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x806e350) at ioloop.c:350 No locals. #22 0xb7ef527a in master_service_run (service=0x806e2a8, callback=0x805fc30 <client_connected>) at master-service.c:478 No locals. #23 0x08060055 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x0 ) at main.c:313 service_flags = <value optimized out> storage_service_flags = <value optimized out> postlogin_socket_path = 0x0 set_roots = {0x8062c00, 0x0}

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[Dovecot] managesieve build error
by Bradley Giesbrecht 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hello, dovecot-1.2.10 dovecot-sieve-0.1.14 dovecot-managesieve-0.11.11 I believe I patched dovecot successfully and compiled the dovecot and dovecot-sieve source tress. patching file README.managesieve patching file dovecot-example.conf patching file src/master/child-process.c patching file src/master/child-process.h patching file src/master/listener.c patching file src/master/login-process.c patching file src/master/mail-process.c patching file src/master/main.c patching file src/master/master-settings-defs.c patching file src/master/master-settings.c patching file src/master/master-settings.h Then I configure dovecot-managesieve and this completes without error. But when I make dovecot-managesieve I get this error: # Making all in managesieve .... main.c:195: error: variable 'managesieve_sieve_env' has initializer but incomplete type # Where should I be looking for a solution? Thank you, Bradley Giesbrecht

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[Dovecot] v2.0 IMAP Capabilities announcement
by Thomas Leuxner 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hi, I have an Android Mail App which worked fine with IDLE pushes before (K-9 Mail) under 1.2.10. With 2.0 beta 3 it seems to be looking for an IDLE prompt from the server, otherwise it will disable connection idling (whether this is valid or not). Setting 'imap_capability = IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID IDLE ENABLE' does the trick, but is it possible to add additional values to the default reply like this? imap_capability = +IDLE ...or whatever syntax/form one would chose to preserve internal defaults. Thanks Thomas

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[Dovecot] show only subscribed folders
by Frank Cusack 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

is there a plugin or some other method by which i could have a user ONLY have access to subscribed folders? having a separate login or a separate instance of dovecot is ok if necessary. the iPhone always shows ALL folders, not just subscribed ones. i'd like to be able to see only the subscribed folders.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.beta3 Configuration issue (I think)
by Mark Sapiro 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

I have been running dovecot 1.2.10 without problems. I am trying to install 2.0.beta3. I have I think translated all my configuration customizations correctly, but I have problems. I can start dovecot, but I can't login, at least not with SSL. Here's my dovecot -n # 2.0.beta3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 i686 CentOS release 5 (Final) auth_mechanisms = plain apop login auth_worker_max_count = 5 mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail mbox_write_locks = fcntl dotlock passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot.passwd deny = no driver = passwd-file master = no pass = no } passdb { deny = no driver = pam master = no pass = no } ssl_cert = /etc/postfix/sbh16-cert.pem ssl_key = /etc/postfix/sbh16-key.pem userdb { driver = passwd } Note the files /etc/postfix/sbh16-cert.pem and /etc/postfix/sbh16-key.pem exist and are the same files I use with dovecot 1.2. Dovecot starts OK, but when I try to connect with a pop3 or imap client, the connection is established, but no response is sent to the client. Here are the dovecot entries from the maillog from startup through the failed pop3 and imap logins. Feb 21 10:50:43 sbh16 dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.beta3 starting up (core dumps disabled) Feb 21 10:51:28 sbh16 dovecot: pop3-login: Panic: file login-settings.c: line 216 (login_settings_read): assertion failed: (input.roots[count] == NULL) Feb 21 10:51:28 sbh16 dovecot: pop3-login: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xc98950] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xc989a5] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0xc98008] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-login.so.0(login_settings_read+0x336) [0x1959a6] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-login.so.0(main+0x107) [0x195b77] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x4614cdec] -> dovecot/pop3-login(main+0x49) [0x80493c1] Feb 21 10:51:28 sbh16 dovecot: master: service(pop3-login): child 3280 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Feb 21 10:51:28 sbh16 dovecot: master: service(pop3-login): command startup failed, throttling Feb 21 10:51:47 sbh16 dovecot: imap-login: Fatal: Can't load ssl_cert: There is no certificate. Feb 21 10:51:47 sbh16 dovecot: master: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling I suspect I've overlooked something in the config or I have something wrong, but I don't know what. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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[Dovecot] [AUTH] Extra @ in user and empty passwd with CRAM-MD5
by Toorop 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi, I got problem whith CRAM-MD5 auth (works fine with PLAIN): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Feb 20 13:15:02 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=5026 Feb 20 13:15:06 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 CRAM-MD5 service=imap secured lip=87.98.131.8 rip=82.245.64.126 lport=143 rport=1130 Feb 20 13:15:06 auth(default): Info: client out: CONT 1 PDI5NzIzNTE1MTI1MTA3NjAuMTI2NjY2ODEwNkBkZXY+ Feb 20 13:15:07 auth(default): Info: client in: CONT 1 dG9vcm9wQHJlc3B1YmxpY2EuZnIgOTczNjdjMzE3NWE1MWY2YzJhNDY0OTNlNDMzZGZhZDQ= Feb 20 13:15:07 auth(default): Info: vpopmail(toorop(a)domain.tld,82.245.64.126): lookup user=toorop domain=domain.tld Feb 20 13:15:07 auth(default): Info: password(toorop(a)domain.tld,82.245.64.126): Generating CRAM-MD5 from user 'toorop@domain.tld@', password '' Feb 20 13:15:07 auth(default): Info: password(toorop(a)domain.tld,82.245.64.126): Credentials: 00747cf2ffaf11c5ea4a64979c3901fc1d20dee13f480bb598f7d8575b23e61b Feb 20 13:15:07 auth(default): Info: cram-md5(toorop(a)domain.tld,82.245.64.126): password mismatch Feb 20 13:15:09 auth(default): Info: client out: FAIL 1 user=toorop(a)domain.tld Feb 20 13:15:14 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<toorop(a)domain.tld>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=82.245.64.126, lip=87.98.131.8, TLS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This line seems strange: Feb 20 13:15:07 auth(default): Info: password(toorop(a)domain.tld,82.245.64.126): Generating CRAM-MD5 from user 'toorop@domain.tld@', password '' => Why extra @ in user and empty password ?? Client: Thundebird 2.0.0.23 vpopmail version: 5.4.16 dovecot -n # 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.24-8-pve i686 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_max_userip_connections(default): 5 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 5 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 89 last_valid_uid: 89 first_valid_gid: 89 last_valid_gid: 89 mail_location: maildir:~/.maildir maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)domain.tld hostname: dev.domain.eu mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda mail_plugins: sieve sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: vpopmail userdb: driver: vpopmail socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 438 plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_storage: ~/sieve Thanks, -- Toorop

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[Dovecot] v2.0.beta3 released
by Timo Sirainen 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta3.tar.gz.sig I had to break a few APIs in this release to get some other stuff implemented and fixed. And since I had to break some of them, I decided it could be a good time to do some other less necessary API cleanups. This made things again much simpler. I'm hoping to get v2.0.rc1 out in not too distant future. Pretty much the only big missing feature that I wanted to do is being able to add per-protocol auth settings (e.g. protocol smtp { userdb { .. } }), but that doesn't seem to be all that easy to implement. There are of course some bugs still left to be fixed, mainly related to mdbox and dsync. User visible changes: - imap_zlib plugin implements COMPRESS=DEFLATE IMAP extension - zlib plugin: Added support for compressing mails while saving - zlib plugin: fixed reading bzip2 compressed mail files - zlib plugin: Added support for dbox and mdbox formats - mdbox: doveadm purge moves old mails to alt storage (if using alt storage) - added support for tcpwrappers - added support for SHA512 password scheme (by Mark Washenberger) - mailbox deletion is now free of race conditions (e.g. quota calculations). if another session tries to access mailbox before it's fully deleted, it'll get "Mailbox is being deleted" error. - "key = $set" in config file now sets key's value to "set" setting's value. this is probably rather limited outside the only place where I created it for: service { user = $default_internal_user } - default_internal_user and default_login_user settings now specify what users should be used for them. currently the default is still dovecot and dovecot, but I'm hoping to change default_login_user to something else.. - Removed maildir_copy_preserve_filename setting. It's now always tried to be preserved (or rather: message's GUID is preserved) - auth failure penalty tries to avoid increasing penalty for IP if auth is failing always with the same user+password combination. - doveadm penalty command can be used to see the current penalties - login processes: config lookups are now cached, so it no longer asks for configuration from config process every time (except if there are remote {} blocks in config. also the local {} caching could be smarter.) - Tons of mdbox fixes - Tons of dsync fixes, especially with mbox So some of the changes visible to developers are: - dovecot-config file changed. if your external plugin uses this file, you need to change it to use the new format. - added dovecot.m4 file that can be used by external plugins' configure script to get Dovecot settings. This was mainly done by Dennis Schridde. - mailbox_alloc() no longer has stream parameter, instead there's mailbox_open_stream() - mailbox_close() renamed to mailbox_free(). added a different mailbox_close(), which only closes opened mailbox, but doesn't free it. - mailbox_delete(), mailbox_rename() APIs changed - notify plugin's delete/rename API changed as well - mailbox GUID is now looked up using mailbox_get_guid(), not mailbox_status() - dict_iterate*() API changed

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[Dovecot] Migration 1.2.10 -> dovecot-2.0.beta
by Frank Elsner 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello *, I've a well functioning dovecot.1.2.10 installation. I'd like to migrate to dovecot.2.0.beta. Is it possible to use one (big) dovecot.conf or must I split it into pieces into directory conf.d? What is the best procedure to convert the configuration file? Any pointers welcome. --Frank Elsner

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[Dovecot] (minor) bug in configure
by Sandro Tosi 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello, while reading config options for dovecot v1.2.10 I've noticed a very small bug: # ./configure --help | egrep -- 'Dovecot|--with-gnu-ld' `configure' configures Dovecot 1.2.10 to adapt to many kinds of systems. --with-gnu-ld assume the C compiler uses GNU ld [default=no] --with-gnu-ld assume the C compiler uses GNU ld default=no I think the latter entry should be removed. Thanks for considering, Sandro

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[Dovecot] Replication status
by dovecot＠lechtermann.net 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello, I couldn't find any recent informations regarding the status of implementing replication to Dovecot. Especially master/master is what I am waiting for. Is it useable yet with 2.0 or, if not, any eta? Thanks in advance, Michael

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[Dovecot] 1/2 OT: Finger mail count
by Marcio Merlone 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi all, Is there how to make the finger command retrieve mail count from maildir? Thanks and best regards. -- Marcio Merlone

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[Dovecot] Highly Performance and Availability
by Wayne Thursby 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello everyone, I am currently running Dovecot as a high performance solution to a particular kind of problem. My userbase is small, but it murders email servers. The volume is moderate, but message retention requirements are stringent, to put it nicely. Many users receive a high volume of email traffic, but want to keep every message, and *search* them. This produces mail accounts up to 14+GiB. After seeing the failures of my predecessors, I transitioned to Postfix/Dovecot and haven't looked back. Things are running nicely with the below setup. Postfix and Dovecot running on the same virtual machine on a Dell 2950 with 1x Xeon E5440 on ESXi 4. Maildirs served up by 10x146GB 15k RPM SAS drives on RAID-10 via direct attached Dell MD-1000. We are transitioning other services to high availability, and I'm wondering exactly how to provide some kind of near-realtime failover for my Postfix/Dovecot machine. The MD-1000 provides nothing in the way of iSCSI, but it *does* have two SAS connections available, only one of which is in use. I have been looking at the Dell EqualLogic stuff and it seems to provide what we need. I can get most of the information I need from the rep, but I wonder if anyone has any experience with high performance requirements on these kinds of storage. I'd like to continue running my current hardware as the primary mail server, but provide some kind of failover using the SAN. The primary usage of the SAN will be to make our 2TB document store highly available. I'm wondering what kind of options I might have in the way of piggybacking some email failover on this kind of hardware without sacrificing the performance I'm currently enjoying. Is it possible to go with a virtual machine mounted on iSCSI acting as a backup mail server? How would I sync the two, NBD+MD? Any experience doing this with maildirs? I wonder about the performance. Can it be as simple as attaching my MD-1000's second controller to the SAN magic box via SAS and pressing the Easy button? Is it as expensive as running my primary mailserver mounted from the SAN via Fiber Channel? Will that get me under 30ms latency? I welcome any suggestions the group may have. -- Wayne Thursby System Administrator Physicians Group, LLC

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[Dovecot] Best inode_ratio for maildir++ on ext4
by Rodolfo Gonzalez 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi, This might be a silly question: which would be the best inode ratio for a 5 Tb filesystem dedicated to Maildir++ storage? I use ubuntu server, which has a preconfigured setting for mkfs.ext4 called "news" with inode_ratio = 4096, and after formating the fs with that setting and then with the defautl setting I see this difference of space (wasted space, but more inodes): 4328633696 free 1K-blocks with mkfs's "-T news" switch = 1219493877 free inodes 4557288800 free 1K-blocks with default mkfs settings = 304873461 free inodes I'll be storing e-mail messages for around 20,000 accounts on that partition (average 512 Mb per account). Would you consider worth the waste of about 200 Gb of the filesystem space in exchange of more inodes? Thanks. Rodolfo.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot setting up SASL/TLS now it will not start
by VaineDragon 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

[root@dragon-server dragon]# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart Stopping Dovecot Imap: [FAILED] Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 795: Unknown section type (section changed in /etc/dovecot.conf at line 787) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Dovecot-setting-up-SASL-TLS-now-it-will-not-start-tp2… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] enabling IMAP SORT and THREAD extensions
by Colin Brace 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Hi all, The home page of the Dovecot website indicates: "Supports multiple commonly used IMAP extensions, including SORT, THREAD and IDLE." However, I cannot find instructions in the Wiki for how to enable these extensions. Can someone tell me how to do this? I will add this info to the Wiki myself if need be. Thanks. ----- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/enabling-IMAP-SORT-and--THREAD-extensions-tp27673898p… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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