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[Dovecot] Released Sieve v0.1.13 for Dovecot v1.2.6
by Stephan Bosch 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hello Dovecot users, After about a month of silence, I finally release a new version of Pigeonhole Sieve. This release fixes problems in the multiscript support and improves the body extension further towards RFC compliance. The body extension still needs work, however, since some content types still give erroneous results. Changelog Sieve v0.1.13: + Body extension: implemented proper handling of the :raw transform and added various new tests to the test suite. However, :content "multipart" and :content "message/rfc822" are still not working. + Fixed race condition occuring when multiple instances are saving the same binary (patch by Timo Sirainen). + Test suite: added support for testing multiscript execution. - Made compiler more lenient towars missing CRLF at the end of the script in a hash comment. - Body extension: don't give SKIP_BODY_BLOCK flag to message parser, we want the body! (patch by Timo Sirainen). - Fixed handling of implicit side effects for multiscript execution. - Fixed bugs in multiscript support; subsequent keep actions were not always merged correctly and implicit side effects were not always handled correctly. - Fixed a segfault bug in the sieve-test tool occuring when compile fails. - Fixed segfault bug in action procesing. It was triggered while merging side effects in duplicate actions. - Fixed bug in the Sieve plugin that caused it to try to stat() a NULL path, yielding a 'Bad address' error. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.13.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.13.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org for more information. Have fun testing the new release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are problems. Releases for Dovecot v2.0 are still under development... Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] Convert to DBox
by Jeff Grossman 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

I am thinking of trying out dbox format. I am currently using maildir. Is it possible for me to switch just one user account to dbox while keeping all of my other users on maildir? If so, how would I go about doing that? Here is a copy of my dovecot -n: # 1.2.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/stikman-godaddy.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/stikman-godaddy.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)stikman.com mail_plugins: cmusieve sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: sieve: sieve Thanks, Jeff

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[Dovecot] Problems with Expire Plugin
by Jose Luis Marin Perez 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Dear Sirs, I try to configure expire plugin to delete emails older than 7 days from the Papelera folder, but I do not see any information recorded in the expires table, although there are emails that were copied before and after configuring the plugin. dovecot -n # 1.1.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: There is no way to login to this server: disable_plaintext_auth=yes, ssl-disable=yes, no non-plaintext auth mechanisms. # OS: Linux 2.6.9-67.0.7.EL i686 CentOS release 4.6 (Final) log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap listen: *:10143 ssl_disable: yes login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login first_valid_uid: 89 last_valid_uid: 89 first_valid_gid: 89 last_valid_gid: 89 mail_uid: 89 mail_gid: 89 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota autocreate expire namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: checkpassword args: /usr/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /usr/local/bin/vchkpw-wrapper.sh userdb: driver: prefetch args: uid=89 gid=89 home=/usr/vpopmail/domains/%d/%u socket: type: listen master: path: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: root group: root plugin: quota: maildir quota_rule: ?:storage=0 quota_rule2: Trash:ignore quota_rule3: Papelera:ignore expire: Papelera 7 Papelera/* 7 expire_dict: proxy::expire auth_socket_path: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master autocreate: INBOX.Papelera autosubscribe: INBOX.Papelera dict: expire: mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-dict-expire.conf /usr/local/etc/dovecot-dict-expire.conf connect = host=localhost dbname=expunge user=expireuser password=expirepass # v1.1 only: table = expires select_field = expire_stamp where_field = mailbox username_field = not_used mysql> describe expires; +--------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +--------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | mailbox | varchar(255) | | PRI | | | | expire_stamp | int(11) | | | 0 | | +--------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ mysql> select * from expires; Empty set (0.00 sec) May be missing some configuration to work? Thanks Jose Luis _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

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[Dovecot] migrate courier to dovecot script - questions about directory structure
by Ross 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi all, Im in the process of moving about 7000 users across from courier to dovecot. Both Maildir setups. The migration script works a treat, but I need a slight change to it. Couriers directory structure looks ike this: /home/vmail/<domain.com.au>/<username>/cur/ /home/vmail/<domain.com.au>/<username>/new/ /home/vmail/<domain.com.au>/<username>/tmp/ /home/vmail/<domain.com.au>/<username>/maildirsize /home/vmail/<domain.com.au>/<username>/courier* etc.. Dovecot looks like this: /home/vmail/<domain.com.au>/<username>/Maildir/cur/ /home/vmail/<domain.com.au>/<username>/Maildir/new/ /home/vmail/<domain.com.au>/<username>/Maildir/tmp/ So the issue is, there is an additional Maildir directory in the structure. Now the migration script works fine, however when the migration is completed, I have to manually add the Maildir directory into the structure, which is going to take a little too long :) Is there something in the script that can add this ? Is there a way to perhaps use the script to add the Maildir part ? My initial plan was to copy the entire /home/vmail/<domain.com.au>/* across to the dovecot server and run the migration script. However, without the Maildir directory in the structure it won't work. Has anyone run into this issue ? How did you solve it ? -- Regards Ross fatboy:/tmp# dovecot --version 1.0.15 fatboy:/tmp# dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s 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_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%Ld/%Ln/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota 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 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: quota: maildir:storage=51200

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[Dovecot] Per User Quotas
by Peter Fraser 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi All I have not been able to get per user quotas going. A general quota works fine. My LDAP server is windows 2000. Here is my config mail# dovecot -n # 1.1.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps pop3s lda managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(pop3): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!ADH!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:+HIGH:+MEDIUM disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_greeting: Mail Server ready. login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no login_greeting_capability(managesieve): no verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/:INDEX=~/Maildir/tmp/index mail_debug: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_enable_last(default): no pop3_enable_last(imap): no pop3_enable_last(pop3): yes pop3_enable_last(managesieve): no pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(managesieve): managesieve_implementation_string(default): dovecot managesieve_implementation_string(imap): dovecot managesieve_implementation_string(pop3): dovecot managesieve_implementation_string(managesieve): Cyrus timsieved v2.2.13 sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(pop3): sieve_storage(managesieve): ~/sieve sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(pop3): sieve(managesieve): ~/.dovecot.sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Ln verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=1002 gid=1002 home=/home/vmail/%u allow_all_users=yes userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 80 quota: maildir quota2: maildir:user quota quota_rule: *:storage=512M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10M quota_rule3: SPAM:ignore sieve: /home/vmail/%u/.dovecot.sieve I have this in dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = 192.168.1.97 192.168.1.76 base = dc=atlas,dc=local auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = atlas\%u pass_filter = (&(objectclass=person)(uid=%u)) user_attrs = homeDirectory=/home/vmail/%u,uidNumber=1002,gidNumber=1002,streetAddress=quota_rule=*:storage=%$M I then put this in the streetAddress area of the user info in AD *:storage=256M But no go. When I log in either in thunderbird or squirrelmail, I see the general quota for that user which is 512M and not 256M I'm at a loss, any help would be appreciated. By the way, after reading another thread, I added this to postfix but still no go. mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d "$USER"

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[Dovecot] how to "hide" mailbox from the IMAP clients
by Kostik 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hello, everyone! Is it possible to "hide" mailbox from the IMAP clients, so as to prevent any user from subscribing to the some folders? My storages are "mbox maildir". For example, to hide the directory where the personal Sieve scripts are stored or etc. =kostik

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot deliver with AD LDAP userdb [SOLVED]
by Mark Schaub 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

> Then there's something different what Dovecot and ldapsearch does. They > have the same dn, dnpass, neither uses tls, same base, deref, scope? > I figured it out, there certainly is something different! The AuthDatabase/LDAP documentation on the Dovecot Wiki says "When connecting to AD, use port 3268". Port 3268 is used for Global Catalog searching. By default the Active Directory Global Catalog wouldn't include attributes like otherMailbox, but would include mail and sn. The solution here would be to either use port 389 and search the domain like ldapsearch or to add the otherMailbox attribute (or any others I want to search on) to the global catalog. It might be worth updating the wiki to mention the reasoning behind using port 3268 and the implications it can cause. Thanks for the help!

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[Dovecot] Sendmail and Dovecot Delivery to Virtual Users
by Philipp Hunold 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

I'm new to dovecot and sendmail and my server doesn't forward mails to 'dovecot deliver' at all. I was reading http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail and this http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-June/040353.html from the mailling list but I could figure it out myself. I someone could point me into the right direction. I'm confused with the config for LDA. Basically what I want is every message coming in go to 'deliver' except if there's no dovecot user of course. I'm using 'local_procmail' feature right now, but I tried to comile the dovecot Mailer also. Anyway the dovecot 'deliver' itself works fine. But I cannot receiving emails or messages don't go anywhere. All the debugging I do with telnet right now. first I got 'User Unknown' errors in the maillog so I thought I just missing an alias/virtuser entry. So I create one and forward those to procmail. But now the messages don't go anywhere and the status is sent and I don't seem them in the /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log either, so they are stuck in the middle somewhere. Oct 16 14:26:26 sendmail[29939]: n9GIQQAh029939: to=|/usr/bin/procmail, ctladdr=<mail.address> (8/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=31420, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent I don't seem to understand how the message get to dovecot's 'deliver' from sendmail. Some questions I have which may help to solve the problem myself: - how can I tell the LDA to lookup dovecot users too? to it would accept it? - do I need aliases therefore for each dovecot users? - What would the alias look like or is this the wrong way to do it? "test.user: |/usr/bin/procmail" ? - what's the procmail recipe which would work for maildir:/home/vmail/%u mail_location? My Sendmail configuration files: $ grep -v "^dnl" sendmail.mc divert(-1)dnl include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl VERSIONID(`setup for linux')dnl OSTYPE(`linux')dnl define(`confDEF_USER_ID', ``8:12'')dnl define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST', `True')dnl define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', `True')dnl define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl define(`STATUS_FILE', `/var/log/mail/statistics')dnl define(`UUCP_MAILER_MAX', `2000000')dnl define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `goaway,noetrn')dnl define(`confDOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS', `')dnl define(`confCOPY_ERRORS_TO', `')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl FEATURE(`mailertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl FEATURE(`virtusertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver', `deliver -f $g -d $u', `SPhnu9')dnl FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -T<TMPF> -o /etc/mail/access.db')dnl FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl LOCAL_DOMAIN(`mydomain.com')dnl MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `-f') MAILER(procmail)dnl # 1.2.4: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 i686 Fedora release 11 (Leonidas) ext4 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log protocols: imap imaps listen: localhost login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: Ciao. mail_uid: 501 mail_gid: 502 mail_location: Maildir:/home/vmail/maildir/%n mail_debug: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)mydomain.com hostname: server.mydomain.com log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver-errors.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log auth default: user: dovecot-login verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail please tell me if you need more info. any help, hints and suggestions are welcome. regards. Philipp

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[Dovecot] Sieve question
by CJ Keist 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

If there is a separate sieve mailing list let me know. But have question if someone else has done this or not. Right now I have web form people use to setup their vacation replies using Sieve (1.1.6). The form alows them to set what they want their reply address to be, whether to send the reply once, weekly or bi-weekly. I would like to setup another option to let them set the date in which to de-active the vacation replies automatically. Right now they have to remember to log back into the form to turn off the vacation reply. Has anyone set something like this up? -- C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist(a)colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301 All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness'

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[Dovecot] Berkely DB authentication?
by Marc Perkel 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Does Dovecot support berkeley DB authentication? I'm looking for something simple that is perhaps a single file for multiple domains and something the Exim can also read.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot lock problem
by Simon Gao 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 11:37 -0700, Simon Gao wrote: > We have a few users experiencing locking problem. When starting > Thunderbird, there is no new emails in Inbox. Dovecot createa a lock file > /var/spool/mail/<user>.lock. It never completes openning Inbox. If closing > the mail client, the open imap session does not get closed, nor the lock > file get deleted. >What is the process doing? Check with "strace -p <imap process pid>"? >How large is the user's mailbox? The size of inbox varies. Some is large, some are only a few hundred KB. If the mailbox is large, it may take time to re-generate index and put lock on inbox file until it's done. However, it should not for smaller mailbox file. Deleting index files did not help. The workaround is rename the mailbox file and copy it to ~/mail folder and let MTA re-create the mailbox. Then let mail client subscribes to the new temp mailbox. I will try strace next time. > Here are the errors in log: > > dovecot: Oct 13 11:18:35 Warning: IMAP(user1): Our dotlock file > /var/mail/user1.lock was deleted (kept it 88 secs) > dovecot: Oct 13 11:18:35 Error: IMAP(user1): file_dotlock_delete() > failed with mbox file /var/mail/user1: No such file or directory >I'd guess this is a huge mbox (or your disk I/O is very slow) and >Dovecot takes a long time trying to read it. mbox_very_dirty_syncs=yes >may be helpful. It occurred to mailbox large and small. It should not take very long to read a few hundred KB file.

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[Dovecot] New backend
by Aspra Flavius Adrian 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi I intend to write a new virtual backend for dovecot. Are there any hacking docs describing how the code is organized, eventually also important structs and how to hook myself into the system, or do I have to go the classical way? Thanks --Flavius

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[Dovecot] Dovecot can't find users' sieve files
by Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hello. I asked for help on #dovecot but one suggestion I got was setting sieve variable explicitly but unfortunatelly that didn't help. I'm trying to set up sieve to be able to use vacation module. So in the lda section I put: mail_plugins = sieve And in plugins section: sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve Then I put .dovecot.sieve file in the user's directory. This is what I get in Dovecot's log when trying to deliver to that mailbox: 2009-10-16 18:37:52 deliver(test(a)domain.pl): Error: sieve: stat((null)) failed: Bad address (using global script path in stead) 2009-10-16 18:37:52 deliver(test(a)domain.pl): Info: msgid=<20091016163757.GK19565(a)asdy.pl>: saved mail to INBOX Some infos about system: Dovecot 1.2.5 Debian squeeze/testing x86_64 ext3 (root)~#dovecot -n # 1.2.5: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s 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/%u 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 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)domain.pl mail_plugins: sieve log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf 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 group: vmail plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve (root)~# And dovecot-sql.conf: driver = pgsql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password = xxxxxxxx password_query = \ SELECT local_part, password \ FROM mailbox WHERE local_part = '%n' AND active = 't' user_query = \ SELECT maildir, 5000 AS uid, 5000 gid \ FROM mailbox WHERE local_part = '%n' AND active = 't' Delivering works perfectly but I can't figure out why it's not able to find that .dovecot.sieve file: (root@germany)~#ls -al /home/vmail/test(a)domain.pl/.dovecot.sieve -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 314 2009-10-16 13:09 /home/vmail/test(a)domain.pl/.dovecot.sieve (root@germany)~# Any help would be very appreciated. regards fEnIo -- ,''`. Bartosz Fenski | mailto:fenio@debian.org | pgp:0x13fefc40 | irc:fEnIo : :' : 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - malopolskie v. - Poland `. `' phone:+48602383548 | proud Debian maintainer and user `- http://fenski.pl | xmpp:fenio@jabber.org | rlu:172001

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[Dovecot] Better APPEND performance
by Mike Abbott 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Moving a large number of messages into an IMAP folder on a dovecot server takes quite a long time. This is a popular operation for users migrating their stored messages from their old mail servers through a mail user agent, and it causes a poor first impression of dovecot. I'd like your help to speed this up. I have studied this problem in recent versions, including 1.1.[17-19] and 1.2.[4-6] but I'll focus on 1.2.6, using Maildir++. It seems to be caused by O(n^2) behavior in maintaining the UID list, where n is the number of messages. The client selects a folder then sends thousands of individual APPEND commands (no use of multiappend unfortunately). These cause dovecot to behave as follows: 1. For every other APPENDed message, dovecot appends the new UID to the list quickly. No problem here, this is fast. 2. For every other other APPENDed message, dovecot scans the entire UID list. This is an O(n) algorithm. Since it happens every n/2 times it causes O(n^2) behavior across n consecutive APPENDs. More specifically, 1. APPEND a message to a folder that already contains 30,000 messages. maildir_uidlist_refresh_fast_init() takes the fast path. 2. APPEND a second message to the same folder. maildir_uidlist_refresh_fast_init() takes the slow path: it populates the uidlist->files hash table with all the UIDs, checking for duplicates. At the end of the command maildir_uidlist_deinit() destroys the hash table. Note how this APPEND takes much longer than #1. 3. APPEND a third message to the same folder. Just like #1. 4. APPEND a fourth message to the same folder. Just like #2, and since #2 destroyed the hash, it has to do all that work over again. 5. And so on. What can be done to make maildir_uidlist_refresh_fast_init() choose the fast path more often?

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[Dovecot] v2.0.alpha1 released
by Timo Sirainen 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/alpha/dovecot-2.0.alpha1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/alpha/dovecot-2.0.alpha1.tar.gz.sig So here's the first alpha version of Dovecot v2.0. There are still a couple of things left to do, but in general it should work for most people. I started using it for my own mails a few days ago and it seems to work without errors. Largest changes since v1.2: * 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. + 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. Some things left to do: - Do something about backwards compatibility with v1.x. Either make it read v1.x config files or provide some config conversion utility. - dsync still has some bugs - config process is a bit too slow. config handling in general could use some caching all around. no need to ask configuration for each login unless there are per-remote-ip settings. - some kind of an optional connection policy server could be useful. mainly to finally implement tcp-wrappers support. - mail_uid, mail_gid, mail_chroot settings don't really work now. I think this actually needs a bit larger change, which is probably a good idea in any case: After successfully authenticating, login process needs to get imap/pop3 process executed. Currently this is done by transferring the connection fd to master process, doing userdb lookup and then forking and execing the imap/pop3 process. The new behavior I'm thinking is that after auth, login process would connect to imap/pop3 unix socket in the login/ directory. That would cause master process to fork a new imap/pop3 process (running as root). Login process would send the necessary auth information via the unix socket, possibly transfer also the fd, and imap/pop3 would do the userdb lookup and then drop privileges. This change has some pros: - Master process will no longer temporarily hold some extra fds and use extra memory during auth lookups. If auth process is hanging these could cause problems. - Master process will no longer have any special auth handling code and I can remove type=auth-source and type=auth services. - Of course fixes the mail_* setting issue, because all of this is now done by imap/pop3 process, which knows about these settings. - Creating support for "multiple imap/pop3 post-login connections in a single process" should be pretty easy to implement with this. The imap/pop3 unix socket just needs to be listened by a new process in the middle that keeps track of what imap/pop3 processes exist and can redirect the new connections to those. But also some cons: - drop_priv_before_exec=yes no longer works, unless the uid/gid is hardcoded to the service {} block. - Each imap/pop3 process needs to do a connect() to auth server at startup, adding a bit to the latency.

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[Dovecot] Expire issue
by Emmanuel Gonzalez 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hello guys, I'm trying to configure de expire plug in, all the configuration seems to be right but when I launch # /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool --test Error: userdb(user(a)mydomain.it) didn't return uid Info: User lookup failed: user(a)mydomain.it even if I see in the logs that the authentication process worked fine (ldap): dovecot: 2009-10-16 15:33:03 Info: auth(default): master in: USER 1 user(a)mydomain.it service=expire dovecot: 2009-10-16 15:33:03 Info: auth(default): ldap(user(a)mydomain.it): user search: base=dc=mydomain,dc=it scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(mail=user(a)mydomain.it)) fields=mailMessageStore,mailquota dovecot: 2009-10-16 15:33:03 Info: auth(default): ldap(user(a)mydomain.it): result: mailMessageStore(home)=/var/vmail/0/0/0/4/0 mailquota(quota_rule=*:backend)=104857600S dovecot: 2009-10-16 15:33:03 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 user(a)mydomain.it home=/var/vmail/0/0/0/4/0 quota_rule=*:backend=104857600S here my conf: # OS: SunOS 5.9 sun4v log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:10100 ssl_disable: yes ssl_cert_file: /opt/csw/etc/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /opt/csw/etc/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /opt/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 1 first_valid_gid: 12 mail_privileged_group: daemon mail_uid: 1 mail_gid: 12 mail_location: maildir:%h mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota expire mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota expire mail_plugins(pop3): quota expire mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): UID%u-%v pop3_logout_format(default): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_logout_format(imap): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_logout_format(pop3): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s, bytes=%i/%o auth default: master_user_separator: * verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /opt/dovecot/etc/passwd.masterusers master: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /opt/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: dovecot group: dovecot plugin: quota: maildir expire: Trash 1 Trash/* 1 Spam 30 expire_dict: proxy::expire dict: expire: db:/opt/dovecot/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db and ldap one: # cat /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf |grep -v "#"|grep -v ^$ hosts = localhost sasl_bind = no auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=mydomain,dc=it scope = subtree user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home,mailquota=quota_rule=*:backend user_filter = (&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(mail=%u)) pass_attrs = mail=user,userPassword=password,mailMessageStore=userdb_home pass_filter = (&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(mail=%u)) I also tried to set user_attrs = *uid=uid,*mailMessageStore=home,mailquota=quota_rule=*:backend but i didn't solve the problem. Any ideas? thanx in advance! -- Emmanuel Gonzalez

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[Dovecot] "From" address in vacation response on hosted domains with dovecot/postfix/sieve
by Peter Borg 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi, I have a working dovecot/postfix/sieve configuration: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Dovecot 1.2.6 Sieve 0.1.12 Postfix 2.5.1 The server is configured to host multiple domains. All mail delivery, logins and aliases work absolutely perfectly. There's only one weirdness: the 'From' address in vacation responses. If a message is sent to user(a)hosteddomain.com the response comes from user-hosteddomain.com(a)hostingservername.com Obviously it's doing what one would expect in that it's taking the username (user-hosteddomain.com) and appending the local host name (hostingservername.com) This isn't great from the perspective of the hosted user, however, who'd much rather their vacation message was sent from their actual email address. Clearly I can modify this by using a ':from' statement in each relevant sieve file, but I can't rely on users' mail clients to set this (as not all do) and the webmail client in use on the server doesn't set this. I can almost certainly implement some kind of hack using this, but I'd rather not. So how does sieve determine the from address to use if it's not explicitly set in the sieve script for the user, and how can I direct sieve to determine the address differently, preferably with a central configuration option that will apply to all users regardless of domain.....? Regards, Peter.

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[Dovecot] Internal server
by Guy 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi, I'm looking at doing some testing for a little internal IMAP server. Basically use fetchmail (or some such thing to bring in mail) so users have a local IMAP server to connect to. I'm interested in trying out mdbox, but since I'd have to use dovecot 2.0 with it I thought I'd just check what peoples' experience with 2.0 is like so far? Is it reasonably stable already? Is there also a page showing the differences in config for dbox over maildir? Or is it simply just the change in mail_location and nothing else? Thanks Guy -- Don't just do something...sit there!

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[Dovecot] FS Quota broken for delivering BIG message
by Kostik 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi everybody. I have Linux file system quota for users and enabled "fs quota" and quota plugin for LDA. My test user is already deep over quoted: --- Filesystem blocks quota limit nfse:/export 23768* 10240 10240 --- 1. If I tries to deliver _short_ message to user mbox - quota works: $ echo "123123123123" | /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d koc --- Quota root: name=Quota backend=fs args=group:mount=/var/virtual/home/I/I/koc Quota rule: root=Quota mailbox=* bytes=10383360 messages=0 mbox: data=~/:INBOX=/var/virtual/mail/I/I/koc:INDEX=MEMORY fs: root=/var/virtual/home/I/I/koc, index=, control=, inbox=/var/virtual/mail/I/I/koc fs quota add storage dir = /var/virtual/home/I/I/koc fs quota block device = nfse:/export fs quota mount point = /mount/m5 quota-fs: host=nfse, path=/export, gid=5751796, bytes quota-fs: gid=5751796, value=24338432, limit=10485760, active=1 from=<>, msgid=: save failed to INBOX: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) from=<>, msgid=: rejected: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) msgid=: Return-Path missing, rejection reason: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) --- 2. But if I tries to deliver _BIG_ message to user mbox - quota broken: $ cat big.msg | /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d koc --- Quota root: name=Quota backend=fs args=group:mount=/var/virtual/home/I/I/koc Quota rule: root=Quota mailbox=* bytes=10383360 messages=0 mbox: data=~/:INBOX=/var/virtual/mail/I/I/koc:INDEX=MEMORY fs: root=/var/virtual/home/I/I/koc, index=, control=, inbox=/var/virtual/mail/I/I/koc fs quota add storage dir = /var/virtual/home/I/I/koc fs quota block device = nfse:/export fs quota mount point = /mount/m5 quota-fs: host=nfse, path=/export, gid=5751796, bytes quota-fs: gid=5751796, value=24338432, limit=10485760, active=1 write_full(/var/virtual/home/I/I/koc/.temp.pigeon01.8822.64dfacc7e57d71b4) failed: Disk quota exceeded stat(/tmp/Dovecot Delivery Mail) failed: Disk quota exceeded from=<>, msgid=: save failed to INBOX: BUG: Unknown internal error --- This "write_full() failed" from: src/lib/istream-seekable.c --- static ssize_t i_stream_seekable_read(struct istream_private *stream) { ... /* save to our file */ data = i_stream_get_data(sstream->cur_input, &size); if (write_full(sstream->fd, data, size) < 0) { i_assert(errno != 0); stream->istream.stream_errno = errno; i_error("write_full(%s) failed: %m", sstream->temp_path); i_stream_close(&stream->istream); return -1; } ... } --- =kostik

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[Dovecot] Dovecot inactive after an intermittent connection with LDAP
by Thu Nguyen 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hello all, I'm facing the problem below: 1. Firstly, the connection between dovecot and ldap was down. dovecot: Oct 10 09:11:12 Info: auth(default): ldap(user1,x.x.x.x): Aborting (timeout), we're not connected to LDAP server dovecot: Oct 10 09:11:12 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 265490 user1 2. There is many new connection from user created.... dovecot: Oct 10 09:11:12 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=21114 dovecot: Oct 10 09:11:12 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=21113 3. ....but it obviously failed. dovecot: Oct 10 09:11:12 Info: pop3-login: Internal login failure (auth failed,1 attempts): user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip= x.x.x.x dovecot: Oct 10 09:11:12 Info: pop3-login: Internal login failure (auth failed,1 attempts): user=<user2>, method=PLAIN, rip= x.x.x.x,lip= x.x.x.x ................. dovecot: Oct 10 09:11:15 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=21125 dovecot: Oct 10 09:11:15 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=21126 dovecot: Oct 10 09:11:22 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 lip= x.x.x.x rip= x.x.x.x lport=110 rport=4504 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Oct 10 09:11:22 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 lip= x.x.x.x rip= x.x.x.x lport=110 rport=6316 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Oct 10 09:11:22 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=21132 dovecot: Oct 10 09:11:24 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 lip= x.x.x.x rip= x.x.x.x lport=110 4. LDAP connection is back to normal, however, it still failed. dovecot: Oct 10 09:14:14 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=21250 dovecot: Oct 10 09:14:14 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=21251 dovecot: Oct 10 09:14:14 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 lip= x.x.x.x rip= x.x.x.x lport=110 rport=2959 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Oct 10 09:14:14 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=PLAIN, lip= x.x.x.x rip= x.x.x.x dovecot: Oct 10 09:14:15 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=PLAIN, lip= x.x.x.x rip= x.x.x.x dovecot: Oct 10 09:14:15 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=PLAIN, lip= x.x.x.x rip= x.x.x.x dovecot: Oct 10 09:14:15 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 lip= x.x.x.x rip= x.x.x.x lport=110 rport=3765 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Oct 10 09:14:15 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 lip= x.x.x.x rip= x.x.x.x lport=110 rport=48 08 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Oct 10 09:14:15 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: Inactivity (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=PLAIN, rip=199.30.31.48, lip=199.30.26.18 5. Then the request queue is full ... Dovecot is completely inactive. Of course it try to fail back to pam but as the password is not the same so it's failed also. dovecot: Oct 10 09:38:53 Error: auth(default): ldap(user1,10.0.0.7): Request queue is full (oldest added 1660 secs ago) dovecot: Oct 10 09:38:53 Info: auth-worker(default): pam(user1,10.0.0.7): lookup service=dovecot dovecot: Oct 10 09:38:53 Info: auth-worker(default): pam(user1.vn,10.0.0.7): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: dovecot: Oct 10 09:38:53 Info: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=22405 dovecot: Oct 10 09:38:54 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 lip= x.x.x.x rip= x.x.x.x lport=110 rport=2789 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Oct 10 09:38:56 Info: auth-worker(default): pam(user1,x.x.x.x): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure (password mismatch?) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bref, I suggest that when the connection between LDAP and dovecot is dropped, the connection from user is still there and as they don't receive a result from dovecot [Fail or Success]... And it still "pending" somehow to wait a response from dovecot. But when ldap is connected to the system, these pending connection (from user) is still pending .... so it makes the "request queue is full". Isn't it? Should I do something to work-through or work-around this problem? May I did something wrong in my configuration. Below is usual information may it helps us analyze the problem! Thanks many much for your help! ----------------------------------------------------------------- [root ~]# dovecot -n # 1.1.14: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.el5PAE i686 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes 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 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_gid: 100 mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: static socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: dovecot group: dovecot plugin: sieve: /home/%u/.dovecot.sieve -------------------------------------------------------------------- [root ~]# grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf hosts = ldap.tma.com.vn dn = ##### dnpass = ###### auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = uid=%u,ou=Users,dc=tma,dc=com,dc=vn ldap_version = 3 base = ou=Users,dc=,dc=com,dc=vn scope = subtree user_attrs = uid=uid,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:storage=%$M user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) default_pass_scheme = CRYPT -------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Thu NGUYEN.

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[Dovecot] 2.0 config info for dovecot-dict-sql.conf?
by PGNet Dev 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

reading, /usr/local/share/doc/dovecot/wiki/Quota.Dict.txt refers to config, e.g. dovecot-dict-sql.conf, for, "v1.2 +" is the v1.2+ info there valid/correct for 2.0+?

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[Dovecot] @2.0, Fatal error (Expecting '=') in trash plugin config
by PGNet Dev 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

i've setup trash plugin as, grep trash imap.conf mail_plugins = autocreate fts fts_squat fts_solr imap_quota quota trash zlib cat plugin.conf plugin { ... trash = /data/mail/Conf/dovecot/conf.d/trash.conf } cat /data/mail/Conf/dovecot/conf.d/trash.conf 1 Spam 2 Trash 3 Sent 3 Sent Messages but, @ dovecot -n # 2.0.alpha1: /data/mail/Conf/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /data/mail/Conf/dovecot/conf.d/trash.conf line 1: Expecting '=' bug, or change frp, v1.x in config/parsing?

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[Dovecot] pop3-login process
by ogu_yo＠yahoo.co.jp 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi, I would like to know if the pop3-login process would be create more than one while a user connection is established. http://wiki.dovecot.org/RunningDovecot ------------------------------------ imap-login and pop3-login processes handle new IMAP and POP3 connections until user has logged in. ------------------------------------ I'm sorry to ask you this kind of question... Regards, -------------------------------------- GyaO! - Anime, Dramas, Movies, and Music videos [FREE] http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/gyao/

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[Dovecot] Expire plugin: wrong mailbox separators in database?
by Andreas Ntaflos 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi all, I'm experimenting with the expire plugin and seem have run into a small problem. I am using Dovecot 1.2.4 on a test server. The config is taken mostly verbatim from the expire plugin wiki page [1], using MySQL as a database. See below for detailed output. Namespace "private" has "/" configured as mailbox separator: namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } The "expire =" section from dovecot.conf thus looks like this: plugin { expire = Trash 7 INBOX/Spam 8 INBOX/Spam/To-Discard 3 ... } Three mailboxes/folders are kept track of: Trash, INBOX/Spam and INBOX/Spam/Spam-To-Discard (this one holds messages that scored high enough to very unlikely be legitimate and should be deleted soon). But when a message is put into one of these folders the mailbox attribute of the expires table uses "." as mailbox separator: mysql> select * from expires; +-----------------+----------------------------+--------------+ | username | mailbox | expire_stamp | +-----------------+----------------------------+--------------+ | foo(a)example.org | INBOX.Spam.Spam-To-Discard | 1253114526 | | foo(a)example.org | INBOX.Spam | 1253114528 | +-----------------+----------------------------+--------------+ Consequently, expire-tool --test seems to choke on this: # dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool --test Info: foo(a)example.org/INBOX.Spam.Spam-To-Discard: \ mailbox 'INBOX.Spam.Spam-To-Discard' removed from config Info: foo(a)example.org/INBOX.Spam: mailbox 'INBOX.Spam' \ removed from config When I manually update the mailbox attribute to use "/" as separator expire-tool seems to work correctly: # dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool --test Info: foo(a)example.org/INBOX/Spam/Spam-To-Discard: stop, expire \ time in future: Wed Sep 16 17:22:06 2009 Using "." as separator in the "expire =" line doesn't work either: the expires table isn't written to at all when a message is put in one of the specified folders. Presumably because INBOX/Spam is the real mailbox but INBOX.Spam is monitored by the expire plugin and there is no INBOX.Spam to put in messages. So I believe this is not the expected behaviour? Or am I doing anything wrong? I'd rather not change the separator from "/" to "." in all the namespaces if that can be avoided. Thanks in advance, Andreas dovecot -n: ========== # 1.2.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.2 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: managesieve imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen: 83.65.168.220 127.0.0.1 login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_access_groups: mail mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): autocreate acl expire mail_plugins(imap): autocreate acl expire mail_plugins(pop3): expire mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: Public/ location: maildir:/var/mail/public:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/index/public list: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: Backup/ location: maildir:~/Maildir-backup hidden: yes list: no namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: log_path: info_log_path: auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master postmaster_address: postmaster(a)mailtest0.rise-s.com mail_plugins: sieve acl expire auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%Ld/%Ln allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: expire: Trash 7 INBOX/Spam 5 INBOX/Spam/Spam-To-Discard 3 expire_dict: proxy::expire sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve sieve_global_path: /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_global_dir: /etc/dovecot/sieve/global/ sieve_before: /etc/dovecot/sieve/before/ autocreate: Trash autocreate2: Drafts autocreate3: Sent autocreate4: INBOX/Spam autocreate5: INBOX/Spam/Spam-To-Discard autosubscribe: Trash autosubscribe2: Drafts autosubscribe3: Sent autosubscribe4: INBOX/Spam autosubscribe5: INBOX/Spam/Spam-To-Discard acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acl dict: expire: mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf: ===================================== connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=mailserver user=mailuser password=xxx map { pattern = shared/expire/$user/$mailbox table = expires value_field = expire_stamp fields { username = $user mailbox = $mailbox } } The expires table: CREATE TABLE expires ( username varchar(100) not null, mailbox varchar(255) not null, expire_stamp integer not null, primary key (username, mailbox) ); [1] http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire -- Andreas Ntaflos Vienna, Austria GPG Fingerprint: 6234 2E8E 5C81 C6CB E5EC 7E65 397C E2A8 090C A9B4

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[Dovecot] Error (IMHO) with --with-doc option
by Jacek Osiecki 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi, I was trying to create complete rpm package for my system, containing dovecot 1.2.5 intregrated with dovecot-sieve and dovecot-managesieve. Finally I succeeded and it works great, but I found something that might be treated as wrong behaviour... When you run ./configure --with-docs=no, Makefile does not build docs anymore, but... installs them anyway :) It caused some troubles because rpmbuild complained about documents moved to <buildroot>/usr/share/doc/dovecot I have created a small patch that fixes this - hope it doesn't introduce any mess: diff -Nur 2/Makefile.in 1/Makefile.in --- 2/Makefile.in 2009-09-29 00:17:22.000000000 +0200 +++ 1/Makefile.in 2009-09-29 00:17:38.000000000 +0200 @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ distclean-recursive maintainer-clean-recursive ETAGS = etags CTAGS = ctags -DIST_SUBDIRS = src doc +DIST_SUBDIRS = $(SUBDIRS) DISTFILES = $(DIST_COMMON) $(DIST_SOURCES) $(TEXINFOS) $(EXTRA_DIST) distdir = $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) top_distdir = $(distdir) Best regards, -- Jacek Osiecki joshua(a)ceti.pl GG:3828944 I don't want something I need. I want something I want.

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