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[Dovecot] Subfolders not listed in Dovecot-1.2.2 with listescape
by Petter Urkedal 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

After upgrading to Dovecot-1.2.2 from 1.1* subfolders disappeared, though it was possible to access them directly, e.g. with "mutt -f =lists/dovecot". The problem only occurs if the listescape plugin is enabled. Some relevant bits from the configuration: namespace private { # The only namespace. separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } protocol imap { mail_plugins = fts fts_squat listescape }

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[Dovecot] Best way to get login protocol (pop3/imap) in post-login script
by Zhang Huangbin 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi, all. I found doc here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting and use ${USER}, ${IP} to track last-login username and remote ip address, but how can i track the mail protocol it used? like pop3, pop3s, imap, imaps? Currently, i wrote shell script as post-login script, and use below command to get protocol: ---- $(basename ${MAIL_PLUGIN_DIR}) ---- But is it the best way to get it? Thanks very much. :) -- Best Regards. Zhang Huangbin - Open Source Mail Server Solution for Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu: + http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/ + http://www.iredmail.org/forum/

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Re: [Dovecot] expire plugin no delete 1.2.1 / 1.2.2
by Robert Schetterer 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Robert Schetterer schrieb: > Timo Sirainen schrieb: >> On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 17:21 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: >>> Hi Timo, >>> so now its clear, the mail >>> did not got deleted if i now do >>> >>> Info: robert(a)schetterer.com/Trash: no messages left >> So, it worked? "no messages left" means if you didn't give --test it >> would have deleted all messages from the mailbox. >> > Hi Timo, no it didnt work > i repeated the test since then twice > the mail was not deleted > Hi Timo, no it didnt work i repeated the test since then twice the mail was not deleted -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] How to delete retrieved mail
by Don Muller 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi All, I use Dovecot and XMail on a QNAP TS-509 NAS. QNAP has combined the two into a package they call XDove. Everything seems to be working great except for one thing. When Dovecot retrieves the mail from XMail it is not removing it from XMail. It is leaving a copy on XMail. Is there an option I can set in Dovecot so it will delete the mail message from XMail when it retrieves it. Thanks Don

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[Dovecot] Client Cert Auth Problem
by Christian Felsing 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hello, is there a config possible which supports both of following authentication schemes ? 1st: If user presents a client certificate, he can log in w/o username/password, where user id comes from CN. Accepting any password is not the right solution. 2nd: If user does not present a client certificate, he have to authenticate by username/password. In both cases user data is read from userdb LDAP, which is already working. I was not able to get both auth schemes working at same time. With Postfix such a config is fully operable. regards Christian

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[Dovecot] Public folders, individual SEEN flags
by Keith Edmunds 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi list I'm trying to set up shared public folders with individual SEEN flags. I've set up three test users, but as soon as one of them marks a mail in the public folder as seen or unseen, that change is propagated to all three users. If I watch the dovecot.index.log file in each user's directory for the public folder, I see all three change their last access time as soon as one user changes the SEEN status of a mail. Any hints as to what I'm doing wrong gratefully received, thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # dovecot --version 1.2.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # dovecot -n # 1.2.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.2 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: shared/ location: maildir:/home/publicfolders:INDEX=~/Maildir/public list: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # ls -l /home/publicfolders/dovecot-shared -rw-rw-r-- 1 publicfolders publicfolders 0 2009-07-27 15:01 /home/publicfolders/dovecot-shared --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] parameter "mail_location" and variables
by maximatt 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

hi.... i have virtual users stored in ldap server and i must to do some modifications that requiere to chage mail_location value... the solution comes to use the "uid" value stored in ldap server for users on mail_location parameter... i can see in http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables that i can't do them (i uses sasl authentication) so.. ¿exist any way to get a value from ldap server and use them in mail_location parameter? thanks in advance!!! -- Salu2 ;)

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[Dovecot] expire plugin no delete 1.2.1
by Robert Schetterer 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi Timo, all of my tests fail with expire plugin, mail simply not get deleted i cant find any stuff in the logs why it does not or should not work. My guess that there is a problem with virtual plugin and/or shared namespace. It shouldnt be a problem with acl starting the script over cron as root am i right ? do you have any idea why it fails, is there a way to ignore all unneeded shared or virtual namespaces ? should there be a entry in the log when expire time is reached and deletion is unsuccessfull ? -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] Shared mailboxes and INBOX
by Keith Edmunds 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

I'm trying to implement a shared mailbox: in other words, we have a generic email address ("security@") which we want a number of users to be able to monitor. The problem I have is that users can see folders under that shared mailbox but can't see the INBOX. All the users in question have their own INBOX in their private namespace, so does this raise a conflict with monitoring another mailbox's INBOX? Configuration: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # dovecot -n # 1.2.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.2 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: shared/ location: maildir:/home/publicfolders:INDEX=~/Maildir/public list: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: security/ location: maildir:/home/securitymailbox/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/securitymailbox list: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Keith

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[Dovecot] sieve filtering setup
by Jonathan Siegle 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

I'm looking at implementing sieve in my environment. Software is: dovecot-1.2-sieve revision 1022:3c9a22c28156 dovecot-1.2 revision 9269:a303bb82c1c9 AIX 5.3 with sendmail mta using prescribed deliver lda. I have a few questions. I'll have 110k sieve files(1 for each user). Does sieve read the file each time a new message is accepted by sendmail? Are there any measurements on cpu load for sieve filters? Thanks, Jonathan

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[Dovecot] Managesieve configuration problem
by listacc＠gmx.de 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hello! I'm trying for a lot of time to make managesieve working with dovecot 1.1.17 and virtual users on openSuSE 11.1. I think I'm doing some misconfiguration, but I can't figure it out. Perhaps it's something with the paths to the sieve scripts? In dovecot.conf I find in the comments: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ protocol managesieve { #(...) # Specifies the location of the symlink pointing to the active script in # the sieve storage directory. This must match the SIEVE setting used by # deliver (refer to http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve#location for more # info). Variable substitution with % is recognized. # Take care: if a file in a maildir: begins with a '.', it is recognized # as a folder; so, avoid this. #sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve = /drbd/mail/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot.sieve } ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "This must match the SIEVE setting used by deliver", so I have to take a look to LDA section, no? But there I don't find any hint for sieve settings: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ protocol lda { # Address to use when sending rejection mails. postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mydomain.tld # Hostname to use in various parts of sent mails, eg. in Message-Id. # Default is the system's real hostname. #hostname = # Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated # list of plugins to load. mail_plugins = cmusieve quota mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/lda # If user is over quota, return with temporary failure instead of # bouncing the mail. #quota_full_tempfail = no # Format to use for logging mail deliveries. You can use variables: # %$ - Delivery status message (e.g. "saved to INBOX") # %m - Message-ID # %s - Subject # %f - From address #deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ # Binary to use for sending mails. sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail # Human readable error message for rejection mails. Use can use variables: # %n = CRLF, %r = reason, %s = subject, %t = recipient rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r # UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users. # auth_socket_path = /drbd/mail/var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I tried to log in to managesieve manually with gnutls-cli, and that was successfull. I was able to authenticate. But when I try to put the example script from dovecot wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/ManageSieve/Troubleshooting) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PUTSCRIPT "hutsefluts" {6+} keep; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I get no ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OK "Putscript completed." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ there happens nothing, managesieve seems to wait for something else. When I look now into the directory where the script should be stored (the folder has been created automatically) I don't find any script file but a folder "tmp" that contains a plaintext file with the script commands inside, eg. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ hutsefluts-12345678.M033562P2271.imap.sieve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After disconnecting, this file disappears. In the dovecot.info log it looks like this: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 16 test(a)mydomain.tld home=/drbd/mail/vmail/mydomain.tld/test mail=maildir:/drbd/mail/vmail/mydomain.tld/test uid=5001 gid=5001 quota_rule=*:storage=512000000B dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: managesieve-login: Login: user=<test(a)mydomain.tld>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.200.39, lip=192.168.200.40, TLS dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: MANAGESIEVE(test(a)mydomain.tld): Effective uid=5001, gid=5001, home=/drbd/mail/vmail/mydomain.tld/test dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: MANAGESIEVE(test(a)mydomain.tld): sieve-storage: using active sieve script path: /drbd/mail/vmail/mydomain.tld/test/dovecot.sieve dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: MANAGESIEVE(test(a)mydomain.tld): sieve-storage: using active sieve script path: /drbd/mail/vmail/mydomain.tld/test/dovecot.sieve dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: MANAGESIEVE(test(a)mydomain.tld): sieve-storage: using sieve script storage directory: /drbd/mail/vmail/mydomain.tld/test/sieve dovecot: Jul 30 14:51:56 Info: MANAGESIEVE(test(a)mydomain.tld): sieve-storage: relative path to sieve storage in active link: sieve/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../vmail/mydomain.tld/test/dovecot.sieve is missing completely. Perhaps you can give me a small hint? And here is my "dovecot -n": ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # 1.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 2256). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: Linux 2.6.27.25-0.1-default x86_64 openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) ext3 base_dir: /drbd/mail/var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.err info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.info protocols: imaps managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): 192.168.200.40:2000 ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(managesieve): ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/imap.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/imap.key verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /drbd/mail/var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login max_mail_processes: 2000 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 30 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 30 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 first_valid_uid: 5001 last_valid_uid: 5001 mail_location: maildir:/drbd/mail/vmail/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/managesieve managesieve_implementation_string(default): dovecot managesieve_implementation_string(imap): dovecot managesieve_implementation_string(managesieve): Cyrus timsieved v2.2.13 sieve_storage(default): sieve_storage(imap): sieve_storage(managesieve): /drbd/mail/vmail/%d/%n/sieve sieve(default): sieve(imap): sieve(managesieve): /drbd/mail/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot.sieve auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 user: nobody verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd 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: 432 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: maildir ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By the way, I'm quite amazed how fast dovecot is developed at the moment, and it makes lots of fun to see it growing!! kind regards, Andreas -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01

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[Dovecot] imap error
by Jack Raats 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

This morning I tried to read my mail using squirrelmail. I cann't connect. I'll get the following error: Aug 2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<jack>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Aug 2 07:51:44 hera dovecot: IMAP(jack): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=44/298 The pop3 is not affected. Can anyone give me a clue where to look for?? Thanks Jack

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[Dovecot] Best way to get login protocol (pop3/imap) in post-login script
by Zhang Huangbin 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hi, all. I found doc here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting and use ${USER}, ${IP} to track last-login username and remote ip address, but how can i track the mail protocol it used? like pop3, pop3s, imap, imaps? Currently, i wrote shell script as post-login script, and use below command to get protocol: ---- $(basename ${MAIL_PLUGIN_DIR}) ---- But is it the best way to get it? Thanks very much. :) -- Best Regards. Zhang Huangbin - Open Source Mail Server Solution for Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu: + http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/ + http://www.iredmail.org/forum/

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[Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption
by Christian Felsing 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hello, I am new to Dovecot but installation was quite easy, so there is one more LDAP authenticated, Dovecot / Postfix mailbox online, but there is one question left: I would like to set up a configuration, which encrypts every user mail with a unique key. If user logs in, private key should be decrypted with user password and every mail user requests should be decrypted with users private key. If a mail comes in, it should be encrypted with users public key. That key pair should be used for that purpose only. Obviously a GnuPG plugin between deliver and rest of Dovecot is needed. best reagrds Christian

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[Dovecot] Fw: Shared mailboxes and INBOX
by Keith Edmunds 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Should users of a shared mailbox be able to see both their personal inbox and that of the shared mailbox? Thanks, Keith Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:50:08 +0100 From: Keith Edmunds <kae(a)midnighthax.com> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Shared mailboxes and INBOX I'm trying to implement a shared mailbox: in other words, we have a generic email address ("security@") which we want a number of users to be able to monitor. The problem I have is that users can see folders under that shared mailbox but can't see the INBOX. All the users in question have their own INBOX in their private namespace, so does this raise a conflict with monitoring another mailbox's INBOX? Configuration: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # dovecot -n # 1.2.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.2 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: shared/ location: maildir:/home/publicfolders:INDEX=~/Maildir/public list: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: security/ location: maildir:/home/securitymailbox/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/securitymailbox list: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Keith

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[Dovecot] Solaris 10 dovecot-latest configure error
by Tomi Vainio 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hi, I've got latest source code from http://dovecot.org/nightly/dovecot-20090731.tar.gz It's a minor bug that mysql.h test fails because CFLAGS are missing from this test. Tomppa > checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... yes > checking mysql.h usability... yes > checking mysql.h presence... no > configure: WARNING: mysql.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor! > configure: WARNING: mysql.h: proceeding with the compiler's result > checking for mysql.h... yes > checking for mysql_ssl_set in -lmysqlclient... yes > configure:33185: checking mysql.h usability > configure:33197: cc -c -xO4 -I/usr/sfw/include/mysql -R/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/lib/sasl -L/usr/sfw/lib -L/usr/lib/sasl -I/usr/sfw/include conftest.c >&5 > configure:33203: $? = 0 > configure:33207: test -z > || test ! -s conftest.err > configure:33210: $? = 0 > configure:33213: test -s conftest.o > configure:33216: $? = 0 > configure:33226: result: yes > configure:33230: checking mysql.h presence > configure:33240: cc -E conftest.c > "conftest.c", line 127: cannot find include file: <mysql.h> > cc: acomp failed for conftest.c

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[Dovecot] Clients and dovecot-uidlist
by Thomas Hummel 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hello, I'm trying to figure out what exactly (and why) are the consequences of a lost or removal of the dovecot-uidlist file on an IMAP client (Thunderbird for instance). I took for granted that it was that the client would download all messages again since it might be confused by some UID changes. But I don't really see why (on the IMAP protocol level) and I don't know how to reproduce it. My understanding is that . dovecot-uidlist is not recreated until some client selects the mailbox . the client does something like : x UID fetch 1:* (FLAGS) to begin with anyway. So I guess the problem does not occur when no new messages arrive on the mailbox since the same UIDs would be assigned to the same messages ? But why would that change ? In which situation ? But can you show me some IMAP protocol command exchange that would illustrate . when such a problem can occur . how the client would detect that there has been some UID corruption . how it would fix it Thanks -- Thomas Hummel

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[Dovecot] sieve delivery to utf folders
by Nikita Koshikov 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hello list, Today, my users have noticed, that delivery to folders with non-english names is broken. For example, if I create russian directory, it correct encoded and display into mail-client program and my webmail: Encoded: Normal view .INBOX.&BEIENQRBBEI- русс This is part of sieve script, which routing delivery to russian folder. .... elsif allof (header :contains "Subject" "qwe") { fileinto "INBOX/&BEIENQRBBEI-"; } But, when actualy delivery take place, in logs I have Jul 30 17:13:49 deliver(koshikov.n(a)domain.com): Info: sieve: msgid=<4A71A9E6.5040301(a)domain.com>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX/&-BEIENQRBBEI- And folder .INBOX.&-BEIENQRBBEI- appears in users maildir. This folder can't be unencoded by mail-client program and user see exactly "&-BEIENQRBBEI-" under INBOX directory(also normaly encoded directory "&BEIENQRBBEI-" --> "русс" displays correct). Something breaks encoding and adds sing "-" to all words in utf encoded directory names. I can't tell exactly when this problem appear, but I remember that I have tested delivery to russian directories by sieve scripts and all worked fine. My current dovecot installation is 1.2.2, dovecot-sieve-0.1.9 and managesieve-0.11.7

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Re: [Dovecot] whining
by A. van Harten 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Be a man, Jim, and write this in public. [QUOTE] Jim Reid[/QUOTE] > On 31 Jul 2009, at 09:36, A. van Harten wrote: > >> Sorry, but the answers on this mail group are written with as few >> words as >> possible - if it was written in Finnish, I'd understand just as much >> as I >> do now. >> Googling on a Dovecot problems results always in www.dovecot.org or >> one of >> its child sites. Always. >> Googling on a Linux question results always in experts-exchange. >> Always. > > Clearly, dovecot is not for you. Now please go back to the linux world > you came from. You appear to be comfortable there. > > I am also disgusted and very annoyed with the tone of your recent > email: negative, childish, destructive and counter-productive. You did > not identify any particular problem, suggest other approaches or point > at areas where specific improvements could be made. You just whined > about the results of google searches. > -- Med venlig hilsen, Met vriendelijke groeten,

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Re: [Dovecot] Several errors
by A. van Harten 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Tried that, same result. dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:41 Info: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: imap-login: USER environment missing dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: imap-login: USER environment missing dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Info: Created login processes successfully, unstalling dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: child 3850 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: child 3851 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: imap-login: USER environment missing dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Error: child 3852 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Jul 25 00:55:42 Info: Created login processes successfully, unstalling [root@nestorix etc]# dovecot -n # 1.2.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: There is no way to login to this server: disable_plaintext_auth=yes, ssl=no, no non-plaintext auth mechanisms. Warning: There is no way to login to this server: disable_plaintext_auth=yes, ssl=no, no non-plaintext auth mechanisms. # OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.3 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Havecom Mailserver ready. valid_chroot_dirs: /var/mail/vhosts mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/ mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/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/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth username_translation: "/$ verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/userdb socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix [root@nestorix etc]# service dovecot stop Stopping Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@nestorix etc]# gedit /var/log/dovecot [root@nestorix etc]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@nestorix etc]# gedit /var/log/dovecot ^C [root@nestorix etc]# dovecot -n # 1.2.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: There is no way to login to this server: disable_plaintext_auth=yes, ssl=no, no non-plaintext auth mechanisms. Warning: There is no way to login to this server: disable_plaintext_auth=yes, ssl=no, no non-plaintext auth mechanisms. # OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.3 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps ssl: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Havecom Mailserver ready. valid_chroot_dirs: /var/mail/vhosts mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/ mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/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/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth username_translation: "/$ verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/userdb socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix [root@nestorix etc]# Albert [QUOTE] Timo Sirainen[/QUOTE] > On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 00:07 +0200, FraNL wrote: >> Running OS: CentOS 5.3 (2.6.18-128.2.1.el5) >> >> 1. >> My Linux distribution comes with Dovecot 1.0.7. After trying to make it running, I encoutnered many problems. So I decided to upgrade to 1.2.1. When running dovecot -r from CLI, it returns with version 1.2.1. But at the top of the log file it says: Info: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up >> >> So I am not sure which version I am running. > > It means you're using some weird mix of both. Get rid of all of Dovecot v1.0 binaries (rpm -e dovecot or something) and your problems should go away. > > -- Med venlig hilsen, Met vriendelijke groeten, -- Med venlig hilsen, Met vriendelijke groeten,

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Re: [Dovecot] Several errors
by A. van Harten 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

[QUOTE] Charles Marcus[/QUOTE] > > Who says you have to install it? Almost all the fora which are speaking of setting up a mail server tell me to install Dovecot > And who is it that you think owes you 'descent support' for free? When and where did I spoke about FREE? I never said I didn't want to pay for it!!! Please don't think for me... > That said, the support on the dovecot list is the best I've seen, even > when people get attitudes (like yours)... Attitudes? Since when is a normal business inquiry not appropriate? > If you want to learn linux, and learn how to admin a mail server, you're > expected to do some leg work yourself... no one expects you to be a > guru, but a little googling on how to change ownership of files in linux > would most likely answer this particular question. Sorry, but the answers on this mail group are written with as few words as possible - if it was written in Finnish, I'd understand just as much as I do now. Googling on a Dovecot problems results always in www.dovecot.org or one of its child sites. Always. Googling on a Linux question results always in experts-exchange. Always. > > Also, the attititude will most likely get surprising little response. If > you want to get help from someone for free, it helps to ask nicely. I don't agree. I know the way of asking isn't the most nice way - and I also apologise to them, who assisted me! But who cares if I agree with someone, who didn't assist me at all, but who only is capable of writing negatively about me? > Thats said, I wouldn't be surprised if Timo responds nicely anyway... > I've seen him respond to much worse emails than yours, and yours was > pretty bad... Pretty bad? You misunderstood me, my friend. Try to read reasonable next time. That helps! > > -- > > Best regards, > > Charles > -- Med venlig hilsen, Met vriendelijke groeten,

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[Dovecot] Limiting user access
by Darvin Denmian 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Hello, Is there a way to restrict clients access, for example: user1(a)domain.com -> only access pop3 user2(a)domain.com -> can access pop3 and imap in Dovecot? Thanks !!!

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Re: [Dovecot] POSIX stupidity
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 20:21 +0200, Remi Gacogne wrote: > Le jeudi 30 juillet 2009, Timo Sirainen a écrit : > > > > What the hell were POSIX people thinking?? This is the first syscall > > > I've seen that behaves like this, and apparently without any good > > > reason! Wonder how many other new system calls there are like this, that > > > I haven't noticed yet.. > > > > Looks like all posix_*() syscalls do that. Wonder if there are more. > > Looks like too many people were incorrectly using errno, especially in multi- > threaded context. > > From http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/reentrant.html : > > "In addition, all POSIX.1c functions avoid using errno and, instead, return > the error number directly as the function return value, with a return value of > zero indicating that no error was detected. This strategy is, in fact, being > followed on a POSIX-wide basis for all new functions. " But that doesn't solve anything, because old functions' API can't be changed. The only thing this change did was to make it more difficult for programmers to remember how functions' error handling should be done. In both APIs the success is indicated by returning 0, which makes it especially difficult to notice when it's being used wrong. If they really had to change this, it would have been much better to both set errno and return -error, that way it would have allowed also 2/3 of the old style error checks: if (posix_fallocate(..) < 0) perror() // works if (posix_fallocate(..) != 0) perror() // works if (posix_fallocate(..) == -1) perror() // doesn't work Now none of them work. I did also a quick google code search for posix_fallocate and found several other programs that handle the error wrong. And I'm sure it's only going to grow. Oh well, maybe some day gcc and libc add some features to catch at least the < 0 and == -1 usage (which would already work if posix_fallocate() had been specified to return unsigned int, not int).

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[Dovecot] AIX and posix_fallocate
by Ralf Becker 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Hi, AIX's implementation of posix_fallocate is a little bit, let me say, peculiar. Attached is a patch to "fix" (=work around) this. Without you'll see this in the logs: Jul 28 01:17:41 trevi mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(beckerr): posix_fallocate() failed: File exists Jul 28 01:17:41 trevi mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(beckerr): file_set_size() failed with mbox file /u/f0/rzuser/beckerr/Mail/Ham: File exists Funny, isn't it? This is what it should be: Jul 28 01:17:41 trevi mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(beckerr): posix_fallocate() failed: Operation not supported on socket Jul 28 01:17:41 trevi mail:err|error dovecot: IMAP(beckerr): file_set_size() failed with mbox file /u/f0/rzuser/beckerr/Mail/Ham: Operation not supported on socket The problem is, that errno is not correcly set, when posix_fallocate returns EOPNOTSUPP (="Operation not supported on socket"). In this case the return code has to be checked rather than errno. When patched dovecot handles err==EOPNOTSUPP the same way like errno==EINVAL on Solaris. A note for all AIX Admins: Without APAR IZ48778: POSIX_FALLOCATE() FAILS WITH ERROR-25(ENOTTY) resp. IZ46961: POSIX_FALLOCATE() FAILS WITH ERROR-25(ENOTTY) APPLIES TO AIX 5300-06 you don't even get EOPNOTSUPP: posix_fallocate fails with NOTTY. So you have to install one of this fixes to make the patch work. Ralf -- ______________________________________________________________________ Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Ralf Becker Rechenzentrum (r/ft) der FH Trier (Network|Mail|Web|Firewall) University of applied sciences Administrator Schneidershof, D-54293 Trier Mail: beckerr(a)fh-trier.de Fon: +49 651 8103 499 Web: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr Fax: +49 651 8103 214 PubKey: http://www.fh-trier.de/~beckerr Crypto: GnuPG, S/MIME ______________________________________________________________________ Wenn Gott gewollt haette, dass E-Mail in HTML geschrieben wuerden, endeten Gebete traditionell mit </amen>. (Tom Listen) --- ./lib/file-set-size.c.org 2009-07-06 12:56:17.000000000 +0200 +++ ./lib/file-set-size.c 2009-07-06 12:54:40.000000000 +0200 @@ -43,9 +43,15 @@ #ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FALLOCATE if (posix_fallocate_supported) { - if (posix_fallocate(fd, st.st_size, size - st.st_size) == 0) + int err; + if ((err = posix_fallocate(fd, st.st_size, size - st.st_size)) == 0) return 0; + if (err == EOPNOTSUPP /* AIX */ ) { + /* Ignore this error silently. + You have to test err, because errno is not + correcly set on some versions of AIX */ + } else if (errno != EINVAL /* Solaris */) { if (!ENOSPACE(errno)) i_error("posix_fallocate() failed: %m");

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[Dovecot] lock files causing time outs with Thunderbird
by CJ Keist 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

I have dovecot 1.1.16 running on Solaris 10. We are seeing problem with lock files taking forever to be removed after opening a email folder like Trash with several thousand messages in them. We use mbox format. All users inbox's are local to the mail server, and all other users mail folders are stored on a separate file server mounted via NFS. I see no problems with the NFS mounts. cd'ing into the mount points, listing files and viewing files a perform with now visible delays. Is there something I can do in the config file to speed things up? Here is the config file: # 1.1.16: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 3072). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v base_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/privkey.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 0 ssl_cipher_list: MEDIUM:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Cyrus ready. login_max_processes_count: 1024 max_mail_processes: 1024 mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/userM/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mbox_dotlock_change_timeout: 60 mail_executable(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): convert mail_plugins(imap): convert mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes worker_max_count: 1024 worker_max_request_count: 2000 passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/lib/postfix/private/auth mode: 438 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot//auth-master mode: 384 plugin: convert_mail: Maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=/userM/mail/%u -- 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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