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[Dovecot] folder in dovecot
by Diego Roversi 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hello, I'm quite new to dovecot, and I have some questions about folders. At the moment I've a script that use fetchmail + procmail to get mail from the isp, and save the mail in different folder. The idea is to save mail from different mailing list in different folder. Now I've installed dovecot so i can read mail from different computers, and i want to export all the folders. I start with a simple configuration: root@debian:/home/diego# dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30-rc8 armv5tel Ubuntu 9.04 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 mail_location: maildir:~/Mail/inbox mail_debug: yes namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:~/Mail/inbox inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: openmoko/ location: maildir:~/Mail/openmoko list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: passwd I use icedove (thunderbird) to connect to the dovecot server and I see the two folder. But openmoko one looks empty, even if there are more then 10k messages. Without namespaces and setting mail_location pointing to the openmoko folder works, i see the messages of openmoko folder as inbox in icedove. What's wrong? Do you have any suggestion? Thanks in advance, Diego Roversi.

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[Dovecot] v1.1.18 released
by Timo Sirainen 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.18.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.18.tar.gz.sig A few more fixes to v1.1 series. It probably won't have many released left. + dovecot -n/-a now outputs also lda settings. - Maildir++ quota: Quota was sometimes updated wrong when it was being recalculated. - Searching quoted-printable message body internally converted "_" characters to spaces and didn't match search keys with "_". - Messages in year's first/last day may have had broken timezones with OSes not having struct tm->tm_gmtoff (e.g. Solaris).

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL / TLS
by Steffen Kaiser 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Carlos Williams wrote: > No I do not. I don't even have a /etc/ssl/ direcory on my mail server hmm, do you have openssl installed at all :) ? I had guessed that any openssl package comes with at least a bunch of CA certs. Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSkohlXWSIuGy1ktrAQJqFQf+Pjz5KUVwmt8tG5KeiMMOEYsPWztBVj49 SDw8gOT/DzeoXtArcXy2vdZ0U2Zm1t85wwkjMW43JE02lbsjHLek3LlcEia2uWEA Vba5v4UyKO54YEhuhgxXiavaxSawocGGZmW+7SaHOni3sCKH6Vidl+3qw/5zJl2p a7Y+52HZOow1EPf+MegOL7nFwUY9beLixWN8I0QGz1CZDWMPRUvjTjBO+En44JJX pOYScPB+v/k/NFNXLjkilJJBYOpzhKXQjJzZCEhgaQMD/uuJJM96xaz7bwK/VTxf 3p0ovHTKWT7T3Fa6RR7jZZgEb8hDQsll1nnOZ4dzX3MgQk9Dzj/XPg== =VYN5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.2
by Guillaume Plessis 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

>> - kernel > root@stoat:/# uname -a > Linux stoat.aluminati.org 2.6.24-23-server #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 01:36:05 > UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux > >> - the output of "dovecot --build-options" > This is from the current 1.1.18 install, but 1.2 was compiled with the > same configuration options, so they should be the same? > root@stoat:/# dovecot --build-options > Build options: ioloop=epoll notify=inotify ipv6 openssl > Mail storages: maildir > SQL drivers: mysql > Passdb: checkpassword passwd passwd-file shadow sql > Userdb: nss passwd passwd-file prefetch sql static Strange... You could try to upgrade your kernel. I had some trouble with <=2.6.28 and the inotify API http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/15/83 Regards -- Guillaume Plessis

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[Dovecot] Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceeded?
by Bjørn T Johansen 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Where can I change this setting... Can't find this setting in dovecot.conf.... Regards, BTJ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bjørn T Johansen btj(a)havleik.no ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Someone wrote: "I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages" To which someone replied: "It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] Funky quota things
by Guy 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hi guys, I already use Dovecot for imap/pop3 with some simple quota options. I'm starting to look at the switch from maildrop to dovecot lda and I'm wondering whether it's possible to do our unusual quota management with the quota plugin. We have the users total quota in MySQL along with a number of grace days (counts up to 7). The amount of space used is stored in maildirsize in the users maildir. What we currently some bits of voodoo which allow the user to go up to 200% of their quota. When they go over 100% they start receiving warnings and their grace days start counting down. If the account is still using over 100% of quota after the 7 days then the 100% quota is enforced so no new mail will be accepted. So is something like this "burst" quota possible in the Dovecot plugin? Thanks Guy -- Don't just do something...sit there!

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[Dovecot] Fatal: listen(143) failed: Interrupted system call
by Sandro Tosi 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hello, we found dovecot down on one of our servers, with this error in the log: dovecot: 2009-07-14 04:05:04 Warning: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration dovecot: 2009-07-14 04:05:04 Error: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now dovecot: 2009-07-14 04:05:04 Fatal: listen(143) failed: Interrupted system call we can reproduce this error with this tight loop: while date ; do kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) ; sleep 15s ; done after a while dovecot dies with the above error message. We are using # dovecot --version 1.0.15 in particular, Debian package with version "1:1.0.15-2.3" . This started since yesterday, when we upgraded to the latest Debian Lenny point release. The situation is rather problematic, and we'd like to here from you if there something we can do to fix it; if there's something you'd like us to do, just ask :) Thanks in advance, Sandro

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[Dovecot] imap signal 6 crash with backtrace (1.2rc5)
by Ralf Hildebrandt 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

GNU gdb 6.8-debian Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"... Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/cmov/libdl-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/ld-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_trash_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_trash_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libbz2.so.1.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 Core was generated by `imap [virus-al 127.0.0.1]'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. [New process 2286] #0 0xb8027424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #0 0xb8027424 in __kernel_vsyscall () No symbol table info available. #1 0xb7ee2680 in *__GI_raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 resultvar = <value optimized out> pid = -1207881740 selftid = 2286 #2 0xb7ee5d68 in *__GI_abort () at abort.c:88 act = {__sigaction_handler = {sa_handler = 0x9407170, sa_sigaction = 0x9407170}, sa_mask = {__val = {3219650520, 135193418, 3087083232, 0, 3219650640, 3219650628, 512, 0, 0, 3219650704, 3087292016, 134566083, 639, 0, 0, 0, 1, 135264238, 512, 1, 3219650628, 155218256, 69, 3219650756, 3219650600, 135195014, 155218927, 3219650628, 3219650632, 640, 155218288, 3086525667}}, sa_flags = 640, sa_restorer = 0x8105449 <write_full+57>} sigs = {__val = {32, 0 <repeats 31 times>}} #3 0x080f04a5 in default_fatal_finish (type=<value optimized out>, status=0) at failures.c:160 backtrace = 0x9406d40 "imap [0x80f0491] -> imap [0x80f0512] -> imap [0x80efe99] -> imap [0x80ac7e1] -> imap(index_mailbox_set_recent_seq+0x40) [0x80ac830] -> imap(maildir_sync_index+0xaa0) [0x807b330] -> imap [0x8079a49] ->"... #4 0x080f0512 in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=0x8107fcc "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)", args=0xbfe7f924 "�X\021\b\031") at failures.c:440 No locals. #5 0x080efe99 in i_panic ( format=0x8107fcc "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:207 No locals. #6 0x080ac7e1 in index_mailbox_set_recent_uid (ibox=0x9437ae8, uid=1) at index-sync.c:25 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "index_mailbox_set_recent_uid" #7 0x080ac830 in index_mailbox_set_recent_seq (ibox=0x9437ae8, view=0x941d490, seq1=2, seq2=3) at index-sync.c:42 uid = 1 #8 0x0807b330 in maildir_sync_index (ctx=0x9439ab0, partial=true) at maildir-sync-index.c:554 mbox = (struct maildir_mailbox *) 0x9437ae8 view = (struct mail_index_view *) 0x941db30 view2 = (struct mail_index_view *) 0x941d490 iter = (struct maildir_uidlist_iter_ctx *) 0x0 trans = (struct mail_index_transaction *) 0x941cbb0 hdr = (const struct mail_index_header *) 0x941e5d0 empty_hdr = {major_version = 1 '\001', minor_version = 0 '\0', base_header_size = 0, header_size = 7687, record_size = 100, compat_flags = 0 '\0', unused = "\000\000", indexid = 0, flags = 0, uid_validity = 145, next_uid = 0, messages_count = 4096, unused_old_recent_messages_count = 8, seen_messages_count = 0, deleted_messages_count = 1245502813, first_recent_uid = 0, first_unseen_uid_lowwater = 1245502813, first_deleted_uid_lowwater = 0, log_file_seq = 1245502813, log_file_tail_offset = 0, log_file_head_offset = 12386328, sync_size = 13828297038023884800, sync_stamp = 155303216, day_stamp = 3219651144, day_first_uid = {135197247, 155303216, 155306120, 3219651320, 134735536, 3219651300, 0, 0}} rec = <value optimized out> seq = 1 seq2 = 3 uid = 70 prev_uid = 70 uflags = MAILDIR_UIDLIST_REC_FLAG_RECENT filename = 0x943a7f8 "1245502772.M197059P20490.postamt.charite.de,S=3934,W=4010" uid_validity = 1245502772 next_uid = <value optimized out> hdr_next_uid = 71 first_recent_uid = 1 first_uid = 1 changes = 0 ret = 0 time_before_sync = 1245502813 st = {st_dev = 120259084608, __pad1 = 1, __st_ino = 125064, st_mode = 135423232, st_nlink = 155425752, st_uid = 155214344, st_gid = 3219651224, st_rdev = 581638352693814272, __pad2 = 65024, st_size = 0, st_blksize = 6334504, st_blocks = 8589951424, st_atim = { tv_sec = 7687, tv_nsec = 100}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}, st_ctim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 274432}, st_ino = 17592186044416} expunged = 9 full_rescan = false __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "maildir_sync_index" #9 0x08079a49 in maildir_sync_context (ctx=0x9406208, forced=false, find_uid=0x0, lost_files_r=0xbfe7fb7b) at maildir-sync.c:847 sync_flags = 155423616 flags = 135313235 new_changed = true cur_changed = false lock_failure = false fname = 0x9437c80 "/home/v/i/virus-al/Maildir" ret = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "maildir_sync_context" #10 0x08079e15 in maildir_storage_sync_init (box=0x9437ae8, flags=0) at maildir-sync.c:916 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 ctx = (struct maildir_sync_context *) 0x9406208 lost_files = <value optimized out> ret = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "maildir_storage_sync_init" #11 0x0806fe04 in imap_sync_init (client=0x9413360, box=0x9437ae8, imap_flags=IMAP_SYNC_FLAG_SAFE, flags=0) at imap-sync.c:146 ctx = (struct imap_sync_context *) 0x9439520 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "imap_sync_init" #12 0x08070103 in cmd_sync_delayed (client=0x9413360) at imap-sync.c:591 cmd = <value optimized out> first_expunge = <value optimized out> first_nonexpunge = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "cmd_sync_delayed" #13 0x0806772c in client_handle_input (client=0x9413360) at client.c:728 ret = false remove_io = false handled_commands = true __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_handle_input" #14 0x08067eff in client_input (client=0x9413360) at client.c:752 cmd = <value optimized out> output = (struct ostream *) 0x9413514 bytes = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_input" #15 0x080f90c0 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x940fd88) at ioloop-epoll.c:208 ctx = (struct ioloop_handler_context *) 0x940ea80 event = (const struct epoll_event *) 0x940eac0 list = (struct io_list *) 0x9413598 io = (struct io_file *) 0x9413570 tv = {tv_sec = 1799, tv_usec = 999799} t_id = 2 msecs = <value optimized out> ret = 1 i = 0 j = 0 call = <value optimized out> #16 0x080f8530 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x940fd88) at ioloop.c:338 No locals. #17 0x08070985 in main (argc=) at main.c:323 No locals. $1 = {prev = 0x0, next = 0x0, client = 0x9413360, pool = 0x94135d8, tag = 0x9413668 "a0195", name = 0x9413670 "NOOP", args = 0x0, cmd_flags = COMMAND_FLAG_BREAKS_SEQS, func = 0, context = 0x0, module_contexts = {arr = {buffer = 0x9413630, element_size = 4}, v = 0x9413630, v_modifiable = 0x9413630}, parser = 0x94185e0, state = CLIENT_COMMAND_STATE_WAIT_SYNC, sync = 0x9413678, uid = 0, cancel = 0, param_error = 0, search_save_result = 0, temp_executed = 0} (gdb) quit from my log: Jun 20 15:00:13 postamt dovecot: IMAP(virus-al): /home/v/i/virus-al/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was lowered (70 -> 2) Jun 20 15:00:13 postamt dovecot: IMAP(virus-al): Panic: file index-sync.c: line 25 (index_mailbox_set_recent_uid): assertion failed: (seq_range_exists(&ibox->recent_flags, uid)) Jun 20 15:00:13 postamt dovecot: IMAP(virus-al): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80f0491] -> imap [0x80f0512] -> imap [0x80efe99] -> imap [0x80ac7e1] -> imap(index_mailbox_set_recent_seq+0x40) [0x80ac830] -> imap(maildir_sync_index+0xaa0) [0x807b330] -> imap [0x8079a49] -> imap(maildir_storage_sync_init+0x125) [0x8079e15] -> imap(imap_sync_init+0x54) [0x806fe04] -> imap(cmd_sync_delayed+0x223) [0x8070103] -> imap(client_handle_input+0x1bc) [0x806772c] -> imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x8067eff] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0xe0) [0x80f90c0] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x20) [0x80f8530] -> imap(main+0x5f5) [0x8070985] -> /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7ecd775] -> imap [0x805fce1] Jun 20 15:00:13 postamt dovecot: dovecot: child 2286 (imap) killed with signal 6 (core dumped) -- Ralf Hildebrandt Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.computerbeschimpfung.de Sollen sich auch alle schämen, die gedankenlos sich der Wunder der Wissenschaft und Technik bedienen und nicht mehr davon geistig erfaßt haben, als die Kuh von der Botanik der Pflanzen, die sie mit Wohlbehagen frißt. -- A. Einstein

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[Dovecot] Sylpheed-claws and virtual mailboxes
by Thomas Berker 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hi! Has someone encountered the following problem? What am I doing wrong or does someone know a workaround? Dovecot 1.2.1 on Debian unstable, two namespaces: namespace private { prefix = location = maildir:~/res/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs inbox = yes list = yes } namespace private { prefix = gtd/ separator = / list = yes location = virtual:~/res/Maildir/gtd:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/res/Maildir/gtd } The problem: cur, tmp, new maildir folders get created within the folder gtd when it is opened by Sylpheed-claws (3.7.1). Subfolders in gtd holding the dovecot-virtual files are not recognised as mail folders at all, they show up but do nothing. Other clients (I have tested thunderbird, evolution) work as expected: they show the folder gtd and the sub-folders perform searches. Thanks in advance, tb

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[Dovecot] imaptest build problems
by Scott Haneda 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

I am not sure this is the correct list, please forgive if it is not, and point me in the right direction. I downloaded the latest http://www.imapwiki.org/ImapTest/Installation from http://dovecot.org/nightly/imaptest/imaptest-latest.tar.gz cd imaptest-20090401 $./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: ls -t appears to fail. Make sure there is not a broken alias in your environment configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files! Check your system clock Here is the config log http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/340087/Drops/05.28.09/config-4d3972ab-233922.log Some tests: $date Thu May 28 23:37:13 PDT 2009 $ls -lt total 2688 -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 4552 May 28 23:37 config.log drwxr-xr-x@ 28 me staff 952 May 28 23:33 src -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 27278 Mar 31 19:04 ChangeLog -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 1456 Mar 31 19:04 imaptest-config.h.in -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 19599 Mar 31 19:04 Makefile.in -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 me staff 671381 Mar 31 19:04 configure -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 262586 Mar 31 19:04 aclocal.m4 -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 925 Mar 31 19:04 configure.in -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 38 Jul 12 2008 AUTHORS -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 211 Jul 12 2008 COPYING -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 26536 Jul 12 2008 COPYING.LGPL -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 145 Jul 12 2008 Makefile.am -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 9498 Dec 2 2007 INSTALL -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 me staff 15936 Dec 2 2007 depcomp -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 me staff 9233 Dec 2 2007 install-sh -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 me staff 11014 Dec 2 2007 missing -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 0 Dec 2 2007 NEWS -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 0 Dec 2 2007 README -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 0 Dec 2 2007 stamp.h.in -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 me staff 42037 Jan 7 2007 config.guess -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 me staff 30253 Jan 7 2007 config.sub -rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 198422 Jan 7 2007 ltmain.sh -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *

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[Dovecot] Problems with ioloop on MacOS
by David Abrahams 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

I've been using the macports version of dovecot, which is 1.1.11, on MacOS 10.5.6 $ /opt/local/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap Fatal: kevent(EV_ADD, 0) failed: Operation not supported This version is configured --with-ioloop=kqueue The problem seems to be known, if not understood: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Darwin-userlevel/2008/Dec/msg00010.html However, if I use --with-ioloop=poll, I eventually get IMAP(dave): [9079]: invalid I/O fd 0, callback 0x9330 (not from the above command; it's a little later when Gnus tries to interact with dovecot through the shell) I've been unable to build/install any later versions of dovecot on MacOS. autogen.sh fails like this: ... glibtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'. glibtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh' glibtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.in and glibtoolize: rerunning glibtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree. glibtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. configure.in:281: installing `./config.guess' configure.in:282: required file `./config.rpath' not found configure.in:281: installing `./config.sub' configure.in:5: installing `./install-sh' configure.in:5: installing `./missing' src/auth/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com

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[Dovecot] [BUG] Incorrect maildir quota value after maildirsize creation
by Adam Osuchowski 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

I found a problem with maildir++ quota. When dovecot creates maildirsize file, it counts quota wrong. This is, how I reproduce a situation on version 1.2.0: First, I remove maildirsize file: # cd /var/mail/test # rm -f maildirsize # ls -la total 32 drwx--S--- 5 mbox mbox 4096 Jul 12 20:45 . drwxrwsr-x 3 root mbox 4096 Jul 12 20:39 .. drwx--S--- 2 mbox mbox 4096 Jul 9 20:45 cur -rw------- 1 mbox mbox 491 Jul 12 20:45 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 mbox mbox 8 Jul 12 20:45 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 mbox mbox 8536 Jul 12 20:45 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 mbox mbox 284 Jul 12 20:45 dovecot.index.log drwx--S--- 2 mbox mbox 4096 Jul 12 00:58 new drwx--S--- 2 mbox mbox 4096 Jul 12 00:58 tmp I have 8 emails which take 14183471 bytes together: # find cur new -type f | wc -l 8 # find cur new -type f -printf '%s\n' | awk 'END { print a } { a += $0 }' 14183471 Now, I connect to dovecot via POP3 and delete exactly _one_ email which takes 969 bytes. After that, maildirsize file has been created: # ls -la total 48 drwx--S--- 5 mbox mbox 4096 Jul 12 20:50 . drwxrwsr-x 3 root mbox 4096 Jul 12 20:39 .. drwx--S--- 2 mbox mbox 4096 Jul 12 20:50 cur -rw------- 1 mbox mbox 491 Jul 12 20:45 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 mbox mbox 8 Jul 12 20:45 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 mbox mbox 8536 Jul 12 20:50 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 mbox mbox 532 Jul 12 20:50 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 mbox mbox 28 Jul 12 20:50 maildirsize drwx--S--- 2 mbox mbox 4096 Jul 9 00:58 new drwx--S--- 2 mbox mbox 4096 Jul 9 00:58 tmp # cat maildirsize 5242880S 14182502 7 -969 -1 So, maildirsize says, that there should be 7-1=6 emails which should take 14182502-969=14181533 bytes together. In fact, there are 7 emails (I delete only one of eight emails) which take 14182502 bytes together (deleted email taked 969 bytes): # find cur new -type f | wc -l 7 # find cur new -type f -printf '%s\n' | awk 'END { print a } { a += $0 }' 14182502 I figured, that dovecot after physically file removal, calls function maildir_quota_update(), which calls maildirquota_refresh() first (which in turn recalculate quota with new values), and then calls maildirsize_update(), which additionally and incorrectly decreases quota value. Regards, Adam.

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[Dovecot] Per User Mysql Quota Problem
by Murat Ugur Eminoglu 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

I'm using the mysql program supported Dovecot but ? have a problem about qoution so I would like to put user specific quota. Would you like to send me necessary settings. dovecot-sql.conf file would be? Please send conf dovecot-sql.conf ? dovecot 1.1.13 dovecot.conf file dict { quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dict-quota.conf } plugin { quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_rule = *:storage=200M:messages=10000 quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=100M quota_warning = storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2 = storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 } Thanks for your feedback.

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] include parameters can handle globbing
by Thomas GUTHMANN 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hey guys, This patch will allow you to include different configuration files in the main dovecot.conf by using globbing [1] (like Apache for instance). !include = conf.d/*.conf !include_try = /etc/dovecot/extra* So with this you can split the dovecot.conf in different smaller configuration files. It's more the debian way to do that. But it's very handy if you have to generate dynamically parts of dovecot.conf based on a centralized main configuration (imagine you have 10 servers and you want to change the default quota for instance, do a script which update that based on the data contained in SQL/LDAP/XML/whatever). I designed this for my personal use with dovecot 1.2.1. It does the job. But I warn you :) My code may hurt your eyes. If so either close them or improve/fix my code or ... "Hare Krishna" [2] :) The include features has been done and almost kept hidden by Timo :) I've just add the globbing feature to !include and !include_try. The patch will modify - src/lib-settings/settings.c - dovecot-example.conf $ cd dovecot-1.2.1 $ patch -p1 < includepatch.diff It has been test with GNU/Linux Debian dunno if it compiles on FreeBSD/AIX/MacOSX but everything is POSIX compliant so... it should :) Cheers, Thomas [1]: Thanks Aria for the tip about the glob() function. It's cleaner. [2]: Rumor has it that Hare Krishna means hire a consultant in Hindi.

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[Dovecot] mail_location in namespace
by Vasiliy Tolstov 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hello! I'm try to build additional 2 private namespaces namespace private { prefix = 1/ #location = ~/mail/1 list = yes subscriptions = yes } namespace private { prefix = 2/ #location = ~/mail/2 list = yes subscriptions = yes } First private namespace contains inbox and mail_location not defined (selects in sql query in userdb). Is dovecot have variable which contains current mail_location like current home? And if i have location = ~/mail/2 and subscrive to namespace in my mail client - i have error like mailbox does not exists. Where i must create folder fo what namespace? in ~/mail or ~/mail/mailboxes? Thank You. -- Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov(a)selfip.ru> Selfip.Ru

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[Dovecot] Newbie: unable to access mailbox more than once
by Matt Petoe 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hello, I'm using dovecot as a mail relay so that I can back up my providers IMAP mail locally. I'm impressed how easy this was to set up, but I'm having a quirk that I would like help with, if possible. There are many weak links in my set-up chain, if you will, but I think I've narrowed the problem. I'll describe my set-up anyway. I'm running dovecot 1.1.4 on ubuntu 8.10. I have a shared NAS drive running a NFS server. I have chosen to store the .indexes and .control directories on the NAS also, since I want a set-up that will remain backed up and easily replicated if I (accidentally) erase the ubuntu install in the future. I'm using imapsync to copy messages from my email provider. It works once only, and subsequent attempts seem to hang when accessing any local dovecot mailbox folders that were changed last time. I have succeeded in using Thunderbird to access the dovecot mailboxes once. I know the paths are being found, because I can 'list' mailboxes when I telnet locally: b list "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Drafts" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "indexes" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "control" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Junk" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Sent" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash-1000" b OK List completed. However, a 'select' command will only work for empty folders (such as .Trash). If I try to select a full folder such as ".Sent" then the process just hangs. The logs don't mention anything interesting, even though I have enabled debug_on and auth_debug. However, I attached a trace to the 'imap' process and got something interesting. I think maybe the lock process is failing for some reason? Here's a snip of the failure when selecting the .Sent folder: 12:00:21.190011 gettimeofday({1248141621, 190099}, NULL) = 0 12:00:21.190503 read(0, "f select Sent\r\n", 4034) = 15 12:00:21.190906 stat64("/mnt/Mail/.Sent/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 12:00:21.241561 stat64("/mnt/Mail/.indexes/.Sent", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 12:00:21.248325 stat64("/mnt/Mail/.Sent/dovecot-shared", 0xbf86c6c8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 12:00:21.248847 time(NULL) = 1248141621 12:00:21.249060 open("/mnt/Mail/.indexes/.Sent/dovecot.index.log", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 7 12:00:21.286953 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=26472, ...}) = 0 12:00:21.287423 pread64(7, "\1\0\30\0\264:dJ\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\\\200\0\0\374?dJ", 24, 0) = 24 12:00:21.287696 stat64("/mnt/Mail/.indexes/.Sent/dovecot.index.log.2", 0xbf86c5ac) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 12:00:21.288070 open("/mnt/Mail/.indexes/.Sent/dovecot.index.log.2", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 12:00:21.288614 open("/mnt/Mail/.indexes/.Sent/dovecot.index", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 9 12:00:21.296814 alarm(60) = 0 12:00:21.297181 fcntl64(9, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0} I have set the locks to dotlock_try followed by fcntl. The trace above seemed to fail with the dotlock, and proceed to fcntl? Here is the output from dovecot -n # 1.1.4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting_capability: yes mail_max_userip_connections: 0 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/mnt/Mail:INBOX=/mnt/Mail/.INBOX:INDEX=/mnt/Mail/.indexes/:CONTROL=/mnt/Mail/.control mail_debug: yes mail_full_filesystem_access: yes mmap_disable: yes dotlock_use_excl: no mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes lock_method: dotlock maildir_stat_dirs: yes mbox_read_locks: dotlock_try fcntl mbox_write_locks: dotlock_try fcntl imap_client_workarounds: tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd Sorry if this is a long post. The summary, I guess, is that I can't access mailbox folders with emails inside. I'm very new at all this, and only got this far from the excellent wiki. But now I'm stumped. Thanks heaps, Matt P

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[Dovecot] lazy expunge - how to unset deleted imap flag
by Colo Colo 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hello, I am using dovecot 1.1.13 in debian lenny with exim4 and I have Outlook 2007 clients. I have configured lazy expunge plugin. User marks messages in INBOX for deletion then click "delete messages from server" then the messages are moved to .EXPUNGED folder which is correct but they are still marked with IMAP deleted flag which is bad cause when user marks another messages in INBOX for deletion and click again on "delete messages from server" the messages which were in .EXPUNGE are gone forever. Is there any possibility to change this behavior i.e. instead from: move messages tagged for deletion to .EXPUNGE folder to: move messages tagged for deletion to .EXPUNGE folder and UNSET deleted flag ? Thanx

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[Dovecot] Public mailboxes with ACL in 1.2
by sstrickroth＠trg-oha.de 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hi, I'm new to Dovecot 1.2 and I'd like to replace uw-imap. I'd like to have the following setup: - Personal mailboxes using maildir for all users (no problem) - Public mailboxes for certain people who are in special groups from /etc/group localed in /var/spool/public as a maildir with subfolders for each group (which should only be visible for that group and also secured by filesystem group permissions). At best those folders should be visible for the users below "shared"-folder or parallel to the inbox. The public mailboxes should be secured by custom ACLs (so that not all ppl. can create new folders and so on). How can I make Dovecot authenticate against pam and use groups in /etc/group? When I activate the ACL plugin all public or shared mailboxes are hidden. How can I avoid this for the public mailboxes? Thanks in advance. Sven

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[Dovecot] Search fails on underscores in quoted-printable
by Andreas M. Kirchwitz 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hi folks, currently I'm running Dovecot 1.2.1. Compiled from source on Fedora 10 Linux 32 Bit (all patches). Clients are Pine 4.64, Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 and Mutt 1.5.20 (using "=b" for server-side searching). When a message contains the text "under_score" and I let the server search for it, Dovecot does not find it in messages with a Content-Transfer-Encoding of "quoted-printable". It works perfectly well with messages without Content-Transfer-Encoding. If I replace the underscore with a space (search for "under score"), it magically matches on "under_score" (no space but underscore). Looks like something goes wrong with the encoding/decoding of quoted-printable (sorry, haven't tried with base64). Example: Dovecot does not find "under_score" | Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:08:45 +0200 | From: "Andreas M. Kirchwitz" <amk(a)krell.zikzak.de> | To: "Andreas M. Kirchwitz" <amk(a)krell.zikzak.de> | MIME-Version: 1.0 | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 | Content-Disposition: inline | Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable | | test for under_score and dovecot search (=E4=F6=FC=DF) Example: Dovecot find's "under_score" without problems | Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:10:26 +0200 | From: "Andreas M. Kirchwitz" <amk(a)krell.zikzak.de> | To: "Andreas M. Kirchwitz" <amk(a)krell.zikzak.de> | MIME-Version: 1.0 | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii | Content-Disposition: inline | | test for under_score and dovecot search (1234) The problem is not new to Dovecot 1.2.1 but exists in the 1.1 series as well. Greetings, Andreas

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[Dovecot] Handling of file "maildirsize"
by Frank Elsner 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

Hello, My "exim" is doing the deliveries, "dovecot" handles POP/IMAP. Exim Log shows: 2009-07-24 14:03:40 1MUJUy-0001Jr-B0 == user(a)domain.tu-berlin.de R=maildir_user T=maildir_delivery defer (2): No such file or directory: while opening or reading /var/Mail/Boxes/u/user/maildirsize 2009-07-24 14:20:32 1MUJUy-0001Jr-B0 => user <user(a)domain.tu-berlin.de> F=<user(a)domain.tu-berlin.de> R=maildir_user T=maildir_delivery S=2061 QT=16m52s DT=0s The user was active using IMAP at 14:03:4*. Therefor there must be a short period of time where no maildirsize exists. Can this really happen? If yes, could this behaviour be changed? Kind regards, Frank Elsner

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2, quota and LDAP
by Stian Jordet 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

Hi! I'm in the progress of upgrading from Dovecot 1.0.15 to 1.2.1. This has gone pretty smooth. I just have one question to check wether I have understood the documentation right. I have both system users and virtual users. That's easy to do when using LDAP for userdb. The system users use filesystems quota, the virtual users use maildir quota. I achieved this using the following in LDAP: "fs:" (for system users, obviously) and "maildir:storage=2048000" for virtual users. This has worked fine for years. But after reading the documentation, it seems I now have to use two ldap-fields to achieve the same thing? One "quota" and one "quota_rule"? Is this correct? It's of course not impossible, but it's kinda a hassle to hand craft a new schema, deploy, and update all the user's entries. If my users didn't have two kind of quotas, it would be easy, but with two quota methods, I don't see any other way than to use two ldap-fields. Which I hope I don't have to :) Thanks. Regards, Stian

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[Dovecot] configure performs checks for not needed sasl headers
by Pascal Volk 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

Hi, I'm always surprised when I see output from configure like checking for really_not_needed.h... no The configure script is always 'checking sasl.h usability' even when the --without-ldap option was specified. The attached patch checks the presence of sasl.h / sasl/sasl.h only when using the --with-ldap option && all required LDAP headers and libs are available. Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: 5e1f1e55.0920700(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.2 changeset: 9238:1eb00fd62d1c causes a compiler warning
by Pascal Volk 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

Hi Timo, gcc tells me: main.c: In function ‘main_init’: main.c:182: warning: suggest parentheses around comparison in operand of & src/imap/main.c:182: if (username == NULL & IS_STANDALONE()) Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: cafebabe.0920623(a)localdomain.org

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.2 with managesieve patch: imap crash with backtrace
by Ralf Hildebrandt 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

Log: Jul 25 10:18:18 postamt dovecot: IMAP(virus-al): /home/v/i/virus-al/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: next_uid was lowered (216 -> 2) Jul 25 10:18:18 postamt dovecot: IMAP(virus-al): Panic: file index-sync.c: line 25 (index_mailbox_set_recent_uid): assertion failed: (seq_range_exists(&ibox->recent_flags, uid)) Jul 25 10:18:18 postamt dovecot: IMAP(virus-al): Raw backtrace: imap [0x80efdb1] -> imap [0x80efe22] -> imap [0x80ef7c9] -> imap [0x80ac371] -> imap(index_mailbox_set_recent_seq+0x40) [0x80ac3c0] -> imap(maildir_sync_index+0xa8a) [0x808799a] -> imap [0x80860d9] -> imap(maildir_storage_sync_init+0x125) [0x8086495] -> imap(imap_sync_init+0x54) [0x806fe14] -> imap(cmd_sync_delayed+0x1fb) [0x80700eb] -> imap(client_handle_input+0x1b4) [0x8067874] -> imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x806802f] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0xe0) [0x80f8980] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x20) [0x80f7df0] -> imap(main+0x5dd) [0x807093d] -> /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7e9f775] -> imap [0x805ffa1] Jul 25 10:18:19 postamt dovecot: dovecot: child 20255 (imap) killed with signal 6 (core dumped) Backtrace: ----- Forwarded message from root <root(a)postamt.charite.de> ----- GNU gdb 6.8-debian Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"... Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/cmov/libdl-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/ld-2.9.so...done. done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_trash_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_trash_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_autocreate_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libbz2.so.1.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 Core was generated by `imap [virus-al 127.0.0.1]'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. [New process 20255] #0 0xb7ff9424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #0 0xb7ff9424 in __kernel_vsyscall () No symbol table info available. #1 0xb7eb4680 in *__GI_raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 resultvar = <value optimized out> pid = -1208070156 selftid = 20255 #2 0xb7eb7d68 in *__GI_abort () at abort.c:88 act = {__sigaction_handler = {sa_handler = 0x9481170, sa_sigaction = 0x9481170}, sa_mask = {__val = {3214601656, 135190698, 3086894816, 0, 3214601776, 3214601764, 512, 0, 0, 3214601840, 3087103600, 134566434, 639, 0, 0, 0, 1, 135263774, 512, 1, 3214601764, 155717968, 69, 3214601892, 3214601736, 135192294, 155718639, 3214601764, 3214601768, 640, 155718000, 3086337251}}, sa_flags = 640, sa_restorer = 0x81052c9 <write_full+57>} sigs = {__val = {32, 0 <repeats 31 times>}} #3 0x080efdc5 in default_fatal_finish (type=<value optimized out>, status=0) at failures.c:160 backtrace = 0x9480d40 "imap [0x80efdb1] -> imap [0x80efe22] -> imap [0x80ef7c9] -> imap [0x80ac371] -> imap(index_mailbox_set_recent_seq+0x40) [0x80ac3c0] -> imap(maildir_sync_index+0xa8a) [0x808799a] -> imap [0x80860d9] ->"... #4 0x080efe22 in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0, fmt=0x8107dec "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)", args=0xbf9aef04 "�W\021\b\031") at failures.c:440 No locals. #5 0x080ef7c9 in i_panic ( format=0x8107dec "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:207 No locals. #6 0x080ac371 in index_mailbox_set_recent_uid (ibox=0x9494e48, uid=1) at index-sync.c:25 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "index_mailbox_set_recent_uid" #7 0x080ac3c0 in index_mailbox_set_recent_seq (ibox=0x9494e48, view=0x94a5398, seq1=2, seq2=2) at index-sync.c:42 uid = 1 #8 0x0808799a in maildir_sync_index (ctx=0x9497868, partial=true) at maildir-sync-index.c:554 mbox = (struct maildir_mailbox *) 0x9494e48 view = (struct mail_index_view *) 0x9497750 view2 = (struct mail_index_view *) 0x94a5398 iter = (struct maildir_uidlist_iter_ctx *) 0x0 trans = (struct mail_index_transaction *) 0x94cda78 hdr = (const struct mail_index_header *) 0x94a4860 empty_hdr = {major_version = 1 '\001', minor_version = 0 '\0', base_header_size = 0, header_size = 7687, record_size = 100, compat_flags = 0 '\0', unused = "\000\000", indexid = 0, flags = 0, uid_validity = 82, next_uid = 0, messages_count = 4096, unused_old_recent_messages_count = 8, seen_messages_count = 0, deleted_messages_count = 1248509898, first_recent_uid = 0, first_unseen_uid_lowwater = 1248509898, first_deleted_uid_lowwater = 0, log_file_seq = 1248509898, log_file_tail_offset = 0, log_file_head_offset = 6334852, sync_size = 13806612332261933056, sync_stamp = 155806360, day_stamp = 3214602280, day_first_uid = {135194511, 155806360, 155812344, 3214602456, 134786544, 3214602436, 0, 0}} rec = <value optimized out> seq = 1 seq2 = 2 uid = 216 prev_uid = 216 uflags = MAILDIR_UIDLIST_REC_FLAG_RECENT filename = 0x94c96a0 "1248509847.M937495P31850.postamt.charite.de,S=3162,W=3225" uid_validity = 1248509847 next_uid = <value optimized out> hdr_next_uid = 217 first_recent_uid = 1 first_uid = 1 changes = 0 ret = 0 time_before_sync = 1248509898 st = {st_dev = 120259084608, __pad1 = 1, __st_ino = 36200, st_mode = 135423264, st_nlink = 156032456, st_uid = 155714056, st_gid = 3214602360, st_rdev = 581638490132765024, __pad2 = 65024, st_size = 0, st_blksize = 6334504, st_blocks = 8589951424, st_atim = { tv_sec = 7687, tv_nsec = 100}, st_mtim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 0}, st_ctim = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 274432}, st_ino = 17592186044416} expunged = 9 full_rescan = false __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "maildir_sync_index" #9 0x080860d9 in maildir_sync_context (ctx=0x9480208, forced=false, find_uid=0x0, lost_files_r=0xbf9af15b) at maildir-sync.c:857 sync_flags = 155805056 flags = 135317216 new_changed = true cur_changed = false lock_failure = false fname = 0x9494fe0 "/home/v/i/virus-al/Maildir" ret = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "maildir_sync_context" #10 0x08086495 in maildir_storage_sync_init (box=0x9494e48, flags=0) at maildir-sync.c:926 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 ctx = (struct maildir_sync_context *) 0x9480208 lost_files = <value optimized out> ret = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "maildir_storage_sync_init" #11 0x0806fe14 in imap_sync_init (client=0x948d350, box=0x9494e48, imap_flags=IMAP_SYNC_FLAG_SAFE, flags=0) at imap-sync.c:146 ctx = (struct imap_sync_context *) 0x94cea28 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "imap_sync_init" #12 0x080700eb in cmd_sync_delayed (client=0x948d350) at imap-sync.c:591 cmd = <value optimized out> first_expunge = <value optimized out> first_nonexpunge = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "cmd_sync_delayed" #13 0x08067874 in client_handle_input (client=0x948d350) at client.c:728 ret = false remove_io = false handled_commands = true __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_handle_input" #14 0x0806802f in client_input (client=0x948d350) at client.c:752 cmd = <value optimized out> output = (struct ostream *) 0x948d504 bytes = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "client_input" #15 0x080f8980 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x9489d78) at ioloop-epoll.c:208 ctx = (struct ioloop_handler_context *) 0x9488a80 event = (const struct epoll_event *) 0x9488ac0 list = (struct io_list *) 0x948d588 io = (struct io_file *) 0x948d560 tv = {tv_sec = 1799, tv_usec = 999280} t_id = 2 msecs = <value optimized out> ret = 1 i = 0 j = 0 call = <value optimized out> #16 0x080f7df0 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x9489d78) at ioloop.c:338 No locals. #17 0x0807093d in main (argc=) at main.c:323 No locals. $1 = {prev = 0x0, next = 0x0, client = 0x948d350, pool = 0x948d5c8, tag = 0x948d658 "a0398", name = 0x948d660 "NOOP", args = 0x0, cmd_flags = COMMAND_FLAG_BREAKS_SEQS, func = 0, context = 0x0, module_contexts = {arr = {buffer = 0x948d620, element_size = 4}, v = 0x948d620, v_modifiable = 0x948d620}, parser = 0x94925d0, state = CLIENT_COMMAND_STATE_WAIT_SYNC, sync = 0x948d668, uid = 0, cancel = 0, param_error = 0, search_save_result = 0, temp_executed = 0} (gdb) quit ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] Several errors
by FraNL 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

Hi, 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. That's the first problem. The other two problems I am having were also actual before updating to 1.2.1: 2. Every minute, the following lines (except for the timestamps, which are different, ofcourse) are being added to my log file: dovecot: Jul 24 23:54:24 Error: imap-login: USER environment missing dovecot: Jul 24 23:54:24 Error: imap-login: USER environment missing dovecot: Jul 24 23:54:24 Error: child 3712 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Jul 24 23:54:24 Error: child 3713 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Jul 24 23:54:24 Error: imap-login: USER environment missing dovecot: Jul 24 23:54:24 Error: child 3714 (login) returned error 89 3. As soon as a user tries to log on via POP3 (telnet localhost pop3), the user is kicked out. The log file says (username and domain name are fake): dovecot: Jul 25 00:01:02 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<user(a)mydomain.tld>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, lip=::ffff:127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: Jul 25 00:01:02 Error: POP3(user(a)mydomain.tld): file_dotlock_open() failed with file /var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user/dovecot.index.log: Permission denied dovecot: Jul 25 00:01:02 Error: POP3(user(a)mydomain.tld): file_dotlock_open(/var/mail/vhosts/mydomain.tld/user/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied dovecot: Jul 25 00:01:02 Error: POP3(user(a)mydomain.tld): Couldn't init INBOX: Can't sync mailbox: Messages keep getting expunged dovecot: Jul 25 00:01:02 Info: POP3(user(a)mydomain.tld): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 And the user gets: [root@nestorix ~]# telnet localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user user(a)mydomain.tld +OK pass mypwd +OK Logged in. -ERR Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2009-07-25 00:01:02] -ERR [IN-USE] Couldn't sync mailbox. Connection closed by foreign host. This is my dovecot.conf base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = pop3 pop3s imap imaps log_path = /var/log/dovecot info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_chroot = yes valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail/vhosts #login = imap login_user = dovecot login_process_size = 64 login_processes_count = 3 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_max_connections = 256 login_greeting = Havecom Mailserver ready. mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/ protocol imap { login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap imap_max_line_length = 65536 mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh } protocol pop3 { login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 pop3_no_flag_updates = no pop3_enable_last = no pop3_reuse_xuidl = no pop3_lock_session = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_process_size = 256 auth_cache_size = 0 auth_cache_ttl = 3600 auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_username_translation = "/$ auth_verbose = yes auth default { socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd } userdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot/userdb } user = root } dovecot -n returns in: [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 I have no clue at all, where I should start solving the problems. Somebody? Cheers! Albert van Harten Denmark

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