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Re: [Dovecot] disbale to responded to an unrequested SSL Certificate
by Andre Hübner 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi List, > Hi dovecot-list, > > just a easy question today ;) > > Customer did on Server a PCI-Test to test security to fit worldpay > requirements. > > They found a critical risk at pop3s. (and some other things) > > This is the Textmesage: > ############ > Family: Remote Shell Access Critical 993/tcp 11875 > Description: > The remote host responded to an unrequested SSL Certificate. The remote > SSL server should have > sent back an Error message. This may indicate that the server is > vulnerable to a remote > flaw in the way that it handles unrequested certificates. You should > manually inspect the > SSL Server's configuration > ############ > > Background is that we use a wildcard-cert which is installed on ervery > machine and fits to servername. So you have to use the accredited > Hostname/Servername to make clean ssl connection pop3s/imaps without > warnings etc. > Problem should be that server sends no error when requested with other > hostname. This is significant part from dovecot.conf > > protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s > ssl_disable = no > ssl_cert_file = "/path/to/*.myhost.com.crt" > ssl_key_file = "/path/to/*.myhost.com.key" > ssl_ca_file = "/path/to/*.myhost.com.bundle.crt" > > Is there a Config-Option to send error when ssl-connect ist not > established to in cert accredited Hostname/Servername ? Did not found > something like this or did not really understand function of the options. > > I do not know backgrounds to this issue. Cant decide if it would be a > security risk or disproportionated wishes of securityexperts but i want to > satisfy this costumer. > How to handle thos? > > Thank you > Andre could be the solution to set ssl_listen to hostname where dovecot is running? pretty easy... O.o my tests were successful but would like to obtain other opinions.. Thanks Andre

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[Dovecot] Step-by-set Postfix/Dovecot/LDA?
by Roderick A. Anderson 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Anyone know of a /complete/ step-by-step HOWTO for setting up a system using Postfix, Dovecot, and Deliver? I'm looking to put a new mail server together that will host three domains with pretty low volumes of email. Later adding three or four more for some non-profits that I host. I'm finding my self skipping all around the Postfix and Dovecot sites trying to come up with this setup. I have set up Postfix in several different configurations: inbound spool, outbound SMTP, regular mail server, etc. And with Dovecot I was lucky as it ran for me pretty much out of the box. Of course that was on a single domain mail server. (Not to mention it is a really old version.) Since it went up I've added a couple of domains to my personal collection and rather than add a new mail server for each I thought I'd go the virtual route. Anyone have a complete set of example .conf files they could share? main.cf, master.cf dovecot.conf Isn't it about time for a Dovecot book? TIA, Rod --

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[Dovecot] Annotation plugin for dovecot
by Bernhard Herzog 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi, as part of an effort to make dovecot usable as the IMAP component in the Kolab Groupware system <http://kolab.org/>, we've started to develop a plugin that implements the IMAP METADATA extension. The plugin is still under development and development is focused on the plugin's use in Kolab, so it will at first only implement what's immediately needed to achieve that goal. The plugin is available as a mercurial repository at http://hg.intevation.org/kolab/dovecot-metadata-plugin/ More information about the current status of the plugin is available in the README file in the sources. Regards, Bernhard

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[Dovecot] Unable To Move IMAP Folder (Dovecot)
by Carlos Williams 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

I have a user who has a folder in his Maildir/ called "test" /home/user/Maildir/.test This folder shows up as a sub folder to his Inbox on his Thunderbird client and I tried using the "cp" command to move this over to my Maildir/ directory on the same server and when I launch Thunderbird, that folder is not visible for me. I made sure permissions are correct and even reloaded Dovecot. mail:/home/user/Maildir# cp -R .test/ /home/me/Maildir/ mail:/home/user/Maildir# chown -R me:users .test/ The permissions and ownership seem to be identical to all the folders I created as subfolders myself but for some reason, I can NOT see "test/". Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

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[Dovecot] Why my Evolution cannot delete emails in dovecot IMAP folder?
by Igor Chudov 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

I use Ubuntu Hardy, get mails locally and run dovecot listening on localhost. I run Evolution and have it connect to dovecot, so that I can access my mail in IMAP and be able to use mutt from remote. So far so good. It works. However, my problem is that Evolution cannot delete any messages. That is, when I click DELETE in Evolution, Evolution no longer sees the message , but the message is still there. That's not what I want, when deleting messages I want them to go away from Inbox. How can I do it? thanks i

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[Dovecot] segfault in dovecot imap 1.1.1 to 1.1.3
by Rene Luria 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Dovecot dies with signal 11 (segfault) when doing some commands with a specific message you'll find relevant information stored here: http://www.luria.ch/9e93676668e453b739ee3e085434e086/ the email: msg.anon.txt input rawlog: 20081001-120137-24371.in dovecot -n: dovecot-n.txt the gdb backtrace: bt.txt test system is running debian sarge, but same thing happens with debian etch (both x86) using xfs always reproductible Can you help me with this ? (the problematic email is anonimized, tell-me if you need the originalone) -- Rene Luria

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Re: [Dovecot] Step-by-set Postfix/Dovecot/LDA?
by Roderick A. Anderson 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Fred Newtz wrote: > www.howtoforge.com has some great how-tos on there. > Thanks Fred. Some look interesting. Too bad so many are using a web/GUI interface to get it running. My favorite system admin tool is vi. :-) I did find a pretty good one (http://neranjara.org/tutorials/?tid=56) but he does some pretty good skips that leave me with questions. I think I have it up a working but need to do some testing. Rod -- > Fred > > > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 13:04 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >> Anyone know of a /complete/ step-by-step HOWTO for setting up a system >> using Postfix, Dovecot, and Deliver? I'm looking to put a new mail >> server together that will host three domains with pretty low volumes of >> email. Later adding three or four more for some non-profits that I host. >> >> I'm finding my self skipping all around the Postfix and Dovecot sites >> trying to come up with this setup. >> >> I have set up Postfix in several different configurations: inbound >> spool, outbound SMTP, regular mail server, etc. And with Dovecot I was >> lucky as it ran for me pretty much out of the box. Of course that was >> on a single domain mail server. (Not to mention it is a really old >> version.) >> >> Since it went up I've added a couple of domains to my personal >> collection and rather than add a new mail server for each I thought I'd >> go the virtual route. >> >> Anyone have a complete set of example .conf files they could share? >> >> main.cf, master.cf >> dovecot.conf >> >> Isn't it about time for a Dovecot book? >> >> >> TIA, >> Rod >

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[Dovecot] ACL plugin
by Matvey Soloviev 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Hello, I am working on implementing support for the RFC4314 ACL management commands and responses in the ACL plugin included with dovecot 1.1.2. (I verified the error persists with 1.1.3 though.) While the described objective is still in the works, I have stumbled upon what I believe to be a critical issue with the handling of negative rights in the present ACL plugin - to be precise, the cache component of it handles them in the exact same way as it does positive rights, thus granting rather than retracting the individual privileges. To fix this, go to src/plugins/acl/acl-cache.c:391. The line and the one following it should read p[j] |= obj_cache->my_neg_rights[i]->mask[j]; Replace that to read p[j] &= ~obj_cache->my_neg_rights[i]->mask[j]; I hope this information is useful. Regards, M. Soloviev

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[Dovecot] "dovecot: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded"
by Ralf Hildebrandt 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

At noon, I often get "dovecot: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded" I'm at my wits end, which parameter needs to be increased further? # 1.1.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/postamt.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/postamt.key disable_plaintext_auth: no version_ignore: yes login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no login_processes_count: 32 login_max_processes_count: 2048 login_max_connections: 512 max_mail_processes: 1024 mail_max_userip_connections: 2048 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir fsync_disable: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/sbin/imap_login_script mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/sbin/imap_login_script mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/sbin/pop_login_script mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota trash mail_log fts fts_squat mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota trash mail_log fts fts_squat mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_log mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_lock_session(default): no pop3_lock_session(imap): no pop3_lock_session(pop3): yes pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v-%u pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login cache_size: 64 master_user_separator: * verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.masterusers pass: yes master: yes passdb: driver: shadow passdb: driver: pam args: cache_key=%u dovecot userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: fts: squat quota: maildir quota_rule: Trash:storage=100M quota_warning: storage=90%% /usr/local/scripts/quota-warning 90 quota_warning2: storage=95%% /usr/local/scripts/quota-warning 95 quota_warning3: storage=99%% /usr/local/scripts/quota-warning 99 trash: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-trash.conf -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de) snickebo(a)charite.de Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de I'm looking for a job Vampireware /n/, a project, capable of sucking the lifeblood out of anyone unfortunate enough to be assigned to it, which never actually sees the light of day, but nonetheless refuses to die.

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[Dovecot] disbale to responded to an unrequested SSL Certificate
by Andre Hübner 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Hi dovecot-list, just a easy question today ;) Customer did on Server a PCI-Test to test security to fit worldpay requirements. They found a critical risk at pop3s. (and some other things) This is the Textmesage: ############ Family: Remote Shell Access Critical 993/tcp 11875 Description: The remote host responded to an unrequested SSL Certificate. The remote SSL server should have sent back an Error message. This may indicate that the server is vulnerable to a remote flaw in the way that it handles unrequested certificates. You should manually inspect the SSL Server's configuration ############ Background is that we use a wildcard-cert which is installed on ervery machine and fits to servername. So you have to use the accredited Hostname/Servername to make clean ssl connection pop3s/imaps without warnings etc. Problem should be that server sends no error when requested with other hostname. This is significant part from dovecot.conf protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = "/path/to/*.myhost.com.crt" ssl_key_file = "/path/to/*.myhost.com.key" ssl_ca_file = "/path/to/*.myhost.com.bundle.crt" Is there a Config-Option to send error when ssl-connect ist not established to in cert accredited Hostname/Servername ? Did not found something like this or did not really understand function of the options. I do not know backgrounds to this issue. Cant decide if it would be a security risk or disproportionated wishes of securityexperts but i want to satisfy this costumer. How to handle thos? Thank you Andre

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[Dovecot] quota warnings clarification
by Ian B 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

I spent a long while trying to get quota warnings working with v1.1.3 on Centos5 before almost giving up. I configured everything as per the instructions on the Quota wiki page however no warning emails were being generated when I tested & no debug messages in the log to give any clues as to what I was doing wrong. It turns out I wasn't doing anything wrong, but just misunderstanding at what point the warnings are generated. The warning email appears to only be generated when a message is moved from one folder to another. I was expecting the warning to be generated when the INBOX was simply opened & viewed! Is this how it is supposed to work? If so, perhaps a note of clarification could be added to the wiki page? Make the switch to the world's best email. Get Yahoo!7 Mail! http://au.yahoo.com/y7mail

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[Dovecot] Managesieve Quota
by Seth Mattinen 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Has anyone (is anyone) working on adding quota support to dovecot's managesieve server? I was thinking about giving it a shot myself and I'd hate to duplicate work. It would be something very basic like a max bytes setting and the total sieve storage per user isn't allowed to exceed it. ~Seth

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[Dovecot] PKI Compliance Dovecot Server
by Amit Thakkar 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hello, I work for an organization that uses a Secure Dovecot server for messaging, and recently we've had to undergo some security screenings for PKI compliance (credit card industry standards). However, the screening returned to us a failure due to the following reason (attributed to our Dovecot server, which runs on port 993 and is the only "open" port on our firewall): Synopsis : The remote service encrypts traffic using a protocol with known weaknesses. Description : The remote service accepts connections encrypted using SSL 2.0, which reportedly suffers fromseveral cryptographic flaws and has been deprecated for several years. An attacker may be able to exploit these issues to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks or decrypt communications between the affected service and clients. See also : http://www.schneier.com/paper-ssl.pdf Solution: Consult the application's documentation to disable SSL 2.0 and use SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.0 instead. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216482 for instructions on IIS. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod _ssl.html for Apache. Risk Factor: Medium / CVSS Base Score : 2 (AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:P/A:N/I:N/B:N) [More] Is there a way that we can disable SSL 2.0 in Dovecot, or force it to use only TLS 1.0 ? Thank You

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[Dovecot] dovecot quota messages
by Cosmin Natea 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi. I have a question about quota messages (dovecot 1.1.3). I'm trying to use quota messages for moving messages in a new folder when they reach a certain number(10000). I made the script which is called when quota_warning condition is met. Then i made a rule to exclude that folder from quota, quota_rule3:folder:ignore The problem is that this folder is still counted in quota. I don't know if this is a bug or this is how ignore is supposed to work(maybe ignore works only for storage).

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[Dovecot] dovecot quota messages problem
by costexx 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi. I have a question about quota messages (dovecot 1.1.3). I'm tryng to use quota messages for moving messages in a new folder when they reach a certin number(10000). I made the script which is called when quota_warning condition is met. Then i made a rule to exclude that folder from quota, quota_rule3:folder:ignore The problem is that this folder is still counted in quota. I don't know if this is a bug or this is how ignore is suposed to work(maibe ignore works only for storage). -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/dovecot-quota-messages-problem-tp19738722p19738722.ht… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.2.alpha1 quota dict driver mysql broken
by Robert Schetterer 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi Timo, quota dict seems to be broken with 1.2.alpha1 MAP(robert(a)schetterer.com): read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote disconnected dovecot: Sep 24 18:43:16 Error: dict: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf line 1: Unknown setting: driver dovecot: Sep 24 18:43:16 Error: dict: Failed to initialize dictionary 'quotadict' etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=... default_pass_scheme = PLAIN table = quota select_field = current where_field = path username_field = username worked with 1.1.3 -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] login processes killed with signal 15
by Radu Popescu 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

[root@xxx etc]# dovecot --version 1.1.3 [root@adi-ion etc]# dovecot -n # 1.1.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/smtpd.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/smtpd.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/ mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v.%u auth default: mechanisms: plain login debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail The log looks like this - it happens every few days: dovecot: Sep 28 02:28:40 Warning: pop3-login: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Sep 28 02:28:40 Warning: imap-login: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Sep 28 02:28:40 Warning: pop3-login: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Sep 28 02:28:40 Warning: auth(default): Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Sep 28 02:28:40 Warning: pop3-login: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Sep 28 02:28:40 Warning: imap-login: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Sep 28 02:28:40 Warning: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Sep 28 02:28:40 Warning: imap-login: Killed with signal 15 dovecot: Sep 28 02:28:40 Warning: I/O leak: 0x407150 (24) deliver(xxx(a)xxx.com): Sep 28 04:07:04 Error: Can't connect to auth server at /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory deliver(xxx(a)xxx.com): Sep 28 04:07:53 Error: Can't connect to auth server at /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory deliver(xxx(a)xxx.com): Sep 28 04:08:12 Error: Can't connect to auth server at /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory deliver(xxx(a)xxx.com): Sep 28 04:13:18 Error: Can't connect to auth server at /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory deliver(xxx(a)xxx.com): Sep 28 04:13:18 Error: Can't connect to auth server at /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory It's not a rpm installation, it compiled by me. The OS is a CentOS5.2.

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[Dovecot] Converting from MBOX to Maildir broke procmail and Spamassasin and halted incoming mail
by Dan Roberts 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

I could use some help here - As I use Dovecot I started here when trying to figure out why I could not add new mail folders under my Mac's Mail program, but could under Thunderbird. It was quickly pointed out that my system was set up to use MBOX and not MAILDIR, and some helpful links and notes were sent back and forth giving me a good clue as to how to perform the conversion process. I did have success in getting my mail accounts converted from mbox to maildir, but then ran aground. I could see all of my existing mail and create new folders, but I could not see any of my incoming mail. What I was late in realizing was that I needed to also adjust the settings for my LDA, which as I am using sendmail is procmail, and it was suggested that I needed to adjust /etc/procmail to include the line DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ I did that, but new mail still didn't show up correctly. I can only assume that I have something still not properly adjusted in my procmail settings. Given that I got everything else to work, and even successfully upgraded dovecot, it was very frustrating to set everything back to square one with mbox so that I had a functioning system once again. I am about to have some time on my hands and am going to try again - but this time I thought I would ask for help before I possibly loose my ability to receive new mail - makes reading those suggestions very hard. At present, my etc/procmailrc file is like this. ----------- [dan@trailrunner etc]$ cat procmailrc # send mail through SpamAssassin :0 fw * < 256000 | /usr/bin/spamc -f ----------- In each users Home directory I have a .procmailrc file that further directs things on a user level. For my directory this file is currently --------------- [dan@trailrunner ~]$ cat .procmailrc MAILDIR=$HOME/mail PROBABLYJUNK = /home/dan/mail/probably-spam :O H * ^X-Spam-Status:.*Yes { EXITCODE=67 :0: probably-spam } --------------- I admit that I set up Spamassasin some years ago and though I have updated things now and then, I don't recall all of the reasoning behind the setup - just know that it has been working. Whether I put the new line "DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/" in one file, the other or both - I got no incoming mail. My guess was that I had offended promail in one way or another. So, as I prepare to do the MBOX to MAILDIR conversion once again, does anyone have any guidance to offer for how to properly adjust the procmail files so that I can continue to filter spam? Much appreciated. Cheers - dan

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[Dovecot] Use bacula to do backups/restores
by martijn＠youngguns.nl 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi, I'm already using Bacula for a lot of backups jobs and I also want do backup mail which is stored on a server. The mail is stored in Maildirs which a could backup at filesystem level. But when I restore such a backup strange things happen. My mail client show some mail double and most of the restored mails are unread. I think I'm missing some important IMAP things. Martijn

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[Dovecot] fs quota and sieve script - other place for compiled script
by Steffen Kaiser 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, lately I deployed a Sieve script for all accounts, even those already overquota. I use fs quota, which leaded to the problem that that the compiled script could not spooled into the home directory - because of the "Over quota" condition. Although Sieve is not directly related to the mail storage, it would be a good thing to have the compiled scripts somewhere in the INDEX= tree or some other non-quota partition. - - I hope that nobody is being able to upload a GB-Sieve script to try to fill the non-quota partition ;-) Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI4ImUVJMDrex4hCIRAgw8AJsEPEGIZRd92Y131f5lyBGLwxavvgCgqJ7P MhBmasR6RBgFViuwWAVsiTE= =QuIC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install
by tonj 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

I'm using Fedora 9 I downloaded dovecot-1.1.3.tar.gz and extracted it. I then opened a terminal in the extracted window. Your install instructions say: For most people, the usual: ./configure make sudo make install but when I did them I got [root@mydomain dovecot-1.1.3]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl.exe... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. [root@mydomain dovecot-1.1.3]# make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. [root@mydomain dovecot-1.1.3]# sudo make install make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop. [root@mydomain dovecot-1.1.3]# can you tell me why the install won't work? thanks for any advice.

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[Dovecot] Mailing list / dovecot.org down this weekend
by Timo Sirainen 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

Apparently the building where dovecot.org server is located will lose its electricity for something like 9-26 hours this weekend. During this time the mailing list will be down, but the web, hg and wiki will be available in another server. (Well, the wiki depends on if I can get moinmoin fixed on the server.)

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[Dovecot] dovecot imap auth fails to reconnect pgsql backend
by Frank Wang 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

Hi, We've observed frequent auth failure recently from the SquirrelMail frontend. The imap server is the dovecot-1.0.7-2 from Centos 5.2. The auth backend is a pgsql database on another server. The only way to make it work is to restart the dovecot, though sometimes it'll recover automatically, but you don't know when. At first we thought there might be a network problem, but we can always run pgsql client from the dovecot server to connect and query the backend database during the auth failure. We then upgraded to dovecot-1.1.3 from atrpms.net yesterday, and still the same. It looks like the dovecot fails to reconnect/retry pgsql backend. The related maillog in 1.0.7 version: Sep 16 02:31:22 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Sep 16 02:33:20 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Sep 16 02:38:40 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured The related maillog in 1.1.3: Sep 21 14:11:24 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Sep 21 14:14:39 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity (auth failed, 1 attempts): method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Sep 21 14:15:15 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity (no auth attempts): rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Sep 21 14:23:49 mail dovecot: auth(default): sql(user(a)our.domain,127.0.0.1): Password query failed: Sep 21 14:23:49 mail dovecot: child 15241 (auth) killed with signal 11 Sep 21 14:23:50 mail dovecot: auth(default): pgsql: Connected to internal # dovecot -n # 1.1.3: /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login realms: our.domain1 our.domain2 default_realm: our.domain1 user: mail passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=508 gid=509 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n/ quota=maildir:storage=512000 socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: quota: maildir grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' /etc/dovecot-sql.conf driver = pgsql connect = host=<pg_server_ip> dbname=<pg_dbname> user=<pg_user> password=<pg_password> default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT jm || '@%d' as user, password FROM usera where jm = '%n' and forbid = 'N' and ( '%d' = 'our.domain1' or '%d' = 'our.domain2' ) Can someone shed a light on this? Thanks! Regards, Frank Wang

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[Dovecot] problems with auth protocol
by Giorgenes Gelatti 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

Hello there, I have a client connecting to dovecot and comunicating like this: * OK Dovecot ready. * AUTHENTICATE MYAUTH + base64 challange base64_response {NNN} * NO Invalid base64 data in continued response The problem is that dovecot seems to reject the response because of the {NNN} in the end of the string. If I remove the {NNN} it authenticates just fine. Any idea of whether it's standard or not? Thanks you.

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[Dovecot] Exim+dovecot and quota check in exim's ACL before real message routing.
by Anton 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

Good day. I want to migrate from cyrus-imap to dovecot but I can not find replacement of one feauture presented in the cyrus-imap. It is LMTP. All mail users are virtual and mail works like: username(a)real-domain.com -> anotherusername(a)fake-domain.local. I whould like to check "delivery is possable" in the exim's ACL. In the exim+cirus scheme I use Callout verification from exim to cyrus and if user's quota is exeeded callout returns fail and exim does not take message for queueing. Dovecot has no LMTP and I see no possability to do such callouts. I tried to turn on quotas in the dovecot. Message was taken by the exim placed into exim's queue but cannot be delivered to dovecot with "local_delivery transport output: Quota exceeded" and message stays in queue for a long time. Is any possability to chech quota usage in the exim's ACL befor taking message body ? -- Anton [WARM-RIPE] Stack ltd division head tel. 8 (3822) 555-797

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