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[Dovecot] fs quota check with server does not support rquotad
by Grandy Fu 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Both Test 1 and Test 2 disconnected me immediately after login with error: --------------------- dovecot: Jul 14 11:39:19 Info: IMAP(01234567g): Quota root: name=INBOX backend=fs args=noenforcing:mount=/var/mail dovecot: Jul 14 11:39:19 Info: IMAP(01234567g): mbox: data=/home/h1/sc/01234567g/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/01234567g:INDEX=/localdisk/dovecot.cache/cache/01234567g dovecot: Jul 14 11:39:19 Info: IMAP(01234567g): fs: root=/home/h1/sc/01234567g/mail, index=/localdisk/dovecot.cache/cache/01234567g, control=, inbox=/var/mail/01234567g dovecot: Jul 14 11:39:19 Info: IMAP(01234567g): fs quota add storage dir = /home/h1/sc/01234567g/mail dovecot: Jul 14 11:39:19 Info: IMAP(01234567g): fs quota block device = homesvr:/h1 dovecot: Jul 14 11:39:19 Info: IMAP(01234567g): fs quota mount point = /home/h1 dovecot: Jul 14 11:39:19 Error: IMAP(01234567g): fcntl(0, F_GETFL) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Jul 14 11:39:19 Fatal: IMAP(01234567g): fd_set_nonblock(0) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Jul 14 11:43:27 Warning: Killed with signal 15 ------------------------------------------- Test 3: Command and output ----------------- getquotaroot "Trash" * QUOTAROOT "Trash" "INBOX" * QUOTA "INBOX" (STORAGE 10 1000) OK Getquotaroot completed. --------------------- At the same time log shows: ------------------------ dovecot: Jul 14 11:52:51 Info: IMAP(01234567g): quota-fs: host=mailsvr, path=/var/mail, uid=3475 dovecot: Jul 14 11:52:51 Info: IMAP(01234567g): quota-fs: uid=3475, value=10240, limit=1024000, active=1 dovecot: Jul 14 11:52:51 Info: IMAP(01234567g): quota-fs: host=homesvr, path=/h1, uid=3475 dovecot: Jul 14 11:52:51 Error: IMAP(01234567g): quota-fs: could not contact RPC service on homesvr dovecot: Jul 14 11:52:51 Info: IMAP(01234567g): quota-fs: host=mailsvr, path=/var/mail, uid=3475 dovecot: Jul 14 11:52:51 Info: IMAP(01234567g): quota-fs: uid=3475, value=10240, limit=1024000, active=1 dovecot: Jul 14 11:52:51 Info: IMAP(01234567g): quota-fs: host=mailsvr, path=/var/mail, uid=3475 dovecot: Jul 14 11:52:51 Info: IMAP(01234567g): quota-fs: uid=3475, value=10240, limit=1024000, active=1 dovecot: Jul 14 11:52:51 Info: IMAP(01234567g): quota-fs: host=homesvr, path=/h1, uid=3475 dovecot: Jul 14 11:52:51 Error: IMAP(01234567g): quota-fs: could not contact RPC service on homesvr -------------------------------- Grandy > mmmh... > > so you are using: > > plugin { > quota = fs:INBOX:mount=/var/mail > quota2 = fs:home:noenforcing:mount=/home/h1 > } > > but "fs:home:noenforcing:mount=/home/h1" will not work and you just > added it do make "fs:INBOX:mount=/var/mail" work? Maybe it's worth to > have a closer look to this first: > > Test 1) > > Use: > > plugin { > quota = fs:INBOX:mount=/var/mail > #quota2 = fs:home:noenforcing:mount=/home/h1 > } > > What output generates: > > telnet <your-imp-server> 143 > - login <your-login-name> <your-password> > - getguotaroot "INBOX" > - getquotaroot "Trash" > . logout > > Test 2) > > Use: > > plugin { > quota = fs:INBOX:mount=/var/mail > #quota2 = fs:home:noenforcing:mount=/home/h1 > } > > What output generates: > > telnet <your-imp-server> 143 > - login <your-login-name> <your-password> > - getguotaroot "INBOX" > - getquotaroot "Trash" > . logout > > > Test 3) > Use: > > plugin { > quota = fs:INBOX:mount=/var/mail > quota2 = fs:home:noenforcing:mount=/home/h1 > } > > What output generates: > > telnet <your-imp-server> 143 > - login <your-login-name> <your-password> > - getguotaroot "INBOX" > - getquotaroot "Trash" > . logout > > > BTW: I've you don't like to send your password unencrypted use this > instead of 'telnet <your-imp-server> 143': > > openssl s_client -connect <your-imp-server>:993 > > > Regards, Ralf >

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Re: [Dovecot] Root folder path problem
by Yavuz Maslak 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

As I said previous my mail, if I don't set any value in "Root folder path" option, my sent mails are stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express. These mails aren't stored "sent items" of imap section. On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 22:18 +0300, Yavuz Maslak wrote: > I use dovecot1.x. for imap on qmail. > I also use OExpress to receive my mails. > My sent mails is stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express. OK. > Therefore I set "INBOX" in "Root folder path" option. Why? My guess is that it doesn't work because you set this.

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[Dovecot] How can i set vacation subject in non-english characters?
by Zhang Huangbin 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hi, all. I have implemented vacation via dovecot sieve. but how can i use non-english characters in vacation subject? Thanks very much. This is my sample sieve rule for vacation: ----8<---- require ["vacation"]; vacation :days 1 :mime :subject "Auto-Reply: Out of office." "MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I can use non-english character here as mail body, wrote in utf-8. "; ----8<---- -- Best Regards. Zhang Huangbin - iRedMail: Mail Server Solution for Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux & CentOS 5.x: http://iRedMail.googlecode.com/

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[Dovecot] Root folder path problem
by Yavuz Maslak 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

I use dovecot1.x. for imap on qmail. I also use OExpress to receive my mails. My sent mails is stored in main "sent items" of Outlook Express. Therefore I set "INBOX" in "Root folder path" option. But when I send an email to anywhere the mail sends without problem but I am getting an error as following; Some of the messages in your Outbox Folder could not be copied to your Sent Items. How can I correct that ? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Using tags instead of folders?
by Patrick Nagel 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hi, currently most people store their messages in some sort of folder hierarchy, so that they can find them later easily. Here, for example, mails that are connected to a project are being stored in /CompanyName/ProjectNumber folders. Now I was wondering if there is any reason against using tags instead of a folder hierarchy, because tags are better when it comes to mails that belong to multiple projects (maybe even belonging to multiple companies) at once. All mails could then be stored in one folder/mailbox, fulltext search indexing would work well. You could search for a tag that consists of the ProjectNumber and would get all mails that belong to that project, just as if you would have opened that folder in the old hierarchy. You could save this search as a 'Search Folder' (talking in Thunderbird terms). Then I looked at how Thunderbird implements those tags when using IMAP. It stores them as IMAP keywords. Dovecot stores the first 26 flags in the filename, because it will only use one letter. Mapping between client's tag name and the letter is being done in dovecot-keywords files (one for each mailbox). If there are more IMAP keywords than 26, they will be stored in the dovecot.index file. (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir) Now imagine we want to have 1000s (maybe 10000s) of different tags (=IMAP keywords) - instead of folders. Can this be recommended? What happens if the index file gets corrupted for some reason? (I had to delete dovecot.index files before...). What happens if the Thunderbird profile breaks? What happens if we want to move on to another client? Are there other ways to implement 'tagging' instead of a hierarchy? Patrick. -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. http://www.star-group.net/ Phone: +86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779 PGP key: https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005

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[Dovecot] Certificate Server name!
by kbajwa 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

I previously posted this message and made a type mistake. I wrote "imap.tib.com instead it should red "imap.example.com". I have corrected the message and am reposting it. SORRY. ----------------------------------------- Setup of Dovecot went smoothly. Now when I try to retrieve mail from the server, I get the following message: Security Error: Domain name mismatch You have attempted to establish a connection to "mail.tib.com" However, the security certificate presented belongs to "imap.example.com"..... How to fix this message? Thanks in advance. Kirt

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[Dovecot] PATCH: flexible array members in dovecot 1.1
by John Lightsey 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

It looks like the build problems with the flexible array members in Dovecot 1.1 and GCC 2.95 has been raised several times already on this list, but no one mentioned out that autoconf 2.61+ provides a macro to deal with these.

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[Dovecot] Unknown dict module: db with expire plugin
by Nicolas Letellier 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hello. I upgraded my dovecot to 1.1. I use the FreeBSD port. However, I can't use the expire plugin. See the error: Unknown dict module: db expire plugin: dict_init() failed I see on the mailing list another mail like this problem. And the problem is the imap library is not linked to libdb. Is there a solution? Have I to contact the FreeBSD maintainer to link the binary to the library? Thanks for your advices. Regards, -- - Nicolas.

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[Dovecot] dovecot 1.1.1 dbox public namespace problem
by Robert Schetterer 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hi @ll i have somthing like namespace public { separator = / prefix = "public/" location = dbox:/usr/local/virtual/%d/public inbox = no list = yes subscriptions = yes hidden = no } which works nice if i set location = maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/public %d expansion works right with maildir but if user mailboxes are on dbox with public namespace too, dovecot produces %d directory on the filesystem in /usr/local/virtual/ ,instead of expansion named domainname directory at new user creation time invoked from mail by lda i guess its some config bug from me but i cant find somthing, same config with maildir works nice, maybe some variables differ using dbox ( ie. with home and location ) -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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[Dovecot] 1.1 and the zlib plugin
by Kyle Wheeler 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hello, I've been playing around with using namespaces to change the way messages are stored. My idea was to use mbox for archival stuff, like this: namespace private { separator = . hidden = no inbox = yes prefox = location = maildir:%h/Maildir } namespace private { separator = . hidden = no prefix = "INBOX.Archive." location = mbox:%h/Maildir/Archive } This works *GREAT*, and I'm really pleased with it. However, it occurred to me that for deeply frozen archives, it might be nice to gzip them. Conveniently, there's the zlib plugin. From what I could tell from the documentation, the compressed mbox names must end in ".gz", so I thought I could simply go into ~/Maildir/Archive and gzip everything. But when I did that, Dovecot started behaving strangely. First of all, the result of LIST shows the files like this: * LIST (\NoInferiors \Marked) "." "INBOX.Archive.Friends.gz" Which is obviously wrong. When I try to SELECT it, I get this: ? SELECT "INBOX.Archive.Friends.gz" ? NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Friends/gz Which seems to indicate that Dovecot is treating the dot in the extension as the separator (understandably), and failing. However, if I leave off the extension, I get this: ? SELECT "INBOX.Archive.Friends" ? NO Mailbox doesn't exist: Friends Which seems to indicate that Dovecot isn't translating "Friends" into "Friends.gz" for some reason. Then I remembered that in the ChangeLog, back in May, the zlib plugin was changed to look for the zlib header rather than the Z flag. I assume that was for using it with Maildirs, but I figured it was worth a shot. So I renamed the Friends.gz file to remove the extension. But that just gives me an error message: ? SELECT "INBOX.Archive.Friends" ? NO Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file It seems like loading the zlib plugin either doesn't have any effect, or I'm not doing it right. I have it in the config file along with other plugins that work just fine: mail_plugins = fts fts_squat zlib And when I check that with dovecot -p, it shows up: mail_plugins: fts fts_squat zlib There's no entry in the plugin {} section of the config file for the zlib plugin... but I assume that none is necessary. Am I doing something wrong? ~Kyle -- No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous. -- Samuel Johnson, on the behavior of the British colonists in America

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Re: [Dovecot] Poor pop3 over nfs performance
by Mark Zealey 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

> rc11 had this fix which may be relevant: > > - dovecot-uidlist is now recreated if it results in > file shrinking > over 25%. Not sure this fix is relevent; but I have upgraded to 1.1.1 > With v1.1 INDEX=MEMORY shouldn't matter that much anymore, since it > should cache the virtual message size to dovecot-uidlist. > > 1) Do you have ,W=<size> in maildir filenames? Apparently not? No; yesterday though I did switch exim to delivering through lda - surprisingly though there was not much effect on the graphs. > 2) Do you have W=<size> added to dovecot-uidlist? I have found something here which I believe is a bug; will detail below > 3) Are your POP3 users download + delete or do they leave mail on the > server? A mixture; I believe at least 80% will download+delete; probably closer to 95% but we do have some very large mail stores - most of these would be accessed by a combination of pop and imap. > You should be able to use dotlock_use_excl=yes. ... > dotlock is the slowest locking method. Did you try how well > fcntl would > have worked? Not tried fcntl; I don't really trust nfs locking. I have enabled the excl in the config; again not much change. Now what I discovered in testing a particularly problematic user with an 800mb cur directory (under v1.1.1; I have never used v1.0 on this mbox but it was converted with your courier convert script); initially they had the following: drwx------ 2 exim exim 2048 Apr 11 2007 courierimapkeywords -rw-r--r-- 1 exim exim 47 Apr 22 15:56 courierimapsubscribed -rw-r--r-- 1 exim exim 142493 Jun 23 19:57 courierimapuiddb -rw-r--r-- 1 exim exim 195309 Jun 24 18:52 courierpop3dsizelist drwx------ 2 exim exim 499712 Jul 2 10:35 cur -rw------- 1 exim exim 20912 Jul 2 10:51 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 exim exim 33056 Jun 17 17:34 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 exim exim 31336 Jul 2 10:37 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 exim exim 158465 Jul 2 10:13 dovecot-uidlist drwx------ 2 exim exim 4096 Jul 2 10:29 new -rw------- 1 exim exim 23 Jun 24 22:49 subscriptions drwx------ 2 exim exim 2048 Jul 2 10:42 tmp As you can see, the cache file is very old, and the uidlist file is behind the last time that the logged in (which was 10:35). When I log in over pop and do a stat/list, it re-reads everything in cur/new but didn't update the dovecot-uidlist file or the index.cache file (the log file is updated though). Dovecot-uidlist file does not have the extra W= tags in it. I removed the dovecot.index.cache file and performed the same login/stat/list operation and logged out, and suddenly the dovecot-uidlist file was updated to the new v1.1 format, and the directory listing looks like: total 1068 drwx------ 2 exim exim 2048 Apr 11 2007 courierimapkeywords -rw-r--r-- 1 exim exim 47 Apr 22 15:56 courierimapsubscribed -rw-r--r-- 1 exim exim 142493 Jun 23 19:57 courierimapuiddb -rw-r--r-- 1 exim exim 195309 Jun 24 18:52 courierpop3dsizelist drwx------ 2 exim exim 499712 Jul 2 10:35 cur -rw------- 1 exim exim 20912 Jul 2 10:53 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 exim exim 31428 Jul 2 10:53 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 exim exim 175508 Jul 2 10:53 dovecot-uidlist drwx------ 2 exim exim 4096 Jul 2 10:29 new -rw------- 1 exim exim 23 Jun 24 22:49 subscriptions drwx------ 2 exim exim 2048 Jul 2 10:42 tmp This looks like a bug to me; I will have a look in the source and see if I can find anything, but I thought I'd send this email as you'll be able to find the bug faster than I can. Thanks, Mark

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[Dovecot] POP3 Mails Not Deleted
by imacat 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Dear all, Hi. This is imacat from Taiwan. We are running Dovecot 1.1.1. I received complaints from one of my colleagues. She checks her mails both from home and from office, so she left her mails in the server for 3 days. This morning she got lots of received mails again. I tracked the syslog, and found the following records: ============ Jul 2 18:39:59 odin dovecot: POP3(mindyw): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/577, size=55354063 Jul 3 11:59:17 odin dovecot: POP3(mindyw): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=99/4866408, del=287/676, size=60218727 Jul 3 12:05:19 odin dovecot: POP3(mindyw): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=288/35132998, del=2/677, size=60220846 Jul 3 12:09:58 odin dovecot: POP3(mindyw): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=2/9289, del=2/675, size=60190368 ============ It seems that the deleted 287 mails was not really deleted, though the second deletion works. This happens occationally, so I cannot easily reproduce it. Can anyone look into this issue? How can I debug further? Thank you very much in advance. -- imacat ^_*' imacat(a)mail.imacat.idv.tw PGP Key: http://www.imacat.idv.tw/me/pgpkey.asc Tavern IMACAT's http://www.imacat.idv.tw/ Woman's Voice http://www.wov.idv.tw/ TLUG List Manager http://www.linux.org.tw/mailman/listinfo/tlug

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[Dovecot] Q: imaptest license
by seriv＠parkheights.dyndns.org 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hi Timo, I can't find licensing information in http://hg.dovecot.org/imaptest. Can you tell what is the license for this utility? I'd like to package it for ALTLinux Sisyphus repository. -- Sergey Ivanov

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[Dovecot] imap-login: socketpair() failed: Too many open files
by Manoel Prazeres 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hi, I'am trying to use heartbeat to start dovecot... It starts but all the login connections are reject with this line on log file: Jul 7 12:47:28 markov dovecot: imap-login: socketpair() failed: Too many open files No username/password are asked (using Thunderbird as client). Outside heartbeat, dovecot runs fine. My environment: # dovecot --version 1.1.1 # uname -a Linux markov.impa.br 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen #1 SMP Tue May 20 10:03:27 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # df -H /dovecot (the indexes - a drbd disk) Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/drbd0 5.3G 146M 4.9G 3% /dovecot # df -H /data/mail (the mailboxes - a nfs disk) Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on nfs.impa.br:/data/mail 158G 95G 56G 63% /data/mail # dovecot -n # 1.1.1: /etc/dovecot.conf syslog_facility: local5 protocols: imap imaps listen: 127.0.0.1:143 ssl_listen: 147.65.1.46:993 disable_plaintext_auth: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> method=%m pid=%p rip=%r lip=%l %c login_processes_count: 32 login_max_processes_count: 512 first_valid_uid: 8 first_valid_gid: 12 mail_location: mbox:%h/mail:INBOX=%h/mbox:INDEX=/dovecot/imapd.indexes/%u mbox_read_locks: dotlock fcntl mbox_write_locks: dotlock fcntl mail_log_prefix: %Us(%u): pid=%p, rip=%r, lip=%l, auth default: passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot.deny deny: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd Any suggestion? Thanks Manoel

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[Dovecot] client cannot list subfolders
by Michael B Allen 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hi, I'm having a problem with the Sylpheed mail client and dovcot 1.0.rc15. Sylpheed does not like how dovecot is returning LIST output so it cannot see subfolders. Note: Sylpheed 2.4 actually works with the same server so apparently something in a newer version of Sylpheed has changed. This is some dialog with the Sylpheed mailing list: > > Apparently it sees them but they're not making it into the tree: > > > > [18:06:12] IMAP4> 11 LIST "" "*" > > getting list of "" ... > > IMAP4< * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Lists.Heimdal" > > folder 'Lists/Heimdal' found. > > IMAP4< * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Lists.JCIFS" > > folder 'Lists/JCIFS' found. > > IMAP4< * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "LearnAsSpam" > > folder 'LearnAsSpam' found. > > IMAP4< * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Spam" > > folder 'Spam' found. > > IMAP4< * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash" > > folder 'Trash' found. > > IMAP4< * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Sent" > > folder 'Sent' found. > > IMAP4< * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Drafts" > > folder 'Drafts' found. > > IMAP4< * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Saved" > > folder 'Saved' found. > > IMAP4< * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" > > folder 'INBOX' found. > > IMAP4< * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "TMP.STMP" > > folder 'TMP/STMP' found. > > [18:06:12] IMAP4< 11 OK List completed. > > imap_get_part_folder_list(): get root folders > > append 'LearnAsSpam' > > append 'Spam' > > append 'Trash' > > append 'Sent' > > append 'Drafts' > > append 'Saved' > > append 'INBOX' > > imap_get_part_folder_list(): get folders under 'LearnAsSpam' > > imap_get_part_folder_list(): get folders under 'Spam' > > imap_get_part_folder_list(): get folders under 'Trash' > > imap_get_part_folder_list(): get folders under 'Sent' > > imap_get_part_folder_list(): get folders under 'Drafts' > > imap_get_part_folder_list(): get folders under 'Saved' > > imap_get_part_folder_list(): get folders under 'INBOX' > > Setting folder info... > > empty folder > > > > Note that TMP.STMP was created through Sylpheed but after a rebuild > > it's gone .... > > This breaks in the implementation because both "Lists" and "TMP" are not > listed separately and are not recognised as root folders by Sylpheed. As I > read the code, only folders without a '/' are recognised as root folders > (considering the '.' namespace that is used here). It could be that > Sylpheed 2.4.0 parsed the LIST return values differently. > > For Thomas White it's the same problem. Folders "Academic" and > "Theatre" are not recognised as root folders. > > On the contrary, for example Google Mail returns all root folders > separately. > > Which behaviour exactly is IMAP4 compliant remains to be investigated. Basically Sylpheed does not like the dots (which represent slashes) and would prefer to see each folder "listed separately". Can anyone comment regarding proper LIST output and what clients should be expected to handle? Who's bug is this and what is the path of least resistance to fixing it? Mike

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[Dovecot] Global Script to filter Spam
by Andrés Yacopino 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Dovecot Version: 1.1.1 with sieve and managesieve configured. I want to filter spam with the subject *SPAM* to a spam folder for all users, and i also want users to have personal sieve scripts (like vacation). I have configured Squirrelmail, dovecot manage sieve and avelsieve plugin in squirrelmail to do that. The problem is that the user home 's scripts are replaced with the avelsieve plugin script did it in the web interface and the configuration of .dovecot.sieve calling the global script is lost. Is there any other way to call a global script for all users not depending in the user script? Thanks Andrés Fernando Yacopino

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[Dovecot] dovecot-db.conf missing?
by Edgar Fuß 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

In dovecot-example.conf (dovecot version 1.1.1), a comment to dict_db_config mentions an example file doc/dovecot.db.conf the distribution tar doesn't seem to contain. Has this been lost from 1.1 to 1.1.1?

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[Dovecot] Vacation?
by kbajwa 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

CentOS 5.1 Dovecot & Postfix (part of CentOS install & updated) I understand that there is a package which is part of Dovecot to handle "Auto Responses" known as Vacation. Where I can find more info on this package & especially how to install & configure it? Thanks Kirt

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[Dovecot] Dovecot - Permission denied error!
by kbajwa 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Hello: CentOS 5.2 Postfix 2.3.3 + updates (bundled with CentOS 5.2) Dovecot-1.0.7 (bundled with CentOS 5.2) Dovecot-1.1.1 (Updated from www.atrpms.com) Dovecot-sieve-1.1.5 (Updated from www.atrpms.com) During the last few days I have installed dovecot many times without errors. Today I installed dovecot-1.1.1 & sent a test message to 'test(a)tib.com'. I received the following message back: ------------------ This is the mail system at host mail.tib.com. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The mail system <test(a)tib.com>: local configuration error. Command output: Fatal: open(/etc/dovecot.conf) failed: Permission denied Here is dovecot.conf file: ========================== Jul 11 05:24:50 www dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.1 starting up Jul 11 05:24:52 www postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system Jul 11 05:24:52 www postfix/master[4767]: daemon started -- version 2.3.3, configuration /etc/postfix Jul 11 05:25:12 www postfix/smtpd[5081]: connect from unknown[59.93.166.101] Jul 11 05:25:16 www postfix/smtpd[5081]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[59.93.166.101]: 550 5.1.1 <kdkapp(a)tib.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; from=<byung-ho(a)mailexcite.com> to=<kdkapp(a)tib.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<59.93.166.101> Jul 11 05:25:18 www postfix/smtpd[5081]: lost connection after DATA from unknown[59.93.166.101] Jul 11 05:25:18 www postfix/smtpd[5081]: disconnect from unknown[59.93.166.101] Jul 11 05:28:09 www postfix/smtpd[5452]: connect from mail.highcountryonline.net[12.179.81.11] Jul 11 05:28:09 www postfix/smtpd[5452]: B7EBD1E48069: client=mail.highcountryonline.net[12.179.81.11] Jul 11 05:28:10 www postfix/cleanup[5457]: B7EBD1E48069: message-id=<B2D87B9F772F48BE9FAFD1B29F15AEF0@Sunshine> Jul 11 05:28:10 www postfix/qmgr[4779]: B7EBD1E48069: from=<kbajwa(a)tibonline.net>, size=816, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jul 11 05:28:10 www postfix/smtpd[5452]: disconnect from mail.highcountryonline.net[12.179.81.11] Jul 11 05:28:10 www postfix/local[5458]: B7EBD1E48069: to=<test(a)tib.com>, relay=local, delay=0.9, delays=0.69/0.06/0/0.16, dsn=5.3.5, status=bounced (local configuration error. Command output: Fatal: open(/etc/dovecot.conf) failed: Permission denied ) Jul 11 05:28:10 www postfix/cleanup[5457]: 6D7BF1E4806C: message-id=<20080711112810.6D7BF1E4806C(a)mail.tib.com> Jul 11 05:28:10 www postfix/qmgr[4779]: 6D7BF1E4806C: from=<>, size=2623, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jul 11 05:28:10 www postfix/bounce[5461]: B7EBD1E48069: sender non-delivery notification: 6D7BF1E4806C Jul 11 05:28:10 www postfix/qmgr[4779]: B7EBD1E48069: removed Jul 11 05:28:11 www postfix/smtp[5462]: 6D7BF1E4806C: to=<kbajwa(a)tibonline.net>, relay=mail.tibonline.net[12.179.81.11]:25, delay=1.3, delays=0.01/0.06/0.62/0.63, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 OK) Jul 11 05:28:11 www postfix/qmgr[4779]: 6D7BF1E4806C: removed ----------------------- I believe that dovecot-1.1.1 may be causing it. I did not have this problem when I was testing dovecot-1.0.7. Google show 'Permission denied' error problem going back to several years. One suggestion on Google was to 'disable' SElinux, which I did without success. Any ideas why this error is happening? Kirti

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[Dovecot] Version 1.0.13 - Maildir directory names
by Tobias Zimmerman 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

I am running Maildir (obtained via [mac|darwin] ports) on my Powerbook Pro to operate as local mail storage. My mail is stored in the Maildir format. Is it possible to set Maildir not to put a dot in front of the directory names? (e.g., ~/Maildir/somefolder instead of ~/Maildir/.somefolder). OS X's spotlight indexing/search service will not index "hidden" directories (those that begin with a period), so I would like Maildir to use non dot-files for its base names so that my email is indexed. I tried messing with the "seperator" setting in the .conf file (I tried setting it to "/", ":" and ".") with no luck. (I was able to connect in all cases, but new folders contined to receive dot-names. Is there a way to force Maildir(++) to name directories without the leading dot? I have hunted the mailing list for an answer to this, and the only suggestions that came close did not seem to work.

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Re: [Dovecot] Some quick questions about dovecot
by Václav Haisman 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Michael Dasenbrock wrote, On 11.7.2008 18:44: > Hello there, > > I'm an engineer investigating a new project here at Apple. We are > considering using Dovecot in our Mac OS X server product, and I was hoping > you could help clarify a couple of issues regarding licensing. We're > equipped to handle most of the requirements of the Lesser General Public > License 2.1 and your other open source licenses (e.g. MIT, etc), but we > wanted to check with you about certain areas prior to our potential use. > > 1) Are you the sole copyright owner of Dovecot? If not, who else should we > contact? No. I am completely baffled why you are asking me these questions, I am CC'ing the Dovecot mailing list where you are more likely to get these questions answered. > > 2) To the extent that Apple made any changes to Dovecot and released these > outside of Apple, we would release the source code to those changes under > the LGPL. Does this align with your understanding as well? We are happy to > provide the changes, BTW. > > 3) In terms of proprietary code that links dynamically to LGPL¹d libraries, > is it your understanding that there are no requirements imposed on the > proprietary software itself in terms of having to open-source the > proprietary software or to allow reverse engineering of the proprietary > software? For example, if Apples¹ [[insert proprietary code example]] links > to the LGPL code in Dovecot Mail Server, would that code be subject to the > above requirements? > > 4) Do you have any plans to release Dovecot (or new modifications, versions) > under LGPL 3 or do you plan to stay with LGPL 2.1? > > Thanks for your contributions to the Open Source Software community. We hope > that it will work out to work together. > > Sincerely, > Michael Dasenbrock > > > -- VH

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[Dovecot] Subject: Re: nfs_flush errors
by Hans Wunsch 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > From: Dean Brooks <dean(a)iglou.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] nfs_flush errors > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <20080711050942.GA11555(a)iglou.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 05:20:21PM -0700, Hans Wunsch wrote: > > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:09:42 -0400 >> Message: 7 Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:30:13 -0400 From: Ben Winslow >> <rain(a)bluecherry.net> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] nfs_flush errors To: >> dovecot(a)dovecot.org Message-ID: <4874BD65.1010905(a)bluecherry.net> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hans Wunsch >> wrote: >> >> >>>> I'm looking for some help with an nfs error that is filling our logs. I >>>> get a constant stream of these messages: >>>> >>>> Jul 8 10:47:08 servername dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] >>>> IMAP(username): nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail) >>>> failed: Device busy >>>> >>> >>> >>> What OS are your dovecot and NFS servers running? Is /var/mail (or >>> whatever it may be symlinked to) an NFS mountpoint? >>> >> We're on Solaris 10x86 mounting /var/mail from another Solaris 10 hosts via >> NFS4. >> >> Yes, /var/mail is an NFS. These are the mount options: >> >> mayor.ics.uci.edu:/mail_tank_001/spools - /var/mail nfs - >> yes rw,nosuid,hard,intr,bg,noac >> > > Are you using Dovecot version 1.1.1? If you are using an earlier > version (i.e. a 1.1 release candidate), there was an update that was > made that eliminited these errors in certain circumstances. > Specifically under Solaris I might add. > > If you are using 1.1.1, I'll have to defer to others to solve the > problem. I just remember running into those errors and having them > disappear once I upgraded to a final release version. > > -- > Dean Brooks > dean(a)iglou.com > > > Thanks Dean. We are using Dovecot version 1.1.1. I was hopeful after seeing the earlier fixes for Solaris too. But now I wonder if there isn't just one more similar fix that needs to go in. Hans.

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[Dovecot] dovecot.index.cache File too large
by peceka 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Hi, Can sameone explain me why my logs are full of such errors: Jul 11 12:07:32 mxhost deliver(user1): pwrite() failed: File too large Jul 11 12:07:32 mxhost deliver(user1): file_set_size() failed with index cache file /mail/user1/Maildir/.parser/dovecot.index.cache: File too large mxhost# ls -lh /mail/user1/Maildir/.parser/dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 user1 emails 64M Jul 11 10:01 /mail/user1/Maildir/.parser/dovecot.index.cache mxhost# cd /mail/user1/Maildir/.parser/ mxhost# ls -l new/ | wc -l 1016 mxhost# ls -l cur | wc -l 132342 What can I do to get rid of this error? Best regards, p.

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[Dovecot] After upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1.1 my "hidden" private namespaces suddenly aren't hidden anymore...
by Peter Eriksson 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Just upgraded my home mail server from version 1.0 to 1.1.1 and now I noticed that Thunderbird has started showing the 'hidden' namespaces (albeit "greyed") for that server (see the attached JPG image)... What can I change to really make them hidden again? The only thing I changed in my dovecot.conf file from 1.0 to 1.1.1 was to add the following two lines: mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_nfs_index = yes - Peter

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-1.1.1 with quota and antispam plugin - segmentation fault
by mike＠mrgfd.org.ua 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Hello! I have port-built dovecot-1.1.1 on freebsd 6.3 i386 box. There is signal 11 on imap child occurs every time when i'm trying to send email. In fact, email is sending to MTA correctly, but when message moving to Sent folder segmentation error appears. I built dovecot and antispam plugin with -g3 -O0 -pipe With GDB I recieve next: GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)... Attaching to program: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap, process 10427 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 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/lib/librpcsvc.so.3...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.3 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/lib90_antispam_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib90_antispam_plugin.so Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 0x182b7eeb in kevent () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description SIGPIPE No Yes Yes Broken pipe (gdb) Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description SIGALRM No No Yes Alarm clock (gdb) Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description SIG32 No Yes Yes Real-time event 32 (gdb) Continuing. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x080a968c in mail_get_physical_size () (gdb) #0 0x080a968c in mail_get_physical_size () No symbol table info available. #1 0x1831d07a in quota_try_alloc (ctx=0x8128700, mail=0x0, too_large_r=0xbfbfe74b) at quota.c:797 size = 4 ret = 0 #2 0x183213ce in quota_check (t=0x812e580, mail=0x0) at quota-storage.c:148 qt = (struct quota_transaction_context *) 0x8128700 ret = 134728787 too_large = 191 #3 0x18321740 in quota_save_finish (ctx=0x8152028) at quota-storage.c:251 qt = (struct quota_transaction_context *) 0x8128700 qbox = (struct quota_mailbox *) 0x81381e8 #4 0x1833212f in antispam_save_finish (ctx=0x8152028) at antispam-storage-1.1.c:178 asbox = (struct antispam_mailbox *) 0x8138280 ast = (struct antispam_internal_context *) 0x812b270 dest_mail = (struct mail *) 0x4 ret = 0 #5 0x080ac4ed in mailbox_save_finish () No symbol table info available. #6 0x08059caa in _start () No symbol table info available. #7 0x080590f3 in _start () No symbol table info available. #8 0x080ee05d in io_loop_handler_run () No symbol table info available. #9 0x080ed385 in io_loop_run () No symbol table info available. #10 0x0806a6ff in main () No symbol table info available. (gdb) Detaching from program: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap, process 10427

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