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[Dovecot] Deliver, sendmail, virtual users, and catch-all addresses
by Eric Loyd 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

I have spent a long time looking into this and can't find the answer I'm looking for, so I'm asking here. I'm cutting the example down to just the bare minimums. This is NOT my actual configuration, but is sufficient for asking this question: How can I use dovecot's deliver LDA to deliver to virtual users, but then have unknown virtual users fall back to catch-all addresses defined by sendmail? Background: * sendmail is the MTA. I do not wish to change this. * procmail is the default MDA. * deliver is set up per the dovecot documentation as another MDA. * mailertable is configured to send mydomain.com to dovecot:dovecot * SQL backend for user/passwords I have it working the way I want with the exception of catch-alls. I thought that it might work by adding @mydomain.com to virtusertable, but sendmail sees the "user not found" return from deliver as the MDA and bounces the mail to postmaster. So what I'm trying to accomplish is this: Mail from user(a)external.com to me(a)mydomain.com Deliver to me Mail from user(a)external.com to sales(a)mydomain.com (virtual) Deliver via deliver to sales(a)mydomain.com Mail from user(a)external.com to foobar(a)mydomain.com (invalid) Deliver to catchall - spam(a)otherdomain.com Can someone point me in the right direction. RTFM is fine if you'll tell me what FM to R, because I've run out of ideas... Thanks! -- Eric Loyd

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[Dovecot] question about mysql authentication
by Chantal Rosmuller 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi list, i use dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 installed from rpm centos 5.0 I cant get mysql authetication working: this is my /etc/dove-mysql.conf ######dove-mysql.conf should look like this########## #db_host = 127.0.0.1 #db_port = 3306 db = postfix db_user = postfix db_passwd = secret db_client_flags = 0 default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT '/var/vmail/%d/%n' as home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as mail, 150 AS uid, 12 AS gid, concat('dirsize:storage=',quota) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username ='%u' AND active ='1' ####################ends here#################### When I use this conffile: ##############dovecot configured to work with virtual users############ base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login default_mail_env = mbox:/var/vmail/%d/%n log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " log_path = /var/log/maillog mail_extra_groups = mail first_valid_uid = 150 last_valid_uid = 150 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes auth = mysql_auth auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf ####################################ends here###################### i get this error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 13: Unknown setting: userdb When I use this: ##############dovecot configured to work with virtual users############ base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login default_mail_env = mbox:/var/vmail/%d/%n log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " log_path = /var/log/maillog mail_extra_groups = mail first_valid_uid = 150 last_valid_uid = 150 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes auth = mysql_auth passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } ####################################ends here###################### i get the following error: Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 13: Unknown section type What is the correct syntax? Thank you

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[Dovecot] Dovecot installation with openldap shared libraries at Solaris 10
by Dovecot Jami 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi, I am installing dovecot-1.0.10 on Solaris 10 with LDAP support. I know that Solaris LDAP is broken and so I install openldap-2.3.35. My openldap-2.3.35 shared lib files are at /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include/. Barkley DB version is 4.2. Now I am configuring dovecot to use openldap as follows, PATH=$PATH:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin export PATH LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib -R/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib" ./configure --with-ldap make make install After installation it shows the same Solaris broken LDAP error message as below, dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] auth(default): LDAP: Buggy LDAP library returned wrong fd: 1 dovecot: [ID 128275 mail.error] Auth process died too early - shutting down Pls help me. Rgds, Mahmud Jami --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

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[Dovecot] Regarding the UIDLIST
by Kjartan Andreassen 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi, I wonder if the UID's in the UIDLIST will ever change for a given email? Eg with courier it is recreated sometimes, but can i 100% rely on that the UIDs will never change? Or is there anything else i can rely on that will never change? The reason I'm asking is that i want to link certain tasks etc etc to an email, and the only way to get a unique link is that if the uidlist or something else unique never changes. Thank you. -- Kjartan

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[Dovecot] Dovecot at Solaris 10 with LDAP : Buggy LDAP library returned wrong fd: 1
by Dovecot Jami 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi, I installed Dovecot-1.0.10 at my Solaris 10 with LDAP support. It runs fine without LDAP. But when I configured LDAP and start it, it shows the following error, dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] auth(default): LDAP: Buggy LDAP library returned wrong fd: 1 dovecot: [ID 128275 mail.error] Auth process died too early - shutting down Pls help me to solve this. Rgds, Mahmud Jami --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot With cygwin
by Jaspreet Singh 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

I googled around web and found http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-December/005665.html by Johannes Berg that has a patch for dovecot + cygwin. but that does not work. Does anybody successfully compiled and running dovecot on windows XP + cygwin 5.1. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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[Dovecot] Please remove me
by Mike McGonagle 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hello Mr List Administrator, I have tried to remove myself from this list, but for some reason, these requests are being ignored, and I am still receiving these mailings. Could someone in charge PLEASE remove me email address from this list? Thank you, Michael McGonagle

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[Dovecot] Quota per domain
by Michel Bulgado 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi People I have a two questions I use dovecot 1.0.10 I have quota maildir 1- I want to use the last version of quota 1.1 in my dovecot , i have to patch then, so which file i have to apply ? http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/ this one quota-rewrite-1.0.9.diff ??? my another question : 2- with the new quota (1.1) if is posible define a quota per domain? %n(a)domain1.com = 100M %n(a)domain2.com = 0 --- no quota limit or @domain1.com = 100M @domain2.com = 0 --- no limit quota Once again , sorry for my english Thanks -------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] old master.pid prevents dovecot startup
by Michael 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Summary ======= After an unclean shutdown the file /var/run/dovecot/master.pid remained behind. This prevented dovecot from starting, and gave a misleading error message. To be more resilient and fault-tolerant, I recommend that dovecot also check the validity of the PID in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid in order to determine whether or not another dovecot process is running. Detail ====== In testing out my automatic UPS shutdown I inadvertently shut down my system uncleanly ... oops! As the system rebooted, I saw that dovecot did not start properly, with an error message: Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf After the system came up, I tried to start dovecot manually. Turns out that there was an invalid PID in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid ----- [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Dovecot is already running with PID 1965 (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf [FAILED] [root@mykiss5 mth]# ps 1965 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND [root@mykiss5 mth]# rm /var/run/dovecot/master.pid rm: remove regular file `/var/run/dovecot/master.pid'? y [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot stop Stopping Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@mykiss5 mth]# dovecot --version 1.0.7 [root@mykiss5 mth]# ----- This leads me to believe that dovecot is only checking for the existance of /var/run/dovecot/master.pid. It seems to me that it would be more fault-tolerant if it also checked the validity of the PID that is in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid. Michael

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Re: [Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master
by Jerry Yeager 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

> > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:19:11 +0100 > From: Andreas Ntaflos <daff(a)dword.org> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at > */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <200801151519.11951.daff(a)dword.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Tuesday 15 January 2008 03:56:28 Jerry Yeager wrote: >>> while fiddling around with the configuration so Dovecot's LDA >>> "deliver" can be >>> used by multiple users by means of Getmail (you can read about that >>> in [1]) I >>> always end up running into the error message posted in the subject >>> line: ( stuff snipped out ) >> One last thing, as a security idea, try something like >> >> master { >> path = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master >> mode = 0600 >> user = dovecot_user >> group = dovecot_group >> } >> >> and set your postfix line that calls deliver to match: >> >> dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu >> user=dovecot_user:dovecot_group argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ >> deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} > > Thanks for this suggestion! But that would imply that I have a > virtual user > setup, wouldn't it? Because I don't, all my users are regular Unix > users with > shell accounts. That's why my Postfix main.cf contains just > > home_mailbox = Maildir/ > mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver > > which is also what the LDA/Postfix wiki page says on > wiki.dovecot.org. No > Dovecot entry in master.cf at all. > Actually I was responding to what you had listed in your message i.e. socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: root group: dovecot -- which is a setup type you would use in a virtual style of user (either a "super user" or a group of non-system listed users with different uids / gids) setup . I had not encountered your other postings until later. Jerry > And, as also mentioned elsewhere in this thread, until yesterday I > didn't even > have the master { ... } section uncommented, and no auth-master > socket seems > to have been configured. But then again I only delivered through > Postfix and > didn't need to have deliver called by a regular user. > > Andreas > -- > Andreas "daff" Ntaflos > Vienna, Austria > > GPG Fingerprint: 6234 2E8E 5C81 C6CB E5EC 7E65 397C E2A8 090C A9B4 >

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[Dovecot] Keep pop messages, is it possible?
by "Fábio M. Catunda" 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi! I would like to find a way to not delete messages when they are downloaded via pop3, is that possible with dovecot? Gmail do this, I dont know how they mark messages that have been downloaded to avoid clients to download it again, but it looks like a good resource! Thanks for the help!

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Re: [Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master
by Jerry Yeager 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

> > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:21:02 +0100 > From: Andreas Ntaflos <daff(a)pseudoterminal.org> > Subject: [Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at > */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <200801150021.02689.daff(a)pseudoterminal.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello list, > > while fiddling around with the configuration so Dovecot's LDA > "deliver" can be > used by multiple users by means of Getmail (you can read about that > in [1]) I > always end up running into the error message posted in the subject > line: > > Jan 15 00:00:02 HOSTNAME deliver(USERID): Can't connect to auth server > at /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master: Permission denied > > Notice how it says "/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"! How and why does > dovecot > ^^^^^^^^^^ > think that anything of any importance can be found under /usr/local/ > var/... ? > Please see dovecot -n at the end of this message, but as far as I > can tell I > > master: > path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master > mode: 432 > user: root > group: dovecot > -- > Andreas "daff" Ntaflos > Vienna, Austria > For the quick answer to your immediate problem / question, try: cd /path/to/dovecot's/deliver (probably /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ ) chmod u+s deliver (enable the setuid bit for the deliver app). Your Getmail app may not be truly running as root and thus does not really have permission to do what you want. you may need to do the same for the group as well Unix permissions are weird sometimes, like a $100 television tube that protects a 50 cent fuse by blowing first. It does look like (from your use of /usr/local/*****) you built dovecot to run out of /usr/local. One last thing, as a security idea, try something like master { path = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = dovecot_user group = dovecot_group } and set your postfix line that calls deliver to match: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=dovecot_user:dovecot_group argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} (try to have dovecot run as an unprivileged user as much as you can)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot With cygwin
by Jaspreet Singh 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi This is jesse. I am running exim as my mail server on cygwin. But i need imap/pop3 for accessing mail. I found that dovecot works on cygwin with some code change. So can i know how to compile dovecot on cygwin. This is important ANYBODY ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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[Dovecot] setgid fails
by Anil 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

I am using LDA/Sendmail. 20080113 version of dovecot. Jan 14 08:52:18 vds5 deliver(admin(a)domain.com): [ID 308812 mail.crit] setgid(10002) failed with euid=1, egid=1: Not owner

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[Dovecot] Maildir handling
by Sascha Holzleiter 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hi, we just setup a new mailserver for our company with some sieve filtering in place. Everything works as expected but there is one flaw. We setup the per user sieve filters in files within the users mailbox maildir as follows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 mail mail 21 Jan 13 17:20 .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/phpscript.sieve This link is actually picked up by dovecot and being announced as an IMAP folder which gives an error in certain MUAs as they try to access it. Is there a way to let dovecot check if the link is really a maildir, so lets say a directory with a maildirfolder file within it? Or just to hide this link from dovecot so its not advertised as an IMAP folder? Greetings, Sascha

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[Dovecot] Unexplained MDA bounce backs
by Dean Manners 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

I have recently noticed that some of our internal mailer scripts are causing Dovecot-LDA to generate Mailer Delivery Subsystem messages. The following Dovecot-LDA message is generated: ---- Message body ---- Your message was automatically rejected by Dovecot Mail Delivery Agent. The following reason was given: Unknown error ---- Message body ---- ---- Message header ---- Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON> Delivered-To: bounces@xxxxx Received: by mymachine.xxxxx (Postfix, from userid 5000) id 5772568300; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:00:56 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <dovecot-1200294055-774265-0@mymachine> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:00:55 +1100 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <noreply@xxxxx> To: <bounces@xxxxx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=disposition-notification; boundary="21506/mailfilter02" Subject: Automatically rejected mail Auto-Submitted: auto-replied (rejected) Precedence: bulk ---- Message header ---- Initially I thought these were being caused by Delivery-Receipt requests, however have since tested this and is not the case. I have tried to snoop through the logs (unfortunately on a very busy mail hub) using the Message-ID, however this doesn't seem to lead me back to the original message - only the MDA notification. I can only ascertain that its isolated to our scripts, as the bounces@ address is specifically used by them. Any ideas what would cause/trigger the "Unknown error" automatic rejects ? System config is -Postfix 2.3.4 with MySQL backend -Dovecot 1.0.rc26 with MySQL backend, using only deliver. All mail deliveries are otherwise fine. Regards __________________________________________ Dean Manners

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Re: [Dovecot] Imap proxy with tls?
by Someone Something 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

offlineimap looks like it will work. Do you know if it works well on big changes? I have about 1.5 gigs of email at the local site that will need to be uploaded to the main server. After its uploaded it will have to weed through it all during the sync every time. Think that will be ok? Thanks > Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Someone Something wrote: > > > >> I have a server with dovecot installed with imap and tls working > (call > >> that the remote server). Now I want to have a few computers at the > same > >> place to access the same account on the remote server. I have another > >> server (call this the local server) at the local site to do this with > >> but am > >> not sure how to do it. The proxy setup > >> http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy looks > >> about right > >> but that does not seem to support tls? I need tls going from the local > >> server to the remote server. I want all emails on the remote server > >> to be > >> the same as on the local server. This way all clients at the local > site > >> have very fast access to email and can still get to the email when > >> not at > >> the local site. > > > > This is a little different from what you're doing, but let me tell you > > how I do the above: I run offlineimap on the "local server", and it > > syncs the changes to and from the "remote server". > > > > -- Asheesh. > > > > >

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[Dovecot] Imap proxy with tls?
by Someone Something 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hello all, I have a server with dovecot installed with imap and tls working (call that the remote server). Now I want to have a few computers at the same place to access the same account on the remote server. I have another server (call this the local server) at the local site to do this with but am not sure how to do it. The proxy setup http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy looks about right but that does not seem to support tls? I need tls going from the local server to the remote server. I want all emails on the remote server to be the same as on the local server. This way all clients at the local site have very fast access to email and can still get to the email when not at the local site. Any suggestions? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Indexes
by Daniel L. Miller 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

When something "bad" happens to the indexes, my e-mail client (Thunderbird) reports an "unable to succeed" error on opening a mailbox. Leaving that mailbox and coming back works fine. Is this expected behaviour? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Custom 'quota exceeded' message + Sieve script from database
by Przemyslaw Wegrzyn 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hi! I'm quite new to Dovecot. helping my friend to migrate from Courier-IMAP to something more efficient, we are evaluating Dovecot at the moment. I had to prepare 2 small patches for Dovecot to suit our needs, and I've decided to post it here. I'm not fully familiar with Dovecot architecture yet, I'd appreciate if someone could look if these changes make sense (i.e. doesn't break anything). And of course, maybe someone is interested as well. 1. Customized "quota exceeded" message. http://czajnick.sitenet.pl/dovecot/dovecot_1.0.9_quota_exceeded_message.diff - quick hack to let me define custom message instead of typical "Quota exceeded", simply by using plugins { quota_exceeded_message = ... }. Browsing this mailing list I've seen some posts about such feature being implemented in Dovecot. Is it done in a similar way? Which stable version is the first to include this functionality? 2. Sieve filter modification http://czajnick.sitenet.pl/dovecot/dovecot_sieve_1.0.2_envscript_patch.diff In our systems we currently use a modified maildrop MDA that picks the filter script from the database instead of the file. This has proven useful - end-user's administration panel doesn't need any special permissions (or networking capabilities), as it doesn't need to access the filesystem - it is reduced to a plain database web-app. The patch above makes the delivery agent check for the sieve script present in SIEVE_SCRIPT environment variable. If this is the case, env var content is used instead of the script stored in a usual file pointed to by SIEVE variable. This makes it trivial to pass the script from the database using base dovecot functionality. A minor drawback of such solution is that the script is re-compiled on each delivery, but I don't think it takes much time to compile a few lines of a script using (f)lex/bison-or-yacc parser. Yes, I've noticed the sieve-manage patch, but I don't want the complexity of managing sieve script over the socket connection (if my understanding of the script is wrong, please correct me). BR, Przemyslaw

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[Dovecot] do not lose mail when dovecot is dead
by Daniel 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hi! Recently I've experienced problems with dovecot. Dovecot died silently, what means is that there are no core files, nor any indication in the log files, just the "kevent(): Invalid argument" messages. Dovecot just died, so deliver could not connect to the auth-master socket, which means that messages couldn't been delivered. The problem is that postfix thought that the delivery was successful, and didn't place the message to delay, but deliver(LDA) couldn't deliver the message, so it got lost. An example: postfix/pickup[29619]: 8A1C6F261: uid=1001 from=<id> postfix/cleanup[19148]: 8A1C6F261: message-id=<20080107192402.8A1C6F261(a)domain.hu> postfix/qmgr[29441]: 8A1C6F261: from=<id(a)domain.hu>, size=585, nrcpt=1 (queue active) deliver(leva): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda deliver(leva): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib10_quota_plugin.so deliver(leva): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so deliver(leva): Can't connect to auth server at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: Connection refused postfix/pipe[8582]: 8A1C6F261: to=<leva(a)domain.hu>, orig_to=<id>, relay=dovecot-lda, delay=1.7, delays=1.1/0/0/0 .68, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot-lda service) postfix/qmgr[29441]: 8A1C6F261: removed See? Postfix removed it from the queue, so basically all bets are off, and everything depends on deliver, but it just dropped the message. Is there anything that can be done regarding this issue? Thanks! Daniel

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[Dovecot] randomly disconnected with imap, and latest hg
by Daniel 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Hi! I'm using latest hg from the 1.1 branch, and noticed that since yesterday's updates, dovecot randomly disconnects clients when using imap, with these message in the log: "Disconnected for inactivity in reading our output bytes=153/41319" This happens randomly. Eg. I'm fetching messages, and suddenly, dovecot disconnects. Or my MUA just sits there, and then again, dovecot disconnects me with this message. I didn't even do anything with the client, so I can't think of anything which could've been read. What could be the problem? Daniel

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[Dovecot] Please help me resolve why mail isn't being delivered to virtual users
by Andrew Falanga 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Hi, I have to admit that I'm not quite sure why no one has responded to me about this one. If I'm not providing enough information or incorrect information please tell me. It's quite important that this e-mail system be working. I do not quite understand what it is that I'm missing now. I have the need to setup and configure various users as virtual users. To this end, I've configured them so that their home directories are "/virtusers/<userid>" and their INBOXes are "/var/mail/<userid>." I have created a system user ID called "vmail" which is referenced in my PostgreSQL database for UID/GID stuff. All virtual user home directories and INBOXes are made owner "vmail" and group is "users." Originally, I had my sendmail "/etc/mail/aliases" file setup to "map" all mail sent to these virtual users to the system user "vmail." However, none of the virtual users were getting any mail and vmail was just getting swamped. After doing more digging, I found that I just didn't understand the home directories and INBOX, mbox and such. That's what drove me to configuring what's in there now. Now, following directions on this WIKI page: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail?highlight=%28deliver%29 I'm still unable to get the e-mail working for them. Continually, sendmail bails with errors saying it, "Can't create output." Because I am using *.mc files, I made a new *.m4 file as directed in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/mailer. Dovecot does allow the virtual users to login. In fact, when I did, the first time, there appears a "mail" directory in their home directories after login. This would indicate to me that the login was successful. Further, I cut/pasted a message sent to one of the virtual users from the vmail INBOX (/var/mail/vmail) into the virtual user's INBOX (/var/mail/jdunkin). Then, logged in as this virtual user and ACTUALLY got the mail. I know this stuff works. What must be done to make sendmail do its thing for deliver? What is necessary to fix this situation? Andy

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[Dovecot] Allow_nets
by Evaggelos Balaskas 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I use the allow_nets password extra field [0] for my users. Is there a way to use this functionality for ALL users, and not to edit my passwd-file every time a new user is added ? The alternative i am working for this is the TCP Wrappers. [0]: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/AllowNets -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkd7ZzIACgkQWIK+Pe9twhrRDQCgjui9zyG67n6kA5I1Lf+0efvg cvIAoMe7+gniwfbZdFGh8UERtuw7IG0K =KKQk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-imap, tls, gnus
by Richard G Riley 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

I have a connection to my dovecot server from gnus: ,---- | (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods | '(nnimap "hermes" | (nnimap-stream starttls) | (nnimap-address "hermes") | (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo"))) `---- If I enter a group and read my mail then wander off and come back after a few minutes I can not navigate out of the group because my nnimap session has ended. What config parameter do I need to change in Dovecot to keep it open for the life of the client? (I am assuming its a dovecot issue here since it didn't happen with courier-imap).

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