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[Dovecot] Expected size of index-files?
by Tobias Balle-Petersen 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Hello... Im considering moving my index-files to a RAID1. How big do these files get? What should I plan for? Thanks, Tobias

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth: sockbuf.c:91: ber_sockbuf_ctrl: Assertion `( (sb)->sb_opts.lbo_valid == 0x3 )' failed.
by Maciej Paczesny 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

2008/1/28, Maciej Paczesny <maciunio2(a)gmail.com>: > Hello, > > I'm almost sure that all topics and problems mentioned below were > separately posted to this list already. But after spending 4 days on > searching, I did'n find a compilation similar to my case. So maybe > some of you guys, are able to answer to help me solve this: > > 1. I'd like to use userdb and passdb of Dovetcot to work with Windows AD. > 2. I have to use them both because I'd like to use LDA to serve for my Postfix. > 3. I DO NOT want tou use any external programs (ie PAM) to talk to AD server. > 4. I was able to make my system partially running - I CAN bind to AD > database, and confirm user/password. > 5. I want to get follownig attributes: home directory (OK, I could put > it statically), uid/gid (OK, it could be static too) and MAIL QUOTA > (my users have different values - no 'statics'). > > To help you on this subject, here are my configs/data: > OS => > Gentoo Linux > > uname -a => > 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 21 18:08:57 CET 2006 i686 > Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > dovecot --version => > 1.1.beta14 > > dovecot -n => > protocols: imaps > ssl_listen: *:993 > ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/newcert.pem > ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/newkey.pem > ssl_parameters_regenerate: 0 > ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 > disable_plaintext_auth: no > verbose_ssl: yes > login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login > login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login > verbose_proctitle: yes > mail_uid: 5000 > mail_gid: 5000 > mail_location: maildir:~/.Maildir/ > mail_debug: yes > mail_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/var > mail_plugins: quota imap_quota > auth default: > mechanisms: login plain > username_format: %Lu > verbose: yes > debug: yes > debug_passwords: yes > passdb: > driver: ldap > args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf > userdb: > driver: ldap > args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf > socket: > type: listen > client: > path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth > mode: 438 > user: postfix > group: postfix > master: > path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master > mode: 384 > user: vmail > group: vmail > plugin: > quota: maildir:storage=10240000000:ignore=Trash > sieve: /var/vmail/lpr/%u/.Maildir/.dovecot.sieve > > grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' dovecot-ldap.conf > hosts = 10.10.10.8:3268 > uris = ldap://10.10.10.8:3268 > dn = lpr\Administrator > dnpass = *** > auth_bind = yes > auth_bind_userdn = lpr\%u > base = dc=lpr,dc=com,dc=pl > ldap_version = 3 > user_attrs = uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid,postOfficeBox=home,carLicense=quota > user_filter = (&(cn=%u)) > pass_attrs = cn=user,userPasword=password > pass_filter = (&(cn=%u)) > > Windows AD => > Windows 2003 R2 PL > > ----------------------- > Logs: > > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 > PLAIN service=imap secured lip=10.10.10.2 rip=10.10.10.29 > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 > AG1wYWN6ZXNueQBOZGYxNjEzODI= > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=xxx > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST > 1 16026 1 > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): ldap(xxx,10.10.10.29): > user search: base=dc=lpr,dc=com,dc=pl scope=subtree filter=(&(cn=xxx)) > fields=uidNumber,gidNumber,postOfficeBox,carLicense > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 1 xxx > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<xxx>, > method=PLAIN, rip=10.10.10.29, lip=10.10.10.2, TLS > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: IMAP(xxx): Loading modules from > directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: IMAP(xxx): Module loaded: > /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: IMAP(xxx): Module loaded: > /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: IMAP(xxx): Effective uid=5000, gid=5000, home= > Jan 28 00:37:40 gentoo dovecot: IMAP(xxx): Quota root: > name=storage=10240000000 backend=maildir args=ignore=Trash > > Jan 28 00:37:41 gentoo dovecot: IMAP(xxx): Namespace: type=private, > prefix=INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, > subscriptions=yes > Jan 28 00:37:41 gentoo dovecot: IMAP(xxx): maildir: > data=/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB/.Maildir/ > Jan 28 00:37:41 gentoo dovecot: IMAP(xxx): maildir++: > root=/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB/.Maildir, index=, > control=, inbox=/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB/.Maildir > Jan 28 00:37:41 gentoo dovecot: IMAP(xxx): > mkdir(/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB/.Maildir/cur) > failed: Permission denied > > > > the second case is that i receive following errors in log file: > Jan 28 00:47:31 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 > PLAIN service=imap secured lip=10.10.10.2 rip=10.10.10.29 > Jan 28 00:47:31 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 > Jan 28 00:47:31 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 > AG1wYCN6ZXNuew9OZGYxxAEzODIe= > Jan 28 00:47:31 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=xxx > Jan 28 00:47:31 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST > 1 16170 1 > Jan 28 00:47:31 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): > prefetch(xxx,10.10.10.29): passdb didn't return userdb entries > Jan 28 00:47:31 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): > userdb(xxx,10.10.10.29): user not found from userdb > Jan 28 00:47:31 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND 1 > > when i use prefetch driver and with change like this one below to > ldap.conf file: > pass_attrs = uid=user, userPassword=password, > postOfficeBox=userdb_home, uidNumber=userdb_uid, gidNumber=userdb_gid, > carLicense=userdb_quota > > > (and, yes, i know about the home directory path. it is easy to make it > real and working (change mail_location) - it is not a problem.) > > the case and question is: how can i get a QUOTA (in my case - > carLicense) attribute from AD/LDAP? is it shown somewhere? how can it > be verified? the value "storage=10240000000 " is a static one written > in config and the same for all users. > is there any kind of manual on how to make AD and Dovecot running and > returning uid, gid, home, quota etc attributes without PAM? > ok, I did manage to step ahead a bit. using passdb and userdb gives me some progress - sniffit gives me the proof that i'm receiving proper data from AD LDAP. but there is another problem: Jan 28 13:11:13 gentoo dovecot: imap-login: file client-authenticate.c: line 200 (sasl_callback): assertion failed: (!client->destroyed || reply == SASL_SERVER_REPLY_CLIENT_ERROR || reply == SASL_SERVER_REPLY_MASTER_FAILED) [...] Jan 28 13:36:50 gentoo dovecot: auth(default): dovecot-auth: sockbuf.c:91: ber_sockbuf_ctrl: Assertion `( (sb)->sb_opts.lbo_valid == 0x3 )' failed. it seems that Dovecot cannot insert received data into the environment variables (???) -- Maciej Paczesny maciunio2(a)gmail.com ***Gdyby nie wymyślono elektryczności, siedziałbym przed kompem przy świeczkach***

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[Dovecot] merging Maildir from old machine to new machine
by Larry Vaden 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Dovecot version 1.0.rc26. Situation is essentially a forklift upgrade to make more horsepower available for email. Given a new mail store using Postfix and Dovecot (Maildir), is it possible to transfer from the old mail box (running the same config) or will this generate problems with the various indices maintained by Dovecot? Kind regards and thanks/ldv Larry Vaden Internet Texoma, Inc.

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Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.beta15 released
by Jerry Yeager 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

On Feb 11, 2008, at 7:35 PM, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:03:08 +0200 > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > Subject: [Dovecot] v1.1.beta15 released > To: Dovecot List <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> > Message-ID: <1202760188.4901.30.camel@hurina> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta15.tar.gz > http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta15.tar.gz.sig > > It's been a while since the previous beta, so I guess it's time for a > (Stuff cut out) This must be a day of updates. It works fine on the newly-released-today OS X 10.5.2

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[Dovecot] mailbox not acceced
by Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Hi I wonder how can I know if a mailbox is not beeing consulted. I mean I have severals mailboxs but I know some account are not used. I like to know how to determine wich mail accounts are not beeing used. Is there any way in dovecot to know the las time a user loged in to dovecot? Thanks

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[Dovecot] v1.1.beta15 released
by Timo Sirainen 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta15.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta15.tar.gz.sig It's been a while since the previous beta, so I guess it's time for a new release. I wanted this one to be called v1.1.rc1, but Squat indexes still aren't completely working. My simple tests seem to work OK, but after doing some random appends+searches+expunges with imaptest it's giving too few results when searching. I'm getting a bit tired of fixing the Squat code (although it's nearly done, finally..), so I'll most likely soon copy the current dovecot hg repository to dovecot-1.1 and start adding new features to the main dovecot repository for upcoming v1.2. The new features to be most likely implemented first are: - Mailbox list indexes - Thread indexes - Virtual mailboxes Some of the most important changes in beta15: - If dovecot master kills itself, the error message is now written to a file in base_dir as well as to log file. When Dovecot starts the next time it shows this error message to user and asks to look into error log file. I'm hoping this will reduce "why dovecot exits silently after starting it?" questions. - LDAP: Added tls_* settings for using TLS with OpenLDAP. - POP3-only users shouldn't get dovecot.index.cache files created anymore when quota plugin is used - Fixed/optimized handling pipelined commands - rawlog: added -b parameter to log packet boundaries. - auth: %a and %b were broken

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[Dovecot] Dovecot auth-master socket as postfix table lookup source.
by Uldis Pakuls 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

Hi all. Intro: Timo has already done great job providing patch which allows postfix to authenticate directly against dovecot (included in latest postfix sorce code/release). Now I'm looking around for one more thing. I want to use dovecot's user db as source for postfix lookup tables. In particular: virtual_mailbox_maps Main reason is - postfix access rules and fighting against spam. This will allow to look up dovecot dovecot's user-db and check status of user. If user not exist mail is rejected at SMTP protocol level (instead of accepting mail and later getting bounce for dovecot's deliver). Rules I use looks like: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_auth_destination, reject Of course I can write simple script which duplicates dovect's user-db information in format usable by postfix's postmap (this is way in all may mail systems works now). What I want is implement lookups directly against dovecot. Such table can be used for postfix virtual deliver too. It seems implement Dovecot authentication protocol for use in postfix table lookup mechanism is relative easy. Also there is no need to patch complete postfix source code. Postfix allow to create pugins (external dynamically loadable libraries) for such task. recent postfix source code already includes such plugins for mysql, ldap etc.. My question is - my be some one has already made such plugin or my be someone is interested to cooperate in such job. [my be Timo itsef?:))] Uldis

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[Dovecot] OT: Skins for Squirrelmail - looking for a reminder
by Mike Brudenell 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Greetings - On one of the mailing lists I'm on there was a recent-ish discussion about webmail clients, and someone mentioned a site selling sets of skins for SquirrelMail... the entire set was about $300. I'm trying to track down the site but seem to have deleted the message I'd carefully been keeping. I recall an off-topic discussion along these lines here recently, but can't locate anything about skins in the archives. Can anyone recall this? Or am I mis-remembering it as being here on this list? Confused, but then it is Friday... :-) Cheers, Mike B-) -- The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York Yo10 5DD, UK Tel:+44-1904-433811 FAX:+44-1904-433740 * Unsolicited commercial e-mail is NOT welcome at this e-mail address. *

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[Dovecot] replacement for IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7
by Rody 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

While running dovecot on debian etch using version 1.0.rc15-2etch3, i wonder the following: If i read the config files correctly, dovecot seems to have no equivalent of courier's IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7 setting. Therefore, i wrote a script that dives into the user's directories and their maildirs. It looks like this: ============================================= #!/bin/bash for pad1 in $(ls /home) do if [ -e "/home/$pad1/Maildir/.Prullenbak" ] then find "/home/$pad1/Maildir/.Prullenbak/cur" -mtime +2 -type f -delete find "/home/$pad1/Maildir/.Prullenbak/new" -mtime +2 -type f -delete fi if [ -e "/home/$pad1/Maildir/.Allerlei.Spam" ] then find "/home/$pad1/Maildir/.Allerlei.Spam/cur" -mtime +2 -type f -delete find "/home/$pad1/Maildir/.Allerlei.Spam/new" -mtime +2 -type f -delete fi done ============================================ Now, can i just put a script like this in /etc/hourly or do i have to add things like stopping the dovecot deamon (i sure hope not!) in order to prevent file-corruption? Or has dovecot in the meantime got a config option that does this just like courier does? Rody

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[Dovecot] location of .subscriptions
by Jochen 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hello, I just installed dovecot (1.0.10) to replace UW-IMAP. So far almost everything works. But I need shared folders (mbox format). I hope I've set up everything but when a user subscribes to one of the shared folders a file .subscriptions with perm 600 is created in the parent directory of the shared mailboxes ("namespace public" below). As I understand the docs that file should go to the user's home directory, right? What did I wrong? Thank you in advance. Here is my dovecot.conf (comments and blank lines stripped): ---- snip ---- protocols = imap imaps pop3 disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mbox:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mailindexes/%u namespace private { inbox = yes } namespace public { prefix = Public/ location = mbox:/var/spool/imap:INDEX=/var/mailindexes hidden = no } mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = fcntl protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb shadow { } userdb passwd { } user = root } dict { } plugin { } ---- snip ---- --

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[Dovecot] (message_parse_header_next): assertion failed:, +(IS_LWSP(line->value[0])) 1.1beta14
by Adam McDougall 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

I noticed these happen when one of my users searches his Trash folder which he doesn't empty. He uses thunderbird and it is reproducable. Feb 5 22:47:39 boomhauer dovecot: IMAP(username): file message-header-parser.c: line 350 (message_parse_header_next): assertion failed: +(IS_LWSP(line->value[0])) Feb 5 22:47:41 boomhauer dovecot: child 8022 (imap) killed with signal 6 Feb 5 22:48:21 boomhauer dovecot: IMAP(username): file message-header-parser.c: line 350 (message_parse_header_next): assertion failed: +(IS_LWSP(line->value[0])) Feb 5 22:48:24 boomhauer dovecot: child 8121 (imap) killed with signal 6 Feb 5 22:49:13 boomhauer dovecot: IMAP(username): file message-header-parser.c: line 350 (message_parse_header_next): assertion failed: +(IS_LWSP(line->value[0])) Feb 5 22:49:15 boomhauer dovecot: child 8171 (imap) killed with signal 6 I hope this is enough of a backtrace, let me know if not: 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 "amd64-marcel-freebsd"... Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #0 0x00000000109d54ac in __res_pquery () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00000000109d54ac in __res_pquery () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x00000000004a8e1b in i_panic (format=0x4d60e0 "Tue") at failures.c:191 #2 0x00000000004a0149 in message_parse_header_next (ctx=0x18c3f00, hdr_r=0x7fffffffdff0) at message-header-parser.c:341 #3 0x00000000004a11e9 in parse_content_type (ctx=0x600180, hdr=0x0) at message-parser.c:441 #4 0x00000000004a1bb6 in message_parser_init_from_parts (parts=0x450f848, input=0x7fffffffe0c0, hdr_flags=32767, flags=16769184) at message-parser.c:718 #5 0x0000000010c2355d in fts_mailbox_search_next_nonblock () from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so #6 0x000000000046b353 in mailbox_search_deinit (_ctx=0xc42200) at mail-storage.c:624 #7 0x0000000000418f2f in imap_search_deinit (cmd=0x60c300, ctx=0x61d048) at cmd-search.c:64 #8 0x000000000041916e in cmd_search_more (cmd=0x4b2216) at cmd-search.c:119 #9 0x00000000004b25ef in io_loop_handle_timeouts_real (ioloop=0x5ff240) at ioloop.c:257 #10 0x00000000004b263d in io_loop_handle_timeouts_real (ioloop=0x5ff240) at ioloop.c:267 #11 0x00000000004b351e in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x5ff240) at ioloop-kqueue.c:123 #12 0x00000000004b2690 in io_loop_handle_timeouts_real (ioloop=0x5ff240) at ioloop.c:280 #13 0x00000000004265de in main_deinit () at main.c:269 #14 0x000000000041418e in _start (ap=0x0, cleanup=0x7fffffffe6ad) at /usr/src/lib/csu/amd64/crt1.c:69 #15 0x00007fffffffe6ca in ?? () #16 0x00007fffffffe6dd in ?? () #17 0x00007fffffffe6f8 in ?? () #18 0x00007fffffffe709 in ?? () #19 0x00007fffffffe71a in ?? () #20 0x00007fffffffe733 in ?? () #21 0x00007fffffffe747 in ?? () # 1.1.beta14: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/apache2/ssl/mail.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/apache2/ssl/mail.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_max_userip_connections: 25 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 1000 mail_extra_groups: postlocal mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private/indexes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_plugins: acl fts fts_squat mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ hidden: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: Mail/ hidden: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: #shared/decs/ location: maildir:/egr/mail/shared/decs:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/public/control/decs:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot/public/indexes/decs list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd args: system_user= socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 384 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: acl: vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls:cache_secs=10 fts: squat

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird can't see a maildir named .Inbox (yeah I know, poor name)
by Adam McDougall 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

I discovered by chance while migrating some user email to dovecot, one of them had a mailbox called "Inbox" and my script migrated it to a Maildir called .Inbox but Thunderbird could not see it at all, even in subscription lists. I tested with my account and it looks like mutt CAN see it. This seems like a client issue so I'll just make my migration script rename anything called Inbox to avoid it, but I thought I would send a note incase anyone else trips on it.

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[Dovecot] Can't get apop to work.
by Greg Lorriman 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi Folks, I'm fairly new to linux so this message may reflect that. dovecot info (running on CentOS 5.0): protocols: pop3s listen: ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format: %v.%u auth default: debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd If I select apop as one of the allowed protocols (in order to avoid having to use ssl) I get this error message in the mail log : "APOP mechanism can't be supported with given passdbs" I tried fiddling with PAM by adding an /etc/pam.d/apop file with these contents : auth required pam_unix.so nullok account required pam_unix.so makes no difference, in anycase as much reading as I;ve done to understand PAM I still have not much clue: the docs are quite obscure. My /etc/pam.d/dovecot file looks like this : #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_nologin.so auth include system-auth account include system-auth session include system-auth At this point I seem to be out of options. I've been through the docs, and trawled the internet. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Greg --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

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[Dovecot] Editing sieve scripts via webmail?
by Tobias Balle-Petersen 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hello... I have dovecot 1.0.10 running with the sieve plugin and virtual users (LDAP). My webmail is squirrelmail. I want to allow the users to create sieve-scripts via a squirrelmail-plugin. The plugins seems to require that the IMAP-server is cyrus. What are the options for dovecot? Thanks, Tobias

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[Dovecot] backup strategy
by Jochen Kaechelin 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

what's the prefered way to backup users mail? i use doevcot shipping with debian/etch an maildir. thanx -- jochen

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[Dovecot] Static list of users with passdb pam
by Koen Vermeer 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi, On my system, I want to provide imap access for some of the users listed in /etc/passwd. The list of users should be provided by me, and should just be a list in a text file. All the userdb options are static (uid, gid, home directory). Unfortunately, I cannot think of a way to configure Dovecot to do this. The closest I get is with: passdb pam {} userdb passwd-file { args = /path/to/passwd-file } However, the passwd-file is now more complex than it really needs to be, as it includes fields for password, uid, gid and home directory as well. Is there some way to handle this? Or am I trying to do something stupid? Thanks! Koen

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[Dovecot] Doubt on adding support for new mailbox format
by Armando Adami Zaro 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi! I'm starting to read and play with dovecot since a month ago. But my mailboxes' format is hashdir, which has been implemented here by my team. Here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat I've noticed that "Adding support for new formats for Dovecot isn't very difficult, although it can be time consuming. Dovecot exposes a nice and simple API which needs to be implemented" But I couldn't find that API. I've read the documentation so many times but have not found. Can you help me? Thanks a lot! -- Armando Adami Zaro Canopus Informática Ltda Porto Alegre - RS - Brasil +55 51 3062-2404

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[Dovecot] Info about dovecot log
by Andrea Perotti 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi guys in my logs I found those lines. Nothing special, but what the bytes value stand for ? dovecot: Feb 04 12:22:18 Info: IMAP(andreamtp): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=657/88763 dovecot: Feb 04 12:22:18 Info: IMAP(andreamtp): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=1341/122961 dovecot: Feb 04 12:22:18 Info: IMAP(andreamtp): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=1384/118555 dovecot: Feb 04 12:22:18 Info: IMAP(andreamtp): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=2099/274912 dovecot: Feb 04 12:22:18 Info: IMAP(andreamtp): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=3321/346599 Thank you for the explanation you could give me ;) ! cheers Andrea Perotti

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[Dovecot] Convert plugin question
by Dmitry Filonov 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi, Is it possible to change convert plugin, so it would keep old UIDVALIDITY and UIDNEXT after conversion from mbox to Maildir? As far as I can tell, this shouldn't be a big problem as this information already exists in the mbox. Well, at least for mboxes, that have that information. The problem is easy, if UIDVALIDITY changes during conversion, then client has to reload whole mailbox from the server. And this is not easy for users with 5+ Gb of mail. Thanks, FiL

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[Dovecot] Sieve
by Fred Newtz 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Alright, so I know I need to get sieve installed. Seems fairly easy to make happen. However, in the documentation it tells me to find dovecot-config and supply that directory into the --with-dovecot= configuration option. For some reason I do not have that file on my machine. I have used find / -name 'dovecot-config' to search for it and it is not there. Is it going to be a problem that the file is not on my machine? Thanks, Fred

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[Dovecot] LDA postfix + deliver, problem lookup, accepting email for everyone
by Sylvain Viart 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi, I'm setting up dovecot pop3 deamon for a small set of mailbox. I want to be able to set a small set of mailbox simply, so I've used "passdb passwd-file" + virtual mailboxes with "userdb static". My problem is that it seems that postfix accept and create mailbox for every address I post. It is configured to use local delivery through dovecot's deliver. How do I force deliver to retrun an error if the destination is not defined in the passwd-file? The doc said that "userdb static" should do a lookup automatically. But no luke for me. Is it really a deliver problem, or a postfix configuration problem? Any, hint? Regards, Sylvain. dovecot --version 1.0.rc15 # dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 8 last_valid_uid: 8 first_valid_gid: 8 last_valid_gid: 8 mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%u mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format: %08Xu%08Xv auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd.dovecot userdb: driver: static args: uid=mail gid=mail home=/var/mail/%u allow_all_users=no socket: type: listen client: master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: mail group: mail Also in postfix : dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 virtual_mailbox_domains = my.domain.com virtual_transport = dovecot # UID/GID mail virtual_uid_maps = static:8 virtual_gid_maps = static:8 + master.cf # pop3 deliver dovecot dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mail:mail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient}

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Re: [Dovecot] LDA postfix + deliver, problem lookup, accepting email for everyone
by Sylvain Viart 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi Charles Charles Marcus a écrit : >> dovecot --version >> 1.0.rc15 > > Please upgrade first - this is very old. Yep, you're right, but it's debian etch package version. Is it known to be broken, using this version? I've fought with other software compilation, if I can avoid to do it one more time... Thanks noticing that. Regards, Sylvain.

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[Dovecot] High availability strategies?
by Ed W 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Anyone here trying any "high availability" strategies for mail servers? (Ralph what do you do?) I am reading up a little on DRBD + OCFS for a master/master setup but this doesn't seem to address how to avoid having a single master proxy process (assuming that we are running on rented equip and don't have ability to shift IP addresses around servers). It appears to be possible to play games with DNS and short expiries, but this causes extra DNS traffic for the general case when we are up and running? We had some bad ram in a server recently and it's the worst possible situation. Server locking up, downtime, but it's not easy to repro and fix... (only happens every few days. Memcheck found nothing...) How could we redesign our setup to be resilient against this? (How does Google or Yahoo do it?) For reference I am using vservers to host dovecot and this is working very nicely and makes it real simple to chuck the config onto another host and test things (upgrades, etc). Highly recommended. Any suggestions (from people who have tried stuff)? Cheers Ed W

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[Dovecot] ssl-parameters.dat.tmp missing
by Zbigniew Szalbot 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hello, My dovecot works well but I have noticed in logs the following line: Feb 5 09:19:51 lists dovecot: ssl-build-param: Can't create temporary SSL parameters file /var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat.tmp: No such file or directory I am not sure when it first appeared but I have not seen it before (and I am using dovecot for more almost 2 years now). $ dovecot -n # 1.0.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/certs/key.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no shutdown_clients: no login_dir: /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_greeting: Welcome. Dovecot is ready. login_max_processes_count: 200 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 26 first_valid_gid: 0 mail_extra_groups: mailnull default_mail_env: maildir:/var/spool/virtual/%d/%n/Maildir mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/virtual/%d/%n/Maildir 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 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: root group: wheel Thank you for pointers as to what to do to fix that warning. Zbigniew Szalbot

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[Dovecot] proxy logging
by diego 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hi, I'm testing dovecot 1.1.beta14 on two debian etch with drbd+ocfs2[active/active], I use qmail+vpopmail(userdb) and three front-end with openbsd 4.2 with dovecot 1.1.beta14 as proxy with passdb sql through vpopmail database. Is posible to add logs into vpopmail.vlog from proxys?, like "update vlog blah blah..." or in other sql database? I tried with post login scripting but I don't recibe any variable. Please, sorry my poor english. Regards,. debian backend servers: # 1.1.beta14: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no mail_max_userip_connections: 2048 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh 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: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: vpopmail userdb: driver: vpopmail plugin: quota: maildir openbsd frontend servers: # 1.1.beta14: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot.pem verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: _dovecot verbose_proctitle: yes mail_debug: yes fsync_disable: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh 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: user: nobody verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=0 gid=0 plugin: quota: maildir mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields: uid box msgid size /etc/dovecot-sql.conf: password_query = SELECT pw_clear_passwd AS password, pw_domain AS domain, '192.168.224.2' AS host, 'Y' AS nologin, 'Y' AS nodelay, 'Y' AS proxy FROM vpopmail WHERE pw_name = '%n' AND pw_domain = '%d' limit 1

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