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[Dovecot] Dovecot Periodically Stops Authenticating Users
by David Gitman 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

Hi, It seems that my dovecot installation periodically stops authenticating users. Restarting dovecot resolves the issue temporarily. I'm authenticating via PAM to OpenLDAP on a CentOS 4 box. I've seen several related posts about this issue but no resolution. My logs show: Sep 15 03:58:24 server01 dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Resource temporarily unavailable Sep 15 03:58:24 server01 dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Resource temporarily unavailable And my configuration is: /usr/sbin/dovecot --version 1.0.3 /usr/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.0.3: /etc/dovecot.conf login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:~/mail mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd Any ideas on how to resolve this? Thanks! -david

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[Dovecot] Migration woes from tpop mbox to dovecot maildir
by Chris Richardson 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

I was hoping some one might be able to offer me some advice on a little problem I have. I am looking to A. move from mbox to maildir B. looking to move from tpop to dovecot to bring both pop and imap under the same program. anyways the problem I am having is this tpop3d mbox uses MD5 sum of the mailbox headers in hex which is option %m in the uidl section but the problem is when dovecot convert plugin runs and makes in a maildir it fails to find the md5 of this because it is only used for mboxs. if I change this from %m to %Mf it downloads every message on the clients computer which is not desirable. I was thinking only options i have is to allow it to download all them mail and or write a script to convert it to maildir or another pop servers uidl. but i dont know much about how other pop servers generate there headers. so I was hoping maybe some one has done something similar to this or could offer some input. thanks -Chris The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete this material from any computer. In accordance with industry regulations, all messages are retained and are subject to monitoring. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content and is believed to be clean. Securities offered through Cantella & Co., Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC. Home Office: 2 Oliver Street, 11th Floor, Boston, MA 02109 Telephone: (617)521-8630

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[Dovecot] Quota Exceeded message
by alandaluz＠gmail.com 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Any plans on having custom Quota Exceeded messages in the future (or now)? I'd love to be able to put the exceeding username in the message to help with some issues. Thanks, Cassidy

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[Dovecot] Does auth_username_format work at all?
by Lars Stavholm 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hi All, can anyone confirm whether "auth_username_format = %n" works or not? R /Lars

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[Dovecot] v1.1.alpha5 crashes with segmentation fault
by arvids 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hello, dovecot process crashes on startup with segmentation fault. Here is backtrace: (gdb) r Starting program: /usr/local/dovecot/sbin/dovecot Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. settings_is_active (set=0x0) at master-settings.c:505 505 if (*set->protocols == '\0') { (gdb) bt full #0 settings_is_active (set=0x0) at master-settings.c:505 No locals. #1 0x080535d5 in master_settings_read (path=<value optimized out>, nochecks=false, nofixes=false) at master-settings.c:1397 ctx = {type = SETTINGS_TYPE_ROOT, parent_type = SETTINGS_TYPE_ROOT, protocol = MAIL_PROTOCOL_ANY, root = 0x80721d0, server = 0x80721d0, auth = 0x80727c8, socket = 0x807293c, auth_socket = 0x8072930, auth_passdb = 0x8072878, auth_userdb = 0x80728e0, namespace = 0x0, level = 0} server = <value optimized out> prev = (struct server_settings *) 0x80721d0 auth = <value optimized out> ns = <value optimized out> temp = <value optimized out> #2 0x08051407 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfdf9524) at main.c:445 exec_protocol = 0x0 exec_section = 0x0 foreground = false ask_key_pass = false log_error = false dump_config = false dump_config_nondefaults = false i = -1208668172 (gdb) dovecot -n also crashes, but here is dovecot -n output taken with previous version: # 1.1.alpha4: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ syslog_facility: local0 protocols: pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Server. login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 64 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 95 first_valid_gid: 95 mail_uid: 95 mail_gid: 95 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes fsync_disable: yes mail_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins: quota mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_enable_last: yes pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 apop cache_size: 2048 cache_ttl: 28800 cache_negative_ttl: 60 user: doveauth verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: dict:::proxy:/var/run/dovecot/dict-server:quotadict dict: quotadict: mysql:/usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql-dict-quota.conf Regards, Arvids

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[Dovecot] mailbox_idle_check_interval in minutes or seconds?
by Rupert Kolb 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hi, sorry for this question, but I didn't find the information in the documentation or wiki: Is mailbox_idle_check_interval (in dovecot.conf) in seconds or minutes? I think it's minutes. But ... It would be nice, if this will be in the docu of the dovecot.conf. Thanks Rupert

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[Dovecot] v1.0.5 released
by Timo Sirainen 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.5.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.5.tar.gz.sig v1.0.4 was a bit bad release. - deliver: v1.0.4 broke home directory handling - maildir: Creating mailboxes didn't use dovecot-shared's group for cur/new/tmp directories.

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[Dovecot] v1.1.alpha5 released
by Timo Sirainen 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha5.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha5.tar.gz.sig I think we're finally close to v1.1.betas. - Fixed "messages_count too large" index errors. - deliver was crashing. - Saving messages with maildir accessed freed memory, which might have caused crashes. - Index files are now never marked as "corrupted". Instead fsck is run which preserves as much of the original index as possible. This is important with dbox at least since index files are the only place where the latest flag/keyword changes are. Recent alphas were also modifying process's fd limits. The current behavior is: - If current fd limit is less than login_max_processes_count (imap +pop3) + max_mail_processes, log a warning at startup: "fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 1234). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings" - Since 1024 is a common default limit, I dropped max_mail_processes default to 512. - Login processes drop their fd limit to the maximum number of fds needed, plus a few more just in case.

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[Dovecot] Proxy problems with 1.0.5 !
by Ed W 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hi I am trying to do a staged migration over to dovecot, but having troubles at the first hurdle. I setup the proxy feature to redirect most of our users back to the current Courier imap/pop server, and it's partly working, but I'm getting some serious errors using Thunderbird and IMAP. Now, I had expected the proxying to be fairly transparent and basically just dovecot doing an auth and then passing the stream on to the other server? My problem is that using Thunderbird I can read all my folders OK, but I can't save anything in my Sent Items or Drafts folders... Basically I get errors every time I try and send an email, or try to save to the draft folder. Curiously, directly browsing into those folders works fine, as does deleting emails, and apparently copying them works fine also... Why is the saving of sent messages failing...? The setup is basically taking a working Thunderbird install, changing the server name from pointing at the Courier server to point at the dovecot server - dovecot in turn is told to proxy back to the original server. All I'm getting from Thunderbird is an "Invalid Command" response. Is there an easy way to get a look inside the imap stream to try and see what's failing? Any suggestions on why this is happening at all? One idea is that I have setup completely different namespaces in Dovecot, (with a hidden namespace which should be courier compatible), but I wouldn't have expected this to affect the Proxy stuff at all?! Grateful for any pointers to debug this - it's a fairly major hurdle for my rollout Thanks Ed W

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[Dovecot] Quota problem
by Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hi alI I install dovecot using the DovecotLDAPostfixAdminMySQL HOWTO but I have a problem with quota. Quota it is not taken into account by deliver I also tried a compiled dovecot version from sorces and the resault is the same. dovecot version from debian distribution 1.0.rc15-2 dovecot from sources dovecot-1.0.5.tar.gz Thanks in advance Osvaldo Those are my files File /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file = /etc/apache2/ssl/server.crt ssl_key_file = /etc/apache2/ssl/server.key #ssl_ca_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/ca-bundle.crt protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " #mail_location = maildir:/export/mail/%d/%u mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u/Maildir mail_extra_groups = mail first_valid_uid = 5000 last_valid_uid = 5000 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle delay-newmail } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com mail_plugins = quota log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log mail_plugins = cmusieve # sieve_global_dir = /etc/dovecot/sieve/ global_script_path =/etc/dovecot/sieve/dovecot.sieve } auth default { # Having "login" also as a mechanism make sure outlook can use the auth smtpd as well # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms mechanisms = plain login passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/sql.conf } userdb prefetch { } user = nobody socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = vmail group = mail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = mail } } } dict { } plugin { quota = maildir:storage=10240:messages=1000 acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls trash = /etc/dovecot/trash.conf } File /etc/dovecot/sql.conf driver = mysql default_pass_scheme = MD5 connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=password user_query = SELECT concat('/var/vmail/', maildir, 'Maildir') as home, concat('maildir:/var/vmail/', maildir, 'Maildir') as mail, 5000 AS uid, 8 AS gid, concat('maildir:storage=', floor(quota/1024)) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' password_query = SELECT username as user, password, concat('/var/vmail/', maildir, 'Maildir') as userdb_home, concat('maildir:/var/vmail/', maildir, 'Maildir') as userdb_mail, 5000 as userdb_uid, 12 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'

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[Dovecot] auth_default_realm for different listeners
by John Morrissey 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

We provide POP3 service for several realms, each of which has a substantial number of users logging in with no realm (bare username). We would like to use Dovecot, but I haven't been able to findout how to vary auth_default_realm for each listener. My most recent attempt was to set up one auth {} block for each realm with a different auth_default_realm and socket master path. I then set up one protocol pop3 {} block for each realm, listening on different IP addresses and with a auth_socket_path corresponding to the auth block for that listener. I'm not sure if I'm on the right track here, but I'm seeing two problems: 1. When dovecot starts, I get: Sep 5 18:32:21 pop01 dovecot: auth(otherdomain): Socket already exists: /var/run/dovecot/auth-otherdomain for each additional auth {} block. 2. dovecot won't start with auth_socket_path specified in a protocl pop3 {} block: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 654: Unknown setting: socket_path Is there a way to vary auth_default_realm for each listener, so I can have multiple realms log in with bare usernames? thanks, john -- John Morrissey _o /\ ---- __o jwm(a)horde.net _-< \_ / \ ---- < \, www.horde.net/ __(_)/_(_)________/ \_______(_) /_(_)__

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[Dovecot] namespace prefix issue with avelsieve
by it-dovecot＠ml.epigenomics.com 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hi! I am currently testing a setup with dovecot's lda, the cmusieve plugin, pysieved and the avelsieve plugin for squirrelmail. The issue I am stumbling upon is that avelsieve is generating folder names including the namespace prefix when creating "fileinto" rules. E.g.: A rule: If the header "Precedence" contains "bulk", then file it into the folder INBOX.bulk. Also keep a copy in INBOX, marked as deleted. translates into sieve: require ["fileinto","reject","vacation","imapflags","relational","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","regex","notify"]; if header :contains "Precedence" "bulk" { fileinto "INBOX.bulk"; addflag "\\Deleted"; keep; } But what happens when a matching email is delivered is that a new mailbox ".INBOX.bulk" in the user's Maildir is created. I.e. the email is not delivered to ~/.Maildir/.bulk as intended, but into ~/.Maildir/.INBOX.bulk, creating the new folder on the fly. The same happens when trying to fileinto folders from other namespaces. It seems that either avelsieve is generating "too much" and should remove the prefix (at least for INBOX) or dovecot's deliver is not able to use the namespaces definition in dovecot.conf correctly when interpreting sieve's fileinto directive. Did I miss something? This is the dovecot.conf in use: # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:993 ssl_cert_file: /etc/courier/imapd.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/courier/imapd.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_processes_count: 12 login_max_processes_count: 512 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_location: maildir:~/.Maildir:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/INBOX.%u:CONTROL=/var/cache/dovecot/INBOX.%u mail_full_filesystem_access: yes maildir_stat_dirs: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes namespace: type: public separator: . prefix: shared. location: maildir:~/.Maildir/shared:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/shared.%u:CONTROL=/var/cache/dovecot/shared.%u namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: archive. location: maildir:/mnt/nfs/imap_archive.hm/%u:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/archive.%u:CONTROL=/var/cache/dovecot/archive.%u auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 Greetings -- Robert Sander Senior Manager Information Systems Epigenomics AG Kleine Praesidentenstr. 1 10178 Berlin, Germany phone:+49-30-24345-0 fax:+49-30-24345-555 http://www.epigenomics.com robert.sander(a)epigenomics.com

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[Dovecot] Broken Pipe
by Joseph D. Wagner 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Since upgrading to dovecot 1.0.5, I started to see the following error in maillog: dovecot: IMAP(username): Connection closed: Broken pipe Any insight that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. I've attached a complete list of all dovecot log entries in maillog in the hope that it will help you identify the issue. Thanks in advance. Joseph D. Wagner

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[Dovecot] Error: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server atdefault: Resource temporarily unavailable
by David Gitman 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Did you ever solve this? I'm having the same problem. David Gitman david(a)gitman.net http://gitman.net Yahoo Messenger: gitmand AIM: gitmand Skype: davidgitman

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[Dovecot] problem migrating uw imap to dovecot on suse 9.3
by Dan Trutza 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

hi all, after i successed in install / configure dovecot, and transform mbox to maildir i got error in outlook expres. outlook expres is authenticated . dovecot accep user/passwd. when i try to receive folder list is giving me error: "downloading folder from server.ro" "one or more problems occurred downloading your list of folders from your account. The folder list may be inaccurate." any ideea? thanks.

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot / OS X 10.4 Mail.app and "Too Many Opened files" error message ?
by Xavier Beaudouin 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

(replying to myself) > After a long time, the OS X client say error : "Too Many opened > files". Seems that OS X has stupidly low number of files that can be opened... $ ulimit -a [...] open files (-n) 256 On my MacBook Pro.... This is bloody low.... So I've figured to change this limit globaly, but it seems that OS X don't have any limits.conf or default values.... This kinda strange.. So I decided to do some local fixe for Mail.app only : in /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/ $ sudo mv Mail Mail.orig and ... Create a Mail file with this following content : #!/bin/sh # thanks to http://www.amug.org/~glguerin/howto/More-open-files.html # To understand this, read 'man sh' below "substring processing". # This can also be accomplished with the 'dirname' command, # but it may not be installed. here="${0%/*}" # This should be the name of your native Java-app's executable. cmd='Mail.orig' # Set all desired soft-limits here. See 'ulimit' in 'man sh'. ulimit -S -n 1000 # Execute the Java-app in the current process. See 'exec' in 'man sh'. exec "$here/$cmd" "$@" $ sudo chmod +x Mail and this all... FYI Mail.app is really strange thing.... $ lsof | grep Mail.orig | wc -l 150 Mostly all libraries and TCP connection to mail server... Maybe this can be added to Wiki even if it is not too mutch dovecot related, but can be usefull for people like me that does have lots of mail.... /Xavier

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[Dovecot] imap / 1,.0.5: Connection closed: Broken pipe
by Frank Elsner 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hello *, since the upgrade to version 1.0.5 (from 1.0.3) I observe lines of the form imap(XXXXXXXX): Connection closed: Broken pipe in the logfile, which I've never seen before. What's behind? Should I care about? Regards ______________________________________________________________ Frank Elsner / c/o Technische Universitaet Berlin | ____________/ tubIT [BD], Sekr. E-N 50 | | Einsteinufer 17 | | Phone: +49 30 314 23897 D-10587 Berlin | | eMail: Frank.Elsner(a)TU-Berlin.DE Germany __________________| |_________________________________________________________| in dubio pro exim

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[Dovecot] gssapi, kerberos and webmail
by Denis Cardon 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hi every one, first thanks for the great job, I switched successfully from courier imap a few months ago and both the migration and maintenance went smoothly from then on. The reason I switched was gssapi support (and the easier debug) and now I have thunderbird on Linux connecting in an SSO fashion through kerberos/GSSAPI (works great). Users should be able to access their mail throught a webmail too (eg. eGroupware). I have already checked for kerberos authentication on Apache, however there seems to be no way to have ticket forwarding throught PHP. AFIAK there is thus no way to use kerberos for php-imap --> dovecot authentication. The only information available seems to be the username. So here is my question : how do people on this mailing list handle kerberos authentication with webmail? Do you use other kind of authentication on privileged port (ie with access only from apache) and just do a login/nopassword authentication (like an uid base authentication through ldapi:/// on an ldap directory for example) ? Here is what we have with thunderbird : Thunderbird -------kerberos-------> dovecot on standard port Here is what I would guess for webmail auth : Firefox ------kerberos----> Apache ----gssapi-auth-just-using-login----> dovecot on privileges port Cheers, Denis -- Denis Cardon Tranquil IT Systems 44 bvd des pas enchantés 44230 Saint Sébastien sur Loire tel : +33 (0) 2.40.97.62.67 http://www.tranquil-it-systems.fr

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[Dovecot] Dovecot / OS X 10.4 Mail.app and "Too Many Opened files" error message ?
by Xavier Beaudouin 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hello, I am trying to move from Courier-imap to dovecot.... Even if the processes to move logical (eg name spaces etc...) went very and without any problem, I've some etrange behavior when Imap client is Mac OS X Mail.app. I've got a big mailbox that have about 3 / 4G of mail in several folder (lots !!!)... After a long time, the OS X client say error : "Too Many opened files". I have check on the servers (a FreeBSD farm of 3 servers using freebsd ports of dovecot)... And nothing special... A question : why do I have never this kind of message on courier imap and why do I get this on dovecot... ? Configuration file on demand... if needed... THanks, /Xavier

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[Dovecot] pipe() error but not linked to kqueue
by Patrick Milvich 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

I have dovecot 1.0.5 installed on an OpenBSD 4.1 box and an OS X Server 10.4.10 box. Sure you've all heard it before, because of the pipe error, no more login processes can be launched, and I have to restart the server. dovecot: Sep 13 05:50:00 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files I first thought this was the issue with kqueue, but I've since recompiled making sure to use poll. This also happened with 1.0.3 and 1.0.2. It also happens very specifically after a dictionary attack that lasts usually about an hour, unless I can catch it earlier. (Around 18,000 login attempts) ex: dovecot: Sep 13 05:49:58 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<aaron>, method=PLAIN, rip=62.161.41.32, lip=<local ip> dovecot: Sep 13 05:49:58 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<adm>, method=PLAIN, rip=62.161.41.32, lip=<local ip> dovecot: Sep 13 05:49:58 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<account>, method=PLAIN, rip=62.161.41.32, lip=<local ip> But after the attack has subsided for a period of time, I still have the number of file descriptors maxed out for the dovecot process. I've increased the number available to have a higher roof, but that doesn't fix the problem. Wondering if anyone else has seen this issue, and also in a generic problem. How are others dealing the the problem of being attacked in this method? Is there a max number of login tries for a given ip address within a period of time that I'm missing? :) Thanks, Patrick

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[Dovecot] dirsize quota assertion problem
by Alan Ferrency 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Our current virtual mailbox configuration is not compatible with one of the assertions in the dovecot quota plugin's assertions in quota-dirsize.c. I believe the assertion is incorrect, but I would also be happy if I could get the same result with a better configuration setting. Here is a sample passdb entry which causes the quota assertion to fail: test(a)example.com:<snip>:3007:1000::/usr/boxes/username/example.com::userdb_mail=mbox:~/test^/.imap:INBOX=~/test userdb_uid=3007 userdb_gid=1000 userdb_home=/usr/boxes/username/example.com userdb_quota=dirsize:storage=100 The imap folder is "~/test^/.imap" and the INBOX is "~/test". As you can see, these are in different locations, but the INBOX string happens to be a substring of the imap folder directory. An example of the failed assertion error: Aug 31 16:44:13 www2 dovecot: IMAP(test(a)example.com): file quota-dirsize.c: line 180 (quota_count_path_add): assertion failed: (!is_file) This particular error log line was generated by dovecot 1.0.3, but the code in quota-dirsize.c is the same in dovecot 1.1 alpha3's version of quota-dirsize.c: 131 if (strncmp(count_path[i].path, path, strlen(path)) == 0) { 132 /* the new path contains the existing path */ 133 i_assert(!is_file); 134 count_path += i; 135 break; 136 } First, quota_count_path_add() is called for directory "~/test^/.imap" and it succeeds. When it is subsequently called for file "~/test": - the strncmp matches because "~/test" is a substring of "~/test^/.imap" - the assertion fails because "~/test" is a file and not a directory It seems to me that instead of asserting !is_file, it would be better to simply skip the conditional in that case, since a path variable that is a file should never be tested to see whether it contains an existing path. if (!is_file && strncmp(count_path[i].path, path, strlen(path)) == 0) { /* the new path contains the existing path */ count_path += i; break; } But this also has a bug: if path is a directory which substring matches count_path[i].path, but the same path with a directory separator appended to it does not substring match count_path[i].path, then it is a different path and does not contain the existing path. For example, if count_path[i] is the directory /usr/home/test/mailbox_folders, and path is the directory /usr/home/test/mailbox, then /usr/home/test/mailbox does not contain/usr/home/test/mailbox_folders, and this condition should fail. If some other code were to enforce that /usr/home/test/mailbox be terminated with a directory separator, then this is not a problem and my patch should work. I hope this makes sense. Thanks, Alan Ferrency pair Networks, Inc. alan(a)pair.com

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[Dovecot] Dovecot + virtual users
by bichumo 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Hi, I'm running FreeBSD, Dovecot, Postfix (virtual users), MySQL, Squirrelmail. I have installed squirrelmail-quota_usage-plugin, but I cannot make it work. It mentions "If you have an IMAP server with QUOTA Extension capability...". In dovecot.conf I have enabled "mail_plugins = quota" near protocol pop3 and protocol lda, near protocol imap I have "mail_plugins = quota imap_quota". Near " plugin { ..." I have "quota = maildir:storage=204800". I think that the problem of why I don't see quota in Squirrelmail is in file dovecot-sql near user_query. I have my users mailboxes in such format: /usr/local/virtual/domain.tld/username and my user_query looks like this: user_query = SELECT maildir, 125 AS uid, 125 AS gid, concat('maildir:storage=', quota) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1', I think that in my user_query I'm missing something. I do not get any errors in the dovecot and dovecot-debug logs, everything works fine, but I still can't see quota.

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[Dovecot] Deliver parameter problem!
by Umut Arus 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Is there anybody having idea about this problem? thanks. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Deliver parameter problem Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:21:56 +0300 From: Umut Arus <umuta(a)sabanciuniv.edu> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Hello, I'm using dovecot-1.0.5 with postfix. I have to use deliver from procmail because I have some filters. There is no document about how to using deliver parameters (-d) other than http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA . If I set -d parameters manually as a username everything is ok. I can not set users' mail quota (don't lookup) with mysql db if I haven't set -d parameter as receipt username in procmail. How can I describe user (-d) parameter's variable in procmail? Procmail configuration, :0 | /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f $blabla -d $blabla2 Output of the configuration, # 1.0.5: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen: 10.1.1.168 ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.cert.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.key.pem 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 mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir:INDEX=/var/no-quotas/index/%u:CONTROL=/var/no-quotas/control/%u mail_debug: yes mail_full_filesystem_access: 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 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xv%08Xu namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/no-quotas/index/%u:CONTROL=/var/no-quotas/control/%u inbox: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ location: maildir:~/Maildir/.mail:INDEX=/var/no-quotas/index/%u:CONTROL=/var/no-quotas/control/%u auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 438 plugin: quota: maildir:storage=500000:ignore=trash regards,

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[Dovecot] Dovecot v1.1.alpha4 problem
by Vladislav Malyshkin 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Dovecot v1.1.alpha4 imap after some time stops responding. It can not be restarted as /etc/init.d/dovecot restart killall imap also does not help killall -9 imap and then restart does help in log I see message (repeted periodically) that Sep 12 09:50:02 localhost postfix/local[22533]: C7057753B6: to=<username@domain> , relay=local, delay=5195, delays=5156/0.01/0/39, dsn=4.2.0, status=deferr ed (cannot update mailbox /home/username/Mailbox for user username. unable to lo ck for exclusive access: Resource temporarily unavailable) lsof -n shows that the file is is open by imap process.

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[Dovecot] Datehandling bug?
by Ed W 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Hi, I am testing dovecot 1.0.3 alongside my existing courier installation and a number of my emails are heading to the top of the inbox even though they are rather old. Closer inspection shows that my mailclient (Thunderbird on Win32) is showing me some screwey dates for a number of messages. One example is an email which says: Date: 2007-08-21 11:42:43 But in TB I see the date shown as only: 03:27 ie just a time and no date OK, the date above is clearly not an RFC date, but any idea why this is showing up only under Dovecot? Is it a dovecot date handling issue? Cheers Ed W

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