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[Dovecot] LDAP: bind to LDAP server instead of retreiving a password from it?
by Geert Hendrickx 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Hi, Dovecot currently treats an LDAP user/password database the same way as a text or SQL based database: it just tries to retreive the (hashed) password for a given username. LDAP however has the capability to authenticate the user itself: dovecot could try to bind to LDAP with the given username and password, and if authentication succeeded, the LDAP server returns the other info (uid, homedir, ...), but not the password. I know at least qmail's pop3 server uses LDAP this way. Could this authentication mechanism be implemented in Dovecot as well? Geert

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[Dovecot] Damnitall
by nick 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Today I upgraded to dovecot 1.0 rc1 (before I was using a 1.0 beta, as it had functions no one else had), the beta worked fairly well, no crashes, and the bugs were few and far between. I had a few issues with thunderbird 1.5, so I decided to upgrade. My problem is this, before, I had configured procmail to deliver SPAM to a subdirectory of the users home directory, (not mail/) and everything worked fine, new directories were creatable, and IMP seemed to be happy with everything as it was. With the new version though, dovecot refuses to see the folders in the base of the home directory, and all of this with absolutely no change to my conf file (except for the passdb and userdb options). my dovecot.conf file looks like this: default_mail_env = mbox:/ha/home/%u:INBOX=/ha/mail/%u:INDEX=/ha/home/%u ha is my drbd directory, for high availability. I've tried modifying the private namespaces, but without much luck, and I'm really not looking forward to moving all those folders to under the mail/ directory. Do I have any other options?? thanks, Nick

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and MS Active Directory.
by Sysadmin 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Hello. We are using dovecot right now, but the boss pushes the MS based system (Exchange, Sharepoint, Active Directory etc) to use. However, skipping the other parts I'd like to keep open source based mail server and the question is - can the dovecot authenticate against the MS Active Directory without any problems? -- Sysadmin

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[Dovecot] Oops, forgot about apop...
by Bruce Lane 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

How does one go about generating a local password database for apop authentication? Or can it simply run against /etc/passwd, using a PAM entry? (I forgot to append this to my last message... sorry...). Thanks much. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"

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[Dovecot] New User: POP3 issues
by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Fellow dovecot'ers, I'm just getting started with Dovecot, and I'm not a programmer, so please be gentle. ;-) THE PLATFORM: NetBSD 3.0/SPARC, Postfix 2.3-RC8, current Dovecot RC (I forgot the number). Maildir-type directories. THE GOAL: To accommodate authenticated (remote) POP3 users with APOP or SSL/TLS, and allow users on the internal network (192.168.x.x) to just use basic POP3 without worrying about authentication. QUESTIONS: (1) Does the dovecot master daemon have to be running in order to call pop3- login from inetd, in response to POP connection attempts? If so, it could be a problem. I'm getting this error when I try to start the thing. featherweb: {339} /usr/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: listen(110) failed: Address already in use featherweb: {340} (2) For apop authentication, how do I go about generating the shared secret file locally, for each user? Is there a script that came with dovecot or...? (3) Is there a trick, similar to postfix's 'postconf -n,' that will give a condensed output of dovecot's configuration file? (4) I'm currently using sasl auth for Postfix's SMTP auth function. How difficult is it to use Dovecot for the same thing? (5) GAAAAHHHHH! (Just on general principles, based on the hours I've spent trying to get everything working). Thanks in advance. --- Bruce 'Quietly Making Noise' Lane Blue Feather Technologies

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[Dovecot] /var/dovecot /var/spool/mail permissions, setup help (w/ config info)
by Jeff Kowalczyk 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

(repost gmane message as list member) I need some help with Dovecot-1.0rc2 on Gentoo Linux. My test harness is one Thunderbird-1.5.0.4 client, storage using legacy mbox directories ported over from an old UW-IMAP/sendmail combo running on RHL 8. Config is intended to be passwd/pam, plaintext login allowed (until I migrate everyone to ssl). After this is working, postfix and dspam are to be added, unless someone can recommend a 'dovecot of smtp' to use. I'll tail the mail.log to illustrate the problem, then excerpt what I think are the relevant directory and config file listings. I'm paying particular attention to file ownership, but am loathe to just chown dovecot things unless I know why. Let me know if you want to see any other config info to help spot the problem. Thanks! # tail -n 30 /var/log/mail.log dovecot: Jul 05 18:35:25 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc2 starting up dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP lip=123.456.789.012 rip=098.765.432.109 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGplZmYua293YWxjenlrAHdvcmRwYXNzMQ== dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=namefirst.namelast dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 25692 1 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 namefirst.namelast system_user=namefirst.namelast uid=501 gid=12 home=/home/namefirst.namelast dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Error: stat(/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): Effective uid=501, gid=12 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox: data=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast:INDEX=/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox: INBOX defaulted to /var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mbox: root=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast, index=/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast, inbox=/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<namefirst.namelast>, method=plain, rip=098.765.432.109, lip=123.456.789.012 dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:10 Error: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): open() failed with subscription file /var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/.subscriptions: Not a directory dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:12 Error: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): open(/var/spool/mail/namefirst.namelast/inbox, O_CREAT) failed: Not a directory dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:12 Error: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): mkdir_parents(/var/dovecot/namefirst.namelast/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied dovecot: Jul 05 18:36:14 Info: IMAP(namefirst.namelast): Disconnected: Logged out # ls -al /var/spool/mail drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1472 Jul 2 19:20 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 168 Jul 3 14:19 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 27 18:46 .keep -rw------- 1 namefirst.namelast mail 36243879 Jul 1 17:52 namefirst.namelast (...) # ls -al /var/dovecot/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jul 5 10:30 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 360 Jun 29 09:45 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 5 10:30 .keep # ls -al /var/run/dovecot/ total 5 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 176 Jul 5 18:35 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 504 Jul 3 14:45 .. srw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 5 18:35 auth-worker.25687 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 5 18:35 dict-server drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 136 Jul 5 18:35 login -rw------- 1 root root 6 Jul 5 18:35 master.pid # ls -al /home/namefirst.namelast/ total 17791 drwxr-xr-x 2 namefirst.namelast mail 248 Jul 5 18:29 . drwxr-xr-x 76 root root 2512 Jul 2 20:21 .. -rw------- 1 namefirst.namelast mail 3293785 Sep 23 2005 Sent # grep dovecot /etc/group dovecot:x:97: # grep dovecot /etc/passwd dovecot:x:97:97:added by portage for dovecot:/dev/null:/usr/sbin/nologin # grep mail /etc/passwd mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false postmaster:x:14:12:postmaster:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false # grep mail /etc/group mail::12:mail # grep namefirst.namelast /etc/passwd namefirst.namelast:x:501:12:First Last:/home/namefirst.namelast:/bin/bash # cat /etc/pam.d/dovecot auth required pam_unix.so account required pam_unix.so # cat /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * shutdown_clients = yes log_path = /var/log/mail.log info_log_path = /var/log/mail.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " syslog_facility = mail disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem login_chroot = yes login_user = dovecot default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%u mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb pam { args = dovecot } userdb passwd { } user = root } __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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[Dovecot] FYI: timosieved
by John Peacock 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Just a heads up for all interested in using the Dovecot LDA with SIEVE scripting: I've started work on a proof-of-concept managesieve daemon, since the only one available right now is dependent on Cyrus. It appears that the only choice available for sites not using timsieved is the Ingo component of Horde, which is way too fat to install by itself (plus it uses FTP for a transport, which I make it a rule not to install). For testing purposes, I am hacking together a Perl module based on the Net::Server model (which is not suitable for production). If this goes well (the managesieve protocol is painfully stupid and the only tricky part is linking in libsieve), then I'll do a rewrite in C. It will authenticate directly to Dovecot through the auth-client (or auth-master) mechanism, so whatever SASL methods that Dovecot supports, it will support. I've decided that the eventual server will be called timosieved, in honor of our host, and echoing the original Cyrus timsieved. Don't bug me about when it'll be done... :) John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748

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[Dovecot] default_mail_env and IMAP server directory in client
by Dirk Essl 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Hi, I'm currently installing a dovecot Server to be a replacement for an uw-imapd. I dont want to touch the clients configuration, because I have too much users... Situation is the following: the mbox files are in the users homedirectory (~/MailImap), automounted via nfs In dovecot.conf I've set default_mail_env = mbox:%h/MailImap:INBOX=/var/mail/%u It works perfect without a value in Firefox' setting 'IMAP server directory' but in all clients tis is set to '~/MailImap' so it doesnt show subfolders I already tried to symlink various things in the MailImap directory and different values of default_mail_env, but I cannot mak it work. Any suggestions? It would help if dovecot could discard the IMAP server directory setting of the client, but I am not a programmer and dont know where to look in the source :-( -- TIA dirk

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[Dovecot] 1.0.rc2 ldap in Solaris
by Tomi Vainio 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Hi, Earlier it was possible to compile ldap support in Solaris 10 but currently it fails in src/auth/db-ldap.c line 341 because LDAP_SASL_QUIET is missing. I can found eg. LDAP_SASL_INTERACTIVE from headers. Tomppa

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[Dovecot] Newbie on Fedora 5
by Yudhvir Singh Sidhu 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Hey Guys, I want to transition from Merak to Postfix/Dovecot. I am not sure how to begin. I have been reading the different Howtos - cocktail of services to Postfix like ClamAV, Spamassissin, Greylisting, Jamm, SquirrelMail. The thing is that I want stable IMAP mail. Here is what I want to do: a. Stand alone linux box for email only - 25 users b. provide IMAP and web c. provide SSL authentication, spam filtering and virus checking. d. I would perfer to setup flat file, or unix based SIMPLE authentication scheme. e. Current users are on windows and are popping mail. Although we have LDAP, can we have another LDAP server which lives with existing server? f. I have Fedora 5 installed. I have Dovecot, Postfix, Cyrus-SASL installed. As well as webmin to manage it all. Any suggestions to get running quickly? h. I need to preserve the popped mail sitting in user Outlook clients. -- Yudhvir Singh Sidhu, 3-4039

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Re: [Dovecot] bug/feature
by Jeff Graves 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Oops. That one was for 0.99.x series. This one was what I used for 1.x -- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Graves Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:22 PM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: RE: [Dovecot] bug/feature I have always had a similar problem. Our's though is that we authenticate using SFU and nis. So in addition to the folder needing to be lowercase, the username has to be as well. It hasn't be discussed in a while but Timo mentioned that the %L wouldn't work for username's. To workaround it, I used this patch. However, I have no idea how it works with other authentication methods as we use passwd and I haven't tested it since test69 so it probably needs tweaking. -- Jeff Graves, MCSA Image Source, Inc. 508.966.5200 x31 www.image-src.com -----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces(a)dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Johannes Berg Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:35 PM To: Paul Blankenship Cc: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] bug/feature On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 09:13 -0700, Paul Blankenship wrote: > I don't know if this has been mentioned here or even thought of in > the > grand scheme of things and I'm just sending a one time email about it > "just in case" > I recently swapped my server around and I'm using dovecot now....LOVE > it! Could use a bit more intuitive error messages, but otherwise, it's > great! > But there is one flaw that I've run into with my users. Case > sensitivity. I think you can lower-case the name just about anywhere, e.g. default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%Lu/.mail instead of default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/.mail See /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/variables.txt (on debian systems, otherwise just look for variables.txt) johannes

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[Dovecot] courier-imap transition
by Joseph W. Breu 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hello All, I am transitioning from a courier-imap installation where the POP3 UIDLs are of the format: 28 UID10823-1064256714 29 UID10829-1064256714 30 UID10830-1064256714 31 UID10833-1064256714 32 UID10836-1064256714 33 UID10847-1064256714 34 UID10859-1064256714 35 UID10893-1064256714 36 UID10903-1064256714 37 UID10904-1064256714 The dovecot UIDL list for the recommend courier version 2 configuration produces: 432 1150908803-432 433 1150908803-433 434 1150908803-434 435 1150908803-435 436 1150908803-436 437 1150908803-437 438 1150908803-438 439 1150908803-439 I need to produce a UIDL map similar to that of courier-imap. Any suggestions? Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph W. Breu, CCNA phone : +1.319.268.5228 Senior Network Administrator fax : +1.319.266.8158 Cedar Falls Utilities cell : +1.319.493.1686 support: +1.319.268.5221 url : http://www.cfu.net

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[Dovecot] bug/feature
by Paul Blankenship 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

I don't know if this has been mentioned here or even thought of in the grand scheme of things and I'm just sending a one time email about it "just in case" I recently swapped my server around and I'm using dovecot now....LOVE it! Could use a bit more intuitive error messages, but otherwise, it's great! But there is one flaw that I've run into with my users. Case sensitivity. As you all know, Linux is case sensitive and windows is not and mail should always be lower case. I have users who are checking Thisemail(a)domain.tld instead of thisemail(a)domain.tld. This causes my build to create a folder for Thisemail(a)domain.tld to check instead of pulling mail from thisemail(a)domain.tld Either rate, I'm correcting users when I find it, but it doesn't help when I have those that USE ALL CAPS BECAUSE EITHER IT'S COOL OR THEY USE IT FOR OTHER PURPOSES AND DON'T TURN IT OFF. No, I'm not yelling, I'm being sarcastic :) Anyway, just incase noone was aware of that little "issue".... -- Paul Blankenship Solano Computer Resource 441 Georgia St. Suite 200 Vallejo, CA 94590 (707)645-9652 Fax: (707)649-4360 For all your business and residential computer and Internet needs. Because IT just works.

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[Dovecot] rc2
by Lucas Valdeón 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hi, Timo, thank you for your previus answer. Now I have other problems: - Error message: imap-login: Can't open SSL parameter file ssl-parameters.dat: Permission denied I don´t know if it is because I have another location for ssl-parameters.dat file $ls -la /var/run/dovecot-1.0/login/ssl-parameters.dat -rw------- 1 root dovecot 230 Jul 4 13:41 ssl-parameters.dat - I´m testing dovecot with Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 and when I try to access several folders this error appear: " ... use the Advanced IMAP Server Settings dialog to reduce the number of cache connections." in config file: auth_cache_size = 0 So cache is disable - And last error is when I send a message. It fails when try to copy message to Sent folder. Thank you in advance, Lucas

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[Dovecot] tool for convertin mbox to maildir
by the.buratino＠rambler.ru 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hello! Can anybody advise me nice and well-tested script for converting mbox to maildir format that saves all message flags ?

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[Dovecot] cmusieve bug: vaction + redirect
by Dominique Feyer 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

I found a bug in cmusieve plugin. I can do redirect: --- redirect "booking(a)jamesdo.com"; redirect "chabanel(a)net4all.ch"; keep; --- And vacation: --- require "vacation"; vacation :days 5 :addresses "info(a)lda.net4all.ch" :subject "Out of Office Reply" "Thanks for your email. I'm away from my desk, so I won't be able to reply until Thursday 15th April at the earliest. Thanks."; --- If I try to do vacation and redirect in the same script: --- require "vacation"; redirect "booking(a)jamesdo.com"; redirect "chabanel(a)net4all.ch"; keep; vacation :days 5 :addresses "info(a)lda.net4all.ch" :subject "Out of Office Reply" "Thanks for your email. I'm away from my desk, so I won't be able to reply until Thursday 15th April at the earliest. Thanks."; --- The vacation is OK, but the redirect as no subject in the header and the to: header is "undisclosed-recipients : ;". The content of the message is ok. Thanks; -- Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer(a)net4all.ch

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0 RC1 + Plugin cmusieve "Sendmail qui with signal 11"
by Dominique Feyer 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

I just install RC1 + Plugin cmusieve (cvs), the sieve script is compiled and the sive lib seems OK. But in my log I have sendmail qui with signal 11 when I try to send a mail with "redirect" or "vacation" ? Any possibilitie to use a external SMTP server ? Signal 11 with sendmail is often a memory problem, but the server is in production since more than one month without any problem to sendmail. I dont use sendmail, but postifix so /usr/lib/sendmail is the compatibility command. Thanks -- Dominique Feyer Administrateur Système Ch. de la Colline 5bis CH-1007 Lausanne dfeyer(a)net4all.ch

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Re: [Dovecot] Procmail patch for dovecot delivery
by Gerhard Wiesinger 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hello! Looks like the patch is also interesting for some other users. http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2006-07/msg00023.html Ciao, Gerhard -- Gerhard Wiesinger E-Mail Mailinglist: lists(a)wiesinger.com Web: http://www.wiesinger.com/ On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: > Hello! > > As discussed in the previous thread about "Dovecot deliver logging problem > and procmail" I have made a small patch for procmail to deliver through > dovecot's deliver program (or any other delivery program). > > So Procmail does not write the mailboxes directly any more. So delivery is > done through pipes and an external program which can deliver the files. > > Since dovecot's deliver program can not handle absolute pathes, theses files > are handled directly by procmail. See the configuration options below for > details. > > Also INBOX handling needs special handling because this is handled through > the /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME folder which dovecot deliver can not handle. So > this is mapped (when configured) to the INBOX folder. > > For debugging purposes you can add the VERBOSE=on variable. A sample > configuration for dovecot usage with documentation is discussed below. Some > other delivery agents (e.g. cyrus) might need other options. > > Keep in mind that the environment expansions with $ in the DELIVER_PROGRAM > must be escaped with a backslash. BOXNAME and RECIPIENT are 2 new variables > which can be used. > > Status of the patch is that it "works for me". There is no other guarantee > ... > > So I hope you like the patch. Maybe someone can make a short review of the > code changes. > > Feel free for any feedback. > > Ciao, > Gerhard > > ############################################################################ > > #Set on when debugging > VERBOSE=on > > #Replace `mail' with your mail directory (Pine uses mail, Elm uses Mail) > MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail > > #Directory for storing procmail log and rc files > PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail > > LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log > > ############################################################################## > # > # Alternate delivery options through external program > # > ############################################################################## > > ####################### > # Options for Mailboxes > ####################### > # Possibilites for Mailboxes: > # Mailbox is INBOX > # 1.) Deliver through mbox > # 2.) Deliver through external delivery program > # Mailbox has an absolute path > # 1.) Deliver through mbox > # 2.) Deliver through external delivery program > > ############### > # INBOX options > ############### > # When set, delivers the INBOX throuh the external program > # When not set, absolute path mailboxes are delivered through procmail. > DELIVER_INBOX=yes > # When set and the mailbox is the INBOX (e.g. /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME) > # it is replaced with a custom string (default INBOX) > DELIVER_REPLACE_INBOX_NAME=yes > # When DELIVER_REPLACE_INBOX_NAME is set the mailbox name is replaced with # > INBOX (default) or when DELIVER_NEW_INBOX_NAME is set, this name is used > DELIVER_NEW_INBOX_NAME=INBOX > > ####################### > # Absoulte Path options > ####################### > # When set, absolute path mailboxes are delivered through the external > program > # When not set, absolute path mailboxes are delivered through procmail. > #DELIVER_ABSOLUTE_PATH=yes > > ################## > # Delivery options > ################## > # Do not lock anything even the rule has a lock assigned > DELIVER_PIPE_NO_LOCK=yes > # Deliver in raw mode even the rule flag states that it should be delivered > in raw mode > DELIVER_RAW_MODE=yes > # When set, remove the first From line of the mbox file through the external > program > DELIVER_REMOVE_FROM=yes > > ################ > # Global options > ################ > # When set and the mail ends in a folder it is piped through the program > # Global Switch for enabling alternate delivery method > # All environment variables can be used with \$NAME > # \$BOXNAME is the name of the mailbox (maybe converted to the rules > discussed above) > # \$RECIPIENT is the recipient name, typically the user name > DELIVER_PROGRAM="/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m \$BOXNAME -d \$RECIPIENT -c > /etc/dovecot.conf" > > :0 > $DEFAULT

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[Dovecot] Procmail patch for dovecot delivery
by Gerhard Wiesinger 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hello! As discussed in the previous thread about "Dovecot deliver logging problem and procmail" I have made a small patch for procmail to deliver through dovecot's deliver program (or any other delivery program). So Procmail does not write the mailboxes directly any more. So delivery is done through pipes and an external program which can deliver the files. Since dovecot's deliver program can not handle absolute pathes, theses files are handled directly by procmail. See the configuration options below for details. Also INBOX handling needs special handling because this is handled through the /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME folder which dovecot deliver can not handle. So this is mapped (when configured) to the INBOX folder. For debugging purposes you can add the VERBOSE=on variable. A sample configuration for dovecot usage with documentation is discussed below. Some other delivery agents (e.g. cyrus) might need other options. Keep in mind that the environment expansions with $ in the DELIVER_PROGRAM must be escaped with a backslash. BOXNAME and RECIPIENT are 2 new variables which can be used. Status of the patch is that it "works for me". There is no other guarantee ... So I hope you like the patch. Maybe someone can make a short review of the code changes. Feel free for any feedback. Ciao, Gerhard ############################################################################ #Set on when debugging VERBOSE=on #Replace `mail' with your mail directory (Pine uses mail, Elm uses Mail) MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #Directory for storing procmail log and rc files PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log ############################################################################## # # Alternate delivery options through external program # ############################################################################## ####################### # Options for Mailboxes ####################### # Possibilites for Mailboxes: # Mailbox is INBOX # 1.) Deliver through mbox # 2.) Deliver through external delivery program # Mailbox has an absolute path # 1.) Deliver through mbox # 2.) Deliver through external delivery program ############### # INBOX options ############### # When set, delivers the INBOX throuh the external program # When not set, absolute path mailboxes are delivered through procmail. DELIVER_INBOX=yes # When set and the mailbox is the INBOX (e.g. /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME) # it is replaced with a custom string (default INBOX) DELIVER_REPLACE_INBOX_NAME=yes # When DELIVER_REPLACE_INBOX_NAME is set the mailbox name is replaced with # INBOX (default) or when DELIVER_NEW_INBOX_NAME is set, this name is used DELIVER_NEW_INBOX_NAME=INBOX ####################### # Absoulte Path options ####################### # When set, absolute path mailboxes are delivered through the external program # When not set, absolute path mailboxes are delivered through procmail. #DELIVER_ABSOLUTE_PATH=yes ################## # Delivery options ################## # Do not lock anything even the rule has a lock assigned DELIVER_PIPE_NO_LOCK=yes # Deliver in raw mode even the rule flag states that it should be delivered in raw mode DELIVER_RAW_MODE=yes # When set, remove the first From line of the mbox file through the external program DELIVER_REMOVE_FROM=yes ################ # Global options ################ # When set and the mail ends in a folder it is piped through the program # Global Switch for enabling alternate delivery method # All environment variables can be used with \$NAME # \$BOXNAME is the name of the mailbox (maybe converted to the rules discussed above) # \$RECIPIENT is the recipient name, typically the user name DELIVER_PROGRAM="/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m \$BOXNAME -d \$RECIPIENT -c /etc/dovecot.conf" :0 $DEFAULT

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[Dovecot] FW: Postfix Dovecot MySQL user/pass authentication:: Password Mismatch
by Brad Staszcuk 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Having some difficulty with this one: I have Postfix setup, with a web interface for postfixadmin. Both Dovecot and Postfix are setup to use the same MySQL database to authenticate users. Only SSL connections are allowed, so I use PLAIN/cleartext as my password type. Setting up users works correctly from Postfixadmin, and Dovecot recognizes the users and their respective directories, however, when I try to connect from an email client (Outlook in this case) I get the following errors in my log after enabling verbose debugging and auth logging: dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 secured lip=192.168.0.10 .... dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth-worker(default) sql(admin(a)domain.com,192.168.0.15): query: .... dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth-worker(default) sql(admin(a)domain.com,192.168.0.15): Password mismatch dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth-worker(default) sql(admin(a)domain.com,192.168.0.15): PLAIN-MD5 (testingpassword) != 'testingpassword' dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=admin(a)domain.com dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<admin(a)domain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168. .... Any suggestions? It seems like the passwords match, as it prints them both and they are the same, but for some reason it is failing when comparing them... I'm at a loss, and I can't seem to find anyone else who has had quite this issue. CentOS 4.3 if that helps, newest builds of dovecot and postfix downloaded and compiled today, both correctly with mysql and sasl support. I appreciate any input.. - Brad

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[Dovecot] Postfix/Dovecot/SaSL/MySQL Problem
by James Bowling 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

I have a current working installation of Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL. I want to utilize the Dovecot implementation of SaSL for SMTP-AUTH. Here is the issue I am running into when making the appropriate changes to my configs, when starting Dovecot with the addition of the socket listen configuration in dovecot.conf, I see this error in the logs: Jul 5 00:02:11 localhost dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.beta9 starting up Jul 5 00:02:12 localhost dovecot: child 25908 (auth) returned error 89 Jul 5 00:02:12 localhost dovecot: child 25910 (auth) returned error 89 Jul 5 00:02:12 localhost dovecot: child 25911 (auth) returned error 89 Jul 5 00:02:12 localhost dovecot: child 25912 (auth) returned error 89 Jul 5 00:02:12 localhost dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jul 5 00:02:12 localhost dovecot: auth(default): Socket already exists: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth Not quite sure why this is happening...I searched on google for this and found nothing. If anyone could please shed some light on this for me then please do as it would be appreciated. And for good measure: Postfix v2.3-RC5 Dovecot 1.0b9 Regards, James Bowling <james(a)jamesbowling.com>

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[Dovecot] LIST returning INBOX.INBOX
by Bill Boebel 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

With rc2, the LIST command is returning both INBOX and INBOX.INBOX when using the following namespace setting... namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes location = maildir:%h:INDEX=/var/index/%h } This patch fixed it for us: *** src/imap/cmd-list.c 2006-07-05 11:14:58.000000000 -0400 --- src/imap/cmd-list.c.new 2006-07-05 11:15:45.000000000 -0400 *************** *** 147,156 **** --- 147,159 ---- name = "INBOX"; ctx->inbox_found = TRUE; } + if (strcasecmp(list->name, "INBOX") == 0) + continue; + str_truncate(str, 0); str_printfa(str, "* %s (%s) \"%s\" ", ctx->lsub ? "LSUB" : "LIST", mailbox_flags2str(list->flags, ctx->list_flags), ctx->ns->sep_str);

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[Dovecot] Newbie needs help with LDA
by Hidayat Bin Rahmat 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Hi, I've just configured dovecot, but I'm having problems with exim4 as the LDA. Is there a good HOW-TO on the net or something that I can refer to as a guide? Really need your help. Thank you in advance. Regards, Hidayat Bin Rahmat Technical Support Officer Faculty Of Science (Dean's Office) Ext : 8729

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[Dovecot] umask problem
by Matteo 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Hi all, i got a problem with the umask parameter. I set it to umask=0007 because i need to access mail with another process with different uid, but dovecot seems to ignore the directive for files. I'm using the last 1.0_rc2 release and i'm storing mail in maildir format. Ex: root@linux ~ # ls -al /var/domains/matteo/.maildir/.INBOX.test/ total 21K drwxrwx--- 5 maildir maildir 232 Jul 5 11:21 . drwx------ 23 maildir maildir 928 Jul 5 11:21 .. drwxrwx--- 2 maildir maildir 48 Jul 5 11:21 cur -rw------- 1 maildir maildir 144 Jul 5 11:21 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 maildir maildir 11K Jul 5 11:21 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 maildir maildir 104 Jul 5 11:21 dovecot.index.log drwxrwx--- 2 maildir maildir 48 Jul 5 11:21 new drwxrwx--- 2 maildir maildir 48 Jul 5 11:21 tmp for directories umask work! but for mail file... (i copied an e-mail to the imap folder) root@linux ~ # ls -al /var/domains/matteo/.maildir/.INBOX.test/cur/ total 56K drwxrwx--- 2 maildir maildir 104 Jul 5 11:24 . drwxrwx--- 5 maildir maildir 264 Jul 5 11:24 .. -rw------- 1 maildir maildir 55K Jun 21 17:03 1152091443.P25455Q0M183478.linux:2,S i would like the mail be stored with 0760 or 0770. Could someone help me? Thank you in advanced. Matteo P.S: sorry for my bad english

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[Dovecot] RC1 broken - Authentication Failed
by Marc Perkel 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Works great with all the beta versions. I installed RC1 and get massive authentication failures. auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_master_user_separator=* auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { # Master users that can log in as anyone args = /etc/dovecot.masterusers master = yes #pass =yes } passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/vmail/shadow.%d } userdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file args = /etc/vmail/passwd.%d } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0666 } } } dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): pam(mark(a)marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(mark(a)marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): unknown user dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 6 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=69.50.231.8rip=64.81.213.137 resp=AG1hcmtAbWFyeG1haWwubmV0AHlldW4xMjM= dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 8 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=69.50.231.8rip=64.81.213.137 resp=AG1hcmtAbWFyeG1haWwubmV0AHlldW4xMjM= dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): pam(mark(a)marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(mark(a)marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): unknown user dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): pam(mark(a)marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(mark(a)marxmail.net,64.81.213.137): unknown user dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:57 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<elizasue(a)marksharconsulting.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=71.192.214.3, lip=69.50.231.8, TLS dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:58 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: rip=70.105.255.245, lip=69.50.231.8 dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:59 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 26 user=mark(a)marxmail.net dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:59 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 27 user=mark(a)marxmail.net dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:59 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 7 user=mark(a)marxmail.net dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:59 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 8 user=mark(a)marxmail.net dovecot: Jun 28 07:18:59 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 6 user=mark(a)marxmail.net dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:04 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 28 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=69.50.231.8rip=66.100.35.217 dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:04 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 28 dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:04 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 28 ADRnZW9yZ2VAdGhlbWlkZGxlYnJvb2tzLm9yZwBnbTU5NjAz dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:04 Info: auth(default): pam(4george(a)themiddlebrooks.org,66.100.35.217): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:04 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(4george(a)themiddlebrooks.org,66.100.35.217): unknown user dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:05 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 28 user=4george(a)themiddlebrooks.org dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:05 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 29 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=69.50.231.8rip=66.100.35.217 resp=ADRnZW9yZ2VAdGhlbWlkZGxlYnJvb2tzLm9yZwBnbTU5NjAz dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:05 Info: auth(default): pam(4george(a)themiddlebrooks.org,66.100.35.217): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:05 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(4george(a)themiddlebrooks.org,66.100.35.217): unknown user dovecot: Jun 28 07:19:06 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 30 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=69.50.231.8rip=63.203.231.61

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