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[Dovecot] LTMP Proxy fails when backend server connection refused
by Jack Bates 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Version: 2.1.9 Connecting directly to the proxy server on the LMTP port, issue lhlo, mail from, rcpt to, data. After the . closing of data, it just hangs there. The logs on the proxy server show: Sep 27 19:55:12 proxy1 dovecot: lmtp(9398): Connect from 69.8.2.71 Sep 27 19:55:24 proxy1 dovecot: lmtp(9398): Error: lmtp client: connect(lmtp, 7025) failed: Connection refused root 9398 1102 0 19:53 ? 00:00:00 dovecot/lmtp The proxy server is hard coded (not director in this case). I purposefully shut it down to see how the system would handle failures. Unfortunately, it appears that the process just hangs there. For fun, I tried a separate protocol lmtp option in the config to try proxy_timeout. It made no difference. Missing some error handling? protocol lmtp { passdb { driver = static args = proxy=y host=%s nopassword=y proxy_timeout=120 } } Jack

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[Dovecot] Antispam plugin problem (CRM114)
by Davide 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Hi to all, sorry in advance for my poor english, this is the first time that i wrote to a list if i make mistake .... excuseme. My problem is this: i have dovecot 2.1.8 installed and functioning from 2 years one week ago i have installed crm114 for my last spam detection filter "version 20100106-BlameMichelson (TRE 0.8.0 (BSD))" My mail system is qmail that through .qmail default correctly tag with X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-27CA1CFB X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20120927_105129_798028_B0035817 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 28.64 ) headers dovecot.conf is as follow: plugin { . . . antispam_signature = X-CRM114-CacheID antispam_verbose_debug = 1 antispam_debug_target = stderr antispam_backend = crm114 antispam_signature_missing = error antispam_trash = Trash antispam_spam = SPAM antispam_unsure = UNSURE antispam_crm_binary = /opt/crm114/mailreaver.crm antispam_crm_args = --fileprefix=/opt/crm114/ . . . } protocol imap { . . . mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota imap_quota mail_log antispam . . . } I have a sieve default compiled script that automatically put mails in SPAM folder or UNSURE folder if respectively in message hedere there is the evaluation of crm114 (UNSURE or SPAM). When i move mails incorrectly tagged by crm (for example from SPAM to my inbox or from UNSURE to SPAM) thunderbird (company official mail client ver 15.01) go in error with the following message: "Operation failed over folder 'UNSURE'. Server for account davide.marchi(a)mail.cgilfe.it said: [CANNOT] Failed to call crm114 binary.." I dont'know where is my mistake if someone can help me is much appreciated Thank you -- */Davide Marchi /Teorema Ferrara Srl /(Tel: /**/+39 0532 783161)/**/ (Fax: +/**/39 0532 783368/**/)/**//**/ /**//**/Davide.Marchi(a)mail.cgilfe.it <mailto:davide.marchi@mail.cgilfe.it?subject=Info> /CONFIDENZIALITA’ *** Questo messaggio, inclusi gli eventuali allegati, è indirizzato solo ai destinatari e può contenere informazioni riservate e confidenziali. Se avete ricevuto il messaggio senza esserne un destinatario, siete pregati di non utilizzare, copiare o distribuire questo messaggio o i suoi allegati. Se avete ricevuto il messaggio per errore, siete pregati di cancellarlo dal vostro sistema, assieme a tutti gli allegati, e di informare immediatamente il mittente,sia ai sensi dell'art. 616 c.p., sia ai sensi del DL n. 196/03. *CONFIDENTIALITY*** This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee(s) and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient(s) or an authorized representative of the intended recipient(s), please do not use, copy, distribute this email or its attachments or take action based on them. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the message and any attachments from your system. *Teorema FerraraSrl - Via Spronello, 7 - 44121 Ferrara Italia - P. IVA 01244490387** P**S**tampa questo messaggio solo se veramente necessario, pensa alla natura! - Please consider whether it is necessary to print this e-mail*

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[Dovecot] BUG to compile dovecot 2.1.10 on Debian 4.0, using gcc 4.1.2
by Fabio Depin 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Hello, Today I needed to compile dovecot 2.1.10 on Debian 4.0, using gcc 4.1.2. When running 'make' getting the following error: -------------------------------------------------- -------- db-checkpassword.c: In function 'sigchld_handler': db-checkpassword.c: 426: error: assignment of read-only member '__in' db-checkpassword.c: 429: error: assignment of read-only member '__in' db-checkpassword.c: 431: error: assignment of read-only member '__in' db-checkpassword.c: 432: error: assignment of read-only member '__in' make [3]: ** [db-checkpassword.o] Error 1 make [3]: ** Waiting for other processes to finish. mv-f .deps / auth-worker-server.Tpo .deps / auth-worker-server.Po make [3]: Leaving directory `/ usr/src/dovecot/dovecot-2.1.7/src/auth ' make [2]: ** [all-recursive] Error 1 make [2]: Leaving directory `/ usr/src/dovecot/dovecot-2.1.7/src ' make [1]: ** [all-recursive] Error 1 make [1]: Leaving directory `/ usr/src/dovecot/dovecot-2.1.7 ' make: ** [all] Error 2 -------------------------------------------------- -------- -To work did the following: -------------------------------------------------- -------- 417a418 + Int stat = status-> status; 426c427 - If (WIFSIGNALED (status-> status)) { --- + If (WIFSIGNALED (stat)) { 429c430 - Dec2str (status-> pid), WTERMSIG (status-> status)); --- + Dec2str (status-> pid), WTERMSIG (stat)); 431.432 c432, 433 -} Else if (WIFEXITED (status-> status)) { - Request-> exit_status WEXITSTATUS = (status-> status); --- +} Else if (WIFEXITED (stat)) { + Request-> exit_status WEXITSTATUS = (stat); -------------------------------------------------- -------- With this change worked perfectly ntanto in debian 4 with gcc 4.1.2, as in debian 6 with gcc 4.4.5. -I wonder if I made the change may affect any function of dovecot, or if it is correct. Thank you for your attention. Fabio Depin

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[Dovecot] Logging IP address for failed login
by Scott Neville 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Hi, I am trying to use the logs to show the IP that brute force activity comes from, but Im not succeeding. I have read the archives and seen the advice others have had. I can see logs for repeated bad logins, but I need the IP address from the attempts. dovecot 2.0.12 / CentOS 5.4 / imaps only (993) I have tried a bunch of different combinations of 10-logging.conf settings. This is what I have currently (that does not work the way I want): auth_verbose = yes #auth_verbose_passwords = no #auth_debug = yes #auth_debug_passwords = no #mail_debug = no I *dont* want to see the passwords, either failed or successful. I just want to see failed logins for whatever reason and the IP they came from. In /var/log/maillog I get lines like this: Oct 1 04:19:12 olive dovecot: auth: pam(marketing): unknown user Oct 1 04:19:17 olive dovecot: auth: pam(marketing): unknown user When i had debugging turned on, I would get lines like this: Sep 9 01:14:59 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd(dbelan,62.128.300.94): lookup but only for successful logins. The brute force attempts dont log like that: Sep 16 00:02:57 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(backup): lookup service=dovecot Sep 16 00:02:57 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(backup): lookup service=dovecot Sep 16 00:02:57 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(backup): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Sep 16 00:02:57 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(backup): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Sep 16 00:02:57 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(backup): lookup service=dovecot Sep 16 00:02:57 olive dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(backup): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Sep 16 00:02:58 olive dovecot: auth: pam(backup): unknown user No IP anywhere in that. fail2ban seems to rely on the pop-login or imap-login lines to pull the IP from. I get an imap-login for my real logins: Oct 1 12:38:56 olive dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<dbelan>, method=PLAIN, rip=62.128.300.94, lip=204.152.189.165, mpid=20360, TLS but no similar line for the failed logins. So is this a dovecot logging configuration combination I need to find? Is it getting lost in pam? Is it specific to CentOS? Any help appreciated - happy to read up on it myself, but would need a pointer, since the docs so far either assume I get an imap-login line for failed logins which I dont, or they assume I just want to see the repeated attempts/passwords. Scott.

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[Dovecot] BUG to compile Plugin - deleted-to-trash on dovecot 2.1+
by Fabio Depin 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Hello, Today I needed to compile the plugin deleted-to-trash for dovecot 1.2.10 (> 2.1) and had problems compiling. To solve the problem efetuei changes below: -------------------------------------------------- -------------------- deleted-to-trash-plugin.c 79.80 C79 - Mailbox_alloc box = (list, name, MAILBOX_FLAG_KEEP_RECENT | - MAILBOX_FLAG_NO_INDEX_FILES); --- + Box = mailbox_alloc (list, name, MAILBOX_FLAG_NO_INDEX_FILES); 136c135 - If (keywords! = NULL) mailbox_keywords_unref (trash_box, & keywords); --- + If (keywords! = NULL) mailbox_keywords_unref (& keywords); -------------------------------------------------- -------------------- I would like to verify that this is correct, or can generate a problem. Thank you for your attention. Fabio Depin

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[Dovecot] Log NAT IP address?
by Charles Marcus 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Hi Timo/everyone, Currently we are logging the remote IP, but is there a way to show the IP address that the NAT connection is coming from? The reason I ask is, we are changing ISPs, and I would like to see in the logs when an external connection is coming from our OLD ISP connection, and when it is coming through our new one. We have a Watchguard firewall, and I have both External connections setup and working, and have just pointed our DNS records to the new public IP, and would like to be able to see which WAN connection/IP they are coming from. Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] Problem: dovecot-lda doesn't auto-create folders
by Karim 'Kasi Mir' Senoucci 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Hello everyone, I recently updated to dovecot 2.0.19 (in fact, I updated the whole system to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I am using the dovecot from the Ubuntu packages) and just today found out that the dovecot-lda for some reason doesn't auto-create missing folders anymore as it did with my old installation (1.0.10). I have a "system users" layout and send my mails through a user-specific procmail filter. Every delivery in those filters is done via dovecot-lda using a line list this: > |$DELIVER -d archive -m lists.hylafax-`date "+%Y%m"` where $DELIVER is set to > DELIVER="/usr/bin/sudo /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda" (I use the sudo because some of the procmail lines deliver the mail to folders in a different user's mailbox.) This works fine for all users, unless the mail folder to be delivered to doesn't exist yet. Here's an example of such a delivery attempt: > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda: Debug: auth input: archive > system_groups_user=archive uid=1002 gid=1002 home=/home/archive > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Effective uid=1002, gid=1002, > home=/home/archive > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : type=private, > prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes > location=maildir:/home/archive/Maildir > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: maildir++: > root=/home/archive/Maildir, index=, control=, > inbox=/home/archive/Maildir, alt= > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, > inbox=, alt= > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Destination address: xxx(a)xxxx.de > (source: user@hostname) > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : > /home/archive/Maildir/.lists.hylafax-201210 doesn't exist yet, using > default permissions > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions > from /home/archive/Maildir: mode=0755 gid=-1 > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : > /home/archive/Maildir/.lists.hylafax-201210 doesn't exist yet, using > default permissions > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions > from /home/archive/Maildir: mode=0755 gid=-1 > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Info: > msgid=<201210010954.02813.hylafax_resp(a)earthshod.co.uk>: save failed > to open mailbox lists.hylafax-201210: Mailbox doesn't exist: > lists.hylafax-201210 > Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Info: > msgid=<201210010954.02813.hylafax_resp(a)earthshod.co.uk>: saved mail to > INBOX Can anyone tell me what goes wrong here and how to fix it? From what I could find out dovecot-lda should auto-create those mailbox folders, but somehow it doesn't. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance Kasi Mir

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Authentication through different IMAP server?
by Marc Perkel 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Just wondering - is there any way for a dovecot server to authenticate against a different IMAP server? Here's what I'm thinking. I run a spam filtering service and thinking about a way to give users access to their stored spam on my servers. However real email is forwarded to their server, So I'm wondering if I can configure dovecot somehow to do a back end authentication to their email account to gain access to their spam. Open to suggestions

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Clustering with dsync over ssh
by weber＠zackbummfertig.de 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hello List, i only found an old post of tiemo where he announced that he will do an wiki article how to setup dovecot cluster with dsync over ssh. anyone knows if this artcile exists and where? i would like to setup a dovecot cluster with 2 machines. thanks for help marko

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[Dovecot] Hanging IMAP sessions on Mac OS X with dovecot 2.1.10 - worked fine with 2.0.15
by Clemens Schrimpe 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Ok, here's a toughie: Out of a whim (and because of the bad weather) I today decided to upgrade my completely functioning 2.0.15 installation on my Mac OS X 10.6.7 system. NB: It's not a Mac OS X "Server", as sold by Apple - I have compiled my dovecots myself for quite a while. Anyhow: At first everything appeared to work fine after the upgrade. Up until I created a new user and -while testing- SELECTed his INBOX. The SELECT was "stuck". Though the process seemed to be alive I could only get rid of it with a "kill -9 <pid>". The same happened when selecting a newly created mailbox on any of the other (otherwise functioning) accounts, so the problem had nothing to do with the new account, but rather with the fact, that it's INBOX was empty. Using dtruss and gdb I found out, that the dovecot process was trying to obtain a GUID and in the course of doing so invoked gethostbyname(), which intern caused a lot of "mach message" handling and somewhere, deep down there, the process was stuck. Well, that led my to believe, that there was something wrong with the -so called- "mach bootstrap context". I usually start dovecot from with a (home-brewn) startup-script, which invokes it (practically) like so: sudo /usr/libexec/StartupItemContext dovecot (again: all this was working fine under 2.0.15) Now with 2.1.10, when I manually invoke dovecot with just sudo dovecot Everything appears to work fine - at least the sessions don't get stuck any more. But as soon as I logout (with dovecot still running in the background) it loses it's "mach bootstrap context" and finds itself unable to perform even the simplest tasks, like mapping a username to a uid, etc. pp. -- so starting it without the "/usr/libexec/StartupItemContext" in the background is out of the question. Now -with all that said- here's my question: What has changed with regards to "processual context" between 2.0.15 and 2.1.10 when the "imap" process is spawned/exec'd? Any environmental cleanups, closing of unknown fds, deletion/modification of environment variables, process-group-handlers, etc.? It appears, that the imap process no longer "inherits" the StartupItemContext from the main process, so some change between 2.0.15 and 2.1.10 must have broken it ... Any help is highly appreciated - Clemens PS: I google'd around a lot and searched the mailing-lists, of course. I only found a post of someone who ran into the same/similar problem dating back to Feb 21st 2012 under the subject "dovecot freezes when trying to get mail from maildir with mail", but it was quickly dismissed without ever getting resolved and that was that. PS2: I intentionally didn't include any configs with this mail as they seem to be irrelevant, but of course I can generate the necessary output if needed.

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[Dovecot] Plugin "lazy_expunge" and subfolder
by Andreas Kossack 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hi Timo, hi all, we want to use the "lazy_expunge" plugin (from dovecot 2.1.10) and had configured it in a test environemnt like described in "http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Lazyexpunge" (1 namespace) There are some subfolders from "INBOX" (like "INBOX/SPAM") in a "maildir++" configuration. All actions on first level directories ".INBOX", ."Sent" or ".Archives" are working as expected. If there is an expunge activity on e.g. ".INBOX.SPAM" directory we get an error message in dovecot log: Sep 26 12:27:55 imap(testuser): Error: lazy_expunge: Couldn't open expunge mailbox: Character not allowed in mailbox name: '.' What can we do or change to make it work? -- Best regards A. Kossack _______________________________________________________________________________ Andreas Kossack Andreas.Kossack(a)TU-Cottbus.De BTU Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany, Walther-Pauer-Str.2, 03046 Cottbus http://wwwca.telesec.de/cgi-bin/caservice/Common/InstallRoot/DT-Root-CA-2.d… _______________________________________________________________________________

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[Dovecot] sieve vacation
by Bob Miller 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello, I set up pigeonhole on a server and am using roundcube's sieverules to create a set of rules. When using the vacation feature, I can see in the logs that dovecot is sending the vacation response, but the recipient never receives it. What method does dovecot use to send the response? Does it use the sendmail binary, does it use the mail command, does it connect to some smtp server somewhere, does it use qmail-inject if it finds it? I find no evidence it is using any of these methods on my server, but I am not sure if one of these methods is failing or if there is some place else I should be looking for the missing vacation response... Thank you for any suggestions... -- Computerisms Bob Miller 867-334-7117 / 867 633 3760 http://computerisms.ca

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[Dovecot] Deleted to trash plugin
by Humberto A. Pedroso 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello, Does anybody are using deleted_to_trash plugin with Dovecot 2.1.9? I'm trying to compile and I'm with some difficulties. I tested with dovecot 2.0 and it works very well. -- Humberto

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[Dovecot] with mbox format doveadm ignores subfolders of inbox
by Jürgen Obermann 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello. After we switched the format from mbox to mdbox on our dovecot (version 2.1.9) servers last week, some of our users were missing the subfolders of their inboxes. So far we thought that with the mbox format it is not possible to have mail folders containing both messages and subfolders. Now we know that there is one exception from this rule: the inbox. With mbox format dovecot supports subfolders of the inbox, and a few of our users actually detected and used this feature! Internally the messages are stored in /var/mail/user or in a file named 'inbox' and the subfolders are in the directory 'INBOX'. (The OS is case sensitiv.) The problem was that doveadm and dsync do not support subfolders of the inbox and therefore these folders did not get synchronized from our old mbox server to the new mdbox dovecot server. The command doveadm -o mail_location=mbox:~user123/Mail mailbox list -u user123 '*' did not show any subfolder of INBOX, whereas the the following with a wrong mail_location showed that there are subfolders of INBOX doveadm -o mail_location=mbox:~user123 mailbox list -u user123 '*' Finally we could import the missing subfolders one after one in the mdbox server with commands like this: doveadm import -u user123 mbox:~user123/Mail "" mailbox INBOX/subfolder all It would be nice if doveadm could be changed to not overlook subfolders of the inbox with mbox format. Greetings, Jürgen -- Hochschulrechenzentrum der | Mail: Juergen.Obermann(a)hrz.uni-giessen.de Justus-Liebig-Universitaet | WWW: http://www.uni-giessen.de/obermann/ Heinrich-Buff-Ring 44 | Tel: 0641-99-13054 (0641-99-13001) D-35392 Giessen, Germany | Fax: 0641-99-13009

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[Dovecot] Changing Quota downward for special Mailboxes? (2.1.6)
by Jost Krieger 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

It seems there is no way to correct te quota limit downward for some mailboxes, like: quota_rule9 = UCE-TMP:storage=-10%% The idea is to not eat up the users storage with spam, so that spam stays in the queue (for some time) while real mail gets delivered. There *is* a line } else if (*value != '-' && relative_rule) { in quota.c, but nothing else handles it, starting with quota_rule_parse_percentage. Yours Jost Krieger -- | Jost.Krieger+sig(a)ruhr-uni-bochum.de Please help stamp out spam! | | Postmaster, JAPH, resident answer machine at RUB Comp. Center | | Sincere words are not sweet, sweet words are not sincere. | | Lao Tse, Tao Te King 81 |

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[Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb
by Spyros Tsiolis 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello all, I have a DL360 G4 1U server that does a wonderfull job with dovecot horde, Xmail and OpenLDAP for a company and serving about 40 acouunts. The machine is wonderful. I am very happy with it. However, I am running out of disk space. It has two times 76Gb Drives in RAID1 (disk mirroring) and the capacity has reached 82%. I am starting of getting nervous. Does anyone know of a painless way to migrate the entire contents directly to another pair of 146Gb SCSI RAID1 disks ? I thought of downtime and using clonezilla, but my last experience with it was questionable. I remember having problems declaring disk re-sizing from the smaller capacity drives to the larger ones. CentOS 5.5 Manual install of : Mysql XMail (pop3/smtp) ASSP (anti spam) Apache / LAMP and last but by no means list : Dovecot Dovecot -n : # 1.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log ssl_parameters_regenerate: 48 verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: * Dovecot ready * login_max_processes_count: 96 mail_location: maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir mail_plugins: zlib auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u userdb: driver: passwd Any help would be appreciated or any ideas you might have. Regards, spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] second dovecot imap server
by Spyros Tsiolis 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello again all, I would like to thank everyone for rushing to help me with the dovecot migration issue. I am , currently, reading and studying what has been said by all the good and kind people who responded to this list. OK, on the same issue,I thought of adding a totally new server with dovecot acting as a secondary/backup server for the mail servicing. Would that be possible ? What if I manage to make it work; Can I retire the old(er) server ? I would think that this is more on-topic than my last post. If I am out of line again, please respond in private. Thank you all! spyros ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] duplicate all emails for 'backup' after user deletes them?
by Voytek Eymont 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

I have a user who occasionally reads, then deletes emails using his phone, on his and others email accounts, causing emails deleted on mail server, then he says 'oops, can you recover emails I've deleted?' what's the best way to duplicate all emails to duplicate accounts ? backup folders ? so, next time he deletes emails they can be 'recovered' on the server ? I was thinking along the lines of duplicating ALL emails...? any tips and pointers appreciated -- Voytek

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[Dovecot] mail size needed in dovecot sieve log line
by Maciej Uhlig 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

This is a dovecot sieve log line: 2012-09-26T13:47:52+02:00 host/192.168.1.1 dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.info] lmtp(7565, user@domain): vTtJDTrrYlCNHQAAs1WjhA: sieve: msgid=<MSGID>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Would it be possible to have mail size logged here? MU

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Re: [Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb
by Stan Hoeppner 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

On 9/25/2012 12:29 AM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: > My clients don't invest in hardware. I live in Greece. Things are really > bad right now. Not that if they were better they (the client) would invest > in their infrastructure. ... > Thank you very much Stan for you kind reply. > > I reply to you in private since I was told to stop the thread > on the dovecot list because it's off-topic. I'm going to bring it back on topic. To recap the issue: 1. 73GB volume, ~82% full. Volume contains OS, spool, and mailboxes 2. Two 146GB drives on hand that are impossible to employ in either a live or offline migration due to hardware limitations--drive slots (0.82*73GB=60GB)-5GB(OS)= ~55GB/40= ~1.375GB/user mailbox (This math assumes the box has already been scoured and things like source files and other temporary stuff has already been removed, along with anything and everything not necessary to the primary functions of this box) 1.375GB/user suggests these users seem to horde old emails, or simply don't keep their mailboxes tidy. Normally I'd guess that a lot of space in a situation like this is taken up by full text search indexes, but you don't appear to have these enabled. I notice in your 'dovecot -n' output that you are already employing zlib, but to what degree is currently unknown to the list. Are you compressing maildirs with a nightly script? If not, and you're compressing on an ad hoc basis, realtime compression during write could save you quite a bit of additional space, extending the operating life of your current drives. Of course a simple request to your users to clean up their mailboxes would surely help as well, if that's a possibility--some users would flog one for making such a suggestion. If you're not fully taking advantage of compression currently, you may want to consider upgrading to Dovecot 2.x which allows transparent compression to dbox and maildir storage. You may want to migrate to mdbox message store format while still using zlib, and enable single instance attachment storage (SIS). As the name suggests, SIS saves an attachment only once, regardless how many user emails in which it exists. See: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib I'd point you to the docs for SIS but I'm unable to find them in the Wiki. Surely someone else can provide the settings and/or update the wiki. -- Stan

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[Dovecot] Can`t get over 1024 processes on FreeBSD - possible bug?
by Tomáš Randa 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hello, I still cannot get dovecot running with more then 1000 processes, but hard limit is 8192 per user in box. I tried everything, including modifying startup script of dovecot to set ulimit -u 8192. Could it be some dovecot bug or dovecot<>freebsd bug? I also tried to set client_limit=2 in imap service to spawn more imap clients in one process, but still I am over 1000 processes with kernel message: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 89 Could anybody help? Many thanks Tomas My system have following settings: FreeBSD 9.0 / AMD64 Dovecot 2.1.8 kern.maxproc: 12288 kern.maxfilesperproc: 36864 kern.maxprocperuid: 8192 no limit for uid 89: # limit cputime unlimited filesize unlimited datasize 33554432 kbytes stacksize 524288 kbytes coredumpsize unlimited memoryuse unlimited vmemoryuse unlimited descriptors 36864 memorylocked unlimited maxproc 8192 sbsize unlimited swapsize unlimited My dovecot.conf: # 2.1.8: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE amd64 auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 default_client_limit = 2048 default_process_limit = 2048 disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 89 first_valid_uid = 89 info_log_path = /data/logfiles/dovecot/dovecot-info.log last_valid_gid = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 listen = * log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_greeting = Mail Toaster (Dovecot) ready. mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " quota" mail_privileged_group = mail maildir_broken_filename_sizes = yes passdb { driver = vpopmail } plugin { quota = maildir quota_rule = Trash:ignore sieve = ~/.sieve/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 sieve service anvil { client_limit = 6147 } service auth { client_limit = 8192 unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0660 } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 } } service imap-login { process_limit = 2048 service_count = 1 } service imap { client_limit = 1 process_limit = 2048 } service managesieve { process_limit = 2048 } service pop3-login { process_limit = 2048 service_count = 1 } service pop3 { client_limit = 1 process_limit = 2048 } shutdown_clients = no ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem userdb { args = blocking=yes driver = passwd } userdb { driver = vpopmail } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 2048 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota sieve sendmail_path = /var/qmail/bin/sendmail } protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 }

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[Dovecot] Traffic Accounting
by M. Naumann 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hi, I'm trying to find out how to do traffic accounting with Dovecot 2.x, preferrably v2.0.9, preferrably on CentOS 6. I've previously asked on IRC, but there was little feedback, and my understanding is now this list is the preferred media for such inquiries. If I recall correctly, some weeks ago I was told that traffic accounting is not officially supported on Dovecot 2, but that there could still be ways to get it to work, but no details were provided. I can think of the following approaches: * rawlog, preferrably piped (if that's possible?) into something like wc to prevent privacy issues and to reduce the I/O overhead * maildrop filtering in front of dovecot LDA (for mail inbound to mail storage) * sieve filtering Unfortunately I have little experience with either so far, so it's hard to make a good choice. I would appreciate hints on these approaches, and on any other approaches you can think of, as well as any related documentation / how-to you could point me to. While I'm subscribed to the list (for mail authentication purposes), I've disabled receiving any e-mail form the list, so please CC me on any replies. Thanks in advance, Moritz

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[Dovecot] Patches and dovecot releases
by Jean Michel 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

I'd like to know if after a release, for example the recently release 2.1.10, its common to see few days from the release some bug reports and algo some patches, are theses patches applyed on the daily builds ? ------------------------------ Jean Michel Feltrin

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[Dovecot] Logging question regarding delete actions
by Ralf Hildebrandt 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

A user is logged in via imap from multiple devices. The log has this: Sep 21 11:46:32 postamt dovecot: imap(awxxxxer): delete: box=INBOX, uid=15347, msgid=<1341851741.4ffb085d2e2b7(a)swift.generated>, size=15675 Sep 21 11:46:32 postamt dovecot: imap(awxxxxer): delete: box=INBOX, uid=15739, msgid=<b23b2e42f6ae9ba1602690be42b7b5c7.squirrel(a)webmail.charite.de>, size=18134 Sep 21 11:46:32 postamt dovecot: imap(awxxxxer): delete: box=INBOX, uid=15740, msgid=<3509D8B3F9054C4BB26C85F3E4B96563036822877538(a)EXCHANGE21.charite.de>, size=22226 Sep 21 11:46:32 postamt dovecot: imap(awxxxxer): delete: box=INBOX, uid=15741, msgid=<C2E306F4-8622-4D0F-98BD-C67F31F2FF08(a)charite.de>, size=5160 How can I find out WHICH CLIENT caused the deletion? Same issue: Sep 21 09:36:05 postamt dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<awxxxxer>, method=PLAIN, rip=109.45.0.37, lip=141.42.206.36, mpid=30773, TLS, session=<e8TfSjHKgwBtLQAl> Sep 21 10:06:17 postamt dovecot: imap(awxxxxer): Disconnected for inactivity in=2255 out=4398 How can I be sure that the log entry from 10:06:17 "belongs" to the log entry from "09:36:05"? Also, what is the meaning of the "session=<e8TfSjHKgwBtLQAl>"? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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[Dovecot] 2.1.10 imapc assert crash report
by Oli Schacher 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hi Timo I have a simple imapc gmail proxy test setup which works fine on 2.1.9, but crashes on 2.1.10 # 2.1.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.4.7-1-ARCH x86_64 auth_mechanisms = plain login imapc_host = imap.gmail.com imapc_port = 993 imapc_ssl = imaps imapc_ssl_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs listen = 127.0.0.1 mail_gid = imapproxy mail_home = /home/imapproxy/%u mail_location = imapc:~/imapc mail_uid = imapproxy passdb { args = host=imap.gmail.com port=993 ssl=imaps default_fields = userdb_imapc_user=%u userdb_imapc_password=%w userdb_imapc_ssl=imaps userdb_imapc_port=993 driver = imap } protocols = imap ssl = no userdb { driver = prefetch } Log: Sep 24 10:21:58 codemonkey dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.1.10 starting up Sep 24 10:22:12 codemonkey dovecot: auth: Panic: file imapc-connection.c: line 1289 (imapc_connection_connect_next_ip): assertion failed: (conn->client->set.max_idle_time > 0) Sep 24 10:22:12 codemonkey dovecot: auth: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x453aa) [0x7f8d5ce963aa] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x453ee) [0x7f8d5ce963ee] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f8d5ce6abd3] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_imap.so(+0x977c) [0x7f8d5be3677c] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3618e) [0x7f8d5ce8718e] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x36) [0x7f8d5cea3006] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xa7) [0x7f8d5cea3df7] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f8d5cea2b48] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f8d5ce8eb93] -> dovecot/auth(main+0x2ff) [0x40ad4f] -> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f8d5c27d725] -> dovecot/auth() [0x40af61] Sep 24 10:22:12 codemonkey dovecot: auth: Fatal: master: service(auth): child 24008 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped) Sep 24 10:22:12 codemonkey dovecot: imap-login: Warning: Auth connection closed with 1 pending requests (max 0 secs, pid=24007, EOF) Oli -- message transmitted on 100% recycled electrons

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[Dovecot] dsync
by Emmanuel Dreyfus 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hi Testing dsync, things go wrong: doveadm sync -u user remote:root@mail2.example.net dsync-local(user): Error: Mailboxes don't have unique GUIDs: 72e3be2c6f203b50883c000044af56a8 is shared by RT and RT_72e3be2c6f203b50883c000044af56a8 Obviously RT_72e3be2c6f203b50883c000044af56a8 is an outdated copy of RT But .mailboxlist does not list that mailbox. Is there a trick to make sure dsync only use valid mailboxes? I have this in dovecot.conf mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/mail/indexes/%u:SUBSCRIPTI ONS=../.mailboxlist Another problem, that may or may not be related: dsync-local(user): Error: Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox file /home/user/mail/RT at 60298748 dsync-local(user): Error: Failed to sync mailbox RT: Timeout while waiting for lock dsync-local(user): Error: Next message unexpectedly corrupted in mbox file /home/user/mail/RT at 63587421 dsync-local(user): Error: Failed to sync mailbox RT: Mailbox GUIDs are not permanent without index files I also get this: dsync-local(user): Error: Failed to sync mailbox RT: Mailbox GUIDs are not permanent without index files dsync-local(user): Error: proxy client timed out (waiting for MSG-GET message from remote) And this: dsync-local(user): Error: read() from worker server failed: EOF And generally speaking ,how good is dsync? is it usabel in production? This is on dovecot 2.1.7 -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu(a)netbsd.org

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[Dovecot] Sieve as mail client?
by Tom Horsley 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

A slightly off topic question, but maybe someone here has seen something like this: I want a program that operates entirely on the client side of an IMAP server, and implements the sieve filtering language by doing the necessary client side operations to move mail on the IMAP server, expunge mail, etc. It would also act as a proxy between my real mail client and the IMAP server so I'd never see any mail that hasn't been filtered first. The benefits are obvious: I could finally get sieve filtering on my stupid corporate exchange mail server :-).

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[Dovecot] segfault in Debian Squeeze + Dovecot 2.1.10
by Joe Auty 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Hello, I'm seeing a lot of these in my /var/log/messages in Debian Squeeze, I suspect this might be causing performance issues. Any suggestions what I can try to fix this? > [7236671.301179] imap-login[9306]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f9ff83c7e14 > sp 00007fff49d385c0 error 4 in libdovecot.so.0.0.0[7f9ff837c000+8b000] I'm using the 2.1.10 packages obtained with the following in my sources.list: deb http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ stable-auto/dovecot-2.1 main I need to use Dovecot 2.1.x because I need to support handling multiple SSL certs. -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to integrate with popular social networks. www.netmusician.org <http://www.netmusician.org> joe(a)netmusician.org <mailto:joe@netmusician.org>

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[Dovecot] Update: Hanging IMAP sessions on Mac OS X with dovecot 2.1.10 - worked fine with 2.0.15 (and 2.0.21)
by Clemens Schrimpe 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Update: I tried with 2.0.21 and this also works just fine. So it must be something which came in with 2.1.x PS: Where is the documentaion for 2.1.x - i.e. for all the nice additions Timo made? The Website "only" has 2.0.x, as far as I can tell? (might be wrong here - hadn't touched the whole thing for a while, as my "civil life" had occupied me :-) Greetings, Clemens

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Re: [Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole v0.3.2 for Dovecot v2.1.9
by Juan C. Blanco 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Hi Stephan, I'm traying to rebuild the RH (Centos) EL5 RPM with the new pigeonhole version, however I've got the follwing errors when compiling: gcc -shared .libs/rfc2822.o .libs/edit-mail.o .libs/sieve-settings.o .libs/sieve-message.o .libs/sieve-smtp.o .libs/sieve-lexer.o .libs/sieve-script.o .libs/sieve-script-file.o .libs/sieve-script-dict.o .libs/sieve-ast.o .libs/sieve-binary.o .libs/sieve-binary-file.o .libs/sieve-binary-code.o .libs/sieve-binary-debug.o .libs/sieve-parser.o .libs/sieve-address.o .libs/sieve-validator.o .libs/sieve-generator.o .libs/sieve-interpreter.o .libs/sieve-runtime-trace.o .libs/sieve-code-dumper.o .libs/sieve-binary-dumper.o .libs/sieve-result.o .libs/sieve-error.o .libs/sieve-objects.o .libs/sieve-stringlist.o .libs/sieve-comparators.o .libs/sieve-match-types.o .libs/sieve-address-parts.o .libs/sieve-match.o .libs/sieve-commands.o .libs/sieve-code.o .libs/sieve-actions.o .libs/sieve-extensions.o .libs/sieve-plugins.o .libs/cmp-i-octet.o .libs/cmp-i-ascii-casemap.o .libs/mcht-is.o .libs/mcht-contains.o .libs/mcht-matches.o .libs/tst-truefalse.o .libs/tst-not.o .libs/tst-anyof.o .libs/tst-allof.o .libs/tst-address.o .libs/tst-header.o .libs/tst-exists.o .libs/tst-size.o .libs/cmd-require.o .libs/cmd-stop.o .libs/cmd-if.o .libs/cmd-keep.o .libs/cmd-redirect.o .libs/cmd-discard.o .libs/ext-fileinto.o .libs/ext-reject.o .libs/ext-envelope.o .libs/ext-encoded-character.o .libs/sieve.o -Wl,--whole-archive ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/vacation/.libs/libsieve_ext_vacation.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/subaddress/.libs/libsieve_ext_subaddress.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/comparator-i-ascii-numeric/.libs/libsieve_ext_comparator-i-ascii-numeric.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/relational/.libs/libsieve_ext_relational.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/regex/.libs/libsieve_ext_regex.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/copy/.libs/libsieve_ext_copy.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/imap4flags/.libs/libsieve_ext_imap4flags.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/include/.libs/libsieve_ext_include.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/body/.libs/libsieve_ext_body.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/variables/.libs/libsieve_ext_variables.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/enotify/.libs/libsieve_ext_enotify.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/notify/.libs/libsieve_ext_notify.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/environment/.libs/libsieve_ext_environment.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/mailbox/.libs/libsieve_ext_mailbox.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/date/.libs/libsieve_ext_date.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/spamvirustest/.libs/libsieve_ext_spamvirustest.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/ihave/.libs/libsieve_ext_ihave.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/editheader/.libs/libsieve_ext_editheader.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/vnd.dovecot/debug/.libs/libsieve_ext_debug.a ../../src/lib-sieve/plugins/vnd.dovecot/duplicate/.libs/libsieve_ext_duplicate.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib64/dovecot -L/var/tmp/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2-219_3-root/usr/lib64/dovecot -L/usr/lib64/dovecot -ldovecot-lda -L/home/jc/rpmbuild/BUILD/dovecot-2.1.9/src/lib-storage/.libs -L/usr/kerberos/lib64 -L/home/jc/rpmbuild/BUILD/dovecot-2.1.9/src/lib-dovecot/.libs -lrt -m64 -mtune=generic -Wl,-soname -Wl,libdovecot-sieve.so.0 -o .libs/libdovecot-sieve.so.0.0.0 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldovecot-lda collect2: ld returned 1 exit status libtool: install: error: relink `libdovecot-sieve.la' with the above command before installing it make[4]: *** [install-dovecot_pkglibLTLIBRARIES] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jc/rpmbuild/BUILD/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2/src/lib-sieve' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jc/rpmbuild/BUILD/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2/src/lib-sieve' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jc/rpmbuild/BUILD/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2/src/lib-sieve' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jc/rpmbuild/BUILD/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.50565 (%install) It seems that the error is related to the ld.gold fix, If I revert the c52a0c561311 patch the error is not produced Regards

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.11 panic in mail-transaction-log-view?
by Michael Durket 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

I'm seeing this periodically in my logs for a specific user (followed by a backtrace which I've deleted from this post): Panic: file dovecot-1.2.11/src/lib-index/mail-transaction-log-view.c: line 290 (mail_transaction_log_view_set): assertion failed: (min_file_seq != max_file_seq || max_file_seq != view->head->hdr.file_seq || max_file_offset != (uoff_t)-1 || min_file_offset <= view->head->sync_offset) Is there something I can do to work around this problem for the user, or is this something new and I need to follow the instructions at http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html to send in a bug report?

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[Dovecot] thunderbird does not copy a tree-structure to dovecot imap
by Anton 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Hi, running in problems with KMail I decided to switch to dovecot-imap & thunderbird on my kubuntu 12.04 64 bit (so I can read my imap-folder-mails with KMail again if it gets more stable) What I did: - I wrote a python script to convert my KMail mails folder to a thunderbird mailfolder (directory tree containing mbox files and *.sbd folders) - I created a fake pop mail account in thunderbird and imported the whole mail-structure (i just copied it) - I create a local imap account ( so I have a ~/Maildir dovecot folder in my user dir) - In /etc/dovecot: 1. /etc/dovecot/10-mail.conf (line 10) I set: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs 2. /etc/dovecot/20-imap.conf (line 57) I set: imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep Now I want to copy the whole mailstructure from my imported fake pop mailfolder to the dovecot imap folder. What happens: Lets say my source structure is mailfolder1 + mail1 + mail2 + subMailFolder2 + mail1-in-subMailFolder2 + mail2-in-subMailFolder2 + subSubMailFolder3 + mail1-in-subMailFolder3 + mail2-in-subMailFolder3 I thunderbird (version 15) I drag and drop my mailFolder1 to the imap folder and I get: mailfolder1 + mail1 + mail2 + subMailFolder2 + subSubMailFolder3 as you See only the mails of the *TOP* folder are copied. All subfolders are created but they contain NO MAILS. Did somebody experience the same problem??? Otherwise I will write a python script to do that (I dont hope to need to write a mailclient in python ;-) ) Any hint is greatly welcome. Anton

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[Dovecot] key -> object mailstore
by Damien Churchill 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hi, I was wondering what would be entailed in modifying dovecot 2.2 to support storing mail in an object store. I've seen a few mails dotted around in the ML history about supporting such a thing and seen it's basically dependant upon some changes in lib-storage to support writing messages without locking. Is this still the case? Regards, Damien

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[Dovecot] http://xi.rename-it.nl down?
by Matthias 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hello! Could it be, that http://xi.rename-it.nl is down? Thanks, Matthias

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[Dovecot] userdb missing driver
by Surreal 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Good Day, I'm using dovecot 2.1.8 and this is my dovecot -n output: # 2.1.8: dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE i386 auth_default_realm = domain.xxx auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_realms = domainone.xxx domaintwo.xxx disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 5000 first_valid_uid = 5000 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes mail_gid = 5000 mail_location = maildir:~/ mail_plugins = quota expire mail_log notify mail_temp_dir = /var/tmp mail_uid = 5000 namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { expire = Trash mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size quota = maildir:User quota quota2_rule = *:storage=3G quota_rule = *:storage=3G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+30%% quota_rule3 = Sent:storage=+30%% quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u } sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = vmail } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugins = quota expire mail_log notify imap_quota imap_zlib } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 2 } doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: userdb is missing driver ---------------------------- This is my dovecot-sql.conf.ext connect = host=127.0.0.1 port=3306 user=daemonuser password=password dbname=postfix driver = mysql default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT password_query = SELECT password,CONCAT('/mail/', maildir) AS userdb_home,\ '5000' AS userdb_uid, '5000' AS userdb_gid, allow_nets,\ concat('*:bytes=', quota) AS userdb_quota_rule\ FROM mailbox WHERE username='%u' AND domain='%d' AND active=1 user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/mail/', maildir) AS home, 'maildir:~/' as mail, '5000' AS uid, '5000' AS gid,\ concat('*:bytes=', quota) AS quota_rule\ FROM mailbox WHERE username='%u' AND domain='%d' AND active=1 #iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM mailbox ------------------------------ I'm sure i granted all privileges to daemonuser to postfix db. This is my first on dovecot so my knowledge is very minimal, all help possible is very much appreciated. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Trouble implementing Antispam plug-in for Dovecot
by Ben Johnson 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hello, I am attempting to use the Antispam plug-in for Dovecot and am having trouble with the implementation. My configuration is Dovecot (1.2.9) + Sieve + SpamAssassin on Ubuntu 10.04. Mail that SpamAssassin tags as SPAM is moved into the affected user's "Junk" folder (/var/vmail/example.com/user/Maildir/.Junk). I followed the Wiki article at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Antispam . After restarting Dovecot, my IMAP client (Thunderbird v15) reports the following whenever I attempt to move mail from Inbox to "Junk" directory: "[CANNOT] antispam plugin not configured" That exact phrase appears only once in a Google search ( http://dovecot-antispam.sourcearchive.com/documentation/1.1plus-p20090218.g… ): if (!hamaddr || !spamaddr) { mail_storage_set_error(t->box->storage, ME(NOTPOSSIBLE) "antispam plugin not configured"); return -1; } Based on the surrounding source code, which I realize may be old, it seems that Ham and Spam addresses are required, or similar. I am using the following configuration options: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf -------------------- ## IMAP specific settings protocol imap { mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugins = quota imap_quota antispam } # [...] plugin { antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_verbose_debug = 1 antispam_backend = pipe antispam_pipe_program = /usr/bin/sa-learn-pipe.sh antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg = --spam antispam_pipe_program_notspam_arg = --ham antispam_spam_pattern_ignorecase = spam;junk } -------------------- For what it's worth, the logging directives seem not to have any effect (and perhaps the rest of the directives do not, either, hence the problem I'm having). I tried changing the above directives to their older directive names (I also changed the order slightly, which may be irrelevant): -------------------- plugin { antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_verbose_debug = 1 antispam_backend = pipe antispam_mail_spam = --spam antispam_mail_notspam = --ham antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/bin/sa-learn-pipe.sh antispam_spam_pattern_ignorecase = spam;junk } -------------------- This changed the message in my IMAP client, when attempting to move a message from my Inbox to the Junk folder, to: "[SERVERBUG] failed to send mail" Does this indicate a problem with the "/usr/bin/sa-learn-pipe.sh" script that is provided on the Wiki (cited above)? Also, it was not clear from the documentation ( http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/antispam.html ) whether or not the Pipe back-end requires the X-DSPAM-Signature header, and if so, to what value it should be set when using SpamAssassin. Thanks for any pointers, -Ben

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[Dovecot] Wrong quota calculation
by Cibest ML 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hi, We've a strange quota behavior on our dovecot servers. It seems that it's somehow doubling the real used storage (or could be something like twice the inbox size + size of other folders, hard to know for sure). It was initial setup with the maildir++ system. Now it's been configured with dict and mysql table but the result is the same. Dovecot version : 2.1.7 (from squeeze-backports). Maildir format is used As example, let's use mailbox(a)domain.com. If I check in the quota table, I'll find : - size : 697151354 - number of files : 1510 Now if I check the Maildir folder on the filesystem, I'll find : - size : 347960000 - number of files : 824 (using find . -type f|grep -v dovecot|wc -l, not 100% accurate) Another mail box Reported by dovecot : 503446986 1081 Filesystem : 248592000 598 Does anyone has an idea of what could be possibly wrong. We've checked & double-checked everything and nothing seems to be wrong (no dsync used). -- Regards Sébastien

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[Dovecot] v2.1.10 released
by Timo Sirainen 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.10.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/dovecot-2.1.10.tar.gz.sig The director bugfix is pretty important at least when running in two director setups, since it can break the directors until both of them are manually shut down. I'm not entirely sure if the same happens in >2 director setups, but I'd think so (although I do wonder why I haven't seen it happen in them). BTW. I'm hoping for v2.2.alpha1 release within a week or two and to get it stabilized rather quickly. + imap: Implemented THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT extension. + Added "doveadm exec" command to easily execute commands from libexec_dir, e.g. "doveadm exec imap -u user@domain" + Added "doveadm copy" command. + doveadm copy/move: Added optional user parameter to specify the source username. This allows easily copying mails between different users. + Added namespace { disabled } setting to quickly enable/disable namespaces. This is especially useful when its value is returned by userdb. + Added mailbox_alias plugin. It allows creating mailbox aliases using symlinks. + imapc storage: Added imapc_max_idle_time setting to force activity on connection. + fts-solr: Expunging multiple messages is now faster. - director: In some conditions director may have disconnected from another director (without logging about it), thinking it was sending invalid data. - imap: Various fixes to listing mailboxes. - pop3-migration plugin: Avoid disconnection from POP3 server due to idling. - login processes crashed if there were a lot of local {} or remote {} settings blocks.

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[Dovecot] Prevent Download messages from server
by Selcuk Yazar 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hi, can we prevent download messages from server user by user ? sme common used mail's message must be remain at the server, but sometimes we download them ? thanks in advance -- Selçuk YAZAR

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Re: [Dovecot] Prevent Download messages from server
by Peter Mogensen 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

> we have no problem, just i want to learn how can i do that. i think > it's clear . Well... I'm pretty sure most others don't. But anyway. As in ALL Internet protocols (IMAP being no exception), letting the client read data on the server requires it to download the data. Preventing download will prevent reading the mail. Period. So if you're fine with that and just want to learn how to do it, then just disable the account in the user database. /Peter

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot deliver Segmentation fault when arrive the first message
by interfaSys sàrl 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

I see the same crashes on FreeBSD. Turning off ACL makes the crashes disappear. I'm getting a different backtrace though and it doesn't seem to be related to ACL: Core was generated by `imap-login'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-login.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-login.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.7...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.7 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.8...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.8 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.8...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.8 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librt.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/librt.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libthr.so.3...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libthr.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #0 0x00000000104b99a6 in hash_table_destroy (_table=0x28) at _ctype.h:143 143 return (_c < 0 || _c >= __mb_sb_limit) ? _c : [New Thread 10e041c0 (LWP 103332/initial thread)] (gdb) bt full #0 0x00000000104b99a6 in hash_table_destroy (_table=0x28) at _ctype.h:143 table = (struct hash_table *) 0x10e29700 #1 0x0000000010478cf1 in settings_parser_deinit (_ctx=0x10e29778) at array.h:197 ctx = (struct setting_parser_context *) 0x0 #2 0x00000000104ac4ea in master_service_settings_cache_deinit (_cache=0x1045da08) at master-service-settings-cache.c:81 cache = (struct master_service_settings_cache *) 0x10e2e040 entry = (struct settings_entry *) 0x10e29740 next = (struct settings_entry *) 0x0 __FUNCTION__ = "master_service_settings_cache_deinit" #3 0x000000001044d1df in login_settings_deinit () at login-settings.c:129 No locals. #4 0x000000001044dd7e in main_deinit () at main.c:62 No locals. #5 0x000000001044df5c in login_binary_run (binary=0x4051c0, argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffebd8) at main.c:62 service_flags = 72 set_pool = 0x10e2d020 allow_core_dumps = true login_socket = 0x10457491 "login" c = -1 #6 0x00000000004036ee in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffebd8) at client.c:40 No locals. Cheers, Olivier

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Re: [Dovecot] [PATCH] Generalize HMAC implementation
by Florian Zeitz 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Am 11.09.2012 20:21, schrieb Timo Sirainen: > On 11.9.2012, at 21.07, Florian Zeitz wrote: > >>> I think we could simply #define the largest allowed context_size, use it for these buffers' sizes and then add i_assert(meth->context_size <= HMAC_MAX_CONTEXT_SIZE) >>> >> Well, either that, or we could use a union of all known context structs >> there. > > That annoyingly requires #including in hmac.h all the different .h files that contain hash contexts. When new hashes are added I doubt anyone remembers to update that. And since the hmac_context is rather rarely used I don't think it matters if we just use a somewhat large context size. > >> Or we could use i_malloc() and i_free() under the assumption hmac_init() >> + hmac_final() calls are always matched. > > Yeah, that's not too bad either I guess. Although it is different from other hash_init()+final calls which don't require it, and it's also wasting CPU a bit. > Here is an updated version of the patch. It uses the variant defining the largest allowed content size. I choose 1024 bit (128 Byte), since that is what most of the SHA-3 candidates use, so it's hopefully somewhat future proof. It's also rebased to the current head and switches the hmac uses added since the last version over to the changed API. It also fixes an "interesting" compiler warning I got with clang, which complained about the fact that struct hmac_context* was (re)declared in the prototype of hmac_md5_get_cram_context() and therefore separate from the one declared in hmac.h. Regards, Florian

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[Dovecot] Deleting a folder with & character
by Angel L. Mateo 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hello, One of my users has a mailbox named 'INBOX.Kron & SPM' (maybe created a long time ago, when we use courier imap as pop/imap server, but I'm not sure). I can see the maildir with a doveadm list command: amateo_adm@myotis31:~$ sudo doveadm mailbox list -u <user> ... INBOX.Kron & SPM ... but I can't delete it, neithe rename it: amateo_adm@myotis31:~$ sudo doveadm mailbox delete -u <user> 'INBOX.Kron & SPM' doveadm(jrfv): Error: Can't delete mailbox INBOX.Kron & SPM: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX.Kron &- SPM amateo_adm@myotis31:~$ sudo doveadm mailbox delete -u <user> 'INBOX.Kron \& SPM' doveadm(jrfv): Error: Can't delete mailbox INBOX.Kron \& SPM: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX.Kron \&- SPM is there any way to delete it with doveadm command? should I use a specific syntax or escape to indicate the name?

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[Dovecot] 2.1.10 crashes at login (buf->used <= buf->alloc)
by interfaSys sàrl 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hello, There is a big problem with 2.1.10. Here is what I saw in the logs: Sep 18 22:22:23 imap(): Panic: file buffer.c: line 86 (buffer_check_limits): assertion failed: (buf->used <= buf->alloc) Sep 18 22:22:23 imap(): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 26833 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) Reverting to 2.1.9 with the exact same config file works just fine Cheers, Olivier

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[Dovecot] ssl cert for mail server
by cc "maco" young 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

for testing a new ssl cert. it works ok for browsers, but > openssl s_client -crlf -connect ms1.trailsandtribulations.net:443 => verify error:num=19:self signed certificate in certificate chain is this ssl cert - as it's constructed - is ok for mail clients? (realize needs to be on mail port etc - right now talking about the cert itself.) have had problems with thunderbird, and was wondering if this might be part of the problem.

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[Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole v0.3.3 for Dovecot v2.1.10
by Stephan Bosch 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hello Dovecot users, Version 0.3.2 was a bit broken, because it failed to compile against installed Dovecot headers. Changelog v0.3.3: - Fixed compile against installed Dovecot headers. This was broken by the ld.gold fix in the previous release. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.3.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.3.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this new release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] lda bug: multiple passdb ignored
by Алексей Панкратов 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Greetings. When dovecot configured to use multiple passdb and static userdb as: #password database in multiple ldap subtree passdb { driver = ldap args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dv-ldap-real.conf } passdb { driver = ldap args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dv-ldap-virtual.conf } userdb { driver = static args = uid=pop gid=mailnull } all works fine but... When LDA deliver mail it check passdb but only first appeared in configuration: 18.09.2012 15:00:18 auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 info(a)zzz.zz service=lda 18.09.2012 15:00:18 auth: Debug: cache(info(a)zzz.zz): miss 18.09.2012 15:00:18 auth: Debug: ldap(info(a)zzz.zz): pass search: base=ou=account,ou=it,dc=planar,dc=local scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=x-mailUser)(uid=info)) fields=x-mailPassword 18.09.2012 15:00:18 lda: Debug: auth input: 18.09.2012 15:00:18 auth: Debug: cache(info(a)planar.spb.ru): hit: 18.09.2012 15:00:18 auth: Debug: master out: NOTFOUND 1 1 P.S. dovecot version 2.1.7 sysytem x86 FreeBSD 9.0

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[Dovecot] Proxy connection timeouts
by Kelsey Cummings 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

We are seeing a few (0-15) proxy failures like the following out of ~3m successful proxied connections a day. Average session creation load over our peak hour is about 47/sec. The backend servers aren't logging anything that would suggest any internal problem like insufficient processes to handle the load. It doesn't seem to happen when utilization is lowest at night. dovecot: imap-login: Error: proxy(foo): connect(1.1.1.1, 143) failed: Connection timed out (after 63 secs) I'm curious if anyone else has seen any similar problems or has any suggestions. # dovecot -n # 2.1.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64 x86_64 Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon) auth_master_user_separator = * auth_username_format = %Ln auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = sha1 auth_worker_max_count = 64 mail_fsync = always mail_log_prefix = "%s(%u): session=%{session} " mail_plugins = stats zlib maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = imap driver = pam } plugin { lazy_expunge = DELETED_MESSAGES. stats_refresh = 30 secs stats_track_cmds = yes } protocols = imap pop3 service anvil { client_limit = 10000 } service auth { client_limit = 10000 vsz_limit = 512 M } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 1842 } unix_listener doveadm-server { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_limit = 7000 process_min_avail = 32 } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login -d /etc/dovecot/bin/sonic-imap-postlogin user = $default_internal_user } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 512 M } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } process_limit = 2000 process_min_avail = 32 } service pop3-postlogin { executable = script-login -d /etc/dovecot/bin/sonic-pop3-postlogin user = $default_internal_user } service pop3 { executable = pop3 pop3-postlogin process_limit = 4096 } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0666 } } shutdown_clients = no ssl = required ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/ssl/gd_bundle.crt ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.sonic.net.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.sonic.net.key ssl_parameters_regenerate = 1 days syslog_facility = local0 userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_id_send = support-url support-email mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = stats zlib mwi_update mail_log notify imap_stats imap_zlib ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/ssl/gd_bundle.crt ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.sonic.net.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/imap.sonic.net.key } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = stats zlib lazy_expunge pop3_fast_size_lookups = yes pop3_uidl_format = %f ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/ssl/pop.sonic.net.ca-bundle ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/pop.sonic.net.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/pop.sonic.net.key }

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[Dovecot] Mailbox aliases
by Timo Sirainen 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

I've been wondering about ways to handle all the various different Sent/Sent Messages/Sent Items/etc mailboxes that different clients create and if there could be a way to make them work at least somewhat better. I'm mainly thinking about ISP-like installations where users are using tons of different clients and there's no way to get everyone configured properly. Of course the eventual solution is hopefully that all the clients will support SPECIAL-USE extension, but while waiting for that maybe mailbox aliases could help some. So one possibility would be to force autocreation of wanted specific mailbox names, and create aliases for the other commonly used mailboxes. The main difference here for the current behavior is that all of the mailboxes would contain the same mails, instead of different mails going to different mailboxes with different clients. So for example: .. mailbox Sent { auto = create special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent alias_for = Sent } .. If "Sent Messages" doesn't exist: - DELETE Sent works as usual - RENAME Sent works as usual If "Sent Messages" is created: - it's symlinked to Sent - DELETE "Sent messages" deletes the symlink, not the contents - RENAME "Sent messages" isn't allowed - DELETE/RENAME Sent fails with message: Delete/Rename for Sent not allowed before "Sent Messages" is deleted. Thoughts? The main disadvantage is that clients would still see two different mailboxes, and some would download contents from both of them. I was thinking about creating some wiki page which could list the best working configurations and also a client list, which would specify if it supports SPECIAL-USE and what the default mailbox names it uses are.

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[Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole v0.3.2 for Dovecot v2.1.9
by Stephan Bosch 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hello Dovecot users, I've been busy recently with some wholly unrelated Dovecot IMAP patches, so Sieve development moved a bit into the background. This release therefore consists mostly of small bugfixes. The most important change is the fix of a bug in ManageSieve's CHECKSCRIPT command that causes a segfault. Quite a few people have encountered this problem recently, so it is about time I release this now. Changelog v0.3.2: + sieve-refilter tool: improved man page documentation by explicitly specifying the syntax used for mailbox arguments. + Sieve: spamtest and virustest extensions: improved trace debugging of score calculation. + Sieve: made error messages about exceeding the maximum number of actions more verbose. - Sieve tools: fixed problems with running as root: sievec and sieve-dump now ignore mail_uid and mail_gid settings when run as root. - Sieve: fixed bug in action accounting (for limit checking): increase action instance count only when an action is actually created. - Sieve: include extension: fixed namespace separation of :global and :personal scripts. - ManageSieve: fixed segfault bug triggered by CHECKSCRIPT command. - Fixed linking with ld.gold. - Fixed several Clang compile warnings and a few potential bugs. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.2.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this new release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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