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Re: [Dovecot] 2.1: imapc LIST problem / usage question
by Lutz Preßler 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

On Fr, 09 Sep 2011, Lutz Preßler wrote: > On Fr, 09 Sep 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 12:01 +0200, Lutz Preßler wrote: > [...] > > > For the Gmail mailboxe the INBOX.gmail prefix is missing and / is used > > > as separator. > > > > Fixed in hg. > Thanks. LIST is now working correctly in my setup, but SUBSCRIBE ist not. With subscriptions=no, as written (but same behaviour with subscriptions=yes), SUBSCRIBE INBOX.gmail.INBOX (or others) yields 0 NO [SERVERBUG] Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2011-09-09 16:39:40] logging (with mail_debug=yes) only Sep 9 16:39:40 host dovecot: imap(1143, user): Error: stat((null)) failed: Bad address Lutz

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[Dovecot] Quota fs (ignore mount)
by Peter Ignatov 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

> I set "quota: fs:INBOX:noenforcing:mount=/var/spool/mail", but receive: "fs quota add storage dir = /home/pit/mail"... > Why ? Well .. I'm not entirely sure if the current behavior is good or not, but what you need to do to get it working is to add two quota roots. One for /home/pit/mail (i.e. without specifying mount=) and another for the INBOX's /var/spool/mail. Don't work... :-( # dovecot -n # 1.2.17: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-274.el5.asp121 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga) log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: pop3 pop3s listen: * login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login verbose_proctitle: yes mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins: quota mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs:INBOX:noenforcing quota2: fs:boxes:noenforcing:mount=/var/spool/mail quota_rule: *:storage=10240 quota_rule2: *:storage=15000 dovecot.log: ------------ Sep 09 16:13:46 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<pit>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.3.10, lip=192.168.6.3, TLS Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3/lib10_quota_plugin.so Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: Effective uid=500, gid=500, home=/home/pit Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: Quota root: name=INBOX backend=fs args=noenforcing Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: Quota rule: root=INBOX mailbox=* bytes=10485760 messages=0 Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: Quota rule: root=INBOX mailbox=* bytes=15360000 messages=0 Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: Quota root: name=boxes backend=fs args=noenforcing:mount=/var/spool/mail Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: mbox: data=~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/pit Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: fs: root=/home/pit/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/mail/pit Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: fs quota add storage dir = /home/pit/mail Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: fs quota block device = /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: fs quota mount point = / Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: fs quota mount type = ext3 Sep 09 16:13:46 POP3(pit): Info: Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/2, size=1249

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Re: [Dovecot] Shared Mailboxes with VirtualUsers and mail_location retrieved from ldap
by mailing lists 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

and for the time that user001 execute the imap 'list' command, this is the log trace in dovecot: Sep 9 13:09:12 imap1 dovecot: imap(user001): Debug: Namespace : type=shared, prefix=shared.%u., sep=., inbox=no, hidden=no, list=children, subscriptions=no location=maildir:%h/mailSubDir:INDEX=~/mailSubDir/shared/%u Sep 9 13:09:12 imap1 dovecot: imap(user001): Debug: shared: root=/var/run/dovecot/, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= [...] Sep 9 13:10:44 imap1 dovecot: auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 user002 service=lib-storage Sep 9 13:10:44 imap1 dovecot: auth: Debug: ldap(user002): user search: base=dc=example,dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=CourierMailAccount)(uid=user002)) fields=mailbox,homeFilter Sep 9 13:10:44 imap1 dovecot: auth: Debug: ldap(user002): result: mailbox(mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$)=vol05/4/40/user002 homeFilter(home)=/var/mailfilter/vol05/4/40/user002 Sep 9 13:10:44 imap1 dovecot: auth: Debug: master out: USER 1 user002 mail=maildir:/var/maildir/vol05/4/40/user002 home=/var/mailfilter/vol05/4/40/user002 Sep 9 13:10:44 imap1 dovecot: imap(user001): Debug: auth input: user002 mail=maildir:/var/maildir/vol05/4/40/user002 home=/var/mailfilter/vol05/4/40/user002 Sep 9 13:10:44 imap1 dovecot: imap(user001): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/mailfilter/vol05/4/40/user002/mailSubDir, index=/var/mailfilter/vol04/4/46/user001/mailSubDir/shared/user002, control=, inbox=/var/mailfilter/vol05/4/40/user002/mailSubDir, alt= Sep 9 13:10:44 imap1 dovecot: imap(user001): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile Sep 9 13:10:44 imap1 dovecot: imap(user001): Debug: acl: acl username = user001 Sep 9 13:10:44 imap1 dovecot: imap(user001): Debug: acl: owner = 0 Sep 9 13:10:44 imap1 dovecot: imap(user001): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: (none) Sep 9 13:10:44 imap1 dovecot: imap(user001): Debug: acl: Mailbox not in dovecot-acl-list: shared.user002.INBOX

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Re: [Dovecot] Shared Mailboxes with VirtualUsers and mail_location retrieved from ldap
by mailing lists 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

(I'm sorry for breaking the thread with each mail) On 09/09/2011 10:04 AM, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:18:40AM +0100, mailing lists wrote: >> >> and how to I might configure dovecot to use the mail directory as a subdirectory of the home directory? >> >> this way all lookups for home (with %%h fetched from ldap) will return the correct locationand mail will be in (i.e.) ~/mailSubDir >> >> is this configuration possible? > > In the main dovecot.conf: > > mail_location = maildir:~/mailSubDir > > In the ldap-config: > > user_attrs = homeFilter=home and which is the value for the location directive in namespace declaration ?? namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/mailSubDir:INDEX=~/mailSubDIr/shared/%%u prefix = shared.%%u. separator = . subscriptions = no type = shared } with the above conf. no shared folders are seen by tests users and afaik %%h is retrieved from ldap. this is that I had done until now: # telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. . login user001 secret . OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAME . create INBOX.docs-user001 . OK Create completed. . setacl INBOX.docs-user001 user002 lr . OK Setacl complete. . logout * BYE Logging out . OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. # telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. . login user002 secret . OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAME . create INBOX.docs-user002 . OK Create completed. . setacl INBOX.docs-user002 user001 lr . OK Setacl complete. . logout * BYE Logging out . OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. # cat /var/maildir/shared-mailboxes shared/shared-boxes/user/user002/user001 1 shared/shared-boxes/user/user002/user002 1 shared/shared-boxes/user/user001/user001 1 shared/shared-boxes/user/user001/user002 1 # cat /var/maildir/vol04/4/46/user001/.docs-user001/dovecot-acl user=user002 lr # cat /var/maildir/vol05/4/40/user002/.docs-user002/dovecot-acl user=user001 lr # telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. . login user001 secret . OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in . namespace * NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) (("shared." ".")) NIL . OK Namespace completed. . list "shared." "*" . OK List completed. /--------------/ # grep ^[^#] /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext uris = ldap://ldap.example.com dn = cn=testuser,dc=example,dc=com dnpass = secret sasl_bind = no tls = no auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=example,dc=com deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = mailbox=mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$,homeFilter=home user_filter = (&(objectClass=CourierMailAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_filter = (&(objectClass=CourierMailAccount)(uid=%u)) # dovecot -n # 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.34.7-0.7-xen x86_64 openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_gid = 5000 mail_location = maildir:~/mailSubDir mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = acl mail_uid = 5000 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/mailSubDir:INDEX=~/mailSubDir/shared/%%u prefix = shared.%%u. separator = . subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/maildir/shared-mailboxes sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap lmtp service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } unix_listener lmtp { user = vmail } } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = acl } protocol lda { mail_plugins = acl } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 mail_plugins = acl imap_acl autocreate }

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Re: [Dovecot] Shared Mailboxes with VirtualUsers and mail_location retrieved from ldap
by mailing lists 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

On 09/08/2011 03:07 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 12:14 +0100, mailing lists wrote: > >> yes, my virtual users have separate directories for home and mail. >> Their locations are stored in ldap attributes (with random generated >> paths), so a flat scheme like /var/maildr/%%u isn't valid. > > Sorry, you're out of luck with that kind of a setup. Only the %%h can > look up a home directory from LDAP. Maybe some day in future there will > be other variables that can be looked up. and how to I might configure dovecot to use the mail directory as a subdirectory of the home directory? this way all lookups for home (with %%h fetched from ldap) will return the correct locationand mail will be in (i.e.) ~/mailSubDir is this configuration possible?

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[Dovecot] lmtp -- save failed to INBOX: BUG: Unknown internal error
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

I've had 18 instances of this error the last 24 hours: Sep 8 08:56:00 popimap1 dovecot:: lmtp(10529, first.last(a)example.om) mGdAOtdlaE4hKQAAg/aw4w: msgid=<B8FA3D5B230184409450D51D522678404E5052(a)ASP-EX02.ASP.lan>: save failed to INBOX: BUG: Unknown internal error 17 on lmtp-server A, and one on lmtp-server B. On server A it was a message with 55 recepients, where 17 failed initially -- and the was then successfully delivered. lmtp pid 10529, 08:55:57-08:56:01 - 11 successfull deliveries, 17 BUGs lmtp pid 10609, 08:56:00 - 1 successfull deliveries lmtp pid 31291, 08:56:06 - 2 successfull deliveries lmtp pid 10482, 08:56:04-06 - 3 successfull deliveries lmtp pid 6738, 08:56:06 - 1 successfull deliveries lmtp pid 24488, 08:56:06-07 - 5 successfull deliveries lmtp pid 7101, 08:56:01-07 - 19 successfull deliveries lmtp pid 21330, 08:56:08 - 1 successfull deliveries lmtp pid 2177, 08:56:09 - 3 successfull deliveries lmtp pid 7085, 08:56:10 - 3 successfull deliveries lmtp pid 6633, 08:56:08-10 - 6 successfull deliveries The one on lmtp-server B was a different msgid from A, and also had several recepients (6). It was successfully delivered to the recepient that initially failed the same second. Config here: # 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga) auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = sha1 disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_gid = 3000 mail_location = maildir:~/:INDEX=/indexes/%1u/%1.1u/%u mail_plugins = quota mail_uid = 3000 mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota } service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { client_limit = 4396 } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = * port = 143 } } service imap { executable = /usr/local/sbin/imap-wrapper.sh process_limit = 2048 } service lmtp { client_limit = 1 inet_listener lmtp { address = * port = 24 } process_limit = 25 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = * port = 110 } } service pop3 { executable = /usr/local/sbin/pop-wrapper.sh process_limit = 2048 } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = UID%u-%v } -jf

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[Dovecot] copy and empty userA folder1, append to /var/mail/userB
by mathog 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Dovecot 2.0.13 on a 64 bit linux. We have an archiver account on one machine. Most mailing lists that handles go directly to it and everything is fine. However, there is one campus list that will only send to real people. So for that one I subscribed. When one of these messages comes in, which is 1-2x per week, I copy it to an export folder and then manually run a script which does: cat ~me/mail/export >>/var/mail/archiver echo "" > ~me/mail/export That worked fine on our last system, but dovecot doesn't like it. It leaves the imap indices for the export mailbox in an inconsistent state, so that roundcube (through dovecot) refuses to drop messages into it. The error message roundcube emits is: ServerError: Mailbox isn't a valid mbox file. Presumably the second half is from dovecot. I need a supported way to go about this, so that the next time one comes in I can copy to that folder again. The export mailbox is always completely emptied. It would suffice if there was some way to force dovecot to create "empty"" .imap/export: dovecot.index.cache dovecot.index.log files. Note this isn't a problem for the archiver itself, since it doesn't have any imap indexed files. Suggestions? Thank you, David Mathog mathog(a)caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Re: [Dovecot] Shared Mailboxes with VirtualUsers and mail_location retrieved from ldap
by mailing lists 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Hello, On 09/07/2011 07:22 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 6.9.2011, at 14.27, mailing lists wrote: >> At this point I need shared mailboxes but since user mail/home locations are ldap attributes, how is it supposed I must configure this for shared mailboxes? >> >> for the users' mail/home directories I set this line: >> >> user_attrs = mailbox=mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$,homeFilter=home > > Are home dirs and mail dirs related in any way? The only way you can get it working is by using home dirs, e.g.: > > user_attrs = mailbox=home=/var/maildir/%$ yes, my virtual users have separate directories for home and mail. Their locations are stored in ldap attributes (with random generated paths), so a flat scheme like /var/maildr/%%u isn't valid. for typical (virtual) users the location returned looks like: Sep 8 12:48:33 imap1 dovecot: auth: Debug: ldap(user012,::1): result: mailbox(mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$)=vol06/1/15/user012 homeFilter(home)=/var/mailfilter/vol06/1/15/user012 ... Sep 8 12:54:50 imap1 dovecot: imap(user012): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/maildir/vol06/1/15/user012, index=, control=, inbox=/var/maildir/vol06/1/15/user012, alt= > Then in dovecot.conf: > > mail_location = maildir:~/ > >> namespace { >> type = shared >> separator = / >> prefix = shared/%%u/ >> subscriptions = no >> list = children > > location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u this is that I see in logs and not shared folders are seen by imap clients: Sep 8 12:57:11 imap1 dovecot: imap(user012): Debug: Namespace : type=shared, prefix=shared.%u., sep=., inbox=no, hidden=no, list=children, subscriptions=no location=maildir:%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%u Sep 8 12:57:11 imap1 dovecot: imap(user012): Debug: shared: root=/var/run/dovecot/, index=, control=, inbox=, alt= Sep 8 12:57:11 imap1 dovecot: imap(user012): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile I fail to understand how %%u is retrieved from ldap... /----------/ # dovecot -n # 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.34.7-0.7-xen x86_64 openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_gid = 5000 mail_location = maildir:~/ mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = acl mail_uid = 5000 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date mmap_disable = yes namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared.%%u. separator = . subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/maildir/shared-mailboxes sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 mail_plugins = acl imap_acl autocreate }

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Re: [Dovecot] is it necessary lmtp and director to avoid index corruption in mail delivery?
by mailing lists 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

JF, thank you for the reply. I'm just curious how to big players fix this problem, which seems impact systems with shared storage. Have a nice day. On 09/07/2011 12:59 PM, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:26:28AM +0100, mailing lists wrote: >> Hello all, >> If I have several postfix/dovecot-lda boxes with shared nfs storage, >> how director helps in this scenario? > > The director can help by directing each unique user to the same backend > server for each delivery, which should give you better performance > (indexes cached in memory on only one machine instead of on all, > inotify will work for IMAP NOTIFY), and also avoid some apparent race > conditions that has lead to index corruption when several nodes are > writing to the same mailbox at the same time. > >> is it necesary to use lmtp instead of dovecot-lda? > > Yes. > > >> With postfix/dovecot-lda boxes incoming mail happens at the smtp layer >> but director redirects are working in the lmtp/imap/pop3 layer. > > Right. > > With LMTP you can have dovecot listening on the network (port 24/tcp) > for incoming mail. No need for postfix on the backend mailstorage > servers. > > Our setups has been: > > Mailgw[1-14] ---smtp--> dovecot-server[1-5] (postfix + dovecot/lda) > > and used MX priorities to make all deliveries go to the same > dovecot-server with the others as backup. > > $ dig mx deliver.example.com +short > 10 dove2.example.com. > 15 dove3.example.com. > 20 dove4.example.com. > 25 dove5.example.com. > 5 dove1.example.com. > > > Now I'm moving towards: > > Mailgw[1-14] ---lmtp--> dovecot-server[1-5] (dovecot/lmtp) > > but worry that the index corruption might hit me again.. Ideally > I want: > > Mailgw[1-14] ---lmtp--> directors --lmtp--> dovecot-server[1-5] (dovecot/lmtp) > > but lmtp-proxying seems to have bugs (ref: my latest mails to this > list). > > > -jf

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[Dovecot] limit number of simultaneous lmtp deliveries ?
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

We have quite a few frontend mail gateways that deliver incoming email trough our dovecot director (lmtp proxy) to the backend lmtp servers, and are seeing this logged on the frontend mail gateways: Sep 5 10:51:56 mailgw1 postfix/lmtp[23443]: 0E2F41C01A: to=<me(a)example.com>, relay=loadbalancers.example.com[192.168.42.15]:24, delay=61, delays=0.02/0.3/31/30, dsn=4.4.0, status=deferred (host loadbalancers.example.com[192.168.42.15] said: 451 4.4.0 Remote server not answering (DATA output timeout) (in reply to end of DATA command)) It's a bit unclear to me if this leads to duplicate deliveries, or just delayed deliveries, but -- is there any way to limit the number of simultanous deliveries on either the dovecot director or the backend lmtp-servers ? Will "process_limit=10" work for "service lmtp"? -jf

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[Dovecot] test
by Adrian Stoica 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Hello i use dovecot 2.0.14 , with exim 4.76 using dovecot-lda. We have the following problem: when I receive mail from the site http://www.transfer.ro, which is a file transfer site, most emails appear to be empty. Empty rows appear in email body slipped through the existing, and this makemy mail client to show me an empty mail. You can see the content only by viewing the message source. instead of "- np4e68592849da7 Content-type: text / plain, charset = utf-8 " appear "- np4e68592849da7 Content-type: text / plain, charset = utf-8 " , and that blank line spoil everything. You can check if there is somethingwrong ?

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[Dovecot] ManageSieve with SSL/TLS only
by Karol Babioch 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Hi, I'm quite new to Dovecot and ManageSieve, so probably I've missed something, although I couldn't find any hints in the wiki. I'm interested in running ManageSieve with SSL/TLS only. So is there any way to reject any non encrypted connections? I couldn't find any parameter for this purpose. I'm currently using dovecot 1.2.15 provided with Debian Squeeze, but I couldn't find any parameter in the 2.0 branch neither. Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[Dovecot] Shared Mailboxes with VirtualUsers and mail_location retrieved from ldap
by mailing lists 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hello, I spend a couple of days configurating a new installation of dovecot 2.0.14 with virtual accounts and NFS storage for maildir home/mail directories. At this point I need shared mailboxes but since user mail/home locations are ldap attributes, how is it supposed I must configure this for shared mailboxes? for the users' mail/home directories I set this line: user_attrs = mailbox=mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$,homeFilter=home creating a namespace like the below one for shared mbx throw a lot of errors: namespace { type = shared separator = / prefix = shared/%%u/ subscriptions = no list = children #location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u location = mailbox=mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$ } I would like to hear if anyone has this configuration running. Thank you. /--------------/ uris = ldap://ldap.example.com dn = cn=user,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com dnpass = secret sasl_bind = no tls = no auth_bind = yes ldap_version = 3 base = dc=example,dc=com deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = mailbox=mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$,homeFilter=home user_filter = (&(objectClass=CourierMailAccount)(uid=%u)) pass_filter = (&(objectClass=CourierMailAccount)(uid=%u)) # dovecot -n # 2.0.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.34.7-0.7-xen x86_64 openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_gid = 5000 mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = acl mail_uid = 5000 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date mmap_disable = yes namespace { list = children location = mailbox=mail=maildir:/var/maildir/%$ prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 mail_plugins = acl imap_acl autocreate }

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[Dovecot] Quota fs (ignore mount)
by Peter Ignatov 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hi, I set "quota: fs:INBOX:noenforcing:mount=/var/spool/mail", but receive: "fs quota add storage dir = /home/pit/mail"... Why ? In fstab: /dev/mapper/mpath1p1 /var/spool/mail ext2 usrquota 0 0 In dovecot.log: Sep 06 15:02:00 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<pit>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.3.10, lip=192.168.6.3, TLS Sep 06 15:02:00 POP3(pit): Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 Sep 06 15:02:00 POP3(pit): Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3/lib10_quota_plugin.so Sep 06 15:02:00 POP3(pit): Info: Effective uid=500, gid=500, home=/home/pit Sep 06 15:02:00 POP3(pit): Info: Quota root: name=INBOX backend=fs args=noenforcing:mount=/var/spool/mail Sep 06 15:02:00 POP3(pit): Info: Quota rule: root=INBOX mailbox=* bytes=10485760 messages=0 Sep 06 15:02:00 POP3(pit): Info: Quota warning: bytes=9961472 (95%) messages=0 command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 Sep 06 15:02:00 POP3(pit): Info: mbox: data=~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/pit Sep 06 15:02:00 POP3(pit): Info: fs: root=/home/pit/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/mail/pit Sep 06 15:02:00 POP3(pit): Info: fs quota add storage dir = /home/pit/mail Sep 06 15:02:00 POP3(pit): Info: fs quota block device = /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 Sep 06 15:02:00 POP3(pit): Info: fs quota mount point = / Sep 06 15:02:00 POP3(pit): Info: fs quota mount type = ext3 Sep 06 15:02:01 POP3(pit): Info: Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/2, size=1249 dovecot --version 1.2.17 dovecot -n # 1.2.17: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-274.el5.asp121 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga) log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: pop3 pop3s listen: * login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login verbose_proctitle: yes mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins: quota mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd plugin: quota: fs:INBOX:noenforcing:mount=/var/spool/mail quota_rule: *:storage=10240 quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95

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[Dovecot] Sieve "header :value" test does not work
by Tom Hendrikx 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

hi, After following some examples and searching for sieve samples in this ml history, I'm quite sure that the following sieve snippet should give no surprises: if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "X-Header-Name" "0.99" { /* do something */ } However the Pigeonhole Sieve 0.2.3 on dovecot 2.0.14 gives me following error: test: line 3: error: unknown tagged argument ':value' for the header test (reported only once at first occurence). test: error: validation failed. What obvious mistake am I failing to see here? -- Tom

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[Dovecot] is it necessary lmtp and director to avoid index corruption in mail delivery?
by mailing lists 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hello all, If I have several postfix/dovecot-lda boxes with shared nfs storage, how director helps in this scenario? is it necesary to use lmtp instead of dovecot-lda? With postfix/dovecot-lda boxes incoming mail happens at the smtp layer but director redirects are working in the lmtp/imap/pop3 layer.

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Re: [Dovecot] error in logs, but system appears to work
by Joseph Tam 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Chris Hoogendyk writes: > So, looking at my other system that has been running dovecot for over a > year, I see that the entries are mostly 0600, but there are a few 0660. > The system I was just implementing has mostly 0660, but some 0600. We > had seen occasional similar errors on the other system. Been there, done that. Timo already gave an explanation of why 0600 gets rid of the problem. I'll add a reminder that you'll need to track down the reason why mailboxes are created user:mail/0660 in the first place. It's usually done by the LDA when creating a brand new mailbox (for example, Solaris's mail.local). If you've replaced your LDA with Dovecot's deliver, then this won't be a problem anymore. You may also have to scour your userbase's personal mail collection for mailboxes that has 1) mode 0660, and 2) group membership the user is not a part of, and fix up the permissions. Such a thing could happen if you've reassigned a user's GID. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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[Dovecot] Quotas not recalculating
by Kyle Brantley 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hello all -- I have an interesting issue, where the quotas are refusing the recalculate for anyone on my server. # doveadm quota get -u kyle(a)averageurl.com Quota name Type Value Limit % storage=540672 STORAGE 0 - 0 storage=540672 MESSAGE 0 - 0 # doveadm quota recalc -u kyle(a)averageurl.com # doveadm quota get -u kyle(a)averageurl.com Quota name Type Value Limit % storage=540672 STORAGE 0 - 0 storage=540672 MESSAGE 0 - 0 # du -sh /var/mail/vhosts/averageurl.com/kyle 512M /var/mail/vhosts/averageurl.com/kyle The IMAP client (Thunderbird) state that the user has no quotas in place at all. Now, if I copy the maildirsize file from another user to this user account, the quotas display in the IMAP client. At this point, however, trying to recalc the quota does nothing. Any help with this would be appreciated, config below... --Kyle # doveconf -n # 2.0.beta6 (3156315704ef): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final) ext4 auth_gssapi_hostname = imap.mail.averageurl.com auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/dovecot/krb5.keytab auth_mechanisms = plain login gssapi digest-md5 cram-md5 first_valid_uid = 502 last_valid_uid = 502 mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { quota = maildir:Quota sieve = /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/.sieve sieve_dir = /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/sieve/ } protocols = imap lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mailstore mode = 0660 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service imap { process_limit = 128 } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 } ssl_ca = </etc/pki/tls/certs/AverageURL.crt ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/imap.mail.averageurl.com.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/imap.mail.averageurl.com.pem.insecure userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve } protocol sieve { mail_max_userip_connections = 2 managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 } # cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = mysql connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock user=<snip> password=<snip> dbname=<snip> user_query = SELECT 502 AS uid, 502 AS gid, "/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n" AS home, concat("maildir:storage=", floor(m.quota/1024)) AS quota FROM vmailboxes m, vhosts h WHERE `m`.`username` = '%n' AND `m`.`domain` = `h`.`UUID` AND `h`.`vhost` = '%d' default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT aes_decrypt(`m`.`password`, <snip>) AS password FROM vmailboxes m, vhosts h WHERE `m`.`username` = '%n' AND `m`.`domain` = `h`.`UUID` AND `h`.`vhost` = '%d'

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[Dovecot] dumb Q: how to search for email hack attempts ?
by Voytek 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

one of the users thinks someone hacked his email, I don't have time this morning to analyze mail logs in detail, but does some one has some tips to simply searching mail logs for multiple log in attempts, etc, I'd appreciate some grepping for failed logins show give some clues ?

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[Dovecot] error in logs, but system appears to work
by Chris Hoogendyk 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

I'm bringing up a system with dovecot that has been running for years with uw-imap. In making the switch, I put a tail on the log file, made the switch, and sent a test mail and received it. I was able to receive mail with no apparent difficulties, but the log file was disconcerting. A number of users connected during the few minutes I had it running, and for each of them there was an error, e.g., "chown ~user/mail/.imap/INBOX failed: Operation not permitted" and "mkdir ~user/mail/.imap/INBOX failed: not owner". But those directories and files appeared to have been made. The first of those errors finishes with "group based on /var/mail/user". That makes no sense. I'm hoping someone can give me an idea what might cause this. Here are the log entries in debug mode and the directories for one such user: Sep 2 17:31:33 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=7248 Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.info] auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 secured lip=128.119.45.20 rip=128.119.45.9 lport=995 rport=53865 resp=AGVicmFkbGV5AFJvd2luZzEzKg== Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.info] auth(default): shadow(ebradley,128.119.45.9): lookup Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.info] auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=ebradley Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.info] auth(default): master in: REQUEST 37 7248 1 Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.info] auth(default): passwd(ebradley,128.119.45.9): lookup Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.info] auth(default): master out: USER 37 ebradley system_groups_user=ebradley uid=6633 gid=100 home=/u1/home/grad/ebradley Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.info] POP3(ebradley): Effective uid=6633, gid=100, home=/u1/home/grad/ebradley Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.info] POP3(ebradley): mbox: data=~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/ebradley Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.info] POP3(ebradley): fs: root=/u1/home/grad/ebradley/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/ebradley Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.info] POP3(ebradley): Namespace : Using permissions from /u1/home/grad/ebradley/mail: mode=0700 gid=-1 Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.error] POP3(ebradley): chown(/u1/home/grad/ebradley/mail/.imap/INBOX, -1, 6(mail)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=100(geolgrad), group based on /var/mail/ebradley) Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.error] POP3(ebradley): mkdir(/u1/home/grad/ebradley/mail/.imap/INBOX) failed: Not owner Sep 2 17:31:43 eclogite dovecot: [ID 583609 local2.info] pop3-login: Login: user=<ebradley>, method=PLAIN, rip=128.119.45.9, lip=128.119.45.20, TLS When I looked at their home directory, I found: drwx------ 4 ebradley geolgrad 512 Jul 28 2009 /u1/home/grad/ebradley drwx------ 4 ebradley geolgrad 512 Sep 2 17:31 /u1/home/grad/ebradley/mail drwx------ 3 ebradley geolgrad 512 Sep 2 17:31 /u1/home/grad/ebradley/mail/.imap drwxrwx--- 2 ebradley geolgrad 512 Sep 2 17:31 /u1/home/grad/ebradley/mail/.imap/INBOX -rw-rw---- 1 ebradley mail 9484323 Sep 6 15:16 /var/mail/ebradley My dovecot configuration is at the end. The other pieces are sendmail, milter-greylist, mimedefang, etc. -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology& Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <hoogendyk(a)bio.umass.edu> --------------- Erdös 4 # dovecot -a # 1.2.17: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 768). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: SunOS 5.9 sun4u base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: info_log_path: log_timestamp: %b %d %H:%M:%S syslog_facility: local2 protocols: imaps pop3s listen: * ssl_listen: * ssl: required ssl_ca_file: /etc/mail/certs/ca-bundle.crt ssl_cert_file: /etc/mail/certs/sendmail.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/mail/certs/sendmail.pem ssl_key_password: ssl_parameters_regenerate: 168 ssl_cipher_list: ssl_cert_username_field: commonName ssl_verify_client_cert: no disable_plaintext_auth: yes verbose_ssl: no shutdown_clients: yes nfs_check: yes version_ignore: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: dovecot login_greeting: ready. login_log_format_elements: user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format: %$: %s login_process_per_connection: yes login_chroot: yes login_trusted_networks: login_process_size: 64 login_processes_count: 3 login_max_processes_count: 128 login_max_connections: 256 valid_chroot_dirs: mail_chroot: max_mail_processes: 512 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 3 verbose_proctitle: no first_valid_uid: 1000 last_valid_uid: 0 first_valid_gid: 98 last_valid_gid: 0 mail_access_groups: mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: mail_gid: mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_cache_fields: mail_never_cache_fields: imap.envelope mail_cache_min_mail_count: 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval: 30 mail_debug: yes mail_full_filesystem_access: no mail_max_keyword_length: 50 mail_save_crlf: no mmap_disable: no dotlock_use_excl: yes fsync_disable: no mail_nfs_storage: no mail_nfs_index: no mailbox_list_index_disable: yes lock_method: fcntl maildir_stat_dirs: no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: no maildir_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_read_locks: fcntl mbox_write_locks: dotlock fcntl mbox_lock_timeout: 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout: 120 mbox_min_index_size: 0 mbox_dirty_syncs: yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs: no mbox_lazy_writes: yes dbox_rotate_size: 2048 dbox_rotate_min_size: 16 dbox_rotate_days: 1 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: no mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_process_size: 256 mail_plugins: mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_prefix: %Us(%u): mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 10 imap_max_line_length: 65536 imap_capability: imap_client_workarounds: imap_logout_format: bytes=%i/%o imap_id_send: imap_id_log: imap_idle_notify_interval: 120 pop3_no_flag_updates: no pop3_enable_last: no pop3_reuse_xuidl(default): no pop3_reuse_xuidl(imap): no pop3_reuse_xuidl(pop3): yes pop3_save_uidl: no pop3_lock_session: no pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xv%08Xu pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_logout_format: top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s dict_db_config: dict_process_count: 1 auth default: mechanisms: plain realms: default_realm: cache_size: 0 cache_ttl: 3600 cache_negative_ttl: 3600 executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth user: root chroot: username_chars: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_ username_translation: username_format: master_user_separator: anonymous_username: anonymous krb5_keytab: gssapi_hostname: winbind_helper_path: /usr/bin/ntlm_auth failure_delay: 2 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes ssl_require_client_cert: no ssl_username_from_cert: no use_winbind: no count: 1 worker_max_count: 30 process_size: 256 passdb: driver: shadow args: deny: no pass: no master: no userdb: driver: passwd args: #

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[Dovecot] Extdata plugin, MySQL
by Steve Fatula 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Does someone have an example of configuring the Pigeonhole Sieve Extdata plugin with MySQL dict? Particularly, the map and what key might be used in this? The doc in the wiki isn;t clear at all to me when one wants to use MySQL store. The file in the doc folder of the mercurial repository is basically what I want to do, in that RFC, it's bascially looking for a discard_spam setting, I presume by user whose Sieve script is running. So, what would the sql mapping file look like? What lookup key is used? I can't really find any map documentation for the syntax, can a special key be used, perhaps, I need to append a value to the user if that is the key? Can this data be accessed via the dictionary proxy to make access more efficient? While I don't want to discard spam based on the setting in the database, I DO want to not move to the spam folder based on a setting stored in an existing MySQL database. So, very similar idea. I want to use an existing database, but, the key is username + a certain constant value for another field. Am hoping this can be mapped as well. Steve

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[Dovecot] Mail files?
by Knute Johnson 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

I have a Ubuntu server running dovecot 1.2.9 with mail in mbox. There are mail files in /var/mail/user and there are mail files in /home/user/mail that correspond to the IMAP folders. In the config file details below it shows mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u, does that put the INBOX in /var/mail? Is INBOX in /var/mail/user to allow local delivery or something? If I was using POP3 instead would all the mail be in the INBOX? Can I backup these files by just copying and if a file is destroyed, copy them back? # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-33-generic i686 Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_max_userip_connections: 16 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock imap_capability: IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd Thanks, -- Knute Johnson knute2011(a)knutejohnson.com

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[Dovecot] 2.1.alpha1: SIGSEGV on EXPUNGE
by Lutz Preßler 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hi, I upgraded my test installation from Debian lenny with latest 2.0.14 auto builds to squeeze with v2.1.alpha1 (amd64) auto builds. (From /var/log/mail.log: Sep 5 12:34:45 pressler dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.1.alpha1 starting up (core dumps disabled) No hg hash tag in log output anymore?) Now the imap processes segfault on every EXPUNGE command: Excerpt from telnet session: 0 store 1585:1585 flags \Deleted * 1585 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted)) 0 OK Store completed. 0 expunge Log output: Sep 5 15:40:59 pressler dovecot: imap(2580, lpmail): delete: box=INBOX, uid=34722, msgid=<E1R0ZJW-00FrF7-0U(a)intern.SerNet.DE>, size=1980, vsize=2031, from=Lutz Pressler <Lutz.Pressler(a)SerNet.DE>, flags=(\Deleted) Sep 5 15:41:22 pressler dovecot: imap(2580, lpmail): expunge: box=INBOX, uid=34722, msgid=<E1R0ZJW-00FrF7-0U(a)intern.SerNet.DE>, size=1980, vsize=2031, from=Lutz Pressler <Lutz.Pressler(a)SerNet.DE>, flags=(\Deleted) Sep 5 15:41:22 pressler dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 2580 killed with signal 11 (core dumps disabled) Also happens with mail_log plugin disabled. Any idea? Configuration on request (or tests with core dumps enabled). Regards, Lutz -- Lutz Preßler <Lutz.Pressler(a)SerNet.DE> http://www.SerNet.DE/ SerNet Service Network GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, D-37081 Göttingen Tel.: +49-551-370000-2, FAX: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen

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[Dovecot] v2.1.alpha1 released
by Timo Sirainen 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/alpha/dovecot-2.1.alpha1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.1/alpha/dovecot-2.1.alpha1.tar.gz.sig So it's time for the first alpha version of Dovecot v2.1. There are no huge intrusive changes, so I expect v2.1.0 to be released this year (maybe even in a few months?) The biggest changes are related to full text search handling. I'll probably still make some changes to it and its configuration. Also it wouldn't be difficult to add more backends, does anyone want to add Xapian support for Dovecot? :) Mailbox list indexes are intended to improve performance of IMAP STATUS command lookups, since they could be simply looked up from the index without even opening the mailbox. TODO related to this: 1) optimize virtual mailbox handling so that it doesn't need to actually open all of the mailboxes' index files, it can simply look at the mailbox list index for changes. 2) Implement IMAP NOTIFY extension using this. Statistics tracking can be used to look at what's happening currently in your system and also its history. You can look at what's happening in command/session/user/domain/ip level. "doveadm stats top" gives a list of currently running sessions and sorts them by whichever is using the most disk io/cpu/whatever. "doveadm stats dump" followed by one of the levels shows you a raw dump of everything stored in that level. It would be nice if someone wrote a pretty Ajaxy HTML stats browser where you could zoom in/out of levels. I'd also like to hear if anyone has suggestions on how to improve what stats are gathered or how they could be exported. (I've thought about SNMP, but I'm not entirely sure how to export the data nicely using it.) Finally here's the NEWS file: * Plugins now use UTF-8 mailbox names rather than mUTF-7: acl, autocreate, expire, trash, virtual * auth_username_format default changed to %Lu. If you really want case sensitive usernames, set it back to empty. * Solr full text search backend changed to use mailbox GUIDs instead of mailbox names, requiring reindexing everything. solr_old backend can be used with old indexes to avoid reindexing, but it doesn't support some newer features. + imapc (= IMAP client) storage allows using a remote IMAP server to be used as storage. This allows using Dovecot as a smart (caching) proxy or using dsync to do migration from remote IMAP server. + Mailbox indexing via queuing indexer service (required for Lucene) + Lucene full text search (FTS) backend rewritten with support for different languages + FTS finally supports "OR" search operation + FTS supports indexing attachments via external programs + IMAP FUZZY extension, supported by Lucene and Solr FTS backends + Mailbox list indexes + Statistics tracking via stats service. Exported via doveadm stats. + Autocreate plugin creates/subscribes mailboxes physically only when the mailbox is opened for the first time. Mailbox listing shows the autocreated mailboxes even if they don't physically exist. + Password and user databases now support default_fields and override_fields settings to specify template defaults/overrides. - listescape plugin works perfectly now

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[Dovecot] Possible signed/unsigned bug in libdovecot-storage (2:2.0.14 )
by Kui Zhang 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hello We are getting following errors when moving mail from inbox to any folder. "Message has been copied too many times (32767+1)" lazy_expunge is enabled. Error messages seems to be from libdovecot-storage. Any one can confirm the bug? or knows of a work around? Thanks K.Z

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[Dovecot] User tries to move folder, then looses it
by Spyros Tsiolis 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hello, Well, this is kind of difficult to explain. I have this user that keeps making mistakes on his pc and sometimes I don't know if I should believe her or not. Anywhoo, this time round, she managed to loose a whole folder on Thunderbird. She claims she tried to move the folder from a tree directory structure (see : sub-sub-folder) she created for herself to another place underneath "root". Additionaly, she managed to mangle things up since she used on TB characters like "/" "\" and "&" . So thunderbird refuses to access those sub-folders on the folder tree and I cannot rename them (in order to have later access). Here's dovecot info : -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 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: 64 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIA, s. ---- "I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of noise" - Vangelis

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[Dovecot] Trash Plugin
by Aydın Demirel 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

ReHi; I have a question about trash plugin. I added following lines into dovecot.conf: quota_rule = *:storage=2048000 quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=1MB quota_rule3 = SPAM:ignore When I set *:storage line as default quota_rule , There is no problem.. But when I removed this line and set Trash:storage as default quota_rule, plugin is not working.. That I said, Do I have to add *:storage line as first default line in config line? Regards.. -- *Aydın Demirel Endersys Ltd. Sistem Destek Mühendisi/ System Support Engineer* * *<<Endersys is the first Advanced Business Partner of Red Hat in Turkey! http://www.europe.redhat.com/partners/endersys/>> Phone : +90 216 470 9423 | GSM : +90 530 401 8203 Fax : +90 216 470 9508 | Web : http://www.endersys.com <http://www.endersys.com/> Blog : http://blog.endersys.com <http://blog.endersys.com/> Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/endersys LPI : The #1 Linux Certification for IT Professionals LPI (Linux Professional Institute) Turkey http://www.lpi-turkey.com <http://www.lpi-turkey.com/>

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[Dovecot] v2.1 stats documentation
by Timo Sirainen 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Statistics

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird caching problem
by Chris Cappuccio 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

Using a fairly simple dovecot config (which obviously needs some max limit tweaking) we have problems with IMAP synchronization between thunderbird clients. Two TB clients in the same IMAP mailbox will, from time to time, show different views of the same INBOX folders, when TB caching is enabled. The only fix is to right-click on the folder, go to "Properties" and use the "Repair Folder" option which repairs the local TB .msf cache file. Is there any server-side fix/workaround that would keep TB from regularly going out-of-sync ? This happens with TB3 and newer versions, in concert with either dovecot 1 or 2. The obvious fix is to disable TB local caching, which unfortunately also disables certain search features and can be a pain for large mailboxes. # dovecot -n # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: service auth { client_limit=4096 } is lower than required under max. load (7168) doveconf: Warning: service anvil { client_limit=2048 } is lower than required under max. load (3075) # OS: OpenBSD 5.0 amd64 ffs auth_default_realm = dovecot.org auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop auth_username_translation = :@ default_client_limit = 2048 default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull default_process_limit = 1024 disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 125 first_valid_uid = 125 mail_location = maildir:/mail/%d/%n/ managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date mbox_write_locks = fcntl mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_path = /etc/dovecot/default.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { user = mail } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } ssl_cert = </etc/balls/balls-cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/balls/balls-key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags mail_max_userip_connections = 50 } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_save_uidl = yes pop3_uidl_format = %v-%u }

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[Dovecot] Control of \Seen flags dovecot 1.2.9
by Kristen J. Webb 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

Hi All, I have public mailboxes working with ACL's now, and I'm testing the ACL behavior. I've added lrws to two users so they can check off the messages they have read. I'm using CONTROL and INDEX in the location parameter for the namespace. It appears that if one user marks a message as read, all users see that message read. Is there any way to configure dovecot, so that each user maintains their own view of read messages? Relevant config (i think): namespace private { separator = / prefix = location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs inbox = yes } namespace public { separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/home/vmail/Public:LAYOUT=fs:CONTROL=/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/Public:INDEX=/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/Public subscriptions = no } -- Mr. Kristen J. Webb Teradactyl LLC. PHONE: 1-505-242-1091 EMAIL: kwebb(a)teradactyl.com VISIT: http://www.teradactyl.com Home of the True incremental Backup System

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[Dovecot] Can't got mail by OUTLOOK for a half million mails account
by Dong Ding 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hi, I used postfix always_bcc to backup mail. And up to now the backup account has half million mails in cur/, when I first time tried to receive the mail by outlook, it failed , no responds. Does any one has some good idea to deal with this problem? Thanks

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[Dovecot] Kerberos GSSAPI - proper item name in keytab
by Stanislav Klinkov 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hello, ALL. I am trying to organize a transparent single sign-on concept for my Active Directory users into Dovecot via IMAP. On the user's desktop I use Thunderbird 6.0 as a mail client (MUA), Windows XP as an operating system. Domain is controlled by Windows 2008 Server SP2 with Active Directory. I have installed on my Mail server Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.2 (Squeeze) and Dovecot 2.0.13 from official "wheezy" repositories of it with all dependencies. I ran into in a problem with generating proper "/etc/krb5.keytab" file for successful kerberos authentication against AD controller. I has performed all the steps described in official dovecot wiki here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Kerberos I have generated a service ticket with name "imap/efim.test.local(a)MYORG.LAN" exactly as described in wiki. ("MYORG.LAN" is my kerberos realm.) But this does not work. I see in debug logs something like this: ******** main service logs ******** Aug 29 16:05:14 auth: Info: gssapi(?,192.168.4.12): While processing incoming data: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information Aug 29 16:05:14 auth: Info: gssapi(?,192.168.4.12): While processing incoming data: Wrong principal in request ************************************* ******** auth debug logs ********* Aug 29 16:05:14 auth: Debug: gssapi(?,192.168.4.12): Obtaining credentials for imap(a)efim.test.local Aug 29 16:05:14 auth: Debug: client out: CONT 1 Aug 29 16:05:14 auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden> Aug 29 16:05:16 auth: Debug: client out: FAIL 1 ************************************* But (!). If I define << auth_gssapi_hostname = "$ALL" >> instead of << auth_gssapi_hostname = efim.test.local >> then everything works fine. I decided to find out where is the problem, so I dig into source code of gssapi module, "mech-gssapi.c". For versions 2.0.13 and 2.0.14 of dovecot I see there the following: ********* mech-gssapi.c ********* static OM_uint32 obtain_service_credentials(struct auth_request *request, gss_cred_id_t *ret_r) /* blah-blah-blah */ principal_name = t_str_new(128); str_append(principal_name, service_name); str_append_c(principal_name, '@'); str_append(principal_name, request->set->gssapi_hostname); auth_request_log_debug(request, "gssapi", "Obtaining credentials for %s", str_c(principal_name)); inbuf.length = str_len(principal_name); inbuf.value = str_c_modifiable(principal_name); major_status = gss_import_name(&minor_status, &inbuf, GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE, &gss_principal); ********************************* So, according to source code, Dovecot tries to find in krb5.keytab a principal named "imap@hostname". However wiki says to create the principal named "imap/hostname@REALM". Please, clarify where is the error: in source code, in wiki, or I have misunderstood something. Respectfully, Stanislav Klinkov.

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[Dovecot] OT - small hd recommendation
by Daniel L. Miller 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

A little OT - but I've seen a few opinions voiced here by various admins and I'd like to benefit. Currently running a single combined server for multiple operations - fileserver, mailserver, webserver, virtual server, and whatever else pops up. Current incarnation of the machine, after the last rebuild, is an AMD Opteron 4180 with a Supermicro MB using ATI SB700 chipset - which means it supports SATA 3.0. Current storage is one o/s drive, and a 4-drive RAID10 array. The RAID10 is using the Linux softraid via mdadm. The drives are Seagates - ST3160811AS. So it's 320GB of storage, and SATA 1.5. I'm seeing some warnings & errors in my logs & dmesg - and Google tells me this can the result of several factors, including the hard drives. I haven't seen any SMART warnings as yet - but I am getting a little nervous and thinking about upgrading the storage. At this time, I'm just interested in recommendations for hard drives & partitioning strategy. At the time I created the RAID10 array - I was still in the early stages of learning these technologies (not that I know that much more now!) so I probably didn't take advantage of any of the advanced settings such as stripe size, cluster size, etc. I am using XFS. As part of the potential upgrade, I'm considering changing to RAID6 - seems a bit more efficient use of space. I see no reason for SSD - I think a set of reasonable 7200rpm drives should be just fine. What I don't know is, compared to my current 4 drive RAID10 with SATA 1.5, would even a single SATA 3 drive be comparable in terms of seek performance? Should I stick with the RAID-10? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] thunderbird and subscriptions with sieve
by Kristen J. Webb 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hi All, I'm a newbie trying to move mail out of my ISP onto a ubuntu (lucid) dovecot 1.2.9 server. Is there any way to automatically add folders created by sieve (GNU Mailutils 2.1) to the subscriptions file for a user? I'm currently testing spam, and if sieve created the folder with the first message, the thunderbird user does not see the new folder. Even more interesting, if the user then tries to create the Spam directory it thunderbird seems to quietly ignore the request and the user still cannot see the folder, but I digress... I can manually subscribe with thunderbird, but this won't scale for more complex sieve later by making the user responsible for finding everything. I can turn off subscription view in advanced settings on thunderbird, but we are trying to wean ourselves of of individual mail clients and I don't want to have to test this everywhere. Many thanks in advance! Kris -- Mr. Kristen J. Webb Teradactyl LLC. PHONE: 1-505-242-1091 EMAIL: kwebb(a)teradactyl.com VISIT: http://www.teradactyl.com Home of the True incremental Backup System

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[Dovecot] dovecot imap permission denied
by Daminto Lie 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hi, I received the following error from mail.log Aug 31 13:50:57 server1 dovecot: IMAP(mike_lee): mkdir(/home/mike_lee/Maildir/.INBOX.Sent/cur) failed: Permission denied (euid=1004 egid=1003(companyusergroup) missing +w perm: /home) What I have tried to do is changing the permission for /home by typing "sudo chmod 755 /home" and this does not work. What does it mean by missing +w perm: /home? and wonder how to get around it? This is what I have in main.cf from Postfix myhostname = server1 myorigin = /etc/mailname relayhost = mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.1.0/24 inet_interfaces = all inet_protocols = ipv4 home_mailbox = Maildir/ smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot #smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth-client smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination #smtpd_sender_login_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_senders.cf broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes #dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 debug_peer_list = 127.0.0.1 debug_peer_level = 5 Any help is very much appreciated. Thank you

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[Dovecot] sieve vacation problem (discarding)
by Lampa 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hello, i'm using 1.2.15 version on debian. I'm getting "discarding vacation response for message implicitly delivered to <user(a)domain.com>" I have domain domain.com which has alias do-main.com. When sending email to main domain (domain.com) seems to be ok, but for aliased domain getting discard ;( I tried "scary things" from http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-August/042360.html require ["vacation", "variables", "envelope"]; if envelope :matches "to" "*" { set "envto" "${1}"; vacation :days 1 :addresses ["${envto}"] :subject "Out of order..." "Body message"; } Is implemented :addresses ["*"] in later 1.2 version ? Where is problem? What i must to do to get this thing working ? Upgrading to version 2.x isn't solution for me now. Thank you for advices and help. -- Lampa

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Re: [Dovecot] Password query returned multiple matches
by Arne K. Haaje 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Wednesday 31. August 2011 11.44.03 skrev Simon Brereton : > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss@iki.fi] > > > > On 31.8.2011, at 18.19, Simon Brereton wrote: > > > Aug 30 22:41:45 mail dovecot: auth-worker(default): > > sql(sbrereton(a)domain.co.uk,64.88.168.84): Password query returned > > multiple matches > > .. > > > > > password_query = SELECT EmailAdd AS user, Password AS password, > > > > concat('/var/spool/mail/virtual/',MailDirLoc) as userdb_home, 999 as > > userdb_uid, 115 as userdb_gid FROM MailAccounts WHERE Username='%u' > > AND active = '1'; > > > > > Since the EmailAdd is unique I don't see how it can return multiple > > > > matches. > > > > You're querying with Username, not with EmailAdd, and apparently > > there are multiple rows where Username='sbrereton(a)domain.co.uk'. > > Well, what do you know - there are two Usernames that at the same! I have > no idea how that happened. You could change or add the index for Username column to UNIQUE. That will ensure it does not happen again :) Arne -- Arne K. Haaje - Dr Linux http://www.drlinux.no/ ::: arne(a)drlinux.no LinkedIn: http://no.linkedin.com/pub/arne-haaje/27/189/bb

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[Dovecot] Segmentation fault in dovecot director lmtp service
by Reinhard Vicinus 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Hi, the lmtp service of our dovecot director installation quits with a segmentation fault if a lot of mails are simultaneously delivered. For example if the postfix mailqueue is filled (for whatever reason) and postqueue -f is run the lmtp service quits with a segmentation fault: Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 o_stream_cork (stream=0x0) at ostream.c:75 75 if (unlikely(stream->closed)) (gdb) backtrace #0 o_stream_cork (stream=0x0) at ostream.c:75 #1 0x00007fa6e6af45d9 in lmtp_client_send_more (client=0x2435870) at lmtp-client.c:596 #2 0x0000000002434170 in ?? () #3 0x00000000004070d9 in proxy_send_more (proxy=0x2435870) at lmtp-proxy.c:390 #4 lmtp_proxy_data_input (proxy=0x2435870) at lmtp-proxy.c:444 #5 0x00007fa6e6af456f in lmtp_client_send_data (client=0x24347a0) at lmtp-client.c:306 #6 0x0000000002434f98 in ?? () #7 0xffffffffe6af73c5 in ?? () #8 0x0000000002434840 in ?? () #9 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () I don't have any ideas why the stream is 0. The configuration of the dovecot director installation is attached. Please let me know if i shall provide any more information or test something. Kind regards Reinhard

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[Dovecot] Crash in director/lmtp-proxy (lmtp_proxy_output_timeout)
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

FYI, we saw one panic on our director/lmtp-proxy yesterday. It's running dovecot v2.0.13, so it very well might have been fixed already.., but here it is anyway: Aug 31 11:33:31 loadbalancer1 dovecot:: lmtp(4119): Panic: file lmtp-proxy.c: line 370 (lmtp_proxy_output_timeout): assertion failed: (proxy->data_input->eof) Aug 31 11:33:31 loadbalancer1 dovecot:: lmtp(4119): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x3aabc3bb70] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x3aabc3bbc6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 [0x3aabc3b083] -> dovecot/lmtp [0x406c90] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handle_timeouts+0xcd) [0x3aabc46a8d] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x68) [0x3aabc47a48] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x2d) [0x3aabc466fd] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x3aabc34fe3] -> dovecot/lmtp(main+0x144) [0x404034] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x32ae81d994] -> dovecot/lmtp [0x403e39] Aug 31 11:33:31 loadbalancer1 dovecot:: master: Error: service(lmtp): child 4119 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) On postfix side at the same time, we saw a few different messages about: postfix/lmtp[5178]:: 849FD1C024: lost connection with loadbalancers.example.com[192.168.42.15] while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once so I suspect this crash took down all active lmtp-proxyed connections. -jf

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[Dovecot] lmtp bouncing -- Invalid parameters (in reply to MAIL FROM command)
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

I just configured postfix' virtual_transport to point at my dovecot director, but am seeing occational problems like this: Aug 31 11:50:06 smtpgw postfix/lmtp[5339]: 69E2F5410D: to=<email(a)example.net>, relay=loadbalancers.example.net[192.168.42.17]:24, delay=0.15, delays=0.14/0.01/0/0, dsn=5.5.4, status=bounced (host loadbalancers.example.net[192.168.42.17] said: 501 5.5.4 Invalid parameters (in reply to MAIL FROM command)) but can't find anything interesting in the dovecot logs.. Anybody have ideas for how to make postfix play nice with dovecot's lmtp ? smtpgws% rpm -q postfix postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 loadbalancers% rpm -q dovecot dovecot-2.0.13-2 backendmailstorers% rpm -q dovecot dovecot-2.0.13-2 -jf

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[Dovecot] Proprietary mail storage.
by Alex Cherniak 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

I have a large existing read-only collection of mails packaged in individual zip files as <rfc822 file>+<some additional info>. Is it possible (and how difficult) to create a proprietary plugin (like gzip) which will open a zip file, extract mail and pass it back to Dovecot? Where do I start? If plugin is not the right approach, what is? Another question is how will this affect Dovecot performance and how to avoid any significant degradation. Any help is appreciated.Thanks.

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Re: [Dovecot] Multiple domains to one inbox and temporary redirects...
by Nick Rosier 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Simon Brereton wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone point me to a howto to arrange for multiple domains to deliver to one inbox with Dovecot? For example, user1(a)example.com and user1(a)example.net should both be delivered to /var/spool/mail/virtual/example.net/user1 > > Currently, I have the dovecot LDA set as: > > dovecot unix - n n - - pipe > flags=DRhu user=mailsystem argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${user}@${nexthop} > > > and in dovecot.conf: > > mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/%d/%n > > For some domains only, I need to override that mail_location. > > > Related to that, when user1 leave and user2 would like to receive user1's email, how can I get it so that email to user1(a)example.com is delivered to user2(a)example.com? Previously when I was using Postfix to deliver the mails, I could change the maildirloc in the DB - but I’m not sure how to accomplish this with dovecot LDA. > > I'm using Postfixadmin to manage users and have server alias-domains. All mail sent to an alias-domain is delivered to the other domain. Quite easy if you've got postfixadmin already setup. Otherwise I think you could configure virtual_alias_maps in postfix to something like hash:virtual_domains virtual_domains: @example.net @example.com N.

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[Dovecot] sorting order changed during migration from courier
by Micah Anderson 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Hello, I've been working to migrate to dovecot (debian stable: 1:1.2.15-7) from courier (debian old-stable: 4.4.0-2). I've setup everything and migrated a test user over to the new system, and ran the courier-dovecot-migrate.pl script. The user is using alpine (the free version of pine) and their sort order changed on move to dovecot. Originally it was the default in alpine, which is to sort based on arrival. If he changes the sort order in alpine to sort based on date, then things are back to how he expects it. I noticed that there are no known issues with pine (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Clients#Pine) Ideally, I would prefer if all the users who are migrated aren't presented with a different sort order than they were used to, as the support burden will be quite high. What is it about this migration that could have caused that, and more importantly, how can I fix it? I moved the mail from the original system to this system via rsync -a. The old system was an i686 machine and ext3, this new one is amd64 and ext4. thanks for any ideas! micah # dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.2 protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: howdy, ready. login_processes_count: 10 login_max_processes_count: 256 first_valid_uid: 8 last_valid_uid: 8 first_valid_gid: 8 last_valid_gid: 8 mail_uid: 8 mail_gid: 8 mail_location: maildir:~/ maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes maildir_very_dirty_syncs: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /maildir/postlogin_imap mail_executable(imap): /maildir/postlogin_imap mail_executable(pop3): /maildir/postlogin_pop mail_process_size: 512 mail_plugins(default): expire quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): expire quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): expire quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)riseup.net auth default: default_realm: riseup.net verbose: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch dict: expire: mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf --

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[Dovecot] mail spool filesystem
by Julio Cesar Covolato 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi! I´m about to migrate a system whith 5000 accounts whith (~ 500GB) from "postfix/courier-imap/maildrop/mysql" to a new hardware whith "postfix/dovecot/dovecot/mysql". I´ll make a separate partition (raid 1) for the mail spool (/var/spool/vmail) and want to now what type of filesystem to use on it to increase performance. I read that XFS is a good choice, but is not too reliable... Any sugestions? Thanks in advance, -- ----------------------------- _ Julio Cesar Covolato 0v0<julio(a)psi.com.br> /(_)\ F: 55-11-3129-3366 ^ ^ PSI INTERNET -----------------------------

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[Dovecot] Multiple domains to one inbox and temporary redirects...
by Simon Brereton 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi Can anyone point me to a howto to arrange for multiple domains to deliver to one inbox with Dovecot? For example, user1(a)example.com and user1(a)example.net should both be delivered to /var/spool/mail/virtual/example.net/user1 Currently, I have the dovecot LDA set as: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mailsystem argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${user}@${nexthop} and in dovecot.conf: mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/virtual/%d/%n For some domains only, I need to override that mail_location. Related to that, when user1 leave and user2 would like to receive user1's email, how can I get it so that email to user1(a)example.com is delivered to user2(a)example.com? Previously when I was using Postfix to deliver the mails, I could change the maildirloc in the DB - but I’m not sure how to accomplish this with dovecot LDA. Again, any pointers would be welcome. Thanks. Simon

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Re: [Dovecot] Password query returned multiple matches
by Timo Sirainen 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

On 31.8.2011, at 18.19, Simon Brereton wrote: > Aug 30 22:41:45 mail dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(sbrereton(a)domain.co.uk,64.88.168.84): Password query returned multiple matches .. > password_query = SELECT EmailAdd AS user, Password AS password, concat('/var/spool/mail/virtual/',MailDirLoc) as userdb_home, 999 as userdb_uid, 115 as userdb_gid FROM MailAccounts WHERE Username='%u' AND active = '1'; > > Since the EmailAdd is unique I don't see how it can return multiple matches. You're querying with Username, not with EmailAdd, and apparently there are multiple rows where Username='sbrereton(a)domain.co.uk'.

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[Dovecot] Password query returned multiple matches
by Simon Brereton 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi After successfully setting up dovecot, I see this error in the logs. Aug 30 22:41:45 mail dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(sbrereton(a)domain.co.uk,64.88.168.84): Password query returned multiple matches Aug 30 22:41:52 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<sbrereton(a)domain.co.uk>, method=PLAIN, rip=64.88.168.84, lip=127.0.0.1, TLS Can you tell me what it means or what I should look for? In my dovecot-sql.conf I have this query: password_query = SELECT EmailAdd AS user, Password AS password, concat('/var/spool/mail/virtual/',MailDirLoc) as userdb_home, 999 as userdb_uid, 115 as userdb_gid FROM MailAccounts WHERE Username='%u' AND active = '1'; Since the EmailAdd is unique I don't see how it can return multiple matches. Thanks. Simon

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Indexing mail attachments with Dovecot + Solr
by Antonio Perez-Aranda 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Indexing mail attachments with Dovecot + Solr. This patch has been tested with these versions: * dovecot 2.0.9 * apache-solr 1.4.1 This is a patch for the fts-solr plugin (that indexes mail messages for Dovecot with Solr). In main stream, the plugin does not index attachments; With this patch, you can index mails and their attachments (pdf, docs, openoffice docs...) . You can get others goodies with this patch and the Solr Config provided, like Synonyms and Stemming (Spanish by default). Attachment indexing is provided by Solr Cell and Tika (ExtractingRequestHandler) * http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtractingRequestHandler Synonyms and Stemming are provided by SnowballPorterFilterFactory from Solr Language Analysis: * http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LanguageAnalysis We have tested Solr with Tomcat and Jetty. Tomcat is better to handle UTF-8 and bigger POSTS. Attachments file format supported * http://tika.apache.org/0.9/formats.html At present, attachments in attachments (like, for example, attachments in fordwarded "eml" attachments) are not indexed. Also, keep in mind that there are many types of files, and many variants of the same file type. Per Example, some pdf files are "not readable" by solr pdf reader. Config: There are two new options added to fts_solr property: * index-attachments Enable attachments indexing. * manual-update Avoid index on user search. You can trigger indexing using doveadm search or doveadm index commands. There is a new property for the section plugin to filter the mimetypes that you want to index. * fts_solr_mimetype files with this mimetype will be sent to solr. After integrating solr directory in your solr config, and building Dovecot with fts-solr support and with fts-solr-attachments-r885.patch applied, you can update your dovecot config by adding to your dovecot.conf: ... mail_pluings = $mail_plugins fts fts_solr plugin { fts = solr fts_solr = url=http://solrhost:8983/solr/ break-imap-search index-attachments fts_solr_mimetype = application/x-pdf application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document } ... -- Antonio Pérez-Aranda Alcaide aperezaranda(a)yaco.es Yaco Sistemas S.L. http://www.yaco.es/ C/ Rioja 5, 41001 Sevilla Teléfono +34 954 50 00 57 Fax +34 954 50 09 29

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[Dovecot] auth: Error: LDAP: Connection lost to LDAP server, reconnecting
by Angel L. Mateo 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hello, I continue debugging my problems with my update to dovecot 2.x :-( I have dovecot 2.0.13 running in ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) x64. My users are in a ldap directory. The problem is that I have a lot of errors like: Aug 24 23:07:32 myotis28 dovecot: auth-worker(default): LDAP: Connection lost to LDAP server, reconnecting I have seen in the mail list a patch for 1.2 (http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/355d5a40f7a7) to ignore these logs when the disconnection is because of idle timeouts. As far as I could see in this patch and 2.0.13 source code, this patch is already applied in 2.0. So I guess that the disconnection is for other problem, isn't it? -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información _o) y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) / \\ http://www.um.es/atica _(___V Tfo: 868887590 Fax: 868888337

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Re: [Dovecot] : error while loading shared libraries: libdovecot.so.0 (arm cross compile)
by Joseph Tam 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

"Stephen Feyrer" <stephen.feyrer(a)btinternet.com> writes: > I've made a new attempt at build Dovecot. The build and then install > processes appeared to work find. Then when I try to run Dovecot it > reports the error: > > /share/MD0_DATA/optware/opt/sbin/dovecot: error while loading shared > libraries: libdovecot.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file > or directory In cases like this where I have no clue where an executable is trying to load a library from, run a process trace tool (strace, truss, etc.) and you can see all the library run paths it's trying before failing. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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