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[Dovecot] quota dict mysql not working (2.0.beta4)
by Michael Kliewe 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hi, I have a problem when setting up the quota dict plugin. I get this error in my logfile when trying to store a draft (APPEND): May 05 14:44:53 imap(test(a)domain.de): Error: net_connect_unix(/usr/ local/var/run/dovecot/dict) failed: Permission denied May 05 14:44:53 imap(test(a)domain.de): Error: Internal quota calculation error The file is there: user@imap01:/$ ls -al /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/ total 20 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-05-05 14:44 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-04-20 18:50 .. srw------- 1 root root 0 2010-05-05 14:44 anvil srw------- 1 root root 0 2010-05-05 14:44 anvil-auth-penalty srw------- 1 root root 0 2010-05-05 14:44 auth-client srw------- 1 root root 0 2010-05-05 14:44 auth-master srw------- 1 root root 0 2010-05-05 14:44 auth-userdb srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 2010-05-05 14:44 auth-worker srw------- 1 root root 0 2010-05-05 14:44 config srw------- 1 root root 0 2010-05-05 14:44 dict srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2010-05-05 14:44 dns-client lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2010-05-05 14:44 dovecot.conf -> / usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-04-20 18:50 empty srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2010-05-05 14:44 lmtp drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 4096 2010-05-05 14:44 login -rw------- 1 root root 5 2010-05-05 14:44 master.pid What is going on there, how can I fix this? Michael

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[Dovecot] order of variable modifiers
by Phil Howard 25 May '10

25 May '10

I'd like to have a variable substitute take the domain name part, lower case it, MD5 it, and take a 2-character substring of that. Would that be like %2MLd ? The documentation on the H hash modifier described reversing with R, but expresses it at %3RHu which seems to me like it would be reversing the hash result rather than the user string. I'm undecided about MD5 vs. hash, and could go either way. But I was thinking: mail_location = /data/mail/%2MLd/%Ld/%2MLn/%Ln

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[Dovecot] per domain quota
by alex 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hi I'am using dovecot with quota_rule stored in mysql user table, and quota usage stored in mysql dict ###### Quota ############# dict { quotadict = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-quota.conf } plugin { quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=10%% quota_rule3 = Sent:ignore #quota_rule = *:storage=10M } ################################### Everything works as expected, but I have some inconveniences for domains with large number of mailboxes. Allocating and maintain quota to every account it's a hard job. I just want to implement some flexibility for this situations (ex the first enforcement to be the user quota and the second to be the domain quota). Is there a way to implement such thing in dovecot and what are the adjustments that I need to do. Regards Alex

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[Dovecot] v2.0.beta5 released
by Timo Sirainen 25 May '10

25 May '10

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta5.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta5.tar.gz.sig Sorry for being so quiet recently. Unfortunately I think it's still going to last a while longer. I'll be in Italy for next two weeks and immediately after that I'll move to Portugal. I'll probably write something about that later to blog. I had hoped that this beta5 would be almost the same as RC1, but I didn't have time to put everything there yet, and thought beta4 is way too old already. The few things that should still be done: - Change expire-tool to be a plugin for doveadm expunge command - doveadm mailbox * commands should use UTF-8 for mailbox names, not mUTF-7 (and add -7, -8 parameters to switch between them) - THREAD command seems to be crashing - some other bugfixes Some of the changes since beta4: - default_login_user is now "dovenull". You should create this user. - imap, pop3 -u <user> now does userdb lookup + changes privileges if necessary, so it's much easier to start imap/pop3 session for a specific user from command line - doveadm has all kinds of new commands and changes - PostgreSQL supports now multiple connections to backend. Also supports load-balancing / HA by specifying multiple host parameters. MySQL and PostgreSQL now share the same code for that. - probably lots of other things I can't think of right now. h

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[Dovecot] about acl
by Yavuz Maşlak 25 May '10

25 May '10

I use dovecot, vpopmail. I wish to restrict a mail user's login to its mailbox according to its ip address. I don't wish other users to be affected . Namely, for instance, abc(a)domain.com can login to its mailbox from a few specific ip addresses but the same user will not able to login from anywhere. Meanwhile normally other mail users can login to their mailboxes from all ip addresses. How can I do that with dovecot acl ? any advice.

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[Dovecot] suggestion
by Andreas Schulze 25 May '10

25 May '10

hello, dovecot2 implements "!include conf.d/*.conf" to build the configuration from multiple configfiles. So the settings for pop3, imap or lmtp may stay in different files. unfortunately the "protocol = " does not allow a += logic to enables or disable inet listeners. It would be nice to have protocols += imap in conf.d/imap.conf and protocols += managesieve in conf.d/managesieve.conf This would make the include feature more consistent... or is it already possible ? -- Andreas Schulze Internetdienste | P532 DATEV eG 90329 Nürnberg | Telefon +49 911 319-0 | Telefax +49 911 319-3196 E-Mail info @datev.de | Internet www.datev.de Sitz: 90429 Nürnberg, Paumgartnerstr. 6-14 | Registergericht Nürnberg, GenReg Nr.70 Vorstand Prof. Dieter Kempf (Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Wolfgang Stegmann (stellvertretender Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Michael Leistenschneider Jörg Rabe v. Pappenheim Dipl.-Vw. Eckhard Schwarzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Reinhard Verholen

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[Dovecot] Sieve problem. Timo, is this mbox file size limitation hard coded? If so, why?
by Stan Hoeppner 25 May '10

25 May '10

I would not have expected this upon implementing sieve. And I really need to get around this limitation. LDA has no problem writing to these large mbox files. Why does sieve have a problem with them? This is very odd. May 10 17:45:04 greer dovecot: deliver(stan): write() failed with mbox file /home/stan/mail/1-Debian-Users: File too large May 10 17:45:04 greer dovecot: deliver(stan): write() failed with mbox file /home/stan/mail/1-Debian-Users: File too large May 10 17:45:04 greer dovecot: deliver(stan): sieve: msgid=<20100510224422.GA4293(a)heima.gjk.dk>: failed to store into mailbox '1-Debian-Users': Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-05-10 17:45:04] May 10 17:45:04 greer dovecot: deliver(stan): sieve: msgid=<20100510224422.GA4293(a)heima.gjk.dk>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' May 10 17:45:04 greer dovecot: deliver(stan): sieve: execution of script /home/stan/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful May 10 17:47:41 greer dovecot: deliver(stan): write() failed with mbox file /home/stan/mail/1-Spam-l: File too large May 10 17:47:41 greer dovecot: deliver(stan): sieve: msgid=<AANLkTinOywSh2KzgJhfHEihRSqKQn_Tg9KWnOwazmVmp(a)mail.gmail.com>: failed store into mailbox '1-Spam-l': Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-05-10 17:47:41] May 10 17:47:41 greer dovecot: deliver(stan): sieve: msgid=<AANLkTinOywSh2KzgJhfHEihRSqKQn_Tg9KWnOwazmVmp(a)mail.gmail.com>: stored il into mailbox 'INBOX' May 10 17:47:41 greer dovecot: deliver(stan): sieve: execution of script /home/stan/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was scessful [05:52:24][root@greer]/usr/bin$ la /home/stan/mail/ total 301M drwx------ 5 stan stan 4.0K May 7 04:33 . drwxr-xr-x 10 stan stan 4.0K May 10 16:18 .. drwx------ 37 stan stan 4.0K May 7 04:33 .imap -rw------- 1 stan stan 463 May 7 04:33 .subscriptions -rw------- 1 stan stan 66M May 10 17:45 1-Debian-Users -rw------- 1 stan stan 14M May 10 17:16 1-Dovecot -rw------- 1 stan stan 3.6M May 10 16:05 1-Linux-IDE -rw------- 1 stan stan 30M May 10 17:48 1-Postfix-Users -rw------- 1 stan stan 1.4M May 10 12:33 1-Roundcube -rw------- 1 stan stan 17M May 10 15:55 1-Samba -rw------- 1 stan stan 56M May 10 17:47 1-Spam-l -rw------- 1 stan stan 6.7M May 10 17:45 1-XFS -rw------- 1 stan stan 18M May 10 16:32 SpamTrap Is there any reason we have a fixed ceiling on the size of an mbox sieve will write to? Man this is disappointing. What is the ceiling? It appears to be somewhere between 30MB and 56MB as writes to 1-Postfix-Users are successful but writes to 1-Spam-l fail. Is there a fix/patch for this? Thanks. -- Stan

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[Dovecot] List shared folders
by Marcio Merlone 25 May '10

25 May '10

Good morning! I run an imap-only Ubuntu 8.04 mail server with dovecot 1.2 and pam_ldap, so all my users are posix users. No virtual user or domain, no sql so far. I am setting up shared folders with "namespace shared". I got no errors upon restarting the service, but I get no shared folders listing. As per the wiki http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Shared I can use a bdb file or sql connection to keep the listing. But when I use a single bdb file like: plugin { acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db } everytime a user logs in, this file get its ownership to the user with 0600 mode. I could use an sql dictionary, but since I dont have any sql params on my configs I am not sure where to store connection params like user, password and host for database. Can anybody help me with that? My goal is to allow my users to shared selected folders with other users, hope to be in the right path. Thanks and regards. -- Marcio Merlone

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[Dovecot] Setting up ACL for IMAP
by Andrés Gattinoni 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hi guys, I just suscribed cause I'm trying to do something which I'm not sure how. I need to prevent some accounts from deleting there emails. >From what I've seen [0] this could be achieved by using ACL. My first question is, is this right? Is there a way to achieve the same using POP3? I tried setting up ACL using the info at the Wiki [1], but it's not working. What I've seen is that when I put: protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl imap_acl } I get the following error: May 14 14:54:52 mail dovecot: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration May 14 14:54:52 mail dovecot: imap dump-capability: Couldn't read capability (got 0 bytes) May 14 14:54:52 mail dovecot: Invalid configuration, keeping old one May 14 14:54:52 mail dovecot: child 32301 (unknown) returned error 82 (Internal logging error) Looking on the internet I found out that I don't have the imap_acl lib shared object. This is what I have on /usr/lib/dovecot/lib/imap: total 48 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 May 6 22:07 lib01_acl_plugin.so -> ../lib01_acl_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 May 6 22:07 lib02_lazy_expunge_plugin.so -> ../lib02_lazy_expunge_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 May 6 22:07 lib10_quota_plugin.so -> ../lib10_quota_plugin.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5552 Jan 21 2009 lib11_imap_quota_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 902 Jan 21 2009 lib11_imap_quota_plugin.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7380 Jan 21 2009 lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 May 6 22:07 lib11_trash_plugin.so -> ../lib11_trash_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 May 6 22:07 lib20_convert_plugin.so -> ../lib20_convert_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 May 6 22:07 lib20_mail_log_plugin.so -> ../lib20_mail_log_plugin.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9582 Jan 21 2009 lib20_zlib_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 864 Jan 21 2009 lib20_zlib_plugin.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9884 Jan 21 2009 lib20_zlib_plugin.so I'm running Dovecot 1.0.7 installed using yum on CentOS 5.4. How can I get the necessary plugin? Thanks, Andrés [0] http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-March/047822.html [1] http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL

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[Dovecot] SSL Bug
by Matthew Sackman 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hi, After many hours of testing, I've finally tracked down the issue I have been having with dovecot's SSL support. The problem is that the SSL certs result in "TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() syscall failed: Connection reset by peer" errors *if the certificate granted is not granted for client use*. For servers, I normally generate SSL certificates specifically for servers: [ server_ca_extensions ] basicConstraints = CA:false keyUsage = keyEncipherment extendedKeyUsage = 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1 If you just do that, then the SSL certificate doesn't work in dovecot (it will work fine in Apache, or Postfix etc etc). You also need the certificate to be valide for client side work: [ client_and_server_ca_extensions ] basicConstraints = CA:false keyUsage = digitalSignature, keyEncipherment extendedKeyUsage = 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.2, 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1 I believe this is a fault with Dovecot. This is with the Debian package for Dovecot 1.2.11 (Version: 1:1.2.11-1). The default self-signed certificate the Debian post-install script generates pops out a certificate that is valid for everything, which is why it works by default out of the box. Matthew

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[Dovecot] Plugin to encrypt mailboxes ?
by Frank Bonnet 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hello Is there a possibility for my users to encrypt their mailboxes through Dovecot ? They haven't direct access to the server, IMAP & IMAPS only. We use Thunderbird as client and mailboxes are in MBOX format Dovecot is running on a FreeBSD 7.2 server. Thanks a lot

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[Dovecot] save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred.
by Jarrod Neven 25 May '10

25 May '10

OS: CentOS release 5.4 (Final) Postfix: postfix-2.5.1-1.mysql.sasl2.vda.rhel5 Postfixadmin: 2.3 Dovecot: 1.2.11 Squirrelmai: 1.4.20 Configuration based on http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/DovecotLDAPostfixAdminMySQL which I have updated a few time ;) Using postfixadmin I have create a virtual domain and created testing users (test1 test6). With Squirrelmail these users can login but issues arise when composing an email to any destination every time. Squirrlemail responds with: ERROR: Bad or malformed request. Server responded: Error in IMAP command FROM: Unknown command. Log file shows: 2010-05-25 17:42:20 ²imap-login: Info: Login: user=<test3(a)corp.letsengage.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured ³2010-05-25 17:42:20 ²IMAP(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3: mode=0700 gid=-1 ³2010-05-25 17:42:20 ²IMAP(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: Disconnected: Logged out bytes=79/681 ³2010-05-25 17:42:34 ²IMAP(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: Effective uid=101, gid=12, home=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3 ³2010-05-25 17:42:34 ²IMAP(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: maildir: data=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3 ³2010-05-25 17:42:34 ²IMAP(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: maildir++: root=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3 ³2010-05-25 17:42:34 ²imap-login: Info: Login: user=<test3(a)corp.letsengage.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured ³2010-05-25 17:42:34 ²IMAP(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3: mode=0700 gid=-1 ³2010-05-25 17:42:34 ²IMAP(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: Disconnected: Logged out bytes=79/681 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: auth input: uid=101 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: auth input: gid=12 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: auth input: home=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: maildir: data=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: maildir++: root=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: auth input: uid=101 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: auth input: gid=12 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: auth input: home=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test2 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: maildir: data=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test2 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: maildir++: root=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test2, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test2 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3: mode=0700 gid=-1 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Error: open(/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test3/tmp/1274773412.M416972P6942./root) failed: No such file or directory ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test3(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: msgid=<20100525062437.BA0EC5D806B(a)CORP.LETSENGAGE.COM>: save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-05-25 17:43:32] ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test2: mode=0766 gid=-1 ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2(a)corp.letsengage.com): Error: open(/var/vmail/corp.letsengage.com/test2/tmp/1274773412.M420197P6943./root) failed: No such file or directory ³2010-05-25 17:43:32 ²deliver(test2(a)corp.letsengage.com): Info: msgid=<d6669a63009a904eaf4d268b3a1c9598.squirrel(a)dkpadmmail1.corp.letsengage .com>: save failed to INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-05-25 17:43:32] # dovecot -n # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.4 (Final) ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log log_timestamp: ³%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ² protocols: imap pop3 listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): *:110 verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 101 last_valid_uid: 101 mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 900 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)corp.letsengage.com sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: user: nobody passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=101 gid=12 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: vmail group: mail plugin: quota: maildir:storage=10240:messages=1000 acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls trash: /etc/dovecot/trash.conf #grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=postfix password=##REMOVED## default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u'

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[Dovecot] Panic: file mail-index-sync-ext.c: line 212 (sync_ext_reorder): assertion failed: (offset < (uint16_t)-1)
by Sandro Tosi 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hello, we are using dovecot v1.2.10 on debian stable (lenny) systems with mailboxes on NFS, and we are facing this quite ugly crash: 2010-04-27 10:59:06 IMAP(<mailbox>): Panic: file mail-index-sync-ext.c: line 212 (sync_ext_reorder): assertion failed: (offset < (uint16_t)-1) 2010-04-27 10:59:06 dovecot: Error: child 2429 (imap) killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) 2010-04-27 10:59:06 IMAP(<mailbox>): Error: Raw backtrace: imap [0x80f2ea1] -> imap [0x80f2f22] -> imap [0x80f2879] -> imap [0x80df6ad] -> imap(mail_index_sync_ext_intro+0x25b) [0x80e043b] -> imap(mail_index_sync_record+0x164) [0x80ce8e4] -> imap(mail_index_sync_map+0x2c3) [0x80cf6d3] -> imap(mail_index_map+0x465) [0x80c47f5] -> imap [0x80c1053] -> imap(mail_index_open+0x24f) [0x80c150f] -> imap(index_storage_mailbox_open+0x72) [0x80acbb2] -> imap(index_storage_mailbox_init+0x132) [0x80acf72] -> imap [0x80847f8] -> imap [0x8084a9d] -> imap(mailbox_open+0x69) [0x80b71b9] -> imap(cmd_select_full+0x1dd) [0x806503d] -> imap(cmd_select+0x19) [0x8065999] -> imap [0x8067c7c] -> imap [0x8067d19] -> imap(client_handle_input+0x2d) [0x8067e8d] -> imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x80687ef] -> imap(io_loop_handler_run+0xe0) [0x80fbc50] -> imap(io_loop_run+0x20) [0x80fb0c0] -> imap(main+0x5ea) [0x80712fa] -> /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7dbf455] -> imap [0x8060361] the only solution we have found is to delete the dovecot.index* files, and let dovecot regenerate them at the next access. could you please give it a look? Thanks in advance, Sandro

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[Dovecot] How to restart DOVECOT without rebooting
by Alexander 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hi, How can one reload Dovecot without rebooting? Alexander

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[Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied
by Phil Howard 24 May '10

24 May '10

I'm getting this ... May 10 12:45:01 eth0 postfix/local[3416]: A788D685F7: to=< xxxxxxxx(a)xxxxxxxx.net>, relay=local, delay=13, delays=13/0/0/0.03, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied ) So I'm looking at http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA to see what I can do about it. I would have hoped some comments in the example config file would have mentioned this and suggested a default practice solution. Is this something few people or many people encounter (among those using dovecot/deliver from Postfix)? If I do as the wiki describes and make separate log files for dovecot/deliver to use, do I just make them owned by Postfix? It would seem to me a different directory might be more helpful (absent log files could be created by having the directory permissions. I'm also thinking in terms of log rotations, too ... and I prefer to do log rotations by date stamping rather than pushing sequence numbers (the legacy log rotation). Any chance there are %-style variables I can use in log file/path names to make log files automatically named by the date (and maybe time) ... kind of like in a shell script I would do: `date +/path/to/tree/%Y/%m/%d.log` or such.

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird very slow startup, 1.2.11, mbox, postfix local delivery to /var/mail
by Stan Hoeppner 22 May '10

22 May '10

I've Google'd to exhaustion and can't seem to find an answer to my problem. I'm not sure if the problem is TBird 3 or my Dovecot setup. The basic problem is that when I launch TBird and it grabs messages upon startup, it takes forever to supposedly pull them down. Once it's got them they sort relatively quickly into the proper IMAP (dovecot) folders. I don't use sieve yet; I sort with TBird rules. I don't sync messages for offline use. The only thing TB stores locally is the index cache, which I deleted and had TB rebuild once, which didn't help. All that did was waste more time, as I've got 40,000 messages in my IMAP folders which had to be re-indexed by TB. (I save all list mail for future searching). As an example of this problem, I'd not checked my email for just over day, had ~300 messages waiting in /var/mail/stan. TBird starts pulling them from dovecot and says in the status bar "downloading x of ~300". As I watch the count tick up +10 at a whack, the TB process is pegged at 100%, there is zero network activity, and the imap process on the server shows zero cpu use. It took over 60 seconds to "pull" the messages, after which TB sorted them. During the apparent sorting process, there is quite a bit of network activity and the imap process on the server is relatively busy. I say "pull" in quotes because the entire time TB is saying it's pulling more messages there is no network activity. The client and server are plugged into the same 100BaseT FDX switch (FDX verified), and the server has zero load. I know TBird isn't the greatest IMAP client around, but I think taking over 60 seconds just to download ~300 messages is way too damn long given the hardware resources, network, and load on the client and server machines. TB basically seems to be pulling, or dovecot serving, only about 5 messages/sec over 100Mb ethernet, which is abysmal performance given neither the server nor client have any load. The messages are mostly list mail which are at max a few kilobytes each. I'm leaning toward a problem with TBird but I've been unable to find a bug report that covers this, nor a forum post anywhere, etc. The closest I've found for "slow startup" are recommendations to compact folders. I have no local folders to compact. I delete immediately and expunge on exit. Anyone have any ideas? Other than switching to LDA+sieve and have TB check the IMAP folders for new mail? -- Stan

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot from debian lenny-backports does not accept connections
by Stan Hoeppner 22 May '10

22 May '10

Joelly Alexander put forth on 5/15/2010 4:22 AM: > the server and the client are on the same layer2 network and there is no > hard- or software or anything else installed on the server what prevents > traffic between them; > i just figured out that it has to do with the nfs portion; > while incoming mails have no problems and are delivered correct into the > maildir on the nfs, it does not work when the client want to connect to > the maildir; > when i copy content from nfs-storage to the local harddisk it works; Read these below, and post back if that doesn't help. Please remember to reply to the list next time, not to individuals. I'm not an NFS guru, and those who are didn't see your reply. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/SharedDisk http://wiki.dovecot.org/NFS -- Stan > storage are two debian lenny systems with rhcs, nfs-export configured: > <nfsexport name="nfs-storage"/> > <nfsclient name="nfs_fcamx1" allow_recover="1" > path="/storage/fca-mailstore" target="fcamx1" > options="rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash"/> > <nfsclient name="nfs_fcamx2" allow_recover="1" > path="/storage/fca-mailstore" target="fcamx2" > options="rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash"/> > > mountpoint on fcamx-servers: > 192.168.100.20:/storage/fca-mailstore on /var/vmail type nfs > (rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,tcp,addr=192.168.100.20) > > dovecot is configured with this parameters: > fcamx1:/etc/dovecot# dovecot -n > # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.4-686 i686 Debian 5.0.4 nfs > log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-errors.log > info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log > log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S > protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s > ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot-cert.pem > ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/dovecot-key.pem > 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: hey dude, do you have an account? > verbose_proctitle: yes > first_valid_uid: 150 > last_valid_uid: 150 > mail_privileged_group: mail > mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u > mail_debug: yes > mmap_disable: yes > mail_nfs_storage: yes > mail_nfs_index: yes > lock_method: fnctl > mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock > mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap > mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap > mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 > mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota > mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota > mail_plugins(pop3): 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): outlook-idle delay-newmail > imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail > imap_client_workarounds(pop3): > pop3_client_workarounds(default): > pop3_client_workarounds(imap): > pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh > lda: > postmaster_address: postmaster(a)mydomain.tld > mail_plugins: sieve quota > global_script_path: /var/vmail/globalsieverc > log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log > info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver-info.log > auth default: > mechanisms: plain login > user: nobody > verbose: yes > debug: yes > debug_passwords: yes > passdb: > driver: sql > args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf > userdb: > driver: prefetch > userdb: > driver: passwd > userdb: > driver: sql > args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf > socket: > type: listen > client: > path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth > mode: 432 > user: postfix > group: mail > master: > path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master > mode: 432 > user: vmail > group: mail > plugin: > quota: maildir:storage=102400 > sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve > sieve_dir: ~/sieve > fcamx1:/etc/dovecot#

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[Dovecot] quota and postfix virtual users
by gbotero＠emailforall.no-ip.org 22 May '10

22 May '10

hi everyone i have a mailserver working with postfix 2.5.1 vda and virtual user with mysql and dovecot, everything is working fine but i want to offer quota and i have a problem with that because the quota in roundcube appear but calculate is wrong i need to delete the maildirsize file to force to recalculate, what can i do??? in my dovecot i have imap{ quota imap_quota, in plugins section i have quota=maildir and trough the file dovecot-sql.conf i have the select expression concat(...... as quota_rule, thanks a lot, PD. sorry for my english im from south of colombia - south america

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[Dovecot] sshfs and outlok express imap directory problem.
by ringo tr 22 May '10

22 May '10

I mounted vpopmail/domains in sshfs. root@192.168.239.205:/mnt/disk-b/domains on /mnt/domains type fuse.sshfs (rw,nos uid,nodev,max_read=65536,allow_other) I used qmail+dovecot+vpopmail+mysql dovecot-2.0.beta4. I mounted sshfs with vpopmail/domains directory. my /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/mail.conf file mmap_disable = yes dotlock_use_excl = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_nfs_index = yes lock_method = fcntl first_valid_uid = 89 first_valid_gid = 89 ----- Outlook Express with sending mail and receving mail success but mail drop imap folder change problem. cbumail1:~# ls -al /home/vpopmail/domains/yvz.cbu.edu.tr/yavuz/Maildir/ total 72 drwx------ 1 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 2010-05-08 01:00 . drwx------ 1 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 2010-04-27 21:22 .. drwx------ 1 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 2010-05-08 01:00 cur -rw------- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 18432 2010-05-08 01:00 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 968 2010-05-08 01:00 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 96 2010-05-07 18:20 dovecot.mailbox.log -rw------- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 328 2010-05-08 01:00 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 8 2010-05-07 22:44 dovecot-uidvalidity -r--r--r-- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 0 2010-05-07 18:20 dovecot-uidvalidity.4be42fa9 drwx------ 1 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 2010-05-08 01:09 .G&APY-nderilmi&AV8- &ANYBHw-eler drwx------ 1 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 2010-05-08 01:00 new -rw------- 1 vpopmail vchkpw 54 2010-05-07 18:20 subscriptions drwx------ 1 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 2010-05-07 22:44 .Taslaklar drwxrwxrwx 1 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 2010-05-08 01:00 tmp drwx------ 1 vpopmail vchkpw 4096 2010-05-07 22:44 .zako Outlook Express mail mouse moving drag/drop process and fault message : SERVERBUG] Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-05-08 01:25:57] and /var/log/mail.err output. May 8 01:25:57 cbumail1 dovecot: imap(yavuz(a)yvz.cbu.edu.tr): link(/home/vpopmail/domains/yvz.cbu.edu.tr/yavuz/Maildir/cur/1273050327.14629.cbumail1,S=1385:2,S, /home/vpopmail/domains/yvz.cbu.edu.tr/yavuz/Maildir/.zako/tmp/1273050327.14629.cbumail1,S=1385) failed: Function not implemented please help ? _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail: Arkadaşlarınız Facebook'taki güncellemelerinizi doğrudan Hotmail®'den alır. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-networ…

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Won't start on SLITAZ Linux
by Ludovic LEMARINEL 22 May '10

22 May '10

Hi I've just compiled dovecot under Slitaz, but I can't get it to run... It always die with this message in log : 2010-05-06 12:35:12 dovecot: Info: Dovecot v1.2.11 starting up 2010-05-06 12:35:12 dovecot: Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 256): Operation not permitted 2010-05-06 12:35:12 dovecot: Error: child 1455 (auth) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) 2010-05-06 12:35:12 dovecot: Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down here is my "dovecot -n" : # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30.6-slitaz i686 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot/imap-login auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd It's the dovecot-example.conf. I also tried the dovecot.conf that was working well on my "openwrt linux" dovecot, but no more results :( Thanks for you help :)

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[Dovecot] Dovecot and /dev/shm
by DJ GRP 22 May '10

22 May '10

Hi, I have tried to use /dev/shm for Dovecot's index files: > mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/dev/shm/%u But it does not seem to like it. May 21 07:13:59 IMAP(user): Error: stat(/dev/shm/user/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied (euid=1234(user) egid=500(group) missing +x perm: /dev/shm) It seems to me that /dev/shm permissions are OK. Any suggestions on how to achieve this?

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[Dovecot] question about scripts sieves
by fakessh 21 May '10

21 May '10

hello list hello dovecot network hello all the reader here is a sieve script this ######################################## require ["fileinto","regex","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","reject","relational"]; # rule:[spammanage] if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["500"] { reject "NO SPAM"; stop; } if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["100"] { fileinto "Junk.spam"; stop; } if header :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" ["X-Spam-score"] ["10"] { fileinto "Junk"; } elsif anyof ( header :contains "Received" [ "[4.63.221.224", "[24.244.141.112", "[61.171.253.177", "[63.123.149.", "[63.209.206.", "(63.233.30.73", "[63.251.200.", "[64.41.183.","[64.49.250.", "[64.57.188.", "[64.57.221.", "[64.62.204.", "[64.70.17.", "[64.70.44.", "[64.70.53.", "[64.39.27.6", "[64.39.27.7","[64.191.25.","[64.191.36.", "[64.191.9.", "[64.125.181.", "[64.191.123.", "[64.191.23.", "[64.239.182.", "[65.211.3.", "[66.46.150.", "[66.62.162.", "[66.118.170.", "[66.129.124.", "[66.205.217.", "[66.216.111.", "[66.239.204.", "[67.86.69.", "[80.34.206.", "[80.80.98.", "[81.72.233.13", "[128.242.120.", "[157.238.18", "[168.234.195.18]", "[193.253.198.57", "[194.25.83.1", "[200.24.129.", "[200.161.203.", "[202.164.182.76]","[202.57.69.116", "[203.19.220.","[203.22.104.","[203.22.105.", "[204.188.52.", "[205.153.154.203", "[206.26.195.", "[206.154.33.","[206.169.178", "[207.142.3.", "[208.46.5.","[208.187.", "[209.164.27.","[209.236.", "[210.90.75.129]", "[211.101.138.199","[211.185.7.125]","[211.239.231.", "[212.240.95.", "[213.47.250.139", "[213.225.61.", "[216.22.79.","[216.39.115.","[216.99.240.", "[216.126.32.", "[216.187.123.","[217.36.124.53", "[218.145.25","[218.52.71.103","[218.158.136.115", "[218.160.42.74", "[218.242.112.4]" ] ) { fileinto "Junk"; } elsif anyof ( header :contains ["SPAM", "X-Spam-hits"] [ "X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC" ] ) { fileinto "Junk"; } elsif anyof ( header :contains ["from", "received"] [".jp ", ".kr ", ".jp>", ".kr>"] ) { fileinto "Junk"; } elsif anyof ( header :contains "Content-Type" [ "GB2312", "big5", "ECU-KR", "ECU-TX", "HZ", "EUC-JP" ] ) { fileinto "Junk"; } elsif anyof ( header :regex "Subject" "^=\\?(gb|GB)2312\\?" # Chinese ecoding at subject ) { fileinto "Junk"; } elsif anyof ( header :regex "Subject" "^=\\?big5\\?" # Other kind of Chinese mail ) { fileinto "Junk"; } ################################################# I tested that emails are not from japan and korea I would like to add one condition: that is, the emails from japan or korea who are destined for which I am mailling subscriber does not end up in Junk and I do the same test in the header: contains "Content-Type" thanks for your help thanks for advice

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[Dovecot] Patch for logging variables
by James Devine 20 May '10

20 May '10

Upon thinking, the variable names may not be descriptive enough as `host` is a bit ambiguous and `deleted_count` may refer to a different command than expunge in imap and may be valid to track at some point so I have changed `host` to `client_ip` and `deleted_count` in imap to `expunged_count`, below is the modified diff for version 1.2.11. diff -crB dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/imap/client.c dovecot-1.2.11/src/imap/client.c *** dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/imap/client.c 2010-01-24 16:14:17.000000000 -0700 --- dovecot-1.2.11/src/imap/client.c 2010-05-20 09:30:47.170407921 -0600 *************** *** 42,47 **** --- 42,48 ---- client->fd_out = fd_out; client->input = i_stream_create_fd(fd_in, imap_max_line_length, FALSE); client->output = o_stream_create_fd(fd_out, (size_t)-1, FALSE); + client->expunged = 0; o_stream_set_flush_callback(client->output, client_output, client); *************** *** 105,110 **** --- 106,113 ---- static struct var_expand_table static_tab[] = { { 'i', NULL, "input" }, { 'o', NULL, "output" }, + { 'c', NULL, "client_ip" }, + { 'e', NULL, "expunged_count" }, { '\0', NULL, NULL } }; struct var_expand_table *tab; *************** *** 115,120 **** --- 118,125 ---- tab[0].value = dec2str(client->input->v_offset); tab[1].value = dec2str(client->output->offset); + tab[2].value = getenv("IP") ? getenv("IP") : "Unknown"; + tab[3].value = dec2str(client->expunged); str = t_str_new(128); var_expand(str, logout_format, tab); diff -crB dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/imap/client.h dovecot-1.2.11/src/imap/client.h *** dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/imap/client.h 2009-06-26 22:49:34.000000000 -0600 --- dovecot-1.2.11/src/imap/client.h 2010-05-19 16:26:31.529833893 -0600 *************** *** 133,138 **** --- 133,139 ---- unsigned int destroyed:1; unsigned int handling_input:1; unsigned int syncing:1; + unsigned int expunged; unsigned int id_logged:1; unsigned int mailbox_examined:1; unsigned int input_skip_line:1; /* skip all the data until we've diff -crB dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/imap/cmd-close.c dovecot-1.2.11/src/imap/cmd-close.c *** dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/imap/cmd-close.c 2010-01-24 16:14:17.000000000 -0700 --- dovecot-1.2.11/src/imap/cmd-close.c 2010-05-19 16:26:31.529833893 -0600 *************** *** 18,24 **** client->mailbox = NULL; storage = mailbox_get_storage(mailbox); ! if ((ret = imap_expunge(mailbox, NULL)) < 0) client_send_untagged_storage_error(client, storage); if (mailbox_sync(mailbox, 0, 0, NULL) < 0) client_send_untagged_storage_error(client, storage); --- 18,24 ---- client->mailbox = NULL; storage = mailbox_get_storage(mailbox); ! if ((ret = imap_expunge(client, NULL)) < 0) client_send_untagged_storage_error(client, storage); if (mailbox_sync(mailbox, 0, 0, NULL) < 0) client_send_untagged_storage_error(client, storage); diff -crB dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/imap/cmd-expunge.c dovecot-1.2.11/src/imap/cmd-expunge.c *** dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/imap/cmd-expunge.c 2010-01-24 16:14:17.000000000 -0700 --- dovecot-1.2.11/src/imap/cmd-expunge.c 2010-05-19 16:26:31.529833893 -0600 *************** *** 24,30 **** { struct client *client = cmd->client; ! if (imap_expunge(client->mailbox, search_args == NULL ? NULL : search_args->args) < 0) { client_send_storage_error(cmd, mailbox_get_storage(client->mailbox)); --- 24,30 ---- { struct client *client = cmd->client; ! if (imap_expunge(client, search_args == NULL ? NULL : search_args->args) < 0) { client_send_storage_error(cmd, mailbox_get_storage(client->mailbox)); diff -crB dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/imap/imap-expunge.c dovecot-1.2.11/src/imap/imap-expunge.c *** dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/imap/imap-expunge.c 2010-01-24 16:14:17.000000000 -0700 --- dovecot-1.2.11/src/imap/imap-expunge.c 2010-05-19 16:26:31.529833893 -0600 *************** *** 5,18 **** #include "mail-search-build.h" #include "imap-expunge.h" ! int imap_expunge(struct mailbox *box, struct mail_search_arg *next_search_arg) { struct mail_search_context *ctx; struct mailbox_transaction_context *t; struct mail *mail; struct mail_search_args *search_args; bool expunges = FALSE; if (mailbox_is_readonly(box)) { /* silently ignore */ return 0; --- 5,21 ---- #include "mail-search-build.h" #include "imap-expunge.h" ! int imap_expunge(struct client *client, struct mail_search_arg *next_search_arg) { struct mail_search_context *ctx; struct mailbox_transaction_context *t; struct mail *mail; + struct mailbox *box; struct mail_search_args *search_args; bool expunges = FALSE; + box = client->mailbox; + if (mailbox_is_readonly(box)) { /* silently ignore */ return 0; diff -crB dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/imap/imap-expunge.h dovecot-1.2.11/src/imap/imap-expunge.h *** dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/imap/imap-expunge.h 2008-06-08 21:14:46.000000000 -0600 --- dovecot-1.2.11/src/imap/imap-expunge.h 2010-05-19 16:26:31.529833893 -0600 *************** *** 3,8 **** struct mail_search_arg; ! int imap_expunge(struct mailbox *box, struct mail_search_arg *next_search_arg); #endif --- 3,8 ---- struct mail_search_arg; ! int imap_expunge(struct client *client, struct mail_search_arg *next_search_arg); #endif Only in dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/lib-sql: sql-drivers-register.c diff -crB dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/pop3/client.c dovecot-1.2.11/src/pop3/client.c *** dovecot-1.2.11.orig/src/pop3/client.c 2010-01-24 16:14:17.000000000 -0700 --- dovecot-1.2.11/src/pop3/client.c 2010-05-20 09:31:01.400409195 -0600 *************** *** 238,243 **** --- 238,244 ---- { 's', NULL, "message_bytes" }, { 'i', NULL, "input" }, { 'o', NULL, "output" }, + { 'c', NULL, "client_ip" }, { '\0', NULL, NULL } }; struct var_expand_table *tab; *************** *** 255,260 **** --- 256,262 ---- tab[6].value = dec2str(client->total_size); tab[7].value = dec2str(client->input->v_offset); tab[8].value = dec2str(client->output->offset); + tab[9].value = getenv("IP") ? getenv("IP") : "Unknown"; str = t_str_new(128); var_expand(str, logout_format, tab);

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDAP problems
by Adam Pardy 20 May '10

20 May '10

I'm currently trying to configure a linux mailserver running centos to use an xserve running snow leopard. I am configuring the mailserver to run dovecot,sendmail,clamav,spam assassin and squirrelmail so it matches those used by the mac. The problem I am having is that I cannot get the server to authenticate properly to the macs LDAP database. As far as I can tell it is either a problem authenticating passwords or username and passwords. mail.app says its the password it cant authenticate Thunderbird says it could be either. It seems to be a problem in dovecot-ldap.conf, (as I can run ldapsearch from the linux server authenticate correctly and gain user information) What I'd like to know is there a standard set of settings required to authenticate to the LDAP on the mac? I'm currently running the od with no requirements for Kerberos, SSL or anything else it can authenticate with plain passwords (it will be once it is implemented I'm trying to have as few variables as possible at the moment). Copy of dovecot-ldap.conf below; 1. This file is opened as root, so it should be owned by root and mode 0600. # 1. http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/LDAP # 1. NOTE: If you're not using authentication binds, you'll need to give 2. dovecot-auth read access to userPassword field in the LDAP server. 3. With OpenLDAP this is done by modifying /etc/ldap/slapd.conf. There should 4. already be something like this: 1. access to attribute=userPassword 2. by dn="<dovecot's dn>" read # add this 3. by anonymous auth 4. by self write 5. by * none 1. Space separated list of LDAP hosts to use. host:port is allowed too. hosts =hostname.com 1. LDAP URIs to use. You can use this instead of hosts list. Note that this 2. setting isn't supported by all LDAP libraries. #uris = 1. Distinguished Name - the username used to login to the LDAP server dn= uid=wmuser,cn=#####,dc=##,dc=###########,dc=### 1. Password for LDAP server dnpass = password 1. Use SASL binding instead of the simple binding. Note that this changes 2. ldap_version automatically to be 3 if it's lower. Also note that SASL binds 3. and auth_bind=yes don't work together. #sasl_bind = no 1. SASL mechanism name to use. #sasl_mech = 1. SASL realm to use. #sasl_realm = 1. SASL authorization ID, ie. the dnpass is for this "master user", but the 2. dn is still the logged in user. Normally you want to keep this empty. #sasl_authz_id = 1. Use TLS to connect to the LDAP server. #tls = no 1. Use authentication binding for verifying password's validity. This works by 2. logging into LDAP server using the username and password given by client. 3. The pass_filter is used to find the DN for the user. Note that the pass_attrs 4. is still used, only the password field is ignored in it. Before doing any 5. search, the binding is switched back to the default DN. auth_bind = yes 1. If authentication binding is used, you can save one LDAP request per login 2. if users' DN can be specified with a common template. The template can use 3. the standard %variables (see user_filter). Note that you can't 4. use any pass_attrs if you use this setting. # 1. If you use this setting, it's a good idea to use a different 2. dovecot-ldap.conf for userdb (it can even be a symlink, just as long as the 3. filename is different in userdb's args). That way one connection is used only 4. for LDAP binds and another connection is used for user lookups. Otherwise 5. the binding is changed to the default DN before each user lookup. # 1. For example: auth_bind_userdn = cn=%u,cn=users,dc=##,dc=###########,dc=### # #auth_bind_userdn = 1. LDAP protocol version to use. Likely 2 or 3. ldap_version = 3 1. LDAP base. %variables can be used here. base = dc=##, dc=###########, dc=### 1. Dereference: never, searching, finding, always #deref = never 1. Search scope: base, onelevel, subtree #scope = subtree 1. User attributes are given in LDAP-name=dovecot-internal-name list. The 2. internal names are: 3. uid - System UID 4. gid - System GID 5. home - Home directory 6. mail - Mail location # 1. There are also other special fields which can be returned, see 2. http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid 1. Filter for user lookup. Some variables can be used (see 2. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables for full list): 3. %u - username 4. %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain 5. %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) 1. Password checking attributes: 2. user: Virtual user name (user@domain), if you wish to change the 3. user-given username to something else 4. password: Password, may optionally start with {type}, eg. {crypt} 5. There are also other special fields which can be returned, see 6. http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password 1. If you wish to avoid two LDAP lookups (passdb + userdb), you can use 2. userdb prefetch instead of userdb ldap in dovecot.conf. In that case you'll 3. also have to include user_attrs in pass_attrs field prefixed with "userdb_" 4. string. For example: #pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password 1. Filter for password lookups pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u)) 1. Default password scheme. "{scheme}" before password overrides this. 2. List of supported schemes is in: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication default_pass_scheme = PLAIN 1. You can use same UID and GID for all user accounts if you really want to. 2. If the UID/GID is still found from LDAP reply, it overrides these values. #user_global_uid = #user_global_gid =

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[Dovecot] LDAP against Novell eDirectory: 'Confidentiality required'
by Jim Moseby 20 May '10

20 May '10

Hi list! I am trying to get dovecot to authenticate users against Novell eDirectory via LDAP. I have successfully gotten open-xchange to authenticate, and I have written a PHP module that authenticates, however I cannot seem to get Dovecot working. If I turn on TLS and restart dovecot, I get: dovecot: 2010-05-20 09:22:05 Error: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_start_tls_s() failed: Connect error dovecot: 2010-05-20 09:22:05 Error: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_start_tls_s() failed: Local error If I turn it off, it starts without error, but returns this when a user tries to authenticate: dovecot: 2010-05-20 08:48:39 Error: auth(default): ldap(jkmoseby,127.0.0.1): ldap_bind() failed: Confidentiality required I have tried all combinations of host:port, and LDAP uri strings I can think of, nothing seems to work. Thanks in advance, config files follow. Jim -------------------------------------------------------- 'dovecot -n' returns: # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: EFA mail server ready. mail_privileged_group: mail auth default: passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf --------------------------------------------------------- 'grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' dovecot-ldap.conf' returns: hosts = 10.1.10.200 tls = yes auth_bind = yes auth_bind_userdn = cn=%u,o=GSO,o=EFA base = o=EFA scope = subtree user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u))

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[Dovecot] POP3 Problem with SPAM-Mail's over sieve
by Michael Niehren 20 May '10

20 May '10

Hi together, i am currently using dovecot 1.2.10 with the sieve-plugin and use a sieve-filter to sort the SPAM-Mail's directly into a Junk-Folder: require "fileinto"; # rule:[junkfilter] if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { fileinto "Junk"; } My problem is now, if i try to retrieve the Mails via POP3, i did not get the SPAM-Mail's in the Junk-Folder, only the normal ones, that are not filtered over the sieve plugin. Could anyone tell me how to solve that issue ? best regards Michael -- Michael Niehren __ _ powered by / / (_)__ __ ____ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\

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[Dovecot] Receive Mail via lmtp/tcp
by Denny Schierz 20 May '10

20 May '10

hi, we have IMAP and SMTP (sendmail(solaris)) on different hosts. Sendmail delivers Mails via LMTP to Cyrus and Cyrus puts the mails into the (hopefully) right box. Now I want to replace the Cyrus host with Dovecot. I've searched a bit in Google but there isn't much about LMTP via TCP in combination with DoveCot. Version 2 seems to be get the feature, but we have round about 5k users, so beta is no choice. Also I red something about maidag (mailutils from Gnu) that could do the Job, but maybe there is a better way. I do not want to install Postfix (or any other SMTP service) on that IMAP Server. So I'm asking is there anybody who has the same construct. Important is, that Quota full etc. messages (RFC) gets back to sendmail, so that the MTA reject the mails, before accepting. cu denny

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Re: [Dovecot] Receive Mail via lmtp/tcp
by Denny Schierz 20 May '10

20 May '10

hi, Am Donnerstag, den 20.05.2010, 13:39 +0400 schrieb Andrey Melnikoff: > Drop sendmail, use exim. sendmail need over complicated configuration > for checking quotas, etc. or using thrid party milters. thanks for that hint, and I will remember next time for this solution :-) At the moment Postfix is the best solution until DoveCot 2.x releases. cu denny

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Re: [Dovecot] draft-ietf-morg-list-specialuse-01 - IMAP LIST extension for special-use mailboxes
by Nikolay Shopik 20 May '10

20 May '10

On 20.05.2010 13:55, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 20.5.2010, at 11.10, Nikolay Shopik wrote: > >> What you think about this draft is it good enough to make patch based on it for dovecot? We would like to see this functionality in 2.0 dovecot release but it's not clear when this draft become standards track. Will you accept patch based on drafts? > > Have you read the discussion about it in morg list? I don't remember what the last conclusions were :) Anyway I'd probably accept patch to Dovecot, but maybe not yet advertise supporting SPECIAL-USE in capability. > > But the main thing I'm not sure about is where should the flag information be stored? Should it even be per-user option? If yes, should it maybe be combined with autocreate plugin? > Yeah advertise SPECIAL-USE before IANA registred keyword isn't good thing. I don't think this really need per-user option. This is basically "system folders" and MUA will decide on their local names. Combining with autocreate plugin seems reasonable.

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[Dovecot] logging
by James Devine 20 May '10

20 May '10

I am looking through the logging options and wondering if there are a couple of things that we can do 1. Logouts don't seem to show the IP address of the logout, we typically see multiple sessions at a time and wondering if there is a way to tie the logouts to an IP 2. POP logouts show the number of messages retrieved/deleted but I don't see a way to do this with IMAP, is there a logout option for this with imap? Thanks

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Re: [Dovecot] looking for IMAP testing tool
by Phil Howard 19 May '10

19 May '10

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:49, Mailing List <anonmous(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > Hi Phil, > > I've got an hack piece of regression perl code that we might be a good > starting point. I'd love to turn it into a better piece of hack code > that we could offer up. It does SSL/TLS. > > Right now it is pretty basic and forks 1K-10K simultaneous IMAP > login/logout connections. Its goal is to find the sink point for the > IMAP server and/or test client so that tuning exceeds current usage. > > Let me know if you are interesting in looking at it and cleaning it up. > > ---Jack > The best I could do with something in Perl is rewrite it into something else. I'm still kinda weak on Python (don't know all the cool tricks, yet), and Pike isn't found universally, so things would need to be in C for me to do it and it to be widely usable. And that's for later when I get some free time.

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[Dovecot] looking for IMAP testing tool
by Phil Howard 19 May '10

19 May '10

I'm looking for an IMAP testing tool, suitable to use with Dovecot IMAP. It needs to support TLS, STARTTLS, and login/authentication. It needs to be able run from command line, shell scripts, and even do so under cron jobs (e.g. a way to supply the password to use w/o a terminal prompt). Typical interactive mail clients just don't cut it (even the text mode ones). One reason is I need to do the tests on a number of machines, under a number of user and domain names, and with a variety of parameters or destinations. This is for a suite of regression tests I am putting together intended to verify that configuration changes do not break things (or unbreak things that are supposed to not work). Anyone ever heard of such a tool? Open source would be preferred (better yet, my favorite programming languages: C, Pike, Python).

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[Dovecot] postfix+lda+ virtual users, confusion
by Harry Lachanas 19 May '10

19 May '10

I thought it would be nice to have vboxes insead of user logins ... Now I am confuesed and in trouble .. My server serves 2 domains so user1(a)domain1.com is the same as user1(a)domain2.org I've created the mail_location string with %n and static userdb with %n dovecot creates 2 mail user directories user1(a)domain1.com user1(a)domain2.org What the heck am I missing .. ?? Your help is appreciated Regards Harry Here is my config --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " ssl_cert_file = /etc/postfix/sasl/cacert.org/mail.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/postfix/sasl/cacert.org/mail.pem ssl_ca_file = /etc/postfix/sasl/cacert.org/cacert.org-root.crt login_greeting = Hi buddy, have an account ?? mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%n/Maildir/ namespace private { separator = / prefix = location = maildir:~/Maildir/ inbox = yes } namespace public { prefix = Public/ separator = / location = maildir:/home/Public-Folders-Mail/Public-RO:INDEX=~/Maildir/p1-idx:CONTROL=~/Maildir/p1-ctrl hidden=no subscriptions=no inbox = no list=no } namespace public { prefix = Public-Shared/ separator = / location = maildir:/home/Public-Folders-Mail/Public-RW:INDEX=~/Maildir/p2-idx hidden = no subscriptions = no inbox = no list = no } mail_privileged_group = mail mail_debug = yes verbose_proctitle = yes valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail:/home/Public-Folders-Mail dbox_rotate_size = 2048 dbox_rotate_min_size = 16 dbox_rotate_days = 0 protocol imap { mail_plugins = zlib autocreate expire imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv mail_plugins = expire } protocol lda { postmaster_address = harry(a)domainxxx.com hostname = mail.domain1.com sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins = expire } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = scheme=plain-md5 username_format=%n /usr/local/dovecot/etc/imap.pass3 } userdb static { args = uid=1001 gid=1001 home=/home/vmail/%n } userdb passwd { } user = root socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = vmail group= vmail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } } dict { expire = db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db } plugin { autocreate = Spam autosubscribe = Spam autocreate1 = Public-Shared/Info autosubscribe1 = Public-Shared/Info autocreate2 = Undetected-Spam autosubscribe2 = Undetected-Spam expire = Trash 2 Trash/* 2 Spam 4 expire_dict = proxy::expire auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master } -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] mail location filesystem noatime, nodiratime?
by Stan Hoeppner 19 May '10

19 May '10

Will Dovecot be negatively impacted if I change my XFS mount options to noatime,nodiratime? Thanks. -- Stan

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[Dovecot] problem compiling pigeonhole + my fix
by Andreas Schulze 19 May '10

19 May '10

hello, yesterday I tried to package dovecot-2.0beta5 + pigeonhole from Mercurial repository. I put pigeonhole as a subdir in the dovecot sourcetree. Following http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole/raw-file/tip/INSTALL I called ./autogen.sh; ./configure --with-dovecot=..; make In the buildprocess I saw this output ( from autogen.sh ): Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `..'. libtoolize: `config.guess' exists: use `--force' to overwrite libtoolize: `config.sub' exists: use `--force' to overwrite libtoolize: `ltmain.sh' exists: use `--force' to overwrite I dont know *why* AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR is .. but in .. there are the mentioned files (from dovecot) already present. The following make failed with less helpfull errors. -> my fix is to call "autoreconf -i -f" again after autogen.sh should -f be added to autogen.sh ? -- Andreas Schulze Internetdienste | P532 DATEV eG 90329 Nürnberg | Telefon +49 911 319-0 | Telefax +49 911 319-3196 E-Mail info @datev.de | Internet www.datev.de Sitz: 90429 Nürnberg, Paumgartnerstr. 6-14 | Registergericht Nürnberg, GenReg Nr.70 Vorstand Prof. Dieter Kempf (Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Wolfgang Stegmann (stellvertretender Vorsitzender) Dipl.-Kfm. Michael Leistenschneider Jörg Rabe v. Pappenheim Dipl.-Vw. Eckhard Schwarzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Reinhard Verholen

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Re: [Dovecot] A new director service in v2.0 for NFS installations
by Timo Sirainen 19 May '10

19 May '10

On 19.5.2010, at 13.09, Cor Bosman wrote: > I guess one of my first questions is, not just how to handle failure of proxies, but also failure of whatever server the proxy sends you to. We've talked about that before, that the proxy could for instance fall back to itself as the 'final server'. The people in here want to use their existing monitoring script that would do "ssh host doveadm director remove 1.2.3.4". But on top of that, yeah, maybe proxy itself could tell director that some host is down and retry the lookup. Although determining when it's down might not be fully reliable always, so I'm a bit worried that proxy could sometimes fail to connect to a mail server even if it's up (but e.g. with high load, temporary small network problem, etc).

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[Dovecot] how to configure my scripts sieves for the home root
by fakessh 19 May '10

19 May '10

hello list hello all reader of this list how to configure my scripts sieves for the home root I encounter these errors in the logs 2010-05-19 14:14:03 deliver(root): Info: sieve runtime error: Not a bytecode file 2010-05-19 14:14:03 deliver(root): Error: sieve_execute_bytecode(/root/.dovecot.sievec) failed thanks for your advice thanks

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[Dovecot] Make dovecot.index and dovecot.index.cache
by Kenji Iuchi 19 May '10

19 May '10

Hi, I would like to make dovecot.index and dovecot.index.cache manually. But that file is made on connecting IMAP Session. That file contribute to performance improvement, so I want to register myself with crontab. Please teach how to make dovecot.index and dovecot.index.cache manyually. Note. Dovecot LDA is not use. -- /*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/* Kenji Iuchi

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[Dovecot] double write-locking dovecot.index.log
by Mike Abbott 19 May '10

19 May '10

Dovecot's transactions often write-lock dovecot.index.log twice (without unlocking in between), and then unlock it twice. Is that intended, or is that a bug? If I read the man pages correctly, double write-locking is pointless but safe. But double unlocking could cause data corruption during the period between the first and second unlocks, because the locks don't nest (are not refcounted). The first unlock leaves the file totally unlocked. Could this be the source of some index corruption errors? For example: 1. Process A acquires a F_WRLCK on a file. 2. Through a different code path, process A again acquires a F_WRLCK on the same file. Since these locks don't nest this is essentially a no-op. 3. Process A modifies the file. 4. Process A unlocks the file to undo the lock in step 2. Now the file has no lock on it at all. 5a. Process B locks, modifies, and unlocks the file. 5b. Process A also modifies the file, thinking that it still has a write lock. 6. Process A unlocks the file to undo the lock in step 1, but this is another no-op. Data corruption is possible if steps 5a and 5b conflict, or if 5b uses stale data. Here is a code path in dovecot-1.2.11 which exhibits the above behavior. "Outer" write lock: maildir_transaction_save_commit_pre -> maildir_transaction_save_commit_pre_sync -> maildir_sync_index_begin -> mail_index_sync_begin -> mail_index_sync_begin_to -> mail_index_sync_begin_init -> mail_transaction_log_sync_lock -> mail_transaction_log_lock_head -> mail_transaction_log_file_lock -> mail_index_lock_fd -> file_wait_lock -> file_lock_do "Inner" write lock: maildir_transaction_save_commit_pre -> maildir_sync_index_finish -> mail_index_sync_commit -> mail_index_write -> mail_transaction_log_rotate -> mail_transaction_log_file_create -> mail_transaction_log_file_create2 -> mail_transaction_log_file_lock -> mail_index_lock_fd -> file_wait_lock -> file_lock_do The file being locked is the same, dovecot.index.log. In another case, maildir_sync_index_begin is reached this way (outer lock): mailbox_sync -> mailbox_sync_init -> maildir_storage_sync_init -> maildir_sync_context -> maildir_sync_index_begin -> mail_index_sync_begin -> etc. And maildir_sync_index_finish is reached this way (inner lock): mailbox_sync -> mailbox_sync_init -> maildir_storage_sync_init -> maildir_sync_context -> maildir_sync_index_finish -> etc. Could these lead to data corruption? Please let me know if you need any more information. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] problem trying out dovecot hg
by joakim＠verona.se 18 May '10

18 May '10

I get: May 18 14:56:16 exodia dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.beta5 (4ba05c3702be) starting up (core dumps disabled) May 18 14:56:16 exodia dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3-login): safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot-master) failed: Permission denied May 18 14:56:16 exodia dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-login): safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot-master) failed: Permission denied "nc localhost 143" never connects listeners seem to be running at port 143 -- Joakim Verona

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[Dovecot] Shared mailboxes
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 18 May '10

18 May '10

Hi.. can anyone give me a hind how to setup shared mailboxes. I've already created the shared and private namespace. But ive no idea how to share a mailbox. Thunderbird and most other Clients seem not to support the setacl command. so do i have to create a plaintext file with "user=theldapuseriwanttosharemybox rw" ? thx Hans

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[Dovecot] how authentication works?
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 18 May '10

18 May '10

Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, I've read: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes I have a users database with clear plain passwords. Dovecot authenticates users without problems against it. Now, it's time to move to CRYPT scheme. Before that, I would like to know how things happen. He have: - the user, (entering his password in the MUA) - the user's MUA (Thunderbird, Outlook, Squirrelmail,...) - the POP or IMAP server - the users database (mySQL) with username and crypt()'d password How I think the process is: - the user enters his password in a clear way. - the MUA sends the password as the user entered it to the POP or IMAP server - the POP or IMAP server fetches the password from the database - the POP or IMAP server crypt()'s the user entered password - the POP or IMAP server compares crypt()'d ones and gives his response Am I close enough to reality? Too far? Misaotra, Thanks, Merci. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 3456 000 19

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[Dovecot] Configuring Dovecot SASL
by BABEDH-DHRA 18 May '10

18 May '10

Dovecot ver = 1.1.11 Dovecot -n = mail:~# dovecot -n # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian 5.0.4 ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s 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 first_valid_uid: 6060 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): autocreate quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): autocreate quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): 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 auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-crammd5.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_warning: storage=90%% /usr/sbin/quota-warning.sh 90 quota_warning2: storage=70%% /usr/sbin/quota-warning.sh 70 autocreate: Spam autosubscribe: Spam I am trying to get this to work. I am running a mailserver in Debian Lenny AMD-64 that uses Postfix driven virtual mailbox domains stored in a MySQL database, managed by PostfixAdmin and phpMyAdmin. I must send my mail through DYNDNS through port 2525 the username and password for that service does not appear at all in any of my user names. I have added / merged the data in the Configuring Dovecot SASL but when testing we see nothing about AUTH when testing it. Please let me know if I have left something out I am not a complete NUBE but I am still a bit green. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] %d is empty in mail_location
by Phil Howard 17 May '10

17 May '10

I have this in dovecot-postfix.conf: mail_location = maildir:/home/mail/dnamesum=%12MLd/dname=%Ld/unamesum=%12MLn/uname=%Ln/mail Yes, it is excessive, but that's just for testing. The pattern I really want is less clear for debugging. In postfix/main.cf I have: mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf -a "${RECIPIENT}" I verified through strace that -a "${RECIPIENT}" is in fact getting a full user@domain address. The problem is that %d and %Ld are coming up as empty, and %12MLd is giving me the first 12 hex characters of an md5 of an empty content. It's losing the domain name somewhere. It's in the mail headers and in the -a option. So what else is needed?

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[Dovecot] imap_acl for CentOS
by Andrés Gattinoni 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi, I sent an email a couple of days ago asking about a problem with ACL. The bottom line was, I think, that I'm missing imap_acl plugin. I installed Dovecot 1.0.7 using yum in CentOS 5.4. Do you know where can I get the imap_acl plugin lib? Thanks A

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0beta5 Quota/Dict
by e-frog 17 May '10

17 May '10

On 14.05.2010 22:54, wrote Andrey Melnikoff: > In article <4BEDB367.8030004(a)gmx.de> you wrote: >> On 14.05.2010 22:12, wrote Henrique Fernandes: > >>>> May 14 17:03:40 dict: Panic: file driver-mysql.c: line 482 >>>> (transaction_send_query): assertion failed: (rows != (my_ulonglong)-1) > >> The patch in >> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-May/048705.html >> fixed this for me. > > For 2.0.b5 need slightly other patch: > --- dovecot-2.0.beta5/src/lib-sql/driver-mysql.c~ 2010-05-05 21:20:17.000000000 +0400 > +++ dovecot-2.0.beta5/src/lib-sql/driver-mysql.c 2010-05-05 21:20:17.000000000 +0400 > @@ -479,7 +479,9 @@ > struct mysql_db *db = (struct mysql_db *)result->db; > > rows = mysql_affected_rows(db->mysql); > - i_assert(rows != (my_ulonglong)-1); > + if (mysql_errno(db->mysql)) > + i_assert(rows != (my_ulonglong)-1); > + else rows = 0; > *ctx->ctx.head->affected_rows = rows; > } > sql_result_unref(result); > Oh, yes correct. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Setting up a 'rootless' server - user and auth_user cannot be the same
by Jason Ahrens 17 May '10

17 May '10

I am trying to follow http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/Rootless to set up a personal dovecot server that does not use 'root' and does not need to change uids/gids. I'm trying to set it up on a Cygwin personal system. The problem I'm running into though, the directions say to set "user" and "auth_user" to be the same in this setup. However when you do this, Dovecot compains and will refuse to start up. Did I miss something? $ ./dovecot --version 1.2.11 $ ./dovecot -n # 1.2.11: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Error: login_user cyg_server (uid 1005) must not be same as auth_user Fatal: Invalid configuration in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf Config trying to use: protocols = imap disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl = no login_chroot = no login_user = cyg_server login_process_size = 0 login_max_processes_count = 5 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir max_mail_processes = 5 mail_process_size = 0 auth_process_size = 0 auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot.users } userdb passwd { } user = cyg_server }

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[Dovecot] sieve spamtest extension
by Nikita Koshikov 16 May '10

16 May '10

Hello Stephan, First of all, thanks for time you spent implementing this useful extension. I have found some ugly behavior with such config: sieve_extensions = +notify +spamtest sieve_spamtest_status_type = score sieve_spamtest_status_header = X-Spam-Scan-Score: (-?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]) sieve_spamtest_max_value = 10 Sieve: require ["fileinto","envelope","imap4flags","spamtest","relational","comparator-i;ascii-numeric"]; # rule:[spam] if anyof (spamtest :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "6") { fileinto "Spam"; } If X-Spam-Scan-Score have 6-9 digit after dot - the first one ignored, thus X-Spam-Scan-Score: 3.6 -> "ge" skips. #right X-Spam-Scan-Score: 3.8 -> "ge" works. #wrong X-Spam-Scan-Score: 5.9 -> "ge" works. #wrong X-Spam-Scan-Score: 6.0 -> "ge" works. #right X-Spam-Scan-Score: 6.9 -> "ge" works. #right X-Spam-Scan-Score: 7.3 -> "ge" works. #right If the rule modified to (spamtest :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "6.0") everything works as expected. One more thing - sieve-test. I couldn't test my scripts with it: # sieve-test -x +spamtest -t sieve spam.txt 00000007: SPAMTEST test 00000007: spamtest: extension not configured 00000013: JMPFALSE (false) Performed actions: (none) Implicit keep: * store message in folder: INBOX Info: final result: success

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Re: [Dovecot] Multiple hosts for pgsql backend?
by Thomas Leuxner 15 May '10

15 May '10

Am 15.05.2010 um 16:14 schrieb Westenberg + Küppers GbR | Patrick Westenberg: > that´s nice. > > "PostgreSQL supports now multiple connections to backend. Also supports load-balancing / HA by specifying multiple host parameters." > > Will dovecot automatically load-balance it´s queries through the given > host parameters? > > Regards > Patrick This is best answered by Timo, but this code excerpt should help finding details: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/1c8cc349ef55 Please post to the ML rather than to individuals in order to get a broader feedback. Regards Thomas

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[Dovecot] Email jam problem
by Lam Ho Yin Bosco 15 May '10

15 May '10

Dear All: I have facing big problem at user email jam (outlook and thunderbird) how can I check the problem?(like the mail client got email very slow). email dovecot --version 1.0.7 dovecot -n # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: pop3 listen: [0.0.0.0] login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 512 login_processes_count: 10 login_max_processes_count: 512 login_max_connections: 100 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mbox_very_dirty_syncs: yes mail_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

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