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[Dovecot] mbox zlib compression plugin
by Timo Sirainen 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Some people have been asking this forever, but because it wasn't possible to implement it as a plugin, I hadn't done it. Now, due to some API changes for other purposes, it was suddenly easy. So, if you want to try it, grab the latest CVS code / nightly CVS snapshot and http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/zlib-plugin.tar.gz Compilation instructions inside zlib-plugin.c file. What it does is check if mbox name ends with ".gz", if so it opens it as read-only using zlib. If the file isn't actually zlib compressed, zlib seems to be able to still access it as a normal file (but it's still read-only). It should be possible to implement it for maildir files as well by hooking into mail_get_stream().

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[Dovecot] FC2 POP Configurtion
by Linux Stuff 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

I'm a newbie to dovecot and a little bit less of a newbit to linux. I am in the process of moving my server from RH9 to FC2. The only obstacle remaining is my email. I run sendmail with netscape mail clients - mostly PC's. They all can read their mail but none of the users can send. Depending on the state of the dovecot.conf file, I get the following: Mar 28 16:04:14 corvette sendmail[5810]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Invalid argument Mar 28 16:04:14 corvette sendmail[5810]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Invalid argument Mar 28 16:04:14 corvette sendmail[5810]: no secret in database I know I must be missing something, probably trivial. Does someone have a simple, easy-to-read, config file for dovecot pop running with sendmail? Thanks

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[Dovecot] error creating storage
by Alex 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hello, I have some problems. I am getting the error: Mar 28 21:24:01 APOLLO imap(alex(a)mydomain.nl): Failed to create storage with data: mydomain.nl/alex What is wrong with it? I think it has something to do with the rights or something. Can anyone tell me what to do? Thank you, Alex

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[Dovecot] Re: telnet to pop3 problem
by Obantec Support 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi Yes i was :( did the change you suggested and that bit works now. Off to look at using syslog to how dovecot logging works. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert" <herbert(a)oslo.ath.cx> To: "Obantec Support" <support(a)obantec.net> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 4:31 PM Subject: Re: telnet to pop3 problem > Obantec Support <support(a)obantec.net> wrote: > > Hi > > > > default_mail_env was commented out. when i set it to > > > > default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u > ^^^^^^^ > You are not using maildir, are you? > > > it fails to deliver maillog shows. > > Mar 28 15:34:31 proteus2a pop3(obantec): > > lstat(/var/spool/mail/obantec/cur) failed: Not a directory > > > > /var/spool/mail exists what is /cur ??? all i want is > > /var/spool/mail/obantec where obantec is the mail file. > > Maybe you should use: > > default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u > > - Herbert > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 27/03/2005 > >

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[Dovecot] telnet to pop3 problem
by Obantec Support 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi I have 1 customer who is having issues with pop3 on FC3 telnet mail.hisdomain.com 110 +OK dovecot ready. user beachy -ERR Unknown command. user beachy +OK pass letmein +OK Logged in. list -ERR No INBOX for user. pass & username fake for this example! Mark

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[Dovecot] Wiki upgrade
by Timo Sirainen 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Upgraded Moin wiki from 1.2.x -> 1.3.4 which required migrating old data using several scripts and reconfiguring the whole thing. If you see any problems, please mail me.

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[Dovecot] Address with whitespace shows as ""@MISSING_DOMAIN
by Chris Wakelin 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

It seems that Dovecot gets confused when presented with a header like: From: someone(a)somewhere.org i.e. with leading whitespace and no "friendly name" This shows up as ""@MISSING_DOMAIN in clients, such as Pine, that believe what Dovecot tells them rather than parsing the headers themselves (e.g. Thunderbird). Here's a sample IMAP session: xyz FETCH 728 ENVELOPE * 728 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:10:50 +0100 (BST)" "Test" ((NIL NIL "" "MISSING_DOMAIN")) ((NIL NIL "c.d.wakelin" "reading.ac.uk")) ((NIL NIL "" "MISSING_DOMAIN")) ((NIL NIL "" "MISSING_DOMAIN")) NIL NIL NIL "<Pine.GSO.3.96.1010704101043.17798B-100000@suma3>")) xyz OK Fetch completed. Here's UW-IMAP on the same mailbox: . FETCH 729 ENVELOPE * 729 FETCH (ENVELOPE ("Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:10:50 +0100 (BST)" "Test" ((NIL NIL "c.d.wakelin" "reading.ac.uk")) ((NIL NIL "c.d.wakelin" "reading.ac.uk")) ((NIL NIL "c.d.wakelin" "reading.ac.uk")) ((NIL NIL "c.d.wakelin" "reading.ac.uk")) NIL NIL NIL "<Pine.GSO.3.96.1010704101043.17798B-100000@suma3>")) . OK FETCH completed I'm not sure I read the RFC correctly, but it looks like whitespace is allowed (and if it wasn't, I'd expect our MTA, Exim to fix it on delivery). There's a particular member of one of the UK academic computing mailing lists who always seems to do this, but I'm not sure how common a problem it is! Best Wishes, Chris --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] Troubleshooting help
by Paul Michael Reilly 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Somehow, hopefully to be determined, I got my Thunderbird/dovecot Fedora Core 3 configuration into a real snit, such that I can no longer access my INBOX. When Thunderbird tries to get the INBOX content (or get new mail) it reports "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Invalid messageset: -2147483648:*." Scouring logs and googling has come up empty. Now I'm flailing at trying to get to a state that this problem does not exist. I'd like to understand how this situation arose and how to deal with it better if it happens to any other users on my mail server. Thanks, -pmr

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[Dovecot] cannot select
by juri vrljicak 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

hi everybody, Found many many answers in here but...not this one. My imap client displays all of the folders but not the inbox one (cannot select inbox). Paths in imap.passwd seem to be fine. using mbox format and error log says "fail with mbox file..is a directory" which i already know. do i have to create a file? and what about valid uids and gids, i had some trouble with that too. well defined and nevertheless dropped. (using netbsd dove sqmail) regards _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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[Dovecot] test65 "deliver" LDA bug
by "Branko F. Gračnar" 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hello. I've tried to implement dovecot's deliver LDA to my home mailserver. I've run into troubles :) dovecot-deliver.conf: -- snip -- mail = maildir:%h/Maildir:INBOX=maildir:%h/Maildir mbox_read_locks = flock mbox_write_locks = flock -- snip -- when i run: deliver -d bfg < email.txt dovecot delivers message to ~/Maildir/maildir/new It acctually creates "maildir" folder inside real maildir folder. If i try to list messages via Outlook express mail client, OE reports entire folder list, but also lists one message "which no longer exists on server". If i remove ~/Maildir/maildir folder this message dissaperas from OE imap folder listing. Test scenario: 1. start dovecot 2. try to deliver message using "deliver" program (succeedes) 3. try to open INBOX via imap: Outlook Express: - reports INBOX message listing with one message, which "doesn't exist on server anymore" - the next delivery test with "deliver" LDA fails (lots of nanosleep() calls) Thunderbird: - reports that there are NO messages in INBOX - still can delivery messages with "deliver" LDA deliver strace output (search for EVIL CODE string): --- snip --- execve("/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver", ["/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver", "-d", "bfg"], [/* 42 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="frost", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x80af7cc mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb28ee000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=29220, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 29220, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb28e6000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 \r\0\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=9604, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 11364, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x5837000 mmap2(0x5839000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0x5839000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\220T\1"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1207404, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 1132300, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x583a000 mmap2(0x5949000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x10f) = 0x5949000 mmap2(0x594c000, 9996, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x594c000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb28e5000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb28e56b0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 munmap(0xb28e6000, 29220) = 0 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\362yOO", 4) = 4 close(3) = 0 time(NULL) = 1111840485 brk(0) = 0x80af7cc brk(0x80d87cc) = 0x80d87cc brk(0x80d9000) = 0x80d9000 uname({sys="Linux", node="frost", ...}) = 0 cat: 1111836380.P11693Q0M524017.frost:2,S: No such file or directory getpid() = 23206 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x8093a90, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x58625b8}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGUSR1, {0x8093a90, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x58625b8}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGUSR2, {0x8093a90, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x58625b8}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8093ad0, [INT], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x58625b8}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x8093ad0, [TERM], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x58625b8}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 gettimeofday({1111840485, 349252}, {4294967236, 0}) = 0 open("/opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot-deliver.conf", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=111, ...}) = 0 pread(3, "#\n#\n# \n\nmail = maildir:%h/Maildi"..., 1024, 0) = 111 pread(3, "", 913, 111) = 0 close(3) = 0 socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, path="/var/run/dovecot/auth-master"}, 110) = 0 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFSOCK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 _llseek(3, 0, 0xb71716b0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) getsockname(3, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, path=L '"}, [2]) = 0 write(3, "VERSION\t1\t0\nUSER\t1\tbfg\n", 23) = 23 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1111840485, 361824}, {4294967236, 0}) = 0 read(3, "VERSION\t1\t0\nSPID\t29143\n", 4096) = 23 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1111840485, 364325}, {4294967236, 0}) = 0 read(3, "USER\t1\tbfg\tsystem_user=bfg\tuid=1"..., 4073) = 66 getgid32() = 0 setgid32(100) = 0 setgroups32(1, [100]) = 0 setuid32(1000) = 0 setuid32(0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) getgid32() = 100 getegid32() = 100 setgid32(0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) lstat64("maildir/cur", 0xb7171640) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mkdir("maildir/cur", 0770) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ********* EVIL CODE ********* mkdir("maildir", 0770) = 0 mkdir("maildir/cur", 0770) = 0 lstat64("maildir/new", 0xb7171640) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mkdir("maildir/new", 0770) = 0 lstat64("maildir/tmp", 0xb7171640) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mkdir("maildir/tmp", 0770) = 0 ********* EVIL CODE ********* fcntl64(0, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fcntl64(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 fstat64(0, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 lstat64("maildir/cur", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 lstat64("maildir/new", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 lstat64("maildir/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 stat64("maildir/dovecot-shared", 0xb7171620) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) time(NULL) = 1111840485 open("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171410) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 144, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0xb28ed000 open("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.log", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 5 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16504, ...}) = 0 pread(5, "\1\0\30\0\223LEB\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\223LEB", 24, 0) = 24 open("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1202176, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 1202176, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 6, 0) = 0xb27bf000 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171470) = 0 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb71714b0) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16504, ...}) = 0 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16504, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 16504, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 5, 0) = 0xb27ba000 madvise(0xb27ba000, 16504, MADV_SEQUENTIAL) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb71714b0) = 0 write(2, "Error: ", 7Error: ) = 7 write(2, "Fixed index file /export/home/bf"..., 89Fixed index file /export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index: first_recent_uid_lowwater 3 -> 1) = 89 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 msync(0xb28ed000, 120, MS_SYNC) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb71714f0) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb71714f0) = 0 stat64("maildir/new", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 stat64("maildir/cur", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171560) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16504, ...}) = 0 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16504, ...}) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171570) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171470) = 0 _llseek(4, 0, [144], SEEK_END) = 0 write(4, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 12) = 12 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=156, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 156, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0xb27b9000 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 7 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=696, ...}) = 0 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=696, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb27b8000 read(7, "TZif\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\6\0"..., 4096) = 696 close(7) = 0 munmap(0xb27b8000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 7 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=696, ...}) = 0 close(7) = 0 msync(0xb27b9000, 156, MS_SYNC) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171470) = 0 umask(0177) = 022 time(NULL) = 1111840485 lstat64("maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock", 0xb71714c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("maildir/temp.frost.23206.19bb83d2a70b22b7", 0xb7171490) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("maildir/temp.frost.23206.19bb83d2a70b22b7", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 7 link("maildir/temp.frost.23206.19bb83d2a70b22b7", "maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock") = 0 unlink("maildir/temp.frost.23206.19bb83d2a70b22b7") = 0 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 umask(022) = 0177 open("maildir/dovecot-uidlist", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("maildir/new", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 8 fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(8, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 getdents64(8, /* 2 entries */, 4096) = 48 getdents64(8, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(8) = 0 open("maildir/cur", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 8 fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0750, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(8, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 getdents64(8, /* 2 entries */, 4096) = 48 getdents64(8, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(8) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=156, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 156, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0xb27b8000 pwrite(5, "\0\0\0\0\221\315\0\20", 8, 16504) = 8 pwrite(5, "\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 16512) = 8 pwrite(5, "\200\200\200\204 \0\0\20", 8, 16520) = 8 pwrite(5, "\34\0\4\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 16528) = 8 fsync(5) = 0 pwrite(5, "\200\200\200\204", 4, 16504) = 4 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16536, ...}) = 0 munmap(0xb27ba000, 16504) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 16536, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 5, 0) = 0xb27ba000 madvise(0xb27ba000, 16536, MADV_SEQUENTIAL) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=156, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=156, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171460) = 0 munmap(0xb27b9000, 156) = 0 munmap(0xb27b8000, 156) = 0 umask(0) = 022 open("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.tmp", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 8 umask(022) = 0 write(8, "\7\0x\0\220\0\0\0\f\0\0\0\1\10\4\0\223LEB\0\0\0\0\223L"..., 120) = 120 write(8, "\0\0\0\0\224LEB\10\0\4\0\4\0\5\0cache\0\0\0", 24) = 24 close(8) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171460) = 0 fsync(4) = 0 rename("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.tmp", "/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index") = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171530) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171530) = 0 lstat64("maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 unlink("maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock") = 0 close(7) = 0 munmap(0xb28ed000, 144) = 0 stat64("maildir/tmp/1111840485.P23206Q0M364325.frost", 0xb7171660) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) umask(0) = 022 open("maildir/tmp/1111840485.P23206Q0M364325.frost", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 7 umask(022) = 0 _llseek(7, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 poll([{fd=0, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLHUP}], 1, 2147483647) = 1 gettimeofday({1111840485, 393090}, {4294967236, 0}) = 0 read(0, "", 4096) = 0 fsync(7) = 0 close(7) = 0 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171590) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16536, ...}) = 0 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16536, ...}) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=156, ...}) = 0 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 open("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 7 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(7, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171410) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=144, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 144, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0xb28ed000 fcntl64(7, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171440) = 0 close(4) = 0 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(7, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb71715a0) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 umask(0177) = 022 time(NULL) = 1111840485 lstat64("maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock", 0xb71714f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("maildir/temp.frost.23206.187e2a44c13cb5c3", 0xb71714c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("maildir/temp.frost.23206.187e2a44c13cb5c3", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 4 link("maildir/temp.frost.23206.187e2a44c13cb5c3", "maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock") = 0 unlink("maildir/temp.frost.23206.187e2a44c13cb5c3") = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 umask(022) = 0177 open("maildir/dovecot-uidlist", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) fcntl64(5, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171560) = 0 fcntl64(7, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171510) = 0 link("maildir/tmp/1111840485.P23206Q0M364325.frost", "maildir/new/1111840485.P23206Q0M364325.frost") = 0 unlink("maildir/tmp/1111840485.P23206Q0M364325.frost") = 0 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(7, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb71715b0) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 alarm(120) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171530) = 0 alarm(0) = 120 stat64("/export/home/bfg/Maildir/dovecot.index.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16536, ...}) = 0 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=16536, ...}) = 0 pwrite(5, "\0\0\0\0\2\0\0\20", 8, 16536) = 8 pwrite(5, "\1\0\0\0 \0\0\0", 8, 16544) = 8 fsync(5) = 0 pwrite(5, "\200\200\200\204", 4, 16536) = 4 fcntl64(5, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171550) = 0 fcntl64(7, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xb7171650) = 0 write(4, "1 1111837843 2\n1 1111840485.P232"..., 50) = 50 utime("maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock", [2005/03/26-13:34:45, 2005/03/26-13:34:45]) = 0 fsync(4) = 0 rename("maildir/dovecot-uidlist.lock", "maildir/dovecot-uidlist") = 0 close(4) = 0 exit_group(75) SHELL EXIT CODE: 0 --- snip --- Best regards, Brane

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[Dovecot] Another imap crash...
by Todd Burroughs 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

The segfault problem that was happening seems to be fixed. I'm still getting some "(imap) killed with signal 6" errors. I just noticed that it did get one segfault. Unfortunately, I don't have a core file. I'll try to get one if this happens again. Here's the error messages, not sure if it will help. I'm using the CVS copy from March 24. dovecot: Mar 26 05:28:20 Error: 4282 IMAP(support): Corrupted index cache file /mailhome/new/s/support/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: indexid changed dovecot: Mar 26 05:28:20 Error: 4282 IMAP(support): Corrupted transaction log file /mailhome/new/s/support/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: invalid indexid (1111832898 != 1111831599) dovecot: Mar 26 05:28:20 Error: 4282 IMAP(support): Corrupted index file /mailhome/new/s/support/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Record UIDs are not ordered dovecot: Mar 26 05:28:20 Error: 4282 IMAP(support): Corrupted transaction log file /mailhome/new/s/support/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: invalid indexid (1111831599 != 0) dovecot: Mar 26 05:28:20 Error: 4282 IMAP(support): Corrupted index file /mailhome/new/s/support/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Record UIDs are not ordered dovecot: Mar 26 05:28:20 Error: child 4282 (imap) killed with signal 11 Todd Burroughs

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[Dovecot] quota issue POP3
by Obantec Support 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Hi Just u/g to RH FC3 from RH8.0 which seemed to work fine with quotas. I have quotas for usernames set up as /home/domain/domainX/username/ for web space 50MB say 48MB used so 2MB free and /var/mail/spool/username for email. 100MB (60MB used so 40MB is available). /var/mail/username is symbolic linked via to spool/mail under /var dovecot seems to be using the quota for /home/.. and sees only 2MB so refuses to write file back. maillog is reporting (username and IP replaced). Mar 16 13:20:03 proteus2a pop3-login: Login: username [11.22.33.44] Mar 16 13:20:03 proteus2a pop3(username): Error rewriting mbox file /var/mail/username: Disk quota exceeded Mar 16 13:20:03 proteus2a pop3(username): write() failed with mbox file /var/mail/username: Disk quota exceeded i am assuming this is when pop3 login is trying to re-write file back when deleting emails. Mark -- Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Tag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller

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[Dovecot] Postfix SMTP AUTH patch updated
by Timo Sirainen 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

There was a small protocol change in later 1.0-test releases which made the older patches not to work. Updated the patch for Postfix 2.1.5 and added patch for Postfix 2.2.1. I also tested that it works with Dovecot 1.0-stable releases. So, if you're interested: http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix/

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[Dovecot] Segfault in imap process
by Todd Burroughs 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

We've been testing dovecot for a while and I noticed yesterday that imap crashes quite often. It seems to be about even with SIGABRT and SIGSEGV. This one was SIGSEGV. Our system is SuSE Linux 9.2, 2.6.11.5 kernel (also happened with an older 2.6 kernel). Dovecot version is 1.0-test64 and was compiled with: "./configure --prefix=/services/dovecot --disable-ipv6" It's using mbox over NFS and I've configured "mmap_disable = yes". The mailbox that it crashed on is one of our support mailboxes and it is pretty busy. In the last 1/2 hour, it received over 100 emails. I had a look at the code, but didn't notice anything obvious. Thanks for any help... Here's the log messages: dovecot: Mar 22 18:22:23 Error: 19697 IMAP(support): UIDVALIDITY changed (1111532787 -> 1111533642) in mbox file /mailhome/new/s/support/mbox dovecot: Mar 22 18:22:26 Error: child 19697 (imap) killed with signal 11 and a backtrace: mail201:/services/dovecot/var/log # gdb /services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap imap.core.pid19697 GNU gdb 6.2.1 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. warning: current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x08079f14 in mail_cache_sync_lost_handler (index=0x0) at mail-cache-sync-update.c:152 152 file_cache_invalidate(index->cache->file_cache, 0, (uoff_t)-1); (gdb) bt #0 0x08079f14 in mail_cache_sync_lost_handler (index=0x0) at mail-cache-sync-update.c:152 #1 0x0807bcfb in mail_index_map (index=0x80c24e8, force=0) at mail-index.c:792 #2 0x0807c870 in mail_index_try_open (index=0x80c24e8, lock_id_r=0xbffff68c) at mail-index.c:1064 #3 0x0807c9cf in mail_index_open (index=0x80c24e8, flags=5, lock_method=MAIL_INDEX_LOCK_FCNTL) at mail-index.c:1219 #4 0x08076025 in index_storage_mailbox_init (storage=0x80b7b90, box=0x80ac920, index=0x80c24e8, name=0x80a292f "INBOX", flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at index-storage.c:330 #5 0x08067cd8 in mbox_open (storage=0x80b7b90, name=0x80a292f "INBOX", flags=0) at mbox-storage.c:510 #6 0x08067ea4 in mbox_mailbox_open (_storage=0x80b7b90, name=0x80a292f "INBOX", flags=0) at mbox-storage.c:557 #7 0x08089305 in mailbox_open (storage=0x0, name=0x80a292f "INBOX", flags=0) at mail-storage.c:292 #8 0x08057ace in _cmd_select_full (cmd=0x80b7e80, readonly=0) at cmd-select.c:32 #9 0x08057ca1 in cmd_select (cmd=0x80b7e80) at cmd-select.c:99 #10 0x08059145 in _client_input (context=0x80b7e40) at client.c:334 #11 0x08099eca in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80b69e8) at ioloop-poll.c:184 #12 0x080995e9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80b69e8) at ioloop.c:218 #13 0x0805fea7 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa24, envp=0xbffffa2c) at main.c:229 (gdb) Todd Burroughs

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Fw: [Dovecot] Auto Create Folders
by Chris L. Franklin 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

>> the problem might be: what would your mta do if: >> 1. the user never logged in via imap okay, so then they would never get there mail ? I guess I don't see where your going with this problem. >> 2. therefor no folders were created by dovecot .... Ok ?? >> 3. it has to deliver a spam message to the spam folder. Your right the filter would put it into the spam folder, witch it would created if it's not found. And as a side note the "Spam" folder was just a example folder name. Really for are needs it would be a folder called "Meetings" >> "so you have to ensure the folder existance at the user creation level >> imho. thats the logical point to do exactly that. >> checking for folder existance everytime a user might access a service is >> stupid. it costs at least a stat() call per directory." Some how you missed the part.I'd like to make sure this use always has this folder. Aka if they delete it, I'd like it to be recreated. PS. In the end all's it comes down to is i was wounder if there was a way to have dovecot auto create a folder or a list of folders at login. OR really if there was a way to tell dovecot a list of folders a user COULD NOT delete (But could delete the folders in side). -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] dovecot-ldap with tls
by ck 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

hi all, Can somebody help me to find out how to use dovecot to connect to my ldap server which has the tls support? Currently I'm using my dovecot to connect to ldap without tls and soon my ldap server will apply the tls and all others server have to connect through the tls. thanks a lot. CK from Malaysia

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[Dovecot] automatic flag updates
by Aaron VanDevender 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Is there a way to get dovecot to send automatic flag updates? I notice that when I have two clients connected and one of them reads a new message, the server sends a status update which contains the number of unseen messages, but doesn't specifically say which ones have changed. I think the solution to this problem, while not wasting bandwidth, is to issue a unilateral FETCH FLAGS response whenever a flag changes. There doesn't seem to be a way to get dovecot (I'm using 0.99.10) to do this. Can the 1.0-test versions do this? cya .sig

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[Dovecot] stable assert error
by Paul Jongsma 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hello, When moving a message from my inbox to an existing mailbox folder I get: dovecot: Mar 21 12:52:48 Error: IMAP(paulj): file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 383 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: (rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) dovecot: Mar 21 12:52:48 Error: child 10265 (imap) killed with signal 6 This after moving from 0.99 to 1.0 stable on 5.3-RELEASE-p5 Client is Apple Mail program Anything I can do to fix or investigate? Thanks Paul

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[Dovecot] Hide non-accessable folder from users
by Remy Zandwijk 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi all, In our faculty, people keep asking about shared mail folders. With Dovecot up and running this should be no problem. I think we will have about 50 shared folders. I did take a look at the various solutions, but not all of them are useable. For example, I do not want users to create sub-folders in shared folders. This means the symlink option is unuseable. In my opinion, the easiest solution is creating a namespace and create the shared folders in the location of this namespace. Every shared folders gets his own UNIX group ID. Offcourse, this works great. The ony big disadvantage is that every users 'sees' all shared mailfolders, even if the user does not have the proper rights to access the folders. Is there a way to hide the non-accessable folders from users? Best regards, Remy Zandwijk

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Re: [Dovecot] Auto Create Folders
by Chris L. Franklin 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

To make sure users have certain folders. -- Chris L. Franklin --

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[Dovecot] strange email client problems
by Gabriel Granger 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

I've got some issues with dovecot, that I need to resolve, I only have about 20 users in the office, but the average disk space used by each user is anywhere from 1GB up to at the extreme end of the scale 7GB. I'm using the mailbox format. The server is a P4 2.8 with a 1GB of ram and run off 250GB SATA disks. most users have lots of structured folders going as deep as 6 levels. The problems I'm getting are odd the problems that I'm getting at the moment are "cannot copy mail to sent folder", but sends the message fine, this doesn't happen all the time but happens to everyone but me... I'm using OS X's Mail.app which seems to always work:) all my users are using W2K and either ThunderBird or Mozilla The other problem which I've been made aware of... The users get the "loading message" or "opening messages" and the egg timer goes round but never completes. I managed to clear the problem by getting the user to close their email client and then kill their IMAP processes on the server, when the user logs in again the client responds correctly. Is there something I'm doing wrong with the configuration of dovecot? would using MailDir help, I dont want to migrate from Mailbox unless this change will make things better, I understand their are benefits from using MailDir, but I dont know if I will continue to see the same problems if I migrate. Any help or advise would be great, I should add that everyone is connecting to the server over SSL Gabe

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[Dovecot] emulating courier imap
by Geo Carncross 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I'm trying this: default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.maildir:INDEX=%h/.indexes:INBOX=% h/.maildir namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = no } namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes hidden = yes } but dovecot doesn't appear to be honoring "hidden" - am I missing something? (that is, all my folders appear twice- one under INBOX, the other under root) I tried without the second segment, and makign the first one "inbox=yes" - but then I got two inboxes... -- Internet Connection High Quality Web Hosting http://www.internetconnection.net/

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[Dovecot] Mixing mbox and maildir
by Tom Alsberg 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi there. I understood that in Dovecot 1.0 it should be possible to mix the usage of mbox and maildir mailboxes. I just downloaded, built, and am testing dovecot-stable-20050304. I'm a bit confused as to the terms of namespaces (haven't read that part of the RFC yet), but this does not seem related. Anyway, when I try specifying: default_mail_env = ~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u On login I'm immediately disconnected, seeing something like: dovecot: IMAP(user): Failed to create storage with data: ~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/user in the log file. This seems more like a bug to me (or maybe something in permissions I haven't noticed - but I've checked...) Any way, according to the documentation, it will detect whether ~/mail/ is mbox or maildir - but would that enable having both mbox and maildir in that directory? The goal is, to deploy Dovecot 1.0 at some time, while here there are users who have both maildir and mbox mailboxes (I.E. spool is mbox, ~/mbox is mbox, ~/mail contains some mbox mailboxes for small stuff that users want to be able to access even using /usr/bin/mail, and some larger maildir mailboxes (less critical, or high volume - e.g. mailing lists). How is that possible? Thanks, -- Tom P.S. Thanks again, Timo and rest of developers for this big piece of code - I maintain Dovecot 0.99 in another place and it's by far the most useful IMAP server yet. -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.

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[Dovecot] Shared maildirs with symlinking
by Gauthier Vandemoortele 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hello, I try to set up a shared maildir with symbolink links, but it doesn't work. The main user, from which I would share a mailbox, creates a mailbox named "Commun" with thunderbird. I see on the file system from the server that a directory .Commun is created in his ~/Maildir/ and that the file ~/Maildir/.subscriptions has now such an entry. Right. In ~/Maildir/Commun the permissions are /cur 700 /new 700 /tmp 700 .customflags 600 .imap.index 600 .imap.index.data 600 .imap.index.log 600 .imap.index.tree 600 dovecot-uidlist 600 and as owner MainUser/users (I work on a slackware 10, all the users have by default the group users.) So, I change all the rights to 770 for directories and 660 for other files (I don't forget .Commun itself) Now the other user ; he creates also a folder named "Commun", so that such an entry exists in .subscriptions. As admin, I delete his folder ~/Maildir/.Commun, and create a symbolink link ~OtherUser/Maildir/.Commun pointing to ~MainUser/Maildir/.Commun Now MainUser moves a mail in his folder Commun, always with thunderbird ; OtherUser sees now a message in the "same" folder, but he can't read it. In fact, Thunderbird displays a little icon but without textuel information, like subject, or so. If OtherUser clicks on it, the mailer hangs indefinitly. It's logical, the file created in ~MainUser/Maildir/.Commun has 600 as permissions. On the other hand, OtherUser can move or create a file in his folder Commun, but MainUser does'nt see it, I suppose because his index is not updated. I had read in http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders that : It's important to have dovecot-shared file created in the shared maildir with the permissions and group ID you want to have access to the mailbox. Dovecot uses the same permissions and GID when it creates index files, dovecot-uidlist file, new mail files, etc. With my experience, it seems that Dovecot creates the file regardless of the permissions of the shared folder. Can someone say how to resolve that ? I use dovecot-0.99.11 Thanks in advance, -- Gauthier Vandemoortele <gauthier.vandemoortele(a)skynet.be> ... Un jeune sur dix qui sait pas lire, ça en fait neuf sur dix qui lisent des conneries. (Brèves de comptoir - J-M Gourio)

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[Dovecot] Loading messages
by Gabriel Granger 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Thanks to all for pointing out the Thunderbird bug workaround, I've got another question Some of my users are complaining that when they select a message, the email client says "Loading Message" and either takes a long time to display a small message or does not display the message at all. Its odd becuase it seems that larger message on these users machines seem to open more quickly then the small 1Kb - 15Kb messages. Looking a little further on the messages that wont open they all seem to be very small in size. Is this a common issue? or something i need to tweak on the dovecot.conf or on the client side? Gabe

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[Dovecot] problems with migration to Maildir
by F. Even 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

I'm attempting to use Maildir and mbox together until I can finish migrating all mailboxes and figure out issues I'm having with a couple other mailboxes. But, I want to officially start using Maildir as the primary msg. store. Now...when I configure Dovecot as follows, it creates new folders in the ~/mail folder, which is where my mboxes reside: #default_mail_env = #default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=~/mbox #default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=~/mbox #default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir #namespace private { # separator = / # inbox = yes # prefix = # location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox #} #namespace private { # separator = / # prefix = "Maildir/" # location = maildir:~/Maildir #} namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes location = maildir:~/Maildir } namespace private { separator = / location = mbox:~/mail } I would like to have access to the mbox hierarchy, but I want all new folders by default created in ~/Maildir. How do I go about acheiving this? Thanks, Frank

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test65 and ldap auth
by KATOH Yasufumi 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Hi, Does 1.0-test65 work with ldap auth? The log is: dovecot: Mar 15 20:59:32 Error: child 13676 (auth) killed with signal 11 Info log is: dovecot: Mar 15 20:59:19 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test65 starting up dovecot: Mar 15 20:59:32 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AGthcm1hQGhhcnAuZ3I uanAAU2FncmFkbzAy dovecot: Mar 15 20:59:36 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login [127.0.0.1] linux kernel 2.6.10, glibc 2.3.2 OpenLDAP 2.2.23 -- karma(a)jazz.email.ne.jp / KATOH Yasufumi

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[Dovecot] Auto Create Folders
by Chris L. Franklin 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Is there any way to addon the ability to have dovecot auto create imap folders for a user ? -- Chris L. Franklin

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[Dovecot] Re: Warning, newbie!
by Pete 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

To make things clearer, this is where I am at now when I login from Mutt. FreeBSD 4.11 Dovecot -0.99.13 Postfix current Mar 18 09:28:15 slippery dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Mar 18 11:10:38 slippery imap(pete): We couldn't drop root group privileges Mar 18 11:10:38 slippery dovecot: child 97190 (imap) returned error 89 -- Pete http://milneweb.com http://nomorevirus.com

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[Dovecot] Moving from 0.99 to 1.0-stable
by Jim Trigg 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

What is involved in migrating from 0.99 to 1-stable? (I'd be creating a FreeBSD port to work with, but the main question I have is what would need to be done to configuration files.) Thanks, Jim -- Jim Trigg, Lord High Everything Else O- /"\ Hostmaster, Huie Kin family website \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN Verger and System Administrator, X HELP CURE HTML MAIL All Saints Church - Sharon Chapel / \

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[Dovecot] error
by Pete 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Hi, I am getting this error in my syslog when I try to access with Mutt. Mar 18 09:06:55 slippery imap(pete): We couldn't drop root group privileges This is more difficult to get running that I expected but I will stick with it a little longer. -- Pete http://milneweb.com http://nomorevirus.com

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[Dovecot] postfix + SMTP AUTH using DOVECOT AUTH DAEMON
by Ing. Alejandro Rodriguez 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

hi ppl I'm the new member of the list. Looking at recent messages look like there is a way to do SMTP AUTH in postfix using the Dovecot AUTH daemon. Currently my Dovecot installation auth again PAM (local users) and a simple shadow file (for virtual users, I plan to move to MYSQL later). I don't want to have different databases one for dovecot a one for SASL. Where I can found the POSTFIX patch, or better, some kind of helper daemon for Postfix. thx A

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[Dovecot] Namespaces and subscriptions
by Chris Wakelin 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

I've got a problem with subscriptions in 1.0-stable when migrating from UW-IMAP. I've modified the SUBSCRIPTION_FILE_NAME entries as suggested in the Wiki http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration and included the "~/mail/" etc. hidden namespaces. The .mailboxlist files contain entries like "~/mail/somefolder" and the clients have "~/mail/" set as a prefix. In UW-IMAP: xyz LSUB "" "*" * LSUB () "/" ~/mail/somefolder xyz LSUB "~/mail/" "*" * LSUB () "/" ~/mail/somefolder Now with Dovecot: xyz LSUB "" "*" * LSUB () "/" "~/mail/somefolder" xyz LSUB "~/mail/" "*" * LSUB () "/" "~/mail/~/mail/somefolder" In other words, Dovecot is prepending the namespace to the list of folders stored in .mailboxlist. This causes Thunderbird to show the folders as -~ - mail | somefolder which are accessible. Squirrelmail gets completely confused and tries to display "~/mail/~/mail/somefolder" (but works with the prefix set to ""). Am I missing something? I tried Geo's empty namespace patch, just in case that would help, but it didn't. Best Wishes, Chris --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin(a)reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094

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[Dovecot] Warning, newbie!
by Pete 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Greetings again all, <snip> I am a Postfix/Courier-IMAP user and am interested in Dovecot. I have install Dovecot via FBSD ports. I have got to the part where I can telnet in to the server. </snip> I guess I ought to backup a little, now that I have the above resolved. I am wanting/wondering about using Dovecot with Postfix. I assume some of you have done this. Have you any thoughts, comments, how-to -- Pete http://milneweb.com http://nomorevirus.com

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[Dovecot] Warning, newbie!
by Pete 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Greetings All, I am a Postfix/Courier-IMAP user and am interested in Dovecot. I have install Dovecot via FBSD ports. I have got to the part where I can telnet in to the server. -bash-2.05b$ telnet 192.168.1.61 143 Trying 192.168.1.61... Connected to 192.168.1.61. Escape character is '^]'. * OK dovecot ready. x login pete testing * BAD [ALERT] Plaintext authentication is disabled, but your client sent password in plaintext anyway.If anyone was listening, the password was exposed. x NO Plaintext authentication disabled. x logout * BYE Logging out x OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. -bash-2.05b$ I am afraid I dont know what to do from here. Anyone care to assist me? Thanks, -- Pete http://milneweb.com http://nomorevirus.com

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[Dovecot] 1.0-test65
by Timo Sirainen 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

http://dovecot.org/test/ If dovecot-auth was crashing with you, this release should fix it. I don't know when it did though, I just applied a patch from Andrey Panin with that description :) Fixed also another dovecot-auth crash with Solaris and maybe some other systems. Contains the first attempt of a Dovecot LDA. It's still in pretty ugly shape, but it should work, more or less. I wouldn't recommend using it in production yet. There are two ways to use it: 1. As a normal user. The username is taken from passwd. 2. Giving -d <username> option. This connects to dovecot-auth and requests the uid, gid, home, etc. from it. dovecot-auth's master socket is expected to be in /var/run/dovecot/auth-master but you can override this with -a parameter. To actually create the auth-master socket you'll need to add this inside auth { .. } : socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 } } Dovecot LDA also currently needs dovecot-lda.conf file. Everything that is read from it is just dumped into environment variables internally. You should be able to set pretty much all the same settings in there as exists in dovecot.conf. The most important exception is that instead of default_mail_env there's just "mail". Example dovecot-lda.conf would be: # note that namespaces aren't supported yet.. mail = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_read_locks = flock mbox_write_locks = flock # EOF All this goes away once I get the config process implemented. The actual usage goes something like: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d username < mail_file ie. the mail is read from standard input. Any suggestions if the "deliver" name should be changed and maybe moved to /usr/bin/? Another large change is that I created dynamically growing array implementation with possibility to do compile time type checking. The old code was using buffer_t for arrays, but that got pretty ugly. I changed most of those in lib-index/ to the new array API. I'd be happy if someone changed the rest of them since it's pretty boring and time consuming job :) See lib/array.h for explanation how it works. And finally a small advertisement: http://mjr.iki.fi/texts/patentfund

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[Dovecot] corruption and errors in dovecot-stable
by Nicholas Riley 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Hi, We switched from dovecot 0.99.something to 1.0-stable (on FreeBSD 4.10) a few days ago and have been seeing many errors and one corrupted mailbox so far. Almost everyone uses mbox format, and most users primarily use SquirrelMail; I use Apple Mail and Thunderbird, as well as accessing the mailboxes locally with Mutt, and have not noted any visible problems. There have been several of these messages: dovecot: Feb 21 11:40:06 Error: IMAP(njr): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /usr/home/njriley/mail/lists/trac (5308 > 1151) dovecot: Feb 21 22:57:13 Error: IMAP(njr): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /usr/home/njriley/mail/lists/trac (6458 > 1151) dovecot: Feb 22 08:37:03 Error: IMAP(njr): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /usr/home/njriley/mail/lists/reportlab-users (5162 > 3812) Others: dovecot: Feb 22 11:44:17 Error: IMAP(njr): file mbox-sync-parse.c: line 221 (parse_x_uid): assertion failed: (!ctx->sync_ctx->sync_restart) dovecot: Feb 22 11:44:17 Error: child 19931 (imap) killed with signal 6 dovecot: Feb 25 06:26:09 Error: IMAP(kbode): file istream-raw-mbox.c: line 383 (istream_raw_mbox_get_body_size): assertion failed: (rstream->body_offset != (uoff_t)-1) dovecot: Feb 25 06:26:09 Error: child 83423 (imap) killed with signal 6 (I think this refers to the mailbox that was corrupted) dovecot: Feb 25 12:30:40 Error: IMAP(sachs): Transaction log file /home/sachs/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: invalid indexid (1109356120 != 1108933119) dovecot: Feb 25 12:30:40 Error: IMAP(sachs): Corrupted transaction log file /home/sachs/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Extension record update update without intro prefix dovecot: Feb 25 12:30:41 Error: IMAP(sachs): Transaction log file /home/sachs/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted dovecot: Feb 25 12:39:34 Error: IMAP(sachs): Transaction log file /home/sachs/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: invalid indexid (1109356120 != 1108933119) dovecot: Feb 25 12:39:34 Error: IMAP(sachs): Lost transaction log file /home/sachs/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 dovecot: Feb 25 12:39:41 Error: IMAP(sachs): Transaction log file /home/sachs/Mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: invalid indexid (1108933119 != 1109356120) I am currently reinstalling 0.99.14, but it would be nice to be able to switch to a 1.0-derived version again - we have to run two copies of 0.99.x to get what we want. If there is any additional testing I can do to help fix these problems, please let me know. Thanks, -- Nicholas Riley <njriley(a)uiuc.edu> | 4111 Siebel Center Department of Computer Science | 201 N. Goodwin Ave. and Medical Scholars Program | Urbana, IL 61801-2302 Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | +1 217 244 2274

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[Dovecot] Minor documentation bug with 0.99.14
by John Peacock 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

The sample dovecot-example.conf contains these lines: > # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before > # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but > # root. Included doc/mkcert.sh can be used to easily generate self-signed > # certificate, just make sure to update the domains in dovecot-openssl.cnf > #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem > #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem but the aforementioned doc/mkcert.sh contains these lines: > CERTFILE=$SSLDIR/certs/imapd.pem > KEYFILE=$SSLDIR/private/imapd.pem either the script should be changed to reflect the sample config file or vice versa. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748

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[Dovecot] Problems with Outlook 2002 SP3 & Dovecot 0.99.13 Redux
by Md 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Hi, I posted this question a while back and didn't get much response. Since then, I've done a bit more experimenting and wonder if someone can help me move forward towards resolution. The orignal question... > I'm running Dovecot0.99.13 on Fedora Core 3 and things work fine when using either > Thunderbird 1.0 or Outlook Express as IMAP clients. Outlook (2002 SP3) on the other hand > runs incredibly slowly, or just outright hangs. I've discovered that if I delete and recrete .../Maildir in the user account such that the directory exists but is empty, then outlook seems to behave. If on the other-hand, I try to create a folder, with outlook, outlook will hang and the folder won't be created. If I create the folder with another client and then go back to using outlook, outlook will hang. I've taken some network traces and have annotated them here... Starting with an empty "Maildir" Time Source Destination Protocol Info 8.515435 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: * OK dovecot ready. 8.516056 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0000 CAPABILITY 8.516539 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN 8.516733 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0001 LOGIN "xxx" "xxx" 8.594634 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: 0001 OK Logged in. 8.640521 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: + idling 8.640709 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: DONE 8.640983 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: 0002 OK Idle completed. 8.641165 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0003 LIST "" "" 8.641315 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: * LIST (\Noselect) "." "" 8.642387 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0004 LIST "" "INBOX" 8.642956 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." INBOX 8.657424 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0005 LSUB "" "*" 8.657925 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: 0005 OK Lsub completed. 8.660627 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0006 IDLE 8.660973 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: + idling Now try to create a sub-folder using outlook: 0.000000 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: DONE 0.000587 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: 0006 OK Idle completed. 0.000910 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0008 IDLE 0.001113 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: + idling And there outlook just hangs. Killing outlook and starting it again gives this trace: 5.110260 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 TCP 1953 > imap [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 Win=64240 Len=0 MSS=1460 5.111826 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: * OK dovecot ready. 5.112139 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0000 CAPABILITY 5.112600 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN 5.112798 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0001 LOGIN "xxx" "xxx" 5.127237 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: 0001 OK Logged in. 5.135355 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0002 IDLE 5.137334 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: + idling 5.138060 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: DONE 5.138273 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: 0002 OK Idle completed. 5.138505 192.168.73.1 192.168.73.3 IMAP Request: 0004 IDLE 5.138646 192.168.73.3 192.168.73.1 IMAP Response: + idling And there outlook just hangs again. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Md

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[Dovecot] imap-login zombies
by Robin Breathe 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Running dovecot-0.99.13 on Solaris9/Sparc with ~25k users, we are having regularly recurring problems with large numbers imap-login/pop3-login drones, cycling on poll(). Over the course of 1-2 days, the number of such processes slowly rises to >1000, exhausts resources, and necessitates that dovecot be restarted (having killed all current active and zombie child processes). Nothing of interest seems to be logged with the possible exception of a reasonably high number of aborted logins (~10/hour). Can anyone offer any guidance as to how to track down this bug and help get it resolved? Any help would be much appreciated, as we would very much like to see this resolved in the 0.99 branch. Regards, Robin

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth hangs with IO leak
by Alan Tam 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Hi dovecot, I am using the debian dovecot packages on a system running LDAP. My /etc/pam.d/common-* looks like this, which simply means try /etc/passwd first, and try LDAP using the same password if it is failed. account [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so account required pam_ldap.so use_first_pass account required pam_permit.so auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so auth required pam_ldap.so use_first_pass auth required pam_permit.so session [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so session required pam_ldap.so use_first_pass session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0002 session required pam_permit.so When many LDAP users login, /var/log/auth.log shows many (expected) error like: (note "pam_unix") Feb 3 18:16:15 eta dovecot-auth: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=127.0.0.1 Feb 3 18:16:19 eta dovecot-auth: (pam_unix) check pass; user unknown After recent upgrades from probably 0.99.10 to 0.99.13, these lines begin to appear in /var/log/mail.log: Feb 3 16:31:00 eta dovecot-auth: Login process has too old (123s) requests, killing it. Feb 3 16:31:00 eta dovecot-auth: Login process has too old (124s) requests, killing it. And some more like this, which shows the problem: Feb 3 16:45:23 eta dovecot-auth: I/O leak: 0x8054940 (13) Feb 3 16:45:23 eta dovecot-auth: I/O leak: 0x8054940 (14) Feb 3 16:45:23 eta dovecot-auth: I/O leak: 0x8054940 (15) The problem can be solved by changing /etc/pam.d/dovecot to: auth required pam_ldap.so account required pam_ldap.so session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel umask=0002 session required pam_ldap.so This change means PAM not fail auth for /etc/passwd again. I think dovecot has some problem dealing with the pam_unix + pam_ldap configuration. Do you have any idea? I am Cc-ing this message to the corresponding bug in Debian BTS. -- Regards, Alan

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[Dovecot] Bit of a Newbie Question
by Jud 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Apologies in advance - I'm sure there's something quite obvious I'm not doing correctly, but since I'm unable to resolve the problem myself.... I've installed Dovecot 99.14 on FreeBSD-CURRENT using the Dovecot FreeBSD port. My "network" consists of a cable modem connected to a router which is in turn connected (only) to my computer. My ISP assigns a dynamic IP address. I have ddclient set up to sync the dynamic IP to my hostname and MX via dyndns.org. Local operations (local delivery via Postfix or copying/moving/deleting with Thunderbird) work fine. Mail delivery from remote machines does not seem to work via either IMAP or IMAP-SSL. (That is, test e-mails I send from this [Fastmail] account to my local IMAP server never reach their destination.) Enabling port forwarding on my router for ports 993 and 143 has made no difference. What should I be doing to make this work correctly? Jud

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[Dovecot] Strange behaviour with moving mail
by Remy Zandwijk 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi All, Sorry to bother you again. I am not too familiar with IMAP yet, so maybe I am asking stupid questions. Here goes anyway: In our (Dovecot 1.0-stable) setup, we have two namespaces: the default namespace, which location is '/var/mailstore/1%u/%u' and the "Mailstorage" namespace, which location is '~/.Mailstorage/'. Now we create a folder called 'Test' in the default namespace and the "Mailstorage" namespace. As far as I know this is possible and not a strange thing to do. When moving an email from the first 'Test' folder to the other 'Test' folder, it appears that everything works like expected, but when refreshing the mailbox, the message is still in the original folder. This happens with a number of different mailclients (which are configured with an empty namespace setting). I guess Dovecot doesn't look at the namespace in which the mail folder is. Is this a Dovecot bug or is this normal behaviour? Best regards, Remy B.T.W: When moving the mail, this is the IMAP conversation: 00029 UID COPY 4 TEST * 2 EXISTS * 2 RECENT 00029 OK Copy completed. 00030 UID STORE 4 +Flags.silent (\Deleted) 00030 OK Store completed.

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[Dovecot] Is it possible to regenerate the index files?
by Joakim Verona 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Is it possible to regenerate the index files, on other conditions than the mbox file being read? For instance, it would be nice if I could regenerate the index for a specific mbox whenever procmail delivers mail to it. If theres no existing solution, would it be possible to make a small script with something like "nc" that could send an imap command to dovecot, so that dovecot would rebuild its index for that mbox? If so, which imap command triggers an index rebuild? -- Joakim Verona www.verona.se

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[Dovecot] Visibility of .subscriptions and .customflags
by justin 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi, I upgraded to test65 from 0.99 (mostly to get the namespace feature) and now it seems my .subscriptions and .customflags are showing up as mail folders in my IMAP client (Eudora). If I try and open those folders, of course I get an error. How can I configure dovecot so that these aren't displayed to my IMAP client? I looked through about 6 months of acrhives and couldn't find it mentioned anywhere. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] logging
by F. Even 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

I'm curious about exactly what this means in my log: Mar 13 10:56:20 cerebus dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected [130.94.242.20] Mar 13 10:56:51 cerebus last message repeated 177 times Mar 13 10:57:32 cerebus last message repeated 179 times Now...does Dovecot ONLY log the names of users on successful attempts? Is this "Disconnected" log entry an indication someone ran a username/password attack against the imap server and failed to authenticate? If so, is there any way to make this a little more verbose, so I can perhaps see what names, etc. the annoying idiot is throwing against my server....? Thanks.

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Gabriel Granger 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi All, Bit the bullet last night and switched off UW-IMAP and turned on Dovecot. With any migration I've got some teething problems and hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. I tested the system using apple's Mail.app which worked fine, no problems at all, but it seems that most of my users are getting problems, i suspect Mail.app is hiding these messages from me. All my users are using ThunderBird 1.0 lastest stable release. Some messages in their IMAP folders are producing the following error. The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid BODY[_] parameter: Missing '>' in '<16384.-14781>'. it occurs on the same messages in the users email client but happens randomly, it does not stop you from viewing the message, its just pops up with this error. I'm current using IMAP over SSL and using mbox not maildir for IMAP Any ideas or hep would be great as I'd rather not have to roll back out to UW-IMAP Gabe

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Re: [Dovecot] aha! (was apple mail vs. v0.99)
by sean finney 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

hey timo, On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:32:35PM +0200, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > > i set: > > > > mailbox_check_interval = 0 > > This has been the default since 0.99.5 which was released over 2 years > ago. How old version are you using? :) Or had you changed the default? i had indeed changed the default, thinking that it would be a nice feature to turn on. when the problem first surfaced, i immediately thought of this option. however, since the problem was that applemail wasn't seing the new mail, and this was an option to notify the client that there *was* new mail, i guess common sense got the better of me and i forgot this was something i had changed... > > mailbox_idle_check_interval = 0 > > This shouldn't matter because OSX Mail doesn't use IDLE. Probably better > idea to turn it back on or clients using IDLE don't see new mails (I > think?) aha. well then i'll have to try turning that back on :) thanks, sean

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[Dovecot] corrupted inboxes
by Josh Burley 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi all, Two users on our system have recently had trouble reading their inbox, and it seems to be a result of their inbox getting corrupted. In the most recent case, their Mailbox file (in /home/eric/Mailbox in this case), has the following as the first line: cnw.igmg-- Here's a piece of the logs below... if you look for "eric", there's a successfully delivery, followed a bit later by a POP attempt by "eric" that returns that the Mailbox isn't in mbox format. Any ideas? .josh Mar 11 14:59:04 core postfix/local[8203]: 27D18279857E: to=<eric(a)kuci.org>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) Mar 11 14:59:04 core postfix/qmgr[7238]: 27D18279857E: removed Mar 11 14:59:06 core postfix/smtpd[8199]: disconnect from user-0c8gg6h.cable.mindspring.com[24.136.64.209] Mar 11 14:59:13 core pop3-login: Login: gtt [::ffff:67.120.76.169] Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtpd[7575]: connect from webhost2.ethr.net[208.37.25.24] Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtpd[7575]: setting up TLS connection from webhost2.ethr.net[208.37.25.24] Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtpd[7575]: TLS connection established from webhost2.ethr.net[208.37.25.24]: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtpd[7575]: 242E2279857E: client=webhost2.ethr.net[208.37.25.24] Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/cleanup[8201]: 242E2279857E: message-id=<bb165712392a2b4375d6da0efa3c046c(a)www.ethr.net> Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/qmgr[7238]: 242E2279857E: from=<nobody(a)webhost2.ethr.net>, size=1527, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/cleanup[8201]: 6F63A2798580: message-id=<bb165712392a2b4375d6da0efa3c046c(a)www.ethr.net> Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/local[8203]: 242E2279857E: to=<r-ethr(a)kuci.org>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (forwarded as 6F63A2798580) Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/qmgr[7238]: 6F63A2798580: from=<nobody(a)webhost2.ethr.net>, size=1653, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtpd[7575]: disconnect from webhost2.ethr.net[208.37.25.24] Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/qmgr[7238]: 242E2279857E: removed Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtp[8250]: setting up TLS connection to blade.butterzone.net Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtp[8250]: verify error:num=19:self signed certificate in certificate chain Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtp[8250]: Peer verification: CommonName in certificate does not match: tloin.butterzone.net != blade.butterzone.net Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtp[8250]: Peer certficate could not be verified Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/smtp[8250]: 6F63A2798580: to=<r(a)butterzone.net>, orig_to=<r-ethr(a)kuci.org>, relay=blade.butterzone.net[208.37.27.136], delay=0, status=sent (250 Ok: queued as 4783AC2C130) Mar 11 14:59:18 core postfix/qmgr[7238]: 6F63A2798580: removed Mar 11 14:59:23 core pop3(eric): File isn't in mbox format: /home/eric/Mailbox Mar 11 14:59:24 core pop3-login: Login: eric [::ffff:128.195.131.49] Mar 11 14:59:24 core pop3(eric): File isn't in mbox format: /home/eric/Mailbox Mar 11 14:59:24 core pop3(eric): File isn't in mbox format: /home/eric/Mailbox Mar 11 14:59:24 core pop3(eric): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-03-11 14:59:24] Mar 11 14:59:49 core pop3-login: Login: eric [::ffff:128.195.131.49] Mar 11 14:59:49 core pop3(eric): File isn't in mbox format: /home/eric/Mailbox Mar 11 14:59:49 core pop3(eric): File isn't in mbox format: /home/eric/Mailbox Mar 11 14:59:49 core pop3(eric): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2005-03-11 14:59:49] Mar 11 14:59:53 core imap-login: Login: jeanie [::ffff:128.195.131.2] Mar 11 14:59:58 core last message repeated 5 times

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Re: [Dovecot] aha! (was apple mail vs. v0.99)
by sean finney 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

hello! On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:08:39PM +0200, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > From: "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <D.Mierzejewski(a)icm.edu.pl> > > According to RFC3501 (is this the right one?), NOOP can be used to check > for new mail, but it doesn't say that the server should return status > data every time NOOP is issued. i think the problem is that when the server asynchronously reports to the client that there's new mail apple mail gets confused. then noop doesn't report new mail. also, it seems that this is also the cause of apple mail having to re-download the entire mailbox every time it checks for new mail. > From: Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> > > How did you disable them? I think enabling oe6-fetch-no-newmail > workaround should help. i set: mailbox_check_interval = 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval = 0 which did the trick (i already had all the client workarounds enabled). thanks, sean

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