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[Dovecot] inform users's about new spam
by ckubu 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Hallo evryone! Mailsetup: postfix+dovecot2 with postgres database backend - about 2,000 virtual mailboxes, growing.. New possible spam will be sorted into a users directory named "spam", emails older than 30 day's in that folder will be deleted by using expunge. I would like to inform my users evry two day's (or something like that) about new emails in the spam folder. Can you give me a hint how to handle that ? Are there helpful tools , or have i to wrote my own script, walking through the folders, checking for new emails since last check and finally inform the user if needed. Best wishes Christoph

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[Dovecot] Copying sieve scripts
by Christoph Pleger 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Hello, I am using squirrelmail with avelsieve to edit my filter rules. The filter rules are like this: 1. If the message contains a virus, delete the mail and notify me by email. 2. If the message is spam, deliver it to my spam folder. 3. If the message is from the dovecot mailing list, deliver it to my dovecot folder Yesterday, I created a new user and wanted to let him have rules 1 and 2 like above, only with another destination for email notification. So, I copied my sieve script into the sieve directory of the new user, deleted rule 3, changed the destination for email notification and then called sievec to compile the rule set. But this did not work like expected: Using squirrelmail, I saw that the new user had only rules 1 and 2, but the destination in rule 1 still contains my email address. My own account still has three rules. So, this simple way of copying sieve scripts does not work. Is there another way to copy sieve rules from one user to another? Regards Christoph

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[Dovecot] sql : uid, gid, home ignored ?
by Eric Diaz Fernandez 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Hello, I'm trying to setup a dovecot imap server. version is 2.0.9 I've setup a mysql database using: user_query = \ SELECT home, uid, gid, home as userdb_home, uid as userdb_uid, gid as userdb_gid, \ FROM user WHERE username = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND active = 'Y' password_query = \ SELECT username AS user, password, home as userdb_home, uid as userdb_uid, gid as userdb_gid, home, uid, gid \ FROM user WHERE username = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND active ='Y' (I get the information with and without the userdb_ prefix since I was not sure what was needed) When I login, I see the password_query in the debug log and it says: client out: OK 1 user=theuser home=/home/theuser uid=1000 gid=1000 master in: REQUEST 547880961 10068 1 e6...(hexadecimal stuff) master out: USER 547880961 theuser But in the mail.err log i see: dovecot: imap(theuser): Error: user theuser: Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting) dovecot: imap(theuser): Error: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. The same two lines are also displayed in mail.info and mail.log Further testing (setting mail_uid & mail_gid to a nobody) shown that the home setting was ignored too. The sql example says that uid and gid are supposed to be an override of the mail_uid and mail_gid settings. Any idea of why the columns are ignored ? Thanks in advance, Eric

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[Dovecot] Cooperating with dovecot in its Maildir
by Rob Browning 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

Is it possible to cooperate with dovecot within its Maildir, and if so, what's required? In this particular case, we're thinking of trying to allow notmuch to operate directly on the dovecot Maildir, and at the moment, the only modifications notmuch makes are to change maildir flags. Would locking dovecot-uidlist.lock be sufficient, perhaps via liblockfile? Also, is there some reliable way to detect a dovecot Maildir? For example, are any of the dovecot-* files guaranteed to exist all the time? Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4

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[Dovecot] How do I do this with mdbox?
by Odhiambo Washington 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

In my life with Maildir, mails were stored as single files, each mail per file. It was pretty easy to resend an e-mail from a Maildir folder to another address, by causing the mail to be re-injected into my MTA (Exim) queue for processing: I'd use a very simple shell script to achieve the above: #!/bin/sh email=$(find $*) { for x in ${email}; do sendmail president(a)egypt.gov < ${x}; done } Now, with mdbox container/storage, it beats me how to achieve the same. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!

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[Dovecot] bsdauth + dovecot-sieve
by Gonzalo Rodriguez 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Hi all, I have a problem with my dovecot/postfix configuration: here is my dovecot -n # /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.1.20: /etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 128 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 768). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings # OS: OpenBSD 4.7 amd64 ffs base_dir: /var/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecotcert.pem login_dir: /var/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_user: _dovecot mail_location: maildir:/var/www/datos/correo/qbit.com.ar/%n:LAYOUT=fs mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh lda: mail_plugins: cmusieve postmaster_address: postmaster(a)bla.com log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver-errors.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log auth default: mechanisms: login plain verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: bsdauth userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/www/datos/correo/bla.com/%n socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: _postfix group: _postfix master: path: /var/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: sieve_global_dir: /var/sieve sieve_global_path: /var/sieve/global-default.sieve sieve: /var/sieve/%n.sieve I use bsdauth to system users auth againts Active-Directory, now I want to create vacation mails with dovecot-sieve, but have issues. Can I use in dovecot deliver (master.cf) with parameters -d if I use bsdauth to auth without passdb (the are system users)? if I put this in my master.cf dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} I get: deliver(prueba2(a)bla.com): Jan 25 15:17:24 Error: Auth lookup returned failure If I change the -d ${recipient} for -a ${recipient} dovecot use the user (vmail) who run dovecot to storage the storage: /var/www/datos/correo/bla.com/vmail/INBOX, so I get... deliver(vmail): Jan 25 15:54:46 Info: maildir: data=/var/www/datos/correo/qbit.com.ar/vmail:LAYOUT=fs deliver replace %n for the user who run dovecot, so don't save the mail in deliver(vmail): Jan 25 15:54:46 Info: maildir: data=/var/www/datos/correo/qbit.com.ar/prueba2:LAYOUT=fs This works properly if a use virtual_transport = virtual. some idea? cheers.

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[Dovecot] Sharing user folders doesn't work when users have periods in names.
by ian+dovecot＠comtek.co.uk 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

I am using period as an IMAP separator with Maildir directories and I cannot share folders where the user has a period in their name. Suppose I log in as 'some.user' and do: SETACL INBOX mailtest(a)example.co.uk +lrwstipekxacd /var/mail/virtual/users/some.user/Maildir/dovecot-acl is created, with appropriate contents and shared-mailboxes.db gains an entry for 'shared/shared-boxes/user/mailtest@example.co.uk/some.user@example.co.uk'. mailtest is simply unable to see a new folder. As mailtest 'a LIST "" "Users.*" ' is empty. If I do ' a MYRIGHTS Users.some.user.INBOX ' I get 'NO [NONEXISTENT] Mailbox doesn't exist: Users.some.user.INBOX' and, oddly, a new maildir appears: '* LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "Users.some" ' -- it also creates an empty folder structure with a single file /var/mail/virtual/users/some/Maildir/dovecot-acl-list too! Is there a workaround that does not involve rebuilding every user's Maildir with backslash as a separator? Thanks, Ian

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[Dovecot] Dovecot2 + Sieve
by Philipp v. Strobl-Albeg 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Hi, i'm new on sieve, but want to use ist with sogo. The Problem is, that when i set a redirect or vacation rule like: redirect "email(a)example.com"; (real Adress is different) the sieve says the mail would be forwarded, but no mail is sent. (No Action in /var/log/maillog) And because there is no Error-Message it's difficult to search for... Dovecot log ------- Jan 28 10:53:46 lda(ptest(a)pilarkto.com): Debug: sieve: using sieve path for user's script: /var/mail/vhosts/test/.dovecot.sieve Jan 28 10:53:46 lda(ptest(a)pilarkto.com): Debug: sieve: opening script /var/mail/vhosts/test/.dovecot.sieve Jan 28 10:53:46 lda(ptest(a)pilarkto.com): Debug: sieve: script binary /var/mail/vhosts/test/.dovecot.svbin successfully loaded Jan 28 10:53:46 lda(ptest(a)pilarkto.com): Debug: sieve: binary save: not saving binary /var/mail/vhosts/test/.dovecot.svbin, because it is already stored Jan 28 10:53:46 lda(ptest(a)pilarkto.com): Debug: sieve: executing script from /var/mail/vhosts/test/.dovecot.svbin Jan 28 10:53:46 lda(ptest(a)pilarkto.com): Info: sieve: msgid=<4D429227.3000004(a)pilarkto.net>: forwarded to <email(a)example.com> ----- Everything else works fine, except the program "mail". I dont know if there is a coherence but a typical Mailserver-Test "date|mail -s test email(a)example.com" also don't sent a message to postfix. I hope you will held me out or even say me, if this is a bug or a misconfiguration. thanks a lot Philipp

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[Dovecot] dovecot ACL
by PA 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Hi in Dovecot 2.x with virtual domains, is there a way specify what domains can create shared directories and who can't? For example I have 3 domains, domain1.com, domain2.com and domain3.com. Let's say I only want domain1.com's users to create shared folders how can I go about doing this. Thanks, Paul

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[Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders
by Seasoul 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Hi, I am running Dovecot Version 1.0.15on a Debian server, with postfix and postfixadmin. My mailbox base is /var/mail/vmail When I send an email to a user1(a)domain.com for the first time, the user "mail" creates a set of dovecot folders under /var/mail/vmail/ user1(a)domain.com/ and my new emails are found in /var/mail/vmail/ user1(a)domain.com/new When I test my server using telnet (telnet domain.com 110), I can log in fine as a user1, but when I type "LIST", it tells me there are no emails. And I realize a new set of dovecot folders were created under /var/mail/vmail/user1/ ! The folders are created by the user "user1". Obviously the folder "new" under that is empty, since my emails received are in /var/mail/vmail/user1(a)domain.com/new and not /var/mail/vmail/user1/new . Therefore, connecting with an email client via POP also shows an empty inbox. I am lost as to what to do to fix this, and how to let the server know that pop access should be looking into /var/mail/vmail/user1(a)domain.com/ instead of /var/mail/vmail/user1/ . Hopefully someone on this list will be able to save me from my misery :) Cheers Sea

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