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Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth
by Dennis Clarke 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

> On 2010-08-16 07:16:46 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: >> Maybe dovecot could use the "nobody" user if dovenull doesn't exist? > > you could just read the warning message, create the user and stop > worrying? > > and no ... it shouldnt fallback to nobody. a broken set up is a broken > setup and needs to be fixed. > Wow. Well said. -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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[Dovecot] dovecot: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=14267
by Jerrale G 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

I don't know if dovecot 2.0 will have this already or not but, when dovecot is stopped or started, it would be nice to have the PID reported in the log for various uses. Jerrale Gayle SC Senior Admin

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[Dovecot] Split number of imap-login and pop3-login processes
by Mischa Peters 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hi All, Is there a way to define the number for imap-login processes and pop3-login processes separately? My mail server is getting more IMAP clients and much less POP3 clients these days and it continues to run out of authentication processes. I have been increasing login_max_processes_count the last couple of days and I noticed that it's split between IMAP and POP3. All 129 imap-login processes are tied up while there are only 3 of the 129 pop3-login processes in use. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanx!! Mischa mail:~ # dovecot --version 1.2.12 mail:~ # dovecot -n # 1.2.12: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64 zfs base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen(default): *,[::]:143 listen(imap): *,[::]:143 listen(pop3): *,[::]:110 ssl_listen(default): *,[::]:993 ssl_listen(imap): *,[::]:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *,[::]:995 ssl_ca_file: /usr/local/etc/certs/gd_bundle.crt ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/certs/cert.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/certs/key.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_processes_count: 256 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 6 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 144 first_valid_gid: 144 mail_access_groups: postfix mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/virtual/%u/ 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 auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix @mail:~ # grep -v '^ *$#.*$\?$' dovecot-mysql.conf driver = mysql default_pass_scheme = CRYPT connect = host=***** dbname=postfix user=postfix password=******** password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username='%u' AND active='1' user_query = SELECT maildir, 144 AS uid, 144 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username='%u' AND active='1'

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[Dovecot] Forcing users to change passwords
by Marc Perkel 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Suppose I have users with a default password like "change-my-password" and I want to detect users who haven't changed their password and alert (nag) them about changing it. How would I do that?

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[Dovecot] Address book for 2.0?
by Jerrale G 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

2.0 could include a directory service, like MS Exchange, where people's address books within IMAP clients could be stored on the server and retrievable by the clients. Its a headache for users to roam from pc to pc and not have someone's address stored locally on another. Jerrale G SC Senior Admin

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Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth
by Dennis Clarke 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

> On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote: > >> Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: >> dovenull >> >> Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why >> it is necessary. > > I added now to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 : > > - Dovecot uses two internal users now by default: dovenull and dovecot. > You need to create the dovenull user or change default_login_user > setting. > Dovecot 2.x seems to be very close to release grade. Could you provide a guess as to when it will be released so that I can plan downtime for the upgrade on my production servers? -- Dennis Clarke dclarke(a)opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke(a)blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris

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Re: [Dovecot] turn Usernames in Lowercase
by Leander S. 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi again, I solved the issue. Thanks any way and excuse the noise. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables Regards ________________________________________________________________________ Hi, I'm just curious how to force usernames to be modified to lowercase letters if one mixes uper and lower case letters to one salad? Cause my SpamAssassin gets confuesd and treats different spellings of Usernames as different Users - which is uncool. I've heard about something you can add in your dovecot.config to enforce lowercase letters only. Thanks

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[Dovecot] turn Usernames in Lowercase
by Leander S. 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi, I'm just curious how to force usernames to be modified to lowercase letters if one mixes uper and lower case letters to one salad? Cause my SpamAssassin gets confuesd and treats different spellings of Usernames as different Users - which is uncool. I've heard about something you can add in your dovecot.config to enforce lowercase letters only. Thanks

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[Dovecot] Fatal: dict_driver_register(mysql): Already registered
by Jerrale G 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Warning: Corrected permissions for login directory /var/run/dovecot/login ls -l /var/run/dovecot srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Aug 10 15:02 auth-master srw------- 1 mail mail 0 Aug 10 15:02 auth-worker.2774 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 10 15:02 dict-server lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 10 15:02 dovecot.conf -> /etc/dovecot.conf drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 4096 Aug 10 15:02 login -rw------- 1 root root 5 Aug 10 15:02 master.pid Everything works, eventually. All mail will sooner or later get delivered, using dovecot LDA from postfix, but these errors rampage the log several times. I recently added managesieve, expires, and finished the quota which I thought was achived by simply having quota_rule as a result of mysql. Aug 10 15:07:57 server1 dovecot: IMAP(someone(a)sheltoncomputers.com): read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Timeout after 30 seconds Aug 10 15:07:57 server1 dovecot: dict: Fatal: dict_driver_register(mysql): Already registered Aug 10 15:08:09 server1 last message repeated 4428 times On another note, Thunderbird is starting to get on my nerves, sending this message before I was finished. Here is the relevant config: dovecot-mysql query: user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/home/mail/', mailboxes.domain, '/', mailboxes.username, '/') AS home, CONCAT('/home/mail/', mailboxes.domain, '/', mailboxes.username, '/sieve/', mailboxes.username, '.sieve') as sieve, CONCAT('/home/mail/', mailboxes.domain, '/', mailboxes.username, '/sieve/') as sieve_dir, CONCAT('/home/mail/', mailboxes.domain, '/', mailboxes.username, '/mail/') AS maildir, uid AS uid, gid AS gid, CONCAT('maildir:storage=', ROUND(mailboxes.quota/1200), 'M') AS quota_rule, 'Trash:ignore' AS quota_rule2 FROM mail.mailboxes WHERE username = '%n' AND domain = '%d' AND active = '1' dovecot.conf: protocol managesieve { listen = localhost:2001 managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot managesieve_logout_format = bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login } auth_debug = no auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf # scheme = cram-md5 } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf } user = mail socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth user = postfix group = postfix mode = 0660 } master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0666 } } } dict { # # NOTE: dict process currently runs as root, so this file will be owned as root. expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dict-expire.conf quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dict-quota.conf } plugin { quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict expire = Trash 7 Trash/* 7 Spam 30 expire_dict = proxy::expire expire_altmove = * 2555 sieve_global_path = /home/mail/sieve/global.sieve sieve_global_dir = /home/mail/sieve sieve_dir=/home/mail/%d/%n/sieve } As said, everything works, eventually, but mail delivery is delayed a lot. With The dict {} and expire-related parts commented out, operation has no errors or delays; performance is exceptional with maildir, quota, sieve, and managesieve. I don't think managesieve would patch any part of the dictionary code as it only has to do with another service process, not a plugin; if the patching was to cause problems with other services, for the service definition coding, the other services would have a problem, correct? The expires dictionary mysql table was being correctly used, with one day of use, as there are 10000 records; I'm going to have to revise the mysql indexes for performance in case I am able to fix the dictionary problem. We like the 1.2.13 version of dovecot, as far as security, and wonder how I can find a correct defintion scripting for the dict {}, from a previous version, and merge. We are use to windows compilations. I am skeptical to go to dovecot 2.0 as our services are in production and 2.0 is beta. I have recompiled several times with fresh sources of dovecot 1.2.13, managesieve 0.11.11 patchl, and sieve 1.0.17 as directed by the Dovecot Wiki. Jerrale G, SCA

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Upgrade Manual for 2.0 from 1.2.14 snapshot
by Jerrale G 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Is there a reference manual for changes in configuration between dovecot 1.2.X to 2.0 rc5. I know there is a config upgrade tool but I would rather learn the new changes and then implement them? -- Jerrale G. Jerrale G. SC Senior Admin

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