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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1.x and 1.2.x differencies
by Veiko Kukk 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Hello, I have been using successfully Dovecot 1.1.x for about a year now. It has been very stable. Now I'm uprading that same system to newer and more powerful hardware and I was wondering whether it is good idea or not to switch to Dovecot 1.2.x series. Could anybody direct me to feature comparision document or explain here main differences betweeen thos two branches? -- Veiko

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[Dovecot] LDA to address extensions
by Martijn de Munnik 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Hi List, I'm trying to make dovecot deliver messages to sam+extension(a)example.com to the imap folder 'extension' of the user 'sam'. I've configured postfix with these dovecot as LDA: mailbox_command = /opt/redknot/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f "$SENDER" -d "$USER" -m "$EXTENSION" -a "$RECIPIENT" recipient_delimiter = + Sam is a local system user so I don't want to use virtual_transport (I think). I've read http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix but so far without success. # 1.2.11: /etc/opt/redknot/dovecot.conf Warning: There is no way to login to this server: disable_plaintext_auth=yes, ssl=no, no non-plaintext auth mechanisms. # OS: SunOS 5.11 sun4v log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log ssl: no login_dir: /opt/redknot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /opt/redknot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_max_processes_count: 10 max_mail_processes: 10 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)redknot.nl mail_plugins: sieve mail_plugin_dir: /opt/redknot/lib/dovecot/lda sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /opt/redknot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: passdb: driver: pam args: other userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen master: path: /opt/redknot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: sieve_before: /etc/opt/redknot/sieve/before sieve_after: /etc/opt/redknot/sieve/after I know about the warning, this dovecot is only used as LDA, not for imap or pop3. thanks, Martijn YoungGuns Kasteleinenkampweg 7b 5222 AX 's-Hertogenbosch T. 073 623 56 40 F. 073 623 56 39 www.youngguns.nl KvK 18076568 YoungGuns Kasteleinenkampweg 7b 5222 AX 's-Hertogenbosch T. 073 623 56 40 F. 073 623 56 39 www.youngguns.nl KvK 18076568

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[Dovecot] \Noselect on virtual folders
by Matthias Rieber 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hi, I've some virtual folders which seem a bit odd when they are listed. a LIST "virtual.spam." "*" * LIST (\Noselect \HasNoChildren) "." "virtual.spam." * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "virtual.spam.unchecked" * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "virtual.spam.disagree" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "virtual.spam.disagree.dspam" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "virtual.spam.disagree.spamassassin" a OK List completed. This seems ok, virtual.spam and virtual.spam.disagree can't contain mails. I'm wondering if virtual.spam should have the flag \HasChildren instead if \HasNoChildren, but this doesn't cause trouble... a LIST (SUBSCRIBED) "virtual.spam." "*" * LIST (\Subscribed \Noselect) "." "virtual.spam.disagree.spamassassin" * LIST (\Subscribed \Noselect) "." "virtual.spam.disagree.dspam" * LIST (\Subscribed \Noselect) "." "virtual.spam.unchecked" a OK List completed. When I list the folder with (SUBSCRIBED), the virtual folders are all flagged with \Noselect. This appears at all virtual folders. All other folders don't have the \Noselect flag. On the Nokia N900 I can't enter all virtual folders. The log shows that the n900 always list the folders with (SUBSCRIBED). Is this listing the expected behaviour? regards, Matthias

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[Dovecot] Shared mailboxes errors
by Nikita Koshikov 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hello list, I'm implementing shared mailboxes on live system and after enabling acl plugin I got errors in my log: Jun 17 15:50:33 dict: Error: sql dict iterate: Invalid/unmapped path: shared/shared-boxes/anyone/ I have no clue why this happening, users don't know about new functionality they just use imap as before. Also dict database begin to fill up by records like: select * from user_shares; user@domain.com|admin@domain.com|1 But user don't use setacl command. Searching for the list gave http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-April/038664.html , but question seemed still open. So, can someone give point how to fix\avoid this ? One more question, on live system it's hard to debug dovecot with mail_debug=yes for all users, can this option be turn on for individual user? or maybe mail_debug stream can be redirected also for individual user ? dovecot -n # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-gentoo-r4 i686 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.13 log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log protocols: imaps pop3s managesieve ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/imaps.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/imaps.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login login_greeting: Server ready. login_processes_count(default): 50 login_processes_count(imap): 50 login_processes_count(pop3): 5 login_processes_count(managesieve): 5 login_max_processes_count: 2048 max_mail_processes: 2048 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 25 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 25 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 first_valid_uid: 8 last_valid_uid: 8 first_valid_gid: 12 last_valid_gid: 12 mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota trash expire zlib autocreate virtual antispam acl imap_acl mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota trash expire zlib autocreate virtual antispam acl imap_acl mail_plugins(pop3): quota virtual mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_client_workarounds(managesieve): namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:~/data inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: Company/ location: virtual:/var/mail/virtual:INDEX=MEMORY:LAYOUT=maildir++ hidden: yes list: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: shared/%%u/ location: maildir:%%h/data:INDEX=%h/shared/%%u list: children lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)domain.com hostname: mail.domain.com mail_plugins: quota trash expire sieve virtual acl quota_full_tempfail: yes sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log auth default: mechanisms: plain login default_realm: domain.com cache_size: 10240 cache_negative_ttl: 0 user: dovecot_auth username_format: %Lu master_user_separator: * worker_max_count: 50 passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passdb/master.pwd master: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passdb/users.pwd passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passdb/users.pwd userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-userdb-ldap.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 user: mail group: dovecot_auth master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mail group: mail plugin: quota_warning: storage=90%% /etc/dovecot/plugins/quota_warning.sh 90 quota: maildir:Mailbox quota quota_rule: *:storage=500M quota_rule2: Trash:storage=10%% acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acl:cache_secs=3600 acl_shared_dict: proxy::acl trash: /etc/dovecot/plugins/dovecot-trash.conf expire: Trash 30 Spam 30 expire_dict: proxy::expire autocreate: Drafts autocreate2: Sent autocreate3: Spam autocreate4: Trash autosubscribe: Drafts autosubscribe2: Sent autosubscribe3: Spam autosubscribe4: Trash sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve sieve_after: /etc/dovecot/sieve/default-after.sieve sieve_extensions: +notify +spamtest sieve_spamtest_status_type: score sieve_spamtest_status_header: X-Spam-Scan-Score sieve_spamtest_max_value: 10 antispam_trash: Trash antispam_spam: Spam antispam_allow_append_to_spam: no antispam_mail_sendmail: /usr/bin/sa-learn antispam_mail_sendmail_args: -u mail antispam_mail_spam: --spam antispam_mail_notspam: --ham antispam_mail_tmpdir: /tmp dict: expire: sqlite:/etc/dovecot/plugins/expire.conf acl: sqlite:/etc/dovecot/plugins/acl.conf #cat /etc/dovecot/plugins/acl.conf connect = /var/mail/acl.db map { pattern = shared/shared-boxes/user/$to/$from table = user_shares value_field = dummy fields { from_user = $from to_user = $to } } #cat /etc/dovecot/acl/.DEFAULT user=admin(a)domain.com lrwstiekxa

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[Dovecot] IMAP Address book ?
by Frank Bonnet 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hello Does anyone knows if it is possible to manage a personnal address book with Dovecot and IMAP ? I mean would it be possible to store it in the IMAP user's space and not in the MUA address book in order to always retrieve it even changing on machine / MUA ? Thanks

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[Dovecot] basic conf error? v1.2.11
by Justin Krejci 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

I just downloaded 1.2.11 and compiled from source including mysql support and using default directory locations. I walked thru the included example conf file and tweaked it out and get an invalid configuration file. I trimmed out all of the commented sections to make the non-default config super easy to navigate during troubleshooting. Remaining config which gives an error of "unknown setting: mechanisms" so I switched it to auth_mechanisms and then get the following when starting dovecot: Error: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf line 18: Unknown section type (section changed in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf at line 14) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf ##################### protocols = imap pop3 listen = <SCRUBBED IP> disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl = no login_processes_count = 100 login_max_processes_count = 500 login_max_connections = 512 login_greeting = DovecotProxy08 ready. protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } protocol lda { } #LINE 14 auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@/$!&\ auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { #LINE 18 args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf } user = root } dict { } plugin { } ##################### Any ideas what is wrong here? It seems like the example conf file is not correct. Yes the dovecot-sql.conf file exists.

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[Dovecot] ZFS Index corruption and Connection reset by peer
by Philippe Chevalier 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hello, I'm currently using dovecot 1.2.11 on FreeBSD 8.0 with ZFS filesystems. So far, so good, it works quite nicely, but I have a couple glitches. Each user has his own zfs partition, mounted on /home/<user> (easier to set per user quotas) and mail is stored in their home. From day one, when people check their mail via imap, a lot of indexes corruption occured : dovecot: IMAP(<user>@domain.org): Corrupted transaction log file /home/<user>/Mail/Maildir/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 13: record size too small +(type=0x0, offset=5560, size=0) (sync_offset=5652) dovecot: IMAP(<user>@domain.org): fscking index file /home/<user>/Mail/Maildir/INBOX/dovecot.index dovecot: IMAP(<user>@domain.org): /home/<user>/Mail/Maildir/INBOX/dovecot.index log position went backwards (13,132 < 13,5560) dovecot: IMAP(<user>@domain.org): Transaction log file /home/<user>/Mail/Maildir/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted etc, etc... After some digging, I "solved" this problem with mmap_disable = yes in dovecot.conf. Index corruption doesn't seem to occur anymore. Is this normal? I thought this problem occured only on NFS filesystem and eventually on old versions of ZFS. Hasn't this been fixed? Is there an option in ZFS that would allow mmap calls without corruption. Has it something to do with compression ? The options of the zfs filesystem are : zhome/username type filesystem - zhome/username creation Thu Mar 18 11:10 2010 - zhome/username used 750M - zhome/username available 61.0G - zhome/username referenced 750M - zhome/username compressratio 1.20x - zhome/username mounted yes - zhome/username quota none default zhome/username reservation none default zhome/username recordsize 128K default zhome/username mountpoint /usr/home/username inherited from zhome zhome/username sharenfs off default zhome/username checksum on default zhome/username compression lzjb inherited from zhome zhome/username atime off inherited from zhome zhome/username devices on default zhome/username exec on default zhome/username setuid on default zhome/username readonly off default zhome/username jailed off default zhome/username snapdir hidden default zhome/username aclmode groupmask default zhome/username aclinherit restricted default zhome/username canmount on default zhome/username shareiscsi off default zhome/username xattr off temporary zhome/username copies 1 default zhome/username version 3 - zhome/username utf8only off - zhome/username normalization none - zhome/username casesensitivity sensitive - zhome/username vscan off default zhome/username nbmand off default zhome/username sharesmb off default zhome/username refquota none default zhome/username refreservation none default zhome/username primarycache all default zhome/username secondarycache all default zhome/username usedbysnapshots 0 - zhome/username usedbydataset 750M - zhome/username usedbychildren 0 - zhome/username usedbyrefreservation 0 - Other problem, that I have been unable to solve so far, is that a lot of entries show up in my logs about : dovecot: imap-login: net_disconnect() failed: Connection reset by peer It doesn't seem to have any adverse effect, except it's filling up the logs. It seem to appear when a client closes the imap connection? Is there a way to suppress this error? Regard P.C.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot SASL
by Tseveendorj Ochirlantuu 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Dear All, I've installed Postfix 2.7.0 and Dovecot 1.2.9 on Ubuntu 10.04. I want to use Dovecot SASL with Postfix and did the following configuration. main.cf smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/dovecot-auth smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_unauth_pipelining, permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination /etc/dovecot/auth.d/01-dovecot-postfix.auth mechanisms = plain login socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } I did not see AUTH in the telnet connection. EHLO mail.domain.mn 250-ns1.domain.mn 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN How to solvet this ? Best regards, Tseveen

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[Dovecot] BUG Dovecot 1.0.15 and Apples Mail.app
by Gerhard Waldemair 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Is there anyone using Apple´s Mail.app to collect the mails via IMAP or IMAPS ? I found a funny bug in Debian Lennys Dovecot Version. (still v. 1.0.15) When I get my Mails via IMAP or IMAPS and define a Rule in Mail.app to move the eMail to s specific folder I will find the mail 2 times in the folder. After a minute or so the double Mail disappears. I have tried it with other programs like Thunderbird. There everything works, v1.0 too. Now I have updatet Dovecot from 1.0 to 1.2 from Backports and everything works great now !!!!! Regards, Gerhard PS in Squeeze Dovecot is Version 1.2

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[Dovecot] dovecot vs. Thunderbird
by Bodo Schulz 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hello (and Moin Moin) ;) I have currently a straith Problem ... I have our IMAP-Server migrated from an old cyrus the the current stable Version of dovecot. In the old configuration we organized many mails (e.g. root-Stuff) in Public Folders. They structure had nearly 5 folderlevels. After the complete migration an syncronize we switch complete to the dovecot setup. At this moment we have problems with access to the Public Folders. (We use as Client the actualy Thunderbird3 ...) When i want subscribe Folders, i have no access to folder are deeper as second level! Now, i have testet with rawlogs an switch on the debugging in Thunderbird, but a have no more idea! :-( Here an extract of our Public Folders: ,------------------------------------- Shared Folders +- shared +- backup | +- archive | +- warnings +- databases +- WARNINGS +- ERRORS +- archive +- projects +- ... +- ... +- archive `------------------------------------- I can see max. the Folders 'Shared Folders.shared.backup', not they subfolders! :( Now the techs: ,------------------------------------- dovecot --version 1.2.11 dovecot -n # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 i686 Debian 5.0.4 ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.info.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S | protocols: imap managesieve lda listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login login_greeting: S2B Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements: user=<%n> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c max_mail_processes: 64 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_gid: 100 mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_uid: 1101 mail_gid: 1101 mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%n/:CONTROL=/home/vmail/%n/control:INDEX=/home/vmail/%n/indexes mailbox_idle_check_interval: 120 mail_debug: yes maildir_stat_dirs: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): autocreate mail_plugins(imap): autocreate mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve mail_log_prefix: %Us(%n): namespace: type: private separator: . location: maildir:/home/vmail/%n/:CONTROL=/home/vmail/%n/control:INDEX=/home/vmail/%n/indexes:LAYOUT=maildir++ inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: . prefix: Shared Folders. location: maildir:/home/vmail/folder-shared:CONTROL=/home/vmail/%n/shared.control/:INDEX=/home/vmail/%n/shared.indexes/:LAYOUT=maildir++ list: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@.....de mail_plugins: sieve auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log mail_debug: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login cache_size: 2048 username_format: %Ln worker_max_count: 25 passdb: driver: pam args: session=yes cache_key=%u dovecot passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pwd.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=1101 gid=1101 home=/home/vmail/%Lu socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: autocreate: Trash autocreate2: Spam autosubscribe: Trash autosubscribe2: Spam mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields: uid box msgid size convert_skip_broken_mailboxes: no convert_skip_dotdirs: no sieve: /home/SIEVE-SCRIPTE/%Ln.sieve mail_debug: yes `------------------------------------- Can you please help me? Bodo PS: sorry about my english :}

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