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[Dovecot] Fw: Re: step-to-step Installation Guide
by Spyros Tsiolis 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

XMail is not bad either. Strictly command-line oriented but very powerfull (if you want my opinion anyway). http://www.xmailserver.org I've been using it for almost a decade now (!) s. --- On Wed, 23/6/10, Charles Marcus <CMarcus(a)Media-Brokers.com> wrote: > From: Charles Marcus <CMarcus(a)Media-Brokers.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] step-to-step Installation Guide > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Date: Wednesday, 23 June, 2010, 18:34 > On 2010-06-23 11:03 AM, Eric Shubert > wrote: > > Are you running other services on your server, or will > it be dedicated > > to email? If the later, you might want to look into > > http://qmailtoaster.com/. > > Bad advice imo. QMail is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. > :) > > Seriously thought, the only person who should be using > qmail is someone > who has been using it forever and knows it inside and out - > and I would > *still* argue that they should just admit the truth and > move on. > > Do yourself a favor and don't go down that road. The best > two open > source MTA's are postfix and Exim, so you should be using > one of them > unless there is a compelling reason to use something else. > I personally > prefer postfix, but only because that's all I've ever used. > I've heard > nothing but good things about Exim, so you wouldn't be > going wrong > either way. > > -- > > Best regards, > > Charles >

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox
by Rajesh M 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Rajesh M wrote: > >>> Roundcube 0.3.1 seems to have a hard coded limit of 200 mails per page. > >> it again took around 4-5 mins > > I do not know nothing about Roundcube, therefore I wonder where the 5min > delay come from: > > a) Do you keep index files on Dovecot side? > > b) Do you deliver / manipulate the mailbox via Dovecot only? E.g. do you > use Dovecot deliver? > > c) If you rawlog or sniff the connection and issue the same commands as > roundcube to Dovecot via, say, telnet next morning, is the delay the same? > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Rawlog > http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation?highlight=%28telnet%29 > > a) and b) should avoid rereading of the mailbox. > c) is to ensure that Roundcube does not add the delay itself. > >> the extra 1000 emails were to be added to the cache .. does dovecot go >> thru all the 170000 emails again to form the meta data ? or is there >> some >> cache expiry period ? > > Usually no. > > Regards, > > - -- > Steffen Kaiser > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEVAwUBTCG2V7+Vh58GPL/cAQJyHAf+MayOiuayYay2mCM5i0DJH296pbuDMAXc > kbXKMRXFOP/KGeAYmHirL/9/63h0IjeRtSuBe0HJxmbg87aZVWOejVaXSPOPTAUR > n8d++siuBnQ8xiDFw0LKgep2HetYFdxepDRjdPTOM/Drpv+THFRGOVnem6JYb7yw > 0XqkQG7M4pKBaxZA+0HFH4c4ADz3XykkOluTHhmU0zDXcdkK0TybfEiwGRY3R7i8 > IozQ62pKv/v2t2z2clYOXsqLe6pM14B8/2SXUX4Anrkz8AoKyocT1Ks9hOCkizEn > bG99r7U+WObrMmbTpy6jsq//amh496ot37S4DO7DBKa3cKYqOJwwXg== > =gqnn > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > hi did the tests once again on this large email box i set maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes this was done in the morning and dovecot was restarted i logged after about 4 hours after the previous login again it took around 5 mins to login i was monitoring my server load which around 1.5 - 2 on my dual core dual xeon machine this increased to around 8-9 during the login process the no of emails in the box had increase by around 7500 emails setting maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes does not seem to help i have pasted below my dovecot.conf file ################ base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps log_path = /backup1/qmaillog/dovecot.log #ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key_file = /var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_cipher_list = djdjjd verbose_ssl = yes protocol imap { listen = *:143 ssl_listen = *:993 } ## Login processes #login_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_user = dovecot login_process_per_connection = no login_processes_count = 3 login_process_size = 128 login_max_processes_count = 512 login_greeting = Ready #login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c ## Mailbox locations and namespaces mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } # Mail processes verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 # Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, max_mail_processes = 200 # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. mail_process_size = 256 ## Maildir-specific settings maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes ## Authentication processes disable_plaintext_auth = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 passdb vpopmail { args = webmail=127.0.0.1 } userdb vpopmail { } user = vpopmail count = 1 ssl_require_client_cert = no } ################ thanks rajesh

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[Dovecot] Regenerate Index and Control Files
by John S 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

In a bad attempt of correcting a non-related error, I deleted, and recreated, the control and index directories; now, the only e-mail showing up, in all user mailboxes, is mail that has been delivered afterward. How do I make dovecot regenerate the control and index files so that the old e-mail shows up? John

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[Dovecot] step-to-step Installation Guide
by Marcus Linnenkohl 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

Hello, I'm new here, and I'm from Germany, so please be patient with me because my English is not so good ;) I am searching for a Step-to-Step Guide to first-configure Dovecot. I want to create virtual Users wich can logon to my Server to a Webinterface to call theire mails. I think IMAP is the right protokoll but it should be safe, so i think IMAPs is better. Unfortunately I am not familiar with Dovecot, so I need your help. Yours sincerely Marcus -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01

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[Dovecot] quota_set leak
by Mike Abbott 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

The quota plugin in 2.0.beta6 leaks 2KB "quota settings" pools. Here is a patch to plug this leak, assuming you intended the caller of quota_init to retain ownership of the quota_set. If on the other hand you intended for quota_init to assume ownership of the quota_set, then the quota_settings_deinit call belongs in quota_deinit. --- a/src/plugins/quota/quota-storage.c (beta6) +++ b/src/plugins/quota/quota-storage.c (patched) @@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ { struct quota_user *quser = QUOTA_USER_CONTEXT(user); + quota_settings_deinit(&quser->quota->set); quota_deinit(&quser->quota); quser->module_ctx.super.deinit(user); }

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[Dovecot] Proxy Access (Manager/Secretary) Best Practices?
by Chris Hobbs 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

I've mostly got our dovecot+postfix+SOGo+openldap open source groupware replacement working the way I want it to; we're replacing GroupWise in our organization and I'm thrilled to be doing it. I'm supporting about 1,000 active staff users (and another 6,000 student accounts). I've got e-mail and calendar sharing working, and it does what it says it will do, but it is (go figure) different in concept from Proxy access under GroupWise. In GroupWise, I can give my secretary proxy access to my account and she can read all of my folders, see my calendars, and send e-mail as me. To someone that receives an e-mail or appointment request from her while she's proxied to me, there's no distinction at all. Is there a way to mimic this sort of functionality with the tools I've chosen? I've figured out that I can add additional 'mail' attributes to the secretary's record, and those addresses are available as drop-down choices in the SOGo web interface, but with the secretary's name and not the manager. Any advice will be much appreciated. And many thanks to the developers involved for writing and making available such amazingly good software. Eliminating the license fees we've been paying to Novell is allowing me to save a technician that surely would have been eliminated in budget cuts this year. Chris Chris Hobbs Director, Technology New Haven Unified School District -- This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean.

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[Dovecot] expire plugin
by suzuki 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

Hello, I am testing expire plugin, with quota plugin enabled. When I execute expire-tool, maildirsize is not updated. Is there any solution to update maildirsize when executing expire-tool? # /usr/local/dovecot/sbin/dovecot --version 1.1.18 # /usr/local/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.1.18: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE i386 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ syslog_facility: local4 protocols: pop3 ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: ready mail_max_userip_connections: 1 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 10026 last_valid_uid: 10026 first_valid_gid: 10026 last_valid_gid: 10026 mail_privileged_group: vmail mail_uid: 10026 mail_gid: 10026 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable: /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins: quota expire mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 30 pop3_enable_last: yes pop3_reuse_xuidl: yes pop3_lock_session: yes pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls,oe-ns-eoh lda: postmaster_address: postmaster mail_plugins: quota expire sendmail_path: /usr/local/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail plugin: quota: maildir expire: Spam 7 expire_dict: proxy:/var/run/dovecot/dict-server:expire auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master dict: expire: mysql:/usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-dict-expire.conf

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[Dovecot] beta6 mdbox errors
by Mike Abbott 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

Dovecot-2.0.beta6 sometimes terminates client connections and reports these errors: Error: Corrupted dbox file /Volumes/Mail/joe/storage/m.1 (around offset=6216579): msg header has bad magic value Error: Corrupted dbox file /Volumes/Mail/joe/storage/m.1 (around offset=6216579): uid=0 points to broken data at offset=6216579 Warning: mdbox /Volumes/Mail/joe/storage: rebuilding indexes (I set mdbox_rotate_size = 200M.) These did not appear with beta5.

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[Dovecot] More Dovecot 2.0 permissions issues
by Tim Traver 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

Hi Timo, ok, using the latest 2.0beta6... I can't figure out the settings for the log file to have the correct permissions. When the log file is created, it is created owned by root and 0600 permissions, which doesn't allow the lda to write to it if I use different users and groups for that main config... If I then chmod the log file to 666, then everything is happy, but again, if that log file is removed and created by dovecot, it will create it back with 0600 and the lda will error and not deliver mail because of it... I was not able to find anywhere else to set the mode of the log files or the mask that is used... here is the current config : # 2.0.beta6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p3 i386 auth_username_format = %Lu auth_username_translation = %@ auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = yes first_valid_uid = 100 listen = * lock_method = dotlock log_path = /local/logs/dovecot.errors mail_gid = 100 mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_uid = 100 mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /bin/checkpassword_dovecot_auth driver = checkpassword } plugin { quota = maildir sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/Maildir/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 managesieve quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0660 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /bin/checkpassword_dovecot_deliver driver = checkpassword } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } Thanks, Tim.

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[Dovecot] Postfix, MySQL, Dovecot LDA and alias domains
by Darek M 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

Hi there, I have a postfix/postfixadmin/mysql/dovecot install that was using 'virtual' for the LDA. I tried the 'dovecot' LDA to enable Sieve but ran into trouble with aliases. With domain "some-domain.com" being an alias to "somedomain.com", mail sent to *(a)somedomain.com would be delivered to the Maildir fine, but the 'dovecot' LDA tossed "unknown user" for anything sent to *(a)some-domain.com (the alias to the other domain). My dovecot.sql: driver = mysql connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=postfix user=dovecot password=dovecot user_query = SELECT concat('/home/vmail/', maildir) as home, concat('maildir:/home/vmail/', maildir) as mail, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, concat('maildir:storage=', quota) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' password_query = SELECT username as user, password, concat('/home/vmail/', maildir) as userdb_home, concat('maildir:/home/vmail/', maildir) as userdb_mail, 5000 as userdb_uid, 5000 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' The problem is fairly simple: Dovecot isn't being told anything about the 'alias_domain' table that pairs alias domains with actual ones. So the question is: do I add a second "user_query" in dovecot.sql, or is there an "alias_query" directive, or similar? And does anyone have a query that would point an alias domain to the real maildir? - Darek

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