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[Dovecot] IMAP extensions & their meanings
by Jerry 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

I know that is is not really a Dovecot problem; however, I was wondering where I could get a complete list of the terms used in the 'capability' line. I have not had any success in finding out what things like "XLIST" refer to. I don't believe that is one that Dovecot uses; however, I have seen it with other IMAP servers, plus lots of other flags that I do not understand. I tried Googling but only got a few sporadic and basically useless answers. Thanks! -- Jerry Dovecot.user(a)seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. Jean-Paul Kauffmann

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Re: [Dovecot] New install authentication probs
by Andy Smith 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Ola Daniel, thanks for the idea, but actually within the config file the settings are not within the auth default section, its just shown that way from the output of dovecot -n cheers Andy. Quoting Daniel Gomes <daniel.gomes(a)ist.utl.pt>: > Hey Andy, > > I might be way over my head here, but unlike you, in my setup I set > "auth_debug", "auth_verbose" and "auth_debug_password" to "yes" > outside the "auth default" section. Try that and see if you get the > verbose logging you're looking for! > > Cheers, > > On 31-03-2010 19:46, Andy Smith wrote: >> Hi Brad, >> >> thanks for the reply, here is the output: >> >> dovecot -n >> # 1.2.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf >> # OS: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE i386 nfs >> log_path: /tmp/dovecot.log >> protocols: imap >> ssl: no >> disable_plaintext_auth: no >> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login >> login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login >> verbose_proctitle: yes >> first_valid_uid: 1000 >> first_valid_gid: 1000 >> mail_privileged_group: mail >> mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%u >> mail_debug: yes >> imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep >> lda: >> sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail >> auth default: >> mechanisms: plain digest-md5 cram-md5 >> username_format: %Lu >> verbose: yes >> debug: yes >> debug_passwords: yes >> passdb: >> driver: sql >> args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf >> userdb: >> driver: passwd >> args: blocking=yes >> userdb: >> driver: sql >> args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf >> socket: >> type: listen >> client: >> path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client >> mode: 432 >> master: >> path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master >> mode: 384 >> > > -- > Daniel Gomes, 55350 >

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[Dovecot] doveadm {user,auth} {segfaults,hangs}
by Pascal Volk 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Since the last changes from yesterday, there are at least two new problems in doveadm (4e527339da8b). doveadm user aaa doveadm(pvo): Error: userdb lookup: connect(/usr/local/dovecot20/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(pvo) egid=1000(pvo) missing +r perm: /usr/local/dovecot20/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, euid is not dir owner) Segmentation fault (core dumped) doveadm auth xxxx Password: doveadm(pvo): Error: auth: connect(/usr/local/dovecot20/var/run/dovecot/auth-client) failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(pvo) egid=1000(pvo) missing +r perm: /usr/local/dovecot20/var/run/dovecot/auth-client, euid is not dir owner) [hang until]^C Backtraces are attached Regards, Pascal -- The trapper recommends today: beeffeed.1009120(a)localdomain.org (gdb) bt full: #0 0x00000000004063b7 in cmd_user_input (auth_socket_path=0x4117f8 "/usr/local/dovecot20/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb", input=0x7fff41c65320) at doveadm-auth.c:41 conn = 0x998f50 pool = 0x997ac0 username = 0x0 fields = 0x0 p = 0x0 ret = -1 #1 0x0000000000406ab6 in auth_cmd_common (cmd=0x61a940, argc=2, argv=0x921048) at doveadm-auth.c:201 first = false auth_socket_path = 0x0 input = {username = 0x92107b "aaa", password = 0x0, info = {service = 0x4119da "doveadm", local_ip = {family = 0, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, __u6_addr16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 0}}}, remote_ip = {family = 0, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, __u6_addr16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 0}}}, local_port = 0, remote_port = 0}} c = -1 #2 0x0000000000406b3e in cmd_user (argc=2, argv=0x921048) at doveadm-auth.c:214 No locals. #3 0x000000000040602f in doveadm_try_run (cmd_name=0x921076 "user", argc=2, argv=0x921048) at doveadm.c:83 cmd__foreach_end = 0x986650 cmd = 0x986590 #4 0x00000000004062da in main (argc=2, argv=0x921048) at doveadm.c:169 set_roots = {0x413860, 0x0} service_flags = 10 cmd_name = 0x921076 "user" error = 0x411685 "H\205\355t\034\061\333\017\037@" c = -1 (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007f114d21cc93 in __epoll_wait_nocancel () from /lib/libc.so.6 fstab_state = {fs_fp = 0x0, fs_buffer = 0x0, fs_mntres = {mnt_fsname = 0x0, mnt_dir = 0x0, mnt_type = 0x0, mnt_opts = 0x0, mnt_freq = 0, mnt_passno = 0}, fs_ret = {fs_spec = 0x0, fs_file = 0x0, fs_vfstype = 0x0, fs_mntops = 0x0, fs_type = 0x0, fs_freq = 0, fs_passno = 0}} __elf_set___libc_subfreeres_element_fstab_free__ = 0x7f114d254220 #1 0x00007f114dd90674 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x17aaf60) at ioloop-epoll.c:175 ctx = 0x17cdfc0 events = 0x17ce800 event = 0x17aaf60 list = 0x21 io = 0x1 tv = {tv_sec = 2147483, tv_usec = 0} events_count = 1 t_id = 4220376 msecs = 2147483647 ret = -1 i = 0 j = 1306179422 call = false #2 0x00007f114dd8f451 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x17aaf60) at ioloop.c:350 No locals. #3 0x00000000004067c6 in cmd_auth_input (auth_socket_path=0x411950 "/usr/local/dovecot20/var/run/dovecot/auth-client", input=0x7fff059a42c0) at doveadm-auth.c:136 client = 0x17d0fc0 #4 0x0000000000406a79 in auth_cmd_common (cmd=0x61a920, argc=2, argv=0x175c048) at doveadm-auth.c:191 auth_socket_path = 0x0 input = {username = 0x175c07b "xxxx", password = 0x179d088 "sdfghjk", info = {service = 0x4119da "doveadm", local_ip = {family = 0, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, __u6_addr16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 0}}}, remote_ip = {family = 0, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, __u6_addr16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 0}}}, local_port = 0, remote_port = 0}} c = -1 #5 0x0000000000406b1a in cmd_auth (argc=2, argv=0x175c048) at doveadm-auth.c:209 No locals. #6 0x000000000040602f in doveadm_try_run (cmd_name=0x175c076 "auth", argc=2, argv=0x175c048) at doveadm.c:83 cmd__foreach_end = 0x17c8650 cmd = 0x17c8570 #7 0x00000000004062da in main (argc=2, argv=0x175c048) at doveadm.c:169 set_roots = {0x413860, 0x0} service_flags = 10 cmd_name = 0x175c076 "auth" error = 0x411685 "H\205\355t\034\061\333\017\037@" c = -1 (gdb)

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[Dovecot] Mbox limit the size
by Karthick G 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hi, I want to set size limit for the inbox of all users in my mail server. Please send me the steps to be followed or how to configure dovecot to enable limiting the inbox size. Thanks in advance. -- *Regards, Karthick.G *

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[Dovecot] 2.0.beta3 imapd running hot
by Bernhard Schmidt 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hi, since a couple of weeks I occasionally have an imapd going crazy on me, using up 100% CPU. Current revision is 10962 29865 vmail 20 0 47820 3296 1708 R 99.7 0.9 131:07.85 imap vmail 29865 86.1 0.8 47820 3296 ? R Mar20 131:20 dovecot/imap [berni 2001:a60:f001:1:219:66ff:fe8b:a6e IDLE strace -p <pid> shows a repeating pattern of epoll_wait(8, {{EPOLLOUT, {u32=36560672, u64=36560672}}}, 5, 4872) = 1 gettimeofday({1269133967, 495298}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1269133967, 495333}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1269133967, 495370}, NULL) = 0 with the last argument of epoll_wait (4872) slowly decrementing and then wrapping around to ~30k. Attaching gdb shows the following backtrace: (gdb) bt full #0 array_idx_i (ioloop=0x22bd5f0) at array.h:189 No locals. #1 io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x22bd5f0) at ioloop-epoll.c:188 ctx = 0x22bd800 event = <value optimized out> list = <value optimized out> io = <value optimized out> tv = {tv_sec = 26, tv_usec = 307176} t_id = 2 msecs = 26308 ret = 1 i = <value optimized out> call = <value optimized out> #2 0x00007f8f682bc8e8 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x22bd5f0) at ioloop.c:350 No locals. #3 0x00007f8f682acd63 in master_service_run (service=0x22bd4c0, callback=0x6590) at master-service.c:486 No locals. #4 0x0000000000418551 in main (argc=1, argv=0x22bd3a0) at main.c:313 set_roots = {0x41b840, 0x0} service_flags = <value optimized out> storage_service_flags = MAIL_STORAGE_SERVICE_FLAG_DISALLOW_ROOT postlogin_socket_path = 0x0 (gdb) c Continuing. ^C Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. 0x00007fffed1ff9ad in gettimeofday () (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007fffed1ff9ad in gettimeofday () No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007f8f6795f02a in gettimeofday () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00007f8f682bcb39 in io_loop_handle_timeouts_real (ioloop=0x22bd5f0) at ioloop.c:291 item = <value optimized out> tv = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 36427248} tv_call = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 140737170938560} t_id = <value optimized out> #3 io_loop_handle_timeouts (ioloop=0x22bd5f0) at ioloop.c:339 _data_stack_cur_id = 0 #4 0x00007f8f682bd70e in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x22bd5f0) at ioloop-epoll.c:180 ctx = 0x22bd800 event = <value optimized out> list = <value optimized out> io = <value optimized out> tv = {tv_sec = 28, tv_usec = 267997} t_id = 2 msecs = 28268 ret = 1 i = <value optimized out> call = <value optimized out> #5 0x00007f8f682bc8e8 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x22bd5f0) at ioloop.c:350 No locals. #6 0x00007f8f682acd63 in master_service_run (service=0x22bd4c0, callback=0) at master-service.c:486 No locals. #7 0x0000000000418551 in main (argc=1, argv=0x22bd3a0) at main.c:313 set_roots = {0x41b840, 0x0} service_flags = <value optimized out> storage_service_flags = MAIL_STORAGE_SERVICE_FLAG_DISALLOW_ROOT postlogin_socket_path = 0x0 doveconf -n: mail.svr02.mucip.net:~# doveconf -n # 2.0.beta3: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.33 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = 83.170.6.69, 2001:1b10:1000::110:1:1 mail_gid = 5000 mail_location = maildir:%h/:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/%1n/%n mail_uid = 5000 maildir_stat_dirs = yes maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { quota = dict:user::file:%h/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=500M sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)birkenwald.de protocols = imap pop3 lmtp managesieve quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix-mailout/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { inet_listener { port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } process_min_avail = 1 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/pop3.mucip.net.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/pop3.mucip.net.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = sieve quota } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve quota } protocol imap { imap_idle_notify_interval = 600 s mail_plugins = quota imap_quota zlib imap_zlib } At the moment I have two suspects, the imap_zlib plugin and CONDSTORE (which I recently reenabled in Thunderbird after the fixed version got deployed). The client is always Thunderbird 3.0.3+, but from different systems. It does terminate without any error message in the logs when I exit Thunderbird. Now testing without zlib... Bernhard

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Re: [Dovecot] New install authentication probs
by Andy Smith 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hi Brad, thanks for the reply, here is the output: dovecot -n # 1.2.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE i386 nfs log_path: /tmp/dovecot.log protocols: imap ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%u mail_debug: yes imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep lda: sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: plain digest-md5 cram-md5 username_format: %Lu verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384

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[Dovecot] New install authentication probs
by Andy Smith 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hi, Im attempting to configure dovecot for the first time, Im trying to use a MySQL DB that is currently used by tpop3d as Ive read they support the same password format. My main prob currently, apart from that it doesnt work lol, is that Ive enabled the following debugging in dovecot.conf auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes But Im getting basically zero info on why my authentication is failing. In my log (which for testing Ive defined as a file in /tmp to make sure Im getting all the info logged to one place) I see just: Mar 31 19:00:17 dovecot: Info: Dovecot v1.2.10 starting up Mar 31 19:00:17 auth-worker(default): Info: mysql: Connected to localhost (ukgri d_vmail) Mar 31 19:00:18 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=64188 Mar 31 19:00:18 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=64186 Mar 31 19:00:18 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=64187 each time I attempt to connect via IMAP it adds another new auth connection line to the log but doesnt tell me anything else :(. So Im stuck debugging my authentication due to lack of info. BTW Im testing IMAP via telnet, telnet to IMAP port and attempt LOGIN (I have this working to a courier IMAP installation). Have I done something wrong? Any help appreciated! thanks Andy.

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[Dovecot] Can Dovecot do this...
by Robert Lopez 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

I need some experienced Dovecot and email administrators to give me some feed back on a project which has been assigned to me. First some background. What exists now at our college: Three email gateway systems that route email between the Internet and one of the student email system, the staff email system, or the email list server system. The gateway systems do not route email from an external system to another external system. The MTA on each gateway is Postfix. The MTA of the student email system is Luminis. The MUA of the student email system is a web interface to Luminis. The MTA of the staff email system is Exchange. There are two staff MUA. One is Outlook. The other is Outlook Web Access. Within our network we have a system (separate from above) that is a LDAP server used for implementing single sign on to many college systems including the student and staff email systems. At this time SASL is not used in any way. There is no authentication of the movement of email. Authentication is only for using a MUA. It is now proposed that certain staff members should be allowed to be at some remote location and compose an email which will be sent to SOMETHING at our college which will then cause two things to happen. First, the From: information and Reply-To: information will be re-written from what ever they may be to become that person's college email address. Second, the email will then be routed to an intended recipient be it within our community or outside of our community. For examples, if the college president were with a member of the state legislature trying to get information for the state governor, she could send an email via her personal phone system to a college financial person who would never see her personal address. Upon receiving a reply, she then could send the state governor an email and it would appear to the governor as if it came from her college account. I have been told by my management other colleges are doing this with Postfix and SASL. I posted a question about this to a Postfix list and I was told Dovecot was the best SASL to use for implementing this. So, the project as it has been described to me is this: We will make no changes to the three gateway systems. We will add a new gateway system to enable this. This new system will challenge all email being sent to it. It will collect the college account-name and the password which will then be used to see if there is a matching account in the LDAP system. If there is not then the email transfer conversation will quit. If there is a matching account then the header rewrites will occur and the email will be routed. There are many things I do not understand: Is if this senario is possible? Would postfix on the new system do the address re-writes or would Dovecot do it? What would store the information necessary for the reply routing? What would happen in one internal address to many external address situations? If the project was simplified by removing the ability to reply to an email; so it was only a way to route external to external with rewrite is is then possible? So, I would like some comment on if this is a common or know practice and if Dovecot is used in those situations (if any). Thank you. -- Robert Lopez Unix Systems Administrator Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) 525 Buena Vista SE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106

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[Dovecot] Get plugins configuration in dovecot 2.0
by Alex Baule 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

In 1.X to get configuration Timo said. In v1.x they're in environment variables. So if you have: plugin { foo = bar } getenv("FOO") returns "bar". But, in 2.0 ?! getenv dont work....

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[Dovecot] Documentation error
by Robert Lopez 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Authentication There appears to be an error in this line: The PLAIN mechanism's authentication format is: <authorization ID> NUL <authentication ID> NUL <password>. Authentication ID is the username who you want to log in as, and authentication ID is the username whose password you're giving. I suppose it should be: The PLAIN mechanism's authentication format is: <authorization ID> NUL <authentication ID> NUL <password>. Authorization ID is the username who you want to log in as, and authentication ID is the username whose password you're giving. -- Robert Lopez Unix Systems Administrator Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) 525 Buena Vista SE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106

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