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[Dovecot] configure dovecot to read-only ?
by Frank Gadegast 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Hi, I like to configure the use of IMAP to read-only on a special backup system. Users should only be able to read archived email, they should not be able to create folders or delete email. I know how to configure user- or folder-specific acls, but it seems to be a bit complicated to setup a ACL for every user. Any simple global option available ? Kind regards, Frank -- PHADE Software - PowerWeb http://www.powerweb.de Inh. Dipl.-Inform. Frank Gadegast mailto:frank@powerweb.de Schinkelstrasse 17 fon: +49 33200 52920 14558 Nuthetal OT Rehbruecke, Germany fax: +49 33200 52921 ====================================================================== Public PGP Key available for frank(a)powerweb.de

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[Dovecot] Possible programming error in maildir_mail_get_save_date
by Rainer Weikusat 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

The maildir_mail_gate_save_date routine (lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-mail.c) returns the save date when that was determined by looking at the ctime of the corresponding file. This is different from all other get_save_date routines which either return -1 if the date could not be determined or 0 to signal success. A particular problem caused by this would be that the first_nonexpunged_timestamp routine (plugins/expire/expire-plugin) never finds a not-yet-expired e-mail after the first message in a mailbox has been expunged when using the maildir storage and file ctimes for save dates, causing the expire_mailbox_transaction_commit function (same file) to delete expiry information for the mailbox in question from the expires table despite mails supposed to expire still exist. Patch below is against 1.2.11. ----- Index: dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-mail.c =================================================================== RCS file: /sysdata/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-mail.c,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.2 retrieving revision 1.1.1.2.2.1 diff -u -r1.1.1.2 -r1.1.1.2.2.1 --- dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-mail.c 15 Mar 2010 18:18:14 -0000 1.1.1.2 +++ dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-mail.c 19 Mar 2010 22:33:44 -0000 1.1.1.2.2.1 @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ return -1; *date_r = data->save_date = st.st_ctime; - return data->save_date; + return 0; } static int

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[Dovecot] Multiple SSL certificates
by Martin Fuxa 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Hi guys, with reference to http://wiki.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration Multiple SSL certificates (v2.0+) where I can type ? local imap.example.org { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/imap.example.org.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/imap.example.org.key } at the end file dovecot.conf I got Starting Dovecot: Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 1261: Unknown section type (section changed in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf at line 1259) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 1261 corresponds to local mail.test.my { dovecot --version 1.2.11 compiled as ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --with-mysql --without-vpopmail --without-bsdauth --without-checkpassword --without-pam --without-shadow --without-passwd --without-passwd-file --without-nss CentOS 5.4 And last question - is it possible use wild host? for example "local *.example.org { ... }" - or is it possible use more hosts within one line? for example "local imap.example.org pop3.example.org { ... }" Thanks in advance Martin

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[Dovecot] Public Folder for mailinglist with deliver
by Sebastian Heil 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

Hello Everybody, I'm looking for a nice way to implement the following: We are running a mail server for system users who are having their own mailbox. Now there's the idea to subscribe for a few mailinglists which are then available for the user per shared/public folder. So they can simply subscribe and unsubscribe with their MUA. For every mailinglist subscription there should exist an own email account with own mail directory. The namespaces are already working (in a test environment). But I haven't found any implementation to realize this nicely with deliver. The possiblities I'm thinking about are: -create a somewhere in userdb a passwd entry for each mailinglist email address with the corresponding directory -create a static userdb entry, but then deliver cannot check if an email address/mailbox exists. I think both ideas aren't a good implementation. So I'm asking you for help. Has someone a similar setup or a little idea how to make this work with deliver. Thanks in advance Sebastian

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0beta3 and dovecot.conf
by Axel Luttgens 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

Le 17 mars 2010 à 21:25:38, Timo Sirainen a écrit : > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 21:21 +0100, Renaud Allard wrote: >>>> dovecot_delivery transport output: lda: Fatal: User lookup failed: >>>> net_connect_unix(/opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: No such >>>> file or directory >>> >>> Yeah, I broke this yesterday. Fixed it today. >>> >> >> Thanks Timo, so I suppose the daily snapshot should be better for me. > > So do you mean you really tried beta3 release, not the nightly > snapshot / hg version? Because I thought that error didn't happen with > beta3. Hello Timo, Yes, it was already there with beta3: downloaded it yesterday for initial trials, and faced the problem too. Since I haven't had the opportunity to update my hg handling setup yet, I just created a symlink; for those looking for a quick workaround until a beta4 or a rc1 gets issued, and assuming --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf -> ../dovecot.conf No great info of course. ;-) Axel

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[Dovecot] 2.0 beta: LMTP + Sieve fileinto broken
by Bernhard Schmidt 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

Hoi, somewhere between Hg revisions 10945 and 10962 filing into a subfolder using sieve Scripts (like fileinto "fwd.sixxs" here) broke Mar 20 18:14:24 mail dovecot: lmtp(27326, berni(a)vmail.mail.mucip.net) ojJwL3ACpUu+agAA/GZUZg: msgid=<tickets-tickets.1418885.1419129(a)noc.sixxs.net>: save failed to fwd.sixxs: Mailbox doesn't exist: fwd.sixxs Used to work fine before. Bernhard

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[Dovecot] Sendmail + deliver; silent errors.
by Daryl Tester 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

Hi all. I've got a bit of a peculiar issue here. I'm running dovecot 1.2.9 on an Ubuntu 9.10 box using Sendmail 8.14.3. I've set up Sendmail similar to <http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail> except that *) dovecot's deliver is configured as my default local mailer, so some of the flags for the Mailer definition had to be adjusted accordingly. *) The setuid users listed in the wiki kept result in setgid() failures from deliver, so I've changed it to root:mail (mail being sendmail's MDA group), with permissions as u+s,g+rx,o-rwx When sendmail attempts delivery, I'm getting "deferred: deliver failed with EX_TEMP", but nothing recorded in the log files. I've embarrassingly widened the permissions of /var/log/dovecot and the files contained within to read/write everyone, just to ensure that whomever it's running as has access, but the log files aren't updated. The peculiar thing kicks in when I attempt to debug this. So far I have (amongst other things): *) Run deliver from the command line logged in as "mail". *) written a shell wrapper script to be able to confirm things like the user ID that was invoking deliver. *) both in the shell script, and as an mailer definition in sendmail, strace'd (using a setuid root binary) deliver to capture what it was doing. Whenever I do any of the above, deliver works perfectly, and appears to log correctly. It only appears to bork when no-one is watching it, which is quite frustrating when trying to fix it. Help? Configuration of dovecot follows: # 1.2.9: /etc/opt/dovecot-1.2.9/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.31-14-server x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10 ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot-1.2.9/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-info.log protocols: pop3 imap imaps ssl: no disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot-1.2.9//login login_executable(default): /opt/dovecot-1.2.9/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot-1.2.9/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot-1.2.9/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_uid: vmail mail_gid: vmail mail_location: maildir:/vmail/spool/%u:LAYOUT=fs mail_executable(default): /opt/dovecot-1.2.9/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot-1.2.9/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot-1.2.9/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/dovecot-1.2.9/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/dovecot-1.2.9/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/dovecot-1.2.9/lib/dovecot/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster(a)handcraftedcomputers.com.au auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot-1.2.9/auth-master auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /vmail/auth/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot-1.2.9/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail -- Regards, Daryl Tester Member of the Amalgamated Australian Association Against Apostrophe Abuse. (formerly the 6A's - no, wait ...).

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[Dovecot] Dovecot v2.0.beta3 quota using userdb
by e-frog 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

Hello Timo, I'm playing around with the new Dovecot v2.0.beta3 and don't seem to be able to get quotas working from userdb. I didn't change the SQL query which was working for 1.2.10. Feb 20 19:34:06 ubuntu-test dovecot: auth: sql(test,192.168.156.99): SELECT home, mail, uid, gid, concat('*:storage=', quota_limit, 'MB') AS quota_rule FROM users WHERE username = 'test' ... Feb 20 19:34:06 ubuntu-test dovecot: imap(test): Quota root: name=user backend=dict args=:proxy::dictionary Feb 20 19:34:06 ubuntu-test dovecot: imap(test): dict quota: user=test, uri=proxy::dictionary, noenforcing=0 ... Note there is no "Quota rule". However it seems to work by adding "quota_rule = *:storage=1024MB" directly to plugin.conf: ... Feb 20 19:39:15 ubuntu-test dovecot: imap(test): Quota root: name=user backend=dict args=:proxy::dictionary Feb 20 19:39:15 ubuntu-test dovecot: imap(test): Quota rule: root=user mailbox=* bytes=1073741824 messages=0 Feb 20 19:39:15 ubuntu-test dovecot: imap(test): dict quota: user=test, uri=proxy::dictionary, noenforcing=0 ... Has there anything changed in dovecot 2.0 in this perspective? Thanks, e-frog ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # 2.0.beta3: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic-pae i686 Ubuntu 9.10 auth_debug = yes auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: from=%f: %$ dict { dictionary = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf } disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_debug = yes namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { location = virtual:/etc/dovecot/virtual:INDEX=~/.maildir/control prefix = virtual/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf deny = no driver = sql master = no pass = no } plugin { fts = squat fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 quota = dict:user::proxy::dictionary sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/sieve-global/ sieve_dir = ~/.sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster@ubuntu-test protocols = imap lmtp managesieve quota_full_tempfail = yes service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0666 } } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/lmtp-server { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes

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[Dovecot] INBOX of a shared namespace appears to be always subscribed
by Holger Richter 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

In dovecot 1.2.10 I run into the following problem: Our users are entitled to share their personal mailboxes. This works. But if user A shares any of its mailboxes with user B, then dovecot always reports the INBOX of user A as subscribed by user B. No matter whether user B really subscribed the INBOX of A, or whether user A permitted user B the access to its INBOX. The problem is caused by the repeated call of LSUB. Starting with the second call LSUB always shows INBOX as subscribed. To reproduce: -> telnet imap.xx.yy 143 1 LOGIN user password 2 LSUB "" shared/* => shows shared/UserB/folderXX 3 LSUB "" shared/* => shows shared/UserB/INBOX shared/UserB/folderXX 4 LSUB "" shared/* => shows shared/UserB/INBOX shared/UserB/folderXX Regards, Holger

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[Dovecot] problem with master db and dovecot-2.0.beta3
by Oliver Eales 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

Hello, i am currenty testing dovecot 2.0.beta3 and ran into a problem with the master-db setting. For our webmail access we are sucessfully using the following settings with dovecot-1.2.10 auth_master_user_separator =* auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers master = yes pass = yes } passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } } when "converting" the settings to version 2.0 i tried the following: auth_mechanisms = plain auth_master_user_separator = * passdb { driver = passwd-file args = /etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers master = yes pass = yes } passdb { driver = ldap args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } But when i try to login, the auth process gets stalled with the following log entry: auth: Fatal: Master passdb can't have pass=yes if there are no passdbs master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling Am i doing something wrong or is it problem with the 2.0-beta ? Regards, Oliver Eales

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