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[Dovecot] failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001
by Jürgen Herrmann 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

hi there! i'm trying to run dovecot 1.2.4 managesieve service with mysql auth. authentication is obviously going fine, i have debug_auth set to on and can see log lines indicating auth success: 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=10100 rport=42497 resp=<hidden> 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(jh(a)new.xlhost.de,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT alias as user, password, home as userdb_home, vuid as userdb_uid, vgid as userdb_gid FROM virtual_mailbox WHERE alias = 'jh(a)new.xlhost.de' 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: client out: OK 1 user=jh(a)new.xlhost.de 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: master in: REQUEST 1 27482 1 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth-worker(default): Info: sql(jh(a)new.xlhost.de,127.0.0.1): SELECT home, vuid AS uid, vgid AS gid FROM virtual_mailbox WHERE alias = 'jh(a)new.xlhost.de' 2009-11-18 16:04:24 auth(default): Info: master out: USER 1 jh(a)new.xlhost.de home=/home/mail_virtual/2001 uid=2001 gid=2001 2009-11-18 16:04:24 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<jh(a)new.xlhost.de>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured however then managesieve tries to chdir to the user's homedir, which fails: 2009-11-18 16:04:24 dovecot: Fatal: chdir(/home/mail_virtual/2001) failed: Permission denied (euid=2001 egid=2001 stat(/home/mail_virtual/2001) failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001) 2009-11-18 16:04:24 dovecot: Error: child 27589 (pop3) returned error 89 (Fatal failure) the user's homedir /home/mail_virtual/2001 ist set to 705 (also tried 700, 755, 770, 775 and 777) but still not write access. the mail/homedirs are definitely writeable by their respective (virtual) owners because postfix/maildrop is delivering to it and courier imap is currently reading from it just fine. any hints, please? best regards, jürgen herrmann -- >> XLhost.de - eXperts in Linux hosting ® << XLhost.de GmbH Jürgen Herrmann, Geschäftsführer Boelckestrasse 21, 93051 Regensburg, Germany Geschäftsführer: Volker Geith, Jürgen Herrmann Registriert unter: HRB9918 Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer: DE245931218 Fon: +49 (0)800 XLHOSTDE [0800 95467833] Fax: +49 (0)800 95467830 WEB: http://www.XLhost.de IRC: #XLhost(a)irc.quakenet.org

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[Dovecot] Thunderbird Search Folder failures
by Michael Durket 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

In converting everyone at our site from UW-IMAP I've run into another problem with Thunderbird users that I'm hoping someone can help me with. The dovecot version I'm running is old (1.0.13 - we don't do production upgrades that often but I'm perfectly willing to install a newer version). The affected Thunderbird users are running Thunderbird version 2.0023 under Windows. All mail is stored in mbox format. What appears to be happening is that searches looking for string matches in the message body don't work. I set up a test case with the affected user. We created a folder that had 6 messages: 5 containing the string in the message body and 1 that did not. Then we set up a search folder that looked for the string. Opening the Thunderbird search folder yielded no messages matching the search. A rawlog trace of the search in dovecot showed that dovecot had indeed responded that no messages were found (when 5 should have been). This doesn't happen with UW-IMAP (version imap-2007e which I think is the last version with bug fixes ever issued). Is this perhaps a known bug in dovecot that was fixed many releases ago and I should upgrade?

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Re: [Dovecot] setting up home directories
by Steffen Kaiser 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

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[Dovecot] address of dovecot server
by Seb 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, How can I find out what the address of my dovecot server is? The server is working fine in my Debian sid machine, and clients can check it using the intranet name of the server machine. However, I'm not sure what address to provide in clients outside my home network so they can access the server. Is it simply the standard convention of 'machine.domain.com' address of the server? Thanks for any help. Cheers, -- Seb

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[Dovecot] address of dovecot server
by Seb 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, How can I find out what the address of my dovecot server is? The server is working fine, and clients can check it using the intranet name of the server machine. However, I'm not sure what address to provide in clients outside my home network so they can access the server. Is it simply the standard convention of 'machine.domain.com' address of the server? Thanks for any help. Cheers, -- Seb

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[Dovecot] plugin cmusieve not found
by juan carlos 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

I have debian lenny and dovecot 1.2.4 and a problem with the plugin cmusieve. protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)cablenet.com.pe mail_plugins = cmusieve quota log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log } the log /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log shows me the following Fatal: Plugin cmusieve not found from directory /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda When I list the directory /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda, it was not found the cmusieve plugin. Where can i get it? # ls -l /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 nov 12 21:20 lib01_acl_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 12 21:20 lib10_quota_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 12 21:20 lib11_trash_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 nov 12 21:20 lib20_autocreate_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 nov 12 21:20 lib20_convert_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 nov 12 21:20 lib20_expire_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 nov 12 21:20 lib20_fts_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 nov 12 21:20 lib20_listescape_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 nov 12 21:20 lib20_mail_log_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 nov 12 21:20 lib20_virtual_plugin.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 nov 12 21:20 lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3663976 nov 15 23:04 lib90_sieve_plugin.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1029 nov 15 23:04 lib90_sieve_plugin.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1777465 nov 15 23:04 lib90_sieve_plugin.so

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[Dovecot] 2.0.alpha3 ssl_ca_file is broken
by Mike Abbott 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

In dovecot-2.0.alpha3, setting "ssl_ca_file = /path/to/file" in conf.d/ssl.conf does not work, because imap-login chroots before opening the ca_file. Perhaps this parameter could be replaced with "ssl_ca = </path/to/file" as was done with ssl_cert and ssl_key. Tue Nov 17 11:19:38 server dovecot[1143]: imap-login: Fatal: Error reading configuration: Invalid settings: ssl_ca_file: access(/path/to/file) failed: No such file or directory

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[Dovecot] automatically compiling sieve scripts
by Edgar Fuß 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Without having looked into the code: Does Pigeonhole automatically compile a sieve script if the compiled form is not /strictly/ newer than the text form? I'm running into the problem that during automatic installation of a global sieve-after script, my Makefile has a rule to compile, yet afterwards, the sieve plugin complains about not being able to compile (which is correct, but it shouldn't try in the first place). Both text and binary form have identical time stamps. I don't want to sleep between install and sievec.

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[Dovecot] 2.0.alpha3 dovecot/auth works multiplying
by Alan Commike 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

I setup a test machine with 2.0.alpha3 - Linux, Centos 5.4. I'm using Postfix as my MTA with dovecot to do SASL authorization from /etc/{passwd,shadow}. I'm getting 'dovecot/auth -w' processes hanging around, over a few days I've reached into the 100s. As a test I set auth_worker_max_count = 2, didn't make a difference. Attaching with strace, looks like they're in their standard poll loop waiting for input. Any ideas? I haven't instrumented any of the code yet to see what's going on. I expect somehow you're losing track that the auth worker is out there? I have an old 1.x installation working with a similar setup. Here's the config: [root@pf ~]# dovecot -n # 2.0.alpha3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.4 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_worker_max_count = 2 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir passdb { deny = no driver = shadow } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)projectfoodie.com protocols = imap imaps service imap-login { inet_listener { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 511 user = postfix } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = blocking=yes driver = passwd } userdb { args = /etc/passwd driver = passwd-file } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes -- Alan Commike Founder, QEDLabs commike(a)qedlabs.com http://www.qedlabs.com 408.472.3202

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[Dovecot] Problem with stored procedure
by Fcuk F 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hi Timo/all I am trying to use stored procedure for password query when it try to connect i get authenticated only for the first user after that for subsequent user it gives me this error. Password query failed: Commands out of sync; you can't run this command now You might have solved this issue before, did some search just found this http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-October/017041.html (not resloved) Could you please guide me how to resolve this issue. thanks in advance. *dovecot-mysql.conf* connect = host=xxxx dbname=dovecot user=xxx password=xxxxx client_flags=65536 user_query = SELECT xx as uid, xx as gid, home FROM table WHERE User = '%u' password_query = call proxyMayBe('%u','%w','%r'); *Dovecot -n : *# 1.2.6: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.4 (Final) base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log protocols: imap pop3 listen: * ssl: no 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_process_per_connection: no login_processes_count: 30 mail_location: maildir:~/ mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf

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