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[Dovecot] outlook2007 shows frequent imap disconnect no matter what outlook-idle setting in dovecot.conf
by Kielbasiewicz, Peter 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hello, I saw the problem quite often in various posts but could not find a real solution . Problem is that I frequently get annoying popups from outlook 2007 about imap idle timeouts which block working with outlook until the popup is acknowledged. The popup says: Your IMAP server closed the connection. This can occur if you leave the connection idle for too long. Protocol: IMAP Server: testhost Port: 143 Error Code: 0x800CCCDD I tried to run dovecot with or without "imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle" but do not see any difference. I am running dovecot on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.1 (Tikanga). Below is the output of some commands to get a clue about my config. Background info: Our primary mailboxes are on exchange servers. As there is a size limit on the server mailboxes I am evaluating a local storage solution for our users. Thus I set up an additional mailbox in outlook using IMAP. Local .pst files can not be backuped easily (especially when outlook is running) and I am investigating a local IMAP server where users can move their mails to. This server can easily be backuped (even incrementally when using Maildir) and users do always have access to their mails. The drawbacks are that users must have an extra login to the imap server because I have no ldap access to the company AD server from our local site domain. The solution will not be accepted though if I can not prevent the frequent disconnect popups. Peter #dovecot --version 1.0.rc15 #dovecot -n # /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap imaps login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd # tail /var/log/messages Mar 26 06:45:28 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<peter>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:130.143.81.176, lip=::ffff:130.143.83.92 Mar 26 06:46:01 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected: Logged out Mar 26 06:46:01 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected Mar 26 07:15:31 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<peter>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:130.143.81.176, lip=::ffff:130.143.83.92 Mar 26 07:15:31 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<peter>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:130.143.81.176, lip=::ffff:130.143.83.92 Mar 26 07:16:04 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected Mar 26 07:16:04 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected Mar 26 07:40:13 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<peter>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:130.143.81.176, lip=::ffff:130.143.83.92 Mar 26 07:40:13 testhost dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<peter>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:130.143.81.176, lip=::ffff:130.143.83.92 Mar 26 07:40:39 testhost dovecot: IMAP(peter): Disconnected

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[Dovecot] Confusion of Sieve filter scripts and the file separator. (Amatuer Siever)
by Jack 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hello, I have just been playing around with sieve filters to split up all my incoming mail into the correct directories. I have created some subdirectories to put mailing list emails in and just want to check if my thinking is correct. I am using namespaces with the '/' character as the separator. When creating the fileinto line on my sieve scripts I thought I would have to use the '/' character to separate the folders (as horde mail also does), but that doesn't work (and produces a "Invalid folder" error) instead I must use the '.' character. I am using the dovecot deliver module and managesieve for my sieve stuff (dovecot 1.0.13). I am just wondering if this is the correct behaviour or if it is a bug of sorts. Cheers. From, Jack

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[Dovecot] Dovecot config
by Dien Phan 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hi, I've installed dovecot 1.0.13 on FreeBSD 6.3 RELEASE and now trying to configure it. Below is my config file: $ dovecot -n # 1.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log protocols: imap ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir dotlock_use_excl: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_plugins: antispam imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: checkpassword args: /var/MailRoot/bin/dovecot_xmail userdb: driver: static args: uid=vxmail gid=vxmail home=/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vxmail plugin: antispam_signature: X-DSPAM-Signature antispam_trash: Trash antispam_spam: SPAM antispam_dspam_binary: /usr/local/bin/dspam antispam_dspam_args: --user;%u We are using a web mail software that allows users to login either as us 'abc' or 'abc@domain'. The problem is: when a user logs in as 'abc' (without domain part) dovecots creates a directory /var/MailRoot/domains/abc and check mail there (as I understand because %d is blank). My question is how to config dovecot so it automatically add default domain %d is blank. Thank you for help. Dien Phan

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Re: [Dovecot] shared Sent and Junk folders {Scanned}
by Tolga 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Scott Silva wrote: > on 4-2-2008 11:51 PM Tolga spake the following: >> Scott Silva wrote: >> >>> on 4-2-2008 4:01 AM Tolga spake the following: >>> >>>> Charles Marcus wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 4/2/2008 3:38 AM, Tolga wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> For some odd reason, two of my users share the same Sent and Junk >>>>>> folders, therefore I keep getting errors about Sent folder reading >>>>>> permissions and one user reading the other user's Junk folder. What >>>>>> can I do about this odd problem? >>>>>> >>>>> Do you really think anyone can even guess what might cause something >>>>> like this based on the information given? >>>>> >>>>> How about some hints, like: >>>>> >>>>> dovecot version, platform, output of dovecot -n, and maybe even - >>>>> gasp - some log entries given when these users are experiencing the >>>>> problem... >>>>> >>>> Dovecot version is 1.0.7, on Linux gentoo, below is dovecot -n >>>> >>>> log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log >>>> info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log >>>> listen: [::] >>>> ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem >>>> ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key >>>> disable_plaintext_auth: no >>>> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login >>>> login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login >>>> mail_extra_groups: mail >>>> mail_location: >>>> mbox:/var/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail/folders/%u >>>> >>> Here you need something like mbox:/var/mail/%u/ or mbox:/var/%u/mail/ >>> to keep all the users other mailboxes separate. >>> >> I did like you said, and now I get IMAP(tolga): open() failed with >> subscription file /var/mail/tolga/.subscriptions: Not a directory. btw, >> /var/mail/tolga is a file, but what I want is to have all the other >> folders in /var/mail/folders/tolga. Should I modify it like >> mbox:/var/mail/folders/%u/ ? >> >> > That should work. It indeed work, thanks :) > > -- > > Scott Silva > Network Administrator > San Gabriel Valley Water Company > 11142 Garvey Ave. El Monte CA 91733 > 626.448.6183 x.296 > ssilva(a)sgvwater.com > > > -- > This Message has been scanned for > viruses and dangerous content by > the San Gabriel Valley Water Co.MailScanner <http://www.mailscanner.info> > and is believed to be clean. > -- Stay with *nix :)

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[Dovecot] Icedove (Thunderbird) crashes when reading IMAP messages
by Cam Ellison 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

This is a Debian lenny/sid installation. Dovecot has been installed on it for over a year, with no problems. Lately (i.e. the past few months), if I attempt to read a message, Icedove crashes. It does not do this when I read a message downloaded from the ISP's POP3 server (not that I do this very often - almost all my mail goes through Dovecot). I am now having to read email with KMail, but cannot send from it - that's another story. Googling for the past month or so reveals nothing: there seems to be no bug filed for this, and indeed I think it is an odd communication problem with dovecot that has not been seen before. Has anyone any experience with this, or any ideas how I should go about resolving it? I have not done so (because I don't know how to use the data, not being a coder), but can run strace and/or valgrind on icedove if that will help. Thanks in advance Cam -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. #01417 Cam Ellison & Associates Ltd. Management Psychology 3446 Beach Avenue Roberts Creek BC V0N 2W2 Phone: 604.885.4806 Fax: 604.885.4809 Cell: 604.989.0635

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[Dovecot] shared Sent and Junk folders
by Tolga 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi, For some odd reason, two of my users share the same Sent and Junk folders, therefore I keep getting errors about Sent folder reading permissions and one user reading the other user's Junk folder. What can I do about this odd problem? Regards, Tolga -- Stay with *nix :)

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[Dovecot] How to fetch mails in Spam dir by MUA via POP3?
by Zhang Huangbin 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi, all. How can i fetch mails in Spam directory by MUA (Such as Thunderbird) via POP3? Thanks very much. -- Best Regards. Zhang Huangbin - OpenBSD 4.2 -release, i386. - RHEL 5.1 Client

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[Dovecot] Lmtp between hosts? (postfix/dovecot/ldap)
by k bah 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

I have 2 hosts: (a) - dovecot-1.0.5-6 - postfix-2.4.5-20 -> It's not the mx record for the domain, just holds the mailboxes -> Postfix uses LDAP for user lookup, dovecot too. -> Works ok if I set it to be the final mail destination, with Cyrus and Dovecot LDA (mailbox_transport). -> Has no domain associated (dns) with this ip address (b) - postfix-2.3.2-28 -> Has the mx record for that domain, has ip address that the domain points to. (users @ domain.org) -> Works ok if I install dovecot and set the mailbox_transport to be on this machine, both with dovecot and cyrus. What I'm trying to do: Have host (b) to receive mails for that domain, and by setting it's transport_maps to be /etc/postfix/transport, and there (tranport maps) point to host (a), using ltmp: "domain.org lmtp:ip_address_machine_A:24" ("domain.org lmtp:inet:ip_address_machine_A:24" does not work, gives me "fatal: valid hostname or network address required in server description: inet:ip_address_machine_A:24") Both machines have /etc/services with lmtp to port 24 tcp/udp. http://www.postfix.org/transport.5.html was not so clear to me. Ok, when I took out the "inet" part on the transport maps file, it connected to the host (a), which has this on master.cf: "machine_A_ip_address:24 inet n - n - - lmtp" it "worked", since machine (b) (received the mail and has mx record) delivered the mail to machine (a) (holds mailboxes, runs dovecot), but that stopped, machine (b) connects to port 24 on machine (a), and stays there, connected, without saying nothing (sniffed it). When I kill the connection (kill postfix on machine (a)), machine (b) complains on the log file: postfix/lmtp[704]: msg_id: to=<xx(a)xx.yy>, relay=machine_A[machine_A]:24, delay=223, delays=0.08/0.01/223/0, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (lost connection with machine_A[machine_A] while receiving the initial server greeting). -- questions -- I don't know if I'm doing things wrong (configuration error) or the wrong thing (should try other ways), so my questions: 1) Is this setup going to work ever, or it's wrong to try to get it to work? I want to hold mailboxes on a different host, and now I got to use dovecot (in case I hear: "try it with cyrus instead" =o)). 2) Viewing from the machine that receives the mail, and has mx record, the transport should be lmtp, right? Since it's now a matter of "delivery". Postfix: <...> -> <qmgr> -> (<local> or <smtp> or <pipe>) When using lmtp, I'm in <local>?? I mean, to get the message to the other machine (just mailboxes, no mx) I SHOULD USE LMTP(?) 3) Viewing from the machine holding the mailboxes, is there a way to make dovecot listen on that port? Or should I continue to use Postfix, and use postfix on this machine to deliver to dovecot (dovecot lda config works ok if using 1 and only 1 machine for everything - mx record, mailboxes). With Cyrus I talked lmtp directly, Postfix receives the mail and uses lmtp to talk to cyrus, using a unix socket. If anyone replies to the topic, and the discussion goes deeper on some of the alternatives, I paste my configs and come with further details, since what's working isolated I didn't paste here. Previous tests with just Cyrus or Dovecot on 1 machine setup worked, so I think it would just "bloat" the mail with information. thanks = -- Powered by Outblaze

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[Dovecot] Alert when quota is warning
by Nicolas Letellier 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hello. Is it exist a plugin to alert when a POP/IMAP account has a warning quota (like 90%)? Or, do you know a solution to do it? The alert could be an email sent. Thanks. - Nicolas.

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[Dovecot] Outlook cant connect to POP server.
by "Fábio M. Catunda" 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi, I'm having a weir situation with MS Outlook and dovecot. I'm using POP for some users, some can connect, others cant. With tcpdump I got this packet coming from client to server: 2008-03-31 18:30:20.913718 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 128, id 1082, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: TCP (6), length: 48) 192.168.12.9.1072 > 192.168.5.124.110: S, cksum 0x90db (correct), 2564735473:2564735473(0) win 65535 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK> E..0.:@...c.... ...|.0.n........p............... But the server never give an answer. I don't have any idea why the server do not answer, in error.log and info.log I got nothing. Dovecot version: 1.0.rc15-2etch3 (Debian package) And those are the workarrounds that I enabled: pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh I'm kind of lost, any tip is appreciated! Thanks!

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