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[Dovecot] SQL user_query question
by John Dubchak 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi, I am working through setting up a virtual hosting system using Dovecot, Postfix and Postgres on a CentOS 5 box running an install of the dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 RPM. The question I have is, given this password_query SELECT clause, which all return valid values from the database: user password domain can I use a %d in the WHERE clause of my user_query? The reason I ask is that the log file shows the results coming back correctly for the password_query in the log file: dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=user1 domain=domain.com Yet, the user_query that is logged shows: dovecot: auth(default): sql(user1,192.168.0.77): SELECT vu.virtual_mailbox AS home, vu.virtual_uid AS uid, vu.virtual_gid AS gid, vd.domain AS domain FROM virtual_users vu, virtual_mailbox_domains vd WHERE vu.domain_key = vd.id AND vu.username = 'user1' AND vd.domain = '' And the actual query in my dovecot-sql.conf looks like this: user_query = SELECT vu.virtual_mailbox AS home, vu.virtual_uid AS uid, vu.virtual_gid AS gid, vd.domain AS domain FROM virtual_users vu, virtual_mailbox_domains vd WHERE vu.domain_key = vd.id AND vu.username = '%u' AND vd.domain = '%d' I would have expected the above %d to contain the "domain" SELECT value from the password_query, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Any insight is most appreciated. Thanks, John

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[Dovecot] multiple ports, different characteristics
by bill-dovecot＠carpenter.ORG 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

The wiki <http://wiki.dovecot.org/Iptables> leads me to believe that the only way to configure dovecot to listen for the same protocol on multiple ports is via external redirection (iptables or similar). Is that so, or can dovecot be directly configured to listen on multiple ports? Here's a concrete example of what I'm trying to accomplish. Our environment uses plaintext authentication, and so we force our users to use TLS for IMAP. For some internal connections (specifically with dovecot built-in proxying), we need non-TLS connections for IMAP. It's completely OK here if we need to listen on different ports for the two flavors of connections. Can dovecot be configured to handle this and/or do we need to run multiple instances of dovecot with different config files? Thanks -- bill-dovecot(a)carpenter.ORG (WJCarpenter) PGP 0x91865119 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-auth crash
by otik 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

I wrote mail as different used few minutes ago... Here is better result from strace. 23:56:00.390607 close(18) = 0 23:56:00.390792 open("/usr/lib/sasl2/libplain.la", O_RDONLY) = 18 23:56:00.390858 close(18) = 0 23:56:00.390904 open("/usr/lib/sasl2/libldapdb.la", O_RDONLY) = 18 23:56:00.390963 fstat64(18, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=848, ...}) = 0 23:56:00.391050 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0xffaf273c) = 0xf7fb2000 23:56:00.391103 read(18, "# libldapdb.la - a libtool libra"..., 4096) = 848 23:56:00.391173 close(18) = 0 23:56:00.391215 munmap(0xf7fb2000, 4096) = 0 23:56:00.391272 open("/usr/lib/sasl2/libldapdb.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 18 23:56:00.391341 read(18, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300\17"..., 512) = 512 23:56:00.391404 fstat64(18, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=14224, ...}) = 0 23:56:00.391483 mmap2(NULL, 17112, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 18, 0) = 0xf7584000 23:56:00.391537 mmap2(0xf7588000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 18, 0x3) = 0xf7588000 23:56:00.391591 close(18) = 0 23:56:00.391760 open("/usr/lib/sasl2/libldapdb.la", O_RDONLY) = 18 23:56:00.391817 close(18) = 0 23:56:00.391862 getdents(16, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 23:56:00.391910 close(16) = 0 23:56:00.391992 geteuid32() = 0 23:56:00.392100 socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, 0) = 16 23:56:00.392155 bind(16, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, 12) = 0 23:56:00.392212 getsockname(16, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=16064, groups=00000000}, [12]) = 0 23:56:00.392294 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.392345 sendto(16, "\24\0\0\0\26\0\1\3\200]\236G\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 20, 0, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, 12) = 20 23:56:00.392422 recvmsg(16, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"0\0\0\0\24\0\2\0\200]\236G\300>\0\0\2\10\200\376\1\0\0"..., 4096}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 108 23:56:00.392516 recvmsg(16, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"@\0\0\0\24\0\2\0\200]\236G\300>\0\0\n\200\200\376\1\0\0"..., 4096}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 128 23:56:00.392604 recvmsg(16, {msg_name(12)={sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, msg_iov(1)=[{"\24\0\0\0\3\0\2\0\200]\236G\300>\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\24"..., 4096}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 20 23:56:00.392681 close(16) = 0 23:56:00.392745 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 16 23:56:00.392801 setsockopt(16, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0 23:56:00.392861 fcntl64(16, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) 23:56:00.392908 fcntl64(16, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 23:56:00.392956 connect(16, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(389), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 EINPROGRESS (Operation now in progress) 23:56:00.393326 select(1024, NULL, [16], NULL, {10, 0}) = 1 (out [16], left {10, 0}) 23:56:00.393488 getpeername(16, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(389), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, [16]) = 0 23:56:00.393574 fcntl64(16, F_GETFL) = 0x802 (flags O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) 23:56:00.393618 fcntl64(16, F_SETFL, O_RDWR) = 0 23:56:00.393677 getpeername(16, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(389), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, [16]) = 0 23:56:00.393780 uname({sys="Linux", node="server", ...}) = 0 23:56:00.393966 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.394014 write(16, "01\2\1\1`,\2\1\3\4\37cn="..., 51) = 51 23:56:00.394217 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.394266 select(1024, [16], [], NULL, {10, 0}) = 1 (in [16], left {10, 0}) 23:56:00.394468 read(16, "0\f\2\1\1a\7\n", 8) = 8 23:56:00.394521 read(16, "\1\0\4\0\4\0", 6) = 6 23:56:00.394591 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.394668 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.394711 write(16, "07\2\1\2c2\4\22dc=printflow,dc=sk\n\1\2\n\1"..., 57) = 57 23:56:00.395613 select(1024, [16], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [16]) 23:56:00.395803 read(16, "0\202\2\302\2\1\2d", 8) = 8 23:56:00.395857 read(16, "\202\2\273\4*cn=USER NAME,ou=users,dc="..., 702) = 702 23:56:00.395937 select(1024, [16], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [16]) 23:56:00.396120 read(16, "0\f\2\1\2e\7\n", 8) = 8 23:56:00.396170 read(16, "\1\0\4\0\4\0", 6) = 6 23:56:00.396224 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.396426 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.396468 write(16, "08\2\1\3`3\2\1\3\4*cn=USER NAME,ou=us"..., 58) = 58 23:56:00.397030 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.397075 select(1024, [16], [], NULL, {10, 0}) = 1 (in [16], left {10, 0}) 23:56:00.397268 read(16, "0\f\2\1\3a\7\n", 8) = 8 23:56:00.397320 read(16, "\0011\4\0\4\0", 6) = 6 23:56:00.397376 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.397440 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.397488 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 18 23:56:00.397541 fstat64(18, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=806, ...}) = 0 23:56:00.397616 fstat64(18, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=806, ...}) = 0 23:56:00.397691 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0xffaf8728) = 0xf7fb2000 23:56:00.397740 read(18, "TZif\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\0\0\6\0"..., 4096) = 806 23:56:00.397812 close(18) = 0 23:56:00.397855 munmap(0xf7fb2000, 4096) = 0 23:56:00.397919 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=806, ...}) = 0 23:56:00.398018 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) = 18 23:56:00.398065 fcntl64(18, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 23:56:00.398111 connect(18, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/dev/log"}, 110) = 0 23:56:00.398201 send(18, "<11>Jan 28 23:56:00 dovecot-auth"..., 139, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 139 23:56:00.398307 geteuid32() = 0 23:56:00.398354 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.398396 write(16, "01\2\1\4`,\2\1\3\4\37cn=LDAPADMIN,dc=prin"..., 51) = 51 23:56:00.398546 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.398590 select(1024, [16], [], NULL, {10, 0}) = 1 (in [16], left {10, 0}) 23:56:00.398784 read(16, "0\f\2\1\4a\7\n", 8) = 8 23:56:00.398836 read(16, "\1\0\4\0\4\0", 6) = 6 23:56:00.398889 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.398939 getuid32() = 0 23:56:00.399004 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 19 23:56:00.399049 fcntl64(19, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 23:56:00.399095 connect(19, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = 0 23:56:00.399205 send(19, "\2\0\0\0\v\0\0\0\7\0\0\0passwd\0", 19, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 19 23:56:00.399299 poll([{fd=19, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP, revents=POLLIN|POLLHUP}], 1, 5000) = 1 23:56:00.399361 recvmsg(19, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(2)=[{"passwd\0", 7}, {"\270O\3\0\0\0\0\0", 8}], msg_controllen=16, {cmsg_len=16, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_RIGHTS, {20}}, msg_flags=0}, 0x40000000 /* MSG_??? */) = 15 23:56:00.399445 mmap2(NULL, 217016, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 20, 0xffaf895c) = 0xf754f000 23:56:00.399498 close(20) = 0 23:56:00.399537 close(19) = 0 23:56:00.400433 access("/var/run/utmpx", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 23:56:00.400489 open("/var/run/utmp", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE|0x80000) = 19 23:56:00.400544 fcntl64(19, F_GETFD) = 0 23:56:00.400585 fcntl64(19, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 23:56:00.400630 _llseek(19, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0 23:56:00.400681 alarm(0) = 0 23:56:00.400728 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0xf7b7c590, [], 0}, {0x8071030, [], 0}, 8) = 0 23:56:00.400798 alarm(1) = 0 23:56:00.400841 fcntl64(19, F_SETLKW, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 23:56:00.400894 read(19, "\10\0\0\0\31\t\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.400962 read(19, "\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0~\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401022 read(19, "\1\0\0\0002N\0\0~\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401082 read(19, "\10\0\0\0V\16\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401142 read(19, "\7\0\0\0\313\24\0\0tty1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401202 read(19, "\7\0\0\0\314\24\0\0tty2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401261 read(19, "\6\0\0\0\315\24\0\0tty3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401334 read(19, "\6\0\0\0\316\24\0\0tty4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401394 read(19, "\6\0\0\0\320\24\0\0tty5\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401453 read(19, "\7\0\0\0\322\24\0\0tty6\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401513 read(19, "\10\0\0\0\370 \0\0pts/1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401575 read(19, "\7\0\0\0W-\0\0pts/2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401634 read(19, "\10\0\0\0x-\0\0pts/3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401693 read(19, "\7\0\0\0000/\0\0pts/4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384 23:56:00.401753 read(19, "", 384) = 0 23:56:00.401795 fcntl64(19, F_SETLKW, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = 0 23:56:00.401843 alarm(0) = 1 23:56:00.401885 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8071030, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0 23:56:00.401942 close(19) = 0 23:56:00.401984 getuid32() = 0 23:56:00.402022 geteuid32() = 0 23:56:00.402076 time(NULL) = 1201560960 23:56:00.402120 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=806, ...}) = 0 23:56:00.402215 send(18, "<85>Jan 28 23:56:00 dovecot-auth"..., 157, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 157 23:56:00.402316 select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {2, 284999}) = 0 (Timeout) 23:56:02.689316 write(16, "0\5\2\1\5B\0", 7) = 7 23:56:02.689557 shutdown(16, 2 /* send and receive */) = 0 23:56:02.689625 close(16) = 0 23:56:02.689715 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- PS: because of security a rewrote some names PS: process ends quick so is it hard to catch it so it may not be complete, but hopefully sufficient

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[Dovecot] Deliver a message marked as read.
by "Fábio M. Catunda" 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi. Is there a way to deliver a message already marked as read. I would like to configure my MTA to deliver a copy of all sent messages to a folder named Sent in the user Maildir, I believe that it would be interesting to keep this folder always marked as readed. I'm not sure what define a message readed (a mark, a xheader or something) thats why I'm asking here! Any idea is apreciated. Thanks, Catunda.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot, LDAP and something akin to Postfix' "table search order" from virtual deliver.
by Maciej Paczesny 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

hi, i've found this topic while looking for a solution for the way to use 'mail groups' with dovecot an postfix, using dovecot as LDA. i'm not sure if this patch is implemented into the source or not. or maybe there is a 'special' way to have multilpe mailboxes served by postfix/dovecot? -- Maciej Paczesny maciunio2(a)gmail.com ***Gdyby nie wymyślono elektryczności, siedziałbym przed kompem przy świeczkach***

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[Dovecot] viewing a subset of folders in dumb IMAP clients
by Amitai Schlair 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

I have several dozen IMAP folders (stored as Maildir++). When I'm on the go with my iPhone, I only want to see a few of them. My naive solution that didn't work: 1) create an alternate login that yields my existing permissions and mail folder, but stores its own version of metadata 2) configure the iPhone to use that login 3) subscribe to the folders I want I test-drove the Dovecot config in a webmail app and it worked exactly right, but it turns out the iPhone (running the latest, 1.1.3) apparently doesn't respect IMAP subscriptions. My world-weary, clunkier, but seemingly working solution: 1) have the alternate login yield my existing permissions, but a different mail folder and metadata 2) create that mail folder, make its cur/new/tmp symlinks to the real ones, and symlink in the other folders I care about Is this safe? And is there a more elegant way to do what I want? Thanks, - Amitai

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[Dovecot] Shared inbox
by adsarebad＠gmail.com 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hello all, I am using dovecot with maildir storage. I want to share a inbox of one user with another user. I read the page http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes but it does not deal with inboxes. I tried a test of a non-inbox folder and it worked great. The inbox does not have a .inbox folder instead its kindof spread through the root of the mailbox. Should I create a folder say .shared-inbox with a symbolic link to cur new tmp in other-guys-mail-folder? What about index files, uid list, and keywords? Thanks

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[Dovecot] SSL certificate?
by Bjørn T Johansen 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

When I install an SSL certificate, I can't find a config option to set configure the Server Certificate Chain file... Is this not possible or can I do it another way? (When I connect, I am being told the Signature status is uncheckable...) Regards, BTJ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bjørn T Johansen btj(a)havleik.no ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Someone wrote: "I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages" To which someone replied: "It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] More efficient Deleting of a whole folder (or Purging Trash)
by Daniel Watts 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi, I've straced a few dovecot processes after hitting purge on a large Trash folder (35,000 messages). It looks like it is going through each message, one by one, and removing (unlinking) each one. Is there not a more efficient way to do this? If Dovecot knows the whole folder is being deleted (ie a Trash purge), could it do something clever with the filesystem to just remove the whole folder? Incidently, the command that initially deleted those 35k messages to Trash took about 1 hour to complete on my server and effectively locked my account out for all that time. There were also an awlful lot of these output from my strace: nanosleep({0, 131475000}, NULL) = 0 lstat("/home/virtual/xxx.com/home/admin/Maildir/.Folders.Porter/dovecot-uidlist.lock", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 Not sure if there's much one can do about speeding up deleting a lot of messages though. My webmail client has a 'delete all messages' button for each folder. If there was an efficient IMAP command for deleting a whole folder that would be useful in those circumstances. Interested to know if there is anything that can be improved. Thanks, Daniel Dovecot 1.0.9 XFS Filesystem Maildir Directories

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[Dovecot] Convert MBOX
by Erin D. Hughes 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

To all, I am using dovecot --version 1.0.10 and trying to convert MBOXes to MailDir's with the end goal of creating one folder filled with users old MBOXes that when they log in for the first time will be converted to Mail Dir format. I tried this and it did not work and gave me this output; <snip> default_mail_env = maildir:%h/mail/ #convert_mail = mbox:%h/mail:INBOX=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/%u convert_mail = mbox:%h/mail/:INBOX=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/%u Jan 30 17:17:04 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] pop3-login: Login: user=<x4500>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.30.192, lip=172.20.12.8 Jan 30 17:17:04 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 Jan 30 17:17:04 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib20_convert_plugin.so Jan 30 17:17:04 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): Effective uid=3000, gid=3000 Jan 30 17:17:04 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): mbox: data=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail/:INBOX=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/x4500 Jan 30 17:17:04 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): mbox: root=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail, index=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail, inbox=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/x4500 Jan 30 17:17:06 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): mbox: data=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail/:INBOX=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/x4500 Jan 30 17:17:06 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): mbox: root=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail, index=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail, inbox=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/x4500 Jan 30 17:17:06 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): maildir: data=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail/ Jan 30 17:17:06 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): maildir: root=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail, index=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail, control=, inbox= Jan 30 17:17:07 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] POP3(x4500): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't copy mailbox dovecot.index.log: BUG: Unknown internal error Jan 30 17:17:07 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] POP3(x4500): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't copy mailbox dovecot.index: BUG: Unknown internal error Jan 30 17:17:08 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] POP3(x4500): Mailbox conversion: Couldn't copy mailbox dovecot.index.cache: BUG: Unknown internal error Jan 30 17:17:11 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): maildir: data=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail/ Jan 30 17:17:11 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): maildir: root=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail, index=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail, control=, inbox= </snip> This actually created the x4500-convert directory but did not populate it Then I tried this trying to get the mail dir created and populated. <snip> #convert_mail = mbox:%h/mail:INBOX=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/%u convert_mail = mbox:/usr/local/src/tmpmail/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u Jan 30 17:22:45 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 673593 mail.info] Dovecot v1.0.10 starting up Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] pop3-login: Login: user=<x4500>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.30.192, lip=172.20.12.8 Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): Module loaded: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3/lib20_convert_plugin.so Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): Effective uid=3000, gid=3000 Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): mbox: data=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/x4500:INBOX=/var/mail/x4500 Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): mbox: root=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/x4500, index=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/x4500, inbox=/var/mail/x4500 Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): mbox: data=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/x4500:INBOX=/var/mail/x4500 Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): mbox: root=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/x4500, index=/usr/local/src/tmpmail/x4500, inbox=/var/mail/x4500 Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): maildir: data=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail/ Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] POP3(x4500): maildir: root=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail, index=/export/x4500/mail/jp/n/e/jorgen/x4500/mail, control=, inbox= Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] POP3(x4500): mkdir_parents(/usr/local/src/tmpmail/x4500/.imap/INBOX) failed: Not a directory Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] POP3(x4500): open() failed with subscription file /usr/local/src/tmpmail/x4500/.subscriptions: Not a directory Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] POP3(x4500): Sending log messages too fast, throttling.. Jan 30 17:22:59 pop01.unix dovecot: [ID 961074 mail.error] child 23071 (pop3) returned error 89 </snip> I am a little confused because when I read the syntax http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert?highlight=%28convert%29 It looks like it should say "convert_mail= mbox:/users/home/dir/mail/:INBOX=/location/of/old/MBOX/file" I have tried a number of different combinations but am still failing to get the mail/{cur,new,tmp} created in the correct user directory with actual mail in them. Can some one please help w/this? Additionally is there a way to run mail_convert on the command line to try to sort out the arguments? I noticed the converts are .so and .a in /usr/local/lib/dovecot/ so I doubt it but it can not hurt to ask.

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