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[Dovecot] Deliver, sendmail, virtual users, and catch-all addresses
by Eric Loyd 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

I have spent a long time looking into this and can't find the answer I'm looking for, so I'm asking here. I'm cutting the example down to just the bare minimums. This is NOT my actual configuration, but is sufficient for asking this question: How can I use dovecot's deliver LDA to deliver to virtual users, but then have unknown virtual users fall back to catch-all addresses defined by sendmail? Background: * sendmail is the MTA. I do not wish to change this. * procmail is the default MDA. * deliver is set up per the dovecot documentation as another MDA. * mailertable is configured to send mydomain.com to dovecot:dovecot * SQL backend for user/passwords I have it working the way I want with the exception of catch-alls. I thought that it might work by adding @mydomain.com to virtusertable, but sendmail sees the "user not found" return from deliver as the MDA and bounces the mail to postmaster. So what I'm trying to accomplish is this: Mail from user(a)external.com to me(a)mydomain.com Deliver to me Mail from user(a)external.com to sales(a)mydomain.com (virtual) Deliver via deliver to sales(a)mydomain.com Mail from user(a)external.com to foobar(a)mydomain.com (invalid) Deliver to catchall - spam(a)otherdomain.com Can someone point me in the right direction. RTFM is fine if you'll tell me what FM to R, because I've run out of ideas... Thanks! -- Eric Loyd

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[Dovecot] question about mysql authentication
by Chantal Rosmuller 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi list, i use dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 installed from rpm centos 5.0 I cant get mysql authetication working: this is my /etc/dove-mysql.conf ######dove-mysql.conf should look like this########## #db_host = 127.0.0.1 #db_port = 3306 db = postfix db_user = postfix db_passwd = secret db_client_flags = 0 default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' user_query = SELECT '/var/vmail/%d/%n' as home, 'maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n' as mail, 150 AS uid, 12 AS gid, concat('dirsize:storage=',quota) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username ='%u' AND active ='1' ####################ends here#################### When I use this conffile: ##############dovecot configured to work with virtual users############ base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login default_mail_env = mbox:/var/vmail/%d/%n log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " log_path = /var/log/maillog mail_extra_groups = mail first_valid_uid = 150 last_valid_uid = 150 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes auth = mysql_auth auth_userdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf ####################################ends here###################### i get this error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 13: Unknown setting: userdb When I use this: ##############dovecot configured to work with virtual users############ base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap pop3 imaps pop3s login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login default_mail_env = mbox:/var/vmail/%d/%n log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " log_path = /var/log/maillog mail_extra_groups = mail first_valid_uid = 150 last_valid_uid = 150 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes auth = mysql_auth passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } ####################################ends here###################### i get the following error: Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 13: Unknown section type What is the correct syntax? Thank you

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[Dovecot] Dovecot installation with openldap shared libraries at Solaris 10
by Dovecot Jami 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi, I am installing dovecot-1.0.10 on Solaris 10 with LDAP support. I know that Solaris LDAP is broken and so I install openldap-2.3.35. My openldap-2.3.35 shared lib files are at /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/include/. Barkley DB version is 4.2. Now I am configuring dovecot to use openldap as follows, PATH=$PATH:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin export PATH LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib -R/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib" ./configure --with-ldap make make install After installation it shows the same Solaris broken LDAP error message as below, dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] auth(default): LDAP: Buggy LDAP library returned wrong fd: 1 dovecot: [ID 128275 mail.error] Auth process died too early - shutting down Pls help me. Rgds, Mahmud Jami --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

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[Dovecot] Regarding the UIDLIST
by Kjartan Andreassen 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi, I wonder if the UID's in the UIDLIST will ever change for a given email? Eg with courier it is recreated sometimes, but can i 100% rely on that the UIDs will never change? Or is there anything else i can rely on that will never change? The reason I'm asking is that i want to link certain tasks etc etc to an email, and the only way to get a unique link is that if the uidlist or something else unique never changes. Thank you. -- Kjartan

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[Dovecot] Dovecot at Solaris 10 with LDAP : Buggy LDAP library returned wrong fd: 1
by Dovecot Jami 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi, I installed Dovecot-1.0.10 at my Solaris 10 with LDAP support. It runs fine without LDAP. But when I configured LDAP and start it, it shows the following error, dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] auth(default): LDAP: Buggy LDAP library returned wrong fd: 1 dovecot: [ID 128275 mail.error] Auth process died too early - shutting down Pls help me to solve this. Rgds, Mahmud Jami --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot With cygwin
by Jaspreet Singh 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

I googled around web and found http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-December/005665.html by Johannes Berg that has a patch for dovecot + cygwin. but that does not work. Does anybody successfully compiled and running dovecot on windows XP + cygwin 5.1. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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[Dovecot] Please remove me
by Mike McGonagle 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hello Mr List Administrator, I have tried to remove myself from this list, but for some reason, these requests are being ignored, and I am still receiving these mailings. Could someone in charge PLEASE remove me email address from this list? Thank you, Michael McGonagle

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[Dovecot] Quota per domain
by Michel Bulgado 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi People I have a two questions I use dovecot 1.0.10 I have quota maildir 1- I want to use the last version of quota 1.1 in my dovecot , i have to patch then, so which file i have to apply ? http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/ this one quota-rewrite-1.0.9.diff ??? my another question : 2- with the new quota (1.1) if is posible define a quota per domain? %n(a)domain1.com = 100M %n(a)domain2.com = 0 --- no quota limit or @domain1.com = 100M @domain2.com = 0 --- no limit quota Once again , sorry for my english Thanks -------------------------------------------------------

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[Dovecot] old master.pid prevents dovecot startup
by Michael 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Summary ======= After an unclean shutdown the file /var/run/dovecot/master.pid remained behind. This prevented dovecot from starting, and gave a misleading error message. To be more resilient and fault-tolerant, I recommend that dovecot also check the validity of the PID in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid in order to determine whether or not another dovecot process is running. Detail ====== In testing out my automatic UPS shutdown I inadvertently shut down my system uncleanly ... oops! As the system rebooted, I saw that dovecot did not start properly, with an error message: Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf After the system came up, I tried to start dovecot manually. Turns out that there was an invalid PID in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid ----- [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: Error: Dovecot is already running with PID 1965 (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot.conf [FAILED] [root@mykiss5 mth]# ps 1965 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND [root@mykiss5 mth]# rm /var/run/dovecot/master.pid rm: remove regular file `/var/run/dovecot/master.pid'? y [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot stop Stopping Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@mykiss5 mth]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: [ OK ] [root@mykiss5 mth]# dovecot --version 1.0.7 [root@mykiss5 mth]# ----- This leads me to believe that dovecot is only checking for the existance of /var/run/dovecot/master.pid. It seems to me that it would be more fault-tolerant if it also checked the validity of the PID that is in /var/run/dovecot/master.pid. Michael

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Re: [Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master
by Jerry Yeager 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

> > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:19:11 +0100 > From: Andreas Ntaflos <daff(a)dword.org> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at > */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master > To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org > Message-ID: <200801151519.11951.daff(a)dword.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Tuesday 15 January 2008 03:56:28 Jerry Yeager wrote: >>> while fiddling around with the configuration so Dovecot's LDA >>> "deliver" can be >>> used by multiple users by means of Getmail (you can read about that >>> in [1]) I >>> always end up running into the error message posted in the subject >>> line: ( stuff snipped out ) >> One last thing, as a security idea, try something like >> >> master { >> path = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master >> mode = 0600 >> user = dovecot_user >> group = dovecot_group >> } >> >> and set your postfix line that calls deliver to match: >> >> dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu >> user=dovecot_user:dovecot_group argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ >> deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} > > Thanks for this suggestion! But that would imply that I have a > virtual user > setup, wouldn't it? Because I don't, all my users are regular Unix > users with > shell accounts. That's why my Postfix main.cf contains just > > home_mailbox = Maildir/ > mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver > > which is also what the LDA/Postfix wiki page says on > wiki.dovecot.org. No > Dovecot entry in master.cf at all. > Actually I was responding to what you had listed in your message i.e. socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: root group: dovecot -- which is a setup type you would use in a virtual style of user (either a "super user" or a group of non-system listed users with different uids / gids) setup . I had not encountered your other postings until later. Jerry > And, as also mentioned elsewhere in this thread, until yesterday I > didn't even > have the master { ... } section uncommented, and no auth-master > socket seems > to have been configured. But then again I only delivered through > Postfix and > didn't need to have deliver called by a regular user. > > Andreas > -- > Andreas "daff" Ntaflos > Vienna, Austria > > GPG Fingerprint: 6234 2E8E 5C81 C6CB E5EC 7E65 397C E2A8 090C A9B4 >

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