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[Dovecot] Wiki to doc/ in tarball
by Timo Sirainen 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

So I finally started building a script that does it. Anyone interested in helping with it so that it produces readable output? First step is getting raw wiki pages. I'll do this directly by getting them from the filesystem. You can get them from here: http://dovecot.org/tmp/wikipages.tar.gz Next there's http://dovecot.org/tmp/wiki2txt.pl which is my horrible Perl script that kind of works now to produce almost readable text files. Its current output is in http://dovecot.org/tmp/wikitxt.tar.gz One thing I'm wondering about is how to make the directory layout work. For example there is "UserDatabase" and "UserDatabase/Static" pages. Currently I'm placing the latter into "_UserDatabase/Static" but I don't think that's the best solution. I was thinking about adding some "include" and "exclude" lists. If a page is in excluce list it's skipped. If it's in neither list it prints a warning but still includes it. So this makes it easy to find out the new pages and figure out if they should be included in the documentation.

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[Dovecot] Index Prob
by Kevin Richter 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Hi, i have a problem with rc19 (sorry, i have no time at the moment to uptime) and homedirs and maildirs mounted via NFS on Solaris10. At the beginning of the following log file everything is ok. At the end it cannot access the index... and just deleted the whole mailbox! It was empty... so it was no problem. Any ideas? Thanks. Bye, Kevin dovecot: Feb 15 21:17:52 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 secured lip=147.x.x.x rip=89.x.x.x resp=<hidden> dovecot: Feb 15 21:17:52 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Feb 15 21:17:52 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> dovecot: Feb 15 21:17:52 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=ssal0041 dovecot: Feb 15 21:17:52 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 111 2754 1 dovecot: Feb 15 21:17:52 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 111 ssal0041 system_user=ssal0041 uid=3092 gid=1100 home=/home/ssal0041 dovecot: Feb 15 21:17:52 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<ssal0041>, method=PLAIN, rip=89.x.x.x, lip=147.x.x.x, TLS dovecot: Feb 15 21:17:52 Info: POP3(ssal0041): Effective uid=3092, gid=1100 dovecot: Feb 15 21:17:52 Info: POP3(ssal0041): mbox: data=/home/ssal0041/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/ssal0041 dovecot: Feb 15 21:17:52 Info: POP3(ssal0041): mbox: root=/home/ssal0041/mail, index=/home/ssal0041/mail, inbox=/var/mail/ssal0041 dovecot: Feb 15 21:17:55 Error: POP3(ssal0041): Timeout while waiting for shared lock for index file /home/ssal0041/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index dovecot: Feb 15 21:19:52 Error: POP3(ssal0041): Timeout while waiting for shared lock for index file /home/ssal0041/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index dovecot: Feb 15 21:19:55 Error: POP3(ssal0041): Timeout while waiting for shared lock for index file /home/ssal0041/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index dovecot: Feb 15 21:19:55 Error: POP3(ssal0041): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2007-02-15 21:15:55] dovecot: Feb 15 21:19:55 Info: POP3(ssal0041): No INBOX for user top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 dovecot: Feb 15 21:21:29 Info: POP3(ssal0041): Disconnected top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 dovecot: Feb 15 21:21:29 Info: POP3(ssal0041): Disconnected top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0

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[Dovecot] Son't have IMAPS
by Mário Gamito 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Hi, I've installed dovecot and i'm pretty sure it has SSL support built in. But i don't have IMAPS. I get all sort of errors. Thunderbird tells: "The connection was refused". If i disable imaps, imap works just fine. If i enable it, none of them work. The certificates in /etc/ssl/certs and /etc/ssl/private are the same ? Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito ## ## SSL settings ## # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above if not specified. ssl_listen = *:943 # Disable SSL/TLS support. #ssl_disable = no # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but # root. Included doc/mkcert.sh can be used to easily generate self-signed # certificate, just make sure to update the domains in dovecot-openssl.cnf ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem # If key file is password protected, give the password here. Alternatively # give it when starting dovecot with -p parameter. #ssl_key_password = theedge # File containing trusted SSL certificate authorities. Usually not needed. # The CAfile should contain the CA-certificate(s) followed by the matching # CRL(s). CRL checking is new in dovecot .rc1 #ssl_ca_file = # Request client to send a certificate. #ssl_verify_client_cert = no # How often to regenerate the SSL parameters file. Generation is quite CPU # intensive operation. The value is in hours, 0 disables regeneration # entirely. #ssl_parameters_regenerate = 168 # SSL ciphers to use #ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW # Show protocol level SSL errors. #verbose_ssl = no ## ## Login processes ## # Directory where authentication process places authentication UNIX sockets # which login needs to be able to connect to. The sockets are created when # running as root, so you don't have to worry about permissions. Note that # everything in this directory is deleted when Dovecot is started. login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login

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[Dovecot] Dovecot forward problems
by Venilton Junior 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Hi Folks, I setted up a mail server based on this how-to http://wanderingbarque.com/howtos/mailserver/mailserver.html All things are working thing as you can see in my server log. Off course, that I've suppressed some informations. postfix/smtpd[16483]: connect from unknown[myip] postfix/smtpd[16483]: 62C9034002: client=unknown[myip] postfix/cleanup[16777]: 62C9034002: message-id=<20070215182523.62C9034002@mysmtpserver> postfix/qmgr[16457]: 62C9034002: from=<me@domain>, size=360, nrcpt=1 (queue active) dovecot: auth(default_with_listener): master in: USER 1 user@domain service=deliver dovecot: auth(default_with_listener): ldap(user@domain): user search: base=dc=example,dc=com scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=VirtualMailAccount)(mail=user@domain)(accountActiv e=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) fields=mail,homeDirectory dovecot: auth(default_with_listener): master out: USER 1 user@domain uid=202 gid=202 deliver(user@domain): msgid=<20070215182523.62C9034002@mysmtpserver>: saved mail to INBOX postfix/pipe[16785]: 62C9034002: to=<user@domain>, relay=dovecot, delay=12, status=sent (domain) postfix/qmgr[16457]: 62C9034002: removed This log is showing that a message was delivered to an user at my mailserver. But, at this time, I've tried to test forwarding features of postfix+dovecot+ldap. I've setted up this user entry (forwardActive=TRUE) in my ldap server. Here follows some entries that I put at my main.cf # Accounts accounts_server_host = $ldap_server_host accounts_search_base = $ldap_search_base accounts_query_filter = (&(&(objectClass=VirtualMailAccount)(mail=%s))(forwardActive=FALSE)(acco untActive=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) accounts_result_attribute = mailbox accounts_cache = no virtual_transport = dovecot virtual_mailbox_base = /var/lib/imap/vmail/domains virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:accounts virtual_mailbox_domains = ldap:domains virtual_minimum_uid = 202 virtual_uid_maps = static:202 virtual_gid_maps = static:202 virtual_alias_maps = ldap:aliases, ldap:virtualforward home_mailbox = Maildir/ # aliases aliases_server_host = $ldap_server_host aliases_search_base = $ldap_search_base aliases_query_filter = (&(&(objectClass=VirtualMailAlias)(mail=%s))(forwardActive=FALSE)(accoun tActive=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) aliases_result_attribute = maildrop aliases_cache = no aliases_bind_dn = $ldap_bind_dn aliases_bind_pw = $ldap_bind_pw accountsmap_server_host = $ldap_server_host accountsmap_search_base = $ldap_search_base accountsmap_query_filter = (&(&(objectClass=VirtualMailAccount)(mail=%s))(forwardActive=FALSE)(acco untActive=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) accountsmap_result_attribute = mail accountsmap_cache = no # Domains domains_server_host = $ldap_server_host domains_search_base = $ldap_search_base domains_query_filter = (&(objectClass=VirtualDomain)(vd=%s)(accountActive=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) domains_result_attribute = vd domains_bind = no domains_scope = one # VirtualForward virtualforward_server_host = $ldap_server_host virtualforward_search_base = $ldap_search_base virtualforward_query_filter = (&(&(objectClass=VirtualMailAccount)(mail=%s))(forwardActive=TRUE)(accou ntActive=TRUE)(delete=FALSE)) virtualforward_result_attribute = maildrop virtualforward_cache = no virtualforward_bind_dn = $ldap_bind_dn virtualforward_bind_pw = $ldap_bind_pw Any guesses or misconfiguration? I don't have an idea of how can I debug to get the error. Looking forward to get some clues and helps :P Best Regards Venilton C. Junior

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[Dovecot] I keep getting password mismatches
by Mark 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Hey, This is the debug information: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AG1hcmsAbWFyaw==auth(default): passwd(mark,127.0.0.1): password mismatchauth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=markimap-login: Disconnected: user=<mark>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured The strange thing is that i can login with ssh using my username and password but i can`t do anything related to dovecot.. i`m using a default .conf file with auth method set as plain and the supported protocols are set to pop and imap.. anyone that could help me with this? Thanx in favor. _________________________________________________________________ Probeer Live.com: je eigen persoonlijke opstartpagina met alleen de dingen die jij belangrijk vindt op één plek. http://www.live.com/getstarted

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[Dovecot] Is it 1.0 yet?
by Marc Perkel 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

OK - my last main bug was fixed a few releases ago. I know that there's no end to getting things right but there comes a point when you need to call it done. No one trusts a 1.0 to be perfect but Dovecot is already better that most 2.0 versions of other software. I vote (as if my vote counted) to call it done, declare victory, and move on to 1.01, 1.02 etc. No one is going to trus it till it gets to 1.02 so I say lets bless it and move on.

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[Dovecot] 1.0.rc22 released
by Timo Sirainen 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc22.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc22.tar.gz.sig Found another bad bug in rc19 changes. Wonder why my imaptest catched the bug only in CVS HEAD but not in branch_1_0 even though both had it. Anyway, now the imaptest runs nicely for both, and I'm again optimistic that the bug count is low enough for v1.0 to be released soon :) BTW. My previous benchmarks which showed how mmap_disable=yes and fsync_disable=yes give huge performance benefits are pretty XFS-specific. I did some quick tests with ext3 and the differences were quite small with it. I'll probably do another proper run of tests later. + pop3: Commit the transaction even if client didn't QUIT so cached data gets saved. - Fixed another indexing bug in rc19 and later which caused transactions to be skipped in some situations, causing all kinds of problems. - mail_log_max_lines_per_sec was a bit broken and caused crashes with dovecot -a - BSD filesystem quota was counted wrong. Patch by Manuel Bouyer - LIST: If namespace has a prefix and inbox=no, don't list prefix.inbox if it happens to exist when listing for %.

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[Dovecot] Sieve Vacation virtual support?
by Charles Marcus 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hello, I'm wanting to enable vacation messages for my users on a new dovecot server that I'm playing with, but want to know if the Dovecot LDA+Sieve vacation message function http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve will work with virtual users? For security reasons, I only want to use virtual domains/users. Thanks... -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] strange LDA error
by Farkas Levente 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

hi, i try to use dovecot lda with postfix virtual delivery, but i've got error. the maildirs are created ie: new/, tmp/, curr/, dovecot.index, dovecot.index.log, .dovecot.lda-dupes. but the mail is not placed into it and got and error: "save failed to INBOX". what can be the reason? thank you for your help in advance. yours. --------------------------------- # ls -ald /var/vmail/ drwxrwx--- 3 vmail mail 4096 Feb 15 14:08 /var/vmail/ --------------------------------- this's the relevant part my dovecot.conf: --------------------------------- mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes mmap_disable = yes first_valid_uid = 101 last_valid_uid = 101 maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/sql.conf } userdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/sql.conf } userdb prefetch { } user = nobody socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0660 user = vmail group = mail } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = mail } } } --------------------------------- this is the log in maillog: --------------------------------- Feb 15 14:08:03 alpha postfix/pickup[15447]: 14C61F4D34: uid=0 from=<root> Feb 15 14:08:03 alpha postfix/cleanup[15614]: 14C61F4D34: message-id=<20070215130803.14C61F4D34(a)alpha.lenux.hu> Feb 15 14:08:03 alpha postfix/qmgr[15448]: 14C61F4D34: from=<root(a)alpha.lenux.hu>, size=295, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 15 14:08:03 alpha dovecot: auth(default): master in: USER 1 attaba(a)balazsiek.hu service=deliver Feb 15 14:08:03 alpha dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix) Feb 15 14:08:03 alpha dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): SELECT concat('/var/vmail/', maildir) as home, concat('maildir:/var/vmail/', maildir) as mail, 101 A S uid, 12 AS gid, concat('dirsize:storage=', quota) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'attaba(a)balazsiek.hu' AND active = '1' Feb 15 14:08:03 alpha dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 1 attaba(a)balazsiek.hu home=/var/vmail/balazsiek.hu/attaba/ mail=maildir:/var/vmail/balazsiek.hu/attaba / uid=101 gid=12 quota=dirsize:storage=0 Feb 15 14:08:03 alpha postfix/sendmail[15620]: running: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin? xxgdb /usr/libexec/postfix/sendmail 15620 & sleep 5 Feb 15 14:08:08 alpha postfix/pickup[15447]: 51183F4D36: uid=101 from=<> Feb 15 14:08:08 alpha postfix/cleanup[15614]: 51183F4D36: message-id=<dovecot-1171544883-208651-0(a)alpha.lenux.hu> Feb 15 14:08:08 alpha postfix/pipe[15617]: 14C61F4D34: to=<attaba(a)balazsiek.hu>, relay=dovecot, delay=5.3, delays=0.17/0.01/0/5.1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot se rvice) Feb 15 14:08:08 alpha postfix/qmgr[15448]: 14C61F4D34: removed Feb 15 14:08:08 alpha postfix/qmgr[15448]: 51183F4D36: from=<>, size=1558, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 15 14:08:08 alpha postfix/cleanup[15614]: 64127F4D33: message-id=<dovecot-1171544883-208651-0(a)alpha.lenux.hu> Feb 15 14:08:08 alpha postfix/qmgr[15448]: 64127F4D33: from=<>, size=1687, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 15 14:08:08 alpha postfix/local[15627]: 51183F4D36: to=<root(a)alpha.lenux.hu>, relay=local, delay=0.21, delays=0.13/0.01/0/0.07, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (forwarded as 64127F4D33 ) Feb 15 14:08:08 alpha postfix/qmgr[15448]: 51183F4D36: removed Feb 15 14:08:08 alpha postfix/smtp[15628]: 64127F4D33: to=<lfarkas(a)bppiac.hu>, orig_to=<root(a)alpha.lenux.hu>, relay=mx3.mail-server.hu[212.24.171.194]:25, delay=0.13, delays=0.07/ 0.04/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 Ok: queued as 80C4937650E) Feb 15 14:08:08 alpha postfix/qmgr[15448]: 64127F4D33: removed --------------------------------- this's in dovecot-deliver.log: --------------------------------- deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: auth input: attaba(a)balazsiek.hu deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: auth input: home=/var/vmail/balazsiek.hu/attaba/ deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: auth input: mail=maildir:/var/vmail/balazsiek.hu/attaba/ deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: auth input: uid=101 deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: auth input: gid=12 deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: auth input: quota=dirsize:storage=0 deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: Home dir not found: /var/vmail/balazsiek.hu/attaba/ deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lda deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lda/lib10_quota_plugin.so deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: maildir: data=/var/vmail/balazsiek.hu/attaba/ deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: maildir: root=/var/vmail/balazsiek.hu/attaba, index=/var/vmail/balazsiek.hu/attaba, control=, inbox= deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: dirsize quota limit = 0kB deliver(attaba(a)balazsiek.hu): Feb 15 14:08:03 Info: msgid=<20070215130803.14C61F4D34(a)alpha.lenux.hu>: save failed to INBOX --------------------------------- -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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[Dovecot] selective logging
by T. Horsnell 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

>From the wiki: log_path = Use this logfile instead of syslog(). /dev/stderr can be used if you want to use stderr for logging (ONLY /dev/stderr - otherwise it is closed). (I dont understand the above references to the use of stderr) info_log_path = For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default (What exactly is an informational message, and what is the default?) Can I selectively suppress logging like: Feb 5 11:52:15 ls1 imap(iamelel): File isn't in mbox format: /gfg0/iamelel//claudia/ligplot/NQ10/ligplot.bonds Or do I have to turn off logging entirely? Thanks, Terry.

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