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[Dovecot] --log-error and the mysterious "not starting" problem
by Marshal Newrock 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

I've finally upgraded to 1.0.rc21. If I run "dovecot --log-error", then dovecot fails to start. The following appears in the log: Feb 5 10:54:00 taurus1 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc21 starting up Feb 5 10:54:00 taurus1 dovecot: This is Dovecot's error log Without --log-error, it will start up fine from command-line. Dovecot still fails to start, as near as I can tell, in the specific condition that it is being started from a non-interactive shell and there is a mail_plugin set in "protocol imap". mail plugins set for pop or lda do not cause this problem. The failure to start appears in only two instances that I can see: on boot, or by a monitoring script if dovecot crashes, or, since I haven't seen dovecot die, when I manually stop it to see if the monitoring program will restart it. With the above problem, if the init script has --log-error when I try to make the monitoring program restart dovecot, then nothing still gets logged. -- Marshal Newrock, Ideal Solution LLC http://www.idealso.com

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[Dovecot] False "new mail" warning from Thunderbird, using RC23
by Stephen Warren 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am continually getting false "New Mail" warning from Thunderbird. I'm running Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 on Windows, and it's talking to two different Dovecot 1.0.RC23 servers (one home server, one work server). This was happening in older Dovecot versions too, so it's not new in RC23. Very often, Thunderbird will pop up the "new mail" notification window, and put a "new mail" icon in the Windows icon bar. However, when I view the main Thunderbird window, there will be no folders with new mail. Simply changing the currently selected folder in Thunderbird will clear the tray icon. Sometimes the notification window will say something small like "7 new messages", but right now, it's showing huge numbers like "587 new messages", which could be the total message count in one of my folders... Sometimes restarting Thunderbird will stop this happening for a short while. Is this a Thunderbird bug? Am I the only one seeing this? Does it have to do with having two separate IMAP servers configured? Perhaps it's because Thunderbird is configured to cache 5 connections to the server (although I think that's the default?) Should I delete all my accounts in Thunderbird, delete the (Thunderbird) cache files etc. on disk, and re-create it all? I do notice that whenever Thunderbird starts, it displays a whole load of folders that don't exist (e.g. got renamed/deleted) and/or multiple copies (e.g. Sent, Sent-1, Sent-2), which disappear very quickly. Is this related? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF2+eJhk3bo0lNTrURAh9uAKCWYrcNByF+wE2e1FPvL6x8N48/uACgtwxR 07fYmnaG9P/JCBOkKscCZIA= =XWXG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] auth_user setting?
by Joseba Torre 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Hi all, I've installed rc23 in a new testing machine, and i've had some permission problems related to dovecot-master.conf. As I have my master passwords in that file, I don't want it to be world readable. dovecot -n shows that auth_user is nobody, so setting the permissions to nobody.whatever 640 solves the problem. Anyway, I've tried to change the auth_user setting with no effect. Is it configurable? Aaaaaaaaaagur. -- Joseba Torre. CIDIR Bizkaia.

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[Dovecot] Wrong configure.in entry in CVS branch_1_0
by Luca Corti 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

This line in configure.in src/plugins/mail-log/Makefile refers to a non existing direcory in the branch_1_0 tree, which breaks build. ciao Luca

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[Dovecot] Possible Bug in quota-fs.c
by Martin Konopka 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

Hi, I'm using filesystem quotas with dovecot 1.0rc22 on my Linux 2.4.27 box. The quota limit gets correctly reported in kilobytes to the client but the amount of used space is reported in megabytes. In quota-fs.c I noticed that only the currently used space is divided by 1024: Line 241: *value_r = dqblk.dqb_curblocks / 1024; *limit_r = dqblk.dqb_bsoftlimit; After removing /1024 everything works fine. regards, Martin

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[Dovecot] Convert plugin
by Jay Chandler 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

convert_mail = mbox:%h/mail Convert plugin. If set, specifies the source storage path which is converted to destination storage (mail_location) when the user logs in. The existing mail directory is renamed to <dir>-converted. I'm not entirely clear on what this does. If someone can clarify for me, I'll update the Wiki. I'm hoping it'll allow me to convert from mbox to Maildir-- otherwise I'm looking at a weekend of downtime when that project comes due... -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / chandler(a)chapman.edu Today's Excuse: high pressure system failure

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[Dovecot] Reading mail for Virtual and Real LDAP Users
by Aaron Luchko 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

I'm trying to setup a system with ldap+postfix+dovecot. Everyone who gets an email is stored in LDAP, some of these users also have a local unix account, regardless I want all users to be dealt with as virtual users. All the mail is stored by postfix in /var/spool/mail in Maildir format with permissions 600 vmail:vmail. Everything works fine when dovecot tries to read the mail of a completely virtual user, the problem is when dovecot tries to read mail for a user who has an account on the machine, dovecot finds the user's local account, then it tries to read the mail as that user. Even if first_valid_{u,g}id is low enough to allow login the user still doesn't have sufficient permissions to read the mail. I can't figure out why this is happening and was hoping someone could help me out. thanks, Aaron /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf: hosts = server.example.com base = dc=example,dc=com dn = cn=Directory Manager dnpass = password uris = ldap://127.0.0.1 user_attrs = mail user_filter = uid=%u user_global_uid = 5001 user_global_gid = 5001 pass_filter = uid=%u /etc/dovecot.conf: mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u/ protocols = imap pop3 mail_log_prefix = "%Us(%u):%i:%h " first_valid_uid = 5001 first_valid_gid = 5001 protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = root } dict { } plugin { }

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[Dovecot] NTLM oddities
by Cassidy B. Larson 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

Started implementing the MasterUser changes to my config files so I can finally offer SPA for pop3/imap. Things are working fine with the MasterUser (horray!), however one of my guys started using SPA with Outlook Express and started getting another users mailbox. Turns out to be related to NTLM. His Outlook express is configured for the username of 'johnsmith'. However, you'll see the NTLM took the username from his XP machine login, it appears, which is just "John". However, what is really weird, is the "failed" on the "client out" line, but then the proxy went ahead and proxied to the storage server. Here's some output from debuggage: dovecot: Feb 19 16:15:56 Info: auth(mail.infowest.com): client in: AUTH 1 NTLM service=POP3 lip=204.17.177.60 rip=209.33.215.142 resp= dovecot: Feb 19 16:15:56 Info: auth(mail.infowest.com): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Feb 19 16:15:56 Info: auth-worker(mail.infowest.com): sql(John, 209.33.215.142): query: SELECT a.clearpasswd AS password, v.storeIP AS host, CONCAT(IF('John' LIKE '%(a)%.%',CONCAT(LCASE('John'),''),CONCAT(LCASE('John'),'@',p.host)),'*masteruser') AS destuser, 'Y' AS nologin, 'Y' AS nodelay, 'Y' AS proxy, 'masterpass' AS pass FROM iwmailsystem.virtmailbox AS v INNER JOIN iwmailsystem.popserversAS p ON ( p.storeIP = '204.17.177.60') INNER JOIN authenticate.users AS a ON (a.userID= IF('John' LIKE '%(a)%.%',CONCAT(LCASE('John'),''),CONCAT(LCASE('John'),'@', p.host))) WHERE v.userID = IF('John' LIKE '%(a)%.%',CONCAT(LCASE('John'),''),CONCAT(LCASE('John'),'@',p.host)) AND v.client_active=1; dovecot: Feb 19 16:15:56 Info: auth(mail.infowest.com): password(John, 209.33.215.142): Credentials: 8447128CC04AD05D1CD15F0C2F17F136 dovecot: Feb 19 16:15:57 Info: auth(mail.infowest.com): client out: FAIL 1 user=John host=204.17.177.76 destuser= john(a)host.com*masteruser nologin proxy pass=masterpass dovecot: Feb 19 16:15:57 Info: pop3-login: proxy(John): started proxying to 204.17.177.76:110: user=<John>, method=NTLM, rip=209.33.215.142, lip= 204.17.177.60 Questions: 1) So is it possible to use OE for SPA authentication without it sending the "XP username", but the actual account username OE is configured for ? 2) Why, when it "FAIL"ed did it still proxy? This seems bad :) Thanks, Cassidy

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[Dovecot] rc22 segv when over quota
by Steffen Kaiser 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I just pulled and built version 1.0.rc22 root@ux-2s11-9:/mnt/mailcache/dvtest/MailDir# dovecot -n # /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/tmp/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/tmp/dovecot.info ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login verbose_proctitle: yes mail_location: maildir:/mnt/mailcache/%u/MailDir:CONTROL=/var/cache/dovecot/%i/control:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/%i/index mail_debug: yes mail_plugins: quota imap_quota auth default: mechanisms: plain login cache_size: 10 verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam args: cache_key=%u dovecot userdb: driver: passwd On Linux Debian Etch on Debian kernel v2.6.18; tested with XFS and Extended3. repquota /mnt/mailcache *** Report for user quotas on device /dev/mapper/mailstaff-mailcache Block grace time: 7days; Inode grace time: 7days Block limits File limits User used soft hard grace used soft hard grace - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvtest -- 560 600 1024 17 0 0 Then I copy messages in a directory via Thunderbird, the log shows: dovecot: Feb 20 12:12:27 Error: IMAP(dvtest): o_stream_send_istream(/mnt/mailcache/dvtest/MailDir/.test/tmp/1171969947.P22138Q3.ux-2s11-9) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable dovecot: Feb 20 12:12:27 Error: child 22138 (imap) killed with signal 11 - -or- dovecot: Feb 20 12:09:42 Error: IMAP(dvtest): o_stream_send_istream(/mnt/mailcache/dvtest/MailDir/.test/tmp/1171969782.P22134Q6.ux-2 s11-9) failed: Disk quota exceeded dovecot: Feb 20 12:09:42 Error: child 22134 (imap) killed with signal 11 and repquota /mnt/mailcache dvtest +- 616 600 1024 6days 20 0 0 The Thunderbird continues to copy other messages believing everthing is OK. There is also this message on the screen (started via dovecot -F): dm-1: write failed, user block limit reached. Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRdr0Vy9SORjhbDpvAQIKfwgA0vONUFwD5nZ1iOb0z+bRf2Kxz9/9r6QE yqZ/iL6FylJMDQwNi9hY3EbzIbu+pEs3SJrz3VVKuWO7bVyhVTFpxQaSS8vBokXo 6cnLuG5V+n3jtyqy26lM1VQWDCifEY/++YAs/KmJ5NQHm0mk5bUEc6fhDeL4D6MJ UcKUBrQ8S2B6vJMBQfcabgnC8KR9kh+xvvUtvlnsfpoaInAKx8x4r1S+9mMjbAEv lIjHt+yavW6Hlq+HmVCirTddesy1rQDFiDSrrV9F8Sp43GpxHyjun9iK6CGrQkJf AO4o2DsBIbBrhvyUrzUks1dR8ZHasyBQDuMVG02/s1bM3UIkJVX3RA== =/MmG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Apple Mail/Tiger Bug came up on the pf mailing list. . .
by Sean Kamath 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

Hi all, Just FYI, this post showed up on the pf mailing list a couple of days ago: Cc: pf(a)benzedrine.cx From: Axel Rau <Axel.Rau(a)Chaos1.DE> Subject: Re: mismatch on route through packet/byte counts Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:37:56 +0100 To: Daniel Hartmeier <daniel(a)benzedrine.cx> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by insomnia.benzedrine.cx id l1IDc2fg029064 Sender: owner-pf(a)benzedrine.cx Thank you, Daniel, for taking the time to analyze my traces and to explain the problem so perfect, that even non-net-developers, like I, can understand it. (-;) > > This looks like a bug in the client's TCP/IP stack, and how to fix it > depends on the client's OS. IMO, the RST is invalid, and pf is > right in > blocking it. The OS is Darwin 8.8 / Mac OS X 10.4.8, a 4.4BSD descendant and the relevant source may be in netinet/tcp_output.c, found here http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.8.ppc/xnu-792.12.6 Good news is that your diagnosis could bring us forward to resolve a long running painful bug filed against Mail.app, the Apple email client. If you agree, I would like to add your diagnosis to my open bug report and cross-post the mail on the Darwin Developers list, before filing a new bug against Darwin. Axel --------------------------------------------------------------------- Axel Rau, â˜€Frankfurt , Germany +49 69 9514 18 0

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