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Re: [Dovecot] support for UW-style mbox
by Rich West 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

> UW-IMAP will automatically append the contents of /var/spool/mail/user to > ~user/mbox (and then clear /var/spool/mail/user) if ~user/mbox exists. > I'd like to mimic that action with Dovecot. (I'm probably going to be unlucky, > as an earlier respondent pointed out). > > Sorry to show my ignorance, but I thought delivery was a function > of the MTA (Exim in my case), which would require a change to my exim > config file, and would probably not then be a per-user thing. > (i.e. with UW-IMAP, if ~user/mbox doesnt exist, mail gets left in > /var/spool/mail/user). > I need to read about dovecot.conf No, you are correct. Delivery is handled by the MTA. Dovecot just needs to know where to access it. By default, for example, with Sendmail, it will place the email in /var/spool/mail (unless you change some back-end code somewhere along the line), and then you can use procmail (with a global procmailrc file in /etc) to place the mail where you want it to go.. I haven't used UW-IMAP in a while now (well over a year and a half). I stopped using it at all of my supported sites because, even though it was simple to manage, it was just way too slow. From what I remember, the UW implementation is such that UW-IMAP will read from the user's mbox file if it exists, and if it doesn't, it will read from <spooldir>/<username> (in this case, /var/spool/mail/user). UW-IMAP (or any IMAP) wouldn't actually do the delivery, so writing to the spool directory temporarily and then moving it to the home directory shouldn't actually happen. However, I don't truly remember how it worked under the hood, but that just doesn't seem right to me (too much chance for conflict). I do remember (back in the day) the headaches we would get when trying to debug a "lost mail" problems (with a centralized /var/spool/mail directory) and it turned out the user in question had created an mbox file which had next to nothing in it. :) -Rich

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[Dovecot] syslog messages
by Rich West 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

(I sent this last night, but to the wrong address.. argh) After an upgrade to FC5, and a rebuild and install of dovecot 1.0RC7, I've been getting a LOT of syslog messages like the following: Sep 26 21:47:55 myhost dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server ldap://ldap.mydomain.com after 1 attempt Now, everything is working fine as far as I can tell (it's only been a rocky day since the upgrade.. and that was littered with other LDAP related problems), but I was wondering why it was even using nss_ldap... I have dovecot configured to connect to LDAP directly. My dovecot.conf contains: auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi mechanisms = plain ... passdb pam { } ... # LDAP database #passdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf for example #args = #} ... # LDAP database userdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see doc/dovecot-ldap.conf for example args = /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } And I am wondering if I missed something obvious here... I'm going to try commenting out the "passdb pam" section, uncommenting the "passdb ldap" section and see if that allows for everything to go directly to LDAP (and not rely on nss_ldap or pam_ldap). -Rich

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Re: [Dovecot] Big sites using Dovecot
by Bill Boebel 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

On Thu, September 21, 2006 1:14 pm, Jonathan <dovecot(a)redigloo.org> said: > Are there any big Dovecot sites (say 50,000-100,000) users on this > list? Yes, Webmail.us. Many multiples of that number :) > What sort of hardware do you use. 80 backend IMAP servers. 5 front-end IMAP-proxy servers. All running Dovecot. The boxes are single AMD CPU, 1GB RAM, and 4 SATA drives. DRBD used to replicate data between servers. > What sort of problems do you see? Dovecot doesn't need much CPU, but it needs a lot of disk. So give it lots of spindles, either in one big box or many small boxes like we do. Right now the only problem we have is the Dovecot proxy software sometimes disconnects imap sessions that it should not disconnect. Since Timo is very busy, we are working on a patch for this. http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-August/015401.html Bill

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[Dovecot] SSL_accept failed
by Timothy Martin 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Hello, I'm new to dovecot. I just installed it a few days ago on FreeBSD via the ports and got it up and running without too much trouble. Although yesterday I turned on the SSL/TLS features and tried to get secure connections to work. I don't get any error messages when launching dovecot, I saw it successfully create the SSL parameters after first enabling the feature yet I can't seem to get a successful connection. Normal non- ssl connections work fine. What happens: 1) my client claims to be attempting the connection. 2) things go on for some time with nothing happening 3) finally the dovecot log pops up with these messages dovecot: Sep 09 02:25:23 Warning: imap-login: SSL_accept() syscall failed: EOF [x.x.x.x] dovecot: Sep 09 02:25:23 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, TLS handshake dovecot: Sep 09 02:26:23 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=x.x.x.x, lip=x.x.x.x, TLS handshake FYI: I've regenerated a fresh cert and key, just for dovecot and I'm using Mac OS X's Mail client. Any clues? .tim

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[Dovecot] log tools with html for dovecot
by Robert Schetterer 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Hi @ll, are there any recommandations for logging tools with html display for dovecot thx -- Diese Nachricht wurde auf Viren und andere gefährliche Inhalte untersucht und ist - aktuelle Virenscanner vorausgesetzt - sauber.

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[Dovecot] Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files
by Dirk Essl 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Hi, I am currently migrating a big bunch of mail accounts to a dovecot server running 1.0rc2 on Solaris 10 suddenly all imap processes died and I see this in my dovecot.log: dovecot: Sep 26 14:54:31 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 14:54:31 Fatal: dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Sep 26 14:54:31 Error: child 29376 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:48 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:48 Fatal: dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:49 Error: child 1563 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:55 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:55 Fatal: dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:55 Error: child 1572 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:58 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:58 Fatal: dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Sep 26 15:15:58 Error: child 1577 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:25 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:25 Fatal: dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:25 Error: child 1659 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:27 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:27 Fatal: dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:27 Error: child 1662 (imap) returned error 89 dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:32 Error: socketpair() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:32 Error: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now dovecot: Sep 26 15:18:32 Error: pipe() failed: Too many open files what could cause the error? is this from Solaris or from dovecot? TIA dirk

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[Dovecot] Not getting new mail notification
by Robert Creager 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Hey all, I'm having no luck getting new mail notification except in two mail folders (using maildir w/procmail delivery). I'm using three different clients (sylpheed-claws 1.9.14, Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 and a newer version of Horde). None of them are getting new mail in any except these two folders (inbox and 1 other). If I browse to the folders, still nothing. If I browse to the folders with Horde, I see the new mail, but not always in the other clients. It's hit or miss if the other clients get notified of the mail, but the mail is moved from the new folder. I'm subscribed to the folders and have them to be checked for new messages (in Thunderbird). I tried using dnotify, and things got worse (no folders updated). I've over 350 e-mails sitting in new folders right now: [robert@thunder Maildir]$ ls .*/new | wc 397 332 12925 One interesting item I noticed is that if I touch a file in a new directory (or vi it), I immediately get notification of the mail (and it gets moved from new to cur). I'm running dovecot 1.0 RC7 configured as ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --with-pgsql --with-pam --localstatedir=/var with the following changes to the config: base_dir = /var/lib/dovecot/ protocols = imaps ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep } I'm running dovecot through xinetd: service imaps { disable = no socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = root server = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login flags = IPv4 server_args = --ssl } Linux thunder.logicalchaos.org 2.6.12-12-3 #5 SMP Wed Feb 1 23:59:03 MST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2600+ unknown GNU/Linux Help? Thanks, Rob

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[Dovecot] Preforming an action/trigger after a user successfully authenticates
by Dan Trainor 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hi - I have searched the docs for v1.0 RC7, but cannot find what I'm looking for. What I'm ultimately wanting to do is have Dovecot preform some action, or a trigger, when the user is successfully authenticated. Even more specifically, I'd like to run another SQL query to record a date/time for last authenticated login. Short from running a script during logrotate, or constantly tailing the log, is there any mechanism in Dovecot that would allow me to do this? Again, all I'm looking to do is to record the last date/time that someone successfully logged in, into a MySQL database. Thanks! -dant

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Usage Poll
by Jackie Hunt 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hi all, I'm trying to get a feel for how many sites are using Dovecot and the size of the installation. Jonathan's query about big sites spurred my curiousity. I'd like to take an informal poll and will post results to the list. I'm interested in hearing from those of you who are using dovecot in a real-life/production type environment (not just testing). Please email me directly [jackie.hunt(a)colostate.edu] and send the following info: (1) Type of organization: commercial/government/educational/etc. (2) Number of users supported with Dovecot (3) Approx. length of time you've used Dovecot in "production" (4) Whether or not you are using the Dovecot LDA Thanks much, Jackie --- Jackie Hunt ACNS Voice: (970) 663-3789 Colorado State University FAX: (970) 491-1958 Fort Collins, CO 80523 Email: jackie.hunt(a)colostate.edu

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[Dovecot] DSpam mysql-plugin (was DSpam plugin)
by Michael Blinn 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

After wrestling with Johannes's original plugin, I had a go at the mysql plugin that Tim wrote, as described here: http://members.plug.org.au/~linuxalien/dokuwiki/projects:dovecot-mysql-dspa… I kept getting "Error: imap dump-capability process killed with signal 11" when attempting to start dovecot with this plugin. I traced the error to line 656 of master-settings.c in the dovecot source, in the 'get_imap_capability' function. In this function, it notes: "Reloading configuration. Don't try to execute the imap process again. Too risky and the wait() call below will break it anyway. Just use the previous capability list we already had generated." I changed the source so that the function always ran " set->imap_generated_capability = p_strdup(settings_pool, generated_capability); return TRUE;" instead of going through the function where it had on the wait described in the comments. Now, voila. Dovecot starts without complaint, the plugin works, the delivery and moving of email works. I'm assuming I've screwed something up by skipping the rest of this get_imap_capability function. My C skills are a few years rusty. What are the ramifications of skipping the remainder of this function? Thanks, Michael

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