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[Dovecot] Moving old files
by Jon 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

Hi, I wish to automatically remove mail files not accessed for some time. I have done this in the file system and it works fine although it is a bit slow when the mail client access the mailbox after changes. Are there any way of having dovecot moving the files so that index and subscriptions are kept more same? Can one use Dovecot from the command line? Best Regards - Jon

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[Dovecot] POP Question
by Marc Perkel 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

After upgrading to Alpha 4 I have two people complaining about a POP problem. Aparently they are getting their email sent to them over and over. They have it set to "leave messages on server" but apparently whatever keeps track of that is broken. So - how is it determined with POP what is new and what is read?

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[Dovecot] qpoppers XUIDL
by Dominik Werder 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Hello, does anybody know how to make XUIDLs compatible to qpopper? I'm migrating from qpopper and one of my test-migration-accounts leaves the mail on the server. As soon as I switch to dovecot it downloads the mails again and again.. bye! Dominik

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[Dovecot] Numpty question about EXISTS...
by Steve [Dovecot] 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

I'm fiddling with Ruby and its IMAP class. I'm trying to write something which (at this stage) can be thought of as a variant on xbiff which doesn't need poll the server to establish the presence of new mail... I'd like to establish a notification when the contents of a folder changes... which is likely to be when a different IMAP client moves a message into a new folder. I've been lead to believe that I can use the "EXISTS" response to trigger the 'new message present in IMAP folder" event in my program... but I don't seem to receive them when I would expect to when connected to my Dovecot server. I get one "EXISTS" message when I call "select" - but that's it - it doesn't seem to notice when another client moves messages in/out of the folder. Are my assumptions about IMAP incorrect - i.e. must I still poll? Can Dovecot be configured to send EXIST responses (or any other form of notification) when messages are moved into a folder? Any hints appreciated. Steve

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[Dovecot] Debian - upgrade done, plain text auth fails
by Diederik de Vries 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Hi there, I have a problem concerning authentication of dovecot. Yesterday I did a apt-get update on my Debian Testing machine, which had a new version of Dovecot (common/imap/pop3). It now runs 1.0alpha3 Local authentication works fine (Squirrelmail (IMAP), and local 110 connections work). However: pop3 from outside 127.0.0.1 plain barfs when entering the `u` for `user`. What the ....?: === +OK Dovecot ready. u-ERR invalid POP3 command De verbinding met de host is verbroken. (Connection with host is lost) == However, on localhost: === diedx:/etc/dovecot# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to diederik.nl. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user died +OK pass nothere +OK Logged in. list +OK 208 messages: 1 1679750 2 22179 3 2116 === Works like a charm. I had this problem earlier, so then I switched the disable_plaintext_auth = no. This does not seem to work at this moment. Anyone? Config attached. Thanks! Diederik de Vries Rotterdam, The Netherlands ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file # '#' character and everything after it is treated as comments. Extra spaces # and tabs are ignored. If you want to use either of these explicitly, put the # value inside quotes, eg.: key = "# char and trailing whitespace " # Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment # any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples # with real defaults being based on configure options. The paths listed here # are for configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var # --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl # Base directory where to store runtime data. #base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ # Protocols we want to be serving: # imap imaps pop3 pop3s #protocols = imap imaps protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s # IP or host address where to listen in for connections. It's not currently # possible to specify multiple addresses. "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces. # "[::]" listens in all IPv6 interfaces, but may also listen in all IPv4 # interfaces depending on the operating system. If you want to specify ports # for each service, you will need to configure these settings inside the # protocol imap/pop3 { ... } section, so you can specify different ports # for IMAP/POP3. listen = * # IP or host address where to listen in for SSL connections. Defaults # to above if not specified. #ssl_listen = # 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. #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem # File containing trusted SSL certificate authorities. Usually not needed. #ssl_ca_file = # Request client to send a certificate. #ssl_verify_client_cert = no # SSL parameter file. Master process generates this file for login processes. # It contains Diffie Hellman and RSA parameters. #ssl_parameters_file = /var/run/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat # 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 = 24 # SSL ciphers to use #ssl_cipher_list = all:!LOW # Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless # SSL/TLS is used (LOGINDISABLED capability). Note that 127.*.*.* and # IPv6 ::1 addresses are considered secure, this setting has no effect if # you connect from those addresses. disable_plaintext_auth = no # 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). #log_path = # For informational messages, use this logfile instead of the default #info_log_path = # Prefix for each line written to log file. % codes are in strftime(3) # format. #log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " ## ## 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 # chroot login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this is if you # wish to run the whole Dovecot without roots. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Rootless #login_chroot = yes # User to use for the login process. Create a completely new user for this, # and don't use it anywhere else. The user must also belong to a group where # only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process. # Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds #login_user = dovecot # Set max. process size in megabytes. If you don't use # login_process_per_connection you might need to grow this. #login_process_size = 32 # Should each login be processed in it's own process (yes), or should one # login process be allowed to process multiple connections (no)? Yes is more # secure, espcially with SSL/TLS enabled. No is faster since there's no need # to create processes all the time. #login_process_per_connection = yes # Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_connection is # yes, this is the number of extra processes waiting for users to log in. #login_processes_count = 3 # Maximum number of extra login processes to create. The extra process count # usually stays at login_processes_count, but when multiple users start logging # in at the same time more extra processes are created. To prevent fork-bombing # we check only once in a second if new processes should be created - if all # of them are used at the time, we double their amount until limit set by this # setting is reached. This setting is used only if login_process_per_use is yes. #login_max_processes_count = 128 # Maximum number of connections allowed in login state. When this limit is # reached, the oldest connections are dropped. If login_process_per_connection # is no, this is a per-process value, so the absolute maximum number of users # logging in actually login_processes_count * max_logging_users. #login_max_logging_users = 256 # Greeting message for clients. #login_greeting = Dovecot ready. # Space-separated list of elements we want to log. The elements which have # a non-empty variable value are joined together to form a comma-separated # string. #login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c # Login log format. %$ contains login_log_format_elements string, %s contains # the data we want to log. #login_log_format = %$: %s ## ## Mail processes ## # Maximum number of running mail processes. When this limit is reached, # new users aren't allowed to log in. #max_mail_processes = 1024 # Show more verbose process titles (in ps). Currently shows user name and # IP address. Useful for seeing who are actually using the IMAP processes # (eg. shared mailboxes or if same uid is used for multiple accounts). #verbose_proctitle = no # Show protocol level SSL errors. #verbose_ssl = no # Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. #first_valid_uid = 500 #last_valid_uid = 0 # Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel. Users having # non-valid GID as primary group ID aren't allowed to log in. If user # belongs to supplementary groups with non-valid GIDs, those groups are # not set. #first_valid_gid = 1 #last_valid_gid = 0 # Grant access to these extra groups for mail processes. Typical use would be # to give "mail" group write access to /var/mail to be able to create dotlocks. #mail_extra_groups = # ':' separated list of directories under which chrooting is allowed for mail # processes (ie. /var/mail will allow chrooting to /var/mail/foo/bar too). # This setting doesn't affect login_chroot or auth_chroot variables. # WARNING: Never add directories here which local users can modify, that # may lead to root exploit. Usually this should be done only if you don't # allow shell access for users. See # /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/configuration.txt for more information. #valid_chroot_dirs = # Default chroot directory for mail processes. This can be overridden for # specific users in user database by giving /./ in user's home directory # (eg. /home/./user chroots into /home). Note that usually there is no real # need to do chrooting, Dovecot doesn't allow users to access files outside # their mail directory anyway. #mail_chroot = # Enable mail process debugging. This can help you figure out why Dovecot # isn't finding your mails. #mail_debug = no # Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/mail-storages.txt. # There's a few special variables you can use, eg.: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if there's no domain # %h - home directory # # See /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/variables.txt for full list. Some examples: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n # #default_mail_env = # If you need to set multiple mailbox locations or want to change default # namespace settings, you can do it by defining namespace sections: # # You can have private, shared and public namespaces. The only difference # between them is how Dovecot announces them to client via NAMESPACE # extension. Shared namespaces are meant for user-owned mailboxes which are # shared to other users, while public namespaces are for more globally # accessible mailboxes. # # REMEMBER: If you add any namespaces, the default namespace must be added # explicitly, ie. default_mail_env does nothing unless you have a namespace # without a location setting. Default namespace is simply done by having a # namespace with empty prefix. #namespace private { # Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator for all # namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a good one. #separator = / # Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be different for # all namespaces. For example "Public/". #prefix = # Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as # default_mail_env, which is also the default for it. #location = # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which namespace # has it. #inbox = yes # If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via NAMESPACE # extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful when converting # from another server with different namespaces which you want to depricate # but still keep working. For example you can create hidden namespaces with # prefixes "~/mail/", "~%u/mail/" and "mail/". #hidden = yes #} # Space-separated list of fields to initially save into cache file. Currently # these fields are allowed: # # flags, date.sent, date.received, size.virtual, size.physical # mime.parts, imap.body, imap.bodystructure # # Different IMAP clients work in different ways, so they benefit from # different cached fields. Some do not benefit from them at all. Caching more # than necessary generates useless disk I/O, so you don't want to do that # either. # # Dovecot attempts to automatically figure out what client wants and it keeps # only that. However the first few times a mailbox is opened, Dovecot hasn't # yet figured out what client needs, so it may not perform optimally. If you # know what fields the majority of your clients need, it may be useful to set # these fields by hand. If client doesn't actually use them, Dovecot will # eventually drop them. # # Usually you should just leave this field alone. The potential benefits are # typically unnoticeable. #mail_cache_fields = # Space-separated list of fields that Dovecot should never save to cache file. # Useful if you want to save disk space at the cost of more I/O when the fields # needed. #mail_never_cache_fields = # Like mailbox_check_interval, but used for IDLE command. #mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 # Allow full filesystem access to clients. There's no access checks other than # what the operating system does for the active UID/GID. It works with both # maildir and mboxes, allowing you to prefix mailboxes names with eg. /path/ # or ~user/. #mail_full_filesystem_access = no # Maximum allowed length for mail keyword name. It's only forced when trying # to create new keywords. #mail_max_keyword_length = 50 # Save mails with CR+LF instead of plain LF. This makes sending those mails # take less CPU, especially with sendfile() syscall with Linux and FreeBSD. # But it also creates a bit more disk I/O which may just make it slower. #mail_save_crlf = no # Use mmap() instead of read() to read mail files. read() seems to be a bit # faster with my Linux/x86 and it's better with NFS, so that's the default. # Note that OpenBSD 3.3 and older don't work right with mail_read_mmaped = yes. #mail_read_mmaped = no # Don't use mmap() at all. This is required if you store indexes in remote # filesystems (NFS or clustered filesystem). #mmap_disable = no # Don't write() to mmaped files. This is required for some operating systems # which use separate caches for them, such as OpenBSD. #mmap_no_write = no # Locking method for index files. Alternatives are fcntl, flock and dotlock. # Dotlocking uses some tricks which may create more disk I/O than other locking # methods. #lock_method = fcntl # By default LIST command returns all entries in maildir beginning with dot. # Enabling this option makes Dovecot return only entries which are directories. # This is done by stat()ing each entry, so it causes more disk I/O. # (For systems setting struct dirent->d_type, this check is free and it's # done always regardless of this setting) #maildir_stat_dirs = no # Copy mail to another folders using hard links. This is much faster than # actually copying the file. This is problematic only if something modifies # the mail in one folder but doesn't want it modified in the others. I don't # know any MUA which would modify mail files directly. IMAP protocol also # requires that the mails don't change, so it would be problematic in any case. # If you care about performance, enable it. #maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no # Which locking methods to use for locking mbox. There's four available: # dotlock: Create <mailbox>.lock file. This is the oldest and most NFS-safe # solution. If you want to use /var/mail/ like directory, the users # will need write access to that directory. # fcntl : Use this if possible. Works with NFS too if lockd is used. # flock : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # lockf : May not exist in all systems. Doesn't work with NFS. # # You can use multiple locking methods; if you do the order they're declared # in is important to avoid deadlocks if other MTAs/MUAs are using multiple # locking methods as well. Some operating systems don't allow using some of # them simultaneously. #mbox_read_locks = fcntl #mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl # Maximum time in seconds to wait for lock (all of them) before aborting. #mbox_lock_timeout = 300 # If dotlock exists but the mailbox isn't modified in any way, override the # lock file after this many seconds. #mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 30 # When mbox changes unexpectedly we have to fully read it to find out what # changed. If the mbox is large this can take a long time. Since the change # is usually just a newly appended mail, it'd be faster to simply read the # new mails. If this setting is enabled, Dovecot does this but still safely # fallbacks to re-reading the whole mbox file whenever something in mbox isn't # how it's expected to be. The only real downside to this setting is that if # some other MUA changes message flags, Dovecot doesn't notice it immediately. # Note that a full sync is done with SELECT, EXAMINE, EXPUNGE and CHECK # commands. #mbox_dirty_syncs = yes # Like mbox_dirty_syncs, but don't do full syncs even with SELECT, EXAMINE, # EXPUNGE or CHECK commands. If this is set, mbox_dirty_syncs is ignored. #mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no # Delay writing mbox headers until doing a full write sync (EXPUNGE and CHECK # commands and when closing the mailbox). This is especially useful for POP3 # where clients often delete all mails. The downside is that our changes # aren't immediately visible to other MUAs. #mbox_lazy_writes = yes # umask to use for mail files and directories #umask = 0077 # Drop all privileges before exec()ing the mail process. This is mostly # meant for debugging, otherwise you don't get core dumps. It could be a small # security risk if you use single UID for multiple users, as the users could # ptrace() each others processes then. #mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no # Set max. process size in megabytes. Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing # files, so it shouldn't harm much even if this limit is set pretty high. #mail_process_size = 256 # Log prefix for mail processes. # See /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/variables.txt for list of possible # variables you can use. #mail_log_prefix = "%Us(%u): " ## ## IMAP specific settings ## protocol imap { # Login executable location. #login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login # IMAP executable location #mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # This would write rawlogs into ~/dovecot.rawlog/ directory: #mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # Maximum IMAP command line length in bytes. Some clients generate very long # command lines with huge mailboxes, so you may need to raise this if you get # "Too long argument" or "IMAP command line too large" errors often. #imap_max_line_length = 65536 # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #mail_use_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap # Send IMAP capabilities in greeting message. This makes it unnecessary for # clients to request it with CAPABILITY command, so it saves one round-trip. # Many clients however don't understand it and ask the CAPABILITY anyway. #login_greeting_capability = no # Workarounds for various client bugs: # delay-newmail: # Send EXISTS/RECENT new mail notifications only when replying to NOOP # and CHECK commands. Some clients ignore them otherwise, for example # OSX Mail. Outlook Express breaks more badly though, without this it # may show user "Message no longer in server" errors. Note that OE6 still # breaks even with this workaround if synchronization is set to # "Headers Only". # outlook-idle: # Outlook and Outlook Express never abort IDLE command, so if no mail # arrives in half a hour, Dovecot closes the connection. This is still # fine, except Outlook doesn't connect back so you don't see if new mail # arrives. # netscape-eoh: # Netscape 4.x breaks if message headers don't end with the empty "end of # headers" line. Normally all messages have this, but setting this # workaround makes sure that Netscape never breaks by adding the line if # it doesn't exist. This is done only for FETCH BODY[HEADER.FIELDS..] # commands. Note that RFC says this shouldn't be done. # tb-extra-mailbox-sep: # With mbox storage a mailbox can contain either mails or submailboxes, # but not both. Thunderbird separates these two by forcing server to # accept '/' suffix in mailbox names in subscriptions list. #imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle } ## ## POP3 specific settings ## protocol pop3 { # Login executable location. #login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login # POP3 executable location #mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 # Don't try to set mails non-recent or seen with POP3 sessions. This is # mostly intended to reduce disk I/O. With maildir it doesn't move files # from new/ to cur/, with mbox it doesn't write Status-header. #pop3_no_flag_updates = no # Support LAST command which exists in old POP3 specs, but has been removed # from new ones. Some clients still wish to use this though. Enabling this # makes RSET command clear all \Seen flags from messages. #pop3_enable_last = no # POP3 UIDL format to use. You can use following variables: # # %v - Mailbox UIDVALIDITY # %u - Mail UID # %m - MD5 sum of the mailbox headers in hex (mbox only) # %f - filename (maildir only) # # If you want UIDL compatibility with other POP3 servers, use: # UW's ipop3d : %08Xv%08Xu # Courier version 0 : %f # Courier version 1 : %u # Courier version 2 : %v-%u # Cyrus (<= 2.1.3) : %u # Cyrus (>= 2.1.4) : %v.%u # # Note that Outlook 2003 seems to have problems with %v.%u format which is # Dovecot's default, so if you're building a new server it would be a good # idea to change this. %08Xu%08Xv should be pretty fail-safe. #pop3_uidl_format = %v.%u # POP3 logout format string: # %t - number of TOP commands # %T - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command # %r - number of RETR commands # %R - number of bytes sent to client as a result of RETR command # %d - number of deleted messages # %m - number of messages (before deletion) # %s - mailbox size in bytes (before deletion) #pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%T, retr=%r/%R, del=%d/%m, size=%s # Support for dynamically loadable modules. #mail_use_modules = no #mail_modules = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 # Workarounds for various client bugs: # outlook-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. # oe-ns-eoh: # Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is # missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing. #pop3_client_workarounds = } ## ## Authentication processes ## # Executable location #auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth # Set max. process size in megabytes. #auth_process_size = 256 # Authentication cache size in kilobytes. #auth_cache_size = 0 # Time to live in seconds for cached data. After this many seconds a cached # record is forced out of cache. #auth_cache_ttl = 3600 # Space separated list of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms that need # them. You can leave it empty if you don't want to support multiple realms. # Many clients simply use the first one listed here, so keep the default realm # first. #auth_realms = # Default realm/domain to use if none was specified. This is used for both # SASL realms and appending @domain to username in plaintext logins. #auth_default_realm = # List of allowed characters in username. If the user-given username contains # a character not listed in here, the login automatically fails. This is just # an extra check to make sure user can't exploit any potential quote escaping # vulnerabilities with SQL/LDAP databases. If you want to allow all characters, # set this value to empty. #auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ # Username character translations before it's looked up from databases. The # value contains series of from -> to characters. For example "#@/@" means # that '#' and '/' characters are translated to '@'. #auth_username_translation = # Username to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism #auth_anonymous_username = anonymous # More verbose logging. Useful for figuring out why authentication isn't # working. auth_verbose = yes # Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes. Shows for example SQL # queries. auth_debug = yes # Maximum number of dovecot-auth worker processes. They're used to execute # blocking passdb and userdb queries (eg. MySQL and PAM). They're # automatically created and destroyed as needed. #auth_worker_max_count = 30 auth default { # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain digest-md5 cram-md5 apop anonymous mechanisms = plain # # Password database is used to verify user's password (and nothing more). # You can have multiple passdbs and userdbs. This is useful if you want to # allow both system users (/etc/passwd) and virtual users to login without # duplicating the system users into virtual database. # # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # # PAM authentication. Preferred nowadays by most systems. # Note that PAM can only be used to verify if user's password is correct, # so it can't be used as userdb. If you don't want to use a separate user # database (passwd usually), you can use static userdb. passdb pam { # [-session] [<service name>] # # -session makes Dovecot open and immediately close PAM session. Some # PAM plugins need this to work. # # If service name is "*", it means the authenticating service name # is used, eg. pop3 or imap. #args = dovecot } # /etc/passwd or similar, using getpwnam() # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. #passdb passwd { #} # /etc/shadow or similiar, using getspnam(). Deprecated by PAM nowadays. #passdb shadow { #} # passwd-like file with specified location #passdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # checkpassword executable authentication # NOTE: You will probably want to use "userdb passdb" with this. #passdb checkpassword { # Path for checkpassword binary #args = #} # SQL database #passdb sql { # Path for SQL configuration file, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf for example #args = #} # LDAP database #passdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf for example #args = #} # vpopmail authentication #passdb vpopmail { #} # # User database specifies where mails are located and what user/group IDs # own them. For single-UID configuration use "static". # # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication # http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers # # /etc/passwd or similar, using getpwnam() # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is # configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. userdb passwd { } # passwd-like file with specified location #userdb passwd-file { # Path for passwd-file #args = #} # static settings generated from template #userdb static { # Template for settings. Can return anything a userdb could normally # return, eg.: uid, gid, home, mail, nice # # A few examples: # # args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/%u # args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/home/%u mail=mbox:/home/%u/mail nice=10 # #args = #} # SQL database #userdb sql { # Path for SQL configuration file, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf for example #args = #} # LDAP database #userdb ldap { # Path for LDAP configuration file, see /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf for example #args = #} # vpopmail #userdb vpopmail { #} # "passdb" user database means that the passdb already provided the # needed information and there's no need to do a separate userdb lookup. # This can be made to work with SQL and LDAP databases. # http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthSpecials userdb passdb { } # User to use for the process. This user needs access to only user and # password databases, nothing else. Only shadow and pam authentication # requires roots, so use something else if possible. Note that passwd # authentication with BSDs internally accesses shadow files, which also # requires roots. Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # That user is specified by userdb above. user = root # Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't # work if this is set, and there's no point chrooting if auth_user is root. # Note that valid_chroot_dirs isn't needed to use this setting. #chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create #count = 1 # Require a valid SSL client certificate or the authentication fails. #ssl_require_client_cert = no } # It's possible to export the authentication interface to other programs, # for example SMTP server which supports talking to Dovecot. Client socket # handles the actual authentication - you give it a username and password # and it returns OK or failure. So it's pretty safe to allow anyone access to # it. Master socket is used to a) query if given client was successfully # authenticated, b) userdb lookups. # listener sockets will be created by Dovecot's master process using the # settings given inside the auth section #auth default_with_listener { # mechanisms = plain # passdb passwd { # } # userdb pam { # } # socket listen { # master { # path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master # # WARNING: Giving untrusted users access to master socket may be a # # security risk, don't give too wide permissions to it! # #mode = 0600 # # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) # #user = # #group = # } # client { # path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-client # mode = 0660 # } # } #} # connect sockets are assumed to be already running, Dovecot's master # process only tries to connect to them. They don't need any other settings # than path for the master socket, as the configuration is done elsewhere. # Note that the client sockets must exist in login_dir. #auth external { # socket connect { # master { # path = /var/run/dovecot-auth-master # } # } #}

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[Dovecot] A Couple Assertion Failures
by Todd Burroughs 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Here's a couple of assertion failures from CVS version as of Oct. 6. There's also a segfault but the core file was empty so I don't know if the log entries are much help. BTW, the searching speed using pine has dramatically improved, nice work! Todd ----------------------------------------- dovecot: Oct 12 12:04:28 Error: 20278 imap(username): file mail-index-sync-ext.c: line 155 (get_ext_header): assertion failed: (memcmp((char *)(ext_hdr + 1), ext->name, strlen(ext->name)) == 0) dovecot: Oct 12 12:04:28 Error: child 20278 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff158 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x00004f36 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #6 0x0809b23a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x4f36 <Address 0x4f36 out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 No locals. #7 0x0809b654 in i_panic ( format=0x80a886c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x0808d787 in get_ext_header (map=Variable "map" is not available. ) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:157 ext_hdr = Variable "ext_hdr" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbffff158 in ?? () #2 0x00000006 in ?? () #3 0x00004f36 in ?? () #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x0809b23a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x4f36 <Address 0x4f36 out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 #7 0x0809b654 in i_panic ( format=0x80a886c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 #8 0x0808d787 in get_ext_header (map=Variable "map" is not available. ) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:157 #9 0x0808db69 in sync_ext_reorder (map=0x80cd520, ext_id=1, old_size=2) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:273 #10 0x0808e32e in mail_index_sync_ext_intro (ctx=0xbffff590, u=0x80b6688) at mail-index-sync-ext.c:340 #11 0x0808eb60 in mail_index_sync_keywords (ctx=0xbffff590, hdr=0x0, rec=0x80c7a74) at mail-index-sync-keywords.c:107 #12 0x0808678b in mail_index_sync_record (ctx=0xbffff590, hdr=0x80c8764, data=0x80c7a74) at mail-index-sync-update.c:520 #13 0x08086cb6 in mail_index_sync_update_index (sync_ctx=0x80c7618, sync_only_external=0) at mail-index-sync-update.c:674 #14 0x08084cf3 in mail_index_sync_commit (ctx=0x80c7618) at mail-index-sync.c:629 #15 0x080708a9 in mbox_sync (mbox=0x80c5c00, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1707 #16 0x08071589 in mbox_storage_sync_init (box=0x80c5c00, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at mbox-sync.c:1770 #17 0x0808f751 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x0, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at mail-storage.c:336 #18 0x0805ee18 in imap_sync_nonselected (box=0x80c5c00, flags=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at imap-sync.c:171 #19 0x08058236 in _cmd_select_full (cmd=0x80bfbf8, readonly=0) at cmd-select.c:39 #20 0x080583c1 in cmd_select (cmd=0x80bfbf8) at cmd-select.c:92 #21 0x08059a5b in _client_input (context=0x80bfbb8) at client.c:338 #22 0x080a0a7a in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80be9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:190 #23 0x0809fff9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80be9b0) at ioloop.c:230 #24 0x08060996 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa54, envp=0xbffffa5c) at main.c:232 (gdb) p (char *)(ext_hdr + 1) Variable "ext_hdr" is not available. (gdb) p *ext Variable "ext" is not available. ----------------------------------------------------- dovecot: Oct 09 20:43:20 Error: 18254 imap(username): file mail-index.c: line 856 (mail_index_sync_from_transactions): assertion failed: (hdr.log_file_int_offset == (*map)->hdr.log_file_int_offset) dovecot: Oct 09 20:43:21 Error: child 18254 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff2a8 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x0000474e in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #6 0x0809b23a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x474e <Address 0x474e out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 No locals. #7 0x0809b654 in i_panic ( format=0x80a886c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x0807fd5d in mail_index_map (index=0x80c6000, force=135040256) at mail-index.c:837 map = (struct mail_index_map *) 0x80c7230 ret = Variable "ret" is not available. (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbffff2a8 in ?? () #2 0x00000006 in ?? () #3 0x0000474e in ?? () #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x0809b23a in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x474e <Address 0x474e out of bounds>) at failures.c:374 #7 0x0809b654 in i_panic ( format=0x80a886c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 #8 0x0807fd5d in mail_index_map (index=0x80c6000, force=135040256) at mail-index.c:837 #9 0x08085186 in mail_index_sync_begin (index=0x80c6000, ctx_r=0x0, view_r=0x0, log_file_seq=0, log_file_offset=Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0x93 ) at mail-index-sync.c:336 #10 0x08070423 in mbox_sync (mbox=0x80c6c08, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-sync.c:1599 #11 0x0806a101 in mbox_transaction_commit (_t=0x80c87f8, flags=Variable "flags" is not available. ) at mbox-transaction.c:56 #12 0x0808f913 in mailbox_transaction_commit (t=0x0, flags=0) at mail-storage.c:421 #13 0x0805f090 in imap_sync_deinit (ctx=0x80c79b0) at imap-sync.c:70 #14 0x0805f14c in cmd_sync_continue (cmd=0x80bfbf8) at imap-sync.c:184 #15 0x080567d0 in cmd_fetch_finish (ctx=Variable "ctx" is not available. ) at cmd-fetch.c:106 #16 0x08056a1b in cmd_fetch (cmd=0x80bfbf8) at cmd-fetch.c:176 #17 0x08059a5b in _client_input (context=0x80bfbb8) at client.c:338 #18 0x080a0a7a in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x80be9b0) at ioloop-poll.c:190 #19 0x0809fff9 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x80be9b0) at ioloop.c:230 #20 0x08060996 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa54, envp=0xbffffa5c) at main.c:232 ------------------------------------- dovecot: Oct 17 14:16:00 Error: 29119 imap(username): Corrupted index file /mailhome/new/k/t/username/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: File too small dovecot: Oct 17 14:16:03 Error: 29119 imap(username): Corrupted index file /mailhome/new/k/t/username/mail/.imap/sent-mail/dovecot.index: File too small dovecot: Oct 17 14:16:03 Error: 29119 imap(username): Corrupted transaction log file /mailhome/new/k/t/username/mail/.imap/sent-mail/dovecot.index.log: hdr.size too large (2104) dovecot: Oct 17 14:16:05 Error: child 29119 (imap) killed with signal 11

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[Dovecot] Permission denied but works anyway
by Bob Hall 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

I've just updated from 99.14 to 1.0.a3 on a FreeBSD box. Everything went fine, except for a bit of flakyness from Thunderbird. When first checking a mail box in Thunderbird (running on Win2k), I get a message saying that the command can't be carried out and the server answered "Permission denied". I click OK and everything works fine. As long as Thunderbird stays open, the message doesn't pop up again. It only happens when I first check the Inbox for a given account. No problems with Eudora on Win2k or mutt on FBSD. I've googled with various keywords but I can't find anything on this. I have an extremely vague recollection of seeing a post on this, but I can't find anything.

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[Dovecot] verbose pop3 logging
by Ilo Lorusso 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

Hi Im new to dovecot and am looking for some options in the /etc/dovecot.conf to make dovecot a bit more verbose in terms pop3 usage, What ip a user is coming from? How many mails the user downloaded? Timing? Errors occurred while downloading mail?? Is this all possible with dovecot?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot v1.0a3 on OpenBSD 3.7
by Jeff Simmons 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

I've been trying to get Dovecot 1.0a3 running on OpenBSD 3.7, with little luck. I'm getting the following: Oct 16 17:00:50 mailtest dovecot: pop3(testuser):open(/var/mail/.temp.mail.mailtest.com.7078.43c0f93e9fecb54a) failed: Permission denied Oct 16 17:00:50 mailtest dovecot: pop3(testuser): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/testuser: Permission denied Oct 16 17:00:50 mailtest dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<testuser>, method=PLAIN , rip=63.201.8.122, lip=64.4.143.26, TLS Oct 16 17:00:50 mailtest dovecot: pop3(testuser): Mailbox init failed top=0/0, retr=0/ del=0/0, size=0 I've read in the archives that this can be fixed by setting mail_extra_groups = mail in dovecot.conf, but OpenBSD has /var/mail owned by root:wheel mod 755, and /var/mail files owned by fileowner:users mod 600, and no mail group. Anyone know how I can fix this? Jeff Simmons jsimmons(a)goblin.punk.net Simmons Consulting - Network Engineering, Administration, Security "It was on fire when I got here."

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Re: [Dovecot] Backup Maildir
by Odhiambo Washington 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

* On 06/10/05 13:10 -0400, Geo Carncross wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:10 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > * On 06/10/05 16:06 +0100, Gabe Granger wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I'm currently doing nightly full backups of /home. I'm not sure if a > > > full back up is the best way to do backups. I know with my > > > fileserver i do weekly full backup and daily incremental which would > > > file on those type of files. I guess my question to the group is, > > > how do you guys backup Maildir? whats the best way of doing it? > > > > > > This is an interesting question, especially because it relates to mail! > > I am a systems admin, but this is one area that I seriously flop in. > > > > How do you backup e-mails for users when during the backup, they are > > deleting the e-mails from the Maildir (POPping) and at the same, and > > the SMTP server is also writing to it. This is very real on a busy > > mail server. > > > > So, how do people make backups of client's e-mails (Maildir)??? > > The ostrich approach works very well for Maildir. Deleting entries or > new entries either show up or they didn't. Please describe this ostrich approach, or show me how. We only know of Ostriches for meat these sides :-) Best regards, Odhiambo Washington Systems Admin, Wananchi Online Ltd. Are you hosting your domain name with the leaders??: See http://webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/Country/KE DISCLAIMER : http://ns2.wananchi.com/~wash/Email/disclaimer.txt ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Odhiambo WASHINGTON . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) http://www.wananchi.com/email/ . 1ere Etage, Loita Hse, Loita St., Mobile: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Q: What is the difference between open-source and commercial software? A: If you have a problem with commercial software you can call a phone number and they will tell you it might be solved in a future version. For open-source software there isn't a phone number to call, but you get the solution within a day.

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