[Dovecot] inbox issue

Eric Broch ebroch at whitehorsetc.com
Mon Oct 10 22:04:44 EEST 2011


I have dovecot 2.0.11 installed on a CentOS 5.7 email server. Two of the
server email clients, one using Outlook and the other Thunderbird, have
had all the contents of their inbox disappear only to reappear at a
later time. One client's inbox email reappeared upon receiving a test
email (to check if it would show up in the inbox) from another user. Has
anyone heard of such a thing?

Here's a dump of my dovecot configuration.

# 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.7 (Final)
auth_anonymous_username = anonymous
auth_cache_negative_ttl = 1 hours
auth_cache_size = 32 M
auth_cache_ttl = 1 hours
auth_debug = no
auth_debug_passwords = no
auth_default_realm =
auth_failure_delay = 2 secs
auth_first_valid_uid = 500
auth_gssapi_hostname =
auth_krb5_keytab =
auth_last_valid_uid = 0
auth_master_user_separator =
auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5
auth_realms =
auth_socket_path = auth-userdb
auth_ssl_require_client_cert = no
auth_ssl_username_from_cert = no
auth_use_winbind = no
auth_username_chars =
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@
auth_username_format = %Lu
auth_username_translation =
auth_verbose = no
auth_verbose_passwords = no
auth_winbind_helper_path = /usr/bin/ntlm_auth
auth_worker_max_count = 30
base_dir = /var/run/dovecot
config_cache_size = 1 M
debug_log_path =
default_client_limit = 1000
default_idle_kill = 60
default_internal_user = dovecot
default_login_user = dovenull
default_process_limit = 100
default_vsz_limit = 256 M
deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$
dict_db_config =
director_doveadm_port = 0
director_mail_servers =
director_servers =
director_user_expire = 15 mins
disable_plaintext_auth = no
dotlock_use_excl = yes
doveadm_socket_path = doveadm-server
doveadm_worker_count = 0
first_valid_gid = 1
first_valid_uid = 89
hostname =
imap_capability =
imap_client_workarounds =
imap_id_log =
imap_id_send =
imap_idle_notify_interval = 2 mins
imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o
imap_max_line_length = 64 k
import_environment = TZ
info_log_path =
last_valid_gid = 0
last_valid_uid = 0
lda_mailbox_autocreate = no
lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = no
lda_original_recipient_header =
libexec_dir = /usr/libexec/dovecot
listen = *, ::
lmtp_proxy = no
lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = no
lock_method = fcntl
log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S "
login_access_sockets =
login_greeting = Dovecot toaster ready.
login_log_format = %$: %s
login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c
login_trusted_networks =
mail_access_groups =
mail_attachment_dir =
mail_attachment_fs = sis posix
mail_attachment_hash = %{sha1}
mail_attachment_min_size = 128 k
mail_cache_fields = flags
mail_cache_min_mail_count = 0
mail_chroot =
mail_debug = no
mail_fsync = optimized
mail_full_filesystem_access = no
mail_gid =
mail_home =
mail_location =
mail_log_prefix = "%s(%u): "
mail_max_keyword_length = 50
mail_max_lock_timeout = 0
mail_max_userip_connections = 10
mail_never_cache_fields = imap.envelope
mail_nfs_index = no
mail_nfs_storage = no
mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot
mail_plugins =
mail_privileged_group =
mail_save_crlf = no
mail_temp_dir = /tmp
mail_uid =
mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 secs
mailbox_list_index_disable = no
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes
maildir_stat_dirs = no
maildir_very_dirty_syncs = no
master_user_separator =
mbox_dirty_syncs = yes
mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 2 mins
mbox_lazy_writes = yes
mbox_lock_timeout = 5 mins
mbox_min_index_size = 0
mbox_read_locks = fcntl
mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no
mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl
mdbox_preallocate_space = no
mdbox_rotate_interval = 0
mdbox_rotate_size = 2 M
mmap_disable = no
namespace {
  hidden = no
  inbox = yes
  list = yes
  location =
  prefix = INBOX.
  separator = .
  subscriptions = yes
  type = private
}
namespace {
  hidden = no
  inbox = no
  list = yes
  location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/acemt.com/shared/projects
  prefix = projects.
  separator = .
  subscriptions = yes
  type = public
}
passdb {
  args = cache_key=%u webmail=127.0.0.1
  deny = no
  driver = vpopmail
  master = no
  pass = no
}
plugin/quota = maildir
pop3_client_workarounds =
pop3_enable_last = no
pop3_fast_size_lookups = no
pop3_lock_session = no
pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s
pop3_no_flag_updates = no
pop3_reuse_xuidl = no
pop3_save_uidl = no
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
postmaster_address =
protocols = imap
quota_full_tempfail = no
recipient_delimiter = +
rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r
rejection_subject = Rejected: %s
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
service anvil {
  chroot = empty
  client_limit = 0
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = anvil
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 4294967295 secs
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 1
  process_min_avail = 1
  protocol =
  service_count = 0
  type = anvil
  unix_listener anvil-auth-penalty {
    group =
    mode = 0600
    user =
  }
  unix_listener anvil {
    group =
    mode = 0600
    user =
  }
  user = $default_internal_user
  vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service auth-worker {
  chroot =
  client_limit = 1
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = auth -w
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 0
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol =
  service_count = 1
  type =
  unix_listener auth-worker {
    group =
    mode = 0600
    user = $default_internal_user
  }
  user =
  vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service auth {
  chroot =
  client_limit = 4096
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = auth
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 1
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol =
  service_count = 0
  type =
  unix_listener auth-client {
    group =
    mode = 0600
    user =
  }
  unix_listener auth-login {
    group =
    mode = 0600
    user = $default_internal_user
  }
  unix_listener auth-master {
    group =
    mode = 0600
    user =
  }
  unix_listener auth-userdb {
    group =
    mode = 0600
    user =
  }
  unix_listener login/login {
    group =
    mode = 0666
    user =
  }
  user = $default_internal_user
  vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service config {
  chroot =
  client_limit = 0
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = config
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 0
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol =
  service_count = 0
  type = config
  unix_listener config {
    group =
    mode = 0600
    user =
  }
  user =
  vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service dict {
  chroot =
  client_limit = 1
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = dict
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 0
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol =
  service_count = 0
  type =
  unix_listener dict {
    group =
    mode = 0600
    user =
  }
  user = $default_internal_user
  vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service director {
  chroot =
  client_limit = 0
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = director
  extra_groups =
  fifo_listener login/proxy-notify {
    group =
    mode = 00
    user =
  }
  group =
  idle_kill = 4294967295 secs
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 1
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol =
  service_count = 0
  type =
  unix_listener director-admin {
    group =
    mode = 0600
    user =
  }
  unix_listener login/director {
    group =
    mode = 00
    user =
  }
  user = $default_internal_user
  vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service dns_client {
  chroot =
  client_limit = 1
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = dns-client
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 0
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol =
  service_count = 0
  type =
  unix_listener dns-client {
    group =
    mode = 0666
    user =
  }
  unix_listener login/dns-client {
    group =
    mode = 0666
    user =
  }
  user = $default_internal_user
  vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service doveadm {
  chroot =
  client_limit = 1
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = doveadm-server
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 0
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol =
  service_count = 1
  type =
  unix_listener doveadm-server {
    group =
    mode = 0600
    user =
  }
  user =
  vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service imap-login {
  chroot = login
  client_limit = 0
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = imap-login
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  inet_listener imap {
    address =
    port = 143
    ssl = no
  }
  inet_listener imaps {
    address =
    port = 993
    ssl = yes
  }
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 0
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol = imap
  service_count = 1
  type = login
  user = $default_login_user
  vsz_limit = 64 M
}
service imap {
  chroot =
  client_limit = 1
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = imap
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 1024
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol = imap
  service_count = 1
  type =
  unix_listener login/imap {
    group =
    mode = 0666
    user =
  }
  user =
  vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service lmtp {
  chroot =
  client_limit = 0
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = lmtp
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 0
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol = lmtp
  service_count = 0
  type =
  unix_listener lmtp {
    group =
    mode = 0666
    user =
  }
  user =
  vsz_limit = 0
}
service log {
  chroot =
  client_limit = 0
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = log
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 1
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol =
  service_count = 0
  type = log
  user =
  vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service pop3-login {
  chroot = login
  client_limit = 0
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = pop3-login
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  inet_listener pop3 {
    address =
    port = 110
    ssl = no
  }
  inet_listener pop3s {
    address =
    port = 995
    ssl = yes
  }
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 0
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol = pop3
  service_count = 1
  type = login
  user = $default_login_user
  vsz_limit = 64 M
}
service pop3 {
  chroot =
  client_limit = 1
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = pop3
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 1024
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol = pop3
  service_count = 1
  type =
  unix_listener login/pop3 {
    group =
    mode = 0666
    user =
  }
  user =
  vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
service ssl-params {
  chroot =
  client_limit = 0
  drop_priv_before_exec = no
  executable = ssl-params
  extra_groups =
  group =
  idle_kill = 0
  privileged_group =
  process_limit = 0
  process_min_avail = 0
  protocol =
  service_count = 0
  type = startup
  unix_listener login/ssl-params {
    group =
    mode = 0666
    user =
  }
  user =
  vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B
}
shutdown_clients = yes
ssl = yes
ssl_ca =
ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem
ssl_cert_username_field = commonName
ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL
ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem
ssl_key_password =
ssl_parameters_file = ssl-parameters.dat
ssl_parameters_regenerate = 168
ssl_verify_client_cert = no
submission_host =
syslog_facility = mail
userdb {
  args = cache_key=%u quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q
  driver = vpopmail
}
valid_chroot_dirs =
verbose_auth = no
verbose_proctitle = no
verbose_ssl = no
version_ignore = no
protocol imap {
  imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail
}




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