August 2008 - dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Search for (any of) multiple terms slow
by Patrick Nagel 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:18:37 -0400, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:25 AM, Patrick Nagel wrote: > >> When searching for multiple terms at once ("any of") with >> Thunderbird/Dovecot >> (using FTS Squat indexes), it takes much longer (not double the >> time, or a bit >> more than that, but really much, much longer) than when I search for >> only one term. > > Yea, OR isn't supported by FTS plugin yet.. I had hoped no-one would > notice it ;) I guess I should do something about it. Heh, I see ;) As it is, the FTS plugin is quite useless to us though :( most of the time people are doing a (real world) search, they don't remember the exact word they're looking for. For example they only remember that the mail they're looking for contained "English" and "automobile" - or was it "Englisch" and "Automobil", because the mail was in German? So to get a list of all possible mails, they want to make use of the OR connection of search terms... > Requires a lot > more complexity to the code though.. Couldn't Dovecot just search the index with each single word (as it does now without OR), and then merge the results, filtering out double UIDs? This is probably not the most efficient way to solve this, but it would be definitely *much* faster than not using the indexes at all - and doesn't sound too complex to me. Are there any other not-yet-implemented SEARCH features that don't work with the FTS plugin? Thanks, Patrick. - -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. http://www.star-group.net/ Phone: +86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779 PGP key: https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iEYEARECAAYFAkijga4ACgkQ7yMg/OiDoAUnFwCfXDUDHR+UdlMKkqwn2/nkB61I X3MAn1nK8KVW8RbtzQ6qQGipGb3uMXRa =I8Eh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Can't purge folders in Trash with listescape loaded in 1.1.2
by Adam McDougall 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

I made sure I didn't have the Trash folder open by restarting dovecot, then going to File -> Empty Trash in thunderbird. rawlog in, listescape loaded: 3 select "Trash" 4 list "" "Trash/*" 5 delete "Trash/test" 6 IDLE rawlog out, listescape loaded: * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2008-08-08 10:54:14 * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft Old NonJunk $MDNSent unknown-3 $Forwarded unknown-0 unknown-5 unknown-7 Junk unknown-1 unknown-4 unknown-9 unknown-10 $label1 $label4 $label5) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft Old NonJunk $MDNSent unknown-3 $Forwarded unknown-0 unknown-5 unknown-7 Junk unknown-1 unknown-4 unknown-9 unknown-10 $label1 $label4 $label5 \*)] Flags permitted. * 0 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1194838495] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 55158] Predicted next UID 3 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash/test" 4 OK List completed. 5 NO Unknown internal list error + idling rawlog in, listescape loaded: 3 select "Trash" 4 list "" "Trash/*" 5 delete "Trash/test" 6 unsubscribe "Trash/test" 7 IDLE rawlog in, listescape loaded: * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2008-08-08 10:56:34 * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft Old NonJunk $MDNSent unknown-3 $Forwarded unknown-0 unknown-5 unknown-7 Junk unknown-1 unknown-4 unknown-9 unknown-10 $label1 $label4 $label5) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft Old NonJunk $MDNSent unknown-3 $Forwarded unknown-0 unknown-5 unknown-7 Junk unknown-1 unknown-4 unknown-9 unknown-10 $label1 $label4 $label5 \*)] Flags permitted. * 0 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1194838495] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 55158] Predicted next UID 3 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash/test" 4 OK List completed. 5 OK Delete completed. 6 OK Unsubscribe completed. + idling dovecot -n: # 1.1.2: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/apache22/ssl/mail.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/apache22/ssl/mail.pem login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_max_processes_count: 512 max_mail_processes: 1024 mail_max_userip_connections: 25 verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 1000 mail_access_groups: postlocal mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private/control:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot/private/indexes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_process_size: 1024 mail_plugins: acl fts fts_squat listescape quota imap_quota mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ hidden: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: Mail/ hidden: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd args: system_user= socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 384 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: quota: fs:noenforcing:inode_per_mail acl: vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-acls:cache_secs=10 fts: squat

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[Dovecot] mbox empty messages in Sent folder
by Diego Liziero 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

I'm talking about mbox Sent folder, where some mailers append through imap server a copy of each message they send. Sometimes, just three header lines got appended instead of the whole mail message, such as: >From xxxxxxxx(a)xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx Fri May 23 12:30:14 2008 X-UID: 2852 Status: RO This happened in the past (dovecot-1.1-beta/rc with Evolution and with Thunderbird), and happened last week with dovecot-1.1-rc5 (+ last week hg patches). Anyone had a similar issue? Regards, Diego.

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[Dovecot] 1.1.x problems
by Andre Hübner 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

Hi, since upgrading to 1.1.x i still have this bugs "Next message unexpectedly lost " I read this Maillist some months ago and i believe that im not the only one... The Panics and crashes in 1.1.1 are gone by upgrading to 1.1.2 but these "Next message unexpectedly lost " bugs are really annoying if users can't download complete mails. is there something new to this issue. all recommend changes did not help. The only thing i could do is downgrade to 1.0.15 and all works fine. i can not keep the 1.1.x versions in my repo untill this case is solved. :( Thanks Andre

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Support GSS-SPNEGO natively
by Jason Gunthorpe 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

I cooked this up while trying to figure out why thunderbird on Windows w/ SSPI was not working, but it turned out thunderbird does not use it, so I haven't been able to test it yet. I'm presenting it for discussion only, unless someone else can try it :) Modern versions of MIT kerberos support GSS-SPNEGO natively, but are only willing to negotiate for kerberos tickets and not NTLM messages. This is how the SPNEGO works in libapache-mod-auth-kerb-5.3 which simply passes SPNEGO packets directly to gssapi if the library is new enough. There is even a configure feature test for the gssapi library in that packages configure script. Note that Debian etch's standard kerb libaries (1.4) are not good enough for this. Having this work means the other gssapi policy knobs in dovecot, like auth_gssapi_hostname, work properly. Instead of 'whatever it is that samba does'. I guess it fixes the concerns about winbind accesses blocking (although don't the gssapi calls block??) In light of this it is really only useful to use winbind if you want to support NTLM as kerberos will do the necessary exchanges with the kdc for an Active Directory domain. In truth a proper and complete design would somehow layer the built in NTLM module under the SPNEGO negotiation and only pass NTLM messages off to samba but I doubt anyone cares with NTLM being rather obsolete. --- dovecot-1.0.13/src/auth/mech-gssapi.c 2007-12-11 11:52:08.000000000 -0700 +++ dovecot-1.0.13-jgg/src/auth/mech-gssapi.c 2008-08-11 23:52:15.000000000 -0600 @@ -417,4 +424,21 @@ mech_gssapi_auth_free }; +/* MTI Kerberos > 1.5 supports SPNEGO for Kerberos tickets internally. + Nothing else needs to be done here. Note however that this does not + support SPNEGO when the only available credential is NTLM.. */ +const struct mech_module mech_gssapi_spnego = { + "GSS-SPNEGO", + + MEMBER(flags) 0, + + MEMBER(passdb_need_plain) FALSE, + MEMBER(passdb_need_credentials) FALSE, + + mech_gssapi_auth_new, + mech_gssapi_auth_initial, + mech_gssapi_auth_continue, + mech_gssapi_auth_free +}; + #endif --- dovecot-1.0.13/src/auth/mech.c 2007-12-11 11:52:08.000000000 -0700 +++ dovecot-1.0.13-jgg/src/auth/mech.c 2008-08-11 21:30:56.000000000 -0600 @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ extern struct mech_module mech_anonymous; #ifdef HAVE_GSSAPI extern struct mech_module mech_gssapi; +extern struct mech_module mech_gssapi_spnego; #endif void mech_init(void) @@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ mech_register_module(&mech_anonymous); #ifdef HAVE_GSSAPI mech_register_module(&mech_gssapi); + mech_register_module(&mech_gssapi_spnego); #endif } @@ -101,5 +103,6 @@ mech_unregister_module(&mech_anonymous); #ifdef HAVE_GSSAPI mech_unregister_module(&mech_gssapi); + mech_unregister_module(&mech_gssapi_spnego); #endif }

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[Dovecot] [PATCH] Allow GSSAPI to work with multihomed hosts
by Jason Gunthorpe 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

I saw some past chatter on this in the list archives, but here is another stab and another rational. This patch follows a similar patch to openssh in that it allows any key in the specified keytab to match the incoming host key. This is necessary for multihomed hosts. See: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=928 IMAP/POP seem to be a strong candidate to be multihomed because they are very likely to have an internal to a firewall and external to a firewall name. Due to the way MIT kerberos handles host name resolution via reverse IP lookup this can often result in multiple principle names and there is simply nothing to be done about it. This is my situation.. When you add windows into the mix, which uses a totally different set of rules to determine the principle all hope seems to be lost to have a single service principle name for an imap server :( I was able to make things work for my environment using only the auth_gssapi_hostname feature if only MIT kerberos was used, but as soon as windows SSPI was involved it choose a different hostname. Thus we want to have GSSAPI to match any service principle in the keytab. As far as security concerns go, the admin can configure the keytab for dovecot to be seperate from the system key tab and contain only valid imap SPNs, but in truth it probably doesn't matter. I choose to just use the magic configurable: auth_gssapi_hostname = $ALL rather than introduce more configurables FWIW, after applying this I now am happy to say I have an Active Directory KDC, with dovecot providing gssapi auth to thunderbird on both linux (mit kerb 1.6) and windows (sspi).. --- dovecot-1.0.13/src/auth/mech-gssapi.c 2007-12-11 11:52:08.000000000 -0700 +++ dovecot-1.0.13-jgg/src/auth/mech-gssapi.c 2008-08-11 23:52:15.000000000 -0600 @@ -101,6 +101,13 @@ gss_name_t gss_principal; const char *service_name; + if (strcmp(request->auth->gssapi_hostname,"$ALL") == 0) { + auth_request_log_info(request, "gssapi", + "Using all keytab entires"); + *ret = GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL; + return GSS_S_COMPLETE; + } + if (strcasecmp(request->service, "POP3") == 0) { /* The standard POP3 service name with GSSAPI is called just "pop". */

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[Dovecot] dovecot sieve sends vacation messages with null envelope sender
by Josef Liška 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

I am using this simple sieve script to do "vacation": require ["fileinto", "vacation"]; if exists "X-Spam-Flag" { stop; } vacation :days 1 :subject "Out of office reply" :addresses ["<email address hidden>", "<email address hidden>" ] "I am on vacation until 2008-08-07. If you have something urgent, please contact: Jan Novak <email address hidden> "; I use sql lookups for users and passwords. For some reason the default location ~/.dovecot-sieve did not work for some reason. However I prefer to put sieve scripts to /var/lib/sieve and when I added additional field to lookup with this location it started to work. But it sends vacation messages with null envelope sender, which is in my opinion undesirable, because many vacation messages are caught in spam filters. I think there could be same sender on envelope. In dovecot-sieve/src/sieve-cmu.c around line 380 is a call to smtp_client_open(src->addr, NULL, &f); NULL could be replaced with src->fromaddr Maybe some more patching may be necesary. I found similar patch for cyrus-imapd at http://oss.digirati.com.br/mail/cyrus.html <http://oss.digirati.com.br/mail/cyrus.html> My current system: 1) Ubuntu 8.04.1 jl@mail:~$ dovecot --version 1.0.15 It is a backported package from ubuntu intrepid ibex. However the same applies for dovecot 1.0.10 which is in ubuntu 8.04. Summary: I expect messages sent by vacation recipe should have envelope from same as user's e-mail address. This is then writen to Return-Path: header by receiving MTA NULL envelope from is used, resulting (in my case) to Return-Path: <> rewriten by postfix to Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON> by receiving MTA

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[Dovecot] RfE: use HOSTNAME environment variable in hostpid_init()
by Heiko Schlichting 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, All parts of dovecot except deliver uses the result of hostpid_init() in src/lib/hostpid.c as a hostname which only asks gethostname(). deliver honours environment variable HOSTNAME in src/deliver/deliver.c: getenv("HOSTNAME"); and uses the hostname of hostpid_init() as a fallback. Wouldn't it be consequent to evaluate the environment variable HOSTNAME in hostpid_init() with fallback to gethostname() and remove the special behavior from deliver? The dovecot master process should export $HOSTNAME to all childs in this case. Motivation: Dovecot uses the hostname as part of Maildir file names and gethostname() is not fully qualified on all operating systems (it is on IRIX but not on Linux). But unqualified hostnames are not unique and it is frequent that dovecot hosts are named "mail" oder "imap" as hostname. To distinguish between mail.domain1.com and mail.domain2.net would be easier if dovecot evaluate $HOSTNAME in all case not just deliver as program imap can create Maildir files as well. Heiko Heiko Schlichting Freie Universität Berlin heiko(a)FU-Berlin.DE Zentraleinrichtung für Datenverarbeitung (ZEDAT) Telefon +49 30 838-54327 Fabeckstraße 32 Telefax +49 30 838454327 14195 Berlin

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[Dovecot] syslog with PID
by Heiko Schlichting 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, LOG_NDELAY is the only option for openlog() in dovecot 1.1.2. Wouldn't be LOG_NDELAY|LOG_PID as option parameter much more useful? Without logging the pid, it is impossible to match 'Disconnected' log entries and the corresponding session start/login. Therefore I suggest to use LOG_NDELAY|LOG_PID in the options of i_set_failure_syslog() at all 6 occurrences which passes it to openlog(). I know that it is possible to - use logging to file - patch it myself but I can't see good reasons in not using LOG_PID here. As far as I know, most other programs specify LOG_PID. Without LOG_PID: Jul 31 10:21:08 name dovecot: IMAP(hsg): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=28/242 With LOG_PID: Jul 31 10:21:08 name dovecot[17016]: IMAP(hsg): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=28/242 Heiko Heiko Schlichting Freie Universität Berlin heiko(a)FU-Berlin.DE Zentraleinrichtung für Datenverarbeitung (ZEDAT) Telefon +49 30 838-54327 Fabeckstraße 32 Telefax +49 30 838454327 14195 Berlin

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[Dovecot] sieve - Sendmail process terminated abnormally, exit status 70
by Thomas Harold 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

How do we start troubleshooting this? deliver(user(a)example.com): Aug 12 18:27:19 Error: Sendmail process terminated abnormally, exit status 70 deliver(user(a)example.com): Aug 12 18:27:19 Info: sieve runtime error: Vacation: Error sending mail deliver(user(a)example.com): Aug 12 18:27:19 Info: msgid=<48A20E3C.7070307(a)example.com>: saved mail to INBOX deliver(user(a)example.com): Aug 12 18:27:19 Error: sieve_execute_bytecode(/var/vmail/example.com/user//Home/.dovecot.sievec) failed It seems to only choke on the vacation portion. It creates entries in the ".dovecot.lda-dupes" file. But then dies while sending the reply e-mail. The contents of the user's .dovecot.sieve file is: ------------------------------------- require ["fileinto", "include", "vacation"]; # Move spam to spam folder if exists "X-Spam-Flag" { fileinto "spam"; # Stop here so that we do not reply on spams stop; } include :personal "sieve-vacation"; ------------------------------------- And the "" file looks like: ------------------------------------- require ["vacation"]; vacation # Reply at most once a day to a same sender :days 1 :subject "Out of office reply" # List of recipient addresses which are included in the auto replying. # If a mail's recipient is not on this list, no vacation reply is sent for it. :addresses "user(a)example.com" "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, user(a)example.com"; ------------------------------------- If I comment out the "include :personal "sieve-vacation";" line, then it works, but obviously not the vacation portion. Deliver does at least not die horribly. I get the same error if I move the content of the vacation include file into the main ".dovecot.sieve" file. # ls -la /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/lda/ -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 802824 Aug 12 18:12 deliver # ls -la /usr/libexec/dovecot/ total 5728 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 31 04:04 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jul 25 04:39 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 58416 Jul 24 06:32 checkpassword-reply -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 666128 Jul 24 06:32 convert-tool -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 802824 Jul 24 06:32 deliver -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 164176 Jul 24 06:32 dict -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 350384 Jul 24 06:32 dovecot-auth -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 674176 Jul 24 06:32 expire-tool -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59200 Jul 24 06:32 gdbhelper -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 245872 Jul 24 06:32 idxview -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 854488 Jul 24 06:32 imap -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 157216 Jul 24 06:32 imap-login -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61248 Jul 24 06:32 listview -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61800 Jul 24 06:32 logview -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 74200 Jul 24 06:32 maildirlock -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 931 Jul 24 06:27 mkcert.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 787464 Jul 24 06:32 pop3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 149152 Jul 24 06:32 pop3-login -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83968 Jul 24 06:32 rawlog -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 165152 Jun 11 03:21 sievec -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 157216 Jun 11 03:21 sieved -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 62584 Jul 24 06:32 ssl-build-param (output of "yum list") dovecot.x86_64 :1.1.2-2_77.el5 installed dovecot-sieve.x86_64 1.1.5-8.el5 installed I'm not finding any AVC errors in the SELinux audit.log file. And I'm not sure what other switches I can turn on to get better error information as to what sendmail/deliver are choking on in this virtual (setuid) environment where we use Dovecot as the LDA.

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[Dovecot] Marking as Read causes Body.Peek on ALL messages - Reasonable?
by Daniel Watts 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

I've noticed when I select a folder of messages (Thunderbird) and mark them all as read (or unread) it produces the following IMAP transcript: Source Destination Info c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: DONE s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: 20 OK Idle completed. c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 21 uid store 1:20 -Flags (\Seen) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 1 FETCH (UID 1 FLAGS (\Recent NonJunk)) c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 22 UID fetch 2 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 2 FETCH (UID 2 RFC822.SIZE 1339 BODY[] {1339} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 23 UID fetch 3 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 3 FETCH (UID 3 RFC822.SIZE 1342 BODY[] {1342} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 24 UID fetch 5 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 5 FETCH (UID 5 RFC822.SIZE 1344 BODY[] {1344} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 25 UID fetch 6 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 6 FETCH (UID 6 RFC822.SIZE 1350 BODY[] {1350} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 26 UID fetch 7 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 7 FETCH (UID 7 RFC822.SIZE 1344 BODY[] {1344} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 27 UID fetch 8 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 8 FETCH (UID 8 RFC822.SIZE 1325 BODY[] {1325} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 28 UID fetch 9 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 9 FETCH (UID 9 RFC822.SIZE 1323 BODY[] {1323} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 29 UID fetch 10 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 10 FETCH (UID 10 RFC822.SIZE 1338 BODY[] {1338} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 30 UID fetch 11 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 11 FETCH (UID 11 RFC822.SIZE 1333 BODY[] {1333} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 31 UID fetch 12 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 12 FETCH (UID 12 RFC822.SIZE 1344 BODY[] {1344} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 32 UID fetch 13 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 13 FETCH (UID 13 RFC822.SIZE 1335 BODY[] {1335} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 33 UID fetch 15 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 15 FETCH (UID 15 RFC822.SIZE 1323 BODY[] {1323} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 34 UID fetch 16 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 16 FETCH (UID 16 RFC822.SIZE 1325 BODY[] {1325} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 35 UID fetch 17 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 17 FETCH (UID 17 RFC822.SIZE 1333 BODY[] {1333} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 36 UID fetch 18 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 18 FETCH (UID 18 RFC822.SIZE 1327 BODY[] {1327} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 37 UID fetch 19 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 19 FETCH (UID 19 RFC822.SIZE 1343 BODY[] {1343} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 38 UID fetch 20 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[]) s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: * 20 FETCH (UID 20 RFC822.SIZE 1337 BODY[] {1337} c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 39 IDLE s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: + idling NOTE: c.c.c.c = client (thunderbird) s.s.s.s = server (dovecot 1.1.2) Is this reasonable? I thought it would be possible to just send a list of message UIDs and say mark these as /seen /unseen etc. Of course this could (is probably) just Thunderbird being braindead but confirmation would be appreciated. Thanks, Daniel

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[Dovecot] IMAP inbox: cannot delete tagged messages or change their tag
by Epimedia 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hello, a bit of a problem with Dovecot. Version is 1.0.15 and is a default install (no changes to config) from FC8 repository... except that Dovecot is configured to use Maildir I have a user on the system who uses the tags in Thunderbird (Important, Personal etc). When she tags the messages they cannot be deleted and their tags cannot be changed. When deleting a message from the IMAP inbox it momentarily disappears and moves a copy to the Trash but when the IMAP inbox is reloaded the message reappears. The same happens when I try to change a tag: it comes back with the previous tag. Untagged messages can be freely deleted. Also, this problem does not happen if the messages are in a IMAP folder. They can be freely deleted. The problem seems specific to Dovecot, not Thunderbird, as I am able to tag and delete messages in another IMAP account. Also, accessing the same IMAP account using OS X Mail the messages come back after deleting them. Where should I start looking for a solution to this problem?

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[Dovecot] Trying to Hide Namespace - new configuration options?
by Daniel Watts 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Using 1.1.2 We have: # default namespace namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes #location = maildir:/home/virtual/%h #Maildir } # for backwards compatibility: namespace private { separator = / prefix = mail/ location = maildir:%h/Maildir/ #Maildir hidden = yes list = no } The 'hidden=yes' seemed to do nothing but saw earlier in this list a reply to add 'list=no'. This has worked to hide all folder but we still have /mail/Trash showing and it refuses to go away even after unsubscribing. mail/Trash appears when I set my email client to use folder prefix "mail/". If i set the prefix to blank I only see my Inbox and Deleted folders. Interestingly it shows 'Deleted' not 'Trash'. I guess Thunderbird renames 'Trash'. What other configs are there to try? Is there a list of config changes for 1.1.x anywhere? We were not aware of the list=no config. Thanks, Daniel

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[Dovecot] How to do line breaks in sieve scripts?
by CJ Keist 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In working with auto vacation replies I'd like to do a sieve script as follows: require ["vacation"]; vacation :days 30 :addresses "cj.keist(a)colostate.edu" :subject "Out of Office" "***************** Out of Office ****************** I'm away -- send mail to foo in my absence ***************************************************"; But the libsieve-php.sourceforge.net check site doesn't like the line breaks. Is there a way to do line breaks in sieve scripting? I've tried "\" at the end of the lines but that didn't work. - -- C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist(a)colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301 All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIm2UwA29OFr7C6jcRAn7mAKCokJxNCkTiwyXuSo1qDjZ+9xqVfgCdG3vC DC+/BIiQVqZN+U8CzwWdxgQ= =4+0r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] problems with sieve and lda
by Harondel J. Sibble 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Okay, after reading the wiki and list archives, I am confused. I am attemping to get the deliver LDA working on a centos 5.1 system # rpm -qa | grep dovecot dovecot-1.0.7-2.el5 dovecot-sieve-1.0.2-6.el5 # rpm -qa | grep postfix postfix-2.3.3-2 so that I can use Sieve for mail filtering to imap folders, I am using the mbox format Following the wiki here for system users http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix I never get any info in the logs about cmusieve, the only way I see anything show up is if I add the transport settings to postfix/master.cf or see below >From reading the list archives, as best as I can tell, the only time I need to make the changes in postfix's master.cf is if I am using a virtual environment, otherwise for local delivery, all I need is the mailbox_command setting in postfix/main.cf However with that setting, I get nothing! If I then run deliver from the command line as per a couple of mailling postings, cat /etc/hosts | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d localaccount(a)mydomain.com -f mygmailaccount(a)gmail.com I get deliver(localaccount(a)mydomail.com): Aug 10 22:07:17 Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda deliver(localaccount(a)mydomail.com): Aug 10 22:07:17 Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so deliver(localaccount(a)mydomail.com): Aug 10 22:07:17 Error: Can't connect to auth server at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory Config stuff (dovecot -n) # 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log protocols: imaps pop3s listen(default): *:143 listen(imap): *:143 listen(pop3): [::] ssl_listen(default): *:943 ssl_listen(imap): *:943 ssl_listen(pop3): ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/tls/private/my.domain.tld.key verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=~/mail/.imap/.imap/indexes/ mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd postfix/main.cf has mailbox_commmand = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver A .dovecot.sieve file with the following contents for testing purposes is located at ~/mail require "fileinto"; if header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "Subject" "**SPAM**" { fileinto "Trash"; stop; } The LDA section from the dovecot.conf file protocol lda { # Address to use when sending rejection mails. # postmaster_address = # Hostname to use in various parts of sent mails, eg. in Message-Id. # Default is the system's real hostname. #hostname = # Support for dynamically loadable plugins. mail_plugins is a space separated # list of plugins to load. mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/lda mail_plugins = cmusieve # Binary to use for sending mails. #sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail # UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users. #auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master #sieve_global_path = script_path = ~/.dovecot.sieve log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliverlog info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliverlog debug = yes } What am I missing here to getting this working -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. help(a)pdscc.com (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager)

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[Dovecot] Fwd: [MORG] IMAP5 List
by Timo Sirainen 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

If anyone's interested, especially client developers. It's been a bit quiet there after the initial rush. Begin forwarded message: > From: Randall Gellens <randy(a)qualcomm.com> > Date: August 1, 2008 5:08:39 AM EDT > To: ietf-imapext(a)imc.org, morg(a)ietf.org > Subject: [MORG] IMAP5 List > > At the MORG BOF, a discussion as to if the proposed IMAP extensions > would merely further add to the existing problem with IMAP being too > hard to get right, for both clients and servers, let to a revival of > the "IMAP5" discussion (previous held during the IMAP EAI > discussions). Here, "IMAP5" refers to a Big Switch (new port and > version) to distinguish this revision from current IMAP. The goal > is to delete as much as possible from IMAP. > > A new mailing list now exists for this discussion on drastically > slimming-down IMAP to make it easier to implement clients and servers. > > ================================================================== > To subscribe, click here: <mailto:imap5-request@ietf.org?body=subscribe > >. > ================================================================== > > It's been observed that "most IMAP clients suck" and that it's hard > for both clients and servers to implement. > > One reason IMAP is hard to implement is that it has a lot of > options. Often there are several alternative ways to accomplish > something. It also has considerable functionality. > > Is it possible and desirable to start with the current set of (IMAP > + all extensions) and consider subtracting as much as possible? The > resulting protocol would still be IMAP, but not backwards-compatible > with today's IMAP, since some currently-mandated items are likely to > be deleted. > > General information about the IMAP5 mailing list is at: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/imap5 > >. > > You can subscribe and manage your subscription at <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/imap5 > >. > > -- > Randall Gellens > Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself > only > -------------- Randomly-selected tag: --------------- > If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will. > _______________________________________________ > MORG mailing list > MORG(a)ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/morg > Note Well: http://www.ietf.org/maillist.html

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[Dovecot] Auto Vacation replies again
by CJ Keist 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry to bring this up again. I have now configured my test server to pass all email messages off to our central campus email filter gateway. This gateway scans all email traffic for viruses/spam before being delivered to any local mail servers. Once I did this my auto vacation replies are getting canned due to the fact the from header line is empty in the reply message. You can see that it is empty from my mail logs (soon after the line where is executes my .dovecot.sievec file): Aug 11 13:24:51 mail2.engr.colostate.edu dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(default): new auth connection: pid=15539 Aug 11 13:24:51 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[15539]: [ID 197553 mail.info] connect from akron.colostate.edu[129.82.103.160] Aug 11 13:24:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[15539]: [ID 197553 mail.info] setting up TLS connection from akron.colostate.edu[129.82.103.160] Aug 11 13:24:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[15539]: [ID 197553 mail.info] Anonymous TLS connection established from akron.colostate.edu[129.82.103.160]: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) Aug 11 13:24:53 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[15539]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 44DEC599C3: client=akron.colostate.edu[129.82.103.160] Aug 11 13:24:53 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/cleanup[15547]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 44DEC599C3: message-id=<f57f300811e59cd8ad787c582485f6b9.squirrel(a)webmail.engr.colostate.edu> Aug 11 13:24:53 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[15539]: [ID 197553 mail.info] disconnect from akron.colostate.edu[129.82.103.160] Aug 11 13:24:53 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/qmgr[15988]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 44DEC599C3: from=<joeblow(a)engr.colostate.edu>, size=1875, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 11 13:24:53 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 315030 mail.info] Loading modules from directory: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda Aug 11 13:24:53 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 619685 mail.info] Module loaded: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so Aug 11 13:24:53 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 848615 mail.info] mbox: data=/top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home/:INBOX=/userM/mail/cjay Aug 11 13:24:53 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 885103 mail.info] fs: root=/top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home, index=, control=, inbox=/userM/mail/cjay Aug 11 13:24:53 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 223526 mail.info] cmusieve: Using sieve path: /top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home/.dovecot.sieve Aug 11 13:24:54 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 507699 mail.info] cmusieve: Executing script /top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home/.dovecot.sievec Aug 11 13:24:54 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 725890 mail.info] msgid=<f57f300811e59cd8ad787c582485f6b9.squirrel(a)webmail.engr.colostate.edu>: sent vacation response to <joeblow(a)engr.colostate.edu> Aug 11 13:24:54 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/pickup[13201]: [ID 197553 mail.info] B9798599C5: uid=10946 from=<> Aug 11 13:24:54 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/cleanup[15547]: [ID 197553 mail.info] B9798599C5: message-id=<dovecot-1218482693-706158-0(a)mail2.engr.colostate.edu> Aug 11 13:24:54 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/qmgr[15988]: [ID 197553 mail.info] B9798599C5: from=<>, size=772, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 11 13:24:55 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 702911 mail.info] msgid=<f57f300811e59cd8ad787c582485f6b9.squirrel(a)webmail.engr.colostate.edu>: saved mail to INBOX Aug 11 13:24:55 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtp[15555]: [ID 197553 mail.info] B9798599C5: to=<joeblow(a)engr.colostate.edu>, relay=parker.colostate.edu[129.82.103.125]:25, delay=0.89, delays=0.09/0.51/0.03/0.25, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 m7BJOur1516324 Message accepted for delivery) Aug 11 13:24:55 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/qmgr[15988]: [ID 197553 mail.info] B9798599C5: removed Aug 11 13:24:55 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/local[15549]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 44DEC599C3: to=<cjay(a)engr2.colostate.edu>, relay=local, delay=2.7, delays=0.26/0.19/0/2.2, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver) Aug 11 13:24:55 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/qmgr[15988]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 44DEC599C3: removed Again, my info: OS: Solaris 10 sparc on T2000 postfix: 2.5.2 dovecot: 1.1.2 sieve plug: 1.1.5 dovecot -n: # 1.1.2: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more than 3072). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings base_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/etc/ssl/privkey.pem ssl_parameters_regenerate: 0 ssl_cipher_list: MEDIUM:!LOW disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Cyrus ready. login_max_processes_count: 1024 max_mail_processes: 1024 mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/userM/mail/%u mail_debug: yes mmap_disable: yes mail_nfs_index: yes mail_executable(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /userM/mail-services/postfix/var/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: postfix group: postfix My sieve file: require ["fileinto", "vacation"]; # BEGIN VACATION vacation :days 30 :subject "Out of Office Reply" :from "cj.keist(a)colostate.edu" :addresses "cjay(a)engr2.colostate.edu" "********************** OUT OF THE OFFICE ******************* testing auto vacation i will reply to your message. *************************************************************"; Is there something in the config files I'm missing? Also, I'm willing to debug this if someone could point me in the right direction in the sieve plugin code where the from address should be set. Thanks... - -- C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist(a)colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301 All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIoJRMA29OFr7C6jcRApfUAKCgkd2Jg8e0MeBtjO/lszqfqUCG+wCcCjbX W22d0lwf0dFRrytxJpu/9HM= =zOzG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot,nfs or memory indexing
by Sebastian Tymków 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, I wonder if it's normal behaviour that indexes created in memory have long creation time. Other problem is that indexes created on nfs sometimes get crushed and I need to delete indexes in case of fetching mails ( I see mails on hd but when telnet on host and make stat I don't see any). Does version 1.1.x correct this errors ? And what is better to use : nfs or memory indexing ? Can someone point me adventages and disadventages of using both solutions? Best regards, Sebastian

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[Dovecot] Quota does not apply.
by Dario Ale 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hello list: I am try to run quota plugin but only works a part. The users are virtual and his homedir and mbox are in NFS server, INDEX files are in local disk. Quota only is applied to global home, if I configure a low global quota and sent an mail to my e-mail, quota works fine, mail is temporally deferred. But, if I configure a high global quota and a small quota for INBOX, sent a mail that is more big that quota for INBOX, then quota is not applied and the mail is delivered to INBOX. IMAP log and LDA log are equals, why I only pasted IMAP log: "... dovecot: Aug 04 15:47:03 Info: IMAP(dario.a): Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap dovecot: Aug 04 15:47:03 Info: IMAP(dario.a): Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so dovecot: Aug 04 15:47:03 Info: IMAP(dario.a): Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so dovecot: Aug 04 15:47:03 Info: IMAP(dario.a): Effective uid=1002, gid=1002, home=/vmail/telpin.com.ar/d/dario.a/ dovecot: Aug 04 15:47:03 Info: IMAP(dario.a): Quota root: name= backend=dict args=:proxy::quotadict dovecot: Aug 04 15:47:03 Info: IMAP(dario.a): dict quota: user=dario.a, uri=proxy::quotadict, enforcing=0 dovecot: Aug 04 15:47:03 Info: IMAP(dario.a): Quota rule: root= mailbox=* bytes=209715200 (0%) messages=0 (0%) dovecot: Aug 04 15:47:03 Info: IMAP(dario.a): Quota rule: root= mailbox=.mbox bytes=10485760 (0%) messages=0 (0%) dovecot: Aug 04 15:47:03 Info: IMAP(dario.a): Quota warning: bytes=199229440 (95%) messages=0 (0%) command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 dovecot: Aug 04 15:47:03 Info: IMAP(dario.a): Quota warning: bytes=167772160 (80%) messages=0 (0%) command=/usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 dovecot: Aug 04 15:47:03 Info: IMAP(dario.a): mbox: data=/vmail/telpin.com.ar/d/dario.a/:INDEX=/etc/dovecot/dovecot-indexes/vmail/telpin.com.ar/d/dario.a/:INBOX=/vmail/telpin.com.ar/d/dario.a/.mbox dovecot: Aug 04 15:47:03 Info: IMAP(dario.a): fs: root=/vmail/telpin.com.ar/d/dario.a, index=/etc/dovecot/dovecot-indexes/vmail/telpin.com.ar/d/dario.a, control=, inbox=/vmail/telpin.com.ar/d/dario.a/.mbox ..." But in my home I have 175M (included 13M of INBOX). In quota table, my relared rows are: | dario.a | quota/storage | 183393060 | | dario.a | quota/messages | 335 | My Dovecot configuration is: # 1.1.2: /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: pop3 pop3s imap imaps valid_chroot_dirs: %h mail_location: mbox:%h:INDEX=/etc/dovecot/dovecot-indexes%h:INBOX=%h.mbox mail_nfs_storage: yes mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap auth default: passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 0600 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: quota: dict:::proxy::quotadict quota_rule: *:storage=200M quota_rule2: .mbox:storage=10M quota_warning: storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2: storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 dict: quotadict: mysql:/etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf Others configurations are: /etc/dovecot-dict-quota.conf connect = host=HOST dbname=BD user=USER password=PASSWD table = quota select_field = current where_field = path username_field = email Thanks for the time and sorry for my bad english. -- Dario Ale (dario.a en telpin.com.ar)

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[Dovecot] Server-side sieve for client-side copies
by Daniel L. Miller 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

I know I could test this - but I'd rather ask first. To my knowledge, we haven't come up with a good server-side implementation for savings copies of sent messages (by all means correct my ignorance in this regard). So the typical way is to enable it in clients like Thunderbird (this prompted a whole discussion of how to save these messages without sending them to the server multiple times). My understanding is that sending a message from a client (use Thunderbird for simplicity of this conversation) is performed via SMTP. Saving a copy into a sent folder is performed via IMAP (hence the multiple transfers to the server). Now that I've laid a background - let's make it Dovecot specific. I don't know how "behind-the-scenes" Dovecot performs the act of saving mail messages that it receives from IMAP, instead of SMTP. Specifically, if I'm using sieve filters via deliver - can I setup a filter that will place mail copies to specific recipients into specific subfolders? -- Daniel

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[Dovecot] Integrate Patch
by aledr 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Is It possible to integrate this patch into next dovecot's releases? It implements the "-w ( disable webmail [IMAP from localhost*] access )" option when using vpopmail. ** Patch created following dovecot mailing list information ** Thanks -- [ ]'s Aledr - Alexandre "OpenSource Solutions for SmallBusiness Problems"

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[Dovecot] stopping dovecot
by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

This may be a silly question but how to correctly stop dovecot and be sure that it's possible to start it again? kill -TERM `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid` doesn't work well. I have imap-login processes staying arround and occupying port which leads to Fatal: listen(0.0.0.0, 993) failed: Address already in use when trying to start again 2s after stopping. -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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[Dovecot] restrict webmail access
by Jan 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi I'm using dovecot imap with ldap accounts. User management interface is phamm. Internal clients connect directly using imap client. External clients must use webmail (squirrelmail). But not everyone is supposed to use webmail. Is there any way to control who is allowed to log in from a specific IP (webmail ip)? Thanx for suggestions Jan

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[Dovecot] Mail quota usage errors
by Jeff Koch 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi: We're using dovecot with qmail and vpopmail and are having problems with major inaccuracies in the mail quota usage maintained in the maildirsize file. Although the file starts off accurate after we delete it and force a rebuild it quickly becomes inaccurate. It doesn't seem to be catching new mail added to the directories. Does anyone have any suggestions or links to pages that will help us troubleshoot/correct this problem. Best Regards, Jeff Koch

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[Dovecot] SSL Certifcates
by Stephen Feyrer 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi anyone. Can dovecot be configured to authenticate user using only SSL Certificates only and not ask for a password. So far I've got it taking the username from the common name of the certificate but I like it to use the certificate in place of the password. Is this possible and how? -- Regards Stephen.

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