August 2008 - dovecot

[Dovecot] Unlimited quota in 1.1?
by David Reid 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

How do I set an unlimited quota for a user in 1.1? Setting it to 0 bytes worked in 1.0, but doesn't seem to work in 1.1 :-( david

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Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot PAM sessions with Maildir
by Sean Smitz 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

I able to connect to the mail server with a MUA (Thunderbird) via SSL prior to attempting to set up the session and Maildir options /var/log/audit/audit.log type=USER_AUTH msg=audit(1217992493.198:389): user pid=8022 uid=0 auid=10243 subj=user_u:system_r:dovecot_auth_t:s0 msg='PAM: authentication acct="[me]" : exe="/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth" (hostname=::ffff:[client], addr=::ffff:[client], terminal=dovecot res=success)' type=USER_ACCT msg=audit(1217992493.199:390): user pid=8022 uid=0 auid=10243 subj=user_u:system_r:dovecot_auth_t:s0 msg='PAM: accounting acct="[me]" : exe="/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth" (hostname=::ffff:[client], addr=::ffff:[client], terminal=dovecot res=success)' type=USER_START msg=audit(1217992493.199:391): user pid=8022 uid=0 auid=10243 subj=user_u:system_r:dovecot_auth_t:s0 msg='PAM: session open acct="[me]" : exe="/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth" (hostname=::ffff:[client], addr=::ffff:[client], terminal=dovecot res=failed)' /var/log/maillog Aug 5 23:14:37 mailserv1 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up Aug 5 23:14:38 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8014 Aug 5 23:14:38 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8013 Aug 5 23:14:38 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8015 Aug 5 23:14:46 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=8016 Aug 5 23:14:52 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=::ffff:[server] rip=::ffff:[client] Aug 5 23:14:52 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 Aug 5 23:14:52 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> Aug 5 23:14:52 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): pam([me],::ffff:[client]): lookup service=dovecot Aug 5 23:14:52 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): pam([me],::ffff:[client]): pam_open_session() failed: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session Aug 5 23:14:53 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=[me] Aug 5 23:14:53 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=::ffff:[server] rip=::ffff:[client] resp=<hidden> Aug 5 23:14:53 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): pam([me],::ffff:[client]): lookup service=dovecot Aug 5 23:14:53 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): pam([me],::ffff:[client]): pam_open_session() failed: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session Aug 5 23:14:55 mailserv1 dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2 user=[me] Aug 5 23:14:58 mailserv1 dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<[me]>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:[client], lip=::ffff:[server], TLS

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[Dovecot] Maildir Index Question
by Ron Culler 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

We have several hundred mailboxes that have thousands of files in them (spam boxes) We currently run a find command and remove the files that are over 7 days old but still have boxes with upto 60k messages in them. I know that dovecot will update the index files for each mailbox when the boxes is accessed by an IMAP client(Webmail using Squirrel)but that can take quite a while to index. What I would like to do is via a cron job after the old file remove is to force dovecot to reindex these boxes. That way when the users login to the webmail interface it is quicker. Does anyone know if a script is available to do this? Thanks Ron Culler

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[Dovecot] Dovecot PAM sessions with Maildir
by Sean Smitz 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

I am configuring a new mail server on RHEL 5 x64. I have configured dovecot as follows: ... protocols = imaps ... ssl_cert_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/mailserver.cer ssl_key_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/private/mailserver.pem ... login_process_size = 64 ... mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir ... passdb pam { args = "session=yes cache_key=%u%s dovecot" } ... I'm getting the following error messages in /var/log/maillog: Aug 5 20:57:45 [hostname] dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: rip=::ffff:128.8.244.15, lip=::ffff:[server], TLS Aug 5 21:01:34 [hostname] dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login: user=<[me]>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:[server], lip=::ffff:[server], TLS I'm getting the following messages in /var/log/audit/audit.log: type=USER_AUTH msg=audit(1217984152.016:347): user pid=7669 uid=0 auid=10243 subj=user_u:system_r:dovecot_auth_t:s0 msg='PAM: authentication acct="[me]" : exe="/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth" (hostname=::ffff:[client], addr=::ffff:[client], terminal=dovecot res=success)' type=USER_ACCT msg=audit(1217984152.017:348): user pid=7669 uid=0 auid=10243 subj=user_u:system_r:dovecot_auth_t:s0 msg='PAM: accounting acct="[me]" : exe="/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth" (hostname=::ffff:[client], addr=::ffff:[client], terminal=dovecot res=success)' type=USER_START msg=audit(1217984152.017:349): user pid=7669 uid=0 auid=10243 subj=user_u:system_r:dovecot_auth_t:s0 msg='PAM: session open acct="[me]" : exe="/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth" (hostname=::ffff:[client], addr=::ffff:[client], terminal=dovecot res=failed)' I find the message in the audit.log interesting because I configured the connection with SSL not TLS, but if I use TLS the result is the same.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot proxying results in "too many open files"
by Gianpaolo Del Matto 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hi, Some words about my Dovecot setup: - 10 dovecot servers - each server has some local mailboxes - each server has proxying enabled to seamlessly connect to another host if the mailbox is not local Running Dovecot 1.1.1 on FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3. First of all, local mailbox access is fine. Proxying works also as expected. Now for the actual problem: Shortly after startup, Dovecot starts throwing errors concerning connection which should be proxied. Here are some examples from the logs: Aug 6 15:49:10 dovecot: imap-login: socket() failed: Too many open files Aug 6 15:49:10 dovecot: imap-login: proxy(XYZ): connect(1.2.3.4, 143) failed: Too many open files Aug 6 15:49:10 dovecot: imap-login: accept() failed: Too many open files Aug 6 15:49:10 dovecot: imap-login: socket() failed: Too many open files Aug 6 15:49:10 dovecot: imap-login: proxy(XYZ): connect(1.2.3.4, 143) failed: Too many open files Aug 6 15:49:10 dovecot: imap-login: socket() failed: Too many open files Aug 6 15:49:10 dovecot: imap-login: proxy(XYZ): connect(1.2.3.4, 143) failed: Too many open files Aug 6 15:49:10 dovecot: imap-login: socket() failed: Too many open files Aug 6 15:49:10 dovecot: imap-login: proxy(XYZ): connect(1.2.3.4, 143) failed: Too many open files Aug 6 15:49:11 dovecot: imap-login: socket() failed: Too many open files [..] Aug 6 16:00:05 dovecot: imap-login: accept() failed: Too many open files Aug 6 16:00:08 dovecot: imap-login: accept() failed: Too many open files Aug 6 16:00:11 dovecot: imap-login: accept() failed: Too many open files Aug 6 16:00:13 dovecot: imap-login: accept() failed: Too many open files As from the context it seems to be a file descriptor issue, as such I have done the following: - added a 'limits -e -n 32768 -U dovecot' to dovecot startup file to ensure it has enough FD's - additionally, I've checked my kernel file limits, however I always set it through loader and sysctl to be as large as 64k # sysctl -a |grep files kern.maxfiles: 65535 kern.maxfilesperproc: 32768 kern.openfiles: 1632 - also checked the limits of the dovecot user like this: # su -c dovecot root -c 'ulimit -a' core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) 1048576 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 32768 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 1 stack size (kbytes, -s) 131072 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 5547 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited - done some monitoring of file descriptor usage for the dovecot user, though somewhat inacurate, like this: while [ : ]; do date; fstat -u dovecot |wc -l; sleep 1; done this gave me these results while tailing the logfile: Wed Aug 6 15:44:12 CEST 2008 585 Wed Aug 6 15:44:13 CEST 2008 579 Wed Aug 6 15:44:14 CEST 2008 582 Wed Aug 6 15:44:15 CEST 2008 582 Wed Aug 6 15:44:16 CEST 2008 586 Wed Aug 6 15:44:17 CEST 2008 585 Wed Aug 6 15:44:18 CEST 2008 582 So it didn't seem to be anywhere near the theoretical upper limit I've set at 32k. On the other hand, when restarting Dovecot, it works for a few minutes for at least as long as the FD usage as reported above stays at around 500. I remember from the docs that dovecot-login would require the double amount of file descriptors to run. Assuming my report is somewhat inaccurate and lags behind, I could imagine that upon a proxy requests it would effectively peak our at some 500 x 2 FDs. Thus effectively reaching the 1024 FD barrier. I conclude this from the fact that I currently have some 350 - 450 logins in parallel, most of which can and shell be proxied. From the error message in the logs I got the impression, that only proxied connections are affected. I was not able to reproduce the issue with non-proxied logins to local mailboxes. Some further steps I've done from the configuration side to no avail: - disabled imaps/pop3s/ssl - changed between login_process_per_connection yes/no - played around with login_max_connections et all (raised/lowered) limits - tried with/without plugins enabled - tried with SQL-based and passwd-file based userdb/passdb, single and mixed Dovecot config: # dovecot -n # 1.1.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap pop3 listen: *, [::] ssl_disable: yes ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/postfix/tls/server.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/postfix/tls/server.key disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_process_per_connection: no login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no login_processes_count: 16 login_max_processes_count: 64 login_max_connections: 64 max_mail_processes: 256 mail_max_userip_connections: 3 verbose_proctitle: yes mail_privileged_group: mail mail_uid: 1000 mail_gid: 1000 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir fsync_disable: yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_drop_priv_before_exec: yes mail_executable(default): /mailserver/scripts/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /mailserver/scripts/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /mailserver/scripts/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins: expire mail_log mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_log_max_lines_per_sec: 0 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra- mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra- mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_no_flag_updates(default): no pop3_no_flag_updates(imap): no pop3_no_flag_updates(pop3): yes pop3_enable_last(default): no pop3_enable_last(imap): no pop3_enable_last(pop3): yes pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): UID%u-%v pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: . prefix: INBOX. hidden: yes auth default: mechanisms: plain login cram-md5 cache_size: 131072 username_translation: #@/@%@ username_format: %Lu verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes worker_max_request_count: 16384 passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch userdb: driver: passwd-file args: username_format=%n /usr/local/etc/postfix/tables/ deliver_passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vpostfix group: vpostfix plugin: expire: Trash 14 Trash/* 14 Spam 14 Spam/* 14 VirusAlerts 14 VirusAlerts/* 14 Quarantine 14 Quarantine/* 14 expire_dict: proxy::expire dict: expire: mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot-expire.conf Maybe I am missing something here. I'd really, really appreciate some help on this to get it sorted out. Thank you. Regards, Gianpaolo

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[Dovecot] Dovecot auto vacation with sieve doesn't work
by CJ Keist 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Guys, I'm running out of hair to pull out ;). Can anyone out there say that this does work?? To me this is looking like a bug and I'm not sure whether it's the sieve plugin or the dovecot deliver program. I have also had no luck the the "reject" sending any reply back to the sender. My setup: OS: Solaris 10 sparc platform postfix: 2.5.2 dovecot: 1.1.2 sieve plugin: 1.1.5 I'm going back forth between procmail and sieve and having no luck. procmail will send the reply to the sender but doesn't deliver the message to the recipient. Sieve will deliver the message to the recipient but doesn't send the reply to the sender. Now if I can just combine the two, I'll be in business. Postfix mail command: mailbox_command = /userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $USER* * Dovecot -n (I've made some changes from my previous posting namely with the master_auth settings) # 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 .dovecot.sieve file: require ["vacation"]; if header :matches "subject" "*" { vacation :days 30 :addresses "cj.keist(a)colostate.edu" :subject "Automatic response to: ${1}" "I'm away -- send mail to foo in my absence"; } I made some modifications to the vacation reply base on the following URL: http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-ietf-sieve-vacation/ In my testing I know the sieve plugin is reading my .dovecot.sieve script and creating the .dovecot.sievec, but that is as for as it goes. The .dovecot.lda-dupes file is not being created (or any .dovecot.sieve.err file) and no reply is even being attempted from the logs: Aug 6 11:30:51 mail2.engr.colostate.edu dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(def ault): new auth connection: pid=27187 Aug 6 11:30:51 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[27187]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] connect from akron.colostate.edu[129.82.103.160] Aug 6 11:30:51 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[27187]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] setting up TLS connection from akron.colostate.edu[129.82.103.160] Aug 6 11:30:51 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[27187]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] Anonymous TLS connection established from akron.colostate.edu[129.82.103.16 0]: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[27187]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] 16E2059984: client=akron.colostate.edu[129.82.103.160] Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/cleanup[27192]: [ID 197553 mail .info] 16E2059984: message-id=<3b676ae5f90fadad863930dcc61db3f8.squirrel@webmail .engr.colostate.edu> Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[27187]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] disconnect from akron.colostate.edu[129.82.103.160] Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/qmgr[18021]: [ID 197553 mail.in fo] 16E2059984: from=<joeblow(a)engr.colostate.edu>, size=1877, nrcpt=1 (queue act ive) Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 315030 mail.info] Lo ading modules from directory: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 619685 mail.info] Mo dule loaded: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin. so Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(def ault): master in: USER 1 cjay service=deliver Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth-wor ker(default): passwd(cjay): lookup Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(def ault): master out: USER 1 cjay system_user=cjay uid=10946 gid=32 home=/top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 868608 mail.info] au th input: cjay Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 868608 mail.info] au th input: system_user=cjay Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 868608 mail.info] au th input: uid=10946 Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 868608 mail.info] au th input: gid=32 Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 868608 mail.info] au th input: home=/top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 848615 mail.info] mb ox: data=/top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home/:INBOX=/userM/mail/cjay Aug 6 11:30:52 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 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 223526 mail.info] cm usieve: Using sieve path: /top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home/.dovecot.sieve Aug 6 11:30:52 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 507699 mail.info] cm usieve: Executing script /top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home/.dovecot.sievec Aug 6 11:30:53 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 702911 mail.info] ms gid=<3b676ae5f90fadad863930dcc61db3f8.squirrel(a)webmail.engr.colostate.edu>: save d mail to INBOX Aug 6 11:30:53 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/local[27193]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] 16E2059984: to=<cjay(a)engr2.colostate.edu>, relay=local, delay=1.2, delays=0 .32/0.08/0/0.82, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /userM/mail-servi ces/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $USER) Aug 6 11:30:53 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/qmgr[18021]: [ID 197553 mail.in fo] 16E2059984: removed Aug 6 11:34:12 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/anvil[27190]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (smtp:129.82.103.160) at Aug 6 1 1:30:51 Aug 6 11:34:12 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/anvil[27190]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtp:129.82.103.160) at Aug 6 11:3 0:51 Aug 6 11:34:12 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/anvil[27190]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] statistics: max cache size 1 at Aug 6 11:30:51

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[Dovecot] expire-plugin: configuration dict-server
by Jens Meyer 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hello all! I tried to add the expire-plugin to my dovecot-installation (CentOS-RPM: dovecot-1.1.1-2_76.el5) and followed the plugin-page from the WIKI (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire) Unfortunately I have problems with the dictionary: --> dovecot: Aug 05 13:30:25 Error: dict: Unknown dict module: db dovecot: Aug 05 13:30:25 Error: dict: Failed to initialize dictionary 'expire' <-- As far as I understand the hints from mailinglist-archive the db-support is not standard with dovecot and Timo suggested to use a mysql-connection. Are there any further tipps how to use the expire-plugin with mysql-connection (i.e. database-scheme, SQL-Select)? Kind regards, Jens

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[Dovecot] 1.0(.14) vs 1.1.2 performance
by Thomas Hummel 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hello Timo, I just switched from dovecot-1.0.14 to dovecot-1.1.2 and noticed a significant drop in the server load average (which has become lower and above all doesn't seem to have unexplained peaks). Indexes are still locally stored and nfs attribute caching is still off). I searched the list archives for an explanation of what changed in the code that could explain such an improvement but mostly (except maybe some index code rewrite mentions) found differences in features. Where does that performance gap come from ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur <hummel(a)pasteur.fr> | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

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[Dovecot] Can't connect to IMAP
by David Hall 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hi all, This is my first post here so i hope this will reach you :) My problem since a few days back is that IMAP doesn't seem to be started. The logfiles says's everything is in order, but port 143 isn't up and Squirrelmail can't connect, i have no clue what's causing this everything runned smoothly a couple of days ago. Im using postfix/amavis & spamassasin. Here's some information Dovecot v1.1.2 # 1.1.2: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf protocols = imap imaps log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S listen: disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login first_valid_uid: 106 mail_access_groups: mail mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n auth default: mechanisms: digest-md5 plain passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf And once again. I don't get any errors in the logfiles. Mail.log last 5 lines after a restart :10024, delay=1414, delays=1402/0.01/0/12, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok, id=04139-03, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as C4FD1406024) Aug 6 07:47:58 localhost postfix/qmgr[4630]: E956E40604A: removed Aug 6 07:47:58 localhost postfix/virtual[32190]: C4FD1406024: to=<sn0wman(a)strutn.nu>, orig_to=<root(a)strutn.nu>, relay=virtual, delay=0.07, delays=0.03/0.02/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir) Aug 6 07:47:58 localhost postfix/qmgr[4630]: C4FD1406024: removed Aug 6 10:55:56 localhost dovecot: Killed with signal 15 Aug 6 10:55:56 localhost dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.2 starting up Aug 6 10:55:57 localhost dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix) syslog / mail.err / .warn & info doesn't say anything about errors eithers. Any clue?

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Re: [Dovecot] how to store flags \Seen into read-only mailbox?
by seriv＠parkheights.dyndns.org 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Thank you, Timo, running dovecot with this changeset, \Seen stored perfectly. Only problems I saw were like: --- deliver(listuser): Aug 04 16:06:38 Error: Corrupted transaction log file /home/vmail/listuser/Maildir/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log: hdr.size too large (75497472) ... dovecot: Aug 04 16:07:31 Error: IMAP(listuser): Corrupted transaction log file /home/vmail/listuser/Maildir/index/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log: duplicate transaction log sequence (2) --- and after deleting dovecot.index.log files they were rebuilt. And I can not see any other problem. -- Sergey Ivanov. ----- "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> пишет: > On Jul 24, 2008, at 1:27 PM, seriv(a)parkheights.dyndns.org wrote: > > > This problem is apparently about changeset > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/eec74a6ad62e > > . > > OK, changed, see if this helps: > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/b5388b21c4c2

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[Dovecot] 1.1.1 (maildir_uidlist_sync_update): assertion failed: (uidlist->initial_hdr_read)
by Adam McDougall 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Version: 1.1.1 OS: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE amd64 I have only seen this happen twice so far. I do not know what the two users were doing to cause it. Jun 26 17:23:26 hill dovecot: IMAP(userA): Invalid transaction log size (32812 vs 32920): /home/userA/Maildir/dovecot/private/indexes/.Deleted Messages/dovecot.index.log Jun 26 17:23:26 hill dovecot: IMAP(userA): Invalid transaction log size (32812 vs 32920): /home/userA/Maildir/dovecot/private/indexes/.Deleted Messages/dovecot.index.log Jun 26 17:23:26 hill dovecot: Panic: IMAP(userA): file maildir-uidlist.c: line 1207 (maildir_uidlist_sync_update): assertion failed: (uidlist->initial_hdr_read) Jun 26 17:23:26 hill dovecot: child 28120 (imap) killed with signal 6 Jul 11 13:41:46 hill dovecot: IMAP(userB): Invalid transaction log size (92984 vs 93076): /home/userB/Maildir/dovecot/private/indexes/.Old Backup.Personal/dovecot.index.log Jul 11 13:41:46 hill dovecot: IMAP(userB): Invalid transaction log size (92984 vs 93076): /home/userB/Maildir/dovecot/private/indexes/.Old Backup.Personal/dovecot.index.log Jul 11 13:41:46 hill dovecot: Panic: IMAP(userB): file maildir-uidlist.c: line 1207 (maildir_uidlist_sync_update): assertion failed: (uidlist->initial_hdr_read) Jul 11 13:41:46 hill kernel: pid 85434 (imap), uid 20128: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) hill# gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap imap.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"... Core was generated by `imap'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.7...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.7 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.4...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.4 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_fts_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_listescape_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib20_listescape_plugin.so Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib21_fts_squat_plugin.so Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #0 0x00000000409d7e7c in kill () from /lib/libc.so.7 (gdb) bt full #0 0x00000000409d7e7c in kill () from /lib/libc.so.7 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00000000409d6ceb in abort () from /lib/libc.so.7 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000000004b5385 in default_fatal_finish (type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC, status=0) at failures.c:152 backtrace = 0x3 <Address 0x3 out of bounds> #3 0x00000000004b610e in i_internal_fatal_handler (type=Could not find the frame base for "i_internal_fatal_handler". ) at failures.c:418 No locals. #4 0x00000000004b564a in i_panic (format=Could not find the frame base for "i_panic". ) at failures.c:193 args = Could not find the frame base for "i_panic". (gdb) hill# file /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 7.0 (700101), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), FreeBSD-style, not stripped

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[Dovecot] Vacation reply with Procmail and dovecot deliver
by CJ Keist 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Giving up on the sieve plugin and switching to procmail. I found the following link: http://wiki.dovecot.org/procmail This site doesn't saying anything about needing to modify the procmail source code like here: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2006-July/014656.html Thos shows how to make procmail work with dovecot deliver program. So you create the following /etc/procmailrc file: # file: /etc/procmailrc # system-wide settings for procmail SHELL="/usr/bin/sh" SENDMAIL="/userM/mail-services/postfix/lib/sendmail" LOGFILE="/var/log/procmail.log" DELIVER="/userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $USER" # fallback: DEFAULT="$HOME/mail" :0 w | $DELIVER So I modified postfix to call procmail (version 3.22): mailbox_command = /userM/mail-services/procmail/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN -d $USER So now I'm getting the vacation reply sent to the sender (Yea!!!), but the message is failing to get to the recipient. In the procmail log file I see: Fatal: Missing -d argument procmail: Program failure (64) of "/userM/mail-services/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/ deliver" - From someaccount(a)yahoo.com Tue Aug 5 15:21:09 2008 Subject: test 7 procmail Folder: /top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home/mail/msg.qX_ 1878 Has anyone got this setup working?? - -- 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 iD8DBQFImNFqA29OFr7C6jcRAlNxAKCzazkpf6SFzitoZ83SS0bN5UdepwCff2oR SO4HPqKfdrhIVmnVeY1lFSM= =qANC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot sieve plugin reject not working
by CJ Keist 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm at a loss here. Details of my setup: OS: Solaris 10 gcc version: 3.4.3 postfix version 2.5.2 dovecot version 1.1.2 dovecot sieve version 1.1.5 How I installed: Postfix: make makefiles CCARGS='-DUSE_SASL_AUTH \-DDEF_SERVER_SASL_TYPE=\"dovecot\" -DUSE_TLS -I/opt/csw/include' \AUXLIBS="-R/opt/csw/lib -L/opt/csw/lib -lssl -lcrypto -ldb" make make upgrade Dovecot: ./configure --prefix=/userM/mail-services/dovecot make make install Sieve: ./configure --prefix=/userM/mail-services/dovecot - --with-dovecot=../dovecot-1.1.2 make make install 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 .dovecot.sieve: require ["fileinto", "vacation", "reject"]; if address :is "from" "someaccount(a)yahoo.com" { reject "I don't like your email message"; } When I send message from yahoo.com to my cjay(a)engr2.colostate.edu account on this server no rejection notice is being sent back. It looks like at the end of the log file section below that it is sending something back, but nothing shows up. Also see how the "From" is empty? I don't think this is postfix problem as I can send and receive mail through it fine. SysLog: Aug 5 08:46:09 mail2.engr.colostate.edu dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] auth(def ault): new auth connection: pid=11000 Aug 5 08:46:09 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[11000]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] connect from pace.acns.colostate.edu[129.82.100.168] Aug 5 08:46:09 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[11000]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] setting up TLS connection from pace.acns.colostate.edu[129.82.100.168] Aug 5 08:46:09 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[11000]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] Anonymous TLS connection established from pace.acns.colostate.edu[129.82.10 0.168]: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits) Aug 5 08:46:09 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[11000]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] CBD4059982: client=pace.acns.colostate.edu[129.82.100.168] Aug 5 08:46:09 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/cleanup[11016]: [ID 197553 mail .info] CBD4059982: message-id=<609785.52970.qm(a)web52402.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Aug 5 08:46:09 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtpd[11000]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] disconnect from pace.acns.colostate.edu[129.82.100.168] Aug 5 08:46:09 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/qmgr[23653]: [ID 197553 mail.in fo] CBD4059982: from=<someaccount(a)yahoo.com>, size=1701, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 315030 mail.info] Lo ading modules from directory: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 619685 mail.info] Mo dule loaded: /userM/mail-services/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin. so Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 848615 mail.info] mb ox: data=/top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home/:INBOX=/userM/mail/cjay Aug 5 08:46:10 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 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 223526 mail.info] cm usieve: Using sieve path: /top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home/.dovecot.sieve Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 507699 mail.info] cm usieve: Executing script /top/admin/ENS/people/cjay/home/.dovecot.sievec Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 122265 mail.info] Se nding a rejection to cjay: I don't like your email message Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu deliver(cjay): [ID 351585 mail.info] ms gid=<609785.52970.qm(a)web52402.mail.re2.yahoo.com>: rejected Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/local[11020]: [ID 197553 mail.i nfo] CBD4059982: to=<cjay(a)engr2.colostate.edu>, relay=local, delay=0.89, delays= 0.44/0.07/0/0.38, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /userM/mail-serv ices/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver) Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/qmgr[23653]: [ID 197553 mail.in fo] CBD4059982: removed Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/pickup[25962]: [ID 197553 mail. info] 5040F59988: uid=10946 from=<> Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/cleanup[11016]: [ID 197553 mail .info] 5040F59988: message-id=<dovecot-1217947570-48198-0(a)mail2.engr.colostate.e du> Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/qmgr[23653]: [ID 197553 mail.in fo] 5040F59988: from=<>, size=2994, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/smtp[11026]: [ID 197553 mail.in fo] 5040F59988: to=<someaccount(a)yahoo.com>, relay=parker.colostate.edu[129.82.10 3.125]:25, delay=0.38, delays=0.03/0.22/0.03/0.1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2. 0.0 m75EkCiq163926 Message accepted for delivery) Aug 5 08:46:10 mail2.engr.colostate.edu postfix/qmgr[23653]: [ID 197553 mail.in fo] 5040F59988: removed - -- 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 iD8DBQFImGtRA29OFr7C6jcRAhEtAJwJD1Ypkx6/UF2LLPsfSXK8zNKrHACfegnj I2uf/L+CGDfuVVky0QLDgkY= =cfym -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Dovecot] expire-plugin: configuration dict-server
by Eric Toczek 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Dino Ming wrote: > Dear Eric, > > I've enabled the mysql query log, and there does not have any query > when I deleting or moving message. > So, I'm wondering is it have some compile time flag to enable this > perhaps ? Hmm.. shouldn't be any flags needed besides --with-mysql and --with-sql. I wonder if it has to do with the namespace. Try changing expire: Trash 2 to expire: INBOX.Trash 2 I'm not sure how (if) namespaces effect the expire plugin. Timo may be able to shed more light.

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[Dovecot] Corrupted transaction logs
by Guy 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi, I'm getting a lot of the following messages in my mail.err log. Jul 12 11:25:51 mink dovecot: IMAP(user1(a)domain1.net): Corrupted transaction log file /virtual/store1/mail/u/user1_domain1.net/Maildir/.Sent/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 925, but next_uid = 926 Jul 12 12:44:56 mink dovecot: IMAP(user2(a)domain1.net): Corrupted transaction log file /virtual/store2/mail/u/user2_domain1.net/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 4927, but next_uid = 4931 Jul 12 12:45:19 mink dovecot: IMAP(user2(a)domain1.net): Corrupted transaction log file /virtual/store2/mail/u/user2_domain1.net/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 4930, but next_uid = 4931 The users get the wrong headers and bodies being displayed in Thunderbird and I'm unsure of the symptoms in other browsers. I'm running two mail servers with two NFS servers for the mail stores. Both mail servers have access to both mail stores and I'm assuming that that is what's causing the problem. I'm running dovecot 1.0.10 (Ubuntu - so I'm using only packages provides by aptitude at the moment). Should dovecot be able to handle access by multiple machines for the indexes? Thanks Guy -- Don't just do something...sit there!

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Re: [Dovecot] expire-plugin: configuration dict-server
by Eric Toczek 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Dino Ming wrote: > Dear Eric, > > It's worked after I append the INBOX. in front of Trash > The record entered into the table with path and timestamp, but missing > value for the username. Is this make sense ? > Yup this is as expected. From Timo when I asked him about it: "The expire data is "shared" so username=NULL. You could probably remove the whole username field. I did think about problems related to this yesterday though, so maybe this gets changed somehow some day." Figured since dovecot may use the username at one point, that we should just leave it in the table. > Here come the other questions. When I run the expire-tool, its just > remove the inserted record from the dict_expire table. > But anyway, I will test it for a few days first. Hmm.. odd that it removed it. Run it with a --test and it should tell you what it is doing. Did it remove the message from the Trash too as well as the db entry?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA with sieve plugin and MySQL
by Thiago Esteves 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi list, Is there any way to use some information stored in mysql when executing a sieve script in dovecot lda sieve-plugin. thanks.

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot 1.1.2 assertion
by Timo Sirainen 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

On Aug 5, 2008, at 3:48 AM, Nuno Lopes wrote: > >> Do you still have the files? You forgot to send the >> dovecot.index.log file. Also perhaps dovecot.index.cache could help >> when figuring this out (but it contains message headers so you may >> not want to send it to this mailing list at least). >> > > Hi, I still have them. > I sent both dovecot.index and dovecot.index.log the last time, but > now I've also added the cache file in a tgz. Oh. I guess that's why Mail.app showed some weird input in the mail. Anyway fixed now: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/d674c05d725d

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[Dovecot] Expire plugin with Mysql
by Eric 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hey guys, got a question about the expire plugin. According to the wiki, the expire plugin "keeps an internal database (Berkeley DB or SQL)". I was wondering what fields in the mysql table are needed for expire to work. I assume it is setup is similar to the quota dict setup, so was just wondering what fields are required (i.e: select_field, where_field, username_field, for quota). Thanks

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[Dovecot] dovecot-auth requires userdb, but already configured
by Carl Vondrick 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Greetings! My ultimate goal is to have fetchmail/getmail poll from POP3/IMAP servers and deliver mail into Dovecot mailboxes. This does not work because the Dovecot LDA for some reason fails. I believe I have narrowed down the problem to dovecot-auth not finding my userdb. But, I am able to connect to dovecot via IMAP in my MUA and preform operations (read, delete mail, create folders). This leads me to believe my userdb is setup correctly. Does anyone have any idea as to why dovecot-auth would not find my userdb? (Configuration is below). carl@cvondrick:~$ dovecot --version 1.0.10 carl@cvondrick:~$ /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth dovecot-auth: Fatal: You'll need to add at least one userdb carl@cvondrick:~$ dovecot -n # 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: mbox:/home/carl/mail/%u mail_debug: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/passwd carl@cvondrick:~$ uname -a Linux cvondrick 2.6.24-20-generic #1 SMP Mon Jul 28 13:06:07 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux The package is from Ubuntu Hardy, but I can build from source if you think it'll fix this. Thanks for any responses, Carl

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[Dovecot] FTS/squat search indexes built when?
by Jay Levitt 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

I know that a given search index doesn't get built the first time until you do an actual search on it from an IMAP client. I don't much care about that; I'm the only user, and I don't create new folders too often. At worst, I could create a script to go search every folder once. But what I'm not clear about: Does it then get updated on every delivery by LDA? Or does the index also need to get updated when I do a search, assuming there's been at least one message delivered since the last search? Jay Levitt

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[Dovecot] doveot reporting "No space left on device" - yet df show plenty of space / inodes.
by Tom Brownlie 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi, I am running dovecot 1.0.rc7 on a Suse Linux server. The server has approx 200+ mailboxes. Last week the filesystem (/dev/mapper/datavg/dat2lv) ran out of space - causing it to do into read-only mode. When I realised this I allocated some more space and re-booted the machine... Strangely it seems that dovecot is still having problems... It's like dovecot doesn't realise that there is enough space on the file system. Also - it only is happening to a few users at this stage - not all users are having problems sending/receiving emails... The dovecotstderr.log file contains: dovecot: Aug 05 09:47:38 Error: IMAP(rebecca): file_dotlock_open(/data/mail/rebecca/dovecot-uidlist) failed: No space left on device When I do a df -h mail:/var/log # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 9.0G 5.7G 3.3G 64% / tmpfs 491M 8.0K 491M 1% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/datavg-dat2lv 300G 130G 171G 44% /data When I do a df -i mail:/var/log # df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda4 0 0 0 - / tmpfs 125505 5 125500 1% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/datavg-dat2lv 357753312 1030354 356722958 1% /data I manually created a file in /data/mail/rebecca - which worked fine, and didn't cause any problems. HELP!!! I am stumped.... I can't understand why Dovecot is complaining.. I have manually stopped postfix and dovecot, and then re-started them.. But to no avail. HELP - I am desperate.... My previously very reliable email server seems to be sick.. _________________________________________________________________ Meet singles near you. Try ninemsn dating now! http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fdating%2Eninemsn%2Ecom%2Eau…

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[Dovecot] sieve multiple redirects
by Anil 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

I got a sieve script like this: redirect "user(a)gmail.com"; redirect "someuser(a)hotmail.com"; keep; It seems to redirect the mail to the 1st user but not the 2nd. Any idea? From what I can tell, that is a valid sieve script. I am using an earlier RC version of dovecot - 1.1.rc4, going to be upgrading soon. There are also a few errors. I assume /home/orders is not needed? Also, does Dovecot go through Global Sieve script and then per-user script? It appears that the global script is not even used if the per-user script exists - anyway to change that so both are parsed in order? Aug 4 16:36:48 the.testing.net deliver(orders(a)domain.com): [ID 223526 mail.info] cmusieve: Using sieve path: /apps/mail/domain.com/orders/.dovecot.sieve Aug 4 16:36:48 the.testing.net deliver(orders(a)domain.com): [ID 507699 mail.info] cmusieve: Executing script /apps/mail/domain.com/orders/.dovecot.sievec Aug 4 16:36:48 the.testing.net deliver(orders(a)domain.com): [ID 698705 mail.error] file_dotlock_create(/home/orders/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory Aug 4 16:36:48 the.testing.net deliver(orders(a)domain.com): [ID 104220 mail.info] Sending a forward to <user(a)gmail.com> with return path <<user(a)testing.net>> Aug 4 16:36:49 the.testing.net sendmail[20139]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m74NamS4020139: from=<user(a)testing.net>, size=1119, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<4897927F.5010104(a)testing.net>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-v4, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] Aug 4 16:36:49 the.testing.net sendmail[20138]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m74Namh1020138: to=user(a)gmail.com, ctladdr=<user(a)testing.net> (1000/1000), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=30850, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (m74NamS4020139 Message accepted for delivery) Aug 4 16:36:49 the.testing.net deliver(orders(a)domain.com): [ID 260232 mail.error] Sendmail process terminated abnormally, exit status 70 Aug 4 16:36:49 the.testing.net deliver(orders(a)domain.com): [ID 344163 mail.info] sieve runtime error: Redirect: Error sending mail Aug 4 16:36:49 the.testing.net deliver(orders(a)domain.com): [ID 368532 mail.error] sieve_execute_bytecode(/apps/mail/domain.com/orders/.dovecot.sievec) failed Aug 4 16:36:49 the.testing.net deliver(orders(a)domain.com): [ID 702911 mail.info] msgid=<4897927F.5010104(a)testing.net>: saved mail to INBOX

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[Dovecot] RFE: Disallow DELETE of non-empty MBOX
by Kenneth Porter 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

It looks like this is already the rule for maildir, where one can't remove the folder if any files or subdirectories are present. I'd like to get this option for mbox folders, as I'd like to prevent "accidents" where users accidentally delete large folders by clicking the wrong thing and then too-quickly approving the confirmation dialog that pops up. (Impatient upper level management tends to do this. ;)) BTW, I'm using Mulberry for my client, and it unfortunately puts "Mark contents seen" right next to "Delete folder" on the context menu. I'm aware of the issue so I tend to be extra careful when I finish with the folder associated with a busy mailing list and mark all the uninteresting messages seen.

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Re: [Dovecot] Problem: delivery with mode 600 into shared folder
by seriv＠parkheights.dyndns.org 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hi Timo, ----- "Timo Sirainen" <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Sergey Ivanov wrote: > > >[skip] > > > > at Thunderbird restart, but after restart all messages in shared > > folder appear as new. Even without restart, when go to another > > folder and then return to one where I've marked messages as "Read" > > > before, they are new! > > Dovecot configs are in my previous message, I think I should not > > post them once more. > > Sounds like the mailbox is read-only for the user. It doesn't have > write-permissions to it the directories? you are right, directories with mail are only readable by users, they have each their own dirs for storing CONTROL and INDEX. --- mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/listuser/Maildir:CONTROL=/home/vmail/%u/Maildir/control:INDEX=/home/vmail/%u/Maildir/index --- your change b5388b21c4c2 fixed the problem, thank you! -- Sergey ivanov.

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