November 2011 - dovecot

[Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox
by Rajesh M 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

hi all i use qmail toaster. i recently changed over to dovecot. posting below my evaluation on the same my machine dual core dual xeon 5140 processor, with 4 gb ram, centos linux with qmailtoaster i had setup a qmail tap account which backups up data for a client of mine mailbox size over 30 gb setup dovecot with squirrelmail and logged in it had over one hundred and thirty nine thousand emails 139019 emails in the 30 gb mailbox Reports 1) first login : took 7 minutes to parse 139019 mails but never timed out. this was simply impossible with courier 2) the next login it took 5 seconds by which time the mail numbers increased to 139045 3) next i changed squirrelmail display preference to list 500 mails per page and then clicked on inbox ... expecting dovecot to take atleast around 1-2 mins to show the mails ... the mails were displayed in just 8 seconds .. awesome performance qmailtoaster is simply waiting for a dovecot integration i am evaluating the stability of dovecot now in the next 2-3 weeks i post stability report rajesh

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[Dovecot] Expire plugin not executing for sieve plugin?
by Dan Swartzendruber 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Running dovecot 1.2.12 on ubuntu 10.10. Here is the problem: I have mysql backend for expire. I am using the dovecot-postfix package which creates /etc/dovecot/conf.d/01-mail-stack-delivery.conf which looks like this: # Some general options protocols = imap imaps managesieve disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl = yes ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-mail.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-mail.key ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ # IMAP configuration protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle delay-newmail mail_plugins = expire } # LDA configuration protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster mail_plugins = sieve expire quota_full_tempfail = yes deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r } # Plugins configuration plugin { sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir=~/sieve # If the user has no personal active script (i.e. if the file # indicated in sieve= does not exist), use this one: sieve_global_path = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve } The sieve is: require "fileinto"; require "imap4flags"; if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { setflag "\\Seen"; fileinto "SPAM"; stop; } Originally, this did not have the setflag or stop - I added them hoping to fix the problem, but no luck. The problem is this: when spam assassin has flagged a message as spam, the sieve runs and the message is in fact filed into the SPAM folder, but no expire entry is added to the database. If I move such a message from the SPAM folder to the Inbox and then back to SPAM, voila, I *do* get the entry created. Here is the mysql table before and after I did the move/move: mysql> select * from expires; +----------+---------------+--------------+ | username | mailbox | expire_stamp | +----------+---------------+--------------+ | dswartz | Deleted Items | 1319720163 | | dswartz | Sent | 1319120165 | | denise | Trash | 1319139920 | | samantha | Trash | 1319136146 | | denise | Sent | 1319655872 | | danielle | Sent | 1319192230 | | samantha | Sent | 1319268855 | | dswartz | Trash | 1319725884 | | samantha | SPAM | 1321504531 | +----------+---------------+--------------+ 9 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> select * from expires; +----------+---------------+--------------+ | username | mailbox | expire_stamp | +----------+---------------+--------------+ | dswartz | Deleted Items | 1319720163 | | dswartz | Sent | 1319120165 | | denise | Trash | 1319139920 | | samantha | Trash | 1319136146 | | denise | Sent | 1319655872 | | danielle | Sent | 1319192230 | | samantha | Sent | 1319268855 | | dswartz | Trash | 1319725884 | | samantha | SPAM | 1321504531 | | dswartz | SPAM | 1321714666 | +----------+---------------+--------------+ 10 rows in set (0.00 sec) It's almost like the fileinto stuff is not running the plugin code at all, or am I totally on drugs? If I can't get a fix for this, I at least now can think of a hack to "fix" it. e.g. every night, run a script that adds a "now" timestamp for everyone's SPAM folder to trick the periodic expire tool code into checking that folder, but obviously I'd rather have a real fix :) If this is just 'how it works', is it better in 2.0?

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[Dovecot] iterate_query not working
by Piotr NetExpert 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, I have got iterate_query defined in dovecot-sql.conf.ext. However when I run a command like: doveadm search -A BEFORE 10d I receive an error message (Failed to iterate ...) There is an error message in a log file too: Error: Trying to iterate users, but userdbs don't support it The problem is that monitoring a database server shows that dovecot does not try to execute any query. What I am doing wrong? password_query lookups work fine. -- pozdrawiam Piotr Szafarczyk http://www.netexpert.pl

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[Dovecot] Getting the SMTP envelope through IMAP?
by Hadmut Danisch 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, just a simple question about dovecot: The mbox file format contains the SMTP envelope sender and transmission date in a FROM ... line preceding the RFC822 mail header and body. As far as I see at the moment, the IMAP protocol does not support transmission of that SMTP envelope data in either way, but confusingly uses the term „envelope” for a structure describing the RFC822 mail header. My question is, whether there is any way to retrieve the SMTP envelope through dovecot's IMAP anyway, maybe through some extension. regards Hadmut

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Re: [Dovecot] Auth Worker failures
by Timo Sirainen 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 10:24 -0400, Simon Brereton wrote: > > > Of all the accounts on the box, it's only mine that throws this up. > Since its LIP is localhost, it could really only be for webmail - but > I don't always leave the webmail open, so I'm curious to know how this > gets there and what it is. > > Any suggestions? I find it difficult to believe I have an IMAP > process in a script somewhere (especially with my user account - the > postmaster account, I could believe, but not with my personal one).. > You could enable auth_debug_passwords=yes and see what password it tries.

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[Dovecot] doveadm altmove -r
by Lars Täuber 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi there, there is the ubuntu version 2.0.13 ov dovecot installed on our server. But in contrast to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Altmove the option -r isn't supported in this version. altmove: invalid option -- 'r' doveadm altmove [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] <search query> In which version of dovecot is this option supported? Thanks Lars

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Re: [Dovecot] Dot Lock timestmap, users disconnections from roundcube
by Maria Arrea 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

We follow the guidelines about timekeeping RHEL in vmware vsphere located here http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=di… These problems happens in peak hours. Any dovecot config parameter I could set to mitigate this problem? Regards Maria ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed W Sent: 11/03/11 11:57 AM To: Maria Arrea, Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dot Lock timestmap, users disconnections from roundcube On 03/11/2011 10:49, Maria Arrea wrote: > All the ESXs hosts and all the VM use the same NTP server. > > Any other idea? > Doesn't ESX have issues with the time drifting when certain kernel options are set? Something to do with it rescheduling machines and them not counting idle ticks or something..? Does this problem happen during idle hours or peak hours? I should home in on clock problems... Probably vmware related issues to the kernel you are using? Good luck Ed W

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[Dovecot] Difference between LOGIN and PLAIN
by Simon Brereton 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi Could someone explain to me the difference between LOGIN and PLAIN? I've been googling for a while, but haven't found anything. Thanks. Simon

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[Dovecot] How can we horizontally scale Dovecot across multiple servers?
by Arlin 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, How can we horizontally scale Dovecot across multiple servers? Do we require to install independent instances of Dovecot on each server? We are planning to use a NAS/SAN device using ZFS or EFS for email storage. Each logical unit will be of 10TB and similarly as the no: of user increases we are planning to add multiple 10TB units. In this case how we can manage the email storage on multiple volumes from Dovecot. The configuration of our existing system is:- Dovecot 1.0.15 / Maildirs Postfix 2.5.5 Debian 5.0.9 (Lenny) MySQL 5.0.15 Please advise. Thanks in advance. Creative Regards, Arlin

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[Dovecot] looking for Dovecot-code + SQL consultants
by Rich 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, We're using Dovecot2. Trying, given our own spread-too-thin bandwidth, to make it work within our evolving SQL application environment. When there's a problem, we post to this list (e.g., http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-October/061609.html) but aren't getting any/timely responses. We've decided to look for a consultant (hourly or retainer) that can be available for working with our in-house staff to straighten these issues out -- by helping us identify & fix our own mess, and by working to get fixes pushed to Dovecot project code, where appropriate. If you provide these services, rather than simply deployment or hosting, and are available, please drop me a line *offlist*. We're in the San Francisco area, and local is best, but remote work is certainly an option. Thanks, Rich

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