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[Dovecot] Dovecot strange behaviors on Solaris
by Mario Nigrovic-rvvk40 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

Folks - I've been using Dovecot for some time now, but have only recently upgraded to 1.0alpha4. I'm struggling to get my configuration right and I'm seeing some truly bizarre issues. My Setup: Solaris 2.8 / Thunderbird / Procmail / Dovecot 1.0alpha4 My mail setup is only for me, so Dovecot runs at an odd port and under my userID. All my mail is in my home directory, which is on NFS (NetApp). The main mail receiver is a different machine which mounts my home directory. Typical entry from .procmailrc: :0 * ^(From|To|CC):.*@.*\<si2.org Maildir/.SI2/ Highlights from dovecot.conf: #default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.mail/Maildir:INDEX=/var/tmp/mario/dovecot default_mail_env = maildir:%h/.mail/Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY mmap_disable = yes #lock_method = flock lock_method = fcntl #lock_method = dotlock protocol imap { listen = *:2143 } auth_worker_max_count = 0 auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb passwd { } } When I run as above (INDEX=MEMORY), I have access to all my mail, but I'm seeing literally thousands of .nfs files created all throughout my .mail/Maildir directories, and Thunderbird periodically locks up. As the filesystem fills with useless .nfs files (I deleted 10000 from ONE mailbox directory this morning), everything gets really, really slow, and I suspect this contributes to Thunder bird's problem. But, if I run with the INDEX on a local disk, many mailboxes will not load (the most critical ones, of course...), but also some do. My inbox will list messages, but cannot display any. Others won't even list messages. I'm at a total loss how to proceed, here. I've tried everything I can think of to debug what's going on, but have gotten nowhere (well, I did discover the whole lock_method=fcntl trick). I've tried enabling rawlog, but am just not familiar enough with IMAP to get help from those logs. Here's what's happening in a typical mailbox: % pwd /home/mario/.mail/Maildir/.SI2 % ls -al total 544 drwx--S--- 5 rvvk40 lowv 425984 Dec 2 14:42 ./ drwx--S--- 64 rvvk40 lowv 16384 Dec 2 14:43 ../ -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 15 Nov 16 07:16 .customflags -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 24 Dec 2 14:38 .nfs00986 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 24 Dec 2 14:40 .nfs08986 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 312 Dec 2 14:11 .nfs16686 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 24 Dec 2 14:32 .nfs1A886 -- 40+ deleted here for brevity -- -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 24 Dec 2 14:39 .nfsE3986 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 312 Dec 2 14:38 .nfsEF886 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 24 Dec 2 14:26 .nfsF3886 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 312 Dec 2 14:32 .nfsF9886 -rw------- 1 rvvk40 lowv 312 Dec 2 14:17 .nfsFF686 drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 4096 Dec 2 07:58 cur/ drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 4096 Dec 2 07:58 new/ drwx--S--- 2 rvvk40 lowv 4096 Dec 2 07:58 tmp/ % pwd /home/mario/.mail/Maildir/.SI2 Help! Mario

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[Dovecot] Silly newbie questions...
by Michael Segel 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

Hi, I'm relatively new to dovecot, less than 48 hours, and I've ran in to a few bugs in the installation/configuration process. Here's my set up. I have my own domain. Within the domain, I have a couple of Linux boxes. So I control both my primary and secondary mail servers. My Linux boxes are a mixture of SuSE 9.2, 9.3 and 10.0 (All based on age of the hardware.) I'd like to use Postfix for my MTA, which I have up and running, but I'd also like to add an IMAP server (hence dovecot) so I can get my mail from any of my PCs and my blackberry.) On my main mail server, I have KDE running and it uses ~/Mail/inbox/(cur,new,...) When I tried to use KDE on my other Linux server, I got it to authenticate and I could see the folders, but I couldn't see any of the mail. (Its all in cur subdirectory.) Now I did notice that when Postfix gets a mail message, its placed in /var/spool/mail/msegel which would imply its using an mbox format. So what am I missing? TIA! -Mike -- Michael Segel Principal MSCC

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[Dovecot] dovecot on os x
by Martin Kvapil 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

Hello im new to this list and also to dovecot. This will probably equal a some newbie questions but i hope to learn and teach others :) And it just happens that i have a question. After installing im trying to login, i have set all debug params to true. and in my log i get. dovecot: Dec 02 17:20:50 Info: auth(default): pam(kvapil, 62.181.XXX.XX): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure Im using dovecot-1.0-stable. Any ideas anyone? /kvapil

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[Dovecot] corrupt attachments
by Brian Thompson 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Not sure if this has already been covered, but any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. We just realized last night that dovecot-stable seems to be corrupting the attachments within users' inboxes. In an attempt to resolve the problem, we upgraded the mail server here to Dovecot 1.0alpha4 but it didn't help. To the best of our knowledge we didn't start experiencing this phenomena until we migrated from Solaris 8/Sparc to Solaris 10/x86 about 3 weeks ago. To be more specific: A non-corrupt attachment can be sitting within a user's mail spool (mbox format) and live there without a problem until an imap client goes to download the attachment via dovecot. At that time, dovecot seems to be stripping the last four characters from each base64 encoded ascii line within the attachment and rewriting the message within the mail spool without those characters. From then on, the attachment is permanently corrupt, even via local unix direct file access clients such as pine or elm. We've temporarily switched back to UW imapd, but users have noticed the decrease in speed - not having the indexing available. Again, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brian

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[Dovecot] lock file 2nd attempt for help
by Obantec Support 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hi my last post got no replies so i am trying again. FC3 dovecot 1.0 stable, 1 user has a lock file using mbox under /var/spool/mail/username from the lock file the pid files are File Descriptor Type File size Inode Path Current dir Directory 4096 6426371 /home/domain/domain127 Root dir Directory 4096 2 / Program code Regular file 1212428 1229832 /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 Shared library Regular file 108332 851976 /lib/ld-2.3.4.so Shared library Regular file 1524828 851978 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so Shared library Regular file 16908 851993 /lib/libdl-2.3.4.so Shared library Regular file 47496 852018 /lib/libnss_files-2.3.4.so mem-w Regular file 12352 6471692 /home/domain/domain127/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log mem-w Regular file 35840 6471779 /home/domain/domain127/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache mem-w Regular file 2504 6471769 /home/domain/domain127/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index 0u sock 69748498 can't identify protocol 1u sock 69748498 can't identify protocol 2w fifo 69748504 pipe 3r Character special 578 /dev/urandom 4uw Regular file 2504 6471769 /home/domain/domain127/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index 5uw Regular file 12352 6471692 /home/domain/domain127/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log 6uw Regular file 35840 6471779 /home/domain/domain127/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache 7uw Regular file 2368595 2343048 /var/spool/mail/chelan Can someone explain why this user gets a lock file? Mark

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[Dovecot] Multiple authentication databases and storage locations
by Odhiambo Washington 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hello Everyone, I am playing with the $subject matter using 1.0alpha4, and thanks to the archives, I lifted this one from Alexander Shikoff off and used it in my setup. auth default { mechanisms = plain user = root passdb pam { args = pop3 } passdb sql { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } userdb passwd { } userdb sql { args = /usr/local/dovecot/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf } } It seems to work, but I have virtual users as well as system users. System accounts have their mail stored as follows: default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir While virtual users have this: default_mail_env = maildir:/htdocs/virtual/spool/%d/%u/Maildir Now, virtual users can login because I have used their $default_mail_env in my configuration. I am stuck how to get system users to successfully access their e-mails. Here is the error I get: beastie# telnet 0 110 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Welcome. Dovecot is Ready to serve. user wash +OK pass a_verysecret1 +OK Logged in. -ERR No INBOX for user. Connection closed by foreign host. In the log file, here is what I see: dovecot: Nov 19 23:22:11 Error: pop3(wash): mkdir(/htdocs/virtual/spool//wash/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied dovecot: Nov 19 23:22:11 Error: pop3(wash): mkdir(/htdocs/virtual/spool//wash/Maildir/cur) failed: Permission denied dovecot: Nov 19 23:22:11 Error: pop3(wash): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. ... which is wrong, since mail for user "wash" is in /home/wash/Maildir. How do I make dovecot work in this situation? Thanks in advance. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash(a)wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ "... the Mayo Clinic, named after its founder, Dr. Ted Clinic ..." -- Dave Barry

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[Dovecot] After restart dovecot do not serves IMAPS anymore
by Marian Hercek 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

I had to restart computer yesterday and now Dovecot has strange behaviour. Dovecot is running and should serve IMAPS, but client Mozilla Thunderbird cannot connect. I tried openssl s_client -connect localhost:993 and it said only CONNECTED(00000003). A time ago when everything was OK, the listing after connection was "a bit" longer than it is now. I remember there was "OK, dovecot ready" or something like that. Now, there is none. Of course in /etc/dovecot.conf: protocols = imaps imaps_listen = * ssl_disable = no So, what's the problem?

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[Dovecot] Somebody known how to disable concurrent access on mailbox?
by Giorgio Biondi 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hi, I have a fedora 4 with dovecot, my problem is this: often two computers approach the same one mailbox using the same customer: I would want to inhibit this. Somebody known how?

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[Dovecot] Dovecot logs to syslog (other than MAIL)?
by Steve Bigley 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

I see in the config file where I can enable syslog, but then all logging goes to the MAIL facility. I could find no reference to changing the facility:level for syslogging. Is that implemented, or planned? I know I could just write it to a file, but I'd prefer to use syslog because then I can pipe it to a central logging server.

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[Dovecot] Multiple Mailstores using 1.0alpha4
by Brian T Glenn 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

I am using qmail-ldap to provide virtual users to my system, but I also have some shell users on the system as well. Virtual users go into /home/vmail/mailstore/$username/ System users go into /home/$username/Maildir How can I have both of these available as inboxes in dovecot using ldap logins? Do I need to use namespaces or am i missing something with default_mail_env? Thanks, -- Brian T Glenn delink.net Internet Services

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