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[Dovecot] "$default_mail_env/cur" not found with passwd-file authentication on v1.0-test80
by OpenMacNews 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

hi all, i've built dovecot: Sep 09 18:04:24 Info: Dovecot v1.0-test80 starting up on OSX 10.4.2. in addition to pgsql auth, which is working 4 me, i'd like to step-by-step verify simple passwd-file authentication/testing. unfortunately, i'm having a problem with the login process NOT FINDING the ".../cur" dir. here are the details .... my config includes: ... default_mail_env = maildir:/var/Data/Mail/%d/Accounts/%1u/%u/Maildir:INDEX=/var/Data/Mail/indexes/%d/%n ... auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb passwd-file {args = /var/Settings/Security/test_user_file} passdb passwd-file {args = /var/Settings/Security/test_user_file} ... } ... my 'test_user_file' has a test user "testuser(a)testdomain.com" with an appropriately CRYPT'd pwd % grep /var/Settings/Security/test_user_file testuser testuser@mydomain.com:XXXXXXXXXX:65001:65001:/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir:::: when i login via telnet/shell, i get: % telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK IMAP ready x login testuser(a)mydomain.com testuser x OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host. and my log shows: dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=IMAP secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 resp=AGJsYWtlcnNAb3BlbmV4ZWMuY29tAGJsYWtlcnM= dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=testuser(a)mydomain.com dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 1486 1 dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 1 testuser(a)mydomain.com uid=65001 gid=65001 home=/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<testuser(a)mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Effective uid=65001, gid=65001 dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Namespace: type=private, prefix=Private/, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): maildir autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: data=$default_mail_env dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: INBOX file: stat($default_mail_env) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: has .imap/: stat($default_mail_env/.imap) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: has inbox: stat($default_mail_env/inbox) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): mbox autodetect: has mbox: stat($default_mail_env/mbox) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Error: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: $default_mail_env (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Error: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): Failed to create storage for 'Private/' with data: $default_mail_env dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Error: child 1496 (imap) returned error 89 ignoring, for the moment the mbox 'complaints', and worrying first about the first: dovecot: Sep 09 18:17:39 Info: imap(testuser(a)mydomain.com): maildir autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur) failed: No such file or directory i'm a bit stymied .... if i understand correctly, that: autodetect: stat($default_mail_env/cur) is looking for: "/var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir/cur", which, on my system, exists: % ls -d /var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir/cur /var/Data/Mail/mydomain.com/Accounts/t/testuser/Maildir/cur as i've had all this working fine with pgsql authentication, i have this sneaking suspicion that i'm missing something obvious here. thoughts? suggestions? thx! richard

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[Dovecot] Lot of crashing messages
by Matt Juszczak 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Receiving a lot of the following messags with 1.0-76: pid 633 (dovecot-auth), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Any ideas? Sometimes, our entire port 110/143 servers begin refusing connections. Hardware checks out fine. Thanks in advance, Regards, Matt

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[Dovecot] Dovecot-alpha1 and Thunderbird Sent problems
by Nicholas Young 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

I have dovecot 1.0alpha1 setup in a semi test environment running on Solaris 2.6. When using Thunderbird 1.0.6 from Windows occasionally the client will hang after sending a message and before copying it to the Sent folder on dovecot. Sendmail logs indicate that the message has been sent correctly. The mail directory is not shared over NFS. It is in maildir format. Restarting Thunderbird and sending exactly the same message will work. This seems to imply that it is not message dependant. Once the error has occured once it continues to occur until the client is restarted. We have file system quotas however they are very large for a very small amount of mail. The filesystem is about 80% free space and about 98% free inodes. I cannot replicate the issue under Linux using Thunderbird that is current for FC3. Some hacked version 1.0.2-1.3.3 Imap workarounds turned on under dovecot are outlook-idle for imap. The issue has not been seen under Outlook. Outlook is using a local Sent-Items folder instead of an Imap one however. The connection is running over SSL so I can not sniff the traffic on the wire, I have not tried using the rawlog settings yet. I plan to start this now, however the sporadic nature of the problem may delay useful information from here. The dovecot logs are not showing error messages, just: dovecot: Sep 09 09:24:35 Info: imap-login: Login: user=.... TLS Any suggestions on where to start would be great. This issue was not reported to me when running dovecot-1.0-stable-20050718. Thanks for any help/suggestions on where to go from here. -- Nich

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[Dovecot] chdir() on NFS
by Ramón Macías Zamora 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Hi Christian, my english is very bad excuseme for that. I see that you resolve the problem describe more ahead, how compile dovecot?, can you send by mail the binary? Thanks Saludos RMZ Icesa - Orve S. A. 2261000 ext 307 Sitio de interés para Linux: www.openecuador.com [Dovecot] chdir() on NFS Christian Andersen <mailto:dovecot%40dovecot.org?Subject=%5BDovecot%5D%20chdir%28%29%20on%20NFS &In-Reply-To=55579.129.241.163.43.1079702906.squirrel%40129.241.163.43> chrian at stud.ntnu.no Fri Mar 19 19:33:39 EET 2004 * Previous message: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/003068.html> [Dovecot] chdir() on NFS * Next message: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/003070.html> [Dovecot] chdir() on NFS * Messages sorted by: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/date.html#3069> [ date ] <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/thread.html#3069> [ thread ] <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/subject.html#3069> [ subject ] <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/author.html#3069> [ author ] _____ Christian Andersen said: > > Hi, > I'm having problems accessing home directories though NFS. This setup uses > LDAP and Kerberos. Users defined on the local host work fine. This is what > dovecot writes in the logs while trying to log in as the user johndoe: > > ---- > Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP > server... > Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server > after 1 attempt(s) > Mar 19 14:10:54 jack imap-login: Login: johndoe [10.0.0.30] > Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot: chdir(/home/johndoe) failed: Permission > denied > Mar 19 14:10:54 jack dovecot: child 3525 (imap) returned error 89 > ---- > > The authentication is OK, but dovecot fails to get access to the home > directory. What username does dovecot try to chdir() as? > > If I 'su' from to that user I have access to /home/johndoe, and a quick > test with Courier IMAP worked fine. Postfix has no problem delivering mail > in the users maildir using procmail. > > Some relevant config options: > > default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INDEX=/var/indexes/%n > auth_userdb = passwd > auth_passdb = pam > auth_user = root Problem solved, I guess... I recompiled from source and just replaced the dovecot binary in /usr/sbin. Trying to do 'rpmbuild -tb' and install the resulting rpm rendered everything unusable, but I guess that's just a matter of tweaking some options to 'configure'. What's the difference between the Fedora Core 1 version (0.99.10-6) and the latest stable version (0.99.10.4)? -- Christian Andersen <http://phuzz.org> _____ size=2 width="100%" align=center> * Previous message: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/003068.html> [Dovecot] chdir() on NFS * Next message: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/003070.html> [Dovecot] chdir() on NFS * Messages sorted by: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/date.html#3069> [ date ] <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/thread.html#3069> [ thread ] <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/subject.html#3069> [ subject ] <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-March/author.html#3069> [ author ] _____ <http://dovecot.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dovecot> More information about the dovecot mailing list

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[Dovecot] help help
by g.digiambelardini＠fabaris.it 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hi, I have a dovecot IMAP server whit the Horde/Imp webmail. I know that this request is OT, but I need an help. I created for each user a SPAM folder, where dovecot put every email tagged "SPAM", but with IMP I can't make a list of folders to poll for new mail, I tried to dcofigure IMP like that: // list of folders to poll for new mail $_prefs['nav_poll'] = array( 'value' => 'a:1:{s:5:"INBOX";b:1;s:6:"INBOX.Test";b:1;}', //'value' => 'a:0:{}', //'value' => '', 'locked' => false, 'shared' => false, 'type' => 'implicit'); but it don't work...... SOMEONE CAM HELP ME??? Di Giambelardini Gabriele System/Network Administrator __________________________________________ FABARIS s.r.l. Cel. +39 3488504467 Tel. +39 0765 22181 - Fax +39 0765 410100 Via G. Mameli, 90 02047 Poggio Mirteto (RI) Viale dell'Università, 25 00185 Roma (RM) www.fabaris.it __________________________________________

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Re: [Dovecot] help help
by Brett Parker 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

g.digiambelardini(a)fabaris.it <g.digiambelardini(a)fabaris.it> wrote: > > > Hi, I have a dovecot IMAP server whit the Horde/Imp webmail. > I know that this request is OT, but I need an help. > I created for each user a SPAM folder, where dovecot put every email tagged > "SPAM", but with IMP I can't make a list of folders to poll for new mail, I > tried to dcofigure IMP like that: > > // list of folders to poll for new mail > $_prefs['nav_poll'] = array( > 'value' => 'a:1:{s:5:"INBOX";b:1;s:6:"INBOX.Test";b:1;}', ^ should be 10 (number of chars in INBOX.Test). > //'value' => 'a:0:{}', > //'value' => '', > 'locked' => false, > 'shared' => false, > 'type' => 'implicit'); > > but it don't work...... > SOMEONE CAM HELP ME??? Hope that helps, -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk

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[Dovecot] Ip addr + login name
by mike 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hi everybody, Is there a way to bind client ip address that connects to pop3 with the login name? For example if the client ip address is 192.168.2.40 then his login name is 'test' and he can log in with only that account name. I think it is possible to do it with an external authentication program. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] More verbose logging of POP transactions?
by Philip Hallstrom 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hi all - I'm brand new to dovecot (0.99.14 on freebsd 5) and am just playing with it a bit. POP works just fine, but the only thing that shows up in my logs is this: Sep 7 11:46:25 freebsd5 pop3-login: Login: philip [10.28.61.200] Thought maybe syslog was quietly eating things, but told dovecot to use it's own log file and it didn't improve. Is there a way to turn on more detailed logging about what the user did? Along the lines of what uw-imap's pop gives you in terms of number of messages available, downloaded, deleted, etc.? I'm also interested in how much was transferred size wise... If I mised it in the conf file just let me know, but I didn't see anything... Thanks! -philip

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[Dovecot] Dovecot - IMP - POP autentication problem
by Carlos Bergero 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi, Recently I have to rush one of my mail servers to a new installation, actually GNU Linux/Debian Sarge, the system run dovecot 0.99.14 for pop and imap, and the web server, other machine, uses horde2/imp3. The problem is the following, pop clients including the imp3 cant log properly apparently, the even when a connection is made to pop3 dovecot trys to make a secure connection, I found this after sniffing the connection between the web server and the mail server, for some reason, imp cant handle it well and the some clients like OutLook also have troubles working this out. For now I work around this problem by disabling the ssl/tsl support, but that's not the solution I need. So the question is can I disable this feature without loosing the secure connection and how can I do it? Cheers, rak

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha1: new assert/core
by Jeff A. Earickson 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi, I saw a new assert and core dump today in 1.0alpha1. Setup is Solaris 9, dovecot built with gcc 4.0.1, running as imap server for mbox format. The syslog said: IMAP(user): file message-body-search.c: line 393 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset <= part->physical_pos) A gdb analysis of the core dump is attached. BTW, I save core dumps in case you need further debugging done for an assert. On another note, I have also had issues with dovecot locking up with "Too many open files" syslog error messages. Last night, after several hours of "too many open files" complaints, the master dovecot process just died -- no core dump and no complaint to syslog. Per advice of the list, I have doubled the rlim_fd_cur and rlim_fd_max kernel parameters and rebooted my imap server. I also saw in my syslog: Sep 6 16:48:53 emerald dovecot: [ID 956436 mail.error] pipe() failed: Too many open files Sep 6 16:48:53 emerald dovecot: [ID 257797 mail.crit] dup2(stderr) failed: Bad file number With students back, they have been giving dovecot a real hard workout. Jeff Earickson Colby College

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