Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Startup error on FreeBSD
Dien Phan schreef: Hi, I have installed latest Dovecot 1.0.13 on a FreeBSD 6.2 with XMail (www.xmailserver.org). It works OK except one thing: error on startup. After each reboot there are lots of such error: dovecot: Mar 28 08:54:38 Error: child 916 (login) returned error 89 dovecot: Mar 28 08:54:54 Error: imap-login: No authentication sockets found When I restart dovecot by running startup script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot.sh restart the problem disappears. I have to manually restart dovecot after each reboot. Below is used conf file $ dovecot -n # 1.0.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log protocols: imap ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir dotlock_use_excl: yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_plugins: antispam imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep auth default: verbose: yes passdb: driver: checkpassword args: /var/MailRoot/bin/dovecot_xmail userdb: driver: static args: uid=vxmail gid=vxmail home=/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vxmail plugin: antispam_signature: X-DSPAM-Signature antispam_trash: Trash antispam_spam: SPAM antispam_dspam_binary: /usr/local/bin/dspam antispam_dspam_args: --user;%u I googled and found similar post at http://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg01793.html, http://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg01798.html and http://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg01831.html but answers there don't meet my case. I don't use sql backend. And startup script doesn't delete /var/run/dovecot/ directory after Dovecot is started. After booting when error still there I have in this directory: $ ls /var/run/dovecot auth-master dict-server login master.pid If restart dovecot (working OK): $ ls /var/run/dovecot auth-master auth-worker.960 dict-server login master.pid As we see dovecot works when there appears a file named auth-worker.960 (the number 960 changes each time it restarted). Please help me to fix this. Thanks in advance. Dien Phan What is happening i think is that dovecot is trying to start before Xmail, and then there is no autentication backend yet. look in the dovecot startup file /usr/loval/etc/rc.d/dovecot and add xmail (or however it is named in the startup sequense) to the REQUIRE option # PROVIDE: dovecot # REQUIRE: LOGIN ntpdate xmail # KEYWORD: shutdown
[Dovecot] Mailbox to maildir conversion
I just today wrote Yet Another Conversion Script. This one differs from the rest that I've seen in that it will generate a dovecot- uidlist index. I've done some testing, but not any absolutely extensive testing. It works well from what I've tried. Invocation is simple. You pass the script the maildir and the mailbox file and it parses the mailbox file. The index file is generated if there is at least one e-mail with an X-IMAP header which contains the last ID used and the IMAP UIDVALIDITY. My old mail setup was ipop3d + sendmail (now dovecot + postfix) and it had a DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE e-mail with the aforementioned X-IMAP header. This e-mail will not be saved in the maildir. All e-mails with an X-UID header will get an entry in the uidlist file. The script works with python 2.3 or later. I haven't tested it on pre-2.3 python versions as I don't have any installed. http://habnabit.org/mb2md.py.gz I can answer questions about it if needed. I'm also willing to try to add any suggested features.
Re: [Dovecot] outlook2007 shows frequent imap disconnect no matter what outlook-idle setting in dovecot.conf
Scott Silva a écrit : on 3-26-2008 1:33 AM Kielbasiewicz, Peter spake the following: Hello, I saw the problem quite often in various posts but could not find a real solution . Problem is that I frequently get annoying popups from outlook 2007 about imap idle timeouts which block working with outlook until the popup is acknowledged. The popup says: Your IMAP server closed the connection. This can occur if you leave the connection idle for too long. Protocol: IMAP Server: testhost Port: 143 Error Code: 0x800CCCDD I tried to run dovecot with or without imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle but do not see any difference. I am running dovecot on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.1 (Tikanga). Below is the output of some commands to get a clue about my config. Background info: Our primary mailboxes are on exchange servers. As there is a size limit on the server mailboxes I am evaluating a local storage solution for our users. Thus I set up an additional mailbox in outlook using IMAP. Local .pst files can not be backuped easily (especially when outlook is running) and I am investigating a local IMAP server where users can move their mails to. This server can easily be backuped (even incrementally when using Maildir) and users do always have access to their mails. The drawbacks are that users must have an extra login to the imap server because I have no ldap access to the company AD server from our local site domain. The solution will not be accepted though if I can not prevent the frequent disconnect popups. Peter #dovecot --version 1.0.rc15 First try upgrading to a more current version. 1.0.rc15 has got to be a year old by now. You can get a newer rpm at atrpms.net. I do have the same problem with dovecot 1.0.10 : disconnection popups with Outlook 2003/2007 with this kind of line in the logs: dovecot: 2008-03-26 15:16:01 Info: IMAP(user): Connection closed: Connection reset by peer sam
Re: [Dovecot] outlook2007 shows frequent imap disconnect no matter what outlook-idle setting in dovecot.conf
Hi Sam, Samuel HAMEAU schrieb: Scott Silva a écrit : on 3-26-2008 1:33 AM Kielbasiewicz, Peter spake the following: Hello, I saw the problem quite often in various posts but could not find a real solution . Problem is that I frequently get annoying popups from outlook 2007 about imap idle timeouts which block working with outlook until the popup is acknowledged. The popup says: Your IMAP server closed the connection. This can occur if you leave the connection idle for too long. Protocol: IMAP Server: testhost Port: 143 Error Code: 0x800CCCDD I tried to run dovecot with or without imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle but do not see any difference. I am running dovecot on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.1 (Tikanga). Below is the output of some commands to get a clue about my config. Background info: Our primary mailboxes are on exchange servers. As there is a size limit on the server mailboxes I am evaluating a local storage solution for our users. Thus I set up an additional mailbox in outlook using IMAP. Local .pst files can not be backuped easily (especially when outlook is running) and I am investigating a local IMAP server where users can move their mails to. This server can easily be backuped (even incrementally when using Maildir) and users do always have access to their mails. The drawbacks are that users must have an extra login to the imap server because I have no ldap access to the company AD server from our local site domain. The solution will not be accepted though if I can not prevent the frequent disconnect popups. Peter #dovecot --version 1.0.rc15 First try upgrading to a more current version. 1.0.rc15 has got to be a year old by now. You can get a newer rpm at atrpms.net. I do have the same problem with dovecot 1.0.10 : disconnection popups with Outlook 2003/2007 with this kind of line in the logs: dovecot: 2008-03-26 15:16:01 Info: IMAP(user): Connection closed: Connection reset by peer sam in my experience it´s a general Outlook problem, no matter which version. I´ve seen this with uw and courier imap. I think it is related to the way how MS handles idle timeouts... Greetings, Mike
[Dovecot] UID inserted in the middle of mailbox errors
Hi, We are still getting, on a daily basis, users who cannot move messages to Trash or expunge Trash due to these errors: Mar 28 10:43:57 tm2 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(kss021): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/kss021/Mail/Trash (3137 536, seq=2, idx_msgs=76) Our users have no other access to their mailbox other than Dovecot, and we are using mbox format and 1.1rc3. Deleting the indexes fixes the problem, so it seems to be a problem with index corruption and not something inherently wrong with the mailbox. That is, once I delete the index files, the problem does not come back immediately. I've seen others on the list with the same problem, but I wasn't able to find a workaround. It's happening more and more frequently. I guess what I don't understand is why Dovecot cant just mark the index invalid and purge it instead of failing over and over. I thought the whole point behind Dovecot's indexing is that it was able to detect index inconsistencies and mark the index invalid. Any help is much appreciated. Even a quick stopgap fix would be a lifesaver, short of a cronjob that just purges everyone's index files every 2 hours (which sort of defeats the point of using Dovecot). -- Dean Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Dovecot] UID inserted in the middle of mailbox errors
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:53:49 -0400 Dean Brooks wrote: Hi, We are still getting, on a daily basis, users who cannot move messages to Trash or expunge Trash due to these errors: Mar 28 10:43:57 tm2 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(kss021): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /home/kss021/Mail/Trash (3137 536, seq=2, idx_msgs=76) Our users have no other access to their mailbox other than Dovecot, and we are using mbox format and 1.1rc3. With maildir format too Mar 27 10:19:26 mailbox dovecot: imap(exim4000): Maildir /var/Mail/Boxes/e/exim4000/.Trash sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (105265 105264, file = 1206604287.H478110P28054.mailbox.tu-berlin.de,S=6185:2,b)
Re: [Dovecot] Proxy Problems
On 27 Mar 2008, at 19:08, Scott Silva wrote: on 3-27-2008 11:46 AM Richard Cooper spake the following: Hi, I'm trying to use dovecot as a proxy as described on http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy but without much success. The problem is that when I send a IMAP login command dovecot is responding with BYE Internal login failure. Refer to server log for more information. Can anyone help me shed light on this problem? Here's the log (Username, password and IPs have been anonymised): dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:11 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:12 Info: auth(default): passwd-file /root/ dovecot-proxy-test.passwd: Read 1 users dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1PLAINservice=IMAPlip=192.168.0.1rip=192.168.0.2 resp=WWVzIEkgYW5vbnltaXNlZCB0aGlzIHRvbyA7LSk= dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1user=test_proxyproxyhost=192.168.0.3port=143 pass=password dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1117861 dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Error: auth(default): Master request 11786.1 not found dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND1 dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure: user=test_proxy, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.2, lip=192.168.0.1 I am on Cent OS 5 using dovecot version 1.0.rc15 from their official yum repositories. If I connect my client directly to 192.168.0.3:143 using the same username and password everything works correctly. Thanks in advance. - Richard Try getting a newer version of dovecot from atrpms.net and see if it works. Current is 1.0.13, at least a year newer then the release candidate you are using. That worked. Thank you. - Richard
[Dovecot] Using LDA with postfix and virtual users
Hi list,
I have 7 virtual users in a sql database. I don't want any systemusers
or local delivery using postfix.
On the postfix side everything works fine as long as I use the 'local'
delivery agent. But since I want to use dovecot's sieve functionality I
set local_transport to dovecot. From now on Postfix seems to ignore
local_* settings like local_recipient_maps.
Here is my current configuration:
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imaps managesieve
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/%u
mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve
sieve_storage(default):
sieve_storage(imap):
sieve_storage(managesieve): /var/mail/%u/dovecot/sieve/
sieve(default):
sieve(imap):
sieve(managesieve): /var/mail/%u/.dovecot.sieve
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login
verbose: yes
debug: yes
debug_passwords: yes
passdb:
driver: sql
args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
userdb:
driver: static
args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/mail/%u
socket:
type: listen
master:
path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
mode: 384
user: vmail
group: vmail
plugin:
sieve: /var/mail/%u/.dovecot.sieve
And my postfix configuration:
alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/alias_maps-mysql.cf
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
inet_interfaces = all
local_recipient_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/local_recipients-mysql.cf
$alias_maps
local_transport = dovecot
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain
mydomain = unixhosts.org
myhostname = amy.unixhosts.org
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
myorigin = $myhostname
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
And accourding to the wiki I have:
dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f
${sender} -d ${user}
As soon as I set local_transport to dovecot postfix seems to lookup
local_recipients using dovecot. And dovecot doesn't know anything about
my alias table. Heres a small log:
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/smtpd[4412]: warning: 10.1.32.13: address
not listed for hostname amy.unixhosts.org
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/smtpd[4412]: connect from
unknown[10.1.32.13]
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/smtpd[4412]: 820D478399:
client=unknown[10.1.32.13]
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/cleanup[4415]: 820D478399:
message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/qmgr[4410]: 820D478399:
from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=762, nrcpt=1 (queue
active)
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/smtpd[4412]: disconnect from
unknown[10.1.32.13]
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy dovecot: auth(default): master in:
USER^I1^Iroot^Iservice=deliver
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(root): query:
SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = 'root';
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(root): unknown
user
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy dovecot: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND^I1
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/pipe[4416]: 820D478399:
to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=dovecot, delay=0.09,
delays=0.03/0.02/0/0.04, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (user unknown)
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/cleanup[4415]: 914C978407:
message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/qmgr[4410]: 914C978407: from=, size=2516,
nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/bounce[4418]: 820D478399: sender
non-delivery notification: 914C978407
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/qmgr[4410]: 820D478399: removed
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy dovecot: auth(default): master in:
USER^I1^Ivirtualuser^Iservice=deliver
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(virtualuser):
query: SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = 'virtualuser';
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy dovecot: auth(default): password(virtualuser):
Credentials: {CRYPT}{PLAIN-MD5}ebb12eb47da2af187241a0d74fc3d14f
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy dovecot: auth(default): master out:
USER^I1^Ivirtualuser^Iuid=5000^Igid=5000^Ihome=/var/mail/virtualuser
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/pipe[4416]: 914C978407:
to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=dovecot, delay=0.03,
delays=0.01/0/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot
service)
Mar 28 14:49:25 amy postfix/qmgr[4410]: 914C978407: removed
I have already read a lot of documentation, howtos and so on, but just
can't figure out how to get this to work.
Could someone please give me a hint?
--
Greetings
Chris
[Dovecot] mbox with sub-folders and messages?
Hi, Is it possible to have dovecot configured to use mbox format and yet have folders that contains sub-folders and messages? I'm thinking of a simple setup where any files directory with extension .sbd are presented to the IMAP client without the extension. So if you have a mbox file named BOX01 and a directory name BOX01.sdb would show has one on the client side (note: that is the way Thunderbird keeps it's mail locally). I know that the Maildir format does the sub-folders+messages, but I'm not really interested by the one file per email. Richard
Re: [Dovecot] mbox with sub-folders and messages?
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 14:25 -0400, Richard Lefebvre wrote: Hi, Is it possible to have dovecot configured to use mbox format and yet have folders that contains sub-folders and messages? I'm thinking of a simple setup where any files directory with extension .sbd are presented to the IMAP client without the extension. So if you have a mbox file named BOX01 and a directory name BOX01.sdb would show has one on the client side (note: that is the way Thunderbird keeps it's mail locally). I know that the Maildir format does the sub-folders+messages, but I'm not really interested by the one file per email. With v1.1 you could have maildir++ directory layout with mboxes (mbox:~/mail:LAYOUT=maildir): ~/mail/.mbox1 ~/mail/.mbox1.submbox signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[Dovecot] How to force working of a redirect features in sieve plugin?
Hello
Trying to setup dovecot installation with sieve plugin, can't configure how to
make redirect working.
My setup
1 Exim + dovecot lda
begin transports
dovecot_virtual_delivery:
driver = pipe
command = /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $local_part
message_prefix =
message_suffix =
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
return_path_add
log_output
user = exim
2 Dovecot
protocol lda {
postmaster_address = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hostname = **
mail_plugins = cmusieve
mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/lda
# Binary to use for sending mails.
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
# UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users.
auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
}
/usr/sbin/sendmail it's realy exim binary
but I.m try full path to real exim - /usr/local/sbi/exim too.
That's I.m getting in log files
Mar 28 22:23:10 scorpio deliver(satan): Sending a forward to [EMAIL
PROTECTED] with return path [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 28 22:23:10 scorpio deliver(satan): Sendmail process terminated abnormally,
signal 11
Mar 28 22:23:10 scorpio deliver(satan): sieve runtime error: Redirect: Error
sending mail
and in exim log
2008-03-28 22:23:10 1JfL6U-000LBj-24 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
dovecot_virtual_delivery transport output: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: environment
corrupt; mi
Question is - how deliver sending mail thru sendmail_path =
/usr/sbin/sendmail?
Via pipe?
--
Vitalij Satanivskij
Re: [Dovecot] mbox with sub-folders and messages?
on 3-28-2008 11:47 AM Timo Sirainen spake the following: On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 14:25 -0400, Richard Lefebvre wrote: Hi, Is it possible to have dovecot configured to use mbox format and yet have folders that contains sub-folders and messages? I'm thinking of a simple setup where any files directory with extension .sbd are presented to the IMAP client without the extension. So if you have a mbox file named BOX01 and a directory name BOX01.sdb would show has one on the client side (note: that is the way Thunderbird keeps it's mail locally). I know that the Maildir format does the sub-folders+messages, but I'm not really interested by the one file per email. With v1.1 you could have maildir++ directory layout with mboxes (mbox:~/mail:LAYOUT=maildir): ~/mail/.mbox1 ~/mail/.mbox1.submbox Now you are scaring me. Fixing something even BEFORE someone asks. You are good!! ;-P -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
