Re: [Dovecot] Special user
Daniel L. Miller schrieb: [..] Example: accountspaya...@mydomain.com - is an alias for j...@mydomain.com, j...@mydomain.com, and j...@mydomain.com. However - any mails sent (from a particular client software) should all only show accountspayable as the sender. If you yust want to appear like comming to your clients with 'From: accountspaya...@mydomain.com' it might be the easiest to define a new identity in your MUA with accountspaya...@mydomain.com for your email address. Else you create accountspaya...@mydomain.com as a normal user but prohibit him to login with imap or pop (like Timo suggested). In this case you can also implement a public mailbox with shared flags. [..] Dennis
Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot design-question
Hi Timo, I'm currently running Tests for concurrent delivery via dovecot-deliver to a mailbox on a nfs-share with postal. And so far, i did not notice any problems when incoming SMTP is directed via LVS to two Mailservers which in parallel drop messages with dovecot-deliver to the users mailbox and updates dovecots index.files (btw. dovecot 1.2.10 in use, mail_nfs_storage = yes, mail_nfs_index = yes). How heavily were you stress testing it? Well, I've initated the test with the double amount of email that's currently handeled by the current system. Tests have been initiated from external servers with postal: srv1: postal -t 20 -r 100 -m 4192 -s 10 lvsmail.example.com user-list srv2: postal -t 20 -r 100 -m 4192 -s 10 lvsmail.example.com user-list (20 parallel sessions, 100 messages per Minute, maximal size of one email 4MB, one Mailbox) After the Test I ran pflogsumm on the Mailserver-Nodes behind the LVS (before I've started the Benchmark, Logs have been cleared). Bandwith on the Storage-Side was quite heavy (83Mbit/s IN, 37MBit/s OUT) but LOAD (max 0.5) and CPU-USAGE (max 10%) of the Storage was really OK. In summary, I've admitted about 19841 Messages over 2 Nodes to the users mailbox. Dovecot Deliver only had 5 times a problem (like mentioned) and deferred those messages. More Detailed Pflogsumm-Output for the two MX-Nodes is found under [1] and [2]. The only thing I've found so far: Feb 16 17:33:46 cmx2 postfix/pipe[24221]: DD3F118A22A: to=wer...@example.com, relay=dovecot, delay=3.4, delays=0.75/0/0/2.6, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-02-16 17:33:43]) That looks like exactly the kind of error I was talking about. Looking at Dovecot's log would show what the internal error was. sadly, I did not find any more specific hints in the Maillog (mail_debug=yes) than this line :-( So, I assume it could work to have to servers for incoming SMTP active, even if dovecot-deliver is used as LDA? kind regards, Werner [1] Node1: (pflogsumm counts incoming mails twice because of smtpd_proxy_filter) Grand Totals messages 9656 received 4821 delivered 0 forwarded 4 deferred (4 deferrals) 9898m bytes received 9902m bytes delivered Per-Hour Traffic Summary time received delivered deferred bounced rejected 1700-1800 2872 1434 2 0 64 1800-1900 3622 1809 1 0 42 1900-2000 3162 1578 1 0 37 message deferral detail --- pipe (total: 4) 1 04:03] 1 33:43] 1 43:46] 1 49:00] [2] Node2: (pflogsumm counts incoming mails twice because of smtpd_proxy_filter) Grand Totals messages 30052 received 15020 delivered 0 forwarded 1 deferred (1 deferrals) 30576m bytes received 30614m bytes delivered Per-Hour Traffic Summary time received delivered deferred bounced rejected 1700-1800 9166 4573 0 0 46 1800-1900 11297 5651 0 0 98 1900-2000 9589 4796 1 0 79 message deferral detail --- pipe (total: 1) 1 24:10]
Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot design-question
On 17.2.2010, at 16.05, Werner wrote: Feb 16 17:33:46 cmx2 postfix/pipe[24221]: DD3F118A22A: to=wer...@example.com, relay=dovecot, delay=3.4, delays=0.75/0/0/2.6, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2010-02-16 17:33:43]) That looks like exactly the kind of error I was talking about. Looking at Dovecot's log would show what the internal error was. sadly, I did not find any more specific hints in the Maillog (mail_debug=yes) than this line :-( It really should have logged something. http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#logging and/or http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging may give hints. So, I assume it could work to have to servers for incoming SMTP active, even if dovecot-deliver is used as LDA? Well, it's not error free, as you said you got 5 errors already. But if you can live with random errors, sure..
Re: [Dovecot] quota problem
Hello,
this is unfortunately not compatible with dovecot 1.0, is not working
i switched now to dovecot 1.2.10, which is current stable release.
unfortunately my userquoata is not working, just global quota ist active and
is not overwritten by userquota from userdb
I cannot go on with my setup, the devil's in the detail but i dont find
it...
I repeat my setup, maybe somebody is seeing something.
this is my mysql-table i use for auth and quota:
login varchar(255)
password varchar(64)
home varchar(128)
uid int(11)
gid int(11)
quota_bytes varchar(15)
active char(1)
typical dataset:
username| 027c57a0bda1922cb475b39817e08c0514651a03| /home/popuser/username
|508| 500| 10| Y
my password_query:
password_query = SELECT login as user, password FROM mail_users WHERE login
= '%u' AND active='Y'
my user_query:
user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid, concat('*:storage=', quota_bytes,'M')
AS quota_rule FROM mail_users WHERE login = '%u'
quota/imap_quota is activated for pop/imap/lda
lda is used to deliver mails:
plugin-section is:
plugin {
quota = dirsize:user
quota_rule = *:storage=1000G
}
I have no idea why its not working. Quota is only effective if i decrease
global quota lower values, it gets not overwritten with data from userdb.
in verbose mailog i can see queries to mysql, i double checked format etc.
but have no solution.
Thanks,
Andre
Re: [Dovecot] Sieve libexec /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
Hello,
I have solved it. It isn`t dovecot fault but mine.
Wrong postfix configuration.
master.cf:
dovecot unix - n n - - pipe.
flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d
${recipient}
I had /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver .
Thanks all for this great software.
Filip
Dne Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:08:24 +0100 Filip Dvořák f...@pruda.com
napsal/-a:
Hi,
I have installed dovecot(1.2.10) with --libexecdir=/usr/lib .
Dovecot sieve(0.1.15) is compiled with --with-dovecot
but still uses /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver instead of
/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver.
How should be dovecot sieve configured to use /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
thanks in advance
Filip
# dovecot configuration:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --localstatedir=/var
\
--libexecdir=/usr/lib
--with-moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules \
--with-db --with-mysql --with-pgsql --with-sqlite \
--with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/etc/dovecot/ssl \
--with-gssapi --with-ldap=plugin --enable-header-install
--with-docs
# dovecot sieve configuration:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-dovecot=/usr/lib/dovecot
# /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-config:
CFLAGS=-std=gnu99 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -Wall -W
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith
-Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2
LIBS= -lrt
SSL_LIBS=-lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lz
STORAGE_LIBS=$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/list/libstorage_list.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/cydir/libstorage_cydir.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/dbox/libstorage_dbox.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/maildir/libstorage_maildir.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/mbox/libstorage_mbox.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/raw/libstorage_raw.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/shared/libstorage_shared.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/index/libstorage_index.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/libstorage.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-index/libindex.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-imap/libimap.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-mail/libmail.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-auth/libauth.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-charset/libcharset.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib/liblib.a
LIBICONV=
MODULE_LIBS=-export-dynamic -ldl
dovecot_incdir=/usr/include/dovecot
moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules
CFLAGS=-std=gnu99 -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -Wall -W
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith
-Wchar-subscri
LIBS= -lrt
SSL_LIBS=-lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lz
STORAGE_LIBS=$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a
$(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/list/libstorage_list.a $(top_
LIBICONV=
MODULE_LIBS=-export-dynamic -ldl
dovecot_incdir=/usr/include/dovecot
moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules
# end of dovecot-config
dovecot -n output:
# 1.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.27-lts i686 ext3
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/mail.pruda.com/cert.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/mail.pruda.com/key.pem
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u
mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
lda:
postmaster_address: postmas...@pruda.com
mail_plugins: sieve
sieve_global_path: /home/vmail/dovecot-global.sieve
sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail
auth default:
user: nobody
passdb:
driver: sql
args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf
userdb:
driver: sql
args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf
socket:
type: listen
master:
path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
mode: 432
user: vmail
group: vmail
plugin:
sieve: /home/vmail/%u/dovecot.sieve
home: /home/vmail/%u
Re: [Dovecot] quota problem
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Andre Hübner andre.hueb...@gmx.de wrote: ... I have no idea why its not working. Quota is only effective if i decrease global quota lower values, it gets not overwritten with data from userdb. in verbose mailog i can see queries to mysql, i double checked format etc. but have no solution. I have the same problem here running 1.2.10. No userdb quota_rule is applied to users, only dovecot.conf ones and if I remove them no quota_rules are loaded. No answers on IRC too. Regards. -- [ ]'s Aledr - Alexandre OpenSource Solutions for SmallBusiness Problems
Re: [Dovecot] passing parameters to deliver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Kamil Jońca wrote: Is any posibility to pass parameters/environment variables to deliver with sieve plugin? No. But you could check the extdata extension posted by Stephan Bosch lately. Regards, - -- Steffen Kaiser -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBS3wO2L+Vh58GPL/cAQImYwf7BcJmElNVVVaXSkkuSucGrAUnTu5lXrW+ +f1TCfAlhyd5DDUYvYjKV2/gGzLSQt3u+BRQ5VmQaQOibdceb0Q4L3NTp8CHhqg9 PiMRsEqbvGkLlKRQSiX1M6yomAkfdBrpDHE7P5327pl8i62ySPeMF+Axcrk2aRcL 344uqfk/gNz1mZOdqMD3tXdHB+iXR9eKMAvJ/iaTwIclGXH/RIF+xq+d0FcG8M81 LL1LqXD0B2iGRBj7k2DUBdA5VxIDgZrqjRkBDcGEFvJgC5MZNNN4EuH7rMqWj0Ue uONwEO0zloRRdmfFBOsrNmGrGy2rTQidE0JTFh9MtLogIvn4kENx6w== =lBus -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir
I'm going to assume this is just not possible, or that no one has an
answer, which would lead me back to uw-imap since it does work as-is.
So I'll post it again, hoping that there is a solution for this setup
and that folks have just been too busy to help think about it and/or
help come up with a possible solution.
-
Ignoring my previous message just for a second, I realized that my
config wasn't correct. First the layout:
~mail/
~mail/Drafts
~mail/Ashley-Feb09
~mail/Others-Feb09
~mail-Archives/
~mail-Archives/2009/
~mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/
~mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/Ashley-Dec09
~mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/Ashley-Nov09
~mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/Ashley-Oct09
So I (now) have this for namespaces:
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix = mail/
location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
inbox = yes
hidden = no
list = yes # for v1.1+
}
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix = mail-Archives/
location = maildir:~/mail-Archives:LAYOUT=fs
inbox = no
hidden = no
list = yes
subscriptions = yes
}
But when I'm in Thunderbird and I try to subscribe to anything that
falls inside of ~/mail-Archives/ it won't work. I can browser all the
way down to the folder, but I can't see anything within that folder.
For example, consider the full path to the following 'Ashley-Dec09'
mailbox:
~mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/Ashley-Dec09
In Thunderbird, when I hit 'Subscribe' I can browse down to '2009'
and I can see 'Ashley', but I can't drill down into it and subscribe to
'Ashley-Jan09'.
What am I missing here?
Re: [Dovecot] Courier-Dovecot Migration Issue
Tony Rutherford wrote: For testing purposes, on a small set of users, we've run the courier-dovecot-migrate.pl script. We are converting from Courier 0.43 to Dovecot 1.2.9. For the most part, things seem to be ok. However, an iPhone IMAP client user is reporting a problem where some of her messages don't show up. Even stranger is the fact that these same messages do appear when using Outlook 2k7 for instance. The common denominator for when the messages are missing seems to be whether or not the message appeared in both the Courier IMAP and Courier POP3 uid files. The missing messages appear in the CourierIMAP file, but NOT the Courier POP file. Here is a snippet from the resulting Dovecot-uidlist file: 3 V1141844265 N12392 9338 P00cf2eb6_fadc_4992_ad3a_57cc83a16eab W5146 :00cf2eb6_fadc_4992_ad3a_57cc83a16eab:2,S 9788 P0b18a2d6_97dd_4712_a09c_23c7a3d59467 W4055 :0b18a2d6_97dd_4712_a09c_23c7a3d59467:2,S 9942 P0b3cfd0b_1fc7_47b3_805f_b369a3bb6c65 W4359 :0b3cfd0b_1fc7_47b3_805f_b369a3bb6c65:2,S 10100 Pe178f1ed_d648_47e8_807a_3e2d655d7f84 W12028 :e178f1ed_d648_47e8_807a_3e2d655d7f84:2,S 10101 Pe3f28a53_a4d4_4f3d_babe_5df72bc35b47 W13974 :e3f28a53_a4d4_4f3d_babe_5df72bc35b47:2,S 10102 Pf3c3024b_2850_43ef_a397_d5cae5c8f537 W7177 :f3c3024b_2850_43ef_a397_d5cae5c8f537:2,S 10104 P6e808a68_0a7b_4528_aa67_4cc16361c56b W10817 :6e808a68_0a7b_4528_aa67_4cc16361c56b:2,S 10105 P65c8218d_7b2a_43b7_82a4_2743025bd954 W3579 :65c8218d_7b2a_43b7_82a4_2743025bd954:2,S 10106 P963cc43e_0355_481e_99d5_5468708bc28f W6410 :963cc43e_0355_481e_99d5_5468708bc28f:2,S 10107 P1405aefc_b98b_4a35_a7dd_a69199f724d0 W4703 :1405aefc_b98b_4a35_a7dd_a69199f724d0:2,S 10108 P67908fad_ec0a_4786_b0f1_c7cfaa23d09a W127288 :67908fad_ec0a_4786_b0f1_c7cfaa23d09a:2,S 10109 :9176f3b2_1927_4657_baa8_bfe4c39e89d4:2,S 10110 :79047185_aef7_48ec_aff2_6b71bd566acd:2,S 10111 :efe275a0_a7a8_4f47_b638_45a18bc0b108:2,S The last three entries exist in the Courier IMAP file, but NOT the Courier POP file. The resulting dovecot-uidlist format is different, but to be honest, I haven't been able to find the exact specification for the format of the dovecot-uidlist file (if it exists). What is really strange to me is: If there was a problem with the migration script and resulting dovecot-uidlist file, why would these messages show up fine in some client (ex. Outlook) and not others (ex. iPhone). Regards, Tony During the migration, it appears that the emphasis is placed on maintaining the Pop3 message sequence...at the cost of possibly changing IMAP UIDs. The iPhone appears to go very strictly by the actual order of the IMAP uids...and since they're now out of sync...the messages appear to be out of order on the iPhone client. I understand the importance of ensuring that pop clients don't redownload messages...so tough to argue. Here's a question though. If the dovecot-uidlist file is deleted (for whatever reason), it gets rebuilt by Dovecot. But, how does it get rebuilt? It does not appear to generate uids based on the date of messages...I believe that to be true. Is there any flag/option in Dovecot to build the uidlist file based on message date (uids ordered by date)? The problem is that if they're not ordered by date, again, when the iPhone gets the first 200 messages, they may not necessarily be the latest 200 messages. Also...this behaviour does not appear in other clients we've tested...TB and Outlook2007. Tony
Re: [Dovecot] quota problem
Figured It out... You need to return quota rules in password_query just as you do in user_query. Remember to add userdb_ prefix. Regards. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:38 PM, aledr matrixworkstat...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Andre Hübner andre.hueb...@gmx.de wrote: ... I have no idea why its not working. Quota is only effective if i decrease global quota lower values, it gets not overwritten with data from userdb. in verbose mailog i can see queries to mysql, i double checked format etc. but have no solution. I have the same problem here running 1.2.10. No userdb quota_rule is applied to users, only dovecot.conf ones and if I remove them no quota_rules are loaded. No answers on IRC too. Regards. -- [ ]'s Aledr - Alexandre OpenSource Solutions for SmallBusiness Problems -- [ ]'s Aledr - Alexandre OpenSource Solutions for SmallBusiness Problems
Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot design-question
Hi, I will set log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver-errors.log within the LDA-Section and will produce the temporary failure again. I will get back to you. Done - I've reproduced the error, here's the output from dovecot-deliver for those temporary Failures in the maillog: 2010-02-17 17:52:21 deliver(wer...@example.com): Error: Corrupted transaction log file /mailhome/wernertest/dovecot.index.log seq 24: Invalid transaction log size (67988 vs 68080): /mailhome/wernertest/dovecot.index.log (sync_offset=67988) Is this something to worry about ? Thanks, Werner
Re: [Dovecot] Highly Performance and Availability
I think Stan pretty much covered how to do this stuff *properly*, however, for those following along in the bedroom, there are a couple of interesting projects what might get you some of the ESX features (surely at the expense of far more support and likely reliability, but needs always vary...) Note, I have no experience with any of these projects, they simply caught my eye for further research... - Latest KVM+QEMU includes some of the desirable ESX features including hot migration - Apparently Redhat have a nice management utility for this - Or try ProxMox: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page (cheap) High availability storage seems to come down to: - iSCSI - Add redundancy to the storage using DRDB (I believe a successful strategy with Dovecot is pairs of servers, replicated to each other - run each at 50% capacity and if one dies the other picks up the slack) - Interesting developing ideas are: PVFS, GlusterFS (they have an interesting appliance which might get reliability to production levels?), CEPH (reviews suggest it's very easily days) None of these solutions gets you an enterprise or proper high end solution as described by Stan, but may give some others some things to investigate Cheers Ed W
[Dovecot] GlusterFs - Any new progress reports?
GlusterFs always strikes me as being the solution (one day...). It's had a lot of growing pains, but there have been a few on the list had success using it already. Given some time has gone by since I last asked - has anyone got any more recent experience with it and how has it worked out with particular emphasis on Dovecot maildir storage? How has version 3 worked out for you? Anyone had success using some other clustered/HA filestore with dovecot who can share their experience? (OCFS/GFS over DRBD, etc?) My interest is more in bootstrapping a more highly available system from lower quality (commodity) components than very high end use Thanks Ed W
Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot design-question
On 01/02/2010 10:05, Werner wrote: Hi everybody, we're currently in the process of drafting our new mailserver-setup. Instead of a single-server-setup we'd like to have two equal servers behind a loadbalancer like LVS and shared mailhomes on NFS. We'd like to use dovecot for POP/IMAP, dovecot-deliver as LDA. - It's probably the best idea to direct SMTP and POP/IMAP always to the same server behind the loadbalancer (because dovecot-deliver is used which updates indexes?) - If we think of a active/passive setup: dovecot index-files locally or on the nfs-share? At least one other user on the list had success using Dovecot proxy and a backend servers are the frontend servers setup. Basically the user comes into a random frontend server, the dovecot proxy has a 50:50 chance to discover they are already on the right machine and gets out of the way, otherwise it proxy's the connection to the other machine. I guess this will waste 25% internal bandwidth on average (external b/w should remain the same). Apparently cpu requirements are very low for proxying and additional memory requirements can be measured, but may be satisfactory If one server fails then you have to update the loadbalancer to redirect only to the working server AND update the proxy not to try and send users to the other machine. Depending how you configure things this extra step can be done very easily though. Good luck Ed W
Re: [Dovecot] GlusterFs - Any new progress reports?
Anyone had success using some other clustered/HA filestore with dovecot who can share their experience? (OCFS/GFS over DRBD, etc?) My interest is more in bootstrapping a more highly available system from lower quality (commodity) components than very high end use we use drbd with ext3 in a active/passive setup for more than 1 mailboxes. works like a charm! I'm not really trusting cluster filesystems and most cluster filesystems are not made for small files. Alex
Re: [Dovecot] GlusterFs - Any new progress reports?
Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:15:30 +0100 Von: alex handle alex.han...@gmail.com An: Dovecot Mailing List dovecot@dovecot.org Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] GlusterFs - Any new progress reports? Anyone had success using some other clustered/HA filestore with dovecot who can share their experience? (OCFS/GFS over DRBD, etc?) My interest is more in bootstrapping a more highly available system from lower quality (commodity) components than very high end use we use drbd with ext3 in a active/passive setup for more than 1 mailboxes. works like a charm! I'm not really trusting cluster filesystems and most cluster filesystems are not made for small files. I use GlusterFS with Dovecot and it works without issues. The GlusterFS team has made huge progress since 2.0 and with the new 3.0 version they have again proved that GlusterFS can get better. Alex Steve -- Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser
[Dovecot] tls not working on ubuntu
Hello List, I'm new to dovecot. I have sucessfully configured dovecot with just virtual users on a centos linux box to my satisfaction; I can connect with TLS with disable_plaintext_auth = yes. This dovecot is also version 1. Can't post exact version right now but it's what comes with Centos 5.4. On a Ubuntu 9.10 box here, I cannot connect with TLS (port 110) but I can connect with plain SSL (port 995). The config files between centos and ubuntu boxes are the same except for minor details. The following is the log entry Feb 17 21:38:18 ubuntu dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=192.168.0.101, lip=192.168.0.108 The output below is from a binary compiled from source. I have also tested with 1.1.11 (that I get from apt-get install) with the same config file. I have tested ubuntu with both Thunderbird 3 and thunderbird 2. I have also searched google as well as dovecot website. Thanks mr.wu # 1.2.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.31-14-server x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10 ext4 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: pop3 pop3s listen: 192.168.0.108 ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/pop.crt ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/pop.key ssl_parameters_regenerate: 29 disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n mail_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: user: authdove debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/%d/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=2000 gid=2000 home=/var/vmail/%d/%n
Re: [Dovecot] tls not working on ubuntu
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 22:03 -0500, zhong ming wu wrote: On a Ubuntu 9.10 box here, I cannot connect with TLS (port 110) but I can connect with plain SSL (port 995). The config files between centos and ubuntu boxes are the same except for minor details. Probably something on your client side prevents this. Antivirus/firewall software is a common reason. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] GlusterFs - Any new progress reports?
Quoting Ed W li...@wildgooses.com: Anyone had success using some other clustered/HA filestore with dovecot who can share their experience? (OCFS/GFS over DRBD, etc?) GFS2 over DRBD in an active-active setup works fine IMHO. Not perfect, but it was cheap and works well... Let's me reboot machines with no downtime which was one of my main goals when implementing it... My interest is more in bootstrapping a more highly available system from lower quality (commodity) components than very high end use GFS+DRBD should fit the bill... You need several nics and cables, but they are dirt cheap... Just 2 machines with the same disk setup, and a handful of nics and cables, and you are off and running... Thanks Ed W -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns!
Re: [Dovecot] 2nd REPOST: mbox vs maildir
Ashley M. Kirchner put forth on 2/17/2010 9:46 AM: Hi Ashley, sorry no one had tried to help you yet. I'm not a dovecot expert, just a user, but I'll try to help. But when I'm in Thunderbird and I try to subscribe to anything that falls inside of ~/mail-Archives/ it won't work. I can browser all the way down to the folder, but I can't see anything within that folder. Not to be a jerk, but there is stuff in this folder, yes? What version of T-Bird, on what OS? For example, consider the full path to the following 'Ashley-Dec09' mailbox: ~mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/Ashley-Dec09 In Thunderbird, when I hit 'Subscribe' I can browse down to '2009' and I can see 'Ashley', but I can't drill down into it and subscribe to 'Ashley-Jan09'. Do you have any other IMAP clients working in this scenario, such as Outlook, Eudora, or webmail such as Roundcube or Squirrelmail? Eliminate the client as the source of the problem first, then troubleshoot dovecot. You can't know if it's a dovecot problem if you're only testing with one client. Test a couple of others clients and see if they suffer this problem. I use TB 3.0.1, but I'm all mbox format here, so I can't duplicate your issue. Also, these folders already existed, correct? T-Bird did not create them, correct? If you can, within TB, create another folder tree the same number of layers deep, and see if you run into the same or similar problems. Perform this test with two other IMAP clients as well. -- Stan
Re: [Dovecot] Highly Performance and Availability
Ed W put forth on 2/17/2010 12:25 PM: I think Stan pretty much covered how to do this stuff *properly*, At least for a VMware ESX + SAN environment, yes. however, for those following along in the bedroom, there are a couple of interesting projects what might get you some of the ESX features (surely at the expense of far more support and likely reliability, but needs always vary...) Surely. I hate the licensing cost of VMware ESX and the options. Also, the first time I was told about VMware ESX I was extremely skeptical. Once I started using it, and built out a SAN architecture under it, I was really, really impressed by what it can do, and its management capabilities. It will be a long time until a FOSS equivalent even comes close to its performance, reliability, capability, and ease of management. It really is a great solution. HA, Consolidated Backup, and a couple of other technologies are what really make this an enterprise solution, providing near 24x7x365 uptime and rapid redeployment of an infrastructure after catastrophic loss of the datacenter. Note, I have no experience with any of these projects, they simply caught my eye for further research... - Latest KVM+QEMU includes some of the desirable ESX features including hot migration - Apparently Redhat have a nice management utility for this I'll have to look into this. - Or try ProxMox: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page (cheap) High availability storage seems to come down to: - iSCSI 1Gbe iSCSI is great for targeted applications on moderate load SANs. With any kind of heavy lifting, you need either 10Gbe iSCSCI or Fiber Channel. Both of those are a bit more expensive, and 10Gbe iSCSI usually costing quite a bit more than FC because of the switch and HBA costs. Either is suitable for an HA SAN with live backup. 1Gbe iSCSI is not--simply too little bandwidth and too much latency. - Add redundancy to the storage using DRDB (I believe a successful strategy with Dovecot is pairs of servers, replicated to each other - run each at 50% capacity and if one dies the other picks up the slack) DRDB is alright for a couple of replicated hosts with moderate volume. If you run two load balanced hot hosts with DRDB, and your load increases to the point you need more capacity, a 3rd hot host, expanding with DRDB gets a bit messy. With an iSCSI or FC SAN you merely plug in a 3rd host, install and configure the cluster FS software, expose the shared LUN to the host, and basically you're up and running in little time. All 3 hosts share the exact same data on disk, so you have no replication issues, no matter how many systems you stick into the cluster. The only limitation is the throughput of your SAN array. - Interesting developing ideas are: PVFS, GlusterFS (they have an interesting appliance which might get reliability to production levels?), CEPH (reviews suggest it's very easily days) GlusterFS isn't designed as a primary storage system for servers or server clusters. A good description of it would be cloud storage. It is designed to mask, or make irrelevant, the location of data storage devices and the distance to them. Server and datacenter architects need to know the latency characteristics and bandwidth of storage devices backing the servers. GlusterFS is the antithesis of this. None of these solutions gets you an enterprise or proper high end solution as described by Stan, but may give some others some things to investigate Enterprise capability, performance, and reliability don't necessarily have to come with an Enterprise price tag. ;) Eric Rostetter is already using GFS2 over DRDB with two hot nodes. IIRC he didn't elaborate a lot on the performance or his hardware config. He seemed to think the performance was more than satisfactory. Eric, can you tell us more about your setup, in detail? I promise I'll sit quiet and just listen. Everyone else may appreciate your information. -- Stan
