similar to: Problem with running two dovecot instances on the same server

Hi All, I have compared Dovecot performance to Courier and it appears that as a POP3 server Dovecot is slower in 2 times but as an IMAP server it is faster in 1.5 times. The same node (16CPUs), testing time is 30 min, please see results and dovecot configs attached. Benchmark software is MStone used by Sendmail Inc so is is quite reliable. I do not see anything else to tweak in Dovecot to

Hello, Following Jan-Frode's advise I am trying this configuration: {postfix} ---lmtp---> {director} ---lmtp---> {dovecot} so I have two dovecot instances for director/proxy and lmtp delivery on ports 1024 and 24 respectively. whilst for imap connections I can specify a pool of imap backend servers via 'director_mail_servers' it seems is not possible with lmtp. Sep 12

Hi everyone, short version: Is there no built in failover mechanism for the director service to handle a backend failure? Long version: I have a frontend server running the director service and two backends. Due to maintenance I had to shut down one of the backends which caused connection errors for the users being directed to this backend. I was very surprised as I expected the director to

Hi All, I can't get directory proxying of pop3 and imap working.? The director stuff appears to be OK - see below.?? The ldap authentication is working on the backend mail server.? I just get connection refused when I telnet to the proxy on the pop3 and imap ports.? Nothing appears to be running on the pop3 and imap ports despite the lines in the config below.? I am not sure what to do from

Hi @all, on Saturday I upgraded two dovecot servers from squeeze to wheezy and dovecot from 2.1.x to 2.2.5 (compiled from sources). After the upgrade everything worked fine at first. On Sunday Morning I recognized these errors (they occured after a reload for logging purpose on midnight) on one server: director: Error: Ring SYNC appears to have got lost, resending After reloading/restarting

The sample Director configuration (10-director.conf) says that director_servers and director_mail_servers can be lists of either IPs or hostnames: # List of IPs or hostnames to all director servers, including ourself. # Ports can be specified as ip:port. The default port is the same as # what director service's inet_listener is using. #director_servers = # List of IPs or hostnames to all

I'm experiencing some problems similar to those described in http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-July/137250.html except with 2.0.9. Adding http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-July/084906.html to the main config didn't seem to help, nor did setting the list of director and backend servers to just the system itself. I get a banner connecting to port 143: [root at retr01 log]# telnet

Hello guys, Would you be able to help me with this little issue. I bet someone has the same config so if you can copy-paste it I will very appreciate it. So main idea is to enable Dovecot director to authenticate a LDAP user with plain or encrypted password and send the user to back-end Dovecot server after the authentication. According to Wiki it is only possible if we use the master user to

Hello, Please somebody suggest me how to remove the "*masteruser" appendix from the dovecot director database while using masteruser authentication. My situation is: - all users get authenticated in LDAP on the dovecot-director frontend - then they are forwarded to dovecot backend as username*masteruser ( this is a way how to proxy users with encrypted passwords). To enable it a added

Hi, I hit a bizare problem with dovecot 2.2.7 on debian 9 with LMTP enabled and auth/penalty disabled as documented here : https://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Penalty Use case : I run a swaks command to send an email to an exim4 that tries to make a callout to dovecot-lmtp. At RCPT TO: swaks hangs 5.0<something-small> seconds then process normally (exim is waiting for callout

Hi, we are getting some core dumps with signal 6 in ltmp on a dovecot director proxy server, like this: Dec 5 14:31:51 sproxy1 dovecot: lmtp(29999): Panic: file lmtp-proxy.c: line 376 (lmtp_proxy_output_timeout): assertion failed: (proxy->data_input->eof) Dec 5 14:31:51 sproxy1 dovecot: lmtp(29999): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0() [0x363323d99a] ->

Hi, we are running a cluster using mdbox on NFS with director+mailbox on each node. After running our daily doveadm purge loop over all users, we got dbox corruption... doveadm user "*" |\ while read username do doveadm -c /etc/dovecot-director/dovecot-director.conf -D purge -u "$username" done For one user (which deleted a lot of messages from his mailboxes today), we

Hi @all, after re-installing one of my two frontends/proxy-servers I get the following error messages after some time (sometimes after 1h, sometimes after 24h): 11:23:55 imap-login: Error: socketpair() failed: Too many open files 11:23:55 imap-login: Error: socketpair() failed: Too many open files 11:23:56 imap-login: Error: socketpair() failed: Too many open files 11:23:56 imap-login: Error:

I haven't done this on the old, working machine. So there must be a difference between Debian 7 and 9 how open files are handled? Regards Patrick Aki Tuomi schrieb: > You probably need to increase ulimit -n > > Aki > > > On 23.08.2017 14:10, Patrick Westenberg wrote: >> Hi @all, >> >> after re-installing one of my two frontends/proxy-servers I get

director_mail_servers setting uses IP Adresses as values https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/core/#core_setting-director_mail_servers As described in the documentation, hostnames are converted to addresses when the configuration is read https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/types/#ip-addresses This is acceptable in host or virtual machine environment, but becomes a problem in a containerized environment.

I'm using dovecot in a multi server setup. Two directors forward pop3, imap and smtp to backend dovecots with their central storage on NFS. Yesterday I stumbled upon these log lines: 2019-11-18 20:17:51 lmtp(17274): Info: Connect from 172.22.1.6 2019-11-18 20:17:51 lmtp(17274): Panic: file smtp-client-connection.c: line 1142 (smtp_client_connection_established): assertion failed:

Hi, I can confirm that in the bad behavior, the 5 second delay occurs at each AUTH in our case. I think the configuration we have kill auth process at each end of AUTH (and fork a new one for next next AUTH). I think the "disable" flag is local to the process that is killed / respawned. A collegue of mine, Laurent Guerby, has found a workaround for us and it's findings seems

Hello all, I'm working with director in tandem with 'director_tags' to group some backend hosts. I've assigned the groups to the hosts by appending a '@' character after the IP address of a backend host under director_mail_servers: ... director_mail_servers = 192.168.0.1 at foo 192.168.0.2 at bar 192.168.0.3 at foobar ... I can confirm that the backend hosts

Hi, I've been running dovecot for many years, but now i've hit a strange problem. when retrieving imap there is sometimes in 1 of 4 imap requests a 4sec latency. * notes: - connected directly to the backends this latency disappears - removing a director from the loadbalancer(lvs) so i'm the only connected to the director this latency disappears too I would appreciate some feedback

Hi Thenx. I use your patch but problem not solved. Hunk #1 succeeded at 334 with fuzz 2 (offset 19 lines). patching file src/auth/mycrypt.c ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-2.2.36 --sysconfdir=/etc --with-ldap=yes --with-mysql --with-ssl=openssl --with-solr --with-storages=maildir,imapc Install prefix . : /usr/local/dovecot-2.2.36 File offsets ... : 64bit I/O polling .... : epoll I/O