similar to: "dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file entry at line" error

Hi, We have a serious issue running on our POP/IMAP servers these days. The load average of a servers spikes up to 400-500 as a uptime command result, for a particular time period , to be specific mostly in noon time and evening, but it last for few minutes only. We have 2 servers running dovecot 1.1.20 , in loadbanlancer, We have used KEEPLIVE (1.1.13) for loadbalacing. Server

hi centos 6 64 bit hex core processor with hyperthreading ie display shows 12 cores 16 gb ram 600 gb 15000 rpm drive we are having around 4000 users on a server i wish to allow 1500 pop3 and 1500 imap connections simultaneously. need help regarding the settings to handle the above imap-login, pop3-login imap pop3 service settings i recently i got an error imap-login: Error: read(imap)

hi: sometimes i can't use imap command to get mails, when this problem appear i find out the file dovecot-uidlist.lock appear at the same time . I don't know Why is this happening ? can you help me ? thanks !

Getting complaints from people about pop/imap issues. some people are getting repaeted e-mail. Other are not able to delete their e-mails from an IMAP lcient. Current configuration /usr/dovecot2/sbin/dovecot -n # 2.2.26.0 (23d1de6): /usr/dovecot2/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2 amd64 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 100

----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Morehen [mailto:tmorehen at ajmconsulting.ca] To: dovecot at dovecot.org Sent: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 17:57:27 -0400 Subject: Re: concerning dovecot settings for high volume server You may be running up against Linux system/user limits. Run $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max and $ ulimit -a That should give some insight into your problem. On 12/09/2015 2:53 PM,

Hello, we face an issue with the vacation extension of pigeonhole. Our upstream mail server (from which we pull our E-Mails with POP3) uses SPF and performs a SRS re-write of the Return Path. Once the mail is processed via our local postfix, it is delivered via dovecot deliver (using the lda). When the recipient has a vacation rule enabled in sieve, the out-of-office note cannot be sent, as

Hi, though this is a bit of a side question, has anybody had an issue while running Outlook 2010 with Dovecot? The reason why I am asking is that I have setup a Dovecot 2.1.7 server on FreeBSD which works fantastically with Thunderbird but Outlook seems to be twice as slow in transferring information across?? # dovecot -n # 2.1.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE

Hello list, When trying to deliver a big message (which over-quota user limit), I always get segmentation faults. Others common delivers work fine. This only happens with messages, which over-quota user limit. Here is more details: /var/log/maillog: ... ** user at fakedomain.ua R=virtual_user T=dovecot_virtual_delivery: Child process of dovecot_virtual_delivery transport (running command

Hi, there! Well, I am new to dovecot, so please be patient with me: I have a virtual server and want to setup simple mail delivery. postfix, saslauthd and dovecot basically work fine. The only open issue is, that (I guess) dovecot doesn't remove the mail when it's retrieved via pop3 from the server. It keeps sending me the same emails again and again. (The mail client (Thunderbird) is

thanks very much urban. this was very helpful. i have around 12500 users spread over 3 independent servers each having around 4000+ users i am using qmailtoaster, vpopmail, spamassassin and dovecot. in future i am planning to consolidate all using a HA cluster. if it is ok with you could you kindly share some information about your email server configuration. if you do not wish to put it on the

Hi all, Maybe someone here can help me with this problem, not sure if this is a configuration issue or an actual bug. my daily cron job says: #!/bin/sh doveadm expunge -A mailbox Junk savedbefore 14d doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d doveadm expunge -A mailbox "Trash.*" savedbefore 30d But it hasn't been deleting any messages in a long time, I'm not sure when

hi we are using dovecot version 2.2.7 (config file given below) centos 6, qmail, vpopmail, mysql server configuration hex core processor, 16 gb ram 1 X 600 gb 15 k rpm for main drive and 2 X 2000 gb hdd for data (No raid) busy server with around 4000 email ids --- load is around 2 to 10 the issue is that SQUIRRELMAIL webmail users suddenly lose connection while they are working on the webmail.

I'm trying to get dovecot to work as an LDA with dspam; so I can run the dspam dovecot plugin for drag and drop spam/ham learning. Here is my config info: Version 1.0.5 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap):

Hi guys, How can I modify the timeout value for the pop3_lock_session ? I'd like it to be much bigger.

I am using dovecot in mbox format. I'm going to set to leave the 30-day mail to the server with the mail client. The other day, some of email was received duplicate When receive mail. Mail does not arrive between Nov 4 11:09:03 and Nov 4 11:13:25. There should be the 259 (274-15) messages at the time of Nov 4 11:09:03 on the server from the log. But there were the 280 messages at the time of

Dear list, since the distri upgrade to glibc 2.28, i can't build working dovecot binary's. Older with glibc 2.27 are working. The distri is LFS based. MariaDB 10.2.18 and 10.3.11 makes no difference. Having this on different systems. Messages Log: Dec 19 17:10:38 test kernel: traps: auth[30189] general protection ip:7f4b96d6598c sp:7ffef1f31710 error:0 in

hi centos 6 with qmail toaster and dovecot 2.2.7 for pop3 and imap i have a strange issue which happens on all 4 of my servers for POP3 users -- on any random day ie once in a while users spread across multiple domains will face a problem of outlook re-downloading ALL the emails in the inbox -- not just a few duplicate emails but the entire inbox. This happens for multiple email users spread

And more fixes. * Dovecot now fails to load plugins that were compiled for different Dovecot version, unless version_ignore=yes is set. This needs to be explicitly set in plugins, so out-of-tree plugins won't have this check by default. - pop3_lock_session=yes could cause deadlocks, and with maildir the uidlist lock could have been overridden after 2 minutes causing problems

And more fixes. * Dovecot now fails to load plugins that were compiled for different Dovecot version, unless version_ignore=yes is set. This needs to be explicitly set in plugins, so out-of-tree plugins won't have this check by default. - pop3_lock_session=yes could cause deadlocks, and with maildir the uidlist lock could have been overridden after 2 minutes causing problems

Hi, We have just recently switched from Courier to Dovecot for both IMAAP and POP access for our shared hosting platform, and while the issues we have been seeing with Courier have gone away a new one has popped up. Unfortunately googling for an answer is difficult as it falls into the ownership and permissions category which people seem to have all the time. But in those cases it always