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Filtering mails with sieve filters
by Odhiambo Washington 30 Oct '20

30 Oct '20

Hello good people, I have dovecot- 2.3.7.2 (Ubuntu Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS) running fine. However, I have a hitch with mail filtering. Using SOGo as the webmail UI, I created a filter rule which resulted into the rule below: require ["fileinto"]; if allof (address :contains "from" "odhiambo") { fileinto "INBOX/Odhiambo"; } However, the test mail I sent did not end up the folder expected. lda.log contains this info: Oct 30 07:39:07 lda(wash@mydomain)<2415266><tSKSHhvDm1+i2iQA9H6eMA>: Info: sieve: msgid=<CAAdA2WNqXpG1qmOmKp_pJPS6iQrEPeS6=vM_= o8UnvR152x54Q(a)mail.gmail.com>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Oct 30 07:39:07 lda(wash@mydomain)<2415266><tSKSHhvDm1+i2iQA9H6eMA>: Info: sieve: Execution of script /var/spool/virtual/mydomain/wash/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful (user logfile /var/spool/virtual/mydomain/wash/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) And the .dovecot.sieve.log contains: sieve: info: started log at Oct 30 07:39:07. error: msgid=<CAAdA2WNqXpG1qmOmKp_pJPS6iQrEPeS6=vM_= o8UnvR152x54Q(a)mail.gmail.com>: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX/Odhiambo': *Invalid mailbox name: Name must not have '/' characters.* What might be the problem here?? dovecot -n output is below: # 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.7.2 () # OS: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS ext4 # Hostname: jp.mydomain auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug.log default_login_user = dovecot default_vsz_limit = 2 G disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 110 hostname = gw.mydomain info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/error.log mail_gid = Debian-exim mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/virtual/%d/%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/spool/virtual/indexes/%d/%1n/%n mail_plugins = fts mail_privileged_group = mail mail_server_admin = postmaster@mydomain mail_uid = Debian-exim managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_exclude = \Junk fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Trash fts_autoindex_exclude3 = \Drafts fts_autoindex_exclude4 = \Spam fts_enforced = yes imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Spam imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Spam imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * plugin = fts managesieve sieve sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute sieve_filter_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-filter sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms } postmaster_address = postmaster@mydomain protocols = imap lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0600 user = Debian-exim } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = Debian-exim user = Debian-exim } } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { user = Debian-exim } unix_listener stats-writer { user = Debian-exim } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { port = 2587 } } ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain/fullchain.pem ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lmtp.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lmtp-errors.log mail_plugins = fts sieve postmaster_address = postmaster@mydomain } protocol lda { info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/lda-errors.log mail_plugins = fts sieve } -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)

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doveadm replicator, what decides the timing on a full resync?
by Norman King 30 Oct '20

30 Oct '20

Hello. If running dovadm replicator status, i get something like the following. root@mail2:~# doveadm replicator status Queued 'sync' requests 0 Queued 'high' requests 0 Queued 'low' requests 0 Queued 'failed' requests 0 Queued 'full resync' requests 4 Waiting 'failed' requests 0 Total number of known users 1000 When would these full resyncs happen? Is it on a schedule? and if so where is said schedule configured? doveadm replicator dsync-status shows plenty of available sessions. Thanks. -- regards Norman King Compass Foundation sysadmin/tech support Phone, 856-974-5335 ext 221 support(a)compassfoundation.io <mailto:support@compassfoundation.io> Website <https://compassfoundation.io>

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When is the Dovecot 2.3.12 release due?
by Sidsel Jensen 30 Oct '20

30 Oct '20

Hi We are very eager to test the zstd compression in the upcoming Dovecot 2.3.12 release - any pointer as to when that is expected to be released? Kind Regards, Sidsel

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dovecot replicator not replicating automatically?
by Norman King 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

Hello all. I'm trying to set up the dovecot replicator plugin to automatically replicate mail between 2 servers. The servers are both using iredmail with dovecot as the imap server. I have everything working if i run dovecot replicator replicate \* all accounts update. But if an account receives a message it isn't automatically sent to the other system. The system config. OS, ubuntu 20.04 db, postgresql 12 dovecot info. root@mail:~# dovecot -n # 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.7.2 () # OS: Linux 5.3.18-2-pve x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS # Hostname: mail.daystar.io auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = PLAIN LOGIN deliver_log_format = from=%{from}, envelope_sender=%{from_envelope}, subject=%{subject}, msgid=%m, size=%{size}, delivery_time=%{delivery_time}ms, %$ dict { acl = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-share-folder.conf lastlogin = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-last-login.conf quotadict = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-used-quota.conf } doveadm_password = # hidden, use -P to show it doveadm_port = 10993 first_valid_uid = 2000 last_valid_uid = 2000 listen = * [::] login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c %k session=<%{session}> mail_gid = 2000 mail_location = maildir:%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=%Lh/Maildir/ mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl mail_log notify mail_uid = 2000 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext metric imap_command_finished { event_name = imap_command_finished } namespace { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive { auto = no special_use = \Archive } mailbox Archives { auto = no special_use = \Archive } mailbox "Deleted Messages" { auto = no special_use = \Trash } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox "Junk E-mail" { auto = no special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Items" { auto = no special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { auto = no special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = no special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=%%Lh/Maildir/Shared/%%Ld/%%Ln prefix = Shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = shared } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf driver = sql } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_create mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size from subject flags mail_replica = tcp:10.2.2.113:10993 mailbox_alias_new = Sent Messages mailbox_alias_new2 = Sent Items mailbox_alias_old = Sent mailbox_alias_old2 = Sent quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_grace = 10%% quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-warning 100 %u quota_warning2 = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning3 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning4 = storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u sieve = ~/sieve/dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/vmail/sieve/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /var/vmail/sieve sieve_max_redirects = 30 sieve_vacation_send_from_recipient = yes } protocols = pop3 imap sieve lmtp service anvil { client_limit = 7000 } service auth { client_limit = 7000 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 10993 } } service imap-login { process_limit = 6144 service_count = 1 } service imap { process_limit = 6144 } service lmtp { executable = lmtp -L inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24 } process_min_avail = 5 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } user = vmail } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { service_count = 1 } service quota-status { client_limit = 1 executable = quota-status -p postfix inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 12340 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/dovecot-quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 unix_listener replicator-doveadm { mode = 0666 } } service stats { client_limit = 5000 fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0644 user = vmail } inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24242 } unix_listener stats-writer { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } ssl = required ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/star.daystar.io.crt ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/star.daystar.io-chained.crt ssl_cipher_list = ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it syslog_facility = local5 userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf driver = sql } protocol lda { lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl mail_log notify sieve } protocol lmtp { lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl mail_log notify sieve recipient_delimiter = + } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 100 mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl mail_log notify imap_quota imap_acl } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl mail_log notify pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } What's wrong with this picture? Thanks. -- regards Norman King Compass Foundation sysadmin/tech support Phone, 856-974-5335 ext 221 support(a)compassfoundation.io <mailto:support@compassfoundation.io> Website <https://compassfoundation.io>

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Re: dovecot replicator not replicating automatically?
by Aki Tuomi 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

Hi! In order for replication to trigger, you need - load the replication plugin - use dovecot-lda / lmtp to deliver mail If you have done these both, please provide doveconf -n and output of mail_debug=yes logs. Aki > On 29/10/2020 19:10 Norman King <norman(a)compassfoundation.io> wrote: > > > Thanks for that tip. > I loaded the replication plugin but still have the same issue. Anything else i can check? > > > > > regards > Norman King > Compass Foundation sysadmin/tech support > Phone, 856-974-5335 ext 221 > support(a)compassfoundation.io > Website (https://compassfoundation.io) > On 10/29/2020 12:17 PM, Sami Ketola wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 29. Oct 2020, at 17.24, Norman King <norman(a)compassfoundation.io> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello all. > > > I'm trying to set up the dovecot replicator plugin to automatically replicate mail between 2 servers. > > > The servers are both using iredmail with dovecot as the imap server. > > > > > > I have everything working if i run dovecot replicator replicate \* all accounts update. But if an account receives a message it isn't automatically sent to the other system. > > > > > > > > > The system config. > > > > > > > > > mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl mail_log notify > > > > > > > > > > > > > your mail_plugins does not even load replication plugin. > > > > > > Sami > > > >

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Re: Support of INDEXPVT in Dovecot 2.3 with replication
by Aki Tuomi 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

At the moment the correct way to use shared folders in a replication pair is to access them with imapc from the other pair. Aki > On 29/10/2020 14:43 Ralf Becker <rb(a)egroupware.org> wrote: > > > In reference to an earlier mail from me, I'd like to ask: > > Have there been any changes in regard to INDEXPVT and replication or are > there any plans in that direction? > > Thanks :) > > Ralf > > > On 03.08.20 at 11:20 Ralf Becker wrote: > > So far the only thing we noticed: private seen flags on shared user > > folders (which were never supported for replication!) seem to be not > > functioning any more in 2.3. Not functioning means, if they are > > configured you can not set a mail to seen in a shared user folder. After > > removing this configuration: > > > > location = mdbox:%%h/mdbox:INDEXPVT=~/shared/%%u --> mdbox:%%h/mdbox > > > > seen flags behave as expected / are identical now if you access the > > mailbox direct or via the shared user folder, and the are identical on > > both backends. > > > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf Becker > EGroupware GmbH [www.egroupware.org] > Handelsregister HRB Kaiserslautern 3587 > Geschäftsführer Birgit und Ralf Becker > Leibnizstr. 17, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany > Telefon +49 631 31657-0

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Support of INDEXPVT in Dovecot 2.3 with replication
by Ralf Becker 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

In reference to an earlier mail from me, I'd like to ask: Have there been any changes in regard to INDEXPVT and replication or are there any plans in that direction? Thanks :) Ralf On 03.08.20 at 11:20 Ralf Becker wrote: > So far the only thing we noticed: private seen flags on shared user > folders (which were never supported for replication!) seem to be not > functioning any more in 2.3. Not functioning means, if they are > configured you can not set a mail to seen in a shared user folder. After > removing this configuration: > > location = mdbox:%%h/mdbox:INDEXPVT=~/shared/%%u --> mdbox:%%h/mdbox > > seen flags behave as expected / are identical now if you access the > mailbox direct or via the shared user folder, and the are identical on > both backends. > > Ralf -- Ralf Becker EGroupware GmbH [www.egroupware.org] Handelsregister HRB Kaiserslautern 3587 Geschäftsführer Birgit und Ralf Becker Leibnizstr. 17, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Telefon +49 631 31657-0

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dovecot quota-warning detection mail
by 森川　孝司 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

Hi, all. we use quota-warning emails to notify you of quotas. In rare cases, the email address has changed to the logged-in user. (Because the address of %u is passed as the logged-in user.) So I couldn’t send the email with “Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table”. Why does my email address change to a logged-in user? %u of "quota_warning = storage = 95 %% quota-warning 95% u" The output is the logged-in user. By Morikawa

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Directors and LMTP: mailAlternateAddress of same user
by Paterakis E. Ioannis 28 Oct '20

28 Oct '20

Good evening everyone, I'd like to paste a problem i experience the last days with a mail cluster system based on three dovecot servers and two directors in front of them. The Directors are proxying the auth requests to the dovecot servers below (LDAP). The protocols i use are imap/managesieve/lmtp. The setup works as intented, exept one detail. There are a lot of users that happen to have mailAlternateAddress attriutes with different e-mail addresses. The problem is that when a mail arrives to the lmtp of the directors, and the recipient is one of the mailalternateAddresses the same user has, director/lmtp doesn't recognise the real user of that e-mail address, and routes the e-mail to a different dovecot server than the real user is logged in, resulting in a corrupted .index.cache file. I've searched around for a solution to this, and figured out that a special userdb {} section in the protocol lmtp {} section, with driver = ldap etc etc so that i 'd be able to "show" the correct user to the lmtp might work, but strangely that userdb {} setting looks like being ignored by lmtp. Has any of you guys have an idea how will i be able to solve that issue because i get thousands of corrupted .index.cache files every day.... Thank you very much in advance, Ioannis

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Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server
by R. Diez 28 Oct '20

28 Oct '20

Hi all: I am evaluating mail server solutions for a small business. The trouble is, I am only a part-time admin and a newbie to mail servers. Most guides I have seen are rather unrealistic: they encourage you to expose your e-mail server to the Internet, and hope that you have the resources to keep it patched up. I would rather have an internal mail server that collects e-mails from a standard ISP mail server. It is like the old "POP3 Connector" that came with Microsoft Exchange. Sometimes, there is a mailbox per user on the ISP, and a corresponding one on the local server. Other times, there is a single "catch all" or "multidrop" mailbox on the ISP. Users can still access their internal mailboxes from outside through an OpenVPN connection. The goal is that only VPN, and perhaps SSH, are accessible from the outside. We do not need to arrange any special SMTP configuration with the ISP either. This kind of mail server setup is rather different to the standard configuration. You do not normally need you own antivirus and spam filter, and you do not need to configure SSL certificates, MX or SPF DNS records. Most ISP handle that correctly and economically. Internal e-mail does not leave your LAN, and your internal SMTP server is just a relay for the external ISP SMTP server. Furthermore, most guides do not explain how to setup an autoresponder ("I am on holiday until xxx") so that users can enable theirs with the mouse. Editing configuration files over SSH is not really an option for normal users. This detail is important because it could be the only thing I need above standard e-mail. Further groupware features can be seen as nice but ultimately unnecessary luxury, and a basic shared calendar can be accomplished with a separate server like https://radicale.org/ and a calendar client like one built into Thunderbird. Hopefully, that is all I would need for a small business. Can anyone point me to the kind of guide I need? Failing that, I would need information or examples about using fetchmail, getmail or similar software with Dovecot. Good or bad experiences from you guys would also help. Each of those tools has a detailed man page, but there are many options and ways with different advantages and disadvantages. I would need a simpler guide to get started. I am aware that there are pre-packaged mail server solutions that would perhaps bring an easy-to-use autoresponder, but I haven't seen one yet that where you could tick a box like "this server is only internal and collects mail from the ISP server" during installation. Nor have I seen instructions about reconfiguring the mail server for my ISP mail scenario. I am prepared to learn more and write my own Perl scripts and/or installation guide, but it would be stupid to waste time if something easy already exists. After all, the setup I am describing (external ISP mail server + internal mail server) is not so weird. Thanks in advance, rdiez

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doveadm SSL problem with recent update
by Trever L. Adams 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

With a recent update, I started seeing this: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 14: ssl_cert: Can't open file /etc/letsencrypt/live/SERVER/fullchain.pem: Permission denied 1 4 * * * vmail /usr/bin/doveadm expunge -A mailbox MAILBOXINQUESTION savedbefore 1w is one of the crontab entries I am seeing this for. Is there an option to keep doveadm from trying to use the ssl cert from that configuration file? I do not want to have the vmail user having access to the pem cert. Thank you. Trever

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Newbie question about replication
by Piotr Auksztulewicz 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

Hi, I am a long-time dovecot user/admin for my family mail server, but I had ventured into configuring replication only recently and I am not sure about how it should work and what are the good practices. My intent for replication was to have another instance to switch to in a short time if something fails. I have daily backups, but it will take much more time to rebuild and restore than just to switch to a good instance while taking time to restore the bad one. The setup seems to work just fine from IMAP client point of view (minus sieve scripts - but I have worked it around as I am not yet ready to upgrade dovecot beyond what's in stable Debian at the moment). I have my clients configured to access instance A exclusively; instance B is just sitting around with no clients routinely connected. Also only instance A is receiving deliveries from both my primary and secondary MTAs. I have some doubt however if this is the right thing to do and if it is correct from the dovecot server point of view. I have observed my mail storage directories on both instances and have noticed that they diverge a little over time - the instance B not having all the updates. However the moment I connect another client to instance B and log in as a particular user, the state on instance B springs to the correct state and I see the same content on both clients, and the storage directories become identical as well. I am afraid that, if instance A fails, I would not have the current state on instance B. Is there anything I should have done differently? Here is dovecot -n output of instance A. Instance B config is symmetrical with imap1/2 hostnames switched. FYI: actual domain is substituted for privacy. mail.mydomain.net is an internal subdomain with private IP addresses. Instances of dovecot are containerized with access to internal virtual bridge on which MTAs and supporting processes are present as well. The access from outside is provided by port forwarding/NAT, only for imaps and pop3s ports. Other ports are only internally accessible for local clients (postfix, mutt, doveadm command line tool etc.) or debug purposes. # 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 () # OS: Linux 4.19.0-9-cloud-amd64 x86_64 # Hostname: imap1.mail.mydomain.net auth_failure_delay = 3 secs auth_verbose = yes auth_worker_max_count = 5 deliver_log_format = msgid=%m; from=%f: %$ disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_password = # hidden, use -P to show it doveadm_port = 4551 first_valid_uid = 100 login_greeting = # <redacted> mail_attribute_dict = file:mail/dovecot-attributes mail_gid = 122 mail_home = /var/vmail/%u mail_location = maildir:~/mail:LAYOUT=fs:DIRNAME=.MailDir:UTF-8 mail_plugins = " notify replication" mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = 113 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext editheader vnd.dovecot.debug namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext.local driver = sql } plugin { mail_replica = tcp:imap2.mail.mydomain.net sieve = ~/.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.debug +editheader sieve_user_log = ~/log/sieve.log } pop3_fast_size_lookups = yes pop3_lock_session = yes pop3_no_flag_updates = yes pop3_save_uidl = yes protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3" replication_max_conns = 5 service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { group = root mode = 0660 user = vmail } unix_listener replication-notify { group = root mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service auth-worker { chroot = /etc/dovecot/db process_limit = 10 unix_listener auth-worker { mode = 0600 user = doveauth } user = doveauth } service auth { client_limit = 64 inet_listener sasl { address = imap1.mail.mydomain.net port = 9192 } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = doveauth } user = doveauth } service dict-async { protocol = none } service dict { protocol = none } service director { protocol = none } service doveadm { inet_listener doveadm { address = imap1.mail.mydomain.net port = 4551 } } service imap-hibernate { protocol = none } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = imap1.mail.mydomain.net port = 143 } process_limit = 30 service_count = 1 } service imap-urlauth-login { protocol = none } service imap-urlauth-worker { protocol = none } service imap-urlauth { protocol = none } service imap { chroot = /var/vmail client_limit = 15 process_limit = 30 service_count = 32 user = vmail } service indexer-worker { process_limit = 3 user = vmail } service indexer { chroot = $base_dir } service lmtp { client_limit = 1 extra_groups = group = vmail inet_listener lmtp { address = imap1.mail.mydomain.net port = 2306 } process_limit = 6 user = vmail } service log { user = $default_internal_user } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = imap1.mail.mydomain.net port = 4190 } process_limit = 3 service_count = 1 } service managesieve { chroot = /var/vmail process_limit = 3 service_count = 1 user = vmail } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } process_limit = 4 service_count = 1 } service pop3 { chroot = /var/vmail process_limit = 4 service_count = 1 user = vmail } service replicator { unix_listener replicator-doveadm { group = root mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service submission-login { protocol = none } service tcpwrap { protocol = none } ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext.local driver = sql } valid_chroot_dirs = /var/vmail /etc/dovecot/db verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " notify replication sieve" } protocol imap { imap_metadata = yes } -- Piotr "Malgond" Auksztulewicz firstname(a)lastname.net

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Re: Dovecot replication not picking up new mail in maildir
by Justin Ridge 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

On 26/10/2020 19:25, John Fawcett wrote: > On 25/10/2020 17:19, jayare~dcml at videocoding.org wrote: >> I've got a basic dovecot master-master replication setup between two >> servers (imap1 and imap2). Actions such as deleting messages or moving >> them between folders are replicated correctly and quickly. >> >> However, when new mail is delivered by postfix, replication does not >> occur until something else triggers it, such as one of the delete/move >> actions mentioned earlier. A search suggested this may be due to the >> notify plugin, but I don't see any issue with the settings. Output of >> doveconf -n: > > Hi > > is there any error in the log? > > Can you show some evidence or an example? ie some email delivery in the > master but not on the slave? > > Can you be sure to check both new and cur subdirectories on master and > slave? > > John There's precisely nothing in the log. The new mail arrives on the master, and it is as though dovecot completely ignores it for the purposes of replication. However, I think I have solved the problem by enabling LMTP and forcing postfix to go through that rather than writing to the maildir directly. Perhaps LMTP is required for replication and I just didn't realize it. End result is (I think) it is working properly. J

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imapsieve: setting imapsieve_url disables admin scripts
by Gedalya 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

Hello, The documentation says imapsieve_url "has no effect on the administrator-controlled Sieve scripts". However, when setting this item, I get lines such as: Error: imapsieve: mailbox INBOX: Failed to read /shared/imapsieve/script mailbox attribute: Mailbox attributes not enabled and that's it. imapsieve_mailboxXXX_* settings are completely ignored. Unsetting imapsieve_url makes it all work again. # 2.3.11.3 (502c39af9): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.11 (6c69c917) # OS: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian bullseye/sid xfs # Hostname: ------ auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes imapc_features = rfc822.size fetch-headers imapc_host = imap.gmail.com imapc_port = 993 imapc_ssl = imaps log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_gid = vmail mail_home = /srv/mail/domains/%d/%n mail_location = mdbox:/srv/mail/domains/%d/%n/mdbox mail_plugins = quota fts fts_solr mail_prefetch_count = 20 mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve mdbox_preallocate_space = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe autoexpunge = 30 days special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe autoexpunge = 30 days special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { fts = solr fts_autoindex = yes fts_solr = url=http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/dovecot/ fts_tika = http://127.0.0.1:9998/tika/ imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/usr/local/lib/imapsieve/report-spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/usr/local/lib/imapsieve/report-ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * imapsieve_mailbox3_before = file:/usr/local/lib/imapsieve/report-spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox3_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox3_name = Junk2 imapsieve_mailbox4_before = file:~/sieve/IMAP-Sent.sieve imapsieve_mailbox4_causes = APPEND COPY imapsieve_mailbox4_name = Sent quota = count:User quota:noenforcing quota_rule = *:storage=5120M quota_vsizes = yes sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/sieve-global/fileinto-spam.sieve sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/local/lib/imapsieve sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms } pop3_fast_size_lookups = yes pop3_no_flag_updates = yes protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3" quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = Debian-exim mode = 0660 user = Debian-exim } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = $default_internal_user } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } service_count = 0 } service imap { vsz_limit = 512 M } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = ------- port = 2525 } unix_listener lmtp { group = Debian-exim mode = 0660 user = root } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } service_count = 0 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } service_count = 0 } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/--------/fullchain.pem ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota fts fts_solr sieve ssl = no } protocol !indexer-worker { mail_vsize_bg_after_count = 100 } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota fts fts_solr sieve } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 30 mail_plugins = quota fts fts_solr imap_quota imap_sieve } protocol sieve { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 }

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imapc_port not working
by David Tildesley 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

Hi, Dovecot v2.3.7.2 on Ubuntu 18.04LTS I have configured for imap proxy to imap.gmail.com However whilst the imapc_host setting is working, imapc_port is not - it ignores the value I set and dovecot always tries to connect to gmail on port 143 (as per error log output). I have the imapc settings in the 10-mail.conf which gets loaded by dovecoat.conf Looks like a bug. Any assistance would appreciated. Regards,David.

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forwarding email with sieve of spf domains
by Marc Roos 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

Say someone has setup spf for his domain and sends an email to a user that has in roundcube enabled the sieve forward. If the message is forwarded without altering the message headers, this could result in a message being blocked or not relayed, because sending hosts ip, is not in the spf of the from: domain. Possible solutions are: - add option if enabled, it replaces the From: with that of the email address of the sieve user. (Maybe move the original sender to the Reply-To header? Maybe exception for 'internal' forward?) - Upon processing the message, check the spf records, if they are enforced, do the above, otherwise do nothing. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5228#section-4.2

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Roundcube can't receive emails
by direktor 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hello, Can someone guide me how to test the mail software? I can send emails but can't receive. I have Dovecot - telnet to 143 port says Dovecot OK. Same with port 25. I get back mail delivery problem. 550. No mail shows in Roundcube. Log files maillog shows nothing, seems empty. It's clean install. On testing Exim log I get something like this: pop3-login auth Error: passrd-file: stat (/etc/exim/domains/myserver/passwd) failed: No such file or directory So what is wrong, how to check and how to fix it? -- Sent from: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/

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Dovecot replication not picking up new mail in maildir
by jayare~dcml＠videocoding.org 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

I've got a basic dovecot master-master replication setup between two servers (imap1 and imap2). Actions such as deleting messages or moving them between folders are replicated correctly and quickly. However, when new mail is delivered by postfix, replication does not occur until something else triggers it, such as one of the delete/move actions mentioned earlier. A search suggested this may be due to the notify plugin, but I don't see any issue with the settings. Output of doveconf -n: # 2.2.36 (1f10bfa63): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 4.19.118-0-vanilla x86_64 CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core) # Hostname: imap1 disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_password = # hidden, use -P to show it first_valid_uid = 1000 haproxy_trusted_networks = 172.16.0.0/24 mail_location = maildir:~/Mail mail_plugins = zlib notify replication mailbox_list_index = yes mailbox_list_index_include_inbox = yes maildir_empty_new = yes mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { mail_replica = tcp:imap2:9943 replication_sync_timeout = 2 } protocols = imap service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { mode = 0666 user = dovecot } unix_listener replication-notify { mode = 0666 user = dovecot } } service config { unix_listener config { user = dovecot } } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 9943 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap_hpx { haproxy = yes port = 943 } } service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 unix_listener replicator-doveadm { mode = 0666 } } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = zlib notify replication } protocol imap { mail_plugins = zlib notify replication imap_zlib } I specifically tried setting the following as no and yes as they can affect notifications: mailbox_list_index = yes mailbox_list_index_include_inbox = yes maildir_empty_new = yes The other server has the same settings except obviously mail_replica = tcp:imap1:9943. Any suggestions welcome, thanks!

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dovecot-uidlist invalid data
by Maciej Milaszewski 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Hello I have a problem with Invalid data System debian10 dovecot-2.2.36.4 # 2.2.36.4 (baf9232c1): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.24.rc1 (debaa297) # OS: Linux 4.19.0-12-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10 Oct 23 15:57:52 dovecot6 dovecot: lmtp(33973,media4_js,2KEXD2Dhkl+1hAAAe3x6RQ): Error: Broken file /vmail/me/media4_js/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist line 6875: Invalid data: In debian9 - kernel-4.9.0-13 - problem exists In debian10 - kernel-4.19.0-12 - problem exist In debian8 - kernel 3.16.0-11-amd64 - problem not exists In debian9 - kernel 3.16.0-11-amd64 - problem not exists storage mount from storage NetApp storage:/vmail on /vmail type nfs (rw,noexec,noatime,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,acregmin=120,acregmax=120,acdirmin=120,acdirmax=120,hard,nocto,nordirplus,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.19.19.19,mountvers=3,mountport=635,mountproto=tcp,local_lock=none,addr=10.19.19.19) cat /etc/fstab storage:/vmail /vmail nfs rw,sec=sys,noexec,noatime,tcp,hard,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,intr,nordirplus,nfsvers=3,tcp,actimeo=120,nocto 0 0 Probably somthing in kernel or mount options. Any idea ?

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Re: Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server
by R. Diez 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

> What you are looking for would be a very advanced setup > [...] I don't think so. But we'll see! I would be happy to take a pre-packaged mail server solution like iRedMail which includes RoundCube or whatever. I just need a "easy", practical guide to reconfigure it to 1) download e-mails from a multidrop, and 2) relay external e-mail to the ISP's SMTP server. Well, at least saying it like that does not sound hard. 8-) > More importantly, most ISPs are very limited in the way of support. > [...] While that assertion is generally true, most ISPs I have seen do get the basic e-mail service right. All have a kind of "catch all" e-mail address. Level of service is normally fine for a small business. If it is not, you can always change ISP. Hardware costs are not a problem. Most small companies I have seen have a file server sitting idle most of the time. Creating a VM with VirtualBox or KVM is relatively easy. Backing the mail server up is easy too: you just copy the VM as a big file. In a small business you may need a few Gigabytes per year if you want to keep all e-mails. I have even written a script that stops a KVM virtual machine every day at 4 am, backs the big file up to a NAS, and the restarts the VM. OK, I am not actually using it, and there is room for improvement, but the basic idea would work. If the server breaks, you have some downtime and you lose some data, but not too much. Most small businesses have more downtime and more data loss for other reasons. Retention is problematic anyway even if you use an external provider. With an external provider you also have to consider data protection issues. Small businesses are often exempt from difficult legal requirements (but I am not a lawyer either). > The server would still need to be accessible publicly for email to be routed to it. That's not the case. It hasn't been for an Exchange Server with "POP3 Connector" that I have seen. And it will not be the case with a Dovecote that fetches e-mail from the ISP over multidrop. > [...] > things unexpectedly and you still have maintenance regarding deliverability > (i.e. reputation, dkim/spf/dmarc) and will still be paying additional Not applicable. Reputation, SPF, etc. is handled by the ISP. Those are standard things, a commodity nowadays. > [...] > Webform attacks are rising so there would Not applicable. No web interface exposed. Only accessible over a VPN connection. > [...] > This includes the workaround.org guide which you'll inevitably run across. > That guide was designed for a personal server, its a good step forward > but there are many more requirements needed for business. That is true. On the other hand, you may be overestimating the needs of a small business. Some of them still use Hotmail addresses! > [...] > Stakeholders will need to include all emails related to it at the final signing. > [...] I am thinking of a small business here, where most things are rather more informal. Something along the lines of "I would do it this way, but if you need something professional, I am out of my depth, because I am not actually an admin at all, you know". That's how real life often works. 8-) In other words, I am looking for a workaround.org guide for multidrop. Just for fun! Regards, rdiez

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Panic mbox_sync_handle_header
by Igor Russkih 25 Oct '20

25 Oct '20

Hello all, I'm getting a very often panic on my local dovecot setup when accessing some of the local folders. Error message is always Oct 25 14:34:50 imap(irusskikh): Panic: file mbox-sync.c: line 665 (mbox_sync_handle_header): assertion failed: (mail_ctx->mail.from_offset + move_diff != 1 && mail_ctx->mail.from_offset + move_diff != 2) Oct 25 14:34:50 imap(irusskikh): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xa05a2) [0x7f05e40005a2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xa069a) [0x7f05e400069a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f05e3f901d8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x8b1d7) [0x7f05e432b1d7] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mbox_sync+0x48) [0x7f05e432bbf8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mbox_storage_sync_init+0x3b) [0x7f05e432bd3b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync_init+0x44) [0x7f05e42eb704] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync+0x37) [0x7f05e42eb7a7] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_get_status+0x31) [0x7f05e43663c1] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_get_status+0x31) [0x7f05e42ebb51] -> dovecot/imap(imap_status_get+0x77) [0x7f05e4c25017] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_status+0x19e) [0x7f05e4c171de] -> dovecot/imap(command_exec+0x5c) [0x7f05e4c1ce0c] -> dovecot/imap(+0x1b382) [0x7f05e4c1b382] -> dovecot/imap(+0x1b41c) [0x7f05e4c1b41c] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x18d) [0x7f05e4c1b7dd] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0xac) [0x7f05e4c1bd2c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x52) [0x7f05e4016642] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x12e) [0x7f05e4017cee] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x36) [0x7f05e40166d6] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7f05e4016888] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f05e3f9aa83] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x329) [0x7f05e4c0e139] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0x7f05e3b81b97] -> dovecot/imap(_start+0x2a) [0x7f05e4c0e2ca] Oct 25 14:34:50 imap(irusskikh): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 12785 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) # 2.2.33.2 (d6601f4ec): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.21 (92477967) # OS: Linux 4.4.0-17763-Microsoft x86_64 Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS Running now on WSL, but have the same badness on generic ubuntu setup as well. Could somebody guide me if thats something known, or me doing bad things? I'm not on the list, so please CC me. Igor

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dovecot.lda-dupes
by ＠lbutlr 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

What is the purpose and/or use of the dovecot.lda-dupes file that (sometimes) exists in the home folder for each user? I've seen some posts about issues with the file or losing track of the location, etc, but nothing on what the file actually does or how it could be useful. I assume it is just a dovecot file that helps not keep track of … I guess duplicate mails? It looks like it contains the message-ids and email destinations for certain, but not all, duplicate emails, but in a binary format. -- "The good news: Hadron Collider went live and did not destroy ALL reality. Bad: I'm the only one who remembers President Gore's 2 terms." --Andy Ihnatko

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net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied
by mj 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

Hi, We are getting very occasional messags from dovecot: > net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied Over the last week, the message appeared five times. (on a mail server with over 100 users, to that's basically almost never) doveconf -n below > # 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 () > # OS: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.6 xfs snip... > service stats { > unix_listener stats-reader { > group = vmail > mode = 0660 > user = vmail > } > unix_listener stats-writer { > group = vmail > mode = 0660 > user = vmail > } > } and the on-disk permissions are: > root@dovecot:~# ls -l /var/run/dovecot/*stat* > srw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats > prw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats-mail > prw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats-user > srw-rw---- 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/stats-reader > srw-rw---- 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct 6 00:25 /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer We're not sure what makes the Permission denied error happen... Anyone with an idea? MJ

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Sieve_before
by ＠lbutlr 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

So, this is what I did instead of default_sieve: sieve_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/bcc.sieve sieve_before2 = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/filespam.sieve # cat /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/bcc.sieve require ["variables", "copy"]; if address :matches ["To", "Cc"] ["*@*."] { redirect :copy "backup+295.${1}.${2}@. . ."; } # cat /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/filespam.sieve require ["fileinto", "imap4flags"]; if header :contains "X-spam-flag" "YES" { fileinto :flags "\Seen" "Junk"; } The bcc.sieve file is generated each day with a little script to put in the day of the year, so that for the backup user the folder structure for backups for my list mail is, for example: 295 kremels kreme <messages> otheruser kreme <messages> And tomorrow new folders for 296 will be created. So far, I think it's working. 🤞 -- C code. C code run. Run, code, run.

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antispam plugin again
by Maciej Milaszewski 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Hello I have a problem with migrating dovecot from 2.2.36 to 2.3.8 - everything works fine, but a problem with migrating anti-spam plugins New dovecot 2.3.x has implemented own antispam-plugin like: ---- new from dovecot 2.3.8 ----- # From elsewhere to Spam folder imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Spam imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/usr/lib64/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve # From Spam folder to elsewhere imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Spam imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/usr/lib64/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/sieve sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment #setting_name = value sieve_global_dir = /etc/sieve_global sieve_max_redirects = 20 sieve_vacation_use_original_recipient = yes expire = SPAM #expire_dict = proxy::expire expire_dict = redis:host=127.0.0.1:prefix=expire/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In older version dovecot I use antispam_plugin + simple script: ---------------- old from 2.2.36.4 + antispam plugin ---------- ... antispam_backend = MAILTRAIN antispam_mail_spam = --spam antispam_mail_notspam = --ham antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/local/bin/spam-learn.sh antispam_pipe_tmpdir = /tmp antispam_spam_pattern_ignorecase = spam;inbox.spam;Unwanted antispam_trash_pattern_ignorecase = trash;Deleted *;Junk*;kosz antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_verbose_debug = 1 ------------------------- How do I change the bash file to make it work like on the old system (I use pyzor) like: cat /usr/local/bin/spam-learn.sh #!/bin/sh date >> /tmp/spam.txt echo $@ >> /tmp/spam.txt if [ "x$1" = "x--spam" ]; then /usr/bin/pyzor report >> /tmp/spam.txt 2>&1 fi if [ "x$1" = "x--ham" ]; then /usr/bin/pyzor whitelist >> /tmp/ham.txt 2>&1 fi

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Error: Mailbox INBOX: Transaction commit failed: FTS transaction commit failed: transaction context
by Graham Leggett 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

Hi all, While trying to reindex a large mailbox to take advantage of Apache Tika, dovecot logs the following message: Error: Mailbox INBOX: Transaction commit failed: FTS transaction commit failed: transaction context The message is vague in that a transaction has failed, but nowhere does it say what the transaction boundaries are. Did the transaction affect the indexing of one message, or many messages? Did the indexing of the whole mailbox get aborted and rolled back, or just a single message? A wide question. How do I ensure that my shiny new dovecot index gets completely reindexed? How do I know if dovecot is indexing just the new messages, and ignoring the existing messages? Regards, Graham —

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Best prometheus exporter for Dovecot 2.3 with the new metrics/stats module
by Sidsel Jensen 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

Hi ppl. I am trying to locate the best prometheus exporter for use with Dovecot 2.3 in connection with the new metrics/stats module. Any pointers in the right direction will be appreciated - seems like there is a bunch out there which all works with the old stats module. Anybody have something “in the works” for 2.3 ? Kind Regards, Sidsel Jensen

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Testing with imaptest to non existing folder makes imap service crash
by Marc Roos 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

FWIIW I had this message still in drafts /usr/bin/imaptest - append=100,0 logout=0 host=xxx port=143 user=xxx pass=xxx seed=100 secs=1 clients=1 mbox=64kb.mbox box=inbox/test msgs=100000 And inbox/test does not exist, results in: Fatal: master: service(imap): child 20282 killed with signal 11 (core dumped)

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Understanding matches in sieve
by ＠lbutlr 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

RFC 5229 gives the following example: if address :matches ["To", "Cc"] ["coyote(a)**.com", "wile(a)**.com"] { # ${0} is the matching address # ${1} is always the empty string # ${2} is part of the domain name ("ACME.Example") fileinto "INBOX.business.${2}"; stop; And I do not understand why ${1} is always the empty string. In this example, ${1} is the part before the < so using ${2} makes sense. if header :matches "List-ID" "*<*@*" { fileinto "INBOX.lists.${2}"; stop; } I am laso not sure why the first example used **.com instead of *.com (or is that the reason $1 doesn't contain anything because it is the first * of **?). If so, my familiarity with the bash syntax for ** may have been my undoing. If I had # Given to kremels(a)kreme.com if address :matches ["To", "Cc"] ["*(a)*.*"] # ${1} would contain "kremels" # ${2} would contain "kreme" # ${3} would contain "com" Yes? -- "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "Sure, Brain, but how are we going to find chaps our size?"

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Users unable to login
by jesus san miguel 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

I have certain power users who can't login through POP3 or IMAP from their computer while being receiving mail on their cell phones (pop3), despite pop3_lock_session = no Am I hitting some other limit? I don't see any error in dovecot.log but a generic failed login: Oct 21 10:31:44 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 2 secs): user=<someuser(a)somedomain.com>, method=DIGEST-MD5, rip=::1, lip=::1, secured, session=<XSVQLSqy2IYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Running version is 2.3.11.3

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Restrictions on default.sieve
by ＠lbutlr 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Are there actions that default.sieve cannot take? I tried adding redirect :copy "backup+foo(a)local.example.com" and… nothing. No errors I can find, but also no mail being redirected. I also tried # there must be 'from' in the received headers if header :contains "received" "from" { redirect :copy "backup+foo(a)local.example.com" } And if header :index 1 :contains "received" "from" { redirect :copy "backup+foo(a)local.example.com" } But still, no mail in .foo for the backup user (yes, dovecot is setup to autofile +address into mailboxes, and that works). -- You couldn't say, 'I had orders.' You couldn't say, 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. ... Not Thou Shalt Not. Say I Will Not. --Feet of Clay

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A user's last access time
by Victor Sudakov 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Dear Colleagues, Is there a file or directory within a user's Maildir, whose date of modification or access indicates the last time the user accessed his/her E-mail via IMAP or POP3? I'd like to figure out the time a user last logged in into his/her mail account, not the last time a mail was delivered to the INBOX. This information is probably available in the log, but a file which is touched each time a user accesses his/her mail, is more convenient. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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Corrupted dbox file + assertion failure
by tim＠linux-daus.de 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Hi all, a dsync failed due a corrupted mdbox file. Force-resync throws the same error. (Dovecot 2.3.9.2) Is there any change to fix/repair the file? dsync-local(LOCALPART(a)DOMAIN.TLD)<MBF5EUC8j1/FfQAAkqONGQ>: Warning: fscking index file /var/mail/12/DOMAIN.TLD/242/LOCALPART/mdbox/storage/dovecot.map.index dsync-local(LOCALPART(a)DOMAIN.TLD)<MBF5EUC8j1/FfQAAkqONGQ>: Warning: mdbox /var/mail/12/DOMAIN.TLD/242/LOCALPART/mdbox/storage: rebuilding indexes dsync-local(LOCALPART(a)DOMAIN.TLD)<MBF5EUC8j1/FfQAAkqONGQ>: Error: Corrupted dbox file /var/mail/12/DOMAIN.TLD/242/LOCALPART/mdbox/storage/m.6 (around offset=5191109): msg header has bad magic value dsync-local(LOCALPART(a)DOMAIN.TLD)<MBF5EUC8j1/FfQAAkqONGQ>: Panic: file dbox-file-fix.c: line 219 (dbox_file_find_next_magic): assertion failed: (ret == -1) dsync-local(LOCALPART(a)DOMAIN.TLD)<MBF5EUC8j1/FfQAAkqONGQ>: Error: Raw backtrace: #0 t_askpass[0x7fbf4218b5f0] -> #1 backtrace_append[0x7fbf4218b860] -> #2 backtrace_get[0x7fbf4218b9c0] -> #3 i_syslog_error_handler[0x7fbf42196840] -> #4 default_fatal_handler[0x7fbf42196910] -> #5 i_fatal[0x7fbf420ec3b7] -> #6 dbox_attachment_file_get_stream[0x7fbf424c1010] -> #7 dbox_file_fix[0x7fbf424c1540] -> #8 mdbox_get_setting_parser_info[0x7fbf424b9290] -> #9 mdbox_storage_rebuild_in_context[0x7fbf424b99a0] -> #10 mdbox_sync_begin[0x7fbf424bbd00] -> #11 mdbox_sync[0x7fbf424bc730] -> #12 mdbox_storage_sync_init[0x7fbf424bc7f0] -> #13 mailbox_sync_init[0x7fbf4249ee80] -> #14 mailbox_sync[0x7fbf4249ef70] -> #15 dsync_brain_master_send_mailbox[0x55d6521dcaa0] -> #16 dsync_brain_run[0x55d6521daae0] -> #17 dsync_brain_run[0x55d6521db360] -> #18 dsync_ibc_has_pending_data[0x55d6521f0840] -> #19 io_loop_call_io[0x7fbf421b0490] -> #20 io_loop_handler_run_internal[0x7fbf421b1e20] -> #21 io_loop_handler_run[0x7fbf421b05c0] -> #22 io_loop_run[0x7fbf421b0810] -> #23 who_line_filter_match[0x55d6521bfa00] -> #24 doveadm_dsync_main[0x55d6521c2280] -> #25 doveadm_mail_single_user[0x55d6521c3090] -> #26 doveadm_mail_try_run[0x55d6521c3900] -> #27 main[0x55d6521b2030] -> #28 __libc_start_main[0x7fbf417c61f0] -> #29 _start[0x55d6521b2670] -> #30 [no start/end information] Regards, Tim

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doveadm http api hign performance?
by hfh＠cndns.com 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Does doveadm http api have high execution efficiency? I have a program that directly calls doveadm http api. Will there be an efficiency problem if a large number of users call it? hfh(a)cndns.com

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How to move/reorganise existing e-mails to yearly subfolders
by R. Diez 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Hi all: I am new to e-mail servers and I am evaluating Dovecot. Not really the best combination. 8-) I am trying to find a balance between legal data retention requirements and online mailbox size. I do not want huge online mailboxes, as doing offline, rotating data backups could then take forever (among other reasons). I would rather avoid online (cloud) backups (data protection etc.). If I set a mailbox size limit, users will have to delete old mails by themselves. Or I could somehow script the deletion of attachments from old e-mails, as attachments are usually the main cause of huge mailboxes. Incidentally, can anyone point me to an easy way to achieve this? Preferably over with IMAP, otherwise with Dovecot tools. With regards to legal data retention (which I am no expert about either), I thought I could use some Postfix BCC feature I heard about in order to copy all incoming and outgoing e-mails to a single "data retention" mailbox. Or maybe several of them. I could then archive e-mails from that mailbox on a yearly basis. I would like to automatically organise e-mails inside that mailbox into subfolders like this: 2019/alice 2019/bob 2020/alice 2020/bob That is: [year]/[username] With such a folder structure, it is easier to see what is going on. Is there a tool that can reorganise existing e-mails into such a folder structure? I found some tools on the Internet to backup and export mails from IMAP to IMAP or maildir destinations. But I could not find a tool that just reorganises (moves) e-mails in such a manner inside an existing mailbox, maybe with a user-defined pattern for the destination folders. I guess moving e-mails around on the same mailbox would be much faster than exporting and reimporting them in some clever way. I could always write a Perl script, but that takes time. Such a tool may already exist. Or perhaps somebody could mention a similar, good-written script I can use as a starting point. I am sure there are many small gotchas to avoid. At the moment, I am only confident with Perl and Java. Maybe JavaScript. It would be best to reorganise the e-mails over IMAP. This way, I am independent of the e-mail server. But a Dovecot-specific solution would also be helpful. I could use such a reorganisation tool not just for archiving or data retention purposes, but to reorganise other mailboxes too, like my personal mailbox. I would rather have a script. Clicking around in Thunderbird does not scale. I have seen that you can use a "sieve" in Dovecot to achieve this. But I guess that would only apply to new e-mails. And that would probably apply just to incoming mails, and not to outgoing ones. If I migrate from the existing e-mail servers, the e-mails will probably be mass-imported without going through any "sieve", right? Besides, I already have a few huge mailboxes with many years of e-mails, stored in a different e-mail server, and it would be nice to be able to reorganise them as they are. That way, I could archive the existing older e-mails before migrating to Dovecot, which would reduce the disk size and the export/import time for the migration. Many thanks in advance, rdiez

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modify dovecot user/pass_queries to deliver to local aliases via dovecot submission, with postfixadmin/sqlite3 tables?
by PGNet Dev 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

I run dovecot + postfix with postfixadmin/sqlite3 I'm set up for all/only virtual users. All outbound mail submits via dovecot submission port. My current dovecot pass/user db queries are password_query = \ SELECT \ username as user, \ password, \ '/data/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir' as userdb_home, \ 5000 as userdb_uid, \ 5000 as userdb_gid \ FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' user_query = \ SELECT \ '/data/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir' as home, \ 5000 AS uid, \ 5000 AS gid, \ ('dirsize:storage=' || quota) AS quota \ FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' It works perfectly for real addresses. I've setup an alias address, e.g. REAL: realuser(a)example.com ALIAS: aliasuser(a)example.com INBOUND email to the ALIAS address -- from the 'net, delivered from postfix via LMTP to dovecot backend -- works fine. BUT any/all mail from local users TO the ALIAS addr fail at userDB lookup 2020-10-20 12:26:54 lmtp(aliasuser(a)example.com)<rI49JP45j19D8QAA+IOfAw>: Debug: auth-master: userdb lookup(aliasuser(a)example.com): auth USER input: 2020-10-20 12:26:54 lmtp(aliasuser(a)example.com)<rI49JP45j19D8QAA+IOfAw>: Debug: auth-master: userdb lookup(aliasuser(a)example.com): Userdb lookup failed What mods are required to the password_query &/or user_query in order to FIX the local->aliasuser mail lookup and delivery ... and ideally not break the rest of delivery?

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lib22_push_notification_lua_plugin.so: undefined symbol: dlua_dovecot_register
by Mrinal Sharma 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

I am trying to use Lua Notification plugin for Event push But saw this error. Can anyone help me on this issue. Error In the logs when I receive an Email is given below. ========================================== Oct 15 21:55:41 master: Info: Dovecot v2.3.11.3 (502c39af9) starting up for imap, lmtp Oct 15 21:56:51 lmtp(36): Fatal: Couldn't load required plugin /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib22_push_notification_lua_plugin.so: dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib22_push_notification_lua_plugin.so: undefined symbol: dlua_dovecot_register ====================================================================== # dovecot -n # 2.3.11.3 (502c39af9): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 4.19.128-microsoft-standard x86_64 Debian 10.6 9p # Hostname: 238afcc76ba9 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain oauthbearer xoauth2 auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_password = # hidden, use -P to show it log_path = /dev/stdout mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/data/imap_store/%n mail_plugins = " quota" namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Greeting { auto = create } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = no special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-oauth2.plain.conf.ext driver = oauth2 mechanisms = plain login } plugin { push_lua_url = http://localhost:5678/mailnotify push_notification_driver = lua:file=/notify.lua quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=5MB quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full quota_status_success = DUNNO } protocols = imap lmtp service doveadm { inet_listener http { port = 80 } } service health-check { executable = script -p health-check.sh inet_listener health-check { port = 5001 } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = * port = 24 } process_min_avail = 5 } ssl = no userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " quota quota notify push_notification push_notification_lua" postmaster_address = postmaster@domainname } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " quota notify push_notification" } protocol imap { imap_metadata = yes mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota quota" }

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Problem with LDAP-query (Active Directory) on filter by memberOf
by Luca Bertoncello 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

Hi list! We have a Dovecot 2.3.4 (from Debian 10 repository) that should connect to our AD to authenticate the users. It works, but now we would like to restrict using IMAP to all users in the Group "Funktion - E-Mail-Konto". So I changed the query from: (&(sAMAccountName=%n)(objectClass=user)(homeMDB=*)) to (&(sAMAccountName=%n)(objectClass=user)(homeMDB=*)(memberOf=CN=Funktion - E-Mail-Konto,OU=Funktionen,OU=People,DC=ad,DC=company,DC=org)) The baseDN is DC=ad,DC=company,DC=org With ldapsearch I can get all users and their attributes, but Dovecot fail with this error: Oct 20 15:57:10 mailgw02 dovecot: auth: Error: ldap(testuser,80.187.107.28,<eLf0mhqyLwlQu2sc>): ldap_search(base=dc=ad,dc=company,dc=org filter=(&(samAccountName=testuser)(objectClass=user)(homeMDB=*)(memberOf=CN=Funktion - E-Mail-Konto,OU=Funktionen,OU=People,DC=ad,DC=company,DC=org))) failed: Operations error I didn't found any explanation for this error... Can someone help me? The user used for the connection is the same in Dovecot and ldapsearch. Thanks a lot Luca Bertoncello (lucabert(a)lucabert.de)

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Dovecot docker auto-responder - delegate to external SMTP
by Thomas Pronold 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

Hi all, I have dockerized my dovecot setup. Everything works fine besides auto-responder using sieve. Issue is that the my dovecot docker image does NOT come with a SMTP which could be used for outgoing mail. My SMTP setup (postfix) is in another image/container. I want to keep it that way, so that dovecot and postfix have separate images. So basically I have 2 containers running in the same internal network: a) dovecot IP 192.168.10.11 b) postfix IP 192.168.10.22 How do I have to configure dovecot so that it delegates all outgoing (autoresponder) mails to the SMTP on IP 192.168.10.22. The postfix image is configured in a way that certain IPs are allowed to send mails without authentication. So on postfix side I am set. Currently I did a quickfix: I added postfix to dovecot image and configured postfix to use the relayhost 192.168.10.22 for mailing. This works, still I would prefer having the dovecot image not containing an postfix SMTP. Thanks Tom

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Unable to access mail via Outlook
by Odhiambo Washington 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

Hola, Dovecot- 2.3.11.3 with mdbox. I have a situation where I can access (view) the e-mails when I use a web-based IMAP client, but NOT M$ Outlook (configured for IMAP). Is there an easy way to solve this? When I send an e-mail to the mailbox address, I can see it on the webmail, but not on Outlook. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)

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Using NFS to extend local email storage
by Maciej Kokociński 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

We are running our IMAP mail server on a VPS in the cloud (dovecot+exim+horde webmail), and we are using our on-premises NAS for daily backups through custom rsync scripts (which work well with maildir). There is a lot of storage available on the NAS, while not so much on the VPS. Since, we often get downtime on-premises due to power outages we cannot move the mail server on-premises (though the outages do not interfere too much with the backups). Additional storage in the cloud is at a premium as we would like to avoid further increasing costs. Now, my idea is to set up an NFS volume on the NAS, and configure the cloud-based server as the client. I would like to store only the most recent emails on the main server, and keep the whole data set on the NAS. Naturally I have read the dovecot wiki concerning NFS, and I have browsed this mailing list's archive for answers, but I still have many concerns. Ideally, I would like to use as much storage as possible from the main server, so that only really old emails need to be fetched over the network if requested over IMAP. Also I would like the search function to work regardless whether the NAS is available or not. I wonder if anybody tried a similar configuration before. My concerns are: - should I use NFS volume directly and configure FS-Cache, or should I configure a cache volume separately using e.g. bcache or some other tool? - how to configure the cache to keep as many files and metadata locally? - is it possible to fine tune the cache so it always keeps all the newly created/modified files locally? - is it possible to tune the cache so it keeps at least n files for each user (each maildir)? - will it work fine if I put NFS traffic into an ssh tunnel for security? - will dovecot freeze/crash when the NFS volume disconnects or is temporarily unavailable, what will actually happen in such circumstances? - will the search function work when the NFS volume is unavailable? (I also plan to use solr in the future) - what happens when the main server crashes and then recovers from the NFS share? is the share guaranteed to be consistent? I hope that I have not asked too many questions for a single message... ;) I would really appreciate any help, because I am rather a newbie in dovecot administration, and it overwhelms me. Perhaps, what I am trying to achieve is not the way to go. I am open to suggestions. Best regards, Maciej

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Strange permissions error - Failed to stat sieve storage path
by Graham Leggett 18 Oct '20

18 Oct '20

Hi all I have dovecot-lda set up to run as vmail:vmail, with some sieve scripts in /var/lib/dovecot/sieve. The sieve scripts fail to be found with the following (detailed and very helpful) error message: Oct 14 16:13:33 gatekeeper dovecot[8109]: lda(minfrin(a)example.com)<8109><ZJ9nMo0Hh1+tHwAAKdTwig>: Error: sieve: file storage: Failed to stat sieve storage path: stat(/var/lib/dovecot/sieve/vacation.sieve) failed: Permission denied (euid=387(vmail) egid=387(vmail) missing +x perm: /var/lib/dovecot, we're not in group 97(dovecot), dir owned by 97:97 mode=0750) In this case, the user vmail is a member of the dovecot group: [root@gatekeeper dovecot]# cat /etc/group | grep vmail mail:x:12:postfix,vmail,opendmarc,opendkim,openarc dovecot:x:97:vmail vmail:x:387: [root@gatekeeper dovecot]# sudo su - vmail Last login: Wed Oct 14 16:15:48 SAST 2020 on pts/0 [vmail@gatekeeper ~]$ wc -c /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/vacation.svbin 530 /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/vacation.svbin Does dovecot-lda do anything odd with respect to group memberships? Regards, Graham —

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Problem reading SSL key
by Tech Support 18 Oct '20

18 Oct '20

All; I'm trying to setup dovecot to use SSL, but I'm getting an error message in the logs. I'm getting the error imap-login: Fatal: Couldn't parse private ssl_key. I'm using a commercial cert so I know that the .crt and .key files themselves are not the problem. I have them configured like so: ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/mail_acmewidgets_net.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/mail_acmewidgets_net.key The crt is mode 444 and the key is mode 400. Since the log is not giving any other information, I don't know what the problem is. Any insight at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks; Frank

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backup of namespace, is still looking at (touching?) other namespace?
by Marc Roos 17 Oct '20

17 Oct '20

When I am doing this: doveadm backup -f -n inbox -F /root/backup-accounts.txt tcp:mailxx.local:542 I am getting an error on the distributed storage, which I exactly did not wanted to be touched. doveadm(testaccount): Error: remote(mailxx.local:542): User initialization failed: Namespace 'Archive/': stat(/home/mail-archive/testaccount/Archive/mailboxes) failed: Permission denied (euid=xxx(testaccount) egid=xx(xxxxx) missing +x perm: /home/mail-archive, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0700) doveadm(testaccount): Error: remote(mailxx.local:542): dsync-server: User init failed doveadm(testaccount): Error: Failed to start remote dsync-server command: Remote exit_code=75

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how to set smtp-client -> submission_relay_host for IPv4 only?
by PGNet Dev 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

In dovecot conf, for submission relay, I've config'd submission_relay_host = lan.example.com submission_relay_port = 465 hostname -- not IP -- must be used, to inform relay for cert verification match. Here, host lan.example.com lan.example.com has address 10.0.1.47 lan.example.com has IPv6 address fd80:25:01::47 The receiving smtp relay listens only on IPv4 -- no IPv6 service, telnet 10.0.1.47 465 Trying 10.0.1.47... Connected to 10.0.1.47. Escape character is '^]'. telnet -6 fd80:25:01::47 465 Trying fd80:25:01::47... telnet: connect to address fd80:25:01::47: Connection refused On the lan, all boxes are set, in "/etc/gai.conf", for IPv6 to take precedence over IPv4. On submission to dovecot submission port, after login/auth, dovecot smtp-client subsequently connects to the relay lan.example.com:465 IPv6 1st, & fails 2020-10-15 12:51:45 submission(mua(a)example.com)<8OJP+rqxuvho7Z95>: Error: smtp-client: conn lan.example.com:465 ([fd80:25:01::47]:465) [1]: connect(lan.example.com:465) failed: Connection refused then falls back to IPv4, and continues OK 2020-10-15 12:51:45 submission(mua(a)example.com)<8OJP+rqxuvho7Z95>: Info: Successfully relayed message: from=<test(a)remote.example.com>, size=84, id=LMe...Aw, nrcpt=1, reply=`247 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 4CC0KY1wXNzWf93' not fatal, but wasted effort, and noise in the logs. how/where do I configure (just) the dovecot smtp-client -> submission_relay_host to only connect IPv4?

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Dovecot won't accept IMAP TLS 1 connections from older devices [SOLVED]
by Brian Martin 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

I've spent days scouring the Internet and trying various solutions on a problem with my Dovecot installation, so I thought I'd share what I learned in hopes of saving other people a lot of time. The dedicated Dovecot hands will know all of the following already. This is for those of us that have to cover a lot of bases. I upgraded my mail server from Ubuntu 18.04.1 to Ubuntu 20.04.1, and found that older Mac-books and iPads (and probably other devices) could no longer establish IMAP connections to Dovecot. Dovecot logged: SSL routines:tls_early_post_process_client_hello:unsupported protocol and TCP/IP traces showed that it dropped the connection after the client's initial HELLO. I tested what kinds of connections Dovecot would accept with (for example): openssl s_client -tls1_1 -connect localhost:993 # Test whether TLSv1.1 is accepted - received "unsupported protocol" message. Searching showed that Dovecot has a parameter "ssl_min_protocol", which is documented as defaulting to TLSv1. Nevertheless I explicitly set it to TLSv1 with no effect. This was a red herring. I spent a long time looking to see if Dovecot had a bug in handling this newish parameter, etc. Eventually I came across one posting regarding a web server, that told me the OpenSSL libraries that Dovecot and lots of other packages use has a single configuration file for the entire system. In Ubuntu 20.04 it defaults to requiring TLSv1.2 or above. Changing the configuration for OpenSSL affects everything on the system using the library. I changed the file, restarted Dovecot, and it immediately accepted TLSv1 connections. Obviously I'd prefer to maintain the improved security of TLSv1.2, but in my case it was better to continue providing mail service at a lower security level than to deny service to some users until they upgraded their personal devices. You'll need to make your on decision on that score. The file to change is (on Ubuntu, at least) /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf. The change consists of adding a line of code in the initial section that invokes several new sections later: In the initial section I added: openssl_conf = default_conf Then at the bottom of the file I added: [default_conf] ssl_conf = ssl_sect [ssl_sect] system_default = system_default_sect [system_default_sect] MinProtocol = TLSv1 CipherString = DEFAULT@SECLEVEL=1 There is an alternative approach that I have read of but not tested. Basically you can create a new file elsewhere with the customized content, and then set an environmental variable (OPENSSL_CONF) just before launching Dovecot that points to your new file. This way, only Dovecot is using downgraded security. Since my mail server is a dedicated system and I didn't want to muck with the Dovecot start-up environment, I didn't feel the need to go that route. So all my digging into why Dovecot wouldn't accept TLSv1 connections and how to change it were completely on the wrong path. It would be nice if Dovecot could log a message when its ssl_min_protocol is set lower than what OpenSSL will accept, but Dovecot may not be able to tell what OpenSSL is doing. In any case, those are the symptoms, the real problem, and how to fix it. Good luck, and thanks to Matt Caswell for posting the answer that I eventually found. Ref: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1233186/ubuntu-20-04-how-to-set-lower-ssl-s…

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Auro expunge
by ＠lbutlr 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

When using autoexpunge = 14 days in, for example. The trash of junk folders, does that physically remove the messages from disk or simply mark them to be removed and some other action needs to be taken? I ask because my mail server crapped out today and I discovered a Junk folder with 490,000 messages in it, and the sa-spamd and mariadb processes died a horrible death. Haven't had time to track down what was going on, but there were definitely messages in that junk folder from 2019 (though, of course, they may have been added within the last 14 days, I can't verify that as my solution was to remove the folder and recreate a new empty maildir). -- I don't believe there's a power in the 'verse can stop Kaylee from bein' cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct-tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.

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RE: dovecot Digest, Vol 210, Issue 27
by webadmin＠exalt.com.au 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

I am investigating whether dovecot(https://github.com/dovecot/core/) handles case insensitive Message-ID headers as per RFC. I can't raise a support issue with cPanel team (https://tickets.cpanel.net/review/login.cgi) as that needs an paid account with them. There may be an issue with the CPANEL/WHM DKIM module. Is the source code online? Rob

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How do I enable sieve trace debugging?
by Graham Leggett 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Hi all, I want to enable trace debugging for sieve. Most specifically, I want to know what sieve scripts are running, and whether they’re doing anything. I cannot get anything other than dead silence from dovecot with respect to sieve. I have tried the same as asked in this question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/550618/dovecot-sieve-trace-does-no… In my case, the config looks like this: ## TRACE DEBUGGING # Trace debugging provides detailed insight in the operations performed by # the Sieve script. These settings apply to both the LDA Sieve plugin and the # IMAPSIEVE plugin. # # WARNING: On a busy server, this functionality can quickly fill up the trace # directory with a lot of trace files. Enable this only temporarily and as # selective as possible. # The directory where trace files are written. Trace debugging is disabled if # this setting is not configured or if the directory does not exist. If the # path is relative or it starts with "~/" it is interpreted relative to the # current user's home directory. sieve_trace_dir = /tmp/sieve-trace # The verbosity level of the trace messages. Trace debugging is disabled if # this setting is not configured. Possible values are: # # "actions" - Only print executed action commands, like keep, # fileinto, reject and redirect. # "commands" - Print any executed command, excluding test commands. # "tests" - Print all executed commands and performed tests. # "matching" - Print all executed commands, performed tests and the # values matched in those tests. sieve_trace_level = actions,command,tests,matching # Enables highly verbose debugging messages that are usually only useful for # developers. sieve_trace_debug = yes This looks sensible, syslog would be a great place to log, but nothing related to sieve appears. [root@gatekeeper dovecot]# doveadm log find Looking for log files from /var/log Debug: /var/log/maillog Info: /var/log/maillog Warning: /var/log/maillog Error: /var/log/maillog Fatal: /var/log/maillog Regards, Graham —

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Changing IMAP separator - does it break things?
by Victor Sudakov 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Dear Colleagues, I am using Dovecot 2.3.4.1 with maildirs. Just found out that MacOS Mail clients cannot work with nested folders, presumably because the MacOS Mail does not understand "." as the IMAP separator. Other clients (ThunderBird, Sylpheed, mutt) work fine. Do you think I can change the hierarchy separator in the "inbox" namespace without breaking other clients and the mail layout on disk, losing mail etc? I don't want to break mail for 50 people just to please one Mac Mail user. The users are advanced developers actively using mail sorting rules, nested folders etc. My `doveconf -n` is here: https://termbin.com/w1wd -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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