July 2013 - dovecot - dovecot.org

[Dovecot] Dovecot Virtual Folders... could these be managed by a/the Client?
by Charles Marcus 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hi all/Timo, I was thinking about Thunderbirds ability to create Virtual folders allowing you to have many different views of your messages... The downside though, is you only see these in Thunderbird. I know that dovecot supports server side virtual folders: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual But I'm wondering about the possibility to manage these from the client side... For example, would it be possible to create an extension in Thunderbird that allowed the user to manage these (create, edit the filters for, delete, rename, etc)? Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Gab IIpop 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

>From the documentation, virtual users seem like a good idea if you plan on having a lot of users. Although I'm wondering about the following: What other benefits/consequences are there to using virtual over system users and vice versa? Will virtual users have the same protection as system users (system users would use linux permissions, which is pretty secure)? How easy will it be to switch from using system users to virtual users or vice versa?

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[Dovecot] avoid log message when using nagios check
by lluis 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hello, I'm using a nagios check to monitor dovecot status, since dovecot v2 I see those syslog messages on every nagios check: pop3-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts in 0 secs) imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts in 0 secs) I tried to avoid those messages sending a logout string: check_imap -H localhost -e 'OK' -s 'a logout' check_pop -H localhost -e 'OK' -s 'quit' but now I get imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs) pop3-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs) what can I do to avoid a log message on every nagios check? thanks! Lluís

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[Dovecot] getting quota error when accessing private namespace
by Andreas Oster 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hi all, I have run into a problem which I cannot find a solution for. I have created an additional private namespace with the following commands in dovecot.conf : namespace { disabled = no hidden = no ignore_on_failure = no inbox = no list = children location = maildir:/var/vmail/archives/%Ln/Maildir mailbox "archived mails" { auto = subscribe driver = special_use = \Archive } prefix = Archives/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota:ns= quota2 = maildir:Archives quota:ns=Archives/ quota2_rule = *:storage=5G quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+200M } I can access the new namespace without any problems but every time a folder in this namespace is accessed, I get the following error messages in mail.err log: dovecot: imap(testuser): Error: quota: Unknown namespace: Archives/ dovecot: last message repeated 49 times Quota seems to work, though I have the feeling, that it only will be updated when closing and reopening the mail client, but this can also be a client issue. Quota for the INBOX is either taken from LDAP or, if there is no value defined in LDAP, will be assigned a quota of 1G The Archives/ namespace has a static quota of 5G for every user. Does anyone have idea how to get rid of these error messages ? Thank you for your kind help Andreas

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[Dovecot] Multiple Folders Continually Auto-Created
by Cassidy Larson 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

I've had reports of a number of clients running Outlook 2011 on Mac where they have quite a few folders with the same name appended by multiple "1"s. So far I've only narrowed it down to Outlook 2011 on Mac. We've been in the process of migrating to sdbox on a new server from maildir using dsync backup. Example folder structure: INBOX INBOX 1 INBOX 1 1 INBOX 1 1 1 INBOX 1 1 1 1 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Junk Junk 1 Junk 1 1 Junk 1 1 1 Junk 1 1 1 1 Junk 1 1 1 1 1 Junk 1 1 1 1 1 1 Junk 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Junk 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 and so on for "Sent Messages", etc. Seems that the the default folders for these clients are getting created over and over again, each time with a new "1" at the end. Anybody else see this? I'm digging for a client I can troubleshoot with and reproduce with me watching. Thanks, -c

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[Dovecot] SSL cert problem
by Peter von Nostrand 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hi, I'm running a new dovecot 2.0.9 under Centos 6.4. I'm having an issue with SSL certificate not being accepted by the email client. I have my own CA and I have generated certificates for web usage without a problem. For imaps and pop3s what I did was generate a certificate for the hostname of my dovecot server and then cat that cert with the intermediate and root CA certificates. No matter what thunderbird still complains with Unknown identity. # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.4 (Final) auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_username_format = %n disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_fsync = never mail_home = /vmail/%u mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = quota 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 mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { user = vmail } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/mail.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/mail.example.com.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_ssl = yes protocol lmtp { mail_fsync = optimized mail_plugins = sieve quota } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve quota } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota This is the log: Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x10, ret=1: before/accept initialization [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: before/accept initialization [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv2/v3 read client hello A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 read client hello A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write server hello A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write certificate A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write key exchange A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write server done A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 flush data [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client certificate A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=-1: SSLv3 read client certificate A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 read client key exchange A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 read finished A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write session ticket A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write change cipher spec A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 write finished A [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2001, ret=1: SSLv3 flush data [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x20, ret=1: SSL negotiation finished successfully [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL: where=0x2002, ret=1: SSL negotiation finished successfully [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL alert: where=0x4004, ret=558: fatal certificate unknown [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Warning: SSL alert: where=0x4008, ret=256: warning close notify [192.168.0.1] Jul 11 15:38:45 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=192.168.0.1, lip=192.168.1.1, TLS: SSL_read() failed: error:14094416:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert certificate unknown: SSL alert number 46 Thx in advance -- Peter

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[Dovecot] dsync/imapc migration question
by Gedalya 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Doing an imapc migration with the pop3 migration plugin, using doveadm backup -R. I occasionally get the following output: dsync(user(a)domain.tld): Error: imapc(mail01.domain.tld:143): Server disconnected unexpectedly dsync(user(a)domain.tld): Error: imapc(mail01.domain.tld:143): Server disconnected unexpectedly dsync(user(a)domain.tld): Error: imapc(mail01.domain.tld:143): Server disconnected unexpectedly dsync(user(a)domain.tld): Warning: I/O leak: 0xb7648650 (line 1229, fd 10) dsync(user(a)domain.tld): Warning: I/O leak: 0xb7648650 (line 1229, fd 11) dsync(user(a)domain.tld): Warning: Timeout leak: 0xb76488b0 (line 1316) dsync(user(a)domain.tld): Warning: Timeout leak: 0xb76488b0 (line 1316) The source server is really crappy, no need to look at the dovecot side for causes. My question is: is it possible that the migration did complete successfully? Dovecot does seem to continue and it's kind of vague on what went wrong, and did it re-try. This operation can take several hours on large mailboxes so this question is really meaningful in my case. (I'd try with -D but it's really hard to reproduce this on demand). Thanks Gedalya

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Re: [Dovecot] SSL cert problem
by Reindl Harald 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

Am 11.07.2013 21:51, schrieb Peter von Nostrand: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Reindl Harald > because thunderbird does not trust your own CA by default > without import it there by hand - you can not expect to > cat your CA to the cert for the server and that is enough > to get truested by the client - if so everybody would do > this to make his DNS forgery successful > > Sorry, I should specify that I already have my root CA certificates loaded in thunderbird much more important you should reply this to the list and not off-list, fixed by me, no need to send it again

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[Dovecot] Pigeonhole vacation auto-response not respecting "days" parameter
by Thomas Harold 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

This might be a PEBKAC on my end, but in our old server, "vacation" responses would only be sent back to an origin address once per day because we had ":days 1" in the rule. On the new server, even though we have ":days 1", pigeonhole is sending responses to every message, resulting in multiple vacation responses each day back to each origin address. The following was generated by Roundcube's web interface, it looks to be correct. ----------------------- require ["vacation"]; # rule:[vacation-reply] if allof (not header :contains "Subject" "[spam]", not exists "List-Unsubscribe") { vacation :days 1 :addresses ["email1(a)example.com","email2(a)example.com"] :subject "Out of office reply" text: I am currently out of the office July 11th and 12th, returning on July 15th. During this time I will have no access to email. Thank you. User So-And-So . ; } ----------------------- Interestingly, if I look at .dovecot.sieve.log, I see error messages like (except that the vacation responses are, in reality, being sent): error: msgid=<20130711134816.35B9A40335(a)mail.example.com>: failed to send vacation response to <originemail(a)example.com> (refer to server log for more information). And in the maillog: Jul 11 09:48:17 servername sendmail[28244]: r6BDmHem028244: SYSERR(UID1132): Who are you? Jul 11 09:48:17 servername sendmail[28244]: r6BDmHem028244: Authentication-Warning: servername .example.com: Unknown UID 1132 set sender to <> using -f Jul 11 09:48:17 servername sendmail[28244]: r6BDmHem028244: from=<>, size=725, class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=<dovecot-sieve-1373550497-202242-0(a)servername.example.com>, relay=Unknown UID 1132@localhost My guess at this point is that I've failed to configure pigeonhole and/or postfix's copy of the sendmail command properly so that it can create the "who I have send mail to recently" file.

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[Dovecot] Fault in dovecot 2.1.17
by Adrian Stoica 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

The system hang, linux from scratch. I have changed the live kernel from linux-2.6.35.4 to linux-2.6.32.61 , to see if the fault still occurs. The kernel 2.6.35.4 was working fine with all version up to dovecot 2.1.12 , from which i made update to 2.1.17. dovecot -n # 2.1.17: /usr/dovecot21/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32.61 i686 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 1 secs auth_cache_size = 2 M auth_failure_delay = 4 secs auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_worker_max_count = 100 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ default_client_limit = 4096 default_internal_user = vmail default_login_user = nobody default_process_limit = 256 deliver_log_format = mail delivery from=%f subject=%s msgid=%m: %$ dict { acl = mysql:/usr/dovecot21/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 1 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " quota acl trash notify mail_log" 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 ihave namespace { hidden = no list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes list = 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 = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { args = /usr/dovecot21/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { acl = vfile acl_defaults_from_inbox = yes acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Drafts autocreate3 = Sent autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Drafts autosubscribe3 = INBOX autosubscribe4 = Sent mail_log_events = delete mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = box subject from msgid size quota = maildir:User quota quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=95%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning3 = storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_max_redirects = 10 trash = /usr/dovecot21/etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf.ext } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)dacris.net protocols = imap quota_full_tempfail = yes rejection_subject = Rejected: %s: %r service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0666 user = vmail } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { user = vmail } } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 4 } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login /bin/imap.sh unix_listener imap-postlogin { mode = 01232 } } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin process_limit = 1024 vsz_limit = 1 G } service quota-warning { executable = script /bin/quota_warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = vmail } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /usr/dovecot21/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " quota acl trash notify mail_log sieve autocreate" } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = " quota acl trash notify mail_log imap_quota imap_acl" } Log from kernel: Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: BUG: Bad page map in process imap-login pte:c926b025 pmd:4597c067 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: page:c2f2ed60 count:1 mapcount:-1 mapping:ec5a03a0 index:0x4ab Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: page flags: 0x80020068(uptodate|lru|active|mappedtodisk) Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: addr:b73f4000 vm_flags:08000075 anon_vma:(null) mapping:e289ec88 index:7b Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: vma->vm_ops->fault: filemap_fault+0x0/0x2fa Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: vma->vm_file->f_op->mmap: ext4_file_mmap+0x0/0x39 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: Pid: 22889, comm: imap-login Not tainted 2.6.35.4 #2 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: Call Trace: Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c1078901>] ? print_bad_pte+0x13a/0x14b Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c107b206>] ? unmap_vmas+0x33b/0x62d Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c10272cc>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x206/0x210 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c107ccc7>] ? exit_mmap+0x8c/0x107 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c102976f>] ? mmput+0x1c/0x8c Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c102c850>] ? exit_mm+0xdc/0xe4 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c103da3c>] ? hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x55/0x5b Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c104dd0d>] ? acct_collect+0x77/0x126 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c102dccb>] ? do_exit+0x1c8/0x5bc Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c109fd4d>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x15/0xad Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c102e119>] ? do_group_exit+0x5a/0x7d Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c102e14d>] ? sys_exit_group+0x11/0x14 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c100254c>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x22 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: BUG: Bad page state in process imap-login pfn:c926b Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: page:c2f2ed60 count:0 mapcount:-1 mapping:ec5a03a0 index:0x4ab Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: page flags: 0x80020008(uptodate|mappedtodisk) Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: Pid: 22889, comm: imap-login Tainted: G B 2.6.35.4 #2 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: Call Trace: Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c106c916>] ? bad_page+0x9c/0xae Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c106d4dc>] ? free_pages_prepare+0x55/0xc5 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c106d5f0>] ? free_hot_cold_page+0x20/0xef Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c106d739>] ? __pagevec_free+0x1a/0x21 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c106fb3a>] ? release_pages+0x165/0x16d Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c1083302>] ? free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x68/0x74 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c107b251>] ? unmap_vmas+0x386/0x62d Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c10272cc>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x206/0x210 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c107ccc7>] ? exit_mmap+0x8c/0x107 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c102976f>] ? mmput+0x1c/0x8c Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c102c850>] ? exit_mm+0xdc/0xe4 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c103da3c>] ? hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x55/0x5b Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c104dd0d>] ? acct_collect+0x77/0x126 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c102dccb>] ? do_exit+0x1c8/0x5bc Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c109fd4d>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x15/0xad Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c102e119>] ? do_group_exit+0x5a/0x7d Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c102e14d>] ? sys_exit_group+0x11/0x14 Jul 11 10:14:01 mail kernel: [<c100254c>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x22

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