November 2014 - dovecot

[Dovecot] quota-status not working in distributed environment
by Benoit Panizzon 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

Hello List Quick overview of our set-up: Postfix / Dovecot (2.2.2.1) / MySQL Cluster on (at the moment) three Servers to create a HA environment where you could easily add additional servers as the demand or load grows. Circular dovecot replication is used so each server uses another one as replication partner and allowing one server to fail. Dovecot Proxy Feature being used, so we can use round-robin DNS and each server can forward the connecting user to the correct 'master' for his mailbox. So far, everything works as expected. Now we want to reject emails to 'full' mailboxes during SMTP to prevent backscatter and use the quota-status policy service from within postfix. That works fine, if the mailbox or it's replica is present on the machine where quota-status is called, but it fails if it's run on a machine where neither the mailbox or the replica is present. In our case, we get a correct SMTP 550 'Mailbox Full' Reject in two cases and a LMTP generated bounce in the later case. Also `doveadm quota get -u user(a)example.com` return the correct quota if run on the two machines which have the mailbox and it's copy locale, but return 0% used if run on the other machine. Is there a way to get quota-status to also use the proxy feature to request the quota information from the correct machine? Or is the postfix policy daemon call to the quota-status socket documented somewhere (it must be, but where?) so we could implement it from within the Milter? (we use the sendmail Milter API from postfix to filter spam and viruses, do sender/recipient rewriting, forward bounce matching, rate limmiting, login/IP statistics to block botnets abusing phished addresses and legal intercept stuff anyway) Kind regards Benoit Panizzon -- I m p r o W a r e A G - ______________________________________________________ Zurlindenstrasse 29 Tel +41 61 826 93 07 CH-4133 Pratteln Fax +41 61 826 93 02 Schweiz Web http://www.imp.ch ______________________________________________________

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[Dovecot] [PATCH, RFC] add APOP authentication mechanism
by Andrey Panin 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Hello all, this patch add APOP authentication mechanism to dovecot 1.0-test23. Please take a look. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Dovecot stops with "Fatal: kevent(): Invalid argument"
by Henrik Larsson 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

# 2.0.11: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 Dovecot stops with the following logged: - master: Fatal: kevent(): Invalid argument I have found that a diff was created for "src/lib/ioloop-kqueue.c" for a similar issue: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-November/054855.html I have patched my system with this and haven't seen the problem since, but I don't know if this is a coincidence. Could you please explain if the diff should actually fix anything or just add some more logging in case it stops again? Best regards Henrik Larsson

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[Dovecot] Plugins: virtuals vs acls
by Leho Kraav 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

Hi all dovecot-virtual: * all when dovecot-acl files restrict some subset of * for a user, does dovecot respect these ACLs when collecting messages for virtual folder? I'd like a confirmation about what I should be seeing when I start implementing this setup.

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[Dovecot] How to disable SSL and TLSv1.1?
by Darren Pilgrim 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

I'm running Dovecot 2.2.5 and want to make it refuse SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1.0. Clients will opportunistically use TLS 1.1 and 1.2, but now I want require they do so. Is it enough to set ssl_cipher_list = HIGH:!SSLv2:!SSLv3:!TLSv1.0:!aNULL:!MD5 or are there additional settings I need to specify?

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[Dovecot] Patch: 2.0 support for URLAUTH, BURL, CATENATE
by Mike Abbott 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Thank you Timo for beginning the port of URLAUTH, BURL, and CATENATE from 1.2 to 2.0. Attached please find two patches that finish the port to 2.0. One patch updates the dovecot-2.0-urlauth branch and is based on the tip of that branch. The other patch adds the full support to dovecot-2.0.beta5. The resulting URLAUTH/BURL/CATENATE code is the same. Please let me know if you have any questions about these patches. Thanks.

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[Dovecot] Replication and public namespaces
by Markus Weippert 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

Hi, I'm having some issues with replicating public namespaces. Everything seems to work fine for private namespaces, but while importing some huge mailboxes (many small mails) into a public namespace via imapsync, something goes wrong. The expected mail flow is: old-server (imapsync)> new-server1 (replication)> new-server2 But then, dovecot seems to run into race conditions when the replications process tries to sync the same public mailbox under two or more different users at the same time. As a result, messages get duplicated, new-server2 sends those back to new-server1 which then starts to produce duplicates too. If I don't kill the processes in time and delete the faulty mailbox, they start to produce thousands of mails. In fact, server2 should not export messages at all, since it's not productive yet and does not get any mail except from the replication. The only thing getting logged (only few compared to the huge amount of duplicates produced): "dsync-server(user(a)example.com): Warning: Maildir /...: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID" Is there any way to fix this? Regards, Markus doveadm_password = *********** doveadm_port = ***** mail_home = /var/vmail/private/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/mail mail_plugins = acl virtual listescape notify replication namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace legacy { alias_for = # ... } namespace ns_public { list = children location = maildir:/var/vmail/public/%d prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } namespace virtual { # ... } plugin { mail_replica = tcps:************** } protocols = imap lmtp sieve replication_dsync_parameters = -d -l 60 -N -x virtual -x ns_public -U replication_full_sync_interval = 4 hours replication_max_conns = 20 service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { user = vmail } unix_listener replication-notify { user = vmail } } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 8143 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 5 user = vmail vsz_limit = 4 G } service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 unix_listener replicator-doveadm { mode = 0600 user = vmail } }

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basic configuratio error
by soko.tica 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello list, After many hours I still fail to configure properly dovecot as the LDA with opensmtpd, for system users only. I don't want pop at all, jus lmtp and imap, but still haven't stripped it. Here is the info, thanks in advance for your response: ===== # doveconf -n # 2.2.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: OpenBSD 5.6 i386 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 1000 hostname = imap.home.lan imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes lda_original_recipient_header = X-Original-To mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir 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 duplicate mbox_write_locks = fcntl mmap_disable = yes 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 { driver = bsdauth } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh postmaster_address = postmaster(a)mileva.home.lan protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { user = root } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = _dovenull mode = 0666 user = _dovenull } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 } service imap { process_limit = 1024 } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/dovecotcert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_ssl = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = } protocol lda { mail_plugins = } # /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F Oct 28 13:00:01 mileva newsyslog[1110]: logfile turned over Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.14 starting up for imap, pop3, lmtp, sieve Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(aggregator): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notifya57a2b8821460734) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3-login): safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(log): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(lmtp): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(ipc): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-urlauth-worker): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-urlauth): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify5dd2a3a0591effcc) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-urlauth-login): safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify152a1bb891f6f764) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-login): safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(doveadm): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(dns_client): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(director): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(dict): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(config): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(auth-worker): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 14:30:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs Oct 28 14:30:56 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(ssl-params): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs [snipped 18 pages of /var/log/maillog] Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.14 starting up for imap, pop3, lmtp, sieve Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(aggregator): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notifydd522320d99e7f4c) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3-login): safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(log): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(lmtp): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(ipc): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer-worker): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(indexer): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-urlauth-worker): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-urlauth): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify95aa9b38117677e4) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-urlauth-login): safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify4d021350494e6f7c) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(imap-login): safe_mkstemp(/var/dovecot/login-master-notify) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(doveadm): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(dns_client): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(director): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(dict): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(config): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(auth-worker): pipe() failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:44 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs Oct 28 20:47:46 mileva dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with signal 2 (by pid=0 uid=0 code=kill) Oct 28 20:47:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: open(/var/dovecot/.temp.mileva.home.lan.17422.055a8b6881266714) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: file_dotlock_open(/var/dovecot/instances) failed: Too many open files Oct 28 20:47:46 mileva dovecot: master: Error: service(ssl-params): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs # /usr/sbin/smtpd -n configuration OK

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doveadm-server does NOT know fts commands
by SATOH Fumiyasu 16 Dec '15

16 Dec '15

Hi, I'm using Dovecot 2.2.13 with Dovecot Director, Doveadm server and FTS. I want to run doveadm on Director hosts, but Dovecot server on backend hosts reject "fts *" commands. On Dovecot Director hosts: # doveadm fts optimize -u u0001(a)example.jp # echo $? 75 # doveadm fts rescan -u u0001(a)example.jp # echo $? 75 doveadm index -u u0001(a)example.jp INBOX # echo $? 0 On Dovecot backend hosts: # grep doveadm /var/log/maillog Jul 14 10:25:40 backend dovecot: doveadm: Error: doveadm: Client sent unknown command: fts optimize Jul 14 10:25:51 backend dovecot: doveadm: Error: doveadm: Client sent unknown command: fts rescan Is this doveadm-server restriction? On Dovecot backend hosts (2): # doveadm fts optimize -u u0001(a)example.jp -S /var/run/dovecot/doveadm-server # echo $? 75 # doveadm fts rescan -u u0001(a)example.jp -S /var/run/dovecot/doveadm-server # echo $? 75 # doveadm index -u u0001(a)example.jp -S /var/run/dovecot/doveadm-server INBOX # echo $? 0 # doveadm fts optimize -u u0001(a)example.jp # echo $? 0 # doveadm fts rescan -u u0001(a)example.jp # echo $? 0 # doveadm index -u u0001(a)example.jp INBOX # echo $? 0 -- -- Name: SATOH Fumiyasu @ OSS Technology Corp. (fumiyas @ osstech co jp) -- Business Home: http://www.OSSTech.co.jp/ -- GitHub Home: https://GitHub.com/fumiyas/ -- PGP Fingerprint: BBE1 A1C9 525A 292E 6729 CDEC ADC2 9DCA 5E1C CBCA

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mmap_disable=yes not honored always
by Peter Benko 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

<Sorry for the resend, it seems that the formatting of my original mail got garbled> Hi all, I'm experimenting with having the mail store on a 9p file system that lacks mmap() functionality. So I disabled it in dovecot: mmap_disable = yes However, I keep getting the following error messages in my log: Oct 15 16:55:00 computer-name dovecot: imap user(a)domain.com[192.168.1.3] Error: mmap() failed with file /mail/mailboxes/domain.com/user/indexpvt-accounts/other-user/mailboxes/INBOX/dovecot.index.pvt.log: Invalid argument I only get those messages for the shared folder's private indexes. This setup works perfectly on an ext2/3/4 fs. Any opinions, is this a bug? Is mmap_disable not mandatory for all operations? Best regards, Peter

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