October 2015 - dovecot

IMAP COPY creates invalid index data with zlib and mail_log plugins enabled but zlib_save off
by Robert L Mathews 27 Nov '15

27 Nov '15

I've noticed that maildir IMAP COPY commands can generate invalid dovecot.index entries when all seven of the following are true: - The zlib plugin is enabled; - The zlib_save/zlib_save_level options are NOT enabled; - The source message being copied is compressed; - The mail_log plugin is logging "copy" events; - The mail_log_fields setting includes at least one message header; - The destination mailbox folder has an index file that is recording the logged headers; - The source mailbox folder does NOT have an index file recording the logged headers. In this situation, copying a message results in an index entry in the destination that has all the headers blank, like this: RECORD: seq=5, uid=182415, flags=0x08 (Seen) - ext 1 modseq : 3 (0300000000000000) - ext 2 cache : 2352 (30090000) - cache offset=2352 size=120, prev_offset = 0 - hdr.FROM: - hdr.MESSAGE-ID: - hdr.SUBJECT: - hdr.DATE: - hdr.BCC: - hdr.CC: - hdr.CONTENT-TYPE: - hdr.IN-REPLY-TO: - hdr.NEWSGROUPS: - hdr.PRIORITY: - hdr.REFERENCES: - hdr.REPLY-TO: - hdr.TO: - hdr.X-PRIORITY: For these copies, the mail_log plugin records blank header data in the log, too, like this (despite the message having a valid message-ID, from, and subject): Oct 29 21:11:42 wheezy dovecot: imap[31763]: user=<1(a)example.com> ip=192.168.0.4 session=RV/MmUojyADAqAAE copy from INBOX.Saved: box=INBOX.Trash, uid=182412, msgid=, size=1357, vsize=1392, from=, subject=, flags=(\Seen) I've found this occurs in at least Dovecot 2.1.7, 2.2.13, and 2.2.18 (all packaged Debian versions). Changing any of the seven things I mentioned above fixes it. I've tried to find the code that causes this, but not yet been successful. My theory is that when the mail_log plugin calls mail_get_first_header(), and there's no index header record to read it from, it looks at the real message on disk. Perhaps it somehow operates on a compressed copy of the message although it expects uncompressed plaintext, so it doesn't find any of the headers. The "missing" headers then get cached to the destination index file as a side-effect. The copied maildir message itself is fine, by the way. It's an identical, still-compressed copy of the original message. And deleting the destination "dovecot.index*" files that contain the bad data causes Dovecot to rebuild the index with the correct header data. It's unusual to use the zlib plugin without the zlib_save/zlib_save_level options enabled, of course. That's probably why (as far as I can tell) there have been no reports of this before. I noticed it only because I was testing a small amount of manual mail compression before deploying it for all mail. Here's the "doveconf -n" of a system in the "has the problem" state: # 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.8 (0c4ae064f307+) # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae i686 Debian stretch/sid auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = sha1 default_vsz_limit = 1 G disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = * log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> pid=[%{mail_pid}] method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c mail_fsync = never mail_location = maildir:~/ mail_log_prefix = "%s[%{pid}]: user=<%u> ip=%{rip} session=%{session} " mail_max_userip_connections = 100 mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate spamtest spamtestplus namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace { hidden = yes inbox = no list = no location = prefix = separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot.users driver = passwd-file } plugin { fts = lucene fts_lucene = whitespace_chars=@. mail_log_events = copy delete undelete expunge mailbox_delete mailbox_rename flag_change save mailbox_create mail_log_fields = vsize size flags box uid box msgid size flags vsize from subject sieve = %h/mailbox.sieve sieve_after = %h/../../domain-after.sieve sieve_before = %h/../../domain-before.sieve sieve_dir = %h/sieve sieve_extensions = -reject +spamtest +spamtestplus sieve_global_dir = %h/../../sieve-global-include-scripts sieve_spamtest_max_value = 7 sieve_spamtest_status_header = X-Spam-Level sieve_spamtest_status_type = strlen } protocols = pop3 imap lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 8 service_count = 0 } service imap { process_limit = 2000 } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service pop3-login { process_min_avail = 8 service_count = 0 } service pop3 { process_limit = 2000 } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot.users driver = passwd-file } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail imap_logout_format = %i bytes in, %o bytes out } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_logout_format = ; %i bytes in, %o bytes out, %t top (%p bytes), %r retr (%b bytes), %d of %m deleted, mailbox size %s bytes pop3_uidl_format = UID%u-%v } protocol lda { mail_fsync = optimized mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib sieve } protocol lmtp { mail_fsync = optimized mail_plugins = mail_log notify zlib sieve } -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/

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Re: Questions about hardlinks, alternate storage and compression
by Gionatan Danti 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

Hi Javier, thanks for your reply. I already checked SIS and, while interesting, is not what I want, because: 1) it can be difficult to restore a single message/attachment from a backup 2) only the attachments, and not the entire messages, are deduped. Message-based hardlinks really exists for a reason. The good news is that I found _why_ they are not working: it depends from how dovecot and its sieve plugin (pigenhole) interact. Basically, if I define anything for the before_sieve and after_sieve variables, dovecot stops creating hardlinks for multiple copies of the same message. On the other hand, private (per-user) sieve file works without interfering with hardlinks. In a similar manner, disabling sieve also permits dovecot to create multiple hardlinks for a single message. Does someone know if newer dovecot versions change anything in this regard? Thank you all. On 13/07/15 11:10, Javier Miguel Rodríguez wrote: > Search about "single instance storage dovecot". This is what you need. > > Regards > > Javier > > On 27/06/2015 18:18, Gionatan Danti wrote: >> Hi all, >> I have some questions about hardlinks, alternate storage and >> compression. I already scanned the list for related information and I >> have an idea of how things works, but I would like to have a definite >> answer. >> >> System spec: >> - CentOS 6.6 x64 >> - dovecot-2.0.9-8.el6_6.4.x86_64 RPM package/version >> - sdbox mail store >> >> 1) About hardlinks: when sending the same message to two different >> recipients, I see that the two u.x files are created as two different >> files. Diffing them, I see that the only difference is a single char >> (see [1] for an example). My questions are: >> a) it is possible to tell dovecot to create a single file + a single >> hardlink (linkref=2)? As other IMAP servers support that features (eg: >> Cyrus, CommunigatePro, etc) I am wondering if I missed something in >> configuring dovecot... >> b) If it is not possible, can I run a script that compare the >> various files and substitute equal ones (minus the changing line) with >> hardlinks, or it will confuse dovecot? As a side note, why the >> changing line ever exists? >> >> 2) About alternate storage and compression: actually, I use a single >> mail_location without compression. I would like to have an alternate >> storage and to enable compression on it only, leaving the main >> location without compression. I if understand it correctly, it >> _should_ be done using a command similar to "doveadm -Dv -o >> "plugin/zlib_save=gz" altmove -uu testuser sentbefore 8d". I'm right >> thinking that it should work? I will really end with a primary >> uncompressed mail store and an alternate, zlib-compressed one? >> >> Thank you all and sorry if I did some naive questions. >> >> [1] >> 63c63 >> < G2fd0811c64be8e553d970000eaa8309f >> --- >>> G2ed0811c64be8e553d970000eaa8309f >> >> >> > -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti(a)assyoma.it - info(a)assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8

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Shortcomings of Maildir++ layout
by Hadmut Danisch 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Hi, I am trying to deal with the problem, that under regular mbox format a path can lead to either a file or a directory, but not both, while under IMAP, a path is usually both, a message folder containing subfolders. I found dovecot's approach to this problem, the Maildir++ layout described under http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MboxChildFolders , and was astonished to see, what problems come with Maildir++ and how complicated dovecot tries to deal with them. I wonder why dovecot is not using a much easier approach and just uses a configurable prefix and/or suffix like .dir or ____ for directory names, e.g. INBOX -> ~/mail/inbox abc -> ~/mail/abc abc/def -> ~/mail/abc.dir/def or ~/mail/___abc___/def which would make all that trouble with .subscriptions and .index much more easier. In my eyes the Maildir++ layout is overcomplicated because of the heap of workarounds to the self-created problems. regards Hadmut

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Questions on supporting Shared Mailboxes using imapc://
by Nathan Coulson 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

I was not able to get a shared mailbox setup working using imapc. Tested using mailboxes on the same server, as well as other servers. We are using dovecot 2.2.10 from Centos 7, following the guide at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/ClusterSetup imapc_host=192.168.5.5 #(Local dovecot server) imapc_master_user= %u imapc_password=TempPass #imapc_user=test2(a)example.com # Added for testing. namespace { type = shared separator = / prefix = shared/%%u/ list = children location = imapc:~/shared/%%u/ } namespace { # used as a control to verify that shared mailboxes work type = shared separator = / prefix = shared2/%%u/ list = children location = sdbox:%%h:INDEXPVT=~/shared2/%%u } dict { acl = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql_aggelos_shares.conf.ext } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl } mail_plugins = acl protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl imap_acl } passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext } passdb { # for master user logins driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql_aggelos_aclmaster.conf.ext master = yes pass = yes } userdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext } I can login using test2@example.com*test@example.com (and see all of test2's email), and it looks like it authenticates ok via imap, but shared never shows up. No issues using shared2 which uses direct access to the mailbox doveadm acl debug -u test(a)example.com shared/test2(a)example.com (Fails, uses imapc) doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: Mailbox 'INBOX' is in namespace 'shared/test2(a)example.com/' doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: Mailbox path: /misc/1/2/mail/test@example.com-4/shared/test2@example.com/.INBOX doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: All message flags are shared across users in mailbox doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: User test(a)example.com has no rights for mailbox doveadm(test(a)example.com): Error: User test(a)example.com is missing 'lookup' right doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: Mailbox shared/test2(a)example.com is NOT visible in LIST doveadm acl debug -u test(a)example.com shared/test2(a)example.com/Junk (Fails, contains a folder that exists) doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: Mailbox 'Junk' is in namespace 'shared/test2(a)example.com/' doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: Mailbox path: /misc/1/2/mail/test@example.com-4/shared/test2@example.com/.Junk doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: All message flags are shared across users in mailbox doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: User test(a)example.com has no rights for mailbox doveadm(test(a)example.com): Error: User test(a)example.com is missing 'lookup' right doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: Mailbox shared/test2(a)example.com/Junk is NOT visible in LIST doveadm acl debug -u test(a)example.com shared/test2(a)example.com/z (Fails, contains a folder that does not exist. Expected result) doveadm(test(a)example.com): Error: Mailbox 'z' in namespace 'shared/test2(a)example.com/' doesn't exist in /misc/1/2/mail/test@example.com-4/shared/test2@example.com/.z doveadm acl debug -u test(a)example.com shared2/test2(a)example.com (Works, using direct storage) doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: Mailbox 'INBOX' is in namespace 'shared2/test2(a)example.com/' doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: Mailbox path: /misc/1/2/mail/test2(a)example.com-87/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: Per-user private flags in mailbox: \Seen doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: User test(a)example.com has rights: lookup read write-seen doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: Mailbox found from dovecot-acl-list doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: User test2(a)example.com found from ACL shared dict doveadm(test(a)example.com): Info: Mailbox shared2/test2(a)example.com is visible in LIST It feels like the acl information in the vfiles is not available when using imapc. Our setup is as follows: (Currently does not use Dovecot Director, but has the same issues where shared mailboxes may not be local on the server) * Front servers, that are running dovecot (proxy to backend servers) * Backend Servers, each handle their own local users. Thank you -- Nathan Coulson System Administrator for Bravenet www.bravenet.com nathan(a)bravenet.com

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Initialization Failed:
by brian 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Hi dovecotters I am trying to install dovecot on a mail server I am provisioning for myself in AWS. I am following an ArsTechnica guide, and at some stage in the process the author recommends and provides instructions to configure Dovecot (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-pa…) So, now I have it installed and configured (I believe the way suggested) but when I try to connect via IMAP I am getting an error. If I try : root@ip-10-0-0-244:~# telnet mail.myactualdomain.com 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to mail.myactualdomain.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot (Ubuntu) ready. a1 LOGIN brian(a)myactualdomain.com plaintextpassword * BYE Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Connection closed by foreign host. root@ip-10-0-0-244:~# If I go to /var/log/syslog I can see the following lines: Oct 31 05:31:06 ip-10-0-0-244 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<brian(a)myactualdomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=16934, secured, session=<oCTO2V8jUwB/AAAB> Oct 31 05:31:06 ip-10-0-0-244 dovecot: imap(brian(a)myactualdomain.com): Error: user brian(a)myactualdomain.com: Initialization failed: Namespace '': Unknown setting: /var/mail/vmail/myactualdomain.com/brian/mail Oct 31 05:31:06 ip-10-0-0-244 dovecot: imap(brian(a)myactualdomain.com): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. root@ip-10-0-0-244:~# dovecot --version 2.2.9 So, I don't know why it's giving me an error about : Initialization failed: Namespace '': Unknown setting: /var/mail/vmail/myactualdomain.com/brian/mail The location is there, with the permissions with I believe the correct permissions. I'm a bit stuck as to where to even go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Kind Regards Brian root@ip-10-0-0-244:~# dovecot -n # 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.13.0-48-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%d/%n/mail:LAYOUT=fs 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 inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = username_format=%u scheme=ssha512 /etc/dovecot/passwd.db driver = passwd-file } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /var/mail/vmail/sieve-after sieve_before = /var/mail/vmail/sieve-before sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/ssl-chain-mail-myactualdomain.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/ssl-key-decrypted-mail-myactualdomain.key userdb { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/mail/vmail/%d/%n driver = static } protocol lda { deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ mail_plugins = sieve postmaster_address = postmaster(a)myactualdomain.com quota_full_tempfail = yes rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 10 }

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Re: Dovecot, JavaMail, UIDs and Message Numbers
by Filippo Carletti 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

We're using dovecot-2.1.16 on CentOS (rpm package from epel repo). Maildir format on ext4. > What exactly do you mean by "Dovecot started reindexing"? Selecting thread sort on the javamail client, the imap process opens all files in the folder and updates the following files on disk: dovecot.index dovecot.index.cache dovecot.index.log dovecot.index.log.2 dovecot.index.thread The folder has around 5000 mails and the operation takes some minutes (hw is not the bottleneck). Selecting thread view on Thunderbird or Roundcube takes less than a second, I can't see the imap process doing anything. > Dovecot's normal indexes or full text search indexes? Normal indexes. > How have you configured everything? What do you need to know in particular? doveconf output? Maildir infos: # time cat cur/* >/dev/null real 0m4.651s user 0m0.045s sys 0m0.141s # ls -f cur/ | wc -l 4170 # du -sh cur 49M cur Things go worse with a bigger maildir. > Does Dovecot log anything (especially any errors/warnings about anything)? No errors or warnings at all. I've enabled the mail_log plugin, but I think it can't log indexing operations. Thank you. -- Ciao, Filippo

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Re: Webmail accessive Dovecot logins
by Joseph Tam 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

"A. Schulze" writes: > David Mehler: > >> Second question, in the doveconf -n there's reference to my ssl_cipher >> am I using current tls ciphers that support pfs? > >> ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv3:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL > > some non pfs cipher would be still active. check yourself: > # openssl ciphers -v 'ALL:!LOW:!SSLv3:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL' | grep -v DH You'll want the 'E' variation (ephemeral) of the DH algorithms, and preferably, the ECDHE variety as they are faster and supported on more browsers. The pattern to search for (or exclude) is "DHE" openssl ciphers -v {cipher-specs} | grep DHE If the OP wants preferentially use PFS ciphers (but keep the other ciphers around for very old browsers), maybe something like ssl_cipher_list = ECDH:ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes > finally you could use the service provided by ssllabs.com to scan your host. I second this recommendation, if you can work out the port issue. Maybe using a ncat | ncat pipe. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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updating and wsitching repo to yum.dovecot.fi - Unknown protocol: sieve
by Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Hi, winter is coming and so I start to clean up some left overs of the year. One thing is to use the yum.dovecot.fi repository. After installing the current availabel dovecot and dovecot-ee-pigeonhole package and restarting dovecot I do get the error: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: protocols: Unknown protocol: sieve Is the sieve protocol an extra package? I thought in the 2.2. tree I dont have to do bigger config changes. We run already 2.2.something from city-fan.org and the switch was also the idea of going to the most recent release. Thanks for hints and feedback . Götz -- Götz Reinicke IT-Koordinator Tel. +49 7141 969 82420 E-Mail goetz.reinicke(a)filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Akademiehof 10 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de Eintragung Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 205016 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Jürgen Walter MdL Staatssekretär im Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg Geschäftsführer: Prof. Thomas Schadt

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Webmail accessive Dovecot logins
by David Mehler 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Hello, I've seen this issue before, running a imap/smtp/database server on localhost and adding in a webmail interface, in this case Roundcube. In my maillog I'm seeing accessive Dovecot connections and logouts just from my own transaction of logging in, going to compose a message, sending, and logging out. I'm using Mysql as database backend and was wondering if there was something I could do to cut down on the amount of connections needed? I'm running 2.2.19 on a FreeBSD 10.2 system. I'm not sure what other information to provide, here's the relevant log and a doveconf -n. Second question, in the doveconf -n there's reference to my ssl_cipher am I using current tls ciphers that support pfs? Thanks. Dave. Oct 29 20:51:21 server dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<xxx>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=71405, secured, session=<6Px600cja6cAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Oct 29 20:51:21 server dovecot: imap(xxx): Disconnected: Logged out in=82 out=763 Oct 29 20:51:22 server dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<xxx>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=72189, secured, session=<c8eL00cjxXYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Oct 29 20:51:22 server dovecot: imap(xxx): Disconnected: Logged out in=70 out=932 Oct 29 20:51:29 server dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<xxx>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=74281, secured, session=<AQz100cj378AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Oct 29 20:51:29 server dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<xxx>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=74927, secured, session=<fH3100cjQ5AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Oct 29 20:51:29 server dovecot: imap(xxx): Disconnected: Logged out in=439 out=1702 Oct 29 20:51:29 server dovecot: imap(xxx): Disconnected: Logged out in=326 out=24327 Oct 29 20:51:45 server dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<xxx>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=75557, secured, session=<3tjm1EcjsjUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Oct 29 20:51:45 server dovecot: imap(xxx): Disconnected: Logged out in=32 out=521 Oct 29 20:51:46 server dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<xxx>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=77051, secured, session=<N6311EcjlbQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB> Oct 29 20:51:46 server dovecot: imap(xxx): Disconnected: Logged out in=44 out=799 doveconf -n # 2.2.19: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.9 (357ac0a0e68b+) # OS: FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE amd64 ufs auth_default_realm = domain.com auth_mechanisms = plain login dict { sqlquota = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } first_valid_gid = 999 first_valid_uid = 999 hostname = xxx(a)domain.com imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags last_valid_gid = 999 last_valid_uid = 999 lmtp_rcpt_check_quota = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_home = /home/vmail/%d/%n/home mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs mail_plugins = acl quota zlib mail_server_admin = mailto:postmaster@domain.com mail_uid = vmail mailbox_list_index = yes maildir_broken_filename_sizes = yes maildir_empty_new = yes maildir_stat_dirs = yes maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes 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 namespace { list = yes location = maildir:/home/vmail/public:LAYOUT=fs prefix = public/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = public } namespace inbox { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { quota = dict:User quota::proxy::sqlquota quota_grace = 10%% quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full quota_status_success = DUNNO sieve_default = /home/vmail/conf.d/domain.com/sieve/default.sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)domain.com protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = } inet_listener imaps { ssl = yes } } service lmtp { unix_listener dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service quota-status { client_limit = 1 executable = quota-status -p postfix inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 12345 } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/server.crt ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv3:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL ssl_dh_parameters_length = 4096 ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/server.key ssl_protocols = TLSv1 !SSLv3 !SSLv2 userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = acl quota zlib sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = acl quota zlib quota sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl quota zlib imap_acl imap_quota imap_zlib }

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Dovecot frequently full-text reindexes the whole maildir
by vitalif＠yourcmc.ru 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Hi! I'm using Dovecot 2.2.13 (Debian Jessie package 1:2.2.13-12~deb8u1) on my personal mail server (the address I'm writing from is on this server). I use Maildirs, I have fts + fts_squat enabled, and I have a problem with it for a long time - dovecot seems to not update the index always "incrementally". Yesterday I've finally made a test by telneting to imap port and issuing a search request. Dovecot started to reindex the mailbox. Full reindexing has taken around 15-20 minutes. After reindexing the fulltext searches were fast, just as they should be. And they were fast yesterday even after some new emails arrived. But I've tried to do a new search today and Dovecot started to reindex the whole maildir again! Why is it reindexing the whole maildir again? Could it be related to my anti-spam scripts removing messages from SPAM imap folder? And if yes, how to remove them correctly? -- With best regards, Vitaliy Filippov

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