August 2015 - dovecot

imap segfaults when using antispam plugin, and moving mail to an 'unsure' folder.
by Andrew McN 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

I put up a question on serverfault first, which has the details, including a stack trace: http://serverfault.com/questions/713687/dovecot-antispam-error-storing-mail . Details also copied below. Is this a known bug? If I built dovecot from source rather than using the Ubuntu 14.04 packages, would I expect that to help? Are there any configuration details that might be relevant? (dovecot -n output shown Any help much appreciated. Andrew McNaughton Details on the serverfault page repeated below, plus a little more. ----------------------------------------------------- Ubuntu 14.04.3 x86_64 Running inside lxc-docker 1.7.0 dovecot-imapd 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2 dovecot-antispam 2.0+20130822-2build1 Filesystem is via docker, so aufs is involved, and under that on the host systems is ext4 ----------------------------------------------------- I know mail is not supposed to be moved into a mailbox of type 'unsure'. The server should refuse this action. What actually happens though is that the imap process throws an error and dies: Aug 12 17:53:07 255c7fc2d2f0 imap: antispam: mailbox_is_unsure(Review-Classification): 1 Aug 12 17:53:07 255c7fc2d2f0 dovecot: imap(user(a)example.com): Panic: file mail-storage.c: line 2141 (mailbox_copy): assertion failed: (!ctx->unfinished) Aug 12 17:53:07 255c7fc2d2f0 dovecot: imap(user(a)example.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5e271) [0x7f718e7dd271] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5e34e) [0x7f718e7dd34e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f718e798a9e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x7196f) [0x7f718eab896f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_move+0x15) [0x7f718eab8985] -> dovecot/imap(+0xded5) [0x7f718ef84ed5] -> dovecot/imap(command_exec+0x3c) [0x7f718ef8f6dc] -> dovecot/imap(+0x176cf) [0x7f718ef8e6cf] -> dovecot/imap(+0x17785) [0x7f718ef8e785] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x125) [0x7f718ef8eaa5] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x75) [0x7f718ef8ee35] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x27) [0x7f718e7ed247] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xd7) [0x7f718e7edfd7] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7f718e7ecde8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f718e79dc93] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x2c4) [0x7f718ef832f4] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f718e3dbec5] -> dovecot/imap(+0xc460) [0x7f718ef83460] Aug 12 17:53:07 255c7fc2d2f0 dovecot: imap(user(a)example.com): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 58 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- root@8ec9579667fc:/# gdb /usr/lib/dovecot/imap /tmp/61 GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.7.1-0ubuntu5~14.04.2) 7.7.1 Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu". Type "show configuration" for configuration details. For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>. Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>. For help, type "help". Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/imap...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug//usr/lib/dovecot/imap...done. done. [New LWP 61] Core was generated by `dovecot/imap'. Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted. #0 0x00007f5dd5394cc9 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56 56 ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007f5dd5394cc9 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56 resultvar = 0 pid = 61 selftid = 61 #1 0x00007f5dd53980d8 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:89 save_stage = 2 act = {__sigaction_handler = {sa_handler = 0x800, sa_sigaction = 0x800}, sa_mask = {__val = {140041026109520, 178, 140041026077952, 512, 140040990095251, 140041026077952, 140041026077952, 512, 140040990087565, 140734823456136, 140040990231826, 140041026077952, 140734823456040, 0, 140040990231929, 140041026077952}}, sa_flags = -713567062, sa_restorer = 0x7fff6128dd01} sigs = {__val = {32, 0 <repeats 15 times>}} #2 0x00007f5dd5781298 in default_fatal_finish (type=<optimized out>, status=status@entry=0) at failures.c:192 backtrace = 0x7f5dd79d0538 "/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5e271) [0x7f5dd5781271] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5e34e) [0x7f5dd578134e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f5dd573ca9e] -> /usr/lib/d"... #3 0x00007f5dd578134e in i_internal_fatal_handler (ctx=0x7fff6128dd70, format=<optimized out>, args=<optimized out>) at failures.c:653 status = 0 #4 0x00007f5dd573ca9e in i_panic (format=format@entry=0x7f5dd5ab1e68 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:264 ctx = {type = LOG_TYPE_PANIC, exit_status = 0, timestamp = 0x0} args = {{gp_offset = 40, fp_offset = 48, overflow_arg_area = 0x7fff6128de60, reg_save_area = 0x7fff6128dda0}} #5 0x00007f5dd5a5c96f in mailbox_copy (_ctx=<optimized out>, mail=mail@entry=0x7f5dd79ffbc0) at mail-storage.c:2141 ctx = 0x7f5dd7a043e0 t = 0x7f5dd79fdf00 keywords = 0x0 pvt_flags = 0 real_mail = <optimized out> ret = -1 __FUNCTION__ = "mailbox_copy" #6 0x00007f5dd5a5c985 in mailbox_move (_ctx=<optimized out>, mail=0x7f5dd79ffbc0) at mail-storage.c:2153 ctx = 0x7f5dd7a043e0 #7 0x00007f5dd5f28ed5 in fetch_and_copy (copy_count_r=<synthetic pointer>, src_uidset_r=<synthetic pointer>, search_args=<optimized out>, src_trans_r=0x7fff6128df18, t=<optimized out>, move=true, client=0x7f5dd79ee440) at cmd-copy.c:67 search_ctx = 0x7f5dd79ff920 src_trans = 0x7f5dd79fec10 srcset_ctx = {str = 0x7f5dd79d0350, first_uid = 0, last_uid = 4294967295} ret = 1 save_ctx = 0x0 mail = 0x7f5dd79ffbc0 copy_count = 1 src_uidset = 0x7f5dd79d0350 #8 cmd_copy_full (cmd=0x7f5dd79eee70, move=<optimized out>) at cmd-copy.c:123 client = 0x7f5dd79ee440 dest_storage = <optimized out> destbox = 0x7f5dd79f8d10 t = 0x7f5dd79fdf00 src_trans = 0x7f5dd573d029 <t_pop_check+9> search_args = 0x7f5dd79f73a0 messageset = 0x7f5dd79dbc10 "76" mailbox = 0x7f5dd79dbc18 "Review-Classification" src_uidset = <optimized out> sync_flags = (unknown: 0) imap_flags = (unknown: 0) changes = {pool = 0x7f5dd79d0350, uid_validity = 0, saved_uids = {arr = {buffer = 0x1, element_size = 140040986301132}, v = 0x1, v_modifiable = 0x1}, ignored_modseq_changes = 3617438728, changed = 93, no_read_perm = 127} msg = <optimized out> ret = <optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "cmd_copy_full" #9 0x00007f5dd5f336dc in command_exec (cmd=0x7f5dd79eee70) at imap-commands.c:158 hook = 0x7f5dd79d90d0 ret = <optimized out> #10 0x00007f5dd5f326cf in client_command_input (cmd=0x7f5dd79eee70) at imap-client.c:780 client = 0x7f5dd79ee440 command = <optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #11 0x00007f5dd5f32785 in client_command_input (cmd=0x7f5dd79eee70) at imap-client.c:841 client = 0x7f5dd79ee440 command = <optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #12 0x00007f5dd5f32aa5 in client_handle_next_command (remove_io_r=<synthetic pointer>, client=0x7f5dd79ee440) at imap-client.c:879 No locals. #13 client_handle_input (client=client@entry=0x7f5dd79ee440) at imap-client.c:891 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 remove_io = false handled_commands = false __FUNCTION__ = "client_handle_input" #14 0x00007f5dd5f32e35 in client_input (client=0x7f5dd79ee440) at imap-client.c:933 cmd = 0x7f5dd79e5ae0 output = 0x7f5dd79eeca0 bytes = 39 __FUNCTION__ = "client_input" #15 0x00007f5dd5791247 in io_loop_call_io (io=0x7f5dd79eed90) at ioloop.c:388 ioloop = 0x7f5dd79d8720 t_id = 2 #16 0x00007f5dd5791fd7 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=ioloop@entry=0x7f5dd79d8720) at ioloop-epoll.c:220 ctx = 0x7f5dd79d93b0 list = 0x7f5dd79dade0 io = <optimized out> tv = {tv_sec = 1799, tv_usec = 999178} events_count = <optimized out> msecs = <optimized out> ret = 1 i = 0 call = <optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "io_loop_handler_run" #17 0x00007f5dd5790de8 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x7f5dd79d8720) at ioloop.c:412 __FUNCTION__ = "io_loop_run" #18 0x00007f5dd5741c93 in master_service_run (service=0x7f5dd79d85b0, callback=<optimized out>) at master-service.c:566 No locals. #19 0x00007f5dd5f272f4 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7f5dd79d8390) at main.c:400 set_roots = {0x7f5dd614aa00 <imap_setting_parser_info>, 0x0} login_set = {auth_socket_path = 0x7f5dd79d0048 "\001", postlogin_socket_path = 0x0, postlogin_timeout_secs = 60, callback = 0x7f5dd5f3c0f0 <login_client_connected>, failure_callback = 0x7f5dd5f3be20 <login_client_failed>, request_auth_token = 1} service_flags = <optimized out> storage_service_flags = <optimized out> username = 0x0 c = <optimized out> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- root@8ec9579667fc:/# dovecot -n # 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.13.0-43-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS ext4 auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 150 first_valid_uid = 150 last_valid_gid = 150 last_valid_uid = 150 mail_debug = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir:INDEX=/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/indexes mail_uid = vmail namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Attention-Not-Required { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Attention { auto = subscribe } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Review-Classification { auto = subscribe } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { antispam_backend = dspam antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_dspam_args = --deliver=;--user;%u; antispam_dspam_binary = /usr/bin/dspam antispam_signature = X-DSPAM-Signature antispam_signature_missing = error antispam_spam = Attention-Not-Required antispam_trash = Trash antispam_unsure = Review-Classification antispam_verbose_debug = 1 mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.net protocols = " imap lmtp" service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24 } user = vmail } ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.crt ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.key ssl_protocols = TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1 !SSLv3 !SSLv2 userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " sieve" } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " sieve" } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " antispam" }

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doveadm-server hangs with 100% cpu usage
by Dennis Kuhn 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

we have some replication issues. From time to time a doveadm-server process takes 100% cpu in the state recv_mailbox_tree_deletes on the replica. The process runs forever until it is manually killed. Strace on this process doesn't show anything. Sometimes we have several doveadm-server processes in this state, all for the same account, all with 100% CPU Load. The logfile on the master says: Error: Timeout during state=recv_mailbox_tree Error: dsync(dobby5.heinlein-support.de): I/O has stalled, no activity for 600 seconds My workaround is to delete the user directory on the replica so that the whole account is replicated again. This solves the problem for this specific account. The dovecot version is 2.2.15 on the master and 2.2.16 on the replica. Dennis Kuhn -- Heinlein Support GmbH Schwedter Str. 8/9b, 10119 Berlin http://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: 030 / 405051-57 Fax: 030 / 405051-19 Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: HRB 93818 B / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein -- Sitz: Berlin

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Problem with the Path argument in pigeonhole 0.4.3 at ubuntu 14.04
by Jakob-Matthias Böttger 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Hello list members I want dovecot managesieve to store its config unter ~/.dovecot.sieve additionally dovecot should read as sieve_after the file ~/.sieve It's working fine BUT dovecot managesieve is always symlinking the sieve file at activation to ~/.sieve and not to ~/.dovecot.sieve as i configured it. Any idears about this strange behaviour? dovecot is configured as follows # 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.13.0-53-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS auth_mechanisms = plain login dict { acl = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = *,[::] log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_plugins = " expire quota acl" mail_privileged_group = vmail 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 ihave namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEXPVT=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = shared } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl expire = Trash expire2 = Trash/* expire3 = Spam expire4 = Junk expire_dict = proxy::expire quota = dict:user::file:/var/vmail/%d/%n/.quotausage sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = ~/.sieve } postmaster_address = admin(a)domain.tld protocols = imap lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = root } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service imap-login { client_limit = 1000 process_limit = 500 } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/own_certs/certs/stern.domain.tld.chain.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/own_certs/private/stern.domain.tld.key ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3 userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota expire acl imap_acl } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve quota } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = sieve quota }

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HG port=0 changes still problematic
by Thomas Leuxner 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Aug 30 12:35:04 nihlus.leuxner.net systemd[1]: Started Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server. Aug 30 12:35:04 nihlus.leuxner.net dovecot[60404]: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf line 24: Invalid port number 0 Aug 30 12:35:04 nihlus.leuxner.net systemd[1]: dovecot.service: main process exited, code=exit System with HG e1c7fcd62813 fails on inet_listener imaps { port = 0 #port = 993 #ssl = yes } Regards Thomas

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Post-migration questions
by Grant 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

I just migrated from courier-imap to dovecot and dovecot is a lot faster. My only client is webmail on the same server as dovecot. Max ~10 users. Should I still run imapproxy like I did with courier? Does dovecot periodically empty the trash folder like courier does? I reduced the number of processes courier was running to save RAM and improve performance. Are there any performance tweaks I should consider for dovecot? - Grant

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IMAP hibernate feature committed
by Timo Sirainen 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/64c73e6bd397 Today I finally committed the "imap-hibernate" feature that I first started developing about a year ago (and had been thinking about for several years before that). The main purpose here is to reduce the number of imap processes and the amount of memory they use by moving IDLEing connections into imap-hibernate processes where they are waiting for something to happen (changes to the mailbox or IMAP client to do something). Mailbox changes are noticed only if inotify/kqueue is enabled, so without them the hibernation feature won't work well. For now only the IMAP connections that are in IDLE can be hibernated. In theory non-IDLEing connections could also be hibernated, but the main problem here is that if EXPUNGEs can't be sent at the time the hibernation is over, the current code can't handle it. They would require recreating a view that contains such expunged messages, which could be possible with some extra work. Some IMAP extensions aren't supported yet: - NOTIFY: This would just need to import/export the NOTIFY state. Also hibernation could be done at any time if VANISHED replies could be sent to the selected mailbox. - SEARCH=CONTEXT: A bit more troublesome extension to support. I'm not sure how big the trouble would be. It's rarely used though. - COMPRESS: The [de]compression code would need to be moved to login process instead of being done in imap-compress plugin. This would be a larger change, although it's also useful for various other purposes. The hibernation can be enabled for now simply by setting imap_hibernate_timeout setting to non-zero, which controls how long to wait after client has issued IDLE (and nothing happens) until the process hibernates. Some future work might include: - Moving the hibernation all the way to the first Dovecot proxy layer to avoid the need for imap-hibernate process at all. (Also moving the COMPRESS handling all the way there.) - Dynamically adjusting when the client should be hibernated instead of just a fixed imap_hibernate_timeout setting. Especially try to avoid such a situation where the hibernation is almost always terminated soon after it started. Although that probably is unlikely, so maybe not worth the trouble to prevent.. - Hibernation could be used to control the load of the server. If it's running too slow or if there are already too many imap processes, some of the connections could be moved to hibernation stage. Or just kept in hibernation for a while longer even after the imap process would normally be recreated (e.g. wait for several minutes before reporting new emails, or several seconds before replying to DONE). - The EXPUNGE/VANISHED and FETCH FLAGS replies aren't sent asynchronously, but instead fully buffered to the output buffer. This works as long as the list of changes after hibernation isn't huge, but otherwise it's wasting a lot of memory. - Maybe support non-inotify/kqueue change notifications from lib-storage. This could be complicated though to do efficiently. Or a simple way would be to just send a UDP or UNIX datagram packet on all changes to all the imap-hibernate processes and see if anybody cares about those. I'm not sure how efficient that would be.

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virtual users with postfix
by Andreas Meyer 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

Hello! My passwd file looks like this: info@nimmini.de:{CRAM-MD5}e33cbd144b372a9c919228923464c806b57e35df2d6d1484ceaabe7e3530cd58:5000:5000::/var/spool/vhosts/nimmini.de/info::userdb_mail=maildir:~/ When I login for the first time, I see this in the log: Aug 29 09:52:57 imap(info(a)nimmini.de): Error: mkdir_parents(/var/lib/dovecot/db) failed: Permission denied Aug 29 09:52:57 imap(info(a)nimmini.de): Error: acl: dict commit failed Although the mailbox "info" is created with this content: drwx------ 2 5000 5000 4096 29. Aug 09:52 cur -rw------- 1 5000 5000 0 29. Aug 09:52 dovecot-acl-list -rw------- 1 5000 5000 272 29. Aug 09:52 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 5000 5000 72 29. Aug 09:52 dovecot.mailbox.log -rw------- 1 5000 5000 51 29. Aug 09:52 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 5000 5000 8 29. Aug 09:52 dovecot-uidvalidity -r--r--r-- 1 5000 5000 0 29. Aug 09:52 dovecot-uidvalidity.55e164dc drwx------ 5 5000 5000 4096 29. Aug 09:52 .Drafts drwx------ 2 5000 5000 4096 29. Aug 09:52 new drwx------ 5 5000 5000 4096 29. Aug 09:52 .Sent -rw------- 1 5000 5000 18 29. Aug 09:52 subscriptions drwx------ 2 5000 5000 4096 29. Aug 09:52 tmp drwx------ 5 5000 5000 4096 29. Aug 09:52 .Trash /var/lib looks like this: ... drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 29. Aug 00:28 dovecot ... Should the folder dovecot be owned by the user dovecot? What causes the error above? Greetings Andreas

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Dovecot proxy and password scheme updating
by efs efefsfse 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Hello, I run a dovecot proxy (which is doing authentification itself) and a dovecot backend on separate boxes. I want to change the actual password scheme. Since postlogin scripting is not supported by proxies and %w variable is not forwaded to dovecot backend is there any way that I can update the password scheme with my current setup ? Thanks in advance.

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Allow delivery to existing accounts only with LDAP and static
by Miloslav Hůla 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Hi, we are using LDAP binding as a passdb, and static with allow_all_users=yes as an userdb. Works fine, but problem is, Maildirs are created for non-existent accounts too. We would like to prevent it. The LDAP binding does not supporta user lookups. Is the correct way to use checkpassword as a passdb before LDAP, check for account existency here and: result_success=continue result_failure=return-fail ? Thank you, regards, Miloslav

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Merging maildirs
by Petter Gunnerud 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Hi List How do I merge files from one maildir into another maildir? Long version: I've been using dovecot/postfix for a 12 user environment for several years, and today was the first time I ran into an issue I could not solve from reading the documentation. The server is gentoo running on esxi. A few times a year I've made a snapshot of the server and copied the files to my home esxi server as a full system backup. 5 days ago the internet connection at the office broke, and I decided to power on the last copy of the server at my home and change public dns so that users could access their new mails via webmail from this spare server. (I didn't allow imap through firewall.) Now the network at the office is back. DNS is updated so that mails are delivered to the office server again. But all the mails sent / received during those 5 days is only at my house. How can I merge those into the office server?I'd like to do this as a server administrator. I do not want to have each user forward the mails to them self from the temporarily webmail. I tried to just copy the mail files on my own account - like I did once when I used courier-imap, but that did not work with dovecot. I hope someone has an idea of how to solve this.

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