December 2016 - dovecot

v2.2.27 released
by Timo Sirainen 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

https://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.27.tar.gz https://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.27.tar.gz.sig Note that the download URLs are now https with a certificate from Let's Encrypt. * dovecot.list.index.log rotation sizes/times were changed so that the .log file stays smaller and .log.2 is deleted sooner. + Added mail_crypt plugin that allows encryption of stored emails. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailCrypt + stats: Global stats can be sent to Carbon server by setting stats_carbon_server=ip:port + imap/pop3 proxy: If passdb returns proxy_not_trusted, don't send ID/XCLIENT + Added generic hash modifier for %variables: %{<hash algorithm>;rounds=<n>,truncate=<bits>,salt=s>:field} Hash algorithm is any of the supported ones, e.g. md5, sha1, sha256. Also "pkcs5" is supported using SHA256. For example: %{sha256:user} or %{md5;truncate=32:user}. + Added support for SHA3-256 and SHA3-512 hashes. + config: Support DNS wildcards in local_name, e.g. local_name *.example.com { .. } matches anything.example.com, but not multiple.anything.example.com. + config: Support multiple names in local_name, e.g. local_name "1.example.com 2.example.com" { .. } - Fixed crash in auth process when auth-policy was configured and authentication was aborted/failed without a username set. - director: If two users had different tags but the same hash, the users may have been redirected to the wrong tag's hosts. - Index files may have been thought incorrectly lost, causing "Missing middle file seq=.." to be logged and index rebuild. This happened more easily with IMAP hibernation enabled. - Various fixes to restoring state correctly in un-hibernation. - dovecot.index files were commonly 4 bytes per email too large. This is because 3 bytes per email were being wasted that could have been used for IMAP keywords. - Various fixes to handle dovecot.list.index corruption better. - lib-fts: Fixed assert-crash in address tokenizer with specific input. - Fixed assert-crash in HTML to text parsing with specific input (e.g. for FTS indexing or snippet generation) - doveadm sync -1: Fixed handling mailbox GUID conflicts. - sdbox, mdbox: Perform full index rebuild if corruption is detected inside lib-index, which runs index fsck. - quota: Don't skip quota checks when moving mails between different quota roots. - search: Multiple sequence sets or UID sets in search parameters weren't handled correctly. They were incorrectly merged together.

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doveadm edit headers?
by MRob 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Hello, is there a way to edit a message header using doveadm? I see how I can fetch the things I need, but even if I can't edit in place; if I extract the full message, edit it, there doesn't seem to be a way to append it back again?

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Virtual mailboxes, please help
by Peter Hodur 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Hi, I'm trying to setup virtual mailboxes. My setup: - migrated from Courier, so: separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes In doc i have read, thant i need to create separate namespace. namespace { prefix = virtual/ separator = / location = virtual:~/Maildir/virtual So i need to change / with . (Dot) in prefix and separator? Do i need to append LAYOUT=maildir++ to location? Where must location point? To the same directory where mail_location? Or do i need to create separate hierarchy for virtual mailboxes? Thanks for any answer ;) Peter ml.

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Mail marked read upon download
by Curtis Vaughan 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Just set up a new server with postfix and dovecot. I don't know why, but as soon as mail is accessed it is marked read. I'll see emails momentarily marked unread, but then switch to read later although I haven't opened them. This has never been an issue before. Any ideas why? Thanks. Curtis

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CVE-2016-8562 in dovecot
by Aki Tuomi 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

We are sorry to report that we have a bug in dovecot, which merits a CVE. See details below. If you haven't configured any auth_policy_* settings you are ok. This is fixed with https://git.dovecot.net/dovecot/core/commit/c3d3faa4f72a676e183f34be960cff1… and https://git.dovecot.net/dovecot/core/commit/99abb1302ae693ccdfe0d57351fd42c… Important vulnerability in Dovecot (CVE-2016-8562) CVSS score: 7.4 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H) Affected version(s): 2.2.25.1 up to 2.2.26.1 Fixed in: 2.2.27.1rc1 Short summary: Dovecot auth component can be crashed by remote user when auth-policy component is activated. If auth-policy component has been activated in Dovecot, then remote user can use SASL authentication to crash auth component. Workaround is to disable auth-policy component until fix is in place. This can be done by commenting out all auth_policy_* settings. Aki Tuomi Dovecot oy

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SAML | Input buffer full (no auth attempts in 0 secs)
by mj 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

Hi, In my journey to enable SAML auth for our webmail (sogo.nu) I have created a password-less dovecot imap listener on 127.0.0.1/32, so that once a user is SAML authenticated for the SOGo webmail, SOGo can connect to dovecot on 127.0.0.1:143 with something like "01 LOGIN username randompassword". Watching this (tcpflow) as it happens,i can see the following auth attempt coming from sogo: > 1 login "username" "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" Note, the actual 'password' is even longer. This connection attempt is causing dovecot to throw the following error: > Dec 02 22:34:33 imap-login: Info: Disconnected: Input buffer full (no > auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=x.y.z.32, lip=x.y.z.68, > session=<d+o3tLNCaOvAV48g> and > BYE Input buffer full, aborting So this doesn't work. :-( The question: is there a way to make this work? (make the input buffer larger, for example..?) Or any other ideas to make this work? Thanks in advance, MJ

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move IMAP folder
by James 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

I am trying to move an IMAP folder from Thunderbird and nothing happens. What /var/log file should I look in?

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RE: First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working
by Richard 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

> Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 13:12:39 +0200 > From: Moi <anic297(a)mac.com> > > Thank you. It worked and I now have several log files to check. > > In the meantime, I've tried once again to send a message to > "mailtest" from an outside address; this time, I got an error reply: > > This report relates to a message you sent with the following header > fields: > > Message-id: <00e201d2290f$67da8c70$378fa550$(a)mac.com> > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:15:21 +0200 > From: Moi > To: 'Mail Test' <mailtest(a)barbu.sytes.net> > Subject: Test > > Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients: > > Recipient address: mailtest(a)barbu.sytes.net > Reason: Illegal host/domain name found > <end of reply> > > Yet another area with a problem; at least this is now a valid > reason for it to not work. > Is this a misconfiguration of my DNS server? Assuming that "barbu.sytes.net" is the intended hostname (not something made up to obscure the real name), there is an MX-record for that that points to "mail.barbu.sytes.net", but there is no A-record for the "mail." hostname. There is an A-record for "mail.sytes.net", in case that is what you were intending, in which case you'd need to fix the MX on "barbu.sytes.net".

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Show pigeonhole version?
by MRob 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

How can I query the current pigeonhole version from a running instance to verify it is what I expect? Possible to get `dovecot --version` to show things like that?

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No stats under FreeBSD 10.3
by Ruud Boon 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

HI, I’m currently testing the stats module of Dovecot (2.2.26.0 (23d1de6)) Looks like there no statistics under FreeBSD. Server isn’t busy yet but got at least a few connection open. Added mail_plugins = $mail_plugins stats plugin { stats_refresh = 30 secs stats_track_cmds = yes } doveadm stats dump global reset_timestamp last_update num_logins num_cmds num_connected_sessions auth_successes auth_master_successes auth_failures auth_db_tempfails auth_cache_hits auth_cache_misses user_cpu sys_cpu clock_time min_faults maj_faults vol_cs invol_cs disk_input disk_output read_count read_bytes write_count write_bytes mail_lookup_path mail_lookup_attr mail_read_count mail_read_bytes mail_cache_hits 1478031539 0.000000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cheers, Ruud

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