August 2016 - dovecot

Dict protocol changes string
by Nagy, Attila 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

Hi, I use pass and userdb with dict protocol in a similar way: key passdb { key = passdb^MAuth-User: %u^MAuth-Pass: %w^MAuth-Protocol: %s^MClient-IP: %r format = json } (^M is an \r character, inserted with vi CTRL-v + enter) Until 2.2.24 this has worked, but 2.2.25 seems to convert that ASCII 13 into an ASCII 1 and an "r". Python printout from what I get with 2.2.25: 'Lshared/passdb\x01rAuth-User: user\x01rAuth-Pass: pass\x01rAuth-Protocol: pop3\x01rClient-IP: 1.2.3.4' Is this change intentional? Why?

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Sieve Script Replication Gliches (Report #2)
by Reuben Farrelly 26 Feb '17

26 Feb '17

Hi, I've observed some odd behaviour with dsync replication between two hosts, specifically to do with sieve script replication. In short, I have two hosts which replicate in a master-master type setup where almost all of the reads and writes happen to just one of the two hosts. They are both running 2.2.devel (9dc6403), which is close to the latest 2.2 -git . Pigeonhole is running master-0.4 . This is on x86_64 Gentoo. Normal mail replication between Maildir's for all users works fine, however it appears that something recently committed to the code has broken sieve script replication between the two. I am sure this did once work. Replication is via tcps: . Sieve scripts on the lesser-used host are not up to date by an order of days/weeks with the main host and they don't seem to re-replicate - even if the rules don't exist at all on the replica. The symptoms and effects look to be the same as this (unanswered) post from December: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2015-December/102690.html I am not sure how to view the transaction log files, but I am seeing the same symptoms, ie no live replication, and on the lesser-used host almost all the scripts were old and some had the 1970 date on them. Even after forcing a [dsync replication replicate '*'] the scripts are not replicated. As it stands now there are no sieve scripts on one of the two members and the system seems unable to replicate by itself. Secondly, I am also seeing some doubled up outputs if I run 'doveadm sieve list -A': thunderstorm reuben # doveadm sieve list -A reuben rules ACTIVE liam rules ACTIVE kaylene rules ACTIVE reuben rules ACTIVE liam rules ACTIVE kaylene rules ACTIVE ... Has anyone else experienced the replication problem? Are sieve scripts actually replicating in live time for other 2.2.24/2.2.25 users as well? For me I didn't notice this till I went looking so I wonder if other people are experiencing this but just not aware of it yet...? Reuben

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Replication sieve scripts.
by Luescher Claude 26 Feb '17

26 Feb '17

Hello, Following up on old thread: http://www.dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2014-December/099003.html I have the exact same issue with 2.2.10: ii dovecot-antispam 2.0+20130822-2 amd64 Dovecot plugins for training spam filters ii dovecot-core 1:2.2.10-1 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - core files ii dovecot-imapd 1:2.2.10-1 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - IMAP daemon ii dovecot-ldap 1:2.2.10-1 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - LDAP support ii dovecot-lmtpd 1:2.2.10-1 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - LMTP server ii dovecot-managesieved 1:2.2.10-1 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - ManageSieve server ii dovecot-mysql 1:2.2.10-1 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - MySQL support ii dovecot-pop3d 1:2.2.10-1 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - POP3 daemon ii dovecot-sieve 1:2.2.10-1 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - Sieve filters support As even his version should already support sieve replication through dsync mine would have to support it for sure but I would like to hear a confirmation from the developers. The mail sync just works perfectly between the 2 nodes, it is only the sieve scripts which don't get replicated. I have tried to add additional sieve related options to the replicator: service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 } plugin { mail_replica = tcp:1.2.3.4 replication_full_sync_interval = 1 hours #Added (makes no difference) sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve_after sieve_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.duplicate sieve_duplicate_period = 1h #Added (makes no difference) } service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { user = vmail } unix_listener replication-notify { user = vmail } } It did not help. If there is one way I would like to get this work without upgrading dovecot. Thank you.

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antispam plugin pipe backend error when moving multiple emails
by Stéphane Cottin 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

Hi, I've got some trouble with the dovecot antispam plugin and the pipe backend. I'm using dovecot 2.2.18 with maildirs and zlib compression enabled. When moving 2 or more emails at once from the Junk folder to another one, I always have the following error : "Failed to copy to temporary file" In the server logs : imap(vvv(a)vvv.vvv): Error: read(zlib(/data/Maildir/.test/tmp/1446974366.M123890P936.vvv)) failed: Cached message size smaller than expected (13553 < 13562, box=test, UID=0) The same operation with one email at a time, on the same emails, works as expected. Stéphane

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Reappearing emails
by Ron Cleven 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

We have been running Dovecot 2.2.10 with a pair of CentOS 7 boxes with replications for the past year. We have been quite happy with the performance and reliability. Recently we received a report from an Android IMAP user that emails that he deleted without reading would often reappear in his INBOX. At first I thought it might be some quirky incompatibility with his email client, but I found that I could easily reproduce it in Roundcube by dragging an unread email to Trash. I have been monitoring this forum fairly religiously and don't recall seeing any similar reports. I plan to capture the IMAP wire interactions, but before doing that, I thought I would submit this to the IMAP gods to see if anyone had heard of this and/or if there is some newer version that might resolve the problem. This particular customer contacted his email vendor and asked them to analyze the problem. The actual log data is gigantic, so I just pasted in the vendor's narrative below in case it helps. Otherwise, as I said, I will capture a similar interaction at the wire level and follow up here. Vendor's narrative: You had 8 messages in the Inbox, and moved two to Trash. The server notified the app on the push connection (for Inbox) that there are now 6 messages. By the time the app got around to catch up with that (it did the Trash folder first), the server said "oh wait, there are 8 messages, not 6" (in the Inbox), and so the app synced them in, just as reported. app selecting the Inbox, server saying there are 8 messages there app moving UID 729 and 730 to Trash (push) server saying Trash now has 34 messages (push) server saying two messages gone from Inbox, 6 left (push) 6 messages left in Inbox becoming 8 (push) and here they are (the two new ones) Thanks, Ron

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RFC 3501 violation in FETCH BODY responses
by Guilhem Moulin 18 Dec '16

18 Dec '16

Hi there, Quoting RFC 3501 sec. 7.4.2 “FETCH Response” (data item BODYSTRUCTURE): “A body type of type MESSAGE and subtype RFC822 contains, immediately after the basic fields, the envelope structure, body structure, and size in text lines of the encapsulated message.” According the ABNF (RFC 3501 sec. 9) the envelope structure is that of the ENVELOPE FETCH data item, and the env-{from,sender,reply-to,to,cc, bcc} fields are non-space-separated address lists: body-type-msg = media-message SP body-fields SP envelope SP body SP body-fld-lines envelope = "(" env-from SP … SP env-to SP … ")" env-from = "(" 1*address ")" / nil env-to = "(" 1*address ")" / nil While this is indeed the case for ‘FETCH … (ENVELOPE)’, for ‘FETCH … (BODY)’ dovecot 2.2.25 adds a space between addresses of an address list of the envelope structure of an encapsulated MESSAGE/RFC822 message. See the attached patch to ‘src/lib-imap/test-imap-bodystructure.c’, which currently (2.2.25) fails as follows test-imap-bodystructure.c:122: Assert failed: strcmp(str_c(str), testmsg_body) == 0 test-imap-bodystructure.c:129: Assert failed: strcmp(str_c(str), testmsg_bodystructure) == 0 imap bodystructure parser ............................................ : FAILED because the ‘env-to’ field of the envelope structure of the encapsulated MESSAGE/RFC822 message is printed as ((NIL NIL "sub-to1" "domain.org") (NIL NIL "sub-to2" "domain.org")) while it should be ((NIL NIL "sub-to1" "domain.org")(NIL NIL "sub-to2" "domain.org")) After a quick look at the source, this seems to be due to src/lib-imap/imap-bodystructure.c:imap_write_list, which always separates list items with spaces. In the case of an envelope, only the top-level list should be space-separated. Indeed, not adding a space between items of type IMAP_ARG_LIST in the recursive call makes the test pass again. Cheers, -- Guilhem.

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logging TLS SNI hostname
by Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

Is there a way to log SNI hostname used in TLS session? Info is there in SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_callback, dovecot copies it to ssl_io->host. Unfortunately I don't see it expanded to any variables ( http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables ). Please consider this to be a feature request. The goal is to be able to see which hostname client used like: May 30 08:21:19 xxx dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<abc>, method=PLAIN, rip=1.1.1.1, lip=2.2.2.2, mpid=17135, TLS, SNI=pop3.somehost.org, session=<hfS9Qwk03sBTBnrN> -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )

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Panic: file mail-transaction-log-file.c: line 104 (mail_transaction_log_file_free): assertion failed: (!file->locked)
by Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

2.2.25 (also happens on 2.2.24). Happens every time I try to make deliver and only for this user: Jul 14 09:52:02 mbox dovecot: lmtp(25601): Connect from local Jul 14 09:52:02 mbox dovecot: lmtp(powiadomienia): session=<CRU2EaJEh1cBZAAALZVUYQ>, Error: Index /var/mail/powiadomienia/dovecot.index: Lost log for seq=1009 offset=40: Missing middle file seq=1009 (between 1009..4294967295) Jul 14 09:52:02 mbox dovecot: lmtp(powiadomienia): session=<CRU2EaJEh1cBZAAALZVUYQ>, Warning: fscking index file /var/mail/powiadomienia/dovecot.index Jul 14 09:52:02 mbox dovecot: lmtp(powiadomienia): session=<CRU2EaJEh1cBZAAALZVUYQ>, Error: Fixed index file /var/mail/powiadomienia/dovecot.index: log_file_seq 1009 -> 1011 Jul 14 09:52:02 mbox dovecot: lmtp(powiadomienia): session=<CRU2EaJEh1cBZAAALZVUYQ>, Panic: file mail-transaction-log-file.c: line 104 (mail_transaction_log_file_free): assertion failed: (!file->locked) Jul 14 09:52:02 mbox dovecot: lmtp(powiadomienia): session=<CRU2EaJEh1cBZAAALZVUYQ>, Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x8d7d2) [0x7feb89fc97d2] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x8d8bd) [0x7feb89fc98bd] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7feb89f67e31] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_transaction_log_file_free+0x160) [0x7feb8a331fa0] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot- storage.so.0(mail_transaction_logs_clean+0x4d) [0x7feb8a3360ed] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_transaction_log_close+0x30) [0x7feb8a336230] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot- storage.so.0(mail_transaction_log_move_to_memory+0xd5) [0x7feb8a3363e5] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_move_to_memory+0xa0) [0x7feb8a330440] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot- storage.so.0(mail_index_write+0x183) [0x7feb8a32e9d3] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_fsck+0xc1f) [0x7feb8a3186ff] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_map+0x49b) [0x7feb8a322eab] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_map+0x71) [0x7feb8a31a231] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xe0fed) [0x7feb8a32ffed] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xe15f3) [0x7feb8a3305f3] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_open+0x78) [0x7feb8a3306d8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_open+0x92) [0x7feb8a309202] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x6c0e2) [0x7feb8a2bb0e2] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x6c1c8) [0x7feb8a2bb1c8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/plugins/lib20_zlib_plugin.so(+0x2fdc) [0x7feb85697fdc] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x450c6) [0x7feb8a2940c6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_open+0x20) [0x7feb8a294240] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so.0(mail_deliver_save_open+0xad) [0x7feb8a58d1ad] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so.0(mail_deliver_save+0xbb) [0x7feb8a58d48b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so.0(mail_deliver+0x123) [0x7feb8a58d9e3] -> dovecot/lmtp [DATA powiadomienia]() [0x406bc8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x4c) [0x7feb89fdd67c] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x101) [0x7feb89fdeb01] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x25) [0x7feb89fdd705] Jul 14 09:52:02 mbox dovecot: lmtp(powiadomienia): session=<CRU2EaJEh1cBZAAALZVUYQ>, Fatal: master: service(lmtp): child 25601 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )

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[patch] Improved error checking for the dovecot-antispam-plugin
by Robert Munteanu 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

Hi, Hopefully this is the right channel for such a patch. I have a minor enhancement to submit for the antispam plugin http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-antispam-plugin It adds minimal error checking for the sendmail_binary, otherwise the reported error in case of a missing binary or one with missing permissions is generic and not useful. Thanks, Robert -- http://robert.muntea.nu/

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imapc fetch optimization
by Nagy, Attila 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

Hi, imapc does a lot of UID FETCH $UID (BODY.PEEK[]), which is nice, because it works even with the dumbest IMAP server, altough it really kills performance, especially on high latency lines. I wonder: if IMAP servers can effectively handle boundless fetches (like a list with all wanted UIDs, or simply 1:* if all are needed), do you see this as a good addition to develop? This could be a new imapc_features setting afterall... Thanks,

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