December 2017 - dovecot

Recommended tool for migrating IMAP servers
by Davide Marchi 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Hi Friends, I would like to ask you a suggestion: I need to migrate a imap server to a new one and then dismiss the old one. Reading from relative Dovecot documentation page (https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration) more tools are shown: UW-IMAP's mailutil, imapsync, YippieMove and Larch. The each mail servers are Linux based, one of this (mine) is Dovecot. Based on your experience which of these tools would be preferable to use? Thank you very much Davide

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Re: hosting emails at home
by André Rodier 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Hello Mike, Yes, I am using a static IP address, but in theory, you could use a dynamic one. Nothing technically would prevent email exchanges between two boxes, as long as the SPF records are up to date and the DKIM is properly setup. Unfortunately, some ISPs are simply blacklisting full range of private IP addresses just because they are not officials / commercials. Kind regards, André On 10/12/17 19:24, Mike wrote: > > Nice. > > Are you using a static IP in this setup? > > It doesn't seem like it, but wanted to be sure. > > Mike. > > Quoting André Rodier <andre(a)rodier.me>: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I have been using Postfix and Dovecot for my personal emails for years. >> After being tired of reinstalling my personal mail server many times, I >> am currently writing some Ansible scripts to do it automatically. >> >> I obviously checked the other projects, and did not found anything close >> to what I am looking for, so I am implementing it now. >> >> The final goal is to have a box that once online, would setup itself, by >> creating the certificates, the DKIM keys and update the appropriate DNS >> records. >> >> This is so far what I have achieved: >> - Automatic generation of certificates using LetsEncrypt >> - Automatic update of the domain entries: imap, smtp, webmail, etc. >> - Automatic generation of a DKIM keys >> - Automatic update of specific records (MX, SPF, DKIM, etc.) >> - LDAP server for user accounts, with or without system login. >> - Installation of Postfix, Dovecot and Roundcube >> >> Sending DKIM signed emails is working, and the IMAP server is configured >> as well, although basic. >> >> The postfix and dovecot configuration are not yet entirely finished. I >> am planing to add an anti spam system, and sieve, amongst other things. >> >> Although in development during my spare time, the system is normally >> robust and you should be able to run it multiple times without errors. >> >> If anyone is interested to use it, to have a look, or to take part, it >> is here: https://github.com/progmaticltd/homebox >> >> Kind regards, >> André Rodier. > >

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hosting emails at home
by André Rodier 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Hello everyone, I have been using Postfix and Dovecot for my personal emails for years. After being tired of reinstalling my personal mail server many times, I am currently writing some Ansible scripts to do it automatically. I obviously checked the other projects, and did not found anything close to what I am looking for, so I am implementing it now. The final goal is to have a box that once online, would setup itself, by creating the certificates, the DKIM keys and update the appropriate DNS records. This is so far what I have achieved: - Automatic generation of certificates using LetsEncrypt - Automatic update of the domain entries: imap, smtp, webmail, etc. - Automatic generation of a DKIM keys - Automatic update of specific records (MX, SPF, DKIM, etc.) - LDAP server for user accounts, with or without system login. - Installation of Postfix, Dovecot and Roundcube Sending DKIM signed emails is working, and the IMAP server is configured as well, although basic. The postfix and dovecot configuration are not yet entirely finished. I am planing to add an anti spam system, and sieve, amongst other things. Although in development during my spare time, the system is normally robust and you should be able to run it multiple times without errors. If anyone is interested to use it, to have a look, or to take part, it is here: https://github.com/progmaticltd/homebox Kind regards, André Rodier.

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recover missing messages - files still present in storage
by Webert de Souza Lima 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Hi, I have a user account that had almost 20GB of emails and now they're missing. Only a few are available trough IMAP or doveadm. I can see in /path/to/mailbox/storage that thousands of "m." files are still there, summing up 19GB of files. doveconf -n http://termbin.com/7lgc I have tried: accessing via IMAP accessing via doveadm search/fetch/mailbox status doveadm index doveadm force-resync doveadm dump: -- INDEX: /srv/dovecot2/index/DOMAIN_SUPRESSED/ACCOUNT_SUPRESSED/storage/dovecot.map.index version .................. = 7.3 base header size ......... = 120 header size .............. = 176 record size .............. = 20 compat flags ............. = 1 index id ................. = 1500105889 (2017-07-15 05:04:49) flags .................... = 0 uid validity ............. = 1500105889 (2017-07-15 05:04:49) next uid ................. = 26514 messages count ........... = 26513 seen messages count ...... = 0 deleted messages count ... = 0 first recent uid ......... = 1 first unseen uid lowwater = 1 first deleted uid lowwater = 26446 log file seq ............. = 47 log file tail offset ..... = 15656 log file head offset ..... = 15656 log2 rotate time ......... = 1512558922 (2017-12-06 09:15:22) last temp file scan ...... = 0 (1969-12-31 21:00:00) day stamp ................ = 1512604800 (2017-12-06 22:00:00) day first uid[0] ......... = 26450 day first uid[1] ......... = 26395 day first uid[2] ......... = 26328 day first uid[3] ......... = 26252 day first uid[4] ......... = 26234 day first uid[5] ......... = 26216 day first uid[6] ......... = 26135 day first uid[7] ......... = 26055 -- Extension 0 -- name ........ = map hdr_size .... = 8 reset_id .... = 0 record_offset = 8 record_size . = 12 record_align = 4 header ........ = 6111000001000000 -- Extension 1 -- name ........ = ref hdr_size .... = 0 reset_id .... = 0 record_offset = 6 record_size . = 2 record_align = 2 -- Keywords -- -- CACHE: /srv/dovecot2/index/DOMAIN_SUPRESSED/ACCOUNT_SUPRESSED/storage/dovecot.map.index.cache cache is unusable Regards, Webert Lima DevOps Engineer at MAV Tecnologia *Belo Horizonte - Brasil*

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Mailsploit problem in responce of BODYSTRUCTURE
by TACHIBANA Masashi 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Hi, I tried to see a mail that have a strange From header in bellow URL: https://www.mailsploit.com/index Then, I got BODYSTRUCTURE response contain next: ((NIL NIL "service" "paypal.com")) Are this problem already founded by anyone? So already fixed? -- TACHIBANA Masashi QUALITIA CO., LTD. mailto:tachibana@qualitia.co.jp

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iPhone no longer authenticating
by Mark Foley 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

I've switched a user to being an active directory user. That user's email client authorizes just fine with dovecot using GSSAPI. However, now his iPhone won't authorize. In the dovecot log file I get: Dec 01 14:27:28 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured session=q4n3W0xfggBiZj9s lip=98.102.63.107 rip=98.102.63.108 lport=993 rport=49538 resp=AG1wcmVzcwBEaW5va3JvbndhbGw0NQ== (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) Dec 01 14:27:32 auth-worker(5988): Debug: shadow(mpress,98.102.xx.yyy): lookup Dec 01 14:27:32 auth-worker(5988): Info: shadow(mpress,98.102.xx.yyy): unknown user (given password: *******) Dec 01 14:27:34 auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL 1 user=mpress Dec 01 14:27:34 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts in 6 secs): user=<mpress>, method=PLAIN, rip=98.102.xx.yyy, lip=98.102.63.107, TLS, session=<q4n3W0xfggBiZj9s> Dec 01 14:27:34 imap-login: Debug: SSL alert: close notify [98.102.xx.yyy] This same user will authenticate OK from his local domain workstation: Dec 01 14:28:52 auth: Debug: master userdb out: USER 1948516353 mpress system_groups_user=HPRS\mpress uid=10005gid=10000 home=/home/HPRS/mpress auth_token=ce3050035718ed0996af698400c4de1be453ec06 auth_user=mpress(a)HPRS.LOCAL Dec 01 14:28:52 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<mpress>, method=GSSAPI, rip=192.168.0.54, lip=192.168.0.2, mpid=9755, TLS, session=<6MT1YExftwDAqAA2> I'm pretty sure the reason has to do with Active Directory authenication locally, but of course his iPhone is not a member of the domain, and he is no longer in /etc/passwd/shadow. So, what is the best way to get the iPhone to authenticate? Here's my current config: > doveconf -n # 2.2.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 4.4.88 x86_64 Slackware 14.2 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_gssapi_hostname = $ALL auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/dovecot/dovecot.keytab auth_mechanisms = plain login gssapi auth_use_winbind = yes auth_username_format = %n auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot_info mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir passdb { driver = shadow } protocols = imap ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/OHPRS/GoDaddy/Apache/2016-08-10/54e789087d419b6e.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/certs/OHPRS/GoDaddy/mail.ohprs.org.key userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_ssl = yes Thanks, --Mark

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Doveadm backup error.
by Dovecot list 10 Dec '17

10 Dec '17

Hello. I try to migrate dovecot 1 to dovecot 2 with doveadm backup. But when i try to set doveadm backup i get : mx3:/root/dsync@[23:11] # doveadm -v -c ah.temp backup -R -u ah(a)test.pl <ahuryn(a)i-pi.pl> imapc: doveadm(ah(a)test.pl <ahuryn(a)i-pi.pl>): Error: Mail access for users with UID 145 not permitted (see first_valid_uid in config file, uid from userdb lookup). doveadm(ah(a)test.pl <ahuryn(a)i-pi.pl>): Error: User init failed mx3:/root/dsync@[22:13] # ls -la /home/mail/vhosts/test.pl/ah(a)test.pl/ <http://i-pi.pl/ahuryn@i-pi.pl/> total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 vmail vmail 2 Nov 12 23:59 . mx3:/root/dsync@[22:14] # doveadm user ah(a)test.pl <ahuryn(a)i-pi.pl> field value uid 145 gid 145 home /home/mail/vhosts/test.pl/ah(a)test.pl <http://i-pi.pl/ahuryn@i-pi.pl> mail mdbox:~/mdbox quota_rule *:storage=50000M mx3:/root/dsync@[22:14] # id 145 uid=145(vmail) gid=145(vmail) groups=145(vmail) mx3:/root/dsync@[1:14] # doveconf -n | grep 145 first_valid_uid = 145 last_valid_uid = 145 I dont have any idea whats is the problem. Best regards.

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Mail-crypt plugin clarification
by rje 10 Dec '17

10 Dec '17

I'm looking into ways to encrypt the stored email on my server. The idea is to make it impossible for my hosting provider (who has access to my VPS) to read the mail from the disk. So I'm looking into ways to do this, and I found the mail-crypt plugin for dovecot. Unfortunately I find the documentation very hard to understand. There is no clear description of what the goal and purpose of the plugin is, or how it works. Most of the documentation is very short and provides no explanation. So here are some questions - I will gladly help to update the documentation when some of these questions are answered :) If you cannot answer them all, please tell me what you know.. - It seems mail-cypt will transparently encrypt/decrypt mail - so it stores it on the server in encrypted form, but dovecot serves it unencrypted over IMAP. Is this correct? - It seems that mail-crypt needs both a private and a public key to work. Is this correct? - If mail-crypt has both private and public key in its configuration, does that not defeat the purpose of the whole thing? Anyone with access to the disk will be able to read everything? Regarding the settings: mail_crypt_global_private_key(_n) - Private key to decrypt files, you can specify many mail_crypt_global_public_key - Public key to use to encrypt files, you can specify one - How does this work? What does mail-crypt do when multiple private keys are specified? mail_crypt_private_key - Private key to decrypt user's master key, can be base64 encoded mail_crypt_private_password - Password to decrypt user's master key or environment private key - What is the relation between a users master key, and the private/public global keys above? What is an environment private key? TIA, and as I said above, I will help with updating the docs! -- Sent from: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/

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Re: Use multiple mbox locations
by Joseph Tam 08 Dec '17

08 Dec '17

Steffen Kaiser > Hmm, this is a job for: > > https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Snarf Cool! Can this be used with the imapc: driver to consolidate mail from separate IMAP accounts into one? (Sort of like how you can configure Gmail to slurp up mail into the Gmail account.) Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Use multiple mbox locations
by bapt x 08 Dec '17

08 Dec '17

Hello, With GNU mailutils on Debian 9, we receive mails in /var/mail/<username> but when we read mails with the "mail" command, they are moved in a file ~/mbox: "Saved 1 message in /home/<username>/mbox". I use Roundcube webmail with Dovecot but if I also use use the "mail" command to read emails, Roundcube will not display old messages anymore since they were moved to ~/mbox. So is their a way to tell Dovecot that we want to lookup for emails both in /var/mail/<username> and ~/mbox? I saw https://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Mixed_mbox_and_Maildir but I it did not work if when I tried to add 2 times a mbox location. Thanks for your help.

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