January 2018 - dovecot

Submission/SMTP proxy server
by Daniel Miller 16 Jan '18

16 Jan '18

Sorry if this seems elementary - but a question on implementation/usage/purpose of this. My understanding is at this time the SMTP proxy server is only that - it does not implement any further functionality. So its availability now is purely for testing purposes. Is that accurate? I secondly assume that this intended for trusted clients only - so this is not intended for processing email submitted via port 25. And thirdly - if a separate firewall/anti-spam/virus/authentication service is run outside of the MTA (like ASSP) then the Dovecot proxy should be inserted between that and the final MTA? -- Daniel

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doveadm mailbox command fails if backend has an IPv6 address
by Andreas Jobs 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

Hi, some of my maintenance scripts weren't working as expected and I finally found that this only happens if the user was mapped to a backend server reachable via IPv6: On a director: doveadm mailbox status -u username messages Junk returns Junk messages=203 (if backend is connected via IPv4) or Lookup of host ipv6addr:542 failed: ... (if backend is connected via IPv6) doveadm_tcp_connect_port tried a net_gethostbyname with "ipv6addr:542" as hostname. I've attached a quick-and-dirty-patch (for 2.2.33.2) that fixes this (at least for me). Regards, Andreas -- ! Andreas Jobs Network Operation Center ! ! Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum ! ! One Day I Will Find This Peer Guy and Then I Will Reset HIS Connection !

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Duplicate mail id issue, mailbox does not exist when dovecot tries to generate a new guid so replication can take place
by Daniel Botting 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

Hi all, When we run the below one user constantly shows as failed (dovecot version is 2.2.13): sudo doveadm replicator status "*" mail.log shows the below for the user: Jan 3 16:20:57 hostname dovecot: dsync-server(user): Error: Duplicate mailbox GUID <guid number> for mailboxes <mailbox name.sub folder> and <mailbox name.sub folder> - giving a new GUID <guid number> to <mailbox name.subfolder> Jan 3 16:20:57 hostname dovecot: dsync-server(user): Error: Couldn't update mailbox <sub folder name> GUID: Mailbox doesn't exist: <sub folder name> Looking at their mailbox the folder does exist. Has anybody seen this before and would be aware of the way to resolve? Kind regards Daniel Botting Codethink Ltd

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Non-destructive deduplication
by Tristan Miller 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

Greetings. I use Dovecot 2.2.29.1 as my IMAP server. Owing to a bug in my mail client [1], several unique messages (mostly in my Sent folder) have duplicate Message-ID headers. Dovecot itself doesn't seem to be bothered by this, though my mail client is confused by the false duplicates. (It screws up the threading display, and results in data loss when I run the client's deduplication filter.) I would like to change the Message-ID headers in the "duplicate" message files stored in my IMAP server so that they are unique. I realize that this has disadvantages of its own, but I can't think of a better alternative. So this leads me to two questions: 1) Will Dovecot get confused if I simply open the message files in a text editor and manually change their Message-ID headers? If so, how should I go about changing the Message-ID headers? 2) Does there exist any tool that will scan a maildir folder to find messages with duplicate Message-IDs, and automatically rewrite the Message-ID headers so that they are (probably) unique? I could probably kludge together a quick shell script, but if someone's already gone to the trouble of writing such a tool and making it relatively robust, I'd rather use that instead. Regards, Tristan [1] http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3828 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tristan Miller Free Software developer, ferret herder, logologist https://logological.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Re: Questions about SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension
by Joseph Tam 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot(a)inf.h-brs.de> wrote: >> I'd like to configure my dovecot service to use the IMAP SPECIAL-USE > > well, in my experience SPECIAL-USE is just a suggestions to clients. Check > RFC 6154 for MUSTs, you'll find only few. Hence, how the client (or the > server) behaves in a special case is implementor-defined. In other words, expect the unexpected. I'm especially curious what happends when you have multiple mailboxes with the same special-use. Tanstaafl <tanstaafl(a)libertytrek.org> wrote: > There was a similar discussion about this on list some time ago, about > whether or not Dovecot could utilize special use 'aliases' that your > clients may want to use by default, and Dovecot would automatically map > those requests to a single mailbox. > ... > Personally I would love to see this implemented. Yeah, that would be cool. For an existing installation, though, an admin might have merge all existing mailboxes into the one actual mailbox to keep the confusion down. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Lmtp Memory Limit
by Thomas Manninger 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

Hi, i am using dovecot 2.2.33.2 on CentOS 7.4. Since i upgraded from CentOS 7.2. to CentOS 7.4. (without upgrading dovecot), my dovecot sieve-pipe scripts crash with Out of memory: Out of memory (allocated 262144) (tried to allocate 8793 bytes) There are some memory limits in dovecot or sieve? Can i change this value? Kernel limitks: [root@xxx software]# ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 26505 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 26505 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited Dovecot is running as user mail: su mail bash-4.2$ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 26505 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 4096 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited Can someone help me? Thanks for help! Best regards Thomas Manninger

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Re: Mailbox from virtual mailbox in other namespace
by Aki Tuomi 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

On 15.01.2018 10:31, Jakobus Schürz wrote: > > > Am 15.01.2018 um 08:17 schrieb Aki Tuomi: >> >> On 14.01.2018 02:11, Jakob Schürz wrote: >>> Hi there! >>> >>> I have more namespaces. One for subscription, another one "inbox", then >>> one for the archiv and a shared and a public namespace. >>> And than is there a namespace for virtual mailboxes. >>> >>> In the namespace for virtual mailboxes is one mailbox wich gives me all >>> emails in the archiv namespace >>> >>> #cat dovecot-virtual >>> Archiv/* >>> all >>> >>> The namespace is normally hidden, but for debugging i make it visible. >>> >>> doveadm search -u jakob mailbox Real/Archiv all >>> >>> lists all the emails. >>> >>> So i want to integrate this virtual mailbox in another namespace. >>> The namespace is Archiv >>> >>> namespace Archiv { >>> ... >>> ... >>> ... >>> mailbox Real/Archiv { >>> auto = subscription >>> } >>> ... >>> ... >>> } >>> >>> doveadm mailbox list -u jakob >>> >>> gives >>> Archiv/Real/Archiv >>> >>> But >>> >>> doveadm search -u jakob mailbox Archiv/Real/Archiv all >>> >>> gives no result. >>> >>> What's wrong? >>> >>> jakob >> Do you have dovecot-virtual file for Archiv/Real/Archiv? >> >> Aki > > Hmmm... I see... no. I thought it is possible to integrate a specific > mailbox from another namespace in a namespace giving the mailbox-name > in mailbox-definition. So... it is not possible? > Can I mix real and virtual mailboxes in one namespace? > > jakob Not possible, sorry. The only way to do this is to have a dovecot-virtual file which will operate on the real folder, such as Real/Archiv !Real/Archiv all Aki

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Mailbox from virtual mailbox in other namespace
by Jakob Schürz 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

Hi there! I have more namespaces. One for subscription, another one "inbox", then one for the archiv and a shared and a public namespace. And than is there a namespace for virtual mailboxes. In the namespace for virtual mailboxes is one mailbox wich gives me all emails in the archiv namespace #cat dovecot-virtual Archiv/* all The namespace is normally hidden, but for debugging i make it visible. doveadm search -u jakob mailbox Real/Archiv all lists all the emails. So i want to integrate this virtual mailbox in another namespace. The namespace is Archiv namespace Archiv { ... ... ... mailbox Real/Archiv { auto = subscription } ... ... } doveadm mailbox list -u jakob gives Archiv/Real/Archiv But doveadm search -u jakob mailbox Archiv/Real/Archiv all gives no result. What's wrong? jakob

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Save login's to a table
by Jorge Bastos 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Hi, I'd like to have the logins that the accounts do, saved in a *sql table, with login name | IP | datetime, for audit porposes. How could I achieve that, if possible? Thanks in advanced,

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Client Identification
by spaceman 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

I have two seperate clients (using fetchmail) on two seperate machines that use the same login and the same ip address as each other fetching their mail over IMAP using IMAP idle. Naturally Dovecot assumes that they are the same machine but they are not so messages only get downloaded to one of the machines rather than both which is what I want. How do I get Dovecot to recognize them as two individual clients so that mail downloads to both of them? Regards, spaceman

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