October 2018 - dovecot

Authenticate users using their firstname
by Fady AL HAYALI 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

Hi, I'm setting up a Postfic and Dovecot with LDAP email server. My users in LDAP is like this: dn: uid=firstname,ou=People,dc=domain,dc=com uid: firstname uidNumber: 4025 gidNumber: 4025 givenName: firstname objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: shadowAccount objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: inetOrgPerson loginShell: /bin/bash homeDirectory: /home/firstname cn: firstname lastname mail: firstname.lastname(a)domain.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@domain.com> This is how I connect Dovecot with LDAP hosts = ldapserver ldap_version = 3 base = ou=People,dc=domain,dc=com deref = never scope = subtree user_attrs = user_filter = (&(objectclass=inetOrgPerson)(uid=%n) pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password pass_filter = (&(objectclass=inetOrgPerson)(uid=%n)) default_pass_scheme = SSHA When I enter a user's email address and password as the following: email: firstname.lastname(a)domain.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@domain.com> password: password and according to my setting which I used "%n" as you see above, the username used to authenticate is "firstname.lastname". I checked the Dovecot variables but I couldn't find something useful in this case to manipulate the "%n" variable. I would like to keep using email addresses as "firstname.lastname(a)domain.com"<mailto:firstname.lastname@domain.com> but authenticate users using their first name. I really hit a wall here and any help will be much appreciated.

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Possible architecture ?
by Alexandre Ellert 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Hi, I'd like to achieve the following setup whit dovecot using multiple servers : - one server dedicated to all client IMAP (TLS) connections (i <http://mail.numeezy.com>map.mymaindomain.com, see below ) - each backend server has it's own local storage. no replication - each backend server responsible of a few domains - each backend server has it's own Mysql local database for user's passwords. ===> Server 1 : domains A, B and C ====> i <http://mail.numeezy.com>map.mymaindomain.com ===> Server 2 : domains D, E and F (143 TLS / 993 SSL) ===> Server 3 : domains G, H For example, if a user connects from domain E to i <http://mail.numeezy.com> map.mymaindomain.com, will Dovecot be able to use password database hosted on Server 2 ? Thank you ! Alex

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Delete vs. Expunge in Public Namespace
by Chris 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

All, my IMAP client [1] marks messages as deleted, but doesn't expunge. Dovecot (2.2.27-3+deb9u2) expunges them. Is this because the mailbox is part of public namespace? .... ::1.38247-::1.00143: MALP6 STORE 48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61 +FLAGS (\Deleted) ::1.00143-::1.38247: * 48 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 49 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 50 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 51 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 52 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 53 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 54 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 55 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 56 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 57 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 58 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 59 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 60 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) * 61 FETCH (FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)) MALP6 OK Store completed. ::1.38247-::1.00143: MALP7 SEARCH DELETED .... Oct 2 10:18:03 hyptest dovecot: imap(chris): delete: box=MailingListen/test125, uid=180, msgid=<740a9ba3-d637-3fa0-1b87-ff8d79491bf0@ hyp.postbox.xyz>, size=1509 Oct 2 10:18:03 hyptest dovecot: imap(chris): expunge: box=MailingListen/test125, uid=167, msgid=<740a9ba3-d637-3fa0-1b87-ff8d79491bf0 @hyp.postbox.xyz>, size=1509 namespace { list = yes location = maildir:/var/vmail/public/:LAYOUT=fs:INDEXPVT=%h/.public-indexes prefix = MailingListen/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } - Chris [1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quentinsf/IMAPdedup/master/imapdedup.py

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Bug reports - auth is broken in Dovecot 2.3.3
by Berindeie Avram-Teodor 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

I applied the patch and recompiled but nothing resolved. What else can I do?

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Bug reports - auth is broken in Dovecot 2.3.3
by Berindeie Avram-Teodor 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Hello, I have compiled Dovecot 2.3.3 from sources but I have problems with authentication. I tried to rebuild Dovecot 2.3.2.1 but the error persists. I attach a .txt file with the information requested to report a bug. My main mail server is fallen, (the same for the test server) I will send the report from a Gmail address. If you need additional information I will be at your disposal.

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Need to convert mbox to Maildir
by Mark Foley 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

I have a mbox file of emails. I want to convert this to Maildir giving me individual message files per email. I've looked at dsync, but as far as I can tell this wants a specific target user and it appears that it will "distribute" the converted messages into that user's INBOX. I don't want to put these mbox messages into any particular user's Maildir hierarchy, just export to file-per-message format to a destination directory of my choosing. Is this possible? THX --Mark

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Help for UID THREAD and SORT optimization
by Alessio Cecchi 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hello, we are developing a library to show last arrived messages of all threads in a folder with more than 300k messages. As per the RFC 5256, the IMAP thread command has only the option to specify the grouping criteria (REFERENCES vs ORDEREDSUBJECT). So we implemented an algorithm which gets the full UID SORT ordered by date in reverse order then gets all thread relations and then post process all outputs to obtain the final result. Once we have both output we loop through the first uids set (which is ordered) and for every item of it we loop through the other uids set with all the thread relations. If the uid of the first set is contained in one of the elements of the thread messages, we pick it up and push it in the resulting array. This is a pseudo-code that shows what we are doing: array_of_latest_messages_in_thread = [] array_of_sorted_uids = [n,n,n,n,...] // UID SORT (REVERSE DATE) UTF-8 ALL array_of_thread_uids = [n,[n,n],n,[n,n,n],[n,n],n,n,...] // UID THREAD (REFERENCES) UTF-8 ALL foreach(array_of_sorted_uids as s_uid){ foreach(array_of_thread_uids as t_uids){ if(t_uids contains s_uid){ // or a function to loop recursively t_uids to search if a leaf is equal to s_uid array_of_latest_messages_in_thread.push(s_uid) break } } } We have also made some little optimizations in the above code like for example skipping from the outer loop the uids already processed in the inner loop that have not being selected. Anyway, the loop is very expensive in term of computation and we are wondering if there is a better approach to this issue directly using IMAP instead of post processing the output of the two commands at application level. Thanks. -- Alessio Cecchi Postmaster @ http://www.qboxmail.it https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice

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Bug in conditionals to assign values to variables?
by Angel L. Mateo 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hi, According to https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables you could use conditionals to assign values to a varible. The syntax is: %{if;value1;operator;value2;value-if-true;value-if-false} where any of the fields can refer to another field using %v or %{value} syntax. The problem is that when I use a config like: user_attrs = ...,=relpath=%{if;%u;eq;somevalue;valuetrue;valuefalse} it works without any problem. But when I use: user_attrs = ...,=relpath=%{if;%{user};eq;somevalue;valuetrue;valuefalse} then it reports in logs: Sep 28 14:23:22 myotis60 dovecot: auth: Error: var_expand_long(if;%{user}) failed: if: requires four or five parameters, got 1 anyway, the variable is correctly initialized, but I get the log. Is this a bug? PS: I'm running dovecot 2.2.33 -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) http://www.um.es/atica Tfo: 868889150 Fax: 868888337

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split auth from other logging
by Kai Schaetzl 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Is there a way to split the auth logging (logins and failed logins) from the other logging that goes to info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log ? This log gets a lot of other info as well, most notably the lmtp notifications about every filed mail (with no level stamping, btw). This makes it really hard to find authentication errors quickly and comfortably. It would be nice to be able to split at least the lmtp messages away. Kai

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Released Pigeonhole v0.5.3 for Dovecot v2.3.3.
by Stephan Bosch 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hello Dovecot users, Here's the Pigeonhole release that goes with Dovecot v2.3.3. Only two insignificant memory leak fixes were added since the release candidate (not mentioned in the changelog). Changelog v0.5.3: - Fix assertion panic occurring when managesieve service fails to open INBOX while saving a Sieve script. This was caused by a lack of cleanup after failure. - Fix specific messages causing an assert panic with actions that compose a reply (e.g. vacation). With some rather weird input from the original message, the header folding algorithm (as used for composing the References header for the reply) got confused, causing the panic. - IMAP FILTER=SIEVE capability: Fix FILTER SIEVE SCRIPT command parsing. After finishing reading the Sieve script, the command parsing sometimes didn't continue with the search arguments. This is a time- critical bug that likely only occurs when the Sieve script is sent in the next TCP frame. The release is available as follows: https://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3-pigeonhole-0.5.3.ta… https://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3-pigeonhole-0.5.3.ta… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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