November 2018 - dovecot

dovecot: imap Error: read : Broken pipe
by Carl St-Laurent 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a solution for this bug who appears 2 months ago : dovecot: imap(%USER%): Error: read(<binary stream of mailbox INBOX UID (%d)>) failed: Broken pipe (FETCH BINARY[2] for mailbox INBOX UID (%d) Where %USER% is the unix user and %d the UID of the mailbox. This error appears each time a user tries to download an attachment from one of his emails. Whether with RoundCube or Thunderbird via VPN or not. I thought that it was related to my firewall but no. Furthermore the problem isn't present when users are at the office. Upload speed from our ADSL connection is pretty slow about 1mpbs, I thought maybe it was related but it was working fine since 2 years. So I'm really short of ideas. Anyone could help me please ? Best regards, Carl # 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554) # OS: Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.5 auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /etc/dovecot/sieve-after } protocols = imap imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl = required ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/mail/****.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/mail/****.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve }

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imap authentication - shadow vs mysql
by Konra Wawryn 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Hi, I`m looking for some opinions about authentication process for the systems with more than 1000 E-mail accounts. Maybe some one could advise me what is the best authentication method. At the moment I`m storing all passwords in my /etc/passwd. My IMAP server is growing and I`m planning to build new host, my question is: what is the best authentication model for IMAP server ? Do I need to store all user/passwords in mysql or maybe in LDAP ? I`m searching for some solution which will help me to scale my system in the future. Maybe some one could advice me ? Greetings Konrad

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errors in mail.err related with ssl
by Poliman - Serwis 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Hi. I have in mail.err file lines like below: Nov 5 08:40:00 s1 dovecot: imap-login: Error: SSL: Stacked error: error:1407609C:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:http request Nov 5 08:40:00 s1 dovecot: imap-login: Error: SSL: Stacked error: error:1408A10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_client_hello:wrong version number Nov 5 08:40:05 s1 dovecot: pop3-login: Error: SSL: Stacked error: error:140760FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:unknown protocol Nov 5 08:43:07 s1 dovecot: pop3-login: Error: SSL: Stacked error: error:1408A0C1:SSL routines:ssl3_get_client_hello:no shared cipher Nov 5 08:53:31 s1 dovecot: pop3-login: Error: SSL: Stacked error: error:14094085:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:ccs received early What do the above mean? I suppose that somebody tries connect but uses too old/weak ssl version. -- *Pozdrawiam / Best Regards* *Piotr Bracha*

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error Cached MIME parts don't match message during parsing: Cached header size mismatch (parts=)
by Poliman - Serwis 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

I have a problem for specific mailbox. In mail.err file I see a lot: Nov 2 07:41:17 s1 dovecot: imap(artur(a)example.pl): Error: unlink(/var/vmail/example.pl/artur/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache) failed: No such file or directory (in mail-cache.c:28) Nov 2 07:41:17 s1 dovecot: imap(artur(a)example.pl): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/vmail/example.pl/artur/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: Broken MIME parts for mail UID 2356 in mailbox INBOX: Cached MIME parts don't match message during parsing: Cached header size mismatch (parts=) Nov 2 07:41:19 s1 dovecot: imap(artur(a)example.pl): Error: unlink(/var/vmail/example.pl/artur/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache) failed: No such file or directory (in mail-cache.c:28) Nov 2 07:41:19 s1 dovecot: imap(artur(a)example.pl): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/vmail/example.pl/artur/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: Broken MIME parts for mail UID 2431 in mailbox INBOX: Cached MIME parts don't match message during parsing: Cached header size mismatch (parts=) Nov 2 07:41:21 s1 dovecot: imap(artur(a)example.pl): Error: unlink(/var/vmail/example.pl/artur/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache) failed: No such file or directory (in mail-cache.c:28) Nov 2 07:41:21 s1 dovecot: imap(artur(a)example.pl): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/vmail/example.pl/artur/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: Broken MIME parts for mail UID 2552 in mailbox INBOX: Cached MIME parts don't match message during parsing: Cached header size mismatch (parts=) Nov 2 07:41:21 s1 dovecot: imap(artur(a)example.pl): Error: unlink(/var/vmail/example.pl/artur/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache) failed: No such file or directory (in mail-cache.c:28) Nov 2 07:41:21 s1 dovecot: imap(artur(a)example.pl): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/vmail/example.pl/artur/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: Broken MIME parts for mail UID 2605 in mailbox INBOX: Cached MIME parts don't match message during parsing: Cached header size mismatch (parts=) Nov 2 07:41:24 s1 dovecot: imap(artur(a)example.pl): Error: unlink(/var/vmail/example.pl/artur/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache) failed: No such file or directory (in mail-cache.c:28) Nov 2 07:41:24 s1 dovecot: imap(artur(a)example.pl): Error: Corrupted index cache file /var/vmail/example.pl/artur/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: Broken MIME parts for mail UID 2717 in mailbox INBOX: Cached MIME parts don't match message during parsing: Cached header size mismatch (parts=) I have many mailboxes on the server and each of them work perfectly except this one. -- *Pozdrawiam / Best Regards* *Piotr Bracha*

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