February 2018 - dovecot

Certificate of package repository expired
by Marc Weustink 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

Hi, I just happened to do an apt update and got a notice that repo.dovecot.org was disabled. According to firefox: repo.dovecot.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate expired on dinsdag 13 februari 2018 12:48. The current time is dinsdag 13 februari 2018 16:39. Thanks, Marc

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dovecot: master: Panic: kevent() failed: Invalid argument
by Adrian Gonzalez 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

Hello I've been seeing these panics with dovecot 2.2.31 (and older versions) under FreeBSD about once every 2-3 months or so. I know it's been discussed here in the list, but I didn't see a definitive fix. If it's been fixed, please ignore this post (sorry!). I finally managed to observe the bug on a server that has the patch that prints out the kevent() timespec values and got: Nov 29 16:46:27 mail dovecot: master: Panic: kevent(events=74, ts=59.1000000000) failed: Invalid argument Looking through the code, the panic is triggered in io_loop_handler_run_internal(). The timeout values for the kevent() call are obtained by calling io_loop_get_wait_time(), which in turn calls timeout_get_wait_time() (both in ioloop.c). The timeout is computed by subtracting the value returned by gettimeofday() from timeout->next_run, and it looks like in very rare cases the result in tv_r->tv_usec is 1000000uS (1 second). So, it seems that if gettimeofday() returns exactly 0 microseconds, and timeout->next_run has exactly 1000000 microseconds, the kevent() call will fail (1 in 1e12 chance?). I'm not entirely sure where timeout->next_run is computed, but looking at timeout_update_next(), it adjusts the seconds only if the microseconds are greater than 1000000: (ioloop.c, line 235) if (timeout->next_run.tv_usec > 1000000) { timeout->next_run.tv_sec++; timeout->next_run.tv_usec -= 1000000; } It seems like the comparison here should be greater or equal, but I'm not familiar enough with the code to say with absolute certainty. I added more debug error messages to the code in timeout_update_next(), and although I do see next_run->tv_usec at 1000000 several times a day, I haven't seen a panic since early December on any of our servers, so I decided to post this to see if this analysis makes sense.

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Setting up sieve with spam learning
by ＠lbutlr 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

Cribbing from the dovecot site I recently added the following lines to my dovecot.conf: managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve plugin { imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " virtual imap_sieve" } Now, should I see the report-spam or report-ham sieve's logged anywhere? Because I am not seeing them.

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"search return (min)" is very inefficient
by Jesus Cea 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

RFC 4731: " IMAP4 Extension to SEARCH Command for Controlling What Kind of Information Is Returned" https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4731 I do this (telnet session): """ a select proveedores/TUHS * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. * 8330 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 6085] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1395814416] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 8358] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 3149] Highest a OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed (0.264 + 0.000 + 0.263 secs). a search return (min) since 01-Feb-2018 * ESEARCH (TAG "a") MIN 8156 a OK Search completed (59.451 + 0.000 + 59.450 secs). """ Note that it needs 59 seconds to locate the first message matching the "since" criteria. This is really slow and unusable in practice. Things are worse with bigger mailboxes, of course. Am I missing some performance trick?. I am trying to locate the first message received after a particular date. I don't use the "date" header because it can be falsified and because I care about the receiving date and not the actual sending date. I guess dovecot is scanning every message in the folder (mailbox). Wouldn't those messages be stored in ascending "received" order?. Could that be used for bisection search to locate the right message?. Could that break if I copy/move/edit messages?. Is that the reason for such a awful performance?. Suggestions?. Thanks for your time and knowledge!. -- Jesús Cea Avión _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ jcea(a)jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ Twitter: @jcea _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ jabber / xmpp:jcea@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz

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mailbox_list_index documentation?
by tai74＠vfemail.net 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

I find mailbox_list_index on some doc pages, but not explaination to find what precisely it does? Would someone care to mind explain? Thank you! ------------------------------------------------- ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of the NSA's hands! $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options!

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New mail notification
by Matthew Allen 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Hi, So I'm running dovecot 1.2.17 on Mac OSX using maildir in ~/Mail. After using getmail for a while to download my POP3 email and store it in the right place it started not working so I replaced it with a python script that I wrote. All was good for a while and then I stopped getting new mail notifications in my IMAP client. If I close the connection and restart the new mail shows up as !seen but no amount of re-selecting the folder will show the new mail while the connection is active. There is no untagged responses about new mail while the client is IDLEing. The client is InScribe (http://memecode.com/inscribe.php) but I doubt it's client specific. Seems to be server related. Now the python script in question just puts the .eml file in ~/Mail/tmp and then renames it to the ~/Mail/new folder. Does it need to do something else as well to make the notifications work? There aren't any error messages in the log. Just normal login history. If you can point me in the right direction that'd be appreciated. Regards

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Best mail encryption solution for per-user
by tai74＠vfemail.net 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

Hai, Do you have advice about Dovecot plugins for mail encryption: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailCrypt https://0xacab.org/riseuplabs/trees I like NaCL based encryption but the MailCrypt plugin is better because it's maintained by Dovecot developers (is this correct?) Hard to understand MailCrypt docs so may I ask, may I provide per user encryption? I don't like global because I want every user to have different encryption based on their password. But I don't see the useful of per-folder encryption. Docs for TREES are easier to understand it will work on a per-user encryption using the user password to decrypt the needed keys. How about indexing? Does native fast Dovecot indexing must be turned off for one of these or both? Is this a big performance hit? And how to turn off indexing on a per-user basis? Thank you so very mcuh ------------------------------------------------- ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of the NSA's hands! $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options!

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LDAP userdb and dovecot LDA/LMTP - different requirements
by Franta Hanzlík 10 Feb '18

10 Feb '18

Hi, I want to use Dovecot LDA (or rather LMTP) use as local deliver with Postfix MTA. Users are in LDAP DB with structure as: dn: cn=username, ou=rank, o=myorg cn: username objectClass: Person gidNumber: uNNN uidNumber: gNNN userPassword: (somehow hashed, can only bind verification) homeDirectory: /Home/$rank/$username mailActive: 0/1 mail: usera@OneDomain mail: userb@SecDomain (not all users have 2+ addresses] uid: username groupMembership: group DN (can be multiple times for different groups) ... where: - cn = uid = expected IMAP login username (which hasn't @domain part) - user1 (and user2) isn't always same as username Now I not know, how to solve IMO diferent requirements to userdb: - LDA/LMTP need LDAP userdb unit, that can retrieve the name from an email address (ie for "usera@myDomain" returns cn/uid (as dovecot "username"). - IMAP server need LDAP userdb unit, that will have the user login (username) as the input parameter, and which returns information whether or not the user exists. Can be these different requirements solved in one userdb unit? Or is it possible to have one userdb unit for LDA/LMTP, and another one for IMAP and other Dovecot components? I have also encountered entries getting the values from LDAP userdb in the form as: user_attrs = \ =user=%{ldap:uid}, \ @mail=base(%{ldap:mailDN}), \ =uid=%{ldap:uidNumber@mail}, \ =gid=%{ldap:gidNumber@mail}, \ =home=%{ldap:rootPath@mail}/%d/%n or user_attrs = \ =home=%{ldap:homeDirectory}, \ =uid=%{ldap:uidNumber}, =gid=%{ldap:gidNumber}, =quota_rule=*:bytes=%{ldap:quotaBytes}, =namespace/default/separator=%{ldap:mailSeparator} Can anyone explain how these constructions work? And what do mean attribute notations in the form '=attr=' or '@attr=' or 'quota_rule=*:storage=100M' ? Nowhere have I found a sufficiently comprehensible description of these constructions... Help very much appreciated. Thanks, Franta Hanzlik

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doveadm mailbox delete: Wrong docs or bug?
by MRob 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Uhhhhh?? doveadm mailbox delete -u myuser -r -s foldername mailbox: invalid option -- 'r' Docs say -r is recursive. So how do I delete recursive mailbox?? https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Mailbox

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VarExpandCrypt plugin usecase
by tai74＠vfemail.net 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Hai, I found VarExpandCrypt plugin but not sure the usecase? Somewhere is more documentation for it? https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/VarExpandCrypt ------------------------------------------------- ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of the NSA's hands! $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options!

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