April 2018 - dovecot - dovecot.org

Use of separate storage for mail delivery
by SAAHIL IFTEKHAR 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Hi I am facing one issue which is mostly about concepts. I have to be clear on that to move forward. I have tried finding solutions about it but couldn't find anything which talks about it. We have a setup which includes postfix and dovecot. We are using lmtp and delivery of mail is happening through dovecot. We want that delivery of mail should happen in a separate node. I was able to achieve it through lmtp by providing ip address and using port 24. But now I have been asked to just try to deliver to a separate storage medium and not node. That means it will have an ip address but no dovecot or other software running. This is in relation to incorporation of storage area network (SAN) later on. Is it possible? I thought there must be some way as many running mail systems are using message store and SAN. All i can find that was close was mailbox sharing and email archiving. Please help me about this as I have already spent 3 days to it with no luck. I just want the right direction to move forward on this. Regards

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2.3.1 Replication is throwing scary errors
by Michael Grimm 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Hi [This is Dovecot 2.3.1 at FreeBSD STABLE-11.1 running in two jails at distinct servers.] I did upgrade from 2.2.35 to 2.3.1 today, and I do become pounded by error messages at server1 (and vice versa at server2) as follows: | Apr 2 17:12:18 <mail.err> server1.lan dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync(server2.lan): I/O has stalled, \ no activity for 600 seconds (last sent=mail_change, last recv=mail_change (EOL)) | Apr 2 17:12:18 <mail.err> server1.lan dovecot: doveadm: Error: Timeout during state=sync_mails \ (send=changes recv=mail_requests) […] | Apr 2 18:59:03 <mail.err> server1.lan dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync(server2.lan): I/O has stalled, \ no activity for 600 seconds (last sent=mail, last recv=mail (EOL)) | Apr 2 18:59:03 <mail.err> server1.lan dovecot: doveadm: Error: Timeout during state=sync_mails \ (send=mails recv=recv_last_common) I cannot see in my personal account any missing replications, *but* I haven't tested this thoroughly enough. I do have customers being serviced at these productive servers, *thus* I'm back to 2.2.35 until I do understand or have learned what is going on. Any ideas/feedback? FYI: I haven't seen such errors before. Replication has been working for years now, without any glitches at all. Regards, Michael

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dovecot auth error: Illegal seek
by panetta 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Hi, I recently configured dovecot to manage auth for both local and virtual user. When i login as a virtual user (claudio.panetta) I get the following message: dovecot: auth: Error: passwd(claudio.panetta,160.97.62.1,<WLjlnZ9oRACgYT4B>): getpwnam() failed: Illegal seek but login is ok and sending/receiving email is ok, how can, if possible, I suppress this error message? In the following my dovecot config: host-prompt# dovecot -n # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-5-686-pae i686 Debian 7.11 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Ln listen = * log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_greeting = Server ready. mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mail_location = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/index/%u mail_privileged_group = mail passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = scheme=MD5-CRYPT username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } protocols = " imap" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/chained-cert-9599-ml.mat.unical.it.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/csrkey-ml.mat.unical.it.pem userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/users uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%d/%n mail=maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir driver = static } verbose_proctitle = yes host-prompt# cat /etc/dovecot/users claudio.panetta:{MD5-CRYPT}$1$abcdefghijklmnopqrst ciccio.pasticcio:{MD5-CRYPT}$1$abcdefghijklmnopqrst Regards, Claudio

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multi-site SSL certificates
by Jeff Abrahamson 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

I'm handling mail for several domains, let's call them a.com, b.com, and c.com. I have certificates for each of these domains individually via certbot (letsencrypt) and nginx is happy with all of that. Since I initially configured the site to handle mail only for a.com, my /etc/postfix/main.cf file currently has these two lines: smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.a.com/fullchain.pem smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.a.com/privkey.pem But I see that mail test tools are reporting that MX for b.com and c.com are misconfigured due to an SSL name mismatch. Indeed, this is true! So I believe I should generate a multi-site SSL cert. I try this: sudo certbot certonly --cert-name postfix --webroot \ --webroot-path /var/www/a-com -d www.a.com -d a.com -d mail.a.com \ --webroot-path /var/www/b-com -d www.b.com -d b.com \ --webroot-path /var/www/c-com -d www.c.com -d c.com And that fails with a bunch of errors like this: Domain: www.a.com Type: unauthorized Detail: Invalid response from http://www.a.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/IT7-YURAep4bniD9zYpKpdRUBQcgCRJ…: "<html> <head><title>404 Not Found</title></head> <body bgcolor="white"> <center><h1>404 Not Found</h1></center> <hr><center>" I see that the file .well-known/acme-challenge/IT7-YURAep4bniD9zYpKpdRUBQcgCRJ6FflmZzWQGNg is being created (and one other file, too) but that nginx reports that the _directory_ .well-known/acme-challenge/IT7-YURAep4bniD9zYpKpdRUBQcgCRJ6FflmZzWQGNg doesn't exist. Multi-site + letsencrypt + postfix is a subject that has recently changed quite a bit, so I'm suspecting my web reading is merely leading me astray. It is also entirely possible I've misunderstood things about SSL certificates. Any pointers how to generate (or point to) the certificates that I need to make those who contact my postfix instance happy with their SSL conversation? Thanks!

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dovecot lastlogin tracking
by David Mehler 02 Apr '18

02 Apr '18

Hello, I am trying to get Dovecot 2.3.1 to track lastlogins of users. I'm using a MySQL database. When I log in I am getting this in the error log: 2018-04-02 18:24:21 imap(user(a)domain.com)<61855><6R0rDeVodcl/AAAB>: Error: last_login_dict: Failed to write value for user user(a)domain.com: dict-server returned failure: sql dict: commit failed: Field 'name' doesn't have a default value (reply took 0.026 secs (0.000 in dict wait, 0.020 in other ioloops, 0.001 in locks, async-id reply 0.000 secs ago, started on dict-server 0.019 secs ago, took 0.005 secs)) Here's an excerpt from my dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext file: map { pattern = shared/last-login/$username table = accounts username_field = username value_field = lastlogin fields { username = $username } } I've got all users in the accounts table and there is a lastlogin column: describe accounts; +-----------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-----------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id | int(10) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | name | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | | | username | varchar(64) | NO | MUL | NULL | | | domain | varchar(255) | NO | MUL | NULL | | | password | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | | | quota | int(10) unsigned | YES | | 0 | | | enabled | tinyint(1) | YES | | 0 | | | sendonly | tinyint(1) | YES | | 0 | | | lastlogin | int(11) unsigned | NO | | 0 | | Thanks. Dave. doveconf -n # 2.3.1 (8e2f634): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.1 (d9bc6dfe) # OS: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4 amd64 # Hostname: localhost auth_cache_size = 24 M auth_cache_ttl = 18 hours auth_default_realm = example.com auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_realms = example.com example2.com dict { acl = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext lastlogin = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext quota = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } first_valid_gid = 999 first_valid_uid = 999 hostname = mail.example.com imap_idle_notify_interval = 10 mins last_valid_gid = 999 last_valid_uid = 999 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes lda_original_recipient_header = X-Original-To listen = 127.0.0.1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_access_groups = vmail mail_gid = vmail mail_home = /home/vmail/mailboxes/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/mail:LAYOUT=fs mail_plugins = acl mail_log notify quota trash virtual welcome zlib mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_server_admin = mailto:postmaster@example.com mail_uid = vmail mailbox_idle_check_interval = 59 secs 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 spamtest spamtestplus virustest editheader imapflags notify imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve namespace { location = maildir:/home/vmail/public/:CONTROL=~/mail/public:INDEX=~/mail/public mailbox TestFolder { auto = subscribe comment = Public Folder for message sharing } prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = public } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/home/vmail/mail/%%d/%%n:LAYOUT=fs:INDEX=/home/vmail/indexes/%d/%n/shared/%%u:INDEXPVT=/home/vmail/indexes/%d/%n/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%d/%%n/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archives { auto = subscribe special_use = \Archive } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe autoexpunge = 30 days special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe autoexpunge = 30 days special_use = \Trash } mailbox virtual/All { comment = All my messages special_use = \All } prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace virtual { location = virtual:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/virtual:INDEX=~/virtual:CONTROL=~/virtual prefix = virtual/ separator = / } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl fts = lucene fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 80 fts_index_timeout = 90 fts_lucene = whitespace_chars=@. normalize no_snowball imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/home/vmail/sieve/global/learn-spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Spam imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/home/vmail/sieve/global/learn-ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Spam imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * last_login_dict = proxy::lastlogin last_login_key = last-login/%n mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size quota = dict:User quota::proxy::quota quota_exceeded_message = Storage quota for this account has been exceeded, please try again later. quota_grace = 10%% quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_vsizes = true quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-exceeded 100 %u quota_warning2 = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning3 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning4 = storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u quota_warning5 = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /home/vmail/sieve/before.d sieve_default = /home/vmail/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags +spamtest +spamtestplus +virustest +editheader sieve_global_dir = /home/vmail/sieve sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.execute +vnd.dovecot.environment sieve_max_redirects = 30 sieve_max_script_size = 1M sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /home/vmail/sieve sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms sieve_spamtest_max_header = X-Spamd-Result: default: [[:alnum:]]+ \[-?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+ / (-?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+)\] sieve_spamtest_status_header = X-Spamd-Result: default: [[:alnum:]]+ \[(-?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+) / -?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\] sieve_spamtest_status_type = score sieve_user_log = /home/vmail/sieve/sieve_error.log sieve_virustest_status_header = X-Virus-Scan: Found to be (.+)\. sieve_virustest_status_type = text sieve_virustest_text_value1 = clean sieve_virustest_text_value5 = infected trash = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/trash.conf welcome_script = welcome %u welcome_wait = yes } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)example.com protocols = imap lmtp sieve sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail service auth-worker { user = vmail } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port = 993 ssl = yes } } service imap { executable = imap } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 4190 } } service quota-status { client_limit = 1 executable = quota-status -p postfix unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-quota { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = vmail } service welcome { executable = script /usr/local/etc/dovecot/welcome.sh unix_listener welcome { user = vmail } user = vmail } ssl = required ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/ssl/acme/example.com/fullchain.pem ssl_cipher_list = ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.2 ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-lmtp.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-lmtp-errors.log mail_plugins = acl mail_log notify quota trash virtual welcome zlib sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = acl mail_log notify quota trash virtual welcome zlib sieve } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = acl mail_log notify quota trash virtual welcome zlib imap_acl imap_quota imap_sieve imap_zlib last_login fts fts_lucene } protocol sieve { info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-sieve.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-sieve-errors.log }

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domain email autoconfiguration
by David Mehler 01 Apr '18

01 Apr '18

Hello, If anyone has autoconfiguration going with their email domain please email me privately. I'd like to ask you some questions about your setup. What do you use? Thanks. Dave.

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