September 2018 - dovecot

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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v2.3.3 rc1 - Error: sieve: !!BUG!!: Binary compiled from dovecot.sieve is still corrupt
by James 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

I have a sieve problem with dovecot v2.3.3 rc1 with either of pigeonhole 0.5.2 or 0.5.3.rc1. The the change that triggers this is in dovecot not pigeonhole. Sieve filtering has been working with v2.3.2 and many earlier versions. Log report: Sep 24 10:36:13 mailhost dovecot: [ID 702911 mail.error] lmtp(user(a)domain.tld)<15816><RnikKw2wqFvIPQAAs831Jw>: Error: sieve: !!BUG!!: Binary compiled from /path/to/domain/user/dovecot.sieve is still corrupt; bailing out and reverting to default delivery This is a sieve script with a vacation handler. My other sieve filters are working. My actual sieve filter worked before and was written by Roundcube web mail. My failing test script is cut-n-paste from the sieve examples https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Examples so should not be in doubt. The text script compiles to dovecot.svbin and newly compiled files are identical to older versions, the compilation has not changed. James.

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doveadm backup abort in imapc-client.c
by Evan Klitzke 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

I am using Dovecot 2.2.36 and I am trying to use doveadm backup to migrate email from Gmail to Dovecot. When I run doveadm backup, it goes for a while and then eventually hits an assertion error (I've tried this a few times now and it happens reliably). The assertion failure looks like this: dsync(evan(a)eklitzke.org): Panic: file imapc-client.c: line 179 (imapc_client_run_pre): assertion failed: (client->ioloop == NULL) The last few lines of log output before the crash look like this: https://gist.github.com/eklitzke/9a0dd77c44a6ee33e812f85d5773c24c The GDB backtrace when the program panics looks like this: https://gist.github.com/eklitzke/6b311474b08b546c462e0444c5cf479b The output of "dovecot --version" prints "2.2.36 (1f10bfa63)" and I'm using the version provided by Fedora's dovecot-2.2.36-1.fc28.src.rpm package. Is there any other information I can provide to assist in debugging? I could provide a core dump provided there was a way to scrub my IMAP credentials. -- Evan Klitzke pgp: 0x157EFCACBC648422 e: evan(a)eklitzke.org w: https://eklitzke.org

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dsync replication
by Matt Bryant 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

We have a setup with ldap and sql passdbs and sql userdb, from my understanding of the documentation dsync repliction picks up the users to replicate via the iterate query. This query returns 646 users in sql (not everyone gets replicated) but when i run a doveadm replicator status Total number of known users 92236 seriously that kinda lot more than 646 Does iterate_query belong in user_db or passdb? Is it the fact I have ldap and sql passdb and its picking up dome default ldap query as well the specified sql iterate query ? rgds Matt

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Local access to IMAP mailboxes
by Victor Sudakov 29 Sep '18

29 Sep '18

Dear Colleagues, I have made mailboxes in ~/Mail available via IMAP (Dovecot 2.3.2.1), that is: "mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" However, I often read and modify the mailboxes locally with mutt (e.g. append and delete mails). Should I expect any problems wit Dovecot indexes etc? What if I even do "rm ~/Mail/some/mailbox", will Dovecot be mad at me? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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having problems with Argon
by Adam Gold 28 Sep '18

28 Sep '18

Hello everyone. I'm close to completing my first build of a mail server - Postfix, Dovecot, Postgres (I know, sounds like overkill), Rspamd with Redis and Unbound (please infer a mega lack of experience disclaimer). The model is standalone internet with remoted sasl-authenticated clients. Throughout the process I've been having consistent problems with user password authentication. Both when I began when I was only using flat files and now with pgsql, more often than not my username (full email address) and password combo have been rejected. The postfix logs started with fairly innocent 'failed login' messages and eventually reached the "you don't own this email address, you're a spammer" level. Dovecot has been consistent with "auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL" messages. Before I looked at this issue specifically, my guess was it came from a Postfix restriction but having spent quite a while going through it today, I don't think that's where it lies. Finally I went back to basics and changed an account password to {PLAIN}12345 and what do you know - effortless success! Previously I'd been using mainly argon, ssha512 sha512-crypt and a few others. My passwords are strong (well in excess of 20 characters, 'randomly' generated). I spent this afternoon narrowing down the hashes and while I haven't finished, the only one I couldn't get to work with 12345 was argon. I also noticed that the wiki says the 2I and 2ID versions of Argon are available, doveadm pw always returned a "does not exist" error when I tried to use 2ID. I'm using Dovecot version 2.3.2.1 (0719df592)

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Collecting S/MIME Certs from (incoming signed) E-Mails
by Jochen Bern 28 Sep '18

28 Sep '18

Two quick questions, if I may: We've been asked to change an existing application (whose builtin S/MIME capabilities are quite unclear) so that the e-mails it sends will be S/MIME encrypted, if possible. I have some experience in getting an MTA to encrypt e-mails in transit, but the trick is, of course, to maintain a list of addressees' (current) certs. Ideally, users send e-mails *to* the application beforehand, and with a bit of luck, they might even *sign* them (which, in the case of S/MIME, IIUC implies that their cert is attached). 1. Are there features in a) the IMAP protocol and/or b) dovecot in particular that would allow me to extract the certs from incoming e-mails before the application retrieves them from the mailbox? (I know that IMAP allows me to download only a MIME part of an e-mail, but I'ld need to somehow determine *which* MIME part to download, I guess?) 2. Assuming that the incoming e-mail is S/MIME signed *and encrypted*, is it actually possible to extract the sender cert *without* having the application's keypair to *decrypt* the e-mail in the process? Kind regards, -- Jochen Bern Systemingenieur www.binect.de www.facebook.de/binect

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Custom variable
by Ángel L. Mateo 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

Hi, I know that there are some variables (as user or username) I could use inside dovecot. They are at https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables. My question is if I can create my own variables from attributes at my pass/user db and then use it inside dovecot configuration. -- 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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Connection and login scripts callback
by Stanislav Humplík 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

Hello, currently there is very handy post-login scripting already implemented but it naturally executes only when successful login happens. I would like to have another two script callbacks which runs: 1. immediately after client connects to server - dovecot should run script with connection IP and wait for result and then reject/accept connection with return message accordingly. 2. after failed login - dovecot should exec script with connection IP, login params without waiting for result The main reason behind this idea is to use some logic, database (redis...) or indicators like GeoIP, p0f as bruteforce prevention. It might be also usable for IP based ACLs. AFAIK the only way to create something similar is to proxy whole authentication to some external process, which is not desirable when dovecot manages user database. SH

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