January 2019 - dovecot

JMAP support in Dovecot
by Andrew Jones 29 May '19

29 May '19

Hi there, I understand there were discussions to try and develop JMAP support for Dovecot. Is this still in the pipeline for Dovecot 2.5? Regards Andrew Sent from my iPhone

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Automatically subscribe to the INBOX folder
by glts 26 May '19

26 May '19

Hello, I am using the ‘auto = subscribe’ feature in the mailbox configuration section in the usual fashion (as shown in conf.d/15-mailboxes.conf): namespace inbox { inbox = yes mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts auto = subscribe } ... } When I connect to an account with the Thunderbird mail client, those mailboxes/folders get autocreated and autosubscribed. Good! INBOX, however, does not get subscribed to automatically. When I look at the account’s subscriptions in Thunderbird, all folders are subscribed, except INBOX. How can I enable autosubscribe for the INBOX folder (like the other folders)? Is there an option for this? This is in Dovecot 2.2.22. Cheers, David

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA/LMTP vs postfix virtual delivery agent and the x-original-to header
by Charles Marcus 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

On 2012-04-05 4:18 AM, Thomas Leuxner <tlx(a)leuxner.net> wrote: > Also with 2.x you may want to use LMTP rather than the LDA Piping. > > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixDovecotLMTP I am preparing to convert my main client's postfix_courier-imap setup to dovecot 2.1, which currently just uses the postfix virtual delivery agent... Does anyone know if the use of LMTP (or even the dovecot LDA) still loses the x-original-to header that the postfix vda adds and that I rely heavily on (since I use a lot of aliases), and if it does, is there any solution to get the original recipient added back in before final delivery? Everything I'm reading says that LMTP is better, but I really do need this header (or one like it) to be there so I know who the original recipient was (for filtering and other purposes). Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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Regression ACL & namespace prefix
by Michal Hlavinka 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Hi tl;dr: Seems that for Global ACL directory, namespace prefix is not part of the path, when looking for acl file. Long version: We're planning to update dovecot in next os update to 2.2.36 and while going through regression testing, we found a problem with ACL configuration combined with namespace. Test uses "Global ACL directory" configuration. Relevant configuration part: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace inbox { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = / } namespace { hidden = no list = yes location = maildir:/var/mail/pub prefix = pub/ separator = / type = public } mail_plugins = acl protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins acl imap_acl } plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/global-acls } ACL config file is stored at: /etc/dovecot/global-acls/pub/.DEFAULT when trying to examine "pub", it is denied: fetchmail: IMAP> A0005 EXAMINE "pub" fetchmail: IMAP< A0005 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: pub (0.001 + 0.000 secs). # doveadm acl debug -u d2 pub doveadm(d2): Info: Mailbox '' is in namespace 'pub/' doveadm(d2): Info: Mailbox path: /var/mail/pub doveadm(d2): Info: All message flags are shared across users in mailbox doveadm(d2): Info: User d2 has no rights for mailbox doveadm(d2): Error: User d2 is missing 'lookup' right doveadm(d2): Info: Mailbox pub is NOT visible in LIST because it did not find acl file: imap(d2): Debug: Namespace : type=public, prefix=pub/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/var/mail/pub imap(d2): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/mail/pub, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=, alt= imap(d2): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/etc/dovecot/global-acls imap(d2): Debug: acl: acl username = d2 imap(d2): Debug: acl: owner = 0 imap(d2): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL legacy directory: /etc/dovecot/global-acls imap(d2): Debug: pub: Mailbox opened because: EXAMINE imap(d2): Debug: acl vfile: file /etc/dovecot/global-acls//.DEFAULT not found imap(d2): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/mail/pub/dovecot-acl not found see it's looking for: /etc/dovecot/global-acls//.DEFAULT instead of /etc/dovecot/global-acls/pub/.DEFAULT Checking with documentation https://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL it seems that prefix should still be part of the path, as it was before: """The filenames must start with namespace prefix (if it has one). For example with namespace prefix=INBOX/ containing mailbox "foo" use /etc/dovecot/acls/INBOX/foo.""" Just for comparison, previous version (2.2.10) would work fine: imap(d2): Debug: Namespace : type=public, prefix=pub/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/var/mail/pub imap(d2): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/mail/pub, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=, alt= imap(d2): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data: vfile:/etc/dovecot/global-acls imap(d2): Debug: acl: acl username = d2 imap(d2): Debug: acl: owner = 0 imap(d2): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory: /etc/dovecot/global-acls imap(d2): Debug: acl vfile: reading file /etc/dovecot/global-acls/pub/.DEFAULT imap(d2): Debug: acl vfile: file /var/mail/pub/dovecot-acl not found I've localized problem to: src/plugins/acl/acl-backend-vfile.c: acl_backend_vfile_object_init(...) and change from: vname = mailbox_list_get_vname(_backend->list, name); to: vname = *name == '\0' ? "" : mailbox_list_get_vname(_backend->list, name); that happened quite time ago during bigger acl changes and I don't know why exactly this line was changed previously. Anyway, reverting this line alone fixes the problem and while testing both per-mailbox ACL vfile and Global ACL file, reverting this did not affect them.

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imapsieve: script not triggered
by Andreas Krischer 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

Hi, folks! My problem: I set up dovecot with imapsieve to execute a script whenever a user copies a mail to his Spam folder (spam autolearning). Unfortunately this script is never executed regardless what I’m configuring for imapsieve. It looks like dovecot doesn’t really load the plugin… The "dovecot -n" output is attached. I already tried setting imapsieve_mailbox1_name to *, but even this does not execute the script… Also I tried a mailbox without mail_crypt enabled, no success as well. In the attached mail.log (mail_debug=yes) you can see, that imap_sieve_plugin is loaded, but it isn’t really executed. The normal (LMTP) sieve is working - if a mail is incoming the sieve module shows it work in mail.log: May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: YEm9ILyS8FqSaAAAujt/SA: sieve: file storage: Storage path `/var/vmail/myhost.name/postmaster/sieve' not found May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: YEm9ILyS8FqSaAAAujt/SA: sieve: file storage: Storage path `/var/vmail/myhost.name/postmaster/.dovecot.sieve' not found May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: YEm9ILyS8FqSaAAAujt/SA: sieve: storage: No default script location configured May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: YEm9ILyS8FqSaAAAujt/SA: sieve: User has no personal script May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: YEm9ILyS8FqSaAAAujt/SA: sieve: file storage: Using script storage path: /etc/dovecot/sieve/after/ May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: YEm9ILyS8FqSaAAAujt/SA: sieve: file script: Opened script `spam' from `/etc/dovecot/sieve/after/spam.sieve' May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: YEm9ILyS8FqSaAAAujt/SA: sieve: executed after user's Sieve script(1): /etc/dovecot/sieve/after/spam.sieve May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: Mailbox <lmtp DATA>: Opened mail UID=1 because: header Message-ID (Cache file is unusable) May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: YEm9ILyS8FqSaAAAujt/SA: sieve: Opening script 1 of 1 from `/etc/dovecot/sieve/after/spam.sieve' May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: YEm9ILyS8FqSaAAAujt/SA: sieve: Loading script /etc/dovecot/sieve/after/spam.sieve May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: YEm9ILyS8FqSaAAAujt/SA: sieve: Script binary /etc/dovecot/sieve/after/spam.svbin successfully loaded May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: YEm9ILyS8FqSaAAAujt/SA: sieve: binary save: not saving binary /etc/dovecot/sieve/after/spam.svbin, because it is already stored May 7 17:54:04 dovecot dovecot: lmtp(postmaster(a)myhost.name): Debug: YEm9ILyS8FqSaAAAujt/SA: sieve: Executing script from `/etc/dovecot/sieve/after/spam.svbin' I already spent hours on this problem so please let me know if you have any idea what the problem could be… :( Thanks in advance! Andreas

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dovecot/config processes one more time - which are safe to kill?
by Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

Hello. The problem with dovecot/config processes never ending and spawning new one on each reload (https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2016-November/106058.html) is becoming a problem here: # ps aux|grep dovecot/config|wc -l 206 That's a lot of wasted memory - dovecot/config processes ate over 30GB of ram on 64GB box. Before killing dovecot/config processes: # free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 64437 61656 483 0 2297 after: # free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 64437 23676 37822 0 2939 Currently on dovecot 2.3.3. I guess it's very low priority to handle that, so: how can I figure out which dovecot/config processes are safe to be killed by external script? Does "all beside 2 newest ones" rule look sane? Thanks, -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )

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replication dropped imap flags
by Patrick Cernko 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

Hi list, I think, I found a bug in the replication setup, that drops (custom) flags like Thunderbird labels. I have set up a simple 2 node setup to reproduce and explain it: Host adove.mpi-klsb.mpg.de and bdove.mpi-klsb.mpg.de (doveconf -n attached) have dovecot-imapd (from repo.dovecot.org) installed on an ext4 filesystem. They only have one account "test" via /etc/dovecot/userdb ("test:testpassword:::Test User::/bin/bash:"). It's mailbox contains one message, that is flagged with "$label1": doveadm -f flow fetch -u test 'guid flags' ALL guid=d1516a2b5c08fc5b541d00005a350039 flags=\Recent $label1 Now I simulate a node reinstall on adove by uninstalling dovecot, removing all remnants, reinstalling and configuring it again: apt purge dovecot-core dovecot-imapd rm -rf /var/vmail /var/lib/dovecot /etc/dovecot apt install dovecot-imapd # disable system auth : > /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-system.conf.ext # create /var/vmail install -d -o nobody -g nogroup -m 700 /var/vmail # create userdb echo 'test:testpassword:::Test User::/bin/bash:' > /etc/dovecot/userdb # create /etc/dovecot/local.conf # not described here, the resulting doveconf -n is attached! service dovecot restart When I check the flags of the mail of user test now, the "$label1" is disapeared on both machines, even after "doveadm replicator replicate -f test": doveadm -f flow fetch -u test 'guid flags' ALL guid=d1516a2b5c08fc5b541d00005a350039 flags=\Recent Any hints what I am doing wrong here or is this really a bug? Best, -- Patrick Cernko <pcernko(a)mpi-klsb.mpg.de> +49 681 9325 5815 Joint Administration: Information Services and Technology Max-Planck-Institute fuer Informatik & Softwaresysteme

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Inbox quota usage doubled when mailbox_list_index enabled, under some circumstances
by Chris Dillon 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Hello, I searched through the list archives for anything that appeared to be similar to this but I didn't find any good matches. I apologize if this has been brought up before. Beginning with Dovecot 2.2.34, reported quota usage of a user's inbox can be doubled when the following criteria are met: 1) quota plugin is enabled 2) mailbox_list_index=yes 3) A sub-folder of the inbox exists whose name also matches the prefix (for example, "INBOX.Test"), even if that folder has no contents. (Apparently, some mail clients such as K-9 Mail on Android can create these folders automatically) Downgrading to 2.2.33.2 allows this configuration to work normally. I looked through the changes in git between 2.2.33.2 and 2.2.34 and they appeared extensive, so unfortunately I wasn't able to pinpoint a specific change that caused this. Reproduced on a CentOS 7 server with Dovecot 2.2.34 built from git sources according to https://wiki2.dovecot.org/CompilingSource#Compiling_Dovecot_From_Git using the following minimal configuration: ========== root@centos7 [~]# dovecot -n # 2.2.34 (874deae): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) # Hostname: centos7.local mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = quota mailbox_list_index = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { quota = maildir:Mailbox } userdb { driver = passwd } ========== With the system user "myuser" and a minimal Maildir setup containing 1 email in the inbox, and one sub-folder named "INBOX.Test": ========== root@centos7 [~]# ls -lAR /home/myuser/Maildir /home/myuser/Maildir: total 4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 myuser myuser 77 Jul 25 09:36 cur drwxr-xr-x. 5 myuser myuser 56 Jul 25 15:19 .INBOX.Test -rw-r--r--. 1 myuser myuser 14 Jul 25 15:19 maildirsize drwxr-xr-x. 2 myuser myuser 6 Jul 25 09:36 new drwxr-xr-x. 2 myuser myuser 6 Jul 25 09:36 tmp /home/myuser/Maildir/cur: total 12416 -rw-r--r--. 1 myuser myuser 12712627 Jul 25 09:07 1532529376.M543965P58007.centos7.local,S=12712627,W=12877782:2,S /home/myuser/Maildir/.INBOX.Test: total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 2 myuser myuser 6 Jul 25 09:36 cur -rw-r--r--. 1 myuser myuser 0 Jul 25 09:36 maildirfolder drwxr-xr-x. 2 myuser myuser 6 Jul 25 09:36 new drwxr-xr-x. 2 myuser myuser 6 Jul 25 09:36 tmp /home/myuser/Maildir/.INBOX.Test/cur: total 0 /home/myuser/Maildir/.INBOX.Test/new: total 0 /home/myuser/Maildir/.INBOX.Test/tmp: total 0 /home/myuser/Maildir/new: total 0 /home/myuser/Maildir/tmp: total 0 ========== Given this configuration, when "mailbox_list_index" is enabled, after quota recalculation, quota reports that there are 2 messages and that double the amount of storage is used: ========== root@centos7 [~]# doveadm quota recalc -u myuser; doveadm quota get -u myuser Quota name Type Value Limit % Mailbox STORAGE 24830 - 0 Mailbox MESSAGE 2 - 0 ========== When "mailbox_list_index" is disabled and quota is recalculated, it will report the message and storage counts correctly: ========== root@centos7 [~]# doveadm -o 'mailbox_list_index=no' quota recalc -u myuser; doveadm quota get -u myuser Quota name Type Value Limit % Mailbox STORAGE 12415 - 0 Mailbox MESSAGE 1 - 0 ========== I am hoping that someone with much more familiarity with the code path involved here could take a look at this issue and possibly submit a fix for it -- that would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you need any more details regarding the replication steps, though I hope that I didn't miss anything. Thank you! -- Chris Dillon Technical Analyst III Migrations Specialist cPanel, Inc.

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Dovecot 2.3.4 crash
by azurit＠pobox.sk 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Hi, is this a know problem? Newest Dovecot 2.3.4 package from repo.dovecot.org , Debian Stretch (fully upgraded). Nov 29 14:25:11 server00 dovecot: lmtp(16854): Panic: file ostream-dot.c: line 208 (o_stream_dot_sendv): assertion failed: ((size_t)ret == sent + added) Nov 29 14:25:11 server00 dovecot: lmtp(16854): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xd25e1) [0x7fa5f7b655e1] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xd2681) [0x7 fa5f7b65681] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7fa5f7acd093] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xbb97b) [0x7fa5f7b4e97b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x fa4ae) [0x7fa5f7b8d4ae] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(o_stream_sendv+0x2e) [0x7fa5f7b8da3e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_stream_copy+0x52) [0x7fa5f7b8e512] -> /usr /lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(o_stream_send_istream+0x58) [0x7fa5f7b8e008] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(smtp_client_command_send_more+0x1b1) [0x7fa5f7ad7351] -> /usr/lib/dov ecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4a096) [0x7fa5f7add096] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xfd0c3) [0x7fa5f7b900c3] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x75) [0x7fa5f7b 7e5d5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x109) [0x7fa5f7b7ffd9] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x56) [0x7fa5f7b7e6e6] -> / usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7fa5f7b7e8f8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7fa5f7af2d43] -> dovecot/lmtp [local DATA](main+ 0x240) [0x565287c30f70] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf1) [0x7fa5f77142e1] -> dovecot/lmtp [local DATA](_start+0x2a) [0x565287c310ca] Nov 29 14:25:11 server00 dovecot: lmtp(16854): Fatal: master: service(lmtp): child 16854 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) azur

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Crash in director for secure lmtp proxy connections
by Marcus Fenner 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Hi, After updating some of our director servers from 2.2.36 to 2.3.3 (dcead646b) we experience crashes in about 1/5000 mails in lmtp delivery: Nov 13 12:23:36 Fatal: lmtp(113620): master: service(lmtp): child 113620 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) Nov 13 12:23:36 Panic: lmtp(113623): file ostream-dot.c: line 208 (o_stream_dot_sendv): assertion failed: ((size_t)ret == sent + added) Nov 13 12:23:36 Error: lmtp(113623): Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xe34fb) [0x7f31d89134fb] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xe3597) [0x7f31d8913597] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x51207) [0x7f31d8881207] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4eeef) [0x7f31d887eeef] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x107cf8) [0x7f31d8937cf8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(o_stream_sendv+0x32) [0x7f31d89382c2] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_stream_copy+0x5a) [0x7f31d8938b6a] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(o_stream_send_istream+0x53) [0x7f31d8938873] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(smtp_client_command_send_more+0x145) [0x7f31d8890805] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x660dd) [0x7f31d88960dd] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libssl_iostream_openssl.so(+0xa7e1) [0x7f31d864a7e1] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x10a558) [0x7f31d893a558] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x73) [0x7f31d892a203] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x136) [0x7f31d892b8b6] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x50) [0x7f31d892a2b0] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x48) [0x7f31d892a418] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x17) [0x7f31d88a95a7] -> dovecot/lmtp(main+0x245) [0x555b8b59cea5] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3) [0x7f31d867c413] -> dovecot/lmtp(_start+0x2e) [0x555b8b59cfbe] Nov 13 12:23:36 Fatal: lmtp(113623): master: service(lmtp): child 113623 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) On the backend servers the only message is lmtp(9571): Disconnect from 192.168.1.56: Connection closed (in DATA) This happens for every server with this version every time postfix tries to resend the mail. After removing "starttls=y" from the static passdb entry, the mail is sent successfully. Starting with version 2.3.2 the lmtp proxy uses starttls as well, therefore the error seems to be there. I've not been able to figure out, if this has to do with the content of the mails, because they are from many different sources. Thanks! Marcus

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