December 2019 - dovecot

[Dovecot] auth: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Permission denied
by mailing＠securitylabs.it 01 Oct '25

01 Oct '25

Hello, just upgraded one of my testing machine from dovecot 1.2.15 to 2.0.7. After some trouble with permissions now all seems working, but when I stop dovecot I have these errors in log: Nov 9 17:08:07 in dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=20362 uid=0 code=kill) Nov 9 17:08:07 in dovecot: pop3-login: Error: read(anvil) failed: EOF Nov 9 17:08:07 in dovecot: imap-login: Error: read(anvil) failed: EOF Nov 9 17:08:07 in dovecot: imap(mailing(a)securitylabs.it): Server shutting down. bytes=410/59361 Nov 9 17:08:07 in dovecot: imap(mailing(a)securitylabs.it): Server shutting down. bytes=79/26605 Nov 9 17:08:07 in dovecot: imap(mailing(a)securitylabs.it): Server shutting down. bytes=802/55708 Nov 9 17:08:07 in dovecot: imap(mailing(a)securitylabs.it): Server shutting down. bytes=258/1242 Nov 9 17:08:07 in dovecot: auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: EOF Nov 9 17:08:07 in dovecot: auth: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Permission denied dovecot -n: # 2.0.7: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-686 i686 Debian squeeze/sid auth_cache_negative_ttl = 2 mins auth_cache_size = 1000 M auth_cache_ttl = 2 mins auth_master_user_separator = * auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@& disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = yes first_valid_uid = 100 last_valid_uid = 105 lock_method = dotlock log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_greeting = Server ready. mail_fsync = never mail_gid = Debian-exim mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n mail_privileged_group = Debian-exim mail_uid = Debian-exim 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 namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { location = maildir:~/Maildir/expunged prefix = EXPUNGED/ separator = / type = private } namespace { location = maildir:~/Maildir/deleted prefix = DELETED/ separator = / type = private } namespace { location = maildir:~/Maildir/deleted/expunged prefix = DELETED/EXPUNGED/ separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/passwd.masterusers driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } plugin { lazy_expunge = EXPUNGED/ DELETED/ DELETED/EXPUNGED/ mail_log_events = delete expunge mail_log_group_events = quota = maildir quota_warning = storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/dovecot-quota-warning.sh 80 quota_warning2 = storage=90%% /usr/local/bin/dovecot-quota-warning.sh 90 sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve } pop3_no_flag_updates = yes protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = Debian-exim mode = 0600 user = Debian-exim } } service imap-login { client_limit = 256 process_limit = 128 process_min_avail = 3 service_count = 1 } service imap { drop_priv_before_exec = yes process_limit = 256 vsz_limit = 256 B } service pop3-login { client_limit = 256 process_limit = 128 process_min_avail = 3 service_count = 1 } service pop3 { drop_priv_before_exec = yes process_limit = 256 vsz_limit = 256 B } ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/dovecot.crt ssl_key = </usr/local/etc/dovecot.key userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugins = " notify quota imap_quota mail_log lazy_expunge" } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugins = " notify quota mail_log" pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota sieve postmaster_address = postmaster(a)securitylabs.it } My /usr/local/var/run/dovecot directory: 4 drwxr-sr-x 4 root staff 4096 Nov 9 17:08 . 4 drwxrwsrwx 3 root staff 4096 Nov 9 17:05 .. 0 srw------- 1 root staff 0 Nov 9 17:05 anvil 0 srw------- 1 root staff 0 Nov 9 17:05 anvil-auth-penalty 0 srw------- 1 root staff 0 Nov 9 17:05 auth-client 0 srw------- 1 dovecot staff 0 Nov 9 17:05 auth-login 0 srw------- 1 root staff 0 Nov 9 17:05 auth-master 0 srw------- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 0 Nov 9 17:05 auth-userdb 0 srw------- 1 dovecot staff 0 Nov 9 17:05 auth-worker 0 srw------- 1 root staff 0 Nov 9 17:05 config 0 srw------- 1 root staff 0 Nov 9 17:05 dict 0 srw------- 1 root staff 0 Nov 9 17:05 director-admin 0 srw-rw-rw- 1 root staff 0 Nov 9 17:05 dns-client 0 srw------- 1 root staff 0 Nov 9 17:05 doveadm-server 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 35 Nov 9 17:05 dovecot.conf -> /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 17:05 empty 4 drwxr-x--- 2 root dovenull 4096 Nov 9 17:05 login My emails are delivered as user Debian-exim and users are virtual in a MySQL DB. This system is behind a proxy (so the master user)

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postfix alias and dovecot quota
by Alexandre Ellert 28 Sep '25

28 Sep '25

Hello, Can someone tell me if it’s possible to configure dovecot to answer quota information about real mailbox when I query a postfix alias mailbox (this information is actually in a mysql database) ? Example : doveadm quota get - u alias(a)domain.com doveadm(alias(a)domain.com): Fatal: User doesn't exist doveadm quota get - u realmailbox(a)domain.com Quota name Type Value Limit % user STORAGE 2048853 2048000 100 user MESSAGE 6783 - 0 I’d like to have this result : doveadm quota get - u alias(a)domain.com Quota name Type Value Limit % user STORAGE 2048853 2048000 100 user MESSAGE 6783 - 0 doveadm quota get - u realmailbox(a)domain.com Quota name Type Value Limit % user STORAGE 2048853 2048000 100 user MESSAGE 6783 - 0 Thanks for your help. Alexandre.

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dovecot-2.3.2.1 and dovecot-pigeonhole-0.5.2 bug?
by Jan Nowak 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Hello, we have a problem after updating the software with the operation of sieve scripts sending a copy of the e-mails, e-mails are not transferred. Configuration: dovecot-2.3.2.1 + dovecot-pigeonhole-0.5.2 + FreeBSD 11.2 log: Sep 06 13:28:17 lda(XXX@XXX)<38615><XXX+XXX>: Info: sieve: msgid=<XXX-XXX-XXX-7788-XXX@XXXXnet>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Sep 06 13:28:17 lda(XXX@XXX)<38615><XXX+XXX>: Info: sieve: Execution of script /usr/home/XXX/mail/XXX(a)XXX/.dovecot.sieve failed, but implicit keep was successful (user logfile /usr/home/XXX/mail/XXX(a)XXX/.dovecot.sieve.log may reveal additional details) .dovecot.sieve.log: error: msgid=<XXX-XXX-XXX-7788-XXX@XXXXnet>: failed to redirect message to <XXXXX(a)XXXXXX.com>: smtp(127.0.0.1:25): DATA failed: 552 Message header not CRLF terminated (permanent failure). On old configuration: dovecot 2.2 + dovecot-pigeonhole- 0.4 + FreeBSD 11.2 we don't have problem. Has anyone had a similar problem, knows the solution?

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[Dovecot] doveadm delete folders ?
by Robert Schetterer 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

Hi , is there a feature like doveadm expunge savedbefore ... for imap folder delete ? -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria

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decrypt.rb
by Dave 11 Apr '23

11 Apr '23

Per the Dovecot site here: https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailCrypt ... the "decrypt.rb" ruby script can be used to decrypt a Dovecot-encrypted message file from the command line. The script sort of runs successfully for me, in the sense that it doesn't error out, but it doesn't show the decrypted message. I've called it like so: decrypt.rb -k <PATH_TO_DOVECOT_KEYFILE> -f ./encrypted_message But when I do it just displays the info below and exits (I've subbed <DATA> tags for the actual data): ------------------[OUTPUT]----------------------- Key(s) (total: 1) - Key type : EC - Key digest: <DATA1> - Peer key : <DATA2> - Encrypted : <DATA3> - Kd hash : <DATA4> ------------------------------------------------------- I've tried specifying an output file as well, per the script's command line options, but the output file is 0 bytes. Does anyone have any suggestions? I *think* I'm using it the way it's intended to be used, but maybe I'm not?! -Dave

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sieve - segmentation fault
by kjonca＠o2.pl 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

I tried to experiment with "index" extension and I found that, in case "0" sieve-filter segfaults. example code was: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- if header :index 0 :last :regex "received" "some regex here" { fileinto "dedicated mailbox" ; } --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- KJ -- http://stopstopnop.pl/stop_stopnop.pl_o_nas.html I dote on his very absence. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"

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Mailbox problem on centos O/S after some "fiddling"
by John Richards 28 May '21

28 May '21

Good day from Somerset, England Version 2.2.10 Problem after a huge centos update Data:- Server has 8 mailboxes under /var/mail/"user name" history:- After update, mail to ONE user was going into mqueue as undeliverable Had to delete and recreate the user. somewhere along the line (ME!) /var/mail/;imap var/mail/new were deleted After new user and reboot server no one could access mailboxes with password error except ONE user randomly....This created the /var/mail/.mbox folder and sub folders but with the owner as the user name. Then any mail for other users was put in the /var/new folder and just sat there. only the "owner" of this folder could get mail, everyone else was prohibited with password error. chown the folder (owner:group) to root did nothing BUT When .mbox was give PUBLIC execute permissions (771) suddenly everything works fine! I do not understand why dovecot creates this folder as we ONLY ever use pop3 (currently with plain text auth but going to secure when this sorted) for mail and also why when it writes the blank folder it "owns" it with the user accessing it (also the /var/mail/new folder takes the same owner) I have trolled everywhere and spent a whole day on this so any clues would be very gratefully accepted as do not like to leave this folder as 771 (note the folder INBOX within it is only 770 and the log file in that is 660) Is this INBOX needed at all for pop3 ? rgds John Richards UK ================= dovecot -n # 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core ) ext4 auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = shadow } protocols = pop3 service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/watchetwebdesign.co.uk.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/watchetwebdesign.co.uk.key userdb { driver = passwd }

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[Dovecot] Doveadm sometimes failed "to iterate through some users" after upgrade to 2.2
by Alessio Cecchi 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi, I'm running every week in cron "doveadm expunge -A mailbox Spam before 30d" and monthly "doveadm quota recalc -A". After the upgrade to dovecot 2.2.12 (from 2.1.17), "doveadm -A" sometimes exit with this error: doveadm(user(a)domain.com): Error: User listing returned failure doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users # echo $? 75 If I re-run the same command the user where doveadm stops changeing (always in alphabetical order): info@ mario@ pippo@ zazza@ and finally, after 3 or 4 run, ends with success. I have enable debug (via doveadm -D and auth/mail debub in 10-logging.con) but there are no errors or difference in the log when doveadm exit with the error (error code is 75). If I run # doveadm expunge -A mailbox Spam savedbefore 30d doveadm works fine Can somebody help me? Here is my configuration: # dovecot -n # 2.2.12: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.9 auth_debug = yes auth_master_user_separator = * auth_verbose = yes deliver_log_format = msgid=%m, from=%f, subject="%s": %$ dict { expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext sqlquota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = no first_valid_gid = 89 first_valid_uid = 89 imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep tb-lsub-flags imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins imap_logout_format = in=%i out=%o session=<%{session}> last_valid_gid = 89 last_valid_uid = 89 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = * mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = quota expire maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave vnd.dovecot.duplicate mmap_disable = yes namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%n/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = username_format=%Ld /etc/dovecot/extra/alias-domains-denylogin.txt deny = yes driver = passwd-file } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/extra/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { expire = Trash expire2 = Spam expire_dict = proxy::expire quota = maildir:UserQuota quota2 = dict:Quota Usage::noenforcing:proxy::sqlquota quota_grace = 10M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/sieve/before.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.duplicate -vacation } pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s, bytes=%i/%o, session=<%{session}> protocols = imap pop3 sieve service auth-worker { process_limit = 1000 } service auth { client_limit = 5500 unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vchkpw mode = 0660 user = vpopmail } } service dict { process_limit = 300 unix_listener dict { group = vchkpw mode = 0660 user = vpopmail } } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 } service imap { process_limit = 4000 service_count = 100 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { service_count = 0 } service pop3 { process_limit = 1023 service_count = 100 } service quota-warning { executable = script /etc/dovecot/scripts/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vpopmail } user = vpopmail } ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/wildcard-myemail.net.pem ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/wildcard-myemail.net.key submission_host = localhost userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lda { mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY mail_plugins = quota expire sieve } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 15 mail_plugins = quota expire imap_quota } protocol sieve { mail_max_userip_connections = 2 } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 5 } -- Alessio Cecchi is: @ ILS -> http://www.linux.it/~alessice/ on LinkedIn -> http://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice Assistenza Sistemi GNU/Linux -> http://www.cecchi.biz Cloud Email Hosting -> http://www.qboxmail.com @ PLUG -> ex-Presidente, adesso senatore a vita, http://www.prato.linux.it

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IMAP session hangs on 8k-long commands if COMPRESS=DEFLATE is enabled
by Guilhem Moulin 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

Hi there, Dovecot 2.3.7 appears to hang when the client sends a long command after enabling the IMAP COMPRESS extension [RFC 4978]. PoC script attached along with the doveconf(1) output. Without COMPRESS=DEFLATE, and with the default ‘imap_max_line_length’ value (64k) I'm able send commands up to 65539 bytes long (that's 3 bytes more than 2¹⁶, so maybe the leading tag and the trailing CRLF aren't counted), after which Dovecot rightfully replies with tagged BAD responses. $ COMPRESS=n /tmp/many-fetch.pl 65539 […] C: x UID FETCH 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,… [65539 bytes] S: x OK Fetch completed (0.005 + 0.001 + 0.004 secs). C: x UID FETCH 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,… [65540 bytes] S: x BAD Error in IMAP command UID FETCH: IMAP command line too large (0.001 + 0.001 secs). C: x UID FETCH 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,… [65541 bytes] S: x BAD Error in IMAP command UID FETCH: IMAP command line too large (0.001 + 0.001 secs). With COMPRESS=DEFLATE however, the server never sends anything back when the command size exceeds 8192 bytes: $ COMPRESS=y /tmp/many-fetch.pl 8192 […] S: x OK [READ-ONLY] Examine completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). C: x UID FETCH 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,… [8191 bytes] S: x OK Fetch completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). C: x UID FETCH 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,… [8192 bytes] S: x OK Fetch completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). C: x UID FETCH 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,… [8193 bytes] [ _hangs until the server terminates the session for inactivity_ ] S: * BYE Disconnected for inactivity. strace(1) show that Dovecot didn't send the response, even though the server log indicates that it's able to fully read the command. Interestingly, when setting ‘imap_max_line_length’ to 4096, the server also hangs after receiving a command of size >4096 bytes (instead of replying with a tagged BAD response). $ COMPRESS=y /tmp/many-fetch.pl 4096 C: x UID FETCH 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,… [4095 bytes] S: x OK Fetch completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). C: x UID FETCH 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,… [4096 bytes] S: x OK Fetch completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). C: x UID FETCH 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,… [4097 bytes] [ _hangs until the server terminates the session for inactivity_ ] I'm also able to reproduce the buggy behavior against Dovecot versions found in other Debian releases. It's identical with 2.3.4 (Buster), the server also hang past 8192 bytes. 2.2.27 (Stretch) and 2.2.13 (Jessie) are able to send replies to 8k-long commands, but hang past 65536 bytes. For all 3 releases, without COMPRESS=DEFLATE Dovecot doesn't hang and rightfully sends tagged BAD responses to commands of size >65539 bytes. So while the hanging behavior appears to be a long-standing bug, the fact that's it's now hit at min($imap_max_line_length, 8192) instead of $imap_max_line_length seems to be a regression from somewhere between 2.2.27 and 2.3.4. Cheers, -- Guilhem.

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Dovecot SASL
by Jorge Bastos 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

Howdy, I know i've asked this before, but i think i got really no answer. I'd like to have dovecot SASL, to check AUTH against an SQL table, instead of dovecot SASL use the AUTH MECH for imap/pop3. I want this, to have the same behavior as I have now, where i use postfix with cyrus SASL on a different table (with the same login details), and when i have an user that his accounts was hacked for sending spam, i just block the send and allow the user to keep receiving emails, for example to warn him. Would this be possible? Dovecot SASL against a SQL table? Havent found much info about it, Thanks in advanced,

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