May 2019 - dovecot - dovecot.org

How to get original recipient from Postfix when using LMTP?
by MRob 22 May '19

22 May '19

Many people prefer to use LMTP for delivery from postfix for better efficiency but X-Original-to header support still missing after many years. One affect of this is need to set sieve_vacation_dont_check_recipient = yes which violate Sieve standard and cause auto-replyies sent to messages that should not happen. Or abandon LMTP. or abandon postfix?? So while feature request is stalled are there any realistic workarounds?

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weakforced: Possible to access the ip address of report/allow?
by Tobi 22 May '19

22 May '19

Hi I wonder if the information about the origin of report or allow can be accessed somehow. lt.remote gives the IP of the client trying to login but is there anything in lt which gives the ip of the system that connects to wforced? Thanks and have a good one -- tobi

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lmtp report permission denied on delivery to multiple recipients
by Patrick Cernko 22 May '19

22 May '19

Hello, when receiving mails for multiple recipients via LMTP, I often see the following messages on our servers: > May 22 11:06:10 sinon dovecot[44304]: lmtp(119718): Connect from $IP$ > May 22 11:06:11 sinon dovecot[44304]: lmtp($USER1$)<119718><2HnmOgIR5Vym0wEA22L5Rg>: msgid=<$MSGID$>: saved mail to INBOX > May 22 11:06:11 sinon dovecot[44304]: lmtp($USER2$)<119718><2HnmOgIR5Vym0wEA22L5Rg:2>: Error: stat(/IMAP/mail/mailboxes/$USER1$/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.cache) failed: Permission denied (euid=$UID2$($USER2$) egid=$GID2$(rbg) missing +x perm: /IMAP/mail/mailboxes/$USER1$, dir owned by $UID1$:$GID2$ mode=0700) > May 22 11:06:11 sinon dovecot[44304]: lmtp($USER2$)<119718><2HnmOgIR5Vym0wEA22L5Rg:2>: Error: open(/IMAP/mail/mailboxes/$USER1$/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.cache) failed: Permission denied (euid=$UID2$($USER2$) egid=$GID2$(rbg) missing +x perm: /IMAP/mail/mailboxes/$USER1$, dir owned by $UID1$:$GID2$ mode=0700) > May 22 11:06:11 sinon dovecot[44304]: lmtp($USER2$)<119718><2HnmOgIR5Vym0wEA22L5Rg:2>: Error: lstat(/IMAP/mail/mailboxes/$USER1$/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.cache.lock) failed: Permission denied > May 22 11:06:11 sinon dovecot[44304]: lmtp($USER2$)<119718><2HnmOgIR5Vym0wEA22L5Rg:2>: Error: file_dotlock_open(/IMAP/mail/mailboxes/$USER1$/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.cache) failed: Permission denied (euid=$UID2$($USER2$) egid=$GID2$(rbg) missing +x perm: /IMAP/mail/mailboxes/$USER1$, dir owned by $UID1$:$GID2$ mode=0700) > May 22 11:06:11 sinon dovecot[44304]: lmtp($USER2$)<119718><2HnmOgIR5Vym0wEA22L5Rg:2>: Error: open(/IMAP/mail/mailboxes/$USER1$/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.cache) failed: Permission denied (euid=$UID2$($USER2$) egid=$GID2$(rbg) missing +x perm: /IMAP/mail/mailboxes/$USER1$, dir owned by $UID1$:$GID2$ mode=0700) > May 22 11:06:11 sinon dovecot[44304]: lmtp($USER2$)<119718><2HnmOgIR5Vym0wEA22L5Rg:2>: 2HnmOgIR5Vym0wEA22L5Rg:2: sieve: msgid=<$MSGID$>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' > May 22 11:06:11 sinon dovecot[44304]: lmtp(119718): Disconnect from $IP$: Successful quit (usernames, uids, gids and IP addresses anonymized) So far, I was not able to reproduce this issue on a simple test setup, but I have the strong impression, that is has something to do with the fact, if some of the affected users have a active sieve script and others do not use sieve. In the example above $USER1$ did not have a sieve script configured but $USER2$ had one, as you can see. As a workaround, I configured an empty sieve script for all users with out sieve configured. This seems to work but actually I do not want to have users with empty sieve scripts. This bug seems to be related to https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-February/088540.html where Timo stated: "LMTP always delivers the mail to the first user. Then it tries to copy the first mail to the second user, because in some setups this can be done using hard links. With mbox that of course doesn't work, but looks like instead of failing silently it logs an error. So everything is working as it should, except there are these unnecessary errors logged. I'll see about getting rid of them." Is it possible to get rid of these error messages, either by a config setting that prevents if they do not lead to a real problem or by changing the code to avoid the behaviour described by Timo? Attached you can find doveconf -n output and the used ldap.conf (both anonymized), the referenced /etc/dovecot/passdb.deny and /etc/dovecot/userdb.overrides are usually empty files and only used during mailbox migrations. Best regards, -- 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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Integrity check mdbox?
by Marc Roos 22 May '19

22 May '19

Is it possible to do some sort of integrity check on mdbox's

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Converting user mailboxes from maildir to sdbox
by David Mehler 22 May '19

22 May '19

Hello, I've got a Postfix/Dovecot server setup. Currently Dovecot is version 2.3.6, and it's using Maildir storage. The mailbox is: mail_home = /home/vmail/mailboxes/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/mail:LAYOUT=fs I'm wanting to convert from Maildir to sdbox. I looked at: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat I was initially thinking mdbox but that's multiple messages per file, which I do not believe is what I want. Am I correct that in the sdbox format if a single message file is corrupted only that message is corrupt and not the rest of the messages as would be the case in a mdbox setup? On the page: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat " maildir -> sdbox migration. Set mail_location=sdbox:~/sdbox and run dsync -u username mirror maildir:~/Maildir " If I set mail_location=sdbox:~/sdbox will that put the user mailboxes in mail_home/sdbox? So it would be: /home/vmail/mailboxes/example.com/username/sdbox I am needing to do this migration, but am paranoid about loosing mail or corrupting mailboxes. All of my users are virtual users and they are stored in a mysql database. Thanks. Dave.

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[mail-crypt-plugin] How to decrypt mailbox?
by emordin 22 May '19

22 May '19

How do I enable the mail-crypt-plugin globally? Do I have to place 'mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_crypt' inside ever conf.d file where there is a protocol code block? Like for example the protocol lda codeblock in 15-lda.conf and the protocol imap codeblock in 20-imap.conf I placed 'mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_crypt' in 20-lmtp.conf inside the protocol lmtp code block, and the actual plugin settings are inside 90-plugin.conf inside the plugin codeblock. And I was able to get CRYPTED mail with this config. If I place 'mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_crypt' inside 90-plugin.conf, I get an error telling me to put 'mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_crypt' in 20-lmtp.conf Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Problems after upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3
by Lampa 21 May '19

21 May '19

Hello, i was using dovecot version 2.2 on debian server. After upgrade to debian version 2.3 i have problems. After some time imap doesn't work. There are lot of messages in log 2019-05-21T10:27:49.186373+02:00 hermes dovecot: imap-login: Error: master(imap): net_connect_unix(imap) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable - http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SocketUnavailable (client-pid=24810, client-id=148, rip=2.2.2.2, created 551 msecs ago, received 0/4 bytes) 2019-05-21T10:27:50.808136+02:00 hermes dovecot: imap-login: Error: master(imap): net_connect_unix(imap) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable - http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SocketUnavailable (client-pid=24810, client-id=169, rip=2.2.2.2, created 531 msecs ago, received 0/4 bytes) Tried client_limit set to 1 , service_count to 1 or 0 , still same results. It's imap server for 3k users. Any suggestions, please let me know. Thank you very much. Regards -- Lampa

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Dovecot with LDAP Proxy
by Federico Bartolucci 21 May '19

21 May '19

Hello, configuring Dovecot with LDAP authentication, adding the parameter in ther sql config file: pass_attrs = \ =proxy=y I see then backend connections always addressed to localhot port 143: /user=utente1(a)domanin.com proxy lip=127.0.0.1 lport=143 / while I expect that connections would be managed by the director and then addressed to my backend IPs and specific port. Is there a way to configure ldap proxy to get that behavior? Thanks in advance. -federico

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Dovecot documentation
by ＠lbutlr 21 May '19

21 May '19

the make config options for dovecot on FreeBSD list list [x] ICU Use libicu for FTS unicode normalization but https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS makes no mention of libicu (nor of icu at all). is linicu simply in addition to the four options of Solar, Lucene, fts-xapian, and fts-dovecot? Also, the link to fts-dovecot goes to https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Dovecot which is a 404. -- Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.

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[mail-crypt-plugin] How to decrypt mailbox?
by emordin 21 May '19

21 May '19

Hi, So I am able to encrypt email using the crypt plugin, but when I try to access the email by logging in thru mutt or roundcube the email is still encrypted. Is the decryption process automatic or do I have to create a custom program with the decrypt.rb code? Thanks. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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