May 2020 - dovecot - dovecot.org

Convert standalone mbox to standalone Maildir with Dsync - hierarchy separator error
by Sam Kuper 23 May '20

23 May '20

Dear Dovecot users/devs, I have the following mbox file: /tmp/dsync_test/mbox/2002-September I would like to convert it to a Maildir: /tmp/dsync_test/maildir (Currently, the latter is just an empty directory.) I am attempting this on an old PC running Debian 9 ("Stretch"). I installed the dovecot-core package in order to make the `dsync` tool available on that PC. I have not otherwise done anything with Dovecot on that PC; for instance, I have not created or edited any Dovecot config files. `man dsync` gives the Dovecot version as 2.2. Inspired by the man page and the Dovecot wiki, here was my first attempt to perform the conversion. (I have added newlines between each line of the output, for readability.) $ dsync -Dv -o 'mail_location=maildir:/tmp/dsync_test/maildir' \ backup \ mbox:/tmp/dsync_test/mbox/:INBOX=/tmp/dsync_test/mbox/2002-September Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm Debug: Skipping module doveadm_acl_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so: undefined symbol: acl_lookup_dict_iterate_visible_next (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_expire_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so: undefined symbol: expire_set_deinit (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_quota_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota_user_module (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_fts_lucene_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_lucene_plugin.so: undefined symbol: lucene_index_iter_deinit (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_fts_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin.so: undefined symbol: fts_user_get_language_list (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_mail_crypt_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/libdoveadm_mail_crypt_plugin.so: undefined symbol: mail_crypt_box_get_pvt_digests (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(sampablokuper): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/home/sampablokuper doveadm(sampablokuper): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/tmp/dsync_test/maildir doveadm(sampablokuper): Debug: maildir++: root=/tmp/dsync_test/maildir, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=/tmp/dsync_test/maildir, alt= doveadm(sampablokuper): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /tmp/dsync_test/maildir: mode=0755 gid=default dsync(sampablokuper): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/home/sampablokuper dsync(sampablokuper): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mbox:/tmp/dsync_test/mbox/:INBOX=/tmp/dsync_test/mbox/2002-September dsync(sampablokuper): Debug: fs: root=/tmp/dsync_test/mbox, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=/tmp/dsync_test/mbox/2002-September, alt= dsync(sampablokuper): Error: Mail locations must use the same virtual mailbox hierarchy separator (specify separator for the default namespace) As you can see, it ends with "Error: Mail locations must use the same virtual mailbox hierarchy separator (specify separator for the default namespace)". So, I tried specifying a hierarchy separator, but this failed too: $ dsync -Dv \ -o 'separator=.' \ -o 'mail_location=maildir:/tmp/dsync_test/maildir' \ backup \ mbox:/tmp/dsync_test/mbox/:INBOX=/tmp/dsync_test/mbox/2002-September Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm Debug: Skipping module doveadm_acl_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so: undefined symbol: acl_lookup_dict_iterate_visible_next (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_expire_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so: undefined symbol: expire_set_deinit (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_quota_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: quota_user_module (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_fts_lucene_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_lucene_plugin.so: undefined symbol: lucene_index_iter_deinit (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_fts_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin.so: undefined symbol: fts_user_get_language_list (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_mail_crypt_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/libdoveadm_mail_crypt_plugin.so: undefined symbol: mail_crypt_box_get_pvt_digests (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(sampablokuper): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/home/sampablokuper doveadm(sampablokuper): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/tmp/dsync_test/maildir doveadm(sampablokuper): Debug: maildir++: root=/tmp/dsync_test/maildir, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=/tmp/dsync_test/maildir, alt= doveadm(sampablokuper): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /tmp/dsync_test/maildir: mode=0755 gid=default dsync(sampablokuper): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=1000, home=/home/sampablokuper dsync(sampablokuper): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=mbox:/tmp/dsync_test/mbox/:INBOX=/tmp/dsync_test/mbox/2002-September dsync(sampablokuper): Debug: fs: root=/tmp/dsync_test/mbox, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=/tmp/dsync_test/mbox/2002-September, alt= dsync(sampablokuper): Error: Mail locations must use the same virtual mailbox hierarchy separator (specify separator for the default namespace) I got the same error again when I tried the command above with "/" instead of "." as the hierarchy separator. Forgive me for my ignorance, but how should I correct the invocation I used above? In other words: using dsync, how can I extract/copy the emails from the mbox to the new Maildir? Thank you! -- A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.

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What causes mails to get striked-over only, and not deleted?
by Sebastian Nielsen 23 May '20

23 May '20

I have tried with this sieve config: imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Sent imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY APPEND imapsieve_mailbox1_after = file:/etc/dovecot/sieve/sent.sieve and this sieve file (sent.sieve): discard; This should clearly cause the mail to be deleted right? But whats happen, is that the mail is not deleted, its just marked for deletion (gets a strike-through in Microsoft Outlook). (have tried with _before too, but it wont help). What can I do to ensure the mail actually gets deleted (completely, not moved to trash) and not just flagged for deletion?

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dsync “destination” argument
by Felipe Gasper 22 May '20

22 May '20

Hello, Some code that I didn’t write but am maintaining passes a local script’s path as dsync’s “destination” argument, like so: dsync -D -u john -v backup -R -1 "/code/dsync_client.pl" 127.0.0.1 john(a)mydomain.org dsync_client.pl establishes a TCP connection with a remote dsync process then acts as a proxy between the two dsync processes. “127.0.0.1” and “john(a)mydomain.xn--org-9o0a are given as arguments to dsync_client.pl. I don’t see this usage described in dsync’s man page. I just want to be sure: is this a supported use of dsync? Thank you! cheers, -Felipe Gasper

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fail2ban setup centos 7 not picking auth fail?
by Voytek Eymont 22 May '20

22 May '20

I'm trying to set up fail2ban with dovecot, I have it working on 'old' server Centos 6, but, not getting anywhere with 'new' server on Centos 7 using standard filters I've copied same 'filter' to new server, still get nothing any idea how to figure this out ? on old server, it logs to syslog/messages CentOS release 6.10 (Final) dovecot 2.3.10.1 (a3d0e1171) old # fail2ban-client status dovecot Status for the jail: dovecot |- Filter | |- Currently failed: 2 | |- Total failed: 168 | `- File list: /var/log/dovecot.log `- Actions |- Currently banned: 0 |- Total banned: 32 `- Banned IP list: on new server CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 dovecot 2.3.10.1 (a3d0e1171) nothing shows up in fail2ban log (ssh, postfix does, only no dovecot) I've copied the actual /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/dovecot.conf from old server, still nothing not sure where/how to look is there a standard/approved doveot filter..? cat jail.local ... [dovecot] enabled = true filter = dovecot logpath = /var/log/dovecot.log maxretry = 3 ignoreip = 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.0/8 ... # fail2ban-client status dovecot Status for the jail: dovecot |- Filter | |- Currently failed: 0 | |- Total failed: 0 | `- Journal matches: _SYSTEMD_UNIT=dovecot.service `- Actions |- Currently banned: 0 |- Total banned: 0 `- Banned IP list: # grep 'auth failed' /var/log/dovecot.log | wc 7669 149916 1558909 # cat dovecot.conf # Fail2Ban filter Dovecot authentication and pop3/imap server # [INCLUDES] before = common.conf [Definition] _daemon = (auth|dovecot(-auth)?|auth-worker) failregex = ^%(__prefix_line)s(?:%(__pam_auth)s(?:$dovecot:auth$)?:)?\s+authentication failure; logname=\S* uid=\S* euid=\S* tty=dovecot ruser=\S* rhost=<HOST>(?:\s+user=\S*)?\s*$ ^%(__prefix_line)s(?:pop3|imap)-login: (?:Info: )?(?:Aborted login|Disconnected)(?::(?: [^ $]+)+)? \((?:auth failed, \d+ attempts( in \d+ secs)?|tried to use (disabled|disallowed) \S+ auth)$:( user=<[^>]+>,)?( method=\S+,)? rip=<HOST>(?:, lip=\S+)?(?:, TLS(?: handshaking(?:: SSL_accept failed: error:[\dA-F]+:SSL routines:[TLS\d]+_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:unknown protocol)?)?(: Disconnected)?)?(, session=<\S+>)?\s*$ ^%(__prefix_line)s(?:Info|dovecot: auth$default$|auth-worker$\d+$): pam$\S+,<HOST>$: pam_authenticate failed: (User not known to the underlying authentication module: \d+ Time$s$|Authentication failure $password mismatch\?$)\s*$ ^%(__prefix_line)s(?:auth|auth-worker$\d+$): (?:pam|passwd-file)$\S+,<HOST>$: unknown user\s*$ ^%(__prefix_line)s(?:auth|auth-worker$\d+$): Info: ldap$\S*,<HOST>,\S*$: invalid credentials\s*$ ignoreregex = [Init] journalmatch = _SYSTEMD_UNIT=dovecot.service # DEV Notes: # * the first regex is essentially a copy of pam-generic.conf # * Probably doesn't do dovecot sql/ldap backends properly (resolved in edit 21/03/2016) # * Removed the 'no auth attempts' log lines from the matches because produces # lots of false positives on misconfigured MTAs making regexp unusable # # Author: Martin Waschbuesch # Daniel Black (rewrote with begin and end anchors) # Martin O'Neal (added LDAP authentication failure regex) # Sergey G. Brester aka sebres (reviewed, optimized, IPv6-compatibility)

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pass a block of parameters to doveadm
by dovecot-user 21 May '20

21 May '20

Hello everyone. Please tell me how to override the configuration file options when using the doveadm utility with the -o switch in case I need to pass a block of parameters, for example, like this: passdb { args = scheme=PLAIN username_format=%u /path/to/file driver = passwd-file } Thanks.

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v2.3.10.1 released
by Aki Tuomi 21 May '20

21 May '20

We are pleased to release v2.3.10.1 Please find it from locations below: https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.10.1.tar.gz https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.10.1.tar.gz.sig Binary packages in https://repo.dovecot.org/ Docker images in https://hub.docker.com/r/dovecot/dovecot Aki Tuomi Open-Xchange oy --- - CVE-2020-10957: lmtp/submission: A client can crash the server by sending a NOOP command with an invalid string parameter. This occurs particularly for a parameter that doesn't start with a double quote. This applies to all SMTP services, including submission-login, which makes it possible to crash the submission service without authentication. - CVE-2020-10958: lmtp/submission: Sending many invalid or unknown commands can cause the server to access freed memory, which can lead to a server crash. This happens when the server closes the connection with a "421 Too many invalid commands" error. The bad command limit depends on the service (lmtp or submission) and varies between 10 to 20 bad commands. - CVE-2020-10967: lmtp/submission: Issuing the RCPT command with an address that has the empty quoted string as local-part causes the lmtp service to crash.

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FTS-lucene errors : language not available for stemming
by David Gessel 21 May '20

21 May '20

I'm getting some log errors with clucene that I am having no luck tracking down on the interwebs. Errors: May 19 05:05:16 indexer-worker(gessel(a)blackrosetech.com)<62971><aPAEI3zLw17A/QAA0J78UA:EF25M3zLw1779QAA0J78UA>: Error: lucene index /mail/blackrosetech.com/gessel//lucene-indexes: IndexWriter::addDocument() failed (#4): language not available for stemming May 19 05:05:16 indexer-worker: Error: May 19 05:05:16 indexer-worker(gessel(a)blackrosetech.com)<62971><aPAEI3zLw17A/QAA0J78UA:EF25M3zLw1779QAA0J78UA>: Error: Mailbox Security: Mail search failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2020-05-19 05:05:16] May 19 05:05:16 indexer-worker(gessel(a)blackrosetech.com)<62971><aPAEI3zLw17A/QAA0J78UA:EF25M3zLw1779QAA0J78UA>: Error: Mailbox Security: Transaction commit failed: FTS transaction commit failed: transaction context (attempted to index 1 messages (UIDs 152736..152736)) Config: FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE-p8 #0 r360490 dovecot-2.3.10_3 clucene-2.3.3.4_19 py37-pystemmer-2.0.0.1 py37-snowballstemmer-1.2.1 icu-67.1,1 plugin { #setting_name = value expire = Trash mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size fts_autoindex=yes #zlib_save_level = 6 # 1..9 #zlib_save = gz # or bz2 } plugin { fts = lucene # Lucene-specific settings, good ones are: fts_lucene = whitespace_chars=@. mime_parts } I am considering switch to xapian (solr and java... pls noe) as the port is quite tempting from an ease of integration perspective, but the easiest solution would be to resolve these odd indexing errors. Anyone have a clue? -David

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dsync multiple mailboxes per connection?
by Felipe Gasper 21 May '20

21 May '20

Hello, Is it possible to batch syncs of multiple mailboxes in a single dsync session? We’re transferring users between servers and want to use dsync to transfer the mail; ideally we’d like to avoid creating a separate TCP connection per user. Thank you! cheers, -Felipe Gasper

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how to automatically delete folders from Trash after x days
by chayes＠afo.net 20 May '20

20 May '20

This works great for keeping the Trash from overflowing ... doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash before 30d ... but it doesn't delete folders that the user put in the trash. What is the recommended method for erasing folders from the trash?

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question about director_mail_servers setting
by Joe Wong 20 May '20

20 May '20

Hello, I have a question about director_mail_servers setting for director, I am aware that I can define a list of dovecot backend hostname there but I am not sure if the hashing apply to the hostname or underlying IP address of each hostname given? What if the IP of a specify hostname is changed? Will director pickup the new IP automatically? Will the same user hashed into the original IP still be mapped back to the new IP in this case? - Joe

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