June 2020 - dovecot - dovecot.org

Plugin ABI compat between v2.3.8 and v2.3.9
by Alexander Strasser 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

Hi all! This is my first post on this list. Please pardon me if I overlooked or misunderstood some things. I had some imap crashes (sig11) starting at the end of 2019 after an upgrade of dovecot. I found out, that I didn't have any problems using version v2.3.8, but any version v2.3.9 and higher would trigger the crashes. After investigating more deeply and creating a core dump, I saw that the crash happened in an external plugin fetchmail_wakeup[1]. After recompiling that plugin with up to date dovecot headers, I didn't get crashes anymore. So I suspect there were ABI incompatible changes and it was forgotten to bump the minimum Plugin-ABI version supported. I could try to follow up some more details, but it would be quite a burden because of rebuilding the plugin with debug symbols against version 2.3.8 of dovecot and triggering the crash etc. Despite that I think it should be possible to detect changes that are ABI incompatible, as otherwise plugin users would always have to find out first hand with unknown consequences. That said there could be a possibility of the plugin using the API/ABI in an invalid way. If that was the cause, then the plugin should be changed. Hope this report turns out to help improve the situation. I don't have problems currently and will in future be sensitive to this specific possible cause of problems, but not having such crashes in the first place, would be worth it and maybe could still help others. Best regards, Alexander 1: slightly reduced version of: https://github.com/marschap/fetchmail_wakeup

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Converting dot-namespaced Maildir to /-namespaced
by Guido Goluke, MajorLabel 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

I have a couple of domains on my server, all of them namespaced with a dot. It's 10-15 mailboxes at the most. Is there good way to convert them to / (slash) namespaced folders? Maybe some bash script lying around somewhere?

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dovecot fts configuration without solr
by Danilo Tomasoni 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

Hello All, I always used dovecot and I'm pretty happy with it, but recently I changed OS (to ubuntu 18) and to get dovecot LTS with lucene (the default I was using on my previous arch installation) I needed to build from source the version 2.3.10 (the one that came with the repos was older and clucene was not actually supported) The problem is that the Clucene is not behaving well, It indexes only some mails but definitely not all according to my tests (there are also strange assertion errors in the logs) I also tried xapian fts index but is very slow indexing and definitely doesn't seem to work. The problem with solr fts is that solr doesn't even start on my tiny system (odroid C2 with 2GB RAM) and anyway I don't want to bloat all the system for the indexing if possible.. Anyone can suggest me a proper minimal and working configuration? Thank you Danilo

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JMAP support
by Martynas Bendorius 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Hello, Is there any ETA set for JMAP support? Thank you! >> On 11/27/2016 5:28 AM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote: >> Hi! >> We are working on including JMAP support to Dovecot. At this moment I cannot give any promise for exact version, but hopefully it will be part of v2.3 >> >> Aki Tuomi >> Dovecot Oy -- Best regards, Martynas Bendorius

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Apple mail works but thunderbird unable to connect
by Dshah 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Dear all, I am stuck on this issue for days, I am able to connect on my IMAP server using Apple mail client but thunderbird shows me this error: "improper command pipelining after EHLO" I have tried all the ports in manual config but it just is not working while Apple Mail is able to connect perfectly, here are my configuration details of "postconf -n" , "doveconf -n" and " master.cf" https://pastebin.com/M3XG9DXA Thanks in advance.

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problem with warnings
by Maciej Milaszewski 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Hi I have a problem with warrnings in log Yesterday "big gays" change datastore and After this time i get warrnings in dovecot like: Warning: Created dotlock file's timestamp is different than current time (1592878268 vs 1592871191): /vmail/us/username/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist Before that there was no problem with warnnings I have dovecot director with 5 dovecot-nodes and storage always was mounted via nfs /vmail on /vmail type nfs (rw,noexec,noatime,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,acregmin=120,acregmax=120,acdirmin=120,acdirmax=120,hard,nocto,nordirplus,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.0.100.41,mountvers=3,mountport=635,mountproto=tcp,local_lock=none,addr=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) # 2.2.36.4 (baf9232c1): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.24.rc1 (debaa297) # OS: Linux 3.16.0-10-amd64 x86_64 Debian 8.11

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from field encoding
by Jan Jurko 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Good day. I have a dovecot 2.3.4.1 on debian 10 as an imap server. I found there are emails where the header field From has no encoding even if there is a name with special characters like Žlutý Kůň. The header looks like: From: "Žlutý Kůň" <zluty.kun(a)domain.tld> In this case the email client - roundcube, outlook etc. will show the From with wrong characters. This behaviour is typical only for dovecot, not for courier-imap - it was installed before dovecot with no problems. If there is corretly encoded From filed, the client shows the From correctly. Is there a way to set up the dovecot to show the field correctly even without encoding stuff? Some default/fallback settings? Thank you very much for your help Jan Jurko

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nodelay passdb extra field does not work?
by Joe Wong 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Hello, I have added 'y' as nodelay in my passdb query and I see the following in log: dovecot: imap-login: Debug: Ignoring unknown passdb extra field: nodelay does it mean this option is no longer supported in 2.3.10 ? - Joe

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AW: replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory
by Thomas Tsiakalakis 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

I managed to convince the System that I really want a core dump Thomas Tsiakalakis Team Applikationsbetrieb GDV Dienstleistungs-GmbH Tel: +49(40)33449-4318 Fax: E-Mail: Thomas.Tsiakalakis(a)gdv-dl.de<mailto:Thomas.Tsiakalakis@gdv-dl.de> GDV Dienstleistungs-GmbH Glockengießerwall 1 D-20095 Hamburg www.gdv-dl.de<http://www.gdv-dl.de> Niederlassungen: Wilhelmstraße 43 / 43 G 10117 Berlin Frankenstraße 18 20097 Hamburg Sitz und Registergericht: Hamburg HRB 145291 USt.-IdNr : DE 205183123 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Jens Bartenwerfer Fred di Giuseppe Chiachiarella Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Werner Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------ Diese E-Mail und alle Anhänge enthalten vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese E-Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe der E-Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail and any attached files may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Von: Thomas Tsiakalakis Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. Juni 2020 16:26 An: 'dovecot(a)dovecot.org' <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Betreff: replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory Hi, I have set up 2 SLES 15 Hosts with dovecot and replication. Everything seems to work fine but every time a message is delivered, I get an out of memory error in the logs. The Replication itself seems to work fine though. I increased default_vsz_limit to 512M but the only thing that changed was that dovecot was trying to allocate 1073741864 bytes instead of 268435496 As I said, I’m running SLES 15 SP1 and Dovecot 2.3.10 (0da0eff44) (both Hosts have the same version) Each Host currently has 8GB of Memory. # free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7.8Gi 278Mi 7.3Gi 47Mi 183Mi 7.2Gi Swap: 4.0Gi 0B 4.0Gi # journalctl -f Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 postfix/pickup[3457]: 18533C009C8: uid=0 from=<root> Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 postfix/cleanup[3669]: 18533C009C8: message-id=<20200618135548.18533C009C8@mail1> Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 postfix/qmgr[3458]: 18533C009C8: from=<root@mail1>, size=431, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 dovecot[1833]: lmtp(3673): Connect from local Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 dovecot[1833]: replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435496 bytes Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 dovecot[1833]: replicator: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x42) [0x7f8346d6d262] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x1e) [0x7f8346d6d37e] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xebcee) [0x7f8346d77cee] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xebd91) [0x7f8346d77d91] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f8346cd1f8b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(t_pop_last_unsafe+0) [0x7f8346d73660] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xe7a50) [0x7f8346d73a50] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x10eb58) [0x7f8346d9ab58] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xe3ac5) [0x7f8346d6fac5] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0xf2) [0x7f8346d6fdb2] -> dovecot/replicator(replicator_queue_push+0xde) [0x5648989a5cde] -> dovecot/replicator(+0x5464) [0x5648989a5464] -> dovecot/replicator(+0x4a0b) [0x5648989a4a0b] -> dovecot/replicator(+0x4c02) [0x5648989a4c02] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x69) [0x7f8346d90c99] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x134) [0x7f8346d92574] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x4c) [0x7f8346d90d9c] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7f8346d90fc8] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f8346d01873] -> dovecot/replicator(main+0x1a0) [0x5648989a3cb0] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xea) [0x7f83468f534a] -> dovecot/replicator(_start+0x2a) [0x5648989a3d5a] Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 dovecot[1833]: lmtp(test(a)example.com)<3673><q5sLCGRy615ZDgAATn/NZw>: Warning: replication(test(a)example.com): Sync failure: Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 dovecot[1833]: lmtp(test(a)example.com)<3673><q5sLCGRy615ZDgAATn/NZw>: Warning: replication(test(a)example.com): Remote sent invalid input: - Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 dovecot[1833]: lmtp(test(a)example.com)<3673><q5sLCGRy615ZDgAATn/NZw>: msgid=<20200618135548.18533C009C8@mail1>: saved mail to INBOX Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 dovecot[1833]: lmtp(3673): Disconnect from local: Client has quit the connection (state=READY) Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 postfix/lmtp[3672]: 18533C009C8: to=<test(a)example.com>, orig_to=<test(a)domain.com>, relay=mail1[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=0.17, delays=0.02/0.01/0.02/0.13, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 <test(a)example.com> q5sLCGRy615ZDgAATn/NZw Saved) Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 postfix/qmgr[3458]: 18533C009C8: removed Jun 18 15:55:48 mail1 dovecot[1833]: replicator: Fatal: master: service(replicator): child 2948 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps - set /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable to 2)

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Updating wiki content
by Dan 22 Jun '20

22 Jun '20

Greetings, I'd like to contribute to the Dovecot wiki in regards to clients that lack the ability to support SNI. However the captcha doesn't make sense, I get a question "What do you do to prevent spam?". This is a loaded question which I'm uncertain what the answer should be. Thanks.

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