December 2021 - dovecot

2.3.14: stale imap-login processes due to bogus user setup tying up process limit
by Volker Stolz 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

I just dealt with an interesting Dovecot issue on our small server, and thought I might share it. I also feel that although in the end it was a configuration error, Dovecot should somehow avoid leaving this processes around and hence filling up the process limit quickly. - set up Dovecot IMAP on Debian buster (either with the older 2.3.x Debian package, or 2.3.14 from the dovecot-repo) - config: ... namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = ... default settings ... ... passdb { args = scheme=HMAC-MD5 username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } protocols = " imap" ... userdb { args = blocking=no driver = passwd } ... - secret sauce: have a user in the passdb that doesn't have a physical account on the system yet (we were migrating to a new machine). The log-file shows successful authentication for that user (after we flipped DNS to point to this new machine), but over time (2-3 times/day) we were left with an increasing number of `imap-login` processes in state `pre-login`, eventually requiring a dovecot restart. Dialling up process_limits didn't seem to help, we'd just get more of these stale processes. After creating the user on the system, the behaviour reverted to normal, no more stale processes. I do not know what error message that user received on their end, but since we announced we were migrating, they probably just ignored it and thought it as part of the transition. Best, Volker (a happy & long Dovecot user)

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Catch all for Metadata storage in SQL database
by Steffen Kaiser 27 Oct '22

27 Oct '22

Hi, the https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/imap_metadata/ sample uses mail_attribute_dict = file:%h/Maildir/dovecot-attributes which stores all keys=value pairs in the file. http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/Dovecot-v2-3-9-3-HTTP-API-Endpoint-for… uses a SQL dict, however very specific ones. How can I use a SQL dict to store _all_ keys, as with a file based storage? I cannot find a documentation for "pattern" specification, that works as "catch all", in order to store anything not catched by patterns into the database. https://wiki.dovecot.org/Dictionary does not give any hint (in my eyes). -- Steffen Kaiser

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Panic: file mail-index-transaction-finish.c: line 185
by tobisworld＠gmail.com 20 Sep '22

20 Sep '22

Hi list I have weird issue with my Dovecot 2.3.17.1 (476cd46418) When deleting a certain amount of messages from my INBOX via my MUA (Evolution) all over sudden dovecot starts to panic Panic: file mail-index-transaction-finish.c: line 185 (mail_index_transaction_get_uid): assertion failed: (seq <= t->view- >map->hdr.messages_count) imap(REDACTED)<24075><P0/vLkXUNt4KQmMB>: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x42) [0x7f09274d4142] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x1e) [0x7f09274d424e] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xf72fe) [0x7f09274e22fe] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xf73a1) [0x7f09274e23a1] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f0927430e38] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xf438d) [0x7f092789d38d] - > /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xf43da) [0x7f092789d3da] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot- storage.so.0(mail_index_transaction_finish+0x177) [0x7f092789da87] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xf9ad6) [0x7f09278a2ad6] - > /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot- storage.so.0(mail_index_transaction_commit_full+0x9d) [0x7f09278a2fad] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot- storage.so.0(mail_index_transaction_commit+0x1c) [0x7f09278a306c] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot- storage.so.0(mail_cache_set_seq_corrupted_reason+0x61) [0x7f092788c921] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot- storage.so.0(mail_set_mail_cache_corrupted+0xed) [0x7f09277fbbbd] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x7a3e9) [0x7f09278233e9] - > /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x7a6b0) [0x7f09278236b0] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot- storage.so.0(mail_get_physical_size+0x38) [0x7f09277e8ba8] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot//lib20_mail_log_plugin.so(+0x2465) [0x7f09263dd465] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot//lib15_notify_plugin.so(notify_contexts_mail_copy+ 0x5c) [0x7f09265e13ec] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot//lib15_notify_plugin.so(+0x25d4) [0x7f09265e25d4] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot//lib10_quota_plugin.so(+0x102ae) [0x7f09269f92ae] -> /usr/libexec/dovecot//lib01_acl_plugin.so(+0xef3e) [0x7f0926c10f3e] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot- storage.so.0(+0x50c4c) [0x7f09277f9c4c] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_move+0x58) [0x7f09277f9ec8] -> dovecot/imap(+0x1175b) [0x55a2c0ea575b] -> dovecot/imap(command_exec+0x64) [0x55a2c0eb3f04] -> dovecot/imap(+0x1dde2) [0x55a2c0eb1de2] -> dovecot/imap(+0x1de71) [0x55a2c0eb1e71] -> dovecot/imap(+0x1e039) [0x55a2c0eb2039] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x205) [0x55a2c0eb22f5] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x79) [0x55a2c0eb28d9] imap(REDACTED)<24075><P0/vLkXUNt4KQmMB>: Fatal: master: service(imap): child 24075 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) >From that point on ANY access to INBOX from my MUA causes the error. The only way that I found to get around is to unsubscribe the INBOX folder and subscribe again. Then the error is gone until I delete a bunch of messages again. The error only occurs if I delete the messages within short time or select multiple (about 20msg at once). If I delete them one-by-one always waiting for expunge message in dovecot logs to appear then I can delete as many as I want. I have not verified with other MUA but in Evolution I can reproduce the issue. Cheers and have a good one tobi

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Unclear how to get both user and domain quotas to work
by Hans van Zijst 10 Sep '22

10 Sep '22

Hi, First of all: my apologies for this long message. I'm trying to post all the information anybody could need to help me on my way. What I'm trying to make is an installation where both users and domains can have quotas. Ideally I would configure a quota for a domain and set a quota of 0 for all users within that domain, so that mail will be accepted up to the point where the domain quota is reached. Setting up user quota was fairly easy, there's lots of documentation around and examples to take inspiration from. Not so much for domain quota however, or I'm really bad at searching the Net. I'm running Debian Bullseye here: MariaDB 10.5.12 Dovecot 2.3.13 Postfixadmin 3.3.10 I want to use dictionaries in MySQL, because eventually this will be a platform with several Dovecot and Postfix servers. At this time I'm only running one Dovecot installation and a few Postfix servers (two for communication with the outside world and one to do the virus and spam scanning). My current setup for user quota is how Postfixadmin wants it: MariaDB [postfixadmin]> desc quota2; +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | username | varchar(100) | NO | PRI | NULL | | | bytes | bigint(20) | NO | | 0 | | | messages | int(11) | NO | | 0 | | +----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ 3 rows in set (0.001 sec) In /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-quota.conf I have this: plugin { quota = dict:User quota::proxy::sqlquota quota_rule = *:bytes=1024M quota_rule2 = Trash:bytes=+100M quota_vsizes = yes quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = "552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full" } dict { sqlquota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } The SQL-configuration /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext is this: connect = host=... dbname=... user=... password=... map { pattern = priv/quota/storage table = quota2 username_field = username value_field = bytes } map { pattern = priv/quota/messages table = quota2 username_field = username value_field = messages } map { pattern = shared/expire/$user/$mailbox table = expires value_field = expire_stamp fields { username = $user mailbox = $mailbox } } I use LMTP to accept mail from Postfix; the quota-plugin is activated for LMTP, so every incoming mail should be counted. This works like a charm: if I don't configure a quota for a user, he gets the default 1GB, if I override it in Postfixadmin, then that's what he gets. I'm running quota-status on a TCP-port, so the gateway SMTP-servers can connect to Dovecot for a quotacheck to decide whether to accept or reject an incoming message. Again, this works flawlessly. I can't find any serious documentation about this mapping thing. In particular, what's with that "pattern"? All I can find in the documentation is: "The dict key must match exactly priv/quota/storage. The dict keys are hardcoded in the Dovecot code, so depending on what functionality you’re configuring you need to know the available dict keys used it." -- https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/dict/#dict-sql If anyone can point me at better documentation than the actual source code: please! I browsed through the quota-plugin source code, but I'm not a programmer and couldn't find what I thought I was looking for. That said, I'm not sure where I got the third "map" from, with the shared/expire pattern. I seem to have forgotten to document that bit of my journey. Now, domain quotas... I've tried all kinds of stuff, but at the moment I'm stuck with something that seems to almost work. I added a second quota root: plugin { quota2 = dict:Domain quota:%d:proxy::sqldomainquota quota2_rule = *:bytes=1024M quota2_status_success = DUNNO quota2_status_nouser = DUNNO quota2_status_overquota = "552 5.2.2 Domain quota exceeded" quota2_vsizes = yes } dict { sqldomainquota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } This dict refers to the same mapping as the one for user quotas, and I think that's the way it should be. Please correct me if I'm wrong. This creates a new user in the quota2 table, by the name of just the domain. Unfortunately, it simply fills it with the numbers from the first user it can find in that domain, not all users in that domain combined. What I think I should do, is change something in the dict so that it sums up all users in that domain, something like this: SELECT SUM(bytes) FROM quota2 WHERE username LIKE '%@domain'; Problem is that I can't find anything useful online with regards to this, I'm not even sure if I'm thinking in the right direction here. Any hints, suggestions or corrections? Or pointers to articles or documentation I might have missed? Kind regards, Hans

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What is the state of SMTPUTF8 support?
by Sylvhem 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

Hi! It’s been some time since I last saw a mention of SMTPUTF8 here. Last time I heard about it, it was worked on. Does anybody have news about that? -- Sylvhem

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Shared mailboxes, users with dots and a bug in subscriptions
by Tobias Stein 17 May '22

17 May '22

Hi, i'm running Dovecot 2.3.14.alpha0 with shared namespaces and stumbled across some errors messages logged, when the list of subscribed mailboxes is queried by a client. For every distinct account of in the list of subscriptions two corresponding lines are logged: Jan 28 11:42:34 mx1 dovecot: auth: missing passwd file: /etc/dovecot/private/example/users Jan 28 11:42:34 mx1 dovecot: auth: missing passwd file: /etc/dovecot/private/example/users Jan 28 11:42:34 mx1 dovecot: auth: missing passwd file: /etc/dovecot/private/example/users Jan 28 11:42:36 mx1 dovecot: imap(example_user(a)example.com)<3638><xl6li/O5VsVfWxyn>: Error: mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/noc@example) failed: Permission denied (euid=109(vmail) egid=118(vmail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) Jan 28 11:42:36 mx1 dovecot: imap(example_user(a)example.com)<3638><xl6li/O5VsVfWxyn>: Error: mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/info@example) failed: Permission denied (euid=109(vmail) egid=118(vmail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) Jan 28 11:42:36 mx1 dovecot: imap(example_user(a)example.com)<3638><xl6li/O5VsVfWxyn>: Error: mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/root@example) failed: Permission denied (euid=109(vmail) egid=118(vmail) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) Similar messages are logged, when invalid entries are listed in '/var/lib/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes', which i already pruned and haven't received them anymore since. I think these errors are caused by an unintended behaviour when writing "~/Maildir/subscriptions", which looks (shortened) like this. V 2 INBOX/INBOX shared/noc@example com/INBOX shared/info@example com/INBOX shared/root@example com/test shared/root@example com/test test_sub The subscription-file.c explodes the name on every hierarchy separator ('.','\0') and inserts a TAB character. Unfortunately it also explodes on the DNS label delimiter „.‟. This should probably be fixed by passing a structure containing the required information to the formatter to distinguish mailboxes from domain-names. Subscription in combination with multiple domains and shared mailboxes seems broken to me. Actually i can't even explain to me, why it is working in face of the errors. :-) Unfortunately in Maildir++ the separator dot is hard-coded. There is a very old thread on this mailing list, that suggests using „auth_username_translation‟ to replace dots with a different character, but this idea is getting worse the longer i think about it. I absolutely dislike the idea to set LAYOUT=fs, namespace/separator = § to change the separators to split on, because this would mean to restructure the physical layout of all mailboxes (hierarchically) and mess around with lots of files. I attached a dovecot-sysreport to reproduce the behaviour. /etc/dovecot/private/example.com/users looks like this: ### user:password:uid:gid:(gecos):home:(shell):extra_fields noc:{SSHA512}_hash_:::::: info:{SSHA512}_hash_:::::: root:{SSHA512}_hash_:::::: Please correct me if i'm wrong or point me to a workaround, but i think the layout code needs some love. :-) Best regards Tobias

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FTS solr or xapian and Public Folders
by David Williams 13 May '22

13 May '22

Hi all I hope someone can help with this. I'm looking at setting up FTS on a Dovecot server which has some quite big pubic folders (100,000+ emails each) and would appreciate some info about how fts both Xapian and Solr works with public folders. As background of the folders can receive emails and I use a dummy user and an alias file to deliver them for example testfolder: dummy+Public/MYTESTFOLDER(a)example.com delivers email addressed to testfolder(a)example.com to MYTESTFOLDER in the namespace Public. Has anyone successfully setup FTS with public folders using either Xapian or Solr and what happens when one user changes a folder, does that change show up for other users? E.G.: When an email is delivered by dummy and indexed will that email be indexed for other users as well? Similarly what happens that when an email is moved between, deleted from or copied to public folders by one user will that change then show up for the other users or not? I guess the basic question is: Are public folders indexed once and then the indexes are made available to each user with access or are they indexed for each user? Any info or experience that anyone has will be appreciated. Many thanks David

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Private \seen flags lost during message move for other users
by Cube . 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Hello, I have a shared mailbox set up with a private index: maildir:/var/mail/public:INDEXPVT=~/Maildir/public Per user \Seen flags are working fine until one user moves a message into another folder/sub-mailbox. For that user doing the move the message remains \Seen however for other users who have already seen the message the flag is lost and it appears unread in the new location. If the message is moved back it still appears unread to the other user even if had been read in that folder/sub-mailbox in the past. Is there anyway to retain per user \Seen that follows the message when its moved? Thank you.

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imap_metadata plugin panic
by Elisamuel Resto 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

Hello, This may be covered somewhere but recently I enabled the metadata plugin to work with sieve as part of some updates I did a while back and I hadn't checked my logs for any issues with it and so far they're not completely taking my system down. Right now, upon trying to delete a folder I noticed the following in my logs... what am I missing? I see the broken SQL query, but I don't know enough about the dict system or the metadata plugin to know how to add the missing information or fix it otherwise. Regards, Elisamuel Resto Nov 15 12:19:19 wyvern dovecot[461]: dict(51438): Panic: lib-sql: Too many bind args (2) for statement: SELECT meta_key FROM metadata WHERE meta_key LIKE AND username = ? Nov 15 12:19:19 wyvern dovecot[461]: dict(51438): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x43) [0x7f449789d073] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x20) [0x7f449789d190] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xfaf1f) [0x7f44978a9f1f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xfafb1) [0x7f44978a9fb1] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4cd20) [0x7f44977fbd20] -> dovecot/dict [0 clients, 0 lookups:0/0/0/0, 0 iters:0/0/0/0, 0 commits:0/0/0/0](+0x875a) [0x555e60d7775a] -> dovecot/dict [0 clients, 0 lookups:0/0/0/0, 0 iters:0/0/0/0, 0 commits:0/0/0/0](sql_statement_query+0x42) [0x555e60d7f262] -> dovecot/dict [0 clients, 0 lookups:0/0/0/0, 0 iters:0/0/0/0, 0 commits:0/0/0/0](+0xd97f) [0x555e60d7c97f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(dict_iterate_values+0x25) [0x7f4497868615] -> dovecot/dict [0 clients, 0 lookups:0/0/0/0, 0 iters:0/0/0/0, 0 commits:0/0/0/0](+0xa929) [0x555e60d79929] -> dovecot/dict [0 clients, 0 lookups:0/0/0/0, 0 iters:0/0/0/0, 0 commits:0/0/0/0](+0xb224) [0x555e60d7a224] -> dovecot/dict [0 clients, 0 lookups:0/0/0/0, 0 iters:0/0/0/0, 0 commits:0/0/0/0](+0xb381) [0x555e60d7a381] -> dovecot/dict [0 clients, 0 lookups:0/0/0/0, 0 iters:0/0/0/0, 0 commits:0/0/0/0](dict_command_input+0xd9) [0x555e60d7a579] -> dovecot/dict [0 clients, 0 lookups:0/0/0/0, 0 iters:0/0/0/0, 0 commits:0/0/0/0](+0x95b8) [0x555e60d785b8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(connection_input_default+0x15e) [0x7f44978a16ce] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x6b) [0x7f44978bfebb] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x13b) [0x7f44978c15cb] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x51) [0x7f44978bff61] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x41) [0x7f44978c0131] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x14) [0x7f4497831f74] -> dovecot/dict [0 clients, 0 lookups:0/0/0/0, 0 iters:0/0/0/0, 0 commits:0/0/0/0](main+0x189) [0x555e60d78139] -> /usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd5) [0x7f44972cfb25] -> dovecot/dict [0 clients, 0 lookups:0/0/0/0, 0 iters:0/0/0/0, 0 commits:0/0/0/0](_start+0x2e) [0x555e60d7819e] Nov 15 12:19:19 wyvern dovecot[461]: imap(sam(a)samresto.dev)<51449><+BGq2NfQM/7Pisr9>: Error: Mailbox Trash/Processed: dict_iterate(priv/c841ad0291c27461ac670100a07d9965/) failed: Connection closed (reply took 0.204 secs (0.204 in dict wait, 0.000 in other ioloops, 0.000 in locks)) Nov 15 12:19:19 wyvern dovecot[461]: dict(51438): Fatal: master: service(dict): child 51438 killed with signal 6 (core dumped)

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Dovecot v2.3.17.1 Released
by Aki Tuomi 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

We are happy to announce 2.3.17.1 patch release of Dovecot. This contains some fixes for issues found after 2.3.17 release. https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.17.1.tar.gz https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.17.1.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 -- - dsync: Add back accidentically removed parameters. - lib-ssl-iostream: Fix assert-crash when OpenSSL returned syscall error without errno. - master: Dovecot failed to start if ssl_ca was too large.

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