March 2022 - dovecot - dovecot.org

invalid lz4 chunk size??
by Joachim Lindenberg 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hello, when accessing one mailbox via ActiveSync / SoGo / Dovecot I get the following error repeatedly in dovecot log: imap(somemailbox(a)example.org)<1579><***>: Error: Mailbox Sent: UID=1553: read(compress()) failed: read() failed: lz4.read(): invalid lz4 chunk size: 1601505441 at 16842752 (read reason=) I can still access the mailbox via IMAP though. What can I do to resolve the issue? Thanks, Joachim

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sieve-filter not respecting :create flag of fileinto
by David Arroyo 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hello, I recently significantly modified my sieve rules for filing mailing list posts in my Fastmail inbox. The rules contain a few rules that file mail like so: fileinto :create ml.${5}${4}{$3}{$2}{$1}; # reversed list-id The rules work as expected on delivery to fastmail. Because these rules only run on delivery, and the new folder layout is different from my existing one, I want to apply the rules to my existing mail. I thought dovecot's `sieve-filter` command, together with the `imapc` storage backend, would be a good way to do that, so I moved some existing mail into a folder, `sieve-test`, and ran the following: sieve-filter -x '+editheader +mailbox' -W -e rules.sieve sieve-test However, what I see is that sieve-filter fails when the new directory does not exist. Here is some example (redacted) output: Info: imapc(imap.fastmail.com:993): Connected to x.x.x.x:993 (local x.x.x.x) error: msgid=<xxx>: fileinto action: failed to store into mailbox 'ml.gnu.guix-devel': Mailbox does not exist. sieve-filter(me): Info: sieve: msgid=<xxx>: left message in mailbox 'sieve-test' error: sieve script execution failed for this message; message left in source mailbox. sieve-filter(me): Info: sieve: msgid=<yyy>: fileinto action: stored mail into mailbox 'ml.9fans.9fans' My config looks like this: protocols = none mail_location = imapc: namespace { inbox = yes separator = . } imapc_host = imap.fastmail.com imapc_port = 993 imapc_ssl = imaps imapc_user = $username If this is a bug in sieve-filter I'd be happy to try and fix it, but I'm reaching out here first to see if this is expected behavior or a misconfiguration on my part. Thanks for any help, David

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mdbox_rotate_size recommendation / performance
by Lucas Rolff 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Hi guys, When using mdbox under Dovecot, the mdbox_rotate_size setting defaults to 10 megabyte - from a performance point of view if using spinning drives does this matter whether one goes for e.g. 2MB versus 10MB, especially in the combination with compression. Does anyone have any performance data regarding it’s size, and what’s a decent trade-off between limiting IOPS required by the drive versus the sequential read/write speeds. Any pointers would be awesome! Thanks in advance

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AntiVirus in Maildir
by Masakazu Hirose 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Hi all, I run a mail server on Maildir. Does Dovecot work correctly if I delete the mail files stored in Maildir? Do I need to run the doveadm command? I want to run a virus scan on Maildir. When a virus is detected, the mail file is deleted without notifying Dovecot. I assumed this was incorrect behavior for Dovecot. Please help me when someone has time. Thanks, Masa

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allow_nets equivalent for all users?
by Bryan K. Walton 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Hi, It is my understanding that allow_nets is a field that gets used in a password database, and therefore is a per-user setting. Is there an equivalent method for defining allowed network(s) for ALL users? In other words, a single setting that applies to every user? Thanks, Bryan

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Possible bug interaction between Dovecot and Thunderbird 98/99 email client
by Arthur Koziol 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

Hi Dovecot devs, My name is Arthur. I'm a volunteer with Mozilla and am working with a user who's having some odd issues with his Thunderbird email client. I'm reaching out to you folks because he's using an at-home IMAP setup with Dovecot. It's not 100% clear if his setup is polling his GMail accounts and then pulling everything to his Dovecot setup but if there's any interesting in jumping into the bug we're trying to help this user with, feel free to browse the bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1726319 I asked the user if he's reached out to the Dovecot devs yet but he's not replied. We're not sure if this is a Dovecot / setup issue, a Thunderbird issue or something in between but we could use some other eyes and ideas of what to check for this user if you guys have a couple seconds to take a look. Thanks for reading. best, Arthur

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Dovecot High Availability ?
by White, Daniel E. (GSFC-770.0)[NICS] 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

Are there any current, free high availability strategies for Dovecot ?

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Can't create viable password hashes
by David Griffith 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

I recently discovered that I can no longer create viable password hashes for use in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.passwd. So far, I've been using the following command done by root: doveadm_cmd pw -s SHA512-CRYPT -u joe -p mypassword This creates something that looks legit, but dovecot won't accept it. I've been using my own solution for allowing users to change their dovecot passwords (https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/dovepasswd) and this is how it generates the hashes. Is there a better way of going about this? -- David Griffith dave(a)661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

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XOAUTH2 submission - "500 5.5.2 Line too long"
by Rosario Esposito 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

Hello, I setup a dovecot submission server, using xoauth2 authentication. My roundcube webmail points to dovecot submission. In roundcube smtp logs, I see: [08-Mar-2022 15:47:16 +0100]: <qjonb57c> Recv: 250-PIPELINING [08-Mar-2022 15:47:16 +0100]: <qjonb57c> Recv: 250 XCLIENT ADDR PORT PROTO HELO LOGIN SESSION TTL TIMEOUT FORWARD [08-Mar-2022 15:47:16 +0100]: <qjonb57c> Send: AUTH XOAUTH2 dXNlcj1yZXNwb3NpdAFhdXRoPWJlYXJlci<<<...*very long base64 string*....>>> [08-Mar-2022 15:47:16 +0100]: <qjonb57c> Recv: 500 5.5.2 Line too long [08-Mar-2022 15:47:16 +0100]: <qjonb57c> Send: ****** [4] [08-Mar-2022 15:47:16 +0100]: <qjonb57c> Recv: 221 2.0.0 Bye And, in dovecot logs I found: Mar 8 15:47:17 ### dovecot[97376]: submission-login: Debug: smtp-server: conn 172.18.6.100:38658 [1]: command EHLO: 250 reply: Sent: 250-###.<#####> 8BITMIME AUTH PLAIN OAUTHBEARER XOAUTH2 BURL imap CHUNKING ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES SIZE PIPELINING XCLIENT ADDR PORT PROTO HELO LOGIN SESSION TTL TIMEOUT FORWARD Mar 8 15:47:17 ### dovecot[97376]: submission-login: Debug: smtp-server: conn 172.18.6.100:38658 [1]: command EHLO: Finished Mar 8 15:47:17 ### dovecot[97376]: submission-login: Debug: smtp-server: conn 172.18.6.100:38658 [1]: command EHLO: Destroy Mar 8 15:47:17 ### dovecot[97376]: submission-login: Debug: smtp-server: conn 172.18.6.100:38658 [1]: command EHLO: 250 reply: Destroy Mar 8 15:47:17 ### dovecot[97376]: submission-login: Debug: smtp-server: conn 172.18.6.100:38658 [1]: Trigger output Mar 8 15:47:17 ### dovecot[97376]: submission-login: Debug: smtp-server: conn 172.18.6.100:38658 [1]: No more commands pending Mar 8 15:47:17 ### dovecot[97376]: submission-login: Debug: smtp-server: conn 172.18.6.100:38658 [1]: Sending replies Mar 8 15:47:17 ### dovecot[97376]: submission-login: Debug: smtp-server: conn 172.18.6.100:38658 [1]: No more commands pending Mar 8 15:47:17 ### dovecot[97376]: submission-login: Debug: smtp-server: conn 172.18.6.100:38658 [1]: Client sent invalid command: Command line is too long Apparently, the problem came out after upgrading from dovecot 2.3.17 to 2.3.18 Any ideas ?

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Replicator Issues on Large Mail Boxes
by Paul Kudla (Scom.ca Internet Services Inc.) 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

Ok running : freebsd-12.1 dovecot-2.3.18.current dovecot-2.3-pigeonhole-0.5.18.current simply put replication works fine on smaller email boxes without issues. dsync also works when run manually, longest sync is 60 secords or so when using dsync so need replicator bumped up ? i get the fact that the file locking issue relative since a larger mailbox will take longer to replicate when an email comes in ? mail18 03-05 18:05:51 {dovecot} [15799] (872623573) doveadm(keith(a)elirpa.com)<32249><GnS3M53sI2L5fQAAz1jc/w>: Error: Couldn't lock /data/dovecot/users/elirpa.com/keith(a)elirpa.com//tmp/.dovecot-sync.lock: fcntl(/data/dovecot/users/elirpa.com/keith@elirpa.com//tmp/.dovecot-sync.lo…, write-lock, F_SETLKW) locking failed: Timed out after 30 seconds (WRITE lock held by pid 31519) so what i need is where fcntl is setting a 30 second timeout for replication (i have adjust all the others in the src code) simply put replicator fails and retries and keeps failing which is understandable as it probably needs a little more time ? # sync.users carol(a)scom.ca none 00:02:51 08:16:34 - y nick(a)elirpa.com low 02:45:17 09:28:32 - y keith(a)elirpa.com none 02:30:13 09:28:32 - y paul(a)scom.ca high 02:45:17 09:28:32 - y ed(a)scom.ca none 02:34:34 09:28:32 - y ed.hanna(a)dssmgmt.com high 02:45:17 09:28:32 - y i found under /programs/src/mail/dovecot-2.3.18.current/src/lib file-lock.c struct flock fl; fl.l_type = lock_type; fl.l_whence = SEEK_SET; fl.l_start = 0; fl.l_len = 0; ret = fcntl(fd, timeout_secs != 0 ? F_SETLKW : F_SETLK, &fl); if (timeout_secs != 0) { alarm(0); file_lock_wait_end(path); } if (ret == 0) break; if (timeout_secs == 0 && (errno == EACCES || errno == EAGAIN)) { /* locked by another process */ *error_r = t_strdup_printf( "fcntl(%s, %s, F_SETLK) locking failed: %m " "(File is already locked)", path, lock_type_str); return 0; } if (err_is_lock_timeout(started, timeout_secs)) { errno = EAGAIN; *error_r = t_strdup_printf( "fcntl(%s, %s, F_SETLKW) locking failed: " "Timed out after %u seconds%s", path, lock_type_str, timeout_secs, file_lock_find(fd, set->lock_method, lock_type)); return 0; } *error_r = t_strdup_printf("fcntl(%s, %s, %s) locking failed: %m", path, lock_type_str, timeout_secs == 0 ? "F_SETLK" : "F_SETLKW"); if (errno == EDEADLK && !set->allow_deadlock) { i_panic("%s%s", *error_r, file_lock_find(fd, set->lock_method, lock_type)); } return -1; #endif -- Happy Saturday !!! Thanks - paul Paul Kudla Scom.ca Internet Services <http://www.scom.ca> 004-1009 Byron Street South Whitby, Ontario - Canada L1N 4S3 Toronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266

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