September 2022 - dovecot

Re: Dead links at https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
by Joseph Tam 10 Sep '22

10 Sep '22

> These links: > > http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/pine/pine-4.64-3.el4.rf.i386.rpm > http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/pine/info/maildir.html > > on this page > > https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat > > at the Dovecot wiki do not lead to useful results. I lost the context of this thread, but if you're looking for mailutil or the older pine stuff, the project has forked inti alpine and you can find the source tarball at https://alpineapp.email/ Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Old-stats plugin and fifo_listener permissions
by Grant Keller 09 Sep '22

09 Sep '22

Hello, Currently working on using the old-stats plugin in dovecot version 2.3.10.1. What file permissions are recommended for the old-stats-mail and old-stats-user sockets? I was seeing a lack of data from the doveadm oldstats dump command until I adjusted the default config to the following: service old-stats { fifo_listener old-stats-mail { group = mode = 0666 user = root } fifo_listener old-stats-user { group = mode = 0666 user = } } Not totally clear on which processes need read or write on those so any advice is appreciated.

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Managesieve not working
by Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay 09 Sep '22

09 Sep '22

Hi, I am running dovecot 2.3.7.2 on ubuntu, and have a replication setup. I noticed that managesieve doesn't seem to be working. On my backup MX, doing a telnet to 4190 gets me the proper greetings, but doing the same on my main server just gave me the normal telnet "Escape character is..." I get the following info on the server: root@d0ba5bb19b6b:/# doveadm service status managesieve name: managesieve process_count: 0 process_avail: 0 process_limit: 1024 client_limit: 1 throttle_secs: 0 exit_failure_last: 0 exit_failures_in_sec: 0 last_drop_warning: 0 listen_pending: n listening: y doveadm_stop: n But when attempting to connect, it doesn't work. Any advice? Best, Francis

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Dead links at https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
by kjohnson＠eclypse.org 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

Hi, These links: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/pine/pine-4.64-3.el4.rf.i386.rpm http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/pine/info/maildir.html on this page https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat at the Dovecot wiki do not lead to useful results. The dag.wieers.com link seems to redirect to a server at packages.sw.be that does not exist (or does not answer today). Not archived at Wayback Machine as far as I can tell. The washington.edu link returns a 404. This page does appear to be archived by the Wayback Machine, but many of the captures reported by the Wayback Machine actually return no results. I have not checked every capture. I did find a capture from 4 Oct 2008 that does have content. This is the link to that capture. https://web.archive.org/web/20081004145454/http://staff.washington.edu/chap… Perhaps someone who attends to the Dovecot Wiki will find this information helpful in updating that page in a useful way. Regards, Ken

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Re: Re: Unable to set quota-fs plugin [fixed]
by Jorge Concha C. 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

Hello, This solution don't work for me (in Rocky Linux 8 and 9). Do you know other solutions? Or maybe an additional step is necessary? Thanks > The issue was in the systemd service file. The option PrivateDevices was > setted. It prevents the service to have access to physical devices. I > removed this option and from there, quota is reported without errors. > > Thanks for your support > > Regards, > > - > Eric Grammatico _/) > Jorge Concha C. Area de Sistemas CEC - U. de Chile

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username changed gumby@example.com -> gumby
by Tom 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

As you can see in this snip of the maillog, the domain part of the username is being stripped away: Sep 6 23:12:40 vaj dovecot[114637]: auth-worker(114662): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=114660,uid=97): auth-worker<2>: passwd(gumby(a)example.com,10.0.0.70,<YlSArw3oaqoKAABG>): Performing userdb lookup Sep 6 23:12:40 vaj dovecot[114637]: auth-worker(114662): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=114660,uid=97): auth-worker<2>: passwd(gumby(a)example.com,10.0.0.70,<YlSArw3oaqoKAABG>): lookup Sep 6 23:12:40 vaj dovecot[114637]: auth-worker(114662): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=114660,uid=97): auth-worker<2>: passwd(gumby(a)example.com,10.0.0.70,<YlSArw3oaqoKAABG>): username changed gumby(a)example.com -> gumby Sep 6 23:12:40 vaj dovecot[114637]: auth-worker(114662): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=114660,uid=97): auth-worker<2>: passwd(gumby,10.0.0.70,<YlSArw3oaqoKAABG>): Finished userdb lookup This means that my mail_location will fail since it stores mail by user and domain. dovecot -n: # 2.3.19.1 (9b53102964): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 5.19.6-200.fc36.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six) # Hostname: vaj.example.com auth_debug = yes auth_default_realm = EXAMPLE.COM auth_gssapi_hostname = $ALL auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-krb5.keytab auth_mechanisms = gssapi login plain auth_realms = example.com auth_username_format = %u auth_verbose = yes debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info log_path = /var/log/dovecot/error log_timestamp = "%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S " mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir/%d mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } ssl = no ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list = PROFILE=SYSTEM ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { driver = passwd override_fields = mail=maildir:%h/Maildir/%d } verbose_ssl = yes How can I get around this issue? I need mailboxes stored by user/domain.

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Permission denied UNIX perms appear ok (ACL/MAC wrong?))
by Austin Witmer 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

Hello all! Recently I upgraded my mail server to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and ever since then I am periodically getting some dovecot errors like the below in my mail log. As far as I can tell, my unix perms are just fine. What is ACL/MAC? Aug 20 14:41:58 mail dovecot: imap(user(a)domain.com)<56316><1NieGKPmuOdKwxVI>: Error: Mailbox INBOX: stat(/mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/maildir/domain.com/user/dovecot.index.lo… failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(austin) egid=1000(austin) UNIX perms appear ok (ACL/MAC wrong?)) And here is the listing showing the permissions for that file. austin@mail:~$ ls -la /mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/maildir/domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log -rwxrwxr-- 1 austin austin 15796 Aug 20 14:41 /mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/maildir/domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log What in the world is causing these errors, and what can I do about them? Thanks in advance! Austin Witmer

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Config file syntax: secrets from file in key=value
by Tobias Florek 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

Hi! I'd like to set up proxy authentication. This works fine, but I cannot get the passwords in to be read from file. Specifically I have this passdb block. passdb { driver = passwd-file mechanisms = plain scram-sha-256 default_fields = proxy=y host=dovecot-backend master=imapc-master-user proxy_mech=plain pass=</run/secrets/dovecot.imapc-master-user/password args = /run/secrets/dovecot.generated.app-passwd-file/passwd } This sets the password to the string /run/secrets/dovecot.imapc-master-user/password. I'd like the password to be set to the content of said file. Is it possible to get the password from a file or less desirable from the environment? Reading https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/config_file/ I assume it's not. Cheers, Tobias Florek

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Replication
by Silvio Siefke 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Hello, I try the replication of two Dovecot servers, but some errors always appear. Maybe someone here has an idea what's going wrong. As an MTA I use OpenSMTPD. Thank You Silvio dovecot -n on MX 1 # 2.3.13 (89f716dc2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.13 (cdd19fe3) # OS: Linux 5.10.0-16-amd64 x86_64 Debian 11.4 # Hostname: asia.sisi-systems.ovh auth_mechanisms = plain login doveadm_password = # hidden, use -P to show it doveadm_port = 20000 mail_gid = vmail mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " notify replication" mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = scheme=SHA512-CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/var/vmail/sieve/global/learn-spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Spam imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/var/vmail/sieve/global/learn-ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Spam imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * mail_replica = tcp:192.168.1.112 quota = maildir:User quota quota_exceeded_message = Benutzer %u hat das Speichervolumen überschritten. / User %u has exhausted allowed storage space. replication_sync_timeout = 2 sieve = file:/var/vmail/sieve/%d/%n/scripts;active=/var/vmail/sieve/%d/%n/active-script.sieve sieve_before = /var/vmail/sieve/global/spam-global.sieve sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms } protocols = lmtp imap pop3 sieve service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { user = vmail } unix_listener replication-notify { user = vmail } } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 20000 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { group = vmail user = vmail } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 unix_listener replicator-doveadm { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/lego/certificates/imap.sisi-systems.ovh.crt ssl_cipher_list = ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.2 userdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file override_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%d/%n } protocol imap { imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = " notify replication quota imap_quota imap_sieve" } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " notify replication sieve notify push_notification" postmaster_address = network(a)sisi-systems.ovh } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugins = " notify replication" } dovecot -n on MX 2 # 2.3.13 (89f716dc2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.13 (cdd19fe3) # OS: Linux 5.10.0-15-amd64 x86_64 Debian 11.4 # Hostname: bulgaria.sisi-systems.ovh auth_mechanisms = plain login doveadm_password = # hidden, use -P to show it doveadm_port = 20000 mail_gid = vmail mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " notify replication" mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = scheme=SHA512-CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/var/vmail/sieve/global/learn-spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Spam imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/var/vmail/sieve/global/learn-ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Spam imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * mail_replica = tcp:192.168.1.102 quota = maildir:User quota quota_exceeded_message = Benutzer %u hat das Speichervolumen überschritten. / User %u has exhausted allowed storage space. replication_sync_timeout = 2 sieve = file:/var/vmail/sieve/%d/%n/scripts;active=/var/vmail/sieve/%d/%n/active-script.sieve sieve_before = /var/vmail/sieve/global/spam-global.sieve sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms } protocols = lmtp imap pop3 sieve service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { user = vmail } unix_listener replication-notify { user = vmail } } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 20000 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { group = vmail user = vmail } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 unix_listener replicator-doveadm { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/lego/certificates/imap.sisi-systems.ovh.crt ssl_cipher_list = ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.2 userdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file override_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%d/%n } protocol imap { imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = " notify replication quota imap_quota imap_sieve" } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " notify replication sieve notify push_notification" postmaster_address = network(a)sisi-systems.ovh } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugins = " notify replication" } Log MX 1 (asia) Sep 5 18:02:12 asia dovecot: replicator: Fatal: master: service(replicator): child 706077 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) Sep 5 18:02:18 asia dovecot: replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435496 bytes Sep 5 18:02:18 asia dovecot: replicator: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x42) [0x7f27434e84e2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x1e) [0x7f27434e85fe] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xfc49b) [0x7f27434f449b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xfc531) [0x7f27434f4531] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x53aee) [0x7f274344baee] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x53435) [0x7f274344b435] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xf5d88) [0x7f27434edd88] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x11b818) [0x7f2743513818] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xf25f2) [0x7f27434ea5f2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xf26a9) [0x7f27434ea6a9] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x1e) [0x7f27434ea8be] -> dovecot/replicator(replicator_queue_push+0x14a) [0x5633c8c4eb1a] -> dovecot/replicator(+0x5296) [0x5633c8c4e296] -> dovecot/replicator(+0x493e) [0x5633c8c4d93e] -> dovecot/replicator(+0x4b1c) [0x5633c8c4db1c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x69) [0x7f2743509f59] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x132) [0x7f274350b592] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x50) [0x7f274350a000] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x40) [0x7f274350a1c0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f27434804e3] -> dovecot/replicator(main+0x18d) [0x5633c8c4ccad] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xea) [0x7f2743254d0a] -> dovecot/replicator(_start+0x2a) [0x5633c8c4cd6a] Sep 5 18:02:18 asia dovecot: replicator: Fatal: master: service(replicator): child 706082 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) Log MX 2 (bulgaria) Sep 5 13:02:05 bulgaria dovecot: replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435496 bytes Sep 5 13:02:05 bulgaria dovecot: replicator: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x42) [0x7f813fa394e2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x1e) [0x7f813fa395fe] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xfc49b) [0x7f813fa4549b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xfc531) [0x7f813fa45531] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x53aee) [0x7f813f99caee] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x53435) [0x7f813f99c435] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xf5d88) [0x7f813fa3ed88] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x11b818) [0x7f813fa64818] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xf25f2) [0x7f813fa3b5f2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xf26a9) [0x7f813fa3b6a9] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(buffer_write+0x1e) [0x7f813fa3b8be] -> dovecot/replicator(replicator_queue_push+0x14a) [0x5646d37c5b1a] -> dovecot/replicator(+0x5296) [0x5646d37c5296] -> dovecot/replicator(+0x493e) [0x5646d37c493e] -> dovecot/replicator(+0x4b1c) [0x5646d37c4b1c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x69) [0x7f813fa5af59] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x132) [0x7f813fa5c592] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x50) [0x7f813fa5b000] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x40) [0x7f813fa5b1c0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f813f9d14e3] -> dovecot/replicator(main+0x18d) [0x5646d37c3cad] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xea) [0x7f813f7a5d0a] -> dovecot/replicator(_start+0x2a) [0x5646d37c3d6a] Sep 5 13:02:05 bulgaria dovecot: replicator: Fatal: master: service(replicator): child 144867 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps)

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Bypass quota check
by Gabriele Nencioni 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Hi all, I have the following quota configuration: lmtp_rcpt_check_quota = no mail_plugins = notify mail_log quota quota = dict:User quota::file:%h/dovecot-quota quota_exceeded_message = Quota exceeded quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-warning -q 100 -n %n -d %d -e OverQuota quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning -q 80 -n %n -d %d -e FillQuota quota_warning3 = -storage=99%% quota-warning -q 99 -n %n -d %d -e InQuota quota_full_tempfail = yes service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/dovecot/quotamanager.sh unix_listener quota-warning { mail_plugins = notify mail_log quota imap_quota imap_sieve mail_plugins = notify mail_log quota sieve and the quota_rule (per-user) is retrieved by a specific SQL query in my userdb. I'm wondering if there is a way to send an email to an account even if it's in overquota? In other words: is there a way to bypass (or skip) the quota check, maybe setting a sort of ACL, for example if an email comes from a specific ip address? Thanks in advance Regards, -- Gabriele Nencioni

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