January 2023 - dovecot

replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435496 bytes
by Gerben Wierda 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

One step further in my quest to create a replacement mail server. I now have my old mail server (2.3.19.1, macOS + MacPorts) and my new (2.3.20, Alpine Linux, Docker, apk package). When I turn on replication it works, but, after a while I see: Jan 06 00:50:31 replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435496 bytes Jan 06 00:50:32 replicator: Fatal: master: service(replicator): child 133 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) Jan 06 00:50:32 lmtp(pid 195 user sysbh): Warning: replication(sysbh): Sync failure: Jan 06 00:50:32 lmtp(pid 195 user sysbh): Warning: replication(sysbh): Remote sent invalid input: - I've removed synchronous operation for now (found a message on the net suggesting that) but is this known and what does it mean? Gerben Wierda (LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerbenwierda>) R&A IT Strategy <https://ea.rna.nl/> (main site) Book: Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture <https://ea.rna.nl/the-book/> Book: Mastering ArchiMate <https://ea.rna.nl/the-book-edition-iii/>

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bug report: lmtp fails on root-squashed NFS filesystem
by Anne Bennett 09 Oct '23

09 Oct '23

Hi, all. I'm trying to set up Postfix with dovecot LTMP delivery on a host where the user files (/var/spool/mail as well as home directories) are on NFS filesystems, which are exported root-squashed to the mail server. I definitely don't want to give the mail server root permissions on the user files. LMTP delivery fails with this logged message (e.g.): Nov 16 17:51:36 lust dovecot: lmtp(anne)<16830><mkkzEPg1lGG+QQAAs/mAJw>: msgid=<202111162229.1AGMTfAO024765(a)vindemiatrix.encs.concordia.ca>: save failed to INBOX: Read-only mbox I found this posting where someone else had a similar problem and traced it in some detail back in 2019: https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2019-February/114611.html but apparently no one answered the fellow. In order to check that this is indeed the same problem, I temporarily changed the INBOX definition to make it write into /var/tmp/ (on a local filesystem), and delivery worked. I then temporarily changed the INBOX definition to make it write into an NFS filesystem with root NOT squashed, and again it worked (after I chmodded the directory to 1777 to allow any user to create a file). I believe that the person who wrote the above posting is correct: at some point, file access is (incorrectly) checked as root instead of as the target user. This is a bit of a showstopper for me. Any plans to address this? I attach the output of "dovecot -n", fwiw, but I don't think that this is a configuration problem... Anne. -- Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Sysadmin, ENCS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8 anne(a)encs.concordia.ca +1 514 848-2424 x2285

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Compression: all or nothing?
by Alex King 02 Oct '23

02 Oct '23

Using 2.3.13 (89f716dc2) (debian package), with mdbox storage. I considering adding the zlib plugin. I understand that reading mail can cope with either compressed or uncompressed mailboxes. I'm wondering if I can leave the main storage uncompressed, while having the alternate storage compressed. There does not seem to be a way to configure this, from https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/plugin/zlib-plugin/ it seems compression (on saving emails) is an all-or-nothing option? Can I leave zlib_save unset in my main configuration, and have doveadm use some alternate configuration with zlib_save set? It doesn't look hopeful because I don't see the ability to use a different config at https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Altmove. Perhaps I would need multiple copies of the daemon running? Or is it better just to compress everything? I plan to store older mails (perhaps 3months+) in the alternative storage, and was thinking it would be nice to have those compressed, while I don't need to compress the main store. Any feedback welcome. Thanks, Alex

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auth: Panic: file oauth2-request.c assertion failed
by Urban Loesch 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

Hi, I'm running a postfix smtp relay server on which users are getting authenticated trough sasl via the dovecot authentication service. This works without problems. Recently I extended my configuration to authenticate users with the PLAIN mechanism against Azure AD B2C with oauth2 in the future. Important to mention is that currently no users are stored in Azure B2C. I only prepared the hole configuration and authentiucation falls back to mysql database. Now sometimes I get the error below in my logs (not permanently): ... Dec 7 11:36:49 relay-out1 dovecot: auth: Panic: file oauth2-request.c: line 201 (oauth2_request_start): assertion failed: (oauth2_valid_token(input->token)) Dec 7 11:36:49 relay-out1 dovecot: auth: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x3d) [0x7f399402e62d] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x1e) [0x7f399402e74e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1006eb) [0x7f399403b6eb] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x100781) [0x7f399403b781] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x54b7c) [0x7f3993f8fb7c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x4605a) [0x7f3993f8105a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(oauth2_passwd_grant_start+0xfa) [0x7f3993f9870a] -> dovecot/auth(db_oauth2_lookup+0x2ca) [0x560d0804368a] -> dovecot/auth(auth_request_default_verify_plain_continue+0x2d6) [0x560d08026436] -> dovecot/auth(auth_policy_check+0x2b) [0x560d0802071b] -> dovecot/auth(+0x29f72) [0x560d0802ff72] -> dovecot/auth(auth_request_handler_auth_continue+0xf7) [0x560d0802a197] -> dovecot/auth(+0x16c62) [0x560d0801cc62] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x69) [0x7f3994051c29] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x131) [0x7f3994053251] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x4c) [0x7f3994051ccc] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x40) [0x7f3994051e50] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f3993fc4df3] -> dovecot/auth(main+0x415) [0x560d0801abf5] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xeb) [0x7f3993cee09b] -> dovecot/auth(_start+0x2a) [0x560d0801ad8a] ... After the error above postfix says the connection to the authentication server was lost: ... Dec 7 11:36:49 relay-out1 rolrelayout1/smtpd[1655601]: warning: domain.com[12.12.12.12]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: Connection lost to authentication server ... I was able to make a core dump. ... # gdb /usr/lib/dovecot/auth core.auth.1654357.1670409409 GNU gdb (Debian 8.2.1-2+b3) 8.2.1 ... For help, type "help". Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/auth...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/bc/f14ed9cc2dda3ee9565fbd7ccd835460008438.debug...done. done. [New LWP 1654357] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `dovecot/auth'. Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted. #0 __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:50 50 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden. (gdb) bt full #0 __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:50 set = {__val = {0, 1415, 1416, 94613970086496, 10, 139885273538955, 155, 139885273347109, 140724590457408, 118, 206158430224, 140724590457744, 140724590457536, 16888407779496842752, 94613970086472, 139885273131758}} pid = <optimized out> tid = <optimized out> ret = <optimized out> #1 0x00007f3993cec535 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:79 save_stage = 1 act = {__sigaction_handler = {sa_handler = 0x73f, sa_sigaction = 0x73f}, sa_mask = {__val = {1024, 18446744073709551615, 94613971926672, 94613971631792, 139885273108347, 94613970084312, 139885273090236, 94613970084312, 16888407779496842752, 94613970084288, 139885273346402, 140724590457744, 94613970084312, 140724590457744, 139885273346761, 94613970084312}}, sa_flags = -1811749030, sa_restorer = 0x5} sigs = {__val = {32, 0 <repeats 15 times>}} #2 0x00007f3993f8feaf in default_fatal_finish (status=0, type=LOG_TYPE_PANIC) at failures.c:465 backtrace = 0x560d0813e220 "/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x3d) [0x7f399402e62d] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x1e) [0x7f399402e74e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1006eb) [0x7f39"... backtrace = <optimized out> recursed = 0 #3 fatal_handler_real (ctx=<optimized out>, format=<optimized out>, args=<optimized out>) at failures.c:477 status = 0 #4 0x00007f399403b781 in i_internal_fatal_handler (ctx=<optimized out>, format=<optimized out>, args=<optimized out>) at failures.c:879 No locals. #5 0x00007f3993f8fb7c in i_panic (format=format@entry=0x7f399407a0e8 "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:530 ctx = {type = LOG_TYPE_PANIC, exit_status = 0, timestamp = 0x0, timestamp_usecs = 0, log_prefix = 0x0, log_prefix_type_pos = 0} args = {{gp_offset = 40, fp_offset = 48, overflow_arg_area = 0x7ffcff39b4e0, reg_save_area = 0x7ffcff39b420}} #6 0x00007f3993f8105a in oauth2_request_start (set=0x560d08176150, input=0x7ffcff39b5d0, callback=0x560d08042b50 <db_oauth2_lookup_passwd_grant>, context=0x560d082ffe90, p=0x560d082b7eb0, method=0x7f399407a2c6 "POST", url=0x560d08178480 "https://xxx.b2clogin.com/xxx.onmicrosoft.com/B2C_1_ropc/oauth2/v2.0/token?s…", payload=0x560d082b7ed8, add_auth_bearer=false) at oauth2-request.c:201 __func__ = "oauth2_request_start" pool = <optimized out> req = <optimized out> #7 0x00007f3993f9870a in oauth2_passwd_grant_start (set=set@entry=0x560d08176150, input=input@entry=0x7ffcff39b5d0, username=0x560d082ffe38 "user.name", password=0x560d082ffe48 "", callback=callback@entry=0x560d08042b50 <db_oauth2_lookup_passwd_grant>, context=context@entry=0x560d082ffe90) at oauth2-request.c:351 pool = 0x560d082b7eb0 payload = 0x560d082b7ed8 #8 0x0000560d0804368a in db_oauth2_lookup (db=0x560d08176060, req=0x560d082ffe90, token=<optimized out>, request=0x560d082ffba8, callback=0x560d080370b0 <oauth2_verify_plain_continue>, context=0x560d082ffba8) at db-oauth2.c:862 input = {token = 0x560d082ffe48 "", service = 0x560d082ffe20 "smtp", local_ip = {family = 2, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = "\303\376\374\322", '\000' <repeats 11 times>, __u6_addr16 = {65219, 54012, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {3539795651, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 3539795651}}}, real_local_ip = {family = 2, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = "\303\376\374\322", '\000' <repeats 11 times>, __u6_addr16 = {65219, 54012, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {3539795651, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 3539795651}}}, remote_ip = {family = 2, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = "*\300\070\226", '\000' <repeats 11 times>, __u6_addr16 = {49194, 38456, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {2520301610, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 2520301610}}}, real_remote_ip = {family = 2, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = "*\300\070\226", '\000' <repeats 11 times>, __u6_addr16 = { 49194, 38456, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {2520301610, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 2520301610}}}, local_port = 0, real_local_port = 0, remote_port = 0, real_remote_port = 0} __func__ = "db_oauth2_lookup" #9 0x0000560d08026436 in auth_request_default_verify_plain_continue (request=0x560d082ffba8, callback=0x560d0803e6f0 <plain_verify_callback>) at auth-request.c:1123 passdb = 0x560d0814da40 result = 22029 cache_key = <optimized out> error = 0x560d082ffe38 "user.name" password = 0x560d082ffe48 "" __func__ = "auth_request_default_verify_plain_continue" #10 0x0000560d0802071b in auth_policy_check (request=<optimized out>, password=<optimized out>, cb=<optimized out>, context=<optimized out>) at auth-policy.c:575 pool = <optimized out> ctx = <optimized out> #11 0x0000560d0802ff72 in mech_plain_auth_continue (request=0x560d082ffba8, data=0x560d0813d368 "user.name", data_size=30) at mech-plain.c:58 authid = <optimized out> authenid = 0x560d0813d377 "user.name" error = 0x560d0813d320 "h\323\023\b\rV" pass = 0x560d0813d388 "" i = <optimized out> len = <optimized out> count = 2 #12 0x0000560d0802a197 in auth_request_handler_auth_continue (handler=0x560d082d1ae8, args=args@entry=0x560d08268e96 "21\tdGhvbWFzLmZlcnJhcmkAdGhvbWFzLmZlcnJhcmkA") at auth-request-handler.c:738 request = 0x560d082ffba8 data = 0x560d08268e99 "dGhvbWFzLmZlcnJhcmkAdGhvbWFzLmZlcnJhcmkA" data_len = 40 buf = 0x560d0813d320 id = 21 #13 0x0000560d0801cc62 in auth_client_handle_line (line=0x560d08268e91 "CONT\t21\tdGhvbWFzLmZlcnJhcmkAdGhvbWFzLmZlcnJhcmkA", conn=0x560d08276d30) at auth-client-connection.c:228 No locals. #14 auth_client_input (conn=<optimized out>) at auth-client-connection.c:311 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 line = <optimized out> ret = <optimized out> #15 0x00007f3994051c29 in io_loop_call_io (io=0x560d0826f240) at ioloop.c:737 ioloop = 0x560d08145f80 t_id = 2 __func__ = "io_loop_call_io" #16 0x00007f3994053251 in io_loop_handler_run_internal (ioloop=ioloop@entry=0x560d08145f80) at ioloop-epoll.c:222 ctx = 0x560d08148600 events = <optimized out> event = 0x560d08148680 list = 0x560d082ae620 io = <optimized out> tv = {tv_sec = 0, tv_usec = 315566} events_count = <optimized out> msecs = <optimized out> ret = <optimized out> i = 0 j = <optimized out> call = <optimized out> __func__ = "io_loop_handler_run_internal" #17 0x00007f3994051ccc in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=0x560d08145f80) at ioloop.c:789 __func__ = "io_loop_handler_run" #18 0x00007f3994051e50 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x560d08145f80) at ioloop.c:762 __func__ = "io_loop_run" #19 0x00007f3993fc4df3 in master_service_run (service=0x560d08145dd0, callback=<optimized out>) at master-service.c:869 No locals. #20 0x0000560d0801abf5 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at main.c:393 c = <optimized out> ... And "doveconf -n": ... # 2.3.19.1 (9b53102964): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 5.10.0-18-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.13 # Hostname: relay-out1.domain.com auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_cache_size = 40 M auth_cache_ttl = 30 days auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_%@ auth_username_translation = %@ auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain auth_worker_max_count = 100 disable_plaintext_auth = no 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 { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-oauth2.plain.conf.ext driver = oauth2 mechanisms = plain login } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-account.conf driver = sql } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-account.conf driver = sql } ... System OS is Debian 10, Dovecot installed from dovecot repository. Many thanks Urban

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Pigeonhole redirect is adding a message-id header when it already exists
by Sébastien Riccio 04 Aug '23

04 Aug '23

Hello, We are using sieve filter to redirect incoming mails to an external mailbox (gmail) an we are seeing some forwarded e-mails being rejected by gmail because of duplicate headers. I think was able to identify the probable cause of the duplicate headers: It seems that when the original message's "Message-ID" is not compliant, pigeonhole acts like if the header is not existing and adds it's own Message-ID. This result in having two "Message-ID" headers being submitted to the destination mail server. Original Message-ID: Message-ID: 1883biz_pay_after_purchase:0:0_572392900$ae7ed6e4d53b424c84aaf83b30c507e7 Pigeon hole adds his own Message-ID: Message-ID: <dovecot-sieve-1664386049-21512-0@510faa1ff2d9> Gmail answer: 550-5.7.1 [94.103.100.17] Our system has detected that this message is not RFC 550-5.7.1 5322 compliant: duplicate headers. To reduce the amount of spam sent 550-5.7.1 to Gmail, this message has been blocked. Please review 550 5.7.1 RFC 5322 specifications for more information. While I understand the original "Message-ID" seems to be all but compliant with RFCs, shouldn't a "Message-ID" be added only when "Message-ID" is really missing ? When redirecting a message, If the original "Message-ID" exists but is bogus shouldn't it still be forwarded untouched ? Also, maybe if pigeonhole is adding it's own "Message-ID", shouldn't it remove any previous "Message-ID" to avoid generating duplicate headers ? (but maybe it could break some DKIM stuff?) Any ideas how to workaround this issue ? Thanks a lot for your feedbacks! Sébastien RICCIO SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR P +41 840 888 888 F +41 840 888 000 M sriccio(a)swisscenter.com<mailto:sriccio@swisscenter.com>

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Warning sqlpool(mysql): Query failed
by Alessio Cecchi 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Hi, with the last dovecot version (2.3.13) I see many of this warnings via "doveadm log errors": Feb 17 03:26:28 Warning: dict(31513): conn unix:dict (pid=31330,uid=95): dict(mysql)<email1(a)company1.com>: sqlpool(mysql): Query failed, retrying: MySQL server has gone away (idled for 679 secs) Feb 17 03:48:53 Warning: dict(31013): conn unix:dict (pid=31805,uid=95): dict(mysql)<email2(a)company2.com>: sqlpool(mysql): Query failed, retrying: MySQL server has gone away (idled for 685 secs) Feb 17 03:54:12 Warning: dict(32529): conn unix:dict (pid=3147,uid=95): dict(mysql)<email3(a)company3.com>: sqlpool(mysql): Query failed, retrying: MySQL server has gone away (idled for 670 secs) What do they mean? I thinks are related to inactivity timeout on mysql server (where I have a wait_timeout=600), but these warnings could be problems or can be fixed with some setting in dovecot? My dovecot configuration about dict: dict { acl = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext sieve = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sieve-sql.conf.ext sqlquota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } plugin { [...] acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl expire_dict = proxy::expire quota2 = dict:Quota Usage::noenforcing:proxy::sqlquota sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = dict:proxy::sieve;name=activesql [...] } service dict { process_limit = 500 unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } Thanks -- Alessio Cecchi Postmaster @ http://www.qboxmail.it https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice

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dovecot-fts-solr Solr9 support
by PGNet Dev 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

I run dovecot-2.3.18 , & am deploying Solr search with 'dovecot-fts-solr' I run Solr standalone. When creating a dedicated 'dovecot' core, cp'ing from Dovecot's included solr schemas ls -al /usr/share/doc/dovecot/solr-* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12K Dec 3 06:48 /usr/share/doc/dovecot/solr-config-7.7.0.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7K Dec 3 06:48 /usr/share/doc/dovecot/solr-schema-7.7.0.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.9K Dec 3 06:48 /usr/share/doc/dovecot/solr-schema.xml is tested only for Solr 7.7.0 https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/fts/solr/ "The steps described in this page are tested for Solr 7.7.0. For other versions, this these steps may need to be adjusted." which, per solr docs https://solr.apache.org/downloads.html About versions and support Version Description 9.x Current major version for feature releases (STABLE) 8.11.x Previous major version may sometimes receive critical bugfix releases 10 Next major version, yet to be released (UNSTABLE) <8.11 All older versions are End Of Life (EOL) is EOL'd and unsupported. In the dovecot 7.7.0 schema, FastLRUCache/LRUCache are used as the caching class(es), grep class=.*LRU /usr/share/doc/dovecot/solr-config-7.7.0.xml <filterCache class="solr.FastLRUCache" <queryResultCache class="solr.LRUCache" <documentCache class="solr.LRUCache" class="solr.search.LRUCache" For Solr 9, cat CHANGES.txt Upgrade Notes --------------------- ... * SOLR-13817: Deprecate legacy SolrCache implementations. Users are encouraged to transition their configurations to use org.apache.solr.search.CaffeineCache instead. (ab) running solr9 + dovecot-fts-solr search, based on the 7.7.0 schemas, results in errors, failed scan & search. Modifying the config to use CaffeineCache cp solr-config-7.7.0.xml solr-config-9.0.0.xml perl -pi -e '\ s|solr.FastLRUCache|solr.CaffeineCache|g; \ s|solr.LRUCache|solr.CaffeineCache|g; \ s|solr.search.LRUCache|solr.search.CaffeineCache|g;' \ solr-config-9.0.0.xml appears to do the trick. Atm, indexing & search -- both manually triggered, and on delivery receipt to Dovecot store -- is working with no errors (yet). I've not tested exhaustively yet, & don't know if this Cache class change in the schema is both necessary & sufficient for dovecot-fts-solr search use with solr 9.0.0 Given that for Solr "<8.11 All older versions are End Of Life (EOL)" it'd be useful for Dovecot to 'retest' for current, not-EOL'd Solr, and publish/package compatible schemas accordingly.

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mbox to maildir migration, same server?
by kjohnson＠eclypse.org 20 Apr '23

20 Apr '23

What is the recommended procedure to migrate from mbox to maildir on a server already running dovecot? Ideally, this procedure would convert messages in an existing mbox INBOX and in ~/mail mboxes (as defined in my dovecot configuration) to storage in a ~/Maildir. Some of the INBOXs are rather large -- 100's of MB (one of the reasons for migrating). What I have tried has not worked for me. Below, I describe what I tried, how I tested before I tried, what went wrong, and the current setup (pre-migration). What I tried: ============= stop exim4 service dovecot stop Make dovecot listen only locally, not to external connections. /etc/dovecot/local.conf protocol imap { listen = 127.0.0.1:143 ssl_listen = 127.0.0.1:993 } protocol pop3 { listen = 127.0.0.1:110 ssl_listen = 127.0.0.1:995 } Modify dovecot configuration for maildir: Watch capitalization! #in 10-mail.conf: mail_location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir namespace inbox { separator = / } dovecot -n, to confirm results and perform limited syntax checking. service dovecot start for each user, in a bash script: dsync -v -u "$U" mirror "mbox:/home/$U/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/$U" (if the conversion worked for all users, then reconfigure exim to use maildir and restart it; reconfigure dovecot to listen to external interfaces and restart.) How I tested: ============= Before trying this on the real server, I set up a matching (same versions of Debian, Exim, and Dovecot) VM using mbox, with a couple of accounts. One using POP3, one using IMAP. The IMAP account was accessed from Claws and from Outlook. The test accounts had perhaps a dozen messages on the server. I tried the conversion procedure, and everything I tried worked flawlessly. (Yes, next time I will move some real inbox files from the live server). What went wrong: ================ I encountered two types of problems here. The first was several dsync warnings (username changed): dsync(example): Warning: Mailbox changes caused a desync. You may want to run dsync again: Remote lost mailbox GUID 21bfa11a81f11763ac150000d09efc50 (maybe it was just deleted?) As I understand it, this can result in some or all messages being downloaded again by clients. My understanding may be wrong. I also don't understand how the mailbox could have changed -- exim4 was stopped, dovecot is only listening on 127.0.0.1, and I am the only user who uses a local mail client on that system, and this was not my account. The second problem I encountered seems to match Debian Bug report logs - #1011238. In part of the discussion of that report, the reporter mentions adding -1 to the command, as shown: dsync -v -u "$U" mirror -1 "mbox:/home/$U/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/$U" While this seemed to eliminate the dsync panic of #1011238, as far as I can tell, no old messages were actually moved from the old mbox files to the new maildirs. At that point I restored the backup mbox files and undid the changes to dovecot and exim4. Current setup: ============== Debian 11.4 Exim 4.94.2-7 dovecot 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2 The current setup with Dovecot was a successful migration from IMAP-UW in December 2020. Output from dovecot -n (the list of trusted networks has been removed) # 2.3.13 (89f716dc2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.13 (cdd19fe3) # OS: Linux 5.10.0-16-686-pae i686 Debian 11.4 # Hostname: localhost auth_verbose = yes mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail 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 } pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu protocols = " imap pop3" ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd } Thank you to anyone who read this far. Ken

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decrypt.rb
by Dave 11 Apr '23

11 Apr '23

Per the Dovecot site here: https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailCrypt ... the "decrypt.rb" ruby script can be used to decrypt a Dovecot-encrypted message file from the command line. The script sort of runs successfully for me, in the sense that it doesn't error out, but it doesn't show the decrypted message. I've called it like so: decrypt.rb -k <PATH_TO_DOVECOT_KEYFILE> -f ./encrypted_message But when I do it just displays the info below and exits (I've subbed <DATA> tags for the actual data): ------------------[OUTPUT]----------------------- Key(s) (total: 1) - Key type : EC - Key digest: <DATA1> - Peer key : <DATA2> - Encrypted : <DATA3> - Kd hash : <DATA4> ------------------------------------------------------- I've tried specifying an output file as well, per the script's command line options, but the output file is 0 bytes. Does anyone have any suggestions? I *think* I'm using it the way it's intended to be used, but maybe I'm not?! -Dave

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ot: how to t/s TBird problems ?
by Voytek Eymont 22 Mar '23

22 Mar '23

I have a Dovecot/Postfix/MariaDB on a Centos, just have a user ask me: ------------------ I recently upgraded my Thunderbird email client and have experienced problems since. It appears that when Tbird polls for new messages it gets held up waiting for a response from the server I'm using POP port 995. Any ideas as to why I'm having a problem ? ------------------- how to investigate such issue ? CentOS release 6.10 (Final) # dovecot --version 2.3.11.3 (502c39af9) load average on server 0.05/0.01 user log shows like: Oct 12 10:08:50 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<user(a)tld.com.au>, method=PLAIN, rip=49.111.222.333, lip=103.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=17371, TLS, session=<E83xW8rqDPkxw3EW> Oct 12 10:09:34 pop3(user(a)tld.com.au)<17371><E83xW8rqDPkxw3EW>: Info: Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/114194, size=10616009472 Oct 12 10:14:36 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user(a)tld.com.au>, method=PLAIN, rip=49.111.222.333, lip=103.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=17460, TLS, session=<ftiLcMrqR/gxw3EW> Oct 12 10:14:37 imap(user(a)tld.com.au)<17460><ftiLcMrqR/gxw3EW>: Info: Logged out in=152 out=69724 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=1 body_bytes=68628 Oct 12 10:28:27 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<user(a)tld.com.au>, method=PLAIN, rip=49.111.222.333, lip=103.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=17714, TLS, session=<+WsXosrqK/gxw3EW> Oct 12 10:29:16 pop3(user(a)tld.com.au)<17714><+WsXosrqK/gxw3EW>: Info: Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/76174, del=0/114195, size=10616085600 Oct 12 10:32:19 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user(a)tld.com.au>, method=PLAIN, rip=49.111.222.333, lip=103.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=17817, TLS, session=<bZftr8rqq/gxw3EW> Oct 12 10:32:20 imap(user(a)tld.com.au)<17817><bZftr8rqq/gxw3EW>: Info: Logged out in=153 out=135592 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=1 body_bytes=134503 Oct 12 10:45:58 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<user(a)tld.com.au>, method=PLAIN, rip=49.111.222.333, lip=103.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=18081, TLS, session=<U3674Mrqzfgxw3EW> Oct 12 10:45:59 imap(user(a)tld.com.au)<18081><U3674Mrqzfgxw3EW>: Info: Logged out in=152 out=24602 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=1 body_bytes=23514 Oct 12 10:48:49 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<user(a)tld.com.au>, method=PLAIN, rip=49.111.222.333, lip=103.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=18135, TLS, session=<y1/r6srqtPsxw3EW> Oct 12 10:49:53 pop3(user(a)tld.com.au)<18135><y1/r6srqtPsxw3EW>: Info: Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=2/166190, del=0/114197, size=10616251743 Oct 12 10:50:42 imap(user(a)tld.com.au)<3274><cr10yqTqifgxw3EW>: Info: Logged out in=192516 out=5957294 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=263 hdr_bytes=358656 body_count=126 body_bytes=5110403 Oct 12 10:50:42 imap(user(a)tld.com.au)<3271><hLl0yqTqh/gxw3EW>: Info: Logged out in=78324 out=58677 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=0 body_bytes=0 Voytek

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