December 2024 - dovecot

Moving all mail from one user to another
by Peter Reinhold 29 Dec '24

29 Dec '24

Hi all I have a user that has changed domain, and I am looking to move all her mail from her old account into her new one, but I am really unsure about how to go about it I would think that I am should use https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/man/doveadm-move.1.html to do it, but the example supplied and all discussion about that tool I can find online is only about moving a users mail across folders on their account, and not the entire accounts content to another account. Has anyone tried to do something like this? -- Peter Reinhold

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993 SSL 143 No encryption
by Dino Edwards 26 Dec '24

26 Dec '24

Hello, I have a dovecot server that listens on both 143 and 993 using SSL. I'm trying to get the 143 port to be unencrypted while 993 to remain encrypted. Is there any way to accomplish this? Thanks

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vacation auto reply mail line endings CR LF
by tobias.niethammer＠projektb.net 21 Dec '24

21 Dec '24

Hi all, I tried to setup dovecot 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0) (dovecot-pigeonhole-0.5.21.1) with the sieve vacation function. I'm getting here a bit into trouble. if I sent an e-mail to an receipient dovecot does via dma and the local mailserver an mail reply but the mail does only have the header inside. After a bit research my conclusion is that the reply mail which gets generated has line endings CR LF. I have to remove this manualy and set it to \LF to get the mail correcly transfered. I Setup the sieve rule with roundcube. I tried to manualy change the .dovecot.sieve file endings and comipled with sievec .dovecot.sieve .dovecot.svbin the binary again, with no change in the behavior. I guess i missed somewhere an variable to fix this issue? here the sieve file: #################################################### require ["vacation"];^M # rule:[Urlaub]^M if true^M {^M vacation :addresses "test02(a)projektb-mail.net" :subject "test Urlaub" text:^M test 1 test 2 test 3^M .^M ;^M }^M #################################################### thank you for your Support Tobias

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Sekt
by Michael Grimm 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

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COPY vs MOVE
by Scott Q. 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Anyone that knows a bit about the dovecot internals. is move in any way faster than copy / set deleted flag / expunge ? Thanks! Scott

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failed: error:14094416:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert certificate unknown: SSL alert number 46, session=
by Marc 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

What is the best way to get rid of this message? I think clients start generating after ssl crt update.

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ACL propagation with acl_defaults_from_inbox
by Francois Lesueur 19 Dec '24

19 Dec '24

Hello, When dovecot is configured with "acl_defaults_from_inbox = yes", ACL propagation when creating folders seems a bit strange to us. The current behavior is : - INBOX has some ACLs defined in its dovecot-acl file - This ACL is the default for subfolders without a dovecot-acl file inside ("acl_defaults_from_inbox = yes") - When creating a folder, a dovecot-acl file is created inside this folder with a copy of the contents of the dovecot-acl from the INBOX The behavior we expected was : - INBOX has some ACLs defined in its dovecot-acl file - This ACL is the default for subfolders without a dovecot-acl file inside - When creating a folder directly under INBOX, a dovecot-acl file should not be created, as the default from INBOX is already enforced. For subfolders, defaults from INBOX should not be propagated either in the dovecot-acl files. Although dovecot-acl files in subfolders allow to have exceptions, most usage of "acl_defaults_from_inbox = yes" is probably to have mailbox-wide ACLs. In the current behavior, when someone removes an ACL from the INBOX, it will still be present in subfolders, which is error-prone in a setup where users expect that their INBOX ACL is enforced throughout their mailbox. I think that avoiding propagating INBOX ACL when creating a new folder in the case where "acl_defaults_from_inbox" is activated would be more intuitive. Am I missing something ? Cheers, Francois

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Recursive doveadm acl add for shared mailbox
by r.barclay＠habmalnefrage.de 17 Dec '24

17 Dec '24

Hello, I have a shared mailbox (e.g. "info(a)example.org") and want to give a new user (e.g. "john.doe(a)example.org") access. I can use: doveadm acl add -u info(a)example.org INBOX user=john.doe(a)example.org create delete expunge insert lookup post read write write-deleted write-seen Unfortunately, the shared mailbox contains several nested folders. And the new user needs to access these, too. So I probably had to use doveadm acl add -u info(a)example.org .INBOX.SubfolderXY user=john.doe(a)example.org create delete expunge insert lookup post read write write-deleted write-seen ... for each and every subfolder. Is there a way to give permissions recursively? INBOX and all (sub-)subfolders? And, by the way, do I have to use doveadm acl recalc -u info(a)example.org OR doveadm acl recalc -u john.doe(a)example.org after that? At the moment I always do both. Thank you! Reg

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Is there anyway for mail logger plugins to log RETR event??
by Chi Min Wang 17 Dec '24

17 Dec '24

Hello Everyone: The dovecot mail_logger_plugins did support delete/undelete/expunge/mailbox_delete/mailbox_rename event log,is it possible to add RETR event log?? Thanks!!

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dovecot configuration question userdb driver
by Stanislav 17 Dec '24

17 Dec '24

Greetings, I have a mail server for a few folks, basically my family. My current Dovecot configuration is the following, which works like a charm: ========== passdb { driver = sql args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext } userdb { driver = static args = uid=981 gid=981 home=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n/home } ========== I've decided to deploy Solr to be able to search faster. Now, when I try to execute "doveadm index -A inbox" I get an error "Error: auth-master: userdb list: User listing returned failure" because I'm using the static userdb. My question is, how do I implement the listing users feature while using "static driver" or a similar approach? I really want to keep using the template "/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n/home" instead of defining a custom path for each user. So I came up with this idea to replace "static" with "sql" driver for "userdb" since there's "iterate_query" I can use to achieve my goal, tho I have to define "user_query", so I can do something like: ======= SELECT '/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n/home' AS maildir, 981 AS uid, 981 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username='%u' and active='1'; ======= However, this is a useless waste of resources since I'm not really querying anything, and I'm not even sure if there's template support (e.g., %d/%n) in there. Appreciate any help Best

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