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mailinglist (mailman) + dovecot
by Marc 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

I was think of adding a mailinglist for a few users. First I thought about maybe using separate container for this, but maybe I can just also add this to the server running dovecot. Anyone having experience with running mailman or something else next to dovecot?

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Dovecot uses wrong separator after migration, modify sieve script
by Matthias Fechner 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear all, I migrated a dovecot installation that was using pam to a virtual setup where users are stored in a SQL database. I see that my old pam based installation on the filesystem directories are starting with a dot. The new server does not have the leading dot. So even if the configuration is mostly equal, I cannot find a reason why dovecot changed its behavior here. I do not define a separator in the dovecot configuration and the same dovecot package on FreeBSD is used for both installations. My problem is now, that I use a rather complex sieve script to automatically sort mailinglist based emails automatically into subfolders. But as this script is using a dot it is now not moving the email into a nested directory like: github/haproxy/haproxy but is generating a flat directory (depth 1) as github.haproxy.haproxy I cannot change the behavior of dovecot, as I have several users running there and I do not want to cause problem for them changing the dovecot configuration. So I must modify the sieve script. As I do not really know the sieve syntax, I would like to ask if hopefully someone here can help me. I think is is necessary to change the dots to slashes before the fileinto is executed. The sievescript I use to sort mailing based emails into subfolder is: # # 2016-5-2 Script to sort mailing list mails automatically to folders # ## require [ "regex", "include", "variables", "fileinto", "envelope", "mailbox", "imap4flags", "vnd.dovecot.debug" ]; global ["sender_userpart", "sender_domain", "listname"]; # split out the various list forms # Mailman & other lists using list-id if exists "list-id" { fileinto :create "${listname}"; stop; } # Listar and mailman like elsif exists "x-list-id" { debug_log "Mailinglist: x-list-id found"; if header :regex "x-list-id" "<([a-z_0-9-]+)\\\\." { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } stop; } # Ezmlm elsif exists "mailing-list" { debug_log "Mailinglist: mailing-list found"; if header :regex "mailing-list" "([a-z_0-9-]+)@" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } stop; } # York lists service elsif exists "x-mailing-list" { debug_log "Mailinglist: x-mailing-list found"; if header :regex "x-mailing-list" "^\\\\s*([a-z_0-9-]+)@?" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } stop; } # Smartlist elsif exists "x-loop" { debug_log "Mailinglist: x-loop found"; if header :regex "x-loop" "^\\\\s*(a-z_0-9-]+)@?" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } stop;} # poorly identified elsif envelope :contains "from" "owner-" { debug_log "Mailinglist: poorly identified matched"; if envelope :regex "from" "owner-([a-z_0-9-]+)-outgoing@" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } elsif envelope :regex "from" "owner-([a-z_0-9-]+)@" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } elsif header :regex "Sender" "owner-([a-z_0-9-]+)@" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } stop;} # other poorly identified elsif envelope :contains "from" "-request" { if envelope :regex "from" "([a-z_0-9-]+)-request@" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } stop; } Thanks a lot! Gruß Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Rich Cook

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Error in tests for Dovecot 2.4.0 aarch64
by Peter 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

When attempting to build Dovecot 2.4.0 on the aarch64 platform, when running tests... test-file-cache.c:268: Assert failed: file_cache_set_size(cache, 1024) == -1 Panic: file test-common.c: line 222 (test_expect_error_string_n_times): assertion failed: (expected_errors == 0) test-common.c:256: Assert failed: suppress == TRUE Error: Raw backtrace: #0 fatal_handler_real[0x7f73779dcca0] -> #1 default_fatal_handler[0x7f73779dcda0] -> #2 i_panic[0x7f73779766ec] -> #3 test_file_cache[0x7f7377997740] -> #4 main[0x7f7377977420] -> #5 __libc_start_call_main[0x4000008f4210] -> #6 __libc_start_main[0x4000008f42c0] -> #7 _start[0x7f7377977980] Any ideas on this one? Peter

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How do I change the password encryption scheme?
by Ken Wright 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

Still working through difficulties upgrading to Dovecot 2.4. Right now I'm having trouble getting my mail client (Evolution) to connect; I keep getting "temporary authentication failures." Before upgrading I was using the ARGON2I encryption scheme, so all my users' passwords are stored that way. How do I tell 2.4 to use ARGON2I by default? There used to be a "default_pass_scheme" parameter but that's apparently gone now. Any help is greatly appreciated! Ken

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Thunderbird and Dovecot 2.4.0 Incompatibility
by Amit Chaudhari 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

I'm trying to setup a dovecot 2.4.0 imap server and have it work with Thunderbird. I'm able to connect/auth fine, however trying to save a message to a mailbox causes the connection to close. ``` Info: Disconnected: Too many invalid IMAP commands. in=744 out=2559 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=0 body_bytes=0 ``` It appears thunderbird's imap APPEND command is using syntax which dovecot doesn't like? I enabled raw logs and pasted them below: Downgrading to 2.3 resolves the issue, so it’s either a regression, or some config issue I’m not able to pinpoint. ``` 1738942430.025029 5 ID ("name" "Thunderbird" "version" "128.7.0") 1738942430.029320 6 ENABLE UTF8=ACCEPT 1738942430.033907 7 select "Drafts" 1738942430.039796 8 append "Drafts" (\Draft) UTF8 (~{726+} 1738942430.039796 Message-ID: <ea714f62-7186-4bcb-b709-007e39c6a9d6(a)example.com <mailto:ea714f62-7186-4bcb-b709-007e39c6a9d6@example.com>> 1738942430.039796 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 10:33:49 -0500 1738942430.039796 MIME-Version: 1.0 1738942430.039796 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1738942430.039796 Content-Language: en-US 1738942430.039796 To: sender(a)example.com <mailto:sender@example.com> 1738942430.039796 From: User Name <user(a)example.com <mailto:user@example.com>> 1738942430.039796 Subject: test 1738942430.039796 X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; DSN=0; uuencode=0; 1738942430.039796 attachmentreminder=0; deliveryformat=0 1738942430.039796 X-Identity-Key: id2 1738942430.039796 Fcc: imap://user%40example.com@192.168.115.203/Sent 1738942430.039796 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 1738942430.039796 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 1738942430.039796 1738942430.039796 <!DOCTYPE html> 1738942430.039796 <html> 1738942430.039796 <head> 1738942430.039796 1738942430.039796 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 1738942430.039796 </head> 1738942430.039796 <body> 1738942430.039796 <p><br> 1738942430.039796 </p> 1738942430.039796 </body> 1738942430.039796 </html> 1738942430.039796 ) ``` ``` 1738942430.025188 * ID ("name" "Dovecot") 1738942430.025234 5 OK ID completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.029390 * ENABLED UTF8=ACCEPT 1738942430.029418 6 OK Enabled (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.035478 * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) 1738942430.035531 * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. 1738942430.035559 * 0 EXISTS 1738942430.035585 * 0 RECENT 1738942430.035611 * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1738898190] UIDs valid 1738942430.035638 * OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID 1738942430.035693 7 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed (0.002 + 0.000 + 0.001 secs). 1738942430.040007 8 BAD Error in IMAP command APPEND: Missing ')' (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040140 * BAD Error in IMAP tag: Invalid tag (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040172 Date: BAD Error in IMAP command FRI,: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040233 MIME-Version: BAD Error in IMAP command 1.0: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040291 User-Agent: BAD Error in IMAP command MOZILLA: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040356 Content-Language: BAD Error in IMAP command EN-US: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040409 To: BAD Error in IMAP command sender(a)example.com <mailto:sender@example.com>: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040467 From: BAD Error in IMAP command USER: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040521 Subject: BAD Error in IMAP command TEST: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040574 X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: BAD Error in IMAP command INTERNAL/DRAFT;: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040638 * BAD Error in IMAP tag: Invalid tag (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040666 X-Identity-Key: BAD Error in IMAP command ID2: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040720 Fcc: BAD Error in IMAP command: Invalid command name (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040746 Content-Type: BAD Error in IMAP command TEXT/HTML;: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040802 Content-Transfer-Encoding: BAD Error in IMAP command 7BIT: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040862 * BAD Error in IMAP tag: Invalid tag (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040889 <!DOCTYPE BAD Error in IMAP command HTML>: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040966 <html> BAD Error in IMAP command: Invalid command name (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040991 * BAD Error in IMAP tag: Invalid tag (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.041015 * BAD Error in IMAP tag: Invalid tag (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.041032 * BYE Too many invalid IMAP commands. ```

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Dovecot 2.4.0 fails to start with exit code 89
by Ken Wright 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

I've been trying to upgrade to 2.4.0. I've gone through the conf files, changing variables per the upgrade instructions. When I try to run sudo systemctl start dovecot.service, I get error 89. Journalctl shows me the error in question is "File name too long." I think it's coming from where 10-ssl.conf looks for the certs, but I'm probably wrong. Can anyone make a suggestion? Ken

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Different Replicator Crash??
by Kent Borg 09 Feb '25

09 Feb '25

I added the suggested "count--" and recompiled, and it now appears to work, the replication goes both ways, eyeballing the e-mail on the two servers they look the same. Good. But part of the time I am still getting what looks very much like the same crash, is there another "count--" I need to add to that file? > Jan 28 10:53:08 la dovecot[96175]: replicator: Panic: data stack: Out > of memory when allocating 268435496 bytes > Jan 28 10:53:08 la dovecot[96175]: replicator: Error: Raw backtrace: > #0 t_askpass[0x7fb404b0c0] -> #1 backtrace_append[0x7fb404b374] -> #2 > backtr\ > ace_get[0x7fb404b510] -> #3 execvp_const[0x7fb4057ba4] -> #4 > i_syslog_fatal_handler[0x7fb4058510] -> #5 i_panic[0x7fb3fa6808] -> #6 > t_pop_pass_st\ > r[0x7fb4050eb4] -> #7 connection_deinit[0x7fb4056430] -> #8 > pool_datastack_create[0x7fb407e7b0] -> #9 > array_bsearch_insert_pos_i[0x7fb40446d0] ->\ > #10 t_base64_scheme_decode[0x7fb404cb24] -> #11 > buffer_append[0x7fb404d3d0] -> #12 replicator_queue_push[0x558c4b4f40] > -> #13 replicator_brain_i\ > nit[0x558c4b53e4] -> #14 _start[0x558c4b3d70] -> #15 > _start[0x558c4b3f04] -> #16 io_loop_call_io[0x7fb4072f20] -> #17 > io_loop_handler_run_interna\ > l[0x7fb4075450] -> #18 io_loop_handler_run[0x7fb4075680] -> #19 > io_loop_run[0x7fb4075944] -> #20 master_service_run[0x7fb3fd84b0] -> > #21 main[0x5\ > 58c4b3930] -> #22 __libc_init_first[0x7fb3dd76d0] -> #23 > __libc_start_main[0x7fb3dd7780] -> #24 _start[0x558c4b3b80] > Jan 28 10:53:08 la dovecot[96175]: replicator: Fatal: master: > service(replicator): child 96714 killed with signal 6 (core dumps > disabled - https:\ > //dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) Thanks, -kb

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crash on authentication to 2.3.21
by Eugene M. Zheganin 09 Feb '25

09 Feb '25

Hello, I'm trying to move a dovecot mail server from a remote Cpanel VPS to my site. I've set up the dovectot to my knowledge, but as soon as I try to authenticate, I got a crash: ===Cut=== Feb 9 11:15:12 freebsd dovecot[89257]: imap-login: Login: user=<gluck(a)kimlab.link>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=92.255.139.77, lip=49.12.36.80, mpid=545, session=<O6+RtLMt1iBc/4tN> Feb 9 11:15:12 freebsd dovecot[89257]: imap(gluck(a)kimlab.link)<545><O6+RtLMt1iBc/4tN>: Panic: file array.c: line 10 (array_idx_modifiable_i): assertion failed: (idx < array->buffer->used / array->element_size) Feb 9 11:15:12 freebsd dovecot[89257]: imap(gluck(a)kimlab.link)<545><O6+RtLMt1iBc/4tN>: Fatal: master: service(imap): child 545 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) ===Cut=== Thhe only reference I've fount to this error is that it seems to be an issue in 2.3.17, but I have 2.3.21 version, so I think there's something in my config. I've also hhave a bunch of old maildirs and I tried to do a force-resync on 'em, but that didn't help. Here's my config: ===Cut=== # 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.21.1 (49005e73) # OS: FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE amd64 # Hostname: mail.kimlab.link auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 scram-sha-1 scram-sha-256 default_client_limit = 40963 default_process_limit = 10240 disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 143 first_valid_uid = 143 hostname = mail.kimlab.link mail_gid = 143 mail_home = /var/imap/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/ mail_uid = 143 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 mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/var/imap/%d/public prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { args = scheme=PLAIN username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/db/dovecot/shared-mailboxes fts = squat fts_autoindex = yes fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=50G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% quota_rule3 = Spam:storage=+20%% quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /var/imap/sieve/sieve-after sieve_before = /var/imap/sieve/sieve-before/spam.sieve sieve_default = /var/imap/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = /var/imap/%d/%n/sieve sieve_global_dir = /var/imap/sieve sieve_max_script_size = 1M } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)kimlab.link protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { client_limit = 62464 unix_listener /var/imap/private/auth { group = dovecot mode = 0660 user = dovecot } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot mode = 0660 user = dovecot } } service imap-login { client_limit = 10000 inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_limit = 10240 process_min_avail = 1 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 512 M } service imap { drop_priv_before_exec = yes process_limit = 10240 } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { group = dovecot mode = 0660 user = dovecot } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = dovecot } user = dovecot } service stats { unix_listener stats-writer { group = dovecot mode = 0660 user = dovecot } } ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/nginx/tls.d/kimlab.link.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it syslog_facility = local6 userdb { args = username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users default_fields = uid=dovecot gid=dovecot home=/var/imap/%d/%n driver = passwd-file } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " quota acl sieve" } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " quota acl sieve" } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 512 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota fts fts_squat } ===Cut=== here's my obfuscated users passdb file: ===Cut=== gluck@kimlab.link:{PLAIN}XXXXXXXXX:::::: emz@kimlab.link:{PLAIN}XXXXXXXXX:::::: ===Cut=== I'm totally open to any ideas. I can provide coredumps as well, but I tend to think that's something obvious since I have very little experience with dovecot. Thanks. Eugene.

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suggestion: Argon2id example in `doveadm pw` examples
by Sean McBride 09 Feb '25

09 Feb '25

Hi all, It says here https://www.dovecot.org/bugreport-mail/ that bug reports should go to this list. Does that apply to suggestions too? Assuming so... The docs here are very good: https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/man/doveadm-pw.1.html but it's always nice to have examples of current best practice. As I understand it, the best password hashing algorithm these days is Argon2id, according to: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet… So it would be nice to have an example corresponding to best practices, showing use of argon2id. I could attempt a PR on GitHub if you'd like. Cheers, Sean

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how to set pop3_deleted_flag for one mailbox (email address)?
by krzf83＠gmail.com 08 Feb '25

08 Feb '25

How to set pop3_deleted_flag for one (email address)? I've tried using extra_fields in userdb. pop3_deleted_flag seems to be ignored there. It makes no sense for pop3_deleted_flag be to be global setting and yet it seems to be so.

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