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Verifying replication
by Arnold Hendriks 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Dear Dovecot people, I've set up Dovecot replication a couple of years ago. I'm watching the general server health and having Nagios check doveadm replicator status regularly. I'm seeing accounts replicating, disk space usage obviously shows that things work in principle, however, I still wonder whether the replication actually works properly. Accounts I check work, but 1-5% of the messages could easily be missing without me noticing it. These servers have I think about 50K accounts (a lot of them dormant) and between 1 to 2TB of mail. I'm trying to get some more confidence as to whether replication is actually working properly and whether I'm not missing anything that will burn me if I ever have to 'fallback'. Has anyone ever done some verification outside of simply watching doveadm replication stats, to see if they are missing anything ? Eg, I could imagine a process that generates a list of accounts, and then generates hashes on both sides of the replication for each mailbox folder. If the hashes match, the folder gets removed from the list, and once all folders are removed, the account gets removed. Iterating the account list should finally reduce it to 0, or a few extremely high traffic accounts which can be checked manually or be ignored. But I'm trying to avoid reinventing the wheel. Has anyone done anything like this, or can suggest a different approach? With regards, Arnold Hendriks

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Forcing replication - difference is a 0x0D 0x0D 0xA sequence?
by Arnold Hendriks 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

I've found a few mailboxes on my system that were being replicated where the mailboxes are not in sync. On server 1 I see: dovecot1:/# doveadm fetch -u s0000000 "size.physical size.virtual" mailbox-guid c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c uid 115 size.physical: 1815 size.virtual: 1843 On server 2 I see: dovecot2:/# doveadm fetch -u s0000000 "size.physical size.virtual" mailbox-guid c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c uid 115 size.physical: 1805 size.virtual: 1833 Running ' doveadm replicator replicate -f s0000000 "*" ' does not fix the issue. I've compared the mails and the difference appears to be that the primary server (where the mail comes in) has a few occurences of "0D 0D 0A" (hex) which on the replicated server looks like "0D 0A". (ie, \r\r\n was replicated as \r\n ?) Is there a way to force these two messages to be in sync again ? Is the \r\r\n being replicated as \r\n a known issue ? (I'm not sure if I could replicate this, this message dates back to 2007 so probably wasn't even received originally on this server. Replication was configured much later than 2007)

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folders management
by Stephane Magnier 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Hi, Sorry to ask you , maybe a silly question :-) On my folders' architecture, I can see all the folders underneeth each other fodler1 folder2 etc.... I would like to have the possibility to have _folders INTO folders_, like Folder1 Folder2 .......folder 21 ......folder 22 Folders 3 Apparently, this is link to this déclaration :__*_mbox_:/var/spool2/mail/%u. *Is that correct ? is that the "mbox" declaration? or Am I complety wrong ? If I have need to change...I have to change it for what ? * Can I use this new structure with NFS shares ? * What is the backside of it ? Now, if I make this modification.. on an existing dovecot system... , Will it make a true disaster ? or I can change the declaration easily? Thanks and regards,

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Restrict number of mail moved/copied
by Amol Kulkarni 14 Jul '21

14 Jul '21

Hello, I need to restrict number of mail moved/copied by end user using imap in operation. Is there any configuration for that ? Thanks and regards, Amol

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dsync I/O Stalled
by Paolo Daniele 14 Jul '21

14 Jul '21

Hi guys, i've a strange problem between 2 servers. It happened after a changing on our network core routing infrastructure. We've moved to Juniper network and eBGP and iBGP of our server. One of this server is behind a firewall and communicate with another server in another country to sync our emails. Doveadmin replica seems to be fine, but sometimes i get this error message: dsync-server(aaaaa(a)bbb.bb): Error: Timeout during state=sync_mails (send=done recv=mails) It seems like the remote server has troubles to reach our local server but if i do a stupid ping i'm not losing anything. Maybe is there something am i missing? I thought that it could be related to a MTU problem but i'm not so sure and i've increased MTU on the routers involved in routing process without success. I wa missing that both servers are behind a load balancer wich is in our local DC. Can you give me some hints? Regards, Paolo -- Paolo Daniele Intendo s.r.l. E-mail: paolo.daniele(a)intendo.it Business Unit TLCWEB Tel.: +39 0968 430786 Via Coschi, 11 Skype: paolo_daniele1 88046 - Lamezia Terme, Cz Web: http://www.tlcweb.it Italia Web: http://www.intendo.it

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Potential bug: Assumption that POSIX time functions do not clobber errno
by Florian Weimer 13 Jul '21

13 Jul '21

We accidentally ran the dovecot 2.3.14 testsuite on a host where clock_gettime (and probably time and gettimeofday) succeed, but set errno to ENOSYS. This behavior is unusual, but permitted by POSIX: successful function calls can overwrite errno, as long as they don't set it to 0. The relevant log excerpt looks like this: make[3]: Entering directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.14/src/master' for bin in test-auth-client test-auth-master test-master-login-auth; do \ if ! ./$bin; then exit 1; fi; \ done test-common.c:200: Assert failed: suppress == TRUE connection refused: run (ret == -1) .................................. : ok: Connection failed CLIENT: Error: auth-client: conn unix:./auth-client-test: connect(./auth-client-test) failed: Function not implemented connection refused ................................................... : FAILED connection timed out: run (ret == -1) ................................ : ok: Connection failed connection timed out: timeout ........................................ : ok connection timed out ................................................. : ok bad version: run (ret == -1) ......................................... : ok: Connection failed bad version .......................................................... : ok disconnect version: run (ret == -1) .................................. : ok: Internal failure disconnect version ................................................... : ok auth PLAIN disconnect: run (ret < 0) ................................. : ok auth PLAIN disconnect ................................................ : ok auth PLAIN reconnect: run (ret < 0) .................................. : ok auth PLAIN reconnect ................................................. : ok auth PLAIN failure: run (ret < 0) .................................... : ok auth PLAIN failure ................................................... : ok auth PLAIN success: run (ret == 0) ................................... : ok auth PLAIN success ................................................... : ok auth LOGIN failure 1: run (ret < 0) .................................. : ok auth LOGIN failure 1 ................................................. : ok auth LOGIN failure 2: run (ret < 0) .................................. : ok auth LOGIN failure 2 ................................................. : ok auth LOGIN success: run (ret == 0) ................................... : ok auth LOGIN success ................................................... : ok auth PLAIN parallel failure: run (ret < 0) ........................... : ok auth PLAIN parallel failure .......................................... : ok auth PLAIN parallel success: run (ret == 0) .......................... : ok auth PLAIN parallel success .......................................... : ok auth LOGIN parallel failure 1: run (ret < 0) ......................... : ok auth LOGIN parallel failure 1 ........................................ : ok auth LOGIN parallel failure 2: run (ret < 0) ......................... : ok auth LOGIN parallel failure 2 ........................................ : ok auth LOGIN parallel success: run (ret == 0) .......................... : ok auth LOGIN parallel success .......................................... : ok 1 / 49 tests failed make[3]: Leaving directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.14/src/master' “Function not implemented” suggests that dovecot somehow used the clock_gettime (or gettimeofday) ENOSYS error instead of the expected ECONNREFUSED error code. Unfortunately, I have not figured out where this exactly happens. I don't expect that the problematic glibc build escapes to the wild It was a glibc 2.34 development snapshot, and this particular source of ENOSYS errors is gone again. So fixing this is not urgent. Thanks, Florian

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move mails between mailboxes
by Tom Doenen 13 Jul '21

13 Jul '21

Hello, i am using dovecot 2.3.4.1 I am tyring to make a script using the doveadm move command to move old emails into a subfolder of the users INBOX ; say all mails from 2016 into INBOX/2016. Selecting and moving is not the issue; everything works just i am amazed that the (test) mail client Thunderbird downloads all mails in INBOX/2016 after the move. When i make an IMAP move of all 2016-mails in Thunderbird; mails are moved between the mailboxes without any mails being (re-)downloaded. So what am i missing here? Thank for the tip :) Kind regards, Tom the doveadm move debug output is : Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_quota_plugin.so Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_listescape_plugin.so Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_zlib_plugin.so Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm Debug: Skipping module doveadm_acl_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_acl_plugin.so: undefined symbol: acl_user_module (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_expire_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_expire_plugin.so: undefined symbol: expire_set_deinit (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_quota_plugin.so Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib10_doveadm_sieve_plugin.so Debug: Skipping module doveadm_fts_lucene_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_lucene_plugin.so: undefined symbol: lucene_index_iter_deinit (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_fts_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/lib20_doveadm_fts_plugin.so: undefined symbol: fts_user_get_language_list (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) Debug: Skipping module doveadm_mail_crypt_plugin, because dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/doveadm/libdoveadm_mail_crypt_plugin.so: undefined symbol: mail_crypt_box_get_pvt_digests (this is usually intentional, so just ignore this message) doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org)<17541><>: Debug: auth USER input: tom(a)somedomain.org uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/mailstore/somedomain.org/to/tom/ doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Effective uid=5000, gid=5000, home=/mailstore/somedomain.org/to/tom/ doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota root: name=User quota backend=maildir args= doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=* bytes=8589934592 messages=0 doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota rule: root=User quota mailbox=Trash bytes=+104857600 messages=0 doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=8589934592 (100%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 100 tom(a)somedomain.org doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=8504035246 (99%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 99 tom(a)somedomain.org doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=8418135900 (98%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 98 tom(a)somedomain.org doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=8246337208 (96%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 96 tom(a)somedomain.org doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=8074538516 (94%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 94 tom(a)somedomain.org doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=7902739824 (92%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 92 tom(a)somedomain.org doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=7730941132 (90%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 90 tom(a)somedomain.org doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=7301444403 (85%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 85 tom(a)somedomain.org doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=6871947673 (80%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 80 tom(a)somedomain.org doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=6012954214 (70%) messages=0 reverse=no command=quota-warning 70 tom(a)somedomain.org doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota warning: bytes=8589934592 (100%) messages=0 reverse=yes command=quota-warning 0 tom(a)somedomain.org doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Quota grace: root=User quota bytes=47185920 doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/mailstore/somedomain.org/to/tom:INDEX=/indexes/somedomain… doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: maildir++: root=/mailstore/somedomain.org/to/tom, index=/indexes/somedomain.org/to/tom, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=/mailstore/somedomain.org/to/tom/.INBOX, alt= doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: quota: quota_over_flag check: quota_over_script unset - skipping doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: Mailbox opened because: move doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: Mailbox opened because: move doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52642: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52643: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52644: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52645: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52646: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52963: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52964: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52965: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52967: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52968: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52969: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52970: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX/2016: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream doveadm(tom(a)somedomain.org): Debug: Mailbox INBOX: UID 52972: Opened mail because: mail stream etc etc... obscured config : # 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 () # OS: Linux 4.19.194-rt81 x86_64 Debian 10.0 ext4 # Hostname: hardy.somedomain.org auth_cache_negative_ttl = 7 mins auth_cache_size = 20 M auth_cache_ttl = 12 mins auth_cache_verify_password_with_worker = yes auth_failure_delay = 9 secs auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_chars = auth_worker_max_count = 90 default_client_limit = 2500 default_process_limit = 500 default_vsz_limit = 4 G hostname = post.somedomain.org imap_capability = +SPECIAL_USE imap_fetch_failure = no-after imap_hibernate_timeout = 15 secs imap_idle_notify_interval = 4 mins imap_max_line_length = 512 k lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes lda_original_recipient_header = X-Original-To listen = * lmtp_rcpt_check_quota = yes login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c %k mail_cache_min_mail_count = 15 mail_fsync = never mail_location = maildir:/mailstore/%d/%2n/%n:INDEX=/indexes/%d/%2n/%n:INBOX=/mailstore/%d/%2n/%n/.INBOX:VOLATILEDIR=/tmp/dovecot:NO-NOSELECT:UTF-8 mail_max_keyword_length = 100 mail_plugins = quota zlib listescape mail_prefetch_count = 20 mail_privileged_group = mail mail_temp_scan_interval = 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval = 55 secs mailbox_list_index_include_inbox = yes mailbox_list_index_very_dirty_syncs = yes maildir_broken_filename_sizes = yes maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Concepts { auto = no special_use = \Drafts } mailbox "Deleted Messages" { auto = no special_use = \Trash } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = no special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { auto = no special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd--%d driver = passwd-file } plugin { listescape_char = } quota = maildir:User quota quota_grace = 45M quota_rule = *:storage=8G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 User mailbox is full.. quota_status_succes = DUNNO quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-warning 100 %u quota_warning10 = storage=70%% quota-warning 70 %u quota_warning11 = -storage=100%% quota-warning 0 %u quota_warning2 = storage=99%% quota-warning 99 %u quota_warning3 = storage=98%% quota-warning 98 %u quota_warning4 = storage=96%% quota-warning 96 %u quota_warning5 = storage=94%% quota-warning 94 %u quota_warning6 = storage=92%% quota-warning 92 %u quota_warning7 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning8 = storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u quota_warning9 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/dovecot.sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags +envelope +vacation +fileinto +date +relational +vacation-seconds sieve_user_log = /dev/null sieve_vacation_min_period = 1h sieve_vacation_send_from_recipient = yes virtual_overquota_bounce = yes zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 3 } pop3_fast_size_lookups = yes protocols = imap lmtp pop3 service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service imap-hibernate { unix_listener imap-hibernate { group = $default_internal_group mode = 0660 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { address = 100.100.100.104 port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 20 service_count = 0 } service imap { extra_groups = $default_internal_group process_limit = 5000 unix_listener imap-master { user = $default_internal_user } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { address = 100.100.100.99 port = 995 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 0 } service pop3 { process_limit = 1000 } service quota-warning { executable = script /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = vmail } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 587 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 5 service_count = 1 } service submission { process_limit = 150 } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/somedomain.org.crta ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!SSLv2:!SSLv3:!DH:!kRSA:!SRP:!kDHd:!DSS:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!3DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4:!ADH:!LOW@STRENGTH:!EXP:!SEED:!IDEA:!RSA:!CAMELLIA:!SHA1:!SHA256:!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 ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes submission_host = 127.0.0.1 syslog_facility = local2 userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd--%d driver = passwd-file result_failure = return-fail result_internalfail = return-fail } valid_chroot_dirs = /var/spool/vmail verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_fsync = optimized mail_plugins = quota zlib listescape quota sieve zlib postmaster_address = postmaster(a)somedomain.org } protocol lda { mail_fsync = optimized } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 25 mail_plugins = quota zlib listescape imap_quota zlib } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 6 }

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doveadm backup Error: Mailbox INBOX sync
by Pierre Sablé 13 Jul '21

13 Jul '21

Hi, the command "doveadm backup -u {user@mail} maildir:/home/backup/{user@mail}/mails/" returns the following error : dsync(user@mail): Error: Mailbox INBOX sync: mailbox_delete failed: INBOX can't be deleted. ...and nothing in dovecot logs dovecot actual version 2.3.15 I did not have this pb in dovecot 2.3.2 /Should this be considered a bug report?/ -- Pierre Sablé Formateur & Administrateur Systèmes Linux - DevOps Tel : 07.63.88.76.21 psable(a)dawan.fr www.dawan.fr

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[ENHANCEMENT] Doveadm HTTP API and the mail-crypt plugin
by Kevin N. 13 Jul '21

13 Jul '21

Hello everybody, I was wondering, are there any plans for the near future to include the mail-crypt plugin related functions, like changing the user key password, into the doveadm http api? It would probably be possible to implement it in a more secure way than any other external ad-hoc solution. Wouldn't it? Cheers, K.

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getting rid of the passwd file unknown user messages
by Marc 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

I have configured a userdb file, so I can test with some accounts and override settings. But it is a bit annoying getting unkown user messages for the majority of accounts not in this userdb. Is there a way to skip this reporting? dovecot: auth: passwd-file(aaaaaaaaaaaa,X.X.X.X,<lGapvOzGS5tNPz8/>): unknown user

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