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expunge not removing attachments?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

I have a large mail backup folder backup(a)backup.invalid; I'm cleaning up daily like this: infimum=`date -d "-4 day" +"%Y-%m-%d"` doveadm expunge -u backup(a)backup.invalid mailbox INBOX SAVEDBEFORE $infimum doveadm purge -u backup(a)backup.invalid yet I see this: # find attachments/ -type f -ctime +5 | wc -l 7522 # find attachments/ -type f | wc -l 127579 # find attachments/ -type f -mtime +5 | wc -l 14361 # find attachments/ -type f | wc -l 127793 About 5.9% of the files in attachments and below are older than 5 days. Why? Is that normal? using dovecot 2:2.3.1-1 from the official repos. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | https://www.charite.de

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APPEND Error in dovecot.log
by Alessandro Battaglini 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Hi dovecot --version => 2.2.22 (fe789d2) Scenario: Sometimes imap client send email correctly but there's is any message stored in sent mail folder in that scenario I have found an error in my dovecot.log : 2019-02-11 09:04:52 imap(-----@------------): Info: Disconnected in APPEND (1 msgs, 125 secs, 2818048/4426899 bytes) in=3365352 out=1522206 Question: what about this? Is there, in dovecot configuration, a parameter that insist to any kind of APPEND like value.? I have not find that. Have you any idea to solve this? Thanks

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assertion failed: (srcleft <= CHARSET_MAX_PENDING_BUF_SIZE)
by Giacomo 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

I'm running the following: # 2.3.4 (0ecbaf23d): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p4 amd64 # FS: ZFS auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Ln listen = * mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap lmtp service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } user = dovecot } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = mode = 0600 user = } unix_listener stats-writer { group = $default_internal_group mode = 0666 user = } user = $default_internal_user } ssl_cert = </root/cert.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd } dmesg shows: pid 74441 (imap), uid 1002: exited on signal 6 pid 74784 (imap), uid 1002: exited on signal 6 pid 21471 (imap), uid 1002: exited on signal 6 pid 21470 (imap), uid 1002: exited on signal 6 pid 21464 (imap), uid 1002: exited on signal 6 pid 21731 (imap), uid 1002: exited on signal 6 Sometimes the dovecot process serving an user crashes. He runs mostly airmail on macOS and samsung mail on Android. Happens only to that particular user. The log shows the following: (maillog) Dec 16 14:52:35 mail dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<USER>, method=PLAIN, rip=79.12.201.157, lip=192.168.1.28, mpid=74779, TLS, session=<wMQI+iN9VtRPDMmd> Dec 16 14:52:39 mail dovecot: imap(USER)<74441><nLa+7SN9+fhPDMmd>: Panic: file charset-iconv.c: line 83 (charset_to_utf8_try): assertion failed: (srcleft <= CHARSET_MAX_PENDING_BUF_SIZE) Dec 16 14:52:39 mail dovecot: imap(USER)<74441><nLa+7SN9+fhPDMmd>: Fatal: master: service(imap): child 74441 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps - set service imap { drop_priv_before_exec=yes }) I'm here if more info is needed. Thanks for taking a look.

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Bounces?
by ＠lbutlr 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

I just got this On 9 Feb 2019, at 00:00, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > Your membership in the mailing list dovecot has been disabled due to > excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated > 02-Feb-2019. You will not get any more messages from this list until > you re-enable your membership. You will receive 1 more reminders like > this before your membership in the list is deleted. > > To re-enable your membership, you can simply respond to this message > (leaving the Subject: line intact), or visit the confirmation page at > > https://dovecot.org/mailman/confirm/dovecot/41881d… When clicking the link I get "Bad confirmation sting" and something about maybe the link expired. I see no connection attempts from dovecot.org over the last few days other than this message. -- If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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Use sieve to move all mail automatically based on List-Id
by Matthias Fechner 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

Dear all, I currently use the following rule to automatically sort email into folders based on mailing lists: # split out the various list forms # Mailman & other lists using list-id if exists "list-id" { if header :regex "list-id" "<([a-z_0-9-]+)[.@]" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { if header :regex "list-id" "^\\s*<?([a-z_0-9-]+)[.@]" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } } stop; } This works really nice. The only problem I have here is that it does use the ID, but not the name and this can lead to strange folder names. If an email has e.g. the following header: List-Id: mfechner/ci-test <142.ci-test.mfechner.gitlab.fechner.net> it moves the email to the folder 142 as the regex matches inside the <> string till the none-letter/none-number/_/- is matching. I do not understand the expresion [.@] so it is nearly impossible for my to extend that query. What I would like to do is using the ID as folder name as fallback. So in this case I would like that the email is moved to folder `mfechner/ci-test`. I'm not sure if sieve can handle the `/` correctly. Thanks a lot for any tip. 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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lib-master test failure i686
by Eric Broch 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

Hello List, I've built and checked successfully dovecot and dovecot-pigeonhole on CentOS 6 x86_64 Immediately below are the successful make check (ok) tests of dovecot 'lib-master' (x86_64). Below that are the unsuccessful (fails) tests of dovecot 'lib-master' on i686. Does anyone have a clue as to why these test would fail on i686? (x86_64): Making check in lib-master make[2]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.4/src/lib-master' make check-local make[3]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.4/src/lib-master' for bin in test-master-service-settings-cache test-event-stats; do \ if ! ./$bin; then exit 1; fi; \ done 0 / 0 tests failed no merging parent is NULL ............................................ : ok no merging parent sent to stats ...................................... : ok no merging parent timestamp differs .................................. : ok merge events parent NULL ............................................. : ok merge events parent sent to stats .................................... : ok skip empty parents ................................................... : ok merge events and skip empty parents .................................. : ok 0 / 7 tests failed make[3]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.4/src/lib-master' make[2]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.4/src/lib-master' (i686): Making check in lib-master make[2]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.4/src/lib-master' make check-local make[3]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.4/src/lib-master' for bin in test-master-service-settings-cache test-event-stats; do \ if ! ./$bin; then exit 1; fi; \ done 0 / 0 tests failed no merging parent is NULL ............................................ : ok test-event-stats.c:365: Assert failed: compare_test_stats_to( "EVENT %lu 1 0 0" " stest-event-stats.c %d" " l0 0 ctest2\n", id, l) no merging parent sent to stats ...................................... : FAILED test-event-stats.c:394: Assert failed: compare_test_stats_to( "BEGIN %lu 0 1 0 0" " stest-event-stats.c %d ctest1\n" "EVENT %lu 1 1 0" " stest-event-stats.c %d" " l1 0 ctest2\n" "END\t%lu\n", idp, lp, idp, l, idp) no merging parent timestamp differs .................................. : FAILED merge events parent NULL ............................................. : ok test-event-stats.c:458: Assert failed: compare_test_stats_to( "EVENT %lu 1 0 0" " stest-event-stats.c %d l0 0" " ctest3 ctest2 ctest1 Tkey3" " 10 0 Ikey2 20" " Skey1 str1\n", id, l) merge events parent sent to stats .................................... : FAILED test-event-stats.c:490: Assert failed: compare_test_stats_to( "BEGIN %lu 0 1 0 0" " stest-event-stats.c %d ctest1\n" "EVENT %lu 1 3 0 " "stest-event-stats.c %d l3 0" " ctest2\nEND\t%lu\n", id, lp, id, l, id) skip empty parents ................................................... : FAILED test-event-stats.c:533: Assert failed: compare_test_stats_to( "BEGIN %lu 0 1 0 0" " stest-event-stats.c %d ctest1\n" "EVENT %lu 1 3 0 " "stest-event-stats.c %d l3 0 " "ctest4 ctest5 Tkey3 10 0 Skey4" " str4\nEND\t%lu\n", id, lp, id, l, id) merge events and skip empty parents .................................. : FAILED 5 / 7 tests failed make[3]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.4/src/lib-master' make[3]: *** [check-local] Error 1 make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.4/src/lib-master' -- Eric Broch White Horse Technical Consulting (WHTC)

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mbox 2 Maildir
by Tamas Hegedus 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Hi, I am not an professional system admin, but I am running a small debian mail server for many years. It is time to migrate from mbox to Maildir. There is a nice and clean description for doing this without service downtime at https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Sync I have to set per-user config for mailbox type using userdb extra fields. However, I miss some information and I can not find useful info by google. 1. The main question: dovecot will know that for some users the mailbox format is still mbox, but others already have Maildir. I do not see any hint that I should setup postfix/procmail for handling the delivery per-user basis. But I think I have to set this, too. 2. I have not learned much about userdb and it seems that dovecot was written for and used by experts. I mean that the docs/wiki is not enough for me: from the wiki page of userdb it will be for me difficult to setup one. Can you suggest some docs for dummies? Thanks for your help, Tamas dovecot --version 2.2.27 (c0f36b0) postfix 3.1.8 procmail v3.23pre 2001/09/13 -- Tamas Hegedus, PhD Senior Research Fellow MTA-SE Molecular Biophysics Research Group Hungarian Academy of Sciences | phone: (36) 1-459 1500/60233 Semmelweis University | fax: (36) 1-266 6656 Tuzolto utca 37-47 | mailto:tamas@hegelab.org Budapest, 1094, Hungary | http://www.hegelab.org --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

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system wakeup caused by write operations to /var/lib/dovecot/instances
by Tijl 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Hi, I hope someone can help me with this. Problem Dovecot writes to _/var/lib/dovecot/instances_ 1 up to 3 times a day, causing the system to wake up and disks to spin up. Details content of /var/lib/dovecot/instances : 1549073010 dovecot /var/run/dovecot /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf --> only the timestamp is changed (to current time) when dovecot writes to this file --> during write the file is temporary renamed to _instances.lock_ dovecot running processes: dovecot (main process) --> it's this process that writes to /var/lib/instances dovecot/anvil dovecot/log dovecot/config --> sometimes this process is not running, but doesn't change anything note: no clients connected problem also occur in the middle of the night (no human activity, client devices powered off, all external traffic blocked) the writings occur around every 8 hours, but vary, sometimes it's 6 hours up to 13 hours. Configuration See attachment: doveconfig-short-[platform].txt (output of _"/usr/sbin/dovecot -n"_) doveconfig-long-[platform].txt (output of _"/usr/bin/doveconf"_) --> _3-docker_ config is the most simple setup of the 3 Environment Tested on 3 platforms Platform 1: Intel Atom C2538 (Synology DiskStation 415+) Linux version 3.10.105 Dovecot version 2.2.19 (Synology MailPlus Server) Platform 2: ARMv7 rev 1 (Synology DiskStation 215j) Linux version 3.2.40 Dovecot version 2.2.19 (Synology Mail Server) Platform 3: Intel Atom C2538 (Docker container) Linux version 3.10.105 Dovecot version 2.3.2.1 (0719df592) How can dovecot be run without writing to /var/lib/dovecot/instances everyday? Is there a configuration setting for this? Thanks already! Tijl

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Dovecot v2.2.36.1 released
by Aki Tuomi 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

https://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.36.1.tar.gz https://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.36.1.tar.gz.sig * CVE-2019-3814: If imap/pop3/managesieve/submission client has trusted certificate with missing username field (ssl_cert_username_field), under some configurations Dovecot mistakenly trusts the username provided via authentication instead of failing. * ssl_cert_username_field setting was ignored with external SMTP AUTH, because none of the MTAs (Postfix, Exim) currently send the cert_username field. This may have allowed users with trusted certificate to specify any username in the authentication. This bug didn't affect Dovecot's Submission service. - pop3_no_flag_updates=no: Don't expunge RETRed messages without QUIT - director: Kicking a user assert-crashes if login process is very slow - lda/lmtp: Fix assert-crash with some Sieve scripts when mail_attachment_detection_options=add-flags-on-save - fs-compress: Using maybe-gz assert-crashed when reading 0 sized file - Snippet generation crashed with invalid Content-Type:multipart --- Aki Tuomi Open-Xchange Oy

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alterstorage for archiv
by Maciej Milaszewski IQ PL 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Hi I have a testing lab with: debian10 + dovecot-2.2.33 (director) and one backaned with 2.2.33.2 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dovecot_indexes%h All works fine but I thinking now about solutions to moved all messeges older by (14day) to my alter storage with poor disk to folder Archive like:/vmail/domain/user@domain/Maildir/ to: /otherstorage/vmail/domain/user@domain/ And i thinking about ( hmm mapping folder Archive) /vmail/domain/user@domain/Maildir/Archive/ mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dovecot_indexes%h:ALT:/otherstorage%h is that "solutions" Is good idea ? Or maby is another working solutions ? because: doveadm altmove not working with Maildir

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