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Using dsync to synchronize laptop against remote server
by Dato Simó 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Hello! I’m thinking of changing the way I sync mail to my laptop, and I have a couple questions about my intended setup. In brief, my plan is: instead of running offlineimap against various IMAP accounts (my personal one included), I will run fetchmail on my private server, and classify mail with Sieve there. Then I’ll run a local Dovecot on my laptop, and do a master/master replication from my personal server/account with dsync. I have two quick questions about this (I have never used dsync before): 1. Reading the manual page, it seems that I probably want stateful synchronization (-s flag). Not having used it before, I’m curious about what lag I can expect. Does it compare to an IMAP IDLE/IMAP NOTIFY connection? Or is it asynchronous / with a timer? 2. I assume modifying my local Maildirs with e.g. Mutt is... a big no-no? Instead, should I always force Mutt to go through the local IMAP server? Many thanks in advance, -d

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Re: Dovecot stops responding when I update SSL certificate
by HotSlots Webmaster 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Time to put an end to this saga... I had an issue that Dovecot refused to serve an updated SSL certificate - one that Postfix had no issue with. Though I quadruple-checked that the cert file and private key file were correct, in the end I simply directed both cert and key files to the file I was using for Postfix (which had both the cert and private key). That worked. Darned if I know what it didn't like about the other files, but I'm back in business with the new cert. Thanks for the responsiveness from Aki. Steve L

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Replication not working
by Simon Pierre Desrosiers 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Hello, I am trying to setup replication between two Mac OS X El Capitan Server. I have added the field as I could understand from the replication page of dovecot and from a few poste in the mailing list. The mac uses the system user _dovecot as main system account. I have setup ssh keys between the two systems for the two _dovecot servers. SSh works fine from the terminal. But yet, I get these messages in the log file : Mar 09 20:18:44 auth: Error: od[getpwnam_ext](submit): No record for user Mar 09 20:18:44 doveadm: Error: Host key verification failed. Mar 09 20:18:44 dsync-local(submit): Error: read(_dovecot(a)laposte.mycompagny.com) failed: EOF Mar 09 20:18:44 dsync-local(submit): Error: Remote command returned error 255 Mar 09 20:23:44 auth: Error: od[getpwnam_ext](submit): No record for user Mar 09 20:23:44 doveadm: Error: Host key verification failed. Mar 09 20:23:44 dsync-local(submit): Error: read(_dovecot(a)laposte.mycompagny.com) failed: EOF Mar 09 20:23:44 dsync-local(submit): Error: Remote command returned error 255 and so on every few minutes. I have a few things about which I am not sure. We configure port 12345, but nothing listen on that port. The doveadm_password, what is it exactly ? Should I use a distinct account than _dovecot for synchronisation (all the fields that need to be added for replication) ? Here is my configuration, any help would be appreciated : # 2.2.5: /Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Darwin 15.3.0 x86_64 hfs auth_mechanisms = cram-md5 digest-md5 gssapi auth_realms = labanque.mycompagny.com auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_username_format = %n debug_log_path = /Library/Logs/Mail/mail-debug.log default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull doveadm_password = MyOwnSecret doveadm_port = 12345 dsync_remote_cmd = ssh -l%{login} %{host} doveadm dsync-server -u%u first_valid_gid = 6 first_valid_uid = 6 imap_id_log = * imap_id_send = "name" * "version" * imap_urlauth_submit_user = submit info_log_path = /Library/Logs/Mail/mail-info.log log_path = /Library/Logs/Mail/mail-err.log login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c mail_access_groups = mail mail_attribute_dict = file:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/attributes/attributes.dict mail_location = maildir:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%u mail_log_prefix = "%s(pid %p user %u): " mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_sk notify replication 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 ihave mdbox_rotate_size = 200 M namespace acl-mailboxes { list = children location = maildir:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/users/%%u:INDEX=/Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/shared/%%u prefix = shared.%%u. separator = . subscriptions = no type = shared } 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 = } namespace list-archives { list = children location = maildir:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/listserver/messages/archive/lists/%%u:INDEX=/Library/Server/Mail/Data/listserver/messages/archive/shared/%%u prefix = archives.%%u. separator = . subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { driver = od } passdb { args = /Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/submit.passdb driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile:/Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = file:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/shared/shared-mailboxes fts = sk mail_replica = remote:_dovecot@laposte.mycompagny.com quota = maildir:User quota quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-exceeded %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning %u sieve = /Library/Server/Mail/Data/rules/%u/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /Library/Server/Mail/Data/rules/%u stats_refresh = 30 secs stats_track_cmds = yes } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)labanque.mycompagny.com protocols = imap lmtp sieve pop3 quota_full_tempfail = yes service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { user = _dovecot } unix_listener replication-notify { user = _dovecot } } service auth { extra_groups = _keytabusers idle_kill = 15 mins unix_listener auth-userdb { user = _dovecot } } service dns_client { unix_listener dns-client { mode = 0600 } } service doveadm { user = _dovecot } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } service_count = 0 } service imap { client_limit = 5 process_limit = 200 service_count = 0 } service indexer-worker { user = _dovecot } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0600 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service pop3 { client_limit = 5 process_limit = 200 service_count = 0 } service quota-exceeded { executable = script /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-exceeded.sh unix_listener quota-exceeded { group = mail mode = 0660 user = _dovecot } user = _dovecot } service quota-warning { executable = script /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { group = mail mode = 0660 user = _dovecot } user = _dovecot } service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 unix_listener replicator-doveadm { mode = 0600 } } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0600 user = _dovecot } } ssl = required ssl_ca = </etc/certificates/labanque.mycompagny.com.423929C9712FE705D69805A43769B318C7D3CBB3.chain.pem ssl_cert = </etc/certificates/labanque.mycompagny.com.423929C9712FE705D69805A43769B318C7D3CBB3.cert.pem ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL ssl_key = </etc/certificates/labanque.mycompagny.com.423929C9712FE705D69805A43769B318C7D3CBB3.key.pem ssl_key_path = /etc/certificates/labanque.mycompagny.com.423929C9712FE705D69805A43769B318C7D3CBB3.key.pem userdb { args = partition=/Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/partition_map.conf global_quota=5000 enforce_quotas=yes driver = od } userdb { args = /Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/submit.passdb driver = passwd-file } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_sk sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_sk sieve } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_sk imap_acl imap_quota imap_zlib } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 6 }

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Released Pigeonhole v0.4.13.rc1 for Dovecot v2.2.22.rc1.
by Stephan Bosch 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Hello Dovecot users, Pigeonhole v0.4.12 still compiles against Dovecot v2.2.22.rc1, but only with warnings. That is the primary reason for this new release. However, there are also a few significant changes as listed below. When no significant problems are reported, a definitive release will follow closely after Dovecot v2.2.22 is released. Changelog v0.4.13: * redirect action: Added the list-id header to the duplicate ID for mail loop prevention. This means that the message sent directly to the user and the message coming through the mailing list itself are treated as different messages by the loop detection of the redirect command, even though their Message-ID may be identical. * Changed the Sieve number type to uint64_t, which means that Sieve numbers can now technically range up to 2^64. Some other Sieve implementation allowed this, making this change necessary for successful migration. + Implemented the sieve_implicit_extensions setting. The extensions listed in this setting do not need to be enabled explicitly using the Sieve "require" command. This behavior directkly violates the standard, but can be necessary for compatibility with some existing implementations of Sieve. Do not use this setting unless you really need to! - redirect action: Made mail loop detection more robust by forcibly adding a Message-ID header if it is missing. - Prevent logging a useless "script not found" error message for LDAP scripts for which the entry exists but no attribute containing a script. This is not necessarily an error. - extprograms plugin: Changed the communication channel between parent and child process for a directly forked program from a socketpair to a double pipe. Linux does not support /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout and friends for sockets. For some shell program authors this may be confusing, so that is why it is changed. When using the script service, these device nodes are still not usable though. The release is available as follows: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.13… http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole-0.4.13… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this release candidate and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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Re: Dovecot 2 Issue
by Joseph Tam 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Peter Fraser <petros.fraser(a)gmail.com> writes: > Dovecot starts up but isn't listening on pop3 and imap ports. Not sure what > I have missed. My dovecot -a readout is below. Thanks for any help. "doveconf -n" would be better as it will only show non-default settings. > ... > protocols = sieve > ... I'm thinking this ought to be protocols = imap pop3 sieve Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Dovecot & Pigeon w/ MySQL
by Jorge Bastos 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Howdy, I'm looking for a good howto to have pigeon saving the sieve scripts on an mysql table. Can some point me to a good one? Dr. google doesn't show me much about it. Thanks in advanced, Jorge,

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dovecot: imap-login: Panic: Trying to allocate 0 bytes
by Ron Garret 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

My ISP had a hard drive crash. After the dust settled, my dovecot installation started failing with the following error every time a client tries to connect: dovecot: imap-login: Panic: Trying to allocate 0 bytes My installation has otherwise been stable and rock-solid for years. Both I and the techs at my ISP are stumped. Any advice on how to debug this would be greatly appreciated. Vital info: [ron@vm1:/etc/dovecot]$ /usr/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.10 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/local-certs/startssl.ca.pem ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/local-certs/... ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/local-keys/... login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login first_valid_uid: 100 mail_privileged_group: mail mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock auth default: user: postfix passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix I have checked the MySQL configuration and everything seems to be OK there. In fact, I’ve checked everything that I know how to check, and everything seems to be OK. And yet it is not working. Many thanks, rg

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Dovecort-2.2.22
by Ralf Zimmermann 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

With Dovecot-2.2.22 and enabled virtual plugin I get following error messages: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x819f0) [0x7f12330bf9f0] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x81adc) [0x7f12330bfadc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f123306833d] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(virtual_backend_box_close+0x178) [0x7f12320599f8] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(+0x9f94) [0x7f1232059f94] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(+0x9fe9) [0x7f1232059fe9] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_close+0x1a) [0x7f12333825da] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_free+0x13) [0x7f1233382663] -> dovecot/imap() [0x41870f] -> dovecot/imap() [0x423ce4] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handle_timeouts+0xda) [0x7f12330d28aa] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x9c) [0x7f12330d3cbc] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x25) [0x7f12330d2a65] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7f12330d2c08] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f123306da23] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x2d7) [0x40c3c7] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f1232cb4b45] -> dovecot/imap() [0x40c530] I test it with this configuration on Debian Jessie 64-bit: # dovecot.conf mail_plugins = $mail_plugins acl quota zlib virtual namespace { prefix = virtual/ separator = / location = virtual:~/Maildir/virtual } # ~/Maildir/virtual/unseen/dovecot-virtual INBOX unseen Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ralf Zimmermann Senior Security Engineer State Certified Engineer SIEGNETZ.IT GmbH Einheitsstrasse 2, D-57076 Siegen Telefon: +4927168193130 Fax: +492716819329 Mobil : +491735360015 http://www.siegnetz.de http://rz.siegnetz.de Amtsgericht Siegen HRB4838 Geschäftsführer: Oliver Seitz Sitz der Gesellschaft ist Siegen

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[PATCH] imapc: Accept strings in FLAGS responses
by Richard Laager 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

While non-standard, the IMAP server we are replacing returns non-system flags as strings instead of atoms. Prior to this change, imapc would abort processing on the first message with a string flag. --- src/lib-storage/index/imapc/imapc-mailbox.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/lib-storage/index/imapc/imapc-mailbox.c b/src/lib-storage/index/imapc/imapc-mailbox.c index c3e12d1..91333dc 100644 --- a/src/lib-storage/index/imapc/imapc-mailbox.c +++ b/src/lib-storage/index/imapc/imapc-mailbox.c @@ -310,7 +310,8 @@ static void imapc_untagged_fetch(const struct imapc_untagged_reply *reply, t_array_init(&keywords, 8); seen_flags = TRUE; for (j = 0; flags_list[j].type != IMAP_ARG_EOL; j++) { - if (!imap_arg_get_atom(&flags_list[j], &atom)) + if (!imap_arg_get_atom(&flags_list[j], &atom) && + !imap_arg_get_string(&flags_list[j], &atom)) return; if (atom[0] == '\\') flags |= imap_parse_system_flag(atom); -- 2.1.4

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segfault in imap and doveadm
by Joe Beaubien 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Hi everyone, Dovecot keeps on segfaulting on me and I am unsure why. This setup has been running for 5 years and has given me very little trouble. I am running Dovecot 2.1.7, setup with mdbox. The imap process keeps on segfaulting for the same account (makes me think maybe an email or folder of that account is problematic). My big issue is that force-resync also causes doveadm to segfault. Here is the mail.err file I am getting: Mar 7 12:34:36 mba kernel: [ 1955.486324] imap[5663]: segfault at 0 ip 00007ff1c1bd0b5e sp 00007fffd8599a40 error 4 in libdovecot-storage.so.0.0.0[7ff1c1b51000+fb000] Mar 7 12:34:36 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: /mba_data/emails/document/mailboxes/INBOX/Sara/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Mar 7 12:34:36 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: /mba_data/emails/document/mailboxes/INBOX/Lucie/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Mar 7 12:34:37 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: mdbox map /mba_data/emails/document/storage/dovecot.map.index corrupted: map_uid=284393 refcount too low Mar 7 12:34:37 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: /mba_data/emails/document/mailboxes/Templates/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Mar 7 12:34:39 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: /mba_data/emails/document/mailboxes/Sent/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Mar 7 12:34:40 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: /mba_data/emails/document/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Mar 7 12:34:40 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: /mba_data/emails/document/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Mar 7 12:34:41 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: /mba_data/emails/document/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Mar 7 12:34:41 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: /mba_data/emails/document/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Mar 7 12:34:41 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: /mba_data/emails/document/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Mar 7 12:34:42 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: /mba_data/emails/document/mailboxes/INBOX/_EE - a verifier/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Mar 7 12:34:43 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: /mba_data/emails/document/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Mar 7 12:34:48 mba kernel: [ 1967.972883] imap[5688]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f058ebc9b5e sp 00007fff9baa7c00 error 4 in libdovecot-storage.so.0.0.0[7f058eb4a000+fb000] Mar 7 12:34:49 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: /mba_data/emails/document/mailboxes/INBOX/Lucie/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index reset, view is now inconsistent Mar 7 12:43:44 mba dovecot: imap(document): Error: indexer disconnected unexpectedly Mar 7 12:43:44 mba dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 119 requests for document Mar 7 12:48:31 mba kernel: [ 2790.363755] doveadm[6586]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f1b2023fb5e sp 00007fff4e8ce200 error 4 in libdovecot-storage.so.0.0.0[7f1b201c0000+fb000] Mar 7 12:49:10 mba kernel: [ 2829.203900] doveadm[6604]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fa0d16e4b5e sp 00007fff1b89f480 error 4 in libdovecot-storage.so.0.0.0[7fa0d1665000+fb000] First line is imap segfaulting. Last lines are doveadm segfaulting when I try to run force-resync. Does anyone have any clue what to do in this situation? Regards, -Joe

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