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max number of connections per ip
by Esteban L 29 Feb '20

29 Feb '20

I have been haunted by the following error message or months, that we see using Thunderbird. Unable to connect to your IMAP server. You may have exceeded the maximum number of connections to this server. If so, use the Advanced IMAP Server Settings dialogue to reduce the number of cached connections. If I change my location, via a VPN, the error message goes away and I can connect. I have edited my /etc/dovcot/conf.d/20-imap.conf file by adding the following: protocol imap { # Space separated list of plugins to load (default is global mail_plugins). mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota # Maximum number of IMAP connections allowed for a user from each IP address. # NOTE: The username is compared case-sensitively. mail_max_userip_connections = 500 } And, I still get the error message. I know myself, I have about 8-9 accounts, some with as many as 10 folders (I know each one count's as it's own mailbox), as does my partner--who would access the internet from my IP. Does that number really have to be like 10,000, or something? If so, why does it start out so small in the first place. If not, what else could I do to avoid this message going forward??

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doveadm acl recursive
by Armin Schindler 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

Hello, I try to set acl settings on a public folder including its subfolders. There is no option for acting recursive. But the documentation says wildcards can be given on the mailbox name. But this doesn't work. No matter how the mailbox name is provided with a wildcard, doveadm always tells Mailbox doesn't exist. Folder example: public/project1 public/project1/subdir1 public/project1/subdir2 public/project1/subdir2/subsubdir3 Setting acl on the given mailbox works for all of them. But how can I set for "public/project1" and all its subfolders in one command? Even "doveadm mailbox list" gives the error above when using wildcard. (I also tried all combinations of quotes). Armin

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dovecot 2 samba ad-dc
by phil 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

Helo you, I try to build a mail server based on Centos 7, postfix and dovecot 2. My backend is a Samba4 ad-dc. I tried a lot and I don't know what else I could try.I'm new to this mailing list so please forgive me if I don't give right information or anything Samba4 ad-dc is up incl. dns. Win10 Client joined domain and authentication works. Postfix is up and checks against ldap whether recipient address exists. It takes mail via telnet and queues them. But can't give it to dovecot. my master.cf locks like that: [root@mail1t postfix]# cat master.cf smtp inet n - - - - smtpd submission inet n - - - - smtpd -o smtpd_enforce_tls=yes -o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt -o tls_preempt_cipherlist=yes pickup fifo n - - 60 1 pickup cleanup unix n - - - 0 cleanup qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 qmgr tlsmgr unix - - - 1000? 1 tlsmgr rewrite unix - - - - - trivial-rewrite bounce unix - - - - 0 bounce defer unix - - - - 0 bounce trace unix - - - - 0 bounce verify unix - - - - 1 verify flush unix n - - 1000? 0 flush proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap proxywrite unix - - n - 1 proxymap smtp unix - - - - - smtp relay unix - - - - - smtp showq unix n - - - - showq error unix - - - - - error retry unix - - - - - error discard unix - - - - - discard local unix - n n - - local virtual unix - n n - - virtual lmtp unix - - - - - lmtp anvil unix - - - - 1 anvil scache unix - - - - 1 scache maildrop unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient} uucp unix - n n - - pipe flags=Fqhu user=uucp argv=uux -r -n -z -a$sender - $nexthop!rmail ($recipient) ifmail unix - n n - - pipe flags=F user=ftn argv=/usr/lib/ifmail/ifmail -r $nexthop ($recipient) bsmtp unix - n n - - pipe flags=Fq. user=bsmtp argv=/usr/lib/bsmtp/bsmtp -t$nexthop -f$sender $recipient scalemail-backend unix - n n - 2 pipe flags=R user=scalemail argv=/usr/lib/scalemail/bin/scalemail-store ${nexthop} ${user} ${extension} mailman unix - n n - - pipe flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py ${nexthop} ${user} dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${user}@${nexthop} #smtp inet n - n - 1 postscreen #smtpd pass - - n - - smtpd #dnsblog unix - - n - 0 dnsblog #tlsproxy unix - - n - 0 tlsproxy postlog unix-dgram n - n - 1 postlogd my ldap.conf on mailserver: [root@mail1t openldap]# cat ldap.conf # # LDAP Defaults # # See ldap.conf(5) for details # This file should be world readable but not world writable. #BASE dc=example,dc=com #URI ldap://ldap.example.com ldap://ldap-master.example.com:666 URI ldaps://ldap1t.test.loc:636 #SIZELIMIT 12 #TIMELIMIT 15 #DEREF never #TLS_CACERTDIR /etc/openldap/certs TLS_CACERTDIR /etc/pki/tls/certs/ka # Turning this off breaks GSSAPI used with krb5 when rdns = false SASL_NOCANON on TLS_REQCERT never dovecot.conf: [root@mail1t dovecot]# cat dovecot.conf auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_uid = vmail mail_gid = vmail ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/mail.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/key.pem login_log_format_elements = "user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c %k" #mail_plugins = quota ssl_cipher_list = EDH+CAMELLIA:EDH+aRSA:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+SHA256:EECDH:+CAMELLIA256:+AES256:+CAMELLIA128:+AES128:+SSLv3:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!PSK:!DSS:!RC4:!SEED:!ECDSA:CAMELLIA256-SHA:AES256-SHA:CAMELLIA128-SHA:AES128-SHA log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-debug.log #auth_verbose=yes auth_debug=yes auth_debug_passwords=yes mail_debug=yes verbose_ssl=yes protocols = imap listen = * auth_cache_size = 50000 # ~ 200 Benutzer mit Passwort auth_cache_ttl = 300s # in Sekunden, 5 Minute auth_cache_negative_ttl = 30s # wenn Benutzer nicht existierte bei letztem Check passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth_dovecot { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = root } user = root } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0660 user = vmail group = vmail } } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota } dovecot-ldap.conf.ext: root@mail1t dovecot]# cat dovecot-ldap.conf.ext #hosts = 192.168.122.30:636 # Windows Active Directory uris = ldaps://192.168.122.30:636 #dn = CN=DovecotAdministrator,OU=ServiceAccounts,OU=Identitiy,DC=test,DC=loc dn = CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=test,DC=loc dnpass = Test123! tls = no # Benötige ich (!) nicht auth_bind = yes # Für die Dauer der Authentifizierung bindet sich Dovecot als einloggender Mailuser auth_bind_dn = %u ldap_version = 3 base = OU=Identitiy,DC=domain,DC=local # Meine OU mit Benutzern scope = subtree # Oder "base", falls nicht rekursiv in der OU gesucht werden soll pass_attrs = \ =user=%{ldap:mail}, \ =passwerd=%{ladp:user}, \ user_attrs = \ =user=%{ldap:mail}, \ user_filter = (mailRoutingAddress=%u) pass_filter = (mail=%u) iterate_attrs = mail #mail=user # Wird vor allem von "doveadm" benötigt, um Benutzer zu finden iterate_filter = (objectClass=smiMessageRecipient #(objectClass=person) maillog gives me: Feb 20 08:34:56 mail1t postfix/smtpd[1794]: 04229120B0D: client=unknown[192.168.122.30] Feb 20 08:35:01 mail1t postfix/cleanup[1798]: 04229120B0D: message-id=<> Feb 20 08:35:01 mail1t postfix/qmgr[1268]: 04229120B0D: from=<test(a)test.loc>, size=176, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 20 08:35:01 mail1t postfix/pipe[1799]: 04229120B0D: to=<test(a)test.loc>, relay=dovecot, delay=12, delays=12/0.01/0/0.07, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure) Feb 20 08:35:03 mail1t postfix/smtpd[1794]: disconnect from unknown[192.168.122.30] helo=1 mail=1 rcpt=1 data=1 quit=1 commands=5 dovecot debug log: 2020-02-20 08:31:18 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/auth 2020-02-20 08:31:18 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/auth/lib20_auth_var_expand_crypt.so 2020-02-20 08:35:01 lda(test(a)test.loc)<1800><>: Debug: auth-master: userdb lookup(test(a)test.loc): Started userdb lookup 2020-02-20 08:35:01 lda(test(a)test.loc)<1800><>: Debug: auth-master: conn unix:/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb: Connecting 2020-02-20 08:35:01 lda(test(a)test.loc)<1800><>: Debug: auth-master: conn unix:/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb: Client connected (fd=13) 2020-02-20 08:35:01 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/auth 2020-02-20 08:35:01 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/auth/lib20_auth_var_expand_crypt.so 2020-02-20 08:35:01 lda(test(a)test.loc)<1800><>: Debug: auth-master: conn unix:/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb: Disconnected: Connection closed: read(size=8192) failed: Connection reset by peer (fd=13) 2020-02-20 08:35:01 lda(test(a)test.loc)<1800><>: Debug: auth-master: userdb lookup(test(a)test.loc): Userdb lookup failed a ldap search gives me: [root@mail1t dovecot]# ldapsearch -D "cn=administrator,cn=Users,dc=test,dc=loc" -W -H ldaps://ldap1t.test.loc:636 -b "ou=Identitiy,dc=test,dc=loc" -s sub -x "(objectclass=person)" Enter LDAP Password: # extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base <ou=Identitiy,dc=test,dc=loc> with scope subtree # filter: (objectclass=person) # requesting: ALL # # testuser2, Identitiy, test.loc dn: CN=testuser2,OU=Identitiy,DC=test,DC=loc objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: user cn: testuser2 instanceType: 4 whenCreated: 20191029150406.0Z uSNCreated: 4540 name: testuser2 objectGUID:: zfJ3SmPoLkO8wrVKP0Mc6g== badPwdCount: 0 codePage: 0 countryCode: 0 badPasswordTime: 0 lastLogoff: 0 primaryGroupID: 513 objectSid:: AQUAAAAAAAUVAAAAGQ/+ZjR2CNb9IiNGUQQAAA== accountExpires: 9223372036854775807 sAMAccountName: testuser2 sAMAccountType: 805306368 userPrincipalName: testuser2(a)test.loc objectCategory: CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=test,DC=loc mail: test(a)test.loc userAccountControl: 512 lockoutTime: 0 pwdLastSet: 132257935214848870 lastLogon: 132258326087696220 logonCount: 9 lastLogonTimestamp: 132258326087696220 whenChanged: 20200210182328.0Z uSNChanged: 7912 distinguishedName: CN=testuser2,OU=Identitiy,DC=test,DC=loc # DovecotAdministrator, ServiceAccounts, Identitiy, test.loc dn: CN=DovecotAdministrator,OU=ServiceAccounts,OU=Identitiy,DC=test,DC=loc objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: user cn: DovecotAdministrator instanceType: 4 whenCreated: 20191029155812.0Z displayName: DovecotAdministrator uSNCreated: 4735 name: DovecotAdministrator objectGUID:: 6LODLEOIQ0iVbSDrOftLgg== badPwdCount: 0 codePage: 0 countryCode: 0 badPasswordTime: 0 lastLogoff: 0 lastLogon: 0 primaryGroupID: 513 objectSid:: AQUAAAAAAAUVAAAAGQ/+ZjR2CNb9IiNGUwQAAA== accountExpires: 9223372036854775807 logonCount: 0 sAMAccountName: DovecotAdministrator sAMAccountType: 805306368 userPrincipalName: DovecotAdministrator(a)test.loc objectCategory: CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=test,DC=loc userAccountControl: 66048 pwdLastSet: 132240938772523690 lastLogonTimestamp: 132263319652676310 whenChanged: 20200216130605.0Z uSNChanged: 7935 distinguishedName: CN=DovecotAdministrator,OU=ServiceAccounts,OU=Identitiy,DC= test,DC=loc # search result search: 2 result: 0 Success # numResponses: 3 # numEntries: 2 Can someone give me a hint? Best Phil

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dovecot-uidlist....
by Chi Min Wang 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Hello Everyone: Is it possible to direct dovecot to modify dovecot-uidlist automatically?? I have some user who use ancient MUA(i.e. Openwebmail) and IMAP/POP3. Since Openwebmail will insert "Status: R" in the eml file,the size of the eml file will increase by 10 bytes. If the user use Openwebmail first,then the size record(S=xxxx) in dovecot-uidlist will be fine. But if he use POP3/IMAP(dovecot) first then use Openwebmail,the size record in dovecot-uidlist will not match the actual size modified by Openwebmail. This will cause dovecot killed by core dump. I'm wondering if there are any method to avoid this situation,Thanks!! *********************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, (i) please do not read or disclose to others, and (ii) please notify immediately the sender by reply mail, and (iii) please delete all copies of the email from your system. Failure to follow this process may be unlawful. We greatly appreciate your cooperation.

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Matching regexps
by Adam Shostack 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Hi, I'm having some trouble with matching. The regexp in my dovecot.sieve file should match on email addresses, but does not. # The code: if header :matches "From" "<[a-z0-9-]*(a)[a-z0-9-.]*>" { set "sender" "${1}"; } if not execute "grepfrom" ["${sender}"] { if envelope :matches "from" "*" { set "sender" "${1}"; } This failes to match Tamara Denning <tdenning(a)cs.utah.edu> when I check that regexp against that string at regex101.com, it shows a match, but the log (from sieve-test) shows: 348: header test 348: starting `:matches' match with `i;ascii-casemap' comparator: 348: extracting `From' headers from message 348: matching value `Tamara Denning <tdenning(a)cs.utah.edu>' 348: with key `.*<[a-z0-9-]*(a)[a-z0-9-.]*>' => 0 348: finishing match with result: not matched I would appreciate advice on why the match is failing, or what I can change to make it match. Thank you! Adam

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Auto Subscribe not working for LDA/Sieve created Mailbox?
by Larry Rosenman 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

I have auto-subscribe turned on, but I had to doveadm mailbox subscribe to a LDA/Sieve created mailbox today. Did something break? doveconf -n attached. FreeBSD dovecot-2.3.9.3 Secure, fast and powerful IMAP and POP3 server dovecot-pigeonhole-0.5.9_1 Sieve plugin for the Dovecot 'deliver' LDA and LMTP -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640 (c) E-Mail: larryrtx(a)gmail.com US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Dr, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106

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doveadm(nfsnobody) Error
by 横山航平 23 Feb '20

23 Feb '20

Please tell me about maillog Error. I get the following error in maillog：－－－ dovecot: doveadm(nfsnobody): Error: sync: User init failed dovecot: doveadm(nfsnobody): Error: User initialization failed: Namespace '': mkdir(/var/lib/nfs/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nfsnobody) egid=65534(nfsnobody) missing +w perm: /var/lib/nfs, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) －－－ I am using Dsync and the configuration is below：－－－ service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 } dsync_remote_cmd = ssh -l%{login} %{host} doveadm dsync-server -u%u plugin { mail_replica = remote:root@XXX } service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { mode = 0777 } unix_listener replication-notify { mode = 0777 } } service replicator { unix_listener replicator-doveadm { mode = 0600 } } replication_max_conns = 10 plugin { # When saving a new mail via IMAP or delivering a mail via LDA/LMTP, # wait for the mail to be synced to the remote site. If it doesn't finish # in 2 seconds, return success anyway. # replication_sync_timeout = 2s } －－－ Is the Dsync setting bad? please tell me.

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Help needed with managesieve
by Laura Smith 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

Hi, I'm really struggling with the following inbound filtering: Let's say:• My email address is "my.email(a)example.com" • I've setup a filtered address "filtered.email(a)example.com" • I've setup a sending/reply address "send.email(a)example.com" I am sending a message to a small group of people where detailed tracking is required (yes, I know there are better automated ways outside of Dovecot to do this... but let's leave that topic for another day shall we !) My desired action is as follows : • Message "From" shows "send.email(a)example.com" • Message "To" is set as "filtered.email(a)example.com" • General recipients in Bcc When I send a test to an *external* address, it works as expected, i.e. : • External address receives mail in its inbox • Copy of mail gets put in relevant IMAP folder for "filtered.email(a)example.com" When I send a test to my own address, it does not work, the following happens instead: • Copy of mail gets put in relevant IMAP folder for "filtered.email(a)example.com" (this is good and as expected) • The BCC "my.email(a)example.com" never gets deposited in my inbox (this is not good) My dovecot sieve (as applied to "my.email(a)example.com") is as follows (I have tried both with and without the "stop" as you can see from the comment: anyof (address :is :all "to" ["send.email(a)example.com"], header :contains ["Cc", "Delivered-To"] ["send.email(a)example.com"]) { fileinto :create "XYZmail-replies"; # Ignore stop for this rule only # stop; } elsif anyof (address :is :all "to" ["filtered.email(a)example.com"], header :contains ["Cc", "Delivered-To"] ["filtered.email(a)example.com"]) { fileinto :create "XYZmail-sent"; # Ignore stop for this rule only # stop; }

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Strategy for fts and Replication
by Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

Hi there, I got successfully to replicate my mail server to another dovecot install using dsync, mainly for redundancy, and it works great. I want to try to install fts, as some of the mailboxes have tens of thousands of messages, and it takes minutes to get some results when searching via IMAP on a Roundcube interface. I want to experiment with fts-solr first, and firstly on my redundant server, ie., not on my main dovecot install. Is it ok to do this? I ask because I am afraid of how this whole reindexing on the redundant install will affect the production server. Also, any tips on something else than fts-solr? I tried it once, but it was so hard to get it right, so many configurations, java, etc., that I'd rather try something else. I also could try fts-elastic or something like that, but, again, having to maintain an elasticsearch install might use more resources than I think is worth. Any thoughts on that? Best, -- Francis

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My sieve is failing
by ＠lbutlr 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

I have an active sieve file for my list account that alters the headers for this list (sets the reply-to address to the list instead of the poster) which is suddenly failing. require [ "regex", "variables", "fileinto", "envelope", "mailbox", "imap4flags", "editheader" ]; /* other stuff */ elsif header :contains "List-id" "dovecot.dovecot.org" { if header :matches "Reply-to" "*" { deleteheader "From"; addheader "From" "${1}"; deleteheader "Reply-To"; addheader "Reply-To" "dovecot(a)dovecot.org"; addheader "X-Covisp-Reply-To" "True"; } fileinto :create "dovecot"; stop;} And the trace file: 55: header test 55: starting `:contains' match with `i;ascii-casemap' comparator: 55: extracting `List-id' headers from message 55: matching value `Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot.dovecot.org>' 55: with key `dovecot.dovecot.org' => 1 55: finishing match with result: matched 55: jump if result is false 55: not jumping 56: header test 56: starting `:matches' match with `i;ascii-casemap' comparator: 56: extracting `Reply-to' headers from message 56: finishing match with result: not matched 56: jump if result is false 56: jumping to line 63 63: fileinto action 63: store message in mailbox `dovecot' 64: stop command; end all script execution ## Finished executing script '.active_sieve’ Neither the reply-to header nor the x- header are actually getting added, but the block is getting executed and the mail is filed in the right folder. In dovecot.conf I (still) have: managesieve_sieve_capability = editheader fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave

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Test failure on ARM: backtrace_append
by Julien Lepiller 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

Hi, I am a packager in Guix and user of dovecot on an ARM server (armhf). The Guix package fails to build because of a test error (see the last lines of the full build log: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/log/f5if2qb5rsqag3a6jy5vga1l9hm9pkj0-dovecot-2.3.9.3) As the name suggests, this is dovecot 2.3.9.3, the latest version. Previous versions built fine, as well as the same version on x86 and x86_64. Note that the build on guix's build farm was done in a qemu vm, but I got the same test failure on real hardware. I'm not sure what the best course of action is. Did I find a legitimate bug, or should I simply ignore that test for that architecture? Dovecot itself seems to be running fine when I ignore the tests. Thanks for any guidance you could provide!

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How does dovecot determine users from /etc/passwd?
by Philip Colmer 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

We're using dovecot on a help desk ticketing system. The system doesn't perform any cleanup of IMAP mailboxes so we have a regular cronjob doing this: /usr/bin/doveadm flags add -A '\Deleted' SEEN SENTBEFORE 12w && /usr/bin/doveadm expunge -A DELETED MAILBOX '*' Recently, doveadm has been reporting this: doveadm(nobody): Error: User initialization failed: Namespace '': mkdir(/nonexistent/mail) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nogroup)) doveadm(nobody): Error: User init failed doveadm(DEFAULT-CW-USER): Info: User no longer exists, skipping Indeed, using doveadm user "*" does include "nobody" in the list but I can't understand why. The mail group in /etc/group does not include "nobody" and there are users in /etc/passwd with similar attributes to "nobody" that do not appear in the list of users from doveadm. What can I do to tell doveadm to forget about "nobody"? Thanks. Philip

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BUG: dsync and folder names with "@"
by spamvoll＠googlemail.com 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Hello, dovecot version: 2.3.9.2 When I use dsync: /usr/bin/dsync -v -D -o plugin/quota= -f -u my(a)email.dom backup maildir:/tmp/mailbackup/Maildir it always stops when it comes to a folder with an "@" in its name. Error Message: Warning: Mailbox changes caused a desync. You may want to run dsync again: Remote lost mailbox GUID (maybe it was just deleted?) I dont know if it makes a difference, but my dovecot uses mdbox and the backup export is maildir. Hans

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RE: Unknown setting error with dovecot-sql.conf.ext
by Andy Woolley 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

OMG, that was it, so sorry to have wasted your time. The text editor I am using (Ultraedit) is adding a BOM (Byte Order Marker) to the beginning of the file. I have disabled this in settings but it keeps doing it. Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction. After removing the 3 invisible characters from the dovecot-sql.conf.ext file it magically worked. Andy -----Original Message----- From: Aki Tuomi [mailto:aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com] Sent: 20 February 2020 11:26 To: Andy Woolley <andy(a)milonic.com> Subject: Re: Unknown setting error with dovecot-sql.conf.ext I am unable to reproduce the issue here, can you send me the file itself? Maybe it has some strange thing in it? On 20.2.2020 12.23, Andy Woolley wrote: > > doveconf -n > > # 2.3.9.2 (cf2918cac): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > > # OS: Linux 5.4.19-200.fc31.x86_64 x86_64 Fedora release 31 (Thirty > One) > > # Hostname: data.tia3.com > > auth_mechanisms = plain login > > mail_location = /home/vmail/%d/%n > > mail_privileged_group = mail > > mbox_write_locks = fcntl > > 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 = > > } > > passdb { > > driver = pam > > } > > passdb { > > args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext > > driver = sql > > } > > service auth-worker { > > user = vmail > > } > > service auth { > > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { > > group = postfix > > mode = 0660 > > user = postfix > > } > > unix_listener auth-userdb { > > mode = 0600 > > user = vmail > > } > > user = dovecot > > } > > service imap-login { > > inet_listener imap { > > port = 143 > > } > > inet_listener imaps { > > port = 993 > > ssl = yes > > } > > } > > service lmtp { > > unix_listener lmtp { > > group = postfix > > mode = 0600 > > user = postfix > > } > > } > > service pop3-login { > > inet_listener pop3 { > > port = 110 > > } > > inet_listener pop3s { > > port = 995 > > ssl = yes > > } > > } > > ssl = required > > ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/intelliset.co.uk/fullchain.pem > > ssl_cipher_list = PROFILE=SYSTEM > > ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it > > userdb { > > driver = passwd > > } > > userdb { > > args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext > > driver = sql > > } > > > > > > > > > > dovecot-sql.conf.ext: > > driver = mysql > > connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=mail user=foo password=bar > > default_pass_scheme = SHA512-CRYPT > > password_query = SELECT email as user, password FROM users WHERE > email='%u'; > > > > > > > > > > Many thanks, > > Andy > > > > > > *From:*dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] *On Behalf Of *Aki > Tuomi > *Sent:* 20 February 2020 10:11 > *To:* Andy Woolley <andy(a)milonic.com <mailto:andy@milonic.com>>; > dovecot(a)dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org> > *Subject:* Re: Unknown setting error with dovecot-sql.conf.ext > > > > > > On 20.2.2020 12.06, Andy Woolley wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to install Dovecot connecting to MySQL and all seems to be > working until I try to send/receive. > > > > Im getting a Unknown setting error for anything that is inside > dovecot-sql.conf.ext > > > > dovecot-sql.conf.ext is inside /etc/dovecot and is referenced from > /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-sql.conf.ext > > > > The error I get is: > > > > auth: Fatal: sql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext: Error in > configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext line 1: Unknown > setting: driver > > > > Can anybody help me? > > > > Andy > > > > Post 'doveconf -n' please and the contents of the sql.conf.ext file. > Mind passwords. > > Aki > > > > *From:*dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] *On Behalf Of *Aki > Tuomi > *Sent:* 20 February 2020 10:11 > *To:* Andy Woolley <andy(a)milonic.com>; dovecot(a)dovecot.org > *Subject:* Re: Unknown setting error with dovecot-sql.conf.ext > > > > > > On 20.2.2020 12.06, Andy Woolley wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to install Dovecot connecting to MySQL and all seems > to be working until I try to send/receive. > > > > Im getting a Unknown setting error for anything that is inside > dovecot-sql.conf.ext > > > > dovecot-sql.conf.ext is inside /etc/dovecot and is referenced from > /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-sql.conf.ext > > > > The error I get is: > > > > auth: Fatal: sql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext: Error in > configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext line 1: > Unknown setting: driver > > > > Can anybody help me? > > > > Andy > > > > Post 'doveconf -n' please and the contents of the sql.conf.ext file. > Mind passwords. > > Aki >

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Unknown setting error with dovecot-sql.conf.ext
by Andy Woolley 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Hi All, I am trying to install Dovecot connecting to MySQL and all seems to be working until I try to send/receive. I'm getting a "Unknown setting" error for anything that is inside dovecot-sql.conf.ext dovecot-sql.conf.ext is inside /etc/dovecot and is referenced from /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-sql.conf.ext The error I get is: auth: Fatal: sql /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext line 1: Unknown setting: driver Can anybody help me? Andy

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Flush userdb cache entry
by Tom Sommer 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Hi all I have a problem when users change quota in SQL, the change is not reflected in Dovecot immediately so quota_warning is still triggered on some occasions. I think it's because the quota is stored in userdb, and there is no way to flush userdb cache? Is there a way to flush userdb entries? What controls userdb cache TTL/size? auth_cache entries? I can't seem to find any documentation on this, sadly :( Thanks -- Tom

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Message-id parsing by sieve
by Russell King 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Hi, I'm using Dovecot for my mail with pigeonhole's sieve extension, from debian stable (2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4)). One of the sieve stanzas that I use is for duplicate elimination: if duplicate { discard; stop; } This mostly works fine, but I seem to have trouble with some messages that come from certain domains where duplicates are not eliminated. >From /var/log/mail.log, I see: Feb 18 12:48:50 mail dovecot: lmtp(24320:linux@xxx.armlinux.org.uk): sieve: msgid=? <VI1PR04MB513558BF77192255CBE12102B0110(a)VI1PR04MB5135.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' Feb 18 12:49:42 mail dovecot: lmtp(24320:linux@xxx.armlinux.org.uk): sieve: msgid=<VI1PR04MB513558BF77192255CBE12102B0110(a)VI1PR04MB5135.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>: stored mail into mailbox 'INBOX' The first was received direct from the recipient with a message-id line formatted thusly: Message-ID: <VI1PR04MB513558BF77192255CBE12102B0110(a)VI1PR04MB5135.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> The second was received from the mailing list with a message-id line formatted thusly: Message-ID: <VI1PR04MB513558BF77192255CBE12102B0110(a)VI1PR04MB5135.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> It would appear that the parsed message-id value that dovecot uses includes white-space (including newline characters). RFC5322 gives the message-id header format as: message-id = "Message-ID:" msg-id CRLF msg-id = [CFWS] "<" id-left "@" id-right ">" [CFWS] It goes on to say: The message identifier (msg-id) itself MUST be a globally unique identifier for a message. and: Semantically, the angle bracket characters are not part of the msg-id; the msg-id is what is contained between the two angle bracket characters. However, it seems dovecot sieve is using the entire content of the msg-id, including CFWS, as the message id used for detecting duplicate messages. This seems wrong, and appears to lead to duplicates not being detected, and thus seems like a bug. Is there a workaround for this, and/or can it be changed? -- Russell King

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Sieve junks mail script creating links
by ＠lbutlr 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

My Junk mailbox is still filling up with hard linked emails. There are some junk mails with over 3000 hard linked files and over half a million files in the .Junk/cur folder. I had a handy script to remove them all by doing a find for inodes and sorting the list by age and keeping the olds hard link and removing all the others, but I now can’t find it :/ so I have just taken to periodically nuking the entire folder, but I’d like to fix this. *everything is current on FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE => dovecot.conf imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve => /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve: require ["vnd.dovecot.pipe", "copy", "imapsieve", "environment", "variables"]; if environment :matches "imap.user" "*" { set "username" "${1}"; } pipe :copy "sa-learn-spam.sh" [ "${username}" ]; => /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/sa-learn-spam.sh: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/sa-learn -u ${1} —spam -- When the stars threw down their spears And watered heaven with their tears, Did He smile his work to see? Did He who made the Lamb make thee?

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managesieve / sieve - append dot prefix on moving mails into folder
by Andre Hoepner - i.based: Systemhaus GmbH + Co. KG 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Hello mailinglist-subscribers, i have an issue with the managesieve / sieve plugin in dovecot. We use roundcube as webmailer and if i define a new filter to move incoming mails directly into a subfolder i get the following sieve-code: require ["fileinto","imap4flags"]; # rule:[mail into folder] if allof (header :contains "from" "sender(a)domain.org") { fileinto "Foldername"; setflag "\\Seen"; } So anything seems to be right and there are no errors on creating the correct syntax. But if a mail comes from the named sender, sieve does not put the email in the folder "Foldername" but ".Foldername". It appends a dot (.) in front of the name and i have no idea, why this happens. There are no errors in logfile and all mails go into the .Folder. Maybe it is wrong separator for mailbox, at the moment there is no separator defined in "10-mail.conf" and we use "Maildir" as mail_location. I have also tried to change the target folder in sieve script an named him "INBOX/Monitoring" - as subfolder of INBOX but than i get an error in .dovecot.sieve.log with message: Invalid mailbox name: Name must not have '/' characters. I edited the new rule with roundcube / managesieve-plugin and maybe this needs separate configuration because of separator in foldernames? Please let me know if i should provide any extra information or dovecot configuration etc. best regards Andre Hoepner

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Re: Shared Mailboxes with Multiple Domains
by Daniel Miller 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Any thoughts on this? --- Daniel ------ Original Message ------ From: "Daniel Miller" <dmiller(a)amfes.com> To: "Dovecot Mailing List" <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Sent: 2/12/2020 6:16:05 PM Subject: Shared Mailboxes with Multiple Domains >Trying to track down a problem I've been dealing with for a while. Everything else works fine - the problem is with shared mailboxes. > >My present, and desired, prefix for the shared namespace is: > prefix = INBOX/shared/%%d/%%n/ > >Some mail clients, particularly Thunderbird and Android's AquaMail, have no problem with this. But other (presumably broken) clients don't show the shared mailboxes. This includes EM Client and Webmail Lite. Actually, Webmail Lite lists the mailboxes in the subscription window, but then the "live"folder list shows "shared" and "shared/domain" but none of the shared mailboxes below the domain. > >Changing to: > prefix = INBOX/shared/%%u/ > >Works across all clients - but I'd rather have the domain separation. Testing with telnet ". LIST '' '*'" yields the full list with either config. > >The files /var/mail/%d/shared-mailboxes contain entries like: >shared/shared-boxes/group/allshared/user(a)domain.com > 1 > > >Below is "doveconf -n" output. > ># 2.3.9.3 (9f41b88fa): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf ># Pigeonhole version 0.5.9 (db4e9a2f) ># OS: Linux 5.3.0-28-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS ># Hostname: bubba.amfes.lan >auth_cache_size = 4 k >auth_master_user_separator = * >auth_mechanisms = plain login >auth_policy_hash_nonce = # hidden, use -P to show it >auth_policy_hash_truncate = 8 >auth_policy_server_api_header = Authorization: Basic d2ZvcmNlOnVsdHJhLXNlY3JldC1zZWN1cmUtc2FmZQ >default_login_user = nobody >default_vsz_limit = 2 G >disable_plaintext_auth = no >imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep >imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins >listen = * >login_trusted_networks = 192.168.0.0/24 >mail_attachment_hash = %{sha512} >mail_plugins = fts fts_solr acl zlib virtual >mail_prefetch_count = 10 >mail_shared_explicit_inbox = yes >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 ihaveduplicate mime foreverypart extracttext >mdbox_rotate_size = 20 M >namespace archives { > list = children > location = mdbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/Archives/mdbox > mailbox Unsorted { > auto = no > special_use = \Archive > } > prefix = INBOX/Archives/ > separator = / > subscriptions = no > type = private >} >namespace inbox { > hidden = no > inbox = yes > list = yes > location = > mailbox "Deleted Messages" { > auto = no > autoexpunge = 30 days > special_use = \Trash > } > mailbox Drafts { > auto = subscribe > special_use = \Drafts > } > mailbox Sent { > auto = subscribe > special_use = \Sent > } > mailbox "Sent Items" { > auto = no > special_use = \Sent > } > mailbox "Sent Messages" { > auto = no > special_use = \Sent > } > mailbox Trash { > auto = subscribe > autoexpunge = 30 days > special_use = \Trash > } > prefix = INBOX/ > separator = / > subscriptions = no > type = private >} >namespace lists { > list = children > location = mdbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/Lists/mdbox > prefix = INBOX/Lists/ > separator = / > subscriptions = no > type = private >} >namespace subscriptions { > hidden = yes > list = no > location = > prefix = > subscriptions = yes >} >namespace usershares { > list = children > location = sdbox:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/sdbox:NO-NOSELECT > prefix = INBOX/shared/%%d/%%n/ > separator = / > subscriptions = no > type = shared >} >namespace virtual { > list = children > location = virtual:/var/mail/%d/%n/virtual > mailbox Flagged { > comment = All my flagged messages > special_use = \Flagged > } > prefix = INBOX/virtual/ > separator = / > subscriptions = no >} >passdb { > args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext > driver = sql >} >plugin { > acl = vfile > acl_shared_dict = file:/var/mail/%d/shared-mailboxes > fts = solr > fts_autoindex = yes > fts_autoindex_exclude = \Trash > fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Junk > fts_autoindex_exclude3 = \Spam > fts_enforced = no > fts_index_timeout = 20s > fts_solr = url=http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/dovecot/ > mailbox_alias_new = Sent Messages > mailbox_alias_new2 = Sent Items > mailbox_alias_new3 = Deleted Messages > mailbox_alias_old = Sent > mailbox_alias_old2 = Sent > mailbox_alias_old3 = Trash > sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve >} >protocols = imap lmtp sieve >service auth { > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { > group = postfix > mode = 0660 > user = postfix > } > unix_listener auth-userdb { > group = mail > mode = 0600 > user = vmail > } >} >service dict { > unix_listener dict { > group = mail > mode = 0660 > user = vmail > } >} >service imap-login { > process_min_avail = 10 > service_count = 1 >} >service imap-postlogin { > executable = script-login /usr/local/etc/dovecot/post-login.sh > user = $default_internal_user >} >service imap { > executable = imap imap-postlogin > vsz_limit = 4 G >} >service indexer-worker { > process_limit = 3 >} >service lmtp { > process_min_avail = 5 > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { > group = mail > mode = 0666 > user = vmail > } >} >service managesieve-login { > inet_listener sieve { > port = 4190 > } > inet_listener sieve_deprecated { > port = 2000 > } > process_min_avail = 0 > service_count = 1 >} >ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/letsencrypt/live/mail.amfes.com/fullchain.pem >ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it >ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it >userdb { > driver = prefetch >} >userdb { > args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext > driver = sql >} >verbose_proctitle = yes >protocol lmtp { > mail_plugins = fts fts_solr acl zlib virtual sieve > postmaster_address = postmaster(a)amfes.com >} >protocol lda { > mail_plugins = fts fts_solr acl zlib virtual sieve >} >protocol imap { > mail_max_userip_connections = 50 > mail_plugins = fts fts_solr acl zlib virtual imap_acl imap_zlib mailbox_alias >} > > >-- Daniel > >

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Postfix Dovecot Consultant Availability
by Asai 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

Greetings, We're in process of upgrading our Postfix / Dovecot installation, and would like to know if there are any qualified consultants out there that would be willing to work for us to help us verify and improve the deployment for our non-profit organization? This would be a fairly simple job of looking over configs and making recommendations, but may give way into more ongoing work. I know there are a lot of experts on this list that really know how Postfix and Dovecot work and we'd really appreciate some quality advice. I'm sending this request to both Postfix and Dovecot lists. Please email me directly with replies. -- Asai

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Sieve setting a flag on the server (with sieve?)
by Marc Roos 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

I want to run a cron job for specific users. I thought the easiest would be a sieve plugin that sets some text in managesieve.sieve. And I just have my cron job check for this setting. This is the forward sieve: if false # true { redirect :copy "test(a)test.com"; } So maybe something like: if false # true { # cronjob1 } Or is there a better way of doing such a thing?

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Question about noreplicate flag
by Bernardo Reino 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

Dear all, I've just setup replication between two servers. The e-mail accounts on both servers intersect but are not the same. In dovecot.conf (both are identical except one user /var/mail and the other uses /srv/vmail) I have: --<<-- userdb { driver = passwd-file args = username_format=%Lu /etc/dovecot/virtual_passwd default_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/%d/%n } passdb { driver = passwd-file args = scheme=SHA512-CRYPT username_format=%Lu /etc/dovecot/virtual_passwd } -->>-- i.e. I use a passwd-like database. For the non-overlapping accounts in both servers I want to prevent replication, as it will otherwise fail with "Error: sync: Unknown user in remote". I have added "userdb_noreplicate" (also tried "userdb_noreplicate=y") for those users, but I still see the above error message in the logs. Like: reinob@bbmk.org:{SHA512-CRYPT}$6$e10...4c::::::userdb_noreplicate=y If I run "doveadm user -u reinob(a)bbmk.org" I get the following: userdb: reinob(a)bbmk.org user : reinob(a)bbmk.org uid : 5000 gid : 5000 home : /var/mail/bbmk.org/reinob noreplicate: y Note that I use "userdb_noreplicate" instead of "noreplicate" (which I also tried just in case), as from what I understood the "userdb_" prefix is required when adding the flag to the passwd file. As far as I can tell I'm doing everything right, but for some reason the replication is ignoring that flag. Thanks in advance for any help with this. (Let me know if you need to see the $(doveconf -n), but I believe the only relevant parts are the userdb and passdb.

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Re: .IMAP
by Jos Chrispijn 16 Feb '20

16 Feb '20

On 15-2-20 11:55, Thomas Zajic wrote: > That's probably because the second part of Aki's advise hasn't been followed yet > ("... and ensure the mails are under there, ..."). You need to physically move all > mail related files and folders to the ~/mail subdir of each user. The "Deleted" > mailbox probably still shows up because your MUA has been configured to use a local > folder for it instead of an IMAP folder. Just to let you know that I also noticed that in a far past I created in the BSD root a symbolic link 'home -> usr/home'. That works for most programs, but obviously the use of this '/home' link in my old Dovecot config is not picked up by Dovecot as being redirected to '/usr/home'. ./joz

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shared folder name or public folder with mail address
by Armin Schindler 16 Feb '20

16 Feb '20

Hello! we are about to move from cyrus to dovecot and have one open issue for that migration. With cyrus we have "shared/" folders with a name that is self defined like shared/project-xyz but the email address for direct delivery to that folder my be different (not project-xyz(a)domain.com) With dovecot we try to have it similar (at least how the user sees it in the client) like it is now. When configuring a namespace of type=shared, I see in the docs the the prefix can be configured with %%u , %%n or %%d. But is it possible to configure the name different to the email address? E.g. to hide the email address of that folder and show a nice name instead? I also thought about using public namespace instead. Does this make sense here? With public (maybe configured with prefix=shared/) folder I can set any name as subdir in prefix, right? So would this be more like what we have with cyrus shared folder? If so, how could these public folders have an email address for direct mail delivery into? Can something like a global sieve rule do that? Or can a public folder have an email address? Thanks in advance. Armin

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