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Character not allowed in mailbox name
by Lothar Schilling 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

Hi everybody, after an update this morning to dovecot 2.3.7 we cannot connect to our shared mailboxes anymore. The error message as issued in Thunderbird: "Character not allowed in mailbox name '.'" I didn't change anything about the configuration. Output of dovecot -n: [...] namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h:INDEX=%h/shared/%%u prefix = Shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = shared } [...] Any help would be appreciated, thank you very much. Lothar Schilling

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Replication issue 2.3.7
by Reio Remma 20 Jul '19

20 Jul '19

Hello! I noticed these in the logs since upgrading from 2.3.6. to 2.3.7: Jul 13 11:52:10 turin dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(reio(a)mrstuudio.ee)</1ekE7qbKV2gYwAAsNnMGQ>: Error: Exporting mailbox INBOX failed: Mailbox attribute vendor/vendor.dovecot/pvt/server/sieve/files/MR lookup failed: Mailbox attributes not enabled Jul 13 11:52:11 turin dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(reio(a)mrstuudio.ee)<MVs/K7ubKV2oYwAAsNnMGQ>: Error: Exporting mailbox INBOX failed: Mailbox attribute vendor/vendor.dovecot/pvt/server/sieve/files/MR lookup failed: Mailbox attributes not enabled After turning on mailbox attributes these errors went away: mail_attribute_dict = file:~/Maildir/dovecot-attributes protocol imap { imap_metadata = yes } But now the errors are replaced with (when deleting mail): Jul 13 12:04:32 turin dovecot: imap(reio(a)mrstuudio.ee): Warning: /home/vmail/mrstuudio.ee/reio/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file entry at line 2: 1563008644.M18534P25946.orc.mrstuudio.ee,S=4180,W=4262 (uid 23030 -> 23031) - retrying by re-reading from beginning Jul 13 12:04:32 turin dovecot: imap(reio(a)mrstuudio.ee): Warning: Maildir /home/vmail/mrstuudio.ee/reio/Maildir: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID (old uid=23030, file=1563008644.M18534P25946.orc.mrstuudio.ee,S=4180,W=4262:2,S) The mail message reappears on the other side of dsync and eventually I end up with 3 identical messages in trash after I've deleted them on both sides. Thanks for any advice, Reio

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Address family not supported by protocol
by Elias Hamaz 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

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Address family not supported by protocol
by Elias Hamaz 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

Hello, I am trying to run Dovecot on Arch Linux ARM on a Raspberry Pi, and there is an error when calling dovecot. Related information is listed below. Does anybody know if this is a code issue or a configuration issue? Regards, Elias Hamaz $ sudo dovecot: Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 110) failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: service(pop3-login): listen(::, 995) failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 143) failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: socket() failed: Address family not supported by protocol Error: service(imap-login): listen(::, 993) failed: Address family not supported by protocol Fatal: Failed to start listeners $ df -Th: Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root ext4 15G 13G 1.1G 93% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 211M 0 211M 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 215M 0 215M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 215M 280K 215M 1% /run tmpfs tmpfs 215M 0 215M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs tmpfs 215M 0 215M 0% /tmp /dev/mmcblk0p1 vfat 90M 49M 41M 55% /boot tmpfs tmpfs 43M 0 43M 0% /run/user/1000 $ lscpu: Architecture: armv6l Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 1 On-line CPU(s) list: 0 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 1 Vendor ID: ARM Model: 7 Model name: ARM1176 Stepping: r0p7 CPU max MHz: 700.0000 CPU min MHz: 700.0000 BogoMIPS: 697.95 Flags: half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls $ dovecot -n: # 2.3.7 (494d20bdc): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 4.14.50-2-ARCH armv6l # Hostname: alarmpi doveconf: Error: t_readlink(/var/run/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: readlink() failed: No such file or directory namespace { inbox = yes location = mailbox { special_use = \Drafts name = Drafts } mailbox { special_use = \Junk name = Junk } mailbox { special_use = \Sent name = Sent } mailbox { special_use = \Sent name = Sent Messages } mailbox { special_use = \Trash name = Trash } prefix = name = inbox } passdb { driver = pam } service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict-async { name = dict-async } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap-hibernate { name = imap-hibernate } service imap { name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service imap-master { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service old-stats-mail { name = old-stats } service pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service stats-reader { name = stats } service submission { name = submission-login } service login/submission { name = submission } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd } protocol lmtp { service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict-async { name = dict-async } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap-hibernate { name = imap-hibernate } service imap { name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service imap-master { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service old-stats-mail { name = old-stats } service pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service stats-reader { name = stats } service submission { name = submission-login } service login/submission { name = submission } } protocol !indexer-worker { service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict-async { name = dict-async } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap-hibernate { name = imap-hibernate } service imap { name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service imap-master { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service old-stats-mail { name = old-stats } service pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service stats-reader { name = stats } service submission { name = submission-login } service login/submission { name = submission } } protocol lda { service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict-async { name = dict-async } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap-hibernate { name = imap-hibernate } service imap { name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service imap-master { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service old-stats-mail { name = old-stats } service pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service stats-reader { name = stats } service submission { name = submission-login } service login/submission { name = submission } } protocol imap { service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict-async { name = dict-async } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap-hibernate { name = imap-hibernate } service imap { name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service imap-master { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service old-stats-mail { name = old-stats } service pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service stats-reader { name = stats } service submission { name = submission-login } service login/submission { name = submission } } protocol pop3 { service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict-async { name = dict-async } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap-hibernate { name = imap-hibernate } service imap { name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service imap-master { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service old-stats-mail { name = old-stats } service pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service stats-reader { name = stats } service submission { name = submission-login } service login/submission { name = submission } } protocol submission { service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict-async { name = dict-async } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap-hibernate { name = imap-hibernate } service imap { name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service imap-master { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service old-stats-mail { name = old-stats } service pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service stats-reader { name = stats } service submission { name = submission-login } service login/submission { name = submission } }

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Re: Dovecot 2.3.0 TLS
by Alexandre Urban 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

Hello, I don't know who will read this message, but I found this thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=dovecot@dovecot.org&q=subject:%22Dove… And I'm expected the same issue, I will try to explain to you (english is not my native language, sorry) Since Buster update, so Dovecot update too, I'm not able to connect to my mail server from my iOS mail client (12.2) Thunderbird just work fine. Here is my configuration: Debian Buster (amd64) Dovecot: 2.3.4.1 Postfix : 3.4.5 OpenSSL: 1.1.1c Dovecot configuration file: ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.2 (I tried different version) When I tried to connect with command line: openssl s_client -showcerts -connect server:993 No client certificate CA names sent Peer signing digest: SHA256 Peer signature type: RSA-PSS Server Temp Key: X25519, 253 bits --- SSL handshake has read 2322 bytes and written 392 bytes Verification error: unable to verify the first certificate --- New, TLSv1.3, Cipher is TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 Server public key is 2048 bit Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE No ALPN negotiated Early data was not sent Verify return code: 21 (unable to verify the first certificate) When I tried to connect with command line: openssl s_client -showcerts -no_tls1_3 -connect server:993 No client certificate CA names sent Peer signing digest: SHA256 Peer signature type: RSA-PSS Server Temp Key: X25519, 253 bits --- SSL handshake has read 2423 bytes and written 310 bytes Verification error: unable to verify the first certificate --- New, TLSv1.2, Cipher is ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 Server public key is 2048 bit Secure Renegotiation IS supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE No ALPN negotiated SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1.2 Cipher : ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 I think the "Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported" with tls 1.3 could be an issue, but I don't what to do to fix the issue ? Could you help me ? Let me know if you need more informations. Thank you. Regards, Alex

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Panic alert
by marvin alcantara 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

Hi, I am getting a panic alert when sending an email in my box. Below is the backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x9f3de) [0x7fa90b5543de] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x9f4be) [0x7fa90b5544be] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7fa90b4e577c] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_search_args_unref+0xa2) [0x7fa90b827c82] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_search_result_free+0x7a) [0x7fa90b84029a] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_thread_init+0x128) [0x7fa90b8b2e88] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_search_init+0x471) [0x7fa90b8a78a1] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(virtual_search_init+0x23) [0x7fa90a0ac3d3] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_search_result_update_flags+0x11f) [0x7fa90b8a4f8f] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_sync_search_results_update+0x5b) [0x7fa90b8afe9b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mailbox_sync_deinit+0x1a4) [0x7fa90b8b0724] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xaa03f) [0x7fa90b89103f] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync_deinit+0x38) [0x7fa90b830cb8] -> dovecot/imap(+0x27111) [0x564ec6db6111] -> dovecot/imap(imap_sync_more+0x10d) [0x564ec6db6ccd] -> dovecot/imap(+0x28356) [0x564ec6db7356] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_sync_delayed+0x1f4) [0x564ec6db7814] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x218) [0x564ec6daa968] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x85) [0x564ec6daae05] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x52) [0x7fa90b569cd2] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x10f) [0x7fa90b56b3bf] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x3c) [0x7fa90b569d6c] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7fa90b569f28] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7fa90b4effa3] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x333) [0x564ec6d9d2e3] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7fa90b10a445] -> dovecot/imap(+0xe476) [0x564ec6d9d476] Dovecot version: 2.2.33.2 I would like to ask help on what is happening here. I found in the code that the trigger is in plugins/virtual/virtual-sync.c virtual_sync() call. When does this actually being called? Thank you very much! Regards,Marvin Alcantara

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auth: Warning: Event 0x1280fe20 leaked
by John Doe Vecot 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

Lately I get some errors in my logfile, saying: dovecot[72337]: auth: Warning: Event 0x1280fe20 leaked (parent=0x0): auth-client-connection.c:338: 1 Time(s) Can you tell me what is going wrong here? Thanks.

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Dovecot release v2.3.7
by Aki Tuomi 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Hi! We are pleased to release Dovecot release v2.3.7. Tarball is available at https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.7.tar.gz https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.7.tar.gz.sig Binary packages are available at https://repo.dovecot.org/ Changes ------- * fts-solr: Removed break-imap-search parameter + Added more events for the new statistics, see https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/list_of_events/ + mail-lua: Add IMAP metadata accessors, see https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/lua/ + Add event exporters that allow exporting raw events to log files and external systems, see https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/event_export/ + SNIPPET is now PREVIEW and size has been increased to 200 characters. + Add body option to fts_enforced. This triggers building FTS index only on body search, and an error using FTS index fails the search rather than reads through all the mails. - Submission/LMTP: Fixed crash when domain argument is invalid in a second EHLO/LHLO command. - Copying/moving mails using Maildir format loses IMAP keywords in the destination if the mail also has no system flags. - mail_attachment_detection_options=add-flags-on-save caused email body to be unnecessarily opened when FETCHing mail headers that were already cached. - mail attachment detection keywords not saved with maildir. - dovecot.index.cache may have grown excessively large in some situations. This happened especially when using autoexpunging with lazy_expunge folders. Also with mdbox format in general the cache file wasn't recreated as often as it should have. - Autoexpunged mails weren't immediately deleted from the disk. Instead, the deletion from disk happened the next time the folder was opened. This could have caused unnecessary delays if the opening was done by an interactive IMAP session. - Dovecot's TCP connections sometimes add extra 40ms latency due to not enabling TCP_NODELAY. HTTP and SMTP/LMTP connections weren't affected, but everything else was. This delay wasn't always visible - only in some situations with some message/packet sizes. - imapc: Fix various crash conditions - Dovecot builds were not always reproducible. - login-proxy: With shutdown_clients=no after config reload the existing connections could no longer be listed or kicked with doveadm. - "doveadm proxy kick" with -f parameter caused a crash in some situations. - Auth policy can cause segmentation fault crash during auth process shutdown if all auth requests have not been finished. - Fix various minor bugs leading into incorrect behaviour in mailbox list index handling. These rarely caused noticeable problems. - LDAP auth: Iteration accesses freed memory, possibly crashing auth-worker - local_name { .. } filter in dovecot.conf does not correctly support multiple names and wildcards were matched incorrectly. - replicator: dsync assert-crashes if it can't connect to remote TCP server. - config: Memory leak in config process when ssl_dh setting wasn't set and there was no ssl-parameters.dat file. This caused config process to die once in a while with "out of memory". --- Aki Tuomi Open-Xchange oy

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pigeonhole question: filtering on delivered-to in case of fetchmail
by Trever L. Adams 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

So, one of the problems I am seeing is that people are trying to fake users into revealing information by sending from an outside domain but with an internal reply to address and claiming to be administration, IT or what not. I can set up something that will reject if from is outside the domain by reply to is internal. The problem is in some setups, there are fetchmail setups. I do not want to reject these with a message. Which is what I am currently doing for the others. Maybe I should discard them all without rejecting. However, my question is this: Since such fetchmail messages will usually end up with two (at least two?!?) Delivered-To headers, one for the fetchmail delivery and one for the original target address's/system's delivery is it possible to do something like this and have it work? require ["fileinto", "regex","reject"]; if address :regex "Reply-To" ".*@<%= @name -%>" { if not address :regex "From" ".*@<%= @name -%>" { if not header :regex "Delivered-To" " .*@<%= @name -%> { reject "We do not allow emails from outside our system to give Reply-To into our system!"; stop; } } } Please, not the <% =@name -%> is just that this is from a puppet module I use to maintain these systems. It is the domain name for the mail system. An example would be .*(a)middleearth.sapphiresunday.org here. Thank you for any help in figuring this out. The reason I want a reject in the case of non-fetchmail email is to let users know if they try to do it (as many have multiple email accounts) and may try it. But in fetchmail cases, no need to leak to the outside world that users are doing fetchmail and what their account is in the other system. Thank you. Trever

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Dovecot v2.3.7 - TLS/SSL issue
by Christos Chatzaras 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

I use a helpdesk system that connects to dovecot using POP3 with SSL enabled to fetch the e-mails. After I upgrade to v2.3.7 the helpdesk randomly (some times it works, some times not) doesn't fetch the e-mails. If I configure the e-mail accounts with SSL/TLS disabled then it works. Any idea about this?

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2.3.7 slower than 2.3.6?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

We're using dovecot (via LMTP) as a backup for all incoming mail. I upgraded from 2.3.6 to 2.3.7 on the 12th: 2019-07-12 14:35:44 upgrade dovecot-imapd:amd64 2:2.3.6-2~bionic 2:2.3.7-8~bionic and it seems that 2.3.7 is slower than 2.3.6 -- mail to the backup IMAP box is suddenly taking quite some time to get delivered and is piling up in the queue. doveconf -n: ============ default_vsz_limit = 2 G lmtp_user_concurrency_limit = 10000 mail_attachment_dir = /home/copymail/attachments mail_fsync = never mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = zlib fts mdbox_rotate_size = 128 M ... namespaces ... plugin { fts_autoindex = yes fts_languages = de,en zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 5 } protocols = " imap lmtp" userdb { args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = zlib fts } -- 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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Auto-duplicate mailstore?
by ＠lbutlr 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

I am looking for something that is similar to replication, but without a second server. I currently have a system setup using postfix bcc to write out copies of all email, but what I would rather do is just have all the mail written to /usr/local/virtual/%u/Maildir and also to /backup/usr/local/virtual/%u/Maildir (for example) as this will make restoring messages much simpler. -- Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

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Unexpected result from LIST EXTENDED command
by Emil Kalchev 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

I am executing this command below to dovecot-2.3.5-6.cp1178.x86_64 server Notice that some status responses are missing (For folders INBOX.Archive, INBOX.spam.&-BD0EOQQ9BDkEPQ-). I wonder If this is a bug or working as expected In rfc5819 there is this: If the server runs into unexpected problems while trying to look up the STATUS information, it MAY drop the corresponding STATUS reply. In such a situation, the LIST command would still return a tagged OK reply. May be that is the reason for this response? Is it possible to find more details in server logs why STATUS is missing? C: B00000007 LIST "" "INBOX.*" RETURN (SUBSCRIBED CHILDREN STATUS (HIGHESTMODSEQ)) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.gfgfee888 S: * STATUS INBOX.gfgfee888 (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.99999999 S: * STATUS INBOX.99999999 (HIGHESTMODSEQ 3) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.yyyyyyyyyyyyy S: * STATUS INBOX.yyyyyyyyyyyyy (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.y S: * STATUS INBOX.y (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.fgfgfg S: * STATUS INBOX.fgfgfg (HIGHESTMODSEQ 61) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.Mailspring S: * STATUS INBOX.Mailspring (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.Mailspring.Snoozed S: * STATUS INBOX.Mailspring.Snoozed (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.fgfgf S: * STATUS INBOX.fgfgf (HIGHESTMODSEQ 3) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.gggg34 S: * STATUS INBOX.gggg34 (HIGHESTMODSEQ 5) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.gggg S: * STATUS INBOX.gggg (HIGHESTMODSEQ 2) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.gggg.hhhh S: * STATUS INBOX.gggg.hhhh (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.mkmkm S: * STATUS INBOX.mkmkm (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.sdfsf S: * STATUS INBOX.sdfsf (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.sdfsf.sdfsdfsdfsd S: * STATUS INBOX.sdfsf.sdfsdfsdfsd (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.sdfsf.sdfsdfsdfsd.zzzz S: * STATUS INBOX.sdfsf.sdfsdfsdfsd.zzzz (HIGHESTMODSEQ 2263) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.uuyy S: * STATUS INBOX.uuyy (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.uuyy.sdfsdf S: * STATUS INBOX.uuyy.sdfsdf (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.uuyy.sdfsdf.New Folder" S: * STATUS "INBOX.uuyy.sdfsdf.New Folder" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.uuyy.sdfsdf.New Folder.dfgdfg" S: * STATUS "INBOX.uuyy.sdfsdf.New Folder.dfgdfg" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.uuyy.sdfsdf.New Folder.dfgdfg.sdfsdfsdf" S: * STATUS "INBOX.uuyy.sdfsdf.New Folder.dfgdfg.sdfsdfsdf" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.uuyy.sdfsdf.New Folder.dfgdfg.sdfsdfsdf.sdfsdfsfsdf" S: * STATUS "INBOX.uuyy.sdfsdf.New Folder.dfgdfg.sdfsdfsdf.sdfsdfsfsdf" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.uuyy.sdfsdf.New Folder.dfgdfg.sdfsdfsdf.sdfsdfsfsdf.asdasdasd" S: * STATUS "INBOX.uuyy.sdfsdf.New Folder.dfgdfg.sdfsdfsdf.sdfsdfsfsdf.asdasdasd" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.uuyy.fdfgdfg S: * STATUS INBOX.uuyy.fdfgdfg (HIGHESTMODSEQ 2) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.vvvcv S: * STATUS INBOX.vvvcv (HIGHESTMODSEQ 2627) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.hallo S: * STATUS INBOX.hallo (HIGHESTMODSEQ 96) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.New Folder" S: * STATUS "INBOX.New Folder" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.New Folder.omgfolder" S: * STATUS "INBOX.New Folder.omgfolder" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.New Folder.testfolder" S: * STATUS "INBOX.New Folder.testfolder" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.New Folder.hkhk" S: * STATUS "INBOX.New Folder.hkhk" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.New Folder.zzz" S: * STATUS "INBOX.New Folder.zzz" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.New Folder.aaa" S: * STATUS "INBOX.New Folder.aaa" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.New Folder.kgkgkk" S: * STATUS "INBOX.New Folder.kgkgkk" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.New Folder.gggfff" S: * STATUS "INBOX.New Folder.gggfff" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.New Folder.New Folder" S: * STATUS "INBOX.New Folder.New Folder" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.New Folder.hhhh" S: * STATUS "INBOX.New Folder.hhhh" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.New Folder.nnnn" S: * STATUS "INBOX.New Folder.nnnn" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.asdasd S: * STATUS INBOX.asdasd (HIGHESTMODSEQ 23) S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.asdasd.gdfgdfgdfg S: * STATUS INBOX.asdasd.gdfgdfgdfg (HIGHESTMODSEQ 10) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.spam S: * STATUS INBOX.spam (HIGHESTMODSEQ 44) S: * LIST (\HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.spam.&-BD0EOQQ9BDkEPQ- S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.spam.&-BD0EOQQ9BDkEPQ-.jhfhg S: * STATUS INBOX.spam.&-BD0EOQQ9BDkEPQ-.jhfhg (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." "INBOX.spam.&-BD0EOQQ9BDkEPQ-.jhfhg.New Folder" S: * STATUS "INBOX.spam.&-BD0EOQQ9BDkEPQ-.jhfhg.New Folder" (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.spam.&-BD0EOQQ9BDkEPQ-.jhfhg.aaa S: * STATUS INBOX.spam.&-BD0EOQQ9BDkEPQ-.jhfhg.aaa (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.spam.&-BD0EOQQ9BDkEPQ-.jhfhg.aaa.aaa S: * STATUS INBOX.spam.&-BD0EOQQ9BDkEPQ-.jhfhg.aaa.aaa (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.Sent S: * STATUS INBOX.Sent (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1353) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.Trash S: * STATUS INBOX.Trash (HIGHESTMODSEQ 5823) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.Junk S: * STATUS INBOX.Junk (HIGHESTMODSEQ 15) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.Junk.asdasd S: * STATUS INBOX.Junk.asdasd (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.Junk.asdasd.rgthfgh S: * STATUS INBOX.Junk.asdasd.rgthfgh (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.Junk.asdasd.rgthfgh.Mailspring S: * STATUS INBOX.Junk.asdasd.rgthfgh.Mailspring (HIGHESTMODSEQ 28) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.Junk.asdasd.asdasdasd S: * STATUS INBOX.Junk.asdasd.asdasdasd (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.Junk.asdasd.asdasdasd.dfgdfg S: * STATUS INBOX.Junk.asdasd.asdasdasd.dfgdfg (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1) S: * LIST (\Subscribed \HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.Drafts S: * STATUS INBOX.Drafts (HIGHESTMODSEQ 1091) S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren \UnMarked) "." INBOX.Archive S: B00000007 OK List completed (0.004 + 0.000 + 0.003 secs).

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Replication Upgrade 2.2 -> 2.3 Question
by Cassidy B. Larson 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

Finally getting around to upgrading my setup to 2.3.x. All of our front end proxies are fine on 2.3 connecting to a 2.2 backend storage pair. So the question is, if I stage the upgrade, will it break replication between the two backend storage servers? My thought was to upgrade one to 2.3, and keep the other on 2.2 for a couple of days? If so, can 2.2 replicate to 2.3, and 2.3 replicate to 2.2 without any issue? Or am I going to have to go all-in on 2.3 at once on both? Heh. Thanks, -c

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Listing expunged messages
by Mike 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

Hello, Following on my last question about broken mdboxes, removing dovecot.map.log and force-resync does work. My last problem now however is that after doing this, messages which were 'deleted' previously, come back in the inbox as new messages. I have the original mailboxes and can subscribe to the expunged folders and everything in EXPUNGED/INBOX on the original, is appearing in INBOX on this migrated system. I would want to return everything to EXPUNDED/INBOX so my users don't see old dead resurrected messages. Is there a procedure to identify these? Thanks. Mike-

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Weird response to LIST EXTENDED
by Emil Kalchev 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hello, I was discussing weird response from Dovecot on Mailkit (this is client IMAP C# library) github page. We concluded that this is a bug in Dovecot server but I wanted to double check with you. Here are the details about the issue https://github.com/jstedfast/MailKit/issues/879 Sent with OfficeSuite Mail for Windows PC www.officesuitenow.com<https://www.officesuitenow.com>

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Authdb NSS module
by Eugene 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hello! Upgrading manual tells that authdb [NSS module was removed][1] some time ago. [1]: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.3#line-100 > userdb nss was removed. Use userdb passwd instead. Can this change be reverted? I'd like to use only libnss_sss.so.2 as dovecot userdb source. It's also essential for me to enable files backend in nsswitch.conf so the system could use local user db. At the same time dovecot must not see local users at all. Authdb NSS module could help me there. The other solution would be to use another instance of nsswitch.conf for dovecot authdb passwd module. Is it possible? Thanks! -- Eugene Bright IT engineer Tel: + 79257289622

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Error: o_stream_send_istream and Disconnected in APPEND
by Alessio Cecchi 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hi, I'm running some Dovecot servers configured with LVS + Director + Backend + NFS and version 2.2.36.3 (a7d78f5a2). In the last days I see an increased number of these error: Error: o_stream_send_istream(/nfs/mail/company.com/info/Maildir/.Sent/tmp/15627713… failed: Broken pipe always with action "Disconnected in APPEND", when users try to upload a message in Sent or Drafts. Here the logs: Director: Jul 10 14:53:06 imap-login: Info: proxy(info(a)company.com): started proxying to 10.0.0.20:143: user=<info(a)company.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=84.1.2.3, lip=195.1.2.3, lport=993, TLS, session=<eA6XKFONwP1f5Sh4> Jul 10 15:09:56 imap-login: Info: proxy(info(a)company.com): disconnecting 84.1.2.3 (Disconnected by client: EOF(0s idle, in=648413, out=6602)): user=<info(a)company.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=84.1.2.3, lip=195.1.2.3, lport=993, TLS, session=<eA6XKFONwP1f5Sh4> Backend: Jul 10 14:53:06 pop01 dovecot: imap-login: ID sent: x-session-id=eA6XKFONwP1f5Sh4, x-originating-ip=84.1.2.3, x-originating-port=64960, x-connected-ip=195.1.2.3, x-connected-port=993, x-proxy-ttl=4: user=<>, rip=84.1.2.3, lip=195.1.2.3, secured, session=<eA6XKFONwP1f5Sh4> Jul 10 14:53:06 pop01 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<info(a)company.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=84.1.2.3, lip=195.1.2.3, mpid=9151, secured, session=<eA6XKFONwP1f5Sh4> Jul 10 14:53:07 pop01 dovecot: imap(info(a)company.com) session=<eA6XKFONwP1f5Sh4>: ID sent: name=Thunderbird, version=60.7.2 Jul 10 15:09:56 pop01 dovecot: imap(info(a)company.com) session=<eA6XKFONwP1f5Sh4>: Error: o_stream_send_istream(/nfs/mail/company.com/info/Maildir/.Sent/tmp/15627713… failed: Broken pipe Jul 10 15:09:57 pop01 dovecot: imap(info(a)company.com) session=<eA6XKFONwP1f5Sh4>: Disconnected in APPEND (1 msgs, 48 secs, 0/2657336 bytes) in=886661 out=26654 del=1 expu=0 trash=0 I can't understand if is a network problem (Firewall? Load Balancer? Switch?) or a users LAN problem. Or others. When this happen user see an error message like "Unable to save email in Sent folder". Any suggestions? Thanks -- Alessio Cecchi Postmaster @ http://www.qboxmail.it https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice

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Sieve problem with duplicate and fileinto in the same set of rules
by Gianluca Scaglia 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hi there, on my mail server (postfix, dovecot 2.2.27 in Debian 9) I have an automatic forwarding (with sender_bcc_maps in Postfix) for all the emails sent in smtp from the same server, that are then put in the Sent folder with a sieve rule. In this way, however, when a user sends an e-mail to himself, both copies end up in the Sent folder and it's not good. To resolve, I tried using the Sieve "duplicate" extension along with "fileinto" but I can't get it to work. I then activated also the "editheader" extension to better understand what the problem was and I get these results. Sieve rules without using "fileinto:" require ["duplicate", "editheader"]; if duplicate { addheader "x-sieve-test1" "duplicate"; } if allof (header :regex ["from"] [".*info(a)example\.com"], header :regex ["x-sieve-test1"] [".*duplicate"]) { addheader "x-sieve-test2" "confirm duplicate"; stop; } elsif header :regex ["from"] [".*info(a)example\.com"] { addheader "x-sieve-test3" "not duplicate"; stop; } and I get these headers in the first mail (in INBOX): X-Sieve-Test2: confirm duplicate X-Sieve-Test1: duplicate and in the second email (always in INBOX) this other: X-Sieve-Test3: not duplicate Everything works perfectly. When I add the fileinto statement to the last if as below require ["duplicate", "editheader"]; if duplicate { addheader "x-sieve-test1" "duplicate"; } if allof (header :regex ["from"] [".*info(a)example\.com"], header :regex ["x-sieve-test1"] [".*duplicate"]) { addheader "x-sieve-test2" "confirm duplicate"; stop; } elsif header :regex ["from"] [".*info(a)example\.com"] { addheader "x-sieve-test3" "not duplicate"; fileinto "Sent"; stop; } I get a completely incorrect result, both mails in the Sent folder with this header line: X-Sieve-Test3: not duplicate in practice it no longer detects the duplicate email. If I use "discard" rather than "fileinto" it works fine and if I put "fileinto" in the first "if" ("if duplicate") it does't work. I did hundreds of tests but the "duplicate" extension stops working in the presence of the fileinto statement (there are exceptions: if I put the "fileinto" in the second "if" - that is in the middle one instead of the last one - it works fine, but it's not that that I want). Any idea how to solve the problem or how to get the same result (one mail in Sent folder and one in INBOX, when a user sends an e-mail to himself) without using the "duplicate" extension? Thanks a lot, Luca

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Error since Dovecot v2.3.7
by Paul Hecker 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hi, since upgrading to Dovecot 2.3.7 I get the following new errors: 2019-07-15 09:10:52 mail dovecot: imap(paul(a)iwascoding.com)<32484><goWh8rKNSNZfqJ9R>: Error: file_lock_free(): Unexpectedly failed to retry locking /var/spool/mail/iwascoding/paul/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot-vsize.lock: fcntl(/var/spool/mail/iwascoding/paul/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot-vsize.lock, write-lock, F_SETLK) locking failed: No such file or directory It seems that this is related to moving or deleting mails (IMAP). The file at least sometimes exists, the folder exists. You find my doveconf below. Thanks, Paul # 2.3.7 (494d20bdc): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.7 (5a4e63b5) # OS: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.9 # Hostname: mail.iwascoding.com auth_cache_size = 10 M auth_cache_ttl = 2 hours auth_mechanisms = plain login default_vsz_limit = 1 G first_valid_gid = 8 first_valid_uid = 8 hostname = mail.iwascoding.com imap_capability = +SPECIAL-USE last_valid_gid = 8 last_valid_uid = 8 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_attachment_detection_options = add-flags-on-save mail_attribute_dict = file:/var/mail/iwascoding/%n/dovecot-attributes mail_gid = 8 mail_home = /var/mail/iwascoding/%n mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox mail_plugins = quota listescape fts fts_xapian mail_prefetch_count = 200 mail_uid = 8 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext spamtest spamtestplus mdbox_rotate_size = 16 M namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox "Sent Messages" { auto = no special_use = \Sent } mailbox archive { auto = no special_use = \Archive } mailbox drafts { auto = no special_use = \Drafts } mailbox junk { auto = no special_use = \Junk } mailbox sent { auto = no special_use = \Sent } mailbox trash { auto = no special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { fts = xapian fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_exclude = \Junk fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Trash fts_autoindex_exclude3 = \Drafts fts_enforced = yes fts_xapian = partial=2 full=20 plugin = fts fts_xapian quota = count:User quota quota_grace = 10%% quota_rule = *:storage=200M quota_vsizes = yes recipient_delimiter = + sieve = /var/mail/iwascoding/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_default = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = /var/mail/iwascoding/%n/sieve sieve_extensions = +spamtest +spamtestplus sieve_global_dir = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/global sieve_spamtest_max_value = 200 sieve_spamtest_status_header = X-Spam-Score-Int sieve_spamtest_status_type = score } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)iwascoding.com protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve submission quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0600 user = Debian-exim } unix_listener auth-userdb { user = mail } vsz_limit = 4 G } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } } service indexer-worker { vsz_limit = 2 G } service lmtp { user = mail } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } } service stats { unix_listener stats-writer { user = mail } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission_ssl { port = 465 ssl = yes } } ssl = required ssl_alt_cert = </usr/local/acme/var/iwascoding.com/fullchain.cer ssl_alt_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_cert = </usr/local/acme/var/iwascoding.com_ecc/fullchain.cer ssl_cipher_list = ALL:HIGH:!SSLv2:!SSLv3:!kRSA:!MEDIUM:!LOW:!EXP:!RC4:!MD5:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!3DES:!PSK:!SRP:!DSS:!SEED:@STRENGTH ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_client_ca_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt 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_client_workarounds = whitespace-before-path submission_max_mail_size = 50 M submission_relay_host = mail.iwascoding.com submission_relay_port = 10025 submission_relay_ssl = smtps userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_fsync = optimized mail_plugins = quota listescape fts fts_xapian sieve } protocol !indexer-worker { mail_vsize_bg_after_count = 100 } protocol lda { mail_fsync = optimized mail_plugins = quota listescape fts fts_xapian sieve } protocol imap { imap_metadata = yes mail_max_userip_connections = 40 mail_plugins = quota listescape fts fts_xapian imap_quota imap_zlib } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 30 }

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broken mdboxes
by Mike 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hello, I was forced to do an emergency server migration with about 3000 mailboxes and I botched it somewhat. Hoping to find some help here. My symptoms are, users showing apparently deleted mail messages, some replicated mail, and a time period of mail that is just 'missing'. The source server is centos 6.10 with dovecot 2.2.5, and the destination is ubuntu 16 / dovecot 2.2.22. User mailboxes are mdbox format and I did an rsync from the old to the new. My screw up however was that my rsync was not --delete files, and had to be run multiple times over the course of a few weeks due to to bandwidth disparities and the sheer size of the mail spool approaching 700GB (source server had 10mbps. Should have used sneakernet instead). The bottom line however is that I wound up having many extra m.* files in each user storage dir that were not actually present on the source when the final, final sync was made and I went live with the migration server. I know this is my fsckup but now I have to deal with it. I first tried to fix the symptoms with a force-resync on the boxes not realizing the above, and that seemed to make things worse by only showing new mail as of the server migration date. Ugh. New mail is being delivered and this does appear in user mail boxes. But as I said, there seems to be some users with a problem with old mail presumably deleted on the prior server suddenly re-appearing (probbly due to the extraneous m.* mdbox files present). A more pressing problem is that there is simply a time period of mail that is in user mailboxes (on the old server) from before the migration, which is not displaying now for these users on the new server. I have investigated this and hacked on "mdbox-recover.pl" somewhat so that it iterates over all mdbox files for a user and I can extract ALL messages, and see that, yes, the mail really is present in the mdbox files, but pop/imap never shows it. This is puzzling to me. I have a test user that when I check imap, it shows only 21 message in inbox and 1 in sent. But if I extract the messages from the mdbox files, then I actually have 1117 messages. I know I can't just rsync the source server again with the right --delete flag, there has been lots of mail deliveries to the migrated boxes and so I don't want to lose all of that and create yet more problems. But I need to find some way to make these present mail messages appear for my users again. Im thinking it's got to be a flag of some kind since the data is there it's just ignored. Wondering what you would reccomend? Thanks. Mike-

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Unable to send the mail but able to receive them
by necktwi 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

From my mac mail client I've connected to remote exim+dovecot server. Since few weeks back I was not able to send mail but able to receive. exim in /var/log/messages says: Jul 14 15:22:15 RPi3B exim[3576]: 2019-07-14 20:52:15 dovecot_plain authenticator failed for ([xx.xx.xx.xx]) [yy.yy.yy.yy]: 535 Incorrect authentication data (set_id=necktwi) dovecot in /var/log/dovecot.log says: Jul 14 19:40:27 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 LOGIN service=smtp rip=yy.yy.yy.yy lip=xx.xx.xx.xx nologin resp= (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) Jul 14 19:40:27 auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT 1 VXNlcm5hbWU6 Jul 14 19:40:27 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=0) Jul 14 19:40:27 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=smtp secured rip=xx.xx.xx.xx lip=yy.yy.yy.yy nologin resp=aeVja333aQeuZWerdHdpAeRecmezaG9lcw== (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) Jul 14 19:40:27 auth: Debug: policy(necktwi,xx.xx.xx.xx): Policy check action is continue Jul 14 19:40:27 auth-worker(11866): Debug: pam(necktwi,xx.xx.xx.xx): lookup service=smtp Jul 14 19:40:27 auth-worker(11866): Info: pam(necktwi,xx.xx.xx.xx): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure (Password mismatch?) (given password: xxxxxxx) (log is obfuscated) Is it the problem with dovecot or exim? Should exim contact dovecot prior to sending the mail? I have also tried windows mail client with same error. auth-system.conf.ext: passdb { driver = pam args = %s } userdb { driver = passwd args = blocking=no } ... Necktwi

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Sent messages disappear and don't arrive. (Receiving is ok)
by John 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hi List, I'm running an email server (Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL) on an RPi. I set it up using this 'howto' https://pestmeester.nl/index.html#11.0. It seemed to work but now sent emails just disappear and are not received. Inward emails are ok. I'm a Linux and Postfix Dovecot learner so please treat me as not being very knowledgeable. I'm not even sure if this is a Postfix or Dovecot issue so I've posted to both. (Nothing from Postfix so far!) I've tried to include what relevant info I thought a helper might need but if I've missed something please let me know. I'll appreciate any help. TIA, John

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Purpose of stats-writer and why doveadm try to open it to dump stats ?
by Jean-Daniel 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hello, I want to monitor dovecot stats, and so I have an exporter process that run with limited rights. The monitoring user has only access to /var/run/dovecot/stats-reader and it works fine. Doveadm stats dump returns the list of all stats as expected. But each time I run doveadm stats dump, it logs the following error: Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied So what is the purpose of the stats-writer socket, and why doveadm try to open it to simply dump stats ? Is it really something it needs and I should update my user permissions or is it a doveadm bug ?

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Re: Purpose of stats-writer and why doveadm try to open it to dump stats ?
by Jean-Daniel 14 Jul '19

14 Jul '19

> Le 14 juil. 2019 à 11:58, Reio Remma <reio(a)mrstuudio.ee> a écrit : > > On 14.07.2019 10:10, Jean-Daniel via dovecot wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I want to monitor dovecot stats, and so I have an exporter process that run with limited rights. >> The monitoring user has only access to /var/run/dovecot/stats-reader and it works fine. >> Doveadm stats dump returns the list of all stats as expected. >> >> But each time I run doveadm stats dump, it logs the following error: >> >> Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied >> >> So what is the purpose of the stats-writer socket, and why doveadm try to open it to simply dump stats ? >> Is it really something it needs and I should update my user permissions or is it a doveadm bug ? >> > > Hello! > > Depending on the system you're running on, there may be SELinux etc. doing its work. > I know why stats-writer is not accessible, this is on purpose (doveadm run with a uid that explicitly don’t have access to stats-writer). What I want to know is why does doveadm even try to open it to simply dump the stats.

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