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Re: severe fork() problems with new dovecot server
by J. Niklas 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

On 01.03.2016 18:21, Dolf Schimmel wrote: > Recently I played around a little with cgroups where you can limit the max number of processes per cgroup. > Could it be that, perhaps, you've stumbled upon such a limit? > Systemd does contain all services by default in their own cgroup afaik, > so it could be that you're using it unknowingly. Yes, yes, \o/ ;-) #> systemctl status dovecot.service * dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/dovecot.service.d `-ulimits.conf Active: active (running) since Tue 2016-03-01 15:28:29; 4h 24min ago Main PID: 10098 (dovecot) Tasks: 204 (limit: 512) CGroup: /system.slice/dovecot.service There ist my "512". The way of systemd, ignoring all the config stuff that has been there for decades while inposing its own, complex and very sparsely documented ruleset on top is beginning to seriously annoy me. At least I would have expected some sort of syslog message. Just for the records, this can be changed by adding e.g. TasksMax=4096 to the /etc/systemd/system/dovecot.service.d/ulimits.conf I cited in my OP. Now I'll have to wait and see how things will evolve tomorrow. Thank you so much for the great hint! -- kind regards, Jon

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severe fork() problems with new dovecot server
by J. Niklas 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Hi all, I am getting to you because I am pretty desperate by now. Please read this and share your ideas. I set up a new Mail server with roughly 750 active accounts on it, based on the usual dovecot+postfix+amavis+sql based vmail setup. This is not the first time I did something like this, but admittedly my largest setup so far. I took my time to setup everything pretty straight and stable and migrated all accounts in time with almost no glitches using imapc and pop3c. Things started out smoothly - until the first business morning when the log suddenly began to pop messages like these: dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): fork() failed: Resource temporarily unavailable dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3): fork() failed: Resource temporarily unavailable The error is not confined to a certain service. There are no other messages in dmesg or syslog which could help in closing in on the root cause. The server always runs at load around 0.4 to 0.5 and has plenty of RAM and Disk, too. Of course I checked resource limits and cranked up everything I could possibly think of to numbers that should easily suffice: /etc/security/limits.conf: daemon soft nproc 2048 daemon hard nproc 3128 dovecot soft nproc 2048 dovecot hard nproc 3128 vmail soft nproc 2048 vmail hard nproc 3128 vmail soft nofile 32768 vmail hard nofile 49152 /etc/systemd/system/dovecot.service.d/ulimits.conf: [Service] LimitNOFILE=65534 However, all my attempts on resolving the problem were futile so far. To work around the problem I implemented a log watcher which constantly looks for the fork failure and dumps some debug info before restarting dovecot to make the problem "go away" - until dovecot hits whatever barrier there is again. Here are today's numbers I gathered from this: > forkdump_03-01_09-42: pop=3, imap=446, all=503, postfix:22, sys: 716 > forkdump_03-01_10-09: pop=9, imap=444, all=510, postfix:28, sys: 741 > forkdump_03-01_10-42: pop=5, imap=450, all=507, postfix:25, sys: 748 > forkdump_03-01_11-18: pop=5, imap=451, all=512, postfix:29, sys: 757 > forkdump_03-01_11-48: pop=3, imap=474, all=511, postfix:37, sys: 765 > forkdump_03-01_12-23: pop=7, imap=444, all=511, postfix:22, sys: 752 > forkdump_03-01_12-53: pop=3, imap=444, all=503, postfix:24, sys: 747 > forkdump_03-01_13-21: pop=3, imap=458, all=504, postfix:31, sys: 766 > forkdump_03-01_13-41: pop=4, imap=451, all=505, postfix:23, sys: 755 > forkdump_03-01_14-35: pop=5, imap=436, all=502, postfix:31, sys: 768 > forkdump_03-01_14-59: pop=3, imap=445, all=501, postfix:27, sys: 764 > forkdump_03-01_15-28: pop=6, imap=452, all=507, postfix:25, sys: 769 There you see the number of pop3 and imap childs in the process list as well as the total number of all dovecot processes and all postfix processes, summarized directly after the fork problem appears in the log. The last column is the sum of all processes in the system. Here is a run where the numbers are measured as the server approaches the last entry in the list above. > 15:26:15: pop=3, imap=432, all=485, VSZ: 14353k, postfix:30, sys: 749 > 15:26:30: pop=4, imap=435, all=490, VSZ: 14497k, postfix:30, sys: 754 > 15:26:45: pop=3, imap=439, all=492, VSZ: 14560k, postfix:28, sys: 754 > 15:27:00: pop=3, imap=444, all=497, VSZ: 14711k, postfix:28, sys: 760 > 15:27:15: pop=4, imap=442, all=496, VSZ: 14673k, postfix:25, sys: 756 > 15:27:30: pop=4, imap=444, all=497, VSZ: 14721k, postfix:25, sys: 757 > 15:27:46: pop=3, imap=446, all=498, VSZ: 14756k, postfix:25, sys: 758 > 15:28:01: pop=3, imap=446, all=497, VSZ: 14718k, postfix:24, sys: 756 > 15:28:16: pop=3, imap=455, all=507, VSZ: 15018k, postfix:25, sys: 767 > 15:28:18: pop=3, imap=455, all=507, VSZ: 15018k, postfix:25, sys: 767 > 15:28:20: pop=3, imap=452, all=504, VSZ: 14931k, postfix:25, sys: 764 ---- service(pop3): fork() failed: Resource temporarily unavailable ---- > 15:28:22: pop=4, imap=452, all=505, VSZ: 14954k, postfix:25, sys: 770 > 15:28:24: pop=4, imap=452, all=505, VSZ: 14954k, postfix:25, sys: 770 > 15:28:26: pop=4, imap=451, all=504, VSZ: 14925k, postfix:25, sys: 769 > 15:28:28: pop=5, imap=451, all=506, VSZ: 14980k, postfix:25, sys: 771 ---- dovecot restart complete ---- > 15:28:30: pop=3, imap=11, all=22, VSZ: 485k, postfix:25, sys: 282 > 15:29:00: pop=4, imap=65, all=83, VSZ: 2293k, postfix:26, sys: 344 > 15:29:31: pop=3, imap=91, all=111, VSZ: 3129k, postfix:27, sys: 373 It always seems to happen shortly after the number of dovecot processes goes beyond 500. The VSZ column is the VSZ sum of all dovecot procs. The number of files opened by vmail (lsof -u <vmailuid> | wc -l) at that moment usually is between 13k and 15k. sysctl fs.file-nr mostly is around 16k total but the system limit is set way higher (at 1532853) However, as you can see in the following dump, there is no process_limit or whatever being set to 500 or 512 or similar. # --------- su vmail -c "ulimit -Ha:" --------------- core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 60026 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 49152 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) unlimited cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 3128 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited # ---------------- dovecot -n (mildly anonymized) --------------- # 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.8 (0c4ae064f307+) # OS: Linux 4.4.0-8-generic x86_64 Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch) xfs auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_cache_size = 50 M auth_mechanisms = plain login default_client_limit = 10000 dict { quota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } hostname = my.mail.host imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes lda_original_recipient_header = X-Original-To listen = * mail_location = sdbox:/mailsrv/users/%d/%u mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log fts 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 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 = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { fts_autoindex = yes quota = dict:User quota::proxy::quota sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve stats_refresh = 30s stats_track_cmds = yes } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)my.mail.host protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3" service anvil { client_limit = 11227 } service auth { client_limit = 11324 unix_listener /mailsrv/spool/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { process_limit = 10000 process_min_avail = 5 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 2 G } service imap { process_limit = 2048 vsz_limit = 2 G } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { process_limit = 1024 process_min_avail = 3 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 2 G } service pop3 { process_limit = 1024 } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/local/my.mail.host.crt.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/local/my.mail.host.key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log fts quota sieve } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log fts sieve } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 15 mail_plugins = quota notify mail_log fts imap_quota stats imap_stats } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 15 } # ------------ end dovecot -n ------------- So, here I am, out of ideas for the moment. Do you have any? -- kind regards, Jonathan

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What happened to dovecot.fi?
by Pieter Koorts 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Hi All, Any news about what happened to dovecot.fi ? Is enterprise or the S3 backend plugin still available? Reason for asking is every attempt to access the dovecot.fi website shows it as down and has done for a while. Pieter

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Returning custom autoexpunge for user's INBOX
by Tom Johnson 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

I want to be able to have custom autoexpunge settings for different users. I have it working for various folders (draft, junk, trash), but I can't seem to get it working for the user's primary inbox. In my user_query (I'm using mysql), I'm returning entries like this in the userdb_import field: namespace/inbox/mailbox/autoexpunge=5d namespace/inbox/mailbox/Drafts/autoexpunge=5d namespace/inbox/mailbox/Junk/autoexpunge=5d namespace/inbox/mailbox/Trash/autoexpunge=5d And everything works fine for Drafts, Junk, and Trash, but not for the main inbox. The logs show: Debug: Unknown userdb setting: plugin/namespace/inbox/mailbox/autoexpunge=5d I've also tried variations, trying to get the namespace correct for the main inbox, but they all get the same "Unknown userdb setting" error: namespace/inbox/mailbox/autoexpunge=5d namespace/inbox/mailbox/inbox/autoexpunge=5d namespace/inbox/mailbox/Inbox/autoexpunge=5d namespace/inbox/mailbox/INBOX/autoexpunge=5d I suspect I'm just giving the wrong namespace for the primary inbox. What's the right way to do this? Tom

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UnicodeData
by Vincent Dahmen 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

Hey guys, there seem to be a problem with wget and/or the unicode webserver. During the make process there are several files wich are download from the unicode server. I can access them manually but both curl and wget failing to get it. Are they any other mirrors or anyone else expiring this bug? Greetings

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Re: sieve_extprograms - double linebreaks at filtering
by Hajo Locke 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

Hello, Am 09.09.2015 um 13:30 schrieb Stephan Bosch: > > > Op 9-9-2015 om 12:37 schreef Hajo Locke: >> Hello, >> >> >> Am 09.09.2015 um 11:26 schrieb Stephan Bosch: >>> >>> >>> Op 8-9-2015 om 13:10 schreef Hajo Locke: >>>> Hello List, >>>> >>>> i have a problem when using sieve-plugin sieve_extprograms. I use >>>> dovecot 2.2.18 and bundled pigeonhole 0.4.6 (Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS) >>>> >>>> i have enabled sieve_extprograms and vnd.dovecot.filter to send >>>> mail to user-defined script and get changed content back. >>>> My script previously was used with procmail and is working fine. >>>> Using same script with vnd.dovecot.filter leads to odd behavior. >>>> I already found out the problem itself: >>>> By sending Mailcontent to filter-programm it seems that >>>> sieve/sieve_extprograms is adding additional linebreaks to every >>>> line of complete mail. >>>> Please see this image to clarify: >>>> http://r31i.imgup.net/header8d56.jpg?l=de >>>> Every lineending got additional windows-lineendings, which leads to >>>> problems with processing scripts. >>>> Piping mails by procmail to same script is working without >>>> problems, because this mails are recieved "clean" without the "^M". >>> >>> Well, the specified format for an internet message like e-mail has >>> CRLF line endings everywhere. That's why this happens now: >>> >>> http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-2.2-pigeonhole/file/5df1b6d72ec2/src/plugins… >>> >>> >>> But maybe that is not such a good idea in a UNIX environment. I >>> think I can just make it configurable. >> >> ahh, there it is. i think just commenting out this line in my sources >> will result in some errors. Is there a possibility for me to make a >> quickfix in my sources? (use other function or something like that) > > You can replace it with the i_stream_create_lf() function, which > enforces LF rather than CR+LF, which would be what you need. Unfortunately i have to continue this issue. During my last updates this problem is occured again. This are my versions: # 2.2.21 (): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.11 (6ddf62b87f60+) # OS: Linux 3.13.0-77-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS I tried to configure the linebreaks in my plugin section of /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf by: sieve_extprograms_input_eol = lf But it seems to have no effect. Is this configured the right way or i have to use 0.4.12? Currently it looks like this: plugin { sieve = ~/sieve/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = ~/sieve_before/.dovecot_before.sieve sieve_after = ~/sieve_after/.dovecot_after.sieve sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms sieve_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.filter +vnd.dovecot.execute +editheader sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/local/bin/ sieve_filter_bin_dir = /usr/local/bin/ sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /etc/dovecot/sieve/ sieve_extprograms_input_eol = lf } > > Regards, > > Stephan. > > Thanks, Hajo

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Queries are not being sent to solr when search on server issued via imap client.
by ralph.jones＠modolingo.de 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

I traced the network communication with the solr server with tcpdump: sudo tcpdump -i any -A -vvv port 8080 I logged into the imap server via telnet (actually openssl) and issued the command ". search body <string>". About 20 results were returned within about half a second. Nothing was seen in tcpdump. When I issue "doveadm search box <string>", I can see the search string in the output of tcpdump and also in the solr logs. Solr seems to have been initialized correctly, in that when I issue a query via curl, I receive the correct results. I am using: dovecot 2.2.13 (debian jessie) libsolr-java 3.6.2+dfsg-5 relevant config: mail_plugins = fts fts_solr acl virtual plugin { fts = solr fts_solr = url=http://localhost:8080/solr/ debug ... }

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Dovecot sieve - How to check which username a mail is being delivered to?
by Yannik Sembritzki 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

Hi everyone, I am looking for a way to check which mailbox an email is being delivered to in a global sieve filter. After not being able to find some kind of variable that is populated by dovecot automatically, I tried to use the `Delivered-To` header. I tried a check like this: header :is "delivered-to" "<user(a)domain.org>" Unfortunately, this does not only match the first occurence of the header (which can be assumed is added by dovecot), but any occurence of this header in the email, which could be added due to previous deliveries and forwards, or just cause of malice. Is there any way to achieve this? Best regards, Yannik

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Assertion crash: (idx * array->element_size < array->buffer->used)
by Joseph Tam 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

Log message: Traceback is hex gibberish: if symbolic traceback is needed, I'll recompile with "cc -g" and retest. Panic: file ../../../src/lib/array.h: line 219 (array_idx_i): assertion failed : (idx * array->element_size < array->buffer->used) (Similar to http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2015-February/099771.html) IMAP command that provoked the crash: x1 FETCH 3 (BODY) Dovecot version: 2.2.19, Solaris10 (I don't think doveconf -n is relevant, but willing to provide if needed). It seems like a mailbox index issue. Removing, then recreating the indices gets rid of the crash. I saved these indices if it will help. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Different Quotas For Public Namespace
by Chris 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

Dear All, are different quotas for public namespace folders possible? They're in the same namespace. If I got it right, the wiki says there's one quota per namespace only? - Chris

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Block public namespace mail when quota exceeded
by Chris 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

Dear All, is it possible to temporarily reject mails, when quota of public namespace subfolder is exceeded? I'd check folder size with a cronjob. Dovecot is using a system user, so I guess blocking post and insert in ACL isn't a solution? I don't want to set the folder to read-only, that users can still delete mails. Thank you in advance. - Chris

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Question: Directory hashing to support large domains | Dovecot & MySQL
by Altin Ukshini 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

Hello there, I have a postfix + dovecot + mysql installation in an ubuntu server. Virtual users and domains in a small mysql db that I manage via a web based mailadmin I wrote myself. The mysql db I'm talking about has a qmail structure that used to be managed by qmailadmin and worked with vpopmail. As for information, I cannot move to a different structure (exc postfixadmin/postfix) for many reasons, so I was forced to stick with it and configure postfix and dovecot to read that structure... If you may know, qmail (depends on the configuration) uses a directory hashing like /home/vpopmail/DOMAIN/P/7/USERNAME (something similar) in order to manage large domains, and this is handled by vpopmail. Please refer to these two links for details: - http://free.acrconsulting.co.uk/email/qmh.html - https://sourceforge.net/p/vpopmail/mailman/message/2710408/ I saw that dovecot uses something similar which I found in dovecot documentation : http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation#Directory_hashing Unfortunately, I cannot find more details, so I'd be thankful if you help me out with the following: By reading the documentation, I can tell that I can use the dir hashing variables in my dovecot configuration. But, in my case, I get the directory path from my mysql db via dovecot sql user_query - not from mail_location variable in 10-mail.conf Therefore if in case of a first received email for a user: dovecot checks in the db, gets the path and creates the maildir from the given path. In case the maildir column is empty, it fails, and it also fails to authenticate... So, can dovecot write to mysql? I would like to use directory hashing of dovecot, but from what I can find: If dovecot has mail_location variable set to do the dir hashing, it will not then go and add the created path in my mysql db. While if I try to implement something similar from my web gui application, I'd probably have to rewrite the algorithm that does this!? Can anyone help me figure out what's the best way to implement this? Thank you very much in advance for your help! Best, Altin Ukshini

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[Feature Request] doveadm option to return number of messages acted upon
by Haravikk 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

So I have a script for handling my specific archive and expunge needs, but it’d be nice to be able to track how many messages are being affected. Currently I’m doing it by firing the same search queries into doveadm search and counting the lines of the result with wc -l, but that’s not a very pretty solution. While I’m mostly doing it out of interest on a personal server, I can’t imagine it’s a very scalable way to do it if you wanted to gather some kind of metrics for example. What I think would make sense would be for relevant doveadm commands such as move, expunge (probably purge too) and others I haven’t thought of to have a new option that, if enabled, will cause the command to output the number of messages affected as the final line of output (most of these commands don’t have any output anyway). A doveadm count command could also be a convenient, more efficient, alternative to doveadm search | wc -l.

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Replication between two ISPCOnfig servers
by Otto Saayman 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

Hello I have set up two servers, one master and one slave, using ISPConfig. I have been using rsync to synchronise mails between the two machines, but this has some unstable results. I had a look at setting up replication: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Replication When I run the command, doveadm user '*', only two users are returned. So when I run this command: doveadm replicator replicate \* I get: 2 users updated I run this command: doveadm sync -u [e-mail address] tcp:[2nd/ slave dovecot server IP address] Here I can input any valid e-mail address in the ISPConfig MySQL database and it works. How do I tell the dovecote server to replicate all the users configured in the MySQL database it uses when it handles logins via POP/ IMAP, all of which is working fine? Is there a command I need to run at a set interval via cron to synchronise the two machines' mailboxes, which are identical in every way except the mails the users' mailboxes contain? OR Is there a way that I can instruct the two machines to keep each other's user mailbox contents "up to date"? The main idea is to have a hot backup of my "main" dovecot server and also to enable a lower mail priority for the second server so that mails are still received when the main server becomes busy, or is taken offline for some reason. Any help, or link to a HOWTO would be appreciated. -- Best Regards Otto Saayman

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Checking index sanity
by Emmanuel Dreyfus 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

Hello We experienced corrupted dovecot indexes, probably caused by a server crash. This does not cause a lot of harm, just annoyance. For instance, LMTP raises an assertion during delivery, which causes mail to multiple recipients e-mail to remain in the queue if a single of them hits a corrupted index. The workaround for now is to detect the situation in the logs and to remove corrupted indexes when the problem arise. A better fix would be to sanity check all user's index on startup. Is there a command line tool to do this? -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu(a)netbsd.org

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VS: Re: SQLite driver and auth-worker credentials
by Aki Tuomi 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

this is probably something that ought to be fixed. Read only scenario for auth/userdb is quite plausible. ---Aki TuomiDovecot oy-------- Alkuperäinen viesti --------Lähettäjä: Lev Serebryakov <lev(a)serebryakov.spb.ru> Päivämäärä: 24.2.2016 23.32 (GMT+02:00) Saaja: james(a)lottspot.com Kopio: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Aihe: Re: SQLite driver and auth-worker credentials Hello James, Wednesday, February 24, 2016, 11:17:12 PM, you wrote: >> But system should assign all secondary GIDs to effective UID? > separate 'group =' directive in addition to the 'user =' directive > (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Services) Oh, I missed this one, thank you -- Best regards, Lev mailto:lev@serebryakov.spb.ru

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SQLite driver and auth-worker credentials
by Lev Serebryakov 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

I want to use SQLite database as storage for auth and user databases. I've encountered two problems here: (1) There is no way to open SQLite database read-only (via sqlite3_open_v2() call with SQLITE_OPEN_READONLY flag). It looks bad. I don't need (and want) to give dovecot rights to write to this database. (2) I've created system group "hostingdb", added "dovecot" user to it and gives 660 rights to database file, but still "auth-worker" could not open database and complains to log file. Now I'm set "user = root" for auth-worker, but I don't like it! Why auth-worker doesn't belong to "hostingdb" group? -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov

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Script dovecot ACLs, Quota and doveadm
by Chris 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Dear All, I'd like to set a) Quota for mailboxes in private and public namespace b) ACLs for both. What's the easiest way to do this? Do I have to call doveadm for every mailbox (private and public)? Is it required to provide a username to doveadm? Can I use the same user for all if it is defined in global ACLs? For Cyrus there are perl modules which have the same functions as cyradm. Is there something like this for dovecot? Are there any modules available? Haven't found anything in CPAN. - Chris

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Streaming MOVE commands
by gallego＠cri.ensmp.fr 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Dear Dovecot devs, is streaming multiple MOVE commands by clients allowed? I am getting duplicated messages with the GNUS mail client, the interchange looks like this: *stream two moves to different folders* > 9019 UID MOVE 4062,4066,4068 "folder0" > 9020 UID MOVE 4063:4064,4067,4069:4072 "folder1" *the messages are copied* > * OK [COPYUID 1424475218 4062,4066,4068 376:378] Moved UIDs. > * OK [COPYUID 1424475231 4063:4064,4067,4069:4072 26:32] Moved UIDs. *however expunge fails to clean 4063, 4064, and 4067* > * VANISHED 4062,4066,4068:4072 thus 4063, 4064, and 4067 end both in inbox and folder1 producing duplicate messages (more details at [1]). At the GNUS mailing list, we were wondering about what should be the correct reading of RFC6851. Version and config information below. Best regards, Emilio [1] More details in the thread http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86813 [2] Version $ /usr/sbin/dovecot --version 2.2.13 [3] Config $ /usr/sbin/dovecot -n # 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 8.3 ext4 mail_location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave 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 } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = " imap sieve" ssl_cert = ... ssl_key = ... userdb { driver = passwd }

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Automatically inferring %d on multi-domain virtual install ?
by Gabriel L. Somlo 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Hi, I'm trying to allow domain-less logins for a multi-domain virtual IMAP server, and wondering if I can automatically infer the domain (value of variable %d) from the local IP (%l) or the hostname used by the client when connecting to my server. Let's say I have two host names: mail.foo.org (10.0.0.100) and mail.bar.com (10.0.0.200), with forward and reverse DNS configured to resolve A and PTR records in either direction. Let's also say I have 10.0.0.100 and 10.0.0.200 set up as secondaries on my server's loopback interface, and routing is set up to bring client traffic to me for both of those IP addresses. The relevant bits of my dovecot.conf are: ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------ mail_location = maildir:/var/lib/vmail/%d/%n passdb { driver = passwd-file args = /var/lib/vmail/etc/postfix/userdb } userdb { driver = static args = uid=dovenull gid=dovenull home=/var/lib/vmail/%d/%n } ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------ And my userdb passwd-file right now includes: ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------ user1@foo.org:{PLAIN}user1foo user2@foo.org:{PLAIN}user2foo user1@bar.com:{PLAIN}user1bar user2@bar.com:{PLAIN}user2bar ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------ Right now, user1(a)foo.org must configure their imap client like so: IMAP server: mail.foo.org username: user1(a)foo.org password: user1foo I would like to require this (and other) users to only have to set: IMAP server: mail.foo.org username: user1 password: ... and have dovecot somehow infer the "@foo.org" domain based on the fact that the connection was made to 10.0.0.100, which is mail.foo.org, and therefore the domain can *only* be "@foo.org". I could start out by splitting my user database into two files: userdb.foo.org ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------ user1:{PLAIN}user1foo user2:{PLAIN}user2foo ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------ userdb.bar.com ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------ user1:{PLAIN}user1bar user2:{PLAIN}user2bar ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------ ... then modify dovecot.conf's passdb setup like so: ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------ passdb { driver = passwd-file args = /var/lib/vmail/etc/postfix/userdb.%d } ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------ ... but how would I insure that %d is set to the proper value based on e.g. a reverse lookup of %l, which, in foo.org's case would be 10.0.0.100, and resolve to mail.foo.org, and *somehow* that would match %d == "@foo.org" ? Is this even possible in the first place, or am I just being too fussy about the aesthetics of my users' imap client config files ? :) :) Thanks much, --Gabriel

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Dovecot + Ceph Cluster Sizing
by Michele Soragni 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Hi all. We are searching for information about how to size dovecot servers in a clustered architecture (dovecot + postfix + roundcube + mysql). We need to migrate mailboxes from an old Exchange installation: 60k mailbox 900 GB total storage 14 MB/mailbox About 133 email/mailbox Low usage: about 2k simultaneous imap/pop3 connections This is how we are thinking to build our new architecture 3 x Dell R630 or R530 servers with 6x300SAS disks for Ceph storage with 1 replica . Total storage = 2,5 TB for mailboxes 3 x Dell R630 or R530 with 2x CPU 6core,64GB RAM, 4x 300SAS disks hosting the following VMs in a VMware cluster: - 3 x VM Dovecot - 3 x VM Postfix - 3 x VM Roundcube webmail - 3 x VM MySQL All VMs are behind a balancer All OS disks are on local storage Dovecot VMs share Ceph storage with OCFS2 filesystem for the mailboxes. I'd like to have some hints about CPU and memory for Dovecot VMs. 2 vCPU and 8 GB RAM each sould be enough? Is there a way to calculate this? Do you think the storage performance could be a problem using Ceph + OCFS2? Is Ceph + XFS + Dsync replication a better choice? Thanks! Michele

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Segfault using doveadm dsync
by fabio.onorini＠secoges.com 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

I'm trying to migrate a imap mailbox from dovecot 1.2.15 to a new imap server with dovecot 2.2.13. I would preserving the IMAP UIDs and POP3 UIDLs. So I'm using doveadm backup command but after folders analyze, command return segmentation fault. Any hint? GDB result: sync(easymail): Debug: brain S: Deleting mailbox 'Bozze' (GUID f0836f3222c335cfa383cb38ff0e3183): UIDNEXT is too high (9 > 1) dsync(easymail): Debug: brain S: Deleting mailbox 'Cestino' (GUID cd0edec22e40323d878a39dc8e432e5a): UIDNEXT is too high (628 > 1) dsync(easymail): Debug: brain S: Deleting mailbox 'INBOX' (GUID c92f64f79f0d1ed01e6d5b314f04886c): UIDVALIDITY changed (1456239585 -> 1456310264) dsync(easymail): Debug: brain S: Deleting mailbox 'Modelli' (GUID f0933f8b90e6eaf3a00a0220b173f3b4): UIDNEXT is too high (2 > 1) dsync(easymail): Debug: brain S: Deleting mailbox 'Sent' (GUID 7d3c7eaa71cdf47ee8a1192687cda8cd): UIDNEXT is too high (39 > 1) Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. imapc_client_mailbox_cmd (box=0x0, callback=callback@entry=0x7ffff76d7140 <imapc_simple_callback>, context=context@entry=0x7fffffffe2d0) at imapc-client.c:351 351 imapc-client.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt full #0 imapc_client_mailbox_cmd (box=0x0, callback=callback@entry=0x7ffff76d7140 <imapc_simple_callback>, context=context@entry=0x7fffffffe2d0) at imapc-client.c:351 cmd = <optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "imapc_client_mailbox_cmd" #1 0x00007ffff76d7915 in imapc_mailbox_noop (mbox=mbox@entry=0x5555558049e0) at imapc-storage.c:154 cmd = <optimized out> sctx = {client = 0x5555557e89b0, ret = -2} #2 0x00007ffff76d5c18 in imapc_mailbox_sync_init (box=0x5555558049e0, flags=(MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ | MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FIX_INCONSISTENT)) at imapc-sync.c:476 mbox = 0x5555558049e0 list = <optimized out> capabilities = <optimized out> changes = false ret = 0 #3 0x00007ffff76e9289 in mailbox_sync_init (box=0x5555558049e0, flags=(MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ | MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FIX_INCONSISTENT)) at mail-storage.c:1677 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 ctx = <optimized out> #4 0x00007ffff76e93d7 in mailbox_sync (box=box@entry=0x5555558049e0, flags=<optimized out>, flags@entry=MAILBOX_SYNC_FLAG_FULL_READ) at mail-storage.c:1725 ctx = 0x555555804ea8 status = {sync_delayed_expunges = 0} #5 0x00007ffff7715bab in mailbox_expunge_all_data (box=0x5555558049e0) at index-storage.c:648 ctx = 0x7ffff7714e57 <index_storage_mailbox_open+615> t = 0x5555558049e0 mail = 0x7fffffffe4b4 search_args = 0x7fffffffe558 #6 index_storage_mailbox_delete (box=0x5555558049e0) at index-storage.c:701 metadata = {guid = "\264\344\377\377\377\177\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000", virtual_size = 140737488348504, cache_fields = 0x555555807258, precache_fields = (MAIL_FETCH_RECEIVED_DATE | MAIL_FETCH_SAVE_DATE | MAIL_FETCH_PHYSICAL_SIZE | MAIL_FETCH_VIRTUAL_SIZE | MAIL_FETCH_IMAP_ENVELOPE | MAIL_FETCH_REFCOUNT | unknown: 1426065408), backend_ns_prefix = 0x7ffff73b1e59 <t_pop_check+9> ";\003u\v\307\003", backend_ns_type = (unknown: 1434470880)} status = {messages = 4294960472, recent = 32767, unseen = 0, uidvalidity = 0, uidnext = 1434582544, first_unseen_seq = 0, first_recent_uid = 232594432, last_cached_seq = 3612951791, highest_modseq = 93824995052000, highest_pvt_modseq = 93824992578308, keywords = 0x1, permanent_flags = 4151223616, permanent_keywords = 1, allow_new_keywords = 1, nonpermanent_modseqs = 1, no_modseq_tracking = 1, have_guids = 1, have_save_guids = 1, have_only_guid128 = 1} ret_guid = <optimized out> #7 0x00007ffff76ea737 in mailbox_delete (box=box@entry=0x5555558049e0) at mail-storage.c:1319 ret = <optimized out> #8 0x00005555555895d4 in dsync_brain_mailbox_tree_sync_change (brain=brain@entry=0x5555557fcd00, change=<optimized out>) at dsync-brain-mailbox-tree-sync.c:182 box = 0x5555558049e0 destbox = 0x5555558007c8 errstr = 0x5555557ff750 "\030\366\177UUU" func_name = 0x0 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- storage_name = <optimized out> error = 32767 ret = <optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "dsync_brain_mailbox_tree_sync_change" #9 0x00005555555892db in dsync_brain_mailbox_trees_sync (brain=0x5555557fcd00) at dsync-brain-mailbox-tree.c:291 ctx = 0x55555580ab40 change = <optimized out> sync_type = <optimized out> sync_flags = <optimized out> #10 dsync_brain_recv_mailbox_tree_deletes (brain=brain@entry=0x5555557fcd00) at dsync-brain-mailbox-tree.c:440 deletes = 0x5555557fa0a0 i = <optimized out> count = 0 sep = 47 '/' __FUNCTION__ = "dsync_brain_recv_mailbox_tree_deletes" #11 0x00005555555860e8 in dsync_brain_run_real (changed_r=0x7fffffffe74b, brain=0x5555557fcd00) at dsync-brain.c:565 ret = true orig_state = DSYNC_STATE_RECV_MAILBOX_TREE_DELETES orig_box_recv_state = DSYNC_BOX_STATE_MAILBOX orig_box_send_state = DSYNC_BOX_STATE_MAILBOX changed = false #12 dsync_brain_run (brain=0x5555557fcd00, changed_r=changed_r@entry=0x7fffffffe74b) at dsync-brain.c:610 _data_stack_cur_id = 2 changed_r = 0x7fffffffe74b brain = 0x5555557fcd00 #13 0x00005555555846f7 in cmd_dsync_run_local (changes_during_sync_r=<synthetic pointer>, ibc2=<optimized out>, brain=0x5555557e1860, user=<optimized out>, ctx=0x5555557cd590) at doveadm-dsync.c:384 brain2 = 0x5555557fcd00 set_parser = <optimized out> location = <optimized out> user2 = 0x0 brain1_running = true changed1 = true ret = <optimized out> set_line = <optimized out> brain2_running = true changed2 = false #14 cmd_dsync_run (_ctx=0x5555557cd590, user=<optimized out>) at doveadm-dsync.c:596 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- ctx = 0x5555557cd590 ibc = 0x5555557d50d0 ibc2 = 0x5555557e14d0 brain = 0x5555557e1860 set = {process_title_prefix = 0x0, sync_namespaces = {arr = {buffer = 0x5555557c0378, element_size = 8}, v = 0x5555557c0378, v_modifiable = 0x5555557c0378}, sync_box = 0x0, sync_box_guid = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, exclude_mailboxes = 0x0, lock_timeout_secs = 0, state = 0x0} ns = 0x5555557cd670 strp = <optimized out> brain_flags = <optimized out> remote_errors_logged = false changes_during_sync = false status = 0 ret = 0 #15 0x0000555555569e4b in doveadm_mail_next_user (ctx=0x5555557cd590, input=<optimized out>, error_r=0x7fffffffe898) at doveadm-mail.c:314 error = 0x5555557cd590 "p\325|UUU" ret = <optimized out> error_r = 0x7fffffffe898 input = <optimized out> ctx = 0x5555557cd590 ip = <optimized out> ret = 0 #16 0x000055555556ac2c in doveadm_mail_cmd (argv=0x5555557c73b8, argc=4, cmd=0x5555557cb140) at doveadm-mail.c:525 input = {module = 0x0, service = 0x5555555a7367 "doveadm", username = 0x5555557c73e7 "easymail", session_id = 0x0, local_ip = {family = 0, u = {ip6 = { __in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, __u6_addr16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 0}}}, remote_ip = {family = 0, u = {ip6 = {__in6_u = {__u6_addr8 = '\000' <repeats 15 times>, __u6_addr16 = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, __u6_addr32 = {0, 0, 0, 0}}}, ip4 = {s_addr = 0}}}, local_port = 0, remote_port = 0, userdb_fields = 0x0, flags_override_add = (unknown: 0), flags_override_remove = (unknown: 0), no_userdb_lookup = 0} ctx = 0x5555557cd590 getopt_args = 0x5555557bf660 "+1dEfg:l:m:n:NPr:Rs:Ux:RAS:u:" ret = <optimized out> c = <optimized out> wildcard_user = 0x0 error = 0x7ffff73b7122 <master_service_init_finish+226> "H\213\204$\230" #17 doveadm_mail_try_run (cmd_name=<optimized out>, argc=4, argv=0x5555557c73a0) at doveadm-mail.c:617 cmd = 0x5555557cb140 #18 0x00005555555699a4 in main (argc=4, argv=0x5555557c73a0) at doveadm.c:398 cmd_name = 0x5555557c73dd "backup" i = <optimized out> ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- quick_init = false c = <optimized out> ----------------------------------------------- Fabio Onorini ----------------------------------------------- Gruppo SeCoGes srl Via Enzo Ferrari, 4/6 - 25134 - Brescia - Italy Tel. +39 030 23 06 877 Fax +39 030 23 15 512 Sito Web: http://www.secoges.com Indirizzo EMail (assistenza): easymail(a)secoges.com ------------------------------------------------

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Require different setting for mail_location for each of POP3S and IMAPS protocols
by Andrew McGlashan 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Okay, Let's try this a different way. I've been able to configure past dovecot to have a different mail_location setting for the same user, but with different protocols. When the user requests POP3S, I adjusted the mail_location to /var/mail/$USER (with mbox in use). When that *same* user requested IMAPS protocol, the required mail_location is the Maildir folder. This allows for independent two mail storage locations, one for the use of mbox and the other for the use of Maildir *and* for the same user. Some users only require mbox with others only requiring Maildir. So, I need to cater for each of these situations. How might I adjust current dovecot configuration to provide different mail_location settings for different protocols? Old dovecot allowed me to run a script before POP3S processing that gave me the chance to adjust the mail_location variable. That is what I need now, just for POP3S. Thanks AndrewM

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syntax for overriding userdb fields from passdb config
by Thomas Möhle 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Dear Dovecot developers, how exactly is the syntax to override a userdb field within the passdb configuration? I cannot find any documentation on this in the wiki. Let's say, I'd like to override the userdb extra field "chroot" with /var/mail. How exactly would be the notation? My auth-sql.conf.ext looks like this: passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext } userdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext } I already tried these modifications within the passdb area: override_fields = userdb_chroot=/var/mail override_fields = userdb:chroot=/var/mail override_fields = %{userdb:chroot}=/var/mail override_fields = %{userdb_chroot}=/var/mail but none of the above returned /var/mail when I tried to hand %{userdb:chroot} to an external script. Thanks for your help, Thomas Möhle

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RE: Dovecot Bulletin
by Kevin Kershner 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

It also got the bulletin out to new users without admin intervention. Sent from Mobile ________________________________ From: Doug Hardie<mailto:bc979@lafn.org> Sent: ‎2/‎22/‎2016 4:02 To: Dovecot Mailing List<mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org>; Timo Sirainen<mailto:tss@iki.fi> Cc: Kevin Kershner<mailto:cstkersh@outlook.com> Subject: Re: Dovecot Bulletin > On 20 February 2016, at 18:14, Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> wrote: > > On 21 Feb 2016, at 02:50, Kevin Kershner <cstkersh(a)outlook.com> wrote: >> >> I'd like to revisit and old post if I may, will/does Dovecot support the old >> qpopper "Bulletin" ability? >> >> Basically I need a simple way of posting bulletins to all domain users. >> Qpopper maintained a bulletin db for each user and sent them the next >> bulletin in sequence. > > I guess there could be a plugin that does this check on each login. But would it actually be useful? Why would it be better than simply sending the mail to all the users? For example: > > doveadm save -A < bulletin.txt The reasons for bulletins as I see it are: 1. The doveadm save command is undocumented. It does show a cryptic line in the output of the command "doveadm". However, it doesn't give any clue what it does or how to provide the message. Your note above provides considerably more information on that command. I tested it and it works as you have indicated though. 2. The doveadm save command causes the email to be saved in each user's mailbox. If you have a lot of users, thats a lot of wasted disk space. Qpopper's bulletins only kept one copy and every user downloaded from that copy. All that was retained per user was a counter of the last bulletin's sequence number that was downloaded. — Doug

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