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Quota policy service not rejecting messages when user over quota
by james＠lottspot.com 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

For some very odd reason, the quota-status service is failing to enforce quotas. Every other aspect of my configuration is working with absolutely no problems. When I attempt delivery via LTMP, the message is, as expected, rejected due to the user's inbox being full. root@smtp:/usr/local/etc/mail-config # nc -U /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp < 220 mx0.lottspot.com Dovecot ready. > LHLO localhost < 250-mx0.lottspot.com < 250-8BITMIME < 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES < 250 PIPELINING > MAIL FROM:<root@localhost> < 250 2.1.0 OK > RCPT TO:<james(a)lottspot.vpn> < 552 5.2.2 <james(a)lottspot.vpn> Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) The policy service however, just lets everything go right through. I know that accessing the userdb is not an issue, because I passed a bogus user before passing my real user and received the expected response. root@smtp:/usr/local/etc/mail-config # nc -U /var/spool/postfix/private/policy-quota > recipient=noop(a)fake.tld > < action=551 User not found < > recipient=james(a)lottspot.vpn > < action=250 Quota status success < I'm using Dovecot 2.2.15, and I have included my quota configuration below. If anyone wants to see full doveconf -n output, I can provide it, but figured it was a bit much for this case. Thanks in advance for any pointers! --> Note: I'm the quota_status_* directives have been set as is for testing purposes only. I'm fully aware not to do that in production. plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:bytes=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% quota_status_success = "250 Quota status success" quota_status_nouser = "551 User not found" quota_status_overquota = "552 5.2.2 Recipient mailbox is full" } service quota-status { executable = quota-status -p postfix unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/policy-quota { user = postfix group = wheel mode = 0666 } }

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[Sieve] Unable to fileinto subfolders
by james＠lottspot.com 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

Hello again list! I am configuring a server running Dovecot 2.2.15 (Pigeonhole 0.4.6), and I am having an issue with Sieve scripts where I cannot sort messages into a subfolder of a mailbox. An email which is matched by the following script: require "fileinto"; if header :contains "Subject" "[SORT ME]" { fileinto "INBOX.Sorted"; } Yields the following error: Jul 16 18:54:46 smtp dovecot: lmtp(james(a)lottspot.vpn): Error: DiJmNGZgqFWLFAEANWXNPw: sieve: msgid=<4973528.yvy4Yu8Tt4@arch_project>: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX.Sorted': Character not allowed in mailbox name: '.' As far as I can tell based on the Sieve usage page in the wiki (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Usage) this is *supposed* to work. I have included my namespace configuration below, but if anyone wants the whole doveconf -n, I will gladly provide it. Thanks in advance for any help! namespace inbox { type = private separator = / prefix = inbox = yes mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } } namespace { type = shared separator = / prefix = shared/%%d/%%n/ location = maildir:/home/%%d/%%n/mail:INDEX=~/indexes/%%d/%%n:INDEXPVT=~/indexes/%%d/%%n subscriptions = no list = children }

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question on Dovecot replication
by Arnold Wang 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

I'm running Dovecot 2.2.x and have a question on its replication capability. I plan to run Dovecot in two different sites with two nodes at each site. My question is how many replication partners can each Dovecot node have? Can I define three "mail_replica" entries in every node so any message received by one node will be replicated to three other nodes automatically? Thanks in advance for your help.

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Admin access to sieve filters with managesieve
by Christian Theune 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

Hi, I’ve been a long-time user of Cyrus and started using sieve with Dovecot recently. A question that came up is: how do I access a users’s sieve scripts through managesieve without their credentials? Managesieve allows separating authentation and the corresponding mailbox identification, right? That’s what I used with cyrus sieve all the time. :) I didn’t find documentation in the wiki or googling where to configure someone as admin in Dovecot so he can access foreign sieve scripts through managesieve. Pointers? Am I using the right words? Cheers, Christian — Christian Theune · ct(a)flyingcircus.io · +49 345 219401 0 Flying Circus Internet Operations GmbH · http://flyingcircus.io Forsterstraße 29 · 06112 Halle (Saale) · Deutschland HR Stendal HRB 21169 · Geschäftsführer: Christian. Theune, Christian. Zagrodnick

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doveadm search -A problem with dropped privileges
by Sebastian Kricner 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

Hello, if you want to answer to this mail, please send it directly to me. I have found a big issue with the following command "doveadm -search -A". It whatsoever works by setting doveadm_worker_count = 0 in the dovecot.conf configuration file. The problem is that doveadm-server or something similar uses privileges of "nobody" and so it fails searching e-mails. Instead also the process tries to create a maildir for "nobody": Debug: Namespace : /var/mail/nobody doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/mail/nobody: mode=0700 gid=default Error: User initialization failed: Namespace '': mkdir(/var/mail/nobody) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nobody) missing +w perm: /var/mail, we're not in group 12(mail), dir owned by 0:12 mode=0775) Error: search: User init failed Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot//auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nobody) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot//auth-userdb, we're not in group 12(mail), dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) Error: search: User lookup failed: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Even after setting permissions, so that the process can create a maildir for "nobody" in the /var/mail location, it fails to "setresgid" to the particular user to be scanned. It can´t work because it is not possible to gain other user privileges from another user. # 2.2.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.7 # OS: Linux Gentoo Base System release 2.2 auth_cache_negative_ttl = xx mins auth_cache_size = xx M auth_cache_ttl = xx mins auth_mechanisms = xx xx auth_worker_max_count = xx base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ default_process_limit = xx dict { expire = sqlite:/xx } doveadm_worker_count = 1 first_valid_gid = xx first_valid_uid = xx login_greeting = xx.xx mail_location = maildir:/xx/xx/%u mail_privileged_group = xx 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 passdb { args = scheme=SHA512 /xx/xx/xx.xx driver = passwd-file } plugin { expire = xx expire2 = xx expire_dict = proxy::expire sieve = ~/.xx.xx sieve_dir = ~/.xx } protocols = imap sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = xx mode = 0660 } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = xx mode = 0660 } } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } process_limit = 6 service_count = 1 } ssl_cert = </xx/xx/xx/xx.xx.xx ssl_key = </xx/xx/xx/xx.xx.xx ssl_parameters_regenerate = xx days userdb { driver = passwd } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve expire } protocol imap { imap_idle_notify_interval = xx mins mail_max_userip_connections = xx mail_plugins = expire } Regards Sebastian Kricner -- http://tuxwave.net -- the difference to think makes it real!

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does dovecot support aio(asynchronous IO)
by boyd 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Dear, Does dovecot support aio(asynchronous IO)? Or do we have a plan/need to support it? Thanks!

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doveadm save message ...
by Hardy Flor 11 Jul '15

11 Jul '15

How can I set the flags for a saved message without search?

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Error while executing dovecot
by Sachin Kulkarni1 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Hello All, I am trying to execute dovecot by below command /opt/app/dovecot/latest/sbin/dovecot -c /opt/app/dovecot/latest/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf I am getting below error doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /opt/app/dovecot/latest/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: default_login_user doesn't exist: dovenull please guide me to resolve this. Thanks and Regards, Sachin ============================================================================================================================ Disclaimer: This message and the information contained herein is proprietary and confidential and subject to the Tech Mahindra policy statement, you may review the policy at http://www.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html externally http://tim.techmahindra.com/tim/disclaimer.html internally within TechMahindra. ============================================================================================================================

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Re: Systemd and listen restriction to localhost not enforced
by Joseph Tam 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Sven Strickroth <sven(a)cs-ware.de> writes: > in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf I have restricted IMAP to > localhost only: > > service imap-login { > inet_listener imap { > address = 127.0.0.1 > #port = 143 > } > inet_listener imaps { > #port = 993 > #ssl = yes > } > } > > However, /lib/systemd/system/dovecot.socket make it listen on > 0.0.0.0:143 and [::]:143 causing the service being available to > the public which it should not. - IMHO this is a security issue. I don't know much about systemd, but you'll probably need dovecot configuration listen = 127.0.0.1 Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Systemd and listen restriction to localhost not enforced
by Sven Strickroth 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hi, in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf I have restricted IMAP to localhost only: service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1 #port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { #port = 993 #ssl = yes } } However, /lib/systemd/system/dovecot.socket make it listen on 0.0.0.0:143 and [::]:143 causing the service being available to the public which it should not. - IMHO this is a security issue. PS: When starting dovecot I got: Jul 6 22:52:14 srv1 dovecot[19921]: Error: systemd listens on port 143, but it's not configured in Dovecot. Closing. Jul 6 22:52:14 srv1 dovecot: master: Error: systemd listens on port 143, but it's not configured in Dovecot. Closing. -- Best regards, Sven Strickroth PGP key id F5A9D4C4 @ any key-server

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vsz_limit of service doveadm "ignored"?
by Philipp 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Hello, dovecot 2.2.18 on CentOS6.5 Jul 08 11:53:44 dsync-server(system): Fatal: master: service(doveadm): child 32554 returned error 83 (Out of memory (service doveadm { vsz_limit=521 MB }, you may need to increase it) - set CORE_OUTOFMEM=1 environment to get core dump) I tried increasing to 1 G, 1024 M or even disabling via value of zero -- to no change. Every other service has the famous 18446744073709551615 B limit. default_vsz_limit = 2 G The second node with the same setup/config is happily accepting a higher value, since both come from the same provisioning I cannot see (or expect) differences around ulimit and thelike. The configuration comes from a single file, so no include drama or such. Any pointers why the setting is being ignored?

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ESEARCH multiple folders
by Peter Chiochetti 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

FTS-Solr is blazingly fast; yet searching e.g. an archive with subfolders still is slow; I learned, that this is a feature/bug of the imap protocol. So I'd like to ask: Does or will dovecot support the "IMAP4 Multimailbox SEARCH Extension" specified in RFC 7377? -- Kind regards Peter

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Scalability with high density servers and proxies, TCP port limits
by Christian Balzer 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Hello, first post in 3 years, kinda shows how painless Dovecot is. ^o^ Also this isn't really a dovecot issue, alas it's involved and since there are some large scale implementations of it I hope somebody here has some insights I might have missed. Currently we're running this setup: 1. LVS (DR mode) in a HA configuration (2 node cluster) 2. Dovecot in proxy mode on a 2 node cluster 3. Dovecot on actual mailbox servers (dual node DRBD clusters) There are about 500k users, but most of them use POP3, so there are usually less than 6k IMAP sesions at any given time. This is about to change, I'm looking at potentially millions of users who will have all semi-permanent IMAP sessions. We already have a pure SSD based mailbox cluster and based on the experiences with that another one is on order that will be able to easily handle about 500k users with regards to IOPS and other needs. However there's the issue of having all these concurrent IMAP sessions. Namely, running out of ephemeral ports. Lets assume 2 million users and 50k ports per IP and revisit the setup above. 1. LVS should have no problem, from experience and tests I expect a well tuned and spec'ed machine to handle millions of connections. This is in DR mode, in NAT mode I assume things would run into a wall a lot quicker. But even if LVS should run out of steam, there's a wide selection of high capacity load balancers available. 2. Here is where the fun starts. Each IMAP session that gets proxied to the real mailbox server needs a port for the outgoing connection. So to support 2 million sessions we need 40 IP addresses here. Ouch. And from a brief test having multiple IP addresses per server won't help either (Dovecot unsurprisingly picks the main IP when establishing a proxy session to the real mailbox), at least not with just one default GW. 3. All of this gets repeated on the actual mailbox servers, by either having a lot of low density servers or (preferably) high density servers with multiple IP addresses. Am I on track so far or missing something obvious? How many concurrent connections do you (hello Timo) think dovecot in proxy mode can handle? High performance mode of course in this case. I'm interested in internal limitations, assume that CPU and RAM are amply supplied. Any and all feedback is appreciated. Regards, Christian -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer chibi(a)gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Communications http://www.gol.com/

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HELP: wrinting dovecot-sql.conf to authenticate to an existing database
by Filippo Zeus 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

hi all, can anyone help me with dovecot-sql.conf please ? I'm not a mysql expert and I'am trying to authenticate dovecot2 to an existing database. I have a database "egroupware" with table "egw_accounts". The field "account_lid" is the full email address and "account_pwd" is the password in Blowfish format. Here is my dovecot-sql.conf driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=egroupware user=egroupware password=********* default_pass_scheme = BLF-CRYPT password_query = SELECT account_pwd AS password FROM egw_accounts WHERE account_lid = '%u' when I try to login to POP or IMAP I got this error in mail.log/mail.info Error: sql(hidden@mydomain.com,::1): Invalid password in passdb: crypt() failed: Invalid argument auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL#0111#011user=hidden(a)mydomain.com dovecot: pop3-login: Debug: Ignoring unknown passdb extra field: I think I'm having trouble with the password value that is stored in the account_pwd as: {crypt}$2a$12$XTAolzXgwMC211MuZELQUedPv9tjZNs7Osh97PnZ50pAKuk3WPGmS Reading at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes I suppose that the heading "{crypt}$2a$" instead of a simple "$2a$" (witch identifies a Blowfish password) is my problem. How can I fix this ? Here is my dovecot -n output: # 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 8.1 xfs auth_cache_size = 64 M auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_log_format_elements = USER=<%u> METHOD=%m FROM=%r TO=%l %c mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_plugins = quota mail_privileged_group = vmail 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 spamtest spamtestplus imapflags notify namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive { auto = no special_use = \Archive } mailbox "Deleted Messages" { auto = no special_use = \Trash } mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = no special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = no special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = . } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_exceeded_message = Storage quota for this account has been exceeded, please try again later. quota_grace = 10%% quota_rule = *:storage=6G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M quota_rule3 = spam:ignore quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u sieve = ~/dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/mail/sieve/before.sieve sieve_default = /var/mail/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve.d sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags +spamtest +spamtestplus +relational +comparator-i;ascii-numeric sieve_global_dir = /var/mail/sieve/global.d sieve_max_script_size = 1M } postmaster_address = postmaster@%d protocols = " imap sieve pop3 sieve" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service managesieve { process_limit = 15 } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } user = dovecot } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/dharma/mail/mail_antonica_it.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/dharma/mail/mail_antonica_it.key userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/%d/%n driver = static } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota sieve } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol sieve { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 }

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Autocreate folders with specific permissions
by Fabio S. Schmidt 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Hi, I have Dovecot 2.1 deployed running about 65k mailboxes. We need to create a specific folder for all users with specific permissions. I mean, the user could not delete or rename the folder. To create the folder automatically I have used the autocreate, but is there any way to set specific permissions on those folders? My best regards.

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Problem with IMAP-Proxy and M$ Exchange-Server
by Luca Bertoncello 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Hi List! I **HATE** Exchange-Server. I think it's not able to manage E-Mails, but we have to use it at work... Well, we need to read the E-Mails from outside, so I configured Dovecot with IMAPC to connect to the Exchange-Server. It works, but I have a problem... If I receive an E-Mail, and I read it from my phone (for example), I see in Outlook that the E-Mail as been read. If I move the E-Mail in another folder from my phone, I see in Outlook the E-Mail in the new folder **AND** in the INBOX. If I check my E-Mail from another phone (or Mail-Client), I see the E-Mail just in the new folder, so I think, the Exchange-Server did move it. But Outlook does not get this information... Any idea how can I solve my problem? Thanks Luca Bertoncello (lucabert(a)lucabert.de)

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Large jumps in dovecot-uidlist
by Mark 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Since upgrading to Debian Wheezy I have been observing large jumps in the value stored in dovecot-uidlist. The effect of these jumps is to confuse some mail clients (Thunderbird, Opera Mail) causing them not to display messages from a (random?) point in time onwards in the affected folder. I have been unable to determine the root cause of these jumps. What I do know: 1. I never observed the problem while running Debian Squeeze. 2. The only way I have found to fix the issue is to remove all the dovecot* files from the affected folder and restart dovecot. I have tried removing various subsets of the dovecot* files but haven't yet found a subset that works. 3. I first tried upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy within a few weeks of the Wheezy release. At that point the problem occurred so frequently that I couldn't sync my mail client with my mail box. Multiple folders exhibited this problem and while I was fixing them the problem appeared in other folders. I was unable to reach a point where the system was stable so I reverted back to Squeeze. 4. Some time later (I think a year but I am not sure) I tried the upgrade to Wheezy again. This time the system was stable. After a few days I noticed that the problem was still occurring but less frequently. Since then I have been fixing the problem as I notice it and experimenting with various settings (mainly locking related) without success. I now have a cron job that looks for problematic folders and fixes them when found. 5. I have updated Dovecot packages to those from Jessie via wheezy-backports and the problem still occurs. 6. Dovecot is installed along with postfix, amavisd-new, clamav-daemon, procmail and fetchmail. 7. The mail server is running on a eSATA SheevaPlug that boots of an external USB drive. All user home dirs (and associated mailboxes) are located on a LUKS/ext3 encrypted partition. 8. The output of dovecot -n may be found at the end of this mail. 9. Uid values for the three most recent instances of this problem are: 3801596527, 3371927249, 3443181615 10. Some folders seem more susceptible to this problem but I have not been able to identify any common factors/triggers. 11. The problem occurs - on average - once a day. I am happy to provide any further information, configure any debug logging and/or test suggested configuration settings that may help track down the root cause of this problem. Any help gratefully appreciated. Mark # 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-kirkwood armv5tel Debian 7.8 mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_max_userip_connections = 100 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 } protocols = " imap" service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service { unix_listener { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client } name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service { inet_listener { port = 0 name = imap } inet_listener { port = 993 ssl = yes name = imaps } process_min_avail = 5 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 { executable = imap postlogin 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 pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service { executable = script-login -d rawlog name = postlogin } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service login/ssl-params { name = ssl-params } service stats-mail { name = stats } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/smtpd.crt ssl_cipher_list = HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:!MD5:!RC4 ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/smtpd.key userdb { driver = passwd } 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 { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } 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 login/imap { 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 pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service login/ssl-params { name = ssl-params } service stats-mail { name = stats } }

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Are the Dovecot Enterprise Edition Ubuntu 14.04 packages stable?
by deoren 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

I recently begun to migrate mail services to a new box so I could retrofit an existing box. I took this opportunity to check back on the official Dovecot Enterprise Edition (EE) pages to see if support has been added for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I never could find the information on the dovecot.fi website, but taking my existing credentials for Dovecot EE repo access and looking at the root path I see that 14.04 packages are available from the APT repo. Are those stable or experimental? I have an Ubuntu 12.04 box I've kept around just for Dovecot EE that I'd like to move to 14.04 if the packages are stable. p.s. Thank you for continuing to provide access for existing users of the repo, but what would new users need to do to obtain access? Thanks for your time.

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Dovecot - Config file details
by Sachin Kulkarni1 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Hello All, We want to install / configure and test Dovecot. We are doing it for the first time. After installation we are now looking for configuration file and need to know significance of below params and what values we should provide ? protocols = listen = base_dir = login_greeting = Please help. Thanks and Regards, Sachin Kulkarni ============================================================================================================================ Disclaimer: This message and the information contained herein is proprietary and confidential and subject to the Tech Mahindra policy statement, you may review the policy at http://www.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html externally http://tim.techmahindra.com/tim/disclaimer.html internally within TechMahindra. ============================================================================================================================

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Questions about hardlinks, alternate storage and compression
by Gionatan Danti 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hi all, I have some questions about hardlinks, alternate storage and compression. I already scanned the list for related information and I have an idea of how things works, but I would like to have a definite answer. System spec: - CentOS 6.6 x64 - dovecot-2.0.9-8.el6_6.4.x86_64 RPM package/version - sdbox mail store 1) About hardlinks: when sending the same message to two different recipients, I see that the two u.x files are created as two different files. Diffing them, I see that the only difference is a single char (see [1] for an example). My questions are: a) it is possible to tell dovecot to create a single file + a single hardlink (linkref=2)? As other IMAP servers support that features (eg: Cyrus, CommunigatePro, etc) I am wondering if I missed something in configuring dovecot... b) If it is not possible, can I run a script that compare the various files and substitute equal ones (minus the changing line) with hardlinks, or it will confuse dovecot? As a side note, why the changing line ever exists? 2) About alternate storage and compression: actually, I use a single mail_location without compression. I would like to have an alternate storage and to enable compression on it only, leaving the main location without compression. I if understand it correctly, it _should_ be done using a command similar to "doveadm -Dv -o "plugin/zlib_save=gz" altmove -uu testuser sentbefore 8d". I'm right thinking that it should work? I will really end with a primary uncompressed mail store and an alternate, zlib-compressed one? Thank you all and sorry if I did some naive questions. [1] 63c63 < G2fd0811c64be8e553d970000eaa8309f --- > G2ed0811c64be8e553d970000eaa8309f -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti(a)assyoma.it - info(a)assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8

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Dovecot LMTP tries to access a directory of a different user, than the one it actually changed to.
by Ernest Deak 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hello, I encountered a problem when trying to send an email to multiple recipients. === LOG === ... cut ... Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=, inbox= Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106): Connect from local Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106): Debug: auth input: han.solo system_groups_user=han.solo uid=805 gid=800 home=/home/han.solo Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106): Debug: auth input: tester system_groups_user=tester uid=802 gid=800 home=/home/tester Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106): Debug: auth input: vader system_groups_user=vader uid=804 gid=800 home=/home/vader Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, han.solo): Debug: Effective uid=805, gid=800, home=/home/han.solo Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, han.solo): Debug: fs: root=/home/han.solo/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/han.solo Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, han.solo): Debug: 70NxN1FlllUqXgAA0vrzwA: sieve: user's script path /home/han.solo/.dovecot.sieve doesn't exist (using global script path in stead) Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, han.solo): Debug: 70NxN1FlllUqXgAA0vrzwA: sieve: user has no valid personal script Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, han.solo): Debug: 70NxN1FlllUqXgAA0vrzwA: sieve: no scripts to execute: reverting to default delivery. Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, han.solo): 70NxN1FlllUqXgAA0vrzwA: msgid=<55966551.IfKOMu/T0WTB9M5x%vader at dhcp90.#####>: saved mail to INBOX Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, tester): Debug: Effective uid=802, gid=800, home=/home/tester Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, tester): Debug: fs: root=/home/tester/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/tester Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, tester): Debug: 70NxN1FlllUqXgAA0vrzwA: sieve: user's script path /home/tester/.dovecot.sieve doesn't exist (using global script path in stead) Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, tester): Debug: 70NxN1FlllUqXgAA0vrzwA: sieve: user has no valid personal script Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, tester): Debug: 70NxN1FlllUqXgAA0vrzwA: sieve: no scripts to execute: reverting to default delivery. Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, tester): Error: stat(/home/han.solo/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=802(tester) egid=800(kerber) missing +x perm: /home/han.solo, euid is not dir owner) Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, tester): Error: open(/home/han.solo/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index) failed: Permission denied (euid=802(tester) egid=800(kerber) missing +x perm: /home/han.solo, euid is not dir owner) Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, tester): 70NxN1FlllUqXgAA0vrzwA: msgid=<55966551.IfKOMu/T0WTB9M5x%vader at dhcp90.#####>: save failed to INBOX: BUG: Unknown internal error Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 sendmail[24121]: t63AYvn5024116: to=<tester at dhcp90.#####>, ctladdr=<vader at dhcp90.#####> (804/800), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=91062, relay=localhost, dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 451 4.2.0 <tester> BUG: Unknown internal error Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, vader): Debug: Effective uid=804, gid=800, home=/home/vader Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, vader): Debug: fs: root=/home/vader/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/vader Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, vader): Debug: 70NxN1FlllUqXgAA0vrzwA: sieve: user's script path /home/vader/.dovecot.sieve doesn't exist (using global script path in stead) Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, vader): Debug: 70NxN1FlllUqXgAA0vrzwA: sieve: user has no valid personal script Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, vader): Debug: 70NxN1FlllUqXgAA0vrzwA: sieve: no scripts to execute: reverting to default delivery. Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, vader): Error: stat(/home/han.solo/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=804(vader) egid=800(kerber) missing +x perm: /home/han.solo, euid is not dir owner) Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, vader): Error: open(/home/han.solo/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index) failed: Permission denied (euid=804(vader) egid=800(kerber) missing +x perm: /home/han.solo, euid is not dir owner) Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106, vader): 70NxN1FlllUqXgAA0vrzwA: msgid=<55966551.IfKOMu/T0WTB9M5x%vader at dhcp90.#####>: save failed to INBOX: BUG: Unknown internal error Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 sendmail[24121]: t63AYvn5024116: to=<vader at dhcp90.#####>, ctladdr=<vader at dhcp90.#####> (804/800), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=91062, relay=localhost, dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 451 4.2.0 <vader> BUG: Unknown internal error Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 sendmail[24121]: t63AYvn5024116: to=<han.solo at dhcp90.#####>, ctladdr=<vader at dhcp90.#####> (804/800), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=91062, relay=localhost, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Jul 3 12:34:57 dhcp90 dovecot: lmtp(24106): Disconnect from local: Client quit =========== The setup is as follows: All users have /bin/false instead of a shell. Each user has a unique UID but they all have 1 GID (800) My MTA is sendmail I am using dovecot-lmtp for local delivery Mailbox format is mbox Configured managesieve plugin to listen on 4190. (not sure if this is even related but it might) The problem I see is that lmtp(user1) tries to access the home directory /home/user2 and I cannot figure out the reason why. This only happens when sending mails to multiple recipients. I see the that lmtp complains that it doesn't have execute permissions. But I don't want to place execute permissions for others on the entire /home/* dir structure. Also, 700 are the default creation permissions. So new users would have to be chmod'ed manually. (unless there is a setting in dovecot) I used "mailx" to send a test email to multiple recipients `echo "test message" | mailx -s "subject" -r vader at dhcp90.##### han.solo at dhcp90.##### vader at dhcp90.##### tester at dhcp90.#####` The only one who actually receives the message is han.solo at dhcp90.##### and The same happens with aliases in /etc/aliases. `echo "group test" | mailx -s "subject" -r vader at dhcp90.##### grouplist at dhcp90.#####` "grouplist" is defined in /etc/aliases and contains the same users as in the log Any help with this is greatly appreciated. Here is my dovecot configuration: === `dovecot -n` === # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.6 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes mail_debug = yes mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mail_gid = mail mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u 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 mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service lmtp { client_limit = 1 executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/lmtp -L inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 24 } process_min_avail = 1 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " sieve" postmaster_address = postmaster } =============== `rpm -qa | grep dovecot` dovecot-pigeonhole-2.0.9-8.el6_6.4.x86_64 dovecot-2.0.9-8.el6_6.4.x86_64 Thanks in advance.

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FW: Help needed to use dovecot from scratch
by Sachin Kulkarni1 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hello All, Can anybody help in this please? Thanks and Regards, Sachin Kulkarni -----Original Message----- From: Sachin Kulkarni1 Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 6:13 PM To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Cc: 'dovecot-owner(a)dovecot.org'; 'dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org' Subject: Help needed to use dovecot from scratch Hello, I need to use Dovecot. So need to install it from scratch on Solaris 10. Please help. Thanks and Regards, Sachin Kulkarni ============================================================================================================================ Disclaimer: This message and the information contained herein is proprietary and confidential and subject to the Tech Mahindra policy statement, you may review the policy at http://www.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html externally http://tim.techmahindra.com/tim/disclaimer.html internally within TechMahindra. ============================================================================================================================

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Google like searches from Roundcube
by Kevin Laurie 05 Jul '15

05 Jul '15

hi, trying to get fast searches on roundcube. would like if it could work like gmail (using multiple keywords to perform search) if not wrong, i think this is called fuzzy search(i do have dovecot_fts running)? please advise if anyone has managed to get this? thanks kevin

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outlook downloading duplicate emails on particular days
by Rajesh M 04 Jul '15

04 Jul '15

hi centos 6 with qmail toaster and dovecot 2.2.7 for pop3 and imap i have a strange issue which happens on all 4 of my servers for POP3 users -- on any random day ie once in a while users spread across multiple domains will face a problem of outlook re-downloading ALL the emails in the inbox -- not just a few duplicate emails but the entire inbox. This happens for multiple email users spread across multiple domains sitting in different locations. i am searching for a solution for the last several months but nothing yet require help please my dovecot config file # Settings for 'stock' qmail-toaster disable_plaintext_auth = no default_login_user = vpopmail mail_max_userip_connections = 50 service imap-login { service_count = 0 client_limit = 256 process_min_avail = 4 vsz_limit = 384M process_limit = 400 } service pop3-login { service_count = 0 client_limit = 1000 process_min_avail = 12 vsz_limit = 512M process_limit = 400 } auth_cache_size = 0 auth_cache_ttl = 0 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_username_format = %Lu first_valid_uid = 89 first_valid_gid = 89 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log login_greeting = ready. mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota plugin/quota = maildir protocols = imap pop3 ssl_cert = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem ssl_key = </var/qmail/control/servercert.pem # the following will likely be the default at some point ssl_dh_parameters_length = 2048 namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = # prefix = INBOX. # Use 'prefix = INBOX.' for Courier-IMAP compatible transparent migration. # This forces all client apps to create subfolders underneath/within # the inbox instead of adjacent to it. It's not necessary to be that way. # FWIW, shubes thinks this setting is annoying/rediculous/retarded. # As a practical example, having no prefix allows mobile users to select # which folders get synchronized. Otherwise their whole mailbox is # synchronized, and they have no way to choose which folders they want sync'd. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = cache_key=%u webmail=127.0.0.1 driver = vpopmail } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = "delay-newmail" mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_fast_size_lookups = yes pop3_lock_session = no # pop3_uidl_format = UID%u-%v pop3_no_flag_updates=yes } userdb { args = cache_key=%u quota_template=quota_rule=*:backend=%q driver = vpopmail } plugin { quota = maildir:ignore=Trash quota_rule = ?:storage=0 } thanks raj

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Re: dovecot auth using 100% CPU
by Edward Betts 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Jorge Bastos <mysql.jorge(a)decimal.pt> wrote: > What do you see in the logs? > My guess is that someone is trying a brute force auth against you, Thanks Jorge, I think this is the answer. I'm using dovecot for exim4 SMTP authentication. The exim4 logs show brute force attacks. -- Edward.

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