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Dovecot and Thunderbird 15
by Elise 10 Aug '23

10 Aug '23

Hi, I recently had some issues with Thunderbird 15 when removing e-mail. With my other mailclient Outlook I could without any issue. As I don't grand POP3 mail pickup, I disabled that in dovecot.conf #service pop3-login { # inet_listener pop3 { # address = 10.10.10.52 # } # inet_listener pop3s { # address = 10.10.10.52 # } #} Enabling the above and restarting Dovecot solved the issue. Is it TB related or do I overlook a config parameter? E.

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Question about custom flags
by d.meister-braeuer＠heinlein-support.de 09 Aug '23

09 Aug '23

Hello all, RFC3501 describes among other things that custom flags can be set for mails. These can be allowed or forbidden in the server: "Servers MAY permit the client to define new keywords in the mailbox". When I am on our server, it also looks like dovecot basically allows this: a select INBOX FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Forwarded Old $ITipAnalyzed $ITipProcessed Forwarded NonJunk $cl_1 $cl_2 $cl_3) OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $Forwarded Old $ITipAnalyzed $ITipProcessed Forwarded NonJunk $cl_1 $cl_2 $cl_3 \*)] Flags permitted. The only option that goes in this direction is this one: mail_max_keyword_length But basically describes something else as well, if I see it correctly. Is there a way to prevent dovecot from giving custom flags, or what is the name of the parameter where you can set this? Best

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Outlook not showing all email in inbox at random
by David Koski 09 Aug '23

09 Aug '23

I manage IT for a small office with about 10 workstations. Dovecot has been installed for years and is now at 2.3.4.1-5 (Debian). I just discovered that the user cannot see many emails in the inbox. I was alerted when email was not appearing to be coming in for many hours. Other users observed the same thing. On investigation, I noticed many inbox emails missing in the Outlook GUI from times past that were on the server. It appears to be a broken client (Outlook 2019) to me but troubleshooting has yielded no solid leads. The profile and OST files have been re-created many times with no change in outcome. Each time, the inbox does not synchronize about 40 most recent emails but does for the last one for the day before and many before that. It may well be an Outlook issue so I'm looking for information to work around an Outlook bug if necessary. Thunderbird works perfectly. Also, interestingly, I can copy email from Thunderbird (or move emails on the server) to a temporary directory form the inbox, then move them back and they will appear if I don't move too many at a time. Regards, David Koski dkoski(a)sutinen.com

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Application to automate mail-crypt plugin with user keys
by Benedikt Zumtobel 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

Hi everyone, I run a very small (about 10 users) mailserver setup with the mail-crypt plugin activated and wanted to transition from a global key setup to user keys. Since I couldn't find a satisfying solution to reencrypt mailboxes when users change their password I started writing a script that ended up being a small webservice giving users a simple selfservice portal to change their password. I consider it pretty much done by now and it's public on github. Maybe it's useful for somebody else. However its use case is very narrow since I initially wrote this just for myself. It does only support a Postgres user store for instance. The main reason, however, for this post is me wondering if anybody would bother to give me some feedback. Especially for the following aspects: I execute doveadm from within my application. The advantage is that I can keep the code very light (~650 lines of code) while at the same time don't have to care about the crypto stuff which I wouldn't dare trying anyways. The disadvantage of this approach is that I had to write a doveadm wrapper that needs the setuid bit to execute doveadm mailbox commands. I consider this a bit hacky but a better solution didn't come to my mind. Another aspect is the password that is being used to encrypt the private key. When creating a new user in the database I generate a unique salt. This salt is prefixed to the user's clear text password and the resulting string is run trough the sha3-512 hash function. The output is the mail_crypt_private_password. You find the project here: https://github.com/nonce9/pwch Criticism is welcome. Benedikt

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Dovecot bug submit - Dovecot stats
by Brent Clark 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

Good day Guys Just a brief background, Im looking to enable and run doveadm stats, as per https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/stats/ When I run the command: doveadm stats add --description "IMAP SELECT commands" --exporter log-exporter --exporter-include "name timestamps" --fields "bytes_in bytes_out" --group-by "cmd_name tagged_reply_state" imap_cmd_select "event=imap_command_finished AND name=SELECT" I get: ==> /var/log/mail.info <== Aug 3 05:52:36 bullseye dovecot: stats: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x42) [0x7f08c7097582] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x1e) [0x7f08c709769e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1022fb) [0x7f08c70a42fb] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x102391) [0x7f08c70a4391] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x55589) [0x7f08c6ff7589] -> dovecot/stats(+0x5aa5) [0x561765217aa5] -> dovecot/stats(stats_metrics_add_dynamic+0x11f) [0x56176521a80f] -> dovecot/stats(+0x6724) [0x561765218724] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(connection_input_default+0x155) [0x7f08c709bd05] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x69) [0x7f08c70ba529] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x132) [0x7f08c70bbc12] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x50) [0x7f08c70ba5d0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x40) [0x7f08c70ba790] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f08c702d353] -> dovecot/stats(main+0x128) [0x561765217e38] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xea) [0x7f08c6ca8d0a] -> dovecot/stats(_start+0x2a) [0x561765217eba] ==> /var/log/mail.warn <== Aug 3 06:23:51 bullseye dovecot: stats: Fatal: master: service(stats): child 38121 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) I installed and run systemd-coredump, dovecot-sysreport Please will you take a look at the various attached files (coredumps etc) Many thanks. Kind Regards Brent Clark

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doveadm fts lookup: Is "search query" documented anywhere?
by Graham Leggett 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

Hi all, According to the —help option for doveadm fts, there is a “lookup” option as follows: [root@aurora ~]# doveadm fts --help usage: doveadm [-Dv] [-f <formatter>] fts <command> [<args>] expand [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] <search query> lookup [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] <search query> optimize [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] [<namespace>] rescan [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] [<namespace>] tokenize [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] <text> The option does not appear to be documented anywhere (eg https://doc.dovecot.org/3.0/man/doveadm-fts.1/) and “search query” doesn’t appear to be defined. Guessing that it might be just plain text, I tried searching for a known word, but this failed as follows: [root@aurora ~]# doveadm fts lookup -u test(a)example.com sweet Fatal: Unknown argument SWEET Anyone know? Regards, Graham —

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Trash deleted date?
by joe a 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

Using Thunderbird client. Cannot sort "Trash" Folder by time/date deleted. I can display both "Received" and "Date" columns, but they show identical data. Does dovecot create a "deleted" time stamp? dovecote 2.3.20 (80a5ac675d) TB 102.14.0 64 bit

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passwdb deny.ip
by mauric＠gmx.ch 06 Aug '23

06 Aug '23

Hello i understod in the last discussion thread <Forcing imap authentication failure for certain IP addresses> that also IP can be filter, ok the ip are available in deny.ip. Please why this are not blocked? # dovecot version 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4) passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/deny.ip args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } cat mail.log | grep 'sql(name,' Aug 06 01:29:11 Dovecot/auth-worker(7927): Info: sql(Name,A.B.232.146): unknown user # cat deny.ip | grep A.B.232.146 A.B.232.146 meny thanks

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mail-crypt long-term support? How to backup?
by eaerhaerhaehae aehraerhaeha 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

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Dovecot shared folders - examples of the "doveadm acl" command?
by Graham Leggett 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

Hi all, The old wiki has been taken down, and all the links I can find through google are now broken. Does anyone have a concrete example of “doveadm acl” to grant someone access to a shared folder? Regards, Graham —

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fail2ban / ldap login failure
by micha＠micha.waw.pl 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

[Debian Bookworm + Dovecot 2] I have user database in ldap (samba). I want to use fail2ban to restrict unsuccessful login attempts, but... I cannot see "Authentication failure" message in ANY log. (/var/log/mail.log shows successful logins as well as disconnects.) How should I proceed?

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Pigeonhole redirect is adding a message-id header when it already exists
by Sébastien Riccio 04 Aug '23

04 Aug '23

Hello, We are using sieve filter to redirect incoming mails to an external mailbox (gmail) an we are seeing some forwarded e-mails being rejected by gmail because of duplicate headers. I think was able to identify the probable cause of the duplicate headers: It seems that when the original message's "Message-ID" is not compliant, pigeonhole acts like if the header is not existing and adds it's own Message-ID. This result in having two "Message-ID" headers being submitted to the destination mail server. Original Message-ID: Message-ID: 1883biz_pay_after_purchase:0:0_572392900$ae7ed6e4d53b424c84aaf83b30c507e7 Pigeon hole adds his own Message-ID: Message-ID: <dovecot-sieve-1664386049-21512-0@510faa1ff2d9> Gmail answer: 550-5.7.1 [94.103.100.17] Our system has detected that this message is not RFC 550-5.7.1 5322 compliant: duplicate headers. To reduce the amount of spam sent 550-5.7.1 to Gmail, this message has been blocked. Please review 550 5.7.1 RFC 5322 specifications for more information. While I understand the original "Message-ID" seems to be all but compliant with RFCs, shouldn't a "Message-ID" be added only when "Message-ID" is really missing ? When redirecting a message, If the original "Message-ID" exists but is bogus shouldn't it still be forwarded untouched ? Also, maybe if pigeonhole is adding it's own "Message-ID", shouldn't it remove any previous "Message-ID" to avoid generating duplicate headers ? (but maybe it could break some DKIM stuff?) Any ideas how to workaround this issue ? Thanks a lot for your feedbacks! Sébastien RICCIO SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR P +41 840 888 888 F +41 840 888 000 M sriccio(a)swisscenter.com<mailto:sriccio@swisscenter.com>

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Using / in folder names
by Scott 04 Aug '23

04 Aug '23

Is this possible at all ? I am trying to import a PST file and it has a slash in the folder name. Dovecot errors out with : APPEND "Caixa de Entrada_VIDA/S1" (\Seen) NO [CANNOT] Invalid mailbox name: Name must not have '/' characters My namespace separator is the dot and I configured the listescape plugin to escape / but it still doesn't work. The listescape documentation says: The / character is disallowed on POSIX systems. This plugin allows you to use all of these characters, as long as the virtual separator (i.e. what is set by the separator setting and used as such by the IMAP protocol) is changed to something else, which means that the plugin does not make it possible to use the virtual separator in folder names. So it seems that as long as I use the dot, it should work ? Except it doesn't... How can I do this import ? Thank you!

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RE: Forcing imap authentication failure for certain IP addresses
by aki.tuomi 02 Aug '23

02 Aug '23

One way is to use https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/auth_policy/or you can use passdb { driver = passwd-file deny = yes args = username_formar=%{rip} /etc/dovecot/deny.ip}or you can use https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/lua_based_authe… write this in Lua.Aki -------- Original message --------From: Hippo Man <hippoman(a)gmail.com> Date: 8/1/23 18:14 (GMT+02:00) To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Subject: Forcing imap authentication failure for certain IP addresses I'm running dovecot 2.3.18 under Debian 11.I want to do something that's a bit unusual: when IMAP connections are attemptedfrom a few specific IP addresses, I want to force an IMAP authentication failurefrom those connections, no matter what user ID and password are specified.I know that I can use iptables to completely block imap access from those IPaddresses to the IMAP ports. However, in these specific cases, I'd prefer thatthe connection goes through to dovecot, but for dovecot then to always generateauthentication failures for those specific connections ... even if a validuser ID and password happen to be specified.Is there a way to do this in dovecot?Thank you very much in advance.-- hippoman(a)gmail.com Take a hippopotamus to lunch today. .---------, 0__0 / ( oo'---, / oo\ ,\ | | \ ,=__/ \ / / /------| /| |__|-' |__|'

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sieve passing body as arguments to executed script
by Jonathan Davis 02 Aug '23

02 Aug '23

I ran into an issue when trying to wildcard match the email body where the variable was empty, which lead me to extracttext and forverypart, however I am running into an odd error. When I deliver an email with the body of 'this is the body text of email' it dies with the following error: sogo: line 236: error: specified :args item `this is the body text of email??' is invalid The sieve in question: if header :matches "Subject" "*" { set "emailsubject" "${1}"; } if header :matches "From" "*" { set "emailfrom" "${1}"; } foreverypart { if header :mime :type :is "Content-Type" "text" { extracttext :first 80 "emailbody"; break; } } execute "script.php" ["${emailfrom}", "${emailsubject}", "${emailbody}"]; I tried downloading the log to see if ?? was a character not rendering correctly in console, but local text editors show the same. I'm not sure where it is coming from or what it is. I tried :quotewildcard with set :quotewildcard "quotedbody" ${emailbody}"; And passed "${quotedbody}" as an argument, however the same error was appearing in the logs. If I'm approaching this problem incorrectly, the end result is I want to pass the entire contents of the email to the script. - Jonathan

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Postlogin script ACL_GROUPS from LDAP
by Andrzej Milewski 01 Aug '23

01 Aug '23

Hello, I am testing the Dovecot mail server with the iRedMail configuration. My backend is based on LDAP. I would like to set up the "Public" folders in such a way as to grant permissions to specific groups of users. To achieve this, I created the following entry in the configuration: acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-acl-global:cache_secs=300 For individual users, the global permissions work correctly, and I achieve what I want. However, I am unsure how to grant permissions for a group. Specifically, I know that I should include permissions for groups in this file, for example: Public/ anyone l Public/IT_Suwalki group=grupa1 lrwstipek Public/IT_Suwalki/* group=grupa1 lrwstipekxa But I don't know how to associate users with groups. From what I managed to figure out, the user should have the "ACL_GROUPS=grupa1,grupa2" variable, and it should be passed by the postlogin script. But how can I do that? Do you have any working example of such a script? Which LDAP attributes should this script utilize? In my LDAP, there is an attribute called "memberOfGroup"; can I use it? Thank you for all the suggestions. -- Andrzej Milewski andrzej.milewski(a)gmail.com tel. 0603957324

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Imaptest sigfault error
by DeJa Wu 31 Jul '23

31 Jul '23

I Tried to run the test with imaptest and got a segfault error. Debug: Reading symbols from imaptest...done. (gdb) run user="puser%d(a)am.local" users=0-100000 pass=Us123456 host=ha-rr.am.local ssl=any-cert clients=100000 port=993 - secs=300 no_pipelining Starting program: /usr/bin/imaptest user="puser%d(a)am.local" users=0-100000 pass=Us123456 host=ha-rr.am.local ssl=any-cert clients=100000 port=993 - secs=300 no_pipelining [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". Logi Sele Logo 100% 100% 100% 179 163 154 551/637 [0%] 245 247 250 1153/1372 [1%] 238 240 238 1725/2086 [2%] 213 215 219 2250/2725 [2%] 213 209 203 2760/3364 (263 stalled >3s) [3%] 220 226 228 3308/4024 (854 stalled >3s) [4%] 247 245 247 3870/4765 (1338 stalled >3s) [4%] 239 237 239 4414/5482 (1800 stalled >3s) [5%] 259 257 259 4998/6259 (2299 stalled >3s) [6%] 270 274 271 5599/7069 (2809 stalled >3s) [7%] 3843 46 26 ms/cmd avg Logi Sele Logo 100% 100% 100% 243 242 237 6122/7798 (3369 stalled >3s) [7%] 242 239 237 6697/8524 (3937 stalled >3s) [8%] 241 241 248 7251/9247 (4542 stalled >3s) [9%] 229 231 234 7776/9934 (5143 stalled >3s) [9%] 230 228 225 8332/10624 (5800 stalled >3s) [10%] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff7f1745f in io_loop_handler_run_internal () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 How can I fix this?

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Notification "API" for external replication
by Heiko Schlittermann 31 Jul '23

31 Jul '23

Hi Aki and all the Dovecot team, thank you for your work on Dovecot. As the "built-in" replication is going to cease (I do not want to discuss the reasoning or any judgement here): Can you (the Dovecot developers) ensure that a kind of "notification socket"¹ will be there, even if you do not provide a the replicator feature? And - but that's already a feature request - could you use this (or an other socket) for notifications on sieve script changes? I can imagine using this socket as an "official" interface to external software. Actually that would implicate that the notification messages are documented and stable, but I'm sure, this would be possible (if not done already). ¹) That is how I understand the current mechanism of the replication: the replicator gets a notification via the socket and starts replicating the mailbox. Best regards from Dresden/Germany Viele Grüße aus Dresden Heiko Schlittermann -- SCHLITTERMANN.de ---------------------------- internet & unix support - Heiko Schlittermann, Dipl.-Ing. (TU) - {fon,fax}: +49.351.802998{1,3} - gnupg encrypted messages are welcome --------------- key ID: F69376CE -

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Accessing SSL parameters via dovecot variables
by Graham Leggett 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '23

Hi all, Dovecot supports variables, which can be used in filters. Does the SSL code expose variables linked to the client certificate? The answer today appears to be no, and if that’s true I plan to patch it, but just need to confirm I am not missing something. Regards, Graham —

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Filtering by SASL auth mechanism
by Graham Leggett 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '23

Hi all, I want dovecot to behave differently depending on what SASL mechanism was used. Most specifically, if EXTERNAL, I want auth_ssl_username_from_cert to be yes, but no otherwise. There is a filtering mechanism that supports protocol, remote, etc. https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/config_file/ Would it make sense to add a SASL mechanism filter like this: mechanism external { # … } Regards, Graha —

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SASL External and LDAP - Login attempt with empty password
by Graham Leggett 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '23

Hi all, I am trying to configure dovecot to accept SASL EXTERNAL authentication with a client certificate and no password. I have tried the following configuration: passdb { driver = ldap # Path for LDAP configuration file, see example-config/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-external.conf.ext mechanisms = external default_fields = noauthenticate=y } In the logs I see dovecot correctly negotiate SASL EXTERNAL, but eventually we reach this line and we fail: https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/34a18f5a79bf7eca58e55aff3e1fe69468292d… Which is in turn reached by following this code: https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/34a18f5a79bf7eca58e55aff3e1fe69468292d… In theory, if I understand this correctly, what is missing is a field to say “don’t try check any password”, which field is this supposed to be? “nopassword”? “noauthenticate”? I am happy to patch this, but need some guidance as what the correct approach is. Regards, Graham —

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Quota possibly overcomplicating, need sanity check?
by David Mehler 25 Jul '23

25 Jul '23

Hello, New setup and trying to get quotas going. It's a Dovecot/Postfix/Mariadb virtual user setup. In my db I have a varchar field called quota with a default value of 128. Here's what I have in dovecot configs for quota: # Plugins mail_plugins = acl mail_crypt quota service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { user = vmail mode = 0644 } inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24242 } } # quota status service quota-status { executable = quota-status -p postfix unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-quota { user = postfix group = postfix mode = 0660 } client_limit = 1 } # Quota warnings service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh user = vmail unix_listener quota-warning { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } plugin { quota = count:User quota quota2 = maildir:Shared quota:ns=public/ quota_max_mail_size = 100M # Required for 'count' quota driver quota_vsizes = yes quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=100M quota_rule3 = SPAM:ignore quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-warning +100 %u quota_warning2 = storage=95%% quota-warning +95 %u quota_warning3 = storage=80%% quota-warning +80 %u quota_warning4 = -storage=100%% quota-warning -100 %u # user is no longer over quota quota_exceeded_message = User %u has exhausted allowed storage space. quota_grace = 10%% # 10% is the default quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = "552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full" ## Stats ### how often to session statistics (must be set) stats_refresh = 30 secs ### track per-IMAP command statistics (optional) stats_track_cmds = yes } The protocol imap has the imap_quota plugin and protocol lmtp has the quota plugin. I've also got lmtp_rcpt_check_quota = yes mailbox_list_index = yes In my dovecot-sql.conf file my user query looks like this: user_query = SELECT concat('*:storage=', quota, 'M') AS quota_rule FROM accounts WHERE username = '%Ln' AND domain = '%Ld' AND sendonly = false; Postfix checks: check_policy_service unix:private/dovecot-quota Am I overcomplicating? Thanks. Dave.

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mail_crypt on existing mailstore
by David Mehler 25 Jul '23

25 Jul '23

Hello, I've got a pre-existing mailstore, it's a Postfix/Dovecot/Mariadb virtual-user setup, with users and mailboxes. I'd now like to get mail_crypt going. Can I do this with this existing store or if not how would I set this up? Thanks. Dave.

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subscription, dots and subscribe to shared folder.
by Julien Nadal 24 Jul '23

24 Jul '23

Hello; We were able to set up shared folders in a cluster (using dovecot as proxy on dedicated front-end servers, without using director) by following https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/shared_mailboxes/cluster_setup/. Here is our related conf on imap farms (dovecot v2.3.16 on Almalinux): namespaces: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir namespace default { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / } namespace shared { list = children location = imapc:~/shared/%%u:INDEXPVT=~/shared-pvt/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } imapc settings: imapc_features = fetch-bodystructure fetch-headers rfc822.size search modseq acl delay-login imapc_host = XXXXXX imapc_master_user = %{user} imapc_password = XXXXXX imapc_port = XXXXXX passdb { args = password=#hidden_use-P_to_show# userdb_namespace/shared/disabled=yes userdb_acl_user=%{auth_user} allow_nets=XXXXX/XX driver = static master = yes } dict { acl-mysql = mysql:/etc/dovecot/conf.d/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } This way, a folder is created under ~/ : shared & shared-pvt : When user A shares a folder with B, B will find ~/shared/userA/sharedfolder I should mention that the user authentication (backend: mysql) uses the full email address as we are in a multi-tenant context. So the folder looks like ~/shared/usera(a)domain.tld/folder Since then, everything works perfectly, we can share and see the shared folders in the webmail (SOGo). Unfortunately, accessing these folders through an imap client (tested on Thunderbird and MSOutlook) is impossible because the subscription fails (the folder is listed, but the subscription doesn't seem to do anything). I could not find any relevant logs but I was able to confirm on the command line: I am able to view folder with LIST, subscribe with an "OK" output, but the folder is not listed with LSUB. So I could see that the subscribtion file in maildir shows incorrect entries: V 2 Sent Trash Drafts Junk shared/testuser1@sub domain tld/INBOX/folder The dots in the folder names are replaced by tabs. I was able to recover things by editing the file as follows: Sent Trash Drafts Junk shared/testuser1(a)sub.domain.tld/INBOX/folder This means that Maildir++ and V2 subscription can't handle dots in folders. I found a previous discussion: https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2021-January/121233.html But the final advice can't be applied on our side: - changing LAYOUT to FS is not possible for us - we have already migrated the dot separator to slash - changing the layout only for shared namespaces does not solve the problem and totally breaks the access to shared folders. Thanks a lot for your advice Best regards Julien

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Outlook and IMAP Flags
by Laura Smith 22 Jul '23

22 Jul '23

Hi I've tried searching the internet, but the only thing I can find is a post on a MIcrosoft forum where a Microsoft reps claims flags are not supported on IMAP (I thought it was an RFC3501 feature ?). Anyway, I have a user who has Outlook/Windows on desktop and iOS (iPhone/iPad) for remote. On the iOS devices, the user can happily set flags against messages with zero issues. And indeed, when they set these flags, they are shown in Outlook. However if they attempt to set the flag in Outlook, nothing happens. Outlook continues showing the message as if it was unflagged. Any ideas ? Laura

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