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Re[3]: Replication weirdness
by Daniel Miller 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

And... The user who has both a "Sent" and a "Sent Messages" now has: drwx------ 3 vmail mail 24 Dec 3 09:56 Sent lrwxrwxrwx 1 vmail mail 4 Nov 30 17:51 'Sent Messages' -> Sent drwx------ 3 vmail mail 24 Dec 3 15:10 'Sent Messages-temp-1' drwx------ 3 vmail mail 24 Dec 3 15:10 'Sent Messages-temp-fc30bd0a3a9aaa61c1180500b88bfabe' and I got the following errors: Dec 3 15:10:46 cloud1 dovecot: doveadm(obfuscated)<336247><EMEQBvWjqmF3IQUAuIv6vg>: Error: Duplicate mailbox GUID 6aae8c39f3a3aa615a0700009db5accb for mailboxes Sent and Sent Messages-temp-1 - giving a new GUID 63481f29f6a3aa6177210500b88bfabe to Sent Dec 3 15:10:50 cloud1 dovecot: doveadm(obfuscated)<336245><HrHeOPOjqmF1IQUAuIv6vg>: Panic: file dsync-brain-mailbox.c: line 851 (dsync_brain_slave_recv_mailbox): assertion failed: (memcmp(dsync_box->mailbox_guid, local_dsync_box.mailbox_guid, sizeof(dsync_box->mailbox_guid)) == 0) Dec 3 15:10:50 cloud1 dovecot: doveadm(obfuscated)<336245><HrHeOPOjqmF1IQUAuIv6vg>: Error: Raw backtrace: #0 fatal_handler_real[0x7fde7fd20060] -> #1 i_internal_fatal_handler[0x7fde7fd20190] -> #2 i_panic[0x7fde7fc731ff] -> #3 dsync_brain_slave_recv_mailbox[0x55dde7b22900] -> #4 dsync_brain_run[0x55dde7b20380] -> #5 dsync_brain_run_io[0x55dde7b20b50] -> #6 dsync_ibc_stream_input[0x55dde7b329c0] -> #7 io_loop_call_io[0x7fde7fd36500] -> #8 io_loop_handler_run_internal[0x7fde7fd37ac0] -> #9 io_loop_handler_run[0x7fde7fd365c0] -> #10 io_loop_run[0x7fde7fd36740] -> #11 cmd_dsync_server_run[0x55dde7b04f60] -> #12 doveadm_mail_next_user[0x55dde7b06850] -> #13 doveadm_cmd_ver2_to_mail_cmd_wrapper[0x55dde7b077e0] -> #14 doveadm_cmd_run_ver2[0x55dde7b17f00] -> #15 client_connection_tcp_input[0x55dde7b1c6b0] -> #16 io_loop_call_io[0x7fde7fd36500] -> #17 io_loop_handler_run_internal[0x7fde7fd37ac0] -> #18 io_loop_handler_run[0x7fde7fd365c0] -> #19 io_loop_run[0x7fde7fd36740] -> #20 master_service_run[0x7fde7fca87d0] -> #21 main[0x55dde7af7770] -> #22 __libc_start_main[0x7fde7f8f9fc0] -> #23 _start[0x55dde7af78d0] Dec 3 15:10:50 cloud1 dovecot: doveadm(obfuscated)<336245><HrHeOPOjqmF1IQUAuIv6vg>: Fatal: master: service(doveadm): child 336245 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) Dec 3 15:10:52 cloud1 dovecot: doveadm(obfuscated)<336253><2VTpM/ujqmF9IQUAuIv6vg>: Error: Duplicate mailbox GUID 63481f29f6a3aa6177210500b88bfabe for mailboxes INBOX/Sent and INBOX/Sent Messages-temp-1 - giving a new GUID cba35507fca3aa617d210500b88bfabe to INBOX/Sent Dec 3 15:10:58 cloud1 dovecot: doveadm(obfuscated)<336258><ykbQAAGkqmGCIQUAuIv6vg>: Error: Duplicate mailbox GUID dc3b4434fba3aa61660700009db5accb for mailboxes Sent and Sent Messages-temp-1 - giving a new GUID 60ad190102a4aa6182210500b88bfabe to Sent -- Daniel ------ Original Message ------ From: "Daniel Miller" <dmiller(a)amfes.com> To: "Daniel Miller" <dmiller(a)amfes.com>; dovecot(a)dovecot.org Sent: 12/3/2021 2:42:12 PM Subject: Re[2]: Replication weirdness >And...one more. > >I'm now seeing (again) messages like: > >Dec 3 14:29:14 cloud1 dovecot: >doveadm(obfuscated)<334017><e3FHNjmaqmHBGAUAuIv6vg>: Error: Duplicate >mailbox GUID bcb9ca36ae36aa617f0a00009db5accb for mailboxes INBOX/Sent >Messages and INBOX/Sent - giving a new GUID >fc30bd0a3a9aaa61c1180500b88bfabe to INBOX/Sent >Dec 3 14:38:59 cloud1 dovecot: >doveadm(obfuscated)<334394><an5KIoOcqmE6GgUAuIv6vg>: Error: Duplicate >mailbox GUID fc30bd0a3a9aaa61c1180500b88bfabe for mailboxes INBOX/Sent >Messages and INBOX/Sent - giving a new GUID >f4338038839caa613a1a0500b88bfabe to INBOX/Sent > >Having one message for the initial sync I suppose is reasonable. A >second...maybe? But I'm getting nervous I'm about to start seeing the >endless temp folders again. >-- >Daniel > >------ Original Message ------ >From: "Daniel Miller" <dmiller(a)amfes.com> >To: "Daniel Miller" <dmiller(a)amfes.com>; dovecot(a)dovecot.org >Sent: 12/3/2021 2:39:25 PM >Subject: Re: Replication weirdness > >>Another item. >> >>Again, it may be a 2.3.13 issue and I'm now on 2.3.17. But...I had >>problem when using the "-N" parameter for dsync. So - I just have >>(had): >> >>replication_dsync_parameters = -d -l 30 -U -x INBOX/virtual -x >>INBOX/shared >> >>Now that things are working - I wanted to have my other namespaces >>sync as well. So I went to: >> >>replication_dsync_parameters = -d -l 30 -U -n INBOX -n INBOX/Archives >>-n INBOX/Lists -x INBOX/virtual -x INBOX/shared >> >>This appears to be working (the sync is just starting)...but I'm >>seeing lock errors in the logs such as: >>Dec 3 14:34:24 bubba dovecot: >>doveadm(dmiller(a)amfes.com)<31785><TV+0LlGbqmEpfAAAnbWsyw>: Error: >>Couldn't lock /var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/.dovecot-sync.lock: >>fcntl(/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/.dovecot-sync.lock, write-lock, >>F_SETLKW) locking failed: Timed out after 30 seconds (WRITE lock held >>by pid 31373) >> >>Checking the pid in question I see it's actively syncing a folder in >>my mailbox. So I'm guessing, purely guessing, that by having multiple >>namespaces explicitly directed to sync Dovecot is trying to start a >>sync process for each of those namespaces - but all of them share a >>common lock and therefore only one operation is allowed at a time. >> >>Am I correct, and whether or not I am - how can I correct these >>errors? Do I dare try going back to just "-N"? >> >>-- >>Daniel >> >>------ Original Message ------ >>From: "Daniel Miller" <dmiller(a)amfes.com> >>To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org >>Sent: 12/3/2021 2:16:28 PM >>Subject: Replication weirdness >> >>>First, I have to say this. After configuring everything correctly - >>>and that means *everything* correctly - Dovecot replication Just >>>Works. I'm not sure how (yes I do - Timo & Co. Magic) - but it does. >>>Real-time new sync is near instantaneous. >>> >>>Now the problem. Or the background for the problem. My primary server >>>uses sdbox for primary storage, mdbox for archival storage, and >>>fts-solr. I spun up a second server, using sdbox, mdbox, and >>>fts-flatcurve. My namespaces are as defined below. As best I can tell >>>(based on diff comparing two 'doveconf -n' outputs) my namespaces are >>>the same on both servers. >>> >>>namespace archives { >>> list = children >>> location = mdbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/Archives/mdbox >>> mailbox Unsorted { >>> auto = no >>> special_use = \Archive >>> } >>> prefix = INBOX/Archives/ >>> separator = / >>> subscriptions = no >>> type = private >>>} >>>namespace inbox { >>> alias_for = >>> hidden = no >>> inbox = yes >>> list = yes >>> location = >>> mailbox "Deleted Messages" { >>> auto = no >>> autoexpunge = 30 days >>> special_use = \Trash >>> } >>> mailbox Drafts { >>> auto = subscribe >>> special_use = \Drafts >>> } >>> mailbox Sent { >>> auto = subscribe >>> special_use = \Sent >>> } >>> mailbox Trash { >>> auto = subscribe >>> autoexpunge = 30 days >>> special_use = \Trash >>> } >>> prefix = INBOX/ >>> separator = / >>> subscriptions = no >>> type = private >>>} >>>namespace lists { >>> list = children >>> location = mdbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/Lists/mdbox >>> prefix = INBOX/Lists/ >>> separator = / >>> subscriptions = no >>> type = private >>>} >>>namespace subscriptions { >>> hidden = yes >>> list = no >>> location = >>> prefix = >>> separator = / >>> subscriptions = yes >>> type = private >>>} >>>namespace usershares { >>> list = yes >>> location = sdbox:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/sdbox:NO-NOSELECT >>> prefix = INBOX/shared/%%d/%%n/ >>> separator = / >>> subscriptions = no >>> type = shared >>>} >>>namespace virtual { >>> list = children >>> location = virtual:/var/mail/%d/%n/virtual >>> mailbox Flagged { >>> comment = All my flagged messages >>> special_use = \Flagged >>> } >>> prefix = INBOX/virtual/ >>> separator = / >>> subscriptions = no >>>} >>> >>>I also have: >>>plugin { >>> mailbox_alias_new = Sent Messages >>> mailbox_alias_new2 = Sent Items >>> mailbox_alias_new3 = Deleted Messages >>> mailbox_alias_old = Sent >>> mailbox_alias_old2 = Sent >>> mailbox_alias_old3 = Trash >>>} >>> >>>This setup worked fine with my single server. Then I enabled >>>replication - just on the primary. Dsync went to work (it seemed to >>>take forever for the initial sync but that's what happens with large >>>mailboxes and slow internet connections). >>> >>>The problem came up with certain subfolders. And I believe it only >>>happens with subfolders that have spaces in their names. I had two >>>user's mailboxes (under Sent), one of which had a "Sent Messages" >>>symlink alias for "Sent", that started generating tens or hundreds of >>>duplicates during sync. Fortunately those subfolders only had a few >>>mails in them. But I had trees looking like: >>> >>>[...] (below is under /var/mail/domain/user/sdbox/mailboxes/Sent/) >>>Proposal >>>Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-1-temp-f80b1a00ce9aa961a86-temp-2 >>>Proposal >>>Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-1-temp-f80b1a00ce9aa961a86-temp-3 >>>Proposal >>>Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-023fa4271c9ca9611ade0400b88bfabe >>>Proposal >>>Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-023fa4271c9ca9611ad-temp-1 >>>Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-1 >>>Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-2 >>>Proposal >>>Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-2-temp-1-temp-1 >>>Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-3 >>>Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-4 >>>Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-5 >>>Proposal >>>Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-e2aa0f35c99ba961356500009db5accb >>>[...] >>> >>>I kept stopping, cleaning up the folders, and re-starting - and they >>>kept regenerating. I tried renaming the folders to eliminate the >>>spaces and I think that helped in one case - for the others I just >>>moved the folders outside of the mail area completely to let the sync >>>finish. >>> >>>Now that it's been stable for a day or two - I enabled sync in the >>>other direction. And after setting *all* the required parameters >>>instead of just most of them...it's working. But...I'm nervous about >>>moving the problem folders back over. I will say, if it makes any >>>difference, my primary server *was* running version 2.3.13 and I just >>>updated it to 2.3.17. The remote is also 2.3.17. >>> >>>-- >>>Daniel

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Re[2]: Replication weirdness
by Daniel Miller 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

And...one more. I'm now seeing (again) messages like: Dec 3 14:29:14 cloud1 dovecot: doveadm(obfuscated)<334017><e3FHNjmaqmHBGAUAuIv6vg>: Error: Duplicate mailbox GUID bcb9ca36ae36aa617f0a00009db5accb for mailboxes INBOX/Sent Messages and INBOX/Sent - giving a new GUID fc30bd0a3a9aaa61c1180500b88bfabe to INBOX/Sent Dec 3 14:38:59 cloud1 dovecot: doveadm(obfuscated)<334394><an5KIoOcqmE6GgUAuIv6vg>: Error: Duplicate mailbox GUID fc30bd0a3a9aaa61c1180500b88bfabe for mailboxes INBOX/Sent Messages and INBOX/Sent - giving a new GUID f4338038839caa613a1a0500b88bfabe to INBOX/Sent Having one message for the initial sync I suppose is reasonable. A second...maybe? But I'm getting nervous I'm about to start seeing the endless temp folders again. -- Daniel ------ Original Message ------ From: "Daniel Miller" <dmiller(a)amfes.com> To: "Daniel Miller" <dmiller(a)amfes.com>; dovecot(a)dovecot.org Sent: 12/3/2021 2:39:25 PM Subject: Re: Replication weirdness >Another item. > >Again, it may be a 2.3.13 issue and I'm now on 2.3.17. But...I had >problem when using the "-N" parameter for dsync. So - I just have >(had): > >replication_dsync_parameters = -d -l 30 -U -x INBOX/virtual -x >INBOX/shared > >Now that things are working - I wanted to have my other namespaces sync >as well. So I went to: > >replication_dsync_parameters = -d -l 30 -U -n INBOX -n INBOX/Archives >-n INBOX/Lists -x INBOX/virtual -x INBOX/shared > >This appears to be working (the sync is just starting)...but I'm seeing >lock errors in the logs such as: >Dec 3 14:34:24 bubba dovecot: >doveadm(dmiller(a)amfes.com)<31785><TV+0LlGbqmEpfAAAnbWsyw>: Error: >Couldn't lock /var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/.dovecot-sync.lock: >fcntl(/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/.dovecot-sync.lock, write-lock, >F_SETLKW) locking failed: Timed out after 30 seconds (WRITE lock held >by pid 31373) > >Checking the pid in question I see it's actively syncing a folder in my >mailbox. So I'm guessing, purely guessing, that by having multiple >namespaces explicitly directed to sync Dovecot is trying to start a >sync process for each of those namespaces - but all of them share a >common lock and therefore only one operation is allowed at a time. > >Am I correct, and whether or not I am - how can I correct these errors? >Do I dare try going back to just "-N"? > >-- >Daniel > >------ Original Message ------ >From: "Daniel Miller" <dmiller(a)amfes.com> >To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org >Sent: 12/3/2021 2:16:28 PM >Subject: Replication weirdness > >>First, I have to say this. After configuring everything correctly - >>and that means *everything* correctly - Dovecot replication Just >>Works. I'm not sure how (yes I do - Timo & Co. Magic) - but it does. >>Real-time new sync is near instantaneous. >> >>Now the problem. Or the background for the problem. My primary server >>uses sdbox for primary storage, mdbox for archival storage, and >>fts-solr. I spun up a second server, using sdbox, mdbox, and >>fts-flatcurve. My namespaces are as defined below. As best I can tell >>(based on diff comparing two 'doveconf -n' outputs) my namespaces are >>the same on both servers. >> >>namespace archives { >> list = children >> location = mdbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/Archives/mdbox >> mailbox Unsorted { >> auto = no >> special_use = \Archive >> } >> prefix = INBOX/Archives/ >> separator = / >> subscriptions = no >> type = private >>} >>namespace inbox { >> alias_for = >> hidden = no >> inbox = yes >> list = yes >> location = >> mailbox "Deleted Messages" { >> auto = no >> autoexpunge = 30 days >> special_use = \Trash >> } >> mailbox Drafts { >> auto = subscribe >> special_use = \Drafts >> } >> mailbox Sent { >> auto = subscribe >> special_use = \Sent >> } >> mailbox Trash { >> auto = subscribe >> autoexpunge = 30 days >> special_use = \Trash >> } >> prefix = INBOX/ >> separator = / >> subscriptions = no >> type = private >>} >>namespace lists { >> list = children >> location = mdbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/Lists/mdbox >> prefix = INBOX/Lists/ >> separator = / >> subscriptions = no >> type = private >>} >>namespace subscriptions { >> hidden = yes >> list = no >> location = >> prefix = >> separator = / >> subscriptions = yes >> type = private >>} >>namespace usershares { >> list = yes >> location = sdbox:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/sdbox:NO-NOSELECT >> prefix = INBOX/shared/%%d/%%n/ >> separator = / >> subscriptions = no >> type = shared >>} >>namespace virtual { >> list = children >> location = virtual:/var/mail/%d/%n/virtual >> mailbox Flagged { >> comment = All my flagged messages >> special_use = \Flagged >> } >> prefix = INBOX/virtual/ >> separator = / >> subscriptions = no >>} >> >>I also have: >>plugin { >> mailbox_alias_new = Sent Messages >> mailbox_alias_new2 = Sent Items >> mailbox_alias_new3 = Deleted Messages >> mailbox_alias_old = Sent >> mailbox_alias_old2 = Sent >> mailbox_alias_old3 = Trash >>} >> >>This setup worked fine with my single server. Then I enabled >>replication - just on the primary. Dsync went to work (it seemed to >>take forever for the initial sync but that's what happens with large >>mailboxes and slow internet connections). >> >>The problem came up with certain subfolders. And I believe it only >>happens with subfolders that have spaces in their names. I had two >>user's mailboxes (under Sent), one of which had a "Sent Messages" >>symlink alias for "Sent", that started generating tens or hundreds of >>duplicates during sync. Fortunately those subfolders only had a few >>mails in them. But I had trees looking like: >> >>[...] (below is under /var/mail/domain/user/sdbox/mailboxes/Sent/) >>Proposal >>Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-1-temp-f80b1a00ce9aa961a86-temp-2 >>Proposal >>Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-1-temp-f80b1a00ce9aa961a86-temp-3 >>Proposal >>Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-023fa4271c9ca9611ade0400b88bfabe >>Proposal >>Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-023fa4271c9ca9611ad-temp-1 >>Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-1 >>Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-2 >>Proposal >>Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-2-temp-1-temp-1 >>Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-3 >>Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-4 >>Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-5 >>Proposal >>Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-e2aa0f35c99ba961356500009db5accb >>[...] >> >>I kept stopping, cleaning up the folders, and re-starting - and they >>kept regenerating. I tried renaming the folders to eliminate the >>spaces and I think that helped in one case - for the others I just >>moved the folders outside of the mail area completely to let the sync >>finish. >> >>Now that it's been stable for a day or two - I enabled sync in the >>other direction. And after setting *all* the required parameters >>instead of just most of them...it's working. But...I'm nervous about >>moving the problem folders back over. I will say, if it makes any >>difference, my primary server *was* running version 2.3.13 and I just >>updated it to 2.3.17. The remote is also 2.3.17. >> >>-- >>Daniel

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Re: Replication weirdness
by Daniel Miller 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

Another item. Again, it may be a 2.3.13 issue and I'm now on 2.3.17. But...I had problem when using the "-N" parameter for dsync. So - I just have (had): replication_dsync_parameters = -d -l 30 -U -x INBOX/virtual -x INBOX/shared Now that things are working - I wanted to have my other namespaces sync as well. So I went to: replication_dsync_parameters = -d -l 30 -U -n INBOX -n INBOX/Archives -n INBOX/Lists -x INBOX/virtual -x INBOX/shared This appears to be working (the sync is just starting)...but I'm seeing lock errors in the logs such as: Dec 3 14:34:24 bubba dovecot: doveadm(dmiller(a)amfes.com)<31785><TV+0LlGbqmEpfAAAnbWsyw>: Error: Couldn't lock /var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/.dovecot-sync.lock: fcntl(/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/.dovecot-sync.lock, write-lock, F_SETLKW) locking failed: Timed out after 30 seconds (WRITE lock held by pid 31373) Checking the pid in question I see it's actively syncing a folder in my mailbox. So I'm guessing, purely guessing, that by having multiple namespaces explicitly directed to sync Dovecot is trying to start a sync process for each of those namespaces - but all of them share a common lock and therefore only one operation is allowed at a time. Am I correct, and whether or not I am - how can I correct these errors? Do I dare try going back to just "-N"? -- Daniel ------ Original Message ------ From: "Daniel Miller" <dmiller(a)amfes.com> To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Sent: 12/3/2021 2:16:28 PM Subject: Replication weirdness >First, I have to say this. After configuring everything correctly - and >that means *everything* correctly - Dovecot replication Just Works. I'm >not sure how (yes I do - Timo & Co. Magic) - but it does. Real-time new >sync is near instantaneous. > >Now the problem. Or the background for the problem. My primary server >uses sdbox for primary storage, mdbox for archival storage, and >fts-solr. I spun up a second server, using sdbox, mdbox, and >fts-flatcurve. My namespaces are as defined below. As best I can tell >(based on diff comparing two 'doveconf -n' outputs) my namespaces are >the same on both servers. > >namespace archives { > list = children > location = mdbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/Archives/mdbox > mailbox Unsorted { > auto = no > special_use = \Archive > } > prefix = INBOX/Archives/ > separator = / > subscriptions = no > type = private >} >namespace inbox { > alias_for = > hidden = no > inbox = yes > list = yes > location = > mailbox "Deleted Messages" { > auto = no > autoexpunge = 30 days > special_use = \Trash > } > mailbox Drafts { > auto = subscribe > special_use = \Drafts > } > mailbox Sent { > auto = subscribe > special_use = \Sent > } > mailbox Trash { > auto = subscribe > autoexpunge = 30 days > special_use = \Trash > } > prefix = INBOX/ > separator = / > subscriptions = no > type = private >} >namespace lists { > list = children > location = mdbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/Lists/mdbox > prefix = INBOX/Lists/ > separator = / > subscriptions = no > type = private >} >namespace subscriptions { > hidden = yes > list = no > location = > prefix = > separator = / > subscriptions = yes > type = private >} >namespace usershares { > list = yes > location = sdbox:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/sdbox:NO-NOSELECT > prefix = INBOX/shared/%%d/%%n/ > separator = / > subscriptions = no > type = shared >} >namespace virtual { > list = children > location = virtual:/var/mail/%d/%n/virtual > mailbox Flagged { > comment = All my flagged messages > special_use = \Flagged > } > prefix = INBOX/virtual/ > separator = / > subscriptions = no >} > >I also have: >plugin { > mailbox_alias_new = Sent Messages > mailbox_alias_new2 = Sent Items > mailbox_alias_new3 = Deleted Messages > mailbox_alias_old = Sent > mailbox_alias_old2 = Sent > mailbox_alias_old3 = Trash >} > >This setup worked fine with my single server. Then I enabled >replication - just on the primary. Dsync went to work (it seemed to >take forever for the initial sync but that's what happens with large >mailboxes and slow internet connections). > >The problem came up with certain subfolders. And I believe it only >happens with subfolders that have spaces in their names. I had two >user's mailboxes (under Sent), one of which had a "Sent Messages" >symlink alias for "Sent", that started generating tens or hundreds of >duplicates during sync. Fortunately those subfolders only had a few >mails in them. But I had trees looking like: > >[...] (below is under /var/mail/domain/user/sdbox/mailboxes/Sent/) >Proposal >Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-1-temp-f80b1a00ce9aa961a86-temp-2 >Proposal >Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-1-temp-f80b1a00ce9aa961a86-temp-3 >Proposal >Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-023fa4271c9ca9611ade0400b88bfabe >Proposal >Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-023fa4271c9ca9611ad-temp-1 >Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-1 >Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-2 >Proposal >Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-2-temp-1-temp-1 >Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-3 >Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-4 >Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-5 >Proposal >Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-e2aa0f35c99ba961356500009db5accb >[...] > >I kept stopping, cleaning up the folders, and re-starting - and they >kept regenerating. I tried renaming the folders to eliminate the spaces >and I think that helped in one case - for the others I just moved the >folders outside of the mail area completely to let the sync finish. > >Now that it's been stable for a day or two - I enabled sync in the >other direction. And after setting *all* the required parameters >instead of just most of them...it's working. But...I'm nervous about >moving the problem folders back over. I will say, if it makes any >difference, my primary server *was* running version 2.3.13 and I just >updated it to 2.3.17. The remote is also 2.3.17. > >-- >Daniel

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Replication weirdness
by Daniel Miller 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

First, I have to say this. After configuring everything correctly - and that means *everything* correctly - Dovecot replication Just Works. I'm not sure how (yes I do - Timo & Co. Magic) - but it does. Real-time new sync is near instantaneous. Now the problem. Or the background for the problem. My primary server uses sdbox for primary storage, mdbox for archival storage, and fts-solr. I spun up a second server, using sdbox, mdbox, and fts-flatcurve. My namespaces are as defined below. As best I can tell (based on diff comparing two 'doveconf -n' outputs) my namespaces are the same on both servers. namespace archives { list = children location = mdbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/Archives/mdbox mailbox Unsorted { auto = no special_use = \Archive } prefix = INBOX/Archives/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = private } namespace inbox { alias_for = hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = mailbox "Deleted Messages" { auto = no autoexpunge = 30 days special_use = \Trash } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe autoexpunge = 30 days special_use = \Trash } prefix = INBOX/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = private } namespace lists { list = children location = mdbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/Lists/mdbox prefix = INBOX/Lists/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = private } namespace subscriptions { hidden = yes list = no location = prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace usershares { list = yes location = sdbox:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/sdbox:NO-NOSELECT prefix = INBOX/shared/%%d/%%n/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace virtual { list = children location = virtual:/var/mail/%d/%n/virtual mailbox Flagged { comment = All my flagged messages special_use = \Flagged } prefix = INBOX/virtual/ separator = / subscriptions = no } I also have: plugin { mailbox_alias_new = Sent Messages mailbox_alias_new2 = Sent Items mailbox_alias_new3 = Deleted Messages mailbox_alias_old = Sent mailbox_alias_old2 = Sent mailbox_alias_old3 = Trash } This setup worked fine with my single server. Then I enabled replication - just on the primary. Dsync went to work (it seemed to take forever for the initial sync but that's what happens with large mailboxes and slow internet connections). The problem came up with certain subfolders. And I believe it only happens with subfolders that have spaces in their names. I had two user's mailboxes (under Sent), one of which had a "Sent Messages" symlink alias for "Sent", that started generating tens or hundreds of duplicates during sync. Fortunately those subfolders only had a few mails in them. But I had trees looking like: [...] (below is under /var/mail/domain/user/sdbox/mailboxes/Sent/) Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-1-temp-f80b1a00ce9aa961a86-temp-2 Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-1-temp-f80b1a00ce9aa961a86-temp-3 Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-023fa4271c9ca9611ade0400b88bfabe Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-023fa4271c9ca9611ad-temp-1 Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-1 Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-2 Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-2-temp-1-temp-1 Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-3 Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-4 Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-5 Proposal Requests-temp-c6e003375e64a961c93d00009db5accb-temp-2-temp-e2aa0f35c99ba961356500009db5accb [...] I kept stopping, cleaning up the folders, and re-starting - and they kept regenerating. I tried renaming the folders to eliminate the spaces and I think that helped in one case - for the others I just moved the folders outside of the mail area completely to let the sync finish. Now that it's been stable for a day or two - I enabled sync in the other direction. And after setting *all* the required parameters instead of just most of them...it's working. But...I'm nervous about moving the problem folders back over. I will say, if it makes any difference, my primary server *was* running version 2.3.13 and I just updated it to 2.3.17. The remote is also 2.3.17. -- Daniel

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Searching 30 GB mailbox
by Einar Bjarni Halldórsson 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Hi, We're migrating our mailboxes from Zimbra to dovecot, running on FreeBSD 12.2. We're using mdbox and solr for fts. dovecot version 2.3.17. One of our mailboxes gets a bcc of every outgoing mail from our system and it currently holds ~4.5 million messages taking 30 GB. One of the ways we use the mailbox is that when outgoing mail is sent, we store the Message-ID in our database, and in our admin interface we can open the mail and it's fetched from IMAP by doing a 'SEARCH HEADER Message-ID <MSG_ID>'. In Zimbra this was reasonably fast, but after migrating the mailbox to dovecot it's 30 seconds which I think we can reduce. After turning on mail_debug I see this in our log https://pastebin.com/kP9H7gSB Looks like solr finishes searching instantly, then there's ~30 seconds of silence in the logs, and then more log lines about fetching data from mail cache. The same thing happens if I use telnet and just issue a 'SEARCH HEADER...' command. How can I find out what dovecot is doing in those 30 seconds? .einar

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Expunged message reappeared
by Claudio Corvino 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Hi, I have two IMAP/LMTP Dovecot server in replica (version 2.3.4.1), I use LDAP/AD for /userdb, /replica is working, but sometimes I get these errors into log: Dec 3 15:47:15 xxx dovecot: imap(xxx)<28251><TOSxmj7SPRYloY5/>: Warning: Maildir /mnt/mail-storage-lv0007/xxx/Maildir: Expunged message reappeared, giving a new UID (old uid=233140, file=1638540323.M588041P27708.xxx,S=84376,W=85507:2,) The user delete the message and then the message reappears into mail client after one second. Does anybody knows how can I fix it? Thanks in advance Regards

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Re: new bee needs starter docs
by Gene Heskett 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

On Fri, 3 Dec, 2021 at 3:50 AM, Christian Mack <christian.mack(a)uni-konstanz.de> wrote: To: dovecot(a)dovecot.org Hello What you need is probably 'doveadm sync'. Check its manual with man doveadm-sync I did, that's equ to my climbing El Capitan at 87 yo. 'taint gonna happen. So I think I'll try to make my old method work, so back to the kde-pim list. Kind regards, Christian Mack Thank you Christian

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Issue with SCRAM-SHA Authorization
by Thomas Schmid 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Hi, I was debugging a bug report for my sieve editor implementation concerning an issue with SCRAM-SHA Authorization. But I am a bit unsure about my findings. It seems to be a server side bug. But I am wondering if I missed something. What puzzles me a bit is that SCRAM-SHA is out since ages and obviously no one ran into this issue. Which feels odd. When I try to connect to a dovecot server with enabled Authorization, then SCRAM SHA1 or SHA256 fail with a channel binding error. Authorization via SASL PLAIN works perfectly fine. So I digged into the logs. The trace is below also my findings/conclusion. The username and authorization in the trace are set to "user" the password is "pencil". Nov 24 14:00:06 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 SCRAM-SHA-256 service=sieve secured=tlssession=sI9yRonRZISsEQAB lip=172.17.0.2 rip=172.17.0.1 lport=4190 rport=33892 resp=bixhPXVzZXIsbj11c2VyLHI9ZmEzZGY1NjNlZjczZTY3YjQzZThhZWRiZjUzNGI1NWIxNzIwNzU3OThjZmJiMjExNmMyMTNkMWM4NDE4MmZkOQ== (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) Nov 24 14:00:06 auth: Debug: passwd-file(user,172.17.0.1,<sI9yRonRZISsEQAB>): Performing passdb lookup Nov 24 14:00:06 auth: Debug: passwd-file(user,172.17.0.1,<sI9yRonRZISsEQAB>): lookup: user=user file=/etc/dovecot/users Nov 24 14:00:06 auth: Debug: passwd-file(user,172.17.0.1,<sI9yRonRZISsEQAB>): Generating SCRAM-SHA-256 from user 'user', password 'pencil' Nov 24 14:00:06 auth: Debug: passwd-file(user,172.17.0.1,<sI9yRonRZISsEQAB>): Finished passdb lookup Nov 24 14:00:06 auth: Debug: Credentials: 343039362c326b3934364452546c326431765a37434b6d556c32513d3d2c46444d364f7173577035464c446e394151666554316547585045427a47566d6965673842427331456d37633d2c79766e5a4169376250392f59706c4a71597872356a79794f7a6e4c664730667636485155325a7a6975376b3d Nov 24 14:00:06 auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT 1 cj1mYTNkZjU2M2VmNzNlNjdiNDNlOGFlZGJmNTM0YjU1YjE3MjA3NTc5OGNmYmIyMTE2YzIxM2QxYzg0MTgyZmQ5J2Q9NCskV2NuWEFVTnZxOU1EZENgM2UheVguXFw3O2JgKlg0X29gKDtBXnJrTi1xUmQ2IXgiQX5+eGU8ZlJHWSxzPTJrOTQ2RFJUbDJkMXZaN0NLbVVsMlE9PSxpPTQwOTY= Nov 24 14:00:06 auth: Debug: client in: CONT 1 Yz1iaXhoUFhWelpYSXMscj1mYTNkZjU2M2VmNzNlNjdiNDNlOGFlZGJmNTM0YjU1YjE3MjA3NTc5OGNmYmIyMTE2YzIxM2QxYzg0MTgyZmQ5J2Q9NCskV2NuWEFVTnZxOU1EZENgM2UheVguXFw3O2JgKlg0X29gKDtBXnJrTi1xUmQ2IXgiQX5+eGU8ZlJHWSxwPUcvZGZWUUlGZy9NMkpSMlpEMXM0cms4MS9jTmFMa0tuMzZFYzFlTTN1enc9 (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) Nov 24 14:00:06 auth: Info: scram-sha-256(user,172.17.0.1,<sI9yRonRZISsEQAB>): Invalid channel binding data Nov 24 14:00:06 auth: Debug: auth(user,172.17.0.1,<sI9yRonRZISsEQAB>): Auth request finished Nov 24 14:00:08 auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL 1 user=user Nov 24 14:00:08 managesieve-login: Info: Disconnected: Aborted login by logging out (auth failed, 1 attempts in 2 secs): user=<user>, method=SCRAM-SHA-256, rip=172.17.0.1, lip=172.17.0.2, TLS, session=<sI9yRonRZISsEQAB> Nov 24 14:00:08 managesieve-login: Debug: SSL alert: close notify The matching trace from the client, a sieve editor (https://github.com/thsmi/sieve) is as follows: [15:000:06.192 kw53213a-qc7kf99m1lp] Client -> Server: AUTHENTICATE "SCRAM-SHA-256" "bixhPXVzZXIsbj11c2VyLHI9ZmEzZGY1NjNlZjczZTY3YjQzZThhZWRiZjUzNGI1NWIxNzIwNzU3OThjZmJiMjExNmMyMTNkMWM4NDE4MmZkOQ==" [15:000:06.202 kw53213a-qc7kf99m1lp] Server -> Client "cj1mYTNkZjU2M2VmNzNlNjdiNDNlOGFlZGJmNTM0YjU1YjE3MjA3NTc5OGNmYmIyMTE2YzIxM2QxYzg0MTgyZmQ5J2Q9NCskV2NuWEFVTnZxOU1EZENgM2UheVguXFw3O2JgKlg0X29gKDtBXnJrTi1xUmQ2IXgiQX5+eGU8ZlJHWSxzPTJrOTQ2RFJUbDJkMXZaN0NLbVVsMlE9PSxpPTQwOTY=" [15:000:06.209 kw53213a-qc7kf99m1lp] Client -> Server: "Yz1iaXhoUFhWelpYSXMscj1mYTNkZjU2M2VmNzNlNjdiNDNlOGFlZGJmNTM0YjU1YjE3MjA3NTc5OGNmYmIyMTE2YzIxM2QxYzg0MTgyZmQ5J2Q9NCskV2NuWEFVTnZxOU1EZENgM2UheVguXFw3O2JgKlg0X29gKDtBXnJrTi1xUmQ2IXgiQX5+eGU8ZlJHWSxwPUcvZGZWUUlGZy9NMkpSMlpEMXM0cms4MS9jTmFMa0tuMzZFYzFlTTN1enc9" [15:000:08.215 kw53213a-qc7kf99m1lp] Server -> Client NO "Authentication failed." According to the RFC (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5802) the initial request is defined as: (("p=" cb-name) / "n" / "y") "," [ authzid ] "," client-first-message-bare This means the decoded message from the trace is: n,a=user,n=user,r=fa3df563ef73e67b43e8aedbf534b55b172075798cfbb2116c213d1c84182fd9 The final request (which is rejected by the server with the binding error) is defined as : client-final-message-without-proof = channel-binding "," nonce [","extensions] or client-final-message = client-final-message-without-proof "," proof So the request from the trace decodes into: c=bixhPXVzZXIs,r=fa3df563ef73e67b43e8aedbf534b55b172075798cfbb2116c213d1c84182fd9'd=4+$WcnXAUNvq9MDdC`3e!yX.\\7;b`*X4_o`(;A^rkN-qRd6!x"A~~xe<fRGY,p=G/dfVQIFg/M2JR2ZD1s4rk81/cNaLkKn36Ec1eM3uzw= The channel-binding and cbind-input part are defined as: channel-binding = "c=" base64(cbind-input) cbind-input = (("p=" cb-name) / "n" / "y") "," [ authzid ] "," [ cbind-data ] where cbind-data has to be absent by definition as dovecot does not support channel binding so no "p=" is possible and thus no cbind-data. This means c=bixhPXVzZXI decodes into. n,a=user, And this is where it gets strange. The dovecot code section which throws the error, implements the following: https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/a5209c83c3a82386c94d466eec5fea394973e8… cbind_input = t_strconcat(request->gs2_cbind_flag, ",,", NULL); str = t_str_new(MAX_BASE64_ENCODED_SIZE(strlen(cbind_input))); str_append(str, "c="); base64_encode(cbind_input, strlen(cbind_input), str); if (strcmp(fields[0], str_c(str)) != 0) { *error_r = "Invalid channel binding data"; return FALSE; } As you can see it uses the bind flag which was saved to the request. But instead of the authzid, it uses always an hardcoded empty string. Thus cbind-input is "n,," instead of "n,a=user," and results in the request being rejected with an "Invalid channel binding data". Which is on the one hand a funny message because dovecot does not support channel binding at all, as describe in https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/a5209c83c3a82386c94d466eec5fea394973e8… but it also on the other hand somehow correct because cbind-input string does not match. Which is an illegal state during channel binding negotiation which should not happen. As said previously, it looks to me like a server side bug. Or did I miss something special case in the RFC? Kind Regards Thomas Schmid

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LDAP Help
by Günther J. Niederwimmer 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Hello Dovecot professionals, I have a working user authentication with LDAP, now I want to allow the users to use mailAterneteAddress for their account, unfortunately I can't find any filter settings for dovecot that this works? I just can't find the right settings for LDAP (FreeIPA). Does anyone of you have any hints or links so that I can get on with it. Somehow I don't understand how I can umconvigure the dovecot-ldap.conf.ext Thank you for your help. -- mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Günther J. Niederwimmer

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new bee needs starter docs
by Gene Heskett 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Greetings all' Brand New today install of debian bullseye. I have looked at you doc pages, but don't see a good tut for a newbie to use for setting it up the first time ever. I have version 2.3.13 (89f716dc2) from the debian bullseye distro. What I want is to pull from my ISP account, which is also running dovecot, to a local mailfile. Or I can do that with fetchmail, its been doing that for a decade already. Its currently using procmail to run stuff thru spamassassin and clamd depositing the survivors into a /var/mail/mailfile, which the older tde kmail then pulled and sorted into folders holding maildirs. But I can't get tde to install on bullseye. Kudo's for any help you can supply. Cheers, Gene

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execve(/usr/bin/sieve-test) failed: Argument list too long
by Patrick Cernko 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Hi Dovecot developers, while debugging the above error message from sieve-test, I found out, that the content of directive ssl_ca is added as env var SSL_CA by doveconf on execve and sieve-test now uses doveconf. In our setup, ssl_ca is set to ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt on our director servers. We have backend servers with certificates signed by two different CAs and to avoid problems if a backend switches to a different CA, I decided to allow all "known" CAs. The corresponding env var SSL_CA has more than 230500 bytes, which causes execve to fail with error E2BIG. I found a workaround for the problem by setting ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/backendCAs.pem Where this file contains only the two CAs used atm. However I would like to request a fix for this issue as others might also want to have all "known" CAs set for dovecot director backend connections. Best, -- Patrick Cernko <pcernko(a)mpi-klsb.mpg.de> +49 681 9325 5815 Joint Administration: Information Services and Technology Max-Planck-Institute fuer Informatik & Softwaresysteme

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DoveCot Virtual Mailboxes With MySql
by postfix＠aecperformance.com 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

PLEASE HELP - Dovecot Virtual Mailboxes Using MySql I have a thread detailing my problem with config here: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2469564 VPS Ubuntu 20.04 postfix 3.4.13 and dovecot 2.3.7.2 I've got multiple domains each having multiple emails. I'm using Virtual Mailboxes and MySql. My first domain: softlinksys.com has an MX pointing at mail.softlinksys.com. You can easily verify it. The IP address shown on https://mxtoolbox.com/ is: 194.163.45.150 <https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3asoftlinksys.com&run=toolpa ge> which is my VPS IP address. I have a virtual_domains record in mysql with softlinksys.com as the domain. I have an email address mailadm(a)softlinksys.com <mailto:mailadm@softlinksys.com> in virtual_users in mysql. In the client app: Thunderbird the imap server is set as mail.softlinksys.com I can't connect that user to the mailbox from Thunderbird. If I change the imap server in Thunderbird to softlinksys.com the mailbox will connect I can't send an email to mailadm(a)softlinksys.com <mailto:mailadm@softlinksys.com> . It bounces whether MySql virtual_domains.name = softlinksys.com or mail.softlinksys.com. I've tried both softlinksys.com and mail.softlinksys.com in the database record and in Thunderbird. I just can't make it work. PLEASE HELP! How can I resolve this problem? Kristy Atkins ViviData SaaS

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Requested CRAM-MD5 scheme, but we have only CRYPT
by absolutely_free＠libero.it 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Hi, I use dovecot-2.3.15 with MySQL backend for authentication. I just converted cleartext credentials in SSHA512. Authentication (POP3/IMAP/Roundcube webmail) is working fine. I got a few users complianing about login issues with Thunderbird. Logs show this: Dec 1 16:34:52 mailserver dovecot[72554] auth-worker(72559): conn unix:auth-worker (uid=143): auth-worker<5294>: sql(user(a)domain.net,xx.yy.ww.zz,<g+jCZhfS/N1dKskw>): Requested CRAM-MD5 scheme, but we have only CRYPT I don't understand this error. It seems I still support CRAM-MD5: telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE LITERAL+ STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Dovecot ready. This is my conf: doveconf -n # 2.3.15 (0503334ab1): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64 zfs # Hostname: server.domain.net doveconf: Warning: please set ssl_dh=</usr/local/etc/dovecot/dh.pem doveconf: Warning: You can generate it with: dd if=/var/db/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat bs=1 skip=88 | openssl dhparam -inform der > /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dh.pem auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes default_client_limit = 2000 default_process_limit = 500 default_vsz_limit = 512 M disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 125 first_valid_uid = 125 imap_id_log = * mail_gid = 1003 mail_location = maildir:/mail/domains mail_privileged_group = postfix mail_uid = 1003 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 { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-crypt.conf.ext driver = sql } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } service imap { process_limit = 1024 } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/wildcard.domain.net_bundle.crt ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-crypt.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 } this is my dovecot-sql-crypt.conf.ext: # cat /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-crypt.conf.ext driver=mysql default_pass_scheme=CRYPT connect= host=db.domain.net port=3306 dbname=mail user=user password=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx #password_query = SELECT case when crypt is not null then crypt else password end as password FROM `mailbox` WHERE username='%u' AND suspended='N' password_query = SELECT case when crypt is not null then crypt else password_crypt end as password FROM `mailbox` WHERE username='%u' AND suspended='N' user_query = SELECT concat('maildir:',home) as mail, 125 AS uid, 125 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username='%u' AND suspended='N' Thank you

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Strategies for protecting IMAP (e.g. MFA)
by Tyler Montney 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

With the world of ransomware as it is today (aka attacks seem more vicious and commonplace), anything I expose to WAN must have additional protection. I've seen a few posts to this list on it. The only thing that helped was that Dovecot supports OAuth. Through OAuth I figure I could implement MFA. However, I'd have to host my own identity server. From there, Thunderbird supports OAuth so that should work. Since this is getting increasingly complicated, I wanted to ask before going further. What do you all do? Any recommendations?

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Downloading mailbox from replica server
by Claudio Corvino 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hi, I have two IMAP/LMTP Dovecot server in replica (version 2.3.4.1) both connected through an IPsec tunnel, I use LDAP/AD for /userdb, /all seems to be working. I have a question: if I switch my Thunderbird/Outlook client to use the other server I have to download again all the emails, about 10 GB. Is there any way to avoid this? Do I have to download again all the folders every time I switch from node A to node B on my client? Thanks! Regards

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Strange errors with Dovecot replication
by Claudio Corvino 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hi, I have two IMAP/LMTP Dovecot server in replica (version 2.3.4.1) for testing purposes, both connected through an IPsec tunnel, I use LDAP/AD for /userdb, /all seems to work fine except for these errors present in logs every day: NODE A: /doveadm: Error: sieve: file storage: utime(/var/www/html/ooo/its-test) failed: Operation not permitted: 28 Time(s) dsync-local(its-test)<TxExKuQgeWHlTAAA045Smw>: Error: read(xxx) failed: Connection reset by peer (last sent=mailbox_delete, last recv=handshake): 1 Time(s) dsync-local(its-test)<fXcyHCd3eWGHXwAA045Smw>: Error: sieve: file storage: utime(/var/www/html/ooo/its-test) failed: Operation not permitted: 2 Time(s) dsync-local(its-test)<fZ2LISh3eWGOXwAA045Smw>: Error: read(xxx) failed: Connection reset by peer (last sent=mailbox_delete, last recv=handshake): 1 Time(s) dsync-local(its-test2)<PqNdGCd3eWGGXwAA045Smw>: Error: read(xxx) failed: Connection reset by peer (last sent=mailbox_delete, last recv=handshake): 1 Time(s)/ NODE B: /doveadm: Error: Couldn't lock /mnt/mail-storage-dev/its-test/.dovecot-sync.lock: fcntl(/mnt/mail-storage-dev/its-test/.dovecot-sync.lock, write-lock, F_SETLKW) locking failed: Timed out after 30 seconds: 2 Time(s) doveadm: Error: Couldn't lock /mnt/mail-storage-dev/its-test2/.dovecot-sync.lock: fcntl(/mnt/mail-storage-dev/its-test2/.dovecot-sync.lock, write-lock, F_SETLKW) locking failed: Timed out after 30 seconds: 1 Time(s) doveadm: Error: sieve: file storage: utime(/var/www/html/ooo/its-test) failed: Operation not permitted: 28 Time(s) dsync-local(its-test)<QtV8HSh3eWHFDgAA/HgeEQ>: Error: sieve: file storage: utime(/var/www/html/ooo/its-test) failed: Operation not permitted: 2 Time(s)/ What I have to do? Do I have to worry about this or I can ignore it? Thanks Regards

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sieve - segmentation fault
by kjonca＠o2.pl 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

I tried to experiment with "index" extension and I found that, in case "0" sieve-filter segfaults. example code was: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- if header :index 0 :last :regex "received" "some regex here" { fileinto "dedicated mailbox" ; } --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- KJ -- http://stopstopnop.pl/stop_stopnop.pl_o_nas.html I dote on his very absence. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"

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I published my OpenLDAP schema files for Postfix, Dovecot and OpenDKIM
by Christian Rößner 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hi, for those of you, who are interested in using Postfix, Dovecot, OpenDKIM with OpenLDAP: Today I shared my complete set of OpenLDAP schema files. Feel free to use them. The OID is registered at the IANA. The schema files are all in use since many, many years and are all constantly improved over time. Here is the link to the repository: https://gitlab.roessner-net.de/croessner/openldap-schema/-/tree/main Enjoy. Christian Rößner -- Rößner-Network-Solutions Zertifizierter ITSiBe / CISO Karl-Bröger-Str. 10, 36304 Alsfeld Fax: +49 6631 78823409, Mobil: +49 171 9905345 USt-IdNr.: DE225643613, https://roessner.website PGP fingerprint: 658D 1342 B762 F484 2DDF 1E88 38A5 4346 D727 94E5

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/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: No such file or directory
by Brent Clark 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Good day Guys I am getting this error message in the logs. dovecot: imap-login: Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: No such file or directory Running Debian Buster. With a bit of googling, I tried the suggestions of: https://forum.iredmail.org/post67042.html#p67042 https://git.ispconfig.org/ispconfig/ispconfig3/-/issues/5343 But still this problem is persisting. Here is the config. ~ # cat /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-dovecot-stats.conf service stats { unix_listener stats-writer { user = dovecot group = mail mode = 0660 } } ~ # ls -la /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer srw-rw---- 1 dovecot mail 0 Nov 21 17:00 /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer Could anyone please shed an idea or tip of where more too can I look. Many thanks Regards Brent Clark

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Re: Searching 30 GB mailbox
by Einar Bjarni Halldórsson 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Sorry, resent because it didn't go to the list... > Can you provide us output of `doveconf -n` please? > Of course! # 2.3.17 (e2aa53df5b): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.17 (054dddfa) # OS: FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p7 amd64 zfs # Hostname: ht-mailstore01.isnic.is auth_username_format = %Ln auth_verbose = yes default_vsz_limit = 2 G imapc_features = rfc822.size fetch-headers imapc_host = sirona.isnic.is imapc_port = 993 imapc_ssl = imaps imapc_user = %u mail_gid = vmail mail_location = mdbox:/data/mail/%n/mdbox mail_plugins = " fts fts_solr" mail_uid = 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 index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = create special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = create special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = session=yes dovecot driver = pam } plugin { fts = solr fts_autoindex = yes fts_solr = url=http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/dovecot imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/usr/local/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/usr/local/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size sieve = /data/mail/%Ln/dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve/spam-global.sieve sieve_dir = /data/mail/%Ln/sieve sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/sieve sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms } protocols = imap lmtp sieve service auth-worker { user = root } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } user = dovecot } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 1 } service indexer-worker { vsz_limit = 0 } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/ht-mailstore01.isnic.is/fullchain.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd override_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " fts fts_solr sieve" } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " fts fts_solr imap_sieve" } .einar

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Fatal: master: service(imap): child 1288 killed with signal 6
by fugee ohu 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

This error appears in mail.log repeatedly after dovecot startup Notice the 777 mode for service auth I set that myself # doveconf -n # 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.7.2 () # OS: Linux 5.14.17-x86_64-linode150 x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS # Hostname: mail.servicemouse.com auth_verbose = yes mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext 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 = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve } protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3 submission" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0777 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.servicemouse.com/fullchain.pem ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.servicemouse.com ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it submission_relay_host = 127.0.0.1 submission_relay_ssl = starttls submission_relay_trusted = yes userdb { driver = passwd }

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dovecot Error: Failed to establish relay connection: Failed to connect to remote server
by fugee ohu 27 Nov '21

27 Nov '21

# doveconf -n # 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.7.2 () # OS: Linux 5.14.17-x86_64-linode150 x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS # Hostname: mail.servicemouse.com auth_verbose = yes mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext 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 = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve } protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3 submission" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.servicemouse.com/fullchain.pem ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.servicemouse.com ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it submission_relay_host = 127.0.0.1 submission_relay_ssl = starttls submission_relay_trusted = yes userdb { driver = passwd }

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Disable sieve redirection
by Lefteris Tsintjelis 27 Nov '21

27 Nov '21

Hi, is there a way to control sieve redirection or even disable it completely?

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Spam Folder
by bobby 26 Nov '21

26 Nov '21

I have been following the tutorial here: https://www.linuxbabe.com/mail-server/block-email-spam-check-header-body-wi… I notice that when I log into my mail via nextcloud mail, there is no spam folder. Is there something further I need to do so it is generated?

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Can't unsubscribe from public mailbox when dsync multi-master is enabled
by Salatiel Filho 25 Nov '21

25 Nov '21

Hello, I am trying to build a dovecot environment with 2 servers with dsync master<->master replication. Everything works just fine, one can login in any of the servers and see and manage their mails. The problem I see is that one can not unsubscribe from public mailboxes. Let's call the servers server1 and server2, both of them have an imap webui pointing to localhost, just to make the test easier. One subscribes to a public mailbox connected through the webui on server1. A few seconds later the same user can see the subscribed mailbox on the webui on server2 just as expected, but if he tries to unsubscribe it will not work. The public mailbox folder will still be subscribed to and visible. There is absolutely nothing on the logs, but I know it is related to the dsync replication because if I shutdown any of the servers, I will be able to unsubscribe just fine, UNTIL the shutdown server is powered back on and replication starts again, and, in this case, the previously unsubscribed public mailbox will just reappear. Is this a bug or am I missing something in my configuration? Thanks! # dovecot -n # 2.3.16 (7e2e900c1a): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.16 (09c29328) # OS: Linux 4.18.0-305.19.1.el8_4.x86_64 x86_64 auth_username_format = %Ln doveadm_password = # hidden, use -P to show it first_valid_uid = 1000 mail_debug = yes mail_home = /var/spool/imap/%n mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/imap/%n/mail:VOLATILEDIR=/var/spool/imap/%n mail_plugins = " notify replication" managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/spool/imap/salas/mail/:INDEXPVT=/var/spool/imap/%n/pub-seen-idx/ mailbox * { autoexpunge = 60 days } prefix = salas/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } passdb { args = failure_show_msg=yes dovecot driver = pam } plugin { mail_replica = tcps:10.10.10.10:26 sieve = file:/var/spool/imap/%n/sieve;active=/var/spool/imap/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve.d/ sieve_global = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve.d/ } protocols = imap lmtp sieve replication_dsync_parameters = -d -N -l 10 -U service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { mode = 0666 user = dovecot } unix_listener replication-notify { mode = 0666 user = dovecot } } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 26 ssl = yes } } service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 unix_listener replicator-doveadm { mode = 0666 user = dovecot } } ssl = required ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/mail-cluster-communication_ca.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mail-cluster-communication.crt ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/users default_fields = uid=vmail gid=mail home=/var/spool/imap driver = passwd-file } userdb { driver = passwd override_fields = uid=vmail gid=mail home=/var/spool/imap/%n } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " notify replication sieve" } protocol imap { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/salas.com.crt ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it }

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