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Crash when using dict quotas with sqlite database
by Marcel Menzel 03 Feb '19

03 Feb '19

Hello, After I configured a SQLite backed dict quota backend, the dict process crashes every time a quota operation is happening. SQLite: 3.26.0 Dovecot: 2.3.4 (0ecbaf23d) Linux: 4.20.4.a-1-hardened #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 25 01:24:51 CET 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Arch Linux) Filesystem: BTRFS I can't get any debug output from Dovecot, even after setting log_debug = cat:* event:* source:* field:*=* dovecot[6457]: dict(6687): Debug: sqlite: Finished query 'BEGIN TRANSACTION' in 0 msecs dovecot[6457]: dict(6687): Fatal: master: service(dict): child 6687 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) I've attached the output of dovecot -n and the coredump file from systemd-coredump. Kind regards, Marcel Menzel

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Managesieve problem
by Ervin Hegedüs 03 Feb '19

03 Feb '19

Hi, I'ld try to set up the managesieve (for RoundCube) - the sieve is works as well with dovecot (I mean my filters works perfectly). When I would try to connect to managesieve, I got an error, and mail.err contains: dovecot: managesieve(airween(a)mydomain.hu): Error: user airween(a)madomain.hu: Couldn't drop privileges: getgrnam(vmail) failed: Permission denied (in mail_privileged_group setting) Also I got it when I try to connect to port 4190 at localhost (with telnet), and send the generated AUTH string (with sieve-auth-command.pl). Could anybody helps me to explain this message? Thanks, a.

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How to inhibit pop3 server email deletion?
by Davide Marchi 02 Feb '19

02 Feb '19

Hi Friends, for some special needs I would like to inhibit the email deletion from any email client POP3 access. For example prevent the Thunderbird ability to delete server messages older than.. Is this possibile via ACL? Many many thanks! Davide

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Error: User bob@aaa.bbb doesn't have home dir set, disabling duplicate database
by subscription1 02 Feb '19

02 Feb '19

I made a mistake when I moved dovecot to a new server and only specified mail_location instead of mail_home All I have in 10-mail.conf is --------- mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/mailboxes/%d/%n ------------ All emails for the few accounts I have are in these mailboxes and I can get/see them via my mail client I do, however, get the following error -------------------- imap(bob(a)aaa.bbb): Error: User bob(a)aaa.bbb doesn't have home dir set, disabling duplicate database ------------------- After looking at https://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home I tried the following -------------------------------- mail_home = /home/vmail/mailboxes/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/mail ------------------------------ Problem with this is that I now can't see any of my emails in the client. Appreciate any help on how to fix this. Thanks

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auth: Error - Request timed out
by Hajo Locke 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Hello List, i use dovecot 2.2.22 and have the same problem described here: https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2017-November/110020.html I can confirm that sometimes there is a problem with connection to mysql-db, but sometimes not. Reasons for failing are still under investigation by my mates. My current main problem is, that this fail seems to be a one way ticket for dovecot. Even if mysql is verifyable working again and waiting for connection dovecot stucks furthermore with errors like this: May 29 07:00:49 hostname dovecot: auth: Error: plain(mail(a)example.com,xxx.xxx.xx.xxx,<HGI4FVFt2Oy80j3P>): Request 999.7 timed out after 150 secs, state=1 When restarting dovecot all is immediately working again. Is there a way to tell dovecot to restart auth services or reinitialize mysql-connection after these hard fails? I could insert "idle_kill = 1 mins" into service auth and service auth-worker, but i dont know if this would work. Unfortunately i am not able to reproduce this error and there are always a couple of days between errors. Thanks, Hajo

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Dovecot and FTS experiment
by Tomasz Nowak 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Hello, I'm trying to experiment with Dovecot and Solr server. I have >30k email addresses that I want to index to speed up searching and save IOPS on mail servers. For now - I'm doing some experiments and I'm testing how it is working. I'm thinking about adding one additional server with Solr and configure all mail servers to use that server. I have some questions. 1. I have 15 mail servers. It will be good If I add new server with Solr and use it on all Dovecot servers? Or maybe I should install Solr on all mail servers? 2. I notice - I have mail account with 3GB of mail. Index files in mail dir has 5MB. After indexing mailbox in Solr - index files has 15MB. What changes in those files? FTS indexing adds something to that files - but what? 3. If I need to disconnect Dovecot from Solr server - simply Can I remove plugin configuration from dovecot.conf and everything would be working? Or maybe - I need to remove index files and recreate it? It is important for me because if some day I would decide to disconnect FTS server - I would have to recreate indexes for >30k mailboxes.. 4. What if some day I want to change Solr server to new server with empty Solr database? I can simply reindex mailboxes? Or I need to do something more? Thanks!

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Re: "unknown user - trying the next userdb" Info in log
by Aki Tuomi 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

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v2.3.4 released
by Timo Sirainen 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.4.tar.gz https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.4.tar.gz.sig Binary packages in https://repo.dovecot.org/ * The default postmaster_address is now "postmaster@<user domain or server hostname>". If username contains the @domain part, that's used. If not, then the server's hostname is used. * "doveadm stats dump" now returns two decimals for the "avg" field. + Added push notification driver that uses a Lua script + Added new SQL, DNS and connection events. See https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Events + Added "doveadm mailbox cache purge" command. + Added events API support for Lua scripts + doveadm force-resync -f parameter performs "index fsck" while opening the index. This may be useful to fix some types of broken index files. This may become the default behavior in a later version. - director: Kicking a user crashes if login process is very slow - pop3_no_flag_updates=no: Don't expunge DELEted and RETRed messages unless QUIT is sent. - auth: Fix crypt() segfault with glibc-2.28+ - imap: Running UID FILTER script with errors assert-crashes - dsync, pop3-migration: POP3 UIDLs weren't added to dovecot.index.cache while mails were saved. - dict clients may have been using 100% CPU while waiting for dict server to finish commands. - doveadm user: Fixed user listing via HTTP API - All levels of Cassandra log messages were logged as Dovecot errors. - http/smtp client may have crashed after SSL handshake - Lua auth converted strings that looked like numbers into numbers.

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"unknown user - trying the next userdb" Info in log
by James Brown 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

I’ve set up a new mail server. Auth-worker is giving me this error all the time: auth-worker(11160): Info: passwd(sales(a)bordo.com.au <mailto:sales@bordo.com.au>,10.0.0.54,<YSFoAYHAGoLAqAEo>): unknown user - trying the next userdb Next line is from imap-login with successful login. Using MySQL as user database. Auth-sql.comf.ext is: passdb { driver = sql # Path for SQL configuration file, see example-config/dovecot-sql.conf.ext args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext } # "prefetch" user database means that the passdb already provided the # needed information and there's no need to do a separate userdb lookup. # <doc/wiki/UserDatabase.Prefetch.txt> userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { driver = sql args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext } # If you don't have any user-specific settings, you can avoid the user_query # by using userdb static instead of userdb sql, for example: # <doc/wiki/UserDatabase.Static.txt> #userdb { #driver = static #args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%u #} Any ideas why it is gives me this error before logging in? Where should I look? Thanks, James.

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send and receive error message
by Chandran Manikandan 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Hi Folks, I am running qmailtoaster on COS6 32 bit. Send and receive error message coming frequently and inbox emails are not downloading in outlook 2016 of office 365 email client. But if i restart the dovecot service then start downloading the emails in inbox then send and receive error message gone. Outlook 2010 doesn't have the same issue. Is this server issue? or email client version issues? or if i need to use standalone outlook product instead office 365? I do the dovecot service restart every one hour for this issue . if possible to do the cron job for dovecot service restart for every one hour daily or any other solution there. Kindly Any one help me. -- *Thanks,* *Manikandan.C* *System Administrator*

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Re: Rsync to backup dbox with SIS (Daniel Miller)
by ash-dovecot＠comtek.co.uk 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

> Probably not the answer you want - but I would strongly suggest using > Dovecot replication.? Dovecot replication Just Works - so don't reinvent > the wheel when Timo provided such a polished tool already.? Okay, thanks, I'll look at replication for the warm spare. Although we do use shared folders, which your link below says don't work properly. > And based on > my previous SIS experience - while dbox is nice I would suggest avoiding > SIS until there are reports of more development.? Sdbox will be solid - > which is what you want for an archive - though maildir would be the > safest.? Archives don't need to be rapid-access - they need to be > dependable.? SIS is wonderful for space saving - but until there's more > safety checks built-in I'd suggest avoiding it for production backups.? > Drives are cheap - lost data, lost time, lost hair, lost sanity...is not. Our main motivation for dbox is SIS. We don't have a very high volume of mail, so maildir speed is unlikely to be an issue. What we do have is a lot of users who like to mail around large files. Drives are cheap, but there are advantages to a smaller mailstore. That said, data security wins. We will probably abandon dbox entirely and continue with maildir, thanks. > The backups don't have to be "visible" to other machines - don't even > have to be running IMAP/POP services (I think).? And the replication > command is run - via ssh (https://wiki.dovecot.org/Replication) - so > what's the problem? Well, our backup servers are supposed to be running a minimalist set of software. If we need to restore from backup after a security issue or application bug on a production machine, then we are trying to minimise the chance that the backup machine itself could be affected. Anyway, if we aren't using SIS, then we needn't use dbox, and therefore backup machines can continue to run a minimalist OS with only rsync. Thanks, Ash --- To opt-in to receiving communications from us or to update your email preferences please go to https://lists.comtek.co.uk/prefs. To be removed from receiving all communications from the Comtek Group, please unsubscribe at https://lists.comtek.co.uk/prefs and accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. The Comtek Group respects your privacy. Please find our privacy policy at http://www.comtek.co.uk/privacy-policy This email and any attachments are confidential. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. Opinions expressed in this message are those of the individual and not Comtek Network Systems (UK) Ltd unless indicated by an authorised representative independent of this message. Comtek Network Systems does not accept responsibility for any changes to this message after it has been sent. Company Details: Comtek Network Systems (UK) Ltd. Registered Office: Comtek Network Systems (UK) Ltd, Unit 108, Tenth Avenue (Zone 3), Deeside Industrial Park, Deeside, Flintshire, CH5 2UA. Comtek Network Systems (UK) Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 05929974.

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all of a sudden, slow resync
by Victor Sudakov 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

Dear Colleagues, All of a sudden, I've begun receiving this output when reindexing my mail boxes: # /usr/local/bin/doveadm force-resync -u vas "*" doveadm(vas): Warning: Transaction log file /home/vas/Mail/sibptus/.imap/sent/dovecot.index.log was locked for 55 seconds (Mailbox was synchronized) doveadm(vas): Warning: Transaction log file /home/vas/Mail/sibptus/.imap/dss-30-06-2010/dovecot.index.log was locked for 56 seconds (Mailbox was synchronized) doveadm(vas): Warning: Transaction log file /home/vas/Mail/sibptus/.imap/dss-2014/dovecot.index.log was locked for 95 seconds (Mailbox was synchronized) doveadm(vas): Warning: Transaction log file /home/vas/Mail/sibptus/.imap/dss-20-06-2012/dovecot.index.log was locked for 72 seconds (Mailbox was synchronized) doveadm(vas): Warning: Transaction log file /home/vas/Mail/sibptus/.imap/dss-18-05-2009/dovecot.index.log was locked for 31 seconds (Mailbox was synchronized) doveadm(vas): Warning: Transaction log file /home/vas/Mail/sibptus/.imap/dss-07-12-2008/dovecot.index.log was locked for 56 seconds (Mailbox was synchronized) doveadm(vas): Warning: Transaction log file /home/vas/Mail/sibptus/.imap/dns-operations/dovecot.index.log was locked for 95 seconds (Mailbox was synchronized) And it really takes forever to finish. What could cause this? FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p8, dovecot-2.3.3_4 -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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auth-worker: Error: double free or corruption (fasttop)
by Marcel Lorenz 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

Dear list, since the distri upgrade to glibc 2.28, i can't build working dovecot binary's. Older with glibc 2.27 are working. The distri is LFS based. MariaDB 10.2.18 and 10.3.11 makes no difference. Having this on different systems. Messages Log: Dec 19 17:10:38 test kernel: traps: auth[30189] general protection ip:7f4b96d6598c sp:7ffef1f31710 error:0 in libmariadb.so.3[7f4b96d4e000+67000] Dec 19 17:11:39 test kernel: auth[30299]: segfault at 560c57366c40 ip 0000560c57366c40 sp 00007fffe5b51f18 error 15 Dec 19 17:12:39 test kernel: traps: auth[30346] general protection ip:7f55601f298c sp:7ffe597929c0 error:0 in libmariadb.so.3[7f55601db000+67000] Dec 19 17:13:39 test kernel: traps: auth[30392] general protection ip:7fcd2317298c sp:7ffecd6f4cb0 error:0 in libmariadb.so.3[7fcd2315b000+67000] Dovecot log: 2018-12-19 17:07:37 auth-worker: Fatal: master: service(auth-worker): child 30053 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) 2018-12-19 17:09:38 auth-worker: Error: double free or corruption (fasttop) 2018-12-19 17:09:38 auth-worker: Fatal: master: service(auth-worker): child 30098 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) 2018-12-19 17:10:38 auth-worker: Fatal: master: service(auth-worker): child 30189 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) Output of dovecot -n: # 2.3.4 (0ecbaf23d): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 (60b0f48d) # OS: Linux 4.14.80 x86_64 # Hostname: test.testing.local auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@+*#" base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug.log dict { expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql-expire.conf sqldomainquota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql-domain.conf sqluserquota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql-user.conf } info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info.log lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot/main.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_greeting = dovecot ready login_log_format = %s login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c %k mail_location = mdbox:/var/vmail/%d/%n/ mail_max_userip_connections = 4 mail_plugins = " zlib quota expire acl fts fts_lucene" mailbox_idle_check_interval = 1 mins maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes 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/vmail/%d/public:INDEXPVT=/var/vmail/%d/public prefix = Public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%%u:CONTROL=/var/vmail/%d/shared/%%u:INDEX=/var/vmail/$ prefix = shared.%%n. separator = . subscriptions = yes type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive { auto = subscribe special_use = \Archive } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = . } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes al = vfile expire = Trash expire2 = Trash/* expire3 = Spam expire_cache = yes expire_dict = proxy::expire fts = lucene fts_lucene = whitespace_chars=@.-+_*:/\"' last_login_key = # hidden, use -P to show it quota = dict:User Quota::proxy::sqluserquota quota_exceeded_message = Quota exceeded quota_grace = 10%% quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+15%% quota_rule3 = Spam:ignore quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is over quota / Postfach ist voll quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = /var/vmail/%d/%n/sieve/active-script.sieve sieve_before = /var/vmail/sieve/spam-global.sieve sieve_dir = /var/vmail/%d/%n/sieve/scripts/ sieve_global = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/global/ sieve_max_actions = 32 sieve_max_redirects = 4 sieve_max_script_size = 1M trash = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)testing.local protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { user = doveauth } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0660 user = doveauth } } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 0 } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } service_count = 1 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service quota-status { client_limit = 1 executable = quota-status -p postfix inet_listener { port = 10022 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh user = vmail } ssl_alt_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/postfix-rsa.crt ssl_alt_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/postfix-ecc.crt ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.2 ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_logout_format = in=%i out=%o imap_max_line_length = 64 k mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugins = " zlib quota expire acl fts fts_lucene acl imap_acl imap_quota mail_log last_login notify imap_zlib trash" } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 4 mail_plugins = " zlib quota expire acl fts fts_lucene last_login expire" pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = no pop3_lock_session = no pop3_logout_format = retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_no_flag_updates = yes pop3_reuse_xuidl = no pop3_save_uidl = yes pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " zlib quota expire acl fts fts_lucene sieve" postmaster_address = postmaster(a)test.local } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log mail_fsync = optimized mail_plugins = " zlib quota expire acl fts fts_lucene trash autocreate sieve" postmaster_address = postmaster(a)testing.local quota_full_tempfail = yes rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> with subject of <%s> was automatically rejected:%n%r rejection_subject = Mailbox Full: %s } protocol sieve { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_max_compile_errors = 5 managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 } Thanks in advance! Marcel

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download Dovecot emails over rsync (done!), possible alternatives
by Carles Pina i Estany 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

Hello, Apologies for the extra long email. It's a situation with a solved problem and I might need to solve it again, I'd like to have some feedback. Two years ago, in a trip around the Antarctic with a very limited communication I deployed a mail system based on Postfix+Dovecot. I need to do something similar again and I used a "hack" that I thought that I might avoid (that time, let's say, everything was last minute... or later than last minute!). I installed Dovecot on the internet server and the server on the ship. On the ship I had a fetchmail downloading "small emails" (up to 100 KB if I remember correctly) and delivering to the local server. For bigger emails fetchmail had a "size limit" and fetchmail was not downloading them. I wrote a Python script that was connecting from the ship, to the internet server, and was listing the emails that were "too big to be downloaded" (this was for each user. I could have done something different with procmailrc I think on the receiving time). The Python script was fetching, if I remember correctly, the email ID, date, subject and size. The Python script was sending an email to the ship server's user saying "there is an email for you with this size, from, date and subject and this is the email ID" (and inserting this into a database to avoid sending the same notification to the users again). Then the scientists sometimes were ignoring the email, were asking to the sender to send a smaller version, or asking me to download it when possible. If they wanted me to download the email: I had a script that was connecting to the internet server, opening /home/$USER/Maildir/dovecot-uidlist, finding the file for that email UUID (this was a simple script on the internet server and I was executing it using ssh and getting the output). Then it was creating a new IMAP folder named "Downloaded" in the ship's server (it was just creating the folder in the file system and adding it in the subscriptions file, all using file system operations from Python). Then using rsync it was downloading the email file from the internet's server to the ship's server temporary file (taking whatever it would take, with many retries, etc.) and then moving it to the Downloaded folder. (note: it was using rsync and not IMAP because the connection was slow and very unstable. With rsync and the correct options it was continuing the download and retrying until success). For the next expedition I'll have more time to prepare for a similar setup. I've considered if I should stop relying on dovecot-uidlist, local file system's, subscriptions, etc. and if I should write a plugin for Dovecot to expose part of this information using... a JSON API? IMAP commands? The local ship's server bit: could I inject a SMTP mail file (downloaded) using Dovecot admin commands? some API? Any advantage? To discover which file to download using rsync: instead of opening the dovecot-uidlist any better method? Any other different approach that I might want to consider? Sorry again for the long message. I thought that this might need some context. Also, thanks to the design of Dovecot I could do what I did in a very simple way. Actually Dovecot design was as I would have designed for this use case (the index file, subscription from the mailing list, etc.). Thank you very much again! and thanks for the great Dovecot as well! -- Carles Pina i Estany Web: http://pinux.info || Blog: http://pintant.cat GPG Key 0x8CD5C157

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Rsync to backup dbox with SIS
by ash-dovecot＠comtek.co.uk 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

We will be deploying a replacement Dovecot server soon, and we are planning to use maildir for the primary storage, but with an archive namespace using mdbox (or perhaps sdbox), and SIS. Our backup servers and (luke)warm spare server need to obtain full copies of the mail store. For the maildirs I know I can simply use rsync (we already use it here). I'm a little wary of using rsync with mdbox and SIS though. Obviously we would have to use the -H option of rsync to avoid duplicating the hard linked data, does anybody have any experience with how this scales? I've considered simply rsyncing the /var/mail/dovecot/attach/??/??/hashes folders. Is there a tool that can reconstruct the /var/mail/dovecot/attach/??/??/*-* links for a list of messages in that case? I'm aware of "doveadm backup", and (although it currently throws up a few errors) it seems like it might be a valid solution for our warm spare server. Our backup servers, on the other hand, aren't supposed to be visible to the production machines, with the exception of the backup machine sshing in to do an rsync each night. We can't install dovecot on them. To perform partial email recovery in maildir, we can simply log into a backup server, grep for emails of interest, and then scp them into a maildir new/ subfolder on the mail server to recover them. What about using dbox? I can identify /var/mail/dovecot/archive/ash/dbox/storage/m.* files, and identify necessary attachments under /var/mail/dovecot/attach/??/??/ but once I've copied them over to the mail server is there a safe way to import them? Actually, converting to a maildir style file would be adequate if there is a script anywhere to do this. We'd still rather be backing up the deduplicated mailstore for obvious reasons. Has anybody got any suggestions? I'm aware of "dsync backup questions" ( https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-February/088070.html ) but there didn't really seem to be a solution. Thanks, Ash PS Our current server has 257 users (though perhaps 100 are active), using around 225G in total. PPS Proposed new server configuration: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs mail_attachment_dir = /var/mail/dovecot/attach mail_attachment_fs = sis posix mail_attachment_hash = %{sha1} mail_attachment_min_size = 128 k namespace _archive { list = yes location = mdbox:/var/mail/dovecot/archive/%n/dbox prefix = Archive/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace _private { inbox = yes type = private separator = / subscriptions = yes prefix = } --- To opt-in to receiving communications from us or to update your email preferences please go to https://lists.comtek.co.uk/prefs. To be removed from receiving all communications from the Comtek Group, please unsubscribe at https://lists.comtek.co.uk/prefs and accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. The Comtek Group respects your privacy. Please find our privacy policy at http://www.comtek.co.uk/privacy-policy This email and any attachments are confidential. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. Opinions expressed in this message are those of the individual and not Comtek Network Systems (UK) Ltd unless indicated by an authorised representative independent of this message. Comtek Network Systems does not accept responsibility for any changes to this message after it has been sent. Company Details: Comtek Network Systems (UK) Ltd. Registered Office: Comtek Network Systems (UK) Ltd, Unit 108, Tenth Avenue (Zone 3), Deeside Industrial Park, Deeside, Flintshire, CH5 2UA. Comtek Network Systems (UK) Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 05929974.

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problem in setting up proxy
by Ted 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hello, We're having difficulty with our updated cluster of dovecot servers accessing the email storage on the NFS mounts. It seems index files get corrupted when 2 backend mailservers access the same account, and from documentation setting up a director proxy in front of the backup servers. I'm trying to just set up a straight proxy first, which the documents say is the first step, and although I can see the connections coming into the server when I try to login via the proxy, the connection times out and there are no logs from dovecot anywhere saying what happened to the connection. The configs I have set up for this in dovecot are: dovecot.conf # Protocols we want to be serving. protocols = imap pop3 #when re-enabling quota enforcement add quota in below: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_log notify protocol imap { # Space separated list of plugins to load (default is global mail_plugins). #when re-enabling quota enforcement add imap_quota in below: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins } # A comma separated list of IPs or hosts where to listen in for connections. # "*" listens in all IPv4 interfaces, "::" listens in all IPv6 interfaces. # If you want to specify non-default ports or anything more complex, # edit conf.d/master.conf. #listen = *, :: # Base directory where to store runtime data. #base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ # Name of this instance. In multi-instance setup doveadm and other commands # can use -i <instance_name> to select which instance is used (an alternative # to -c <config_path>). The instance name is also added to Dovecot processes # in ps output. #instance_name = dovecot # Greeting message for clients. login_greeting = Welcome to easyMail. shutdown_clients = yes # Most of the actual configuration gets included below. The filenames are # first sorted by their ASCII value and parsed in that order. The 00-prefixes # in filenames are intended to make it easier to understand the ordering. !include conf.d/*.conf # A config file can also tried to be included without giving an error if # it's not found: !include_try local.conf service auth { unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } conf.d/10-auth.conf ## ## Authentication processes ## # Username formatting before it's looked up from databases. You can use # the standard variables here, eg. %Lu would lowercase the username, %n would # drop away the domain if it was given, or "%n-AT-%d" would change the '@' into # "-AT-". This translation is done after auth_username_translation changes. auth_username_format = %Lu # Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: # plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop anonymous gssapi otp skey # gss-spnego # NOTE: See also disable_plaintext_auth setting. auth_mechanisms = plain login # # Password database is used to verify user's password (and nothing more). # You can have multiple passdbs and userdbs. This is useful if you want to # allow both system users (/etc/passwd) and virtual users to login without # duplicating the system users into virtual database. # # <doc/wiki/PasswordDatabase.txt> # # User database specifies where mails are located and what user/group IDs # own them. For single-UID configuration use "static" userdb. # # <doc/wiki/UserDatabase.txt> #!include auth-deny.conf.ext #!include auth-master.conf.ext #!include auth-system.conf.ext #!include auth-sql.conf.ext #!include auth-ldap.conf.ext #!include auth-passwdfile.conf.ext #!include auth-checkpassword.conf.ext #!include auth-vpopmail.conf.ext !include auth-static.conf.ext conf.d/auth-static.conf.ext # Static passdb. Included from auth.conf. # This can be used for situations where Dovecot doesn't need to verify the # username or the password, or if there is a single password for all users: # # - proxy frontend, where the backend verifies the password # - proxy backend, where the frontend already verified the password # - authentication with SSL certificates # - simple testing passdb static { driver = static args = nopassword=y default_fields = proxy=y host=10.5.10.121 } #passdb { # driver = static # args = password=test #} #userdb { # driver = static # args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/%u #} conf.d/10-logging.conf ## ## Log destination. ## # Log file to use for error messages. "syslog" logs to syslog, # /dev/stderr logs to stderr. #log_path = syslog # Log file to use for informational messages. Defaults to log_path. #info_log_path = # Log file to use for debug messages. Defaults to info_log_path. #debug_log_path = # Syslog facility to use if you're logging to syslog. Usually if you don't # want to use "mail", you'll use local0..local7. Also other standard # facilities are supported. #syslog_facility = mail ## ## Logging verbosity and debugging. ## # Log unsuccessful authentication attempts and the reasons why they failed. auth_verbose = yes # In case of password mismatches, log the attempted password. Valid values are # no, plain and sha1. sha1 can be useful for detecting brute force password # attempts vs. user simply trying the same password over and over again. # You can also truncate the value to n chars by appending ":n" (e.g. sha1:6). #auth_verbose_passwords = no # Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes. Shows for example SQL # queries. auth_debug = yes # In case of password mismatches, log the passwords and used scheme so the # problem can be debugged. Enabling this also enables auth_debug. #auth_debug_passwords = no # Enable mail process debugging. This can help you figure out why Dovecot # isn't finding your mails. mail_debug = yes # Show protocol level SSL errors. verbose_ssl = yes # mail_log plugin provides more event logging for mail processes. plugin { # Events to log. Also available: flag_change append #mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename # Available fields: uid, box, msgid, from, subject, size, vsize, flags # size and vsize are available only for expunge and copy events. #mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size } I'm basically expecting this to forward the login requests on to 10.5.10.121 when I try to access the email account through the proxy. When I attempt this I am able to see the connections in a tcp dump, but dovecot does not log anything about the attempt. I clearly must be missing something, can you let me know what I need to do or check? Thank you Ted easyDNS Technologies

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Garbled mails in Maildir storage
by Florian Lohoff 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hi, from time to time i am having mails delivered to my anon maildrop which completely break mailbox listing. I ignored it mostly as this is an anon maildrop for one time emails so loosing spam wasnt an issue. Today i had a mailbox which wouldnt list at all which was caused by 50 consecutive mails beeing broken. (I am showing the last 20 in the web interface) After some debugging i found a bunch of mails like this: Return-Path: <*************************> X-Original-To: test(a)wasteland.rfc822.org Delivered-To: inbox(a)wasteland.rfc822.org Received: from node11.tmdvps.com (unknown [184.154.211.109]) by pax.zz.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B73DD00B5 for <test(a)wasteland.rfc822.org>; Thu, 8 Jun 2017 17:09:25 +0200 (CEST) <U+FEFF>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:09:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Apple Support <*************************> REPLY-TO: do_not_reply(a)apple.com To: test(a)wasteland.rfc822.org [ ... ] Yes - there is an UTF-8 BOM in the middle of the mail header. Breaks parsing of the mail header of dovecot. No From and To in the listing. And i found even more: Return-Path: <**********************> X-Original-To: test(a)wasteland.rfc822.org Delivered-To: inbox(a)wasteland.rfc822.org Received: from 36.248.164.233 (unknown [36.248.164.233]) by pax.zz.de (Postfix) with SMTP id B2B0F1000FF; Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:37:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from 6.51.138.64 by ; Tue, 22 Jan 2019 04:36:35 -0500 Message-ID: <B[20 Mails that end with garbage in them middle of the mail header. This is a standard Maildir storage using the dovecot transport via postfix. Does anyone have an explanation for these kind of mailstorage breakage? How could broken mails like this even be processed by postfix, dovecot deliver etc. As the last mail is pretty current i quickly grepped the postfix logs: Jan 22 10:37:35 pax postfix/smtpd[20269]: B2B0F1000FF: client=unknown[36.248.164.233] Jan 22 10:37:37 pax postfix/cleanup[20371]: B2B0F1000FF: message-id=<B[20 Jan 22 10:37:37 pax postfix/qmgr[9371]: B2B0F1000FF: from=<**********************>, size=233, nrcpt=2 (queue active) Jan 22 10:37:37 pax postfix/pipe[19192]: B2B0F1000FF: to=<inbox(a)wasteland.rfc822.org>, orig_to=<test108(a)wasteland.rfc822.org>, relay=wasteland, delay=2.2, delays=1.7/0/0/0.41, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via wasteland service) Jan 22 10:37:37 pax postfix/pipe[21064]: B2B0F1000FF: to=<inbox(a)wasteland.rfc822.org>, orig_to=<test(a)wasteland.rfc822.org>, relay=wasteland, delay=2.2, delays=1.7/0.01/0/0.48, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via wasteland service) Jan 22 10:37:37 pax postfix/qmgr[9371]: B2B0F1000FF: removed So even postfix found the message id to be truncated. Does dovecot have a "broken maildir mail storage mail dictionary" for automated tests? Flo -- Florian Lohoff f(a)zz.de UTF-8 Test: The 🐈 ran after a 🐁, but the 🐁 ran away

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Discard mail with from date older than xxxx
by Trever L. Adams 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

I know that sieve doesn't do math. The file would be created externally. Based on examples in section 4.4 of https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5260#section-4 I figured something like this would work. if date :value "le" :originalzone "date" "date" "2018-10-25" { fileinto "SPAM"; stop; } However, I get the following. spam: line 41: error: unknown tagged argument ':value' for the date test (reported only once at first occurrence). spam: error: validation failed. sievec(root): Fatal: failed to compile sieve script 'spam.sieve' Does anyone have any advice on how to get this working? Thank you. Trever

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Shared instance
by Stepan Khlebalov 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hello. I have inbox instance for incoming messages and second private instance for archiving mails with different maildir location. Sharing for folders in inbox instance works perfectly. But it does not work for folders in archiving instance. I can't create two shared instances, dovecot fails. Can I have two locations in one shared instance?

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jmap
by Maciej Milaszewski IQ PL 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hi Is there any chance that Dovecot-2.2.36 supports "jmap" ? -- Maciej Miłaszewski IQ PL Sp. z o.o. Starszy Administrator Systemowy Biuro Obsługi Klienta: e-mail: bok(a)iq.pl tel.: +48 58 326 09 90 - 94 fax: +48 58 326 09 99 Dział pomocy: https://www.iq.pl/pomoc Informacja dotycząca przetwarzania danych osobowych: https://www.iq.pl/kontakt Jakość gwarantuje: ISO 9001:2000 IQ PL Sp. z o.o. z siedzibą w Gdańsku (80-298), ul. Geodetów 16, KRS 0000007725, Sąd rejestrowy: Sąd Rejonowy w Gdańsku VII Wydział KRS, kapitał zakładowy: 140.000 PLN, NIP 5832736211, REGON 192478853

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debian10+dovecot-2.2.33.2
by Maciej Milaszewski IQ PL 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

Hi I have little problem with debian10 and dovecot 2.2.33.2 ps -ax 21815 ? S 0:00 dovecot/pop3-login director 21816 ? S 0:00 dovecot/pop3-login director 21817 ? S 0:00 dovecot/pop3-login director 21818 ? S 0:00 dovecot/pop3-login director 21819 ? S 0:00 dovecot/pop3-login director 21821 ? S 0:00 dovecot/pop3-login director 21822 ? S 0:00 dovecot/pop3-login director But if I testes via telnet like this: telnet 46.xxx.xxx.113 143 Trying 46.xxx.xxx.113... Connected to 46.xxx.xxx.113. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Imap ready. ^] telnet> q Connection closed. and ps: 21808 ? S 0:00 dovecot/imap-login ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 21826 ? S 0:00 dovecot/imap-login ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? strace: strace -p 21808 strace: Process 21808 attached gettimeofday({tv_sec=1548168193, tv_usec=419420}, NULL) = 0 epoll_wait(14, doveconf: doveconf -n |head -n 4 # 2.2.33.2 (d6601f4ec): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.8 (0c4ae064f307+) # OS: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian buster/sid auth_cache_negative_ttl = 5 mins Probably dovecot not closed correctly imap-login and this same for imap-pop3. Any idea ? -- Maciej Miłaszewski IQ PL Sp. z o.o. Starszy Administrator Systemowy Biuro Obsługi Klienta: e-mail: bok(a)iq.pl tel.: +48 58 326 09 90 - 94 fax: +48 58 326 09 99 Dział pomocy: https://www.iq.pl/pomoc Informacja dotycząca przetwarzania danych osobowych: https://www.iq.pl/kontakt Jakość gwarantuje: ISO 9001:2000 IQ PL Sp. z o.o. z siedzibą w Gdańsku (80-298), ul. Geodetów 16, KRS 0000007725, Sąd rejestrowy: Sąd Rejonowy w Gdańsku VII Wydział KRS, kapitał zakładowy: 140.000 PLN, NIP 5832736211, REGON 192478853

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[FTS Xapian] RC release
by Joan Moreau 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

Hi, FTS Xapian matches my targets for the plugins (replacing deprecated fts-squat in a production environment) https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian Please do not hesitate to add "issues" on github, if the case happen Hope it helps JM

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Moving messages between servers with different configurations
by Marc Roos 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

I wanted to move messages from a mbox mailbox on server A to mdbox on server B. I thought I could do this by connecting to the remote server with "doveadm move -S x.x.x.x:x -u testuser Archive/2017 mailbox INBOX/test" but I guess this will only allow and move messages internally on server B? Should I use dsync, or is there another way to move the messages?

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Having temp mdbox files, what to do with them?
by Marc Roos 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Can I delete these because doveadm is only purging from source, when it is confirmed they are correctly at the destination? [@ storage]# ls -ac1rt m.554 m.569 m.564 m.559 m.561 .temp.1548002572.P1969Q0M313023.mail03 .temp.1548002572.P1969Q1M313023.mail03 .temp.1548002572.P1969Q2M313023.mail03 . .temp.1548002572.P1969Q3M313023.mail03

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Encoding input
by Joan Moreau 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Hi Are data inputs of fts_backend_update_build_more(struct fts_backend_update_context *_ctx, const unsigned char *data, size_t size) already converted to UTF8 ? Thanks

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Changing the imaps port #
by Patrick Mahan 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Dovecot 2.3.4, FreeBSD 11.2 Due to comcast buisness ISP intercepting imaps I need to have my clients connect to non-standard port (9999). Previously I had been using stunnel to receive the imaps connection and forward it to the imap port over 127.0.0.1. But I would like to retire stunnel and have my imap clients connect remotely. I have configured the imap-login service - service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 127.0.0.1, ::1 port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 9999 } process_min_avail = 3 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 1 G } But I am not seeing any listeners on port 9999 - root@ns(1001)# netstat -an | grep 9999 Using sockstat on FreeBSD: root@ns(1002)# sockstat | grep dovecot | grep tcp root dovecot 34800 15 tcp4 *:4190 *:* root dovecot 34800 37 tcp4 127.0.0.1:143 *:* root dovecot 34800 38 tcp6 ::1:143 *:* I have mail_debug = yes, but I don't see any failures. What is the best way to debug why I am not seeing this port number? Thanks, Patrick

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RE: How to connect to a remote server and execute eg a search
by Marc Roos 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Thanks Sami, And I should allow access on the remote server via login_access_sockets? And the authenticated user via this connection is then testuser I presume? > > > Is there a page that explains how to connect to a remote server? What > is the syntax of socket_path? > > > doveadm search -S XXXXXXX -u testuser mailbox INBOX ALL -S <ip>:<port> Sami

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How to connect to a remote server and execute eg a search
by Marc Roos 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

Is there a page that explains how to connect to a remote server? What is the syntax of socket_path? doveadm search -S XXXXXXX -u testuser mailbox INBOX ALL

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FOSDEM
by Michael Slusarz 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

Hello all, Several Open-Xchange/Dovecot folks will be attending FOSDEM in Brussels on 2-3 February 2019. For those of you planning to attend: we would love to meet and chat with members of the Dovecot community! Come find us wandering around the talks, or look for us in the evening. Rumor is Brussels has some good beer... Also, we'd love to invite everyone to a talk we are giving on the Chat Over IMAP initiative we have been working on. It takes place Sunday at 1105 in the Real-Time Communications room: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/chat_over_imap/ Hope to see some of you there! michael

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Dovecot can't access mailbox that exists (nested)
by Edgaras Lukoševičius 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

Hello, I have this strange situation on nested mailboxes (directories) # dovecot --version 2.2.36 (1f10bfa63) # doveconf -n # 2.2.36 (1f10bfa63): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.24 (124e06aa) # OS: Linux 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) mail_access_groups = vmail mail_location = maildir:%h mail_plugins = quota stats quota_clone mailbox_list_index = yes managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto envelope encoded-character subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } protocols = imap lmtp pop3 sieve service imap-login { inet_listener imap-dsync { port = 1143 } inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_limit = 300 process_min_avail = 1 } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } process_min_avail = 5 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 ssl = yes } process_min_avail = 5 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3-dsync { port = 1110 } inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } process_limit = 300 process_min_avail = 1 } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } fifo_listener stats-user { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota stats quota_clone sieve } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = quota stats quota_clone imap_quota imap_stats } protocol sieve { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota stats quota_clone pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = yes } # ls -1a (Mailbox structure) cur dovecot.index dovecot.index.cache dovecot.index.log dovecot.list.index dovecot.list.index.log dovecot.mailbox.log dovecot-uidlist dovecot-uidvalidity .Drafts .Junk maildirfolder maildirsize new .Received 1.1522486 - Subdirname.Received .Received 1.1522486 - Subdirname.Sent .Sent sieve subscriptions tmp .Trash .Trash.Sent (2) # doveadm mailbox list -u name(a)domain.com INBOX INBOX.Trash INBOX.Trash.Sent (2) INBOX.Sent INBOX.Received 1 INBOX.Received 1.1522486 - Subdirname INBOX.Received 1.1522486 - Subdirname.Sent INBOX.Received 1.1522486 - Subdirname.Received INBOX.Junk INBOX.Drafts # doveadm mailbox status -u name(a)domain.com -t all INBOX.* doveadm(name(a)domain.com): Error: Mailbox INBOX.Received 1: Failed to lookup mailbox status: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX.Received 1 doveadm(name(a)domain.com): Error: Mailbox INBOX.Received 1.1522486 - Subdirname: Failed to lookup mailbox status: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX.Received 1.1522486 - Subdirname messages=16 recent=0 unseen=1 vsize=3432379 The problem is that it's not possible to move this mailbox between servers using dovecot dsync/imapc. But I can see the messages inside these mailboxes using external IMAP/POP clients.

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Unexpected accounts showing up in replication status (doveadm replicator status '*')
by Daniel Schütze 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

I have a replication set up with two dovecot 2.3.4 servers. Messages appear to be replicating fine between them, however there is an oddity when I run doveadm replicator status '*' and I'm worried work is being carried out needlessly. Both machines have identical configs and have a mysql backend for username/passwords. Both machines point to the same mysql server and same tables. When I run doveadm user '*' On either machine I am presented with the same correct list of users. The users are presented in the form: username and not username@domain. When I run doveadm replicator status '*' On either machine I receive a list of usernames which includes not only username but also username@domain. Both of these "accounts" have fast sync, full sync and success sync entries and these are not the same times between username and username@domain (hence I'm worried unnecessary work is being carried out). My ee dovecot-sql.conf.ext Has these entires re usernames user_query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = '%n' password_query = SELECT username AS user, domain, password, home AS userdb_home, uid AS userdb_uid, gid AS userdb_gid FROM users WHERE username = '%u' [Having copied these in I do see the different usage of %u and %n] iterate_query = SELECT username AS user,domain FROM users The users table is as follows +--------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +--------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | username | varchar(128) | NO | | NULL | | | domain | varchar(128) | NO | | NULL | | | password | varchar(64) | NO | | NULL | | | home | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | | | uid | int(11) | NO | | NULL | | | gid | int(11) | NO | | NULL | | | active | char(1) | NO | | Y | | | mail_replica | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL | | +--------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ I assume that the duplication of username with and without domains isn't as intended, any suggestions where I am going wrong? I did previously have the servers running with the iterate query commented out and when that was the case doveadm user '*' returned the correct number of accounts but in the format username@domain and the replicator status again 'double listed' accounts as described above. Thank you for any tips! -- Daniel Schütze Director ------------------ CWA International Balmoral House 9 John Street London WC1N 2ES (t) + 44 (0)20 7242 8444 (e) dms(a)cwa.uk.com (w) http://www.cwa.uk.com/

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doveadm proxy list repeats header line
by Michael Goth 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Hi all, just a minor thing: Why does `doveadm proxy list` repeat the header line after each entry? Too me, that just makes the output harder to read. So instead of this: root@mail1 ~ # doveadm proxy list username proto src ip dest ip port info(a)domain1.de imap 80.152.196.98 222.133.127.53 993 username service src-ip dest-ip dest-port info(a)domain1.de imap 80.152.196.98 222.133.127.53 993 username service src-ip dest-ip dest-port info(a)domain1.de imap 80.152.196.98 222.133.127.53 993 username service src-ip dest-ip dest-port tj(a)domain1.de imap 83.149.131.71 222.133.127.53 993 username service src-ip dest-ip dest-port tj(a)domain1.de imap 83.149.131.71 222.133.127.53 993 I'd prefer this: root@mail1 ~ # doveadm proxy list username proto src ip dest ip port info(a)domain1.de imap 80.152.196.98 222.133.127.53 993 info(a)domain1.de imap 80.152.196.98 222.133.127.53 993 info(a)domain1.de imap 80.152.196.98 222.133.127.53 993 tj(a)domain1.de imap 83.149.131.71 222.133.127.53 993 tj(a)domain1.de imap 83.149.131.71 222.133.127.53 993 The repeated header lines also happen with other formatters. Regards, Michael

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Panic…
by SH Development 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

I have started getting these in my log. What does this mean and what do I need to do? Panic: file mail-index-util.c: line 37 (mail_index_uint32_to_offset): assertion failed: (offset < 0x40000000) Dec 12 23:29:44 mail dovecot: imap(jeff(a)stariontech.com): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3cafa) [0x7f38c5a2cafa] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x3cb46) [0x7f38c5a2cb46] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x16e2a) [0x7f38c5a06e2a] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_uint32_to_offset+0x74) [0x7f38c5d0d3f4] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x81abd) [0x7f38c5cf3abd] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_cache_compress+0x77) [0x7f38c5cf4247] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_commit+0x1d2) [0x7f38c5d08012] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x5fd88) [0x7f38c5cd1d88] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x570a0) [0x7f38c5cc90a0] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(maildir_storage_sync_force+0x52) [0x7f38c5cc94c2] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(maildir_file_do+0x99) [0x7f38c5cc9f49] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x59b7f) [0x7f38c5ccbb7f] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_set_seq+0x112) [0x7f38c5cb64f2] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_search_next_nonblock+0x16b) [0x7f38c5cbae9b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_search_next_nonblock+0x20) [0x7f38c5ca2240] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_search_next+0x26) [0x7f38c5ca2296] -> dovecot/imap(imap_fetch_more+0x2bf) [0x41221f] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_fetch+0x42c) [0x40a33c] -> dovecot/imap() [0x40f90d] -> dovecot/imap() [0x40f9fa] -> dovecot/imap(client_handle_input+0x135) [0x40fc25] -> dovecot/imap(client_input+0x5f) [0x41054f] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x48) [0x7f38c5a37e98] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x9f) [0x7f38c5a38e0f] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x28) [0x7f38c5a37e28] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f38c5a26293] -> dovecot/imap(main+0x2f9) [0x418849] -> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x10 Dec 12 23:29:44 mail dovecot: master: Error: service(imap): child 11157 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled)

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I never touched nuthin'
by mick crane 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

hello, do you mind if I ask before I start poking about ? suddenly I notice that gmail is ignoring or because there is an error getmail is not sending the delete request. Mails are sent and received but not deleted gmail so I keep getting them. mick@rapunzel:~/.getmail$ getmail --rcfile getmailrc1 Delivery error (command deliver 1363 wrote to stderr: lda(mick,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot//stats-writer) failed: Permission denied) I think is apt install dovecot on debian buster probably I updated yesterday but was working OK since so I dunno what happened. is log full or something ? advices appreciated mick -- Key ID C7D6E24C

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2.3.4 doesnt compile on FreeBSD 11.2 using clang
by Chris 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

extract below, this has already been reported a while back but still no new patch, so this email is to serve as a reminder, if someone manually fixes it for the ports tree, I dont consider that a fix, ideally we need this fixed in the source code, as not everyone will install it from ports. Chris "clang40 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../src/lib-dns -I../../src/lib-test -I../../src/lib-settings -I../../src/lib-ssl-iostream -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/var/run/dovecot"\" -DPKG_STATEDIR=\""/var/lib/dovecot"\" -DSYSCONFDIR=\""/etc/dovecot"\" -DBINDIR=\""/usr/bin"\" -I/usr/local/include -std=gnu99 -fdiagnostics-color -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/llvm40/lib -O2 -pipe -march=native -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector-strong -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wno-duplicate-decl-specifier -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/usr/local/include -MT test-event-stats.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/test-event-stats.Tpo -c -o test-event-stats.o test-event-stats.c clang-4.0: warning: -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/llvm40/lib: 'linker' input unused [-Wunused-command-line-argument] test-event-stats.c:101:8: warning: implicit declaration of function 'kill' is invalid in C99 [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] (void)kill(stats_pid, SIGKILL); ^ test-event-stats.c:101:24: error: use of undeclared identifier 'SIGKILL' (void)kill(stats_pid, SIGKILL); ^ 1 warning and 1 error generated. gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:656: test-event-stats.o] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/dovecot-2.3.4/src/lib-master' gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:565: install-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/dovecot-2.3.4/src' gmake: *** [Makefile:683: install-recursive] Error 1"

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Re: Localhost imap server fails after upgrade from 2.2.33.2-1 to 1:2.3.2.1 (fwd)
by Chris BL 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Hi Aki, Oops; I did not think carefully enough about your instructions. Here is the output from $ dovecot -n -c /home/meuser/dotfiles/auto-stanford-dovecot.conf # 2.3.2.1 (0719df592): /home/meuser/dotfiles/auto-stanford-dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.2 () # OS: Linux 4.18.0-13-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 18.10 ext4 # Hostname: cpbl-t450s doveconf: Warning: please set ssl_dh=</etc/dovecot/dh.pem doveconf: Warning: You can generate it with: dd if=/var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat bs=1 skip=88 | openssl dhparam -inform der > /etc/dovecot/dh.pem mail_location = maildir:/home/meuser/imap/gmailStanford:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/home/meuser/imap/gmailStanford/INBOX service stats { unix_listener stats-writer { mode = 0666 } } ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it verbose_proctitle = yes I then followed the instructions in the Warning lines above and now I get: dovecot -n -c /home/meuser/dotfiles/auto-stanford-dovecot.conf # 2.3.2.1 (0719df592): /home/meuser/dotfiles/auto-stanford-dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.2 () # OS: Linux 4.18.0-13-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 18.10 ext4 # Hostname: cpbl-t450s mail_location = maildir:/home/meuser/imap/gmailStanford:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/home/meuser/imap/gmailStanford/INBOX service stats { unix_listener stats-writer { mode = 0666 } } ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it verbose_proctitle = yes However, this does not help my primary symptom: $ /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c /home/meuser/dotfiles/auto-stanford-dovecot.conf imap(meuser,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY LITERAL+ NOTIFY] Logged in as meuser Thanks! Chris On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 10:27 AM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi(a)open-xchange.com> wrote: Did you remove the service section before taking doveconf -n? 'cos I can't see it here.. Also, did you restart dovecot after config change? Aki > On 31 December 2018 at 16:54 Chris BL <cpblpublic+dovecot(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Aki, > > Yes, the same connect error: imap(meuser,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied > > The mail location in "doveconf -n" (belo) does not reflect my preferences. > > In Alpine, if I acknowledge the error I get, which tells me to add > novalidate-cert in my pinerc file, it prompts me for my POSIX username and > password. After that, I get my /var/spool/mail inbox, which is not what I > want. > > > doveconf -n > # 2.3.2.1 (0719df592): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # Pigeonhole version 0.5.2 () > # OS: Linux 4.18.0-13-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 18.10 > # Hostname: myhost-t450s > mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u > mail_privileged_group = mail > 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 > } > protocols = " imap" > ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem > ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs > ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it > ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it > userdb { > driver = passwd > } > > > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > > You are still getting the connect error? > > > > Can you share your doveconf -n? > > > > Aki > > > > > On 31 December 2018 at 16:42 cpblpublic+dovecot(a)gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Aki, > > > > > > Thanks. I put that in the .conf file I mentioned, and it made no > > > difference. > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > In your case it's probably easiest to change > > > > > > > > service stats { > > > > unix_listener stats-writer { > > > > mode = 0666 > > > > } > > > > } > > > > > > > > Aki > > > > > > > > > On 31 December 2018 at 16:05 cpblpublic+dovecot(a)gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I use a localhost dovecot imap server in order to access maildir folders from Alpine (see 2009 instructions for my set up here > > > > > https://cpbl.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/alpine-offlineimap-and-gmail-under-ub… ) > > > > > > > > > > My configuration has worked nicely since 2009, but failed after a recent upgrade of dovecot (during basic upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10). > > > > > > > > > > The version of Alpine did not change. Uninstalling dovecot-core and dovecot-imapd, and reinstalling the older versions, fully fixes the problem. > > > > > > > > > > I would like to know how to get my configuration working with the new version of dovecot. > > > > > > > > > > Here's what the problem looks like: > > > > > > > > > > I have a file auto-dovecot.conf with only the following two lines. > > > > > > > > > > verbose_proctitle = yes > > > > > mail_location = maildir:/home/meuser/imap/gmailStanford:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/home/meuser/imap/gmailStanford/INBOX > > > > > > > > > > Other /etc/ files are unchanged from installation defaults. > > > > > > > > > > Alpine calls imapd when it starts, with the following command: > > > > > > > > > > /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c /home/meuser/dotfiles/auto-dovecot.conf > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > When I run that command, I get: > > > > > > > > > > imap(meuser,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied > > > > > * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE > > > > > SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT > > > > > MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS > > > > > LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN > > > > > CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY LITERAL+ NOTIFY] > > > > > Logged in as meuser > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > so I am guessing that the first line is the issue, since when the older version I get instead: > > > > > > > > > > * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE > > > > > IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT > > > > > MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS > > > > > LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN > > > > > CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE] Logged in as meuser > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Can anyone help me? I cannot find documentation for using a localhost server for Alpine, except my own from 2009. > > > > > > > > > > Many thanks! > > > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > > >

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doveadm index crash/assert
by Larry Rosenman 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

I got the following crash whilst looking at my logs and seeing some indexer-worker crashes. doveadm(ler): Panic: file http-client-request.c: line 1108 (http_client_request_send_more): assertion failed: (req->payload_input != NULL) Abort trap (core dumped) bt full at: https://www.lerctr.org/~ler/doveadm.index.crash.txt doveconf -n: https://www.lerctr.org/~ler/doveconf.n.txt 2.3.4 from FreeBSD ports. What else do you need? -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640 (c) E-Mail: larryrtx(a)gmail.com US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Dr, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106

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Request: Pigeonhole - strip CWFS from message-id logs
by Lee Maguire 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Normally for a log line containing the contents of a Message-Id, it is logged like the following Nov 29 11:41:27 xxx dovecot[211]: lmtp(lee)<30167><XXXXX>: sieve: msgid=<xxxx(a)example.net>: stored mail into mailbox 'Notifications' However, if there is CFWS other than a space, it changes the format of the log line (potentially making the logs harder to process - eg via “logcheck" rules) Nov 29 11:50:09 xxx dovecot[401]: lmtp(lee)<55724><XXXXX>: sieve: msgid=? <xxxx(a)example.com>: stored mail into mailbox ‘Notifications' A message-id line broken up is valid per RFC 5322 and header whitespace shouldn’t be significant for logging purposes https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.4 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.2.2

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Feature request: client bind address for replication
by John Fawcett 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Hi would it be possible to consider a new parameter for replication: doveadm_local_ip which allows the source ip address to be set when connection to a remote dovecot for replication? It could be useful when the network interface has multiple ips and a specific one is used for mail services. See attached proposal. I tested against 2.2.36 only. It applies correctly against 2.3.4 with a warning,. John

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auth-worker service failed since recent MariaDB upgrade
by Bogomil Vasilev 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Hello, I have started having issues with auth-worker. Dovecot version: 0 « root » ~ # dovecot --version 2.3.4 (0ecbaf23d) 0 « root » ~ # pacman -Q dovecot dovecot 2.3.4-2 OS: Arch Linux From /var/log/mail.log: Jan 20 11:31:29 archy dovecot[23070]: auth-worker: Fatal: master: service(auth-worker): child 9885 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps - set /proc/sys/fs/suid_dum pable to 2) From dmesg: [42113.729398] auth[8134]: segfault at 5579d8e1c8e0 ip 00005579d8e1c8e0 sp 00007ffd44ab0df8 error 15 [42113.729406] Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 7a af 07 e3 7f 00 00 <40> f4 b5 07 e3 7f 00 00 31 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 9f df d8 79 55 This started happening on January 18th, after I upgraded Dovecot from "2.3.4-1" to "2.3.4-2". The package was rebuilt from our package maintainer due to bumping MariaDB from 10.1.x to 10.3.x. Before that, I did not have any issues at all. However, I don't see any impact from this error too, at least not for now. I made a coredump as the error suggests and I'm pasting it here, as per the bugreport rules: 0 « root » ~ # gdb /usr/lib/dovecot/auth /home/smirky/dovecot.dump GNU gdb (GDB) 8.2.1 Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu". Type "show configuration" for configuration details. For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>. Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>. For help, type "help". Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/auth...(no debugging symbols found)...done. [New LWP 9549] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `dovecot/auth -w'. Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted. #0 0x00007fe1bb8ead7f in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007fe1bb8ead7f in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007fe1bb8d5672 in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00007fe1bb92d878 in __libc_message () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #3 0x00007fe1bb93418a in malloc_printerr () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #4 0x00007fe1bb935b27 in _int_free () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #5 0x00007fe1bbc2bb89 in mysql_close () from /usr/lib/libmariadb.so.3 No symbol table info available. #6 0x0000563481946dac in ?? () No symbol table info available. #7 0x000056348193b8fc in db_sql_unref () No symbol table info available. #8 0x000056348193389c in userdb_deinit () No symbol table info available. #9 0x0000563481913bb9 in auths_deinit () No symbol table info available. #10 0x0000563481912664 in main () No symbol table info available. (gdb) The way I see it, indeed it is highly-likely to be related to the MariaDB version bump, but I cannot be entirely sure if it's not a bug in Dovecot, discovered by this bump. Please let me know if you need any other info, related to my setup. Best regards, -- BOGOMIL VASILEV For contacts, use this e-mail. My GPG key is 646F3ABF6E457336 Website: HTTPS://WWW.SMIRKY.NET/

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Re: Dovecot 2.3.4 crash
by Timo Sirainen 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

On 2 Dec 2018, at 22.22, Guillaume via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > > I also have this kind of segfault since the update : > > Dec 2 21:12:11 xxxxxxx dovecot: auth-worker: Error: *** Error in `dovecot/auth': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x000055573bb99f70 Is this easy to reproduce? Can you try with valgrind? It will slow down the logins a bit though. service auth-worker { executable = /usr/bin/valgrind -q --vgdb=no /usr/lib/dovecot/auth -w } At least one good thing about this crash is that it seems to happen only at deinit, so it's not impacting users.

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doveadm move that hangs
by Marc Roos 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

I have a doveadm move that hangs, and cannot kill it. Leaving these files. Did I lose mails now? -rw------- 1 testuser popusers 4.0M Jan 20 17:42 .temp.1548002572.P1969Q0M313023.host -rw------- 1 testuser popusers 3.9M Jan 20 17:42 .temp.1548002572.P1969Q1M313023.host -rw------- 1 testuser popusers 1017K Jan 20 17:42 .temp.1548002572.P1969Q2M313023.host drwx------ 1 testuser popusers 574 Jan 20 17:42 . -rw------- 1 testuser popusers 12M Jan 20 17:42 .temp.1548002572.P1969Q3M313023.host

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SCRAM-SHA-256 and SCRAM-SHA-512 supports
by - Neustradamus - 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Hello all, I would like to know if it is possible to add SCRAM-SHA-256 and SCRAM-SHA-512 supports? RFC7677: SCRAM-SHA-256 and SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanisms https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7677 Thanks in advance. Regards, Neustradamus

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auth core dump
by Mamontov Roman 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

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Sieve: reject certain mime-types and notify recipient
by Ralf Becker 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

I have to reject office files for a certain domain plus notifying the original recipient about the rejection too. require ["fileinto","reject","body","enotify","variables"]; if allof (address :contains ["To","TO","Cc","CC"] "@example.org", body :content "application/msword" :contains "") { set "to" "${1}"; # :matches is used to get the value of the Subject header if header :matches "Subject" "*" { set "subject" "${1}"; } # :matches is used to get the value of the From header if header :matches "From" "*" { set "from" "${1}"; } notify :message "Rejected Office Datei ${from}: ${subject}" "${to}"; reject text: Aus Sicherheitsgründen nehmen wir keine Office Dateien mehr an. Bitte senden Sie uns ein PDF. . ; } A manual sievec call gives not error and if I remove everything but the reject line it works. Any ideas? -- Ralf Becker EGroupware GmbH [www.egroupware.org] Handelsregister HRB Kaiserslautern 3587 Geschäftsführer Birgit und Ralf Becker Leibnizstr. 17, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Telefon +49 631 31657-0

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Localhost imap server fails after upgrade from 2.2.33.2-1 to 1:2.3.2.1
by cpblpublic+dovecot＠gmail.com 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

I use a localhost dovecot imap server in order to access maildir folders from Alpine (see 2009 instructions for my set up here https://cpbl.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/alpine-offlineimap-and-gmail-under-ub… ) My configuration has worked nicely since 2009, but failed after a recent upgrade of dovecot (during basic upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10). The version of Alpine did not change. Uninstalling dovecot-core and dovecot-imapd, and reinstalling the older versions, fully fixes the problem. I would like to know how to get my configuration working with the new version of dovecot. Here's what the problem looks like: I have a file auto-dovecot.conf with only the following two lines. verbose_proctitle = yes mail_location = maildir:/home/meuser/imap/gmailStanford:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/home/meuser/imap/gmailStanford/INBOX Other /etc/ files are unchanged from installation defaults. Alpine calls imapd when it starts, with the following command: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c /home/meuser/dotfiles/auto-dovecot.conf When I run that command, I get: imap(meuser,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY LITERAL+ NOTIFY] Logged in as meuser so I am guessing that the first line is the issue, since when the older version I get instead: * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE] Logged in as meuser Can anyone help me? I cannot find documentation for using a localhost server for Alpine, except my own from 2009. Many thanks! Chris

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Issue with LMTP proxying and port number
by Steven Craig 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Hello there, Everything was working fine on Dovecot 2.2.10 (on CentOS 7), but after updating to version 2.2.36, our director servers are not able to proxy LMTP. We are sending mail from exim to the local Dovecot LMTP socket, which then used to send it to our internal mail servers on port 24. Besides the update, nothing has changed in the config files. The configuration has been working great for months … Then we had a great idea of doing holiday maintenance. (Currently, we are working around this issue by having exim send mail to the IP and port, instead of the socket.) Doing a tcpdump capture shows no TCP traffic either. The logs seem to say that it is trying to go to port 0, so my guess is that it’s not getting the port directive from either static or sql — since the docs state that if these settings aren't specified, it will always use the same connection type for the proxy that it received the connection on. Any thoughts? I can share config if necessary.

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Authentication/Penalty disabled (socket mode=0) introduces constant 5 sec delays (2.27 on debian 9)
by Ludovic Pouzenc 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Hi, I hit a bizare problem with dovecot 2.2.7 on debian 9 with LMTP enabled and auth/penalty disabled as documented here : https://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Penalty Use case : I run a swaks command to send an email to an exim4 that tries to make a callout to dovecot-lmtp. At RCPT TO: swaks hangs 5.0<something-small> seconds then process normally (exim is waiting for callout completion). with strace, I see 5 second delay with many tries to socket connection. (PID 9652 was an auth process freshly forked) [pid 9652] socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 14 [pid 9652] fcntl(14, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) [pid 9652] fcntl(14, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 [pid 9652] connect(14, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="anvil-auth-penalty"}, 110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) [pid 9652] close(14) = 0 [pid 9652] nanosleep({tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=20000000}, NULL) = 0 [pid 9652] socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 14 [pid 9652] fcntl(14, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) [pid 9652] fcntl(14, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 [pid 9652] connect(14, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="anvil-auth-penalty"}, 110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) [pid 9652] close(14) = 0 [pid 9652] nanosleep({tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=50000000}, NULL) = 0 [pid 9652] socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 14 [pid 9652] fcntl(14, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) [pid 9652] fcntl(14, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 [pid 9652] connect(14, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="anvil-auth-penalty"}, 110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) [pid 9652] close(14) = 0 [pid 9652] nanosleep({tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=90000000}, NULL) = 0 with ddd I get to: src/lib-master/anvil-client.c: int anvil_client_connect(struct anvil_client *client, bool retry) { //[...] fd = retry ? net_connect_unix_with_retries(client->path, 5000) : net_connect_unix(client->path); //[...] and retry is forced to TRUE by the caller and net_connect_unix_with_retries retries in case of ECONNREFUSED. How I get into it : ssh -X root@telegraphe-test apt install dovecot-dbg cd /dev/shm apt source dovecot cd dovecot-2.2.27 pidof dovecot ddd /usr/sbin/dovecot set follow-fork-mode child attach 11833 cont # Send an e-mail from swaks to exim that use transport=smtp in LMTP mode to dovecot-lmtp, press interrupt while exim is blocking after RCPT TO: (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f81528af270 in __nanosleep_nocancel () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:84 #1 0x00007f81528d8b84 in usleep (useconds=<optimized out>) at ../sysdeps/posix/usleep.c:32 #2 0x00007f815329368e in net_connect_unix_with_retries (path=0x562dc200ce10 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x562dc200ce10>, msecs=msecs@entry=5000) at net.c:347 #3 0x00007f815320ce0d in anvil_client_connect (client=0x562dc200cda0, retry=retry@entry=true) at anvil-client.c:136 #4 0x0000562dc1429f5d in auth_penalty_init (path=0x562dc1451846 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x562dc1451846>) at auth-penalty.c:37 #5 0x0000562dc1424166 in main_preinit () at main.c:202 #6 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at main.c:396 (gdb) bt full #1 0x00007f81528d8b84 in usleep (useconds=<optimized out>) at ../sysdeps/posix/usleep.c:32 ts = {tv_sec = 0, tv_nsec = 80000000} #2 0x00007f815329368e in net_connect_unix_with_retries (path=0x562dc200ce10 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x562dc200ce10>, msecs=msecs@entry=5000) at net.c:347 start = {tv_sec = 1545319486, tv_usec = 241864} now = {tv_sec = 1545319490, tv_usec = 198061} fd = -1 #3 0x00007f815320ce0d in anvil_client_connect (client=0x562dc200cda0, retry=retry@entry=true) at anvil-client.c:136 fd = <optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = <error reading variable __FUNCTION__ (Cannot access memory at address 0x7f81532a8260)> #4 0x0000562dc1429f5d in auth_penalty_init (path=0x562dc1451846 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x562dc1451846>) at auth-penalty.c:37 No locals. #5 0x0000562dc1424166 in main_preinit () at main.c:202 mod_set = <error reading variable mod_set (Cannot access memory at address 0x7ffda885db80)> #6 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at main.c:396 c = <optimized out> Backtrace stopped: Cannot access memory at address 0x7ffda885dbf8 (gdb) Code I've read : src/auth/main.c: static void main_preinit(void) if (!worker) auth_penalty = auth_penalty_init(AUTH_PENALTY_ANVIL_PATH); auth_request_stats_init(); src/auth/auth-penalty.c: struct auth_penalty *auth_penalty_init(const char *path) if (anvil_client_connect(penalty->client, TRUE) < 0) penalty->disabled = TRUE; else { src/lib-master/anvil-client.c: int anvil_client_connect(struct anvil_client *client, bool retry) fd = retry ? net_connect_unix_with_retries(client->path, 5000) : net_connect_unix(client->path); src/lib/net.c : int net_connect_unix_with_retries(const char *path, unsigned int msecs) { struct timeval start, now; int fd; if (gettimeofday(&start, NULL) < 0) i_panic("gettimeofday() failed: %m"); do { fd = net_connect_unix(path); if (fd != -1 || (errno != EAGAIN && errno != ECONNREFUSED)) // <------------------ HERE, I go into ECONNREFUSED case during 5 seconds break; /* busy. wait for a while. */ usleep(((rand() % 10) + 1) * 10000); if (gettimeofday(&now, NULL) < 0) i_panic("gettimeofday() failed: %m"); } while (timeval_diff_msecs(&now, &start) < (int)msecs); return fd; } Additionnal environment infos (mailboxes are NFS-backed) : lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.2 (stretch) Release: 9.2 Codename: stretch mount | grep ^/ /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) mount | grep nfs nfs1:/mail/maildir on /var/maildir type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=172.16.2.28,mountvers=3,mountport=635,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=172.16.2.28) nfs1:/mail on /var/mail type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=172.16.2.28,mountvers=3,mountport=635,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=172.16.2.28) cifs1:/homepermanents/info/lpouzenc on /home/lpouzenc type nfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=172.16.2.29,mountvers=3,mountport=635,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=172.16.2.29) telegraphe-test:~# apt-cache policy dovecot-core dovecot-core: Installé : 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u2 Candidat : 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u2 Table de version : *** 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u2 500 500 http://miroir/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status telegraphe-test:~# dovecot -n # 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554) doveconf: Warning: service auth { client_limit=10000 } is lower than required under max. load (10240) # OS: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.2 nfs auth_verbose = yes default_client_limit = 10000 default_process_limit = 2048 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/maildir/%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 index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext mmap_disable = yes 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 = separator = / } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = file:/var/mail/mailconf/%1u/%u/sieve;active=/var/mail/mailconf/%1u/%u/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/mail/mailconf/global/sieve/before.d sieve_global = /var/mail/mailconf/global/sieve sieve_vacation_dont_check_recipient = yes } protocols = " imap lmtp sieve sieve" service anvil { unix_listener anvil-auth-penalty { mode = 00 } } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } } service managesieve { process_limit = 16 } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/telegraphe7_cert.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it syslog_facility = local0 userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { auth_username_format = %n mail_plugins = " sieve" } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 } Could you see a config tuning that keeps auth-penalty out of the way (it seems to behaves badly here, because we have perdition IMAP proxy in front, and it keeps track only of his IP and adds 2/4/8/15s delays to "random" legit clients. Could it be saved with a dedicated config entry to disable auth-penalty ? Is there solution to have auth-penalty working while having perdition IMAP proxy ? Regards, Ludovic Pouzenc -- Ludovic POUZENC - Ingénieur Système IMT Mines Albi (http://www.imt-mines-albi.fr) 81013 ALBI CT Cedex 09 - Tel : 05 63 49 33 56

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panic when using dovecot master account
by André Rodier 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Hello, I am running dovecot 2.2.34 (874deae), on Debian stable, from backports. I just tried the master account, and although everything worked in the email client, I had logs in the error logs: > imap(mirina): Panic: file mail-index-sync.c: line 413 > (mail_index_sync_begin_to2): assertion failed: (!index->syncing) > Nov 08 22:06:24 osaka dovecot[1450]: imap(mirina): Error: Raw > backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x9e412) [0x7f20ae813412] > -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x9e50d) [0x7f20ae81350d] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f20ae7a2c51] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xe0fe4) [0x7f20aeb88fe4] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_begin_to+0x4f) > [0x7f20aeb890bf] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_sync_begin+0x1c) > [0x7f20aeb8915c] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(virtual_storage_sync_init+0x218) > [0x7f20ad51f308] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync_init+0x44) > [0x7f20aeaf02d4] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync+0x37) > [0x7f20aeaf0387] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_get_status+0x31) > [0x7f20aeb6bbf1] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(+0x936d) > [0x7f20ad51c36d] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xa8771) > [0x7f20aeb50771] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xfd46) [0x7f20adb8bd46] > -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_get_status+0x31) > [0x7f20aeaf0781] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(virtual_storage_sync_init+0x10b8) > [0x7f20ad5201a8] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync_init+0x44) > [0x7f20aeaf02d4] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync+0x37) > [0x7f20aeaf0387] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_get_status+0x31) > [0x7f20aeb6bbf1] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(+0x936d) > [0x7f20ad51c36d] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xa8771) > [0x7f20aeb50771] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xfd46) [0x7f20adb8bd46] > -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_get_status+0x31) > [0x7f20aeaf0781] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(virtual_storage_sync_init+0x10b8) > [0x7f20ad5201a8] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync_init+0x44) > [0x7f20aeaf02d4] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync+0x37) > [0x7f20aeaf0387] -> dovecot/imap(cmd_select_full+0x16b) > [0x557de970cc3b] -> dovecot/imap(command_exec+0x5c) [0x557de971444c] -> > dovecot/imap(+0x1a912) [0x557de9712912] > Nov 08 22:06:24 osaka dovecot[1450]: imap(mirina): Fatal: master: > service(imap): child 4289 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) I attach my dovecot configuration too. Thanks for your help.

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Moving messages on test server, dovecot.index.log was locked for x seconds on cephfs
by Marc Roos 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

I am getting on a test environment were no users are logging in a dovecot.index.log was locked when moving messages with doveadm move -u testuser Archive/2012 mailbox INBOX/inbox BEFORE 2013-01-01. doveadm(testuser): Warning: Transaction log file /var/dovecot/testuser/index/.INBOX.inbox/dovecot.index.log was locked for 215 seconds (rotating while syncing) I have read about how this can be related to default locking fcntl and nfs, anyone having this solved with cephfs? https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-January/036194.html

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