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[Dovecot] User login for SMTP but not for IMAP/POP?
by Martin 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

Hello everybody, I have a question, though I'm not sure if it's a matter of dovecot or postfix. Or if it's even possible to do at all. If I understand it correctly, SMTP authentification is done via SASL. When a user wants to login Postfix queries an external user database (dovecot). Therefore the SMTP-users are identical to the IMAP/POP-users. I want to achieve the following: I want some user credentials (username&password) for a user that is able to login via SMTP, but who doesn't have a mailbox and therefore shouldn't be able to login via IMAP/POP. Is this even possible? How can it be achieved? Or: does this behaviour have a special name, which I can google for? Regards, Martin

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[Dovecot] login_trusted_networks from webmail ?
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

I'd like to get the IP-address of the webmail-klient logged in my maillog (for being compliant with coming data retention policies). I've noticed that with login_trusted_networks pointing at my dovecot directors, we get rip=client-ip logged on the backends. How is the proxy providing this to the dovecot backends? Anybody know what magic we need to implement in our webmail-solution to be able to forward the webmail-client-ip and have it logged as rip= in dovecot? I belive it will be enough to have it logged as rip= on the directors, maybe not needed to be forwarded all the way to the backends (but that would be nice as well). -jf

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[Dovecot] new user questions
by Gene Heskett 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

Greetings; Trying to follow along with the wiki2 setup instructions and thought I'd hit a snag with the first "send me a mail" snippet as it took several minutes to arrive, so I assume that somehow procmail was involved in the delivery and my procmail runs mail thought a whole bunch of checks before finally handing it off to a mailfile as /var/mail/gene. Then the next script seems to only try whats in my home dir, and of course doesn't find it as neither exists, yet... I assume that is because dovecot needs a kill -HUP. But I am not familiar with that, so how is it done, and as what user, me, or root, on a ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS install? Thanks. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> Beam me up, Scotty! A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens.

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[Dovecot] Mail replication ... totally confused !
by HL 13 Jul '13

13 Jul '13

Hello, I am totally confused configuring replication in dovecot. In my case I have 2 servers instead of running rsync as a daemon which takes a lot of time I would like SERVER-A will be the master and SERVER-B will be the slave My users directly interact with server A, Server B stands as a mails backup only I've setup SERVER-B ( backup ) like that, NO SPECIAL CONF on master SERVER-A Is this ok ?? I Don't want to miss any mails Since this is a live server service aggregator { # give enough permissions for mail processes # fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { user = vmail mode = 0600 } unix_listener replication-notify { user = vmail mode = 0600 } } service replicator { # start replication at startup # process_min_avail = 1 } service doveadm { # if you're using a single virtual user, set this to start ssh as vmail # (not root) # user = vmail } service config { # needed to grant access to /var/run/dovecot/config for service doveadm # unix_listener config { user = vmail } } dsync_remote_cmd = ssh -p 1234 -l%{login} %{host} doveadm dsync-server -u%u -l%{lock_timeout} -n%{namespace} plugin { mail_replica = remote:vmail@master-server-a.tld replication_full_sync_interval = 1 hours }

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.2.4 metadata-plugin not support UTF7
by Sergey Sidlyarenko 13 Jul '13

13 Jul '13

In Dovecot 2.2.4 metadata-plugin crach on setmetadata but worked on ascii folders? but not worked on utf7 (non ascii) folders. [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: A0002 OK [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 SPECIAL-USE BINARY MOVE METADATA ANNOTATEMORE] Logged in [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] C: A0003 CREATE &BB0EPgQyBEsEOQ-8 [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: A0003 OK Create completed. [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] C: A0004 SUBSCRIBE &BB0EPgQyBEsEOQ-8 [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: A0004 OK Subscribe completed. [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] C: A0005 SETMETADATA &BB0EPgQyBEsEOQ-8 (/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type event /private/vendor/kolab/folder-type NIL) [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: A0005 NO Mailbox does not exist. [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] C: A0006 SETMETADATA &BB0EPgQyBEsEOQ-8 (/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type event) [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: A0006 NO Mailbox does not exist. [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] C: A0007 LIST "" "&BB0EPgQyBEsEOQ-8/*" [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: A0007 OK List completed. [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] C: A0008 GETMETADATA "*" (/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type /shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type) [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Drafts" ("/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "mail.drafts") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Drafts" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "mail") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Configuration" ("/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "configuration.default") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Configuration" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "configuration") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Notes" ("/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "note.default") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Notes" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "note") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Junk" ("/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "mail.junkemail") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Junk" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "mail") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "FreeBusy" ("/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "freebusy.default") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "FreeBusy" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "freebusy") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "INBOX" ("/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "mail.inbox") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "INBOX" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "mail") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Sent" ("/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "mail.sentitems") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Sent" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "mail") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "New8" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "event") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Tasks" ("/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "task.default") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Tasks" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "task") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Trash" ("/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "mail.wastebasket") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Trash" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "mail") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Calendar" ("/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "event.default") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Calendar" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "event") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Calendar/New" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "event") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Calendar/New4" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "event") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Calendar/New3" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "event") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Calendar/Home" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "event") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Calendar/New2" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "event") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Calendar/New1" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "event") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "New7" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "event") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Addressbook" ("/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "contact.default") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * METADATA "Addressbook" ("/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type" "contact") [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: A0008 OK Completed. [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] C: A0009 DELETE &BB0EPgQyBEsEOQ-8 [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: A0009 OK Delete completed. [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] C: A0010 UNSUBSCRIBE &BB0EPgQyBEsEOQ-8 [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: A0010 OK Unsubscribe completed. [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] C: A0011 LOGOUT [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: * BYE Logging out [13-Jul-2013 19:15:36 +0400]: [F537] S: A0011 OK Logout completed. -- Sidlyarenko Sergey https://github.com/lefoyer

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.2.4 metadata-plugin crached
by Sergey Sidlyarenko 13 Jul '13

13 Jul '13

Dovecot (deb http://xi.rename-it.nl/debian/ stable-auto/dovecot-2.2 main) crached after create new metadata folder (But the folder with metadata is created). Metadata plugin v14. Coredump: http://yadi.sk/d/bsBCpRS76mXpj in log: imap(admin(a)example.ru): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 14339 killed with signal 11 (core dumped) [10-Jul-2013 11:46:00 +0400]: [A4A2] S: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Welcome to TU FKP IMAP server. [10-Jul-2013 11:46:00 +0400]: [A4A2] C: A0001 ID ("name" "Roundcube" "version" "1.0-git" "php" "5.4.4-14+deb7u2" "os" "Linux" "command" "/?_task=calendar&_action=calendar") [10-Jul-2013 11:46:00 +0400]: [A4A2] S: * ID ("name" "Dovecot") [10-Jul-2013 11:46:00 +0400]: [A4A2] S: A0001 OK ID completed. [10-Jul-2013 11:46:00 +0400]: [A4A2] C: A0002 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN pass [10-Jul-2013 11:46:00 +0400]: [A4A2] S: A0002 OK [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 SPECIAL-USE BINARY MOVE METADATA ANNOTATEMORE] Logged in [10-Jul-2013 11:46:00 +0400]: [A4A2] C: A0003 CREATE Calendar/New4 [10-Jul-2013 11:46:00 +0400]: [A4A2] S: A0003 OK Create completed. [10-Jul-2013 11:46:00 +0400]: [A4A2] C: A0004 SUBSCRIBE Calendar/New4 [10-Jul-2013 11:46:00 +0400]: [A4A2] S: A0004 OK Subscribe completed. [10-Jul-2013 11:46:00 +0400]: [A4A2] C: A0005 SETMETADATA Calendar/New4 (/shared/vendor/kolab/folder-type event /private/vendor/kolab/folder-type NIL) root@mail:/var/core# gdb /usr/lib/dovecot/imap /var/core/19851 GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.1-debian Copyright (C) 2012 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-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dovecot/imap...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/dovecot/imap...done. done. [New LWP 19851] warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Ошибка ввода/вывода. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `dovecot/imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00007f0a7102686f in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007f0a7102686f in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007f0a700ccad9 in metadata_set_entry (entry=0x1705880, user=<optimized out>) at metadata-backend.c:133 muser = 0x16f6550 key = <optimized out> dt = <optimized out> #2 0x00007f0a6fcc4c91 in setmetadata_helper (box=0x1700080, args=<optimized out>, cmd=0x16fb440) at imap-metadata-plugin.c:673 name = 0x16fffd8 "/private/vendor/kolab/folder-type" value = 0x0 entry = <optimized out> ret = <optimized out> warn_maxsize = <optimized out> warn_toomany = <optimized out> arglist = 0x16ffeb8 response = <optimized out> warn_noprivate = false #3 cmd_setmetadata (cmd=0x16fb440) at imap-metadata-plugin.c:761 args = 0x16ffca8 mailbox_name = 0x16ffe10 "Calendar/New3" box = 0x1700080 #4 0x000000000041679c in command_exec (cmd=cmd@entry=0x16fb440) at imap-commands.c:156 hook = 0x16e00b0 ret = <optimized out> #5 0x0000000000415800 in client_command_input (cmd=0x16fb440) at imap-client.c:775 client = 0x16fa910 command = <optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #6 0x00000000004158ba in client_command_input (cmd=0x16fb440) at imap-client.c:836 client = 0x16fa910 command = <optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "client_command_input" #7 0x0000000000415b75 in client_handle_next_command (remove_io_r=<synthetic pointer>, client=0x16fa910) at imap-client.c:874 No locals. #8 client_handle_input (client=client@entry=0x16fa910) at imap-client.c:886 _data_stack_cur_id = 3 ret = false remove_io = false handled_commands = false __FUNCTION__ = "client_handle_input" #9 0x0000000000415f22 in client_input (client=0x16fa910) at imap-client.c:928 cmd = <optimized out> output = 0x16fb308 bytes = 112 __FUNCTION__ = "client_input" #10 0x00007f0a71309f66 in io_loop_call_io (io=0x16f8bd0) at ioloop.c:387 ioloop = 0x16df700 t_id = 2 #11 0x00007f0a7130add7 in io_loop_handler_run (ioloop=ioloop@entry=0x16df700) at ioloop-epoll.c:215 ctx = 0x16e0390 events = 0x0 event = 0x16e11f0 list = 0x16f8c20 io = <optimized out> tv = {tv_sec = 1799, tv_usec = 999792} events_count = <optimized out> msecs = <optimized out> ret = 1 i = <optimized out> call = <optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "io_loop_handler_run" #12 0x00007f0a71309aa8 in io_loop_run (ioloop=0x16df700) at ioloop.c:406 No locals. ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #13 0x00007f0a712bf1e3 in master_service_run (service=0x16df590, callback=callback@entry=0x41ed40 <client_connected>) at master-service.c:560 No locals. #14 0x000000000040bb58 in main (argc=1, argv=0x16df390) at main.c:400 set_roots = {0x426320, 0x0} login_set = {auth_socket_path = 0x16d7040 "\001", postlogin_socket_path = 0x0, postlogin_timeout_secs = 60, callback = 0x41ebf0 <login_client_connected>, failure_callback = 0x41e900 <login_client_failed>, request_auth_token = 1} service_flags = <optimized out> storage_service_flags = <optimized out> username = 0x0 c = <optimized out> (gdb) quit root@mail:/var/core# dovecot -n # 2.2.4 (620876853f6f): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.1 ext4 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 10 secs auth_cache_size = 10 M auth_cache_ttl = 2 mins auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_worker_max_count = 4096 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ default_client_limit = 8192 default_process_limit = 2048 default_vsz_limit = 2 G dict { expire = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf metadata = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-metadata } first_valid_gid = 8 first_valid_uid = 8 info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log last_valid_gid = 8 last_valid_uid = 8 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = *, [::] log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-errors.log log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_greeting = Welcome to IMAP server. login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_trusted_networks = 127.0.0.1 mail_gid = mail mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/var/mail/%d/%n/maildirfolder:DIRNAME=maildirfolder:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes/%d/%n mail_max_userip_connections = 1024 mail_plugins = virtual expire metadata mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = 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 ihave namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/var/mail/%d/%n/maildirfolder:DIRNAME=maildirfolder:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes/%d/%n:UTF-8 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 = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { hidden = no ignore_on_failure = no inbox = no list = yes location = virtual:/etc/dovecot/virtual:CONTROL=/var/mail/controls/%d/%n/Вся почта:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes/%d/%n/Вся почта:UTF-8 mailbox { auto = subscribe special_use = \All } prefix = Вся почта/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql-master.conf driver = sql master = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf driver = sql } plugin { expire = Trash expire2 = Trash/* expire3 = Junk expire_dict = proxy::expire metadata_dict = proxy::metadata sieve = /var/mail/%d/%n/dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/ sieve_dir = /var/mail/%d/%n/maildirfolder sieve_max_actions = 32 sieve_max_redirects = 4 sieve_max_script_size = 1M } protocols = imap sieve service auth-worker { client_limit = 4096 process_limit = 2048 process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 0 unix_listener auth-worker { mode = 0600 } vsz_limit = 1 G } service auth { client_limit = 10240 process_min_avail = 1 service_count = 0 unix_listener auth-client { group = mail mode = 0660 user = mail } unix_listener auth-master { group = mail mode = 0664 user = mail } user = dovecot vsz_limit = 1 G } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = mail mode = 0660 user = mail } } service imap-login { chroot = login client_limit = 4096 process_limit = 2048 process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 0 user = dovecot vsz_limit = 1 G } service imap { client_limit = 4096 process_limit = 2048 process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 1 G } service managesieve-login { chroot = login client_limit = 4096 executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } process_limit = 2048 process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 0 user = dovecot vsz_limit = 1 G } service managesieve { client_limit = 4096 executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve process_limit = 2048 process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 1 G } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/dovecot/example.ru.ca.crt ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 ssl_key = </etc/ssl/dovecot/example.ru.key ssl_parameters_regenerate = 1 hours userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf driver = sql } valid_chroot_dirs = /var/mail/ verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 1024 mail_plugins = expire virtual metadata imap_metadata imap_annotatemore } protocol lda { hostname = mail.example.ru info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-local-deliver.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-local-deliver-errors.log mail_plugins = expire sieve virtual postmaster_address = admin(a)example.ru } protocol sieve { managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 } -- Sidlyarenko Sergey https://github.com/lefoyer

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[Dovecot] Ambiguous behavior with prefetch database?
by Axel Luttgens 13 Jul '13

13 Jul '13

Hello, Let's say dovecot.conf contains: mail_uid = dovemailer mail_gid = dovemailer mail_home = /some/path/%n mail_location = mbox:~/mboxes:INBOX=~/mboxes/inbox and that the password database query is of the form: password_query = \ SELECT \ passwd AS password, \ nickname AS user, \ mail_home AS userdb_home, \ mail_location AS userdb_mail, \ WHERE \ ... The database initially comes with NULL for both mail_home and mail_location, the goal being to be able to progressively replace legacy settings. With the above, one gets such entries in the logs upon a pop or imap connection: auth-worker(11262): Debug: auth(u12345678,127.0.0.1): username changed u12345678 -> john.doe auth: Debug: auth(u12345678,127.0.0.1,<dsNsasbgRQB/AAAB>): username changed u12345678 -> john.doe [...] auth: Debug: prefetch(john.doe,127.0.0.1,<dsNsasbgRQB/AAAB>): passdb didn't return userdb entries, trying the next userdb and, of course, the userdb_query fails since it isn't supposed to be invoked under such circumstances. Of course, the userdb_query could be adapted so as to handle pop/imap connections in addition to say, lmtp or doveadm connections, but this would anyway raise the question: why bother with a prefetch database setup? In fact, it seems that the problem comes from the fact that the password_query returns NULL values (i.e. "do not override dovecot.conf settings") for all userdb_xxx settings even if, technically speaking, it returns such columns. A slight yet somewhat silly modification of the password_query, such as this one: password_query = \ SELECT \ passwd AS password, \ nickname AS user, \ 'dovemailer' AS userdb_uid, \ mail_home AS userdb_home, \ mail_location AS userdb_mail, \ WHERE \ ... indeed seems to bring back all the expected behavior: now, the "passdb returns userdb entries" and, for example, the config's mail_home expands to the expected value /some/path/john.doe. Could it be that the case "userdb_xxx columns returned, even if all with NULL values" has been somehow overlooked in the code? Or am I erring with my interpetation of all those matters? TIA, Axel

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[Dovecot] A sqlite-based quota dict
by Axel Luttgens 13 Jul '13

13 Jul '13

Hello, While experimenting with the sqlite backend, I noticed a big vacuum wrt its use for a quota dict. This is thus an opportunity to share a solution I managed to devise after some trials and errors and a (very quick and unscientific) look at the code. And also the opportunity to ask the community to check for possible flaws. Yes, nothing comes for free... ;-) TIA, Axel This is the SQL for creating the database or for adding needed table/trigger to an existing database (with many comments and few "active" lines): CREATE TABLE quota ( -- We will assume that, in the case of a sqlite DB (and probably a pgsql DB -- as well), Dovecot will *always* act along these lines: -- In case of a "row creation": -- INSERT INTO quota (subject, byte_count) -- VALUES (<some id>, <byte count>); -- INSERT INTO quota (subject, message_count) -- VALUES (<some id>, <msg count>); -- In case of a recalculation: -- UPDATE quota -- SET byte_count = byte_count + <byte count diff>, -- message_count = message_count + <msg count diff> -- WHERE subject = <some id>; -- In case of a row deletion: -- DELETE FROM quota -- WHERE subject = <some id>; -- For example, a "doveadm quota recalc" may first delete the relevant row -- if it exists, then (re-)create it. -- Clearly, the "row creation" case is a bit problematic, hence the need for -- a trigger. -- An id for the entity subjected to a quota (a user/mailbox, a domain...). subject TEXT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, -- The entity's size, expressed as a storage space use and as a message -- count. -- Note the NULL defaults: they allow to simplify the trigger's logics. byte_count INTEGER DEFAULT NULL, message_count INTEGER DEFAULT NULL ); CREATE TRIGGER quota_insert BEFORE INSERT ON quota FOR EACH ROW BEGIN -- If there's a row to update, that's because the first INSERT of the "row -- creation" has been performed. -- (this UPDATE could probably be simplified if the insertion order, -- byte_count then message_count, was guaranteed; anyway, since the "row -- creation" operation shouldn't be very frequent, we may afford a slight -- inefficiency). UPDATE quota SET byte_count = CASE WHEN NEW.byte_count ISNULL THEN byte_count ELSE NEW.byte_count END, message_count = CASE WHEN NEW.message_count ISNULL THEN message_count ELSE NEW.message_count END WHERE subject = NEW.subject; -- In which case we may ignore that second (current) INSERT, since the -- previously inserted row has just been updated with the value coming -- from the current INSERT statement. SELECT raise(IGNORE) WHERE EXISTS (SELECT * FROM quota WHERE subject = NEW.subject); END; The corresponding dict configuration being thus supposed to be similar to this one: connect = /path/to/database map { pattern = priv/quota/storage table = quota username_field = subject value_field = byte_count } map { pattern = priv/quota/messages table = quota username_field = subject value_field = message_count }

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Virtual Folders... could these be managed by a/the Client?
by Charles Marcus 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hi all/Timo, I was thinking about Thunderbirds ability to create Virtual folders allowing you to have many different views of your messages... The downside though, is you only see these in Thunderbird. I know that dovecot supports server side virtual folders: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual But I'm wondering about the possibility to manage these from the client side... For example, would it be possible to create an extension in Thunderbird that allowed the user to manage these (create, edit the filters for, delete, rename, etc)? Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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[Dovecot] (no subject)
by Gab IIpop 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

>From the documentation, virtual users seem like a good idea if you plan on having a lot of users. Although I'm wondering about the following: What other benefits/consequences are there to using virtual over system users and vice versa? Will virtual users have the same protection as system users (system users would use linux permissions, which is pretty secure)? How easy will it be to switch from using system users to virtual users or vice versa?

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