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[Dovecot] dovecot OK for intranet, not OK for external IPs
by Sulla 25 Aug '13

25 Aug '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear all! I'm stuck. I've got a dovecot IMAP server running (TLS, port 149) on Ubuntu 13.04 server behind a DSL router. The mailserver's IP is 10.0.0.1 When I connect to my mailbox from my intranet-PC (10.0.0.2), everything works as expected. Login OK, acces to all mailboxes is ok, everything. netstat -nt on my email server shows me: Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 10.0.0.1:143 10.0.0.2:57952 ESTABLISHED and /var/log/mail.log shows me: Aug 24 22:41:00 SERVERNAME dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<UID>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.0.2, lip=10.0.0.1, mpid=24326, TLS, session=<3Ul+irfkYAAKAAAC> However, when I connect to my mailserver through the internet (from 10.196.124.7 which is a modem of my ISP), dovecot ignores the authentication request. It does nothing. Just nothing. My router forwards the connection request to my mailserver correctly, so port forwarding on the router is ok, as my mailserver gets a connection request from the client. Proof: "netstat -nt" shows me: Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 10.0.0.1:143 10.196.124.7:1024 SYN_RECV So, my server gets a connection request on port 143 from my client PC, but then nothing happens. By nothing I mean, that nothing gets written into /var/log/mail.log and my email client (Thunderbird) gets a connection timeout. Any ideas why dovecot is refusing connections? How can I solve this problem? thanx all Sulla -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlIZI7sACgkQR6b2EdogPFvqxACgrUACK1J8tHCxJR0jMUui14bs TsoAnAw4QnVr2kydjk2cErKW+i6oVu1f =86wg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA
by LuKreme 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

OK, I did read <http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA> but it doesn't answer the question I have since it doesn't tell me what I can do with -o, exactly. What I would like to do is be able to call dovecot-lda and pass along '\\Seen', is that possible? -- Up the airy mountains, down the rushy glen... From ghosties and bogles and long-leggity beasties... My mother said I never should... We dare not go a-hunting for fear... And things that go bump... Play with the fairies in the wood... --Lords and Ladies

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[Dovecot] expire plugin doesn't work?
by Anton Chigin 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

Hello, I've configured dovecot to use expire plugin: heres my dovecot -n: --------------------- # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.1 ext4 auth_mechanisms = plain login dict { expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire-sql.conf.ext } mail_location = maildir:/home/mail/vhosts/%d/%n mail_plugins = expire mail_privileged_group = vmail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = no special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { expire = Trash 7 expire_dict = proxy::expire sieve = ~/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_max_actions = 32 sieve_max_redirects = 4 sieve_max_script_size = 1M sieve_quota_max_scripts = 32 } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { user = vmail } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = dovecot } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 128 M } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl = required ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/my_certs/sub.class1.server.ca.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/chig.in/mail/mail.chig.in.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/chig.in/mail/mail.chig.in.key userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/mail/vhosts/%d/%n driver = static } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = expire sieve } protocol sieve { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 managesieve_implementation_string = Cyrus timsieved v2.2.13 managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_max_compile_errors = 5 } --------------------- What exactly I did.... 1) dovecot.conf dict { expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire-sql.conf.ext } 2) /etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire-sql.conf.ext connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=mailserver user=mail password=SOMEPASS map { pattern = shared/expire/$user/$mailbox table = expires value_field = expire_stamp fields { username = $user mailbox = $mailbox } } 3) conf.d/10-mail.conf mail_plugins = expire 4) conf.d/90-plugin.conf plugin { #setting_name = value expire = Trash 7 expire_dict = proxy::expire } 5) Created table in mysql server mysql> show create table expires; +---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Table | Create Table | +---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | expires | CREATE TABLE `expires` ( `username` varchar(75) NOT NULL, `mailbox` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `expire_stamp` int(11) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`username`,`mailbox`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 | +---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) And nothing works dovecot debug shows nothing: only one string related to expire plugin Aug 24 04:21:37 piscola dovecot: lmtp(16927): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_expire_plugin.so mysql general query log show nothing also... Can anyone help me please? Thanks a lot!

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[Dovecot] SSL Cipher Order in Dovecot
by Marc Grooz 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Hi, I want that dovecot uses PFS with my Apple Devices. I set the Cipher List to: ssl_cipher_list = DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!CBC:!PSK:!SRP:!DSS:!SSLv2:!RC4 I got this from here: http://www.kuketz-blog.de/perfect-forward-secrecy-mit-apple-mail/ But then my only Outlook 2010 Client won't connect. If i enable rsa-aes128-SHA again on third place all clients connect without dhe. Dosen't dovecot horner the Cipher Order in the config? Kind regards Marc

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[Dovecot] piegonhole sieve prepending header lines with an extra space
by Anand Kumria 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Hi, I've noticed that the redirect sieve extension is placing an extra space before the headers of email when the 'redirect' command is used. Unfortunately this break gmail, yahoo, and most other email programs. I am using pigeonhole 0.4.0-14 with Dovecot 2.2.4.3; I see change 1781:e439789e3211 but it appears to only change how the X-Sieve header is generated. I only have the one dovecot instance but I will note that the setting 'mail_save_crlf = yes' is specified. Thanks, Anand

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Dsync
by Ben 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Hi, Sorry to bump it, but I've yet to receive even one reply to my question the other day about Dsync ? Everyone else seems to have been receiving replies to their questions and so I'm feeling a little lonely out in the cold. I can't believe nobody on-list uses Dsync ? Ben

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[Dovecot] Logging passwords on auth failure/dealing with botnets
by Michael Smith (DF) 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Hi, Since upgrading our mail servers to Postfix/Dovecot, we've seen a rather large increase in botnet brute force password attacks. I guess our old servers were too slow to suit their needs. Now, when they hit upon a valid user, it's easy to see what passwords they are trying (we've enabled auth_debug_passwords and set auth_verbose_passwords = plain). We can easily have log monitors pick up the blatant password attempts (123, 1234, 12345, 3.1415926, etc) and firewall them. Aug 22 00:21:47 host1 dovecot: auth-worker(1423): sql(aea,120.198.9.221): Password mismatch (given password: 3.1415926) However, when they are plugging away on an invalid user, all the logs show is 'unknown user'. The only way to see what they are doing is to tcpdump on the box. Almost 99% of the attacks are through SMTP/SASL attempts, using 'auth login'. Postfix is configured to use Dovecot for the authentication backend. NOTE: parens contain the base64 decoded values, this is not part of the data stream. C: auth login S: 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 (334 Username:) C: YWVi (aeb) S: 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 (334 Password:) C: My4xNDE1OTI2 (3.1415926) S: 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: UGFzc3dvcmQ6 (535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: Password:) Aug 22 11:00:31 host3 dovecot: auth-worker(19844): sql(aeb,120.198.9.221): unknown user How difficult would it be to add logging the given password, observing the auth_debug_passwords and auth_verbose_passwords settings, for all authentication failures? When we see certain patterns, we want to aggressively block those IPs, regardless of if it's a valid username or an unknown user. Or another option, is there any good DNS based RBLs for botnet IPs, and is there any way to tie that in to the dovecot auth system? I've been looking for botnet rbls, but what I've found so far doesn't seem to work very well. Most of the IPs that I've had to firewall don't exist in them. -- Michael Smith

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Re: [Dovecot] Load goes up imap-login
by megodin＠inboxalias.com 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

Hi there Giles, not really a solution to your problem, but a hint: Try activating "verbose_proctitle = yes" in your dovecot.conf, restart service dovecot and you might get more information (when the load is produced by logged in users) - it gives you verbose information about which specific user with which IP is generating the high load. All the best, Megodin --- Alle PostfÃ¤cher an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive anonymous emails to your inbox with InboxAlias. http://www.inboxalias.com

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Re: [Dovecot] Sieve filterset not activating in Dovecot 2.0.15 with, Sieve plug-in and Roundcube 0.5.3: "NO (TRYLATER) Internal Error." (Steffen Kaiser)
by Joe Lourenco 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

Thank you Steffen Kaiser. I enabled the auth_debug and saw this error for permissions: Aug 22 13:41:44 managesieve($u): Error: sieve-storage: Creating symlink() /home/$u/.dovecot.sieve to sieve/Out of office.sieve failed: Permission denied The user's home directory was owned by root. Can not explain it why it was so. Thanks again! > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Joe Lourenco wrote: > > > roundcube: S: NO (TRYLATER) "Internal error occured. Refer to server log > > for more information. [2013-08-21 19:01:13]" > > > Nothing is showing up on the server log. > > Check out Dovecot's error log and search for that timestamp of the > message, it is there - unless, say, an out of disk error prevented the > logging. >

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[Dovecot] Problem compiling 2.2.5
by Luciano Mannucci 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

I'm trying to upgrade a very old sparcstation running Solaris 8 which is running dovecot 1.x for few users. All I have for the task is good old gcc 2.95.2. The poor sod complains because it can't compute the sizeof(unsigned char prefix_text[]) at line 13 of log-error-buffer.c. Can I help it by - say - putting a constant between the '[]'? Or is it unfair? :-) I don't think it's woth modifying the distribution only for us owning machines that should be in a museum by now... Thanks for the good software, BTW, luciano. -- /"\ /Via A. Salaino, 7 - 20144 Milano (Italy) \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / PHONE : +39 2 485781 FAX: +39 2 48578250 X AGAINST HTML MAIL / E-MAIL: posthamster(a)sublink.sublink.ORG / \ AND POSTINGS / WWW: http://www.lesassaie.IT/

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