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[Dovecot] Expunge mailbox from script
by Paul van der Vlis 10 May '13

10 May '13

Hello, I would like to expunge all mail of a mailbox from a script. What's a good tool to do that? With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl/

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Re: [Dovecot] change inbox dotlock name
by Chris Saldanha 10 May '13

10 May '13

Axel Luttgens <AxelLuttgens(a)swing.be> wrote: > But I fear I don't understand your problem description. > Could you elaborate? Hi Axel, The issue is that the procmail port on FreeBSD doesn't acquire a dotlock when it's the default lock file (/var/mail/username.lock). It prints that it's bypassing the dotlock and just does a lockf() lock after. Looking in the code for procmail, it seems that it's being too clever with a bunch of checks and so it doesn't try to get the lock -- it's decided it doesn't want to before doing it. The permissions and runtime environment permit the lock, and the same lock is acquired correctly by dovecot when writing to the inbox. I'm doing dotlock and then lockf() locking in all the mail software. procmail's checks only seem to apply to the default lock file for the inbox. If I specify an alternate name in the .procmailrc for the $ORGMAIL delivery of the message, then it will acquire any other lock I ask, including an alternate name in the /var/mail directory. I'll dig into the procmail sources as needed to resolve it, but I had hoped that I could get dovecot to lock with a different filename, because that would resolve the issue with minimal hackery... Cheers, Chris -- Chris Saldanha Parliant Corporation

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[Dovecot] dovecot not logging after upgrade to 2.1.7 on debian
by Steinar Bang 09 May '13

09 May '13

After upgrading my IMAP server to the new debian stable, and upgrading dovecot from 1.x to 2.1.7 in the process, dovecot no longer logs anything to /var/log/mail.*. The last entries there are from before the upgrade, and no starts or error messages or failed login attempts, since then, have been logged. Does anyone know what might cause this? "doveconf -n" doesn't mention any of the log settings. Maybe the log settings aren't picked up? What could be done to make sure they are picked up? Here's the content of the /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf file: ## ## 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 = no # 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. #auth_verbose_passwords = no # Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes. Shows for example SQL # queries. #auth_debug = no # 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 = no # Show protocol level SSL errors. #verbose_ssl = no # 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 } ## ## Log formatting. ## # Prefix for each line written to log file. % codes are in strftime(3) # format. #log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " # Space-separated list of elements we want to log. The elements which have # a non-empty variable value are joined together to form a comma-separated # string. #login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c # Login log format. %$ contains login_log_format_elements string, %s contains # the data we want to log. #login_log_format = %$: %s # Log prefix for mail processes. See doc/wiki/Variables.txt for list of # possible variables you can use. #mail_log_prefix = "%s(%u): " # Format to use for logging mail deliveries. You can use variables: # %$ - Delivery status message (e.g. "saved to INBOX") # %m - Message-ID # %s - Subject # %f - From address # %p - Physical size # %w - Virtual size #deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$

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[Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole v0.3.5 for Dovecot v2.1.16
by Stephan Bosch 09 May '13

09 May '13

Hello Dovecot users, Before I release the first version of Pigeonhole v0.4, I quickly release a few small but important fixes for Pigeonhole v0.3. Changelog v0.3.5: - Sieve editheader extension: fixed interaction with the Sieve body extension. If used together, the deleteheader action could fail after a body test was performed. - Test suite: fixed a time zone dependency in the Sieve date extension tests. The release is available as follows: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.5.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/2.1/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole-0.3.5.tar.gz.sig Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot v2.x wiki for more information. Have fun testing this new release and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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[Dovecot] Permission problem with LDA and dovecot 2.2.1
by Tobi 09 May '13

09 May '13

Hello list today I built dovecot 2.2.1 from sources. But I have permission problems with LDA The "normal" imap part works fine, users can login and see their boxes. deliver is called as LDA from postfix master.cf as follows << dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${user}@${nexthop} >> but when I try to send a testmail then I get the following in the logs << 2013 May 6 18:37:59 nordkap lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. May 6 18:37:59 nordkap dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Connection refused May 6 18:37:59 nordkap dovecot: lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. >> For me it looks odd because the auth-userdb is defined as << base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/ service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0777 user = vmail group = vmail } .... >> The rights on the file should be correct according to the config above << ls -al /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb srwxrwxrwx 1 vmail vmail 0 May 6 20:11 /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb >> I cannot explain why the lda tries to access << Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) >> I grepped through all the configfiles but could not find the "wrong" path from the error message above. Would it might be a "fix" to symlink /usr/local/var/run/dovecot to /var/run/dovecot ? Or would that break something with dovecot? Thanks for any hint or idea tobi

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[Dovecot] SSL problems on dovecot 2.1.7
by Steinar Bang 09 May '13

09 May '13

When I upgraded my debian-based imap server from squeeze to wheezy yesterday, SSL stopped working. I am using a http://cacert.org signed server sertificate, and I am reusing the certificates that were used on the 1.x dovecot of debian squeeze. My three MUAs that worked against the previous 1.x dovecot with the same certificate, now fails in various ways. Any hints and guesses as to how to debug this further will be highly appreciated. Even more appreciated will be a pin point of the issue. :-) Here are the error messages from the MUAs: - Opera 12.15 on Windows 7 just reports: "The connection with the IMAP server was unexpectedly interrupted." - Emacs24(w/linked-in gnutls)/Ma Gnus 0.8 (Gnus git HEAD) on Windows 7 says "imap.mydomain.com certificate could not be verified." - Emacs23/Ma Gnus 0.8 (also Gnus git HEAD) on debian testing (with Emacs23 gnutls-cli is run in a subprocess), says: "Opening connection to imap.mydomain.com via tls... Opening TLS connection to `imap.mydomain.com'... Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli --insecure -p 993 imap.mydomain.com'...done Opening TLS connection to `imap.mydomain.com'...done Unable to open server nnimap+privat due to: Process *nnimap* not running" When I try running gnutls-cli from the command line of the debian testing machine (the same gnutls-cli that is used by the emacs23/gnus combo), it seems to connect ok (the transcript of that session is below). The config for the SSL, from /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf, is: # SSL/TLS support: yes, no, required. <doc/wiki/SSL.txt> ssl = yes # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but # root. Included doc/mkcert.sh can be used to easily generate self-signed # certificate, just make sure to update the domains in dovecot-openssl.cnf ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/imap_mydomain_com.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/imap_mydomain_com.key The access privileges of the files, are: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2077 Mar 27 12:45 /etc/ssl/certs/imap_mydomain_com.pem -rw------- 1 root root 3243 Jul 12 2011 /etc/ssl/private/imap_mydomain_com.key What follows, is the transcript from the gnutls-cli session from a debian testing machine to the server (which seems to be working as far as I can tell...): sb@edwards:~$ gnutls-cli -p 993 rainey.mydomain.com WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/sb/.cache/keyring-yeEdM3/pkcs11: No such file or directory Resolving 'rainey.mydomain.com'... Connecting to '212.110.185.190:993'... - Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman parameters - Using prime: 1024 bits - Secret key: 1023 bits - Peer's public key: 1023 bits - Certificate type: X.509 - Got a certificate list of 1 certificates. - Certificate[0] info: - subject `CN=imap.mydomain.com', issuer `O=Root CA,OU=http://www.cacert.org,CN=CA Cert Signing Authority,EMAIL=support(a)cacert.org', RSA key 4096 bits, signed using RSA-SHA1, activated `2013-03-27 12:43:30 UTC', expires `2013-09-23 12:43:30 UTC', SHA-1 fingerprint `86f8a501bca1e2b0eadc677bf05b103d298ce247' - The hostname in the certificate does NOT match 'rainey.mydomain.com' sb@edwards:~$ gnutls-cli -p 993 imap.mydomain.com WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/sb/.cache/keyring-yeEdM3/pkcs11: No such file or directory Resolving 'imap.mydomain.com'... Connecting to '212.110.185.190:993'... - Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman parameters - Using prime: 1024 bits - Secret key: 1022 bits - Peer's public key: 1021 bits - Certificate type: X.509 - Got a certificate list of 1 certificates. - Certificate[0] info: - subject `CN=imap.mydomain.com', issuer `O=Root CA,OU=http://www.cacert.org,CN=CA Cert Signing Authority,EMAIL=support(a)cacert.org', RSA key 4096 bits, signed using RSA-SHA1, activated `2013-03-27 12:43:30 UTC', expires `2013-09-23 12:43:30 UTC', SHA-1 fingerprint `86f8a501bca1e2b0eadc677bf05b103d298ce247' - The hostname in the certificate matches 'imap.mydomain.com'. - Peer's certificate issuer is unknown - Peer's certificate is NOT trusted - Version: TLS1.2 - Key Exchange: DHE-RSA - Cipher: AES-128-CBC - MAC: SHA1 - Compression: NULL - Handshake was completed - Simple Client Mode: * OK Waiting for authentication process to respond.. - Peer has closed the GnuTLS connection

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[Dovecot] dovecot stats
by Jan-Frode Myklebust 09 May '13

09 May '13

I just upgraded one of our servers to dovecot v2.1.16 (ee), and am looking into the stats feature. Am I interpreting the wiki correct in reading that the "doveadm stats dump command" only returns statistics about IMAP commands? Is it possible to collect info about POP3 and LMTP commands also ? Also, is "doveadm stats dump command" telling me the results of all commands that has finished the last stats_command_min_time, or will it maybe contain much more than 1 minute of activity ? -jf

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[Dovecot] AuthenticationFailedException: [IN-USE] Couldn't open INBOX: Permission denied
by Earles, Jill 09 May '13

09 May '13

I've been pouring over the documentation for dovecot, but can't find a solution to this problem. I recently took over administration of the dovecot email service at the University where I work, and things were going smoothly. We've been creating email accounts for use with JIRA, a bug reporting/tracking system, and one day recently, when I tried to add a new account to JIRA, I got this error returned from dovecot: "AuthenticationFailedException: [IN-USE] Couldn't open INBOX: Permission denied" I got help from Atlassian, the creators of JIRA, and they sent me links to some forum posts that said that changing the permissions of that user's /var/mail/ directory to 0600 would solve the problem. I changed that and no longer got the error. Being satisfied that this was a solution, I created a bunch of new email accounts today to replace exchange accounts, and then changed the permissions on all the /var/mail/ directories to 0600. Now I'm getting that error again, even for pre-existing email addresses, including the one that I had previously fixed by changing the permissions the same way. I tried changing some of the older accounts back to 0660, which is what they had before, and I still get the error even after restarting dovecot. JIRA uses POP, port 110, to connect to the dovecot mail server. I've also had the same problem trying to connect from Mac Mail. Our JIRA application is used for tracking issues for the UBC Libraries, and those email addresses are critical for the creation of tickets and adding comments to tickets. I am at a loss for what to do. Can anyone help? Thank you very much for your time. # dovecot -n # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago) auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_access_groups = mail mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail mbox_write_locks = fcntl passdb { driver = pam } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/server.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/server.key userdb { driver = passwd } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } Here's an except of the maillog from a recent attempt: May 8 17:46:49 moose dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(lib.sysadmin,{ip removed}): lookup service=dovecot May 8 17:46:49 moose dovecot: auth: Debug: pam(lib.sysadmin,{ip removed}): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: May 8 17:46:49 moose dovecot: auth: Debug: client out: OK#0111#011user=lib.sysadmin May 8 17:46:49 moose dovecot: auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST#0111028653057#01128298#0111#011a60ed90501af39d7e353a14e027255cd May 8 17:46:49 moose dovecot: auth: Debug: passwd(lib.sysadmin,{ip removed}): lookup May 8 17:46:49 moose dovecot: auth: Debug: master out: USER#0111028653057#011lib.sysadmin#011system_groups_user=lib.sysadmin#011uid=523#011gid=524#011home=/home/lib.sysadmin May 8 17:46:49 moose dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<lib.sysadmin>, method=PLAIN, rip={ip removed}, lip={ip removed}, mpid=28302 May 8 17:46:49 moose dovecot: pop3(lib.sysadmin): Error: stat(/var/spool/mail/lib.sysadmin) failed: Permission denied May 8 17:46:49 moose dovecot: pop3(lib.sysadmin): Error: stat(/var/spool/mail/lib.sysadmin) failed: Permission denied May 8 17:46:49 moose dovecot: pop3(lib.sysadmin): Error: Couldn't open INBOX: Permission denied May 8 17:46:49 moose dovecot: pop3(lib.sysadmin): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 May 8 17:46:50 moose dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=28303) May 8 17:46:50 moose dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011PLAIN#011service=pop3#011lip={ip removed}#011rip={ip removed}#011lport=110#011rport=64420#011resp=AGJ2YXV3LnJlbGFpcwByM2xAaXMuYnZAdXc=

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[Dovecot] change inbox dotlock name
by Chris Saldanha 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hi, Is there a configuration element that would allow me to change the dot-lock name for the user's /var/mail inbox when it is locked? dovecot (correctly) acquires <username>.lock, but I'm having a problem with procmail where some obscure code path is preventing procmail's acquisition of a lock when it's that default name in /var/mail. The issue is not permissions (using a world-writeable and sticky-bit config for /var/mail). I'll dig into the procmail code if needed, but if dovecot could use a different filename for such locks, then that would solve my issue. procmail has such an option, and I only need to do this for inboxes. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Saldanha Parliant Corporation

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[Dovecot] sieve redirect envelope address problem
by Костырев Александр Алексеевич 08 May '13

08 May '13

Good day! I have a problem with mail redirection through sieve rules. I've configured sieve rule that redirects any mail coming to user to gmail mailbox (or whatever external mail system there is). But when sieve redirects any mail it puts vmail@%dovecot_hostname% into envelope address, gives it to my exim for delivery and gmail rejects my mail because user vmail@%dovecot_hostname% do not exist. Please, advice for what can be done about this behavior. my `doveconf -n` http://pastebin.com/0dyL9Jgs Thanks in advance! -- С уважением, Костырев Александр администратор Linux-систем

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