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Dovecot Debian repo instructions need updating
by Laura Smith 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Re: https://doc.dovecot.org/installation_guide/dovecot_community_repositories/d… The instructions need updating for two reasons: 1) Keep up to date with Debian releases (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases) i.e. remove reference to 8.0 "Jessie" and replace with 10.0 "Buster". 2) The instructions presented for key handling are not inline with Debian best-practices. As per https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty: "The key MUST be downloaded over a secure mechanism like HTTPS to a location only writable by root, which SHOULD be /usr/share/keyrings. The key MUST NOT be placed in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d or loaded by apt-key add. A sources.list entry SHOULD have the signed-by option set. The signed-by entry MUST point to a file, and not a fingerprint."

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quota_grace
by dovecot＠ptld.com 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

There isn't much documentation on quota_grace. How would you disable quota grace? quota_grace = 0 quota_grace = 0% quota_grace = 0m quota_grace = -1 Assuming "0" isn't an "unlimited" setting?

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dovecot + Procmail -> junk emails
by Stephane Magnier 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

Hi, Having moved from 'mbox' to 'Maildir', I'm trying to use a way to move a spam email to the Junk folder I declared the junk folder as; namespace inbox { type = private disabled = no ignore_on_failure = no list = yes subscriptions = yes #hidden = no #inbox = yes #prefix = INBOX/ mailbox "Drafts" { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox "Junk" { auto = subscribe autoexpunge = 12 weeks special_use = \Junk } mailbox "Trash" { auto = no autoexpunge = 12 weeks special_use = \Trash } mailbox "Sent" { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } and spamassassin, very basic loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf required_hits 5 required_score 5 rewrite_header subject [** SPAM ** ] add_header all Status _YESNO_, score=_SCORE_ required=_REQD_ tests=_TESTS_ autolearn=_AUTOLEARN_ version=_VERSION_ spf_timeout 60 rewrite_header to [Email could be SPAM ] fold_headers 0 #defang_mime 0 report_safe 0 and Procmail.. basic and I used what I found on the webpage : https://wiki.dovecot.org/procmail <https://wiki.dovecot.org/procmail> DELIVER="/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d $LOGNAME" SHELL="/bin/bash" SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t" LOGFILE="/var/log/procmail.log" DEFAULT="/var/spool2/mail/%u :0fw | /bin/spamc -s any ####################################### #:0 #* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes #$DEFAULT ####################################### :0 w * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes | $DELIVER -m Junk # ## deliver to INBOX and stop # deliver to INBOX and stop :0 w | $DELIVER But with this config, a spam email, stay into the Inbox :-( /var/log/procmail.log... doesn't exist Thanks for you help

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Multiple Quota Limit Configurations
by Joseph D Wagner 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Is this a valid quota rule? *:storage=0,messages=0 Or do I need to make them two separate rules? Joseph D Wagner

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Timo - is the v2.3.15 GCC limitation really necessarily or it's just a bug?
by Mart Pirita 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Hello. So far I have successfully built Dovecot until v2.3.14 on Centos 4-6 (yes I know, they are old, but as they are remote servers, distros can't upgraded), and sometimes I have also met compilation issues, but after highlighting them, Timo have fixed the code. Found from similar thread (Dovecot 2.3.15 compilation fails https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2021-June/122412.html ) that new GCC is needed. However I can't find such requirement in v2.3.15 change log. As seems that I'm not the only one with compilation issues, then @Timo - can You please fix the code so that also v2.3.15 can compiled on older distros? Compilation options: ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl --sysconfdir=/etc --with-pam --without-bsdauth --without-sql --without-nss --without-ldap --without-pgsql --without-mysql --without-sqlite --with-rundir=/var/run/dovecot --without-cassandra --without-lucene --without-solr --without-textcat --without-libcap --without-stemmer --disable-rpath --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules --without-gssapi --without-cdb Compilation error: builtin-strftime -c -o test-smtp-params.o test-smtp-params.c test-smtp-params.c:29: error: unknown field `data' specified in initializer test-smtp-params.c:29: warning: missing braces around initializer test-smtp-params.c:29: warning: (near initialization for `test_params_buffer1.<anonymous>') test-smtp-params.c:30: warning: missing initializer test-smtp-params.c:30: warning: (near initialization for `test_params_buffer1.<anonymous>.<anonymous>.used') test-smtp-params.c:30: error: unknown field `used' specified in initializer test-smtp-params.c:31: warning: excess elements in struct initializer test-smtp-params.c:31: warning: (near initialization for `test_params_buffer1') test-smtp-params.c:33: error: unknown field `data' specified in initializer test-smtp-params.c:33: warning: missing braces around initializer test-smtp-params.c:33: warning: (near initialization for `test_params_buffer2.<anonymous>') test-smtp-params.c:34: warning: missing initializer test-smtp-params.c:34: warning: (near initialization for `test_params_buffer2.<anonymous>.<anonymous>.used') test-smtp-params.c:34: error: unknown field `used' specified in initializer test-smtp-params.c:35: warning: excess elements in struct initializer test-smtp-params.c:35: warning: (near initialization for `test_params_buffer2') make[3]: *** [test-smtp-params.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.15/src/lib-smtp' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.15/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.15' make: *** [all] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7364 (%build) -- Mart

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SQL Backend for IMAP METADATA Dictionary
by Joseph D Wagner 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

I've seen documentation on using a SQL backend for quota dictionary and passdb&userdb dictionary. However, I can't find any examples of a SQL backend for IMAP METADATA / mail_attributes_dict. Is this combination possible? If so, is there an example somewhere? I am unsure what data structures it's expected or how to create the map entries for it. Thanks in advance. Joseph D. Wagner

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Disable authentication for submission service
by Dan Conway 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hello, Is it possible to disable the requirement for authentication on the submission service? I'm trying to require authentication for all, except for a handful of IP addresses. Thank you. ehlo test.com 250-aaa 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-BURL imap 250-CHUNKING 250-DSN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-SIZE 250 PIPELINING MAIL FROM:<test(a)test.com> 530 5.7.0 Authentication required.

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Re: check_policy_service sends size=0
by dovecot＠ptld.com 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

> It sounds like a better approach would be to make Dovecot reject any > email no matter what the size is (even size=0) if a user is over > quota. I'll take further discussion to the dovecot mailing list then. If you are not aware, dovecot has by default a 10% over quota grace. So even being a couple of bytes over quota it would still accept a small message.

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Re: Monitoring of director back end nodes
by Tom Sommer 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

On 2021-07-31 19:28, darkc0de wrote: > So dovemon for Dovecot pro, but nothing for community? https://github.com/brandond/poolmon --- Tom

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Monitoring of director back end nodes
by Dan Conway 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

Hello, When working with director, the state of the backend nodes are not checked by Dovecot. The state always remains as "up". I understand that there are external applications documented that monitor backend nodes, and changes the state of them to "down" if they become unresponsive. The question I have is are there plans to implement something built into Dovecot that would monitor and change states based on backend "health"? Or will it always be dependent on an external service? Thanks.

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