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Help with migration to Dovecot from raw files
by Stefano Antonelli 29 Mar '20

29 Mar '20

Hello list, I recently migrated to Dovecot from a very old version of IceWarp running on failing hardware running Windows XP. I had a lot of issues downloading mail through imap. What I have instead are the email files directly off the harddrive from IceWarp's mail store. I rearranged the mail files to look like a Dovecot maildir and tried to use these emails directly. Dovecot did not complain, but I ran into my first problem. The emails were out of order on the client side. None of my imap clients store email. They all just fetch headers and download mail as it's required. So a resync is not a problem. I just can't figure out how and I don't know if the filenames are a problem. The files I'm working with have this format: 2020032512105639B0-000001000000D2D45079615C.imap The first part is the date and all the the filenames appear to be unique. Is it okay to leave them this way or should I rename them in the same fashion as Dovecot? If so, is there a tool I can use or do I need to write a script? If I have to write a script, could someone help me decipher this filename: 1585197800.M440284P10160.hostname,S=2812,W=2875:2,S I understand the first bit is a unix timestamp. I couldn't find out what M440284P10160 means or how I might create that number myself to use in a renaming script. Additionally, I'd like to customise the hostname without changing the machine's hostname and I understand that the S and W can also be omitted. I'm not using quotas. I couldn't find anywhere in the documentation where it talked about any configuration options for the filenames. Are there any or do I have to patch the source? I was also planning on directly backing up the email using rsync, but the changing filenames with flags is obviously an issue. I understand that dovecot can store flags in a file instead, if the mailbox is shared or public. Is there any way to have this behaviour with a private mailbox? Ideally the filenames are not touched after creation in which case rsync will work nicely to my NAS. The last issue is that since Dovecot went live, I've started receiving mail. For the time being, I have left my "yet to be migrated" mail outside of maildir. So Dovecot doesn't know about it. I will need to merge this newly received mail with my "yet to migrated mail" once I sort out exactly how to migrate that mail. And I would really like all the mail to sort properly. From what I can tell doveadm is the tool for the job, but I just can't make sense of the documentation. Thanks, Stef Dovecot version: 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4)

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managesieve user
by André Rodier 28 Mar '20

28 Mar '20

Hello, I am updating dovecot, from Debian Stretch to Buster, and I have an issue with the managesieve service: > Mar 28 15:05:06 mail dovecot[2637]: managesieve-login: Error: auth: > connect(login) in directory / failed: Permission denied > (euid=120(<getpwuid() error>) egid=128(<getgrgid() error>) missing +x > perm: /, we're not in group 127, dir owned by 0:127 mode=0770) > Mar 28 15:05:06 mail dovecot[2637]: managesieve-login: Error: auth: > connect(login) in directory / failed: Permission denied > (euid=120(<unknown>) egid=128(<unknown>) missing +x perm: /, we're > not in group 127, dir owned by 0:127 mode=0770) The two folders I found with these permissions are /run/dovecot/login and /run/dovecot/token-login. Both folders belongs to root:dovecot If I change the permissions of the following folders, like this: chmod 0775 /run/dovecot/login chmod 0775 /run/dovecot/token-login Then, dovecot managesieve is working, but this is just a test, I suppose the service should run with a specific user? Do you have any idea on what is wrong here? If I restart dovecot, I have an error message that states the permissions are wrong, and they are set again to 0770 Thanks, André Rodier

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Forward a copy
by ＠lbutlr 28 Mar '20

28 Mar '20

<https://wiki.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Examples> has this example: if header :contains "subject" ["order", "buy"] { redirect "orders(a)company.xn--dom-9o0a; } Can I simply add fileinto :create “mailbox”; before that redirect line so that a COPY of the message is forwarded? And does redirect imply stop, since I don;’t see stop in the example. -- They say only the good die young. If it works the other way too I'm immortal

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doveadm rebuild: Failed to add attachment keywords
by Patrick Ben Koetter 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

Greetings, I'm using the current dovecot release 2.3.10 and I try to rebuild mailboxes with broken attachment paths. When I run this command: doveadm rebuild attachments -u user(a)example.com ALL I runs fine for 6199 of 6223 messages and fails then at message 6200 with this message: doveadm(user(a)example.com): Error: Mailbox INBOX: UID=6200: read(attachments-connector(/MailStore/mail/mailboxes/CFEE0E67-6269-4AD3-8DED-6AB71A8E4BD7/dbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/u.6200)) failed: read(/MailStore/mail/attachment/b9/52/b952b91441e53d3bb57453af2df66bb003e551f4-e94b170ff8bb685e943f0000162bf795-5d0b3129034c8957284d00007dfcf92d-6200[base64:19 b/l]) failed: open(/MailStore/mail/attachment/b9/52/b952b91441e53d3bb57453af2df66bb003e551f4-e94b170ff8bb685e943f0000162bf795-5d0b3129034c8957284d00007dfcf92d-6200) failed: No such file or directory (read reason=) doveadm(user(a)example.com): Error: Mailbox INBOX: UID=6200: read(attachments-connector(/MailStore/mail/mailboxes/CFEE0E67-6269-4AD3-8DED-6AB71A8E4BD7/dbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/u.6200)) failed: read(/MailStore/mail/attachment/b9/52/b952b91441e53d3bb57453af2df66bb003e551f4-e94b170ff8bb685e943f0000162bf795-5d0b3129034c8957284d00007dfcf92d-6200[base64:19 b/l]) failed: open(/MailStore/mail/attachment/b9/52/b952b91441e53d3bb57453af2df66bb003e551f4-e94b170ff8bb685e943f0000162bf795-5d0b3129034c8957284d00007dfcf92d-6200) failed: No such file or directory (read reason=) doveadm(user(a)example.com): Error: Mailbox INBOX: UID=6200: Failed to add attachment keywords: mail_get_parts() failed: Mailbox INBOX: UID=6200: read(attachments-connector(/MailStore/mail/mailboxes/CFEE0E67-6269-4AD3-8DED-6AB71A8E4BD7/dbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/u.6200)) failed: read(/MailStore/mail/attachment/b9/52/b952b91441e53d3bb57453af2df66bb003e551f4-e94b170ff8bb685e943f0000162bf795-5d0b3129034c8957284d00007dfcf92d-6200[base64:19 b/l]) failed: open(/MailStore/mail/attachment/b9/52/b952b91441e53d3bb57453af2df66bb003e551f4-e94b170ff8bb685e943f0000162bf795-5d0b3129034c8957284d00007dfcf92d-6200) failed: No such file or directory (read reason=) 6200 error Assuming the attachments are still there, what would I need to do to 'fix' that? And if I can't fix it, can 'rebuild' skip the error and go on rebuilding the rest? TIA, p@rick -- [*] sys4 AG https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG,80333 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer, Wolfgang Stief Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein

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Deliver log with "msgid=?" when email come from Exchange/Office 365
by Alessio Cecchi 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

Hi, I noticed that all emails that come from Exchange/Office 365 have the message-id, in deliver log, reported as msgid=? <DBBPRDD0(a)DBBPR023.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> instead of expected msgid=<DBBPRDD0(a)DBBPR023.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> My deliver_log format is: deliver_log_format = deliverytime=%{delivery_time}, msgid=%m, sender=%e, from=%f, subject="%s": %$ The behaviour is the same on Dovecot 2.2 and 2.3, and only dovecot have the "?", we have a mail filter before dovecot and the message-id is registred fine, without the ? in front. Is an issue of my setup or a bug in dovecot? Thanks -- Alessio Cecchi Postmaster @ http://www.qboxmail.it https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice

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Not able to start dovecot
by Adam Raszkiewicz 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Freshly compiled dovecot 2.3.9.3 on Centos 7 for some reason not able to start sudo systemctl status dovecot.service ● dovecot.service - LSB: Starts the Dovecot POP3/IMAP service Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot; bad; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2020-03-18 16:32:17 UTC; 15s ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 2868 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot start (code=exited, status=127) Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts the Dovecot POP3/IMAP service... Mar 18 16:32:17 dovecot[2868]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot: line 34: log_info_msg: command not found Mar 18 16:32:17 dovecot[2868]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot: line 35: start_daemon: command not found Mar 18 16:32:17 dovecot[2868]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot: line 36: evaluate_retval: command not found Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: dovecot.service: control process exited, code=exited status=127 Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Starts the Dovecot POP3/IMAP service. Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: Unit dovecot.service entered failed state. Mar 18 16:32:17 systemd[1]: dovecot.service failed. I have compiled the same code on Centos 6 and had no problem to run it. Any thoughts on that? Thanks, Adam

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Understanding doveadm rebuild
by Patrick Ben Koetter 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Greetings, I'm trying to understand if the doveadm rebuild command is suited to fix a problem we have on a customers platform. The customer uses sdbox in combination with SIS and for $REASONS dovecot cannot find the attachements anymore. They are there, but the references to them in the messages seem to be wrong. Is that what the rebuild subcommand has been made for? Will it e.g. scan the messages for attachment references and try to find them in the SIS storage location and then fix the references in messages? TIA, p@rick -- [*] sys4 AG https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG,80333 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer, Wolfgang Stief Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein

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At rest encryption (with protected crypto keys)
by Kees de Jong 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Hi, As stated on the Dovecot documentation, at rest encryption is possible [1]. However, these keys are present on the system itself and are unprotected. Therefore, if a system is compromised, the attacker has access to the encrypted mail and the keys. There is no security benefit in that situation, except for hoping that the attacker doesn't understand that this is happening and how. Nextcloud does this a bit better. A key is used to encrypt user data as well [2]. However, that key is protected with the user's password. When the user logs in and requests data, the user's password unlocks the key and data can be read and written safely. This also takes into account password changes. Files don't need to be encrypted again, the encryption key is simply re-encrypted with the new user's password. How does the Dovecot community see this? Is at rest encryption needed in times of increased security and privacy problems? I think it is a must, just like 2FA, but that's a different story. I think the current possibility of at rest encryption is not well applied enough. Is this something that's on the agenda to improve? Or am I missing something? Is there a better way of doing this? [1] https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_crypt_plugin/#mail-crypt-… [2] https://nextcloud.com/encryption/

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dovecot-2.2.36-4 and antispam
by Maciej Milaszewski 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Hi I use dovecot-2.2.36.4 on Debian 8.11 and plugin dovecot-antispam from http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/dovecot-antispam All works fine but in roundcube i get two folder: Spam (real: Junk) and SPAM in sieve i have: require ["fileinto","imap4flags"]; # rule:[SPAM Box] if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" { setflag "\\Seen"; fileinto "SPAM"; # ---> because dovecot-antispam need folder SPAM to teach spam or ham stop; } problem probably fixed when I change fileinto "SPAM"; to fileinto "Junk"; But plugin "dovecot-antispam" probably not working ... Maybe I think wrongly Can you recommend any other plugin that will work properly and teach spam with Junk for dovecot2.2.36-4 in dovecot: 15-mailboxes.conf: ....... mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox SPAM { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } .... 90-plugin.conf: ..... antispam_backend = MAILTRAIN #antispam_mail_sendmail_args = --for;%u antispam_mail_spam = --spam antispam_mail_notspam = --ham antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/local/bin/spam-learn.sh antispam_pipe_tmpdir = /tmp antispam_spam_pattern_ignorecase = spam;inbox.spam;Unwanted antispam_trash_pattern_ignorecase = trash;Deleted *;Junk*;wiadomo&AVs-ci-&AVs-mieci;kosz antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_verbose_debug = 1 script to learn cat /usr/local/bin/spam-learn.sh #!/bin/sh date >> /tmp/spam.txt echo $@ >> /tmp/spam.txt if [ "x$1" = "x--spam" ]; then /usr/bin/pyzor report >> /tmp/spam.txt 2>&1 fi if [ "x$1" = "x--ham" ]; then /usr/bin/pyzor whitelist >> /tmp/ham.txt 2>&1 fi -- Maciej Miłaszewski Starszy Administrator Systemowy IQ PL Sp. z o.o. 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 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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imapc quota support
by Сергей Петренко 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Hi, I use Dovecot 2.3.9.2 as IMAP proxy for other mail server and configure it with imapc_host/imapc_port/imapc_user options. All works fine exclude quota information. Although my IMAP server supported quota Dovecot does not relay it to users. As I read in docs/MailboxFormat.imapc.txt in Dovecot v2.2.30+ there is a way to relay quota data to end users: Quota ----- Using the "imapc" quota backend allows asking for the quota from remote IMAP server (v2.2.30+). By default it uses GETQUOTAROOT INBOX for getting the quota. There are also two parameters that can be used to control how the quota is looked up: * box=<mailbox>: Use GETQUOTAROOT <mailbox> * root=<name>: Use GETQUOTA <name> For example: ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- plugin { quota = imapc:root=User Quota } ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- The above example is not clear. Please advise how to configure Dovecot in IMAP proxy mode with quota support.

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