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Replicate shared folders to warm standby host
by Axel Gluth 03 Jul '19

03 Jul '19

We like to set up our mail system in two datacenters but the wiki<https://wiki.dovecot.org/Replication> says "Shared folder replication doesn't work correctly..." I'm thinking about using an external loadbalancer to ensure that only one host will get connections. Normal operations: client ==imap=> loadbalancer ==imap=> host1 ==replication=> host2 Host1 or Datacenter1 is down: client ==imap=> loadbalancer ==imap=> host2 I see possible problems if host1 comes back and clients connect to host1 before the replication has caught up. But in our case that will be acceptable. Do you consider my idea as safe for production use? Has anybody real world experience with such a setup? Is there a better way to replicate shared folders? Thank you in advance for spending your time on thinking about my problem. Axel

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Dovecot/MSQL issue
by Nathan 03 Jul '19

03 Jul '19

Hello, I'm trying to work through an issue that cropped up on a server I've been working on and haven't found a very good workaround. Dovecot is operating in a jailed environment. The configuration in dovecot-sql.conf.ext has been set appropriately with the host=127.0.0.1 (which works from a jailed environment) and when dovecot attempts to auth it appears to perform a reverse dns lookup and overwrites the host with the result localhost before using the msql credentials 'user'@'localhost' which then fails after timing out. I'm currently running version 2.2.33.2 of dovecot. The workaround seems to be to have two credentials for the same user. 'user@'localhost' and 'user'@'127.0.0.1'; postfix operates in a jail as well and works around the jail issue in the same way but doesn't overwrite the specified host with a reverse dns lookup. Anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this issue better? or maybe there's a way to force different behavior which I haven't yet found in the documentation? Any help is much appreciated. Best Regards.

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dovecot.index.log: duplicate transaction log sequence (3)
by mabi 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

Hello, I am running Dovecot 2.3.5.1 on OpenBSD 6.5 with RainLoop as IMAP webmail client and just noticed the following error messages about duplicate transaction log sequences in the index log: Jul 01 13:15:58 Error: imap(<REMOVED_EMAIL1>)<21324><TVSmwJyMd0C5D+Vb>: Transaction log /var/vmail/<REMOVED_DOMAIN>/<REMOVED_EMAIL1>/dovecot.index.log: duplicate transaction log sequence (3) Jul 02 16:33:35 Error: imap(<REMOVED_EMAIL2>)<6812><gn4yobOMJlW5D+Vb>: Transaction log /var/vmail/<REMOVED_DOMAIN>/<REMOVED_EMAIL2>/dovecot.list.index.log: duplicate transaction log sequence (2) Jul 02 16:33:35 Panic: imap(<REMOVED_EMAIL2>)<6812><gn4yobOMJlW5D+Vb>: file mail-index-write.c: line 137 (mail_index_write): assertion failed: (file->hdr.prev_file_seq == hdr->log_file_seq) Jul 02 16:33:35 Fatal: imap(<REMOVED_EMAIL2>)<6812><gn4yobOMJlW5D+Vb>: master: service(imap): child 6812 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps - set service imap { drop_priv_before_exec=yes }) Could this problem occur because I am using a Linux NFS server to store all the mails mounted under /var/mail ? Any hints what I can do to avoid these error messages? Thank you in advance. Best regards, Mabi

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Variable expansion with variables containing '%' (ldap with 2.3.6)
by Matthias Lay 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

Hi, there seems to be a problem when expanding variables containing a single '%' in value in dovecot V2.3.6 having a user defined Variable in user_attrs like user_attrs = name=home=/maildir/%Ln, =myvar=path/%L{ldap:sAMAccountName} and sAMAccountName conains a '%', in my example "sonder%zeichen" leads to: lda(sonder%zeichen)<5723><ov9uCHjOGV1bFgAACDoIoQ>: Fatal: Failed to expand plugin setting myvar = 'path/sonder%zeichen': Unknown variable '%z' same setup works with dovecot 2.2.29 Any Feedback appreciated. Thanks. Matze

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Variable expansion with variables containing '%' (ldap with 2.3.6)
by Matthias Lay 01 Jul '19

01 Jul '19

Hi, there seems to be a problem when expanding variables containing a single '%' in value in dovecot V2.3.6 having a user defined Variable in user_attrs like user_attrs = name=home=/maildir/%Ln, =myvar=path/%L{ldap:sAMAccountName} and sAMAccountName conains a '%', in my example "sonder%zeichen" leads to: lda(sonder%zeichen)<5723><ov9uCHjOGV1bFgAACDoIoQ>: Fatal: Failed to expand plugin setting myvar = 'path/sonder%zeichen': Unknown variable '%z' same setup works with dovecot 2.2.29 Any Feedback appreciated. Thanks. Matze

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virtual users, change password on first login?
by David Mehler 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

Hello, I've got an email server setup all with virtual users. There only interaction with it will be via a webmail interface in this case roundcube. What I'm wanting to do is set up automatic password change on first login. Would this be considered a dovecot or a roundcube issue? Any solution appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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Error: quota-status: Client sent invalid recipient address: Invalid character in path
by Lefteris Tsintjelis 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

Any idea what this is? Jun 26 23:16:34 quota-status(user(a)example.com)<4975><CLsXEzfSE11vEwAArt9ycg>: Error: quota-status: Client sent invalid recipient address: Invalid character in path I have this enabled in my config service quota-status { client_limit = 1 executable = quota-status -p postfix unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovquota { mode = 0666 user = postfix } } Lefteris

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Problem in doveadm import dovecot 2.2
by Alexander Varejão 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

Dear, I always used dovecot in version 2.0 and in the last month i update my servers to dovecot 2.2 but now i have problems with comand dovecot import, not works for me, bellow i put 2 examples used in my tests in boths cases not works for me. Someone already saw some case similar or can help me with this ? doveadm import -u teste(a)aaaaa.com mdbox:~/mdbox-backup "" mailbox INBOX from testeteste(a)bbbb.com doveadm import -u teste(a)xxx.com mdbox:/var/backup/teste@aaaaa.com/ "" all Thanks a Lot Alexander

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Applying Dovecot for a large / deep folder-hierarchy archive.
by Arnold Opio Oree 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

Hello to you all, I'd like to ask about my intended application of Dovecot to create a folder-hierarchy for storing our enterprise emails, which are treated as live data rather than archives for compliance or occasional / reactive retrieval. The data is presently not that large (a few gigabytes), but it is expected to grow rapidly. Up to this stage the data has been containedin a Microsoft Exchange mailbox (2013), and then in an offline PST. The move to the offline PST was by necessity, as the large number offolders, and depth of hierarchy to my best understanding caused the exchange server / outlook / evolution mail clients to begin tomalfunction. To cope with this the archive was broken up and the bulk stored in the offline PST and the most active components stored inonline Exchange mailboxes. I have some understanding of the fs mbox format, and also the mitigations to be made for certain characters / strings. My main concern is whether Dovecot is likely to be able to cope well with a large number of folders / depth of hierarcy. I will really appreciate any help / advice you can give. Best regards, Arnold Opio OreeChief Executive OfficerParallax Digital Technologies arnoldoree(a)parallaxdt.com http://www.parallaxdt.com tel : +44 (0) 333 577 8587fax : +44 (0) 20 8711 2477 Parallax Digital Technologies78A Hatfeild MeadLondonSM4 5PF Parallax Digital Technologies is a trading name of Parallax GlobalLimited. U.K. Co. No. 08836288 The contents of this e-mail are confidential. If you are not theintended recipient you are to delete this e-mail immediately, disregardits contents and disclose them to no other persons.

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Exclude dovecot-uidlist files from a Maildir backup ?
by David Pottage 25 Jun '19

25 Jun '19

Hi, I am using restic to backup my email (stored in dovecot Maildir format) to Amazon S3 As each message is a separate file on disk, and those files don't change after the email has been delivered and read by the user, the incremental backup each day is fairly efficient as it only stored new mails. However, the dovecot-uidlist files change frequently, and are often quite large. The restic backup program detects the file has changed and uploads a new version, but is not smart enough to detect that only a few lines have changed, so it uploads a fresh copy of the entire file to remote storage. I have done some test backups and have noticed, that if I exclude those files from the backup, it completes much faster and uploads far less. Would this be a reasonable policy? My backup is mainly there against unlikely but severe events such as complete hard drive failure, so if I ever had to use it, I would not mind wating for my email client to re-download all my emails. -- David Pottage

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