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Moving messages on test server, dovecot.index.log was locked for x seconds on cephfs
by Marc Roos 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

I am getting on a test environment were no users are logging in a dovecot.index.log was locked when moving messages with doveadm move -u testuser Archive/2012 mailbox INBOX/inbox BEFORE 2013-01-01. doveadm(testuser): Warning: Transaction log file /var/dovecot/testuser/index/.INBOX.inbox/dovecot.index.log was locked for 215 seconds (rotating while syncing) I have read about how this can be related to default locking fcntl and nfs, anyone having this solved with cephfs? https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-January/036194.html

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Dovecot 2.3 no longer accepts ssl_key_password
by Chris Kiakas 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Hit a little problem when I upgraded a system from FreeBSD 10.3 to 11.2. I did not receive any errors in the upgrade. The system is running 4 jails and everything seems to work except in Dovecot dovecot-2.3.4_5 where when using the exact same configuration which worked in 10.3 with the same password protected certificate key. (doveconf -n -P shows the correct password.) ssl_ca = </usr/local/etc/site.keys/name_com.ca-bundle ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/site.keys/name_com.crt ssl_dh = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/dh.pem ssl_key = </usr/local/etc/site.keys/name.com.key ssl_key_password = keypassword The password works with openssl. Changing the password on the key has no effect. Removing the password on the cert with openssl and running dovecot with the new key works. I installed on another system and I am experiencing the same results. The issue persists whether I install dovecot from ports or pkg. I can't see where the problem is. It seems that Dovecot is unable to read the key when password protected even though it has the correct password. Has anyone experienced this? Chris

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Re: Feature request SCRAM-SHA-256
by Stephan Bosch 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Op 16/12/2018 om 10:06 schreef Tributh via dovecot: > > Am 16.12.18 um 09:42 schrieb Aki Tuomi: >>> On 16 December 2018 at 10:27 Tributh via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> is that here the right place to make feature requests? >>> >>> dovecot supports as authentication mechanism >>> SCRAM-SHA-1 from RFC 5802 >>> which was updated to >>> SCRAM-SHA-256 in RFC 7677 >>> >>> Can SCRAM-SHA-256 be added to the authentication mechanisms? >>> >>> I would not like to request, that SCRAM-SHA-1 will be exchanged by >>> SCRAM-SHA-256, since several applications only support SCRAM-SHA-1 >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Torsten >> Hi! >> >> Adding this is possible, it can even be done as a separate plugin. But I have to ask, why? Do you actually have clients that support this? >> >> Aki >> > Hi Aki, > let me first answer the second question. > Sadly I have no client which supports it, yet. > Here we have a chicken or the egg causality dilemma. > There was some communication with mail-client developers which stated > that they would start developing it, when they have a publicly usable > server to test against. > Now I hope that the most common IMAP server could be the one, which > gives this possibility. > Sadly, most communication is not publicly available. > > In the past CRAM-MD5 was very popular. When the insecurity came out, > everything just shifted to TLS, but that prevented not from sending a > plain password now. If a malicious actor is able to change DNS/TLS > endpoints, he will receive the plain passwords immediately. > I am not the expert in explaining how such an actor could do this. I > just wanted to have possibilities for everybody to prevent this possible > exposure of a plain password, which could than easily used abusively. > > I just hope for better security in the future. I looked a this a bit and since it is basically only a matter of replacing the hash algorithm, I created a quick implementation (after some refactoring): https://github.com/stephanbosch/dovecot-core/commits/auth-scram-sha-256 However, since there is no client that actually supports this, I cannot test this myself. I've briefly tested that the old SHA-1 still works (using mpop) and that the server properly announces the new mechanism when enabled, but that is it. It is based on the master branch. Configuration is identical to SCRAM-SHA-1, apart from the mechanism (and password scheme) name of course. Don't expect this to be released or even merged to the master branch any time soon: this is likely currently very low on our priority list. But, at least you can run your own server with SCRAM-SHA-256 support (and so can client developers). Maybe if this gets endorsed and supported by clients and gets some testing in the field, we can speed it along a bit, but that is not something I can promise. So, I hatched a chick for you. I hope you can make it lay a few eggs in the future... Regards, Stephan.

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IMAP preauth and stats-writer
by Mark Hills 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

I use IMAP preauth; I connect with Alpine over SSH which is very useful. The last few upgrades this has become more difficult to to. Last time (moving 2.2 -> 2.3, I think) I had to put in a workaround: stats_writer_socket_path = It prevented /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap attempting to connect to a central stats service. As of an upgrade today (2.3.2.1_1 -> 2.3.4_3 on FreeBSD) it looks like that 'fix' stopped working, and I get: imap(mark,)Error: net_connect_unix() failed: Permission denied It goes to stderr, which breaks Alpine. "()" is actually the filename. It seems that the empty string is no longer an indication to disable it. Here it is with the default configuration: imap(mark,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied I do also have a dovecot running as a system daemon, and, interestingly, disable this and it's 'fixed'; no attempt to connect. However, disabling the service is not an option (needed for smartphone) The best I've come up with so far is when using preauth to hack it to send stderr to /dev/null. And yes, probably Alpine is at fault for interpreting stderr content (separate issue) * Is there a way to cleanly disable reporting to the stats service? Previously, running as preauth was all very clean. * Just wanted to highlight that IMAP preauth is really useful. Even though it might not be mainstream, it seems healthy to be able to easily install dovecot as an unprivilidged user in a "unixy" way. I'm on FreeBSD 11.2, with dovecot from ports. dovecot.conf below. -- Mark # # Dovecot configuration # mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir postmaster_address = postmaster namespace { inbox = yes } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/lets.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/local.key ssl_dh = </etc/ssl/dh.pem # # No writing of statistics to a priviledged service; # this is troublesome for a user to run the IMAP client # #stats_writer_socket_path = # # Authentication: only allow passwords sent over TLS, and # check against the system password database # passdb { driver = pam } userdb { driver = passwd } # # Disable all except standard IMAP with TLS logins # service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 0 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 0 } } # # An authentication service to allow Exim to use the # same credentials as Dovecot # service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0600 user = mailnull } } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 40 } # END

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BUG 'doveadm mailbox' list does not honour symlinks to (mbox) mailboxes
by Marc Roos 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

doveadm mailbox list does not honour symlinks to at least the mbox mailboxes I relocated temporarily. You would expect it to behave similar to the server and use the symlinks. dovecot-2.2.36-3.el7.x86_64 CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)

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Re: Feature request SCRAM-SHA-256
by Stephan Bosch 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Hi, Op 13/01/2019 om 17:48 schreef Tributh via dovecot: > Hi, > sorry for my late reply. Was too busy during the week. > Thank you for your patches. I hope I will be able with them to get now > some client support for SCRAM-SHA-256. Will report how I succeed in the > future. I managed to test it successfully using MailKit: https://github.com/jstedfast/MailKit I used the IMAP demo in samples/ImapClientDemo. I limited the available mechanisms presented by the server to SCRAM-SHA-256 exclusively, so the demo needs no modification. So, from our end it seems to work fine. Regards, Stephan.

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Reloading dovecot after certificate renewal?
by ＠lbutlr 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Is it enough to issue a `service restart dovecot` when a certificate renews or do I need to service stop/start? -- "A thousand years ago we thought the world was a bowl. Five hundred years ago we knew it was a globe. Today we know it is flat and round carried through space on the back of a turtle. Don't you wonder what shape it will turn out to be tomorrow?" [Lord Vetinari]

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Re: Authentication lost within session
by Sami Ketola 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

> On 17 Jan 2019, at 14.19, Marc Roos <M.Roos(a)f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote: > > > Same ip, connection, session happens after a few seconds, all on local > test network. Sorry I mistakenly overlooked at the ip:s. But anyway that is multiple connections and seems that PAM has some concurrency limit and refuses the third connection Thunderbird opens. so you probably have pam_limits with maxlogins=2 enabled. Sami

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Need help deduplicating messages fetched with getmail into dovecot mailbox
by Gabriel Kaufmann 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Hello everyone, I'm using getmail to fetch some external mails from POP3 into a dovecot mailbox (providing IMAP). Getmail seems to have some serious problems keeping track of mails already fetched. I have every Mail exactly twice in my Mailbox delivered by Dovecot. Of course they are not in the original external POP3 Inbox. I hope I'm in right place here. I think the problem is not dovecot related, but getmail. As there is a huge number of user complains about getmail (and obviously no alternative?!) I hope to find some help here for a workaround. I noticed getmail can be configured for some kind of filtering to sort out Mails for local delivery to dovecot. http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/configuration.html#filter-examples Does anyone know how to query the message-id (given by mail-headers) with doveadm? My first test was this: > doveadm fetch -u my-mailbox(a)domain.net "mailbox date.sent" message-id > "<369408722.286104911.1547114312259.Foo.root(a)someone.org>" But then I noticed this is only ment to be used with dovecot internal GUID - I think... Is it possible to query for the mail message-id also? Is it posible to reconfigure indexing to include this propery from the original message-file? I made a small perl-script to extract it using Perl-Lib Email::Simple. > To: my-mailbox(a)domain.net > *Message-ID: <369408722.286104911.1547114312259.Foo.root(a)someone.org>* > Subject: Some test I also already tried the doveadm deduplicate, but this also doesn't work as it is also basing on the internal GUID of dovecot and every duplicate-message seems to have a new, unique GUID. > doveadm deduplicate -u gabriel.kaufmann(a)gmx.net mailbox-guid May be anyone know a better solution. -- Best regards Gabriel Kaufmann

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Accidentally deleted .imap folder, how can I reindex?
by Les 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Hello, I have several users with Maildir format. After upgrading from 2.2 to 2.3, some directories could not be opened from thunderbird. The server log shows all kinds of errors including these: Corrupted record in index cache file /home/user01/Maildir/.Elk&APw-ld&APY-tt/dovecot.index.cache: UID 2802: Broken physical size in mailbox Cached message size larger than expected (18 > 17, box=Sent, UID=2802) While trying to fix the problem, I have accidentally deleted some of the index/cache directories. In particular, Maildir/.Sent/.imap and Maildir/.Sent/cur/.imap folders were deleted, but all of the mail message files are there. When I try to open the "Sent" folder from thunderbird, it does not show all of the messages. It only shows messages until 2019.01.12. If I send out an email from thunderbird, then a new message is copied into the Maildir/.Sent/ folder, but it is not visible from thunderbird. I have already tried to unsubscribe + subscribe to the Sent folder, but it did not work - it re-downloads all messages until 2019.01.12, but not after that. Can I somehow regenerate the index files, force dovecot to recreated .imap foder, and force thunderbird to re-download and show all of the files somehow? Thank you, Laszlo

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