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set parameter per user
by A. Schulze 24 Nov '17

24 Nov '17

Hello, My dovecot server (2.2.33.2) work with "lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = no" Now I would like to enable the feature for /some/ users. Is that an option that could be set from an LDAP entry? I tried the following: modify my ldap schema to allow an optional attribute "lmtp-save-to-detail-mailbox" in /etc/dovecot/ldap.conf user_attrs = ... =lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox=%{ldap:lmtp-save-to-detail-mailbox:no}, =... Now I set an ldapattribute "lmtp-save-to-detail-mailbox" with value "yes" for some users. Unfortunately messages to user+extension@domain are still delivered to INBOX/ while they should be delivered to INBOX/extension. I also tried to make the attribute accessible vi pass_attr and userdb_foo = ... because I use prefetch driver as userdb. I also disabled prefetching at all but no luck :-/ any Ideas? Andreas

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Exclude disabled accounts
by Evgeniy Korneechev 23 Nov '17

23 Nov '17

Hello! We have userdb=passwd. userdb { driver = passwd #server was entered domain Active Directory override_fields = home=/var/vmail/glu_vrem/%u } If I disable in AD user's account, he can not sign in. But he can and will receive letters, which of course is not correct. How can I exclude disabled accounts from 'userdb'? dovecot -n: # 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554) # OS: Linux 4.4.39-std-def-alt0.M80P.1 x86_64 ALT 8.1 Server auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_username_chars = auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = plain base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 502 first_valid_uid = 502 last_valid_gid = 268999999 last_valid_uid = 268999999 log_path = /var/log/dovecot login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c mail_access_groups = vmail mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 502 mail_location = maildir:/%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=/%Lh/Maildir/ mail_plugins = " quota autocreate" mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = 502 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapflags notify mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { quota_rule = *:storage=5G recipient_delimiter = + sieve = /etc/dovecot/sieves/default.sieve sieve_default = /etc/dovecot/sieves/default.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags sieve_max_redirects = 8 } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { user = root } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service imap { process_limit = 1024 vsz_limit = 256 M } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } vsz_limit = 64 M } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } } service pop3 { process_limit = 1024 } ssl_ca = </usr/share/ca-certificates/ca-bundle.crt ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/server.crt ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd override_fields = home=/var/vmail/glu_vrem/%u } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " quota autocreate sieve" } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " quota autocreate sieve quota" plugin { quota = dict:user::file:/var/vmail/glu_vrem/%n/.quotausage } } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " quota autocreate autocreate imap_quota" plugin { autocreate = INBOX autocreate2 = Sent autocreate3 = Trash autocreate4 = Drafts autocreate5 = Junk autosubscribe = INBOX autosubscribe2 = Sent autosubscribe3 = Trash autosubscribe4 = Drafts autosubscribe5 = Junk quota = dict:user::file:/var/vmail/glu_vrem/%n/.quotausage } } protocol sieve { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_max_compile_errors = 5 managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 } protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } -- WBR, Korneechev Evgeniy BaseALT/ALTLinux Team

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Passing information from passdb to userdb
by Qmail 23 Nov '17

23 Nov '17

I'm trying to hack together a new authentication back-end and I wanted to know if it's possible to pass values from passdb to userdb in the auth_request structure at authentication time. I modified struct auth_request in auth-request.h to contain a new variable and it gets set properly in my passdb, however the value is not there when checking for it userdb. I'm very novice when it comes to Dovecot programming so any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Configure replication in backup mode
by japerez 22 Nov '17

22 Nov '17

Dovecot 2.2.27 (c0f36b0) I'm trying to configure dovecot to backup all my email to a secondary server using "dsync". I got it working in "sync" mode or two-way synchonization, that means whatever happens in one server gets replicated in the other. However, documentation also says that a one way synchronization is posible, yet, after spending a good amount of hours searching, I failed to find what do I have to modify in my "30-dsync.conf" to do so. My 30-dsync.conf reads as follows: #This sets globally the port needed to connect #to the doveadm service #doveadm_port = 12345 # Set the password globally to use for connecting to # and requiring for the doveadm service doveadm_password = +++++++++++++ # Set the directory for validating certificates # provided when running with SSL enabled # Should be the standard OpenSSL certificate directory by default ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs # Configure the doveadm service to listen service doveadm { inet_listener { # port to listen on port = 12345 # enable SSL # ssl = yes } } # Configure the aggregator service for notifications service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { # Your mail user that's managing files generally is used here user = +++++ mode = 0755 } unix_listener replication-notify { user = +++++ mode = 0755 } } # Configure the replicator service service replicator { user = root process_min_avail = 1 unix_listener replicator-doveadm { user = root mode = 0755 } } replication_dsync_parameters = -d -N -l 30 -U -x nobody # Configure target hosts for replication # tcps can be tcp if you don't want to connect with SSL # :port can be omitted if it's the default set globally for doveadm plugin { mail_replica = tcp:*.*.*.*:12345 } Thanks.

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dovecot initscript
by dovecot＠schoepfer.info 22 Nov '17

22 Nov '17

Hi, about https://wiki.dovecot.org/DovecotInit, i wondered about stop) if test $running = yes; then echo "Stopping Dovecot" kill `cat $pidfile` echo "." else echo "Dovecot is already stopped." fi ;; Is "doveadm stop" technically the same, or better/worse/safer? Does "doveadm stop" wait until all child processes are finished, or would "sleep 1" in the restart-function still be necessary in this case? Is "kill -HUP `cat $pidfile`" technically the same as "doveadm reload"? If it'a all fine to use doveadm in an initscript, i there a reason to not add "doveadm start" to doveadm functionality? Surely this is not that important, but maybe a bit more consistent. Thanks, Johannes

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Log rotation and combining...
by SH Development 22 Nov '17

22 Nov '17

I have recently noticed that my dovecot-deliver.log is huge and wanted to start rotating it. So a couple of questions: 1. Can the dovecot-deliver.log be combined with the maillog, that gets rotated weekly? If it can be done, is it advisable? Since the inception of this particular server, the log file has been located in the /home/vmail directory. Is there a reason it shouldn’t be located in the /var/log directory with the maillog? 2. Separate from above, if I create a new logrotate script example as follows: # dovecot SIGUSR1: Re-opens the log files. /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log { missingok notifempty delaycompress sharedscripts postrotate /bin/kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } I get the following error only when cron tries to run it: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: stat of /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log failed: Permission denied Owner on the log are vmail:vmail. If I manually force logrotate on this particular log, it works fine. Ethon

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Re: Errors installing on Ubuntu 17.04
by Someone 21 Nov '17

21 Nov '17

On Tue, 21/11/17, Jeff Kletsky <dovecot(a)allycomm.com> wrote: > On 11/20/17 1:58 PM, Someone wrote: > > > I've been struggling with this on and off for a while now. Upon > > attempting to install Dovecot on Ubuntu 17.04 I get the following errors [...] > "Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full." I'm aware of that, yes. Unfortunately I don't know how to tell any of the myriad of package installers to "do the right thing" in such cases, and, as stated, this is happening during installation. > Without seeing the full messages, my guess is that you've got problems with your IPv6 configuration or connectivity. Entirely possible, since I don't have IPv6 and have completely disabled it as a result. Even were I to re-enable it, I don't see it would help if problems with IPv6 connectivity would also be a problem (because I don't have it).

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home folder for virtual users with autoexpunge setting
by felix＠kngnt.org 21 Nov '17

21 Nov '17

Hi all, I have enabled today the autoexpunge setting for Trash folders, and I am getting the following error when Dovecot starts: imap(<USER>): Error: autoexpunge: Couldn't create dovecot.autoexpunge.lock lock: User has no home directory I understand this is correct: as <USER> is a virtual user, it does not have home folder. Is there any way I can set the autoexpunge plugin to store the lock file in the virtual user email home folder? Thank you! Felix

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macros in config support
by Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz 21 Nov '17

21 Nov '17

Hi. Is there any support for macros in dovecot configuration - user defined macros? For example: server-config.conf: %define my_db_name "aaa" %define my_db_host "db.example.com" %define my_db_pass "sdfdsfsdfsdf2313" %define server_id 10 %define something blabla ... dovecot-sql.conf: !include server-config.conf connect = host=%{my_db_host} dbname=%{my_db_name} .... iterate_query = SELECT ... WHERE os.id_pop3_server=%{server_id} ... Basically to be able to use own macros anywhere in config files. -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )

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LMTP "Relative home directory paths not supported"
by Jeff Kletsky 21 Nov '17

21 Nov '17

I'm in the process of moving from LDA to LMTP (Postfix upstream) prior to a transition off `nix accounts to virtual accounts and am stumped by LMTP reporting dovecot: lmtp(10019, jeff(a)example.com) Error: Relative home directory paths not supported: 0 LDA does /not /have any problems with PAM or passwd-file passdb/userdb and the ubiquitous definition of mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs I have yet to be able to get LMTP to deliver mail, nor have I found anything on the Dovecot wiki to describe how to represent that the mail_location is <whatever/userdb/returned/for/home>/Maildir I'd prefer to localize the user-to-file-space mapping localized to Dovecot (rather than split within Postfix and Dovecot) I'd definitely appreciate any pointers to web pages or specific suggestions as to how to resolve this. Excerpts of Dovecot local.conf follow, full doveconf -n output on request. The/users /file is in the same format as FreeBSD /etc/master.passwd with name, password, UID, gid, home_dir, and shell meaningfully populated. The configuration below works with LDA (end-to-end). With LMTP, it identifies <jeff(a)example.com> as a valid destination, but fails on delivery with the "relative home directory paths" error message. passdb { driver = passwd-file args = /path/to/users } userdb { driver = passwd-file args = username_format=%n /path/to/users } # See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir # https://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs # mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs Thanks! Jeff

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