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Question about how to serve many imap users on some mailbox.
by Oleksandr Lystopad 30 May '17

30 May '17

Hi, dear dovecot users! I am running 2.2.29.1 (e0b76e3) on FreeBSD. In my case, one mailbox info(a)example.com is shared between 5-10 managers. Sometimes they complains that no new messages displayed in folder message count list in brackets (bold number if new messages exists), but when they click on the imap folder (for example Inbox) they could see many new mails. There not only Inbox folder, they have 10-30 folders with quite big flow of new messages. Almost all users are using Microsoft Outlook MUA. Please, help me to solve the issue. My config could be found bellow (dovecot -n): auth_failure_delay = 12 secs auth_mechanisms = login cram-md5 plain auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 26 first_valid_uid = 26 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes listen = * login_greeting = imap/pop mailserver ready mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_privileged_group = mail 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 passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocols = pop3 imap sieve service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = mailnull mode = 0600 user = mailnull } unix_listener auth-login { group = mailnull mode = 0600 user = $default_internal_user } unix_listener auth-master { group = mailnull mode = 0600 user = mailnull } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mailnull mode = 0600 user = mailnull } user = root } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 } } service imap { process_limit = 512 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 } } service pop3 { process_limit = 512 } ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/SSL/my.crt ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol pop3 { pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve }

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MySQL issue
by Amaechi Janneh 30 May '17

30 May '17

Hello. It appears that I have an issue with my dovecot setup. When trying to authenticate, i get this error: May 28 20:18:26 AmaechiJ dovecot[10516]: imap-login: Login: user=< aj(a)example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=, lip=, mpid=10879, TLS, ses...QOQBg9rlR> May 28 20:18:42 AmaechiJ dovecot[10516]: imap(aj(a)example.com): Connection closed in=116 out=1311 May 28 20:20:32 AmaechiJ dovecot[10516]: auth-worker(10892): Warning: mysql: Query failed, retrying: Table 'mailserver.users' doesn't exist May 28 20:20:32 AmaechiJ dovecot[10516]: auth-worker(10892): Error: sql( aj(a)example.com,) User query failed: Table 'mailserver.users' doesn't exist May 28 20:20:32 AmaechiJ dovecot[10516]: imap-login: Login: user=< aj(a)example.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=, lip=, mpid=10894, TLS, ses...QZwBg9rlR> But I already have the users data under virtual_users. So what should I do? Regards, Amaechi Janneh I am running dovecot 2.2.13 Debian 8

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Can only enable Sieve scripts not edit them (Roundcube)
by Paul Littlefield 29 May '17

29 May '17

Hello, (my first post so be gentle) I will be posting this to the Roundcube mailing list too, but thought it worth asking here as well. I have a Roundcube installation running Apache with Dovecot and Sieve. When logged in to Roundcube, a user can see the Sieve scripts and enable or disable them but NOT edit them or create new scripts. In other words, Dovecot will happily EDIT the script to mark it as 'false' but will not edit the actual rules or create a new rule... e.g. require ["fileinto","vacation"]; # rule:[Out of Office] if false # true { vacation :days 1 :addresses "me(a)mydomain.com" :subject "Out of Office" :from "me(a)mydomain.com" "I am out of the office."; } # rule:[Spam] if header :contains "subject" "{Spam}" { fileinto "Spam"; } Any ideas? Thanks, -- Paul Littlefield

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user-defined special-use folders
by Fabian Schmidt 29 May '17

29 May '17

I plan to define SPECIAL-USE mailboxes and think about defining per user special-use folders for those who don't use the default folder names. Is this possible in dovecot? What I try: $ doveadm exec imap * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SEARCH=FUZZY METADATA SPECIAL-USE] Logged in as fschmidt a1 SETMETADATA "sent-mail" (/private/specialuse "\\Sent") a1 NO [CANNOT] The /private/specialuse attribute cannot be changed (0.008 + 0.000 + 0.008 secs). using dovecot 2.2.29.1, following the example in RFC 6154, sect. 5.4 (How is MAIL_ATTRIBUTE_INTERNAL_RANK_AUTHORITY defined or set?) Fabian.

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When will passdb callback to mechanism yield PASSDB_RESULT_NEXT?
by Peter Mogensen 29 May '17

29 May '17

Hi, code question... I've been trying to figure out the implications of the new "noauthenticate" passdb field. Internally it causes a passdb to result in PASSDB_RESULT_NEXT. When a SASL mechanism calls auth_request_lookup_credentials(...,callback) the passdb result is passed to the callback. But I can't really figure out when that result will ever be PASSDB_RESULT_NEXT. It seems the passdb fallthrough resolver will always replace it with PASSDB_RESULT_INTERNAL_FAILURE if it ends up being the last result. Can it ever leak into the callback or is it an internal intermediate value or the passdb resolver? /Peter

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No doveadm-save in wiki2?
by KT Walrus 28 May '17

28 May '17

Is “doveadm save” an undocumented feature? Or, just well-hidden? https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm <https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm> Kevin

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Another mail_crypt question: figure out to password secure using mysql
by dovecot＠avv.solutions 26 May '17

26 May '17

Hello Community, (sorry to be more busy, hence more running questions in parallel :) ) As mentioned in another post, I am testing mail_crypt plugin. I was wondering how to really secure the process sothat even the admin cannot have any access to the other users mail content. My current config is simple: - using per-folder keys (hence the per-user spaces are preserved) - put the public/private global keys in base64 format into the sql DB (elliptic algo) This obviously allows anyone with read access to the table to decrypt the mails from the filesystem... which I try to prevent. Considering of course that all mail users are virtual and do not (and may not) have access to the box itself: - how can I secure the keys? I do not see how to handle a assword for them? - a solution might be to crypt/decrypt the keys using the user's password? - other? Thank you for you help.

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dovecot: auth-worker: Fatal: master: service(auth-worker): child XXXXX killed with signal 11
by dovecot＠jeffandjessi.com 26 May '17

26 May '17

Still Trying to track down a dovecot issue .... The error message is: dovecot: auth-worker: Fatal: master: service(auth-worker): child XXXXX killed with signal 11 (core not dumped - set service auth-worker { drop_priv_before_exec=yes }) The setup is dovecot 2.2.29.1 with passwd and mysql auth db's and a very basic config. both authentications work ... the symptom is that after a connection is made the auth worker loads and emails are downloaded and everything "is fine". However, about 30 second to a minute after the connection is done the process dies with the error message. Then the process starts all over with on the next checking of email ,but again everything "works" just seeing this error and the process dieing each time? enabled all extra verbose logging ,but nothing gives any clues.... Tried to enable core dumps ,but couldnt get core dumps to work ? The only thing is that a recently pkgsrc (netbsd) update create 2 packages, one for dovecot and one for mysql plugin , sense then now this error appears. ,but it appears the .so lib files are installed and linked correctly. Double checked all file permissions and user permissions as well as chroot , etc, etc, ,etc.... cant seem to narrow this one down .... any ideas on trouble shooting would be great .... even tried running a trace with gdb -p on the process ,but it just dies with a signal 11 .... anybody have any ideas how to trouble shoot this or is this a bug in the software .... help !!

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Moving dovecot/maildir to new host, dovecot.* files
by John Gateley 26 May '17

26 May '17

Hello, I've done a fair amount of searching, and couldn't find a definitive answer. I am moving my dovecot/postfix servers and mail in Maildir formats to a new host. When I move the Maildir directories, what should I do with the dovecot.index/cache/log/etc. files? I know I can filter them out, and dovecot will recreate them, but is that the best approach? I am thinking of the following: Shut down postfix and dovecot on both the new and old server rsync the maildirs from the old server to the new server start up postfix/dovecot on the new server verify all is okay switch DNS from old server to new server. Is this the best approach with minimal impact to mail users? Thanks very much John

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Issue with virtual folder: partially see them and cannot subscribe
by dovecot＠avv.solutions 26 May '17

26 May '17

Hello Community, I am trying to figure out hwo to use the virtual mailboxes, but remain a bit confused: - I see the Virtual speudo-folder - Eventuelly the name of the boxes underneath - But cannot see more, nor subscrie to the virtual mailboxes Dovecot: # 2.2.29.1 (e0b76e3): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.18 (29cc74d) # OS: Linux 4.4.50-v7+ armv7l Debian 8.0 ext4 auth_mechanisms = plain login log_path = /dev/stderr mail_attribute_dict = file:/sd/MAIL_IMAP_POP/%d/%n/Maildir/dovecot-attributes mail_debug = yes mail_gid = vmail mail_location = maildir:/sd/MAIL_IMAP_POP/%d/%n/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs mail_plugins = " virtual mail_crypt" mail_uid = vmail 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 namespace { inbox = yes location = mailbox { special_use = \Drafts name = Drafts } mailbox { special_use = \Junk name = Junk } mailbox { special_use = \Sent name = Sent } mailbox { special_use = \Sent name = Sent Messages } mailbox { special_use = \Trash name = Trash } prefix = name = inbox } namespace { hidden = no list = yes location = virtual:/sd/MAIL_IMAP_POP/%%d/%%n/Virtual prefix = Virtual/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private name = virtual } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { mail_crypt_curve = secp521r1 mail_crypt_save_version = 2 sieve = file:/sd/MAIL_IMAP_POP/%d/%n/Sieve;active=/sd/MAIL_IMAP_POP/%d/%n/Sieve.active } service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { user = vmail name = auth-worker } service { unix_listener { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth } unix_listener { mode = 0600 user = vmail path = auth-userdb } user = dovecot name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict-async { name = dict-async } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap-hibernate { name = imap-hibernate } service { inet_listener { port = 143 name = imap } inet_listener { port = 993 ssl = yes name = imaps } name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service imap-master { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service { unix_listener { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix path = /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp } name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service sieve { name = managesieve-login } service login/sieve { name = managesieve } service { inet_listener { port = 110 name = pop3 } inet_listener { port = 995 ssl = yes name = pop3s } name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service login/ssl-params { name = ssl-params } service stats-mail { name = stats } ssl = required ssl_cert = </sd/MAIL_IMAP_POP/_ssl/pi3tv.local.avv_server.crt ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " virtual mail_crypt sieve" service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict-async { name = dict-async } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap-hibernate { name = imap-hibernate } service imap { name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service imap-master { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service sieve { name = managesieve-login } service login/sieve { name = managesieve } service pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service login/ssl-params { name = ssl-params } service stats-mail { name = stats } } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " virtual mail_crypt virtual" service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict-async { name = dict-async } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap-hibernate { name = imap-hibernate } service imap { name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service imap-master { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service sieve { name = managesieve-login } service login/sieve { name = managesieve } service pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service login/ssl-params { name = ssl-params } service stats-mail { name = stats } } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " virtual mail_crypt virtual" service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict-async { name = dict-async } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap-hibernate { name = imap-hibernate } service imap { name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service imap-master { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service sieve { name = managesieve-login } service login/sieve { name = managesieve } service pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service login/ssl-params { name = ssl-params } service stats-mail { name = stats } } protocol pop3 { service replication-notify-fifo { name = aggregator } service anvil-auth-penalty { name = anvil } service auth-worker { name = auth-worker } service auth-client { name = auth } service config { name = config } service dict-async { name = dict-async } service dict { name = dict } service login/proxy-notify { name = director } service dns-client { name = dns_client } service doveadm-server { name = doveadm } service imap-hibernate { name = imap-hibernate } service imap { name = imap-login } service imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth-login } service imap-urlauth-worker { name = imap-urlauth-worker } service token-login/imap-urlauth { name = imap-urlauth } service imap-master { name = imap } service indexer-worker { name = indexer-worker } service indexer { name = indexer } service ipc { name = ipc } service lmtp { name = lmtp } service log-errors { name = log } service sieve { name = managesieve-login } service login/sieve { name = managesieve } service pop3 { name = pop3-login } service login/pop3 { name = pop3 } service replicator-doveadm { name = replicator } service login/ssl-params { name = ssl-params } service stats-mail { name = stats } } Any tip/suggestion? I tried several configs from https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual Example 1: Virtual/Deleted/dovecot-virtual: * deleted Example 2 Virtual/All/dovecot-virtual * -Trash -Trash/* all Thanks!

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