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LMTP: user does not exist
by dienes_devout_0d＠icloud.com 03 Mar '24

03 Mar '24

Hello all, I have been using Postfix/Dovecot for some time, but now need to setup Sieve. As I understand this requires Dovecot to do the local mailbox delivery. In my case LMTP would be the best. Here is the current setup. The users on the system all have local accounts and authenticate with Kerberos via pam_krb5 against kerberos realm domain.tld. They authenticate to the mail server as user(a)domain.tld. The server name is mail.domain.tld and mailbox names on the mail server are user(a)mail.domain.tld. User mailboxes are located in /home/user/Maildir. I went through the configuration described in the documentation (https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/howto/postfix_dovecot_lmtp/#ho…) but hit a weird problem. When LMTP is enabled in Postfix, the delivery fails with an error: 550 5.1.1 <user(a)mail.domain.tld> User doesn't exist: user(a)mail.domain.tld (in reply to RCPT TO command)) If LMTP is not enabled in Postfix, it successfully delivers the messages to ~/Maildir as expected. Can anyone advise me why is this failure with LMTP occurring and how do I fix it? Thank you, Alex

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better delivery mechanism to maildir?
by dovecot.org＠schildbach.de 03 Mar '24

03 Mar '24

As many of you probably are, I'm using Postfix together with Dovecot. Postfix delivers mail for my users by writing them directly to the filesystem (maildir). I wonder is there a better alternative? I'd like to separate the two services on different physical machines, so a shared filesystem isn't trivial any more. (I'd also like to stay with maildir storage and rather not do SQL or similar.) Can mail be delivered via IMAP for example? Or is there some other delivery protocol I don't know about that both Dovecot and Postfix support? Thanks!

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Dbox-storage error when compiling: no member named 'st_atim' in 'struct stat'
by James L. Brown 03 Mar '24

03 Mar '24

Hi all. I’m getting errors when trying to compile 2.3.21 on macOS 14.3.1 Sonoma. It ends with: 3.2.1/include -MT dbox-storage.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/dbox-storage.Tpo -c dbox-storage.c -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/dbox-storage.o dbox-storage.c:296:32: error: no member named 'st_atim' in 'struct stat' last_temp_file_scan = stats.st_atim.tv_sec; ~~~~~ ^ dbox-storage.c:297:24: error: no member named 'st_ctim' in 'struct stat' change_time = stats.st_ctim.tv_sec; ~~~~~ ^ 2 errors generated. make[5]: *** [dbox-storage.lo] Error 1 make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Before ‘make’ I ran: sudo CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openssl(a)3/3.2.1/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/lib LDFLAGS=-L/opt/homebrew/lib ./configure --with-ssl=openssl --with-mysql --with-sodium I had to run ’sudo’ before ‘make’ as I was getting this error: error: error opening '.deps/fuzzer.Tpo': /Users/jlbrown/Downloads/dovecot-2.3.21/src/lib-test/.deps/fuzzer.Tpo: Permission denied Would someone be able to help we with the dbox-storage error? Thanks, James. Hi all. I’m getting errors when trying to compile 2.3.21 on macOS 14.3.1 Sonoma. It ends with: 3.2.1/include -MT dbox-storage.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/dbox-storage.Tpo -c dbox- storage.c -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/dbox-storage.o dbox-storage.c:296:32:error:no member named 'st_atim' in 'struct stat' last_temp_file_scan = stats.st_atim.tv_sec; ~~~~~ ^ dbox-storage.c:297:24:error:no member named 'st_ctim' in 'struct stat' change_time = stats.st_ctim.tv_sec; ~~~~~ ^ 2 errors generated. make[5]: *** [dbox-storage.lo] Error 1 make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Before ‘make’ I ran: sudo CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openssl(a)3/3.2.1/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/ homebrew/opt/openssl@3/lib LDFLAGS=-L/opt/homebrew/lib ./configure --with- ssl=openssl --with-mysql --with-sodium I had to run ’sudo’ before ‘make’ as I was getting this error: error:error opening '.deps/fuzzer.Tpo': /Users/jlbrown/Downloads/dovecot- 2.3.21/src/lib-test/.deps/fuzzer.Tpo: Permission denied Would someone be able to help we with the dbox-storage error? Thanks, James.

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IMAPSieve plugin and special-use attribute
by Kirill Kirilenko 02 Mar '24

02 Mar '24

Hello. Since version 0.5.9 Pigeonhole has RFC 8579 support, so Dovecot admins can easily setup redirection of spam messages into a personal mailbox identified by a particular special-use attribute rather than the mailbox's name. That's great! But, if we need to setup, for example, spam/not-spam reporting using IMAPSieve plugin, we still forced to specify mailbox's name in rules: # From elsewhere to Spam folder imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Spam imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/etc/dovecot/report-spam.sieve # From Spam folder to elsewhere imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Spam imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/etc/dovecot/report-ham.sieve I think, it would be great to allow one to specify a special-use attribute in imapsieve_mailboxXXX_name and imapsieve_mailboxXXX_from settings. Best regards, Kirill Kirilenko.

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seeking advice Error: Failed to lookup user
by noemi 28 Feb '24

28 Feb '24

Hi, I'm having some problems after activating the quota plugin: I followed the guide from the doc[0] but I'm having problems with some virtual user. I understand that,with my conf,the quota plugin check the limit of a user and then tell postfix to accept/discard the mail. i have some users under my main domain [conf in /etc/passwd] and some virtual user/domains [conf in virtusertable/virtdomains as files in postfix]. the virtual users use their local user for the login, so dovecot doesn't know they are virtual. I think the problem is here, because it is clear that the quota-status check is made by dovecot using the virtual user and not the local user[1]. understanding the problem doesn't help me in the resolution [other than burn everything and rebuild with a single management for local/virtual users using a db] but i will prefer a more soft approach. any help? my complete conf below[2] thanks, noemi [0] https://blog.sys4.de/postfix-dovecot-mailbox-quota-en.html [1] where the virtual user is mail(a)virtdomain.com and the local user is mail_virtdomain the check is done to user 'mail', thus returning a error: Nov 16 06:36:09 quota-status(other-user)<129776><OOwwMv+3VWXw+gEAKobZ8Q>: Error: Failed to lookup user mail(a)virtdomain.com: Mail access for users with UID 8 not permitted (see first_valid_uid in config file, uid from userdb lookup). [2] # 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 () # OS: Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64 x86_64 Debian 11.7 zfs # Hostname: mail-ng.pangea.org auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Ln default_client_limit = 3000 disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 8 log_path = /var/log/mail.log mail_location = maildir:/home/%n/Maildir mail_plugins = " quota" 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 namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_exceeded_message = Quota exceeded, please go to https://laweb.pangea.org/contacte/ for instructions on how to fix this. quota_grace = 10%% quota_max_mail_size = 100M quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full and cannot receive any more emails quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = file:~/sieve/;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_user_log = /var/log/sieve.log sieve_vacation_send_from_recipient = yes } protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service imap-login { process_limit = 1024 service_count = 100 } service imap { process_limit = 1024 } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } service pop3-login { process_limit = 1024 service_count = 0 } service pop3 { process_limit = 1024 } service quota-status { client_limit = 1 executable = quota-status -p postfix inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 7777 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { mode = 0666 user = vmail } user = dovecot } ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/mail-ng.pangea.org/fullchain.pem ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 40 mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota" } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " quota sieve" }

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Packages for Debian bookworm
by dovecot.org＠schildbach.de 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

Is there a reason there are no packages for recent Debian and Ubuntu versions? https://repo.dovecot.org/

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Dovecot Authentication Protocol via SSL?
by dovecot.org＠schildbach.de 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

I'm trying to run the Dovecot Authentication Protocol (port 12345) [1] via SSL. Here is my non-SSL config: service auth { inet_listener { port = 12345 haproxy = yes } } Adding ssl=yes to the inner block doesn't seem to change anything, I can't connect via "openssl s_client -connect", for example. I do use SSL for IMAPS, so I know my general SSL configuration is fine and I've got a valid LetsEncrypt cert. Also, Postfix doesn't appear to offer any configuration in terms of running this protocol via SSL. Question: Does it even matter? I'm about to run this protocol over untrusted networks. Is it perhaps designed to handle this situation? I'm using SASL plain authentication. I'm obviously concerned about leaking passwords, but also about leaking usernames and activity logs in general. [1] https://doc.dovecot.org/3.0/developer_manual/design/auth_protocol/

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Add tag support to 'Lua Director'
by William Edwards 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

Hi, There's a thread on this mailing list from 2022 called "The end of Dovecot Director?". I lost that email, hence the new conversation. Sorry about that. TL;DR: Is anyone else needing to migrate from Director interested in adding support for 2.x-style tags to the Lua script on https://doc.dovecot.org/3.0/configuration_manual/howto/director_with_lua/? Others on this list know Lua better than I. Background: Director is being removed from 2.4 (CE) / 3.x (Pro). After some notes from the community, the following manual entry popped up: https://doc.dovecot.org/3.0/configuration_manual/howto/director_with_lua/. It provides a Lua script that serves as a kind-of replacement for Director. It expects a list of backends, and maps users to a backend at connection time. The gotcha is in the last sentence: "There are no built-in tools in Dovecot to manage the database (such as adding backends, kicking users, monitoring backends, etc.). You need to build your own tooling." So, I built a CLI tool that provides the following functionality: - CRUD backends. - CRUD user-to-backend mappings. - Health-checking backends (replacing `poolmon`). - Swapping backends (move all users on backend X to backend Y). There's one to-do, though. Director had the concept of 'tags'. This is useful when one has multiple mail clusters, and users should be routed to a specific mail cluster. The Lua script does not know this concept. If a user does not have a mapping, it simply maps the user to any backend. Which could cause users to end up on the wrong backend. Therefore, it would be useful to add tag support to the Lua script: add `user_to_tags` and `tags` tables. Add a `tag_id` column to the `backends` table. Let the Lua script create a mapping to a backend with the same `tag_id` as the user entry in `user_to_tags`. Same logic as the `director_tag` passdb field (Director on 2.x). Alternatively, drop the 'tags' term: create a `user_to_backends` table with a JSON column taking multiple backend IDs (no foreign key relations = bad consistency). Alternatively, one could ensure that the Lua script never creates a mapping itself by manually creating it before the user connects. Pretty fragile in the real world, obviously. After this final to-do, I'd be happy to open-source my CLI. With kind regards, William Edwards

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Help running dovecot with sieve
by pereirar2z＠gmail.com 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

Hi all, I'm running dovecot-pigeonhole-2.3.21-1.x86_64 & dovecot-2.3.21-1.x86_64 + roundcube 1.6.6 on my redhat server. Mailserver is working as expected with the exception fo the Filters. I've installed and configure everything that i'm aware of but unfortunatelly its not working. I think my installation is not loading this module: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_sieve_plugin.so. But i have no idea what can I do more. Can you please help me? ###### # 2.3.21 (47349e2482): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.21 (f6cd4b8e) # OS: Linux 4.18.0-513.11.1.el8_9.x86_64 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.9 (Ootpa) xfs # Hostname: xxxxxx.xxxxx auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 1000 listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_plugins = acl mail_log notify 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 mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_default = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/global/ } protocols = imap pop3 sieve lmtp service auth-worker { user = vmail } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = dovecot } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64 M } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = wheel mode = 0666 user = dovecot } unix_listener stats-writer { group = wheel mode = 0666 user = dovecot } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir driver = static } verbose_ssl = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = acl mail_log notify quota sieve } protocol sieve { info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-sieve.log log_debug = category=sieve managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_max_compile_errors = 5 managesieve_max_line_length = 64 k } (END ##### Can you guys see anything wrong here? Any help is highly appreciated! Thank-you

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User-configurable time-based mail deletion in specific folders
by Peter Reinhold 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Hi I have been wondering about if Dovecot has a feature that would allow users to setup a rule for a given folder, that mails older than X days should be deleted? Or is this something that would need to be done by an external script? I have looked a bit at autoexpunge, and while the basic feature looks to be what I need, it doesn't seem to be configurable down to a specific folder on a single user. -- Peter Reinhold Hi I have been wondering about if Dovecot has a feature that would allow users to setup a rule for a given folder, that mails older than X days should be deleted? Or is this something that would need to be done by an external script? I have looked a bit at autoexpunge, and while the basic feature looks to be what I need, it doesn't seem to be configurable down to a specific folder on a single user. -- Peter Reinhold

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