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LDA versus LMTP
by Steve Matzura 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

My system has a great big four users. The Dovecot wiki says LMTP is more efficient, and someone on IRC told me I'd need it if I were ever to use sieve, which at this time I have no intention of doing. Should I stick with LDA, or just implement LMTP so I'm ready if ever I need it in the future? The bottom line is, it's unclear from the wiki how to explicitly specify use of one or the other, so that's my question.

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Non-Existent Log File
by Steve Matzura 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

My /var/log/maillog was getting pretty big because of lots of testing and re-configuring I've been doing lately with both Dovecot and Postfix. I figured just remove /var/log/maillog and it would be re-created. It wasn't--not by Dovecot, not by Postfix. I had to manually create a new one, put one character in it, save it, properly secure it with chmod, and then Dovecot (and postfix) messages got written to it. This can't possibly be the proper procedure to clear maillog messages ... can it?

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Error when starting Dovecot
by Steve Matzura 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

After applying some changes to 10-master.conf as detailed at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixDovecotLMTP I receive the following when trying to start: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf line 49: Expecting '{' I'm trying to enable LMTP. The instructions say: Socket configuration The actual socket is configured in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf. The LMTP service can be bound to both INET or Unix sockets. In this example a Unix socket is placed inside the Postfix spool with appropriate permissions set: service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } I copied this block and placed it in my copy of 10-master.conf. Line 49 is the first line of this block, and there's clearly a left-brace there. The braces match, too. Thoughts?

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Orphaned email boxes...
by SH Development 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

What is the correct way to delete mailboxes that no longer have a database entry? Jeff

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Imap Notify
by Tony Morehen 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

I'm trying to enable Imap Notify in Dovecot 2.2.13. I know that's a bit out of date, but that's what's provided with openSuSe 13.2. The first thing I did was add mailbox_list_index=yes to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. Both doveadm -n and dovecot -n show the change. I then used doveadm reload to force dovecot to reread its config file. Despite this, NOTIFY did not show up it Dovecot's capabilities: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. I then did a systemctl restart dovecot.service and still no luck: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. I also have noticed that the Maildirs of my various accounts include a dovecot.list.index file with a current timestamp, but no dovecot.list.index. So, where do I go for here? The output of doveadm -n: # 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.16.7-21-desktop x86_64 openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64) disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mailbox_list_index = yes 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 ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd.dovecot driver = passwd-file } postmaster_address = Tony@localhost protocols = imap lmtp service auth { unix_listener auth-master { group = mailgrp mode = 0660 user = mailuser } } service lmtp { executable = lmtp -L inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 2525 } user = mailuser } ssl = no userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd.dovecot driver = passwd-file } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 } protocol lda { log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules mail_plugins = sieve } protocol lmtp { log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules mail_plugins = sieve }

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1.0.15 gone, can't start version 2
by Steve Matzura 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

On advice/recommendation received on this list, I removed version 1.0.15 with: rm -rf /usr/local/dovecot However, now that I have version 2 properly installed, configured, and ready to start testing with Postfix, it appears the old version is still in /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/include, /usr/local/libexec, /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/shared/doc. Thinking that anything in /usr/local is something that was installed s a result of having built it from source (which 1.0.15 definitely was), should these also be removed?

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Re: Sorry, another faq
by b-dovecot.org＠grmbl.net 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:24:32PM +0200, Martin S wrote: > I get > > openssl s_client -connect mail.myserver.tld:993 > connect: Connection refused > connect:errno=111 > > Both from a client laptop and on the roundcube server. > Both roundcube and dovecot are installed on the same server. That should give you a good idea about what's wrong with your setup. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dovecot+ssl+setup# B

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Re: 1.0.15 gone, can't start version 2
by Muzaffer Tolga Ozses 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

*make clean* then? On 12 June 2015 at 15:52, Steve Matzura <number6(a)noisynotes.com> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:13:18 +0300, you wrote: > > >Have you done *make distclean* in prior? That should remove all things > >dovecot. > > I tried, but got: > > make: *** No target to make `distclean'. Stop. >

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how to doveadm search from "<>" (null sender)?
by Daniel Funke 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

Hi, I tried to search for mailer daemon messages but can't find a syntax for the null sender. all these does not work: doveadm -u xxx from "<>" doveadm -u xxx from <> doveadm -u xxx from "" any ideas? Thank you Daniel

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Replication: "cross-updates" of mail meta-data
by Andre Nathan 11 Jun '15

11 Jun '15

Hello I have a two-server dovecot setup using replication. Each server runs two dovecot instances, one for director and another for the backend. Initially I set up a single server, got it all working, then rsync'd the data and index partitions to the new one and started the clusters (I used rsync as a way to speed-up dovecot's initial replication). Both servers listen on a virtual IP addresses load-balanced by IPVS as well as their own IP addresses. When I started dovecot in the second server, users started reporting that some of their messages were missing. I noticed that while the mail data seemed to be up to date in server1, it wasn't in server2; however, the indexes were being updated in server2 but not in server1. For example, "doveadm quota get -u some-user" would report the wrong value in server1 and the right value in server2, while a "du" would show that only server1 actually had the most up-to-date data. At the moment I had to take down server2, because as soon as dovecot is running in it, users start reporting missing messages again. To solve that problem, a "doveadm force-resync" in server1 isn't enough. I either rsync the index files from server2 or remove the indexes in server1 before the force-resync, which then works. Has anyone ever saw anything similar to this? Any help would be much appreciated. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 with dovecot 2.2.15 with the configurations below: === Backend instance === # dovecot -n # 2.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.16.0-37-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@= auth_worker_max_count = 10 disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_password = secret doveadm_port = 12345 listen = server1.mydomain.com mail_fsync = never mail_gid = dovemail mail_plugins = " notify replication quota" mail_uid = dovemail managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex copy include vacation-seconds imapflags notify namespace { inbox = yes location = mailbox SPAM { auto = subscribe } prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext driver = sql master = yes pass = yes } plugin { mail_replica = tcp:192.168.0.2:12345 # server2's replication IP quota = dict:User quota::file:/var/lib/imap/user/%2.256RHn/%n/dovecot-quota quota_rule = *:storage=1GB sieve = /var/lib/imap/sieve/%2.256RHn/%n/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = /var/lib/imap/sieve/%2.256RHn/%n sieve_extensions = comparator-i;ascii-numeric copy envelope fileinto imapflags include notify regex reject relational subaddress vacation-seconds sieve_max_redirects = 20 sieve_max_script_size = 512KB sieve_quota_max_scripts = 2 sieve_vacation_min_period = 1 sieve_vacation_send_from_recipient = yes } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve replication_dsync_parameters = -f -d -N -l 30 -U service aggregator { fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo { group = dovemail mode = 0666 user = dovemail } unix_listener replication-notify { group = dovemail mode = 0666 user = dovemail } } service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { client_limit = 10240 process_limit = 1 process_min_avail = 1 } service doveadm { inet_listener { address = 192.168.0.1 port = 12345 } vsz_limit = 1 G } service imap { process_limit = 8192 process_min_avail = 10 } service lmtp { inet_listener { address = lmtpcluster.internal.mydomain.com, server1.internal.mydomain.com port = 1124 } process_limit = 512 process_min_avail = 10 } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = lmtpcluster.internal.mydomain.com, server1.internal.mydomain.com port = 4190 } } service managesieve { process_limit = 20 process_min_avail = 10 } service pop3 { process_limit = 512 process_min_avail = 10 } service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 unix_listener replicator-doveadm { group = dovemail mode = 0666 user = dovemail } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mydomain.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mydomain.key userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep delay-newmail imap_idle_notify_interval = 2 mins imap_max_line_length = 64 k mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = " notify replication quota imap_quota" } protocol lmtp { info_log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot-lmtp.log mail_fsync = optimized mail_plugins = " notify replication sieve quota" } protocol sieve { mail_plugins = " notify replication sieve" managesieve_implementation_string = ManageSieve managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 managesieve_sieve_capability = comparator-i;ascii-numeric copy envelope fileinto imapflags include notify regex reject relational subaddress vacation-seconds ssl = no } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = " notify replication quota" pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } === Director instance === # dovecot -n -c /etc/dovecot_director/dovecot_director.conf # 2.2.15: /etc/dovecot_director/dovecot_director.conf # OS: Linux 3.16.0-37-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@= auth_worker_max_count = 10 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot_director director_mail_servers = server1.internal.mydomain.com server2.internal.mydomain.com director_servers = A.B.C.1 A.B.C.2 # server1 and server2 external IP addresses disable_plaintext_auth = no instance_name = dovecot_director listen = lmtpcluster.mydomain.com, server1.mydomain.com lmtp_proxy = yes login_greeting = IMAP/POP3 server mail_fsync = never mail_gid = dovemail mail_plugins = " quota" mail_uid = dovemail 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 ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot_director/dovecot_director-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot_director/dovecot_director-sql-master.conf.ext driver = sql master = yes pass = yes } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { client_limit = 10240 process_limit = 1 process_min_avail = 1 } service director { fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } inet_listener { address = A.B.C.1 port = 7777 } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0600 } unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director idle_kill = 10 secs inet_listener imap { port = 143 } process_limit = 400 process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 512 M } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = lmtpcluster.internal.mydomain.com, server1.internal.mydomain.com port = 24 } process_limit = 512 } service pop3-login { executable = pop3-login director idle_kill = 10 secs inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } process_limit = 256 } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mydomain.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mydomain.key userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot_director/dovecot_director-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = director-userdb info_log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot-director-lmtp.log passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y port=1124 driver = static name = } } Thanks in advance, Andre

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