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Dovecot ignores existing mailboxes and creates its own
by Martin Vegter 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

Hello, I have Postfix with Maildir format. User's emails are being delivered into $HOME/mail/inbox Apart from ~/mail/inbox, there are the usual folders: $HOME/mail/archive $HOME/mail/drafts $HOME/mail/inbox $HOME/mail/trash Now I have installed dovecot, and set mail_location = maildir:~/mail:LAYOUT=fs additionally, I have defined mailboxes as follows: namespace inbox { mailbox drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox trash { special_use = \Trash } } The problem I am having is following: 1) dovecot ignores the folders (drafts, sent, trash) and creates its own folders begining with capiotal letter: Drafts Sent Trash 2) dovecot ignores ~/mail/inbox and instead creates ~/mail/cur ~/mail/new ~/mail/tmp can somebody please advise how to tell dovecot, to use my existing folder structure, ie: ~/mail/inbox/{cur,new,tmp} ~/mail/drafts/{cur,new,tmp} ~/mail/sent/{cur,new,tmp} ~/mail/trash/{cur,new,tmp} any advice would be much appreciated thanks, Martin

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Dovecot not changing SSL key and certificate as in config file
by Mitchell McMillan 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

I am trying to use my (decrypted) SSL key and certificate in Dovecot. I have changed /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf like so: ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/ssl-chain-mail-mydomain.com.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/ssl-key-decrypted-mail-mydomain.com.key However, after running service dovecot restart, dovecot -n still says that the files /etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem and /etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem are being used. I am using dovecot 2.2.9, any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Dovecot Auth Tries Spam
by Silvio Siefke 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

Hello, i more and more become this messages in logs: Jul 6 20:43:56 ks3374456 dovecot: auth: Error: passwd-file(jean(a)proxy.silviosiefke.com,213.130.118.102): stat(/var/vmail/auth.d/proxy.silviosiefke.com/passwd) failed: No such file or directory Jul 6 21:35:32 ks3374456 dovecot: auth: Error: passwd-file(jennifer(a)proxy.silviosiefke.com,41.160.109.28): stat(/var/vmail/auth.d/proxy.silviosiefke.com/passwd) failed: No such file or directory Jul 6 21:35:38 ks3374456 dovecot: auth: Error: passwd-file(jennifer(a)proxy.silviosiefke.com,41.160.109.28): stat(/var/vmail/auth.d/proxy.silviosiefke.com/passwd) failed: No such file or directory Jul 6 21:35:44 ks3374456 dovecot: auth: Error: passwd-file(jennifer(a)proxy.silviosiefke.com,41.160.109.28): stat(/var/vmail/auth.d/proxy.silviosiefke.com/passwd) failed: No such file or directory Jul 6 22:27:13 ks3374456 dovecot: auth: Error: passwd-file(jack(a)proxy.silviosiefke.com,203.113.206.105): stat(/var/vmail/auth.d/proxy.silviosiefke.com/passwd) failed: No such file or directory Jul 6 22:27:20 ks3374456 dovecot: auth: Error: passwd-file(jack(a)proxy.silviosiefke.com,203.113.206.105): stat(/var/vmail/auth.d/proxy.silviosiefke.com/passwd) failed: No such file or directory Jul 6 22:27:26 ks3374456 dovecot: auth: Error: passwd-file(jack(a)proxy.silviosiefke.com,203.113.206.105): stat(/var/vmail/auth.d/proxy.silviosiefke.com/passwd) failed: No such file or directory Jul 6 22:36:49 ks3374456 dovecot: auth: Error: passwd-file(eric(a)proxy.silviosiefke.com,41.21.178.38): stat(/var/vmail/auth.d/proxy.silviosiefke.com/passwd) failed: No such file or directory I understand not, because i have set dovecot so it launched only on my vpn ips. Give there a way to underbind this tries? I have installed fail2ban. Maybe im stupid, because this help not or i has set wrong entrys. <dovecot> service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = 10.8.0.1 port = 12520 } inet_listener imaps { address = 10.8.0.1 port = 12550 } } </dovecot> <fail2ban> [dovecot] enabled = true filter = dovecot action = iptables-multiport[name=dovecot, port="pop3,pop3s,imap,imaps,submission,465,sieve", protocol=tcp] logpath = /var/log/mail.log [dovecot-auth] enabled = true filter = dovecot action = iptables-multiport[name=dovecot-auth, port="12520,12550,submission,465,sieve", protocol=tcp] logpath = /var/log/mail.log </fail2ban> Thanks for help & Nice day Silvio

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doveadm quota recalc -A
by ML mail 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

Hello, It looks like my iteration SQL query (iterate_query) does not work as when I try to run "doveadm quota recalc -A" I get the following error: $ sudo -u vmail doveadm quota recalc -A doveadm(nobody): Error: user nobody: Mail access for users with UID 65534 not permitted (see first_valid_uid in config file, uid from userdb lookup). doveadm(nobody): Error: User init failed My iterate_query is quite simple: iterate_query = SELECT username FROM mailbox So from the output I really don't understand why it looks up the user "nobody". I don't have any user "nobody" in my mailbox SQL table. Anyone has an idea? Regards ML

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Redis sentinel support in dict
by Lazy 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

Redis sentinel ( http://redis.io/topics/sentinel ) is a service that monitors and manages redis master slave replication. Using sentinel you can easily create a redis ha cluster. You can connect to a sentiniel and subscribe to certain events then in case of an failover update the redis address to new master etc. I think this is better suited to be used with dict proxy. Do You think it can be implemented without changes to dovecot core ? -- Michal Grzedzicki

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dovecot 2.2.13 core dump (signal 11)
by Tom Lieuallen 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

We just upgraded from 2.1.16 to 2.2.13. One user is experiencing problems when using the shared namespace. Specifically it happens when opening/reading a message and when deleting messages. These functions work for other users. So far, this appears to be only affecting one user. The shared folder is a local ext4 file system and utilizes acls # 2.2.13: /private/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: service auth { client_limit=1000 } is lower than required under max. load (15360) doveconf: Warning: service anvil { client_limit=1000 } is lower than required under max. load (10243) # OS: Linux 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) default_process_limit = 5120 first_valid_uid = 100 listen = * mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/a2/imap-index/%u mail_plugins = quota acl namespace { hidden = yes inbox = no list = children location = maildir:/a1/dove-shared:INDEX=/a2/imap-index/dove-shared/%u prefix = sharedimap/ separator = / type = shared } 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 = /private/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /private/dovecot/etc/passwd driver = passwd-file } plugin { acl = vfile quota = fs:INBOX:mount=/a1 quota2 = fs:Home quota:mount=%h } protocols = imap lmtp service imap-login { service_count = 1 } service imap { process_limit = 2048 } ssl_cert = </private/ssl/certs/mail.engr.oregonstate.edu.pem ssl_key = </private/ssl/certs/mail.engr.oregonstate.edu.pem userdb { args = /private/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } userdb { args = username_format=%u /private/dovecot/etc/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 } Here's the backtrace in gdb. Core was generated by `dovecot/imap'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 acl_mailbox_right_lookup (box=0x12e6730, right_idx=7) at acl-mailbox.c:40 40 if (abox->skip_acl_checks) Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install glibc-2.12-1.132.el6_5.2.x86_64 sssd-client-1.9.2-129.el6.x86_64 (gdb) bt full #0 acl_mailbox_right_lookup (box=0x12e6730, right_idx=7) at acl-mailbox.c:40 abox = 0x0 alist = <value optimized out> ret = <value optimized out> #1 0x00007f4c11604d06 in acl_copy_has_rights (ctx=0x12f9810, mail=0x12f5030) at acl-mailbox.c:409 destbox = 0x12edf90 save_right = <value optimized out> #2 acl_copy (ctx=0x12f9810, mail=0x12f5030) at acl-mailbox.c:430 t = <value optimized out> abox = 0x12ee5f8 #3 0x00007f4c11b741ed in mailbox_copy (_ctx=<value optimized out>, mail=0x12f5030) at mail-storage.c:2149 ctx = 0x12f9810 t = 0x12f32d0 keywords = 0x12f9b80 pvt_flags = 0 backend_mail = 0x12f5030 ret = <value optimized out> __FUNCTION__ = "mailbox_copy" #4 0x00007f4c11b742dd in mailbox_move (_ctx=<value optimized out>, mail=0x12f5030) at mail-storage.c:2170 ctx = 0x12f9810 #5 0x000000000040c587 in fetch_and_copy (cmd=0x12e3f10, move=true) at cmd-copy.c:67 search_ctx = 0x12f4db0 src_trans = 0x12f4090 srcset_ctx = {str = 0x12bf328, first_uid = 0, last_uid = 4294967295} ret = 1 save_ctx = 0x0 mail = 0x12f5030 copy_count = 1 src_uidset = 0x12bf328 #6 cmd_copy_full (cmd=0x12e3f10, move=true) at cmd-copy.c:123 client = 0x12e3330 dest_storage = <value optimized out> destbox = 0x12edf90 t = 0x12f32d0 src_trans = <value optimized out> search_args = 0x12ecf80 messageset = 0x12cac10 "112850,112871,112903:112905,112919" mailbox = 0x12cac38 "Trash" src_uidset = <value optimized out> sync_flags = 0 imap_flags = 0 changes = {pool = 0x12e6730, uid_validity = 19807984, saved_uids = { (I'm not sure how much more info is needed; let me know if more...) thank you Tom Lieuallen

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Multiple Instances with Director
by Cassidy Larson 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

I have four front end servers with two backend servers. Each front end server has three instances for different mail hosts (individual SSL certs, etc). I'm looking at adding a fourth instance on each front end server for the director process. Currently we just return the backend server ip via SQL and use the old master username/password to proxy the inbound POP/IMAP sessions to the correct backend server. The plan is for each instance to have connect to the same list of director_servers (one from each front end server). What's the trick to separate a director instance into its own setup and having multiple instances/servers connect to that director? Currently I have on my proxy instance: director_servers = 10.128.1.42:9090 (this is the inet_listener from the director instance) service director { unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0600 user = $default_login_user } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0600 } } And I get in logs: director: Fatal: No inet_listeners defined for director service (for standalone keep director_servers empty) Do I need an inet_listener on the front end instance if I want to forward all director queries to the director_servers list? Or is there some other trick to get a proxy front end to talk to a separate director instance(s)? Thanks, Cassidy

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question on lmtp logged message
by Leonardo Rodrigues 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Hi, I have dovecot running for IMAP4/POP3 and also local delivery through LMTP. It's working just fine, absolutely no problem on that, setup is fine. Anyway, sometimes LMTP seems to not be able to deliver some messages and keep them on postfixqueue. And on the next or third try, the message gets delivered successfully. The logged message, however, is not helping me identify what is happening.Example: (error - message was expunged) Jun 25 11:49:39 correio postfix/lmtp[21835]: ADB0A1AC05108: to=<vanilson.parreira(a)domain.com.br>, relay=correio.domain.com.br[private/dovecot-lmtp], conn_use=6, delay=13, delays=0.07/0/0/13, dsn=4.2.0, status=deferred (host correio.domain.com.br[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 451 4.2.0 <vanilson.parreira(a)domain.com.br> Message was expunged (received-date) (in reply to end of DATA command)) (successfull delivery) Jun 25 12:34:42 correio postfix/lmtp[6411]: ADB0A1AC05108: to=<vanilson.parreira(a)domain.com.br>, relay=correio.domain.com.br[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=2716, delays=2714/0/0/2.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 <vanilson.parreira(a)domain.com.br> U7pOLAHsqlPvMgAAHvf8vg Saved) During these two log entries, absolutely nothing was changed, no configuration, absolutely nothing. Everything is local, i mean, no NFS involved. So, finally, question is: what does the 'message was expunged' message given from LMTP means ??? This is happening quite often but, as i mentionted, sooner or later all messages are getting delivered. It's working despite the delay this is causing. [root@correio log]# dovecot --version 2.2.13 -- Atenciosamente / Sincerily, Leonardo Rodrigues Solutti Tecnologia http://www.solutti.com.br Minha armadilha de SPAM, NÃO mandem email gertrudes(a)solutti.com.br My SPAMTRAP, do not email it

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dbox alternate storage and samba
by Francesco 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Hello everyone, i was just wondering if it's possible to use a samba share as an alternate storage for dbox format. I tried creating a samba share, but when i try to move the email to the alternate storage using doveadm altmove, no errors are printed but no mails are moved. Everything works if the alternate storage is simply another directory on the server hard drive. am i mssing something? thanks in advance.

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rmdir() EBUSY warnings on 2.2.12
by Giel van Schijndel 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Hi, I'm getting a lot of syslog spam on FreeBSD 10 from nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir where, apparently it tries to rmdir() the mountpoint of my mail storage. > Jul 4 00:04:44 mailhost dovecot: imap(user(a)example.com): Error: nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail/vhosts/example.com) failed: Device busy We're using ZFS and have /var, /var/mail, /var/mail/vhosts, /var/mail/vhosts/example.com and /var/mail/vhosts/example.com/user as separate ZFS datasets (to enable per-user and per-domain snapshotting). So apart from NFS flushing being unnecessary (ZFS != NFS) I'm not really sure why using rmdir() for another directory than the Maildir specified in mail_location is a good idea. I.e. given that Maildirs shouldn't ever be emtpy (cur,new,tmp) anyway. -- Met vriendelijke groet, With kind regards, Giel van Schijndel -- > A programmer started to cuss > Because getting to sleep was a fuss > As he lay there in bed Looping 'round in his head > was: while(!asleep()) sheep++; > -- piercings -- http://bash.org/?845468

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