Ok, to answer my own mail, I realized I was reading some of the error messages wrongly, it turns out that I was missing +x on a directory or two in the path for one of my groups.
So I have made a bit of progress but currently stuck here.
doveadm(user-externaldomain.com): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACLs disabled doveadm(user-externaldomain.com): Error: fchown(/home/externaldomain.com/homes/user/Maildir/shared_ns1/info@primarydomain.com, group=1092(primarydomain.com)) failed: Operation not permitted (egid=1091(externaldomain.com), group based on /home/primarydomain.com/homes/info/Maildir - see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm) doveadm(user-externaldomain.com): Error: Mailbox @/info@primarydomain.com/INBOX: mkdir_parents(/home/externaldomain.com/homes/user/Maildir/shared_ns1/info@primarydomain.com/.INBOX) failed: Operation not permitted doveadm(user-externaldomain.com): Error: Can't open mailbox @/info@primarydomain.eu/INBOX: Mailbox @/info@primarydomain.com/INBOX: mkdir_parents(/home/externaldomain.com/homes/user/Maildir/shared_ns1/info@primarydomain.com/.INBOX) failed: Operation not permitted
I did go through the http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Errors/ChgrpNoPerm page, and followed the recommended changes to the /var/mail directory, but, it did not seem to make a difference.
Anyhow, I have pretty much resigned myself that it will not be possible to have shared mailboxes between domains on this system, at least with the namespaces running under each individual domain. For some reason, its bending my brain what is exactly needed.
------ Original Message ------ From: "Andreas T (DC)" andreas.tyrosvoutis@gmail.com To: "dovecot@dovecot.org" dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: 2020-07-22 3:42:53 PM Subject: Mailbox sharing, user to user in same domain, OK! User to user sharing in separate domains, problem. ( ... and more oh boy!)
Dovecot -n and version present at the bottom of the email for legibility. System is a Debian 10 + Virtualmin hosting setup for my domains
Hello everyone, my first post. Sorry for the long and confusing post, I'm pretty new to dovecot other than basic functionality.
I recently in the last week went through the documentation for both shared (user to user) and public mailboxes and got them both working. Took me a bit but eventually I figured it out, but I am still encountering some stubborn scenarios.
I am having some issues with 2 types of sharing. ( I believe problem A
- B are related as the error is similarly permission based error)
For inconsistencies in the user account names, user@domain.com vs user-domain.com please see issue C, which my workaround is functional.
A.)
Sharing user to user between in the same domain works fine. Sharing user to user in different domains gives me some permission errors. Permissions have been granted (to (using Linux ACL for more fine grained permissions) as far as I can tell.
Trying to share the info "INBOX" (fullshare, same issue for single boxes as well) from the info@primarydomain.com to user@externaldomain.com
from info@primarydomain.com Mailder
cat dovecot-acl user=user-externaldomain.com akxeilprwts
getfacl dovecot-acl # file: dovecot-acl # owner: info@primarydomain.com # group: primarydomain.com user::rw- user:user@externaldomain.com:rwx #effective:rw- user:info@primarydomain.com:rwx #effective:rw- group::--- mask::rw- other::---
doveadm acl debug -u user-externaldomain.com "@/info@primarydomain.com/INBOX"
doveadm(user-externaldomain.com): Error: stat(/home/primarydomain.com/homes/info/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=1121(user@externaldomain.com) egid=1091(holanow.com) missing +x perm: /home/primarydomain.com, we're not in group 1092(primarydomain.com), dir owned by 1126:1092 mode=0750)
doveadm(user-externaldomain.com): Error: Can't open mailbox @/info@primarydomain.com/INBOX: stat(/home/primarydomain.com/homes/info/Maildir/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=1121(user@externaldomain.com) egid=1091(holanow.com) missing +x perm: /home/primarydomain.com, we're not in group 1092(primarydomain.com), dir owned by 1126:1092 mode=0750)
getfacl /home/primarydomain.com/homes/info/Maildir/tmp
# file: home/primarydomain.com/homes/info/Maildir/tmp # owner: info@primarydomain.com # group: primarydomain.com user::rwx user:user@externaldomain.com:rwx user:info@primarydomain.com:rwx group::--- mask::rwx other::--- default:user::rwx default:user:user@externaldomain.com:rwx default:user:info@primarydomain.com:rwx default:group::--- default:mask::rwx default:other::---
getfacl /home/primarydomain.com/homes/info/Maildir
# file: home/primarydomain.com/homes/info/Maildir/ # owner: info@primarydomain.com # group: primarydomain.com user::rwx user:user@externaldomain.com:rwx user:info@primarydomain.com:rwx group::--- mask::rwx other::--- default:user::rwx default:user:user@externaldomain.com:rwx default:user:info@primarydomain.com:rwx default:group::--- default:mask::rwx default:other::---
B.)
Public mailbox, mailboxes that are physically present on the public mail dir, work fine. Public boxes which are symlinks to mailboxes to other users, with correct permission and ACL, always give me permission errors and do not show up publicly. These type of mailboxes do show up if the person already has user to user share setup with those boxes, which due to problem A, means only within the same domain.
Similar errors as to the A scenario, even if giving complete rwx access to all (user/group/other) I still get permission denied issues. It just feel like dovecot isn't even trying to access the files
C. Tiny "other" problem I have worked around already.
dovecot-acl when using users via their user@domain.com account doesn't lookup the user correctly. I already have set, auth_username_translation = @- which works for when users login but it doesn't seem to work with dovecot-acl files. I have helper account pointers replacing the @ with - and then the ACL file works fine.
Would prefer acl files contain,
user=user1@primarydomain.com akxeilprwts user=user2@primarydomain.com akxeilprwts
But this works and is not a show stopper. user=user1-primarydomain.com akxeilprwts user=user2-primarydomain.com akxeilprwts
dovecot --version 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4)
# 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 () # OS: Linux 5.4.44-2-pve x86_64 Debian 10.4 # Hostname: vps1.abclution.com doveconf: Warning: please set ssl_dh= /etc/dovecot/dh.pem auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_translation = @- mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = acl 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 = separator = / } namespace public_ns1 { location = maildir:/home/.Public_Mailboxes:INDEX=~/Maildir/public_ns1:INDEXPVT=~/Maildir/public_ns1 prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } namespace shared_ns1 { list = yes location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared_ns1/%%u:INDEXPVT=~/Maildir/shared_ns1/%%u prefix = @/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile acl_anyone = allow acl_defaults_from_inbox = yes acl_shared_dict = file:%h/Maildir/shared-mailboxes } protocols = " imap pop3" service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0777 } } ssl_cert =