On 17/12/2020 15:38 Barbara M. barbara@rfx.it wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, Aki Tuomi wrote:
I would recommend using dsync migration to get rid of mbox format. We no longer develop that format, and bugs are limited to reading mbox format.
Ok, but I assume that dovecot 2.3.x still support mbox? (just in case the mbox --> MailDir migration give more problems than expected expecially with POP3 UIDL)
It's not removed, but we don't focus on maintaining full functionality on it.
Please look at the wiki link on how to use pop3_migration_plugin to avoid UIDL problems.
I would also recommend using master password / master user login with doveadm sync, and do the synchronization over imapc: to get the data safely migrated to your new system.
You should use
doveadm sync -u user backup -R imapc:
on the new server to pull the data from old server. See https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync for more details.
Ok, but My old server is 2.0.16. The suggested URL say: "You need Dovecot v2.1.4+ for this." I can't understand if it refers to source or destination server
I tried to activate master password / master user, but I get:
# telnet 0 143 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'.
- OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. a login USER*MASTER MASTERPWD a NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed.
Nothing in dovecot.[log|info.log]
(real user/pwd replaced) /etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers created using htpasswd ... tried with standard pwd created by htpasswd or replacing the encrypted pwd with a know passwd form /etc/shadow.
My current dovecot -n :
Try enabling auth_debug=yes
You need to move master passdb before pam. And you need auth_master_user_separator=*
Aki
# 2.0.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-48-pve x86_64 CentOS release 6.10 (Final) auth_mechanisms = plain login default_client_limit = 3000 default_process_limit = 500 disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot.info.log log_path = /var/log/mail/dovecot.log mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mail_location = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mbox_read_locks = dotlock fcntl passdb { driver = pam } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/passwd.masterusers driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } protocols = imap pop3 service imap { process_limit = 512 } service pop3 { process_limit = 1024 } ssl_cert =
Thanks, B.