ok there might be other ways to do this but here is what i did for my django project
I had to create a listener in python
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE CAREFUL !
This script is designed to work on a closed network and is still rough around the edges but does work
needs to be run as root in the background to access the doveadm.
If you intend to access from outside then you need to secure it by static ip, username/password etc ???
The client side code sends an email to notify you when the script is accessed?
Can help if you get stuck.
# cat /sbin/scripts/dovecot.listen #!/usr/local/bin/python2
import os,sys import socket import commands import time
from lib import *
a = onlyone ('dovecot.listen') if a.status == 'BAD' : print 'Another Process Is running ....' sys.exit()
TCP_IP = '10.220.0.18' TCP_PORT = 8444 BUFFER_SIZE = 1024 # Normally 1024, but we want fast response
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.bind((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT)) s.listen(1)
while 1 : #Process received data? conn, addr = s.accept() #Wait for data print 'Connection address:', addr data = conn.recv(BUFFER_SIZE) if not data: break print "received data:", data data = data.split (' ') command = data[0] print command
#If CM (Create Mailbox)
if command == 'CM' :
username = data[1]
print 'Creating Email Account : %s' % (username)
#Now create the mail box
#Now go make the email account
message = ''
for n in range (0,100) :
command1 = commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox create -s -u %s INBOX' %str(username)) print 'Command1 : %s' %command1 if 'Mailbox already exists' in command1 : message = 'BAD' conn.send( str(message) ) break
else :
if message == '' :
message = 'OK'
conn.send(message)
message = 'SENT'
if "User doesn't exist" in command1 :
time.sleep(2)
continue
else :
print 'Command1 : %s' %command1
message = 'SENT'
break
if message == 'SENT' : #Create the rest
command2 = commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox create -s -u %s Sent' %str(username)) print 'Command2 : %s' %command2 command3 = commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox create -s -u %s Trash' %str(username)) print 'Command3 : %s' %command3 command4 = commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox create -s -u %s Drafts' %str(username)) print 'Command4 : %s' %command4
if command == 'INFO' :
username = data[1]
print 'Getting Email Account Info : %s' % ( username )
command1 = commands.getoutput("/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox status -t all -u %s '*' " %str(username)) if 'Error' in command1 : message = 'BAD' else : message = 'OK : ' + command1
print message
conn.send( str(message) ) # echo
if command == 'DM' :
data = data[1]
data = data.split('@')
print 'Deleting Email Account : user/%s@%s' % ( str(data[0]), str(data[1]) )
message = 'BAD'
conn.send(message) # echo
print messageconn.close() s.close()
#Go Back Around
and then in django / or outside ? :
#Try to get info for this account
if dontupdate == False :
imap_test = Dovecot_Command ('INFO',self.username) #do i have this account ?
if 'BAD' in imap_test.answer :
try : #Try to Create the account, note that the db must be updated properly before it will work imap_create = Dovecot_Command ('CM',self.username) if 'OK' in imap_create.answer : send_subject = 'Email Account Created : %s' %(str(self.username) )
except :
send_subject = 'Error Account : %s' %(str(self.username) )
pass
else :
send_subject = 'Email Account Updated : %s' %(self.username)
#Send update email
send_from = 'monitor@scom.ca'
send_files = []
send_to = ['monitor@scom.ca']
send_text = '\n\n'+ send_subject + '\n'
sendmail(send_from,send_to,send_subject,send_text,send_files) #Send the warning email
if send_settings != '' : #Send Email Setup to this address
servername = 'mail.%s' %domain
send_from = 'info@scom.ca'
send_files = []
send_to = ['%s' %send_settings,]
send_subject = 'Email Setup Instructions for : %s %s' %(emailaddress,send_settings)
#Assemblt the sxend text with the infoHappy Saturday !!! Thanks - paul
Paul Kudla
Scom.ca Internet Services http://www.scom.ca 004-1009 Byron Street South Whitby, Ontario - Canada L1N 4S3
Toronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email paul@scom.ca
On 3/17/2023 10:22 PM, dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org wrote:
I’m running version 2.1.7 under Raspbian Wheezy (and have been for a number of years). I want to allow one of my other computers to remotely issue doveadm commands to my server but can’t seem to find the right way to add an inet listener to permit this.
Using ‘doveconf -a’ I’ve found the default service definition for doveadm-server. So I copied that and added it to the dovecot configuration with an inet listener section added to it. But that was rejected as a duplicate service definition when I restarted dovecot. I then tried specifying a “host:port” value for the doveadm_socket_path value but that didn’t work as no listening socket at that port appeared when I restarted dovecot.
I can’t seem to find in any of the dovecot documentation a way to do this and there seems to be nothing like a “Here’s how to setup doveadm remote access” section in the documentation (which would be most helpful).
How can I get doveadm-server to listen not only locally (as it’s already doing) but also open an inet port for remote access?