Dovecot discards mail in a certain situation

20 Apr 2021


      Hi all:
I'm using Dovecot with Postfix (via LMTP). Because Postfix doesn't
de-duplicate recipients, I'm using sieve to drop duplicates, following
this recipe:
https://serverfault.com/questions/112958/postfix-aliases-and-duplicate-e-mai...
A "sieve_before" script contains:
require ["duplicate"];
if duplicate
{
discard;
stop;
}
It works well, except when the recipient is over quota. Dovecot is
configured for tempfail in this case: quota_full_tempfail = yes
When a mail arrives for a user who's over quota, Postfix logs this:
AF4481700032: to=<?@?>, relay=?[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=0.05,
delays=0.05/0/0/0, dsn=4.2.2, status=deferred (host
?[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 452 4.2.2 <?@?> Quota exceeded (mailbox
for user is full) (in reply to end of DATA command))
Approximately 10 minutes later, Postfix retries, and log shows:
dovecot: lmtp(?)<1742912><+EYHBXjidmBAmBoAcAY70w>: sieve:
msgid=<489132c2-7b77-cd2f-ce60-439f6558ddcf@?>: marked message to be
discarded if not explicitly delivered (discard action)
postfix/lmtp[1742691]: AF4481700032: to=<?@?>,
relay=?[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=431, delays=431/0/0/0, dsn=2.0.0,
status=sent (250 2.0.0 <?@?> +EYHBXjidmBAmBoAcAY70w Saved)
postfix/qmgr[421343]: AF4481700032: removed
The message is then nowhere to be found: it's not delivered to mailbox,
bounce isn't sent to the sender, mail is not in postfix queue.
Apparently it's been discarded.
I'd say that at first LMTP delivery attempt, sieve records message as
seen, even though it is eventually rejected (452 over quota). During
second attempt sieve "recognizes" the message as seen before and
discards it. (This is just my interpretation of what could be happening.)
Is this a bug or have I misconfigured something? My dovecot -n output is
below.
Thanks for help,
Aleš Pečnik
# dovecot -n
# 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.7.2 ()
# OS: Linux 5.4.0-62-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_username_chars =
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@:
auth_username_format = %Ln
auth_worker_max_count = 3
default_vsz_limit = 1 G
first_valid_gid = 12
first_valid_uid = 8
hostname = something.org
last_valid_gid = 12
last_valid_uid = 8
listen = *
mail_access_groups = mail
mail_location = maildir:/var/dovecot/%u
mail_plugins = " quota mailbox_alias mail_log notify acl"
mail_privileged_group = mail
namespace {
location = maildir:/var/dovecot/public:INDEXPVT=/var/dovecot/%n/public
prefix = Public.
separator = .
subscriptions = no
type = public
}
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
auto = no
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
auto = subscribe
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
auto = no
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
auto = no
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix =
}
passdb {
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext
driver = sql
master = yes
pass = yes
}
passdb {
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
driver = sql
}
plugin {
acl = vfile
mailbox_alias_new = Sent Messages
mailbox_alias_new2 = Sent Items
mailbox_alias_new3 = Deleted Items
mailbox_alias_new4 = Deleted Messages
mailbox_alias_old = Sent
mailbox_alias_old2 = Sent
mailbox_alias_old3 = Trash
mailbox_alias_old4 = Trash
quota = maildir:User quota
quota_rule = *:storage=200M
quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+50M
quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u
quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u
sieve =
file:/var/dovecot/%n/sieve;active=/var/dovecot/%n/sieve/active.sieve
sieve_before = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve.d/
sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags +editheader +duplicate
}
postmaster_address = postmaster@something.org
protocols = " imap lmtp"
quota_full_tempfail = yes
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = postfix
mode = 0660
user = postfix
}
}
service imap-login {
inet_listener imap {
port = 143
}
inet_listener imaps {
port = 0
}
process_min_avail = 12
service_count = 0
}
service imap-postlogin {
executable = script-login /etc/dovecot/postlogin.sh
user = $default_internal_user
}
service imap {
executable = imap imap-postlogin
}
service lmtp {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
group = postfix
mode = 0600
user = postfix
}
}
service pop3-login {
inet_listener pop3 {
port = 0
}
inet_listener pop3s {
port = 0
}
}
ssl_cert =