Dear Dovecot Users/Admins/Mailing-List

 

First of all I would give a big thanks for your great work !

 

I may need your help to find out what’s going on with my replication and shared mailbox problem.

 

I setup a full active/active servers with :

 

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<dovecot –version>

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2.2.27 (c0f36b0)  ==>  DEBIAN 9 Stretch (no back ports)

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Everythink works fine until I activate a share on a mailbox.

 

I run the following command to share the full mailbox « websentinel » to « lbrault » (because of « acl_defaults_from_inbox = yes » set in conf)  :

 

==> doveadm acl set -u websentinel@example.fr INBOX user=lbrault@example.fr admin create delete expunge insert lookup post read write write-deleted write-seen

 

Just after activation of share and connect through webmail client (Horde in this case but tried Roundcube also) I get this kind of error messages on logs :

 

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Feb 25 15:59:50 mx01 dovecot: imap(lbrault@example.fr): Error: /mnt/mail/vmail/example.fr/lbrault/shared/websentinel@example.fr/.INBOX/dovecot.index.pvt reset, view is now inconsistent

Feb 25 15:59:50 mx01 dovecot: imap(lbrault@example.fr): Error: /mnt/mail/vmail/example.fr/lbrault/shared/websentinel@example.fr/.INBOX/dovecot.index.pvt view is inconsistent

Feb 25 15:59:50 mx01 dovecot: imap(lbrault@example.fr): Error: /mnt/mail/vmail/example.fr/lbrault/shared/websentinel@example.fr/.INBOX/dovecot.index.pvt view is inconsistent

Feb 25 15:59:50 mx01 dovecot: imap(lbrault@example.fr): BUG: Unknown internal error in=293 out=119712

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In parallele to this error some new folders are created on the mailboxes root with name containing « nonexistent mailbox… » :

 

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16:00:37 root@mx01 /mnt/mail/vmail # lla

total 48

drwxr-xr-x 12 vmail vmail 4096 févr. 25 16:00 .

drwxr-xr-x  3 root  root  4096 févr. 11 12:13 ..

drwx------  2 vmail vmail 4096 févr. 25 16:00 (nonexistent mailbox with GUID=47376e22c8876e5cff5b000036d82855)

drwx------  2 vmail vmail 4096 févr. 25 16:00 (nonexistent mailbox with GUID=48376e22c8876e5cff5b000036d82855)

drwx------  2 vmail vmail 4096 févr. 25 16:00 (nonexistent mailbox with GUID=49376e22c8876e5cff5b000036d82855)

drwx------  2 vmail vmail 4096 févr. 25 16:00 (nonexistent mailbox with GUID=5c72c71b3f896e5c615c000036d82855)

drwx------  2 vmail vmail 4096 févr. 25 16:00 (nonexistent mailbox with GUID=809fff0046896e5c665c000036d82855)

drwx------  2 vmail vmail 4096 févr. 25 16:00 (nonexistent mailbox with GUID=a1895d0c36866e5c865b000036d82855)

drwx------  2 vmail vmail 4096 févr. 25 16:00 (nonexistent mailbox with GUID=c14aaa38d1846e5c285b000036d82855)

drwx------  2 vmail vmail 4096 févr. 25 16:00 (nonexistent mailbox with GUID=ed909808b1846e5c523b01006b8a5dcb)

drwx------  2 vmail vmail 4096 févr. 25 16:00 (nonexistent mailbox with GUID=fa9d41114b896e5c6b5c000036d82855)

drwx------  4 vmail vmail 4096 févr. 21 11:57 example.fr

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When I look at the GUID it seems this GUID are linked to the folder into the shared mailbox (websentinel)

 

I tried to change dsync params with the following command into 10-master.conf to exclude the shared folder from replication but it seems having no effect with the TCP replication :

 

==> replication_dsync_parameters = -d -N -l 30 -U -x shared

 

Here is my dovecot -n report :

 

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<dovecot -n> :

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# 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

# Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554)

# OS: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.7 ext4

auth_debug = yes

auth_debug_passwords = yes

auth_mechanisms = plain login

auth_verbose = yes

auth_verbose_passwords = yes

doveadm_password =  # hidden, use -P to show it

doveadm_port = 12345

mail_attribute_dict = file:/mnt/mail/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot-attributes

mail_debug = yes

mail_location = maildir:/mnt/mail/vmail/%d/%n

mail_plugins = " quota notify replication acl"

mail_privileged_group = vmail

managesieve_notify_capability = mailto

managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext editheader vnd.dovecot.pipe vnd.dovecot.filter vnd.dovecot.execute

namespace {

  list = children

  location = maildir:/mnt/mail/vmail/%%d/%%n:INDEXPVT=/mnt/mail/vmail/%d/%n/shared/%%u

  prefix = shared/%%u/

  separator = /

  subscriptions = no

  type = shared

}

namespace inbox {

  inbox = yes

  location =

  mailbox Archive {

    auto = subscribe

    special_use = \Archive

  }

  mailbox Drafts {

    auto = subscribe

    special_use = \Drafts

  }

  mailbox Junk {

    auto = subscribe

    special_use = \Junk

  }

  mailbox Sent {

    auto = subscribe

    special_use = \Sent

  }

  mailbox Trash {

    auto = subscribe

    special_use = \Trash

  }

  prefix =

  separator = /

  type = private

}

passdb {

  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext

  driver = sql

}

plugin {

  acl = vfile

  acl_defaults_from_inbox = yes

  acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes.db

  mail_replica = tcp:mx02.example.fr

  quota = maildir:User quota

  quota_grace = 10%%

  quota_rule = *:storage=1G

  quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M

  quota_rule3 = Junk:ignore

  quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full

  sieve = /mnt/mail/vmail/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve

  sieve_after = /etc/dovecot/sieve/spamfilter.sieve

  sieve_dir = /mnt/mail/vmail/%d/%n/sieve

  sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute

  sieve_extensions = +editheader +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.filter +vnd.dovecot.execute

  sieve_filter_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-filter

  sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe

  sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms

}

protocols = " imap lmtp sieve"

replication_dsync_parameters = -d -N -l 30 -U -x shared

replication_max_conns = 50

service aggregator {

  fifo_listener replication-notify-fifo {

    mode = 0666

    user = vmail

  }

  unix_listener replication-notify {

    mode = 0666

    user = vmail

  }

}

service auth {

  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {

    group = postfix

    mode = 0666

    user = postfix

  }

  unix_listener auth-userdb {

    group = vmail

    mode = 0666

    user = vmail

  }

}

service doveadm {

  inet_listener {

    port = 12345

  }

  user = vmail

}

service imap-login {

  inet_listener imaps {

    port = 993

    ssl = yes

  }

}

service lmtp {

  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {

    group = postfix

    mode = 0600

    user = postfix

  }

}

service replicator {

  process_min_avail = 1

  unix_listener replicator-doveadm {

    mode = 0666

  }

}

ssl = required

ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/mx01.example.fr/fullchain.pem

ssl_key =  # hidden, use -P to show it

userdb {

  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext

  driver = sql

}

verbose_ssl = yes

protocol lmtp {

  mail_plugins = " quota notify replication acl sieve"

  postmaster_address = lbrault@example.fr

}

protocol lda {

  mail_plugins = " quota notify replication acl sieve"

}

protocol imap {

  imap_metadata = yes

  mail_plugins = " quota notify replication acl imap_quota imap_acl"

}

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<dovecot-sql.conf.ext> :

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driver = mysql

connect = host=192.168.1.512 dbname=postfix user=mailman password=MySuperPassword

default_pass_scheme = SHA512-CRYPT

password_query = \

  SELECT email as username, pwd AS password, \

  concat('*:bytes=', quota_limit_bytes) AS userdb_quota_rule \

  FROM addresses WHERE email = '%u' AND active = 1

user_query = \

   SELECT 5000 AS uid, 5000 as gid, email, \

   '/mnt/mail/vmail/%d/%n' AS home, \

   concat('*:bytes=', quota_limit_bytes) AS quota_rule \

   FROM addresses WHERE email = '%u' AND active = 1

iterate_query = SELECT email AS user FROM addresses WHERE active = 1

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I would share a special thanks for Community help 😊

 

If more conf files needed (ie postfix main.cf) please ask me for them.

 

Best regards

 

Laurent