2.2.9 is rather old. Updating to a more recent version could help.
Aki
On 23.03.2017 10:48, Kein Name wrote:
Hello List,
I am running an Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Server with Dovecot 2.2.9, only local filesystems and authentication done via mysql backend. Server is a Strato Virtual Server running 2.6.32-042stab120.11 #1 SMP Fri Mar 10 16:52:50 MSK 2017 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
Sometimes I see errors in the log like this for one user:
Error: Transaction log /var/vmail/ example.net/jena/Maildir/.Archives.2017/dovecot.index.log: duplicate transaction log sequence (2)
After seeing these, some time later, (mostly 2h), Dovecot starts to deny login from all clients with messages like this:
Mar 23 01:32:27 h2312250 dovecot: auth: Error: BUG: Authentication client sent unknown handshake command: REQUEST?1804861441?19318?1?9ce500129289a0237e4e85a6c880a047?session_pid=19323... Mar 23 01:32:27 h2312250 dovecot: imap: Error: Authentication server didn't send valid SPID as expected: MECH#011PLAIN#011plaintext Mar 23 01:32:27 h2312250 dovecot: imap: Error: Disconnected from auth server, aborting (client-pid=19318 client-id=1) Mar 23 01:32:27 h2312250 dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure (pid=19318 id=1) (internal failure, 1 successful auths): user=< user@example.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=X, lip=X, mpid=19323, session=<G9f4AltL4ABRqZ4X>
I do not know if these problems have something to do with each other or not. But it happened several times now (maybe once or twice every month or so). When I restart Dovecot, the error seems gone for the moment, until it comes back in a month or some weeks.
For reference, here is the running config:
dovecot.conf
# 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-042stab120.11 i686 Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " 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 ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:bytes=10M sieve = ~/dovecot.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = root } ssl_cert =
dovecot-mysql.conf
driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=mail user=user password=XXX default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE email = '%u' user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/var/vmail/',SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',-1),'/',SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',1),'/') AS home, CONCAT('maildir:/var/vmail/',SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',-1),'/',SUBSTRING_INDEX(email,'@',1),'/Maildir/') AS mail, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, concat('*:bytes=', quota) AS quota_rule FROM users WHERE email = '%u'
Any help is appreciated. Thanks Stefan Koenig