Aki, This image doesn't have a director service, just the dovecot is running.

Marc, I'm running the docker container in a privileged mode and it doesn't seem to have any issues reaching out to the outside network. I will try running with default config and see what fails.

Thanks & Regards, Naveen

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 4:16 PM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com> wrote:

You could also try our docker images, see https://hub.docker.com/u/dovecot

Aki

On 30/12/2019 12:18 Naveen Reddy <naveenreddy99@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not using internal logging. I'm running the docker with the logging to the host. I have used the same options you have specified. The problem is that the below processes are not running inside docker container whereas the standalone dovecot is running these processes(meaning without container)

dovecot-Dovecot/auth dovecot-Dovecot/ssl-params dovecot-Director/lmtp dovecot-Director/ssl-params dovecot-Director/imap-login director

Thanks & Regards, Naveen

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 3:16 PM Marc Roos < M.Roos@f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote:

If you are running your container as root. You will not have the issues I encountered. Dovecot is dropping to the 'dovecot' and 'dovenull'(?) when needed, this is fine.

PS. I would not recommend using internal logging, use something like this to log to the host or remote syslog. docker run -v /dev/log:/dev/log -it dovecot-proxy

-----Original Message----- Subject: Re: Issue running Dovecot in Docker Container

Hi Marc,

I can see the processes are running as a root in container environment. Do you think that still have issues ? Here is the processes running inside container:

bash-4.2# ps -ef UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /bootstrap.sh root 7 1 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -F -c /etc/dovecot/director.conf root 8 1 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -F root 9 1 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 sleep 36000d dovecot 10 8 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-Dovecot/anvil dovecot 14 7 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-Director/anvil root 267 8 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-Dovecot/log root 269 8 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:08 dovecot-Dovecot/config root 281 7 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-Director/log root 283 7 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-Director/config

Thanks & Regards, Naveen

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 2:56 PM Marc Roos < M.Roos@f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote:

    I have noticed several issues with dovecot, trying to run it

without root. Which is preferable in any container environment. Maybe you would like me to document these somewhere? So at some point they can be applied.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Naveen Reddy [mailto: naveenreddy99@gmail.com]
    Sent: 30 December 2019 09:02
    To: Aki Tuomi
    Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org
    Subject: Re: Issue running Dovecot in Docker Container

    Hi, I can see those values correctly with the doveconf -nc

command. Here is the part of output:

    bash-4.2# doveconf -nc /etc/dovecot/director.conf # 2.2.36

(1f10bfa63): /etc/dovecot/director.conf # OS: Linux 4.1.12-112.14.11.el7uek.x86_64 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.7 (Maipo) # Hostname: 69b492645b56 auth_debug = yes auth_default_realm = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot_director

debug_log_path = $log_path director_mail_servers = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx director_servers = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 1000 hostname = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx info_log_path = $log_path instance_name = Director lmtp_proxy = yes log_path = /dovecot.log login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c home=%h

    Thanks & Regards,
    Naveen



    On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 10:08 PM Aki Tuomi

< aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com> wrote:

            Can you check with `doveconf -nc /path/to/director.conf`

that the values are actually set correctly?

            Aki

                    On 27/12/2019 15:34 Naveen Reddy

< naveenreddy99@gmail.com> wrote:

                    The conf.d files are not included. I have added

!include conf.d/*.conf to director.conf and reloaded the dovecot and director services.

                    conf.d/10-logging also has the following lines:

                    log_path = /dovecot.log
                    info_log_path = $log_path
                    debug_log_path = $log_path


                    The /dovecot.log file still shows empty.  Nothing

is being logged to that file.

                    Thanks & Regards,
                    Naveen



                    On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:52 PM Aki Tuomi <
    aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com> wrote:



                            Do you have !include or !try_include in

director.conf? The conf.d files are not included otherwise.

                            Aki

                                    On 26/12/2019 11:27 Naveen Reddy <
    naveenreddy99@gmail.com> wrote:


                                    I have tried these in the

10-logging.conf but no luck. There is nothing logged to the file.

                                    bash-4.2# ps -ef
                                    UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY

   TIME CMD
                                    root         1     0  0 Dec23 ?

00:00:00 /bin/bash /bootstrap.sh root 8 1 0 Dec23 ?

00:00:00 sleep 36000d root 15681 0 0 08:51 pts/1 00:00:00 bash root 16340 0 0 09:19 ?

00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/director.conf dovecot 16341 16340 0 09:19 ?

00:00:00 dovecot-Director/anvil root 16342 16340 0 09:19 ?

00:00:00 dovecot-Director/log root 16344 16340 0 09:19 ?

00:00:00 dovecot-Director/config root 16390 0 0 09:22 ?

00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf dovecot 16391 16390 0 09:22 ?

00:00:00 dovecot-Dovecot/anvil root 16392 16390 0 09:22 ?

00:00:00 dovecot-Dovecot/log root 16394 16390 0 09:22 ?

00:00:00 dovecot-Dovecot/config root 16406 15681 0 09:22 pts/1 00:00:00 ps -ef

                                    The below processes are not

starting as well.

                                    dovecot-Dovecot/auth
                                    dovecot-Dovecot/ssl-params
                                    dovecot-Director/lmtp
                                    dovecot-Director/ssl-params
                                    dovecot-Director/imap-login

director

                                    Thanks & Regards,
                                    Naveen



                                    On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 10:54 PM

Aki Tuomi < aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com> wrote:

                                                    On 24/12/2019

12:33 Naveen Reddy < naveenreddy99@gmail.com> wrote:

                                                    Hello,

                                                    We need help with

an issue that we are running into when we are trying to run Dovecot in Docker container.

                                                    Also how do we

enable debugging for dovecot. Logs doesn't show any info about the issue.

                                                    Below processes

are not running when a Director service is started:

dovecot-Dovecot/auth

dovecot-Dovecot/ssl-params

dovecot-Director/lmtp

dovecot-Director/ssl-params

dovecot-Director/imap-login director

                                                    Here is the

version that I'm running and including the dovecot -n output below:

                                                    bash-4.2# dovecot

--version 2.2.36

                                                    bash-4.2# dovecot

-n # 2.2.36 (xxxxx): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 4.1.12-112.14.11.el7uek.x86_64 x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.7 (Maipo) # Hostname: XXXXXXX auth_debug = yes auth_default_realm = xxxxxxxxxxxx auth_verbose = yes

disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = no hostname = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx instance_name = Dovecot

login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c home=% domain=%d mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_gid = imapd mail_home = /xxxxxxxxxxx/%d/%n mail_location = dbox:~/ mail_uid = imapd mmap_disable = yes passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/lookups/ldap-pass.conf driver = ldap } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/lookups/xxxx.conf driver = ldap } plugin { stats_refresh = 30 secs stats_track_cmds = yes } protocols = imap lmtp service auth { client_limit = 4096 unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0777 } } service imap-login { chroot = login client_limit = 0

drop_priv_before_exec = no executable = imap-login extra_groups = group = idle_kill = 0 inet_listener imap { address = port = 1144 ssl = no } inet_listener imaps { address = port = 994 ssl = yes } privileged_group

                                                      process_limit =

0

process_min_avail = 0 protocol = imap service_count = 50 type = login user = $default_login_user vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B } service imap { service_count = 50 } service lmtp { executable = lmtp -L inet_listener lmtp { address = port = 10025 } } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0600 user = imapd } } ssl_cert = </xxxxxxx/cert/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list = XXXXXX ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_protocols = XXXXX userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/lookups/ldap-user.conf driver = ldap } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/lookups/xxxxxxx.conf driver = ldap }

                                                    Thanks & Regards,
                                                    Naveen



                                            Try setting

                                            log_path=/dovecot.log
                                            info_log_path=$log_path
                                            debug_log_path=$log_path
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