Correcting Mail Home, Maildir and Sieve folder locations
I have Dovecot 2.3.7.2 on Ubuntu 20.04.
I just migrated the server from CentOS 8, and only migrated to the CentOS 8 machine a few months ago off of CentOS 7.
I am pasting doveconf -n at the bottom of this email.
Everything is working. However, I'm trying to clean up warnings in the logs, and just discovered that I'm not managing home directories properly. (c/f https://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home)
This is in the logs:
Jun 28 06:09:50 mail.example.com dovecot: imap(email@example.com)<3786><fICEJCKpbfatQHg1>: Error: stat(/var/vmail/example.com/email@example.com/.dovecot.sieve/tmp) failed: Not a directory
Can I please get a sanity check? To resolve, I've come up with a bash loop to create a home folder, and fix the existing structure for each mailbox on the system. I ran this for 1 of the domains on the system.
for i in */ ; do mv "$i" mail; mkdir "$i"; mv mail "$i"; mv "$i"/.dovecot* "$i"; done
Then, I would simply edit /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf so that it looks like this:
mail_home = /var/vmail/%d/%u mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u/mail
To confirm, should all of the 'hidden' dovecot files be moved to the user's new home folder like I'm trying to do in the above script? Or are there other files that I will need to move?
After running that loop above on a test server (don't worry, I would never do this in production without testing), one of the mailbox's home folder on the server looks like this:
total 56 drwxr-xr-x 4 vmail vmail 4096 Jun 28 06:19 . drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4096 Jun 28 06:09 .. -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 54 Jul 4 2019 .dovecot.lda-dupes lrwxrwxrwx 1 vmail vmail 21 May 26 2016 .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/roundcube.sieve -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct 17 2016 .dovecot.sieve.log -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 218 Jul 6 2019 .dovecot.svbin drwx------ 277 vmail vmail 32768 Jun 28 06:19 mail drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 Feb 2 17:31 sieve
... and connecting to that mailbox over Thunderbird seems to be working fine. But I want to make sure I'm not missing anything.
Here is my doveconf -n, with identifying information snipped out:
root@mail:# doveconf -n # 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.7.2 () # OS: Linux 5.4.0-39-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ext4 # Hostname: {snip} auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u 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 namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = create special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } ssl = required ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/snip.ca-bundle ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/snip.crt ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv3:!EXP:!aNULL:!MD5 ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%d/%u driver = static }
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I sent the following email a couple of months ago, but didn't get any response, so I thought I'd try again. Would anyone be able to confirm for me which files and folders I need to move in order to resolve this situation with the home vs. maildir issue?
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Sunday, June 28, 2020 6:43 AM, David White <dmwhite823@protonmail.com> wrote:
I have Dovecot 2.3.7.2 on Ubuntu 20.04. I just migrated the server from CentOS 8, and only migrated to the CentOS 8 machine a few months ago off of CentOS 7. I am pasting
doveconf -nat the bottom of this email.
Everything is working. However, I'm trying to clean up warnings in the logs, and just discovered that I'm not managing home directories properly. (c/f https://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home)
This is in the logs:
Jun 28 06:09:50 mail.example.com dovecot: imap(email@example.com)<3786><fICEJCKpbfatQHg1>: Error: stat(/var/vmail/example.com/email@example.com/.dovecot.sieve/tmp) failed: Not a directory
Can I please get a sanity check? To resolve, I've come up with a bash loop to create a home folder, and fix the existing structure for each mailbox on the system. I ran this for 1 of the domains on the system.
for i in */ ; do mv "$i" mail; mkdir "$i"; mv mail "$i"; mv "$i"/.dovecot* "$i"; done
Then, I would simply edit /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf so that it looks like this:
mail_home = /var/vmail/%d/%u mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u/mail
To confirm, should all of the 'hidden' dovecot files be moved to the user's new home folder like I'm trying to do in the above script? Or are there other files that I will need to move?
After running that loop above on a test server (don't worry, I would never do this in production without testing), one of the mailbox's home folder on the server looks like this:
total 56 drwxr-xr-x 4 vmail vmail 4096 Jun 28 06:19 . drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4096 Jun 28 06:09 .. -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 54 Jul 4 2019 .dovecot.lda-dupes lrwxrwxrwx 1 vmail vmail 21 May 26 2016 .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/roundcube.sieve -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 0 Oct 17 2016 .dovecot.sieve.log -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 218 Jul 6 2019 .dovecot.svbin drwx------ 277 vmail vmail 32768 Jun 28 06:19 mail drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 Feb 2 17:31 sieve
... and connecting to that mailbox over Thunderbird seems to be working fine. But I want to make sure I'm not missing anything.
Here is my doveconf -n, with identifying information snipped out:
root@mail:# doveconf -n # 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.7.2 () # OS: Linux 5.4.0-39-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ext4 # Hostname: {snip} auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u 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 namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = create special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } ssl = required ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/snip.ca-bundle ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/snip.crt ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv3:!EXP:!aNULL:!MD5 ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%d/%u driver = static }
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