ok there might be other ways to do this but here is what i did for my django project

I had to create a listener in python

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE CAREFUL !

This script is designed to work on a closed network and is still rough around the edges but does work

needs to be run as root in the background to access the doveadm.

If you intend to access from outside then you need to secure it by static ip, username/password etc ???

The client side code sends an email to notify you when the script is accessed?

Can help if you get stuck.

# cat /sbin/scripts/dovecot.listen #!/usr/local/bin/python2

import os,sys import socket import commands import time

from lib import *

a = onlyone ('dovecot.listen') if a.status == 'BAD' : print 'Another Process Is running ....' sys.exit()

TCP_IP = '10.220.0.18' TCP_PORT = 8444 BUFFER_SIZE = 1024 # Normally 1024, but we want fast response

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.bind((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT)) s.listen(1)

while 1 : #Process received data? conn, addr = s.accept() #Wait for data print 'Connection address:', addr data = conn.recv(BUFFER_SIZE) if not data: break print "received data:", data data = data.split (' ') command = data[0] print command

     #If CM (Create Mailbox)
     if command == 'CM' :
             username = data[1]
             print 'Creating Email Account : %s' % (username)
             #Now create the mail box
             #Now go make the email account
             message = ''
             for n in range (0,100) :
                     command1 = 

commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox create -s -u %s INBOX' %str(username)) print 'Command1 : %s' %command1 if 'Mailbox already exists' in command1 : message = 'BAD' conn.send( str(message) ) break

                     else :
                             if message == '' :
                                     message = 'OK'
                                     conn.send(message)
                                     message = 'SENT'

                     if "User doesn't exist" in command1 :
                             time.sleep(2)
                             continue
                     else :
                             print 'Command1 : %s' %command1
                             message = 'SENT'
                             break

             if message == 'SENT' : #Create the rest
                     command2 = 

commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox create -s -u %s Sent' %str(username)) print 'Command2 : %s' %command2 command3 = commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox create -s -u %s Trash' %str(username)) print 'Command3 : %s' %command3 command4 = commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox create -s -u %s Drafts' %str(username)) print 'Command4 : %s' %command4

     if command == 'INFO' :
             username = data[1]
             print 'Getting Email Account Info : %s' % ( username )
             command1 = commands.getoutput("/usr/local/bin/doveadm 

mailbox status -t all -u %s '*' " %str(username)) if 'Error' in command1 : message = 'BAD' else : message = 'OK : ' + command1

             print message
             conn.send( str(message) )  # echo


     if command == 'DM' :
             data = data[1]
             data = data.split('@')
             print 'Deleting Email Account : user/%s@%s' % ( 

str(data[0]), str(data[1]) )

             message = 'BAD'

             conn.send(message)  # echo
             print message

conn.close() s.close()

#Go Back Around

and then in django / or outside ? :

 #Try to get info for this account
 if dontupdate == False :

   imap_test = Dovecot_Command ('INFO',self.username) #do i have 

this account ?

   if 'BAD' in imap_test.answer :
     try : #Try to Create the account, note that the db must be 

updated properly before it will work imap_create = Dovecot_Command ('CM',self.username) if 'OK' in imap_create.answer : send_subject = 'Email Account Created : %s' %(str(self.username) )

     except :
       send_subject = 'Error Account : %s' %(str(self.username) )
       pass

   else :
     send_subject = 'Email Account Updated : %s' %(self.username)

   #Send update email

   send_from = 'monitor@scom.ca'
   send_files = []
   send_to = ['monitor@scom.ca']
   send_text = '\n\n'+ send_subject + '\n'
   sendmail(send_from,send_to,send_subject,send_text,send_files) 

#Send the warning email

 if send_settings != ''   : #Send Email Setup to this address
   servername = 'mail.%s' %domain

   send_from = 'info@scom.ca'
   send_files = []
   send_to = ['%s' %send_settings,]

   send_subject = 'Email Setup Instructions for : %s %s' 

%(emailaddress,send_settings)

   #Assemblt the sxend text with the info

Happy Saturday !!! Thanks - paul

Paul Kudla

Scom.ca Internet Services http://www.scom.ca 004-1009 Byron Street South Whitby, Ontario - Canada L1N 4S3

Toronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email paul@scom.ca

On 3/17/2023 10:22 PM, dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org wrote:

I’m running version 2.1.7 under Raspbian Wheezy (and have been for a number of years). I want to allow one of my other computers to remotely issue doveadm commands to my server but can’t seem to find the right way to add an inet listener to permit this.

Using ‘doveconf -a’ I’ve found the default service definition for doveadm-server. So I copied that and added it to the dovecot configuration with an inet listener section added to it. But that was rejected as a duplicate service definition when I restarted dovecot. I then tried specifying a “host:port” value for the doveadm_socket_path value but that didn’t work as no listening socket at that port appeared when I restarted dovecot.

I can’t seem to find in any of the dovecot documentation a way to do this and there seems to be nothing like a “Here’s how to setup doveadm remote access” section in the documentation (which would be most helpful).

How can I get doveadm-server to listen not only locally (as it’s already doing) but also open an inet port for remote access?