February 2016 - dovecot

Quota-status service on Director
by Michael Kliewe 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Hello, I'm trying to configure the quota-status service, but it seems I'm not successful with my director setup (2.2.9). I activate the quota-status service like this on my director server: $ cat 91-quota-status.conf ## ## Quota-Status configuration. ## # Load Module quota-status and listen on TCP/IP Port for connections. service quota-status { executable = quota-status -p postfix inet_listener { address = 10.0.1.44 port = 12340 } client_limit = 1 } # Plugin configuration. # Return messages for requests by quota status: success, nouser and overquota. plugin { quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = "552 5.2.2 Mailbox is over quota" } After restarting the director service I try to query the quota status service: printf "recipient=user(a)domain.de\nsize=100000\n\n" | nc 10.0.1.44 12340 The output is: action=DEFER_IF_PERMIT Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. In the debug log of the director I see this: Feb 23 03:03:09 director01 dovecot: auth: Debug: userdb out: USER 1 user(a)domain.de mail=mdbox:/mnt/data01/domain.de/user/maildir home=/mnt/data01/domain.de/user proxy=Y master=<hidden> pass=<hidden> uid=5000 gid=1 quota_rule=*:storage=60593 quota_rule2=*:messages=100000 Feb 23 03:03:09 director01 dovecot: quota-status(user(a)domain.de): Error: user user(a)domain.de: Initialization failed: Namespace '': mkdir(/mnt/data01/domain.de/user/maildir/mailboxes) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=1(daemon) missing +w perm: /mnt, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) So the quota status service tries to access the mailbox of the user ON THE DIRECTOR. But the director has not mounted the mailboxes of the users, that's what the backend dovecots are for (proxy=Y). So the quota-status query is not proxied to the dovecot backend server I would assume. Does that mean I have to start the quota-status service on the dovecot backend servers and access it from the Postfix server directly? Currently the Postfixes can only reach the directors, not the backend servers. Is it possible to use the quota-status service on the director? Thanks for any hints and help Michael

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[Dovecot] [PATCH, RFC] add APOP authentication mechanism
by Andrey Panin 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Hello all, this patch add APOP authentication mechanism to dovecot 1.0-test23. Please take a look. Best regards. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator pazke(a)donpac.ru | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net

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[Dovecot] Dovecot stops with "Fatal: kevent(): Invalid argument"
by Henrik Larsson 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

# 2.0.11: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 Dovecot stops with the following logged: - master: Fatal: kevent(): Invalid argument I have found that a diff was created for "src/lib/ioloop-kqueue.c" for a similar issue: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-November/054855.html I have patched my system with this and haven't seen the problem since, but I don't know if this is a coincidence. Could you please explain if the diff should actually fix anything or just add some more logging in case it stops again? Best regards Henrik Larsson

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antispam plugin pipe backend error when moving multiple emails
by Stéphane Cottin 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

Hi, I've got some trouble with the dovecot antispam plugin and the pipe backend. I'm using dovecot 2.2.18 with maildirs and zlib compression enabled. When moving 2 or more emails at once from the Junk folder to another one, I always have the following error : "Failed to copy to temporary file" In the server logs : imap(vvv(a)vvv.vvv): Error: read(zlib(/data/Maildir/.test/tmp/1446974366.M123890P936.vvv)) failed: Cached message size smaller than expected (13553 < 13562, box=test, UID=0) The same operation with one email at a time, on the same emails, works as expected. Stéphane

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imapc fetch optimization
by Nagy, Attila 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

Hi, imapc does a lot of UID FETCH $UID (BODY.PEEK[]), which is nice, because it works even with the dumbest IMAP server, altough it really kills performance, especially on high latency lines. I wonder: if IMAP servers can effectively handle boundless fetches (like a list with all wanted UIDs, or simply 1:* if all are needed), do you see this as a good addition to develop? This could be a new imapc_features setting afterall... Thanks,

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[Dovecot] Plugins: virtuals vs acls
by Leho Kraav 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

Hi all dovecot-virtual: * all when dovecot-acl files restrict some subset of * for a user, does dovecot respect these ACLs when collecting messages for virtual folder? I'd like a confirmation about what I should be seeing when I start implementing this setup.

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Error: istream-seekable: safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot.imap.) failed
by Thomas Leuxner 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

I'm seeing these recently: Feb 27 09:24:01 nihlus dovecot: imap(tlx(a)leuxner.net): Error: istream-seekable: safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot.imap.) failed: No such file or directory Feb 27 09:24:01 nihlus dovecot: imap(tlx(a)leuxner.net): Error: istream-seekable: safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot.imap.) failed: No such file or directory Feb 27 09:24:01 nihlus dovecot: imap(tlx(a)leuxner.net): Error: istream-seekable: safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot.imap.) failed: No such file or directory Feb 27 09:24:01 nihlus dovecot: imap(tlx(a)leuxner.net): Error: istream-seekable: safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot.imap.) failed: No such file or directory Feb 27 09:24:01 nihlus dovecot: imap(tlx(a)leuxner.net): Error: istream-seekable: safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot.imap.) failed: No such file or directory Feb 27 09:24:01 nihlus dovecot: imap(tlx(a)leuxner.net): Error: istream-seekable: safe_mkstemp(/tmp/dovecot.imap.) failed: No such file or directory $ doveconf -n | head # 2.2.devel (f1a9b58): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.devel (0de2a19) Regards Thomas

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[Dovecot] How to disable SSL and TLSv1.1?
by Darren Pilgrim 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

I'm running Dovecot 2.2.5 and want to make it refuse SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1.0. Clients will opportunistically use TLS 1.1 and 1.2, but now I want require they do so. Is it enough to set ssl_cipher_list = HIGH:!SSLv2:!SSLv3:!TLSv1.0:!aNULL:!MD5 or are there additional settings I need to specify?

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Re: [g.danti@assyoma.it: [Dovecot] Re: Questions about hardlinks, alternate storage and compression]
by Gionatan Danti 08 Jun '16

08 Jun '16

Il 26-11-2015 15:15 John R. Dennison ha scritto: > You are strongly encouraged to update that CentOS system. Current is > 6.7 (released some 3 months ago) and dovecot-2.0.9-19. Ouch! I copied outdated information from my old post. My current system _is_ CentOS 6.7 with dovecot dovecot-2.0.9-19.el6_7.2.x86_64 Sorry for the confusion. Still, the problems remain > If you find you need a more modern dovecot version you will find that > dovecot-2.2.19-1 is in the GhettoForge 3rd-party repo, packaged and > maintained by a respected CentOS community member. Information > on this repo can be found by following the links off of: > > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories > The point is that I _don't know_ if more recent Dovecot version have the same problem or not. Moreover, as this is a production machine, I would like to leave a key package as Dovecot as near as possible to the shipping O.S. Thanks. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti(a)assyoma.it - info(a)assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8

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Option to not add "Received" header ?
by Florent B 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Hi everyone, I use Dovecot in lmtp mode to receive mails. I would like an option to tell Dovecot to not add a "Reveived" header on each server (I use a director, so Director also adds this header). Is it possible to do this ? Or could it be a future feature ? Thank you. Florent

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