February 2018 - dovecot

Dual Dovecot setup
by dovecot.dirk＠o.banes.ch 03 Feb '18

03 Feb '18

Hi all, I´m using dovecot successfully since some years. My current setup is postfix and dovecot on one vserver. This works great so far. +--------------------+ eMail in | VSERVER1 | +---------->+ MX 1 (Master) | | POSTFIX MTA | | DOVECOT ALL Folders| +-----^--------------+ | |eMail Backup | | +------+---------+ | VSERVER2 | eMail in | MX 2 (Backup) | Backup | POSTFIX MTA | +---------> | +----------------+ However now I want to change this setup to have on box in my home which holds all eMails and Folders which are not in the Inbox. This is due to disk space and privacy concerns. Even if the home connection is very very stable for the case something fails while on vacation the content of the inbox of every user should always stay on the VSERVER1 as well - until it is moved to one subfolder. +---------------+ +-------------+ eMail in | VSERVER1 | | HOMEBOX | +---------->+ MX 1 (Master) | ?SYNC? | DOVECOT | | POSTFIX MTA +--------------> ALL FOLDERS | | DOVECOT INBOX | | | +-----^---------+ +-------------+ | |eMail Backup | | +------+---------+ | VSERVER2 | eMail in | MX 2 (Backup) | Backup | POSTFIX MTA | +---------> | +----------------+ I read into documentation and also did a fair share of googeling but I could only identify possible solutions which I´m not sure they will work. a) dsync - Can dsync only sync the Inbox ? b) fetchmail - Unsure how an eMail moved from Inbox (Homebox) to another folder would get removed from the inbox of the vserver1 Therefore I hope maybe someone of you has an idea how this can be archived. Thank you best regards Dirk

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dovecot-lda won't cause mail to be filtered by sieve
by Volker Wysk 03 Feb '18

03 Feb '18

Hi I'm changing from fetchmail to getmail, in order to fetch my mail from several mail servers and deliver it to my local dovecot server. Fetchmail supports LMTP, getmail doesn't. So I'm making getmail call dovecot-lda for delivering the mail. But now, the incoming mail doesn't get filtered through sieve any longer. However, this command works: sieve-filter -v -u v ~v/.dovecot.sieve INBOX -e -W expunge Any ideas? Greetings V.W.

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AuthDatabase CheckPassword broken?
by Mark Foley 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

I had been using the CheckPassword authentication interface with dovecot 2.2.15, https://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword, and it was working. After upgrading to 2.2.33.2 CheckPassword no longer works. The referenced wiki page says, Checkpassword Interface Read <username> NUL <password> NUL from fd 3. I've checked the information read from fd 3 with 2.2.33.2 and I get <username> followed by 3 nulls. I'm guessing the 2nd null is supposed to be the password. Why is this no longer working? How can I fix it? THX --Mark

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Dovecot 2.3 on CentOS 7.
by Reio Remma 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

Greetings! I'm having a bit of trouble trying out Dovecot 2.3 on CentOS 7. Dovecot 2.2.33 works fine on the same system (same config as well, minus the SSL changes) but after upgrading to 2.3 I'm getting the following errors: Feb 1 21:30:18 localhost dovecot: imap(reio(a)bwo.mrstuudio.ee)<3566><FoOsnStkXt4KAAgC>: Debug: INBOX.Templates: Mailbox opened because: STATUS Feb 1 21:30:18 localhost dovecot: Error: imap(reio(a)bwo.mrstuudio.ee)<3566><FoOsnStkXt4KAAgC>: open() failed with file /home/dovecot/bwo.mrstuudio.ee/reio/Maildir/.Templates/dovecot.index.log: Read-only file system Feb 1 21:30:18 localhost dovecot: imap(reio(a)bwo.mrstuudio.ee)<3566><FoOsnStkXt4KAAgC>: Error: open(/home/dovecot/bwo.mrstuudio.ee/reio/Maildir/.Templates/dovecot-uidlist.lock) failed: Read-only file system Feb 1 21:30:18 localhost dovecot: Error: imap(reio(a)bwo.mrstuudio.ee)<3566><FoOsnStkXt4KAAgC>: Mailbox INBOX.Templates: file_dotlock_create(/home/dovecot/bwo.mrstuudio.ee/reio/Maildir/.Templates/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Read-only file system Feb 1 21:30:18 localhost dovecot: Error: imap(reio(a)bwo.mrstuudio.ee)<3566><FoOsnStkXt4KAAgC>: Mailbox INBOX.Templates: open(/home/dovecot/bwo.mrstuudio.ee/reio/Maildir/.Templates/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Read-only file system So far I've tried running it with SELinux enforce off and giving the directories 777 permissions to no avail. Is anyone else running 2.3 on CentOS 7? Thanks and good luck! Reio

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Live Import of IMAP
by Sergio Belkin 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Hi, I have the mailbox of jon.doe(a)example.com just migrated only with mails after migration, is it ok to run: doveadm -o mail_fsync=never sync -1 -R -u joe(a)example.com imapc: wiil that import all mails missing mails to the new server? I don't want that delete any current mail, is that right the command above? thanks in advance! -- -- Sergio Belkin LPIC-2 Certified - http://www.lpi.org

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lda: Warning: Failed to parse return-path header: Invalid character in localpart
by Christian Authmann 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Hello, Sometimes, when delivering mails, this warning appears in my syslog: > lda(...): Warning: Failed to parse return-path header: Invalid character in localpart dovecot-lda still exits with 0 and the mail is inserted into my inbox. Looking at the mails in question, I determined that the error is caused by a multiline Return-Path header. Here's a testcase: --- snip --- Return-Path: <nowhere(a)example.com> From: "Nowhere" <nowhere(a)example.com> To: redacted(a)example.com Subject: Testcase for lda warnings Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:00:00 +0000 This is a message body. --- snap --- Copy into a file, with \r\n line endings, then run something like this: > cat testcase.txt | /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -e -d '<username>' with a username recognized by your running dovecot installation. The header is 'Return-Path:', \r\n, two spaces, '<...>', \r\n According to rfc2822 folding rules, that should be valid - the Return-Path header allows CFWS at that location. The error message originates in lib-lda/mail-deliver.c in mail_deliver_get_return_address(), while the invalid character message seems to originate from one of several places in lib-lda/mail-deliver.c Ciao, Christian Authmann

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Error in virtual mailbox dovecot 2.3-devel maybe in mailcount
by Jakobus Schürz 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Hi there! I splitted my Mailarchiv to an extra namespace. Because i have some Problems with the Archiv. I can open all Folders from Mailarchiv with dovecot. But i want to have a "all archives" Mailbox to search in all messages in only one virtual mailbox. Trying to open this virtual folder from thunderbird, I get in a big archiv this error in logs from dovecot: Jän 12 10:54:41 aldebaran dovecot[839]: imap(jakob)<11302><9ILYQJFipPlcPAkS>: Error: virtual index /var/mail/virtual/ARCHIV: Broken mailbox_count header Jän 12 10:54:41 aldebaran dovecot[839]: imap(jakob)<11302><9ILYQJFipPlcPAkS>: Error: virtual index /var/mail/virtual/ARCHIV: Broken mailbox_count header Jän 12 10:54:41 aldebaran dovecot[839]: imap(jakob)<11302><9ILYQJFipPlcPAkS>: Panic: Leaked view for index /var/lib/dovecot/db/indexes/archiv/jakob/Archiv/2016/Mailinglisten/stvkr-a/dovecot.index: Opened in index-storage.c:336 Jän 12 10:54:41 aldebaran dovecot[839]: imap(jakob)<11302><9ILYQJFipPlcPAkS>: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xc6021) [0x7f391bf02021] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xc60ed) [0x7f391bf020ed] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f391be74481] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xf3942) [0x7f391c2a1942] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_close+0x72) [0x7f391c278ec2] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_close+0x1a) [0x7f391c1f8c0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(+0xa7e0) [0x7f39174637e0] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(virtual_backend_box_open+0x2b) [0x7f391746397b] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(virtual_storage_sync_init+0x1026) [0x7f3917466926] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync_init+0x4d) [0x7f391c1fb05d] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync+0x37) [0x7f391c1fb117] -> dovecot/imap [jakob 92.60.9.18 select](cmd_select_full+0x171) [0x55759e0911a1] -> dovecot/imap [jakob 92.60.9.18 select](command_exec+0x64) [0x55759e098ca4] -> dovecot/imap [jakob 92.60.9.18 select](+0x1b0b2) [0x55759e0970b2] -> dovecot/imap [jakob 92.60.9.18 select](+0x1b13c) [0x55759e09713c] -> dovecot/imap [jakob 92.60.9.18 select](client_handle_input+0x1a5) [0x55759e097565] -> dovecot/imap [jakob 92.60.9.18 select](client_input+0x82) [0x55759e097be2] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x69) [0x7f391bf19c09] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x109) [0x7f391bf1b4a9] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x52) [0x7f391bf19d12] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7f391bf19f28] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f391be971e3] -> dovecot/imap [jakob 92.60.9.18 select](main+0x328) [0x55759e089768] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf1) [0x7f391babd2b1] -> dovecot/imap [jakob 92.60.9.18 select](_start+0x2a) [0x55759e08994a] Jän 12 10:54:41 aldebaran dovecot[839]: imap(jakob)<11302><9ILYQJFipPlcPAkS>: Fatal: master: service(imap): child 11302 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped) and if i search the virtual mailbox with doveadm i get almost the same error. The "Broken mailbox_count_header" is missing there. The full amount of emails in archiv is about 28000 # ulimit -n 256000 # doveadm search -u jakob mailbox Real/Archiv all doveadm(jakob): Panic: Leaked view for index /var/lib/dovecot/db/indexes/archiv/jakob/Archiv/2016/Diverses/Standard-foren/dovecot.index: Opened in index-storage.c:336 doveadm(jakob): Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xc6021) [0x7f8259fe6021] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xc6079) [0x7f8259fe6079] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f8259f58481] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xf3942) [0x7f825a385942] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_storage_mailbox_close+0x72) [0x7f825a35cec2] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_close+0x1a) [0x7f825a2dcc0a] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(+0xa7e0) [0x7f82559507e0] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(virtual_backend_box_open+0x2b) [0x7f825595097b] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lib20_virtual_plugin.so(virtual_storage_sync_init+0x1026) [0x7f8255953926] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync_init+0x4d) [0x7f825a2df05d] -> /usr/local/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_sync+0x37) [0x7f825a2df117] -> doveadm(doveadm_mail_iter_init+0x94) [0x56303334be94] -> doveadm(+0x33715) [0x56303334f715] -> doveadm(+0x29a88) [0x563033345a88] -> doveadm(+0x2a702) [0x563033346702] -> doveadm(doveadm_cmd_ver2_to_mail_cmd_wrapper+0x230) [0x563033347570] -> doveadm(doveadm_cmd_run_ver2+0x575) [0x563033357155] -> doveadm(doveadm_cmd_try_run_ver2+0x37) [0x5630333571a7] -> doveadm(main+0x1d2) [0x5630333360c2] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf1) [0x7f8259ba12b1] -> doveadm(_start+0x2a) [0x5630333364ca] Abgebrochen Thanks Jakob

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Why does dovecot reject password when authorizing by a certificate?
by yuryb 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

We have FreeBSD-server with dovecot installed on it as IMAP-server. My user and password database is a text file with plaintext passwords. Clients connect to imap-server via TLS protocol and plaintext password. All works fine. But I want to configure ability to authorize with a client certificates. I have generated a client certificate and imported it to email-client. Also I have configured dovecot to verify client certificates. But email-client cannot authorize: Password mismatch. Why dovecot reject my password in this case? Please help! My log:dovecot: imap-login: Valid certificate: /C=UA/ST=Kyiv/L=Kyiv/O=Contoso Ltd: user=<>, rip=10.1.1.59, lip=10.1.1.99, TLS handshaking, session=<fp5P5SBkhtMKAQE7> dovecot: imap-login: Valid certificate: /C=UA/ST=Kyiv/O=Contoso Ltd/OU=IT/CN=sysadmin/emailAddress=sysadmin(a)contoso.ua: user=<>, rip=10.1.1.59, lip=10.1.1.99, TLS handshaking, session=<fp5P5SBkhtMKAQE7> dovecot: auth: passwd-file(sysadmin,10.1.1.59,<fp5P5SBkhtMKAQE7>): Password mismatch dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 6 secs): user=<sysadmin>, method=EXTERNAL, rip=10.1.1.59, lip=10.1.1.99, TLS, session=<fp5P5SBkhtMKAQE7> My configuration: # 2.2.24 (a82c823): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p20 amd64 ufs auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login external auth_ssl_require_client_cert = yes auth_ssl_username_from_cert = yes auth_username_format = %Ln auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 999 mail_location = maildir:/mnt/mail/%n mail_uid = 999 namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { ssl = yes } } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/cacert.pem ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_dh_parameters_length = 2048 ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3 !TLSv1 ssl_require_crl = no ssl_verify_client_cert = yes userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } verbose_ssl = yes

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