November 2019 - dovecot

proxy dual server setup clarification
by Marc Roos 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

I want to migrate mail users to a new environment. If I setup a new server next to the old server, and enable proxy on both. Is this then enough to migrate user by user with the passdb host=newsvr option to the new environment? Eg. I do not need to configure a director setup? I only need to enable proxy for imap and lmtp on both servers? (messages on the oldsvr will be proxied to the newsvr?)

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Lmtp proxy help assertion failed: (conn->remote_port != 0
by Marc Roos 24 Nov '19

24 Nov '19

I have this in my 20-lmtp.conf file and created passdb-file, this should be enough to route a message to svr1? The port 24 is reachable from the proxy. bash-5.0# cat 20-lmtp.conf lmtp_proxy = yes protocol lmtp { # Space separated list of plugins to load (default is global mail_plugins). passdb { driver = passwd-file args = /etc/dovecot/special-passdb default_fields = proxy=y host=svr1 } } bash-5.0# cat /etc/dovecot/special-passdb test:password:1000:1000:(gecos):home:/bin/false:host=svr1

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[Sieve] Multiple email recipients, how?
by Robert 24 Nov '19

24 Nov '19

Hi, First, I am very new to using Pigeonhole/Sieve with Dovecot and I am struggling with a problem which could be easy to solve but is just a lack of understanding on my end... We use a simple system for routing emails to different email users by postfixing the addresses with the actual user: xxxJohn@domain; yyyJohn@domain etc all will be delivered to user John. (This way John can invent a new email address on-the-fly and that will be delivered to his email box.) Delivering these emails to the right mailbox is easy: if address :contains "to" "John" ... All mail not matched will go to the general (catchall) mail box. The problem occurs when the email is sent to more addresses at the same domain. Eg. if an email is sent to xxxJohn@domain, zzzAlex@domain and info@domain Either, all emails also end up in the catch-all, or the email is delivered to the first matching rule only. I do not understand how to use the different TO addresses in the match rules. How can I determine that there are recipients other than xxxJohn or zzzAlex? Any help in pointing me in the right direction is appreciated! Robert

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Virtual mailboxes: errors after renaming a folder
by André Rodier 24 Nov '19

24 Nov '19

Hello, I have a dovecot server, running fine, on Debian Stretch. Virtual folders are set up, and works correctly. For instance, I have Unread, All and Conversations, and everything works fine. However, when I rename a folder, I have error messages from Dovecot. For instance, I had a folder INBOX/Bills, which I renamed INBOX/Invoices. After that, I have these error messages: > The reported error was “Failed to select mailbox: Backend mailbox INBOX/Bills' added by another session. Reopen the virtual mailbox. (for backend mailbox Search/All) (0.000 + 0.000 secs).”. How can I avoid these errors, for instance, how can I rebuild the indexes every night or so? Kind regards, André

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Dovecot proxy with ldap, complains about 'host not given'
by Marc Roos 24 Nov '19

24 Nov '19

It looks like the dovecot proxy can authenticate correctly but fails then on with this message Nov 23 23:33:33 test2 dovecot: pop3-login: Error: proxy: host not given: user=<test>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured, session=<LDTlHguYJth/AAAB> I have configured a host= in ldap for this user

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chown(/var/dovecot/login/ipc-proxy
by Marc Roos 22 Nov '19

22 Nov '19

Can we remove/change this in the source? So we do not have to add the CAP_CHOWN with containers. chown(/var/dovecot/login/ipc-proxy) When run as root this has user dovenull, maybe this can be resolved by using a group dovenull? bash-5.0# ls -arlt total 4 srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Nov 21 22:27 pop3 srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Nov 21 22:27 login srw------- 1 dovenull root 0 Nov 21 22:27 ipc-proxy srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Nov 21 22:27 imap drwxr-xr-x 1 dovecot dovecot 4096 Nov 21 22:27 .. drwxr-x--- 1 root dovenull 60 Nov 21 22:27 . Maybe this would work srw-rw---- 1 root dovenull 0 Nov 21 22:27 ipc-proxy

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Virtual folder auto creation
by sergio 22 Nov '19

22 Nov '19

After switching on Virtual Plugin and configuring it as specified on https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/virtual_plugin/ the virtual folder is created for each user. Is it possible do not creater virtual folder automatically, only manually, for specific users? lda_mailbox_autocreate set to yes, but hope it's not related. -- sergio.

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Lost quota, maildirsize with value S0
by grupodecorreo10 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

Hi,We have installed dovecot 2.2.22. we have servers as director dovecot and servers as dovecot backend. The mailboxes are estored in maildir format, over nfs (Emc Isilon).The problem we have is that sometimes some aleatory users loss her quota and the maildirsze show ilimited cuota, with S0 value in maildirsive file.The mails are stored in the mailboxes with maildrop and postfix, but we have done some test with postfix stoped. Only Dovecot openning the mailbox and the maildirsize is corrupted.I do not known where to look. We have configured dovecot with all the recomendarions for nfs.Thank you

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virtual folder index logs
by sergio 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

A virtual folder is just really a saved search, but index log files are created. dovecot.list.index.log for the virtual folder itself and dovecot.index.log for all subfolders. Is it correct? Is it possible to disable index logs for virtual folder or it will only make dovecot worse? -- sergio.

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Dovecot can't log in Virtual user - please help
by Andrej Rehak 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Hello Im having issues login to dovecot using imap through telnet. Im running Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.189-3+deb9u1 (2019-09-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux Im totally new to setting up mailservers. I havesetup a postfix for SMTP and it can receive emails. Postfix version is mail_version = 3.1.12 I have also installed Dovecot version:2.2.27 (c0f36b0) My configuration is such that POSTFIX is configured to use DOVECOT SASL through local socket. My system is configured to store emails in /var/mail/owndomain.org/<username>. For each domain i have my own passwd file where dovecot is supposed to lookup usernames and passwords. /var/mail/owndomain.org/passwd. I have created virtualuser for accessing mails and authenticating users. My dovecot (dovecot -n output) configuration is: ------------------------------------------------------------- # 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554) # OS: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.11 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-debug.log disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log listen = 192.168.2.2 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_home = /var/mail/home/%d/%n mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%d/%n mail_privileged_group = virtualmail 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 { driver = pam } passdb { args = username_format=%n /var/mail/%d/passwd driver = passwd-file } pop3_uidl_format = %g protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = dovecot } ssl = no userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = username_format=%n /var/mail/%d/passwd default_fields = uid=virtualmail gid=virtualmail home=/var/mail/%d/%n driver = passwd-file } verbose_proctitle = yes ---------------------------------------- Now the problem: I was testing the configuration using telnet. POSTFIX receives email, stores it. No problem. When i tried to log in onto Dovecot IMAP using Telnet i get this message: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH-LOGIN] Dovecot ready. a login "username(a)owndomain.org" "test" a NO [UNAVAILABLE] Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. I have enabled verbose logging and this is the output of logs: /var/log/dovecot.log had this message: Nov 16 14:20:49 auth: Error: plain(username(a)owndomain.org,192.168.9.131,<RF4llXaXisPAqAmD>): user not found from any userdbs Nov 16 14:20:49 imap: Error: Authenticated user not found from userdb, auth lookup id=684589057 (client-pid=9601 client-id=1) /var/log/dovecot-debug.log had this message: Nov 16 14:20:18 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Nov 16 14:20:18 auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from /var/run/dovecot/auth-token-secret.dat Nov 16 14:20:18 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=9601) Nov 16 14:20:47 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap session=RF4llXaXisPAqAmD lip=192.168.2.2 rip=192.168.9.131 lport=143 rport=$ Nov 16 14:20:47 auth-worker(9603): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Nov 16 14:20:47 auth-worker(9603): Debug: pam(username(a)owndomain.org,192.168.9.131,<RF4llXaXisPAqAmD>): lookup service=dovecot Nov 16 14:20:47 auth-worker(9603): Debug: pam(username(a)owndomain.org,192.168.9.131,<RF4llXaXisPAqAmD>): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Nov 16 14:20:49 auth: Debug: passwd-file /var/mail/owndomain.org/passwd: Read 2 users in 0 secs Nov 16 14:20:49 auth: Debug: passwd-file(username(a)owndomain.org,192.168.9.131,<RF4llXaXisPAqAmD>): lookup: user=username file=/var/mail/owndomain.org/passwd Nov 16 14:20:49 auth: Debug: client passdb out: OK 1 user=username(a)owndomain.org Nov 16 14:20:49 auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST 684589057 9601 1 a61dd67ee43390596ddf86e6c08db6f9 session_pid=9604 request_auth_token Nov 16 14:20:49 auth-worker(9603): Debug: passwd(username(a)owndomain.org,192.168.9.131,<RF4llXaXisPAqAmD>): lookup Nov 16 14:20:49 auth: Debug: passwd-file(username(a)owndomain.org,192.168.9.131,<RF4llXaXisPAqAmD>): lookup: user=username file=/var/mail/owndomain.org/passwd Nov 16 14:20:49 auth: Debug: master userdb out: NOTFOUND 684589057 And i am completelly clueless what is the problem. Because it seems as if the password was found but the user is not? Password and user are looked up in the same passwd file. Have i forgotten something to setup? Any help or guidance is appreciated! I have also posted the issue on: https://serverfault.com/questions/992108/dovecot-cant-login-virtual-user Thanks A.

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