July 2019 - dovecot - dovecot.org

Sieve question
by ＠lbutlr 04 Jul '19

04 Jul '19

I have the following in my active sieve file, and there are no errors logged. if header :contains "to" "+root" { setflag "\\Seen"; fileinto :create "root"; stop; } The message is put in .root, bit is not marked as seen. Is the default action to put mail in a folder matching the extension taking precedence?

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mail_replica equivalent to replicator_host/replicator_port
by Laura Smith 04 Jul '19

04 Jul '19

Silly question but regarding https://wiki.dovecot.org/Replication, is the mail_replica parameter shown in the docs equivalent to replicator_host and replicator_port in 2.3.3 ? 2.3.3 doesn't seem to like the mail_replica param (and indeed doveconf -a doesn't show it as an option) Thanks !

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Dovecot LMTP mixing up users on multi-recipient mail
by Bernhard Schmidt 03 Jul '19

03 Jul '19

Hi, I've upgraded a mailstore from Debian Jessie (aka oldstable) with Dovecot 2.2.13 to Debian Buster (next stable) with Dovecot 2.3.4.1 today. It worked pretty well, except that we're seeing error messages very similar to this old thread https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2015-July/101396.html It appears to be happening when a mail with multiple recipients on this message store is getting delivered through lmtp. Jun 27 11:47:36 lxmhs74 dovecot: lmtp(user1)<47683><sGwaD7eQFF1DugAAgkzuhA:18>: Error: open(/var/cache/dovecot/index/n/user2n/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache) failed: Permission denied (euid=3814520(<unknown>) egid=12(man) missing +x perm: /var/cache/dovecot/index/n/user2, dir owned by 3391995:12 mode=0700) user1 uid is 3814520, user2n uid is 3391995. Dovecot appears to be trying to deliver the message to user1 while using the index directory of user2n. Further configuration: - message store is on NFS - cache directory is on local disk - users are coming from LDAP, one UID per user user_attrs = cn=user,homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid - index directory is calculated from the username maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/index/%-1.1n/%n Despite the error messages (which appear dozens of times per delivery attempt) delivery seems to work. Workaround was to set lmtp_destination_recipient_limit = 1 on the postfix in front of the message store. Despite the report linked above being quite old, I can't recall having issues with 2.2.13. === doveconf -n === # OS: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.0 # Hostname: lxmhs74.srv.lrz.de default_vsz_limit = 512 M deliver_log_format = from=<%e>, size=%p, message-id=<%m>, status=%$ imap_id_log = * imap_id_send = * lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes login_greeting = Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c session=<%{session}> cipher=<%k> mail_gid = mstore mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/index/%-1.1n/%n mail_plugins = quota listescape mail_uid = mstore 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 mmap_disable = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { quota = maildir quota_rule = *:storage=1024M quota_rule2 = INBOX.Trash:ignore quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 452 4.2.2 Mailbox is full quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u sieve = ~/currently-active-script.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } pop3_uidl_format = %v-%u protocols = imap lmtp sieve pop3 quota_full_tempfail = yes service anvil { client_limit = 3000 unix_listener anvil { group = sudo mode = 0660 } } service auth { client_limit = 3000 unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mstore mode = 0660 user = mstore } } service imap-login { client_limit = 1024 inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_limit = 2500 process_min_avail = 4 service_count = 0 } service imap { process_limit = 8192 } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } service_count = 1 } service managesieve { process_limit = 1024 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service quota-status { client_limit = 20 executable = quota-status -p postfix inet_listener { port = 12340 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /etc/dovecot/quotawarnmsg.sh unix_listener quota-warning { group = mstore mode = 0660 user = mstore } user = mstore } service stats { process_limit = 8192 } ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota listescape imap_quota imap_zlib } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota listescape sieve } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota listescape sieve } remote 127.0.0.1 { disable_plaintext_auth = no } remote ::1 { disable_plaintext_auth = no } === Thanks, Bernhard

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Replicate shared folders to warm standby host
by Axel Gluth 03 Jul '19

03 Jul '19

We like to set up our mail system in two datacenters but the wiki<https://wiki.dovecot.org/Replication> says "Shared folder replication doesn't work correctly..." I'm thinking about using an external loadbalancer to ensure that only one host will get connections. Normal operations: client ==imap=> loadbalancer ==imap=> host1 ==replication=> host2 Host1 or Datacenter1 is down: client ==imap=> loadbalancer ==imap=> host2 I see possible problems if host1 comes back and clients connect to host1 before the replication has caught up. But in our case that will be acceptable. Do you consider my idea as safe for production use? Has anybody real world experience with such a setup? Is there a better way to replicate shared folders? Thank you in advance for spending your time on thinking about my problem. Axel

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Dovecot/MSQL issue
by Nathan 03 Jul '19

03 Jul '19

Hello, I'm trying to work through an issue that cropped up on a server I've been working on and haven't found a very good workaround. Dovecot is operating in a jailed environment. The configuration in dovecot-sql.conf.ext has been set appropriately with the host=127.0.0.1 (which works from a jailed environment) and when dovecot attempts to auth it appears to perform a reverse dns lookup and overwrites the host with the result localhost before using the msql credentials 'user'@'localhost' which then fails after timing out. I'm currently running version 2.2.33.2 of dovecot. The workaround seems to be to have two credentials for the same user. 'user@'localhost' and 'user'@'127.0.0.1'; postfix operates in a jail as well and works around the jail issue in the same way but doesn't overwrite the specified host with a reverse dns lookup. Anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this issue better? or maybe there's a way to force different behavior which I haven't yet found in the documentation? Any help is much appreciated. Best Regards.

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dovecot.index.log: duplicate transaction log sequence (3)
by mabi 03 Jul '19

03 Jul '19

Hello, I am running Dovecot 2.3.5.1 on OpenBSD 6.5 with RainLoop as IMAP webmail client and just noticed the following error messages about duplicate transaction log sequences in the index log: Jul 01 13:15:58 Error: imap(<REMOVED_EMAIL1>)<21324><TVSmwJyMd0C5D+Vb>: Transaction log /var/vmail/<REMOVED_DOMAIN>/<REMOVED_EMAIL1>/dovecot.index.log: duplicate transaction log sequence (3) Jul 02 16:33:35 Error: imap(<REMOVED_EMAIL2>)<6812><gn4yobOMJlW5D+Vb>: Transaction log /var/vmail/<REMOVED_DOMAIN>/<REMOVED_EMAIL2>/dovecot.list.index.log: duplicate transaction log sequence (2) Jul 02 16:33:35 Panic: imap(<REMOVED_EMAIL2>)<6812><gn4yobOMJlW5D+Vb>: file mail-index-write.c: line 137 (mail_index_write): assertion failed: (file->hdr.prev_file_seq == hdr->log_file_seq) Jul 02 16:33:35 Fatal: imap(<REMOVED_EMAIL2>)<6812><gn4yobOMJlW5D+Vb>: master: service(imap): child 6812 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps - set service imap { drop_priv_before_exec=yes }) Could this problem occur because I am using a Linux NFS server to store all the mails mounted under /var/mail ? Any hints what I can do to avoid these error messages? Thank you in advance. Best regards, Mabi

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Variable expansion with variables containing '%' (ldap with 2.3.6)
by Matthias Lay 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

Hi, there seems to be a problem when expanding variables containing a single '%' in value in dovecot V2.3.6 having a user defined Variable in user_attrs like user_attrs = name=home=/maildir/%Ln, =myvar=path/%L{ldap:sAMAccountName} and sAMAccountName conains a '%', in my example "sonder%zeichen" leads to: lda(sonder%zeichen)<5723><ov9uCHjOGV1bFgAACDoIoQ>: Fatal: Failed to expand plugin setting myvar = 'path/sonder%zeichen': Unknown variable '%z' same setup works with dovecot 2.2.29 Any Feedback appreciated. Thanks. Matze

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Variable expansion with variables containing '%' (ldap with 2.3.6)
by Matthias Lay 01 Jul '19

01 Jul '19

Hi, there seems to be a problem when expanding variables containing a single '%' in value in dovecot V2.3.6 having a user defined Variable in user_attrs like user_attrs = name=home=/maildir/%Ln, =myvar=path/%L{ldap:sAMAccountName} and sAMAccountName conains a '%', in my example "sonder%zeichen" leads to: lda(sonder%zeichen)<5723><ov9uCHjOGV1bFgAACDoIoQ>: Fatal: Failed to expand plugin setting myvar = 'path/sonder%zeichen': Unknown variable '%z' same setup works with dovecot 2.2.29 Any Feedback appreciated. Thanks. Matze

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