January 2020 - dovecot

2FA for Dovecot
by Kees de Jong 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Hi, My goal is to protect my mail account with 2FA, which isn't a crazy idea in 2020. Therefore, I would like to know the possibilities of configuring 2FA for Dovecot. In the documentation there are some hints of e.g. OTP in Dovecot [1] and using FreeIPA with Dovecot [2], where FreeIPA has the ability to enable OTP per user [3]. But I can't really find much practical information about such a setup. The documentation of Dovecot is quite silent about the OTP authentication mechanism and the same goes for the FreeIPA and Dovecot combination with OTP. So my question is; is this even a supported setup? And if so, where is the documentation? And if not, what's the recommended method to secure your mail setup? I can imagine alternative solutions like putting the submission and IMAP port behind a VPN and have all the clients use that VPN. And for the public internet, simply use a web interface (e.g. Nextcloud with Rainloop) which supports 2FA. But I prefer having OTP for e.g. Android and Linux clients. [1] https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/authentication_… [2] https://www.freeipa.org/page/Dovecot_Integration [3] https://www.freeipa.org/page/Using_FreeIPA_and_FreeRadius_as_a_RADIUS_based… -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kees de Jong De informatie opgenomen in deze e-mail kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n). Indien u deze e-mail onterecht ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct te informeren door de e-mail te retourneren. Aan deze e-mail inclusief de bijlagen kunnen geen rechten ontleend worden, tenzij schriftelijk anders wordt overeengekomen. -- The information contained in this e-mail may be confidential and is intended to be exclusively for the addressee(s). Should you receive this e-mail unintentionally, please do not use the contents herein and notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. This e-mail including the attachments are not legally binding, unless otherwise agreed upon in writing. -- OpenPGP fingerprint: 0x0E45C98AB51428E6

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Thunderbird Subscription missing
by Phillip Bruce 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hello, I have an usual isshere we are using thunderbird for client. The version of dovecot is as followed: # dovecot --version 2.2.22 (fe789d2) The dovecot service is runnon on VERSION="16.04.6 LTS (Xenial Xerus)" Thunderbird version 68.3.1 (32 bit) version. What happening when managing subscription there seems to be folders that are missing. They were not purged nor did anything happen like an outage. If you look at this below Sep19 (for September 2019), It list only the following folders: 16Sep19, 25Sep19 26Sep19 [cid:image002.png@01D5C532.1485D710] To me this looks like some indexing gone south. I've tried this # doveadm mailbox status -u arhive doveadm mailbox status [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] <fields> <mailbox> [...] # doveadm mailbox status -u archive Maildir # doveadm mailbox status [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] <fields> <mailbox> [...] r# doveadm mailbox status -u archive INBOX @doveadm mailbox status [-u <user>|-A] [-S <socket_path>] <fields> <mailbox> [...] The user is archive The user home folder is this: # pwd /home/mail/archive/Maildir This what in it. # ls cur dovecot.index.log dovecot.mailbox.log.2 dovecot-uidvalidity.50ca19bb tmp dovecot.index dovecot.index.log.2 dovecot-uidlist dovecot-uidvalidity.50ca19bc dovecot.index.cache dovecot-keywords dovecot-uidvalidity dovecot-uidvalidity.50ca1b2d dovecot.index.cache.gz dovecot-keywords.gz dovecot-uidvalidity.50ca1990 new dovecot.index.cache.gz.2 dovecot.mailbox.log dovecot-uidvalidity.50ca19ab subscriptions # doveadm log errors # I don't see in errors. I tried to reload dovecot. # doveadm instance list path name last used running /var/run/dovecot dovecot 2020-01-06 22:41:46 yes root@dc3-ops-prod-vserv-archive01:~# There nothing in the logs that I can see. # doveadm user -u archive userdb: archive user : archive system_groups_user: archive uid : 1011 gid : 1011 home : /home/archive root@dc3-ops-prod-vserv-archive01:~# Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks, Phillip Bruce Sr. System Engineer 415-590-8491 office "The answer to your Traveling Solution" [Deem Demo] This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that may be confidential or privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, or you have reason to believe that you received this message in error, you must not read, copy, use or disclose this communication. Please also notify the sender by replying to this message, and then delete all copies of it from your system. Thank you.

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Solved an solution: Pop 3 SSL login dos not work any longer
by Jutta Wrage 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Hi! Logging in with the same use I tested already before, I now get this message in the debug log written by dovecot: pop3-login: Warning: Auth process not responding, delayed sending initial response (greeting): user=<> The SSL negotiation did complete. But then there went something wrong with the user authentification. As ist did work already before, I guess, it is not the clients fault. System where dovecot (pop3 and imap) is installed: latest Ubuntu. My changes after successful repeated pop3 connection with by the testing user: 1. Turning debug logging on 2. minor changes I did search a lot for a solution to this problem but still have no clue how to solve it. Hmm... guess my "minor changes" caused the problem: Found this in debug log now for the start of SSL: "pop3-login: Error: auth: connect(director) failed: No such file or directory" Need to read more about these directors, I think. Maybe they are not needed at the system at all. Jutta

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Thunderbird Issue - Dovecot
by Phillip Bruce 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

I have not ever heard of or use dovecot before. Our users uses thunderbird client which happens to be the lastest version. Below is what we get as you can see we are missing folders from September 2019. Dovecot seem to be running but I am not sure why it be missing these folders. The server Dovecot is running on is Unbuntu 16.04 version. # dovecot --version 2.2.22 (fe789d2) The above is the version of dovecot we are running. I would appreciate anyone Helping to trouble shoot this issue. I don't think this is a thunderbird issue. [cid:image001.png@01D5C4B4.9AD315E0] Thunderbird version is this below: [cid:image002.jpg@01D5C4B4.9AD315E0] It looks like we are not indexing. We are not using a SQL database either for this. Any ideas where I can start. Also far I know there been no outages during that time. I appreciate any thoughts or help. Phillip Bruce Sr. System Engineer 415-590-8491 office "The answer to your Traveling Solutino" [Deem Demo] This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that may be confidential or privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, or you have reason to believe that you received this message in error, you must not read, copy, use or disclose this communication. Please also notify the sender by replying to this message, and then delete all copies of it from your system. Thank you.

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Re: 2FA for Dovecot
by Kees de Jong 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

I did mention OTP for 2FA, and OTP can be indeed Google Authenticator, the reason I'm not that specific is because the documentation isn't :) PAM can indeed be used for this, I've read some list conversations about this [1], [2]. However, as I mentioned in my first post, I'm interested to know about the internal Dovecot authentication methods. Since using PAM requires local users and I prefer using the virtual users inside Dovecot. There are several OTP authentication mechanisms in the source code [3], [4], [5]. However, these lack documentation [6]. Therefore, I would like to explore these builtin authentication methods first. Is there someone in the Dovecot community that can provide some more information about this, or the status of these authentication modules? [1] https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2013-March/088844.html [2] https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2007-February/019340.html [3] https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/master/src/auth/mech-otp.c [4] https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/master/src/auth/mech-otp-skey-common.c [5] https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/master/src/auth/password-scheme-otp.c [6] https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/authentication_… On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 05:54 +0200, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > You don't say what sort of 2FA you're considering, but wouldn't you > just tell Dovecot to use PAM, and then extend PAM to use a 2FA > module. For example there's a Google Auth one available in the second > link below. > > https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/pam/ > https://github.com/google/google-authenticator-libpam > > P. > (Not a dovecot expert, although I know a fair amount about Linux)

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doveadm auth cache flush does not work through director
by Joe Wong 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Hello, I am using Dovecot 2.3.7.2, configure with Director and Dovecot backend. Everything is running fine through director. However, I found the auth cache flush command can only work on dovecot backend server but not in Director. Any idea? - Joe

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Logging what sieve does
by ＠lbutlr 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

Is there anyway to log exactly what sieve does with a message? (Like, what rules triggered, flags applied, headers rewritten, if the message was placed anywhere else before final delivery, etc). -- In Genua, stories came to life. In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?

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LDA-DUPES insists mon being created in the wrong home directory
by Hans Rasmussen 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

Hi Vacation sieve is not respecting the days: arguement .dovecot.lda-dupes wants to be created in /home/user which doesn't exist. Below is a log fragment.. Jan 5 17:56:24 mailserv dovecot: lmtp(hans): Error: file_dotlock_open(/home/hans/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory dovecot -n says... # 2.2.33.2 (d6601f4ec): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.21 (92477967) # OS: Linux 4.15.0-72-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS ext4 auth_mechanisms = plain login first_valid_gid = 999 first_valid_uid = 999 mail_gid = 999 mail_home = /var/lib/vmail/%u mail_location = maildir:/var/lib/vmail/%u/Maildir mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = 999 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 Shouldn't .dovecot.lda-dupes respect the mail_home argument. Thanks much Hans

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Will service restart cause file corruption？
by hfh＠cndns.com 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

If the program is writing email content to the disk, will the program restart cause the email content to be written incomplete and the file will be damaged? hfh(a)cndns.com

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Get protocol used in the post login script
by André Rodier 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

Hello, I have a post-login script, in Dovecot, that send warnings to users using XMPP. However, I would like hthe warning to include the protocol used, i.e. IMAP or POP3. How can I do this, please? Thanks, André.

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