July 2020 - dovecot - dovecot.org

Variable expansion in passwords
by lukn 16 Jul '20

16 Jul '20

Hello list A user reports failure to log in after password change. The client side error message indicates a lost or dropped connection by the server. A peek into the server logs reveales this: dovecot: imap(user(a)example.com)<53267><el0HoZGqHIdb0K2G>: Error: Failed to expand plugin setting plain_pass = 'asdf%?asdf': Unknown variable '%?' This looks a lot like a %-variable in the user provided password is tried to be expanded... Is this a bug or did I misconfigure something? output of dovecot -n is attached. regards lukn

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NFS vs Replication
by Andrea Gabellini 16 Jul '20

16 Jul '20

Hello list, I built an email system using a proxy / director pair (IMAP, POP3, LMTP) and a backend pair. To have an HA system, I would like to understand if it is better to use an NFS export or replication to save emails and index files NFS is provided by a NAS (in HA), while for replication I would use the local backend disks Which of the two systems is more reliable? Are there any drawbacks for one or the other? Thanks, Andrea -- __________________________ Buy a Pentium 586/200 so you can reboot faster. __________________________ TIM San Marino S.p.A. Andrea Gabellini Engineering R&D TIM San Marino S.p.A. - https://www.telecomitalia.sm Via Ventotto Luglio, 212 - Piano -2 47893 - Borgo Maggiore - Republic of San Marino Tel: (+378) 0549 886237 Fax: (+378) 0549 886188 -- Informativa Privacy Questa email ha per destinatari dei contatti presenti negli archivi di TIM San Marino S.p.A.. Tutte le informazioni vengono trattate e tutelate nel rispetto della normativa vigente sulla protezione dei dati personali (Reg. EU 2016/679). Per richiedere informazioni e/o variazioni e/o la cancellazione dei vostri dati presenti nei nostri archivi potete inviare una email a privacy(a)telecomitalia.sm. Avviso di Riservatezza Il contenuto di questa e-mail e degli eventuali allegati e' strettamente confidenziale e destinato alla/e persona/e a cui e' indirizzato. Se avete ricevuto per errore questa e-mail, vi preghiamo di segnalarcelo immediatamente e di cancellarla dal vostro computer. E' fatto divieto di copiare e divulgare il contenuto di questa e-mail. Ogni utilizzo abusivo delle informazioni qui contenute da parte di persone terze o comunque non indicate nella presente e-mail potra' essere perseguito ai sensi di legge.

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Error in namespace config; how to move messages
by Antonio Leding 16 Jul '20

16 Jul '20

Hello, I inadvertently made an error re: the namespace prefix when setting up a few accounts and several messages have been saved in the Sent\Deleted folders under the incorrect namespace. Can I simply copy these messages to the relevant folder in the proper namespace? Or do I need to export\import these? Some other procedure? Thanks in advance for any feedback…

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Massive alias / bulk delivery problem
by gnd 16 Jul '20

16 Jul '20

Hello list, we are experimenting with using Dovecot as part of a simplified mail stack with SQL for a internal messaging / notification system for our customers. Sometimes we need to send a message to thousands of customers at once and we do it by having aliases resolve to 10k and 20k+ mail accounts. When we send such a message the server load (obviously) is very high for a few minutes (in case of an alias containing 10k addresses its around 6-7 minutes for a 2 core machine with load around 20-30). Are there any optimizations or ways how to design the system around this problem ? Eg. is there a way how to deliver messages more slowly, and spread the load over longer time ? The stack is very simple with Postfix receiving the messages and Dovecot acting as a LMTP and IMAP server. Mailboxes are in the Maildir format on disk. Customers get the messages on login, a PHP script connects to the mail account associated with their ID via IMAP and sends unseen messages in the form of a JSON. Best regards, gnd/

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doveadm quota question
by hfh＠cndns.com 15 Jul '20

15 Jul '20

I found that when the mailbox name contains special characters such as \x7f, when the doveadm quota recalc -u xxx command is executed, the messages under the mailbox name with special characters will not be counted. doveadm mailbox list -u xxx Actual mailbox name: doveadm quota recalc -u xxx, Mail under 'INBOX.Metaltex' will not be counted. hfh(a)cndns.com

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dovecot 2.2.13
by Santhosh 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

all, below command not reporting the actual usage report on dovecot 2.2.13. please share your suggestion to how to fix this issue doveadm -f flow mailbox status -A -t 'messages vsize' '*' is just showing rkreddy messages=0 vsize=0 jcplho messages=0 vsize=0 planning messages=0 vsize=0 accounts messages=0 vsize=0 spam.notify messages=0 vsize=0 jsraju messages=0 vsize=0 amarnath messages=0 vsize=0 kamesh messages=0 vsize=0 moulivarma messages=0 vsize=0 test messages=0 vsize=0 electrical messages=0 vsize=0 subbarao messages=0 vsize=0 contracts messages=0 vsize=0 rrsrinivas messages=0 vsize=0 sralluri messages=0 vsize=0 jvgkraju messages=0 vsize=0 harikrishna messages=0 vsize=0 kvvnrao messages=0 vsize=0 chandrasekhar messages=0 vsize=0 admin messages=0 vsize=0 gsnraju messages=0 vsize=0 Thanks Kumar -- Sent from: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/

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IMAP SEARCH over ALL mailboxes
by Filip Hanes 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

Hi, is it possible to SEARCH in dovecot IMAP over all messages in all mailboxes without selecting each mailbox?

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Static users and doveadm
by Antonio Leding 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

Hello Dovecot users… I wanted to ask is using a static userdb will cause issues with some of the account and user related doveadm commands? If so, any suggestions on how to use doveadm in such a configuration? I have pasted both the cmd + error and userdb config below — Thanks in advance… sudo doveadm mailbox list -A Error: auth-master: userdb list: User listing returned failure doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail allow_all_users=yes userdb_warning_disable=yes driver = static }

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Apple Mail and subfolders
by Filip Hajný 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

Hi all, does anybody here use MacOS (Catalina) Mail, who can confirm that subfolders (i.e. folders inside folders) work for them? It seems that I cannot create/access Maildir subfolders at all. Subfolders created in Mail show up as '.folder\2esubfolder' on disk, suggesting that Apple Mail is URL-coding the dot separator before it passes it onto Dovecot. No such translation takes place when interpreting the IMAP tree though, resulting in subfolders rendered as plain entries with the dot separator preserved. Subfolders can be created from elsewhere (SoGO, Roundube, Thunderbird) just fine and work here just fine, suggesting that all is well in terms of Dovecot configuration. Subfolders created here though show up as a proper hierarchy in Apple Mail, but their contents is not displayed, so the user thinks the subfolder is empty. This definitely used to work fine in the past. Running 2.3.10.1 as part of the Mailcow suite. -F

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Syncing emails from external server like Gmail
by Vitalii 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

Greeting I've managed to backup my emails from external email server via dsync and imapc: protocol like this: doveadm -Dv -o imapc_user='user(a)gmail.com' -o imapc_password="pass" -o imapc_host=imap.gmail.com backup -R -u duke(a)ejoom.com imapc: taken from https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync I wish to do regular syncing of 5min interval to substitute 'getmail' program. When I repeat the command It doesn't download all the attachments(!good) but It seems that at retrieve all the the GUIDs and UIDs(!bad) again that take quite long considering 30K emails. The question is how to speed it up and retrieve only new emails? Does anyone have a solution for regular synchronization? What is the best way? Logs look like this: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/vnagara/87e0da1b21b51f68fd74270b3ec653b3… It wrights that "Mailboxes are equal" but still verifies all the UIDs again. Thanks.

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