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RE: Dovecot 2.3.14 - Invalid mailbox name: Name must not have '/'
by Jürgen Edner 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

Hi @all, can anyone please shed some light on the changes of v2.3.14 and what need to be done to get the shared folders working again as in v2.3.13. I cannot see any invalid characters in the folder names. I would also appreciate any advise on how I can debug the program any further. Thanks Juergen -- Email: juergen(a)eisfair.org

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special characters in FTS Solr fail
by piuma＠piumalab.org 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

Hi, I want to report a bug about searching. My dovecot version is 2.3.10.1 (a3d0e1171) and use Solr 7.7.2 for full text search. The issue appear when try to search using solr special characters. For example if I have emails with the subject that contain the only character "(" open parenthesis, then try to search it I receive zero results. In the Solr log seems the "(" is correctly excaped as "\(": 2021-03-30 15:14:20.304 INFO (qtp333683827-20) [ x:dovecot] o.a.s.c.S.Request [dovecot] webapp=/solr path=/select params={q={!lucene+q.op%3DAND}subject:\(&fl=uid,score&sort=uid+asc&fq=%2Bbox:6fff5821c5a2365df4060000d0d97f83+%2Buser:titolare01@kendama.it&rows=631&wt=xml} hits=0 status=0 QTime=2 I provide dovecot-sysreport as attachment. Best regards Danilo

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Replication - I/O has stalled
by Stefan Möding 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

Hi! I'm running Dovecot 2.3.14 from the Dovecot repo on Debian-9. I've configured replication and often notice the following log messages: Mar 29 09:23:13 atlantia dovecot: doveadm: Error: Couldn't lock /var/spool/vmail/stm/.dovecot-sync.lock: fcntl(/var/spool/vmail/stm/.dovecot-sync.lock, write-lock, F_SETLKW) locking failed: Timed out after 30 seconds (WRITE lock held by pid 30810) Mar 29 09:27:43 atlantia dovecot: dsync-local(stm)<d79ZNRZ/YWBaeAAAr9pkTg>: Error: dsync(pacifica.moeding.net): I/O has stalled, no activity for 600 seconds (last sent=mailbox, last recv=mailbox_state) Mar 29 09:27:43 atlantia dovecot: dsync-local(stm)<d79ZNRZ/YWBaeAAAr9pkTg>: Error: Timeout during state=sync_mails (send=mailbox recv=mailbox) Process 30810 is doveadm-server when this happended: PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1080 ? Ss 0:07 /usr/sbin/dovecot -F 1091 ? S 0:01 \_ dovecot/replicator 1094 ? S 0:01 \_ dovecot/anvil [2 connections] 1095 ? S 0:02 \_ dovecot/log 1096 ? S 0:06 \_ dovecot/stats [6 connections] 1098 ? S 0:14 \_ dovecot/config 1101 ? S 0:07 \_ dovecot/auth [0 wait, 0 passdb, 0 userdb] 4728 ? S 0:00 \_ dovecot/aggregator 30668 ? S 0:00 \_ dovecot/imap-login 30670 ? S 0:00 \_ dovecot/imap 30810 ? S 0:00 \_ dovecot/doveadm-server [stm System send:mailbox recv:mailbox] Sometimes these error occur once every hour. I have replication_full_sync_interval = 1 hours, so I have the strong feeling that this is the cause. Maybe there is a race condition when full syncs are started concurrently on both sides? Is anybody else observing this? -- Stefan

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Public NameSpace using sdbox with INDEXPVT for per-user-seen flags does not take into account the dovecot-shared file flag
by Panayiotis Fafakos 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

Dear Timo, we have successfully used *dovecot-shared* file flag in *Maildir **Public *NameSpaces with private index files, to have per-user-seen flags for some but not all *mailboxes *under public folders. This was actually done on older dovecot versions (i.e *dovecot v2.2.33.2*) , using a *location* setting in *dovecot.conf* like: location = maildir:/var/vmail/PublicFolders:LAYOUT=fs:DIRNAME=privDirMailFolder:INDEX=~/Maildir/public We try to use similar *location* setting using *sdbox* storage in *dovecot v2.3.4.1*, like below: location = sdbox:/var/vmail/PublicFolders:LAYOUT=fs:DIRNAME=dbox-MailFolder:INDEXPVT=~/Maildir/public but the *dovecot-shared *file flag seems to be ignored. As a result all mailboxes under public folders use the per-user-seen flags setting as set in the location setting, regardless of the existence of the dovecot-shared file flag or not. Is there any setting to use so that only some mailboxes under public folders use per-user-seen flags? Thank you in advance for your support, Panos Fafakos.

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Dovecot 2.3.14 - Invalid mailbox name: Name must not have '/' character
by Juergen Edner 27 Mar '21

27 Mar '21

Hi, after upgrading from Dovecot v2.3.13 to v2.3.14 I realized that shared sub-folders, e.g. "Lieferanten/Rechnungen", cannot be accessed anymore, although the underlying configuration hasn't been changed at all. If I try to access such a folder using e.g. Thunderbird the error "Invalid mailbox name: Name must not have '/' character." is shown instead of opening the folder. Now I wonder if this is a bug or feature or what need to be done to get the previous function back. In the change notes of the latest Dovecot version I found the following point, which might be the root cause of the problem: * If BROKENCHAR or listescape plugin is used, the escaped folder names may be slightly different from before in some situations. This is unlikely to cause issues, although caching clients may redownload the folders. These are my shared folder configuration parameters: namespace { location = maildir:/home/imapshared:INDEXPVT=~/.imapmail/shared prefix = "#Shared/" separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 15 mail_plugins = " listescape" } I also checked how the shared folders are returned with both Dovecot version and cannot find any difference in the naming, except that the v2.3.13 correctly labels one folder as "\HasChildren", which v2.3.14 doesn't?! v2.3.13: a list "#Shared/" "*" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" #Shared/Lieferanten * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" #Shared/Lieferanten/Rechnungen v2.3.14: a list "#Shared/" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" #Shared/Lieferanten * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" #Shared/Lieferanten/Rechnungen Any help/hint is highly appreciated. Thanks Juergen --

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Dovecot 2.3.14 - Invalid mailbox name: Name must not have '/' character
by Jürgen Edner 27 Mar '21

27 Mar '21

Hi, after upgrading from Dovecot v2.3.13 to v2.3.14 I realized that shared sub-folders, e.g. "Lieferanten/Rechnungen", cannot be accessed anymore, although the underlying configuration hasn't been changed at all. If I try to access such a folder using e.g. Thunderbird the error "Invalid mailbox name: Name must not have '/' character." is shown instead of opening the folder. Now I wonder if this is a bug or feature or what need to be done to get the previous function back. In the change notes of the latest Dovecot version I found the following point, which might be the root cause of the problem: * If BROKENCHAR or listescape plugin is used, the escaped folder names may be slightly different from before in some situations. This is unlikely to cause issues, although caching clients may redownload the folders. These are my shared folder configuration parameters: namespace { location = maildir:/home/imapshared:INDEXPVT=~/.imapmail/shared prefix = "#Shared/" separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 15 mail_plugins = " listescape" } I also checked how the shared folders are returned with both Dovecot version and cannot find any difference in the naming, except that the v2.3.13 correctly labels one folder as "\HasChildren", which v2.3.14 doesn't?! v2.3.13: a list "#Shared/" "*" * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" #Shared/Lieferanten * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" #Shared/Lieferanten/Rechnungen v2.3.14: a list "#Shared/" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" #Shared/Lieferanten * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" #Shared/Lieferanten/Rechnungen Any help/hint is highly appreciated. Thanks Juergen --

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dsync error: Can't sync mailbox tmp: Mailbox isn't selectable
by Hagen Bauer 27 Mar '21

27 Mar '21

Hi, I am trying to use dsync to migrate from mbox to Maildir with dovecot --version 2.2.27 () The configuration seems to be working and some of the mailbox can be mirrored via dsync -u username mirror mbox:/home/username/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/username I have trouble with one user where I get the error. dsync(username2): Error: Can't sync mailbox tmp: Mailbox isn't selectable Any ideas where to look for hints? Regards Hagen Bauer

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ssl_verify_client_cert=yes does not require a client certificate
by Hristo Venev 27 Mar '21

27 Mar '21

Hello, I am trying to set up LMTP over TLS. I have set ssl_verify_client_cert: protocol lmtp { ssl_ca = </etc/cert/mail/ca.pem ssl_cert = </etc/cert/mail/host.pem ssl_key = </etc/cert/mail/host.key ssl_verify_client_cert = yes } However, clients can still connect without presenting a valid certificate. In openssl_iostream_set() the flags given to SSL_set_verify() are SSL_VERIFY_PEER | SSL_VERIFY_CLIENT_ONCE. For a certificate to be required, the SSL_VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT flag also needs to be set: diff --git a/src/lib-ssl-iostream/iostream-openssl.c b/src/lib-ssl-iostream/iostream-openssl.c index 5d11526f1..d8df96398 100644 --- a/src/lib-ssl-iostream/iostream-openssl.c +++ b/src/lib-ssl-iostream/iostream-openssl.c @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ openssl_iostream_set(struct ssl_iostream *ssl_io, if (ssl_io->ctx->client_ctx) verify_flags = SSL_VERIFY_NONE; else - verify_flags = SSL_VERIFY_PEER | SSL_VERIFY_CLIENT_ONCE; + verify_flags = SSL_VERIFY_PEER | SSL_VERIFY_CLIENT_ONCE | SSL_VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT; SSL_set_verify(ssl_io->ssl, verify_flags, openssl_iostream_verify_client_cert); }

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Strange error on multiple recipent email - permission denied
by Salatiel Filho 27 Mar '21

27 Mar '21

Hi, I am doing some tests with dovecot to replace cyrusimapd, but after the most simple configuration I am getting some strange errors on log. This is the output of dovecot -n: #davecot -n disable_plaintext_auth = no ( just for testing ) first_valid_uid = 1000 mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%n mail_privileged_group = mail mbox_write_locks = fcntl 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 } protocols = imap lmtp ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_cipher_list = PROFILE=SYSTEM ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd } I have also chmod a+rwxt on /var/spool/mail and set. Now here is the strange behavior. I have 2 users created, user1 and user2. At first , there are no files on /var/spool/mail as expected. Now I send one email to user1@mydomain and I can receive just fine and there are no errors on logs. Mar 27 00:32:20 mx2 dovecot[1473]: lmtp(1504): Connect from local Mar 27 00:32:20 mx2 sendmail[1503]: STARTTLS=client, relay=localhost, version=TLSv1.3, verify=FAIL, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, bits=256/256 Mar 27 00:32:20 mx2 dovecot[1473]: lmtp(user1)<1504><hzMPOBR9XmDgBQAAUY4zkw>: lmtp-server: conn unix:pid=1503,uid=0 [1]: rcpt user1: msgid=<CAGmni9qUfh_EntW-mMvdTK=bCc3QVQ+74f8X3BzBa5Z0dYi+-g(a)mail.gmail.com>: saved mail to INBOX Mar 27 00:32:20 mx2 sendmail[1503]: 12R0WKV0001502: to=<user1(a)mydomain.here>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=32320, relay=localhost, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Mar 27 00:32:20 mx2 sendmail[1503]: 12R0WKV0001502: done; delay=00:00:00, ntries=1 Mar 27 00:32:20 mx2 dovecot[1473]: lmtp(1504): Disconnect from local: Client has quit the connection (state=READY) Now I send one email to user2@mydomain and I can receive just fine and there are no errors on logs. Mar 27 00:33:45 mx2 dovecot[1473]: lmtp(1510): Connect from local Mar 27 00:33:46 mx2 sendmail[1509]: STARTTLS=client, relay=localhost, version=TLSv1.3, verify=FAIL, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, bits=256/256 Mar 27 00:33:46 mx2 dovecot[1473]: lmtp(user2)<1510><IUlGAWp9XmDmBQAAUY4zkw>: lmtp-server: conn unix:pid=1509,uid=0 [1]: rcpt user2: msgid=<CAGmni9qDHgDw=M6XPMk_eWb+02OJmCMarVe8sc_B4rNYUGMfGw(a)mail.gmail.com>: saved mail to INBOX Mar 27 00:33:46 mx2 sendmail[1509]: 12R0XjKj001508: to=<user2(a)mydomain.here>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, pri=32318, relay=localhost, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Mar 27 00:33:46 mx2 sendmail[1509]: 12R0XjKj001508: done; delay=00:00:01, ntries=1 Mar 27 00:33:46 mx2 dovecot[1473]: lmtp(1510): Disconnect from local: Client has quit the connection (state=READY) The problem starts if I send one email to user1 AND user2 ( user2 can be in TO or CC ) Mar 27 00:35:04 mx2 dovecot[1473]: lmtp(user2)<1518><AxH4Nbh9XmDuBQAAUY4zkw>: lmtp-server: conn unix:pid=1517,uid=0 [1]: rcpt user2: msgid=<CAGmni9oqid6pAEWPynAq9to-u0YdxE2o65wS34aeevnEWLj=AA(a)mail.gmail.com>: saved mail to INBOX Mar 27 00:35:04 mx2 dovecot[1473]: lmtp(user1)<1518><AxH4Nbh9XmDuBQAAUY4zkw:2>: Error: lmtp-server: conn unix:pid=1517,uid=0 [1]: rcpt user2: stat(/var/spool/mail/user2/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=1003(user1) egid=1003(user1) missing +x perm: /var/spool/mail/user2, dir owned by 1004:1004 mode=0700) Mar 27 00:35:04 mx2 dovecot[1473]: lmtp(user1)<1518><AxH4Nbh9XmDuBQAAUY4zkw:2>: Error: lmtp-server: conn unix:pid=1517,uid=0 [1]: rcpt user2: open(/var/spool/mail/user2/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index) failed: Permission denied (euid=1003(user1) egid=1003(user1) missing +x perm: /var/spool/mail/user2, dir owned by 1004:1004 mode=0700) Mar 27 00:35:04 mx2 dovecot[1473]: lmtp(user1)<1518><AxH4Nbh9XmDuBQAAUY4zkw:2>: lmtp-server: conn unix:pid=1517,uid=0 [1]: rcpt user1: msgid=<CAGmni9oqid6pAEWPynAq9to-u0YdxE2o65wS34aeevnEWLj=AA(a)mail.gmail.com>: saved mail to INBOX Mar 27 00:35:04 mx2 sendmail[1517]: 12R0Z4h0001516: to=<user2(a)mydomain.here>,<user1(a)mydomain.here>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=62302, relay=localhost, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Mar 27 00:35:04 mx2 sendmail[1517]: 12R0Z4h0001516: done; delay=00:00:00, ntries=1 Mar 27 00:35:04 mx2 dovecot[1473]: lmtp(1518): Disconnect from local: Client has quit the connection (state=READY) Although I can receive the email, there's an ERROR log in maillog. It appears user1 wants to open the user2 index file. Any ideas why ? Thank you very much!

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How to dimension hardware when using replication?
by Michael Westerburg 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

Hello Postmaster, for a decade we have been using Dovecot successfully as IMAP server at Augsburg University. Now we face the decision to switch from separated SAN storage to mirrored SAN storage by means of the usual combination of dovecot director and dovecot replicator (CentOS 7, Dovecot 2.2.36). Dovecot director runs on four virtual machines (4 cores, 4 GB memory). The replicated storage is handled by two HP servers with 2 Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 (6 cores) and 32 GM memory. The network relies on 2 x 1 GBit Ethernet bond and two redundant 4 GBit SAN-fabrics. Our concerns, (1) is this equipment suitable? We are talking here about 25.000 mail accounts (LDAP) with 7 TB mail storage (mdbox) and in peak periods 10.000 parallel Dovecot processes and (2) what are adequate settings for director_user_expire, replication_max_conns and replication_full_sync_interval? Loosing mails is unacceptable as well as users stumbling upon mails with the recent flag set which were read and deleted yesterday. Who is using dovecot director and replicator and is willing to share settings and operational experience? Thanks in advance ++ Michael Westerburg -- Dr. Michael Westerburg Universität Augsburg Rechenzentrum 86135 Augsburg Telefon 0821/598-2004 Telefax 0821/598-2028 michael.westerburg(a)rz.uni-augsburg.de https://www.rz.uni-augsburg.de

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