September 2021 - dovecot

SSL errors after certificate renewal
by Amol Kulkarni 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Hello, After I replaced my certificate with a new one yesterday, I'm seeing some ssl related errors. There are successful pop/imap logins using SSL also. So I think the certificate in itself is fine. No user has complained as yet, so I don't know for sure. However the count of errors has surely increased after installing the new certificate. There are 2 errors seen : dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 1 secs): user=<>, rip=, lip =, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:14094416:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert certificate unknown: SSL alert number 46, session=<9m0AnVnL 2pHf4hso> dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=, lip =, TLS: SSL_read() failed: error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate: SSL alert number 42, session=<ww/b6VfLmeR7yTog> Kindly help with some pointers. Thanks and Regards, Amol

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How can I always send a vacation response with sieve?
by Steve Dondley 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

I don't want dovecot to wait X days before sending out another vacation response. However, setting the :days to "0" doesn't work. RFC https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5230.html#section-4.1 says: 4.1. Days Parameter The ":days" argument is used to specify the period in which addresses are kept and are not responded to, and is always specified in days. The minimum value used for this parameter is normally 1. Sites MAY define a different minimum value as long as the minimum is greater than 0. Sites MAY also define a maximum days value, which MUST be greater than 7, and SHOULD be greater than 30. If ":days" is omitted, the default value is either 7 or the minimum value (as defined above), whichever is greater. If the parameter given to ":days" is less than the minimum value, then the minimum value is used instead. If ":days" exceeds the site-defined maximum, the site-defined maximum is used instead. Sorry if this is more of a sieve question and is slightly off topic.

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Dovecot - FTS Solr: disk usage & position information?
by Vincent Brillault 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

Dear all, On a local dovecot cluster currently hosting roughly 2.1TB of data, using Solr as its FTS backend, we now have 256GB of data in Solr, split in 12 shard (to which replication adds 256GB of data through 12 additional cores). I'm now trying to see if we can optimize that data. Looking at one core at random (22G), I see that the data is split mostly between - .pos files: 12G - .tim files: 4.2G - .doc files: 3.8G - .cfs files: 1.8G Looking around a bit, I found https://lucene.apache.org/core/6_2_0/core/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene50… (which is unfortunately a bit outdated I think) that explains each file content: - .tim: Term Dictionary - .tip: Term Index - .doc: Frequencies and Skip Data - .pos: Positions - .pay: Payloads and Offsets So clearly the file naming convention have changed, but still if .pos is really position information ("lists of positions that each term occurs at within documents."), this sounds rather useless for the dovecot integration. Looking at Solr documentation on search (https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_6/the-standard-query-parser.html) it seems that position aware query are written as `"term1 term2"~[0-9]+`. Looking at the dovecot code (https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/master/src/plugins/fts-solr/fts-backen…), I don't see this kind of query being made, `~` only being used for fuzzy search. Has anyone ever tried to set omitTermFreqAndPositions or omitPositions to true for the text fields in the Solr Schema? It sounds that this could improve a lot the disk space used by Solr without losing any feature. The only thing I'm not too clear about is the "autoGeneratePhraseQueries" which is enabled in https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/master/doc/solr-schema-7.7.0.xml. Thanks in advance, Vincent Brillault PS: I have attached the schema we are using for completeness. It's based on the one in the dovecot repo, with a bit of simplification for headers that don't really require as much massaging.

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Solr FTS - when does indexing happen?
by Shawn Heisey 06 Sep '21

06 Sep '21

I have Solr FTS on my dovecot install. I followed the instructions on the dovecot wiki. How long a delay should I expect to see between new mail being delivered with the dovecot LDA and an indexing request sent to Solr? Because I get a LOT of email from various mailing lists, and I do not see any activity in Solr's log. When I did doveadm index -A -q '*' there was a lot of indexing activity in Solr's log, as expected. One time I looked at the Solr index and it had been 23 hours since it's last update ... I can guarantee that I received a lot of new messages in that time. What do I need to look at for further troubleshooting? I can confirm that when I issue a search in the TypeApp app on my phone (an IMAP app for android), I see the query in Solr's logfile. Thanks, Shawn

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Dovecot, Last Login Plugin and PostfixAdmin
by White, Daniel E. (GSFC-770.0)[NICS] 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/lastlogin_plugin/ Is there any documentation about how to get the "Last Login" info into the PostfixAdmin database ?

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100 MB RAM per clinet in an imap-proxy setup ...
by Tobias Oetiker 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

Hi All, I spent some quality time yesterday, tuning dovecot on a server which serves as an imap-proxy in front of a zimbra setup the imap proxy does ldap client-cert authentication and works well. BUT I found that the imap-login processes seem to gain 100 MB per connection they are accepting ... this seems pretty hefty. It does not seem to be a leak, since the setup is stable when client_limit and process_limit are set appropriately. Any ideas what part of the code I should be looking at ? Or is this a configuration problem ? cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland www.oetiker.ch tobi(a)oetiker.ch +41 62 775 9902

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Using a DICT PROXY with SQL for AUTH
by dovecot＠ptld.com 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/dict/#dict-sql https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/dict/#dict-proxy https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/dict/proxy/ I can't get the complete picture from these pages how to implement proxy with sql. I have direct sql setup now, how do i use this with proxy? passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/mysql_login } userdb { driver = prefetch } /etc/dovecot/mysql_login: driver = mysql connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=redacted user=redacted password=redacted default_pass_scheme = redacted password_query = SELECT ... I feel like there is a disconnect. It says how to make a proxy service with service dict{} and it says put a dict name but where? And how do i connect my password_query to a dict? Or can you not use the proxy service for auth service? "The <destination dict> contains the dict name in the dict { .. } settings" service dict(1) { unix_listener dict(2) { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } What is the dict name, the first dict(1) or the second dict(2) or neither? Can you change "dict" in the service or unix_listner or does it always have to be "dict"? Can you use dict-async with sql?

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Over Quota Reply Codes
by dovecot＠ptld.com 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

Dovecot quota plugin returns code 554 5.2.2 when a user inbox is full. Why 554 (transaction failed) instead of 552 (exceeded storage allocation)? Im curious behind the logic as im trying to determine the best code to use to reject a user sending more emails than their number-of-emails-limit quota. If anyone has an option to share on the best code to return it would be appreciated; 550 (policy reasons) 552 (exceeded ... allocation) 554 (transaction failed) 5.2.2 (mailbox full) 5.5.3 (Too many recipients) 5.7.0 (Other security related) 5.7.1 (delivery not authorized) Which fits best?

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maildirfolder file created in maildir root during auto-creation with 2.3.4.1 but not 2.2.27
by Christian Balzer 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

Hello, as the tin says. I have several servers running 2.2.27 (Debian stretch) and am adding new ones with 2.3.4.1 (Debian buster). The configs were upgraded where needed but neither 10-mail.conf nor 15-mailboxes.conf were changed. 15-mailboxes is all commented out (I guess the default is auto-create, which isn't documented anywhere I could find) and the only non-comments in 10-mail.conf are --- mail_location = maildir:%h mail_privileged_group = mail --- So yes, no namespaces are explicitly defined/declared. The 2.3.4.1 version wrongly creates a maildirfolder file in the home directory (maildir root), preventing exim from correctly creating/using maildirsize. a) Is this expected behavior and can it be changed? b) How can I disable inbox auto-creation if a) doesn't pan out? Thanks, Christian -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer chibi(a)gol.com Rakuten Mobile Inc.

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Duplicate plugins - FTS Xapian
by Joan Moreau 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Hi There seems to be 2 plugins doing the same thins - https://github.com/slusarz/dovecot-fts-flatcurve/ - https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian/ (mine) Both are in the doc of dovecot https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/fts/ I am currently working hard to push it to RPM package, and plugin is already approved by ArchLinux and Debian Isn't there double work here ? Thanks JM

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