January 2022 - dovecot

Save of messages slow when replica unavailable
by Jörg Faudin Schulz 20 Jan '22

20 Jan '22

We have a setup with a dovecot server + replica. This works fine as long as the replica is available. When the replica is not available for some reason, the clients can work normally with one exception: the saving of sent messages to their inboxes takes ages. Thunderbird times out and complains (and duplicates the message), mail.app just waits until it's done. Is there any setting that helps here? For the time being, I deactivated replication; but this isn't a long time solution. Thank you for all your work&support, appreciating the doc as well.

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dovecot-2.3.17: "Panic: file ioloop.c: line 865"
by Christian Küppers 20 Jan '22

20 Jan '22

Hello, we got the same backtrace in dovecot-ee version 2:2.3.17-8+ubuntu20.04 as Andreas Piper mentioned in November 2021 https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2021-November/123468.html after installing dovecot package updates. Panic: file ioloop.c: line 865 (io_loop_destroy): assertion failed: (ioloop == current_ioloop) Error: Raw backtrace: #0 t_askpass[0x7fc609b0eba0] -> #1 backtrace_append[0x7fc609b0ee00] -> #2 backtrace_get[0x7fc609b0ef70] -> #3 i_syslog_error_handler[0x7fc609b1bfa0] -> #4 i_syslog_fatal_handler[0x7fc609b1c0d0] -> #5 i_panic[0x7fc609a6f1af] -> #6 i_error[0x7fc609a72906] -> #7 doveadm_http_server_deinit[0x55abd194af90] -> #8 doveadm_print_stream[0x55abd19447b0] -> #9 doveadm_print_istream[0x55abd1944810] -> #10 expunge_search_args_check[0x55abd1936a00] -> #11 expunge_search_args_check[0x55abd1935860] -> #12 doveadm_dsync_main[0x55abd1932900] -> #13 doveadm_cmd_ver2_to_mail_cmd_wrapper[0x55abd1933890] -> #14 doveadm_cmd_run_ver2[0x55abd1943fb0] -> #15 doveadm_server_deinit[0x55abd1948760] -> #16 io_loop_call_io[0x7fc609b32440] -> #17 io_loop_handler_run_internal[0x7fc609b33a00] -> #18 io_loop_handler_run[0x7fc609b32500] -> #19 io_loop_run[0x7fc609b32680] -> #20 master_service_run[0x7fc609aa4780] -> #21 main[0x55abd1923820] -> #22 __libc_start_main[0x7fc60970efc0] -> #23 _start[0x55abd1923980] Error: doveadm server disconnected before handshake: EOF Command fetch failed for <mailbox>: EOF We got it during doveadm fetch of a mail on multiple mailboxes. Is there any progress on this? Will it be fixed in next release? Kind regards, Christian Küppers Expert Administrator onOffice GmbH Charlottenburger Allee 5 | 52068 Aachen Tel. +49 (0)241 446 86-0 | Fax. +49 (0)241 446 86-250 E-Mail:c.kueppers@onoffice.de| Web:www.onOffice.com Registergericht: Amtsgericht Aachen, HRB 21420 Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Kfm. Stefan Mantl Prokuristen: Janosch Reuschenbach, Kristina Andresen, Christian Mähringer

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lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox
by dovecot＠ptld.com 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox: " If the recipient address includes a detail element / role (as in user+detail format), save the message to the detail mailbox. " Im not understanding this, what is the "detail mailbox"? I tried testing this feature by setting "lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes" and sending an email to user+test(a)example.com. The email still ended up in the default inbox folder. So what does lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox do or is there another setting that also needs to be set to use this feature?

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Outlook vs. Dovecot experience
by Vladislav Kurz 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Dear colleagues, what is your experience regarding using outlook (2016/365) as IMAP client and dovecot on server side? We have sync issues with outlook vs. cyrus IMAP server, and we consider moving to dovecot. But before that I'd like to hear from others if this combination works well. Especially if users have large and bushy mailboxes (>10 GB, >100 mailboxes), two mailboxes (accounts) on the same server. I don't want to do the migration just to find out that it is general issue of outlook vs. any IMAP server. -- Best regards Vladislav Kurz

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JA3/JA3S as a Dovecot plugin?
by Sidsel Jensen 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Hi We have been looking a bit into JA3 (https://engineering.salesforce.com/tls-fingerprinting-with-ja3-and-ja3s-247… <https://engineering.salesforce.com/tls-fingerprinting-with-ja3-and-ja3s-247…> and https://blog.squarelemon.com/tls-fingerprinting/ <https://blog.squarelemon.com/tls-fingerprinting/> ) for possible threat actor identifications. Roughly speaking you can think of JA3 as the TLS equivalent of the User-Agent string. Has anybody been looking into the possibility of building an open source dovecot JA3 plugin? I’d also like to hear the technical pros/cons of doing so…and perhaps the ethical deliberations also :-) Kind Regards, Sidsel

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FTS flatcurve not index messages when SEARCH run on Virtual Mailboxes
by Alessio Cecchi 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Hi, I'm testing FTS flatcurve plugin in order to understand if I can switch from FTS Solr to flatcurve. In my configuration I have enabled Virtual mailboxes and for search in all folders I just SEARCH on Virtual/All folder. I this (virtual) folder is not indexed with FTS Solr Dovecot start to index it (or all real folders). But with FTS flatcurve when I SEARCH on Virtual/All for the first time the indexer process does not start and the search return empty. Only if I run manually "doveadm index -q -u alessio(a)email.net '*'" flatcurve find messages. Can flatcurve have the same feature as Solr for Virtual mailboxes? Here a sample of my configuration: namespace Virtual { hidden = yes list = no location = virtual:/etc/dovecot/virtual:INDEX=~/Maildir/virtual prefix = Virtual/ separator = / subscriptions = no } namespace inbox { [...] mailbox virtual/All { comment = All my messages special_use = \All } } # cat /etc/dovecot/virtual/All/dovecot-virtual * all Thanks -- Alessio Cecchi Postmaster @ http://www.qboxmail.it https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessice

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Extracting CLIENTID information from checkpassword or postlogin scripting
by Dan Conway 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Hello, When extracting client_id information from the client connection (i.e. setting imap_id_log = *) the information is directly logged by Dovecot as such: ID sent: name=Thunderbird, version=91.5.0 My question is, Is it possible to export/set this information in a checkpassword script or a postlogin script? client_id If|imap_id_retain| <https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/core/#core_setting-imap_id_retain>is enabled this variable is populated with the client ID request as IMAP arglist. I've enabled both checkpassword and postlogin on a test server, as well as 'imap_id_retain' set to 'yes'. I wrote a simple Perl script that dumps everything in %ENV as well as @ARGV for checkpassword and postlogin, but I don't see any occurrences of ID information. I've also tried to see if I could supply that variable in dovecot.conf by setting 'client_id' as a parameter, but that didn't seem to do the trick either. passdb { ... # Doesn't work args = /usr/local/bin/checkpassword.pl client_id # Doesn't work args = /usr/local/bin/checkpassword.pl %{client_id} ... } What am I missing? Is it possible to get these variables into an external script that checkpassword or postlogin executes? Thanks.

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Order of loading and checking userdb on Ubuntu
by Mike 16 Jan '22

16 Jan '22

When using the lmtp service for local delivery, I'd like to change the user lookup to only use the user portion of the email address. I think I do that in the 20-lmtp.conf file, but not exactly sure how. From what I've found on the web, I just need to change the auth_username_format=%n. I feel confident that I'm not doing it right. older posts implied that the order things are loaded is an issue, but not sure if that is the case anymore. My goal is to set username_format for only lmtp. Thanks for any help.

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Wrong timestamp value in name of file
by Ervin Hegedüs 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

Hi there, Debian 10, Dovecot 2.3.4 (1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u6), ext4 mailstore. A user on our server reorganized the sent items: he moved few items from the old sent folder into a new one. After that, he noticed me that he does not see every mail, but when he starts a search, then he finds it. I looked up the mail, and found this situation: # ls -la 1642152396.M997381P21341.mail2\,S\=473164\,W\=479469\:2\,S -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 473164 aug 24 10:21 '1642152396.M997381P21341.mail2,S=473164,W=479469:2,S' # grep Date '1642152396.M997381P21341.mail2,S=473164,W=479469:2,S' Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 10:21:39 +0200 # date -d @1642152396 Fri Jan 14 10:26:36 CET 2022 As you can see that mail had sent on 24 Aug, 2021, but after the reorganization it got a new timestamp with the date of today. I assume the client (iPhone) orders the mail by the name of files - am I right? Why did this happen? How can I fix that? I mean, is there any way to rename this files (a few hundred...) to the "real" timestamp? Thanks, a.

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ssl=required per user?
by Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

Can ssl=required be forced on per user setting? Right now I could modify password_query to check if %c (%{secured}) is empty and return appropriate error as "reason" like in https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/nologin/#authen… example. Unfortunately password_query is a bit too late. I would like to deny access as soon as possible, so just after user sends his login. (that won't help much in cases when client sends password early like "AUTH PLAIN b64loginpass" but will help in all other cases) user_query doesn't have this capability that password_query it seems. -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )

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