June 2022 - dovecot - dovecot.org

Openmetrics label truncation
by Daniel Sabotta 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Hello, I'm using dovecot 2.3.18 and want to collect metrics with prometheus via openmetrics. I need to label the metrics with the destination host name. The configuration works fine, but the label value is truncated after 32 chars (and a '...' is added). My config: service stats { inet_listener http { port = 9323 } } metric my_metric { filter = event=smtp_client_transaction_finished group_by = dest_host status_code } I wrote a simple patch, that fixes that for me: diff --git a/src/stats/stats-metrics.c b/src/stats/stats-metrics.c index 877c142546..30126563ff 100644 --- a/src/stats/stats-metrics.c +++ b/src/stats/stats-metrics.c @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ stats_metric_sub_metric_alloc(struct metric *metric, const char *name, pool_t po array_append_zero(&fields); sub_metric = stats_metric_alloc(pool, metric->name, metric->set, array_idx(&fields, 0)); - sub_metric->sub_name = p_strdup(pool, str_sanitize_utf8(name, 32)); + sub_metric->sub_name = p_strdup(pool, str_sanitize_utf8(name, 63)); array_append(&metric->sub_metrics, &sub_metric, 1); return sub_metric; } Why are labels truncated after 32? Is there a reason I do not see? I found no reasons in the openmetrics specification [1]. Thanks in advance Daniel

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Restrict IMAP login, but allow Postfix SASL
by lutz.niederer＠gmx.net 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Hi, we have a very simple user-/passdb (like passwd) to authenticate virtual IMAP users. We also use this for Postfix authentication. Nothing special. But, we need to exclude some of the users from IMAP login. This means, some users should be allowed to send mail via Postfix (submission) and therefore authenticate via SASL against dovecot successfully, but they should not be allowed to login to their IMAP mail box. How could this be done? Thanks! -lutzn

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Building dovecot-core
by Dmitriy Fitisov 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Hi all, do we have any info on building dovecot-core? INSTALL.md suggests usual way: ./configure … Needless to say, there is no .configure in root dir. I think, instructions need to be updated to correct this. Thank you. Dmitriy

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What is the state of SMTPUTF8 support?
by Sylvhem 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

Hi! It’s been some time since I last saw a mention of SMTPUTF8 here. Last time I heard about it, it was worked on. Does anybody have news about that? -- Sylvhem

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