September 2023 - dovecot

DOvecot requires both IPv4 and IPV6 to start
by TWHG Technical 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

Hello, I hope this is the right place to start. Ubuntu server the default listener configuration in dovecot.conf uses both IP4 and IP6 on systems that have IP6 disabled dovecot will not start. Is it possible to set the default to: listen = * to only bind to IP4 for installation and initial start. Rather than listen = *, :: which tries to bind to a non existent IP6 stack. Or simply fallback to ip4 if ip6 is not available. Thank you

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DOvecot requires both IPv4 and IPV6 to start
by TWHG Technical 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

IPV6 is disabled in the grub command line. So before the OS boots. So there is no IPV6 support in the system. Unless one enables it in the Grub bootloader. Cheers

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DOvecot requires both IPv4 and IPV6 to start
by TWHG Technical 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

I have tried replying twice. We have IPV6 disabled for security reasons on all server builds. An installer script failed which is how we caught this issue. We can see it is due to the config line. A graceful fallback to IPV4 if the IPV6 stack is not available would seem to be an elegant solution that would make dovecot resilient in all circunstances. Cheers Spart

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no such user but Thunderbird okeys it ?
by lejeczek 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

Hi guys. I'm having quite bizarre situation where Dovecot logs: ... pam_unix(dovecot:auth): check pass; user unknown pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser=dupa rhost=AA.BB.CC.DD imap-login: Login: user=<dupa>, method=PLAIN, rip=AA.BB.CC.DD, lip=AA.BB.CC.DD, mpid=1756629, TLS, session=<uV7OwIIEWsJdviSg>: ... but Thunderbird allows, is okey with such user & creates an account for it. I must be having my setup miss-configured - I'm hoping it's something obvious somebody could point me towards. many thanks, L.

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