April 2024 - dovecot - dovecot.org

HELP with email attachments ONLY clean up
by INFO ＠ TRIMLINE 25 Apr '24

25 Apr '24

Hello Dovecot Dev team, In my cpanel, we use your email management. This is what my hosting provider has allowed. Our problem: Since the introduction of "hi def cameras on mobile phones", we are getting emails with "huge attachments". The email which comes with the attachments is also important. However, once we download the email (imap), using any of the email clients (outlook, bluemail etc.) the mailbox still has these huge attachments. Because of this, our mailbox storage gets filled up quickly. In our email client software, we can delete (attachments only), and leave the email in our mailbox. So this work around helps us keep our mailbox size manageable. Unfortunately, not everyone does this "email attachment cleanup" regularly and end up being locked out of email storage space and probably lost a few hours of productive time. Our dev Request: Would it be possible to create a setting for end users in our Cpanel, in which we can delete the attachments without deleting the actual message? So query should have: <per email mailbox account> (drop down selection, like you have it now) * Filter 01: Select Messages older than nnn days (where nnn would be 100 to 999 days) (so for the first 99 days, every imap client would have the opportunity to download the email and the attachments) * From Filter 01 = Filter 02: Select messages which are >xxx Mb (where xxx could be 001 to 999 Mb) * From Filter 02 = Filter 03: Select only messages which contain attachments (Yes) * From Filter 03: Permanently Delete the attachments ONLY, So not deleting the actual email msg (OK). So on day 100 (or after the clean up is done), the imap email client will now only get the email but not the attachments (in the event they need to refresh their email setup). If such a query can be created and installed on our Cpanel, we can run this "clean up attachments" query regularly and as such reduce our mailbox size. Q: Would it be possible to create such a clean up tool (pre-defined) so that the cpanel web service admin user only has to enter (nnn and xxx and Yes) to finally click on "OK" to delete the attachments? If this would be possible, what will it cost us to have it installed on our Cpanel? There is so much information/documentation already on your website (doc.dovecot.org) and I spent about 60 min looking for such a "clean up tool" documentation, but started getting dizzy reading all that script language etc. Not my cup of tea. Please help. Thank you for considering and reading this request. Kind regards M. Akil Walji

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Debian, Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL, and argon2 password hashing scheme?
by David Mehler 25 Apr '24

25 Apr '24

Hello, I have a quick question. Can Debian, and/or it's Postfix/Dovecot/MySQL/MariaDB packages support the argon2 password hashing scheme? I had a previously-working e-mail setup on a *BSD system, utilizing the argon2ID scheme with Dovecot, Postfix, and MySQL. Since changing systems to Debian 12.5 I can't send, though checking the password with a manual login to Dovecot works fine. I'm wondering if I have to migrate the passwords from argon2ID to SHA512-CRYPT? Thanks. Dave. -- Sent from Mozilla Thunderbird 91.13.1

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Uppercase username emails are rejected
by lua8ds＠proton.me 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

When a sender writes my email address with my username uppercase, e.g. USERNAME(a)name.com, in the to: field of their MUA, my mail server rejects that email. /var/log/mail.log prints: <USERNAME(a)redacted.com>: host mail.redacted.com[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 550 5.1.1 > <USERNAME(a)redacted.com> User doesn't exist: USERNAME(a)redacted.com (in reply to RCPT TO > command) In the manual, I found that: auth_username_format Default: %Lu Formatting applied to username before querying the auth database. You can use the standard variables here. Examples: %Lu Lowercases the username [...] My current setting was not the default; I had: auth_username_format = %n So I updated that setting to: auth_username_format = %Lu expecting that %Lu would lowercase the username - and that my problem would be fixed. It does not though. Updating this setting not only prompts my email server to still reject USERNAME(a)redacted.com, but now also rejects (lowercase username) username(a)redacted.com (which my server had no issue receiving beforehand). So I reverted auth_username_format to: auth_username_format = %n Emails sent to username(a)redacted.com land in my mailbox again - but emails sent to USERNAME(a)redacted.com still don't. What can I try to troubleshoot? Which config file shall I share with you?

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RE: Which DKIM application for postfix 3.9.0
by Joseph Tam 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 7:33 AM <dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > > I am upgrading to postfix 3.9.0. I have not used DKIM in previous postfix installs, but I >> would like to start now with the new google rules. I have done some research and opendkim >> is the most recommended, however, other research states the opendkim has been >> abandoned by it's maintainers. So I am looking for a good alternative dkim software >> that will work with postfix that I can compile myself. I do not run on any linux >> version, so therefore I can not just apt-get a new dkim application. >> I run Solaris and therefore need to compile my applications, postfix and dkim. >> Any good suggestions will be appreciated. I just rolled out a locally compiled opendkim on my mail server. It works, but there are a few gotchas. Although it seems like a moribund project, there is a late beta version that includes some important patches, most notably the "Header:\n LongHeaderValue" bug that needs fixing. You can look at https://sourceforge.net/p/opendkim/patches/ to find that patch, as well as others you deem important. As DKIM standards are not going to change soon, having end-of-line software is not as bad as it seems unless you need particular enhancements to make it work better in your circumstances. Once you get your setup dialed, you can probably set it and forget it. Most of the headaches have actually been internal: local mail injection via sendmail would skip miltering, From header canonicalization by the MTA would not be seen by the opendkim milter thereby creating messages with missing or invalid signatures, and mailing list/auto reply/forwarder software mangling messages. I think Postfix does a better job in this regard, so these issues may not present itself. (I did a Postfix/opendkim milter on an Ubuntu system and it was much less hassle.) You should look at *lots* of DMARC RUA reports. People are doing crazy batsh*t stuff with your mail domain. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Setting compression to specific namespace
by Filip Bartmann 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

Hello, is it possible to set compression for specific namespace or spefic mailbox folder? Thanks, Filip Bartmann

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Question about line length limit in lmtp.
by Kamil Jońca 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

I have postfix + dovecot server. Mail for local users are saved by dovecot lmtp. Recently I got some messages from postfix: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 4NQ07L4h4LztXXr: breaking line > 998 bytes with <CR><LF>SPAC --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- This is because postfix has configured with default value lmtp_line_length_limit (990). I can turn off this limit (set to 0) but I am curious if dovecot lmtp will accept so lengthty lines? Does dovecot lmtp has any line limits? KJ -- http://stopstopnop.pl/stop_stopnop.pl_o_nas.html

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doveadm index to terminate non-zero in case of failure
by Jaco Kroon 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

Hi, It would be great if doveadm index could terminate non-zero in the case of index corruption, that way the tool can be used as a way to determine and remove corrupted indexes. Example: othala [13:56:24] ~ # doveadm index -u lumi_james INBOX doveadm(lumi_james): Error: Corrupted transaction log file /path/to/lumi_james/dovecot.list.index.log seq 2: Unexpected garbage at EOF (sync_offset=7168) doveadm(lumi_james): Error: Failed to map transaction log /path/to/lumi_james/dovecot.list.index.log at sync_offset=7168 after locking: Unexpected garbage at EOF othala [13:56:34] ~ # echo $? 0 othala [13:56:37] ~ # If doveadm index exited non-zero in above case we'd be able to: if ! doveadm index -u lumi_james INBOX; then rm /path/to/lumi_james/dovecot.index{,log,.cache} fi Which may be over-zealous in removing indexes, but we'd rather have that. We believe we already fixed the locking issue that caused the corrupt indexes and are busy cleaning them up based on log files, but it would still be great if the above could be integrated into our check battery if/when users report problems, of "run the script and it fixes 99% of things that are known to break". In the same breath, we're seeing that folders with & in the name are causing problems for doveadm index -u someuser '*' usage. Kind regards, Jaco

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dsync with vurtial folder leads to mess of msg ID
by Kirill A. Korinsky 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

Greetings, I have a setup with two dovecot servers and dsync replication between them. On both of them I have a virtual folders, forexample All with config: mx1# cat /etc/dovecot/virtual/All/dovecot-virtual * -Trash -Trash/* -Junk -Junk/* all All virtual folders are excluded from replication because it leads to broken replication with errors like: virtual.All can't be created. So, I have. replication_dsync_parameters = -d -l 30 -U -x virtual. Unfortently, after a couple of weeks I've noticed that msg id for the same message on the different servers aren't match. For example: mx1# doveadm fetch -u kirill(a)korins.ky 'uid' mailbox virtual.All header Message-ID 'macports/macports-ports/pull/22284/c1901369454(a)github.com' uid: 157786 mx1# doveadm fetch -u kirill(a)korins.ky 'uid' mailbox INBOX header Message-ID 'macports/macports-ports/pull/22284/c1901369454(a)github.com' uid: 5561 mx1# vs mx2# doveadm fetch -u kirill(a)korins.ky 'uid' mailbox virtual.All header Message-ID 'macports/macports-ports/pull/22284/c1901369454(a)github.com' uid: 157766 mx2# doveadm fetch -u kirill(a)korins.ky 'uid' mailbox INBOX header Message-ID 'macports/macports-ports/pull/22284/c1901369454(a)github.com' uid: 5561 mx2# as you may see msgid at INBOX are matched, but it isn't true for virtual.All, here 157786 vs 157766 So, here the question: how can I sync msg id inside virtual folder on this setup? -- wbr, Kirill

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Variable expansion on %w
by Gandalf Corvotempesta 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

I'm following the guide for changing the password schema. Everything works as expected (i'm using a static passwd file), but when the plain password has a % inside, dovecot is trying to expand that, triggering an error: Apr 11 21:33:55 mail02 dovecot: pop3(x)<3962994><4soGPNcVXsoln9W6>: Error: Failed to expand plugin setting plain_pass = 'xxxxx%Yxxxxxx!%': Unknown variable '%Y' How can I block the variable expansion inside %w ?

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Sieve not getting recompiled
by Joan Moreau 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

Hi I have sieve = /mails/%d/%n/sieve/roundcube.sieve sieve_after = /mails/sieve/after.sieve sieve_before = /mails/sieve/before.sieve sieve_dir = /mails/%d/%n/sieve/ sieve_global_dir = /mails/sieve/ But sieve scripts are not compiled and not executed It was working until I removed the setting "sieve_global_path" Something I dont understand ? Thank you

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