April 2024 - dovecot - dovecot.org

Re: Users with enough rope to hang themselves
by Joseph Tam 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

Rupert Gallagher writes: > I keep finding myself in a corner with a user. He uses mail extensively, which > is fine, he has a huge archive of own professional correspondence, which is > fine, but he uses mail folders as if they were regular system folders, with > very long paths, and keeps renaming them and moving them around, daily, > breaking the mail index Tangentially query: is Dveocot smart enough to optimize mailbox renaming to do index renaming (i.e. does not try to copy or recreate indices)? > and ultimately wasting his own time looking around for > lost mail. His Inbox holds a gargantuan of subfolders, causing both the client > and the server to overwork each time he opens the mail. His Archive is a maze > of subfolders with repeating names. I advised him almost daily across 20 year > on how to stay organised, but he keeps abusing the service. Semantically, he may be inept/disorganized/unappreciative, but I wouldn't raise this to abuse. However, the damages are often the same. Maybe the fix is not technical but social by making it clear you're done trying to fix his mistakes and he's on his own. Just sayin'. > I want to help him by limiting what he can do with folders. This is the agenda: > 1. the Archive is the only place where he can create folders; I'm guessing https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/acl/ > 2. folder names have a maximum length of 20 characters. No clue here: maybe artful remapping of namespaces? https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location/#custom-namespac… Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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2.4 ballpark release date?
by Shawn Heisey 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

I'm wondering whether there is a ballpark release date for Dovecot 2.4. I know an exact release date is probably not available, but can it at least be narrowed to a specific quarter? Is it likely in 2023? I have seen on previous messages that an Ubuntu repository for 22.04 (jammy) will appear with the 2.4 release. My mail server in AWS is running Ubuntu 20.04 (focal), which I have avoided upgrading for various reasons, including websites that don't work with PHP 8.1. Now the last remaining hurdle is the fact that there is no dovecot repository for jammy. I would prefer the official Dovecot repo over dovecot packages included with Ubuntu, because it's likely to be a newer release, and built from vanilla project code. At the moment jammy includes dovecot 2.3.16, which is even older than the 2.3.20 that I am running on focal from the official dovecot repo. Again, I know that a precise release date won't be possible. I'm just hoping for something like "soon" or "in about six months." Thanks, Shawn

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Re: Fwd: Dovecot, Load Balancing and SSL
by Joseph Tam 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

leon(a)relay.gb.net writes: > I wonder if someone would provide me with some advice. I've been setting > up a couple of Postfix servers just for fun. I've got two Postfix > servers m1.domain.com and m2.domain.com. I can send and receive mail via > both of them. Ive also got Postfixadmin and RoundCube on them and I'm > replicating the database over both servers. > > I introduced a load balancer. Postfixadmin and Roundcube work perfectly. > However. When I send mail from Thunderbird. M1 reports that the > certificate does not match. It's expecting a certificate for > mail.domain.com. Complaints when you're sending mail? This is not Dovecot's problem, but Postfix's. If you're setting your SMTP outgoing to M1, then the certificate M1 uses have M1 as a subject. If you're setting the outgoing mail server as "mail.domain.com" load balanced to M1/M2, then both your Postifx servers need to use the same certificate with "mail.domain.com" as a subject. Simple as that. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Dovecot, Load Balancing and SSL
by leon＠relay.gb.net 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Hi Everyone! I wonder if someone would provide me with some advice. I've been setting up a couple of Postfix servers just for fun. I've got two Postfix servers m1.domain.com and m2.domain.com. I can send and receive mail via both of them. Ive also got Postfixadmin and RoundCube on them. I introduced a load balancer. Postfixadmin and Roundcube work perfectly. However. When I send mail from Thunderbird. M1 reports that the certificate does not match. It's expecting a certificate for mail.domain.com. On M1 I thought I would try to specify the location of the SSL when using mail.domain.com. I placed the certificate in the NAS and specified it in the 10-ssl file. I did this as per the docs. mail.domain.com local_name mail.domain.com { ssl_cert = </nas/ssl/fullchain.pem ssl_key = </nas/ssl/privkey.pem } It doesn't work. And I'm not entirely sure why M2 works and M1 doesn't. As far as I can see I haven't specified or placed a certificate for mail.domain.com on M2 and searching my bash history doesn't produce anything related to mail.domain.com. So how can I load balance email connections over my two servers without getting a damn certificate warning? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

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Any way to make a shared mailbox(not a shared folder)
by Maksim Rodin 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Hello I wonder if there is a right way to make a shared mailbox? I do not mean "shared folder" but a whole mailbox. E.g. I have a mailbox info(a)company.com and I have a user mailbox user1(a)company.com. I would like that a user which can already authenticate as user1(a)company.com can setup another account in his Thunderbird as, say, user1@company.com\info@company.com or something like user1*info, enters his own password and can use the mailbox info(a)company.com as his second mailbox. It might be something similar to master user feature but I do not want the user1(a)company.com to have access to all the mailboxes on the dovecot imap server. -- Regards Maksim Rodin

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