May 2024 - dovecot - dovecot.org

Command "doveadm director kick ...." doesn't work
by g.carabella＠panservice.it 23 May '24

23 May '24

Hi, I have a Dovecot installation (version 2.3.16) with 3 directors and 4 backend servers. Three backend servers have the director_tag 'new', one has the director_tag 'old'. The users are on the DB, the director_tag is a table field. I want to migrate mailboxes from the old backend (Maildir format) to the new (mdbox format). For the migration I use the "doveadm backup" command and everything works fine. The problem I'm having is that I can't kick the user (if logged in). Once the migration is done (as indicated https://doc.dovecot.org/3.0/man/doveadm-sync.1/) I modify the user's home, mail_location and director_tag and then execute the command "doveadm director kick ..." but the connection on the directors is not killed. Why does this problem occur? Could it be due to the use of the director_tag and the fact that for the command "doveadm director kick ..." it is not possible to specify it? Even if I run the command "doveadm director move mailbox_account new_backend_server", the director adds a new connection but does not kill the previous one, with the result that there are two connections for the same user, one on the new backend and one on the old one. I also tried to configure the director_tag only for the 3 new servers, but the "director kick" still doesn't work.

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Problems using non-libc memory allocators
by bl0v3 22 May '24

22 May '24

Hey I was trying to use dovecot2 with a not libc based memory allocation such as scudo or graphene-hardened or graphene-hardened-light but ran into the issues I described in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/313721 I just wanted to mention this here as well as this behavior may suggest a flaw in the memory allocation mechanism of dovecot2/anvil. I haven't yet found the time to check the underlaying issue as I'm quite busy rn. So I thought id just mention what I came across in case this is actually unexpected or potentially even security relevant mis/behavior.

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Dovecot calculating quota wrong or am I stupid?
by jarland＠mxroute.com 21 May '24

21 May '24

I'm currently running 2.3.21 on this system and here's what I'm seeing (a bit cut down for excess): # doveadm quota get -u emailuser(a)domain.net STORAGE 1052385 MESSAGE 2741 So the storage is roughly more than 1GB according to Dovecot. No change after quota recalc. But: root@arrow:/home/username/imap/domain.net# du -sh emailuser 692M emailuser There are no symlinks or anything like that. Quota config is pretty basic: root@arrow:/etc/dovecot# cat conf.d/90-quota.conf #add quota to end of line in: #/etc/dovecot/conf/mail_plugins.conf, eg: #mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota #add imap_quota to end of line in: #/etc/dovecot/conf/imap_mail_plugins.conf, eg: #mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota plugin { quota = maildir } If anyone has advice I would greatly appreciate it.

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Re: After user disconnect run the custom script
by Michael Slusarz 20 May '24

20 May '24

> On 05/20/2024 9:43 AM MDT Alexey Krylov via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > > Please, send me the link, where I can find the info about configuring > firing script after dovecot client is disconnected. > > I found post-login scripting. Than's cool, but... I need to fire script > a little bit later. See https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/list_of_events/#mail-user-session-fini… You will need to build a event listener for this event, and then do your scripting in there. michael

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After user disconnect run the custom script
by Alexey Krylov 20 May '24

20 May '24

Sirs, good day. Please, send me the link, where I can find the info about configuring firing script after dovecot client is disconnected. I found post-login scripting. Than's cool, but... I need to fire script a little bit later. May be I try to build crutches... But I wish with all my heart to do this. Thanks to everyone who responded. -- Это сообщение было проверено антивирусным ПО Avast на наличие вирусов. www.avast.com

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Errors after enable add mail_attachment_detection_options
by Ricardo Machini 20 May '24

20 May '24

Hello, I got a lot of fatal errors on differents mailbox after I added the option: mail_attachment_detection_options = add-flags Rocky Linux release 8.9 (Green Obsidian) 2.3.21 (47349e2482) May 16 15:03:00 Panic: imap(user(a)domain.com.br)<1669762><cOqoC5YYQlq63CaF>: file imap-sieve-storage.c: line 317 (imap_sieve_add_mailbox_event): assertion failed: (ismt->src_box == NULL || ismt->src_box == src_box) May 16 15:03:00 Error: imap(user(a)domain.com.br)<1669762><cOqoC5YYQlq63CaF>: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x41) [0x7f2c9d8b9761] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x22) [0x7f2c9d8b9882] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x10bb6b) [0x7f2c9d8c6b6b] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x10bc07) [0x7f2c9d8c6c07] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5cec5) [0x7f2c9d817ec5] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib95_imap_sieve_plugin.so(+0x7ebc) [0x7f2c9b011ebc] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib95_imap_sieve_plugin.so(+0x815f) [0x7f2c9b01215f] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib20_zlib_plugin.so(+0x4a37) [0x7f2c9c179a37] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_free+0x12) [0x7f2c9dc73982] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib95_imap_sieve_plugin.so(+0x71be) [0x7f2c9b0111be] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_free+0x1e) [0x7f2c9dbef55e] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xf124f) [0x7f2c9dc8624f] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_index_transaction_commit_full+0x80) [0x7f2c9dc9f900] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_transaction_commit+0xf1) [0x7f2c9dc867e1] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0xccb15) [0x7f2c9dc61b15] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib95_imap_sieve_plugin.so(+0x885d) [0x7f2c9b01285d] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0x13de4) [0x7f2c9c79fde4] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib15_notify_plugin.so(+0x240d) [0x7f2c9c9cf40d] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/lib10_quota_plugin.so(+0xfcdf) [0x7f2c9cde5cdf] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_transaction_commit_get_changes+0x7a) [0x7f2c9dc000ba] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.com.br 186.220.38.133 UID COPY](+0x153c2) [0x559668ce73c2] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.com.br 186.220.38.133 UID COPY](command_exec+0x6c) [0x559668cf559c] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.com.br 186.220.38.133 UID COPY](+0x215af) [0x559668cf35af] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.com.br 186.220.38.133 UID COPY](+0x21661) [0x559668cf3661] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.com.br 186.220.38.133 UID COPY](+0x21882) [0x559668cf3882] -> dovecot/imap [ user(a)domain.com.br 186.220.38.133 UID COPY](client_handle_input+0x1c5) [0x559668cf3a95] -> dovecot/imap [user(a)domain.com.br 186.220.38.133 UID COPY](client_input+0x76) [0x559668cf3f96] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x6d) [0x7f2c9d8dd84d] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x139) [0x7f2c9d8def09] -> /usr/lib64/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x50) [0x7f2c9d8dd8f0] May 16 15:03:00 Fatal: imap(user(a)domain.com.br)<1669762><cOqoC5YYQlq63CaF>: master: service(imap): child 1669762 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) Regards, Ricardo

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Change the default base_dir to /run from ${prefix}/var/run
by Дилян Палаузов 20 May '24

20 May '24

Hello, at 6b1bcf1bad1d7, calling ./configure && make install sets prefix=/usr/local, and thus the default base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot. Moreover it installs /usr/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service with [Service] ProtectSystem=full. ProtectSystem=full mounts /usr as read-only, so no files can be written under the default base_dir. The Linux Hierachy Standard says for /usr/local - https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s09.html - directories bin, etc, games, include, lib, man, sbin, share, and src must be in /usr/local. No other directories, except those listed below, may be in /usr/local after first installing a FHS-compliant system. var is not listed below. (“below” means the citation above, not the next paragraph) For /var/run LSH contains - https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html#varrunRuntimeVari… - This directory was once intended for system information data describing the system since it was booted. These functions have been moved to /run; this directory exists to ensure compatibility with systems and software using an older version of this specification. In general, the requirements for /run shall also apply to /var/run. It is valid to implement /var/run as a symlink to /run. . For /run LHS mentions “This directory contains system information data describing the system since it was booted. Files under this directory must be cleared (removed or truncated as appropriate) at the beginning of the boot process.” The defaults base_dir=/usr/local/var/run/dovecot and ProtectSystem=full present a non-working configuration. • Please consider changing the default (implicit) value of base_dir to /run. • When prefix is /usr/local, then dovecot.service should be installed in /usr/local/lib/systemd/system/. Kind regards Дилян

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example/config misses required section names for passdb{} and userdb{}
by Дилян Палаузов 20 May '24

20 May '24

Hello, I installed Dovecot from git 6b1bcf1bad1d78e, copied /usr/local/share/doc/dovecot/example/config to /usr/local/etc/dovecot and called dovecot -F . The system reported doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-system.conf.ext line 11: passdb { } is missing section name The problem remains, if I delete dovecot-dict-auth.conf.ext dovecot-ldap.conf.ext dovecot-oauth2.conf.ext dovecot-sql.conf.ext conf.d/auth-deny.conf.ext conf.d/auth-ldap.conf.ext conf.d/auth-passwdfile.conf.ext conf.d/auth-static.conf.ext conf.d/auth-dict.conf.ext conf.d/auth-master.conf.ext conf.d/auth-sql.conf.ext thus leaving passdb {} and userdb {} defined on a single place. Indeed, auth-system.conf.ext contains the sections passdb and userdb without the optional name, as described at https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/config_file/#sections . The problem report is that the example configuration does not contain for sections userdb and passdb a section name, and at the same time the as optional described section name is mandatory in Dovecot on these places. Kind regards Dilyan

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Dovecot logging to files causes issues
by Richard Rosner 20 May '24

20 May '24

I have a mailing server setup based on Debian Stable that uses postfix (v3.7.10) for SMTP and dovecot (v2.3.19.1 (9b53102964)) for IMAP. I now wanted to set dovecot to not write to syslog, but to dedicated files in /var/log/dovecot. While everything indicates that this happens successfully as the log files gain in size, I also get lots of these errors: May 13 20:55:37 mail postfix/local[2824184]: 95BCF1000A9: to=<user(a)domain.de>, relay=local, delay=3.2, delays=1.9/0.29/0/1.1, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: lda(user): Error: net_connect_unix(/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied ) If it would only log the complaints I wouldn't worry, but as long as I don't revert the changes in dovecot's config, mail receiving is at least vastly delayed, most likely stuck alltogether. So how am I supposed to set these settings? I've chainged these settings in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf: log_path = /var/log/dovecot/error.log debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug.log log_debug = category=error The whole directory /var/log/dovecot is owned by dovecot:dovecot, permissions on debug.log, error.log and info.log are 644. Best Richard

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Re: Failing to archive many messages
by Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay 18 May '24

18 May '24

Today I realized that it was indeed the sa-learn that is slowing down my Archiving. I added an «&» on the end of the line that calls the sa-learn (called by the report-ham.sieve script): exec /usr/bin/sa-learn -u ${1} --ham & Does anyone thing this is a bad idea? I noticed that archiving got way faster this way… Best, Francis > On 9 May 2024, at 23:09, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org wrote: > >> On 9 May 2024, at 19:45, dovecot-request(a)dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot-request@dovecot.org> wrote: >> >> Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay via dovecot skrev den 2024-05-09 12:29: >> >>>> If you want to analyze emails, why not do it with scheduled crons >>>> after they are archived? >> >> maybe ask for skip older then one day in here >> https://github.com/isbg/isbg/tree/master >> >> while roundcube just set the needed flag for retest ? >> >>> wouldn't it reanalyze all archived messages anyway? >> >> sometimes email is ham at recpt stage, while its spam later on test, >> this is why isbg is made imho :) > > > I see. > > But I wonder if there is something wrong with what I already have. It worked fine for years, and it works fine for most of my users. I tested with a few accounts, and Archving (with its sa-learn script) works blazingly fast. But with one user - happens to be mine - it is super slow when archiving, most likely due the sa-learn. > > Best, > > Francis

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