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A bug and a misleading description
by David Van Edwards 01 Jan '24

01 Jan '24

!. I have just tried deleting Sent messages and when I put the search string 1:200 in only one message was deleted. And when I put in 1:500 again only one message was deleted. In both cases a green message box came up saying the operation was successful. 2. I successfully deleted 1000 messages from my Inbox using the search string 1:1000 but it was not clear to me that this would delete the 1000 most RECENT emails, not as I imagined the FIRST 1000 emails counting from the beginning. Is that the case? It certainly seems to have been the result and it’s rather upsetting. Should your documentation make it clear whether 1:1000 is counting forwards or backwards? Best wishes, David David Van Edwards The Smokehouse 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich NR1 4HB 01603 629899 david(a)vanedwards.co.uk https://www.vanedwards.co.uk

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Authentication failure due to address space limit
by Max Nikulin 26 Dec '23

26 Dec '23

Hi, I faced an error that appeared rather obscure at first, so I am trying to figure out if something can be improved. I have managed to solve the issue. I am running a Dovecot IMAP server to keep my personal mail archive. This server does not receive or send mail, just IMAP access. There was no reason to tune its performance, so its configuration is close to what Debian package has out of the box (actually doc/example-config). At certain moment I started to get authentication failures: dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: fatal error: failed to reserve page summary memory dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime stack: dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime.throw({0x7f552c418194?, 0x7f552c1feb10?}) dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime/panic.go:1047 +0x5f fp=0x7f552c1feac0 sp=0x7f552c1fea90 pc=0x7f552c28a53f dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime.(*pageAlloc).sysInit(0x7f552c5f6fd0) dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime/mpagealloc_64bit.go:82 +0x195 fp=0x7f552c1feb48 sp=0x7f552c1feac0 pc=0x7f552c280ef5 dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime.(*pageAlloc).init(0x7f552c5f6fd0, 0x7f552c5f6fc0, 0x0?) dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime/mpagealloc.go:324 +0x70 fp=0x7f552c1feb70 sp=0x7f552c1feb48 pc=0x7f552c27eb50 dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime.(*mheap).init(0x7f552c5f6fc0) dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime/mheap.go:729 +0x13f fp=0x7f552c1feba8 sp=0x7f552c1feb70 pc=0x7f552c27bf5f dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime.mallocinit() dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime/malloc.go:407 +0xb2 fp=0x7f552c1febd0 sp=0x7f552c1feba8 pc=0x7f552c260e72 dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime.schedinit() dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime/proc.go:693 +0xab fp=0x7f552c1fec30 sp=0x7f552c1febd0 pc=0x7f552c28df0b dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime.rt0_go() dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Error: runtime/asm_amd64.s:345 +0x120 fp=0x7f552c1fec38 sp=0x7f552c1fec30 pc=0x7f552c2b7c20 dovecot[72165]: auth: Error: auth-worker: Aborted PASSV request for mailuser: Worker process died unexpectedly dovecot[72165]: auth-worker: Fatal: master: service(auth-worker): child 72211 returned error 2 Such errors happen even for invalid users curl -v 'imap://bad:bad@localhost/' I have realized that it may be related to the pam_fscrypt plugin I had installed before. It is intended for another system user, so I did not expect any negative consequence on Dovecot. Disabling the module confirmed my guess. This PAM module is written in Go and language runtime requires almost 1G of address space (RLIMIT_AS) even when actual memory allocation is several times lower (the user has no configured login protector). https://github.com/golang/go/issues/38010 "runtime: high startup address space usage (RLIMIT_AS) on Linux AMD64" The code of the fscrypt PAM module has Go panic handlers, but this case error happens early during runtime initialization, so error handlers have not set yet and can not provide a more instructive error. I do not like that Go has no knobs like compile or link flags to prevent early allocation of rather large address space. At the same time I admit that doing garbage collection efficiently is tricky and unreasonable efforts may be required to allow modest address space at startup. Default Dovecot configuration has vsz_limit = $default_vsz_limit = 256M The following configuration snippet solves the issue: service auth-worker { # still crash, but later # vsz_limit = 800M vsz_limit = 1024M } I am realizing that my use case is rather specific. Mail and encrypted home directories are hardly compatible. However some other PAM modules may cause similar issues. Cgroup Linux kernel feature should allow to limit real memory usage and it should be better than per-process limits imposed on address space size. However assigning proper control groups for Dovecot processes may be not so trivial. I am unsure if auth-worker vsz_limit or default_vsz_limit should be raised in the example configuration. Do you think it is reasonable to add warnings concerning PAM plugins and vsz_limit to docs? I mean - https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/pam/ - https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/service_configuration/#auth-wo… in a similar way as it is done for Argon2 in https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/password_scheme… P.S. Debian 12 bookworm, Dovecot 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1

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19 Dec '23

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Re-Enabling TLS1.1 in dovecot 2.3.16
by Nils 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

Hi, I'd like to re-enable TLS1.1 (at least temporary) to see if it fixes a problem with one of my clients. When I add "ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.1" to either dovecot.conf or conf.d/10-ssl.conf it doesn't seem to have an effect. Still the client is not working. I used testssl.sh to check the available ssl versions and it says that tls1.1 is not offered: $ ./testssl.sh --starttls imap SERVERNAME.TLD:143 ... Service set: STARTTLS via IMAP Testing protocols via sockets SSLv2 not offered (OK) SSLv3 not offered (OK) TLS 1 not offered TLS 1.1 not offered TLS 1.2 offered (OK) TLS 1.3 offered (OK): final Kind regards, Nils

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dovecot submission max line length
by Kees van Vloten 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Hi all, After upgrading Debian Bullseye (Dovecot 2.3.13) to Bookworm (Dovcecot 2.3.19), submission-login returns an error on Kerberos authentication: "Client sent invalid command: Command line is too long". When I initially set this up on Bullseye I have seen the same issue, but adding "imap_max_line_length = 2M" solved it. Now with 2.3.19 kerberos authentication still works (with this setting) for imap connections but it stopped working for submission. Is there a new config setting for submission-login that I missed? Or is this a bug in 2.3.19? - Kees.

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Username used by dovecot to access database certificate and key files
by John Fawcett 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

Hi does anyone happen to know the username under which dovecot accesses the certificate and key files when connecting to a mariadb database with ssl? I can't seem to get dovecot to read the files without a "other" readable bit set. I have dovecot users in mysql with the following connect string in dovecot-sql.conf.ext connect = host=x.x.x host=y.y.y host=z.z.z dbname=maildb user=mailuser password=xxxxxx \ ssl_ca=/etc/ssl/mysql/ca-cert.pem \ ssl_cert=/etc/ssl/mysql/client-cert.pem \ ssl_key=/etc/ssl/mysql/client-key.pem \ ssl_verify_server_cert=yes The certificate and key files in /etc/ssl/mysql/ are owned by root with group users: ls -l /etc/ssl/mysql total 12 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 2041 Jun 22 15:32 ca-cert.pem -r--r--r--. 1 root users 1907 Jun 22 15:32 client-cert.pem -r--r--r--. 1 root users 3272 Jun 22 15:32 client-key.pem For my test dovecot, dovenull and vmail are all members of group users: grep users /etc/group users:x:100:postfix,dovecot,dovenull,vmail If I remove the "other" readable attribute on the certificate and key files, dovecot complains it can't connect to the db server: auth: Error: mysql(x.x.x): Connect failed to database (maildb): TLS/SSL error: Permission denied (13) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry I realize it only adds marginal security to not have these files world readable, but still it is puzzling why dovecot cannot read them in that case. Can anyone see what I am missing? Thanks John

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08 Dec '23

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Compiler error
by Goetz Schultz 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

Hi, I have upgraded my system to FreeBSD14 and tried to recompile dovecot. The following error is thrown now (It did compile on FBSD13): <quote> test-mail-index-transaction-update.c:650:36: error: incompatible pointer to integer conversion passing 'char *(*)(int, int)' to parameter of type 'time_t' (aka 'long') [-Wint-conversion] mail_index_update_day_headers(t, tests[i].now + timezone); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ </quote> (t, tests[i].now + timezone); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Is there a patch or something like that to compensate? -- Thanks and regards Goetz R Schultz ---------------->8---------------- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML e-mail / \ ----------------8<---------------- ---------------------------->8------------------------------ /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML e-mail / \ This message is transmitted on 100% recycled electrons. ---------------------------->8------------------------------ Unsigned message - no responsibillity that content is not altered

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replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435496 bytes
by Gerben Wierda 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

One step further in my quest to create a replacement mail server. I now have my old mail server (2.3.19.1, macOS + MacPorts) and my new (2.3.20, Alpine Linux, Docker, apk package). When I turn on replication it works, but, after a while I see: Jan 06 00:50:31 replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435496 bytes Jan 06 00:50:32 replicator: Fatal: master: service(replicator): child 133 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) Jan 06 00:50:32 lmtp(pid 195 user sysbh): Warning: replication(sysbh): Sync failure: Jan 06 00:50:32 lmtp(pid 195 user sysbh): Warning: replication(sysbh): Remote sent invalid input: - I've removed synchronous operation for now (found a message on the net suggesting that) but is this known and what does it mean? Gerben Wierda (LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerbenwierda>) R&A IT Strategy <https://ea.rna.nl/> (main site) Book: Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture <https://ea.rna.nl/the-book/> Book: Mastering ArchiMate <https://ea.rna.nl/the-book-edition-iii/>

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04 Dec '23

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