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BUG: extra_groups doesn't accept multiple values
by m＠sacha.pl 14 Jun '25

14 Jun '25

Hello, I'm reporting a bug in the config processor/parser. The option extra_groups does not accept multiple (list) values. If you put a section like: service auth-worker { user = $default_internal_user group = $default_internal_group extra_groups = shadow mail } you will get the error message like: dovecotFatal: service(auth-worker) Group doesn't exist: shadow mail (See service auth-worker { extra_groups } setting) It is trivial to reproduce - just try to run the dovecot with the section like above, and you will get the error. Best regards, Marcin

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Dovecot and xoauth2: oauth2 active_attribute check failed
by Markus Grandpré 14 Jun '25

14 Jun '25

Dear dovecot list members, I am currently working on the task of implementing an MFA solution with OpenID for our SOGo server v5.12.1.20250612-1 and our Dovecot server v2.3.21.1. For this purpose, we are using a Shibboleth IDP v5.1.4 with the appropriate OpenID extension via XOAUTH2. In my opinion, authentication and autorization requests and responses between SOGo and the IDP are working flawlessly, and with: SOGoSMTPAuthenticationType = xoauth2; NGImap4AuthMechanism = xoauth2; the SOGo server forwards the received access token to the Dovecot server. On the Dovecot side, I have configured the server as follows: /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf: disable_plaintext_auth = yes auth_username_format = %Ln auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = no auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes mail_debug = yes verbose_ssl = yes !include auth-master.conf.ext !include auth-oauth2.conf.ext /etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-oauth2.conf.ext auth_mechanisms = $auth_mechanisms plain xoauth2 oauthbearer passdb { driver = oauth2 mechanisms = xoauth2 oauthbearer args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-oauth2.conf.ext } userdb { driver = static args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%u } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0660 # Assuming the default Postfix user and group user = postfix group = postfix } } /etc/dovecot/dovecot-oauth2.conf.ext introspection_mode = post introspection_url = https://<ID>>:<SECRET>@idp-test.uni-konstanz.de/idp/profile/oauth2/introspection username_attribute = mail tls_ca_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt active_attribute = active active_value = true As soon as the SOGo server contacts the Dovecot server, and the latter contacts the IDP server, I see the following error message in the Dovecot server logs: Jun 13 11:44:47 bamenda dovecot: auth: Debug: http-client[1]: request [Req7: POST https://idp-test.uni-konstanz.de/idp/profile/oauth2/introspection] Free (requests lef t=1) Jun 13 11:44:47 bamenda dovecot: auth: Debug: oauth2(pop519315,134.34.240.55,<kMaO5XA3FrWGIvA3>): Introspection succeeded Jun 13 11:44:47 bamenda dovecot: auth: Debug: oauth2(pop519315,134.34.240.55,<kMaO5XA3FrWGIvA3>): Processing field active Jun 13 11:44:47 bamenda dovecot: auth: Debug: oauth2(pop519315,134.34.240.55,<kMaO5XA3FrWGIvA3>): oauth2 active_attribute check failed: expected active="true" but got "false" Jun 13 11:44:47 bamenda dovecot: auth: oauth2(pop519315,134.34.240.55,<kMaO5XA3FrWGIvA3>): oauth2 failed: Introspection failed: Provided token is not valid Jun 13 11:44:47 bamenda dovecot: auth: Debug: oauth2(pop519315,134.34.240.55,<kMaO5XA3FrWGIvA3>): Finished passdb lookup Jun 13 11:44:47 bamenda dovecot: auth: Debug: auth(pop519315,134.34.240.55,<kMaO5XA3FrWGIvA3>): Auth request finished Is the error on the IDP side, or is there something wrong with my Dovecot configuration, or both? How can I make Dovecot more verbose the way I could see all the tokens exchanged with SOGo and IDP? I would greatly appreciate your help. Best regards, Markus Grandpré -- Markus Ludwig Grandpré Universität Konstanz Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM) Abteilung IT-Dienste Forschung und Lehre, B803, Tel: +49 7531 88 4342

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dovecot-2.4 problems with uid/gid and mbox settings
by "Tóth Attila" 14 Jun '25

14 Jun '25

1. I have a disturbing uid/gid issue: up until dovecot-2.3, dovecot changed its uid/gid to the user it is delivering the mail for. I'm the first user on the system with uid 1000 and the users gid is 100. Therefore I kept first_valid_uid = 1000 and first_valid_gid = 100. Now that I've upgraded to dovecot-2.4, it immediately started to complain about unable to change uid/gid, because it tries to write in user's directory as mail:mail. Mail directories and files in it are accessible only by the owner, not even by the group. So even after lowering first_valid_uid/gid, the operation fails. Are there any configuration options to restore dovecot-2.3 behavior to change uid:gid to the actual user Jun 8 21:40:52 server dovecot: imap(user)<48978><1LgipBQ3LO1/AAAB>: Error: mkdir(/home/user/mail/.imap) failed: Permission denied (euid=8(mail) egid=12(mail) missing +x perm: /home/user/mail, dir owned by 1000:100 mode=0700) Jun 8 21:40:52 server dovecot: imap(user)<48978><1LgipBQ3LO1/AAAB>: Error: mkdir(/home/user/mail/.imap) failed: Permission denied (euid=8(mail) egid=12(mail) missing +x perm: /home/user/mail, dir owned by 1000:100 mode=0700) 2. I know, that mbox is deprecated as of dovecot-2.4 - or that it has been long superseded by more modern formats, but I have a setup for 20+ years (without any problems and less files) and before I would convert it to Maildir, I'd rather provide a transition period and keep using mbox for a little while. During dovecot-2.3 times this was my mail_location setting: mail_location = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u Mails get delivered into /var/spool/mail/user and when dovecot reads them, they get copied under /home/user/mail. Now for dovecot-2.4 I'm forced to came up with this: mail_driver = mbox mail_path = /home/%{user}/mail mail_inbox_path = /var/spool/mail/%{user} #mail_home Are there anyone else with a setup like this struggling with dovecot-2.4? Thanks: Dw. -- dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057 Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057

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Verifying LDAP configuration from command line ?
by BuzzSaw Code 14 Jun '25

14 Jun '25

Dovecot version : 2.3.x - using RedHat build Years ago I had a Dovecot install that was setup to perform certificate based authentication for clients that worked well - part of that setup was creating a passdb that pointed to a flat file that contained entries like this: cool.joe.c:{PLAIN}::::::username=cooljc and the passdb definition looked like this: passdb { driver = passwd-file args = scheme=plain /etc/dovecot/users.external skip = authenticated mechanisms = EXTERNAL default_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail nopassword=1 } That worked and we had a cron job that would build that users.external file and keep it up to date. Now, a few years down the road, I've setup a new Dovecot server that is working wonderfully but I'd like to add the same functionality but also use a direct LDAP query instead of managing a flat file to maintain the list of users. I have another passdb entry that is using LDAP that works great for username/password auth, but I'd like to test what I think is a proper LDAP configuration specific for this passdb, But for the life of me I can't find out how to test the configuration file without having to actually update my dovecot configuration to use it. I'm looking for something like the Postfix 'postmap' tool that I can provide my configuration file for the LDAP lookup, give a username input to and it will show me the results from the configuration, including the return values. Is there such a tool ? Or do I have to setup a test server, add it to the config, and debug it ? Sorry if this is FAQ or dumb question - I've been reading documentation on the official Dovecot site looking for the answer but I'm either missing it or I'm reading the wrong docs.

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FreeBSD deployment
by Eugene R 07 Jun '25

07 Jun '25

Hello! I am planning a migration of the Postfix/Dovecot mail system to a new FreeBSD server. In recent years, I have come to prefer the official ports/packages installations; however, the FreeBSD port of Dovecot is still at 2.3.21 which is substantially different from the current upstream 2.4.1. I have no problems with installing from sources (have been doing that for a long time) but I wonder what is the recommended approach with regard to the installation and configuration paths. I would prefer to follow the standard conventions and eventually switch to the ports-based install once it catches up, with minimal disruption and reconfiguration. Thank you in advance Eugene

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GSSAPI authentication for sieve
by Paul Zirnik 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Hi all, I try to get GSSAPI working for sieve. I already found there was an issue with GSSAPI in dovecot 2.4 and applied the patch from this thread https://dovecot.org/mailman3/archives/list/dovecot@dovecot.org/thread/MWCLQ… With the patch GSSAPI now works for imap. I do test this with "imtest" from cyrus tools imat@speedy:~> imtest -v -p 143 -u imat -m GSSAPI manitou.disconnected.homeip.net S: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SASL-IR LITERAL+ STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED AUTH=GSSAPI] Dovecot ready. C: A01 AUTHENTICATE GSSAPI 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 S: + YIGZBgkqhkiG9xIBAgICAG+BiTCBhqADAgEFoQMCAQ+iejB4oAMCARKicQRvzFWfR5FTOl77CqiMZ7qWR4I6JqXdi0JbIG4xTYJNYvQSsvxAxyfEiGINTMW5QytlcMvfiJpTj0U2Fd3Hr/MzLcCeCRwJ9jTg8m2E1ZgpmzmpXzl7xGq+MRIvetu3Wdgxum+ZQ8jPS1obTnI1Vh7I C: S: + BQQF/wAMAAAAAAAAHJz31AH///+2dWHfKNY/6f01FUw= C: BQQE/wAMAAAAAAAABI42iwEAAABpbWF0C53m6npnJwjAfaEu S: A01 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE REPLACE SNIPPET=FUZZY PREVIEW=FUZZY PREVIEW SPECIAL-USE STATUS=SIZE SAVEDATE COMPRESS=DEFLATE INPROGRESS NOTIFY LITERAL+] Logged in Authenticated. Security strength factor: 0 C: Q01 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out Q01 OK Logout completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). Connection closed. When i try to use "sivtest" from cyrus tools, this does hang and it looks like sievtest is still waiting for some data imat@speedy:~> sivtest -v -p 4190 -u imat -m GSSAPI manitou.disconnected.homeip.net S: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Dovecot Pigeonhole" S: "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include body variables enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext" S: "NOTIFY" "mailto" S: "SASL" "GSSAPI" S: "STARTTLS" S: "VERSION" "1.0" S: OK "Dovecot ready." C: AUTHENTICATE "GSSAPI" {1076+} 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 S: "YIGZBgkqhkiG9xIBAgICAG+BiTCBhqADAgEFoQMCAQ+iejB4oAMCARKicQRvEb5fwEVTKq3wm3xJawxEVD9Ngdz3tmzW5a8wJAh9lSRYSE0aJS97LvUtT1mWqZTFx5AZMJGfM7KpcbmJc3cOkVhe5lTUQDir58n1RywkyWYM6RvKd1Vzeonxt/AyJi7rN1CMR9VIh2KZUItIsz1y" here it hangs until timeout. May 24 10:10:36 manitou dovecot[45007]: auth(imat@disconnected.homeip.net,192.168.42.24,sasl:gssapi)<mh73Nt01+OHAqCoY>: Request timed out waiting for client to continue authentication (150 secs) May 24 10:11:06 manitou dovecot[45007]: managesieve-login: Login aborted: Inactivity during authentication (client didn't finish SASL auth, 1 attempts in 180 secs) (auth_waiting_client): user=<>, method=GSSAPI, rip=192.168.42.24, lip=192.168.42.42, session=<mh73Nt01+OHAqCoY> and sievtest does end with this S: BYE "Disconnected for inactivity during authentication." base64 decoding error Authentication failed. generic failure Security strength factor: 0 Connection closed. The "base64 decoding error" probably is unrelated as it does try to decode the "S: BYE .....". I also tested with other sieve clients, none does work (however different issues reported), while all tested imap clients do work. My guess is some small fix like the one from above is also needed for dovecot-pigeonhole. This is my used config manitou:~ # dovecot -n # 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.14.6-1-default x86_64 # Hostname: manitou.disconnected.homeip.net # 4 default setting changes since version 2.4.0 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_gssapi_hostname = manitou.disconnected.homeip.net auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/dovecot/dovecot.keytab auth_mechanisms = plain login gssapi dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 protocols { imap = yes lmtp = yes sieve = yes } protocol lmtp { auth_username_format = %{user | username} mail_plugins = sieve } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { } } namespace inbox { mail_driver = maildir mail_inbox_path = ~/Maildir/.INBOX mail_path = ~/Maildir inbox = yes separator = / } passdb pam { service_name = dovecot } userdb passwd { use_worker = yes } ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/ssl/servercerts/servercert.pem key_file = /etc/ssl/servercerts/serverkey.pem } service managesieve-login { } service managesieve { } sieve_script personal { active_path = ~/.dovecot.sieve path = ~/.sieve } What logs/infos are needed to dig into it ? thanks and regards, Tami

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Dovecot 2.4. field lookup for sqlite_path?
by Brent Clark 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

Good day Guys Reading: https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/core/config/auth/databases/sql.html#sqlite Im trying to do a field look up but I get the following error message Failed to parse configuration: Failed to expand sqlite_path setting variables: dom ain: No value to get domain from This is what I have passdb sql { query = SELECT name AS username, password FROM mailboxes WHERE name = '%{user | username}' sqlite_path = /usr/home/.mail/%{domain}/mailconf.sq3 } If I hard code the path, then the error message goes away Regards Brent Clark

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Fatal: Couldn't load required plugin /usr/lib/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: dlopen() failed: Error relocating /usr/lib/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: mail_deliver_get_return_address: symbol not found
by paradoor 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

Hi there, I have a Postfix/Dovecot server which today I upgraded from Alpine Linux 3.21 to 3.22. In the process, Dovecot updated from 2.3.21 to 2.4.1, and I updated my Dovecot config accordingly. At least `doveconf -n` runs without any error, and I'm able to start and run Dovecot. For context, I am using a passwd file where I enter usernames and argon2id passwords manually, since it's just a small mail server where I am the only user. The setup was working fine with Dovecot 2.3.x, and I've sent and received lots of mail before the update. However, I noticed that I'm no longer able to authenticate to the server since doing all the updates. I thought, maybe I should make sure the passwd file is correct with my password, so I tried running `doveadm pw -s argon2id`. I then got the error: `Fatal: Couldn't load required plugin /usr/lib/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: dlopen() failed: Error relocating /usr/lib/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: mail_deliver_get_return_address: symbol not found` I assume this is the cause of the problem, ie Dovecot isn't able to authenticate as this error occurs when a login attempt is made (I think?). I am not sure if this is an Alpine packaging issue or a Dovecot user issue, but just in case it's a user issue that I can fix myself, I thought to post here and ask if people know if there's something I can do to resolve this. I'm also posting to the Alpine mailing list in the case of it being an Alpine packaging issue. I've attached the output of `doveconf -n`; let me know if it's preferable to put this in the body of the email and I can send a reply with it in the body. `dovecot --version` is `2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759)`. Example `/var/log/dovecot.conf` authentication attempt: May 31 21:50:41 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=21015,uid=91) [1]: client in: AUTH 4 PLAIN protocol=imap final-resp-ok secured=tls session=ElBsg3U25ou51Zrs lip=93.113.25.226 rip=185.213.154.236 lport=993 rport=35814 ssl_ja3_hash=422b5eb1ed3e9bdf65e87a42ed96ba1f local_name=mail.revsuine.xyz resp=<hidden> May 31 21:50:41 auth(${user | username},185.213.154.236,sasl:plain)<ElBsg3U25ou51Zrs>: Debug: passwd-file: Performing passdb lookup May 31 21:50:41 auth(${user | username},185.213.154.236,sasl:plain)<ElBsg3U25ou51Zrs>: Debug: passwd-file: lookup: user=${user | username} file=/etc/dovecot/passwd May 31 21:50:41 auth(${user | username},185.213.154.236,sasl:plain)<ElBsg3U25ou51Zrs>: Info: passwd-file: unknown user May 31 21:50:41 auth(${user | username},185.213.154.236,sasl:plain)<ElBsg3U25ou51Zrs>: Debug: passwd-file: Finished passdb lookup May 31 21:50:41 auth(${user | username},185.213.154.236,sasl:plain)<ElBsg3U25ou51Zrs>: Debug: Auth request finished May 31 21:50:41 auth(${user | username},185.213.154.236,sasl:plain)<ElBsg3U25ou51Zrs>: Debug: delaying auth failure May 31 21:50:43 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=21015,uid=91) [1]: client passdb out: FAIL 4 user=${user | username} original_user=pid1 (The IP addresses are my public server IP address and a Mullvad VPN IP address, so not sensitive.) I'm using the same credentials and passwd file as before the update. Thanks in advance, appreciate any responses.

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Crash in imapd
by Peter Chubb 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

Hi Folks, I'm seeing imapd crash when an evolution user accesses her primary mailbox. She can see the mailbox perfectly well using thunderbird or Apple Mail on an iPad; just not from her evolution instance. Version is 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759) The error is an assertion failure: Panic: file istream-header-filter.c: line 665 (i_stream_header_filter_snapshot_free): assertion failed: (snapshot->mstream->snapshot_pending) I'm running on Debian unstable in an LXC container, using the Debian packaged version of dovecot. Filesystem for INBOX (mbox format) is XFS; home directories are mounted via NFS. The backtrace in gdb is: #0 0x00007f996709e95c in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007f9967049cc2 in raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #2 0x00007f99670324ac in abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #3 0x00007f9967265964 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #4 0x00007f9967333cb7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #5 0x00007f99672656c0 in i_panic () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #6 0x00007f996725eab1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #7 0x00007f9967345bdc in i_stream_snapshot_free () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #8 0x00007f9967345bdc in i_stream_snapshot_free () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #9 0x00007f9967345c6c in i_stream_unref () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #10 0x00007f996752bf99 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 #11 0x00007f996752c391 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 #12 0x00007f996752c64c in index_mail_get_special () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 #13 0x00007f99674a570e in mail_get_special () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0 #14 0x000055fb1f1b298a in fetch_snippet (ctx=0x55fb4c044168, mail=0x55fb4c070e88, preview=0x55fb4c070230) at ./src/imap/imap-fetch-body.c:610 #15 0x000055fb1f1b7ce3 in imap_fetch_more_int (ctx=ctx@entry=0x55fb4c044168, cancel=false) at ./src/imap/imap-fetch.c:562 #16 0x000055fb1f1b7fbd in imap_fetch_more (ctx=0x55fb4c044168, cmd=0x55fb4c043e98) at ./src/imap/imap-fetch.c:617 #17 0x000055fb1f1ac1c8 in cmd_fetch (cmd=0x55fb4c043e98) at ./src/imap/cmd-fetch.c:382 #18 0x000055fb1f1b5124 in command_exec (cmd=cmd@entry=0x55fb4c043e98) at ./src/imap/imap-commands.c:208 #19 0x000055fb1f1bb650 in client_command_input (cmd=<optimized out>, cmd@entry=0x55fb4c043e98) at ./src/imap/imap-client.c:1271 #20 0x000055fb1f1bb6e6 in client_command_input (cmd=<optimized out>, cmd@entry=0x55fb4c043e98) at ./src/imap/imap-client.c:1341 #21 0x000055fb1f1bb97d in client_command_input (cmd=<optimized out>) at ./src/imap/imap-client.c:1305 #22 0x000055fb1f1bbb55 in client_handle_next_command (client=0x55fb4c042a68, remove_io_r=<synthetic pointer>) at ./src/imap/imap-client.c:1383 #23 client_handle_input (client=client@entry=0x55fb4c042a68) at ./src/imap/imap-client.c:1397 #24 0x000055fb1f1bbf47 in client_input (client=0x55fb4c042a68) at ./src/imap/imap-client.c:1441 #25 0x00007f996735177b in io_loop_call_io () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #26 0x00007f99673535ea in io_loop_handler_run_internal () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #27 0x00007f9967353694 in io_loop_handler_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #28 0x00007f9967353868 in io_loop_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #29 0x00007f99672a6347 in master_service_run () from /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0 #30 0x000055fb1f1a6e27 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ./src/imap/main.c:601 dovecot -n === # 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.12.16-amd64 x86_64 Debian 13.0 # Hostname: wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au # 4 default setting changes since version 2.4.0 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 first_valid_uid = 130 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes mail_access_groups = mail mail_driver = mbox mail_full_filesystem_access = yes mail_home = /home/%{user|username} mail_inbox_path = /var/mail/%{user} mail_index_path = /var/indices/%{user} mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_path = ~/Mail/ mail_privileged_group = mail protocols { imap = yes } ssl_cipher_list = EDH+CAMELLIA:EDH+aRSA:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+SHA256:EECDH:+CAMELLIA256:+ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:+AES256:+CAMELLIA128:+AES128:+SSLv3:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!PSK:!DSS:RC4:!SEED:!ECDSA:CAMELLIA256-SHA:AES256-SHA:CAMELLIA128-SHA:AES128-SHA ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1 passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } namespace inbox { inbox = yes mailbox Drafts { special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox Spam { special_use = "\\Junk" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } inet_listener imaps { } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { } inet_listener pop3s { } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { } inet_listener submissions { } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { } } service imap { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem key_file = /etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.key } passdb local { driver = pam } userdb local { driver = passwd } ---

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Question about OSS-Fuzz
by 0xdeadtofu 01 Jun '25

01 Jun '25

Hello, I have been looking at the dovecot project in oss-fuzz [1] and I have noticed that the different fuzzers that are being built for dovecot do not have any sanitizer but UBSAN enabled. Normally, it's the default to fuzz with Address Sanitizer or Memory Sanitizer, so I was wondering, what is the reason for not enabling it? Kind Regards, Patrick Detering [1] https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/dovecot

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Help Translating Dovecot 2.3 Proxy Configuration to 2.4
by Brent Clark 30 May '25

30 May '25

Hi all, I'm in the process of upgrading from Dovecot 2.3 to 2.4 and would appreciate some help translating an existing configuration that uses a proxy lookup for user and password databases. Here's the relevant 2.3 configuration: |passdb { driver =dict args =/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-auth.conf.ext } userdb { driver =dict args =/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-auth.conf.ext } uri= proxy:/var/run/mail_directory_service/socket:somewhere password_key= passdb/%u user_key= userdb/%u iterate_disable= yes | This configuration was working fine in 2.3 to proxy user and password lookups to an external service via a Unix socket. However, Dovecot 2.4 has reworked configuration parsing, and this syntax no longer appears valid. I couldn’t find a direct equivalent in the 2.4 documentation. Could someone advise how this should be adapted for 2.4? What’s the correct way to specify the proxy: URI in 2.4? Are password_key and user_key still supported, or should I be using a different mechanism? Is iterate_disable = yes still relevant or required in this context? Any guidance, examples, or pointers to migration resources would be very helpful. Thanks in advance, Brent Clark Hi all, I'm in the process of upgrading from Dovecot 2.3 to 2.4 and would appreciate some help translating an existing configuration that uses a proxy lookup for user and password databases. Here's the relevant 2.3 configuration: passdb { driver =dict args =/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-auth.conf.ext } userdb { driver =dict args =/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-auth.conf.ext } uri = proxy:/var/run/mail_directory_service/socket:somewhere password_key = passdb/%u user_key = userdb/%u iterate_disable = yes This configuration was working fine in 2.3 to proxy user and password lookups to an external service via a Unix socket. However, Dovecot 2.4 has reworked configuration parsing, and this syntax no longer appears valid. I couldn’t find a direct equivalent in the 2.4 documentation. Could someone advise how this should be adapted for 2.4? What’s the correct way to specify the proxy: URI in 2.4? Are password_key and user_key still supported, or should I be using a different mechanism? Is iterate_disable = yes still relevant or required in this context? Any guidance, examples, or pointers to migration resources would be very helpful. Thanks in advance, Brent Clark

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RE: dragging files into mail folders
by Marc 29 May '25

29 May '25

If I drag files in imap folders in outlook they will show up in eg roundcube/thunderbird as winmail.dat. So I guess this is just a microsoft thing. Would be nice if there were plugins that would add functionality that unwrapped these winmail.dat files. > > > If i Understood correctly you are looking for a software like > > roundcube or something right ?. > > Not necessarily, but would be a good start. Question is if the imap > allows to store these files directly. > > > > that offers ajax based GUI that allows > > you to drap and drop mails into folders. > > Files not mails. .jpg, .odt, .txt etc > > > > > > > > With exchange and outlook I was always used to sometimes drag files > > into mail folders. Is something like this available for imap? Or maybe > a > > dovecot extension? > > > > > > (obviously I am not looking for a solution to store them as > > attachments to mails) > > > _______________________________________________ > > > dovecot mailing list -- dovecot(a)dovecot.org > > > To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-leave(a)dovecot.org

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dragging files into mail folders
by Marc 28 May '25

28 May '25

With exchange and outlook I was always used to sometimes drag files into mail folders. Is something like this available for imap? Or maybe a dovecot extension? (obviously I am not looking for a solution to store them as attachments to mails)

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Re: NAMESPACE empty when logging via haproxy but populated properly when logging directly
by dk+lists.dovecot.org＠7ns.eu 27 May '25

27 May '25

On 2025-05-22 17:41, dk+lists.dovecot.org(a)7ns.eu wrote: > > On 2025-05-22 16:55, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote: >>> >>> I see you a local 10.20.20.20 statement there, which changes how the >>> inbox prefix behaves, and I'm guessing (?) you are testing from >>> 10.20.20.20 as it's local, not remote. >>> >>> Which would explain why. >> >> Also to add a bit that the "local_ip" (not real_local_ip) gets updated >> with haproxy proxy protocol (when enabled), so it will remote >> haproxy's local IP. >> >> Aki >> > Wow. Thank you. It works. I mangled a IPs little bit before I send them > to mailist. All machines are in the same network. Client, Proxy, Server. > All in the same subnet. This is first time I see such problem with > server software and reverse proxy. Never seen similar problem. What > exactly this "local" statement do? Mail client is in the same network as > server, so after PROXY header is stripped, my mail client IP should be > seen by dovecot exactly the same, so shouldn't dovecot treat those > connections equally? oO > > Thank you again for tip Aki. > DK Hmm, now I am struggling with "local_name" filtering in haproxy environment. According to dovecot docs [1] it could potentially work with "send-proxy-v2-ssl" configured on proxy backend. However my dovecot filter does not work. Have the same problem I had with "local" filter. Dovecot does not recognize this connection and does not filter config for it properly. I tried "send-proxy-v2-ssl-cn". Still the same. I even enabled ssl on dovecot globally with "ssl=required" to be sure dovecot does not disable some ssl logic when "ssl=no". Still no go. Seems like dovecot does not get or use TLS/SNI info from haproxy. Does it even work in such environment? Is it supported? Or is this a bug or maybe my error? Any clues please? DK [1] https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/core/config/haproxy.html#tls-forwarding

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Sieve vnd.dovecot.config extension does not work when mail is delivered to lmtp inet_listener but works when delivered to lmtp unix_listener
by DK 27 May '25

27 May '25

Hello. I have a strange problem with sieve scripts vnd.dovecot.config extension processing on newest dovecot 2.3 and 2.4. When I deliver mail via lmtp unix_listener sieve script can get sieve_env_* variable with no problem. However when I deliver mail via lmtp inet_listener sieve script can not get the same sieve_env_* variable. I deliver mails from postfix to lmtp inet_listener directly (not via haproxy). The same postfix is used when testing lmtp unix_listener mail delivery which works. Any clues what could be the cause of such problem? DK

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Thunderbird and Dovecot 2.4.0 Incompatibility
by Amit Chaudhari 27 May '25

27 May '25

I'm trying to setup a dovecot 2.4.0 imap server and have it work with Thunderbird. I'm able to connect/auth fine, however trying to save a message to a mailbox causes the connection to close. ``` Info: Disconnected: Too many invalid IMAP commands. in=744 out=2559 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=0 body_bytes=0 ``` It appears thunderbird's imap APPEND command is using syntax which dovecot doesn't like? I enabled raw logs and pasted them below: Downgrading to 2.3 resolves the issue, so it’s either a regression, or some config issue I’m not able to pinpoint. ``` 1738942430.025029 5 ID ("name" "Thunderbird" "version" "128.7.0") 1738942430.029320 6 ENABLE UTF8=ACCEPT 1738942430.033907 7 select "Drafts" 1738942430.039796 8 append "Drafts" (\Draft) UTF8 (~{726+} 1738942430.039796 Message-ID: <ea714f62-7186-4bcb-b709-007e39c6a9d6(a)example.com <mailto:ea714f62-7186-4bcb-b709-007e39c6a9d6@example.com>> 1738942430.039796 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 10:33:49 -0500 1738942430.039796 MIME-Version: 1.0 1738942430.039796 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1738942430.039796 Content-Language: en-US 1738942430.039796 To: sender(a)example.com <mailto:sender@example.com> 1738942430.039796 From: User Name <user(a)example.com <mailto:user@example.com>> 1738942430.039796 Subject: test 1738942430.039796 X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; DSN=0; uuencode=0; 1738942430.039796 attachmentreminder=0; deliveryformat=0 1738942430.039796 X-Identity-Key: id2 1738942430.039796 Fcc: imap://user%40example.com@192.168.115.203/Sent 1738942430.039796 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 1738942430.039796 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 1738942430.039796 1738942430.039796 <!DOCTYPE html> 1738942430.039796 <html> 1738942430.039796 <head> 1738942430.039796 1738942430.039796 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 1738942430.039796 </head> 1738942430.039796 <body> 1738942430.039796 <p><br> 1738942430.039796 </p> 1738942430.039796 </body> 1738942430.039796 </html> 1738942430.039796 ) ``` ``` 1738942430.025188 * ID ("name" "Dovecot") 1738942430.025234 5 OK ID completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.029390 * ENABLED UTF8=ACCEPT 1738942430.029418 6 OK Enabled (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.035478 * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) 1738942430.035531 * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags permitted. 1738942430.035559 * 0 EXISTS 1738942430.035585 * 0 RECENT 1738942430.035611 * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1738898190] UIDs valid 1738942430.035638 * OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID 1738942430.035693 7 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed (0.002 + 0.000 + 0.001 secs). 1738942430.040007 8 BAD Error in IMAP command APPEND: Missing ')' (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040140 * BAD Error in IMAP tag: Invalid tag (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040172 Date: BAD Error in IMAP command FRI,: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040233 MIME-Version: BAD Error in IMAP command 1.0: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040291 User-Agent: BAD Error in IMAP command MOZILLA: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040356 Content-Language: BAD Error in IMAP command EN-US: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040409 To: BAD Error in IMAP command sender(a)example.com <mailto:sender@example.com>: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040467 From: BAD Error in IMAP command USER: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040521 Subject: BAD Error in IMAP command TEST: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040574 X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: BAD Error in IMAP command INTERNAL/DRAFT;: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040638 * BAD Error in IMAP tag: Invalid tag (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040666 X-Identity-Key: BAD Error in IMAP command ID2: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040720 Fcc: BAD Error in IMAP command: Invalid command name (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040746 Content-Type: BAD Error in IMAP command TEXT/HTML;: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040802 Content-Transfer-Encoding: BAD Error in IMAP command 7BIT: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040862 * BAD Error in IMAP tag: Invalid tag (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040889 <!DOCTYPE BAD Error in IMAP command HTML>: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040966 <html> BAD Error in IMAP command: Invalid command name (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.040991 * BAD Error in IMAP tag: Invalid tag (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.041015 * BAD Error in IMAP tag: Invalid tag (0.001 + 0.000 secs). 1738942430.041032 * BYE Too many invalid IMAP commands. ```

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Dovecot and pigeonhole/sieve without ldap
by ppn＠parhuet.fr 26 May '25

26 May '25

Hi, First of all, thanks for your work on this software overall. Since 2.4 dovecot/pigeonhole (2.4.1 gentoo here), it fails to build without ldap support. I've seen nothing that justifies this requirement so it seems like a bug/issue? Configure for dovecot : ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --datarootdir=/usr/share --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules --disable-static --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.4.1-r1 --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/html --with-sysroot=/ --libdir=/usr/lib64 --with-rundir=/run/dovecot --with-statedir=/var/lib/dovecot --with-moduledir=/usr/lib64/dovecot --disable-hardening --disable-rpath --with-bzlib --without-libbsd --with-libcap --with-icu --enable-experimental-mail-utf8 --without-sodium --without-cdb --without-gssapi --without-lua --without-ldap --without-flatcurve --without-lz4 --without-mysql --with-pam --without-pgsql --without-sqlite --without-solr --without-stemmer --without-systemd --without-textcat --without-libunwind --without-zstd --disable-static userdbs ........ : static prefetch passwd passwd-file : -ldap -sql Configure for pigeonhole : ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --datarootdir=/usr/share --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules --disable-static --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.4.1-r1 --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/html --with-sysroot=/ --libdir=/usr/lib64 --disable-static --localstatedir=/var --enable-shared --disable-hardening --with-dovecot=/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4 --without-ldap --without-managesieve script drivers . : file dict : -ldap Error : age/net-mail/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/lib-sasl -I/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/li b-dcrypt -I/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/lib-program-client -I/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dovecot-2. 4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/lib-oauth2 -I/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/lib-var-expand -I/var/t mp/portage/net-mail/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/lib-index -I/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1- 4/src/lib-storage -I/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/lib-storage/list -I/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dov ecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/lib-storage/index -I/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/lib-stora ge/index/raw -I/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/lib-imap-storage -I/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dovecot- 2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/plugins/quota -I/var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/lib-ldap -I../../. ./.. -I../../../../src/lib-sieve -O2 -pipe -frecord-gcc-switches -flto -Werror=odr -Werror=lto-type-mismatch -Werror=strict-aliasing -fa synchronous-unwind-tables -c sieve-ldap-storage.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/sieve-ldap-storage.o In file included from sieve-ldap-storage.c:6: /var/tmp/portage/net-mail/dovecot-2.4.1-r1/work/dovecot-2.4.1-4/src/lib-ldap/ldap-utils.h:4:10: fatal error: ldap.h: No such file or dir ectory 4 | #include <ldap.h> | ^~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make[5]: *** [Makefile:607: sieve-ldap-storage.lo] Error 1 Regards, NicoP

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lmtp user verification
by Christian H. Kuhn 26 May '25

26 May '25

Hi, after a new install and avoiding a lot of simple faults, i try to run my system postfix as smtpd, smtpds, and submission, and dovecot as imap and lmtp server. I can login to imap, and i can send via 587 with sasl authentification. So i think that most things are ok :-) What does NOT work is the local transport to my maildir. christian.kuhn(a)qno.de is not resolved to qno(a)qno.de but to qno(a)bywater.qno.de, and lmtp rejects that unverified user: 2025-05-25T18:13:25.431342+02:00 bywater postfix/smtpd[987726]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-lj1-f176.google.com[209.85.208.176]: 450 4.1.1 <qno(a)bywater.qno.de>: Recipient address rejected: unverified address: host bywater.qno.de[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 550 5.1.1 <qno(a)bywater.qno.de> User doesn't exist: qno(a)bywater.qno.de (in reply to RCPT TO command) also mails to qno-anyextension(a)qno.de are rejected. I set recipient_delimiter to -, but it seems to be ignored by lmtp: 2025-05-25T15:24:10.147369+02:00 bywater postfix/smtpd[985952]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from higher.littydate.com[104.244.79.41]: 450 4.1.1 <qno-planets(a)qno.de>: Recipient address rejected: unverified address: host bywater.qno.de[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 550 5.1.1 <qno-planets(a)qno.de> User doesn't exist: qno-planets(a)qno.de (in reply to RCPT TO command); from=<webmaster(a)littydate.com> to=<qno-planets(a)qno.de> proto=ESMTP helo=<higher.littydate.com> postconf -n: (postfix 3.8.6) broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes compatibility_level = 3.6 content_filter = amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024 default_database_type = cdb indexed = ${default_database_type}:${tabledir} inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1, 65.21.136.15, [::1], [2a01:4f9:3b:25b0:9:6:1:e01] local_recipient_maps = mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp mydestination = $myhostname mydomain = qno.de myhostname = bywater.qno.de mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 65.21.136.15/32 [::1]/128 [2a01:4f9:3b:25b0:9:6:1:e01]/128 [2a01:4f8:171:b85:9:6:1:e01]/128 136.243.102.134/32 myorigin = $mydomain policyd-spf_time_limit = 3600 postscreen_access_list = permit_mynetworks postscreen_bare_newline_action = enforce postscreen_bare_newline_enable = no postscreen_dnsbl_action = enforce postscreen_dnsbl_reply_map = ${indexed}dnsbl_reply postscreen_dnsbl_sites = zusbyxqsairu6mu6ayyhstc3ua.zen.dq.spamhaus.net postscreen_dnsbl_threshold = 1 postscreen_non_smtp_command_action = enforce postscreen_non_smtp_command_enable = no postscreen_pipelining_action = enforce postscreen_pipelining_enable = no receive_override_options = no_address_mappings recipient_delimiter = - smtp_bind_address = 65.21.136.15 smtp_bind_address6 = 2a01:4f9:3b:25b0:9:6:1:e01 smtp_generic_maps = ${indexed}generic smtp_tls_exclude_ciphers = aNULL smtp_tls_loglevel = 1 smtp_tls_mandatory_ciphers = medium smtp_tls_mandatory_exclude_ciphers = RC4, MD5, SHA1 smtp_tls_security_level = may smtpd_data_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining smtpd_helo_required = yes smtpd_helo_restrictions = reject_unknown_helo_hostname smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination, reject_unverified_recipient, check_policy_service unix:private/policyd-spf, reject_rbl_client zusbyxqsairu6mu6ayyhstc3ua.zen.dq.spamhaus.net, reject_rhsbl_reverse_client zusbyxqsairu6mu6ayyhstc3ua.dbl.dq.spamhaus.net, reject_rhsbl_helo zusbyxqsairu6mu6ayyhstc3ua.dbl.dq.spamhaus.net, reject_rhsbl_sender zusbyxqsairu6mu6ayyhstc3ua.dbl.dq.spamhaus.net smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_tls_security_options = $smtpd_sasl_security_options smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_unknown_sender_domain smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes smtpd_tls_eccert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.qno.de/fullchain.pem smtpd_tls_eckey_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.qno.de/privkey.pem smtpd_tls_mandatory_ciphers = high smtpd_tls_mandatory_exclude_ciphers = aNULL, MD5, SHA1 smtpd_tls_mandatory_protocols = >=TLSv1.2 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_security_level = may tabledir = ${config_directory}/tables.d/ virtual_alias_domains = $mydomain virtual_alias_maps = ${indexed}virtual virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/vhosts virtual_mailbox_domains = sk-koenig-tegel.de virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:${tabledir}virtual_mailbox_maps.cf virtual_minimum_uid = 10000 virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 doveconf -n: # 2.3.21 (47349e2482): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.21 (f6cd4b8e) # OS: Linux 6.8.0-60-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS # Hostname: bywater.qno.de auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Ln auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = yes listen = 65.21.136.15, 2a01:4f9:3b:25b0:9:6:1:c01 mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } plugin { sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve } protocols = " imap lmtp sieve" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/imap2.qno.de/fullchain.pem ssl_cipher_list = ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it syslog_facility = local0 userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes TIA QNo

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Two instances on one machine — can they share indexes?
by dove＠redir.desz.cz 24 May '25

24 May '25

Hello, I (think I) need to run two instances of Dovecot on one machine (rationale below, if someone's interested). They access the same mail share (NFS, maildir), but the indexes are kept on local storage. One of them would also provide lmtp service to local MTA. For now I set the instances to keep indexes separate, in different directories, but I wonder, if they can share the indexes, to avoid unnecessary duplication? Of course, mmap_disable = yes, but would locking suffice? The platform is Linux (Devuan chimaera ATM, equivalet of Debian 11), filesystem - ext4, Dovecot version 2.3.13 (from distribution packages). Why? I have to provide different authentication methods to external IMAP clients and locally-running webmail; at first I hoped to make it via remote filter, but docs state that “auth settings currently only support the protocol filter”, so I had to come with some other idea. It _is_ possible that users would be logged in both via external mail client and webmail at the same time – and even if not, there's also lmtp, that can run at any moment. Sincerely, Bartosz Stępień

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Guidance re doveadm sync full (-f) and stateful (-s)
by Georgios Kontaxis 24 May '25

24 May '25

Hi, I’m looking for guidance on how to use doveadm sync with flags -f (full synchronization) and -s. (stateful synchronization) After reading the doveadm-sync man page it seems one should do the following: (omitting -u -l -N flags for clarity) 1. First sync: doveadm sync -f 2. Second sync: doveadm sync -s “" > state 3. Subsequent infrequent syncs: doveadm sync -f 4. Subsequent frequent syncs: doveadm sync -s “$(<state)” > state (I’m assuming that before the first sync replica A has all the mailboxes and replica B has no mailboxes. I’m also assuming that the above commands are executed from replica A. The goal is to do master/master sync continuously.) Can you help me answer the following questions? a. Each time we execute (4) stateful sync after (3) full sync, is it correct to include previous state? b. What happens if we do: doveadm sync -f -s “” or doveadm sync -f -s “$(<state)” I think the replicator code does (b) in https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/47349e24828be3ec7f591570e02c0b15ae26c6… and I’m not sure why. Overall, it would be good to have more examples in the man page demonstrating the various synchronization modes. Thanks, Georgios

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Dovecot 2.4.1 userdb override for autoexpunge on specific mailbox
by Thomas Leuxner 24 May '25

24 May '25

Hi, I'm trying to override the autoexpunge setting for the "Deleted Messages" mailbox in the INBOX namespace. [...] mailbox "Deleted Messages" { autoexpunge = 2d special_use = "\\Trash" } doveconf -nF # mail_namespace :FILTER settings_filter_name="namespace/inbox" namespace_name=inbox namespace_type=private namespace_separator=/ namespace_prefix= namespace_inbox=yes namespace_hidden=no mailbox=INBOX Drafts Junk Deleted\_Messages Spam Sent Sent\_Messages The setting seems to be pulled from the userdb and matches the escaping above. It doesn't seem to alter the global "autoexpunge = 2d" setting for this user though. doveadm user -u tlx(a)leuxner.net userdb: tlx(a)leuxner.net user : tlx(a)leuxner.net home : /var/vmail/domains/leuxner.net/tlx uid : 5000 gid : 5000 quota_storage_size: 5G acl_groups: PublicMailboxAdmins namespace/inbox/mailbox/Deleted\_Messages/autoexpunge: 6h Regards Thomas

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NAMESPACE empty when logging via haproxy but populated properly when logging directly
by dk+lists.dovecot.org＠7ns.eu 23 May '25

23 May '25

Hello there. I have a problem with newest dovecots (2.3 and 2.4). Dovecot server for some reason is not providing NAMESPACE via IMAP commands when logging via haproxy (rawlog provided below). Server config: inet_listener imap { port = 143 haproxy = yes } inet_listener imap0 { port = 1143 haproxy = no } When I login directly to dovecot server on port 1143 I get this response from server: 1747853284.039953 * NAMESPACE (("INBOX/" "/")) (("Shared/" "/")) (("Public/" "/")) 1747853284.039986 52 OK Namespace completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). However when I login to the exact same dovecot server but via haproxy host on port 143 I get this response from server: 1747853284.076121 * NAMESPACE (("" "/")) NIL NIL 1747853284.076160 27 OK Namespace completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). Tested on: - debian dovecot 2.3.21.1+dfsg1-1+b2 - debian dovecot 2.4.1+dfsg1-4 Could some dev look into it please? Clearly something is broken with dovecot haproxy listener. I just deployed dovecot 2.4 to check if it was fixed but the same problem exists there. Greets. dk Hello there. I have a problem with newest dovecots (2.3 and 2.4). Dovecot server for some reason is not providing NAMESPACE via IMAP commands when logging via haproxy (rawlog provided below). Server config: inet_listener imap { port = 143 haproxy = yes } inet_listener imap0 { port = 1143 haproxy = no } When I login directly to dovecot server on port 1143 I get this response from server: 1747853284.039953 * NAMESPACE (("INBOX/" "/")) (("Shared/" "/")) (("Public/" "/ ")) 1747853284.039986 52 OK Namespace completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). However when I login to the exact same dovecot server but via haproxy host on port 143 I get this response from server: 1747853284.076121 * NAMESPACE (("" "/")) NIL NIL 1747853284.076160 27 OK Namespace completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). Tested on: - debian dovecot 2.3.21.1+dfsg1-1+b2 - debian dovecot 2.4.1+dfsg1-4 Could some dev look into it please? Clearly something is broken with dovecot haproxy listener. I just deployed dovecot 2.4 to check if it was fixed but the same problem exists there. Greets. dk

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Upgrade 2.3 to 2.4 - Dovecot cannot find user mailbox
by Cam Ellison 22 May '25

22 May '25

The system in question primarily sends emails to group members but also has a few virtual email accounts for officers. Usernames and passwords are looked up from a mysql (MariaDB) database. After the upgrade incoming mail now goes to a vmail account that Dovecot creates because it cannot match the email to the user for whom it is intended (there is no user 'vmail' in the system). Users can log in and read their mail and send mail, but any emails received since the change to 2.4 are understandably inaccessible. Below is the output from doveconf -n. Can anyone see what is wrong? # 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.1.0-20-rt-686-pae i686 Debian 13.0 ext4 # Hostname: football.scasl.ca # 4 default setting changes since version 2.4.0 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 first_valid_gid = 5000 first_valid_uid = 5000 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes hostname = scasl.ca listen = * :: login_trusted_networks = 209.121.143.10/32 mail_debug = yes mail_driver = maildir mail_gid = 5000 mail_home = /var/vmail/%{user|username} mail_inbox_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir/INBOX mail_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = 5000 postmaster_address = postmaster(a)scasl.ca protocols { imap = yes } sql_driver = mysql dict quota { } mysql scasl.ca { dbname = scasl host = localhost password = # hidden, use -P to show it port = 3306 user = scasl } userdb sql { iterate_query = SELECT email_username AS username, domain FROM league query = SELECT CONCAT('/var/vmail/',email_username) AS home, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid FROM league WHERE email_username = '%{user|username}' } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = BLF-CRYPT query = SELECT password FROM login WHERE ID IN (SELECT ID FROM league WHERE email_username='%{user|username}') } maildir { very_dirty_syncs = yes } namespace inbox { mail_driver = maildir mail_home = /var/vmail/%{user|username} mail_inbox_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir/INBOX mail_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir inbox = yes separator = / mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } inet_listener imaps { } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service imap { } service pop3 { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 } unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0666 } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = vmail mode = 0666 } unix_listener stats-writer { group = vmail mode = 0666 } } ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/scasl.ca/fullchain.pem key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/scasl.ca/privkey.pem } Cheers Cam The system in question primarily sends emails to group members but also has a few virtual email accounts for officers. Usernames and passwords are looked up from a mysql (MariaDB) database. After the upgrade incoming mail now goes to a vmail account that Dovecot creates because it cannot match the email to the user for whom it is intended (there is no user 'vmail' in the system). Users can log in and read their mail and send mail, but any emails received since the change to 2.4 are understandably inaccessible. Below is the output from doveconf -n. Can anyone see what is wrong? # 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.1.0-20-rt-686-pae i686 Debian 13.0 ext4 # Hostname: football.scasl.ca # 4 default setting changes since version 2.4.0 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 first_valid_gid = 5000 first_valid_uid = 5000 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes hostname = scasl.ca listen = * :: login_trusted_networks = 209.121.143.10/32 mail_debug = yes mail_driver = maildir mail_gid = 5000 mail_home = /var/vmail/%{user|username} mail_inbox_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir/INBOX mail_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = 5000 postmaster_address = postmaster(a)scasl.ca protocols { imap = yes } sql_driver = mysql dict quota { } mysql scasl.ca { dbname = scasl host = localhost password = # hidden, use -P to show it port = 3306 user = scasl } userdb sql { iterate_query = SELECT email_username AS username, domain FROM league query = SELECT CONCAT('/var/vmail/',email_username) AS home, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid FROM league WHERE email_username = '%{user|username}' } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = BLF-CRYPT query = SELECT password FROM login WHERE ID IN (SELECT ID FROM league WHERE email_username='%{user|username}') } maildir { very_dirty_syncs = yes } namespace inbox { mail_driver = maildir mail_home = /var/vmail/%{user|username} mail_inbox_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir/INBOX mail_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir inbox = yes separator = / mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } inet_listener imaps { } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service imap { } service pop3 { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 } unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0666 } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = vmail mode = 0666 } unix_listener stats-writer { group = vmail mode = 0666 } } ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/scasl.ca/fullchain.pem key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/scasl.ca/privkey.pem } Cheers Cam

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Upgrade 2.3 to 2.4 - virtual mail - dovecot-lda flags ignored
by Cam Ellison 22 May '25

22 May '25

When running v2.3, Dovecot correctly identifies both recipient and domain when receiving mail from Debian exim4 via dovecot-lda, with no flags set. With v2.4, whether the flags are set or not, Dovecot throws error 75. If lda_mailbox_autocreate is set to yes, it creates the mailuser vmail and delivers to /var/vmail/vmail/INBOX. Users are able to log in and read email as before. doveadm user admin(a)example.ca output is: field value uid 5000 gid 5000 home /var/vmail/admin mail_path /var/vmail/admin/Maildir Here is the full printout of doveconf -n. # 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.1.0-20-rt-686-pae i686 Debian 13.0 ext4 # Hostname: football.scasl.ca # 4 default setting changes since version 2.4.0 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 first_valid_gid = 5000 first_valid_uid = 5000 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes hostname = scasl.ca listen = * :: login_trusted_networks = 209.121.143.10/32 mail_debug = yes mail_driver = maildir mail_gid = 5000 mail_home = /var/vmail/%{user|username} mail_inbox_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir/INBOX mail_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = 5000 postmaster_address = postmaster(a)scasl.ca protocols { imap = yes } sql_driver = mysql mysql scasl.ca { dbname = scasl host = localhost password = # port = 3306 user = scasl } userdb sql { iterate_query = SELECT email_username AS username, domain FROM league query = SELECT CONCAT('/var/vmail/',email_username) AS home, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid FROM league WHERE email_username = '%{user|username}' } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = BLF-CRYPT query = SELECT password FROM login WHERE ID IN (SELECT ID FROM league WHERE email_username='%{user|username}') } maildir { very_dirty_syncs = yes } namespace inbox { mail_driver = maildir mail_home = /var/vmail/%{user|username} mail_inbox_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir/INBOX mail_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir inbox = yes separator = / type = private mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } inet_listener imaps { } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service imap { } service pop3 { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 } unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0666 } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = vmail mode = 0666 } unix_listener stats-writer { group = vmail mode = 0666 } } ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/scasl.ca/fullchain.pem key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/scasl.ca/privkey.pem } protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins } I assume I am missing a parameter that needs setting. Is it that, do I have something set incorrectly, or is it really a bug? Cheers Cam When running v2.3, Dovecot correctly identifies both recipient and domain when receiving mail from Debian exim4 via dovecot-lda, with no flags set. With v2.4, whether the flags are set or not, Dovecot throws error 75. If lda_mailbox_autocreate is set to yes, it creates the mailuser vmail and delivers to /var/vmail/vmail/INBOX. Users are able to log in and read email as before. doveadm user admin(a)example.ca output is: field value uid 5000 gid 5000 home /var/vmail/admin mail_path /var/vmail/admin/Maildir Here is the full printout of doveconf -n. # 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.1.0-20-rt-686-pae i686 Debian 13.0 ext4 # Hostname: football.scasl.ca # 4 default setting changes since version 2.4.0 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 first_valid_gid = 5000 first_valid_uid = 5000 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes hostname = scasl.ca listen = * :: login_trusted_networks = 209.121.143.10/32 mail_debug = yes mail_driver = maildir mail_gid = 5000 mail_home = /var/vmail/%{user|username} mail_inbox_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir/INBOX mail_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir mail_privileged_group = vmail mail_uid = 5000 postmaster_address = postmaster(a)scasl.ca protocols { imap = yes } sql_driver = mysql mysql scasl.ca { dbname = scasl host = localhost password = # port = 3306 user = scasl } userdb sql { iterate_query = SELECT email_username AS username, domain FROM league query = SELECT CONCAT('/var/vmail/',email_username) AS home, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid FROM league WHERE email_username = '%{user|username}' } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = BLF-CRYPT query = SELECT password FROM login WHERE ID IN (SELECT ID FROM league WHERE email_username='%{user|username}') } maildir { very_dirty_syncs = yes } namespace inbox { mail_driver = maildir mail_home = /var/vmail/%{user|username} mail_inbox_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir/INBOX mail_path = /var/vmail/%{user|username}/Maildir inbox = yes separator = / type = private mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } inet_listener imaps { } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service imap { } service pop3 { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 } unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0666 } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = vmail mode = 0666 } unix_listener stats-writer { group = vmail mode = 0666 } } ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/scasl.ca/fullchain.pem key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/scasl.ca/privkey.pem } protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins } I assume I am missing a parameter that needs setting. Is it that, do I have something set incorrectly, or is it really a bug? Cheers Cam

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Re: Upgrade 2.3 to 2.4 - virtual mail - dovecot-lda flags ignored
by Cam Ellison 22 May '25

22 May '25

On 2025-05-21 14:11, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hi Cam, > > I suffered something similar during my migration and an old post > somewhere saved the day for me: https://skeletor.org.ua/?p=2497 > I hope it helps you too. > It was worth a try, and at least has changed the focus to Exim from Dovecot: the existing lookups for identifying user@domain in Exim are not working. What he has is not significantly different from my own setup. Thank you for the link Cam

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Large Server with Dovecot
by Odhiambo Washington 21 May '25

21 May '25

Hello Admins, I have at hand a task to setup Dovecot (2.4.1) to handle about 10,000 mailboxes using IMAP/POP3. It's a migration from another system. The current total storage for the mailboxes is 350GB. I believe several Mail admins are managing such systems, and bigger. What do you recommend as the baseline for the optimization Dovecot engine itself? Assuming the storage is on SSD, is there something you recommend I add to the dovecot.configuration for fast access? Indexing? Anything else? How about the system specs - CPU/RAM? Thank you in advance. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html] Hello Admins, I have at hand a task to setup Dovecot (2.4.1) to handle about 10,000 mailboxes using IMAP/POP3. It's a migration from another system. The current total storage for the mailboxes is 350GB. I believe several Mail admins are managing such systems, and bigger. What do you recommend as the baseline for the optimization Dovecot engine itself? Assuming the storage is on SSD, is there something you recommend I add to the dovecot.configuration for fast access? Indexing? Anything else? How about the system specs - CPU/RAM? Thank you in advance. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart- questions.html]

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prohibit subfolders under INBOX
by dentar＠fnsheppard.com 20 May '25

20 May '25

I know this is a n00b question but I've done my diligence... Is there a way (Maildir not MBOX) to ONLY prohibit creation of folders under INBOX e.g. no INBOX.Fred allowed, but the user MAY create subfolders under other folders, e.g. Fred.Barney? We've discovered that when people create INBOX.anything it causes Outlook to go insane.

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bug report: "Corrupted transaction log file" PLUS request for improvement of the documentation about mmap_disable
by Patrick Cernko 20 May '25

20 May '25

Hello Dovecot developers, hello list, since more than two years we had occasional log messages like this: Error: Mailbox INBOX: Corrupted transaction log file /IMAP/mail/mailboxes/USER/mdbox/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails/dovecot.index.log seq 45532: Unexpected garbage at EOF (sync_offset=4856) Mostly I had to repair the affected mailbox manually after such events. Luckily I could prevent any data corruptions by using the healthy mailbox from the replication partner. Those errors occurred rather seldom (once a month) but started get more often. At the end of last year, they occurred about once a week for 800 users with up to 200 folders. The reporting process was always different, like the indexer, imapd, lmtpd, replicator or doveadm (on cmdline). It was obviously some sort of race-condition between the different processes accessing the index. I did not see any hints how to reproduce it. At the beginning of this year I started to debug this issue by adding debugging log output to our productive system, mostly in lib-index. I was hoping to find the cause of the issue and maybe even provide a patch to fix this. But about 5 weeks ago, I discovered, that the error can be simply avoided by setting mmap_disable=yes. Since this change, the error did not occur again even with specific tests, that previously likely triggered the bug. That's where I stopped to debug further. We are running Dovecot in master-master mode using replication plugin behind a Dovecot director setup. The storage on the backends is provided by local disks on Linux with newest ZFS filesystem. We use mdbox storage and FTS. While testing I also checked ext4 instead of ZFS and different FTS backends without success. I can provide more information for the developers if you are interested! --------------------------------- About mmap_disable: The documentation only mentions, that you should set this to "yes" for SHARED filesystems (I don't think local ZFS or ext4 qualify for that). https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/settings/core/#core_setting-mmap_disable On another page (https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/admin_manual/mailbox_formats/#memory-mapping) it is mentioned, that "If mmap() is supported by your filesystem, it’s still not certain that it gives better performance. Try benchmarking to make sure." I also found an old mail from Timo (https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-December/079975.html) which lists 3 cases, where mmap_disable=yes is required or at least suggested. In only one case, he wrote "With local filesystems mmap_disable=no _should_ be faster." I did not do extensive benchmarks but I did not see any performance issues since we disabled mmap on our IMAP backends. So, I wonder, if it would not be better to switch the default for mmap_disable to YES: 1. There are configurations, where the current default might cause data corruption! 2. There are configurations, where disabling mmap is suggested. 3. Even on local storage, the performance benefits are unsure. 4. According to my observations, even on local storage, enabling mmap can cause data corruption. Changing the default to NO would protect users from accidental data corruption. Users that aim for maximum performance can still enable mmap and test if it improves performance. IMHO the documentation should mention, that even for local disks, mmap CAN cause data corruption (until the above mentioned bug is found and fixed). Best regards, -- Patrick Cernko <pcernko(a)mpi-klsb.mpg.de> +49 681 9325 5815 Joint Scientific IT and Technical Service Max-Planck-Institute für Informatik & Softwaresysteme

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Change the way folders are displayed via IMAP protocol
by Lafiel 19 May '25

19 May '25

Hi. How can I patch the source code so that the server forces the list of all folders to be displayed in quotes? Or add the corresponding parameter to the configuration file? -- Best regards, Lafiel mailto:lafiel@elven.pw

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Dovecot 3.21.1 -> 2.4.0 SegFault
by Cata S 19 May '25

19 May '25

Hi guys, There seems to be some issue with Dovecot deployed on alpine. More specifically, the dovecot.config file is not properly read. I have run some debugging and the SegFault is returned in the function below: #0 0x000055555556779b in config_parsed_get_setting () No symbol table info available. #1 0x0000555555563708 in config_dump_full () No symbol table info available. #2 0x000055555555c814 in main () No symbol table info available. This was also addressed by alpine here: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/17050 Any idea what could be causing this? Thanks for looking into it, Cata

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Users losing mail from their mailboxes
by Nikolaos Milas 18 May '25

18 May '25

Hello, We are on Dovecot 2.3.18. Some users are occasionally complaining that all mail vanishes from their inbox. However, we cannot find any indication of deletions or expunge in the log. One explanation could be that mail files are deleted externally (at the file system level), but I can't imagine what could cause such deletions. How would you suggest us to troubleshoot this further? We could enable "mail_debug = yes", but this would flood the logs and cause performance drop, and the issue is happening rarely. Any other ideas to troubleshoot these cases in the past (through logs) or monitor (whatever) for the future? (The config is listed at the end.) Thanks in advance. Best regards, Nick The config follows: ======================================================================= protocols = imap pop3 sieve lmtp login_greeting = Dovecot OUR ORG log_path = /var/log/dove.log mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/ mail_gid = 500 mail_uid = 500 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Ln auth_verbose = no auth_debug = no mail_debug = no disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_plugins = quota mail_log notify protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = "delay-newmail" mail_plugins = quota imap_quota mail_log notify mail_max_userip_connections = 400 namespace inbox { mailbox Trash { autoexpunge = 15d } } } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugins = quota notify pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv namespace inbox { mailbox Trash { autoexpunge = 15d } } } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins = quota notify sieve postmaster_address = sysadmin(a)noa.gr sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master postmaster_address = sysadmin(a)noa.gr mail_plugins = quota notify sieve sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } protocol sieve { managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 mail_max_userip_connections = 10 managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_max_compile_errors = 10 } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-usrdb-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-passdb-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename flag_change save mailbox_create mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size flags vsize from subject quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=15G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+3%% quota_warning = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u quota_warning2 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u # Used by both the Sieve plugin and the ManageSieve protocol sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_max_script_size = 0 sieve_max_actions = 0 sieve_max_redirects = 2 } service quota-warning { executable = script /opt/mail1.sh user = vmail unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { service_count = 100 vsz_limit = 64 M process_limit = 500 } service pop3-login { service_count = 100 vsz_limit = 64 M } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } service_count = 100 process_min_avail = 0 vsz_limit = 64M } service managesieve { process_limit = 1024 } service imap { executable = imap postlogin process_limit = 2048 } service pop3 { executable = pop3 postlogin } service postlogin { executable = script-login -d rawlog unix_listener postlogin { } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } ssl = yes ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/servercert.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/serverkey.key namespace inbox { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts auto = subscribe } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk auto = subscribe } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash auto = subscribe } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent auto = subscribe } } ======================================================================= Hello, We are on Dovecot 2.3.18. Some users are occasionally complaining that all mail vanishes from their inbox. However, we cannot find any indication of deletions or expunge in the log. One explanation could be that mail files are deleted externally (at the file system level), but I can't imagine what could cause such deletions. How would you suggest us to troubleshoot this further? We could enable "mail_debug = yes", but this would flood the logs and cause performance drop, and the issue is happening rarely. Any other ideas to troubleshoot these cases in the past (through logs) or monitor (whatever) for the future? (The config is listed at the end.) Thanks in advance. Best regards, Nick The config follows: ======================================================================= protocols = imap pop3 sieve lmtp login_greeting = Dovecot OUR ORG log_path = /var/log/dove.log mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/ mail_gid = 500 mail_uid = 500 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %Ln auth_verbose = no auth_debug = no mail_debug = no disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_plugins = quota mail_log notify protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = "delay-newmail" mail_plugins = quota imap_quota mail_log notify mail_max_userip_connections = 400 namespace inbox { mailbox Trash { autoexpunge = 15d } } } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugins = quota notify pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv namespace inbox { mailbox Trash { autoexpunge = 15d } } } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins = quota notify sieve postmaster_address = sysadmin(a)noa.gr sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master postmaster_address = sysadmin(a)noa.gr mail_plugins = quota notify sieve sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail } protocol sieve { managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 mail_max_userip_connections = 10 managesieve_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o managesieve_max_compile_errors = 10 } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-usrdb-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-passdb-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename flag_change save mailbox_create mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size flags vsize from subject quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=15G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+3%% quota_warning = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u quota_warning2 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u # Used by both the Sieve plugin and the ManageSieve protocol sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_max_script_size = 0 sieve_max_actions = 0 sieve_max_redirects = 2 } service quota-warning { executable = script /opt/mail1.sh user = vmail unix_listener quota-warning { user = vmail } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { service_count = 100 vsz_limit = 64 M process_limit = 500 } service pop3-login { service_count = 100 vsz_limit = 64 M } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } service_count = 100 process_min_avail = 0 vsz_limit = 64M } service managesieve { process_limit = 1024 } service imap { executable = imap postlogin process_limit = 2048 } service pop3 { executable = pop3 postlogin } service postlogin { executable = script-login -d rawlog unix_listener postlogin { } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } ssl = yes ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/servercert.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/serverkey.key namespace inbox { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts auto = subscribe } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk auto = subscribe } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash auto = subscribe } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent auto = subscribe } } =======================================================================

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Problem with Dovecot on a FIPS enabled system
by Eric Berry 16 May '25

16 May '25

This bug was submitted on an Ubuntu Jammy system with FIPS enabled. Here is the Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/+bug/2107773 Pull Request submitted: https://github.com/dovecot/core/pull/241 [ Impact ] - When one enables FIPS mode on a Jammy system and then attempts to use Dovecot to create an encrypted mailbox, the module returns a invalid salt length error. - FIPS mode requires a 16 byte salt for PBEKDF2 and Dovecot is only requesting 8 bytes of salt. The solution is to modify Dovecot to request 16 bytes of salt. [ Test Plan ] - Install Dovecot on the system - sudo apt install dovecot-auth-lua dovecot-core dovecot-gssapi dovecot-imapd dovecot-ldap dovecot-lmtpd dovecot-managesieved dovecot-mysql dovecot-pgsql dovecot-pop3d dovecot-sieve dovecot-solr dovecot-sqlite dovecot-submissiond - Enable mailbox encryption. - Add /etc/dovecot/conf.d//mail-crypt.conf to enable mailbox encryption: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u listen = * mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } userdb { driver = passwd } mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_crypt plugin { mail_crypt_curve = secp521r1 mail_crypt_save_version=2 } mail_attribute_dict = file:%h/Maildir/dovecot-attributes imap_metadata = yes - Issue the following command to create an encrypted mailbox: - sudo doveadm -o plugin/mail_crypt_private_password=e32f1f174d7576716d5df899e7d5cb6b64cdb33584c71882e9f7e1f79f2e695e mailbox cryptokey generate -u - Verify that no error occurs. - Enable FIPS on a Jammy system. - sudo pro attach - sudo pro enable fips-updates - sudo reboot - Reboot - Delete the mailbox - rm -rf ~/mail - Issue the following command to create an encrypted mailbox: - sudo doveadm -o plugin/mail_crypt_private_password=e32f1f174d7576716d5df899e7d5cb6b64cdb33584c71882e9f7e1f79f2e695e mailbox cryptokey generate -u <username> - Verify that an error occurs. - Update Dovecot to the fixed version. - Repeat the commands to delete the mailbox and to create an encrypted mailbox. - After installing the fix, verify that no error occurs. [ Where problems could occur ] - The increased salt size of 16 bytes could potentially cause issues in allocated data structures, but I've attempted to mitigate this by increasing the size of potentially problematic data structures. [ Other Info ] This is really only needed on systems where FIPS is supported, i.e. Jammy and Noble and 26.04. This bug was submitted on an Ubuntu Jammy system with FIPS enabled. Here is the Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/+bug/2107773 Pull Request submitted: https://github.com/dovecot/core/pull/241 [ Impact ] * When one enables FIPS mode on a Jammy system and then attempts to use Dovecot to create an encrypted mailbox, the module returns a invalid salt length error. * FIPS mode requires a 16 byte salt for PBEKDF2 and Dovecot is only requesting 8 bytes of salt. The solution is to modify Dovecot to request 16 bytes of salt. [ Test Plan ] * Install Dovecot on the system o sudo apt install dovecot-auth-lua dovecot-core dovecot-gssapi dovecot-imapd dovecot-ldap dovecot-lmtpd dovecot-managesieved dovecot-mysql dovecot-pgsql dovecot-pop3d dovecot-sieve dovecot- solr dovecot-sqlite dovecot-submissiond * Enable mailbox encryption. o Add /etc/dovecot/conf.d//mail-crypt.conf to enable mailbox encryption: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u listen = * mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } userdb { driver = passwd } mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_crypt plugin { mail_crypt_curve = secp521r1 mail_crypt_save_version=2 } mail_attribute_dict = file:%h/Maildir/dovecot-attributes imap_metadata = yes * Issue the following command to create an encrypted mailbox: o sudo doveadm -o plugin/ mail_crypt_private_password=e32f1f174d7576716d5df899e7d5cb6b64cdb33584c71882e9f7e1f79f2e695e mailbox cryptokey generate -u * Verify that no error occurs. * Enable FIPS on a Jammy system. o sudo pro attach o sudo pro enable fips-updates o sudo reboot * Reboot * Delete the mailbox o rm -rf ~/mail * Issue the following command to create an encrypted mailbox: o sudo doveadm -o plugin/ mail_crypt_private_password=e32f1f174d7576716d5df899e7d5cb6b64cdb33584c71882e9f7e1f79f2e695e mailbox cryptokey generate -u <username> * Verify that an error occurs. * Update Dovecot to the fixed version. * Repeat the commands to delete the mailbox and to create an encrypted mailbox. * After installing the fix, verify that no error occurs. [ Where problems could occur ] * The increased salt size of 16 bytes could potentially cause issues in allocated data structures, but I've attempted to mitigate this by increasing the size of potentially problematic data structures. [ Other Info ] This is really only needed on systems where FIPS is supported, i.e. Jammy and Noble and 26.04.

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For additional modules, the mail_plugin_dir parameter is ignored
by Lafiel 14 May '25

14 May '25

Hi. The NixOS distribution for Dovecot uses a patch that hardcodes the path to the plugins in `/etc/dovecot/modules`. The modules themselves are located at `/nix/store/z9kf4ri8sq9f3r510qsm59g1n6kfc7q6-dovecot-2.3.21.1/lib/dovecot`, the script creates symlinks in the `/etc/dovecot/modules` directory. The additional modules are loaded normally. Now I want to remove the patch. I added the parameter `“--with-moduledir=$(out)/etc/dovecot/modules”`, and the modules are located at path `/nix/store/wb885d6w5dfchg9v481f55zj4a2p3r89-dovecot-2.3.21.1/etc/dovecot/modules`. In the configuration I added the parameter `mail_plugin_dir = /etc/dovecot/modules`. The main modules load fine, but the optional modules don't want to load: ``` Error: Plugin 'imap_sieve' not found from directory /nix/store/wb885d6w5dfchg9v481f55zj4a2p3r89-dovecot-2.3.21.1/etc/dovecot/modules ``` For additional modules, the mail_plugin_dir parameter is ignored. Temporary solution - in src/config/config-parser.h file I replaced the line ``` #define CONFIG_MODULE_DIR MODULEDIR"/settings” ``` by ``` #define CONFIG_MODULE_DIR “/etc/dovecot/modules/settings” ``` -- Best regards, Lafiel mailto:lafiel@elven.pw

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Dovecot 2.4.1 last-login configuration pattern: Unknown setting: pattern (dict_map_key_field_pattern or dict_map_key_field_service_pattern not found either.)
by Michael Borgelt 13 May '25

13 May '25

Hello, I am trying to configure last-login plugin for dovecot 2.4.1 and getting the following error. doveconf -n # 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f) doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/30-lastlogin.conf line 24: pattern: Unknown setting: pattern (dict_map_key_field_pattern or dict_map_key_field_service_pattern not found either.) I am using the example config from the dovecot 2.4 documentation. https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/core/plugins/last_login.html#mysql-example Is this a bug in the config parser or in the example config? doveconf -n output with pattern lines in 30-lastlogin.conf commented: # 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.12.27-amd64 x86_64 Debian 13.0 # Hostname: debian.dg4yfa.org # 4 default setting changes since version 2.4.0 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %{user|username|lower} dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 first_valid_uid = 1000 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes imapsieve_url = sieve://127.0.0.1:4190 language_filters = normalizer-icu snowball stopwords language_tokenizers = generic email-address last_valid_uid = 65530 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes mail_driver = maildir mail_inbox_path = ~/Maildir/.INBOX mail_path = ~/Maildir mail_plugins { virtual = yes fts = yes fts_flatcurve = yes quota = yes } mail_privileged_group = mail protocols { imap = yes lmtp = yes sieve = yes pop3 = yes } quota_storage_size = 1G sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/share/dovecot-pigeonhole/sieve sieve_global_extensions { vnd.dovecot.pipe = yes vnd.dovecot.execute = yes } sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/share/dovecot-pigeonhole/sieve sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms passdb pam { } userdb passwd { result_failure = return-fail result_success = continue } userdb passwd-file { auth_username_format = %{user | username} passwd_file_path = /etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file result_failure = return-ok result_internalfail = continue } namespace inbox { inbox = yes mailbox Drafts { special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Entw&APw-rfe { special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Spam { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" quota_storage_extra = 100M } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } inet_listener imaps { } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { } inet_listener pop3s { } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { } inet_listener submissions { } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { } } service imap { } service pop3 { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem key_file = /etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.key } protocol lda { mail_plugins { sieve = yes } } namespace virtual { mail_driver = virtual mail_path = ~/Maildir/virtual prefix = virtual. separator = . } protocol imap { mail_plugins { imap_sieve = yes virtual = yes imap_quota = yes last_login = yes } } protocol lmtp { auth_username_format = %{user | username | lower} mail_plugins { sieve = yes } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service managesieve { } last_login { key = # hidden, use -P to show it precision = ms dict proxy { name = sql } } dict_server { dict sql { sql_driver = mysql mysql localhost { dbname = vmail password = # hidden, use -P to show it user = vmail } dict_map "shared/last-login/$service/$user/$remote_ip" { sql_table = last_login dict_map_value_field last_access { type = uint } dict_map_key_field service { } dict_map_key_field userid { } dict_map_key_field last_ip { } } } } language de { filters = lowercase snowball } language en { default = yes filters = lowercase snowball english-possessive stopwords } fts flatcurve { substring_search = yes } quota "User quota" { driver = count quota_warning warn-95 { quota_storage_percentage = 95 execute quota-warning { args = 95 %{user} } } quota_warning warn-80 { quota_storage_percentage = 80 execute quota-warning { args = 80 %{user} } } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh user = dovecot unix_listener quota-warning { user = Debian-exim } } sieve_script personal { active_path = ~/.dovecot.sieve driver = file path = ~/sieve } sieve_script default { driver = file name = default path = /etc/dovecot/sieve/default/ type = default } mailbox Spam { sieve_script report-spam { cause = copy path = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve type = before } } imapsieve_from Spam { sieve_script report-ham { cause = copy path = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve type = before } } Thank you, Michael -- Michael Borgelt Email: mborgelt(a)borgelt.org

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error building with gettext 0.24.1
by Genes Lists 12 May '25

12 May '25

After updating gettext to 0.24.1 our daily build of git head is now generating this error: ---------------------------------------- autoreconf -fiv .... configure.ac:266: warning: macro 'AM_ICONV' not found in library autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force configure.ac:266: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_ICONV If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. autoreconf: error: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 Indeed running 'aclocal' generates the same error: ---------------------------------------- gettext does include the file : /usr/share/gettext/m4/iconv.m4 Any help appreciated. I scanned the gettex mail lists but didn't spot anything that seemed relevant. Thanks for any guidance. -- Gene

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crypt_private_key_file retrived from userdb/ldap doesn't work
by luis.neapolis＠gmail.com 12 May '25

12 May '25

Hello, if I try to retrieve crypt_private_key_file from userdb/ldap doesn't work, infact if I have: crypt_global_private_key main{ crypt_private_key_password=secret crypt_private_key_file=/path/to/file } all is ok. If I want to have: crypt_global_private_key main{ crypt_private_key_password=secret crypt_private_key_file= } userdb ldap { driver = ldap ..... fields { mail_crypt_global_private_key/main/crypt_private_key_file=inline:%{ldap:key} } } I have into logs: lmtp(134879): Fatal: Raw user initialization failed: mail_crypt_plugin: nuovo: Couldn't parse private key : Unknown key format I am sure that the key is correctly base64 encoded, infact if I pick the ldap value of %{ldap:key} and I decode base64 I have the pkey crypted key. Any suggestion?

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Unable to save message in shared mailbox
by Markus Bach 12 May '25

12 May '25

Hello, I have a curious problem. We are running a Debian bookworm server with dovecot 2.3.19.1. We have a lot of shared mailboxes and most of them are behaving just fine. But we have a problem with one shared mailbox: Users aren't able to save messages in it even though they have the right to. This issue popped up, when a user This mailbox is set up like every other shared-mailbox, so I don't think it's a permission problem. We tried it with several users giving them the same access rights and always got an error when trying to save a mail in the shared mailbox. I didn't find anything that could help in the log files. Even after turning on `mail_debug` I can't even see the try to save a message in the logs. Some of the things I've tried so far without any success: * doveadm force-resync * increasing the quota for the shared-mailbox * disabling the quote for the shared-mailbox * recreating the Sent folder in the shared-maiblox. Does anybody have any idea how I can debug this further or where the issue could be? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Markus Bach IT-Administration -- Telefon: +49 (30) 31 98 31 200 E-Mail: support(a)pegasusgmbh.de PEGASUS GmbH Gesellschaft für soziale/gesundheitliche Innovation IT-Systemleistungen Brunowstr. 52 13507 Berlin Datenschutzhinweise: https://www.pegasusgmbh.de/datenschutz Internet: http://www.pegasusgmbh.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: PEGASUS GmbH Gesellschaft für soziale/gesundheitliche Innovation Potsdamer Str. 98 10785 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Friedrich Kiesinger Registergericht: Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg Registernummer: HRB 69935 B

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Dovecot lifecycle announcement
by Aki Tuomi 12 May '25

12 May '25

We are announcing these Dovecot end-of-life (EOL) decisions: 1. All Dovecot versions before 2.3 are now fully EOL. We will not provide any additional patches, including security issues, for these releases. 2. For Dovecot CE 2.3 we will provide critical security bug fixes. Thus, if you are experiencing a non-security issue with Dovecot, we need you to upgrade into latest 2.4 CE release and reproduce the problem there in order for the team to debug. The Dovecot team will no longer debug non-security related issues for 2.3 releases. If the issue can occur with the latest 2.4 release, please file a bug report and we will take a look! If you are using a 2.3.x version packaged from an Operating System Vendor, please open a bug against them for fixing it. We do not provide patches or bug fixes against these OS Vendor specific releases. Dovecot CE 2.4.x is the current main release, which will continue to receive feature, bug and security patches. We accept bug reports against latest 2.4 version or "main" branch of Dovecot. Packages for Dovecot CE 2.4 can be found at https://repo.dovecot.org. Thank you for using Dovecot! Note: Users with a commercial agreement with Open-Xchange (Dovecot Pro) have a separate extended EOL policy, so this announcement does not apply to them. Regards, Aki Tuomi Open-Xchange oy

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MySQL Auth Troubles during Migration to 2.4.1
by Odhiambo Washington 07 May '25

07 May '25

I am between a rock and a hard place while doing my migration from 2.3.19.1 to 2.4.1 I have setup a clean system to test the running before I import my database of virtual users. I haven't changed much from the config examples provided at My auth-sql.conf.ext: sql_driver = mysql mysql /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock { user = db_user password = XXXXX dbname = dbname } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = SHA512 query = SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = '%{user}' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id } userdb sql { query = SELECT pop as home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = '%{user}' iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM users } dovecot -n: ``` root@mail:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# doveconf -n # 2.4.1-4+debian12 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4+debian12 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.1.0-34-amd64 x86_64 Debian 12.10 # Hostname: mail.domain.name dovecot_config_version = 2.4.1 auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = yes dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.1 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_debug = category=auth mail_plugins { notify = yes mail_log = yes } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve sql_driver = mysql mysql /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock { dbname = exim4u password = # hidden, use -P to show it user = exim4u } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = SHA512 query = SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = '%{user}' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id } userdb sql { iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM users query = SELECT pop as home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = '%{user}' } namespace inbox { inbox = yes mailbox Drafts { special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } inet_listener imaps { } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { } inet_listener pop3s { } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { } inet_listener submissions { } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { } } service imap { } service pop3 { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service managesieve { } ``` I ran a test against the POP3 daemon: ``` telnet 0 110 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user 'joh(a)doe.com +OK pass XXXXXXX -ERR [SYS/TEMP] Temporary authentication failure. ``` And the debugging ends up in "pop3-login: Info: Login aborted: Logged out (auth service reported temporary failure". I am not sure where to look for this. May 04 13:08:46 auth: Debug: sqlpool(mysql): Creating new connection May 04 13:08:46 auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from /run/auth-token-secret.dat May 04 13:08:46 auth: Debug: mysql(/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock): Connecting May 04 13:08:46 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=9061,uid=117) [1]: Server accepted connection (fd=19) May 04 13:08:46 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=9061,uid=117) [1]: auth client connected (pid=9061) May 04 13:09:12 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=9061,uid=117) [1]: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN protocol=pop3 final-resp-ok secured session=0sexkUw07I1/AAAB lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=110 rport=36332 resp=AHdhc2hAbWFyYS5jbG91ZAB3YXNoQG1hcmEuY2xvdWQ= (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) May 04 13:09:12 auth(joh@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: Debug: sql: Performing passdb lookup May 04 13:09:12 auth: Debug: conn unix:auth-worker: Connecting May 04 13:09:12 auth: Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=9055,uid=0): Client connected (fd=20) May 04 13:09:12 auth: Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=9055,uid=0): Sending version handshake May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth/libdriver_mysql.so May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth/libdriver_pgsql.so May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: sqlpool(mysql): Creating new connection May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: mysql(/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock): Connecting May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=9063,uid=116): Server accepted connection (fd=13) May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=9063,uid=116): Sending version handshake May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=9063,uid=116): auth-worker<1>: Handling PASSV request May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(joh(a)doe.com,127.0.0.1)<9138><0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: request [1]: Debug: sql: Performing passdb lookup May 04 13:09:12 auth: Debug: auth-worker: Worker sent process limit '30' May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(joh(a)doe.com,127.0.0.1)<9138><0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: request [1]: Debug: sql: query: SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = 'joh(a)doe.com' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: mysql(/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock): Finished query 'SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = 'joh(a)doe.com' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id' in 0 msecs May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(joh(a)doe.com,127.0.0.1)<9138><0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: request [1]: Debug: sql: Finished passdb lookup May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=9063,uid=116): auth-worker<1>: Finished: internal_failure May 04 13:09:12 auth(joh@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: Debug: sql: Finished passdb lookup May 04 13:09:14 auth(joh@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: Debug: Auth request finished May 04 13:09:14 auth(joh@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: Debug: immediate auth failure due to internal failure May 04 13:09:14 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=9061,uid=117) [1]: client passdb out: FAIL 1 user=joh(a)doe.com code=temp_fail May 04 13:09:18 pop3-login: Info: Login aborted: Logged out (auth service reported temporary failure, 1 attempts in 6 secs) (temp_fail): user=< joh(a)doe.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured, session=<0sexkUw07I1/AAAB> -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html] I am between a rock and a hard place while doing my migration from 2.3.19.1 to 2.4.1 I have setup a clean system to test the running before I import my database of virtual users. I haven't changed much from the config examples provided at My auth-sql.conf.ext: sql_driver = mysql mysql /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock { user = db_user password = XXXXX dbname = dbname } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = SHA512 query = SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = '% {user}' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id } userdb sql { query = SELECT pop as home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = '%{user}' iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM users } dovecot -n: ``` root@mail:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# doveconf -n # 2.4.1-4+debian12 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4+debian12 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.1.0-34-amd64 x86_64 Debian 12.10 # Hostname: mail.domain.name dovecot_config_version = 2.4.1 auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = yes dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.1 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_debug = category=auth mail_plugins { notify = yes mail_log = yes } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve sql_driver = mysql mysql /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock { dbname = exim4u password = # hidden, use -P to show it user = exim4u } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = SHA512 query = SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = '% {user}' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id } userdb sql { iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM users query = SELECT pop as home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = '%{user}' } namespace inbox { inbox = yes mailbox Drafts { special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } inet_listener imaps { } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { } inet_listener pop3s { } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { } inet_listener submissions { } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { } } service imap { } service pop3 { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service managesieve { } ``` I ran a test against the POP3 daemon: ``` telnet 0 110 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. user 'joh(a)doe.com +OK pass XXXXXXX -ERR [SYS/TEMP] Temporary authentication failure. ``` And the debugging ends up in "pop3-login: Info: Login aborted: Logged out (auth service reported temporary failure". I am not sure where to look for this. May 04 13:08:46 auth: Debug: sqlpool(mysql): Creating new connection May 04 13:08:46 auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from /run/auth-token- secret.dat May 04 13:08:46 auth: Debug: mysql(/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock): Connecting May 04 13:08:46 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=9061,uid=117) [1]: Server accepted connection (fd=19) May 04 13:08:46 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=9061,uid=117) [1]: auth client connected (pid=9061) May 04 13:09:12 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=9061,uid=117) [1]: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN protocol=pop3 final-resp-ok secured session=0sexkUw07I1/AAAB lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=110 rport=36332 resp=AHdhc2hAbWFyYS5jbG91ZAB3YXNoQG1hcmEuY2xvdWQ= (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) May 04 13:09:12 auth(joh@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: Debug: sql: Performing passdb lookup May 04 13:09:12 auth: Debug: conn unix:auth-worker: Connecting May 04 13:09:12 auth: Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=9055,uid=0): Client connected (fd=20) May 04 13:09:12 auth: Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=9055,uid=0): Sending version handshake May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/ lib/dovecot/modules/auth May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/ modules/auth/libdriver_mysql.so May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/ modules/auth/libdriver_pgsql.so May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/ modules/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: sqlpool(mysql): Creating new connection May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: mysql(/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock): Connecting May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=9063,uid=116): Server accepted connection (fd=13) May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=9063,uid=116): Sending version handshake May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=9063,uid=116): auth-worker<1>: Handling PASSV request May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(joh(a)doe.com,127.0.0.1)<9138><0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: request [1]: Debug: sql: Performing passdb lookup May 04 13:09:12 auth: Debug: auth-worker: Worker sent process limit '30' May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(joh(a)doe.com,127.0.0.1)<9138><0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: request [1]: Debug: sql: query: SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = 'joh(a)doe.com' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: mysql(/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock): Finished query 'SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = 'joh(a)doe.com' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id' in 0 msecs May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(joh(a)doe.com,127.0.0.1)<9138><0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: request [1]: Debug: sql: Finished passdb lookup May 04 13:09:12 auth-worker(9138): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=9063,uid=116): auth-worker<1>: Finished: internal_failure May 04 13:09:12 auth(joh@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: Debug: sql: Finished passdb lookup May 04 13:09:14 auth(joh@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: Debug: Auth request finished May 04 13:09:14 auth(joh@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<0sexkUw07I1/AAAB>: Debug: immediate auth failure due to internal failure May 04 13:09:14 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=9061,uid=117) [1]: client passdb out: FAIL 1 user=joh(a)doe.com code=temp_fail May 04 13:09:18 pop3-login: Info: Login aborted: Logged out (auth service reported temporary failure, 1 attempts in 6 secs) (temp_fail): user=<joh(a)doe.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured, session=<0sexkUw07I1/AAAB> -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart- questions.html]

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Quota wrongfully reported as exceeded on shared mailbox
by adminkram＠tripelspark.de 07 May '25

07 May '25

Hi, I've been scratching my head without luck with the following problem: I've shared a mailbox from one user "COMPANY" to another user "JOE". Both users have quotas and both quotas are less than 50% used. When the user JOE tries to post a message into the shared folder, dovecot complains that the user would be over quota: bash# /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -u JOE 1 append shared/COMPANY/Sent/JOE {10} a NO [OVERQUOTA] Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full) (0.057 + 0.000 + 0.057 secs). However, nobody is over quota: bash# doveadm quota get -u COMPANY Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 4754996 10485760 45 User quota MESSAGE 33695 - 0 bash# doveadm quota get -u JOE Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 14 1048576 0 User quota MESSAGE 3 - 0 Some more infos: 1. Dovecot-2.3.21 (+Debian updates) 2.3.21 (47349e2482) (NOTE: dovecot.org/mailing-lists says: Use dovecot –version to get it. The command is dovecot --version, though!) 2. I've performed "doveadm quota recalc" on both users, no change. 3. I've checked sharing ACL permissions, if I give just "l" permission, the response will be "NO [NOPERM] Permission denied". It does not seem to be an ACL permission reported wrongly. 4. I've tried increasing the quota size beyond reason (100 Gbytes for JOE), no change. 5. I've restarted dovecot after each change. 6. When trying to move a message into the shared Sent/joe folder in Thunderbird, same problem happens, Thunderbird displays the over quota message. Thunderbird cannot display the quota info for the shared folder, though. 7. I tried to enable rawlog (rawlog_dir in protocol imap). It does nothing helpful. It logs the manual commands from my pre-auth sessions (imap -u JOE) but it will stubbornly not log any commands issued by Thunderbird. ?! Any idea how to further debug this or what could be wrong? Thank you, Wolfgang

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Dovecot 3.21.1 -> 2.4.0 SegFault
by Cata S 06 May '25

06 May '25

Hi guys, There seems to be some issue with Dovecot deployed on alpine. More specifically, the dovecot.config file is not properly read. I have run some debugging and the SegFault is returned in the function below: #0 0x000055555556779b in config_parsed_get_setting () No symbol table info available. #1 0x0000555555563708 in config_dump_full () No symbol table info available. #2 0x000055555555c814 in main () No symbol table info available. This was also addressed by alpine here: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/17050 Any idea what could be causing this? Thanks for looking into it, Cata

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(2.4) weird doveadm behavior
by Kamil Jońca 06 May '25

06 May '25

debian package 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf I have namespace: namespace expunged { mail_driver = maildir mail_path = ~/Mail/expunged/ mailbox_list_layout = fs hidden = yes inbox = no list = no prefix = .EXPUNGED/ separator = / } %doveadm search -u kjonca mailbox .EXPUNGED|head -n 1 08ac303413c11168864d2a00a6f72b09 30802 %doveadm fetch -u kjonca text mailbox-guid 08ac303413c11168864d2a00a6f72b09 uid 30802 ...empty output... How can I fetch messages? KJ -- http://wolnelektury.pl/wesprzyj/teraz/ Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...

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2.3 -> 2.4 migration problem(s)
by Kamil Jońca 06 May '25

06 May '25

Recently in debian sid version 2.4 appeared and I tried to migrate. it (mostly working) but Neither dovecot-lda nor doveadm does not see current system user context i.e. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- %doveadm mailbox list Fatal: One of -u, -F, -A or --no-userdb-lookup must be provided --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- from lda logs --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Fatal: Namespace root: mail_storage settings: Failed to parse configuration: Invalid setting mail_path=~/Mail/0/: mail_path setting used home directory (~/) but there is no mail_home and userdb didn't return it --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- for dovecot-lda setting "mail_home = /home/%{user|username}" helped but still ... doveadm mailbox list -u kjonca and "-d" option helped in both cases Moreover I found that doveadm does not work when dovecot is stoped (but used to work in 2.3.x) Another thing is: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- in 2.3.x configuration it created line like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 2025-04-27T02:08:31.925845+02:00 alfa dovecot: LDA(kjonca): sieve: msgid=<fd248603-b186-4ee2-9e76-b9b9c0fe7a87@alfa>: fileinto action: stored mail into mailbox 'RSS' --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- but now it does not work (what is strange I cannot find %$ description and %m is described as "mechanism" not message id ...) So how can I have old loggin and authentication mechanisms? KJ # 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.12.22-amd64 x86_64 Debian trixie/sid # ... # 4 default setting change dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 acl_driver = vfile auth_allow_cleartext = yes auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 login auth_username_format = %{user | username } auth_verbose = yes default_vsz_limit = 1024M dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 lazy_expunge_mailbox = .EXPUNGED/ lazy_expunge_only_last_instance = yes listen = alfa mail_driver = maildir mail_inbox_path = ~/Mail/0/INBOX mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename flag_change save mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size from subject flags mail_log_prefix = "%{protocol}(%{user}): " mail_path = ~/Mail/0/ mail_plugins { acl = yes lazy_expunge = yes } postmaster_address = root@localhost protocols { imap = yes } sieve_execute_bin_dir = %{home}/sieve/bin sieve_execute_exec_timeout = 86400s sieve_extensions { fileinto = yes reject = yes envelope = yes encoded-character = yes vacation = yes subaddress = yes comparator-i;ascii-numeric = yes relational = yes regex = yes imap4flags = yes copy = yes include = yes body = yes variables = yes enotify = yes environment = yes mailbox = yes date = yes index = yes ihave = yes duplicate = yes mime = yes foreverypart = yes extracttext = yes vnd.dovecot.pipe = yes vnd.dovecot.execute = yes vnd.dovecot.filter = yes vnd.dovecot.debug = yes editheader = yes } sieve_filter_bin_dir = %{home}/sieve/bin sieve_filter_exec_timeout = 86400s sieve_pipe_bin_dir = %{home}/sieve/bin sieve_pipe_exec_timeout = 86400s sieve_plugins { sieve_extprograms = yes } ssl = no service auth { user = root unix_listener auth-userdb { } } passdb alfa { default_password_scheme = PLAIN driver = passwd-file passwd_file_path = /etc/security/dovecot.pwd } userdb alfa { passwd_file_path = /etc/security/dovecot.pwd driver = passwd-file } namespace root { inbox = yes separator = / } namespace expunged { mail_driver = maildir mail_path = ~/Mail/expunged/ hidden = yes inbox = no list = no prefix = .EXPUNGED/ separator = / } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } } service imap { } service auth-worker { user = dovecot } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } protocol lda { deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ info_log_path = syslog log_path = syslog mail_plugins { sieve = yes } syslog_facility = mail } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins { mail_log = yes notify = yes acl = yes imap_acl = yes lazy_expunge = yes } } sieve_script personal { path = ~/.dovecot.sieve } sieve_script before { path = /etc/dovecot/sieve } -- http://wolnelektury.pl/wesprzyj/teraz/ The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks. -- Emo Philips

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Re: Authentication caching and password changes
by Michael Slusarz 04 May '25

04 May '25

> On 05/03/2025 5:31 AM MDT Diego Alvarez via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > > In Dovecot docs (https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/configuration_manual/ > authentication/caching/) we see: > > 1. User logs in with password Y. The cached password X doesn’t match Y and the > previous authentication was unsuccessful, so Dovecot doesn’t bother doing > another backend passdb lookup (until cache TTL expires). The login fails. > > Anyone knows why they chose this design ? Why not simply do a passdb lookup > instead of waiting for cache TTL to expire ? You didn't copy and paste the whole context of this documentation comment: https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/core/config/auth/caching.html#early-change When looking at the full context, this is a situation where a user is either using a password that isn't yet valid (= a bad password, so it's a valid denial), or the user did change their password but the Dovecot system doesn't see the change for some reason (= server/admin issue). In the above situation, doing a passdb lookup without waiting for cache TTL expiration is simply the same situation as not having a negative cache at all. So either don't use the negative cache or fix the password sync (and if you can't fix the authentication sync delay, you can't use a negative cache). An unlikely situation is that the user is using the wrong password originally, and then changes their password to this wrong password. You can always reduce the negative cache TTL if you want to catch this rare situation, at the cost of a lower cache hit rate more generally. michael

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Re: (2.3->2.4) How to expunge with hierarhy saving?
by Michael Slusarz 04 May '25

04 May '25

> On 05/02/2025 10:17 PM MDT Kamil Jońca via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > > I have used lazy_expunge plugin with namespace (configuration convert): > > namespace expunged { > mail_driver = maildir > mail_path = ~/Mail/expunged/ > hidden = yes > inbox = no > list = no > prefix = .EXPUNGED/ > separator = / > } > > with > lazy_expunge_mailbox = .EXPUNGED > > this allowed me to keep hierarchy (i.e.mails from "admin" mailbox were > expunged to "~/Mail/expunged/admin" ) > this is no longer true - the best I can achieve is to have single > mailbox with all mails :( > Is it possible to get older behavior? > (lazy_expunge_mailbox = .EXPUNGED/ - ends with error) Namespace storage for lazy-expunge plugin was deprecated all the way back in 2.3.0, and was removed for 2.4. I've cleaned up the documentation page to remove all references to namespaces (https://github.com/dovecot/documentation/pull/1234) michael

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Running dovecot 2.4
by Odhiambo Washington 04 May '25

04 May '25

Looking at https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/core/admin/running.html, and comparing with a system where I have installed Dovecot 2.4.1: root@mail:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# ps auxw|grep "dovecot" root 9739 0.0 0.0 8872 4816 ? Ss 14:47 0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -F root 9741 0.0 0.0 5324 3280 ? S 14:47 0:00 dovecot/anvil root 9742 0.0 0.0 5428 3256 ? S 14:47 0:00 dovecot/log root 9743 0.0 0.1 51976 10248 ? S 14:47 0:00 dovecot/config Why are my other services not running? For example, the dovecot/auth service is not running. On an system running 2.3.21, I get: wash@eu:~$ ps auxw|grep "dovecot" root 181404 0.0 0.0 8240 4408 ? Ss 14:33 0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -F dovecot 181408 0.0 0.0 10668 6936 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/managesieve-login Debian-+ 181409 0.0 0.0 12192 8880 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/lmtp -L dovecot 181410 0.0 0.0 4760 1436 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/anvil root 181411 0.0 0.0 5028 2960 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/log Debian-+ 181412 0.0 0.0 12192 8848 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/lmtp -L Debian-+ 181413 0.0 0.0 12192 9040 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/lmtp -L Debian-+ 181414 0.0 0.0 12192 8908 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/lmtp -L Debian-+ 181415 0.0 0.0 12192 8876 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/lmtp -L root 181416 0.0 0.0 8096 5444 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/config dovecot 181418 0.0 0.0 5964 3496 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/stats dovecot 181419 0.0 0.0 12216 8456 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/auth root@mail:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# doveconf -n # 2.4.1-4+debian12 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4+debian12 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.1.0-34-amd64 x86_64 Debian 12.10 # Hostname: mail.test,domain dovecot_config_version = 2.4.1 auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.1 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_debug = category=auth mail_driver = Maildir mail_path = ~/Maildir protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve sql_driver = mysql mysql /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock { dbname = exim4u password = # hidden, use -P to show it user = exim4u } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = SHA512 query = SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = '%{user}' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id } userdb sql { iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM users query = SELECT pop as home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = '%{user}' } namespace inbox { inbox = yes mailbox Drafts { special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } inet_listener imaps { } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { } inet_listener pop3s { } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { } inet_listener submissions { } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { } } service imap { } service pop3 { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service managesieve { } -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html] Looking at https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/core/admin/running.html, and comparing with a system where I have installed Dovecot 2.4.1: root@mail:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# ps auxw|grep "dovecot" root 9739 0.0 0.0 8872 4816 ? Ss 14:47 0:00 /usr/sbin/ dovecot -F root 9741 0.0 0.0 5324 3280 ? S 14:47 0:00 dovecot/ anvil root 9742 0.0 0.0 5428 3256 ? S 14:47 0:00 dovecot/log root 9743 0.0 0.1 51976 10248 ? S 14:47 0:00 dovecot/ config Why are my other services not running? For example, the dovecot/auth service is not running. On an system running 2.3.21, I get: wash@eu:~$ ps auxw|grep "dovecot" root 181404 0.0 0.0 8240 4408 ? Ss 14:33 0:00 /usr/sbin/ dovecot -F dovecot 181408 0.0 0.0 10668 6936 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/ managesieve-login Debian-+ 181409 0.0 0.0 12192 8880 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/lmtp -L dovecot 181410 0.0 0.0 4760 1436 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/ anvil root 181411 0.0 0.0 5028 2960 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/log Debian-+ 181412 0.0 0.0 12192 8848 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/lmtp -L Debian-+ 181413 0.0 0.0 12192 9040 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/lmtp -L Debian-+ 181414 0.0 0.0 12192 8908 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/lmtp -L Debian-+ 181415 0.0 0.0 12192 8876 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/lmtp -L root 181416 0.0 0.0 8096 5444 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/ config dovecot 181418 0.0 0.0 5964 3496 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/ stats dovecot 181419 0.0 0.0 12216 8456 ? S 14:33 0:00 dovecot/auth root@mail:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# doveconf -n # 2.4.1-4+debian12 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4+debian12 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.1.0-34-amd64 x86_64 Debian 12.10 # Hostname: mail.test,domain dovecot_config_version = 2.4.1 auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.1 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log log_debug = category=auth mail_driver = Maildir mail_path = ~/Maildir protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve sql_driver = mysql mysql /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock { dbname = exim4u password = # hidden, use -P to show it user = exim4u } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = SHA512 query = SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = '% {user}' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id } userdb sql { iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM users query = SELECT pop as home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = '%{user}' } namespace inbox { inbox = yes mailbox Drafts { special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } inet_listener imaps { } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { } inet_listener pop3s { } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { } inet_listener submissions { } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { } } service imap { } service pop3 { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service managesieve { } -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart- questions.html]

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MySQL AUTH failing
by Odhiambo Washington 03 May '25

03 May '25

I am arriving late to begin the migration to 2.4. The following is my auth-sql.conf.ext: # MySQL Authentication sql_driver = mysql mysql /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock { user = user password = SECRET dbname = pass } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = MD5-CRYPT query = SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = '%u' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id } userdb sql { query = SELECT pop as home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = '%u' iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM users } The queries work for Dovecot 2.3, but fail for 2.4: May 03 20:46:44 auth-worker(john(a)doe.com,127.0.0.1)<4758><AAi/1z40rt9/AAAB>: request [1]: Debug: sql: query: SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = '%u' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id May 03 20:46:44 auth-worker(4758): Debug: mysql(/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock): Finished query 'SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = '%u' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id' in 1 msecs May 03 20:46:44 auth-worker(john(a)doe.com,127.0.0.1)<4758><AAi/1z40rt9/AAAB>: request [1]: Info: sql: unknown user May 03 20:46:44 auth-worker(john(a)doe.com,127.0.0.1)<4758><AAi/1z40rt9/AAAB>: request [1]: Debug: sql: Finished passdb lookup May 03 20:46:44 auth-worker(4758): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=4757,uid=116): auth-worker<1>: Finished: user_unknown May 03 20:46:44 auth(john@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<AAi/1z40rt9/AAAB>: Debug: sql: Finished passdb lookup May 03 20:46:44 auth(john@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<AAi/1z40rt9/AAAB>: Debug: Auth request finished May 03 20:46:44 auth(john@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<AAi/1z40rt9/AAAB>: Debug: delaying auth failure May 03 20:46:46 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=4755,uid=117) [1]: client passdb out: FAIL 1 user=john(a)doe.com -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html] I am arriving late to begin the migration to 2.4. The following is my auth-sql.conf.ext: # MySQL Authentication sql_driver = mysql mysql /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock { user = user password = SECRET dbname = pass } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = MD5-CRYPT query = SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = '%u' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id } userdb sql { query = SELECT pop as home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE username = '%u' iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM users } The queries work for Dovecot 2.3, but fail for 2.4: May 03 20:46:44 auth-worker(john(a)doe.com,127.0.0.1)<4758><AAi/1z40rt9/AAAB>: request [1]: Debug: sql: query: SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = '%u' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id May 03 20:46:44 auth-worker(4758): Debug: mysql(/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock): Finished query 'SELECT crypt AS password FROM users,domains WHERE users.username = '%u' AND users.enabled = '1' AND users.type='local' and domains.enabled='1' and domains.domain_id = users.domain_id' in 1 msecs May 03 20:46:44 auth-worker(john(a)doe.com,127.0.0.1)<4758><AAi/1z40rt9/AAAB>: request [1]: Info: sql: unknown user May 03 20:46:44 auth-worker(john(a)doe.com,127.0.0.1)<4758><AAi/1z40rt9/AAAB>: request [1]: Debug: sql: Finished passdb lookup May 03 20:46:44 auth-worker(4758): Debug: conn unix:auth-worker (pid=4757,uid=116): auth-worker<1>: Finished: user_unknown May 03 20:46:44 auth(john@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<AAi/1z40rt9/AAAB>: Debug: sql: Finished passdb lookup May 03 20:46:44 auth(john@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<AAi/1z40rt9/AAAB>: Debug: Auth request finished May 03 20:46:44 auth(john@doe.com,127.0.0.1,sasl:plain)<AAi/1z40rt9/AAAB>: Debug: delaying auth failure May 03 20:46:46 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=4755,uid=117) [1]: client passdb out: FAIL 1 user=john(a)doe.com -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart- questions.html]

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Authentication caching and password changes
by Diego Alvarez 03 May '25

03 May '25

In Dovecot docs (https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/configuration_manual/ authentication/caching/) we see: 1. User logs in with password Y. The cached password X doesn’t match Y and the previous authentication was unsuccessful, so Dovecot doesn’t bother doing another backend passdb lookup (until cache TTL expires). The login fails. Anyone knows why they chose this design ? Why not simply do a passdb lookup instead of waiting for cache TTL to expire ? In Dovecot docs (https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/configuration_manual/ authentication/caching/) we see: 1. User logs in with password Y. The cached password X doesn’t match Y and the previous authentication was unsuccessful, so Dovecot doesn’t bother doing another backend passdb lookup (until cache TTL expires). The login fails. Anyone knows why they chose this design ? Why not simply do a passdb lookup instead of waiting for cache TTL to expire ?

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(2.3->2.4) How to expunge with hierarhy saving?
by Kamil Jońca 03 May '25

03 May '25

I have used lazy_expunge plugin with namespace (configuration convert): namespace expunged { mail_driver = maildir mail_path = ~/Mail/expunged/ hidden = yes inbox = no list = no prefix = .EXPUNGED/ separator = / } with lazy_expunge_mailbox = .EXPUNGED this allowed me to keep hierarchy (i.e.mails from "admin" mailbox were expunged to "~/Mail/expunged/admin" ) this is no longer true - the best I can achieve is to have single mailbox with all mails :( Is it possible to get older behavior? (lazy_expunge_mailbox = .EXPUNGED/ - ends with error) KJ -- http://wolnelektury.pl/wesprzyj/teraz/ Zuzanka najwyraźniej pełni obowiązki Albina Siwaka w tej ekipie... (C) Slawek Kotynski w dyskusj nt. pl.whatewer.SETI@home...

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GSSAPI authentication regression with 2.4.x
by Noah Meyerhans 02 May '25

02 May '25

While preparing the Debian packages of Dovecot 2.4.1, I encountered what appears to be a regression that impacts the ability of some clients to successfully negotiate gssapi/krb5 authentication. The regression has so far been observed in gsasl, which was able to successfully authenticate to 2.3.19 but cannot authenticate to 2.4.1. Mutt is able to successfully authenticate with 2.3.19 and 2.4.1. Doveconf output is attached. The debug logs for both failed (gsasl) and successful (mutt) authentications follow. Note that all logs are from an ephemeral debug environment, and sensitive data is not redacted. I can provide additional information as needed, and can test different code and/or configuration changes. Failed authentication dovecot debug log: Apr 30 13:40:09 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Apr 30 13:40:09 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Apr 30 13:40:09 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Apr 30 13:40:09 auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from /home/noahm/dovecot-root/b/auth-token-secret.dat Apr 30 13:40:09 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6791,uid=1000) [1]: Server accepted connection (fd=18) Apr 30 13:40:09 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6791,uid=1000) [1]: auth client connected (pid=6791) Apr 30 13:40:09 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6791,uid=1000) [1]: client in: AUTH 1 GSSAPI protocol=imap final-resp-ok session=FhRIDv8zdMzAqAHa lip=172.18.0.205 rip=192.168.1.218 lport=17436 rport=52340 Apr 30 13:40:09 auth(?,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<FhRIDv8zdMzAqAHa>: Debug: gssapi: Using all keytab entries Apr 30 13:40:09 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6791,uid=1000) [1]: client passdb out: CONT 1 # Apr 30 13:40:09 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6791,uid=1000) [1]: client in: CONT 1 # (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) Apr 30 13:40:09 auth(?,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<FhRIDv8zdMzAqAHa>: Debug: gssapi: Processed incoming packet correctly, waiting for another. Apr 30 13:40:09 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6791,uid=1000) [1]: client passdb out: CONT 1 YEcGBisGAQUFAqA9MDugDTALBgkqhkiG9xIBAgKjKjAooCYbJG5vdF9kZWZpbmVkX2luX1JGQzQxNzhAcGxlYXNlX2lnbm9yZQ== Apr 30 13:40:09 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6791,uid=1000) [1]: client in: CONT 1 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 (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) Apr 30 13:40:09 auth(?,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<FhRIDv8zdMzAqAHa>: Debug: Auth request finished Apr 30 13:40:09 auth(?,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<FhRIDv8zdMzAqAHa>: Debug: delaying auth failure Apr 30 13:40:11 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6791,uid=1000) [1]: client passdb out: FAIL 1 Apr 30 13:40:11 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6791,uid=1000) [1]: Disconnected: Connection closed (fd=18) And the corresponding client log: noahm@42b23a0b5002:~$ gsasl -m GSSAPI -d --no-starttls --imap dovecot-test 17436 Trying 'dovecot-test'... * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SASL-IR LITERAL+ STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=GSSAPI] Dovecot ready. . CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SASL-IR LITERAL+ STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=GSSAPI . OK Pre-login capabilities listed, post-login capabilities have more. . AUTHENTICATE GSSAPI + YEcGBisGAQUFAqA9MDugDTALBgkqhkiG9xIBAgKjKjAooCYbJG5vdF9kZWZpbmVkX2luX1JGQzQxNzhAcGxlYXNlX2lnbm9yZQ== YIIDAAYJKoZIhvcSAQICAQBuggLvMIIC66ADAgEFoQMCAQ6iBwMFACAAAACjggIDYYIB/zCCAfugAwIBBaENGwtFWEFNUExFLkNPTaIfMB2gAwIBA6EWMBQbBGltYXAbDGRvdmVjb3QtdGVzdKOCAcIwggG+oAMCARKhAwIBAqKCAbAEggGsj4jD3VOwvfNdLxjc2hqxFsBYyCvjdOCX0R1So6ANZEYnEWddqZwMCuz7BxXv4z+cXaL6g6iGlVkU4RxQyJQHDFUQC8JroTlyMQ+XsIM4zuwn5N4/xRsgKa+SisK92UNMYyl9hVIPKvu/A54cU0zYTdDjYfDGnkurG2RgXDrKIzMpU2LtpoBEtwl3F1H+rzKFJAqe96e39C85GjK1D4s8/TOm3IcHJ5eofeHxI2GeUodysi+DlurRQTSnsUkGa1LXSgkY+4QdlMf+4goNRG5xNdZ8OA2CLY97TPAFqIeej1Amvb9uQBIKvWfbTjDdItBWOhuvAetlNfqnxlcCbnjbCmFTOIbVsHhNW8W1JIElL28mGydbMPimi9brc250E+ImO0Bxp3gMn5oXGV0tUJl5Y8W1lHlEUU7vKK0V7khUob0b3P3lCGQVJyWZEGNodgpr5zkTbR2M8orP4eI9SYoYp2UB0Ag+JkeYSNoQrKZNxSoKBYLVPGzwwGNPBKl7T0CdXlDAOhfZS/FSxdoy8LGRhuTdv7ghQAvstOllibSbjN3wos8ZC8wH2I5LFkekgc4wgcugAwIBEqKBwwSBwMCJkwg3LL7QqlEOunOjvQzpXmA/LMbdtEDyW9b0EQNFL9KFkNuRKDC3V8SFkmG1KlEEHFp2GQNij6AN89xvmEGvhj3tqC280awJs8ve3Bbr7GHRJoFO/sikSRsol1HD/K3sC9OMDufEEItsWf94uu8SmEBpB2OBOzedtfw+PRpoWyYUJYEfAL9T4w0KmBD26KVcehzIv8e3vOl52aT3x9Ovjnw8RfFkZa+t/iGhMpYpf8ApWExZDWBZ6uzVJxcAPg== . NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. gsasl: server error Successful authentication (mutt) dovecot debug log: Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from /home/noahm/dovecot-root/b/auth-token-secret.dat Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6788,uid=1000) [1]: Server accepted connection (fd=18) Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6788,uid=1000) [1]: auth client connected (pid=6788) Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6788,uid=1000) [1]: client in: AUTH 1 GSSAPI protocol=imap final-resp-ok session=4aLx8v4z8JPAqAHa lip=172.18.0.205 rip=192.168.1.218 lport=17436 rport=37872 resp=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 (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) Apr 30 13:32:30 auth(?,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<4aLx8v4z8JPAqAHa>: Debug: gssapi: Using all keytab entries Apr 30 13:32:30 auth(noahm@example.com,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<4aLx8v4z8JPAqAHa>: Debug: gssapi: security context state completed. Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6788,uid=1000) [1]: client passdb out: CONT 1 YIGZBgkqhkiG9xIBAgICAG+BiTCBhqADAgEFoQMCAQ+iejB4oAMCARKicQRvsiRFdcazky9GL2l//v2J+U606pbiLSCahGZ2wUxpp05eo9kGAl7j/UQfkzmlOWW7aMfMzPrJTveYBZiDpcfyeTt/wJfAHiEk5A24KYKTIt2ialxe6YOvrmz1e4B+mULZAghrfq5ftdUkQfh0CP/W Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6788,uid=1000) [1]: client in: CONT 1 (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) Apr 30 13:32:30 auth(noahm@example.com,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<4aLx8v4z8JPAqAHa>: Debug: gssapi: Negotiated security layer Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6788,uid=1000) [1]: client passdb out: CONT 1 BQQF/wAMAAAAAAAAFUr00gH/////HIlwJEVFPtqhtCU= Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6788,uid=1000) [1]: client in: CONT 1 BQQE/wAMAAAAAAAAIfpD4AH///9ub2FobalxyQ7OjgY973Gakw== (previous base64 data may contain sensitive data) Apr 30 13:32:30 auth(noahm,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<4aLx8v4z8JPAqAHa>: Debug: static: Performing passdb lookup Apr 30 13:32:30 auth(noahm,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<4aLx8v4z8JPAqAHa>: Debug: static: lookup Apr 30 13:32:30 auth(noahm,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<4aLx8v4z8JPAqAHa>: Debug: static: Finished passdb lookup Apr 30 13:32:30 auth(noahm,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<4aLx8v4z8JPAqAHa>: Debug: Credentials: 70656e63696c Apr 30 13:32:30 auth(noahm,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<4aLx8v4z8JPAqAHa>: Debug: Auth request finished Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (pid=6788,uid=1000) [1]: client passdb out: OK 1 user=noahm original_user=noahm(a)EXAMPLE.COM Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: conn unix:/home/noahm/dovecot-root/b/auth-master (pid=6790,uid=0): Server accepted connection (fd=19) Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: master in: REQUEST 4221435905 6788 1 6b8a10b34adc8ace171603fc8d378730 session_pid=6790 request_auth_token Apr 30 13:32:30 auth(noahm,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<4aLx8v4z8JPAqAHa>: Debug: static: Performing userdb lookup Apr 30 13:32:30 auth(noahm,192.168.1.218,sasl:gssapi)<4aLx8v4z8JPAqAHa>: Debug: static: Finished userdb lookup Apr 30 13:32:30 auth: Debug: master userdb out: USER 4221435905 noahm uid=4711 gid=4711 home=/home/noahm/dovecot-root auth_mech=GSSAPI auth_token=705494201f3425a0145e2f7af1edca82fee2ee17 auth_user=noahm(a)EXAMPLE.COM The corresponding client-side logs generated by mutt are: [2025-04-30 13:32:30] Connecting to dovecot-test... [2025-04-30 13:32:30] Connected to dovecot-test:17436 on fd=4 [2025-04-30 13:32:30] 4< * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SASL-IR LITERAL+ STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=GSSAPI] Dovecot ready. [2025-04-30 13:32:30] imap_authenticate: Trying method gssapi [2025-04-30 13:32:30] imap_auth_gsasl: using mech GSSAPI [2025-04-30 13:32:30] Authenticating (GSSAPI)... [2025-04-30 13:32:30] 4> a0000 AUTHENTICATE GSSAPI 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 [2025-04-30 13:32:30] 4< + YIGZBgkqhkiG9xIBAgICAG+BiTCBhqADAgEFoQMCAQ+iejB4oAMCARKicQRvsiRFdcazky9GL2l//v2J+U606pbiLSCahGZ2wUxpp05eo9kGAl7j/UQfkzmlOWW7aMfMzPrJTveYBZiDpcfyeTt/wJfAHiEk5A24KYKTIt2ialxe6YOvrmz1e4B+mULZAghrfq5ftdUkQfh0CP/W [2025-04-30 13:32:30] 4> [2025-04-30 13:32:30] 4< + BQQF/wAMAAAAAAAAFUr00gH/////HIlwJEVFPtqhtCU= [2025-04-30 13:32:30] 4> BQQE/wAMAAAAAAAAIfpD4AH///9ub2FobalxyQ7OjgY973Gakw== [2025-04-30 13:32:30] 4< a0000 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE REPLACE SNIPPET=FUZZY PREVIEW=FUZZY PREVIEW SPECIAL-USE STATUS=SIZE SAVEDATE COMPRESS=DEFLATE INPROGRESS NOTIFY LITERAL+] Logged in

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Dovecot 3.21.1 -> 2.4.0 SegFault
by Cata S 02 May '25

02 May '25

Hi guys, There seems to be some issue with Dovecot deployed on alpine. More specifically, the dovecot.config file is not properly read. I have run some debugging and the SegFault is returned in the function below: #0 0x000055555556779b in config_parsed_get_setting () No symbol table info available. #1 0x0000555555563708 in config_dump_full () No symbol table info available. #2 0x000055555555c814 in main () No symbol table info available. This was also addressed by alpine here: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/17050 Any idea what could be causing this? Thanks for looking into it, Cata

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2.3 -> 2.4 sieve scripts
by Kamil Jońca 01 May '25

01 May '25

I have configured some sieve scripts to run when I append messages to one of mailbox: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Archives imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = APPEND imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/.../sieve/dovecot.sieve --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I tried to use this with 2.4 with no luck: # 2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.1-4 (0a86619f) # OS: Linux 6.12.21-amd64 x86_64 Debian trixie/sid # Hostname: qqrq # 4 default setting changes since version 2.4.0 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 login compress_zstd_level = 22 default_vsz_limit = 2048M dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes mail_compress_write_method = zstd mail_driver = mdbox mail_home = /home/%{user} mail_inbox_path = ~/Mail/0/INBOX mail_path = ~/Mail/0/ mail_plugins { mail_compress = yes acl = yes } mail_privileged_group = mail protocols { imap = yes } sieve_extensions { fileinto = yes reject = yes envelope = yes encoded-character = yes vacation = yes subaddress = yes comparator-i;ascii-numeric = yes relational = yes regex = yes imap4flags = yes copy = yes include = yes body = yes variables = yes enotify = yes environment = yes mailbox = yes date = yes index = yes ihave = yes duplicate = yes mime = yes foreverypart = yes extracttext = yes notify = yes imapflags = yes editheader = yes } sieve_plugins { sieve_imapsieve = yes sieve_extprograms = yes } sieve_redirect_envelope_from = recipient ssl = no passdb passwd-file { default_password_scheme = PLAIN passwd_file_path = /etc/dovecot/users } userdb passwd-file { passwd_file_path = /etc/dovecot/users } namespace inbox { inbox = yes separator = / mailbox Drafts { special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } } service imap { } service pop3 { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } protocol imap { mail_plugins { mail_log = yes notify = yes acl = yes imap_acl = yes sieve = yes imap_sieve = yes lazy_expunge = yes } } sieve_script mailbox1 { imapsieve_from_name = Archives cause = append path = file:/.../sieve/dovecot.sieve type = before } When I add message to Archive, I can see in logs: imap(kjonca): Error: Couldn't load required plugin /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: undefined symbol: mail_deliver_ctx_get_log_var_expand_table -- http://wolnelektury.pl/wesprzyj/teraz/ Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller, "Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints"

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How to backup mdbox
by lutz.niederer＠gmx.net 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Hi, dovecot with mdbox on zfs running fine and robust since one year now. Zfs and mdbox seem to make sense. What we do for backup currently is stop dovecot, take a snapshot and restart dovecot. That only takes a few seconds to complete. After that we have time to do the backup. Is that the correct way, or is there a better, preferred way to get the backup done? Is there a way to freeze dovecot while still keeping the clients happy? Some are thrown off and don't recover (namely outlook, even if it takes a few seconds only). We can live with that, but better would be better. Thanks and cheers, -lutzn

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sieve filter does not work
by Kamil Jońca 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

sieve-filter -e -W -D -C -v ~/.dovecot.sieve mailbox sieve-filter: Fatal: Couldn't load required plugin /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: dlopen() failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_sieve_plugin.so: undefined symbol: mail_deliver_ctx_get_log_var_expand_table -- http://wolnelektury.pl/wesprzyj/teraz/ Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow

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2025-04-28
by 村上寛 28 Apr '25

28 Apr '25

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Sieve fails to find existing folder?
by Alexander Skwar 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

Hello I've got issues using filters. Although a filter matches a message, the message remains in the INBOX. In the log file a(a)skwar.xyz.sieve.log, I find this: sieve: info: started log at 2025-04-14 18:15:31 +0200. error: msgid=<1051036477.1870592.1744647326637(a)mail.yahoo.com>: fileinto action: failed to store into mailbox '🎗 Social Networks/🏔🚴 Draussen': Mailbox doesn't exist: 🎗 Social Networks/🏔🚴 Draussen. Yes, the folders are **really** named "🎗 Social Networks" and "🏔🚴 Draussen" 😜 I like emojis, makes it easier for me to find things again 🙂 The filter rule for this is: require ["regex","imap4flags","fileinto"]; if anyof (address :regex :comparator "i;octet" "from" ".*@(yahoo\\.com|bergportal\\.ch|freezetag\\.com|garmin\\.com|geocaching\\.com|komoot\\.de|munzee\\.com|quaeldich\\.de|spontacts\\.com|squadrats\\.com|strava\\.com|update\\.strava\\.com|velocity\\.ch|wandrer\\.earth)$", address :regex :comparator "i;octet" ["to", "cc"] "hiking-buddies@acc\\.alexs77\\.rodeo|carving\\.fleshed313@alexs77\\.foobar\\.vip|com\\+wandrer\\.earth@skwar\\.me|squadrats\\.com@acc\\.alexs77\\.rodeo", address :regex :comparator "i;octet" "from" "hikingbuddiesteam(a)gmail.com|email.meetup.com") { fileinto "🎗 Social Networks/🏔🚴 Draussen"; stop; } In this case, it matches on "<whatever>@yahoo.com". Why did it not find the folder? I created the folder and rule in SOGo 5.12.0 from mailcow 2025-03b. bd36093fccaa:/var/vmail/sieve# dovecot --version 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0) Should the Emojis somehow be encoded, so that the filter would work? Cheers, Alexander

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cgroupv2 privileged execution
by Matt Saladna 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

In similar vein to "[cgroup support]" from Jan 30, 2011 I'd like to add cgroupv2 support to Dovecot. With v2, moving processes is more restrictive in that groups can only have a single-writer and the process of the common ancestor cgroup between the losing and gaining group must have write privileges. So far as I understand: - Every hook (mail_user_created, mail_storage_created, etc) occurs after chroot + setuid - Wrapping imap or pop3 executables doesn't expose the userdb data in environment, this is done in the actual imap and pop3 processes respectively - Adding a script-login does export the correct userdb details but the pid isn't known. Since everything spawns under dovecot master, the only practical solution is to enumerate every imap or pop3 process owned by the gid to reassign to the new cgroup. This limits implementation to a plugin that solicits the pid to a separate daemon listening on a socket launched by Dovecot in mail_user_created hook. Ideally I would like for cgroup binding to occur before imap/pop3 binaries launch for cgroupv2 pid rejection to occur, although this seems impossible to achieve? - Matt In similar vein to "[cgroup support]" from Jan 30, 2011 I'd like to add cgroupv2 support to Dovecot. With v2, moving processes is more restrictive in that groups can only have a single-writer and the process of the common ancestor cgroup between the losing and gaining group must have write privileges. So far as I understand: - Every hook (mail_user_created, mail_storage_created, etc) occurs after chroot + setuid - Wrapping imap or pop3 executables doesn't expose the userdb data in environment, this is done in the actual imap and pop3 processes respectively - Adding a script-login does export the correct userdb details but the pid isn't known. Since everything spawns under dovecot master, the only practical solution is to enumerate every imap or pop3 process owned by the gid to reassign to the new cgroup. This limits implementation to a plugin that solicits the pid to a separate daemon listening on a socket launched by Dovecot in mail_user_created hook. Ideally I would like for cgroup binding to occur before imap/pop3 binaries launch for cgroupv2 pid rejection to occur, although this seems impossible to achieve? - Matt

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Android mail client capable of utilizing FTS?
by Alexander Skwar 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Hello I enabled FTS Full Text Search using Tika in dovecot and have all the emails now reindexed. Using either "IMAP by hand" (ie via telnet or openssl s_client), SOGo webmail, or Thunderbird on macOS, I can search for and also find emails based on text which is only in a PDF attachment. Using Thunderbird or the now dead k-9, I'm not finding anything. Can someone maybe suggest an email client for Android which is able to find emails based on text in FTS? Technically, I guess it should do a "search TEXT "foo bar"" query. Here's a complete session done in "IMAP by hand": $ openssl s_client -crlf -connect my-sys:993 … --- read R BLOCK * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE LITERAL+ AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. a LOGIN myuser@sysd pass a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY PREVIEW=FUZZY PREVIEW STATUS=SIZE SAVEDATE LITERAL+ NOTIFY METADATA SPECIAL-USE COMPRESS=DEFLATE QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in b SELECT INBOX * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $label1 Drausssen $Forwarded $activity $label3 $stopped) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $label1 Drausssen $Forwarded $activity $label3 $stopped \*)] Flags permitted. * 10 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 8] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1671377672] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 1709] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 2613] Highest b OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). c SEARCH TEXT "Veloplatzreservierung" * SEARCH 3 c OK Search completed (0.042 + 0.000 + 0.041 secs). d FETCH 3 (BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Message-ID Date)]) * 3 FETCH (BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (MESSAGE-ID DATE)] {124} Message-Id: <202504100258.53A2waba008043-53A2wabb008043(a)mailqueue01.leuchter-cloud.ch> Date: 10 Apr 2025 04:58:36 +0200 ) d OK Fetch completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). z LOGOUT * BYE Logging out z OK Logout completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). closed Alexander Hello I enabled FTS Full Text Search using Tika in dovecot and have all the emails now reindexed. Using either "IMAP by hand" (ie via telnet or openssl s_client), SOGo webmail, or Thunderbird on macOS, I can search for and also find emails based on text which is only in a PDF attachment. Using Thunderbird or the now dead k-9, I'm not finding anything. Can someone maybe suggest an email client for Android which is able to find emails based on text in FTS? Technically, I guess it should do a "search TEXT "foo bar"" query. Here's a complete session done in "IMAP by hand": $ openssl s_client -crlf -connect my-sys:993 … =============================================================================== read R BLOCK * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE LITERAL+ AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN] Dovecot ready. a LOGIN myuser@sysd pass a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY PREVIEW=FUZZY PREVIEW STATUS=SIZE SAVEDATE LITERAL+ NOTIFY METADATA SPECIAL-USE COMPRESS=DEFLATE QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in b SELECT INBOX * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $label1 Drausssen $Forwarded $activity $label3 $stopped) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft $label1 Drausssen $Forwarded $activity $label3 $stopped \*)] Flags permitted. * 10 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UNSEEN 8] First unseen. * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1671377672] UIDs valid * OK [UIDNEXT 1709] Predicted next UID * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 2613] Highest b OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). c SEARCH TEXT "Veloplatzreservierung" * SEARCH 3 c OK Search completed (0.042 + 0.000 + 0.041 secs). d FETCH 3 (BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Message-ID Date)]) * 3 FETCH (BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (MESSAGE-ID DATE)] {124} Message-Id: <202504100258.53A2waba008043-53A2wabb008043(a)mailqueue01.leuchter- cloud.ch> Date: 10 Apr 2025 04:58:36 +0200 ) d OK Fetch completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). z LOGOUT * BYE Logging out z OK Logout completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). closed Alexander

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Dovecot migration to new server with namespace issues
by Gabriel Kaufmann | TYPOworx 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Hello, I'm trying to migrate old ispconfig server with dovecot + postfix to a new modernized server. I'm having some trouble with dovecot doing what I want/need to reuse use my old configuration. I've been using maildir++. The new dovecot makes me some headcache as I cannot simply reuse the old configuration or INBOX folder. Any ideas how to get this fixed? My Maildir's & IMAP looked like this for the old system: Maildir/ <-- obviously not shown in IMAP :) INBOX/ Drafts/ Templates/ Sent/ Archives/ Trash On my old ispconfig server with older linux/dovecot version I simply had this configuration: > namespace inbox { > inbox = yes > > mailbox ".Drafts" { > auto = no > special_use = \Drafts > } > mailbox Drafts { > auto = subscribe > special_use = \Drafts > } > > mailbox ".Junk" { > auto = no > special_use = \Junk > } > mailbox Spam { > auto = no > special_use = \Junk > } > mailbox Junk { > auto = subscribe > special_use = \Junk > } > > mailbox ".Trash" { > auto = no > special_use = \Trash > } > mailbox Trash { > auto = subscribe > special_use = \Trash > } > > mailbox Archives { > auto = subscribe > special_use = \Archive > } > } My approach to make this work using dovecot 2.3.21 got me in some trouble. Obviously new dovecot wants to store INBOX-Date in Maildir/{cur,tmp,new} instead of Maildir/INBOX? I've tried with this configuration - which at least correctly shows INBOX-Data now in my IMAP, but I also have some troubles: Maildir/ <-- obviously not shown in IMAP :) INBOX/ My Custom Folder/ Drafts/ <------------- repeating from imap-root subscribing it there duplicates it here :-/ Templates/ Sent/ Archives/ Trash .Trash Drafts/ Templates/ Sent/ Archives/ Trash .Trash (somehow same than Trash, only want Trash non-dotted) New configuration approach: > mail_location = > maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/:LAYOUT=fs:DIRNAME=/:maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes > maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes > > plugin { > mailbox_alias_junk1 = Junk > mailbox_alias_junk2 = Spam > > mailbox_alias_sent_de = Gesendet > } > > namespace { > type = private > separator = / > > location = > maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/:LAYOUT=fs:DIRNAME=/:LISTINDEX= > > inbox = no > list = yes > subscriptions = yes > > > mailbox .Junk { > auto = no > special_use = \Junk > } > > mailbox .Drafts { > auto = no > special_use = \Drafts > } > > mailbox .Trash { > auto = no > special_use = \Trash > } > > mailbox .Sent { > auto = no > special_use = \Sent > } > > mailbox .Archives { > auto = no > special_use = \Archive > } > > mailbox .Templates { > auto = no > } > } > > namespace inbox { > type = private > separator = / > prefix = INBOX/ > > location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/:LAYOUT=fs:DIRNAME=/ > > inbox = yes > list = yes > hidden = yes > subscriptions = yes > > mailbox .Junk { > auto = no > } > > mailbox .Drafts { > auto = no > } > > mailbox .Trash { > auto = no > } > > mailbox .Sent { > auto = no > } > > mailbox .Archives { > auto = no > } > > mailbox .Templates { > auto = no > } > } -- Best regards Gabriel Kaufmann Hello, I'm trying to migrate old ispconfig server with dovecot + postfix to a new modernized server. I'm having some trouble with dovecot doing what I want/need to reuse use my old configuration. I've been using maildir++. The new dovecot makes me some headcache as I cannot simply reuse the old configuration or INBOX folder. Any ideas how to get this fixed? My Maildir's & IMAP looked like this for the old system: Maildir/ <-- obviously not shown in IMAP :) INBOX/ Drafts/ Templates/ Sent/ Archives/ Trash On my old ispconfig server with older linux/dovecot version I simply had this configuration: namespace inbox { inbox = yes mailbox ".Drafts" { auto = no special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox ".Junk" { auto = no special_use = \Junk } mailbox Spam { auto = no special_use = \Junk } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox ".Trash" { auto = no special_use = \Trash } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } mailbox Archives { auto = subscribe special_use = \Archive } } My approach to make this work using dovecot 2.3.21 got me in some trouble. Obviously new dovecot wants to store INBOX-Date in Maildir/{cur,tmp,new} instead of Maildir/INBOX? I've tried with this configuration - which at least correctly shows INBOX-Data now in my IMAP, but I also have some troubles: Maildir/ <-- obviously not shown in IMAP :) INBOX/ My Custom Folder/ Drafts/ <------------- repeating from imap-root subscribing it there duplicates it here :-/ Templates/ Sent/ Archives/ Trash .Trash Drafts/ Templates/ Sent/ Archives/ Trash .Trash (somehow same than Trash, only want Trash non-dotted) New configuration approach: mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/:LAYOUT=fs: DIRNAME=/:maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes plugin { mailbox_alias_junk1 = Junk mailbox_alias_junk2 = Spam mailbox_alias_sent_de = Gesendet } namespace { type = private separator = / location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/:LAYOUT=fs:DIRNAME=/: LISTINDEX= inbox = no list = yes subscriptions = yes mailbox .Junk { auto = no special_use = \Junk } mailbox .Drafts { auto = no special_use = \Drafts } mailbox .Trash { auto = no special_use = \Trash } mailbox .Sent { auto = no special_use = \Sent } mailbox .Archives { auto = no special_use = \Archive } mailbox .Templates { auto = no } } namespace inbox { type = private separator = / prefix = INBOX/ location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir/:LAYOUT=fs:DIRNAME=/ inbox = yes list = yes hidden = yes subscriptions = yes mailbox .Junk { auto = no } mailbox .Drafts { auto = no } mailbox .Trash { auto = no } mailbox .Sent { auto = no } mailbox .Archives { auto = no } mailbox .Templates { auto = no } } -- Best regards Gabriel Kaufmann

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Bash automation for Dovecot
by Travis Bean 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

Hello, I developed a Bash script to automate the installation and configuration of open-source software (i.e., launchpad.net/linuxha) I want to make sure the syntax of this script is perfect so I can use it as a teaching tool to educate people about Linux. I need to know if there is anything misconfigured with my Dovecot syntax. If you find a bug in LinuxHA, please submit a bug report to bugs.launchpad.net/linuxha/+filebug. Kind regards, Travis Bean Hello, I developed a Bash script to automate the installation and configuration of open-source software (i.e., launchpad.net/linuxha) I want to make sure the syntax of this script is perfect so I can use it as a teaching tool to educate people about Linux. I need to know if there is anything misconfigured with my Dovecot syntax. If you find a bug in LinuxHA, please submit a bug report to bugs.launchpad.net/ linuxha/+filebug. Kind regards, Travis Bean

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mail crypto in Ubuntu 22.04.5 - Provider routines::invalid salt length
by Max Kostikov 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Hi, I am facing mail crypt extension error. When I try to create keys I get this error. doveadm -o plugin/mail_crypt_private_password=e32f1f464d7576716d5df899e7d5cb6b64cdb55584c71882e9f7e7c79f2e69e6 mailbox cryptokey generate -u "foo(a)example.com" doveadm(foo(a)example.com): Error: mail_crypt_user_generate_keypair(foo(a)example.com) failed: error:1C800070:Provider routines::invalid salt length doveadm(foo(a)example.com): Warning: mailbox cryptokey generate: Nothing was matched. Use -U or specify mask? Folder Public ID x ERROR: error:1C800070:Provider routines::invalid salt length Segmentation fault (core dumped) Any insights why? OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (FIPS) Dovecot packages installed: dovecot-core/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4 amd64 [installed] dovecot-imapd/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4 amd64 [installed] dovecot-lmtpd/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4 amd64 [installed] dovecot-managesieved/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4 amd64 [installed] dovecot-mysql/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4 amd64 [installed] dovecot-pop3d/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4 amd64 [installed] dovecot-sieve/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.4 amd64 [installed] Mail crypt configuration: ... mail_attribute_dict = file:/var/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot-attributes mail_plugins = mail_crypt quota plugin { mail_crypt_curve = secp521r1 mail_crypt_save_version = 2 mail_crypt_require_encrypted_user_key = yes } ... -- Sincerely, Max Kostikov

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Auth-worker malloc failure
by Scott Q. 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

I recently changed the userdb to sql, using a stored procedure and since then, every so often, maybe 2-3 times per day I see errors like these in the maillog: Apr 17 13:33:04 imap1 dovecot[41212]: auth-worker(41325): Error: mysql(192.168.1.95): Connect failed to database (virtualusers): SSL connection error: error:140BA041:SSL routines:SSL_new:malloc failure - waiting for 1 seconds before retry Apr 17 13:33:05 imap1 dovecot[41212]: auth-worker(41325): Error: mysql(192.168.1.95): Connect failed to database (virtualusers): SSL connection error: SSL_CTX_new failed - waiting for 5 seconds before retry Apr 17 13:33:10 imap1 dovecot[41212]: auth-worker(41325): Error: mysql(192.168.1.95): Connect failed to database (virtualusers): SSL connection error: SSL_CTX_new failed - waiting for 25 seconds before retry Apr 17 13:33:35 imap1 dovecot[41212]: auth-worker(41325): Error: mysql(192.168.1.95): Connect failed to database (virtualusers): SSL connection error: SSL_CTX_new failed - waiting for 125 seconds before retry Apr 17 13:34:04 imap1 dovecot[41212]: auth-worker(41325): Error: sql(user(a)domain.com,1.2.3.4,): User query failed: Not connected to database Is this the auth-worker running out of memory ? I have these settings: auth_cache_size = 8 k auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth_verbose = yes auth_worker_max_count = 130 service auth { unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vuser } user = root client_limit=1500 } I recently changed the userdb to sql, using a stored procedure and since then, every so often, maybe 2-3 times per day I see errors like these in the maillog: Apr 17 13:33:04 imap1 dovecot[41212]: auth-worker(41325): Error: mysql (192.168.1.95): Connect failed to database (virtualusers): SSL connection error: error:140BA041:SSL routines:SSL_new:malloc failure - waiting for 1 seconds before retry Apr 17 13:33:05 imap1 dovecot[41212]: auth-worker(41325): Error: mysql (192.168.1.95): Connect failed to database (virtualusers): SSL connection error: SSL_CTX_new failed - waiting for 5 seconds before retry Apr 17 13:33:10 imap1 dovecot[41212]: auth-worker(41325): Error: mysql (192.168.1.95): Connect failed to database (virtualusers): SSL connection error: SSL_CTX_new failed - waiting for 25 seconds before retry Apr 17 13:33:35 imap1 dovecot[41212]: auth-worker(41325): Error: mysql (192.168.1.95): Connect failed to database (virtualusers): SSL connection error: SSL_CTX_new failed - waiting for 125 seconds before retry Apr 17 13:34:04 imap1 dovecot[41212]: auth-worker(41325): Error: sql (user(a)domain.com,1.2.3.4,<5ohIy/wyHvox5b/p>): User query failed: Not connected to database Is this the auth-worker running out of memory ? I have these settings: auth_cache_size = 8 k auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth_verbose = yes auth_worker_max_count = 130 service auth { unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vuser } user = root client_limit=1500 }

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2.3 -> 2.4 segmentation fault
by Emmanuel Bardet 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Hello there, First, thanks for the terrific job you're doing. Dovecot rocks! I installed some time ago Dovecot on my macbook with Homebrew, that was Dovecot v2.3.18. I recently upgraded everything I installed with Homebrew to the latest which brought Dovecot to v2.4.0. I then modified my dovecot.conf file to make it work with this latest version but now, I constantly get a segmentation fault when I use any /dove/ command : zsh: segmentation fault doveadm Also, while it looks like Dovecot is listening at the specified port, my email client cannot connect anymore complaining the server refused the connection. tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.10143 *.* LISTEN 662 PID TTY TIME CMD 662 ?? 0:06.66 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F Here is my 2.4 conf. dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 log_path = /var/log/dovecot # mail_debug = yes default_vsz_limit = 0 default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull default_internal_group = mail mail_home=/var/mail/%{user} mail_path=sdbox:~/Mail ## this is sometimes needed # first_valid_uid = 500 last_valid_gid = 100 # if you want to use system users passdb pam { driver = pam } userdb passwd-file { driver = passwd-file # args = blocking=no # override_fields = uid=214 gid=vmail } protocols imap { } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { # address = 127.0.0.1 port = 10143 } } ssl=no # ssl_cert=</path/to/cert.pem # ssl_key=</path/to/key.pem # if you are using v2.3.0-v2.3.2.1 (or want to support non-ECC DH algorithms) # since v2.3.3 this setting has been made optional. #ssl_dh=</path/to/dh.pem namespace inbox { inbox = yes separator = / } I get this output below from the command line and I have this diagnostic attached. Hopefully that can help someone help me. # 2.4.0 (daeb6bc59c): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.0 (1b2d5bb9) doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process killed with signal 11 zsh: segmentation fault /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.4.0/bin/doveconf Thanks a lot. Emmanuel PS : If I'm using the wrong mailing list, please point me to the right channel Hello there, First, thanks for the terrific job you're doing. Dovecot rocks! I installed some time ago Dovecot on my macbook with Homebrew, that was Dovecot v2.3.18. I recently upgraded everything I installed with Homebrew to the latest which brought Dovecot to v2.4.0. I then modified my dovecot.conf file to make it work with this latest version but now, I constantly get a segmentation fault when I use any dove command : zsh: segmentation fault doveadm Also, while it looks like Dovecot is listening at the specified port, my email client cannot connect anymore complaining the server refused the connection. tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.10143 *.* LISTEN 662 PID TTY TIME CMD 662 ?? 0:06.66 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F Here is my 2.4 conf. dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 log_path = /var/log/dovecot # mail_debug = yes default_vsz_limit = 0 default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull default_internal_group = mail mail_home=/var/mail/%{user} mail_path=sdbox:~/Mail ## this is sometimes needed # first_valid_uid = 500 last_valid_gid = 100 # if you want to use system users passdb pam { driver = pam } userdb passwd-file { driver = passwd-file # args = blocking=no # override_fields = uid=214 gid=vmail } protocols imap { } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { # address = 127.0.0.1 port = 10143 } } ssl=no # ssl_cert=</path/to/cert.pem # ssl_key=</path/to/key.pem # if you are using v2.3.0-v2.3.2.1 (or want to support non-ECC DH algorithms) # since v2.3.3 this setting has been made optional. #ssl_dh=</path/to/dh.pem namespace inbox { inbox = yes separator = / } I get this output below from the command line and I have this diagnostic attached. Hopefully that can help someone help me. # 2.4.0 (daeb6bc59c): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.0 (1b2d5bb9) doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process killed with signal 11 zsh: segmentation fault /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.4.0/bin/doveconf Thanks a lot. Emmanuel PS : If I'm using the wrong mailing list, please point me to the right channel

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Problem email client iPhone ios18.2
by andrzej.milewski＠gmail.com 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Hello, I have a fairly new installation of the Dovecot server version 2.3.19.1 on Debian 12.8. In general, the server works correctly. It sends and receives emails without issues. The clients primarily use Thunderbird on desktops and Gmail on Android. However, some clients are using iPhones with various hardware versions. Those with iOS below version 18 work correctly without any issues. Those who have updated their phones to version 18 and now even 18.2 are experiencing problems with mailbox synchronization. On version 18.2, the issue appears as follows: When you open the app, you can read several messages. They load correctly, but, for instance, attachments do not. If I wait for some time, the attachment eventually loads. During this time, I observe the server logs, and it shows that a certain session on the Dovecot server has ended. Dec 17 13:13:01 iredmail0 dovecot[408]: imap(xxx(a)xxx.com)<44785><1QGZCHcp/+3AqM2O>: Disconnected: Connection closed (UID SEARCH finished 92.295 secs ago) in=2972 out=6076956 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=36 body_bytes=6059064 Dec 18 08:40:41 iredmail0 dovecot[408]: imap(xxx(a)xxx.com)<177412>: Disconnected: Connection closed (UID FETCH finished 90.079 secs ago) in=5126 out=1304237 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=94 hdr_bytes=289688 body_count=89 body_bytes=969615 Dec 18 08:42:19 iredmail0 dovecot[408]: imap(xxx(a)xxx.com)<177410><D5mqU4cpZ+nAqM2O>: Disconnected: Connection closed (UID FETCH finished 95.051 secs ago) in=4475 out=1162785 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=95 hdr_bytes=281674 body_count=61 body_bytes=839545 Dec 18 08:44:17 iredmail0 dovecot[408]: imap(edyta.kowalewska(a)laktopol.com.pl)<177918>: Disconnected: Connection closed (UID FETCH finished 92.132 secs ago) in=29399 out=30266644 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=565 hdr_bytes=1726228 body_count=628 body_bytes=28109455 After the session is closed, the attachment loads immediately. From the logs and router analysis, it appears that the download happens in another previously opened session. After this incident, I go to another message with an attachment, and the situation repeats. There are also situations where the email body does not load, and the app waits for the server until the session closes and the content is fetched in another session. It does not matter whether I connect to the server via the internet or through a local network. On an iPhone 7 with iOS 15.8.3, everything works smoothly. Attachments open without issues. On iOS 18.1.1, attachments do not load, and the session does not close on its own. It takes forever unless the app is closed. In the Gmail app, everything works correctly without any issues. This is clearly a problem with the mail client on iPhone. However, is there anything I can adjust in my server settings to mitigate this issue for users? My dovecot configuration https://pastebin.com/UPNQ5dZz

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config help with sieve_script
by Genes Lists 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Any advice what I am doing wrong: I am in process of converting our 2.3 configs to 2.4.1 and sieve / sieve_script has me stumped. When I use: plugin { sieve_script xxx { ... } sieve_script yyy { ... } } each xxx/yyy is personal or before or after etc. dovecot -n give: ./conf.d/90-sieve.conf line 6: Unknown section name: plugin If I remove the plugin { } part then I get: Unknown section name: sieve_script Obviously I am doing something wrong - appreciate any help? thank you -- Gene Any advice what I am doing wrong: I am in process of converting our 2.3 configs to 2.4.1 and sieve / sieve_script has me stumped. When I use: plugin { sieve_script xxx { ... } sieve_script yyy { ... } } each xxx/yyy is personal or before or after etc. dovecot -n give: ./conf.d/90-sieve.conf line 6: Unknown section name: plugin If I remove the plugin { } part then I get: Unknown section name: sieve_script Obviously I am doing something wrong - appreciate any help? thank you -- Gene

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Decouple the username hash from the login given
by José Celestino 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Hi all, Is there a way to do the hash on the director without setting the user (or destuser) for the Dovecot backend authentication? The scenario is: Our accounts have multiple aliases where each alias can have a different password (long story): Alias1 accountX password1 Alias2 accountX password2 Alias3 accountX password3 accountX accountX passwordX Our goal is to map the same account, regardless of the alias used to authenticate, to the same backend server. We use checkpassword for userdb on the director, and when we set either the user or username to the main account id (accountX on the example) it sends the authentication as accountX, passwordN, and fails. Is there a var that can be set and used for hashing, leaving the authentication untouched? Our installed version is 2.3.21. Thank you. Best regards, José Celestino

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Question about dovecot quota calculation
by Zakaria 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Hi everyone, I wondered if anyone know the reason why dovecot quota command:- doveadm quota get -u email_address returns slightly smaller size than status command vsize:- doveadm mailbox status -t all "*" -u email_address I wondered if its a bug, if not it would be noticeable imparity between the two results? given in my case dovecot leaves out around 67 MB through quota command? I think both should present identical results, anyone thinks otherwise, I would appreciate if you share with us the reasoning? Also, which one I should use to determine if user exceeded quota limit for certainty? Any recommendation? With thanks. Zak. Hi everyone, I wondered if anyone know the reason why dovecot quota command:- doveadm quota get -u email_address returns slightly smaller size than status command vsize:- doveadm mailbox status -t all "*" -u email_address I wondered if its a bug, if not it would be noticeable imparity between the two results? given in my case dovecot leaves out around 67 MB through quota command? I think both should present identical results, anyone thinks otherwise, I would appreciate if you share with us the reasoning? Also, which one I should use to determine if user exceeded quota limit for certainty? Any recommendation? With thanks. Zak.

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Question about quota calculation
by Zakaria 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Hi everyone, I wondered if anyone know the reason why dovecot quota command:- doveadm quota get -u email_address returns slightly smaller size than status command vsize:- doveadm mailbox status -t all "*" -u email_address I wondered if its a bug but this would be noticeable imparity between the two results? given in my case dovecot leaves out around 67 MB in my case through quota command and why is this? Which one would I should use to determine if user exceeded quota limit for certainty? Any recommendation? With thanks. Zak. Hi everyone, I wondered if anyone know the reason why dovecot quota command:- doveadm quota get -u email_address returns slightly smaller size than status command vsize:- doveadm mailbox status -t all "*" -u email_address I wondered if its a bug but this would be noticeable imparity between the two results? given in my case dovecot leaves out around 67 MB in my case through quota command and why is this? Which one would I should use to determine if user exceeded quota limit for certainty? Any recommendation? With thanks. Zak.

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Dovecot24 - passdb configuration syntax
by Juergen Edner 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Hello, as Dovecot 2.4.1 has been published, I started investigation how I need to modify my existing Dovecot 2.3.x configuration, which worked flawlessly the last 5 years. With the help of the doveconf tool I've identified the parameters which need to be modified and I got rid of the error message at the end. Nevertheless, not getting any errors displayed, does not automatically mean, that it has correctly been configured. Here is the initial auth configuration and hopefully the right 2.4 version: Dovecot23: disable_plaintext_auth = yes auth_username_format = %Lu auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 passdb { driver = passwd-file args = username_format=%Lu /path/to/aliases-file } passdb { driver = passwd-file args = scheme=cram-md5 /path/to/cram-md5-file } userdb { driver = passwd } Dovecot24: auth_allow_cleartext = no auth_username_format = %{user | lower} auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 passdb aliases-file { passwd_file_path = /path/to/aliases-file } passdb md5-file { passwd_file_path = /path/to/cram-md5-file } userdb passwd-file { passwd_file_path = /etc/passwd } Here are my questions: - The first passdb configuration (aliases file) initially contained the "args = username_format=%Lu ..." option. Do I still need to convert this to a dedicated "auth_username_format = %{user | lower}" line or is this already covered by the global "auth_username_format" setting? - The second passdb configuration (cram-md5 file) initially contained the "args = scheme=cram-md5 ..." option. I couldn't find any replacement for it. Does this mean the only alternative would be to prefix all passwords in the password file with "{CRAM-MD5}"? - For the third userdb configuration (passwd file) I made use of the "passwd_file_path" parameter. Is this a valid replacement for the original "driver = passwd" entry or have I forgotten anything? BTW, I was curious if ChatGPT could do the job faster than me, but I can say "not yet". It made several errors and had to be corrected one by one but that might change in the future if more and more people are asking for support on this topic. Thanks Juergen -- Mail: juergen(a)eisfair.org

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Stats-writer permission denied
by Ken Wright 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

I've got a new Dovecot error (well, new to me, at least)! I ran tail /var/log/mail.err and got the following: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied I checked the file, and it's owned by www-data and the www-data group, with read and write permissions for owner and group... just like I have specified in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf. I can't understand why permission is denied when the file permissions appear to be correct. Can anyone shed any light on this for me? Ubuntu 20.04 Dovecot 2.3.7.2 Ken

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shared folders in dovecot
by Anton Shevtsov 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

I used dovecot without shared folders some time ago. All work fine. old dovecot config: |mail_home=/var/mail/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n:UTF-8:INBOX=/var/mail/%d/%n/Inbox |mail_plugins = acl |protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins } | All work fine. Now I want to add shared folder functionality. I am defining namespaces and doing it wrong (maybe) new dovecot config: |mail_home=/var/mail/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n:UTF-8:INBOX=/var/mail/%d/%n/Inbox |mail_plugins = acl |mail_debug=yes namespace inbox { type = private separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } namespace { type = shared separator = / prefix = shared/%%u/ # wrong #location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u:INDEXPVT=~/Maildir/shared/%%u |# wrong again location = maildir:%%h/:INDEX=~/%%u |subscriptions = no list = children } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_acl acl } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/mail/%d/shared-mailboxes.db } | I can set access right for shared folder (screenshot - https://ibb.co/ccxQ63wN) but i can not see shared folder in subscriptions (screenshot - https://ibb.co/PRfpD7X) -- *Anton* I used dovecot without shared folders some time ago. All work fine. old dovecot config: mail_home=/var/mail/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n:UTF-8:INBOX=/var/mail/%d/%n/Inbox mail_plugins = acl protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins } All work fine. Now I want to add shared folder functionality. I am defining namespaces and doing it wrong (maybe) new dovecot config: mail_home=/var/mail/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n:UTF-8:INBOX=/var/mail/%d/%n/Inbox mail_plugins = acl mail_debug=yes namespace inbox { type = private separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } namespace { type = shared separator = / prefix = shared/%%u/ # wrong #location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u:INDEXPVT=~/ Maildir/shared/%%u # wrong again location = maildir:%%h/:INDEX=~/%%u subscriptions = no list = children } protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_acl acl } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/mail/%d/shared-mailboxes.db } I can set access right for shared folder (screenshot - https://ibb.co/ccxQ63wN) but i can not see shared folder in subscriptions (screenshot - https://ibb.co/ PRfpD7X) -- Anton

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Reindex all e-mails for FTS?
by Alexander Skwar 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

Hello How do I reindex all e-mails (for a user or for all users) for FTS? Seems I can find new emails, but not old ones. I tried this: askwar@mail /o/mailcow-dockerized> time sudo docker compose exec dovecot-mailcow doveadm index -A '*' ________________________________________________________ Executed in 1.73 secs fish external usr time 0.00 millis 0.00 millis 0.00 millis sys time 12.90 millis 1.08 millis 11.83 millis As you can see, this was very fast — should it be…? I'd like to be able to search for a text which is in attachments and then I'd need to be able to find the email. This works fine for new emails, but not for old ones. To verify that the attachment would be readable by tika, I took an old e-mail, saved the PDF attachment, and then mailed it to me. Searching for the e-mail will find the new e-mail, but not the old one. The mailbox is not exactly small: askwar@mail /o/mailcow-dockerized> sudo docker compose exec dovecot-mailcow doveadm quota get -u a(a)skwar.xyz Quota name Type Value Limit % Userquota STORAGE 34908222 61685760 56 Userquota MESSAGE 458837 - 0 bd36093fccaa:/# du -sh /var/vmail_index/a\(a)skwar.xyz/ /var/vmail/skwar.xyz/a 2.4G /var/vmail_index/a(a)skwar.xyz/ 27G /var/vmail/skwar.xyz/a I've enabled full text search fts in dovecot with these settings: plugin { fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_exclude = \Junk fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Trash fts = flatcurve fts_tika = http://tika:9998/tika fts_tokenizer_email_address = maxlen=100 fts_tokenizer_generic = algorithm=simple maxlen=30 fts_languages = en es de fts_tokenizers = generic email-address fts_filters = normalizer-icu snowball stopwords fts_filters_en = lowercase snowball english-possessive stopwords fts_index_timeout = 300s } askwar@mail /o/mailcow-dockerized> docker --version Docker version 27.3.1, build ce12230 askwar@mail /o/mailcow-dockerized> sudo docker compose exec dovecot-mailcow dovecot --version 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0) Thanks, Alexander

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Compile failure on git head : lib-settings/settings-history-core.h
by Genes Lists 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

Summary: -------- Our daily test builds of git head started failing on Archlinux using gcc 14.2.1+r753+g1cd744a6828f-1 Compile error occurs on git HEAD branch main: commit : beca41cc94dbc81cb2586aab311762bde39bdb11 Possible relevant commit: ------------------------ commit 9dca2f961f83a071d2ff516cd332cd4aa88484dd Build Error: ------------ ... CCLD test-dns-util make[3]: Leaving directory '.. /src/core/src/lib-dns' Making all in lib-settings make[3]: Entering directory '.. /src/lib-settings' GEN settings-history-core.h Line 3: Invalid version sort order make[3]: *** [Makefile:897: settings-history-core.h] Error 1 Thanks for any help. gene (more detail below) config / build details: ---------------------- git fetch --all; git pull git clean -fdx ./autogen.sh ./configure \ --enable-maintainer-mode \ --prefix=/usr \ --sbindir=/usr/bin \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --libexecdir=/usr/lib \ --with-rundir=/run/dovecot \ --with-moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules \ --disable-static \ --with-pam \ --with-sqlite \ --with-pgsql \ --with-mysql \ --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl \ --with-gssapi \ --with-ldap=yes \ --with-lua=plugin \ --with-bzlib \ --with-lz4 \ --with-zstd \ --with-solr \ --with-sodium \ --with-libcap \ --enable-experimental-mail-utf8 \ --enable-experimental-imap4rev2 Install prefix . : /usr File offsets ... : 64bit I/O polling .... : epoll I/O notifys .... : inotify SSL ............ : openssl GSSAPI ......... : yes passdbs ........ : static lua (plugin) passwd passwd-file pam ldap sql : -bsdauth userdbs ........ : static lua (plugin) prefetch passwd passwd-file ldap sql CFLAGS ......... : -std=gnu11 -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong - U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -mfunction-return=keep -mindirect- branch=keep -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations - Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -fno- builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 SYSTEMD ........ : notify - /usr/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service SQL drivers .... : pgsql mysql sqlite : -cassandra Full text search : solr make clean make -- Gene

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email-address Tokenizer Splits Hyphenated Local-Parts, Causing Inaccurate FTS Search Results
by Daniel 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

I’m using Dovecot FTS with the flatcurve backend in a mailcow: dockerized setup. When searching for an email address with a hyphenated local-part (e.g., ma-g(a)example.com) the email-address tokenizer splits the local-part on hyphens, producing tokens like ma, g, and ma-g(a)example.com. This prevents searching for ma-g as a single term. With fts_flatcurve_substring_search = yes, searching for ma-g matches unrelated addresses containing ma (e.g., manager(a)example.com) leading to irrelevant results. Dovecot version: 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0) Including only relevant part of dovecot config: plugin { fts = flatcurve fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_exclude = \Junk fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Trash fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999999 fts_tokenizers = generic email-address fts_tokenizer_email_address = maxlen=100 fts_tokenizer_generic = algorithm=simple maxlen=100 fts_flatcurve_substring_search = yes fts_languages = en es de ru fts_filters = normalizer-icu snowball stopwords fts_filters_en = lowercase snowball english-possessive stopwords fts_filters_ru = lowercase snowball stopwords fts_index_timeout = 300s } service indexer-worker { process_limit = 12 vsz_limit = 512 MB } Steps to Reproduce: Index an email with ma-g(a)example.com in the From field also index email contains "ma" and "g" in the From field. Check tokenization: doveadm fts tokenize -u user(a)example.com "ma-g(a)example.com" Output: ma g example com ma-g(a)example.com Search: doveadm search -u user(a)example.com FROM ma-g Results include manager(a)example.com due to ma matching. Expected Behavior: FROM ma-g should match only emails with ma-g(a)example.com, treating ma-g as a single term or exact local-part. Expected tokens: doveadm fts tokenize -u user(a)example.com "ma-g(a)example.com" Output: ma-g ma g example com ma-g(a)example.com Actual Behavior: The tokenizer splits ma-g into ma and g. Substring search matches "ma" or "g" in unrelated addresses (e.g., manager(a)example.com, greg(a)example.com) Without substring search, ma-g matches nothing unless searching the full address. Impact: Searching hyphenated local-parts for short email address local-parts is unreliable, especially for common fragments like ma, flooding results with irrelevant matches. Request: Add a configuration option, such as "fts_tokenizer_email_address_keep_hyphenated = yes|no" (default: no, for compatibility), to include the hyphenated local-part of an email address as an additional token. For example, with "yes", tokenizing "ma-g(a)example.com" would produce "ma-g", "ma", "g", "example", "com", and "ma-g(a)example.com". This allows searches for "FROM ma-g" to match emails with "ma-g(a)example.com" exactly, while preserving "ma" and "g" for substring searches. Consider "yes" as a future default, as including hyphenated local-parts aligns with RFC 5322 and user expectations for precise email searches, especially for common hyphenated addresses like "first-last(a)domain.com". If changing defaults, provide upgrade notes for users relying on the current token set. Is there any workaround to search hyphenated local-parts accurately? Best regards, Daniel Levin

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Enable Full-Text search for attachments?
by Alexander Skwar 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Hello Is it possible to enable a full-text search (FTS) for attachments (PDF, Text, Docx, …) using the open source dovecot server? If so, how would I do that? I've read https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/configuration_manual/fts/ but that wasn't clear to me. Thanks, Alexander

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2.4.1: oauth2 - Error: lua: db-lua: 'auth_passdb_lookup' is not a function
by Luigi Trovato 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Hello, I just upgraded 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 and when trying to authenticate with oauth2 I have this error: auth-worker(lonestar(a)lonestar.it,127.0.0.1)<28029><vtg3yW0yBNh/AAAB>: request [11]: Error: lua: db-lua: 'auth_passdb_lookup' is not a function imap-login: Info: Logged in: user=<lonestar(a)lonestar.it>, method=XOAUTH2, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=28281, secured, session=<vtg3yW0yBNh/AAAB> I actually don't have any auth_passdb_lookup defined in the lua script, only auth_password_verify and auth_userdb_lookup, but it was previously working without errors -- Ciao, Luigi Hello, I just upgraded 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 and when trying to authenticate with oauth2 I have this error: auth-worker(lonestar(a)lonestar.it,127.0.0.1)<28029><vtg3yW0yBNh/AAAB>: request [11]: Error: lua: db-lua: 'auth_passdb_lookup' is not a function imap-login: Info: Logged in: user=<lonestar(a)lonestar.it>, method=XOAUTH2, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=28281, secured, session=<vtg3yW0yBNh/AAAB> I actually don't have any auth_passdb_lookup defined in the lua script, only auth_password_verify and auth_userdb_lookup, but it was previously working without errors -- Ciao, Luigi

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2.4 Error: login_trusted_networks: Invalid network '::1'
by James 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Good afternoon, With this line added to the default dovecot.conf: login_trusted_networks = ::1 I get this error: Apr 10 12:41:22 mailhost dovecot: [ID 702911 mail.info] master: Dovecot v2.4.1-4 (7d8c0e5759) starting up for imap, lmtp Apr 10 12:41:37 mailhost dovecot: [ID 702911 mail.error] imap-login: Error: getaddrinfo() failed: non-recoverable name resolution failure Apr 10 12:41:37 mailhost dovecot: [ID 702911 mail.error] imap-login: Error: login_trusted_networks: Invalid network '::1': user=<>, rip=2a02:1234:abcd:1::3, lip=2a02:1234:abcd:a::2, session=<sA2GEWsyNfIqAoAQ0BwAAQAAAAAAAACH> Version 2.4.1 Works with 2.3.21.1 and many versions before. It complains with any IPv6 address in login_trusted_networks.

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Multiple namespaces with individual quota values from LDAP
by Andreas Oster 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Hi all, I have successfully managed to get individual user qota for inboxes with values from LDAP working on Dovecot 2.4. I achieved this with the help of a posting from Aki Tuomi: <-- I'd recommend moving the storage_size out of quota "User Quota", since it's then easier to override: quota "User quota" { driver = count ... } quota_storage_size = 10G Aki --> However, in my setup I am using a separate namespace for mail "archiving" on a slower storage. I would like to also restrict the available storage space for users individually in this namespace. To achieve this I ideally would like to fetch the value from a different LDAP attribute. Can this be achieved with dovecot 2.4 ? In version 2.3 this was not a problem. Thank you very much for your kind help. Best regards Andraes

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SQL userdb homedir
by Scott Q. 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

I am trying to use a stored procedure in sql for returning the various fields for the user. I'm concerned about what happens if the stored procedure fails to retrieve the homedir and other fields, for whatever reason. What should it return to notify dovecot of failure ? a single null field, all fields as null, empty result set ? Thank you I am trying to use a stored procedure in sql for returning the various fields for the user. I'm concerned about what happens if the stored procedure fails to retrieve the homedir and other fields, for whatever reason. What should it return to notify dovecot of failure ? a single null field, all fields as null, empty result set ? Thank you

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Per-User quota with LDAP
by Damien Brémont 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

Hi all, I'm trying to setup Per-User quota with LDAP on dovecot 2.4.1 When I try to recalc quota for user, data is retrieved from LDAP server # doveadm quota recalc -u user dovecot: auth: Debug: conn unix:/run/auth-userdb (pid=34516,uid=0): Server accepted connection (fd=20) dovecot: auth: Debug: master in: USER#0111#011user#011protocol=doveadm dovecot: auth(user): Debug: : Performing userdb lookup dovecot: auth(user): Debug: ldap: Performing passdb lookup dovecot: auth(user): Debug: ldap: pass search: base=ou=user,dc=madrid-ias,dc=eu scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=user)) fields=uid,homeDirectory,uidNumber,gidNumber,quotaBytes dovecot: auth(user): Debug: ldap: result: uid=user gidNumber=8 homeDirectory=/home/users_LDAP/user uidNumber=10017 *quotaBytes=32000000* dovecot: auth(user): Debug: ldap: Finished passdb lookup dovecot: auth(user): Debug: : Finished userdb lookup dovecot: auth: Debug: userdb out: USER#0111#011user#011home=/home/users_LDAP/user#011uid=10017#011gid=8#011*quota_storage_size=32000000B* dovecot: auth: Debug: conn unix:/run/auth-userdb (pid=34516,uid=0): auth-master client: Disconnected: Connection closed (fd=20) (created 159 msecs ago, handshake 159 msecs ago) Same when an email is delivered: Debug: master userdb out: USER#0113606183937#011user#011home=/home/users_LDAP/user#011uid=10017#011gid=8#011*quota_storage_size=32000000B*#011auth_mech=PLAIN#011auth_token=8a4a9216541654643f33119dd9a280c672c#011local_name=127.0.0.1 But finally the quota limit is still the default value # doveadm quota get -u user Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 6294796 *10485760 60* User quota MESSAGE 29190 - 0 All my dovecot configuration is available below. About Postfix, dovecot-lda is called with -d option: mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f "$SENDER" -d "$USER" If you have any idea. Thanks in advance for you help. Best Damien BTW, some "%" seem to be missing in the 2.4 documentation https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/plugins/quota.html before {ldap:quotaBytes}B *Dovecot version:* 2.4.1-4+ubuntu24.04 *dovecot -n:* # OS: Linux 6.8.0-57-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS ext4 # 4 default setting changes since version 2.4.0 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_mechanisms = plain login default_client_limit = 12015 default_process_limit = 3003 default_vsz_limit = 256M dovecot_storage_version = 2.3.0 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes ldap_base = ou=MyOU,dc=domain,dc=com ldap_uris = ldap://localhost log_debug = category=auth mail_driver = maildir mail_home = /home/users_LDAP/%{user}/Maildir mail_path = /home/users_LDAP/%{user}/Maildir mail_plugins { quota = yes } protocols = imap pop3 sieve ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.3 passdb ldap { fields { user = %{ldap:uid} userdb_gid = %{ldap:gidNumber} userdb_home = %{ldap:homeDirectory} userdb_quota_storage_size = %{ldap:quotaBytes}B userdb_uid = %{ldap:uidNumber} } bind = yes filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%{user})) } namespace inbox { mail_driver = maildir mail_path = /home/users_LDAP/%{user}/Maildir hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private mailbox Drafts { special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { } inet_listener pop3s { } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { } inet_listener submissions { } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { } } service imap { } service pop3 { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0777 user = mail } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/cert/fullchain.pem key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/cert/privkey.pem } protocol lda { mail_plugins { sieve = yes } } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins { imap_sieve = yes imap_quota = yes } } service managesieve-login { vsz_limit = 64M inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service managesieve { } quota "User quota" { driver = count storage_size = 10G quota_warning warn-95 { quota_storage_percentage = 95 execute quota-warning { args = 95 %{user} } } quota_warning warn-80 { quota_storage_percentage = 80 execute quota-warning { args = 80 %{user} } } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh user = dovecot unix_listener quota-warning { user = mail } } sieve_script personal { active_path = ~/.dovecot.sieve driver = file path = ~/sieve } Hi all, I'm trying to setup Per-User quota with LDAP on dovecot 2.4.1 When I try to recalc quota for user, data is retrieved from LDAP server # doveadm quota recalc -u user dovecot: auth: Debug: conn unix:/run/auth-userdb (pid=34516,uid=0): Server accepted connection (fd=20) dovecot: auth: Debug: master in: USER#0111#011user#011protocol=doveadm dovecot: auth(user): Debug: : Performing userdb lookup dovecot: auth(user): Debug: ldap: Performing passdb lookup dovecot: auth(user): Debug: ldap: pass search: base=ou=user,dc=madrid-ias,dc=eu scope=subtree filter=(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=user)) fields=uid,homeDirectory,uidNumber,gidNumber,quotaBytes dovecot: auth(user): Debug: ldap: result: uid=user gidNumber=8 homeDirectory=/ home/users_LDAP/user uidNumber=10017 quotaBytes=32000000 dovecot: auth(user): Debug: ldap: Finished passdb lookup dovecot: auth(user): Debug: : Finished userdb lookup dovecot: auth: Debug: userdb out: USER#0111#011user#011home=/home/users_LDAP/ user#011uid=10017#011gid=8#011quota_storage_size=32000000B dovecot: auth: Debug: conn unix:/run/auth-userdb (pid=34516,uid=0): auth-master client: Disconnected: Connection closed (fd=20) (created 159 msecs ago, handshake 159 msecs ago) Same when an email is delivered: Debug: master userdb out: USER#0113606183937#011user#011home=/home/users_LDAP/ user#011uid=10017#011gid=8#011quota_storage_size=32000000B#011auth_mech=PLAIN#011auth_token=8a4a9216541654643f33119dd9a280c672c#011local_name=127.0.0.1 But finally the quota limit is still the default value # doveadm quota get -u user Quota name Type Value Limit % User quota STORAGE 6294796 10485760 60 User quota MESSAGE 29190 - 0 All my dovecot configuration is available below. About Postfix, dovecot-lda is called with -d option: mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f "$SENDER" -d "$USER" If you have any idea. Thanks in advance for you help. Best Damien BTW, some "%" seem to be missing in the 2.4 documentation https:// doc.dovecot.org/main/core/plugins/quota.html before {ldap:quotaBytes}B Dovecot version: 2.4.1-4+ubuntu24.04 dovecot -n: # OS: Linux 6.8.0-57-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS ext4 # 4 default setting changes since version 2.4.0 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_mechanisms = plain login default_client_limit = 12015 default_process_limit = 3003 default_vsz_limit = 256M dovecot_storage_version = 2.3.0 fts_autoindex = yes fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 999 fts_search_add_missing = yes ldap_base = ou=MyOU,dc=domain,dc=com ldap_uris = ldap://localhost log_debug = category=auth mail_driver = maildir mail_home = /home/users_LDAP/%{user}/Maildir mail_path = /home/users_LDAP/%{user}/Maildir mail_plugins { quota = yes } protocols = imap pop3 sieve ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.3 passdb ldap { fields { user = %{ldap:uid} userdb_gid = %{ldap:gidNumber} userdb_home = %{ldap:homeDirectory} userdb_quota_storage_size = %{ldap:quotaBytes}B userdb_uid = %{ldap:uidNumber} } bind = yes filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%{user})) } namespace inbox { mail_driver = maildir mail_path = /home/users_LDAP/%{user}/Maildir hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private mailbox Drafts { special_use = "\\Drafts" } mailbox Junk { special_use = "\\Junk" } mailbox Trash { special_use = "\\Trash" } mailbox Sent { special_use = "\\Sent" } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = "\\Sent" } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { } inet_listener pop3s { } } service submission-login { inet_listener submission { } inet_listener submissions { } } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { } } service imap { } service pop3 { } service submission { } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0777 user = mail } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/cert/fullchain.pem key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/cert/privkey.pem } protocol lda { mail_plugins { sieve = yes } } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins { imap_sieve = yes imap_quota = yes } } service managesieve-login { vsz_limit = 64M inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } service managesieve { } quota "User quota" { driver = count storage_size = 10G quota_warning warn-95 { quota_storage_percentage = 95 execute quota-warning { args = 95 %{user} } } quota_warning warn-80 { quota_storage_percentage = 80 execute quota-warning { args = 80 %{user} } } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh user = dovecot unix_listener quota-warning { user = mail } } sieve_script personal { active_path = ~/.dovecot.sieve driver = file path = ~/sieve }

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Pigeonhole: (Sub-)Folders containing emojis not found
by Alexander Skwar 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

Hello $ dovecot --version 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0) I've got the following rule defined:require ["regex","imap4flags","fileinto"];if anyof (address :regex :comparator "i;octet" "from" ".*@(bls\\.ch|redditmail\\.com|mail\\.tagesanzeiger\\.ch|link\\.ch|app\\.intervista\\.ch|news\\.outdooractive\\.com|spschweiz\\.ch|mail\\.landbote\\.ch|sofalesungen\\.ch)$") { fileinto "🗣 MLs Foren/🗞 Newsletter"; addflag "$label6"; stop;} There are also others, of course. In the Sieve log file “a(a)skwar.xyz.sieve.xn--log-9o0a, I find that the filter did not work: error: msgid=<a48c8bad-1d8f-4c29-a41d-e58f2dc2eed6(a)ind1s01mta1013.xt.local>: fileinto action: failed to store into mailbox '🗣 MLs Foren/🗞 Newsletter': Mailbox doesn't exist: 🗣 MLs Foren/🗞 Newsletter. I'm attaching the message as well. The folders DO exist — both parent “🗣 MLs Foren” and subfolder “🗞 Newsletter”. Why's that? I'm using Mailcow v2025-03a; Dovecot: 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0). I created the folders and filters in SOGo webmail, which is shipped with Mailcow. Thanks, Alexander -- Alexander -- Complete contact details at https://a.skwar.xyz/ Hello $ dovecot --version 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0) I've got the following rule defined: require ["regex","imap4flags","fileinto"]; if anyof (address :regex :comparator "i;octet" "from" ".*@ (bls\\.ch|redditmail\\.com|mail\\.tagesanzeiger\\.ch|link\\.ch|app\\.intervista\\.ch|news\\.outdooractive\\.com|spschweiz\\.ch|mail\\.landbote\\.ch|sofalesungen\\.ch)$") { fileinto "🗣 MLs Foren/🗞 Newsletter"; addflag "$label6"; stop; } There are also others, of course. In the Sieve log file “a(a)skwar.xyz.sieve.xn--log-9o0a, I find that the filter did not work: error: msgid=<a48c8bad-1d8f-4c29-a41d-e58f2dc2eed6(a)ind1s01mta1013.xt.local>: fileinto action: failed to store into mailbox '🗣 MLs Foren/🗞 Newsletter': Mailbox doesn't exist: 🗣 MLs Foren/🗞 Newsletter. I'm attaching the message as well. The folders DO exist — both parent “🗣 MLs Foren” and subfolder “🗞 Newsletter”. Why's that? I'm using Mailcow v2025-03a; Dovecot: 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0). I created the folders and filters in SOGo webmail, which is shipped with Mailcow. Thanks, Alexander -- Alexander -- Complete contact details at https://a.skwar.xyz/

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dovecot-pigeonhole 2.4.1 example config files are deprecated
by Peter Varkoly 05 Apr '25

05 Apr '25

dovecot-pigeonhole version 2.4.1 The delivered example configuration files 20-managesieve.conf 90-sieve.conf 90-sieve-extprograms.conf have the syntax of 2.3 and dovecot 2.4.1 can not parse these. Following error messages occurs: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-sieve-extprograms.conf line 9: Unknown section name: plugin doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-sieve.conf line 24: Unknown section name: plugin 20-managesieve.conf does not cause error messages but does not correspond to what is described under https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/core/plugins/imap_sieve.html -- Peter Varkoly SW Engineering(Systems) SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Frankenstraße 146 D-90461 Nürnberg T +49-(0)911-740 53 0 E <varkoly(a)suse.com> https://www.suse.com/ (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer dovecot-pigeonhole version 2.4.1 The delivered example configuration files 20-managesieve.conf 90-sieve.conf 90- sieve-extprograms.conf have the syntax of 2.3 and dovecot 2.4.1 can not parse these. Following error messages occurs: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-sieve- extprograms.conf line 9: Unknown section name: plugin doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-sieve.conf line 24: Unknown section name: plugin 20-managesieve.conf does not cause error messages but does not correspond to what is described under https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/core/plugins/ imap_sieve.html -- Peter Varkoly SW Engineering(Systems) SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Frankenstraße 146 D-90461 Nürnberg T +49-(0)911-740 53 0 E <varkoly(a)suse.com> https://www.suse.com/ (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer

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sieve-filter editheader
by Claudinei Luís Bianchini 03 Apr '25

03 Apr '25

Hi, I'm trying to use the editheader extension of sieve, without success. If you can help, I would appreciate it. My setup looks like this: cat 90-sieve.conf plugin { sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms sieve_extensions = +body +editheader # with this line it doesn't work either: # sieve_global_extensions = +editheader } dovecot restarted ### # dovecot.sieve # ### # require [ "fileinto", "editheader", "body", "envelope", "imap4flags", "regex", "variables", "relational" ]; # ... sievec dovecot.sieve : dovecot: line 8: error: require command: unknown Sieve capability 'editheader'. dovecot: error: validation failed. sievec(root): Fatal: failed to compile sieve script 'dovecot.sieve' dovecot -n : root@email:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# doveconf -n # 2.3.13 (89f716dc2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.13 (cdd19fe3) # OS: Linux 5.10.0-23-amd64 x86_64 Debian 11.7 # Hostname: email.netcon.com.br auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = PLAIN LOGIN deliver_log_format = from=%{from}, envelope_sender=%{from_envelope}, subject=%{subject}, msgid=%m, size=%{size}, delivery_time=%{delivery_time}ms, %$ dict { acl = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-share-folder.conf lastlogin = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-last-login.conf quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-used-quota.conf } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 2000 last_valid_uid = 2000 listen = * [::] login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c %k session=<%{session}> mail_attribute_dict = file:%Lh/dovecot-attributes mail_gid = 2000 mail_location = maildir:%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=%Lh/Maildir/ mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl mail_log notify mail_uid = 2000 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded- character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve namespace { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive { auto = no special_use = \Archive } mailbox Archives { auto = no special_use = \Archive } mailbox "Deleted Messages" { auto = no special_use = \Trash } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox "Junk E-mail" { auto = no special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Items" { auto = no special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { auto = no special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = no special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=%%Lh/Maildir/Shared/%%Ld/%%Ln prefix = Shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = shared } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/var/vmail/sieve/report_spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY APPEND imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/var/vmail/sieve/report_ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * imapsieve_url = sieve://127.0.0.1:4190 last_login_dict = proxy::lastlogin last_login_key = # hidden, use -P to show it mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_create mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size from subject flags mailbox_alias_new = Sent Messages mailbox_alias_new2 = Sent Items mailbox_alias_old = Sent mailbox_alias_old2 = Sent quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_grace = 10%% quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-warning 100 %u quota_warning2 = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning3 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning4 = storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u sieve = ~/sieve/dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/vmail/sieve/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /var/vmail/sieve sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment sieve_max_redirects = 30 sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /etc/dovecot/sieve/pipe sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms sieve_vacation_send_from_recipient = yes } protocols = pop3 imap sieve lmtp service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service imap-login { process_limit = 500 service_count = 1 } service lmtp { executable = lmtp -L inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24 } process_min_avail = 5 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } user = vmail } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { service_count = 1 } service quota-status { client_limit = 1 executable = quota-status -p postfix inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 12340 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/dovecot-quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { mode = 0644 user = vmail } inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24242 } unix_listener stats-writer { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/imap.netcon.com.br/fullchain.pem ssl_cipher_list = EECDH+CHACHA20:EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.2 ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes syslog_facility = local5 userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocol lda { lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl mail_log notify sieve } protocol lmtp { lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl mail_log notify sieve recipient_delimiter = + } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 30 mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl mail_log notify imap_quota imap_acl last_login imap_sieve } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 30 mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl mail_log notify last_login pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } root@email:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# -- Claudinei Luís Bianchini nei(a)netcon.com.br

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Late E-Mails
by Kent Borg 03 Apr '25

03 Apr '25

This morning I noticed e-mail out of sequence. I looked in `/var/log/mail.log` and postfix seems to have handled them correctly, recording the same things for them as any other e-mail, and in sensible sequence with the surrounding timestamps. But in my e-mail client (Thunderbird) some were delayed when viewed as I always do by "Order Received". These are the examples I noticed, when compared to surrounding messages: * 1 delayed ~3-hours, then 4-hours after that… * 7 delayed ~16-hours, followed immediately by… * 2 delayed over 5-hours. Other notes: * Thunderbird was not running at the time that these came in (that computer was asleep). * I am running dsync between two servers and both servers show the same details in Thunderbird (so syncing seems working). * I don't notice any dovecot errors in the log in the vicinity of when the delayed e-mails were processed by postfix, nor when the surrounding e-mails were processed by postfix. * There were no reboots during this period. * I do see some other little timestamp "errors", but these seem to be mailing list messages getting an internal timestamp a couple minutes before the message got delivered to my server (I also will see spam with completely false timestamps, but that it not what is going on here). Does Dovecot sometimes not notice new mail? Thanks, -kb/ / This morning I noticed e-mail out of sequence. I looked in `/var/log/mail.log` and postfix seems to have handled them correctly, recording the same things for them as any other e-mail, and in sensible sequence with the surrounding timestamps. But in my e-mail client (Thunderbird) some were delayed when viewed as I always do by "Order Received". These are the examples I noticed, when compared to surrounding messages: * 1 delayed ~3-hours, then 4-hours after that… * 7 delayed ~16-hours, followed immediately by… * 2 delayed over 5-hours. Other notes: * Thunderbird was not running at the time that these came in (that computer was asleep). * I am running dsync between two servers and both servers show the same details in Thunderbird (so syncing seems working). * I don't notice any dovecot errors in the log in the vicinity of when the delayed e-mails were processed by postfix, nor when the surrounding e- mails were processed by postfix. * There were no reboots during this period. * I do see some other little timestamp "errors", but these seem to be mailing list messages getting an internal timestamp a couple minutes before the message got delivered to my server (I also will see spam with completely false timestamps, but that it not what is going on here). Does Dovecot sometimes not notice new mail? Thanks, -kb

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Issue: Attachment from Later Email Appears on Earlier Email
by postfix_dovecot＠gmx.de 03 Apr '25

03 Apr '25

Hello, Today, I encountered a very strange phenomenon, and I'm not sure if Dovecot is involved: A user sent an email at 11:55 AM with a PDF attachment. When checking their inbox in Outlook, they noticed that this exact PDF had somehow been attached to an email that was originally received at 10:50 AM. I verified the timestamps in the logs, and they are correct. So essentially, the attachment from a later-sent email was appended to an earlier-received email sitting in the inbox-even though the two messages are completely unrelated. I have never seen anything like this before-how is this even possible? Does anyone have any advice? Thanks in advance! Jens Hello, Today, I encountered a very strange phenomenon, and I’m not sure if Dovecot is involved: A user sent an email at 11:55 AM with a PDF attachment. When checking their inbox in Outlook, they noticed that this exact PDF had somehow been attached to an email that was originally received at 10:50 AM. I verified the timestamps in the logs, and they are correct. So essentially, the attachment from a later-sent email was appended to an earlier-received email sitting in the inbox—even though the two messages are completely unrelated. I have never seen anything like this before—how is this even possible? Does anyone have any advice? Thanks in advance! Jens

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lmtp problems with dovecot while seeking to build dovecot, postfix, mailman3, opendkim on Debian 12
by pjbondi＠systemdatabase.com 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

Hello to all: I have been trying to integrate and to stand up dovecot, postfix, mailman3 and opendkim. I have been studying the following: - https://www.frontline.ro/en/blog/how-to-configure-opendkim-with-postfix-on-… - https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/mta.h… - https://www.linuxbabe.com/mail-server/build-email-server-from-scratch-debia… - https://www.linuxbabe.com/mail-server/install-dovecot-imap-server-debian This appears to be the best available coaching, but it would take me weeks to find the time to follow this post: - https://pieterhollander.nl/post/mailserver/ I was trying to place the Maildir outside my Debian 12 virtual machine for easier backup. The directory /Debian-12-dovecot-Maildir is setup as NFS share on my NAS. I can orchestrate a daily backup or an rclone of that to OneDrive or some other cloud target via my NAS. I have these errors: Apr 02 11:17:01 shackleton12 postfix/local[795238]: CA26A2D23: passing <mailman(a)systemdatabase.ca> to transport=lmtp Apr 02 11:17:01 shackleton12 postfix/local[795238]: warning: connect #1 to subsystem private/lmtp: Connection refused Apr 02 11:07:00 shackleton12 systemd[1]: Starting dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server... Apr 02 11:07:00 shackleton12 dovecot[789615]: Error: service(lmtp): Socket already exists: /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp Apr 02 11:07:00 shackleton12 dovecot[789615]: master: Error: service(lmtp): Socket already exists: /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp Apr 02 11:07:00 shackleton12 dovecot[789615]: Fatal: Failed to start listeners Apr 02 11:07:00 shackleton12 dovecot[789615]: master: Fatal: Failed to start listeners Apr 02 11:07:00 shackleton12 systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=89/n/a Apr 02 11:07:00 shackleton12 systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 02 11:07:00 shackleton12 systemd[1]: Failed to start dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server. postconf -n doveconf -n postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases append_dot_mydomain = no biff = no compatibility_level = 3.6 inet_protocols = ipv4 local_recipient_maps = hash:/opt/mailman/mm/var/data/postfix_lmtp mailbox_size_limit = 0 mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp masquerade_domains = systemdatabase.ca milter_default_action = accept milter_protocol = 2 mydestination = $myhostname, systemdatabase.ca, localhost.systemdatabase.ca, localhost, systemdatabase.homelinux.com mydomain = systemdatabase.ca myhostname = systemdatabase.ca mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 myorigin = systemdatabase.ca non_smtpd_milters = $smtpd_milters owner_request_special = no proxy_interfaces = 192.168.1.8 readme_directory = no recipient_delimiter = + relay_domains = hash:/opt/mailman/mm/var/data/postfix_domains relayhost = [smtp.bellnet.ca]:25 smtp_tls_loglevel = 1 smtp_tls_mandatory_protocols = !SSLv2, !SSLv3, !TLSv1, !TLSv1.1 smtp_tls_protocols = !SSLv2, !SSLv3, !TLSv1, !TLSv1.1 smtp_tls_security_level = may smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) smtpd_milters = inet:localhost:8891 smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated reject_unauth_destination permit_inet_interfaces smtpd_relay_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated defer_unauth_destination permit_inet_interfaces smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/systemdatabase.ca-0001/fullchain.pem smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/systemdatabase.ca-0001/privkey.pem smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_tls_mandatory_protocols = !SSLv2, !SSLv3, !TLSv1, !TLSv1.1 smtpd_tls_protocols = !SSLv2, !SSLv3, !TLSv1, !TLSv1.1 smtpd_tls_security_level = may smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache smtputf8_enable = no transport_maps = hash:/opt/mailman/mm/var/data/postfix_lmtp unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 doveconf -n # 2.3.19.1 (9b53102964): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.19 (4eae2f79) # OS: Linux 6.1.0-32-amd64 x86_64 Debian 12.10 nfs4 # Hostname: shackleton12.systemdatabase.ca auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_username_format = %n mail_location = maildir:/Debian-12-dovecot-Maildir/%d-%u-Maildir mail_privileged_group = mail namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap lmtp service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/systemdatabase.ca-0001/fullchain.pem ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes userdb { driver = passwd }

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Bug: dovecot 2.3.21.1 fails to build with recent ICU
by Marcel Telka 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

Hi, dovecot 2.3.21.1 fails to build with ICU 77. There are also reports it does not build with ICU 76 for the same reason: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=284832 There is no issue when built with ICU 75. The failure is this: /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link /usr/gcc/14/bin/gcc -std=gnu99 -m64 -O3 -Wno-incompatible-pointer-types -fstack-protector-strong -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -mfunction-return=keep -mindirect-branch=keep -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/usr/openssl/3/include -no-undefined -m64 -o test-fts-icu test-fts-icu.o fts-icu.lo -licui18n ../lib-test/libtest.la ../lib/liblib.la -lsocket -lnsl -lsendfile libtool: link: /usr/gcc/14/bin/gcc -std=gnu99 -m64 -O3 -Wno-incompatible-pointer-types -fstack-protector-strong -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -mfunction-return=keep -mindirect-branch=keep -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -I/usr/openssl/3/include -m64 -o test-fts-icu test-fts-icu.o .libs/fts-icu.o -licui18n ../lib-test/.libs/libtest.a ../lib/.libs/liblib.a -lsocket -lnsl -lsendfile Undefined first referenced symbol in file ucasemap_utf8ToLower_77 .libs/fts-icu.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/amd64/libicuuc.so.77) u_strFromUTF8Lenient_77 .libs/fts-icu.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/amd64/libicuuc.so.77) u_errorName_77 .libs/fts-icu.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/amd64/libicuuc.so.77) u_cleanup_77 .libs/fts-icu.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/amd64/libicuuc.so.77) ucasemap_close_77 .libs/fts-icu.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/amd64/libicuuc.so.77) u_strToUTF8WithSub_77 .libs/fts-icu.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/amd64/libicuuc.so.77) ucasemap_open_77 .libs/fts-icu.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/amd64/libicuuc.so.77) ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to test-fts-icu collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status The workaround is easy: to add -licuuc to LDFLAGS, however it would be great if dovecot builds without any workarounds needed. Thank you. -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: marcel(a)telka.sk | | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | +-------------------------------------------+

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Dovecot v2.4.1 released
by Aki Tuomi 31 Mar '25

31 Mar '25

Hi! We arey happy to release Dovecot v2.4.1! Some IMPORTANT things to notice (still): - We have changed the signing key for 2.4 going forward, releases are signed with EF0882079FD4ED32BF8B23B2A1B09EF84EDC5219, which can be found at https://repo.dovecot.org/DOVECOT-REPO-GPG-2.4 and is signed with the previous key. The old key has been renamed to https://repo.dovecot.org/DOVECOT-REPO-GPG-2.3. - New 2.4 packages **are not** compatible with old 2.3 configuration, please carefully review https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html before installing the new packages. - We are happy to provide experimental arm64 support in the form of a Docker image. There are now three kinds of images, latest, latest-dev and latest-root. - The latest docker image is now ran rootless, with UID 1000 as vmail. Please take this into consideration when upgrading. The latest-root image still runs as root. Latest 2.3 image can be used with tag 2.3-latest still We won't be sending separate mail about Pigeonhole anymore as we will release one anyways when we release Dovecot, and Pigeonhole versioning has been changed to match Dovecot versioning. Source codes available at - https://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-2.4.1.tar.gz - https://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-2.4.1.tar.gz.sig - https://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-pigeonhole-2.4.1.tar.gz - https://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-pigeonhole-2.4.1.tar.gz… Binary packages in https://repo.dovecot.org/ Docker images in https://hub.docker.com/r/dovecot/dovecot Kind regards, Aki Tuomi Open-Xchange oy --- Dovecot Core NEWS ----------------- * auth: Change unix_listener/auth-userdb/group = $SET:default_internal_group This change needs dovecot_config_version=2.4.1. * auth: lua - Remove support for single string result. * imap: Unconditionally advertise SPECIAL-USE capability. * lib-dcrypt: Install dcrypt_openssl.so into dovecot modules directory. * lib-master: For glibc, default MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=131072. * lib-storage: Change default mail_cache_fields to: hdr.date hdr.subject hdr.from hdr.sender hdr.reply-to hdr.to hdr.cc hdr.bcc hdr.in-reply-to hdr.message-id date.received size.virtual imap.bodystructure mime.parts hdr.references hdr.importance hdr.x-priority hdr.x-open-xchange-share-url pop3.uidl pop3.order. This change needs dovecot_config_version=2.4.1. * lib-var-expand: Use moduledir instead of pkglibdir for crypt. * lmtp: Change the default lmtp_user_concurrency_limit to 10. This change needs dovecot_config_version=2.4.1. * lmtp: Change the default service_restart_request_count to 1. This change needs dovecot_config_version=2.4.1. + auth: Allow configuring passdb/userdb sql to use auth-workers. + config: Add default group @mailbox_defaults = english. + config: Improve "Unknown setting" error with more details and suggestions. + doveconf: Add -U parameter to ignore unknown settings in config file. + fts-flatcurve: Support lock files in VOLATILEDIR. + imap-acl: Add support for the IMAP LIST-MYRIGHTS capability (RFC 8440). + imap-client: Support ANONYMOUS authentication. + imap: Implement support for the REPLACE capability. - auth: ldap - Passdb fields were ignored with passdb_ldap_bind_userdn=yes. - auth: lua - Fix error result handling in lua passdb/userdb. - auth: oauth2 - When building oauth2 failure reply, memory would leak. - config: local_name handling would work wrong with multiple names and wildcards. - fts-flatcurve: A potential crash could occur when searching virtual mailboxes. Fixes: Panic: file fts-search.c: line 87 (level_scores_add_vuids): assertion failed: (array_count(&vuids_arr) == array_count(&br->scores)) - fts-flatcurve: Maybe queries were done wrong. - fts-flatcurve: Non-selectable mailboxes were not ignored when doing optimize/rescan. - fts-flatcurve: Signal 11 crash could happen with fts rescan. - fts: Fix crash caused by event object lifecycle mishandling. - imap-hibernate: Client counters would get reset on unhibernation, affecting imap_logout_format variables. - imap: Crash would occur with Maildir when trying to send INPROGRESS during mailbox syncing. - ldap: Dovecot could not be compiled without LDAP. - lib-dcrypt: Output stream encryption can cause assert crash if attempting to encrypt over 64 GiB of data with GCM. This is still not supported with GCM, but it fails better. - lib-http: HTTP client context memory usage was increasing. - lib-http: Pipeline corruption could happen after 100 Continue response. - lib-settings: Variable expansion initialization could crash with Panic: file settings.c: line 1560 (settings_var_expand_init_add): assertion failed: (I_MAX(num_tables, num_provs) == num_ctx) - lib-smtp: Pipelining initial SASL response after AUTH was broken. - lib-var-expand: If filter failed, memory leak would occur. - lib-var-expand: Older bison versions did not have error symbol for handling causing unexpected behaviour on the parser on error conditions. - quota: Quota calculations had minor bugs causing small errors. Pigeonhole NEWS --------------- - global: Fix settings handling bugs. Especially %variables weren't working in various settings. - ldap: Pigeonhole could not be built without LDAP.

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Bug: Inconsistency in configuration between various clients.
by Louis Schmitz 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

We found out about this through a misconfiguration in our web panel. In the main config file the following line includes a subdirectory; !include conf.d/*.conf The web panel created the following two relevant configuration snippets in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/ 11-plesk-security-ssl.conf > ssl_dh=</opt/psa/etc/dhparams2048.pem > ssl_min_protocol=TLSv1.2 > ssl_cipher_list=EECDH+AESGCM+AES128:EECDH+AESGCM+AES256:EECDH+CHACHA20:EECDH+SHA256+AES128:EECDH+SHA384+AES256:EECDH+SHA1+AES128:EECDH+SHA1+AES256:EECDH+HIGH:AESGCM+AES128:AESGCM+AES256:CHACHA20:SHA256+AES128:SHA256+AES256:SHA1+AES128:SHA1+AES256:HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!3DES:!MD5:!PSK:!KRB5:!aECDH:!kDH:!EDH > ssl_prefer_server_ciphers=yes > ssl=yes > ssl_cert=</etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem > ssl_key=</etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem This sets a server wide certificate as being the cert in /etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem. Let's say our main server domain is 'acme.com' for example, its 'hostname' (linux hostname) is for example 's02.acme.com'. Then it would also create 14-plesk-sni-mail.acme.com.conf, containing something akin to: > local_name mail.acme.com { > ssl_cert = </opt/psa/var/certificates/scf7b9lcY > ssl_key = </opt/psa/var/certificates/scf7b9lcY > } These point to the ssl cert and key configured for that specific vhost (not the entire server), which can be different from that configured for the server. When some clients connected to the server (connecting to mail.acme.com) it would serve the /etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem certificate. This was renewed and the clients would work without issue. Other clients, however, used the certificate at /opt/psa/var/certificates/scf7b9lcY. This certificate is supposed to be the same, but expired and wasn't renewed along with the other one. This was tricky to figure out since the problems did not appear on our side, only when looking at a client. Once I went around the panel GUI and into the actual dovecot configuration files I found the culprit(s). I think, but do not know, that it could be related to which IP protocol (V4 or V6) is used to connect to dovecot. All clients who failed happened to connect over V6. The cases that did not used V4. This seems entirely unrelated and strange behaviour that must be a bug of some kind. Either both should use the one certificate, or the other, or there should be an error or warning if local_name includes a variant subdomain of the server name, the latter in addition to making a consistent choice. It appears that sometimes the first relevant ssl_key and ssl_cert are used, and other times the second when the option is included twice in the configuration, pointing to different matching certificates/keys. It's not apparently a race condition: The behaviour is very consistent for the same client connecting.

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Input Buffer Full with OAuth login
by Brad Koehn 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

I’m running Dovecot 2.3.21.1 using Authentik for OAuth authentication. I’m using SOGo 5.12.0 as a UI, also with OAuth authentication. When SOGo connects to Dovecot and authenticates with OAuth, it fails and the following is logged: imap-login: Info: Disconnected: Input buffer full (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=10.42.1.1, lip=10.42.1.196, TLS, session=<NZnp7zMxQuMKKgEB> My dovecot-oauth2.conf.ext looks like this: openid_configuration_url = https://auth.koehn.com/application/o/dovecot-oauth2/.well-known/openid-conf… introspection_url = https://auth.koehn.com/application/o/introspect/ introspection_mode = post client_id = [redacted] client_secret = [redacted] username_attribute = email debug = yes rawlog_dir = /tmp/oauth2 And my auth-oauth2.conf.ext looks like this: passdb { driver = oauth2 mechanisms = xoauth2 oauthbearer args = /etc/dovecot/conf.d/dovecot-oauth2.conf.ext } I’m using the Dovecot Debian packages from repo.dovecot.org. I’ve tried auth for introspection_mode, to no avail. There’s nothing extra in the logs when I turn on debug, and there’s nothing logged in the /tmp/oauth2 directory either, FWIW. Any ideas? — Brad I’m running Dovecot 2.3.21.1 using Authentik for OAuth authentication. I’m using SOGo 5.12.0 as a UI, also with OAuth authentication. When SOGo connects to Dovecot and authenticates with OAuth, it fails and the following is logged: imap-login: Info: Disconnected: Input buffer full (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=10.42.1.1, lip=10.42.1.196, TLS, session=<NZnp7zMxQuMKKgEB> My dovecot-oauth2.conf.ext looks like this: openid_configuration_url = https://auth.koehn.com/application/o/dovecot- oauth2/.well-known/openid-configuration introspection_url = https://auth.koehn.com/application/o/introspect/ introspection_mode = post client_id = [redacted] client_secret = [redacted] username_attribute = email debug = yes rawlog_dir = /tmp/oauth2 And my auth-oauth2.conf.ext looks like this: passdb { driver = oauth2 mechanisms = xoauth2 oauthbearer args = /etc/dovecot/conf.d/dovecot-oauth2.conf.ext } I’m using the Dovecot Debian packages from repo.dovecot.org. I’ve tried auth for introspection_mode, to no avail. There’s nothing extra in the logs when I turn on debug, and there’s nothing logged in the /tmp/ oauth2 directory either, FWIW. Any ideas? — Brad

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Dovecot and IP check at the user connection (auth-worker problems: no IP...)
by ik7xja＠gmail.com 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

Hi to all, I'm using Postfix and Dovecot for my little server. I'm experimenting many false user caming fron the entire world to access to my account. I'm only in a country and I would like to restrict accesso to user coming from IPs located in my country. Since the access is granteg by mysql and SQL in passdb and userdb, I've created a table with only the IPs of my country and check the user remote IP. The trick is working well when I try to access to my account beacuse the variable "%r" is not empy... But... But when there is a delivery of a new message, the auth-worker have no IP and the check fail: auth-worker<5>: sql(user(a)my.domain): unknown user and the new message, coming in my box from other servers come back to the sender as "unknown user" There is a way to user a different query in this auth-worker process (I guess is using the same SQL with the IP-check)? Or "force" an IP (like 127.0.0.1) in the auth-worker invocation? Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Indexer-worker panic and killed with signal 6 in 2.4 and Solr 9
by Zakaria 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

Hi there, I'm reporting what I think is a bug. I just configured dovecot 2.4 with fts_solr plugin running on solr 9.8 release and it throws this panic and sigfaults one after another. Mar 24 11:58:48 server dovecot: indexer-worker(hi(a)zakaria.website): Panic: settings_get() - event has no SETTINGS_EVENT_ROOT Mar 24 11:58:48 server dovecot: indexer-worker(hi(a)zakaria.website): Error: Raw backtrace: libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x39) [0x7f2fe692e549] -> libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x22) [0x7f2fe692e682] -> libdovecot.so.0(+0x13ccbc) [0x7f2fe693ccbc] -> libdovecot.so.0(+0x13cd51) [0x7f2fe693cd51] -> libdovecot.so.0(+0x6bfff) [0x7f2fe686bfff] -> libdovecot.so.0(+0x5ed08) [0x7f2fe685ed08] -> libdovecot.so.0(+0xba555) [0x7f2fe68ba555] -> libdovecot.so.0(settings_get+0x46) [0x7f2fe68bb576] -> libdovecot.so.0(ssl_client_settings_get+0x66) [0x7f2fe69196e6] -> libdovecot.so.0(http_client_init_ssl_ctx+0xa9) [0x7f2fe68d40a9] -> libdovecot.so.0(http_client_host_submit_request+0x9d) [0x7f2fe68d37dd] -> libdovecot.so.0(http_client_request_submit+0x34) [0x7f2fe68c70c4] -> libdovecot.so.0(+0xc7cf0) [0x7f2fe68c7cf0] -> libdovecot.so.0(http_client_request_send_payload+0x2e) [0x7f2fe68c7d3e] -> lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(solr_connection_post_more+0x39) [0x7f2fe6e3af89] -> lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x4469) [0x7f2fe6e38469] -> lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_build_more+0x4a) [0x7f2fe6e5930a] -> lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xa419) [0x7f2fe6e5a419] -> lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xae8a) [0x7f2fe6e5ae8a] -> lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x57) [0x7f2fe6e5b827] -> lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0x119e1) [0x7f2fe6e619e1] -> libdovecot-storage.so.0(mail_precache+0x2c) [0x7f2fe6cd6b1c] -> indexer-worker(+0x3b8a) [0x559c6212fb8a] -> indexer-worker(+0x44b5) [0x559c621304b5] -> indexer-worker(+0x466b) [0x559c6213066b] -> libdovecot.so.0(connection_input_default+0x199) [0x7f2fe6933439] -> libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x67) [0x7f2fe69534d7] -> libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x12a) [0x7f2fe6954c0a] -> libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x50) [0x7f2fe6953580] -> libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x48) [0x7f2fe6953758] Mar 24 11:58:48 server dovecot: indexer-worker(hi(a)zakaria.website): Fatal: master: service(indexer-worker): child 28216 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) Mar 24 11:59:13 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: cat: write error: Broken pipe Mar 24 11:59:13 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: /usr/libexec/dovecot/decode2text.sh: line 59: 29469 Done find . -name "$name" -print0 Mar 24 11:59:13 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 29470 Done(123) | xargs -0 cat Mar 24 11:59:13 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 29471 Segmentation fault | $libexec_dir/xml2text Mar 24 12:00:40 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: /usr/libexec/dovecot/decode2text.sh: line 59: 32540 Done find . -name "$name" -print0 Mar 24 12:00:40 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32541 | xargs -0 cat Mar 24 12:00:40 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32542 Segmentation fault | $libexec_dir/xml2text Mar 24 12:00:40 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: /usr/libexec/dovecot/decode2text.sh: line 59: 32555 Done find . -name "$name" -print0 Mar 24 12:00:40 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32556 | xargs -0 cat Mar 24 12:00:40 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32557 Segmentation fault | $libexec_dir/xml2text Mar 24 12:00:49 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: cat: write error: Broken pipe Mar 24 12:00:49 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: /usr/libexec/dovecot/decode2text.sh: line 59: 32832 Done find . -name "$name" -print0 Mar 24 12:00:49 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32833 Done(123) | xargs -0 cat Mar 24 12:00:49 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32834 Segmentation fault | $libexec_dir/xml2text Mar 24 12:00:52 server dovecot: imap-login: Login aborted: Connection closed (disconnected during TLS handshake) (tls_handshake_not_finished): user=, rip=20.65.195.124, lip=77.68.117.221, TLS handshaking: Connection closed, session= Mar 24 12:00:53 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: cat: write error: Broken pipe Mar 24 12:00:53 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: /usr/libexec/dovecot/decode2text.sh: line 59: 32955 Done find . -name "$name" -print0 Mar 24 12:00:53 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32956 Done(123) | xargs -0 cat Mar 24 12:00:53 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32957 Segmentation fault | $libexec_dir/xml2text Mar 24 12:00:57 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: cat: write error: Broken pipe Mar 24 12:00:57 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: /usr/libexec/dovecot/decode2text.sh: line 59: 33039 Done find . -name "$name" -print0 Mar 24 12:00:57 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 33040 Done(123) | xargs -0 cat Mar 24 12:00:57 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 33041 Segmentation fault | $libexec_dir/xml2text These are my relevant fts configuration:- mail_plugins = mail_compress fts fts_solr fts_autoindex = yes fts solr { url = SOLR_URL batch_size = 1000 } fts_decoder_driver = script fts_decoder_script_socket_path = decode2text service indexer-worker { vsz_limit = 4G } service decode2text { executable = script /usr/libexec/dovecot/decode2text.sh user = dovecot unix_listener decode2text { mode = 0666 } } language "en" { default = yes } I think anyone can reproduce the panic using following commands while targeting a mailbox which contains as many emails as possible maybe 20K. Commit and optimise dovecot core. /opt/solr-9.8.1/bin/solr api --solr-url "..../solr/dovecot/update?commit=true" /opt/solr-9.8.1/bin/solr api --solr-url "..../solr/dovecot/update?optimize=true" Rescan and index the mailbox. doveadm fts rescan -u hi(a)zakaria.website doveadm index -u hi(a)zakaria.website -q "*" I tested this on dovecot released solrconfig.xml for solr 9. Note, current solr 9 has breaking changes to the config, I rectified using the following, please refer to https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/upgrade-notes/major-changes-in-so…. Appending n solr deployment configuration following two lines:- SOLR_OPTS="$SOLR_OPTS -Dsolr.config.lib.enabled=true" SOLR_MODULES=extraction,ltr,analysis-extras Also, additional note there are some other minor log warning, but weren't problematic. With thanks. Zak. [https://api.zakaria.website/users/hi@zakaria.website/ f6ebf9ed031e93b5ed35f78ceb338278(a)zakaria.website/30db6adddb640dbc14bfad.png] Hi there, I'm reporting what I think is a bug. I just configured dovecot 2.4 with fts_solr plugin running on solr 9.8 release and it throws this panic and sigfaults one after another. Mar 24 11:58:48 server dovecot: indexer-worker(hi(a)zakaria.website)<28216>: Panic: settings_get() - event has no SETTINGS_EVENT_ROOT Mar 24 11:58:48 server dovecot: indexer-worker(hi(a)zakaria.website)<28216>: Error: Raw backtrace: libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x39) [0x7f2fe692e549] - > libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x22) [0x7f2fe692e682] -> libdovecot.so.0 (+0x13ccbc) [0x7f2fe693ccbc] -> libdovecot.so.0(+0x13cd51) [0x7f2fe693cd51] - > libdovecot.so.0(+0x6bfff) [0x7f2fe686bfff] -> libdovecot.so.0(+0x5ed08) [0x7f2fe685ed08] -> libdovecot.so.0(+0xba555) [0x7f2fe68ba555] - > libdovecot.so.0(settings_get+0x46) [0x7f2fe68bb576] -> libdovecot.so.0 (ssl_client_settings_get+0x66) [0x7f2fe69196e6] -> libdovecot.so.0 (http_client_init_ssl_ctx+0xa9) [0x7f2fe68d40a9] -> libdovecot.so.0 (http_client_host_submit_request+0x9d) [0x7f2fe68d37dd] -> libdovecot.so.0 (http_client_request_submit+0x34) [0x7f2fe68c70c4] -> libdovecot.so.0(+0xc7cf0) [0x7f2fe68c7cf0] -> libdovecot.so.0(http_client_request_send_payload+0x2e) [0x7f2fe68c7d3e] -> lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(solr_connection_post_more+0x39) [0x7f2fe6e3af89] -> lib21_fts_solr_plugin.so(+0x4469) [0x7f2fe6e38469] - > lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_backend_update_build_more+0x4a) [0x7f2fe6e5930a] - > lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xa419) [0x7f2fe6e5a419] -> lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0xae8a) [0x7f2fe6e5ae8a] -> lib20_fts_plugin.so(fts_build_mail+0x57) [0x7f2fe6e5b827] - > lib20_fts_plugin.so(+0x119e1) [0x7f2fe6e619e1] -> libdovecot-storage.so.0 (mail_precache+0x2c) [0x7f2fe6cd6b1c] -> indexer-worker(+0x3b8a) [0x559c6212fb8a] -> indexer-worker(+0x44b5) [0x559c621304b5] -> indexer-worker (+0x466b) [0x559c6213066b] -> libdovecot.so.0(connection_input_default+0x199) [0x7f2fe6933439] -> libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x67) [0x7f2fe69534d7] - > libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x12a) [0x7f2fe6954c0a] - > libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x50) [0x7f2fe6953580] -> libdovecot.so.0 (io_loop_run+0x48) [0x7f2fe6953758] Mar 24 11:58:48 server dovecot: indexer-worker(hi(a)zakaria.website)<28216>: Fatal: master: service(indexer-worker): child 28216 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) Mar 24 11:59:13 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: cat: write error: Broken pipe Mar 24 11:59:13 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: /usr/libexec/dovecot/ decode2text.sh: line 59: 29469 Done find . -name "$name" -print0 Mar 24 11:59:13 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 29470 Done(123) | xargs - 0 cat Mar 24 11:59:13 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 29471 Segmentation fault | $libexec_dir/xml2text Mar 24 12:00:40 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: /usr/libexec/dovecot/ decode2text.sh: line 59: 32540 Done find . -name "$name" -print0 Mar 24 12:00:40 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32541 | xargs -0 cat Mar 24 12:00:40 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32542 Segmentation fault | $libexec_dir/xml2text Mar 24 12:00:40 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: /usr/libexec/dovecot/ decode2text.sh: line 59: 32555 Done find . -name "$name" -print0 Mar 24 12:00:40 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32556 | xargs -0 cat Mar 24 12:00:40 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32557 Segmentation fault | $libexec_dir/xml2text Mar 24 12:00:49 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: cat: write error: Broken pipe Mar 24 12:00:49 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: /usr/libexec/dovecot/ decode2text.sh: line 59: 32832 Done find . -name "$name" -print0 Mar 24 12:00:49 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32833 Done(123) | xargs - 0 cat Mar 24 12:00:49 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32834 Segmentation fault | $libexec_dir/xml2text Mar 24 12:00:52 server dovecot: imap-login: Login aborted: Connection closed (disconnected during TLS handshake) (tls_handshake_not_finished): user=<>, rip=20.65.195.124, lip=77.68.117.221, TLS handshaking: Connection closed, session= Mar 24 12:00:53 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: cat: write error: Broken pipe Mar 24 12:00:53 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: /usr/libexec/dovecot/ decode2text.sh: line 59: 32955 Done find . -name "$name" -print0 Mar 24 12:00:53 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32956 Done(123) | xargs - 0 cat Mar 24 12:00:53 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 32957 Segmentation fault | $libexec_dir/xml2text Mar 24 12:00:57 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: cat: write error: Broken pipe Mar 24 12:00:57 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: /usr/libexec/dovecot/ decode2text.sh: line 59: 33039 Done find . -name "$name" -print0 Mar 24 12:00:57 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 33040 Done(123) | xargs - 0 cat Mar 24 12:00:57 server dovecot: decode2text: Error: 33041 Segmentation fault | $libexec_dir/xml2text These are my relevant fts configuration:- mail_plugins = mail_compress fts fts_solr fts_autoindex = yes fts solr { url = SOLR_URL batch_size = 1000 } fts_decoder_driver = script fts_decoder_script_socket_path = decode2text service indexer-worker { vsz_limit = 4G } service decode2text { executable = script /usr/libexec/dovecot/decode2text.sh user = dovecot unix_listener decode2text { mode = 0666 } } language "en" { default = yes } I think anyone can reproduce the panic using following commands while targeting a mailbox which contains as many emails as possible maybe 20K. Commit and optimise dovecot core. /opt/solr-9.8.1/bin/solr api --solr-url "..../solr/dovecot/update?commit=true" /opt/solr-9.8.1/bin/solr api --solr-url "..../solr/dovecot/ update?optimize=true" Rescan and index the mailbox. doveadm fts rescan -u hi(a)zakaria.website doveadm index -u hi(a)zakaria.website -q "*" I tested this on dovecot released solrconfig.xml for solr 9. Note, current solr 9 has breaking changes to the config, I rectified using the following, please refer to https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/upgrade- notes/major-changes-in-solr-9.html. Appending n solr deployment configuration following two lines:- SOLR_OPTS="$SOLR_OPTS -Dsolr.config.lib.enabled=true" SOLR_MODULES=extraction,ltr,analysis-extras Also, additional note there are some other minor log warning, but weren't problematic. With thanks. Zak.

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Dovecot 2.4: Segfault for "doveadm proxy kick foo bar"
by Michael Goth 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

Hi! The following command segfaults on Dovecot 2.4: #> doveadm proxy kick foo bar Segmentation fault (core dumped) Giving only one user (doveadm proxy kick foo) works: #> doveadm proxy kick foo 0 connections kicked It does not matter if the users actually exist on the server (so the above command can be used verbatim). This used to work in Dovecot 2.3. I'm running Dovecot 2.4 on Ubuntu 24.04, installed from repo.dovecot.org. Regards, Michael

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Re: lost emails - Opened mail because: snippet ?
by Michael Slusarz 24 Mar '25

24 Mar '25

> On 03/24/2025 9:41 AM MDT Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > > Debug: Mailbox INBOX: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: snippet (Mail > not cached, highest cached seq=20 uid=31: reset_id=1742577355) > > "Opened mail because: snippet " - what does this mean? It is reading the mail to create the preview text, which is then stored in the indexes. michael

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lost emails - Opened mail because: snippet ?
by Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz 24 Mar '25

24 Mar '25

Hello. I'm tracking a weird case where dovecot (it's 2.3.21.1) looses incoming emails. Email is delivered over LMTP with full success (in theory). From lmtp raw log: 1742822341.735762 250 2.0.0 <examplelogin@mbox> +LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ Saved 1742822341.735918 221 2.0.0 Bye Log says it got saved: Mar 24 14:19:01 mbox dovecot[22785]: lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, msgid=<XYZ...1611.EURP189.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>, storage_id=1742822341.M462393P14397.mbox,S=139039,W=141006, delivery_status=saved mail to INBOX There is a file name but # find /var/mail/examplelogin/ -name '1742822341.M462393P14397.mbox*' # nothing. Well, someone could delete or move this email, right? But no, that's not the case, only pop3 sessions around: > Mar 24 14:18:43 mbox dovecot[22785]: pop3(examplelogin): pid=<24041> session=<rX98cRYxIvlTDCet>, Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/20, size=5204114, in=24, out=1002 > Mar 24 14:19:01 mbox dovecot[22785]: lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, msgid=<XYZ...1611.EURP189.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>, storage_id=1742822341.M462393P14397.mbox,S=139039,W=141006, delivery_status=saved mail to INBOX > Mar 24 14:19:43 mbox dovecot[22785]: pop3-login: Login: user=<examplelogin>, method=PLAIN, rip=1.1.1.1, rport=63799, lip=2.2.2.2, lport=110, mpid=27238, session=<GPgZdRYxN/lTDCet> > Mar 24 14:19:44 mbox dovecot[22785]: pop3(examplelogin): pid=<27238> session=<GPgZdRYxN/lTDCet>, Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/20, size=5204114, in=24, out=1002 Note the same number of total mails in del log before and after problematic mail delivery - "del=0/20", so dovecot doesn't see that new mail (there are few pop3 logins after that - all with del=0/20) So the conclusion is that the file, with email, was not created on the filesystem. LMTP raw session log, debug session log, nothing weird - below. BUT there is one thing: Debug: Mailbox INBOX: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: snippet (Mail not cached, highest cached seq=20 uid=31: reset_id=1742577355) "Opened mail because: snippet " - what does this mean? Out of 50k mails delivered only 160 have that "Opened mail because: snippet" and by that I mean that logged for lmtp like: Mar 24 07:25:18 lmtp(xyz): pid=<28535> session=<SPx6Ds764Gd3bwAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Mailbox INBOX: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: snippet (Mail not cached, highest cached seq=291 uid=4094: reset_id=1579231568) The rest have "UID 0: Opened mail because: mail stream". Started looking at these snipped entries. It seems that almost every mail with this logged is missing on the filesystem(!). Huh, what could be happening here? debug log (is there a way to enable even more detailed/low level log?): > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin@mbox): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: auth-master: userdb lookup(examplelogin@mbox): Started userdb lookup > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin@mbox): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: auth-master: userdb lookup(examplelogin@mbox): auth USER input: examplelogin home=/var/mail/examplelogin/ mail=maildir:/var/mail/examplelogin/:CONTROL=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin:VOLATILEDIR=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin:INDEX=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin uid=1234 gid=7890 sieve_enabled=no > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin@mbox): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: auth-master: userdb lookup(examplelogin@mbox): Finished userdb lookup (username=examplelogin home=/var/mail/examplelogin/ mail=maildir:/var/mail/examplelogin/:CONTROL=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin:VOLATILEDIR=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin:INDEX=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin uid=1234 gid=7890 sieve_enabled=no) > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin@mbox): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: changed username to examplelogin > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin@mbox): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: lmtp-server: conn unix:pid=25252,uid=8 [89]: rcpt examplelogin@mbox: Added userdb setting: mail=maildir:/var/mail/examplelogin/:CONTROL=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin:VOLATILEDIR=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin:INDEX=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin@mbox): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: lmtp-server: conn unix:pid=25252,uid=8 [89]: rcpt examplelogin@mbox: Added userdb setting: plugin/sieve_enabled=no > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Effective uid=1234, gid=7890, home=/var/mail/examplelogin/ > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Quota root: name=Calkowita przestrzen dla serwera backend=fs args=group > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Quota grace: root=Calkowita przestrzen dla serwera bytes=0 (10%) > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Quota root: name=Twoja przestrzen e-mail backend=fs args=user > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Quota grace: root=Twoja przestrzen e-mail bytes=0 (10%) > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/var/mail/examplelogin/:CONTROL=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin:VOLATILEDIR=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin:INDEX=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: maildir++: root=/var/mail/examplelogin, index=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin, indexpvt=, control=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin, inbox=/var/mail/examplelogin, alt= > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: quota-fs: fs quota add mailbox dir = /var/mail/examplelogin > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: quota-fs: fs quota block device = /dev/mapper/vg_sys-lv_home > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: quota-fs: fs quota mount point = /home > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: quota-fs: fs quota mount type = xfs > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=no location=fail::LAYOUT=none > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: none: root=, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=, alt= > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: fts: Indexes disabled for namespace '' > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: quota: quota_over_flag check: quota_over_script unset - skipping > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: quota: quota_over_flag check: quota2_over_script unset - skipping > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: User session is finished > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Effective uid=1234, gid=7890, home=/var/mail/examplelogin/ > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Quota root: name=Calkowita przestrzen dla serwera backend=fs args=group > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Quota grace: root=Calkowita przestrzen dla serwera bytes=0 (10%) > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Quota root: name=Twoja przestrzen e-mail backend=fs args=user > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Quota grace: root=Twoja przestrzen e-mail bytes=0 (10%) > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=INBOX., sep=., inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/var/mail/examplelogin/:CONTROL=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin:VOLATILEDIR=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin:INDEX=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: maildir++: root=/var/mail/examplelogin, index=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin, indexpvt=, control=/var/lib/dovecot/control/examplelogin, inbox=/var/mail/examplelogin, alt= > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: quota-fs: fs quota add mailbox dir = /var/mail/examplelogin > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: quota-fs: fs quota block device = /dev/mapper/vg_sys-lv_home > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: quota-fs: fs quota mount point = /home > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: quota-fs: fs quota mount type = xfs > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=no location=fail::LAYOUT=none > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: none: root=, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=, alt= > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: fts: Indexes disabled for namespace '' > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: quota: quota_over_flag check: quota_over_script unset - skipping > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: quota: quota_over_flag check: quota2_over_script unset - skipping > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: duplicate db: Initialize > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: sieve: Pigeonhole version 0.5.21.1 (49005e73) initializing > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: sieve: include: sieve_global is not set; it is currently not possible to include `:global' scripts. > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: sieve: Sieve is disabled for this user > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: duplicate db: Cleanup > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Mailbox INBOX: Mailbox opened > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Mailbox INBOX: saving UID 0: Opened mail because: snippet (Mail not cached, highest cached seq=20 uid=31: reset_id=1742577355) > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Mailbox INBOX: Adding field hdr.Subject to cache for the first time (uid=0) > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: Mailbox INBOX: Mailbox opened > Mar 24 14:19:01 lmtp(examplelogin): pid=<14397> session=<+LpAG8Vb4Wc9OAAA9fPEKQ>, Debug: User session is finished ps. logins, uid, gid changed to example values -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )

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Cannot retrieve private key from LDAP
by luis.neapolis＠gmail.com 22 Mar '25

22 Mar '25

Hello, I have a problem setting the mail-crypt plugin using global keys. First of all I prepare keys: penssl ecparam -genkey -name secp521r1 | openssl pkey -aes-256-cbc -passout pass:foobar | base64 -w0 >ecprivkey.pem cat ecprivkey_b64.pem | openssl ec -pubout > ecpubkey.pem Now I would like to pass these values using the LDAP passdb. My conf is: userdb ldap { driver = ldap ldap_filter = ... ldap filter ... fields { ... other fields ... crypt_global_public_key_file = inline:%{ldap:pubkey_in_pem_base64} crypt_global_private_key/main/crypt_private_key_file=inline:%{ldap:key_in_pem_base64} crypt_global_private_key/main/private_key_password=foobar } } mail_plugins { mail_crypt = yes } crypt_global_private_key main { # create the filter, but leave its settings empty } when I receive an email I have: lmtp(127004): Fatal: Raw user initialization failed: mail_crypt_plugin: main: Couldn't parse private key : Unknown key format I want to let you know that if I give same keys, without base64 encoding, to configuration: crypt_global_private_key main { crypt_private_key_file= /path/to/key } and: userdb ldap { ..... fields { ... other fields ... # crypt_global_private_key/main/crypt_private_key_file=inline:%{ldap:key_in_pem_base64} ... other fields ... } } all works. If I try to retrieve values from LDAP all is ok with: doveadm user user@domain Any suggestion? Thank you.

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dovecot 2.4 : quota config help
by ollie＠ik.me 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

Hello ! My dovecot config seems to work ok for managing email, using sieve filters or encrypting emails, but I can't figure out how to use the new quota config. I'm scratching my head over that one since last week and I don't see where I have done a mistake. The quota is properly reported in sql, but when I cross the percentage limit that is supposed to trigger the quota-warning, nothing happens. And I can see that too in the logs compared to my previous 2.3 install where lmtp-server was doing its job to check the quota and trigger the warning. I'm sure that I've forgotten something quite stupid, but at that point I'm not sure if I ever will be able to spot it (and I'm also wondering if that could be a bug... in that case I could scratch my head forever without any hope of finding what's wrong). I'd post my dovecot config if some of you feel like helping, but there are so many posts with configs that do not have answer that I'm wondering if it's useful. So, should I post it or not ?

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Dovecot 2.4.0 local_name wildcard matching regression
by Julius Kriukas 19 Mar '25

19 Mar '25

Hi, Using a wildcard host name in the `local_name` filter no longer works in Dovecot 2.4.0. This is useful for wildcard certificates. Example `dovecot.conf`: ``` ssl_server_cert_file = /etc/dovecot/global.cert ssl_server_key_file = /etc/dovecot/global.key ssl_server_dh_file = /etc/dovecot/dh.pem ... local_name "*.example.com" { ssl_server_cert_file = /etc/dovecot/example.com.cert ssl_server_key_file = /etc/dovecot/example.com.key } local_name "example.com" { ssl_server_cert_file = /etc/dovecot/example.com.cert ssl_server_key_file = /etc/dovecot/example.com.key } ``` The configuration is tested with: ``` openssl s_client -connect mail.example.com:993 openssl s_client -connect example.com:993 ``` The first connection to mail.example.com fails because Dovecot uses the default `global.cert` file. The second test with the exact host name match works as expected. Dovecot uses the `example.com.cert` file. Similar to the previously reported multiple hosts on the same line discrepancy, it seems that the `doveconf` tool still has the wildcard matching support: ``` # doveconf -f local_name=mail.example.com ssl_server ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/dovecot/example.com.cert dh_file = /etc/dovecot/dh.pem key_file = /etc/dovecot/example.com.key } ``` Is there a new way to achieve the wildcard matching behaviour of the local_name filter in Dovecot 2.4.0? Thanks. -- Julius Kriukas

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LDAP quota is ignored
by luis.neapolis＠gmail.com 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Hello, I have just upgraded from dovecot 2.3.x to 2.4.0. I converted the configuration files and all is ok, but there is this strange thing about quota. I have quota limit from LDAP: quota_storage_size = %{ldap:quota}G Value is correctly retrieved from LDAP, with "doveadm user user@domain": quota_storage_size 10G In configuration files of dovecot I have nothing about quota definitions. If I check in webmail I have undefined value. If I set manually in configuration files: quota "User quota" { storage_size = 1G } quota is correctly shown in webmail, but only with this default value. It appears it ignores values from ldap userdb. How can I debug this? Thanks.

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USERDB/LDAP fails if attribute doesn't exist
by luis.neapolis＠gmail.com 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Hello, I have just upgraded to 2.4 dovecot version from 2.3.x. I converted the configurations and now I have the following problem: I have a userdb with LDAP: userdb ldap { driver = ldap ldap_filter = (&(objectClass=Emails) (mail=%{user}) ) fields { quota_rule = %{ldap:quota} quota_over_status_current = %{ldap:quota_over} ....... and so on } } As, not all the users have quota_over set in ldap, quota_over doesn't always exist. With 2.3 version there was no problem even if it doesn't exist. Now I have the following error and userdb reports failed: dovecot dovecot[107831]: auth(user@domain): Debug: ldap: result: [..... others attributes .....] quota_over missing dovecot dovecot[107831]: auth(user@domain): Error: ldap: auth_userdb_post settings: Failed to parse configuration: Failed to expand userdb_fields/quota_over_status_current setting variables: No such LDAP attribute 'quota_over' dovecot dovecot[107831]: auth(user@domain): Debug: ldap: Finished userdb lookup dovecot dovecot[107831]: auth: Debug: userdb out: FAIL#0111 I tried to add a default value: quota_over_status_current = %{ldap:quota_over:TRUE} but it seems that it supposes that the name of the attribute is quota_over:TRUE and fails. Any suggestions? Thank you.

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2.3 -> 2.4 segmentation fault
by Emmanuel Bardet 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Hello there, First, thanks for the terrific job you're doing. Dovecot rocks! I installed some time ago Dovecot on my macbook with Homebrew, that was Dovecot v2.3.18. I recently upgraded everything I installed with Homebrew to the latest which brought Dovecot to v2.4.0. I then modified my dovecot.conf file to make it work with this latest version but now, I constantly get a segmentation fault when I use any dove command : zsh: segmentation fault doveadm Also, while it looks like Dovecot is listening at the specified port, my email client cannot connect anymore complaining the server refused the connection. tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.10143 *.* LISTEN 662 PID TTY TIME CMD 662 ?? 0:06.66 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F Here is my 2.4 conf. dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 log_path = /var/log/dovecot # mail_debug = yes default_vsz_limit = 0 default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull default_internal_group = mail mail_home=/var/mail/%{user} mail_path=sdbox:~/Mail ## this is sometimes needed # first_valid_uid = 500 last_valid_gid = 100 # if you want to use system users passdb pam { driver = pam } userdb passwd-file { driver = passwd-file # args = blocking=no # override_fields = uid=214 gid=vmail } protocols imap { } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { # address = 127.0.0.1 port = 10143 } } ssl=no # ssl_cert=</path/to/cert.pem # ssl_key=</path/to/key.pem # if you are using v2.3.0-v2.3.2.1 (or want to support non-ECC DH algorithms) # since v2.3.3 this setting has been made optional. #ssl_dh=</path/to/dh.pem namespace inbox { inbox = yes separator = / } I get this output below from the command line and I have this diagnostic attached. Hopefully that can help someone help me. # 2.4.0 (daeb6bc59c): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.0 (1b2d5bb9) doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process killed with signal 11 zsh: segmentation fault /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.4.0/bin/doveconf Thanks a lot. Emmanuel PS : If I’m using the wrong mailing list, please point me to the right channel Hello there, First, thanks for the terrific job you're doing. Dovecot rocks! I installed some time ago Dovecot on my macbook with Homebrew, that was Dovecot v2.3.18. I recently upgraded everything I installed with Homebrew to the latest which brought Dovecot to v2.4.0. I then modified my dovecot.conf file to make it work with this latest version but now, I constantly get a segmentation fault when I use any dove command : zsh: segmentation fault doveadm Also, while it looks like Dovecot is listening at the specified port, my email client cannot connect anymore complaining the server refused the connection. tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.10143 *.* LISTEN 662 PID TTY TIME CMD 662 ?? 0:06.66 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F Here is my 2.4 conf. dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 log_path = /var/log/dovecot # mail_debug = yes default_vsz_limit = 0 default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull default_internal_group = mail mail_home=/var/mail/%{user} mail_path=sdbox:~/Mail ## this is sometimes needed # first_valid_uid = 500 last_valid_gid = 100 # if you want to use system users passdb pam { driver = pam } userdb passwd-file { driver = passwd-file # args = blocking=no # override_fields = uid=214 gid=vmail } protocols imap { } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { # address = 127.0.0.1 port = 10143 } } ssl=no # ssl_cert=</path/to/cert.pem # ssl_key=</path/to/key.pem # if you are using v2.3.0-v2.3.2.1 (or want to support non-ECC DH algorithms) # since v2.3.3 this setting has been made optional. #ssl_dh=</path/to/dh.pem namespace inbox { inbox = yes separator = / } I get this output below from the command line and I have this diagnostic attached. Hopefully that can help someone help me. # 2.4.0 (daeb6bc59c): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.0 (1b2d5bb9) doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process killed with signal 11 zsh: segmentation fault /usr/local/Cellar/dovecot/2.4.0/bin/doveconf Thanks a lot. Emmanuel PS : If I’m using the wrong mailing list, please point me to the right channel

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USERDB/LDAP fails if attribute doesn't exist
by luis.neapolis＠gmail.com 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Hello, I have just upgraded to 2.4 dovecot version from 2.3.x. I converted the configurations and now I have the following problem: I have a userdb with LDAP: userdb ldap { driver = ldap ldap_filter = (&(objectClass=Emails) (mail=%{user}) ) fields { quota_rule = %{ldap:quota} quota_over_status_current = %{ldap:quota_over} ....... and so on } } As, not all the users have quota_over set in ldap, quota_over doesn't always exist. With 2.3 version there was no problem even if it doesn't exist. Now I have the following error and userdb reports failed: dovecot dovecot[107831]: auth(user@domain): Debug: ldap: result: [..... others attributes .....] quota_over missing dovecot dovecot[107831]: auth(user@domain): Error: ldap: auth_userdb_post settings: Failed to parse configuration: Failed to expand userdb_fields/quota_over_status_current setting variables: No such LDAP attribute 'quota_over' dovecot dovecot[107831]: auth(user@domain): Debug: ldap: Finished userdb lookup dovecot dovecot[107831]: auth: Debug: userdb out: FAIL#0111 I tried to add a default value: quota_over_status_current = %{ldap:quota_over:TRUE} but it seems that it supposes that the name of the attribute is quota_over:TRUE and fails. Any suggestions? Thank you.

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Help: Configuration example conversion from 2.3 to 2.4 ?
by ollie＠ik.me 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

Hello ! Like many people who are posting here, I'm a bit in "trouble" to convert my actual v2.3 config that is perfectly functional to the new v2.4 I've read the doc, searched on this list and everywhere I could find something among search engine results, and I still can't figure out how to solve my problem. The lack of examples right now is probably what is blocking me, so.. can anyone here with sharp knowledge of v2.4 configuration "translate" this official v2.3 example into a working v2.4 example ? ( ref: https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/configuration_manual/quota/quota_dict/ ) Server-based Dictionaries -------------------------------------- plugin { # SQL backend: quota = dict:User quota::proxy::sqlquota # Redis backend (v2.1.9+): quota = dict:User quota::redis:host=127.0.0.1:prefix=user/ quota_rule = *:storage=10M:messages=1000 } dict { sqlquota = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } ============================ Example dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext: -------------------------------------------------- connect = host=localhost dbname=mails user=sqluser password=sqlpass map { pattern = priv/quota/storage table = quota username_field = username value_field = bytes } map { pattern = priv/quota/messages table = quota username_field = username value_field = messages } Thanks a million times to whoever can do that ! :) Lon.

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RFC header to plain address(es)
by Jochen Bern 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

This has got to be one of the most stupid questions I've ever asked online ... I have a need of a "helper function" that takes a string someone would "want to send an e-mail to", i.e., something like an RFC 5322 "address" token, as used in a "To:" header, and extract just the actual e-mail address(es) from it. (The capability to deal with lists of *several* recipients is likely optional.) I found a certain number of *libraries* for various programming languages that offer such a functionality¹, but I would prefer an executable from some run-of-the-mill Linux/UNIX package to be called by shell command. Considering that pretty much every MTA and MUA must contain such functionality (to construct an SMTP envelope for a mail to be sent), and then some (I looked into, e.g., procmail), I'm surprised that apparently none of them *expose* it. (I seem to remember that the original "sendmail -bt" came somewhat close at least ...) Does anyone have an idea what tool I could (ab)use for that purpose? ¹ Namely: -- parseaddr() for python https://documentation.help/Python-PEP/module-email.Utils.html -- maildrop for C https://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/rfc822.html -- mail_parser for Rust https://docs.rs/mail-parser/latest/mail_parser/ -- address-rfc2822 for JavaScript https://www.npmjs.com/package/address-rfc2822 -- mailparse-rfc822-parse-addresses for PHP https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mailparse-rfc822-parse-addresses.php -- mail-header-parse-address for LISP https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs-mime/Interface-Fu… -- and I suppose you could try to stuff the syntax definition into some parser code generator, too https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322#section-3.4 Thanks in advance, -- Jochen Bern Systemingenieur Binect GmbH

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Build error without ldap support
by Lafiel 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

Hi. Cannot build Dovecot without LDAP support. Configure flags: --with-ldap=no Error: In file included from db-ldap-settings.c:9: ../../src/lib-ldap/ldap-settings-parse.h:4:10: fatal error: ldap.h: No such file or directory 4 | #include <ldap.h> | ^~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make[3]: *** [Makefile:2138: auth-db-ldap-settings.o] Error 1 Dovecot version: 2.4.0 -- Best regards, Lafiel mailto:lafiel@elven.pw

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Instructions for upgrading to a newer version returns 404
by Jose Celestino 14 Mar '25

14 Mar '25

Hi, https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/installation/upgrading.html returns a 404. Best regards, José Celestino

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2.3 -> 2.4 segmentation fault
by Emmanuel Bardet 13 Mar '25

13 Mar '25

Hello there, First, thanks for the terrific job you're doing. Dovecot rocks! I installed some time ago Dovecot on my macbook with Homebrew, that was Dovecot v2.3.18. I recently upgraded everything I installed with Homebrew to the latest which brought Dovecot to v2.4.0. I then modified my dovecot.conf file to make it work with this latest version but now, I constantly get a segmentation fault when I use the doveadm command : zsh: segmentation fault doveadm Also, while it looks like Dovecot is listening at the specified port, my email client cannot connect anymore complaining the server refused the connection. tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.10143 *.* LISTEN 662 PID TTY TIME CMD 662 ?? 0:06.66 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F Here is my 2.4 conf if anyone can help 🙏 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 log_path = /var/log/dovecot # mail_debug = yes default_vsz_limit = 0 default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull default_internal_group = mail mail_home=/var/mail/%{user} mail_path=sdbox:~/Mail ## this is sometimes needed # first_valid_uid = 500 last_valid_gid = 100 # if you want to use system users passdb pam { driver = pam } userdb passwd-file { driver = passwd-file # args = blocking=no # override_fields = uid=214 gid=vmail } protocols imap { } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { # address = 127.0.0.1 port = 10143 } } ssl=no # ssl_cert=</path/to/cert.pem # ssl_key=</path/to/key.pem # if you are using v2.3.0-v2.3.2.1 (or want to support non-ECC DH algorithms) # since v2.3.3 this setting has been made optional. #ssl_dh=</path/to/dh.pem namespace inbox { inbox = yes separator = / } Thanks a lot. Emmanuel PS : If I’m using the wrong mailing list, please point me to the right channel Hello there, First, thanks for the terrific job you're doing. Dovecot rocks! I installed some time ago Dovecot on my macbook with Homebrew, that was Dovecot v2.3.18. I recently upgraded everything I installed with Homebrew to the latest which brought Dovecot to v2.4.0. I then modified my dovecot.conf file to make it work with this latest version but now, I constantly get a segmentation fault when I use the doveadm command : zsh: segmentation fault doveadm Also, while it looks like Dovecot is listening at the specified port, my email client cannot connect anymore complaining the server refused the connection. tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.10143 *.* LISTEN 662 PID TTY TIME CMD 662 ?? 0:06.66 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F Here is my 2.4 conf if anyone can help 🙏 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 log_path = /var/log/dovecot # mail_debug = yes default_vsz_limit = 0 default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull default_internal_group = mail mail_home=/var/mail/%{user} mail_path=sdbox:~/Mail ## this is sometimes needed # first_valid_uid = 500 last_valid_gid = 100 # if you want to use system users passdb pam { driver = pam } userdb passwd-file { driver = passwd-file # args = blocking=no # override_fields = uid=214 gid=vmail } protocols imap { } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { # address = 127.0.0.1 port = 10143 } } ssl=no # ssl_cert=</path/to/cert.pem # ssl_key=</path/to/key.pem # if you are using v2.3.0-v2.3.2.1 (or want to support non-ECC DH algorithms) # since v2.3.3 this setting has been made optional. #ssl_dh=</path/to/dh.pem namespace inbox { inbox = yes separator = / } Thanks a lot. Emmanuel PS : If I’m using the wrong mailing list, please point me to the right channel

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Bug: Logout counters reset after recreating hibernated process
by Eirik Rye 12 Mar '25

12 Mar '25

Hello, # dovecot --version 2.3.20 (80a5ac675d) When using hibernation (`imap_hibernate_timeout = 10s`), counters such as deleted/expunged messages, appear to be reset after the user process is recreated. Steps to reproduce: 1. Configure IMAP hibernation 2. Login with IMAP client 3. Delete+expunge a message 4. IDLE, and wait 10s for process to be hibernated 5. Unhibernate process (`DONE`), and log out 6. Observe the logged line: 2023-09-05T17:36:26+0200 imap(<redacted>)<776933><jA2nYJ4EPdcqAVtAAADwAAutur4AAAAB>: Info: Disconnected: Logged out in=9 out=88 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=0 body_bytes=0 The expected output is "deleted=1 expunged=1", not "deleted=0 expunged=0". If you follow the steps above, but skip the IDLE/hibernate step, the output is as expected. Interestingly, if the client is disconnected during hibernation (without recreating the process), the output from `imap-hibernate` is still as expected: 2023-09-05T17:45:15+0200 imap-hibernate(<redacted>)<770540><0qE0gJ4Emt8qAVtAAADwAAutur4AAAAB>: Info: Disconnected: Connection closed in=97 out=1020 deleted=1 expunged=1 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=0 body_bytes=0 This leads me to believe the counters are lost during process recreation, not during hibernation. This is an issue as customers will often come to us asking why messages have disappeared in their inbox, or asking for help to identify which client is expunging messages. Right now, this information is lost if hibernation is used and the client is hibernated after expunging. Best regards, Eirik Rye

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SELinux blocking dovecot from writing to passwd.db
by jcalvert＠crystal3.com 11 Mar '25

11 Mar '25

Greetings, I'm running dovecot 2.3.21.1 (Plesk says up-to-date) on AlmaLinux 8.10, Plesk Obsidian 18.0.67 #3. I'm getting this repeated error in /var/log/messages... "SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/dovecot/auth from write access on the file passwd.db." (I think passwd.db is the one in /var/lib/plesk/mail/auth/) This causes... "Activating via systemd: service name='org.fedoraproject.Setroubleshootd'" which is taking a lot of CPU. This error is happening continuously, about 1-3 times per minute. Am I correct in thinking that an email client or webmail client is trying to change an email account password via IMAP? If so, I would like to know how to disable this ability in dovecot. (I would like to change email account passwords only via Plesk.) If not, why is dovecot trying to write to the passwd.db file? The fact that SELinux is blocking this is concerning. thanks, JC

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How to configure director
by akshay＠deeproot.in 11 Mar '25

11 Mar '25

Hi, I am testing instance with 1 director and 2 nodes. followed instructions in https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/configuration_manual/director_settings/ but the authentication happens within the director server. Director does not forward connections to configured mail servers. LDAP is my user backend. How do i configure director ? Following is my director configuration # Director.conf director_servers = 10.22.13.164 director_mail_servers = 10.22.13.11 10.22.13.244 director_user_expire = 15 min service director { user = dovecot group = dovecot unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 user = dovecot group = dovecot } fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0600 } inet_listener { port = 9090 } unix_listener director-admin { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director #executable = director imap-login user = dovecot group = dovecot } service pop3-login { #executable = pop3-director } service submission-login { #executable = submission-login director } protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = director-userdb } #### Thanks, Akshay

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Some folders are not displayed correctly via IMAP protocol
by Lafiel 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Hi. The Bat! email client does not display folder, it will appear as ' Example'. The email client technical support said quotation marks. Log IMAP: ``` C: { ------ TImapUpdateSubscription sta C: 9 LSUB "" "*" S: * LSUB (\Drafts) "." Drafts S: * LSUB (\Sent) "." Sent S: * LSUB (\Junk) "." Junk S: * LSUB (\Trash) "." Trash S: * LSUB () "." [Example] S: * LSUB () "." Example S: 9 OK Lsub completed (0.001 + 0.000 s C: } ------ TImapUpdateSubscription fin ``` I'm using the Dovecot version 2.3.21.1. -- Best regards, Lafiel mailto:lafiel@elven.pw

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Questions about fts_flatcurve in Dovecot 2.4
by Andrea Gabellini 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Hi, I'm testing the fts_flatcurve plugin on Dovecot 2.4. This is my first time using an FTS plugin, and I have a few questions. Below is the configuration I am referring to. - Does the language_filters setting apply by default when a language xx {} section is defined? - If so, within a language section where a filter is declared, should I set filter_name = no to remove it? - The documentation includes this warning: "Using stopwords with multiple languages configured WILL cause some searches to fail. The recommended solution is to NOT use the stopword filter when multiple languages are present in the configuration." Does this mean it's best to avoid the stopwords filter entirely, or can it still be used for at least one language? - Does the attached configuration make sense? :-) language_filters { lowercase = yes normalizer-icu = yes snowball = yes } language it { default = yes filters { lowercase = yes normalizer-icu = yes snowball = yes stopwords = yes } } language en { } language de { } language es { } language fr { filters { lowercase = yes normalizer-icu = yes snowball = yes contractions = yes } } Thanks in advance for your support! Andrea -- TIM San Marino S.p.A. Andrea Gabellini Engineering R&D TIM San Marino S.p.A. - https://www.telecomitalia.sm Via Ventotto Luglio, 212 - Piano -2 47893 - Borgo Maggiore - Republic of San Marino Tel: (+378) 0549 886237 Fax: (+378) 0549 886188 -- Informativa Privacy Questa email ha per destinatari dei contatti presenti negli archivi di TIM San Marino S.p.A.. Tutte le informazioni vengono trattate e tutelate nel rispetto della normativa vigente sulla protezione dei dati personali (Reg. EU 2016/679). Per richiedere informazioni e/o variazioni e/o la cancellazione dei vostri dati presenti nei nostri archivi potete inviare una email a privacy(a)telecomitalia.sm. Avviso di Riservatezza Il contenuto di questa e-mail e degli eventuali allegati e' strettamente confidenziale e destinato alla/e persona/e a cui e' indirizzato. Se avete ricevuto per errore questa e-mail, vi preghiamo di segnalarcelo immediatamente e di cancellarla dal vostro computer. E' fatto divieto di copiare e divulgare il contenuto di questa e-mail. Ogni utilizzo abusivo delle informazioni qui contenute da parte di persone terze o comunque non indicate nella presente e-mail potra' essere perseguito ai sensi di legge.

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Dovecot Crash
by Kent Borg 08 Mar '25

08 Mar '25

In this morning's logwatch e-mail I see a dovecot crash: > Mar 7 20:45:49 la postfix/local[1059550]: 5F068405A88E8: > to=<kentborg(a)mail2.borg.org>, orig_to=<kentborg-lkml(a)borg.org>, > relay=local, delay=0.35, delays=0.35/0/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent > (delivered to maildir) > Mar 7 20:45:49 la postfix/qmgr[1620]: 5F068405A88E8: removed > Mar 7 20:45:50 la dovecot[1194]: > doveadm(kentborg)<1059554><Dd8IBXzLy2fiKhAAA8+vgQ>: Panic: file > dsync-ibc.c: line 168 (dsync_ibc_send_mail_request): assertion failed: > (request->guid != NULL || request->uid != 0) > Mar 7 20:45:50 la dovecot[1194]: > doveadm(kentborg)<1059554><Dd8IBXzLy2fiKhAAA8+vgQ>: Error: Raw > backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x5c) > [0x7f920106dc] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x24) > [0x7f92010848] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xfd750) > [0x7f9201d750] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_syslog_error_handler+0) > [0x7f9201e064] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_unreached+0) > [0x7f91f6698c] -> > dovecot/doveadm-server(dsync_ibc_send_mail_request+0xd8) > [0x558263fb38] -> > dovecot/doveadm-server(dsync_brain_sync_mails+0x\2f0) [0x5582639440] > -> dovecot/doveadm-server(+0x4eea0) [0x558262eea0] -> > dovecot/doveadm-server(+0x4f338) [0x558262f338] -> > dovecot/doveadm-server(+0x5b2b4) [0x558263b2b4] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x74) [0x7f92039d44] > -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x138) > [0x7f9203c488] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x54) > [0x7f9203c5d4] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdo\vecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x44) > [0x7f9203c898] -> dovecot/doveadm-server(+0x32374) [0x5582612374] -> > dovecot/doveadm-server(+0x32ed4) [0x5582612ed4] -> > dovecot/doveadm-server(doveadm_cmd_ver2_to_mail_cmd_wrapper+0x610) > [0x5582614514] -> dovecot/doveadm-server(doveadm_cmd_run_ver2+0x448) > [0x558261ef18] -> dovecot/doveadm-server(+0x4aeac) [0x558262aeac] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x74) [0x7f92039d44] > -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x138) > [0x7f9203c488] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x54) > [0x7f9203c5d4] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x44) > [0x7f9203c898] -> > /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x20) > [0x7f91f99ef0] -> dovecot/doveadm-server(main+0x108) [0x55825fe708] -> > /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x27740) [0x7f91cf7740] -> > /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x98) > [0x7f91cf7818] -> dovecot/doveadm-server(_start+0x30) [0x55825fe7b0] > Mar 7 20:45:50 la dovecot[1194]: > doveadm(kentborg)<1059554><Dd8IBXzLy2fiKhAAA8+vgQ>: Fatal: master: > service(doveadm): child 1059554 killed with signal 6 (core dumps > disabled - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) I am assuming that message 5F068405A88E8 was the one being processed, and it seems to have vanished. It is one thing for me to have dsync glitches that fix themselves, but this is a serious bug if I am losing e-mail. I am running Dovecot 2.3.19.1 (b907e01) with two small changes I've talked about before* (https://github.com/kentborg/dovecot-core on branch kb-replicator_queue_handle_sync_lookups) on Debian 12. -kb * These changes are not up the call chain from this crash. I tried to make a pull request for my changes but got stalled on figuring out how to reference my repository in the github GUI. Do I need to download their custom CLI tools to do it?

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Re: Some folders are not displayed correctly via IMAP protocol
by Lafiel 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

Hi, Michael Slusarz. The client developers claim that in practice this approach leads to various problems for users. In one case, the square lines may be treated as a syntax element, and in others as part of the folder name. Predicting what is what is extremely difficult. How can i modify source code in my mail server to force the use of quotes? Michael Slusarz писал(а) 2025-03-07 08:33: > Given the mailbox 'Trash', it's fine for a server to send it back either with or without double quotes (see the RFC 3501 > ABNF). > > Thus, either of these are allowable under the > standard: > > S: * LSUB () "/" > "Trash" > S: * LSUB () "/" > Trash > > Apparently your client is not handling the non-quoted alternative correctly (the 2nd example). So this is a client bug, at least if the client is claiming to be IMAP4rev1 > compliant. > > michael -- Best regards, Lafiel mailto:lafiel@elven.pw

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Re: Some folders are not displayed correctly via IMAP protocol
by Michael Slusarz 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

> On 03/06/2025 8:47 PM MST Stephan Bosch via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > > Can you explain what exactly is wrong in that output? I think it's this: S: * LSUB () "." [Example] Groking ABNF (from RFC 3501): mailbox-data = ... "LSUB" SP mailbox-list ... mailbox-list = "(" [mbx-list-flags] ")" SP (DQUOTE QUOTED-CHAR DQUOTE / nil) SP mailbox // Looking at "mailbox" part... mailbox = "INBOX" / astring astring = 1*ASTRING-CHAR / string ASTRING-CHAR = ATOM-CHAR / resp-specials ATOM-CHAR = <any CHAR except atom-specials> atom-specials = "(" / ")" / "{" / SP / CTL / list-wildcards / quoted-specials / resp-specials list-wildcards = "%" / "*" quoted-specials = DQUOTE / "\" resp-specials = "]" So... for the mailbox "[Example]", the "]" is the character that is troubling, since it is an "atom-special". *However*, "mailbox" is an astring, which can be composed of ASTRING-CHARs, and that element specifically adds the "]" back into the list of allowable characters. Put another way, a "mailbox" only requires quoting (an IMAP "string") if it contains one of the following characters: (){<SP><CTL>%*"\ The mailbox [Example] does not contain any of these forbidden characters, so it can be output without quotes. The Dovecot output you have provided is standards compliant. michael > Op 6-3-2025 om 14:59 schreef Lafiel via dovecot: > > Hi. > > > > The Bat! email client does not display > > folder, it will appear as ' Example'. > > > > The email client technical support said > > quotation marks. > > > > Log IMAP: > > ``` > > C: { ------ TImapUpdateSubscription sta > > C: 9 LSUB "" "*" > > S: * LSUB (\Drafts) "." Drafts > > S: * LSUB (\Sent) "." Sent > > S: * LSUB (\Junk) "." Junk > > S: * LSUB (\Trash) "." Trash > > S: * LSUB () "." [Example] > > S: * LSUB () "." Example > > S: 9 OK Lsub completed (0.001 + 0.000 s > > C: } ------ TImapUpdateSubscription fin > > ``` > > > > I'm using the Dovecot version 2.3.21.1. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dovecot mailing list -- dovecot(a)dovecot.org > To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-leave(a)dovecot.org

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Issue with mail-crypt plugin on Debian Bookworm and Dovecot 2.4
by Andrea Gabellini 05 Mar '25

05 Mar '25

Hi everyone, I'm trying to use the mail-crypt plugin on Debian Bookworm with Dovecot 2.4. This is my first time using it, so please forgive any basic questions... I've added the following configuration: mail_plugins { mail_crypt = yes } crypt_global_public_key_file = /etc/dovecot/xxx_pub.pem crypt_global_private_key main { crypt_private_key_file = /etc/dovecot/xxx_priv.pem } log_debug = category=debug However, as soon as I try to use it, I see the following log entry: Fatal: dcrypt_initialize(): Plugin 'dcrypt_openssl' not found from directory /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dovecot I've searched my file system and checked the available dovecot-* packages, but I couldn't find any trace of the missing library. Am I missing something, or is this library indeed absent from the official packages? Thanks in advance for your help! Best regards, Andrea -- TIM San Marino S.p.A. Andrea Gabellini Engineering R&D TIM San Marino S.p.A. - https://www.telecomitalia.sm Via Ventotto Luglio, 212 - Piano -2 47893 - Borgo Maggiore - Republic of San Marino Tel: (+378) 0549 886237 Fax: (+378) 0549 886188 -- Informativa Privacy Questa email ha per destinatari dei contatti presenti negli archivi di TIM San Marino S.p.A.. Tutte le informazioni vengono trattate e tutelate nel rispetto della normativa vigente sulla protezione dei dati personali (Reg. EU 2016/679). Per richiedere informazioni e/o variazioni e/o la cancellazione dei vostri dati presenti nei nostri archivi potete inviare una email a privacy(a)telecomitalia.sm. Avviso di Riservatezza Il contenuto di questa e-mail e degli eventuali allegati e' strettamente confidenziale e destinato alla/e persona/e a cui e' indirizzato. Se avete ricevuto per errore questa e-mail, vi preghiamo di segnalarcelo immediatamente e di cancellarla dal vostro computer. E' fatto divieto di copiare e divulgare il contenuto di questa e-mail. Ogni utilizzo abusivo delle informazioni qui contenute da parte di persone terze o comunque non indicate nella presente e-mail potra' essere perseguito ai sensi di legge.

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Re: 2.4 crashing on macOS with time moving forward?
by John Muccigrosso 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

OK, still crashed overnight while the laptop was closed. Here's the log. I had shut the laptop a bit before this first entry: Mar 03 00:43:13 master: Warning: Time moved forward by 4451.650853 seconds - adjusting timeouts. Mar 03 02:33:57 master: Panic: file ./time-util.h: line 40 (timeval_add_usecs): assertion failed: (usecs >= 0) Mar 03 02:33:57 master: Error: Raw backtrace: 0 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d8f120 backtrace_append + 72 -> 1 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d8f264 backtrace_get + 44 -> 2 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d9dd54 default_fatal_finish + 72 -> 3 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d9c7c4 default_error_handler + 0 -> 4 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d9c790 fatal_handler_real + 0 -> 5 dovecot 0x0000000102ab3538 master_fatal_callback + 248 -> 6 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d9c940 i_fatal + 0 -> 7 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db6724 ioloop_iolist_add + 0 -> 8 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db4a3c io_loop_handle_timeouts + 640 -> 9 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db7438 io_loop_handler_run_internal + 392 -> 10 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db5130 io_loop_handler_run + 224 -> 11 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db5000 io_loop_run + 92 -> 12 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d0e22c master_service_run + 28 -> 13 dovecot 0x0000000102ab2e28 main + 2952 -> 14 dyld 0x0000000187c9ffd8 start + 2412 Mar 03 02:33:57 log(451): Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=unknown 0) .There were a number of "Time moved forward" entries earlier as well. The one here was isolated, but often they occur in pairs with nearly identical amounts of time, differing only by the fractions of a second between them, I suppose. For example (pairs highlighted with the same color): Mar 04 13:12:38 master: Warning: Time moved forward by 9.347642 seconds - adjusting timeouts. Mar 04 13:14:31 imap(12422): Warning: Time moved forward 83.410157 seconds Mar 04 13:14:31 imap(12420): Warning: Time moved forward 83.410166 seconds Mar 04 13:19:44 imap(12422): Warning: Time moved forward 282.970564 seconds Mar 04 13:19:44 imap(12420): Warning: Time moved forward 282.970608 seconds Mar 04 13:19:44 master: Warning: Time moved forward by 366.378919 seconds - adjusting timeouts. Mar 04 13:25:27 imap(12422): Warning: Time moved forward 282.941775 seconds Mar 04 13:25:27 imap(12420): Warning: Time moved forward 282.943614 seconds Mar 04 13:25:27 master: Warning: Time moved forward by 282.937627 seconds - adjusting timeouts. Mar 04 13:30:20 imap(12422): Warning: Time moved forward 263.355743 seconds Mar 04 13:30:20 imap(12420): Warning: Time moved forward 263.350968 seconds Now that I look, I realize that most, but not all, of the imap warnings (vs master) come in pairs. J > On Mar 2, 2025, at 18:18, J wrote: > > OK, done. Will restart. Here's the new pmset info: > > System-wide power settings: > SleepDisabled 0 > Currently in use: > standby 1 > Sleep On Power Button 1 > hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage > powernap 1 > networkoversleep 0 > disksleep 10 > sleep 1 (sleep prevented by useractivityd, powerd, sharingd) > hibernatemode 3 > ttyskeepawake 1 > displaysleep 20 > tcpkeepalive 1 > lowpowermode 0 > womp 0 > > J > >> On Mar 2, 2025, at 16:44, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> Can you try disabling "low power mode" and see if that makes any difference? I don't have a mac, but try to go System Settings > Battery, select the drop-down menu next to Low Power Mode, and choose Never? >> >> Aki >> >>> On 02/03/2025 17:30 EET J wrote: >>> >>> >>> Below are the results of "pmset -g". >>> >>> Keep in mind that this >>> >>> >>> J >>> >>> >>>> On Mar 2, 2025, at 15:51, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I wonder if this is some power saving feature that pauses dovecot processes? Do >>>> you have power saving enabled? >>> >>> >>> >>> System-wide power settings: >>> SleepDisabled0 >>> Currently in use: >>> standby 1 >>> Sleep On Power Button 1 >>> hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage >>> powernap 1 >>> networkoversleep 0 >>> disksleep 10 >>> sleep 1 (sleep prevented by powerd) >>> hibernatemode 3 >>> ttyskeepawake 1 >>> displaysleep 20 >>> tcpkeepalive 1 >>> lowpowermode 1 >>> womp 0 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dovecot mailing list -- dovecot(a)dovecot.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-leave(a)dovecot.org >

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Re: 2.4 crashing on macOS with time moving forward?
by John Muccigrosso 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

OK, first here's a series of warnings while the laptop was closed, 18:43-19:04: Mar 02 18:44:02 imap(1392): Warning: Time moved forward 24.925040 seconds Mar 02 18:44:02 imap(1397): Warning: Time moved forward 24.925062 seconds Mar 02 19:01:24 imap(1397): Warning: Time moved forward 993.009103 seconds Mar 02 19:01:24 imap(1392): Warning: Time moved forward 993.023098 seconds Mar 02 19:04:57 imap(1397): Warning: Time moved forward 182.863245 seconds Mar 02 19:04:57 imap(1392): Warning: Time moved forward 182.871467 seconds But it took until overnight, when the laptop was again closed, for the crash: Mar 03 00:43:13 master: Warning: Time moved forward by 4451.650853 seconds - adjusting timeouts. Mar 03 02:33:57 master: Panic: file ./time-util.h: line 40 (timeval_add_usecs): assertion failed: (usecs >= 0) Mar 03 02:33:57 master: Error: Raw backtrace: 0 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d8f120 backtrace_append + 72 -> 1 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d8f264 backtrace_get + 44 -> 2 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d9dd54 default_fatal_finish + 72 -> 3 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d9c7c4 default_error_handler + 0 -> 4 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d9c790 fatal_handler_real + 0 -> 5 dovecot 0x0000000102ab3538 master_fatal_callback + 248 -> 6 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d9c940 i_fatal + 0 -> 7 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db6724 ioloop_iolist_add + 0 -> 8 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db4a3c io_loop_handle_timeouts + 640 -> 9 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db7438 io_loop_handler_run_internal + 392 -> 10 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db5130 io_loop_handler_run + 224 -> 11 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db5000 io_loop_run + 92 -> 12 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d0e22c master_service_run + 28 -> 13 dovecot 0x0000000102ab2e28 main + 2952 -> 14 dyld 0x0000000187c9ffd8 start + 2412 Mar 03 02:33:57 log(451): Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=unknown 0) A couple of observations: 1. There are often two warnings within a second, for time periods that are nearly, but not quite identical. 2. The time periods in question are long, minutes or tens of minutes. J > On Mar 2, 2025, at 18:18, J wrote: > > OK, done. Will restart. Here's the new pmset info: > > System-wide power settings: > SleepDisabled 0 > Currently in use: > standby 1 > Sleep On Power Button 1 > hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage > powernap 1 > networkoversleep 0 > disksleep 10 > sleep 1 (sleep prevented by useractivityd, powerd, sharingd) > hibernatemode 3 > ttyskeepawake 1 > displaysleep 20 > tcpkeepalive 1 > lowpowermode 0 > womp 0 > > J > >> On Mar 2, 2025, at 16:44, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> Can you try disabling "low power mode" and see if that makes any difference? I don't have a mac, but try to go System Settings > Battery, select the drop-down menu next to Low Power Mode, and choose Never? >> >> Aki >> >>> On 02/03/2025 17:30 EET J wrote: >>> >>> >>> Below are the results of "pmset -g". >>> >>> Keep in mind that this >>> >>> >>> J >>> >>> >>>> On Mar 2, 2025, at 15:51, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I wonder if this is some power saving feature that pauses dovecot processes? Do >>>> you have power saving enabled? >>> >>> >>> >>> System-wide power settings: >>> SleepDisabled0 >>> Currently in use: >>> standby 1 >>> Sleep On Power Button 1 >>> hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage >>> powernap 1 >>> networkoversleep 0 >>> disksleep 10 >>> sleep 1 (sleep prevented by powerd) >>> hibernatemode 3 >>> ttyskeepawake 1 >>> displaysleep 20 >>> tcpkeepalive 1 >>> lowpowermode 1 >>> womp 0 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dovecot mailing list -- dovecot(a)dovecot.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-leave(a)dovecot.org > OK, first here's a series of warnings while the laptop was closed, 18:43-19:04: Mar 02 18:44:02 imap(1392): Warning: Time moved forward 24.925040 seconds Mar 02 18:44:02 imap(1397): Warning: Time moved forward 24.925062 seconds Mar 02 19:01:24 imap(1397): Warning: Time moved forward 993.009103 seconds Mar 02 19:01:24 imap(1392): Warning: Time moved forward 993.023098 seconds Mar 02 19:04:57 imap(1397): Warning: Time moved forward 182.863245 seconds Mar 02 19:04:57 imap(1392): Warning: Time moved forward 182.871467 seconds But it took until overnight, when the laptop was again closed, for the crash: Mar 03 00:43:13 master: Warning: Time moved forward by 4451.650853 seconds - adjusting timeouts. Mar 03 02:33:57 master: Panic: file ./time-util.h: line 40 (timeval_add_usecs): assertion failed: (usecs >= 0) Mar 03 02:33:57 master: Error: Raw backtrace: 0 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d8f120 backtrace_append + 72 -> 1 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d8f264 backtrace_get + 44 -> 2 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d9dd54 default_fatal_finish + 72 -> 3 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d9c7c4 default_error_handler + 0 -> 4 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d9c790 fatal_handler_real + 0 -> 5 dovecot 0x0000000102ab3538 master_fatal_callback + 248 -> 6 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d9c940 i_fatal + 0 -> 7 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db6724 ioloop_iolist_add + 0 -> 8 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db4a3c io_loop_handle_timeouts + 640 -> 9 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db7438 io_loop_handler_run_internal + 392 -> 10 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db5130 io_loop_handler_run + 224 -> 11 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102db5000 io_loop_run + 92 -> 12 libdovecot.0.dylib 0x0000000102d0e22c master_service_run + 28 -> 13 dovecot 0x0000000102ab2e28 main + 2952 -> 14 dyld 0x0000000187c9ffd8 start + 2412 Mar 03 02:33:57 log(451): Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=unknown 0) A couple of observations: 1. There are often two warnings within a second, for time periods that are nearly, but not quite identical. 2. The time periods in question are long, minutes or tens of minutes. J On Mar 2, 2025, at 18:18, J wrote: OK, done. Will restart. Here's the new pmset info: System-wide power settings: SleepDisabled 0 Currently in use: standby 1 Sleep On Power Button 1 hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage powernap 1 networkoversleep 0 disksleep 10 sleep 1 (sleep prevented by useractivityd, powerd, sharingd) hibernatemode 3 ttyskeepawake 1 displaysleep 20 tcpkeepalive 1 lowpowermode 0 womp 0 J On Mar 2, 2025, at 16:44, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: Hi! Can you try disabling "low power mode" and see if that makes any difference? I don't have a mac, but try to go System Settings > Battery, select the drop-down menu next to Low Power Mode, and choose Never? Aki On 02/03/2025 17:30 EET J wrote: Below are the results of "pmset -g". Keep in mind that this J On Mar 2, 2025, at 15:51, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: I wonder if this is some power saving feature that pauses dovecot processes? Do you have power saving enabled? System-wide power settings: SleepDisabled0 Currently in use: standby 1 Sleep On Power Button 1 hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage powernap 1 networkoversleep 0 disksleep 10 sleep 1 (sleep prevented by powerd) hibernatemode 3 ttyskeepawake 1 displaysleep 20 tcpkeepalive 1 lowpowermode 1 womp 0 _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot(a)dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-leave(a)dovecot.org

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Re: 2.4 crashing on macOS with time moving forward?
by Aki Tuomi 02 Mar '25

02 Mar '25

Hi! Can you try disabling "low power mode" and see if that makes any difference? I don't have a mac, but try to go System Settings > Battery, select the drop-down menu next to Low Power Mode, and choose Never? Aki > On 02/03/2025 17:30 EET John Muccigrosso <muccigrosso(a)icloud.com> wrote: > > > Below are the results of "pmset -g". > > Keep in mind that this > > > J > > > > On Mar 2, 2025, at 15:51, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > > > > > > I wonder if this is some power saving feature that pauses dovecot processes? Do > > you have power saving enabled? > > > > System-wide power settings: > SleepDisabled0 > Currently in use: > standby 1 > Sleep On Power Button 1 > hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage > powernap 1 > networkoversleep 0 > disksleep 10 > sleep 1 (sleep prevented by powerd) > hibernatemode 3 > ttyskeepawake 1 > displaysleep 20 > tcpkeepalive 1 > lowpowermode 1 > womp 0

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2.4 crashing on macOS with time moving forward?
by John Muccigrosso 02 Mar '25

02 Mar '25

After last week's struggle with the new version and my conf file, I got everything working. Now however dovecot crashes on me every few hours. The logs show a bunch of this kind of warning, which I find mention of on the internets: > Feb 07 15:13:47 imap(58317): Warning: Time moved forward 48.803640 seconds > Feb 07 16:30:27 master: Warning: Time moved forward by 694.039203 seconds - adjusting timeouts. > Feb 07 16:52:47 imap(61246): Warning: Time moved forward 293.443011 seconds > Feb 07 16:52:47 master: Warning: Time moved forward by 1279.423507 seconds - adjusting timeouts. > Feb 07 17:25:39 imap(61286): Warning: Time moved forward 1942.575589 seconds > Feb 07 17:25:39 imap(61288): Warning: Time moved forward 172.563346 seconds > Feb 07 17:25:39 master: Warning: Time moved forward by 1912.666999 seconds - adjusting timeouts. > Feb 07 17:49:32 imap(61286): Warning: Time moved forward 1402.761862 seconds > Feb 07 17:51:13 master: Warning: Time moved forward by 1473.582569 seconds - adjusting timeouts. > Feb 07 17:51:13 imap(61286): Warning: Time moved forward 70.823888 seconds > Feb 07 17:53:07 master: Warning: Time moved forward by 53.843767 seconds - adjusting timeouts. > Feb 07 18:44:22 imap(61286): Warning: Time moved forward 1386.259444 seconds > Feb 07 19:11:41 master: Warning: Time moved forward by 615.609964 seconds - adjusting timeouts. Note the very large jump dovecot claims is happening in all of these, up to half an hour, with a minimum of 48 seconds in this bunch. You can see that it even does a pair of these in rapid succession, like at 17:25:39 above, and will do >10 within the space of an hour. These seem eventually to be followed by a crash ("eventually" because I'm running this on my laptop which isn't always open and running). The crash log entries all start with something like this: > Feb 07 16:17:53 imap(58315): Panic: file ./time-util.h: line 40 (timeval_add_usecs): assertion failed: (usecs >= 0) The reports will end with one of these: > Feb 06 17:45:07 log(48089): Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=unknown 0) > Feb 07 16:17:53 imap(58317): Fatal: master: service(imap): child 58317 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) One more detail, I usually do `sudo brew services start dovecot` to run dovecot and this results in the crashes. When I was testing this on Saturday, I started it with `sudo dovecot -F` instead, so that I would see problems in the terminal. It went all day without crashing and I finally stopped and restarted it with the brew method. That's not a rigorous test, but it is suggestive. Happy to provide more info, but I'm hoping this is sufficient to suggest a course of action. dovecot 2.4.0 installed via homebrew macOS 13.6.9 J

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Pigeonhole: sieve_redirect_envelope_from orig_recipient results in mail bombs
by doobry 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

Dear Dovecot community, we changed `sieve_redirect_envelope_from` to `orig_recipient` recently to fix sieve redirects in case the forwarded mail comes from a DMARC-enabled domain. While this works well, it creates a new problem: if the receiving mail server (the one in charge of the redirect destination) reacts with a bounce mail, the bounce now will go to `orig_recipient` - the mail address that has the redirect in place, which means no less than creating a mail bomb (endless mail loop). See the following example: 1. alice(a)sender.org sends mail to jane(a)our-domain.org 2. jane(a)our-domain.org has a sieve redirect to jane(a)redirect-target.org 3. jane(a)redirect-target.org replies with a bounce because their mailbox is full. 4. The bounce mail gets sent to jane(a)our-domain.org. 5. The loop starts again at step 2. Is it possible to configure dovecot/pigeonhole to *not* forward the bounce mails from step 4 again? Probably it would work to add manual extra checks to the sieve redirect rules, but that would need to be followed by any user who configures a redirect. So I'm more looking for a server-wide configuration change that fixes this problem. Looking forward to hear about your thoughts on the problem. Kind regards doobry

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Dovecot 2.4.0 multiple hosts SNI configuration regression
by Julius Kriukas 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Hello everyone. We are testing out Dovecot 2.4.0 and noticed a regression in how the `local_name` filter with multiple space-separated host names works. For example, having the following dovecot.conf: ``` ... ssl_server_cert_file = /etc/dovecot/global.cert ssl_server_key_file = /etc/dovecot/global.key ssl_server_dh_file = /etc/dovecot/dh.pem ... local_name "server.example.com mail.example.com" { ssl_server_cert_file = /etc/dovecot/example.com.cert ssl_server_key_file = /etc/dovecot/example.com.key } local_name "good.example.org" { ssl_server_cert_file = /etc/dovecot/example.org.cert ssl_server_key_file = /etc/dovecot/example.org.key } ... ``` Connection to server.example.com:993 (with SNI support) does not work as expected. The global certificate from the `global.cert` file is used, and validation fails. However, connection to good.example.org:993 (with SNI support) works fine. The `example.org.cert` file is used. The `doveconf` tool thinks the example configuration should work, hinting that this is likely to be a bug. Example: ``` # doveconf -f local_name=mail.example.com ssl_server ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/dovecot/example.com.cert dh_file = /etc/dovecot/dh.pem key_file = /etc/dovecot/example.com.key } ``` The results show correct file paths, but the `dovecot` server is not using them. Any confirmation if this is really a bug, or maybe an intended configuration syntax change (to force repeating the local_name blocks for each hostname) would be really appreciated. Thanks. -- Julius

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Issue with ACLs in Dovecot 2.4
by Andrea Gabellini 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Hi, I'm trying to migrate my setup to Dovecot 2.4, but I'm experiencing an unusual issue with ACLs. After multiple tests, I’ve stripped the configuration down to the bare minimum to pinpoint the root cause of the problem. Basically, if I set "owner lr" as the permissions for a folder, I am unable to move any messages, yet I can still create subfolders. Here’s the relevant configuration: ini Copia Modifica protocol imap { mail_plugins { acl = yes } } acl_driver = vfile acl_globals_only = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes separator = / mailbox Test { acl owner { rights = lr } } } Am I missing any configuration, or have I encountered a bug? Thanks, Andrea -- TIM San Marino S.p.A. Andrea Gabellini Engineering R&D TIM San Marino S.p.A. - https://www.telecomitalia.sm Via Ventotto Luglio, 212 - Piano -2 47893 - Borgo Maggiore - Republic of San Marino Tel: (+378) 0549 886237 Fax: (+378) 0549 886188 -- Informativa Privacy Questa email ha per destinatari dei contatti presenti negli archivi di TIM San Marino S.p.A.. Tutte le informazioni vengono trattate e tutelate nel rispetto della normativa vigente sulla protezione dei dati personali (Reg. EU 2016/679). Per richiedere informazioni e/o variazioni e/o la cancellazione dei vostri dati presenti nei nostri archivi potete inviare una email a privacy(a)telecomitalia.sm. Avviso di Riservatezza Il contenuto di questa e-mail e degli eventuali allegati e' strettamente confidenziale e destinato alla/e persona/e a cui e' indirizzato. Se avete ricevuto per errore questa e-mail, vi preghiamo di segnalarcelo immediatamente e di cancellarla dal vostro computer. E' fatto divieto di copiare e divulgare il contenuto di questa e-mail. Ogni utilizzo abusivo delle informazioni qui contenute da parte di persone terze o comunque non indicate nella presente e-mail potra' essere perseguito ai sensi di legge.

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Strange problem with iPhone Mail
by Simon Hoffmann 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Hey list, I am experiencing a strange problem where I don't even know where to begin to debug. I am running my own email server in my office. The server itself works fine. In my office firewall, I have set up DNAT/port forwarding to be able to access the server from outside. With my Android phone and my iPad I have no problems accessing the mails from anywhere, including my home WiFi. However with my iPhone, I have problems accessing my inbox when I am on my home WiFi. The problems only started a few weeks ago, it worked fine for years before. I have not changed any network related settings. Now, when I am on my home WiFi, I cannot use the "pull down to refresh" gesture. It just is not fetching any emails. The automatic sync/fetching is also not fetching the newest emails. Eventually, some emails will come through, but they are from ~6-7 hours ago. Same WiFi as my other devices that work fine. As soon as I disable WiFi on my iPhone and switch to mobile data and do the "pull down to refresh" gesture, all mails from the last 6-7 hours immediately come in. Has anyone ever experienced something like this and can help me analyse the problem? root@mx01:~# uname -a Linux mx01 5.10.0-33-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.226-1 (2024-10-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux root@mx01:~# cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="11" VERSION="11 (bullseye)" VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" root@mx01:~# dpkg -l dovecot* ||/ Name Version Architektur Beschreibung +++-======================-========================-============-=============================================== un dovecot-abi-2.3.abiv13 <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) un dovecot-common <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) ii dovecot-core 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u2 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - core files un dovecot-gssapi <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) ii dovecot-imapd 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u2 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - IMAP daemon un dovecot-ldap <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) ii dovecot-lmtpd 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u2 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - LMTP server un dovecot-lucene <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) ii dovecot-managesieved 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u2 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - ManageSieve server un dovecot-mysql <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) un dovecot-pgsql <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) un dovecot-pop3d <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) ii dovecot-sieve 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u2 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - Sieve filters support un dovecot-solr <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) un dovecot-sqlite <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) un dovecot-submissiond <keine> <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) Thanks! Cheers, Simon

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Fwd: Re: Thunderbird IMAP Problem
by Felix Zielcke 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

Forgot to CC list. -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Von: Felix Zielcke <fzielcke(a)z-51.de> An: wertstoffe(a)nurfuerspam.de Betreff: Re: Thunderbird IMAP Problem Datum: 26.02.2025 14:43:36 > Am Mittwoch, dem 26.02.2025 um 13:47 +0100 schrieb Jakob: > > Ok... > > > > And does imap-login with thunderbird also work with this patch? > > > > Will this patch be merged in a further release from dovecot? > > I don't like selfcompiling... > > > > Jakob > > > > It's a patch for exim4 not dovecot. So it only fixes SMTP > authentication with it. > Timo said that there will probable be some sort of workaround in > dovecot 2.4.1. included. > > So no it won't fix imap-login. > I don't use Thunderbird so I have no clue why it fails for you. > Maybe it would have been useful to have your dovecot config?

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Thunderbird IMAP Problem
by wertstoffe＠nurfuerspam.de 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

Hi there! I upgraded to dovecot 2.4 from dovecot repo on my debian bookworm. I modified the config for the needs for 2.4. My Fairemail could connect to dovecot and receive emails via imap. But thunderbird did not work. I activated the debug-logging for thunderbird in shell and got this |2025-02-26 07:46:15.775740 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP ImapThreadMainLoop entering [this=770954ef3f00] 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776145 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP ImapThreadMainLoop entering [this=770957d74600] 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776820 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP exceeded connection cache limit:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/folderstatus>/Synoptic/Rechnungen 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776853 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP queuing url:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/folderstatus>/Synoptic/Rechnungen 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776869 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP considering playing queued url:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/folderstatus>/Synoptic/Rechnungen 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776881 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP creating protocol instance to play queued url:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/folderstatus>/Synoptic/Rechnungen 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776897 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP exceeded connection cache limit:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/folderstatus>/Synoptic/Rechnungen 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776909 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP failed creating protocol instance to play queued url:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/folderstatus>/Synoptic/Rechnungen 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777125 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00:imap.domain.tld:NA:SetupWithUrlCallback: clearing IMAP_CONNECTION_IS_OPEN 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777217 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00:imap.domain.tld:NA:SetupSinkProxy: got m_imapMailFolderSink 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777302 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP 770957d74600:imap.domain.tld:NA:SetupWithUrlCallback: clearing IMAP_CONNECTION_IS_OPEN 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777317 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00:imap.domain.tld:NA:ProcessCurrentURL: entering 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777348 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00:imap.domain.tld:NA:ProcessCurrentURL:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/discoverallboxes: = currentUrl 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777362 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP 770957d74600:imap.domain.tld:NA:SetupSinkProxy: got m_imapMailFolderSink 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777404 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770957d74600:imap.domain.tld:NA:ProcessCurrentURL: entering 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777420 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770957d74600:imap.domain.tld:NA:ProcessCurrentURL:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/select%3E/INBOX: = currentUrl 2025-02-26 07:46:15.822761 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00:imap.domain.tld:NA:CreateNewLineFromSocket: * OK [CAPABILITY +SPECIAL-USE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. 2025-02-26 07:46:15.823122 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770957d74600:imap.domain.tld:NA:CreateNewLineFromSocket: * OK [CAPABILITY +SPECIAL-USE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. 2025-02-26 07:46:15.823329 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP SetConnectionStatus(0x80004005) 2025-02-26 07:46:15.823509 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP URL failed with code 0x80004005 (imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/discoverallboxes) 2025-02-26 07:46:15.823573 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP SetConnectionStatus(0x80004005) 2025-02-26 07:46:15.823816 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP URL failed with code 0x80004005 (imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/select%3E/INBOX) 2025-02-26 07:46:15.824515 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00:imap.domain.tld:NA:ProcessCurrentURL: aborting queued urls 2025-02-26 07:46:15.824529 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770957d74600:imap.domain.tld:NA:ProcessCurrentURL: aborting queued urls 2025-02-26 07:46:15.824723 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00:imap.domain.tld:NA:TellThreadToDie: close socket connection 2025-02-26 07:46:15.824748 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP ImapThreadMainLoop leaving [this=770954ef3f00] 2025-02-26 07:46:15.824760 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770957d74600:imap.domain.tld:NA:TellThreadToDie: close socket connection 2025-02-26 07:46:15.824785 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP ImapThreadMainLoop leaving [this=770957d74600] Dovecot-log shows only this two lines on a login-try with thunderbird. ||Feb 26 08:52:16 mail dovecot[204586]: imap-login: Login aborted: Connection closed (no auth attempts in 0 secs) (no_auth_attempts): user=<>, rip=172.30.0.1, lip=172.30.0.9, session=<ryQk2gYvMp+sHgAB> Feb 26 08:52:16 mail dovecot[204586]: imap-login: Login aborted: Connection closed (no auth attempts in 0 secs) (no_auth_attempts): user=<>, rip=172.30.0.1, lip=172.30.0.9, session=<zR8k2gYvIp+sHgAB> Other logins had a user and auth attempts... only from thunderbird it does not work. I also use dovecot-login for my exim4. And smtp-login was also not able. Not even directly via openssl s_client. I could connect, send ehlo, and when i sent AUTH LOGIN <base64-username-passwor-string> and then it hangs. I went back to dovecot 2.3, and thunderbird could login again, also smtp-login works. There seems something wrong in dovecot 2.4. Have ldap-authentication. My bad, i deinstalled dovecot 2.4 and now i can not create a conf with doveconf to add it here. Hope you can help me. Jakob | Hi there! I upgraded to dovecot 2.4 from dovecot repo on my debian bookworm. I modified the config for the needs for 2.4. My Fairemail could connect to dovecot and receive emails via imap. But thunderbird did not work. I activated the debug-logging for thunderbird in shell and got this 2025-02-26 07:46:15.775740 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP ImapThreadMainLoop entering [this=770954ef3f00] 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776145 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP ImapThreadMainLoop entering [this=770957d74600] 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776820 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP exceeded connection cache limit:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/folderstatus>/ Synoptic/Rechnungen 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776853 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP queuing url:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/folderstatus>/Synoptic/Rechnungen 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776869 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP considering playing queued url:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/ folderstatus>/Synoptic/Rechnungen 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776881 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP creating protocol instance to play queued url:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/ folderstatus>/Synoptic/Rechnungen 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776897 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP exceeded connection cache limit:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/folderstatus>/ Synoptic/Rechnungen 2025-02-26 07:46:15.776909 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP failed creating protocol instance to play queued url:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld: 143/folderstatus>/Synoptic/Rechnungen 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777125 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00:imap.domain.tld:NA:SetupWithUrlCallback: clearing IMAP_CONNECTION_IS_OPEN 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777217 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00:imap.domain.tld:NA:SetupSinkProxy: got m_imapMailFolderSink 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777302 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP 770957d74600:imap.domain.tld:NA:SetupWithUrlCallback: clearing IMAP_CONNECTION_IS_OPEN 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777317 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00: imap.domain.tld:NA:ProcessCurrentURL: entering 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777348 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00: imap.domain.tld:NA:ProcessCurrentURL:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/ discoverallboxes: = currentUrl 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777362 UTC - [Parent 677248: Main Thread]: I/IMAP 770957d74600:imap.domain.tld:NA:SetupSinkProxy: got m_imapMailFolderSink 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777404 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770957d74600: imap.domain.tld:NA:ProcessCurrentURL: entering 2025-02-26 07:46:15.777420 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770957d74600: imap.domain.tld:NA:ProcessCurrentURL:imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/ select%3E/INBOX: = currentUrl 2025-02-26 07:46:15.822761 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00: imap.domain.tld:NA:CreateNewLineFromSocket: * OK [CAPABILITY +SPECIAL-USE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. 2025-02-26 07:46:15.823122 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770957d74600: imap.domain.tld:NA:CreateNewLineFromSocket: * OK [CAPABILITY +SPECIAL-USE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. 2025-02-26 07:46:15.823329 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP SetConnectionStatus(0x80004005) 2025-02-26 07:46:15.823509 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP URL failed with code 0x80004005 (imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/discoverallboxes) 2025-02-26 07:46:15.823573 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP SetConnectionStatus(0x80004005) 2025-02-26 07:46:15.823816 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP URL failed with code 0x80004005 (imap://my.user@imap.domain.tld:143/select%3E/INBOX) 2025-02-26 07:46:15.824515 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00: imap.domain.tld:NA:ProcessCurrentURL: aborting queued urls 2025-02-26 07:46:15.824529 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770957d74600: imap.domain.tld:NA:ProcessCurrentURL: aborting queued urls 2025-02-26 07:46:15.824723 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770954ef3f00: imap.domain.tld:NA:TellThreadToDie: close socket connection 2025-02-26 07:46:15.824748 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP ImapThreadMainLoop leaving [this=770954ef3f00] 2025-02-26 07:46:15.824760 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: I/IMAP 770957d74600: imap.domain.tld:NA:TellThreadToDie: close socket connection 2025-02-26 07:46:15.824785 UTC - [Parent 677248: IMAP]: D/IMAP ImapThreadMainLoop leaving [this=770957d74600] Dovecot-log shows only this two lines on a login-try with thunderbird. Feb 26 08:52:16 mail dovecot[204586]: imap-login: Login aborted: Connection closed (no auth attempts in 0 secs) (no_auth_attempts): user=<>, rip=172.30.0.1, lip=172.30.0.9, session=<ryQk2gYvMp+sHgAB> Feb 26 08:52:16 mail dovecot[204586]: imap-login: Login aborted: Connection closed (no auth attempts in 0 secs) (no_auth_attempts): user=<>, rip=172.30.0.1, lip=172.30.0.9, session=<zR8k2gYvIp+sHgAB> Other logins had a user and auth attempts... only from thunderbird it does not work. I also use dovecot-login for my exim4. And smtp-login was also not able. Not even directly via openssl s_client. I could connect, send ehlo, and when i sent AUTH LOGIN <base64-username- passwor-string> and then it hangs. I went back to dovecot 2.3, and thunderbird could login again, also smtp-login works. There seems something wrong in dovecot 2.4. Have ldap-authentication. My bad, i deinstalled dovecot 2.4 and now i can not create a conf with doveconf to add it here. Hope you can help me. Jakob

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dovecot Panic
by Jakob 24 Feb '25

24 Feb '25

Hi! I face in short intervals (every few minutes) such error-messages in dovecot Feb 24 01:36:26 mail dovecot[699699]: imap(user.name)<711331><0D3Ch9guy6UufflE>: Panic: file mail-index-view.c: line 165 (view_lookup_full): assertion failed: (seq > 0 && seq <= mail_in dex_view_get_messages_count(view)) Feb 24 01:36:26 mail dovecot[699699]: imap(user.name)<711331><0D3Ch9guy6UufflE>: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x42) [0x7fb1e519f662] -> /usr/l ib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x1e) [0x7fb1e519f77e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1043db) [0x7fb1e51ac3db] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x104471) [0x7fb1e51ac471 ] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x566a0) [0x7fb1e50fe6a0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x4fe26) [0x7fb1e52cae26] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x102116) [0x7fb1e537d116] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x10514c) [0x7fb1e538014c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x105ff5) [0x7fb1e5380ff5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovec ot-storage.so.0(+0x101d14) [0x7fb1e537cd14] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(index_mail_get_keyword_indexes+0x6b) [0x7fb1e535027b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(inde x_mail_get_keywords+0x6d) [0x7fb1e53502fd] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so(+0x2ef9) [0x7fb1e4ba4ef9] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib15_notify_plugin.so(notify_contexts_m ail_copy+0x5f) [0x7fb1e4cbd50f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib15_notify_plugin.so(+0x24f8) [0x7fb1e4cbe4f8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib01_acl_plugin.so(+0xf863) [0x7fb1e4eab863] -> /usr /lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(+0x6508f) [0x7fb1e52e008f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0(mailbox_move+0x5e) [0x7fb1e52e024e] -> dovecot/imap [user.name 46.125.249.68 UID MOVE](+0x13ef8) [0x55766c74aef8] -> dovecot/imap [user.name 46.125.249.68 UID MOVE](command_exec+0xa4) [0x55766c7595b4] -> dovecot/imap [user.name 46.125.249.68 UID MOVE](+0x20 52f) [0x55766c75752f] -> dovecot/imap [user.name 46.125.249.68 UID MOVE](+0x205da) [0x55766c7575da] -> dovecot/imap [user.name 46.125.249.68 UID MOVE](+0x208ed) [0x55766c7578ed] -> dovecot/imap [user.name 46.125.249.68 UID MOVE](client_handle_input+0x1b5) [0x55766c757ab5] -> dovecot/imap [user.name 46.125.249.68 UID MOVE](client_input+0x70) [0x55766c758020] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x69) [0x7fb1e51c2609] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x132) [0x7fb1e51c3cf2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdov ecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x50) [0x7fb1e51c26b0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x40) [0x7fb1e51c2870] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f b1e51348e3] Feb 24 01:36:26 mail dovecot[699699]: imap(user.name)<711331><0D3Ch9guy6UufflE>: Fatal: master: service(imap): child 711331 killed with signal 6 (core dumped) I run this # dpkg -l|grep dovecot ii dovecot-core 2:2.3.21.1-2+debian11 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - core files ii dovecot-imapd 2:2.3.21.1-2+debian11 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - IMAP daemon ii dovecot-ldap 2:2.3.21.1-2+debian11 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - LDAP support ii dovecot-lmtpd 2:2.3.21.1-2+debian11 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - LMTP server ii dovecot-lucene 2:2.3.21.1-2+debian11 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - Lucene support ii dovecot-managesieved 2:2.3.21.1-2+debian11 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - ManageSieve server ii dovecot-pop3d 2:2.3.21.1-2+debian11 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - POP3 daemon ii dovecot-sieve 2:2.3.21.1-2+debian11 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - Sieve filters support ii dovecot-solr 2:2.3.21.1-2+debian11 amd64 secure POP3/IMAP server - Solr support on debian bookworm. The client, the user uses is maybe apples mail-app on ios... but I'm not sure. And i don't know, what he is doing. Can not interpret this message. Best regards Jakob

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User authentication for shared mailbox
by sveyret＠gmail.com 23 Feb '25

23 Feb '25

Hi, I’m using Dovecot 2.3.21.1. I have mailboxes for the family members and some shared mailboxes, all of them available with IMAP protocol. Users are authenticating using PAM, and shared mailboxes appear as sub-folders of user accounts. Because it is easier to use with some clients, I’m looking for a way to use the shared mailboxes as independent accounts. This would mean that, on a client, I would like to create an account to access to `family@mydomain`, but using my own username and password. I thought of a way to do this by tricking the password, setting it, for example, to `myname+mysecretpassword`, then split it in dovecot configuration in order to override the username and password. But not only didn’t I found a way to split the string, but also, if I understand correctly, setting another user to PAM module will override the name of the mailbox I want to open. What would you suggest me to do in order to get this desired behavior? Thank you.

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Mail locations must use the same hierarchy separator
by Mike 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

Hello, First post, and yes Ive searched the archives and didn't find an answer. Sorry if this is old hat but... I am trying build a new mailserver (iredmail) and import messages from the old server (old old iredmail), and convert from dbox to maildir in the process. I have previously used doveadm sync successfully several years/versions ago with a master user and imapc:. Now however, Im getting errors that don't make sense to me. doveadm -D -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf sync -1 -R -u example(a)example.com imapc: results in: dsync(example(a)example.com): Info: imapc(mail.example.com:993): Connected to 192.0.2.1:993 (local 192.0.2.1:51732) dsync(example(a)example.com): Error: Mail locations must use the same hierarchy separator (specify namespace prefix="" { separator } explicitly) I have tried all sorts of chicanery including testing every combination of "" and / and . for each of prefix and separator in dovecot.conf, no dice. I am refraining from providing full debug dump/config files since this seems excessive if this is a config file issue, but will do so upon your advice if requested. Thank you. Hello, First post, and yes Ive searched the archives and didn't find an answer. Sorry if this is old hat but... I am trying build a new mailserver (iredmail) and import messages from the old server (old old iredmail), and convert from dbox to maildir in the process. I have previously used doveadm sync successfully several years/versions ago with a master user and imapc:. Now however, Im getting errors that don't make sense to me. doveadm -D -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf sync -1 -R -u example(a)example.com imapc: results in: dsync(example(a)example.com): Info: imapc(mail.example.com:993): Connected to 192.0.2.1:993 (local 192.0.2.1:51732) dsync(example(a)example.com): Error: Mail locations must use the same hierarchy separator (specify namespace prefix="" { separator } explicitly) I have tried all sorts of chicanery including testing every combination of "" and / and . for each of prefix and separator in dovecot.conf, no dice. I am refraining from providing full debug dump/config files since this seems excessive if this is a config file issue, but will do so upon your advice if requested. Thank you.

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Unable to debug sieve
by Roberto Puzzanghera 20 Feb '25

20 Feb '25

I'm trying to enable sieve debug with no success on dovecot 4.0. I would like to know what it is doing when taking decisions if running a script or not and what it does when a script is executed These settings do not enable the trace sieve_trace_debug = yes sieve_trace_dir = /tmp (I also tried any other world writable dir and also ~/.sieve while testing trace for personal scripts) nor this one is enabling the debug log_debug = category=sieve sieve is working perfectly for personal but not for global scripts. Any hint appreciated. Thanks in advance, Roberto

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autoexpunge
by Doug Hardie 20 Feb '25

20 Feb '25

I have the following in 15-mailboxes.config: mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash autoexpunge = 30 days } I thought that would empty the deleted emails after 30 days. However, I find that in .Deleted Messages/cur there are over 18K messages dating back to the 90's. What do I need to set to make the autoexpunge work? -- Doug

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iOS Mail.app Network error POSIX 54: is there a workaround?
by Gerben Wierda 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

I understand that this error that appears on iOS 18 devices is an iOS bug. Is this indeed the case and is there anything I can do about it on th server side as a workaround? Thanks, Gerben

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Preventing message deletion
by dovecot＠iotti.biz 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

Hi all How may I disable message deletions via IMAP for some or all of my users? I read on the net that a possible solution would be to use the ACL IMAP plugin. But the examples I found were not so clear to me. We do not use shared mailboxes or namespaces. Only simple virtual users, each with it's own private mailbox. I would like to use the global acl file both for administration simplicity and because as I understood, global acl enrties take preference over any user setting. In the ACL page example there is a line: * user=foo lrw But in the comment it tells that doing so, every user' mailbox would be shared with the foo user, with the lrw permissions. Which is not what I would want. I don't need to share anything, just to restrict what the user, foo here, can do on his mailbox. Thank you, Luigi

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IMAP dovecot\postgres low authentication performance
by Anatoliy Zhestov 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

Hi. We have a performance problem with imap authentication through postgresql. Our servers(modoboa based) have a big amount of permanent imap connections(5000-50000). Current performance is about 3000 successful authentications per hour. No visible reasons for such low speed. Accordingly, after a network failure or server restart, all clients try to reconnect, but restoring the connection pool takes hours and even tens of hours. Judging by the logs after the restart, a huge number of auth requests closed by timeout after 70-90 seconds. The postgresql database is not overloaded at the restore connections process and the postgresql connection pool (100) does not overflow. Manually started sql auth queries work fast, tables have indexes. So I guess there is a bottleneck somewhere in dovecot auth service or postgresql driver. I couldn't find any settings in the documentation that are directly responsible for regulating the number of connections to PostgreSQL from the auth service or performance of the driver. Is there any way to manage this? Does it make sense to use pgbouncer in front of the base? What else can be a bottleneck in our configuration and how to regulate the number of possible simultaneous authentications via PostgreSQL? I would be happy for any advice on how to increase the performance to at least 100 authentications per second. Thanks in advance for your help. Anatoliy Zhestov. ---------------- configs of server with 48 core, 184 gb mem --------------- dovecot 2.3.16 # 2.3.16 (7e2e900c1a): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.16 (09c29328) # OS: Linux 5.15.0-126-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS # Hostname: imap.ourcompany.net auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_cache_size = 20 M auth_cache_ttl = 3 hours auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = plain login default_client_limit = 131072 default_process_limit = 131072 dict { quota = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = quota managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mai lbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext editheader imapflags notify vnd.dovecot.pipe vnd.dovecot.execute namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext driver = sql master = yes pass = yes } plugin { quota = dict:User quota::proxy::quota sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute sieve_execute_socket_dir = . sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags +editheader +body +vnd.dovecot.execute +vnd.dovecot.pipe sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute sieve_pipe_socket_dir = . sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms } protocols = " imap lmtp sieve" service anvil { client_limit = 393219 } service auth { client_limit = 524288 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-radicale { group = radicale mode = 0666 user = radicale } unix_listener auth-userdb { user = vmail } } service config { vsz_limit = 1 G } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap { executable = imap postlogin process_limit = 131072 vsz_limit = 1 G } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } vsz_limit = 512 M } service pop3 { executable = pop3 postlogin } service postlogin { executable = script-login /usr/local/bin/postlogin.sh service_count = 1000 process_min_avail = 5 user = modoboa } service send-to-click-frontapp1 { executable = script /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute/clickhouse_log_frontapp1.sh unix_listener send-to-click-frontapp1 { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } user = dovenull vsz_limit = 2 G } service send-to-click { executable = script /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute/clickhouse_log.sh unix_listener send-to-click { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } user = dovenull vsz_limit = 2 G } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } unix_listener stats-writer { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } vsz_limit = 2 G } ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/imap.ourcompany.net/fullchain.pem ssl_cipher_list = EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384:EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256:EECDH+aRSA+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+SHA256:EECDH+aRSA+RC4:EECDH:EDH+aRSA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!PSK:!SRP:!DSS:!RC4 ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1 stats_writer_socket_path = userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota sieve postmaster_address = postmaster(a)imap.ourcompany.net } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ex driver = pgsql connect = host=127.0.0.1 port=5432 dbname=modoboa user=modoboa password=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX password_query = SELECT email AS user, password FROM core_user WHERE email='%u' and is_active and master_user /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = pgsql connect = host=127.0.0.1 port=5432 dbname=modoboa user=modoboa password=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX user_query = SELECT '/srv/vmail/%d/%n' AS home, 1003 as uid, 1003 as gid, '*:bytes=' || mb.quota || 'M' AS quota_rule FROM admin_mailbox mb INNER JOIN admin_domain dom ON mb.domain_id=dom.id INNER JOIN core_user u ON u.id=mb.user_id WHERE (mb.is_send_only IS NOT TRUE OR '%s' NOT IN ('imap', 'pop3', 'lmtp')) AND mb.address='%n' AND dom.name='%d' password_query = SELECT email AS user, password, '/srv/vmail/%d/%n' AS userdb_home, 1003 AS userdb_uid, 1003 AS userdb_gid, CONCAT('*:bytes=', mb.quota, 'M') AS userdb_quota_rule FROM core_user u INNER JOIN admin_mailbox mb ON u.id=mb.user_id INNER JOIN admin_domain dom ON mb.domain_id=dom.id WHERE (mb.is_send_only IS NOT TRUE OR '%s' NOT IN ('imap', 'pop3')) AND email='%u' AND is_active AND dom.enabled iterate_query = SELECT email AS user FROM core_user /usr/local/bin/postlogin.sh #!/bin/sh PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin" psql -c "UPDATE core_user SET last_login=now() WHERE username='$USER'" > /dev/null exec "$@" /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute/clickhouse_log_frontapp1.sh #!/bin/bash cd /tmp logger -i -t SIEVE_TEST "$1,$2,$3,$4" clickhouse-client -h XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -d default -u some_user --password XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \ --param_origin_from="$1" \ --param_origin_to="$2" \ --param_message_id="$3" \ --param_forward="$4" \ -q "INSERT INTO frontapp1_redirects (origin_from_email,origin_to_email,message_id,forward_email) VALUES ({origin_from:String},{origin_to:String},{message_id:String},{forward:String})" /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute/clickhouse_log.sh #!/bin/bash cd /tmp logger -i -t SIEVE_TEST "$1,$2,$3,$4" clickhouse-client -h XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -d default -u some_user --password XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \ --param_origin_from="$1" \ --param_origin_to="$2" \ --param_message_id="$3" \ --param_forward="$4" \ -q "INSERT INTO frontapp_redirects (origin_from_email,origin_to_email,message_id,forward_email) VALUES ({origin_from:String},{origin_to:String},{message_id:String},{forward:String})"

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auth_userdb_iterate
by Luigi Trovato 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

Hello, I have a doubt: is the lua function "auth_userdb_iterate" expected to always return the whole list of users no matter what, or it should evaluate if a specific virtual domain is provided as req argument and only list the users in that specific domain? And should the returned user list be in the format "username(a)domain.tld" or "username" ? -- Ciao, Luigi

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lua API and returning reason and CONTACTADMIN
by Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

Hello. Trying to pass reason response via lua by passing it at dovecot.auth.PASSDB_RESULT_USER_DISABLED like: function auth_password_verify(request, password) return dovecot.auth.PASSDB_RESULT_USER_DISABLED, "reason=custom_message" end function auth_userdb_lookup(request) return dovecot.auth.PASSDB_RESULT_OK, "uid=428671 gid=9726 home=/var/mail/existusertest" end function script_init() return 0 end function script_deinit() end Unfortunately returned result contains no custom message and also returns AUTHENTICATIONFAILED instead of CONTACTADMIN: NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. while I would expect something like: NO [CONTACTADMIN] custom_message: Any reason for such behaviour and how to get reason passed and proper CONTACTADMIN? Tests done on 2.3.21.1. passdb { driver = lua mechanisms = login plain args = file=/etc/dovecot/lua_auth_script_test_fail.lua blocking=yes } userdb { driver = lua args = file=/etc/dovecot/lua_auth_script_test_fail.lua blocking=yes } -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )

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Can someone explain this to me, please?
by Ken Wright 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

The last time I checked my mail.log I found the following line: 2025-02-18T22:41:31.175798-05:00 grace dovecot: imap-login: Login aborted: Connection closed (auth failed, 1 attempts in 8 secs) (auth_failed): user=<wizard(a)koalatyworks.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.1, lip=192.168.1.10, TLS, session=<wTMBiHYu5pXAqAEB> Is this a password error or something more? Ken

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Doveadm Backup
by Doug Hardie 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '25

I tried the backup again tonight. I am now getting a new error: mail# doveadm backup -f -u doug remote:checkout dsync-remote(doug)<1c8BDo4xtGe74wAA+dxtXQ>: Warning: Deleting mailbox 'INBOX': UID=92440 GUID=1465118975.V4eI7cfa32M232845.mail is missing locally dsync-remote(doug)<1c8BDo4xtGe74wAA+dxtXQ>: Error: Couldn't delete mailbox INBOX: INBOX can't be deleted. dsync-local(doug)<N0q9NI0xtGf4vgAAZU03Dg>: Error: Remote command returned error 65: ssh checkout doveadm dsync-server -udoug -U Anytime I run it now generates the same error messages. However on the backup machine the .cur directory is empty. I presume that is the INBOX referred to in the messages. All the other directories appear to be intact. -- Doug

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2.4.0: managesieve: sieve_script_path setting variables: Unknown variable 'user'
by Bjoern Franke 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '25

Hi, I have the following (manage)sieve-related parts in my 2.4.0 config: within the namespace inbox: mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe autoexpunge = 14d sieve_script junk { type = before cause = copy driver = file path = /data/mail/sieve/report-spam.sieve } special_use { "\Junk" = yes } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service managesieve { } sieve_script personal { active_path = /data/mail/%{user}/dovecot.sieve driver = file path = /data/mail/%{user}/sieve } Accessing via managesieve fails: Error: sieve: file storage: sieve_file_storage settings: Failed to parse configuration: Failed to expand sieve_script_path setting variables: Unknown variable 'user' But the sieve rules in general work. Regards Bjoern

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Re: Userdb lookup problems
by Ken Wright 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '25

On Mon, 2025-02-17 at 15:49 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 16. Feb 2025, at 17.03, Ken Wright via dovecot > <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > > mysql localhost { > > user = something > > password = MYPASSWORD > > dbname = something > > } > .. > > According to the logs, Dovecot isn't trying to connect using the > > user > > something, it's using the user dovecot. That's not the user for > > the > > database. > > The default mysql user is empty, not "dovecot". So it must be getting > "dovecot" user from somewhere in your config. Look at your "doveconf" > output - maybe the mysql_user gets overridden in some other config > file. Things to look at: > > doveconf mysql > doveconf | grep mysql > doveconf I went through every file in conf.d trying to find a mention of dovecot with no positive results. Then I tried the three things to look at you suggested, and got this: doveconf mysql: mysql localhost { dbname = database password = # hidden, use -P to show it user = DBuser } doveconf | grep mysql: sql_driver = mysql mysql localhost { doveconf: # 2.4.0-2+ubuntu24.04 (daeb6bc59c): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.0-2+ubuntu24.04 (1b2d5bb9) # OS: Linux 6.8.0-53-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS ext4 # Hostname: localhost dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_mechanisms = auth_mechanisms { plain = yes login = yes } dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 mail_driver = maildir mail_gid = vmail mail_inbox_path = /var/vmail/%{user | domain}/%{user | username } mail_path = /var/vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/Maildir mail_uid = vmail mailbox_list_utf8 = yes passdb_default_password_scheme = ARGON2I protocols = protocols { imap = yes lmtp = yes sieve = yes } sql_driver = mysql ssl = required ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mailserver.example1.com/fullchain.pem key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mailserver.example1.com/privkey.pem prefer_ciphers = server } namespace inbox { mailbox Drafts { auto = create special_use = special_use { "\\Drafts" = yes } } mailbox Junk { auto = create special_use = special_use { "\\Junk" = yes } } mailbox Trash { auto = create special_use = special_use { "\\Trash" = yes } } mailbox Sent { auto = create special_use = special_use { "\\Sent" = yes } } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } mysql localhost { dbname = database password = # hidden, use -P to show it user = DBuser } passdb sql { query = SELECT username AS username, domain, password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%{user | username}' AND domain = '%{user | domain}' AND active= '1' } userdb sql { iterate_query = SELECT username AS username, domain FROM mailbox query = SELECT mail_path, uid, gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%{user | username}' AND domain = '%{user | domain}' AND active= '1' } local 127.0.0.1 { local_name mailserver.example1.com { protocol imap { ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mailserver.example1.com/fullchain.pem key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mailserver.example1.com/privkey.pem } } } local_name mail.example2.net { protocol imap { ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.example2.net/fullchain.pem key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.example2.net/privkey.pem } } } } I can't find anything indicating a database user 'dovecot.' Would you like to see the results of tail /var/log/mail.log? Ken On Mon, 2025-02-17 at 15:49 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 16. Feb 2025, at 17.03, Ken Wright via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: mysql localhost { user = something password = MYPASSWORD dbname = something } .. According to the logs, Dovecot isn't trying to connect using the user something, it's using the user dovecot. That's not the user for the database. The default mysql user is empty, not "dovecot". So it must be getting "dovecot" user from somewhere in your config. Look at your "doveconf" output - maybe the mysql_user gets overridden in some other config file. Things to look at: doveconf mysql doveconf | grep mysql doveconf I went through every file in conf.d trying to find a mention of dovecot with no positive results. Then I tried the three things to look at you suggested, and got this: doveconf mysql: mysql localhost { dbname = database password = # hidden, use -P to show it user = DBuser } doveconf | grep mysql: sql_driver = mysql mysql localhost { doveconf: # 2.4.0-2+ubuntu24.04 (daeb6bc59c): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.0-2+ubuntu24.04 (1b2d5bb9) # OS: Linux 6.8.0-53-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS ext4 # Hostname: localhost dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_mechanisms = auth_mechanisms { plain = yes login = yes } dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 mail_driver = maildir mail_gid = vmail mail_inbox_path = /var/vmail/%{user | domain}/%{user | username } mail_path = /var/vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/Maildir mail_uid = vmail mailbox_list_utf8 = yes passdb_default_password_scheme = ARGON2I protocols = protocols { imap = yes lmtp = yes sieve = yes } sql_driver = mysql ssl = required ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mailserver.example1.com/fullchain.pem key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mailserver.example1.com/privkey.pem prefer_ciphers = server } namespace inbox { mailbox Drafts { auto = create special_use = special_use { "\\Drafts" = yes } } mailbox Junk { auto = create special_use = special_use { "\\Junk" = yes } } mailbox Trash { auto = create special_use = special_use { "\\Trash" = yes } } mailbox Sent { auto = create special_use = special_use { "\\Sent" = yes } } } service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } mysql localhost { dbname = database password = # hidden, use -P to show it user = DBuser } passdb sql { query = SELECT username AS username, domain, password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%{user | username}' AND domain = '%{user | domain}' AND active= '1' } userdb sql { iterate_query = SELECT username AS username, domain FROM mailbox query = SELECT mail_path, uid, gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%{user | username}' AND domain = '%{user | domain}' AND active= '1' } local 127.0.0.1 { local_name mailserver.example1.com { protocol imap { ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mailserver.example1.com/fullchain.pem key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mailserver.example1.com/privkey.pem } } } local_name mail.example2.net { protocol imap { ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.example2.net/fullchain.pem key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.example2.net/privkey.pem } } } } I can't find anything indicating a database user 'dovecot.' Would you like to see the results of tail /var/log/mail.log? Ken

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Doveadm Backup
by Doug Hardie 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '25

I am using doveadm backup to backup the mail server's files for a specific user. This is a test environment for the backup machine. All it does is sit there until I run backup on the mail server. However, I am encountering an issue occasionally where backup throws the following message: Warning: Deleting mailbox 'Deleted Messages': UID=533920 already exists locally for a different mail: GUIDs don't match (1739791386.M526904P56414.checkout,S=2206,W=2264 vs 1739674845.M569094P6598.mail,S=6530202,W=6615064) At this point it stops and the indicated mailbox has been deleted. It is not always the same mailbox. I then have to run the backup again and wait for it to download the entire directory which takes a long time. I was hoping to use this approach for a frequently run backup, but it appears it is not feasible. Some mailboxes are large enough that a second backup would be initiated before the complete reload had completed. Can this be corrected? -- Doug

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Question about push notification plugin
by Zakaria 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

Hi Dovecot Mailing List members, I just struggled to understand the plugin events and wondered if anyone can help on this. I wanted to capture the event when I mark message as not spam move event as well as when I move message to new folder event, I found MessageNew and MessageAppend, and couldnt figure out which one is responsible of the relevant event? Also, feedback to the dovecot dev team, it would great if we have push notification redis driver. Thanks in advance. Zakaria.

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Re: Doveadm Backup Error
by Asai 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

Thank you, Timo, that fixed the problem. Asai On 2/17/2025 9:03 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 17. Feb 2025, at 16.26, Asai via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: >> >> sieve_script personal { >> active_path = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username >> }/home/.dovecot.sieve >> driver = file >> path = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/home/sieve >> } > > Looks like %variables aren't really working right with Sieve / doveadm > combination. It gives an error: > > Error: sieve: sieve_file_storage settings: Failed to parse > configuration: Failed to expand sieve_script_path setting variables: > Unknown variable 'user' > > So for now the only way is to avoid %variables there - that simplifies > the config anyway: > > sieve_script personal { > active_path = ~/.dovecot.sieve > path = ~/sieve > } > Thank you, Timo, that fixed the problem. Asai On 2/17/2025 9:03 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 17. Feb 2025, at 16.26, Asai via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: sieve_script personal { active_path = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/ home/.dovecot.sieve driver = file path = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/home/sieve } Looks like %variables aren't really working right with Sieve / doveadm combination. It gives an error: Error: sieve: sieve_file_storage settings: Failed to parse configuration: Failed to expand sieve_script_path setting variables: Unknown variable 'user' So for now the only way is to avoid %variables there - that simplifies the config anyway: sieve_script personal { active_path = ~/.dovecot.sieve path = ~/sieve }

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Re: Doveadm Backup Error
by Asai 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

Thanks Timo, OK, I'll give that a try, I should point out that the Sieve filters are working as they should be for general delivery, outside of doveadm backup. Asai On 2/17/2025 9:03 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 17. Feb 2025, at 16.26, Asai via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: >> >> sieve_script personal { >> active_path = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username >> }/home/.dovecot.sieve >> driver = file >> path = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/home/sieve >> } > > Looks like %variables aren't really working right with Sieve / doveadm > combination. It gives an error: > > Error: sieve: sieve_file_storage settings: Failed to parse > configuration: Failed to expand sieve_script_path setting variables: > Unknown variable 'user' > > So for now the only way is to avoid %variables there - that simplifies > the config anyway: > > sieve_script personal { > active_path = ~/.dovecot.sieve > path = ~/sieve > } > Thanks Timo, OK, I'll give that a try, I should point out that the Sieve filters are working as they should be for general delivery, outside of doveadm backup. Asai On 2/17/2025 9:03 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 17. Feb 2025, at 16.26, Asai via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: sieve_script personal { active_path = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/ home/.dovecot.sieve driver = file path = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/home/sieve } Looks like %variables aren't really working right with Sieve / doveadm combination. It gives an error: Error: sieve: sieve_file_storage settings: Failed to parse configuration: Failed to expand sieve_script_path setting variables: Unknown variable 'user' So for now the only way is to avoid %variables there - that simplifies the config anyway: sieve_script personal { active_path = ~/.dovecot.sieve path = ~/sieve }

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FTS Xapian 1.9.1 released - Compatibility with git and 2.4
by Joan Moreau 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

Hi Finally released 1.9.1 to catch-up with 2.4.x and git recent changes Same "simplistic" approach - You get what you search for, no approximation/elastic/stemming, any language - No config required by default - Drastically reduced storage required / Drastically improved indexing/searching speed - Works on small servers or big servers https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian/ Thank you Aki Tuomi to help me pass this over the line Enjoy JM Hi Finally released 1.9.1 to catch-up with 2.4.x and git recent changes Same "simplistic" approach - You get what you search for, no approximation/elastic/stemming, any language - No config required by default - Drastically reduced storage required / Drastically improved indexing/ searching speed - Works on small servers or big servers https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian/ Thank you Aki Tuomi to help me pass this over the line Enjoy JM

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Doveadm Backup Error
by Asai 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

Greetings, On 2.3 I was able to run the following command, but now on 2.4 I'm getting the following error: doveadm backup -u user(a)domain.tld maildir:/mnt/backups/daily/domain.tld/user dsync(user(a)domain.tld): Error: brain M: Exporting mailbox INBOX failed: Mailbox attribute iteration failed: Mailbox attributes not enabled So, I tried to set the configs to include: protocol imap { imap_metadata = yes ... } mail_attribute { dict file { path = %{home}/dovecot-attributes } } But then I get: Error: brain M: Exporting mailbox INBOX failed: Mailbox attribute iteration failed: BUG: Unknown internal error Can anyone clarify the proper configs for this? Thank you, Asai

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Dovecot 2.4 - Example config
by Joan Moreau 17 Feb '25

17 Feb '25

Hi For those struggling with the new config, here an example I am using (Xapian, Sieve, mdbox, LMTP, ...) --- dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 base_dir = /run/dovecot state_dir = /var/lib/dovecot default_login_user = dovecot listen = * :: verbose_proctitle = yes mail_gid = mail mail_uid = mailusers mail_driver = mdbox mail_path = /data/mails/%{user | domain }/%{user | username } mail_home = /data/mails/%{user | domain }/%{user | username } mail_plugins = fts fts_xapian # mail_debug = yes # mail_cache_max_size = 128M ssl_server_cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/gjnet/fullchain.pem ssl_server_key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/gjnet/privkey.pem ssl_server_dh_file = /etc/mail/dovecot/dh.pem mdbox_rotate_size = 64M default_vsz_limit = unlimited sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail sql_driver = mysql mysql localhost { user = services password = MYPASSWORD dbname = services } fts xapian { } fts_autoindex = yes fts_decoder_driver = script fts_decoder_script_socket_path = decode2text sieve_script default { type = default driver = file path = /data/mails/sieve/default.sieve } sieve_script before { type = before driver = file path = /data/mails/sieve/after.sieve } sieve_script after { type = after driver = file path = /data/mails/sieve/after.sieve } sieve_script personal { type = personal driver = file path = /data/mails/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/sieve/ active_path = /data/mails/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/sieve/default.sieve } sieve_script global { type = global driver = file path = /data/mails/sieve/ } namespace inbox { inbox = yes mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash fts_autoindex = no } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } } userdb sql { query = SELECT 1 from users where user like '%{user | username}' and domain like '%{user | domain}' and active=1 iterate_query = SELECT user AS username, domain FROM users where active=1 } passdb sql { query = SELECT concat(user, '@', domain) AS user, password from users where user like '%{user | username}' and domain like '%{user | domain}' and active=1 } service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0600 user = mailusers } } protocols = imap pop3 sieve lmtp service imap-login { chroot = login process_min_avail = 8 restart_request_count = unlimited } service indexer-worker { vsz_limit = 4G } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_max_line_length = 655360 mail_max_userip_connections = 256 } service pop3-login { chroot = login } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 256 pop3_enable_last = yes pop3_lock_session = no pop3_reuse_xuidl = yes } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 ::1 port = 24 } unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } process_min_avail = 8 } service managesieve-login { chroot = login inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieveold { port = 2000 } } protocol sieve { managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot mail_max_userip_connections = 256 managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins { fts = yes fts_xapian = yes sieve = yes } } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /run/dovecot/auth-userdb hostname = mx.grosjo.net mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve postmaster_address = admin(a)grosjo.net lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_plugins { fts = yes fts_xapian = yes sieve = yes } } service stats { unix_listener stats-writer { mode = 0660 user = mailusers } } service decode2text { executable = script /usr/libexec/dovecot/decode2text.sh user = dovecot unix_listener decode2text { mode = 0666 } }

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Registering module in 2.4
by Joan Moreau 16 Feb '25

16 Feb '25

Hi I am trying to adjust the Xapian plugin to the very recent massive changes. https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian I implemented the changes about the settings However, I get to : Feb 16 13:39:44 gjserver dovecot[2211311]: imap(xxx)<2211361><W21YikIuomA2rj7G>: Error: fts: Failed to initialize backend 'xapian': Unknown backend Has the module registration changed as well ? Thank you so much

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Userdb lookup problems
by Ken Wright 16 Feb '25

16 Feb '25

I finally got my new Dovecot 2.4 installation going to the point I can log in from Evolution, but for some reason it won't accept my password. Here are the pertinent sections from the dovecot.conf, 10-mail.conf, and dovecot-sql.conf.ext files: dovecot.conf: userdb sql { query = SELECT home, uid, gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%{user | username}' AND domain = '%{user | domain}' AND active= '1' 10-mail.conf: mail_driver = maildir #mail_home = %{home} mail_home = /var/vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username } mail_path = ~/mail mail_inbox_path = /var/vmail/%{user | domain}/%{user | username } mailbox_list_utf8 = yes namespace inbox { separator = / inbox = yes } dovecot-sql.conf.ext: driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfixadmin user=postfixadmin password=hidden userdb_default_password_scheme = ARGON2I password_query = SELECT username AS username, password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%{user | username }' AND active= '1' user_query = SELECT maildir, 2000 AS uid, 2000 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%{user | username }' AND active= '1' iterate_query = SELECT username AS username FROM mailbox I hope someone can explain my horrible mistake! Ken

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v2.4 and fts-flatcurve configuration
by Felix Zielcke 16 Feb '25

16 Feb '25

Hi, I updated today to 2.4.0 and still have problems configuring fts- flatcurve. This is in my config: mail_plugins { fts = yes fts_flatcurve = yes } fts flatcurve { language de { default = yes } language en { } autoindex = yes } But it then fails to start with: doveconf: Error: Failed to get language de: Filter language=de unexpectedly not found (invalid userdb or -o override settings?) doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: Failed to get language de: Filter language=de unexpectedly not found (invalid userdb or -o override settings?) If I comment out the language settings, then it starts. But a "doveadm fts rescan -A" fails with: doveadm(***): Error: fts: Failed to initialize backend 'flatcurve': languages settings: Invalid settings: No language { .. } defined doveadm(***): Error: fts not enabled for user's namespace INBOX How do I fix these 2 errors?

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Dovecot 2.4-GIT -> Some errors
by Joan Moreau 16 Feb '25

16 Feb '25

Hi Using latest git, I get 2 very weird errors 1 - Just launching dovecot, I get: Feb 15 14:04:05 gjserver dovecot[444199]: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/mail/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 13: mail_location: Unknown setting: mail_location My mail_location is mail_location = mdbox:/data/mails/%d/%n All was working fine at the time of release of 2.4 Not any more 2 - Trying to adjust my plugin (FTS Xapian) to latest git, I get : make[2]: Entering directory '/files/src/fts-xapian/src' /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -O2 -I/usr/include/dovecot -DFTS_MAIL_USER_INIT_FOUR_ARGS=1 -g -O2 -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector-strong -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -MT fts-xapian-plugin.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/fts-xapian-plugin.Tpo -c -o fts-xapian-plugin.lo fts-xapian-plugin.c libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -O2 -I/usr/include/dovecot -DFTS_MAIL_USER_INIT_FOUR_ARGS=1 -g -O2 -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector-strong -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -MT fts-xapian-plugin.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/fts-xapian-plugin.Tpo -c fts-xapian-plugin.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/fts-xapian-plugin.o In file included from /usr/include/dovecot/lib.h:37, from fts-xapian-plugin.h:7, from fts-xapian-plugin.c:3: /usr/include/dovecot/macros.h:173:21: error: size of unnamed array is negative 173 | (sizeof(char[1 - 2 * ((condition) ? 1 : 0)]) > 0 ? FALSE : FALSE) | ^ The first line of fts-xapian-plugin.h is #include "lib.h" (nothing else before) Your help welcome Thank you so muich

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Dovecot v2.4.0 released
by Aki Tuomi 16 Feb '25

16 Feb '25

Hi all, after a very long wait we are finally happy to release Dovecot v2.4.0! Some IMPORTANT things to notice: - We have changed the signing key for 2.4 going forward, releases are signed with EF0882079FD4ED32BF8B23B2A1B09EF84EDC5219, which can be found at https://repo.dovecot.org/DOVECOT-REPO-GPG-2.4 and is signed with the previous key. The old key has been renamed to https://repo.dovecot.org/DOVECOT-REPO-GPG-2.3. - New 2.4 packages **are not** compatible with old 2.3 configuration, please carefully review https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html before installing the new packages. - We are happy to provide experimental arm64 support in the form of a Docker image. - Docker images are now ran rootless, with UID 1000 as vmail using built sources. Please take this into consideration when upgrading. Latest 2.3 image can be used with tag 2.3-latest, if you are not ready for this change. We won't be sending separate mail about Pigeonhole anymore as we will release one anyways when we release Dovecot, and Pigeonhole versioning has been changed to match Dovecot versioning. Source codes available at - https://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-2.4.0.tar.gz - https://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-2.4.0.tar.gz.sig - https://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-pigeonhole-2.4.0.tar.gz - https://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-pigeonhole-2.4.0.tar.gz… Binary packages in https://repo.dovecot.org/ Docker images in https://hub.docker.com/r/dovecot/dovecot Kind regards, Aki Tuomi Open-Xchange oy --- Dovecot Core NEWS ----------------- * config: dovecot_config_version must be the first non-comment line in configuration file. * config: dovecot_storage_version must be in the configuration file. * config: Many configuration options have changed so old configuration files do not work without rewrite. See https://doc.dovecot.org/main/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html * config: New variable expansion syntax has been introduced, see https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/settings/variables.html * config: Some default settings have changed. * config: plugin {} section has been removed. * *-login: With ssl=required, connections from login_trusted_networks are now also required to be SSL/TLS encrypted. * acl: Use ACL settings instead of Global ACL Directories. * auth-worker: auth_worker_max_count is replaced with service auth-worker { process_limit }. * auth: Weak password schemes are disabled by default, use auth_allow_weak_schemes to enable them. * auth_debug, mail_debug: Use log_debug filter instead. * config: All sections require a name, for example passdb/userdb: passdb static { password=secret } * db2: Remove Berkeley DB support. * dict-memcached: This is removed, use Redis instead. * director: Feature has been removed. See potential replacement at https://github.com/dovecot/tools/blob/main/director.lua * doveadm: USER environment variable is only supported with --no-userdb-lookup. One of -u, -F or -A must be used otherwise. * doveconf: Option -n is now default when running doveconf. * dsync: Use doveadm sync instead, legacy symlink has been removed. * fs-sis: Feature is now deprecated and has been made read-only. It will be removed in future release. * fts-lucene, fts-squat: These have been removed, use fts-flatcurve or fts-solr instead. * imap-login: IMAP compression is now handled in proxies. * imap_quota: SETQUOTA / quota_set has been removed. * imap_zlib: This plugin is no longer needed, it's always enabled. * imapc: All features are enabled by default, imapc_features can be used to explicitly disable features that are not wanted. * lib-storage: mbox driver is now frozen. * mail_compress: XZ and LZMA algorithm support has been removed. * mailbox-alias: Plugin has been removed. * old_stats, auth_stats: These have been removed. * openssl: Minimum supported version of OpenSSL is now 1.1.1. * openssl: Add support for OpenSSL 3.x * quota-dict, quota-dirsize: These have been removed, use quota-count instead. You can use quota_clone to copy quota usage to some database. * replicator: Feature has been removed. Use NFS or some other shared filesystem instead, or run doveadm sync in crontab. * stats: The bytes_in and bytes_out field in several events have been renamed as net_in_bytes and net_out_bytes. * zlib: Renamed to mail_compress plugin. + Experimental SMTPUTF8 and IMAP UTF8=ACCEPT support has been added. Needs --enable-experimental-mail-utf8 configure option and mail_utf8_extensions=yes setting. + Long running mail commands can be aborted with Ctrl-C / doveadm kick. + auth: LDAP driver now supports multi-value attributes. + auth: Add support for SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS and SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS. + auth: Add support for TLS channel binding. + auth: Support sending JA3 hash to policy server. + configure: Detect latest Lua version. + *-login: Support for TLS Server Name has been improved to allow pre-login settings. For example capabilities to be changed based on TLS Server Name. + *-login: Support for TLS ALPN has been added, connections with mismatching application are now refused. Missing ALPN is accepted. + fts-flatcurve: New Xapian based FTS plugin has been added. + imap: Support for INPROGRESS untagged messages as per RFC 9585. + lib-lua: Expose Dovecot DNS client. + lib-lua: Expose Dovecot HTTP client. + lib-sasl: Support SCRAM-SHA mechanisms. + lmtp: SNI support has been added which allows settings to be applied based on TLS Server Name. + sqlite: Support WAL mode. + stats: Submetric name size has been increased. + submission: Add submission_add_received_header setting to protect sender identity by suppressing the Received: header. - Many bugs have been fixed. Pigeonhole NEWS --------------- * Change configuration syntax to match new Dovecot configuration syntax. * vacation: Reduce default days to 60 from infinity * vacation: vacation_max_period=0 is now an error. * Version has been changed to match Dovecot version. + Added i;unicode-casecmp comparator. - Lots of bugs have been fixed.

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Doveadm backup and sieves
by Doug Hardie 15 Feb '25

15 Feb '25

I am using doveadm backup to backup mailfiles to a second drive. That works just fine. However, the sieve files are not backed up. I couldn't find anything in the backup documentation that addresses sieves. Is there a way to back those up also? -- Doug

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Segfault Errors
by Asai 15 Feb '25

15 Feb '25

Greetings, I just migrated over to Dovecot 2.4.0-2 on a new VM running Alma 9. Everything seems to be working fine but I'm noticing these errors on the VM console every couple of hours. Is this something that I can fix with system settings, or something that I can ignore? Were running the mailstore on NFS, if that's anything. Thanks for your assistance. Here's an example: [224035.047834] imap[119919]: segfault at 160 ip 00007f430f850d3b sp 00007ffff874fcf0 error 4 in libdovecot.so.0.0.0[7f430f4a0a80+138000] likely on CPU 0 (core 0, socket 0) [224035.048074] Code: ff 48 c7 c5 48 b6 0c 80 00 00 48 89 d5 3c b6 0c 80 00 48 83 c4 08 5b 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 f3 0f 1e fa 4 55 48 89 e5 53 <48> 8b bf 60 01 80 48 05 ff 74 51 48 89 f3 31 f6 e8 ef d7 ef ff [224058.098121] imap[119971]: segfault at 160 ip 00007f395e15d3b sp 00007ffff6e43b60 error 4 in libdovecot.so.0.0.0[7f395e0fa0a0+138000] likely on CPU 0 (core 0, socket 0) [224059.896511] Code: ff 48 c7 c5 48 b6 0c 80 00 00 48 89 d5 3c b6 0c 80 00 48 83 c4 08 5b 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 f3 0f 1e fa 4 55 48 89 e5 53 <48> 8b bf 60 01 80 48 05 ff 74 51 48 89 f3 31 f6 e8 ef d7 ef ff [224268.735121] imap[119917]: segfault at 160 ip 00007f9e4335d3b sp 00007ffff6d12ab0 error 4 in libdovecot.so.0.0.0[7f9e4324a0b0+138000] likely on CPU 0 (core 0, socket 0) [224268.736464] Code: ff 48 c7 c5 48 b6 0c 80 00 00 48 89 d5 3c b6 0c 80 00 48 83 c4 08 5b 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 f3 0f 1e fa 4 55 48 89 e5 53 <48> 8b bf 60 01 80 48 05 ff 74 51 48 89 f3 31 f6 e8 ef d7 ef ff Asai

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lmtp "Saved" but no maildir file
by MRob 15 Feb '25

15 Feb '25

Hello I have accounts with Maildir (mail_location is empty/default) and postfix using lmtp for delivery. Some account create new file in Maildir/new after each deliver. However a couple account I see lmtp successful delivery but no new file anywhere in the Maildir: lmtp(21379): Connect from local lmtp(me)<21379><Mbc+GgTmrofPHw4vAMIs8i>: msgid=<...trimmed...>: saved mail to INBOX 370A131BE: to=<me(a)example.com>, relay=email.example.com[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=0.3, delays=0.22/0.01/0.02/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 <me(a)example.com> Mbc+GgTmrofPHw4vAMIs8i Saved) lmtp(21379): Disconnect from local: Logged out (state=READY) /home/me/Maildir/new is empty and also try "find /home/me/Maildir -type f | wc -l" but no different before/after Very interesting I can see trace of message in dovecot cache! "grep -r 'domain.from.message.id' /home/" (search all accounts) says: grep: /home/me/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: binary file matches So dovecot put traces of message into Maildir but no message file after successful "Saved" in logs. What can I do?

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dovecot with libsodium on macos 10.13
by Jan Henk Koning 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '25

L.S. My name is Jan Henk Koning I am from the Netherlands and i would like youre help on the following subject. I saw a lot of reactions of you online in regards to questions about getting ARGON2I password hashing scheme available in dovecot. I tried a lot of suggestions and even installed / compiled your dovecot-libsodium-plugin-master which needed a lot of debugging on my system. Unfortunately I can not get it to work. I have dovecot 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0) installed via macports. I also have mysql8 and php83 all via macports. I understood that I needed to have libsodium installed, so I also installed that via Macports. The problem is that I can not find the way to tell dovecot to use the libsodium plugin. I tried "!include sodium.h" in my 10-auth.conf file, but that does not work. I also edited the portfile of dovecot with the line "--with sodium" no succes. sudo doveadm pw -l gives me: SHA1 SSHA512 SCRAM-SHA-256 BLF-CRYPT PLAIN HMAC-MD5 OTP SHA512 SHA DES-CRYPT CRYPT SSHA MD5-CRYPT PLAIN-MD4 PLAIN-MD5 SCRAM-SHA-1 CLEAR CLEARTEXT SSHA256 MD5 PBKDF2 SHA256 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN-TRUNC SMD5 DIGEST-MD5 LDAP-MD5 I can not find specific instructions for dovecot and sodium installed via Macports on macos. Can you maybe help me in the right direction ? Many thanks in advance, Best regards, Jan Henk Koning

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Migrating from 2.3 to 2.4 Maildir Config Problems
by Asai 13 Feb '25

13 Feb '25

Greetings, We've been using Dovecot since 2007, and I'm migrating yet again to a new version of Dovecot. Going from 2.3 to 2.4 and a lot of things have changed. I've been able to manage many of them, but I'm stuck on Maildir configuration, and I'm unable to understand the documentation as relates to this. Hopefully someone can clarify. Error: Initializing mail storage from mail_driver=maildir setting failed: maildir: maildir settings: Failed to parse configuration: Failed to override configuration from userdb: Invalid maildir=gcmm.net/test/: Setting is a named filter, use 'maildir {' Here's my doveconf as it has been migrated from 2.3 to 2.4 thus far. I realize that there are probably better ways to do things and I'm open to suggestions, but keep in mind that this is a production set up with hundreds of users and I've tried to maintain backwards compatibility through the years. Thanks for your assistance, Asai # 2.4.0 (daeb6bc59c): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.0 (1b2d5bb9) # OS: Linux 5.14.0-503.23.1.el9_5.x86_64 x86_64 AlmaLinux release 9.5 (Teal Serval) xfs # Hostname: xxxxx dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_allow_weak_schemes = yes auth_mechanisms = auth_mechanisms { plain = yes login = yes } auth_verbose_passwords = plain debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-debug.log default_vsz_limit = 512M deliver_log_format = msgid=%{msgid}: from=%{from}: %{deliver_log_format_extras} dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 hostname = xx.xxxx.xxxx log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_driver = maildir mail_fsync = always #mail_home = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/home mail_log_events { delete = yes undelete = yes expunge = yes copy = yes mailbox_delete = yes mailbox_rename = yes flag_change = yes append = yes } mail_log_fields { uid = yes box = yes msgid = yes from = yes flags = yes } #mail_path = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username } mmap_disable = yes protocols { imap = yes lmtp = yes sieve = yes } sql_driver = mysql submission_relay_host = xxxx.xxxx.xxxxx submission_relay_port = 587 submission_relay_ssl = starttls submission_relay_trusted = yes syslog_facility = local5 mysql localhost { dbname = xxxx password = xxxxx user = postfix } passdb sql { default_password_scheme = PLAIN-MD5 query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%{user}' } userdb sql { iterate_query = select username from mailbox; query = SELECT maildir, concat('/vmail/',maildir,'home') as home, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%{user}' and active = 1 } #namespace inbox { # inbox = yes # prefix = # separator = / # type = private #mailbox Drafts { # auto = subscribe # special_use { # "\\Drafts" = yes # } #} #mailbox Junk { # auto = subscribe # special_use { # "\\Junk" = yes # } #} #mailbox Spam { # special_use { # "\\Junk" = yes # } #} #mailbox Trash { # auto = subscribe # special_use { # "\\Trash" = yes # } #} #mailbox Sent { # auto = subscribe # special_use { # "\\Sent" = yes # } #} #mailbox "Sent Messages" { # special_use { # "\\Sent" = yes # } #} #mailbox "Sent Items" { # special_use { # "\\Sent" = yes # } #} #} #namespace empty { # prefix = # separator = / # alias_for = inbox # subscriptions = yes # mailbox_list_index_prefix = #} maildir { broken_filename_sizes = yes mail_path = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username } mail_home = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/home } service imap-login { restart_request_count = unlimited inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { vsz_limit = 512M unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service imap { process_limit = 4096 vsz_limit = 1024 MB } service auth { user = root unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service auth-worker { } service dict { unix_listener dict { } } ssl_server { cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/server.pem dh_file = /etc/dovecot/dh.pem key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/server.key } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } unix_listener stats-writer { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } protocol lda { } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins { mail_log = yes notify = yes } } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins { sieve = yes } } service managesieve-login { process_min_avail = 0 restart_request_count = 1 vsz_limit = 64M inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service managesieve { process_limit = 1024 } sieve_script personal { active_path = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/home/.dovecot.sieve driver = file path = /vmail/%{user | domain }/%{user | username }/home/sieve } sieve_script before { path = /vmail/sieve/junk-spam.sieve type = before } sieve_script after { path = /vmail/sieve/junk-spam.sieve type = after } mail_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes log_debug = category=mail

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Mustiple domains
by Ken Wright 13 Feb '25

13 Feb '25

I host two email servers, example1.com and example2.net. How can I configure Dovecot 2.4 to distinguish between the two? Ken

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Re: suggestion: Argon2id example in `doveadm pw` examples
by Michael Slusarz 13 Feb '25

13 Feb '25

> On 02/08/2025 10:31 PM MST Sean McBride via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > > It says here https://www.dovecot.org/bugreport-mail/ that bug reports should go to this list. Does that apply to suggestions too? Assuming so... Best practice these days is to file a bug report (or MR) to GitHub. https://github.com/dovecot/ shows the various Dovecot components. We are actively working on improving our various websites, so this updated recommendation will (eventually) work its way on the pages somewhere. > The docs here are very good: > > https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/man/doveadm-pw.1.html > > but it's always nice to have examples of current best practice. As I understand it, the best password hashing algorithm these days is Argon2id, according to: > > https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet… > > So it would be nice to have an example corresponding to best practices, showing use of argon2id. > > I could attempt a PR on GitHub if you'd like. That would be the proper way to suggest. Do note: as mentioned in another message to the list I just sent, the mission of the Dovecot documentation is to document how the software works. It is not to document email server hosting best practices. Determination of which PW hashing algorithm to use seems to be in the latter category. (Documenting that Dovecot supports argon2id is in scope per the former, but it sounds like we did our job there.) michael

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Dovecot's default password storage scheme is not GDPR compliant
by Rupert Gallagher 13 Feb '25

13 Feb '25

Dovecot aligns the password encryption scheme used by the imap client with the password storage scheme used by the server. Since the default is set to plain text, the client sends the password in plain text (tls tunneled), and the server local storage of passwords is a plain text file. For minimum protection, just enough to say you are not using plaintext, you can use md5, so the client sends the hashed password and the server's local storage is a plain text file containing hashed passwords. Last year a GDPR commissioner filed a hefty monetary sanction to a company because they used md5 to store passwords. Therefore, Dovecot's plain text default, and the md5 option, are both non-GDPR compliant. To avoid monetary sanctions, Dovecot ought to change how it stores passwords by default. Please do not ignore this message.

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dovecot 2.4.0: Unable to build without LDAP/LUA headers/libs.
by h_y_i_e_n＠yahoo.com 13 Feb '25

13 Feb '25

I'm getting LDAP/LUA build errors with dovecot 2.4.0 even when --without-lua and --without-ldap is specified: eg. In file included from db-ldap-settings.c:9: ../../src/lib-ldap/ldap-settings-parse.h:4:10: fatal error: ldap.h: No such file or directory 4 | #include <ldap.h> | ^~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make[3]: *** [Makefile:2134: auth-db-ldap-settings.o] Error 1

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Configuration rewrite feature is now in main
by Aki Tuomi 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Hi all! We were finally able to merge the content in 2.4.0 + new development to main. We had to rebase it few times before merging, so release-2.4.0 will not match with main exactly. 2.4.1 will be made from main though, so it will be fine again in this regards. Regards, Aki Tuomi

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Re: Dovecot's default password storage scheme is not GDPR compliant
by Michael Slusarz 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

GDPR applies to companies operating software, not the software itself. As Aki pointed out (somewhere) in this thread, Dovecot doesn't store passwords itself, and doesn't work unless an admin proactively configures at least one authentication mechanism, so it is "secure by default" under any definition I'm aware of. We might be open to a (short) MR on some language to add to the base authentication configuration page that would alert an admin to possible GDPR requirements. But the Dovecot configuration site is maintained to describe how the software works, not educate on what you might or might not need to do to operate a public mail platform, so the scope of such MR would need to be exceedingly narrow. michael > On 02/12/2025 9:16 AM MST infoomatic via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > > > On 12.02.25 01:25, Steven Varco via dovecot wrote: > > So, after my mandatory rant :D, the DEFAULT setup of dovecot should actually be as simple as possible. > > > I fully second that. There is no need to discuss whether dovecots > default password storage complies to GDPR or not. The administrator or > the liable person of a company is responsible for taking care about it, > just as Steven Varco mentioned, the same goes with web servers or any > publicly available service. The important point is: you can configure > dovecot complying to the GDPR. > > Because what's next - argue that a web framework is not GDPR compliant > in its standard configuration because there is no cookie consent popup > by default? This is ridiculous. > > Regards, > Robert > _______________________________________________ > dovecot mailing list -- dovecot(a)dovecot.org > To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-leave(a)dovecot.org

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Re: mailinglist (mailman) + dovecot
by Schulz 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Hello, just have a look at the mailman documentation (hooking up the mail server). Yes, mailman receives mail via LMTP. No, the container is not stateless, mailman processes data on local queue directories that should be persistent. Maybe you want to switch over to the mailman list after consulting the detailed mailman3 documentation. Am 12. Februar 2025 um 15:43 schrieb "Marc" <Marc(a)f1-outsourcing.eu mailto:Marc@f1-outsourcing.eu?to=%22Marc%22%20%3CMarc%40f1-outsourcing.eu%3E >: > > Yes I also don't like to have this on the server. I was just looking at these Dockerfiles they have there. I prefer to have an external stateless container for this. This mailman seems to connect to a database. So I was just wondering how it should receive the emails. > > currently I have sendmail deliver to docker lmtp. > FEATURE(`local_lmtp',`[IPC]',`FILE /var/run/dovecot/lmtp')dnl > > I guess I should be able to deliver remotely with something like this. > dnl FEATURE(`local_lmtp',`[IPC]',`TCP [192.168.xx.xx] 24')dnl > > Just need to figure out how to configure sendmail for what to use when. > > Do you know if you can run mailman in stateless containers because it stores everything in the db? And this lmtp is only for temporary new mail processing? And does it indeed have an 'lmtp" port open? > > > > > we always prefer to separate things, for example in docker containers > > (https://github.com/maxking/docker-mailman is the official one), but > > when you use a python .venv, isolation is already halfway done > > > > > > Am 12. Februar 2025 um 14:38 schrieb "Marc via dovecot" > > <dovecot(a)dovecot.org > > <mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org?to=%22Marc%20via%20dovecot%22%20%3Cdovecot%4 > > 0dovecot.org%3E> >: > > > > I was think of adding a mailinglist for a few users. First I > > thought about maybe using separate container for this, but maybe I can > > just also add this to the server running dovecot. > > > > Anyone having experience with running mailman or something else > > next to dovecot? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dovecot mailing list -- dovecot(a)dovecot.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-leave(a)dovecot.org > > >

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mailinglist (mailman) + dovecot
by Marc 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

I was think of adding a mailinglist for a few users. First I thought about maybe using separate container for this, but maybe I can just also add this to the server running dovecot. Anyone having experience with running mailman or something else next to dovecot?

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Dovecot uses wrong separator after migration, modify sieve script
by Matthias Fechner 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear all, I migrated a dovecot installation that was using pam to a virtual setup where users are stored in a SQL database. I see that my old pam based installation on the filesystem directories are starting with a dot. The new server does not have the leading dot. So even if the configuration is mostly equal, I cannot find a reason why dovecot changed its behavior here. I do not define a separator in the dovecot configuration and the same dovecot package on FreeBSD is used for both installations. My problem is now, that I use a rather complex sieve script to automatically sort mailinglist based emails automatically into subfolders. But as this script is using a dot it is now not moving the email into a nested directory like: github/haproxy/haproxy but is generating a flat directory (depth 1) as github.haproxy.haproxy I cannot change the behavior of dovecot, as I have several users running there and I do not want to cause problem for them changing the dovecot configuration. So I must modify the sieve script. As I do not really know the sieve syntax, I would like to ask if hopefully someone here can help me. I think is is necessary to change the dots to slashes before the fileinto is executed. The sievescript I use to sort mailing based emails into subfolder is: # # 2016-5-2 Script to sort mailing list mails automatically to folders # ## require [ "regex", "include", "variables", "fileinto", "envelope", "mailbox", "imap4flags", "vnd.dovecot.debug" ]; global ["sender_userpart", "sender_domain", "listname"]; # split out the various list forms # Mailman & other lists using list-id if exists "list-id" { fileinto :create "${listname}"; stop; } # Listar and mailman like elsif exists "x-list-id" { debug_log "Mailinglist: x-list-id found"; if header :regex "x-list-id" "<([a-z_0-9-]+)\\\\." { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } stop; } # Ezmlm elsif exists "mailing-list" { debug_log "Mailinglist: mailing-list found"; if header :regex "mailing-list" "([a-z_0-9-]+)@" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } stop; } # York lists service elsif exists "x-mailing-list" { debug_log "Mailinglist: x-mailing-list found"; if header :regex "x-mailing-list" "^\\\\s*([a-z_0-9-]+)@?" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } stop; } # Smartlist elsif exists "x-loop" { debug_log "Mailinglist: x-loop found"; if header :regex "x-loop" "^\\\\s*(a-z_0-9-]+)@?" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } stop;} # poorly identified elsif envelope :contains "from" "owner-" { debug_log "Mailinglist: poorly identified matched"; if envelope :regex "from" "owner-([a-z_0-9-]+)-outgoing@" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } elsif envelope :regex "from" "owner-([a-z_0-9-]+)@" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } elsif header :regex "Sender" "owner-([a-z_0-9-]+)@" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } stop;} # other poorly identified elsif envelope :contains "from" "-request" { if envelope :regex "from" "([a-z_0-9-]+)-request@" { set :lower "listname" "${1}"; fileinto :create "${listname}"; } else { keep; } stop; } Thanks a lot! Gruß Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Rich Cook

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Error in tests for Dovecot 2.4.0 aarch64
by Peter 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

When attempting to build Dovecot 2.4.0 on the aarch64 platform, when running tests... test-file-cache.c:268: Assert failed: file_cache_set_size(cache, 1024) == -1 Panic: file test-common.c: line 222 (test_expect_error_string_n_times): assertion failed: (expected_errors == 0) test-common.c:256: Assert failed: suppress == TRUE Error: Raw backtrace: #0 fatal_handler_real[0x7f73779dcca0] -> #1 default_fatal_handler[0x7f73779dcda0] -> #2 i_panic[0x7f73779766ec] -> #3 test_file_cache[0x7f7377997740] -> #4 main[0x7f7377977420] -> #5 __libc_start_call_main[0x4000008f4210] -> #6 __libc_start_main[0x4000008f42c0] -> #7 _start[0x7f7377977980] Any ideas on this one? Peter

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How do I change the password encryption scheme?
by Ken Wright 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

Still working through difficulties upgrading to Dovecot 2.4. Right now I'm having trouble getting my mail client (Evolution) to connect; I keep getting "temporary authentication failures." Before upgrading I was using the ARGON2I encryption scheme, so all my users' passwords are stored that way. How do I tell 2.4 to use ARGON2I by default? There used to be a "default_pass_scheme" parameter but that's apparently gone now. Any help is greatly appreciated! Ken

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Dovecot 2.4.0 fails to start with exit code 89
by Ken Wright 09 Feb '25

09 Feb '25

I've been trying to upgrade to 2.4.0. I've gone through the conf files, changing variables per the upgrade instructions. When I try to run sudo systemctl start dovecot.service, I get error 89. Journalctl shows me the error in question is "File name too long." I think it's coming from where 10-ssl.conf looks for the certs, but I'm probably wrong. Can anyone make a suggestion? Ken

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Different Replicator Crash??
by Kent Borg 09 Feb '25

09 Feb '25

I added the suggested "count--" and recompiled, and it now appears to work, the replication goes both ways, eyeballing the e-mail on the two servers they look the same. Good. But part of the time I am still getting what looks very much like the same crash, is there another "count--" I need to add to that file? > Jan 28 10:53:08 la dovecot[96175]: replicator: Panic: data stack: Out > of memory when allocating 268435496 bytes > Jan 28 10:53:08 la dovecot[96175]: replicator: Error: Raw backtrace: > #0 t_askpass[0x7fb404b0c0] -> #1 backtrace_append[0x7fb404b374] -> #2 > backtr\ > ace_get[0x7fb404b510] -> #3 execvp_const[0x7fb4057ba4] -> #4 > i_syslog_fatal_handler[0x7fb4058510] -> #5 i_panic[0x7fb3fa6808] -> #6 > t_pop_pass_st\ > r[0x7fb4050eb4] -> #7 connection_deinit[0x7fb4056430] -> #8 > pool_datastack_create[0x7fb407e7b0] -> #9 > array_bsearch_insert_pos_i[0x7fb40446d0] ->\ > #10 t_base64_scheme_decode[0x7fb404cb24] -> #11 > buffer_append[0x7fb404d3d0] -> #12 replicator_queue_push[0x558c4b4f40] > -> #13 replicator_brain_i\ > nit[0x558c4b53e4] -> #14 _start[0x558c4b3d70] -> #15 > _start[0x558c4b3f04] -> #16 io_loop_call_io[0x7fb4072f20] -> #17 > io_loop_handler_run_interna\ > l[0x7fb4075450] -> #18 io_loop_handler_run[0x7fb4075680] -> #19 > io_loop_run[0x7fb4075944] -> #20 master_service_run[0x7fb3fd84b0] -> > #21 main[0x5\ > 58c4b3930] -> #22 __libc_init_first[0x7fb3dd76d0] -> #23 > __libc_start_main[0x7fb3dd7780] -> #24 _start[0x558c4b3b80] > Jan 28 10:53:08 la dovecot[96175]: replicator: Fatal: master: > service(replicator): child 96714 killed with signal 6 (core dumps > disabled - https:\ > //dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) Thanks, -kb

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crash on authentication to 2.3.21
by Eugene M. Zheganin 09 Feb '25

09 Feb '25

Hello, I'm trying to move a dovecot mail server from a remote Cpanel VPS to my site. I've set up the dovectot to my knowledge, but as soon as I try to authenticate, I got a crash: ===Cut=== Feb 9 11:15:12 freebsd dovecot[89257]: imap-login: Login: user=<gluck(a)kimlab.link>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=92.255.139.77, lip=49.12.36.80, mpid=545, session=<O6+RtLMt1iBc/4tN> Feb 9 11:15:12 freebsd dovecot[89257]: imap(gluck(a)kimlab.link)<545><O6+RtLMt1iBc/4tN>: Panic: file array.c: line 10 (array_idx_modifiable_i): assertion failed: (idx < array->buffer->used / array->element_size) Feb 9 11:15:12 freebsd dovecot[89257]: imap(gluck(a)kimlab.link)<545><O6+RtLMt1iBc/4tN>: Fatal: master: service(imap): child 545 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) ===Cut=== Thhe only reference I've fount to this error is that it seems to be an issue in 2.3.17, but I have 2.3.21 version, so I think there's something in my config. I've also hhave a bunch of old maildirs and I tried to do a force-resync on 'em, but that didn't help. Here's my config: ===Cut=== # 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.21.1 (49005e73) # OS: FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE amd64 # Hostname: mail.kimlab.link auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login cram-md5 scram-sha-1 scram-sha-256 default_client_limit = 40963 default_process_limit = 10240 disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_gid = 143 first_valid_uid = 143 hostname = mail.kimlab.link mail_gid = 143 mail_home = /var/imap/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/ mail_uid = 143 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { location = maildir:/var/imap/%d/public prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = public } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } passdb { args = scheme=PLAIN username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file master = yes pass = yes } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/db/dovecot/shared-mailboxes fts = squat fts_autoindex = yes fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule = *:storage=50G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% quota_rule3 = Spam:storage=+20%% quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /var/imap/sieve/sieve-after sieve_before = /var/imap/sieve/sieve-before/spam.sieve sieve_default = /var/imap/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = /var/imap/%d/%n/sieve sieve_global_dir = /var/imap/sieve sieve_max_script_size = 1M } postmaster_address = postmaster(a)kimlab.link protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { client_limit = 62464 unix_listener /var/imap/private/auth { group = dovecot mode = 0660 user = dovecot } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot mode = 0660 user = dovecot } } service imap-login { client_limit = 10000 inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_limit = 10240 process_min_avail = 1 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 512 M } service imap { drop_priv_before_exec = yes process_limit = 10240 } service lmtp { unix_listener lmtp { group = dovecot mode = 0660 user = dovecot } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { user = dovecot } user = dovecot } service stats { unix_listener stats-writer { group = dovecot mode = 0660 user = dovecot } } ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/nginx/tls.d/kimlab.link.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it syslog_facility = local6 userdb { args = username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users default_fields = uid=dovecot gid=dovecot home=/var/imap/%d/%n driver = passwd-file } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " quota acl sieve" } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " quota acl sieve" } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 512 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota fts fts_squat } ===Cut=== here's my obfuscated users passdb file: ===Cut=== gluck@kimlab.link:{PLAIN}XXXXXXXXX:::::: emz@kimlab.link:{PLAIN}XXXXXXXXX:::::: ===Cut=== I'm totally open to any ideas. I can provide coredumps as well, but I tend to think that's something obvious since I have very little experience with dovecot. Thanks. Eugene.

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suggestion: Argon2id example in `doveadm pw` examples
by Sean McBride 09 Feb '25

09 Feb '25

Hi all, It says here https://www.dovecot.org/bugreport-mail/ that bug reports should go to this list. Does that apply to suggestions too? Assuming so... The docs here are very good: https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/man/doveadm-pw.1.html but it's always nice to have examples of current best practice. As I understand it, the best password hashing algorithm these days is Argon2id, according to: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet… So it would be nice to have an example corresponding to best practices, showing use of argon2id. I could attempt a PR on GitHub if you'd like. Cheers, Sean

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how to set pop3_deleted_flag for one mailbox (email address)?
by krzf83＠gmail.com 08 Feb '25

08 Feb '25

How to set pop3_deleted_flag for one (email address)? I've tried using extra_fields in userdb. pop3_deleted_flag seems to be ignored there. It makes no sense for pop3_deleted_flag be to be global setting and yet it seems to be so.

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Writing custom sieve plugins and extensions
by mb-dovecot＠mailroom.meme 08 Feb '25

08 Feb '25

I am a pretty heavy user of Sieve, and one of the services where I have extensive Sieve scripts is Protonmail. For my own mailserver setup, Dovecot's sieve-test has been excellent. I have a library of example email messages, and my own tooling setup for being able to test whether a given change has broken anything else unintentionally. If it does, I can trace the decision tree. With protonmail this has severe limitations. Most of those scripts apply expire, and what the expire is can change as it passes through the filters. But I cannot test any of that with sieve-test because that extension is unique to them. I always have to strip it out of sieve first, and that doesn't help me understand what's happening. I have some software engineering experience, so I was poking around at the pigeonhole source code, but since it's really focused on the RFC (understandably) there doesn't seem to be a friendly on-ramp to creating a one-off extension. What I'd really like to do though is make some kind of custom extension to sieve-test specifically which would allow the user to define custom vendor plugins/modules and appropriate messages. After all, I don't need sieve-test to know how to expire a message, I just need it to not throw an error on the extension when it's loaded, and to inform me in the output that it would have applied the expire action to a given message with a given value. I suspect the easiest way to do that is with a stubbed out extension that can handle that, but I'm open to other approaches that might work.

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Dovecot 2.4 quota_storage_size override from userdb not working
by Andreas Oster 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

Hello, I am currently trying to migrate my Dovecot 2.3 server to version 2.4. Unfortunately I do not seem to get the basic per user quota to work. I am using LDAP for userdb and have used the "Override: LDAP" example from https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/core/plugins/quota.html as a starting point. ( By the way, there is an error in the example: % is missing in front of "{ldap:quotaBytes}B" ) I have set the LDAP field according to my setup and validated with "doveadm auth test username" that the correct value is returned. In my case I get "quota_storage_size=3G" but this does not override the default value of 1G from the global quota config file: quota "User quota" { storage_size = 1G } Can someone please help with this issue ? Thank you very much. -- Best regards Andreas Oster

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question from a newbie
by Zane B Stein 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

My mail was hosted by a site that no longer handles email. I asked them if they could send me a file with all my emails in it and they said sure. I was thinking maybe I would get something I could import into Outlook such as a .pst or .ost file, or perhaps a .csv file. What I received was a zipped file and when I opened it there were a bunch of folders with emails in them in some strange format (each one with a . in front of it, such as .NEWMAIL ), plus a bunch of files along with the folders such as dovecat.index, dovecatindex.cache, dovecot.index.log2, dovecot.list.inex, divecot.mailbox and others with a dovecot prefix, plus one called maildirsize and one called subscriptions. I have no idea how to read the emails in this format. Can someone tell me how I can access the emails in this set of files? Feel free to ask if you need more information before you can answer. If I need a special program to read the files, is there an easy one available that is user friendly for someone with no experience with dovecot files? Thank you. Zane B Stein

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solved my problem
by Zane B Stein 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

In my initial post I questioned, as a newbie, how to access the email files I was given that were in dovecot format, and a few people were kind enough to explain things to me a bit. But some of the solutions were a bit over my head. And then I found a solution. I downloaded an app called "SysTools Maildir Converter" and was able to convert the whole email file into a .pst file, and input it in Outlook. Now all my emails are accessible, and I can reply to them like any other emails in Outlook. The only thing I don't exactly understand is that each folder I had with emails in it has a subfolder called "cur" and that is where all the emails reside. It is not an issue, just not sure exactly why that is so. (If someone has an idea why the emails are in "cur" subfolders rather than directly in the folders, and can explain it to me without getting super technical, that would be great. But it isn't a big deal, I'm just curious.) Zane

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Replicator Crash
by Kent Borg 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

I have replicator working well enough…to crash: > Jan 28 11:26:12 la dovecot[1187]: replicator: Panic: data stack: Out > of memory when allocating 268435496 bytes > Jan 28 11:26:12 la dovecot[1187]: replicator: Error: Raw backtrace: #0 > t_askpass[0x7fa59db0c0] -> #1 backtrace_append[0x7fa59db374] -> #2 > backtra\ > ce_get[0x7fa59db510] -> #3 execvp_const[0x7fa59e7ba4] -> #4 > i_syslog_fatal_handler[0x7fa59e8510] -> #5 i_panic[0x7fa5936808] -> #6 > t_pop_pass_str\ > [0x7fa59e0eb4] -> #7 connection_deinit[0x7fa59e6430] -> #8 > pool_datastack_create[0x7fa5a0e7b0] -> #9 > array_bsearch_insert_pos_i[0x7fa59d46d0] -> \ > #10 t_base64_scheme_decode[0x7fa59dcb24] -> #11 > buffer_append[0x7fa59dd3d0] -> #12 replicator_queue_push[0x556e8f4f40] > -> #13 replicator_brain_in\ > it[0x556e8f53e4] -> #14 _start[0x556e8f3d70] -> #15 > _start[0x556e8f3f04] -> #16 io_loop_call_io[0x7fa5a02f20] -> #17 > io_loop_handler_run_internal\ > [0x7fa5a05450] -> #18 io_loop_handler_run[0x7fa5a05680] -> #19 > io_loop_run[0x7fa5a05944] -> #20 master_service_run[0x7fa59684b0] -> > #21 main[0x55\ > 6e8f3930] -> #22 __libc_init_first[0x7fa57676d0] -> #23 > __libc_start_main[0x7fa5767780] -> #24 _start[0x556e8f3b80] > Jan 28 11:26:12 la dovecot[1187]: replicator: Fatal: master: > service(replicator): child 1185 killed with signal 6 (core dumps > disabled - https://\ > dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) This is on Debian 12. > # dovecot --version > 2.3.19.1 (9b53102964) There are gigabytes of free RAM, though it says it is trying to allocate 268,435,496 bytes--on the stack--and that does seem wrong in any case. The Maildir being synced is over 430MB, is that too much for dsync?? Suggestions? Thanks, -kb

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iOS email content loading issue
by Zieseniss Peter 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

Hello All, i hope everyone is well! i have a rather irksome and pressing issue that i can't seem to resolve.. This happens only on iOS devices.. Specifically, the problem is that the content of messages seems to timeout when it loads either when you open a message, or when you hit reply or forward, or whatever.. The email appears to load, but the content simply never shows up, leaving only a wheel that says 'Loading' Please see a screenshot of what it looks like: https://zconsulting.net/_stuff/dovecot-ios-loading.jpg This happens on all iOS devices (at least 18), many different versions from the most current down to iOS 16.. This has been happening for at least 2 years, and it happens about 50-80% of the time when interacting with an older message (more than 6 months old) Mail on macOS, Thunderbird on Windows, and RoundCube on the server all work perfectly.. Note that most of these accounts have at between 12GB and 80GB (that's the extreme case) of email.. The server is: Dedicated 4-Core Xeon, 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD AlmaLinux release 8.10 (Cerulean Leopard) Dovecot 2.3.21.1 Exim 4.98 Here's what i've tried: On the server, i installed FTS-Xapian On the server, i set mail_max_userip_connections=512 On the clients, i disabled all email privacy settings and disabled iCloud mail The problem is that i really can't figure out what the issue is, but this seems to be a very common issue between Dovecot and iOS, judging by the amount of similar questions i see on g00gle, but no useful answers (example here <https://dovecot.org/mailman3/archives/list/dovecot@dovecot.org/thread/6YCEV…>).. It certainly seems like the iOS mail client is timing out when receiving the body of these older messages, but i don't see anything useful in the logs.. Please help! Any suggestions are welcome! My client is about to crucify me over this.. Thank You All in advance! Sincerely, Peter -- Peter Zieseniss Principal https://www.zconsulting.net peter(a)zconsulting.net

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Fatal: block_alloc(134217728): Out of memory
by Michael 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

hey, :) i have a postfix instance trying to deliver a message to dovecot via lmtp, but fails due to an out-of-memory error in dovecot: the message is generated by a cron job like a thousand times before, and hundreds of times afterwards. the only thing maybe worth mentioning is its size of ~80MB. but since i don't have any size limits configured, i don't see why it shouldn't be delivered. any hints are appreciated! greetings... # dovecot --version 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0) # cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dovecot.list #deb http://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.3-latest/debian/bullseye bullseye main deb https://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.3-latest/debian/bullseye bullseye main postfix log: Feb 5 12:21:42 mail01 postfix/qmgr[1175]: B95E360E5C: from=<root(a)mail01.example.com>, size=85100558, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 5 12:21:43 mail01 postfix/lmtp[3990]: B95E360E5C: to=<root(a)example.com>, orig_to=<root>, relay=mail01.example.com[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=3265236, delays=3265235/0.01/0.01/1.1, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (lost connection with mail01.example.com[private/dovecot-lmtp] while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once) dovecot log: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-lmtp.log:Feb 05 12:21:43 lmtp(root(a)example.com)<3991><SEldMcZJo2eXDwAAPczdCw>: Fatal: block_alloc(134217728): Out of memory /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-lmtp.log:Feb 05 12:21:43 lmtp(root(a)example.com)<3991><SEldMcZJo2eXDwAAPczdCw>: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_append+0x42) [0x7f439cc1e662] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(backtrace_get+0x1e) [0x7f439cc1e77e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1043db) [0x7f439cc2b3db] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x104411) [0x7f439cc2b411] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5688f) [0x7f439cb7d88f] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5ae87) [0x7f439cb81e87] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x1245ac) [0x7f439cc4b5ac] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(+0x2f524) [0x7f439c30b524] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(+0x307e9) [0x7f439c30c7e9] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(sieve_message_body_get_text+0x4a) [0x7f439c30d40a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(ext_body_get_part_list+0x51) [0x7f439c34a3e1] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(+0x6ebc2) [0x7f439c34abc2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(sieve_interpreter_continue+0x9a) [0x7f439c320cda] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0(sieve_multiscript_run+0x92) [0x7f439c338202] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib90_sieve_plugin.so(+0x39ba) [0x7f439c3a99ba] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so.0(mail_deliver+0x179) [0x7f439ce6f8d9] -> dovecot/lmtp(lmtp_local_default_deliver+0x1d4) [0x55c39e8ec724] -> dovecot/lmtp(lmtp_local_data+0x5ac) [0x55c39e8ece7c] -> dovecot/lmtp(client_default_cmd_data+0x18d) [0x55c39e8eb83d] -> dovecot/lmtp(cmd_data_continue+0x180) [0x55c39e8eb5d0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x7628b) [0x7f439cb9d28b] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x69) [0x7f439cc41609] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0x132) [0x7f439cc42cf2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x50) [0x7f439cc416b0] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x40) [0x7f439cc41870] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f439cbb38e3] -> dovecot/lmtp(main+0x22a) [0x55c39e8ea27a] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xea) [0x7f439c972d7a] -> dovecot/lmtp(_start+0x2a) [0x55c39e8ea38a]

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Help with migration of LDAP Quota config to 2.4.0
by Eduardo Costa 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

Hi, I converted most of my configuration to 2.4.0, but I couldn't figure out in the documentation how to convert my LDAP-based quota configuration: ... dict { quota = ldap:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext } .... mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota ... protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota } ... user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home,mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:storage=%$B,mail_plugins ... plugin { quota = maildir quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% } How can I convert to the new version, or even to the new driver count? Regards, Eduardo Costa

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RFC 2971: Cannot find Client ID in LOG
by Patrick Ben Koetter 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

Greetings, I'm trying to get dovecot (2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0)) to note a client's ID (see: RFC 2971) in the LOG, but no matter if I increase LOG verbosity using (mail|auth)_debug = yes or not I can't find it allthough dovecot supports the RFC, shows it in a session and responds to it like this: # telnet localhost 143 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE LITERAL+ STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. a0001 LOGIN user password a0001 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY PREVIEW=FUZZY PREVIEW STATUS=SIZE SAVEDATE LITERAL+ NOTIFY SPECIAL-USE] Logged in a0002 ID ("name" "sodr" "version" "19.34" "vendor" "Pink Floyd Music Limited") * ID ("name" "Dovecot") a0002 OK ID completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). a0003 LOGOUT * BYE Logging out a0003 OK Logout completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). In the LOG I see this: Feb 05 11:17:13 v22016013320531498 dovecot[319998]: imap-login: Login: user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=320008, secured I would expect it to note something like that: Feb 05 11:17:13 v22016013320531498 dovecot[319998]: imap-login: Login: user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=320008, id=... secured Am I doing it wrong? TIA, p@rick -- [*] sys4 AG https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG,80333 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein

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Exim / Dovecot v2.4.0 authentication patch
by Timo Sirainen 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

Hi, Dovecot v2.4.0 changed authentication protocol slightly to allow new functionality (SCRAM TLS channel binding). It attempted to preserve backwards compatibility by checking client-provided VERSION first before sending data that the client wouldn't handle correctly. However, Exim's Dovecot authenticator doesn't send VERSION until Dovecot has sent the whole authentication handshake. This causes Exim to get stuck when trying to authenticate. I guess we'll provide some kind of a workaround for v2.4.1, but this should get fixed on Exim side as well. Attached a patch that I tested works (against 4.97-4ubuntu4).

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OpenLDAP Pass-through Authentication
by Dino Edwards 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

Hi, Trying to get pass-through authentication working however, I'm running to the following error in OpenLDAP: openldap | 679ceede.3aa31e0a 0x7f2ff617e6c0 conn=1004 op=1 SRCH attr=uid mail displayName openldap | 679ceede.3aa4b816 0x7f2ff617e6c0 conn=1004 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 qtime=0.000019 etime=0.000172 nentries=1 text= openldap | 679ceede.3aaafd88 0x7f2ff597d6c0 conn=1005 fd=14 ACCEPT from IP=172.16.32.1:47082 (IP=0.0.0.0:1389) openldap | 679ceede.3aab8f34 0x7f2ff597d6c0 conn=1005 op=0 BIND dn="cn=username(a)domain.tld,ou=users,dc=domain,dc=local" method=128 openldap | 679ceede.3aac9267 0x7f2ff597d6c0 SASL [conn=1005] Failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory openldap | 679ceede.3aad25b9 0x7f2ff597d6c0 conn=1005 op=0 RESULT tag=97 err=49 qtime=0.000005 etime=0.000120 text= openldap | 679ceede.3ab0191f 0x7f2ff617e6c0 conn=1005 fd=14 closed (connection lost) openldap | 679ceede.3ab3d76a 0x7f2ff597d6c0 conn=1004 fd=13 closed (connection lost) I followed the admin docs at: https://www.openldap.org/doc/admin26/guide.html#Pass-Through%20authenticatio n Here's what I did: Created /usr/lib/sasl2/slapd.conf with the following content: mech_list: plain pwcheck_method: saslauthd saslauthd_path: /var/run/sasl2/mux Created /etc/saslauthd.conf with the following content: ldap_servers: ldap://192.168.xxx.xxx.xxx ldap_search_base: OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=tld ldap_filter: (uid=%u) ldap_bind_dn: CN=saslauthd,CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=tld ldap_password: somepassword Added a user that already exists in domain.tld in openldap with the following password: {SASL}username(a)domain.tld I would appreciate some help on this. Thanks

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Re: [OFFLIST] Re: IMAP dovecot\postgres low authentication performance
by Anatoliy Zhestov 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

> > Long ago in MagicMail we recognized that there was a problem with > Postgres direct back addressing a large number of AUTH attempts at once, > and we went down the road to using a high performace DBFILE mechanisms, > with real time updates from the Postgres database.. allowed us to scale > greatly.. Thank you, this looks interesting but I don't really understand how to organize it correctly. Do you have a link to some manual that could serve as an example? On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM Michael Peddemors <michael(a)linuxmagic.com> wrote: > Long ago in MagicMail we recognized that there was a problem with > Postgres direct back addressing a large number of AUTH attempts at once, > and we went down the road to using a high performace DBFILE mechanisms, > with real time updates from the Postgres database.. allowed us to scale > greatly.. > > Don't know much about you, your product or use case, just thought it > might help.. > > On 2025-02-02 21:05, Anatoliy Zhestov via dovecot wrote: > > Hi. We have a performance problem with imap authentication through > > postgresql. > > Our servers(modoboa based) have a big amount of permanent imap > > connections(5000-50000). > > Current performance is about 3000 successful authentications per hour. No > > visible reasons for such low speed. Accordingly, after a network failure > or > > server restart, all clients try to reconnect, but restoring the > connection > > pool takes hours and even tens of hours. Judging by the logs after the > > restart, a huge number of auth requests closed by timeout after 70-90 > > seconds. The postgresql database is not overloaded at the restore > > connections process and the postgresql connection pool (100) does not > > overflow. Manually started sql auth queries work fast, tables have > indexes. > > So I guess there is a bottleneck somewhere in dovecot auth service or > > postgresql driver. > > > > I couldn't find any settings in the documentation that are directly > > responsible for regulating the number of connections to PostgreSQL from > the > > auth service or performance of the driver. Is there any way to manage > this? > > Does it make sense to use pgbouncer in front of the base? What else can > be > > a bottleneck in our configuration and how to regulate the number of > > possible simultaneous authentications via PostgreSQL? I would be happy > for > > any advice on how to increase the performance to at least 100 > > authentications per second. > > > > > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Anatoliy Zhestov. > > > > ---------------- configs of server with 48 core, 184 gb mem > --------------- > > > > dovecot 2.3.16 > > # 2.3.16 (7e2e900c1a): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > > # Pigeonhole version 0.5.16 (09c29328) > > # OS: Linux 5.15.0-126-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS > > # Hostname: imap.ourcompany.net > > auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 > > auth_cache_size = 20 M > > auth_cache_ttl = 3 hours > > auth_master_user_separator = * > > auth_mechanisms = plain login > > default_client_limit = 131072 > > default_process_limit = 131072 > > dict { > > quota = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext > > } > > mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir > > mail_plugins = quota > > managesieve_notify_capability = mailto > > managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character > > vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex > imap4flags > > copy include variables body enotify environment mai > > lbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext editheader > > imapflags notify vnd.dovecot.pipe vnd.dovecot.execute > > namespace inbox { > > inbox = yes > > location = > > mailbox Drafts { > > auto = subscribe > > special_use = \Drafts > > } > > mailbox Junk { > > auto = subscribe > > special_use = \Junk > > } > > mailbox Sent { > > auto = subscribe > > special_use = \Sent > > } > > mailbox Trash { > > auto = subscribe > > special_use = \Trash > > } > > prefix = > > } > > passdb { > > args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext > > driver = sql > > } > > passdb { > > args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext > > driver = sql > > master = yes > > pass = yes > > } > > plugin { > > quota = dict:User quota::proxy::quota > > sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve > > sieve_dir = ~/sieve > > sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute > > sieve_execute_socket_dir = . > > sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags +editheader +body > > +vnd.dovecot.execute +vnd.dovecot.pipe > > sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute > > sieve_pipe_socket_dir = . > > sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms > > } > > protocols = " imap lmtp sieve" > > service anvil { > > client_limit = 393219 > > } > > service auth { > > client_limit = 524288 > > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { > > group = postfix > > mode = 0666 > > user = postfix > > } > > unix_listener auth-radicale { > > group = radicale > > mode = 0666 > > user = radicale > > } > > unix_listener auth-userdb { > > user = vmail > > } > > } > > service config { > > vsz_limit = 1 G > > } > > service dict { > > unix_listener dict { > > mode = 0600 > > user = vmail > > } > > } > > service imap { > > executable = imap postlogin > > process_limit = 131072 > > vsz_limit = 1 G > > } > > service lmtp { > > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { > > group = postfix > > mode = 0600 > > user = postfix > > } > > vsz_limit = 512 M > > } > > service pop3 { > > executable = pop3 postlogin > > } > > service postlogin { > > executable = script-login /usr/local/bin/postlogin.sh > > service_count = 1000 > > process_min_avail = 5 > > user = modoboa > > } > > > > service send-to-click-frontapp1 { > > executable = script > > /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute/clickhouse_log_frontapp1.sh > > unix_listener send-to-click-frontapp1 { > > group = vmail > > mode = 0666 > > user = vmail > > } > > user = dovenull > > vsz_limit = 2 G > > } > > service send-to-click { > > executable = script /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute/clickhouse_log.sh > > unix_listener send-to-click { > > group = vmail > > mode = 0666 > > user = vmail > > } > > user = dovenull > > vsz_limit = 2 G > > } > > service stats { > > unix_listener stats-reader { > > group = vmail > > mode = 0660 > > user = vmail > > } > > unix_listener stats-writer { > > group = vmail > > mode = 0660 > > user = vmail > > } > > vsz_limit = 2 G > > } > > ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/imap.ourcompany.net/fullchain.pem > > ssl_cipher_list = > > > EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384:EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256:EECDH+aRSA+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+SHA256:EECDH+aRSA+RC4:EECDH:EDH+aRSA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!PSK:!SRP:!DSS:!RC4 > > ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs > > ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it > > ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it > > ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1 > > stats_writer_socket_path = > > userdb { > > driver = prefetch > > } > > userdb { > > args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext > > driver = sql > > } > > protocol lmtp { > > mail_plugins = quota sieve > > postmaster_address = postmaster(a)imap.ourcompany.net > > } > > protocol imap { > > mail_max_userip_connections = 50 > > mail_plugins = quota imap_quota > > } > > > > > > > > > > /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ex > > driver = pgsql > > connect = host=127.0.0.1 port=5432 dbname=modoboa user=modoboa > > password=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > > password_query = SELECT email AS user, password FROM core_user WHERE > > email='%u' and is_active and master_user > > > > > > /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext > > driver = pgsql > > connect = host=127.0.0.1 port=5432 dbname=modoboa user=modoboa > > password=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > > user_query = SELECT '/srv/vmail/%d/%n' AS home, 1003 as uid, 1003 as gid, > > '*:bytes=' || mb.quota || 'M' AS quota_rule FROM admin_mailbox mb INNER > > JOIN admin_domain dom ON mb.domain_id=dom.id INNER JOIN core_user u ON > > u.id=mb.user_id > > WHERE (mb.is_send_only IS NOT TRUE OR '%s' NOT IN ('imap', 'pop3', > 'lmtp')) > > AND mb.address='%n' AND dom.name='%d' > > password_query = SELECT email AS user, password, '/srv/vmail/%d/%n' AS > > userdb_home, 1003 AS userdb_uid, 1003 AS userdb_gid, CONCAT('*:bytes=', > > mb.quota, 'M') AS userdb_quota_rule FROM core_user u INNER JOIN > > admin_mailbox mb ON u.id=mb.user_id INNER JOIN admin_domain dom ON > > mb.domain_id=dom.id WHERE (mb.is_send_only IS NOT TRUE OR '%s' NOT IN > > ('imap', 'pop3')) AND email='%u' AND is_active AND dom.enabled > > iterate_query = SELECT email AS user FROM core_user > > > > > > > > /usr/local/bin/postlogin.sh > > #!/bin/sh > > PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin" > > psql -c "UPDATE core_user SET last_login=now() WHERE username='$USER'" > > > /dev/null > > exec "$@" > > > > > > /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute/clickhouse_log_frontapp1.sh > > #!/bin/bash > > cd /tmp > > logger -i -t SIEVE_TEST "$1,$2,$3,$4" > > clickhouse-client -h XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -d default -u some_user --password > > XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \ > > --param_origin_from="$1" \ > > --param_origin_to="$2" \ > > --param_message_id="$3" \ > > --param_forward="$4" \ > > -q "INSERT INTO frontapp1_redirects > > (origin_from_email,origin_to_email,message_id,forward_email) VALUES > > > ({origin_from:String},{origin_to:String},{message_id:String},{forward:String})" > > > > /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute/clickhouse_log.sh > > #!/bin/bash > > cd /tmp > > logger -i -t SIEVE_TEST "$1,$2,$3,$4" > > clickhouse-client -h XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -d default -u some_user --password > > XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \ > > --param_origin_from="$1" \ > > --param_origin_to="$2" \ > > --param_message_id="$3" \ > > --param_forward="$4" \ > > -q "INSERT INTO frontapp_redirects > > (origin_from_email,origin_to_email,message_id,forward_email) VALUES > > > ({origin_from:String},{origin_to:String},{message_id:String},{forward:String})" > > _______________________________________________ > > dovecot mailing list -- dovecot(a)dovecot.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-leave(a)dovecot.org > > > -- > "Catch the Magic of Linux..." > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Michael Peddemors, President/CEO LinuxMagic Inc. > Visit us at http://www.linuxmagic.com @linuxmagic > A Wizard IT Company - For More Info http://www.wizard.ca > "LinuxMagic" a Reg. TradeMark of Wizard Tower TechnoServices Ltd. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 604-682-0300 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada > >

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Dovecot autoexpunge lock errors - Couldn't create dovecot.autoexpunge.lock
by mihai.aurel88＠gmail.com 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Hello, We are seeing lots of errors like this in the logs: "dovecot: imap(user@domain)<31219><Dly3bTyt4tesENjH>: Error: autoexpunge: Couldn't create dovecot.autoexpunge.lock lock: file_create_locked(/home/virtual/domain/user/dovecot.autoexpunge.lock) failed: fstat(/home/virtual/domain/user/dovecot.autoexpunge.lock) failed: Stale file handle" We don't understand why Dovecot is trying to create the dovecot.autoexpunge.lock file in the mail home directory instead of mail location directory. For some accounts, the dovecot.autoexpunge.lock file is correctly created inside the mail home directory. Any ideas on what could be causing this behavior? # doveadm user user@domain field value uid 150 gid 8 home /home/virtual/domain/user mail maildir:~/Maildir quota_rule *:bytes=8192000000 # doveconf -n # 2.3.21.1 # Pigeonhole version 0.5.21.1 # OS: Linux 6.1.0-29-amd64 x86_64 Debian 12.9 auth_cache_verify_password_with_worker = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes auth_worker_max_count = 256 default_client_limit = 10000 default_process_limit = 10000 default_vsz_limit = 1 G dict { lastlogin = mysql:/etc/dovecot/mysql/dovecot-dict-lastlogin.conf quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/mysql/dovecot-dict-quota.conf } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 100 imap_hibernate_timeout = 30 secs log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l pid=%p %c login_trusted_networks = mail_fsync = always mail_gid = 8 mail_home = /home/virtual/%d/%n mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_plugins = zlib quota mail_log notify mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = 150 maildir_stat_dirs = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave metric imap_command { filter = event=imap_command_finished AND tagged_reply_state=OK group_by = cmd_name } metric imap_select_no { filter = event=imap_command_finished AND cmd_name=SELECT AND tagged_reply_state=NO } metric imap_select_no_notfound { filter = event=imap_command_finished AND cmd_name=SELECT AND tagged_reply="NO*Mailbox doesn't exist:*" } metric storage_http_gets { filter = event=http_request_finished AND category=storage AND method=get } mmap_disable = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = subscribe autoexpunge = 30 days special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe autoexpunge = 60 days special_use = \Trash } mailbox virtual/All { special_use = \All } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/mysql/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { last_login_dict = proxy::lastlogin last_login_key = # hidden, use -P to show it mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_rule2 = Trash:ignore quota_rule3 = Spam:ignore quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 The email account that you tried to reach is over quota quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_vacation_send_from_recipient = yes trash = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-trash.conf zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } protocols = imap sieve pop3 lmtp service anvil { client_limit = 50000 unix_listener anvil-auth-penalty { mode = 00 } } service auth { client_limit = 50000 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = mail mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = root vsz_limit = 1 G } service dict { unix_listener dict { mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service imap-hibernate { unix_listener imap-hibernate { group = $default_internal_group mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = * port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = * port = 993 } process_min_avail = 1 service_count = 0 } service imap { extra_groups = $default_internal_group process_min_avail = 16 unix_listener imap-master { user = $default_internal_user } vsz_limit = 2 G } service lmtp { process_min_avail = 16 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } vsz_limit = 1 G } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } process_min_avail = 16 service_count = 1 } service managesieve { vsz_limit = 1 G } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { address = * port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { address = * port = 995 } process_min_avail = 16 service_count = 1 } service pop3 { process_min_avail = 16 vsz_limit = 1 G } service quota-status { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/quota-status -p postfix process_min_avail = 16 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/quota-status { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = vmail } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { mode = 0660 user = vmail } unix_listener stats-writer { mode = 0666 user = vmail } } ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/cert.pem ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1 userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/mysql/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol imap { imap_max_line_length = 64 k mail_max_userip_connections = 16 mail_plugins = zlib quota mail_log notify trash imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugins = zlib quota mail_log notify pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_fast_size_lookups = yes pop3_no_flag_updates = yes pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol sieve { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 managesieve_max_compile_errors = 5 } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins = zlib quota mail_log notify sieve sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail syslog_facility = mail } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = zlib quota mail_log notify sieve syslog_facility = mail }

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Clarification Question about migrating_mailboxes and broken doc link
by Aleks 02 Feb '25

02 Feb '25

Hi. I have read the https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/admin_manual/migrating_mailboxes/#id7 and there is one part which is not 100% clear to me. We have 2 Dovecot servers mail1 (2.2.36.4) and mail2 ( 2.3.21 ). Now I have understood that I need to add this to mail1 ``` service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 12354 } } doveadm_password = supersecret ``` and this on mail2 ``` doveadm_password = supersecret ``` The question is for me now: I think that this command `doveadm backup -Ru username tcp:host:port` should be executed on the mail2. Is this assumption right? What I also found is that on that Page https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/admin_manual/doveadm_mailbox_commands/ the wiki is linked for the manpages but the wiki link shows this. ``` The old wiki has been closed Our primary documentation is now at https://doc.dovecot.org, please update your links. ``` What's the right link for the manpages in the web? Best regards Aleks

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[Off-topic] ANN: Nauthilus
by Christian Rößner 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

Today I am pleased to announce the Nauthilus software. Nauthilus (N-Auth-ilus) is a centralized authentication server with a comprehensive policy engine. The idea behind this project is to connect services centrally in one place and perform extensive tests during authentication. # What can Nauthilus do and what problems does it solve? Many services on the Internet require authentication. Each application must then be connected to databases and must implement its own protective measures to ward off attackers. Every installation carries the risk of compromisation and therefore also access to the databases. With Nauthilus, the task is centralized in one place. Nauthilus is essentially an HTTP REST server that can be accessed by any application. It takes on the role of a guardian. Nauthilus integrates very well with Dovecot and Postfix. # Authentication process Nauthilus uses several authentication steps: ## 1. features Features include tests such as TLS verification, relay domains (is the system even responsible for the requested domain?), blocklists, RBLs and freely definable Lua features. Nauthilus has a powerful brute force concept with buckets to detect even slow attacks over days and weeks. It offers a bucket system for this purpose. ## 2. backend authentication Nauthilus includes LDAP support and Lua to perform the authentication itself. A large library of predefined functions is available in Lua, including SQL support. ## 3 Policies Policies are run through after authentication. Despite a successful login, the system can reject the login (or, conversely, allow it!). There is also space here for GeoIP lookups, etc. ## 4. Post-processing After the 3rd point, authentication has been completed, but at this point further tests can run in the background such as: * Check password policy and take action * Consult the Haveibeenpwnd network * GeoIP tracking across national borders and much more. ## Miscellaneous Nauthilus allows the free definition of so-called hooks. Each hook listens for a specific URI (callback) in the HTTP request. These callbacks are written by the administrator in Lua. In an initial proof of concept, Nauthilus can take on the role of a Dovecot director. This has already been tested with version 2.4.0. Currently, Nauthilus can dynamically delegate incoming connections to backends. The hooks concept is used here as an example. # Final words By integrating a Lua VM into the server, Nauthilus can be integrated and customized in almost any setup. See also the other Nauthilus-related projects listed in the appendix. To enable single sign-on (SSO), it can be operated with an Ory-Hydra server or the sister project nauthilus-keycloak can be used as a custom authenticator in Keycloak. 100% Open-Source 100% Community # Project https://github.com/croessner/nauthilus # Sub projects https://github.com/croessner/nauthilus-demo https://github.com/croessner/nauthilus-keycloak https://github.com/croessner/pfxhttp https://github.com/croessner/geoip-policyd # Mailing lists: https://lists.nauthilus.org N.B.: In the future, announcements are sent over the nauthilus-announce ML. This is just a hello world! Christian Rößner -- Rößner-Network-Solutions Zertifizierter ITSiBe / CISO Marburger Str. 70a, 36304 Alsfeld Fax: +49 6631 78823409, Mobil: +49 171 9905345 USt-IdNr.: DE225643613, https://roessner.website PGP fingerprint: 658D 1342 B762 F484 2DDF 1E88 38A5 4346 D727 94E5

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Replication ade
by Hanns Mattes 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

Hei, mit 2.4 verschwindet ja, wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe, die Replication aus dem Werkzeugkasten von Dovecot. Obwohl ich nur ein recht kleines System mit etwa 500 Nutzern betreibe fand ich die Replication als ziemlich beruhigend :-) Meine Frage in die Runde: Wie wollt Ihr die Replikation ersetzen? Irgendwas mit NFS oder gibt es da eine empfohlene Herangehensweise? Fragende Grüße Hanns -- Sig for hire.

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Re: 2.4.0 on MacOS
by John Muccigrosso 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

(Looks like I forgot to reply to the list last time.) With `sudo dovecot -F`, I'm now getting: Fatal: setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, 2147483648): Invalid argument The old(?) solution doesn't work for me: default_vsz_limit = 0 It reports: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /opt/homebrew/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: service(log): vsz_limit is too low > On Feb 1, 2025, at 08:55, John Muccigrosso <muccigrosso(a)icloud.com> wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2025, at 07:31, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> wrote: > >> You sure the default internal group isnt _dovecot as well? > > I'm not sure what you're asking. Do I not have the internal group set via this line?: > > default_internal_group = mail > > I think I may have to dig into group memberships, if this is the issue. I'm getting conflicting result when checking. That is, when I check the group "mail" for members, _dovecot isn't in it, even though checking which groups _dovecot belongs to includes "mail". The opposite happens for the "dovecot" group. And dovecot itself can't find the _dovecot or dovecot group. Seems to be a macOS thing with group membership. > >> You are missing >> >> mail_home = /Users/%{user} > > Thanks. As I said, I was trying to follow the documentation where they give the two lines under Maildir, but not this third one (even though it's given in the first part of this section).

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2.4.0 missing fields in documentation for event smtp_server_transaction_finished
by Christian Rößner 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

Hi, Event: smtp_server_transaction_finished remote_ip and remote_port are also available Feature-request: Please also add user to the fields, as lmtp_proxy=yes does a userdb lookup and is aware of the user. Would make things much easier... Regards Christian Rößner -- Rößner-Network-Solutions Zertifizierter ITSiBe / CISO Marburger Str. 70a, 36304 Alsfeld Fax: +49 6631 78823409, Mobil: +49 171 9905345 USt-IdNr.: DE225643613, https://roessner.website PGP fingerprint: 658D 1342 B762 F484 2DDF 1E88 38A5 4346 D727 94E5

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2.4.0 on MacOS
by John Muccigrosso 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

I got bitten by the upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4 on my MacOS laptop. I know enough to be dangerous here and had a set-up that was working fine, but now I can't quite figure out how to modify my conf file to work correctly. The current error I'm getting is that there is no group "dovecot" even though I've created one and made the default user a member: > Fatal: service(dict) Group doesn't exist: dovecot More broadly I find the documentation hard to follow, as others seem to have noted in the past. Any help appreciated. Jackie

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Help understanding doveadm-sync stateful
by Bruno MATEU 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

Hello, With the removal of the replication plugin in next releases, i'm trying to setup automatic synchronization using doveadm sync between my master and my replica. I managed to make the full sync work from my replica using the following comamnd `sync -A -N -R -f tcp:master-fqdn:12345` However i'd like to do stateful synchronization to avoid doing the full replication each time, and i haven't managed to do that. I tried the following: `doveadm sync -A -N -R -s "$(</var/lib/dovecot/sync-state)" tcp:master-fqdn:12345 > /var/lib/dovecot/sync-state`. However this output a `doveadm(username): Error: Saved sync state is invalid, falling back to full sync: Invalid base64 data` for every user. After looking at the state in /var/lib/dovecot/sync-state, i noticed that there is one line for every user with an associated state, plus one line with only a state. For some reason, the state is the same for every user, except one where the state is much longer. Do i need to run the command for each user, and give as an argument the corresponding state ? Is it enough to run the doveadm sync command with -A argument if i give the state in the last line outputted by doveadm sync ? Is this the right way to do it ? Best regards, Bruno MATEU

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Different Replicator Crash??
by Kent Borg 31 Jan '25

31 Jan '25

I added the suggested "count--" and recompiled, and it now appears to work, the replication goes both ways, eyeballing the e-mail on the two servers they look the same. Good. But part of the time I am still getting what looks very much like the same crash, is there another "count--" I need to add to that file? > Jan 28 10:53:08 la dovecot[96175]: replicator: Panic: data stack: Out > of memory when allocating 268435496 bytes > Jan 28 10:53:08 la dovecot[96175]: replicator: Error: Raw backtrace: > #0 t_askpass[0x7fb404b0c0] -> #1 backtrace_append[0x7fb404b374] -> #2 > backtr\ > ace_get[0x7fb404b510] -> #3 execvp_const[0x7fb4057ba4] -> #4 > i_syslog_fatal_handler[0x7fb4058510] -> #5 i_panic[0x7fb3fa6808] -> #6 > t_pop_pass_st\ > r[0x7fb4050eb4] -> #7 connection_deinit[0x7fb4056430] -> #8 > pool_datastack_create[0x7fb407e7b0] -> #9 > array_bsearch_insert_pos_i[0x7fb40446d0] ->\ > #10 t_base64_scheme_decode[0x7fb404cb24] -> #11 > buffer_append[0x7fb404d3d0] -> #12 replicator_queue_push[0x558c4b4f40] > -> #13 replicator_brain_i\ > nit[0x558c4b53e4] -> #14 _start[0x558c4b3d70] -> #15 > _start[0x558c4b3f04] -> #16 io_loop_call_io[0x7fb4072f20] -> #17 > io_loop_handler_run_interna\ > l[0x7fb4075450] -> #18 io_loop_handler_run[0x7fb4075680] -> #19 > io_loop_run[0x7fb4075944] -> #20 master_service_run[0x7fb3fd84b0] -> > #21 main[0x5\ > 58c4b3930] -> #22 __libc_init_first[0x7fb3dd76d0] -> #23 > __libc_start_main[0x7fb3dd7780] -> #24 _start[0x558c4b3b80] > Jan 28 10:53:08 la dovecot[96175]: replicator: Fatal: master: > service(replicator): child 96714 killed with signal 6 (core dumps > disabled - https:\ > //dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps) Thanks, -kb

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Replication Question: Who Initiates?
by Kent Borg 31 Jan '25

31 Jan '25

As I understand it, if I am doing replication between a pair of servers, I run the replicator on just one and it makes all the two way changes necessary to make the two machines match. But this only happens when some change happens on that machine that runs the replicator. First, is this correct? If so, is there a way to have that other machine give the first machine poke, to get it to run a replication? Thanks, -kb

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Writing to a Dictionary Using Lua
by Andrea Gabellini 31 Jan '25

31 Jan '25

Hello, I am using the push_notification_lua plugin and would like to modify my script to write data into a dictionary configured as follows: dict_server { dict proxy { idle_timeout = 300s name = sql slow_warn = 1s } dict sql { sql_driver = mysql mysql localhost { dbname = xxx password = xxx user = xxx } dict_map "shared/dsync/$user" { sql_table = dsync dict_map_value_field last_event { type = uint } dict_map_key_field userid { value = $user } } } } I am not very familiar with Lua, and I couldn't find any relevant examples in the documentation or online. Would it be possible to provide a sample code snippet demonstrating how to write to this dictionary using Lua? Thank you! -- TIM San Marino S.p.A. Andrea Gabellini Engineering R&D TIM San Marino S.p.A. - https://www.telecomitalia.sm Via Ventotto Luglio, 212 - Piano -2 47893 - Borgo Maggiore - Republic of San Marino Tel: (+378) 0549 886237 Fax: (+378) 0549 886188 -- Informativa Privacy Questa email ha per destinatari dei contatti presenti negli archivi di TIM San Marino S.p.A.. Tutte le informazioni vengono trattate e tutelate nel rispetto della normativa vigente sulla protezione dei dati personali (Reg. EU 2016/679). Per richiedere informazioni e/o variazioni e/o la cancellazione dei vostri dati presenti nei nostri archivi potete inviare una email a privacy(a)telecomitalia.sm. Avviso di Riservatezza Il contenuto di questa e-mail e degli eventuali allegati e' strettamente confidenziale e destinato alla/e persona/e a cui e' indirizzato. Se avete ricevuto per errore questa e-mail, vi preghiamo di segnalarcelo immediatamente e di cancellarla dal vostro computer. E' fatto divieto di copiare e divulgare il contenuto di questa e-mail. Ogni utilizzo abusivo delle informazioni qui contenute da parte di persone terze o comunque non indicate nella presente e-mail potra' essere perseguito ai sensi di legge.

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"Modseq 34839 no longer in transaction log"
by Kent Borg 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

My new custom-built .deb packages seem to work, or at least work better! When new e-mails come in, it quickly attempts a sync, but says it fails: > Jan 29 10:31:49 la dovecot[1199]: doveadm: Error: > doveadm(kentborg)<2465><gL2eARV0mmehCQAAA3PmQQ>: Warning: Failed to do > incremental sync for mai\ > lbox INBOX, retry with a full sync (Modseq 34839 no longer in > transaction log (highest=37557, last_common_uid=12476, nextuid=12614)) Is this a leftover problem from my earlier crashes? I tried a full sync ("doveadm replicator replicate -f kentborg") and rebooting both machines, but I still get the error when new e-mails come in. The number in the error increments by three the several times I have seen this so far. Is there a way to make this happy? Thanks, -kb P.S. I am only doing one-way syncing so far.

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Why does metrics exporter not work anymore?
by Christian Rößner 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

Hi, I am trying to get the metrics exporter to work in 2.4.0, but for some reason, I do not see any connection attempts to the named http server nor do I get any errors: $ doveconf -n # 2.4.0 (daeb6bc59c): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 2.4.0 (1b2d5bb9) # OS: Linux 6.10.14-linuxkit x86_64 Debian 12.9 # Hostname: b7638a15bee0 dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0 auth_allow_cleartext = yes auth_cache_verify_password_with_worker = yes auth_failure_delay = 0 secs auth_mechanisms = auth_mechanisms { plain = yes login = yes } auth_username_format = %{user | username | lower} debug_log_path = /dev/stdout default_internal_group = vmail default_internal_user = vmail default_login_user = vmail dovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0 first_valid_uid = 1000 imap_id_retain = yes info_log_path = /dev/stdout last_valid_uid = 1000 listen = listen { * = yes } lmtp_proxy = yes log_path = /dev/stdout mail_debug = yes mail_driver = sdbox mail_gid = vmail mail_home = /srv/mail/%Ln mail_path = ~/Mail mail_uid = vmail protocols { imap = yes pop3 = yes lmtp = yes } ssl = no verbose_proctitle = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes separator = / } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 ssl = no } } service imap-login { client_limit = 100 process_min_avail = 1 restart_request_count = unlimited inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service pop3-login { client_limit = 100 process_min_avail = 1 restart_request_count = unlimited inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } } event_exporter log { driver = log format = json time_format = rfc3339 } event_exporter conn_state { driver = http-post format = json http_post_url = http://nauthilus:8080/api/v1/custom/dovecot-session-cleaner time_format = rfc3339 http_client_request_absolute_timeout = 5sec } metric client_disconnect_http { exporter = conn_state exporter_include = exporter_include { name = yes hostname = yes timestamps = yes categories = yes fields = yes } filter = event=mail_user_session_finished AND (category=imap OR category=pop3 OR category=lmtp OR category=sieve) } metric imap_noop { exporter = conn_state exporter_include = exporter_include { name = yes hostname = yes timestamps = yes categories = yes fields = yes } filter = event=imap_command_finished AND cmd_name=NOOP } passdb lua { lua_file = /etc/dovecot/auth.lua } userdb prefetch { } userdb lua { auth_verbose = no lua_file = /etc/dovecot/auth.lua result_failure = return-fail result_internalfail = return-fail result_success = continue-ok skip = never } It is an example Docker setup found here: https://github.com/croessner/nauthilus-demo There are no error logs in dovecot. Thanks in advance Christian Rößner -- Rößner-Network-Solutions Zertifizierter ITSiBe / CISO Marburger Str. 70a, 36304 Alsfeld Fax: +49 6631 78823409, Mobil: +49 171 9905345 USt-IdNr.: DE225643613, https://roessner.website PGP fingerprint: 658D 1342 B762 F484 2DDF 1E88 38A5 4346 D727 94E5

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Fwd: dovecot: master: Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit (100) reached, client connections are being dropped
by Stephane De Greef 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

-------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : Re: dovecot: master: Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit (100) reached, client connections are being dropped Date : Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:22:35 +0100 De : Stephane De Greef <stephane.degreef(a)pacapime.be> Pour : dovecot-owner(a)dovecot.org doveconf -n # 2.3.19.1 (9b53102964): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.19 (4eae2f79) # OS: Linux 6.1.0-30-amd64 x86_64 Debian 12.9 ext4 # Hostname: pacapime.ovh auth_mechanisms = plain login mail_gid = 8 mail_home = /var/mail/%n mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%n mail_plugins = " quota notify push_notification" mail_uid = 500 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive { auto = subscribe special_use = \Archive } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/app-senders-passwd driver = passwd-file } plugin { antispam_backend = pipe antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_pipe_program = /usr/bin/rspamc antispam_pipe_program_args = -h;localhost:11334;-P;q1 antispam_pipe_program_notspam_arg = learn_ham antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg = learn_spam antispam_spam_pattern_ignorecase = junk;spam antispam_trash_pattern_ignorecase = trash;papierkorb;deleted messages antispam_verbose_debug = 0 quota = maildir:User quota quota_rule2 = SPAM:ignore quota_rule3 = Trash:ignore quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u quota_warning3 = -storage=100%% quota-warning below %u sieve = /var/mail/sievescript/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/global_script/ sieve_dir = /var/mail/sievescript/%n/scripts/ } protocols = imap sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = mail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service quota-warning { executable = script /usr/bin/quota-warning.sh user = vmail } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = mail mode = 0660 user = vmail } unix_listener stats-writer { group = mail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_cipher_list = ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } userdb { args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/app-senders-passwd driver = passwd-file } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = mail_plugins = " quota notify push_notification imap_quota antispam" } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugins = quota sieve postmaster_address = postmaster(a)pacapime.ovh } local_name pacapime.be { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/pacapime.be/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name auth.pacapime.be { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/auth.pacapime.be/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name ftp.pacapime.be { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/ftp.pacapime.be/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name www.pacapime.be { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/www.pacapime.be/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name adm.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/adm.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name coturn.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/coturn.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name doc.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/doc.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name drive.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/drive.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name exc.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/exc.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name graph.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/graph.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name mail.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/mail.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name mattermost.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/mattermost.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name paper.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/paper.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name pdf.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/pdf.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name pictures.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/pictures.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name qr.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/qr.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name round.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/round.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name rust.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/rust.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name sql.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/sql.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name stat.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/stat.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name talk.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/talk.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name test.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/test.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name tools.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/tools.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name video.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/video.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name webmin.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/webmin.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name www.pacapime.ovh { ssl_cert = </etc/yunohost/certs/www.pacapime.ovh/crt.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it }

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Example configs and packaging scripts
by Aki Tuomi 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

Hi! To make the transition from 2.3 to 2.4 easier, especially for package maintainers, we have prepared one-time conversion of 2.3 example configurations to 2.4. Please find them at https://github.com/dovecot/tools/blob/main/dovecot-2.4.0-example-config.tar… Please review release notes and changelogs for needed changes in future releases. Also, would like to remind that https://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.4-latest/debian/bookworm/pool/main/ contains the debian.tar.xz used to build our packages, and similarly for rhel based https://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.4-latest/rhel/9/SRPMS/ has the source RPMs. Kind regards, Aki Tuomi

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