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Single Instance Storage after the fact
by Joe Beaubien 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

Hi everyone, I tried to find info about this online, but I couldn't find anything talking specifically about what I am trying to accomplish. I am sending and receiving the same attachments pretty often and as a result my email accounts are growing much more rapidly than I would like. *My goal* is to set up a second instance of Dovecot with SIS enabled and transfer everything over to this new Dovecot setup. I was thinking of simply running a dsync backup from the old instance and then a dsync backup -R on the new instance with SIS. Would this effectively create a new set of mailboxes without attachments (and a new folder full of attachments)? If not, can someone point me to information on how to accomplish this? Best regards, Joe B.

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Problem with the Path argument in pigeonhole 0.4.3 at ubuntu 14.04
by Jakob-Matthias Böttger 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Hello list members I want dovecot managesieve to store its config unter ~/.dovecot.sieve additionally dovecot should read as sieve_after the file ~/.sieve It's working fine BUT dovecot managesieve is always symlinking the sieve file at activation to ~/.sieve and not to ~/.dovecot.sieve as i configured it. Any idears about this strange behaviour? dovecot is configured as follows # 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.13.0-53-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS auth_mechanisms = plain login dict { acl = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext expire = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes listen = *,[::] log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_plugins = " expire quota acl" mail_privileged_group = vmail maildir_very_dirty_syncs = 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 namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEXPVT=~/Maildir/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = shared } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl expire = Trash expire2 = Trash/* expire3 = Spam expire4 = Junk expire_dict = proxy::expire quota = dict:user::file:/var/vmail/%d/%n/.quotausage sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = ~/.sieve } postmaster_address = admin(a)domain.tld protocols = imap lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = root } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service imap-login { client_limit = 1000 process_limit = 500 } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/own_certs/certs/stern.domain.tld.chain.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/own_certs/private/stern.domain.tld.key ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3 userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota expire acl imap_acl } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve quota } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = sieve quota }

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HG port=0 changes still problematic
by Thomas Leuxner 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Aug 30 12:35:04 nihlus.leuxner.net systemd[1]: Started Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server. Aug 30 12:35:04 nihlus.leuxner.net dovecot[60404]: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf line 24: Invalid port number 0 Aug 30 12:35:04 nihlus.leuxner.net systemd[1]: dovecot.service: main process exited, code=exit System with HG e1c7fcd62813 fails on inet_listener imaps { port = 0 #port = 993 #ssl = yes } Regards Thomas

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Post-migration questions
by Grant 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

I just migrated from courier-imap to dovecot and dovecot is a lot faster. My only client is webmail on the same server as dovecot. Max ~10 users. Should I still run imapproxy like I did with courier? Does dovecot periodically empty the trash folder like courier does? I reduced the number of processes courier was running to save RAM and improve performance. Are there any performance tweaks I should consider for dovecot? - Grant

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IMAP hibernate feature committed
by Timo Sirainen 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/64c73e6bd397 Today I finally committed the "imap-hibernate" feature that I first started developing about a year ago (and had been thinking about for several years before that). The main purpose here is to reduce the number of imap processes and the amount of memory they use by moving IDLEing connections into imap-hibernate processes where they are waiting for something to happen (changes to the mailbox or IMAP client to do something). Mailbox changes are noticed only if inotify/kqueue is enabled, so without them the hibernation feature won't work well. For now only the IMAP connections that are in IDLE can be hibernated. In theory non-IDLEing connections could also be hibernated, but the main problem here is that if EXPUNGEs can't be sent at the time the hibernation is over, the current code can't handle it. They would require recreating a view that contains such expunged messages, which could be possible with some extra work. Some IMAP extensions aren't supported yet: - NOTIFY: This would just need to import/export the NOTIFY state. Also hibernation could be done at any time if VANISHED replies could be sent to the selected mailbox. - SEARCH=CONTEXT: A bit more troublesome extension to support. I'm not sure how big the trouble would be. It's rarely used though. - COMPRESS: The [de]compression code would need to be moved to login process instead of being done in imap-compress plugin. This would be a larger change, although it's also useful for various other purposes. The hibernation can be enabled for now simply by setting imap_hibernate_timeout setting to non-zero, which controls how long to wait after client has issued IDLE (and nothing happens) until the process hibernates. Some future work might include: - Moving the hibernation all the way to the first Dovecot proxy layer to avoid the need for imap-hibernate process at all. (Also moving the COMPRESS handling all the way there.) - Dynamically adjusting when the client should be hibernated instead of just a fixed imap_hibernate_timeout setting. Especially try to avoid such a situation where the hibernation is almost always terminated soon after it started. Although that probably is unlikely, so maybe not worth the trouble to prevent.. - Hibernation could be used to control the load of the server. If it's running too slow or if there are already too many imap processes, some of the connections could be moved to hibernation stage. Or just kept in hibernation for a while longer even after the imap process would normally be recreated (e.g. wait for several minutes before reporting new emails, or several seconds before replying to DONE). - The EXPUNGE/VANISHED and FETCH FLAGS replies aren't sent asynchronously, but instead fully buffered to the output buffer. This works as long as the list of changes after hibernation isn't huge, but otherwise it's wasting a lot of memory. - Maybe support non-inotify/kqueue change notifications from lib-storage. This could be complicated though to do efficiently. Or a simple way would be to just send a UDP or UNIX datagram packet on all changes to all the imap-hibernate processes and see if anybody cares about those. I'm not sure how efficient that would be.

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virtual users with postfix
by Andreas Meyer 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

Hello! My passwd file looks like this: info@nimmini.de:{CRAM-MD5}e33cbd144b372a9c919228923464c806b57e35df2d6d1484ceaabe7e3530cd58:5000:5000::/var/spool/vhosts/nimmini.de/info::userdb_mail=maildir:~/ When I login for the first time, I see this in the log: Aug 29 09:52:57 imap(info(a)nimmini.de): Error: mkdir_parents(/var/lib/dovecot/db) failed: Permission denied Aug 29 09:52:57 imap(info(a)nimmini.de): Error: acl: dict commit failed Although the mailbox "info" is created with this content: drwx------ 2 5000 5000 4096 29. Aug 09:52 cur -rw------- 1 5000 5000 0 29. Aug 09:52 dovecot-acl-list -rw------- 1 5000 5000 272 29. Aug 09:52 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 5000 5000 72 29. Aug 09:52 dovecot.mailbox.log -rw------- 1 5000 5000 51 29. Aug 09:52 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 5000 5000 8 29. Aug 09:52 dovecot-uidvalidity -r--r--r-- 1 5000 5000 0 29. Aug 09:52 dovecot-uidvalidity.55e164dc drwx------ 5 5000 5000 4096 29. Aug 09:52 .Drafts drwx------ 2 5000 5000 4096 29. Aug 09:52 new drwx------ 5 5000 5000 4096 29. Aug 09:52 .Sent -rw------- 1 5000 5000 18 29. Aug 09:52 subscriptions drwx------ 2 5000 5000 4096 29. Aug 09:52 tmp drwx------ 5 5000 5000 4096 29. Aug 09:52 .Trash /var/lib looks like this: ... drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 29. Aug 00:28 dovecot ... Should the folder dovecot be owned by the user dovecot? What causes the error above? Greetings Andreas

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Dovecot proxy and password scheme updating
by efs efefsfse 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Hello, I run a dovecot proxy (which is doing authentification itself) and a dovecot backend on separate boxes. I want to change the actual password scheme. Since postlogin scripting is not supported by proxies and %w variable is not forwaded to dovecot backend is there any way that I can update the password scheme with my current setup ? Thanks in advance.

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Allow delivery to existing accounts only with LDAP and static
by Miloslav Hůla 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Hi, we are using LDAP binding as a passdb, and static with allow_all_users=yes as an userdb. Works fine, but problem is, Maildirs are created for non-existent accounts too. We would like to prevent it. The LDAP binding does not supporta user lookups. Is the correct way to use checkpassword as a passdb before LDAP, check for account existency here and: result_success=continue result_failure=return-fail ? Thank you, regards, Miloslav

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Merging maildirs
by Petter Gunnerud 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Hi List How do I merge files from one maildir into another maildir? Long version: I've been using dovecot/postfix for a 12 user environment for several years, and today was the first time I ran into an issue I could not solve from reading the documentation. The server is gentoo running on esxi. A few times a year I've made a snapshot of the server and copied the files to my home esxi server as a full system backup. 5 days ago the internet connection at the office broke, and I decided to power on the last copy of the server at my home and change public dns so that users could access their new mails via webmail from this spare server. (I didn't allow imap through firewall.) Now the network at the office is back. DNS is updated so that mails are delivered to the office server again. But all the mails sent / received during those 5 days is only at my house. How can I merge those into the office server?I'd like to do this as a server administrator. I do not want to have each user forward the mails to them self from the temporarily webmail. I tried to just copy the mail files on my own account - like I did once when I used courier-imap, but that did not work with dovecot. I hope someone has an idea of how to solve this.

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Panic in service(log)
by Eugene Paskevich 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

Hello, I'm using the Debian builds of dovecot-2.2 by S[r]us. Today I started getting the following panic: log: Panic: file priorityq.c: line 122 (priorityq_remove_idx): assertion failed: (idx < count) log: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x7f1ae) [0x7fd368dc31ae] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x7f269) [0x7fd368dc3269] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7fd368d6c81e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0xa0de8) [0x7fd368de4de8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(priorityq_remove+0xb) [0x7fd368de4eeb] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x9179c) [0x7fd368dd579c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_status_update+0x93) [0x7fd368d71263] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x2ecf3) [0x7fd368d72cf3] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x4c) [0x7fd368dd6b2c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run_internal+0xc5) [0x7fd368dd7e35] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0x25) [0x7fd368dd6bb5] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7fd368dd6d58] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7fd368d72213] -> dovecot/log(main+0x11c) [0x555e9f81771c] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7fd3689bcb45] -> dovecot/log(+0x277d) [0x555e9f81777d] master: Error: service(log): child 28845 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Could anyone please advise? -- Eugene Paskevich | *==)----------- | Plug me into eugene(a)raptor.kiev.ua | -----------(==* | The Matrix

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mailbox deletion is not replicated correctly
by Dennis Kuhn 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

i can't delete several folders at once. I have a folder structure like folder1/folder2/folder3 (we use slash as hierarchy separator). When i delete folder1 server1 executes the command correctly Apr 16 13:44:28 server1 dovecot: imap(d.kuhn(a)heinlein-support.de): Mailbox deleted: INBOX/Trash/folder1/folder2/folder3 Apr 16 13:44:28 server1 dovecot: imap(d.kuhn(a)heinlein-support.de): Mailbox deleted: INBOX/Trash/folder1/folder2 Apr 16 13:44:28 server1 dovecot: imap(d.kuhn(a)heinlein-support.de): Mailbox deleted: INBOX/Trash/folder1 but the replica server2 reverses the order: Apr 16 13:44:29 server2 dovecot: dsync-server(d.kuhn(a)heinlein-support.de): Mailbox deleted: INBOX/Trash/folder1 Apr 16 13:44:29 server2 dovecot: dsync-server(d.kuhn(a)heinlein-support.de): Mailbox deleted: INBOX/Trash/folder1/folder2 Apr 16 13:44:29 server2 dovecot: dsync-server(d.kuhn(a)heinlein-support.de): Mailbox deleted: INBOX/Trash/folder1/folder2/folder3 This creates the folder INBOX/Trash/folder1/folder2 on server2 again which replicates back to server1. Regards, Dennis Kuhn -- Heinlein Support GmbH Schwedter Str. 8/9b, 10119 Berlin http://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: 030 / 405051-57 Fax: 030 / 405051-19 Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: HRB 93818 B / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein -- Sitz: Berlin

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mail_log proposal: recipient
by Peter Chiochetti 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

As Timo seems to be on a committing spree; I'd like to propose that in the mail_log_fields the recipient would be available. Like probably many dovecot users, my MUAs save to Sent; so when grepping the log to learn etc. that would just be useful Kind regards -- peter

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Duplicate folder names
by Paulo Matos 26 Aug '15

26 Aug '15

Hi, I have setup message filtering and for example, I might move a message which a given sender to folder special/. This folder is created and shows up twice in INBOX/special/ and special/. They are however exactly the same folder. If I subscribe to one I am automatically subscribed to the other and viceversa. Not too happy with this configuration. I have a feeling this is related to namespaces but I am not sure in which way to configure things in order to have only INBOX/special but not special/. How can I set this up. My current configuration is: $ dovecot -n # 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 4.1.0-x86_64-linode59 x86_64 Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) ext4 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = yes default_internal_user = root imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace inbox { 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 { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } postmaster_address = pmatos protocols = imap quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = $default_internal_user } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes driver = static } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ log_path = /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 } Regards, Paulo Matos

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PROXY protocol
by Hoggins! 26 Aug '15

26 Aug '15

Hello folks, Any plans on implementing the PROXY protocol to allow Dovecot being behind a TCP proxy, and still logging the real IP address of the users ? See : http://blog.haproxy.com/haproxy/proxy-protocol/ Thanks !

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Shared Mailboxes Not Visible
by Mark Usrey 26 Aug '15

26 Aug '15

OK, gurus, I've spent the last 2 days crawling through all of the posts and web postings regarding shared folders, and I simply cannot get it to work. I'm sure that there is something simple that I've overlooked, but cannot for the life of me see it :) Here's my current config: # 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.16.0-46-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS xfs auth_mechanisms = plain login debug_log_path = /var/log/debug.log listen = * mail_gid = mail mail_location = mdbox:/mail/data/private/%n:INDEX=/mail/index/private/%n mail_plugins = acl notify mail_log stats mail_privileged_group = mail namespace { list = children location = mdbox:/mail/data/shared/%%n:INDEXPVT=/mail/index/private/%n/shared_indices/%%n prefix = Shared/%%n/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } 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 = separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/mail/dict/shared-mailboxes autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Spam autocreate3 = Drafts autocreate4 = Junk autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Spam autosubscribe3 = Drafts autosubscribe4 = Junk mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename flag_change append mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size subject stats_refresh = 30 secs stats_track_cmds = yes } protocols = " imap lmtp" service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { user = postfix } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = mail mode = 0600 user = root } } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 5 service_count = 0 } service imap { process_limit = 4096 } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { group = mail mode = 0660 user = root } } ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/thawte2.crt ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot2.pem ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/solaray-sunglasses.com.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lmtp { postmaster_address = postmaster(a)solaray-sunglasses.com } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl notify mail_log stats imap_acl imap_stats } All of our users are "real" (no virtual users or domains) and only a single domain supported. We have a user, rself, that is attempting to share his inbox with a few others that also need access to it. So the corresponding ACL files: root@srv56:/mail/data/shared/rself# ls -la /mail/data/shared/rself/ total 20 drwx------ 4 rself mail 79 Aug 24 15:22 . drwxrwx--- 7 mail mail 71 Aug 24 16:01 .. -rw------- 1 rself mail 17 Aug 24 15:22 dovecot-acl-list drwx------ 10 rself mail 130 Aug 24 12:28 mailboxes drwx------ 2 rself mail 12288 Aug 25 16:25 storage -rw------- 1 rself mail 70 Aug 24 12:28 subscriptions And the contents of dovecot-acl-list: root@srv56:/mail/data/shared/rself# cat dovecot-acl-list 1440447778 INBOX root@srv56:/mail/data/shared/rself# And the mailbox-specific files: root@srv56:/mail/data/shared/rself/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails# ls -la total 4 drwx------ 2 rself mail 24 Aug 25 08:16 . drwx------ 3 rself mail 23 Aug 24 12:28 .. -rw------- 1 rself mail 24 Aug 24 15:22 dovecot-acl root@srv56:/mail/data/shared/rself/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails# Content: root@srv56:/mail/data/shared/rself/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails# cat dovecot-acl user=musrey akxeilprwts root@srv56:/mail/data/shared/rself/mailboxes/INBOX/dbox-Mails# Now, the global ACL dictionary (just a flat file, not enough users to justify SQL :) root@srv56:~# ls -la /mail/dict/ total 12 drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Aug 24 18:05 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 23 08:51 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 rself mail 40 Aug 24 18:05 shared-mailboxes And contents: root@srv56:~# cat /mail/dict/shared-mailboxes shared/shared-boxes/user/musrey/rself 1 root@srv56:~# So, as far as I can tell from my RTFM activities, I think the configuration is correct. Now, I go to attempt to check the ACL using doveadm, and I get this: root@srv56:~# doveadm acl debug -u musrey Shared/rself/INBOX doveadm(musrey): Error: Can't open mailbox Shared/rself/INBOX: Mailbox doesn't exist: Shared/rself/INBOX root@srv56:~# WTH, over? So, not thinking this is an ACL issue, but simply a namespace issue - either I have the shared namespace configured incorrectly, or I'm using it incorrectly in attempting to identify rself's INBOX when trying to verify that the ACL is working. So, I thought to myself, let's try a mailbox list, so I executed root@srv56:~# doveadm mailbox list -u musrey ACT! ACT!/General AES Outdoors AES Outdoors/Christy AES Outdoors/Gwen .... (many, many mailboxes in here - I should probably eliminate some of them :) VMWare Watchguard Xata Corporation Xata Corporation/Mike Brossman Xata Corporation/Mike Uremovich INBOX root@srv56:~# But no "Shared" or "rself" to be found. Help, please. I'm quickly going bald over this one. -- *Mark Usrey* Director of Information Technologies *Solaray LLC Solaray LLC* 620 S. Linden Sapulpa, Ok 74066 (918) 227-0722 Ext. 527

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sieve_after seems to ignored ?
by Per Jessen 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

sieve and managesieve are both working fine, have been for years. Now I want to add a sieve_after script: /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-sieve.conf : plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_before = sieve_after = ~/sieve/personal.sieve sieve_subaddress_sep = + } I have compiled ~/sieve/personal.sieve to ~/sieve/personal.svbin, but it doesn't seem to be read. Any hints? thanks Per Jessen -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.2°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland.

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ldap attribute modifiers. how to lowercase non ASCII
by matthias lay 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

hi all, I encountered some problem with lowercasing chars like an "Ä" with user_attrs like this: user_attrs = uid=home=/mail/%Lu, =myvar=%L{ldap:uid} the Ä doesnt get lower cased in both cases # doveadm user BLÄTULA field value user blÄtula uid vmail gid vmail home /mail/blÄtula mail maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=~/Maildir/INBOX myvar blÄtula somebody knows if there a fix for that? Greetz Matze

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Store ACL files within shared mailbox / rename shared folder problem
by Chris Laif 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hi. If $otheruser shares a mailbox to $myuser, my private index is stored in *my* Maildir, according to this template (from the dovecot docs): mail_location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEXPVT=%h/Maildir/shared/%%u If $otheruser renames the shared mailbox, all my private mail flags (Seen) are lost because my mailclient couldn't find the private index anymore. Is there any way to store the private index within the shared mailbox? If $otheruser renames the mailbox, the index will be 'migrated' as well. Something like this: /data/mails/$otheruser/Maildir/.MagicSharedFolder/shared/$myuser.dovecot.index.pvt.log I see no way on how to do craft a INDEXPVT for this. Kind regards, Chris

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plugin antispam sa-learn run program failed with exit code -1
by Guillaume Lakano - DOVECOT 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hello ! I've installed iRedMail on an Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 I'm not the only one on the iRedMail forum to have the problem, but the developpers of iRedMail doesn't found the problem and advice me to ask you directly. When I want to move an email directly to /Junk/ this not works. In Thunderbird, the error is : "[SERVERBUG] failed to send mail" In RoundCube, the error is : "Server Error: UID MOVE: failed to send mail ." But, if we firstly delete the email, then move the email from /Trash/ to /Junk/ this works. Here is the package versions: dovecot 2.2.9-1ubuntu2.1 dovecot-antispam 2.0+20130822-2build1 spamassassin 3.4.0-1ubuntu2.1 I have enabled antispam-debug in syslog, and the sa-learn seems to return an error: Aug 20 20:21:13 mail imap: antispam: plugin initialising (2.0-notgit) Aug 20 20:21:13 mail imap: antispam: verbose debug enabled Aug 20 20:21:13 mail imap: antispam: "Junk" is exact match spam folder Aug 20 20:21:13 mail imap: antispam: no unsure folders Aug 20 20:21:13 mail imap: antispam: "Trash" is exact match trash folder Aug 20 20:21:13 mail imap: antispam: pipe backend spam argument = --spam Aug 20 20:21:13 mail imap: antispam: pipe backend not-spam argument = --ham Aug 20 20:21:13 mail imap: antispam: pipe backend program = /usr/bin/sa-learn Aug 20 20:21:13 mail imap: antispam: pipe backend program arg[0] = -D --username=guillaume.XXXX(a)nydomain.com Aug 20 20:21:13 mail imap: antispam: pipe backend tmpdir /tmp Aug 20 20:21:14 mail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_unsure(Junk): 0 Aug 20 20:21:14 mail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_trash(INBOX): 0 Aug 20 20:21:14 mail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_trash(Junk): 0 Aug 20 20:21:14 mail imap: antispam: mail copy: from trash: 0, to trash: 0 Aug 20 20:21:14 mail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_spam(INBOX): 0 Aug 20 20:21:14 mail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_spam(Junk): 1 Aug 20 20:21:14 mail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_unsure(INBOX): 0 Aug 20 20:21:14 mail imap: antispam: mail copy: src spam: 0, dst spam: 1, src unsure: 0 Aug 20 20:21:14 mail imap: antispam: running mailtrain backend program /usr/bin/sa-learn Aug 20 20:21:14 mail imap: antispam: running mailtrain backend program /usr/bin/sa-learn Aug 20 20:21:14 mail imap: antispam: running mailtrain backend program parameter 1 -D --username=guillaume.XXXX(a)mydomain.com Aug 20 20:21:14 mail imap: antispam: running mailtrain backend program parameter 2 --spam Aug 20 20:21:16 mail imap: antispam: run program failed with exit code -1 There is no other log in /var/log/dovecot.log or /var/log/mail.log Here is my dovecot configuration: # dovecot -n # 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.13.0-62-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = PLAIN LOGIN dict { acl = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-share-folder.conf quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-used-quota.conf } first_valid_uid = 2000 last_valid_uid = 2000 listen = * [::] log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_gid = 2000 mail_location = maildir:%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=%Lh/Maildir/ mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl 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 ihave namespace { 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 "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/%%u 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 antispam_backend = pipe antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_pipe_program = /usr/bin/sa-learn antispam_pipe_program_args = --username=%Lu antispam_pipe_program_notspam_arg = --ham antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg = --spam antispam_spam = Junk antispam_trash = Trash antispam_verbose_debug = 1 auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mailbox_alias_new = Sent Messages mailbox_alias_new2 = Sent Items mailbox_alias_old = Sent mailbox_alias_old2 = Sent quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_warning = storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u quota_warning2 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning3 = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u sieve = %Lh/sieve/dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/vmail/sieve/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = %Lh/sieve sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-execute sieve_filter_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-filter sieve_global_dir = /var/vmail/sieve sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.filter +vnd.dovecot.execute sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms } 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-warning { executable = script /usr/local/bin/dovecot-quota-warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/iRedMail.crt ssl_cipher_list = ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA ssl_dh_parameters_length = 2048 ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/iRedMail.key ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3 userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot-sieve.log mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl sieve postmaster_address = root } protocol lmtp { info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lmtp.log lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes mail_plugins = quota sieve postmaster_address = postmaster recipient_delimiter = + } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl imap_quota imap_acl antispam } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 20 mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } I don't known if it's a problem related to dovecot or to spamassassin. If you could help me to solve the problem, this will be really appreciated :) Regards

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Delivering email to Maildir PreINBOX
by Paulo Matos 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hi all, I have a running dovecot with: $ dovecot -n # 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 4.1.0-x86_64-linode59 x86_64 Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) ext4 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = yes default_internal_user = root imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace inbox { 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 { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } postmaster_address = pmatos protocols = imap quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = $default_internal_user } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes driver = static } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ log_path = /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 } I started to filter my email with imapfilter running on the same host as dovecot. I would therefore like to deliver email to a folder called PreINBOX so that imapfilter then sorts the email and ends up delivering only the useful email to INBOX. How can I change the name of the inbox dovecot delivers to? Best, -- Paulo Matos

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IMAP Folder Mail Separator
by Alex 23 Aug '15

23 Aug '15

Hi, I have a fedora21 install with dovecot-2.2.18, and when creating a new subfolder with thunderbird, the actual folder name is "Folder1^Folder2" with a carat as a separator, instead of creating Folder2 in the Folder1 directory. Is this a thunderbird problem? I don't recall having this problem prior to upgrading to fedora21, so thought maybe it's a dovecot problem. Maybe the separator character is customizable? Thanks, Alex

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migrating servers
by chris 23 Aug '15

23 Aug '15

Hi I am trying to migrate from a Centos dovecot 1.0.7 install to a debian dovecot 2.1.7 install. I thought simply replicating the maildirs would be fine (using rsync) but when I fetch mail from the new server using IMAP thunderbird wants to download all the messages again as duplicates. I searched the wiki over to see if I could find a solution and while it appeared I could use doveadm backup that seems to only work pushing changes from the new server to the old (wrong direction) and that program does not exist on the earlier version of dovecot on the old server. If I can be very blunt the documentation on the wiki assumes far too much knowledge from the reader. It is often hard to decipher exactly what is meant by many of the obtuse instructions. But that is an aside can anyone give me pointers on how to do this migration for all my users so they don't need to sort through hundreds of duplicated emails? Chris

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Delivering email to Maildir PreINBOX
by Paulo Matos 22 Aug '15

22 Aug '15

Hi all, I have a running dovecot with: $ dovecot -n # 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 4.1.0-x86_64-linode59 x86_64 Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) ext4 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = yes default_internal_user = root imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes mbox_write_locks = fcntl namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } namespace inbox { 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 { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } postmaster_address = pmatos protocols = imap quota_full_tempfail = yes service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = $default_internal_user } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes driver = static } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ log_path = /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 } I started to filter my email with imapfilter running on the same host as dovecot. I would therefore like to deliver email to a folder called PreINBOX so that imapfilter then sorts the email and ends up delivering only the useful email to INBOX. How can I change the name of the inbox dovecot delivers to? Best, -- Paulo Matos

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Error: User initialization failed
by ＠lbutlr 19 Aug '15

19 Aug '15

OK, I obviously forgot something when setting up new user accounts (which I did via postfix admin to add them to the MySQL database): dovecot: lda(chance(a)example.com): Error: User initialization failed: Namespace '': Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /usr/local/virtual/chance@ example.com (try prefixing it with mbox: or milder:) I have lots of mysql users defined and working, but do I need to manually create the mail store for new ones? (Sorry, it’s been quite a long time since I had to add accounts). -- You start a conversation you can't even finish it You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed Say something once, why say it again?

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logging into user mailboxes with admin credentials
by Noam Birnbaum 19 Aug '15

19 Aug '15

Hey folks, We are planning a migration away from Dovecot (sorry) to Google Apps and are trying to figure out how to migrate the contents of user mailboxes to the new provider. Normally we would use an IMAP migration tool to log into each user's mailbox on the old and new providers and transfer the data that way. However, there is no central directory service; all accounts are local. We have a large number of users and for both management and security reasons it's not feasible to compile a list of all IMAP passwords. Is there a way to log into user IMAP accounts on Dovecot using a central administrative credential? Thanks! Warmest and bestest, Noam 510-332-3828 cell Noam Birnbaum Mac Daddy http://www.maccentricsolutions.com 877.luv.macs x666 tweet @noamb Tech support ---> 877.luv.macs or support(a)maccentricsolutions.com Luvvv us? _Yelp us!_ <http://www.yelp.com/biz/maccentric-solutions-san-francisco>

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