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Sieve, multiple addresses, and variables
by Andrew Sullivan 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hi, I have another sieve question, this time about setting variables. I join a lot of mailing lists at ietf.org. I thought it'd be handy to filter these all into a common folder and then into individual folders, without having to configure each mailing list independently. So wrote this (this is just a part, obviously): require ["envelope", "variables", "date", "fileinto", "mailbox" ]; if address :is :domain "to" "ietf.org" { if address :matches :localpart "to" "*" {set "lopart" "${1}";} } elsif address :is :domain "cc" "ietf.org" { if address :matches :localpart "cc" "*" {set "lopart" "${1}";} } else {set "lopart" "generic-list-box";} fileinto :create "ietf.${lopart}-in"; stop; } Now, this works, unless someone sends a To: line like this: To: ajs(a)crankycanuck.ca, listname(a)ietf.org The problem in that case is that you _do_ get a match, but the bit "if address :matches :localpart "to" "*" {set "lopart" "${1}";}" ends up putting this in a mailbox ietf.ajs-in, when what is the mailbox ietf.listname-in. I thought that allof(if address :matches :localpart "to" "*", address :matches :localpart "to" "*") {set "lopart" "${1}";}, would solve this, but it doesn't seem to. The localpart matching catches the ajs(a)crankycanuck.ca address anyway, which surprised me. Am I dim, am I not understanding something about how to do this, or is this really impossible? Thanks, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs(a)crankycanuck.ca

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Need a bit of help with the antispam plugin
by Anthony Papillion 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hello Everyone, I'm running the antispam plugin on Dovecot 2.0.19 on Ubuntu Server 14.04 and I can't seem to get it to work. In the IMAP section of dovecot.conf I have the following lines: protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota imap_acl antispam # mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota imap_acl imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep # Maximum number of IMAP connections allowed for a user from each IP address. # NOTE: The username is compared case-sensitively. # Default is 10. # Increase it to avoid issue like below: # "Maximum number of concurrent IMAP connections exceeded" mail_max_userip_connections = 20 plugin { antispam_debug_target = syslog antispam_verbose_debug = 1 antispam_backend = pipe antispam_trash = Trash antispam_spam = Junk antispam_pipe_program_spam_arg = --spam antispam_pipe_program_notspam_arg = --ham antispam_pipe_program = /usr/bin/sa-learn antispam_pipe_program_args = --username=%Lu } } For some reason, when I try to move something to Junk, I get the following in my syslog: Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: plugin initialising (2.0-notgit) Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: verbose debug enabled Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: "Junk" is exact match spam folder Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: no unsure folders Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: "Trash" is exact match trash folder Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: pipe backend spam argument = --spam Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: pipe backend not-spam argument = --ham Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: pipe backend program = /usr/bin/sa-learn Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: pipe backend program arg[0] = --username=anthony(a)cajuntechie.org Mar 31 18:27:16 anonymail imap: antispam: pipe backend tmpdir /tmp Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_unsure(Junk): 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_trash(INBOX): 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_trash(Junk): 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mail copy: from trash: 0, to trash: 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_spam(INBOX): 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_spam(Junk): 1 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mailbox_is_unsure(INBOX): 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: mail copy: src spam: 0, dst spam: 1, src unsure: 0 Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: running mailtrain backend program /usr/bin/sa-learn Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: running mailtrain backend program /usr/bin/sa-learn Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: running mailtrain backend program parameter 1 --username=anthony(a)cajuntechie.org Mar 31 18:27:19 anonymail imap: antispam: running mailtrain backend program parameter 2 --spam Mar 31 18:27:21 anonymail imap: antispam: run program failed with exit code -1 This is probably a permissions issue but I'm not able to debug it. Can anyone offer me any clues as to what I might be doing wrong or how I might fix it? Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Papillion Phone: 1.918.631.7331 VoIP (SIP): 1259010(a)localphone.com XMPP Chat: cypher(a)chat.cpunk.us Fingerprint: 65EF73EC 8B57F6B1 8C475BD4 426088AC FE21B251 PGP Key: http://www.cajuntechie.org/p/my-pgp-key.html

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can't create folders under shared mailbox's INBOX
by luke.bigum＠lmax.com 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hello, I have a namespace / ACL problem with shared mailboxes that I can't figure out. I have a local user tam(a)crm.yb.lmax that shares it's INBOX and all other folders with on LDAP group. Members of that group can't create a folder under the shared local user's INBOX: [08-Apr-2015 11:43:05 +0000]: [9501] S: * MYRIGHTS tam(a)crm.yb.lmax lrwstipekxcd [08-Apr-2015 11:43:05 +0000]: [9501] S: A0004 OK Myrights completed. [08-Apr-2015 11:43:05 +0000]: [9501] C: A0005 CREATE tam(a)crm.yb.lmax/Templates [08-Apr-2015 11:43:05 +0000]: [9501] S: A0005 NO [NOPERM] Permission denied I *can* create a folder underneath another folder of the same shared user that already exists: [08-Apr-2015 11:43:47 +0000]: [99CE] S: * MYRIGHTS tam(a)crm.yb.lmax/Drafts lrwstipekxcd [08-Apr-2015 11:43:47 +0000]: [99CE] S: A0004 OK Myrights completed. [08-Apr-2015 11:43:47 +0000]: [99CE] C: A0005 CREATE tam(a)crm.yb.lmax/Drafts/Test [08-Apr-2015 11:43:47 +0000]: [99CE] S: A0005 OK Create completed. Creating the subfolder as the local user itself works fine: [08-Apr-2015 11:35:35 +0000]: [4E9C] C: A0005 CREATE INBOX/Templates [08-Apr-2015 11:35:35 +0000]: [4E9C] S: A0005 OK Create completed. However the local user creates INBOX/Templates, whereas the ldap user is creating under tam(a)crm.yb.lmax/Templates. Is this an artifact of how we've set up namespaces below? Thanks, -Luke [root@localhost dovecot]# doveconf -n # 2.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.6 (3e924b1b6c5c+) # OS: Linux 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.4 (Final) auth_master_user_separator = * default_login_user = vmail disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_password = secret doveadm_port = 12345 first_valid_gid = 490 first_valid_uid = 490 imapc_ssl_verify = no listen = * mail_access_groups = vmail mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox/ mail_plugins = " zlib acl" 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 mbox_write_locks = fcntl mdbox_preallocate_space = yes mdbox_rotate_size = 10 M namespace { hidden = no ignore_on_failure = no inbox = no list = yes location = mdbox:/srv/mail/%%d/%%n/mdbox prefix = %%u/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = shared } namespace personal { hidden = yes inbox = yes location = mailbox LMAX-Sent { auto = subscribe } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } prefix = INBOX/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } passdb { args = scheme=SSHA512 /etc/dovecot/local-users.passdb driver = passwd-file } passdb { args = scheme=SSHA512 /etc/dovecot/master-users.passdb driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap skip = authenticated } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db sieve = ~/%d/%n/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/%d/%n/sieve sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags +vacation-seconds sieve_vacation_min_period = 10s zlib_save = gz zlib_save_level = 6 } protocols = imap lmtp sieve replication_dsync_parameters = -d -l 30 -U service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail user = vmail } } service config { unix_listener config { user = vmail } } service imap-login { process_limit = 500 process_min_avail = 2 user = vmail } service imap-postlogin { executable = script-login /etc/dovecot/ldap_groups.sh user = vmail } service imap { executable = imap imap-postlogin } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24 } unix_listener lmtp { mode = 0666 } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt ssl_client_ca_file = /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/local-users.userdb driver = passwd-file } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } verbose_proctitle = yes verbose_ssl = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " sieve" } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " zlib acl imap_acl" } --- LMAX Exchange, Yellow Building, 1A Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN http://www.LMAX.com/ --- #1 Fastest Growing Tech Company in UK - Sunday Times Tech Track 100 (2014) Awards 2015 Best FX Trading Venue - ECN/MTF - WSL Institutional Trading Awards 2014 Best Margin Sector Platform - Profit & Loss Readers' Choice Awards 2014 Best FX Trading Venue - ECN/MTF - WSL Institutional Trading Awards 2014 Best Infrastructure/Technology Initiative - WSL Institutional Trading Awards 2013 #15 Fastest Growing Tech Company in UK - Sunday Times Tech Track 100 2013 Best Overall Testing Project - The European Software Testing Awards 2013 Best Margin Sector Platform - Profit & Loss Readers' Choice Awards 2013 Best FX Trading Platform - ECN/MTF - WSL Institutional Trading Awards 2013 Best Executing Venue - Forex Magnates Awards 2011 Best Trading System - Financial Sector Technology Awards 2011 Innovative Programming Framework - Oracle Duke's Choice Awards --- FX and CFDs are leveraged products that can result in losses exceeding your deposit. 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ACL syntax for setting specified folders within Maildir/ read-only for owner
by kepa 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hi, I have dovecot (2.2.16, see dovecot -n at end) installed to /opt on CentOS 6 for access on a local network. I would like to create an archival mail account which will reduce the primary account file size and still make older emails easily accessible. How can I set specified folders in this Maildir read-only with ACL? For example, I included this in the dovecot-acl file to specify protected folders in the archives@ Maildir but it did not work: "Email 2013/*" user=archives lrs "Email 2014/*" user=archives lrs Also tried this on folders without spaces with no success (the folders were still delete-able by the user via the Thunderbird client). Each "Email..." folder has several child folders that should also be read-only. BTW, what is the maximum size for a Maildir that Dovecot can comfortably handle? Thanks! Kepa dovecot -n: # 2.2.16: /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.6 (Final) mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = acl namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = [mailbox info ...] plugin { acl = vfile:/opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/dovecot-acl } protocols = imap service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl imap_acl

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Users can't use Dovecot IMAP
by John Lewis 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Every time a user logs into Dovcot's IMAP service PAM closes the session immediately after it opens. I would like a user to have a session open long enough to read some emails. dictator@drakeclasher:~$ sudo dovecot -n # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.8 mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir 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 } passdb { args = failure_show_msg=yes %s driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = " imap lmtp" ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = mail driver = pam } Apr 6 21:57:29 drakeclasher su[2346]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user mailtest by dictator(uid=0) Apr 6 21:59:55 drakeclasher su[2346]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user mailtest dictator@drakeclasher:~$ groups mailtest mailtest : Domain Users mail users

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Dovecot keeps creating info files in mail directory instead of home
by Jeffrey 'jf' Lim 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

I've been trying to troubleshoot this for a while now, and I'm really at a loss. My userdb is set up correctly to return home, and mail, and a test with 'doveadm user' verifies this: # doveadm user user@domain field value uid 1000 gid 1000 home /var/domain/user mail maildir:/var/mail/user@domain I've reloaded, restarted, stopped and started dovecot again - and even deleted the info files in the mail directory just to be sure - but each and every time I log in with imap, dovecot recreates the files again (dovecot.index.log, dovecot-uidlist, etc.) in the mail directory instead of home. I've even made sure just in case that the home directory is accessible to all, and chmod 777, but nothing gets created there. And I dont get any errors at all in the logs. I'm on the latest version (2.2.16). -jf -- He who settles on the idea of the intelligent man as a static entity only shows himself to be a fool. Mensan / Full-Stack Technical Polymath / System Administrator 12 years over the entire web stack: Performance, Sysadmin, Ruby and Frontend

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Authentication with Samba using Kerberos fails
by Justin Clacherty 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hi, I've been having some problems getting GSSAPI authentication going against a samba (4.2) server and am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I've searched through Google and haven't managed to find a solution yet. I followed the config instructions at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/Kerberos and run through the testing. Testing from the server with telnet does as expected i.e. I get the "+" after I try "a authenticate GSSAPI". However, when I go to test from Thunderbird on while logged in on a Windows PC joined to the domain authentication fails and I see the following in mail.log (I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS). Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth/libmech_gssapi.so Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from /var/run/dovecot/auth-token-secret.dat Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=17667) Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH#0111#011GSSAPI#011service=imap#011secured#011session=e8xMvSwTQgDAqCpl#011lip=192.168.1.1#011rip=192.168.1.101#011lport=143#011rport=49986 Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: gssapi(?,192.168.42.101,<e8xMvSwTQgDAqCpl>): Obtaining credentials for imap(a)server.corp.mydomain.com Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT#0111#011 Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden> Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: gssapi(me(a)corp.mydomain.com,192.168.1.101,<e8xMvSwTQgDAqCpl>): security context state completed. Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT#0111#011YIGVBgkqhkiG9xIBAgICAG+BhTCBgqADAgEFoQMCAQ+idjB0oAMCAReibQRrkGiOLsky4fbzWGzpxgW4mjmpjvNsiCqH8MnsUKviP9v1oVLPXSVkqFzFUiCLAd130ldnf742o/inz9Dx6e0aETwDKnnZu9OUD2nCGg/f5zA20IXGWR1zXVJi3hEB8nmrLgaENhyX0JMiE6g= Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden> Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: gssapi(me(a)corp.mydomain.com,192.168.1.101,<e8xMvSwTQgDAqCpl>): Negotiated security layer Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT#0111#011BQQF/wAMAAAAAAAAIvajggH////ubQhCZGfeuWGZQ7w= Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden> Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Panic: file auth-request.c: line 716 (auth_request_is_disabled_master_user): assertion failed: (request->requested_login_user != NULL) Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Error: Raw backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5e271) [0x7f524a7da271] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(+0x5e34e) [0x7f524a7da34e] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(i_fatal+0) [0x7f524a795a9e] -> dovecot/auth(+0x15162) [0x7f524ac7e162] -> dovecot/auth(auth_request_lookup_credentials+0x22) [0x7f524ac7f8d2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth/libmech_gssapi.so(+0x20d4) [0x7f52499450d4] -> dovecot/auth(auth_request_handler_auth_continue+0xd1) [0x7f524ac81391] -> dovecot/auth(+0x1052a) [0x7f524ac7952a] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_call_io+0x27) [0x7f524a7ea247] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xd7) [0x7f524a7eafd7] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x38) [0x7f524a7e9de8] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x13) [0x7f524a79ac93] -> dovecot/auth(main+0x38c) [0x7f524ac7750c] -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f5249d8dec5] -> dovecot/auth(+0xe6d9) [0x7f524ac776d9] Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: auth: Fatal: master: service(auth): child 17668 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled) Apr 8 11:49:18 server dovecot: imap-login: Warning: Auth connection closed with 1 pending requests (max 0 secs, pid=17667, EOF) Apr 8 11:49:19 server dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth process communication failure): user=<>, method=GSSAPI, rip=192.168.1.101, lip=192.168.1.1, TLS, session=<e8xMvSwTQgDAqCpl> Relevant parts of my config: auth_anonymous_username = anonymous auth_cache_negative_ttl = 1 hours auth_cache_size = 0 auth_cache_ttl = 1 hours auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = no auth_default_realm = CORP.MYDOMAIN.COM auth_failure_delay = 2 secs auth_gssapi_hostname = server.corp.mydomain.com auth_krb5_keytab = /etc/dovecot/krb5.keytab auth_master_user_separator = auth_mechanisms = gssapi auth_proxy_self = auth_realms = auth_socket_path = auth-userdb auth_ssl_require_client_cert = no auth_ssl_username_from_cert = no auth_use_winbind = no auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_username_format = %Lu auth_username_translation = auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = no auth_winbind_helper_path = /usr/bin/ntlm_auth auth_worker_max_count = 30 userdb { args = uid=dovecot gid=dovecot home=/var/vmail/%u default_fields = driver = static override_fields = } Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Justin.

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Search Public Folder
by Bobber 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

I'm trying to use doveadm fetch to search a folder that is public for all users. The command runs but the output is empty. There are no error messages. Is there anything different to do in order to search public folders? -- *Bob Wooldridge*

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Search Public Folder
by Bob Wooldridge 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

I'm trying to use doveadm fetch to search a folder that is public for all users. The command runs but the output is empty. There are no error messages. Is there anything different to do in order to search public folders? -- Bob Wooldridge EDM Incorporated http://www.edm-inc.com

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Deleting empty folders
by Samuel Williams 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

So, along with the problem of lots of folders ending in 1 1 1 1, I'd like to have a strategy to delete these. I was trying to understand if it is possible to use http://linux.die.net/man/1/doveadm-expunge to delete empty folders, but without also deleting messages? Is this possible and if so what is the syntax? Kind regards, Samuel

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What to read about interactions
by Andrew Sullivan 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi, TL;DR: I am having a hard time synthesizing the information I need out of the website/wiki documentation, and google isn't turning up what I need, so I'm looking for advice on what I should read next to understand the way aliases, dovecot's lmtp, and pigeonhole work together. Details below. I've been using dovecot happily for some years, but in a recent migration of my mail server I set up something that I think will be slightly easier to maintain. I now have a single (in my case postgres) database backing all user names and so on, with postfix relying on dovecot auth for user validation and delivery. I have the usual anti-spam machinery in there, and have started using the (for me new) pigeonhole implementation of sieve. (My old mail system was built around the earlier dovecot implementation, and while I've patched it over time it's really pretty creaky.) On the whole, this all seems very nice, but I'm having a hard time understanding the details of what interacts with what other bits when. In particular, my mail system is known by several different names, and I thought it'd be much handier to have everything land in one real mailbox, since I could sort the inbound mail into different mailboxes without a lot of trouble using seive. This has turned out to be slightly trickier than I thought it ought to be (procmail is in some ways easier), and I've come to the conclusion that I don't have a strong foundation in exactly how this is supposed to work. Apart from reading the code (which would probably at this point be hard enough for me so as to make it impossible), are there things I ought to read to understand this better? I've read the seive RFCs, but while that gives me a clue about what ought to happen protocol-wise, it isn't helping me at all to understand the interaction among the different subsystems so that I can see clearly how different parts of the delivery chain are interacting. I'm sure there's some crucial bit of, "Everyone knows that," that I've overlooked, and I thought it would be better to ask for the FM than just to read randomly until I stumbled on it. Thanks, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs(a)crankycanuck.ca

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currupt folder structure --> INBOX 1 1 1 1 1
by Thorben Hemmler 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi all! I´ve got a problem with some (not all) of my mailboxes. If you see, some folders got strange names. 41943652 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:42 INBOX 1 42205306 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:46 INBOX 1 1 42336882 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:48 INBOX 1 1 1 42337295 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:49 INBOX 1 1 1 1 42598861 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:51 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 42730114 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:54 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730261 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:57 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730276 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:57 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730291 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:58 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730306 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 10:59 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730321 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 11:00 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730336 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 11:01 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730351 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 11:02 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730366 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 11:03 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730381 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 11:04 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 42730400 4.0K drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4.0K Mar 25 11:05 INBOX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 and so on..... Any ideas what I´m doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Thorben

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Using dovecot to serve an email archive
by Ramón Casares 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

I have a collection of old email messages, archived as follows: 1) One file per message. 2) Messages (=files) distributed in a hierarchy of dirs under mailarch. 3) Each file (=message) uses the name <seconds>.R<sha1>.mail Here <seconds> is the date of the message, expressed as the number of seconds from 1-1-1970 00:00 in 10 digits, and <sha1> is the SHA-1 hash of the message contents, expressed in hexadecimal, [0-9a-f]. The advantages of this file naming scheme are: 1) All important metadata are in the file name. 2) You can verify the integrity of each message using only its own data and metadata. 3) Each file name is unique. 4) It is compatible with maildir (qmail) unique names (uniq). 5) If a dir is sorted alphabetically, then it is ordered chronologically. 6) The extension .mail can be used to call an appropriate message reader. >From time to time I add new messages and dirs to the archive, but some dirs are closed forever, so it would be nice to tar.gz'ip them. Now I am looking for an IMAP server that can serve this collection in a read-only (ro) manner. That is, the server should not write the mailarch dir at all. I am exploring two possibilities: 1) using hard links. 2) using FUSE to set a rw layer on top of the ro archive layer. But I am new to dovecot, so perhaps there is an easier way to achieve what I want, and therefore I would appreciate very much your advice.

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Sieve/ManageSieve documentation on Wiki2
by Robert Blayzor 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Is it possible the Sieve/ManageSieve documentation on the Wiki can be cleaned up? It's incredibly confusing now. Some of the Sieve configuration information says certain options are deprecated, but then the example on how to configure it uses the deprecated options rather than what they *should* be now. More confusion is the sieve plugin configuration listing those same deprecated options, yet when you pull the document on how to configure ManageSieve, it (again) uses deprecated configuration information? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/ManageSieve/Configuration Or am I missing something? -- Robert inoc.net!rblayzor http://inoc.net/

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IMAP logging / rawlog
by G H 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

I am trying to monitor with Nagios that my phones are consistently checking into dovecot via IMAP. I used to be able to parse syslog for imap-login messages. I have since updated my phones, the phoness email client (k9-mail) and dovecot. Now the imap-login messages are few and far between. However, I can clearly see via tcpdump that some traffic is happening when I click refresh on k9. I enabled "rawlog" support in dovecot, but it doesn't seem to write to disc frequently enough. 1) Does anyone have a better suggestion for how to monitor that my phone is checking in regularly? 2) Is there a flush-to-disk capability for rawlog in dovecot? 3) Also, when you have imap_zlib plugin enabled, the rawlog logs the raw compressed data instead of the decompressed IMAP commands. Is this an oversight? (FYI: k9 is calling SELECT "INBOX" on refresh) Thanks, G H

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Question About Dovadm syntax
by Kenneth Ulrich 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Hello All, I just have a quick question about doveadm commands. 1. Is there a command that we can use to count emails for a particular end user? 2. If an end user needed to copy/move emails from one account to another, is there a command? Also, I've searched Google results, numerous Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora forums, Doveadm forums, and read the DoveCot/DoveADM man pages numerous times and either I am over looking, or I am not understanding. Thus why I am asking here.

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speaking of sieve scripts... how to selectively not send vacation autoreply
by Harondel J. Sibble 04 Apr '15

04 Apr '15

Don't need to block anyone like in the "Re: Dovecot Oy merger with Open-Xchange AG" thread, but when I have my vacation recipie active, I'd like it to NOT reply to certain addresses. I tried the following, you can see the section with if header :contains "addressIdontwant(a)repliedtoo.tld" is commented out, once I'd added that section, no Vacation messages went out at all. Googling and reading the wiki and recipie suggestions doesn't make it clear how to exempt a list of addresses from ever receiving a vacation response. Suggestions on additional reading or solutions? require ["fileinto", "vacation"]; if header :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "Subject" "**SPAM**" { fileinto "Trash"; stop; } #if header :contains "addressIdontwant(a)repliedtoo.tld" { # stop; #} vacation # Reply at most once a day to a same sender :days 1 :subject "Changes to email addresses effective Jan 01/15" # List of recipient addresses which are included in the auto replying. # If a mail's recipient is not on this list, no vacation reply is sent for it. :addresses ["user(a)repliedtoo.tld"] This is on a Dovecot 1.x system that is slated for an upgrade soon. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Ltd. Creating Solutions for the small and medium business computer user. harondel(a)pdscc.com (use pgp keyid 0x3CC3CFCE not 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com Blog: http://www.pdscc.com/blog (604) 739-3709 (voice)

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Dovecot Oy merger with Open-Xchange AG
by Timo Sirainen 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Hi all, Today I can finally announce that Dovecot Oy company has merged with Open-Xchange AG. This helps us to get more Dovecot developers, support people and so on. Most importantly, eventually it should allow me to get back to doing what I like the most: Designing new and interesting stuff for Dovecot and perfecting the old stuff :) OX is a great match to Dovecot going forward. They also really like open source and share our plans for the future. Nothing big will change as a result of this merger: Dovecot will stay Dovecot with its own name and release schedules. We're not going to force OX and Dovecot to be the same product, other than having a somewhat deeper integration between them. Here are the press release links about it: http://www.dovecot.fi/open-xchange-and-dovecot-announce-merger-to-create-wo… http://www.open-xchange.com/dovecot http://www.open-xchange.com/announcements/18

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EL6 EE package dependencies
by Will Yardley 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

I've been trying to upgrade Dovecot-ee package (on EL6/x86_64) from 2.2.15.8-1 to 2.2.16.2-1. It's complaining on these two dependencies: liblz4.so.1 libtextcat.so.0 These would both seem to be related to plugins, and don't seem to be required as package dependencies by the RPM from what I can see from the SRPM. Anyone know what packages I need to satisfy these dependencies?

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Install process breaks its self by design
by Merlin at Desktop Masters 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Greetings, I just tried to install Dovecot for the first time. It was on a virgin Ubuntu/Debian server (Version: 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu5) and the install failed. After a bit of struggling I worked out that the install fails BY DESIGN. Spoke about this with a few people and we decided it was best to report this issue and request that you redesign the packing so it does not fail. The reason it fails is as follows... When you install it asks you if you want to use self signed certificates. I have certificates so I said, "No". At the end of the install the script tries to start dovecot. It cannot because the service does not have certificates so it fails. This causes the script to abort and the other packages not to install and breaks the install process. I had to purge dovecot, then install it with the self signed certificates. So we have 2 issues here. 1. Why allow people to not install certificates if it is just going to break the install and confuse them. 2. Why are you starting the service right after install when dovecot clearly requires manual configuration as part of the setup. I recommend you resolve this by NOT starting the service as part of the install unless it is an upgrade and the service was already running. ~ Merlin

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Re: Install process breaks its self by design
by Merlin at Desktop Masters 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Correct Correct Correct And when I went to the page it lead me here. Whomever is making the .deb packages needs to be made aware of this. Can you please point me into a direction? ~ Merlin On 4/1/2015 4:33 PM, edgar(a)pettijohn-web.com wrote: > On 2015-03-29 13:58, Merlin at Desktop Masters wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I just tried to install Dovecot for the first time. It was on a >> virgin Ubuntu/Debian server (Version: 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu5) and the >> install failed. After a bit of struggling I worked out that the >> install fails BY DESIGN. Spoke about this with a few people and we >> decided it was best to report this issue and request that you redesign >> the packing so it does not fail. The reason it fails is as follows... >> > > This would be on Debian/Ubuntu. > >> When you install it asks you if you want to use self signed >> certificates. I have certificates so I said, "No". At the end of the >> install the script tries to start dovecot. It cannot because the >> service does not have certificates so it fails. This causes the >> script to abort and the other packages not to install and breaks the >> install process. I had to purge dovecot, then install it with the >> self signed certificates. >> >> So we have 2 issues here. 1. Why allow people to not install >> certificates if it is just going to break the install and confuse >> them. > > This would be on Debian/Ubuntu. > > 2. Why are you starting the service right after install when >> dovecot clearly requires manual configuration as part of the setup. > > This would be on Debian/Ubuntu. > >> >> I recommend you resolve this by NOT starting the service as part of >> the install unless it is an upgrade and the service was already >> running. >> > > This would be on Debian/Ubuntu. > >> ~ Merlin >

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Mismatch search user in ldap
by Jean-François Sénéchal 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hi I do not understand the right configuration I had a loop worries the users received the same message multiple times and testing other users config was not found so what is the right config to the following scheme My ldap scheme : mail: jf(a)marche.be gosaMailForwardingAddress: jf(a)citoyen.marche.be gosaMailAlternateAddress: toto(a)marche.be dovecot-ldap.conf.ext user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%n)) virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_virtual_recipients.cf virtual_alias_maps = proxy:ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap_virtual_recipients.cf ldap_virtual_recipients.cf : server_host = localhost search_base = ou=Users,ou=Citoyens,dc=marche,dc=be scope = sub bind = no version = 3 query_filter = (&(|(mail=%s)(gosaMailAlternateAddress=%s)(gosaMailForwardingAddress=%s)(uid=%s))(objectClass=gosaMailAccount)) result_attribute = uid is it correct ? thanks

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multiple imap servers for high availability
by Robert Fantini 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Hello, We run imap for our domain at our lan. I'd like to set up a backup mirror that has imap storage always duplicated. Then using something like heartbeat to share the imapd IP address . Could someone point me to documents , if any , that give ideas on how to set up the mirror? best regards, Rob

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Migrating from Cyrus to Dovecot
by Miloslav Hůla 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Hi, we are migrating from Cyrus 2.3.7 to Dovecot 2.2.13. We have ~7000 maildirs with ~500GB. Our goal is to do the migration without users have notice and with the shortest service downtime. The users use IMAP (with shared folders and ACL), POP3 and sieve filters. As a first choice, we tried the Dovecot's dsync tool. First tests were great, but we are not able to change the Cyrus auth backend for migration. Moreover, this migration seems too slow for us. As a second try, we tried the cyrus2dovecot migrating Perl scripts (and their derivates) from Wiki2. More or less they works but we found we need more control during the migration. So, as a third try, we wrote own migrating scripts. And thanks to the cyrus2dovecot it wasn't too much complicated. And there are my questions: A) Files and dirs timestamps The mtime of email file is important as an internal date as I found on Wiki2. But what about timestamps of cur/new/tmp directories or Dovecot's internal files line dovecot-uidlist? Do they play some role here? B) The 128 bit mailbox UID The Wiki2 speaks about 128 bit mailbox UID at first line of dovecot-uidlist. Cyrus preserves only 64 bit UID. Is this mailbox UID required by Dovecot? If so, can we use 0000000000000000501100008c4a11c1 (Cyrus UID padded by zeros)? C) Format of dovecot-uidlist records Wiki2 shows two examples: 25006 :1276528487.M364837P9451.kurkku,S=1355,W=1394:2, 25017 W2481 :1276533073.M242911P3632.kurkku:2,F Which format is preferred? Or what the benefits are? D) Converting between CRLF and LF If I understand correctly, Dovecot stores emails with LF only. We have all emails with CRLF now on Cyrus and converting them to LF only is a little more time consuming. Is there any benefit to do that? Or can we live with 'mail_save_crlf' without problems? E) POP3 backend I found many informations about IMAP internals but few on POP3 internals. What do I need to do POP3 migration transparent for user? Many thanks for any answers. Regards, Milo

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quota setup assistance (postfix+dovecot+mysql)
by rooster 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Hello list, I have been struggling with establishing a working installation of dovecot with mySQL quota support. I have not been able to find a guide or tutorial that works for the current revisions of software I have at my disposal. Most notably, the error I see in the mail log is as follows : Mar 23 00:55:31 host dovecot: lmtp(328): Debug: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib10_quota_plugin.so Mar 23 00:55:31 host dovecot: lmtp(328): Error: dlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lib11_imap_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: command_unregister Mar 23 00:55:31 host dovecot: lmtp(328): Fatal: Couldn't load required plugins I have attached my dovecot -n output. The installed revision of dovecot is 2.2.9 on ubuntu 14.04.02 LTS. Thank you in advance. --

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