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Dovecot Stats for Logwatch
by Plutocrat 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Hi all, I run logwatch on a few servers and the script on there which parses the dovecot logs provides waaaaaay too much detail, and contains a bunch of stuff I'm not interested in. There's not much point in having a log summary if its 100Kb long! The one for exim is also terrible, but I've replaced that with eximstats, and a bit of bash scripting and have something I can work with. I might at some point look at replacing that too. Now to my question. I haven't found anything in the dovecot family which compares to eximstats. I was wondering if there possibly is a report tool, or a way of extracting stats from doveadm just for key metrics such as 'number of POP logins in the last 24 hours', number of failed passwords, etc. Things that might be interesting on a logwatch report. Or maybe someone has written a script already that can be used in logwatch in perl, python, bash, whatever. Any pointers, suggestions, or ideas for useful summary metrics to pull out of the logfiles are appreciated. I suspect I might end up writing one myself anyway, but I'm just keen to see what already exists, get the benefit of anyone else's experiences in this matter before I start. P.

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fts_autoindex_exclude for everything in a namespace?
by Daniel J. Luke 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Hi, I've recently moved a system from using procmail to delivering via dovecot-lmtp w/ sieve - and it's great! I've got a copy of incoming mail going into mbox archives (that I compress after months end), and my mail log is full of "Error: fts: Failed to sync mailbox #Archive: Mailbox isn't selectable", though. I /think/ fts_autoindex_exclude = #Archive/* is what I want, but it doesn't seem to silence the error. I don't need the #Archive mailboxes visible to clients, but I don't mind if they are. I tried some setting the archive prefix = AutoArchive and setting list = yes, but that didn't silence the error. I feel like I'm probably missing something obvious :) dovecot 2.3.14 / pigenohole 0.5.14 relevant config from dovecot -n: mail_location = mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=~/.mbox:INDEX=~/.dovecot-indexes mail_plugins = fts fts_lucene zlib namespace { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = no special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = no special_use = \Trash } mailbox spam { auto = create special_use = \Junk } prefix = separator = / } namespace archive { inbox = no list = no location = mbox:~/MailArchive/ prefix = "#Archive/" separator = / } plugin { fts = lucene fts_autoindex = yes fts_lucene = whitespace_chars=@. recipient_delimiter = + sieve = file:~/.sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_default = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_default_name = file_spam } and the archive sieve script (which works) looks like this: if currentdate :matches "month" "*" { set "month" "${1}"; } if currentdate :matches "year" "*" { set "year" "${1}"; } if true { fileinto :copy :create "#Archive/${year}-${month}"; } -- Daniel J. Luke

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userdb volatiledir setting not working
by Александер Скобельцын 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Hi all! I just can't deal with VOLATILEDIR userdb setting on my mailservers. For example dovecot-uidlist.lock files are still being created over our network mail store. So, several days ago I changed my user and passwd query setting to include this option and restarted all my dovecot servers. Now it looks like (we use mysql driver): user_query = \ SELECT \ `u`.`pop` AS `home`, \ `u`.`uid`, \ `u`.`gid`, \ CONCAT('maildir:', `u`.`smtp`, ':INDEX=/var/dovecot_indexes/%d/%u:VOLATILEDIR=/var/dovecot_indexes/%d/%u') AS `mail`, \ CONCAT('*:bytes=', `u`.`quota`, 'M') AS `quota_rule` ,\ CONCAT('url=http://', fts_solr, ':8983/solr/dovecot/') AS fts_solr \ FROM `users` AS `u` \ JOIN `domains` AS `d` ON `d`.`domain_id` = `u`.`domain_id` \ WHERE \ `u`.`username` = '%u' \ AND `u`.`enabled` = 1 \ AND `d`.`enabled` = 1 \ AND `u`.`type` IN ('local', 'piped') password_query = \ SELECT \ `u`.`username` AS `user`, \ `u`.`crypt` AS `password`, \ `u`.`pop` AS `userdb_home`, \ `u`.`uid` AS `userdb_uid`, \ `u`.`gid` AS `userdb_gid`, \ CONCAT('maildir:', `u`.`smtp`, ':INDEX=/var/dovecot_indexes/%d/%u:VOLATILEDIR=/var/dovecot_indexes/%d/%u') AS `userdb_mail`, \ CONCAT('*:bytes=', `u`.`quota`, 'M') AS `userdb_quota_rule` \ FROM `users` AS `u` \ JOIN `domains` AS `d` ON `d`.`domain_id` = `u`.`domain_id` \ WHERE \ `u`.`username` = '%u' \ AND `u`.`enabled` = 1 \ AND `d`.`enabled` = 1 \ AND `u`.`type` IN ('local', 'piped') The aim was to move .lock and another temp files out of network storage our mails are stored. We use CephFS for storing user emails (maildir format). In addition we use 3 imap servers, each mount exact same path in cephfs and 2 dovecot directors to handle user=imapserver mapping, so user shouldn't exist on more than one imapserver at a time. Am I must use CONTROL directive in addition to force move control files from network store for VOLATILEDIR setting to work properly or I just misconfigured something? Extra info: dovecot --version 2.3.14 (cee3cbc0d)

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debugging file permissions wrong
by Laura Steynes 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Hi, In trying to debug a strange error where client can't login, I enabled all the usual debug settings, this is all good, it works for imap and pop3 fine, but the problem is when used with dovecot's LDA there is a nasty issue. the file created by debug_log_path in this case /var/log/dovecot/debug.log , this file created as root, again this is fine for nice logging of imap and pop3, but this causes postfix not to deliver mail, for write permission denied, LDA runs as vmail, all my sub sections like *_listener also = vmail and all my uid/gid settings are also to user/group vmail obviously you wont main log files to not be owned by vmail for case of security, so is there a way to set the ownership of the debug file - apart from the obvious of remembering 40 minutes later when you get alert of high mailq level to chown the file :) If there is no way, may the developers take this as a feature request please. Thanks Loz

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New Configuration
by Eric Shields | Mass Transit Honchkrow 29 May '21

29 May '21

Hi, I'm setting up an email server behind a NAT, and I have the necessary DNS records, iptables/ufw rules, and ACLs in place. However, I cannot sign in with my chosen username, which does exist on the same computer I'm hosting the server on. I am using PAM, not a database, to hold credential information, and SSL certificates are active. However, I am getting signal 15 for the following processes: anvil, config, and auth. I can confirm through telnet that the ports I am using are open, and these ports are also open on the WAN side, which I believe is needed. Do you have any pointers for me, or any additional clarifying details? - 🚏

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Different Maildir Locations
by Gabx 28 May '21

28 May '21

Hi, on my vps (debian stable) I have an email system with postfix, dovecot, virtual users and domains. I have 3 users with different mail_locations. the first mail_location = maildir: ~ / Maildir the second mail_location = maildir: ~ / user1 / Maildir the third mail_location = maildir: ~ / user2 / mail In postfix the above schema is represented in virtual_mailbox_maps. In dovecot mail_location is set maildir:~/Maildir. The first user receives regular mail, the other two none. I tried to see if in dovecot there was the possibility to configure the mail_location specifically for each single user, but with namespaces and userdb I am a bit confused and I have not found specific examples for my case. regards Gab -- GPG fingerprint: 5A6A F742 ACEA C9A7 93A8 8D5E 7AEF 5A02 D080 89F7 Contact: xmpp://gabx@jabber.tcpreset.net

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replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating ...
by Jörg Faudin Schulz 28 May '21

28 May '21

frequently, the replicator fails on allocating memory: replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating ... bytes. I already have increased default_vsz_limit=1024M but this only increased the ... value. What can be done here? dovecot_branch=release-2.3.14

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Mailbox problem on centos O/S after some "fiddling"
by John Richards 28 May '21

28 May '21

Good day from Somerset, England Version 2.2.10 Problem after a huge centos update Data:- Server has 8 mailboxes under /var/mail/"user name" history:- After update, mail to ONE user was going into mqueue as undeliverable Had to delete and recreate the user. somewhere along the line (ME!) /var/mail/;imap var/mail/new were deleted After new user and reboot server no one could access mailboxes with password error except ONE user randomly....This created the /var/mail/.mbox folder and sub folders but with the owner as the user name. Then any mail for other users was put in the /var/new folder and just sat there. only the "owner" of this folder could get mail, everyone else was prohibited with password error. chown the folder (owner:group) to root did nothing BUT When .mbox was give PUBLIC execute permissions (771) suddenly everything works fine! I do not understand why dovecot creates this folder as we ONLY ever use pop3 (currently with plain text auth but going to secure when this sorted) for mail and also why when it writes the blank folder it "owns" it with the user accessing it (also the /var/mail/new folder takes the same owner) I have trolled everywhere and spent a whole day on this so any clues would be very gratefully accepted as do not like to leave this folder as 771 (note the folder INBOX within it is only 770 and the log file in that is 660) Is this INBOX needed at all for pop3 ? rgds John Richards UK ================= dovecot -n # 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core ) ext4 auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u 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 = shadow } protocols = pop3 service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/watchetwebdesign.co.uk.crt ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/watchetwebdesign.co.uk.key userdb { driver = passwd }

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NFS Locking Question
by Zane Zak 28 May '21

28 May '21

Hi! I'm hoping to get some clarification on NFS locking before deploying a new setup. We have a single exim server that delivers mail to mbox files in /var/mail. We have a separate server running dovecot that reads mail from these mbox files. So only one exim server and one dovecot server, but they're separate VMs and handle locking with dotlocks. I was noticing frequent mbox file corruption. I then set "mail_nfs_storage = yes", and have seen no mbox corruption since. However, I'm now seeing messages like this in the logs for every read... Error: nfs_flush_fcntl: fcntl(/var/mail/username, F_RDLCK) failed: Bad file descriptor Is there a configuration change that needs to be made on the dovecot or the NFS servers, or are these messages harmless. Thanks! ZZ

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mail-crypt-plugin: encrypted user keys
by Daniel Schuermann 28 May '21

28 May '21

Hi, I tried to enable encrypted folder keys using mail-crypt-plugin. It works as expected when using unencrypted folder keys. When I add mail_crypt_require_encrypted_user_key = yes as shown below, I somehow manage to crash dovecot: dovecot: lmtp(82060): Fatal: master: service(lmtp): child 82060 killed with signal 6 (core not dumped - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps - set service lmtp { drop_priv_before_exec=yes }) dovecot: lmtp(67814): Panic: file mail-user.c: line 229 (mail_user_deinit): assertion failed: ((*user)->refcount== 1) lmtp(root): Info: msgid=<07e3a23b2aaea60b(a)mx.2718282.net>: save failed to INBOX: generate_keypair(INBOX) failed: mail_crypt_require_encrypted_user_key set, cannot generate user keypair without password or key My config files: # 2.3.14 (cee3cbc0d): /etc/mail/imap.conf # OS: OpenBSD 6.9 amd64 auth_verbose = yes debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot mail_attribute_dict = file:%h/Maildir/dovecot-attributes mail_debug = yes namespace inbox { ... } passdb { args = /etc/mail/imap-sqlite.conf driver = sql } plugin { mail_crypt_curve = secp521r1 mail_crypt_require_encrypted_user_key = yes mail_crypt_save_version = 2 } protocols = imap lmtp service imap-login { ... } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/rsa.crt ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.2 ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes userdb { args = /etc/mail/imap-sqlite.conf driver = sql override_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail } # file: /etc/mail/imap-sqlite.conf driver = sqlite connect = /etc/mail/sqlite.db default_pass_scheme = BLF-CRYPT user_query = SELECT '/home/vmail/'||destination AS home FROM virtuals WHERE email = '%u' password_query = SELECT email as user, password, '%w' AS \ userdb_mail_crypt_private_password FROM credentials WHERE email = '%u'

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