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Running dovecot proxy as different user
by Marc Roos 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

I thought, I read somewhere I could prevent chroot with[1] but I am still getting chroot errors[2]. drwxrwxr-x 2 10053 101 6 Dec 2 16:54 empty drwxr-x--- 2 10053 101 73 Dec 2 17:00 login drwxr-x--- 2 10053 101 44 Dec 2 17:00 token-login [1] service anvil { chroot = } [2] Dec 2 17:07:07 c04 dovecot: stats: Fatal: chroot(/var/dovecot/empty) failed: Operation not permitted Dec 2 17:07:07 c04 dovecot: master: Error: service(stats): command startup failed, throttling for 16 secs Dec 2 17:07:07 c04 dovecot: pop3-login: Fatal: setgid(101(dovenull)) failed with euid=10053(dovecot), gid=10053(dovecot), egid=10053(dovecot): Operation not permitted (This binary should probably be called with process group set to 101(dovenull) instead of 10053(dovecot)) Dec 2 17:07:07 c04 dovecot: master: Error: service(pop3-login): command startup failed, throttling for 16 secs

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Mail-crypt won't encrypt emails
by Serveria Support 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Hi, (Reposting as my previous post got zero replies.) We're running Dovecot 2.2.36 and we need to set up the mail-crypt plugin to encrypt all incoming and outgoing emails. Outgoing emails seem to get encrypted fine but the incoming ones don't. We tried everything including this config: mail_attribute_dict = file:%h/Maildir/dovecot-attributes mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_crypt plugin { mail_crypt_global_private_key = <ecprivkey.pem mail_crypt_global_public_key = <ecpubkey.pem mail_crypt_save_version = 2 } also this one: plugin { mail_crypt_curve = prime256v1 mail_crypt_save_version = 2 } but to no avail. There are no visible errors, Dovecot restarts fine and outgoing emails get encrypted. Any ideas? -- Kind Regards, Support Team SERVERIA.COM Riga, LV-1063, Latvia US: +1 (213) 224-7938 LV: + (371) 22330032 Skype: bighostlv support(a)serveria.com www.serveria.com

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Cert for ip range?
by Marc Roos 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

Is it possible to configure a network for a cert instead of an ip? Something like this: local 192.0.2.0 { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/dovecot/imap-02.example.com.cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/dovecot/imap-02.example.com.key.pem } Or local 192.0.2.0/24 { ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/dovecot/imap-02.example.com.cert.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/dovecot/imap-02.example.com.key.pem } https://wiki.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration

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Error: proxy: Remote returned invalid banner: 220
by Marc Roos 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

I had a working proxy setup added sieve to it, and out of the blue I get this Error: proxy: Remote returned invalid banner: 220 No idea what to do, nothing even in the mail list archive

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dovecot: auth: Error: DNS lookup for xxx failed: Name does not resolve
by Marc Roos 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

I had a working container with dovecot configured as proxy. And all of a sudden I am getting these messages 'dovecot: auth: Error: DNS lookup for roosit03 failed: Name does not resolve' Pinging/nslookup these hostnames is ok

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Proxy GSSAPI + PLAIN authentication
by Sam 30 Nov '19

30 Nov '19

Hi, I try to configure a proxy accepting GSSAPI and PLAIN authentication. When authenticating with Kerberos, Dovecot uses master user and password to authenticate to backends (backends can be Cyrus or Exchange servers too) When authenticating with PLAIN passwords, Dovecot sends user's login and password to the backend. For GSSAPI, I use extrafields : k5principals=principal@REALM proxy=Y pass=masterpassword login_user=principal user=masteruser host=backend For PLAIN, I use a static driver : passdb { driver = static args = proxy=y host=cyrus password=%w } I can authenticate fine with Kerberos tickets and login/password on the backend. Trouble is that if I authenticate with PLAIN login/password, with a user known from the passdb lookup made for GSSAPI, I can authenticate with any password, it is not checked. The passdb with masteruser and nopassword=y is checked. I can't restrict the passdb with the k5principals extrafield. I tried static and ldap drivers, with the same wrong behaviour. pass_attrs = \ =proxy=Y, \ =nopassword=Y, \ =pass=masterpassword, \ =login_user=%{ldap:uid}, \ =user=masteruser, \ =host=backend, \ =k5principals=%{ldap:uid}@REALM With the ldap driver, I've got auth_bind = no The user is found in the ldap, and Dovecot logs him with the masterpassword. If I don't configure an ldap passdb, but a userdb only, the proxy try passdb that comes after for PLAIN logins. With a passwd-file driver, the k5principals works fine. The user isn't found if it authenticates with PLAIN. My question is : is it possible to restrict a ldap or static passdb for GSSAPI mechanism only ? Thanks for your help, Regards, Sam

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ESEARCH is announced but it doesn't work
by Jesus Cea 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

I am using Dovecot 2.3.4. I could upgrade if necessary. I see this capabilities after login in: """ a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY LITERAL+ NOTIFY SPECIAL-USE] Logged in """ ESEARCH (RFC 7377) seems to be available, but the command is not recognized: """ tag1 ESEARCH IN (mailboxes "folder1" subtree "folder2") unseen tag1 BAD Error in IMAP command ESEARCH: Unknown command (0.001 + 0.000 secs). """ What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your time and expertise. -- Jesús Cea Avión _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ jcea(a)jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ Twitter: @jcea _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ jabber / xmpp:jcea@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz

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sendmail -> lmtp 501 5.6.0 Data format error
by Marc Roos 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

When changing in a working setup sendmail.mc From this MAILER(smtp)dnl MAILER(procmail)dnl To this FEATURE(`local_lmtp',`[IPC]',`FILE /var/run/dovecot/lmtp')dnl MAILER(local)dnl I am getting these errors '501 5.6.0 Data format error' and ' Unrecognized host name'. What should I change in my lmtp config? Could this be related that messages are being relayed from other servers? lmtp_address_translate = lmtp_hdr_delivery_address = final lmtp_proxy = no lmtp_rcpt_check_quota = no lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = no lmtp_user_concurrency_limit = 0

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Using dovecot Replication in a medium to large enterprise.
by Brent Clark 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Good day Guys Just wanted to pick the communities brain and experience(s) for a second. At $CORP where I work. My team has inherited a single server mail solution. We need to look to building a standby / replicated solution. One of the things we were looking at is https://wiki.dovecot.org/Replication We have in excess of +/- 500 mail boxes and using just under 1TB of disk space. That is a lot of small files. Reading about this plugin / module, things that stick out and is concerning is the comments: "The replication in general is a bit resource intensive, so it's not recommended to be used in multi-million user installations." "WARNING: Shared folder replication doesn't work correctly right now –" I would like to ask the community (and anyone else in a similar enterprise) how and if this solution works and scales. In short, I am asking, is anyone else using Dovecot Replication in a medium to large enterprise? Can you please share your experiences, pitfalls and if you have any tips managing mail replication. Kindest regards and thanks in advance. Brent Clark

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IMAP Migration Tools
by Julian Kippels 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Hi, I am looking for tools to migrate Mails from one IMAP-Server to another. Until now I have always used imapsync, but it seems very slow. Even over a 2x10GB/s connection I only get speeds of about 600KiB/s, because the programm always pauses betweeen every single mail. Does anyone here have a suggestion for an alternative? Thanks in advance Julian

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