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What causes folders to be reported as noselect?
by Daniel Miller 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

As the subject says. This may be a bit open-ended - but it would really help troubleshooting some obscure folder issues. In my case, I happen to have both some "real" folders and also some "virtual" folders that respond to IMAP LIST commands with the "\NoSelect" flag - and I don't know why. Via telnet, I can manually issue SELECT, SEARCH, and FETCH for such folders without errors. -- Daniel

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Possible bug - otherwise a public admission of oops
by Daniel Miller 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

While trying to identify possible causes of wrong mail folder creation I did something...bad. Normally, I would recognize that deleting a mail folder would naturally delete all the contained mails. However...somehow my imaginative self decided that deleting a virtual folder via IMAP would only delete the virtual folder...and not proceed to delete every referenced email via the virtual mapping. So note to self, and possible reminder to others, deleting a virtual folder via a filesystem command is just tiny bit different than via IMAP... Fortunately I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency... -- Daniel

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dovecot/FreeBSD and Android IMAP clients
by Victor Sudakov 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

Dear Colleagues, I have a fairly vanilla setup of dovecot on FreeBSD, serving IMAP and POP3. Thunderbird/IMAP works fine, and so does mutt/IMAP. However, Android clients (Gmail/IMAP and K-9 Mail) have problems accessing folders other than the INBOX. They either show them empty with no mails (K-9) or just wait forever to view the contents (Gmail app). Do I need to set up some workarounds or hacks in dovecot for Android IMAP clients to work correctly? Any advice is appreciated. My config is below: # 2.3.2.1 (0719df592): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p3 amd64 # Hostname: admin.sibptus.ru mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } protocols = imap pop3 ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/exim/mail.pem ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd } -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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Nightly builds of Debian packages
by Christoph Pleger 24 Sep '18

24 Sep '18

Hello, how is the future of the automatically built nightly debian packages of dovecot? Has that project been ceased? The current auto-built version is still 2.2.28 from April 28, though 2.2.29 (with a security patch) of dovecot is out now for a while. Regards Christoph

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Last_login plugin and mysql
by Thomas Hooge 24 Sep '18

24 Sep '18

Hello, i have problems configuring the last_login plugin with mysql. I have extended the postfixadmin database with a new field, configured the plugin as described in the wiki. Finally i got errors: table is not writable, INSERT failed. Why is the insert required? The plugin should only UPDATE the column for existing rows. Or am i missing some configuration options? Here is my dictionary config: map { pattern = shared/last-login/$user table = mailbox value_field = x_last_login value_type = uint fields { username = $user } } Dovecot: 2.2.27 (c0f36b0) Kind regards, Thomas

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Error using dsync to convert really old mboxes to Maildir and workaround
by faginbagin 24 Sep '18

24 Sep '18

I ran across what I think may be a bug in dsync when trying to convert from mbox to Maildir format. My first attempt failed with a runaway dsync process spewing out thousands of identical lines of the form: dsync(buus): Error: Duplicate mailbox GUID 00fe691ff60da85b090d0000c8119523 for mailboxes Archive/Personal and Work/VendorInfo - giving a new GUID 00fe691ff60da85b090d0000c8119523 to Archive/Personal These two mail folders happen to be among a number of folders I've had for many years, but also haven't looked at in many years. I used to use UW-IMAP, but switched to dovecot about two years ago, and I'm sure I've never used dovecot to look at those folders. So I suspect the root cause of the above error message was that dovecot had never generated GUIDs for these and some other really old folders. After killing dsync with SIGKILL, which couldn't be killed with SIGTERM, I restored my mbox format Mail folder from backup, restored the mail_location and then coerced dovecot to generate unique GUIDs for all my mail folders with this command: doveadm mailbox status guid `doveadm mailbox list` After the above command, I was able to convert my mail from mbox to Maildir format. Maybe this will help someone else somewhere down the road.

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Released Pigeonhole v0.5.3.rc1 for Dovecot v2.3.3.rc1.
by Stephan Bosch 23 Sep '18

23 Sep '18

Hello Dovecot users, Here is the Pigeonhole release candidate that goes with the Dovecot v2.3.3 release candidate. It consists only of bugfixes. Changelog v0.5.3: - Fix assertion panic occurring when managesieve service fails to open INBOX while saving a Sieve script. This was caused by a lack of cleanup after failure. - Fix specific messages causing an assert panic with actions that compose a reply (e.g. vacation). With some rather weird input from the original message, the header folding algorithm (as used for composing the References header for the reply) got confused, causing the panic. - IMAP FILTER=SIEVE capability: Fix FILTER SIEVE SCRIPT command parsing. After finishing reading the Sieve script, the command parsing sometimes didn't continue with the search arguments. This is a time- critical bug that likely only occurs when the Sieve script is sent in the next TCP frame. The release is available as follows: http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.3/rc/dovecot-2.3-pigeonhole-0.5.3.… http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.3/rc/dovecot-2.3-pigeonhole-0.5.3.… Refer to http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org and the Dovecot wiki for more information. Have fun testing this release candidate and don't hesitate to notify me when there are any problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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Global sieve doesn't run and I don't know why
by Ranbir 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

Hi Everyone, I have dovecot, postfix, roundcube and piegeonhole managesieve all working nicely together. Personal scripts defined in roundcube run without issue. I have configured the global sieve dir defined in 90-sieve.conf: sieve_global_dir = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/global/ I pre-compiled the script in there: # ls -l /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/global/ total 8 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 118 Sep 19 16:52 global.sieve -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 197 Sep 19 16:56 global.svbin But, in the logs for dovecot, I never see the script being run: https://www.pastiebin.com/5ba3faa8628c2 Users are from freeipa. Their home directories are symlinks to where the mail really lives. For example: lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ranbir virtual 42 May 25 2017 ranbir -> /var/spool/mail/domain.tld/ranbir/ And the contents of that dir: [root@mailhost conf.d]# ls -al /home/DOMAIN/ranbir/ total 64 drwxrwx---. 4 ranbir virtual 4096 Sep 18 17:40 . drwxrwx---+ 13 virtual virtual 4096 Jul 8 12:06 .. -rw-------. 1 ranbir ranbir 17808 Sep 20 01:13 .bash_history -rw-------. 1 ranbir ranbir 18 Dec 14 2015 .bash_logout -rw-------. 1 ranbir ranbir 193 Dec 14 2015 .bash_profile -rw-------. 1 ranbir ranbir 231 Dec 14 2015 .bashrc lrwxrwxrwx. 1 virtual virtual 23 Feb 11 2018 .dovecot.sieve -> sieve/managesieve.sieve lrwxrwxrwx. 1 virtual virtual 23 Sep 18 16:53 .dovecot.sieve.log -> sieve/dovecot.sieve.log -rw-rw----. 1 virtual virtual 322 Sep 18 17:40 .dovecot.svbin -rw-------. 1 ranbir ranbir 59 Jun 7 2016 .lesshst drwx------. 56 virtual virtual 4096 Sep 20 15:02 Maildir drwxrwx---. 3 ranbir virtual 89 Sep 18 17:16 sieve -rw-------. 1 ranbir ranbir 6415 Feb 11 2018 .viminfo Did I miss something in the configuration? Dovecot isn't throwing any errors. I can only conclude I haven't completed the setup for global sieve to work or that I've misunderstood what the "sieve_global_dir" paramater is for. Thanks! -- Ranbir

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Re: v2.3.3 release candidate released
by Tuomi, Aki 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

It should work if you add it to apt. Directory listing is denied, which causes 403 if you access with browser. Aki -------- Original message --------From: Michael Marley <michael(a)michaelmarley.com> Date: 21/09/2018 18:00 (GMT+02:00) To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot(a)dovecot.org> Subject: Re: v2.3.3 release candidate released On 2018-09-21 09:45, Timo Sirainen wrote: > https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/rc/dovecot-2.3.3.rc1.tar.gz > https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/rc/dovecot-2.3.3.rc1.tar.gz.sig > > Binary packages are also available in https://repo.dovecot.org/ in > ce-2.3.3 repository (not ce-2.3-latest). > > * doveconf hides more secrets now in the default output. > * ssl_dh setting is no longer enforced at startup. If it's not set and > non-ECC DH key exchange happens, error is logged and client is > disconnected. > > + Added log_debug=<filter> setting. > + Added log_core_filter=<log filter> setting. > + quota-clone: Write to dict asynchronously > + --enable-hardening attempts to use retpoline Spectre 2 mitigations > + lmtp proxy: Support source_ip passdb extra field. > + doveadm stats dump: Support more fields and output stddev by > default. > + push-notification: Add SSL support for OX backend. > - NUL bytes in mail headers can cause truncated replies when fetched. > - director: Conflicting host up/down state changes may in some rare > situations ended up in a loop of two directors constantly > overwriting > each others' changes. > - virtual plugin: Some searches used 100% CPU for many seconds > - dsync assert-crashed with acl plugin in some situations. > - mail_attachment_detection_options=add-flags-on-save assert-crashed > with some specific Sieve scripts. > - Mail snippet generation crashed with mails containing invalid > Content-Type:multipart header. > - Log prefix ordering was different for some log lines. > - quota: With noenforcing option current quota usage wasn't updated. > - auth: Kerberos authentication against Samba assert-crashed. > - stats clients were unnecessarily chatty with the stats server. > - imapc: Fixed various assert-crashes when reconnecting to server. > - lmtp, submission: Fix potential crash if client disconnects while > handling a command. > - quota: Fixed compiling with glibc-2.26 / support libtirpc. > - fts-solr: Empty search values resulted in 400 Bad Request errors > - fts-solr: default_ns parameter couldn't be used > - submission server crashed if relay server returned over 7 lines in > a reply (e.g. to EHLO) It looks like the ce-2.3.3 repository (or at least https://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.3.3/ubuntu/xenial/) is returning a 403. Michael

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v2.3.3 release candidate released
by Timo Sirainen 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/rc/dovecot-2.3.3.rc1.tar.gz https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/rc/dovecot-2.3.3.rc1.tar.gz.sig Binary packages are also available in https://repo.dovecot.org/ in ce-2.3.3 repository (not ce-2.3-latest). * doveconf hides more secrets now in the default output. * ssl_dh setting is no longer enforced at startup. If it's not set and non-ECC DH key exchange happens, error is logged and client is disconnected. + Added log_debug=<filter> setting. + Added log_core_filter=<log filter> setting. + quota-clone: Write to dict asynchronously + --enable-hardening attempts to use retpoline Spectre 2 mitigations + lmtp proxy: Support source_ip passdb extra field. + doveadm stats dump: Support more fields and output stddev by default. + push-notification: Add SSL support for OX backend. - NUL bytes in mail headers can cause truncated replies when fetched. - director: Conflicting host up/down state changes may in some rare situations ended up in a loop of two directors constantly overwriting each others' changes. - virtual plugin: Some searches used 100% CPU for many seconds - dsync assert-crashed with acl plugin in some situations. - mail_attachment_detection_options=add-flags-on-save assert-crashed with some specific Sieve scripts. - Mail snippet generation crashed with mails containing invalid Content-Type:multipart header. - Log prefix ordering was different for some log lines. - quota: With noenforcing option current quota usage wasn't updated. - auth: Kerberos authentication against Samba assert-crashed. - stats clients were unnecessarily chatty with the stats server. - imapc: Fixed various assert-crashes when reconnecting to server. - lmtp, submission: Fix potential crash if client disconnects while handling a command. - quota: Fixed compiling with glibc-2.26 / support libtirpc. - fts-solr: Empty search values resulted in 400 Bad Request errors - fts-solr: default_ns parameter couldn't be used - submission server crashed if relay server returned over 7 lines in a reply (e.g. to EHLO)

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