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Re: General IMAP question
by Joseph Tam 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

"Scott Techlist" <techlist06(a)msws.org> writes: > Currently my POP users have a max mbox size but that is how much it > will store before they "come get it". I ensure they have at least one > device set to delete from the server periodically (i.e. 1 week). So > users with multiple devices get their mail duplciated on their devices > and at least one devices keeps the server emptied so their mbox does > not hit any limits. Traditionally, POP was a store and forward protocol. The client would download all the message in INBOX, them empty the mailbox. Nowadays, many POP users configure their clients to "Leave on server mode", which essentially accumulate on the server. The client may or may not also keep a cached copy. > As I understand it, when using IMAP, the user's messages are > perpetually stored on the server. IMAP is oriented as a remote mail service (client fetches and manipulate mail data on a remote server), so yes, messages are meant to remain on the server until deleted. There are probably some clients that cache local copies, but the remote server is considered canonical, so that local copies are deleted if the remote copies disappear. > How do other's deal with this? Am I misunderstanding something? As > popular as it seems to be, these seem like big hurdles to overcome. > Appreciate some help for a IMAP noob. What problem are you trying to solve? Is there a particularly compelling reason for you to move to IMAP (if not, stay with POP3)? You want to curtail space usage by users? You want to force users to retain client side copies of the messages? (Mind you, you'll still could have the same problem with POP -- there's nothing you can do to enforce the client to download/delete messages. Whether you use IMAP or POP3, you'll probably need some client side set up.) Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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RE: Iterate All Dovecot Users !
by Nick Lekkas 31 Aug '17

31 Aug '17

Hi Thomas ! So simple.... But you save my ass ..... And yes it works ! Thanks a lot ! Really ! I appreciate it ! Thanks Nick -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Reifferscheid [mailto:thomas@reifferscheid.org] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 10:49 PM To: nlekkas(a)gmail.com Subject: Re: Iterate All Dovecot Users ! Am 31.08.2017 um 18:18 schrieb Nick Lekkas: > Hello to all ! > > I am trying to write a script that iterate all users that are created in > dovecot and postfix .... > Is there any way ..? > Hi Nick for user in $(doveadm user -u '*'); do echo $user; done Thomas __________ Information from ESET Endpoint Antivirus, version of detection engine 16008 (20170831) __________ The message was checked by ESET Endpoint Antivirus. part000.txt - is OK http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Endpoint Antivirus, version of detection engine 16008 (20170831) __________ The message was checked by ESET Endpoint Antivirus. Email message - is OK http://www.eset.com

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Iterate All Dovecot Users !
by Nick Lekkas 31 Aug '17

31 Aug '17

Hello to all ! I am trying to write a script that iterate all users that are created in dovecot and postfix .... Is there any way ..? Thanks in advance for your time ! Nick __________ Information from ESET Endpoint Antivirus, version of detection engine 16007 (20170831) __________ The message was checked by ESET Endpoint Antivirus. Email message - is OK http://www.eset.com

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General IMAP question
by Scott Techlist 31 Aug '17

31 Aug '17

My server is a limited space mailserver set up to filter spam. Most of it's mail is passed on ot an exchange server so it is not stored locally. I have a handful of pop accounts that are stored locally. For years I've used mbox type mailboxes that I'm familiar with and can access on the server when needed using the old mailx program. They use a variety of clinets, typically Outlook and smartphones. I'm considering changing to IMAP because I need a single IMAP mailbox for an unrelated reason. But I am concerned about user storage issues at least.. Currently my POP users have a max mbox size but that is how much it will store before they "come get it". I ensure they have at least one device set to delete from the server periodically (i.e. 1 week). So users with multiple devices get their mail duplciated on their devices and at least one devices keeps the server emptied so their mbox does not hit any limits. As I understand it, when using IMAP, the user's messages are perpetually stored on the server. So if the user is not moving their messages from their inbox to some other place (e.g. a different Outlook pst file), that all the messages will remain on the server. All messages are "synced" in the user's inbox or other user created folders. Is that right? This would pretty quickly cripple those normal non-computer types that have years of emails in their inboxes. And I don't have the storage space to allow storing years of their mail. I also understand if they exceed their storage limit, mail starts bouncing which is what's I'd expect. At first I started googling how to expire the old mail, but then realized that won't work because if I delete on the server, I understand that will delete on their devices, too. How do other's deal with this? Am I misunderstanding something? As popular as it seems to be, these seem like big hurdles to overcome. Appreciate some help for a IMAP noob. Thanks, Scott

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Strange folders
by Marti Markov 31 Aug '17

31 Aug '17

Hi all, I’ve been experiencing the “magical” creation of random folders on my mail server. I managed to catch the creation of one last night. Here is the log: Aug 30 01:38:13 mail dovecot: imap(f.lastName(a)domain.com): Debug: Namespace : /home/vmail/domain.com/f.lastName/Maildir/.wkkwgfrubwioniohkcyqttugdtdabuyn doesn't exist yet, using default permissions Aug 30 01:38:13 mail dovecot: imap(f.lastName(a)domain.com): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /home/vmail/domain.com/f.lastName/Maildir: mode=0700 gid=default Aug 30 01:38:13 mail dovecot: imap(f.lastName(a)domain.com): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/vmail/domain.com/f.lastName/Maildir/.wkkwgfrubwioniohkcyqttugdtdabuyn/dovecot-acl not found I have substituted only the username and the domain name. The folder name is as it was created: wkkwgfrubwioniohkcyqttugdtdabuyn There has been no activity logged on the exim4 side at that time. What would be the best course of action to determine what is happening?

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Segmentation fault with doveadm search
by Stefán Tamás 30 Aug '17

30 Aug '17

Hi, We have a Ubuntu 14.04 server with dovecot 2.2.9 If I try to run /usr/bin/doveadm search -u email(a)exmaple.com mailbox Junk savedbefore 30d It will dump a core file. We have a similar config on an other server and there is no problem there. Any ideas how to prevent the core dump? root@triws2:~# gdb --args doveadm search -u email(a)example.com mailbox Junk savedbefore 30d Reading symbols from doveadm...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug//usr/bin/doveadm...done. done. (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/doveadm search -u email(a)example.com mailbox Junk savedbefore 30d Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () (gdb) where #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #1 0x00007ffff76ef1b5 in mailbox_get_metadata (box=box@entry=0x5555557e1c70, items=items@entry=MAILBOX_METADATA_GUID, metadata_r=metadata_r@entry=0x7fffffffe2f0) at mail-storage.c:1544 #2 0x0000555555570918 in cmd_search_box (info=<optimized out>, ctx=0x5555557c8230) at doveadm-mail-search.c:28 #3 cmd_search_run (ctx=0x5555557c8230, user=<optimized out>) at doveadm-mail-search.c:58 #4 0x0000555555569b5b in doveadm_mail_next_user (ctx=0x5555557c8230, input=<optimized out>, error_r=0x7fffffffe3f8) at doveadm-mail.c:314 #5 0x000055555556a8ac in doveadm_mail_cmd (argv=0x5555557c33b0, argc=7, cmd=0x5555557c7408) at doveadm-mail.c:525 #6 doveadm_mail_try_run (cmd_name=<optimized out>, argc=7, argv=0x5555557c3398) at doveadm-mail.c:617 #7 0x00005555555696d4 in main (argc=7, argv=0x5555557c3398) at doveadm.c:398 Üdvözlettel Stefán Tamás --------------------------------- domain > email > web >>> siker Numex Informatika Kft. Mobil: +36 20 956 0233, Tel: +36 1 205 3915 http://numex.hu

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Proper way to enable plugin for some users
by Ian Bobbitt 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

What's the best way to enable a plugin (in this case, mail_log) for only some users? I have this as a field returned in my sql user_query that seems to be doing the job: if(debug_log != 0 and '%s' = 'imap', 'listescape acl notify replication mail_log', 'listescape acl notify replication') as mail_plugins But it feels clunky and error prone having to replicate the entire list of plugins in my userdb. Is this the best way to do it, or is there something I should be doing differently? OS: CentOS 7 Dovecot: 2.2.31, GF RPMs

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unexpected delivery location
by lists 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Hi, We're running dovecot 2.2.13, virtual users, with postfix. We have an olddomain and a new domainname. To 'translate' *@olddomain into *@newdomain, I have configured: > cat /etc/postfix/canonical > @olddomain.com @newdomain.com While this seems to work, lately we have noticed that dovecot occasionally creates mailboxes for non-existent users, like: > /var/vmail/...username > /var/vmail/20username This only seems to be happening for mails sent to *olddomain* Looking at the source of these mails, they are indeed sent to 20username(a)olddomain.com and ...username(a)olddomain.com Mail headers sample: > Delivered-To: 20username(a)newdomain.com > Received: from server1.newdomain.com (server2.newdomain.com [x.y.z.q]) > by server3.newdomain.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 067B4812CF29E > for <20username(a)olddomain.com>; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:05:02 +0200 (CEST) Why doesn't the emailadress 20username(a)newdomain.com in the above generate an error, but instead are delivered to a newly created mailbox? My feeling is that something is wrong with the way I created the alias for olddomain -> newdomain with the canonical-file . Does that make sense? Our goal is to accept *(a)olddomain.com like it was sent to *(a)newdomain.com, including delivery failures for nonexistent mailboxes like 20username We configured postfix like: > canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical > virtual_alias_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/ad-mailboxes.cf, ldap:/etc/postfix/ad-groups.cf > virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 > virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 > virtual_transport = dovecot Verified that this config works for newdomain, using: > root@mail:/etc/postfix# postmap -q alias(a)newdomain.com ldap:/etc/postfix/ad-mailboxes.cf > userid(a)newdomain.com > root@mail:/etc/postfix# postmap -q alias(a)olddomain.com ldap:/etc/postfix/ad-mailboxes.cf > root@mail:/etc/postfix# olddomain gives no result. Then, from master.cf: > dovecot unix - n n - - pipe > flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f ${sender} -a ${recipient} -d ${user}@${nexthop} Finally, the mail location as defined in dovecot: > mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%Ln/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs:DIRNAME=mAildir So, can anyone explain why for mails to olddomain, dovecot creates new mailboxes, instead of simply generating an error?

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dovecot-2.2.32/src/doveadm/doveadm-mail-fetch.c: 4 * suspicious expression ?
by David Binderman 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Hello there, dovecot-2.2.32/src/doveadm/doveadm-mail-fetch.c:130]: (style) Suspicious condition (assignment + comparison); Clarify expression with parentheses. Source code is if ((ret = doveadm_print_istream(input) < 0)) Maybe better code if ((ret = doveadm_print_istream(input)) < 0) Some duplicates: [dovecot-2.2.32/src/doveadm/doveadm-mail-fetch.c:220]: (style) Suspicious condition (assignment + comparison); Clarify expression with parentheses. [dovecot-2.2.32/src/doveadm/doveadm-mail-fetch.c:237]: (style) Suspicious condition (assignment + comparison); Clarify expression with parentheses. [dovecot-2.2.32/src/doveadm/doveadm-mail-fetch.c:261]: (style) Suspicious condition (assignment + comparison); Clarify expression with parentheses. Regards David Binderman

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vacation problem with SRS
by Kacper Guzik 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

Hi i have similiar problem like here: http://www.iredmail.org/forum/topic11833-iredmail-support-vocation-respone-… email send : from : web123(a)gmail.com to : jacka(a)mail.com vocation sent back from : jacka(a)mail.com to : srs0=hmc8=v7=gmail.com=web123(a)mail.com postsrsd changing return-path from web123(a)gmail.com to srs0=hmc8=v7= gmail.com=web123(a)mail.com this is no problem for me but sieve: Vacation's messages are always addressed to the Return-Path address it is possible some how change this ugly to header to normal? I can't find anything on dovecot mailing lists

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