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Domain without certificate
by Andreas Meyer 22 Aug '17

22 Aug '17

Hello! I have a new domain integrated into dovecot but no certificate yet. In dovecot.conf there is ssl = yes and the other domains have certificates configured. How do I exclude this new domain from using SSL? Greetings Andreas

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pop 110/995, imap 143/993 ?
by voytek＠sbt.net.au 21 Aug '17

21 Aug '17

just setting a new Dovecot server to migrate from older system, but, I have a general question: 1. I've set the server with self issued cert, and both pop/imap StartTLS/110/143 SSL/993/995 (apologies if I'm using wrong naming terminology) is there a 'preferred way'? should I tell users to use 143 over 993 ? or 993 over 143? or? my current understanding is that some (MS?) clients might not support StartTLS/143 ? so best to offer both ? I think? some public WiFi block 993/995 but allow 143/110, hence, another advantage for using 143/110 thanks for any advice, V

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Permission denied to access the email file
by ATHANASE Jean-René 21 Aug '17

21 Aug '17

Hi, Dovecot version : 2.2.22 (fe789d2) Operating system : DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS" CPU architecture : Linux 4.4.67-1-pve #1 SMP PVE 4.4.67-92 (Fri, 23 Jun 2017 08:22:06 +0200) x86_64 GNU/Linux FIle system : local UID GID Aug 17 11:47:28 azizee dovecot: imap(jra11[*5063*:*5011*]): Debug: Effective uid=5063, gid=5011, home=/var/spool/domaines/vitalnet/jra/ Aug 17 11:47:28 azizee dovecot: imap(jra11[5063:5011]): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/var/spool/domaines/vitalnet/jra/ Aug 17 11:47:28 azizee dovecot: imap(jra11[5063:5011]): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/spool/domaines/vitalnet/jra, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=/var/spool/domaines/vitalnet/jra, alt= Aug 17 11:47:28 azizee dovecot: imap(jra11[5063:5011]): *Error*: open(/var/spool/domaines/vitalnet/jra/cur/1502890181.V704I34050fM371072.azizee:2,) failed: *Permission denied* (euid=*5063*(<unknown>) egid=*5011*(<unknown>) missing +r perm: /var/spool/domaines/vitalnet/jra/cur/1502890181.V704I34050fM371072.azizee:2,) Ldap configuration : user_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password,homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid ll /var/spool/domaines/vitalnet/jra/cur/1502890181.V704I34050fM371072.azizee\:2\, -rw------- 1 5095 5011 438 Aug 16 15:29 /var/spool/domaines/vitalnet/jra/cur/1502890181.V704I34050fM371072.azizee:2, If I set with the command line "chmod g=rw /var/spool/domaines/vitalnet/jra/cur/1502890181.V704I34050fM371072.azizee\:2\,", this file email is treated by Dovecot, per example, i have deleted it. ll /var/spool/domaines/vitalnet/jra/cur/1502890181.V704I34050fM371072.azizee\:2\,ST -rw-rw---- 1 5095 5011 438 Aug 16 15:29 /var/spool/domaines/vitalnet/jra/cur/1502890181.V704I34050fM371072.azizee:2,ST What's the problem of my configuration ? Best regards,

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ot: self certified enduser browser/mail client install?
by voytek＠sbt.net.au 21 Aug '17

21 Aug '17

I have self certified Dovecot as so: ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } in order for end user to avoid webmail warnings or email client warnings, do I make this file /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem available to users say under httpd://webhost/tld/certificate/dovecot.pem and, tell users to import dovecot.pem (from /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem) into their PC/browser/mailclient certs? (sorry for dumb Q, but I thought I should ask before I commit some fundamental stuffup)

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Re: is a self signed certificate always invalid the first time
by Joseph Tam 21 Aug '17

21 Aug '17

Michael Felt <michael(a)felt.demon.nl> writes: >> I use acme.sh for all of my LetsEncrypt certs (web & mail), it is >> written in pure shell script, so no python dependencies. >> https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh > > Thanks - I might look at that, but as Ralph mentions in his reply - > Let's encrypt certs are only for three months - never ending circus. I wouldn't characterize it as a circus. Once you bootstrap your first certificate and install the cert-renew cron script, it's not something you have to pay a lot of attention to. I have a few LE certs in use, and I don't think about it anymore: it just works. The shorter cert lifetime also helps limit damage if your certificate gets compromised. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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\Noselect isn't set on namespace prefix mailbox that can't be selected
by David Mandelberg 19 Aug '17

19 Aug '17

Hi, I tried using Nextcloud's Mail app to access my dovecot server (version: 2.2.27 (c0f36b0)), and got an error. The relevant imap log is: C: 3 LIST () "" (*) RETURN (SPECIAL-USE) ... S: * LIST () "/" Archives ... C: 6 STATUS Archives (MESSAGES) S: 6 NO Mailbox isn't selectable (0.000 + 0.000 secs). >> Command 6 took 0.0014 seconds. C: 7 LOGOUT S: * BYE Logging out S: 7 OK Logout completed (0.000 + 0.000 secs). >> Command 7 took 0.0021 seconds. And the relevant part of my dovecot config: namespace archives { disabled = no hidden = no ignore_on_failure = no inbox = no list = yes location = mbox:~/.mbox-archives order = 0 prefix = Archives/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } Since ~/.mbox-archives is a directory, not a regular file, I'd expect dovecot to set the \Noselect attribute on the Archives folder. Is there something I'm missing? I tried using special_use, but that didn't accept \Noselect as an option.

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Re: Dovecot mail_location for fedora
by Joseph Tam 19 Aug '17

19 Aug '17

>> mail_location=~/.mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%Ln > > He should be good now, no idea why a fedora install wouldn't have that Unless I missed something in a previous pst, "~/.mail" is not typical for personal mail folder, but "~/mail" is. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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Inconsistency in map index
by Webert de Souza Lima 18 Aug '17

18 Aug '17

Hello, The following errors are constantly popping up for 2 accounts. I can't get it fixed, I did doveadm backup to another account, the same happens in the new account. I did doveadm force-resync, the problem persists. I'm using dovecot 2.2. 2017-08-18T11:46:12.472821881Z Aug 18 11:46:12 lmtp(ramon.lacerda(a)alliar.com): Warning: mdbox /srv/dovecot2/mail/alliar.com/ramon.lacerda/storage: Inconsistency in map index (647,6288 != 647,28333584) 2017-08-18T11:46:12.651002372Z Aug 18 11:46:12 lmtp(ramon.lacerda(a)alliar.com): Warning: mdbox /srv/dovecot2/mail/alliar.com/ramon.lacerda/storage: Inconsistency in map index (647,6288 != 647,28333708) 2017-08-18T11:46:12.651059432Z Aug 18 11:46:12 lmtp(ramon.lacerda(a)alliar.com): Warning: fscking index file /srv/dovecot2/index/ alliar.com/ramon.lacerda/storage/dovecot.map.index 2017-08-18T11:46:12.764926940Z Aug 18 11:46:12 lmtp(ramon.lacerda(a)alliar.com): Warning: mdbox /srv/dovecot2/mail/alliar.com/ramon.lacerda/storage: rebuilding indexes Regards, Webert Lima DevOps Engineer at MAV Tecnologia *Belo Horizonte - Brasil*

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Install locks up my server
by Marc Perkel 18 Aug '17

18 Aug '17

Ever since 2.26 I haven't been able to upgrade. In fact the install locks up my server. I get into and infinite recursive loop where the config-guess program calls itself until the server locks up from overload. I'm running Centos 6 under OpenVZ. What am I missing? I think there's a serious bug. 31233 pts/3 S 0:00 /bin/sh ./config.guess 31235 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31238 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31240 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31241 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31267 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31272 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31279 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31280 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31281 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31283 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31284 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31285 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31292 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31303 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31304 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31305 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31306 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31307 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31321 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31340 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31341 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31426 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess 31530 pts/3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh ./config.guess

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/var/run/dovecot permission issues
by Matt Simpson 18 Aug '17

18 Aug '17

I have an issue that surfaced when I tried to start using the new metrics service, but it looks like it may be a more generic issue. When I enabled stats and started dovecot, I got the following error in the log: Error: stats: open(/var/run/dovecot/stats-mail) failed: Permission denied /var/run/dovecot/stats-mail did not exist. /var/run/dovecot/ existed, owned by root, which apparently was preventing dovecot from creating stats-mail. On advice from another list subscriber, I changed the ownership of /var/run/dovecot to the dovecot user. This doesn’t help. Apparently /var/run/dovecot is deleted by dovecot when it shuts down, and recreated, with root ownership, when it restarts. stats-mail is created, with root ownership. Is there something I need to change to prevent dovecot from creating this directory owned by root? I was unaware of any problems before trying to enable stats, but the ownership of files in that directory is a mixed bag $ ls -l /var/run/dovecot total 20 srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 anvil srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 anvil-auth-penalty srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 auth-client srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 auth-login srw-rw---- 1 alias qnofiles 0 Aug 17 09:05 auth-master -rw------- 1 root wheel 32 Aug 17 09:05 auth-token-secret.dat srw-rw-rw- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 auth-userdb srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 auth-worker srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 config srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 dict srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 dict-async srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 director-admin srw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 dns-client srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 doveadm-server lrwx------ 1 root wheel 35 Aug 17 09:05 dovecot.conf -> /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 17 09:05 empty srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 imap-hibernate srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 imap-master srw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 imap-urlauth srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 imap-urlauth-worker srw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 indexer srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 indexer-worker srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 ipc srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 log-errors drwxr-x--- 2 root dovenull 512 Aug 17 09:05 login srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 master -rw------- 1 root wheel 6 Aug 17 09:05 master.pid srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 replication-notify prw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 replication-notify-fifo srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 replicator srw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 ssl-params srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 stats prw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 stats-mail prw------- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 09:05 stats-user drwxr-x--- 2 root dovenull 512 Aug 17 09:05 token-login $ doveconf -n # 2.2.31 (65cde28): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.19 (e5c7051) # OS: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p9 amd64 auth_stats = yes auth_verbose = yes default_vsz_limit = 128 M lock_method = flock mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_plugins = " stats" mail_privileged_group = mail 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 index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext vnd.dovecot.pipe vnd.dovecot.execute namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = } passdb { args = imap driver = pam } plugin { recipient_delimiter = - sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe sieve_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.execute sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe sieve_pipe_exec_timeout = 10s sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms stats_refresh = 30s } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener auth-master { group = qnofiles mode = 0660 user = alias } user = root } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 3 vsz_limit = 94 M } ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/dummy.redhorse.me/fullchain.pem ssl_cipher_list = EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH ssl_dh_parameters_length = 2048 ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3 stats_carbon_name = RedHorseMail stats_carbon_server = [2a04:3542:1000:910:acc1:5bff:fe5e:8c2] syslog_facility = local0 userdb { driver = passwd } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lda { mail_plugins = " stats sieve" }

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