Cannot delete folder
Aki Tuomi
aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Mon May 21 11:49:19 EEST 2018
I guess you have had different version(s) or setting(s) in the past, and
you can probably fix this by setting perms to same as the new folders.
Aki
On 21.05.2018 11:46, Yves Goergen wrote:
> I couldn't find anything relevant between all the debug log lines. Is
> that in /var/log/mail.log?
>
> Here's the lines I think are related to creating and deleting the folder:
>
>> May 21 10:36:14 mond2 dovecot: imap(yg@****.de): Debug: Namespace :
>> /var/mail/virtual/****.de/yg/.Test doesn't exist yet, using default
>> permissions
>> May 21 10:36:14 mond2 dovecot: imap(yg@****.de): Debug: Namespace :
>> Using permissions from /var/mail/virtual/****.de/yg: mode=0700
>> gid=default
>> May 21 10:36:23 mond2 dovecot: imap(yg@****.de): Debug: Namespace :
>> /var/mail/virtual/****.de/yg/.Trash.Test doesn't exist yet, using
>> default permissions
>
> That's it.
>
> Thunderbird shows an error message with: [CANNOT] Renaming not
> supported across conflicting directory permissions (0.000 + 0.000 secs).
>
> -Yves
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: Aki Tuomi
> Gesendet: So, 2018-05-20 16:00 +0200
>
> Assuming '8' = mail, i cannot see anything wrong here...
>
> Can you turn on 'mail_debug=yes' and attempt folder deletion, and
> check logs after that?
>
> Aki
>
>> On 20 May 2018 at 16:19 Yves Goergen <nospam.list at unclassified.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Here's the output of 'doveconf -n':
>>
>> # 2.2.22 (fe789d2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>> # Pigeonhole version 0.4.13 (7b14904)
>> doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with:
>> doveconf -n > dovecot-new.conf
>> doveconf: Warning: Obsolete setting in /etc/dovecot/local.conf:21:
>> ssl_parameters_regenerate should have 'hours' suffix
>> # OS: Linux 4.4.0-124-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
>> auth_mechanisms = plain login
>> disable_plaintext_auth = no
>> first_valid_uid = 8
>> imap_idle_notify_interval = 5 mins
>> last_valid_uid = 8
>> listen = 5.9.48.194, 2a01:4f8:161:40c9::2, 127.0.0.1, ::1
>> log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
>> mail_gid = 8
>> mail_plugins = quota
>> mail_privileged_group = mail
>> mail_uid = 8
>> 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 {
>> args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
>> driver = sql
>> }
>> plugin {
>> quota = maildir
>> }
>> protocols = imap pop3
>> service imap-login {
>> process_limit = 300
>> }
>> ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/dotforward.de/fullchain.pem
>> ssl_cipher_list =
>> ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA
>>
>> ssl_dh_parameters_length = 2048
>> ssl_key = </etc/letsencrypt/live/dotforward.de/privkey.pem
>> ssl_parameters_regenerate = 1 hours
>> ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes
>> ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3
>> userdb {
>> driver = prefetch
>> }
>> protocol imap {
>> mail_max_userip_connections = 100
>> mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
>> }
>>
>> And this is the 'namei' output:
>>
>> f: /var/mail/virtual/****.de/yg/
>> drwxr-xr-x root root /
>> drwxr-xr-x root root var
>> drwxrwsr-x root mail mail
>> drwx--S--- mail mail virtual
>> drwx--S--- mail mail ****.de
>> drwx--S--- mail mail yg
>>
>> Here's also the 'ls -al' output of that mailbox directory:
>>
>> insgesamt 136
>> drwx--S--- 12 mail mail 4096 Mai 19 13:52 .
>> drwx--S--- 4 mail mail 4096 Mär 4 12:23 ..
>> drwx--S--- 5 mail mail 4096 Mai 18 23:16 .Archives
>> drwx--S--- 5 mail mail 4096 Mai 17 16:22 .Archives.TestA
>> drwx--S--- 5 mail mail 4096 Mai 18 14:09 .Archives.TestB
>> drwx--S--- 2 mail mail 4096 Mai 19 13:32 cur
>> -rw------- 1 mail mail 736 Mai 16 15:23 dovecot.index
>> -rw------- 1 mail mail 22096 Mai 19 13:32 dovecot.index.cache
>> -rw------- 1 mail mail 27260 Mai 19 13:34 dovecot.index.log
>> -rw------- 1 mail mail 28 Mai 16 14:33 dovecot-keywords
>> -rw------- 1 mail mail 168 Mai 16 17:41 dovecot.mailbox.log
>> -rw------- 1 mail mail 406 Mai 19 13:32 dovecot-uidlist
>> -rw------- 1 mail mail 8 Mai 16 17:41 dovecot-uidvalidity
>> -r--r--r-- 1 mail mail 0 Feb 28 19:32 dovecot-uidvalidity.5a96f5de
>> drwxr-sr-x 5 mail mail 4096 Mai 18 14:09 .Drafts
>> drwx--S--- 5 mail mail 4096 Feb 28 19:42 .Junk
>> -rw------- 1 mail mail 4621 Mai 19 13:32 maildirsize
>> drwx--S--- 2 mail mail 4096 Mai 19 13:32 new
>> drwxr-sr-x 5 mail mail 4096 Mai 18 14:08 .Sent
>> -rw------- 1 mail mail 62 Mai 16 17:42 subscriptions
>> drwx--S--- 2 mail mail 4096 Mai 20 12:35 tmp
>> drwxr-sr-x 5 mail mail 4096 Mai 18 18:15 .Trash
>>
>> -Yves
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> Von: Aki Tuomi
>> Gesendet: Sa, 2018-05-19 18:22 +0200
>>
>>
>> This sounds more like misconfiguration to me. Can you provide doveconf
>> -n and full output of namei -vl /full/path/to/mailbox
>>
>> ---
>> Aki Tuomi
>> Dovecot oy
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Yves Goergen <nospam.list at unclassified.de>
>> Date: 19/05/2018 18:51 (GMT+02:00)
>> To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org>
>> Subject: Re: Cannot delete folder
>>
>> The issue still exists. Can anybody explain to me why dovecot creates
>> IMAP folders with the wrong filesystem permissions? Every new folder
>> that I create in the mailbox through Thunderbird (IMAP) has the wrong
>> permission and cannot be deleted anymore.
>>
>> This looks like a dovecot bug to me.
>>
>> -Yves
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> Von: Yves Goergen
>> Gesendet: Di, 2018-03-06 20:55 +0100
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I cannot delete IMAP folders in new mailboxes. When trying to delete a
>> folder in Thunderbird I get the error message "renaming not supported
>> across conflicting directory permissions". Looking up the error on the
>> web led me to checking the mailbox directory's permissions. They're
>> inconsistent in new mailboxes. While every single directory in an old
>> mailbox has "drwx--S---", some of the directories in a new mailbox have
>> "drwxr-sr-x" instead. I'm not sure what that means. The folders with the
>> later permissions are "Drafts", "Sent" and "Trash". Folders with the
>> first permissions are "Junk", "Archives" and "Archives.2018". All
>> folders were created by Thunderbird automatically. Now I wanted to
>> delete "Archives.2018".
>>
>> What's the issue here? Why do folders created by the same MUA in the
>> same event on the same mail server have different permissions and why
>> can't I delete one of them (which would probably move it into the trash
>> folder first)?
>>
>> Dovecot version is 2.2.22 on Ubuntu 16.04, Thunderbird is 52.6.0 on
>> Windows 10.
>>
>> -Yves
>>
>
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