Issue running Dovecot in Docker Container
Marc Roos
M.Roos at f1-outsourcing.eu
Mon Dec 30 10:13:41 EET 2019
If you are running your container as root. You will not have the issues
I encountered. Dovecot is dropping to the 'dovecot' and 'dovenull'(?)
when needed, this is fine.
PS. I would not recommend using internal logging, use something like
this to log to the host or remote syslog.
docker run -v /dev/log:/dev/log -it dovecot-proxy
-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: Issue running Dovecot in Docker Container
Hi Marc,
I can see the processes are running as a root in container environment.
Do you think that still have issues ?
Here is the processes running inside container:
bash-4.2# ps -ef
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /bootstrap.sh
root 7 1 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -F -c
/etc/dovecot/director.conf
root 8 1 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -F
root 9 1 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 sleep 36000d
dovecot 10 8 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-Dovecot/anvil
dovecot 14 7 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-Director/anvil
root 267 8 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-Dovecot/log
root 269 8 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:08 dovecot-Dovecot/config
root 281 7 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-Director/log
root 283 7 0 Dec27 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-Director/config
Thanks & Regards,
Naveen
On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 2:56 PM Marc Roos <M.Roos at f1-outsourcing.eu>
wrote:
I have noticed several issues with dovecot, trying to run it
without
root. Which is preferable in any container environment. Maybe you
would
like me to document these somewhere? So at some point they can be
applied.
-----Original Message-----
From: Naveen Reddy [mailto:naveenreddy99 at gmail.com]
Sent: 30 December 2019 09:02
To: Aki Tuomi
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: Issue running Dovecot in Docker Container
Hi, I can see those values correctly with the doveconf -nc command.
Here
is the part of output:
bash-4.2# doveconf -nc /etc/dovecot/director.conf # 2.2.36
(1f10bfa63):
/etc/dovecot/director.conf # OS: Linux
4.1.12-112.14.11.el7uek.x86_64
x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.7 (Maipo) #
Hostname:
69b492645b56 auth_debug = yes auth_default_realm = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot_director
debug_log_path =
$log_path director_mail_servers = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
director_servers =
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid =
1000
hostname = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx info_log_path = $log_path
instance_name
= Director lmtp_proxy = yes log_path = /dovecot.log
login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l
mpid=%e %c
home=%h
Thanks & Regards,
Naveen
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 10:08 PM Aki Tuomi
<aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com>
wrote:
Can you check with `doveconf -nc /path/to/director.conf`
that the
values are actually set correctly?
Aki
On 27/12/2019 15:34 Naveen Reddy
<naveenreddy99 at gmail.com>
wrote:
The conf.d files are not included. I have added
!include
conf.d/*.conf to director.conf and reloaded the dovecot and
director
services.
conf.d/10-logging also has the following lines:
log_path = /dovecot.log
info_log_path = $log_path
debug_log_path = $log_path
The /dovecot.log file still shows empty. Nothing
is being
logged to that file.
Thanks & Regards,
Naveen
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:52 PM Aki Tuomi <
aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:
Do you have !include or !try_include in
director.conf?
The conf.d files are not included otherwise.
Aki
On 26/12/2019 11:27 Naveen Reddy <
naveenreddy99 at gmail.com> wrote:
I have tried these in the
10-logging.conf but no
luck. There is nothing logged to the file.
bash-4.2# ps -ef
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY
TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 Dec23 ?
00:00:00
/bin/bash /bootstrap.sh
root 8 1 0 Dec23 ?
00:00:00
sleep 36000d
root 15681 0 0 08:51 pts/1
00:00:00 bash
root 16340 0 0 09:19 ?
00:00:00
/usr/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/director.conf
dovecot 16341 16340 0 09:19 ?
00:00:00
dovecot-Director/anvil
root 16342 16340 0 09:19 ?
00:00:00
dovecot-Director/log
root 16344 16340 0 09:19 ?
00:00:00
dovecot-Director/config
root 16390 0 0 09:22 ?
00:00:00
/usr/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
dovecot 16391 16390 0 09:22 ?
00:00:00
dovecot-Dovecot/anvil
root 16392 16390 0 09:22 ?
00:00:00
dovecot-Dovecot/log
root 16394 16390 0 09:22 ?
00:00:00
dovecot-Dovecot/config
root 16406 15681 0 09:22 pts/1
00:00:00 ps
-ef
The below processes are not
starting as well.
dovecot-Dovecot/auth
dovecot-Dovecot/ssl-params
dovecot-Director/lmtp
dovecot-Director/ssl-params
dovecot-Director/imap-login
director
Thanks & Regards,
Naveen
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 10:54 PM
Aki Tuomi <
aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:
On 24/12/2019 12:33
Naveen Reddy <
naveenreddy99 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
We need help with
an issue that we are
running into when we are trying to run Dovecot in Docker container.
Also how do we
enable debugging for
dovecot. Logs doesn't show any info about the issue.
Below processes are
not running when a
Director service is started:
dovecot-Dovecot/auth
dovecot-Dovecot/ssl-params
dovecot-Director/lmtp
dovecot-Director/ssl-params
dovecot-Director/imap-login director
Here is the version
that I'm running and
including the dovecot -n output below:
bash-4.2# dovecot
--version
2.2.36
bash-4.2# dovecot
-n
# 2.2.36 (xxxxx):
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux
4.1.12-112.14.11.el7uek.x86_64
x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.7 (Maipo)
# Hostname: XXXXXXX
auth_debug = yes
auth_default_realm
= xxxxxxxxxxxx
auth_verbose = yes
disable_plaintext_auth = no
dotlock_use_excl =
no
hostname =
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
instance_name =
Dovecot
login_log_format_elements = user=<%u>
method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c home=% domain=%d
mail_debug = yes
mail_fsync = always
mail_gid = imapd
mail_home =
/xxxxxxxxxxx/%d/%n
mail_location =
dbox:~/
mail_uid = imapd
mmap_disable = yes
passdb {
args =
/etc/dovecot/lookups/ldap-pass.conf
driver = ldap
}
passdb {
args =
/etc/dovecot/lookups/xxxx.conf
driver = ldap
}
plugin {
stats_refresh =
30 secs
stats_track_cmds
= yes
}
protocols = imap
lmtp
service auth {
client_limit =
4096
unix_listener
auth-userdb {
mode = 0777
}
}
service imap-login
{
chroot = login
client_limit = 0
drop_priv_before_exec = no
executable =
imap-login
extra_groups =
group =
idle_kill = 0
inet_listener
imap {
address =
port = 1144
ssl = no
}
inet_listener
imaps {
address =
port = 994
ssl = yes
}
privileged_group
=
process_limit = 0
process_min_avail
= 0
protocol = imap
service_count =
50
type = login
user =
$default_login_user
vsz_limit =
18446744073709551615 B
}
service imap {
service_count =
50
}
service lmtp {
executable = lmtp
-L
inet_listener
lmtp {
address =
port = 10025
}
}
service stats {
fifo_listener
stats-mail {
mode = 0600
user = imapd
}
}
ssl_cert =
</xxxxxxx/cert/dovecot.pem
ssl_cipher_list =
XXXXXX
ssl_key = #
hidden, use -P to show it
ssl_protocols =
XXXXX
userdb {
args =
/etc/dovecot/lookups/ldap-user.conf
driver = ldap
}
userdb {
args =
/etc/dovecot/lookups/xxxxxxx.conf
driver = ldap
}
Thanks & Regards,
Naveen
Try setting
log_path=/dovecot.log
info_log_path=$log_path
debug_log_path=$log_path
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