macOS Notes.app IMAP Syncing Not Working
Steven Smith
steve.t.smith at gmail.com
Thu May 30 18:03:03 EEST 2019
I’m requesting help getting macOS’s Notes.app to sync notes with a new dovecot IMAP server.
Thanks to dovecot’s excellent online documentation and help from this list, I have a new perfectly functioning IMAP server.
The issue is that macOS Note.app does not sync with this server. However, iOS Notes.app *does* sync and work well with this IMAP server, and the differences between macOS and iOS Notes apps are well known. (Thanks, Apple.)
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/265579/notes-wont-sync-via-imap-in-macos-sierra <https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/265579/notes-wont-sync-via-imap-in-macos-sierra>
https://jpmens.net/2015/09/28/experiments-using-imap-for-notes/ <https://jpmens.net/2015/09/28/experiments-using-imap-for-notes/>
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I am migrating from a working Server.app system in which Notes.app syncing does work across all devices, and therefore have a working dovecot configuration from Server.app, although it does not contain an explicit configuration for the “Notes” mailbox.
I would greatly appreciate any help or pointers for these questions:
Does anyone have a working template for dovecot that works with macOS Notes.app? I’ve posted doveconf -n of both the new server and the old Server.app server below.
Would you all be able to provide advice on TO-DO’s and NOT-TO-DO’s for mailbox/name-space reconfiguration as I try to muck around with a nicely working, deployed IMAP server? I believe that the solution has something to do with name spaces and separators, and I’ve already changed the separator from the original ‘/’ to ‘.’ on the working server without success or obvious changes.
All the mail boxes on the new IMAP server look like this, *without* a prefix ‘.’:
> ls -1 /var/mail/tld.domain.mail/username/mdbox/mailboxes/
> Archive/
> Deleted Messages/
> Drafts/
> INBOX/
> Junk/
> Notes/
> Sent/
> Trash/
All the mailboxes on the working Server.app mailserver look like this, *with* a prefix ‘.’:
> $ sudo ls -1 /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/users/username
> .Archive
> .Deleted Messages
> .Drafts
> .Junk
> .Notes
> .Sent Messages
> cur
> …
> new
> subscriptions
> tmp
Here are the `doveconf -n` of the new server that doesn’t sync macOS Notes.app, and the old Server.app IMAP server that does:
New server `dovecot -n` [Note: original separator was set to ‘/’, now changed to ‘.’ in config.d/10-mail.conf]:
> # 2.3.6 (): /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.5.6 ()
> # OS: Darwin 18.6.0 x86_64 apfs
> # Hostname: newhost.domain.tld
> auth_cache_size = 10 M
> auth_gssapi_hostname = $ALL
> auth_krb5_keytab = /opt/local/etc/dovecot/imap.keytab
> auth_mechanisms = plain gssapi
> auth_realms = newhost.domain.tld
> auth_socket_path = /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
> auth_username_format = %Ln
> debug_log_path = /opt/local/var/log/mail/mail-debug.log
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> first_valid_gid = 6
> first_valid_uid = 6
> imap_id_log = *
> imap_id_send = "name" * "version" *
> imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins
> imap_urlauth_submit_user = submit
> info_log_path = /opt/local/var/log/mail/mail-info.log
> last_valid_gid = 100
> lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes
> log_path = /opt/local/var/log/mail/mail-err.log
> login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c
> mail_access_groups = mail
> mail_attachment_dir = /private/var/mail/tld.domain.mail/attachments
> mail_attachment_fs = sis posix:mode=0666
> mail_debug = yes
> mail_gid = mail
> mail_home = /private/var/mail/tld.domain.mail
> mail_location = mdbox:/private/var/mail/tld.domain.mail/%Ln/mdbox
> mail_log_prefix = "%s(pid %p user %u): "
> mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_solr fts_lucene
> mail_privileged_group = mail
> mail_uid = _dovecot
> 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 imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve
> mdbox_rotate_size = 200 M
> namespace inbox {
> inbox = yes
> location =
> mailbox Archive {
> auto = subscribe
> special_use = \Archive
> }
> mailbox Drafts {
> auto = subscribe
> special_use = \Drafts
> }
> mailbox Junk {
> auto = create
> special_use = \Junk
> }
> mailbox Notspam_train {
> auto = create
> special_use = \Junk
> }
> mailbox Sent {
> auto = subscribe
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox "Sent Messages" {
> special_use = \Sent
> }
> mailbox Spam_train {
> auto = create
> special_use = \Junk
> }
> mailbox Trash {
> auto = create
> special_use = \Trash
> }
> prefix =
> separator = .
> }
> passdb {
> driver = pam
> name = pam
> }
> plugin {
> fts = solr
> fts_autoindex = yes
> fts_autoindex_exclude = \Junk
> fts_solr = url=http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/dovecot/
> imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/opt/local/etc/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve
> imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY APPEND
> imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Spam_train
> imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/opt/local/etc/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve
> imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY APPEND
> imapsieve_mailbox2_name = Notspam_train
> mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename
> mail_log_fields = uid box msgid from subject size flags
> quota_grace = 10%%
> quota_rule = *:storage=16G
> quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+256M
> quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-exceeded %u
> quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning %u
> recipient_delimiter = +
> sieve = /private/var/mail/tld.domain.mail/rules/%Ln/dovecot.sieve
> sieve_after = /opt/local/etc/dovecot/sieve-after.d
> sieve_before = /opt/local/etc/dovecot/sieve-before.d
> sieve_dir = /private/var/mail/tld.domain.mail/rules/%Ln/%u
> sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment
> sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /opt/local/etc/dovecot/sieve
> sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms
> sieve_quota_max_storage = 50M
> }
> postmaster_address = postmaster at domain.tld
> protocols = imap lmtp sieve
> quota_full_tempfail = yes
> sendmail_path = /opt/local/sbin/sendmail
> service auth-worker {
> group = mail
> user = root
> }
> service auth {
> extra_groups = _keytabusers
> idle_kill = 15 mins
> unix_listener /opt/local/var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
> group = mail
> mode = 0660
> user = _postfix
> }
> }
> service imap-login {
> inet_listener imap {
> address = 127.0.0.1, ::1
> port = 143
> }
> inet_listener imaps {
> port = 993
> ssl = yes
> }
> process_min_avail = 6
> service_count = 0
> vsz_limit = 2 G
> }
> service imap {
> process_limit = 200
> process_min_avail = 6
> }
> service lmtp {
> unix_listener /opt/local/var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
> group = mail
> mode = 0660
> user = _postfix
> }
> }
> ssl = required
> ssl_ca = </etc/certificates/newhost.domain.tld.SHA1.chain.pem
> ssl_cert = </etc/certificates/newhost.domain.tld.SHA1.cert.pem
> ssl_cipher_list = ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
> ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it
> ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
> ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.2
> ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes
> userdb {
> driver = passwd
> name = passwd
> }
> verbose_proctitle = yes
> protocol lda {
> mail_fsync = optimized
> mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_solr fts_lucene sieve
> }
> protocol imap {
> mail_max_userip_connections = 50
> mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_solr fts_lucene imap_acl imap_quota imap_zlib imap_sieve
> }
> protocol lmtp {
> mail_fsync = optimized
> mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_solr fts_lucene sieve
> }
Old Server.app server `dovecot -n`:
> # 2.2.30.2 (c0c463e): /Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.4.18 (29cc74d)
> # OS: Darwin 17.7.0 x86_64 apfs
> aps_topic = com.apple.mail.XServer.d7d6581e-37ed-4a8a-8775-92c4c5a4bf28
> auth_gssapi_hostname = $ALL
> auth_mechanisms = cram-md5 plain login gssapi
> auth_realms = host.domain.tld
> auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
> auth_username_format = %n
> debug_log_path = /Library/Logs/Mail/mail-debug.log
> default_internal_user = _dovecot
> default_login_user = _dovenull
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> first_valid_gid = 6
> first_valid_uid = 6
> imap_id_log = *
> imap_id_send = "name" * "version" *
> imap_urlauth_submit_user = submit
> info_log_path = /Library/Logs/Mail/mail-info.log
> log_path = /Library/Logs/Mail/mail-err.log
> login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c
> mail_access_groups = mail
> mail_attribute_dict = file:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/attributes/attributes.dict
> mail_location = maildir:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%u
> mail_log_prefix = "%s(pid %p user %u): "
> mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_sk
> 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
> mdbox_rotate_size = 200 M
> namespace acl-mailboxes {
> list = children
> location = maildir:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/users/%%u:INDEX=/Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/shared/%%u
> prefix = shared.%%u.
> separator = .
> subscriptions = no
> type = shared
> }
> 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 =
> }
> namespace list-archives {
> list = children
> location = maildir:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/listserver/messages/archive/lists/%%u:INDEX=/Library/Server/Mail/Data/listserver/messages/archive/shared/%%u
> prefix = archives.%%u.
> separator = .
> subscriptions = no
> type = shared
> }
> passdb {
> driver = od
> }
> passdb {
> args = /Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/submit.passdb
> driver = passwd-file
> }
> plugin {
> acl = vfile:/Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300
> acl_shared_dict = file:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/shared/shared-mailboxes
> fts = sk
> quota = maildir:User quota
> quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-exceeded %u
> quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning %u
> sieve = /Library/Server/Mail/Data/rules/%u/dovecot.sieve
> sieve_dir = /Library/Server/Mail/Data/rules/%u
> stats_refresh = 30 secs
> stats_track_cmds = yes
> }
> postmaster_address = postmaster at host.domain.tld
> protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve
> quota_full_tempfail = yes
> service auth {
> extra_groups = _keytabusers
> idle_kill = 15 mins
> unix_listener auth-userdb {
> user = _dovecot
> }
> }
> service dns_client {
> unix_listener dns-client {
> mode = 0600
> }
> }
> service imap-login {
> inet_listener imap {
> port = 143
> }
> inet_listener imaps {
> port = 993
> ssl = yes
> }
> service_count = 0
> }
> service imap {
> client_limit = 5
> process_limit = 200
> service_count = 0
> }
> service indexer-worker {
> user = _dovecot
> }
> service lmtp {
> unix_listener lmtp {
> mode = 0600
> }
> }
> service managesieve-login {
> inet_listener sieve {
> port = 4190
> }
> }
> service pop3-login {
> inet_listener pop3 {
> port = 110
> }
> inet_listener pop3s {
> port = 995
> ssl = yes
> }
> }
> service pop3 {
> client_limit = 5
> process_limit = 200
> service_count = 0
> }
> service quota-exceeded {
> executable = script /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-exceeded.sh
> unix_listener quota-exceeded {
> group = mail
> mode = 0660
> user = _dovecot
> }
> user = _dovecot
> }
> service quota-warning {
> executable = script /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-warning.sh
> unix_listener quota-warning {
> group = mail
> mode = 0660
> user = _dovecot
> }
> user = _dovecot
> }
> service stats {
> fifo_listener stats-mail {
> mode = 0600
> user = _dovecot
> }
> }
> ssl = required
> ssl_ca = </etc/certificates/host.domain.tld.SHA1.chain.pem
> ssl_cert = </etc/certificates/host.domain.tld.SHA1.cert.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_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
> ssl_key_path = # hidden, use -P to show it
> ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3
> userdb {
> args = partition=/Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/partition_map.conf global_quota=8192 enforce_quotas=yes
> driver = od
> }
> userdb {
> args = /Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/submit.passdb
> driver = passwd-file
> }
> verbose_proctitle = yes
> protocol lmtp {
> mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_sk sieve push_notify
> }
> protocol lda {
> mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_sk sieve push_notify
> }
> protocol imap {
> mail_max_userip_connections = 20
> mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_sk imap_acl imap_quota imap_zlib
> }
> protocol pop3 {
> mail_max_userip_connections = 6
> }
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