<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Good afternoon</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Problem Solved!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>After some very useful input from John Fawcett, I have identified that the problem was not Dovecot, but the mailer used for Dovecot in Sendmail; it was missing the F=X flag that double dots any single dots, which are rather common in messages that were badly truncated to 75 line length by Apple Mail and Outlook amongst others.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The correct Mailer spec for Dovecot LMTP is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">######################*****##############</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">### DOVECOT Mailer specification ###</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">##################*****##################</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Mdovecot, P=[IPC], F=zDFMPXhnul59,</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP/HdrFromSMTP,</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> A=FILE /var/run/dovecot/lmtp</span></div></span></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>which should be in a file called Dovecot inside sendmail cf/mailers and included in the site mc file as</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">MAILER(`dovecot’)dnl</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">As this information is missing from the very good WIKI, could someone add it in order to help others in the future?</span></div></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Steve</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Dec 2020, at 14:58, Steve Akerman <<a href="mailto:steve.akerman@aboukir.com" class="">steve.akerman@aboukir.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Good afternoon<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have been using Dovecot with great success for several months now with one problem:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have received several messages (3 to date out of a much larger number) which cause Dovecot LMTP to drop the connection with sendmail after only receiving the first part of the message.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dovecot saves the first part to INBOX, and then drops the link with sendmail as it sees the rest of the data from sendmail as new (and invalid) commands</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sendmail sees the delivery as unsuccessful and requeues the message, so the cycle continues until i kill the queue</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These messages are all Multipart MIME</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have attached an extract from the log which shows the above sequence</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Finally, I have kept one such message from the sendmail queue (df and qf) should this be useful, but prefer not to post here as not sanitised </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Any help in correcting my configuration would be appreciated.</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Thanks</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Steve</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">MAIL LOG extract</div><div class="">-------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone dovecot[179]: lmtp(20774): Connect from local</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20764]: STARTTLS=client, relay=localhost, version=TLSv1.3, verify=OK, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, bits=256/256</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone dovecot[179]: lmtp(20775): Connect from local</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: STARTTLS=client, relay=localhost, version=TLSv1.3, verify=OK, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, bits=256/256</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone dovecot[179]: lmtp(*********)<20775><8EieKDqu0F8nUQAA0J78UA>: msgid=<<a href="mailto:39113a86-fdbb-4cea-b1c3-d225dff93328@info.ameli.fr" class="">39113a86-fdbb-4cea-b1c3-d225dff93328@info.ameli.fr</a>>: saved mail to INBOX</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone dovecot[179]: lmtp(20775): Disconnect from local: Too many invalid commands. (state=READY)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: STARTTLS: write error=syscall error (-1), errno=32, get_error=error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0), retry=1, ssl_err=5</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to localhost: Broken pipe</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 0: fl=0x0, mode=20666: CHR: dev=30/1306024, ino=301, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 1: fl=0x1, mode=20666: CHR: dev=30/1306024, ino=301, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 2: fl=0x1, mode=20666: CHR: dev=30/1306024, ino=301, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 3: fl=0x4002, mode=100600: dev=1/2, ino=26089780, nlink=1, u/gid=0/23, size=2041</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 4: fl=0x0, mode=20666: CHR: dev=30/1306024, ino=575, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 5: fl=0x2, mode=140666: SOCK localhost->[[UNIX: /var/run/mDNSResponder]]</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 6: fl=0x0, mode=100640: dev=1/2, ino=25887976, nlink=1, u/gid=0/23, size=12288</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 7: fl=0x0, mode=100640: dev=1/2, ino=25887976, nlink=1, u/gid=0/23, size=12288</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 8: fl=0x0, mode=100600: dev=1/2, ino=26088246, nlink=1, u/gid=0/23, size=58024</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 9: fl=0x6, mode=140444: SOCK localhost->(Invalid argument)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 10: fl=0x6, mode=140444: SOCK localhost->(Invalid argument)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 11: fl=0x0, mode=100640: dev=1/2, ino=25768590, nlink=1, u/gid=0/23, size=12288</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 12: fl=0x0, mode=100640: dev=1/2, ino=25768590, nlink=1, u/gid=0/23, size=12288</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: MCI@0x0: NULL</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: MCI@0x7fae2c814818: flags=26404c<CACHED,ESMTP,8BITMIME,INMIME,ENHSTAT,PIPELINED,TLSACT>, errno=32, herrno=0, exitstat=75, state=8, pid=0, maxsize=0, phase=client DATA 354, mailer=dovecot, status=4.4.2, rstatus=(null), host=localhost, lastuse=Wed Dec 9 12:00:10 2020\n</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: to=<s****************>, delay=1+01:11:31, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=dovecot, pri=4787366, relay=localhost, dsn=4.4.2, reply=75, stat=Deferred</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">######################*****##############</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">### DOVECOT Mailer specification ###</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">##################*****##################</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Mdovecot, P=[IPC], F=zDFMPhnul59,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP/HdrFromSMTP,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> A=FILE /var/run/dovecot/lmtp</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>