February 2021 - dovecot

Problem enabling the mail_log plugin
by Mike Quigley 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

I need to track some issues with deleted messages so I have been trying to set up the mail_log plugin. I have Dovecot v2..27 running on Debian 9. I have configured /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf, 20-imap.conf, and 20-lmtp.conf and restarted dovecot, but I see so difference in /var/log/mail.info & /var/log/syslog when I delete a message from my Inbox in Roundcube. Here is the abbreviated output from doveconf -n: # 2.2.27 (): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 () # OS: Linux 4.9.0-14-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.13 ext4 plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /etc/dovecot/sieve-after sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = " imap lmtp sieve pop3" protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " sieve notify mail_log" } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = " notify mail_log" } What am I missing?

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stat writer error
by Jeff Abrahamson 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

On postfix/pipe lines in my log, I see this error: Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission )) even though I also set [T] jeff@nantes-m1:postfix $ ll /var/run/dovecot/*stat* srw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 4 14:55 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats prw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 4 14:55 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats-mail prw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 4 14:55 /var/run/dovecot/old-stats-user srw-rw---- 1 dovecot dovecot 0 Feb 4 14:55 /var/run/dovecot/stats-reader srw-rw---- 1 dovecot dovecot 0 Feb 4 14:55 /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer [T] jeff@nantes-m1:postfix $ I've not found documentation on what should be happening there or what the right config is, though I did find some suggestions that 0660 and dovecot:dovecot is right. (I've also not understood why I care, except I don't like to see regular errors in my logs if I can avoid it.) Any pointers? Thanks. -- Jeff Abrahamson +33 6 24 40 01 57 +44 7920 594 255 http://p27.eu/jeff/ http://mobilitains.fr/

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I'm unable to get Claws-Mail to work with SSL/993 with a passphrased selfsigned cert
by Steve Litt 06 Feb '21

06 Feb '21

Hi all, First, thanks to everyone on Freenode #dovecot who helped me with my extreme problems a couple days ago. I once again have Claws-Mail able to connect to my SSL/993 only Dovecot IMAP, after making my own cert and a few other things. Here's the deal though. When I try to use an rsa:4096 cert with a passphrase for dovecot, Claws-Mail cannot connect, even though I put the cert's passphrase in Claws-Mail's passphrase field right below the field for the cert's location/filename. It tells me it can't import the p12 cert. This happens whether I put in the location of the public cert, or the private one. What do I need to do to get Claws-Mail and Dovecot to work together with a passphrased cert? Naturally, this could be a deficency in Claws-Mail, and I've written a similar email to the Claws-Mail group, but either way I'd like to get this solved so I'm not using a no-password cert. By the way, when I do: openssl s_client -connect 192.168.0.2:993 \ -cert/etc/ssl/dovecot_certs/private/dovecot.pem openssl asks me for the passphrase and upon receiving it gives me the information. This does not happen if I give it the location of the public key. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

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Zlib problem - dovecot.index.cache
by julio covolato 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Hi I'm having problems with zlib giving an error in dovecot.index.cache, when I move a message from one folder to another, this error often appears "Cached message size smaller / biger than expected": Feb 03 19:02:07 imap(julio(a)xxx.com.br): Error: Corrupted record in index cache file /var/spool/vmail/vmail01/xxx.com.br/julio//Maildir/.Trash/dovecot.index.cache: UID 503914: Broken physical size in mailbox Trash: read(zlib(/var/spool/vmail/vmail01/xxx.com.br/julio//Maildir/.Trash/cur/1612388618.M2222P27195.saturn,S=34225,W=34342:2,S)) failed: Cached message size smaller than expected (34225 < 40960, box=Trash, UID=503914) I'm using the [1] dovecot-maildir-compress.sh script in crontab daily to compress old messages with 7 days old with bzip2. Crontab line: 30 2 * * * /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-maildir-compress.sh -t 7 /var/spool/vmail/vmail01/ > /dev/null 2>&1 Any suggestions on how to fix this error? [1] - https://github.com/extremeshok/dovecot-maildir-compression/blob/master/dove… Thanks. -- ---------------------------------- _ Engº Julio Cesar Covolato 0v0 <julio(a)psi.com.br> /(_)\ F: 55-11-99175-9260 ^ ^ PSI INTERNET ----------------------------------

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Service unavailable, lots of idle dovecot-login processes
by Wolfgang 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Hi, Web search turned no results to this problem: We have a small site running private e-mail for maybe 12 people, dovecot is used by Postfix-SASL and IMAP clients. PROBLEM: When starting dovecot, after a few hours, IMAP clients are no longer able to connect. Thunderbird indicates that connection is refused. On the server, we see 100 dovecot/imap-login processes. This is the process limit. If we increase the process limit to 200, same thing, we survive a few hours longer but eventually we're seeing 200 imap-login processes and rejected connections. When listing TCP connections via lsof, there are only around 30 connections open to IMAP and we have exactly the same amount of dovecot/imap processes. These connections are held by 30 dovecot/imap-login processes. The other 70 dovecot/imap-login processes seem to do nothing. They're all sitting in "epoll_wait(14," according to strace but don't have TCP connections open. The only way out of this that we have found is re-starting dovecot every few hours. BTW, service_count = 1 for improved security. Dovecot Version: 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4) Interestingly we were using nearly the same config on our old server with 2.2.13 and did not see this issue. Any ideas how to solve that properly? Thank you, Wolfgang

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BUG report: dbox movealt doesn't move reverse (to default location)
by Vitalii 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Hi, Here is the problem that occured: #sudo doveadm -D altmove -u vv(a)vito.pp.ua all works properly and moves all storage to alt dir. However, to move it back to default storage I add '-r' by manual: #sudo doveadm -D altmove -u vv(a)vito.pp.ua -r all That seems behave like the original command ignoring '-r'. my dovecot conf: # 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 () # OS: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.4 # Hostname: qemu7.internetguru.ca auth_mechanisms = plain login disable_plaintext_auth = no imapc_features = rfc822.size fetch-headers imapc_host = imap.gmail.com imapc_port = 993 imapc_ssl = imaps imapc_user = %u listen = *,[::] log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_attachment_dir = /wd640/mdbox-att/%d/%n mail_max_userip_connections = 100 mail_prefetch_count = 20 mail_privileged_group = vmail passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { quota = dict:user::file:/var/vmail/%d/%n/.quotausage sieve = /var/vmail/%d/%n/.sieve sieve_max_redirects = 25 } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } user = root } service imap-login { client_limit = 1000 process_limit = 512 } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0600 user = postfix } } service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } unix_listener stats-writer { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/smtpd.cert ssl_client_ca_dir = /etc/ssl/certs ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_plugins = quota imap_quota } protocol pop3 { mail_plugins = quota pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve quota postmaster_address = postmaster(a)some.ca } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = quota sieve postmaster_address = postmaster(a)some.ca } I am using debian 10. P.S. I have not found much information about dbox attachments commands. Seems none needs them.

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logging verbosity
by Fourhundred Thecat 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Hello, I get lots of these messages in the log: dovecot: imap-login: Login: user(a)1.2.3.4, TLSv1.3 with .. dovecot: imap(user)<10889><glzsCIi6AMbUGQtL>: Disconnected for inactivity ... dovecot: imap(user)<10887><vzjQB4i6/MXUGQtL>: Logged out ... when user clicks on folder in Thunderbird, or sometimes even when the Thunderbird window is in focus (without clicking anything). Anyway, how can I suppress these info messages, while keeping the important ones, such as auth problems? I am using Dovecot v2.3.4.1 with 10-logging.conf with default values. I see there is this line: # Log unsuccessful authentication attempts and the reasons why they failed. auth_verbose = yes I definitely want to keep logging unsuccessful auth, but how can I suppress the verbose rest? and lastly, can these settings be set per-user? Can I suppress verbose for user 'bob' but keep for others? thanks,

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Feb 03 13:27:19 aggregator: Fatal: chroot(/var/lib/dovecot/run/dovecot/.) failed: Operation not permitted
by Jörg Faudin Schulz 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

I'm trying to set up dsync replication. This seems to work partial - complete replica does work (delete the mailboxes on target, and they'll get filled again). But, changes don't seem to get populated on the replica server; I get the msg Feb 03 13:27:19 aggregator: Fatal: chroot(/var/lib/dovecot/run/dovecot/.) failed: Operation not permitted dovecot conf: # Pigeonhole version 0.5.13 (cdd19fe) # OS: Linux 4.4.0-193-generic x86_64 # Hostname: imap.faudin.de auth_mechanisms = plain login default_internal_group = root default_internal_user = vmail default_login_user = vmail doveadm_password = # hidden, use -P to show it doveadm_port = 2443 first_valid_gid = 0 imapc_features = rfc822.size fetch-headers imapc_port = 1143 imapc_ssl = starttls imapc_ssl_verify = no imapc_user = %u lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes log_path = /dev/stderr mail_plugins = " notify replication" mail_prefetch_count = 20 mail_privileged_group = root 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 namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = create special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = create special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = create special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { auto = create special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = create special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { mail_replica = tcp:m.datilo.de:2443 postmaster = isomne valid address replication_sync_timeout = 2 sieve = file:/var/vmail/sieve/scripts/%u/sieve;active=/var/vmail/sieve/scripts/%u/.dovecot.sieve sieve_after = /etc/dovecot/sieve/sieve-after sieve_before = /etc/dovecot/sieve/sieve-before sieve_default = /etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve sieve_dir = /var/vmail/sieve/scripts/%u sieve_global_dir = /var/vmail/sieve } protocols = imap lmtp sieve service aggregator { unix_listener replication-notify { group = root mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service anvil { chroot = } service auth { chroot = unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service config { unix_listener config { group = root user = vmail } } service doveadm { group = root inet_listener { port = 2443 } user = vmail } service imap-login { chroot = inet_listener imap { port = 1143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 1993 ssl = yes } } service lmtp { chroot = inet_listener lmtp { port = 2525 } } service managesieve-login { chroot = inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service replicator { process_min_avail = 1 unix_listener replicator-doveadm { group = root mode = 0600 user = vmail } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </run/secrets/letsencrypt-fullchain ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!kRSA:!SRP:!kDHd:!DSS:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!3DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4:!ADH:!LOW@STRENGTH:!SSLv2:!TLS1.0 ssl_client_ca_file = /var/run/secrets/letsencrypt-fullchain 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 submission_host = exim-int-mailout:1587 userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " notify replication sieve" } protocol lda { mail_plugins = " notify replication sieve" }

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Several users, same mailbox
by Adrian 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Hello, I have had Dovecot set up to use PAM authentication, as my current users all have system accounts on Debian. I've just moved over to passwdfile authentication, because I want to add new users who won't have logins on the system. This is working fine with my existing users. Now, the problem is that I want the new users to share the SAME (Maildir) 'mailbox'. Currently 10-mail.conf contains mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%u:LAYOUT=fs so this needs to be overridden, or I need some new way of mapping users to mail locations. I could probably do it with symlinks from /var/mail/newuser to /var/mail/mail-location but there may be a better way to do it than that. I'd like it to be in a file, not needing mySQL or other database. Lastly, are there any implications for locking? These will be used rarely but if a second user logs in for the same mailbox they should get a lock error. dovecot -n # 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 () # OS: Linux 4.19.0-11-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.7 ext4 # Hostname: example.com disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%u:LAYOUT=fs Thanks in advance

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Restarting indexing?
by Philip Warner 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Hi, I have about 80GB of mail to index using Dovecot 2.3.4.1 and xapian 1.4.11 FTS. After about 18 hours I had to reboot the server for an unrelated reason (it was perhaps a quarter of the way through indexing). After reboot, the indexing did not restart, and I could find no way to restart it other than via the ‘doveadm index’ command, which I have now done, with the result that the indexing has restarted from scratch. Is there a way to coax it to restart from where it left off, in case I need another reboot? Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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