June 2022 - dovecot - dovecot.org

Is multi factor authentication practical/feasible?
by Steve Dondley 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

I have a small client whose insurance company insists they have MFA for their email to be covered under some kind of data protection policy. Currently I have the client set up on a Debian box for the email server coupled with roundcube for webmail. Most the users just use roundcube but some also use their mobile devices to check email. Maybe one person uses outlook. There’s about 5 to 10 users total. I know roundcube offers a MFA plugin. But I don’t have the foggiest idea how of an iPhone, Android device, or Outlook could all be set up to work with MFA with a standard dovecot/postfix setup. Are there any practical solutions for easily implementing MFA that could work across multiple devices?

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Trivial Pigeonhole patch: allow X-Original-From header for address tests
by Rob Foehl 04 Jul '22

04 Jul '22

Motivated by more DMARC silliness, naturally. -Rob

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Doveadm http requests - payload size
by Tony Hartmann - WebBoty 22 Jun '22

22 Jun '22

Hello Team, We are running dovecot version (2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b)) on ubuntu 20.04. Using the doveadm tool via http api we can create emails and move them accordingly to the draft folder by sending http requests via cURL from another server. We can even attach files. However once we create a http API request bigger than 1MB in size we get the “PAYLOAD TO LARGE” response from dovecot. Going through the config I see no option to increase the allowed payload size for doveadm http api requests. However in the source code itself I see that there is a default limit/size of: #define HTTP_REQUEST_DEFAULT_MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE (1 * 1024 * 1024) Further I found out that the default is only used if no limit is provided: === if (limits != NULL) { hdr_limits = limits->header; max_payload_size = limits->max_payload_size; } else { i_zero(&hdr_limits); max_payload_size = 0; } /* substitute default limits */ if (parser->max_target_length == 0) parser->max_target_length = HTTP_REQUEST_DEFAULT_MAX_TARGET_LENGTH; if (hdr_limits.max_size == 0) hdr_limits.max_size = HTTP_REQUEST_DEFAULT_MAX_HEADER_SIZE; if (hdr_limits.max_field_size == 0) hdr_limits.max_field_size = HTTP_REQUEST_DEFAULT_MAX_HEADER_FIELD_SIZE; if (hdr_limits.max_fields == 0) hdr_limits.max_fields = HTTP_REQUEST_DEFAULT_MAX_HEADER_FIELDS; if (max_payload_size == 0) max_payload_size = HTTP_REQUEST_DEFAULT_MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE; if ((flags & HTTP_REQUEST_PARSE_FLAG_STRICT) != 0) msg_flags |= HTTP_MESSAGE_PARSE_FLAG_STRICT; http_message_parser_init(&parser->parser, input, &hdr_limits, max_payload_size, msg_flags); return parser; The question arises … how can we change / set the allowed payload size for the doveadm http api, so we can store bigger emails and attachments? Can we store the desired allowed payload size in an env file somewhere or are there any options to take control of the allowed payload size without changing the source code? Thanks in advance Tony

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running alternate dovecot instances on the same server
by Chris Hoogendyk 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

I'm posting to the list, but not on the list. I presume that means a reply-all to get to me as well as the list? We have two servers (dovecot --version: 2.2.22 (fe789d2)) that handle email for two different departments. We are transitioning mail service to the University central IT. They need to move accounts in an automated fashion and therefore need a master password to our dovecot servers. However, we are running with LDAP authentication, and I understand that a master password is not possible in that configuration. Would it be possible to run an alternate dovecot process that would use local account authentication, have a master password, and use an alternate port for connecting? Ideally it would only read accounts without changing anything, and would not interfere with the operation of the other dovecot process. I'm hoping that I could copy the configuration files, make these changes, and then launch it manually without any startup scripts in /etc/inetd.conf. Oh, by the way, we are running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and have contracts with Ubuntu Advantage for ongoing patch support. The dovecot version is from the distribution, installed with aptitude. -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator, Retired c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geosciences Departments (*) \(*) -- 315 Morrill Science Center III ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <hoogendyk(a)bio.umass.edu> --------------- Erdös 4

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dovecot and openssl3
by A. Schulze 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

Hello, I tried to build dovecot-2.3.19.1 with openssl-3.0.2 "make test" failed. Good, the test-suite found a problem! I found similar reports and patches: - https://sources.debian.org/src/dovecot/1%3A2.3.19%2Bdfsg1-1/debian/patches/… - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1962035 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dovecot/+bug/1945763 - https://launchpadlibrarian.net/569387479/dovecot.debdiff The patch looks easy and at least 'make test' pass again. Could the dovecot developer have a look at the patch and say something about the roadmap to support openssl3? Thanks Andreas

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Malformed XLIST replies
by Bogdan Szczurek 20 Jun '22

20 Jun '22

Hi! Some (considerable) time ago, I, as one of the Mailspring (https://getmailspring.com/) users, had a problem with setting up IMAP email account hosted on home.pl. I was able to narrow down the problem to how the Mailspring handles server response regarding folder list. The problem is twofold: a) how the response is handled by Mailspring's IMAP libraries, b) how the server itself responds. As to the first part of the problem I submitted relevant bug reports (https://github.com/MailCore/mailcore2/issues/1908 and https://github.com/dinhvh/libetpan/issues/403) and but the second part appears to belong here, since home.pl uses Dovecot as their IMAP server. Now about the problem. When XLIST is used to get the list of the folders, I get, for example: 3 XLIST "" "*" * XLIST (\HasNoChildren \) "." "Archive" * XLIST (\HasNoChildren \) "." "Courses" * XLIST (\HasNoChildren \Draft) "." "DRAFTS" * XLIST (\HasNoChildren \Inbox) "." "INBOX" * XLIST (\HasChildren \) "." "PhD" * XLIST (\HasNoChildren \) "." "PhD.Advisor" * XLIST (\HasNoChildren \) "." "PhD.Archive" * XLIST (\HasNoChildren \) "." "PhD.Articles" * XLIST (\HasNoChildren \) "." "PhD.Conferences" * XLIST (\HasNoChildren \) "." "PhD.Journals" * XLIST (\HasNoChildren \) "." "PhD.Thesis" 3 OK Completed Compare this with the LIST output: 4 LIST "" "*" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Archive" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Courses" * LIST (\HasNoChildren \Drafts) "." "DRAFTS" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX" * LIST (\HasChildren) "." "PhD" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "PhD.Advisor" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "PhD.Archive" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "PhD.Articles" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "PhD.Conferences" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "PhD.Journals" * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "PhD.Thesis" 4 OK Completed Notice, how in the XLIST example, every item has an additional “empty” flag (“\”). This part causes libetpan to fail. While ignoring the problem as a library's problem would be perfectly understandable, I think it should be also considered if something shouldn't be done on Dovecot's end. Granted, XLIST has been long depreceated, however it still is implemented and it should be implemented properly. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I failed to find any mention of a thing like “empty flag”. It might not be prohibited, but it strikes me as something bizarre. I am unable to get the information about the Dovecot version used by home.pl, but I suspect this problem may still be present up to the newest version. Also, if someone is willing to take a closer look at the problem, I can provide you with an email account for testing purposes. Best regards! Bogdan

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v2.3.19.1 released
by Aki Tuomi 20 Jun '22

20 Jun '22

Hi everyone! Due to a severe bug in doveadm deduplicate, we are releasing patch release 2.3.19.1. Please find it at locations below: https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.19.1.tar.gz https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.19.1.tar.gz.sig Binary packages in https://repo.dovecot.org/ Docker images in https://hub.docker.com/r/dovecot/dovecot Aki Tuomi Open-Xchange oy --- - doveadm deduplicate: Non-duplicate mails were deleted. v2.3.19 regression. - auth: Crash would occur when iterating multiple backends. Fixes: Panic: file userdb-blocking.c: line 125 (userdb_blocking_iter_next): assertion failed: (ctx->conn != NULL)

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Move sent emails to sent folder?
by Austin Witmer 19 Jun '22

19 Jun '22

Hello all! I have a server running dovecot & postfix. I have a user on my server who is sending email via smtp on an HP printer and because of that, a copy of the email is not placed in the sent folder like usually happens with clients like outlook and thunderbird. Is there any way to have the sent emails copied to the sent folder for just this user on my server? Thx! Austin Witmer

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Home directories with colons in it
by Jonas Pasche 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Howdy folks, we're using Dovecot 2.3.19 in combination with vmailmgr as the virtual user management backend (please don't judge, there are plans to move away from it for various reasons, but as of today it's there), using the wrapper from https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/VMailMgr - and we're facing an interesting problem with colons in home directories. I think this problem is not specific to vmailmgr but happens in any scenario that includes ":" in directory names. tl;dr: - The checkvpw-dovecot-wrapper from the Dovecot wiki converts ":" in directory names to "::" which works fine with general IMAP use, but at least the autoexpunge plugin and ManageSieve don't handle this escaping and thus break on those users. - When patching the ":"->"::" conversion out of the checkvpw-dovecot-wrapper, Dovecot itself bails on it, interpreting it as a sub-setting. - The latter is quite surprising because a HOME/mail_home directory is supposed to be exactly one directory (AFAIK), with no sub-settings like e.g. mail_location, so I did not expect it to be "interpreted" in any way. Short story long: When you set up a user with a name containing dots, vmailmgr converts them to colons, pretty much like qmail does (qmail maps the username "xy.z" to a file named ".qmail-xy:z"; vmailmgr creates the directory "./users/xy:z" for that username). The wrapper from the dovecot wiki escapes ":" into "::" before exporting the user's directory as the HOME environment variable: /* escape possible ':' characters before finally exporting */ escape_colon(buffer, MAXLEN); setenv("HOME", buffer, 1); The result looks like that: [root@stardust ~]# doveadm auth login xy.z(a)coltest.uber.space supersecret passdb: xy.z(a)coltest.uber.space auth succeeded extra fields: user=xy.z(a)coltest.uber.space userdb extra fields: xy.z(a)coltest.uber.space home=/home/coltest/./users/xy::z <---------- notice the double colon here uid=1009 gid=1010 auth_mech=PLAIN So far, so good: Working with IMAP generally works fine, but there's a catch: Not every module seems prepared for this "::" syntax. The first notable exception is the autoexpunge plugin which simply bails on it: Error: autoexpunge: Couldn't create dovecot.autoexpunge.lock lock: file_create_locked(/home/coltest/./users/xy::z/dovecot.autoexpunge.lock) failed: safe_mkstemp(/home/coltest/./users/xy::z/dovecot.autoexpunge.lock) failed: No such file or directory The second notable exception is ManageSieve which takes the escaped directory name "as is", leading to a situation where the Maildir is in "xy:z" while the Sieve stuff is being put in "xy::z" where it effectively is never picked up during delivery (as the stuff is in the wrong location and the .dovecot.sieve symlink is - silently - not created): [coltest@stardust ~]$ ls -la users/* users/xy:z: total 28 drwx------. 9 coltest coltest 4096 Jun 16 11:39 . drwxr-xr-x. 4 coltest coltest 31 Jun 16 11:40 .. drwxr-xr-x. 2 coltest coltest 6 Jun 16 11:39 cur -rw-------. 1 coltest coltest 376 Jun 16 11:40 dovecot.index.log -rw-------. 1 coltest coltest 2676 Jun 16 11:39 dovecot.list.index.log -rw-------. 1 coltest coltest 96 Jun 16 11:39 dovecot.mailbox.log -rw-------. 1 coltest coltest 51 Jun 16 11:39 dovecot-uidlist -rw-------. 1 coltest coltest 8 Jun 16 11:39 dovecot-uidvalidity -r--r--r--. 1 coltest coltest 0 Jun 16 11:39 dovecot-uidvalidity.62aafa70 drwx------. 5 coltest coltest 108 Jun 16 11:39 .Drafts drwxr-xr-x. 2 coltest coltest 6 Jun 16 11:39 new drwx------. 5 coltest coltest 108 Jun 16 11:39 .Sent drwx------. 5 coltest coltest 108 Jun 16 11:39 .Spam -rw-------. 1 coltest coltest 28 Jun 16 11:39 subscriptions drwxr-xr-x. 2 coltest coltest 6 Jun 16 11:39 tmp drwx------. 5 coltest coltest 108 Jun 16 11:39 .Trash users/xy::z: total 0 drwx------. 3 coltest coltest 19 Jun 16 11:40 . drwxr-xr-x. 4 coltest coltest 31 Jun 16 11:40 .. drwx------. 3 coltest coltest 33 Jun 16 11:40 sieve So my initial thought was: Why is the ":" even escaped to a "::" in the first place? It shouldn't be necessary according to this clean workaround that I found in a posting from 2009 with Timo advising for this type of handling: > Hmm. Although now that I looked at your code, you seem to be using only > HOME. And using ~/ in mail_location should work around any ":" issues. > So what exactly is the problem you're seeing? https://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-June/040590.html (In the same thread, Timo _also_ introduced the "::" handling in Dovecot.) This is exactly what we're doing at delivery time: Setting mail_home to the real pathname including a _single_ colon (not an escaped double colon) and then pointing mail_location to "~/": /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -a '$RECIPIENT' -f '$SENDER' -o mail_home='$MAILDIR' -o mail_location='maildir:~/' This works well. So my assumption was: If the checkvpw-dovecot-wrapper returns the HOME directory of a virtual user; where's even the need to escape a single colon to a double colon? So I gave it a try and removed that one line of escaping and recompiled the wrapper. Result: [root@stardust ~]# doveadm auth login xy.z(a)coltest.uber.space supersecret passdb: xy.z(a)coltest.uber.space auth succeeded extra fields: user=xy.z(a)coltest.uber.space userdb extra fields: xy.z(a)coltest.uber.space home=/home/coltest/./users/xy:z <---------- single colon here now uid=1009 gid=1010 auth_mech=PLAIN Using a real IMAP login, though, this lead to the "interesting" situation that the login itself worked correctly, but _then_ immediately an "Internal error occurred": [root@stardust ~]# nc localhost 143 * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SPECIAL-USE LITERAL+ STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. 0 LOGIN xy.z(a)coltest.uber.space supersecret 0 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY PREVIEW=FUZZY PREVIEW STATUS=SIZE SAVEDATE SPECIAL-USE LITERAL+ NOTIFY SPECIAL-USE] Logged in * BYE Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. This is the according log: Jun 16 10:04:37 stardust.uberspace.de dovecot[15268]: Jun 16 10:04:37 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<xy.z(a)coltest.uber.space>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, lip=::1, mpid=22889, secured Jun 16 10:04:37 stardust.uberspace.de dovecot[15268]: Jun 16 10:04:37 imap(xy.z(a)coltest.uber.space)<22889><utbow43hgJoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB>: Error: Namespace '': Unknown setting: z Jun 16 10:04:37 stardust.uberspace.de dovecot[15268]: Jun 16 10:04:37 imap(xy.z(a)coltest.uber.space)<22889><utbow43hgJoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB>: Info: Disconnected: Namespace '': Unknown setting: z in=0 out=428 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=0 body_bytes=0 So it looks like Dovecot tries to do some interpretation on the HOME value, splitting it at the ":" and interpret the "z" as some kind of sub-setting - which a HOME variable (in contrast to, e.g. mail_location) is not supposed to have. Here I'm a bit stuck. My idea is to work around this by eliminating the ":" from directory names altogether by passing an explicit directory name to vadduser: [coltest@stardust ~]$ echo supersecret | vadduser --directory=./users/ab.c ab.c vadduser: user 'ab.c' successfully added [coltest@stardust ~]$ ls -l users total 0 drwx------. 5 coltest coltest 39 Jun 16 10:26 ab.c drwx------. 5 coltest coltest 39 Jun 16 09:31 xy:z But still, it would be nicer if Dovecot cleanly supported the ":" in directory names, as it seems to _want_ to support it (by introducing the "::" escaping) but then only does it halfway. Could this be fixed in whatever direction, or is there any other advice how we should handle this? All the best, Jonas

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