October 2023 - dovecot

spool move/rename question
by Dave McGuire 09 Oct '23

09 Oct '23

Hi folks. Our mail server's spools are structured like this: /var/mail/<domain>/<user> We have an existing user with a lot of mail that we need to move from one domain to another. Our mail system is database-backed so changing the account is trivial, but can I just move the <user> directory from the structure above from one <domain> directory to another and expect everything to be ok? Or is there a better approach? (of course I'll do a backup first) Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

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qp and Invalid quoted-printable input trailer: '=' not followed by two hex digits
by Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz 09 Oct '23

09 Oct '23

I have a mail (attached) for which dovecot reports: imap(test): pid=<32688> session=<UOVJ/0UHlM3B7y+g>, Error: Mailbox INBOX.test: UID=1: read(<binary stream of mailbox INBOX.test UID 1>) failed: read(/var/mail/test/.test/cur/1695887652.M710714P17846.mbox13:2,RS) failed: Invalid quoted-printable input trailer: '=' not followed by two hex digits and I fail to see why. There is = used at the end of lines as soft-line break. Also if you delete "przez system Spa=" it works. If you lave it and delete "<br>=" line it also works. Doesn't seem to be consistent. Is dovecot too restrictive here? dovecot 2.3.20 and 2.3.21 -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )

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bug report: lmtp fails on root-squashed NFS filesystem
by Anne Bennett 09 Oct '23

09 Oct '23

Hi, all. I'm trying to set up Postfix with dovecot LTMP delivery on a host where the user files (/var/spool/mail as well as home directories) are on NFS filesystems, which are exported root-squashed to the mail server. I definitely don't want to give the mail server root permissions on the user files. LMTP delivery fails with this logged message (e.g.): Nov 16 17:51:36 lust dovecot: lmtp(anne)<16830><mkkzEPg1lGG+QQAAs/mAJw>: msgid=<202111162229.1AGMTfAO024765(a)vindemiatrix.encs.concordia.ca>: save failed to INBOX: Read-only mbox I found this posting where someone else had a similar problem and traced it in some detail back in 2019: https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2019-February/114611.html but apparently no one answered the fellow. In order to check that this is indeed the same problem, I temporarily changed the INBOX definition to make it write into /var/tmp/ (on a local filesystem), and delivery worked. I then temporarily changed the INBOX definition to make it write into an NFS filesystem with root NOT squashed, and again it worked (after I chmodded the directory to 1777 to allow any user to create a file). I believe that the person who wrote the above posting is correct: at some point, file access is (incorrectly) checked as root instead of as the target user. This is a bit of a showstopper for me. Any plans to address this? I attach the output of "dovecot -n", fwiw, but I don't think that this is a configuration problem... Anne. -- Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Sysadmin, ENCS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8 anne(a)encs.concordia.ca +1 514 848-2424 x2285

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Dovecot services not starting
by Jose David Bravo A 08 Oct '23

08 Oct '23

Hi, I'm running dovecot 2.3.16 on Ubuntu 22.04.2. But when I start dovecot, I can only see that the services are failing to start. It don't show any additional error about why it's failing, may be because the log service is not running? Oct 06 15:19:00 master: Error: service(log): command startup failed, throttling for 2.000 secs Oct 06 15:19:45 master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling for 2.000 secs Oct 06 15:19:53 master: Error: service(pop3-login): command startup failed, throttling for 2.000 secs Oct 06 15:21:45 master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling for 4.000 secs Oct 06 15:21:53 master: Error: service(pop3-login): command startup failed, throttling for 4.000 secs Oct 06 15:23:45 master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling for 8.000 secs Oct 06 15:23:53 master: Error: service(pop3-login): command startup failed, throttling for 8.000 secs Oct 06 15:25:45 master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling for 16.000 secs Oct 06 15:25:53 master: Error: service(pop3-login): command startup failed, throttling for 16.000 secs Oct 06 15:27:45 master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling for 32.000 secs Oct 06 15:27:53 master: Error: service(pop3-login): command startup failed, throttling for 32.000 secs Oct 06 15:28:23 master: Error: service(stats): command startup failed, throttling for 2.000 secs Oct 06 15:28:25 master: Error: service(stats): command startup failed, throttling for 4.000 secs Oct 06 15:29:44 master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup failed, throttling for 60.000 secs Oct 06 15:29:53 master: Error: service(pop3-login): command startup failed, throttling for 60.000 secs Is there any option that I can run those services manually so I can see what's going on and why those are not stating? or any other option to debug it? This is my current config: # 2.3.16 (7e2e900c1a): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.16 (09c29328) # OS: Linux 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2.x86_64 x86_64 Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS # Hostname: xxxxxx auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_master_user_separator = * auth_mechanisms = PLAIN LOGIN auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot default_client_limit = 4096 default_process_limit = 500 default_vsz_limit = 640 B deliver_log_format = from=%{from}, envelope_sender=%{from_envelope}, subject=%{subject}, msgid=%m, size=%{size}, delivery_time=%{delivery_time}ms, %$ dict { acl = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-share-folder.conf lastlogin = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-last-login.conf quotadict = mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-used-quota.conf } first_valid_uid = 2000 imap_hibernate_timeout = 30 secs imap_max_line_length = 2 M last_valid_uid = 2000 listen = * login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c %k mail_attribute_dict = file:%Lh/dovecot-attributes mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 2000 mail_location = maildir:%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=%Lh/Maildir/ mail_plugins = acl mail_log mailbox_alias notify quota mail_uid = 2000 mailbox_list_index_very_dirty_syncs = yes 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 namespace { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive { auto = no special_use = \Archive } mailbox Archives { auto = no special_use = \Archive } mailbox "Deleted Messages" { auto = no autoexpunge = 60 days special_use = \Trash } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe autoexpunge = 60 days special_use = \Junk } mailbox "Junk E-mail" { auto = no autoexpunge = 60 days special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Items" { auto = no special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { auto = no special_use = \Sent } mailbox Spam { auto = no autoexpunge = 60 days special_use = \Junk } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe autoexpunge = 60 days special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=%%Lh/Maildir/Shared/%%Ld/%%Ln prefix = Shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = shared } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = /opt/iredmail/custom/dovecot/master-users driver = passwd-file master = yes } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/opt/iredmail/bin/dovecot/sieve/report_spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY APPEND imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/opt/iredmail/bin/dovecot/sieve/report_ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * imapsieve_url = sieve://127.0.0.1:4190 last_login_dict = proxy::lastlogin last_login_key = # hidden, use -P to show it mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy save mailbox_create mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size from subject flags mailbox_alias_new = Sent Messages mailbox_alias_new2 = Sent Items mailbox_alias_old = Sent mailbox_alias_old2 = Sent quota = dict:user::proxy::quotadict quota_grace = 50M quota_rule = *:storage=1G quota_status_nouser = DUNNO quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full quota_status_success = DUNNO quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-warning 100 %u quota_warning2 = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u quota_warning3 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u quota_warning4 = storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u sieve = ~/sieve/dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/vmail/sieve/dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_dir = /var/vmail/sieve sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment sieve_max_redirects = 30 sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /opt/iredmail/bin/dovecot/sieve sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms sieve_redirect_envelope_from = recipient sieve_vacation_send_from_recipient = yes } protocols = pop3 imap sieve lmtp service anvil { process_limit = 1 unix_listener anvil-auth-penalty { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service auth { client_limit = 4096 inet_listener { port = 12346 } process_limit = 1 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service imap-hibernate { unix_listener imap-hibernate { group = vmail user = vmail } } service imap-login { client_limit = 0 inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } process_limit = 0 service_count = 0 } service imap { process_limit = 4096 unix_listener imap-master { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service lmtp { executable = lmtp -L inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } process_min_avail = 5 user = vmail } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } } service pop3-login { client_limit = 0 inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } process_limit = 0 service_count = 0 } service pop3 { process_limit = 4096 } service quota-status { client_limit = 1000 executable = quota-status -p postfix inet_listener { port = 12340 } } service quota-warning { executable = script /opt/iredmail/bin/dovecot/quota_warning.sh unix_listener quota-warning { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service stats { inet_listener stats { address = 0.0.0.0 port = 24242 } unix_listener stats-writer { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </opt/iredmail/ssl/cert.pem ssl_cipher_list = EECDH+CHACHA20:EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes syslog_facility = local5 userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf driver = sql } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_metadata = yes mail_max_userip_connections = 30 mail_plugins = acl mail_log mailbox_alias notify quota imap_quota imap_acl imap_sieve last_login zlib } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 30 mail_plugins = acl mail_log mailbox_alias notify quota last_login zlib pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes mail_plugins = acl mail_log mailbox_alias notify quota sieve last_login } protocol lmtp { lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes mail_plugins = acl mail_log mailbox_alias notify quota sieve last_login recipient_delimiter = + } Thank you! [ http://www.colombiahosting.com/ ] Jose Bravo

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sieve processing - enable/disable per user?
by Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz 07 Oct '23

07 Oct '23

Hi. I keep users in database and would like to enable/disable sieve for them per user. What's the approach for that? I'm looking at the sieve options and user_query setting but don't see anything that would make this possible. -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )

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Shared mailboxes and indexes
by Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay 06 Oct '23

06 Oct '23

Hi, I googled a bit to see if I understand it, but no, I haven’t got anything that explains this: What’s exactly the difference between INDEX and INDEXPVT for shared mailboxes? Why are they pointing to the same folder on Dovecot example (https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/shared_mailboxes/shared_mailbo… Best, Francis

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06 Oct '23

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Is XOAUTH2 support broken in 2.3.21?
by Christian Rößner 05 Oct '23

05 Oct '23

Hi, I use Roundcube with OIDC. Everything works fine in Dovecot 2.3.20, but broke in 2.3.21. Downgrading to 2.3.20 makes it work again, so it is introduced in the newer release. Error (2.3.21): ``` Oct 4 11:03:57 mx dovecot[558531]: imap-login: Disconnected: Connection closed (client didn't finish SASL auth, waited 1 secs): user=<christian(a)roessner.email>, orig_user=<christian(a)roessner.email>, method=XOAUTH2, rip=192.168.0.4, lip=192.168.0.2, TLS, TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) ``` Here is an example with 2.3.20: Success (2.3.20): ``` Oct 4 11:17:21 mx dovecot[889914]: imap-login: Login: user=<christian(a)roessner.email>, orig_user=<christian(a)roessner.email>, method=XOAUTH2, rip=192.168.0.4, lip=192.168.0.2, mpid=891874, TLS, TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) ``` Kind regards Christian Rößner -- Rößner-Network-Solutions Zertifizierter ITSiBe / CISO Karl-Bröger-Str. 10, 36304 Alsfeld Fax: +49 6631 78823409, Mobil: +49 171 9905345 USt-IdNr.: DE225643613, https://roessner.website PGP fingerprint: 658D 1342 B762 F484 2DDF 1E88 38A5 4346 D727 94E5

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Re: How to reduce the number of UNIX sockets?
by Joseph Tam 05 Oct '23

05 Oct '23

From: Steve Litt <slitt(a)troubleshooters.com> > Recently I've been getting the dreaded X error "Maximum number of > clients exceeded", so I performed an lsof -U to find who was using > UNIX sockets. This uncovered a buggy looping program I wrote using up > gobs of UNIX sockets, along with some browsers, dbus-daemon, electron > (used by vscode), smbd, and Dovecot, which uses 36 UNIX sockets. Only 36? The number of sockets seems to scale proportionally with the number of users. The login process of my service easily consumes several hundred sockets and could on occasions run into the thousands. (See also my previous posts on socket starvation.) Each client connection will consume a few sockets -- it uses maybe a few more than some applications do as they separate privileged daemons from worker daemons, and pass data around via sockets, but socket use if within reason. > I can kill dbus-daemon and the buggy program I wrote, minimize use of > browsers, disable smbd except when I (rarely) need it, but can you > think of things I can do to reduce the number of UNIX sockets used by > Dovecot on my machine? You can limit the number of clients per IP (e.g. mail_max_userip_connections) to lower the number of concurrent mailboxes that are open. Or use the idle process facility to park inactive connections (not sure if that frees sockets). Or cap the number of clients (process_limit, service_count, etc.), but if you're bumping up against those limits, you've either underprovisioned your service or you have something misconfigured. (Again, see my previous post on service_limit.) Maybe you need to *increase* those limits if you're hitting some client limit in regular use. From what you describe, you resolved the cause of your socket starvation whose cause was not dovecot. I'm not sure what you hope to gain by saving a few sockets that dovecot uses just to make headroom for a buggy script. Joseph Tam <jtam.home(a)gmail.com>

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How to reduce the number of UNIX sockets?
by Steve Litt 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

Hi all, I'm using Dovecot version 2.3.21 on an up to date Void Linux on a 6 core 12 thread Ryzen with 48GB RAM, 1TB NVMe, and 12TB of 7200 RPM spinning rust hard drives. Recently I've been getting the dreaded X error "Maximum number of clients exceeded", so I performed an lsof -U to find who was using UNIX sockets. This uncovered a buggy looping program I wrote using up gobs of UNIX sockets, along with some browsers, dbus-daemon, electron (used by vscode), smbd, and Dovecot, which uses 36 UNIX sockets. I can kill dbus-daemon and the buggy program I wrote, minimize use of browsers, disable smbd except when I (rarely) need it, but can you think of things I can do to reduce the number of UNIX sockets used by Dovecot on my machine? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21

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