January 2025 - dovecot

Example configs and packaging scripts
by Aki Tuomi 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

Hi! To make the transition from 2.3 to 2.4 easier, especially for package maintainers, we have prepared one-time conversion of 2.3 example configurations to 2.4. Please find them at https://github.com/dovecot/tools/blob/main/dovecot-2.4.0-example-config.tar… Please review release notes and changelogs for needed changes in future releases. Also, would like to remind that https://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.4-latest/debian/bookworm/pool/main/ contains the debian.tar.xz used to build our packages, and similarly for rhel based https://repo.dovecot.org/ce-2.4-latest/rhel/9/SRPMS/ has the source RPMs. Kind regards, Aki Tuomi

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dovecot: master: Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit (100) reached, client connections are being dropped
by Stephane De Greef 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

Hello, I would need a little help. I have the following message in the logs dovecot: master: Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit (100) reached, client connections are being dropped I have already modified the file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf The first 2 lines are default_process_limit = 200 default_client_limit = 1250 and if i make: grep -r process_limit /etc/ he found that: /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf:default_process_limit = 200 /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf: process_limit = 1024 /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf: #process_limit = 1024 /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf: process_limit = 1024 /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf.original:default_process_limit = 150 /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf.original: #process_limit = 1024 /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf.original: #process_limit = 1024 /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf.original: #process_limit = 1024 /etc/dovecot/conf.d/20-managesieve.conf: #process_limit = 1024 And so I don’t really understand why this error message remains at 100, I specify that the postfix and dovecot services were restarted after the modification,

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doveadm backup and sieve scripts
by Maksim Rodin 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

Hello, What is the best way to backup (migrate) sieve rules? I tried: "doveadm backup -u somebox@somedomain maildir:/backup_dir" "doveadm backup -u somebox@somedomain remote:newmailserver.somedomain" Messages are copied but sieve rules are not. dovecot --version: 2.3.21.1 doveconf -n: # 2.3.21.1 (d492236fa0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.21.1 (49005e73) # OS: OpenBSD 7.5 amd64 # Hostname: mail first_valid_uid = 1000 mail_attachment_dir = /work/vmail/attaches mail_attachment_min_size = 10 k mail_gid = 2000 mail_home = /work/vmail/%n mail_location = sdbox:~/dbox mail_plugins = " zlib acl" mail_uid = 2000 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational r mbox_write_locks = fcntl mmap_disable = yes namespace { list = children location = sdbox:/work/vmail/%%d/%%n/dbox:INDEXPVT=~/dbox/shared/%%u prefix = shared/%%u/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } prefix = separator = / type = private } passdb { driver = bsdauth } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-shared.conf.ext driver = ldap } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap_somedomain.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/db/dovecot/db/shared-mailboxes.db sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve zlib_save = lz4 zlib_save_level = 9 } protocols = imap lmtp submission sieve service decode2text { executable = script /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/decode2text.sh unix_listener decode2text { mode = 0666 } user = _dovecot } service lmtp { user = vmail } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/somedomain/fullchain.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it submission_relay_host = localhost submission_relay_trusted = yes userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-shared.conf.ext default_fields = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/work/vmail/%n_%{domain_first} driver = ldap } userdb { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail driver = static } verbose_proctitle = yes protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = " zlib acl sieve" } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 mail_plugins = " zlib acl imap_acl" } protocol submission { mail_max_userip_connections = 100 } -- Best regards Maksim Rodin

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Tests failed in 2.4.0 (Possibly time-zone-related?)
by Peter 27 Jan '25

27 Jan '25

I'm getting the following failed test: test-var-expand.c:464: Assert failed: labs(t0 - t1) < 10 3600 < 10 is not true var_expand(providers) ................................................ : FAILED This test appears to be a timestamp comparison as per this comment: /* Ensure the time is within 10 seconds */ being exactly one hour off makes me suspect a time-zone issue on the build machine. This machine is in NZDT which is currently in daylight savings time which makes me suspect that this is an issue that is specific to dovecot being built in a timezone in the southern hemisphere. Shouldn't the comparison be done on UTC time instead of localtime to avoid these issues? Peter

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2.4 , error with virtual plugin
by Luigi Trovato 26 Jan '25

26 Jan '25

Hello, even with updated config for virtual plugin: mail_plugins { virtual = yes } namespace virtual { prefix = virtual. separator = . mail_driver = virtual mail_path = ~/virtual } I get this error: imap(lonestar(a)lonestar.it)<2991><64ab1o8sDJl/AAAB>: Error: Namespace virtual: Unknown mail storage driver virtual imap(lonestar(a)lonestar.it)<2991><64ab1o8sDJl/AAAB>: Info: Disconnected: Namespace virtual: Unknown mail storage driver virtual in=0 out=442 deleted=0 expunged=0 trashed=0 hdr_count=0 hdr_bytes=0 body_count=0 body_bytes=0 What could it be? -- Ciao, Luigi

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Errors using dovecot 2.4 container image
by Andreas Achtzehn 26 Jan '25

26 Jan '25

Dear Dovecot team, I ran into troubles using the newly released 2.4 docker image. The dovecot/dovenull users are apparently not part of the image -- hence the dovecot server fails to start up with a fatal error. I'm using a vanilla configuration, default_login_user, etc. are not set. Thanks for having a look! Best regards, Andreas

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Latest docker image broken
by Stephen Benjamin 26 Jan '25

26 Jan '25

I use watchtower to keep my docker images up to date and the image pushed to latest tag yesterday broke everything - I can’t find any docs saying anything about mail_location being removed or replaced…. Any idea? I’m unfortunately away from my laptop for a few days so I can’t do any deep debugging but I’d appreciate any pointer. doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 1: mail_location: Unknown setting: mail_location Sent from my iPhone

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Help with migration of Quota config to 2.4.0?
by dovecot.org＠schildbach.de 25 Jan '25

25 Jan '25

I've converted most of my config to 2.4.0, but one thing I don't get from the docs: ``` mail_plugins = $mail_plugins quota protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota } plugin { quota = maildir:User quota:noenforcing quota_rule = *:storage=7GB quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%% } ``` How would this translate?

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Dovecot 2.4.0 compilation issues (Linux, GCC 8.3.1)
by Andreas M. Kirchwitz 25 Jan '25

25 Jan '25

Hello users of Dovecot! Currently, Dovecot 2.3.21.1 compiles and runs fine on a Red Hat Linux clone with GCC 8.3.1. Now tried the brandnew sources of Dovecot 2.4.0, but to my surprise it doesn't even compile and I have no clue where to begin my debugging. Besides some minor things (new OpenSSL version check not working, maybe because not using proper include files; and one library is missing -lrt to use clock_gettime), I'm totally stuck at compiling the new "src/lib-http/http-server-settings.c". It fails while including "src/lib/macros.h" with the message "error: size of unnamed array is negative" Dovecot 2.3.21.1 has no http-server-settings.c but a very similar macros.h which everbody seems to be happy about. So what is it that happens while compiling http-server-settings.c to make GCC fail? I ran "./configure" with just LDFLAGS="-lrt -Wl,--no-as-needed" added, and then simply "make". Nothing special here. I'm happy with all the default settings and auto-detected options. Full log of compilation messages is appended at the end of this message. Any help is highly appreciated. Currently I have no idea where to even start my search for a workaround or even a solution. Never had such problems with compiling Dovecot so far. Thanks a lot in advance ... Andreas ====================================================================== Compilation messages where the error occurs: ====================================================================== Making all in lib-http make[3]: Entering directory '/usr/local/src/dovecot-2.4.0/src/lib-http' CC http-server-settings.lo In file included from ../../src/lib/lib.h:37, from http-server-settings.c:3: ../../src/lib/lib.h: In function ‘time_to_uint32’: ../../src/lib/lib.h:145:14: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘time_t’ {aka ‘long int’} and ‘unsigned int’ [-Wsign-compare] i_assert(ts <= UINT32_MAX); ^~ ../../src/lib/macros.h:198:45: note: in definition of macro ‘unlikely’ # define unlikely(expr) (__builtin_expect((expr) ? 1 : 0, 0) != 0) ^~~~ ../../src/lib/lib.h:145:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘i_assert’ i_assert(ts <= UINT32_MAX); ^~~~~~~~ In file included from http-server-settings.c:3: ../../src/lib/lib.h: In function ‘time_to_uint32_trunc’: ../../src/lib/lib.h:153:9: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘time_t’ {aka ‘long int’} and ‘unsigned int’ [-Wsign-compare] if (ts > UINT32_MAX) ^ In file included from ../../src/lib/lib.h:37, from http-server-settings.c:3: http-server-settings.c: At top level: ../../src/lib/macros.h:173:14: error: size of unnamed array is negative (sizeof(char[1 - 2 * ((condition) ? 1 : 0)]) > 0 ? FALSE : FALSE) ^ ../../src/lib/macros.h:182:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TRUE’ COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TRUE( \ ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../../src/lib-settings/settings-parser.h:78:27: note: in expansion of macro ‘COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TYPES_NOT_COMPATIBLE’ { .type = (_enum_type) + COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TYPES_NOT_COMPATIBLE( \ ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../../src/lib-settings/settings-parser.h:125:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_TYPE’ SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_TYPE(SET_SIZE, SET_FLAG_HIDDEN, uoff_t, key, name, struct_name) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http-server-settings.c:13:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_SIZE_HIDDEN’ SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_##type("http_server_"#name, name, struct http_server_settings) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http-server-settings.c:34:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘DEF’ DEF(SIZE_HIDDEN, socket_send_buffer_size), ^~~ ../../src/lib/macros.h:173:14: error: size of unnamed array is negative (sizeof(char[1 - 2 * ((condition) ? 1 : 0)]) > 0 ? FALSE : FALSE) ^ ../../src/lib/macros.h:182:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TRUE’ COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TRUE( \ ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../../src/lib-settings/settings-parser.h:78:27: note: in expansion of macro ‘COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TYPES_NOT_COMPATIBLE’ { .type = (_enum_type) + COMPILE_ERROR_IF_TYPES_NOT_COMPATIBLE( \ ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../../src/lib-settings/settings-parser.h:125:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_TYPE’ SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_TYPE(SET_SIZE, SET_FLAG_HIDDEN, uoff_t, key, name, struct_name) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http-server-settings.c:13:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_SIZE_HIDDEN’ SETTING_DEFINE_STRUCT_##type("http_server_"#name, name, struct http_server_settings) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http-server-settings.c:35:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘DEF’ DEF(SIZE_HIDDEN, socket_recv_buffer_size), ^~~ make[3]: *** [Makefile:1007: http-server-settings.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/dovecot-2.4.0/src/lib-http' make[2]: *** [Makefile:587: all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/dovecot-2.4.0/src' make[1]: *** [Makefile:725: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/dovecot-2.4.0' make: *** [Makefile:567: all] Error 2

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newbie dsync problems
by Kent Borg 25 Jan '25

25 Jan '25

I have a very basic postfix/dovecot server, with just a few users, and it works. But in the past I have had hardware failures…so I would like use dsync to a nearly matching server for some extra safety, and I have not yet been successful. I am trying to do this as root over ssh, with a private key for authentication. I do not managed to get the whole replicator thing working, so as part of simplifying things I am trying to run dsync manually, just on one user (myself). I hope this isn't a silly approach. What would the manual command look like? The closest example on the man page is: > $ doveadm sync -u username(a)example.com ssh -i id_dsa.dovecot \ > mailuser(a)example.com doveadm dsync-server -u username(a)example.com I try to change that to match my case and it has never heard of me: > root@la:/etc/dovecot# doveadm sync -1 -u kentborg(a)mail.borg.org ssh -i > /root/.ssh/id_rsa_rc.borg.org.dsync kentborg(a)mail.borg.org doveadm > dsync-server -u kentborg(a)mail.borg.org > doveadm(kentborg(a)mail.borg.org): Error: User doesn't exist > root@la:/etc/dovecot# I drop the machine part of the name and it knows who I am on this end but can't get to the other end: > root@la:/etc/dovecot# doveadm sync -1 -u kentborg ssh -i > /root/.ssh/id_rsa_rc.borg.org.dsync kentborg(a)mail.borg.org doveadm > dsync-server -u kent\ > borg(a)mail.borg.org > kentborg(a)mail.borg.org's password: I think I have root's ssh keys set up correctly, I can run this: > root@la:/etc/dovecot# ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa_rc.borg.org.dsync > mail.borg.org > PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 > C-c C-croot@la:/etc/dovecot# …and on the remote end I see some debugging output I put in the remote script, outputting an empty username. Makes sense. If I try to put that in this (incomplete) dsync command: > root@la:/etc/dovecot# doveadm sync -u kentborg -1 ssh -i > /root/.ssh/id_rsa_rc.borg.org.dsync mail.borg.org > Error: Extraneous arguments found: 3 5 > doveadm(kentborg)<1029674><QvOnDPmKkmcqtg8AA8+vgQ>: Error: > read(remote) failed: EOF (version not received) > doveadm(kentborg)<1029674><QvOnDPmKkmcqtg8AA8+vgQ>: Error: Remote > command returned error 64: ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa_rc.borg.org.dsync > mail.borg\ > .org dsync-server > root@la:/etc/dovecot# And the remote end outputs the username as "VERSION dsync 3 5", okay, maybe progress. But when I try to make the command more complete and send a username to the remote end, and now I am no longer talking to the remote end: > root@la:/etc/dovecot# doveadm sync -u kentborg -1 ssh -i > /root/.ssh/id_rsa_rc.borg.org.dsync remoteprefix(a)mail.borg.org > remoteprefix(a)mail.borg.org's password: Suggestions? Thanks, -kb

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