Re: Any way to make a shared mailbox(not a shared folder)

In general how i do it is just make an info@ account and login as an imap user this allows multiple info@ users especially in thunderbird to be connected as a seconday account accross any device. aka just treat any shared mailboxes as actual mail accounts, way simplier and easier to

Re: Geofencing

thanks for the insite, being an ISP I like this kind of info even if it is off topic a bit on the dovecot mail lists, security today is up there with opertional stuff. Have A Happy Thursday !!! Thanks - Paul Kudla (Manager SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) Scom.ca Internet Services

Re: imap syncing issues

ok just a suggestion Dovecot supports idle to inform clients of message updates this works well with most clients however microsoft outlook & other microsoft email clients do not seem to support idle and have not since outlook2010 Microsoft want everyone using outlook / exchange 365 ?? I

Re: Migration dovecot server with local users to dovecot with virtual mailboxes

ok i went through this and the best solution although it is a bit of work is imapsync imapsync --host1 --user1 --password1 \ --host2 --user2 --password2 \ --regextrans2 "s,\.,_,g" see : https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync note the reg parameter above deal with dot in mailboxes etc

Re: replicator service

replication needs to run on both servers you need to assume that a mailbox can change on either server replication keeps them synced in real time Happy Monday !!! Thanks - paul Paul Kudla Scom.ca Internet Services 004-1009 Byron Street South Whitby, Ontario - Canada

Re: creating a mailbox via imap

Ok basically (please read the entire post - its techy), You need the username/password in the database before doing this Then make sure dovecot config carries ___ namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts {

Re: Redundant Database, Pgsql ?

yes that seems to be the approach i setup a dns entry and pointed to 3 servers it does work round robin (ie from main, secondary etc) but that is ok at least it is working when i take the main server offline for maintenance ! Happy Tuesday !!! Thanks - paul Paul Kudla Scom.ca Internet

Re: NFS and performances

Good morning I apologize in advance as you probably don't want to here this. I have a replicated system and tried to use NFS to a file share server with dedicated gigabit links etc and my second replicated system. I have 300+ accounts and many have 20+ gig of data over 600+ folders, your

Re: OT: Two simultaneous POP3 connections from Outlook

Good morning this is probably not want you are looking for Couple of issues even if you get around the outlook locking issue (unless you are leaving on the server but would be flagged that way anyways) pop3 is first come first serve. Outlook when it comes to imap & pop3 its been my

Re: SNI Config

Email p...@scom.ca On 10/12/2022 8:12 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote: Hi! The pipe syntax has never worked, no idea why you think it would have. Unfortunately at the moment, files are your best option. I do understand the annoyance. Aki On 12/10/2022 13:54 EEST Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Servic

Re: SNI Config

Byron Street South Whitby, Ontario - Canada L1N 4S3 Toronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email p...@scom.ca On 10/11/2022 12:46 PM, Jochen Bern wrote: On 11.10.22 17:46, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: ok according to https://www.openssl.org/docs/ma

Re: Thunderbird can't connect to Dovecot (bad certificate: SSL alert number 42) - sni

ices <http://www.scom.ca> 004-1009 Byron Street South Whitby, Ontario - Canada L1N 4S3 Toronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email p...@scom.ca On 10/11/2022 7:47 AM, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: Good morning to all i guess things have changed ye

Re: Thunderbird can't connect to Dovecot (bad certificate: SSL alert number 42) - sni

ca> 004-1009 Byron Street South Whitby, Ontario - Canada L1N 4S3 Toronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email p...@scom.ca On 10/11/2022 7:47 AM, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: Good morning to all i guess things have changed yet again to keep this s

Thunderbird can't connect to Dovecot (bad certificate: SSL alert number 42) - sni

Good morning to all i guess things have changed yet again to keep this simple : i buy a certificate (example) : mail.paulkudla.net i generated the key / csr as per normal using data = '/usr/local/bin/openssl req -new -key /tmp/temp.key -out /tmp/temp.csr -subj

Re: new feature: sieve forward plugin

Ok this in itself is a issue however forwards should be fully received by the server and then resent to get around this issue. I use the mapping feature & the database to handle forwards in postfix which appears to work without any issues bypassing sieve. #Postgres Stuff mydestination =

Re: Get a list of currently active IMAP connections?

NO it is showing active open imap connections fyi Happy Friday !!! Thanks - paul Paul Kudla Scom.ca Internet Services 004-1009 Byron Street South Whitby, Ontario - Canada L1N 4S3 Toronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email p...@scom.ca

Re: Get a list of currently active IMAP connections?

I use ps : (greping by imap & idle) # ps -axww | grep imap | grep IDLE thant and split() in python 8606 - S 0:08.78 imap: [ke...@elirpa.com 54.242.98.60 IDLE] (imap) 12234 - I 0:01.00 imap: [recept...@clancyca.com 72.143.119.178 IDLE] (imap) 20668 - S

Re: dovecot/config processes open, and consuming all memory

for what's it is worth i am not running any vsize on the config service config { unix_listener config { user = vmail } } i'm just running defaults i do use vsz_limit elsewhere main to curve the replication processes ?? never had an issue 2.3.17 / 18 / 19 never used 16 (fyi)

Re: Replication not working - GUIDs conflict - will be merged later

ok i went through this as well a bit there is a replication full sync variable (i am having trouble finding it) 24h is the default but i might have rebuilt dovecot modifying this default after i got things working i put everything back to default code. yep i did from

Re: Doveadm Move Query

ok u...@domain.com needs to exist before any operations can be done on it. I discovered that dovecot does not consider a virtual mailbox active until it is returned in the user database see : doveadm user '*' both accounts MUST be returned in the list (user@.net & user@.com) from there it

Re: variable %w recursive expanding

ok not what you probably want to hear c, python etc uses % as a variable indicator along with the next character using a format variable (like %s being a string variable) this is what is causing the issue Not saying for sure but experience wise i am not familiar with any system allowing a

Re: Replication not working - GUIDs conflict - will be merged later

OK thanks for the updates Long story short i went through a bunch of replication issues when i was first setting up dovecot. Most of which were fixed in 2.3.19 and i have not seen any issues since. in general i had to turn on the debugging mode (mail_debug = yes) and filter syslog by

Re: Replication not working - GUIDs conflict - will be merged later

Ok This is speculation but i understand the issue at a programming level what needs to be understood is that imap's uids & ugid's are relative to the host server the email is coming from. this is generally not an issue with replication on cyrus or dovecot because the server and the

Re: rawlog data in a lua script

Hi - I use this python script to capture a socket (ie the log file) and then send it to syslog, i use this for all the systems that do not really support syslogging (apache etc) basic useage /usr/bin/nohup /programs/common/capture -s /usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd-access.log -l httpd -d

Thunderbird / Copy to Send folder times out

I know this has been asked before in both Dovecot & Thunderbird Forums (i will posting this info there as well) It seems every once in a while that copy to sent folder timeout occurs and you have to hit retry a few time for it to complete I know this is a network issue (ie network speed,

Re: Is multi factor authentication practical/feasible?

Please note this is my opinion only It seems any kind of dual auth will need a security app running on YOUR server saving toikens, logins etc etc this is what lead to microsoft, gmail etc having their own api which will only work for them this is also (mainly because of https authing the

Re: Multidomain ssl config ?

ning a postgresql database for my stuff to work without mods And running python 2.xx thanks - paul Paul Kudla SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.004-1009 Byron Street South Whitby, Ontario - Canada L1N 4S3Toronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266

Re: Issue with one user only, exceeding connections

ok the idle connection per folder is a factor however in thunderbird i believe it defaults to 2 simultanious connections mine is set to 5 in thunderbird see The solution is to reduce the maximum number of connections in Thunderbird. This can be done from Edit > Account Settings > Server

Re: Occasional service disruptions

ok i do NOT use roundcube however trying to help regarding : > Jun 06 12:01:22 imap(user1)<29639>: Warning: Inotify > instance limit for user 500 (UID vmail) exceeded, disabling. Increase > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances this to me indicates that all users are logging in under one

Re: Replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory

6 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email p...@scom.ca On 6/6/2022 4:03 AM, Ivan Jurišić wrote: Dana 04.06.2022 15:34, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) je napisao(la):    ok thanks for the info    from here you need to turn on full debugging and then filter the log by    "repl

Re: Replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory

ok thanks for the info from here you need to turn on full debugging and then filter the log by "replicat" It is starting to look like you have a bad email somewhere causing the crash I have yet to see this however anything is possible, when you replicate anything it needs to update indexes

Re: Replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory

actually suggestion below is a good idea run ps -axww (or top) to list active processes this will give you some hints top is better for overall memory i also have a perl script that will show actual memory useage, free etc utilities like this are handy to have also i found i had to set

Re: Replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory

just an fyi domain is registered and appears to be active so there should not be any issues with the domain .website is an actual domain (like .com, .ca etc) however i did note ZAKARIA.WEBSITE.14400 IN MX 10 ZAKARIA.WEBSITE. usually the mx record points to an actual

Re: Replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory

Ok a little more help : vsz_limit = 0 --> means unlimited ram for allocation, change this/try 2g etc pending avaliable ram. I use : service replicator { client_limit = 0 drop_priv_before_exec = no idle_kill = 4294967295s process_limit = 1 process_min_avail = 0 service_count =

Re: Building dovecot-core

ok download the tarball for BOTH dovecot & pigeonhole unzip / whatever into a build src dir i use /programs/src/mail dovecot-2.3.19 for the core dovecot-2.3-pigeonhole-0.5.19 for pigeonhole make a currentconfig script file containing [13:57:42] peer1.scom.ca [paul:0]

Re: Restrict IMAP login, but allow Postfix SASL

You really need to database your passwd auth sasl supports pgsql / mysql you can then alter the queries by selecting flags pending the access you want to allow dovecot-pgsql.conf password_query = SELECT username as user, password FROM email_users WHERE username = '%u' and password <>

Re: Force TCP socket disconnect on imap login failure?

iptables (linux) & pf firewall (freebsd) do drop the packets immediately as the tables are updated. I know this from experience as I use freebsd for the mail system's and my asterisk voip server use linux At the end of the day the logging has to drive the updates, the only way to protect

Re: Force TCP socket disconnect on imap login failure?

closing a socket can leave a process in an undertimed state pending how the code reacts blocking in the background via iptables would just stop traffic and the process should die cleanly. programming 101, network connections at best dont like the plug being pulled once they start to talk

Re: Force TCP socket disconnect on imap login failure?

"-j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset" instead of DROP are valid ideas consider that if you update (in the background) and block the connection then dovecot (or any other process) should just block the traffic and timeout to close the connection anyways fyi ?? Happy Tuesday !!! Thanks -

Re: doveadm mailbox status -u p...@scom.ca -t all (syntax)

t want to add `INBOX` to the command? Aki On 24/05/2022 00:34 Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: Ok I know this is a general question and at my level I should be able to figure this out all i want is the complete status of an inbox ? # doveadm mailbox status -u p...@s

Re: Force TCP socket disconnect on imap login failure?

for what its worth this is a python script that i use for the database driven iptables updater for my asterisk server again same ideas but it gets the job done. It's a lot of work to get stuff like this going but may help point someone in the right directions balance wise pending on there

Re: doveadm mailbox status -u p...@scom.ca -t all (syntax)

thanks Happy Monday !!! Thanks - paul Paul Kudla Scom.ca Internet Services 004-1009 Byron Street South Whitby, Ontario - Canada L1N 4S3 Toronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email p...@scom.ca On 5/23/2022 6:40 PM, Patrick Domack wrote:

Re: doveadm mailbox status -u p...@scom.ca -t all (syntax)

N 4S3 Toronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email p...@scom.ca On 5/23/2022 5:34 PM, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: Ok I know this is a general question and at my level I should be able to figure this out all i want is the complete status of an inbox ?

doveadm mailbox status -u p...@scom.ca -t all (syntax)

Ok I know this is a general question and at my level I should be able to figure this out all i want is the complete status of an inbox ? # doveadm mailbox status -u p...@scom.ca -t all keeps returning doveadm mailbox status [-u |-A] [-S ] [...] ie no specific error. and no

Re: Force TCP socket disconnect on imap login failure?

Ok would like to help and I DO understand the issue at hand. It took me with custom programming 5 years of tinkering to get to what i have today. So a few questions / comments ?? Are you running an sql database or just user-db (local) to do the lookups ? sql gives you some major

Many Thanks to the Programmers

I am still in testing mode with 2.3.19 but the replication with the folders over 300+ seems to be fixed everything synced ok on its own within 30 minutes Again MUSH APPRECIATED ! Moving to 2.3.19 was woth it! -- Happy Monday !!! Thanks - paul Paul Kudla Scom.ca Internet Services

Re: mail_replica in userdb?

6 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email p...@scom.ca On 5/23/2022 11:18 AM, Coy Hile wrote: On May 23, 2022, at 11:00 AM, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: ok there is more to replica setup user-db error seems to indicate the sql iterate it not setup or not ret

Re: mail_replica in userdb?

66 Fax 1.888.892.7266 Email p...@scom.ca On 5/23/2022 11:00 AM, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: ok there is more to replica setup user-db error seems to indicate the sql iterate it not setup or not returning stuff properly can you specify what you are using for a sql setup (if any

Re: mail_replica in userdb?

ok there is more to replica setup user-db error seems to indicate the sql iterate it not setup or not returning stuff properly can you specify what you are using for a sql setup (if any) can help from there? Happy Monday !!! Thanks - paul Paul Kudla Scom.ca Internet Services

Re: Duplicate messages if message is moved when using dsync

correctly without getting a duplicate? Kind regards, Thom Pol On 18/05/2022 16:24, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: Your Welcome Happy Wednesday !!! Thanks - paul Paul Kudla Scom.ca Internet Services<http://www.scom.ca> 004-1009 Byron Street South Whitby, Ontario

Upgrading from 2.3.18 --> 2.3.19

Ok currently running 2.3.18 Would like to upgrade to 2.3.19 (to keep current) Since these are production servers can i down grade back to 2.3.18 if nessesary? Issues at hand is there seems to be conflicting messages about the replication being fixed or not ? so would like to basically

Re: dovecot Digest, Vol 229, Issue 23

a bit sceptical if this sieve script would resolve it, but it seems like it totally did! Thanks a lot for your reply, hope this helps someone else in the future as well. Kind regards, Thom Pol On 16/05/2022 08:12, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: ok duplicsate emails

Re: Can sync/migrate all mail from remote imap account except the main "INBOX"

Assuming that the question at hand is : My best guess at this point is the logs showing "INBOX" and "INBOX.INBOX" , perhaps there's something about the naming scheme that is throwing it off, but the "INBOX.INBOX.Drafts" and such are still being handled. Thanks again for any direction!

Re: TLS renegotiation issue (CVE-2011-1473) in Dovecot

ok need some more info but in general ssl setup should be as follows. FQHN - do have have proper dns reverses setup? - this is an upstream thing for example : forwards : ## nslookup mail18.scom.ca Server: 10.220.0.2 Address:10.220.0.2#53 Name: mail18.scom.ca Address:

Re: Fatal Error after upgrade to 2:2.3.19-2+debian11

ok the rights can be a bit confusing at times assuming you are running virtual users (or not) try these one at a time, i found that when dovecot starts it will adjust the permissions on the control files accordingly to what is set in the examples below, also note postfix can be a variable

Re: Duplicate messages if message is moved when using dsync

ok duplicsate emails (even across dsync, replication etc) is typically handled via a global sieve script I use : # cat duplicates.sieve require "duplicate"; # for dovecot >= 2.2.18 if duplicate { discard; stop; } for the scripts and setup sieve to work via my

Re: Use different log files

Robert's answer is a valid approach pending the size of your server networks etc. on another note (because i run multiple servers etc) I run a common syslog file across all servers which is what you appear to have now. from there i like everything in one syslog because i am usually

Re: how is the "Total number of known users" reported by doveadm replicator calculted?

ok assuming that you are using a database for virtual users (this is pgsql) # cat dovecot-pgsql.conf driver = pgsql connect = host=localhost port=5433 dbname=scom_billing user=pgsql password=x default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT username as user, password FROM

Re: no full syncs after upgrading to dovecot 2.3.18

Ok update from my end under 2.3.18 (have not upgraded production to 2.3.19 yet) replication issues as stated before however i need to note that i had to manually sync a user that was not being listed as a replicator fail this means i have to force a full sync between servers on all

Re: IMAP connection lost while sending mail

has tested on a new installed windows with out any "rules/extra software" applied on Thanks i will report if we had some success. Have a nice weekend! Am 06.05.22 um 12:55 schrieb Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.): What version of outlook is your customer using? and w

Re: IMAP connection lost while sending mail

What version of outlook is your customer using? and what internet provider (cell, dsl, cable, fiber etc) ? anything past 2010 can be a crap shoot at best. I have had many many customers try to use outlook because it is fancier interface wise but outlook just does not really support imap

Re: no full syncs after upgrading to dovecot 2.3.18

On 28/04/2022 13:57 Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: Thanks for the update. is this for both replication issues (folders +300 etc) Just Asking - Any ETA Happy Thursday !!! Thanks - paul Paul Kudla Scom.ca Internet Services <http://www.scom.ca> 004-1009 Byron

Re: no full syncs after upgrading to dovecot 2.3.18

6 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 On 4/27/2022 9:01 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote: Hi! This is probably going to get fixed in 2.3.19, this looks like an issue we are already fixing. Aki On 26/04/2022 16:38 Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: Agreed there seems to be no way of p

Re: Better not post your email password on a public mailing list, was: Re: no full syncs after upgrading to dovecot 2.3.18

oronto 416.642.7266 Main 1.866.411.7266 Fax 1.888.892.7266 On 4/27/2022 8:57 AM, Daniel Lange wrote: Am 26.04.22 um 11:36 schrieb Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.): #imapc_host = mail.scom.ca #imapc_password = Pk554669 #imapc_user = p...@scom.ca I suggest to change that password immed

Re: Can I set a different certificate per listen port?

Technically yes (under 2.3.18 & SNI Support) here is my sni.conf file it is imported at the end of my dovecot.conf basically sni allows for multiple different certificates inside dovecot please note each domain (or subdomain) config below most of this was provided via

Re: no full syncs after upgrading to dovecot 2.3.18

g to happen, and this list seems to be quite ordinary for getting support and reporting bugs nowadays Reuben On 26/04/2022 7:21 pm, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: side issue if you are getting inconsistant dsyncs there is no real way to fix this in the long run.

Re: no full syncs after upgrading to dovecot 2.3.18

thanks for your insights and for diving deeper into this Paul! For me, the users ending up in 'Waiting for dsync to finish' all have more than 256 Imap folders as well (ranging from 288 up to >5500; as per 'doveadm mailbox list -u | wc -l'). For more details on my setup please see my post f

Re: no full syncs after upgrading to dovecot 2.3.18

wn users   42512 So, why didn't the replicator take advantage of the weekend to replicate the mailboxes while no user were using them? Arnaud On 25/04/2022 13:54, Sebastian Marske wrote: Hi there, thanks for your insights and for diving deeper into this Paul! For me, the users ending up i

Re: no full syncs after upgrading to dovecot 2.3.18

as well (ranging from 288 up to >5500; as per 'doveadm mailbox list -u | wc -l'). For more details on my setup please see my post from February [1]. @Arnaud: What OS are you running on? Best Sebastian [1] https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2022-February/124168.html On 4/24/22 19:36, Pau

Re: no full syncs after upgrading to dovecot 2.3.18

Question having similiar replication issues pls read everything below and advise the folder counts on the non-replicated users? i find the total number of folders / account seems to be a factor and NOT the size of the mail box ie i have customers with 40G of emails no problem over 40 or

Re: temporary block incoming messages to specific user

this is handled in a couple of different ways please note this is only for virtual users and assumes you are running postfix/dovecot through postfix (first) see main.cf : # SOFT BOUNCE # # The soft_bounce parameter provides a limited safety net for # testing. When soft_bounce is