Re: Urgent Help required

2020-07-08 Thread Justina Colmena ~biz
On July 8, 2020 11:01:20 AM AKDT, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >Am 08.07.2020 um 20:28 schrieb Kishore Potnuru: >> Thank you for the reply. >> >> As per our current infrastructure, I can go maximum of the redhat 7.7 >> version. Not more than that. Am I able to install or upgrade to >dovecot 2.3 >>

POP3Deleted flag issues

2020-06-29 Thread Justina Colmena ~biz
Hello, I have been running my own mail server with Dovecot, Postfix, and Cyrus-SASL for authentication. = dovecot22u.x86_64 1:2.2.36.4-1.el7.ius @ius I am basically trying to tune the system for better performance. The flat files "/var/mail/justina" etc exhibit locking issues and conflicts

Re: Major upgrade of mail server

2021-07-08 Thread justina colmena ~biz
It's generally a good thing to be reminded to upgrade. Regardless of whether or not a certain release is considered Long Term Service — if there are major unresolved problems with the platform or supported software that are not fixed — then it will be necessary and appropriate to upgrade as

Re: CA certs for Dovecot-as-client (proxy)

2021-04-21 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On Wednesday, April 21, 2021 2:13:01 AM AKDT Aki Tuomi wrote: > Hi! > > This is unfortunately a bug, see note in > https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/proxies/ > > "ssl_client_ca_dir or ssl_client_ca_file aren’t currently used for verifying > the remote certificate,

Re: Installation Question: Is a web server required ?

2021-04-29 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On Wednesday, April 28, 2021 9:41:17 PM AKDT @lbutlr wrote: > On 28 Apr 2021, at 11:28, White, Daniel E. (GSFC-770.0)[NICS] wrote: > > only be accessed by POP3(s)/IMAP(s > > There is no reason to support POP3 on a new mail service. IMAP is suppserior > in every way, both for the user and for

Re: disable pop3 ports?

2021-05-04 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On Tuesday, May 4, 2021 11:27:28 AM AKDT Dan Egli wrote: > Aki, That's what I'm saying. The only place pop3 IS listed is in > doveconf protocols. I'm going to try settiing the ports to 0 and see if > that does the trick. > > And for those who keep mentioning the firewall, understand that I'm >

Re: Mass Stripping Attachments by Directory, Age, Size

2021-04-01 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Well ain't that rich? To use an allegory of sorts, we're going to have start using staples rather than paperclips ️ with our email attachments, and one unified digital signature on the whole message as sent rather than a separate signature for each enclosure as commonly "done" with PGP,

Virtual users @ virtual domains / better documentation?

2021-03-09 Thread justina colmena ~biz
I have configured postfix so it will deliver mail to virtual mailboxes. For some reason, the mail is not delivered to the virtual mailboxes unless both $virtual_alias_domains and $virtual_alias_maps are left undefined: these directives are apparently for aliasing virtual users "@" virtual

Re: Question about doveadm altmove

2021-03-21 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On Sunday, March 21, 2021 12:16:28 PM AKDT María Arrea wrote: > Hello. > > We are running dovecot 2.3.13. Full doveconf -n output below > > In 2.3.14 Changelog I found this: > > * Remove XZ/LZMA write support. Read support will be removed in future > release. > We are using mdbox + XZ/LZMA

Re: FW: imapsieve rules not matching at all?

2021-03-20 Thread Justina Colmena ~biz
I have not yet enabled imapsieve -- so far I have had fairly good luck avoiding spam simply by using SPF+DKIM+DMARC and enabling basic verification of incoming mail with opendkim and opendmarc. Lately I have been reading some books on "fuzzy logic" and "fuzzy sets" with quite serious

Re: Panic: file mdbox-map.c: line 1494 (mdbox_map_get_uid_validity): assertion failed: (map->view != NULL)

2021-03-11 Thread Justina Colmena ~biz
Is this a new zero-day denial-of-service attack or a new CVE being exploited? Dovecot suddenly started acting really strangely on my system lately. PAM authentication started failing randomly, so I reconfigured for shadow authentication instead, which works now, but messages I have received

Re: How to prevent, or change priority, of dovecot's FAILed relay-submission to relay's IPv6 address, and submit ONLY/first to IPv4?

2021-04-09 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On Friday, April 9, 2021 5:19:20 AM AKDT PGNet Dev wrote: > And it's a bad assumption that since the host is dual-stack that all > services on it will be. That's right. Email stuff that's supposed to work has to be crippled and disabled somehow so that it does not actually work as it is supposed

Re: TLS Security

2021-07-14 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Interesting. Assuming your "Kali" tools are in fact up to date to test with newer protocols TLS1.2+, is Dovecot compiled against a recent version of the OpenSSL or GnuTLS library or whatever it uses to support the newer TLS protocols? Definitely an outdated cipher issue, on Postfix as well as

Re: Disable authentication for submission service

2021-07-28 Thread justina colmena ~biz
I am quite curious about the circumstances of this question. I was not aware that Dovecot actually offered mail submission service. If Dovecot does offer such a service, then it will have to relay the submitted mail to the real MTA, which is very likely not Dovecot. At the moment I have Postfix

Re: Disable authentication for submission service

2021-07-28 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Thank you for the pointers. People say RTFM, as if that's rude, but it's good to know, especially if there is documentation of ongoing development or a "road map" for future work. On July 28, 2021 10:51:50 AM AKDT, Antonio Leding wrote: >Making no assertions\judgements as to the goal or

Re: Design Check

2021-10-27 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Interesting. Have you looked at this? https://serverfault.com/questions/133190/host-wildcard-subdomains-using-postfix [People have too much "flair" and rep points and I can't participate in those stackexchange discussions or ask or answer like I used to.] On October 27, 2021 3:15:01 PM AKDT,

Re: Memory leaks in dovecot

2021-11-04 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Random bit-flipping due to aurora borealis from recent X1 class solar flares. Do expect soft errors, hard errors, some temporary and some permanent damage to computer hardware. On November 4, 2021 6:41:36 AM AKDT, Joan Moreau wrote: > > >Hi > >Anyone can help on those memory leaks since 2.3.17

Re: Sv: 2FA/MFA with IMAP & postfix/submission

2021-07-15 Thread justina colmena ~biz
I think it's only 12 steps. There are people who need to sober up On July 15, 2021 8:54:16 AM AKDT, Sebastian wrote: >The thing is, that people must stop expecting "being able to access >mail whenever you are" without extra steps. > >Best solution is to offer a webmail with TOTP or SQRL or

Re: Is Diffie-Hellman needed?

2022-01-10 Thread justina colmena ~biz
I want better explanations of the maths. If RSA and DSA algorithms based on standard arithmetic exponentiation modulo the product of two large primes are "deprecated" -- that means that there have been or are expected to be major mathematical and algorithmic advances in factoring large

Re: [EXT] AW: AW: AW: invalid lz4 chunk size??

2022-03-16 Thread justina colmena ~biz
What's with the "AW: AW: AW:" business? It sounds for all the world like a guy outbid at the Sotheby's auction or something like that. There's got to be a lot of artwork online with that fancy lz4 compression algorithm. On March 16, 2022 2:32:32 AM AKDT, Joachim Lindenberg wrote: >What might

Re: Unable to connect from macOS mail client

2022-02-19 Thread justina colmena ~biz
So presumably the entire contents of the ssl public and/or private key could be included verbatim in the configuration file without the "<" input pipeline redirection symbol. On February 19, 2022 5:25:15 AM AKST, Bernardo Reino wrote: >On Sat, 19 Feb 2022, necktwi wrote: > >> After adding “<“

Re: Sv: Sv: dovecot mailing list (this mailing list), DKIM, SPF and DMARC

2022-02-12 Thread justina colmena ~biz
The ".top" TLD is popular among Russian spammers, ".ru" is a little too obvious and honest for what it is, unless that's part of Biden's sanctions, the others you mention look like vice domains, but looking at GitHub: * https://github.com/dovecot There's an "Oy" which is a Finnish

RE: Sv: dovecot mailing list (this mailing list), DKIM, SPF and DMARC

2022-02-12 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Google's corporate web page, Alphabet, Inc., is on the ".xyz" top level domain. * https://abc.xyz/ I suppose Sergey Brin is Russian as well, so what have you there? Perhaps you have inadvertently confused ".xyz" with the ".xxx" TLD. The popular grade school acronym for "eXamine Your Zipper" is

Re: Build with MySQL -> libmysqlclient not found

2022-02-26 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On February 26, 2022 9:07:12 AM AKST, John Stoffel wrote: >Dimitri> My Dovecot version: 2.3.18 >Dimitri> My Mariadb version: 10.6.5 >Dimitri> My OS: Ubuntu 20.04 > >Why aren't you just using the Ubuntu 20.04 packaged version instead? That's the beauty of free and open source software. We want

Re: Nasty Bug: Re: Index Corruption Problem with new VM Host - But Only With Replication Enabled

2022-02-20 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Something about this a little bit ominous. There's a new type of "architecture" unrolling with a certain flavor, and it is becoming, by and by, irremediably complex. I'm not really sure where the stopping or turning point is, or perhaps there are other "tools" for memory leak detection and

Re: Password Mismatch when connecting from Email Client

2022-02-04 Thread justina colmena ~biz
That is a test user on a private network. Not publicly accessible at all. Anyways, I have had the best luck on dovecot and postfix with the unix/linux utility "pass" to generate fairly long alphanumeric-only passwords as I have found that any special characters in passwords are ending up

Re: Non-unique Message ID in mail messages

2022-01-28 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On January 27, 2022 6:17:05 AM AKST, "Daniel Ryšlink" wrote: > >RFC 5322 clearly states that mail messages SHOULD contain a Message ID >identifier, but if the do contain it, it MUST be globally unique. > That's nice polite behavior, all right, but the enforcement of it is another matter

Re: silly quesiton [ot]

2022-01-30 Thread justina colmena ~biz
30, 2022 6:30:44 PM AKST, Sam Kuper wrote: >On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 06:17:49PM -0900, justina colmena ~biz wrote: >> On January 30, 2022 5:46:53 PM AKST, dove...@ptld.com wrote: >>> Storing mail in a db... at the end of the day isn't it still just a >>> file (.db file) o

Re: silly quesiton [ot]

2022-01-30 Thread justina colmena ~biz
You'll get better indexing and fast full text search by storing your emails in a database rather than a flat file, hopefully after decoding any attachments. Especially for spam scoring, analysis, and classification. Much better performance deleting or moving specific messages, too. On January

RE: silly quesiton [ot]

2022-01-31 Thread justina colmena ~biz
I see. People make money outsourcing, consulting, and hooking up companies with the best solutions for email, office collaboration, CRM, etc., etc., which is great, but I didn't quite realize that look like a paid offering on the table and this isn't the right list to discuss potential free

Re: Certificate and showing a sign-cert not there

2022-02-08 Thread justina colmena ~biz
In general: Lots of mail servers out in the wild do not require TLS or even bother to verifying TLS certificates when connecting to a remote server on port 25. However, desktop and mobile email *clients* tend to be much stricter about verifying server certificates when connecting via SSL or

RE: Certificate and showing a sign-cert not there

2022-02-08 Thread justina colmena ~biz
iculty is still saying he gets a >self-signed cert… but as I showed in my last email after I added Intermediate >to the certificate, everything was ok. > > > >So ServerCert, Intermediate, Root in same file should solve this? > > > >Wayne > >From: dovecot On Beha

Re: dovecot mailing list (this mailing list), DKIM, SPF and DMARC

2022-02-09 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On February 4, 2022 11:56:53 AM AKST, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > After that I've got several DMARC reports about "spam" from my domain. All > these reports are about my mailing list post. > Interesting. That's exactly how DMARC is supposed to work with reporting enabled. So you've got that

Re: Sv: dovecot mailing list (this mailing list), DKIM, SPF and DMARC

2022-02-09 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, the big providers all use ARC, and have used it for years. But Wikipedia doesn't have much nice to say about it. --> allows a receiving service to validate an email when the email's SPF and DKIM records are rendered invalid by an intermediate server's processing.

Re: Why would dovecot not be answering

2022-01-22 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Good question. This looks like a unix socket set up for dovecot to provide authentication services to postfix and anyways postfix would be listening on TCP port 587 for authenticated mail submission. Normally you do not want to offer any user authentication or login on port 25, but that is all

Re: silly quesiton

2022-01-25 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On January 24, 2022 1:33:46 PM AKST, John Stoffel wrote: >steph> 1) How can I says sendmail to use the same passwd file ( with MD5) than >dovecot ? > >Ah... just saw this. And I don't know how to configure sendmail for >this. I would suggest you look on the sendmail.org site for help.

Re: Is Diffie-Hellman needed?

2022-01-13 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On January 12, 2022 4:22:00 PM AKST, Joseph Tam wrote: > > - perfect forward secrecy: the disclosure of a private > key will not compromise past traffic. This is probably the > more compelling reason. > As to ECC vs. the "old fashioned" RSA paradigm based on the difficulty

RE: disabling namespace in special-userdb on dovecot 2.2

2022-04-21 Thread justina colmena ~biz
I have no idea what that's all about! But my dovecot system keeps bogging down & lot of my emails are disappearing and being eaten alive before I can read them ... On April 20, 2022 4:01:38 AM AKDT, Marc wrote: >> >> Currently I have such special-userdb file >> >>

Re: temporary block incoming messages to specific user

2022-04-20 Thread justina colmena ~biz
So the file "/var/mail/username" is a "system inbox" for the user, typically a flat file that will accept new mail no matter what as long as it isn't too large, which would indicate that the user's mailbox is full. Some of the early text clients, mutt etc. would move any mail in the

Re: [EXT] Re: Dovecot v2.3.19 released

2022-05-11 Thread justina colmena ~biz
So there's an "honest abe" -- with a "dv" attached the name -- and it's time to change the locks on the doors -- because apparently a couple of girls at the bank are working overtime doing loans and repossessions online and something is being served at a local bar or pub and a SWAT team is

Re: [Dovecot-news] CVE-2022-30550: Privilege escalation possible in dovecot when similar master and non-master passdbs are used

2022-07-08 Thread justina colmena ~biz
What? No user serviceable parts inside your car? It's a federal felony to raise the hood for any reason. You've got to see an authorized dealer or a professional mechanic for every little thing on a used car because cars are closed source proprietary and it's illegal to circumvent anything etc.

Re: Is multi factor authentication practical/feasible?

2022-06-27 Thread justina colmena ~biz
I don't see why not. Dovecot and Postfix are entirely configurable to connect to and use any desired authentication mechanism through certain basic interfaces. The main problem I have experienced with MFA is a continual battle with extortion, "long cons," and thievery in law -- that the

Re: Is multi factor authentication practical/feasible?

2022-07-02 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Guns are banned and there's a night guard with a Big Mag flashlight or a billy club walking the beat around the bank, kicking a homeless man who fell asleep on the sidewalk to tell him wake up or your pocket's going be picked clean by morning, because you've got too much money in your name for

Re: Tracing Sieve actions

2022-07-20 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Thank you. I will have to look at "basic configuration" for sieving although I don't want things crashing on production. I get too much mail at a publicly available address -- and while SPF+DKIM+DMARC does cut down on the bulk of obvious spam -- the spam that does get through is a little bit

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread justina colmena ~biz
You still need in some sense one coherent file system to store and retrieve the mail messages. Although a load-balance cluster would still be quite useful for rejecting the bulk of unauthorized connections. I am sure in many cases a small/medium server can in fact sit and function quite

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Nginx is an excellent suggestion for the purpose. However I do not like German client certificates. That is far too much "proof" of identification 18/21++ on a public network with nowhere to hide and those of us who are not German citizens and do not have the advantage of a friendly local

Re: dovecot mailing list (this mailing list), DKIM, SPF and DMARC

2022-10-21 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client http://www.trojita.flaska.net/ I also use http://opendkim.org/ http://www.trusteddomain.org/opendmarc/ as milters on Postfix Active development, I'm sure they could all use some help, or forks for alternatives, I don't know, I'm not involved in

RE: Re[4]: Pigeonhole redirect is adding a message-id header when it already exists

2022-10-01 Thread justina colmena ~biz
These are real people with bank accounts? Get paid? Have money for breakfast lunch dinner and a roof over their heads? Just asking because my own bank account stupidly enough requires a phone number to log in online whether or not I even have an email address. And the POTS (Plain Old Telephone

Re: One-off backup

2022-10-11 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Is that a divorce? Or else a little bit better spelling and respect for the lady is called for? And I don't like criminals serving bogus law papers and hacking into my mail any more than anyone else does. On October 10, 2022 6:57:39 AM AKDT, Ian Evans wrote: >I run a small email server for me

Re: Multidomain ssl config ?

2022-10-15 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Yeah. You get a better spam score and a better rep for your server if the hostname you use as an MX record matches the reverse DNS for its IP address(es) as well and everything is correct as recommended by rfc docs. If there's outgoing mail it's all going to use the same hostname as the "ehlo"

Re: RHEL9 Repository

2022-08-05 Thread justina colmena ~biz
/_!_\ The connection to ghettoforge.org is not secure You are seeing this warning because this site does not support HTTPS. _Learn more_ [Go back] [Continue to site] On August 5, 2022 4:06:46 AM AKDT, Peter wrote: >For those who have been asking, GhettoForge 9 is now released with dovecot23

Re: RHEL9 Repository

2022-08-05 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On August 5, 2022 3:30:57 PM AKDT, Peter wrote: >The main site doesn't currently support https but the repositories do, also >all packages are cryptographically signed and the signing keys are served off >of a secure server. > >The info on the site is public information that doesn't really

Re: convert mdbox to maildir

2022-08-14 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On August 14, 2022 9:46:54 AM AKDT, lutz.niede...@gmx.net wrote: >Yes, you are right. The problems are not of technical nature. >... >We do what the customer wants us to do. And yes, they pay pretty well for >working on weekends. >... I'm sure there are more than enough professional mental

RE: convert mdbox to maildir

2022-08-13 Thread justina colmena ~biz
*My* inbox gets filled with thousands of emails, more or less commercial content and trivial notifications from shopping online, and postfix crashes and will not accept new messages if the file "/var/mail/justina" becomes too large. Configuring postfix to deliver the mail to "~/Maildir" solved

Re: Permissions for dovecot logging

2022-12-30 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On Thursday, December 29, 2022 10:17:08 PM AKST Aki Tuomi wrote: > > On 30/12/2022 05:25 EET James Moe wrote: > > Permission is still denied. > > Where do I find information about "status=80/n/a"? > > > > I did not include all two of the syslog entries in the previous message: > >

Re: replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating 268435496 bytes

2023-01-06 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On Thursday, January 5, 2023 10:53:13 PM AKST Aki Tuomi wrote: > On January 6, 2023 3:56:39 AM GMT+02:00, Gerben Wierda wrote: > >Jan 06 00:50:31 replicator: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when > >allocating 268435496 bytes Jan 06 00:50:32 replicator: Fatal: master: > ... > service replicator

Re: moving messages between namespaces go into purge

2022-11-30 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Mails stored as individual files in a "Maildir/" can conceivably be "moved" within the O/S file system rather than copied, but the default flatfile Mailbox format does require a copy-and-purge, as far as I know. /etc/postfix/main.cf: # DELIVERY TO MAILBOX # # The home_mailbox

Re: sasl service for other app

2022-12-07 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On Wednesday, December 7, 2022 7:53:43 PM AKST, Henry R wrote: can dovecot run as a general sasl service for other apps? such as webdav. Thanks. For some reason I use cyrus-sasl with postfix, but I can't get it to work with dovecot. Ideas? Pointers to docs online?

Re: sasl service for other app

2022-12-08 Thread justina colmena ~biz
, Robert Schetterer wrote: Am 08.12.22 um 06:14 schrieb justina colmena ~biz: On Wednesday, December 7, 2022 7:53:43 PM AKST, Henry R wrote: can dovecot run as a general sasl service for other apps? such as webdav. Thanks. For some reason I use cyrus-sasl with postfix, but I can't get it to work

Re: sasl service for other app

2022-12-08 Thread justina colmena ~biz
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/sql/#password-verification-by-sql-server Perfect. However on Postfix it is more finicky. https://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#auxprop_sql Tip If you must store encrypted passwords, you cannot use the sql auxprop plugin. Instead,

Re: sasl service for other app

2022-12-08 Thread justina colmena ~biz
So this should allow postfix to piggyback on top of whatever dovecot auth is being used. On Thursday, December 8, 2022 4:49:06 AM AKST, Shawn Heisey wrote: On 12/7/22 21:53, Henry R wrote: can dovecot run as a general sasl service for other apps? such as webdav. I am using dovecot to

Re: sasl service for other app

2022-12-12 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Okay. Let's try this. With the snippet you posted from "/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf " inside the "service auth {...}" section. This is from my "/etc/postfix/master.cf" > submission inet n - n - - smtpd > # -o syslog_name=postfix/submission > > -o

Re: moving messages between namespaces go into purge

2022-11-30 Thread justina colmena ~biz
a mail. mdbox format retains deleted messages, even if they result from moving. It's not a queue as such. With mdbox format you are supposed to run purge periodically in any case. I am not sure what justina is again rambling about... Aki On 30/11/2022 19:34 EET justina colmena ~biz wrote

Re: Doveadm Move Query

2022-12-01 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Sounds like a boss at work. An "admin" doing off-beat SQL-like stuff on people's email. I'm a little disconcerted. I don't really use these commands myself or see a good use case for them, or the whole infrastructure built up on "doveadm" commands. These are general purpose mailbox utilities.

Re: Can't figure out why managesieve (pigeonhole) can't connect

2022-11-22 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On Tuesday, November 22, 2022 8:25:19 AM AKST, PGNet Dev wrote: first, confirm that you can connect/authenticate to Dovecot's managesieve server without Roundcube in the picture. e.g., show the output of a successful 'openssl s_client ...' sieve authentication session Subject line says it

Re: How to get a server listed in the IMAP Test wiki?

2023-02-24 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Something I can't quite place finger on here. Altogether too much Mafia, in the bulk email business generally, and I know Switzerland borders on Italy ... This sounds, (albeit vaguely,) altogether too much like the thieves I seem to have fallen amongst lately. Two stolen trucks, three stolen

Re: How to get a server listed in the IMAP Test wiki?

2023-02-24 Thread justina colmena ~biz
On February 24, 2023 10:19:54 AM EST, Timo Sirainen wrote: > If you want, you can post them publicly here in case someone else wants to > verify. Who are you doxxing? What other crimes are you confessing to publicly? -- https://justina.abeja.colmena.biz/