Re: Dovecot passdb and postfix login

2020-05-23 Thread Ivo

It seems to me that you have

passdb {
  args = /etc/dovecot/local_sql_users.conf
  driver = sql
}

but you don't have

userdb {
  args = /etc/dovecot/local_sql_users.conf
  driver = sql
}


Regards,

Ivo.

On 22.5.2020. 19:18, Laura Smith wrote:

Hi,

Long story short I've got a fully functional Dovecot IMAP instance and I am now 
looking to upgrade some perimiter authenticated SMTP relays to authenticate 
against the Dovecot instance.

Trouble is that I am seeing errors such as "auth: Warning: sql: Ignoring changed 
user_query in /etc/dovecot/local_sql_users.conf, because userdb sql not used." in my 
Postfix server logs and not able to successfully authenticate via AUTH LOGIN on the 
Postfi instance.

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious from my config ? Here is the doveconf -n 
from the Postfix server in question:

# 2.3.10.1 (a3d0e1171): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.4
# Hostname: foobar.example.com
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_verbose = yes
auth_verbose_passwords = sha1:7
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
namespace inbox {
   inbox = yes
   location =
   mailbox Drafts {
     special_use = \Drafts
   }
   mailbox Junk {
     special_use = \Junk
   }
   mailbox Sent {
     special_use = \Sent
   }
   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
     special_use = \Sent
   }
   mailbox Trash {
     special_use = \Trash
   }
   prefix =
}
passdb {
   args = /etc/dovecot/local_sql_users.conf
   driver = sql
}
service auth {
   inet_listener {
     address = 127.0.0.1
     port = 7425
   }
   inet_listener {
     address = ::1
     port = 7425
   }
   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix-authrelay/private/dovecot-auth {
     group = postfix
     mode = 0660
     user = postfix
   }
}
ssl = no

The local_sql_users.conf is the same one that's used on the functioning IMAP 
servers, just copied accross to the authenticated relay server:

$ sudo cat /etc/dovecot/local_sql_users.conf
driver = pgsql
connect = host=foo dbname=bar user=secret password=squirrel
default_pass_scheme = ARGON2ID
password_query = select dovecot_username as user,password from get_user('%u')
user_query = select 'vmail' as uid, 'vmail' as gid
iterate_query = select dovecot_username as user from get_users()





Re: Hierarchy separator recommendation?

2020-04-26 Thread Ivo

On 26.4.2020. 12:17, Markus Winkler wrote:


Doesn't it, in the end, all come to translation from IMAP names 
(user,folder) to OS filesystem names within dovecot (at some 
benchmark tests expense) ? :-)


No, as there's a difference between "namespace / hierarchy" (mailbox 
name) and "layout" separators (OS filesystem).


Hi Markus,

I was trying to write wannabe-joke / philosophical / theoretical 
comment. It seems that I failed :-(


What I tried to say is something like this :
If some character is forbidden for usage in file or folder name in your 
OS who stands in your way to "escape it" or use mappings e.g. use 
9ca6aead2310a010cf445099d8c731490329f9af  (result of 
SHA1('Markus.Winkler')) instead of Markus.Winkler if '.' creates a 
problem. You need just one additional file to record mapping info and 
some CPU cycles / IO operations  to do mappings every time you need to 
access it (hence mentioning benchmark tests). Yes, admins would "love" 
that and yes, this comment had no real value for dovecot users. Sorry.


Have a nice day,

Ivo.




Re: Hierarchy separator recommendation?

2020-04-26 Thread Ivo

On 24.04.20 17:56, Admin Beckspaced wrote:
what sort of troubles did you run into with the dot '.' as namespace 
separator?


disadvantages could be:

- shared folders with dots in user names
- if you want to use dots in folder names




What disadvantages are when using '/' as namespace separator?

Why is '.' default (at least in .deb packages) if it is worse then '/' ?

Doesn't it, in the end, all come to translation from IMAP names 
(user,folder) to OS filesystem names within dovecot (at some benchmark 
tests expense) ? :-)




Re: replication_full_sync_interval

2020-04-14 Thread Ivo

On 14.4.2020. 17:35, Aki Tuomi wrote:
Those full syncs are not done precisely on the clock. If there is lots 
of other operations going on, such as higher priority syncs, they get 
done first.

Aki



Good to know. I was afraid that something is not working as it should.
Thanks Aki.

Ivo


Re: got a listener on 993

2020-04-14 Thread Ivo

Maybe this thread can help you with your first question :
https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2014-August/097488.html


On 13.4.2020. 20:52, David Mehler wrote:

Hello,

Before I get in to my question is ssl on 993 or starttls on 143 better
from a security perspective?

I've noticed that I've got a dovecot listener on port 993, below is my
doveconf -n output I don't have an imaps listener uncommented should I
do so and set it's port to 0? Will that disable the 993 listener?
Thanks.
Dave.

# 2.3.10 (0da0eff44): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.10 (bf8ef1c2)
# OS: FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64
# Hostname: hostname.example.com
auth_cache_size = 10 M
auth_default_realm = example.com
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_realms = example.com
dict {
   lastlogin = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-last-login.conf
}
first_valid_gid = 2100
first_valid_uid = 2100
hostname = hostname.example.com
imap_client_workarounds = delay-newhostname tb-extra-hostnamebox-sep
tb-lsub-flags
imap_idle_notify_interval = 1 mins
last_valid_gid = 2100
last_valid_uid = 2100
lda_hostnamebox_autocreate = yes
lda_hostnamebox_autosubscribe = yes
lda_original_recipient_header = X-Original-To
listen = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
lmtp_rcpt_check_quota = yes
log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
hostname_access_groups = vhostname
hostname_fsync = never
hostname_gid = vhostname
hostname_home = /var/vhostname/hostnameboxes/%d/%n
hostname_location = dbox:~/hostname
hostname_plugins = acl fts fts_lucene mail_log notify quota trash
virtual welcome zlib mail_crypt
hostname_privileged_group = vhostname
hostname_server_admin = hostnameto:postmas...@example.com
hostname_uid = vhostname
managesieve_notify_capability = hostnameto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
environment hostnamebox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart
extracttext spamtest spamtestplus virustest editheader imapflags
notify imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve
namespace {
   location = 
sdbox:/var/vhostname/public/:CONTROL=~/hostname/public:INDEX=~/hostname/public
   prefix = Public/
   separator = /
   subscriptions = yes
   type = public
}
namespace {
   hidden = no
   list = yes
   location = 
hostnamedir:/var/vhostname/shared/office/.hostnamedir:CONTROL=~/.hostnamedir/control/office:INDEX=~/.hostnamedir/index/office
   prefix = shared/%%u/
   separator = /
   subscriptions = yes
   type = shared
}
namespace inbox {
   inbox = yes
   location =
   hostnamebox Drafts {
 auto = subscribe
 special_use = \Drafts
   }
   hostnamebox Sent {
 auto = subscribe
 special_use = \Sent
   }
   hostnamebox Spam {
 auto = subscribe
 autoexpunge = 30 days
 special_use = \Junk
   }
   hostnamebox Trash {
 auto = subscribe
 autoexpunge = 30 days
 special_use = \Trash
   }
   prefix =
   separator = /
   type = private
}
passdb {
   args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
   driver = sql
}
plugin {
   acl = vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300
   fts = lucene
   fts_autoindex = yes
   fts_autoindex_exclude = \Junk
   fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Trash
   fts_autoindex_exclude3 = \Spam
   fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 80
   fts_index_timeout = 90
   fts_lucene = whitespace_chars=@. normalize no_snowball
   imapsieve_hostnamebox1_before =
file:/var/vhostname/sieve/global/learn-spam.sieve
   imapsieve_hostnamebox1_causes = COPY
   imapsieve_hostnamebox1_name = Spam
   imapsieve_hostnamebox2_before =
file:/var/vhostname/sieve/global/learn-ham.sieve
   imapsieve_hostnamebox2_causes = COPY
   imapsieve_hostnamebox2_from = Spam
   imapsieve_hostnamebox2_name = *
   last_login_dict = proxy::lastlogin
   last_login_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
   hostname_crypt_curve = prime256v1
   hostname_crypt_global_private_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
   hostname_crypt_global_public_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
   hostname_crypt_save_version = 2
   hostname_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy
hostnamebox_delete hostnamebox_rename
   hostname_log_fields = uid box msgid size
   quota = count:User quota
   quota_exceeded_message = Storage quota for this account has been
exceeded, please try again later.
   quota_grace = 10%%
   quota_rule2 = Trash:ignore
   quota_status_nouser = DUNNO
   quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 hostnamebox is full
   quota_status_success = DUNNO
   quota_vsizes = true
   quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-exceeded 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
   quota_warning5 = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u
   sieve = 
file:/var/vhostname/sieve/%d/%n/scripts;active=/var/vhostname/sieve/%d/%n/active-script.sieve
   sieve_before = /var/vhostname/sieve/global/spam-global.sieve
   sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags 

replication_full_sync_interval

2020-04-13 Thread Ivo

Default value for replication_full_sync_interval is 24 hours.
How is it then possible to get doveadm replicator status results like 
this one


username    priority fast sync full sync success sync failed
someuser    none 24:23:39  24:23:39 24:23:37 -

# doveconf -a | grep replication_full_sync_interval
replication_full_sync_interval = 1 days

# dovecot --version
2.2.33.2 (d6601f4ec)





Re: %d ignored from auth-passwdfile.conf.ext configuration file

2020-04-13 Thread Ivo

Did you try to log in as user "test" or "test@some_domain" ?
Is seems to me that you did not use full username (Error: 
passwd-file(test,).

( %d domain domain part in user@domain, empty if user with no domain )


On 13.4.2020. 11:05, Andrei Petru Mura wrote:
I try to configure dovecot with virtual users. I put my users file in 
folder /etc/dovecot/my_domain_name/users.

My auth-passwdfile.conf.ext file looks like this:
passdb {
  driver = passwd-file
  args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/%d/users
}

When I try to log in, I get this:
dovecot: auth: Error: 
passwd-file(test,some.ip.addr.here,): 
stat(/etc/dovecot//users) failed: No such file or directory


As you can see, %d isn't interpreted. Why is this happening? Any hints?

Thanks,
Mura Andrei




doveadm replicator command

2020-04-09 Thread Ivo
Can someone please explain to me what do commands "doveadm replicator 
add" and "doveadm replicator remove" really do.
According to https://wiki.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Replicator they "Add 
the specified user(s) to the replicator." and

"Remove the specified user from replicator.".
Do they really do that?
Since the default list of users for replication comes from doveadm user 
'*' (https://wiki.dovecot.org/Replication) I tried removing one user 
(e.g. xyz) from replication by using "doveadm replicator remove xyz" and 
it didn't work. Namely, after entering that command the only thing that 
I noticed is that "doveadm replicator status xyz" does not return any 
information. BUT, as soon as one mail arrives for that user "doveadm 
replicator status xyz" displays valid information and mail is replicated.


Thanks in advance for any reply.


# dovecot --version
2.2.33.2 (d6601f4ec)


Re: Re: Warning: Failed to do incremental sync

2020-04-08 Thread Ivo

I am getting a lot of these messages (on the master side of replication)  :
dovecot: doveadm: Error: dsync-remote(userxyz): Warning: Failed to do 
incremental sync for mailbox INBOX, retry with a full sync (Modseq 81589 
no longer in transaction log)


Having "Error" and "Warning" on the same line is confusing, to start with.
If I get it right. it means that very often (incremental) sync fails and 
replication starts again after 5 min  but this time by doing full sync, 
which, I guess, is not good (more resources used).
Since I am doing only one way replication what could be the reason for 
those errors/warnings? Nothing is changing files on the remote side 
besides dsync-server.

Is there anything I can do to "fix" this ?


# dovecot --version
2.2.33.2 (d6601f4ec)



Re: [Dovecot] Using Dovecot-auth to return error code 450 (or other 4xx) to Postfix when user is on vacation

2012-01-17 Thread IVO GELOV (CRM)

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:20:39 +0200, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote:


On 11:59 AM, IVO GELOV (CRM) wrote:


The limitation of 1 message per week for any unique combination of
sender/recipient
does not stop backscatter - because each message can come with a new
forged FROM address,
and from different compromised mail servers.
The spammer does not have control over the body of the auto-replies
(which is something
like I am not at the office, please write to my colleagues), but it still
may cause the victims to take some measures.



All true, but the sender in the sender/recipient combination is the
forged From: that ultimately receives the backscatter and the recipient
is your local user who set the vacation autoresponse. If you only have
one or two local users on vacation at a time, any given backscatter
recipient could receive at most one or two backscatter messages per week
regardless of how many compromised servers the spammer sends from. And
this assumes the spam is initially sent to multiple local users on
vacation and gets past your local spam filtering.

I don't know about you, but I have more significant potential
backscatter sources to worry about.



I see your point and I agree with you this is a minor problem.
Thanks for your time, Mark.

Best wishes,
Ivo Gelov


Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot unable to locate mailbox

2012-01-17 Thread IVO GELOV (CRM)

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:38:44 +0200, Jason X, Maney jsxmo...@gmail.com wrote:


Dear all,

I hope someone can point me in the right direction. here. I have setup my
Dovecot v2.0.13 on Ubuntu 11.10. The logs tells me that the mail location
has failed as follows:

=
Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=userA,
method=PLAIN, rip=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, lip=www.xxx.yyy.zzz, mpid=1360, TLS
Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: user molla:
Initialization failed: mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail
storage autodetection failed with home=/home/userA
Jan 16 14:18:16 myservername dovecot: pop3(userA): Error: Invalid user
settings. Refer to server log for more information.
=

Yet my config also come out strangely as below:

# path given in the mail_location setting.
#   mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
#   mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
#   mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
# explicitly, ie. mail_location does nothing unless you have a namespace
  # mail_location, which is also the default for it.


Hi, Jason.

I will describe my configuration and probably you will find some usefull 
information.
I am using Postfix as MTA and have configured Dovecot to be LDA. I have several 
domains,
so I am using the following folder schema:

/var/mail/vhosts = the root of the mail storage
/var/mail/vhosts/domain_1 = first domain
/var/mail/vhosts/domain_1/user_1 = first mailbox in this domain

/var/mail/vhosts/domain_2 = another domain
/var/mail/vhosts/domain_2/user_1 = first mailbox in the other domain

This is achieved with the following setting in mail.conf:

mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n

But since I do not want to manually go and create the corresponding folders 
each time
I add new user (I manage accounts through a MySQL table), I also use the 
following
setting in lda.conf:

lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes
lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes

Perhaps you only need to add the latter settings in lda.conf and everything 
should run fine.

Best wishes,
IVO GELOV


Re: [Dovecot] Using Dovecot-auth to return error code 450 (or other 4xx) to Postfix when user is on vacation

2012-01-16 Thread IVO GELOV (CRM)

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:36:48 +0200, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote:


IVO GELOV (CRM) wrote:


I still think that my idea with custom error codes is more useful - if the user 
is
on vacation, the message is rejected immediately (no auto-reply is sent) and 
sender
can see (hopefully, because most users just ignore error messages) the reason 
why
the messages was rejected.



A 4xx status will not do this. It should just cause the sending MTA to
keep the message queued and keep retrying. Depending on the sending
MTA's retry and notification policies, the sender may see no error or
delay notification for several days.

If you really want the sender to immediately see a rejection, you have
to use a 5xx status.



Yes, you are right. The error code is the smallest difficulty :)


Re: [Dovecot] Using Dovecot-auth to return error code 450 (or other 4xx) to Postfix when user is on vacation

2012-01-16 Thread IVO GELOV (CRM)

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:50:02 +0200, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote:


On 11:59 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:

On 2012-01-14 12:23 PM, IVO GELOV (CRM) i...@crm.walltopia.com wrote:

I have downloaded the latest version 4.0 - but it seems there is no
way to prevent spammers to use forged email addresses. I decided to
remove the vacation feature from our corporate mail server, because
it actually opens a backdoor (even though only when someone decides
to activate his vacation auto-reply) for spammers and puts a risk on
the company (our server can be blacklisted).


Sorry, I misread your message...

However, (I *think*) there *is* a simple solution to your problem, if I
now understand it correctly...

Simply disallow anyone sending from an email address in your domain from
sending without SASL_AUTHing...



I don't see how this will help. The scenario the OP is concerned about
is spammer@foreign.domain sends a message with forged From: and maybe
envelope sender victim@other.foreign.domain to his user on vacation. The
vacation program sends an autoresponse to the victim.

However, why worry about this minimal backscatter? A good vacation
program will not send more that one autoresponse per long time (a week?)
for a given sender/recipient and won't include the original spam
payload. So, even though a spammer might use this backdoor to cause your
server to send messages to multiple recipients, the messages should not
have spam payloads and shouldn't be sent more that once to a given end
recipient.



The limitation of 1 message per week for any unique combination of 
sender/recipient
does not stop backscatter - because each message can come with a new forged 
FROM address,
and from different compromised mail servers.
The spammer does not have control over the body of the auto-replies (which is 
something
like I am not at the office, please write to my colleagues), but it still
may cause the victims to take some measures.


Re: [Dovecot] Using Dovecot-auth to return error code 450 (or other 4xx) to Postfix when user is on vacation

2012-01-16 Thread IVO GELOV (CRM)

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:33:24 +0200, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com 
wrote:


On 2012-01-14 12:23 PM, IVO GELOV (CRM) i...@crm.walltopia.com wrote:

I have downloaded the latest version 4.0 - but it seems there is no
way to prevent spammers to use forged email addresses. I decided to
remove the vacation feature from our corporate mail server, because
it actually opens a backdoor (even though only when someone decides
to activate his vacation auto-reply) for spammers and puts a risk on
the company (our server can be blacklisted).


Sorry, I misread your message...

However, (I *think*) there *is* a simple solution to your problem, if I
now understand it correctly...

Simply disallow anyone sending from an email address in your domain from
sending without SASL_AUTHing...

The way I do this is:

in main.cf (I put all of my restrictions in
smtpd_recipient_restrictions) add:

check_sender_access ${hash}/nospoof,

somewhere after reject_unauth_destination *but before any RBL checks)

where nospoof contains:

# Prevent spoofing from domains that we own
allowed_addre...@example.com OK
allowed_addre...@example.com OK
example.com  REJECT You must use sasl_auth to send from one of our
example.com email addresses...

and of course be sure to postmap the nospoof database after making any
changes...



These are the restrictions I apply (or had been applying for some time). 
Anyway, for now I simply disabled the vacation plugin.

smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, check_client_access 
mysql:/etc/postfix/sender_ip, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unknown_client
#reject_rhsbl_client blackhole.securitysage.com, reject_rbl_client 
opm.blitzed.org,
#smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, 
check_client_access mysql:/etc/postfix/client_sql, reject_rbl_client 
sbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org,reject_rbl_client 
cbl.abuseat.org, reject_rbl_client dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net, reject_rbl_client 
dnsbl.ahbl.org, permit
#smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, 
check_client_access mysql:/etc/postfix/client_ok, reject_rbl_client 
sbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org,reject_rbl_client 
cbl.abuseat.org, reject_rbl_client dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net, reject_rbl_client 
dnsbl.ahbl.org, reject_unknown_client
###, check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:10040, reject_rbl_client 
sbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client cbl.abuseat.org, reject_rbl_client 
dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net, reject_rbl_client dnsbl.ahbl.org
#,reject_rbl_client opm.blitzed.org,  reject_rbl_client relays.ordb.org, 
reject_rbl_client dun.dnsrbl.net

#REJECT_NON_FQDN_HOSTNAME - proverka dali HELO e pylno Domain ime (sus suffix)
#smtpd_helo_restrictions =  check_helo_access hash:/etc/postfix/helo_access, 
reject_invalid_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_hostname
smtpd_helo_restrictions =  reject_invalid_hostname

smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, 
reject_rhsbl_sender rhsbl.ahbl.org, reject_rhsbl_sender rhsbl.sorbs.net, 
reject_rhsbl_sender multi.surbl.org
#reject_rhsbl_sender blackhole.securitysage.com, reject_rhsbl_sender 
opm.blitzed.org,
#smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, 
check_sender_access mysql:/etc/postfix/sender_sql, reject_non_fqdn_sender, 
reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_rhsbl_sender rhsbl.ahbl.org, 
reject_rhsbl_sender block.rhs.mailpolice.com, reject_rhsbl_sender 
rhsbl.sorbs.net, reject_rhsbl_sender multi.surbl.org, reject_rhsbl_sender 
dsn.rfc-ignorant.org, permit
#, reject_rhsbl_sender dsn.rfc-ignorant.org, reject_rhsbl_sender 
relays.ordb.org, reject_rhsbl_sender dun.dnsrbl.net

#smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, 
reject_unauth_destination, reject_unauth_pipelining, check_recipient_access 
regexp:/etc/postfix/dspam_incoming
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, 
reject_unauth_destination, reject_unauth_pipelining
smtpd_data_restrictions =  reject_unauth_pipelining


Re: [Dovecot] Using Dovecot-auth to return error code 450 (or other 4xx) to Postfix when user is on vacation

2012-01-14 Thread IVO GELOV (CRM)

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:03:36 +0200, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com 
wrote:


On 2012-01-13 12:11 PM, IVO GELOV (CRM) i...@crm.walltopia.com wrote:

I am aware of the various autoresponder scripts for vacation autoreplies
(I am using Virtual Vacation 3.1 by Mischa Peters).
I have an issue with auto-replies - it is vulnerable to spamming with
forged email address.


I think you are using an extremely old/outdated version...

The latest version would not suffer this problem, because it has a lot
of message types that it will *not* respond to, including messages
appearing to be from yourself...

Get the latest version fro the postfixadmin package.

However, I don't know how to use it without also using postfixadmin (it
creates databases for storing the vacation message, etc)...



I have downloaded the latest version 4.0 - but it seems there is no way to 
prevent
spammers to use forged email addresses. I decided to remove the vacation feature
from our corporate mail server, because it actually opens a backdoor (even 
though
only when someone decides to activate his vacation auto-reply) for spammers and
puts a risk on the company (our server can be blacklisted).

I still think that my idea with custom error codes is more useful - if the user 
is
on vacation, the message is rejected immediately (no auto-reply is sent) and 
sender
can see (hopefully, because most users just ignore error messages) the reason 
why
the messages was rejected.

Probably Dovecot-auth does not offer such flexibility right now - but it worths
considering.


[Dovecot] Using Dovecot-auth to return error code 450 (or other 4xx) to Postfix when user is on vacation

2012-01-13 Thread IVO GELOV (CRM)

Hello to all members.

I am using Dovecot for 5 years, but this is my first post here.
I am aware of the various autoresponder scripts for vacation autoreplies (I am 
using Virtual Vacation 3.1 by Mischa Peters).
I have an issue with auto-replies - it is vulnerable to spamming with forged 
email address.
Forging can be prevented with several Postfix settings, which I did in the past 
- but was forced to remove, because
our company occasionaly has clients with improper configurations and those 
settings prevent us to receive their legitimate mail
(and this of course is not good for the business).
So I have though about another idea. Since I use Dovecot-auth to verify mailbox 
existence - I just wonder is it
possible to somehow indicate specific error code (and hopefully descriptive 
text also) to Postfix (e.g. 450 or some other
temporary failure) when the owner of the mailbox is currently on vacation ?

Best wishes,
IVO GELOV