On Tue, April 21, 2020 11:50 am, John Stoffel wrote: >>>>>> "Dave" == Dave <d...@techhosts.com> writes: > > Dave> On Thu, April 16, 2020 2:33 pm, John Stoffel wrote: >>> Makes sense. I'm not a dovecot expert, but in terms of RHEL, have you >>> checkd that the yum update didn't change file permissions, or enable >>> selinux or do something like that? > > Dave> old (before upgrade) dir was like this (from backup): > > I think your dovecot config has changed in some manner. Can you share > the output of 'dovecot -n' please?
'dovecot -n' was how I opened this thread, as it was recommended to start out providing as much info as possible. Please read the 1st message you originally replied to > Dave> drwx------ 2 dave dave 245760 Mar 10 16:56 cur > Dave> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 48744 Mar 9 14:48 dovecot.index > Dave> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 1920452 Mar 2 06:49 dovecot.index.cache > Dave> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 1808 Mar 10 17:01 dovecot.index.log > Dave> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 32792 Mar 9 14:48 dovecot.index.log.2 > Dave> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 450 Sep 15 2017 dovecot.index.thread > Dave> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 3192 Aug 26 2019 dovecot.mailbox.log > Dave> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 206829 Mar 10 16:56 dovecot-uidlist > Dave> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 8 May 7 2019 dovecot-uidvalidity > Dave> -r--r--r-- 1 dave dave 0 Nov 14 2016 > dovecot-uidvalidity.582a69fb > Dave> -r--r--r-- 1 dave dave 0 Nov 14 2016 > dovecot-uidvalidity.582a6a01 > Dave> drwxrwxr-x 5 dave dave 167 Aug 28 2019 .DRAFTS > Dave> drwxrwxr-x 33 dave dave 4096 Mar 2 2019 .INBOX > Dave> drwx------ 2 dave dave 4096 Mar 10 16:56 new > Dave> drwxrwxr-x 5 dave dave 192 Dec 21 14:33 .SENT > Dave> drwxrwxr-x 5 dave dave 192 Feb 12 16:04 .SPAM > Dave> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 728 Aug 26 2019 subscriptions > Dave> drwx------ 2 dave dave 10 Mar 10 18:17 tmp > Dave> drwxrwxr-x 14 dave dave 320 Sep 11 2019 .TRASH > > Dave> new dir is now like so (maybe this gives some clues to someone, > Dave> altho I assume the dovecot guys would understand the changes > Dave> that have been made - I tried to dig thru changelogs to some > Dave> level): > > I suspect it's a config change that was put in place by the RHEL > upgrade, which is why you need to provide the 'dovecot -n' output. > > Dave> drwx------. 2 dave dave 221184 Apr 17 02:28 cur > Dave> -rw-rw-r--. 1 dave dave 80008 Apr 16 13:33 dovecot.index > Dave> -rw-rw-r--. 1 dave dave 2113444 Apr 16 13:30 dovecot.index.cache > Dave> -rw-rw-r--. 1 dave dave 29992 Apr 17 02:34 dovecot.index.log > Dave> -rw-rw-r--. 1 dave dave 450 Sep 15 2017 dovecot.index.thread > Dave> -rw-rw-r--. 1 dave dave 3192 Aug 26 2019 dovecot.mailbox.log > Dave> -rw-rw-r--. 1 dave dave 227210 Apr 17 02:28 dovecot-uidlist > Dave> -rw-rw-r--. 1 dave dave 8 Mar 28 09:31 dovecot-uidvalidity > Dave> -r--r--r--. 1 dave dave 0 Nov 14 2016 > dovecot-uidvalidity.582a6a04 > Dave> drwxrwxr-x. 5 dave dave 4096 Mar 28 09:31 DRAFTS > Dave> drwxrwxr-x. 5 dave dave 4096 Aug 28 2019 .DRAFTS > Dave> drwxrwxr-x. 32 dave dave 4096 Mar 2 2019 .INBOX > Dave> drwx------. 2 dave dave 4096 Apr 20 18:13 new > Dave> drwxrwxr-x. 5 dave dave 4096 Mar 28 09:31 SENT > Dave> drwxrwxr-x. 5 dave dave 4096 Apr 15 19:21 .SENT > Dave> drwxrwxr-x. 5 dave dave 4096 Mar 17 13:22 .SPAM > Dave> -rw-rw-r--. 1 dave dave 728 Aug 26 2019 subscriptions > Dave> drwx------. 2 dave dave 6 Apr 20 18:13 tmp > Dave> drwxrwxr-x. 5 dave dave 4096 Mar 28 09:31 TRASH > Dave> drwxrwxr-x. 14 dave dave 4096 Sep 11 2019 .TRASH > > Dave> no config changes were done, just binary updates.. I compared > configs > Dave> against the backup to check > > How did you compare them? copied the configs from the backup to a tmp dir and ran diff >>> Can you see the mail using none IMAP based tools? What do the dovecot >>> and postfix logs show? And what about squirrelmail? Check all your >>> logs for permissions issues. > > Dave> I put the old subscriptions file back and do (pure dovecot at this > point): > > Dave> [dave@vm1 ~]$ doveadm mailbox list > Dave> SENT > Dave> TRASH > Dave> DRAFTS > Dave> SPAM > Dave> INBOX > > Dave> (SPAM was an old folder I had created many years back, other than > it, > Dave> everything had been created as folders under INBOX) > > Dave> subscriptions (snippet) > > Dave> SENT > Dave> TRASH > Dave> DRAFTS > Dave> INBOX/Facebook > Dave> SPAM > Dave> INBOX/Amazon > Dave> INBOX/Linkedin > Dave> INBOX/bills > Dave> INBOX/ADT > Dave> INBOX/food > Dave> INBOX/money > Dave> INBOX/art > Dave> INBOX/pets > Dave> ........ > >>> doveadm log errors > > Dave> alot of errs related to the previous folders that used to work > > Dave> Apr 07 15:21:43 Warning: imap(dave): Subscriptions file > Dave> /home/davej/Maildir/subscriptions: Removing invalid entry: > INBOX/property > Dave> Apr 15 14:55:39 Warning: imap(dave): Subscriptions file > Dave> /home/dave/Maildir/subscriptions: Removing invalid entry: > INBOX/Facebook > > This smells funky, are there any *other* errors or warnings in the log > file other than these types of messages? did not find anything else, one reason this is such a mystery.. I was hoping by posting here, the dovecot folks/developers would have a clue, since they'd be more intimate with the changes that could have affected this situation > John Regards, -Dave
