Re: Can't seem to setup remote access to doveadmI'm using

[Aki Tuomi]

You could instead use Dovecot's HTTP API. See https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/doveadm_http_api/

 

Aki

On 18/03/2023 16:13 EET Paul Kudla <p...@scom.ca> wrote:

 

 

ok there might be other ways to do this but here is what i did for my

django project

 

I had to create a listener in python

 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE CAREFUL !

 

This script is designed to work on a closed network and is still rough

around the edges but does work

 

needs to be run as root in the background to access the doveadm.

 

If you intend to access from outside then you need to secure it by

static ip, username/password etc ???

 

The client side code sends an email to notify you when the script is

accessed?

 

Can help if you get stuck.

 

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# cat /sbin/scripts/dovecot.listen

#!/usr/local/bin/python2

 

import os,sys

import socket

import commands

import time

 

from lib import *

 

a = onlyone ('dovecot.listen')

if a.status == 'BAD' :

print 'Another Process Is running ....'

sys.exit()

 

TCP_IP = '10.220.0.18'

TCP_PORT = 8444

BUFFER_SIZE = 1024 # Normally 1024, but we want fast response

 

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

s.bind((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT))

s.listen(1)

 

while 1 : #Process received data?

conn, addr = s.accept() #Wait for data

print 'Connection address:', addr

data = ""

if not data: break

print "received data:", data

data = "" (' ')

command = data[0]

print command

 

#If CM (Create Mailbox)

if command == 'CM' :

username = data[1]

print 'Creating Email Account : %s' % (username)

#Now create the mail box

#Now go make the email account

message = ''

for n in range (0,100) :

command1 =

commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox create -s -u %s

INBOX' %str(username))

print 'Command1 : %s' %command1

if 'Mailbox already exists' in command1 :

message = 'BAD'

conn.send( str(message) )

break

 

else :

if message == '' :

message = 'OK'

conn.send(message)

message = 'SENT'

 

if "User doesn't exist" in command1 :

time.sleep(2)

continue

else :

print 'Command1 : %s' %command1

message = 'SENT'

break

 

if message == 'SENT' : #Create the rest

command2 =

commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox create -s -u %s Sent'

%str(username))

print 'Command2 : %s' %command2

command3 =

commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox create -s -u %s

Trash' %str(username))

print 'Command3 : %s' %command3

command4 =

commands.getoutput('/usr/local/bin/doveadm mailbox create -s -u %s

Drafts' %str(username))

print 'Command4 : %s' %command4

 

 

 

 

if command == 'INFO' :

username = data[1]

print 'Getting Email Account Info : %s' % ( username )

command1 = commands.getoutput("/usr/local/bin/doveadm

mailbox status -t all -u %s '*' " %str(username))

if 'Error' in command1 :

message = 'BAD'

else :

message = 'OK : ' + command1

 

print message

conn.send( str(message) ) # echo

 

 

if command == 'DM' :

data = ""

data = ""

print 'Deleting Email Account : user/%s@%s' % (

str(data[0]), str(data[1]) )

 

message = 'BAD'

 

conn.send(message) # echo

print message

 

 

 

conn.close()

s.close()

 

 

 

 

#Go Back Around

 

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and then in django / or outside ? :

 

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#Try to get info for this account

if dontupdate == False :

 

imap_test = Dovecot_Command ('INFO',self.username) #do i have

this account ?

 

if 'BAD' in imap_test.answer :

try : #Try to Create the account, note that the db must be

updated properly before it will work

imap_create = Dovecot_Command ('CM',self.username)

if 'OK' in imap_create.answer :

send_subject = 'Email Account Created : %s'

%(str(self.username) )

 

except :

send_subject = 'Error Account : %s' %(str(self.username) )

pass

 

else :

send_subject = 'Email Account Updated : %s' %(self.username)

 

#Send update email

 

send_from = 'moni...@scom.ca'

send_files = []

send_to = ['moni...@scom.ca']

send_text = '\n\n'+ send_subject + '\n'

sendmail(send_from,send_to,send_subject,send_text,send_files)

#Send the warning email

 

 

 

 

if send_settings != '' : #Send Email Setup to this address

servername = 'mail.%s' %domain

 

send_from = 'i...@scom.ca'

send_files = []

send_to = ['%s' %send_settings,]

 

send_subject = 'Email Setup Instructions for : %s %s'

%(emailaddress,send_settings)

 

#Assemblt the sxend text with the info

 

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Happy Saturday !!!

Thanks - paul

 

Paul Kudla

 

 

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004-1009 Byron Street South

Whitby, Ontario - Canada

L1N 4S3

 

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Main 1.866.411.7266

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Email p...@scom.ca

 

On 3/17/2023 10:22 PM, dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org wrote:

I’m running version 2.1.7 under Raspbian Wheezy (and have been for a number of years). I want to allow one of my other computers to remotely issue doveadm commands to my server but can’t seem to find the right way to add an inet listener to permit this.

 

Using ‘doveconf -a’ I’ve found the default service definition for doveadm-server. So I copied that and added it to the dovecot configuration with an inet listener section added to it. But that was rejected as a duplicate service definition when I restarted dovecot. I then tried specifying a “host:port” value for the doveadm_socket_path value but that didn’t work as no listening socket at that port appeared when I restarted dovecot.

 

I can’t seem to find in any of the dovecot documentation a way to do this and there seems to be nothing like a “Here’s how to setup doveadm remote access” section in the documentation (which would be most helpful).

 

How can I get doveadm-server to listen not only locally (as it’s already doing) but also open an inet port for remote access?