On 3/4/2015 12:45 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
There is. But I already have a firewall, running on bulletproof
hardware that doesn't depend on spinning disks. I don't want to add
ANOTHER firewall when I already have a perfectly good one. Besides, my
mail server is built for...serving mail. Not
On 12/30/2014 6:49 PM, Leon Kyneur wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to migrate a large number of users to a new Dovecot
cluster. The existing mail system allows a user to authenticate with a
bare username if they have connected to the correct local IP on the
server.
e.g.
imap.somedomain.com = 1.1.1.1
imap
On 10/14/2014 1:28 AM, Jorge Bastos wrote:
Also the [Dovecot] on the subject would be handy.
The list used to do this. I agree with you, and the matter was debated,
but the list is not a democracy and Timo, as the owner, changed the list
unilaterally.
The problem is that changing the subj
On 6/11/2014 1:51 AM, Frerich Raabe wrote:
> On 2014-06-10 17:23, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
>> op 10-06-14 17:12, Reindl Harald schreef:
>>> than you have crap software somewhere on your side
>>
>> What did I do to get such reply ?
>
> Don't bother paying too much attention, Harald has been quite the
On 6/9/2014 7:26 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> The main reason is DKIM, which is starting to be a real problem.
I have not used DKIM much. My mail server and client mostly deal with
SPF. I have a filter that colorizes messages that have no SPF or a
missing DKIM or bad DKIM signature. I *have* not
On 5/5/2014 3:30 PM, Benjamin Podszun wrote:
> On Monday, May 5, 2014 11:49:52 PM CEST, SIW wrote:
>> I'm beginning to wonder if I am going about this all wrong :-)
>
> No offense: I'm thinking the same thing. ;-)
>
>> Would it not be easier/better to leave all IMAP/SMTP access in place
>> (for a
On 5/5/2014 1:05 PM, SIW wrote:
> Thats a good point.
>
> If I block IMAP/SMTP access to ONE user does that mean that particular
> user can't use Roundcube anymore?
That is correct. If you block IMAP, then webmail will not work.
Webmail clients are just IMAP proxies. If the roundcube you want
> Sorry just seen my typo I meant ports 143 and 993.
Irrelevant. Take a step back and think about it logically. The error
messages did not say that you could not connect to these ports. In
fact, it seems you can, so clearly, this is not your problem.
A "netstat -nat" will show if something is
On 11/19/2013 8:48 PM, Костырев Александр Алексеевич wrote:
> Good day to all!
>
> We would like to authenticate our ejabberd against Dovecot with perl
>
> there's such a script
> http://www.ejabberd.im/files/contributions/check_dovecot.pl.txt
>
> that script uses following perl library -
> h
On 8/29/2013 2:17 PM, Bill Oliver wrote:
>
> Help!
>
> The user is "newuser" and the uid is (actual name and
> number changed to protect the innocent).
Since you gave a fake UID, and no GID it is hard to tell. When posting,
you can change the username, but leave the UID as is. If that num
On 8/1/2013 8:41 PM, pvsuja wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am also facing the same problem. When dovecot is accessed through a web
> mail, the rip is logged as 127.0.0.1 (localhost).
>
> /Aug 1 16:28:04 mailspace dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (auth failed,
> 1 attempts in 2 secs): user=, method=PLAI
On 7/14/2013 9:03 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> Thinking I'd like to have a bit of security, I followed the example for
> dovecot from allgoodthings.org
>
> Guessing between the lines I made a few substitutions to localize it for
> me, but when I run the line to dump the configs, the ou
On 7/11/2013 11:47 AM, Peter von Nostrand wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running a new dovecot 2.0.9 under Centos 6.4. I'm having an issue with
> SSL certificate not being accepted by the email client.
> I have my own CA and I have generated certificates for web usage without a
> problem.
>
> For imaps and po
On 7/3/2013 2:30 PM, Joseph Tam wrote:
> Brute force attempts are more intense, so I think these rules can be
> set harder to not risk plunking your users into blacklist hell. Also,
> some common role account (that don't exist on my system e.g. "admin")
> will trigger an immediate blacklist here
On 7/3/2013 12:35 AM, John Fawcett wrote:
> The point is to stop spambot connections to pop and
> imap (which are usually done to try and steal
> credentials).
This is not the usual way spambots work. Generally, spambots scrape
addresses from various sources in order to get lists of emails to se
On 7/2/2013 7:11 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 7/2/2013 8:32 PM, Professa Dementia wrote:
>> On 7/2/2013 6:21 PM, John Fawcett wrote:
>>> dnsbl's are a popular method to prevent listed ips from making
>>> connections to mta software.
>>>
>>> cf.
On 7/2/2013 6:21 PM, John Fawcett wrote:
> dnsbl's are a popular method to prevent listed ips from making
> connections to mta software.
>
> cf. postscreen_dnsbl_sites in postfix
>
> Would it be possible to introduce such a feature in dovecot, so that
> connections can be denied
> based on a dnsb
On 5/22/2013 7:44 AM, Frank Röhm wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have on Ubuntu 12.04 a postfix 2.9.3-2 mailserver with dovecot 2.0.19
>
> I get email from my pc (thunderbird), my smartphone (k9mail) and my
> MacBook (Apple Mail 4.6 - 1085 on Mac OS 10.6.8) all with IMAP and SSL.
>
> All is working normall
On 5/12/2013 6:18 AM, Gedalya wrote:
> On 05/12/2013 08:40 AM, Professa Dementia wrote:
>> Avoid using a self signed certificate. Get a properly signed
>> certificate for your server. CheapSSLS.com has them for less than $10.
> Look also at https://www.startssl.com/
>
S
On 5/12/2013 4:17 AM, Steinar Bang wrote:
> I prefer not to use clear text passwords, even over an encrypted
> connection.
Why? Enforce the encrypted link by not allowing unencrypted
connections. The simplest is iptables to block ports 110 and 143, while
allowing 993 and 995.
As long as the und
On 5/10/2013 6:17 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:
> But I believe fail2ban uses iptables, and I don't run a local firewall
> on the server. I'd prefer not to use a separate server to inject
> firewall rules on the border firewall. I might be wrong about fail2ban,
> though.
>
> I was hoping there was a
On 5/5/2013 11:20 AM, Oscar del Rio wrote:
On 03/05/2013 12:14 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
GMail doesn't delete mails when POP3 client issues a DELE command for
it. Instead they just become invisible for future POP3 sessions, but
they still exist for IMAP/webmail. The same could be implemented
pret
On 5/3/2013 7:38 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
Incidentally, the last time I read the pop3 RFC, admittedly some decade
or so ago (and yeah it's likely been updated since?) I can not recall
there ever being a "MUST" or "SHOULD" when it comes to deleting
messages (it might have been deliberately omitte
On 5/3/2013 3:44 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 4.5.2013, at 1.27, Kelsey Cummings wrote:
On 2013-05-03 09:14, Timo Sirainen wrote:
GMail doesn't delete mails when POP3 client issues a DELE command for
it. Instead they just become invisible for future POP3 sessions, but
they still exist for IMAP
On 5/3/2013 11:36 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 3.5.2013, at 19.55, Robert Schetterer wrote:
Am 03.05.2013 18:14, schrieb Timo Sirainen:
GMail doesn't delete mails when POP3 client issues a DELE command for it.
Instead they just become invisible for future POP3 sessions, but they still
exist
If you start/stop dovecot with an initscript or some other related
system, you can do what SuSE does, since this problem occurs in lots of
situations, not just dovecot.
Since you know where all the config files are, you could either have the
initscript set up a directory with symlinks, as Timo
Turn on the following directives:
auth_verbose = yes
auth_debug_passwords = yes
Restart, then reconnect with your mail client. You should have much
better logging to determine the source of the problem.
Dem
On 4/13/2013 7:10 PM, David Murphy wrote:
Hi folks. I've recently set up a Postfix 2.9.6/Dovecot 2.0.19 IMAPS/SMTPS setup
on Ubuntu 12.04.2 (Mysql backend). I'm new to all this, so I apologize if this
is fairly basic. I've attempted to the best of my ability to search for an
answer, but no luc
On 4/13/2013 7:10 PM, David Murphy wrote:
Hi folks. I've recently set up a Postfix 2.9.6/Dovecot 2.0.19 IMAPS/SMTPS setup
on Ubuntu 12.04.2 (Mysql backend). I'm new to all this, so I apologize if this
is fairly basic. I've attempted to the best of my ability to search for an
answer, but no luc
On 4/6/2013 2:13 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:
if it is some ISP from a country far away -> block it
if it is the fivth attempt from this ISP -> block the whole subnet
if it is a major ISP of the country i live (asutria) -> only absue
mail to the ISP
I under
On 4/5/2013 11:36 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote:
I have just come to the realization that password encryption using the
crypt function in linux, ONLY USES THE FIRST 8 CHARS. I have written
routines using crypt allowing 16+ chars, and find that anything past 8
is ignored. Wow.
Is there a way around this
On 3/17/2013 3:10 PM, David Benfell wrote:
I don't know if the "[original poster] is fully familiar with the open
source model" or not, but I would save the rest of this response as a
gem. The formulaic response, which I have seen again and again in the
over ten years I've been working with ope
On 3/17/2013 3:20 AM, Daniel Reinhardt wrote:
I really find the lack of error logging, and the virtual lack of
documentation for Dovecot very disturbing. I am so close to dropping this
side project of being able to support multiple domains on a mail server.
It is in my utmost respectful opinio
I just verified that TB (17.0.4) won't do STARTTLS on TCP 143 without
first accepting the self signed cert.
I'm really hoping someone can help me to clarify more specifically
what's going on here.
You've already clarified it. You simply can't do account auto
configuration with a self signed
On 3/11/2013 12:20 PM, Thomas Pries wrote:
Hi,
I want to write some php code that users can change there dovecot
password via a roundcube plugin. I'm using php function crypt(...) to
generate the hashes and everything works well so far.
I'm using doveadm pw to generate testhashes e.g.:
srv:~
On 3/8/2013 1:04 AM, pvsuja wrote:
Yes, I know that.
When I am telnetting to my ImapcProxy over 143, the capabilities are listed
.. STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN .
I need the AUTH capability to be enabled only after STARTTLS
I have done this in Postfix.
Is there a way to do it in Dove
On 3/6/2013 12:15 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:
Hi,
currently I have one new user with a problem. When she logs in to
dovecot with pop3 from her apple mail, dovecot tells problems with the
+w permission.
Error: open(/var/mail/**) failed: Permission denied
(euid=3462(**) egid
On 3/5/2013 3:06 PM, Daniel Parthey wrote:
We're using a single file too, since this can be easily managed by
a configuration management system and avoids unexpected changes.
Split files might get accidentally updated or added on package
updates and change the behaviour of your whole mail syste
On 3/5/2013 7:34 AM, Simon Brereton wrote:
What's the recommended approach then? Pack it all into dovecot.conf
as it was before, or use the split config files under conf.d/ - is
this even a choice?
Split configs are nicer and easier to work with and I am all for nicer
and easier.
Dem
On 3/5/2013 6:30 AM, Simon Brereton wrote:
I'd prefer to have a semi-decent config to work from without having to
research 100 new variable names and values. The migration tool exists for
a reason.
I just went through the same thing - converting from 1.2.10 to 2.1.15.
Trust me, you are bet
On 2/28/2013 4:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 01.03.2013 01:02, schrieb Jerry:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:26:43 +
Ed W articulated:
I believe the high profile user of polarssl is the Dutch government
who have approved OpenVPN + PolarSSL for use. (The point being that
openssl is just too huge
On 2/28/2013 12:40 PM, Bradley Rintoul wrote:
Hello:
I've been tasked with trying to find a way to keep users from ever "permanently"
deleting emails. The users are running Thunderbird and are using the "Archive"
option for when emails are deleted. However, they are still able to delete
emails
On 2/28/2013 12:50 PM, peter lawrie wrote:
Hi
I have been asked to configure an dedicated rhel6 server for a customer.
I did not realise when I took this on how complicated it was going to be!
The purpose of the server is to host a group of websites for small
businesses.
It came with postfix-2.6.
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