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Olaf Marzocchi

2015-Sep-19 14:17 UTC

Maildir: ACLs/Unix perms and unable to see content of specific mailbox

Dear Dovecot users, hello.
I will merge two issues I have into a single email because they may be 
related.

I used dovecot on a OmniOS server since 2014 (currently OmniOS r151014) 
with the following configuration (it shows 2.2.18 because I recently 
updated dovecot, skipping only the PostgreSQL plugin):

# 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc  zfs
mail_location = maildir:/tank/home/%u/Maildir
mail_privileged_group = mail
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 {
   driver = pam
}
protocols = imap
ssl = required
ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
   driver = passwd
}

You can see that I set the Maildir folder inside the shared home folders 
of my server (it is only one user, anyway).
It always worked perfectly, but one-two months ago I changed the 
permissions of my whole home folder, recursively, to add proper ACLs. I 
needed them because the clients started using illumos kernel SMB 
(relying on ACLs) instead of Netatalk/AFP (relying on Unix perms only).
I didn't realise I applied the ACLs also to the Maildir folder.

Dovecot worked for several weeks fine, I noticed the issue only 
yesterday when a mailbox (see below) appeared in Thunderbird completely 
empty even if the "cur" subfolder on the server still contains all the
mails.

Dovecot was throwing some errors like:

dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error: 
rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.&A6k- Mailing 
Lists.Log/dovecot.index.cache) failed: Permission denied (euid=501(olaf) 
egid=501(olaf) UNIX perms appear ok (ACL/MAC wrong?))
dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error: 
rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.&A6k- Mailing 
Lists.Log/dovecot.index.tmp, /tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.&A6k- Mailing 
Lists.Log/dovecot.index) failed: Permission denied
dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error: 
unlink(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions.lock) failed: Permission denied
dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error: 
rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions.lock, 
/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions) failed: Permission denied

I will post here the current permissions of the folder containing 
Maildir, of the Maildir itself, of its contents, and of the folder that 
appears empty when browsed with a client (Thunderbird).

/tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV ..
drwx------+ 16 olaf     olaf          17 Sep 19 01:52 olaf
               user:olaf:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
        group:2147483648:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
               everyone@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:deny

/tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV
drwxrwx--- 348 olaf     olaf         359 Sep 19 01:51 Maildir
                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow

/tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV Maildir/
drwxrwx---   2 olaf     olaf           2 Jan 30  2014 cur
                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
-rwxrwx---   1 olaf     olaf          21 Jan 30  2014 dovecot-keywords
                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
(ALL THE SAME PERMISSIONS FOR THE OTHER FILES EXCEPT...)
-rwxrwx---   1 olaf     olaf       13735 Jan 24  2015 subscriptions
                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
-rw-rw----   1 olaf     olaf       13709 Sep 19 01:51 subscriptions.lock
                  owner@:rw-p--aARWcCos:-------:allow
                  group@:rw-p--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow

The folder that appears empty:

/tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV Maildir/.Generiche/
total 513
drwxrwx---   2 olaf     olaf         949 Sep 18 01:42 cur
                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
-rwxrwx---   1 olaf     olaf          46 May 18  2014 dovecot-keywords
                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
(ALL THE SAME PERMISSIONS FOR THE OTHER FILES)


I really hope you will have the time to help me because I already 
applied the permissions recursively and I removed the ACLs, almost as it 
was before my mistake.
I specified "almost" because originally (I checked the backups) the 
Maildir folder had an ACL that gave access permissions also to the group 
"mail":

drwxrwx---+349 olaf     olaf         359 Feb 16  2014 Maildir
              group:mail:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
                  owner@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd----I:allow
                  group@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd----I:allow
               everyone@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd----I:deny

Yesterday I haven't replicated it because from the documentation I 
understood it was not necessary.

My questions, in short:
- what are the permissions I need to give to the Maildir folder? I 
understood from the documentation it's 700, with my user/group (the one 
of the user accessing the mail). What about ACLs? and what about group 
"mail"?
- the (only!) subfolder which appears empty in Thunderbird, may it 
depend on the permissions? maybe due to them the index was not updated 
and UIDs don't match. If after applying the correct permissions I still 
cannot see its contents, is there a way to recover the mails? the files 
are all still there.

Sorry for the long email, but after several tries yesterday I exhausted 
my ideas.

Regards,
Olaf

Christian Kivalo

2015-Sep-19 17:22 UTC

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Maildir: ACLs/Unix perms and unable to see content of specific mailbox

Hi,

On 2015-09-19 16:17, Olaf Marzocchi wrote:> Dear Dovecot users, hello.
> I will merge two issues I have into a single email because they may be 
> related.
> 
> I used dovecot on a OmniOS server since 2014 (currently OmniOS
> r151014) with the following configuration (it shows 2.2.18 because I
> recently updated dovecot, skipping only the PostgreSQL plugin):
> 
> # 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc  zfs
> mail_location = maildir:/tank/home/%u/Maildir
> mail_privileged_group = mail
> 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 {
>   driver = pam
> }
> protocols = imap
> ssl = required
> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }
> 
> You can see that I set the Maildir folder inside the shared home
> folders of my server (it is only one user, anyway).
> It always worked perfectly, but one-two months ago I changed the
> permissions of my whole home folder, recursively, to add proper ACLs.
> I needed them because the clients started using illumos kernel SMB
> (relying on ACLs) instead of Netatalk/AFP (relying on Unix perms
> only).
> I didn't realise I applied the ACLs also to the Maildir folder.
> 
> Dovecot worked for several weeks fine, I noticed the issue only
> yesterday when a mailbox (see below) appeared in Thunderbird
> completely empty even if the "cur" subfolder on the server still
> contains all the mails.
> 
> Dovecot was throwing some errors like:
> 
> dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error:
> rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.&A6k- Mailing
> Lists.Log/dovecot.index.cache) failed: Permission denied
> (euid=501(olaf) egid=501(olaf) UNIX perms appear ok (ACL/MAC wrong?))
> dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error:
> rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.&A6k- Mailing
> Lists.Log/dovecot.index.tmp, /tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.&A6k- Mailing
> Lists.Log/dovecot.index) failed: Permission denied
> dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error:
> unlink(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions.lock) failed: Permission
> denied
> dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error:
> rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions.lock,
> /tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions) failed: Permission denied
> 
> I will post here the current permissions of the folder containing
> Maildir, of the Maildir itself, of its contents, and of the folder
> that appears empty when browsed with a client (Thunderbird).
> 
> /tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV ..
> drwx------+ 16 olaf     olaf          17 Sep 19 01:52 olaf
>               user:olaf:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
>        group:2147483648:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
>               everyone@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:deny
> 
> /tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV
> drwxrwx--- 348 olaf     olaf         359 Sep 19 01:51 Maildir
>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
> 
> /tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV Maildir/
> drwxrwx---   2 olaf     olaf           2 Jan 30  2014 cur
>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
> -rwxrwx---   1 olaf     olaf          21 Jan 30  2014 dovecot-keywords
>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
> (ALL THE SAME PERMISSIONS FOR THE OTHER FILES EXCEPT...)
> -rwxrwx---   1 olaf     olaf       13735 Jan 24  2015 subscriptions
>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
> -rw-rw----   1 olaf     olaf       13709 Sep 19 01:51 
> subscriptions.lock
>                  owner@:rw-p--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>                  group@:rw-p--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
> 
> The folder that appears empty:
> 
> /tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV Maildir/.Generiche/
> total 513
> drwxrwx---   2 olaf     olaf         949 Sep 18 01:42 cur
>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
> -rwxrwx---   1 olaf     olaf          46 May 18  2014 dovecot-keywords
>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
> (ALL THE SAME PERMISSIONS FOR THE OTHER FILES)
> 
> 
> I really hope you will have the time to help me because I already
> applied the permissions recursively and I removed the ACLs, almost as
> it was before my mistake.
> I specified "almost" because originally (I checked the backups)
the
> Maildir folder had an ACL that gave access permissions also to the
> group "mail":
> 
> drwxrwx---+349 olaf     olaf         359 Feb 16  2014 Maildir
>              group:mail:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
>                  owner@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd----I:allow
>                  group@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd----I:allow
>               everyone@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd----I:deny
> 
> Yesterday I haven't replicated it because from the documentation I
> understood it was not necessary.
 From my view the permissions seem to be set correctly, i have to admin, 
its been a while since i moved to virtual users so i may be wrong 
here...

The log output also seems to support that permissions are correct.

Have you tried adding the group:mail:.... ACLs back?

Have you set mail_debug=yes or other more verbose logging settings?
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Logging


> My questions, in short:
> - what are the permissions I need to give to the Maildir folder? I
> understood from the documentation it's 700, with my user/group (the
> one of the user accessing the mail). What about ACLs? and what about
> group "mail"?
> - the (only!) subfolder which appears empty in Thunderbird, may it
> depend on the permissions? maybe due to them the index was not updated
> and UIDs don't match. If after applying the correct permissions I
> still cannot see its contents, is there a way to recover the mails?
> the files are all still there.
> 
> Sorry for the long email, but after several tries yesterday I
> exhausted my ideas.
> 
> Regards,
> Olaf
Regards,
Christian

Olaf Marzocchi

2015-Sep-20 14:39 UTC

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Maildir: ACLs/Unix perms and unable to see content of specific mailbox

I found that the ACL I gave were not automatically applied to the newly 
created files and dirs (missing :fd-----:), so I corrected them and I 
added group:mail.

$ chmod -R A=owner@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow,\
           user:olaf:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow,\
              group@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow,\
          group:olaf:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow,\
          group:mail:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow,\
           everyone@:------a-R-c--s:fd-----:allow Maildir
(I know I duplicated my username and group, but I wanted to be sure...)

drwxrwx---+348 olaf     olaf         359 Sep 20 16:21 Maildir
                  owner@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
               user:olaf:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
                  group@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
              group:olaf:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
              group:mail:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:fd-----:allow

I verified that newly created files inside Maildir correctly retain 
these ACLs.

I still get the errors (I added "mail_debug=yes" and restarted):

[ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error: 
rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.Amici, conoscenti/dovecot.index.cache) 
failed: Permission denied (euid=501(olaf) egid=501(olaf) UNIX perms 
appear ok (ACL/MAC wrong?))

[ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error: 
rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.Amici, conoscenti/dovecot.index.tmp, 
/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.Amici, conoscenti/dovecot.index) failed: 
Permission denied

No further details.
I won't post the ls- lV again since the permissions in the specified 
file and folder are all exactly like the Maildir folder above.

Different errors after I tried to rename a mail folder:

Debug: Namespace : Using permissions from /tank/home/olaf/Maildir: 
mode=0770 gid=default
Error: unlink(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions.lock) failed: 
Permission denied
Error: file_dotlock_replace() failed with subscription file 
/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions: Permission denied
Error: rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions.lock, 
/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions) failed: Permission denied

At this point I don't know if it is an issue with my system, or some 
sort of incompatibility between dovecot and illumos or ZFS.

Except for folder renaming I can put mails in the IMAP folders and see 
them, but I fear for future problems caused by this issue.

In case there is someone able to read source code, this is the file 
where the ACL/MAC issue is generated:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/file/4f4243794ba1/src/lib/eacces-error.c

Has anyone with this additional information some clue? I still don't.

Olaf



On 19/09/2015 19:22, Christian Kivalo wrote:> Hi,
>
> On 2015-09-19 16:17, Olaf Marzocchi wrote:
>> Dear Dovecot users, hello.
>> I will merge two issues I have into a single email because they may be
>> related.
>>
>> I used dovecot on a OmniOS server since 2014 (currently OmniOS
>> r151014) with the following configuration (it shows 2.2.18 because I
>> recently updated dovecot, skipping only the PostgreSQL plugin):
>>
>> # 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>> # OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc  zfs
>> mail_location = maildir:/tank/home/%u/Maildir
>> mail_privileged_group = mail
>> 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 {
>>   driver = pam
>> }
>> protocols = imap
>> ssl = required
>> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
>> ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
>> userdb {
>>   driver = passwd
>> }
>>
>> You can see that I set the Maildir folder inside the shared home
>> folders of my server (it is only one user, anyway).
>> It always worked perfectly, but one-two months ago I changed the
>> permissions of my whole home folder, recursively, to add proper ACLs.
>> I needed them because the clients started using illumos kernel SMB
>> (relying on ACLs) instead of Netatalk/AFP (relying on Unix perms
>> only).
>> I didn't realise I applied the ACLs also to the Maildir folder.
>>
>> Dovecot worked for several weeks fine, I noticed the issue only
>> yesterday when a mailbox (see below) appeared in Thunderbird
>> completely empty even if the "cur" subfolder on the server
still
>> contains all the mails.
>>
>> Dovecot was throwing some errors like:
>>
>> dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error:
>> rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.&A6k- Mailing
>> Lists.Log/dovecot.index.cache) failed: Permission denied
>> (euid=501(olaf) egid=501(olaf) UNIX perms appear ok (ACL/MAC wrong?))
>> dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error:
>> rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.&A6k- Mailing
>> Lists.Log/dovecot.index.tmp, /tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.&A6k- Mailing
>> Lists.Log/dovecot.index) failed: Permission denied
>> dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error:
>> unlink(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions.lock) failed: Permission
>> denied
>> dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error:
>> rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions.lock,
>> /tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions) failed: Permission denied
>>
>> I will post here the current permissions of the folder containing
>> Maildir, of the Maildir itself, of its contents, and of the folder
>> that appears empty when browsed with a client (Thunderbird).
>>
>> /tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV ..
>> drwx------+ 16 olaf     olaf          17 Sep 19 01:52 olaf
>>               user:olaf:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
>>        group:2147483648:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
>>               everyone@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:deny
>>
>> /tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV
>> drwxrwx--- 348 olaf     olaf         359 Sep 19 01:51 Maildir
>>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>
>> /tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV Maildir/
>> drwxrwx---   2 olaf     olaf           2 Jan 30  2014 cur
>>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>> -rwxrwx---   1 olaf     olaf          21 Jan 30  2014 dovecot-keywords
>>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>> (ALL THE SAME PERMISSIONS FOR THE OTHER FILES EXCEPT...)
>> -rwxrwx---   1 olaf     olaf       13735 Jan 24  2015 subscriptions
>>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>> -rw-rw----   1 olaf     olaf       13709 Sep 19 01:51
subscriptions.lock
>>                  owner@:rw-p--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rw-p--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>
>> The folder that appears empty:
>>
>> /tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV Maildir/.Generiche/
>> total 513
>> drwxrwx---   2 olaf     olaf         949 Sep 18 01:42 cur
>>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>> -rwxrwx---   1 olaf     olaf          46 May 18  2014 dovecot-keywords
>>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>> (ALL THE SAME PERMISSIONS FOR THE OTHER FILES)
>>
>>
>> I really hope you will have the time to help me because I already
>> applied the permissions recursively and I removed the ACLs, almost as
>> it was before my mistake.
>> I specified "almost" because originally (I checked the
backups) the
>> Maildir folder had an ACL that gave access permissions also to the
>> group "mail":
>>
>> drwxrwx---+349 olaf     olaf         359 Feb 16  2014 Maildir
>>              group:mail:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
>>                  owner@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd----I:allow
>>                  group@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd----I:allow
>>               everyone@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd----I:deny
>>
>> Yesterday I haven't replicated it because from the documentation I
>> understood it was not necessary.
>
>  From my view the permissions seem to be set correctly, i have to admin,
> its been a while since i moved to virtual users so i may be wrong here...
>
> The log output also seems to support that permissions are correct.
>
> Have you tried adding the group:mail:.... ACLs back?
>
> Have you set mail_debug=yes or other more verbose logging settings?
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Logging
>
>
>
>> My questions, in short:
>> - what are the permissions I need to give to the Maildir folder? I
>> understood from the documentation it's 700, with my user/group (the
>> one of the user accessing the mail). What about ACLs? and what about
>> group "mail"?
>> - the (only!) subfolder which appears empty in Thunderbird, may it
>> depend on the permissions? maybe due to them the index was not updated
>> and UIDs don't match. If after applying the correct permissions I
>> still cannot see its contents, is there a way to recover the mails?
>> the files are all still there.
>>
>> Sorry for the long email, but after several tries yesterday I
>> exhausted my ideas.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Olaf
>
> Regards,
> Christian

Olaf Marzocchi

2015-Sep-27 22:05 UTC

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Maildir: ACLs/Unix perms: unlink(...) failed: Permission denied

Hi,
I tried again with some other options.

After finding
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-November/093793.html
I deleted every ACL from the directory Maildir and I also assigned the 
group "mail" to it, recursively:

OmniOS-Xeon:/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.Generiche $ ls -lV
total 903
drwxrwxrwx   2 olaf     mail           2 Sep 27 23:47 cur
                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
               everyone@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
(and so on)

I tried also
mail_full_filesystem_access = yes
hoping that it would solve the issue, but nothing. Even with
mail_debug = yes
the log does not give any info besides
dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error: 
unlink(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.Generiche/dovecot-uidlist.tmp) failed: 
Permission denied

(it shows also "rename" instead of "unlink")

With these additional info, has anyone any idea about the cause of the 
problem?

My doveconf -n:

# 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc  zfs
mail_debug = yes
mail_full_filesystem_access = yes
mail_location = maildir:/tank/home/%u/Maildir
mail_privileged_group = mail
namespace inbox {
   inbox = yes
   location    mailbox Sent {
     special_use = \Sent
   }
   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
     special_use = \Sent
   }
   mailbox Trash {
     special_use = \Trash
   }
   prefix }
passdb {
   driver = pam
}
protocols = imap
ssl = required
ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
   driver = passwd
}


Any help will be appreciated.

Regards,
Olaf Marzocchi




On 19/09/2015 19:22, Christian Kivalo wrote:> Hi,
>
> On 2015-09-19 16:17, Olaf Marzocchi wrote:
>> Dear Dovecot users, hello.
>> I will merge two issues I have into a single email because they may be
>> related.
>>
>> I used dovecot on a OmniOS server since 2014 (currently OmniOS
>> r151014) with the following configuration (it shows 2.2.18 because I
>> recently updated dovecot, skipping only the PostgreSQL plugin):
>>
>> # 2.2.18: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>> # OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc  zfs
>> mail_location = maildir:/tank/home/%u/Maildir
>> mail_privileged_group = mail
>> 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 {
>>   driver = pam
>> }
>> protocols = imap
>> ssl = required
>> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
>> ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
>> userdb {
>>   driver = passwd
>> }
>>
>> You can see that I set the Maildir folder inside the shared home
>> folders of my server (it is only one user, anyway).
>> It always worked perfectly, but one-two months ago I changed the
>> permissions of my whole home folder, recursively, to add proper ACLs.
>> I needed them because the clients started using illumos kernel SMB
>> (relying on ACLs) instead of Netatalk/AFP (relying on Unix perms
>> only).
>> I didn't realise I applied the ACLs also to the Maildir folder.
>>
>> Dovecot worked for several weeks fine, I noticed the issue only
>> yesterday when a mailbox (see below) appeared in Thunderbird
>> completely empty even if the "cur" subfolder on the server
still
>> contains all the mails.
>>
>> Dovecot was throwing some errors like:
>>
>> dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error:
>> rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.&A6k- Mailing
>> Lists.Log/dovecot.index.cache) failed: Permission denied
>> (euid=501(olaf) egid=501(olaf) UNIX perms appear ok (ACL/MAC wrong?))
>> dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error:
>> rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.&A6k- Mailing
>> Lists.Log/dovecot.index.tmp, /tank/home/olaf/Maildir/.&A6k- Mailing
>> Lists.Log/dovecot.index) failed: Permission denied
>> dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error:
>> unlink(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions.lock) failed: Permission
>> denied
>> dovecot: [ID 583609 mail.error] imap(olaf): Error:
>> rename(/tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions.lock,
>> /tank/home/olaf/Maildir/subscriptions) failed: Permission denied
>>
>> I will post here the current permissions of the folder containing
>> Maildir, of the Maildir itself, of its contents, and of the folder
>> that appears empty when browsed with a client (Thunderbird).
>>
>> /tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV ..
>> drwx------+ 16 olaf     olaf          17 Sep 19 01:52 olaf
>>               user:olaf:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
>>        group:2147483648:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
>>               everyone@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:deny
>>
>> /tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV
>> drwxrwx--- 348 olaf     olaf         359 Sep 19 01:51 Maildir
>>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>
>> /tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV Maildir/
>> drwxrwx---   2 olaf     olaf           2 Jan 30  2014 cur
>>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>> -rwxrwx---   1 olaf     olaf          21 Jan 30  2014 dovecot-keywords
>>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>> (ALL THE SAME PERMISSIONS FOR THE OTHER FILES EXCEPT...)
>> -rwxrwx---   1 olaf     olaf       13735 Jan 24  2015 subscriptions
>>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>> -rw-rw----   1 olaf     olaf       13709 Sep 19 01:51
subscriptions.lock
>>                  owner@:rw-p--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rw-p--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>
>> The folder that appears empty:
>>
>> /tank/home/olaf $ ls -lV Maildir/.Generiche/
>> total 513
>> drwxrwx---   2 olaf     olaf         949 Sep 18 01:42 cur
>>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>> -rwxrwx---   1 olaf     olaf          46 May 18  2014 dovecot-keywords
>>                  owner@:rwxp--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>>                  group@:rwxp--a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>>               everyone@:------a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>> (ALL THE SAME PERMISSIONS FOR THE OTHER FILES)
>>
>>
>> I really hope you will have the time to help me because I already
>> applied the permissions recursively and I removed the ACLs, almost as
>> it was before my mistake.
>> I specified "almost" because originally (I checked the
backups) the
>> Maildir folder had an ACL that gave access permissions also to the
>> group "mail":
>>
>> drwxrwx---+349 olaf     olaf         359 Feb 16  2014 Maildir
>>              group:mail:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd-----:allow
>>                  owner@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd----I:allow
>>                  group@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd----I:allow
>>               everyone@:rwxpdDaARWcCos:fd----I:deny
>>
>> Yesterday I haven't replicated it because from the documentation I
>> understood it was not necessary.
>
>  From my view the permissions seem to be set correctly, i have to admin,
> its been a while since i moved to virtual users so i may be wrong here...
>
> The log output also seems to support that permissions are correct.
>
> Have you tried adding the group:mail:.... ACLs back?
>
> Have you set mail_debug=yes or other more verbose logging settings?
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Logging

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