I looked up the source code, and permissions is hardcoded to dovecot, so
only recompilation can change the permissions of emails, folders, mailboxes.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 2:42 PM, Matthew Brown <sergey.travolskis at
gmail.com>
wrote:
> No reason to tell me about security, I just need chmod for my tests. Where
> to change it ?
>
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>> 1. Re: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating bytes
>> (Josef 'Jeff' Sipek)
>> 2. Re: 777 permissions on mailbox, subfolders subfiles new
>> emails (Nikolai Lusan)
>> 3. Re: problem with lda (Stephan Bosch)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:39:36 -0500
>> From: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeff.sipek at dovecot.fi>
>> To: Thomas Robers <robers at tutech.de>
>> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
>> Subject: Re: Panic: data stack: Out of memory when allocating bytes
>> Message-ID: <20180124223936.GE14966 at meili>
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>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 18:55:47 +0100, Thomas Robers wrote:
>> > Am 23.01.2018 um 20:07 schrieb Josef 'Jeff' Sipek:
>> > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 14:03:27 -0500, Josef 'Jeff'
Sipek wrote:
>> > > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 18:21:38 +0100, Thomas Robers
wrote:
>> ...
>> > > > 1. Do you have any idea what the imap process was doing
at the time
>> of the
>> > > > allocation failure?
>> >
>> > Yes perhaps. We use shared mailboxes and at the time of failure
the
>> > imap process is reading acl files in a shared mailbox (and
subfolder).
>> > This shared mailbox has about 2800 subfolder and the acl files are
read
>> > in about 10sec and and during this reading the imap process dies
with
>> > the already mentioned error. It seems it has something to do with
the
>> > shared mailbox, because since yesterday morning 5 core dumps have
been
>> > created, 4 of them by one user accessing the shared mailbox and 1
>> > by the user who is the owner of the shared mailbox. No other
mailboxes
>> > are affected until now.
>>
>> Based on the stack trace, the client was creating a new mailbox, which
>> caused an acl list rebuild, which ended up triggering this oddly sized
>> allocation.
>>
>> > > > 2. You snipped all the important parts of the back
trace. :) It
>> *starts* on
>> > > > the line:
>> > > > #0 0x00007f73f1386495 in raise () from
/lib64/libc.so.6
>> > >
>> > > In case you haven't used gdb before... after starting up
gdb, run
>> "bt full"
>> > > at the gdb prompt. That'll print out a very detailed
backtrace.
>> (You might
>> > > want to sanity check it to make sure there aren't any
user passwords
>> in it
>> > > before posting it here...)
>> >
>> > Yes, sorry I'm not very familiar in using gdb, but here is the
full
>> > backtrace:
>>
>> It looks like the binaries are stripped. There should be a
"debug"
>> package
>> you can install with symbol information. Then, the backtrace should be
>> much
>> more helpful.
>>
>> > > > Having the backtrace should help answer question
number 1.
>> > > > 3. How big is this process when it dies?
>> >
>> > I don't know which imap process dies beforehand so how do i
get this
>> > information?
>>
>> The size of the core file will give you an general idea. gdb can also
>> print
>> out lots of info via "maintenance info sections", but I
don't think
>> that'll
>> help figuring out why things blow up.
>>
>> Jeff.
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:09:40 +1000
>> From: Nikolai Lusan <nikolai at lusan.id.au>
>> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
>> Subject: Re: 777 permissions on mailbox, subfolders subfiles new
>> emails
>> Message-ID: <1516849780.4714.5.camel at lusan.id.au>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 00:35 +0200, Matthew Brown wrote:
>> > What I have to change, so dovecot on new email create, sets chmod
777 on
>> > Mailbox and all subfolders subfiles all new emails/sent emails
etc.
>>
>> This is a really bad idea. It is possible to setup in dovecot if
you're
>> using dovecot as your LDA. The only reason I can think of for anything
>> close to this is virtual mailboxes ... and even then I set things up
with
>> a
>> specific user to own the files and set them as 770 for the directories
and
>> 660 for the files. With that setup dovecot limits users to their own
mail
>> directories with values returned via the passdb/userdb.
>>
>> As a general rule anything on a *nix system that is chmod 777 is to be
>> avoided - it's a massive security risk.
>>
>> - --
>> Nikolai Lusan <nikolai at lusan.id.au>
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 09:35:57 +0100
>> From: Stephan Bosch <stephan at rename-it.nl>
>> To: Infoomatic <infoomatic at gmx.at>, dovecot at dovecot.org
>> Subject: Re: problem with lda
>> Message-ID: <2544728b-5441-c163-34fd-bd155e28f591 at
rename-it.nl>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>
>> Op 1/24/2018 om 5:30 PM schreef Infoomatic:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am currently testing the upgrade from our dovecot v2.2.23 to
2.3.0. I
>> have a strange problem with lda.
>> > We use bounce mails for internal users if they try to send
>> virus/spammails. The exact same config works with 2.2.23, but not with
>> 2.3.0.
>> >
>> > The relevant postfix/master.cf part:
>> > dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
>> > flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail
argv=/opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver
>> -d ${recipient} -f ${sender}
>> >
>> > On the same machine, with 2.2.23 I get a bounce mail when trying
to
>> send a virus, with the subject "VIRUS in message apparently from
you
>> (Eicar-Test-Signature)", to both the users inbox as well as to the
mailbox
>> of virusalert at ourdomain.internal
>> >
>> > With 2.3.0, in the logs I get an error:
>> >
>> > relay=dovecot, delay=0.01, delays=0/0/0/0, dsn=5.3.0,
status=bounced
>> (command line usage error. Command output: lda: Fatal: Invalid -f
>> parameter: Missing domain
>> >
>> > and the alert message is only sent to virusalert at
ourdomain.internal,
>> but not to the user who tried to send the mail.
>> >
>> > The relevant part of our dovecot.conf:
>> > protocol lda {
>> > mail_plugins = " quota zlib sieve acl mail_log notify"
>> > postmaster_address = postmaster at ourdomain.internal
>> > }
>> >
>> > Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Or is there a
workaround
>> via postfix/amavis/spamassassin? Any hints are highly appreciated,
thanks!
>>
>> Apparently, the ${sender} has no @domain part. Why?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stephan.
>>
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