I’m am still getting the errors I mentioned previously. Maybe half a dozen of 
them per day . . .

So, the location of my mail storage 
(/mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/maildir/%d/%n/) is a filesystem mounted by 
gocryptfs. Do you think gocryptfs could be at fault here?

Austin Witmer

> On Aug 24, 2022, at 12:10 PM, lorek <dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There are a number of issues that can appear to be ACL issues when in fact 
> its something else.
> 
> As other's have mentioned, AppArmor profiles and SELinux contexts can be 
> checked and are the most common. There are ACL permissions as well if you 
> enabled ACL (they are not enabled by default on Ubuntu server). 
> I've occasionally (rarely) seen some weird interactions with sockets between 
> MDA and MTA if the permissions on the directory were not set correctly.
> 
> Additionally, if a mount permission mask is being used, that can occasionally 
> cause similar issues as well, as is often the case with using an NTFS backing 
> filesystem for maildir that's been mounted with unix perms.
> There can also be some edge-cases with permissions in Ubuntu's flavored snap 
> containers as well as docker containers and custom sieves.
> 
> Its difficult to say with any accuracy what is causing your issue with the 
> information provided.
> 
> Have you increased the verbosity of the logging?
> 
> If all of the normal culprits do not stand out, maybe some others will have 
> an idea. 
> 
> As a final fallback you can always set a breakpoint and use a reverse 
> debugger. Its not going to be performant but it will at least narrow down 
> where the issue is coming from, and what the intermediate states were that 
> led to the error so you can save/replicate them moving forward for 
> resolution. Non-determinism can creep into code in a lot of different ways.
> 
> Best Regards,
> N
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 4:53 AM Austin Witmer <austi...@emypeople.net 
> <mailto:austi...@emypeople.net>> wrote:
> Here is the output of dovecot -n
> 
> austin@mail:~$ doveconf -n
> # 2.3.16 (7e2e900c1a): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.5.16 (09c29328)
> # OS: Linux 5.15.0-46-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS 
> # Hostname: mail
> auth_mechanisms = plain login
> listen = *
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> mail_privileged_group = mail
> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character 
> vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags 
> copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave 
> duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext
> namespace inbox {
>   inbox = yes
>   location = 
>   mailbox Drafts {
>     special_use = \Drafts
>   }
>   mailbox Junk {
>     special_use = \Junk
>   }
>   mailbox Sent {
>     auto = subscribe
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox Spam {
>     auto = subscribe
>   }
>   mailbox Trash {
>     auto = subscribe
>     special_use = \Trash
>   }
>   prefix = 
> }
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }
> passdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>   driver = sql
> }
> passdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>   driver = sql
> }
> plugin {
>   sieve = 
> file:/mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/sieve/%d/%n/scripts;active=/mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/sieve/%d/%n/%n.sieve
>   sieve_before = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/
>   sieve_global_dir = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/
>   sieve_global_path = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve
>   sieve_user_log = 
> file:/mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/sieve/%d/%n/sieve_error.log
> }
> protocols = imap lmtp pop3 imap lmtp sieve pop3
> service auth {
>   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>     group = postfix
>     mode = 0660
>     user = postfix
>   }
> }
> service imap-login {
>   inet_listener imap {
>     port = 0
>   }
>   inet_listener imaps {
>     port = 993
>   }
> }
> service lmtp {
>   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
>     group = postfix
>     mode = 0600
>     user = postfix
>   }
> }
> service managesieve-login {
>   inet_listener sieve {
>     port = 4190
>   }
>   service_count = 1
> }
> ssl = required
> ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.mydomain.com/fullchain.pem 
> <http://mail.mydomain.com/fullchain.pem>
> ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it
> ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
> ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }
> userdb {
>   driver = prefetch
> }
> userdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>   driver = sql
> }
> userdb {
>   driver = prefetch
> }
> userdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>   driver = sql
> }
> protocol lmtp {
>   hostname = mail.mydomain.com <http://mail.mydomain.com/>
>   mail_plugins = " sieve"
>   postmaster_address = postmas...@mydomain.com 
> <mailto:postmas...@mydomain.com>
> }
> protocol lda {
>   mail_plugins = " sieve"
> }
> 
> 
> Austin Witmer
> 
> 
>> On Aug 20, 2022, at 12:09 PM, Austin Witmer <austi...@emypeople.net 
>> <mailto:austi...@emypeople.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> And no, I don’t think I am using ACL’s.
>> 
>> getfacl austin /mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/maildir/
>> getfacl: austin: No such file or directory
>> getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
>> # file: mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/maildir/
>> # owner: austin
>> # group: austin
>> user::rwx
>> group::rwx
>> other::r--
>> 
>> Austin Witmer 
>> 
>>> On Aug 20, 2022, at 11:15 AM, spi <s...@nurfuerspam.de 
>>> <mailto:s...@nurfuerspam.de>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Am 20.08.22 um 16:52 schrieb Austin Witmer:
>>>> Hello all!
>>>> 
>>>> Recently I upgraded my mail server to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and ever since
>>>> then I am periodically getting some dovecot errors like the below in
>>>> my mail log. As far as I can tell, my unix perms are just fine. What
>>>> is ACL/MAC?
>>>> 
>>>> Aug 20 14:41:58 mail dovecot:
>>>> imap(u...@domain.com <mailto:u...@domain.com>)<56316><1NieGKPmuOdKwxVI>: 
>>>> Error: Mailbox INBOX:
>>>> stat(/mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/maildir/domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log
>>>>  <http://domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log>
>>>> <http://domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log 
>>>> <http://domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log>>) failed: Permission denied
>>>> (euid=1000(austin) egid=1000(austin) UNIX perms appear ok (ACL/MAC
>>>> wrong?))
>>>> 
>>>> And here is the listing showing the permissions for that file.
>>>> 
>>>> *austin@mail*:*~*$ ls -la
>>>> /mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/maildir/domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log 
>>>> <http://domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log>
>>>> <http://domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log 
>>>> <http://domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log>>
>>>> -rwxrwxr-- 1 austin austin 15796 Aug 20 14:41
>>>> */mnt/volume1/mailserver/plain/maildir/domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log 
>>>> <http://domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log>
>>>> <http://domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log 
>>>> <http://domain.com/user/dovecot.index.log>>*
>>>> 
>>>> What in the world is causing these errors, and what can I do about them?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>> 
>>>> Austin Witmer
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Do you use any ACLs? Is this just a block device mounted or do you use
>>> any network file sharing like nfs?
>>> 
>>> ACLs you can check by 'getfacl foo'.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Cheers
>>> spi
> 

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