Dovecot Cookbook

Chef cookbook to install and configure Dovecot, open source IMAP and POP3 email server.

Table of Contents

• Description
• Requirements
  • Supported Platforms
  • Required Cookbooks
  • Required Applications
• Attributes
  • Main Configuration Attributes
  • Authentication Processes Attributes
  • Director-specific Attributes
  • Log Destination Attributes
  • Mailbox Locations and Namespaces Attributes
  • Master Configuration File Attributes
  • SSL Attributes
  • LDA Specific Attributes
  • Replication Specific Attributes
  • LMTP Specific Attributes
  • Berkeley DB DB_CONFIG Attributes
  • Dictionary Quota SQL Attributes
  • LDAP Authentication Attributes
  • SQL Authentication Attributes
  • Distribution Package Names Attributes
  • Distribution Service Configuration
• Recipes
  • dovecot::default
  • dovecot::user
  • dovecot::conf_files
  • dovecot::ohai_plugin
  • dovecot::from_package
  • dovecot::service
  • dovecot::create_pwfile
• Ohai Plugin
• Usage Examples
  • Including in a Cookbook Recipe
  • Including in the Run List
  • Authentication Database Examples
  • Dictionary Quota SQL Example
  • Namespaces Example
  • Plugins Examples
    • Mail Log Plugin Example
    • Sieve Plugin Example
    • Stats Plugin Example
  • Protocols Examples
  • Service Examples
    • Director Service Example
    • Imap-login Service Example
    • Doveadm Service Example
    • Quota-status Service Example
    • Quota-warning Service Example
    • Stats Service Example
  • LDAP Example
  • Password File Example
  • A Complete Example
• Testing
• Contributing
• TODO
• License and Author

Requirements

Supported Platforms

This cookbook has been tested on the following platforms:

• Amazon
• CentOS >= 6.0
• Debian >= 7.0
• Fedora >= 18.0
• OpenSUSE
• Oracle Linux >= 6.0
• Scientific Linux >= 6.0
• SUSE
• Ubuntu >= 12.04

Let me know if you use it successfully on any other platform.

Required Cookbooks

• ohai

Required Applications

• Chef 12 or higher.
• Ruby 2.2 or higher.
• Dovecot >= 2: requires this version of dovecot to be available by the distribution's package manager.

Attributes

To see a more complete description of the attributes, go to the Dovecot wiki2 configuration section or read the comments in the templates and generated configuration files.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['install_from']	'package'	Determines how Dovecot is installed from. Only 'package' is supported for now.
node['dovecot']['user']	'dovecot'	Dovecot system user. Should no be changed.
node['dovecot']['group']	'dovecot'	Dovecot system group. Should no be changed.
node['dovecot']['user_homedir']	calculated	Dovecot system user home directory.
node['dovecot']['lib_path']	calculated	Dovecot library path. Should no be changed.
node['dovecot']['conf_path']	'/etc/dovecot'	Dovecot configuration files path. Should no be changed.
node['dovecot']['conf_files_user']	'root'	System user owner of configuration files.
node['dovecot']['conf_files_group']	node['dovecot']['group']	System group owner of configuration files.
node['dovecot']['conf_files_mode']	00644	Configuration files system file mode bits.
node['dovecot']['sensitive_files']	['*.conf.ext']	An array of dovecot sensitive configuration files. Each array item can be a glob expression or a fixed file name. These file names should be relative to node['dovecot']['conf_path'] directory. Example: ['dovecot-sql.conf.ext', '*-auth.conf.ext', 'conf.d/auth-supersecret.conf.ext'].
node['dovecot']['sensitive_files_mode']	00640	Configuration files system file mode bits for sensitve files.
node['dovecot']['conf_files']['core']	calculated	Dovecot core configuration files list.
node['dovecot']['conf_files']['imap']	['conf.d/20-imap.conf']	Dovecot IMAP configuration files list.
node['dovecot']['conf_files']['pop3']	['conf.d/20-pop3.conf']	Dovecot POP3 configuration files list.
node['dovecot']['conf_files']['lmtp']	['conf.d/20-lmtp.conf']	Dovecot LMTP configuration files list.
node['dovecot']['conf_files']['sieve']	calculated	Dovecot Sieve configuration files list.
node['dovecot']['conf_files']['ldap']	calculated	Dovecot LDAP configuration files list.
node['dovecot']['auth']	{}	Dovecot Authentication Databases as a hash of hashes (see the examples below). Supported authdbs: checkpassword, deny, ldap, master, passwdfile, sql, system and vpopmail.
node['dovecot']['namespaces']	[]	Dovecot Namespaces as an array of hashes (see the example below).
node['dovecot']['plugins']	calculated	Dovecot Plugins configuration as a hash of hashes (see the examples below). Supported plugins: mail_log, acl and quota.
node['dovecot']['protocols']	{}	Dovecot Protocols configuration as a hash of hashes (see the example below). Supported protocols: lda, imap, lmtp, sieve and pop3.
node['dovecot']['services']	{}	Dovecot Services configuration as a hash of hashes (see the examples below). Supported services: anvil, director, imap-login, pop3-login, lmtp, imap, pop3, auth, auth-worker, dict, tcpwrap, managesieve-login managesieve, quota-status, quota-warning, stats, and doveadm.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_plugins']	[]	Dovecot default enabled mail_plugins.
node['dovecot']['ohai_plugin']['build-options']	true	Whether to enable reading build options inside ohai plugin. Can be disabled to be lighter.
node['dovecot']['databag_name']	dovecot	The databag to use.
node['dovecot']['databag_users_item']	users	The databag item to use for User's database (Passwords).
node['dovecot']['conf']['password_file']	#{node['dovecot']['conf_path']}/password	The Password file location

Main Configuration Attributes

• Configuration file: dovecot.conf.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['listen']	nil	A comma separated list of IPs or hosts where to listen in for connections.
node['dovecot']['conf']['base_dir']	nil	Base directory where to store runtime data.
node['dovecot']['conf']['instance_name']	nil	Name of this instance. Used to prefix all Dovecot processes in ps output.
node['dovecot']['conf']['login_greeting']	nil	Greeting message for clients.
node['dovecot']['conf']['login_trusted_networks']	nil	Space separated list of trusted network ranges.
node['dovecot']['conf']['login_access_sockets']	nil	Space separated list of login access check sockets.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_proxy_self']	nil	With proxy_maybe=yes if proxy destination matches any of these IPs, don't do proxying.
node['dovecot']['conf']['verbose_proctitle']	nil	Show more verbose process titles (in ps).
node['dovecot']['conf']['shutdown_clients']	nil	Should all processes be killed when Dovecot master process shuts down.
node['dovecot']['conf']['doveadm_worker_count']	nil	If non-zero, run mail commands via this many connections to doveadm server.
node['dovecot']['conf']['doveadm_socket_path']	nil	UNIX socket or host:port used for connecting to doveadm server.
node['dovecot']['conf']['import_environment']	nil	Space separated list of environment variables that are preserved on Dovecot startup and his childs.
node['dovecot']['conf']['dict']	nil	Dictionary server settings as a hash.

Authentication Processes Attributes

• Configuration file: conf.d/10-auth.conf.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['disable_plaintext_auth']	nil	Disable LOGIN command and all other plaintext authentications unless SSL/TLS is used.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_cache_size']	nil	Authentication cache size (e.g. 10M). 0 means it's disabled.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_cache_ttl']	nil	Time to live for cached data.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_cache_negative_ttl']	nil	TTL for negative hits (user not found, password mismatch).
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_realms']	nil	Space separated list (or array) of realms for SASL authentication mechanisms that need them.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_default_realm']	nil	Default realm/domain to use if none was specified.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_username_chars']	nil	List of allowed characters in username.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_username_translation']	nil	Username character translations before it's looked up from databases.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_username_format']	nil	Username formatting before it's looked up from databases.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_master_user_separator']	nil	If you want to allow master users to log in by specifying the master username within the normal username string, you can specify the separator character here (format: <username><separator><master username>).
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_anonymous_username']	nil	Username to use for users logging in with ANONYMOUS SASL mechanism.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_worker_max_count']	nil	Maximum number of dovecot-auth worker processes.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_gssapi_hostname']	nil	Host name to use in GSSAPI principal names.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_krb5_keytab']	nil	Kerberos keytab to use for the GSSAPI mechanism.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_use_winbind']	nil	Do NTLM and GSS-SPNEGO authentication using Samba's winbind daemon and ntlm_auth helper.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_winbind_helper_path']	nil	Path for Samba's ntlm_auth helper binary.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_failure_delay']	nil	Time to delay before replying to failed authentications.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_ssl_require_client_cert']	nil	Take the username from client's SSL certificate, using X509_NAME_get_text_by_NID() which returns the subject's DN's CommonName.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_mechanisms']	'plain'	Space separated list of wanted authentication mechanisms: plain, login, digest-md5, cram-md5, ntlm, rpa, apop, anonymous, gssapi, otp, skey, gss-spnego.

Director-specific Attributes

• Configuration file: conf.d/10-director.conf.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['director_servers']	nil	List of IPs or hostnames to all director servers, including ourself (as a string or as an array).
node['dovecot']['conf']['director_mail_servers']	nil	List of IPs or hostnames to all backend mail servers.
node['dovecot']['conf']['director_user_expire']	nil	How long to redirect users to a specific server after it no longer has any connections.
node['dovecot']['conf']['director_doveadm_port']	nil	TCP/IP port that accepts doveadm connections (instead of director connections).
node['dovecot']['conf']['director_username_hash']	nil	How the username is translated before being hashed.

Log Destination Attributes

• Configuration file: conf.d/10-logging.conf.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['log_path']	nil	Log file to use for error messages. "syslog" logs to syslog, /dev/stderr logs to stderr.
node['dovecot']['conf']['info_log_path']	nil	Log file to use for informational messages. Defaults to log_path.
node['dovecot']['conf']['debug_log_path']	nil	Log file to use for debug messages. Defaults to info_log_path.
node['dovecot']['conf']['syslog_facility']	nil	Syslog facility to use if you're logging to syslog.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_verbose']	nil	Log unsuccessful authentication attempts and the reasons why they failed.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_verbose_passwords']	nil	In case of password mismatches, log the attempted password.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_debug']	nil	Even more verbose logging for debugging purposes.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_debug_passwords']	nil	In case of password mismatches, log the passwords and used scheme so the problem can be debugged.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_debug']	nil	Enable mail process debugging.
node['dovecot']['conf']['verbose_ssl']	nil	Show protocol level SSL errors.
node['dovecot']['conf']['log_timestamp']	nil	Prefix for each line written to log file.
node['dovecot']['conf']['login_log_format_elements']	nil	Space-separated list (or array) of elements we want to log.
node['dovecot']['conf']['login_log_format']	nil	Login log format.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_log_prefix']	nil	Log prefix for mail processes.
node['dovecot']['conf']['deliver_log_format']	nil	Format to use for logging mail deliveries.

Mailbox Locations and Namespaces Attributes

• Configuration file: conf.d/10-mail.conf.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_location']	nil	Location for user's mailboxes.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_shared_explicit_inbox']	nil	Should shared INBOX be visible as "shared/user" or "shared/user/INBOX"?.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_uid']	nil	System user used to access mails.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_gid']	nil	System group used to access mails.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_privileged_group']	nil	Group to enable temporarily for privileged operations.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_access_groups']	nil	Grant access to these supplementary groups for mail processes.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_full_filesystem_access']	nil	Allow full filesystem access to clients.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_attribute_dict']	nil	Dictionary for key=value mailbox attributes.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_server_comment']	nil	A comment or note that is associated with the server.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_server_admin']	nil	Indicates a method for contacting the server administrator. This value MUST be a URI.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mmap_disable']	nil	Don't use mmap() at all.
node['dovecot']['conf']['dotlock_use_excl']	nil	Rely on O_EXCL to work when creating dotlock files.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_fsync']	nil	When to use fsync() or fdatasync() calls: optimized, always or never.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_nfs_storage']	nil	Mail storage exists in NFS.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_nfs_index']	nil	Mail index files also exist in NFS.
node['dovecot']['conf']['lock_method']	nil	Locking method for index files: fcntl, flock or dotlock.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_temp_dir']	nil	Directory in which LDA/LMTP temporarily stores incoming mails >128 kB.
node['dovecot']['conf']['first_valid_uid']	nil	Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above.
node['dovecot']['conf']['last_valid_uid']	nil	Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above.
node['dovecot']['conf']['first_valid_gid']	nil	Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel.
node['dovecot']['conf']['last_valid_gid']	nil	Valid GID range for users, defaults to non-root/wheel.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_max_keyword_length']	nil	Maximum allowed length for mail keyword name.
node['dovecot']['conf']['valid_chroot_dirs']	nil	':' separated list of directories under which chrooting is allowed for mail processes.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_chroot']	nil	Default chroot directory for mail processes.
node['dovecot']['conf']['auth_socket_path']	nil	UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_plugin_dir']	nil	Directory where to look up mail plugins.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_cache_min_mail_count']	nil	The minimum number of mails in a mailbox before updates are done to cache file.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mailbox_idle_check_interval']	nil	When IDLE command is running, mailbox is checked once in a while to see if there are any new mails or other changes.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_save_crlf']	nil	Save mails with CR+LF instead of plain LF.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_prefetch_count']	nil	Max number of mails to keep open and prefetch to memory.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_temp_scan_interval']	nil	How often to scan for stale temporary files and delete them (0 = never).
node['dovecot']['conf']['maildir_stat_dirs']	nil	By default LIST command returns all entries in maildir beginning with a dot.
node['dovecot']['conf']['maildir_copy_with_hardlinks']	nil	When copying a message, do it with hard links whenever possible.
node['dovecot']['conf']['maildir_very_dirty_syncs']	nil	Assume Dovecot is the only MUA accessing Maildir.
node['dovecot']['conf']['maildir_broken_filename_sizes']	nil	If enabled, Dovecot doesn't use the S=<size> in the Maildir filenames for getting the mail's physical size, except when recalculating Maildir++ quota.
node['dovecot']['conf']['maildir_empty_new']	nil	Always move mails from new/ directory to cur/, even when the \Recent flags aren't being reset.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mbox_read_locks']	nil	Which read locking methods to use for locking mbox: dotlock, dotlock_try, fcntl, flock or lockf.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mbox_write_locks']	nil	Which write locking methods to use for locking mbox: dotlock, dotlock_try, fcntl, flock or lockf.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mbox_lock_timeout']	nil	Maximum time to wait for lock (all of them) before aborting.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mbox_dotlock_change_timeout']	nil	If dotlock exists but the mailbox isn't modified in any way, override the lock file after this much time.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mbox_dirty_syncs']	nil	When mbox changes unexpectedly simply read the new mails but still safely fallbacks to re-reading the whole mbox file whenever something in mbox isn't how it's expected to be.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mbox_very_dirty_syncs']	nil	Like mbox_dirty_syncs, but don't do full syncs even with SELECT, EXAMINE, EXPUNGE or CHECK commands.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mbox_lazy_writes']	nil	Delay writing mbox headers until doing a full write sync (EXPUNGE and CHECK commands and when closing the mailbox).
node['dovecot']['conf']['mbox_min_index_size']	nil	If mbox size is smaller than this (e.g. 100k), don't write index files.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mbox_md5']	nil	Mail header selection algorithm to use for MD5 POP3 UIDLs when pop3_uidl_format=%m.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mdbox_rotate_size']	nil	Maximum dbox file size until it's rotated.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mdbox_rotate_interval']	nil	Maximum dbox file age until it's rotated.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mdbox_preallocate_space']	nil	When creating new mdbox files, immediately preallocate their size to mdbox_rotate_size.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_attachment_dir']	nil	Directory root where to store mail attachments. Disabled, if empty.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_attachment_min_size']	nil	Attachments smaller than this aren't saved externally.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_attachment_fs']	nil	Filesystem backend to use for saving attachments: posix, sis posix or sis-queue posix.
node['dovecot']['conf']['mail_attachment_hash']	nil	Hash format to use in attachment filenames.

Master Configuration File Attributes

• Configuration file: conf.d/10-master.conf.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['default_process_limit']	nil	Default process limit.
node['dovecot']['conf']['default_client_limit']	nil	Default client limit.
node['dovecot']['conf']['default_vsz_limit']	nil	Default VSZ (virtual memory size) limit for service processes.
node['dovecot']['conf']['default_login_user']	nil	Login user is internally used by login processes.
node['dovecot']['conf']['default_internal_user']	nil	Internal user is used by unprivileged processes.

SSL Attributes

• Configuration file: conf.d/10-ssl.conf.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl']	calculated	SSL/TLS support: true or false.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_cert']	calculated	PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_key']	calculated	PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS private key.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_key_password']	nil	If key file is password protected, give the password here.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_ca']	nil	PEM encoded trusted certificate authority.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_require_crl']	nil	Require that CRL check succeeds for client certificates.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_client_ca_dir']	nil	Directory for trusted SSL CA certificates. These are used only when Dovecot needs to act as an SSL client.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_client_ca_file']	nil	File for trusted SSL CA certificates. These are used only when Dovecot needs to act as an SSL client.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_verify_client_cert']	nil	Request client to send a certificate.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_cert_username_field']	nil	Which field from certificate to use for username.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_parameters_regenerate']	nil	How often to regenerate the SSL parameters file.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_dh_parameters_length']	nil	DH parameters length to use.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_protocols']	nil	SSL protocols to use.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_cipher_list']	nil	SSL ciphers to use.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_prefer_server_ciphers']	nil	Prefer the server's order of ciphers over client's.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_crypto_device']	nil	SSL crypto device to use, for valid values run $ openssl engine.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ssl_options']	nil	SSL extra options. Currently supported options are: 'no_compression'.

LDA Specific Attributes

Also used by LMTP.

• Configuration files: conf.d/15-lda.conf.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['postmaster_address']	nil	Address to use when sending rejection mails.
node['dovecot']['conf']['hostname']	nil	Hostname to use in various parts of sent mails, eg. in Message-Id.
node['dovecot']['conf']['quota_full_tempfail']	nil	If user is over quota, return with temporary failure instead of bouncing the mail.
node['dovecot']['conf']['sendmail_path']	nil	Binary to use for sending mails.
node['dovecot']['conf']['submission_host']	nil	If non-empty, send mails via this SMTP host[:port] instead of sendmail.
node['dovecot']['conf']['rejection_subject']	nil	Subject: header to use for rejection mails.
node['dovecot']['conf']['rejection_reason']	nil	Human readable error message for rejection mails.
node['dovecot']['conf']['recipient_delimiter']	nil	Delimiter character between local-part and detail in email address.
node['dovecot']['conf']['lda_original_recipient_header']	nil	Header where the original recipient address (SMTP's RCPT TO: address) is taken from if not available elsewhere.
node['dovecot']['conf']['lda_mailbox_autocreate']	nil	Should saving a mail to a nonexistent mailbox automatically create it?
node['dovecot']['conf']['lda_mailbox_autosubscribe']	nil	Should automatically created mailboxes be also automatically subscribed?

Replication Specific Attributes

Also used by Replication/sync of dovecot.

• Configuration files: conf.d/15-replication.conf.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['doveadm_port']	nil	Used to set a default port for the doveadm replication commands.
node['dovecot']['conf']['doveadm_password']	nil	Needed to set an 'secret' for the replication communication between to servers.

LMTP Specific Attributes

• Configuration file: conf.d/20-lmtp.conf

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['lmtp_proxy']	nil	Support proxying to other LMTP/SMTP servers by performing passdb lookups.
node['dovecot']['conf']['lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox']	nil	When recipient address includes the detail (e.g. user+detail), try to save the mail to the detail mailbox.
node['dovecot']['conf']['lmtp_rcpt_check_quota']	nil	Verify quota before replying to RCPT TO. This adds a small overhead.
node['dovecot']['conf']['lmtp_hdr_delivery_address']	nil	Which recipient address to use for Delivered-To: header and Received: header.

Berkeley DB DB_CONFIG Attributes

• Configuration file: dovecot-db.conf.ext.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['db']	nil	DB_CONFIG for Berkeley DB as a hash.

Dictionary Quota SQL Attributes

• Configuration files: dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['dict_sql']['connect']	nil	Dict sql connect configuration as a string or an array.
node['dovecot']['conf']['dict_sql']['maps']	nil	Dict sql database tables maps (see the example below).

LDAP Authentication Attributes

• Configuration files: dovecot-ldap.conf.ext.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['hosts']	nil	Space separated list or array of LDAP hosts to use.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['uris']	nil	LDAP URIs to use.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['dn']	nil	Distinguished Name, the username used to login to the LDAP server.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['dnpass']	nil	Password for LDAP server, if dn is specified.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['sasl_bind']	nil	Use SASL binding instead of the simple binding.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['sasl_mech']	nil	SASL mechanism name to use.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['sasl_realm']	nil	SASL realm to use.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['sasl_authz_id']	nil	SASL authorization ID, ie. the dnpass is for this "master user", but the dn is still the logged in user.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['tls']	nil	Use TLS to connect to the LDAP server.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['tls_ca_cert_file']	nil	TLS options, currently supported only with OpenLDAP.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['tls_ca_cert_dir']	nil	TLS options, currently supported only with OpenLDAP.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['tls_cipher_suite']	nil	TLS options, currently supported only with OpenLDAP.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['tls_cert_file']	nil	TLS cert/key is used only if LDAP server requires a client certificate.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['tls_key_file']	nil	TLS cert/key is used only if LDAP server requires a client certificate.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['tls_require_cert']	nil	Valid values: never, hard, demand, allow, try.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['ldaprc_path']	nil	Use the given ldaprc path.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['debug_level']	nil	LDAP library debug level as specified by LDAP_DEBUG_* in ldap_log.h.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['auth_bind']	nil	Use authentication binding for verifying password's validity.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['auth_bind_userdn']	nil	If authentication binding is used, you can save one LDAP request per login if user's DN can be specified with a common template.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['ldap_version']	nil	LDAP protocol version to use. Likely 2 or 3.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['base']	nil	LDAP base. %variables can be used here.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['deref']	nil	Dereference: never, searching, finding or always.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['scope']	nil	Search scope: base, onelevel or subtree.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['user_attrs']	nil	User attributes are given in LDAP-name=dovecot-internal-name list.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['user_filter']	nil	Filter for user lookup.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['pass_attrs']	nil	Password checking attributes.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['pass_filter']	nil	Filter for password lookups.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['iterate_attrs']	nil	Attributes to get a list of all users.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['iterate_filter']	nil	Filter to get a list of all users.
node['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['default_pass_scheme']	nil	Default password scheme. "{scheme}" before password overrides this.

SQL Authentication Attributes

• Configuration file: dovecot-sql.conf.ext.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['conf']['sql']['driver']	nil	Database driver: mysql, pgsql or sqlite.
node['dovecot']['conf']['sql']['connect']	nil	Database connection string or array. This is driver-specific setting.
node['dovecot']['conf']['sql']['default_pass_scheme']	nil	Default password scheme.
node['dovecot']['conf']['sql']['password_query']	nil	passdb query to retrieve the password.
node['dovecot']['conf']['sql']['user_query']	nil	userdb query to retrieve the user information.
node['dovecot']['conf']['sql']['iterate_query']	nil	Query to get a list of all usernames.

Distribution Package Names Attributes

These attributes below contain the default required distribution packages for the supported platforms. But you are free to create your own to support other platforms. Keep in mind that all are put inside a subkey (type). This node['dovecot']['packages'][type] attribute is then used together with the node['dovecot']['conf_files'][type] attribute to generate the configuration files.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['packages']['core']	calculated	Dovecot core package names array.
node['dovecot']['packages']['imap']	calculated	Dovecot IMAP package names array.
node['dovecot']['packages']['pop3']	calculated	Dovecot POP3 package names array.
node['dovecot']['packages']['lmtp']	calculated	Dovecot LMTP package names array.
node['dovecot']['packages']['sieve']	calculated	Dovecot Sieve package names array.
node['dovecot']['packages']['ldap']	calculated	Dovecot LDAP package names array.
node['dovecot']['packages']['sqlite']	calculated	Dovecot SQLite package names array.
node['dovecot']['packages']['mysql']	calculated	Dovecot MySQL package names array.
node['dovecot']['packages']['pgsql']	calculated	Dovecot PostgreSQL package names array.

Distribution Service Configuration

These attributes are used to configure the Dovecot service according to each distribution. Surely you want to change them if you want to support new platforms or want to improve the support of some platforms already supported.

Attribute	Default	Description
node['dovecot']['service']['name']	'dovecot'	Dovecot system service name.
node['dovecot']['service']['supports']	calculated	Dovecot service supported actions.
node['dovecot']['service']['provider']	calculated	Dovecot service Chef provider class.

Recipes

dovecot::default

Installs and configures Dovecot.

dovecot::user

Creates the dovecot system user. Used by the default recipe.

dovecot::conf_files

Generates all the configuration files. Used by the default recipe.

dovecot::ohai_plugin

Provides an Ohai plugin for reading dovecot install information.

dovecot::from_package

Installs the required packages. Used by the default recipe if node['dovecot']['install_from] is package.

dovecot::service

Configures the Dovecot service. Used by the default recipe.

dovecot::create_pwfile

Creates and configures a password file from local mailboxes based on a data bag.

• node['dovecot']['databag_name']: The Databag on which items are stored.
• node['dovecot']['databag_users_item']: The databag item to use (under the databag set)

Ohai Plugin

The ohai_plugin recipe installs an Ohai plugin. It will be installed and activated automatically.

It will set the following attributes:

• node['dovecot']['version']: version of Dovecot.
• node['dovecot']['build-options']: some Dovecot build options.
• node['dovecot']['build-options']['mail-storages']
• node['dovecot']['build-options']['sql-driver-plugins'] or node['dovecot']['build-options']['sql-drivers']
• node['dovecot']['build-options']['passdb']
• node['dovecot']['build-options']['userdb']

This is an output example:

"dovecot": {
  "version": "2.0.19",
  "build-options": {
    "ioloop": "epoll",
    "notify": "inotify",
    "ipv6": true,
    "openssl": true,
    "io_block_size": "8192",
    "mail-storages": [
      "shared",
      "mdbox",
      "sdbox",
      "maildir",
      "mbox",
      "cydir",
      "raw"
    ],
    "sql-driver-plugins": [
      "mysql",
      "postgresql",
      "sqlite"
    ],
    "passdb": [
      "checkpassword",
      "ldap",
      "pam",
      "passwd",
      "passwd-file",
      "shadow",
      "sql"
    ],
    "userdb": [
      "checkpassword",
      "ldap(plugin)",
      "nss",
      "passwd",
      "prefetch",
      "passwd-file",
      "sql"
    ]
  }
}

Usage Examples

Including in a Cookbook Recipe

You can simply include it in a recipe:

# from a recipe
include_recipe 'dovecot'

Don't forget to include the dovecot cookbook as a dependency in the metadata.

# metadata.rb
# [...]

depends 'dovecot'

Including in the Run List

Another alternative is to include the default recipe in your Run List.

{
  "name": "mail.example.com",
  "[...]": "[...]",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[dovecot]"
  ]
}

Authentication Database Examples

Authentication database attributes, inside passdb or usedb hash values, can contain both arrays or hashes.

Supported auths are the following: checkpassword, deny, ldap, master, passwdfile, sql, system and vpopmail.

node.default['dovecot']['auth']['checkpassword'] =
  {
    'passdb' => { # hash
      'driver' => 'checkpassword',
      'args' => '/usr/bin/checkpassword'
    },
    'userdb' => {
      'driver' => 'prefetch'
    }
  }

node.default['dovecot']['auth']['system']['passdb'] =
  [ # array
    {
      # without driver
      'args' => 'dovecot'
    },
    {
      'driver' => 'passwd',
      'args' => ''
    },
    {
      'driver' => 'shadow',
      'args' => ''
    },
    {
      'driver' => 'bsdauth',
      'args' => ''
    }
  ]

Dictionary Quota SQL Example

node.default['dovecot']['conf']['dict_sql']['maps'] =
  [
    {
      'pattern' => 'priv/quota/storage',
      'table' => 'quota',
      'username_field' => 'username',
      'value_field' => 'bytes'
    },
    {
      'pattern' => 'priv/quota/messages',
      'table' => 'quota',
      'username_field' => 'username',
      'value_field' => 'messages'
    },
    {
      'pattern' => 'shared/expire/$user/$mailbox',
      'table' => 'expires',
      'value_field' => 'expire_stamp',
      'fields' => {
        'username' => '$user',
        'mailbox' => '$mailbox'
      }
    }
  ]

Namespaces Example

The ['namespaces'] attribute is an array, which could contain both array or hash values.

node.default['dovecot']['namespaces'] = [
  {
    'separator' => '/',
    'prefix' => '"#mbox/"',
    'location' => 'mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u',
    'inbox' => true,
    'hidden' => true,
    'list' => false
  }, {
    'separator' => '/',
    'prefix' => '',
    'location' => 'maildir:~/Maildir'
  }, { # this requires Dovecot >= 2.1
    'name' => 'inbox',
    'separator' => '/',
    'prefix' => '',
    'inbox' => true,
    'mailboxes' => {
      'Drafts' => {
        'special_use' => '\Drafts'
      },
      'Junk' => {
        'special_use' => '\Junk'
      },
      'Trash' => {
        'special_use' => '\Trash'
      },
      'Sent' => {
        'special_use' => '\Sent'
      },
      'Sent Messages' => {
        'special_use' => '\Sent'
      },
      'virtual/All' => {
        'special_use' => '\All'
      },
      'virtual/Flagged' => {
        'special_use' => '\All'
      }
    }
  }
]

Plugins Examples

Plugin attribute values should be of type hash.

Supported plugins are the following: mail_log, acl and quota.

Mail Log Plugin Example

node.default['dovecot']['plugins']['mail_log'] = {
  'mail_log_events' =>
    'delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename',
  'mail_log_fields' => 'uid box msgid size'
}

Sieve Plugin Example

node.default['dovecot']['plugins']['sieve'] = {
  'sieve' => '~/.dovecot.sieve',
  'sieve_dir' => '~/sieve'
}

Stats Plugin Example

node.default['dovecot']['plugins']['stats'] = {
  'stats_refresh' => '60 secs',
  'stats_memory_limit' => '64 M',
  'stats_command_min_time' => '5 mins',
  'stats_session_min_time' => '5 mins',
  'stats_user_min_time' => '24 hours',
  'stats_domain_min_time' => '24 hours',
  'stats_ip_min_time' => '1 hours'
}

Protocols Examples

Protocol attribute values should be of type hash.

Supported protocols are the following: lda, imap, lmtp, sieve and pop3.

node.default['dovecot']['protocols']['lda'] = {
  'mail_plugins' => %w($mail_plugins)
}

To enable the IMAP protocol without additional settings:

node.default['dovecot']['protocols']['imap'] = {}

Service Examples

The ['services'] attribute is a hash. Each service attribute should be a hash. But the ['listeners'] subkey could contain both a hash and an array.

Inside this listeners key, you should name each listener with the format PROTOCOL:NAME. Allowed protocols are fifo, unix and inet.

Supported services are the following: anvil, director, imap-login, pop3-login, lmtp, imap, pop3, auth, auth-worker, dict, tcpwrap, managesieve-login, managesieve, aggregator, replicator, config.

Director Service Example

node.default['dovecot']['services']['director']['listeners'] = [
  { 'unix:login/director' => { 'mode' => '0666' } },
  { 'fifo:login/proxy-notify' => { 'mode' => '0666' } },
  { 'unix:director-userdb' => { 'mode' => '0666' } },
  { 'inet' => { 'port' => '5432' } }
]

Imap-login Service Example

node.default['dovecot']['services']['imap-login'] = {
  'listeners' => [
    { 'inet:imap' => { 'port' => 143 } },
    { 'inet:imaps' => { 'port' => 993, 'ssl' => true } }
  ],
  'service_count' => 1,
  'process_min_avail' => 0,
  'vsz_limit' => '64M'
}

Doveadm Service Example

default['dovecot']['services']['doveadm'] = {
  'listeners' => [
    { 'inet:doveadm-server' => { 'port' => 3333 }
    }
  ]
}

Quota-status Service Example

default['dovecot']['services']['quota-status'] = {
  'executable' => 'quota-status -p postfix',
  'listeners' => [
    { 'inet:imap' => { 'port' => 4444 } }
  ]
}

Quota-warning Service Example

default['dovecot']['services']['quota-warning'] = {
  'user' => 'dovecot',
  'executable' => 'script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh',
  'listeners' => [
    { 'unix:quota-warning' => { 'user' => 'postfix' } }
  ]
}

Stats Service Example

default['dovecot']['services']['stats'] = {
  listeners: [
    { 'fifo:stats-mail' =>
      {  user: node['dovecot']['user'],
         group: node['dovecot']['group'],
         mode: '0600' } },
    { 'fifo:stats-user' =>
      {  user: node['dovecot']['user'],
         group: node['dovecot']['group'],
         mode: '0600' } }
  ]
}

LDAP Example

This is a recipe example to integrate Dovecot with OpenLDAP. The following cookbooks are used:

• openldap
• ldap

# Function to generate the passwords in LDAP format
def generate_ldap_password(password, salt = '12345')
  require 'digest'
  require 'base64'
  digest = Digest::SHA1.digest(password + salt)
  '{SSHA}' + Base64.encode64(digest + salt).chomp
end
recipe = self

# Create LDAP credentials
ldap_password = 'secretsauce'
ldap_credentials = {
  'bind_dn' => "cn=#{node['openldap']['cn']},#{node['openldap']['basedn']}",
  'password' => ldap_password
}

# Configure OpenLDAP server
node.default['openldap']['tls_enabled'] = false
node.default['openldap']['rootpw'] = generate_ldap_password(ldap_password)
node.default['openldap']['loglevel'] = 'any'

include_recipe 'openldap::server'

# Create some LDAP entries as an example

include_recipe 'ldap'

ldap_entry node['openldap']['basedn'] do
  attributes objectClass: %w(top dcObject organization),
             o: 'myorg',
             dc: 'myorg',
             description: 'My organization'
  credentials ldap_credentials
end

ldap_entry "ou=accounts,#{node['openldap']['basedn']}" do
  attributes objectClass: %w(top organizationalUnit),
             ou: 'accounts',
             description: 'Dovecot email accounts'
  credentials ldap_credentials
end

ldap_entry "cn=dovecot,ou=accounts,#{node['openldap']['basedn']}" do
  attributes objectClass: %w(top person),
             cn: 'dovecot',
             sn: 'dovecot'
  credentials ldap_credentials
end

# Create an email account

email_account = {
  cn: 'Ole Wobble Olson',
  sn: 'Olson',
  uid: 'wobble',
  uidNumber: '1002', # should be an string for ldap_entry
  gidNumber: '100',
  homeDirectory: '/home/wobble',
  userPassword: recipe.generate_ldap_password('w0bbl3_p4ss')
}

ldap_entry "uid=wobble,ou=accounts,#{node['openldap']['basedn']}" do
  attributes email_account.merge(objectClass: %w(top person posixAccount))
  credentials ldap_credentials
end

# Create home directory for the email account
directory email_account[:homeDirectory] do
  owner email_account[:uidNumber].to_i # should be an integer for directory
  group email_account[:gidNumber].to_i
end

# Dovecot IMAP configuration
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['mail_location'] = 'maildir:~/Maildir'
node.default['dovecot']['protocols']['imap'] = {}
node.default['dovecot']['services']['imap-login'] =
  {
    'listeners' =>
      [
        { 'inet:imap' => { 'port' => 143 } },
        { 'inet:imaps' => { 'port' => 993, 'ssl' => true } }
      ],
    'service_count' => 1,
    'process_min_avail' => 0,
    'vsz_limit' => '64M'
  }

# Dovecot LDAP configuration
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['auth_bind'] = true
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['hosts'] = %w(localhost)
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['dn'] = ldap_credentials['bind_dn']
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['dnpass'] = ldap_credentials['password']
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['ldap']['base'] = node['openldap']['basedn']

include_recipe 'dovecot'

Password File Example

This is an example of how to use userdb password file.

# Define databag and item inside Databag (default.conf):
node.default['dovecot']['databag_name'] = 'dovecot'
node.default['dovecot']['databag_users_item'] = 'users'

# Attributes for userdb to function:
node.default['dovecot']['auth']['passwdfile'] =
  {
    'passdb' => {
      'driver' => 'passwd-file',
      'args' => node['dovecot']['conf']['password_file']
    },
    'userdb' => {
      'driver' => 'passwd-file',
      'args' =>
        "username_format=%u #{node['dovecot']['conf']['password_file']}",
      'default_fields' => 'home=/var/dovecot/vmail/%d/%n'
    }
  }

# Include this recipe on your:
include_recipe 'dovecot::pwfile-file'

Databag example, two ways of defining a user included:

{
  "users": {
    "dilan": "password1234",
    "vassilis": [
      "vassilis1234", null, null, null, null, null, null
    ]
  }
}

A Complete Example

This is a complete recipe example for installing and configuring Dovecot 2 to work with PostfixAdmin MySQL tables, including IMAP service:

node.default['dovecot']['conf_files_group'] = 'vmail'

node.default['dovecot']['conf']['disable_plaintext_auth'] = false
node.default['dovecot']['conf_files_mode'] = '00640'

# 10-logging.conf
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['log_path'] = 'syslog'
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['syslog_facility'] = 'mail'
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['log_timestamp'] = '"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"'

# 10-mail.conf
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['mail_location'] = 'maildir:~/Maildir'
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['mail_privileged_group'] = 'mail'

# 10-master.conf
node.default['dovecot']['services']['auth']['listeners'] = [
  # auth_socket_path points to this userdb socket by default. It's typically
  # used by dovecot-lda, doveadm, possibly imap process, etc. Its default
  # permissions make it readable only by root, but you may need to relax these
  # permissions. Users that have access to this socket are able to get a list
  # of all usernames and get results of everyone's userdb lookups.
  { 'unix:auth-userdb' => {
    'mode' => '0600',
    'user' => 'vmail',
    'group' => 'vmail'
  } },
  # Postfix smtp-auth
  { 'unix:/var/spool/postfix/private/auth' => {
    'mode' => '0666',
    'user' => 'postfix',
    'group' => 'postfix'
  } }
]

# 15-lda.conf
# TODO: Change this to fit your server:
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['postmaster_address'] =
  'postmaster@mycompany.org'
# TODO: Change this to fit your server:
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['hostname'] = 'mail.mycompany.org'
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['lda_mailbox_autocreate'] = true
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['lda_mailbox_autosubscribe'] = true
# We want sieve enabled
node.default['dovecot']['protocols']['lda']['mail_plugins'] =
  %w($mail_plugins sieve)

# 20-imap.conf
# We want IMAP enabled with the default configuration
node.default['dovecot']['protocols']['imap'] = {}

# 90-sieve.conf
node.default['dovecot']['plugins']['sieve']['sieve'] = '~/.dovecot.sieve'
node.default['dovecot']['plugins']['sieve']['sieve_dir'] = '~/sieve'
node.default['dovecot']['plugins']['sieve']['sieve_global_path'] =
  "#{node['dovecot']['conf_path']}/sieve/default.sieve"

# auth-sql.conf.ext
node.default['dovecot']['auth']['sql']['passdb']['args'] =
  '/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext'
node.default['dovecot']['auth']['sql']['userdb']['args'] =
  '/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext'

# auth-static.conf.ext
node.default['dovecot']['auth']['static']['userdb']['args'] = %w(
  uid=vmail
  gid=vmail
  home=/var/vmail/%d/%n
  allow_all_users=yes
)

# auth-system.conf.ext
node.default['dovecot']['auth']['system'] = {}

# dovecot-sql.conf.ext
# We want to enable MySQL driver
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['sql']['driver'] = 'mysql'
# TODO: Change the database password below, please:
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['sql']['connect'] = %w(
  host=localhost
  dbname=postfix
  user=postfix
  password=postfix_pass
)
# md5crypt encryption method
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['sql']['default_pass_scheme'] = 'MD5-CRYPT'
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['sql']['password_query'] = [
  'SELECT username AS user, password',
  'FROM mailbox',
  "WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'"
]
node.default['dovecot']['conf']['sql']['user_query'] = [
  'SELECT',
  '  username AS user,',
  '  password,',
  '  5000 as uid,',
  '  5000 as gid,',
  "  concat('/var/vmail/', maildir) AS home,",
  "  concat('maildir:/var/vmail/', maildir) AS mail",
  'FROM mailbox',
  "WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'"
]

node.default['dovecot']['conf']['sql']['iterate_query'] = [
  'SELECT username AS user',
  "FROM mailbox WHERE active = '1'"
]

include_recipe 'dovecot'

# Compile sieve scripts

# this should go after installing dovecot, sievec is required
sieve_global_path = "#{node['dovecot']['conf_path']}/sieve/default.sieve"
execute 'sievec sieve_global_path' do
  command "sievec '#{sieve_global_path}'"
  action :nothing
end
directory ::File.dirname(sieve_global_path) do
  owner 'root'
  group 'root'
  mode '00755'
  recursive true
  not_if { ::File.exist?(::File.dirname(sieve_global_path)) }
end
# This will be the default sieve script:
template node['dovecot']['plugins']['sieve']['sieve_global_path'] do
  source 'default.sieve.erb'
  owner 'root'
  group 'root'
  mode '00644'
  notifies :run, 'execute[sievec sieve_global_path]'
end

If you want a more complete example, you can look at the postfix-dovecot recipe.

Testing

See TESTING.md.

Contributing

Please do not hesitate to open an issue with any questions or problems.

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

TODO

See TODO.md.

License and Author

Author:	Xabier de Zuazo (xabier@zuazo.org)
Contributor:	Andreas Lappe
Contributor:	Trond Arve Nordheim
Contributor:	Johan Svensson
Contributor:	Arnold Krille
Contributor:	claudex
Contributor:	Jordi Llonch
Contributor:	Michael Burns
Contributor:	Marcus Klein
Contributor:	Vassilis Aretakis
Contributor:	Edgaras Lukosevicius
Contributor:	Sjoerd Tromp
Contributor:	Sander van Harmelen
Copyright:	Copyright (c) 2015-2016, Xabier de Zuazo
Copyright:	Copyright (c) 2013-2015, Onddo Labs, SL.
License:	Apache License, Version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.