Back in 2.3 the index was by default kept in the maildir. This is also
the default in 2.4, but during the migration I put the dovecot home dir
as the default index path, which is a breaking change and could cause
client resyncs.
Fixes: #359
LDAP bind auth used to be enabled by default (and not configurable)
before the dovecot 2.4 migration.
I changed the default option value to match the old Dovecot 2.3
behavior.
The use of authentication bind is required for LDAP servers that simply
do not have such LDAP attribute like Kanidm, or in cases where the
password scheme used is not supported by Dovecot.
With the options in the upstream dovecot module gone the quota support
and its option now live in our downstream module.
The only behavior change this introduces is not setting a global per
user default instead of the previous 100G per user.
Diabling quota support and setting per user quotas now raises an
assertion:
````
Failed assertions:
- Without quota support enabled, per-user quotas cannot be applied to the following accounts:
- lowquota@example.com
Either remove per user quota settings or re-enable `mailserver.quota.enable`.
````
Create a nicer option structure that deals with the mail storage and its
owner, uid, group and gid. Also includes the directory layout as a
property of how mails are stored..
The "login" prefix makes this option more confusing rather than clearer,
because what other account types are there? LDAP ones for example, but
you can login with those too, so the prefix is pointless.
Now that we have more experience with how we use the LDAP module options
we can make smarter decisions in how to organize them. We can also
explain much better what these options imply, which results in more
extensive option documentation.
The only storage scheme we support is a single declarative user with
fixed uid/gid. The default_fields are overridable if these fields leak
in from LDAP, so promote them to override_fields instead.
The LDAP support was not in a good shape when it was merged. This is a
breaking change and course correction to apply best practices going
forward.
This fixes various issues experienced with the Dovecot LDAP home
directory.
The gravest issue is that the `homeDirectory` attribute from
the `posixAccount` schema would overwrite the Dovecot home directory and
cause permission errors. This was possible because we defined the home
variable in `default_fields` that is inherently mutable and just a preset
if no other value gets transmitted from LDAP. This did not surface in
tests, because our LDAP schema was too minimal compared to a common
production dataset.
The most annoying issue and the actual breaking change is that we now
default to UUID based home directories. Every entry in an IDM that
supports LDAP comes with a unique identifier that does not change upon
account name changes. We want those to enable simple account name
migrations that don't require any manual data migration.
To migrate existing dovecot home directories a migration script is
included, which will be backported to the 25.11 release, so the migration
can already be started from the previous release version.
In TLS1.2 available cipher suites depend on the available key material,
so the last round of cipher suites updates broke TLS1.2 support with RSA
key pairs.
The NixOS ACME module has been defaulting to EC256 (and earlier EC384)
key material, so I assume this did not affect many setups in practice.
Drop most of the existing certificate handling, because we're effectively
duplicating functionality that NixOS offers for free with better
design, testing and maintainance than what we could provide downstream.
The remaining two options are to reference an
existing `security.acme.certs` configuration through
`mailserver.x509.useACMEHost` or to provide existing key material via
`mailserver.x509.certificateFile` and `mailserver.x509.privateKeyFile`.
Support for automatic creation of self-signed certificates has been
removed, because it is undesirable in public mail setups.
The updated setup guide now displays the recommended configuration that
relies on the NixOS ACME module, but requires further customization to
select a suitable challenge.
Co-Authored-By: Emily <git@emilylange.de>
In nixpkgs we expose `services.dovecot.hasNewUnitName` option that can be
safely inspected to understand that whether to use the `dovecot` systemd
service name instead of `dovecot2`.
Per the dovecot documentation[0] we were previously running with an
unsupported home directory configuration, because we shared them among
all virtual users at /var/vmail.
After resolving this by creating per user home directories at
/var/vmail/%{domain}/%{user} this now also overlaps with the location of
the Maildir, which is not recommended.
As a result we now need to migrate our Maildirs into
/var/vmail/%{domain}/%{user}/mail, for which a small shell script is
provided as part of this change.
The script is included in the documentation because we cannot provide it
in time for users, because they might already be seeing the relevant
assertion and there is no safe waiting period that would allow us to skip
shipping it like that.
[0] https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/configuration_manual/mail_location/
Enabling the rspamd debug log drowns out everything else and should be
selected explicitly as needed.
The external test does not require it and removing it makes it much
(~40.5%) faster, since it now does not block on terminal output anymore.
Before:
```
Benchmark 1: nix build .#hydraJobs.x86_64-linux.external-unstable --rebuild
Time (mean ± σ): 151.737 s ± 1.074 s [User: 0.310 s, System: 0.289 s]
Range (min … max): 150.321 s … 153.512 s 10 runs
```
After:
```
Benchmark 1: nix build .#hydraJobs.x86_64-linux.external-unstable --rebuild
Time (mean ± σ): 90.531 s ± 0.557 s [User: 0.054 s, System: 0.045 s]
Range (min … max): 89.579 s … 91.278 s 10 runs
```
This switches the full-text search plugin from fts-xapian to
fts-flatcurve, the now preferred indexer still powered by Xapian,
which will be integrated into Dovecot core 2.4.
This sets a sane minimal configuration for the plugin with
international language support.
The plugin options marked as "advanced" in Dovecot's documentation
aren't re-exposed for simplicity. They can nevertheless be overridden
by module consumers by directly setting keys with
`services.dovecot2.pluginSettings.fts_*`.
The `fullTextSearch.maintenance` option is removed as the index is now
incrementally optimised in the background.
GitLab: closes https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver/-/issues/239
Martin Weinelt
Martin Weinelt
emilylange
Michael Hoang
Charlotte Van Petegem
isabel
Lafiel
Ryan Gibb
euxane