Odd problem: IMAP/S suddenly not working, but no errors, and IMAP still works

Chris Pepper pepper at cbio.mskcc.org
Mon Nov 1 11:06:40 EDT 2010


On 11/1/10 10:46 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>> Bron,
>>
>> 	My Cyrus is from RPM, and I am just nursing it along until my users
>> finish migrating off and FastMail manages to complete my own migration,
>> so I don't want to build from source. Why would IMAP/S block on empty
>> /dev/random, while IMAP+STARTTLS works? FWIW, SASL2 seems to use urandom.
>
> If this is really stock CentOS 5 then I think everything Cyrus related
> should use /dev/urandom and not /dev/random. But, could it be that other
> software you installed uses /dev/random and makes it "empty"?

	Most things are CentOS RPMs (thanks for those! ;), with a few from RPMforge.

> [root at inspector ~]# rpm -q cyrus-imapd amavisd-new clamav spamassassin postfix httpd mod_ssl
> cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-7.el5_4.3
> amavisd-new-2.6.4-3.el5.rf
> clamav-0.96.4-1.el5.rf
> spamassassin-3.3.1-3.el5.rf
> postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2
> httpd-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3
> mod_ssl-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3

	Which still leaves me thinking my port 993 problem isn't entropy, because STARTTLS works fine.

Chris

>>> [root at inspector random]# strings /usr/lib/libsasl* |grep random
>>> /dev/urandom
>>> /dev/urandom
>>
>>
>> 	But my /dev/random does seem quite low. Still surfing and looking for a
>> good way to fill it on a mostly headless server -- I haven't found a
>> good solution yet.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>> [root at inspector ~]# ls -l /dev/*random
>>> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 8 Oct 31 02:05 /dev/random
>>> cr--r--r-- 1 root root 1, 9 Oct 31 02:05 /dev/urandom
>>> [root at inspector ~]# cd /proc/sys/kernel/random
>>> [root at inspector random]# more *|cat
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> boot_id
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> d3724e19-7462-4224-960b-49d5d3a18d7a
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> entropy_avail
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> 17
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> poolsize
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> 4096
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> read_wakeup_threshold
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> 64
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> uuid
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> a3ed2323-e04d-4034-a72a-76b5d4b697f7
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> write_wakeup_threshold
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> 128
>>
>>
>> On 10/31/10 9:26 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>>> Sounds like your /dev/random is empty. You can compile with /dev/urandom
>>> or add a source of entropy...
>>>
>>> "Chris Pepper"<pepper at cbio.mskcc.org>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> 	mail.reppep.com (CentOS 5) is running cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-7.el5_4.3,
>>>> along with SquirrelMail, postfix, etc. Last night, I noticed that when
>>>> I
>>>> sent mail from Thunderbird, it was not able to file copies in the Sent
>>>> mailbox, although they did reach the recipients, so postfix was
>>>> accepting mail on 587/tcp.
>>>>
>>>> 	I restarted Cyrus IMAPd but don't see any error messages in
>>>> /var/log/maillog, and the cert&   key look fine. SquirrelMail is fine
>>>> using plain IMAP. I opened 143/tcp in the firewall, and am able to
>>>> fetch
>>>> mail via IMAP with STARTTLS, so it looks like the cert and key are
>>>> fine.
>>>>
>>>> 	But "telnet mail.reppep.com 993" and openssl fail to get any response.
>>>> Port 993 is open to the Internet, FWIW.
>>>>
>>>> 	Does anyone have any suggestions for what went wrong and/or how to
>>>> fix?
>>>> I'll try tcpdump next to see if it's responding at all.
>>>>
>>>> 	Alternatively, is there a way to make sure Cyrus requires STARTTLS on
>>>> 143? I was blocking external access to it to make sure users always use
>>>> encryption to connect, but port 143 with STARTTLS required would be an
>>>> acceptable alternative.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Chris Pepper
>>>>
>>>>> pepper at imp:~$ !openssl
>>>>> openssl s_client -connect www.reppep.com:993
>>>>> CONNECTED(00000003)
>>>>> 4284:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake
>>>>> failure:/SourceCache/OpenSSL098/OpenSSL098-32/src/ssl/s23_lib.c:188:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> [root at inspector ~]# cat /etc/imapd.conf
>>>>> admins: cyrus
>>>>> altnamespace: yes
>>>>> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
>>>>> duplicatesuppression: yes
>>>>> hashimapspool: no
>>>>> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>>>>> servername: mail.reppep.com
>>>>> singleinstancestore: yes
>>>>> #syslog_prefix: cyrus
>>>>> unixhierarchysep: yes
>>>>>
>>>>> lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes
>>>>> maxmessagesize: 20971520
>>>>> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>>>> #quotawarn: 80
>>>>>
>>>>> #allowplaintext: yes
>>>>> #allowplainwithouttls: yes
>>>>> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>>>>> #imap_auth_login: yes
>>>>> #imap_auth_cram_md5: yes
>>>>> #imap_auth_plain: yes
>>>>>
>>>>> autocreateinboxfolders:      Junk
>>>>> autocreatequota: -1
>>>>> #autocreate_sieve_script: /etc/junk.sieve
>>>>> autocreate_sieve_compiledscript: /etc/sieve.bc
>>>>> autosievefolders: Junk
>>>>> autosubscribeinboxfolders:   Junk
>>>>> createonpost: yes
>>>>> #sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
>>>>> sieveusehomedir: true
>>>>>
>>>>> tls_ca_file:   /etc/pki/tls/certs/mail.reppep.com.20100115.crt
>>>>> tls_cert_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/mail.reppep.com.20100115.crt
>>>>> tls_key_file:  /etc/pki/tls/private/mail.reppep.com.20080219.key
>>>>> tls_cipher_list: SSLv3:TLSv1:!NULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!LOW:@STRENGTH
>>>>> [root at inspector ~]# ls -l
>>>>> /etc/pki/tls/certs/mail.reppep.com.20100115.crt
>>>>> /etc/pki/tls/private/mail.reppep.com.20080219.key
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6466 Oct  1 17:13
>>>>> /etc/pki/tls/certs/mail.reppep.com.20100115.crt
>>>>> -rw-r----- 1 root mail  497 Feb 19  2008
>>>>> /etc/pki/tls/private/mail.reppep.com.20080219.key
>>>>> [root at inspector ~]# netstat -an|grep LIST|grep tcp|sort -n
>>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:110                 0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:111                 0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:139                 0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:143                 0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:2000                0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25                  0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3306                0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:445                 0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:587                 0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:993                 0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:995                 0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 10.0.104.200:53             0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::110                      :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:10024             0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:10025             0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:53                0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:953               0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::143                      :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 ::1:953                     :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::2000                     :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::22                       :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::4242                     :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::443                      :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::5222                     :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::5223                     :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::5229                     :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::5269                     :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 66.92.104.200:53            0.0.0.0:*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::8080                     :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::80                       :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::8483                     :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::9090                     :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::9091                     :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::993                      :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 :::995                      :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>> tcp        0      0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:4243       :::*
>>>>>       LISTEN
>>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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>
>


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