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App Passwords for docker-mailserver

Recently I got rid of my virtual IPFire firewall and setup a Netgate SG1100 as my home firewall. I did this mainly because the NIC on the IPFire host NUC was starting to fail, also we use Pfsense at work and it's good to be able to tinker on a common platform. As my email server was virtualized on the same host NUC as my firewall I switched my virtual modoboa email server install to the docker-mailserver project. This makes my mail server more portable than the old virtual machine was.

I then setup app specific passwords for my email following this guide Below is the changes I needed to do for the docker image.

Adding this to the docker-mailserver docker-compose.yml

    volumes:
    ###################################
    #### Dovecot App Passwords Mod ####
    ###################################
    - /opt/mail/custom/dovecot/10-auth.conf:/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf:ro
    - /opt/mail/custom/dovecot/auth-appspecificpasswd.conf.ext:/etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-appspecificpasswd.conf.ext:ro
    - /opt/mail/custom/dovecot/app_specific_passwd:/etc/dovecot/app_specific_passwd:ro

The /opt/mail/custom/dovecot/10-auth.conf file

auth_mechanisms = plain login
!include auth-passwdfile.inc
!include auth-appspecificpasswd.conf.ext

The /opt/mail/custom/dovecot/auth-appspecificpasswd.conf.ext file

passdb {

  driver = passwd-file

  args = scheme=SHA512-CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/app_specific_passwd

}

The /opt/mail/custom/dovecot/app_specific_passwd file (example)

K9emaillapp:{SHA512-CRYPT}123456789...::::::user=foo

Assuming your docker-mailserver is called mail you can get the format you passwords for the app_specific_passwd file by using:

docker exec -it mail doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT

You can now user the username K9emaillapp and the associated password to log in to your email account