[Dovecot] Return error instead of dying on time back skip?

Hello everybody! Currently, dovecot just kills itself if it detects that time has moved backwards more than a hardcoded number of seconds. I accept the reasons, but I do not like to restart dovecot manually after waiting for time to move forward again. A cron job would not help, because time

[Dovecot] Migrate from dovecot to dovecot.. new server

Hi We have been running a dovecot server for some time.. users connect with pop. Now this server is going to be substituted with a new one.. before we used mbox, but now we will move to maildir! I have done some testing transfering the mail with the mb2md script, the conversion works correctly,

[Dovecot] Switching from mailbox to maildir.. duplicates!

Hi We have been running a dovecot server for some time.. users connect with pop. Now this server is going to be substituted with a new one.. before we used mbox, but now we will move to maildir! I have done some testing transfering the mail with the mb2md script, the conversion works correctly,

[Dovecot] Migrate from dovecot to dovecot.. new server

Hi We have been running a dovecot server for some time.. users connect with pop. Now this server is going to be substituted with a new one.. before we used mbox, but now we will move to maildir! I have done some testing transfering the mail with the mb2md script, the conversion works correctly,

[Dovecot] Migrate from mlbox to maildir, lock problem

Hi We've been using dovecot successufly for few month. Previous setup : solaris 8, postfix+LDA, mbox + index on NFS (Netapp), 2500 accounts Everything shared overs NFS, multiple servers connect to index, mbox. mail_location =

[Dovecot] Best authentication option

Dear Dovecot experts, I have a small home server debian based, with postfix/dovecot/squirrelmail installed locally and working. Dovecot is used non-secured (no imaps) but only on the 192.168.0.100 address (address of the server on the local network). I want to use squirrelmail to read my email

Re: [Dovecot] Best authentication option

On 02/05/2007 12:13, Eric wrote: Dear Dovecot experts, I have a small home server debian based, with postfix/dovecot/squirrelmail installed locally and working. Dovecot is used non-secured (no imaps) but only on the 192.168.0.100 address (address of the server on the local network). I want to

Re: [Dovecot] Strange directory created at dovecot launch

Eric wrote: I installed dovecot from scratch and compiled it from 1.0.0 source. Installed in /usr/local. Now everytime I launch dovecot it creates and uses /usr/local/var/lib/dovecot and /usr/local/var/run/dovecot directories. For the latter I found the modifications to do in dovecot.conf for

Re: [Dovecot] Switching from mailbox to maildir.. duplicates!

I'm having the same issue, but only with client using outlook (not outlook express) On 5/2/07, Lars Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi We have been running a dovecot server for some time.. users connect with pop. Now this server is going to be substituted with a new one.. before we used

Re: [Dovecot] Best authentication option

On 5/2/07, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your answer. What do you mean by you may as well use 2 ? You mean both authentication options ? I though we have to decide in dovecot.conf to use one option or another one... I do force the use of my webserver (lighttpd) through https. My

[Dovecot] Strange Mail Problem

I submitted this question to the Postfix maillist and they suggested that I post to this one. Here's my issue: I have a Postifx email system running on a CentOS 4 box, with Dovecot pop3 and imap. Last week, one of my users reported to me that about a dozen emails suddenly showed up in his in

[Dovecot] How to use option allow_nets?

Hi, according to http://wiki.dovecot.fi/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/AllowNets there exists an option allow_nets to restrict IP ranges from where users are allowed to login to Dovecot. I am using Debian Etch with the official Dovecot packages: # dpkg -l | grep dovecot ii dovecot-common

Re: [Dovecot] busy still for a week

Timo Sirainen wrote: This school year is pretty much finished next thursday (for the classes I intended to pass). After that I should again have enough energy to read and answer the 150 mails in this list .. :) And maybe release v1.0.1 fixing the newly found bugs. Just curious, has there

Re: [Dovecot] assertion failed

On 2007-04-26, Adrian Stoica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is this ? We just saw the same fault today when we switched from courier to dovecot on a large system today. The ~username/dovecot-uidlist contained: 1 -1 0 and deleting this file plus it's lockfile seems to have fixed the

Re: [Dovecot] How to use option allow_nets?

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:19:36PM +0200, Bernd Kuhls wrote: I tried to add the line allow_nets=127.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16 in the block passdb pam { which is the default enabled auth code in Debian. allow_nets is a passdb field (for example in an SQL passdb), not a dovecot.conf

Re: [Dovecot] Strange Mail Problem

Sorry, here it is: Version: dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4 ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * imaps_listen = * pop3s_listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3

Re: [Dovecot] Migrate from mlbox to maildir, lock problem

Problem solved by migrating to solaris 10 !

Re: [Dovecot] Strange Mail Problem

On 5/2/2007 Jason Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sorry, here it is: Version: dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4 Upgrade... 0.99 is no longer supported... -- Best regards, Charles

[Dovecot] read only maildir

Hello All, I try to set up a read only maildir just as in the wiki, to no avail. The extra (public) namespace shows up but I can not susbscribe to it (in thunderbird) or if I change to that directory (in mutt), it is empty. Is it the problem mentioned in the wiki

[Dovecot] some clarification re: ACL?

The ACL documentation is at http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL is a bit vague... I'd be happy to update it myself, but I need some clarification: For example, I have a dovecot-acl file with: group=portal_admin lrw anyone l To me this means that any user in the portal_admin group should be able to

Re: [Dovecot] read only maildir

If it's read-only, then your user can't write the 'subscriptions' file; as root, edit that file and manually insert the subscription, then your clients should pick it up. Thanks for the quick reply. Is it subscriptions or .subscriptions or in the singular (without the ending s)? Where

Re: [Dovecot] read only maildir

Nagyon Almos wrote: Is it subscriptions or .subscriptions or in the singular (without the ending s)? Where should it be exactly? If you run dovecot 0.99, it's .subscriptions; if you run dovecot 1.0, it's subscriptions - so adjust as necessary. It is always located in the Maildir/ directory

Re: [Dovecot] read only maildir

If you run dovecot 0.99, it's .subscriptions; if you run dovecot 1.0, it's subscriptions - so adjust as necessary. It is always located in the Maildir/ directory itself - take a look at your own personal maildir folder and it should be pretty obvious. It goes without saying that if you are

Re: [Dovecot] read only maildir

If you run dovecot 0.99, it's .subscriptions; if you run dovecot 1.0, it's subscriptions - so adjust as necessary. It is always located in the Maildir/ directory itself - take a look at your own personal maildir folder and it should be pretty obvious. The contents should be the name of the

[Dovecot] upgrading to dovecot 1.0

hi, i'm using dovecot 1.0 rc26 and i want to upgrade to dovecot 1.0; i want to know if i must uninstall previus version or i can install overriding prevus install . Thanks in advance!!!

Re: [Dovecot] upgrading to dovecot 1.0

aza zel wrote: hi, i'm using dovecot 1.0 rc26 and i want to upgrade to dovecot 1.0; i want to know if i must uninstall previus version or i can install overriding prevus install . Use the procedure recommended by the package maintainer for your distro... Or, if you rolled your own, you

Re: [Dovecot] 200 pop3-login processes

Zbigniew Szalbot writes: I am using dovecot 1.0.0 and have only 5 pop3 users. However, I have counted over 200 pop3-loging processes. I just wonder if it is normal for dovecot (has been running maybe for 2-3 weeks after installing the stable verion). What is your login_processes_count in

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

Scott Silva writes: If you want to experiment with a inexpensive NAS with replication, look at Freenas. It can do nfs sharing and automatic replication with rsync. And it is free and based on Freebsd. Still immature, but it has a lot of promise. Our experience with FreeBSD+NFS has been less

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

John Rowe writes: gluster is looking extremely interesting although it's rather new. Thanks. Saw it on a list of distributed FS but didn't click on it. I was planning to take a look at AFS and Coda to start. Will also take a look at gluster, although so far it seems a Linux only FS.

[Dovecot] File Changes and IDLE

Hi Timo and all, I used to use Dovecot back in the 0.99 days a couple of years ago, had since moved to Courier IMAP, but with the release of Dovecot 1.0.0, I'm looking at moving back! One thing I currently have set up and working with Courier is the use of the enhanced IDLE mode, whereby

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

Troy Benjegerdes writes: http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/port-freebsd/2007-February/000199.html The freebsd port looks like it might be a bit hairy yet though. AFS and CODA are on my list to check. Another user in this list mentioned Gluster. I must say gluster looks very interesting.

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:06:43PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: John Rowe writes: gluster is looking extremely interesting although it's rather new. Thanks. Saw it on a list of distributed FS but didn't click on it. I was planning to take a look at AFS and Coda to start. Will also take

[Dovecot] usedb query

I can specified two passdb so I can mix auth source. Can I do similar thing with userdb? I would like to have uid, gid and home from static and quota from sql. Regards, Steve