[Dovecot-news] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
I thought about saying this in v1.2.beta1 release annoouncement, but looks like it'll take a few more days. So I've moved to Blacksburg, Virginia and I'm now working for Mailtrust the rest of this year. Here's some talk about it: http://mailtrust.com/blog (A bit stupid looking picture, but then

Re: [Dovecot] Tracing a server problem

2009-02-06 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Luigi Rosa wrote: For the records: the problem was the network filtering (not email filtering!) of Kaspersky antivirus. Disabling network filtering on port 143 solved this issue. Switch from STARTTLS to SSL (port 993), KAV6

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP ACLs and global ACLs in v1.2

2009-02-06 Thread Sascha Wilde
Robert Schetterer rob...@schetterer.org writes: Bernhard Herzog schrieb: On 15.01.2009, Sascha Wilde wrote: But should it just internally convert owner to username when replying? From our experience this would be a very good idea. Many clients recognize the username and handle those ACLs

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir structure question

2009-02-06 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:32:41AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: Nicolas KOWALSKI schrieb: There are no 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp' directories in ~/Maildir, as written in the wiki, but instead this .INBOX directory which contains these 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'. Is this expected ? Thanks.

Re: [Dovecot] [patch] 'c' and 'd' in setacl

2009-02-06 Thread Matvey Soloviev
Hello everyone, while I understand (and am glad to see) that the codebase evolved almost beyond recognition since I submitted it, from a superficial glance over the present code, I get the impression that it might be better to employ an additional check along the lines of what I had done in the

[Dovecot] [patch] 'c' and 'd' in setacl

2009-02-06 Thread Sascha Wilde
Hi Timo, Hi *, I just recognized that the new imap-acl plugin in dovecot 1.2 does not know the obsolete rights 'd' and 'c' when setting. According to RFC 4314 section 2.1.1.: If a client includes the d right in a rights list, then it MUST be treated as if the client had included every

[Dovecot] help: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-02-06 Thread Jake Grimmett
Dear All, I'm having an intermittent problem, with dovecot slowing to a crawl. Restarting dovecot fixes the problem. Looking at the maillog, I see loads of these errors dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slowing down for now

Re: [Dovecot] help: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-02-06 Thread Mark Zealey
I reported a bug like this on 23rd Dec last year and Timo replied 8/1 this year. However, I've seen this bug very infrequently and I'm not sure that you're hitting it - it's more likely that your ulimit -n is too low - try setting it to around 8192 (defaults to 1024 I think). It should be around

[Dovecot] Maildir structure question

2009-02-06 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
Hello, About the INBOX location when using maildir, in the wiki, http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir, I can read: Directory Structure ~/Maildir/new, ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/tmp directories contain the messages for INBOX. The tmp directory is used during delivery, new messages

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir structure question

2009-02-06 Thread Matthias Andree
Nicolas KOWALSKI schrieb: Hello, About the INBOX location when using maildir, in the wiki, http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir, I can read: Directory Structure ~/Maildir/new, ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/tmp directories contain the messages for INBOX. The tmp directory is

[Dovecot] Hi all,

2009-02-06 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi all, as I told earlier, I am installing an email server with postfix/dovecot/dspam (for now that's all, though some programs may come later). For now, what works good enough is that I receive mails and spams are tagged. Dovecot version 1.1.7-r1 compiled from the gentoo depository with debug.

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP ACLs and global ACLs in v1.2

2009-02-06 Thread Robert Schetterer
Hi Sascha, Sascha Wilde schrieb: Robert Schetterer rob...@schetterer.org writes: Bernhard Herzog schrieb: On 15.01.2009, Sascha Wilde wrote: But should it just internally convert owner to username when replying? From our experience this would be a very good idea. Many clients recognize

Re: [Dovecot] Hi all,

2009-02-06 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Jehan Pagès wrote: TrustedDeliveryAgent /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d %u UntrustedDeliveryAgent /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d %u QuarantineAgent /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d %u -m Junk deliver(recipi...@mydomain.tld):

Re: [Dovecot] Info regarding conversion of mbox to maildir

2009-02-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-5-2009 8:15 PM Timo Sirainen spake the following: On Feb 5, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Scott Silva wrote: When I finally decide to convert to maildir, will I have to set up namespaces during the conversion, or will dovecot figure out where everything is by itself? Just adding namespaces

Re: [Dovecot] help: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-02-06 Thread Jake Grimmett
Hi Mark, taking your advice, I've put ulimit -n 8192 /dev/null 21 into /etc/profile. The problem is horribly intermittent, so it's now just a question of waiting... Anyhow, many thanks for the tip - I'll post something to the list if the problem comes back ! Jake On Friday 06 February 2009

Re: [Dovecot] help: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
Are you sure /etc/profile gets read, especially during boot? I'm not that sure.. Anyway you can verify that the changes took place with: cat /proc/`pidof dovecot`/limits|grep files On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 17:07 +, Jake Grimmett wrote: Hi Mark, taking your advice, I've put ulimit -n 8192

Re: [Dovecot] ¿DC won't start? leaked file fd 5:

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 07:19 +0100, mathe...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Timo, mail.info dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.15 starting up mail.err dovecot: auth(default): Panic: Leaked file fd 5: dev 0.10 inode 3 This happens only when Dovecot has been configured with --enable-devel- checks (or was it

Re: [Dovecot] Shared subscription, acl-list and uidvalidity(s)

2009-02-06 Thread Thomas Hummel
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:57:29PM +0100, Thomas Hummel wrote: Any idea, anyone ? Sorry to insist, but I need this setup. Timo ? -- Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur hum...@pasteur.fr | Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau

Re: [Dovecot] help: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2009-02-06 Thread Jake Grimmett
Hi Timo / Mark, Whoops! your right, the profile doesn't get read :( Another failure was putting this line in /etc/security/limits.conf dovecot - nofile 8192 Still stuck with Max open files 1024 Until I 'cheated' and put a line into /etc/init.d/dovecot under the prog=Dovecot

[Dovecot] FreeBSD pam auth problems

2009-02-06 Thread Dmitry Samersoff
I'm impressed by dovecto and try to upgrade my home system from wu-imapd running there for last 5 years to dovecot. It's straghtforward FreeBSD setup with ssl-only auth, inboxes in /var/mail and user mail under %h/Mail But I get some strange error: Fatal: userdb didn't return a home

Re: [Dovecot] FreeBSD pam auth problems

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 22:40 +0300, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: Fatal: userdb didn't return a home directory, but mail location used it (%h): %h/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u .. passdb: driver: pam args: imap You don't have userdb configured at all, so Dovecot doesn't know the user's

Re: [Dovecot] Shared subscription, acl-list and uidvalidity(s)

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 15:20 +0100, Thomas Hummel wrote: I first connect (in Thunderbird) to dovecot with user 'hummel', then with user 'doveimap'. The following files are created in /path/to/public/ : -rw--- 1 doveimap doveshared40 Jan 30 14:03 dovecot-acl-list -rw--- 1 hummel

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-shared file

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 16:49 +0100, Thomas Hummel wrote: Hello Timo, About the dovecot-shared file, the wiki says : Unless you're using a single UID for all the users, you'll need to have a dovecot-shared file in each shared maildir. The group and the file permissions for new

Re: [Dovecot] Public namespace permissions documentation/questions

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:43 +0100, Thomas Hummel wrote: Hello Timo, In my trials to setup a shared namespace with dovecot-1.1.8/LDAP passdb/userdb (prefetch)/Maildir, I found out that : 1) ACL are mandatory (at least if the acl plugin is triggered in dovecot.conf) Am I correct ?

Re: [Dovecot] FreeBSD pam auth problems

2009-02-06 Thread Dmitry Samersoff
Timo Sirainen wrote: You don't have userdb configured at all, so Dovecot doesn't know the user's home directories. Probably helps if you just add: userdb passwd { } inside auth {} block. Thank you! it helps. -- Dmitry Samersoff d...@samersoff.net, http://devnull.samersoff.net * There will

Re: [Dovecot] Info regarding conversion of mbox to maildir

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 08:42 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: I have considered using the convert plugin, if there are not a lot of negatives. I don't know if anyone has really used it to do the conversion, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. :) The main negative is that it doesn't preserve

Re: [Dovecot] [patch] 'c' and 'd' in setacl

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 12:29 +0100, Sascha Wilde wrote: I just recognized that the new imap-acl plugin in dovecot 1.2 does not know the obsolete rights 'd' and 'c' when setting. .. [0] I don't like the use of static indexes witch imap_acl_letter_map but currently I wasn't able to decide

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir structure question

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 11:15 +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: ~/Maildir/new, ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/tmp directories contain the messages for INBOX. The tmp directory is used during delivery, new messages arrive in new and read shall be moved to cur by the clients. Right. But in my

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir structure question

2009-02-06 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:15:17PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote: There are no 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp' directories in ~/Maildir, as written in the wiki, but instead this .INBOX directory which contains these 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'. Is this expected ? Thanks. No, it's not expected. And

[Dovecot] FreeBSD setup: more problems

2009-02-06 Thread Dmitry Samersoff
Timo, Everything seems to be working except I can't access one folder: I have messages below in the log: dovecot: Feb 06 21:28:04 Error: IMAP(dms): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/mail/dms: Permission denied But permissions seems to be OK: mircat:dovecot#ls -ld /var/mail

[Dovecot] CentOS 5 ... again

2009-02-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
At this point I don't think I can do anymore damage to my mail server but I'd like to know if anyone else is using the pre-built RPM files from ATrpms before I install them? http://dl.atrpms.net/all/dovecot-1.1.11-0_90.el5.i386.rpm http://dl.atrpms.net/all/dovecot-sieve-1.1.6-9.el5.i386.rpm

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir structure question

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 21:50 +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:15:17PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote: There are no 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp' directories in ~/Maildir, as written in the wiki, but instead this .INBOX directory which contains these 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'.

Re: [Dovecot] FreeBSD setup: more problems

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 00:28 +0300, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: Dovecot setup: mail_uid: smmsp mail_gid: mail These settings are overridden by your userdb: userdb: driver: passwd You'll probably rather want to set: mail_privileged_group = mail signature.asc Description: This is a

[Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
I thought about saying this in v1.2.beta1 release annoouncement, but looks like it'll take a few more days. So I've moved to Blacksburg, Virginia and I'm now working for Mailtrust the rest of this year. Here's some talk about it: http://mailtrust.com/blog (A bit stupid looking picture, but then

Re: [Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Cor Bosman
Congratulations, sounds like a great place to be, Cor

Re: [Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Udo Rader
Timo Sirainen wrote: I thought about saying this in v1.2.beta1 release annoouncement, but looks like it'll take a few more days. So I've moved to Blacksburg, Virginia and I'm now working for Mailtrust the rest of this year. Here's some talk about it: http://mailtrust.com/blog (A bit stupid

Re: [Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Dunne
Awesome! Congratulations! Mike On Feb 6, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: I thought about saying this in v1.2.beta1 release annoouncement, but looks like it'll take a few more days. So I've moved to Blacksburg, Virginia and I'm now working for Mailtrust the rest of this year. Here's

Re: [Dovecot] [Dovecot-news] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Andre Hübner
A bit stupid looking picture hihi, yes... ;) - Original Message - From: Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi To: dovecot-n...@dovecot.org Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 11:58 PM Subject: [Dovecot-news] I've moved to US ___

[Dovecot] quota - implement via dovecot or postfix? which is easier ?

2009-02-06 Thread Linux Advocate
Guys, i m new to dovecot. I m setting up a new mailserver and planning to run dovecot and postfix of a centos 5.2 box. I have been reading of quota management from various sources and understand that mail box quota can be implemented either thru postfix ( with vda patch ) or thru dovecot. i

Re: [Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Ken A
Timo Sirainen wrote: I thought about saying this in v1.2.beta1 release annoouncement, but looks like it'll take a few more days. So I've moved to Blacksburg, Virginia and I'm now working for Mailtrust the rest of this year. Here's some talk about it: http://mailtrust.com/blog (A bit stupid

Re: [Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Jay Levitt
Timo Sirainen wrote: So I've moved to Blacksburg, Virginia and I'm now working for Mailtrust the rest of this year. Here's some talk about it: Congratulations!! As a former Virginian myself, let me give you a head start with this exhaustive list of fun things to do in Blacksburg: 1.

[Dovecot] Migrating mail between servers

2009-02-06 Thread Knute Johnson
I've currently got dovecot running on a Fedora server and I want to move all my mail to my new server running ubuntu. Both use mbox and I have IMAP working in both. Can I just copy the ~user/mail directory and /var/mail/user file and replace them in the new server? Thanks, -- Knute

Re: [Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 09:13, Udo Rader wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: I thought about saying this in v1.2.beta1 release annoouncement, but looks like it'll take a few more days. So I've moved to Blacksburg, Virginia and I'm now working for Mailtrust the rest of this year. Here's some talk

Re: [Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Ron Wilhoite
On 02/06/2009 05:58 PM Timo Sirainen wrote: I thought about saying this in v1.2.beta1 release annoouncement, but looks like it'll take a few more days. So I've moved to Blacksburg, Virginia and I'm now working for Mailtrust the rest of this year. Here's some talk about it:

Re: [Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Feb 6, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Ron Wilhoite wrote: Congratulations! Wow, Finland to Blacksburg. That could make for some interesting 'culture shock' posts. Actually I find Blacksburg to be very similar to Finland. I haven't really had any shocks. Just some small annoyances how some things are

Re: [Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Jonathan Siegle
On Feb 6, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Feb 6, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Ron Wilhoite wrote: Congratulations! Wow, Finland to Blacksburg. That could make for some interesting 'culture shock' posts. Actually I find Blacksburg to be very similar to Finland. I haven't really had any

[Dovecot] Rebuild folder listing?

2009-02-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I don't know what to call what I'm trying to do so I'll explain the situation. I had a total complete crash of the Linux-Vserver system that was hosting a Postfix+Dovecot guest with a three domains and 1-5 accounts per domain. Lots of mail though. Before it completely melted down I as able

[Dovecot] Best Imap Transfer Tool?

2009-02-06 Thread Neil
So I'm looking to do a migration of my IMAP mailboxes, and I'm looking for the best tool to use. I used to use the uw-mailutil tool, a while ago, but that was a bit coarse of a tool. More recently I've used imapsync, but that was giving me some errors. I've sort of tracked those down; but I was

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.11 released

2009-02-06 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 5, 2009 9:59:10 PM +0100 Peter Lindgren pe...@norrskenkonsult.com wrote: maildir-sync-index.c:295: warning: `j' might be used uninitialized in this function In function maildir_sync_mail_keywords, j is assumed to be initialized to 0 I think. It is used in line 339 in the for

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.11 released

2009-02-06 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 5, 2009 4:14:24 PM -0500 Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 21:59 +0100, Peter Lindgren wrote: There is a similar warning for mailbox-list-fs-iter.c, but as far as I can tell the warning is unjustified? mailbox-list-fs-iter.c:483: warning: `real_path' might be

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.11 released

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Feb 7, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Frank Cusack wrote: On February 5, 2009 4:14:24 PM -0500 Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 21:59 +0100, Peter Lindgren wrote: There is a similar warning for mailbox-list-fs-iter.c, but as far as I can tell the warning is unjustified?

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.11 released

2009-02-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Feb 7, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Frank Cusack wrote: for (i = j = 0; removed this warning, and removed my doubts :-) Should be for (i = (j = 0); a = b = ... is not legal, although gcc does accept it. Really? I've seen a=b=c like code for a long time. But I can't say exactly where C99

Re: [Dovecot] quota - implement via dovecot or postfix? which is easier ?

2009-02-06 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009, Linux Advocate wrote: i rather not patch postfix and m therefore leaning towards quota via dovecot. But after reading some posts ,etc, it seems that the information on the dovecot wiki is inaccurate. A.Any comments on this? To which posts are you referring? B. Am i

Re: [Dovecot] Best Imap Transfer Tool?

2009-02-06 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009, Neil wrote: So I'm looking to do a migration of my IMAP mailboxes, and I'm looking for the best tool to use. I used to use the uw-mailutil tool, a while ago, but that was a bit coarse of a tool. More recently I've used imapsync, but that was giving me some errors. I've

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.11 released

2009-02-06 Thread Jack Bailey
On Feb 7, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Frank Cusack wrote: for (i = j = 0; removed this warning, and removed my doubts :-) Should be for (i = (j = 0); a = b = ... is not legal, although gcc does accept it. Really? I've seen a=b=c like code for a long time. But I can't say exactly where C99