Re: [Dovecot] OT list modification Re: nfs director

2010-08-28 Thread Richard B. Pyne
I am with Dave on this one. Dave McGuire mcgu...@neurotica.com wrote: On 8/27/10 11:15 PM, Noel Butler wrote: I dont think we are living in the 19th century now, I think its time for the html to txt conversion to be scrapped, its screwed up the paragraph formatting ( and few other things in

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-08-28 Thread Cor Bosman
Hi, If you don't mind random Dovecot errors about index corruption I guess you're fine with how it works now. I guess your mails are delivered to maildirs by qmail? If you ever switch to Dovecot LDA you'll probably start getting more errors. And if you ever plan to switch to dbox format

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-08-28 Thread Cor Bosman
We might be a slightly larger install than you (60k users, mail on FAS 3170 Metrocluster), but we have noticed corruption issues and the director is definitely going to see use in our shop. We still use Sendmail+procmail for delivery, so no issue there... but we've got hordes of IMAP users

Re: [Dovecot] vpopmail auth always return unknown user

2010-08-28 Thread Toorop
Le 28/08/2010 03:20, fakessh a écrit : you send my dovecot -n for inspiration You don't use vpopmail backend. consult the archive of the ml it's full documented Thanks but as you can imagine it's the firts thing i have done. -- Toorop - Filtrage antivirus et antispam :

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-08-28 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Cor Bosman wrote: We might be a slightly larger install than you (60k users, mail on FAS 3170 Metrocluster), but we have noticed corruption issues and the director is definitely going to see use in our shop. We still use Sendmail+procmail for delivery, so no issue there...

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-08-28 Thread Cor Bosman
Noel, I think you just dont quite understand the problem the director is solving. The issue is that NFS is not lock-safe over multiple servers. We have 35 imap servers accessing a central NFS cluster. (we have over a million mailboxes) We offer IMAP to end user clients, and through webmail. This

[Dovecot] Problems Converting Maildir to mdbox

2010-08-28 Thread Christian Felsing
Hello, I would like to convert all users mail from maildir to mdbox. My Dovecot version is 2.0.1, converted from 1.2.13 but config was rewritten from scratch. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat says following: maildir - mdbox migration. Set mail_location=mdbox:~/mdbox and run doveadm

Re: [Dovecot] nfs director

2010-08-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 28.8.2010, at 8.18, Cor Bosman wrote: What the dovecot director is doing is ensuring that sessions from the same user all get directed to the same imap server, so NFS locking works safely. It's actually not about locking, but about caching.

[Dovecot] Error: service(auth): child 2212 killed with signal 11

2010-08-28 Thread Toorop
Hi, Auth always crash (segfault) using vpopmail backend. Any idea ? vpopmail 5.5.0 os: ubuntu 10.04 on rackspace cloud # dovecot -n dovecot -n # 2.0.1: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35.1-rscloud x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login

Re: [Dovecot] Error: service(auth): child 2212 killed with signal 11

2010-08-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 28.8.2010, at 12.15, Toorop wrote: Auth always crash (segfault) using vpopmail backend. Any idea ? Could you get gdb backtrace? http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html

Re: [Dovecot] Error: service(auth): child 2212 killed with signal 11

2010-08-28 Thread Toorop
Le 28/08/2010 13:25, Timo Sirainen a écrit : Could you get gdb backtrace? http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/auth /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/core GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1-ubuntu Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem

2010-08-28 Thread Patrick Fay
Hi, I am running dovecot 1.2.11 on mac osx 1.5.8. Everything works perfectly with the application-level firewall off, but enabling the application firewall prevents dovecot connections. I have tried explicitly authorizing dovecot in the firewall, but it does not work. I have searched

Re: [Dovecot] Problems Converting Maildir to mdbox

2010-08-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 8/28/2010 5:35 AM, Christian Felsing wrote: I would like to convert all users mail from maildir to mdbox. My Dovecot version is 2.0.1, converted from 1.2.13 but config was rewritten from scratch. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat says following: maildir - mdbox migration. Set

Re: [Dovecot] Can't get dovecot to see email folders

2010-08-28 Thread Blaster
Charles, Thanks for much for your tips...I have gotten further! I did have a userdb section, but I commented it out because it didn't seem to do anything. I've added it back in, and now home= is filled in appropriately. Now my mail clients aren't complaining! However, Thunderbird,

Re: [Dovecot] Problems Converting Maildir to mdbox

2010-08-28 Thread Kim Bisgaard
On 28-08-2010 16:30, Charles Marcus wrote: dsync mirror maildir:~/Maildir I am just trying to do that now (just testing so far). Using this command ($1 is substituted for the user): dsync -u $1 -o mail_location=maildir:/data/mail/$1/mdir mirror mdbox:/data/mail/$1/mdbox After having

Re: [Dovecot] Problems Converting Maildir to mdbox

2010-08-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 8/28/2010 11:17 AM, Kim Bisgaard wrote: After having learned that I need to create the destination directory first, I got this error: dsync(root): Fatal: Mail locations must use the same virtual mailbox hierarchy separator (specify separator for the default namespace) doveconf -n output?

Re: [Dovecot] Error: service(auth): child 2212 killed with signal 11

2010-08-28 Thread Toorop
Le 28/08/2010 13:25, Timo Sirainen a écrit : Auth always crash (segfault) using vpopmail backend. Any idea ? Could you get gdb backtrace? http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html It works with vpopmail 5.4.30 (Same config, same host). -- Toorop «Ils ne savaient pas que c'était impossible, alors

Re: [Dovecot] Can't get dovecot to see email folders

2010-08-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 8/28/2010 11:08 AM, Blaster wrote: I've copied in the UW-IMAP namespace section from the WIKI. snip namespace { inbox = yes location = I don't understand namespaces real well, but the wiki examples didn't have a location = setting at all... so maybe try removing that? -- Best

Re: [Dovecot] Problems Converting Maildir to mdbox

2010-08-28 Thread Kim Bisgaard
On 28-08-2010 17:21, Charles Marcus wrote: On 8/28/2010 11:17 AM, Kim Bisgaard wrote: After having learned that I need to create the destination directory first, I got this error: dsync(root): Fatal: Mail locations must use the same virtual mailbox hierarchy separator (specify separator for

Re: [Dovecot] When should dictionary entries for the expire plugin be added/updated?

2010-08-28 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 25.08.10 18:52, Timo Sirainen wrote: So you want to drop the domain? I'm not sure if you can do this on Postfix's side [...] I don't think so, based on the e-mails I received. It has been rightly pointed that LMTP requires fully qualified e-mail addresses. Now I try to find a LDAP-only

Re: [Dovecot] Problems Converting Maildir to mdbox

2010-08-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 8/28/2010 11:17 AM, Kim Bisgaard wrote: After having learned that I need to create the destination directory first, I got this error: dsync(root): Fatal: Mail locations must use the same virtual mailbox hierarchy separator (specify separator for the default namespace) Which I am afraid

Re: [Dovecot] When should dictionary entries for the expire plugin be added/updated?

2010-08-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 8/28/2010 11:46 AM, Ralph Seichter wrote: When I use dovecot-lda, auth_username_format is not required. So... why not just use LDA? -- Best regards, Charles

[Dovecot] dsync mirror duplicates problem

2010-08-28 Thread Waldemar W.
Im trying to sync 2 mailserver with dsync mirror functionality. Problem occurs when mails arrive in the same folder on both sides then dsync sometimes runs into problems and duplicates that entrys on both side(2mails then with same content). After running again the same happens again(now 4

Re: [Dovecot] When should dictionary entries for the expire plugin be added/updated?

2010-08-28 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 28.08.10 17:55, Charles Marcus wrote: So... why not just use LDA? I you read the complete thread, you'll find that Timo suggested using LMTP instead of LDA to avoid the need for a world-writeable socket.

Re: [Dovecot] When should dictionary entries for the expire plugin be added/updated?

2010-08-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 8/28/2010 12:05 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: On 28.08.10 17:55, Charles Marcus wrote: So... why not just use LDA? I you read the complete thread, you'll find that Timo suggested using LMTP instead of LDA to avoid the need for a world-writeable socket. Oh, right - I recall seeing that and

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem

2010-08-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Patrick Fay put forth on 8/28/2010 7:15 AM: Hi was hoping to use the application firewall because this machine gets used both as a server as well as a client machine for more general use. I haven't been able to find any specific documentation for it, but I have found that the firewall

Re: [Dovecot] Can't get dovecot to see email folders

2010-08-28 Thread Brian Hayden
Your Thunderbird clients are set to show only subscribed folders. Dovecot by default is not looking got the same subscriptions file that uw-imap was. So, thunderbird shows no mailboxes because the (new) subscription file is empty. This is one of the many reasons why subscriptions are bad,

[Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem

2010-08-28 Thread Patrick Fay
Hi, I am running dovecot 1.2.11 on mac osx 1.5.8. Everything works perfectly with the application-level firewall off, but enabling the application firewall prevents dovecot connections. I have tried explicitly authorizing dovecot in the firewall, but it does not work. I have searched

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem

2010-08-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Patrick Fay put forth on 8/28/2010 7:57 PM: I was hoping to use the application firewall because this machine gets used both as a server as well as a client machine for more general use. I haven't been able to find any specific documentation for it, but I have found that the firewall

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot - mac firewall problem

2010-08-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 8/28/2010 9:22 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Running a production setup of an MTA and IMAP server on one's workstation, with an MX record etc pointed at the box, is very, very... odd, rare. Not really... no reason you can't run your own personal setup for your own personal email, use getmail to