Re: [EXT] Re: How to get a memory pointer in the core process
On 14/03/2024 02:49, Joan Moreau via dovecot wrote: No, you don´t understand There is a core process (/usr/bin/dovecot) running all the time. So I want to allocate a memory block, the core process keep it and it is retrievable by the pluging when laded again At exit of /usr/bin/dovecot, it just does a "delete()" of the said allocation While I cannot help you with plugin writing or dovecot internals, this does seem like an example of the XY problem[0]. Perhaps if you provide a high level description of what you're attempting to do someone might come up with a way to achieve that. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br ___ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org
Re: DOvecot requires both IPv4 and IPV6 to start
On 04/09/2023 11:12, TWHG Technical via dovecot wrote: But that is not this issue. The issue is that dovecot is assuming that IPV6 is there and crashes out if it's not. Hacking the config to only listen on IP4 solves the problem but not while installing from standard repos to install the currently supported version. dovecot can handle an IPv4-only setup, you just have to tell it to (by setting a custom 'listen' config entry, as you have already found out). Your setup is non-standard, so it's expected that you'll have to make changes to accommodate that. Expecting that dovecot changes its default because of your particularities may be asking a little too much. PS: It would be easier to follow the discussion if you actually replied to the messages (quoting the relevant parts) instead of sending a new message. But be sure to use a client that sets in-reply-to: or references: headers so that the thread is not broken. -- Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. -- Storm Jameson Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br ___ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org
Re: How to correctly use readonly=yes with the sqlite driver?
On 23/07/2022 20:07, oddlama wrote: Hi! I want to use a sqlite database in readonly mode, which I found mentionend in the docs [1]. Unfortunately no examples were given, so I tried to infer the usage by inspecting core/driver-sqlite.c. If I interpret it correctly, this should have worked: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext: driver = sqlite connect = readonly=yes /var/vmail/virtual.sqlite user_query = #... Unfortunately, dovecot tries to open a file named "readonly=yes /var/vmail/virtual.sqlite" instead. I have no idea why the option is not parsed. Is this a bug or am I using the feature incorrectly? Best regards, oddlama [1]: https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/plugin/sql-sqlite/ The documentation mentions that "Prior to v2.3.18, Dovecot uses the whole value as filename to connect, whitespace included.". Are you running a new enough version? -- You may get an opportunity for advancement today. Watch it! Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: Dovecot and mutt
On 26/01/2021 18:18, Rupert Gallagher wrote: If someone needs to send a formatted text, then they can use a text editor on headed paper, export to PDF and send it as attachment. E-mail proper is the plain text body of the message. When people send fancy HTML and expect me to read it on my phone, then they have wasted their effort, because the message is too heavy to download, heavy to display, and because I ultimately read e-mails in plain text. And most of the times it is spam. And yet, ironically, this message you sent is in HTML. It does have a plain text part, but it's base64 encoded. Not a problem for any half-decent MUA, but for those read hardcore users that read their mail directly from ~/maildir (or something like that), it's an extra decoding step ;-) -- "Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it." -- Dave Barry Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: testing dovecot LMTP with postfix/spamassassin
On 16/03/2019 11:49, Marek Kozlowski via dovecot wrote: > Can I test local mail delivery by dovecot LMTP manually? I mean: to > simulate "I'm the Postfix" and produce for some testing e-mail the > same effect as postfix granting it via `local_transport' to dovecot? > You can probably use swaks for that, it has LMTP support. -- You canna change the laws of physics, Captain; I've got to have thirty minutes! Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: Auto configure email clients from Dovecot?
On 30-06-2018 14:37, Davide Marchi wrote: > Hi Friends, > > I'm using on Debian Jessie, Dovecot 1:2.2.13-12~deb8u3. > I would like to know if is it possible to auto-configure the email > client, for example Thunderbird or K-9 mail. > Essentially I would like to know if is it possible to let dovecot > instruct the mail client about how to auto-configure the email client. > > Actually my mail server parameters are not automatically taken from > Thunderbird or K9-Mail. > Is there a way to make this possible? Or am I on a wrong path? > It's possible. It has nothing to do with dovecot, though: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: Dovecot and Letsencrypt certs
On 08-09-2017 09:47, @lbutlr wrote: > Should dovecot check for certs being refreshed? Or is this an artifact of my > using symbolic links everywhere to point to the newest LE certs (which are > themselves links the dehydrate script creates to point to the newest > cert-1502534746.csr etc files? > > Should I just create a monthly cron to restart dovecot or is there something > else? Dovecot needs a restart after the certificate is changed. certbot allows you to define hooks to be run after a certificate is renewed, so you could use that feature to restart dovecot after the renewal. Other clients might have similar features. -- While you recently had your problems on the run, they've regrouped and are making another attack. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: Permission denied when logrotating dovecot.log
Please don't top post. On 18-03-2017 22:56, Michael Heuberger wrote: > Thank you. And what user/group/file perms does your dovecot.log file have? > Here I have drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 19 06:25 /var/log/dovecot/ And the files are -rw--- 1 root root 4110 Mar 19 07:57 info.log -rw--- 1 root root 0 Mar 19 06:25 main.log -- No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good intentions. He had money as well. -- Margaret Thatcher Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: Upgrade from 1.2 to 2.2
On Qua, 15 Fev 2017, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: 2017-02-15 13:27 GMT+01:00 Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@dovecot.fi>: For good pointers, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading it's not complete, but it should give you some idea. I've already read that, and as wrote previously, everything broke down. dovecont -n wasn't able to convert the configuration file and dovecot wasn't started properly. The only way to fix was to downgrade. As this is a production server, I would like to avoid this kind of issue. Set up a server replicating exactly the configuration you have at present. Doesn't need to be anything fancy, a virtual machine is enough. Actually, a virtual machine is a great tool if you can make snapshots and then rollback to known states if any attempt at a change fails. Do your upgrade work in this new server. Take note of the problems and the solutions. If you have concrete issues, you can ask help in this mailing list. Once you get your test server working, you can then upgrade the real server using what you've learned from the test server. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: Configuration problem for secure virtual server
On Qui, 15 Dez 2016, Karsten Malcher wrote: Hello, mail_uid = Debian-exim This will be important later Dec 15 18:03:25 pop3(karsten@server): Error: user karsten@server: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: stat(/mountpoint/mail/server/karsten) failed: Permission denied (euid=107(Debian-exim) egid=8(mail) missing +x perm: /mnt, we're not in group 9(crypt), dir owned by 0:9 mode=0770) Dec 15 18:03:25 pop3(karsten@server): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information. But dovecot is definitely in the group crypt! dovecot may be, but the process is not trying to access as user dovecot, but as Debian-exim (as shown in the log). And this happens because of the mail_uid line in your config. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: Backing up dovecot mailboxes
On Qua, 09 Nov 2016, Jerry wrote: Does anyone have a working solution as to how I can use "doveadm backup" to back up a virtual users mailbox to a removable USB device. I keep receiving numerous errors and no files are backed up although the directories are created. No, but I can recommend a solution with rsync. Just use it to copy the directories where mail is stored. Depending on the format, you may need to save the indexes too. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: btrfs for mail_attachment_dir
On Qua, 25 Fev 2015, Hardy Flor wrote: I don't find any indication, that no btrfs for then filesystem for the path in mail_attachment_dir is to be used. but btrfs has a big problem with hard links in the same directory. According to [0] (and the links in there), this problem has been long solved. [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#File_system_tree -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Migrating mailboxes
On Qua, 09 Jan 2013, Odhiambo Washington wrote: See the output below [root@mail home]# cd johndoe/ [root@mail johndoe]# du -h mail/ 32K mail/.imap/Sent 40K mail/.imap/Trash 32K mail/.imap/Drafts 176Kmail/.imap/INBOX 284Kmail/.imap 88M mail/ Clearly most of the data (probably the emails) is not under the .imap subdir, which is exactly what you didn't show us. It's probably mbox files. -- Hello again, Peabody here... -- Mister Peabody Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Can we know when a user read our email?
On Ter, 15 Mai 2012, Joseph Tam wrote:
It works by placing innocuous individualized tags in HTML formatted
Email e.g. img src=http://your.domain/?id={hash} that downloads a
1x1 dot). You can then correlate web logs with the hashes to see which
messages got rendered. A hit does not necessarily mean it got read, and
the absense does not mean it was ignored, but it's better than nothing.
If you value your privacy, turn off HTML rendering on your Email reader.
Even with HTML on, many (if not most) readers, including webmail ones,
disable loading remote images to avoid the problem, unless the users
specifically asks the images to be loaded.
--
Spock: We suffered 23 casualties in that attack, Captain.
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.15 released
On Sex, 16 Set 2011, Simon Brereton wrote: I'll bite.. But it's probably not your concern. When will we be able to get stable 2.x packages for Debian? Apt installs 1.2.15-7 In Debian stable? Only when the next stable version (wheezy) is released. Not in squeeze. Though perhaps a backport might appear. -- Colors may fade in time. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Possible to Customize File Naming Scheme?
On Seg, 12 Set 2011, Dave Stubbs wrote: Hello all, I'm watching how my mail system works, and I see that procmail creates a new file in the folder/new directory, each time an email is received. This file is some complex combination of UIDs and things, suffixed by the server name. So far, the filename has alphanumerics, a couple underscores, and a dot or two only. But once dovecot gets it's hands on the file and moves it to the folder/cur directory, it starts doing terrible things to the file name. Now, the filename starts to have evil things in it, like colons and commas. The colon and commas are part of the Maildir spec[0], so no, it can't be changed. [0]http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html -- If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books. -- Alan King Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] how to limit size of dovecot.log
On Qui, 28 Abr 2011, Aaron C Johnson wrote: I've done some searching and maybe I'm missing something... I have a remote dovecot and postfix server running on debian 5. I then have a local fetchmail server that retrieves email from the dovecot server via pop3s every 5 minutes. The problem is that the /var/log/dovecot.log file has grown to be over 1.1GiB over a period of less than 1 year. Is there a way to limit the size of the dovecot.log file, or do I have to run a monthly cron job or something to take care of it for me? On Debian that should happen automatically, via the logrotate package. Probably installing it is enough. -- For external use only. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] What is the recommended way to move a message from one mailbox to another using CLI
On Qua, 27 Abr 2011, Uffe Jakobsen wrote: What is the recommended way to move a message from one mailbox to another using CLI - serverside commands ? If you are using maildir, you can just mv the file. -- BOFH excuse #392: It's union rules. There's nothing we can do about it. Sorry. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] deleted messages not going away in Thunderbird?
On 03/05/2011 01:07 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: Hi folks. This may be a dumb question, but I can't seem to find a clue. I'm running Dovecot v1.2.9 and Thunderbird v3.1.7. If I delete messages using a different IMAP client (I also use an iPhone and occasionally SquirrelMail), I would expect those messages to disappear from Thunderbird the next time I start it or click on Get Mail. In fact, they do...most of the time. Sometimes, however, they just stick around. If I do a Repair Folder on the inbox in Thunderbird, the messages go away. Is this a known issue? My gut tells me there's some Thunderbird option to make it follow inbox contents with more attention but I've not been able to find it. I've also seen it. I've only observed it in INBOX, but I rarely delete mails from other folders, and in those other folders generally there are a lot of messages, so it would be hard for me to notice one that is there but shouldn't. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Iphone IMAP access
On Qua, 26 Jan 2011, Frank Bonnet wrote: When I use my iphone to access my IMAP folders I can see ALL folders in my userland and not only those listed in .subscriptions file ... Anyone has an explaination of this ? Might be a security/confidentiality hole isn't it ? I don't own an iPhone, but I remember reading that that's the way it is. You can complain to Apple. If you are lucky, you might get a rude response from Steve Jobs himself. Or you could look for another mail client that honours subscriptions. But I'm not sure if the App Store allows other mail clients that compete with the built-in one. -- /* * Buddy system. Hairy. You really aren't expected to understand this * */ -- From /usr/src/linux/mm/page_alloc.cA Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Iphone IMAP access
On Qua, 26 Jan 2011, Robert Schetterer wrote: so you cant verify I can't, but the OP can, opening his mail account with a program that respects subscriptions, like Thunderbird. -- Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Iphone IMAP access
On Qua, 26 Jan 2011, Giles Coochey wrote: My Android HTC Desire works a dream with Dovecot... However, problems I have with the mail app on there is that I can't find a way to bottom post (will only top-post), and it strips the thread-ids of mailing list posts... so not so good for mailing lists like this one. Having said that - works great for normal IMAP email. Profimail (http://www.lonelycatgames.com/?app=profimail) has been ported to Android. It's quite capable for a mobile app. -- 667: The neighbor of the beast. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.9 released
On Qui, 13 Jan 2011, Philipp Haselwarter wrote: And what's the status on debian? Sid still comes with 1.2.15, but it has like 210k lines of patches; is there any chance that it'll get 2.x.x any time soon? Or is debian just the wrong platform if I want to run the dovecot 2 series? What do other users do, roll your own .debs from source? The next version of Debian, 6.0, which should be released soon will get 1.2.15. No 2.x, unfortunately. It's possible that there will be a backport of version 2.x, however. -- An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. -- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Manual login to SSL-protected port?
On Seg, 25 Out 2010, Ron Leach wrote: We use only SSL-protected ports. Is it possible to manually login to dovecot when dovecot uses SSL-protected imap ports? Yes, just use openssl: openssl s_client -connect your.host.org:993 This is described in the Wiki: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/TestInstallation -- Acting is an art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird IMAP woes
On Qua, 11 Ago 2010, Timo Sirainen wrote: Now, the problem is that to a lesser extent, Thunderbird 2, and to a larger extent Thunderbird 3 is having serious issues when I go (want to go) deeper than two levels of nesting. Like, in the Subscribe dialog sometimes I see the third level subfolders, sometimes I dont. If is subscribe to a second-level folder, then create a subfolder in it, the other subfolders suddenly appear. It's all very random, unfortunatelly, then only way I can use the system right now is to uncheck 'Show subscribed folders only' in Account Settings, and even then, sometimes folders disappear or reappear that are highly nested. Some people have complained about this, but I thought this happened with all servers. So you're saying that the same TB versions with Courier didn't have this problem? .. Wonder what Courier could be doing differently here. I thought Dovecot and Courier outputs would be the same. I have this problem with TB 3 (but it worked fine in TB 2, with the same Dovecot version). Horde's IMP webmail does not have this problem. I believe it's a TB problem that has nothing to do with Dovecot. -- Algol-60 surely must be regarded as the most important programming language yet developed. -- T. Cheatham Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] mobile phone access to dovecot
On Qua, 04 Ago 2010, casanova99 wrote: I didn't find anything interesting in the search, so I just wanted to see what other people have done (or thought about doing). I'd like to be able to access my dovecot server via IMAP, from the Internet, using the integrated e-mail client from a smart phone. I'm very concerned about security and don't feel comfortable just poking holes into the firewall for direct access from the Internet. Is there a better way to do this? The IMAP server is in your home machine, not a dedicated server, right? Anyway, if you need to access it, you'll need to open your machine up for connections. If you can isolate the IPs you'd be connecting from, you can restrict access to them. -- QOTD: When she hauled ass, it took three trips. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Feature request: usernames and passwords
On Qua, 21 Jul 2010, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: i completly agree that dovecot is not the place for enforcing password policies nor checking them. but, still on the subject, maybe dovecot could have some features for helping sysadmins to avoid/mitigate brute-force attacks. As told, some bots tries username=password, but those fuckers (the bots) also tries lots of common passwords, 123, 1234, the username followed by some numbers, and lots of others. of course, if the provided password is not correct, dovecot denies access as it should but in those situations, logs can get pretty filled with login failed messages, specially on servers with lots of accounts. And, in some cases, after lots of tries, the bot can found the correct username/password combination. [snip] I think none of this is dovecot's function. Let's keep the UNIX filosophy: one tool does one function, and does that function well. Dovecot is an execellent mail server. It should not be turned into a monster Windows-like application that does dozens of not-really-quite-related things. What you want can be done with other tools. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] mdbox: Cannot create subfolder called dbox-Mails (2.0beta5)
On 07/02/2010 07:37 PM, William Blunn wrote: They might decide to create folders thus: postfix-Mails exim-Mails dbox-Mails Oops. We just collided with the Special value. In this case, I'll have to agree with Steve Jobs[0] and say: Change your folders [sic] name. Not that big of a deal. [0] http://thenextweb.com/2009/11/19/steve-jobs-small-developer-change-apps/ Since in a mailbox you will be inevitably storing mails, the -Mail part is unnecessary anyway. Compare and contrast an alternative possibility zgo0kq2njs. This is the uncommon character 'z' followed by nine random alphanumeric characters, for a total of 10 characters, and as such should have equal storage complexity to the original 10 ASCII character proposal dbox-Mails. But it does not make any word or phrase in any language I know of. This should make a better Special value because it should be less likely to collide with any normal value. The same argument that you use to say that dbox-Mails should be allowed can be used to justify the need for a folder called zgo0kq2njs. One just has to be more creative. :-) And even if it's easy to type with command-completion, I doubt anyone would have a clue to the purpose of a folder named like this, unlike a folder with a descriptive name. -- Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird problem
On 06/27/2010 06:04 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Regardless, my point is valid and stands: there is no (good) reason for the protocol to require multiple socket connections when everything can be accomplished more efficiently (in terms of resources consumed) over a single socket. I'm sure many people more qualified than me have pointed this out WRT the IMAP protocol over the years. Tomas is right. It's only possible to monitor one folder via IDLE per IMAP connection. It's stupid and inefficient, but that's how IMAP IDLE was designed. Fortunately, there's the NOTIFY extension to overcome that limitation. But it's not supported in all clients (nor in all servers, I'd guess). -- A visit to a strange place will bring fresh work. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1.x and 1.2.x differencies
We're drifting quite OT here, but... On 06/16/2010 08:29 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: Again - this is why I have never been inclined to even give debian a try... with gentoo, with a very few minor exceptions, the most I've ever had to wait was a few weeks... If you want newer releases, you can use debian testing or unstable. Note that stable/unstable means changing/not changing, not necessarily that the software is prone to instabilities (crashes, random bugs, etc.). Naturally, software in testing/unstable was tested for less time than the ones in the stable releases, but this will be true in any rolling release system. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] dovecot vs. Thunderbird
On 06/15/2010 08:11 AM, Bodo Schulz wrote: When i want subscribe Folders, i have no access to folder are deeper as second level! I've seen this with Thunderbird 3.x (it worked fine with 2.x). I suppose it's a Thunderbird bug. To be sure, connect manually and ask for a list of folders: http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation -- If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who wore fur boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him. -- Anton Chekhov Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Problem with SPAM-Mail's over sieve
On Qui, 20 Mai 2010, Michael Niehren wrote:
Hi together,
i am currently using dovecot 1.2.10 with the sieve-plugin and use a
sieve-filter to sort the SPAM-Mail's directly into a Junk-Folder:
require fileinto;
# rule:[junkfilter]
if header :contains X-Spam-Flag YES {
fileinto Junk;
}
My problem is now, if i try to retrieve the Mails via POP3, i did not get the
SPAM-Mail's in the Junk-Folder, only the normal ones, that are not filtered
over the sieve plugin.
Could anyone tell me how to solve that issue ?
POP3 has no concept of folders, so only mails in INBOX are accessible.
In the wiki there's a Virtual INBOX por POP with all folders
solution, but the net effect is displaying all e-mails from all
folders in the INBOX, so you might save a few processor cycles and
simply not filter mails in folders in the first place.
--
Some assembly required.
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] feature question: local delivery from SMTP
On Qua, 20 Jan 2010, Phil Howard wrote: Does Dovecot really need a separate MTA for inbound mail? Or can it receive SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do? What about spam/virus filtering in that case? Dovecot does not receive mails. It only serves them to users via IMAP or POP3. So, yes, you need a program like exim or postfix. -- BOFH excuse #424: operation failed because: there is no message for this error (#1014) Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] handling filename of compressed messages
On 01/17/2010 12:06 PM, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: The 'script compress idea' from the Wiki page sais: Dovecot can now read the file, but to avoid compressing it again on the next run, you'll probably want to rename it again to include e.g. a Z flag in the file name to mark that it was compressed (e.g. 1223212411.M907959P17184.host,S=3271:2,SZ). If i rename the file and add the Z flag, i will be braking the dovecot-uidlist file, which contain the filenames without the Z flag. Users would have to download the compressed files again because the filename was changed. That on big mailboxes and slow connections (specially after the very 1st compression routine run) can be a BIG problem. keeping the filename intact, not even adding the Z flag, would be a great idea to avoid clients from redownloading messages ??? Compression routines would probably have to use file command to identify already compressed files, which would badly impact on the performance of its run ... not being able to identify already compressed files based on its filename would be very bad I think that file name comparison is based only on the part before the :, which identifies the message. What comes after are flags that might be set/unset independently of dovecot if another program also accesses the mail directory. Note that it is not necessary to include the Z flag to prevent double compression. If you really want, you can keep the same file, just be sure in your compression script to check if files are compressed by looking at the first bytes: both gzip and bzip2 files always start with some fixed bytes. -- The nation that controls magnetism controls the universe. -- Chester Gould/Dick Tracy Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Update Dovecot index files on maildrop delivery?
On Sex, 15 Jan 2010, Kārlis Repsons wrote: On Friday 15 January 2010 12:20:05 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Sex, 15 Jan 2010, Kārlis Repsons wrote: is there some easy way to inform Dovecot about a new delivery, which has happened after postfix invoked maildrop, so the index files would be updated? That's exactly the task for which dovecot deliver was made. But maybe you could also post a short info on how should deliver be called? I read that The Dovecot LDA, called deliver, is a local delivery agent which takes mail from an MTA and delivers it to a user's mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index files up to date. However in my case maildrop seems to be in the place of deliver. Would it work if maildrop had deliver called by xfilter with the options appended, then followed by to /dev/null? I don't know maildrop, so I can't tell if this would work. But the idea is to use deliver instead of maildrop, unless you need something that only maildrop can do. In this case, I'd leave things as they are and not worry about indexes. When the mail folder is opened next time dovecot will notice the new messages and update the indexes. -- Mercury knghtbrd: Eww, find a better name, the movie sucked.. G Knghtbrd Mercury: The engine is better than the movie Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?
aja-li...@tni.org wrote: If you try Roundcube for a while you might find out nice features, like the del key works for deleting an email, drag and drop is possible, and there's email auto completion within the email compose window, and you can add email-addresses in emails to the address-book with just one mouse click. Drawbacks I've found in RoundCube so far : I couldn't find out how to toggle individual emails in the mailbox window, and the search options seem rather limited compared to Squirrelmail, and RoundCube only has one official skin/theme included. Also, according to the site threading support does not exist yet (but it is planned). To me this is a big no-no. -- QOTD: You want me to put *holes* in my ears and hang things from them? How... tribal. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot not delivering mail.
On Qua, 06 Jan 2010, Pascal Volk wrote: Sorry, but I really can't understand, why the most unbuntu users seems to be unable to read AND understand so simple written documentation. :( flamebait If they could, they'd be running debian. :-) /flamebait -- The young lady had an unusual list, Linked in part to a structural weakness. She set no preconditions. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] First time Dovecot user, really impressed so far. What is best IMAP enabled webmail package to go with Dovecot?
On Ter, 05 Jan 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I've looked a little at both now and am still reading. One thing I don't like is that I'm seeing requirements a SQL server. That adds unnecessary complexity to the system and I'd rather avoid it if possible. IIRC, one of the reasons I chose Squirrelmail a few years ago was that it's requirements were pretty simple, and that it didn't require a database backend for anything. IMP/Horde can work with a sqlite database, which is just a file and requires no running server. -- Schizophrenia beats being alone. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot vs Exim file locking
On Sex, 18 Dez 2009, Daniel Campos wrote: We're planning to deploy a large e-mail system storing maildirs in a NAS system through NFS. One of the options we're thinking on is using Dovecot+EXIM. As far as I've read in both project's documentation, both services implement locking allowing multiple servers to access the same maildirs in order to distribute the service load. However, I can't find any information explaining whether both locking mechanisms are compatible, whether any additional configuration is needed both in Dovecot and/or EXIM, or even whether any locking synchronization between both services is needed/recommendable at all. The only remote clue I've found is that, according to Dovecot docs: Because Dovecot uses its own non-standard locking (dovecot-uidlist.lock dotlock file), other MUAs accessing the maildir don't support it. (but EXIM is not a MUA, anyway) Anyhow theoretically MailDir could even be considered free of locking problems, but I'm not sure of the real implications of putting together several Exim and Dovecot installations pointing to the same NFS filesystem. Any knowledge/experience/link/clue on this would be greatly appreciated. As far as I know, maildir does not require locking. I used sometime exim + dovecot without problems. Now I use dovecot's deliver, by doing that you'll certainly have no problems. -- Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, Today I will be brilliant. -- Kirk, The Ultimate Computer, stardate 4731.3 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Quota Configuration
On Ter, 15 Dez 2009, Pattabi Prasanna wrote: I setting up a Mail server for my company. I have installed Postfix, it is working fine. I have installed Dovecot IMAP Server, i want to know how to implement quotas for users mailbox. I have created Users using /etc/passwd, No Mysql or LDAP at present. can you provide me the links to do this. This link should give you some starting point: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Sieve mails with decoded subject
On Qui, 10 Dez 2009, Johannes Bauer wrote: I'm thinking about filtering all such encoded subjects (as there's no reason to encode them US-ASCII), but suppose it were UTF-8 or something: how can I filter on the actual content, not the encoded subject? Surely someone has solved that problem already? Yes, such as the guys behind SpamAssassin, or dspam, or any of the many spam filtering programs that exist. Actually, they make much more complicated decisions instead of only looking for bad words in the subject field. I'd suggest you try installing one of them. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Help request
Roy Lozano wrote: I'm very new to Linux and especially Dovecot. We are using Dovecot IMAP/POP3 for mail services. I was moving mail from one user account to another new account and the mail just disappeared. Do I have a way to recover the mail? Please help Sure, use the backups you made and recover from them. Oh, you don't have backups? Well... Anyway, this doesn't seem like a dovecot issue. But even if it is, we can't help you much if you do not give details on what you were trying to accomplish, how you tried to do that, and how it failed. -- The meek are contesting the will. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] how to hide mailbox from the IMAP clients
On Ter, 06 Out 2009, Kostik wrote: Hello, everyone! Is it possible to hide mailbox from the IMAP clients, so as to prevent any user from subscribing to the some folders? My storages are mbox maildir. For example, to hide the directory where the personal Sieve scripts are stored or etc. I think you're approaching the problem from a wrong perspective. You should not hide non-mail folders from clients, but you should hide them from the server. If it's not a mail folder, Dovecot should not treat it as one. How to do that depends on your settings, but basically you should not include the folder with scripts inside the folder with the mailboxes, but instead store it elsewhere. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] The file doesn't contain a certificate.
On Qua, 23 Set 2009, A M wrote: Yesterday I upgraded dovecot from 1.1.16 to 1.2.4 using portupgrade I am now getting the following messages in the log file: Sep 23 12:00:41 imap-login: Fatal: Can't load certificate file /etc/ssl/imaps.example.org.csr: The file doesn't contain a certificate. The certificate file contains exactly what it did before: -BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST- MIIBhTCB7wIBADBGMQswCQYDVQQGEwJVUzELMAkGA1UECBMCQ0ExFDASBgNVBAcT C0xvcyBBbmdlbGVzMRQwEgYDVQQKEwtCb3hJU1AsIExMQzCBnzANBgkqhkiG9w0B AQEFAAOBjQAwgYkCgYEAue0xYWcYcLHQoI/nQj2tG3AV0Mepx1pvHbCSqmKxelyo z5cToH9kFIPzxDJvL8ChQ21ftM7m79ChfiXgWsUhHuaoeNdwr12FQ+nbbZoaELGZ 3keZv93rYkGstkL8zxTIquDq1dKSp+3e1T7M0ktphlYWuNEv8vHa4zM3n5izdmcC AwEAAaAAMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBQUAA4GBAA1JnGM4A5HvRy+TFjMrUHoJr79DaMpj qmKT2R5uW0iQnRGjrSfMCaZgyEQqKU5eCAVx5xTih7iO7VKLP5zKRVMSAJ5kQW1o 7bM/NvbnI+Jdz749VkZtUXWWVNlIB0uVXp++moWN5+y94kj3f1VhHQke+pS8NWGG YxhXEZtBBUdO -END CERTIFICATE REQUEST- That's not a certificate, that's a certificate request. You send it to a company that sells certificates (along with your credit card number :-) ) and receive the certificate. Or you can generate a self-signed certificate by following the steps in http://openssl.linux-mirror.org/docs/HOWTO/certificates.txt . -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Move to a Specific Folder
On Qui, 17 Set 2009, Darvin Denmian wrote: Is there a way to automatically expurge or move messages from a specific folder to another folder after X days? Where X specifies the amount of days that messages in folder will be kept. If it's maildir, you can use find(1) to search the messages and mv(1) them to another folder. The next time the folders are opened dovecot will update the indexes. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] v2.0 configuration paths
On Seg, 31 Ago 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: In Dovecot v2.0 I'm splitting dovecot-example.conf to multiple files. It's probably annoying to have tons of dovecot-*-example.conf files, so what do you think about: 1. Change default sysconfdir from $prefix/etc to $prefix/etc/dovecot (that's what most distros do anyway) That's a good change. 2. Install *.conf files to $sysconfdir/example/ without the -example part in any of the config files. So new installations would then start with mv example/* . However, I don't think anywhere under /etc is the best place for example configuration files. I think they belong rather under /usr/share, though is no big deal if they are elsewhere. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Two server certificates for two common names
On Qua, 26 Ago 2009, Δημήτριος Καραπιπέρης wrote: So , on one dovecot instance, it is impossible to have two ssl certificates for two distinct common names. right? At the moment, yes. In a future version this will be possible, but I suppose you will still need two IPs. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] problem with disable_plaintext_auth
On Qua, 29 Jul 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I am using dovecot with postfix for authentication. Everything (TLS/SSL, authentication) is working fine, except that when I set: disable_plaintext_auth = yes I still can authenticate with plain text on a no TLS/SSL session: 20 mail2.cs.ait.ac.th ESMTP Postfix (2.6.2) EHLO [192.41.170.57] 250-mail2.cs.ait.ac.th 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 1024 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN AUTH PLAIN 235 2.7.0 Authentication successful disable_plaintext_auth affects logging in to dovecot IMAP/POP3 server. This is a SMTP session with Postfix, you'll have to configure Postfix not to allow plain text authentication before STARTTLS. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Urgent problem with deleting emails and maildirsize
On Qui, 02 Jul 2009, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote: Dears Sirs, I hope they can help me with this problem since it is urgent. I've completed the migration from Courier to Dovecot that has been running correctly, the only problem is that maildirsize file is not updated when you delete the emails, resulting in accounts that reach to 100% faster, so I have to manually delete this file. Through Dovecot can be configured to automatically update when maildirsize delete emails? Posting the same request twice in two hours in not going to get an answer faster. Especially if you do not add the missing information in the first post to the second one. Please show us your dovecot -n output. That will answer the question, but anyway: do you have the quota plugin configured? -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Urgent problem with deleting emails and maildirsize
On Qui, 02 Jul 2009, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote: Thanks for your response Eduardo. Apologies to the list by the rush and lack of information when reporting a problem. One of the webmails is configured so that when delete some mail move to Trash directory, I have no problem here because I've configured Dovecot to ignore this folder to quota The other two webmails are not configured to use the Trash directory and when you delete some mail will be maintained in the INBOX but it shows shading and the server adds the flag T: 1244457746.11461.domain.com, S = 5413:2, ST So no updates maildirsize and quota does not change, this may result in the accounts quickly reach 100% usage. The quote does not change because the mail is not deleted. It's only marked as deleted (T flag). Once the folder is expunged (that's how IMAP call it; your webmail mail give a different name for this action) all mails flagged as deleted are actually deleted and space is released. The easiest solution would be to use a Trash folder also for this domain. Or, if you do not want that, you'll have to instruct your users to expunge their folders when they want to claim space. I believe there is also a plugin that should do automatic expunging, but I don't known when it's triggered. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot
On Qui, 28 Mai 2009, Curtis Maloney wrote: But what sort of user puts 4GB of mail into a _single_ folder?? Those that never delete the emails nor move them into folders. Everything they ever received is in the INBOX. And yes, this happens a lot. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] offlineimap with dovecot and sieve
On Ter, 26 Mai 2009, Dieter Faulbaum wrote: I have a dumb question, is it possible to use this combination: Synchronising a remote IMAP-server and a local dovecot-IMAP-server by offlineimap (with both types = IMAP), which works very well. But it seems, that my sieve-scripts on the local dovecot server are not recognised by this combination. Is there a good debugging way for this? There isn't much to debug. They are not run because they are only run when deliver is used to deliver mails to the user. When they are directly copied to the mail boxes they are not run. I believe you cannot do that with offlineimap. But if you can get a program that downloads the e-mails from the other server and passes them to the deliver (or to your MTA, which then passes them to deliver) you'll achieve what you want. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Deleting mail account?
On Seg, 25 Mai 2009, David Reid wrote: This is likely a daft question, but how do I remove a mailbox from a dovecot server? I'd like to simply remove it from the disk as well, deleting any messages, indexes etc etc Is there a way? There is an IMAP command that does that. I don't remember its name, but you can lookup in the RFC. Or you can just remove the file (if using mbox) or directory (if using Maildir) that holds the mailbox. Then remove the indexes, which can be in the same directory or somewhere else, depending on how you configured dovecot. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Deleting mail account?
On Seg, 25 Mai 2009, David Reid wrote: I'd like to be able to do it all via a web interface and dovecot to keep the admin to a minimum. I've seen the delete function in IMAP, but it fails when I try and remove the INBOX. So you want to remove a whole account? You'll need to disable (or even remove, but I wouldn't recommend that) in you authentication database. How it is done depends on which kind of authentication you are using. Then, if you want to delete all the mails for that account, just remove the folders where they are stored. This is specified by the mail_location setting in dovecot.conf. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Deleting mail account?
On Seg, 25 Mai 2009, David Reid wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Then, if you want to delete all the mails for that account, just remove the folders where they are stored. This is specified by the mail_location setting in dovecot.conf. This part is where I was hoping there was a way to get dovecot to remove the mails for me... Is that possible? If not I guess I need to look at other ways of dealing with it. For all folders except the INBOX itself, you can delete them via IMAP. You can also remove everything from the INBOX, but you cannot delete the INBOX itself through dovecot. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] How can I put a file back in Maildir folder?
Allan Cassaro wrote: Hi, I have a problem: today, when I ran fsck some file was linked to lost+find folder... After some hours I has all files mapped (File / User). So... how can I put this files back in Maildir folder of this users? I tried with: cat $file | deliver -d username but without success... Any help will be appreciated! If it's a properly formed mail (basically headers, a blank line, and a body), you could just copy/move it to the cur/ folder of the mailbox. Dovecot will see it (and index it) next time the folder is opened. -- The Celts invented two things, Whiskey and self-destruction. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] How do I get my mail from fetchmail into dovecot
On Qua, 29 Abr 2009, Michael Steinbeck-Reeves wrote: That is the problem, fetchmail just forwards it to port 25 (I think) and I need to work out what to put between fetchmail and dovecot in order to get the mail into the correct folders... A MTA (Mail Tranfer Agent), such as exim, postfix or others. Though there might be a way to configure fetchmail to store directly in the mail store, but I'm not sure (I don't use it). -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot - Gmail (via POP Mail Fetcher)
Neil wrote: I'm trying to move my entire email store from my Dovecot installation (which I normally access via IMAP) into Gmail using Gmail's Mail Fetcher (which functions over POP); and I'm running into two problems: 1. Gmail only imported 78 out of 1000+ mails in my inbox, which I'm taking to mean that Dovecot is reporting only those 78 as new. How can I get Dovecot to send all mail over as new? 2. I can't be sure of this yet (since, due to #1, Gmail doesn't seem to be downloading everything), but I'm pretty sure Dovecot is only reporting my Inbox emails over POP; is there a way I can get all my mail, from all my folders, to stream in over POP? POP3 only accesses INBOX, so if the e-mails are in other folders, they are not visible. Some time ago someone proposed a solution (I guess using a virtual folder, but I'm not sure), try searching the archives. -- It's bad enough that life is a rat-race, but why do the rats always have to win? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] deliver vs lda
Charles Marcus wrote: heh... well, they would soon enough... Seriously though... why call it a 'local delivery agent', when its really more than that? Local suggests local/system users, and dovecot delivery agent works fine for both local and virtual users. Postfix calls its local delivery agent 'local', and its virtual delivery agent 'virtual' It's local because it stores e-mails somewhere in the local filesystem hierarchy, instead of sending it to a remote machine via SMTP (or any other protocol). I don't know postfix a lot, but I wonder why it needs two LDAs, one for real users and one for virtual ones, when the only conceptual difference should be where to store e-mails and where to lookup information on the existence of the user and his mail spool directory. -- A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] deliver vs lda
Charles Marcus wrote: On 4/8/2009, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI (edua...@kalinowski.com.br) wrote: It's local because it stores e-mails somewhere in the local filesystem hierarchy, instead of sending it to a remote machine via SMTP (or any other protocol). But thats not the generally accepted meaning of local in context of email servers. I don't know what is the generally accepted, but to me virtual users are just as local as real users, they just don't have a proper account (because there is no need to). Besides, this isn't true if you're using NFS... Not quite... in the point of view of a program, writing to a NFS share or a filesystem in the same machine is the same thing, the program doesn't even have to know that it's storing a file in another machine. And mail is not being transported, which would involve another MTA that would further handle the e-mail. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] dbox - how to awaken the monster
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello people, Since the invention of this storage called dbox, I have never quite gotten round to understanding it, nor getting to use it. It seems so strange to me and I must ask a few stupid questions about it. I use the MTA to deliver mail to Maildir, either in ~/Maildir or /some/path/%d/%n/Maildir. It has always beat me how dbox comes into play under such circumstances. From the wiki, I see the following: dbox supports a quick migration from Maildir format - now this leaves me hanging. How? Suppose I migrate from Maildir to dbox, what changes do I make to the MTA to understand that I use dbox? Ok, I use Exim as my MTA. I hope someone can explain to me what I need to do to Exim and what to do th Dovecot so that I can test this dbox thing. And suppose I want to transfer userA's mail to UserB, what do I do? With Maildir, I can simply do something like exim does not know about dbox (it's a dovecot-specific format). You'd need to configure exim to use dovecot's deliver as LDA. There are instructions for that in the Wiki. -- Endy taniwha: Quote material :) taniwha Endy: :) knghtbrd Endy: I already snipped it Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] Maildir and mail files question
Harry Lachanas escreveu: If an incoming mail is saved in 2 mail locations via dovecot deliver, and its wished that if deleted from box a should also be deleted from box b ... wil it be safe to delete based upon the W=x part of the file name So far my tests indicate that It could be true ... W= represents the size of the message. While it is relatively unlikely that two messages will have the exact same size, it certainly can happen. -- Eduardo M Kalinowski edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] email stuck in outbox
barnaby cockcroft wrote: Can anyone here help me out with a client side Outlook issue? I know outlook is a horrible imap client :( We intermittently have a problem where mail gets stuck in Outlook users' outboxes. Might have anything to do with dovecot? I really doubt so. It could be a problem with your SMTP server, but dovecot is only used for reading messages, not for sending. Is there anyway I can troubleshoot this server side? Are there any settings I can tweak? Check your mail server logs. But first see what Outlook tells you: there might be a clue. This often happens when an invalid e-mail address is passed, which causes rejection of the message and it stays in the outbox (and then gets reject again, and so on). Are all the recipients valid e-mail addresses? -- In fiction the recourse of the powerless is murder; in life the recourse of the powerless is petty theft. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] auth_debug_passwords
Josh Gentry wrote: Hi. I'm new to Dovecot and about to start using it in production. In the config file, I set the option, auth_debug_passwords, to yes. I do not see any failed passwords logged, however. It did cause more verbose authentication logging, but failed passwords are still hidden. That option is not for logging passwords, but to ease problem investigation in case something is not working as it should. There might be a way to log password attempts, but it's not a good idea from the point of view of security, so I'm glad it's not so easy to have them logged. Remember that a failed password might be someone using a dictionary attack, but can be an user that simply mistyped one character in his password. But even in the first case, what good would it do to know what words an attacker is using? -- Q: Why does Washington have the most lawyers per capita and New Jersey the most toxic waste dumps? A: God gave New Jersey first choice. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] Script: Moving Maildirs between servers
Charles Marcus wrote: So you're rsyncing a live mail system with no problems? I do it every day for backups. :-) I've been tempted to start doing this, but I was under the impression it could be risky (cause file corruption)? I can imagine that one could end up in the backup copy with an incomplete/corrupt file (but this will be fixed in the next rsync, hopefully), but I don't see how rsync could corrupt the original files in the mail server. -- Why is it called a funny bone when it hurts so much? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] Adding Disclaimer to emails
Romer Ventura escreveu: Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to add a disclaimer to every outgoing email using my setup (Postfix+Dovecot).. Dovecot only deals with allowing users to access the e-mail they've received. This would be a task for postfix. But please, please don't. http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ -- Eduardo M Kalinowski edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] LDA - no bounces
Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: How to call deliver program to be sure it will *NEVER* generate bounce messages? [all signalling via deliver exit code ] According to the Wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA), that would be the -e option. -- A general leading the State Department resembles a dragon commanding ducks. -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] IMAP Folder permissions
Stuart Gall escreveu: Hello, Happy new year. I have a dovecot with exim installation. I am using virtual users for mail and IMAP. When dovecot creates a folder from imap user the permissions are rwx-- I need them to be rwxrwx--- Is there a way to change this in the configuration file ? You need a dovecot-shared file. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes for details. -- Eduardo M Kalinowski edua...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: [Dovecot] change sender name in Sieve
Jakob Grießmann wrote: thanks a lot, will look into it. I have quite a few systems to maintain, so I think best would be to set-up my own repository, as your patching instructions otherwise would have to be done by hand on all machines, which is quite time consuming. :-) For one or two packages, you do not need to setup a repository, just copy the .deb's and install them with dpkg -i. -- Once you've tried to change the world you find it's a whole bunch easier to change your mind. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] SSL certs per listen IP
Ian P. Christian wrote: Does anyone else see a value in my putting this in as a feature request? IMO it would be useful to have a whole list of IP/SSL mappings, or perhaps different certs on different ports. I will happily accept I'm in the minority though is no one else sees value in this. I don't really want to run X number of instances of dovecot on my setup, as X might be reasonably high, and I'm running this on a low member virtual machine - if it weren't for having to run multiple processes, memory requirements would be very low. It would be nice, but it is hardly something essential. I believe this feature is already planned by Timo for a future version. -- I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] Unbreakable NFS locking issues...
Well, you just posted your message three times... Rod Treweek wrote: Yeah, typical rookie move by posting twice...didn't see my post, so went into the dovecot list setting for my account to adjust it to get a confirmation, and then sent the message again. Really stupid, and I apologize. It's a gmail feature: you do not see your own posts to a list, at least not until you get a reply to them. -- Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] Enh-Req: Mark As Read When Delivered
Neil wrote: I'm under the impression bug-reports are supposed to go to the list, so hopefully it's okay if I put in a feature request here too (assuming it's not already implemented; but it doesn't look like it). Basically, all I would like to do is be able to sometimes deliver mail as already mail into mail boxes. Is there some way to do this? If not, could a flag perhaps be added to deliver to do it? (And Sieve; but for now I think procmail still has much higher adoption, and thus having it in deliver would be rather key...) You can do that with a sieve script, there's a feature (called imapflags or something similar) that allows you to mark the e-mail as read. -- The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones. -- Nathaniel Howe Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and postfix with tls and dovecot sasl issues for smtp clients
Harondel J. Sibble wrote: dovecot -n # 1.1.4: /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imaps pop3s ssl_listen(default): *:993 ssl_listen(imap): *:993 ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_ca_file: /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/combined-ca-and-crl.crt ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot-chained.cert ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/tls/private/server.myserver.net.key ssl_verify_client_cert: yes ssl_require_client_cert = yes verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=~/mail/.imap/indexes mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login debug: yes debug_passwords: yes ssl_require_client_cert: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix Interestingly enough the mode line in the dovecot.conf file is set as 0660, not 432 as noted above?!?!? 0660 (octal) = 432 (decimal), so the setting is OK. -- Esperto é o homem que acredita em apenas metade do que lhe dizem. Genial é o homem que sabe em que metade acreditar. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] dovecot delivery log
jalal escreveu:
Trying to debug a delivery problem recently (with Postfix) and I
realized that Dovecot wasn't logging any of the delivery information.
I'm using Postfix to recieve mail, which is passing it on to Dovecot's
deliver to actually deliver the emails into the mail boxes.
In dovecot.conf, I have:
protocol lda {
log_path = /var/tmp/dovecot-deliver.log
}
Any clues as to how I can have a delivery log?
That file will only log errors and abnormal conditions. To get
information on all deliveries, set info_log_path to the file you want.
--
Eduardo M Kalinowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot-sieve processing optimizations
Seth Mattinen escreveu:
Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
I'm working at the next part of the virtual domains mail server. I'm
moving this account ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is a forwarder) which has a bunch
of procmail rules to file into folders.
My question is if it is more efficient is use?
if {
...
} elsif {
...
} elsif {
...
}
else
This seems to be the way many of the example scripts do it but I found
at least one that used
if {
...
}
if {
...
}
Which is more procmail like and for me reads easier.
If not here where should I ask?
Well, both accomplish different things. In the first example, one and
only one of the conditions will be executed. In the second one, more
than one could possibly be executed.
I've never looked at Sieve's code, but the first will stop at the first
matching condition. In the second case, because you could make it do
more than one thing, it must check each condition.
If in each if you put a finish statement (or whatever is used to stop
processing the file), then the second one can be more efficient, since
it does not have to continue checking the file to see if there are
further conditions after the if/elseif/.../else block.
But in practice I doubt there is a practical difference between both.
You should use the one that is more readable for you.
--
Eduardo M Kalinowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Dovecot] Zlib plugin question
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib says pop3 and imap can use this plugin. Does deliver also use it? No, the zlib plugin is only for reading compressed messages/mailboxes. You have to compress them manually. -- calc Knghtbrd: irc doesn't compile c code very well ;) Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] Any suggestions for backing up an imap server and whould maildir or dbox be better than mbox?
From: Götz Reinicke Hi, we run a Red Hat EL 5.2 mailserver with dovecot as the imap server. Mails are stored in mbox format and there are about 134GB of mail. At the moment users copy their importent mail to their workstation accounts wich are backed up nightly. What are your suggestions to back up the mails not copied? Thanks for any comments. You can simply rsync the whole mail store. Gets pretty efficient after the first run. Or take a look at rdiff-backup if you need to store previous copies. BTW: Dose changing the mailbox format from mbox to Maildir or dbox dose have any advantages? I don't think it makes any difference in this case.
Re: [Dovecot] create folder automatically
From: Nicolas Letellier Indeed, the folder is created with the sieve rule (cf precedent mail). I see this line in my deliver log: Oct 1 10:48:42 trinite deliver([EMAIL PROTECTED]): msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED]: saved mail to Junk However, when we connect us in the webmail, or download mail with IMAP, the folder is not present. The folder is created, but no line about it is present in subscriptions file. So, the folder is not viewable. If I remember correctly, recently it was added an option to deliver to autosubscribe to created folders. I think it is only available in the git version.
Re: [Dovecot] create folder automatically
Seth Mattinen escreveu:
Nicolas Letellier wrote:
Hello.
I install a sieve rule automatically when a mailbox is created, like:
if exists X-Spam-Flag {
fileinto Junk;
stop;
}
However, sometimes, this folder does not exist. How create it automatically?
It is created automatically (at least on mine it does).
Indeed, the only way for deliver _not_ to create a folder that does not
exist is by giving the -n command line option, as stated in
http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA .
--
Eduardo M Kalinowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install
tonj wrote: not for a newbie no. what's a complier? Are you sure you need to install dovecot? And even if you do want an IMAP server, do you feel confident enough to configure and maintain it? -- Dry clean only. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] [Dovecot 1.1.3] Strange problem with attachment download
From: Thomas Gropp [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am testing Dovecot 1.1.3 at the moment to see if I can migrate from UW-Imap(mbox) to Dovecot(maildir). Because I dont' want to influence the production server I installed Dovecot on an ununsed computer with some dummy-testusers using ssl and maildir. Installation was without any problems and everything works fine with one exception: I cannot download some attachments. If the attachment is a simple textfile or bitmap it's ok, but everything else (pdf, zip, etc. - size doesn't matter) does not work. Here is what happens: 1) I right-click on the attached file - save as (using Thunderbird 2) 2) I choose a target dir (no matter if local disk or nfs) 3) the download-dialog pops up and says: starting I'd suggest trying first with another client to see if it's not an issue with Thunderbird, which in my opinion is not very good at handling attachments in imap.
Re: [Dovecot] [Dovecot 1.1.3] Strange problem with attachment download
Ed W escreveu: Actually I agree with the OP. Thunderbird works with attachments, but it's handling seems very creaky... (I'm a big fan of TB by the way!) Stuff which annoys me is that it seems to download the attachment every time it's needed and in particular it seems to download it instantly as soon as you open a message (OE only downloads the text and gets the attachment only if you access it - I get a bunch of MB sized attachments from time to time and opening these messages just to review the text of the message is very slow and ponderous) That's what I had in mind. It receives the whole message (including attachments), and after it's finished, if you want to save/view the attachment, it downloads it again! -- Eduardo M Kalinowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Dovecot] two server and dbox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear users, I have a question about the storage dbox. Is it possible to deliver e-mails from two different lda? I would have two independent servers working at the same time on nfs. Is it possible since the e-mails name will be the same? From what I understand dbox is Maildir format with some improvements. And Maildir requires filenames to be unique. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] Questions about using sieve
Robin Atwood wrote: That was my impression! Since mail delivery is already working, I assumed I do not have to customise sendmail.cf. Is that not the case? I am not sure I understand this deliver thing, I thought in my case it actually meant sendmail. Your mail is being delivered by sendmail, so it's doing its job and ignoring sieve completely. You'll have to configure sendmail to use deliver to do the deliveries, and then it will use the sieve script. Otherwise deliver is never called. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] Panic in Dovecot 1.1.3: index-mail.c: line 1091: assertion failed: (!mail-data.destroying_stream)
Timo Sirainen escreveu: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:46 +0200, Peter Eriksson wrote: There seems to be a number of places in 'index-mail.c' that stores 'time_t' values in 'uint32_t' variables. This might cause problems since 'time_t' is 64 bit on 64 bit Solaris systems... (Definitely will cause some funny behaviour in the future when time_t values won't fit inside 32 bits ints :-) It'll fit for the next 97 years. And I doubt it'll be a problem then anymore. That's how the Y2K bug started.:-) -- Eduardo M Kalinowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Dovecot] Maildirsize file isn't updated after doing POP
Nitass Sutaveephamochanon escreveu: Hello, I have a problem about updating Maildirsize file. It seems that the Maildirsize file is not updated after user does POP mail from his maildir. I do not want to use any quota limitation in Dovecot. I only want Dovevot to update the Maildirsize file after user retrieves his mail. The Maildirsize file is created by Postfix. Would it be possible to do like this? How can I configure it? Could you please advice me? Is the quota plugin loaded? You need it for Dovecot to maintain the maildirsize. Show us also the output of dovecot -n. -- Eduardo M Kalinowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Dovecot] Sieve problem with 1.1.2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu:
Hello,
I am new here, so excuse me if i am asking something already asked. I am
using dovecot 1.1.2 along with postfix 2.6 and a pgsql backend. So far
everything is great, until i wanted to try out the sieve implementation.
I am using dovecot for deliver and i have set
global_script_path = /home/vmail/globalsieverc
The script IS working until a given user defines his own sieve script (
for example ) :
This ( or any other script for all i know ) breaks up the global one,
and it stops working. The global script looks like this :
Am i missing something, or this is the desired behaviour ?
It is the documented behavior. (If this is desirable or not, that is
another question.) From http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve :
protocol lda {
..
# If there is no user-specific Sieve-script, global Sieve script is
# executed if set. (v1.0.1 and older used global_script_path)
#sieve_global_path =
...
--
Eduardo M Kalinowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Dovecot] umask and mails
Nicolas Letellier wrote: Hello. I would like to have rights like 750 in my mailboxes (in /var/mail/vmails/domain.tld/user). http://wiki.dovecot.org/DovecotServerInstallations/RHEL/2_Users?highlight=(mask) I see an option called umask (in dovecot.conf). I set umask = 0750 in dovecot.conf. This option add good rights to directories, but not to the mail received (always in 700). Do you have a solution? That setting is deprecated, don't use it (it does not work anyway). Create a file named 'dovecot-shared' in each of your folders, give it the mode you want your files to have, and files will be created with that mode. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes for details. -- Pure drivel tends to drive ordinary drivel off the TV screen. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] Sieve fileinto a subfolder fails
Rich McAllister wrote:
I'm using Dovecot 1.0.10 on Ubuntu 8.04, using the packages from the
distro; exim4 is my MTA and it's configured according to the
instructions in the wiki, everything is working fine for delivery into
the Maildir INBOX via Dovecot's LDA and reading mail via IMAP using
Thunderbird.
My habit on previous mail systems was to create a Lists folder and
subfolders under Lists for each mailing list I subscribe to. I tried
to use Dovecot sieve to sort mail into the folders with sieve filters
like
require fileinto;
if header :contains Subject [NCCC] {
fileinto Lists/NCCC;
} else {
keep;
}
I created Lists/NCCC via Thunderbird (so I could set the check this
folder for new mail property) but when Dovecot tries to deliver into
the folder, I get the log message
msgid=...: Couldn't open mailbox Lists/NCCC: Invalid mailbox name
Is there some other syntax for specifying folder/subfolder names in
Dovecot sieve, or do I just have to live with the folders all at the
top level
Try fileinto Lists.NCCC, the . is the default folder separator.
It should be possible to change it to a / with namespaces, but it
would make a cosmetic change, and judging by other posts in the list, it
seems to cause a lot more trouble than benefits. :-)
--
My godda bless, never I see sucha people.
-- Signor Piozzi, quoted by Cecilia Thrale
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] compile with ssl support
Catalin Ciubotariu escreveu: I did'nt know that i have to install first SSL then recompile with CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib ./configure it's ok now but the server does not accept the password There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your User Name was rejected. Account: '10.10.10.4', Server: '10.10.10.4', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR Plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure connections.', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC91 Your client is not connecting with SSL. I guess that's not what you want. In dovecot.conf, enable the protocol pop3s (right in the beginning), and configure your clients to use SSL. The default port for POP3 over SSL is 995, if I recall correctly.
Re: [Dovecot] Webmail app ... again.
Timo Sirainen escreveu: I've heard that imapproxy isn't all that useful with Dovecot once auth cache is enabled and set large enough. It'll then just basically replace Dovecot's process fork(s) with the overhead of its own. If I understand Dovecot's auth caching, it will save DB lookups (or sequential passwd-file lookups, etc), but it will still need to spawn a new imap process for each connection the webmail does. With imapproxy, the process will be kept running for a couple minutes after the webmail disconnects that connection and will be reused if a new request is made in sequence.
Re: [Dovecot] Webmail app ... again.
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Aug 15, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: If I understand Dovecot's auth caching, it will save DB lookups (or sequential passwd-file lookups, etc), but it will still need to spawn a new imap process for each connection the webmail does. With imapproxy, the process will be kept running for a couple minutes after the webmail disconnects that connection and will be reused if a new request is made in sequence. Yes, but is it worth it to keep an extra daemon proxying all TCP connetions to IMAP server just to save a some imap process creations? Good question, only benchmarking could tell, and the results would probably vary between different machines, operating systems and architectures. v2.0 hopefully allows this kind of wait a couple of minutes before dying natively. That would be really nice. -- BOFH excuse #52: Smell from unhygienic janitorial staff wrecked the tape heads Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] POP3 dictionary attacks
Charles Marcus wrote: Dictionary attacks are a fact of life these days. Just install some kind of blocking on your firewall (fail2ban is a good one), and let it take care of the worst of it.. I wonder what they want by cracking a POP3 server. Read the user's mails? It's true POP3 passwords are almost always equal to SMTP ones (which is useful for spamming), but then why not try to crack the SMTP server directly? -- The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives. -- Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] Auto Vacation replies again
CJ Keist escreveu: Stephan, Thank you. I understand what you are saying in trying to keep a vicious cycle of auto-replies responding to each other. But in our environment I don't have any choice as our central virus/spam email gateway will can any message without a valid from address in the headers The messages do have a valid from address in the headers - but their Envelope From address is empty, as the RFC recommends. These are two different things.
Re: [Dovecot] problems with sieve and lda
Harondel J. Sibble wrote: Following the wiki here for system users http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix I never get any info in the logs about cmusieve, the only way I see anything show up is if I add the transport settings to postfix/master.cf or see below From reading the list archives, as best as I can tell, the only time I need to make the changes in postfix's master.cf is if I am using a virtual environment, otherwise for local delivery, all I need is the mailbox_command setting in postfix/main.cf However with that setting, I get nothing! If I then run deliver from the command line as per a couple of mailling postings, cat /etc/hosts | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d [EMAIL PROTECTED] -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get deliver([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Aug 10 22:07:17 Info: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda deliver([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Aug 10 22:07:17 Info: Module loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so deliver([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Aug 10 22:07:17 Error: Can't connect to auth server at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory To use -d ACCOUNT, you need a master socket where deliver looks up user information: see the Virtual Users section in http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA . But if you are not using virtual users (and only used -d to test), you should not need it. How are you calling deliver in postfix? Do you see in postfix's logs the messages being handled to deliver? -- Deadwood, n.: Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] virtual domains and SSL certificates
Kacper Wysocki escreveu: Hi all, I have dovecot 1.1.0 setup to access vpopmail accounts for several virtual domains. Dovecot IMAP is accessed through several virtual domains as well, ie mail.foo.com an d mail.bar.com The problem is that the configuration file specifies only one certificate file for dovecot, which means only one Common Name, which means one cannot provide one server cert that will match mail.foo.com AND mail.bar.com, and either [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] will get a Security Error: Domain Name Mismatch in their mail client when connecting through IMAPS. How can I avoid this domain name mismatch error? a) Use a single host name for all domains. b) If you really want different hostnames for all domains, you'll need one IP address for each domain. Dovecot can at this moment listen on several addresses, but it only uses one SSL certificate for all of them, which means you would need several dovecot instantes running. Which leads us to the request: could it be that in a future version one could select a different certificate for each IP that Dovecot listens to?
Re: [Dovecot] Expire Plugin - LDA with Vpopmail errors
Ron Culler wrote: I am trying to setup Dovecot to use the expire plugin and wanted to use the LDA so I can ensure the messages are indexed as they are delivered to the mailboxes. This system is only accessed via a webmail interface Using dovecot-1.1.2 and Vpopmail with Qmail Dovecot.conf file [snip] I see errors in the /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log deliver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Error: Can't connect to auth server at /usr/local/var/run/dovecot//auth-master: no such file or directory. What do I need to do to create this? A socket master definition in the config file, as described in http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA . -- Insults are effective only where emotion is present. -- Spock, Who Mourns for Adonais? stardate 3468.1 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-auth requires userdb, but already configured
Carl Vondrick wrote: Greetings! My ultimate goal is to have fetchmail/getmail poll from POP3/IMAP servers and deliver mail into Dovecot mailboxes. This does not work because the Dovecot LDA for some reason fails. I believe I have narrowed down the problem to dovecot-auth not finding my userdb. But, I am able to connect to dovecot via IMAP in my MUA and preform operations (read, delete mail, create folders). This leads me to believe my userdb is setup correctly. Does anyone have any idea as to why dovecot-auth would not find my userdb? (Configuration is below). Are you using virtual users? In this case, Dovecot's deliver needs a master socket to get user information from. See instructions at http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA . -- FORTRAN is the language of Powerful Computers. -- Steven Feiner Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] related, but off-topic: how to allow users to change password?
Sahil Tandon wrote: My dovecot is currently configured to authenticate vs. a userdb/passdb passwd-file that contains, for each user: username:passhash:5000:5000::/path/to/home::userdb_mail=/path/to/maildir Is it possible to let users authenticate and change their passwords? There are some webmail client add-ons that allow such things if users are system accounts or in a MySQL/LDAP db. Does anyone else use passdb/userdb passwd-files like above and have a method for allowing users to change their passwords from the web? Sorry for the slightly off-topic question, but hoping another Dovecot admin has solved this problem. Preference is to not to be tied to any particular webmail client just for this change password feature. There isn't a general utility to do that. I wrote a simple script for one such case, namely sork-passwd from the Horde suite. The script just receives the username, old password and new password from stdin and then changes the password entry in a file. But I'm using only passwd files, without the extra fields in a userdb file. Besides that, there are other things that could have been done in a better way. If you want to take a look, I posted it here some time ago: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-June/031629.html -- Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
Re: [Dovecot] Seen flag in maildir filename not being respected
Timo Sirainen wrote: Do you have dovecot-shared file in the maildir? If it exists, Dovecot uses only its index file for storing \Seen flags (to get per-user \Seen flags with shared mailboxes). I do, to set the owner/group and mode of files. (The mailboxes aren't really shared, actually.) Any workarounds? -- Despite all appearances, your boss is a thinking, feeling, human being. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
