Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot not delivering mail.
Literally, in a recent case with me. Debian (any build I could get my hands on, I tried quite a few) would literally not install on a box. I was lucky if the installer ran, let alone did anything. Spent a week trying. Ubuntu installed on the first try and was up and running after fifteen minutes. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Jerry ges...@yahoo.com: On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:41:32 -0200 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br articulated: 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 Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning, I can’t install Debian. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com
Re: [Dovecot] User friendly vacation service
I solved that problem (granted, with virtual domains) by using the dovecot managesieve support and Horde ingo. Any sieve management tool should able to do it, though, we were using Horde for webmail already so rigging ingo to do filters wasn't hard. No experience outside of ingo with this stuff, but ingo itself integrates a vacation rule in quite nicely. There are a pile of other solutions for managing the scripts through the managesieve interface, so finding one that works for you shouldn't be too hard. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Raymond Lillard rlill...@sonic.net: Dear Dovecot list, I maintain a few small sendmail/dovecot/procmail based mail servers with system users only (no virtual domains or virtual users) on OpenBSD. I have been able to get a vacation system working with both with the native vacation program from OpenBSD and with procmail. I've been looking into dovecot sieve, but it doesn't appear to solve the bigger user complaint which is, they want to be able to control the vacation feature w/o my involvement. What is wanted is a system where the users can send a control mail message to themselves with the reply body in the message or failing that perhaps a secure web page to control the vacation function. Mail administration is NOT a full time job for me. I'm looking for simple, low overhead solutions. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time. Ray
Re: [Dovecot] Vacation message with Sieve
Fire the new manager, eh? Now you need to keep TWO old addresses working for the same position! Stop compounding the issue! ;) Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com: On 11/24/2009, Patrick Nagel (patrick.na...@star-group.net) wrote: 2. Add the x-managers account to your replacements email client, so they can check it as well as theirs. 2. is what we did. In either case you could also enable the vacation message notification if you like, but once per day is plenty in this case since someone else is (or should be) reading the mail). Well, as I said, they weren't satisfied with that. So, the guy who is replacing the x-manager has direct access to the guys email and all incoming messages, but is refusing to accept the responsibility for it? Fire the new manager would be my next step. :)
Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients
Wait, what? I have, right now, a HTML message open, from an IMAP server, in Outlook 2007. Where did you hear that it wouldn't? Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com: On 11/22/2009, Seth Mattinen (se...@rollernet.us) wrote: They finally added the ability to set a sent items folder on the IMAP server rather than using stupid tricks to copy it over, so that's a plus. The fact that it can't delete by moving a copy to a deleted items folder still bugs me enough that I won't use it. No idea about the PST size thing though, never got that far. One thing that is ridiculous about 2007 is it won't display HTML messages on IMAP servers... probably related to their totally BRAIN-DEAD decision to use the WORD HTML rendering engine instead of the IE rendering engine. I understand that in spite of a huge number of complaints about this, they did not fix this issue in Outlook 2010...
Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients
Didn't notice that my reply to this didn't include the list (the default reply option due to having my address directly was to sender, not to list due to a local setting). Only noticed after the fact. My response: One of my IMAP folders has over 13000 messages and is handled fine, but I am not currently sure how much actual space that is taking up right now. I suspect it isn't even half a GB. However, Microsoft states (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830336) that Outlook 2007 doesn't use the 2GB limited format for anything by default, and that the default limit is 20GB as a result, likely with registry options to allow it to grow larger. The only issue I see with deleting messages doesn't make them go away is that delete on an IMAP account is flag as deleted by default, which means you need to issue an IMAP purge command. As I don't use trash folders I prefer this behavior, even in Thunderbird and Horde. I just add the purge commands to my toolbar. I think the flagged as deleted thing is what you are thinking about with the some sort of compact operation, and is technically how IMAP is supposed to handle deletes. For that issue, there is a Purge items when switching folders while online option, per account, that can be enabled. Also, the showing of deleted items is optional (when shown they, in all clients I have used, have a strike-through applied to them). Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Thomas Harold thomas-li...@nybeta.com: On 11/20/2009 1:51 PM, Thomas Berezansky wrote: Personally, I am using Horde (http://www.horde.org/) at work (this address) and Outlook 2007 at home (largely due to getting freaky attachments I need to open on a regular basis that only Microsoft mail clients seem to be able to open properly). Out of morbid curiosity... how good is Outlook 2007 at IMAP? I've had experience with Outlook 2003 and the 2GB PST limit was a deal breaker for me. I'm curious whether Outlook is getting better or worse at IMAP. (In OL2003, they introduced a better PST format that was no longer limited to 2GB. But you can't use it with IMAP accounts. It also had weird behavior like deleting messages would not make them vanish from the folder until you did some sort of compact operation.)
Re: [Dovecot] [OT] preferred clients
Personally, I am using Horde (http://www.horde.org/) at work (this address) and Outlook 2007 at home (largely due to getting freaky attachments I need to open on a regular basis that only Microsoft mail clients seem to be able to open properly). Horde is a webmail client, and works well in Firefox (where you can open the left hand menu in a sidebar separate from your tabs). I install it with the calendar, notes, tasks, etc included and we tell our users to log into it in order to change their passwords. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Quoting Jonathan jonat...@kc8onw.net: I'm getting tired of Thunderbird telling me I have unread messages in folders that haven't gotten new messages for months so I'm looking for a new mail client. I know the problem lies with Thunderbird because everything is fine via RoundCube and if it tell Thunderbird to rebuild it's index it shows the folder correctly again. Except of course for a subset of the messages in my inbox that it insists where delivered at the exact time I re-indexed it, every time. So what IMAP clients do people prefer these days? Preferably windows or cross platform and it needs to have decent key bindings because (probably like many of you) I get 100s of emails a day via lists and anything that speeds my way through them is good. I run my own server (probably obvious being on this list) and can install webmail clients as well. I ran squirrelmail for a while but although functional it's quite dated. I'm using RoundCube for access away from my systems now but it lacks keyboard shortcut support and trying to click one email after another with a laptop touchpad gets painful fast. Thanks, Jonathan
[Dovecot] SetUID check problem
Running dovecot 1.2.4 on FreeBSD using Postfix. Everything works fine normally, but deliver is executable by world. This is not normally a problem, as I don't run deliver SetUID root. But for whatever reason, when deliver is called by something that IS SetUID root I get the following error: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver must not be both world-executable and setuid-root. This allows root exploits. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#multipleuids Deliver's permissions look like this: -r-xr-xr-x While the program calling deliver has permissions like this: -r-s--x--- If it isn't possible for deliver to differentiate between being called by setuid root programs and being setuid root itself I don't think it should be doing that particular security check. Alternatively, there should be an option to turn that particular check off, but what little I saw of the source code and found searching the documentation told me that there doesn't seem to be such an option already. I also couldn't find any mention that this is fixed by 1.2.5 or 1.2.6. Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
