On 6/30/10 6:11 PM -0400 Charles Marcus wrote:
That's just plain silly. Virtual users are extremely simple to setup, no
need for MySQL unless you have a bunch.
I agree. I am always in favor of virtual users, it just gives you a lot
more flexibility. I find system users MORE complicated to
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 18:11 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
but if they don't virtual users is
just as easy/legitimate as system users with no shell access.
I agree, virtual users are not only easier to deal with, it gives you
greater flexibility, but most importantly, better security.
in the
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On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Frank den Hartog wrote:
My system runs CentOS 5.5, Postfix 2.3.3 and Dovecot 1.2.11. I try to set up
Dovecot LDA. But whatever I'm trying, I fail.
2010-06-30T18:28:12.585128+02:00 h1690641 postfix/pipe[26443]: 84F012A00A55:
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On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2010-06-29 4:16 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote:
Virtual mailboxes have their place, of course, but they're overused,
especially at small sites. I suppose this might be in part because
most HOWTOs are for virtual.
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, chasye wrote:
pass_attrs = mail=user, uid=userdb_home=/home/xadmin/%d/%$,userPassword=password
pass_filter = ((objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u))
default_pass_scheme = SSHA
user_attrs = mail=user, uid=home=/home/xadmin/%d/%$
Steffen Kaiser put forth on 7/1/2010 2:59 AM:
It's more a matter of the individuals skill level.
Well, a system user setup requires almost no skill of mail-related
stuff ;-)
Setup? I'd agree--not a lot of skill required. Managing it afterward? That
requires mail admin skills, regardless
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 04:01 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Anyone who isn't looking at mail logs or log summaries daily and taking action
on any problems needing attention doesn't count as a mail OP.
That's one of the most ridiculous things I've seen todate.
Do you seriously expect ISP admins
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:54:44 +1000
Noel Butler noel.but...@ausics.net articulated:
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 04:01 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Anyone who isn't looking at mail logs or log summaries daily and
taking action on any problems needing attention doesn't count as a
mail OP.
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 06:14 -0400, Jerry wrote:
I agree. If the system is constructed correctly it certainly does not
need that sort of attention. There is software available that can
monitor the system to a high degree of satisfaction. However, Noel, I
firmly believe that there are OPs (SAs
On 2010-06-30 9:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Charles Marcus put forth on 6/30/2010 5:11 PM:
On 2010-06-29 4:16 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote:
Virtual mailboxes have their place, of course, but they're overused,
especially at small sites. I suppose this might be in part because
most HOWTOs are for
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 02:28, Frank Cusack fr...@cusack.net wrote:
On 6/30/10 6:11 PM -0400 Charles Marcus wrote:
That's just plain silly. Virtual users are extremely simple to setup, no
need for MySQL unless you have a bunch.
I agree. I am always in favor of virtual users, it just gives you
Is it possible with a simple config change to make address extensions,
e.g. alice+sa...@example.com, go into a folder, e.g. .INBOX.sales, and
do so ONLY if that folder already exists (and just go into INBOX if it
does not exist)?
With Postfix, I use
mailbox_command = DOVECOT_LDA -n -e -m ${EXTENSION}
where DOVECOT_LDA is the path do dovecot's deliver. The -n switch prevents
creation of the IMAP folder.
See http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA
Good Day.
I have had dovecot working successfully for years now, however after a
system update , dovecot refused to start up complaing that im not using
absolute paths.
It took a bit of hacking to get it working again as can be seen by the sql
query, however now imap doesn't work anymore because
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 08:47, Edgar Fuß e...@math.uni-bonn.de wrote:
With Postfix, I use
mailbox_command = DOVECOT_LDA -n -e -m ${EXTENSION}
where DOVECOT_LDA is the path do dovecot's deliver. The -n switch prevents
creation of the IMAP folder.
See http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA
But it (-n)
Hello,
I have 2.0.beta6 (3156315704ef) on Solaris.
A user can login, if he makes logout imap-login will be killed with
signal 11.
I tried both:
passdb driver ldap and userdb driver ldap,
or
passdb driver shadow and userdb driver passwd.
processes
dovecot 20236 20235 0 14:40:28 ?
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 16:42 +0200, Burckhard Schmidt wrote:
imap(userx): Info: Disconnected: Logged out byte...
master: Error: service(imap-login): child 20241 killed with signal 11
(core not dumped - set drop_priv_before_exec=yes)
Can you get gdb backtrace? The easiest would be if you
But it (-n) will deliver (rather than reject) into the regular INBOX
if the folder for the extension does not exist?
Yes, but isn't that what you were asking for?
I wonder if that ${EXTENSION} works in master.cf.
No. In master.cf, its ${extension}.
Am 01.07.2010 16:49, schrieb Timo Sirainen:
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 16:42 +0200, Burckhard Schmidt wrote:
imap(userx): Info: Disconnected: Logged out byte...
master: Error: service(imap-login): child 20241 killed with signal 11
(core not dumped - set drop_priv_before_exec=yes)
Can you get
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:13 +0200, Burckhard Schmidt wrote:
gdb -ppid of imap-login
..
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xfed57544 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt full
#0 0xfed57544 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
I think no good result.
Yeah, not useful. I think with
Hello List,
customers telled me problem when moving folders in thunderbird which i can
confirm. Following setup on my side:
dovecot 1.2.11 with mbox.
Thunderbird 3.1 with ready mailaccount and Server supports folders that
contain sub-folders and messages is disabled.
i create folder1 for
I have had dovecot working successfully for years now, however after a
system update , dovecot refused to start up complaing that im not using
absolute paths.
In regards to this file the following was changed to make it work...
mail_location = mbox:~:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
Used to be:
Noel Butler put forth on 7/1/2010 4:54 AM:
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 04:01 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Anyone who isn't looking at mail logs or log summaries daily and taking
action
on any problems needing attention doesn't count as a mail OP.
That's one of the most ridiculous things
Charles Marcus put forth on 7/1/2010 6:39 AM:
On 2010-06-30 9:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Charles Marcus put forth on 6/30/2010 5:11 PM:
On 2010-06-29 4:16 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote:
Virtual mailboxes have their place, of course, but they're overused,
especially at small sites. I suppose this might
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:57:11 +0200
Marcel Grandemange thavi...@thavinci.za.net articulated:
This is where the fault lies, ive fiddled till I got it working but I
never had to specify a writable unique home directory in the past, it
just worked. I create users via postfixadmin and tried to
Noel Butler put forth on 7/1/2010 5:32 AM:
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 06:14 -0400, Jerry wrote:
I agree. If the system is constructed correctly it certainly does not
need that sort of attention. There is software available that can
monitor the system to a high degree of satisfaction. However,
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 18:57 +0200, Marcel Grandemange wrote:
I have done all sorts of work arounds now to continue operating without it
by using /var/empty and all that , but now my squirrelmail doesn't work like
it should anymore.
Uh. You're now using /var/empty, while originally your mails
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:12:37 -0500
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com articulated:
I'd just get a huge kick out of cross posting what the two of you
state here to spam-l and watching you get eaten alive due to this
runs itself if setup right hands off management approach to email
systems.
- Original Message -
From: Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi
To: Andre Hübner andre.hueb...@gmx.de
Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot 1.2.11/ thunderbird 3.1 - moving folders
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:37 +0200, Andre Hübner wrote:
i
At this point thunderbird shows error-message when i start to delete
folder1. It tells:
[CANNOT] Mailbox is'nt selectable: folder1.
AND
[NONEXISTENT] Directory folder1 is'nt empty, can't delete it.
Yeah, it's a bug. Fixed in v2.0 now .. but since v1.2's code is entirely
different
On 2010-07-01 1:04 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Charles Marcus put forth on 7/1/2010 6:39 AM:
On 2010-06-30 9:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Charles Marcus put forth on 6/30/2010 5:11 PM:
Virtual users are extremely simple to setup, no need for MySQL
unless you have a bunch.
That said, there is
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 12:53 -0700, Brad Davidson wrote:
I don't see us being able to go to 2.0 until after it's been out of
beta for a few months. I hate to see the 'current' branch being
deprecated before we have a workable 'stable' alternative to upgrade
to. I can see saying no to fixes for
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:56, Edgar Fuß e...@math.uni-bonn.de wrote:
But it (-n) will deliver (rather than reject) into the regular INBOX
if the folder for the extension does not exist?
Yes, but isn't that what you were asking for?
Yes, but your statement was about what you did, and I wasn't
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 12:12 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mail Administration is not complicated, all too many people like to over
complicate their setups and only cause themselves work.
I've had more than one CEO in the past say to me that they like to see
key NOC staff doing
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Noel Butler wrote:
(I wrote a script to convert from vpopmail structure to a better
structure when we moved from that mess to postfix/dovecot/mysql a few
years back, that conversion, including moving mail took all of 45
minutes, most of that was copying mail, in the early
Hi all
I am unsure if dovecot files like userdb and passwd
also need to be postmap'd
i.e.
postmap userdb
or
userdb passwd
when I use the typical data format for creating userdp
postmap outputs the error
postmap
userdb
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 18:16 -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Noel Butler wrote:
(I wrote a script to convert from vpopmail structure to a better
structure when we moved from that mess to postfix/dovecot/mysql a few
years back, that conversion, including moving mail
On 7/1/10 9:59 AM +0200 Steffen Kaiser wrote:
I do _not_ argue about security here. I really wonder why some distros
still allow ssh-access by default for every user and some don't. Even a
virtual-user based setup requires system users, so one cannot ignore uid
related security either.
huh?
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