Re: [Dovecot] deliver agent and index/control files

2011-09-27 Thread Nerijus Kislauskas
On 09/27/2011 03:56 PM, Nerijus Kislauskas wrote: How can we fix this? Sorry for your disturbance. LDAP replication issue. Everything is working fine. Thanks for your great job. -- Pagarbiai, Nerijus Kislauskas KTU ITPI, Litnet valdymo centras Studentu g. 48a - 101, Kaunas tel.: (8~37) 30 06 45

[Dovecot] Create userdir on dovecot login --- solved

2011-09-27 Thread Andreas Cieslak
Sorted out the problem, which was already solved in an older forum post of dovecot. In the file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/auth-system.conf.ext I set Passdb { Driver = pam args = session=yes dovecot } Unfortunately this didn’t work because when I log in with a user xy, the user dovecot became

[Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?

2011-09-27 Thread terryjames9461
Hello, I'm moving my mail server from Exchange to an opensource one. After a bunch of reading, I decided on building a Dovecot2 + Postfix server in a VirtualUsers-only + Multiple-domains configuration. Since my messages will be stored by Dovecot, and the documentation is really good, I figured

Re: [Dovecot] outlook 2007 very slow.

2011-09-27 Thread Ed W
On 20/09/2011 03:10, Kui Zhang wrote: thunderbird does not really work for us, due to amount of emails per mailbox. It was hogging all the memory + cpu. I think if you disable the new local indexing features in TB then it should start running fairly decently? I don't have mega large inboxes,

Re: [Dovecot] outlook 2007 very slow.

2011-09-27 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-09-27 2:06 PM, Ed W li...@wildgooses.com wrote: On 20/09/2011 03:10, Kui Zhang wrote: thunderbird does not really work for us, due to amount of emails per mailbox. It was hogging all the memory + cpu. I think if you disable the new local indexing features in TB then it should start

Re: [Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?

2011-09-27 Thread Nick Rosier
Tom Hendrikx wrote: On 27/09/11 17:51, terryjames9...@mm.st wrote: Hello, I'm moving my mail server from Exchange to an opensource one. After a bunch of reading, I decided on building a Dovecot2 + Postfix server in a VirtualUsers-only + Multiple-domains configuration. Since my messages will

Re: [Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?

2011-09-27 Thread Voytek
On Wed, September 28, 2011 2:51 am, terryjames9...@mm.st wrote: I'm a little confused about: to do that sharing-in-one-place, do I have to use SQL or can I use the flatfiles like passwd-db? I think for sure someone already decided the best approach for this, and maybe I'm not understanding

Re: [Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?

2011-09-27 Thread Voytek
On Wed, September 28, 2011 6:47 am, Nick Rosier wrote: My main concern was losing mails if the DB is unavailable but this isn't a problem; if the DB is unavailable Postfix will return a temporarily unavailable and the MTA should retry. yes, that was also my biggest concern when I 1st looked

Re: [Dovecot] outlook 2007 very slow.

2011-09-27 Thread Kui Zhang
I think if you disable the new local indexing features in TB then it should start running fairly decently? I had indexing disabled... that did not help much. TB work better after I have these settings... mail.imap.expunge_after_delete true mail.imap.expunge_option 2

Re: [Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?

2011-09-27 Thread terryjames9461
Hello Tom, On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 7:29 PM, Tom Hendrikx t...@whyscream.net wrote: The problem with passwd(like) files is that they are almost never in the correct format to fit both daemons. The easiest way to use a database. I don't yet see using a database easier than flatfiles. I

Re: [Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?

2011-09-27 Thread Patrick Domack
For my personal email, I have a habit of having the sql server down for one reason or another. I just dump the sql tables to flatfiles on the email server, and a script runs every 15min and checks for updates if any exist. Works well. Another method would be to just keep it sql, but dump

Re: [Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?

2011-09-27 Thread Patrick Domack
Well, the info dovecot needs, it mailbox name/location, username, password, and quota, misc info. postfix will need email address to mailbox name mapping info. That is the very basic things you need. Using dovecot lda/lmtp you remove all postfix needs to know mailbox name to directory

Re: [Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?

2011-09-27 Thread terryjames9461
Hello Nick, On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 9:47 PM, Nick Rosier nick+dove...@bunbun.be wrote: +1 one on PostfixAdmin. Wouldn't want to live without it. The main advantage of using a DB is that all information is stored in 1 location and available in the right format through SQL-queries. My

Re: [Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?

2011-09-27 Thread terryjames9461
Hello Patrick, On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:06 PM, Patrick Domack patric...@patrickdk.com wrote: Using dovecot lda/lmtp you remove all postfix needs to know mailbox name to directory mapping, that would be duplicated. With using the Dovecot lmtp option, where does Postfix know to refuse

Re: [Dovecot] Duplicates when switching from Qpopper to Dovecot pop3

2011-09-27 Thread Tristan Goguen
Hi All, Problems can sometimes be solved by _carefully_ reading the documentation: snip Some clients re-download all mails if you change the hostname in the client configuration. Be aware of this when testing. snip We converted without a hitch this morning. Thank you for great

Re: [Dovecot] outlook 2007 very slow.

2011-09-27 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:50:39 -0700 Kui Zhang articulated: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2011-09-27 2:06 PM, Ed W li...@wildgooses.com wrote: On 20/09/2011 03:10, Kui Zhang wrote: thunderbird does not really work for us, due to

Re: [Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?

2011-09-27 Thread Patrick Domack
Depends on how you think about it. If you forget about email addresses. Dovecot works on mailbox's, and it maps a mailbox to a path, username, and password. In postfix, it only cares about email addresses (if you use dovecot for delivery, if not then postfix also has to care about the

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Folder configuration problem.

2011-09-27 Thread Terry Carmen
Does anybody have any suggestions? Upgrade - which probably won't fix your problem, but because the version you're using is so old should be considered a requirement before asking for further help. OK, I upgraded to the current version of Dovecot, which didn't actually fix anything.

Re: [Dovecot] outlook 2007 very slow.

2011-09-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/27/2011 4:50 PM, Kui Zhang wrote: I think if you disable the new local indexing features in TB then it should start running fairly decently? I had indexing disabled... that did not help much. TB work better after I have these settings... mail.imap.expunge_after_delete true