Re: [Dovecot] Make a whole mailbox read-only

2012-07-13 Thread Sandro Tosi
Thanks for the hint for the first 2 points of the howto are false on our system: * we use docevot 2 * we have mailbox in maildir format Regards, Sandro On 07/12/2012 11:04 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Am 12.07.2012 10:05, schrieb Sandro Tosi: Could someone please give it a look? Timo? :)

Re: [Dovecot] Make a whole mailbox read-only

2012-07-13 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 13.07.2012 08:46, schrieb Sandro Tosi: Thanks for the hint for the first 2 points of the howto are false on our system: * we use docevot 2 * we have mailbox in maildir format i wrote about ,take ideas, from there, for sure you have to fit stuff to your needs ,ever Regards, Sandro

Re: [Dovecot] ot: execute a script via email?

2012-07-13 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
On 07/13/2012 03:42 AM, Ken Anderson wrote: Voytek Eymont voy...@sbt.net.au wrote: anyone has any tips what's best way to execute a script via email ? I have a wget script that fetches some pages, and, emails me the output, there is no paramters passed, it's all in the script I'll like to

[Dovecot] Difference between proxy_refresh and proxy_timeout in director

2012-07-13 Thread Angel L. Mateo
Hello, I know proxy_timeout is the timeout for the director operation. But what is the purpose for proxy_refresh? -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la Información _o) y las Comunicaciones Aplicadas (ATICA) / \\ http://www.um.es/atica

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir messages

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
specifically from a filesystem IO perspective: 1. new mail delivery not much difference. 2. searching a mailbox folder if you do linear search then yes 3. mass deletion of emails from one mailbox folder 3 is not true. maildir is more IO efficient when reading and deleting

Re: [Dovecot] ot: execute a script via email?

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
anyone has any tips what's best way to execute a script via email ? use procmail - it's easy and actually works. you can do basically everything with procmail. This question is off topic, dovecot is not SMTP agent. I have a wget script that fetches some pages, and, emails me the output,

Re: [Dovecot] ot: execute a script via email?

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Old school - in /etc/aliases you can set: user|/home/user/script And read the mail from stdin. Ken works great but requires root to do this Voytek Eymont voy...@sbt.net.au wrote: anyone has any tips what's best way to execute a script via email ? I have a wget script that

Re: [Dovecot] imap-login: Panic: epoll_ctl(add, 6) failed: Invalid argument

2012-07-13 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El 09/07/12 14:37, Robert Schetterer escribió: guess this is latest for 12.04 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.4-precise/ I have check this 3.4 kernel and it seems there is no problem with it -- Angel L. Mateo Martínez Sección de Telemática Área de Tecnologías de la

Re: [Dovecot] imap-login: Panic: epoll_ctl(add, 6) failed: Invalid argument

2012-07-13 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 13.07.2012 11:37, schrieb Angel L. Mateo: El 09/07/12 14:37, Robert Schetterer escribió: guess this is latest for 12.04 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.4-precise/ I have check this 3.4 kernel and it seems there is no problem with it cool, thx for info -- Best

Re: [Dovecot] managesieve segfault with gold linker

2012-07-13 Thread Stephan Bosch
On 7/12/2012 10:27 PM, Eray Aslan wrote: dovecot-2.1.8 sieve-0.3.1 binutils-2.22 When dovecot and sieve is linked with ld.gold I get a segfault in checkscript command: $ telnet localhost 4190 [some output] authenticate PLAIN base64_username_password [some more output] checkscript foobarscript

Re: [Dovecot] ot: execute a script via email?

2012-07-13 Thread Ken Anderson
If you don't have root, you are probably going to be restricted from other methods by the security policy of a shared host. In that case, just use fetchmail or other means of checking mail for your 'trigger' message, then run your process where you DO have permission. Ken Wojciech Puchar

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir messages

2012-07-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/13/2012 4:09 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: specifically from a filesystem IO perspective: 1. new mail delivery not much difference. maildir requires 3 (or is it 4?) metadata operations and a file write op mbox requires a single file append operation. 2. searching a mailbox folder

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir messages

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-07-13 8:07 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: mbox is a pretty smart email storage format especially given its age. It can do more with lesser storage hardware. Many simply don't give it the credit it deserves. The ideal is a hybrid - maildir for new mail, mbox (or mdbox)

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir messages

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
not much difference. maildir requires 3 (or is it 4?) metadata operations and a file write op your remarks are mostly true, except concentrates too much on uncommon situations and uncommon strange case of probably tens of thousands of mail accounts that must be very limited. From my

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir messages

2012-07-13 Thread anmeyer
Am 13.07.2012 14:19, schrieb Charles Marcus: On 2012-07-13 8:07 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: mbox is a pretty smart email storage format especially given its age. It can do more with lesser storage hardware. Many simply don't give it the credit it deserves. The ideal is

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir messages

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the credit it deserves. The ideal is a hybrid - maildir for new mail, mbox (or mdbox) for longer term storage... True. Not did this as never got I/O problems because of mail. For larger installations in may be adventageous to use mbox based archives on RAID5 (this would be mostly

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir messages

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
longer term storage... may I ask how you do archivate maildirs? With mbox I used mhonarc but with maildir I do not really have a soluton yet. mhonarc is mail to HTML converter. We meant just converting format to mbox.

[Dovecot] imapc: Restrict the number of connections

2012-07-13 Thread René Neumann
Hi, I have managed to get an imapc connection to another server and bind its contents to only one account (via global ACL). The namespace itself is created as public, though it does not seem to make a difference for this use case (i.e., it does not matter, whether its type is 'public', 'shared',

Re: [Dovecot] managesieve segfault with gold linker

2012-07-13 Thread Eray Aslan
On 07/13/2012 12:53 PM, Stephan Bosch wrote: http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-2.1-pigeonhole/rev/6ceeb6421231 Still no go with binutils-2.22. make check fails with the same error message. Telnetting and issuing checkscript gives not a segfault but some parser error. I can't reproduce this (on

Re: [Dovecot] ot: execute a script via email? [procmail]

2012-07-13 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
On 07/13/2012 11:14 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: anyone has any tips what's best way to execute a script via email ? use procmail - it's easy and actually works. you can do basically everything with procmail. This question is off topic, dovecot is not SMTP agent. I have a wget script that

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir messages

2012-07-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/13/2012 7:28 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: not much difference. maildir requires 3 (or is it 4?) metadata operations and a file write op your remarks are mostly true, except concentrates too much on uncommon situations and uncommon strange case of probably tens of thousands of mail

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir messages

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
mail accounts that must be very limited. There are many folks on this list who ran out of IOPS due to maildir at one time or another. Nowhere near tens of thousands of accounts were not required. To solve the problem, they either purchased more did you actually monitored WHAT part of job

Re: [Dovecot] ot: execute a script via email? [procmail]

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Stable release http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle 3.22 / September 10, 2001 [...] Procmail is widely used on Unix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-based systems and stable, but no longer maintained; users who wish to use a maintained program are advised to use an

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir messages

2012-07-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.07.2012 20:45, schrieb Wojciech Puchar: Typical SMB setup it seems. True. More - i always try to mix services. No separate file servers, mail servers, whatever servers but all on same. On large install divide by groups of people, not services. This way i really cannot get to high

Re: [Dovecot] ot: execute a script via email? [procmail]

2012-07-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.07.2012 20:46, schrieb Wojciech Puchar: Stable release http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle 3.22 / September 10, 2001 [...] Procmail is widely used on Unix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-based systems and stable, but no longer maintained; users who wish to use

Re: [Dovecot] ot: execute a script via email? [procmail]

2012-07-13 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
On 07/13/2012 09:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.07.2012 20:46, schrieb Wojciech Puchar: Stable release http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle 3.22 / September 10, 2001 [...] Procmail is widely used on Unix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-based systems and stable, but