Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot shared library to replace libc-client

2012-07-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 3.7.2012, at 8.53, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I see there is a dovecot shared library. I haven't looked into the details, but here are things I'm interested in: 1. Replacing libc-client's use as a client library .. I envision creating libdovecot-c

[Dovecot] Dovecot shared library to replace libc-client

2012-07-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi all Dovecotters, Lots of programs (e.g, PHP) link to a library called c-client, which is a derivative of the original IMAP implementation, UW IMAP. (For those new to UW IMAP, read here: http://www.washington.edu/imap/ ) UW IMAP is not in as much of active development as it used to be, so I

Re: [Dovecot] dsync deleting too many emails (sdbox)

2012-02-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 9.2.2012, at 21.47, Timo Sirainen wrote: I've anyway done several fixes in v2.1. Can you try if these problems happen with it too? And in any case cleanup the dbox from the *.broken files, so that doveadm force-resync won't give any errors. A bit

[Dovecot] dsync deleting too many emails (sdbox)

2012-02-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I'm using dsync to synchronize emails on a laptop where wifi connectivity sometimes fails in the middle of a sync. I have a shell script that runs dsync, and here is one line of it including the output of dsync: + dsync -f -m realmail mirror /home/paulproteus/projects/ssh-attach/run ssh

Re: [Dovecot] /usr/lib/dovecot/imap ignores log settings?

2011-12-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 28.12.2011, at 20.31, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Hi Dovecot peeps, I'm enjoying running /usr/lib/dovecot/imap directly as a PREAUTH IMAP pipe. I find that it outputs log messages whose severity is INFO to stdout. I'm running it as follows

[Dovecot] /usr/lib/dovecot/imap ignores log settings?

2011-12-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi Dovecot peeps, I'm enjoying running /usr/lib/dovecot/imap directly as a PREAUTH IMAP pipe. I find that it outputs log messages whose severity is INFO to stdout. I'm running it as follows: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c /tmp/dovecot.conf and I see the following messages output to

Re: [Dovecot] alpine + Maildir

2011-05-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 6 May 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 5.5.2011, at 23.43, upen wrote: If maildir support in alpine does not work like it does for mbox then I'll have to configure IMAP setings in pine.conf for alpine users. I must say that alpine is installed on mail server :). Although IMAP setting may

[Dovecot] Using Dovecot code in a non-LGPL package

2009-09-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi Timo (and all!), Venaktesh is a friend of mine working on a patch to the venerable Alpine mail reader so it can read Maildir format mailboxes on disk. Venkatesh wanted to know if he could use some code from Dovecot's lib-storage (safely opening/reading Maildirs, including accounting for

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir format use question

2009-03-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Rick Romero wrote: So I'm left with a quandry. I guess the simple question is, Should mail in cur, EVER not have a flag? I suppose if it were marked as UNSEEN after being SEEN, that's possible. So I just answered myself there :) Just SELECTing a mailbox causes Dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Replication status

2009-02-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: Replication is still on my TODO list and I've a bit of code for the replication plugin implemented, but it's not very far. Anyway since I now started working for Mailtrust they'll decide what the priorities are for new Dovecot features. I can't say for

[Dovecot] Replication status

2009-01-31 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I remember last year we discussed Dovecot replication a bit on this list, e.g. http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-May/030446.html . Has there been any development related to this, and can I help at all? The more I think about the hacks I'm employing to synchronize mail, the more I

Re: [Dovecot] read only FS access

2008-10-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Mathieu Kretchner wrote: Hello, I would like to know if it's possible to subscribe to a folder that is on a read only File System ? We have a snapshot mechanism that create a .snapshot directly in the user folder. This is done by our NAS and we would like to give an

Re: [Dovecot] Converting from MBOX to Maildir broke procmail and Spamassasin and halted incoming mail

2008-09-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Dan Roberts wrote: It was quickly pointed out that my system was set up to use MBOX and not MAILDIR, and some helpful links and notes were sent back and forth giving me a good clue as to how to perform the conversion process. I did have success in getting my mail

Re: [Dovecot] Sorting a folder (by THREAD) takes a long time

2008-08-18 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote: How large is your INBOX? Unless you've disabled index files the threading should go pretty fast even for thousands of messages. (now it's archive and Lists that are so big) ca. 100K messages But if it really is because of THREAD, you're in luck. I've

Re: [Dovecot] login processes from attacks staying for hours

2008-07-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Other programs have their own built-in values/parameters for timeouts, which makes sense as one program's typical timeout needs may be quite different from another one. So, each program should at least have a few *configurable* parameters that control

Re: [Dovecot] Search over big folder hierarchy (was: Global FTS index?)

2008-06-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote: Hmm. Or v1.2 has virtual mailboxes - you could create a single virtual mailbox from all your other mailboxes and then search it. I think if Squat is enabled it'll create a single index from all the mails. I'm not sure if I want to leave it like that

Re: [Dovecot] Keeping \Seen flag private

2008-06-27 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Imobach González Sosa wrote: There's no problem in disallowing the users to update the Seen flag. What I want is that every user have their own Seen flags. Timo and others will know more; but for me, I would just deliver the messages to multiple people and see that

Re: [Dovecot] Problem Compiling 1.1.1 on AIX

2008-06-25 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote: Can you somehow enable C99 support for xlc? Is there something like a -c99 parameter? P.S. Is it possible to just try installing the GNU Compiler Collection, and then compiling with GCC on your platform? -- Asheesh. -- Hiccuping trembling into

Re: [Dovecot] Installation Problem -

2008-06-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Kaushal Gandhi wrote: Hello, I have installed dovecot Version 1.0.14 on Centos Linux 4.6. When I do ./configure --with-pam, I get below mentioned error. Download the OpenSSL development packages for your distribution. My guess is openssl-devel but I don't use CentOS.

[Dovecot] Lucene index not updated when one saves a message from one folder to the other

2008-06-10 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I'm running 1.1 rc8, and I enabled the Lucene indexes. I find that if a bunch of messages arrive in INBOX and I then move them to archive, the next time I do an X-TEXT-FAST search, Dovecot has to re-index the mails that I think it had indexed when they were in INBOX. This seems silly, since

Re: [Dovecot] mbox: extra linefeed after Content-Length header in 1.1.rc8

2008-06-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Diego Liziero wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:34 +0200, Diego Liziero wrote: mbox messages get header corruption caused by an extra linefeed after Content-Length Fixed:

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.rc6 released (managesieve updated)

2008-05-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 30 May 2008, Stephan Bosch wrote: Timo Sirainen schreef: http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/rc/dovecot-1.1.rc6.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/rc/dovecot-1.1.rc6.tar.gz.sig Previous managesieve wont compile against rc6, so I made a quick new release (expecting rc7 to arrive soon):

Re: [Dovecot] procmail -- deliver question

2008-05-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Ben Budts wrote: Hi there, I use dovecot-1.1-rc4, got imap, imaps, pop3 pop3s working fine with the mbox format. I use sendmail-8.14.2 as an MTA, sendmail uses procmail as an LDA. Does it run it as the user in question, or as root? I migrated to maildir format now,

Re: [Dovecot] moving folders bug - rc4

2008-05-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Anil wrote: I am fairly new to dovecot... I had a user who in outlook tried to move one of the folders into another folder but it crapped out. I kind of fear that Outlook sent the wrong IMAP commands. Can you reproduce this and keep a Dovecot rawlog of the IMAP

Re: [Dovecot] Wrong message information

2008-05-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Anders wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On May 8, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Anders wrote: We have a few users that every so often get empty data in their message overview. From and subject are empty, and the date is 1-Jan-1970. When opening the message in full view, all things are

Re: [Dovecot] deliver custom maildir creation

2008-05-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Steve Roemen wrote: / I'm testing a new setup of postfix using deliver to put the messages into the user's maildir, and am curious if there is a way to make deliver create custom maildirs when it delivers to a valid user without a maildir? I don't know as far as deliver,

Re: [Dovecot] Replication protocol design

2008-05-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 1 May 2008, Ed W wrote: I currently use a small self written proxy app which does some simple analysis of what imap client is talking and does some prefetching via pipelined commands to reduce latency and also sets up a compressed pipe back to the server. Even over broadband it gives

Re: [Dovecot] icedove update

2008-04-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Karl Schmidt wrote: Something came up that Confounded problems in my move from UW-imap to dovecot. I found a problem with the new icedove update in Debian lenny when moving from 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.14b.dfsg1-0etch1 to 2.0.0.9-3 that could look like a dovecot issue. Icedove

Re: [Dovecot] Replication protocol design

2008-04-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote: I'll probably be implementing multi-master replication this summer. My previous thoughts about it are here: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-December/027284.html Below is a description of how the replication protocol will probably work. It should

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + iPhone

2008-04-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Tim Riley wrote: dovecot version: 1.0.13 (RPM from http://atrpms.net/) protocol: IMAP dovecot -n: # 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log listen: *removed* ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file:

Re: [Dovecot] Moving Maildir email messages and backing things up.

2008-04-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, mouss wrote: Karl Schmidt wrote: mouss wrote: karl wrote: What would happen if I ran a script that did this: mv ~/Maildir/.folder_one/cur/* ~/Maildir/.folder_two/cur/ My hunch is it might break things. shouldn't break anything. if the MUA is caching actions (happens

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve script executed, but nothing happens

2008-04-18 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Wouter Amsterdam wrote: if address :is to user@ mydomain.nl { Is this space intentional? useratspacemydomain.nl? -- Asheesh. -- In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble. -- Alan Perlis

Re: [Dovecot] A little assistance with Sieve

2008-04-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, this does not seem to be over, yet. I have a script in the right place now, it is set as Active, but it does not seem to be doing anything. That is, everything is still going to the INBOX instead of to the designated directories, and

Re: [Dovecot] Broken Debian package

2008-04-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Thing wrote: So maybe dovecot.index.cache became corrupt? Hmm! Perhaps you should still upgrade, then. -- Asheesh. -- The last person who said that (God rest his soul) lived to regret it.

Re: [Dovecot] Icedove (Thunderbird) crashes when reading IMAP messages

2008-04-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Cam Ellison wrote: This is a Debian lenny/sid installation. Dovecot has been installed on it for over a year, with no problems. Lately (i.e. the past few months), if I attempt to read a message, Icedove crashes. It does not do this when I read a message downloaded from

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot config

2008-04-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Dien Phan wrote: We are using a web mail software that allows users to login either as us 'abc' or '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. The problem is: when a user logs in as 'abc' (without domain part) dovecots creates a directory /var/MailRoot/domains/abc and check mail there (as I

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot dead

2008-03-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Allen Sim wrote: I am a new linux user.I jz setting up a mail server.Downloaded Configured the components:CentOS,OpenLDAP,pam,dovecotMailServer,s endmial,squireelmail etc Okay. But wehn i want to check whether it works or not, so i open up my clientmail, wchi is

Re: [Dovecot] Automatic Debian repository now provides source packages

2008-03-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Stephan Bosch wrote: Hello Dovecot users, Last week I announced my automatic Debian repository for dovecot-1.1. Asheesh Laroia requested source package support and as promised I built it this weekend. Now that it has succesfully released new packages for Timo's latest

Re: [Dovecot] problems with postfix-procmail-deliver

2008-03-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Andy Greenwood wrote: I'm relatively new to Dovecot, but I really like what I'm seeing so far. I have one problem that I was hoping you could help me with though. I use Postfix for my mail server, then pass that on to procmail for filtering, and finally to deliver to put

Re: [Dovecot] Help! OT: Blackberry IMAP client suggestions/experience needed

2008-03-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Stewart Dean wrote: Sure it will in your situation...but when you have more than one client going after the mailbox, they'll step on each other's work n vanilla Dovecot. And in this case there are at least 2 and as many as 4 or 5 mail clients all open at the same time

Re: [Dovecot] imap sent-mail folder sometimes dosen't get updated when used by more than a mailer at the same time.

2008-03-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Diego Liziero wrote: Perhaps, as it never happened with wu-imap, it could be fixed with dovecot, too. The hard part is to understand why it happens. I wonder if an IMAP trace for a working UW-IMAP setup and the failing Dovecot setup might help. -- Asheesh. -- Satire

Re: [Dovecot] Automatic Debian repository with packages for Dovecot-1.1 including Sieve and ManageSieve support.

2008-03-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Stephan Bosch wrote: Hello Dovecot users, For those of you who like to live on the edge, there is now a Debian-testing repository available with hourly updates from recent Dovecot-1.1 changes in the Mercurial repositories. It automatically releases a new set of packages

Re: [Dovecot] Logging Options

2008-03-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Steffen Ille wrote: Dear Listmembers, I tried to figure out how to get statistics not only about the amount of mails which where sent from / to my mailusers, but also about the size in byte (e.g. to compare with other traffic stats) for each of my users. postfix shows me

[Dovecot] Sorting a folder (by THREAD) takes a long time

2008-03-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
My email workflow with Dovecot is that mail gets delivered to INBOX, where I handle it and then move it into a folder called archive. I have alpine set to use the Default sort of THREAD of a folder. After moving a (few) mail(s) from INBOX to archive, archive takes a long time (10-50s) to

Re: [Dovecot] messages downloading repeatedly to mozilla/seamonkey pop3 client

2008-03-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Ben Julian wrote: All changes resulted in only a brief (1-2hr) cessation of the problem. I've subscribed for a month or so now and searched the archives, but if I missed a solution to this in there, I apologize. That sounds like a drag. Let's see if we can help you. Can

Re: [Dovecot] deliver procmail

2008-02-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Jeff Grossman wrote: Thanks for the information. I have one additional question, it is probably not a Dovecot question more of a Procmail question. I tried adding the above code to my /etc/procmailrc file but it did not work. Do I have to put that code in each users

Re: [Dovecot] Follow-up re: gcc 2.96 - Re: PATCH: compile dovecot-1.1.beta14 with gcc 2.95

2008-02-27 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Feb 27, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: I can't argue with that logic but documenting it in a wiki or INSTALL or including the patches with the distribution might be more agreeable. Why are you people still using so old gcc versions?

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0.10 - IMAP - Nokia N95 ?

2008-02-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Patrick wrote: I was wondering if anyone has IMAP working between Dovecot 1.0.10 and a Nokia N95 (8GB version with firmware 15.x.x.x)? I've been trying to make it work using a default Dovecot config but the N95 just hangs when updating the folder list which has a bunch of

Re: [Dovecot] Update from 1.0.10 - 1.1rc1 file message-parser.c: line 766 (message_parser_parse_next_block): assertion failed

2008-02-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Feb 23 20:40:36 postamt dovecot: IMAP(username): Raw backtrace: It looks like you could make this report even more helpful by providing a single message that reproduces this failure, or by proving a gdb backtrace as per

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.rc1 released

2008-02-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Wolfram Schlich wrote: I just committed the Gentoo ebuild for 1.1.rc1 with sieve and managesieve support (both since 1.1.beta15): http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-mail/dovecot I've also made available unofficial Debian packages. Note that they don't have Sieve

Re: [Dovecot] Strange Error

2008-02-18 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Davi Bariani Boin wrote: Hello Everybody, I´m trying to make a work with procmail and deliver on Fedora 7. Part of flow are the following: - procmail get the mail from Sendmail - procmail ask to deliver/dovecot if have any retriction (sizer mailbox, etc) - procmail put

[Dovecot] Finding Dovecot 1.1 hg

2008-02-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
When I do either: $ hg clone http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/1.1/ or $ hg clone http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/ and cd into the resulting directory (1.1/ or dovecot/) and do autogen.sh and configure, ./configure tells me at the end: NOTE: This is the UNSTABLE development branch of Dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Convert MBOX

2008-01-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Erin D. Hughes wrote: Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: to avoid such problems i simple create a new user with userdb_mail=maildir and using thunderbird i just copied the emails from one account to other :) Thanks Evaggelos for your reply unfortunately I need to convert about

Re: [Dovecot] Strange signal 11 crashes

2008-01-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: I found that compiling the zeroc-ice package (on Debian-based distros), which is huge, very reliably results in random crashes and aborts when relevant hardware is dying. # apt-get source zeroc-ice # cd zeroc-ice-?.?.? # make *blam* Just to

Re: [Dovecot] Multiple copies of a message

2008-01-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: I have a problem and I don't know which part of the mail chain could be causing it, although dovecot does seem to be the most logical source. I get multiple copies of messages to my Inbox. I have just deleted 24 copies of a newsletter from Computer

Re: [Dovecot] More efficient Deleting of a whole folder (or Purging Trash)

2008-01-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Bill Cole wrote: For Dovecot, the mailbox index also has to be updated for each deletion, and while that in itself is not terribly expensive per message, it has to be done one message at a time to maintain consistency between the index and the real mail. In general,

Re: [Dovecot] More efficient Deleting of a whole folder (or Purging Trash)

2008-01-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Bill Cole wrote: At 6:32 PM -0800 1/29/08, Asheesh Laroia imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Bill Cole wrote: For Dovecot, the mailbox index also has to be updated for each deletion, and while that in itself is not terribly

Re: [Dovecot] New server error

2008-01-24 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: I'm setting up a replacement mail server on a CentOS 5.1 box. The dovecot version is 1.0.rc15. 'dovecot -n' returns Can you try upgrading to a more recent Dovecot? 1.0.10 is the current stable release. -- Asheesh. -- Why does New Jersey have more

Re: [Dovecot] Imap proxy with tls?

2008-01-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Someone Something wrote: I have a server with dovecot installed with imap and tls working (call that the remote server). Now I want to have a few computers at the same place to access the same account on the remote server. I have another server (call this the local

Re: [Dovecot] Imap proxy with tls?

2008-01-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Someone Something wrote: offlineimap looks like it will work. Do you know if it works well on big changes? I have about 1.5 gigs of email at the local site that will need to be uploaded to the main server. After its uploaded it will have to weed through it all during

Re: [Dovecot] do not lose mail when dovecot is dead

2008-01-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Daniel wrote: Currently, I'm executing deliver from a wrapper script: # master.cf: dovecot-lda unix [...] argv=[...]/dovecot-lda_wrapper.pl ${recipient} That script finds out the username which must be passed to deliver's -d option, because dovecot's user names are not the

Re: [Dovecot] Please help me resolve why mail isn't being delivered to virtual users

2008-01-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Andrew Falanga wrote: In the future, I shall endeavor to look more heavily for the answers before posting, or at least before assuming that no one on this list is willing to help. Thank you to all for the help given. Sure thing. If you have suggestions to improve the

Re: [Dovecot] Please help me resolve why mail isn't being delivered to virtual users

2008-01-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Andrew Falanga wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 9:55 PM, Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andrew Falanga wrote: I have to admit that I'm not quite sure why no one has responded to me about this one. If I'm not providing enough information or incorrect

Re: [Dovecot] Please help me resolve why mail isn't being delivered to virtual users

2008-01-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Charles Marcus wrote: On 1/9/2008, Asheesh Laroia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Basically - the above is a reason to use 'adduser', not a reason to use virtual users! If I'm wrong, please clarify my understanding. My understanding is using Virtual Users is inherently more

Re: [Dovecot] Please help me resolve why mail isn't being delivered to virtual users

2008-01-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Pascal Volk wrote: Am 09.01.2008 21:43 schrieb Asheesh Laroia: Not in the way I was describing: Let's say some person logs on to your Dovecot-based IMAP service and figures out how to take over Dovecot to read and modify arbitrary files on the system. (Timo, I hope

Re: [Dovecot] Sendmail, procmail, dovecot and quota

2008-01-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, papi mac wrote: I have Fedora 7 from a standard installation running sendmail, procmail and dovecot 1.0 installed on a single partition. I now need to set up mail quotas for most of the users but not all. Just protecting /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME is probably good enough for

Re: [Dovecot] Sendmail, procmail, dovecot and quota

2008-01-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, papi mac wrote: You mean by having a procmail rule to send the mail on to dovecot for delivery? If so, what would the line in the procmail rule look like? Right, that's what I mean - at the end of the default procmail rules (like in /etc/procmailrc), pipe the message to

Re: [Dovecot] Please help me resolve why mail isn't being delivered to virtual users

2008-01-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andrew Falanga wrote: I have to admit that I'm not quite sure why no one has responded to me about this one. If I'm not providing enough information or incorrect information please tell me. It's quite important that this e-mail system be working. Well, I can try to help.

[Dovecot] Dovecot indexing questions

2008-01-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I was playing with Dovecot 1.1 full text indexing through Squat in late October, which was working pretty well. I wanted to ask about this behavior I had: When an email arrives in INBOX using procmail (which delivers to my Maildirs), and I see it in Dovecot, when I next do a search (IMAP

Re: [Dovecot] Delay on failed pw attempts

2008-01-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Dean Brooks wrote: Hi, Is there a way, or can a way be added, to add an auth_failed_delay=10s style option that would put in an artificial delay after a failed password attempt? As it stands now, Dovecot seems highly vulnerable to widescale brute-force password dictionary

Re: [Dovecot] Delay on failed pw attempts

2008-01-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Frank Kintrup wrote: Is there a way, or can a way be added, to add an auth_failed_delay=10s style option that would put in an artificial delay after a failed password attempt? As it stands now, Dovecot seems highly vulnerable to widescale brute-force password dictionary

Re: [Dovecot] Help with logging in and getting mail

2007-12-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2007 14:20:47 Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 14:00 -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u .. userdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf .. Dec

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrading from 1.0.rc2-1ubuntu2.2 on edgy

2007-12-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Daragh Mc Grath wrote: Hi Guys, Can anyone shed some light as to how I upgrade away from 1.0.rc2-1ubuntu2.2 on edgy? The usual aptitude upgrades aren't doing anything for me, and, downloading the package from another Ubuntu release, and trying a dpkg -i is causing lots of

Re: [Dovecot] Fishing attempt locking up dovecot

2007-12-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Patrick Milvich wrote: I've mentioned this before but only heard from one other person who has experienced this, but it's becoming a pretty serious issue. The situation: A spammer sets a bot on a fishing attempt to gain email addresses, causing numerous login processes

Re: [Dovecot] disconnect after too many errors?

2007-12-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Peter Hessler wrote: There are a couple of jerks that are tying to dictionary attack my email server, and one of the vectors is pop3/imap logins. Something I would like to do in dovecot, but can't seem to find, is the ability to disconnect after a certain number of errors.

Re: [Dovecot] disconnect after too many errors?

2007-12-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Peter Hessler wrote: There are a couple of jerks that are tying to dictionary attack my email server, and one of the vectors is pop3/imap logins. Something I would like to do in dovecot, but can't seem to find, is the ability to disconnect after a certain number of errors.

Re: [Dovecot] procmail/formail -- Maildir

2007-12-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Andre Huebner wrote: Hello List, i switched mailformat from mbox to maildir. Now i have a little problem with procmail/formail and headermanipulation of mails. Here an example: 0 * ^From.*gmx.de | (formail -t -Iprocmail: gmx.de) /var/spool/mail/xx You can ask

Re: [Dovecot] Can't login from Mac OS X Mail.app

2007-11-27 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Mike McGonagle wrote: Hello all, I have been working on getting this machine Hi, Mike - can you be more specific as to what the problem you're having is? -- Asheesh. -- It's better to burn out than it is to rust.

Re: [Dovecot] Getting two mails.....

2007-11-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Bjørn T Johansen wrote: When I receive a mail that is addressed to my email address and also with a cc to a mailinglist I subscribe to, I get two mails, which I guess is expected... But I have just moved to Dovecot from Cyrus, and Cyrus seems to know that this is the same

Re: [Dovecot] mail_location backends

2007-11-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Harrison Metzger wrote: Hello, Where I work we have have an interesting setup, we have 2 machines with mail accounts on them and both have dovecot. We would really like to centralize all the mail accounts on one machine, but unfortunately the administration has not

Re: [Dovecot] Search inside body of message

2007-11-18 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Nikolay Shopik wrote: Yes I'm using deb. Well to make things easier for you I've just tested using other email client (Mullberry). Seems Thunderbird screwup something in encoding (same thing as renaming folders). So that's not dovecot problem ;). That's a drag - follow

Re: [Dovecot] Problems executing dovecot.

2007-11-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Marcelo Iturbe wrote: 112 copy 1:100 toBeProcessed Connection to host lost. I keep getting dropped... Does /var/log/syslog say anything interesting? -- Asheesh. -- Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and let the world mirror it. --

Re: [Dovecot] New full text search indexer

2007-11-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Daniel Watts wrote: Timo - we were just having a conversation about how we might be able to provide full body indexed search for our clients and I realised it might be worth checking the Dovecot list to see if this has been done already... And then I find this thread!

Re: [Dovecot] New full text search indexer

2007-11-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Adam McDougall wrote: Thanks for this list of steps, I've been intending to test it and was just about getting ready to ask the same question. Your email would be mice content to throw on the dovecot wiki under fts (currently empty) Good point, but you do it, it's

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.index mtime

2007-11-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Matt wrote: Another annoying thing about Exim is it checks if a user is over quotta after it has accepted a message. It then trys to write the message to the users ./new directory and at that point generates a bounce. Meaning over quotta accounts generate alot of bounces

Re: [Dovecot] mail-sql update

2007-11-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 20:07 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: Wasted a bit of time getting it to work again. It's horribly inefficient when saving messages and EXPUNGE seems to be somewhat broken, but at least it kinda works. :)

[Dovecot] 1.0beta7 still has SEARCH TEXT not search the FROM

2007-11-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I just tried out 1.0beta7 and erased all my indexes and with fts and fts_squat enabled, and when I SEARCH TEXT in Dovecot, it does *not* find messages where the thing I SEARCH for appear only in the From: header. Timo, can you confirm or deny that you still see this behavior? I did clear my

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0beta7 still has SEARCH TEXT not search the FROM

2007-11-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I just tried out 1.0beta7 Er, I mean 1.1beta7. -- Asheesh. -- The first requisite for immortality is death. -- Stanislaw Lem

Re: [Dovecot] Couldn't init INBOX: Can't sync mailbox: Messages keep getting expunged

2007-11-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Tom Sommer wrote: On Sat, November 3, 2007 22:18, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 14:20 +0100, Tom Sommer wrote: After updating Dovecot, From what version? I think it's related to the change in the cache files. I had a customer who couldn't see any mails

Re: [Dovecot] MANAGESIEVE patch v8 for dovecot 1.0.7

2007-11-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Andreas Schneider wrote: Stephan Bosch wrote: Hello dovecot users, Hi Stephan, Have fun testing the patch. Don't hesitate to notify me when there are problems. I've configured horde today and if I try to access managesieve it segfaults. dovecot-infolog: dovecot:

Re: [Dovecot] sync with gmail?

2007-11-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Neal Becker wrote: I tried Imap-Maildir. That was easy to setup without messing up my existing imap (just use cp -al old-maildir new-maildir). I guess to do Imap-Imap I could create another user account on my dovecot server (I'm the only user on that system, it's just

Re: [Dovecot] Assertion failed: (pos input-size)

2007-10-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Well, hg bisect doesn't seem to be helping me find the answer. I fear that the real problem is in base64_decode, but for now I'm going to sleep instead of drowsily being confused by a debugger. For what it's worth, http://paulproteus.acm.jhu.edu

Re: [Dovecot] Assertion failed: (pos input-size)

2007-10-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I fear that the real problem is in base64_decode, but for now I'm going to sleep instead of drowsily being confused by a debugger. When I add the attached patch, which just adds two asserts toward the end of base64_decode(), I can get base64_decode

Re: [Dovecot] Assertion failed: (pos input-size)

2007-10-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:16 -0700, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I fear that the real problem is in base64_decode, but for now I'm going to sleep instead of drowsily being confused by a debugger. When I add

[Dovecot] SEARCH TEXT does not seem to search headers

2007-10-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
The RFC says http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3501.txt this: TEXT string Messages that contain the specified string in the header or body of the message. But with the current hg tip (see linked rawlogs), SEARCH TEXT provides results disjoint from SEARCH FROM. I

[Dovecot] Problem building Dovecot from hg

2007-10-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I did an hg pull; hg update, and now my Dovecot working copy doesn't build: ../../src/lib-storage/index/dbox/libstorage_dbox.a(dbox-file.o): In function `dbox_file_metadata_get': /home/paulproteus/dnlds/dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/dbox/dbox-file.c:820: undefined reference to

[Dovecot] Segfault by asking for a folder?

2007-10-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I 'hg pull'ed and now my Dovecot segfaults when I select a particular folder. I've removed all files with 'index' in the name, so I don't think it's due to bad indexes. Oct 21 09:18:40 alchemy dovecot: Dovecot v1.1.beta3 starting up Oct 21 09:18:47 alchemy dovecot: imap-login:

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade from 1.0.1 - 1.0.5 failed (rc 75)

2007-10-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: deliver([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Oct 21 17:19:49 Fatal: chroot(/users/mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED]) failed: Operation not permitted Only programs running as UID 0 (root) are allowed to use the chroot system call. Does your use of chroot() for

Re: [Dovecot] Segfault by asking for a folder?

2007-10-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I 'hg pull'ed and now my Dovecot segfaults when I select a particular folder. I've removed all files with 'index' in the name, so I don't think it's due to bad indexes. I 'hg bisect'ed between 1.1.beta3 and the tip with this as my test: sh

Re: [Dovecot] Segfault by asking for a folder?

2007-10-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I 'hg bisect'ed between 1.1.beta3 and the tip with this as my test: Actually, now, tip is fixed. Thanks Timo! -- Asheesh. -- Teutonic: Not enough gin.

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