Re: [Dovecot] Spliting Folders for Efficiency

2009-06-25 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 10:00 +0100, Daniel Watts wrote: .Folder__1.new .Folder__1.cur .Folder__1.tmp and .Folder__2.new .Folder__2.cur .Folder__2.tmp with Dovecot merging them before display as just "Folder" within the mail client. Virtual folders would enabl

Re: [Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-09 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: I thought about saying this in v1.2.beta1 release annoouncement, but looks like it'll take a few more days. So I've moved to Blacksburg, Virginia and I'm now working for Mailtrust the rest of this year. Here's some talk about it: Congratulations Timo =) Best of luck out the

Re: [Dovecot] Indexes recovery failed

2008-11-24 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo, If it happens again, please make a copy of the files before deleting. It's a lot easier to debug these bugs if I can see the dovecot.index and dovecot.index.log contents. I will do - have asked my sysadmin to make backups the next time it happens. Perhaps dovecot could try the fix but

[Dovecot] Indexes recovery failed

2008-11-24 Thread Daniel Watts
Hi Timo, Was getting the following error repeatedly in my mail client (squirremail) "error: connection dropped by IMAP server" Looked at the logs for this user and found the following: Nov 19 17:11:32 mink dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): broken sync positions in index file /virtual/store2/

Re: [Dovecot] Stateful Webmail

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Watts
Michael Carter wrote: Hello, I'm a developer on the Orbited project (http://www.orbited.org), which provides a TCPSocket interface in javascript (emulated over HTTP using ajax and comet.) This TCPSocket allows true bi-directional communication between a web browser and an arbitrary tcp server. O

Re: [Dovecot] Stateful Webmail

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Watts
Michael Carter wrote: Hello, I'm a developer on the Orbited project (http://www.orbited.org), which provides a TCPSocket interface in javascript (emulated over HTTP using ajax and comet.) This TCPSocket allows true bi-directional communication between a web browser and an arbitrary tcp server. O

Re: [Dovecot] Marking as Read causes Body.Peek on ALL messages - Reasonable?

2008-08-15 Thread Daniel Watts
Charles Marcus wrote: On 8/13/2008, Daniel Watts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The more I use Thunderbird the more I find it totally insane. Did you file a bug report? I imagine this is something that could use some fixing, and there is a much higher chance that the TBird devs will listen than

Re: [Dovecot] Marking as Read causes Body.Peek on ALL messages - Reasonable?

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Watts
I've noticed when I select a folder of messages (Thunderbird) and mark them all as read (or unread) it produces the following IMAP transcript: SourceDestinationInfo c.c.c.cs.s.s.sRequest: DONE s.s.s.sc.c.c.cResponse: 20 OK Idle completed. c.c.c.cs.s.s.sRequest:

[Dovecot] Marking as Read causes Body.Peek on ALL messages - Reasonable?

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Watts
I've noticed when I select a folder of messages (Thunderbird) and mark them all as read (or unread) it produces the following IMAP transcript: Source Destination Info c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: DONE s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: 20 OK Idle completed. c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 21 uid store 1:20 -Fl

Re: [Dovecot] Trying to Hide Namespace - new configuration options?

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Watts
Charles Marcus wrote: On 8/13/2008, Daniel Watts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If i set the prefix to blank I only see my Inbox and Deleted folders. Interestingly it shows 'Deleted' not 'Trash'. I guess Thunderbird renames 'Trash'. Maybe this is a TBird issue rathe

[Dovecot] Trying to Hide Namespace - new configuration options?

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Watts
Using 1.1.2 We have: # default namespace namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes #location = maildir:/home/virtual/%h #Maildir } # for backwards compatibility: namespace private { separator = / prefix = mail/

Re: [Dovecot] Sorting by Sender Name

2008-03-10 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 14:45 +, Daniel Watts wrote: I feel there is an error in the logic of the sort by From column. If you sort by this column, the messages are re-ordered in alphabetical order using the *email address* as the sorted word. However most people these

[Dovecot] Sorting by Sender Name

2008-03-07 Thread Daniel Watts
ing by From it should use the name as the sorted element and NOT the email address. If my email was [EMAIL PROTECTED], my emails, showing as 'Daniel Watts' would come right near the bottom of the list rather than with the other 'D's near the top. I know my email clients (Th

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

2008-01-31 Thread Daniel Watts
Hi Timo, On Jan 29, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Daniel Watts wrote: Is there not a more efficient way to do this? If Dovecot knows the whole folder is being deleted (ie a Trash purge), could it do something clever with the filesystem to just remove the whole folder? If you use IMAP DELETE command, it

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

2008-01-29 Thread Daniel Watts
Hi, I've straced a few dovecot processes after hitting purge on a large Trash folder (35,000 messages). It looks like it is going through each message, one by one, and removing (unlinking) each one. Is there not a more efficient way to do this? If Dovecot knows the whole folder is being dele

[Dovecot] Upgrading a live running dovecot - how?

2008-01-02 Thread Daniel Watts
Hi Guys, This has bitten us twice now. We're running Gentoo and emerge (ie compile) a new version of Dovecot thinking we can finish that then restart Dovecot in our own time. It seems that Dovecot immediately starts to use the newly compiled Dovecot binary and we get version mismatch errors

Re: [Dovecot] Squirrelmail + Dovecot + Maildir

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Watts
Vicki Stanfield wrote: I have been struggling with getting my Fedora 7 box set up to use dovecot with Squirrelmail and Maildir. It works correctly with the exception of writing outgoing mail to the right folder (.Sent) or drafts (.Drafts). If I send a mail with Mutt, it writes the mail to the r

Re: [Dovecot] Squirrelmail + Dovecot + Maildir

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Watts
Troy Engel wrote: Vicki Stanfield wrote: Here is what I see in /etc/squirrelmail/config.php $optional_delimiter = '.'; [snip] $default_folder_prefix = ''; $trash_folder = 'Trash'; $sent_folder= 'Sent'; $draft_folder = 'Drafts

Re: [Dovecot] maildirsize quota counting locking account?

2007-12-19 Thread Daniel Watts
Charles Marcus wrote: On 12/19/2007, Daniel Watts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Yeah no idea what thunderbird thinks it is doing. Often have to close the program and restart it (of course this is nothing to do with dovecot - i suspect tb's caching management). What platform? I use TBi

Re: [Dovecot] maildirsize quota counting locking account?

2007-12-19 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On 19.12.2007, at 13.42, Daniel Watts wrote: I've just straced a dovecot imap process and found one thread sitting there doing hundreds and hundreds of maildirsize updates as follows: What Dovecot version? v1.0.8 fixed one bug that caused this. 1.0.7 - will upda

[Dovecot] maildirsize quota counting locking account?

2007-12-19 Thread Daniel Watts
Hi, I've just straced a dovecot imap process and found one thread sitting there doing hundreds and hundreds of maildirsize updates as follows: open("/home/virtual/mydomain.com/home/admin/Maildir/maildirsize", O_RDWR|O_APPEND) = 7 read(7, "1048576S\n1562717408 107547\n-"..., 5120) = 2446

Re: [Dovecot] Corrupted Transaction Log File: v1.0.7

2007-12-07 Thread Daniel Watts
[snip] Dec 7 14:19:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tg3 dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Corrupted transaction log file /home/virtual/mydomain.com/home/peter.day/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 50, but next_uid = 15870 This is the real error. What kind of a system do you have?

[Dovecot] Corrupted Transaction Log File: v1.0.7

2007-12-07 Thread Daniel Watts
Following errors have happened quite a bit: Dec 7 14:19:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tg3 dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Transaction log file /home/virtual/mydomain.com/home/peter.day/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted Dec 7 14:19:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tg3 dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL PRO

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot process nice value

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 16:25 +, Daniel Watts wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 13:05 +, Daniel Watts wrote: My imap processes seem to all be running with a nice value of -15 (top priority). Is this usual? Not sure if this is a dovecot setting or

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot process nice value

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 13:05 +, Daniel Watts wrote: My imap processes seem to all be running with a nice value of -15 (top priority). Is this usual? Not sure if this is a dovecot setting or something going on with my own system configuration somewhere. Normally

[Dovecot] dovecot process nice value

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Watts
My imap processes seem to all be running with a nice value of -15 (top priority). Is this usual? Not sure if this is a dovecot setting or something going on with my own system configuration somewhere. I know the userdb query can set the nice value but mine (a mysql query) does not... We're h

Re: [Dovecot] New full text search indexer

2007-11-14 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 00:34 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: Squat-like 4 byte substrings (but can answer 1-3 char queries also): Indexing a 1,4GB Linux kernel mailing list mbox with 367919 messages: UID count: 367919 Index time: 129.86 CPU seconds (10.43MB/CPUs), 132.47 secon

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.beta8 released

2007-11-12 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 07:27 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: Changes since beta7: - Added a new "raw" mail storage backend which allows opening files/streams as single mail mailboxes. deliver uses this now instead of opening the incoming mail

Re: [Dovecot] Sent vs Sent Items

2007-11-05 Thread Daniel Watts
Ed W wrote: Religious wars about which is "best" aside - some mail clients seem to default to using "Sent Items" folder for saving sent mail, and others (many) default to "Sent". Seems that in the interests of compatibility and "doing the right thing" (tm) that a symlink from one folder to th

Re: [Dovecot] Spliting Folders for Efficiency

2007-10-12 Thread Daniel Watts
Chris Laif wrote: On 10/11/07, Daniel Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Timo, Would there be any sense in giving Dovecot the option to split folders into multiple subfolders when they reached a specified size (probably message count) limit? Many modern file systems offer the possi

Re: [Dovecot] Spliting Folders for Efficiency

2007-10-12 Thread Daniel Watts
Curtis Maloney wrote: Daniel Watts wrote: Dear Timo, Would there be any sense in giving Dovecot the option to split folders into multiple subfolders when they reached a specified size (probably message count) limit? My understanding is this is partially covered in Timo's "db

[Dovecot] Spliting Folders for Efficiency

2007-10-11 Thread Daniel Watts
Dear Timo, Would there be any sense in giving Dovecot the option to split folders into multiple subfolders when they reached a specified size (probably message count) limit? Dovecot would monitor folders and when they reached, say, 10,000 messages, silently split the folder on the filesystem

Re: [Dovecot] Corrupt Message?

2007-10-05 Thread Daniel Watts
Daniel Watts wrote: Dear List, Am accessing dovecot imap through squirrelmail. Squirrelmail paginates the message list into pages. All works fine except for the page one particular email is in. When I try to open that page (or in fact click 'show all') the server returns: ERR

[Dovecot] Corrupt Message?

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Watts
Dear List, Am accessing dovecot imap through squirrelmail. Squirrelmail paginates the message list into pages. All works fine except for the page one particular email is in. When I try to open that page (or in fact click 'show all') the server returns: ERROR: Bad or malformed request. Query:

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.alpha2 released

2007-08-09 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha2.tar.gz.sig Hopefully the next release can be v1.1.beta1. I'm not aware of any major problems and I think I'm pretty much done with new features (except fo

Re: [Dovecot] cache questions

2007-08-06 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:31 +0100, Daniel Watts wrote: 1. Is the expire time on a per-login basis or for the entire cache? If someone logs in 14 minutes after the last expiry is their data cached for just 1 minute? Oh, I think I misunderstood this question

Re: [Dovecot] cache questions

2007-08-06 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 15:37 +0100, Daniel Watts wrote: Seems to work well (though haven't tried looking at stats). Only problem is that every so often, one of our new users tries to log in quickly before the account is marked (in a db) as 'active'. The

[Dovecot] cache questions

2007-08-06 Thread Daniel Watts
Hi Guys, We have: auth_cache_size = 2048 #Kb auth_cache_ttl = 900 #life of the cache Seems to work well (though haven't tried looking at stats). Only problem is that every so often, one of our new users tries to log in quickly before the account is marked (in a db) as 'active'. They use the