ther way
to achieve this?
Any hints on how to fixing this would be appreciated
Thanks
Ed W
On 19/03/2019 17:19, Ralph Seichter via dovecot wrote:
* Ed W. via dovecot:
My goal is that users can set a user configurable setting (in an
external front end) and if the email size is greater than this size
then we will do some processing on it. This particular filter is
actually in a global
, but is there another
way to do this?
Thanks for ideas
Ed W
(not much for linux, but ZFS offers this for other OSs)
Good luck
Ed W
is obviously
completely different, but I speculate that it could be the earlier cause
that gets the index file out of shape as shown in the problem here
Thanks for any help? (note it's not easy to remove maildrop at present)
Ed W
Sep 1 07:32:51 mail1 dovecot: imap(...@mailasail.com): Panic: file
if there is
a way to hire plugin developers for Thunderbird?
Good luck
Ed W
experience has worked very well for me.
Please feel encouraged to employ Timo if you use Dovecot!
Good luck
Ed W
our services with
extra groupware features (I think I would prefer to implement filesystem
based storage of DAV files, but apart from that it looks good and seems
to be heading in the right direction)
Anyone want to pitch in fund development in this area?
Cheers
Ed W
On 02/11/2013 11:18, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 29.10.2013, at 10.26, Ed W li...@wildgooses.com wrote:
Hi, I recently upgraded from a dovecot 2.1 version to 2.2.6. I now have a
single user who occasionally triggers a crash (just this one user it seems?).
The user connects via LiveMail
Make use of the proxy feature. You can add a server entry into your
userdb, that way you can literally move users over one by one and flip
their server location. You can easily test individual users and move
them over individually.
Works brilliantly
Ed W
On 06/10/2013 11:39, Jogi
On 27/08/2013 09:54, Ben wrote:
On 23/08/2013 13:08, Ed W wrote:
Hi
I'm on an Ubuntu LTS release so the dovecot came from their release.
I'd prefer to stay that way unless I really have to...
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but IMHO this kind of
attitude is a huge detriment
all it's bugs... Sorry.
Good luck! Hope this inspires you to try a different route!
Ed W
support to Postfix?
It seems like it accidentally fell on the floor due to arriving at a bad
moment some years back?
Cheers
Ed W
...?
Cheers
Ed W
where all the
storage is off machine)
I don't really get where they are going with this solution though?
Ed W
will quickly show up your customer base
Cheers
Ed W
of
completely different domain names. The mild benefit is that this
doesn't require SNI support for SSL (which I'm unsure is supported by
many mail clients?)
Although it's more expensive, I think it's a good solution (I'm using it
for a small 5 domain installation)
Good luck
Ed W
and hence DRBD can run in async mode and performance
impact is low
Note I don't use any of the above, it was a setup described by Timo some
years back
Good luck
Ed W
On 25/03/2013 18:47, Thierry de Montaudry wrote:
Hi Tigran,
Managing a mail system for 1M odd users, we did run for a few
it
happen (add in K9 developers and submit a patch to Mozilla and at least
there would be basic groundwork...)
Cheers
Ed W
On 28/03/2013 22:10, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 28.3.2013, at 22.44, Ed W li...@wildgooses.com wrote:
My understanding is that you will need an SMTP server which supports such a
feature. Apple patch Postfix to support this using the BURL extension, however,
for whatever reason the patch has
created.
Good luck
Ed W
On 14/03/2013 03:36, Noel wrote:
https://www.rapidsslonline.com/
less than $20/year, takes literally 15 minutes from start to having
a certificate. Well, maybe 30 minutes the first time when you need
to read everything.
There are probably dozens of other sites offering similar services;
I've
rsync/unison when they change. This gives you near instant sync, but
low overhead. WOuld that help?
Ed W
for security)
Ed W
have millions of users, such a
rename process will take only seconds to minutes? Why not just take the
server down for a couple of minutes to do the rename process?
If you wanted to be really clever, you could do it live using symlinks
to move the dirs, then update the dovecot config?
Ed W
to smtp any message in
any folder in order that we can easily implement our preferred storage
policies)
http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/INSTALL.html#imapsend
Ed W
with PolarSSL, so no idea, but it's massively smaller
codebase is likely attractive if you are the kind of person who actually
*does* security audits on the software you run in secure situations.
Openssl is just a complete swiss army knife of tools!
Ed W
On 05/11/2012 23:22, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 23:40 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Anyway, looks like Dovecot can't link OpenSSL to imap/pop3 processes
without wasting a ton of memory. In v2.2 I already moved imapc/pop3c
backend code to plugins to avoid this. Looks like similar
app on the smartphone side
for calendar, adressbook ,tasks ,notes
roadmap
5.1 is planned as card/caldav server
http://wiki.horde.org/ActiveSync
Also see Sogo (and owncloud). Plus the Sogosync connector
This is a developing area (at last)
Ed W
upgrade...
Good luck
Ed W
On 24/09/2012 18:42, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
Hello all,
I have a DL360 G4 1U server that does a wonderfull job with dovecot horde,
Xmail and OpenLDAP for a company and serving about 40 acouunts.
The machine is wonderful. I am very happy with it.
However, I am running
On 24/09/2012 19:07, Ed W wrote:
This is one of those questions which is almost too easy if you are
familiar with Linux. Trying not to sound like a d*ck, but is it an
option to rent someone to help with admin jobs? For example, were it
me then I would probably have setup some partitioning
On 05/09/2012 11:58, Charles Marcus wrote:
I know, it is on my ToDo list... we only just recently migrated this
server to Dovecot, and I've had my plate full with other issues, which
are now mostly resolved, so I'm about ready to circle back and finish
up (installing SOGo, enabling sieve,
years old... It's so easy
to escape from that trap...!!
Good luck
Ed W
On 16/08/2012 08:02, Cor Bosman wrote:
I'm also considering implementing an SMTP submission server, which works
only as a proxy to the real SMTP server. The benefits of it would mainly
be:
What would be really cool is if you also kept statistics on certain metrics,
like how many emails a
On 16/08/2012 12:24, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-08-16 7:12 AM, Ed W li...@wildgooses.com wrote:
My opinion is that this is very easily to implement in at least Postfix
and probably other servers, hence I would suggest this is a function for
the MTA, not for the Dovecot relay?
Well, true
reductions (my customers are all on slow dialup
links), and at least some apple clients (IOS?) support it
Cheers
Ed W
, it's very possible to get
very low battery usage. Using tcpdump on your mobile client to help
tune things is a great help. Basically every stray packet is a killer
for battery, hunt them down.
Cheers
Ed W
are wrong you will get major breakage
Good luck
Ed W
P.S. You came here with all guns blazing and seems like you are going
to leave the same way? Why not try a more softly softly approach?
On 06/08/2012 08:57, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Ed W li...@wildgooses.com wrote:
P.S. You came here with all guns blazing and seems like you are going to
leave the same way? Why not try a more softly softly approach?
Because the 'customer' has right to throw his weight
will be able to customise things to a very specific
situation
Good luck
Ed W
, but only because I understand perl regexps better)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/369758/how-to-trim-whitespace-from-bash-variable
Ed W
On 19/07/2012 15:07, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* Ed W li...@wildgooses.com:
On 19/07/2012 13:45, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
Hi!
Anybody got a doveadm script which can remove leading and trailing
spaces from folder names?
Right now we're migrating mailboxes from dovecot - Exchange, and
Exchange
that it might cause some wierd symptoms with clients, why not
attack the dovecot mail backend and rename folders + sed the
subscription files?
Something like find | rename
Good luck
Ed W
in a reasonable length of time (real users
are going to have simple derivatives of dictionary words)
Good luck
Ed W
On 16/07/2012 12:01, Robert Schetterer wrote:
Am 16.07.2012 12:48, schrieb Charles Marcus:
On 2012-07-16 2:45 AM, Robert Schetterer rob...@schetterer.org wrote:
i have running touch with 3000 users, i dont see much overhead, anyway
its true ,its not very elegant, perhaps i.e you may write some
there is a risk of
running out of server ram if you have many simultaneous logins..?)
I previously thought I wanted bcrypt, but after some consideration I
believe sha256/512crypt is likely sufficient for reasonable security
Cheers
Ed W
not a full
virtualisation solution
One nice benefit is that all images are just a directory containing your
linux installation, so it's very easy to backup/snapshot/restore/drop in
and fix something you bolloxed up/clone to a new machine.
Just my 2p.
Cheers
Ed W
On 29/06/2012 12:15, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-06-28 4:35 PM, Ed W li...@wildgooses.com wrote:
On 28/06/2012 17:54, Charles Marcus wrote:
RAID10 also statistically has a much better chance of surviving a
multi drive failure than RAID5 or 6, because it will only die if two
drives
of a RAID10
array either (unless we are talking temporary removal and re-insertion?)
Ed W
On 28/06/2012 17:54, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-06-28 12:20 PM, Ed W li...@wildgooses.com wrote:
Bad things are going to happen if you loose a complete chunk of your
filesystem. I think the current state of the world is that you should
assume that realistically you will be looking to your
use linux-vservers which
are almost identical to running on bare metal server (it's kind of a
fancy form of chroot), this means I don't have commercial grade
failover, but it only takes 5-15 seconds to reboot each container, so
that's an acceptable downtime for my requirements.
Good luck!
Ed W
On 23/06/2012 09:22, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Nearly all of them are non-caching. (I don't know of any caching ones.)
At least roundcube (v0.7.1 here) has some caching options:
--[excerpt from roundcubes main.inc.php]-
// Type of IMAP indexes cache. Supported values:
On 21/06/2012 21:54, Reindl Harald wrote:
and last but not least i have lesser entries in maillog which
goes to a central mysql-server for self-developed web-interfaces
I recently added imapproxy to my Roundcube installation. Benchmarks
showed a very slight slowdown, but as you point out it
don't see it offers any benefit for most Dovecot
installations?
However, very clever and full featured webmail client!
Ed W
P.S. Sogo has a kind of caching in that it has a clientside javascript
cache. Not what was meant, but for all practical purposes much more
useful...
On 04/06/2012 15:14, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 04.06.2012 15:36, schrieb Ed W:
Then tell them their only option is to buy Exchange Server and Outlook for
everyone - but explain that this
'feature' *still* will not work for recipients that are outside of your control
(ie, it will only work
On 03/06/2012 14:46, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-06-03 4:43 AM, Ed W li...@wildgooses.com wrote:
Look, I can argue against the idea easily, personally my objection is
mail loops, but the point is that the customer demands it, and at
present that prevents me bidding for certain types
the
recipient (ie on our server) accesses and downloads and accesses the
email. I don't see anyone trying to send MDN compatible receipts, they
literally just send a Your message was downloaded by the recipient message
Cheers
Ed W
On 03/06/2012 09:06, Linda Walsh wrote:
Ed W wrote:
Just to register interest, but at some point I will need to consider
writing a plugin or similar to achieve exactly this.
Situation is that several of our competitors offer such a feature, ie
known pool of users on dialup
be another example of a motivation to
use it for something? Could either the login scripting or a plugin be
used to build this type of login tracking?
(My goal is to eventually do per user are you logged in tracking)
Just a thought
Ed W
?
Can't find it immediately in the list?
Cheers
Ed W
if you can't offer the feature...
Feels like a plugin rather than core functionality, but would be cool if
someone wanted to produce something...
Cheers
Ed W
a different way?
Thanks for any thoughts?
Ed W
On 27/05/2012 14:00, Daniel Parthey wrote:
Hi Ed,
Ed W wrote:
I have groups of users where we have a predefined
bunch of filtering that happens on their account. At the moment the
users are grouped into top level directories so that the home and
hence default scripts can cascade down. However
On 14/04/2012 04:48, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 4/13/2012 10:31 AM, Ed W wrote:
You mean those answers like:
you need to read 'those' articles again
Referring to some unknown and hard to find previous emails is not the
same as answering?
No, referring to this:
On 4/12/2012 5:58 AM, Ed W
On 14/04/2012 04:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 4/13/2012 10:31 AM, Ed W wrote:
On 13/04/2012 13:33, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
In closing, I'll simply say this: If hardware, whether a mobo-down SATA
chip, or a $100K SGI SAN RAID controller, allowed silent data corruption
or transmission to occur
type
OK, this is all completely pie in the sky. Please don't build it! All
I meant was that these are the kind of things that someone might one day
desire to do and hence they would have competing requirements for what
to checksum...
Cheers
Ed W
On 13/04/2012 13:21, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 13.4.2012, at 15.17, Ed W wrote:
On 13/04/2012 12:51, Timo Sirainen wrote:
- Use the checksums to assist with replication speed/efficiency (dsync or
custom imap commands)
It would be of some use with dbox index rebuilding. I don't think it would
On 13/04/2012 06:29, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 4/12/2012 5:58 AM, Ed W wrote:
The claim by ZFS/BTRFS authors and others is that data silently bit
rots on it's own. The claim is therefore that you can have a raid1 pair
where neither drive reports a hardware failure, but each gives you
different
collapse. Now you claim
that if corruption is silent and people only tend to notice it much
later and under certain edge conditions that this can't be possible
because it should cause the industry to collapse..???
...Not buying your logic...
Ed W
On 12/04/2012 11:20, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 4/11/2012 9:23 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 4/12/12, Stan Hoeppners...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
On 4/11/2012 11:50 AM, Ed W wrote:
One of the snags of md RAID1 vs RAID6 is the lack of checksumming in the
event of bad blocks. (I'm not sure
On 12/04/2012 02:18, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 4/11/2012 11:50 AM, Ed W wrote:
Re XFS. Have you been watching BTRFS recently?
I will concede that despite the authors considering it production ready
I won't be using it for my servers just yet. However, it's benchmarking
on single disk
On 12/04/2012 12:09, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 12.4.2012, at 13.58, Ed W wrote:
The claim by ZFS/BTRFS authors and others is that data silently bit rots on
it's own. The claim is therefore that you can have a raid1 pair where neither drive
reports a hardware failure, but each gives you
performance
requirements I have become paranoid and been using RAID6 vs RAID10,
filesystems with sector checksums seem attractive...
Regards
Ed W
stab at things)
Can you confirm my understanding is correct?
Next question is whether any current mail client supports SCRAM..?
Regards
Ed W
much more than simply copy some files...
Quite probably, but I don't think your expose above illustrates this?
Regards
Ed W
the dovecot delivery agent?
In answer to the OP: read the maildropex man pages, but you have several
options, eg:
to | someprogram
or:
xfilter someprogram
`someprogram`
However, almost certainly I think you want the top option?
Good luck
Ed W
that although I
don't like it, I need activesync support if I want my contacts/calendar
on my phone... (I think I can do caldav on some of them, but not cardav
on my N9)
Apart from that it's a very neat system!
Ed W
this will expose you
to all the bugs in that proxy...
Good luck
Ed W
On 16/03/2012 15:45, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-03-16 11:22 AM, Ed W li...@wildgooses.com wrote:
If the answer is that he will write a Z-Push/Activesync module for SOGo
then I'm all ears! I have been watching SOGo for some time and the main
thing I would miss is that every phone I have ever
?) can delete any messages in this account, in any
of the folders.
Have them delivered with only read permissions on the physical files?
(Bet that doesn't work very well in practice or other than maildir...)
Interested to hear proper answers...
Ed W
you could schedule
something for all accounts at some out of hours period - should speed up
backups also?
Ed W
that for v2.2.
http://dovecot.org/patches/2.2/imap-logout-plugin.c
Thanks - can I assume that a pop-logout would be basically the same?
Also, how might I access the bytes in/out statistics from that context?
Thanks
Ed W
smarter than me can
think of a better way to unify them?
Cheers
Ed W
On 26/02/2012 12:31, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 26.2.2012, at 13.52, Ed W wrote:
On 25/02/2012 00:39, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 24.2.2012, at 19.44, julio...@fisica.uh.cu wrote:
I need some help with the dovecot configuration. I want to remove
downloaded messages from Mail Server once
On 22/02/2012 23:56, Ed W wrote:
I think it has potential though. I think a lot of the current plugins
on the website could easily be rewritten, likely without performance
concerns, using a scripting based plugin system. I could see that
some other big picture pieces could potentially
On 22/02/2012 08:25, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 02:33:24PM +, Ed W wrote:
I think the original question was still sensible. In your case it
seems like the ping times are identical between:
webmail - imap-proxy
webmail - imap server
I think your results
On 21/02/2012 20:36, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 21.2.2012, at 16.33, Ed W wrote:
I'm also pleased to see that there is little negative cost in using a proxy... I recently added
imap-proxy to our webmail setup because I wanted to log last login + logout times. I
haven't quite figured out how
On 22/02/2012 19:49, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 22.2.2012, at 11.38, Ed W wrote:
void postlogout_init(struct module *module) { }
void postlogout_deinit(void) {
system(/usr/local/bin/dovecot-postlogout.sh);
}
Add a few missing #includes and compile and enable for imap/pop3 and that
should
potential though. I think a lot of the current plugins
on the website could easily be rewritten, likely without performance
concerns, using a scripting based plugin system. I could see that some
other big picture pieces could potentially benefit also
Thanks for considering it
Ed W
clients plus webmail users. Possibly this idea useful
to someone else...
Thanks for measuring this!
Ed W
, then give
the old machine some new temp IP in order to proxy back to it? That way
you can do the proxying on the dovecot machine, which as you already
established is working ok?
Good luck
Ed W
- this
will cause a lot of IO activity and could easily starve other processes
on the same box?)
Good luck
Ed W
), port forwarding the mail to the new
dovecot box, etc, etc. Incremental price would be surprisingly low, but
lots of extra flexibility?
Just a thought
Good luck
Ed W
and default_pass_scheme ?
Thanks for any hints?
Ed W
On 24/01/2012 22:06, Ed W wrote:
Hi, I have a current auth database using mysql with a password
column in plain text. The config has default_pass_scheme = PLAIN
specified
In preparation for a more adaptable system I changed a password entry
from asdf to {PLAIN}asdf, but now auth fails
On 24/01/2012 22:51, Ed W wrote:
Hmm, so I try:
# doveadm pw -p asdf -s sha256
{SHA256}8OTC92xYkW7CWPJGhRvqCR0U1CR6L8PhhpRGGxgW4Ts=
I enter this hash into my database column, then enabling debug logging
I see this in the logs:
..
Jan 24 22:40:44 mail1 dovecot: auth-worker: Debug:
sql(d
On 24/01/2012 22:06, Ed W wrote:
Hi, I have a current auth database using mysql with a password
column in plain text. The config has default_pass_scheme = PLAIN
specified
In preparation for a more adaptable system I changed a password entry
from asdf to {PLAIN}asdf, but now auth fails
, so ultimately it depends
on where your biggest risk lies...
Good luck
Ed W
intensive.
Ed W
,
Been using gentoo since about 2003 and never looked back... best and
easiest distro to maintain, bar none, and the best support and
documentation too.
Wait... Back up... You mean there are *other* distributions of linux? I
thought they were all just gentoo derivatives..?!!
:-)
Ed W
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