On 6/30/2014 6:28 PM, deoren wrote:
I'm still pretty new to running a mail server, but one thing I've come
to appreciate over the years is a good backup strategy. Since I have
always run my own servers for practice and for personal use I don't have
access to Enterprise backup solutions.
On 7/1/2014 4:48 AM, Infoomatic wrote:
If you actually want to preserve those increments (as opposed to just keeping
an rsync mirror up-to-date), I like rdiff-backup. It handles maildirs well
because of the one-message-per-file design.
Second that. It's great tool that keeps an actual sync
What's the best way to do long-term backups of the Maildir format these
days? Traditionally we've just done a rdiff-backup or pointed Bacula at
the Maildir. Both give us the option to reset a particular mailbox back
to a previous day (any day within the last N months).
Do we just need to
This might be a PEBKAC on my end, but in our old server, vacation
responses would only be sent back to an origin address once per day
because we had :days 1 in the rule.
On the new server, even though we have :days 1, pigeonhole is sending
responses to every message, resulting in multiple
On 6/24/2013 9:58 AM, Johnny wrote:
Yes, /var/log/audit/ with audit.log. There are some archived logs as
well, but no recent messages regarding dovecot perms.
Typically you could use sealert -a /var/log/audit/audit.log
/var/log/audit/audit.log.1 to get a feel for how many SELinux
exceptions
On 6/20/2013 4:16 AM, Zoltan Lippai wrote:
Thanks for the answer, I'm not sure what you mean by the additional permission
details.
If you have SELinux in Enforcing mode, you should also look at using ls
-lZ to get the file context.
You can also use selart -a /var/log/audit/audit.log to see
On 6/20/2013 9:04 AM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote:
Dear all,
Unfortunately, i created my tables according to the older tutorial, i
search in dovecot.org and postfix.org but i didn't find any official
documentation for tables.
I want to use PF 2.10 and dovecot 2.
Its tutorial was wrote on debian
On 6/19/2013 10:25 PM, vincent truc wrote:
Hello
I want to forward an email to us...@domain.com box to the box us...@domain.com
For this I try to use 'doveadm move', but I'm having problems with the syntax.
Could you give me an example please?
Assuming that you looked at man doveadm-move
On 6/14/2013 12:40 PM, Frerich Raabe wrote:
Hi,
One thing which came up repeatedly is that clients using the IMAP server I run (using
Dovecot 2.1) wonder whether they broke their Sieve scripts, i.e. it often goes like
I don't know whether I just didn't receive any mail, or whether my filters
On 6/14/2013 2:07 PM, Ben Morrow wrote:
Simply providing some way for them to read the .dovecot.sieve.log file
created in their home directory would be a good start. If there are any
problems with delivery they will be logged there. You could set up some
sort of web access, or even have a daily
On 9/1/2011 10:34 PM, Dong Ding wrote:
I used postfix always_bcc to backup mail. And up to now the backup account
has half million mails in cur/, when I first time tried to receive the mail
by outlook, it failed , no responds.
Does any one has some good idea to deal with this problem?
If
On 9/1/2011 12:48 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
Given my extensive requirements - I haven't yet filled my existing 320GB
- size isn't a big deal. Am I actually deriving much benefit from 4-disk
RAID10 using 160GB discs - vs a 2-4 disc 1TB RAID1 array?
A pair of RAID-1 mirrors:
- easy to deal
On 9/1/2011 2:34 PM, Lampa wrote:
Hello,
i'm using 1.2.15 version on debian.
I'm getting discarding vacation response for message implicitly
delivered tou...@domain.com
I have domain domain.com which has alias do-main.com.
When sending email to main domain (domain.com) seems to be ok,
On 8/30/2011 5:43 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
A little OT - but I've seen a few opinions voiced here by various admins
and I'd like to benefit.
RAID-10 is fine (note that the default mdadm RAID10 isn't actually
RAID10, but it works well enough). RAID-6 won't be faster (and will
probably be
On 8/31/2011 7:15 PM, Stephan Bosch wrote:
If you set lda_mailbox_autosubscribe to yes, it will subscribe folders
created by Sieve automatically.
However, afaik Thunderbird will not notice the subscription at first.
You need to reconnect for that to be noticed.
That's been my experience.
On 8/31/2011 12:41 PM, Nick Rosier wrote:
I'm using Postfixadmin to manage users and have server alias-domains.
All mail sent to an alias-domain is delivered to the other domain. Quite
easy if you've got postfixadmin already setup.
Otherwise I think you could configure virtual_alias_maps in
On 8/22/2011 6:42 PM, Matt wrote:
Doubt if there is any answer to this but will ask anyway. Have a few
pop3 accounts with thousands of messages. Its slow when checking
email naturally. Are there any tweaks to speed it up? I imagine
there is an exchange of the message and header list which is
On 8/22/2011 7:03 PM, Patrick Westenberg wrote:
Hi guys,
is there any way to configure Dovecot to process the default sieve
script and, after that, a user specific script?
I have a default script to sort spam into a spam folder but if a
user specific script is present, the default script is
On 8/17/2011 9:23 AM, Julio Cesar Covolato wrote:
Hi!
I´m about to migrate a system whith 5000 accounts whith (~ 500GB) from
postfix/courier-imap/maildrop/mysql to a new hardware whith
postfix/dovecot/dovecot/mysql.
I´ll make a separate partition (raid 1) for the mail spool
(/var/spool/vmail)
On 8/5/2011 3:05 PM, The Doctor wrote:
Wonder if anyone knows how to tell a blackberry
portable phone how not to get pick up a message it already got in IMAP.
Not exactly sure what you mean.
My Blackberry plays fine with IMAP (configure it to point at IMAP and
not POP3). The oddities are:
On 8/1/2011 8:43 PM, Stephan Bosch wrote:
On 8/1/2011 10:11 PM, Thomas Harold wrote:
How do you compile global scripts using the sievec command without
making the script directory owned (and group writable) by the vmail user?
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Usage
# cd /etc/dovecot
Using the pre-built RPM from ATRPMs. Where does the dovecot-config file
get generated? Is there a flag in a config file that controls whether it
gets created?
Installed Packages
Name : dovecot
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 1
Version: 2.0.13
Release: 1_129.el5
Size : 5.1
On 8/1/2011 11:33 AM, David Warden wrote:
On Aug 1, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Thomas Harold wrote:
Using the pre-built RPM from ATRPMs. Where does the dovecot-config
file get generated? Is there a flag in a config file that controls
whether it gets created?
Do I have to install Dovecot from source
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/RefilterMail
That solution looks great for a single user, but is it possible to do a
larger version that runs for everyone on the server? I'm speaking
specifically of a virtual setup where all mailboxes are owned by a
common UID/GID.
It seems like (with brief
How do you compile global scripts using the sievec command without
making the script directory owned (and group writable) by the vmail user?
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Usage
# cd /etc/dovecot/sieve/before/
# (edit some script like spam.sieve that runs for everyone)
#
On 7/31/2011 8:02 AM, spamv...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi..
are there any proofen Methods to backup all mail ?
shutting down dovecot and tar the hole dir?
using rsnapshot?
any hints / thoughts
im running dovecot2 on freebsd
We use rdiff-backup to another machine on the same network (for
In the old wiki:
http://wiki1.dovecot.org/LDA
-m mailbox: Destination mailbox (default is INBOX). If the mailbox
doesn't exist, it's created (unless -n is used). If message couldn't be
saved to the mailbox for any reason, it's delivered to INBOX instead.
-s: Subscribe to mailboxes that are
On 7/19/2011 5:54 AM, Ricardo Branco wrote:
If you have 200k all within one folder progs like TB will have issues
loading it all up and may hang when you try to do moves/deletes etc, not
sure if mutt stores a local cache of headers, thats the biggest worry.
Biggest single folder ive seen at our
On 7/19/2011 11:35 AM, Ricardo Branco wrote:
I agree with yr points on TBird, moving large amounts of messages can
cause it to hang with CPU pegged at max for ages.
TBird v2 was nice and nippy, v3 acceptable, v4/v5 are just awfully slow
overall.
TBird uses mbox storage format which probably
Getting ready to redo our mail server setup and I'm trying to wrap my
head around the ins and outs and pratfalls involved in SSL, multiple
domains, and Dovecot. I've taken a look at:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration
My basic understanding at this point is that:
- With SSL
On 3/16/2011 7:21 PM, Ed W wrote:
How big of an issue is a cert with half a dozen or a dozen SANs
attached? Do most mail clients handle that sort of certificate properly
in order to access their mailboxes?
I think it's been discussed here before, but roughly speaking yes it
works fine. I
On 1/6/2010 11:38 AM, Steve wrote:
An advice on another nice Web enabled mail client? Have you looked at
SOGo? Have a look at their online demo -
http://www.scalableogo.org/tour/online_demo.html
It has more to offer then RoundCube (aka: Calendaring,
synchronization with Funambol, etc).
Ah?
On 1/4/2010 4:00 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Greetings everyone,
I'd like to install a webmail package on the same host. I used Squirrelmail for
this purpose many years ago and I wasn't wholly impressed with the user
interface. I'm also not impressed by the fact that I regularly receive spam
On 1/5/2010 1:32 AM, Ken Price wrote:
If this is more than a hobby system, then you'll need to account for
address books and personal settings for your users - at the least. That
means some sort of backend database.
I've been looking at Funambol lately to support some Blackberry users
On 12/30/2009 2:21 PM, aja-li...@tni.org wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to make a filtering threshold for users to let them
deal with spamassassin spam-level starred 8 themselves,
but spam-level starred higher than 8 should be discarded
In general, it's better to quarantine high-scoring spam (we shove
On 12/30/2009 5:56 PM, aja-li...@tni.org wrote:
On 12/30/2009 10:08 PM, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
As I understand :contains tests presence of the sub-string
= so you can test 'at least n consecutive stars present' ('n stars OR
more')
Okay, thanks, after some searching I see that quite some
On 12/10/2009 2:28 PM, Johannes Bauer wrote:
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI schrieb:
On Qui, 10 Dez 2009, Johannes Bauer wrote:
I'm thinking about filtering all such encoded subjects (as there's no
reason to encode them US-ASCII), but suppose it were UTF-8 or something:
how can I filter on the actual
On 12/2/2009 6:21 PM, Ajaxster wrote:
Hi,
I've looked around a few times to see if I could figure the answer to this
question but I think I may not know the right question to ask...
The scenario I have is that I'm running dovecot, exim and procmail on one
server (using maildir storage) and
On 11/24/2009 6:27 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 11/23/2009, Patrick Nagel (patrick.na...@star-group.net) wrote:
Yes, that was my first proposal, but that was also rejected harshly by
the other project managers. They wanted to have some transit time in
which the replacement guy would still
On 11/22/2009 12:39 PM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
Due to reasons beyond me (mainly my clients demanding more for their
buck / things like webmail etc.), I was forced to start searching for
(always) open source alternatives.
We used Postfix only for a long time (SMTP/POP3), back in '07 I started
On 11/23/2009 7:19 AM, Rene Bakkum wrote:
Hello all,
I am trying to get my vacation messages to work correctly. In general it
works like how I want, and replies when a message is arived to for
example i...@domain.com, but I have some problems to get my vacation
message to work on catch-all
On 11/23/2009 2:12 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote:
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:55:22PM -0500, Thomas Harold wrote:
We used Postfix only for a long time (SMTP/POP3), ...
Um, no, Postfix does not serve POP3.
Thanks for catching that. I wonder what the Solaris admin was using to
serve up POP3 access
On 11/20/2009 12:59 PM, Jonathan wrote:
I'm getting tired of Thunderbird telling me I have unread messages in
folders that haven't gotten new messages for months so I'm looking for a
new mail client. I know the problem lies with Thunderbird because
everything is fine via RoundCube and if it tell
On 11/20/2009 1:51 PM, Thomas Berezansky wrote:
Personally, I am using Horde (http://www.horde.org/) at work (this
address) and Outlook 2007 at home (largely due to getting freaky
attachments I need to open on a regular basis that only Microsoft mail
clients seem to be able to open properly).
On 11/20/2009 2:16 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
We're talking about a mailbox with two or more users always in it and
around 40K messages across a few hundred folders. The scale of it all
seems to be part of the issue I think.
I run TB v2 on my laptop and TB v3 betas on my desktop. I've not
On 11/21/2009 9:42 PM, Jonathan wrote:
Do you know anything about the date issue I mentioned where TB shows
emails with a date of the last time the folder was indexed instead of
when the email was actually delivered?
I've seen that bug, I generally either reindex / compact or completely
On 11/21/2009 9:54 PM, Jonathan wrote:
Okay, that didn't take long. I have another spurious unread message
already. Should I do what it says here [1] and grab a nightly build and
create an entire new profile, or should I just report with what I have?
Any suggestions on what component to file
On 11/16/2009 8:00 AM, Nicolas GRENECHE wrote:
Hi all,
I plan to run a dovecot IMAPS and POPS service on our network. We
handle about 3 000 mailboxes. I thought first buying a topnotch server
(8 cores and 16 Go RAM) with equalogic iSCSI SAN SAS 15K for storage
backend.
We run about 300
On 7/7/2009 1:59 PM, CJ Keist wrote:
If there is a separate sieve mailing list let me know. But have
question if someone else has done this or not.
Right now I have web form people use to setup their vacation replies
using Sieve (1.1.6). The form alows them to set what they want their
We have a user who deleted IMAP folders from his account, so I simply
tried to restore the folder .FolderName from our backup. I checked
that file/folder ownership was the same as the original, but the Dovecot
IMAP server is throwing errors at the client.
I've tried copying the individual
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 15:36 -0500, Thomas Harold wrote:
We have a user who deleted IMAP folders from his account, so I simply
tried to restore the folder .FolderName from our backup. I checked
that file/folder ownership was the same as the original, but the Dovecot
IMAP
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 16:35 -0500, Thomas Harold wrote:
What was it logging? I think it should have clearly said there about
permission errors.
Oh, all sorts of errors in /var/log/messages:
Jan 8 14:48:59 fvs-pri setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing access to
files
Timo Sirainen wrote:
They get logged to syslog, which probably goes to mail.log or something
like that.
Got it, buried in among the postfix log information in our maillog.
Jan 8 14:48:36 fvs-pri dovecot: IMAP(fr...@nybeta.com):
Christian Schmidt wrote:
Steffen Kaiser, 13.08.2008 (d.m.y):
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Thomas Harold wrote:
Check out /usr/include/sysexits.h what exit code 70 means on your system
- 70 is internal software error in Linux. Then check when
/usr/lib/sendmail will exit with this code.
Deliver
How do we start troubleshooting this?
deliver([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Aug 12 18:27:19 Error: Sendmail process
terminated abnormally, exit status 70
deliver([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Aug 12 18:27:19 Info: sieve runtime error:
Vacation: Error sending mail
deliver([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Aug 12 18:27:19
Uldis Pakuls wrote:
Thomas Harold wrote:
Uldis Pakuls wrote:
# yum list | grep dovecot
dovecot.x86_64 1:1.1.1-2_76.el5 installed
dovecot-sieve.x86_64 1.1.5-8.el5 installed
dovecot.x86_64 1:1.1.2-2_77.el5 atrpms
Uldis Pakuls wrote:
Thomas Harold wrote:
# rpm -vV dovecot-sieve
/usr/lib64/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.la
/usr/lib64/dovecot/lda/lib90_cmusieve_plugin.so
/usr/libexec/dovecot/sievec
/usr/libexec/dovecot/sieved
Check directory /usr/lib64/dovecot
Uldis Pakuls wrote:
# yum list | grep dovecot
dovecot.x86_64 1:1.1.1-2_76.el5 installed
dovecot-sieve.x86_64 1.1.5-8.el5 installed
dovecot.x86_64 1:1.1.2-2_77.el5 atrpms
dovecot-devel.x86_64
After upgrading our CentOS 5 box to the latest revisions last week
(including Dovecot 1.1), we're seeing the following error message in the
log files. Sieve was working fine with Dovecot 1.0.
I have yet to turn up anything via Google for this particular error.
SELinux is not logging any
Kenneth Porter wrote:
I just installed the Rawhide package on my CentOS 5 system. The one
item that bit me is that the config file defaults to using interface
[::] so it only listens on IPv6. (This is from a patch in the
package that changes the upstream default of *, so it only affects
those
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