Re: [Dovecot] deliver errors

2007-06-28 Thread Azher Amin
Charles Marcus wrote: Azher Amin, on 6/28/2007 1:22 AM, said the following: Hi Timo, Thnx one of the error is gone due to duplicate passdbs, thnx. However following error is persistant. I restarted my sendmail, dovecot etc. changed the group permission as you mentioned. You never

Re: [Dovecot] lda and mail_location

2007-06-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 28.6.2007, at 5.12, Mark Edwards wrote: Unless I specifically have /var/mail/virtual returned as home in the ldap lookup, deliver can't find the directory. In other words, it doesn't seem to respect the above mail_location setting. In addition, if I don't have a pre-existing maildir

Re: [Dovecot] FreeBSD NFS file locking mechanism

2007-06-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 15:18 +0200, Geoffroy Desvernay wrote: Tony Tsang a écrit : Hi all, I have some machines running FreeBSD and dovecot deployed. User's home dir is on NFS mount and I've found that dovecot only works with dotlock file locking mechanism, fcntl and flock failed. Now

[Dovecot] deliver without lookup

2007-06-28 Thread Bruno Puga
Hello friends! Is it possible to make deliver delivery a message without making a lookup using virtual users? I've read the section Without a Lookup (http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA) in the wiki but I can´t do the same thing in my config and I can´t figure this out. From the forum I found this

Re: [Dovecot] lda and mail_location

2007-06-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 08:17 -0700, Mark Edwards wrote: Jun 27 18:56:52 mini deliver([EMAIL PROTECTED]): auth input: mail=mark You're overriding it with mark. I see. Well, my aim is to avoid having to prefix my mailbox entries in my LDAP database with maildir:, and to avoid having

Re: [Dovecot] deliver without lookup

2007-06-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 11:11 -0300, Bruno Puga wrote: HOME=/path/to/user/homedir deliver -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I receive the message: Fatal: destination user parameter (-d user) not given If you're going to run deliver without -d, you must not be running it as root. signature.asc

[Dovecot] convert plugin problem from UW-IMAP

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Z
Though there are conversion scripts, I'd like to give the convert plugin a chance. I have Dovecot 1.0.1 on Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 (Linux 2.4.27), and we had UW IMAP 2002e. Dovecot seems to work OK (e.g. I can add copy messages to it), but things break when I activate the convert plugin. The

Re: [Dovecot] lda and mail_location

2007-06-28 Thread Mark Edwards
On Jun 28, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: My dovecot-ldap.conf contains: user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,mailbox=mail I'm setting mailbox=mail because otherwise dovecot uses postfix's destination, which is the entire destination email address. Are my only choices to either use

Re: [Dovecot] Locking problems on Dovecot 1.x in Maildir

2007-06-28 Thread Ronald MacDonald
It seems as if the flock does not have any effect on the corrupting of the transaction logs. Additionally, I would not be prepared to use dotlock as its performance is detrimental to the server's load at busy times. Ronald. On 27/06/07, Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, ext3 would be

[Dovecot] UW-IMAP conversion part 2

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Z
FWIW, the Dovecot 1.0.1 convert plugin works with all my UW-IMAP mboxes moved to ~/mail. At least that shows that my system otherwise works. Also, I wrote a script to move the mboxes and preserve the IMAP subscriptions. (I hope the list accepts the attached script.) move_mail.sh Description:

[Dovecot] dovecot help

2007-06-28 Thread Andy Fadich
Hello, I have a mail server which I upgraded yesterday. OLD: Redhat 9 sendmail (very old version) UW ipop3d usermin with readmail module for webmail access (very old version) NEW: Fedora Core 6 sendmail 8.13.8 Usermin for webmail again dovecot 1.0.0 # /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: pop3

Re: [Dovecot] lda and mail_location

2007-06-28 Thread Mark Edwards
On Jun 28, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: Home directory is used wherever you have ~/ or %h. Or in your case because you tried to use a relative mail_location path and Dovecot chdired to home dir. So, is it correct that mail_location is the rule, unless mail is set in user_attrs, in

Re: [Dovecot] lda and mail_location

2007-06-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 12:52 -0700, Mark Edwards wrote: One thing that still puzzles me is why userdb has to be set at all. In my case its totally unnecessary as far as I can tell, yet I get errors if I don't set it or set it to nothing. I have it set to return the home attribute right

Re: [Dovecot] lda and mail_location

2007-06-28 Thread Mark Edwards
On Jun 28, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 12:52 -0700, Mark Edwards wrote: One thing that still puzzles me is why userdb has to be set at all. In my case its totally unnecessary as far as I can tell, yet I get errors if I don't set it or set it to nothing. I

Re: [Dovecot] lda and mail_location

2007-06-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 23:12 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 28.6.2007, at 23.10, Mark Edwards wrote: For v1.1 I'll add new global mail_uid and mail_gid settings. Then if you use them userdb won't be needed. I am using user_global_uid and user_global_gid, and so there is no reason

Re: [Dovecot] lda and mail_location

2007-06-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 28.6.2007, at 23.10, Mark Edwards wrote: For v1.1 I'll add new global mail_uid and mail_gid settings. Then if you use them userdb won't be needed. I am using user_global_uid and user_global_gid, and so there is no reason for userdb to return uid and gid ini my case, in fact I have it

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot help

2007-06-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 28.6.2007, at 23.05, Andy Fadich wrote: The message does have the X-IMAP Header intact.(X-IMAP: 1183060687 02) The email is hidden when using a pop3 client(doesn't download it), or telnetting an account and using the LIST command.The problem I am having is that within

Re: [Dovecot] lda and mail_location

2007-06-28 Thread Mark Edwards
On Jun 28, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 28.6.2007, at 23.10, Mark Edwards wrote: For v1.1 I'll add new global mail_uid and mail_gid settings. Then if you use them userdb won't be needed. I am using user_global_uid and user_global_gid, and so there is no reason for userdb to

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot help

2007-06-28 Thread Scott Silva
Andy Fadich spake the following on 6/28/2007 3:27 PM: What do you mean The same happens with UW-IMAP/POP3 Do you mean that internal data message is standard with both dovecot and ipop3d? Ill go look for some answers on webmins website also. Thanks for the help. Andy That is definitely the

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot help

2007-06-28 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 15:49 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: Andy Fadich spake the following on 6/28/2007 3:27 PM: What do you mean The same happens with UW-IMAP/POP3 Do you mean that internal data message is standard with both dovecot and ipop3d? Ill go look for some answers on webmins