Re: Error deleting INBOX when doing an imap sync

2020-06-03 Thread Sami Ketola
> On 3. Jun 2020, at 13.17, Des Magner wrote: > > Hi > > I am trying to set up a new mail server with dovecot. I got it all installed > and set up successfully but am running into problems trying to migrate from > my current email server. I tried the following command: > > doveadm -Dv -o

Error deleting INBOX when doing an imap sync

2020-06-03 Thread Des Magner
Hi I am trying to set up a new mail server with dovecot. I got it all installed and set up successfully but am running into problems trying to migrate from my current email server. I tried the following command: doveadm -Dv -o imapc_host=[current-imap-host] -o imapc_user=[current-user] -o

Re: Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-03 Thread Stefan Hagen
Andrea Miconi wrote: > My mailboxes are on a Dovecot (IMAP) server. > On DNS there is an MX record pointing to the server. > To read the mail I use Roundcube. > If the server is down, I lose the new mail. Really? What kind of downtime makes you loose emails? If your server is down, mail delivery

Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-03 Thread Andrea Miconi
My mailboxes are on a Dovecot (IMAP) server.On DNS there is an MX record pointing to the server.To read the mail I use Roundcube.If the server is down, I lose the new mail. I would like to do two things, alternatively. First option.1) I keeep the mail on the provider's server, restoring the

Re: Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-03 Thread Bob Gustafson
Use Fetchmail on the link between your provider and your email server. Schedule a fetch every 5 minutes or so.. This makes for a very flexible and resilient system. On 6/3/20 5:06 AM, Andrea Miconi wrote: My mailboxes are on a Dovecot (IMAP) server. On DNS there is an MX record pointing to

Re: Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-03 Thread Nicholas Taylor
On 03/06/2020 11:06, Andrea Miconi wrote: My mailboxes are on a Dovecot (IMAP) server. On DNS there is an MX record pointing to the server. To read the mail I use Roundcube. If the server is down, I lose the new mail. I would like to do two things, alternatively. First option. 1) I keeep the

Re: Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-03 Thread Andrea Miconi
I read about fetchmail.I understand that it doesn't work if the mail server uses an MTA. Il mercoledì 3 giugno 2020, 15:07:51 CEST, Nicholas Taylor ha scritto: This is pretty much exactly what I do.  I use fetchmail [1] to download mail from my ISP and feed it to exim, which delivers

Re: Mailbox & Server Down

2020-06-03 Thread Andrea Miconi
> If your server is down, mail delivery is tried every couple of hours for > days. So - if your server is down for a day or two, no email should get > lost. Fortunately the server went down very few times, but the last one lasted almost two daysand I lost a lot of mail on multiple

Re: Error deleting INBOX when doing an imap sync

2020-06-03 Thread Plutocrat
On 03/06/2020 18.17, Des Magner wrote: >     dsync([user]): Error: Mailbox INBOX sync: mailbox_delete failed: INBOX > can't be deleted. Pretty sure I experienced this. I think what its telling you is the destination mailbox already exists, and it doesn't want to delete it. This is probably

Cannot log in to IMAP server and logs are unclear as to why

2020-06-03 Thread Scott A. Wozny
I’m trying a super basic config based upon https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixDovecotLMTP but before I work on shipping mail through Postfix to DoveCot, I wanted to make sure IMAP is working first, but I can’t even get a basic login to so I thought I’d see if the gurus on the list might be

Re: I can no longer use TLS for Windows7 and Outlook

2020-06-03 Thread Luuk
On 31-5-2020 06:36, Mark Constable wrote: I currently use Ubuntu 20.04 with Dovecot 2.3.7.2 and OpenSSL 1.1.1f. A few months ago there was an update to all these systems and since then I've had to talk W7 and old Mac clients through disabling ports 993/995 with TLS enabled back to ports