Re: [Dovecot] Semi-static userdb...?

2007-05-14 Thread John Robinson
On 11/05/2007 15:57, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 14:00 +0100, John Robinson wrote: I'm trying to add "virtual" mailboxes to a system. Real users with different uids own domains. Each domain has a passwd-file passdb. I don't want to use this passwd-file for the userdb, because I w

Re: [Dovecot] global vs user script

2007-05-14 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:45:31AM +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > > On Tue, 8 May 2007, M1 wrote: > > I glanced over the current Sieve library (CMU): > > >1) 3 global scripts, 1 execute before user script, 1 execute after user > >script, 1 execute only if there is no user script. > > I didn't

[Dovecot] Processing too fast?

2007-05-14 Thread Daniel L. Miller
I'm trying to use Dovecot to make administering ASSP a bit easier. I've created a mailbox with a number of subfolders (Spam, Ham, etc.) and have ASSP setup to save mail in the appropriate folder e.g. /var/mail/ASSP/.INBOX.Ham/new. But I'm having problems with ASSP complaining about the newly

Re: [Dovecot] Question: contention with blackberry

2007-05-14 Thread Troy Engel
Stewart Dean wrote: a) a VIP has multiple secretaries accessing a single mailbox (actually, they are professional enough to have figured the realities of conflicting access and rarely have a problem), b) somebody leaving their machine on at home and coming in and firing up their work computer c

Re: [Dovecot] Refreshing Dovecot

2007-05-14 Thread Stewart Dean
Duh. I thought I'd tried that and just found that it killed the process...indeed it does the job of refreshing. Sorry. Charles Marcus wrote: If I've made configuration changes, is there a way to refresh...without killing and restartingDovecot? > kill -HUP > > =or= > > killall -HUP dove

[Dovecot] Question: contention with blackberry

2007-05-14 Thread Stewart Dean
My production imap is currently UWIMAP with mbox.. One of the problems commonly observed is mailbox lock loss, which happens when: a) a VIP has multiple secretaries accessing a single mailbox (actually, they are professional enough to have figured the realities of conflicting access and rarely h

Re: [Dovecot] Refreshing Dovecot

2007-05-14 Thread Charles Marcus
If I've made configuration changes, is there a way to refresh...without killing and restartingDovecot? > kill -HUP > > =or= > > killall -HUP dovecot Postfix has a reload option... May I suggest the same for dovecot? -- Best regards, Charles Marcus I.T. Director Media Brokers Internation

Re: [Dovecot] Refreshing Dovecot

2007-05-14 Thread Bruce Bodger
kill -HUP =or= killall -HUP dovecot On May 14, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Stewart Dean wrote: If I've made configuration changes, is there a way to refresh...without killing and restartingDovecot? -- Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College,

[Dovecot] Refreshing Dovecot

2007-05-14 Thread Stewart Dean
If I've made configuration changes, is there a way to refresh...without killing and restartingDovecot? -- Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-70

Re: [Dovecot] dbmail benchmarking

2007-05-14 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 14:03 -0400, Justin McAleer wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > I thought I'd try benchmarking with dbmail (v2.2.4) to see how much > > slower a SQL backend could actually be. Skip to bottom for the > > conclusions. > > > > Originally I ran the tests with the databases being i

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-14 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Andy Shellam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Eric, SSH tunnelling requires an SSH login though, right? No. SSH tunneling connects to a service, and that service can require authentication if it so desires. SSH tunneling is just port forwarding via SSH. It can be used to tunnel (and hence e

Re: [Dovecot] dbmail benchmarking

2007-05-14 Thread Justin McAleer
Timo Sirainen wrote: I thought I'd try benchmarking with dbmail (v2.2.4) to see how much slower a SQL backend could actually be. Skip to bottom for the conclusions. Originally I ran the tests with the databases being in XFS filesystem. MySQL's performance was horrible. It went 3-7x faster wit

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-14 Thread Andy Shellam
Hi Eric, SSH tunnelling requires an SSH login though, right? Even if that's via PAM or other authentication method, it's another set of authentication to set up, why not keep it all in the same system (i.e. Dovecot?) I wouldn't allow SSH access connections to a public-facing server, mainly

Re: [Dovecot] dbmail benchmarking

2007-05-14 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Could someone please update the dbmail wikipedia page with this info ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBMail_IMAP_and_POP3_server I suppose what would be nicer would be to extend the dovecot entry and reference that from the dbmail entry ;) On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:16:05AM +0300, Timo Sirainen

Re: [Dovecot] Mails, work and so on

2007-05-14 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:41:53PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > - Get the rewritten Squat full text search index working. It probably > needs a name change, since it's not all that close to Cyrus Squat > anymore. Suggestions? Could of course be just "fts_dovecot". "squatimo" ? (or squatmo) Mr.

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-14 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I disagree about SSH. Good for you. Firstly, how do virtual users fit into your proposed setup? You can setup a ssh tunnel on the server on any port. The user then sets up to connect to that port. The authentication can be done anyway you want, or not at all.

[Dovecot] maildir_file_do(/var/admhome/user/Maildir) racing

2007-05-14 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
dovecot version 1.0.0, compile from the sources. - snip # /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf listen: *:10143 ssl_listen: *:10943 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/postamt.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/postamt.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login log

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-14 Thread andy . shellam-lists
I disagree about SSH. Firstly, how do virtual users fit into your proposed setup? Secondly, as a service provider to the general public, the absolute LAST thing I want to be doing is opening up SSH access to my servers. Mark has a valid point in that you have to connect to the server via IMAP to

[Dovecot] Maildir POP3 "UID larger than next_uid" bug

2007-05-14 Thread Alexander Moisseev
dovecot 1.0.0; Free BSD 6.2; x86; UFS; no NFS IMAP not uses at all, POP3 only Problem description: POP3 client can't fetch second e-mail message from Maildir if first POP3 connect occurs before any message placed in Maildir. Details: 1. POP3-client first time tries to receive mail: May 14 16:

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-14 Thread Marc Perkel
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2007 06:55:59 -0700 Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's some thoughts I'd like to throw out there. I know it's not standard IMAP protocol but someone has to try new ideas first and I want to see what people (Timo) think of this. IMAP establish

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-14 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 06:55 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > Here's some thoughts I'd like to throw out there. I know it's not > standard IMAP protocol but someone has to try new ideas first and I want > to see what people (Timo) think of this. > > IMAP establishes a connection between the client an

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with Shared Mailbox

2007-05-14 Thread Gerhard Schmidt
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:07:12PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 14:11 +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: > > location = > > mbox:/var/mail/shared:CONTROL=/var/mail/shared/.control:INDEX=/var/mail/shared/.index > > mbox has no CONTROL directory. I've got this line from an Exam

Re: [Dovecot] Deliver sending bounces from 'MAILER-DAEMON@'

2007-05-14 Thread Erland Nylend
Hello Timo, On 2007-05-11, 16:18, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 12:49 +0200, Erland Nylend wrote: > > | Apr 24 11:42:08 smtp2 postfix/qmgr[6176]: 05BAE3B67E: from=<>, size=3055, > > nrcpt=1 (queue active) > > | Apr 24 11:42:08 smtp2 postfix/qmgr[6176]: 05BAE3B67E: > > to=, relay=n

Re: [Dovecot] How to get rid of locks

2007-05-14 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 22:30 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > I just figured out that O_APPEND is pretty great. If the operating > system updates seek position after writing to a file opened with > O_APPEND, writes to Dovecot's transaction log file can be made > lockless. Well, almost. Log rotat

Re: [Dovecot] PATCH: sendmail-like DSNs in Dovecot deliver (EX_TEMPFAIL always)

2007-05-14 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 May 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: Since I can't think of any other modes, I'm going to look into adding LMTP to deliver ;-) sendmail supports LMTP even for a spawned LDA rather than a LMTP deamon. However, I don't know what to prefer.

Re: [Dovecot] PATCH Deliver forgets sendmail_path if DEBUG is set

2007-05-14 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 May 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: + putenv("DEBUG"); /* BTW this is a short living fork + of deliver */ putenv() without '=' in the string isn't a standard, so I didn't want to use that when I wrote

Re: [Dovecot] header-lines of subfolders have to be rescanned after each client startup

2007-05-14 Thread Rainer Sigl
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 22:16 +0200, Rainer Sigl wrote: no, I don't use NFS but it may be a permission problem. I have virtual users so all the directories belong a artificial user 'exim' and also group 'exim'. Additionally I saw now that the file dovecot-uidlist has the