[Dovecot] "Can't sync delivery mail"

2007-10-24 Thread Rich Winkel
Dovecot 1.0.3 Deliver is saying this on two specific emails. Other emails to these 2 users are going through fine. Looking at the mail headers the only thing questionable I see is: From: "AMS Publication Division"@ams.org Is this the problem? # 1.0.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/r

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-auth: Too many open files

2007-10-24 Thread Joe Allesi -X (joallesi - Coyote Creek Consulting at Cisco)
I just noticed more than 700 of these in the messages log file from the day just prior to the outage, but no username is listed and there aren't any correlating entries in maillog: Oct 15 15:03:08 host dovecot(pam_unix)[6724]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= Oct

Re: [Dovecot] POP3/IMAP newbie question

2007-10-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 10/24/2007 11:23 AM FiL @ Kpoxa spake the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars Stavholm wrote: Well, as a matter of being somewhat relaxed about things like this, I would like the users to choose whatever suits them, as opposed to some techie moron (me) making the choice for them. Comm

Re: [Dovecot] POP3/IMAP newbie question

2007-10-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 10/24/2007 5:06 AM Ed W spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: on 10/23/2007 2:39 PM Lars Stavholm spake the following: Is it possible to serve both POP3 and IMAP for the same user from the same mailbox format, e.g. the maildir format? It doesn't make a lot of sense to do it, How about

Re: [Dovecot] POP3/IMAP newbie question

2007-10-24 Thread FiL @ Kpoxa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars Stavholm wrote: Well, as a matter of being somewhat relaxed about things like this, I would like the users to choose whatever suits them, as opposed to some techie moron (me) making the choice for them. Common sense, right? Actually, from my experience, a

Re: [Dovecot] How to debug slow operation

2007-10-24 Thread zbigniew szalbot
Dear Timo, Timo Sirainen pisze: On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 13:50 +0200, zbigniew szalbot wrote: > mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota > mail_plugins(pop3): quota .. > userdb: > driver: sql > args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-postfix-sql.conf Your strace showed lots of lstat() calls. Does your

Re: [Dovecot] How to debug slow operation

2007-10-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 13:50 +0200, zbigniew szalbot wrote: > mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota > mail_plugins(pop3): quota .. > userdb: > driver: sql > args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-postfix-sql.conf Your strace showed lots of lstat() calls. Does your user_query in dovecot-postfix-sql.c

Re: [Dovecot] POP3/IMAP newbie question

2007-10-24 Thread rac
Lars Stavholm wrote: > Well, as a matter of being somewhat relaxed about things like this, > I would like the users to choose whatever suits them, as opposed to > some techie moron (me) making the choice for them. Common sense, right? > > > Cheers > /Lars > Actually, from my experience, a user

Re: [Dovecot] POP3/IMAP newbie question

2007-10-24 Thread Lars Stavholm
Steffen Kaiser wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Ed W wrote: > >> How about normally logging in via POP, but users want webmail access >> also? > > Well, I'm very curious about POP3 and IMAP access. It does not work well > locally. When POP3 removes mails from the server, IMAP sees nothing > anymore.

Re: [Dovecot] POP3/IMAP newbie question

2007-10-24 Thread Lars Stavholm
Ed W wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: >> on 10/23/2007 2:39 PM Lars Stavholm spake the following: >>> Is it possible to serve both POP3 and IMAP for the same >>> user from the same mailbox format, e.g. the maildir format? >>> >> It doesn't make a lot of sense to do it, > > > How about normally loggin

Re: [Dovecot] POP3/IMAP newbie question

2007-10-24 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Ed W wrote: How about normally logging in via POP, but users want webmail access also? Well, I'm very curious about POP3 and IMAP access. It does not work well locally. When POP3 removes mails from the server, IMAP sees nothi

Re: [Dovecot] POP3/IMAP newbie question

2007-10-24 Thread Ed W
Scott Silva wrote: on 10/23/2007 2:39 PM Lars Stavholm spake the following: Is it possible to serve both POP3 and IMAP for the same user from the same mailbox format, e.g. the maildir format? It doesn't make a lot of sense to do it, How about normally logging in via POP, but users want webm

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.beta4 released

2007-10-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 09:12 +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > I've seen that copy with hardlinks changed the default to yes: > > # the performance much better, and it's unlikely to have any side > effects. > - -#maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no > +#maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes > > Does it no

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-auth: Too many open files

2007-10-24 Thread r . lang
Hi, we had recently a similar problem, having the following error messages: dovecot: imap-login: socket() failed: Too many open files dovecot: imap-login: proxy(): \ connect(x.x.x.x), 143) failed: \ Too many open files Since the 'ulimit -n' is process-dependent we set it to 'unlimited' in th

Re: [Dovecot] POP3/IMAP newbie question

2007-10-24 Thread stava
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:39:45PM +0200, Lars Stavholm wrote: > Is it possible to serve both POP3 and IMAP for the same > user from the same mailbox format, e.g. the maildir format? > > If so, how should I configure in dovecot.conf? Answering my own question for the possible benefit of others:

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.beta4 released

2007-10-24 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: Hello, I've seen that copy with hardlinks changed the default to yes: # the performance much better, and it's unlikely to have any side effects. - -#maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = no +#maildir_copy_with_h