[Dovecot] Bad exit status from dsync

2013-06-03 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
I just tried to migrate one of my users from maildir to mdbox using dsync. My conversion script is checking the dsync exit code to know if the conversion goes fine or not, and surprisingly dsync returned 0 at the same time as it gave the error: Error: Failed to sync mailbox .ta\ vare\ på

Re: [Dovecot] Please clarify one point for me on director userdb (Was: Configuration advice needed.)

2013-06-03 Thread Olivier Girard
I'm trying to finish my dovecot setup but things are unclear for me. I want director proxying mapping to same server for LMTP and POP/IMAP connections. My authdb is LDAP and LMTP user are queried with mail adress (ldap mail attribute) while IMAP/POP users are identified with uid (ldap uid

[Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread dd
5 hours of configuration attempts, error after confusing error, documentation with examples that only show extracts of working configurations. I really feel like throwing in the towel with dovecot. It should not be this hard and frankly almost impossible to understand and configure for such an

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 06:23:09AM -0700, dd wrote: 5 hours of configuration attempts, error after confusing error, documentation with examples that only show extracts of working configurations. I really feel like throwing in the towel with dovecot. It should not be this hard ... Why

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread Benny Pedersen
dd skrev den 2013-06-03 15:23: Go ahead and flame me to a crisp. why not join the fun of google apps mx ? :) dovecot is not for everyone if you like more help provide dovecot -n and if using postfix postconf -n, what a combo ? -- senders that put my email into body content will deliver

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread Brian Hayden
On Jun 3, 2013, at 9:48 AM, /dev/rob0 r...@gmx.co.uk wrote: The only constructive suggestion I can make here is to scrap it and start over with system users. Let PAM / your OS handle the username and password and other daunting tasks. +1. I've spent a lot of time waist-deep in dovecot, but

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread Charles Marcus
Most problems like this can be attributed to trying to follow some $Random_HowTo from the internet, rather than reading the dovecot docs themselves. But yeah, ranting like you just did without providing any details at all is totally counter-productive, and is likely to get you flamed - or

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread Simon B
On 3 Jun 2013 16:49, /dev/rob0 r...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 06:23:09AM -0700, dd wrote: 5 hours of configuration attempts, error after confusing error, documentation with examples that only show extracts of working configurations. I really feel like throwing in the towel

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 05:10:35PM +0200, Simon B wrote: On 3 Jun 2013 16:49, /dev/rob0 r...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 06:23:09AM -0700, dd wrote: 3 virtual users. All I want is a username and password to access my email. ... you complicated things by wanting

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread Harlan Stenn
If you're hosting this on the domain where the users will have email, then do you have a good reason for wanting to use virtual stuff? If not, use system users. If you are hosting for another domain (or plan to) I don't have enough info to tell you more - I routinely set up virtual domains (I

Re: [Dovecot] Please clarify one point for me on director userdb (Was: Configuration advice needed.)

2013-06-03 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 03:47:08PM +0200, Olivier Girard wrote: I'm trying to finish my dovecot setup but things are unclear for me. I want director proxying mapping to same server for LMTP and POP/IMAP connections. My authdb is LDAP and LMTP user are queried with mail adress (ldap mail

Re: [Dovecot] recursive mail_location?

2013-06-03 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi writes: On 1.6.2013, at 13.24, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Karol Jurak karol.ju...@gmail.com writes: On Thursday 30 of May 2013 10:33:01 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Does anyone have a recommended way