[Dovecot] How to see folders/subfolders/emails through imap

Hello all, I am trying to do something very simple - at least thats what I thought. I have some fs, it contains folders and subfolders with email files ordered like maildir. Now I try to set up dovecot on top simply to let some imap account watch these email files. But I cannot see any folders at

Re: [Dovecot] How to see folders/subfolders/emails through imap

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:50:40 +0200 (CEST) Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: I am trying to do something very simple - at least thats what I thought. I have some fs

Re: [Dovecot] How to see folders/subfolders/emails through imap

On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:19:25 +0200 Steffen skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:50:40 +0200 (CEST) Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: I tried to tell dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] How to see folders/subfolders/emails through imap

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 22:07:01 +0200 Stephan von Krawczynski sk...@ithnet.com wrote: On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:19:25 +0200 Steffen skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:50:40 +0200 (CEST

Re: [Dovecot] How to see folders/subfolders/emails through imap

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:36:24 +0300 Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 10.4.2013, at 11.21, Stephan von Krawczynski sk...@ithnet.com wrote: Sorry, it seems not that easy. I had to find out that sylpheed works correctly now, but thunderbird does not show anything, just like before

[Dovecot] Easy way to make all mailboxes of a user read-only

Hello all, I try to configure dovecot to make all imap accesses read-only for a certain user. I thought this would be possible by creating a global acl file (here global-acl) like: user=username lr and plugin { acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 } But that seems to be

Re: [Dovecot] Easy way to make all mailboxes of a user read-only

Let me explain some more details, that seem important to understand: I cannot use acl files per folder/mailbox because the MTA creates folders dynamically (re-orders mails in folders). So I really would need some idea to tell dovecot to let a certain user access his mailbox/folders read-only, no

Re: [Dovecot] Easy way to make all mailboxes of a user read-only

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:00:22 +0300 Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 11.4.2013, at 15.07, Stephan von Krawczynski sk...@ithnet.com wrote: I try to configure dovecot to make all imap accesses read-only for a certain user. I thought this would be possible by creating a global acl file

Re: [Dovecot] Easy way to make all mailboxes of a user read-only

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:08:31 +0200 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 11.04.2013 15:05, schrieb Stephan von Krawczynski: Let me explain some more details, that seem important to understand: I cannot use acl files per folder/mailbox because the MTA creates folders

Re: [Dovecot] Easy way to make all mailboxes of a user read-only

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:00:22 +0300 Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 11.4.2013, at 15.07, Stephan von Krawczynski sk...@ithnet.com wrote: I try to configure dovecot to make all imap accesses read-only for a certain user. I thought this would be possible by creating a global acl file

Re: [Dovecot] Easy way to make all mailboxes of a user read-only

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:15:23 +0300 Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 11.4.2013, at 16.07, Stephan von Krawczynski sk...@ithnet.com wrote: On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:00:22 +0300 Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 11.4.2013, at 15.07, Stephan von Krawczynski sk...@ithnet.com wrote

Re: [Dovecot] Easy way to make all mailboxes of a user read-only

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:35:32 +0300 Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 11.4.2013, at 16.24, Stephan von Krawczynski sk...@ithnet.com wrote: The MTA can work as it used to, if it can just set a group-read permission to the files. So your read-only user would belong to that read-only-group

Re: [Dovecot] OT/about SSDs

Honestly guys, most people really have no long-term experiences with flash memory, be it SSD or other forms of. I can tell you from continously using simple CF-Cards as harddisks for about 5 years that _none_ ever got corrupted. Not a single one in 5 years. Taking into account that CF is really

Re: [Dovecot] Changing SSL certificates - switching from self-signed to RapidSSL

On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:57:47 -0400 Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: Hi all, Ok, been wanting to do this for a while, and I after the Heartbleed fiasco, the boss finally agreed to let me buy some real certs... Well, I guess one has to tell you that: 1) No certs no matter if

Re: [Dovecot] Changing SSL certificates - switching from self-signed to RapidSSL

On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:22:07 +0200 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 19.04.2014 09:14, schrieb Stephan von Krawczynski: On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:57:47 -0400 Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: Hi all, Ok, been wanting to do this for a while, and I after

Re: [Dovecot] Changing SSL certificates - switching from self-signed to RapidSSL

On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:40:07 +0200 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: it is working, it is working as good as it can and if you compare the costs of 130 € for 3 years with support calls because self signed certificates and do a *real harm* by train ordinary users to ignore warnings

Re: [Dovecot] Changing SSL certificates - switching from self-signed to RapidSSL

On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:20:39 +0200 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: and where does it lead to trigger warnings all over the planet and train people to ignore them? in case of a mailserver that's not a real big problem because they amount of users is limited on a public website

[Dovecot] How to bring dovecot to using a slightly modified passwd file

Hello all, I am trying to use a setup where domains have separate passwd files with a slightly different layout. Is there a way to tell dovecot that a passwd file contains everything it looks for but on different positions inside the passwd file line? Standard passwd:

Re: [Dovecot] How to bring dovecot to using a slightly modified passwd file

On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:38:59 +0200 Benny Pedersen m...@junc.eu wrote: Stephan von Krawczynski skrev den 2014-04-21 09:33: Or do I have to patch the source, and where if necessary? dovecot does not need passwd files, you can eg use any db that dovecot support, lets say sqlite, then you

Re: [Dovecot] How to bring dovecot to using a slightly modified passwd file

On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:26:13 +0200 Andreas Schulze s...@andreasschulze.de wrote: Stephan von Krawczynski: If there is no chance to convince Timo for something like a passwd-scheme parameter useful for more people than just me I will probably rewrite the stuff myself. Nevertheless

Re: AW: ot: accepting self certs into win pc?

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:03:09 +0200 Patrick De Zordo patr...@spamreducer.eu wrote: Don't use self signed certs! - Buy some, or use free services! Your reputation will grow! I am sorry, but someone _has_ to say it: if anyone really thinks that a south african or US entity selling certs is the

Re: NetApp NFS vs. ZFS and NFS for Maildir

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:59:28 +1000 Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net> wrote: > On 14/03/2016 09:59, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:32:42 +1000 > > Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net> wrote: > > > >> On 13/03/2016 20:47, St

Re: NetApp NFS vs. ZFS and NFS for Maildir

On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:58:00 -0300 Juan Bernhard wrote: > > El 11/03/2016 a las 11:22 a.m., Alessio Cecchi escribió: > > Hi, > > > > I'm evaluating to switch from NetApp to a ZFS appliance (like Qsan). Our > > setup is Dovecot, Maildir for email storage and NFS to share

Re: NetApp NFS vs. ZFS and NFS for Maildir

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:32:42 +1000 Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net> wrote: > On 13/03/2016 20:47, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:45:06 + > > James <li...@xdrv.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> On 11/03/2016 15:17, Stephan von Kra

Re: NetApp NFS vs. ZFS and NFS for Maildir

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:47:23 +0100 Stephan von Krawczynski <sk...@ithnet.com> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:45:06 + > James <li...@xdrv.co.uk> wrote: > > > On 11/03/2016 15:17, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > > > zfs set sync=disabled ? &g

Re: NetApp NFS vs. ZFS and NFS for Maildir

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:45:06 + James <li...@xdrv.co.uk> wrote: > On 11/03/2016 15:17, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > zfs set sync=disabled ? > > Only if you are happy to loose data on power failure. I don't know the actual setup, but if you have no UPC

Re: NetApp NFS vs. ZFS and NFS for Maildir

On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 17:37:04 +1000 Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net> wrote: > On 14/03/2016 18:49, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > >> > >> and you've never seen these cause problems with FS? then you must be > >> a > >> newbie, in ov

Re: Email hosting provider

On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:34:34 +1000 Noel Butler wrote: > On 21/03/2016 17:06, Andre Rodier wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Sorry if I am off topic a little. > > > > I am looking for an email host provider that supports dovecot, sieve > > and manage sieve. Ideally with the

Re: is a self signed certificate always invalid the first time?

On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 08:39:30 -0700 Gregory Sloop wrote: > AV> So i’m using dovecot, and i created a self signed certificate > AV> with mkcert.sh based on dovecot-openssl.cnf. The name in there matches > AV> my mail server. > > AV> The first time it connects in mac mail

Re: is a self signed certificate always invalid the first time?

On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 07:53:16 -0700 Gregory Sloop wrote: > [...] > Clearly there *are* issues with trusted CA's. But they also offer some value > you can't get with a self-signed cert - especially to people who would > connect to your servers, but who have no real relationship

Re: is a self signed certificate always invalid the first time

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:29:49 -0400 KT Walrus <ke...@my.walr.us> wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2017, at 11:52 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <sk...@ithnet.com> > > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 21:39:18 -0400 > > KT Walrus <ke...@my.walr.us> wrote: >

Re: is a self signed certificate always invalid the first time

On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 21:39:18 -0400 KT Walrus <ke...@my.walr.us> wrote: > > On Aug 18, 2017, at 4:05 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <sk...@ithnet.com> > > wrote: > > > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:24:39 -0700 (PDT) > > Joseph Tam <jtam.h...@gma

Re: is a self signed certificate always invalid the first time

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Joseph Tam wrote: > Michael Felt writes: > > >> I use acme.sh for all of my LetsEncrypt certs (web & mail), it is > >> written in pure shell script, so no python dependencies. > >>

Re: Sieve global path?

l interface on top of such a config showed the sieve folder in the overview. Sometimes you can even see a "dovecot" folder, which also disappears when sieve is outside. -- Regards, Stephan > > On 11/10/2017 3:07 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Nov

Re: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 21:40:55 +0200 Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > On 7 Nov 2017, at 21.33, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw...@ithnet.com> wrote: > > > > > > Me again have to stress that our former implementation of the lda process > > did do e

Re: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:05:46 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ket...@dovecot.fi> wrote: > > On 20 Nov 2017, at 10.50, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw...@ithnet.com> > > wrote: > > > > AFAIK no complex director stuff would be needed then, right? > > The secon

dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

Hello, we have a setup where SMTP/LDA and POP3/IMAP are on different physical hosts. They share the mail data via an external storage. Now we would like to use dovecot-lda on the smtp host, so we wonder if the lda binary works without starting dovecot from init. As there will be no POP3/IMAP

Re: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 17:53:47 +0200 (EET) Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@dovecot.fi> wrote: > > On November 3, 2017 at 1:50 PM Stephan von Krawczynski > > <skraw...@ithnet.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > we have a setup where SMTP/LDA and POP

Re: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 19:30:22 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ket...@dovecot.fi> wrote: > > On 3 Nov 2017, at 18.23, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw...@ithnet.com> > > wrote: Hello Aki, > > > > let me explain this a bit more. We do not intend to use only some copied >

Re: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 10:44:25 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ket...@dovecot.fi> wrote: > > On 4 Nov 2017, at 10.31, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw...@ithnet.com> > > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 01:57:31 +0200 > > Sami Ketola <sami.ket...@dovecot.fi

Re: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 08:37:11 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ket...@dovecot.fi> wrote: > > On 5 Nov 2017, at 12.55, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw...@ithnet.com> > > wrote: Sorry to say this setup works flawlessly for years. The only > > addition we will make now is to do

Re: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 09:50:16 -0500 Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > On 11/6/2017, 4:01:19 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw...@ithnet.com> > wrote: > > Still we are not content with it touching/locking dovecot.index.log. If > > someone pointed at

Re: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:19:12 +1000 Noel Butler wrote: > mail_location Optionally disable indexes using :INDEX=MEMORY > > don't use this on IMAP boxes, but is safe to use on SMTP and POP3's > boxes though > > eg: > > mail_location = >

Re: Sieve global path?

On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 21:02:44 -0500 Bill Shirley wrote: > Set the sieve_global_dir like this. > /etc/dovecot/conf.d/99-mystuff.conf: > . > . > plugin { >   sieve = ~/Maildir/dovecot.sieve >   sieve_dir = ~/Maildir/sieve >  

Re: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 01:57:31 +0200 Sami Ketola wrote: > >> > >> While it might be possible to disable all the other services except > >> master I must ask why? How would the users be accessing their mails then? > >> > >> Sami > > > > Hello Sami, > > > > you did not

Re: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 19:19:23 +0200 Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > On 7 Nov 2017, at 9.15, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw...@ithnet.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:19:12 +1000 > > Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net> wrote: > > &g

Post-Auth external check?

Hello all, is it possible to include some post-auth check in the password authentication? So after dovecot has found a user allowed to login to execute some external script for checking additional conditions which gives back simple true or false wether the login should be allowed? -- Regards,

Re: regarding ssl certificates

On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:13:15 +0100 "Guido Goluke, MajorLabel via dovecot" wrote: > Op 14-03-19 om 11:46 schreef mick crane via dovecot: > > Excuse dopey question. > > I'm not exactly clear about certificates. > > Apache2 default install has this snake oil certificate > > Can make a new one for

Re: regarding ssl certificates

On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:51:14 -0400 Phil Turmel via dovecot wrote: > On 3/14/19 7:40 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski via dovecot wrote: > > > Sorry I have to write this, but this is again pointing people in a fake > > security direction. > > You should be sorr

Re: High availability of Dovecot

On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:44:40 +0800 luckydog xf via dovecot wrote: > Hi, list, > [...] >Thanks for any suggestions and ideas. > Hm, it seems most of the people answering have no real experience in production with suchs setups. Basically do this: - setup keepalived as a cluster director on

Re: High availability of Dovecot

On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:44:40 +0800 luckydog xf via dovecot wrote: > Hi, list, > [...] >Thanks for any suggestions and ideas. > Hm, it seems most of the people answering have no real experience in production with suchs setups. Basically do this: - setup keepalived as a cluster director on