Re: [Dovecot] user login on behalf of another user

2012-02-05 Thread Sven Hartge
rog7...@web.de wrote: User user1 and user2 shall get access to the mailbox info. We define the accounts info~user1 and info~user2 with the same home directory like info. Isn't this the kind of scenario shared folders were made for? Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot altmove questions

2012-02-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Maria Arrea maria_ar...@gmx.com wrote: 3º We have separate raids for indexes (raid 1+0) and mdboxes (raid 5). We have almost 3 TB of gzipped mdboxes, and our backup (bacula) is taking almost 16 hours to make a full backup. Our main problem is that indexes are backupd hours before mdboxes, and

Re: [Dovecot] Multiple locations, 2 servers - planning questions...

2012-02-27 Thread Sven Hartge
Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2012-02-27 12:59 PM, Adam Szpakowski a...@3a.pl wrote: I do have a basic question... How many users will be in this new, remote location? Will the traffic be so vast, that 1GbE link will not be enough, or are you using two servers for

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: I am currently in the process of setting up an IMAP repository for round 100 users Currently the user authentication method is being handled via a Windows Domain Controller. The host OS for Dovecot will either be FreeBSD or CentOS. Would Dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/17/2012 07:36 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: I am currently in the process of setting up an IMAP repository for round 100 users Currently the user authentication method is being handled via a Windows Domain

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: snip Question: do you need public or shared folders? I don't need anything apart from an IMAP storage solution. I don't intend to tie in Dovecot with an MTA either as I will simply be using this for storage. Long story but we don't have any control

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Flat files are not evil or bad or slow per se, but you have to use them the right way. Thanks a lot for that info. I will research more into this but I maybe overridden at some point :-( Need to make a strong case! Hmm. Just because Microsofts way of

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Once we get setup this may come in quite handy! Not sure what's going on currently as everyone above me is still quite set in using an SQL DB as a mail storage system??? RDBMS where not designed for such a task. Using a relational database as a storage

Re: [Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

2012-03-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 18.3.2012, at 0.28, Sven Hartge wrote: mbox has big problems with concurrent writes, the bigger the mbox is, the more problems you get. This is mainly caused by the meta-data of a message (meaning flags, status, etc.) which is stored inside the mbox file

Re: [Dovecot] Berkeley DB with Dovecot

2012-05-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 06:14:10 -0400 Charles Marcus articulated: On 2012-05-20 1:48 PM, Luuk@dovecot dove...@vosslamber.nl wrote: SQlite is only 61Kb, no config is needed If you start using MySQL, and the MySQL-database is changed because of some upgrades to

[Dovecot] quota: ignore deleted messages (?)

2012-08-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Hi! I am currently in the process of preparing a migration of our old Courier-based IMAP/POP server setup to a Dovecot-based one. During this process I came across the following problem with the difference Courier and Dovecot handle deleted messages and mail quota. Quote from

Re: [Dovecot] quota: ignore deleted messages (?)

2012-08-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 24.8.2012, at 15.02, Sven Hartge wrote: Ignoring the content (or increasing the quota) of the Trash folder is easy and no problem, but ignoring deleted messages seems impossible without changes to the code. .. So I propose an additional flag

Re: [Dovecot] quota: ignore deleted messages (?)

2012-08-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Robert Schetterer rob...@schetterer.org wrote: Am 24.08.2012 15:13, schrieb Sven Hartge: Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 24.8.2012, at 15.02, Sven Hartge wrote: Ignoring the content (or increasing the quota) of the Trash folder is easy and no problem, but ignoring deleted messages seems

Re: [Dovecot] quota: ignore deleted messages (?)

2012-08-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Robert Schetterer rob...@schetterer.org wrote: Am 24.08.2012 15:13, schrieb Sven Hartge: Is is possible to forcibly expunge a message at once, directly after a client has marked it as deleted? Kind of the opposite of the lazy_expunge plugin? hm perhaps

[Dovecot] Trying to fix delete_to_trash plugin (was: quota: ignore deleted messages (?))

2012-08-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Nope, does not compile (dovecot-dev headers are installed): OK, trying to fix this, without having any deeper knowlege of C (anymore): deleted-to-trash-plugin.c: In function ‘mailbox_open_or_create’: deleted-to-trash-plugin.c:79: error

Re: [Dovecot] quota: ignore deleted messages (?)

2012-08-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 24.8.2012, at 16.13, Sven Hartge wrote: quota_rule = *:storage=1G:ignoredeleted quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+100M This can't be implemented race-condition-free without huge changes to code. Damn, too bad. I know for sure either my users or my 1st

Re: [Dovecot] quota: ignore deleted messages (?)

2012-08-25 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 25.8.2012, at 1.49, Sven Hartge wrote: How about just disabling the quota enforcing and doing a nightly run of some type of enforcing (sending notification email and/or disabling new mail delivery until user has more quota again)? As a last resort, yes

Re: [Dovecot] quota: ignore deleted messages (?)

2012-08-27 Thread Sven Hartge
Angel L. Mateo ama...@um.es wrote: El 25/08/12 09:23, Timo Sirainen escribió: On 25.8.2012, at 1.49, Sven Hartge wrote: How about just disabling the quota enforcing and doing a nightly run of some type of enforcing (sending notification email and/or disabling new mail delivery until user has

Re: [Dovecot] Imap Ghost folder

2012-08-31 Thread Sven Hartge
Sascha Zucca zu...@systemschmiede.com wrote: Am 31.08.2012 16:06, schrieb Timo Sirainen: On 31.8.2012, at 16.59, Sascha Zucca wrote: So i guess * LIST (\Noselect \HasNoChildren) / Freigaben/ is the Problem... Yes. The problem is, I don't see it even with v2.1.7. Although I do see that when

Re: [Dovecot] finding messages deleted before timespec

2012-09-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Dennis Guhl d...@dguhl.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 01:31:18PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: Hi! I want to use this to expunge all DELETED messages which have been in that state for 24h or longer. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Expunge Yes, I know about doveadm expunge. I am

Re: [Dovecot] finding messages deleted before timespec

2012-09-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 3.9.2012, at 14.31, Sven Hartge wrote: I want to use this to expunge all DELETED messages which have been in that state for 24h or longer. Dovecot doesn't keep track of that information, so you can't. I suspected this. Would be nice though. Grüße, Sven

Re: [Dovecot] Error: User doesn't have home dir set, disabling duplicate database

2012-09-16 Thread Sven Hartge
Carsten Laun-De Lellis carsten.delel...@delellis.net wrote: user_attrs = home=/vmail/%d/%n,=uid=5000,=gid=5000 This should be user_attrs = =home=/vmail/%d/%n,=uid=5000,=gid=5000 You need the = before home like you did with uid and gid because you are not assigning any LDAP attribute to

[Dovecot] Dovecot 2 and TCP-Keepalive

2012-10-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Hi! I am about to migrate a perdition-based IMAP/POP3 proxy to Dovecot. Unfortunately some users are behind a firewall/NAT setup which throws away seemingly idle TCP connections sooner than the established default of 24 hours (more likely after 30 minutes ...) resulting in all kinds of weird

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 2 and TCP-Keepalive

2012-10-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 20.10.2012, at 19.39, Sven Hartge wrote: My question is: does Dovecot2 use TCP-Keepalive on its sockets per default or do I need to enable it some way I have not yet discovered? It's the default yes. Of course Linux's default keepalive interval

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Sven Hartge
Bradley Rintoul brint...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I'm using Dovecot to provide IMAP services for Thunderbird clients. The user's mail is stored in Maildir format and the individual emails which the user receives are actually downloaded and put into the Maildir repository using a Python email

Re: [Dovecot] POLL: v2.2 to allow one mail over quota?

2012-10-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: Currently if user is 1MB under quota and someone tries to deliver mail that is over 1MB, Dovecot rejects the mail. But smaller mails aren't rejected probably for days. So user might not even realize that they didn't receive one of the mails. Also having a user

Re: [Dovecot] POLL: v2.2 to allow one mail over quota?

2012-10-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Noel Butler noel.but...@ausics.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 22:39 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: So what do you think about v2.2 allowing delivery of one last mail even if it brings the user over quota? +1 only if configurable, and with an additional configurable quota percentage value

Re: [Dovecot] users mail folders have to be subscribed

2012-11-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Andre Bischof andre.bisc...@rheinsinn.de wrote: 2012/11/18 Daniel Parthey daniel.part...@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de Unsubscribed mailboxes are not shown in thunderbird, while subscriptions being stored server side, not in your local thunderbird. thank you, I guess that will be helpful - but

Re: [Dovecot] shared mailboxes and indexes

2012-11-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 23.11.2012, at 13.27, Alessio Cecchi wrote: Il 23/11/2012 08:07, Timo Sirainen ha scritto: BTW. Do you have multiple Dovecot backend servers? Director works only when you're not using shared mailboxes.. I'm not happy to hear that, so if today we are

Re: [Dovecot] SSL certificates

2012-11-23 Thread Sven Hartge
The Doctor doc...@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca wrote: Who is the best CA Certificate provider for Dovecot? What do you mean by best? Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: [Dovecot] shared mailboxes and indexes

2012-11-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 23.11.2012, at 17.53, Sven Hartge wrote: BTW. Do you have multiple Dovecot backend servers? Director works only when you're not using shared mailboxes.. You can't reliably do it if the mailboxes are accessed directly via NFS. The current idea to solve

Re: [Dovecot] shared mailboxes and indexes

2012-11-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 27.11.2012, at 3.24, Sven Hartge wrote: For implementing shared mailboxes between all user servers, I think what would need to be developed is: imapc_host = m-st-sh-01.example.com imapc_master_user = %u imapc_user = shared Somehow being able to set

Re: [Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

2011-01-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Andrzej Adam Filip a...@onet.eu wrote: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: [...] The average size of an email worldwide today is less than 4KB, less than one typical filesystem block. [...] Do not confuse unix culture of mostly plain text only email messages with MS Junk culture of

Re: [Dovecot] Questiosn about dbox

2011-01-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Javier de Miguel Rodríguez javierdemig...@us.es wrote: We think that mdbox can help us in this. Does anybody has good experiences migrating from maildir-mdox in large enviroments? What about mdox performance reliability? I haven't recently heard of corruption complaints about mdbox..

Re: [Dovecot] Questiosn about dbox

2011-01-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 24.1.2011, at 23.17, Sven Hartge wrote: I take this thread and jump in, since we (TH Mittelhessen, Germany) are also investigating the move to Dovecot and we also have the same situation as Javier: Courier with Maildir and Bacula as backup solution, we

Re: [Dovecot] Questiosn about dbox

2011-01-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 25.1.2011, at 0.11, Sven Hartge wrote: Yes, but if you use mdbox_rotate_interval=1d and run the purging before backups, I think there's a good chance that most of the backed up mails will be new files that bacula hasn't seen before. Do you mean new mails

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook 2010 IMAP disconnected

2011-02-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Luigi Rosa li...@luigirosa.com wrote: Disconnected for inactivity. Protocollo: IMAP Server: mail.xxx Porta: 143 Codice errore: 0x800CCCDD Have a look at http://markmail.org/message/ggdsfvxyhzstjwd6.

[Dovecot] Quotas from LDAP

2011-02-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Hi all! I have been reading http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Configuration over and over for the last two days, but something totally escapes my brain right now: How does user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,quotaBytes=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ get the quota from LDAP into dovecot? What are the LDAP

Re: [Dovecot] Quotas from LDAP

2011-02-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 23.2.2011, at 0.17, Sven Hartge wrote: user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,quotaBytes=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ get the quota from LDAP into dovecot? What are the LDAP attributes used quotaBytes is the LDAP attribute name which contains the quota limit in bytes

Re: [Dovecot] Quotas from LDAP

2011-02-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 23.2.2011, at 0.38, Sven Hartge wrote: and what does %$ mean? It's the value of quotaBytes LDAP attribute. So the idea is that you have: ldap-attribute-name=dovecot-setting-name=dovecot-setting-value So, %$ ist always the value of the referenced

Re: [Dovecot] Quotas from LDAP

2011-02-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 23.2.2011, at 1.27, Sven Hartge wrote: So, %$ ist always the value of the referenced attribute? What if there are multiple values, by accident or by design? Won't work right now. Will it cause the mail to be bounced or just deferred? Or just ignored

Re: [Dovecot] Quotas from LDAP

2011-02-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Joseba Torre joseba.to...@ehu.es wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2011 00:55:05 Sven Hartge wrote: Given the following object: dn: uid=foo,ou=bar quotaBytes: 1 quotaBytes: 1000 As I see it, this is a desigh error; quotaBytes should be a single valued attribute (like uid

Re: [Dovecot] Quotas from LDAP

2011-02-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 23.2.2011, at 1.55, Sven Hartge wrote: Given the following object: dn: uid=foo,ou=bar quotaBytes: 1 quotaBytes: 1000 What happens with user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,quotaBytes=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$ in this case? In multi-value

[Dovecot] Segfault in managesieve with sieve_extensions = -redirect

2011-03-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Hi! I've got a segfault in managesieve while using: sieve_extensions = -vacation -reject -spamtest -virustest -enotify -redirect The problem seems to lie in -redirect. Reason for excluding redirect from sieve is my users should not use sieve to forward or redirect mails but use an external

Re: [Dovecot] Segfault in managesieve with sieve_extensions?=?-redirect

2011-03-02 Thread Sven Hartge
fakessh @ fake...@fakessh.eu wrote: I do not understand certain things in your dovecot-n in my dovecot -n there is a plugin { plugin = autocreate managesieve sieve sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/sieve-scripts/roundcube.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_global_path =

Re: [Dovecot] Segfault in managesieve with sieve_extensions?=?-redirect

2011-03-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Stephan Bosch step...@rename-it.nl wrote: Op 2-3-2011 15:15, Sven Hartge schreef: I've got a segfault in managesieve while using: sieve_extensions = -vacation -reject -spamtest -virustest -enotify -redirect The problem seems to lie in -redirect. The redirect command is part of the Sieve

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with pam+ldap + quota

2011-03-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Antonio Perez-Aranda aperezara...@yaco.es wrote: I think that I need to modify /etc/ldap.conf to remap some attribute with mailQuota from ldap, and then, try to catch this as arg. Someone has pam+ldap+quota ? Why PAM _and_ LDAP? Why not just only LDAP? LDAP+Quota works fine over $here.

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with pam+ldap + quota

2011-03-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Antonio Perez-Aranda aperezara...@yaco.es wrote: Yes I know and I have some nodes with dovecot+ldap But this node need to login with module pam_imap, because it's use a closed one time password system. I'm trying with something like this: userdb { driver = passwd args = uid=exim

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with pam+ldap + quota

2011-03-16 Thread Sven Hartge
Antonio Perez-Aranda aperezara...@yaco.es wrote: 2011/3/15 Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de: Antonio Perez-Aranda aperezara...@yaco.es wrote: userdb {  driver = passwd  args = uid=exim gid=exim quota=*:bytes=%$ } BTW: I think it is very dangerous to use the exim-user and -group as user

Re: [Dovecot] different users with different quota

2011-03-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Jim Knuth j...@jkart.de wrote: How can one assign different users different Quota? So properly? No, totally wrong, sorry. quota_rule1 = userONE:storage=1G quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=100M quota_rule3 = SPAM:ignore quota_rule4 = userTWO:storage=5M quota_rule5 = Trash:storage=50M

Re: [Dovecot] different users with different quota

2011-03-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Jim Knuth j...@jkart.de wrote: am 23.03.11 18:38 schrieb Dennis Guhl d...@dguhl.org: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 05:44:51PM +0100, Jim Knuth wrote: am 23.03.11 17:33 schrieb Sven Hartges...@svenhartge.de: How your different user quotas are configured depends on the userdb backend you use. it`s

Re: [Dovecot] LDAP expired password

2011-04-01 Thread Sven Hartge
roberto palmarin rpalma...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm using postfix, LDAP, dovecot and horde for webmail. user and password information is stored in LDAP. I'm attempting to get password aging working properly and am not having much luck. even if password has expired user can login, can i tell

Re: [Dovecot] LDAP expired password

2011-04-01 Thread Sven Hartge
Nikolaos Milas nmi...@noa.gr wrote: On 1/4/2011 11:09 πμ, Sven Hartge wrote: Have a look at the ppolicy slapd.overlay. This will solve your problem. I just wanted to mention that there are significant integration issues of openldap ppolicy overlay in other software. Right. You need

Re: [Dovecot] Quota has none effect

2011-04-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Jim Knuth j...@jkart.de wrote: I have a user who has 153600 kBytes max. storage space. Now, however, he has used already 167396 kBytes and he can receive e-mails and can send. How can this be? Your configuration is wrong? Sorry, without any further information there is not much else to

Re: [Dovecot] Quota has none effect

2011-04-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Jim Knuth j...@jkart.de wrote: am 03.04.11 17:13 schrieb Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de: Jim Knuthj...@jkart.de wrote: I have a user who has 153600 kBytes max. storage space. Now, however, he has used already 167396 kBytes and he can receive e-mails and can send. How can this be? Your

Re: [Dovecot] Over quota and send Mails

2011-04-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Jim Knuth j...@jkart.de wrote: if a user over quota is, he can do no mails more receive. So far, so good. But why he can do, nevertheless, mails do send? Has that to do something with dict option? Sending mails has nothing to do with dovecot. You need to configure your MTA to prevent the user

Re: [Dovecot] Over quota and send Mails

2011-04-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Christian Schmidt christian.schm...@chemie.uni-hamburg.de wrote: Sven Hartge, 11.04.2011 (d.m.y): Jim Knuth j...@jkart.de wrote: if a user over quota is, he can do no mails more receive. So far, so good. But why he can do, nevertheless, mails do send? Has that to do something with dict

Re: [Dovecot] dict quota problem

2011-04-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Papp Tamas tom...@martos.bme.hu wrote: In table I see this: | papp.ta...@center.hu | 118671994 |20437 | du -sm says, the size of the maildir is 154M. I use xfs. I can't figure out, why is there a difference. Can you help me out? du also accounts for the metadata of the filesystem.

Re: [Dovecot] dict quota problem

2011-04-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Papp Tamas tom...@martos.bme.hu wrote: On 04/20/2011 01:47 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: du also accounts for the metadata of the filesystem. With Maildir++ you have many files per directory which causes the directory inode to increase in size. After mails are deleted, the now empty space inside

Re: [Dovecot] dict quota problem

2011-04-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Papp Tamas tom...@martos.bme.hu wrote: On 04/20/2011 05:26 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Counting all meta-data is also very unintuitive for the user. Imagine a user with an INBOX containing 200,000 mails. This will result in a _huge_ directory inode for the INBOX folder (about 20MB for XFS). Now

Re: [Dovecot] dict quota problem

2011-04-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Papp Tamas tom...@martos.bme.hu wrote: On 04/30/2011 01:36 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: So, there is no exact or something closer solution with normal maildirs? Define exact. I mean, how I can set a true quota usage for a user? Define true quota usage. Trust me, you don't want to include any

Re: [Dovecot] dict quota problem

2011-04-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Papp Tamas tom...@martos.bme.hu wrote: On 04/30/2011 02:24 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: I mean, how I can set a true quota usage for a user? Define true quota usage. Maximum usable space for a user on the disk. The current implementation just works. Where is your problem with that? You get

Re: [Dovecot] Email being stored in cur folder and not being downloaded in Thunderbird

2011-05-27 Thread Sven Hartge
Jay Welch j...@interoceansystems.com wrote: I have recently noticed that a random number of emails are being stored in the cur folder under certain users and cannot be downloaded in Thunderbird. I have tried moving the emails from cur to new but everytime I try to download the email from

Re: [Dovecot] mail spool filesystem

2011-08-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Adrian Ulrich adr...@blinkenlights.ch wrote: I read that XFS is a good choice, but is not too reliable... Are you using Maildir or MBOX? In any case: XFS would be my last choice: XFS is nice if you are working with large files ( 2GB), but for E-Mail i'd stick with ext3 (or maybe even

Re: [Dovecot] Quotas with Maildir and mdbox

2011-10-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Dr Matthew Williams matthew.willi...@bangor.ac.uk wrote: We use LDAP to store our Maildir++ quota information for our Maildir mailboxes. I notice in the documentation that only SQL and flat files are supported by the dictionary quota if I want to use quota with mdbox? Are there any plans to

Re: [Dovecot] LDAP expired password

2011-11-10 Thread Sven Hartge
rpalmarin rpalma...@yahoo.com wrote: Sven Hartge sven at svenhartge.de writes: Nikolaos Milas nmilas at noa.gr wrote: On 1/4/2011 11:09 πμ, Sven Hartge wrote: Have a look at the ppolicy slapd.overlay. This will solve your problem. Sorry for the delay in the response I checked the ppolicy

Re: [Dovecot] LDAP Authentication - Home Directory Creation

2011-12-01 Thread Sven Hartge
Stephen Bowman sbbow...@gmail.com wrote: How does everyone handle this case? Users are authenticated by LDAP, and do not have accounts on the IMAP/dovecot server. When a new user is added to LDAP, the home directory (/home/newuser) needs to be created on the IMAP/dovecot server so dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] LDAP Authentication - Home Directory Creation

2011-12-01 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 2.12.2011, at 0.41, Sven Hartge wrote: Or switch to a virtual setup, where the users don't get real users on the imap server (they can't log in, so they don't need any real user on that server) and every mail is owned by your virtual mail user. Well

Re: [Dovecot] LDAP Authentication - Home Directory Creation

2011-12-01 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 2.12.2011, at 1.03, Sven Hartge wrote: Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: I hope some day there won't be any problems with Dovecot using multiple UIDs. Meaning? There are different problems with multiple UIDs that are more difficult to solve than

Re: [Dovecot] crashes on 2.0.16

2011-12-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Noel Butler noel.but...@ausics.net wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 00:32 +0100, Cor Bosman wrote: # 2.0.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32.36-xsserver x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 Have you tried using a modern kernel? that one is about 2 years old. Well, this _is_ the kernel

[Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Hi *, I am currently in the planning stage for a new and improved mail system at my university. Right now, everything is on one big backend server but this is causing me increasing amounts of pain, beginning with the time a full backup takes. So naturally, I want to split this big server into

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: It's highly likely your problems can be solved without the drastic architecture change, and new problems it will introduce, that you describe below. The main reason is I need to replace the hardware as its service contract ends this year and I am

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 1/7/2012 7:55 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: It's highly likely your problems can be solved without the drastic architecture change, and new problems it will introduce, that you describe below. The main

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: If an individual VMware node don't have sufficient RAM you could build a VM based Dovecot cluster, run these two VMs on separate nodes, and thin out the other VMs allowed to run on these nodes. Since you can't

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: If an individual VMware node don't have sufficient RAM you could build a VM based Dovecot cluster, run these two VMs on separate nodes, and thin out the other VMs allowed

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 1/8/2012 9:39 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Memory size. I am a bit hesistant to deploy a VM with 16GB of RAM. My cluster nodes each have 48GB, so no problem on this side though. Shouldn't be a problem if you're going to spread the load over 2 to 4

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 1/8/2012 3:07 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Ah, I forgot: I _already_ have the mechanisms in place to statically redirect/route accesses for users to different backends, since some of the users are already redirected to a different mailsystem

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 1/8/2012 2:15 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Wouldn't such a setup be the Best of Both Worlds? Having the main traffic going to local disks (being RDMs) and also being able to provide shared folders to every user who needs them without the need to move

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 8.1.2012, at 0.20, Sven Hartge wrote: Right now, I am pondering with using an additional server with just the shared folders on it and using NFS (or a cluster FS) to mount the shared folder filesystem to each backend storage server, so each user has

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: The more I think about your planned architecture the more it reminds me of a shared nothing database cluster--even a relatively small one can outrun a well tuned mainframe, especially doing decision support/data mining workloads (TPC-H). As long

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 8.1.2012, at 0.20, Sven Hartge wrote: Right now, I am pondering with using an additional server with just the shared folders on it and using NFS (or a cluster FS) to mount the shared folder filesystem to each backend storage server, so each user has

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 9.1.2012, at 20.25, Sven Hartge wrote: Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 8.1.2012, at 0.20, Sven Hartge wrote: Right now, I am pondering with using an additional server with just the shared folders on it and using NFS (or a cluster FS) to mount

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 9.1.2012, at 20.47, Sven Hartge wrote: Can mmap_disable = yes and the other NFS options be set per namespace or only globally? Currently only globally. Ah, too bad. Back to the drawing board then. mmap_disable=yes works pretty well even if you're

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 9.1.2012, at 21.31, Sven Hartge wrote: , | # User's private mail location | mail_location = mdbox:~/mdbox | | # When creating any namespaces, you must also have a private namespace: | namespace { | type = private | separator = . | prefix

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 9.1.2012, at 21.45, Sven Hartge wrote: | location = imapc:~/imapc-shared What is the syntax of this location? What does imapc-shared do in this case? It's the directory for index files. The backend IMAP server is used as a rather dummy storage, so

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 9.1.2012, at 22.13, Sven Hartge wrote: Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On 9.1.2012, at 21.45, Sven Hartge wrote: | location = imapc:~/imapc-shared What is the syntax of this location? What does imapc-shared do in this case? It's the directory

Re: [Dovecot] Providing shared folders with multiple backend servers

2012-01-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: I am currently in the planning stage for a new and improved mail system at my university. OK, executive summary of the design ideas so far: - deployment of X (starting with 4, but easily scalable) virtual servers on VMware ESX - storage will be backed

Re: [Dovecot] Missing Emails

2012-12-27 Thread Sven Hartge
David Morsberger d...@morsberger.com wrote: I reported a problem with disappearing emails on my Apple Mountain Lion server. Not sure if it ever stopped but I do know it is happening again. Help This is a company email server. They live and die by their emails. Emails show up in inbox

Re: [Dovecot] POLL: v2.2 to allow one mail over quota?

2013-02-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: How about this, added to hg: plugin { # LDA/LMTP allows saving the last mail to bring user from under quota to # over quota, if the quota doesn't grow too high. Default is to allow as # long as quota will stay under 10% above the limit. Also allowed e.g.

Re: [Dovecot] last login timestamp

2013-04-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Oscar A. Jara oaj...@frsf.utn.edu.ar wrote: Hello, I am settiing up a dovecot (imap, pop, sieve, lda) + openldap infrastructure. I need to store the timestamp of the last login of each user in an attribute of its corresponding ldap object. I could not find a way of doing this through

[Dovecot] verbose_proctitle cuts dsync to proctitle to dsyn

2013-08-27 Thread Sven Hartge
Hi Timo, little cosmetic bug report: using verbose_proctitle = yes shortens the proctitle of dsync to just dsyn. Example: Note the whitespace instead of the 'c' in the proctitle: root@m-st-01:~# ps auwwwx | grep [d]syn virtmail 18141 13.0 0.1 49916 7952 pts/6R+ 00:49 0:00 dsyn -v

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 on Debian

2013-10-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Lucas Rothamel - Eye Catching Webdesign i...@eye-catching-webdesign.de wrote: I am currently running Dovecot 2.1 on current Debian and need to upgrade to 2.2 to use the replication features. I understand that I therefore need to compile Dovecot myself. No. Just use the excellent packages

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 on Debian

2013-10-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Gedalya geda...@gedalya.net wrote: On 10/20/2013 05:39 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Lucas Rothamel - Eye Catching Webdesign i...@eye-catching-webdesign.de wrote: I am currently running Dovecot 2.1 on current Debian and need to upgrade to 2.2 to use the replication features. I understand that I

Re: [Dovecot] zlib config questions

2013-12-06 Thread Sven Hartge
Terry Barnum te...@dop.com wrote: I'm curious how many people here use the zlib plugin. Is it common or is drive space cheap enough that it's not worth it to run the risk of potential problems? HDD space may be cheap, but is also slow, therefor IOPS are very expensive. I compress the mail

Re: [Dovecot] SQL as a storage backend

2013-12-06 Thread Sven Hartge
Zachary Sturgeon zsturg...@pccc.com wrote: I am researching using dovecot with an SQL database as the storage backend. From what I've read, dovecot only supports mbox style file storage, but I'd like to investigate the possibility of using a database instead. According to

Re: [Dovecot] Sizing MTA servers

2014-01-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Adrian Zaugg a...@ente.limmat.ch wrote: Am 17.01.14 10:53 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: On 1/16/2014 6:56 PM, Murray Trainer wrote: MTA = disk. Always has always will. Disk throughput is always the critical factor for queue performance, and an MTA is little more than a queue. Which makes it

Re: [Dovecot] Architecture for large Dovecot cluster

2014-01-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Sven, why didn't you chime in? Your setup is similar scale and I think your insights would be valuable here. Or maybe you could repost your last on this topic. Or was that discussion off list? I can't recall. Rather busy right now with a large

Re: [Dovecot] Architecture for large Dovecot cluster

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Joseph Tam jtam.h...@gmail.com wrote: Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Interesting datapoint: NetApp Deduplication did only recover about 1% of storage space with mdbox-based mail storage, while on an maildir-based mail storage, the rate was about 15%. (This was tested with a copy

Re: [Dovecot] Send and Bounced mail not appearing, depending on mail client

2014-03-05 Thread Sven Hartge
Dominique dco...@hotmail.com wrote: I just installed Dovecot2 on Ubuntu 12.04 server with postfix and postfixadmin. I am using virtual users and virutal domains. When using Thunderbird, Roundcubemail,iOS mail application on an iPad2 or Kmail n Android, all mail sent and bounce shows up.

Re: [Dovecot] Corrupted Mail?

2014-05-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com wrote: On May 28, 2014, at 2:03 AM, Arthur Dent arthurdent.lon...@gmail.com wrote: DELIVER=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver DESTDIR=/home/mark/mail/ :0 w * ^List-Id:.*users.lists.fedoraproject.org | $DELIVER -m $DESTDIR/MLists/Fedora But that’s not

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