Re: High Load average on NFS Spool - v.2.1.15 & 2.2.13

2018-12-18 Thread Albert E. Whale, CEH CHS CISA CISSP
I have, but I will be happy to review it once again. On 12/18/18 2:14 PM, admin wrote: Am Dienstag, den 18.12.2018, 14:06 -0500 schrieb Albert E. Whale, CEH CHS CISA CISSP: I have two servers pointing to an NFS mounted mail spool with dovecot.  Since I recently switched from using Dovecot v1

High Load average on NFS Spool - v.2.1.15 & 2.2.13

2018-12-18 Thread Albert E. Whale, CEH CHS CISA CISSP
ster_address = postmas...@example.com } protocol imap {   mail_max_userip_connections = 40 } Can you please offer a suggestion on what is happening?  The timeouts to the imap server are frequent due to the load average. Thank you. -- -- -- Albert E. Whale, CEH CHS CISA CISSP *President

Re: [Dovecot] Multiple domains to one inbox and temporary redirects...

2011-08-31 Thread Albert E. Whale
E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Senior Technology Security Director *ABS Computer Technology, Inc. * 412-635-7488 ext 100 aewh...@abs-comptech.com mailto:aewh...@abs-comptech.com www.ABS-CompTech.com http://www.ABS-CompTech.com attachment: aewhale.vcf

[Dovecot] UID/GID changed

2008-12-05 Thread Albert E. Whale
Nov 5 19:00 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw-rw 1 mike mail0 Nov 5 19:00 dovecot-uidvalidity.4912338c drwx--S--- 2 mike mail 4096 Dec 5 11:46 new/ drwx--S--- 2 mike mail 4096 Dec 5 11:46 tmp/ What am I missing? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network and Systems Consultant

[Dovecot] Authentication Error Message formats

2008-10-29 Thread Albert E. Whale
Failure (Failed Password)? Clearly these two failures indicate a different error in the system. One that some forgot their password, the other indicates a dictionary attack. -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant

Re: [Dovecot] Cannot use userdb to update Maildir

2008-10-29 Thread Albert E. Whale
/cbWlBhKnhc5W.Ko.:1152:1152::/home/health::userdb_mail=maildir:~/Maildir Thank you to everyone that responded to this posting. This issue is now resolved. -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication Error Message formats

2008-10-29 Thread Albert E. Whale
Charles Marcus wrote: On 10/29/2008, Albert E. Whale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When a user fails authentication, or a user does not exist, it appears that the same message is used for these events. When asking for help, it is always a good idea to provide some basic info

Re: [Dovecot] Authentication Error Message formats

2008-10-29 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:49 -0400, Albert E. Whale wrote: I have been using UW's IMAP server and I am converting to Dovecot for Maildir support. When a user fails authentication, or a user does not exist, it appears that the same message is used for these events

Re: [Dovecot] mail_location: mbox: mkdir failed

2008-10-29 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 12:30 -0400, Albert E. Whale wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Albert E. Whale wrote: Is there an automatic solution to this? Oct 27 08:00:48 192.168.50.5 dovecot: POP3(evelina2): mail_location: mbox: mkdir

[Dovecot] Cannot use userdb to update Maildir

2008-10-28 Thread Albert E. Whale
top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 The /home/dovecot.passwd has the following. more /home/dovecot.passwd health:$1$MCtvt/Tz$FmKqU/cbWlBhKnhc5W.Ko.:1152:1152:/home/health:userdb_mail=mai ldir:~/Maildir WHY can I get the emails from ~health/Maildir/new ??? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr

Re: [Dovecot] Cannot use userdb to update Maildir

2008-10-28 Thread Albert E. Whale
): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Oct 28 16:42:17 ns6 dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=31252 -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant

[Dovecot] mail_location: mbox: mkdir failed

2008-10-27 Thread Albert E. Whale
dovecot: POP3(evelina2): mail_location: mbox: mkdir(/home/popuser_evelina2/mail) failed: Permission denied Oct 27 08:00:51 192.168.50.5 dovecot: Fatal: POP3(evelina2): Namespace initialization failed -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant

Re: [Dovecot] mail_location: mbox: mkdir failed

2008-10-27 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Albert E. Whale wrote: Is there an automatic solution to this? Oct 27 08:00:48 192.168.50.5 dovecot: POP3(evelina2): mail_location: mbox: mkdir(/home/popuser_evelina2/mail) failed: Permission denied You mean /home/popuser_evelina2 doesn't

Re: [Dovecot] cannot use password-file for userdb

2008-10-27 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Oct 26, 2008, at 11:28 PM, Albert E. Whale wrote: Oct 26 17:26:54 ns6 dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=5142 Oct 26 17:26:54 ns6 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=pop3^Ilip=66.207.133.228^Irip=71.162.15.2^Ilport=110^Irport=4238

[Dovecot] cannot use password-file for userdb

2008-10-26 Thread Albert E. Whale
as: userdb passwd { } I changed this to: userdb passwd-file { args = /home/dovecot.conf } And unfortunately the dovecot daemon dies after successfully launching. Suggestions? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant

Re: [Dovecot] cannot use password-file for userdb

2008-10-26 Thread Albert E. Whale
Albert E. Whale wrote: OK, I am attempting to use the userdb connection to facilitate per user migration to Maildir format from mbox. Here's the first user: more /home/dovecot.passwd health:$1$MCtvt/Tz$FmKqU/cbWlBhKnhc5W.Ko.:1152:1152:/home/health:userdb_mail=maildir:~/Maildir

Re: [Dovecot] cannot use password-file for userdb

2008-10-26 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 10:01 -0400, Albert E. Whale wrote: And unfortunately the dovecot daemon dies after successfully launching. What does it log? http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging Actually the userdb was wrong, but now I am seeing the following: Oct 26 17

[Dovecot] Maildir connection issues

2008-10-24 Thread Albert E. Whale
The problem I am having is that the user health cannot get new email messages. Suggestions? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant ABS Computer Technology, Inc. http

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir connection issues

2008-10-24 Thread Albert E. Whale
mouss wrote: Albert E. Whale a écrit : I recently am attempting a mbox to Maildir conversion, initially for a single email address, and then for everyone. To further this diagnostic here is the dovecot -n: dovecot -n # 1.1.4: /etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir connection issues

2008-10-24 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Albert E. Whale wrote: I was under the impression that you could migrate individual mailboxes and set up the information via the dovecot.passwd file, i.e. health:$1$MCtvt/Tz$FmKqU/cbWlBhKnhc5W.Ko.:1152:1152:/home/health:userdb_mail=maildir

Re: [Dovecot] mbox to Maildir conversion

2008-10-23 Thread Albert E. Whale
Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Wednesday, October 22 at 11:35 PM, quoth Albert E. Whale: I am currently testing a single user, and have successfully converted the mail messages from mbox to Maildir format, and now I am setting up the procmail tool to place the messages into the correct folder. I

Re: [Dovecot] mbox to Maildir conversion

2008-10-23 Thread Albert E. Whale
Scott Silva wrote: on 10-23-2008 1:35 PM Neil spake the following: On 23 Oct 2008, at 16:17, Albert E. Whale wrote: Neil wrote: On 22 Oct 2008, at 23:35, Albert E. Whale wrote: I've been running a mbox solution using UW's IMAP server. I've run it for years

[Dovecot] mbox to Maildir conversion

2008-10-22 Thread Albert E. Whale
to retrieve those messages, Dovecot does not find them. Why not? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant ABS Computer Technology, Inc. http://www.ABS-CompTech.com - Email

Re: [Dovecot] Can I translate the userid to match the UW-POP3 server?

2008-10-12 Thread Albert E. Whale
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Oct 12, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Albert E. Whale wrote: Now the Dovecot server is very flexible and currently I have not found how to translate the upper case characters to lowercase. What configuration setting will translate the userids to lowercase? Easiest way is to use

[Dovecot] Can I translate the userid to match the UW-POP3 server?

2008-10-11 Thread Albert E. Whale
will translate the userids to lowercase? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant ABS Computer Technology, Inc. http://www.ABS-CompTech.com - Email, Internet and Security Consultants

[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1.3 / 1.1.4 - not deleteing

2008-10-05 Thread Albert E. Whale
Not sure what happened here, but today, all of a sudden, pop3 emails are not being deleted. I was using the 1.1.3 version then upgraded to 1.1.4 now it no longer deletes emails. Suggestions? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant

[Dovecot] File_lock_dotlock error

2008-10-05 Thread Albert E. Whale
Oct 5 22:51:59 ns6 dovecot: POP3(aewhale): file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/aewhale: Permission denied Any suggestions? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant

[Dovecot] Migration Issues UW-POP3

2007-10-07 Thread Albert E. Whale
the POP3 or Login messages any more. Can someone tell me why? Is this not correctly working on my server yet? -- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant ABS Computer