Re: [Dovecot] Spliting Folders for Efficiency

2009-06-25 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 10:00 +0100, Daniel Watts wrote: .Folder__1.new .Folder__1.cur .Folder__1.tmp and .Folder__2.new .Folder__2.cur .Folder__2.tmp with Dovecot merging them before display as just Folder within the mail client. Virtual folders would enable

Re: [Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-09 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: I thought about saying this in v1.2.beta1 release annoouncement, but looks like it'll take a few more days. So I've moved to Blacksburg, Virginia and I'm now working for Mailtrust the rest of this year. Here's some talk about it: Congratulations Timo =) Best of luck out

Re: [Dovecot] Stateful Webmail

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Watts
Michael Carter wrote: Hello, I'm a developer on the Orbited project (http://www.orbited.org), which provides a TCPSocket interface in javascript (emulated over HTTP using ajax and comet.) This TCPSocket allows true bi-directional communication between a web browser and an arbitrary tcp server.

Re: [Dovecot] Stateful Webmail

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Watts
Michael Carter wrote: Hello, I'm a developer on the Orbited project (http://www.orbited.org), which provides a TCPSocket interface in javascript (emulated over HTTP using ajax and comet.) This TCPSocket allows true bi-directional communication between a web browser and an arbitrary tcp server.

Re: [Dovecot] Marking as Read causes Body.Peek on ALL messages - Reasonable?

2008-08-15 Thread Daniel Watts
Charles Marcus wrote: On 8/13/2008, Daniel Watts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The more I use Thunderbird the more I find it totally insane. Did you file a bug report? I imagine this is something that could use some fixing, and there is a much higher chance that the TBird devs will listen than

[Dovecot] Trying to Hide Namespace - new configuration options?

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Watts
Using 1.1.2 We have: # default namespace namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes #location = maildir:/home/virtual/%h #Maildir } # for backwards compatibility: namespace private { separator = / prefix = mail/

Re: [Dovecot] Trying to Hide Namespace - new configuration options?

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Watts
Charles Marcus wrote: On 8/13/2008, Daniel Watts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If i set the prefix to blank I only see my Inbox and Deleted folders. Interestingly it shows 'Deleted' not 'Trash'. I guess Thunderbird renames 'Trash'. Maybe this is a TBird issue rather than dovecot? The Trash

[Dovecot] Marking as Read causes Body.Peek on ALL messages - Reasonable?

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Watts
I've noticed when I select a folder of messages (Thunderbird) and mark them all as read (or unread) it produces the following IMAP transcript: Source Destination Info c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: DONE s.s.s.s c.c.c.c Response: 20 OK Idle completed. c.c.c.c s.s.s.s Request: 21 uid store 1:20

Re: [Dovecot] Marking as Read causes Body.Peek on ALL messages - Reasonable?

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Watts
I've noticed when I select a folder of messages (Thunderbird) and mark them all as read (or unread) it produces the following IMAP transcript: SourceDestinationInfo c.c.c.cs.s.s.sRequest: DONE s.s.s.sc.c.c.cResponse: 20 OK Idle completed. c.c.c.cs.s.s.s

Re: [Dovecot] Sorting by Sender Name

2008-03-10 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 14:45 +, Daniel Watts wrote: I feel there is an error in the logic of the sort by From column. If you sort by this column, the messages are re-ordered in alphabetical order using the *email address* as the sorted word. However most people

[Dovecot] Sorting by Sender Name

2008-03-07 Thread Daniel Watts
the name as the sorted element and NOT the email address. If my email was [EMAIL PROTECTED], my emails, showing as 'Daniel Watts' would come right near the bottom of the list rather than with the other 'D's near the top. I know my email clients (Thunderbird and Outlook) both act like

Re: [Dovecot] More efficient Deleting of a whole folder (or Purging Trash)

2008-01-31 Thread Daniel Watts
Hi Timo, On Jan 29, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Daniel Watts wrote: Is there not a more efficient way to do this? If Dovecot knows the whole folder is being deleted (ie a Trash purge), could it do something clever with the filesystem to just remove the whole folder? If you use IMAP DELETE command

[Dovecot] More efficient Deleting of a whole folder (or Purging Trash)

2008-01-29 Thread Daniel Watts
Hi, I've straced a few dovecot processes after hitting purge on a large Trash folder (35,000 messages). It looks like it is going through each message, one by one, and removing (unlinking) each one. Is there not a more efficient way to do this? If Dovecot knows the whole folder is being

[Dovecot] Upgrading a live running dovecot - how?

2008-01-02 Thread Daniel Watts
Hi Guys, This has bitten us twice now. We're running Gentoo and emerge (ie compile) a new version of Dovecot thinking we can finish that then restart Dovecot in our own time. It seems that Dovecot immediately starts to use the newly compiled Dovecot binary and we get version mismatch errors

Re: [Dovecot] Squirrelmail + Dovecot + Maildir

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Watts
Troy Engel wrote: Vicki Stanfield wrote: Here is what I see in /etc/squirrelmail/config.php $optional_delimiter = '.'; [snip] $default_folder_prefix = ''; $trash_folder = 'Trash'; $sent_folder= 'Sent'; $draft_folder =

Re: [Dovecot] Squirrelmail + Dovecot + Maildir

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Watts
Vicki Stanfield wrote: I have been struggling with getting my Fedora 7 box set up to use dovecot with Squirrelmail and Maildir. It works correctly with the exception of writing outgoing mail to the right folder (.Sent) or drafts (.Drafts). If I send a mail with Mutt, it writes the mail to the

[Dovecot] maildirsize quota counting locking account?

2007-12-19 Thread Daniel Watts
Hi, I've just straced a dovecot imap process and found one thread sitting there doing hundreds and hundreds of maildirsize updates as follows: open(/home/virtual/mydomain.com/home/admin/Maildir/maildirsize, O_RDWR|O_APPEND) = 7 read(7, 1048576S\n1562717408 107547\n-..., 5120) = 2446

Re: [Dovecot] maildirsize quota counting locking account?

2007-12-19 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On 19.12.2007, at 13.42, Daniel Watts wrote: I've just straced a dovecot imap process and found one thread sitting there doing hundreds and hundreds of maildirsize updates as follows: What Dovecot version? v1.0.8 fixed one bug that caused this. 1.0.7 - will update

Re: [Dovecot] maildirsize quota counting locking account?

2007-12-19 Thread Daniel Watts
Charles Marcus wrote: On 12/19/2007, Daniel Watts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Yeah no idea what thunderbird thinks it is doing. Often have to close the program and restart it (of course this is nothing to do with dovecot - i suspect tb's caching management). What platform? I use TBird

[Dovecot] Corrupted Transaction Log File: v1.0.7

2007-12-07 Thread Daniel Watts
Following errors have happened quite a bit: Dec 7 14:19:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tg3 dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Transaction log file /home/virtual/mydomain.com/home/peter.day/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot.index.log: marked corrupted Dec 7 14:19:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tg3 dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL

Re: [Dovecot] Corrupted Transaction Log File: v1.0.7

2007-12-07 Thread Daniel Watts
[snip] Dec 7 14:19:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tg3 dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Corrupted transaction log file /home/virtual/mydomain.com/home/peter.day/Maildir/.Trash/dovecot.index.log: Append with UID 50, but next_uid = 15870 This is the real error. What kind of a system do you

[Dovecot] dovecot process nice value

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Watts
My imap processes seem to all be running with a nice value of -15 (top priority). Is this usual? Not sure if this is a dovecot setting or something going on with my own system configuration somewhere. I know the userdb query can set the nice value but mine (a mysql query) does not... We're

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot process nice value

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 13:05 +, Daniel Watts wrote: My imap processes seem to all be running with a nice value of -15 (top priority). Is this usual? Not sure if this is a dovecot setting or something going on with my own system configuration somewhere. Normally

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot process nice value

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 16:25 +, Daniel Watts wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 13:05 +, Daniel Watts wrote: My imap processes seem to all be running with a nice value of -15 (top priority). Is this usual? Not sure if this is a dovecot setting

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.beta8 released

2007-11-12 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 07:27 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: Changes since beta7: - Added a new raw mail storage backend which allows opening files/streams as single mail mailboxes. deliver uses this now instead of opening the incoming mail

Re: [Dovecot] Sent vs Sent Items

2007-11-05 Thread Daniel Watts
Ed W wrote: Religious wars about which is best aside - some mail clients seem to default to using Sent Items folder for saving sent mail, and others (many) default to Sent. Seems that in the interests of compatibility and doing the right thing (tm) that a symlink from one folder to the other

[Dovecot] Spliting Folders for Efficiency

2007-10-11 Thread Daniel Watts
Dear Timo, Would there be any sense in giving Dovecot the option to split folders into multiple subfolders when they reached a specified size (probably message count) limit? Dovecot would monitor folders and when they reached, say, 10,000 messages, silently split the folder on the

[Dovecot] Corrupt Message?

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Watts
Dear List, Am accessing dovecot imap through squirrelmail. Squirrelmail paginates the message list into pages. All works fine except for the page one particular email is in. When I try to open that page (or in fact click 'show all') the server returns: ERROR: Bad or malformed request. Query:

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.alpha2 released

2007-08-09 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha2.tar.gz.sig Hopefully the next release can be v1.1.beta1. I'm not aware of any major problems and I think I'm pretty much done with new features (except

[Dovecot] cache questions

2007-08-06 Thread Daniel Watts
Hi Guys, We have: auth_cache_size = 2048 #Kb auth_cache_ttl = 900 #life of the cache Seems to work well (though haven't tried looking at stats). Only problem is that every so often, one of our new users tries to log in quickly before the account is marked (in a db) as 'active'. They use

Re: [Dovecot] cache questions

2007-08-06 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 15:37 +0100, Daniel Watts wrote: Seems to work well (though haven't tried looking at stats). Only problem is that every so often, one of our new users tries to log in quickly before the account is marked (in a db) as 'active'. They use the right

Re: [Dovecot] cache questions

2007-08-06 Thread Daniel Watts
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:31 +0100, Daniel Watts wrote: 1. Is the expire time on a per-login basis or for the entire cache? If someone logs in 14 minutes after the last expiry is their data cached for just 1 minute? Oh, I think I misunderstood this question