Re: [Dovecot] Enabling security on POP3 and IMAP

2009-09-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
this all works when you turn off non-encrypted protocols. Any advice gratefully received! Thanks again, Richard. Patrick Nagel wrote: Hi Richard, On 2009-09-03 16:38, Richard Hobbs wrote: Currently, on our new test server, I am offering IMAP on 143 and POP3 on 110. We would like to enable

Re: [Dovecot] Enabling security on POP3 and IMAP

2009-09-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
! Richard. Richard Hobbs wrote: Hello, Is it possible to offer encrypted and non-encrypted services simultaneously, so people have a choice of whether they want security or not? I know that's a bit weird, but for testing it would be useful. No problem. Basically you just need to specify

Re: [Dovecot] Enabling security on POP3 and IMAP

2009-09-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
regardless of whether people are access mail.domain, pop3.domain or imap.domain, the hostname mismatch does not occur? Thanks again! Richard. Richard Hobbs wrote: Hello, Sorry people - my problem is actually the opposite of what I wrote below... POP3 gives no encryption options whatsoever

Re: [Dovecot] Enabling security on POP3 and IMAP

2009-09-24 Thread Richard Hobbs
been generated during the installation process and are therefore unique? If they are unique, then I don't need to generate my own, perhaps? Thanks again, Richard. Christian Schmidt wrote: Hello Richard, Richard Hobbs, 10.09.2009 (d.m.y): Thanks for the advice - how do i generate ssl cert

Re: [Dovecot] Enabling security on POP3 and IMAP

2009-09-10 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Replies inline... Patrick Nagel wrote: Hi Richard, On 2009-09-03 16:38, Richard Hobbs wrote: Currently, on our new test server, I am offering IMAP on 143 and POP3 on 110. We would like to enable security on both of these protocols to attempt to eliminate the risk from

[Dovecot] Enabling security on POP3 and IMAP

2009-09-03 Thread Richard Hobbs
a choice of whether they want security or not? I know that's a bit weird, but for testing it would be useful. Finally, is there a way to monitor which users are connecting over the secure ports and which users are connecting over the non-secure ports? Thanks in advance! Richard. -- Richard

Re: [Dovecot] More Migration Questions

2009-08-17 Thread Richard Hobbs
their mail again and duplicate it! Anyway... i'm glad i've found the problem, even if it does make the migration a little annoying! :-) Regards, Richard. Richard Hobbs wrote: Hello, We've also tried setting the size of the msgs to be the same, just in case that made a difference. Here

[Dovecot] More Migration Questions

2009-08-14 Thread Richard Hobbs
/mail but the exim service is stopped because i'm migrating, and dovecot 1.1 is installed but stopped, and has had no configuration done to it yet whatsoever. So... any advice? Thanks in advance! Richard. -- Richard Hobbs (IT Specialist) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Cambridge Research Laboratory

Re: [Dovecot] More Migration Questions

2009-08-14 Thread Richard Hobbs
? Thanks again! Richard. Timo Sirainen wrote: On Aug 14, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Richard Hobbs wrote: Where should i convert my mbox mailboxes into? /home/username/Maildir/ or /somewhere/maildirs/? Does it actually matter? Is there a standard location that they *should* go? It doesn't matter

Re: [Dovecot] More Migration Questions

2009-08-14 Thread Richard Hobbs
on here... both now have the same X-UIDL, but are being downloaded separately! So... does anyone have any ideas? Thanks again! Richard. Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 15:39 +, Richard Hobbs wrote: That's better actually, you don't then have to add those ~/mail/ compabilitity

Re: [Dovecot] More Migration Questions

2009-08-14 Thread Richard Hobbs
-UIDL header towards the end of the headers, and the new server puts the X-UIDL header right at the top above all other headers. Does anyone know what on earth is going on here? Thanks again! Richard. Richard Hobbs wrote: Hello, Thanks again - your reply will help greatly. I have a rather

Re: [Dovecot] enourmous amount of disc writes

2009-06-15 Thread Richard Hobbs
dapper is very old perhaps try hardy then retest, i run 2000 users on suse with dovecot 1.0.15 and mysql on sata 3ware hardware raid 1 500 GB on ext3 without any problems -- Richard Hobbs (IT Specialist) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Cambridge Research Laboratory Email: richard.ho

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-21 Thread Richard Hobbs
pod wrote: Richard Hobbs richard.ho...@crl.toshiba.co.uk writes: 19. Once everything is working perfectly, send an email to the entire company instructing them what to do after the outage and arrange an outage and do the following steps as soon as the outage begins: a. Unplug DMZ

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-20 Thread Richard Hobbs
AM, Richard Hobbs richard.ho...@crl.toshiba.co.uk wrote: Seth Mattinen wrote: Richard Hobbs wrote: Seth Mattinen wrote: Phillip Macey wrote: On 14/05/2009 5:11 PM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2009, Richard Hobbs wrote: The main complaint we have from users is that their IMAP Inbox

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-15 Thread Richard Hobbs
is the way forward for us, which delivery method should we use in exim? exim can support maildir, (right?) and so can dovecot, so should i use dovecot's deliver mechanism, or exim's own internal mechanism? Thanks again! Richard. -- Richard Hobbs (IT Specialist) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-15 Thread Richard Hobbs
Seth Mattinen wrote: Phillip Macey wrote: On 14/05/2009 5:11 PM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2009, Richard Hobbs wrote: The main complaint we have from users is that their IMAP Inbox, with 5000 emails in it takes ages to appear, and no amount of coaxing will convince them to split

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-15 Thread Richard Hobbs
Seth Mattinen wrote: Richard Hobbs wrote: Curtis Maloney wrote: Phillip Macey wrote: Oh, we serve Maildir via Dovecot IMAP and 5000 messages per folder are a wimp. Problems start if the user: We are having some performancec issues on our server at the moment - all I can put it down

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-15 Thread Richard Hobbs
Seth Mattinen wrote: Richard Hobbs wrote: Seth Mattinen wrote: Phillip Macey wrote: On 14/05/2009 5:11 PM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2009, Richard Hobbs wrote: The main complaint we have from users is that their IMAP Inbox, with 5000 emails in it takes ages to appear

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-13 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hi All, Replies to everyone below (to keep the number of emails down)... Ed W wrote: Richard Hobbs wrote: Hi All, We are soon to migrate our mail server from one piece of hardware to another and we would like to take this opportunity to optimize things. Can I recommend you add

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-13 Thread Richard Hobbs
Timo Sirainen wrote: On May 13, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Richard Hobbs wrote: Depends on the usage, but it's significantly better performing than UW-IMAP. Dovecot+mbox is also significantly faster than UW-IMAP+mbox. OK... so Dovecot is certainly significantly faster that uw-imapd in both cases

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-12 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 15:05 +, Richard Hobbs wrote: Hi All, We are soon to migrate our mail server from one piece of hardware to another and we would like to take this opportunity to optimize things. As a result, we would like to replace uw-imapd and qpopper

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-12 Thread Richard Hobbs
Sorry people - i'm replying to my own email again... my reply is below! Richard Hobbs wrote: Hello, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 15:05 +, Richard Hobbs wrote: Hi All, We are soon to migrate our mail server from one piece of hardware to another and we would like to take

[Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-11 Thread Richard Hobbs
mailboxes before people connect, so the task is already done by the time the outage is over. 10. Give staff access to new speedy mail server! Thanks in advance, people - any help is greatly appreciated! :-) Richard. -- Richard Hobbs (IT Specialist) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Cambridge

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-11 Thread Richard Hobbs
again, people... :-) Richard. Richard Hobbs wrote: Hi All, We are soon to migrate our mail server from one piece of hardware to another and we would like to take this opportunity to optimize things. As a result, we would like to replace uw-imapd and qpopper with dovecot. The version we