Re: [Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-10 Thread Scott Murman
:06 AM, David Favor wrote: Yes. Be sure to check your rsync version. As I recall the 2.x series has bugs related to this. I had a similar problem on MacOS until I upgraded to 3.0.6 and all is well with ':' on MacOS Ubuntu at this level. Robert Schetterer wrote: Ed W schrieb: Scott Murman

Re: [Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-07 Thread Scott Murman
source is a debian build, share is a readynas. i've been getting rsync: mkstemp 'filename goes here' failed: Not a directory (20) errors. rsync is v3.0. i believe this is related to the dovecot file naming convention that includes characters such as ':' in the filename. anyone else

[Dovecot] backup using rsync

2009-10-05 Thread Scott Murman
i'm trying to backup the dovecot Maildir files over a cifs share. source is a debian build, share is a readynas. i've been getting rsync: mkstemp 'filename goes here' failed: Not a directory (20) errors. rsync is v3.0. i believe this is related to the dovecot file naming convention

[Dovecot] openbsd macppc

2008-07-22 Thread Scott Murman
i run my server (web, email, calendar, etc.) off a mac mini ppc. it's a beautiful thing for our modest needs (quiet, low power, stable), but i'm looking at switching it to a vanilla bsd. has anyone tried dovecot on an openbsd (or similar) install for macppc? -SM-

[Dovecot] IDLE with Leopard Mail

2007-11-07 Thread Scott Murman
imap IDLE is now built into the apple mail client in Leopard (finally!!). anyone looked at compatibility issues with dovecot? -SM-

Re: [Dovecot] OS X Mail Administration

2007-05-16 Thread Scott Murman
I'd appreciate if you'd share with me the directory structure that you use, or would use in my situation. All mail storage will be on the server so disk space is not an issue. I'm a bit confused whether or not to keep the inbox separate from the other imap structure as is the OS X

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP freezing on OSX

2007-05-06 Thread Scott Murman
are you using the dovecot lda, or postfix, or procmail? i've been using dovecot on a PPC mac os x box for quite some time, but had to abandon the dovecot lda because of exactly the problems you describe. i switched to postfix, then procmail, and have not had any problems since. -SM-

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP freezing on OSX

2007-05-06 Thread Scott Murman
Nope, incoming mail is still going through Fetchmail-Postfix- Procmail, unless there's some clever hook into the system after Procmail gets its hands on it that I can't spot (procmail is just set to deliver to a specified maildir folder). Even when Dovecot isn't behaving, mail still