RE: Users with enough rope to hang themselves

2024-04-10 Thread Marc via dovecot
> > This is ... bug like. > > The user moves a folder inside another, the resulting path exceeds the > maximum length, the folder's content is no longer accessible, the user > complains. I don't think this is a bad idea. If this is really the issue. > Double trouble. The user proceeded to

Re: Users with enough rope to hang themselves

2024-04-09 Thread Rupert Gallagher via dovecot
This is ... bug like. The user moves a folder inside another, the resulting path exceeds the maximum length, the folder's content is no longer accessible, the user complains. Double trouble. The user proceeded to move the parent folder. Most subfolders moved as requested. Those whose path

Re: [EXT] RE: Users with enough rope to hang themselves

2024-04-05 Thread Aki Tuomi via dovecot
> On 05/04/2024 12:36 EEST Marc wrote: > > > > > > breaking the mail index > > > > > > Tangentially query: is Dveocot smart enough to optimize mailbox > > renaming > > > to do index renaming (i.e. does not try to copy or recreate indices)? > > > > > > > Dovecot is, if you use

RE: Users with enough rope to hang themselves

2024-04-05 Thread Marc via dovecot
> > > breaking the mail index > > > > Tangentially query: is Dveocot smart enough to optimize mailbox > renaming > > to do index renaming (i.e. does not try to copy or recreate indices)? > > > > Dovecot is, if you use LAYOUT=index. This will use only mailbox GUID on > disk, and the folder name

Re: Users with enough rope to hang themselves

2024-04-04 Thread Rupert Gallagher via dovecot
Original Message On Apr 4, 2024, 14:02, Marc < m...@f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote: > > Also autodiscovery for external (as in, not Microsoft/Apple) mail is being frustrated. Apple Mail on iPhones is currently ignoring autodiscovery and forcing their own smtp server, breaking DMARC.

RE: Users with enough rope to hang themselves

2024-04-04 Thread Marc
> > It was a constant pain ... Finally resolved by migrating them to MS-365. > Maybe dovecot would be more forgiving, but we did not dare to try. That is why these fuckers of Apple and Microsoft are doing it, and these morons at EU market abuse commissions don't get it, don't read complaints.

Re: Users with enough rope to hang themselves

2024-04-04 Thread Aki Tuomi via dovecot
> On 04/04/2024 03:15 EEST Joseph Tam wrote: > > > Rupert Gallagher writes: > > > I keep finding myself in a corner with a user. He uses mail extensively, > > which > > is fine, he has a huge archive of own professional correspondence, which is > > fine, but he uses mail folders as if they

Re: Users with enough rope to hang themselves

2024-04-04 Thread Vladislav Kurz
I keep finding myself in a corner with a user. He uses mail extensively, which is fine, he has a huge archive of own professional correspondence, which is fine, but he uses mail folders as if they were regular system folders, with very long paths, and keeps renaming them and moving them

RE: Users with enough rope to hang themselves

2024-04-04 Thread Marc
> > > I keep finding myself in a corner with a user. He uses mail > extensively, which > > is fine, he has a huge archive of own professional correspondence, > which is > > fine, but he uses mail folders as if they were regular system folders, > with > > very long paths, and keeps renaming them

Re: Users with enough rope to hang themselves

2024-04-03 Thread Joseph Tam
Rupert Gallagher writes: > I keep finding myself in a corner with a user. He uses mail extensively, which > is fine, he has a huge archive of own professional correspondence, which is > fine, but he uses mail folders as if they were regular system folders, with > very long paths, and keeps

Re: Users with enough rope to hang themselves

2024-04-03 Thread Rupert Gallagher via dovecot
I forgot... 3. dovecot writes folders like any other program, that is, instead of writing /.../folder.subfolder.subsubfolder/ it just writes /.../folder/subfolder/subsubfolder/ Original Message On Apr 3, 2024, 22:15, Rupert Gallagher < r...@protonmail.com> wrote: Hello, I

Users with enough rope to hang themselves

2024-04-03 Thread Rupert Gallagher via dovecot
Hello, I keep finding myself in a corner with a user. He uses mail extensively, which is fine, he has a huge archive of own professional correspondence, which is fine, but he uses mail folders as if they were regular system folders, with very long paths, and keeps renaming them and moving them