Re: [Dovecot] Processing too fast?

2007-05-15 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 14:56 -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Is Dovecot grabbing the file from new and moving it to cur faster than ASSP can write? Possible, if it uses inotify there. How can I get around this? ASSP only allows for a folder to save each category to - I can't specify an

Re: [Dovecot] Semi-static userdb...?

2007-05-15 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 15.5.2007, at 5.16, John Robinson wrote: One possibility would be to set uid_file=/vmail/%d gid_file=/ vmail/%d. I guess that would be good. Added to TODO, but I'm not sure when I get around to implementing it. Something like the attached? Otherwise it's OK, but I'd want it to work

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-15 Thread Johannes Berg
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:39 -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote: You can setup a ssh tunnel on the server on any port. The user then sets up to connect to that port. The authentication can be done anyway you want, or not at all. We're not talking ssh logins to the server, we're talking ssh

Re: [Dovecot] Question: contention with blackberry

2007-05-15 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 14.5.2007, at 23.09, Stewart Dean wrote: My production imap is currently UWIMAP with mbox.. One of the problems commonly observed is mailbox lock loss, which happens when: a) a VIP has multiple secretaries accessing a single mailbox (actually, they are professional enough to have figured

Re: [Dovecot] maildir_file_do(/var/admhome/user/Maildir) racing

2007-05-15 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 14.5.2007, at 17.54, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: One, just one (!) of our users gets: May 14 16:47:17 postamt dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=username, method=PLAIN, rip=141.42.x.y, lip=ip.of.the.server May 14 16:47:17 postamt dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=username, method=PLAIN,

Re: [Dovecot] maildir_file_do(/var/admhome/user/Maildir) racing

2007-05-15 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This happens at every login? I thought I'd never see this racing error. I found the reason: The User had a symlink in his $HOME/Maildir/cur, which pointed to a NON-existing file :( Courier-IMAP ignored that, dovecot bailed out. I removed the bogus

Re: [Dovecot] maildir_file_do(/var/admhome/user/Maildir) racing

2007-05-15 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 11:48 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This happens at every login? I thought I'd never see this racing error. I found the reason: The User had a symlink in his $HOME/Maildir/cur, which pointed to a NON-existing file :( I've

Re: [Dovecot] maildir_file_do(/var/admhome/user/Maildir) racing

2007-05-15 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've changed Dovecot's behavior now also: x fetch * body imap(tss): Error: Maildir: Symlink destination doesn't exist: /home/tss/Maildir/cur/dgdgd * 40 FETCH (BODY (text plain NIL NIL NIL 7bit 0 0 NIL NIL NIL)) x OK Fetch completed. So it logs an

Re: [Dovecot] maildir_file_do(/var/admhome/user/Maildir) racing

2007-05-15 Thread Stephan Holl
Hello Ralf, Ralf Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED], [20070515 - 12:37:36] * Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've changed Dovecot's behavior now also: x fetch * body imap(tss): Error: Maildir: Symlink destination doesn't exist: /home/tss/Maildir/cur/dgdgd * 40 FETCH (BODY (text plain

Re: [Dovecot] maildir_file_do(/var/admhome/user/Maildir) racing

2007-05-15 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Stephan Holl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are you willing to elaborate a bit about your setup, hardware, config, etc? This would be good to know what mailsystem is behind that values :-) Debian/testing, hand-rolled 2.6.21.1-NOHZ-SMP kernel The users are stored in /etc/passwd (for historical reasons

Re: [Dovecot] Refreshing Dovecot

2007-05-15 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Mon, 14 May 2007 15:39:45 -0400 Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I've made configuration changes, is there a way to refresh...without killing and restartingDovecot? kill -HUP pid =or= killall -HUP dovecot Postfix has a reload option... May I suggest the

Re: [Dovecot] Refreshing Dovecot

2007-05-15 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tue, 15 May 2007 10:24:36 -0400 Marshal Newrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Postfix has a reload option... May I suggest the same for dovecot? The dovecot init script may well have a reload option which HUPs dovecot. In FreeBSD, all you need to do is add the 'restart' flag to the

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-15 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:39 -0500, Eric Rostetter wrote: You can setup a ssh tunnel on the server on any port. The user then sets up to connect to that port. The authentication can be done anyway you want, or not at all. We're not talking ssh logins

[Dovecot] Why is direct invocation of dovecot preferred over inet inclusion?

2007-05-15 Thread Stewart Dean
I'm used to putting things in inetd and, 1) should dovecot crash, I'd think it would get restarted if it was invoked from inet's imap-login 2) it would get started well after the boot ...wouldn't that be preferable. Enlighten me, please -- Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson

Re: [Dovecot] Why is direct invocation of dovecot preferred over inet inclusion?

2007-05-15 Thread Udo Rader
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stewart Dean wrote: I'm used to putting things in inetd and, 1) should dovecot crash, I'd think it would get restarted if it was invoked from inet's imap-login 2) it would get started well after the boot ...wouldn't that be preferable. Enlighten

[Dovecot] Getting rid of the common newbie problems

2007-05-15 Thread Timo Sirainen
I think the most common Dovecot newbie problems are: - Not looking at the (correct) logs for errors - Authentication problems - Mail location problems - Mail permission problems Below are some of my ideas how I could stop people from asking these questions with future Dovecot (v1.1+)

Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird or Dovecot bug? (multiple keywords)

2007-05-15 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 11:50 -0700, Troy Engel wrote: Session: a) add $Label1 b) add $Label2 c) select INBOX.Drafts d) select INBOX e) remove $Label2 f) remove $Label1 Alas, I can't spot where the problem is in the conversation; can I zip up both logs and send to you? (they're pretty

Re: [Dovecot] Deliver sending bounces from 'MAILER-DAEMON@'

2007-05-15 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:22 +0200, Erland Nylend wrote: Hello Timo, On 2007-05-11, 16:18, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 12:49 +0200, Erland Nylend wrote: | Apr 24 11:42:08 smtp2 postfix/qmgr[6176]: 05BAE3B67E: from=, size=3055, nrcpt=1 (queue active) | Apr 24 11:42:08

[Dovecot] deleted Messages don't go into Trash Folder always

2007-05-15 Thread Rainer Sigl
Hi all, most of the time deleted messages aren't moved into trash folder but go into nirwana. Sometimes it works correctly. But a restart does not guarantee this function. This effect exists with different imap clients. Can anybody help please. Rainer Sigl -- - Rainer Sigl,