[Dovecot] Dovecot failed logins delay all logins

2012-10-17 Thread Dominic Malolepszy
Hi all, I have observed with my Dovecot setup that unique failed logins cause legitimate correct logins to be slowed. I am running two servers, each with two Dovecot instances, a Proxy with Director, and a backend Dovecot. I suspect that the backend instance is throttling connections from the

[Dovecot] dovecot died

2012-10-17 Thread Hendrik
Hi All I have been trying to get this website running for months now. I get this emails from cpanel and don't know how to fix it. If anyone can help me please contact me at pipe...@mweb.co.za. Kind regards Hendrik imap failed @ Fri Oct 12 05:51:18 2012. A restart was attempted

Re: [Dovecot] Difference between Indexing and Rescan in FTS

2012-10-17 Thread Fred Kilbourn
-Original Message- From: dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo Sirainen Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 10:16 PM To: Fred Kilbourn Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Difference between Indexing and Rescan in FTS On

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot failed logins delay all logins

2012-10-17 Thread Dominic Malolepszy
I think I found a solution to this thanks to a post by Timo here: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-December/062631.html service anvil { unix_listener anvil-auth-penalty { mode = 0 } } On 17/10/12 17:11, Dominic Malolepszy wrote: Hi all, I have observed with my Dovecot setup that unique

Re: [Dovecot] CAS Authentication

2012-10-17 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El 16/10/12 20:12, b m escribió: Thanks for the reply. I have already tried successfully the setup without proxing the cas tickets and setting dovecot to login with a master password. The problem is that I need a password file with all the users and also I need the proxy feature for other

Re: [Dovecot] Per user quotas

2012-10-17 Thread David Travers
Hi Jake, Yep, similar to what I had been trying, but it doesn't seem to be working. In my /etc/passwd file I had the line:- dave:x:1000:1000:David Travers,,,:/home/dave:/bin/bash I have changed it to show:- dave:x:1000:1000:David Travers,,,:/home/dave:/bin/bash:userdb_quota_rule=*:storage=100M

Re: [Dovecot] LMTP userdb lookup

2012-10-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-10-16 4:57 PM, l...@airstreamcomm.net l...@airstreamcomm.net wrote: Doveconf -n: # 2.1.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Ummm... latest is 2.1.10... try upgrading again... ;)

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot died

2012-10-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-10-17 2:26 AM, Hendrik pipe...@mweb.co.za wrote: 05:47:27 scene dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 35 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards Presumably this is on a shared hosting service,

[Dovecot] Marking all mail in one folder of public mailbox as read

2012-10-17 Thread Frerich Raabe
Hi, I'm running Dovecot 1.2.17 on FreeBSD 9 to serve an archive of a few internal mailinglists. The archive is implemented using a public namespace: namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } namespace public { separator = / prefix = Lists/ location =

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot failed logins delay all logins

2012-10-17 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/17/2012 1:44 AM, Dominic Malolepszy wrote: I think I found a solution to this thanks to a post by Timo here: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-December/062631.html service anvil { unix_listener anvil-auth-penalty { mode = 0 } } You can also leave IP based penalties and set your

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot died

2012-10-17 Thread Jack Bates
Read the wiki that was linked. It could be anything from ntpd/OS/hardware bug. It isn't uncommon for there to be TSC timing issues as well. I have a cutting edge server that has a bug that breaks TSC and causes timing issues. Luckily, my OS is relatively good at not stepping backwards in time.

Re: [Dovecot] Per user quotas

2012-10-17 Thread Jack Bates
My recommendation is that you use Passwd-file instead of Passwd and specify /etc/passwd. I mention this, as Passwd can use NSS and may not give you the results you want. Passwd-file will guarantee you use the /etc/passwd file. Also, I'm not as familiar with v1.x, but I know in v2.1.10, a

Re: [Dovecot] how to best import Evolution/Thunderbird mail into dovecot?

2012-10-17 Thread Dennis Guhl
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 01:21:14AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hi. [..] First thing I tried was to simply copy mail within Evolution (i.e. draggingdropping it from the local folders to the IMAP folders from dovecot). This seems to be the smartest idea. - that preserves the

Re: [Dovecot] how to best import Evolution/Thunderbird mail into dovecot?

2012-10-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 16:51 +0200, Dennis Guhl wrote: First thing I tried was to simply copy mail within Evolution (i.e. draggingdropping it from the local folders to the IMAP folders from dovecot). This seems to be the smartest idea. Well as I've mentioned... on looses the info in the

Re: [Dovecot] how to best import Evolution/Thunderbird mail into dovecot?

2012-10-17 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 07:57:38PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 16:51 +0200, Dennis Guhl wrote: First thing I tried was to simply copy mail within Evolution (i.e. draggingdropping it from the local folders to the IMAP folders from dovecot). This

Re: [Dovecot] how to best import Evolution/Thunderbird mail into dovecot?

2012-10-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 13:12 -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote: Well as I've mentioned... on looses the info in the From_ lines (that is the RCPT TO address and the date of arrival) because Evolution does not correctly migrated them (actually I'm not sure whether IMAP would allow that). Perhaps

Re: [Dovecot] how to best import Evolution/Thunderbird mail into dovecot?

2012-10-17 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:21:47PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 13:12 -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote: Did you mention whether or not you're using maildir? The reason is mainly that I have gazillions of mail in a ~ 60 GB archive... even with an fs optimised for

[Dovecot] Dsync clustering

2012-10-17 Thread l...@airstreamcomm.net
I have not seen mention of using dsync for clustering Dovecot in some time on the mailing list, but I believe Timo was going to write a wiki page when v2.2 became more mature. Does this documentation exist yet, or are there any resources on what dsync replication is capable of at this point

[Dovecot] Disconnected for inactivity time.

2012-10-17 Thread Robert JR
Hello, After 10 mins of unactivity of pop3 , dovecot disconnect the user (-ERR Disconnected for inactivity.) What is the option in the config file which control the unactivity logout time ? becuase i want to decrease the inactivity time To 5 mins instead of 10 mins Please advise Robert

Re: [Dovecot] Disconnected for inactivity time.

2012-10-17 Thread Michael M Slusarz
Quoting Robert JR roundcube...@alaadin.org: After 10 mins of unactivity of pop3 , dovecot disconnect the user (-ERR Disconnected for inactivity.) What is the option in the config file which control the unactivity logout time ? becuase i want to decrease the inactivity time To 5 mins

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot sieve and duplicate email subjects

2012-10-17 Thread Stephan Bosch
On 8/27/2012 12:40 PM, Benjamin Thomas wrote: I was wondering if it's possible to gracefully handle duplicate subjects lines (within a given time frame) with sieve filters ? Ideally, I would like the first email of the day with subject AutoAlert Type1... to get moved to the subfolder given

[Dovecot] Problems with Virtual and mail-search.c

2012-10-17 Thread Levent Dane
First, I don't know why but dovecot gots this error. Oct 15 13:24:02 widder dovecot: imap(limon): Panic: file mail-search.c: line 90 (mail_search_args_init_sub): assertion failed: (arg-value.keywords == NULL) Then, when I tried to run SELECT INBOX/Code (UNSEEN) virtual plugin got a segfault.

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2012-10-17 Thread Fasil
Thanks Frank. Followed the URL and could not find any luck. Is there a way to change the value of 'max open files' of dovecot. I have tried to set the value in /etc/default/dovecot by setting ulimit. But the value is not getting applied. Could anyone help on this regard. Fasil. On 08/16/2012

Re: [Dovecot] Disconnected for inactivity time.

2012-10-17 Thread Joseph Tam
Robert JR writes: After 10 mins of unactivity of pop3 , dovecot disconnect the user (-ERR Disconnected for inactivity.) What is the option in the config file which control the unactivity logout time ? becuase i want to decrease the inactivity time To 5 mins instead of 10 mins Looks like

[Dovecot] dovecot-core, dovecot-mysql for Debian squeeze

2012-10-17 Thread Ricardo
Hello list apologize in advance for my bad English, this is the first time I write to a list if I mistake Excuse me I want to implement mail server with MySQL database, Postfix and Postfixadmin, dovecot-core, dovecot-mysql dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d for multiple domains. I have problems

Re: [Dovecot] how to best import Evolution/Thunderbird mail into dovecot?

2012-10-17 Thread Rick Sanders
Your best bet for a clean migration is to use an IMAP migration tool (assuming both of your servers support IMAP). It avoids all of the issues surrounding the underlying databases used to store the mailboxes and messages since everything is done through IMAP commands. There are lots of different

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

2012-10-17 Thread Jack Bates
I'm using RHEL6 instead of ubuntu, but check the startup scripts. In RHEL's case, the following file is sourced, so I updated it instead of the startup scripts. cat /etc/sysconfig/dovecot # Here you can specify your dovecot command line options. # #OPTIONS= ulimit -n 4096 ulimit -u 5120 In

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-core, dovecot-mysql for Debian squeeze

2012-10-17 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/17/2012 6:47 PM, Ricardo wrote: to install dovecot-core, dovecot-mysql, install it without problems is the version (2.1.7-2 ~ bpo60 +1) of both packages, now wanting to install dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d (version 1.2.15-7) breaks the dovecot-core, dovecot-mysql, apparently must be the

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with Virtual and mail-search.c

2012-10-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 18.10.2012, at 1.40, Levent Dane wrote: First, I don't know why but dovecot gots this error. Oct 15 13:24:02 widder dovecot: imap(limon): Panic: file mail-search.c: line 90 (mail_search_args_init_sub): assertion failed: (arg-value.keywords == NULL) Then, when I tried to run SELECT

Re: [Dovecot] Dsync clustering

2012-10-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 17.10.2012, at 22.27, l...@airstreamcomm.net wrote: I have not seen mention of using dsync for clustering Dovecot in some time on the mailing list, but I believe Timo was going to write a wiki page when v2.2 became more mature. Does this documentation exist yet, or are there any

Re: [Dovecot] Per user quotas

2012-10-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
Correct, except I wouldn't go modifying /etc/passwd directly in any case. Other software besides Dovecot might not like it. Better to create a whole new /etc/dovecot/passwd or something. On 17.10.2012, at 16.44, Jack Bates wrote: My recommendation is that you use Passwd-file instead of Passwd

Re: [Dovecot] Difference between Indexing and Rescan in FTS

2012-10-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 17.10.2012, at 9.26, Fred Kilbourn wrote: doveadm fts rescan makes sure that 1) all of the old messages are indexed and 2) there are no extra (already deleted) messages indexed. So it's basically repairing fts index. You probably shouldn't run it automatically, or at least not very often.

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir hardlinks

2012-10-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 16.10.2012, at 10.11, Benedetto Vassallo wrote: What are the permissions of the MailDir directory for user1/user2? ls -ld /home/user1/MailDir ls -ld /home/user2/MailDir Thank you for your reply. They are different groups: drwxr-xr-x 9 user1 grp1 4096 15 ott 14:52

Re: [Dovecot] real_rip variable addition for dovecot 2.1.10

2012-10-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 16.10.2012, at 23.43, Jack Bates wrote: Please check the code. I didn't add it, but a real_lip might be useful for some people as well. Also, I notice that pop3-proxy is doing a different xsession than the imap proxy. Is there an xsession standard that is different between the two, or

Re: [Dovecot] Marking all mail in one folder of public mailbox as read

2012-10-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 17.10.2012, at 15.44, Frerich Raabe wrote: I'm running Dovecot 1.2.17 on FreeBSD 9 to serve an archive of a few internal mailinglists. The archive is implemented using a public namespace: namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes } namespace public { separator =

Re: [Dovecot] lmtp proxy logging

2012-10-17 Thread Jack Bates
Timo, How do you feel about parent pointers in child structures? I'm curious as the proxy structure is passed the input channel, but it doesn't know much else about the input client. Rather than pass additional information in the structure, I think it'd be better to just place a pointer back

Re: [Dovecot] lmtp proxy logging

2012-10-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 18.10.2012, at 6.48, Jack Bates wrote: How do you feel about parent pointers in child structures? I'm curious as the proxy structure is passed the input channel, but it doesn't know much else about the input client. Rather than pass additional information in the structure, I think it'd