[Dovecot] --exec-mail

2010-11-11 Thread David Woodhouse
Most of my IMAP access is achieved by 'ssh $mailhost exec dovecot --exec-mail imap'. I'm testing Dovecot 2.0, and this doesn't seem to work any more — and I can't seem to work out how to make it work. The wiki page at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 has no mention of it. I looked through t

Re: [Dovecot] --exec-mail

2010-11-11 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 01:52 +, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Once upon a time in the dim and distant past, I believe I used to > > run /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap directly. But that doesn't set the > > environment up correctly, so isn't the right way to do it... is it? > > > Nowadays it does. Ah,

Re: [Dovecot] Best way to move mail to an archive

2010-12-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 12:21 -0500, Richard C. Cox wrote: > I'd like to archive e-mail as it ages into a > single IMAP archive directory. Ideally, I would like to set up a cron job to > search for e-mail in all of my imap directories that older that 'X' days and > move it to the archive director

Re: [Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

2011-01-13 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 09:53 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > I just replaced my drives for Dovecot using Maildir format with a pair > of Solid State Drives (SSD) in a raid 0 configuration. It's really > really fast. Kind of expensive but it's like getting 20x the speed for > 20x the price. I think th

Re: [Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

2011-01-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 20:19 +0100, Steve wrote: > > I would not use MLC in a server environment. SLC has much better > program/erase cycles per cell. I wouldn't be overly worried about the underlying medium. I'm more worried about the translation layer they use on top of it, to make it pretend t

Re: [Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

2011-01-17 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 10:41 +, Ed W wrote: > > > One of the systems to fail was a firewall running off SSD. > > SSD or CF? That doesn't make a lot of difference. They're all broadly similar. There are better devices and worse devices, but they're mostly crap. And as I said earlier, even if

[Dovecot] Dovecot git mirror

2010-07-05 Thread David Woodhouse
I've been working on Evolution's 'imapx' back end to support QRESYNC, and was going to look at NOTIFY next. Then I realised I may have to look at implementing it on the server side first. Before I can even contemplate that, though, I had to mirror it into git. I've always resisted the one-version-

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot git mirror

2010-07-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 11:55 +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: > I had planned on leaving NOTIFY until I get mailbox list indexes > implemented > (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-December/045480.html), > otherwise it's going to be annoyingly inefficient. Of course, feel free > to implement an ine

[Dovecot] UID FETCH returns results outside requested range

2010-07-12 Thread David Woodhouse
00 SELECT INBOX * OK [CLOSED] Previous mailbox closed. * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft Junk $Label1 $Label2 $Label3 $Label4 $Label5 receipt-handled NotJunk NonJunk $MDNSent $has_cal unknown-6 OldNotJunk $Forwarded) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft J

Re: [Dovecot] UID FETCH returns results outside requested range

2010-07-12 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 13:58 +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 13:51 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > 01 UID FETCH 152280:* (UID) > > * always matches the last message. Ah, thanks. I hadn't realised that the 'start' and 'end' of a ran

[Dovecot] 1.2.13 QRESYNC crash.

2010-08-18 Thread David Woodhouse
Aug 18 22:07:31 twosheds IMAP(dwmw2): : Panic: file mail-index-transaction.c: line 637 (mail_index_transaction_lookup): assertion failed: (seq >= t->first_new_seq && seq <= t->last_new_seq) * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREA

Re: [Dovecot] \" character in folder name results in strange LIST

2010-08-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:48 +0200, Samuel Kvasnica wrote: > This is a very nasty mess. If there are some ancient clients like pine > or whatever we used on vt100 in the 90th that need broken LIST command, > there should be a workaround setting for that. Hey! I still use pine. With mouse-in-xterm

Re: [Dovecot] \" character in folder name results in strange LIST

2010-08-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 23:36 +0200, Samuel Kvasnica wrote: > Well, it looks like at least Thunderbird v3.1.2 is buggy then. Are there > any non-buggy clients anyway ...? Evolution (>=2.30.2) with the imapx back end gets it right. I know this because I fixed it myself a few weeks ago.

Re: [Dovecot] 1.2.13 QRESYNC crash.

2010-08-19 Thread David Woodhouse
e looked at it, we'll include sequences N-9, N-27, N-81, N-243, N-729, etc. in the QRESYNC request. Does that seem reasonable? -- David WoodhouseOpen Source Technology Centre david.woodho...@intel.com Intel Corporation

Re: [Dovecot] 1.2.13 QRESYNC crash.

2010-08-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 18:37 +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 22:27 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Aug 18 22:07:31 twosheds IMAP(dwmw2): : Panic: file > > mail-index-transaction.c: > > line 637 (mail_index_transaction_lookup): assertion faile

Re: [Dovecot] 1.2.13 QRESYNC crash.

2010-08-23 Thread David Woodhouse
with older versions of Dovecot, even though QRESYNC support is optional. -- David WoodhouseOpen Source Technology Centre david.woodho...@intel.com Intel Corporation

Re: [Dovecot] 1.2.13 QRESYNC crash.

2010-08-26 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 18:04 +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:33 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > And thanks for not (yet) making it reject the invalid command with the > > 1:* in it > > I changed it in v2.0. > > > -- I'll need to

Re: [Dovecot] 1.2.13 QRESYNC crash.

2010-08-26 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:02 +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 14:32 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > Or if you want flags for messages you haven't even seen yet, > > > 1:4294967295 should work too. > > > > 1:4294967295 doesn't

Re: [Dovecot] \" character in folder name results in strange LIST

2010-09-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 22:48 +0200, Samuel Kvasnica wrote: > most cell phones simply haven't got any ssh > terminal but have own IMAP clients. Any J2ME-capable phone has an SSH client: http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/ My experience of the native IMAP clients in phones has been extremely poor. My N97

Re: [Dovecot] \" character in folder name results in strange LIST

2010-09-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 23:30 +0200, Samuel Kvasnica wrote: > > Well, David, if evolution was not such an instable beast... we did few > evaluations from openSuSE10.3 up to 11.2 recently, > and it was a no-go, except for basic imap usage. As soon as more > connectors/plugins are involved, it is a ni

[Dovecot] How to exec /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap with specific maildir location

2013-04-09 Thread David Woodhouse
Once upon a time I could configure my mailer to access my historical archives by running something like ssh $mailserver MAIL=maildir:~/Maildir-archive dovecot --exec-mail imap I need to run /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap manually now, and I've fixed that a while ago for my normal email access. But I'

Re: [Dovecot] How to exec /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap with specific maildir location

2013-04-09 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 18:44 +0100, Ben Morrow wrote: > /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap -o mail_location=maildir:~/Maildir-archive Perfect. Thank you. -- dwmw2 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature