Re: Filesystem level backups?

2018-04-09 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 2018-04-09 00:55, schrieb Steve Atkins: Will a simple backup of all the files of an multi-dbox give me a consistent state when I recover, or do I need to do something (e.g. lock writes to the mailbox) while I run a backup? If you are doing this backup with a fully operational mail storage:

Re: Containerize dovecot?

2021-08-25 Thread Marc Stürmer
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Re: Good email client to use with Dovecot?

2016-11-17 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 2016-11-17 08:48, schrieb Steve Litt: When I use an email client, its purpose is as a window into my Dovecot IMAP, and as a mechanism to reply to and send emails. I don't do filtering or calendaring on my email client (filtering via procmail direct to Dovecot). What email clients are all of

Re: Convert from mbox to Maildir

2017-10-14 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von Josef Wolf : Any thougths? Deliver IMHO should be run directly by the MTA, if possible, because being run by procmail you loose the capability of using SIEVE. The dovecot way to convert mailbox formats is the dsync (doveadm sync) command, which is the Swiss army knife for this

Re: btrfs for mail_attachment_dir

2015-02-25 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 25.02.2015 um 12:24 schrieb Hardy Flor: I don't find any indication, that no btrfs for then filesystem for the path in "mail_attachment_dir" is to be used. but btrfs has a big problem with hard links in the same directory. Nuisance is the only deal with a different file system? Btrfs is st

Re: users of dbox format

2015-02-28 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 27.02.2015 um 15:42 schrieb Andreas Kasenides: I am contemplating changing my maildir setup to mdbox but I still need to make a case for it against maildir which has become a de-facto standard and provides sort of a secure basis in case of software changes. Pros of Mdbox: * uses less files,

Re: opening a maildir ?

2015-08-07 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von Kevin Laurie : What would be a convenient way to access all the emails ( I want to go through and download all attachments). So a tool with some GUI will be nice. Thunderbird with spool access. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/attachmentextractor/

Re: Scalability of Dovecot in the Cloud

2016-06-07 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von KT Walrus : Does anyone have any idea of how many IMAP connections a single cloud VM (4 vCores at 2.4GHz, 30GB RAM, local SSD storage - non-RAID) can be expected to handle in production. The mailboxes are fairly small (average 5MB total - 50MB max, as I don’t store attachments i

Re: Advice on once a day message delivery setup

2016-06-08 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von KT Walrus : Just looking for any advice… I kind of like the idea of modeling my mail service after the US Post Office where the mailman delivers new mail once a day rather than like Twitter/Facebook where messages are posted in real time to encourage users to monitor their boxes

Re: an e-mail client for dovecot ?

2016-07-18 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 2016-07-16 10:02, schrieb Spyros Tsiolis: For some years now, I've been using Thunderbird for dovecot. I am not very satisfied with t/b so I thought of using m/s outlook but then I thought that I want to distance my clients from office products. The last somewhat usable Outlook version with

FTS-Solr: indexer-worker does not find mailbox

2014-11-11 Thread Marc Stürmer
Greetings, I am running Dovecot v. 2.2.13 on a Gentoo Box. Mail users are virtual, data for them is stored in a MySQL-DB, Sieve is enabled and deliver is the LDA in conjunction with Postfix. This setup has been running for a few years now without problems, the configuration works. Some wee

Re: stop deletion of mails

2014-11-20 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von Edwardo Garcia : Is possible with dovecot? Legal department have told us we need to stop anyone from delete email on corporate mail server, so nobody, even managers can not anymore delete any mail? You want to use something like e.g. Mailpiler for that task (http://www.mailpiler.

Re: slow incremental indexing of maildirs with squat

2014-11-25 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von vita...@yourcmc.ru: Hi! I'm using Dovecot 2.1.7 on Debian Wheezy 32-bit (package version is 1:2.1.7-7+deb7u1) with maildirs. My problem is that the incremental indexing of maildirs with squat takes a very long time... I don't know if it reindexes anything, but Quoting from th

Re: Awfully slow dovecot

2014-12-26 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 25.12.2014 um 21:07 schrieb Benny Pedersen: >> We’re using dovecot 1.0.7, which seems to be the latest version available on CentOS 5. update to centos 7 if dovecot still not working, report again And if it is then still slow because some people have folders with shitloads of emails, you

Re: Awfully slow dovecot

2014-12-26 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von Benny Pedersen : using dovecot 1.2.17 here with maildir, still have to see performance issues, but yes will move to ssd soon, i will just fix problems that are here, not things that are not a problem, the above will kill my server, so need to have an intel i7 with 25MB L1 cache,

Re: Awfully slow dovecot

2014-12-26 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 26.12.2014 um 17:21 schrieb Nick Edwards: Maildir is fine as long as you don't have too much mail on your storage, but there comes a point when you are getting big enough where Maildir really isn't going to behave really nicely anymore, because too many files and way too many seeks. Mdbox is

Re: Deleting files in sdbox

2014-12-27 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von Jeff Mitchell : I have a script that can find these duplicated messages (by ignoring the first few and last few lines of each message, and using SHAs to compare and find the duplicates). However, I don't see a doveadm style command to manually delete messages, except for doveadm-expung

Disabling compressed storage for one public namespace - is it possible?

2015-01-02 Thread Marc Stürmer
Greetings, I've got Dovecot 2.2.X running with gzip compressed storage enabled by default. My question though is: is it possible to disable this compressed storage for one specific, public namespace only? I haven't found quite much information about it on the wiki. Thanks in advance.

Re: Help with installing Apache Solr with Dovecot 2.2

2015-01-03 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von Kev Lau : Hi, I am relatively new to Apache Solr and I am trying to get it to integrate with Dovecot 2.2 running on Ubuntu 14.04 and needed a little help with configuration. How do you store your user data? Aside that, you should later setup the necessary cronjobs for Solr to run

Re: from Cyrus to Dovecot, seen status on cyrus.index files

2015-01-22 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von Norberto Bensa : Does anyone use cyrus2dovecot for migrations? If so, how do you deal with seen status when it is stored in the .index files? Why don't you use the migration tool that comes with Dovecot bundled instead, namely dsync? It claims to preserve almost virtually everyt

Re: Easiest way to compile dovecot on Ubuntu 14.04

2015-01-22 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von Kevin Laurie : Hello, I need to recompile dovecot on ubuntu 14.04 What would be the easiest way to do this? I am trying to follow this tutorial:- https://blog.vbonhomme.fr/add-full-text-search-fts-to-your-dovecot-using-solr-4-10-on-ubuntu-14-04/ Yes, there is a much, much faster w

Re: Easiest way to compile dovecot on Ubuntu 14.04

2015-01-23 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 23.01.2015 um 08:47 schrieb Kevin Laurie: Dear Marc. Thanks =) Already have dovecot-solr installed. Is there a way to see if dovecot-solr is actually working? Yes. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS/Solr - look there at "Testing." Use a mailbox for it with at least some megabytes of dat

Re: from Cyrus to Dovecot, seen status on cyrus.index files

2015-01-24 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 23.01.2015 um 14:25 schrieb Norberto Bensa: I've used dsync but it's too slow. I see your point, if you need to be able to migrate many big inboxes in a short time span. That's why in Dovecot's mail_location-settings directive you can use the type "auto:" -, like e.g. "mail_location = a

Re: Indexing Mail faster

2015-01-29 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 27.01.2015 um 03:24 schrieb Kevin Laurie: Hi Thomas, That's very interesting. Below is my search result. Any idea why is my result so slow:- Appreciate if you could advise. It depends on a couple of facts. Full text searches must go through a number of bottle necks, depending on your insta