[Dovecot] sieve

2012-05-22 Thread upen 
Hi,
I'd like to keep all emails coming from alom-alert@anydomain and not
forward those but rest of the emails will be kept and forwarded as
well.

I put following in the .dovecot.sieve


if header :contains "Sender" "alom-alert@" {
keep;
if not header :contains "Sender" "alom-alert@" {
redirect "my@emailid on server";
redirect "x...@gmail.com";
redirect "a...@tbc.edu";
stop;
  }
}

Is this correct?

Thanks,
UG

Re: [Dovecot] sieve

2012-05-22 Thread upen 
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Daniel Parthey
 wrote:
> Upendra Gandhi wrote:
>> I'd like to keep all emails coming from alom-alert@anydomain and not
>> forward those but rest of the emails will be kept and forwarded as
>> well.
>>
>> I put following in the .dovecot.sieve
>>
>> if header :contains "Sender" "alom-alert@" {
>> keep;
>> if not header :contains "Sender" "alom-alert@" {
>> redirect "my@emailid on server";
>> redirect "x...@gmail.com";
>> redirect "a...@tbc.edu";
>> stop;
>>   }
>> }
>
> You can find a list of available extensions in Dovecot wiki
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve
> and include such extensions like this:
> require ["fileinto","regex","vacation"];
>
> The nesting of the curly brackets seems to be wrong:
> The inner branch which should trigger the redirects
> will never be reached, since it resides inside of the
> bracket of condition 'if header :contains "Sender" "alom-alert@"'.
>
> I'm thinking of something like this (without having checked syntax):
>
> if header :contains "Sender" "alom-alert@" {
>  keep;
> }
> redirect "my@emailid on server";
> redirect "x...@gmail.com";
> redirect "a...@tbc.edu";
> stop;

Thanks Daniel. It worked flawlessly. I didn't need to add require
statement, script worked even without it.

[Dovecot] version difference understanding

2011-03-04 Thread upen 
Hello,

I am in process of setting up an IMAP server (with postfix SMTP), I
installed RHEL 5.5 on my server and found that version of dovecot is
1.x.x while when I checked online RHEL 6 is version is 2.x.x.

Can someone please tell me if these two versions are still in
development or 1.x.x is very old and must be replaced by 2.x.x
version?

Also are there any special features in 2.x.x or 1.x.x that makes it
better than other?

I see similar things for postfix package but I understand this is not
the place to ask postfix Qns,

Appreciate your help!
~A

Re: [Dovecot] version difference understanding

2011-03-05 Thread upen 
Stan, hi!


On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Stan Hoeppner  wrote:
> upen put forth on 3/4/2011 9:52 PM:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am in process of setting up an IMAP server (with postfix SMTP), I
>> installed RHEL 5.5 on my server and found that version of dovecot is
>> 1.x.x while when I checked online RHEL 6 is version is 2.x.x.
>>
>> Can someone please tell me if these two versions are still in
>> development or 1.x.x is very old and must be replaced by 2.x.x
>> version?
>>
>> Also are there any special features in 2.x.x or 1.x.x that makes it
>> better than other?
>
> You are installing from scratch, thus you should use 2.x.  Yes there are
> new features, and performance is generally better.  You just might want
> to visit:  http://wiki2.dovecot.org/  Early 2.0.x versions had lots of
> bugs so you'll want to get as close to 2.0.10 as possible.
>
>> I see similar things for postfix package but I understand this is not
>> the place to ask postfix Qns,
>
> For RHEL 5.5 use Simon Mudd's Postfix binary RPM:
> http://ftp.wl0.org/official/2.7/RPMS-rhel5-x86_64/postfix-2.7.2-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
>
> If you have RHEL6 available to you, use it, and save yourself a bunch of
> grief trying to get current packages.  It ships with Postfix 2.6.6 which
> is modern enough to fit most, if not all, of your needs.
>
> --
> Stan
>

Thanks so much for such an important and useful piece of information!
Really appreciate your help!

I think we will be able to use RHEL 6 on our server as nothing has
been configured on RHEL 5.5 yet! Thanks for that RPM link for postfix
as well, will be handy if something stops us from reinstalling rhel 6
on the new server.


God bless!
~A




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[Dovecot] maildir location

2011-03-17 Thread upen 
Hello,

I am trying to use dovecot (v. 2.0.11) and postfix (v. 2.7.3)
together.  The email server is an ldap client and user's home
directories on NFS server are mounted using autofs.

As I understand, Maildir performance is better than mbox type, so I'd
like to use Maildir instead of mbox.

However, when I checked conf.d/10-mail.conf file, there is
mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir already configured in it which
means user's email will reside in their home directories on the NFS
server rather than being on Email server's local storage where plenty
of space is available.  I anticipate due to NFS there will again be a
performance hit .

Question : Can I change mail_location for maildir to be somewhere
other than ~/.maildir. ( like /var/mail/%u/Maildir, where /var/mail is
local storage). There are about 200 ldap users who will be using this
email server through squirrel-mail or access them through email
clients.

By the way, I am confused about one setting in postfix : home_mailbox
= .maildir/ in main.cf . Does this really play any role? If so, which
parameter should be changed and to what and with what permissions to
the new directory.

Hope I was able to explain, if not please let me know for more details..

Thanks,
U

Re: [Dovecot] maildir location

2011-03-17 Thread upen 
> If Postfix delivers the mails, rather than Dovecot LDA, then yes you'll
> need to configure Postfix also to deliver correctly. Maybe it would be
> easier to just switch to Dovecot LDA: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA

Thanks Timo for quick confirmation and the link for setting up dovecot as LDA.

I made below changes to postfix's main.cf

mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda ( verified that's
correct location for file)

postfix reload

The changed mail_location as  mail_location = maildir:/localdir/mail/%u

dovecot restart

/var/log/messages shows, below error,

dovecot: pop3(username): Error: user username: Initialization failed:
Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed:
stat(/localdir/mail/username) failed: Permission denied
(euid=1002(username) egid=10(wheel) missing +x perm: /localdir/mail,
euid is not dir owner)

Any idea what is going wrong?

Re: [Dovecot] maildir location

2011-03-17 Thread upen 
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:01 PM, upen  wrote:
>> If Postfix delivers the mails, rather than Dovecot LDA, then yes you'll
>> need to configure Postfix also to deliver correctly. Maybe it would be
>> easier to just switch to Dovecot LDA: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA
>
> Thanks Timo for quick confirmation and the link for setting up dovecot as LDA.
>
> I made below changes to postfix's main.cf
>
> mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda ( verified that's
> correct location for file)
>
> postfix reload
>
> The changed mail_location as  mail_location = maildir:/localdir/mail/%u
>
> dovecot restart
>
> /var/log/messages shows, below error,
>
> dovecot: pop3(username): Error: user username: Initialization failed:
> Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed:
> stat(/localdir/mail/username) failed: Permission denied
> (euid=1002(username) egid=10(wheel) missing +x perm: /localdir/mail,
> euid is not dir owner)
>
> Any idea what is going wrong?

Changed permissions on root directories, don't know if this is secure
or not but it worked. I see cur, tmp, new and other files created
under local storage now.

Set permissions as below,

#ls -ald /localdir
drwxrwxrwx 31 root root 12288 Mar 17 10:48 /localdir/

# ls -ald /localdir/mail
drwxrwxrwx 3 dovecot dovecot 4096 Mar 17 10:49 /localdir/mail

mkdir /localdir/mail/username
chown username:group  /localdir/mail/username
chmod 700  /localdir/mail/username


Do you think it is okay to keep these perms ?

Re: [Dovecot] maildir location

2011-03-17 Thread upen 
>
> If you expect to have any folders with lots of messages, I would use
> mdbox rather than Maildir. NFS tends to have performance problems with
> lots of small files, and Maildir uses one file per message, where mdbox
> has a sort of compromise between lots of files and the huge files that
> mbox creates.

Thanks Patrick.

OK.  back to zero again. Now this is new piece of information for me
which tell me that mdbox is better than Maildir format for emails on
NFS.

 Question: Which is best format to go with in general, maildir or
mdbox? . We really don't want users to use their NFS HOME directories
for storing and accessing their emails. Even if they create any imap
folder that should also get created on email server's local storage
either in Maildir format or the new format mdbox which I've just heard
about.

Re: [Dovecot] maildir location

2011-03-17 Thread upen 
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Jim Knuth  wrote:
> am 17.03.11 22:33 schrieb upen :
>
>>>
>>> If you expect to have any folders with lots of messages, I would use
>>> mdbox rather than Maildir. NFS tends to have performance problems with
>>> lots of small files, and Maildir uses one file per message, where mdbox
>>> has a sort of compromise between lots of files and the huge files that
>>> mbox creates.
>>
>> Thanks Patrick.
>>
>> OK.  back to zero again. Now this is new piece of information for me
>> which tell me that mdbox is better than Maildir format for emails on
>> NFS.
>
> really? Only for NFS?

No I don't know I want to know which is best performance mail format
for local storage of emails now that I read that mdbox performs better
in NFS environment.

Thanks.

[Dovecot] quota warning email to user

2011-03-24 Thread upen 
Hi,

I am trying to use Quota in dovecot-2.0.11. I find as a sender(same
user a receiver) I receive an email that receiver's Quota is exceeded
, and receiver's mailbox is full . This is good, however the receiver
whose MB is full isn't getting any quota-warning. Configuration is as
below,


dovecot -n
# 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.35-gentoo-r8 x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.14 ext4
auth_mechanisms = plain login
listen = *
mail_location = maildir:/nfs1/mail/%u
mail_plugins = " quota"
passdb {
  args = *
  driver = pam
}
plugin/quota = maildir:User quota
plugin/quota_rule = *:storage=5M
plugin/quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+1M
plugin/quota_rule3 = Junk:storage=+1M
plugin/quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u
plugin/quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u
service quota-warning {
  executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
  user = dovecot
}
ssl_cert = : save
failed to INBOX: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)
Mar 24 15:41:28 email_serverdovecot: lda(local_username):
msgid=<20110324154128.0df8855a@local_username_ots.domainname>:
rejected: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)
Mar 24 15:41:28 email_serverpostfix/pickup[25550]: D25C121BB4: uid=1002 from=<>


ls -al /var/run/dovecot/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  4 rootroot 4096 Mar 24 15:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 33 rootroot 4096 Mar 24 14:54 ..
srw---  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 anvil
srw---  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 anvil-auth-penalty
srw---  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 auth-client
srw---  1 dovecot root0 Mar 24 15:35 auth-login
srw---  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 auth-master
srw---  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 auth-userdb
srw---  1 dovecot root0 Mar 24 15:35 auth-worker
srw---  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 config
srw---  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 dict
srw---  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 director-admin
srw---  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 director-userdb
srw-rw-rw-  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 dns-client
srw---  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 doveadm-server
lrwxrwxrwx  1 rootroot   25 Mar 24 15:35 dovecot.conf ->
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
drwxr-xr-x  2 rootroot 4096 Mar 16 13:24 empty
srw-rw-rw-  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 lmtp
drwxr-x---  2 rootdovenull 4096 Mar 24 15:35 login
-rw---  1 rootroot6 Mar 24 15:35 master.pid
srw---  1 rootroot0 Mar 24 15:35 quota-warning

ls -al /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 225 Mar 24 13:16 /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh

cat /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
#!/bin/sh
PERCENT=$1
USER=$2
cat << EOF | /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d $USER -o
"plugin/quota=maildir:User quota:noenforcing"
From: postmas...@domain.com
Subject: quota warning

Your mailbox is now $PERCENT% full.
EOF


###

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Re: [Dovecot] quota warning email to user

2011-03-25 Thread upen 
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use Quota in dovecot-2.0.11. I find as a sender(same
> user a receiver) I receive an email that receiver's Quota is exceeded
> , and receiver's mailbox is full . This is good, however the receiver
> whose MB is full isn't getting any quota-warning. Configuration is as
> below,
>
>
> dovecot -n
> # 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.35-gentoo-r8 x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.14 ext4
> auth_mechanisms = plain login
> listen = *
> mail_location = maildir:/nfs1/mail/%u
> mail_plugins = " quota"
> passdb {
>  args = *
>  driver = pam
> }
> plugin/quota = maildir:User quota
> plugin/quota_rule = *:storage=5M
> plugin/quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+1M
> plugin/quota_rule3 = Junk:storage=+1M
> plugin/quota_warning = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u
> plugin/quota_warning2 = storage=80%% quota-warning 80 %u
> service quota-warning {
>  executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
>  user = dovecot
> }
> ssl_cert =  ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
> ssl_key =  userdb {
>  driver = passwd
> }
> protocol imap {
>  mail_plugins = " quota imap_quota"
>
>
> Mar 24 15:41:28 email_serverdovecot: imap(local_username): Error:
> quota: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/quota-warning) failed:
> Permission denied (euid=1002(local_username) egid=10(wheel) missing +r
> perm: /var/run/dovecot/quota-warning, euid is not dir owner)
> Mar 24 15:41:28 email_serverdovecot: lda(local_username):
> msgid=<20110324154128.0df8855a@local_username_ots.domainname>: save
> failed to INBOX: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)
> Mar 24 15:41:28 email_serverdovecot: lda(local_username):
> msgid=<20110324154128.0df8855a@local_username_ots.domainname>:
> rejected: Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)
> Mar 24 15:41:28 email_serverpostfix/pickup[25550]: D25C121BB4: uid=1002 
> from=<>
>
>
> ls -al /var/run/dovecot/
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root    root     4096 Mar 24 15:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x 33 root    root     4096 Mar 24 14:54 ..
> srw---  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 anvil
> srw---  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 anvil-auth-penalty
> srw---  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 auth-client
> srw---  1 dovecot root        0 Mar 24 15:35 auth-login
> srw---  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 auth-master
> srw---  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 auth-userdb
> srw---  1 dovecot root        0 Mar 24 15:35 auth-worker
> srw---  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 config
> srw---  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 dict
> srw---  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 director-admin
> srw---  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 director-userdb
> srw-rw-rw-  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 dns-client
> srw---  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 doveadm-server
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root    root       25 Mar 24 15:35 dovecot.conf ->
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root     4096 Mar 16 13:24 empty
> srw-rw-rw-  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 lmtp
> drwxr-x---  2 root    dovenull 4096 Mar 24 15:35 login
> -rw---  1 root    root        6 Mar 24 15:35 master.pid
> srw---  1 root    root        0 Mar 24 15:35 quota-warning
>
> ls -al /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 225 Mar 24 13:16 /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
>
> cat /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> PERCENT=$1
> USER=$2
> cat << EOF | /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d $USER -o
> "plugin/quota=maildir:User quota:noenforcing"
> From: postmas...@domain.com
> Subject: quota warning
>
> Your mailbox is now $PERCENT% full.
> EOF
>
>
> ###
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>

Owner of an over quota account just got an email when some emails were
deleted from it (no date on that email though, don't understand why)

Don't know what resolved the issue, I did following changes recently,

chmod 700  /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh

Edit , 90-quota.conf as below,

service quota-warning {
executable = script /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh
# use some unprivileged user for executing the quota warnings
user = root
unix_listener quota-warning {
mode = 0666
user = root
group = root
   }
  }

/etc/init.d/dovecot restart

ls -al /var/run/dovecot/quota-warning
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Mar 24 20:23 quota-warning

Thanks,

[Dovecot] alpine + Maildir

2011-05-05 Thread upen 
Hello,

I am trying to configure pine.conf for all users and running into an
issue. In this setup, Mailbox format is Maildir and Maildir location
is /Mail/Username/{new,cur,..etc}

First thing required in alpine was patch for maildir and this has
already been done. After that I have tried setting up
folder-collection Mail  #md ../../Mail/username and also tried using
#mc (not sure which one is correct #md or #mc). Nothing worked.

If maildir support in alpine does not work like it does for mbox then
I'll have to configure IMAP setings in pine.conf for alpine users. I
must say that alpine is installed on mail server :). Although IMAP
setting may work fine, it will prompt user for password initially when
checking email and while sending first email. I'd like to avoid this
by using #md or #mc.

If anyone has any useful inputs please let me know.

Thank you!
UG.

Re: [Dovecot] alpine + Maildir

2011-05-06 Thread upen 
> on my alpine in pine.conf we have settings:
> inbox-path=#md//var/spool/mail/$USER
>
> and alpine is:
> oceanic:~# rpm -qa alpine
> alpine-2.02-1.fc14.x86_64
>
> and it works.

Thanks for helping out. Just want to confirm.

Is /var/spool/mail/$USER maildir format or mbox I have read that
mailbox location generally used for mbox format.

If it is maildir format, then one more question, are you able to see
all folders in the maildir or just INBOX using that setting?

Thanks,
UG

2011/5/6 Bartłomiej Solarz-Niesłuchowski
:
> W dniu 2011-05-05 23:43, upen pisze:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to configure pine.conf for all users and running into an
>> issue. In this setup, Mailbox format is Maildir and Maildir location
>> is /Mail/Username/{new,cur,..etc}
>>
>> First thing required in alpine was patch for maildir and this has
>> already been done. After that I have tried setting up
>> folder-collection Mail  #md ../../Mail/username and also tried using
>> #mc (not sure which one is correct #md or #mc). Nothing worked.
>>
>> If maildir support in alpine does not work like it does for mbox then
>> I'll have to configure IMAP setings in pine.conf for alpine users. I
>> must say that alpine is installed on mail server :). Although IMAP
>> setting may work fine, it will prompt user for password initially when
>> checking email and while sending first email. I'd like to avoid this
>> by using #md or #mc.
>>
>> If anyone has any useful inputs please let me know.
>
> on my alpine in pine.conf we have settings:
> inbox-path=#md//var/spool/mail/$USER
>
> and alpine is:
> oceanic:~# rpm -qa alpine
> alpine-2.02-1.fc14.x86_64
>
> and it works.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> UG.
>
>
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>
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Re: [Dovecot] alpine + Maildir

2011-05-06 Thread upen 
> You can configure Alpine to execute Dovecot's imap binary and talk to it. 
> That makes it work nicely with Dovecot and won't prompt >the user for a 
> password. If you're using v1.x you can run "dovecot --exec-mail imap" and 
> with v2.0 you just need to run "imap". I don't >know specifically what this 
> setting in Alpine is called.

I am running dovecot 2.0-0.10.beta6.20100630.el6.x86_64. Now this is
new to me that you can call a dovecot-imap binary from alpine but how
and where does this setting go is a question for me now. I will try
going through pine.conf. Thanks for your advice.

~UG

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Timo Sirainen  wrote:
> On 5.5.2011, at 23.43, upen wrote:
>
>> If maildir support in alpine does not work like it does for mbox then
>> I'll have to configure IMAP setings in pine.conf for alpine users. I
>> must say that alpine is installed on mail server :). Although IMAP
>> setting may work fine, it will prompt user for password initially when
>> checking email and while sending first email. I'd like to avoid this
>> by using #md or #mc.
>
> You can configure Alpine to execute Dovecot's imap binary and talk to it. 
> That makes it work nicely with Dovecot and won't prompt the user for a 
> password. If you're using v1.x you can run "dovecot --exec-mail imap" and 
> with v2.0 you just need to run "imap". I don't know specifically what this 
> setting in Alpine is called.
>
>



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Re: [Dovecot] alpine + Maildir

2011-05-06 Thread upen 
>>
>> Is /var/spool/mail/$USER maildir format or mbox I have read that
>> mailbox location generally used for mbox format.
>
> maildir
>>
>> If it is maildir format, then one more question, are you able to see
>> all folders in the maildir or just INBOX using that setting?
>
> folder-collections=Mail #md/Maildir/.mail.[]

Thank you very much for the quick confirmation. If I use #md in my
configuration then alpine would show below error message


[Can't open folder #md../../Maildir/mail/username/: no such folder]

So I changed settings as below,(Note: maildir location in dovecot is
/Maildir/mail/username and mail gets dropped there so there is no
~Maildir in users home directory)

inbox-path=../../Maildir/mail/username/
maildir-location=../Maildir/mail/username
folder-collections=Mail /Maildir/mail/username/.[]

Now pine does not complain and I can read inbox and see folders,
however one issue : [/] as a folder after every other actual folder ,
as below

INBOX ABCD[/]   Drafts[/] Queue[/]  Saved[/]  Sent[/]   Trash[/]  hello[/]

I wonder if there is a way to configure such that [/] folder will not
appear as this way  user will have to hit tab twice to see next
folder. If I hit enter key on [/]  then there is nothing inside but a
note saying it is a maildirfolder. If I select ABCD then it works as
expected.

Any idea?

Thanks,
UG

Re: [Dovecot] alpine + Maildir

2011-05-06 Thread upen 
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Charles Marcus
 wrote:
> On 2011-05-06 9:35 AM, upen wrote:
>> I am running dovecot 2.0-0.10.beta6.20100630.el6.x86_64
>
> A very early beta of 2.0... first thing on our list of action items is
> (or should be) to update to the latest stable RELEASE version.
>

Well, this is what RHEL 6 's stable repo currently offers and I want
to stick with repo assuming this version is stable on RHEL 6  atleast.

yum info dovecot
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, rhnplugin
Installed Packages
Name   : dovecot
Arch   : x86_64
Epoch  : 1
Version: 2.0
Release: 0.10.beta6.20100630.el6


Any idea on pine ? I guess there not many alpine users on this list..:)

Re: [Dovecot] alpine + Maildir

2011-05-06 Thread upen 
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Charles Marcus
 wrote:
> On 2011-05-06 11:10 AM, upen wrote:
>> Well, this is what RHEL 6 's stable repo currently offers
>
> Well, if you're not willing to upgrade to at least a reasonably stable
> RELEASE version, don't be surprised if you get little to no help.
>
> I'll never understand this attitude...

All I understand is that the issue I am having is not due to the
version of dovecotthat is installed.  If I know that this is not
working due to beta version then I am willing to upgrade. Thanks for
your opinion.

Re: [Dovecot] alpine + Maildir

2011-05-09 Thread upen 
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:01 AM, upen  wrote:
>>
>> This is what I am doing right now.
>>
>> http://www.asheesh.org/note/sysop/passwordless-alpine.html says a little
>> more. I strongly recommend this.
>>
>> In fact, I think I should someday talk to the re-alpine team and figure out
>> how to make this easier to configure. It's already reasonably easy, but it
>> can require some fiddling.
>

Hi Asheesh,

 Excellent, that is a very very useful information. I am going to try
 and use this method if #md doesn't work at all. Thanks very much for
helping me out.


Thanks,
UG

Re: [Dovecot] alpine + Maildir

2011-05-09 Thread upen 
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:16 AM, upen  wrote:
>>>
>> What you are probably looking for is in the alpine configuration (setup ->
>> configure) the 'Hide Empty Directories' option which you have to turn on.
>>
>> It corresponds to the 'quell-empty-directory' in pinerc
>>
>> Hope it helps.
>>

Hi Wolfgang,

You are right, that option should have taken care of [/] directory
after each folder , however for some reason it doesn't and I don't
understand why. One update however with #md implementation is that I
just tried one more thing in my alpine configuration and [/] has
vanished after that so probably I don't have to configure for
password-less alpine on the email server.

Here is the specific configuration from my /etc/pine.conf or .pinerc

1. maildir-location=../../Mail/${LOGNAME}
#folder-collections=Mail
{localhost/novalidate-cert/ssl/user=${LOGNAME}}[] < Commented.
2. folder-collections=Mail #md/../../Mail/${LOGNAME}/.[]

With this configuration, all folders appear fine.
Folders :

INBOX  sent-mail  saved-messages ABC
PINE_FOLDERQueue  Sent   Trash
sent-mail-apr-2011

In addition, I am going to change sent messages and saved messages
setting as below so that when users are migrated from ~/mail to
/Mail/user/ (maildir) format then their newly sent emails and saved
messages also continue to go into /Mail/user/.sent-mail and
/Mail/user/.saved-messages folder respectively.

default-fcc=sent-mail
default-saved-msg-folder=saved-messages

Thank you everyone for their inputs. Appreciate it.
UG