[Dovecot] input / output error in dovecot.log

2007-05-02 Thread Joe Wong
Hello, >From time to time, I saw input / output error on rename() or pwrite_full(), >for example: dovecot: May 02 05:46:18 Error: IMAP(joe): rename(/fs/joe/Maildir/.Sent Items/tmp/1178084777.P21895Q0M200058.tkodog.no-ip.com.com, /fs/joe/Maildir/.Sent Items/cur/1178084777.P21895Q0M200058.tkodo

[Dovecot] usedb query

2007-05-02 Thread M1
I can specified two passdb so I can mix auth source. Can I do similar thing with userdb? I would like to have uid, gid and home from static and quota from sql. Regards, Steve

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-05-02 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:06:43PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > John Rowe writes: > > >gluster is looking extremely interesting although it's rather new. > > Thanks. Saw it on a list of distributed FS but didn't click on it. > > I was planning to take a look at AFS and Coda to start. Will als

[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0, namespace & mbox

2007-05-02 Thread Stefan Klatt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, >i try to use a new namespace with mbox parallel to my working maildir >configuration. > >With this i have a few interesting effects: > >- dovecot doesn't use the CONTROL statement and generate a >.subscriptions file at the namespace directory. Th

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-05-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Troy Benjegerdes writes: http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/port-freebsd/2007-February/000199.html The freebsd port looks like it might be a bit hairy yet though. AFS and CODA are on my list to check. Another user in this list mentioned Gluster. I must say gluster looks very interesting.

[Dovecot] File Changes and IDLE

2007-05-02 Thread Andy Shellam
Hi Timo and all, I used to use Dovecot back in the 0.99 days a couple of years ago, had since moved to Courier IMAP, but with the release of Dovecot 1.0.0, I'm looking at moving back! One thing I currently have set up and working with Courier is the use of the enhanced IDLE mode, whereby Cou

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-05-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
John Rowe writes: gluster is looking extremely interesting although it's rather new. Thanks. Saw it on a list of distributed FS but didn't click on it. I was planning to take a look at AFS and Coda to start. Will also take a look at gluster, although so far it seems a Linux only FS.

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-05-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Scott Silva writes: If you want to experiment with a inexpensive NAS with replication, look at Freenas. It can do nfs sharing and automatic replication with rsync. And it is free and based on Freebsd. Still immature, but it has a lot of promise. Our experience with FreeBSD+NFS has been less t

Re: [Dovecot] 200 pop3-login processes

2007-05-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Zbigniew Szalbot writes: I am using dovecot 1.0.0 and have only 5 pop3 users. However, I have counted over 200 pop3-loging processes. I just wonder if it is normal for dovecot (has been running maybe for 2-3 weeks after installing the stable verion). What is your login_processes_count in dovec

Re: [Dovecot] upgrading to dovecot 1.0

2007-05-02 Thread Charles Marcus
aza zel wrote: hi, i'm using dovecot 1.0 rc26 and i want to upgrade to dovecot 1.0; i want to know if i must uninstall previus version or i can install overriding prevus install . Use the procedure recommended by the package maintainer for your distro... Or, if you rolled your own, you shouldn

[Dovecot] upgrading to dovecot 1.0

2007-05-02 Thread aza zel
hi, i'm using dovecot 1.0 rc26 and i want to upgrade to dovecot 1.0; i want to know if i must uninstall previus version or i can install overriding prevus install . Thanks in advance!!!

Re: [Dovecot] read only maildir

2007-05-02 Thread Nagyon Almos
>If you run dovecot 0.99, it's .subscriptions; if you run dovecot 1.0, >it's subscriptions - so adjust as necessary. It is always located in the >Maildir/ directory itself - take a look at your own personal maildir >folder and it should be pretty obvious. >The contents should be the name of

Re: [Dovecot] read only maildir

2007-05-02 Thread Charles Marcus
If you run dovecot 0.99, it's .subscriptions; if you run dovecot 1.0, it's subscriptions - so adjust as necessary. It is always located in the Maildir/ directory itself - take a look at your own personal maildir folder and it should be pretty obvious. It goes without saying that if you are run

Re: [Dovecot] read only maildir

2007-05-02 Thread Troy Engel
Nagyon Almos wrote: Is it subscriptions or .subscriptions or in the singular (without the ending s)? Where should it be exactly? If you run dovecot 0.99, it's .subscriptions; if you run dovecot 1.0, it's subscriptions - so adjust as necessary. It is always located in the Maildir/ directory

Re: [Dovecot] read only maildir

2007-05-02 Thread Nagyon Almos
>If it's read-only, then your user can't write the 'subscriptions' file; >as root, edit that file and manually insert the subscription, then your >clients should pick it up. Thanks for the quick reply. Is it subscriptions or .subscriptions or in the singular (without the ending s)? Where

[Dovecot] some clarification re: ACL?

2007-05-02 Thread Matt Zukowski
The ACL documentation is at http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL is a bit vague... I'd be happy to update it myself, but I need some clarification: For example, I have a dovecot-acl file with: group=portal_admin lrw anyone l To me this means that any user in the portal_admin group should be able to op

Re: [Dovecot] read only maildir

2007-05-02 Thread Troy Engel
Nagyon Almos wrote: The extra (public) namespace shows up but I can not susbscribe to it (in thunderbird) or If it's read-only, then your user can't write the 'subscriptions' file; as root, edit that file and manually insert the subscription, then your clients should pick it up. -te --

[Dovecot] read only maildir

2007-05-02 Thread Nagyon Almos
Hello All, I try to set up a read only maildir just as in the wiki, to no avail. The extra (public) namespace shows up but I can not susbscribe to it (in thunderbird) or if I change to that "directory" (in mutt), it is empty. Is it the problem mentioned in the wiki (SharedMailboxes#Subscript

Re: [Dovecot] Strange Mail Problem

2007-05-02 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/2/2007 Jason Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sorry, here it is: Version: dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4 Upgrade... 0.99 is no longer supported... -- Best regards, Charles

Re: [Dovecot] Migrate from mlbox to maildir, lock problem

2007-05-02 Thread Sylvain Nemtua
Problem solved by migrating to solaris 10 !

Re: [Dovecot] busy still for a week

2007-05-02 Thread Koen Vermeer
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 16:46 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > This school year is pretty much finished next thursday (for the classes > I intended to pass). After that I should again have enough energy to > read and answer the 150 mails in this list .. :) And maybe release > v1.0.1 fixing the newly fou

Re: [Dovecot] Strange Mail Problem

2007-05-02 Thread Jason Baker
Sorry, here it is: Version: dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4 ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * imaps_listen = * pop3s_listen = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3

Re: [Dovecot] How to use option allow_nets?

2007-05-02 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:19:36PM +0200, Bernd Kuhls wrote: > I tried to add the line > > allow_nets=127.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16 > > in the block > > passdb pam { > > which is the default enabled auth code in Debian. allow_nets is a passdb field (for example in an SQL passdb), not a dovec

Re: [Dovecot] assertion failed

2007-05-02 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On 2007-04-26, Adrian Stoica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is this ? > We just saw the same fault today when we switched from courier to dovecot on a large system today. The ~username/dovecot-uidlist contained: 1 -1 0 and deleting this file plus it's lockfile seems to have fixed the

Re: [Dovecot] busy still for a week

2007-05-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Timo Sirainen wrote: This school year is pretty much finished next thursday (for the classes I intended to pass). After that I should again have enough energy to read and answer the 150 mails in this list .. :) And maybe release v1.0.1 fixing the newly found bugs. Just curious, has there

[Dovecot] busy still for a week

2007-05-02 Thread Timo Sirainen
This school year is pretty much finished next thursday (for the classes I intended to pass). After that I should again have enough energy to read and answer the 150 mails in this list .. :) And maybe release v1.0.1 fixing the newly found bugs. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signe

Re: [Dovecot] Strange Mail Problem

2007-05-02 Thread Kyle Wheeler
On Wednesday, May 2 at 09:13 AM, quoth Jason Baker: I have a Postifx email system running on a CentOS 4 box, with Dovecot pop3 and imap. Last week, one of my users reported to me that about a dozen emails suddenly showed up in his in box (as unread messages), but none of them were addressed to

[Dovecot] How to use option allow_nets?

2007-05-02 Thread Bernd Kuhls
Hi, according to http://wiki.dovecot.fi/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/AllowNets there exists an option allow_nets to restrict IP ranges from where users are allowed to login to Dovecot. I am using Debian Etch with the official Dovecot packages: # dpkg -l | grep dovecot ii dovecot-common

[Dovecot] Strange Mail Problem

2007-05-02 Thread Jason Baker
I submitted this question to the Postfix maillist and they suggested that I post to this one. Here's my issue: I have a Postifx email system running on a CentOS 4 box, with Dovecot pop3 and imap. Last week, one of my users reported to me that about a dozen emails suddenly showed up in his in

Re: [Dovecot] Return error instead of dying on time back skip?

2007-05-02 Thread John Peacock
Amon Ott wrote: All our systems run ntpd, but they might be offline for a while before they get contact to a time server, e.g. because of DSL problems. When they do get contact and time is too far off, ntpd sets the new time directly (yes, it could gradually do that, but it might take ages).

Re: [Dovecot] Best authentication option

2007-05-02 Thread Gabriel Millerd
On 5/2/07, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you for your answer. What do you mean by "you may as well use 2" ? You mean both authentication options ? I though we have to decide in dovecot.conf to use one option or another one... I do force the use of my webserver (lighttpd) through https. My

Re: [Dovecot] Switching from mailbox to maildir.. duplicates!

2007-05-02 Thread Sylvain Nemtua
I'm having the same issue, but only with client using outlook (not outlook express) On 5/2/07, Lars Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi We have been running a dovecot server for some time.. users connect with pop. Now this server is going to be substituted with a new one.. before we used mb

Re: [Dovecot] Strange directory created at dovecot launch

2007-05-02 Thread Uldis Pakuls
Eric wrote: I installed dovecot from scratch and compiled it from 1.0.0 source. Installed in /usr/local. Now everytime I launch dovecot it creates and uses /usr/local/var/lib/dovecot and /usr/local/var/run/dovecot directories. For the latter I found the modifications to do in dovecot.conf for usi

Re: [Dovecot] Best authentication option

2007-05-02 Thread Eric
Thank you for your answer. What do you mean by "you may as well use 2" ? You mean both authentication options ? I though we have to decide in dovecot.conf to use one option or another one... I do force the use of my webserver (lighttpd) through https. My question was the best option between plain/P

Re: [Dovecot] Best authentication option

2007-05-02 Thread John Robinson
On 02/05/2007 12:13, Eric wrote: Dear Dovecot experts, I have a small home server debian based, with postfix/dovecot/squirrelmail installed locally and working. Dovecot is used non-secured (no imaps) but only on the 192.168.0.100 address (address of the server on the local network). I want to use

[Dovecot] Strange directory created at dovecot launch

2007-05-02 Thread Eric
I installed dovecot from scratch and compiled it from 1.0.0 source. Installed in /usr/local. Now everytime I launch dovecot it creates and uses /usr/local/var/lib/dovecot and /usr/local/var/run/dovecot directories. For the latter I found the modifications to do in dovecot.conf for using /var/run/do

[Dovecot] Best authentication option

2007-05-02 Thread Eric
Dear Dovecot experts, I have a small home server debian based, with postfix/dovecot/squirrelmail installed locally and working. Dovecot is used non-secured (no imaps) but only on the 192.168.0.100 address (address of the server on the local network). I want to use squirrelmail to read my email from

[Dovecot] Migrate from mlbox to maildir, lock problem

2007-05-02 Thread Sylvain Nemtua
Hi We've been using dovecot successufly for few month. Previous setup : solaris 8, postfix+LDA, mbox + index on NFS (Netapp), 2500 accounts Everything shared overs NFS, multiple servers connect to index, mbox. mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/mbox/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes_dove

[Dovecot] Migrate from dovecot to dovecot.. new server

2007-05-02 Thread Lars Johansen
Hi We have been running a dovecot server for some time.. users connect with pop. Now this server is going to be substituted with a new one.. before we used mbox, but now we will move to maildir! I have done some testing transfering the mail with the mb2md script, the conversion works correctly,

[Dovecot] Switching from mailbox to maildir.. duplicates!

2007-05-02 Thread Lars Johansen
Hi We have been running a dovecot server for some time.. users connect with pop. Now this server is going to be substituted with a new one.. before we used mbox, but now we will move to maildir! I have done some testing transfering the mail with the mb2md script, the conversion works correctly,

[Dovecot] Migrate from dovecot to dovecot.. new server

2007-05-02 Thread Lars Johansen
Hi We have been running a dovecot server for some time.. users connect with pop. Now this server is going to be substituted with a new one.. before we used mbox, but now we will move to maildir! I have done some testing transfering the mail with the mb2md script, the conversion works correctly,

[Dovecot] Return error instead of dying on time back skip?

2007-05-02 Thread Amon Ott
Hello everybody! Currently, dovecot just kills itself if it detects that time has moved backwards more than a hardcoded number of seconds. I accept the reasons, but I do not like to restart dovecot manually after waiting for time to move forward again. A cron job would not help, because time m

Re: [Dovecot] Warning about NFS but using local fs for INDEX

2007-05-02 Thread Herbert Gasiorowski
Herbert Gasiorowski wrote: I am playing around with dovecot and want to use local filesystem for indexing. But whenever I open a new imap connection the following warning is shown: Apr 30 10:14:42 beira dovecot: Mailbox indexes in /app/home/gasi are in NFS mount. You must set mmap_disable=yes