On 5/16/07, Sean Kamath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree that's the right thing to do, but I'm curious: Does dovecot
relink the file, or copy? If it links the file (i.e., mv) then the
process writing the file shouldn't have any problems, and the file
should be written correctly. . .
A qui
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On May 15, 2007, at 2:16 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 14:56 -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
Is Dovecot grabbing the file from "new" and moving it to "cur" faster
than ASSP can write?
Possible, if it uses inotify there.
How c
Is anyone using LDAP along with Dovecot where mail is being accessed
in the form of /var/vmail/${domain}/${user}? I have not figured out
how to extract the domain from LDAP in order to make this work. I
know this is sparse information but maybe there is an easy fix. If
not, I can post more
On May 16, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
It's not supposed to be renamed. The most important reason why the
renaming is done at all is so that convert plugin doesn't try to
convert
the same mailboxes twice. It's enough to rename the mbox root
directory
for that. I think renaming I
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 19:16 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
> convert_mail = mbox:~/Library/Mail/IMAP/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u and
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
>
> The IMAP directory was renamed to IMAP-converted after the process
> but the inbox (in /var/mail) does not get renamed.
It's not s
Timo,
Running v1.0.0
The convert plugin works pretty damn good! No need to mess with
external utilities.
One comment, though: Running here on OS X, I configured it with this
convert_mail line:
convert_mail = mbox:~/Library/Mail/IMAP/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u and
mail_location = maildir:~/M
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:01 -0600, Kenny Dail wrote:
> Wonder if you can tweak the digests to hold more messages? In 5 hours
> this morning, I've received 6 digests, seems a little excessive to me.
I've no idea. I've never used digests with Mailman. But last night/today
was a bit special because t
Am Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007 schrieb Gunter Ohrner:
> > mailboxes is a lot easier.They're based on filtering rules. I don't
> think they support "copying"
> messages. So the virtual folders are easily rebuilt by just re-applying
> the filters into all the messages.
Whoops, this yunk should not have b
Am Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007 schrieb Timo Sirainen:
> > Yes, I think treating mailboxes similary to keywords is ideal. There
> Except if you want to handle some mailboxes in a special way it's
> easier if they're separated on disk. Such as renaming or deleting
> mailboxes is a lot easier.They're base
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 00:03 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:47 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > I tried building dovecot using :
> >
> > CPPFLAGS="-fstack-protector" LDFLAGS="-lssp" ./configure
> >
> > That would result in a proper build, yet the binary would complain
> >
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:47 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> I tried building dovecot using :
>
> CPPFLAGS="-fstack-protector" LDFLAGS="-lssp" ./configure
>
> That would result in a proper build, yet the binary would complain
> once being run:
>
> dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_p
I tried building dovecot using :
CPPFLAGS="-fstack-protector" LDFLAGS="-lssp" ./configure
That would result in a proper build, yet the binary would complain
once being run:
dlopen(/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so) failed:
/usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so: undefi
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 21:21 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Dovecot CVS HEAD + cydir + fsync_disable=no:
> ./imaptest - append=100 seed=1 secs=30 msgs=100 logout=0 select=0
> clients=100
> Logi Appe
> 100% 100%
>5%
> 100 35217
In the above tests the cache file wasn't updated at all,
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 03:16 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> - In raw append speed dbmail is almost as fast as maildir.
> - In raw read/write speed maildir is about 1,6 times faster
> - When adding metadata fetches Dovecot is 4 times faster than
> dbmail. This is most likely because dbmail doe
Timo,
Wonder if you can tweak the digests to hold more messages? In 5 hours
this morning, I've received 6 digests, seems a little excessive to me.
--
Kenny Dail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> No amount of effort can help someone who is unwilling to learn the bare
> minimum about a new program they want to use - and if they aren't even
> aware that dovecot has a config file (as does every other server app
> I've ever used), or what it is named or where it is - well, I don't
> think I
On May 16, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:41 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
I'd like to request some feed back from any OS X Mail Admins on the
list, please.
Set dotlock_use_excl=yes. Without it you can run into all kinds of
trouble with HFS+.
Got it!
Thanks.
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:41 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
> I'd like to request some feed back from any OS X Mail Admins on the
> list, please.
Set dotlock_use_excl=yes. Without it you can run into all kinds of
trouble with HFS+.
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I'd appreciate if you'd share with me the directory structure that
you use, or would use in my situation. All mail storage will be on
the server so disk space is not an issue. I'm a bit confused
whether or not to keep the inbox separate from the other imap
structure as is the OS X default
I'd like to request some feed back from any OS X Mail Admins on the
list, please.
Currently running 10.4.9 here using postfix / dovecot and I'm about
to take the plunge from mbox to maildir. I just migrated from uw-imap
to dovecot.
As you're aware, users inbox's are customarily stored in
On May 16, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
I see what you're getting at, but personally i really like having
plenty of documentation in the config files. That way when you're
editing the config file, you can know exactly what you're doing
and have good descriptions right in front o
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 13:44 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> dovecot: 2007-05-16 13:30:09 Error: IMAP(6126360): file
> index-mail-headers.c:
> line 260 (index_mail_parse_header): assertion failed: (part != NULL)
I'm still not sure how you managed to cause this, but I think this will
fix it: h
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 09:29 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > I see what you're getting at, but personally i really like having plenty
> > of documentation in the config files. That way when you're editing the
> > config file, you can know exactly what you're doing and have good
> > descriptions
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 17:36 +0400, Alexander Moisseev wrote:
> POP3 client can't fetch second e-mail message from Maildir if first POP3
> connect occurs before any message placed in Maildir.
Thanks. Fixed: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-May/008819.html
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I see what you're getting at, but personally i really like having plenty
of documentation in the config files. That way when you're editing the
config file, you can know exactly what you're doing and have good
descriptions right in front of you
Of course this is no substitute for other doc
On 5/16/2007 Timo Sirainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Anyway, with all of these 3 messages people have still copy&pasted
logs and asked "How do I fix this?" I just don't know how to make it
any more clearer.
I don't think you can... I really respect your desire to make things as
easy/simple f
* Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> That's correct, but if you're getting those kind of errors I guess there
> are some bugs. Are all those imap connections using SSL/TLS?
# grep "Connection queue full" /var/log/pop3d-imapd.log |grep TLS|wc -l
31
# grep "Connection queue full" /var/log/po
I'm trying to get up to speed enough so that I am confident enough to
answer more questions... I think that would help more than anything
(people helping him out here on the list)...
That, and, of course, adding more well written, targeted articles to the
wiki...
--
Best regards,
Charles
You could have a number of sanity checks at startup where dovecot
checks out the environment verifying that directories exist and
perhaps do some write testing to make sure areas that need to be
writable actually are.
And even if it has write access to areas it shouldn't...
I like the idea of
On May 16, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Bruce Bodger wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:14 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
I set /var/mail to sticky...
drwxrwxr-t 10 rootmail 340 May 16 08:11 mail
You have to make it world-writable also. I'll update the wiki to
mention
that too.
That may pres
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 13:44 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> dovecot crashes with the following trace when accessing some Maildirs:
>
> dovecot: 2007-05-16 13:30:09 Error: IMAP(6126360): file
> index-mail-headers.c:
> line 260 (index_mail_parse_header): assertion failed: (part != NULL)
Hi,
dovecot crashes with the following trace when accessing some Maildirs:
dovecot: 2007-05-16 13:30:09 Error: IMAP(6126360): file
index-mail-headers.c:
line 260 (index_mail_parse_header): assertion failed: (part != NULL)
dovecot: 2007-05-16 13:30:09 Error: IMAP(6126360): Raw backtrace:
ima
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:54:31AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> The biggest difference is between mmap_disable=yes and =no, but unless
> GPFS supports shared mmaps it's probably not a good idea to set that to
> "no".
I verified that mmap is supported on GPFS, and changed to
mmap_disable=no yes
On May 16, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:14 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
I set /var/mail to sticky...
drwxrwxr-t 10 rootmail 340 May 16 08:11 mail
You have to make it world-writable also. I'll update the wiki to
mention
that too.
That may prese
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:38 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> # NEW
> passdb passwd-file {
> # Format should look like this:
> #
> firstname.lastname:password:uid:gid:(gecos):home:(shell):user=realloginname
> # [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]:password:uid:gid:(gecos):home:(shell):user=reall
* Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Do you really have different users in shadow and in pam?
No, I don't.
> Well, shadow and pam don't support extra fields, so I don't think you
> can do anything about these unless you switch to another passdb.
> Currently Dovecot doesn't support these kind o
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 07:47 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> >> Although one possibility would be treat mailboxes a bit similarly
> >> than keywords. So that when a message is copied to another mailbox,
> >> the message in dbox file is updated to contain information that it
> >> exists in such and
* Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> * Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > What passdb are you using?
>
> auth default:
> master_user_separator: *
> verbose: yes
> passdb:
> driver: passwd-file
> args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.masterusers
> pass: yes
> master: yes
> passdb:
>
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:24 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote:
> Looks like in Cyrus, sorting by Received date is faster than sorting by the
> Sent header date because of the way they use the index and cache files...
> http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showpost.php?p=419246
>
> Is this the case in Dovecot
Many thanks,
I'm afraid I have to update first. My kubuntu dapper installation has an
older version of dovecot.
Rainer
Timo Sirainen schrieb:
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 19:49 +0200, Rainer Sigl wrote:
Hi all,
most of the time deleted messages aren't moved into trash folder but go
into nirwana
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:17 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> * Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > No. It means that it disconnected a client that wasn't yet logged in
> > because login_max_connections was reached. It should happen only if
> > login_max_processes_count was reached. Perhaps th
On 2007-05-15, 20:27, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I guess it's Postfix that adds the MAILER-DAEMON there. I get this:
>
> May 15 20:22:39 hurina postfix/qmgr[31650]: 00615287D8C86: to=<@>,
> relay=none, delay=0.24, delays=0.12/0.13/0/0, dsn=5.1.3, status=bounced
> (bad address syntax)
>
> Anyway, what
Udo Rader wrote:
I've upgraded our and come clients' dovecot installations multiple times, and
to be honest I did not like the extensive documentation provided in the default
configuration files. Saying 'I did not like it' does not mean that the information
was useless, on the contrary, the amo
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:14 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
> I set /var/mail to sticky...
>
> drwxrwxr-t 10 rootmail 340 May 16 08:11 mail
You have to make it world-writable also. I'll update the wiki to mention
that too.
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Looks like in Cyrus, sorting by Received date is faster than sorting by the
Sent header date because of the way they use the index and cache files...
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showpost.php?p=419246
Is this the case in Dovecot as well?
Bill
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:12 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> * Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > What passdb are you using?
>
> auth default:
> master_user_separator: *
> verbose: yes
> passdb:
> driver: passwd-file
> args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.masterusers
> pass: yes
> maste
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 02:15 +0200, Udo Rader wrote:
> Getting people to actually read _and_ understand what a log message
> means is very difficult on a very psychological level :-)
A good example would be this error that I've changed 2 times already:
"Set pop3_uidl_format setting in config file"
* Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> No. It means that it disconnected a client that wasn't yet logged in
> because login_max_connections was reached. It should happen only if
> login_max_processes_count was reached. Perhaps there's still a bug
> somewhere in there.. How many imap-login processe
On May 16, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:53 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 06:58 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
May 16 06:29:56 G518X2 deliver(bb): file_lock_dotlock() failed with
mbox file /var/mail/bb: Permission denied
See http://wiki.dove
* Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What passdb are you using?
auth default:
master_user_separator: *
verbose: yes
passdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.masterusers
pass: yes
master: yes
passdb:
driver: shadow
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
user
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:42 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> I'm getting "imap-login: Disconnected: Connection queue full:"
> messages like these:
>
> May 16 12:17:26 postamt dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Connection queue
> full: rip=160.45.172.202, lip=141.42.4.250
> May 16 12:17:26 postamt
On May 16, 2007, at 7:53 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 06:58 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
May 16 06:29:56 G518X2 deliver(bb): file_lock_dotlock() failed with
mbox file /var/mail/bb: Permission denied
See http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox#dotlocks
Thank you, Timo.
I
Am Dienstag, den 15.05.2007, 19:40 +0300 schrieb Timo Sirainen:
> I think the most common Dovecot newbie problems are:
>
> - Not looking at the (correct) logs for errors
> - Authentication problems
> - Mail location problems
> - Mail permission problems
>
> Below are some of my ideas how I co
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 11:26 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> Some of our users use to login as
> firstname.lastname
> or
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> instead of using the "correct"
> "flastname" login name.
>
> In order to get this behaviour a long-gone co-worker wrote an
> authdaemon.pl, which speaks th
I'm getting "imap-login: Disconnected: Connection queue full:"
messages like these:
May 16 12:17:26 postamt dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Connection queue
full: rip=160.45.172.202, lip=141.42.4.250
May 16 12:17:26 postamt dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Connection queue
full: rip=141.42.
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:53 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 06:58 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
> > May 16 06:29:56 G518X2 deliver(bb): file_lock_dotlock() failed with
> > mbox file /var/mail/bb: Permission denied
>
> See http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox#dotlocks
Hmm.
Some of our users use to login as
firstname.lastname
or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
instead of using the "correct"
"flastname" login name.
In order to get this behaviour a long-gone co-worker wrote an
authdaemon.pl, which speaks the courier-authdaemon protocol.
How can I emulate this behaviour with dovecot
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 06:58 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
> May 16 06:29:56 G518X2 deliver(bb): file_lock_dotlock() failed with
> mbox file /var/mail/bb: Permission denied
See http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Mbox#dotlocks
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Would be nice if copying a message from one mailbox to another
wouldn't require actually reading+writing the whole message
contents. But I can't really figure out how to implement this
without requiring that there is only a single dbox storage which
contains the mails for all the mailboxes, and t
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 06:40 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote:
> > Although one possibility would be treat mailboxes a bit similarly than
> > keywords. So that when a message is copied to another mailbox, the
> > message in dbox file is updated to contain information that it exists in
> > such and such mail
Tried today to use Dovecot's DELIVER LDA.
I'm running Postfix 2.1.5. I simply added the line...
mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver
to main.cf and made no other changes. First email resulted in this
in mail.log:
May 16 06:29:56 G518X2 deliver(bb): open(/var/mail/bb.lock) fa
Hi Timo,
Sorry to bother you, but I'm used to having at least 10-20 in the
morning. This morning there are none... and the last one is from 3:00pm
yesterday?
So, this is a test, I guess...
--
Best regards,
Charles
On 5/16/2007 Joseba Torre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
For me, the easier solution would be an entry in the wiki with well
documented common configs:
- system users (using pam/passwd)
- ldap (with a common conf)
- mysql
- postgresql
I agree completely... also, explanations for what is required
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On Tue, 15 May 2007, Rainer Sigl wrote:
most of the time deleted messages aren't moved into trash folder but go into
nirwana. Sometimes it works correctly. But a restart does not guarantee this
function. This effect exists with different imap clien
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On Tue, 15 May 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
* Logging
Logging to eg. /var/log/dovecot.log by default would be helpful here,
Personally, I found logging to a separate file helpful during setting up
Dovecot, because you can focus on Dovecot that way
On Sat, May 12, 2007 9:10 am, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Fast copying
>
>
> Would be nice if copying a message from one mailbox to another wouldn't
> require actually reading+writing the whole message contents. But I can't
> really figure out how to implement this with
Hi,
there's no easy way to get rid of newbie problems: right now dovecot is quite
a complex software, so configuration is complex. Even more, all the
userdb/passdb thing is really powerfull, but also a bit diferent of anything
I was used to, so it's normal that people is a bit confused in the b
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 07:14 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> Hi Timo,
>
> Sorry to bother you, but I'm used to having at least 10-20 in the
> morning. This morning there are none... and the last one is from 3:00pm
> yesterday?
The server was down last night for a while, and looks like rebooting
d
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 19:49 +0200, Rainer Sigl wrote:
> Hi all,
> most of the time deleted messages aren't moved into trash folder but go
> into nirwana. Sometimes it works correctly. But a restart does not
> guarantee this function. This effect exists with different imap clients.
> Can anybody
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