Re: [Dovecot] How about a "pipe" plugin?

2007-05-23 Thread Robert Schetterer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nicolas Boullis schrieb: > Hi, > > I have written a plugin so that each time a message is added to a > specific box, a program is run and the message is piped into it. Note > that the message is also really added to the box. > > I've been using it fo

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 24 May 2007, DINH Viêt Hoà wrote: By the was, I don't understand why a thunderbird plugin would not be able to do ssh :) It might, but the server doesn't. Many IMAP servers do not allow users to have SSH access on the box, but prefer lock

[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA and address extensions

2007-05-23 Thread Tom Metro
I'm converting over a virtual user installation that used Postfix and maildrop with a MySQL back-end for mailbox lookups to use Dovecot LDA. The maildrop setup used a database table like: +-++-++ | address | owner

[Dovecot] unexpected error message (maildir_sync_index)

2007-05-23 Thread Kyle Wheeler
Hello, I recently saw these errors in my log, and one of my users complained that Dovecot disconnected him unexpectedly. Any idea what might have happened? dovecot: Error: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): file maildir-sync.c: line 1075 (maildir_sync_index): assertion failed: (uid > prev_uid) dovec

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread Frank Cusack
On May 23, 2007 12:33:04 PM -0700 David Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frank Cusack wrote: On May 23, 2007 11:54:20 AM -0700 Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IMAP establishes a connection between the client and the server. Wouldn't it be great if it could be a conduit to let custom Th

Re: [Dovecot] Quota handling - v2 - updated FR

2007-05-23 Thread Scott Alter
This could be as simple as: *** 1. Make dovecot aware of and use a special 'Quota Status' message that it uses to inform a user that they are over quota. This message should be able to be customized, with variables (like, for example, it should list the messages that are bounced - including, o

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread DINH Viêt Hoà
On 5/23/07, David Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frank Cusack wrote: > On May 23, 2007 11:54:20 AM -0700 Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IMAP establishes a connection between the client and the server. Wouldn't >> it be great if it could be a conduit to let custom Thunderbird plugins

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread DINH Viêt Hoà
On 5/23/07, Rick Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 21:11 +0200, DINH Viêt Hoà wrote: > why not use ssh for that purpose ? You wouldn't necessarily want all your users to ssh into your mail server, or deal with the configuration of that. And what about a chrooted environme

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread David Jonas
Frank Cusack wrote: > On May 23, 2007 11:54:20 AM -0700 Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IMAP establishes a connection between the client and the server. Wouldn't >> it be great if it could be a conduit to let custom Thunderbird plugins >> talk to custom server application over the IMAP

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread Marc Perkel
funkypunky drunky wrote: Yeah it is a great idea. For example with a good plugin which is used in a Webmail environment. Individual clients may submit spam mails to the email server with these imap "extension" and it will create self control against with the users of email server. Yep -

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread Christian Schmidt
Marc Perkel, 23.05.2007 (d.m.y): > IMAP establishes a connection between the client and the server. > Wouldn't it be great if it could be a conduit to let custom Thunderbird > plugins talk to custom server application over the IMAP interface? For > example, personalized server settings. Suppose

[Dovecot] How about a "pipe" plugin?

2007-05-23 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, I have written a plugin so that each time a message is added to a specific box, a program is run and the message is piped into it. Note that the message is also really added to the box. I've been using it for nearly 3 month, for spam/ham learning, and have not had any problem with it.

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread Brian G. Peterson
Marc Perkel wrote: Here's some thoughts I'd like to throw out there. I know it's not standard IMAP protocol but someone has to try new ideas first and I want to see what people (Timo) think of this. IMAP establishes a connection between the client and the server. Wouldn't it be great if it co

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread funkypunky drunky
Yeah it is a great idea. For example with a good plugin which is used in a Webmail environment. Individual clients may submit spam mails to the email server with these imap "extension" and it will create self control against with the users of email server. 2007/5/23, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Dovecot] deliver rejection message

2007-05-23 Thread funkypunky drunky
Hi Timo would you like to add some localization for "quota exceeded". I cannot find a way to localize the message "Quota Exceeded" Most of my clients dont know english. Maybe you may put these feature. Surely dovecot becomes more universal. Ps: I cannot modify the source codes. I am using compiled

Re: [Dovecot] May 21 09:13:14 mail dovecot: imap-login: No authentication sockets found

2007-05-23 Thread funkypunky drunky
Thank you Timo. You are great:) 2007/5/23, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:31 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 09:21 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I started getting this message this morning: May 21 09:13:14 mail > > dovecot: imap-login: No

Re: [Dovecot] Quota handling - v2 - updated FR

2007-05-23 Thread Charles Marcus
This revised proposal for a Feature Request is the result of my desire to implement quotas, but not have the attendant headaches that inevitably accompany its implementation. Ok, seems there is no interest in doing this - and I do understand the objections... but how about a more consistent m

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread Frank Cusack
On May 23, 2007 11:54:20 AM -0700 Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IMAP establishes a connection between the client and the server. Wouldn't it be great if it could be a conduit to let custom Thunderbird plugins talk to custom server application over the IMAP interface? For example, persona

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread Rick Romero
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 21:11 +0200, DINH Viêt Hoà wrote: > why not use ssh for that purpose ? You wouldn't necessarily want all your users to ssh into your mail server, or deal with the configuration of that. Doing it through dovecot means it's already locked down to some point. I wonder if I cou

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread DINH Viêt Hoà
why not use ssh for that purpose ? On 5/23/07, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 10 days ago I proposed this addition (see below) to Dovecot and got a lot of positive response. I would like to make it happen. I'm willing to contribute $500 to the development of this feature. It doesn't have

[Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread Marc Perkel
10 days ago I proposed this addition (see below) to Dovecot and got a lot of positive response. I would like to make it happen. I'm willing to contribute $500 to the development of this feature. It doesn't have to be implemented perfectly but needs to be workable to the extent that I can telnet

Re: [Dovecot] deliver rejection message

2007-05-23 Thread Daniel
2007. May 23., Timo Sirainen: > Currently the typical rejection message is: > > - > Your message was automatically rejected by Dovecot Mail Delivery > Agent. > > The following reason was given: > Quota exceeded. > - > > Then there is MDN + message headers in other MIME parts. But of

Re: [Dovecot] Quota handling - v2 - updated FR

2007-05-23 Thread Kenny Dail
> > How is this different from just telling the customer there quota has > > been increased by the size of their .oqt box? > > Because it hasn't - they can't GET this mail until they deal with their > over-quota condition. All this does is prevent mail from being REJECTED, > and provide a more c

Re: [Dovecot] Courier migrating issues: indexes, maildirsize, update query

2007-05-23 Thread Troy Engel
Jan van den Berg wrote: mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/mail/%1u/%2u/%u:INDEX=MEMORY Of interest to you might be using a scratch disk space to store the indexes on a/the local mail server; I just did a bit of math for you (well ok, a 'bc' script did the math) and with 90.5gigs of email in

Re: [Dovecot] Updated v1.1 and summer plans

2007-05-23 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Wed, 23 May 2007 08:59:29 -0500 "Brian G. Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 00:52 +0800, M1 wrote: > >> Dear Timo, > >> > >> How about managedsieve? > > > > I think it'll have to wait for v2.0. Especially because I want it > > to be distribut

Re: [Dovecot] Quota handling - v2 - updated FR

2007-05-23 Thread Charles Marcus
How is this different from just telling the customer there quota has been increased by the size of their .oqt box? Because it hasn't - they can't GET this mail until they deal with their over-quota condition. All this does is prevent mail from being REJECTED, and provide a more consistent and

Re: [Dovecot] Quota handling - v2 - updated FR

2007-05-23 Thread Kenny Dail
> This revised proposal for a Feature Request is the result of my desire > to implement quotas, but not have the attendant headaches that > inevitably accompany its implementation. > > Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > I have to face it, my users are retards: > > Is there any other kind of user? ;) >

Re: [Dovecot] May 21 09:13:14 mail dovecot: imap-login: No authentication sockets found

2007-05-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:31 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 09:21 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I started getting this message this morning: May 21 09:13:14 mail > > dovecot: imap-login: No authentication sockets found .. > What Dovecot version? The error message means

[Dovecot] Public Namespace and ACLs with pure virtual users

2007-05-23 Thread Marc Delling
hi! i would appreciate to have some comments on my below scenario: # from the config userdb static { args = uid=vmail gid=mail home=/vmail/%d/%n } namespace public { separator = / prefix = All/ location = maildir:/vmail/%d/all/Maildir:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/ all:INDEX=~/Maildir/in

Re: [Dovecot] Quota handling - v2 - updated FR

2007-05-23 Thread Charles Marcus
Hi Bill, Anyway, the main thing is, this folder should be essentially hidden from the user so they do *not* have access to it, and should temporarily hold messages that come in that are unable to be delivered due to an over-quota condition. Would seem to me that this would then require quota

Re: [Dovecot] Updated v1.1 and summer plans

2007-05-23 Thread Brian G. Peterson
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 00:52 +0800, M1 wrote: Dear Timo, How about managedsieve? I think it'll have to wait for v2.0. Especially because I want it to be distributed in dovecot-sieve package, not in the main dovecot package. This just isn't possible without the larger chang

Re: [Dovecot] Courier migrating issues: indexes, maildirsize, update query

2007-05-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 14:36 +0200, Jan van den Berg wrote: > About the indexes; this thoroughly confusing. > I don't understand why Dovecot IMAP wants to use index files for a > maildir++ implementation (this seems to defy the point of a maildir). Hmm. I suppose I should write a wiki page about t

Re: [Dovecot] Quota handling - v2 - updated FR

2007-05-23 Thread Bill Landry
Charles Marcus wrote the following on 5/23/2007 4:30 AM -0800: This revised proposal for a Feature Request is the result of my desire to implement quotas, but not have the attendant headaches that inevitably accompany its implementation. Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I have to face it, my users are r

Re: [Dovecot] Courier migrating issues: indexes, maildirsize, update query

2007-05-23 Thread Jan van den Berg
Hi Timo, Thanks a lot for the quick response (you sure are active on the list). I wasn't aware of the PostLoginScript option I will sure give this a try. So from what I understand Dovecot isn't there yet either when it comes to quota handling (maildirsize). I'll give it another thought on what wil

Re: [Dovecot] index-related crash in dovecot 1.0.0

2007-05-23 Thread J . Wendland
Hi Timo, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 16.05.2007 15:58:06: > 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

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot + ldap tls

2007-05-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 13:58 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > dovecot: May 22 15:48:31 Error: auth(default): LDAP: ldap_start_tls_s() > > failed: Can't contact LDAP server > > Does it manage to get a TCP connection at all (check with eg. tcpdump), > or is the error message just bad? I checked OpenL

Re: [Dovecot] Courier migrating issues: indexes, maildirsize, update query

2007-05-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 12:57 +0200, Jan van den Berg wrote: > I'm in the process of testing Dovecot to see whether it meets our needs > to replace our current Courier setup which serves well over 100.000 > mailboxes (pop3 and imap: mysql with NFS) > So far dovecot seems pretty straight forward; howe

[Dovecot] Quota handling - v2 - updated FR

2007-05-23 Thread Charles Marcus
This revised proposal for a Feature Request is the result of my desire to implement quotas, but not have the attendant headaches that inevitably accompany its implementation. Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I have to face it, my users are retards: Is there any other kind of user? ;) Thus I need a

Re: [Dovecot] Updated v1.1 and summer plans

2007-05-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 00:52 +0800, M1 wrote: > Dear Timo, > > How about managedsieve? I think it'll have to wait for v2.0. Especially because I want it to be distributed in dovecot-sieve package, not in the main dovecot package. This just isn't possible without the larger changes that v2.0 brings

Re: [Dovecot] Updated v1.1 and summer plans

2007-05-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 16:48 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > what's the plan for the 1.0 series? > it'll be 1.0.x release soon and ofter or ...? v1.0.1 will be released soon. I'm mostly just waiting to see if one user's problems go away with http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/4e4572280ef1 If I d

Re: [Dovecot] need some help please

2007-05-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 08:39 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > Timo Sirainen spake the following on 5/22/2007 5:38 AM: > > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 16:09 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > >> # Protocols we want to be serving: imap imaps pop3 pop3s > >> # If you only want to use dovecot-auth, you can set this to "n

Re: [Dovecot] shared folders

2007-05-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 15:27 +0200, David Obando wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to use shared folders but I'm not quite sure whether > Dovecot supports it the way I want it: > > -user A should be able to share a folder with users B, C, D > -B, C and D should have read-access to this folder >

[Dovecot] deliver rejection message

2007-05-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
Currently the typical rejection message is: - Your message was automatically rejected by Dovecot Mail Delivery Agent. The following reason was given: Quota exceeded. - Then there is MDN + message headers in other MIME parts. But of course there sucky clients that can't display MD

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot + ldap tls

2007-05-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 18:54 +, aza zel wrote: > hi... > i trying to have a secure conetion between dovecot and directory server, but > i cant do it. The documentation are so poor ( > http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/LDAP) As it says there: "FIXME: I'm not sure how the actual TLS configura

[Dovecot] Courier migrating issues: indexes, maildirsize, update query

2007-05-23 Thread Jan van den Berg
Hi, (my first post to the list) I'm in the process of testing Dovecot to see whether it meets our needs to replace our current Courier setup which serves well over 100.000 mailboxes (pop3 and imap: mysql with NFS) So far dovecot seems pretty straight forward; however I ran into a couple of thing

Re: [Dovecot] Updated v1.1 and summer plans

2007-05-23 Thread Farkas Levente
Timo Sirainen wrote: > Webmail.us will be sponsoring my Dovecot development for this summer. > Other companies are also welcome to participate in the costs. > Participation gets you: > > - listed in Credits in www.dovecot.org > - listed in AUTHORS file > - you can tell me how you want to use

Re: [Dovecot] Quota warning message ala courier

2007-05-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:49 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > I have to face it, my users are retards: > > * either they're using crap MUAs which will not display their quota to them > * or they're using POP with "leave mail on server" and will never > notice their quota, unless it's too late > *

Re: [Dovecot] Quota handling - opportunity for new Feature?

2007-05-23 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/22/2007 Charles Marcus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Now, obviously, this would all have to be configurable (I'm guessing this would all live in the Quota Plugin - or maybe it would be an alternate Quota plugin) - off by default, etc... Also, let me be clear... I am not the 'sys admin from

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.pid

2007-05-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 10:35 -0700, Dehnert James Sr wrote: > Can I define where dovecot.pid should be in the config file on 1.0.0? > > Nothing is being written to /var/run/dovecot, base_dir setting. It's probably now being written to /usr/local/var/run/dovecot if you installed from sources. > e

Re: [Dovecot] Replication plans

2007-05-23 Thread J . Wendland
Hi list, > OpenLDAP uses another strategy, which is more robust aka needs less > fragile interaction between the servers. We have been thinking very long about replication. The requirement is to have a backup computing center in distant location, so replication has to work over a WAN connection

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.org moves to a new server

2007-05-23 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:04:11PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Yes, there were some problems with it. I think it should work now once > DNS caches expire (max. 20h). Although I don't get it why the A record > doesn't disappear from .org root servers. But looks like it doesn't > cause problems