Re: [Dovecot] Is dovecot the right choice for this problem?

2007-12-08 Thread Bill Cole
At 6:40 PM -0600 12/8/07, Darren McLaughlin wrote: Bill, Thanks for your detailed explanation. I apologize for using incorrect terminology, but I am operating a little out of my depth as I have only 2 servers with Verio. I started with them years ago, as websites are a small part of my consult

Re: [Dovecot] Is dovecot the right choice for this problem?

2007-12-08 Thread Darren McLaughlin
Bill, Thanks for your detailed explanation. I apologize for using incorrect terminology, but I am operating a little out of my depth as I have only 2 servers with Verio. I started with them years ago, as websites are a small part of my consulting, and as email has evolved so have the server i

Re: [Dovecot] Roadmap to future

2007-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
Hmm. Maybe a feature packed v1.2 would be a good idea after all. It wouldn't have any huge underlying changes, so most likely it could be released only a few months after v1.1. Implemented, but slightly buggy so not included in v1.1 (yet): - Mailbox list indexes - THREAD REFERENCES indexe

Re: [Dovecot] Is dovecot the right choice for this problem?

2007-12-08 Thread Bill Cole
At 11:05 PM -0600 12/7/07, Darren McLaughlin wrote: Bill, There's a ringing endorsement of Verio. And maybe not quite fair, since your first paraphrasing came across as further from reality than the second... They told me that the server had a"group mail file" and all the users had their

Re: [Dovecot] disconnect after too many errors?

2007-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 9.12.2007, at 0.23, Peter Hessler wrote: On 2007 Dec 09 (Sun) at 00:20:11 +0200 (+0200), Timo Sirainen wrote: On 9.12.2007, at 0.16, Peter Hessler wrote: There are a couple of jerks that are tying to dictionary attack my email server, and one of the vectors is pop3/imap logins. Somethin

Re: [Dovecot] disconnect after too many errors?

2007-12-08 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2007 Dec 09 (Sun) at 00:20:11 +0200 (+0200), Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 9.12.2007, at 0.16, Peter Hessler wrote: > >> There are a couple of jerks that are tying to dictionary attack my >> email server, and one of the vectors is pop3/imap logins. Something I >> would like to do in dovecot, but ca

Re: [Dovecot] disconnect after too many errors?

2007-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 9.12.2007, at 0.16, Peter Hessler wrote: There are a couple of jerks that are tying to dictionary attack my email server, and one of the vectors is pop3/imap logins. Something I would like to do in dovecot, but can't seem to find, is the ability to disconnect after a certain number of errors

Re: [Dovecot] disconnect after too many errors?

2007-12-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Peter Hessler wrote: There are a couple of jerks that are tying to dictionary attack my email server, and one of the vectors is pop3/imap logins. Something I would like to do in dovecot, but can't seem to find, is the ability to disconnect after a certain number of errors.

[Dovecot] disconnect after too many errors?

2007-12-08 Thread Peter Hessler
There are a couple of jerks that are tying to dictionary attack my email server, and one of the vectors is pop3/imap logins. Something I would like to do in dovecot, but can't seem to find, is the ability to disconnect after a certain number of errors. The vast majority of my users (i.e. me)

Re: [Dovecot] Are these events normal?

2007-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 22:20 +0100, Jost Krieger wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:20:12AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 21:08 +0100, Jost Krieger wrote: > > > The most common event is: > > > > > > 2007-12-06 16:00:17.837654500 dovecot: Error: IMAP(): FETCH for >

Re: [Dovecot] Are these events normal?

2007-12-08 Thread Jost Krieger
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:20:12AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 21:08 +0100, Jost Krieger wrote: > > The most common event is: > > > > 2007-12-06 16:00:17.837654500 dovecot: Error: IMAP(): FETCH for > > mailbox UCE-TMP UID 1547 got too little data: 5176 vs 5184 > >

Re: [Dovecot] New Mailbox Format Plugin Help

2007-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 10:11 -0500, Sacha Bernstein wrote: > I would like to develop a new mailbox format for a very specialized > application. Can anyone point me in the appropriate direction to get > started writing a plugin? > > More detail for anyone interested: > I need to store mail in a for

[Dovecot] New Mailbox Format Plugin Help

2007-12-08 Thread Sacha Bernstein
I would like to develop a new mailbox format for a very specialized application. Can anyone point me in the appropriate direction to get started writing a plugin? More detail for anyone interested: I need to store mail in a format that's quickly accessible and modifiable to an external process.

Re: [Dovecot] Roadmap to future

2007-12-08 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:17:22PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Deliver / LMTP server > - > > Currently deliver parses dovecot.conf using its own parser. This has > caused all kinds of problems. v2.0's master rewrite helps with this, > because deliver can then just ask the con

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about deliver log files

2007-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 14:56 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Currently deliver only logs the message id. A user would never > > ask for this (especially if he asks where certain mails were > > stored/discarded), he would ask for the sender's name/email or > > subject. Is the contents of the log file

Re: [Dovecot] Roadmap to future

2007-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 14:02 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > You mention some problems like unique ID's. This is actually pretty > > simple - just use some GUID type process. All you need is something > > guaranteed unique on each server, combinations of time, something unique > > per server an

Re: [Dovecot] Stale NFS file handle and duplicated messages

2007-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 11:29 +, Adrian Barker wrote: > >> Nov 29 00:49:47 imap-e.ucl.ac.uk dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] > >> IMAP(ccaazzz): close() failed with index > >> file /home/ccaazzz/imap-mail/.imap/mbox/dovecot.index: Stale NFS file > >> handle .. > Thanks for replying. I have read t

Re: [Dovecot] Roadmap to future

2007-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 10:56 +, Ed W wrote: > > dbox plans, could be implemented for v1.2: > > > > Interesting to see this as production ready product. Could be very > interesting if it adds performance and new features. It should be production ready in v1.1 already. Or at least I don'

Re: [Dovecot] Stale NFS file handle and duplicated messages

2007-12-08 Thread Adrian Barker
Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 10:21 +, Adrian Barker wrote: >> We recently moved all our users from the Washington IMAP server to >> Dovecot. There has been a substantial improvement in performance, but >> some users are reporting duplicate messages, and we see 'Stale NFS file >>

Re: [Dovecot] Roadmap to future

2007-12-08 Thread Ed W
Hi My 2p dbox plans, could be implemented for v1.2: Interesting to see this as production ready product. Could be very interesting if it adds performance and new features. v2.0 master/config rewrite -- It's mostly working already. One of the larger problems le

Re: [Dovecot] Stale NFS file handle and duplicated messages

2007-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 10:21 +, Adrian Barker wrote: > > We recently moved all our users from the Washington IMAP server to > Dovecot. There has been a substantial improvement in performance, but > some users are reporting duplicate messages, and we see 'Stale NFS file > handle' errors in the s

[Dovecot] Stale NFS file handle and duplicated messages

2007-12-08 Thread Adrian Barker
We recently moved all our users from the Washington IMAP server to Dovecot. There has been a substantial improvement in performance, but some users are reporting duplicate messages, and we see 'Stale NFS file handle' errors in the syslog. Does anyone know what would cause this ? The errors relate

[Dovecot] Sponsorship of Dovecot

2007-12-08 Thread Ed W
Timo Sirainen wrote: v1.1.0 is finally getting closer, so it's time to start planning what happens after it. Below is a list of some of the larger features I'm planning on implementing. I'm not yet sure in which order, so I think it's time to ask again what features companies would be willing to

Re: [Dovecot] Are these events normal?

2007-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 21:08 +0100, Jost Krieger wrote: > We have dropped dovecot in place of UW-IMAP for about 4 users > and have solved our immediate problem: disk I/O overload, mainly > from people doing POP3 and "leave mail on server". Thank you! > > Now i got loads of dovecot error message

[Dovecot] Are these events normal?

2007-12-08 Thread Jost Krieger
We have dropped dovecot in place of UW-IMAP for about 4 users and have solved our immediate problem: disk I/O overload, mainly from people doing POP3 and "leave mail on server". Thank you! Now i got loads of dovecot error messages in the logs and don't know if there is any significance. Here a

Re: [Dovecot] Is dovecot the right choice for this problem?

2007-12-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 23:05 -0600, Darren McLaughlin wrote: > There's a ringing endorsement of Verio. They told me that the server > had a"group mail file" and all the users had their mail stored > together. If I installed Dovecot, they said it would split the > mailboxes up into individual files

Re: [Dovecot] imap crash with fts squat enabled.

2007-12-08 Thread Joe Wong
Hi Timo, Dovecot was running on FC7 while the file server is running on FC4. - Joe May the force be with you..