Re: [Dovecot] Okay, so what's with "mail storage creation failed", was Cannot connect to dovecot imap server -- nothing in log

At 8:36 PM -0700 4/17/08, David Benfell wrote: (reduced to the key pieces of information.) dovecot: 2008-04-17 20:24:51 Error: IMAP(benfell): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: /home/benfell/imap-folders (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:) [...] namespace:

Re: [Dovecot] Okay, so what's with "mail storage creation failed", was Cannot connect to dovecot imap server -- nothing in log

Thanks Bill, I thought I'd gotten that. I guess, not enough sleep. So now, when attempting to connect, I'm getting this in the log (and hurray, I'm now getting far enough to at least have something in the log): dovecot: 2008-04-17 20:24:41 Error: IMAP(benfell): Namespace 'folders/' mail storage

Re: [Dovecot] Cannot connect to dovecot imap server -- nothing in log

At 5:35 PM -0700 4/17/08, David Benfell imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: Hello all, I'm trying to connect to a dovecot server I've just installed, using evolution. And I'm not having any success: starshine# tail -f /var/log/dovecot.log dovecot: 2008-04-16 20:11:37 Info:

Re: [Dovecot] Bah! Outlook

Jason Wohlford schrieb: On Apr 15, 2008, at 6:28 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Hi Jason, forget about workarounds for outlook express its a broken client for several reasons, just advice not not use it. Outlook isnt Outlook , div versions with div patchlevel working in different ways and have

[Dovecot] Cannot connect to dovecot imap server -- nothing in log

Hello all, I'm trying to connect to a dovecot server I've just installed, using evolution. And I'm not having any success: starshine# tail -f /var/log/dovecot.log dovecot: 2008-04-16 20:11:37 Info: Dovecot v1.0.10 starting up dovecot: 2008-04-17 16:40:30 Warning: Killed with signal 15 dovecot:

Re: [Dovecot] Bah! Outlook

On Apr 17 2008, Jason Wohlford wrote: We'll I'll have to disagree with you there. I find Mail.app to be a great little program. Mac OS X Server uses Cyrus and Postfix. I've even gone command line to fine tune some spam settings. Now, you can certainly dis-Apple for many other things, but Ma

Re: [Dovecot] Development news

On Apr 17, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: Well, http://iki.fi/tss/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo_Sirainen tell pretty much everything there is to know. -- Jason Wohlford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Dovecot] Bah! Outlook

P.S. Sorry for the late (and many) replies. I've been sick and are now just getting back into the swing of things. Cheers, Jason On Apr 14, 2008, at 10:12 PM, Jason Wohlford wrote: Hi All, I run a little hosting company. I use Dovecot 1.0.10* with IMAP exclusively. Lots of my customers use

Re: [Dovecot] Bah! Outlook

On Apr 15, 2008, at 6:28 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Hi Jason, forget about workarounds for outlook express its a broken client for several reasons, just advice not not use it. Outlook isnt Outlook , div versions with div patchlevel working in different ways and have different ways ( or no wa

Re: [Dovecot] Bah! Outlook

On Apr 15, 2008, at 12:32 AM, Uldis Pakuls wrote: Jason Wohlford wrote: Hi All, I run a little hosting company. I use Dovecot 1.0.10* with IMAP exclusively. Lots of my customers use Outlook or Outlook Express. This poses a problem. These programs don't and have absolutely no workarounds

Re: [Dovecot] How to deal with mail to unknown virtual recipients?

Andreas Ntaflos wrote: Hello list, I am not quite sure whether this is a questions for Dovecot or Postfix. I have set up, virtual hosting for one domain (for test purposes) using a passwd-file as passdb and a static userdb (see dovecot -n at the end) along with Postfix in a manner described i

Re: [Dovecot] Development news

On Apr 18, 2008, at 12:24 AM, Eugene wrote: Hi Timo and welcome back! On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 20:29 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: Tomorrow begins a 5 week lab course at school. Every day and about 8 hours a day. And then we'll also have to write these reports about what we have done and how/why,

Re: [Dovecot] Development news

Hi Timo and welcome back! On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 20:29 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: Tomorrow begins a 5 week lab course at school. Every day and about 8 hours a day. And then we'll also have to write these reports about what we have done and how/why, which takes quite a lot of time as well. After

[Dovecot] How to deal with mail to unknown virtual recipients?

Hello list, I am not quite sure whether this is a questions for Dovecot or Postfix. I have set up, virtual hosting for one domain (for test purposes) using a passwd-file as passdb and a static userdb (see dovecot -n at the end) along with Postfix in a manner described in [1], i.e. a non-Postfi

Re: [Dovecot] keep users from deleting email

On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:13 PM, Bill Cole wrote: The interesting issue would then be the size of the Dovecot index files. I don't know if they are designed to work well when all of your users have tens of thousands of messages in their index. I expect you'll want a lot of RAM... I've some fu

[Dovecot] Dbox + imap_quota still crashing on 1.1rc 4

Emailed about this with 1.1rc3 and didn't get a reply. Tried upgrading to 1.1rc4 and got the same crashing: Centos 5 (in openvz container) 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5.028stab053.4 #1 SMP Fri Jan 18 12:29:44 MSK 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux /usr/local/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -n # 1.1.rc4: /usr/local/d

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1rc3 "Out of Memory" crashes from pop3-login?

Timo Sirainen wrote: On Apr 17, 2008, at 7:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recently began seeing server crashes in our cluster related to "pop3-login", which is causing "oom-killer" to be invoked. The server only r

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1rc3 "Out of Memory" crashes from pop3-login?

On Apr 17, 2008, at 7:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recently began seeing server crashes in our cluster related to "pop3-login", which is causing "oom-killer" to be invoked. The server only recovers after a rebo

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1rc3 "Out of Memory" crashes from pop3-login?

Timo Sirainen wrote: On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recently began seeing server crashes in our cluster related to "pop3-login", which is causing "oom-killer" to be invoked. The server only recovers after a reboot. So oom-killer doesn't solve the issue? Then it's li

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and multiple instances in Geentoo

* Wojciech Matys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-17 15:43]: > Is there any possiblity to run more than one instance of dovecot in gentoo > (I was trying to run second instance but I don't know how to force it to > use other pid file than /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) > I'm using dovecot from portage do

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1rc3 "Out of Memory" crashes from pop3-login?

On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recently began seeing server crashes in our cluster related to "pop3-login", which is causing "oom-killer" to be invoked. The server only recovers after a reboot. So oom-killer doesn't solve the issue? Then it's likely it has nothing

[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1rc3 "Out of Memory" crashes from pop3-login?

We recently began seeing server crashes in our cluster related to "pop3-login", which is causing "oom-killer" to be invoked. The server only recovers after a reboot. From dovecot.conf: login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 16 login_max_processes_count = 256 (Should we tr

Re: [Dovecot] Bah! Outlook

On 4/17/2008, Ed W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I found that Outlook Express to be one of the (overall) best IMAP clients out there... Very arguable to say the least. It is definitely better than Outlook, but thats not saying much. Thunderbird has worked *very* well in our 60+ user installatio

Re: [Dovecot] keep users from deleting email

At 10:28 AM -0500 4/14/08, Adam Williams imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: Bill Cole wrote: Um, really? I've had a little experience with SOx, HIPAA, GLBA, and Federal E-Discovery compliance projects, and I've never heard that SOx applied at all to state agencies or that

Re: [Dovecot] Bah! Outlook

At 2:08 PM +0100 4/17/08, Ed W wrote: I hate defend Microsoft, but personally I found that Outlook Express to be one of the (overall) best IMAP clients out there... (on windows at least). Mulberry never quite seemed to work the way I expected and is now discontinued. Not really. The commerci

Re: [Dovecot] CRAM-MD5 Password Generation Algorithm

At 10:57 AM +0200 4/17/08, Chris Laif wrote: On 4/13/08, Bill Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In fact, look here: http://www.scconsult.com/bill/crampass.pl It does have a dependency issue, in that it requires Digest::Perl::MD5. There's a little mistake in this script. Line 54 should r

Re: [Dovecot] Development news

On 4/17/2008 8:44 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 20:29 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: Tomorrow begins a 5 week lab course at school. Every day and about 8 hours a day. And then we'll also have to write these reports about what we have done and how/why, which takes quite a lot of tim

[Dovecot] Dovecot and multiple instances in Geentoo

Is there any possiblity to run more than one instance of dovecot in gentoo (I was trying to run second instance but I don't know how to force it to use other pid file than /var/run/dovecot/master.pid) I'm using dovecot from portage dovecot-1.0.13-r1.

Re: [Dovecot] more than one ldap database.

You can define multiple userdb/passworddb sections, each using ldap but using a different conf file. If you search the archives for one if my earlier posts this week, you will see my configuration where we actually have 3 different ldap configs defined to handle searching specific sub-trees within

Re: [Dovecot] Mixing LDAP and static

On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 22:37 +0200, Anders wrote: > I want to read quota size from LDAP, but I have a static value for home. > How can I mix these? > > Right now, I have this LDAP configuration: > > user_attrs = > uid=home=/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n,gosaMailQuota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$M > > which

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot-deliver lookup fails

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 17:02 +0200, Wouter Amsterdam wrote: > "Apr 15 16:30:34 termserv dovecot: auth(default): static([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > passdb doesn't support lookups, can't verify user's existence" http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/Static -> Deliver. I suppose you're using LDAP auth bind

Re: [Dovecot] keep users from deleting email

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 08:42 -0500, Adam Williams wrote: > I looked on the dovecot website, but didn't find an answer. With > dovecot 1.0, is there a way to keep users from deleting their email? So > that when they click the delete button on their email client, nothing > happens/dovecot refuses

Re: [Dovecot] Does dovecot work with OpenLDAP? (was Re: Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.)

> So why is dovecot searching for uid? I am not asking it to; in fact, my > pass_attrs field is empty. Im' no tsure, I was hoping someone else would know why. Is it a hard coded default? > Also, I have switched around my setup to not use auth_bind: > > hosts = ldap.lrtz > dn = cn=var

Re: [Dovecot] Bah! Outlook

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 22:12 -0500, Jason Wohlford wrote: > It seems to me there needs to be two things done. First, a system that > automatically copy a message marked for deletion from one folder (e.g. > INBOX) to a trash folder (e.g. Trash, Deleted Messages, etc.) Sounds upcoming virtual m

Re: [Dovecot] keep users from deleting email

You definitely need to be aware of the fact that one of the downsides of mbox is performance and resource demands as the mbox files grow. What do you consider a large mbox? We have users with single mbox files of 3G and their mail loads up fine. We are using Seamonkey's email client and it m

Re: [Dovecot] Bah! Outlook

I hate defend Microsoft, but personally I found that Outlook Express to be one of the (overall) best IMAP clients out there... (on windows at least). Mulberry never quite seemed to work the way I expected and is now discontinued. I personally used OE for many years and it took quite a long ti

Re: [Dovecot] more than one ldap database.

While I am still having trouble getting LDAP to work with dovecot, I have successfully solved this particular problem. My users login with their emails. The correct search base for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is "ou=users, dc=lorentz, dc=com". I accomplish this with: base = ou=users, dc=%

Re: [Dovecot] Does dovecot work with OpenLDAP? (was Re: Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.)

So why is dovecot searching for uid? I am not asking it to; in fact, my pass_attrs field is empty. Also, I have switched around my setup to not use auth_bind: hosts = ldap.lrtz dn = cn=varmail,ou=users,dc=lorentz,dc=com dnpass = *** ldap_version = 3 auth_bind = no pass_attrs =

[Dovecot] dovecot: Fatal: IMAP(user2): write(event_pipe) failed: Bad file descriptor

Hello. Since I upgraded few months ago from version 1.0 to 1.1 (right now using v1.1.rc4) in logs for some users only (but in different servers) I noticed errors: dovecot: Fatal: IMAP(user2): write(event_pipe) failed: Bad file descriptor dovecot: Fatal: IMAP(user3): write(event_pipe) failed:

Re: [Dovecot] Development news

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 20:29 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Tomorrow begins a 5 week lab course at school. Every day and about 8 > hours a day. And then we'll also have to write these reports about what > we have done and how/why, which takes quite a lot of time as well. After > 5 weeks there's one f

Re: [Dovecot] Multiple ssl certificates

Words by Wojciech Matys [Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:56:59PM +0200]: > Hello, > > I wonder if there is some possibility to force dovecot to use more than > one ssl certificate. > I would like to use a few certficates: one per IP We are hosting many > different domains > and I had to use stunnel to ens

[Dovecot] Multiple ssl certificates

Hello, I wonder if there is some possibility to force dovecot to use more than one ssl certificate. I would like to use a few certficates: one per IP We are hosting many different domains and I had to use stunnel to ensure encrypted connection for our clients using different certificates. But stu

[Dovecot] more than one ldap database.

If I have two databases in my ldap, ex: dc=dominio1,dc=it is the first database and dc=dominio2,dc=it is the second one. Can I put these two search bases in dovecot-ldap.conf?

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 & imap

> Ok, so I wonder how labels in gmail works :) one mail folder, you use lables to filter mails to be (not) seen by the mail client. Of course, one can virtualize folders by returning any message with a specific label in a virtual IMAP folder of that name. >>BTW: There was some talk about a virtua

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 & imap

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I wonder how labels in gmail works :) one mail folder, you use lables to filter mails to be (not) seen by the mail client. Of course, one can virtualize folders by returning any message with a

Re: [Dovecot] CRAM-MD5 Password Generation Algorithm

On 4/13/08, Bill Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact, look here: > > http://www.scconsult.com/bill/crampass.pl > > It does have a dependency issue, in that it requires Digest::Perl::MD5. > There's a little mistake in this script. Line 54 should read: if (length $secret > 64) { You can e

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 & imap

> I use dovecot as pop3 and imap(squirrelmail) server. > When I create a folder through webmail and set some sieve rules(fileinto for > example), > messages will be delivered to that folder by lda, but will not be visibe for > pop clients. > Is it possible to download these messages ? (Dovecot 1.

Re: [Dovecot] antispam for Dovecot 1.1

Johannes Berg wrote: > I don't have any plans right now, but it shouldn't be too hard. Now I made a failed attempt. So I hope somebody else will take on the task :-) It does seem quite straight-forward (mostly a matter of changed prototypes), but there was too much guesswork for me to be able to

Re: [Dovecot] postfix virtual maildir

Uldis Pakuls wrote: > - all other "virtual_*" stuff is useless here if you use dovecot and > dovecot's LDA. > > only one exception: you may with to use virtual_mailbox_maps as lookup tables for "smtp_recipient_restrictions = permit_auth_destination, reject" to reject mail for non existing users

Re: [Dovecot] postfix virtual maildir

Gert Cuykens wrote: > my postfix setup > http://code.google.com/p/appwsgi/wiki/smtp > > my dovecot setup > http://code.google.com/p/appwsgi/wiki/imap > > > So what can i do to see some listing of my new mail ? > 1. you have not defined dovecot as virtual transport in your postfix main.cf so all