Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 21:26 -0700, V S Rao wrote: > BTW, just to confirm once again, are there any known issues with Dovecot & > imapproxyd? Because I find it strange that there should be around 8000 > established connections between Squirrelmail and imapproxyd & around 400 > connections betwe

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread V S Rao
So I guess I will take the problem to imapproxy group and find out if I can get a clue to the issue I am facing. BTW, just to confirm once again, are there any known issues with Dovecot & imapproxyd? Because I find it strange that there should be around 8000 established connections between Sq

Re: [Dovecot] Authenticating with /etc/passwd

2009-05-21 Thread June Qiu
Apologies for the confusion.. But I finally got what you meant. Yes, the version exists, but was omitted in the extract of the email. --- On Thu, 5/21/09, Charles Marcus wrote: > From: Charles Marcus > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Authenticating with /etc/passwd > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Date: T

[Dovecot] Expire Plug-in stopped

2009-05-21 Thread Matt Rude
Good evening, While working with Dovecot 1.2rc4 on Fedora 10, I have been trying to get the Expire plug-in to auto delete messages for us. When I run the plug-in with the test flag, I receive the following message: /usr/local/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool --t

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread Justin Krejci
You can also use pimpstat to monitor the effectiveness of imapproxy. We had imapproxy running running in front of squirrelmail for a post.office IMAP server (based on uw-imap). We eventually went into the code for imapproxy and tweaked some of the SELECT caching and even tweaked some of the squirre

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
V S Rao wrote: > Thanks for the many responses and views. > > I have taken RH support for my mail server only and so have to ensure they > support me. So am going with their recommended version which is 0.99.x. > > Now on the webmail I have migrated to RHEL 5.3 and the dovecot being used > ther

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:08 -0700, V S Rao wrote: > Now on the webmail I have migrated to RHEL 5.3 and the dovecot being > used there is 1.0.7.x. So that should support proxying, right? Yes, but I forgot this before: Dovecot's proxying doesn't do any connection caching. So there's no benefit in u

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread V S Rao
Thanks for the many responses and views. I have taken RH support for my mail server only and so have to ensure they support me. So am going with their recommended version which is 0.99.x. Now on the webmail I have migrated to RHEL 5.3 and the dovecot being used there is 1.0.7.x. So that should

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 11:47 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Yes, that too. My point was not to judge Dovecot's performance based on >> a 0.99 version. ;) I've successfully used several versions of dovecot >> 1.1.x with imapproxyd and IMAP-only webmail clients. > > Do you have

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 11:47 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: > Yes, that too. My point was not to judge Dovecot's performance based on > a 0.99 version. ;) I've successfully used several versions of dovecot > 1.1.x with imapproxyd and IMAP-only webmail clients. Do you have any numbers about how much fa

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-21-2009 11:33 AM Seth Mattinen spake the following: >> V S Rao wrote: >>> Hi Timo, >>> >>> Thanks for the response. Apologize, but my responses are going to be a bit >>> lengthy. >>> I have migrated from uw-imap to Dovecot for POP3 & IMAP service. I run webmail

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-21-2009 11:33 AM Seth Mattinen spake the following: > V S Rao wrote: >> Hi Timo, >> >> Thanks for the response. Apologize, but my responses are going to be a bit >> lengthy. >> >>> I have migrated from uw-imap to Dovecot for POP3 & IMAP service. I run >>> webmail using squirrelmail. When runn

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
V S Rao wrote: > Hi Timo, > > Thanks for the response. Apologize, but my responses are going to be a bit > lengthy. > >> I have migrated from uw-imap to Dovecot for POP3 & IMAP service. I run >> webmail using squirrelmail. When running uw-imap I used to run >> up.imapproxyd on the webmail server

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 11:10 -0700, V S Rao wrote: > So switched to Dovecot 0.99.x (I run the server on RHEL 4.0 and that > is the max version supported by Redhat for that version). Oh, no.. I had had hoped people would have stopped running v0.99 by now :) That's probably the cause of all your pro

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread V S Rao
Hi Timo, Thanks for the response. Apologize, but my responses are going to be a bit lengthy. > I have migrated from uw-imap to Dovecot for POP3 & IMAP service. I run > webmail using squirrelmail. When running uw-imap I used to run > up.imapproxyd on the webmail server for faster responses. Afte

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP Get Savedate plugin

2009-05-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 04:54 +, Alaa Ibrahim wrote: > I'm trying to put it in a plugin, but when I call > imap_fetch_handlers_register(), it works > but all other fetch handlers get removed, my init is Oh, that's because my code looks like: struct imap_fetch_context *imap_fetch_init(struct cl

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 05:21 -0700, V S Rao wrote: > Hi All, > > I have migrated from uw-imap to Dovecot for POP3 & IMAP service. I run > webmail using squirrelmail. When running uw-imap I used to run > up.imapproxyd on the webmail server for faster responses. After > migrating to Dovecot, I find t

Re: [Dovecot] crypt() failure is possible

2009-05-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 11:29 +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > but according to man page crypt() can fail and NULL is returned then. On > other > hand glibc info page is silent about such failure. > > The thing is that I'm seeing crypt() failure here with new glibc 2.10.1 built > with nss bac

Re: [Dovecot] Authenticating with /etc/passwd

2009-05-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/21/2009 10:11 AM, June Qiu wrote: > it is as displayed So there's some weird dovecot -n bug that doesn't show the dovecot version if the 'Warning: fd limit...' warning is output? > --- On Thu, 5/21/09, Charles Marcus wrote: > >> From: Charles Marcus >> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Authenticatin

Re: [Dovecot] Authenticating with /etc/passwd

2009-05-21 Thread June Qiu
it is as displayed --- On Thu, 5/21/09, Charles Marcus wrote: > From: Charles Marcus > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Authenticating with /etc/passwd > To: "June Qiu" > Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org > Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 6:39 PM > On 5/20/2009, June Qiu (qlj...@yahoo.com) > wrote: > > dovecot -n:

[Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread V S Rao
Hi All, I have migrated from uw-imap to Dovecot for POP3 & IMAP service. I run webmail using squirrelmail. When running uw-imap I used to run up.imapproxyd on the webmail server for faster responses. After migrating to Dovecot, I find that up.imapproxyd does not work well with dovecot. I tri

Re: [Dovecot] Authenticating with /etc/passwd

2009-05-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/20/2009, June Qiu (qlj...@yahoo.com) wrote: > dovecot -n: > > Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load > (more than 768). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count > and max_mail_processes settings > # OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4u > info_log_path: /va

[Dovecot] crypt() failure is possible

2009-05-21 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
dovecot 1.1.15 in src/auth/password-scheme.c contains: static bool crypt_verify(const char *plaintext, const char *user ATTR_UNUSED, const unsigned char *raw_password, size_t size) { const char *password; if (size == 0) { /* the default mycrypt() han

Re: [Dovecot] mkdir no permission

2009-05-21 Thread Anna Obertacke
I tested Maildir to. Point 1 and 2 i don't know the programms. Point 3: its 1000. But you help me to another idea. I forgot that nothing works in my homedir. no ftp, no apache (i had my website there) etc. The other problems didn't bother me but now i remember. Is there a possibility to de

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-21 Thread Richard Hobbs
pod wrote: > Richard Hobbs writes: > >> 19. Once everything is working perfectly, send an email to the entire >> company instructing them what to do after the outage and arrange an >> outage and do the following steps as soon as the outage begins: >> >> a. Unplug DMZ switch from firewall to

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-21 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:50:05 Timo Sirainen wrote: > > I also did a chmod o+r on /home, /home/vmail, /home/vmail/ > > example.com and > > /home/vmail/example.com/john > > chdir() wants +x, not +r. that doesn't work either -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.i

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-21 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:40:00 you wrote: > exec "strace -f -o /tmp/access.log -etrace=file -p " > then try to access pop3 when fail occurs send us /tmp/access.log > (gzipped) attached -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ access.log.gz Description: G

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On May 21, 2009, at 2:58 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: greenchilly:/home/lawgon# su vmail -c "echo OK" OK greenchilly:/home/lawgon# su vmail -c 'cd /home/vmail/example.com/ john && echo Dir:$(pwd)' Dir:/home/vmail/example.com/john I also did a chmod o+r on /home, /home/vmail, /home/vmail/ ex

Re: [Dovecot] pop3 gives a permission denied error on chdir

2009-05-21 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:15:12 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Wednesday 20 May 2009 18:49:25 Steffen Kaiser wrote: > > Well, there are lots of "permission denied" problems lately. > > > > Are you really absolutely sure that user with uid 5000 may chdir into > > /home/vmail/example.com/john ?? > >