[Dovecot] Permission denied

2010-12-16 Thread Alex Cherniak
After several trouble free months and without any obvious reason our server just stopped working. I cannot even re-start it: [r...@dsmail /]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot.log: Permission denied If I create those manually (touch /var/log/do

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
Oops, now I finally understand why Mail.app kept asking for my password for each mail I sent: it helpfully decided to start signing mails with the only client cert I had, without asking me.. Forget about those signatures in the last two mails :)

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 16.12.2010, at 18.33, Mark Moseley wrote: >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/15/470 > > Timo, if we apply the above kernel patch, do we still need to patch > dovecot or is it just an either-or thing? Either-or. > I'm guessing the reason I saw so many less context switches when using > a client_

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 16.12.2010, at 22.09, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > You mean these past two months of grief - concern over Dovecot 2.0's > underlying design, exploring various configurations and settings, and general > hysteria came down to...a two line patch?!?!?! At least now I know much more about context sw

Re: [Dovecot] namespace and list=children inconsistencies

2010-12-16 Thread Willie Gillespie
Holger Mauermann wrote: Am 16.12.2010 01:38, schrieb Holger Mauermann: With LIST "Shared/" the other users INBOX is missing, so with namespace capable clients like Thunderbird it is impossible to see or subscribe this folder. After restarting Thunderbird now I can see and subscribe the other u

Re: [Dovecot] namespace and list=children inconsistencies

2010-12-16 Thread Holger Mauermann
Am 16.12.2010 01:38, schrieb Holger Mauermann: > With LIST "Shared/" the other users INBOX is missing, so with namespace > capable clients like Thunderbird it is impossible to see or subscribe > this folder. After restarting Thunderbird now I can see and subscribe the other users INBOX. However, I

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-16 Thread ckubu
hi cor, > For those interested, graph showing the difference before and after patch: > > context switches: http://grab.by/7W9u > load:http://grab.by/7W9x which patch, timo's patch on dovecot or the also posted lkml patch christoph

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-16 Thread Daniel L. Miller
You mean these past two months of grief - concern over Dovecot 2.0's underlying design, exploring various configurations and settings, and general hysteria came down to...a two line patch?!?!?! I know it was more than that - and that in fact this exposed a Linux kernel flaw - but I'm still lau

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot 2.0.8 LDA with MYSQL issues not solved

2010-12-16 Thread PA
Apparently that's not it, the include is configured as !include conf.d/*.conf - when I changed the conf.d/ files to .conf.ext it simple didn't read the file and it gave me no error. Back to square one. -Original Message- From: PA [mailto:ra...@meganet.net] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 201

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot 2.0.8 LDA with MYSQL issues solved

2010-12-16 Thread PA
I had the config files in the conf.d/ directory as *.conf instead of *conf.ext. When I renamed the files to include .ext that seemed to fix the problem. Coming from Dovecot 1.x I never used extended config files in the conf.d directory, apparently they have to be named .ext. Thanks, Paul -Ori

Re: [Dovecot] Expire plugin does not work

2010-12-16 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I forgot to mention the dovecot version number. It is version 2.0.7. Regards Christoph

Re: [Dovecot] namespace and list=children inconsistencies

2010-12-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 12/16/2010 9:34 AM: > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:26 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: >> On 2010-12-16 8:59 AM, Holger Mauermann wrote: >>> Here is the full doveconf -n output: >>> >>> # 2.0.8: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf >>> # OS: Linux 2.6.35-23-virtual x86_64 Ubuntu 10.10 >> >>

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-16 Thread Cor Bosman
For those interested, graph showing the difference before and after patch: context switches: http://grab.by/7W9u load:http://grab.by/7W9x Cor

[Dovecot] Expire plugin does not work

2010-12-16 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I followed the instructions on http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire to configure the expire plugin, but when I move a message to the Trash folder, I get the following error messages in my logfile: dovecot: dict: Error: sqlite: exec(INSERT INTO expires (expire_stamp,username,mailbox)

Re: [Dovecot] How to avoid "authenticated user not found" - messages when using multiple Ldap userdbs/passdbs?

2010-12-16 Thread Sebastian Urbanneck
On 16.12.2010 15:25, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-12-16 8:55 AM, Javier de Miguel Rodrí­guez wrote: El 16/12/10 14:50, Sebastian Urbanneck escribió: Following: We've got a Dovecot 1.0.10 running on Ubuntu Hardy. Till now we used to have only mail accounts under our own domain, but since we're

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-16 Thread Mark Moseley
2010/12/16 Jose Celestino : > On Qui, 2010-12-16 at 12:56 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> * Cor Bosman : > >> > I saw someone also posted a patch to the LKML. >> >> I guess I missed that one >> > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/15/470 Timo, if we apply the above kernel patch, do we still need to

[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0.8 LDA with MYSQL issues

2010-12-16 Thread PA
Hi, after deciding to use Dovecot 2.0.8 as a postfix LDA using mysql DB I'm running into some issues. I started to follow, http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/DovecotLDAPostfixAdminMySQL but noticed that the auth settings on the config changed, after looking through the dovecot wiki I think I have that i

Re: [Dovecot] namespace and list=children inconsistencies

2010-12-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:26 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-12-16 8:59 AM, Holger Mauermann wrote: > > Here is the full doveconf -n output: > > > > # 2.0.8: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > > # OS: Linux 2.6.35-23-virtual x86_64 Ubuntu 10.10 > > Timo - am I crazy, or did this output used to inc

[Dovecot] Upgrade dovecot 1.2.14 to 2.0.7

2010-12-16 Thread Firebolt
Hi, I try to upgrade my dovecot server to the 2.x branch. But i have a big problem with the mailbox which are over quota. Server works fine, but when a mail arrived to user who is over quota, i have this error: Dec 16 14:54:42 lda(...@***.com): Panic: stream doesn't support seeking bac

Re: [Dovecot] adding servers to director_mail_servers

2010-12-16 Thread Cor Bosman
Timo, sorry to get back to this, but im still confused :) It seems every time I want to add a director, or other need to restart one or work on its config, im having a hard time making things work again without service disruption (or minimal service disruption). Lets say I have the following si

Re: [Dovecot] namespace and list=children inconsistencies

2010-12-16 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-12-16 8:59 AM, Holger Mauermann wrote: > Here is the full doveconf -n output: > > # 2.0.8: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: Linux 2.6.35-23-virtual x86_64 Ubuntu 10.10 Timo - am I crazy, or did this output used to include the filesystem too? -- Best regards, Charles

Re: [Dovecot] How to avoid "authenticated user not found" - messages when using multiple Ldap userdbs/passdbs?

2010-12-16 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-12-16 8:55 AM, Javier de Miguel Rodrí­guez wrote: > El 16/12/10 14:50, Sebastian Urbanneck escribió: >> Following: >> >> We've got a Dovecot 1.0.10 running on Ubuntu Hardy. Till now we used >> to have only mail accounts under our own domain, but since we're also >> a webhoster the people be

Re: [Dovecot] users's mailboxes = mbox , shared mailboxes = maildir ... is it possible ?

2010-12-16 Thread Frank Bonnet
Thanks a lot ! On 12/16/2010 02:34 PM, Oliver Eales wrote: Am 16.12.2010 13:49, schrieb Frank Bonnet: Hello As I would like to setup some shared mailboxes, is it possible to have MBOX format for normal users ( UNIX NIS users ) and Maildir format for shared mailboxes to gain access to the per-u

Re: [Dovecot] namespace and list=children inconsistencies

2010-12-16 Thread Holger Mauermann
Am 16.12.2010 13:39, schrieb Charles Marcus: > On 2010-12-15 7:38 PM, Holger Mauermann wrote: >> Here is the relevant doveconf -n output: >> ... > > Please always include *full* doveconf -n output, not just what you > *think* is relevant... its not that much more, and includes extra info > that pe

Re: [Dovecot] How to avoid "authenticated user not found" - messages when using multiple Ldap userdbs/passdbs?

2010-12-16 Thread Javier de Miguel Rodrí­guez
El 16/12/10 14:50, Sebastian Urbanneck escribió: Following: We've got a Dovecot 1.0.10 running on Ubuntu Hardy. Till now we used to have only mail accounts under our own domain, but since we're also a webhoster the people began to ask if there is a possibility to use there own Domains in ther

[Dovecot] How to avoid "authenticated user not found" - messages when using multiple Ldap userdbs/passdbs?

2010-12-16 Thread Sebastian Urbanneck
Following: We've got a Dovecot 1.0.10 running on Ubuntu Hardy. Till now we used to have only mail accounts under our own domain, but since we're also a webhoster the people began to ask if there is a possibility to use there own Domains in there mail address. For addressing this we changed o

Re: [Dovecot] users's mailboxes = mbox , shared mailboxes = maildir ... is it possible ?

2010-12-16 Thread Oliver Eales
Am 16.12.2010 13:49, schrieb Frank Bonnet: Hello As I would like to setup some shared mailboxes, is it possible to have MBOX format for normal users ( UNIX NIS users ) and Maildir format for shared mailboxes to gain access to the per-user \Seen flag Or do I have to convert ALL my server to Mail

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-16 Thread Jose Celestino
On Qui, 2010-12-16 at 12:56 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Cor Bosman : > > I saw someone also posted a patch to the LKML. > > I guess I missed that one > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/15/470 -- Jose Celestino | http://japc.uncovering.org/files/japc-pgpkey.asc

[Dovecot] users's mailboxes = mbox , shared mailboxes = maildir ... is it possible ?

2010-12-16 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I solved my previous SSL problem by reinstalling dovecot2 ... :-) at FreeBSD 8.1 Now I'm using dovecot 2 , cool ... Actually my production mail server runs with MBOX format but reading the dovecot 2 wiki I read shared mailboxes are only working well with Maildir format. As I would like t

Re: [Dovecot] Plugins on a NFS

2010-12-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 10:41 -0200, Alex Baule wrote: > I Search in lib to see how the nfs_flush* works , and i see this too. > > int nfs_safe_stat(const char *path, struct stat *buf); > > can i use this too ? it's get a better handle with this + nfs_flush* before > ?! The nfs_safe_stat() is abo

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-16 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Charles Marcus : > On 2010-12-16 6:53 AM, Cor Bosman wrote: > > It looks like Timo's patch fixes the problem. Context switches are > > now back to normal, and the load graph is smooth and lower. I saw > > someone also posted a patch to the LKML. > > Out of curiosity, when you say lower - how doe

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-16 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-12-16 6:53 AM, Cor Bosman wrote: > It looks like Timo's patch fixes the problem. Context switches are > now back to normal, and the load graph is smooth and lower. I saw > someone also posted a patch to the LKML. Out of curiosity, when you say lower - how does the load actually compare now

Re: [Dovecot] Plugins on a NFS

2010-12-16 Thread Alex Baule
Hi timo... I Search in lib to see how the nfs_flush* works , and i see this too. int nfs_safe_stat(const char *path, struct stat *buf); can i use this too ? it's get a better handle with this + nfs_flush* before ?! Tks ! 2010/12/16 Timo Sirainen > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:30 -0200, Alex Bau

Re: [Dovecot] namespace and list=children inconsistencies

2010-12-16 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-12-15 7:38 PM, Holger Mauermann wrote: > Here is the relevant doveconf -n output: > ... Please always include *full* doveconf -n output, not just what you *think* is relevant... its not that much more, and includes extra info that people sometimes forget - like dovecot version (and filesys

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-16 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Cor Bosman : > It looks like Timo's patch fixes the problem. Context switches are now > back to normal, and the load graph is smooth and lower. Same here. > I saw someone also posted a patch to the LKML. I guess I missed that one -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwe

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-16 Thread Cor Bosman
It looks like Timo's patch fixes the problem. Context switches are now back to normal, and the load graph is smooth and lower. I saw someone also posted a patch to the LKML. Cor

Re: [Dovecot] Plugins on a NFS

2010-12-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:30 -0200, Alex Baule wrote: > I Made a plugin that's works fine in a Normal Partition and a GlusterFS > enviroment too. > in NFS it's intermitent, some times works, some times don't. > Only the expunge part have this issue, i use stat to get the amont of hard > link in a f

[Dovecot] Plugins on a NFS

2010-12-16 Thread Alex Baule
Hi timo. I Made a plugin that's works fine in a Normal Partition and a GlusterFS enviroment too. in NFS it's intermitent, some times works, some times don't. Only the expunge part have this issue, i use stat to get the amont of hard link in a file. There is because of that (stat, hard link cou

Re: [Dovecot] xapian search plugin

2010-12-16 Thread Vasiliy G Tolstov
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 10:52 +, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 13:00 +0300, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote: > > Hello. Does anybody write fts xapian plugin to dovecot 2? > > Not as far as I know. > > > If nobody - > > can You suggest me what i need to read and what source files i need

Re: [Dovecot] xapian search plugin

2010-12-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 13:00 +0300, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote: > Hello. Does anybody write fts xapian plugin to dovecot 2? Not as far as I know. > If nobody - > can You suggest me what i need to read and what source files i need no > read to write own xapian fts plugin. src/plugins/fts/fts-api*.h

[Dovecot] xapian search plugin

2010-12-16 Thread Vasiliy G Tolstov
Hello. Does anybody write fts xapian plugin to dovecot 2? If nobody - can You suggest me what i need to read and what source files i need no read to write own xapian fts plugin. Thank You for any comments. -- Vasiliy G Tolstov Selfip.Ru

Re: [Dovecot] ssl enabled, but ssl_cert not set ( 2.0.7 freebsd 8.1 )

2010-12-16 Thread Frank Bonnet
Yes I know but it does not work ! On 12/15/2010 06:33 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: You can change the "ssl = yes" to "ssl = no" and try again or specify the correct paths to your SSL certs. That is what it is telling you. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Frank Bonnet wrote: hello tryin