Looking at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat, I do not see much
on how to do a migration from Maildir to mdbox. That page isn't quite
updated it looks.
I have several domains (virtual) with the following storage layout:
/var/spool/virtual/$domain.
So the users have their mail stored
Thanks for the link, but the page is not really speaking about the
matter.
I clarify my question:
How to convert a "sdbox" system (in
production) to "mdbox" without loosing any email ?
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010
21:26:18 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Joan Moreau put forth on
12/23/2010 5:03 PM:
Joan Moreau put forth on 12/23/2010 5:03 PM:
> What is the process to convert "sdbox" installation to a
> "mdbox" installation ?
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Dsync
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Stan
Marc Perkel put forth on 12/23/2010 3:18 PM:
> On 12/23/2010 1:14 PM, Miha Vrhovnik wrote:
>> You guys do know that Dovecot 2 supports alt storage right?
> No - what's alt storage?
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox#Alternate_storage
Only works with [m]dbox format. Command used to mov
I have a Windoze-only client who wants to move their mail hosting from
godaddy.com hosting to an in-house system. I'm pitching Linux as an
alternative to Exchange, and trying to set up a demonstration system for
them. While a long-time Linux user, my server admin experience has been in
settin
Hi all,
What is the process to convert "sdbox" installation to a
"mdbox" installation ?
Thanks
Joan
Phil Howard wrote:
I think this issue has been entirely misunderstood. Have I explained it wrong?
I think there's been a bit of confusion here. Everyone is saying
similar things in slightly different ways.
The IMAP protocol has no way to "push" to the MUA that a folder
(mailbox) has been
On 12/23/2010 1:14 PM, Miha Vrhovnik wrote:
"Tom Talpey" wrote on 23.12.2010 21:27:02:
On 12/23/2010 3:13 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
I wonder if there's any way to do this. Say there are two different
storage devices mounted as follows:
/slow-hard-drive/email-directory
/fast-ssd-drive/email-di
"Tom Talpey" wrote on 23.12.2010 21:27:02:
>On 12/23/2010 3:13 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
>> I wonder if there's any way to do this. Say there are two different
>> storage devices mounted as follows:
>>
>> /slow-hard-drive/email-directory
>> /fast-ssd-drive/email-directory
>>
You guys do know that D
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hello sir.
I find this project plugin to delete trash very ambitious and important.
importance of clearing the trash could be done with this for people who
do not practice "for good uses and customs" the quota system, quota
warnings. this notion of qu
On 12/23/2010 3:13 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
I wonder if there's any way to do this. Say there are two different
storage devices mounted as follows:
/slow-hard-drive/email-directory
/fast-ssd-drive/email-directory
Now suppose there were a way to join these drives so that you could
access them as a
On 2010-12-23 2:33 PM, Phil Howard wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:28, Charles Marcus wrote:
>> On 2010-12-23 10:27 AM, David Warden wrote:
>>> I know Thunderbird can be difficult when it comes to new folders
>>> showing up on the server that it didn't create.
>> Main reason I always uncheck t
On 12/23/2010 11:37 AM, Javier de Miguel Rodríguez wrote:
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:27:45 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
SSD drives are very fast but expensive. So I have a crude idea that
I'd like to see. May not be practical but would like to get some
thoughts on it.
You are asking about automat
Quoting Marc Perkel :
Some new SSDs use SATA 3 (6gb/sec) with 355/mb/sec read speeds and
215MB/sec write. Put these in raid 0 and it screams! Can you imagine
how fast that would be?
I'd never raid-0 anything important...
What would be nice is if new email were on faster drives with old
e
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:27:45 -0800, Marc Perkel
wrote:
SSD drives are very fast but expensive. So I have a crude idea that
I'd like to see. May not be practical but would like to get some
thoughts on it.
You are asking about automatic storage tiering. You can get what you
want in a transpara
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:28, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2010-12-23 10:27 AM, David Warden wrote:
>> I know Thunderbird can be difficult when it comes to new folders showing
>> up on the server that it didn't create.
>
> Main reason I always uncheck the 'show only subscribed folders' option
> in
SSD drives are very fast but expensive. So I have a crude idea that I'd
like to see. May not be practical but would like to get some thoughts on it.
Some new SSDs use SATA 3 (6gb/sec) with 355/mb/sec read speeds and
215MB/sec write. Put these in raid 0 and it screams! Can you imagine how
fast
On 12/23/2010 11:33 AM, Chris Barnes wrote:
(2) anyone have a shell script that will remove all those dovecot* files
from the user's directory AND all the sub-directories?
I found my own answer to this question:
~/Maildir# rm -rv .*/dovecot*
Maybe, a good solution can be a flag setting to allow this behavior.
2010/12/23 Antonio Perez-Aranda :
> Well, I am making a patch for this.
>
> At present, I modify the maildir recalc behavior to avoid count bytes
> from Deleted messages marked.
>
> Now, I modify quota-storage to force to recalc
Well, I am making a patch for this.
At present, I modify the maildir recalc behavior to avoid count bytes
from Deleted messages marked.
Now, I modify quota-storage to force to recalc the quota when FLAGS
are changed. Well, I need to specify only the flag Deleted, but with
this behavior I am happy
This is my first post to this list/gmane newsgroup, so please be gentle
with me :-)
Here's my situation:
I have a user (the "main boss secretary") who uses MS Outlook 2007 as
her email client. She has over 46,000 messages in her inbox, with
nobody knows how many more in 75+ different fo
On 2010-12-23 10:27 AM, David Warden wrote:
> I know Thunderbird can be difficult when it comes to new folders showing
> up on the server that it didn't create.
Main reason I always uncheck the 'show only subscribed folders' option
in the Advanced settings...
--
Best regards,
Charles
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:27, David Warden wrote:
> Out of curiosity, are you using the "autosubscribe" feature of Dovecot LDA
> to automatically subscribe people who whatever new folder the Dovecot LDA
> automatically creates? It looks like this is the -s flag to LDA binary in
> 1.1.3+ or lda_ma
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:19:22PM +0100, Thomas Hummel wrote:
> 20101223-135556-38406.in:5 select "AA/BB/CC/foobar"
I forgot to mention that some of those mailboxes were not touched at all by the
user during the period where dovecot was using "/". And now that dovecot
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:19:22PM +0100, Thomas Hummel wrote:
Also, if we change the separator, do we have to change it on the subscription
file ? Could it be the source of my problem ?
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| Pôle informatique - systèmes et réseau
Out of curiosity, are you using the "autosubscribe" feature of Dovecot
LDA to automatically subscribe people who whatever new folder the
Dovecot LDA automatically creates? It looks like this is the -s flag to
LDA binary in 1.1.3+ or lda_mailbox_autosubscribe in 2.0+ (not sure
exactly what point
I think this issue has been entirely misunderstood. Have I explained it wrong?
2010/12/22 Karsten Bräckelmann :
> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 09:34 -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
>> 2010/12/21 Karsten Bräckelmann :
>>
>> > Creating the new mail folder is entirely on the IMAP server side. The
>> > MUA (Evolu
policyd is a policy server, which can be used in postfix, and can
be used to acchieve quota limitations to help you solve this kind of
situations.
you should take a look in it: http://www.policyd.org/
Making this limitation on dovecot, if possible, would limit the
delivery only
2.8.0 with
namespace {
type = private
separator = "."
And Thunderbird clients seem very confused about it :
For instance, rawlogs say :
# grep -i foobar *
20101223-133841-34429.out:* LSUB () "." "AA.BB.CC.foobar"
20101223-133841-34429.out:* LSU
I have a mail server with postfix, dovecot (1.2.15) and deliver lda
(dovecot) with 350 users.
I have the problem that in this christmas the employees are sending some
big files (mainly powerpoints files) to a lot of recipients, because of
that the server get a lot of charge (is a Xeon quad core 540
Reading this URL:
http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README.maildirquota.html
It tell about deleted Messages:
"
The default application configuration that uses this maildirquota
library does not count deleted messages, and any contents of the Trash
folder, against the quota. Messages that are marke
Well, I'm going to describe the behavior thats we need. Maybe it could
be done with another settings.
On outlook, well a mail is moved to a outlook local folder, the client
quota isn't update until the user Purge the imap folder.
When outlook move a mail, it mark mail as Deleted (flag T) and leav
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