Re: How to use dovecot only as POP3 server / prevent it from creating .imap directories?

2020-06-07 Thread Joseph Tam
On Sun, 7 Jun 2020, Binarus wrote: So how exactly do I have to alter the configuration to implement your suggestion, i.e. to make dovecot look only at the mbox file and to prevent the creation of unnecessary directories? Maybe try mail_location = mbox:/empty/dir:INBOX=~/inbox Not su

Special use folders in mailbox hierarchy

2020-06-07 Thread Scott A. Wozny
Dear Dovecot Gurus, Setting up my first IMAP server and looking at the folder structure, I had a mailbox I built on a Dovecot server and a mailbox configured by a hosting provider next to each other in Thunderbird and I noticed that the special use folders (Drafts, Trash and Sent) in my defaul

Re: How to use dovecot only as POP3 server / prevent it from creating .imap directories?

2020-06-07 Thread Binarus
On 07.06.2020 17:56, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:44:51AM +0200, Binarus wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> on our mail server, I let sendmail deliver incoming messages to a file in >> mbox format called "inbox" in each user's home directory. Now I would like >> to use dovecot as PO

Re: How to use dovecot only as POP3 server / prevent it from creating .imap directories?

2020-06-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:44:51AM +0200, Binarus wrote: > Dear all, > > on our mail server, I let sendmail deliver incoming messages to a file in > mbox format called "inbox" in each user's home directory. Now I would like > to use dovecot as POP3 server so that users can let their MUA downloa

Re: Doveadm Backup (other) issues

2020-06-07 Thread John Stoffel
> "Gingko" == Gingko writes: Gingko> I also have issues using Dovecot Backup. Gingko> I am trying to Backup (or possibly Sync - one way) a single Gingko> user IMAP account from a remote server, unknown type, to my Gingko> own server. I think this is the key problem here, doveadm only talk

Doveadm Backup (other) issues

2020-06-07 Thread Gingko
Hello, I also have issues using Dovecot Backup. I am trying to Backup (or possibly Sync - one way) a single user IMAP account from a remote server, unknown type, to my own server. For that purpose, I defined the following parameters : imapc_host = imapc_user = imapc_password = imapc_featu

Re: Doveadm Backup issues

2020-06-07 Thread Bernardo Reino
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020, @lbutlr wrote: On 05 Jun 2020, at 17:09, Bernardo Reino wrote: USERS=$(cat /etc/dovecot/virtual_passwd | cut -d: -f1) Is that a standard file? It's not one I have. No, of course not! :) That's just my userdb/passdb (passwd-file). I would use (not that I have, but it s

Re: Cannot log in to IMAP server and logs are unclear as to why

2020-06-07 Thread Christian Schmidt
On 05.06.20 22:42, Scott A. Wozny wrote: Again, thanks very much for your response. Your solution of adding the colons worked. Actually, I futzed with it a little bit and it works with as few as 2 added colons. This is interesting since in the examples section ofhttps://doc.dovecot.org/confi