Re: How to temporarily make all mailboxes read-only for backup purposes?

2023-11-25 Thread jeremy ardley via dovecot
On 26/11/23 08:02, Steve Litt wrote: Is the remote vendor going to take the same care in preserving your data as you would? You could buy two 2TB spinning rust external hard drives for seventy bucks each, so if one gets borked you have the other. If you desire offsite, keep one in a bank safe

Re: 2 users who are the same user

2023-11-25 Thread Peter
Am 25.11.23 um 23:53 schrieb Michael Grant via dovecot: Error: Mailbox INBOX: Sync failed for mbox: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (4315358 > 4312144, seq=1, idx_msgs=3212) Maildir to the rescue? https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/known_issues/mbox_problems/ If maildir can fix this

Re: How to temporarily make all mailboxes read-only for backup purposes?

2023-11-25 Thread Steve Litt
Matthias Nagel said on Sat, 25 Nov 2023 11:51:09 + >I would like to avoid making a local deep copy first. This essentially >doubles the required storage on the local disk and it also wears down >the disk much faster as I will write gigabytes of data onto the disk >every 24 hours. > >I would p

Re: 2 users who are the same user

2023-11-25 Thread Michael Grant via dovecot
> > Error: Mailbox INBOX: Sync failed for mbox: UID inserted in the middle of > mailbox (4315358 > 4312144, seq=1, idx_msgs=3212) > > Maildir to the rescue? > > https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/known_issues/mbox_problems/ I really want to migrate to maildir. Is it possible for me to migrate

Re: 2 users who are the same user

2023-11-25 Thread Michael Grant via dovecot
> Do these two share a single user ID, or do they use separate IDs? Think > about file/directory ownership and permissions. If user IDs 123 and 234 > attempt use the same directory, things will break. User 123 should not > be able to delete a file owned by user 234, for example. yes, same UID/GID

Re: 2 users who are the same user

2023-11-25 Thread Peter
Am 25.11.23 um 20:38 schrieb Michael Grant via dovecot: Error: Mailbox INBOX: Sync failed for mbox: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox (4315358 > 4312144, seq=1, idx_msgs=3212) Maildir to the rescue? https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/known_issues/mbox_problems/ -- peter _

Re: OT? Maybe so, maybe no. - Resolved

2023-11-25 Thread joe a
On 11/25/2023 14:17:34, joe a wrote: Dovecot installation on OpenSuse LEAP 15.5.  Works fine via Thunderbird. Roundcube install works great.  Astonishing given my rusting skills. But only until . . . I try to send email.  Then RoundCube tells me smtp error(): connection to server failed. Wel

Re: OT? Maybe so, maybe no.

2023-11-25 Thread joe a
On 11/25/2023 15:36:00, Benny Pedersen wrote: joe a skrev den 2023-11-25 20:17: I don't find any other relevant referenced to SMTP port in RC configuration.   array (     'verify_peer' => false,     'verify_peer_name' => false,   ), ); $config['smtp_helo_host'] = 'localhost.example.org';

Re: OT? Maybe so, maybe no.

2023-11-25 Thread Benny Pedersen
joe a skrev den 2023-11-25 20:17: I don't find any other relevant referenced to SMTP port in RC configuration. array ( 'verify_peer' => false, 'verify_peer_name' => false, ), ); $config['smtp_helo_host'] = 'localhost.example.org'; $config['smtp_conn_options'] = array ( 'ssl' =>

Re: 2 users who are the same user

2023-11-25 Thread Ralph Seichter via dovecot
* Michael Grant via dovecot: > If I have a user in /etc/passwd, for example 'joe' and a user in > /etc/dovecot/users, j...@example.org, and both of these users are in > fact the same user but different password. They use the same inbox > and the same mail files. Do these two share a single user I

2 users who are the same user

2023-11-25 Thread Michael Grant via dovecot
I have been using system users (/etc/passwd). I recently started using, in addition, passwd-file with a separate dovecot password database so that I could have user@domainname users with a different password as their shell login password. This means I have dovecot authenticating on users in both

OT? Maybe so, maybe no.

2023-11-25 Thread joe a
Dovecot installation on OpenSuse LEAP 15.5. Works fine via Thunderbird. Roundcube install works great. Astonishing given my rusting skills. But only until . . . I try to send email. Then RoundCube tells me smtp error(): connection to server failed. Well, yeah, 'you're trying port 587, when

RE: How to temporarily make all mailboxes read-only for backup purposes?

2023-11-25 Thread Kenneth Irving via dovecot
Why don't you duplicate mail delivery? Best regards Kenneth On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Matthias Nagel wrote: Why would you want to do that? Afaik sdbox stores email per file. There is also an index file which stores meta attributes per mail/file and I want them to be consistent. The mta jus

Re: How to temporarily make all mailboxes read-only for backup purposes?

2023-11-25 Thread Matthias Nagel
I would like to avoid making a local deep copy first. This essentially doubles the required storage on the local disk and it also wears down the disk much faster as I will write gigabytes of data onto the disk every 24 hours. I would prefer an option which allows the backup program (Borg backu

RE: How to temporarily make all mailboxes read-only for backup purposes?

2023-11-25 Thread Matthias Nagel
Why would you want to do that? Afaik sdbox stores email per file. There is also an index file which stores meta attributes per mail/file and I want them to be consistent. The mta just delivers the email later and your backup is already old. That's not really am argument. Just imagine the m