Re: Migrating GMail to Dovecot using imapc

2024-11-22 Thread Dave McGuire via dovecot
really not a reddit guy, though, I'm a mailing list guy. :-( -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org

Re: Migrating GMail to Dovecot using imapc

2024-11-22 Thread Dave McGuire via dovecot
ailing" kind!), Google's awful behavior, etc? -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org

Re: Migrating GMail to Dovecot using imapc

2024-11-18 Thread Dave McGuire via dovecot
needs! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org

Re: Which DKIM application for postfix 3.9.0

2024-03-11 Thread Dave Ryan
Sorry, wrong group. Please ignore. On 03/07/24 13:50, dove...@outputservices.com wrote: I am upgrading to postfix 3.9.0. I have not used DKIM in previous postfix installs, but I would like to start now with the new google rules. I have done some research and opendkim is the most recommende

Re: spool move/rename question

2023-10-09 Thread Dave McGuire
dates, so beware that updating one table may not automatically update dependent tables. The database part isn't an issue; I designed the schema. Thanks for the heads-up though. Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: spool move/rename question

2023-10-08 Thread Dave McGuire
On 10/8/23 11:27, Dave McGuire wrote:   Hi folks.  Our mail server's spools are structured like this:   /var/mail//   We have an existing user with a lot of mail that we need to move from one domain to another.  Our mail system is database-backed so changing the account is trivial

spool move/rename question

2023-10-08 Thread Dave McGuire
the structure above from one directory to another and expect everything to be ok? Or is there a better approach? (of course I'll do a backup first) Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ dovecot ma

Re: Pay Someone to Take My Online Course?1

2023-10-05 Thread Dave McGuire
and daydream about what would happen if Google ever turned evil. Now we know. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org

Re: dovecot username with domain

2023-09-19 Thread Dave McGuire
asy. I was hoping there was some way i could translate individual users which would make this transition easier. You can use that technique, though, to implement any sort of translation table that you could build into an SQL query. Just a suggestion.

Re: dovecot username with domain

2023-09-19 Thread Dave McGuire
- This isn't exactly the functionality you want, but it illustrates the kinds of translations that can easy be done on the database side. I've been using a scheme like this for many years with great results. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington

Re: Roundcube

2023-09-07 Thread Dave McGuire
On 9/7/23 17:00, joe a wrote: Any known issues with installing/running roundcube and dovecot on the same server? I'm running two such installations; no difficulty. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ dovecot ma

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-11-02 Thread Dave McGuire
well to pay very close attention here. -Dave On 11/2/22 12:46, Jan Hugo Prins wrote: I think the only thing they will gain is a community that is angry and will in the end leave the product / fork the complete product. Jan Hugo On November 2, 2022 5:39:53 PM GMT+01:00, Brad

Re: dovecot mailing list (this mailing list), DKIM, SPF and DMARC

2022-10-12 Thread Dave McGuire
27;re signing and how? I've been at my wits' end with this for some time; DKIM (and SPF etc etc) seem to be really quite awful overall. Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Client for a Windows User ?

2022-09-13 Thread Dave McGuire
"Windows" and "behave" in the same sentence is pretty funny to begin with. Millions of people use Thunderbird with Dovecot with no issues, myself included, at this very moment. (are you the same Dan White who used to work for me, by the way?) -Da

Re: banning, was Re: Non-user logins?

2022-01-08 Thread Dave McGuire
On 1/8/22 12:12 PM, John Fawcett wrote: On 08/01/2022 17:22, Dave McGuire wrote: On 1/8/22 8:57 AM, John Fawcett wrote: yes, blocking on the first wrong password sounds like overkill. But it does depend on user base. For a small mail server with few known users it could be workable.   It

Re: Can't log in from Evolution or Roundcube

2022-01-08 Thread Dave McGuire
endation for the sake of safety, as it's cheap to try. Now maybe we can get back to the OP's actual problems, which nobody else seems to be interested in today. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Can't log in from Evolution or Roundcube

2022-01-08 Thread Dave McGuire
; above is probably correct. Check the docs if that fails. Obviously, the words in uppercase must be correct for your installation. "SERVER" might be "localhost" for you. (it isn't for me) One quick thing to check: Did you issue a "flush privileges" command to MariaDB after creating the account for Roundcube to use? See how far that gets you and report back. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

banning, was Re: Non-user logins?

2022-01-08 Thread Dave McGuire
ability of any single attack guessing the password. It doesn't necessarily have to zero out attacks. As Dave has experimented, to bypass fail2ban all the attacker has to do is use a different ip. 10-15K blocks in place at any time seem very high compared to the few attacks I see. Sigh.

banning, was Re: Non-user logins?

2022-01-08 Thread Dave McGuire
ood advice for everything, not just blocking. My first experience with blocking was on a Cisco AGS in 1994, buddy. Not a n00b. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Can't log in from Evolution or Roundcube

2022-01-08 Thread Dave McGuire
undcube configuration problem, having to do with either its connection to Dovecot or possibly a back-end database server. (MySQL?) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Can't log in from Evolution or Roundcube

2022-01-07 Thread Dave McGuire
#x27;s connection to Roundcube. I could be barking up the wrong tree here, but I'm pretty sure that's the error I hit. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Can't log in from Evolution or Roundcube

2022-01-07 Thread Dave McGuire
The last time I hit that, I'm pretty sure it was because I was going to port 80 instead of port 443 to reach Roundcube. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Non-user logins?

2022-01-07 Thread Dave McGuire
ies and block the source IP address for a month on the first failed login.  At any one time I have between 12,000 and 15,000 addresses in my blocked list for IMAP. Dave, that's exactly the kind of answer I was looking for. Fail2ban, huh? I'll have to check that out. I run it under

Re: Non-user logins?

2022-01-07 Thread Dave McGuire
ies and block the source IP address for a month on the first failed login. At any one time I have between 12,000 and 15,000 addresses in my blocked list for IMAP. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Recovering deleted messages?

2021-11-04 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thu, 4 Nov 2021 19:01:03 -0400 "Sean McBride" wrote: > I have a user who accidentally used a POP client which one? d -- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really believe it. Mark Twain

Re: Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server

2020-10-26 Thread Dave McGuire
On 10/26/20 11:24 AM, Gregory Heytings wrote: Your data is stored confidentially by Google, obviously.  Otherwise nobody would use their services. My keyboard is now COMPLETELY saturated with coffee. Some hit my display this time, too. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New

Re: Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server

2020-10-26 Thread Dave McGuire
hey look at me weird and the most stupid response I got was 'but I am not buying it for myself'. coffee -> keyboard -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server

2020-10-26 Thread Dave McGuire
27;m sorry buddy, your credibility hit rock bottom in your first post, and your subsequent posts aren't helping. Have a nice day. *plonk* -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server

2020-10-26 Thread Dave McGuire
te evil. It's hard to imagine anyone being that dumb, but then this society has been surprising me a lot in recent years. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: INBOX folders disappeared after upgrading

2020-07-12 Thread Dave
On Tue, April 21, 2020 11:50 am, John Stoffel wrote: >>>>>> "Dave" == Dave writes: > > Dave> On Thu, April 16, 2020 2:33 pm, John Stoffel wrote: >>> Makes sense. I'm not a dovecot expert, but in terms of RHEL, have you >>> checkd t

Re: INBOX folders disappeared after upgrading

2020-04-20 Thread Dave
from backup): drwx-- 2 dave dave 245760 Mar 10 16:56 cur -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 48744 Mar 9 14:48 dovecot.index -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 1920452 Mar 2 06:49 dovecot.index.cache -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave1808 Mar 10 17:01 dovecot.index.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 32792 Mar 9 14:48 dovecot.i

INBOX folders disappeared after upgrading

2020-04-15 Thread Dave
Hi, tried to Google/etc to see what to tweak.. not finding anything helpful. So.. I've been running my private mail through a Linux server since approx year 2000. The OS has been various flavors of Fedora or CentOS, since for work, I have to spend all day supporting some sort of Red Hat flavor. S

Re: IMAP Migration Tools

2019-11-28 Thread Dave Richards via dovecot
Dovecot’s own dsync. Your life will now change forever... > On 29 Nov 2019, at 01:48, Julian Kippels via dovecot > wrote: > > Hi, > > I am looking for tools to migrate Mails from one IMAP-Server to > another. Until now I have always used imapsync, but it seems very > slow. Even over a 2x10GB

Re: File manager or browser for IMAP?

2019-09-23 Thread Dave McGuire via dovecot
;ve tried. Wha...? Alpine/Pine have implemented IMAP for decades; that was one of the first IMAP implementations to see widespread use. In what way does it appear to "not be ready for prime time"? -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: mremap_anon() failed: Not enough space

2019-06-20 Thread Dave McGuire via dovecot
0K messages in it. I've never seen a dovecot.index.cache file grow so large; does that seem reasonable to you? -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

mremap_anon() failed: Not enough space

2019-06-19 Thread Dave McGuire via dovecot
ear to me exactly what is running out of what here. The output of doveconf -n is pasted below. Thanks, -Dave -- $ doveconf -n # 2.2.36.1 (5d621cf65): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.24 (124e06aa) # OS: Su

Symlinked mailboxes and dovecot-uidlist.lock

2019-05-07 Thread Dave via dovecot
wn dovecot-uidlist I imagine I might run into this same issue anyway?  Anyway, I'd like to squelch the error if I can, so are there any thoughts as to why the lock files are having trouble with inotify_add_watch? -Dave

Re: decrypt.rb

2019-04-11 Thread Dave via dovecot
e curve prime256v1, generate and EC key with the command: > openssl ecparam -name prime256v1 -genkey | openssl pkey -out ecprivkey.pem Then generate a public key out of your private EC key > openssl pkey -in ecprivkey.pem -pubout -out ecpubkey.pem " -Dave I'm going on a limb and gue

Re: decrypt.rb

2019-04-10 Thread Dave via dovecot
On 4/10/2019 1:32 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote: On 9.4.2019 18.15, Dave wrote: I've tried specifying an output file as well, per the script's command line options, but the output file is 0 bytes.  Does anyone have any suggestions? I *think* I'm using it the way it's intended t

Re: decrypt.rb

2019-04-09 Thread Dave via dovecot
>> I've tried specifying an output file as well, per the script's command line options, >> but the output file is 0 bytes.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  I *think* I'm >> using it the way it's intended to be used, but maybe I'm not?! >> -Da

decrypt.rb

2019-04-08 Thread Dave via dovecot
k* I'm using it the way it's intended to be used, but maybe I'm not?! -Dave

Re: mail_crypt not working on incoming messages?

2019-04-01 Thread Dave via dovecot
Dovecot cannot magically encrypt your email, so it has to go thru dovecot-lda or lmtp. Procmail can call dovecot-lda, if you don't want to migrate to using sieve. Aki For anyone interested, I was able to get the encryption working on incoming mail on my test machine using the "procmail ca

Re: mail_crypt not working on incoming messages?

2019-03-22 Thread Dave via dovecot
at matters, and messages are routed to the user's Maildir folder structure using a .procmailrc in that user's home folder. -Dave Dovecot cannot magically encrypt your email, so it has to go thru dovecot-lda or lmtp. Procmail can call dovecot-lda, if you don't want to migrate to using

mail_crypt not working on incoming messages?

2019-03-22 Thread Dave via dovecot
T incoming messages aren't encrypted, but that messages moved into the IMAP account DO get encrypted?  Did I set up something incorrectly? I'm using sendmail as the MTA, if that matters, and messages are routed to the user's Maildir folder structure using a .procmailrc in that user's home folder. -Dave

Re: Calendar function ?

2018-10-22 Thread Dave Stevens
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:06:57 +0200 Tom Sommer wrote: > On 2018-10-22 19:58, Dave Stevens wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:48:17 +0200 > > Tom Sommer wrote: > > > >> On 2018-10-22 12:56, María Arrea wrote: > >> > >> > We use sabred

Re: Calendar function ?

2018-10-22 Thread Dave Stevens
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:48:17 +0200 Tom Sommer wrote: > On 2018-10-22 12:56, María Arrea wrote: > > > We use sabredav for caldav+cardav and roundcube+agendav for nice > > web ui :) > > > Is Sabre still maintained? http://sabre.io/ says 2018 is most recent version -- In modern fantasy (lite

Re: Storing Messages in the cloud

2018-07-10 Thread Dave McGuire
27;s message I just sat there shaking my head. As for his colleague, the local McDonald's is hiring. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Pigeonhole vacation and envelope extension recipient addresses

2017-10-31 Thread Dave
't the "final" email address, but the address prior to that (internal aliasing on the MTA and inserted as a different header). It's a many-to-one mapping so it couldn't just be aliased back the other way by the MTA using a reverse path, either. -- Dave

Re: questions about maildir to mdbox migration

2017-09-28 Thread Dave McGuire
;spooltype:/spool/location" (repeat, to pick up any changes since first run) ---- -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

questions about maildir to mdbox migration

2017-09-28 Thread Dave McGuire
ing which ones I can safely remove? Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: dsync: assert panic on mbox // no INBOX sync on hybrid mbox/maildir

2017-09-26 Thread Dave Stubbs
Why not do maildir format with the Inboxes as well? When every single email is its own file, it makes synchronization so much easier.  You could use rsync for one-way or unison for multi-master (two-way) Dave On 9/26/2017 3:39 PM, David Gardner wrote: Hi, This (hopefully!) might be a

Re: under some kind of attack

2017-07-19 Thread Dave
n service ipset start (create iptables rules, ipset created on boot prior to iptables, other distros likely have similar configuration) I've found that the slowest component tends to be fail2ban itself, which has difficulty tracking a large number of IPs or even tailing sufficiently busy logfiles. -- Dave

Re: Minor patches for builds against ancient platforms

2017-06-09 Thread Dave McGuire
lace it with something much more suitable, I could have these people join > the 21st Century. I for one am finding this thread extremely entertaining. I have to wonder how you'd sound if you came across a machine that was actually OLD. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

LDAP schema ?

2017-04-20 Thread Dave Dodd
Hi, I am trying to determine the correct LDAP schema I need to use to have either mailLocation or mailboxPath available ? Should I be just adding this to one of my own custom objectClasses ? -- Dave

change mdbox rotation size?

2017-03-13 Thread Dave McGuire
Hey folks. Is it possible/advisable to change the mdbox rotation size on an operational mdbox spool? If so, is there any way to "repackage" (for the lack of a better term) an existing mdbox spool to a different rotation size? Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGu

Re: Compiling Dovecot on Solaris 10

2017-02-03 Thread Dave McGuire
or feature that exists only in "newer" OS releases. When that changes, we will revisit our configuration. Until then, it's rock solid and does everything required of it. There are no problems to be addressed. At least here, we don't fix things that aren't broken.

Re: Compiling Dovecot on Solaris 10

2017-02-03 Thread Dave McGuire
Same here Sun compiler v5.12 on SPARC. Built cleanly this morning. I'll be upgrading from 2.2.18 this afternoon. :) -Dave On 02/03/2017 05:36 AM, Martin Preen wrote: Hello, I don't have problems building 2.2.27 on Solaris 10 (using Sun Workshop compiler 5

Re: two listeners with different "driver = " configs

2017-01-01 Thread Dave McGuire
An elderly neighbor used to say crap like that to me every now and then. On one particular occasion, I pointed out that I had conversed with more than a dozen friends in half a dozen countries before breakfast that day. He doesn't say that anymore. -Dave On 01/01/2017 04:

Re: pop3 deleted count

2016-09-16 Thread Dave
On 16/09/2016 11:39, Dave wrote: On pop3 logout, we're seeing log lines where the deleted count is blank (using default pop3_logout_format), so "del=%d/%m" is displaying in the logs as: "del=/1186" ... Shouldn't this be: tab[4].

pop3 deleted count

2016-09-16 Thread Dave
dec2str(client->deleted_count) : 0; Shouldn't this be: tab[4].value = client->delete_success ? dec2str(client->deleted_count) : "0"; (very minor bug) -- Dave

Re: an e-mail client for dovecot ?

2016-07-16 Thread Dave Stevens
; imap mail client for x86 windows 7 systems than t/b. > > Even better if there's an alternative client that is also supporeted > under linux . > > Any ideas are welcome, > > TIA, > > s.t. I use Claws and like it a lot. Has plugins for extensions, very fast to wo

Re: v2.2.25 released

2016-07-04 Thread Dave
inally support static array sizes, and it's likely hitting a compiler bug on the build proper? All I can suggest is a manual configure flag toggle of the test, or that this bug is better placed against Redhat? I haven't been able to narrow down a reproducer on triggering the error message other than during build. -- Dave

[patch] Support redis AUTH

2016-06-30 Thread Dave
m going about this the wrong way, I tried emailing this directly but heard nothing back; so I'm reposting to the list as I'm honestly not sure what established protocol is regarding code contribution. -- Dave diff -aurN dovecot-2.2.24.orig/src/lib-dict/dict-redis.c dovecot-2.2.24/src/

Re: Recipient delimiter and lmtp proxying

2016-06-20 Thread Dave
On 17/06/2016 13:39, Dave wrote: On 16/06/2016 20:49, Dave wrote: ... driver = sql override_fields = proxy=y destuser=%{orig_user} ... <"user+Junk\ Email"@domain> will extract user in director, but passes through the unescaped: to the backend

Re: Increased errors "Broken MIME parts" in log file

2016-06-20 Thread Dave
s here, too. Thank you very much! -- Dave

Re: Recipient delimiter and lmtp proxying

2016-06-17 Thread Dave
On 16/06/2016 20:49, Dave wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to proxy lmtp using director to hash to the same backend as pop3/imap. My pop3/imap users are of the form: username and my lmtp users are of the form: Where domain is fairly redundant but does carry some useful information. Now,

Recipient delimiter and lmtp proxying

2016-06-16 Thread Dave
kup. 2. Give up on passing detail via the login and instead pass the detail via a message header to sieve. Any thoughts/suggestions? -- Dave

Re: Increased errors "Broken MIME parts" in log file

2016-06-09 Thread Dave
and virtual size are correct, contains a 6 part multipart/mixed with the first part being itself a 2 part multipart/alternative, both have different boundary ids (unfortunately I still cannot release the email itself, I'm hoping the error will trigger on some that I can release, none so far) -- Dave

Re: Bug with shared access to mailbox

2016-06-03 Thread Dave
ook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = no pop3_fast_size_lookups = no pop3_lock_session = yes pop3_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o, top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_no_flag_updates = no pop3_reuse_xuidl = no pop3_save_uidl = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } -- Dave

Re: Password database extra fields and SQL

2016-04-29 Thread Dave
On 29/04/2016 14:57, Matthias Fechner wrote: > Am 29.04.2016 um 15:49 schrieb Dave: >> >> For example, say you have a query like: >> >> password_query = SELECT hash AS password, NULLIF(active = 1, 'y') AS >> nologin FROM users WHERE name = '%u

Password database extra fields and SQL

2016-04-29 Thread Dave
vice to set password to NULL to satisfy the field requirement on nopassword. Any thoughts? -- Dave

Re: To what extent does/will Dovecot depend on systemd? was systemd changes...

2016-02-22 Thread Dave McGuire
ed and >>>> automatically installed if enabled. >>> >>> That's excellent news, because hell will freeze over before systemd is >>> introduced to official slackware releases >> >> Or Solaris, for that matter. > > Thank you for your feedback on this matter. We will keep this in mind. Thank you Aki. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: To what extent does/will Dovecot depend on systemd? was systemd changes...

2016-02-22 Thread Dave McGuire
and >> automatically installed if enabled. > > That's excellent news, because hell will freeze over before systemd is > introduced to official slackware releases Or Solaris, for that matter. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Running without anvil?

2016-01-18 Thread Dave Abrahams
on Mon Jan 18 2016, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 17 Jan 2016, at 23:19, Dave Abrahams wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm using dovecot as a local mail store on my laptop using preauth >> tunneling. It turns out I almost don't even need to start dovecot

Re: Running without anvil?

2016-01-17 Thread Dave Abrahams
on Sun Jan 17 2016, Dave Abrahams wrote: > on Sun Jan 17 2016, "A. Schulze" wrote: > >> Dave Abrahams: >> >>> The only thing is, I keep getting these in var/log/mail.log: >>> >>> anvil: Fatal: chroot(/Users/dave/brew/var/run/dovecot/

Re: Running without anvil?

2016-01-17 Thread Dave Abrahams
on Sun Jan 17 2016, "A. Schulze" wrote: > Dave Abrahams: > >> The only thing is, I keep getting these in var/log/mail.log: >> >> anvil: Fatal: chroot(/Users/dave/brew/var/run/dovecot/empty) >> failed: Operation not permitted >> master:

Running without anvil?

2016-01-17 Thread Dave Abrahams
an run it as an unprivileged user, so long as I turn them all off: # We don't want to serve any protocols, so we don't bind to any ports. # We can run everything as me. protocols = default_login_user = dave default_internal_user = dave The only thing is, I keep getting these in v

Re: Thanks for Dovecot

2015-10-13 Thread Dave McGuire
g one thing and doing it right. >> >> Thank you for such great software. >> >> SteveT > > Hey, you know what? It's never a bad time to join in and say a simple: > Thank you! Agreed! Thank you! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

allowing shell users to change passwords

2015-06-23 Thread dave
Does anyone else here have a need to allow shell users to change their imap/pop3 passwords? I came up with a little thing that works similarly to regular passwd(1), dovepasswd, which can be found at https://github.com/DavidGriffith/dovepasswd. It does the job for me and I'd love for other p

Re: Users can't use Dovecot IMAP

2015-04-07 Thread Dave Myers
On 07/04/2015 05:59, John Lewis wrote: Every time a user logs into Dovcot's IMAP service PAM closes the session immediately after it opens. I would like a user to have a session open long enough to read some emails. I don't know if it is still the case for no super user login to imap servers

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-04 Thread Dave McGuire
On 03/04/2015 04:33 PM, Professa Dementia wrote: > On 3/4/2015 12:45 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: >>There is. But I already have a firewall, running on bulletproof >> hardware that doesn't depend on spinning disks. I don't want to add >> ANOTHER firewall when I al

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-04 Thread Dave McGuire
gt; >>> so there should be some >>> sort of netfilter available which you can put in front of your listening >>> ports. >> >>There is. But I already have a firewall, running on bulletproof >> hardware that doesn't depend on spinning disks. I don't want to add >> ANOTHER firewall when I already have a perfectly good one. Besides, my >> mail server is built for...serving mail. Not being a firewall. >> > Well, from an academic point of view, a network service that denies > connection on the ip layer is also an ip firewall. In a real-world datacenter at 3AM, academic points of view seldom, if ever, come into play. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3 New Kensington, PA

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-04 Thread Dave McGuire
un it under Solaris. > so there should be some > sort of netfilter available which you can put in front of your listening > ports. There is. But I already have a firewall, running on bulletproof hardware that doesn't depend on spinning disks. I don't want to add ANOTHER firewall when I already have a perfectly good one. Besides, my mail server is built for...serving mail. Not being a firewall. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3 New Kensington, PA

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-04 Thread Dave McGuire
ng Linux, you know. It may be hard to accept, but that's the way it is. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3 New Kensington, PA

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-03 Thread Dave McGuire
ility is as difficult, if not > more so, than letting your firewall handle it. I'm not disagreeing with you. As I stated above, getting new rules into my firewall in an automated way is not something I've found a good way to do yet. Granted, it has been a couple of years since I&

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-02 Thread Dave McGuire
ch gives fast lookups. (well, at least that's what it used the last time I looked at its internals) I myself just want a mechanism to deny certain IP addresses when I spot them, regardless of the implementation. But anything that offloads my mail servers from anything that doesn't

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-02 Thread Dave McGuire
VAX running BSD", in which programmers everywhere wrote code that assumed EVERYONE was running that platform. Today we fight the "all the world's an x86_64 box with a gazillibyte of memory running Linux" mentality in exactly the same way. It's not any more palatable now tha

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-02 Thread Dave McGuire
gt; > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/AllowNets > > then setup fail2ban to manage extrafields Now that's a very interesting idea, thank you! I will investigate this. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3 New Kensington, PA

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-01 Thread Dave McGuire
stion assumes that I use iptables (I don't), I run firewalls on my servers (I don't; I run them on routers) and that I run Linux on my mail server (I don't). The other side of this equation, Postfix, has had this capability for years. Why it hasn't been added to dovecot is a m

Re: Can't save to folders

2014-12-14 Thread Dave G.
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014, Jan Wideł wrote: W dniu 2014-12-14 12:31, Dave G. napisał(a): When I login through imap, I can see everything in ~/mail/ just fine. I cannot save to any of them. If I have an autocreate-autosubscribe folder (ZZZ here), it shows up as empty (correct). Then if I save

Can't save to folders

2014-12-14 Thread Dave G.
When I login through imap, I can see everything in ~/mail/ just fine. I cannot save to any of them. If I have an autocreate-autosubscribe folder (ZZZ here), it shows up as empty (correct). Then if I save something to it through imap, a file ~/mail/ZZZ appears, but nothing actually gets sav

Re: LDAP and dovecot

2014-09-26 Thread Dave Ryan
Thank you all for your assistance. I was able to locate another web site that mentioned I needed to compile dovecot with my openldap libraries. I then compiled dovecot in the following manner: CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/openldap/include \ LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/openldap/lib -R/usr/local/openldap/lib'

how to solve : Dovecot version mismatch: Master is v2.1.7, lmtp is v2.2.13

2014-09-22 Thread Dave Myers
Hello again dovecot list ;) I've recently upgraded my dovecot version from 2.1.7 to 2.2.13. both versions where installed from source. I upgraded why attempting to get lmtp working. I ultimately just coped the executable lmtp to the location that dovecot was expecting it to be in. but then the

Re: how to config dovecot from source with lmtp

2014-09-19 Thread Dave Myers
Thanks for the quick reply, Finaly I retried with ./configure --with-lmtp=yes and suddenly I have lmtp in the /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/ directory. On 19/09/14 15:34, Steffen Kaiser wrote: I'd say that the application is wrong: did you've updated the /etc/init.d script? Maybe it points to

how to config dovecot from source with lmtp

2014-09-19 Thread Dave Myers
Hi dovecot users, I've decided to re-install my dovecot-imapd server with lmtp functionality I've been looking at my dovecot source, it certainly contains an lmtp sub folder. I've looked at the details for the config of lda, and I wonder why (particularly as I installed from source) dovecot

Re: dovecot doesn't see my mails ?

2014-09-19 Thread Dave Myers
On 19/09/14 11:42, Steffen Kaiser wrote: Usually, you see how Debian compiles the source - the ./configure options . But I wonder if you want to overwrite the system places. That's you decision. I would: use the LDA now, in order to get the server to work. Then use a test system for the LMTP s

Re: dovecot doesn't see my mails ?

2014-09-19 Thread Dave Myers
@Steffen, Thanks for your input, and please excuse my clearly stupid questions.. ;) The files q1.. belong to ~/mail/new/ . Exim does not spool them as Maildir. I would recommend to use Dovecot LDA or LMTP. where / how do I get that to work ? I've added the required stuff to the dovecot and ex

dovecot doesn't see my mails ?

2014-09-19 Thread Dave Myers
Dear dovecot users. I have an odd issue in that when I connect to my dovecot server from either a local or remote system I can't see my test emails (I have the impression that is is looking at the wrong location on disk). here are some details # dovecot -n # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.c

unable to see mail when using telnet / open ssl

2014-09-17 Thread Dave Myers
Dear dovecot list. I'm setting up my own VPS and working through getting mail to work. Here is my dovecot -n $dovecot -n maildir:%h/%d/%n/mail : layout=fs # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mech

Re: usenet/imap

2014-09-12 Thread Dave McGuire
popular these days" because most of the current inhabitants of the Internet are drooling morons who think the Internet and the WWW are the same thing, and that it's all one big TV. They'd never understand the concepts of Usenet in the first place. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3 New Kensington, PA

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