Thanks Michael, I was trying to avoid keeping usernames in a seperate location
as they are already stored in the Samba DC. Will it be necessary to keep a
seperate list? I tried adding this:
userdb {
driver = static
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n
}
But I still get th
Dovecot version is 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1 on Debian 12. I am using virtual
mailboxes.
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is some other way
to achieve this?
Any hints on how to fixing this would be appreciated
Thanks
Ed W
On 19/03/2019 17:19, Ralph Seichter via dovecot wrote:
* Ed W. via dovecot:
My goal is that users can set a user configurable setting (in an
external front end) and if the email size is greater than this size
then we will do some processing on it. This particular filter is
actually in a global
l executable program, but is there another
way to do this?
Thanks for ideas
Ed W
Isn't this a Postfix issue?
Have a look at Ansgar Wiechers' answer here, specifically the permissions
part.
https://serverfault.com/questions/433003/postfix-warning-cannot-get-rsa-private-key-from-file
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Michael Segel
wrote:
> I’ve got a couple of issues with a n
Hey all long time,
I recently upgraded Dovecot from 2.1.15 to 2.2.29.1 on my Debian Wheezy box
and thought I'd tackle shared mailboxes.
I can grant fine, using SETACL in telnet
. SETACL mine v...@test.domain.com lr
. OK Setacl complete (0.596 + 0.000 + 0.595 secs).
. GETACL mine
* ACL mine v...@
ible use data integrity checks at higher
levels (not much for linux, but ZFS offers this for other OSs)
Good luck
Ed W
correct S= values is obviously
completely different, but I speculate that it could be the earlier cause
that gets the index file out of shape as shown in the problem here
Thanks for any help? (note it's not easy to remove maildrop at present)
Ed W
Sep 1 07:32:51 mail1 dovecot: imap(
to work on this, but I'm vaguely interested to find out if there is
a way to hire "plugin developers" for Thunderbird?
Good luck
Ed W
o use to extend our services with
extra groupware features (I think I would prefer to implement filesystem
based storage of DAV files, but apart from that it looks good and seems
to be heading in the right direction)
Anyone want to pitch in fund development in this area?
Cheers
Ed W
and some others) and the whole
experience has worked very well for me.
Please feel encouraged to employ Timo if you use Dovecot!
Good luck
Ed W
On 02/11/2013 11:18, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 29.10.2013, at 10.26, Ed W wrote:
Hi, I recently upgraded from a dovecot 2.1 version to 2.2.6. I now have a
single user who occasionally triggers a crash (just this one user it seems?).
The user connects via LiveMail (v14.0.8117.) and IMAP
ould quite like this feature though
Ed W
On 28/10/2013 19:14, Douglas Mortensen wrote:
Currently our dovecot servers are on our webhosting linux boxes. We are using the
LAMP stack to host websites, and also doing email with postfix & dovecot on
these systems. We provide this as a hosting
lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_handler_run+0xce) [0xd94dff7e]
-> /usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(io_loop_run+0x40) [0xd94dea40] ->
/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0(master_service_run+0x2e) [0xd94874be]
System is gentoo 32bit. Do you need configs?
Thanks for any advice
Ed W
Make use of the proxy feature. You can add a "server" entry into your
userdb, that way you can literally move users over one by one and flip
their server location. You can easily test individual users and move
them over individually.
Works brilliantly
Ed W
On 06/10/2013 1
On 27/08/2013 09:54, Ben wrote:
On 23/08/2013 13:08, Ed W wrote:
Hi
I'm on an Ubuntu LTS release so the dovecot came from their release.
I'd prefer to stay that way unless I really have to...
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but "IMHO" this kind of
attitude is
ou
also get to keep all it's bugs... Sorry.
Good luck! Hope this inspires you to try a different route!
Ed W
ested and Dovecot at least supports the IMAP side. Please...?
Cheers
Ed W
support to Postfix?
It seems like it accidentally fell on the floor due to arriving at a bad
moment some years back?
Cheers
Ed W
the machine (vs SAN where all the
storage is off machine)
I don't really get where they are going with this solution though?
Ed W
will quickly show up your customer base
Cheers
Ed W
hich is valid for lots of
completely different domain names. The mild benefit is that this
doesn't require SNI support for SSL (which I'm unsure is supported by
many mail clients?)
Although it's more expensive, I think it's a good solution (I'm using it
for a small 5 domain installation)
Good luck
Ed W
On 28/03/2013 22:10, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 28.3.2013, at 22.44, Ed W wrote:
My understanding is that you will need an SMTP server which supports such a
feature. Apple patch Postfix to support this using the BURL extension, however,
for whatever reason the patch has not been picked up by
o have the desire to make it
happen (add in K9 developers and submit a patch to Mozilla and at least
there would be basic groundwork...)
Cheers
Ed W
y required and hence DRBD can run in async mode and performance
impact is low
Note I don't use any of the above, it was a setup described by Timo some
years back
Good luck
Ed W
On 25/03/2013 18:47, Thierry de Montaudry wrote:
Hi Tigran,
Managing a mail system for 1M odd users, we di
workable now that I got my account created.
Good luck
Ed W
On 14/03/2013 03:36, Noel wrote:
https://www.rapidsslonline.com/
less than $20/year, takes literally 15 minutes from start to having
a certificate. Well, maybe 30 minutes the first time when you need
to read everything.
There are probably dozens of other sites offering similar services;
I've u
unless you have millions of users, such a
rename process will take only seconds to minutes? Why not just take the
server down for a couple of minutes to do the rename process?
If you wanted to be really clever, you could do it live using symlinks
to move the dirs, then update the dovecot config?
Ed W
t become stable enough that other backends
could be implemented just once without having to keep changing them..
I believe the high profile user of polarssl is the Dutch government who
have approved OpenVPN + PolarSSL for use. (The point being that openssl
is just too huge to audit for security)
Ed W
hanges and call
rsync/unison when they change. This gives you near instant sync, but
low overhead. WOuld that help?
Ed W
deally we want to be able to smtp any message in
any folder in order that we can easily implement our preferred storage
policies)
http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/INSTALL.html#imapsend
Ed W
sign off
http://polarssl.org/news?item=0132
I haven't worked with PolarSSL, so no idea, but it's massively smaller
codebase is likely attractive if you are the kind of person who actually
*does* security audits on the software you run in secure situations.
Openssl is just a complete swiss army knife of tools!
Ed W
des a nice abstraction to OpenSSL, making it again
possible to implement other backends like GnuTLS or NSS. (Except login
process code doesn't use lib-ssl-iostream yet.)
Does libtomcrypt implement enough?
Ed
app on the smartphone side
for calendar, adressbook ,tasks ,notes
roadmap
5.1 is planned as card/caldav server
http://wiki.horde.org/ActiveSync
Also see Sogo (and owncloud). Plus the Sogosync connector
This is a developing area (at last)
Ed W
On 24/09/2012 19:07, Ed W wrote:
This is one of those questions which is almost too easy if you are
familiar with Linux. Trying not to sound like a d*ck, but is it an
option to rent someone to help with admin jobs? For example, were it
me then I would probably have setup some partitioning
upgrade...
Good luck
Ed W
On 24/09/2012 18:42, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
Hello all,
I have a DL360 G4 1U server that does a wonderfull job with dovecot horde,
Xmail and OpenLDAP for a company and serving about 40 acouunts.
The machine is wonderful. I am very happy with it.
However, I am running
ople are sitting on their hands shackled by "I'm on Debian xxx
and I can't install any software newer than 5 years old"... It's so easy
to escape from that trap...!!
Good luck
Ed W
sieve, etc),
I have recently noticed owncloud (even has an ebuild for it). Have you
re-evaluated roundcube+owncloud vs SOGo for a dav calender/contacts
solution?
Ed
On 16/08/2012 12:24, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-08-16 7:12 AM, Ed W wrote:
My opinion is that this is very easily to implement in at least Postfix
and probably other servers, hence I would suggest this is a function for
the MTA, not for the Dovecot relay?
Well, true enough for simpler
e.
Give it some consideration. I doubt the time to implement a complete
prototype solution would be more than half a day for your IT guy and if
that's attractive then perhaps you have grounds to look at replacing CM?
Good luck
Ed W
ote a small
perl utility which uses a database to count the number of emails a user
has sent in the last 1 and 24 hours. Based on that we throttle users (I
have some fudging for recipients per email also). If you like the idea
then it's about 10 lines of perl (+ a decent chunk of boiler plate).
Ed
f you tune things with that in mind, it's very possible to get
very low battery usage. Using tcpdump on your mobile client to help
tune things is a great help. Basically every stray packet is a killer
for battery, hunt them down.
Cheers
Ed W
reductions (my customers are all on slow dialup
links), and at least some apple clients (IOS?) support it
Cheers
Ed W
On 06/08/2012 08:57, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Ed W wrote:
P.S. You came here with all guns blazing and seems like you are going to
leave the same way? Why not try a more softly softly approach?
Because the 'customer' has right to throw his wei
so feels very "brittle" in that there aren't that
many settings to get right, but if any are wrong you will get major breakage
Good luck
Ed W
P.S. You came here with all guns blazing and seems like you are going
to leave the same way? Why not try a more softly softly approach?
ou understand the big picture using one
of those guides you will be able to customise things to a very specific
situation
Good luck
Ed W
d use the perl regexp
above though, but only because I understand perl regexps better)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/369758/how-to-trim-whitespace-from-bash-variable
Ed W
On 19/07/2012 15:07, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* Ed W :
On 19/07/2012 13:45, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
Hi!
Anybody got a doveadm script which can remove leading and trailing
spaces from folder names?
Right now we're migrating mailboxes from dovecot -> Exchange, and
Exchange cannot handle
that it might cause some wierd symptoms with clients, why not
attack the dovecot mail backend and rename folders + sed the
subscription files?
Something like "find | rename"
Good luck
Ed W
On 16/07/2012 12:01, Robert Schetterer wrote:
Am 16.07.2012 12:48, schrieb Charles Marcus:
On 2012-07-16 2:45 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote:
i have running touch with 3000 users, i dont see much overhead, anyway
its true ,its not very elegant, perhaps i.e you may write some daily
cron bash find
checks a second will give up a
lot of real user passwords in a reasonable length of time (real users
are going to have simple derivatives of dictionary words)
Good luck
Ed W
running out of server ram if you have many simultaneous logins..?)
I previously thought I wanted bcrypt, but after some consideration I
believe sha256/512crypt is likely sufficient for reasonable security
Cheers
Ed W
can't run completely different operating systems since it's not a full
virtualisation solution
One nice benefit is that all images are just a directory containing your
linux installation, so it's very easy to backup/snapshot/restore/drop in
and fix something you bolloxed up/clone to a new machine.
Just my 2p.
Cheers
Ed W
On 29/06/2012 12:15, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-06-28 4:35 PM, Ed W wrote:
On 28/06/2012 17:54, Charles Marcus wrote:
RAID10 also statistically has a much better chance of surviving a
multi drive failure than RAID5 or 6, because it will only die if two
drives in the same pair fail, and
On 28/06/2012 17:54, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-06-28 12:20 PM, Ed W wrote:
Bad things are going to happen if you loose a complete chunk of your
filesystem. I think the current state of the world is that you should
assume that realistically you will be looking to your backups if you
loose
with hardware controller arrays, but I have
(sadly) found that such a situation is terminal on some older hardware
controllers...
Interested to hear other failure modes (and successful rescues) from
RAID1+linear+XFS setups?
Cheers
Ed W
his now. Also I'm watching btrfs with a 12 month+ view
Cheers
Ed W
milar fail of a RAID10
array either (unless we are talking temporary removal and re-insertion?)
Ed W
eptable downtime for my requirements.
Good luck!
Ed W
pensive operation, especially if you just asked for items
585-600 a moment ago?
Ed
#x27;t to say that the caching isn't sensible for use with other
mail servers, but I don't see it offers any benefit for most Dovecot
installations?
However, very clever and full featured webmail client!
Ed W
P.S. Sogo has a kind of caching in that it has a clientside javascript
cache. Not what was meant, but for all practical purposes much more
useful...
and imap
server, and reducing apparent login count), and some disadvantages
(extra complexity, slowdown)
On average I think few users should use it.. Or at least benchmark and
add it reluctantly...
Ed
On 04/06/2012 15:14, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 04.06.2012 15:36, schrieb Ed W:
Then tell them their only option is to buy Exchange Server and Outlook for
everyone - but explain that this
'feature' *still* will not work for recipients that are outside of your control
(ie, it will onl
ic message mailed out to the sender the first time the
recipient (ie on our server) accesses and downloads and accesses the
email. I don't see anyone trying to send MDN compatible receipts, they
literally just send a "Your message was downloaded by the recipient" message
Cheers
Ed W
On 03/06/2012 14:46, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-06-03 4:43 AM, Ed W wrote:
Look, I can argue against the idea easily, personally my objection is
mail loops, but the point is that the customer demands it, and at
present that prevents me bidding for certain types of business...
Basically the
On 03/06/2012 09:06, Linda Walsh wrote:
Ed W wrote:
Just to register interest, but at some point I will need to consider
writing a plugin or similar to achieve exactly this.
Situation is that several of our competitors offer such a feature, ie
known pool of users on dialup or
line is that you can't win the bid if you can't offer the feature...
Feels like a plugin rather than core functionality, but would be cool if
someone wanted to produce something...
Cheers
Ed W
cussions? This is new to me?
Can't find it immediately in the list?
Cheers
Ed W
s back. Perhaps this would be another example of a motivation to
use it for something? Could either the login scripting or a plugin be
used to build this type of login tracking?
(My goal is to eventually do per user "are you logged in" tracking)
Just a thought
Ed W
On 27/05/2012 14:00, Daniel Parthey wrote:
Hi Ed,
Ed W wrote:
I have groups of users where we have a predefined
bunch of filtering that happens on their account. At the moment the
users are grouped into top level directories so that the "home" and
hence default scripts can ca
ore easily done a different way?
Thanks for any thoughts?
Ed W
On 14/04/2012 04:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 4/13/2012 10:31 AM, Ed W wrote:
On 13/04/2012 13:33, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
In closing, I'll simply say this: If hardware, whether a mobo-down SATA
chip, or a $100K SGI SAN RAID controller, allowed silent data corruption
or transmission to
On 14/04/2012 04:48, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 4/13/2012 10:31 AM, Ed W wrote:
You mean those "answers" like:
"you need to read 'those' articles again"
Referring to some unknown and hard to find previous emails is not the
same as answering?
No, referring to t
eve on commodity hardware controllers either! (You would be
able to tell because the disk IO would be doubled)
Linux software raid 1 isn't that smart, but reads only one disk and
trusts the answer if the read did not trigger an error. It does not
check the other disk except during an explici
On 13/04/2012 06:29, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 4/12/2012 5:58 AM, Ed W wrote:
The claim by ZFS/BTRFS authors and others is that data silently "bit
rots" on it's own. The claim is therefore that you can have a raid1 pair
where neither drive reports a hardware failure, but each give
On 13/04/2012 13:21, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 13.4.2012, at 15.17, Ed W wrote:
On 13/04/2012 12:51, Timo Sirainen wrote:
- Use the checksums to assist with replication speed/efficiency (dsync or
custom imap commands)
It would be of some use with dbox index rebuilding. I don't think it
th different redundancy levels per type
OK, this is all completely pie in the sky. Please don't build it! All
I meant was that these are the kind of things that someone might one day
desire to do and hence they would have competing requirements for what
to checksum...
Cheers
Ed W
On 12/04/2012 12:09, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 12.4.2012, at 13.58, Ed W wrote:
The claim by ZFS/BTRFS authors and others is that data silently "bit rots" on
it's own. The claim is therefore that you can have a raid1 pair where neither drive
reports a hardware failure, but
On 12/04/2012 02:18, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 4/11/2012 11:50 AM, Ed W wrote:
Re XFS. Have you been watching BTRFS recently?
I will concede that despite the authors considering it production ready
I won't be using it for my servers just yet. However, it's benchmarking
on s
On 12/04/2012 11:20, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 4/11/2012 9:23 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 4/12/12, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 4/11/2012 11:50 AM, Ed W wrote:
One of the snags of md RAID1 vs RAID6 is the lack of checksumming in the
event of bad blocks. (I'm not sure what actually ha
s a bad sector with raid1..?). For low performance
requirements I have become paranoid and been using RAID6 vs RAID10,
filesystems with sector checksums seem attractive...
Regards
Ed W
ever, at least SHA is a decent stab at things)
Can you confirm my understanding is correct?
Next question is whether any current mail client supports SCRAM..?
Regards
Ed W
y deliver
using the dovecot delivery agent?
In answer to the OP: read the maildropex man pages, but you have several
options, eg:
to "| someprogram"
or:
xfilter someprogram
`someprogram`
However, almost certainly I think you want the top option?
Good luck
Ed W
is?
dsync does so much more than simply copy some files...
Quite probably, but I don't think your expose above illustrates this?
Regards
Ed W
Ooops, didn't email the list... it working now thanks to Timo, solution
below
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> On 23.3.2012, at 22.01, Ed Nitido wrote:
>>
>> > pass_attrs =
>> uid=user,userPassword=password,=proxy,=master=doveadmin,=p
I've compared doveconf -n from both Dovecot 2.0.17 and 2.1.3 and they are
the same
Everything works when I go back to 2.0.17, but doesn't when I use 2.1.3
Hey all,
I've upgraded from a working Dovecot 2.0.17 Proxy with a master user setup
to Dovecot 2.1.3 and I've merged my conf settings from 2.0.17 into 2.1.3.
I'm able to start up dovecot proxy and telnet localhost, however it creates
the users home director on the proxy server instead of going to
On 16/03/2012 15:45, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-03-16 11:22 AM, Ed W wrote:
If the answer is that he will write a Z-Push/Activesync module for SOGo
then I'm all ears! I have been watching SOGo for some time and the main
thing I would miss is that every phone I have ever owned has la
our mail server. Presumably this will expose you
to all the bugs in that proxy...
Good luck
Ed W
of Nokias...). It seems that although I
don't like it, I need activesync support if I want my contacts/calendar
on my phone... (I think I can do caldav on some of them, but not cardav
on my N9)
Apart from that it's a very neat system!
Ed W
?) can delete any messages in this account, in any
of the folders.
Have them delivered with only read permissions on the physical files?
(Bet that doesn't work very well in practice or other than maildir...)
Interested to hear proper answers...
Ed W
you could schedule
something for all accounts at some out of hours period - should speed up
backups also?
Ed W
that for v2.2.
http://dovecot.org/patches/2.2/imap-logout-plugin.c
Thanks - can I assume that a pop-logout would be basically the same?
Also, how might I access the bytes in/out statistics from that context?
Thanks
Ed W
On 26/02/2012 12:31, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 26.2.2012, at 13.52, Ed W wrote:
On 25/02/2012 00:39, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 24.2.2012, at 19.44, julio...@fisica.uh.cu wrote:
I need some help with the dovecot configuration. I want to remove
downloaded messages from Mail Server once the
l feel kind of related to me (ie we need some hook
which runs on a per message basis). Perhaps someone smarter than me can
think of a better way to unify them?
Cheers
Ed W
On 22/02/2012 23:56, Ed W wrote:
I think it has potential though. I think a lot of the current plugins
on the website could easily be rewritten, likely without performance
concerns, using a scripting based plugin system. I could see that
some other big picture pieces could potentially
performance applications)
I think it has potential though. I think a lot of the current plugins
on the website could easily be rewritten, likely without performance
concerns, using a scripting based plugin system. I could see that some
other big picture pieces could potentially benefit also
Thanks for considering it
Ed W
On 22/02/2012 19:49, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 22.2.2012, at 11.38, Ed W wrote:
void postlogout_init(struct module *module) { }
void postlogout_deinit(void) {
system("/usr/local/bin/dovecot-postlogout.sh");
}
Add a few missing #includes and compile and enable for imap/pop3 and th
On 21/02/2012 20:36, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 21.2.2012, at 16.33, Ed W wrote:
I'm also pleased to see that there is little negative cost in using a proxy... I recently added
imap-proxy to our webmail setup because I wanted to log "last login + logout" times. I
haven't q
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