Hi (again!) Timo,
2009/3/19 Mike Brudenell
>
> Grepping the code suggests this is presumably coming
> from src/imap-login/client.c
>
> I'm now peering at the code trying to see if I can spot anything, but have
> to confess to not being too wonderful in the area of sockets
Hi again...
2009/3/19 Mike Brudenell
>
> 2009/3/13 Timo Sirainen
>
>> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 17:41 +, Mike Brudenell wrote:
>> > We have grown to suspect it is to do with one of the imap-login
>> processes
>> > having a large number of files open. Kil
Hi!
Sorry for the delay in replying: I was waiting for the problem to recur so I
could double-check the logs and the states of the imap-login processes.
2009/3/13 Timo Sirainen
> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 17:41 +0000, Mike Brudenell wrote:
> > We have grown to suspect it is to do with o
of weeks ago. From there I upgraded first to 1.0.15 and then
to 1.1.11. I'd hoped that upgrading would fix the problem: I see it has been
mentioned before on the list, but not for a year or two.
Can anyone give any help, please?
Cheers,
Mike Brudenell
Configuration info
Platform: Solaris 1
Greetings -
Could someone help me understand what the latest situation id with
regard to ACLs and sharing mailboxes, please?
Currently we are using Dovecot 1.0.x but will be moving to 1.1 when it
comes out of Beta (and hopefully I'll get some time before too long to
try building a test se
Greetings -
On one of the mailing lists I'm on there was a recent-ish discussion
about webmail clients, and someone mentioned a site selling sets of
skins for SquirrelMail... the entire set was about $300.
I'm trying to track down the site but seem to have deleted the message
I'd carefull
Greetings -
On 10 Jan 2008, at 21:49, Chris Wakelin wrote:
With Dovecot's caching and indexing, things are much better, but
there is still a significant overhead on opening lots of
connections, I fear, especially for mboxes (moving to maildir would
help of course). I would consider using i
Greetings -
On 29 Nov 2007, at 09:24, Mark Heitmann wrote:
In my $LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib is behind /usr/local/lib (for
openldap), although
dovecot-auth was linked with the Solaris lib. The way that works for
me is the
following LDFLAGS directive to the configure command, because the --
wi
Greetings -
On 15 Nov 2007, at 07:36, Timo Sirainen wrote:
That was the plan, Maildir keywords are the only exception. I was
also thinking about changing that some day so that it's not possible
to set more than 26 keywords with maildir. I think this is currently
pretty much a nonissue beca
Greetings -
Now that users are beginning to pile up more on our new Dovecot-based
IMAP service I'm seeing a small number of entries like this in the
logfiles:
Corrupted index cache file /mailstore/index/o/ozw100/.INBOX/
dovecot.index.cache
: invalid record size
We are using Dovecot 1.0.3
Hi, Jerry/et al -
On 4 Oct 2007, at 20:47, Jerry Yeager wrote:
Have you considered sending out a message to each user to the
effect that on some day, darned-early a.m. the system will be
offline for 30 minutes for maintenance (no incoming email will be
lost, etc., etc.).
We have around
Greetings -
Could someone confirm how to perform various upgrades on a live
system running Dovecot please?
Scenario 1: Change to dovecot.conf
===
If I make a change to dovecot.conf am I right in thinking I can
simply send a HUP signal to the main dovecot pr
Hi Patrick,
On 20 Aug 2007, at 23:21, Patrick - South Valley Internet wrote:
I've read so much information on this that I'm a little confused as
to what to follow. Here's what's going on:
We just migrated away from our AIX machines which were running
Postfix and UW-IMAP. We're now runnin
Greetings -
On 7 Aug 2007, at 14:36, Nicolas STRANSKY wrote:
In fact the patch applies well, dovecot compiles well, but rquota is
still not functionnal. I have this in config.log:
HAVE_RQUOTA_FALSE='#'
HAVE_RQUOTA_TRUE=''
#define HAVE_RQUOTA
But there is no RPC string in quota-fs.o. Where am I
Greetings -
On 7 Aug 2007, at 13:54, Stewart Dean wrote:
Sorry to be so clueless, but all the activity about rquotad drives
me to admit my puzzlement (or ignorance)...
I run rquotad on my mail server that also runs DCrquotad is
used by the other 3 hosts (a login/FTP server, a mailing lis
Greetings -
On 7 Aug 2007, at 11:28, Nicolas STRANSKY wrote:
OK, thanks for the answer, but unfortunately, these don't apply
well to
1.0.3..
They applied just fine to 1.0.3 here. I started off with pristine
copies of the files from the 1.0.3 distribution then applied the
patches using
ed by the passwd userdb before its
initial use in src/master/mail-process.c create_mail_process()
Any help gratefully received!
Cheers,
Mike B-)
On 3 Aug 2007, at 11:33, Mike Brudenell wrote:
We use shadow for the passdb and passwd for the userdb (see dovecot
-n output below). I'
Greetings -
I'm just feeling I need to clarify my previous message a bit to
explain the problem better...
On 3 Aug 2007, at 11:33, Mike Brudenell wrote:
We have two NetApp filers: one serves people's home directories;
the other their message store and control files filestores
Greetings -
I've just discovered an oddity I didn't know I had...
We have two NetApp filers: one serves people's home directories; the
other their message store and control files filestores.
At the moment the first of the two filers is not accessible to my
Dovecot system and I assumed all
Greetings -
On 3 Aug 2007, at 01:00, Nicolas STRANSKY wrote:
I think the configure failed to set HAVE_RQUOTA to config.h.
But this is what I had from ./configure:
checking rpcsvc/rquota.h usability... yes
checking rpcsvc/rquota.h presence... yes
checking for rpcsvc/rquota.h... yes
Yup, I go
Sorry for the flurry of messages! ...
On 2 Aug 2007, at 17:06, Mike Brudenell wrote:
However there doesn't seem to be anything in the existing 1.0.3
source or the three patches that provides this function.
Is there something missing from the patches at
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot
On 2 Aug 2007, at 16:56, Mike Brudenell wrote:
What am I missing?
(The especially annoying thing is that xdr_getquota_args is used in
the test program included in the source code I sent out a few days
ago and that worked... but I can't spot what is different in the
linking/runtime.)
AAARRGGH!!
On 2 Aug 2007, at 16:19, Nicolas STRANSKY wrote:
This applied and compiled well with v1.0.3.
The patches applied (with fuzz and offsets) to 1.0.3 and compiled OK
under Solaris 10 with Sun's C compiler.
However when I try and start Dovecot I get:
Edlopen(/usr/local/dovecot-1.0.
Greetings -
On 31 Jul 2007, at 17:18, Mike Brudenell wrote:
I'm attaching the patch files and a tar archive that comprise the
changes I use to support reading quotas from NFS-mounted
filestore. The patches are against the Dovecot 1.0.2 source code.
Just to let you know that the pa
Hi, Timo -
On 1 Aug 2007, at 13:14, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Q3. Which of the filestores should I mount with the "noatime"
option?
A3. Safe to use "noatime" for all three filestores.
(I understand Dovecot will use utime() when needed on such
filestores,
but am not sure if it will wor
Greetings -
I'm now in the last couple of weeks before going live with Dovecot
(v1.0.3) on our revamped IMAP service. I'd like to double-check
about the best mount options to use; could someone advise, please?
I have three separate directory trees for the message store, the
control files
Greetings -
On 30 Jul 2007, at 10:05, Joseba Torre wrote:
Could you share it please? As previously reported, the "official"
patch is not
working right now.
Aaagur.
I'm attaching the patch files and a tar archive that comprise the
changes I use to support reading quotas from NFS-m
Greetings -
On 25 Jul 2007, at 15:18, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 23.7.2007, at 18.41, Farkas Levente wrote:
it'd be very useful to include the quota warning patch in official
release. without it the quota support is not really useful since mail
simple dropped when quota is over. and most enduser
Greetings -
On 18 Jul 2007, at 22:31, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Could you try that both of these patches work:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/89184bad9d10
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/rev/cc8b6e73e830
I'm not sure from what version Solaris has getextmntent(), but I think
from at least 8 so
Ah! After a bit of test programming I understand what's going on now.
If I'm right then there are a few incorrect assumptions in Dovecot's
logic. (Sorry! :-)
On 17 Jul 2007, at 18:12, Timo Sirainen wrote:
auto_direct /mailstore/messages/p autofs
direct,ignore,dev=4740014 11
Hi Timo, et al -
On 17 Jul 2007, at 18:12, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 17.7.2007, at 13.55, Mike Brudenell wrote:
auto_direct /mailstore/messages/p autofs
direct,ignore,dev=4740014 1184648400
crypt2.york.ac.uk:/vol/vol9/p /mailstore/messages/p nfs
proto=tcp,xattr,dev
e loop skips over any such mounts (along with the
existing tests for "swap" and "ignore").
I'm attaching my minimal patch in case it's of help to anyone else.
(Timo: would it be possible to get this added into the distribution
code if you agree it's right?)
Ch
ore").
I'm attaching my minimal patch in case it's of help to anyone else.
(Timo: would it be possible to get this added into the distribution
code if you agree it's right?)
Cheers,
Mike Brudenell
--
The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York Yo10 5DD,
Greetings -
I was just wondering what the state of play was with regard to
reading filestore-based quotas when the mailstore is NFS-mounted?
Timo mentioned a little while ago that he'd be including it:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-May/022594.html
However it isn't in 1.0.1 and
Greetings -
On 4 Jul 2007, at 11:21, Peter Eriksson wrote:
Uh.. I'n your case I think it would be quite easy. I think this
should work:
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix = snapshot-0/
location = maildir:~/Maildir/.snapshot/nightly.
0:CONTROL=~/.dovecot/control:INDEX=~/.
Greetings -
I'm intrigued by your suggestion of providing read-only access to
mail folders in the snapshots...
On 3 Jul 2007, at 15:20, Peter Eriksson wrote:
Now,I can access the normal Maildir INBOX and folders nicely via
Dovecot/IMAP. The thing is I'd like to be able to access the
snapsho
Greetings -
On 26 Apr 2007, at 10:36, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
In Exim, you can set the temp_errors option of the transport. I
don't know
what code is returned in this case, but I have temp_errors =
73:75:77:78:89.
If Exim takes care of all the hard errors (like nonexisting
user...) you can
Greetings -
I'm having trouble working out where to alter this behaviour (so
please forgive me if it turns out to be an Exim thing rather than
Dovecot!)...
My test service is using Exim as the MTA and Dovecot's "deliver" for
the LDA. We are using Maildir mailboxes with filestore quotas.
Hi Timo et al,
On 29 Mar 2007, at 17:52, Mike Brudenell wrote:
But then the ODDNESS starts. I'm still a little hazy how to
interpret the output of imaptest, but every now and then one or two
processes stall for several seconds. When this happens activity
seems to grow quieter i
Greetings -
On 28 Mar 2007, at 20:45, Timo Sirainen wrote:
- 12. stalled for 17 secs in LOGIN
- 13. stalled for 17 secs in LOGIN
..
When this happens, can you manually log in at the same time?
Yes, but SLOWLY. It's making me think we're pushing the machine and/
or its 100Mbit network card
On 28 Mar 2007, at 18:15, Timo Sirainen wrote:
- 16. stalled for 16 secs in LOGIN
Try changing http://wiki.dovecot.org/LoginProcess settings, especially
login_process_per_connection=no and see how much it helps.
Sorry I forgot to give my current login and auth settings (which, I
have to ad
Greetings -
I've now got as far as playing with the imaptest10 test utility to
see if I can stress-test our development server. imaptest10 is built
against dovecot-1.0rc28
It may just be that I'm excessively heavy handed, but when I let
imaptest10 rip with the command...
./imaptest10 u
Greetings -
I'm finalising the layout of our new mailstore ready for a trial
service using Dovecot (switching from the UW IMAP server). This is
using Maildir mailboxes, changing from our current mix of MBX and
traditional Berkeley.
One of the things we are often asked for is how someone
Many thanks, Timo...
On 15 Mar 2007, at 13:59, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 13:47 +, Mike Brudenell wrote:
Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong, please, and how to use the
dovecot --exec-mail imap
trick to do pre-authenticated connections whilst getting loggin
Greetings -
On 13 Mar 2007, at 16:08, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:01 +, Mike Brudenell wrote:
Q1. The UW IMAP Server supports "pre-authenticated connections" --
does Dovecot?
dovecot --exec-mail imap
I'm having some success with the above but...
Wh
Greetings -
On 9 Mar 2007, at 19:40, Timo Sirainen wrote:
I don't see any other way of doing this. Except possibly to give
"invalid mailbox name" errors, or maybe even change the dot
silently to
some other character. All of these options kind of suck.
We've been discussing this problem her
Greetings -
On 13 Mar 2007, at 16:08, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:01 +, Mike Brudenell wrote:
Q1. The UW IMAP Server supports "pre-authenticated connections" --
does Dovecot?
dovecot --exec-mail imap
Excellent! I hadn't found that command line option
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