Re: [Dovecot] Enabling security on POP3 and IMAP

2009-09-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
that certificate, so regardless of whether people are access "mail.domain", "pop3.domain" or "imap.domain", the hostname mismatch does not occur? Thanks again! Richard. Richard Hobbs wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry people - my problem is actually the opposite

Re: [Dovecot] Enabling security on POP3 and IMAP

2009-09-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
! Richard. Richard Hobbs wrote: > Hello, > >>> Is it possible to offer encrypted and non-encrypted services >>> simultaneously, so people have a choice of whether they want >>> security or not? I know that's a bit weird, but for testing >>> it would be us

Re: [Dovecot] Enabling security on POP3 and IMAP

2009-09-28 Thread Richard Hobbs
ghtly or wrongly, i used the standard ports (110 for POP3, 143 for IMAP). I know SSL typically operates on higher ports numbers, at least for IMAP, but I dont' know how this all works when you turn off non-encrypted protocols. Any advice gratefully received! Thanks again, Richard. Patrick Nagel

Re: [Dovecot] Enabling security on POP3 and IMAP

2009-09-24 Thread Richard Hobbs
package, or whether they have been generated during the installation process and are therefore unique? If they are unique, then I don't need to generate my own, perhaps? Thanks again, Richard. Christian Schmidt wrote: > Hello Richard, > > Richard Hobbs, 10.09.2009 (d.m.y):

Re: [Dovecot] Enabling security on POP3 and IMAP

2009-09-10 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Replies inline... Patrick Nagel wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On 2009-09-03 16:38, Richard Hobbs wrote: >> Currently, on our new test server, I am offering IMAP on 143 and POP3 on >> 110. > >> We would like to enable security on both of these protocols to at

[Dovecot] Enabling security on POP3 and IMAP

2009-09-03 Thread Richard Hobbs
a choice of whether they want security or not? I know that's a bit weird, but for testing it would be useful. Finally, is there a way to monitor which users are connecting over the secure ports and which users are connecting over the non-secure ports? Thanks in advance! Richard. -- Ri

Re: [Dovecot] More Migration Questions

2009-08-17 Thread Richard Hobbs
client will download all their mail again and duplicate it! Anyway... i'm glad i've found the problem, even if it does make the migration a little annoying! :-) Regards, Richard. Richard Hobbs wrote: > Hello, > > We've also tried setting the size of the msgs to be the

Re: [Dovecot] More Migration Questions

2009-08-14 Thread Richard Hobbs
s so i end up with duplicates in my inbox, despite them having the same UIDLs! The only difference i can see is that the old mail server has the X-UIDL header towards the end of the headers, and the new server puts the X-UIDL header right at the top above all other headers. Does anyone know what

Re: [Dovecot] More Migration Questions

2009-08-14 Thread Richard Hobbs
see this: X-UIDL: a=="!(3N"!&D'"!87D"! whaton earth is going on here... both now have the same X-UIDL, but are being downloaded separately! So... does anyone have any ideas? Thanks again! Richard. Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 15:39 +, Ri

Re: [Dovecot] More Migration Questions

2009-08-14 Thread Richard Hobbs
otentially changing places within their IMAP client, everything will be OK, right? Thanks again! Richard. Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Aug 14, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Richard Hobbs wrote: > >> Where should i convert my mbox mailboxes into? "/home/username/Maildir/" >> or "

[Dovecot] More Migration Questions

2009-08-14 Thread Richard Hobbs
mpletely removed, exim is currently setup to deliver via it's own method into the mbox files in /var/spool/mail but the exim service is stopped because i'm migrating, and dovecot 1.1 is installed but stopped, and has had no configuration done to it yet whatsoever. So... any advice?

Re: [Dovecot] enourmous amount of disc writes

2009-06-15 Thread Richard Hobbs
iner Sigl >> >> > Hi Rainer first you should upgrade to the latest stable of the 1.x branch > or better 1.1.x, also dapper is very old perhaps try hardy > > then retest, i run 2000 users on suse with dovecot 1.0.15 and mysql > on sata 3ware hardware raid 1 500 GB on ex

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-21 Thread Richard Hobbs
pod wrote: > Richard Hobbs writes: > >> 19. Once everything is working perfectly, send an email to the entire >> company instructing them what to do after the outage and arrange an >> outage and do the following steps as soon as the outage begins: >> >>

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-20 Thread Richard Hobbs
& IMP to access email via IMAP. 21. Reconfigure backup script to make sure new server is backed up. 22. Modify Nagios config to monitor new server. 23. DONE! Thanks in advance, everyone! :-) Richard. Brandon Lamb wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Richard Hobbs > wrote

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-15 Thread Richard Hobbs
Seth Mattinen wrote: > Richard Hobbs wrote: >> Seth Mattinen wrote: >>> Phillip Macey wrote: >>>> On 14/05/2009 5:11 PM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: >>>>> On Wed, 13 May 2009, Richard Hobbs wrote: >>>>>> The main complaint we have from user

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-15 Thread Richard Hobbs
Seth Mattinen wrote: > Richard Hobbs wrote: >> Curtis Maloney wrote: >>> Phillip Macey wrote: >>>>> Oh, we serve Maildir via Dovecot IMAP and 5000 messages per folder >>>>> are a wimp. Problems start if the user: >>>> We are having some

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-15 Thread Richard Hobbs
Seth Mattinen wrote: > Phillip Macey wrote: >> On 14/05/2009 5:11 PM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: >>> On Wed, 13 May 2009, Richard Hobbs wrote: >>>> The main complaint we have from users is that their IMAP Inbox, with >>>> 5000 emails in it takes age

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-15 Thread Richard Hobbs
deliver)? This raises an interesting question for me actually... given that we've now decided dovecot and maildir is the way forward for us, which delivery method should we use in exim? exim can support maildir, (right?) and so can dovecot, so should i use dovecot's "deliver" mecha

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-13 Thread Richard Hobbs
Timo Sirainen wrote: > On May 13, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Richard Hobbs wrote: > >>> Depends on the usage, but it's significantly better performing than >>> UW-IMAP. Dovecot+mbox is also significantly faster than UW-IMAP+mbox. >> >> OK... so Dovecot is certai

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-13 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hi All, Replies to everyone below (to keep the number of emails down)... Ed W wrote: > Richard Hobbs wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> We are soon to migrate our mail server from one piece of hardware >> to another and we would like to take this opportunity to optimize >&g

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-12 Thread Richard Hobbs
Sorry people - i'm replying to my own email again... my reply is below! Richard Hobbs wrote: > Hello, > > Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 15:05 +, Richard Hobbs wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> We are soon to migrate our mail server f

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-12 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 15:05 +0000, Richard Hobbs wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> We are soon to migrate our mail server from one piece of hardware to >> another and we would like to take this opportunity to optimize things. >> As a result, w

Re: [Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-11 Thread Richard Hobbs
ume(s) or does dovecot rely on this? Thanks again, people... :-) Richard. Richard Hobbs wrote: > Hi All, > > We are soon to migrate our mail server from one piece of hardware to > another and we would like to take this opportunity to optimize things. > As a result, we would like to repl

[Dovecot] Migration questions...

2009-05-11 Thread Richard Hobbs
e inboxes (which are still in mbox format). 8. Configure the "convert" plugin to begin converting the mail to dbox format. 9. Run something manually (if possible) to convert mailboxes before people connect, so the task is already done by the time the outage is over. 10. Give staff access to