mdbox: purge only if it's worthwhile

Hi, with the mdbox storage one needs to regularly run purge to really clean up deleted mails from the storage. Running purge can be an IO intensive task as the files are append-only and even if in a 10 MB mdbox file only a small mail is deleted all other mails need to be copied to a new file

Re: disable pop3 ports?

gards, Sven Strickroth PGP key id F5A9D4C4 @ any key-server

doveadm sync issues (revised)

r="rem...@domain.tld" -o imapc_password="PW" -o imapc_host="localhost" sync -R -1 -u lo...@domain.tld imapc: Hope you can replicate this, too, and finally fix the issue. -- Best regards, Sven Strickroth PGP key id F5A9D4C4 @ any key-server

Migrating from external server to Dovecot (doveadm sync issues)

ongly? Is there a way to use "sync" directly w/o backup from the beginning (i.e., how to get rid of the error "Error: Backend didn't update mailbox Trash GUID"). Context: # 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554) # OS: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.8 imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail I can't upgrade to latest Dovecot right now. :( -- Best regards, Sven Strickroth PGP key id F5A9D4C4 @ any key-server

Re: Mailbox suddenly inaccessible

igt/Erledigt and all other mailboxes have a subfolder named "dbox-Mails", Erledigt does not have this subfolder. How can this happen? Btw. It seems as if the INBOX/Erledigt/Erledigt folder contains all the mails from the now inaccessible INBOX/Erledigt folder. -- Best regards, Sven St

Mailbox suddenly inaccessible

; mailbox messages vsize INBOX/Erledigt2 15 25868676 INBOX/Erledigt/Erledigt 4344 6107238270 INBOX 24 36081472 I'm using mdbox and see no errors in syslog from dovecot. Any ideas on what's going on and how I can recover the

Crash in 2.2.27 while moving a mail

Hi, I just noticed a crash in Dovecot (2.2.27) on Debian with the Debian version 1:2.2.27-2~bpo8+1: Jan 28 07:50:42 srv1 dovecot: imap(y...@xxx.de): Panic: file mail-storage.c: line 2170 (mailbox_save_context_reset): assertion failed: (ctx->copying_via_save) Jan 28 07:50:42 srv1 dovecot: imap(y

Re: a question about certificates from letsencrypt

h-browsers-and-operating-systems-support-lets-encrypt/4394?u=mrtux for a fuller list and feel free to report more working or not working clients, I'll add them there. MTAs usually don't validate the certificates, so there should be no problem. -- Best regards, Sven Strickroth PGP key id F5A9D4C4 @ any key-server

Systemd and listen restriction to localhost not enforced

52:14 srv1 dovecot: master: Error: systemd listens on port 143, but it's not configured in Dovecot. Closing. -- Best regards, Sven Strickroth PGP key id F5A9D4C4 @ any key-server

dsync and smooth conversion of Maildir to mdbox

ix/private/dovecot-lmtp { mode = 0600 user = postfix } user = vmail } userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/79p-sql.conf driver = sql } -- Best regards, Sven Strickroth PGP key id F5A9D4C4 @ any key-server

Re: [Dovecot] deliver is curious

Am 03.08.2009 17:43 schrieb Timo Sirainen: >> Doesn't work for me (exactly the same output). >> >> auth default: >> passdb: >>driver: pam >>args: imap >> userdb: >>driver: passwd >>args: home=/var/spool/imap/users/%u blocking=yes system_groups_user=%n > > What Dovecot version? Wh

Re: [Dovecot] Spaces in user or group-names

Hi, Am 26.07.2009 21:04 schrieb Timo Sirainen: >>> how it is possible to use group names with spaces (like "Domain >>> Admins") >>> in dovecot-acl files? >> Currently it's not. I guess I could implement it by using " quotes. > > Done: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/7168ca62c556 If this

Re: [Dovecot] deliver is curious

Hi, thanks for your fast response! Am 03.08.2009 03:27 schrieb Timo Sirainen: > userdb passwd { > args = home > } > > Or since you use Maildir/ in your directory names, probably best to set: > > userdb passwd { > args = home=/var/spool/imap/users/%u > } Doesn't work for me (exactly the sam

[Dovecot] deliver is curious

Hi, Im' using deliver with postfix (mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -n -m "$EXTENSION"). In dovecot.conf I've set mail_location to maildir:/var/spool/imap/users/%u/Maildir It works, but not for ONE "special" email. If I send mail to e.g. t...@trg-oha.de it gets correctly delivered (s

[Dovecot] Spaces in user or group-names

Hi, how it is possible to use group names with spaces (like "Domain Admins") in dovecot-acl files? -- Best regards, Sven mailto:s...@clamav.net ClamAV, a GPL anti-virus toolkit http://www.clamav.net

Re: [Dovecot] Public mailboxes with ACL in 1.2

Hi, Am 22.07.2009 21:09 schrieb sstrickr...@trg-oha.de: > When I activate the ACL plugin all public or shared mailboxes are hidden. > How can I avoid this for the public mailboxes? After changing "acl = vfile" to "acl = vfile:/somepath" the public mailboxes became visible... -- Best regards, S

Re: [Dovecot] flat file dict

Hi, Am 19.07.2009 19:15 schrieb Timo Sirainen: > What do you mean by primary and supplementary groups? User's list of > groups are listed in acl_groups setting. None of them is treated as > primary. The user's UNIX groups aren't used for ACL checks at all. Ah I see. What about an option so that t

Re: [Dovecot] flat file dict

Am 18.07.2009 23:42 schrieb Sven Strickroth: > How do I use acl_shared_dict? Especially with file:-dictionary. Finally I found out. A mapping entry consists of two lines: shared/shared-boxes/(user|group)/(grant to)/(owner user) 1 If I use a group only the primary group name is checked. Is t

[Dovecot] flat file dict

Hi, I'm using version 1.2.1 with acl. How do I use acl_shared_dict? Especially with file:-dictionary. What's the layout of that file? Is it possible that the file is ignored with the current version? If the file doesn't exist or isn't readable, I don' get any error message. Best regards, Sven