Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS SOLVED

2010-02-10 Thread Frank Cusack
IP-based access is totally fine if that part of your network is physically secure. It sure solves a lot of headaches. On 2/10/10 10:22 AM +0100 Per-Erik Persson wrote: Well, what you describe would be the correct and security aware way of doing it. However since I am still testing i just did

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS SOLVED

2010-02-10 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Per-Erik Persson wrote: By adding the IP of the server handling the maildeliveries to the group called mail-writers which has permissions on every users Maildir. Ah, got it, thanks. - -- Steffen Kaiser -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS SOLVED

2010-02-10 Thread Per-Erik Persson
Well, what you describe would be the correct and security aware way of doing it. However since I am still testing i just did it the quick and dirty way. By adding the IP of the server handling the maildeliveries to the group called mail-writers which has permissions on every users Maildir. So

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS SOLVED

2010-02-10 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Per-Erik Persson wrote: I now have dovecots deliver (1.1.?)up and running and delivering mails to maildirs located on the AFS So if anyone is wondering, I would say that AFS works as a backend for storing emails without any u

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS SOLVED

2010-02-10 Thread Per-Erik Persson
Sorry for the fuzz on the thread earlier. I now have dovecots deliver (1.1.?)up and running and delivering mails to maildirs located on the AFS So if anyone is wondering, I would say that AFS works as a backend for storing emails without any ugly patches.

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS

2010-02-04 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 4, 2010 4:40:37 AM +0200 Timo Sirainen wrote: If it acts just like a local filesystem, then it doesn't have any problems with Dovecot. But that guarantee usually makes the performance worse, so I would have thought it had less strong guarantees. Anyway, I don't know almost anything a

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS

2010-02-03 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 4.2.2010, at 4.13, Frank Cusack wrote: > On February 4, 2010 1:41:52 AM +0200 Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On 2.2.2010, at 22.06, Per-Erik Persson wrote: >> >>> Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles >>> with AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LD

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS

2010-02-03 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 4, 2010 1:41:52 AM +0200 Timo Sirainen wrote: On 2.2.2010, at 22.06, Per-Erik Persson wrote: Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles with AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LDA Is this still an issue or should I prepare for spendin

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS

2010-02-03 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 2.2.2010, at 22.06, Per-Erik Persson wrote: > Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles with > AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LDA > Is this still an issue or should I prepare for spending time to solve it? > If someone successfully got it to

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS

2010-02-02 Thread Per-Erik Persson
Frank Cusack skrev 2010-02-02 21:37: On February 2, 2010 9:06:45 PM +0100 Per-Erik Persson wrote: Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles with AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LDA Is this still an issue or should I prepare for spending time t

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Cusack
On February 2, 2010 9:06:45 PM +0100 Per-Erik Persson wrote: Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles with AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LDA Is this still an issue or should I prepare for spending time to solve it? If someone successfully go

[Dovecot] dovecot and AFS

2010-02-02 Thread Per-Erik Persson
Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles with AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LDA Is this still an issue or should I prepare for spending time to solve it? If someone successfully got it to work in a small or large scale environment I would be