Dovecot documentation

2019-05-21 Thread @lbutlr via dovecot
the make config options for dovecot on FreeBSD list list [x] ICU Use libicu for FTS unicode normalization but https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS makes no mention of libicu (nor of icu at all). is linicu simply in addition to the four options of Solar, Lucene, fts-xapian

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-19 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 23:15 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Do you have a way to simply dump all the current conf file parameter > names from 2.x into a single column text file? With "doveconf -d" you get all the settings and also the defaults. The docs probably should mention the defaults also. >

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-19 Thread Simon Brereton
On 19 March 2013 15:20, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:36:53 +0100 > Joseba Torre articulated: > > {snip} > >> Definitely, something like man 5 postconf would be really useful. I >> would like to collaborate with that, but I think that my English >> writing skill are not good enough. > > I

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-19 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:36:53 +0100 Joseba Torre articulated: {snip} > Definitely, something like man 5 postconf would be really useful. I > would like to collaborate with that, but I think that my English > writing skill are not good enough. I would be willing to assist in a project like that.

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-19 Thread Joseba Torre
El 19/03/13 05:15, Stan Hoeppner escribió: On 3/18/2013 11:37 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: So basically you're saying that the major documentation improvement = an index listing/describing all settings. Sure, would be useful, but I don't see having time to write that anytime soon. The time issue

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/18/2013 11:37 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > So basically you're saying that the major documentation improvement = an > index listing/describing all settings. Sure, would be useful, but I > don't see having time to write that anytime soon. The time issue is perfectly understandable Timo. My sug

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Grimm
On 18.03.2013, at 17:37, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Because it significantly increases development times, and when you're > basically doing everything yourself there's nobody else reading those > anyway. From my point of view: do continue the very same way every since writing your first code regard

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-03-18 12:38 PM, Ajax wrote: FWIW I've found the exemplary postconf(1) almost indispensable both for exploring the Postfix configuration and for applying impromptu changes. I think most everyone would agree that postfix is in a class by itself when it comes to code quality and docume

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-18 Thread Charles Marcus
I was going to just bite my tongue, but couldn't let this go... On 2013-03-18 11:33 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/17/2013 3:50 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: It's the best I can do myself. I have no idea how they could be improved in any major way. They say that the software developer himself is th

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:37 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > I don't know who "they" is. Wietse writes all the Postfix documentation > > himself. It comes naturally when one performs formal software > > development, not ad hoc, because documentation precedes coding. I would > > assume you do a

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-18 Thread Ajax
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > A few things could improve the current docs in a major way. FWIW I've found the exemplary postconf(1) almost indispensable both for exploring the Postfix configuration and for applying impromptu changes.

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 10:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 3/17/2013 3:50 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > It's the best I can do myself. I have no idea how they could be improved in > > any major way. They say that the software developer himself is the worst > > possible person to write its doc

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-18 Thread Larry Stone
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/17/2013 3:50 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: It's the best I can do myself. I have no idea how they could be improved in any major way. They say that the software developer himself is the worst possible person to write its documentation, because he can

[Dovecot] Dovecot documentation WAS: Re: Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/17/2013 3:50 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > It's the best I can do myself. I have no idea how they could be improved in > any major way. They say that the software developer himself is the worst > possible person to write its documentation, because he can't understand what > others find diffic

Re: [Dovecot] Documentation Clarification

2013-03-12 Thread Axel Luttgens
Le 12 mars 2013 à 14:28, andr...@cymail.eu a écrit : > Can somebody please clarify the following in the documentation? > > I am actually looging at the 2.x docs: > In the http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication file there is > a good effort to clarify between authentication mechanisms and passwor

[Dovecot] Documentation Clarification

2013-03-12 Thread andreas
Can somebody please clarify the following in the documentation? I am actually looging at the 2.x docs: In the http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication file there is a good effort to clarify between authentication mechanisms and password schemes. The authentication mechanisms are described in htt

Re: [Dovecot] Documentation of Redis and Memcache Backends

2012-12-18 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 14:46 +0100, Urban Loesch wrote: > Hi, > > in the release notes of 2.1.9 I read that dovecot supports memcache and redis > backends for > userdb/passdb authentication. This is very interesting for me and should > reduce queries and database load of > our mysql servers. > >

[Dovecot] Documentation of Redis and Memcache Backends

2012-12-06 Thread Urban Loesch
Hi, in the release notes of 2.1.9 I read that dovecot supports memcache and redis backends for userdb/passdb authentication. This is very interesting for me and should reduce queries and database load of our mysql servers. My idea is to use memcache or redis in our IMAP/POP3 proxies in front o

Re: [Dovecot] Documentation clarifiction on mmap_disable

2011-12-12 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 12.12.2011, at 13.57, Marcio Merlone wrote: > On http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig I read: > > "mmap_disable = no > Don't use mmap() at all. This is required if you store indexes to > shared filesystems (NFS or clustered filesystem). " The wording is a bit too strong, but..: > Does that

[Dovecot] Documentation clarifiction on mmap_disable

2011-12-12 Thread Marcio Merlone
Greetings, On http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig I read: "mmap_disable = no Don't use mmap() at all. This is required if you store indexes to shared filesystems (NFS or clustered filesystem). " Does that mean: 1. mmap is required when using NFS or 2. it is required to don't use mmap at a

Re: [Dovecot] "Documentation" link from http://www.dovecot.org/

2010-09-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-09-22 12:26 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 20:53 +0100, William Blunn wrote: >> Though for me, the version numbers are too small to be useful. > I know they're small, but I didn't want them to make the bar any > higher. Also having something like "Documentation v1.x v2.0

Re: [Dovecot] "Documentation" link from http://www.dovecot.org/

2010-09-22 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 20:53 +0100, William Blunn wrote: > On 21/09/2010 19:17, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Wonder if http://dovecot.org/index2.html looks ok. > > Interesting. Though for me, the version numbers are too small to be > useful. I know they're small, but I didn't want them to make the ba

Re: [Dovecot] "Documentation" link from http://www.dovecot.org/

2010-09-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-09-21 3:53 PM, William Blunn wrote: > On 21/09/2010 19:17, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> Wonder if http://dovecot.org/index2.html looks ok. > > Interesting. Though for me, the version numbers are too small to be > useful. I tried it through Firefox 3.6.8 and Microsoft's version 8 > offering wit

Re: [Dovecot] "Documentation" link from http://www.dovecot.org/

2010-09-21 Thread William Blunn
On 21/09/2010 19:17, Timo Sirainen wrote: Wonder if http://dovecot.org/index2.html looks ok. Interesting. Though for me, the version numbers are too small to be useful. I tried it through Firefox 3.6.8 and Microsoft's version 8 offering with the same result. Also I've been wondering about w

Re: [Dovecot] "Documentation" link from http://www.dovecot.org/

2010-09-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-09-21 2:38 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Wonder how much trouble b) would be to implement. Still, this behavior > has the downside of getting lots of links to wiki1, wiki2, etc. all > around the internet which could be pointing to obsolete information by > the time they're being read by peopl

Re: [Dovecot] "Documentation" link from http://www.dovecot.org/

2010-09-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 14:32 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > Just have wiki.dovecot.org be a landing page with very prominent links > to each version. To avoid breaking existing links, wiki.dovecot.org/Foo would either have to: a) automatically redirect to one of wiki1/Foo, wiki2/Foo b) Show the

Re: [Dovecot] "Documentation" link from http://www.dovecot.org/

2010-09-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-09-21 2:17 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Another possibility could be to just make wiki.dovecot.org redirect to > wiki2.dovecot.org and wiki.dovecot.org/blah/ to wiki1.dovecot.org/blah/. > Existing links would work and then wiki2 links would start showing up > more and maybe some day in futur

Re: [Dovecot] "Documentation" link from http://www.dovecot.org/

2010-09-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 16:51 +0100, William Blunn wrote: > Perhaps the "Documentation" link on the home page could be re-worked to > something like > > Documentation v2.x v1.x > > where "v2.x" and "v1.x" are links to the two wikis. Wonder if http://dovecot.org/index2.html looks ok. Also I've b

[Dovecot] "Documentation" link from http://www.dovecot.org/

2010-09-21 Thread William Blunn
On the Dovecot home page http://www.dovecot.org/ we have a link "Documentation" which links to the Dovecot 1.x wiki ( http://wiki.dovecot.org/ ). There is a question mark in my mind as to whether that is a good idea considering as how the current stable version of Dovecot appears to be 2.0.x.

Re: [Dovecot] Documentation for "altpath" / "altmove" / ?"Alternate storage"

2010-09-06 Thread William Blunn
On 03/09/2010 11:13, William Blunn wrote: I was thinking about documentation for alternate storage. I have added a new section http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox#Alternate_storage and made various changes elsewhere http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/dbox#Alternate_storage http://

Re: [Dovecot] Documentation for "altpath" / "altmove" / ?"Alternate storage"

2010-09-03 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 17:09 +0100, William Blunn wrote: > I think the only thing I had further questions on was how alternate > storage works with mdbox. > > In http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox it says we have > > * dovecot.map.index* files contain the "map index" > * m.* files c

Re: [Dovecot] Documentation for "altpath" / "altmove" / ?"Alternate storage"

2010-09-03 Thread William Blunn
On 03/09/2010 15:01, Timo Sirainen wrote: With multi-dbox the moving is more complex, but still it only copies the data in m.* files. Dovecot always tries to look for the u.123 or m.123 file from primary storage and if it's not found there, it looks it up from alternate storage. The state isn

Re: [Dovecot] Documentation for "altpath" / "altmove" / ?"Alternate storage"

2010-09-03 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 11:13 +0100, William Blunn wrote: > We might want to have a name for the wiki page. Perhaps > "AlternateStorage"? Of course if it only applies to dbox, then another > idea is to make it a section on the page "MailboxFormat/dbox". All > suggestions gratefully received. I t

[Dovecot] Documentation for "altpath" / "altmove" / ?"Alternate storage"

2010-09-03 Thread William Blunn
I was thinking about documentation for alternate storage. We have a few mentions at: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Altmove But I was thinking it would be helpful if there could be a page about alternate

[Dovecot] Documentation error

2010-03-30 Thread Robert Lopez
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Authentication There appears to be an error in this line: The PLAIN mechanism's authentication format is: NUL NUL . Authentication ID is the username who you want to log in as, and authentication ID is the username whose password you're giving. I suppose it sh

[Dovecot] Documentation to create plugins.

2007-09-28 Thread Fábio M. Catunda
hi! Is there any documentation to guide me how to create a dovecot plugin? I'm trying to read the code, but I'm not a good C programmer. I have been able to copy the mail-log plugin into copy-log, edited about 4 lines of code, then I edited Makefiles and configure, now I'm able to compile, in

Re: [Dovecot] documentation for developers

2007-09-19 Thread Curtis Maloney
Boris Lorbeer wrote: Hi there, I have two questions: - Is there a dovecot documentation for developers (apart from the source itself

Re: [Dovecot] documentation for developers

2007-09-19 Thread Charles Marcus
- In the site I am concerned with, it happens very often that one mail is delivered to hundreds of recipients. Since almost all of the mailboxes are situated on the same filesystem, the mail is delivered by just saving it once and establishing hardlinks from the mail director

[Dovecot] documentation for developers

2007-09-19 Thread Boris Lorbeer
Hi there, I have two questions: - Is there a dovecot documentation for developers (apart from the source itself