Error: file_preallocate in logs

2017-10-09 Thread Ricardo Branco
I am getting lots of these messages in my imapd.log or while I am doing mailbox operations on the terminal. All my mailboxes are stored on NFS and ive set the nfs locking params in the config, only one mailserver accessing this share. Any ideas why this would be happening? doveadm(ops): Err

Re: ACL permission: give permission to move email into different folder

2017-10-09 Thread Davide Marchi
On October 7, 2017 at 1:29 AM Aki Tuomi wrote: [..]Can you provide mail_debug=yes logs? Hi Aki, I've set on /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf: mail_debug = yes debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.debug and on /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail

Re: Error: file_preallocate in logs

2017-10-09 Thread Tom Talpey
What OS are you running doveadm on, and what type of NFS server is hosting the storage? One possibility on (much) older NFS servers is that some of them refuse to extend a file when setting the file length to a larger value than the current size. However, that's a really obsolete behavior, not se

Re: Error: file_preallocate in logs

2017-10-09 Thread Ricardo Branco
Mail server runs centos 6.9 and so does the nfs servers, it is using nfsv3 on mount, underlining fs is xfs. On 9 October 2017 23:00:42 BST, Tom Talpey wrote: >What OS are you running doveadm on, and what type of NFS server is >hosting the storage? > >One possibility on (much) older NFS servers

Re: Error: file_preallocate in logs

2017-10-09 Thread Tom Talpey
My guess is that it's an NFS server issue, but you'd need an NFS packet trace to verify. Or maybe just run a modern NFS server and compare. In any event, my other guess is that it's harmless. Failing to extend a file doesn't actually lose message data, and the lib-storage code for mdbox prealloca

How to map email addresses to usernames?

2017-10-09 Thread Andreas Born
Hello, I have a general question about userdb and passdb lookups, in my case related to driver=sql. The documentation and most examples in the internet seem to assume that a user's login username to access a mailbox is identical to his email-address, or at least to the local-part of this email-ad

Mail Alias Stores in mySQL Not working

2017-10-09 Thread jason hirsh
This apparently was a problem that i was not aware since i redid my mail server configuration to make use of Postfixadmin. I have update the conf files using the postfix document fromthe down load. The download document seems to be fpr an early version of dovecot (I am using 2.2.4) as it focuse