[Dovecot] Proprietary mail storage.

2011-08-31 Thread Alex Cherniak
I have a large existing read-only collection of mails packaged in individual zip files as +. Is it possible (and how difficult) to create a proprietary plugin (like gzip) which will open a zip file, extract mail and pass it back to Dovecot? Where do I start? If plugin is not the right approach, wha

Re: [Dovecot] Proprietary mail storage.

2011-08-31 Thread Alex Cherniak
Thanks, Timo. Technically, it's not a Maildir, but my plan is to re-create one with folders containing hard or symbolic links pointing to the real storage. Is it going to be a problem? On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 31.8.2011, at 17.24, Alex Cherniak wrote

[Dovecot] Permission denied

2010-12-16 Thread Alex Cherniak
After several trouble free months and without any obvious reason our server just stopped working. I cannot even re-start it: [r...@dsmail /]# service dovecot start Starting Dovecot Imap: Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot.log: Permission denied If I create those manually (touch /var/log/do

[Dovecot] How to enable COPY and APPEND commands separately

2011-01-20 Thread Alex Cherniak
I'd like to allow a user to move messages between his folders on Dovecot IMAP account, but prevent move/copy from different accounts (Exchange in particular). Outlook uses "xx UID COPY 1 folder" and then "xx UID STORE 1 +FLAGS (\Deleted \Seen)" for internal moves and "xx APPEND folder" for external

Re: [Dovecot] How to enable COPY and APPEND commands separately

2011-01-24 Thread Alex Cherniak
, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 21.1.2011, at 1.51, Alex Cherniak wrote: > > > I'd like to allow a user to move messages between his folders on Dovecot > > IMAP account, but prevent move/copy from different accounts (Exchange in > > particular). > >

[Dovecot] LDAP Authentication with multiple independent domains

2011-04-15 Thread Alex Cherniak
Is it possible to authenticate users against multiple independent AD domains? In my dovecot-ldap.conf I entered two hosts: hosts = host1 host 2 auth_bind_userdn = %d\%n ldap_version = 3 base = cn=users,dc=%d,dc=net auth_bind = yes but OpenLDAP seems to stop authentication as soon as the first hos

[Dovecot] ACL to make mailboxes populated by master account Read Only for regular users.

2013-03-07 Thread Alex Cherniak
We have a solution using Dovecot as a secondary mail archive. All mailboxes are populated/groomed by master account and the actual users have only read access. This is achieved by a simple ACL approach. dovecot.conf has protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl quota imap_quota zlib } plugin { acl = vfi