Re: [Dovecot] dovecot mysql support

2007-11-21 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:21:08PM -0500, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 05:15:24PM -0800, jan gestre wrote: I'm using CentOS 4.5, is the dovecot default rpm comes with mysql support?

Re: [Dovecot] backup dovecot

2007-11-23 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Mark Adams wrote: A normal rsync to another server of the maildir and configs will work fine. If you need to backup using windows or mac then a samba share is the best bet. Mark Links how to use rsync will be appreciated. [...] An example of syncing 2 directories over

Re: [Dovecot] backup dovecot

2007-11-25 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Benjamin R Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > And something to watch out for as a new rsync user: > The trailing slash is important on the source path. From the rsync 'man' > page (read it!): A trailing slash o

Re: [Dovecot] last logon time

2007-11-30 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Nikolay Shopik wrote: Hi list, How can I detect when user last time logon into their mailbox? For what file I should look and compare change time? On the wiki, see: "Post-Login Scripting" http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting Specifically: "Last-login Tracking" htt

Re: [Dovecot] 1.1.Beta9 deliver problem: Unknown mail storage driver raw

2007-12-02 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 16:04 +0200, Velko Ivanov wrote: Maybe it would be good to update the description of available storage drivers in configure script. Yes .. both 'configure --help' and the wiki are very uninformative on this topic. Fixed: http://

Re: [Dovecot] namespaces, shared mailboxes

2007-12-02 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 23:59 +0100, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote: I'd like to provide shared mailboxes with maildir that should appear like 'Shared/' to the clients. Using the namespace configuration below, everything works fine, exept one thing: Mail

Re: [Dovecot] namespaces, shared mailboxes

2007-12-02 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Nikolay Shopik wrote: On 02.12.2007 23:21, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote: [...] I'd like to be able to deliver e.g. new mail to the technical support directly to "Shared/tech/" but if that's not possible, it isn't a big problem, I'll just use "Shared/tech/INCOMING". Che

Re: [Dovecot] namespaces, shared mailboxes

2007-12-02 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote: On 12/02/2007 09:35 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Nikolay Shopik wrote: On 02.12.2007 23:21, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote: [...] I'd like to be able to deliver e.g. new mail to the technical su

Re: [Dovecot] Automatic Index Generation

2007-12-09 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 16:29 +0100, Maciej Poszywak wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: I guess you mean logging in with POP3? There the slowdown comes from getting all messages' virtual sizes. So your preindexer could probably do this by running pop3 for all use

Re: [Dovecot] Automatic Index Generation

2007-12-09 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 13:48 -0500, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo "quit" | /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3(vmu1): Fatal: pop3_uidl_format setting is missing from config file I have pop3_uidl_format correctly defined in the c

Re: [Dovecot] imap+unix users and pop3+virtual users

2007-12-16 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
[Reversing the top-posting] On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Wendell Turner wrote: [...] The trailing '/' means mbox format, correct? No. The trailing '/' means maildir format. (The '/' makes the path look like a directory.) However, I solved my own problem, but I don't know why. Enlightenment wo

Re: [Dovecot] imap+unix users and pop3+virtual users

2007-12-16 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: [Reversing the top-posting] On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Wendell Turner wrote: [...] The trailing '/' means mbox format, correct? No. The trailing '/' means maildir format. (The '/' makes the path look like a

Re: [Dovecot] imap+unix users and pop3+virtual users

2007-12-20 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 21:47 -0500, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: [Reversing the top-posting] On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Wendell Turner wrote: [...] The trailing '/' means mbox format, correct? No. The trailing '/' means maildir fo

Re: [Dovecot] Brute Force Blocking?

2007-12-20 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Ben Cadieux wrote: Hi Everyone, Before I begin, I'd just like to mention: I love dovecot. Thank you :) Anyway, today I had 8000 login attempts to my dovecot server in an hour before blocking the IP with my firewall. After googling, I didn't see very much discussion on th

Re: [Dovecot] Brute Force Blocking?

2007-12-20 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Peter Hessler wrote: On 2007 Dec 20 (Thu) at 15:51:02 -0500 (-0500), Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Ben Cadieux wrote: Hi Everyone, Before I begin, I'd just like to mention: I love dovecot. Thank you :) Anyway, today I had 8000 login attempts

Re: [Dovecot] Permanent roadmap page on web

2007-12-30 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Richard Laager wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 07:41 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: Most replies to that mail ignored the 3) part, which is the main reason there's no issue tracker yet. Regarding your three issues: 1. Yes, they all suck in different ways. You have to pick one

Re: [Dovecot] Delay on failed pw attempts

2008-01-01 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 15:59 -0500, Dean Brooks wrote: Hi, Is there a way, or can a way be added, to add an "auth_failed_delay=10s" style option that would put in an artificial delay after a failed password attempt? As it stands now, Dovecot seems highl

Re: [Dovecot] Delay on failed pw attempts

2008-01-02 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Dean Brooks wrote: Hi, Is there a way, or can a way be added, to add an "auth_failed_delay=10s" style option that would put in an artificial delay after a failed password attempt? As it stands now, Dovecot seems highly vulnerable

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with passwords surrounded by curly braces

2008-01-07 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Frank Kintrup wrote: Hello, one of my users set his password to something surrounded by curly braces, and promptly all access to his mailbox was refused. After looking through the logs I found an entry "Unknown password scheme ", where "" is the user's password, but

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir handling

2008-01-14 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Sascha Holzleiter wrote: Hi, we just setup a new mailserver for our company with some sieve filtering in place. Everything works as expected but there is one flaw. We setup the per user sieve filters in files within the users mailbox maildir as follows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 mail

Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailboxes

2008-01-26 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Wouter Amsterdam wrote: L.S. It is not clear to me why I should use namespaces or symlinks to share a single maildir mailbox with multiple users. Why not configure multiple mail clients with the same account information? Assuming your users also have non-shared email acco

Re: [Dovecot] Multiple copies of a message

2008-01-29 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: I have a problem and I don't know which part of the mail chain could be causing it, although dovecot does seem to be the most logical source. I get multiple copies of messages to my Inbox. I have just deleted 24 copies of a newsletter from Computer Shopp

Re: [Dovecot] More efficient Deleting of a whole folder (or Purging Trash)

2008-01-30 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Ed W wrote: I misunderstood the cause of the slowness then, if it is really true that updating the index is not an important factor. I don't remember seeing profiling, but since I don't have any myself I'll take your word for it. It always frustrates me to see peop

Re: [Dovecot] Multiple copies of a message

2008-01-30 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
Apologies. It seems that I forgot to switch on list management in kmail. I've re-sent the message, this time to the list. It should arrive along with this. In kmail, are you using disconnected IMAP? A snippet from an email I sent to the Alpine (email client) list: (the last two links are the

Re: [Dovecot] Multiple copies of a message

2008-01-30 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 Jan 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: I have a problem and I don't know which part of the mail chain could be causing it, although dovecot does seem to be the most logical source. I get multiple copies of m

Re: [Dovecot] More efficient Deleting of a whole folder (or Purging Trash)

2008-01-30 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Gabriel Millerd wrote: On 1/30/08, Ed W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just get a small shell script to run `touch ${rand_file}` 35,000 times and time it. Then drop into your shell and do rm -rf on the folder (for bonus marks you could purge the disk cache before doing this

Re: [Dovecot] More efficient Deleting of a whole folder (or Purging Trash)

2008-01-30 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Gabriel Millerd wrote: Making a perl script to insert 35k emails using dovecot deliver doesn't impact my under resourced machines and I work with spam/(false|ham|queue) system with mail::imapclient automation and the s

Re: [Dovecot] Predicament

2008-02-05 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: use sieve Action redirect http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3028.txt Paragraph : 4.3 More directly: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3028#section-4.3 Plus it lets you know in the header that it's been "obsoleted by RFC 5228". The relevant section of the

Re: [Dovecot] replacement for IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7

2008-02-08 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Ed W wrote: Hi Therefore, i wrote a script that dives into the user's directories and their maildirs. It looks like this Just for reference I actually read the find manual one evening and figured out the syntax (wahey!), then 10 mins later had forgotten it all again...

Re: [Dovecot] Expected size of index-files?

2008-02-08 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
Tobias Balle-Petersen schreef: Hello... Im considering moving my index-files to a RAID1. How big do these files get? What should I plan for? Thanks, Tobias since 1 july 2007 i store all mails to this list in 1 folder (Maildir-format) the size of this (and the indexes) is: 31M cur 80K

Re: [Dovecot] mailbox not acceced

2008-02-11 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo wrote: Hi did another test if I run from the console mysql postfix -e "update mailbox set last_log = now() WHERE username = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" the field last_log gets updated. but no way to make it work from /etc/dovecot.dovecot.conf Sounds like a p

Re: [Dovecot] mailbox not acceced

2008-02-11 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo wrote: i changed permissions, but no results Are you sure the connection is opened correctly? If I were debugging this on my machine I'd: 1) Add something to check that the MySQL connection is fine: mysql postfix -e "select now()" > /root/dovecot-

Re: [Dovecot] mailbox not acceced

2008-02-11 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Hugo Monteiro wrote: Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo wrote: Hi I wonder how can I know if a mailbox is not beeing consulted. I mean I have severals mailboxs but I know some account are not used. I like to know how to determine wich mail accounts are not beeing used. Is there any way i

Re: [Dovecot] Deleting messages from MailDir

2008-02-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Rody wrote: Funny, I asked a few days ago a similar question with the subject: [Dovecot] replacement for IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=Trash:7 You may want to look for the responses to that question as it's essentially the same. For reference: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-Febru

Re: [Dovecot] Deleting messages from MailDir

2008-02-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Rody wrote: Op woensdag 13 februari 2008 00:43, schreef Bill Cole: Yes, but you may also care that ctime is reset when a client has Dovecot move a message from one subfolder to another within a Maildir. I'm not sure why Dovecot does it, but a look at the messages in the non-

Re: [Dovecot] convert-tool, exit code wrong?

2008-02-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Ingo Rogalsky wrote: I use convert-tool regularly for converting mbox based mail accounts to maildir based mail accounts. Today I tuned my convert script around convert-tool. I'm irritated about the exit codes. It seems, they should be inverted or am I wrong? Yes. They're

Re: [Dovecot] Deleting messages from MailDir

2008-02-13 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, mouss wrote: Bill Cole wrote: At 12:21 AM -0500 2/13/08, Benjamin R. Haskell imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: [...] Under most *nix filesystems, ctime is the last time the inode underlying the file/dir was changed ('c' for "changed

Re: [Dovecot] Deleting messages from MailDir

2008-02-13 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Bill Cole wrote: At 12:21 AM -0500 2/13/08, Benjamin R. Haskell imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Rody wrote: Op woensdag 13 februari 2008 00:43, schreef Bill Cole: Yes, but you may also care that ctime is reset when a client

Re: [Dovecot] stat failed: Not a directory

2008-02-17 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Andrea wrote: I have recently installed dovecot on a FreeBSD mailserver running postfix. But when I try to login with imap/pop3, I always get an error "stat failed: Not a directory". I guess it is something wrong with the mail format postfix uses to store the message, but I

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Charles Marcus wrote: Marc Perkel, on 2/18/2008 11:28 AM, said the following: I'm looking for a way to empty user's trash folder. Can message deletion or folder purging be scheduled? It would be a nice feature in Dovecot to have it be able to remove messages older than s

Re: [Dovecot] Duplicate Messages, Different X-UIDs?

2008-02-18 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Joe Allesi -X (joallesi - Coyote Creek Consulting at Cisco) wrote: We're running into an issue where sendmail is only receiving one e-mail, but after a client accesses the message via IMAP and moves it to another IMAP folder, the message duplicates but each message has d

Re: [Dovecot] sieve filtert nicht (off-topic)

2008-02-21 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Steffen Kaiser wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Carsten Henkel wrote: and you need to understand what i´m wrote *gg Why should Patrick bother to understand _your_ request of support, do you pay him?! Not really pertinent to dovecot, but for future reference: Doesn't the

Re: [Dovecot] shared mailbox - namespace

2008-02-22 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, c-schettner wrote: Hi all, this is my last try to get help before giving up. I red the dovecot-wiki several times, but it doesn´t work. I don´t know what´s wrong. If I open thunderbird I see the folder "public" but I cannot subscribe it. I have dovecot 1.0.10. Yes it´s a

Re: [Dovecot] mbox to maildir conversion does not work

2008-02-22 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Scott Bruce wrote: Hello, I'm try to use the convert plugin, but I cannot seem to get it working properly. Is there any setting that I'm missing. In what way is it not working? Based on the timestamps in your log, it looks like you're getting disconnected as soon as you

Re: [Dovecot] Sorting a folder (by THREAD) takes a long time

2008-03-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote: My email workflow with Dovecot is that mail gets delivered to INBOX, where I handle it and then move it into a folder called archive. I have alpine set to use the Default sort of "THREAD" of a folder. After moving a (few) mail(s) from INBOX to archive

Re: [Dovecot] Help! OT: Blackberry IMAP client suggestions/experience needed

2008-03-13 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
Stewart Dean wrote: BB, of course, has their half-baked sorta-IMAP-compliant client (and we do NOT want the BB Enterprise Server) that persistently keeps grabbing the mailbox and breaking the mailbox lock, causing no end of grief for the secretaries (plural, more than one) would also work with th

Re: [Dovecot] Help! OT: Blackberry IMAP client suggestions/experience needed

2008-03-13 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Stewart Dean wrote: Plus I have to wonder what the realities of moving from 1) mbox with one monster file to 2) maildir with inodes beyond measure and its effect on backup. With reasonable average email usage patterns (averaging >=4K/message -- not hard to do with the oc

Re: [Dovecot] virtual mbox case sensitive?

2008-05-01 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 1 May 2008, Anil wrote: This is on dovecot 1.1.rc4. I have this mail_location: mail_location = maildir:/apps/mail/%d/%n/Maildir When I receve mail to a virtual mailbox, its putting it in different Maildir's depending on what the sender used for the caseness of the recipient's email a

Re: [Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot

2008-05-03 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 4 May 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:27 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Ed W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How would I do the same under thunderbird from a machine in the same lan (taz.thespider.com)? It seems to keep trying to login a

Re: [Dovecot] [Q] IMAP update message header?

2008-05-07 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Charles Marcus wrote: On 5/7/2008, Roderick A. Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a method as a client from a remote system to make changes to a message then save it back? What is the IMAP verb, command, etc. to do this? Man, if you

Re: [Dovecot] inetd & corrupt environment

2008-05-25 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 25 May 2008, Gelu G. Lupas wrote: Hello. I'm having the following problem with dovecot 1.0.12 and above, on a FreeBSD 7.0 system - I'm trying to run pop3-login from inetd and I keep getting this error after authentication: May 25 09:46:19 charlie dovecot: POP3(gelu): /libexec/ld-elf.s

Re: [Dovecot] Auto creating client folders on the IMAP server after installing client.

2008-06-09 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Radio Tron wrote: as well. Have you tested whether you can MANUALLY create new folders? Yup, just tried that out using telnet. It works. I'm guessing Charles meant manually via TBird. But, the fact that it works via telnet probably also points toward it being a TBird con

Re: [Dovecot] Auto creating client folders on the IMAP server after installing client.

2008-06-09 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: Just a word of warning, there's a bit of an "impedance mismatch" between GMail and IMAP, especially in the area of labels. A message labeled as "Foo" and "Bar" via GMail will show up in the [Gmail]/Foo and [G

Re: [Dovecot] Auto creating client folders on the IMAP server after installing client.

2008-06-09 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Charles Marcus wrote: On 6/9/2008, Radio Tron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I got to sleep see you guys in 10 hours time (if i survive not killing someone :p) Why are you messing with editing the config file? You're really making this way harder than it needs to be. I agre

Re: [Dovecot] Need a quick, safe method to empty /home/user/Maildir/{.Junk, .Trash}

2008-06-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Thursday, June 12 at 01:02 PM, quoth Jeff Kowalczyk: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:19:48 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: If you have a *TON* of messages in those folders (i.e. several thousand), your shell may complain that there are too many arguments to the rm

Re: [Dovecot] SSL + compression?

2008-06-20 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Johannes Berg wrote: I don't think it does be default. The only what I know is to establish a compressed SSH tunnel to your server and then access the server over the tunnel. It will compress and give you an extra layer of encryption. Umm, no. It will not compress. Thin

Re: [Dovecot] SSL + compression?

2008-06-20 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Johannes Berg wrote: I don't think it does be default. The only what I know is to establish a compressed SSH tunnel to your server and then access the server over the tunnel. It will compress and give you an extra layer of encryption. Umm, no. It will not compress. Think

Re: [Dovecot] litte problems upgrade from 1.0.x to 1.1.1

2008-07-03 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Andre Huebner wrote: Hi, These are created by the University of Washington's implementation of an IMAP server. Notice the date is nearly 2 years ago. At some point, it seems your site was running imap-uw. -- Fred It's not UW-IMAP (the server). It's PINE or Alpine (the

[Dovecot] Shared folder hierarchies, multiple groups

2007-08-02 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
Hi, I'm trying to set up two shared folder hierarchies on my Dovecot installation for two groups of employees, all of whom should only have access to their own hierarchy. Any employee should be able to create sub-folders and generally have full access to the hierarchy. My initial setup was t

[Dovecot] vfile ACL's

2007-08-03 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
(Sorry for the impatience. This was one of several questions in my email from yesterday. I thought I might have better luck being more direct.) Is there a way to set ACL's, using the vfile backend, on a truly global basis? or hierarchically (i.e. .Maildir.Sub inherits from .Maildir)? The wiki

Re: [Dovecot] vfile ACL's

2007-08-07 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 09:34 -0400, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: (Sorry for the impatience. This was one of several questions in my email from yesterday. I thought I might have better luck being more direct.) Is there a way to set ACL's, using the

Re: [Dovecot] Inbox re-initialized

2007-08-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Joshua, C.S. Chen wrote: This seems to be important to my problem. But I have no idea what it means by 'migrating the message uid'. Could soneone give me a hint and how to do that? I am using mbox format both in uw-imap and the current dovecot. Cheers Joshua From the /et

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: On Mon 17 Sep 2007, Gunter Ohrner wrote: A concrete example of an actual mail setup and how this is seen by an IMAP client would have been much more useful, in my view. There is an example of the Maildir++ directory layout on this page. Er, which

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: On Tue 18 Sep 2007, Bill Cole wrote: A concrete example of an actual mail setup and how this is seen by an IMAP client would have been much more useful, in my view. Aside from creating the top-level Maildir directory and telling whatever your delive

Re: [Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

2007-09-17 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Bill Cole wrote: At 2:10 AM +0100 9/18/07, Timothy Murphy imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: I cannot see the Family folder from my IMAPS client. Also it complains of the lack of .INBOX.directory ("Could Not Determine Resource Status"). A concrete pr

Re: [Dovecot] quota reporting and mail.app

2007-09-19 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Mike Horwath wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:59:18PM -0700, Rich at Whidbey Telecom wrote: If I remember right, this is a known issue, where Mail.app won't report the quota when QUOTAROOT is "". We've found no fix for it here as it seems to be a Mail.app issue. That's

Re: [Dovecot] kmail + IMAPS

2007-09-23 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote: (1) I suspect the problem lies with authentication. But how can I test this? From past experience (but also came up as #1 when googling "testing IMAPS" w/o quotes) you should use: openssl s_client -connect servername:993 If your dovecot does TLS n

Re: [Dovecot] shared mailboxes question

2007-09-27 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Cory Coager wrote: I'm using a virtual mailbox setup. Lets say my users have mailboxes in /home/vmail/domain/%u. What I'm trying to do is setup one namespace that points to /home/vmail/domain and contains everyones mailboxes that I can subscribe to. Is this possible?

Re: [Dovecot] shared mailboxes question

2007-09-27 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Cory Coager wrote: Hmm, this didn't work for me. The namespace is empty, nothing to subscribe to. Not sure if this is the problem, but it can't hurt to be more explicit: It makes listing all user mailboxes possible. (Each test user I logged in with made another mailbox

Re: [Dovecot] shared mailboxes question

2007-10-01 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Cory Coager wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: Benjamin's setup should make it possible, but that works only for the other users' INBOXes, and you do need that kludgy setup where users' maildirs begin with ".". I was originally planning on making this easily possible for v1.1, bu

Re: [Dovecot] shared mailboxes question

2007-10-01 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Charles Marcus wrote: I'm using gentoo also so we must have the same exact version. Something strange though, my configuration file uses a different syntax than yours. Instead of using colons for variables it expects equals. So when I copied and pasted your config I got th

Re: [Dovecot] Namespace "hidden" option not working?

2007-10-03 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Ed W wrote: I either misunderstand the namespace hidden option, or else perhaps it's not working correctly in 1.0.5? dovecot.conf # default namespace namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes hidden = yes } # for backwards compatibility: namespace private {

Re: [Dovecot] Namespace "hidden" option not working?

2007-10-04 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
List a mailbox if the requested pattern matches "(prefix)(mailbox)". should be: Only list a hidden mailbox if it matches the pattern, and the pattern explicitly starts with "(prefix)" (...and everything starts with "")

Re: [Dovecot] Namespace "hidden" option not working?

2007-10-04 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Ed W wrote: Hi You shouldn't have inbox = yes on more than one namespace. From the comments in my dovecot.conf: # There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which namespace # has it. #inbox = yes Sure. However, if only one has the INBOX, then doesn'

Re: [Dovecot] Dovceot user pop3 last connect info?

2007-10-04 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Tim Tyler wrote: Dovecot experts, I am a newbie to Dovecot. I am in the process of replacing qpopper with dovecot to support pop 3 clients. I have installed the latest version of Dovecot on Fedora Core 6. Everything seems to be working fine using ldap, etc. However,

Re: [Dovecot] UIDL and IMAP

2007-10-04 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
[I didn't see a response to this on-list. Sorry if I'm repeating someone.] On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Kenneth Porter wrote: [...] I forgot to change the pop3_uidl_format setting [...] So he was seeing repeated downloads of all his mail (about 300 MBytes) every time he connected. [...] Does this set

Re: [Dovecot] trying to enable features

2007-10-13 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Ray wrote: Please correct me where I'm wrong. according to my understanding: When the server receives an email, dovecot pop server makes connection with the outside world, [cut] Dovecot's POP3 server waits for a user to connect to it to retrieve mails that are already sto

Re: [Dovecot] Converting Outlook .PST's (was: Suggested IMAP Directory Size..)

2007-10-15 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Ilo Lorusso wrote: [...] I know the users also have large OUT LOOK pst files 4.5GIGs and wondering if I could also intergrate that into IMAP? It can be done, but it is a nightmare. For post-2003(?) Outlook .PST's, the only sensible, non-commercial path I could find was th

Re: [Dovecot] Converting Outlook .PST's

2007-10-15 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Denis Cardon wrote: Hi Benjamin, [...] I know the users also have large OUT LOOK pst files 4.5GIGs and wondering if I could also intergrate that into IMAP? It can be done, but it is a nightmare. For post-2003(?) Outlook .PST's, the only sensible, non-commercial path I

Re: [Dovecot] Migrating from UW IMAP - pine - Thunderbird - squirrelmail

2007-10-22 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Israel Bravo wrote: Hello! I saw your post to the mailing list (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-January/010968.html) where you write "A description for pine with imap acces without entering any password is also discussed.", but I didn't find such description in

Re: [Dovecot] Listening only on localhost

2007-11-02 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 21:54 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got dovecot 1.0.rc15. .. dovecot -n correctly reports: listen: 127.0.0.1:143 ssl_listen: *:10993 But I can still do a 'telnet MY_HOST 143' from the outside, and 'netstat -pltn | grep dov

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP outlook express error

2007-11-08 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Hannibal Ndlovu wrote: [...] The issue is when i try and get my mail using the IMAP protocol outlook gives and error "cannot find Inbox on 192.0.0.1" Didn't really look at the rest of your settings, and it's probably a typo, but 192.0.0.1 is an odd address to be using. Ar

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP outlook express error

2007-11-08 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Hannibal Ndlovu wrote: Hi Am running debian etch + exim4 + dovecot 1.0.rc15-2etch with both an IMAP and a POP3 server The issue is when i try and get my mail using the IMAP protocol outlook gives and error "cannot find Inbox on 192.0.0.1" its happens with thunderbird and w

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.index mtime

2007-11-10 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Matt wrote: Is there anyway I can get Dovecot to update mtime on dovecot.index everytime a user successfully checks there email? Or perhaps there is a better way to do what I want here. I am working on a script that I want to check when the last time a user checked there e

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.index mtime

2007-11-11 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Matt wrote: Is there anyway I can get Dovecot to update mtime on dovecot.index everytime a user successfully checks there email? Postlogin scripting would work like Benjamin said. Another possibility would be to check atime if you haven't disabled atime updates. atime is

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.index mtime

2007-11-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, pod wrote: "BH" == Benjamin R Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Can I just touch the dovecot.index instead? BH> Maybe. Not sure what environment variable holds its location, BH> though. And I'm not 100% sure it always exist

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.index mtime

2007-11-14 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
[Oops. Sorry for the delay.] On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Matt wrote: I think I'd avoid actually disabling the account through the MTA, especially if it's for security considerations and your accounts have shell access. But it wouldn't be that hard: My actual goal is to reduce load on the server. Th

Re: [Dovecot] Mail.app IDLE support

2007-11-14 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Jason Fesler wrote: Any hint on how to use tcpdump to only grab the interesting parts? tcpdump port 143 or whatever. My knowledge of tcpdump is very limited and I only seem to be able to get a lot of noise out of it. Look at ngrep - it lets you use both tcpdump expres

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.index mtime

2007-11-14 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Matt wrote: [...] I guess the issues I still think are important: 1. You shouldn't use dovecot.index as your marker file. I gave up trying to use dovecot.index. Instead I look at each users ./new directory. If there are any messages over 6 months old I put there email

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.index mtime

2007-11-14 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Matt wrote: [...] For what it's worth, I'd look at the newest message in the ./cur folder, rather than the oldest in the ./new. (You want the last time the user But most of my user POP3 and do not leave messages on server. I just check if there is a message over 6 mont

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot mysql support

2007-11-19 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, jan gestre wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 12:57 AM, Bazy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: jan gestre wrote: Hi Guys, I'm using CentOS 4.5, is the dovecot default rpm comes with mysql support? Do I need to rebuild it? TIA. jan Hi Jan, You need to rebuild it, without any patches o

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot mysql support

2007-11-19 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 05:15:24PM -0800, jan gestre wrote: I'm using CentOS 4.5, is the dovecot default rpm comes with mysql support? Do I need to rebuild it? The packages at ATrpms already come with mysql support. Did you try them? Do they also have