INBOX folders disappeared after upgrading

2020-04-15 Thread Dave
Hi, tried to Google/etc to see what to tweak.. not finding anything helpful. So.. I've been running my private mail through a Linux server since approx year 2000. The OS has been various flavors of Fedora or CentOS, since for work, I have to spend all day supporting some sort of Red Hat flavor. S

Re: INBOX folders disappeared after upgrading

2020-04-20 Thread Dave
from backup): drwx-- 2 dave dave 245760 Mar 10 16:56 cur -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 48744 Mar 9 14:48 dovecot.index -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 1920452 Mar 2 06:49 dovecot.index.cache -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave1808 Mar 10 17:01 dovecot.index.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 32792 Mar 9 14:48 dovecot.i

Re: INBOX folders disappeared after upgrading

2020-07-12 Thread Dave
On Tue, April 21, 2020 11:50 am, John Stoffel wrote: >>>>>> "Dave" == Dave writes: > > Dave> On Thu, April 16, 2020 2:33 pm, John Stoffel wrote: >>> Makes sense. I'm not a dovecot expert, but in terms of RHEL, have you >>> checkd t

pop3 deleted count

2016-09-16 Thread Dave
dec2str(client->deleted_count) : 0; Shouldn't this be: tab[4].value = client->delete_success ? dec2str(client->deleted_count) : "0"; (very minor bug) -- Dave

Re: pop3 deleted count

2016-09-16 Thread Dave
On 16/09/2016 11:39, Dave wrote: On pop3 logout, we're seeing log lines where the deleted count is blank (using default pop3_logout_format), so "del=%d/%m" is displaying in the logs as: "del=/1186" ... Shouldn't this be: tab[4].

Re: under some kind of attack

2017-07-19 Thread Dave
n service ipset start (create iptables rules, ipset created on boot prior to iptables, other distros likely have similar configuration) I've found that the slowest component tends to be fail2ban itself, which has difficulty tracking a large number of IPs or even tailing sufficiently busy logfiles. -- Dave

Re: Pigeonhole vacation and envelope extension recipient addresses

2017-10-31 Thread Dave
't the "final" email address, but the address prior to that (internal aliasing on the MTA and inserted as a different header). It's a many-to-one mapping so it couldn't just be aliased back the other way by the MTA using a reverse path, either. -- Dave

allowing shell users to change passwords

2015-06-23 Thread dave
Does anyone else here have a need to allow shell users to change their imap/pop3 passwords? I came up with a little thing that works similarly to regular passwd(1), dovepasswd, which can be found at https://github.com/DavidGriffith/dovepasswd. It does the job for me and I'd love for other p

Password database extra fields and SQL

2016-04-29 Thread Dave
vice to set password to NULL to satisfy the field requirement on nopassword. Any thoughts? -- Dave

Re: Password database extra fields and SQL

2016-04-29 Thread Dave
On 29/04/2016 14:57, Matthias Fechner wrote: > Am 29.04.2016 um 15:49 schrieb Dave: >> >> For example, say you have a query like: >> >> password_query = SELECT hash AS password, NULLIF(active = 1, 'y') AS >> nologin FROM users WHERE name = '%u

Re: Bug with shared access to mailbox

2016-06-03 Thread Dave
ook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = no pop3_fast_size_lookups = no pop3_lock_session = yes pop3_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o, top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_no_flag_updates = no pop3_reuse_xuidl = no pop3_save_uidl = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xv%08Xu } -- Dave

Re: Increased errors "Broken MIME parts" in log file

2016-06-09 Thread Dave
and virtual size are correct, contains a 6 part multipart/mixed with the first part being itself a 2 part multipart/alternative, both have different boundary ids (unfortunately I still cannot release the email itself, I'm hoping the error will trigger on some that I can release, none so far) -- Dave

Recipient delimiter and lmtp proxying

2016-06-16 Thread Dave
kup. 2. Give up on passing detail via the login and instead pass the detail via a message header to sieve. Any thoughts/suggestions? -- Dave

Re: Recipient delimiter and lmtp proxying

2016-06-17 Thread Dave
On 16/06/2016 20:49, Dave wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to proxy lmtp using director to hash to the same backend as pop3/imap. My pop3/imap users are of the form: username and my lmtp users are of the form: Where domain is fairly redundant but does carry some useful information. Now,

Re: Increased errors "Broken MIME parts" in log file

2016-06-20 Thread Dave
s here, too. Thank you very much! -- Dave

Re: Recipient delimiter and lmtp proxying

2016-06-20 Thread Dave
On 17/06/2016 13:39, Dave wrote: On 16/06/2016 20:49, Dave wrote: ... driver = sql override_fields = proxy=y destuser=%{orig_user} ... <"user+Junk\ Email"@domain> will extract user in director, but passes through the unescaped: to the backend

[patch] Support redis AUTH

2016-06-30 Thread Dave
m going about this the wrong way, I tried emailing this directly but heard nothing back; so I'm reposting to the list as I'm honestly not sure what established protocol is regarding code contribution. -- Dave diff -aurN dovecot-2.2.24.orig/src/lib-dict/dict-redis.c dovecot-2.2.24/src/

Re: v2.2.25 released

2016-07-04 Thread Dave
inally support static array sizes, and it's likely hitting a compiler bug on the build proper? All I can suggest is a manual configure flag toggle of the test, or that this bug is better placed against Redhat? I haven't been able to narrow down a reproducer on triggering the error message other than during build. -- Dave

[Dovecot] dovecot and postfix virtual mailbox domains

2008-04-08 Thread Dave
in login verbose: yes passdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: passwd I'd appreciate any pointers. I think i am close, but am not seeing it. Thanks. Dave.

[Dovecot] dovecot and postfix virtual mailbox domains, system users

2008-04-11 Thread Dave
r more information. [2008-04-11 23:48:17] Apr 11 23:48:17 s15298471 dovecot: POP3(user): Couldn't open INBOX top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 I'd appreciate any pointers. I think i am close, but am not seeing it. Thanks. Dave.

[Dovecot] generating passdb files

2008-04-13 Thread Dave
he name of this prog changed? Thanks. Dave.

[Dovecot] Making shared folders "unmovable"

2011-01-11 Thread Dave
I have set up an area of shared folders with Dovecot 1.2 that is accessed by several people (by way of one account, and everyone who logs in sees these same folders), and the only problem with this setup is that occasionally somebody moves one of the folders underneath another folder or somewhe

Re: [Dovecot] Making shared folders "unmovable"

2011-01-11 Thread Dave
client. What am I missing? Clearly something! :) (I haven't tried restarting Dovecot yet as there are some people using the mailbox at the moment, fwiw.) Dave On 1/11/2011 4:11 PM, Willie Gillespie wrote: Jose Celestino wrote: You may be able to do that with ACLs. Jose is right. Take away the x and k rights with ACLs.

Re: [Dovecot] Making shared folders "unmovable"

2011-01-12 Thread Dave
sing the "user=" parameter in place of "anyone"), and that didn't work either. :( ... OK, I tried it with the username I use to login to the account instead of "anyone", and with "owner" as Timo suggested (thank you as well), and neither of those worked.

Re: [Dovecot] Making shared folders "unmovable"

2011-01-12 Thread Dave
> I have this in my public namespace, and it works well: > ... > What does your dovecot -n say? I assume these are the lines you're looking for from dovecot -n? mail_plugins: acl imap_acl plugin: acl: vfile Also, I just saw when I ran that command that it's Dovecot 1.1 series. Not 1.2 serie

Re: [Dovecot] Making shared folders "unmovable"

2011-01-13 Thread Dave
Well, I just noticed this in my logs after I re-loaded the latest Dovecot config I tried: Jan 13 15:09:45 mail dovecot: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration Jan 13 15:09:45 mail dovecot: read(imap dump-capability process) failed: Interrupted system call Jan 13 15:09:45 mail dovecot: Inval

[Dovecot] Running two different versions of Dovecot (was: making folders unmovable)

2011-01-14 Thread Dave
OK, so I decided to go ahead and just upgrade to the latest 1 series Dovecot and see if that solves my ACL/config issues I've been having. (I tried compiling 2.0.9, but it errored out and I assume that's because it's a pretty old machine/compiler.) Anyway, 1.2.16 compiled fine, and I installed

Re: [Dovecot] Running two different versions of Dovecot (was: making folders unmovable)

2011-01-17 Thread Dave
There are no incompatible index changes between v1.1 and v1.2 that I can remember (and wiki upgrading page didn't mention any either). Great, thanks for the info! I was able to successfully point my fresh 1.2 install at one of the shared accounts, and under the 1.2 install the ACLs work pe

[Dovecot] Dovecot, Shared Mailboxes (via symlink), and ACLs

2009-10-27 Thread Dave
ving consistently in the error logs is: mail dovecot: IMAP(newuser1): stat(/home/newuser1/Maildir/.imapuserinbox/tmp) failed: Permission denied (euid=152(newuser1) egid=100(usergroup) UNIX perms seem ok, ACL problem?) So it seems if I get the ACL stuff right, I will be in business. Any ideas?? Thanks for any help anyone can give!! Dave

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot, Shared Mailboxes (via symlink), and ACLs

2009-10-27 Thread Dave
ot ACLs, but filesystem ACLs or perhaps SELinux or something else. > I guess I should change the error message. Thanks for letting me know the difference in the ACLs mentioned in the error message, that was definitely part of my confusion!! That put me on the path to figuring it out. :) Dave

[Dovecot] dovecot-shared and shared "\Seen" flags

2009-10-28 Thread Dave
ese shared/symlinked folders (which having dovecot-shared seems to knock out). Is it possible to do both somehow? Dave

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-shared and shared "\Seen" flags

2009-10-29 Thread Dave
>> (b) Indicate to Dovecot in some way other than the dovecot-shared file >> which permissions to use for any messages created? > > In v1.2 the permissions are taken from parent directory. Hmm, that might be the best solution then, an upgrade to 1.2. Fwiw, I also tried NOT using the dovecot-sha

[Dovecot] Purging a large folder... anything I need to be careful of?

2010-02-09 Thread Dave
S that safe? Will I mess up any of the dovecot indexes in any way?? Dave

Re: [Dovecot] Purging a large folder... anything I need to be careful of?

2010-02-10 Thread Dave
re "reasonable" size (reasonable for us anyway). It is good to know that removing messages directly from the source folders won't mess up anything as far as Dovecot or its indexes is concerned though, so, thanks for that information everyone!! Dave

[Dovecot] Can't take user info from an alternate file

2013-08-12 Thread dave
I'm positive I did everything right to get Dovecot to take usernames and passwords from /etc/dovecot/users, but it still goes for /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. The format of /etc/dovecot/users is "alice:{PLAIN}plaintextpassword" Here's my "doveconf -n": # 2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf #

Re: [Dovecot] Can't take user info from an alternate file

2013-08-12 Thread dave
On Mon, 12 Aug 2013, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 12.8.2013, at 22.11, d...@661.org wrote: I'm positive I did everything right to get Dovecot to take usernames and passwords from /etc/dovecot/users, but it still goes for /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. The format of /etc/dovecot/users is "alice:{PL

Re: [Dovecot] Can't take user info from an alternate file

2013-08-12 Thread dave
On Mon, 12 Aug 2013, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 12.8.2013, at 23.29, d...@661.org wrote: What does Dovecot log when you're logging in? [snip] That's Postfix log, not Dovecot log. Dovecot doesn't emit any logs when I go in through port 25. I added a line "protocols = imap pop3 lmtp" and insta

[Dovecot] Problem Running Dovecot 1.0.5

2007-11-20 Thread dave
Hello, When trying to run dovecot I am getting the following error :- Error: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf line 923: Unknown section type (section changed at line 923) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf The following section is at line 923.

Re: [Dovecot] Problem Running Dovecot 1.0.5

2007-11-20 Thread dave
Charles Marcus wrote: On 11/20/2007, dave ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Error: Error in configuration file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf line 923: Unknown section type (section changed at line 923) Fatal: Invalid configuration in /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf The following section is at line 923

Re: Storing Messages in the cloud

2018-07-10 Thread Dave McGuire
27;s message I just sat there shaking my head. As for his colleague, the local McDonald's is hiring. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Calendar function ?

2018-10-22 Thread Dave Stevens
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:48:17 +0200 Tom Sommer wrote: > On 2018-10-22 12:56, María Arrea wrote: > > > We use sabredav for caldav+cardav and roundcube+agendav for nice > > web ui :) > > > Is Sabre still maintained? http://sabre.io/ says 2018 is most recent version -- In modern fantasy (lite

Re: Calendar function ?

2018-10-22 Thread Dave Stevens
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:06:57 +0200 Tom Sommer wrote: > On 2018-10-22 19:58, Dave Stevens wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:48:17 +0200 > > Tom Sommer wrote: > > > >> On 2018-10-22 12:56, María Arrea wrote: > >> > >> > We use sabred

Re: Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server

2020-10-26 Thread Dave McGuire
te evil. It's hard to imagine anyone being that dumb, but then this society has been surprising me a lot in recent years. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server

2020-10-26 Thread Dave McGuire
27;m sorry buddy, your credibility hit rock bottom in your first post, and your subsequent posts aren't helping. Have a nice day. *plonk* -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server

2020-10-26 Thread Dave McGuire
hey look at me weird and the most stupid response I got was 'but I am not buying it for myself'. coffee -> keyboard -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Looking for a guide to collect all e-mail from the ISP mail server

2020-10-26 Thread Dave McGuire
On 10/26/20 11:24 AM, Gregory Heytings wrote: Your data is stored confidentially by Google, obviously.  Otherwise nobody would use their services. My keyboard is now COMPLETELY saturated with coffee. Some hit my display this time, too. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New

Re: Recovering deleted messages?

2021-11-04 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thu, 4 Nov 2021 19:01:03 -0400 "Sean McBride" wrote: > I have a user who accidentally used a POP client which one? d -- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really believe it. Mark Twain

Re: Non-user logins?

2022-01-07 Thread Dave McGuire
ies and block the source IP address for a month on the first failed login. At any one time I have between 12,000 and 15,000 addresses in my blocked list for IMAP. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Non-user logins?

2022-01-07 Thread Dave McGuire
ies and block the source IP address for a month on the first failed login.  At any one time I have between 12,000 and 15,000 addresses in my blocked list for IMAP. Dave, that's exactly the kind of answer I was looking for. Fail2ban, huh? I'll have to check that out. I run it under

Re: Can't log in from Evolution or Roundcube

2022-01-07 Thread Dave McGuire
The last time I hit that, I'm pretty sure it was because I was going to port 80 instead of port 443 to reach Roundcube. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Can't log in from Evolution or Roundcube

2022-01-07 Thread Dave McGuire
#x27;s connection to Roundcube. I could be barking up the wrong tree here, but I'm pretty sure that's the error I hit. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Can't log in from Evolution or Roundcube

2022-01-08 Thread Dave McGuire
undcube configuration problem, having to do with either its connection to Dovecot or possibly a back-end database server. (MySQL?) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

banning, was Re: Non-user logins?

2022-01-08 Thread Dave McGuire
ood advice for everything, not just blocking. My first experience with blocking was on a Cisco AGS in 1994, buddy. Not a n00b. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

banning, was Re: Non-user logins?

2022-01-08 Thread Dave McGuire
ability of any single attack guessing the password. It doesn't necessarily have to zero out attacks. As Dave has experimented, to bypass fail2ban all the attacker has to do is use a different ip. 10-15K blocks in place at any time seem very high compared to the few attacks I see. Sigh.

Re: Can't log in from Evolution or Roundcube

2022-01-08 Thread Dave McGuire
; above is probably correct. Check the docs if that fails. Obviously, the words in uppercase must be correct for your installation. "SERVER" might be "localhost" for you. (it isn't for me) One quick thing to check: Did you issue a "flush privileges" command to MariaDB after creating the account for Roundcube to use? See how far that gets you and report back. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Can't log in from Evolution or Roundcube

2022-01-08 Thread Dave McGuire
endation for the sake of safety, as it's cheap to try. Now maybe we can get back to the OP's actual problems, which nobody else seems to be interested in today. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: banning, was Re: Non-user logins?

2022-01-08 Thread Dave McGuire
On 1/8/22 12:12 PM, John Fawcett wrote: On 08/01/2022 17:22, Dave McGuire wrote: On 1/8/22 8:57 AM, John Fawcett wrote: yes, blocking on the first wrong password sounds like overkill. But it does depend on user base. For a small mail server with few known users it could be workable.   It

Re: two listeners with different "driver = " configs

2017-01-01 Thread Dave McGuire
An elderly neighbor used to say crap like that to me every now and then. On one particular occasion, I pointed out that I had conversed with more than a dozen friends in half a dozen countries before breakfast that day. He doesn't say that anymore. -Dave On 01/01/2017 04:

Re: Compiling Dovecot on Solaris 10

2017-02-03 Thread Dave McGuire
Same here Sun compiler v5.12 on SPARC. Built cleanly this morning. I'll be upgrading from 2.2.18 this afternoon. :) -Dave On 02/03/2017 05:36 AM, Martin Preen wrote: Hello, I don't have problems building 2.2.27 on Solaris 10 (using Sun Workshop compiler 5

Re: Compiling Dovecot on Solaris 10

2017-02-03 Thread Dave McGuire
or feature that exists only in "newer" OS releases. When that changes, we will revisit our configuration. Until then, it's rock solid and does everything required of it. There are no problems to be addressed. At least here, we don't fix things that aren't broken.

change mdbox rotation size?

2017-03-13 Thread Dave McGuire
Hey folks. Is it possible/advisable to change the mdbox rotation size on an operational mdbox spool? If so, is there any way to "repackage" (for the lack of a better term) an existing mdbox spool to a different rotation size? Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGu

LDAP schema ?

2017-04-20 Thread Dave Dodd
Hi, I am trying to determine the correct LDAP schema I need to use to have either mailLocation or mailboxPath available ? Should I be just adding this to one of my own custom objectClasses ? -- Dave

Re: Minor patches for builds against ancient platforms

2017-06-09 Thread Dave McGuire
lace it with something much more suitable, I could have these people join > the 21st Century. I for one am finding this thread extremely entertaining. I have to wonder how you'd sound if you came across a machine that was actually OLD. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: dsync: assert panic on mbox // no INBOX sync on hybrid mbox/maildir

2017-09-26 Thread Dave Stubbs
Why not do maildir format with the Inboxes as well? When every single email is its own file, it makes synchronization so much easier.  You could use rsync for one-way or unison for multi-master (two-way) Dave On 9/26/2017 3:39 PM, David Gardner wrote: Hi, This (hopefully!) might be a

questions about maildir to mdbox migration

2017-09-28 Thread Dave McGuire
ing which ones I can safely remove? Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: questions about maildir to mdbox migration

2017-09-28 Thread Dave McGuire
;spooltype:/spool/location" (repeat, to pick up any changes since first run) ---- -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Client for a Windows User ?

2022-09-13 Thread Dave McGuire
"Windows" and "behave" in the same sentence is pretty funny to begin with. Millions of people use Thunderbird with Dovecot with no issues, myself included, at this very moment. (are you the same Dan White who used to work for me, by the way?) -Da

Re: dovecot mailing list (this mailing list), DKIM, SPF and DMARC

2022-10-12 Thread Dave McGuire
27;re signing and how? I've been at my wits' end with this for some time; DKIM (and SPF etc etc) seem to be really quite awful overall. Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-11-02 Thread Dave McGuire
well to pay very close attention here. -Dave On 11/2/22 12:46, Jan Hugo Prins wrote: I think the only thing they will gain is a community that is angry and will in the end leave the product / fork the complete product. Jan Hugo On November 2, 2022 5:39:53 PM GMT+01:00, Brad

Re: Roundcube

2023-09-07 Thread Dave McGuire
On 9/7/23 17:00, joe a wrote: Any known issues with installing/running roundcube and dovecot on the same server? I'm running two such installations; no difficulty. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ dovecot ma

Re: dovecot username with domain

2023-09-19 Thread Dave McGuire
- This isn't exactly the functionality you want, but it illustrates the kinds of translations that can easy be done on the database side. I've been using a scheme like this for many years with great results. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington

Re: dovecot username with domain

2023-09-19 Thread Dave McGuire
asy. I was hoping there was some way i could translate individual users which would make this transition easier. You can use that technique, though, to implement any sort of translation table that you could build into an SQL query. Just a suggestion.

Re: Pay Someone to Take My Online Course?1

2023-10-05 Thread Dave McGuire
and daydream about what would happen if Google ever turned evil. Now we know. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org

spool move/rename question

2023-10-08 Thread Dave McGuire
the structure above from one directory to another and expect everything to be ok? Or is there a better approach? (of course I'll do a backup first) Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA ___ dovecot ma

Re: spool move/rename question

2023-10-08 Thread Dave McGuire
On 10/8/23 11:27, Dave McGuire wrote:   Hi folks.  Our mail server's spools are structured like this:   /var/mail//   We have an existing user with a lot of mail that we need to move from one domain to another.  Our mail system is database-backed so changing the account is trivial

Re: spool move/rename question

2023-10-09 Thread Dave McGuire
dates, so beware that updating one table may not automatically update dependent tables. The database part isn't an issue; I designed the schema. Thanks for the heads-up though. Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: Which DKIM application for postfix 3.9.0

2024-03-11 Thread Dave Ryan
Sorry, wrong group. Please ignore. On 03/07/24 13:50, dove...@outputservices.com wrote: I am upgrading to postfix 3.9.0. I have not used DKIM in previous postfix installs, but I would like to start now with the new google rules. I have done some research and opendkim is the most recommende

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-01 Thread Dave McGuire
stion assumes that I use iptables (I don't), I run firewalls on my servers (I don't; I run them on routers) and that I run Linux on my mail server (I don't). The other side of this equation, Postfix, has had this capability for years. Why it hasn't been added to dovecot is a m

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-02 Thread Dave McGuire
gt; > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/AllowNets > > then setup fail2ban to manage extrafields Now that's a very interesting idea, thank you! I will investigate this. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3 New Kensington, PA

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-02 Thread Dave McGuire
VAX running BSD", in which programmers everywhere wrote code that assumed EVERYONE was running that platform. Today we fight the "all the world's an x86_64 box with a gazillibyte of memory running Linux" mentality in exactly the same way. It's not any more palatable now tha

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-02 Thread Dave McGuire
ch gives fast lookups. (well, at least that's what it used the last time I looked at its internals) I myself just want a mechanism to deny certain IP addresses when I spot them, regardless of the implementation. But anything that offloads my mail servers from anything that doesn't

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-03 Thread Dave McGuire
ility is as difficult, if not > more so, than letting your firewall handle it. I'm not disagreeing with you. As I stated above, getting new rules into my firewall in an automated way is not something I've found a good way to do yet. Granted, it has been a couple of years since I&

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-04 Thread Dave McGuire
ng Linux, you know. It may be hard to accept, but that's the way it is. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3 New Kensington, PA

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-04 Thread Dave McGuire
un it under Solaris. > so there should be some > sort of netfilter available which you can put in front of your listening > ports. There is. But I already have a firewall, running on bulletproof hardware that doesn't depend on spinning disks. I don't want to add ANOTHER firewall when I already have a perfectly good one. Besides, my mail server is built for...serving mail. Not being a firewall. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3 New Kensington, PA

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-04 Thread Dave McGuire
gt; >>> so there should be some >>> sort of netfilter available which you can put in front of your listening >>> ports. >> >>There is. But I already have a firewall, running on bulletproof >> hardware that doesn't depend on spinning disks. I don't want to add >> ANOTHER firewall when I already have a perfectly good one. Besides, my >> mail server is built for...serving mail. Not being a firewall. >> > Well, from an academic point of view, a network service that denies > connection on the ip layer is also an ip firewall. In a real-world datacenter at 3AM, academic points of view seldom, if ever, come into play. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3 New Kensington, PA

Re: IP drop list

2015-03-04 Thread Dave McGuire
On 03/04/2015 04:33 PM, Professa Dementia wrote: > On 3/4/2015 12:45 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: >>There is. But I already have a firewall, running on bulletproof >> hardware that doesn't depend on spinning disks. I don't want to add >> ANOTHER firewall when I al

Re: Users can't use Dovecot IMAP

2015-04-07 Thread Dave Myers
On 07/04/2015 05:59, John Lewis wrote: Every time a user logs into Dovcot's IMAP service PAM closes the session immediately after it opens. I would like a user to have a session open long enough to read some emails. I don't know if it is still the case for no super user login to imap servers

Re: Thanks for Dovecot

2015-10-13 Thread Dave McGuire
g one thing and doing it right. >> >> Thank you for such great software. >> >> SteveT > > Hey, you know what? It's never a bad time to join in and say a simple: > Thank you! Agreed! Thank you! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Running without anvil?

2016-01-17 Thread Dave Abrahams
an run it as an unprivileged user, so long as I turn them all off: # We don't want to serve any protocols, so we don't bind to any ports. # We can run everything as me. protocols = default_login_user = dave default_internal_user = dave The only thing is, I keep getting these in v

Re: Running without anvil?

2016-01-17 Thread Dave Abrahams
on Sun Jan 17 2016, "A. Schulze" wrote: > Dave Abrahams: > >> The only thing is, I keep getting these in var/log/mail.log: >> >> anvil: Fatal: chroot(/Users/dave/brew/var/run/dovecot/empty) >> failed: Operation not permitted >> master:

Re: Running without anvil?

2016-01-17 Thread Dave Abrahams
on Sun Jan 17 2016, Dave Abrahams wrote: > on Sun Jan 17 2016, "A. Schulze" wrote: > >> Dave Abrahams: >> >>> The only thing is, I keep getting these in var/log/mail.log: >>> >>> anvil: Fatal: chroot(/Users/dave/brew/var/run/dovecot/

Re: Running without anvil?

2016-01-18 Thread Dave Abrahams
on Mon Jan 18 2016, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 17 Jan 2016, at 23:19, Dave Abrahams wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm using dovecot as a local mail store on my laptop using preauth >> tunneling. It turns out I almost don't even need to start dovecot

Re: To what extent does/will Dovecot depend on systemd? was systemd changes...

2016-02-22 Thread Dave McGuire
and >> automatically installed if enabled. > > That's excellent news, because hell will freeze over before systemd is > introduced to official slackware releases Or Solaris, for that matter. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: To what extent does/will Dovecot depend on systemd? was systemd changes...

2016-02-22 Thread Dave McGuire
ed and >>>> automatically installed if enabled. >>> >>> That's excellent news, because hell will freeze over before systemd is >>> introduced to official slackware releases >> >> Or Solaris, for that matter. > > Thank you for your feedback on this matter. We will keep this in mind. Thank you Aki. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

Re: an e-mail client for dovecot ?

2016-07-16 Thread Dave Stevens
; imap mail client for x86 windows 7 systems than t/b. > > Even better if there's an alternative client that is also supporeted > under linux . > > Any ideas are welcome, > > TIA, > > s.t. I use Claws and like it a lot. Has plugins for extensions, very fast to wo

Re: [Dovecot] mail spool filesystem

2011-08-19 Thread Dave McGuire
systems on production servers is oh-so-NOT one of them. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL

Re: [Dovecot] mail spool filesystem

2011-08-19 Thread Dave McGuire
Good luck! FYI, my mail spools are on ZFS filesystems under Solaris on UltraSPARC. It is lightning fast with 100+ dovecot imap processes pounding away. I've not yet enabled compression and done the copy/recopy dance, though. -Dave On 08/19/2011 02:57 PM, Felipe S

Re: [Dovecot] mail spool filesystem

2011-08-19 Thread Dave McGuire
26x with a ~12GB news spool, using gzip compression. I was expecting a bit more compression, but I'm certainly not complaining. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL

Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird caching problem

2011-08-31 Thread Dave McGuire
e one line; watch for wrappage. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL

[Dovecot] Possible to Customize File Naming Scheme?

2011-09-12 Thread Dave Stubbs
Hello all, [Sorry if this has been covered already - I searched back a little way in the archive and didn't find anything recent on the topic.] I'm wondering if it is possible to customize the way dovecot creates or modifies filenames in the maildir directories? I'm watching how my mail sys

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