Re: [Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

Quoting Seth Mattinen : Queue directories and clusters don't mix well, but a read-heavy maildir/dbox environment shouldn't suffer the same problem. Why don't queue directories and clusters mix well? Is this a performance issue only, or something worse? ~Seth -- Eri

Re: [Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

mail being spam/virus/malware, performance will usually dictate local/memory file systems for such queues... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin This message is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Use this

Re: [Dovecot] SIS Implementation

ns ago (in their popstore I think it was) system added around PMDF 5 or 6 Was actually pretty nice, in particular for the times (this was the 1990's). Anyway, my $0.02 worth, not that I'm waiting on this feature, but it sure would save me tons of disk space if I had it... -- Eric

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

t; configuration files for the two nodes (mailman data, MailScanner/Sendmail configs, dovecot config, clamav/spamd config, procmail config, apache config, ssl certificates, etc). If interested, I can let you know about performance once I know more... Thanks Guy -- Eric Rostetter The Departme

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

n the free version, it would be for quorum only. I'm using the 3rd node only with RHCS, not with DRBD. The webmail needs to actual access to the file storage, it does everything via IMAP calls to dovecot. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin This

[Dovecot] Question about ACL/flags

to do, and what version I might need. (If the wiki example is for dovecot 1.2+, does that mean it won't work in 1.1, or just that it has to be done differently, etc). Any help (clearing up my obvious confusion) would be appreciated... Step by step directions would be even better! :) -

Re: [Dovecot] Question about ACL/flags

7;ve been doing email servers since the 1980's, this is my first try at using IMAP namespaces and shared folders, and I'm just not getting it... :( -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin This message is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Use this message at your own risk.

Re: [Dovecot] Question about ACL/flags

Quoting Eric Jon Rostetter : But I can't figure out how to access it (either manuall via telnet as above, or from a client, etc). Never mind... Got it working now... a0 select "shared/myfolder" * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\An

Re: [Dovecot] Disconnected: Too many invalid IMAP commands

ers shouldn't, and each case has to be taken on its own merits. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin This message is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Use this message at your own risk.

Re: [Dovecot] Disconnected: Too many invalid IMAP commands

Quoting Noel Butler : On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 11:11 -0500, Eric Jon Rostetter wrote: > I have never understood anyone who would use a distro for critical > applications that forces them to use 3+ year old software. Because it is stable and just plain works, of course. Oh what rubbis

Re: [Dovecot] Disconnected: Too many invalid IMAP commands

either, so not a problem. Anyway, this is way off topic, so end of thread for me... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin This message is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Use this message at your own risk.

Re: [Dovecot] Disconnected: Too many invalid IMAP commands

now, the difference between the 1.0.x version and 1.2.x is so great that anyone who refuses to upgrade is simply missing out. Again, this might be storage related, or something... Don't assume it applies to everyone. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas a

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

ng probably, but that overall it will scale under load better and not die when a spammer attacks us or we otherwise get flooded... -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin This message is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Use this message at your own risk.

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

rades and such, I've not lost any data or anything like that. Overall I'm very happy. Sure, I could be a bit happier with the recovery after a crash, but I'm tickled with the way it works the rest of the time, and it is a large improvement over my old setup. Regards, Mario Anto

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

og/dovecot holds logs for all mail programs (so I can see logs for any node from any cluster node). Webmail is Horde/IMP with postgresql, MTA is MailScanner with sendmail, user database is LDAP (used to be pam, but now direct to LDAP). M.A. -- Eric Rostetter The Department

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP proxying for ALL users to internal mail server

MS AD? -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin This message is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Use this message at your own risk.

Re: [Dovecot] HA Dovecot Config?

pe situations, and I kind of doubt the authors would either though I could be wrong. Certainly a great choice for backups though... Depending on your needs, it might work for a failover node... Rick -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin This messag

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and SATA Backend

requirement, desire, or future option? Thanks for your help. Regards, -- Nicolas Grenèche - Orléans University - France http://blog.garnett.fr (in french) -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin This message is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any ki

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and SATA Backend

it is that if it is a future plan then it won't matter much as Timo will probably get NFS support working so well by then it won't matter any more. :) But, right now, NFS support is a bit tricky, though constantly improving, and I'd still recommend you stay away from it if possi

Re: [Dovecot] Fwd: Re: Dovecot and SATA Backend

r, and I'm glad to be done with it... Now all mail access comes via dovecot, and my life is much easier... Comments on that? I don't think you understand iSCSI very well... But your arguments about direct attached versus NFS are solid. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and SATA Backend - filesystems

hat needs lots of careful consideration. ;) Regards John -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin This message is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Use this message at your own risk.

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] DRBD

M+GFS, in active-active mode). Thanks, Rodolfo. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin This message is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Use this message at your own risk.

Re: [Dovecot] [OT] DRBD

ive-active... Why would you recommend DRBD 7 instead of 8? Bernd -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin This message is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Use this message at your own risk.

Re: [Dovecot] So, what about clustering and load balancing?

Quoting Stan Hoeppner : Eric Rostetter put forth on 2/13/2010 11:02 PM: I'm bowing out of this discussion, as I was using words in a non-precise way, and it is clear that Stan is using them in a very precise way, and hence we're not really discussing the same thing... My fau

lib-master test failure i686

pty parents .. : FAILED 5 / 7 tests failed make[3]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.4/src/lib-master' make[3]: *** [check-local] Error 1 make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/dovecot-2.3.4/src/lib-master' -- Eric Broch White Horse Technical Consulting (WHTC)

Re: lib-master test failure i686

Any Ideas? On 2/7/2019 12:13 PM, Eric Broch via dovecot wrote: Hello List, I've built and checked successfully dovecot and dovecot-pigeonhole on CentOS 6 x86_64 Immediately below are the successful make check (ok) tests of dovecot 'lib-master' (x86_64). Below that are t

Re: lib-master test failure i686

Will do! On 2/8/2019 8:21 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote: Can you try if https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/de42b54aaf165d4f62b45be864dde36bdbbc4276.patch helps? Aki On 08 February 2019 at 17:14 Eric Broch via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org>> w

Re: lib-master test failure i686

Thanks, Aki, the patch worked. On 2/8/2019 8:21 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote: Can you try if https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/de42b54aaf165d4f62b45be864dde36bdbbc4276.patch helps? Aki On 08 February 2019 at 17:14 Eric Broch via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org <mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org&g

LMTP and public mailboxes?

cuser, nor to send mail as that user (Postfix uses Dovecot for auth). Yet I don't seem to be able to pass other arguments to lmtp, that might indicate which user to use for auth. Does anyone have a clean solution for this? Thanks in advance, Eric

Re: LMTP and public mailboxes?

Eric Abrahamsen via dovecot writes: > Hi, > > I've been using postfix and dovecot for a few years, and have been doing > public mailboxes with dovecot-lda, using a postfix transport that looks > like (line wrapped for the mailer): > > my-public-transport unix - n n -

Unable to set quota-fs plugin

get quota resource STORAGE: quota-fs: quotactl(Q_GETQUOTA, /dev/vda1) failed: No such file or directory I have no idea of which file or directory is missing. Any advice is welcome. Thanks and best regards, - Eric Grammatico _/)

Re: Unable to set quota-fs plugin

To complete, I am on Fedora 28, kernel 4.20.14-100.fc28.x86_64 Thanks and regards, - Eric Grammatico _/) 13 mars 2019 10:14 "Eric Grammatico" a écrit: Hello There, I am try desperatly to setup quota-fs plugin in Dovecot. I have the following configuration in place: /etc/dovecot

Re: Unable to set quota-fs plugin

Thanks Yassine, My / is mounted from /dev/vda1 with the following options: [root@mail ~]# cat /etc/mtab |grep "vda1 " /dev/vda1 / ext4 rw,relatime,jqfmt=vfsv0,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group 0 0 Regards, - Eric Grammatico _/) 13 mars 2019 10:31 "Yassine Chaouche

Re: Unable to set quota-fs plugin

dovecot -- 4 0 0 1 0 0 root -- 3575932 0 0 65814 0 0 #1003 -- 0 0 0 1 0 0 Thanks and regards, - Eric Grammatico _/) 13 mars 2019 10:54 "Aki Tuomi"

Re: Unable to set quota-fs plugin

Here is attached. - Eric Grammatico _/) 13 mars 2019 11:29 "Aki Tuomi" a écrit: > Can you try > > strace doveadm quota get -u victim > > and post the output of this? > > Aki > > On 13.3.2019 12.11, Eric Grammatico via dovecot wrote: > >&g

Re: Unable to set quota-fs plugin

Thanks Aki, Please find attached strace for imap and quota-status which report an error at the end. Regards, - Eric Grammatico _/) 13 mars 2019 12:23 "Aki Tuomi" a écrit: > The doveadm command seems to have worked. Can you retry with imap? > > strace /usr/lib/dov

Re: Unable to set quota-fs plugin

Hi there, Well.. I didn't find a way to strace imap. If I well understood, the faulty IMAP is launched by dovecot from or after a succesfull imap-login process. I have executed manually '/usr/libexec/dovecot/imap -u eric' and typed getquotaroot "INBOX" which didn'

Re: Unable to set quota-fs plugin

just before and stopped right after the error is raised and thus quite difficult to trace the process. - Eric Grammatico _/) 14 mars 2019 15:46 "Yassine Chaouche via dovecot" a écrit: > On 3/14/19 3:40 PM, Eric Grammatico via dovecot wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >>

Re: Unable to set quota-fs plugin

Sure !! I got it ! I have connected with kmail, which keeps the imap opened and which has generated the error several times during the session. Please find attached the strace. Not sure this strace will help. I executed '/usr/libexec/dovecot/imap -u eric' and typed the same command

Re: Unable to set quota-fs plugin [fixed]

The issue was in the systemd service file. The option PrivateDevices was setted. It prevents the service to have access to physical devices. I removed this option and from there, quota is reported without errors. Thanks for your support Regards, - Eric Grammatico _/) 14 mars 2019 16:42

[Dovecot] limiting authentication failures

o ad-hoc a process and was hoping dovecot has something more proactive built in. Thank you in advance for spending time considering this inquiry, Eric - pam_unix Begin dovecot: Authentication Failures: rhost=:::200.

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[Dovecot] Live Mirror dovecot / OS X 10.6.4

I want to set up mirrored postfix/dovecot servers using two mac mini servers (OSX 10.6.4) located in different locations (Canada and the US to be specific) for redundancy. The idea is to have one as the primary MX ("mail.corp.com") and the other as the secondary ("webmail.corp.com"). If the pr

Re: [Dovecot] Live Mirror dovecot / OS X 10.6.4 (Timo Sirainen)

Timo Sirainen wrote: Two potential problems I see with this: 1. If users can do any changes on the secondary server (flag changes, saving new mails, etc), you're going to have problems syncing the changes back (without losing any changes or causing other problems). 2. If users can access the s

Re: [Dovecot] Live Mirror dovecot / OS X 10.6.4 (Timo Sirainen)

So getting back to this backup server concept... Would rsyncing all the directories listed in a dovecotd -n dump be enough to sync all my virtual users/uids, etc.? Or does OS X have other locations I need to sync for this backup server to be functional when the primary is down?

Re: [Dovecot] Live Mirror dovecot / OS X 10.6.4 (Timo Sirainen)

On Aug 25, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > But if secondary server allowed changes, this is the difficult step to > do correctly. For example lets say in first server: > > 1. It rsyncs user foo > 2. User foo changes message A flag to \Seen > 3. User foo deletes message B > 4. User fo

[Dovecot] Email client dowloads previously read messages as new during migration.

I am migrating from UW to dovecot and using mbox. I have been able to find mbox to maildir migration information and tools; however, I have had little luck finding any tool or information for performing such a migration where I wish to keep mbox. ( I know I should migrate to MailDir, but in the

[Dovecot] Converting mbox to Maildir, all prior read messages are downloaded as new

I am running dovecot 0.99. Everything works great; however, now I am looking at several different tools to convert mbox to Maildir. It seems the tools, mb2md.pl, perfect_maildir.pl, and others all do what they claim; however, when the messages are converted and they are stored in Maildir/cur,

Re: [Dovecot] Converting mbox to Maildir, all prior read messages are downloaded as new

Can you elaborate on this convert plugin? I have not heard of it and am curious if it is available in 0.99. Thank you! Bruce Bodger wrote: On May 24, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Eric and Barbara Sammons wrote: I am running dovecot 0.99. Everything works great; however, now I am looking at several

[Dovecot] Dovecot support for smd5 and ldap-md5

Working with a dovecot migration, I am curious what version (if any) of Dovecot (dovecot-auth) supports SMD5 and ldap-MD5 when using Dovecot -> OpenLDAP direct binding? Thank you! Eric

Problem with Dovecot on a FIPS enabled system

This bug was submitted on an Ubuntu Jammy system with FIPS enabled. Here is the Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/+bug/2107773 Pull Request submitted: https://github.com/dovecot/core/pull/241  [ Impact ] * When one enables FIPS mode on a Jammy system and then

New Configuration

Hi, I'm setting up an email server behind a NAT, and I have the necessary DNS records, iptables/ufw rules, and ACLs in place. However, I cannot sign in with my chosen username, which does exist on the same computer I'm hosting the server on. I am using PAM, not a database, to hold credential infor

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