Re: [Dovecot] May Dovecot help in users education

2011-08-17 Thread Eric Shubert
On 08/17/2011 07:24 AM, Alexandre Chapellon wrote: Le 17/08/2011 16:05, Laurent CARON a écrit : On 17/08/2011 16:00, Alexandre Chapellon wrote: Is there any way to achieve this with dovecot? Does anybody have another idea smoothly force used to switch to TLS? Hi, Maybe by sending them an e

[Dovecot] Intermittent authentication failures

2011-09-30 Thread Eric Shubert
I'm running dovecot with vpopmail. Here's the configuration: [root@wong log]# dovecot -n # 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.6 (Final) auth_cache_size = 32 M auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 auth_username_format = %Lu first_vali

Re: [Dovecot] SSL only for external connections

2011-09-30 Thread Eric Shubert
On 09/30/2011 11:17 AM, Michael M Slusarz wrote: Quoting Simon Brereton : -Original Message- From: dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot- boun...@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Stan Hoeppner On 9/30/2011 12:34 PM, Simon Brereton wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: dovecot-bou

Re: [Dovecot] Intermittent authentication failures

2011-09-30 Thread Eric Shubert
On 09/30/2011 09:07 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: CRAM-MD5 works sometimes: Sep 30 08:15:43 imap-login: Info: Login: user=, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=192.168.252.8, lip=192.168.252.14, mpid=20301 but (seemingly more frequently) the authentication fails: Sep 30 08:16:41 imap-login: Info: Aborted login

Re: [Dovecot] SOLVED Intermittent authentication failures

2011-09-30 Thread Eric Shubert
On 09/30/2011 12:59 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 09/30/2011 09:07 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: CRAM-MD5 works sometimes: Sep 30 08:15:43 imap-login: Info: Login: user=, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=192.168.252.8, lip=192.168.252.14, mpid=20301 but (seemingly more frequently) the authentication fails: Sep 30

Re: [Dovecot] SOLVED Intermittent authentication failures

2011-10-02 Thread Eric Shubert
On 10/01/2011 08:16 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 16:24 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: CRAM-MD5 works sometimes: Sep 30 08:15:43 imap-login: Info: Login: user=, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=192.168.252.8, lip=192.168.252.14, mpid=20301 but (seemingly more frequently) the authentication

Re: [Dovecot] SOLVED Intermittent authentication failures

2011-10-03 Thread Eric Shubert
On 10/02/2011 10:28 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 08:53 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Oct 02 08:21:40 auth: Info: password(g...@domain.com,192.168.252.8): Requested DIGEST-MD5 scheme, but we have only SHA1 Oh. This was vpopmail specific problem. See if this fixes: http

Re: [Dovecot] Time jumped forwards

2011-01-13 Thread Eric Shubert
On 01/13/2011 09:01 PM, Ian B wrote: Running Dovecot 2.0.8 on 32bit Centos5.5. The machine is a VMWare ESX VM. I'm seeing a lot of warning messages in syslog as follows: 2011-01-14T11:45:37.315917+08:00 imap4 dovecot: imap: Warning: Time jumped forwards 105 seconds 2011-01-14T11:46:00.598006+0

Re: [Dovecot] Best Cluster Storage

2011-01-14 Thread Eric Shubert
On 01/14/2011 03:58 PM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: On 14/01/11 19:00, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jonathan Tripathy put forth on 1/13/2011 4:17 PM: Regarding the servers, I was thinking of having a 2 node drbd cluster (in active+standby), which would export a single iSCSI LUN. Then, I would have a 2 n

Re: [Dovecot] Time jumped forwards

2011-01-14 Thread Eric Shubert
On 01/14/2011 05:41 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: my experience with CentOS/Dovecot was that when the clock is reset back, Dovecot writes a message into /var/log/messages saying, IIRC, "Time just went backwards. This could cause problems so I'll just kill myself now." And mail transport stops. FWIW,

Re: [Dovecot] upgrading from old version 1.1.2 to version 2.0.11

2011-03-07 Thread Eric Shubert
On 03/07/2011 06:57 AM, dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Im getting ready to upgrade our production server from version 1.1.2 to version 2.0.11. Ive read through the upgrade info. Is there any other gotcha's I should be aware of? thanks, ddh I just upgraded from 1.0.10 to 2.0.10 yes

Re: [Dovecot] upgrading from old version 1.1.2 to version 2.0.11

2011-03-07 Thread Eric Shubert
On 03/07/2011 02:47 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 7.3.2011, at 17.56, Eric Shubert wrote: Speaking of which, given that the local.conf file in the example configuration is the target of !include_try, why is it commented out??? Its idea was simply to be an example of what you can do.. Maybe

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 error

2011-03-08 Thread Eric Shubert
On 03/08/2011 09:26 AM, Chris Wilson wrote: Hi Thierry, On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Thierry de Montaudry wrote: On 08 Mar 2011, at 13:24, Chris Wilson wrote: top - 11:10:14 up 14 days, 12:04, 2 users, load average: 55.04, 29.13, 14.55 Tasks: 474 total, 60 running, 414 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 z

Re: [Dovecot] Question about "extracting" unwanted e-mails from mdbox

2011-03-20 Thread Eric Shubert
On 03/20/2011 07:31 AM, Maria Arrea wrote: Imagine the following scenario Last Saturday, 3:00 AM a big phishing attack hits our e-mail inboxes. Spamassassin does not mark them as spam, and our 50.000+ users have in their mdbox a very credible phishing attack. What doveadm-fu could I use to d

Re: [Dovecot] pigeonhole and roundcube install problem

2011-03-24 Thread Eric Shubert
On 03/24/2011 05:01 AM, Selcuk MIYNAT wrote: Hi, I've installed sieve and managesieve(pigeonhole) on qmail and dovecot(v2.0.11). I've install sieverules on Roundcube. I can see the plugin on the webinterface, and i can add rules. But there is a problem: I've put this .qmail file on "deneme" u

Re: [Dovecot] pigeonhole and roundcube install problem

2011-03-24 Thread Eric Shubert
On 03/24/2011 08:15 AM, Selcuk MIYNAT wrote: On 24.03.2011 16:53, Eric Shubert wrote: On 03/24/2011 05:01 AM, Selcuk MIYNAT wrote: Hi, I've installed sieve and managesieve(pigeonhole) on qmail and dovecot(v2.0.11). I've install sieverules on Roundcube. I can see the plu

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.9: Thunderbird 3.1.9: Very slow while open sent folder with many (4k>) mails

2011-03-24 Thread Eric Shubert
On 03/24/2011 09:35 AM, Denny Schierz wrote: hi, one customer told us, that he has performance problem in his Thunderbird 3.1.9, while open his sent folder, which has round about 4000 mails in it, and 20k in his Inbox. For example TB, tries to sync the sent-folder list (over SSL) from the sent f

Re: [Dovecot] IO rate quotas?

2011-04-07 Thread Eric Shubert
On 04/07/2011 12:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Kádár Tamás (KTamas) put forth on 4/7/2011 9:33 AM: Hi Okay so we've been having this issue since forever and I figured why the heck not ask it here since it's mostly related to dovecot. The thing is, we have a huge amount of public folders (at the m

Re: [Dovecot] IO rate quotas?

2011-04-07 Thread Eric Shubert
On 04/07/2011 06:49 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Eric Shubert put forth on 4/7/2011 4:04 PM: On 04/07/2011 12:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Kádár Tamás (KTamas) put forth on 4/7/2011 9:33 AM: Hi Okay so we've been having this issue since forever and I figured why the heck not ask it here

Re: [Dovecot] IO rate quotas?

2011-04-08 Thread Eric Shubert
On 04/08/2011 08:58 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Eric Shubert put forth on 4/7/2011 9:54 PM: Thanks for the great explanation, Stan. Just to clarify, did you mean to say that the former is cheaper in $$? Yes. I just noticed that error and cringed. :( I did indeed mean to say FORMER. With a

Re: [Dovecot] 143 STARTTLS/ 993 SSL/TLS query

2011-04-08 Thread Eric Shubert
On 04/08/2011 05:39 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm testing my new dovecot server with Thundirbird I can have it working on port 143 with STARTTLS, or on port 993 with SSL/TLS my uderstanding is that on 993 I get encrypted 'password and mail transfer' (yes ?) so what happens if I use 143 with STA

Re: [Dovecot] 143 STARTTLS/ 993 SSL/TLS query

2011-04-08 Thread Eric Shubert
On 04/08/2011 06:28 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Sat, April 9, 2011 10:52 am, Eric Shubert wrote: thanks for any insights.. As far as encrypted password and mail transfer is concerned, the answer is yes. Port 993/SSL is the older way, and port 143/TLS is the newer way. 143/TLS is preferred

Re: [Dovecot] IO rate quotas?

2011-04-11 Thread Eric Shubert
On 04/11/2011 03:58 AM, Alan Brown wrote: From: Timo Sirainen Subject: Re: [Dovecot] IO rate quotas? So a single process that is reading files fast enough from disk can cause disk IO to spike in a way that makes all other processes wait for available disk IO? It's not a single process. Thu

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.12 released

2011-04-12 Thread Eric Shubert
On 04/12/2011 10:16 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.12.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.12.tar.gz.sig Many small fixes, plus some more noticeable: + doveadm: Added "move" command for moving mails between mailboxes. + virtual

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP vs. POP3

2011-05-02 Thread Eric Shubert
On 04/28/2011 10:31 AM, Matt wrote: Does IMAP create much additional system load vs. POP3? How much is much? They do have different usage patterns. The server load also depends on how each client program is configured. Some client configurations create more of a load than others (eg how mes

Re: [Dovecot] purge maildir folder after sa-learn

2010-05-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, I am looking for a command-line utility to automatically purge one Maildir folder. I want to periodically run sa-learn from cron, and after the spam learning folder has been added to the Bayes database, its contents should be deleted. I've searched a bit, but on

Re: [Dovecot] purge maildir folder after sa-learn

2010-05-29 Thread Eric Shubert
Phil Howard wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:13, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 09:56 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: rm -f /path/to/Maildir/.spam-learn/* Oh, I really ment .spam-learn/cur/* (and maybe .spam-learn/new/* if you make it learn from both and it doesn't move mails t

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1.x and 1.2.x differencies

2010-06-15 Thread Eric Shubert
Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-06-15 6:57 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Too bad the Debian Dovecot maintainer isn't 'The Flash' in getting binaries uploaded. For i386 anyway. He had the AMD64 1.2.11 binary uploaded to backports within a week IIRC. Took something like 2 weeks IIRC before he got the i3

Re: [Dovecot] Outlook problem

2010-06-22 Thread Eric Shubert
Patric Falinder wrote: Hi, I have some problems that every time I start Outlook and retrieve my e-mails and then later tries to do it on my iPhone for example, I get some sort of problem that I can't get the mails. I searched around on the wiki and found the "outlook-no-nuls" and "outlook-idle"

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-23 Thread Eric Shubert
Pascal Volk wrote: On 06/23/2010 01:22 PM Rajesh M wrote: i set maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes this was done in the morning and dovecot was restarted i logged after about 4 hours after the previous login again it took around 5 mins to login i was monitoring my server load which around 1.5

Re: [Dovecot] step-to-step Installation Guide

2010-06-23 Thread Eric Shubert
Marcus Linnenkohl wrote: Hello, I'm new here, and I'm from Germany, so please be patient with me because my English is not so good ;) I am searching for a Step-to-Step Guide to first-configure Dovecot. I want to create virtual Users wich can logon to my Server to a Webinterface to call the

Re: [Dovecot] step-to-step Installation Guide

2010-06-23 Thread Eric Shubert
Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-06-23 11:03 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: Are you running other services on your server, or will it be dedicated to email? If the later, you might want to look into http://qmailtoaster.com/. Bad advice imo. QMail is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. :) Seri

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

2010-06-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Rajesh M wrote: Rajesh M wrote: Rajesh M wrote: eric i studied LDA a bit > if i use lda that means all my 5000+ users' email index files will be continuously updated when every email arrives -- means a lot of writes to disk ... is that correct ? Yes, but I think you make it sound worse tha

Re: [Dovecot] Zero-sized Maildir files and index corruption on over-quota

2010-10-05 Thread Eric Shubert
Edgar Fuß wrote: We are using Postfix as an MTA delivering via Dovecot's LDA (with sieve). We also use Dovecot as a POP/IMAP server. Mail storage is Maildir on NFS, indexes are stored locally. Quotas are FS quotas enforced by the NFS server. The Dovecot version is 1.2.11. Recently, for one us

[Dovecot] shared/public mailbox doesn't exist

2009-09-21 Thread Eric Shubert
I have 3 servers running dovecot 1.0.10. 2 of them are configured with a shared/public namespace, but I'm having trouble getting it to work on the third, even with 2 working examples to go by. There's something I'm missing, and I'm hoping that someone here can see/tell what it is. I've created th

Re: [Dovecot] shared/public mailbox doesn't exist

2009-09-21 Thread Eric Shubert
Eric Shubert wrote: I have 3 servers running dovecot 1.0.10. 2 of them are configured with a shared/public namespace, but I'm having trouble getting it to work on the third, even with 2 working examples to go by. There's something I'm missing, and I'm hoping that someone he

Re: [Dovecot] shared/public mailbox doesn't exist

2009-09-22 Thread Eric Shubert
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: namespace shared { separator = . prefix = shared. location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared } So I created a few subfolders. # cd /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared # maildirmake .sub1

Re: [Dovecot] shared/public mailbox doesn't exist

2009-09-22 Thread Eric Shubert
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sep 22, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: That's because "shared" is a namespace prefix and not a folder. There shouldn't be any reason to subscribe to it. But, anyway, Dovecot v1.2 allows you to subscribe to it anyway. Thanks Timo. Looks li

Re: [Dovecot] Ubuntu 9.x segmentation fault with vpopmail auth

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Timothy Timmons wrote: I've been trying for 24 hours now, to get an IMAP server which will autenticate off of vpopmail cdb database and the auth module always segfaults on login. I'm using vpopmail 5.5.0 only because it is the only version which seems to create a dynamically linked version of th

Re: [Dovecot] OT: IMAP folder aliases

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Shubert
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sep 25, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: Has anyone seen an approach or a solution that solves the problem from a users point of view? A server side alias list that maps to a server standard? Symlinks maybe? Or something similar done internally. The main p

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrading Dovecot on CentOS 4 from 0.99 to 1.x

2009-09-28 Thread Eric Shubert
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 09:11 -0400, Josep L. Guallar-Esteve wrote: I'm planning to upgrade using the instructions found at dovecot's wiki. On http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/ it is offered in 3 different versions: * dovecot 1..0.15-1_73.el4 * dovecot 1.1.19-1_96.el4 * dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Expire plugin: wrong mailbox separators in database?

2009-10-01 Thread Eric Shubert
Andreas Ntaflos wrote: Hate to bump this, but is there nobody who uses the expire plugin and can confirm my observations? I'd love to use the expire plugin to delete old messages filed in spam folders but as it is now I can't get it to work with the wrong mailbox separators in the table entri