Re: dsync replication fails with No space left on device / Out of memory

2021-07-01 Thread Harlan Stenn
Inodes? df -i On 7/1/2021 5:07 PM, Steven Varco wrote: > Hi All > > Since I configured dsync replication I get strange errors in the maillog on > my two mail dovecot nodes: > > PRIMARY: > Jul 2 01:21:42 mx01.example.com dovecot: doveadm: Error: > read(mx02.example.com) failed: read(size=3148

Re: [patch] Improved error checking for the dovecot-antispam-plugin

2016-08-16 Thread Harlan Stenn
On 8/16/16 1:24 PM, Robert Munteanu wrote: > Hi, > > Hopefully this is the right channel for such a patch. I have a minor > enhancement to submit for the antispam plugin > > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-antispam-plugin > > It adds minimal error checking for the sendmail_binary, otherwise the

Re: [patch] Improved error checking for the dovecot-antispam-plugin

2016-08-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
Robert, First, thanks! Second, I'm not a committer on the dovecot project. But I've written a lot of software where if an end user has a problem and either they want to know why or if they report it and ask for help, I've found it is MUCH better to have enough info in the message given to the

Re: Does disabling POP3 just mean removing it from the `protocols` list?

2022-03-01 Thread Harlan Stenn
The reason to support POP3 is that if you forward email to another account and that includes any spam, you are gonna get dinged. If folks want to read their email from gmail, they really need to suck that email over via POP to avoid this problem. H On 3/1/2022 3:13 PM, Peter wrote: The only

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
Please post your solution. Sent from my iPhone - please excuse brevity and typos > On Oct 20, 2022, at 10:21 PM, Zhang Huangbin wrote: > >  > >> On Oct 21, 2022, at 4:19 AM, Antonio Leding wrote: >> >> My understanding is that Director is targeted toward large enterprise mail >> installati

Re: [Dovecot] Server Time 45min ahead

2012-01-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
Ralf wrote: > stop dovecot & postfix > ntpdate timeserver > start dovecot & postfix > start ntpd Speaking as st...@ntp.org, I recommend: - run 'ntpd -gN' as early as possible in the startup sequence (no need for ntpdate) then as late as possible in the startup sequence, run: - ntp-wait -v -s

[Dovecot] antispam plugin problem with dspam

2008-09-04 Thread Harlan Stenn
I'm trying to use the dovecot antispam plugin with dspam. I'm running dovecot 1.1.2. Using thunderbird and IMAP, when I drag a spam message from the inbox into the SPAM folder, I get a popup saying "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: antispam signature not found. Wh

Re: [Dovecot] antispam plugin problem with dspam

2008-09-04 Thread Harlan Stenn
Would it be better if the antispam plugin logged whatever stderr output came from the dspam invocation? H

Re: [Dovecot] antispam plugin problem with dspam

2008-09-08 Thread Harlan Stenn
I got it working. Here are the problems I fixed, and it would have been *lots* easier if the dovecot antispam plugin had better error/debug logging. Johannes, I can work on a patch for the following if you prefer, and I'd much rather spend my time getting ntp-4.2.6 out the door. Getting this wor

Re: [Dovecot] antispam plugin signature-log backend with v1.1.2

2008-09-22 Thread Harlan Stenn
The antispam plugn has, IMO, suboptimal logging. I had problems with it too. I have patches for it that helped me debug the situation, and I'll be submitting them to the FreeBSD ports maintainer as I didn't get any response when I emailed the antispam plugin author. H

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot-antispam does not work

2009-02-03 Thread Harlan Stenn
Jehan wrote: > ... Apparently the ml is not very well configured because a reply > does not reply to the whole ml, but to the single sender. I will take > care now. I bet there are a *lot* of people (me included) who think the ml is very well configured precisely because it does not set Reply-to

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards ....

2009-02-18 Thread Harlan Stenn
Rob wrote: > Is this related to the leap second that occured yesterday? There was no leap second in February. H

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards errors

2009-04-02 Thread Harlan Stenn
> Why not just run ntpd and be done with it, ensure you start ntpd with > "-g" option It's more than this. ntpd should be started ASAP in the boot process, and then as late as possible in the boot process one should run ntp-wait. Only after ntp-wait finishes should time-critical services be star

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
Have you seen http://support.ntp.org/Support ? You said your clock is running fast, so it's not a clock interrupt issue. If your OS supports it, and you have a *steady* problem with your clock, you might be able to correct this problem with the tickadj program and then ntpd should be able to keep

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
Pascal Volk wrote: > On Debian systems I'm very happy with the OpenBSD NTP daemon. > Package: openntpd > This ntpd adjusts the local time in little steps. The last I checked openntpd was an SNTP implementation, not NTP. If it works for you, great. H

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
Juergen Daubert wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:19:14PM +0200, Arno Wald wrote: > > I am running dovecot on a PC (a workstation) to have a mail client > > independent storage for my mails. Now I would like to have the system > > clock set correctly by using ntpd or ntpdate (using debian/sid

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
Juergen wrote: > > How will chrony help here if the PC is not online at boot time? > > >From http://chrony.sunsite.dk/guide/chrony.html > > - chronyd can perform usefully in an environment where access to the time > reference is intermittent. chronyd estimates both the current time > offset a

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
Juergen wrote: > Harlan wrote: > > There is no corrected version of the real-time clock before the PC goes > > online. > > I'd suggest to read chrony's manual. Chrony stores the reference values > collected while running online for further use after reboot, even if we > have no online connection a

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
NTP comes with a script, ntp-wait, that is specifically designed to be used during the boot-sequence for the purpose of waiting until the clock is sync'd before starting time-sensitive applications. See http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/StartingNTP4 for more information. BCP is: - Start nt

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
Timo wrote: > On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Eugene wrote: > > > But really, all this leads is that admin has to detect the dovecot > > termination and simply go and restart it manually -- after some bad > > thoughts. > > Or the admin actually permanently fixes the time. This is usually a start

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
Eugene wrote: > In most cases we talk about, it can't be fixed permanently because this > happens after (cold or warm) system restart, when ntpd can take up to 15 > minutes (and in most cases about 3-5 minutes) to actually resync the time. If you have a good drift file and use iburst (as discuss

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

2009-06-10 Thread Harlan Stenn
Backward time steps can cause real problems for Maildir, as its "uniqueness" algorithms can be ... theoretically correct. H

Re: [Dovecot] Startup error dovecot-2.0.5

2010-10-05 Thread Harlan Stenn
Ralf, Are you using tcsh? H

Re: [Dovecot] Startup error dovecot-2.0.5

2010-10-05 Thread Harlan Stenn
> * Harlan Stenn : > > Ralf, > > > > Are you using tcsh? > > No. I didn't think you were, but I wanted to ask, as I remember some versions of tcsh have a "non-huge" buffer for something (which, now that I think about it, was either command-line length or an environment buffer). H

Re: [Dovecot] Dotlock dovecot-uidlist errors / NFS / High Load

2011-01-24 Thread Harlan Stenn
f correct time and NTP are important to you, please join the NTP Forum. We need the support. -- Harlan Stenn http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member!

Re: [Dovecot] Dotlock dovecot-uidlist errors / NFS / High Load

2011-01-24 Thread Harlan Stenn
I may have missed something - if this is NFS related, you are running NTP on *all* of your machines (clients and servers) that are involved in this NFS share, right? NFS cares that the time is sync'd on the computers it works with. H

Re: [Dovecot] ntp revisited (so what to do ?)

2011-05-08 Thread Harlan Stenn
Spyros wrote > OK, > > So what you people say is : > > 1. Run "ntpdate" during startup only once > 2. After that, keep time with ntpd > > Right ? https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/StartingNTP4 says: - Start ntd as early as possible - - "ntpd -g ..." is better than "ntpdate ... ; ntpd .

Re: [Dovecot] ntp revisited (so what to do ?)

2011-05-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
Per wrote: > Sure, I meant 'ntpd -q'. What benefit do you see in running something to set the time and exit before starting ntpd instead of just starting ntpd with -g? H

Re: [Dovecot] ntp revisited (so what to do ?)

2011-05-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
Per wrote: > Luigi Rosa wrote: > > > Harlan Stenn said the following on 08/05/11 21:58: > > > >> - Start ntd as early as possible > >> - - "ntpd -g ..." is better than "ntpdate ... ; ntpd ..." > >> - Wait before starting time-sen

Re: [Dovecot] ntp revisited (so what to do ?)

2011-05-10 Thread Harlan Stenn
> On 5/10/2011 8:50 AM, Ed W wrote: > > > So, in practice it's fairly irrelevant to be hooked to a stratum 1 for > > most purposes ... Actually, an excellent argument can be made for hooking up to some S2 servers instead of S1 servers.. H

Re: [Dovecot] integrating procmail

2011-05-18 Thread Harlan Stenn
I have not tried this: http://www.zimbra.com/forums/users/7239-any-way-add-message-filters-command-line.html H

Re: [Dovecot] Mailing list's prefix

2010-03-04 Thread Harlan Stenn
I would have preferred this be a private reply but I like to honor the sender's request re Reply-To:. I have a slight preference for keeping the [Dovecot] prefix in the Subject: header, as it makes it really obvious to me where a message in my inbox comes from. I have never liked to pre-sort inco

Re: [Dovecot] 1.2.11, mbox, new mail

2010-05-27 Thread Harlan Stenn
Hey Greg, I picked up the right-size screwdrivers (P00, T6, T8) today. Still need to find a spudger, but I think I can use my fingernails until then. How critical is antistatic for disassembly checking out the fan motors? H

Re: [Dovecot] AntiSpam Plugin

2010-07-28 Thread Harlan Stenn
Figure out exactly what script is running and see if it says why it would return with a status of 9. If that is because of a SIGKILL, it is because some process is sending that signal. You are gonna get to figure out what debug knobs to crank to figure out why this is going on. Can you invoke an

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-antispam plugin and "Failed to call dspam" message

2009-06-13 Thread Harlan Stenn
It is probably a good idea to figure out the underlying problem instead of ignoring it. I use the following patch... H patch-dspam-exec.c Description: Binary data

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-antispam plugin and "Failed to call dspam" message

2009-06-13 Thread Harlan Stenn
Note that according to dspam-exec.c, and info sent to stderr by dspam is treated by the antispam plugin as a fatal error. All my patch does is to provide enough information to see what the problem is. H

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread Harlan Stenn
If you're hosting this on the domain where the users will have email, then do you have a good reason for wanting to use virtual stuff? If not, use system users. If you are hosting for another domain (or plan to) I don't have enough info to tell you more - I routinely set up virtual domains (I use

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot ontop of glusterfs issue.

2014-05-22 Thread Harlan Stenn
date really isn't designed for what you seem to be doing. -- Harlan Stenn http://nwtime.org - Be a member!

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot ontop of glusterfs issue.

2014-05-22 Thread Harlan Stenn
On 5/22/14 4:30 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > ntpdate is really only any good being run once (at boot), for example if > you have a clock that can't keep time while the system is off. I'm not aware of any cases where one needs to run ntpdate at startup before running ntpd, because one can run 'ntpd -g

Re: maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 280929] mail/dovecot move bogus warning "Time moved forwards" to debug

2024-08-23 Thread Harlan Stenn via dovecot
I'm speaking as st...@ntp.org here, but I'm not subscribed to this list via that email address. On 8/23/2024 7:06 PM, Jochen Bern via dovecot wrote: On 21.08.24 11:35, Timo Sirainen wrote: [Lots and lots of "but my NTP sync is much more precise than that" in the FreeBSD thread] The way Dovec

Re: maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 280929] mail/dovecot move bogus warning "Time moved forwards" to debug

2024-08-24 Thread Harlan Stenn via dovecot
On 8/24/2024 12:13 PM, Jochen Bern via dovecot wrote: On 24.08.24 05:04, Harlan Stenn wrote: On 8/23/2024 7:06 PM, Jochen Bern via dovecot wrote: (As an example for why this is relevant: Several hundred deviations of 100 ms or more per day sum up to several 10+ seconds per day, if only they