Dovecot Performance Issues on VMWARE Esxi

Hello, I'm new to dovcot, but have serious issues with dovecot and IMAP. I'm struggling with low IMAP performance but have no glue, where to start my search. It is a small office setup. 10 Mailaccounts. Mine is the biggest with 4GB in size. But searching for mail takes several seconds... Zu swi

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with thunderbird 3 ( messages mark unread after being read )

Hi. On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:48:31 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Since we upgrade all our users's PC with Thunderbird 3(.0.1) > many of them have a problem with email that move back to unread > status even after they have read them. This is a known bug of TB 3.0.1. See here: https://bugzilla.mozilla

[Dovecot] Cosmetic issue with dots in Maildir folder names

* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" does.exist | 3 OK List completed. This is with Dovecot 1.1.3; we use "separator = /" and we've defined REAL_SEP to '.' and VIRTUAL_SEP to '/' in the plugin. Holger

Re: [Dovecot] cyrus2courrier mass migration

t; which also supports skiplist databases (amongst another few features not provided by the other tools): http://cyrus2dovecot.sw.fu-berlin.de/ Holger

Re: [Dovecot] cyrus2courrier mass migration

* Mathieu Kretchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-23 12:59]: > Holger Weiss a écrit : > > However, for our conversion, we've written our own "cyrus2dovecot" which > > also supports skiplist databases (amongst another few features not > > provi

Re: [Dovecot] cyrus2dovecot description on the wiki

stitutions. > But yeah, if the one you referenced above works well, the wiki should be > changed to reflect use of this new one (with the permission of the > author of course)... We now added our Cyrus2Dovecot to the wiki page. Holger

[Dovecot] Maildir files with mtime in the future

internal_date = (time_t)-1; + timezone_offset = 0; + } + if (ctx->msg_size == 0) { /* no message data, abort */ client_send_tagline(cmd, "NO Can't save a zero byte message."); -- 8< ---- 8< -- Holger

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir files with mtime in the future

* Timo Sirainen [2009-04-02 18:44]: > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 19:36 +0200, Holger Weiss wrote: > > | If a date-time is specified, the internal date SHOULD be set in the > > | resulting message; otherwise, the internal date of the resulting > > | message is set to the cur

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir files with mtime in the future

* Timo Sirainen [2009-04-02 19:35]: > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 01:14 +0200, Holger Weiss wrote: > > > This is a problem only with Maildir, so if the code is added it should > > > go to maildir-save.c. > > > > The mtime-problem is Maildir-specific, but an INTERNALDA

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir files with mtime in the future

* Ben Winslow [2009-04-03 10:59]: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 01:14:47 +0200 > Holger Weiss wrote: > > I'd guess most backup software will include files with an mtime newer > > than the time of the previous backup in incremental backups. At > > least, Bacula[*] and Ver

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir files with mtime in the future

* Timo Sirainen [2009-04-03 12:44]: > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 19:36 +0200, Holger Weiss wrote: > > However, if the client does so, Dovecot will set the mtime of the > > Maildir file in question to the date specified by the client even if > > it's in the future. Since

[Dovecot] namespace and list=children inconsistencies

Hi, after setting up a new Dovecot server with shared and public namespaces, both with hidden=no and list=children, I see some inconsistency in the folder listing. . NAMESPACE * NAMESPACE (("" "/")) (("Shared/" "/")) (("Public/" "/")) . OK Namespace completed. . LIST "" * * LIST (\HasNoChildren)

Re: [Dovecot] namespace and list=children inconsistencies

Am 16.12.2010 13:39, schrieb Charles Marcus: > On 2010-12-15 7:38 PM, Holger Mauermann wrote: >> Here is the relevant doveconf -n output: >> ... > > Please always include *full* doveconf -n output, not just what you > *think* is relevant... its not that much more, and in

Re: [Dovecot] namespace and list=children inconsistencies

Am 16.12.2010 01:38, schrieb Holger Mauermann: > With LIST "Shared/" the other users INBOX is missing, so with namespace > capable clients like Thunderbird it is impossible to see or subscribe > this folder. After restarting Thunderbird now I can see and subscribe the other u

Re: [Dovecot] namespace and list=children inconsistencies

uot; as reference argument to list the shared namespace. And for LIST "" "Shared/*" dovecot returns all sub mailboxes. However, I still don't know why TB first displayed only Shared/u...@do.main without the shared mailboxes... Holger

Re: [Dovecot] stat(/..../Maildir/cur) failed: No such file or directory

need to override it with "SELECT ... maildir as mail...". But if you do you have to prefix it with the mailbox format. Holger

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.9 released

l/imap/do.main/user/Maildir/ drwx-- 5 vmail vmail 4096 2011-01-13 17:47 .mail-box/ drwx-- 5 vmail vmail 4096 2011-01-13 17:47 .mailbox.sub mailbox/ Holger

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.9 released

Am 13.01.2011 18:58, schrieb Timo Sirainen: > On 13.1.2011, at 19.20, Holger Mauermann wrote: > >> Renaming a mailbox that has children still doesn't work for me with >> v2.0.9 Any ideas? > > I can't reproduce. Show your dovecot -n output? Here it is:

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.9 released

Am 13.01.2011 19:42, schrieb Holger Mauermann: > Am 13.01.2011 18:58, schrieb Timo Sirainen: >> On 13.1.2011, at 19.20, Holger Mauermann wrote: >> >>> Renaming a mailbox that has children still doesn't work for me with >>> v2.0.9 Any ideas? >> >&

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.9 released

my main "stable" PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mauermann/ppa However, above steps currently only work for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick. The packages should work in Lucid and Natty too (feedback welcome), but you may have to manually edit /etc/apt/sources.list (or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mauermann-xx-yy.list) Holger

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.9 released

\" "*" and "^" With the listescape plugin you can have almost any character in mailbox names. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Listescape Holger

[Dovecot] Panic: file mailbox-list-maildir.c: line 133: unreached

I converted personal mailboxes from maildir to sdbox. Public mailboxes are still in maildir format, because I need per-user seen flags. However, if the user is subscribed to public mailboxes and the client sends 'LIST (SUBSCRIBED) "" *', dovecot crashes with: imap(hol...@mauermann.org): Panic: fil

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot2 + Sieve

Am 28.01.2011 11:10, schrieb Philipp v. Strobl-Albeg: > Am 28.01.2011 11:03, schrieb Ralf Hildebrandt: >> * Philipp v. Strobl-Albeg: >> >>> Everything else works fine, except the program "mail". I dont know if >>> there is a coherence but a typical Mailserver-Test "date|mail -s test >>> em...@examp

[Dovecot] namespace subscription problem

Hi all, my problem seems to be a cosmetic one (again). According to the docs: subscriptions: "yes" (default) if this namespace should handle its own subscriptions. If "no", then the first parent namespace with subscriptions=yes will handle it. Therefore is no way to create the following scenari

Re: [Dovecot] namespace subscription problem

> On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 04:17 +0100, Holger Hegmanns wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> my problem seems to be a cosmetic one (again). >> >> According to the docs: >> >> subscriptions: "yes" (default) if this namespace should handle its own >>

[Dovecot] INBOX of a shared namespace appears to be always subscribed

shared/UserB/folderXX Regards, Holger

Re: [Dovecot] INBOX of a shared namespace appears to be always subscribed

Sent Trash folderAA This behavior is reproducable. Please note that the mailboxes of the shared namespace are listed first and the own inbox of the user disappears. Holger

Re: [Dovecot] INBOX of a shared namespace appears to be always subscribed

> On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 12:17 +0100, Holger Richter wrote: >> I've repeated the tests with LSUB "" *. I think there's a problem with >> setting the namespace prefix. > > Before I'll test further.. What do your namespace settings look like in > do

Re: [Dovecot] INBOX of a shared namespace appears to be always subscribed

rameter only if it was set to yes. Holger

[Dovecot] Ignoring the quota by the LDA?

l lda { ... # mail_plugins = ... } protocol imap { ... mail_plugins = quota imap_quota ... } Will it work or will it result in a big mess? I've the aim that a mail will never be rejected because the recipient is over his/her quota. Regards, Holger

[Dovecot] Problems with the IMAP proxy after upgrading from dovecot 1.1.16 to 1.211

We have frequent timeout problems after upgrading our imap servers from dovecot 1.1.16 to dovecot 1.2.11. One server acts as proxy only, and the other one is the "real" imap server". The credentials for the proxy service are stored in a remote MYSQL database. There were no trouble with dove

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with the IMAP proxy after upgrading from dovecot 1.1.16 to 1.211

May 7 14:47:42 ttt dovecot: auth(default): worker-server(uid,yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy): Aborted: Lookup timed out May 7 14:47:42 ttt dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to lll.lll.lll.lll (imapauth) "Lookup timed out" really shouldn't be happening.. That sounds like Dovecot's MySQL conne

Re: [Dovecot] Ignoring the quota by the LDA?

Is it possible to configure dovecot in a manner that only the imap process respects the quota, and the local delivery ignores completely the quota? I think it should happen if I don't activate the quota plugin in the lda section but only in the imap section. Better to override quota setting in p

Re: [Dovecot] Problems with the IMAP proxy after upgrading from dovecot 1.1.16 to 1.211

>> May 7 14:47:42 ttt dovecot: auth(default): >> worker-server(uid,yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy): Aborted: Lookup timed out >> May 7 14:47:42 ttt dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to >> lll.lll.lll.lll (imapauth) > > "Lookup timed out" really shouldn't be happening.. That sounds like > Dovecot'

[Dovecot] trash folder (again)

Hi, I read very intently all the issues related to imap trash folders, but either I didn't unerstand them or my problem is slightly different. I plan to migrate from cyrus to dovecot. I've executed the perl script cyrus2dovecot successfully with the substitution flag "-E 's/^\./.INBOX./'" caus

Re: [Dovecot] trash folder (again)

Am Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2010 16:04:49 schrieb Timo Sirainen: > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:54 +0200, Holger Hegmanns wrote: > > drwxr-xr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 Jul 8 14:19 .INBOX.Drafts > > drwxr-xr-x 5 vmail vmail 4096 Jul 8 14:19 .INBOX.Sent > > drwxr-xr-x 5 vmail vm

Re: [Dovecot] trash folder (again)

Am Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2010 16:58:28 schrieb Timo Sirainen: > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:56 +0200, Holger Hegmanns wrote: > > I did that already before my troubles came up. But the behaviour is not > > what I want. I'd like to have all folders, standard and user made, > >

Re: [Dovecot] Postfix+Dovecot SASL+LDAP(AD)

Name=uid Hope this helps.. Greets, Holger Vitaliy Vladimirovich schrieb: > I have tried configure Postfix with Dovecot SASL to authenticate remote users > in LDAP (Active Directory). > Below my dovecot.conf: > > protocols = none > ssl = none > > auth def

Iteration for ldap userdb does not work

Hi, I have a working ldap authentification for dovecot (with ldap based userdb query) for my Active Directory but iterations by doveadm -A runs in timeout. I tried now for three days and get it not to work. Best regards Holger /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf is symlink to /etc

Re[2]: Iteration for ldap userdb does not work

HI Steffen, thanks for your reply. I've performed ldapsearch over all users (even without person filter) without problems. There are less than 10 persons in the directory. Best regards Holger -- Originalnachricht -- Von: "Steffen Kaiser" An: "Holger A. Bri

Segfault with error 4 in doveadm-server

I set up dovecot on two servers with replication enabled. The replication is over a vpn connection. I get massive segfaults from doveadm-server every few minutes. dmesg: doveadm-server[30030]: segfault at 0 ip 557fa16d2e62 sp 7ffdcaafec50 error 4 in doveadm-server[557fa16a3000+41000] [48

Re: Segfault with error 4 in doveadm-server

Alexander and Aki, thanks for your quick answers. It might be the best to compile a more recent version of dovecot. For some reason it seems unpossible to get a core dump and the error might be fixed in a recent version. Holger 19. August 2019 10:49, "Alexander Dalloz via dovecot"

Re: Segfault with error 4 in doveadm-server

Wow, that's great! Why didn't I found it... Sorry and thanks! Holger 19. August 2019 16:08, "Alexander Dalloz via dovecot" schrieb: > Am 2019-08-19 16:01, schrieb Holger Dehnhardt via dovecot: > >> Alexander and Aki, >> thanks for your quick answers. >

Re: Segfault with error 4 in doveadm-server (fixed)

Using a recent version of dovecot (2.3.7.2) fixed this issue. Thanks to all! Holger 19. August 2019 16:12, "Holger Dehnhardt via dovecot" schrieb: > Wow, that's great! Why didn't I found it... > Sorry and thanks! > > Holger > > 19. August 201