[Dovecot] usernames with/without domain - my solution

2008-09-01 Thread Ian B
My existing pop3/imap environment is courier imap + vpopmail + qmail with MySQL backend. I'm looking at migrating this to Dovecot. Currently I have multiple instances of Courier bound to different loopback IPs (the IPs correspond with the virtual IPs on a server load balancer). When a user auth

[Dovecot] quota warnings clarification

2008-09-29 Thread Ian B
I spent a long while trying to get quota warnings working with v1.1.3 on Centos5 before almost giving up. I configured everything as per the instructions on the Quota wiki page however no warning emails were being generated when I tested & no debug messages in the log to give any clues as to wh

Re: [Dovecot] quota warnings clarification

2008-09-30 Thread Ian B
> > Well... the main use for Quotas is for rejecting NEW > messages at > delivery time - not for controlling a static set of > mailboxes. > > Are you saying you didn't even test by sending yourself > a test message? > > -- > The way I was testing was by setting the quota warning threshold lo

[Dovecot] Time jumped forwards

2011-01-13 Thread Ian B
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+08:00 imap4 dovecot: imap: Warning: Time

Re: [Dovecot] Time jumped forwards

2011-01-14 Thread Ian B
On Fri Jan 14 07:23:32 EET 2011, Eric Shubert wrote: >See >http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1006427&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=23956052&stateId=1%200%2023952415 > > >In particular, see NTP Recommendations and VMware Tools bits at

Re: [Dovecot] Time jumped forwards

2011-01-14 Thread Ian B
--- On Fri, 14/1/11, Tom Hendrikx wrote: > > I had this problem too when I setup a VMware guest last > month (noticed > through strange spikes in munin's ntp monitoring, not > through dovecot > logs). After some research I found out that I had VMware > time > synchronisation (host to guest) enab