Re: Dovecot user lookup from sendmail

2017-07-05 Thread Jack
On 05/07/2017 14:47, Garry Glendown wrote: Hi, Use exim instead of sendmail with an LDA or LMTP transport. Also, not available in any of the standard or legacy packages of SLES 12 ... I know why I stopped using SLES quite some time ago :( It does seem to have Postfix though. -- Jack.

Re: under another kind of attack

2017-07-26 Thread jack
a smart one is zero. BTW: I don't think this is on-topic for Dovecot - we seem to be discussing mail-abuse abatement measures, which is a much more general topic. -- Jack.

[Dovecot] Confusion of Sieve filter scripts and the file separator. (Amatuer Siever)

2008-04-01 Thread Jack
acter. I am using the dovecot deliver module and managesieve for my sieve stuff (dovecot 1.0.13). I am just wondering if this is the correct behaviour or if it is a bug of sorts. Cheers. From, Jack

PAM and YubiKeys

2014-07-29 Thread Jack
ull) [../pam_yubico.c:parse_cfg(779)] url=(null) [../pam_yubico.c:parse_cfg(780)] capath=(null) [../pam_yubico.c:parse_cfg(781)] token_id_length=12 [../pam_yubico.c:parse_cfg(782)] mode=client [../pam_yubico.c:parse_cfg(783)] chalresp_path=(null) [../pam_yubico.c:pam_sm_authent

Should one prevent reconnection before expunge?

2022-08-12 Thread Jack Cecil
Hello. From my understanding the 'autoexpunge' feature activates on user disconnect. But could you help me understand the 'doveadm expunge' feature better? If a Maildir has 20 thousand messages and user is reading it over IMAP I have a suspicion it is not a good idea to be rewriting the doveco

Re: Should one prevent reconnection before expunge?

2022-08-20 Thread Jack Cecil
On Fri, 12 Aug 2022, Jack Cecil wrote: could you help me understand the 'doveadm expunge' feature better? If a Maildir has 20 thousand messages and user is reading it over IMAP I have a suspicion it is not a good idea to be rewriting the dovecot index and cache at the same time.

Re: Should one prevent reconnection before expunge?

2022-08-22 Thread Jack Cecil
Christian Kivalo wrote: What keeps you from testing with a test account Hello. Even 10% of users having a problem that need to be hand held through it in some way would blow up my schedule for other projects. Aki Tuomi wrote: Running doveadm expunge while user is logged in, is safe. Tha

multiple / backup sql servers for sql server access

2022-08-29 Thread Jack Snodgrass
, a backup sql server will be queried? -- jack

Re: multiple / backup sql servers for sql server access

2022-08-30 Thread Jack Snodgrass
string." is a bit lacking in info when you think about the possibility of having a different user/pass or dbname for the 2nd host instance. I am going to play around with this on my production box... but having a bit more info in the docs would be preferred. - jack On 8/30/22 07:

Re: "Mailbox isn't a valid MBOX file" Error

2022-11-06 Thread Jack Raats
Hi Jos, You're using IMAP. Is in both mailclients the mailpath correctly configured? Gr., Jack Raats Op 06-11-2022 om 18:51 schreef Jos Chrispijn: -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: dovecot Namens gene heskett Verzonden: Sunday, 6 November 2022 12:42 Aan: dovecot@dovecot.org Onderwer

[Dovecot] Don't Know Where Emails Are Or What's Happening

2011-10-20 Thread Jack Fredrikson
ponds to your MySQL server version f or the right syntax to use near '??awakelunch.info??? AND active = 1' at line 1 I reckon the failing of mysql inquiries just has to do with hackers trying to hack me. The TLS problem isn't mission-critical since it's just getting disabled.  [ro

Re: [Dovecot] Don't Know Where Emails Are Or What's Happening

2011-10-20 Thread Jack Fredrikson
mpact on what the > solution is. I have clients with their various domains hosted on my server to whom I need to serve email. There will only be me on a slice of one machine interfacing with dovecot/postfix. I have integrated/am integrating Amavis, ClamAV, Spamassassin, PostfixAdmin and SquirrelMail. Thanks, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Don't Know Where Emails Are Or What's Happening

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Fredrikson
Okay - fairly common setup.  I don't use postfix-admin, but if that's > what created your mysql tables that could also be a starting point to > look for the table lock errors. Ok. Thanks, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Don't Know Where Emails Are Or What's Happening

2011-10-21 Thread Jack Fredrikson
Wait a minute! PostfixAdmin has no problems with MySQL. They have a setup page that verifies the MySQL connection among other things, and everything checks out perfectly well. At any rate, Simon, am now communicating with the Postfix list as well ;) Thanks, Jack

[Dovecot] First Installation, Problems...

2011-10-22 Thread Jack Fredrikson
Hi; [root@example jack]# /usr/local/sbin/dovecot --version 2.0.15 [root@example jack]# /usr/local/bin/doveconf -n # 2.0.15: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf doveconf: Warning: NOTE: You can get a new clean config file with: doveconf -n > dovecot-new.conf doveconf: Warning: Obsolete sett

[Dovecot] Temporary Failures

2011-10-22 Thread Jack Fredrikson
veconf -n > dovcot-new.conf command and the same conf file I've been using pops up. Can someone post some code that reflects how the new conf file should look? TIA, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Temporary Failures

2011-10-23 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Simon Brereton To: Jack Fredrikson Cc: "dovecot@dovecot.org" Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 2:41 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Temporary Failures First up, apologies for double-posting. I actually posted this last one yesterday and the othe

Re: [Dovecot] Temporary Failures

2011-10-23 Thread Jack Fredrikson
This is *only* a PS to my last response (e.g., please be sure to read last response). Rob0 stated I should be using dovecot-lda. After running in circles it appears that dovecot-lda is incorporated into dovecot proper any more and I've duly incorporated it into my dovecot.conf file. Jack

[Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Fredrikson
-userdb, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) Oct 24 11:31:11 lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. Every time I go to chmod 666 on that file, restarting dovecot wipes those permissions. How fix? Even when I fix that, I still get the "temporary failure". Please advise. TIA, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Tom Hendrikx To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem First up, thanks for the links, Simon, but they didn't help :( I still need to chmod 666 /usr/local

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Fredrikson
:45 . drwxr-xr-x 26 root  root 4096 Oct 23 08:35 .. /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G mail,postfix dovecot And I'm still getting the same error: dovecot: auth-worker: Error: mysql(localhost): Connect failed to database (postfix): Access denied for user 'dovecot'@'localhost' (using password: YES) TIA, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Tom Hendrikx To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem > Adding dovecot to the postfix group would be considered a security issue > by many. Don't so this

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-24 Thread Jack Fredrikson
path? It certainly isn't like that > on my machine. Well, I changed it to just "sendmail" (since I had that file, too) but with the same result. I remember creating that file earlier but I don't remember where and searching around my system I can't xargs grep it. What do you recommend? TIA, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
vecot/deliver-ldaTIA, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Jack Fredrikson To: "simon.brere...@buongiorno.com" ; Dovecot Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:47 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem Or, conversely, how do I create this file:

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
discovered it in /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver which, of course, is a binary. How did it get there? Certainly not when I did my ./configure make make install dance with dovecot's src distro. How did it get there?? How do I change it??` TIA, Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Giles Coochey To: Jack Fredrikson Cc: "simon.brere...@buongiorno.com" ; Dovecot Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem > On my Centos 5.x: &

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Giles Coochey To: Jack Fredrikson Cc: "simon.brere...@buongiorno.com" ; Dovecot Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem I just discovered this: [root@myserver postfix]# ls -al /u

Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
From: Jack Fredrikson To: Jack Fredrikson ; Giles Coochey Cc: "simon.brere...@buongiorno.com" ; Dovecot Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Marathon Day 6 of First Install: MySQL Connection Problem I have

[Dovecot] Temporary Failure that's Permanent!

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Fredrikson
Hi; I continue to be plagued with this error: Oct 25 10:49:18 myserver postfix/pipe[3712]: 0423257901AB: to=, relay=dovecot, delay=109318, delays=109318/0.14/0/0.1, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure It's been a week that I've been working day and night to get this fixed. I forgot

[Dovecot] Rename file opened for read-write -- cannot edit subscriptions

2008-01-23 Thread Jack Schmidt
Howdy, Here is a problem with fix affecting dovecot-1.0.10 (and 1.1rc13). On a linux system's CIFS mounted filesystem, it is not possible to rename a file opened read-write: $ sleep 5 >> .subscriptions.lock & mv .subscriptions.lock .subscriptions mv: cannot move `.subscriptions.lock' to `.sub

[Dovecot] LDAP auth_bind hangs and times out

2008-04-03 Thread Jack McKinney
address/login name. I am trying to use auth_bind: when I login with [EMAIL PROTECTED], dovecot should search for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the onelevel below ou=users,dc=lorentz,dc=com and find me as "cn=Jack McKinney,ou=users,dc=lorentz,dc=com". I have created an entry in LDA

Re: [Dovecot] LDAP auth_bind hangs and times out

2008-04-03 Thread Jack McKinney
Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) OpenLDAP 2.3.38 Dovecot 1.0.12 On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 23:43 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 09:46 -0500, Jack McKinney wrote: > > I have _almost_ got Dovecot working! One little snag... > > What version? > -- Jack

Re: [Dovecot] LDAP auth_bind hangs and times out

2008-04-03 Thread Jack McKinney
te "user"... On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 23:59 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 09:46 -0500, Jack McKinney wrote: > > > ldap([EMAIL PROTECTED],y.y.y.y): bind search: base=ou=users, > > dc=lorentz,dc=com > > filter=(&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)([EM

Re: [Dovecot] LDAP auth_bind hangs and times out

2008-04-03 Thread Jack McKinney
the reply for some reason. For example on my system: > > auth(default): ldap(foo,127.0.0.1): bind search: base=... > auth(default): ldap(foo,127.0.0.1): result: uid(user)=foo > > If Dovecot receives a reply to the "bind search", it logs the "result" > line, wh

Re: [Dovecot] LDAP auth_bind hangs and times out

2008-04-03 Thread Jack McKinney
(user)=foo > > If Dovecot receives a reply to the "bind search", it logs the "result" > line, which your logs show is missing. > > On Apr 4, 2008, at 12:06 AM, Jack McKinney wrote: > > I am not sure that I understand you, here. Are you saying that

Re: [Dovecot] LDAP auth_bind hangs and times out

2008-04-04 Thread Jack McKinney
Dovecot is not receiving... On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 09:54 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Apr 4, 2008, at 12:50 AM, Jack McKinney wrote: > > Hmmm... what versions of OpenLDAP and Dovecot are you using? > > A lot of people have them working with different LDAP versions. I've

Re: [Dovecot] LDAP auth_bind hangs and times out

2008-04-04 Thread Jack McKinney
Me, too. I am sure that it is my configuration, but I cannot see what... On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 17:20 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: -- Jack McKinney GPG 1024D/99C6A174 [EMAIL PROTECTED] YM:lfaatsnat2006 AIM:jackmclorentz "There is no parameter that makes it impossible for you to pe

[Dovecot] Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.

2008-04-08 Thread Jack McKinney
ser has an entry in the ou=users subtree of the domain subtree, and has a mail: field (inetOrgPerson) listing their email address/login name. I am trying to use auth_bind: when I login with [EMAIL PROTECTED], dovecot should search for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the onelevel below ou=users,dc=lorent

Re: [Dovecot] Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.

2008-04-11 Thread Jack McKinney
h can search all domains for the "mail" field. Thus, dovecot will bind using the varmail DN and then search onelevel of "ou=users, dc=lorentz, dc=com" for an inetOrgPerson entry whose mail field is [EMAIL PROTECTED] As demonstrated by the ldapsearch in my earlier email, this will

Re: [Dovecot] Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.

2008-04-15 Thread Jack McKinney
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:35 +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Jack McKinney wrote: > > > dn: dovecot needs a dn with which to search the database to find the > > user's DN based on their

Re: [Dovecot] Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.

2008-04-15 Thread Jack McKinney
ymous read I do not have this in my configuration, and dovecot does indeed use the credential I provide to successfully query LDAP for the user based on the (mail=%u) criteria. However, it does not see the reply. The fact that it does perform the query successfully implies to me

Re: [Dovecot] Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.

2008-04-16 Thread Jack McKinney
d=password? dovecot should never need to see the contents of this field. Indeed, this is the whole point of using auth_bind: instead of dovecot retrieving the password from LDAP and checking it against the user-supplied one, dovecot should _send_ the password to LDAP in the form of a bind and have LDAP

[Dovecot] Does dovecot work with OpenLDAP? (was Re: Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.)

2008-04-16 Thread Jack McKinney
. Rob, It sounds like you are trying to do EXACTLY what I am trying to do: 1. My users login with their email address. 2a. My users are all over the tree in the sense that you cannot determine the DN from the email alone. E.g., I am [EMAIL PROTECTED], but my DN is "cn=Jack McKinney, ou

Re: [Dovecot] Does dovecot work with OpenLDAP? (was Re: Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.)

2008-04-16 Thread Jack McKinney
e from OpenLDAP. > > What do you see in the dovecot logs with auth debug on? -- Jack McKinney GPG 1024D/99C6A174 [EMAIL PROTECTED] YM:lfaatsnat2006 AIM:jackmclorentz Beware geeks bearing diffs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Dovecot] Does dovecot work with OpenLDAP? (was Re: Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.)

2008-04-16 Thread Jack McKinney
> method=PLAIN, rip=y.y.y.y, lip=x.x.x.x, TLS > > > > This isn't a TLS mismatch kidn of thing is it? -- Jack McKinney GPG 1024D/99C6A174 [EMAIL PROTECTED] YM:lfaatsnat2006 AIM:jackmclorentz Beware geeks bearing diffs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Dovecot] Does dovecot work with OpenLDAP? (was Re: Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.)

2008-04-17 Thread Jack McKinney
]: conn=7 op=3 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 > err=0 nentries=1 text= > > Which shows the correct filter, but the requested attribute to return is > "uid", which is _not_ in your entry: > > # Jack McKinney, users, lorentz.com > dn: cn=Jack McKinney,ou=users,dc=lorentz,dc=c

Re: [Dovecot] more than one ldap database.

2008-04-17 Thread Jack McKinney
y ldap, ex: dc=dominio1,dc=it is the first > database and dc=dominio2,dc=it is the second one. > Can I put these two search bases in dovecot-ldap.conf? > -- Jack McKinney GPG 1024D/99C6A174 [EMAIL PROTECTED] YM:lfaatsnat2006 AIM:jackmclorentz Beware geeks bearing diffs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Dovecot] Does dovecot work with OpenLDAP? (was Re: Please help: LDAP configuration _almost_ works.)

2008-04-18 Thread Jack McKinney
TLS/SSL for the LDAP connection. > > BTW: Do you use any sort of firewall, iptables or whatsoever on the mail, > dns or ldap server? Did you disabled it? LDAP and IMAP are on the same server. Since the query and the result both show up in the LDAP logs, it couldn't be a fir

Re: [Dovecot] fd limit 1024 is lower in dovecot-1.1.1

2008-07-16 Thread Jack Stewart
Zhang Huangbin wrote: Daniel L. Miller wrote: Zhang Huangbin wrote: Hi, all. I just upgrade from 1.0.15 to 1.1.1 in a test box(RHEL 5.2, x86_64). after upgrade, i got this warning msg: 8< # /etc/init.d/dovecot restart Stopping Dovecot Imap: [ O

[Dovecot] The case of the disappearing INBOX's - upgrade to 1.1.1 from 1.0.7 and based on Email client type

2008-07-16 Thread Jack Stewart
ng forward basis. Thanks in advance for any answers or hints. ---Jack -- Jack Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.imss.caltech.edu

Re: [Dovecot] The case of the disappearing INBOX's - upgrade to 1.1.1 from 1.0.7 and based on Email client type

2008-07-21 Thread Jack Stewart
Solution tested, problem solved - thanks! This will greatly ease our transition to a more sensible namespace layout. ---Jack Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 09:59 -0700, Jack Stewart wrote: The interesting part is that after upgrading to 1.1.1, the INBOX would disappear from

Re: [Dovecot] login processes from attacks staying for hours

2008-07-23 Thread Jack Stewart
e border. This is where we block ip addresses, if we need to. Hope this helps. ---Jack Kai Schaetzl wrote: I'm in the process of rolling out new setups with dovecot on CentOS 5.2 and I notice that dovecot doesn't handle the brute-force attacks too nice. I reduced the

Re: [Dovecot] making IMAP quicker on LAN

2008-07-24 Thread Jack Stewart
ions. For people connecting to Email while in a Rain Forest, POP seems to be the best option. It also seems to me that fts plugin (free text indexing) improves performance. This might just be wishful thinking on my part. Hope this helps a little. ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] FTS/squat search indexes built when?

2008-08-01 Thread Jack Stewart
run it, existing messages for mutt are marked as O (or old). Thunderbird works just fine. I'm betting to believe these clients hate me. Please let me know of a way to get around this. Thanks. ---Jack

[Dovecot] IMAP maildir performance difference between dovecot-uidlist versions?

2008-08-17 Thread Jack Stewart
once - no build on the fly. It does a readdir() to get the full filenames and make sure that list entries are only for existing files. As a result, there is almost complete freedom in the output format for the dovecot-uidlist. Many thanks in advance! ---Jack P.S. For better or worse, it does

[Dovecot] Distributed indexes, maildir_copy_preserve_filename, and Microsoft

2008-08-22 Thread Jack Stewart
. The changes need not be perfect nor anytime more than a suggestion or preference. I just want to make things better for a little while. Many thanks in advance. ---Jack P.S. The performance improvement is amazing - anywhere from 2X to 12X depending on what metrics you are looking at. It isn't

[Dovecot] Distributed indexes, maildir_copy_preserve_filename, and Microsoft

2008-08-22 Thread Jack Stewart
. The changes need not be perfect nor anytime more than a suggestion or preference. I just want to make things better for a little while. Many thanks in advance. ---Jack P.S. The performance improvement is amazing - anywhere from 2X to 12X depending on what metrics you are looking at. It isn't

Re: [Dovecot] namespaces...

2008-08-22 Thread Jack Stewart
imo likes the (default) top level structure but that is very scary in my environment. I wish I had a better answer but at the end of the day your configuration depends on your client base and what works best for your server. Hope this helps - sorry about the length. ---Jack -- Jack Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.imss.caltech.edu

Re: [Dovecot] namespaces...

2008-08-26 Thread Jack Stewart
remap, you need to go to "Account Settings\Copies & Folders" and change the "Trash\Sent\Drafts" folder location by using the "Other" checkbox. Otherwise what happens is that Thunderbird is looking for the old Trash folder (i.e. Foo.Trash) which no longer exi

Re: [Dovecot] Distributed indexes, maildir_copy_preserve_filename, and Microsoft

2008-08-30 Thread Jack Stewart
.. Original Message ... On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:47:50 +0300 "Timo Sirainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 10:50 -0700, Jack Stewart wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just completed a migration from Courier to a Dovecot 1.0.7 (patched

[Dovecot] Thunderbird, subscriptions, and upgrade to 1.1.3

2008-09-08 Thread Jack Stewart
eness. There wasn't a problem in 1.0.7 but I could have been caught in mid-upgrade. Thunderbird did not seem to update the subscription file (or at least I could not find the one it thought it was using). Any pointers are appreciated. Thanks in advance. ---Jack /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovec

Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird, subscriptions, and upgrade to 1.1.3

2008-09-08 Thread Jack Stewart
uture with confused clients/users. ---Jack Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 11:49 -0700, Jack Stewart wrote: I've upgraded from 1.0.7 to 1.1.3. When I did this, my Thunderbird lost its brain and did not show some subscribed folders. squirrelmail also seemed to have issues. App

[Dovecot] NFS performance and 1.1.3 - what can you (unofficially) get away with?

2008-09-10 Thread Jack Stewart
ts NFS settings. Yet this is a place with some pretty nutty users. (i.e. 2+GB inboxes, 100K messages, one/minute connections, ...) ---Jack P.S. As a total aside people migrating from 1.0.X to 1.1.3 may wish to have to use a different INDEX directory in 1.1.3 than the one you used in 1.0.7.

Re: [Dovecot] NFS performance and 1.1.3 - what can you (unofficially) get away with?

2008-09-10 Thread Jack Stewart
running with local index.cache files for each servers (using sticky connections) and that seems to work fine. ---Jack Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 10:58 -0700, Jack Stewart wrote: The question is has anyone, with Maildir and the INDEX= on NFS (i.e. dovecot.index and dovecot.index.cache

Re: [Dovecot] NFS performance and 1.1.3 - what can you (unofficially) get away with?

2008-09-10 Thread Jack Stewart
st rolling one server and just rolling webmail for now - we'll see where it goes. ---Jack Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 12:20 -0700, Jack Stewart wrote: The performance hit was bad. When I tried "mail_nfs_index = yes" the load went from 0.5 to 120+ (on each of three

Re: [Dovecot] Errors on high load

2008-09-16 Thread Jack Stewart
or. These settings also got rid of my error messages under low load. It is also probably worth while to shut the system down and run memory test (i.e. memtest86+ - or if it is under maintenance just get it replaced) ---Jack Allan Cassaro wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Charles M

[Dovecot] Is there a straight forward way to associate login with imap process

2008-12-22 Thread Jack Stewart
iguration of the multiple simultaneous persistent clients that user is using, etc. lslk, alert logs, strace, testing the most recent 1.1.X version, and file mtime is giving us some information but we want to make everything is covered. Many thanks in advance. ---Jack -- Jack Stewart California Inst

Re: [Dovecot] Is there a straight forward way to associate login with imap process

2008-12-22 Thread Jack Stewart
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Dec 22, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Jack Stewart wrote: Hi, Is there a way to associate a user's the login (imap-login) process with the user's 'imap [' process? We are trying to lock down an issue to make sure we full understand it. /proc and shared m

Re: [Dovecot] Is there a straight forward way to associate login with imap process

2008-12-22 Thread Jack Stewart
Jack Stewart wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Dec 22, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Jack Stewart wrote: Hi, What kind of a locking issue? Hangs? The clients are hanging. There are at least a couple of different types of locking issues. In both cases the dovecot.cache.index file does not

Re: [Dovecot] MySQL as a storage only.?

2008-12-23 Thread Jack Stewart
/configuration does not sound simple from the dba's I've talked to, although RACK looks decent. MySQL does work well for index problems (i.e. searches) where the index can be reconstructed if their is a failure and the searching process doesn't seize in a failure. Just my opinion and warning. ---Jack

[Dovecot] NFS, IDLE, and index locking

2008-12-30 Thread Jack Stewart
he default). Do you find 180-300 seconds more reasonable? ---Jack To give some context, we have a handful of users with intermittent caching locking where the dovecot.index.cache file would simply not update. One of our internal people managed to get this problem when he was using pine

Re: [Dovecot] NFS, IDLE, and index locking

2008-12-31 Thread Jack Stewart
.. On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:11:08 +0200 "Timo Sirainen" wrote: >On Dec 31, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Jack Stewart wrote: > >> The attribute cache is the default (60 seconds) which works well >> enough in a polling setting but may be a problem with IDLE (30 >> second c

Re: [Dovecot] cannot delete emails in inbox

2009-01-04 Thread Jack Stewart
lease advice. Thank you -- Jane What is the mtime of your dovecot.index.cache file? Is it significantly older than the last new message? ---Jack

[Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ..."

2009-01-06 Thread Jack Stewart
n 6 01:21:04 fire-griffen dovecot: IMAP(sukwon): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file /var/spool/dovecot/indexes/s/sukwon/.Trash/dovecot.index.log -- Jack Stewart Academic Computing Services, IMSS, California Institute of Technology jstew...@caltech.edu 626-395-4690 office

Re: [Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ..."

2009-01-07 Thread Jack Stewart
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:11 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: an 6 01:21:02 earth-griffen dovecot: IMAP(zabala): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file /var/spool/dovecot/indexes/z/zabala/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log This is the main problem. So indexes are also

Re: [Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ..."

2009-01-07 Thread Jack Stewart
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 08:32 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:11 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: an 6 01:21:02 earth-griffen dovecot: IMAP(zabala): Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log file /var/spool/dovecot/indexes/z

Re: [Dovecot] Sudden, large numbers of "Timeout while waiting for lock for transaction log ..."

2009-01-09 Thread Jack Stewart
Jack Stewart wrote: Yes, the indexes are also on NFS. The locking is fcntl() - the default. I'm guessing that's the problem. NFS locking seems to break/hang randomly sometimes. Can you somehow restart the NFS server locking daemon? I changed the /etc/hosts.allow s

Re: [Dovecot] DC testing observation and a question

2009-01-09 Thread Jack Stewart
Hope this helps. ---Jack

[Dovecot] Testing Suite (was [Dovecot-news] v1.1.10 released)

2009-01-26 Thread Jack Stewart
are upgrading precisely because of race conditions. My latest joy, two stratum one clocks that are 1s apart. Our server environment is pretty specific but there is a lot of diversity in our user base. The outliers are good test cases. ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting)

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Stewart
well. ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting)

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Stewart
f settings needed to Oracle/MySQL/Apache/etc servers. Tuning isn't limited to just ulimit. I know of some useful RHE settings, but not all. ---Jack

[Dovecot] NFS - inotify vs kqueue

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Stewart
orage? I realize that kqueue is probably a bit slower and causes some delay with IDLE. Also, it may not really make any difference which is why I ask the question. ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] NFS - inotify vs kqueue

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Stewart
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 13:08 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: Anyone have pro/con experience with dovecot on the inotify/kqueue question when using NFS storage? Inotify is for Linux, kqueue is for BSDs. Right? So I'd think there are a lot of other issues if you're

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.11 released

2009-02-06 Thread Jack Bailey
01-90007/ch05s03.html for further information. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-11 Thread Jack Stewart
le it lasted. The key to resolving the issue had to do with upgrades to the dovecot version - we currently just made the jump to 1.1.11 and it seems to be working well. ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] great disappearing email mystery

2009-02-11 Thread Jack Stewart
dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Quoting Jack Stewart : dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:27 -0500, dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: Have there been any issues with dovecot and using outlook express (imap) as an email client? I have had

[Dovecot] Using LDAP for Dovecot extra/regular fields

2009-03-08 Thread Jack Stewart
r host, boolean for proxy/proxy_maybe etc). Any interest in registering an LDAP object class for dovecot? ---Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Using LDAP for Dovecot extra/regular fields

2009-03-13 Thread Jack Stewart
with a NULL. A standard LDAP objectclass does not exist - since there are so make possible configurations, it is unlikely that you could make everyone happy. ---Jack Jack Stewart wrote: Hi, We're moving to a dovecot proxy / server configuration in order to make sure that a users go

[Dovecot] LTMP Proxy fails when backend server connection refused

2012-09-27 Thread Jack Bates
proxy_timeout=120 } } Jack

Re: [Dovecot] LTMP Proxy fails when backend server connection refused

2012-09-28 Thread Jack Bates
On 9/27/2012 3:30 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Version: 2.1.9 Connecting directly to the proxy server on the LMTP port, issue lhlo, mail from, rcpt to, data. After the . closing of data, it just hangs there. The logs on the proxy server show: Looking at dovecot's proxy code. Cal

Re: [Dovecot] LTMP Proxy fails when backend server connection refused

2012-09-28 Thread Jack Bates
On 9/28/2012 11:37 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 9/27/2012 3:30 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Version: 2.1.9 Connecting directly to the proxy server on the LMTP port, issue lhlo, mail from, rcpt to, data. After the . closing of data, it just hangs there. The logs on the proxy server show: I am not sure

Re: [Dovecot] LTMP Proxy fails when backend server connection refused

2012-09-28 Thread Jack Bates
On 9/28/2012 12:44 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 9/28/2012 11:37 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 9/27/2012 3:30 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Version: 2.1.9 Connecting directly to the proxy server on the LMTP port, issue lhlo, mail from, rcpt to, data. After the . closing of data, it just hangs there. The logs

Re: [Dovecot] LTMP Proxy failure fix/hack

2012-09-28 Thread Jack Bates
On 9/28/2012 3:12 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Code needs to be written to handle the special case of us not having any proxy callbacks as they are all bad. Timo, please check and approve. This was diff'd on 2.1.10 on my test server (2.1.9 and 2.1.10 at least had this callback

Re: [Dovecot] Log NAT IP address?

2012-09-30 Thread Jack Bates
coming from. You could bind 2 internal IP Addresses to the server and have each NAT translation go to a different internal IP. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Log NAT IP address?

2012-10-01 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/1/2012 2:58 AM, David Ledger wrote: At 09:33 -0500 30/9/12, Jack Bates wrote: On 9/30/2012 8:02 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: Hi Timo/everyone, Currently we are logging the remote IP, but is there a way to show the IP address that the NAT connection is coming from? The reason I ask is

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with process_limit

2012-10-01 Thread Jack Bates
lowed by dovecot to 4096 and increases the number of processes per user to 5120. This is a proxy server, so I needed to support much larger numbers. than a silly 1024. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] Logging IP address for failed login

2012-10-01 Thread Jack Bates
?) 2.1.9/2.1.10 which I packaged shows similar. Since I connected localhost, the IP is IPv6, of course. Jack

Re: [Dovecot] BUG to compile dovecot 2.1.10 on Debian 4.0, using gcc 4.1.2

2012-10-01 Thread Jack Bates
It looks like this might be a bug in glibc 2.3.3 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1392 Jack On 10/1/2012 2:20 PM, Fabio Depin wrote: Hello, Today I needed to compile dovecot 2.1.10 on Debian 4.0, using gcc 4.1.2. When running 'make' getting the follo

Re: [Dovecot] possible nfs issue

2012-10-02 Thread Jack Bates
-nfs-files-from-being-created Jack

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