strange interaction with MacOSX calendar server

2016-01-07 Thread Jim Reid
I’ve installed and configured Apple’s calendar server. It seems to be working just fine. However it keeps trying to speak to my IMAP server — don’t know why — and the authentication attempts fail every 30 seconds or so. Here’s what’s in the calendar server logs: 2016-01-07 22:42:38+ [-] [ca

[Dovecot] getting Apple Mail and dovecot/IMAP to co-operate

2009-07-08 Thread Jim Reid
Hi. I've been fighting a losing battle to get Apple Mail and dovecot to play nice. When dovecot is told to use mbox-style mailboxes, it's not possible to create child mailboxes. Apple Mail whines "The IMAP command “CREATE” failed with server error: Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes."

Re: [Dovecot] getting Apple Mail and dovecot/IMAP to co-operate

2009-07-08 Thread Jim Reid
On 8 Jul 2009, at 18:08, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 17:58 +0100, Jim Reid wrote: Hi. I've been fighting a losing battle to get Apple Mail and dovecot to play nice. When dovecot is told to use mbox-style mailboxes, it's not possible to create child mailboxes. Apple M

Re: [Dovecot] getting Apple Mail and dovecot/IMAP to co-operate

2009-07-13 Thread Jim Reid
Hi Timo. Thanks again for your help. I've got things just about working as planned. There's one minor irritation however. Users see a strange mailbox icon at the top of their list of mailboxes on the dovecot server. It's called #mbox and has a > symbol next to it indicating that it contains

Re: [Dovecot] getting Apple Mail and dovecot/IMAP to co-operate

2009-07-13 Thread Jim Reid
On 13 Jul 2009, at 13:10, Axel Luttgens wrote: Could you try with " list = no" for your first namespace definition? Doh! This does the job!! Thanks very much Axel. I'm drinking too much coffee if I miss something that obvious :-)

Re: [Dovecot] ntpd / Time just moved backwards

2009-09-11 Thread Jim Reid
On 11 Sep 2009, at 09:06, Frank Elsner wrote: Sep 10 21:21:02 seymour dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 434 seconds. [ ... ] Sep 10 21:50:55 seymour ntpd[9104]: time reset +434.824810 s Sep 10 21:26:36 seymour ntpd[9104]: no servers reachable What might happened? And whe

Re: [Dovecot] Binary locations

2009-10-06 Thread Jim Reid
On 6 Oct 2009, at 16:32, Timo Sirainen wrote: Where do you think the following binaries should be installed to? Hi Timo. IMO /sbin is for the dovecot daemon, /libexec/dovecot is for supporting tools & utilities /lib is for dovecot's (shared) libraries /etc is for config files

Re: [Dovecot] testing needed

2009-10-20 Thread Jim Reid
Timo, you test program runs fine on MacOSX 10.5.8 (Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0)

[Dovecot] what's wrong with this config file?

2013-12-12 Thread Jim Reid
Hi. I'm setting up a new IMAPS server. Mail users don't have login access to the box but will each have unique UNIX-style UIDs: no back-end database or LDAP thing. So far. Their mail will get delivered to UNIX-style mailboxes in /var/mail/%u (where %u is the UNIX username obviously). Their IMAP