External Program for Authentication?

2018-05-16 Thread Marc Perkel
Is it possible to run a bash script for authentication where a 0 exit code indicates success and a non-zero is failure? What I'm trying to do is create a shadow IMAP server that authenticates against a different server. That way my server will use the same passwords as an existing server. So

SSL error after upgrading to 2.31

2018-05-21 Thread Marc Perkel
After upgrading to 2.31 I'm getting this error. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. No (No signatures could be verified because the chain contains only one certificate and it is not self signed.) ssl = yes ssl_cert =

Dovecot blacklist?

2018-05-21 Thread Marc Perkel
Just wondering if there is an easy way to have dovecot do a blacklist lookup as a negative authentication so that if the IP is on a blacklist then authentification fails even if they get the password right. If this works I have a blacklist everyone can use.

OT - copied maildir from 2T drive to 4T drive

2018-07-29 Thread Marc Perkel
And it's taking up more space on the 4T drive. What did I miss?

Trouble compiling 2.2.29.1

2017-04-13 Thread Marc Perkel
Not sure what I'm doing wrong but I run this: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-maintainer-mode --with-mysql and it forks thousands of copies of config.guess and will eventually lock up the computer. What am I doing wrong?

Install locks up my server

2017-06-26 Thread Marc Perkel
Ever since 2.26 I haven't been able to upgrade. In fact the install locks up my server. I get into and infinite recursive loop where the config-guess program calls itself until the server locks up from overload. I'm running Centos 6 under OpenVZ. What am I missing? I think there's a serious

Re: Install locks up my server

2017-06-26 Thread Marc Perkel
On 06/26/17 14:42, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 26 Jun 2017, at 23.19, Marc Perkel wrote: Ever since 2.26 I haven't been able to upgrade. In fact the install locks up my server. I get into and infinite recursive loop where the config-guess program calls itself until the server locks up

Re: Install locks up my server

2017-08-18 Thread Marc Perkel
This is still broken in the 2.2.32 release candidate. config.guess forks copies till the server dies. Running Centos 6.6 under OpenVZ. On 06/26/17 16:03, Marc Perkel wrote: On 06/26/17 14:42, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 26 Jun 2017, at 23.19, Marc Perkel wrote: Ever since 2.26 I haven't

Install still locks up my server

2017-08-25 Thread Marc Perkel
This is still broken in the 2.2.32. config.guess forks copies till the server dies. Running Centos 6.6 under OpenVZ. On 06/26/17 16:03, Marc Perkel wrote: On 06/26/17 14:42, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 26 Jun 2017, at 23.19, Marc Perkel wrote: Ever since 2.26 I haven't been able to upgrad

[Dovecot] Connection dropped by IMAP server

2011-07-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Some time people running Squirrelmail get connection dropped by imap server. Anyone know what causes this? Thanks in advance.

Re: [Dovecot] Connection dropped by IMAP server

2011-07-20 Thread Marc Perkel
On 7/20/2011 2:52 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: Some time people running Squirrelmail get connection dropped by imap server. Anyone know what causes this? Thanks in advance. More details. It only happens occasionally and restarting Dovecot fixes it. It's as if I'm running out of something.

[Dovecot] 2.1 upgrade docs?

2012-02-17 Thread Marc Perkel
Just wondering if there's any upgrade docs for 2.1 online?

[Dovecot] Upgraded to 2.1 - ulimit error

2012-02-17 Thread Marc Perkel
Not sure what this means: Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n) is lower than required under max. load (4096 < 2), because of service auth { client_limit } What do I need to do?

Re: [Dovecot] Upgraded to 2.1 - ulimit error

2012-02-17 Thread Marc Perkel
Never mind - I figured it out. ulimit -n 2 On 2/17/2012 10:51 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Not sure what this means: Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n) is lower than required under max. load (4096 < 2), because of service auth { client_limit } What do I need to do?

[Dovecot] From Maildir back to smtp

2012-02-23 Thread Marc Perkel
Not sure how this can be done. Right now I'm running a free backup MX record service. People point their high MX records to my servers and if they go down we store the email. When they come back up it's delivered. What I want to do is have a premium service that would allow them to view thro

Re: [Dovecot] From Maildir back to smtp

2012-02-24 Thread Marc Perkel
On 2/24/2012 4:18 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 23/02/2012 21:41, Marc Perkel wrote: Not sure how this can be done. Right now I'm running a free backup MX record service. People point their high MX records to my servers and if they go down we store the email. When they come back up

Re: [Dovecot] v2.1.4 released - broken

2012-04-09 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm seeing this immediately after upgrading from 2.1.3 Apr 09 18:22:43 imap(ch...@powerpage.org): Error: user ch...@powerpage.org: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: Home directory not set for user. Can't expand ~/ for mail root dir in: /vhome

[Dovecot] Maildir - Need script to delete old unread messages

2012-05-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Trying to clean out old undead messages from users to reduce disk space. Need a script that will recurse all the user directories and delete all unread email that is over 90 days old. Anyone have that?

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir - Need script to delete old unread messages

2012-05-20 Thread Marc Perkel
On 5/19/2012 11:46 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 11:41 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Trying to clean out old undead messages from users to reduce disk space. Need a script that will recurse all the user directories and delete all unread email that is over 90 days old. Anyone

Re: [Dovecot] spf record

2007-11-28 Thread Marc Perkel
Dean Brooks wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:06:40AM -0600, Matt wrote: Your spf record is broken: dovecot.org.39942 IN TXT "v=spf1 a -all" Care to tell also why? dovecot.org's mails are sent from the same IP as its A record. Hmmm. I would have li

[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.08 seems very slow

2007-12-12 Thread Marc Perkel
I know I'm late reporting this but 1.08 seems really slow. It seems like it is as slow as some of the early RCs were. Wish I had more info. Using Maildir format.

Re: [Dovecot] donations / wishlist - gift certificates?

2007-12-30 Thread Marc Perkel
I assume that you will also accept Amazon gift certificates? Timo Sirainen wrote: Since some people don't like Paypal and other people have been telling me for years to create Amazon wishlist, I figured I'd finally do it. http://dovecot.org/donate.html now contains URL to the wishlist. Currentl

Re: [Dovecot] donations / wishlist - gift certificates?

2007-12-30 Thread Marc Perkel
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 07:44 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: I assume that you will also accept Amazon gift certificates? Never used them, but I suppose I do. :) Well, I just sent you one. Check your email. It spends like real money. My thanks for Dovecot.

[Dovecot] Exim Dovecot Authentication Problem

2008-01-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Having a hard time figuring out something that is supposed to be easy. Tryiong to configure Dovecot so that it provides authentication to Exim for outgoing smtp. Tried different things and getting authentication socket protocol error dovecot_plain: driver = dovecot public_name = PLAIN serve

[Dovecot] Master vs Client socket?

2008-01-20 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm somewhat confused. I need to use a master socket for the dovecot lda but I also need to have a client socket for authenticating through Exim for outgoing smtp. The auth section doesn't allow for two sockets. How do I do this? Thanks in advance.

Re: [Dovecot] Exim Dovecot Authentication Problem

2008-01-20 Thread Marc Perkel
ok - making some progress but still not working. Here's the error I'm getting. 2008-01-20 08:06:37 dovecot_plain authenticator failed for bigdog1.junkemailfilter.com ([192.168.2.112]) [209.204.160.104]: 435 Unable to authenticate at present: authentication socket protocol error Exim side: d

Re: [Dovecot] Exim Dovecot Authentication Problem

2008-01-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Timo Sirainen wrote: On 20.1.2008, at 18.13, Marc Perkel wrote: ok - making some progress but still not working. Here's the error I'm getting. 2008-01-20 08:06:37 dovecot_plain authenticator failed for bigdog1.junkemailfilter.com ([192.168.2.112]) [209.204.160.104]: 435

Re: [Dovecot] Exim Dovecot Authentication Problem

2008-01-21 Thread Marc Perkel
Chris Laif wrote: On 1/20/08, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having a hard time figuring out something that is supposed to be easy. Tryiong to configure Dovecot so that it provides authentication to Exim for outgoing smtp. Tried different things and getting authentication

[Dovecot] Count breaks socket

2008-01-25 Thread Marc Perkel
If I use the socket option I can't use the count option to create more authentication processes. I get this error. Thanks in advance. dovecot: Jan 25 06:57:04 Error: auth(default): Socket already exists: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file {

Re: [Dovecot] Count breaks socket

2008-01-26 Thread Marc Perkel
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 06:59 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: If I use the socket option I can't use the count option to create more authentication processes. I get this error. Thanks in advance. dovecot: Jan 25 06:57:04 Error: auth(default): Socket already exists: /va

[Dovecot] Thunderbird Problem - What causes this?

2008-01-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Strange problem and I'm not sure what's causing it. I'm using IMAP. A new message arives in the inbox. I see it displayed in the message list in bold. I click on the message and it looks like it's reading it by the previous message that was in the window remains and the new message is still bol

Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird Problem - What causes this?

2008-01-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2008 20:49:42 Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2008 15:41:04 Marc Perkel wrote: Strange problem and I'm not sure what's causing it. I'm using IMAP. A new message arives in the inbox. I see it displayed in the message

Re: [Dovecot] Scheduled folder purging

2008-02-18 Thread Marc Perkel
Pietro wrote: Hi all. I'm looking for a way to empty user's trash folder. Can message deletion or folder purging be scheduled? Thanks in advance. -Pietro. It would be a nice feature in Dovecot to have it be able to remove messages older than say 3 days from Trash automatically.

Re: [Dovecot] xexec and dovecot 1.1

2008-03-24 Thread Marc Perkel
Stephan Bosch wrote: Alex wrote: Stephan Bosch wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Thank you, Stephan, for your help. Patch applies without any problem and compilation was successful. According maillog, Dovecot load it without problems too: Mar 19 09:

Re: [Dovecot] xexec and dovecot 1.1

2008-03-25 Thread Marc Perkel
Alex wrote: Patch and prepatched version of xexec module to dovecot v1.1 now available from http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/xexec. Thanks for patch to Stephan Bosch. Thanks Alex. If people like you who are actually using this want to take over the development of it that would be fine wit

Re: [Dovecot] xexec and dovecot 1.1

2008-03-25 Thread Marc Perkel
Charles Marcus wrote: On 3/25/2008, Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What I'm really looking for someone to do is write some kind of SMTP over IMAP plugin so that IMAP can be an authenticated transport that would carry outbound email to Dovecot which would hand it off to an

Re: [Dovecot] xexec and dovecot 1.1

2008-03-25 Thread Marc Perkel
I added your idea to my list of reasons for SMTP over IMAP. SMTP over IMAP One of the purposes of developing XEXEC was to lead to SMTP over IMAP. The idea is rather than having a separate configuration for outgoing email that users would use the already authenticated IMAP session to trans

Re: [Dovecot] xexec and dovecot 1.1

2008-03-25 Thread Marc Perkel
Charles Marcus wrote: On 3/25/2008, Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So Charles - why is it that you've resisted the idea? it just seems so natural to me. I've read your messages calling for much more than just 'smtp over imap' for the imap protocol, and didn

Re: [Dovecot] xexec and dovecot 1.1

2008-03-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Ed W wrote: For the 'Copy to Sent' function... if you sent a message somehow using the IMAP connection, maybe you could save the Client having to upload the same message AGAIN just to copy it to the Sent folder (think 10MB email sent over a 512Kb connection)... No need for a new extension

Re: [Dovecot] xexec and dovecot 1.1

2008-03-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Charles Marcus wrote: On 3/27/2008, Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: After dovecot receives he outgoing message it will just do an SMTP connection to a server that is set up to receive it and relay it. The question I have is how would you configure the Client to do this? I guess

Re: [Dovecot] xexec and dovecot 1.1

2008-03-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Scott Silva wrote: on 3-27-2008 12:30 PM Charles Marcus spake the following: On 3/27/2008, Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Clients would have to be rewritten to support the new IMAP extensions. If the IMAP server supported outgoing email then the client would know it through

Re: [Dovecot] 1.1 a major improvement

2008-04-24 Thread Marc Perkel
Cor Bosman wrote: I recently switched one of our 30 imap servers to 1.1RC4 from 1.0.x, and the difference is huge. The load on the server dropped from 5+ to 0.3 or so. This means there is no more io waiting going on. Interesting - is there any downside? Sounds like it's worth switching

Re: [Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1

2008-04-28 Thread Marc Perkel
Very persuasive. So what is the conversion process like tp go to 1.1? Cor Bosman wrote: We've been running 1.1 on about half of our servers for about a week now. Ive mailed before that I was pleasantly surprised by its better use of resources. Here's a graph showing that fact. Server load in the

[Dovecot] Upgrading from 1.0x to 1.1x

2008-05-29 Thread Marc Perkel
OK - about to jump to the new version of dovecot. Is there anything I need to change in the config files or things I should know? I'm using maildir format running under Fedora 8.

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.rc6 released - not working

2008-05-29 Thread Marc Perkel
Hi Timo, I had just tested rc5 today and it didn't work for me. So I just downloaded rc6 and same problem. Here's what I'm seeing in the log. dovecot: May 29 19:10:10 Error: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): mail_location: maildir: Unknown setting: dovecot: May 29 19:10:10 Fatal: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.rc6 released - works!!

2008-05-29 Thread Marc Perkel
Thanks - that fixed it. It appears to be working but I'm scream testing it. If my phone starts ringing then it's broken. :) Timo Sirainen wrote: On May 30, 2008, at 5:15 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: I had just tested rc5 today and it didn't work for me. So I just downloaded rc6 a

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrading from 1.0x to 1.1x

2008-05-29 Thread Marc Perkel
Is there a feature list somewhere that shows what's new in 1.1 compared to 1.0 ?

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrading from 1.0x to 1.1x

2008-05-29 Thread Marc Perkel
Timo Sirainen wrote: On May 30, 2008, at 5:48 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is there a feature list somewhere that shows what's new in 1.1 compared to 1.0 ? See v1.1.rc1 in NEWS file (or http://dovecot.org/doc/NEWS-1.1). I'll probably move that to top of the file again when releas

[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.1 significantly faster than 1.0

2008-05-30 Thread Marc Perkel
It appears to be that 1.1 is a lot faster that 1.0. And server load levels have dropped.

[Dovecot] Weird RC6 trash problem

2008-06-05 Thread Marc Perkel
Noticed an occasional strange problem that appeared after upgrading to RC6. Using Thunderbird on XP I empty the trash and everything in trash folder vanishes. But then it reappears in the message totals. But if I actually click on the folder there's nothing there. Not sure if this is an RC6 bug

[Dovecot] Random quirks in 1.1-rc11

2008-06-19 Thread Marc Perkel
OK - I wish I had more details but I'm using rc11 for the server and Thunderbird for the client. I'm using Maildir and I'm doing server side folder delivery using Exim. On server side folders I'm seeing the count of messages in a folder showing 22 unread messages but the messages themselves don

Re: [Dovecot] Random quirks in 1.1-rc11

2008-06-20 Thread Marc Perkel
A little more information. One ove my server side folders became essentially inaccessable. The folder was empty. This folder is actually emptied by another process that reads and deletes the content of this folder. Using Thunderbird the message count showed as having 1 message but no messages s

Re: [Dovecot] SSL + compression?

2008-06-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Ed W wrote: OK, my interested is piqued now - does anyone have a recipe for how to make openssl compress the traffic before encrypting it? (Or perhaps it does by default?) Ed W I don't think it does be default. The only what I know is to establish a compressed SSH tunnel to your server an

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.0 released

2008-06-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Congratulations on your new major release. We all appreciate the fine work you are doing.

[Dovecot] Xexec Wiki Links Broken?

2008-07-29 Thread Marc Perkel
Someone pointed out to me that the links to the code on the wiki for xexec no longer work. Can someone fix this?

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.3 release candidate

2008-09-01 Thread Marc Perkel
Hi Timo, Spoke too soon about everything working. I have some directories that I use to report spam by dragging messages into them. I'm using maildir. Once a minute any message in these directories are cleaned out and deleted. In Thunderbird if I drag a message into the directory and wait a

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.3 release candidate

2008-09-01 Thread Marc Perkel
It appears so far that the problem I was having with Trash not emptying and other strange random Thunderbird problem with message counts not being right appears to have been fixed. So far it's working well.

[Dovecot] Old Thunderbird problem - need a fix

2009-01-27 Thread Marc Perkel
I've been having a Dovecot/Thunderbird problem for about a year now and I need a fix. When I restart dovecot everything is fine but as the day progresses thing start deteriorating. When I empty my trash folder it doesn't empty. I get an indication that email has arrived in my inbox by the unre

Re: [Dovecot] (imap) killed with signal 9 on Linux/OpenVZ VPS

2009-01-28 Thread Marc Perkel
Adam Flott wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 14:13 -0500, Adam Flott wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 22:07 -0500, Adam Flott wrote: I'm trying to get dovecot running on my VPS and the main imap process is receivi

[Dovecot] Dovecot / Exim with Multiple Domiains

2009-02-09 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm using a very old scheme for doing multiple domains using an old Linuxconf based setup. Each domain has it's own passwd/shadow file. It works but I need something new and modern and has a web interface and perhaps a mysql backend or something else good. So - what are people using out there

[Dovecot] Testing 1.2

2009-05-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Just installed it. Upgraded from 1.1.15. So far so good.

Re: [Dovecot] anti-spam+anti-malware suggestions

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/20/2010 9:20 AM, Jose Luis Faria wrote: Hello people, I am using now qmail in cluster with LDAP + Interscan Messaging Security Suite from Trendmicro. I need to develop a new solution with: - postfix - dovecot - anti-spam - anti-malware. I am thankful any help or suggestion for an

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.7 released

2010-11-10 Thread Marc Perkel
Just installed it and getting this warning: doveconf: Warning: service anvil { client_limit=1000 } is lower than required under max. load (1603) Not sure what this means.

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.7 released

2010-11-10 Thread Marc Perkel
On 11/10/2010 10:52 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: service anvil { client_limit = 2000 # or something } OK - just curious - what is it for? What does this do?

[Dovecot] Phantom email message

2010-11-10 Thread Marc Perkel
Got sort of a strange problem on one email account. Everything works fine with Thunderbird/IMAP showing the correct unread message count. But on my DroidX smartphone one of my email accounts always shows one unread message, but I can't bring any unread messages up. It's like there's something t

Re: [Dovecot] Phantom email message

2010-11-10 Thread Marc Perkel
On 11/10/2010 12:15 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-11-10 2:59 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: Got sort of a strange problem on one email account. Everything works fine with Thunderbird/IMAP showing the correct unread message count. But on my DroidX smartphone one of my email accounts always shows

Re: [Dovecot] Phantom email message

2010-11-12 Thread Marc Perkel
On 11/10/2010 1:52 PM, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: On Wednesday 10 November 2010 20:59:40 Marc Perkel wrote: Got sort of a strange problem on one email account. Everything works fine with Thunderbird/IMAP showing the correct unread message count. But on my DroidX smartphone one of my email

Re: [Dovecot] v2.0.7 released

2010-11-12 Thread Marc Perkel
On 11/10/2010 5:25 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 10.11.2010, at 19.50, Marc Perkel wrote: On 11/10/2010 10:52 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: service anvil { client_limit = 2000 # or something } OK - just curious - what is it for? What does this do? Increases the number of connections that

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.conf settings

2010-11-14 Thread Marc Perkel
On 11/12/2010 6:57 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 12.11.2010, at 11.16, Marc Perkel wrote: service imap-login { process_limit = 800 process_min_avail = 100 service_count = 0 With service_limit=0 the process limits are way way too high. process_min_avail should be the number of CPU cores

[Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages

2010-12-23 Thread Marc Perkel
SSD drives are very fast but expensive. So I have a crude idea that I'd like to see. May not be practical but would like to get some thoughts on it. Some new SSDs use SATA 3 (6gb/sec) with 355/mb/sec read speeds and 215MB/sec write. Put these in raid 0 and it screams! Can you imagine how fast

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages

2010-12-23 Thread Marc Perkel
On 12/23/2010 11:37 AM, Javier de Miguel Rodríguez wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:27:45 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: SSD drives are very fast but expensive. So I have a crude idea that I'd like to see. May not be practical but would like to get some thoughts on it. You are asking

Re: [Dovecot] Maildir feature I'd like to see - SSD for newer messages

2010-12-23 Thread Marc Perkel
On 12/23/2010 1:14 PM, Miha Vrhovnik wrote: "Tom Talpey" wrote on 23.12.2010 21:27:02: On 12/23/2010 3:13 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: I wonder if there's any way to do this. Say there are two different storage devices mounted as follows: /slow-hard-drive/email-directory /fast-

[Dovecot] Converting from Maildir - sdbox

2011-01-04 Thread Marc Perkel
OK - I thought this was going to be easy. Maybe it is. I'm just not that good at reading directions. Trying to use dsync. Getting this error: Mail locations must use the same virtual mailbox hierarchy separator (specify separator for the default namespace) Currently using maildir. The setup

[Dovecot] DSync Namespace Frustration

2011-01-04 Thread Marc Perkel
In order to get dsync to work I need to set something in namespace. Running maildir. Will this work? namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes } namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = no hidden = yes list = no # for v1.1+ }

[Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

2011-01-12 Thread Marc Perkel
I just replaced my drives for Dovecot using Maildir format with a pair of Solid State Drives (SSD) in a raid 0 configuration. It's really really fast. Kind of expensive but it's like getting 20x the speed for 20x the price. I think the big gain is in the 0 seek time. Here's what I bought. Cru

Re: [Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

2011-01-12 Thread Marc Perkel
On 1/12/2011 9:58 AM, Rick Romero wrote: Quoting Marc Perkel : I just replaced my drives for Dovecot using Maildir format with a > pair of Solid State Drives (SSD) in a raid 0 configuration. It's > really really fast. Kind of expensive but it's like getting 20x the > spee

Re: [Dovecot] NoSQL Storage Backend

2011-02-14 Thread Marc Perkel
The way I do MySQL backups is that I do a slave on another server. When I need to backup I stop the slave - back it up - then start it again. On 2/8/2011 12:56 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Marten Lehmann wrote: The problem with traditional filesystems is, that they are very

Re: [Dovecot] what best for anti-spam filter?

2012-07-24 Thread Marc Perkel
Try this: http://www.junkemailfilter.com/spam/ On 7/23/2012 8:58 PM, fy wrote: > what anti-spam for you used ? dspam?spammassian? amavisd-new ? what is > best ? > > >

[Dovecot] Dovecot Authentication through different IMAP server?

2012-09-25 Thread Marc Perkel
Just wondering - is there any way for a dovecot server to authenticate against a different IMAP server? Here's what I'm thinking. I run a spam filtering service and thinking about a way to give users access to their stored spam on my servers. However real email is forwarded to their server, So

[Dovecot] Advanced dovecot tricks - spam review/release

2012-10-03 Thread Marc Perkel
Hi, I'm looking for some advice to do a really advanced trick with Dovecot. I'm not sure if this can be done. I need to describe first. I have a spam filtering company that does front end spam filtering. (Junk Email Filter) I want to add a system where I store a copy of spam on a server and

Re: [Dovecot] Advanced dovecot tricks - spam review/release

2012-10-03 Thread Marc Perkel
have mail_location=/var/vmail -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Marc Perkel wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some advice to do a really advanced trick with Dovecot. I'm not sure if this can be done. I need to describe first. I have a spam fi

Re: [Dovecot] Advanced dovecot tricks - spam review/release

2012-10-03 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/3/2012 4:46 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 4.10.2012, at 2.42, Marc Perkel wrote: On 10/3/2012 1:04 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: Maildir, layout=fs /var/vmail/domain/user/ Spams get delivered there. User has access there. Domain admin has mail_location=/var/vmail/domain, you have

Re: [Dovecot] Advanced dovecot tricks - spam review/release

2012-10-03 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/3/2012 4:46 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 4.10.2012, at 2.42, Marc Perkel wrote: On 10/3/2012 1:04 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: Maildir, layout=fs /var/vmail/domain/user/ Spams get delivered there. User has access there. Domain admin has mail_location=/var/vmail/domain, you have

[Dovecot] Getting rid of the subscription file

2012-10-03 Thread Marc Perkel
I'd like to eliminate the subscription file and have it just list the folders that are there. How do I do that? Thanks in advance.

Re: [Dovecot] Getting rid of the subscription file

2012-10-03 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/3/2012 9:58 PM, Daniel Parthey wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: I'd like to eliminate the subscription file and have it just list the folders that are there. How do I do that? Dovecot allows to automatically subscribe folders when mails are delivered: lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes RFC

Re: [Dovecot] Advanced dovecot tricks - spam review/release

2012-10-04 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/3/2012 11:36 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Am 03.10.2012 21:48, schrieb Marc Perkel: I'm looking for some advice to do a really advanced trick with Dovecot. I'm not sure if this can be done. I need to describe first. I have a spam filtering company that does front end spam

Re: [Dovecot] Getting rid of the subscription file

2012-10-06 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/4/2012 7:20 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 4.10.2012, at 7.40, Marc Perkel wrote: I'd like to eliminate the subscription file and have it just list the folders that are there. How do I do that? Write a plugin. I have had some luck using an external script to generat

[Dovecot] [OT] How do I convert maildir to bsmtp format?

2012-10-07 Thread Marc Perkel
Here's what I'm trying to do. I have a spam filtering operation as a front end for other servers. I've created a virtual server for spam storage where the user will be able to log in using squirrelmail/dovecot to review and release their spam. The email is stored in maildir format. Piecing it

[Dovecot] Namespace Prefix Tutorial?

2012-10-08 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm trying to grasp the namespace and prefix stuff and looking for a good tutorial page that explains what it is and how to use it. Thanks in advance

[Dovecot] Master User Question

2012-10-08 Thread Marc Perkel
OK - I'm trying to do weird stuff so rather not answer why I'm doing this. Trying to log in using a master user: u...@example.com*mas...@master.com When debugging the master authenticates - but then it tries to authenticate u...@example.com and it's not found. And - it is true that the user d

Re: [Dovecot] Namespace Prefix Tutorial?

2012-10-08 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/8/2012 10:59 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Am 08.10.2012 18:23, schrieb Marc Perkel: I'm trying to grasp the namespace and prefix stuff and looking for a good tutorial page that explains what it is and how to use it. Thanks in advance look http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Question

2012-10-08 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/8/2012 11:26 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Am 08.10.2012 20:09, schrieb Marc Perkel: OK - I'm trying to do weird stuff so rather not answer why I'm doing this. Trying to log in using a master user: u...@example.com*mas...@master.com When debugging the master authenticates - b

Re: [Dovecot] Namespace Prefix Tutorial?

2012-10-08 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/8/2012 11:28 AM, Michael M Slusarz wrote: Quoting Marc Perkel : On 10/8/2012 10:59 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Am 08.10.2012 18:23, schrieb Marc Perkel: I'm trying to grasp the namespace and prefix stuff and looking for a good tutorial page that explains what it is and how to u

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Question

2012-10-08 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/8/2012 11:43 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Am 08.10.2012 20:32, schrieb Marc Perkel: On 10/8/2012 11:26 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Am 08.10.2012 20:09, schrieb Marc Perkel: OK - I'm trying to do weird stuff so rather not answer why I'm doing this. Trying to log in using a m

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Question

2012-10-08 Thread Marc Perkel
Making some progress = this seems to work. passdb { driver = static args = mail_location=maildir:/email/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs }

[Dovecot] Multiple Maildir?

2012-10-09 Thread Marc Perkel
OK - Getting close to everything working in my weird configuration. Here's a problem I'm still having. I'm authenticating with this: userdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/master-combined-sql.conf } Default mail location: mail_location = maildir:/fakedir/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT

Re: [Dovecot] Multiple Maildir?

2012-10-09 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/9/2012 3:42 PM, Daniel Parthey wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: if the mail location doesn't exist then I want to try a second mail location: mail_location = maildir:/email/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs You might do this with a script which exports the MAIL environment variable and

Re: [Dovecot] Multiple Maildir?

2012-10-09 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/9/2012 5:12 PM, Kelsey Cummings wrote: On 10/09/12 15:42, Daniel Parthey wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: if the mail location doesn't exist then I want to try a second mail location: mail_location = maildir:/email/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs You might do this with a script

[Dovecot] Feature Request

2012-10-09 Thread Marc Perkel
It would be handy (for me) if there were a userdb where a directory structure defined the db. userdb stat { mail_location=maildir:/fakedir/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs } userdb stat { mail_location=maildir:/email/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs } The idea being that if the first

Re: [Dovecot] Feature Request

2012-10-09 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/9/2012 7:29 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 10.10.2012, at 4.34, Marc Perkel wrote: It would be handy (for me) if there were a userdb where a directory structure defined the db. userdb stat { mail_location=maildir:/fakedir/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs } userdb stat

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