[Dovecot] Can Dovecot authenticate against an external email server?

2012-10-23 Thread Marc Perkel
Just wondering if anyone has done this. I have a spam filtering service where I am now storing spam for users I filter for. It's a filter and forward service so I don't control the recipient's email server. What I would like to do somehow is have the user enter their email address and passwo

[Dovecot] [OT] MS Exchange Alternative?

2012-12-04 Thread Marc Perkel
Just wondering if there's an open source Linux alternative to MS Exchange so that all the features of outlook work?

Re: [Dovecot] v2.2.rc5 released

2013-04-07 Thread Marc Perkel
Testing under OpenVZ and it's all good here. +1

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot and SSD

2010-07-29 Thread Marc Perkel
On 7/29/2010 2:16 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Bryan Vyhmeister put forth on 7/28/2010 6:05 PM: I'm considering setting up my own mailserver with Dovecot 2.0 (as soon as it's out) and SSD. I'm debating whether it's worth it or not. I have been running a mailserver with the Dovecot 1.1 train fo

[Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary.

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/15/2010 9:10 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote: Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary. I added now to ht

[Dovecot] Forcing users to change passwords

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Suppose I have users with a default password like "change-my-password" and I want to detect users who haven't changed their password and alert (nag) them about changing it. How would I do that?

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/15/2010 9:58 AM, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2010-08-15 09:44:49 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: might want to automatically add dovenull to the install script if possible. Perhaps a better error message than the one above that indicates the solution is to create the dovenull user. I dont think

[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0 convert script

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Since my old config had this: protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/imapd.pem then the convert script should have added ssl = yes Just trying to document all the little issues as I find them.

[Dovecot] Master User Features I'd like to see

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Here's what I'd like. Limited master users, where someone can be a master users for some domains but not others. I think I could do what I want with the right kinds of variable passing that doesn't yet exist. Let me see if I can explain clearly. From the example in the wiki: auth_master_user

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/15/2010 2:32 PM, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2010-08-15 14:01:25 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Seems to me that it wouldn't take a lot of code to at lease find if they have adduser or useradd. that is 2 out of many solutions. and depending of the admin he might create the user in an ldap

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Features I'd like to see

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/15/2010 3:06 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 15.8.2010, at 22.46, Marc Perkel wrote: passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext master = yes pass = yes } .. I'm assuming that the masteruser and masterpass is passed to the master passdb and when doi

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot 2.0 convert script

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/15/2010 3:34 PM, Noel Butler wrote: On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 14:06 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Since my old config had this: protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/imapd.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/imapd.pem then the convert script should have

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Features I'd like to see

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/15/2010 3:06 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 15.8.2010, at 22.46, Marc Perkel wrote: passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext master = yes pass = yes } .. I'm assuming that the masteruser and masterpass is passed to the master passdb and when doi

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Features I'd like to see

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/15/2010 3:06 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 15.8.2010, at 22.46, Marc Perkel wrote: passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext master = yes pass = yes } .. I'm assuming that the masteruser and masterpass is passed to the master passdb and when doi

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Features I'd like to see

2010-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/15/2010 5:07 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: On Aug 15, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: On 8/15/2010 3:06 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 15.8.2010, at 22.46, Marc Perkel wrote: passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql-master.conf.ext master = yes pass = yes

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

2010-08-16 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/16/2010 2:45 AM, William Blunn wrote: On 15/08/2010 22:49, Marc Perkel wrote: On 8/15/2010 2:32 PM, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2010-08-15 14:01:25 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Seems to me that it wouldn't take a lot of code to at lease find if they have adduser or useradd. that is

[Dovecot] Standards of expectations for software installs

2010-08-16 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/16/2010 4:11 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-08-15 12:03 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary. It would be a lot smo

Re: [Dovecot] cluster with dsync mirror

2010-08-16 Thread Marc Perkel
What do you use now? On 8/16/2010 6:27 AM, Patrick Domack wrote: I used a setup like this, to sync mail between 3 different datacenters, in a multimaster setup. For this I used unison, running every 28seconds. And it worked well for two years, before I changed to a better approach. Older ver

Re: [Dovecot] Standards of expectations for software installs

2010-08-16 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/16/2010 7:37 AM, Thomas Leuxner wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:23:50AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Timo's software standards, and mine, are higher than the average open source project. When an install id done right then you don't have to go to the wiki for anything. You run

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Features I'd like to see

2010-08-16 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/15/2010 3:06 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: These are available in v2.0: %{login_user} %{login_username} %{login_domain} I guess they should be added to wiki.. Hi Timo, I just tried the 2.0 official release and these variables return an empty string.

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Features I'd like to see

2010-08-16 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/16/2010 11:04 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 10:49 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: On 8/15/2010 3:06 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: These are available in v2.0: %{login_user} %{login_username} %{login_domain} I guess they should be added to wiki.. Hi Timo, I just tried the 2.0

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Features I'd like to see

2010-08-16 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/16/2010 11:26 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 11:17 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Odd - wonder what I'm doing wrong then? My result: Aug 16 10:44:43 auth: Debug: sql(supp...@junkemailfilter.com,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT user_name, domain_name, password FROM users

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Features I'd like to see

2010-08-16 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/16/2010 2:24 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 16.8.2010, at 22.01, Marc Perkel wrote: But the %{login_domain} evaluates to an empty string as you can see from the results of the debug. What about %{login_user} or %{username}? Interestingly %{login_user} doesn't work either returni

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Features I'd like to see

2010-08-16 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/16/2010 2:24 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 16.8.2010, at 22.01, Marc Perkel wrote: But the %{login_domain} evaluates to an empty string as you can see from the results of the debug. What about %{login_user} or %{username}? Actually - spoke too soon. %{username} returned the wrong

Re: [Dovecot] Master User Features I'd like to see

2010-08-17 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/16/2010 2:24 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 16.8.2010, at 22.01, Marc Perkel wrote: But the %{login_domain} evaluates to an empty string as you can see from the results of the debug. What about %{login_user} or %{username}? Hi Timo, Apparently I'm getting different results tha

[Dovecot] Master Login using MySQL problem - %{login_domain}

2010-08-17 Thread Marc Perkel
Hi Timo, Been trying to track this problem down further. The problem seems to be related to verifying the master user failing. My passdb looks like this: passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-domain-owner-sql.conf master = yes pass = yes } dovecot-domain-owner-sql.conf c

Re: [Dovecot] Master Login using MySQL problem - %{login_domain}

2010-08-17 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/17/2010 9:45 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 08:50 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Been trying to track this problem down further. The problem seems to be related to verifying the master user failing. Show the whole dovecot -n output and the whole logs when master user is

Re: [Dovecot] Master Login using MySQL problem - %{login_domain}

2010-08-17 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/17/2010 10:11 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: Does it log "Master user lookup for login" if you patch Dovecot with http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/raw-rev/7428338c8df2 ? Ran the patch - here's the results for b...@plf.net*tom@plf.net Aug 17 10:42:04 auth: Debug: auth(t...@plf.net,127.0.0.1

Re: [Dovecot] EVERYONE USING DOVECOT PLEASE SIGN: Thanks, Administrators of Dovecot!

2010-08-17 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/17/2010 11:08 AM, Mark Moseley wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Jerrale G wrote: With the release of dovecot 2.0, the community of the Dovecot mailling list, and us at Shelton Computers, would sincerely like to thank the developers of Dovecot. For, if it were not for you, we woul

Re: [Dovecot] Master Login using MySQL problem - %{login_domain}

2010-08-17 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/17/2010 11:16 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 10:45 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Aug 17 10:42:04 auth: Debug: auth(t...@plf.net,127.0.0.1,master): Master user lookup for login: b...@plf.net Aug 17 10:42:04 auth: Debug: sql(t...@plf.net,127.0.0.1): query: SELECT user_name

[Dovecot] Tricky Master User Query - need MySQL help

2010-08-17 Thread Marc Perkel
OK - I want to do something very tricky with master users and if I get it to work I'm adding it to the wiki for everyone to use. So far I have a MySQL database that servers multiple domains. I can set a flag making someone a domain owner that allows that person to become master of that domain

[Dovecot] Very complex Master User Examples using MySQL

2010-08-17 Thread Marc Perkel
For those who are interested I have posted in the Wiki examples of using master users in very interesting ways. In these example we will create 3 kinds of master users. The first will be users who can read all email for all domains. The next example will be users who can read all email for th

[Dovecot] DSYNC needs a lot more documentation

2010-08-21 Thread Marc Perkel
Started looking into the dsync utility and the doc are seriously incomplete. I can of course scour the internet looking for the missing information but that doesn't fix the problem with the docs. I might try to rewrite the docs myself once I figure it out.

Re: [Dovecot] DSYNC needs a lot more documentation

2010-08-21 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/21/2010 9:16 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 21.8.2010, at 16.24, Marc Perkel wrote: Started looking into the dsync utility and the doc are seriously incomplete. I can of course scour the internet looking for the missing information but that doesn't fix the problem with the docs. I

Re: [Dovecot] DSYNC needs a lot more documentation

2010-08-21 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/21/2010 11:00 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-08-21 12:51 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: When you write software you never have to learn it so you don't have the perspective of someone who never heard of it before and wondering "what is this?" Mark, is this another case o

Re: [Dovecot] DSYNC needs a lot more documentation

2010-08-21 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/21/2010 11:00 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-08-21 12:51 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: When you write software you never have to learn it so you don't have the perspective of someone who never heard of it before and wondering "what is this?" Mark, is this another case o

Re: [Dovecot] DSYNC needs a lot more documentation

2010-08-22 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/22/2010 7:29 AM, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:51:12 -0700 Marc Perkel articulated: When you write software you never have to learn it so you don't have the perspective of someone who never heard of it before and wondering "what is this?" That has always been t

Re: [Dovecot] imap processing spinning on the CPU

2010-09-16 Thread Marc Perkel
On 9/15/2010 2:16 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 15.9.2010, at 21.59, Daniel J. Luke wrote: Since upgrading to 2.0.2 I've noticed one user ends up with 4-5 imap processes all using as much CPU as they can get. #1 0x001ef220 in parse_next_body_to_boundary () No symbol table info available. #2

[Dovecot] Possible fix to an old Thunderbird related problem

2009-07-11 Thread Marc Perkel
I think I might have finally fixed it. The problem was that the max_cached_connections in Thunderbird defaults to 25 and I had login process count set to 10. I think raising it to 25 ill fix it. Just posting this in case others are having this problem. What was happening was that the message c

Re: [Dovecot] Possible fix to an old Thunderbird related problem

2009-07-12 Thread Marc Perkel
I spoke too soon. Thunderbird is still broken. And it's really frustrating. Marc Perkel wrote: I think I might have finally fixed it. The problem was that the max_cached_connections in Thunderbird defaults to 25 and I had login process count set to 10. I think raising it to 25 ill fix it.

Re: [Dovecot] Possible fix to an old Thunderbird related problem

2009-07-12 Thread Marc Perkel
Charles Marcus wrote: On 7/12/2009 12:23 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: I spoke too soon. Thunderbird is still broken. And it's really frustrating. I'm sure Timo and others (myself included) would like more details... *What* is broken? Dovecot config details (dovecot -n output

Re: [Dovecot] Possible fix to an old Thunderbird related problem

2009-07-12 Thread Marc Perkel
Seth Mattinen wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Charles Marcus wrote: On 7/12/2009 12:23 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: I spoke too soon. Thunderbird is still broken. And it's really frustrating. I'm sure Timo and others (myself included) would like more details

Re: [Dovecot] Possible fix to an old Thunderbird related problem

2009-07-12 Thread Marc Perkel
Nikolay Shopik wrote: On 12.07.2009 20:23, Marc Perkel wrote: I spoke too soon. Thunderbird is still broken. And it's really frustrating. Marc Perkel wrote: I think I might have finally fixed it. The problem was that the max_cached_connections in Thunderbird defaults to 25 and I had

[Dovecot] Berkely DB authentication?

2009-10-09 Thread Marc Perkel
Does Dovecot support berkeley DB authentication? I'm looking for something simple that is perhaps a single file for multiple domains and something the Exim can also read.

[Dovecot] Need a little shadow to MySQL conversion help

2009-10-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Excuse me for being stupid and confused. I'm trying to convert my dovecot install from passwd-file to mysql. I have a single table called "users" that has 3 fields, user_name, domain_name and password. The data came from passwd/shadow files so it uses the same password encryption as the shadow

Re: [Dovecot] Need a little shadow to MySQL conversion help

2009-10-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Thank you all for your help on this. I'll probably try it tonight when most people will be off line and hopefully it won't be down long. Everything already is lower case so that shouldn't be an issue.

Re: [Dovecot] Need a little shadow to MySQL conversion help

2009-10-22 Thread Marc Perkel
This seems to work fine for me. Thanks to everyone for your help. default_pass_scheme = CRYPT password_query = \ SELECT user_name, domain_name, password \ FROM users WHERE user_name = '%n' AND domain_name = '%d' But - slightly off topic. Suppose I wanted to add some kind of date/time field

Re: [Dovecot] Maildirs++ on ext4

2009-11-18 Thread Marc Perkel
Rodolfo Gonzalez Gonzalez wrote: Hi, happy after migrating from Courier to Dovecot without major issues, and saving 3 Gb of RAM after the migration, now I'm going to move everything to a 5 Tb RAID6 array. There's another thread on SATA and cluster fs, but for now I'm looking for the best fi

Re: [Dovecot] v2.2.0 - possible bug?

2013-04-14 Thread Marc Perkel
When doing a server side message body search I got this in the logs: Apr 14 22:32:24 imap(supp...@junkemailfilter.com): Panic: file message-parser.c: line 698 (preparsed_parse_prologue_more): assertion failed: (ctx->part->children != NULL) Apr 14 22:32:24 imap(supp...@junkemailfilter.com): Erro

Re: [Dovecot] v2.2.0 - possible bug?

2013-04-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 4/15/2013 2:09 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 15.4.2013, at 8.35, Marc Perkel wrote: When doing a server side message body search I got this in the logs: Apr 14 22:32:24 imap(supp...@junkemailfilter.com): Panic: file message-parser.c: line 698 (preparsed_parse_prologue_more): assertion

Re: [Dovecot] v2.2.0 - possible bug?

2013-04-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 4/15/2013 2:09 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 15.4.2013, at 8.35, Marc Perkel wrote: When doing a server side message body search I got this in the logs: Apr 14 22:32:24 imap(supp...@junkemailfilter.com): Panic: file message-parser.c: line 698 (preparsed_parse_prologue_more): assertion

Re: [Dovecot] v2.2.0 - possible bug?

2013-04-15 Thread Marc Perkel
On 4/15/2013 7:23 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 17:10 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: Apr 14 22:32:24 imap(supp...@junkemailfilter.com): Panic: file message-parser.c: line 698 (preparsed_parse_prologue_more): assertion failed: (ctx->part->children != NULL) You can reproduce this

Re: [Dovecot] v2.2.1 released

2013-04-18 Thread Marc Perkel
Message search is FIXED! On 4/18/2013 2:41 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.1.tar.gz.sig - mailbox_list_index=yes was broken. - LAYOUT=index didn't list subscriptions. - auth: Mu

Re: [Dovecot] XFS vs EXT4 for mail storage

2013-05-04 Thread Marc Perkel
On 5/2/2013 4:16 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: Hello, I'm in the process of finalizing the spec for my new dovecot VM, and this is the last question I need to address... I've read until I'm just about decided on XFS, but I have no experience with it (been using reiserfs on my old box (@ 8 yrs o

[Dovecot] Odd Feature Request - RBL blacklist lookup to prevent authentication

2013-10-22 Thread Marc Perkel
I would like to have a list of IPs (hacker list) that I can do a lookup on so that if anyone tries to authenticate to dovecot they always fail if they are on my list. I have the list - and the list is available as a DNS blacklist. I'd like to have it work with both local IP lists or RBL lookup

Re: [Dovecot] Encryption solution for messages at rest

2013-11-03 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/28/2013 9:02 AM, Douglas Mortensen wrote: Hi, We have clients with various security & compliance requirements. Although not required, it would be ideal to have messages encrypted at rest. We already use SSL/TLS to secure the transmission of most email. However, it would be nice to have

[Dovecot] Dovecot login slow

2013-11-13 Thread Marc Perkel
Can't figure out why the login is slow. I telnet to port 143 on localhost. I type: 0 login user password Takes about 10 seconds and it lets me in. I'm using MYSQL and it's a small indexed database on a fast server so it's not the mysql query that's slowing it down. At least I don't think it i

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot login slow

2013-11-13 Thread Marc Perkel
On 11/13/2013 12:41 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: Can't figure out why the login is slow. I telnet to port 143 on localhost. I type: 0 login user password Takes about 10 seconds and it lets me in. I'm using MYSQL and it's a small indexed database on a fast server so it's

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot login slow

2013-11-13 Thread Marc Perkel
More information When i telnet to localhost on 143 it takes 10-15 seconds to log in. but When I telnet to the host name of the server it logs in instantly. Why would it be slow on localhost by fast on the server's IP address?

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot login slow

2013-11-13 Thread Marc Perkel
On 11/13/2013 3:28 PM, Pascal Volk wrote: On 11/13/2013 11:17 PM Marc Perkel wrote: More information When i telnet to localhost on 143 it takes 10-15 seconds to log in. but When I telnet to the host name of the server it logs in instantly. Why would it be slow on localhost by

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot login slow

2013-11-14 Thread Marc Perkel
On 11/13/2013 4:34 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: Marc Perkel skrev den 2013-11-14 01:13: I does act like a DNS problem but why is DNS involved? It doesn't have a delay in connecting. It's the login that's slow. you use a auth that depends on fast dns ? lost now how your dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot login slow

2013-11-14 Thread Marc Perkel
On 11/14/2013 11:32 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: Marc Perkel skrev den 2013-11-14 05:25: My AUTH depends only on MYSQL. There's no DNS involved. At least not that I can see there should be. So why would localhost take 10-15 seconds to do the login part and coming into the servers IP addre

Re: [Dovecot] v2.2.9 released

2013-11-24 Thread Marc Perkel
Well, it's not crashing like 2.2.8 did. So far so good after 10 minutes. :) On 11/24/2013 4:27 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.9.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.9.tar.gz.sig + Full text search indexing can now be done automaticall

[Dovecot] Dovecot deliver into folder question

2014-01-06 Thread Marc Perkel
If I want to user dovecot deliver into a folder that is not at the root level - how do I do that? How do I specify a folder in a folder?

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot deliver into folder question

2014-01-06 Thread Marc Perkel
On 1/6/2014 12:27 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2014-01-06 3:20 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: If I want to user dovecot deliver into a folder that is not at the root level - how do I do that? How do I specify a folder in a folder? For *all* messages? Or for certain messages? Kind of an incomplete

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot deliver into folder question

2014-01-08 Thread Marc Perkel
On 1/6/2014 11:28 PM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Marc Perkel wrote: On 1/6/2014 12:27 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2014-01-06 3:20 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: If I want to user dovecot deliver into a folder that is not at the root

[Dovecot] [OT] cool bash script for cron with seconds resolution

2014-01-08 Thread Marc Perkel
Short bash script to run a program 30 20 15 12 10 6 5 4 3 2 executions per minute. http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/How_to_run_a_Linux_script_every_few_seconds_under_cron

[Dovecot] master password

2014-01-21 Thread Marc Perkel
This is probably easy but how would a set a secret static master password so that if I typed it in for any login it would be happy? I can't use the * separator method in this case because it screws up squirrelmail.

[Dovecot] Applying a DNS RBL to deny authentication?

2014-02-04 Thread Marc Perkel
Hope to get some attention about this idea to reduce hacking passwords. Here is a list of about 700,000 IP addresses that are hacking passwords through SMTP AUTH http://ipadmin.junkemailfilter.com/auth-hack.txt This is a list of IP addresses that attempted to authenticate against my fake AUT

[Dovecot] Static Passdb

2014-05-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Tried this but it doesn't work. Says Unknown setting: password passdb { driver = static pass word = secret } The real file doesn't have a space in pass word. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

Re: [Dovecot] Static Passdb

2014-05-16 Thread Marc Perkel
Works! Thanks! On 5/16/2014 1:39 AM, Teemu Huovila wrote: On 05/16/2014 04:09 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Tried this but it doesn't work. Says Unknown setting: password passdb { driver = static pass word = secret } http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/Static passdb { d

[Dovecot] Setting mail location in SQL?

2014-05-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Trying to figure out the syntax to set a mail_location for SQL. This doesn't work: userdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/master-combined-sql.conf override_fields = mail_location=maildir:/fakedir/%d/%n:INBOX=/fakedir:LAYOUT=fs } Does anyone know the proper syntax? Thanks in advance

Re: [Dovecot] Setting mail location in SQL?

2014-05-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Is there any way to do it without modifying the MySQL database? I want to force it it maildir:/fakedir/%d/%n for this userdb only. Other userdb has a different value. On 5/19/2014 11:44 PM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 19 May 2014, Marc Perkel

Multiple email clients not in sync

2014-07-09 Thread Marc Perkel
Hello everyone, I'm not sure if this is an issue with dovecot or my various email clients, or my settings. I'm running 2.2.13 and I have Thunderbird on my desktop and K@mail on my android phone. In theory if I delete email on one it should delete it on the other. It does delete it on the ser

Re: Multiple email clients not in sync

2014-07-09 Thread Marc Perkel
On 7/9/2014 9:49 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.07.2014 17:23, schrieb Marc Perkel: Hello everyone, I'm not sure if this is an issue with dovecot or my various email clients, or my settings. I'm running 2.2.13 and I have Thunderbird on my desktop and K@mail on my android phone.

Re: Multiple email clients not in sync

2014-07-09 Thread Marc Perkel
On 7/9/2014 9:49 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.07.2014 17:23, schrieb Marc Perkel: Hello everyone, I'm not sure if this is an issue with dovecot or my various email clients, or my settings. I'm running 2.2.13 and I have Thunderbird on my desktop and K@mail on my android phone.

Re: [Dovecot] M-Box benchmark

2007-03-18 Thread Marc Perkel
Timo Sirainen wrote: On 18.3.2007, at 7.40, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: Switching from UW-IMAP/mbox to dovecot/mbox has even a large performance gain (I would say around 10-100, on large folders because of the index files.). Also deleting is much faster. I haven't benchmarked it but it is def

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 'suicide'

2007-03-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Luigi Rosa wrote: Christian Skarby said the following on 19/03/2007 10.40: My point is: could Dovecot restart itself insted of killing itself? Try this. Run this once a minute in a cron job. #! /bin/bash if nmap -p 143 localhost | grep closed then /sbin/service dovecot restart fi

Re: [Dovecot] PHP implementation of dovecotpw passwords

2007-03-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Chris Laif wrote: On 3/19/07, Frank Church <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am looking for PHP functions that implement passwords that much the dovecotpw implementation. I downloaded one from PEAR, Crypt_HMAC, but the passwords it generates look nothing like the dovecotpw passwords, which could

Re: [Dovecot] SQL mail storage - yes yes yes!

2007-03-31 Thread Marc Perkel
Timo Sirainen wrote: I wasted some time yesterday and today implementing a SQL storage plugin. It seems to be working, but: - Saving new messages is done in a regular INSERT statement, which is bad. PostgreSQL has at least this COPY TO command which could be used instead. - It breaks in stre

Re: [Dovecot] SQL mail storage - yes yes yes!

2007-03-31 Thread Marc Perkel
Stephen Lee wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 19:30 +0200, Martin Hudec wrote: Well imagine that we have 100 users in company, each of them has 200M mailbox usually filled at least to 150M. That gives us 15G database (I am not counting administrative overhead like indexes etc.). Lovely. What

Re: [Dovecot] Released 1.0.rc31

2007-04-09 Thread Marc Perkel
Scott Silva wrote: Brian Morrison spake the following on 4/9/2007 1:33 PM: On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 15:16:49 -0500 Steven F Siirila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RC31 is screaming for version 1 to be released: 31 == 1 binary. :) You're suggesting that 1.0 will be full of variable

Re: [Dovecot] 1.0.rc32 released

2007-04-12 Thread Marc Perkel
Remember even if you don't get everything right by tomorrow there's always version 1.01. There will always be bugs and new features to add.

[Dovecot] v1.0.0 released - will more people use it

2007-04-13 Thread Marc Perkel
It will be interesting to see if there were people who were holding out for version 1.0 to start using it. I'm wondering if there will be a surge of new users. Congrats Timo. I'm sure there will be a 1.01. Software is never finished.

[Dovecot] Mixing MBOX and Maildir?

2007-04-21 Thread Marc Perkel
Is it possible to have some folders be mbox and some be maildir format? Why you might ask? Sometime for diagnostics I have the Exim MTA archive certain messages in MBOX format and then I want to copy them into an imao folder to look at them with Thunderbird. When I used MBOX all I had to do wa

Re: [Dovecot] Mixing MBOX and Maildir?

2007-04-23 Thread Marc Perkel
Odhiambo WASHINGTON wrote: * On 21/04/07 09:38 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: | Is it possible to have some folders be mbox and some be maildir format? | | Why you might ask? Sometime for diagnostics I have the Exim MTA archive | certain messages in MBOX format and then I want to copy them into

Re: [Dovecot] Mixing MBOX and Maildir?

2007-04-23 Thread Marc Perkel
Why couldn't this be done. If you re in maildir mode opening a folder you are expecting a directory structure: .folder .folder/cur .folder/tmp .folder/new However if instead you find an mbox file called: folder Then you just open it as mbox and have it work automatically. Or alternatively tr

Re: [Dovecot] busy still for a week

2007-05-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Timo Sirainen wrote: This school year is pretty much finished next thursday (for the classes I intended to pass). After that I should again have enough energy to read and answer the 150 mails in this list .. :) And maybe release v1.0.1 fixing the newly found bugs. Just curious, has there

[Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-13 Thread Marc Perkel
Here's some thoughts I'd like to throw out there. I know it's not standard IMAP protocol but someone has to try new ideas first and I want to see what people (Timo) think of this. IMAP establishes a connection between the client and the server. Wouldn't it be great if it could be a conduit to

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-13 Thread Marc Perkel
Andy Shellam wrote: I love this idea! I know it wouldn't be part of the standard IMAP specification, and you'd probably have to have an extra capability such as CUSTOMEXECUTE or something in the IMAP capabilities, which Thunderbird would have to look for before it allows the use of the plug

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-13 Thread Marc Perkel
Timo, Think outside the box on this. Create a new standard. Sometimes someone has to make the move and lead the standard instead of following it. This is new territory. Let's just try it and see where it goes.

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP

2007-05-14 Thread Marc Perkel
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2007 06:55:59 -0700 Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's some thoughts I'd like to throw out there. I know it's not standard IMAP protocol but someone has to try new ideas first and I want to see what people (Timo)

Re: [Dovecot] Getting rid of the common newbie problems

2007-05-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Timo, In general, the better the docs are and the better the error messages are the less support they will need. If the log message said "Failure XXX, check YYY to see if it is set" giving the user as much help as possible. You could have a number of sanity checks at startup where dovecot che

[Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP - EXECUTE

2007-05-19 Thread Marc Perkel
allows the use of the plugins. As you suggested, this would make it so much easier to create an Exchange-style account with Thunderbird/other client software. Anyone else? Andy. Marc Perkel wrote: Here's some thoughts I'd like to throw out there. I know it's not standard IMAP protoco

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP - EXECUTE

2007-05-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 07:06 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: I believe this feature is the next big revolution in expanding email functionality and I'm willing to put some bucks behind making it happen. I'm not a rich guy but with my $500 maybe I can get someone

Re: [Dovecot] Thinking Outside the Box - Extending IMAP - EXECUTE

2007-05-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 07:06 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: I believe this feature is the next big revolution in expanding email functionality and I'm willing to put some bucks behind making it happen. I'm not a rich guy but with my $500 maybe I can get someone

[Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread Marc Perkel
10 days ago I proposed this addition (see below) to Dovecot and got a lot of positive response. I would like to make it happen. I'm willing to contribute $500 to the development of this feature. It doesn't have to be implemented perfectly but needs to be workable to the extent that I can telnet

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

2007-05-23 Thread Marc Perkel
funkypunky drunky wrote: Yeah it is a great idea. For example with a good plugin which is used in a Webmail environment. Individual clients may submit spam mails to the email server with these imap "extension" and it will create self control against with the users of email server. Yep -

Re: [Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature = calender ?

2007-05-24 Thread Marc Perkel
Robert Schetterer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Cusack schrieb: On May 23, 2007 12:33:04 PM -0700 David Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frank Cusack wrote: On May 23, 2007 11:54:20 AM -0700 Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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