Re: how do I conceptualize system & virtual users?

2015-06-19 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Jun 19, 2015 9:08 AM, "lejeczek" wrote: > > I guess this would be a common case, I am hoping for some final clarification. > > a few Linux boxes share ldap (multi-master) backend that PAM/SSSD uses to authenticated users, and these LDAPs are also is used by Samba, users start @ uid 1000. > Boxe

Re: Problems Converting from Cyrus to Dovecot (cyrus2dovecot)

2015-11-04 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Nov 4, 2015 2:48 PM, "Forrest" wrote: > > I have been attempting to use the cyrus2dovecot script, to no avail. > > I have many years of content that I want to convert from Cyrus to Dovecot; with the above not working, what are other options out there? Another idea I had is simply set up another

[Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot

2008-05-02 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Let's say I have a postfix box, named mail.thespider.com, which is setup to handle virtual mailbox domains. One of these domains will handle is, thespider.com, and my email address in that domain is [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I setup dovecot, I can telnet to the pop3 port (110) and test it by logging in

Re: [Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot

2008-05-02 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is thunderbird set to use pop3 or imap? It can do both. I'd rather use imap but I am that kind of guy. ;) > Anyway, I don't support thunderbird as I have never used it, but I can tell > you how to connect t

Re: [Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot

2008-05-02 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Ed W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How would I do the same under thunderbird from a machine in the same > > lan (taz.thespider.com)? It seems to keep trying to login as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], which will not fly. > > > > > > > Thunderbird logs in using whatever

Re: [Dovecot] FAQ: setting thunderbird to talk to dovecot

2008-05-03 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Charles Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/2/2008 Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > > It does seem it is appending whatever string I type in the > > username box to the front of the name of the mail server. So, if I > > have the use

[Dovecot] User changing password

2008-07-02 Thread Mauricio Tavares
If users are checking their email using imap or pop, is there a way they can change their own passwords (so I can create a temporary one and let them change them to whatever they want) through, say, Thunderbird or whatever?

[Dovecot] OT: Deleting email

2008-07-19 Thread Mauricio Tavares
I have a mail server running postfix and then using dovecot so others can reach it using imap. I go check mail using thunderbird and delete a few emails, emptying the trash afterwards. Then I quit it and access it using pine. The deleted emails are still there, marked as marked for deletion. I

[Dovecot] A few easy pam and virtual domains questions

2009-05-27 Thread Mauricio Tavares
I am using dovecot with postfix, which was setup to do virtual domains. Dovecot is setup to authenticate against pam (I know, I know) and knows to look for email in /var/spool/vmail/: virtual_mailbox_base = /var/spool/vmail I also have virtual_mailbox_maps defined as virtual_mailbox_maps =

Re: [Dovecot] A few easy pam and virtual domains questions

2009-05-28 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Something I forgot to mention: when I first connected to the mail server as raub using imap, dovecot created a few files. No problem with that. But they were owned by the user raub, r...@mail $ ls -la /var/spool/vmail/flingingmonkey.com/raub total 32 drwxrwxrwx 5 virtual virtual 4096 May

Re: [Dovecot] Use a different usename than the recipient address (that require a lookup)?

2010-11-08 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On 11/08/2010 01:42 PM, Zhou, Yan wrote: Hi there, I am integrating Postfix and DoveCot, both use LDAP to look up user/email address info. My question is this: can I create a user "jsmith" to get all emails with the recipient address: dovecotd...@domain? Because of using LDAP, I need to do a lo

[Dovecot] passwd, gid and uid

2010-12-24 Thread Mauricio Tavares
I forgot the answer for this: in http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile, we have the passwd file defined as user:password:uid:gid:(gecos):home:(shell):extra_fields What should the uid and gid be associated with? In my setup I told postfix to use Dovecot LDA's deliver, which then is

[Dovecot] Populating mailbox dir

2011-01-19 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Let's say you created a (virtual) mail user but have not created the user mail directory. When you first try to access it, the mail directory is created and populated: ls -a /var/spool/vmail/domain.com/raub/ .dovecot.index.logdovecot-uidvalidity.4d375a39 tmp .. dovecot-uidlist

[Dovecot] PAM problem with virtual domain/user ownership

2011-01-23 Thread Mauricio Tavares
I am running dovecot 1.2.9 (ubuntu package, not from source) and wanted to use pam to authenticate my mail users who have no local accounts. I've done that before in an earlier release of dovecot and ubuntu, so I would not need to do set dovecot to ask LDAP directly. So, I have in dovecot.con

[Dovecot] Initial Maildir directories

2011-01-24 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Is there a way to specify additional directories to be created when a new user account is, well, created?

Re: [Dovecot] OT: best linux imap client for dovecot

2010-02-24 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Basically: > > 1) Online mode: Don't download all message headers at once at startup. > If I open a mailbox, I'm seeing only about 20 messages on screen. That's > all it needs to download. When I scroll the message list, download more > as n

Re: [Dovecot] Fail2ban

2010-06-10 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:38 PM, fakessh wrote: > hi dovecot network > > the principle of fail2ban is repeated for connections with the same login > fail2ban does not work if the attack changes to login every time > this type of attack is rather to find valid user accounts > > > I may be wrong, I

[Dovecot] dovecot lda and postfix

2009-07-01 Thread Mauricio Tavares
I do not know if this is a help request to solve a problem but to understand what is going on. I am going to start with the problem description as I see it and we will go from there. I have postfix setup to use dovecot for tls/sasl in addition to its normal imap/pop3 functions. Postfix is al

[Dovecot] Problem with sieve scripts including sieve scripts

2009-07-23 Thread Mauricio Tavares
I have the following global cmusieve scripts defined in /etc/dovecot/sieve, which is owned by the user deliver is run (virtual) as defined in the lda session of dovecot.conf: global-spam.script == require ["fileinto"]; # Move spam to spam folder if header :

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with sieve scripts including sieve scripts

2009-07-23 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Stephan Bosch wrote: Mauricio Tavares wrote: I have the following global cmusieve scripts defined in /etc/dovecot/sieve, which is owned by the user deliver is run (virtual) as defined in the lda session of dovecot.conf: global-spam.script == require

[Dovecot] imap, locks, and dovecot

2009-07-30 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Let's say I have two computers -- a desktop and a laptop -- setup to check email on my postfix/dovecot/mailscanner box by using imap. Now, both machines use thunderbird and have a filter in that mail client to move emails that have a certain to: address (an alias, like supp...@domain.com) to

Re: [Dovecot] Redirecting mail gives 'mail forwarding loop' to the sender - calling for sieve help

2009-08-14 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Andrés Yacopino wrote: Greetings, i am testing: - dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.11 - dovecot 1.2.3 - dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.8 (with patch) I am trying to use sieve_after to execute some redirection of mails. I have put in the after script: require "include"; require "fileinto"; if header :cont

[Dovecot] Yet another going from 1.2 to 2.X question: authentication

2013-09-18 Thread Mauricio Tavares
So in 1.2.9 I had something like this: [...] socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = virtual # User running Dovecot LDA's deliver } } # Dovecot as SASL Auth socket listen { client {

[Dovecot] On mailboxes, separators, and dovecot2

2013-10-04 Thread Mauricio Tavares
While I was running dovecot 1.2.9, I had my mailboxes using the old Courier IMAP format. i.e. my mailboxes would look like INBOX.Orders.Scams Going to dovecot 2 (but not 2.1), I see to have a few questions: 1) It seems I would device my mailbox thingies in 10-mail.conf: namespace inbox {

Re: [Dovecot] Yet another going from 1.2 to 2.X question: authentication

2013-10-06 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Noel Butler wrote: > On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 00:50 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > >> So in 1.2.9 I had something like this: >> >> [...] >> >> socket listen { >> master { >> path = /var/run/do

[Dovecot] Sieve and Namespace in dovecot 2.0.X

2013-10-11 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Based on what I read in http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Usage, if I have a namespace defined as tail conf.d/10-mail.conf namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = INBOX. separator =. type = private } A global script like cat /etc/dovecot/sieve/global-spam.sieve requ

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve and Namespace in dovecot 2.0.X

2013-10-11 Thread Mauricio Tavares
OX.Spam messages=92283 > Am 11.10.2013 16:30, schrieb Mauricio Tavares: > >> Based on what I read in >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Usage, if I have a namespace >> defined as >> >> tail conf.d/10-mail.conf >> >> namespace inbox { >&g

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve and Namespace in dovecot 2.0.X

2013-10-11 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Martin Rabl wrote: > Hm. Ok. > > Am 11.10.2013 16:44, schrieb Mauricio Tavares: >> >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Martin Rabl >> wrote: >>> >>>fileinto :create "INBOX.Spam"; >> >

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve and Namespace in dovecot 2.0.X

2013-10-11 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Martin Rabl wrote: >> Hm. Ok. >> >> Am 11.10.2013 16:44, schrieb Mauricio Tavares: >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Martin Rabl >>>

Re: [Dovecot] Using dovecot as LDA for postfix

2013-10-15 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2013-10-14 12:43 PM, Farzad Mahdikhani wrote: >> >> dovecot 1.0.7 >> >> I want to config a complete postfix-dovecot mail server. > > > So, please do not start with an ancient, unsupported version. > > 2.2.6 is the latest stable, but at

[Dovecot] Expire plugin and databases

2013-12-05 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Dumb question: do I need to have a database to run the expire plugin?

Re: stop deletion of mails

2014-11-17 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Nov 17, 2014 5:48 AM, "Timo Sirainen" wrote: > > On 17 Nov 2014, at 02:44, Edwardo Garcia wrote: > > > Is possible with dovecot? > > > > Legal department have told us we need to stop anyone from delete email > > on corporate mail server, so nobody, even managers can not anymore > > delete any

Re: Thunderbird: improper command pipelining after EHLO

2015-01-26 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 26.01.2015 um 15:22 schrieb Leander Schäfer: >> >> I couldn't find working solutions for this anomalie on the net. What >> does this mean and does someone know how to fix this? >> >> postfix/smtpd[18757]: improper command pipelining afte

Editing fail2ban page?

2019-04-09 Thread Mauricio Tavares via dovecot
In https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/Fail2Ban, for a current (I know for a fact in 2.2.36) I believe it should be filter = dovecot instead of filter = dovecot-pop3imap [root@mail ~]# ls -l /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/doveco* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1875 May 11 2017 /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/dovecot.conf

User found but password failure

2019-08-25 Thread Mauricio Tavares via dovecot
Trying to figure out which step is causing me not to be able to login. I am using a password file, passdb { driver = passwd-file args = scheme=SHA512-CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/passwd } We will assume that the pw I created using 'doveadm pw -s SHA512-CRYPT' matches the passw

Re: User found but password failure

2019-08-26 Thread Mauricio Tavares via dovecot
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 2:38 AM Aki Tuomi wrote: > > > On 26.8.2019 6.51, Mauricio Tavares via dovecot wrote: > > Trying to figure out which step is causing me not to be able to > > login. I am using a password file, > > > > passdb { > > driver =

Re: User found but password failure

2019-08-26 Thread Mauricio Tavares via dovecot
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 4:36 PM Joseph Tam via dovecot wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > > Per [1] I decided to see what the response (base64-reply) I am > > submitting to dovecot looks like: > > > > echo 'base64-reply' | b

Re: IMAP4 extensions for Visual Voicemail (VVM)

2019-10-20 Thread Mauricio Tavares via dovecot
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:43 AM Rajesh Bansal via dovecot wrote: > > Hi Team, > > > > I need to develop Visual VoiceMail solution. In this solution I need a IMAP4 > server, from which I can get a hit for each mail retrieval. Can anyone help > me if dovecot can be used for this purpose. >

Re: User found but password failure

2019-11-11 Thread Mauricio Tavares via dovecot
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 4:44 PM Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 4:36 PM Joseph Tam via dovecot > wrote: > > > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > > > > Per [1] I decided to see what the response (base64-reply) I am &g