Re: different TLS protocols on different ports

2018-11-14 Thread Noel
+1 Strongly agree with this.  If you have enough users that you have use both hands to count them, running different protocols on different ports is a sure-fire way to annoy your users and create problems for support staff (eg. you).  Either allow the antique protocol everywhere, or give notice and cut it off.    -- Noel Jones

Re: Mail slowed down to a crawl...

2018-11-16 Thread Noel
ccess.  These same things can mess up dovecot access too. Unmount the drive and fsck it a few times.  Power cycle / reboot the system.   -- Noel Jones On 11/16/2018 10:05 AM, StarionTech (IMAP) wrote: > Yes, I thought all of those things too. Spent a good part of yesterday > eliminating

Re: Changing the default delivery mailbox to something other than INBOX

2021-01-17 Thread Noel
I expect the delivery location used by the Dovecot LDA is set in the Dovecot LDA and not in postfix.   -- Noel Jones On 1/17/2021 8:42 PM, Ron Garret wrote: I tried the obvious: mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/mail:INBOX=mail/.Incoming and that failed in an even more

Re: quota-status fails when size=0 from Postfix

2021-07-29 Thread Noel
pient mail. The only solution is to reject all mail for an over-quota recipient during recipient restrictions, and if the mail passes that stage, deliver it anyway even if it makes the user go over quota.   -- Noel Jones

Re: quota-status fails when size=0 from Postfix

2021-07-29 Thread Noel
ss-of-size. MTA- I have a 0 byte mail for bob. Is he over quota? D- nope, he's good for another 50Kb. MTA- Ok, here's the mail, it's really 3Mb. D- Thanks, delivered. --  next run -- MTA- I have a 0 byte mail for bob. Is he over quota? D- Yes. MTA- Thanks, rejected.   -- Noel Jones

Re: unexpected delivery location

2017-08-23 Thread Noel
No translation, but more like an alias. > > MJ Don't use wildcard aliases.  They break recipient validation and cause postfix to accept all addresses. Instead use 1-1 aliases, such as user1@olddomaon  user1@newdomain user2@olddomaon  user2@newdomain user3@olddomaon  user3@newdomain ...   -- Noel Jones

Re: unexpected delivery location

2017-08-23 Thread Noel
On 8/23/2017 2:53 PM, mj wrote: > > On 08/23/2017 06:03 PM, Noel wrote: >> Don't use wildcard aliases.  They break recipient validation and >> cause postfix to accept all addresses. >> >> Instead use 1-1 aliases, such as >> user1@olddomaon  user1@newd

Re: postfix -1 read errors

2017-10-22 Thread Noel
On 10/22/2017 3:26 PM, Alef Veld wrote: > Hi all. > I’m a bit worried about the following read errors i see in my log lately. > Mails still arrive and get sent fine, but what is going on with this? It > doesn’t look good. Nothing has change on server side and i restarted all > services (dovecot,

Re: Outlook Express with XP...

2015-06-01 Thread Noel
you likely broke compatibility with older clients. If you need further help, feel free to ask on the postfix-users list. Be sure to include "postconf -nf" and "postconf -Mf" output, along with related log entries demonstrating the problem. http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.h

Re: Outlook Express with XP...

2015-06-02 Thread Noel
Yes, dovecot handles the authentication, but the connection is handled by postfix. We already know the authentication work since you can receive mail, so the problem is either postfix or the client. At any rate, this isn't a dovecot problem. -- Noel Jones On 6/2/2015 12:38 A

Re: Mail to nowhere

2015-06-16 Thread Noel
On 6/16/2015 10:44 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: > The next phase of my testing procedure involves the simple act of > delivering mail to my test box. When I send a message to either a > valid or relayed user at my remote machine's address, it never gets > there. I know this virtually for sure because I

Re: Connection between postfix and dovecot failing

2015-11-28 Thread Noel
amavis. You can (temporarily) disable the content filter and get mail flowing by commenting out any "content_filter" statements in postfix main.cf or master.cf, then requeue all deferred mail with "postsuper -r ALL" Further discussion of this should move to the amavis-users list. https://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ -- Noel Jones

Re: Multiple IPs and hostname

2015-12-17 Thread Noel
eader. > And if somebody sends a mail to "u...@foo2.com", only the hostname > "mail.foo2.com" should be visible in the mail header. > > > Is there a way to do this? > > The solution is to use multiple postfix instances rather than adding lines to master.cf. http://www.postfix.org/MULTI_INSTANCE_README.html -- Noel Jones

Re: Multiple IPs and hostname

2015-12-18 Thread Noel
On 12/18/2015 12:19 AM, Thilo Engelbracht wrote: > Am 17.12.2015 um 16:16 schrieb Noel : > >> On 12/17/2015 11:51 AM, Thilo Engelbracht wrote: >>> But my customer asks me if it's possible that only his domain is visible >>> in the header: >>> So, if so

Re: Temporary Lookup Failure

2016-01-17 Thread Noel
s/smtpd warning hash:/etc/postfix/virtual is > unavailable open database /etc/postfix/virtual.db No such file. This is (likely) the virtual_alias_maps rewrite map, definitely not the virtual delivery process. Find where you've defined a virtual map with # postconf | grep virtual and remove

Re: Temporary Lookup Failure

2016-01-18 Thread Noel
On 1/17/2016 4:53 PM, Brad wrote: > Hi Christian, Noel and Skeeved, > > Found the offending postfix -o virtual map in master.cf and > removed it. > > Re-tested email and new error but the warning for the virtual is > gone: > > Sender address rejected not owned by user &

Re: [Dovecot] TLS Authentication Confusion

2011-11-10 Thread Noel
services, which is good. > > -- > Regards, > Tom The confusion is caused by the way some client software differentiate these services in their configuration, often referring to wrappermode smtps/imaps as "SSL", and STARTTLS as "TLS". -- Noel Jones -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: [Dovecot] Postfix user map

2012-01-09 Thread Noel
ort = 1234 > } > } > > Anyone have ideas if this could be improved, or used for some > other purposes? Cool. Does this just check for valid user existence, or can it also check for over-quota (and respond 500 overquota I suppose)? -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Postfix user map

2012-01-09 Thread Noel
On 1/9/2012 9:37 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: > Am 09.01.2012 16:32, schrieb Noel: >> On 1/9/2012 8:43 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/f562bcaca215 implements >>> "postmap" type sockets, which follow Postfix's

Re: [Dovecot] Postfix user map

2012-01-09 Thread Noel
On 1/9/2012 12:09 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 9.1.2012, at 17.32, Noel wrote: > > Cool. > Does this just check for valid user existence, or can it also check > for over-quota (and respond 500 overquota I suppose)? > Hmm. That looked potentially useful, but Postfix doesn&#x

Re: [Dovecot] change smtp port

2012-01-23 Thread Noel
the mail for you and forwards connections to some different port on your computer. I don't know of any free services that do this; dyndns and others offer this for a fee, sometimes combined with spam/virus filtering. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] change smtp port

2012-01-24 Thread Noel
On 1/24/2012 5:23 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2012-01-23 11:14 AM, Noel wrote: >> If your problem is that your Internet Service Provider is blocking >> port 25, you can contact them. Some ISPs will unblock port 25 on >> request, or might even have an online form you can

Re: [Dovecot] May 05 07:20:21 imap: Warning: Time jumped forwards 16 seconds

2011-05-05 Thread Noel
rds" warnings. ! Seriously ? Definitely you should run ntpd -- but you need to make sure that it's configured correctly and working. Running "ntpdate" will cause time to jump. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] May 05 07:20:21 imap: Warning: Time jumped forwards 16 seconds

2011-05-06 Thread Noel
. Exceptions are virtual machines, which have their own time tools, and "personal" devices that sleep/resume frequently, AFAIK no reliable solution for these. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] ntp revisited (so what to do ?)

2011-05-08 Thread Noel
Virtual environments have their own time service. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Emails from invalid local accounts

2012-10-18 Thread Noel
ight since you'll reject a significant amount of non-spam mail. Another thing to consider setting in postfix main.cf is: smtpd_reject_unlisted_sender = yes which will reject invalid envelope senders in your domain. (Note the difference between envelope sender and the From: header.) -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Emails from invalid local accounts

2012-10-18 Thread Noel
ist. That is a serious problem. http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail The point you're missing is that there is no way to validate the From: header. Look at other features of the unwanted mail for ways to reject it. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Protocol logging - TLS vs SSL

2013-02-26 Thread Noel
e and STARTTLS, and they aren't compatible. The SSL/TLS designation, while not technically correct, is a convenient way to tell users which to pick without a long on-screen description. Anyone who's confused by this is trying too hard. It's really all TLS. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-13 Thread Noel
t; account settings menu? > > Does anyone have any experience with configuring Outlook to use > self-signed certs? > > Thanks, > Alex This sounds like you're working on a fairly big project, so spend $20 and 15 minutes to get a REAL certificate for the test domain from one of the countless online vendors. Surely your time is worth something --- you've spent two days futzing around with this already, and aren't done yet. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-13 Thread Noel
an $20/year, takes literally 15 minutes from start to having a certificate. Well, maybe 30 minutes the first time when you need to read everything. There are probably dozens of other sites offering similar services; I've used this one several times. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot / Postfix

2013-04-12 Thread Noel
ions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination but what we really want to see (and what postfix-users will want to see) is how you integrated this into postfix, not a working config before changes. Did you maybe forget the "check_policy_service" keyword? -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Any way to let dovecot block pop3 attempts?

2013-05-10 Thread Noel
retty easy to define a different action, such as the old fashioned but still effective null route the offending IP, or if you build dovecot with tcp wrapper support, Fail2Ban can add the IP to hosts.deny. Of course, you can block with null routes or hosts.deny manually, but better to let the computer do the work. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Looking for a good way to manage passwords for CRAM-MD5

2013-05-14 Thread Noel
wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL > > Quoting from the latter page: > > "Some admins want to require SSL/TLS, but don't realize that this is > also possible with STARTTLS (Dovecot has disable_plaintext_auth=yes > and ssl=required settings)." It's not unreasonable to disable the plaintext ports to minimize the possibility of a fat-fingered accident. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Disconnected (no auth attempts)

2013-08-12 Thread Noel
ettings in thunderbird, possibly the server->authentication method setting. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Logging passwords on auth failure/dealing with botnets

2013-09-01 Thread Noel
> Stan? > The objective of Stan's list is to reject dynamic hosts, because the overwhelming majority of dynamic hosts trying to send via SMTP are zombies. For dovecot, the situation is quite different. Blocking all dynamic IPs would be an obvious mistake. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Logging passwords on auth failure/dealing with botnets

2013-09-02 Thread Noel
failures during Y seconds, fail all future attempts for the account for T seconds. Maybe reset the timer on each attempt during the blackout period so the timer never expires on the persistent distributed brute force attacks. I suppose there would also need to be a way to whitelist IPs so the account owner can get in. -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] stopping dictionary attacks (pop3)

2013-09-02 Thread Noel
ecret is the "pfctl -k IP" command to drop state for the offending IP. Just add it to your fail2ban action command. action = /sbin/pfctl {whatever you have now} && /sbin/pfctl -k A nice writeup of fail2ban and pf can be found here: http://www.effu.se/2011/03/Integrating-PF-with-Fail2ban-0.9 -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Logging passwords on auth failure/dealing with botnets

2013-09-03 Thread Noel
On 9/3/2013 5:12 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > > Ummm... maybe you didn't read what I wrote? That is what I meant > by 'whitelist' in item 1... ;) > Yes, I think we're on the same page. > > On 2013-09-02 9:59 PM, ot...@ahhyes.net wrote: >> Is there anyway to limit the number of auth attempts allow

Re: [Dovecot] stopping dictionary attacks (pop3)

2013-09-04 Thread Noel
users. > Operators of shared hosting servers certainly wont have that luxury. On my personal sever I use http://www.ipdeny.com/ cidr blocks to only allow the countries where users are expected to be. Obviously not a solution for an ISP... -- Noel Jones

Re: [Dovecot] Struggling with antispam

2014-03-07 Thread Noel
ds. Remember the purpose of greylisting is to reject bots, not delay "real" mail servers -- even if you don't want their mail. -- Noel Jones

Re: Dovecot Sieve and Postfix header_checks Issue

2014-09-26 Thread Noel
software you're familiar with. You're welcome to discuss postfix header checks further on the postfix-users list. -- Noel Jones

Re: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

2017-11-06 Thread Noel Butler
it was before. mail_location Optionally disable indexes using :INDEX=MEMORY don't use this on IMAP boxes, but is safe to use on SMTP and POP3's boxes though eg: mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%Ld/%1Ln/%1.1Ln/%2.1Ln/%Ln/Maildir:INDEX=MEMORY -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler

Re: Ubuntu Auth Issues with new repository code..

2017-12-27 Thread Noel Butler
e RPMs, RH v say for example Fresh, because package maintainers will package differently. Its like trying to stick a cisco 1800 image on an ASR9K and expecting it to work perfectly. Though we don't use deb or rpm based systems and haven't for about 15 years, if I was to, I think I'd

Re: Adding Sieve to Roundcube

2017-12-29 Thread Noel Butler
/plugins/managsieve/config.inc.php.dist to config.inc.php, and enable the plugin in /config/config.inc.php in $config[plugins] arrayjust like every other plugin. done... -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privi

Re: Adding Sieve to Roundcube

2017-12-29 Thread Noel Butler
but it shows it takes very little work to "document" it, your stressing for no reason. https://mail.ausics.net/help/add_filter0.gif -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore remains

Re: DMARC mailing list rejections

2018-01-16 Thread Noel Butler
use either and all your pain will go away -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore remains confidential and subject to copyright protected under international law. You may not disseminate, dis

Re: maildirlock time unit?

2018-10-15 Thread Noel Butler
outs set. Not waiting for infinity. > > This is on 2.3.3. 2.2 worked fine without needing time unit specified. -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore remains confidential and subject to

Re: Mailing list address harvested for spamming

2018-12-01 Thread Noel Butler
me that some people on mailing lists feel the need to reply directly, rather than through mailing list. (Yeah I know its also shortcomings of certain mailers and mailing services (has gmail even fixed that yet) where hitting reply or reply all should go to list. Its also dumb when list admins dont

Re: Mailing list address harvested for spamming

2018-12-01 Thread Noel Butler
On 02/12/2018 10:16, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On 12/01/2018 04:09 PM, Noel Butler wrote: > >> Which is why it annoys me that some people on mailing lists feel the need to >> reply directly, rather than through mailing list. > > Sometimes it is the MUA that is poorly d

Re: Mailing list address harvested for spamming

2018-12-02 Thread Noel Butler
tting 1500 people ask the same damn question. -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore remains confidential and subject to copyright protected under international law. You may not disseminate, di

Re: Sieve broken after upgrade

2018-12-02 Thread Noel Butler
n username via dovecot. I think Aki's playing with settings that are not quite right yet :) -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore remains confidential and subject to copyr

Re: BUG: sieve does not set seen-Flag

2018-12-05 Thread Noel Butler
one here has to do shit for you, the fact it works for everyone else, indicates there is a problem with your configuration and yours alone - somewhere, and because you're the only one experiencing this, it may be harder to trace the origin of. -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler

Re: BUG: sieve does not set seen-Flag

2018-12-06 Thread Noel Butler
On 07/12/2018 16:44, Aki Tuomi wrote: > On 6.12.2018 6.54, Noel Butler wrote: > > On 06/12/2018 07:29, Jakobus Schürz wrote: > > that all and every Flag is set, except \Seen... I tried to figure out, whats > happening here... > > Paste what your sieve file contain

Re: BUG: sieve does not set seen-Flag

2018-12-07 Thread Noel Butler
On 07/12/2018 17:55, Jakobus Schürz wrote: > Am 07.12.18 um 08:10 schrieb Noel Butler: > > On 07/12/2018 16:44, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > On 6.12.2018 6.54, Noel Butler wrote: > > On 06/12/2018 07:29, Jakobus Schürz wrote: > > that all and every Flag is set, except

Re: lda to lmtp

2021-06-12 Thread Noel Butler
is is probably more a question for postfix users list, might explain why noone here answered you, but no its not needed with lmtp, and 2 msgs a second, you want see any benefit over lda unless your running on a 386 :) -- Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including attachments, may contain le

Re: lda to lmtp

2021-06-13 Thread Noel Butler
23:02, Benny Pedersen wrote: On 2021-06-12 13:42, Noel Butler wrote: off your drugs again benny? WTF should she provide all the config outputs, when she asked a simple question about one option, and WTF clamav came from is beyond me this is very important AFTER i replayed to help, not BEFORE,

pop3-login logging double Disconencted

2022-01-25 Thread Noel Butler
since logs indicate this only occurred after updating to the point 1 release. -- Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore at all times remains confidential and subject to copyright protected under international law. You may

Re: [Dovecot-news] Headsup on feature removal

2020-03-18 Thread Noel Butler
ing else at once in a new major is perfectly acceptable, and, is the norm. -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore remains confidential and subject to copyright protected under international law. You

Re: NFSv4 and Maildir

2016-09-30 Thread Noel Butler
On 01/10/2016 08:27, Joseph Tam wrote: we have a setup with (CentOS 6) Director+Dovecot, Maildir as storage on NetApp NFS v3. Every time I try to switch to NFS v4 I found issue with lock (and others). So for me NFSv4 with Maildir is "unstable" or need a fine tuning that I don't know. I foun

Re: CVE-2016-8652 in dovecot

2016-12-02 Thread Noel Butler
> [1]: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8562 > [2]: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-856 > 2 Ups, sent wrong number, correct is CVE-2016-8652. That is the same number, no? No, read it again. the wrong and pasted copie are 8 5 62, his revise

Re: dovecot 2.2.31: linking error

2017-07-01 Thread Noel Butler
s. Just like passwd backends which we used to be able to select, now, sadly dovecot is bloatware I can compile an entire freaking kernel 35% faster than dovecot :) -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged information

Re: migrating 2.1 to 3.x, sql pass scheme, pass value?

2017-08-14 Thread Noel Butler
racle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]> If not, look into mysql db and verifiy vmail user and perms (especially for localhost), ensure yo

Re: migrating 2.1 to 3.x, sql pass scheme, pass value?

2017-08-14 Thread Noel Butler
hit enter too quickly (I've had one coffee all morning hehe) On 15/08/2017 08:54, Noel Butler wrote: > Copyright (c) 2000, 2017, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. > > Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input &

Re: migrating 2.1 to 3.x, sql pass scheme, pass value?

2017-08-15 Thread Noel Butler
he wrong area, since the database stores passwords hashed, you enter it in, in plain text, the database them does its magic to convert what you entered in, into a hash and does the matching in its own backend, so to speak. if you put in your dovecot sql file, the vmail password in plain text and not

Re: migrating 2.1 to 3.x, sql pass scheme, pass value?

2017-08-15 Thread Noel Butler
On 15/08/2017 22:23, Noel Butler wrote: > On 15/08/2017 21:25, voy...@sbt.net.au wrote: > >> On Tue, August 15, 2017 8:03 pm, Sami Ketola wrote: >> On 15 Aug 2017, at 2.50, voy...@sbt.net.au wrote: >> >> how do I generate hashed string from my password ? >>

Re: migrating 2.1 to 3.x, sql pass scheme, pass value?

2017-08-15 Thread Noel Butler
On 15/08/2017 22:58, voy...@sbt.net.au wrote: > On Tue, August 15, 2017 10:27 pm, Noel Butler wrote: > >> HUH? >> Are you trying to login to mysql using the hash itself? > > Noel, thanks!! > > oops, misunderstood instruction... > > this is better: >

Re: namespace configuration error

2017-08-15 Thread Noel Butler
delete anything - til you get it sorted) > mailbox Drafts { > special_use = \Drafts > } > mailbox Junk { > special_use = \Junk > } > mailbox Sent { > special_use = \Sent > } > mailbox "Sent Messages" { > special_use = \Sent > } > mailbox Trash { > special

Re: is a self signed certificate always invalid the first time?

2017-08-18 Thread Noel Butler
insurance level on even the most basic of their offerings. Do your research, though if using a paid service, since some others are soon to be un-trusted. -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore

Re: Dovecot mail_location for fedora

2017-08-18 Thread Noel Butler
l/ closes the connection. Thats not how maildir works you need to add the Maildir directory to it, ie maildir:/var/spool/mail/%n/Maildir but DO NOT USE THAT directory! And its more than dovecot you need to change if you're going to use maildir, so just fix up your mbox settings. -- Kind Reg

Re: Dovecot mail_location for fedora

2017-08-18 Thread Noel Butler
Ahh thats it :) He should be good now, no idea why a fedora install wouldn't have that On 18/08/2017 19:43, Aki Tuomi wrote: > mail_location=~/.mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%Ln > > Aki -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including any attachments, may c

Re: Dovecot mail_location for fedora

2017-08-18 Thread Noel Butler
replied, I dare say Aki's post helped him sort it out. -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore remains confidential and subject to copyright protected under international law. You may not

Re: moving from mysql to pgsql

2017-10-04 Thread Noel Butler
stems crypt options including sha's - providing your system is half modern, if its ten years old dont use that, it'll be likely using the old 8 char limited crypt :) (and dont laugh the number of antique debian and RH boxes I've come across is scary) anyway, so even as a fallback for t

Re: [Dovecot-news] CVE-2022-30550: Privilege escalation possible in dovecot when similar master and non-master passdbs are used

2022-07-07 Thread Noel Butler
eparate db for support teams anyway, or I'd hope so/ -- Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore at all times remains confidential and subject to copyright protected under international law. You may not disseminate thi

Re: Multiple backends with NFSv4.1 (supports file locking): should work without Director, right?

2023-05-20 Thread Noel Butler
e actually smart and exponentially more reliable and robust than server based :) -- Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore at all times remains confidential and subject to copyright protected under international law. You may n

Re: Multiple backends with NFSv4.1 (supports file locking): should work without Director, right?

2023-05-22 Thread Noel Butler
lue 0 On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 7:34 AM Noel Butler wrote: NFSv4, a dozen front ends to an EMC backend, with v4 we added "noac lookupcache=none" in very early days - not sure if they are still needed. otherwise just like when using NFSv3, no problems, and never used director.

Re: Multiple backends with NFSv4.1 (supports file locking): should work without Director, right?

2023-05-22 Thread Noel Butler
On 22/05/2023 22:33, Marc wrote: used director. real (hardware) load balancers are actually smart and exponentially more reliable and robust than server based :) because there runs no software on it, right this statement here, shows what a clueless newbie you are -- Regards, Noel

Re: Multiple backends with NFSv4.1 (supports file locking): should work without Director, right?

2023-05-22 Thread Noel Butler
- not blogs -- Regards, Noel Butler This Email, including attachments, may contain legally privileged information, therefore at all times remains confidential and subject to copyright protected under international law. You may not disseminate this message without the authors express wr

Re: Enterprise Repository Access?

2016-01-09 Thread Noel Butler
On 09/01/2016 22:06, mj wrote: Compiling our own dovecot for production use sounds less appealing, What's so un-appealing about building from source? It's then perfectly matched to your system. Admittedly I can build kernels faster than latest dovecot's, but that's just the "make time"

Re: To what extent does/will Dovecot depend on systemd? was systemd changes...

2016-02-22 Thread Noel Butler
On 22/02/2016 17:14, Aki Tuomi wrote: On 21.02.2016 19:10, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 10:03:15 +0100 Thomas Leuxner wrote: [snip] https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/53cc71cae88ee81fd7eae47aed743496f8c884a2 [snip] The PID-File seems to be expected under yet another sub-dir o

Re: severe fork() problems with new dovecot server

2016-03-01 Thread Noel Butler
On 02/03/2016 05:11, J. Niklas wrote: On 01.03.2016 18:21, Dolf Schimmel wrote: Recently I played around a little with cgroups where you can limit the max number of processes per cgroup. Could it be that, perhaps, you've stumbled upon such a limit? Systemd does contain all services by default

Re: Ubuntu packages

2016-03-05 Thread Noel Butler
On 06/03/2016 04:18, Robert Schetterer wrote: for paranoid people, create you own repo and for info dovecot had nice compiled from scratch to me in the past too The only way to use dovecot IMHO is by source, you build in what you want and omit the junk (that some repo packagers want to incl

Re: NetApp NFS vs. ZFS and NFS for Maildir

2016-03-13 Thread Noel Butler
On 13/03/2016 20:47, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:45:06 + James wrote: On 11/03/2016 15:17, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > zfs set sync=disabled ? Only if you are happy to loose data on power failure. I don't know the actual setup, but if you have no UPC you

Re: NetApp NFS vs. ZFS and NFS for Maildir

2016-03-14 Thread Noel Butler
On 14/03/2016 09:59, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:32:42 +1000 Noel Butler wrote: On 13/03/2016 20:47, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:45:06 + > James wrote: > >> On 11/03/2016 15:17, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: >&g

Re: NetApp NFS vs. ZFS and NFS for Maildir

2016-03-19 Thread Noel Butler
On 14/03/2016 18:49, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: and you've never seen these cause problems with FS? then you must be a newbie, in over 25 years I've seen it happen several times - yes even after an apparent controlled shutdown. Maybe you're doing something wrong then. because in my la

Re: NetApp NFS vs. ZFS and NFS for Maildir

2016-03-25 Thread Noel Butler
It seems its troll time again on this list, ohh maybe its Harry in disguise... So I will play along, for today anyway :) On 19/03/2016 18:11, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 17:37:04 +1000 Noel Butler wrote: On 14/03/2016 18:49, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > >&g

Re: Email hosting provider

2016-03-25 Thread Noel Butler
On 21/03/2016 17:06, Andre Rodier wrote: Hello, Sorry if I am off topic a little. I am looking for an email host provider that supports dovecot, sieve and manage sieve. Ideally with the roundcube webmail and managesieve plugin Better if it is in Europe or switzerland. I don't mind paying a lit

Re: Email hosting provider

2016-03-26 Thread Noel Butler
On 26/03/2016 17:04, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:34:34 +1000 Noel Butler wrote: On 21/03/2016 17:06, Andre Rodier wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry if I am off topic a little. > > I am looking for an email host provider that supports dovecot, sieve >

Re: Email hosting provider

2016-03-27 Thread Noel Butler
On 28/03/2016 01:09, Andrew McGlashan wrote: I love this on your about page: On 27/03/2016 3:14 PM, Noel Butler wrote: I don't need to understand German law, thats what my Frankfurt lawyers do, I'd trust our data privacy far more in our Frankfurt site, then I would ever trust US or

Re: Pigeonhole 0.4.13 does not compile against dovecot 2.2.23

2016-03-30 Thread Noel Butler
On 31/03/2016 02:06, Stephan Bosch wrote: Hi, Op 3/30/2016 om 5:34 PM schreef Juan C. Blanco: Hello, I supose that a new version of pigeonhole is on the way because version 0.4.13 does not compile against dovecot 2.2.23 This is the error that I get gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I..

Re: Pigeonhole 0.4.13 does not compile against dovecot 2.2.23

2016-03-31 Thread Noel Butler
On 31/03/2016 11:09, Stephan Bosch wrote: Pigeonhole needs to be recompiled. Regards, Stephan. hrmm it was, but process was ampersands so maybe somthing prior failed and it did not complete make install, its late so ill look at it again tomorrow. -- If you have the urge to reply to a

RE: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

2016-06-25 Thread Noel Butler
On 26/06/2016 02:39, Michael Fox wrote: The most crucial difference is that LDA is intended for delivering email to a *real* user. Aki Thanks Aki. Pardon my ignorance, but why does it matter? In other words, what is it that makes LDA better for a *real* user and LMTP better for a virtual u

Re: Deletion of mail from Junk mailbox

2016-07-02 Thread Noel Butler
On 02/07/2016 19:16, Doug Hardie wrote: I have a pigeon sive running which directs some of my received mail to the Junk folder. That works just fine. However, a couple minutes later, it is moved to Deleted mailbox and deleted from Junk. At first I thought my client was doing that so I shut dow

Re: [Dovecot] My status

2011-07-22 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 16:12 +0100, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: > 30 Degrees Centigrade whilst 22 outside? Where the heck are you > living ? > Indeed, at 22c I'm still wearing a jumper :) ... 30c is just right. <> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Dovecot] sieve on debian squeeze

2011-07-28 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 16:55 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/28/2011 2:51 AM, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > > > Now the problem concerns outgoing messages. If I try to send e-mail > > through out command (local user) or through out authentication > > provided by a virtual user I get a error like:

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Backup

2011-07-31 Thread Noel Butler
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 14:02 +0200, spamv...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi.. > > are there any proofen Methods to backup all mail ? > > shutting down dovecot and tar the hole dir? > using rsnapshot? > > any hints / thoughts > > im running dovecot2 on freebsd > I assume it's only a single stand

Re: [Dovecot] list archive

2011-08-09 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 17:12 -0400, Postmaster wrote: > I'm not able to access the mailing list archives following the > instructions here... > >http://www.dovecot.org/mailinglists.html > > using either IMAP or by downloading the mbox file. replace www.dovecot.org with dovecot.org the mir

Re: [Dovecot] May Dovecot help in users education

2011-08-17 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 16:05 +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: > On 17/08/2011 16:00, Alexandre Chapellon wrote: > > Is there any way to achieve this with dovecot? Does anybody have another > > idea smoothly force used to switch to TLS? > > Hi, > > Maybe by sending them an email with a deadline for the

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.16 and Thunderbird 5 - pop3 mails not getting deleted

2011-08-22 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 09:10 +0300, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote: > On 08/06/2011 01:32 AM, Ian Evans wrote: > > I run a Dovecot 1.2.16 pop3 server and have just started using the > > Thunderbird 5 email client. > > > > Thunderbird is set to leave the messages on the server unless they are > > over 91 d

Re: [Dovecot] mysql auth failover failing

2011-09-09 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 19:33 -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote: > default_pass_scheme = PLAIN Uhg i'll pretend I didnt see that :) > > According to the sample SQL configuration file "HA / round-robin > load-balancing is supported by giving multiple host settings, like: > host=sql1.host.org host

Re: [Dovecot] mysql auth failover failing

2011-09-10 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 20:16 -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:02:57PM -0700, Noel Butler wrote: > > suggest, having just one master server, after all, dovecot and postfix > > just need to read, not alter/update/insert etc. > > True; but the pie

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