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

Re: [Dovecot] Temporary Failure that's Permanent!

2011-10-25 Thread Noel Butler
Hi, I've been away for a while, and the previous threads I stopped reading because it makes reading War and Peace look more enticing. Have you run in debug mode? On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 11:33 -0700, Jack Fredrikson wrote: > Hi; > > I continue to be plagued with this error: > > Oct 25 10:49:18

Re: [Dovecot] Temporary Failure that's Permanent!

2011-10-26 Thread Noel Butler
*sigh* As usual Stanley, you do not contribute anything constructive, only trollish jibberish Charles' advice however would be my next step, but at this point I think it's a bit drastic. On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 02:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/25/2011 2:34 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: > > J

Re: [Dovecot] Temporary Failure that's Permanent!

2011-10-26 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 11:33 -0700, Jack Fredrikson wrote: > mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f "$SENDER" -a > "$RECIPIENT" > get rid of this ^ in postifx main.cf > dovecot unix - n n - - pipe > flags=DRhu user=dovecot ar

Re: [Dovecot] v2.1.rc1 released

2011-11-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 21:35 +0100, Miguel Tormo wrote: > El Jueves, 24 de Noviembre de 2011 20:25:47 Timo Sirainen escribió: > > I'm not sure if changing /etc/security/limits.conf helps. It's probably > > only used by PAM when user logs in, so if Dovecot is started in system > > bootup it's unlike

Re: [Dovecot] Seen flag getting lost

2011-11-25 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 13:49 +0100, Edgar Fuß wrote: > > Then the 'S' flag is added to the current Maildir filename without > > losing any other changes. > And this is supposed to work even over NFS? Great. Absolutely, always has worked over NFS signature.asc Description: This is a digitall

Re: [Dovecot] crashes on 2.0.16

2011-12-18 Thread Noel Butler
Have you tried using a modern kernel? that one is about 2 years old. On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 00:32 +0100, Cor Bosman wrote: > Hey all, I upgraded some servers today from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze, > and after the upgrade I started getting dovecot crashes. I was on 2.0.13 but > got these th

Re: [Dovecot] crashes on 2.0.16

2011-12-18 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 02:32 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > Noel Butler wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 00:32 +0100, Cor Bosman wrote: > > >> # 2.0.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > >> # OS: Linux 2.6.32.36-xsserver x86_64 Debian 6.0.3 > > > Have yo

[Dovecot] OT Re: crashes on 2.0.16

2011-12-21 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 00:49 +0100, Christopher Stolzenberg wrote: > 2011/12/22 Jim Knuth : > > am 22.12.11 00:15 schrieb Christopher Stolzenberg > > > > : > > > > > >>> Indeed; very many of us use Debian stable. Which kernel did you install > >>> that is 2.0.16-friendly, and was this from Debian

Re: [Dovecot] OT Re: crashes on 2.0.16

2011-12-21 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 23:18 -0500, Simon Brereton wrote: > > I'm with Jim. Debian has served me well for years. This is just > distro-bias. Sure, you need modicum more sense and hands on experience, distro holy ways will outlast the real world holy wars, we each have a distro we all stand by

Re: [Dovecot] crashes on 2.0.16

2011-12-21 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 08:08 +0100, Robert Schetterer wrote: > Am 22.12.2011 00:49, schrieb Christopher Stolzenberg: > > 2011/12/22 Jim Knuth : > >> am 22.12.11 00:15 schrieb Christopher Stolzenberg > >> > >> : > >> > >> > Indeed; very many of us use Debian stable. Which kernel did you instal

Re: [Dovecot] crashes on 2.0.16

2011-12-21 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 08:42 +0100, Robert Schetterer wrote: > Am 22.12.2011 08:27, schrieb Noel Butler: > > On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 08:08 +0100, Robert Schetterer wrote: > > > >> Am 22.12.2011 00:49, schrieb Christopher Stolzenberg: > >>> 2011/12/22 Jim Knut

Re: [Dovecot] crashes on 2.0.16

2011-12-22 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 09:22 +0100, Cor Bosman wrote: > > This also is not the kernel list, since updating to a kernel released in > > the 21st century Cor's issue has gone away, so this thread is now rather > > entirely pointless on the Dovecot list. So I'll my participation in > > Actually, it

Re: [Dovecot] OT Re: crashes on 2.0.16

2011-12-22 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 06:31 -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:13:36 -0500 > Charles Marcus articulated: > > > On 2011-12-21 11:18 PM, Simon Brereton > > wrote: > > > It would be interesting to chart the number of threads caused by > > > each distro. I don't know who would have the le

Re: [Dovecot] OS/Distro wars

2011-12-22 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 14:11 +, Alan Brown wrote: > DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS > > another goose who think he's god... if you dont like a thread, dont read it, especially since its been marked as OT for past 10 or posts, ya moron. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messag

Re: [Dovecot] Storing passwords encrypted... bcrypt?

2012-01-04 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 20:58 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > To prevent rainbow table attacks, salt your passwords. You can make them > a little bit more difficult in plenty of ways, but salt is the /solution/. Agreed... We use Crypt::PasswdMD5 - unix_md5_crypt() for all general password st

Re: [Dovecot] Storing passwords encrypted... bcrypt?

2012-01-04 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 21:06 -0500, Patrick Domack wrote: > Quoting Noel Butler : > > > On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 20:58 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > > > >> To prevent rainbow table attacks, salt your passwords. You can make them > >> a little bit mor

Re: [Dovecot] Storing passwords encrypted... bcrypt?

2012-01-04 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 03:26 +0100, Pascal Volk wrote: > On 01/05/2012 02:59 AM Noel Butler wrote: > > We use Crypt::PasswdMD5 - > > unix_md5_crypt() for all general password storage including mail/ftp > > etc, except for web, where we need to use apache_md5_crypt(). > &

Re: [Dovecot] Storing passwords encrypted... bcrypt?

2012-01-04 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 04:05 +0100, Pascal Volk wrote: > On 01/05/2012 03:36 AM Noel Butler wrote: > > > > > Because with multiple servers, we store them all in (replicated) > > mysql :) (the same with postfix/dovecot). > > and as I'm sure you are aware,

Re: [Dovecot] Storing passwords encrypted... bcrypt?

2012-01-04 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 22:16 -0500, David Ford wrote: > > with multiple servers, we use pam & nss, with a replicated ldap backed. public accessible mode :P oh dont start me on that, but luckily I'm not subjected to its dangers...and telling Pascal bout Bourbon made me realise its time to hea

Re: [Dovecot] Server Time 45min ahead

2012-01-12 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 07:47 -0500, Harlan Stenn wrote: > > then as late as possible in the startup sequence, run: > > - ntp-wait -v -s 1 ; start dovecot and postfix (and database servers) I'll +1 that advice, I introduced ntp-wait sometime ago when dovecot kept bitching, not a single glitch

Re: [Dovecot] Performance of Maildir vs sdbox/mdbox

2012-01-19 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 02:13 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > There are several huge Dovecot+NFS setups. They use director. It works well > enough (and with the recent fixes, I'd hope perfectly). Not to mention other huge NFS setups that don't use director, and also have no problems. signatur

[Dovecot] sysconfdir depreacted

2012-03-21 Thread Noel Butler
The purpose of any build scripts --sysconfdir is to tell the configuration to build in a path for its binaries configuration file(s). Dovecot 2.1.3, seems to insist that that directory is now /etc/dovecot/ ignoring --sysconfdir=/etc as in 1.2.x and previous majors before that, is this a bug? if n

Re: [Dovecot] sysconfdir depreacted

2012-03-21 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 15:46 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 21.3.2012, at 15.26, Noel Butler wrote: > > > The purpose of any build scripts --sysconfdir is to tell the > > configuration to build in a path for its binaries configuration file(s). > > > > Dovecot 2.

Re: [Dovecot] sysconfdir depreacted

2012-03-22 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 07:28 +0100, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote: > :2012-03-22T11:55:Noel Butler: > > > perhaps it should be renamed then, given it violates the known normal > > for SYSCONF dir, you've just created another form of --datadir > > Not rea

Re: [Dovecot] sysconfdir depreacted

2012-03-23 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 12:53 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 23.3.2012, at 12.44, Heiko Schlichting wrote: > > > Timo wrote: > >> So the only way I can think of how to change this is to add another > >> option to optionally remove the dovecot/ suffix from the directory, but > >> is this really wo

Re: [Dovecot] sysconfdir depreacted

2012-03-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 03:50 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 24.3.2012, at 3.19, Noel Butler wrote: > > >> Yes, I was also thinking about that, but it's about removing the dovecot/ > >> suffix from other directories as well. That might be something worth doing >

Re: [Dovecot] sysconfdir depreacted

2012-03-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 03:50 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 24.3.2012, at 3.19, Noel Butler wrote: > > >> Yes, I was also thinking about that, but it's about removing the dovecot/ > >> suffix from other directories as well. That might be something worth doing >

Re: [Dovecot] 487 imap-login processes - is this ok

2012-04-17 Thread Noel Butler
Older versions of dovecot (all of v1) can under some circumstances screwup and leave hung login processes, this more often than not occurs if you have network issues, requiring a restart of dovecot to clear them. Timo has apparently, IIRC, worked around this for v2.x and it should not happen. On

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Noel Butler
It wasn't sent to the list, it was direct, therefore it IS spam On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 16:24 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > well, but what is exactly your problem with people offering professional > support for dovecot which is ON-TOPIC if this are not 20 mails each day? > signature.asc Des

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 11:42 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > On 17 May 2012, at 10:56, Charles Marcus wrote: > > > On 2012-05-17 10:20 AM, dovecot-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: > >> On 17 May 2012, at 9:46, Charles Marcus wrote: > >>> Tim is working closely with Timo, and I'm sure got Timo's pe

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: you might be supporting the lists owner!!

2012-05-17 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 20:32 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > Jeff Kletsky wrote: > > Even with "good intent" the message in question is clearly in > > violation of CAN-SPAM and Cal. Bus. Prof. Code Sec. 17529, of which > > the sender was informed of when my server was accessed. > --- > And you ha

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: you might be supporting the lists owner!!

2012-05-17 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 11:35 +0700, Tamsy wrote: > All that noise because of one mail offering some paid support is so one mail multiplies by all the miscreants in the world adds up to a bucket load of crap > unnecessary! Actually, it has merits, because it is spam, had it gone to users@ or

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: you might be supporting the lists owner!!

2012-05-18 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 06:48 -0400, Jerry wrote: > basically a non-event. It must have been a really slow news day. > non-event? You wouldnt be saying that if certain other operators with their products did that. I've seen you bitch and whinge about far far far less over the years Jerry. sig

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: you might be supporting the lists owner!!

2012-05-18 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 09:43 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Almost every commercial product I know off does send unsolicited email. Indeed, its why DNSBL's were developed > There's a delete or report spam button/shortcut key for that. If it helps > some other users, and more importantly the dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: you might be supporting the lists owner!!

2012-05-19 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 08:25 -0400, Jerry wrote: > > Hell I bitch about a lot of things; however, that does not change the > facts of the case. Only a subset of this list received the message in > question - Likely to see how many people bitched before the rest > - and I was not one of them.

Re: [Dovecot] Unbreakable NFS locking issues...

2008-11-11 Thread Noel Butler
Firstly, posting the same message with a slightly modified subject wont get you any answers any sooner, please refrain from doing this, it only gives you a bad name and may have the opposite affect to one you desire. On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 10:06, Rod Treweek wrote: > Hello All, > > We are str

Re: [Dovecot] troubles with 1.1.8 and squirrelmail over HTTPS

2009-01-14 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 02:49, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 16:28 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: > >> Hello > >> > >> I noticed a problem after upgrading to 1.1.8 > >> > >> Users that access to their mailboxes using webmail squirrelmail and HTTPS > >> using HTTP s

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot bulletins?

2009-01-20 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 08:28, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 23:18 +0100, Maciej Uhlig wrote: > > Timo Sirainen: > > > What exactly are they? I guess a global file that is served as a message > > > for all users? > > Right. With POP3 it is served once - after first user login after t

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot upgrade broke per-user Sieve scripts

2009-01-24 Thread Noel Butler
You need to update your sieve plugin This question is best asked on ubuntu list, since these versions are VERY old. you could of course dpkg and remove them, and use the current stable sources for both. It is hard to support users of distros that persist in having ancient "current" versions. O

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot upgrade broke per-user Sieve scripts

2009-01-24 Thread Noel Butler
one more thing. On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 01:09, John Reese wrote: > > protocol lda { > log_path = /srv/mail/dovecot-deliver.log > auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master > postmaster_address = postmas...@leetcode.net > mail_plugins = cmusieve >

Re: [Dovecot] userdb didn't return a home directory with v1.1.7

2009-01-25 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:55, Ivars Strazdiņš wrote: > r...@mail:/etc/dovecot# cat dovecot-mysql.conf | grep quer > password_query = SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' > user_query = SELECT maildir, 1000 AS uid, 1000 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE > username = '%u' > r...@mail:/etc/dov

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