Re: [Dovecot] deliver and qmail

2009-01-28 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 04:29, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 1/28/2009 1:04 PM, Rick Romero wrote: > > I use both maildrop and procmail with qmail/vpopmail. > > Ummm... this is the dovecot list, right? I was beginning to wonder that myself, I though I unsubbed from the qmail list a LONG time ago

Re: [Dovecot] Differences when expire plugin and cronjob?

2009-01-29 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:21, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Jan 28, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Nicolas Letellier wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > I would like to see the differnces between the expire plugin and a > > cronjob which make a find/delete. > > Is there performances differences? What's the best to use?

Re: [Dovecot] Differences when expire plugin and cronjob?

2009-01-30 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 18:22, Steffen Kaiser wrote: You're not a singer are you, you resemble a well known one :) > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Noel Butler wrote: > > > We found it much easier to use a daily cron to clear

Re: [Dovecot] I've moved to US

2009-02-06 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 09:13, Udo Rader wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > I thought about saying this in v1.2.beta1 release annoouncement, but > > looks like it'll take a few more days. So I've moved to Blacksburg, > > Virginia and I'm now working for Mailtrust the rest of this year. Here's > > som

Re: [Dovecot] quota warning issue

2009-02-15 Thread Noel Butler
permissions... /root/quota-warning.sh User vmail does not get access to this directory put it in /usr/local/bin chown vmail quota-warning* On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:53, Alex wrote: > Hello to all, > I'm using version 1.1.11 of dovecot. > I set the quota using the following configuration: >

Re: [Dovecot] exim4 + dovecot + SquirrelMail virtualhosted on Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 07:34, Tim Legg wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Debian machine that is virtual-hosting 6 domains with exim4. I > finally got exim4 working well enough where I can send and receive mail using > the mail command on my machine. I would eventually like to have SquirrelMail > (

Re: [Dovecot] multiple sql servers - loadbalancing and failover

2009-03-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 06:42, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > > # MySQL supports multiple host parameters for load balancing / HA. > > Cool! Can load balancing be disabled and HA left, too? :-) > I find it really works that way only, well noticeably anyway :) <>

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards errors

2009-04-02 Thread Noel Butler
Why not just run ntpd and be done with it, ensure you start ntpd with "-g" option On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 03:11, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Mark Hedges wrote: > > > > > > > On 2009 Apr 02 (Thu) at 12:49:43 +0100 (+0100), Bloke wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am experiencing a number of

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards errors

2009-04-02 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 05:43, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 4/2/2009, Tom Diehl (tdi...@rogueind.com) wrote: > > I see this all of the time on an EL4 machine when it is under high > > load. The clock is synced to ntp but I still get dovecot killing > > itself. Sometimes ntp looses sync but not always.

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards errors

2009-04-02 Thread Noel Butler
suggestion. On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 16:04, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Noel Butler wrote: > > > Why not just run ntpd and be done with it, ensure you start ntpd with > > "-g" option > > If you are responding to me (it is hard to tell when you top post) I

Re: [Dovecot] Time moved backwards errors

2009-04-03 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 20:08, Charles Marcus wrote: > >> Hopefully you meant ntpd, not ntpdate... but I believe the OP was > >> using a VM, so ntpd is not an option... > > > How is that so? we use some vmware and xen setups, and ntpd works > > fine on both > > http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Su

Re: [Dovecot] deliver vs lda

2009-04-07 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 04:01, Timo Sirainen wrote: > deliver is the binary name. but it's configured inside protocol lda {} > section. This is getting annoying, any thoughts on what would be a good > unifying name? > annoying? who complains? I suspect a negligible number of people. > a) deliv

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot doesnt see any emails

2009-04-07 Thread Noel Butler
Firstly, missed most of this thread, the archives did not show anything specific so hewre goes... On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:15, alexus wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:41 PM, alexus wrote: > > i tried like this > > mail_location = maildir:`~vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d %u`/Maildir/ > > but t

Re: [Dovecot] deliver vs lda

2009-04-08 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 08:05, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Another thing I was thinking about previously was that in process lists > they were prefixed with dovecot/. So the binary names could be lda, > imap-login, etc. but they'd show up in process lists as dovecot/lda, > dovecot/imap-login, etc. >

Re: [Dovecot] deliver vs lda

2009-04-09 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 21:57, Charles Marcus wrote: > > Extrapolating from your example, I can I just: > > protocol imap { > ... > log_path = /var/log/imap.log > info_log_path = /var/log/imap.log > } > protocol pop3 { > ... > log_path = /var/log/pop3.log > info_log_path = /var/log/p

Re: [Dovecot] deliver vs lda

2009-04-09 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 07:42, Noel Butler wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 21:57, Charles Marcus wrote: > > > > > > > Extrapolating from your example, I can I just: > > > > protocol imap { > > ... > > log_path = /var/log/imap.log > >

Re: [Dovecot] deliver vs lda

2009-04-11 Thread Noel Butler
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 13:45, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > Hmm. I just realized. Once I implement LMTP server, it needs to read the > same settings as deliver. And perhaps it also needs some of its own > settings?.. So I'm thinking that the whole protocol lda {} section > should go away in dovecot-ex

Re: [Dovecot] deliver vs lda

2009-04-11 Thread Noel Butler
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 14:08, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 13:56 +1000, Noel Butler wrote: > > > Hmm. I just realized. Once I implement LMTP server, it needs to read the > > > same settings as deliver. And perhaps it also needs some of its own > > > se

Re: [Dovecot] auth-master: Permission denied [sigh]

2009-04-13 Thread Noel Butler
Unless they've changed something, doesn't the S.A method as you are using generate backscatter, I'd be using something more efficient like MailScanner or amavisd-new either will take you no more than 15 minutes to setup and avoid the past several days of your problems, pf and dovecot work well toge

Re: [Dovecot] why not install utils (idxview logview ...) with dovecot in bin/sbin dir?

2009-04-13 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:19, Timo Sirainen wrote: > But I am considering on moving dovecot-lda (ex. deliver) to bin/. Move? Maybe a soft symlink be better?

Re: [Dovecot] why not install utils (idxview logview ...) with dovecot in bin/sbin dir?

2009-04-13 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:26, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:23 +1000, Noel Butler wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:19, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > > > > > But I am considering on moving dovecot-lda (ex. deliver) to bin/. > > >

Re: [Dovecot] auth-master: Permission denied [sigh]

2009-04-14 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 07:52, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Perhaps you shouldn't be using the pipe at all. Maybe you should just > put the command to mailbox_command and have it do all the work? Then > there's no need to worry about things like setuid-roots or whatever. Given what his conf showed befo

Re: [Dovecot] auth-master: Permission denied [sigh]

2009-04-14 Thread Noel Butler
Caution: drifting OT :) On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 08:16, James Butler wrote: > MailScanner is slowly in the process of being attempted, even though it is > simply a wrapper that accepts the mail from Postfix then pipes it over to > Spamassassin and other programs like AV apps. When I received your >

Re: [Dovecot] bad maildir location

2009-04-17 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 18:09, denis wrote: > Hi, > But the problem is that dovecot creates (when you log in for the first time) > a directory in the form of the exact address. Here for example, > /var/alternc/mail/d/de...@collectifs.net > > And so all connections will be on an empty location.

Re: [Dovecot] bad maildir location

2009-04-22 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 19:29, denis wrote: > Noel Butler a écrit : > > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 18:09, denis wrote: > >> /But the problem is that dovecot creates (when you log in for the first > >> time) a directory in the form of the exact address. Here for example,

Re: [Dovecot] overnight clients causing lockfiles to be converted to root-owned messages on debian lenny

2009-04-22 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 07:12, Brett Dikeman wrote: > Further checking- the affected messages are not the result of some > contention between procmail and dovecot; one of the affected messages > came in at 11AM the day before the lockfile was renamed. > > Brett have you disabled procmail to elim

Re: [Dovecot] How to run Dovecot as IMAP Proxy?

2009-05-21 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 21:26 -0700, V S Rao wrote: > BTW, just to confirm once again, are there any known issues with Dovecot & > imapproxyd? Because I find it strange that there should be around 8000 > established connections between Squirrelmail and imapproxyd & around 400 > connections betwe

Re: [Dovecot] Clustering dovecot?

2009-05-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 14:02 -0400, dove...@corwyn.net wrote: > > Would this mean I would configure two identical dovecot systems, and > point them both at the same SAN space? (so instead of having a yes, and use NAS not SAN you could also use DNS load balancing in a away that has 0 cache T

Re: [Dovecot] Clustering dovecot?

2009-05-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 21:47 -0400, dove...@corwyn.net wrote: > At 04:21 PM 5/27/2009, you wrote: > >On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 14:02 -0400, dove...@corwyn.net wrote: > >yes, and use NAS not SAN > > Why NAS and not SAN? > Because the two technologies differ and it permits you to run non clustering F

Re: [Dovecot] Clustering dovecot?

2009-05-29 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 09:41 +0200, list...@gmx.de wrote: > (Take care not to use NFS for storage if you take another setup than the here If you use MailDir you will never have NFS problems, we have multiple SMTP's, multiple POP3's and 2 x webmail (IMAP) servers, all to a netapp NAS for mail st

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot with MYSQL on Synology NAS

2009-05-29 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 03:00 +0200, heutekinderwirdswasge...@gmx.de wrote: > hello list, > > under my table I have a NAS station, the Synology DS-207+ > there`s a linux with ipkg. > > the dovocot fromo ipkg didnt have mysql support. > > > compiling seems to be also difficult, because of configu

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot under brute force attack - nice attacker

2009-06-04 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 12:16 +0200, henry ritzlmayr wrote: > Hi List, > > optimizing the configuration on one of our servers (which was > hit by a brute force attack on dovecot) showed an odd behavior. > > Dovecot Version 1.0.7 (CentOS 5.2) > > The short story: > On one of our servers an attac

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot under brute force attack - nice attacker

2009-06-04 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 18:58 +0200, henry ritzlmayr wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 04.06.2009, 18:27 +0200 schrieb Steve: > > > The Idea is good but I guess an option to just disconnect the attacker > > > wouldn't hurt in the config file? > > > > > Is that not the wrong approach? I mean: all you wante

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 Slow

2010-10-09 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 09:34 +0530, Avinash Mishra wrote: > Hi > > I have tried out the Performance Tuning measures, I do not think that an > > upgrade is going to help as most of the features can be incorporated > > with the current version itself. ( already done that btw ) > The problem i

Re: [Dovecot] remote hot site, POP3 replication over WAN

2010-11-02 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 10:36 +0100, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Taking a survey. > > > > 1. How many of you have a remote site hot backup Dovecot IMAP server? > > > > 2. How are you replicating mailbox data to the hot backup system? > > A. rsync > > B. DRBD+GFS

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with dovecot delivery (version 2.0.7)

2010-11-10 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 00:01 -0500, Maxime Longuepee wrote: > Nov 09 23:35:51 lda(EMAIL REMOVED FOR PRIVACY): Fatal: > setresgid(6(mail),6(mail),6(mail)) failed with euid=143(dovecot): > Operation not permitted > Herein lies the answer, check the permissions and owne

Re: [Dovecot] maildir maintenance?

2010-11-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 20:55 -0600, Brian Kroth wrote: > > I recently wrote the attached script (could probably be improved) meant > in theory to be run as a nightly cron job to do the follow: > 1) Remove old messages marked as deleted. > (I didn't really like the expunge/trash plugins the last t

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot is confused about mail_location

2010-11-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 18:01 -0500, Eric Raymond wrote: > mail_location: mbox:~/mail:/var/mail/%u You have omitted the INBOX keyword, change it to ... mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot is confused about mail_location

2010-11-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 18:47 -0500, Eric Raymond wrote: > Noel Butler : > > You have omitted the INBOX keyword, change it to ... > > > > mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u > > Doesn't fix the problem. New results: > > o...@grelber:/home/esr# tail /var/log/mail

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot is confused about mail_location

2010-11-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 00:09 +, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 24.11.2010, at 23.01, Eric Raymond wrote: > > > r...@grelber:/home/esr# dovecot -n > > # 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > > # OS: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS > > If you installed dovecot-postfix package, it actu

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot is confused about mail_location

2010-11-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 20:41 -0500, Eric Raymond wrote: > > No, but I found something relevant. I was operating under the mistaken > assumption that dovecot was an inetd plugin, the way imap servers usually > are. It isn't, which means dovecot.conf is not reread as often as I thought. > > I nee

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot is confused about mail_location

2010-11-25 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 02:50 -0500, Eric Raymond wrote: > Noel Butler : > > So, do we conclude from this your issue is now resolved? > > Possible, but not verified. If I mess with the mail system for > diagnostic purposes I risk breaking it before my wife has caught up > with

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Users, PAM authentication, MySql backend

2010-11-30 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 14:13 -0200, Álvaro Leão wrote: > with this example, and the correct pam,d/dovecot (with the mysql acess), > i'll just use the mysql to authenticate, using the pam module to acess the > user/password, right? Why be concerned about needing to use PAM? It is evil, it is why

Re: [Dovecot] Indexes.

2010-12-02 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 12:41 -0200, Henrique Fernandes wrote: > > No, i don't have a list where i can ask! =/ > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list is the more "general" list, its low traffic so you wont be inconvenienced by subscribing . or maybe more specific... https://www.

Re: [Dovecot] Centos 5.5 upgrade to dovecot 1.2

2010-12-05 Thread Noel Butler
I'd say you have bigger issues given your message is repeated X times within itself, I stopped at number 3... anyway `locate libpq.so.5 ` to make sure it IS so.5 you have and not earlier, if so.5, make sure it is not in some unique path you need to add into /etc/ld.so.conf But a better alterna

Re: [Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

2010-12-08 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 23:37 +0100, Cor Bosman wrote: > We're running on bare metal, no VM involved. > > Cor > Missed most of this list due to some noise levels and my lack of time to sit through hundreds messages on every list I'm on, so apologies if this was already suggested, due to errors i

Re: [Dovecot] ssl enabled, but ssl_cert not set ( 2.0.7 freebsd 8.1 )

2010-12-15 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 11:35 -0700, Willie Gillespie wrote: > Willie Gillespie wrote: > > Does your configuration file have those "<" characters in it? If so, > > try getting rid of those. > > It was pointed out to me that v2 does show "<" characters in the docs, > which I guess is a change sin

Re: [Dovecot] Postfix - deliver problem.

2010-12-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 02:39 -0200, Henrique Fernandes wrote: > It seens you are missing an "/" on auth path > > or you did it intencionaly ? > > >first_valid_uid: 112 >last_valid_uid: 112 >first_valid_gid: 8 >last_valid_gid: 8 plus, so which is it, 8 or 112? signature.asc Description: Thi

Re: [Dovecot] Postfix - deliver problem.

2010-12-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 11:03 +, Mark Alan wrote: > > postmaster_address: m...@bronsteinlaw.com > > mail_plugins: sieve > > log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-local-deliver.log > > log_path: /var/mail/dovecot-local-deliver.log > WTF, there is nothing wrong with his log file loca

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.12 + Postfix + virtual domains: delivering to system users

2010-12-31 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 14:27 -0700, Ran Talbott wrote: > On Friday 31 December 2010 08:20:48 Simone Caruso wrote: > > > For local delivery u don't need dovecot lda, let postfix do it. > > I can, but all the Linux users need to be aliased to "x...@localhost" in the > Postfix virtual.db. This isn

Re: [Dovecot] mail to admin when quota exceeded

2011-01-11 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 01:06 +0200, Karolis Žvaigždinas wrote: > We're using Dovecot v1.2.15 LDA/IMAP/POP3+MySQL with quota plugin, > quota_rule per-user size, quota_exceed_message and quota_warning on > storage=90%%.with script. > Everything is working as expected. > But I've been asked to conf

Re: [Dovecot] mail to admin when quota exceeded

2011-01-11 Thread Noel Butler
Replying to myself is bad I know but its holiday time :) at least for a few more days... On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 09:32 +1000, Noel Butler wrote: > > That said, if you use dovecot 2.0.x's LDA, you *can* do this now, and > the wiki IIRC, does tell you how - we still use 1.2.x s

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

2011-01-14 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 17:29 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > slow drives. The reason is that few if any organizations actually need 28TB > (14 > 2TB Cavier Green drives--popular with idiots today) of mail storage in a > single > mail store. That's 50 years worth of mail storage for a 50,000 emplo

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

2011-01-14 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 21:09 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Brad Davidson put forth on 1/14/2011 6:25 PM: > > > We just bought 252TB of raw disk for about 5k users. Given, this is > > going in to Exchange on Netapp with multi-site database replication, so > > this cooks down to about 53TB of usable

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

2011-01-15 Thread Noel Butler
LOL this is just s funny., watching the no no no im right you're wrong, give up stanley, those on many lists are aware of your trolling, nobody cares about your lil SOHO world, this list contains many different sized orgs, and like someone else mentione,d the 4K email size is SO 1994, but,

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

2011-01-16 Thread Noel Butler
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 20:33 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Cor Bosman put forth on 1/16/2011 5:34 PM: > > Btw, our average mailsize last we checked was 30KB. Thats a pretty good > > average as we're an ISP with a very wide user base. I think 4KB average is > > not a normal mail load. > > As ano

Re: [Dovecot] [Dovecot-news] v2.0.13 released

2011-05-12 Thread Noel Butler
rsync not active? or now protected to mirrors? On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 18:52 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.13.tar.gz > http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.13.tar.gz.sig > > I've almost managed to read my email backlog, but there are still some

Re: [Dovecot] [Dovecot-news] v2.0.13 released

2011-05-13 Thread Noel Butler
s fixed it here > On 13.5.2011, at 2.39, Noel Butler wrote: > > > rsync not active? or now protected to mirrors? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot security with IPv6

2011-06-23 Thread Noel Butler
That clown is a tad over paranoid... The only real issue with devices using ipv6 is that most people become relaxed with security, preferring with ipv4 to do it all on the NAT box, with ipv6 there is no NAT, so if you have 5 machines, you need to configure full security on all. If you're an ISP/OS

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 11:40 -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Maybe a little off-topic - but I hope not too much. > > Looking for some insight on setting up Dovecot under a virtual server. > In particular, I use VirtualBox - and at the moment, Ubuntu Linux. > I hope this is a lightly used ser

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 02:21 +0100, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: > > > > I hope this is a lightly used server and does not do any real level of > > mail traffic else you'll soon regret running in any VM :) > > > > > Don't mean to start a flame war, but your statement above is just simply > inaccurate.

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 02:54 +0100, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: > > I should also mention that I'm refering to VMs using direct block > storage such as LVM, not VMs running off image files. Running anything > off an image file is indeed going to slow your system down compared to a > physical serv

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Servers

2011-06-28 Thread Noel Butler
I think we all know who the troll is here On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 07:14 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2011-06-27 9:06 PM, Noel Butler wrote: > > On 2011-06-27 9:21 PM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: > >> I hope this is a lightly used server and does not do any real level > &g

Re: [Dovecot] NFS mail storage

2011-06-29 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 18:40 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Since maildir is IOPS heavy and NFS/GFS/OCFS don't seem to like high > IOPS workloads that make heavy use of locking, mbox becomes very > attractive due to it's very low IOPS demands. If you can live with the > folder tree limitations of

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-15 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 00:40 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > On 11-07-11 5:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On Linux, load average strictly shows total system CPU usage in > > intervals, nothing else. > > That would be FreeBSD, AFAIK. On linux, I/O does add to the load You're right Miq

Re: [Dovecot] Howto add another disk storage

2012-07-07 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 11:23 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> Fine. i understand that. What i am suggesting is not making large LUNs. > >> you get the best performance with directly attaching disks to your machine. > > > > That's simply not true. 99% of block latency is rotational. iSCSI > It's

Re: [Dovecot] Howto add another disk storage

2012-07-09 Thread Noel Butler
Seem some people have never heard of "keep it simple, stupid"or "less is more" ... sounds like a few people here are falsely propping up their worth to their employers, making unnecessary BS to justify their own existence. My experience of over 20 years of this industry easily shows that t

Re: [Dovecot] Howto add another disk storage

2012-07-09 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 12:10 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > what you do not understand is that a proper SAN is NOT > an complex setup, it is in many cases a simpler one > because you have TWO controllers, disks with DUAL channel > and a proper RAID level in ONE device > > to built all this redundan

Re: [Dovecot] bcypt availability

2012-07-16 Thread Noel Butler
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 11:32 -0700, Robin wrote: > Indeed. What I have seen is a create deal of variation in the > configuration (/etc/login.defs or your distro's equivalent) in terms of > making use of such things. > > I don't see any added value to bcrypt over iterated SHA-512, really, and

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

2012-07-23 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 11:58 +0800, fy wrote: > what anti-spam for you used ? dspam?spammassian? amavisd-new ? what is > best ? amavisd-new with spamassassin and anti virus scanner, clamav with sanesecurity rules use enforcing rules in mail server, like block hosts with no DNS/rDNS Enforce SPF,

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

2012-07-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 11:12 +0200, Warren Baker wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Morten Stevens > wrote: > > No, greylisting is really a bad solution. It is not RFC compliant and delays > > the mail traffic. > > Since when? RFC5321 was updated to handle delays and then there is RFC6647

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

2012-07-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 14:06 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > You must not accept mail you are unwilling or unable to deliver - ever! That insisted behaviour was changed four years ago, read up on RFC 5321 IIRC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2012-07-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 07:22 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/24/2012 7:13 AM, Morten Stevens wrote: > > > Jul 24 12:27:32 mx1 sendmail[31933]: q6OARUOM031928: > > to=, delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, > > pri=152317, relay=dovecot.org. [193.210.130.67], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent > > (O

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

2012-07-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 15:31 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > 24.07.2012 14:30, Noel Butler: > > > On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 14:06 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > > > >> You must not accept mail you are unwilling or unable to deliver - ever! > > > > >

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

2012-07-24 Thread Noel Butler
and like all the other constant off-topic crud here, you are free to filter it out if you don't wish to see it. On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 15:46 +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > People, > > this is a mailing list dedicated to Dovecot and the protocols POP, IMAP and > MANAGESIEVE with the one or

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

2012-07-24 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 10:16 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > Try this: > > http://www.junkemailfilter.com/spam/ > It's also a good idea to place a disclaimer when advertising _your_ products and services on someone else's list > On 7/23/2012 8:58 PM, fy wrote: > > what anti-spam for you used ? ds

Re: [Dovecot] mysql auth failover failing

2012-07-25 Thread Noel Butler
As per this discussion almost a year ago, was there any attempt to introduce failover mode planned Timo? On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 13:26 -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote: > > Perhaps it could be an option, either load balancing between all > available servers, or only using later listed servers when th

Re: [Dovecot] mysql auth failover failing

2012-07-28 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 19:53 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > It's in my TODO, but I don't know when I'll get around to implementing it. So > many things to do right now.. > Thanks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Dovecot] Error: User doesn't have home dir set, disabling duplicate database

2012-09-16 Thread Noel Butler
thats a rather intelligent response now, isnt it troll. On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 13:21 +0200, Pascal Volk wrote: > On 09/16/2012 12:48 PM Carsten Laun-De Lellis wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I receive the following error in my mail.log. > > > > Does anybody know how to configure dovecot to get rid

Re: [Dovecot] Error: User doesn't have home dir set, disabling duplicate database

2012-09-16 Thread Noel Butler
Hi, On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 12:48 +0200, Carsten Laun-De Lellis wrote: > Hi all > > > > I receive the following error in my mail.log. > Dont use ldap, but, you should supply the output of dovecot -n it might help those familiar with ldap setups assist you > > > Does anybody know ho

Re: [Dovecot] 76Gb to 146Gb

2012-09-25 Thread Noel Butler
Spyros, Sounds like you have bigger problems, as you appear to have no disaster recovery processes, since your using a standalone server, as recommended to you earlier by Robert, rsync is your friend, and not just now, but daily :) setup a rolling 7 day rsync archive (sata disks are big, cheap an

Re: [Dovecot] POLL: v2.2 to allow one mail over quota?

2012-10-29 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 22:39 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > So what do you think about v2.2 allowing delivery of one last mail even if it > brings the user over quota? +1 only if configurable, and with an additional configurable quota percentage value option for those that do enable the funct

Re: [Dovecot] POLL: v2.2 to allow one mail over quota?

2012-10-29 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 00:48 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > Noel Butler wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 22:39 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > >> So what do you think about v2.2 allowing delivery of one last mail even if > >> it brings the user over quota? > >

Re: [Dovecot] FYI: News about Mark Crispin

2012-11-19 Thread Noel Butler
That's so sad, Marks a nice guy, and too fricken young for this to happen On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 02:55 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Barry Leiba > > Date: 20. marraskuuta 2012 2.44.51 UTC+2.00 > > To: im...@ietf.org, imap...@ietf.org, imap-proto...@u.washingt

Re: [Dovecot] SSL certificates

2012-11-23 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 19:49 -0700, The Doctor wrote: > Who is the best CA Certificate provider for Dovecot? > Anyone but verisign, dont get me started on them :) Now that Thawte are no longer owned by those criminals, I highly recommend them for certs for web sites. But if its just for mail/we

Re: [Dovecot] v2.1.11 soon

2012-11-27 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 10:53 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Just to let you know: I'm planning on releasing v2.1.11 today/tomorrow. If > you wish to get something fixed for it, ask quickly. :) > hah, but u won t do it... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Dovecot] Understanding Sockets

2012-12-21 Thread Noel Butler
Why are people shit scared of abandoning these antiquated distro versions and using the "source" On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 08:37 +, Tim Smith wrote: > Thanks Ben, > > I'm using an Ubuntu Server OS (10.04) and it seems that the latest > package they provide is 1.2.9. > > Do you know if anyone h

Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused"

2013-01-05 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 17:01 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > 1.2.x is really really old It might be old (only deprecated 12 months ago though so not THAT old) but it is very, very, stable (and widely used in large installations and likely will be for some time to come) That said, it is pointles

Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused"

2013-01-05 Thread Noel Butler
On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 04:54 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> 1.2.x is really really old > > > > It might be old (only deprecated 12 months ago though so not THAT old) > > i do not know here you work > but where i work is a no longer maintained software a no-go > Most places prefer known stab

Re: [Dovecot] Problem setting up dovecot on Debian: "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused"

2013-01-06 Thread Noel Butler
On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 14:14 +0100, Benny Pedersen wrote: > Noel Butler skrev den 2013-01-06 05:56: > > [snip] > > Personally, I consider 2.1.x more of a risk then 1.2 so I'm > > sticking > > with 1.2.17 until there is an urgent and compelling reason to move

Re: [Dovecot] E-mail not being processed into Dovecot folders

2013-01-13 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 08:15 -0500, stalker wrote: > mail is written to /var/spool/mail/username > and not to /home/username/Maildir/ > This has nothing to do with dovecot, its the MDA > How do I get sendmail or what ever MTA processes mail to write to > Maildir rather than /var/spool/sendma

Re: [Dovecot] POLL: v2.2 to allow one mail over quota?

2013-02-11 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 02:43 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > > I wonder if there's a better name for this than "last_extra".. > > quota_grace_extra Sounds good signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Dovecot] [OT] NJABL

2013-03-01 Thread Noel Butler
If you are using this DNSBL in your MTA, best remove it, it's no more. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrading 1.2 to 2.x

2013-03-05 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 11:33 +0100, Simon Brereton wrote: > Hi > > I'm about to upgrade to 2.1.7 in my test environment, but "doveconf > -n -c dovecot.1.conf > dovecot.2.conf" is producing a blank file, so I > am unsure how to proceed. I know a lot has changed between them, so I > don't really w

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrading 1.2 to 2.x

2013-03-05 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 08:28 -0800, Professa Dementia wrote: > On 3/5/2013 7:34 AM, Simon Brereton wrote: > > > What's the recommended approach then? Pack it all into dovecot.conf > > as it was before, or use the split config files under conf.d/ - is > > this even a choice? > > Split configs are

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrading 1.2 to 2.x

2013-03-05 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 15:33 -0800, Professa Dementia wrote: > > I am basing most of this on my experience of RedHat vs. the SuSE > configuration for Apache. The split files of SuSE were always easier to httpd, which utilises identical directives is nothing like Dovecot with split config fil

Re: [Dovecot] Upgrading 1.2 to 2.x

2013-03-05 Thread Noel Butler
On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 00:06 +0100, Daniel Parthey wrote: > > WTF? Everything in one file is much nicer and easier, and you don't > > have to guess what option is in what file > > We're using a single file too, since this can be easily managed by > a configuration management system and avoids un

Re: [Dovecot] Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-16 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 07:26 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > > Fyi, dovecot list does not do reply-to-munging - meaning, if you only > click the 'Reply' button in your email program, it will only reply to > the original sender. > That's almost, but not entirely true. If you log in to mailman

Re: [Dovecot] Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-16 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 13:15 +0100, mourik jan heupink wrote: > > dovecot unix - n n - - pipe > >flags=DROhu user=postfix:postfix argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda > >-f ${sender} -a ${recipient} -d ${user}@${nexthop} > > And for what it's worth... here

Re: [Dovecot] Question regarding Postfix and Dovecot

2013-03-16 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 00:47 +, Daniel Reinhardt wrote: > I got the permission issues fixed, so now I am unable to retrieve email via > imap or pop3 with either thunderbird, iphone, or webmail application. Is > there something I am not doing that is preventing this from working? > > POP3 and

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