* Juri Haberland via dovecot:
> Blindly enabling DMARC checks without thinking about the consequences
> for themselves should not be the problem of other well behaving
> participants.
Can you judge if DMARC is enabled "blindly"? No, I thought not. Also,
the issue was not on the receiving end, but
* Kunal A. via dovecot:
> Error: mkdir(/var/vmail/ema...@example.com/Maildir) failed: Permission
> denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +w perm: /var, dir owned
> by 0:0 mode=0755)
The error message seems pretty clear. User 'vmail' does not have write
permissions for /var, which is o
* Ed W. via dovecot:
> My goal is that users can set a user configurable setting (in an
> external front end) and if the email size is greater than this size
> then we will do some processing on it. This particular filter is
> actually in a global sieve filter.
A global script using per-user para
* lty via dovecot:
> foxmail will not have next step after sending {LIST "" *} command
> action.
Can you please stop this now? If Foxmail is broken, Foxmail needs to be
fixed, not some kludges added to well-behaving Dovecot.
-Ralph
* Rodolfo Gonzalez via dovecot:
> I just have a doubt in the technical side: is it safe to have the
> email in EFS?
"Safe" as in "storing and retreiving will work"? Probably.
I would not do it for privacy reasons, unless all data was encrypted on
a machine before storing it in any service operat
* Ed W. via dovecot:
> How would you generate scripts for some few thousand users? How would
> you maintain those thousands of scripts when you make changes to the
> template?
A dozen or a few thousand, it makes no difference in terms of the
mechanics involved. Templates and generator scripts sho
* David Mehler via dovecot:
> Any help appreciated.
https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat
-Ralph
* David Mehler:
> Are there any performance or stability advantages Sdbox over Maildir?
Have you read the documentation at all?
-Ralph
* Steven Smith via dovecot:
> The issue is that macOS Note.app does not sync with this server.
I'm syncing macOS Mojave's Notes.app with Dovecot without problems, so
it can be done. Have you made sure that you activated both mail and
notes in macOS' Internet Accounts preferences for this particul
* Voytek Eymont via dovecot:
> what am I missing, how to check ?
Try runing "sievec -u {your_linux_user} /path/to/whatever.sieve" from a
shell and check the resulting error messages.
> postmaster_address = root
Any fully qualified address (postmas...@yourdomain.com seems like a
logical choice).
* Steven Smith via dovecot:
> I’m pretty sure it arises from some subtle dovecot configuration
> setting.
Based on your statement that Dovecot does not log connection attempts by
Notes.app, I am not sure this assumption is correct.
> Would you mind posting your `doveconf -n` so that we can compa
Looking at https://dovecot.org/mailman/options/dovecot I see that the
option "Set Reply-To header to list?" does not accept any changes from
me. I assume this might be related to DMARC related header mangling that
was discussed at length before. While I do not want to open that
particular can of wo
* Voytek Eymont via dovecot:
> or where is the extra 'c' from ?
> "Unknown column 'mailbox.enablesievec'"
sievec is just Pigeonhole's Sieve script compiler. Try "man sievec" in
a shell. I suggested you use it because sievec would report possible
errors in your sieve scripts.
I use script files w
* Odhiambo Washington via dovecot:
> Is it possible? How do I do it for ALL mailboxes?
This has been asked (and answered) recently; see the Dovecot Wiki.
-Ralph
* Steve Litt via dovecot:
> Anyone know of such a file manager or browser for IMAP?
If by "file" you mean "mail": Every IMAP capable MUA.
-Ralph
* Thomas Güttler via dovecot:
> Is there a way to access mails in dovecot via https?
Why on earth would that be beneficial?
"The Internet Message Access Protocol, Version 4rev1 (IMAP4rev1)
allows a client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages
on a server." (RFC 3501)
Putting
* Thomas Güttler via dovecot:
> Stateless, http and URLs are the future.
A bold claim, and not worth anything without proof, which is impossible
to provide because you cannot predict the future.
> JavaScript running on in browser or mobile phone can't connect to
> IMAP/SMTP.
That's simply not t
* Thomas Güttler via dovecot:
> Most people use http based APIs today.
And what makes you think that? Who is "most people", exactly? From my
experience over the last 35 years in the business, there is no clear
indication that HTTP-based APIs will dominate in the future. SMTP and
IMAP have been na
* Thomas Güttler via dovecot:
> https://github.com/guettli/programming-guidelines#regex-are-great---but-its-like-eating-rubbish
Thanks for including the disclaimer "It's my personal opinion and
feeling. No facts, no single truth." in your 'guidelines' (many of which
I disagree with). I just wish
* Robert via dovecot:
> We use a simple system for routing emails to different email users by
> postfixing the addresses with the actual user: xxxJohn@domain;
> yyyJohn@domain etc all will be delivered to user John.
> (This way John can invent a new email address on-the-fly and that will
> be d
* Tom Hendrikx via dovecot:
> There are nice tricks you can do with virtual alias maps and pcre
> within postfix to split email to specific user accounts, which could
> also accommodate other alias schemes than standard subaddressing (such
> as yours).
Postfix supports sub-addressing out of the b
* TWHG Technical via dovecot:
> I hope this is the right place to start.
Not really. What you are asking for (changing the default configuration
provided by Ubuntu) is something better asked of the Ubuntu package
maintainers, should they even agree with your assessment. They might
tell you that a
Hello,
I cannot seem to send STARTTLS protected mail to talvi.dovecot.org, and
I was wondering if anybody else sees similar problems:
Sep 6 22:29:10 ra postfix/smtp[15748]: SSL_connect error to
talvi.dovecot.org[94.237.105.223]:25: -1
Sep 6 22:29:10 ra postfix/smtp[15748]: warning: TLS library
* Marc Schiffbauer via dovecot:
> Wild guess: you need to explicitely allow for example DEFAULT@SECLEVEL=0
> ciphersuite in postfix to make *your* openssl accept this remote sslv3
> connection
Thanks, Marc. I had thought about this, and have tried various Postfix
parameters related to TLS ciphe
* Aki Tuomi via dovecot:
> I updated the settings a bit on the server as well. Maybe it works
> better now?
Yes, it does indeed:
Sep 7 19:33:23 ra postfix/smtp[14429]: Trusted TLS connection established to
talvi.dovecot.org[2a04:3545:1000:720:acc1:5bff:fe5e:459]:25: TLSv1.3 with
cipher TLS_
* Michael Grant via dovecot:
> If I have a user in /etc/passwd, for example 'joe' and a user in
> /etc/dovecot/users, j...@example.org, and both of these users are in
> fact the same user but different password. They use the same inbox
> and the same mail files.
Do these two share a single user I
* Lev Serebryakov:
> I need to match all messages sent from some specific domain and all
> its sub-domains.
I prefer using regular expressions for this kind of tests:
if address :regex "From" "[@.]example\.(com|org)$" {...}
This will match all addresses for example.com, example.org and their
* Tom Hendrikx via dovecot:
> Or in readable sieve: [...]
Do you mean to imply that regular expressions are not readable? ;-) All
it takes is a little practice. Besides, regex are more efficient. It is
well worth learning about them, and regex are really not as bad as some
make them out to be.
-
* adam:
> How would you approach this scenario?
I would search ye olde Internet for something like "managing secrets in
Python", and take my pick from the abundant set of results returned.
Note that the terms Dovecot or Postfix are not even required.
-Ralph
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* Reprobus via dovecot:
> I'm in a situation whereas I need to backup my email from an IMAP
> server to a POP3 email client of my choosing.
Since ancient times (cough), people have been using Fetchmail [1] for
related tasks. The author may be considered a controversial figure, but
that does not t
* Vladislav Kurz via dovecot:
> How about just moving the emails to the local folders of your
> favourite mail client?
Certainly a pragmatic approach. However, one might paint oneself into a
corner, if the mail client in question uses a proprietory storage
format.
Personally, I like the classic
Consider Dovecot with "mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir".
Is it possible to configure Dovecot to completely ignore directories
like ~/.maildir/.foo ? The subdirectory .foo is created by third party
software and the name cannot be changed. Because of the leading dot,
Dovecot interprets ~/.maildir
* Aki Tuomi via dovecot:
> How about just using LAYOUT=fs
> Then Dovecot will not consider .folders are mail folders at all? This
> does require mailbox format change though.
Interesting idea. I don't want to meddle with the mailbox format though.
That seems excessive, and counters my decision to
* Hua Young via dovecot:
> where can I setup dovecot to auto clear trash periodically?
See the doveadm-expunge(1) manual page for one possible way to do that,
when combined with a cron job or similar.
-Ralph
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* Frank Kirschner via dovecot:
> how about to chown of ~/.maildir/.foo to an other user than defined as
> mail_uid / mail_gid in dovecot's config?
Directory .foo needs to have the same owner as the parent ~/.maildir .
Like the name and location of .foo, this is a restriction imposed by the
third
* The Doctor via dovecot:
> The other option is Apple Mail, but it is not picking up
> that fact to use IMAP on 993 and STMP on 465 or 587.
Like many of Apple's applications and services, Apple Mail can be
configured down to small details by using config profiles, which are
XML-based property li
* Sean Kamath via dovecot:
> Or you can just flip the switches for “use SSL” in the SMTP setting,
> and the “use SSL” switch under advanced.
If one is content with manually configuring mail accounts, one can of
course tweak every account detail. ;-)
Config profiles ("mobileconfig") are certainly
* Aki Tuomi via dovecot:
> Just for clarity I ment Maildir format with FS layout. Maildir++
> layout is what you are using now.
Thanks for clarifying.
The whole situation is uncomfortable. Dovecot is right to expect Maildir
folders to adhere to a certain structure and naming conventions, and if
* Marc via dovecot:
> How should I use 'doveadm search -u' to get the mailbox path where the
> message is stored?
https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/man/doveadm-search.1.html states:
doveadm-search(1) - Show a list of mailbox GUIDs and message UIDs
matching given search query.
I don't see ho
Has anybody else noticed improvements with iOS/iPadOS version 18.2.1 ? I
installed the update today, and it looks like Apple Mail and Dovecot are
playing nicer together. Unfortunately Apple only mentions "important bug
fixes" without any specifics, rendering their 18.2.1 release notes very
unhelpfu
* Jochen Bern via dovecot:
> I have a need of a "helper function" that takes a string someone would
> "want to send an e-mail to", i.e., something like an RFC 5322 "address"
> token, as used in a "To:" header, and extract just the actual e-mail
> address(es) from it.
Just to be sure: Do you mean
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