[Dovecot] Virtual Folder configuration problem.

2011-09-24 Thread Terry Carmen
I'm attempting to create a virtual inbox that contains all unread messages from the user's Maildir. I created a conf file called 80-virtual.conf containing: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins virtual namespace { prefix = virtual/ separator = / location = virtual:~/Maildir/virtual } And creat

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Folder configuration problem.

2011-09-26 Thread Terry Carmen
- Message from Charles Marcus - Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:38:44 -0400 From: Charles Marcus Reply-To: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Folder configuration problem. To: dovecot@dovecot.org On 2011-09-24 9:30 PM, Terry Carmen wrote: This is

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual Folder configuration problem.

2011-09-27 Thread Terry Carmen
Does anybody have any suggestions? Upgrade - which probably won't fix your problem, but because the version you're using is so old should be considered a requirement before asking for further help. OK, I upgraded to the current version of Dovecot, which didn't actually fix anything. Ho

[Dovecot] Virtual Folder configuration problem. [FIXED]

2011-09-29 Thread Terry Carmen
rtual folder that contains all your unread mail, except for the contents of the Trash folder. Enjoy! -- Terry Carmen CNY Support, LLC https://www.cnysupport.com

[Dovecot] SSL only for external connections

2011-09-30 Thread Terry Carmen
If SSL/TLS works from the outside, but not the inside, you should probably find out why and fix that instead. What is the actual error text? Terry -- Terry Carmen CNY Support, LLC https://www.cnysupport.com

Re: [Dovecot] SSL only for external connections

2011-09-30 Thread Terry Carmen
On 09/30/11 20:25, Simon Brereton wrote: But the question remains - if only because it's now there - how does one limit services effectively in Dovecot. In Courier it was fairly easy and well documented. There's no reason for me to offer IMAPS or POP3S to localhost (because of the certi

[Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy

2011-11-30 Thread Terry Carmen
I need to make the IMAP interface of an Exchange 2000 server available on the net, however I would like to give it a little protection, and believe Dovecot's IMAP proxy might be appropriate. Does anybody have a *really simple* config that would allow IMAP pass-through to a single Exchange s

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy

2011-11-30 Thread Terry Carmen
- Message from Jerry - Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:14:06 -0500 From: Jerry Reply-To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy To: dovecot@dovecot.org On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:36:46 -0500 Terry Carmen articulated: I need to make the IMAP

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy

2011-11-30 Thread Terry Carmen
- Message from Timo Sirainen - Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 04:47:30 +0200 From: Timo Sirainen Subject: Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy To: Terry Carmen Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org On 30.11.2011, at 22.36, Terry Carmen wrote: Does Dovecot do any cleanup of the IMAP

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy

2011-11-30 Thread Terry Carmen
If the client is inept enough to run Exchange 2000 for only a handful of users, you're probably wasting your time attempting to sanitize IMAP commands. If your contract with them mandates that you secure their server, you'll most likely have to replace their broken software. There are ove

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy

2011-12-01 Thread Terry Carmen
Thanks! I'll take a look. Terry - Message from Stan Hoeppner - Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:44:35 -0600 From: Stan Hoeppner Reply-To: s...@hardwarefreak.com Subject: Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy To: dovecot@dovecot.org On 11/30/2011 2:36 PM, Terry C

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy

2011-12-02 Thread Terry Carmen
- Message from Timo Sirainen - Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 23:29:23 +0200 From: Timo Sirainen Subject: Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy To: Terry Carmen Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org On 1.12.2011, at 6.03, Terry Carmen wrote: On 30.11.2011, at 22.36, Terry Carmen wrote

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy

2011-12-02 Thread Terry Carmen
OK, I'm making headway. it didn't like the config because there were no quotes around the Exchange server's FQDN, however when I added the quotes, I got: Dec 2 18:26:33 host dovecot: auth: Error: imapc('exchangeserver.example.com':143): dns_lookup('exchangeserver.example.com') failed: Na

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy

2011-12-02 Thread Terry Carmen
On 3.12.2011, at 1.42, Terry Carmen wrote: Dec 2 18:35:09 host dovecot: imap(myusername): Error: user myusername: Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting) "myusername" is not a local user, but exists only on the exchange server. Any thoughts?

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy

2011-12-03 Thread Terry Carmen
It's working! I'll post a writeup on the wiki on monday. The last problem was it seems to need a writable home directory for mail_home even though all the mail is pass-through.This was included in Timo's original config, although I had accidentally removed it. In any case many thanks to Ti

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

2011-12-04 Thread Terry Carmen
If we can not safely restore from backup a user's mailbox with SiS enabled, we can not enable SiS. Any plan to include this backup recovery tool in dovecot 2.0.X or 2.1? I'd first have to design it. And before designing it I'd need to look into how the backup softwares usually work.. If any

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about single intance storage

2011-12-04 Thread Terry Carmen
So I was thinking that there probably could be some tool that during a user's backup it would write the attachments among the user's other files, so it would be easy to find all of the files needed for a restore. This would of course mean that backups can take a lot more space, because ther

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy (Logging Auth Failures?)

2011-12-05 Thread Terry Carmen
It's working beautifully! Is there any way to get it to log failed login attempts with the user's IP address? I'd like to setup fail2ban to stop dictionary attacks, however even with debugging, the most I've been able to get it to say is: Dec 5 12:11:30 machinename dovecot: auth: Debug:

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy

2011-12-05 Thread Terry Carmen
I'll post a writeup on the wiki on monday. I moved it to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/ImapcProxy Thanks! I didn't realize I was in the wrong wiki. Terry

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy (Logging Auth Failures?)

2011-12-05 Thread Terry Carmen
- Message from Timo Sirainen - Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 21:49:15 +0200 From: Timo Sirainen Reply-To: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy (Logging Auth Failures?) To: Terry Carmen Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org On 5.12.2011, at 19.16

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy (Logging Auth Failures?)

2011-12-05 Thread Terry Carmen
- Message from Timo Sirainen - Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:24:23 +0200 From: Timo Sirainen Reply-To: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy (Logging Auth Failures?) To: Terry Carmen Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org On 5.12.2011, at 23.05

Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy (Logging Auth Failures?)

2011-12-05 Thread Terry Carmen
- Message from Timo Sirainen - Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 00:48:02 +0200 From: Timo Sirainen Subject: Re: [Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy (Logging Auth Failures?) To: Terry Carmen Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org On 6.12.2011, at 0.39, Terry Carmen wrote: I checked lib-imap

[Dovecot] "Unstable" vs "Development" vs "Nightly"

2011-12-09 Thread Terry Carmen
I'm currently running v2.1rc1, but have been seeing errors like: Dec 8 11:31:55 it kernel: auth[18914]: segfault at 48 ip 00fe2f74 sp bfcaccd0 error 4 in libauthdb_imap.so[fdd000+f000] The unstable and nightly builds are newer, but are they likely to be more or less stable than the version I

Re: [Dovecot] "Unstable" vs "Development" vs "Nightly"

2011-12-09 Thread Terry Carmen
On 12/09/2011 11:43 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 9.12.2011, at 18.24, Terry Carmen wrote: I'm currently running v2.1rc1, but have been seeing errors like: Dec 8 11:31:55 it kernel: auth[18914]: segfault at 48 ip 00fe2f74 sp bfcaccd0 error 4 in libauthdb_imap.so[fdd000+f000] It wou

[Dovecot] Another hint from the clue box 8-) imapc/imap proxy user mailbox server location

2012-03-01 Thread Terry Carmen
I'm running imapproxy as shown at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/ImapcProxy. In fact, that's my config in the wiki. 8-) It's been working, but has performance issues when the Exchange server that's hard-coded as imapc_host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx doesn't happen to be the user's home exchange serv

Re: [Dovecot] Another hint from the clue box 8-) imapc/imap proxy user mailbox server location

2012-03-04 Thread Terry Carmen
- Message from Timo Sirainen -    Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 14:45:48 +0200    From: Timo Sirainen Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Another hint from the clue box 8-) imapc/imap proxy user mailbox server location      To: Terry Carmen      Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org On 2.3.2012, at

Re: [Dovecot] Another hint from the clue box 8-) imapc/imap proxy user mailbox server location

2012-03-12 Thread Terry Carmen
On 03/04/2012 09:58 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 4.3.2012, at 16.48, Terry Carmen wrote: pass_attrs = ..., \ msExchHomeServerName=userdb_imapc_host=%49.100$.example.com If the prefix differs, but all of the exchange server names have the same length, for example 10, you can also do

Re: [Dovecot] [Solved] Another hint from the clue box 8-) imapc/imap proxy user mailbox server location

2012-03-13 Thread Terry Carmen
On 03/13/2012 04:06 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: This describes a regular dummy proxying setup. Sure you could still do that, but it's not imapc proxying. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy The above URL worked beautifully and Dovecot is now running as a proxy for a dozen

Re: [Dovecot] [Solved] Another hint from the clue box 8-) imapc/imap proxy user mailbox server location

2012-03-13 Thread Terry Carmen
- Message from Timo Sirainen -     Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:05:14 +0200     From: Timo Sirainen Reply-To: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: [Dovecot] [Solved] Another hint from the clue box 8-) imapc/imap proxy user mailbox server location       To: Terry Carmen

Re: [Dovecot] [Solved] Another hint from the clue box 8-) imapc/imap proxy user mailbox server location

2012-03-14 Thread Terry Carmen
On 03/14/2012 06:58 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-03-13 6:29 PM, Terry Carmen wrote: I'm going to hope everything is OK for a while, since my goal is to retire all the old Exchange servers and move all the users to dovecot/maildir within the next couple of months. However it

Re: [Dovecot] Lack of external documentation?

2012-03-15 Thread Terry Carmen
On 03/15/2012 03:06 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: Firstly, this isn't meant to be critical, and I realize the subject line probably suggest criticism, so... I was sort of forced into using dovecot as my imap/pop server due to upgrading 3 versions of OS on my mail servers. So far, that's not bad.