Josh Smift writes:
> TC> I do this. I run a Virtual Host at Dreamhost (Although it could be one
> TC> a digitalocean, prgmr.com or whatever virtual hosting provider you
> TC> prefer) that acts as an inbound and outbound mail relay for the
> TC> IMAP/SMTP server I run at home.
>
> Ja, so this
TC> I do this. I run a Virtual Host at Dreamhost (Although it could be one
TC> a digitalocean, prgmr.com or whatever virtual hosting provider you
TC> prefer) that acts as an inbound and outbound mail relay for the
TC> IMAP/SMTP server I run at home.
Ja, so this is not entirely unlike what I'm doin
On 2015-01-22 19:28, Josh Smift wrote:
>
> Speaking of this, I recently ran into trouble because I'd set my outgoing
> SMTP server on my mail client on my Android phone (K-9 Mail) to be the
> mail server I generally use for personal mail, with Postfix doing
> authenticted TLS and all; and I found
On 01/22/2015 08:17 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
Its good you got this working. I'm curious what process you're using
for outgoing email so you don't get dropped into spam, and what you're
doing with reading email from your phone or other IMAP device?
My server at home is sitting on a static address
I do this. I run a Virtual Host at Dreamhost (Although it could be one
a digitalocean, prgmr.com or whatever virtual hosting provider you
prefer) that acts as an inbound and outbound mail relay for the
IMAP/SMTP server I run at home.
It's a small postfix instance, with SMTP-Auth configured to aut
JS> I'm curious what process you're using for outgoing email so you don't
JS> get dropped into spam, and what you're doing with reading email from
JS> your phone or other IMAP device?
Speaking of this, I recently ran into trouble because I'd set my outgoing
SMTP server on my mail client on my Andr
Its good you got this working. I'm curious what process you're using
for outgoing email so you don't get dropped into spam, and what you're
doing with reading email from your phone or other IMAP device?
I love using procmail to filter email, and sieve on an imap server
always seems like a bit
On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Matt Lawrence wrote:
So, once I managed to get postfix and dovecot dealing with my Maildir inbox
correctly, I moved on to the MUA step. Alpine did very strange things, so I
dropped it immediately.
what problems did you run into with Alpine?
David Lang
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On 01/12/2015 06:09 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
In any case, this has been an interesting discussion. Please do a
writeup when you're done and share it with us if you can please. I'd
love to know your reasoning for various decisions, just so we can all
er fnitpick them for you. *grin* Cheers, John
> "Matt" == Matt Lawrence writes:
Matt> On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Smith, David wrote:
>> According to this RHEL bug:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428996
>> Postfix 2.4 (and below, presumably, including 2.3 which was packaged with
>> CentOS 5) used off_t for file offsets, which
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Matt Lawrence wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Matt Lawrence
wrote:
Maybe you need to check if your alpine has the 2GB limit and chokes? If
it's 32 bit then I could see internal indexes failing on >2GB files.
Postfix b
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Smith, David wrote:
According to this RHEL bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428996
Postfix 2.4 (and below, presumably, including 2.3 which was packaged with
CentOS 5) used off_t for file offsets, which appears to be a 32-bit value on
CentOS 5 32-bit. So tha
:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> Maybe you need to check if your alpine has the 2GB limit and chokes?
> If it's 32 bit then I could see in
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
Maybe you need to check if your alpine has the 2GB limit and chokes? If
it's 32 bit then I could see internal indexes failing on >2GB files.
Postfix bounced messages that would cause the inbox to
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Smith, David wrote:
>
> What file system are you using? The 2GB limit doesn't sound like anything
>> related to Postfix (unless you set Postfix's mailbox_size_limit directive
>> years ago then forgot about it).
>>
>
> e
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Smith, David wrote:
What file system are you using? The 2GB limit doesn't sound like anything
related to Postfix (unless you set Postfix's mailbox_size_limit directive years
ago then forgot about it).
ext3. I have other files larger than 2GB on the server, so I doubt it
n bucks or
so per mailbox.
David Smith
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To: tech@lists.lopsa.org
Subject: [lopsa-tech] mail server help
Ok, I have gotten myself
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 09:12:32PM -0600, Matt Lawrence wrote:
...
> I've been running Postfix as a mail server for many years, it's
> currently running on a CentOS 5 system. I've also been using pine
> (or alpine) to read my email for decades. Well, it appears that
> Postfix may have a maximum l
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Matt Lawrence wrote:
Everything lives on the server, I ssh and run (al)pine locally to access my
mail spool locally, no POP3 or IMAP in use at all. Current mail storage is
mbox. Yeah, really, really old fashioned, the original server was a 386 with
16M or RAM running Debi
If you're trying to go mbox->maildir with IMAP, (Al)pine is probably the
best solution. Non-pine users would probably be more comfortable in
mutt, but either will do.
Backup your mboxes, then get the new mail infrastructure setup pointing
to maildirs. Make sure everything delivers inbound and ou
Brandon Allbery writes:
>On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Matt Lawrence
> wrote:
>
> Ok. I guess my biggest concern is how to migrate my inbox.
> Hopefully the Dovecot and/or the Cyrus documentation will give me
> some clues. Like I said, I haven't touched a mail se
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, John Sellens wrote:
I believe that the Pine mail client had IMAP support if not right
from the start, very early on.
In this discussion, I'm not clear on how Matt is currently accessing
his mail (direct from mbox, IMAP, POP), or how the mail is stored
on the server (mbox, m
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:26 PM, David Lang wrote:
> I'm guessing that he has Postfix delivering the mail to local mbox files,
> and something is compiled for 32 bits (resulting in the 2G file size limit)
Yes. And Alpine because Pine is long dead / has not been updated in many
years. (And I di
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, John Sellens wrote:
On Sun, 2015/01/11 10:50:53PM -0500, Brandon Allbery
wrote:
| Definitely overkill. I used to do that; my excuse is that it was my testbed
| for a departmental upgrade. For small setups, dovecot makes more sense.
| Alpine is still the tool for migration
On Sun, 2015/01/11 10:50:53PM -0500, Brandon Allbery
wrote:
| Definitely overkill. I used to do that; my excuse is that it was my testbed
| for a departmental upgrade. For small setups, dovecot makes more sense.
| Alpine is still the tool for migration from Pine to IMAP, though (and
| possibly co
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Matt Lawrence wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Matt Lawrence
wrote:
Ok. I guess my biggest concern is how to migrate my inbox. Hopefully the
Dovecot and/or the Cyrus documentation will give me some clues. Like I
sai
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Matt Lawrence
wrote:
Ok. I guess my biggest concern is how to migrate my inbox. Hopefully the
Dovecot and/or the Cyrus documentation will give me some clues. Like I
said, I haven't touched a mail server configura
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Matt Lawrence
wrote:
> Ok. I guess my biggest concern is how to migrate my inbox. Hopefully the
> Dovecot and/or the Cyrus documentation will give me some clues. Like I
> said, I haven't touched a mail server configuration in many years and that
> was to confi
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, David Lang wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Matt Lawrence wrote:
Ok, I have no idea how to use alpine to migrate. You've kind of lost me.
configure alpine so that it can both read your existing mail and your IMAP
server, select all mail from the folder containing your exist
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Matt Lawrence
wrote:
Ok, I have no idea how to use alpine to migrate. You've kind of lost me.
Alpine is a rewrite of Pine with IMAP support. So you can access your Pine
mailboxes as is, and also an IMAP server,
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Matt Lawrence wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
Definitely overkill. I used to do that; my excuse is that it was my testbed
for a departmental upgrade. For small setups, dovecot makes more sense.
Alpine is still the tool for migration from Pine to IMAP, th
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Matt Lawrence
wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
> Definitely overkill. I used to do that; my excuse is that it was my
>> testbed
>> for a departmental upgrade. For small setups, dovecot makes more sense.
>> Alpine is still the tool for migra
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
Definitely overkill. I used to do that; my excuse is that it was my testbed
for a departmental upgrade. For small setups, dovecot makes more sense.
Alpine is still the tool for migration from Pine to IMAP, though (and
possibly continuing...).
Ok, I h
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:44 PM, David Lang wrote:
> It's almost certinly overkill, but I like to run Cyrus as the IMAP server.
Definitely overkill. I used to do that; my excuse is that it was my testbed
for a departmental upgrade. For small setups, dovecot makes more sense.
Alpine is still th
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Matt Lawrence wrote:
Ok, I have gotten myself in a bit of a situation with my personal email
server.
I've been running Postfix as a mail server for many years, it's currently
running on a CentOS 5 system. I've also been using pine (or alpine) to read
my email for decades
Ok, I have gotten myself in a bit of a situation with my personal email
server.
I've been running Postfix as a mail server for many years, it's currently
running on a CentOS 5 system. I've also been using pine (or alpine) to
read my email for decades. Well, it appears that Postfix may have a
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