Re: Backups and disaster recovery

2022-12-03 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 11:02:54PM +, GDS wrote: > Hello all! After reading some of the past threads on backups, I was > wondering if I could get a sanity check... I run a Maildir > configuration for a small (10 mailboxes) mail server. Using "doveadm > backup", for each mailbox I do: > > -

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Client for a Windows User ?

2022-09-13 Thread Sam Kuper
On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 04:10:22PM +, White, Daniel E. wrote: > On Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 12:07 Narcis Garcia wrote: >> El 13/9/22 a les 18:01, White, Daniel E. ha escrit: >>> Specifically, Windows 2016 server >>> >>> I suggested Thunderbird. >>> Is there anything else ? >>> >>> Is

Re: Is multi factor authentication practical/feasible?

2022-07-03 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 07:32:21AM -0800, justina colmena ~biz wrote: > Guns are banned and there's a night guard with a Big Mag flashlight or > a billy club walking the beat around the bank, kicking a homeless man > who fell asleep on the sidewalk to tell him wake up or your pocket's > going be

Re: Is multi factor authentication practical/feasible?

2022-06-26 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 06:52:05PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > I know roundcube offers a MFA plugin. But I don’t have the foggiest > idea how of an iPhone, Android device, or Outlook could all be set up > to work with MFA with a standard dovecot/postfix setup. I'm currently vague on whether/how

Re: doveadm pw usage

2022-04-25 Thread Sam Kuper
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 07:30:16PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > The downside of putting the password on the command line is that it > will (briefly) be visible in the output of 'ps': > > richard 9449 0.0 0.0 5040 3616 pts/4R+ 19:27 0:00 > /usr/bin/doveconf -f service=doveadm -c

Re: doveadm pw usage

2022-04-24 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 06:45:19PM +0800, ミユナ (alice) wrote: > Bernardo Reino wrote: >> The argument to "-p" is not a file containing the password, but the >> password itself! > > ok the helps says: > > pw [-l] [-p plaintext] > > i just thought it specifies the text file. > > thanks

Re: Bad Signature - Both Roundcube and Squirrelmail webmail cannot search for anything + cannot open many emails because there are more than 200, 000 emails in my Inbox

2022-04-20 Thread Sam Kuper
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 09:55:02PM +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: >> My advice for anyone who wants to be able to keep and search very large >> monolithic mailstores would be: synchronise (e.g. via >> https://isync.sourceforge.io/ or fetchmail or getmail or rsync or Unison >> or

Re: Bad Signature - Both Roundcube and Squirrelmail webmail cannot search for anything + cannot open many emails because there are more than 200, 000 emails in my Inbox

2022-04-20 Thread Sam Kuper
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 09:51:18PM +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > I believe Gmail is using IMAP. The instructions for configuring Gmail > email accounts in Outlook specifically mention IMAP server hostname: > > imap.gmail.com > > TCP Port 993, SSL Gmail offers an IMAP2 endpoint

Re: Bad Signature - Both Roundcube and Squirrelmail webmail cannot search for anything + cannot open many emails because there are more than 200, 000 emails in my Inbox

2022-04-20 Thread Sam Kuper
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 07:26:10PM -0600, Shawn Heisey wrote: > I would bet that if you accessed a gmail folder with 5 million > messages in it using IMAP, you would have similar problems with it to > those that have been described here in this thread.  IMAP is a > beautiful protocol, but I don't

Re: Bad Signature - Both Roundcube and Squirrelmail webmail cannot search for anything + cannot open many emails because there are more than 200, 000 emails in my Inbox

2022-04-19 Thread Sam Kuper
On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 03:23:10PM -0700, Joseph Tam wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet) wrote: >> As for the 200,000+ emails in the inbox no email system was ever >> designed for that - ever. >> ... >> no system will support 200,000 + emails, even if the server can >>

Re: silly quesiton [ot]

2022-01-31 Thread Sam Kuper
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:04:57PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> mbox is multiple emails in single file, maildir is single email in >>> single file >> >> Exactly my point! > > which is good (mbox) in mail archiving. And not much else. Exactly. -- A: When it messes up the order in which

Re: silly quesiton [ot]

2022-01-31 Thread Sam Kuper
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:26:26AM +0100, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On 2022-01-31 07:23, Sam Kuper wrote: >>DJB developed Maildir to gain performance and reliability improvements >>over mbox files. Unlike Maildirs, mbox files *are* "large flat >>files". > > m

Re: silly quesiton [ot]

2022-01-30 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 07:49:56PM -0900, justina colmena ~biz wrote: > On January 30, 2022 6:30:44 PM AKST, Sam Kuper wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 06:17:49PM -0900, justina colmena ~biz wrote: >>> On January 30, 2022 5:46:53 PM AKST, dove...@ptld.com wrote: >>

Re: silly quesiton [ot]

2022-01-30 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 06:17:49PM -0900, justina colmena ~biz wrote: > On January 30, 2022 5:46:53 PM AKST, dove...@ptld.com wrote: >> Storing mail in a db... at the end of the day isn't it still just a >> file (.db file) on the drive? >> >> Aren't you just adding bloat and complexity vs just

Re: GDPR/sender-ip (was: make received-header on submission optional or at least drop the ip in it)

2022-01-07 Thread Sam Kuper
On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 07:00:19PM +0100, John Fawcett wrote: > On 05/01/2022 18:36, Sam Kuper wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 06:00:31PM +0100, John Fawcett wrote: >>> my understanding of the GDPR legislation is that it defines what is >>> considered lawful pro

Re: GDPR/sender-ip (was: make received-header on submission optional or at least drop the ip in it)

2022-01-05 Thread Sam Kuper
On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 06:00:31PM +0100, John Fawcett wrote: > my understanding of the GDPR legislation is that it defines what is > considered lawful processing. One of those items that makes the > processing lawful is consent. Not necessarily. An action that would not be lawful without

Re: ZFS storage and backup

2021-11-14 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 03:14:44PM +0100, infoomatic wrote: > I am about to migrate our mailservices to FreeBSD + ZFS. Thus, before > entering the sheer endless  stage of performance testing, I thought I > would ask here kindly for all kinds of information. > > [..] > > *) storages: any infos on

Re: Strategies for protecting IMAP (e.g. MFA)

2021-11-14 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 03:34:12PM -0800, lists wrote: > [..] Now Yubikey at least has my attention. But people often leave the > key plugged into their notebook. Very true with the Google equivalent > which I have heard from Google employees. The keys themselves aren't > exactly transferable, but

Re: Some questions about mail_crypt setups

2021-02-21 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 05:20:59PM -0500, deano-dove...@areyes.com wrote: > I have global mail enecryption working nicely, and replication works > nicely between two systems. The main problem is that the private and > public keys are *right there* on the server in /etc/dovecot/private > ... Fine

Re: Providers running dovecot?

2020-09-27 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 04:30:21PM +0200, Olivier Cailloux wrote: > I am looking for providers of free e-mail addresses known to run > Dovecot (or a variant thereof) for IMAP access. Possibly Posteo. Not free IIRC, but very inexpensive (~1EUR/month). -- A: When it messes up the order in which

Re: Urgent Help required

2020-07-09 Thread Sam Kuper
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 09:02:12AM +0100, Kishore Potnuru wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 6:40 AM Aki Tuomi wrote: >> We provide official community edition RPMs at >> https://repo.dovecot.org for 2.3. > > Am I able to install (2.3 version) on RHEL 6.10 or RHEL 7.7 versions? > Will there be any

Re: Outlook vs Thunderbird (re disabling SSL)

2020-07-08 Thread Sam Kuper
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 12:05:55PM +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > I spent a week trying every cypher combination I could find via Google > for Dovecot but with the phone going off the hook from complaints by > customers not being able to pick up their mail. We had to respond with > some solution

Re: SV: SV: Outlook vs Thunderbird

2020-07-07 Thread Sam Kuper
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 07:00:23PM +0200, Sebastian Nielsen wrote: > Sorry about that, its just outlook that does that by default. Consider migrating to a MUA that, unlike Outlook, understands mailing lists. For example, Mutt (which definitely sucks less than Outlook):

Re: fail2ban setup centos 7 not picking auth fail?

2020-05-23 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 11:55:33AM +0800, Plutocrat wrote: > On 22/05/2020 18.32, Jerry wrote: >> On Thu, 21 May 2020 23:22:04 -0700, lists stated: >>> I use SSHGuard on well ssh (doh!), but supposedly you can use it for >>> postfix and dovecot also. I can tell you it is well supported. [..] >>

Re: Convert standalone mbox to standalone Maildir with Dsync - hierarchy separator error

2020-05-22 Thread Sam Kuper
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 04:16:26AM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:03:37AM +0300, Aki Tuomi wrote: >> Edit your dovecot.conf and add >> >> namespace { >> inbox = yes >> # or use '.' here. >> separator = / >> } > &

Re: Convert standalone mbox to standalone Maildir with Dsync - hierarchy separator error

2020-05-20 Thread Sam Kuper
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:03:37AM +0300, Aki Tuomi wrote: > Edit your dovecot.conf and add > > namespace { > inbox = yes > # or use '.' here. > separator = / > } Thanks for the suggestion! I added those lines to the bottom of /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf . However, when I attempted the

Convert standalone mbox to standalone Maildir with Dsync - hierarchy separator error

2020-05-13 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear Dovecot users/devs, I have the following mbox file: /tmp/dsync_test/mbox/2002-September I would like to convert it to a Maildir: /tmp/dsync_test/maildir (Currently, the latter is just an empty directory.) I am attempting this on an old PC running Debian 9 ("Stretch"). I