Re: [Dovecot] doveadm-expunge debug message clarifications

2010-09-25 Thread LEVAI Daniel
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:33:25 +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote: [...] The dict socket is opened only after root privileges are dropped, so its permissions should have been the same as what the dropped privileges are (i.e. accessible for the user that the imap processes are typically running as).

[Dovecot] mdbox

2010-09-25 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Reviewing some mailing list archives and the wiki, I still don't have a real clear picture of why I'd want to use mdbox. What I've taken from the info I've reviewed says mdbox is more complicated (than sdbox), has greater potential for breakage (simply because it's more complex), and has a

Re: [Dovecot] (Single instance) attachment storage with single-dbox

2010-09-25 Thread William Blunn
On 24/09/2010 19:57, Timo Sirainen wrote: Just a note to myself and whoever else cares, should be added to wiki once it has its own page about this: I have been meaning to say we should have a wiki page about this. With single-dbox messages can be copied with hard linking. This means

Re: [Dovecot] mdbox

2010-09-25 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Daniel L. Miller schrieb: Reviewing some mailing list archives and the wiki, I still don't have a real clear picture of why I'd want to use mdbox. What I've taken from the info I've reviewed says mdbox is more complicated (than sdbox), has greater potential for breakage (simply because it's more

Re: [Dovecot] mdbox

2010-09-25 Thread Patrick Westenberg
Daniel L. Miller schrieb: Reviewing some mailing list archives and the wiki, I still don't have a real clear picture of why I'd want to use mdbox. What I've taken from the info I've reviewed says mdbox is more complicated (than sdbox), has greater potential for breakage (simply because it's more

Re: [Dovecot] (Single instance) attachment storage with single-dbox

2010-09-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 25.9.2010, at 9.49, Daniel L. Miller wrote: On 9/24/2010 11:57 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: Just a note to myself and whoever else cares, should be added to wiki once it has its own page about this: With single-dbox messages can be copied with hard linking. This means that there can be

Re: [Dovecot] (Single instance) attachment storage with single-dbox

2010-09-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 25.9.2010, at 11.50, William Blunn wrote: I can't think of any other reasonable way to handle this though, so unless someon has some great ideas, I think the solution is to simply add enough warnings that message store shouldn't be accessed directly. Maybe add some import/export commands

[Dovecot] password_query, user_query and unrelated userid and emails

2010-09-25 Thread Axel Luttgens
Let's say one has a SQL table with following fields for John Doe: login: u0007 password: {SHA1}... mailhome: /path/to/joeshome email: john@example.com To log in, for internal policy reasons, John MUST make use of his userid