My mail server is self-hosted. I think I would rather integrate Apache
solr with Dovecot than transferring mailboxes from the server onto my
laptop.
Thank you for your suggestion though.
Regards,
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore
20 Apr 2022 Wednesday
On
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
> However, Gmail's web interface, and Gmail's proprietary mobile apps,
> almost certainly do *not* use IMAP2 to communicate with the Gmail
> servers. As has already been pointed out in this thread, they likely
> use a proprietary protocol optimised for that proprietary environment.
Noted and
I would prefer to use Outlook as I have Microsoft Office desktop apps.
Regards,
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore
20 Apr 2022 Wednesday
On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 22:12, Shawn Heisey wrote:
>
> On 4/20/22 07:51, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> > I
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
Dear Shawn Heisey,
Noted with thanks. I shall probably try it one of these coming weekends.
Regards,
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore
20 Apr 2022 Wednesday
On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 22:10, Shawn Heisey wrote:
>
> On 4/20/22 08:03, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En
On 4/20/22 07:51, 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
Indeed you CAN use IMAP with gmail. For work, I mostly use my
On 4/20/22 08:03, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
Dear Shawn Heisey,
Your instructions for integrating Apache SOLR with Dovecot is too much
for me to understand. Do you have links/URLs to excellent guides for
doing this?
Here's the dovecot manual page on it:
Dear Shawn Heisey,
Your instructions for integrating Apache SOLR with Dovecot is too much
for me to understand. Do you have links/URLs to excellent guides for
doing this?
Thank you.
Regards,
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore
20 Apr 2022 Wednesday
On Mon,
> 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 whatever) those mailstores from the server onto your local
> filesystem; use maildir on
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
Regards,
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore
20 Apr 2022 Wednesday
On Wed, 20 Apr 2022
So the file "/var/mail/username" is a "system inbox" for the user, typically a
flat file that will accept new mail no matter what as long as it isn't too
large, which would indicate that the user's mailbox is full.
Some of the early text clients, mutt etc. would move any mail in the
this is handled in a couple of different ways
please note this is only for virtual users and assumes you are running
postfix/dovecot
through postfix (first)
see main.cf :
# SOFT BOUNCE
#
# The soft_bounce parameter provides a limited safety net for
# testing. When soft_bounce is
Is it possible to block incoming messages from being delivered to a specific
user in such a way that the MTA will try again later. I do not want these
message to bounce. (eg while doing some manual maintenance on the user)?
>
> Currently I have such special-userdb file
>
> test:x:1:2:testaccount_descr:/home/users/testaccount:/bin/false:userdb_
> mail=mbox:~/mbox:INBOX=/home/users/testaccount/inbox:INDEX=/home/users/testacco
> unt/index
>
> However I am still getting errors of a default configured namespace
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
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