Re: ot: how to t/s TBird problems ?

2022-10-21 Thread Joseph Tam
Voytek Eymont writes: > I've enabled logging as per your suggestion: > > -rw--- 1 vmail vmail 127 Oct 16 21:38 20221016-213738.25640.1.in > -rw--- 1 vmail vmail 8546603 Oct 16 21:38 20221016-213738.25640.1.out > -rw--- 1 vmail vmail 96 Oct 16 21:58 20221016-215757.26075.1.in

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread Frank Wall
On 2022-10-21 11:38, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Apparently, Dovecot Director is going to be removed in the next major version of Dovecot and the commercial Dovecot cluster architecture will be its successor: We - the communitiy - are free to continue development of the director. So, who's

Re: dovecot mailing list (this mailing list), DKIM, SPF and DMARC

2022-10-21 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client http://www.trojita.flaska.net/ I also use http://opendkim.org/ http://www.trusteddomain.org/opendmarc/ as milters on Postfix Active development, I'm sure they could all use some help, or forks for alternatives, I don't know, I'm not involved in

Re: dovecot mailing list (this mailing list), DKIM, SPF and DMARC

2022-10-21 Thread hi
On 2022-10-11 14:05, Benny Pedersen wrote: hi@zakaria.website skrev den 2022-10-11 13:42: On 2022-09-13 13:10, Benny Pedersen wrote: hi@zakaria.website skrev den 2022-09-13 14:03: from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread hi
On 2022-10-21 10:54, Zhang Huangbin wrote: On Oct 21, 2022, at 5:51 PM, Zhang Huangbin wrote: If mailbox is in Maildir format (and stored on shared storage like NFS), accessing it from different server may corrupt Dovecot index files and mailbox becomes unaccessible. Director perfectly

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread dovecot
the problem that prevents most load balancers from handling the backend imap/pop traffic is that the load balancer needs to be aware of the context of each connection. which all boils down to the index files (only a single dovecot server can access a set of index files concurrently, else the

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread Brendan Braybrook
I setup load-balance cluster for clients with HAProxy + KeepAlived + Dovecot Director running in frontend servers, so sad we have to find an alternative to replace Director in such case. It's not about "small/medium" servers, but the demand of imap/pop3/lmtp proxy service, especially in

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread William Edwards
> Op 21 okt. 2022 om 19:42 heeft Brendan Braybrook het > volgende geschreven: > > On 2022-10-21 04:29, spi wrote: >>> Am 21.10.22 um 13:14 schrieb Amol Kulkarni: >>> Nginx has an mail proxy for pop, imap, smtp. >>> Can it be used instead of director ? >> Nginx can authenticate imap/smtp (and

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread Brendan Braybrook
On 2022-10-21 04:29, spi wrote: Am 21.10.22 um 13:14 schrieb Amol Kulkarni: Nginx has an mail proxy for pop, imap, smtp. Can it be used instead of director ? Nginx can authenticate imap/smtp (and probably pop3) users. If you that, you can define a backend server the session is routed to.

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread justina colmena ~biz
Nginx is an excellent suggestion for the purpose. However I do not like German client certificates. That is far too much "proof" of identification 18/21++ on a public network with nowhere to hide and those of us who are not German citizens and do not have the advantage of a friendly local

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread Michael Peddemors
On 2022-10-20 22:19, Zhang Huangbin wrote: On Oct 21, 2022, at 4:19 AM, Antonio Leding wrote: My understanding is that Director is targeted toward large enterprise mail installations that will incorporate several servers for a given function. In such an environment, Director would be the

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread Tom Sommer
To be clear, you are removing the Director... --- Tom On 2022-10-21 13:28, Aki Tuomi wrote: To be clear, we are not removing proxying features from Dovecot either. Just the director ring feature. Aki On 21/10/2022 14:14 EEST Amol Kulkarni wrote: Nginx has an mail proxy for pop, imap,

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread spi
Am 21.10.22 um 13:14 schrieb Amol Kulkarni: Nginx has an mail proxy for pop, imap, smtp. Can it be used instead of director ? Nginx can authenticate imap/smtp (and probably pop3) users. If you that, you can define a backend server the session is routed to. Currently I use that approach to

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread Aki Tuomi
To be clear, we are not removing proxying features from Dovecot either. Just the director ring feature. Aki > On 21/10/2022 14:14 EEST Amol Kulkarni wrote: > > > Nginx has an mail proxy for pop, imap, smtp. > Can it be used instead of director ? > > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 at 16:21, wrote:

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread Amol Kulkarni
Nginx has an mail proxy for pop, imap, smtp. Can it be used instead of director ? On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 at 16:21, wrote: > On 2022-10-21 10:51, Zhang Huangbin wrote: > >> On Oct 21, 2022, at 5:23 PM, hi@zakaria.website wrote: > >> > >> I was wondering if one can achieve the same implementation

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread hi
On 2022-10-21 10:51, Zhang Huangbin wrote: On Oct 21, 2022, at 5:23 PM, hi@zakaria.website wrote: I was wondering if one can achieve the same implementation with haproxy without dovecot director? The most important part of Director is it makes sure same mail user always proxied to same

Re: lmtp userdb can't resolve users

2022-10-21 Thread Paul Kudla
Question are you using a db like postgresql or mysql etc when running virtual mailboxes it is just simply a better solution my setup is as follows i use a django project to drive it here are the basic's in the dovecot.conf : passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread Zhang Huangbin
> On Oct 21, 2022, at 5:51 PM, Zhang Huangbin wrote: > > If mailbox is in Maildir format (and stored on shared storage like NFS), > accessing it from different server may corrupt Dovecot index files and > mailbox becomes unaccessible. Director perfectly avoids this issue. To be clear:

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread Zhang Huangbin
> On Oct 21, 2022, at 5:23 PM, hi@zakaria.website wrote: > > I was wondering if one can achieve the same implementation with haproxy > without dovecot director? The most important part of Director is it makes sure same mail user always proxied to same backend IMAP server. If mailbox is in

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Steff Majeur (Do 20 Okt 2022 11:24:49 CEST): > I recently stumbled upon the following commit on the Dovecot core Github > repository: > https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/4a187116dc2311804be22724007d357323005358 > > Apparently, Dovecot Director is going to be removed in the next major

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread hi
On 2022-10-21 06:19, Zhang Huangbin wrote: On Oct 21, 2022, at 4:19 AM, Antonio Leding wrote: My understanding is that Director is targeted toward large enterprise mail installations that will incorporate several servers for a given function. In such an environment, Director would be the

lmtp userdb can't resolve users

2022-10-21 Thread George Asenov
Hello, I use postfix with dovecot as an lmtp LDA with unix users and multiple domain names and mailboxes in Maildir format placed in domain directory like: /home/mainuser/homes/u...@domain.tld/Maildir or /home/mainuser/domains/domain2.tld/homes/u...@domain2.tld/Maildir which have the main

RE: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread Marc
> servers. > > > > I setup load-balance cluster for clients with HAProxy + KeepAlived + > Dovecot Director running in frontend servers, so sad we have to find an > alternative to replace Director in such case. The code is still available you just need to build it yourself. I think they will

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread Narcis Garcia
El 21/10/22 a les 7:19, Zhang Huangbin ha escrit: On Oct 21, 2022, at 4:19 AM, Antonio Leding wrote: My understanding is that Director is targeted toward large enterprise mail installations that will incorporate several servers for a given function. In such an environment, Director would

Re: The end of Dovecot Director?

2022-10-21 Thread justina colmena ~biz
You still need in some sense one coherent file system to store and retrieve the mail messages. Although a load-balance cluster would still be quite useful for rejecting the bulk of unauthorized connections. I am sure in many cases a small/medium server can in fact sit and function quite