Re: [Dovecot] mdbox + gzip and rsync

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.3.2012, at 5.19, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: > After reading the following paragraph from the dovecot doc, I've been > wondering how it would affect rsync (when combined with gzip): > > "Expunging a message only decreases the message's refcount. The space is > later freed in "purge" step. Th

Re: [Dovecot] nfs error fcntl(read-lock) locking failed for file

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.3.2012, at 4.22, Rajesh M wrote: > on server number 1 i get errors as such > Error: fcntl(read-lock) locking failed for file Input/output error > squirrelmail gives error imap connection closed and i am not able to login > > > so i set the parameters as such in the dovecot conf file and the

Re: [Dovecot] Lock down Shared Mail Accounts?

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.3.2012, at 18.39, Ed W wrote: >> 5. No one other than a designated user or users (Master User(s)? Users in a >> specified Group?) can delete any messages in this account, in any of the >> folders. > > Have them delivered with only read permissions on the physical files? (Bet > that doesn'

Re: [Dovecot] Lock down Shared Mail Accounts?

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.3.2012, at 15.32, Charles Marcus wrote: > 4. They can *move* messages to other folders in that account (ie, 'file' > them), and last > > (this is the tricky part) > > 5. No one other than a designated user or users (Master User(s)? Users in a > specified Group?) can delete any messages in

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 107, Issue 20 Fscking warnings

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 9.3.2012, at 2.00, Stephen Davies wrote: > However, it seems that deleting the .imap files did not fix the log sync > errors > or the fscking warnings. > > Both are still happening continuously. If you're talking about errors like these: Mar 10 18:21:38 imap(tss): Error: Log synchronizatio

Re: [Dovecot] POP3C storage backend

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 6.3.2012, at 0.06, Tom Talpey wrote: > I see a new "POP3C" lib-storage client backend in dovecot 2.1, but I > don't see anything in the 2.1 doc directory or in the wiki. Can this > be used to synchronize dovecot with external pop servers? Doing away > with my current fetchmail and lmtp solution

Re: [Dovecot] Fscking warnings

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.3.2012, at 1.07, Stephen Davies wrote: > Google tells me that these "should go away" but they don't. > > Seems to happen continuously while a user is viewing email. > > Mar 7 09:29:52 server dovecot: imap(john): Warning: fscking index file > /home/john/Mail/INBOX/.imap/Archive/dovecot.ind

Re: [Dovecot] Single instance storage

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 8.3.2012, at 3.30, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: > I have read most of the doc on the dovecot website, and couldn't find any > info on the single instance storage feature, so I'm posting my questions > here. > > - Are these 3 parameters the only one necessary for single instance > storage? I can

Re: [Dovecot] dot named folders

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.3.2012, at 21.43, Micah Anderson wrote: > When a user makes a folder called 'x.y' it actually creates a folder > called 'x' with a folder called 'y' inside, rather than a folder called > 'x.y'. I'm guessing this has to do with an internal folder separator > namespace configuration, but I'm a

Re: [Dovecot] migrating/converting from system users -> virtual users

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 8.3.2012, at 20.46, Steve Platt wrote: >> use Dovecot v2.0's dsync > > I gather from your reply that it's OK to use Dovecot 2.0 utilities (eg dsync) > on a dovecot (v1) installation; presumably with its own configuration file(s). Yes, although in some situations it might write stuff to index

Re: [Dovecot] Whether the THREAD command support cross-mailbox thread?

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 9.3.2012, at 10.09, Andy YB Hu wrote: > > In the real world, the mails which belongs to one thread could be dispersed > in different mailbox, at least Inbox and SENT, so whether the command can > search different mailboxes and grap them in one talk with dovecot? > > If Not, any other approach

Re: [Dovecot] Advise on upgrading from a jurassic version - please help.

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 9.3.2012, at 2.50, Martin Mielke wrote: > I have read the Dovecot documentation and there are instructions to upgrade > from 0.99.x to 1.x and so on... my question is: can I upgrade from 0.99.11 to > 2.x directly or is it a massive leap? If so, what do I have to keep in mind? > This is a pro