Re: [Dovecot] Sieve problem: No vacation message when mail is addressed to an alias of the mailbox.
Pascal Volk schrieb: On 07/13/2009 10:06 AM M. Bobkiewicz wrote: Hi, I?m facing here a wierd problem: We have a vacation messaging system using sieve. When activated the system forwards incomming messages to a given address and sents an out of office reply to the sender. This works like a charm when the mail is addressed to mail...@domain. When the incomming mail ist addressed to alias.to.mail...@domain the mail is delivered to the mailbox, it is forwarded to the given reciepient but there is no auto reply going out to the sender! Our setup: CentOS 5.2 + postfix 2.5.6 + dovecot 1.1.11 with domain and accounts stored in a mysql database. The script: require [fileinto, vacation]; redirect mailb...@domain; keep; vacation :days 1 :subject Out of Office reply The auto reply text. ; Any advice is welcome, You have to add the alias addresses to the :addresses list. For example: require [fileinto, vacation]; redirect mailb...@domain; keep; vacation :days 1 :subject Out of Office reply :addresses [1st.al...@domain, 2nd.al...@domain] The auto reply text. ; See also: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve#Vacation_auto-reply-1 First of all thanks for the hint, it works. Second, nice to see the discussion, we did have the same here at my location when I told my boss about the reason for the error... Regards, Mike
[Dovecot] Can Dovecot Proxy GMail?
Hi, We are using gmail (google apps) across our company with most users using outlook (windoze) or evolution (linux) and imap/pop based on user preference. We are having issues in that our internet links are fairly slow and when users download mails they get frustrated with the time it takes and often get timeouts and issues where outlook fails to fetch a mail yet gmail thinks it was retrieved - users then complain of missing emails. Is there a way that we could use dovecot (or similar?) to act as an imap proxy and users connect to dovecot while dovecot connects to gmail? Thanks Paul
Re: [Dovecot] Can Dovecot Proxy GMail?
Paul Carter-Brown schreef: Hi, We are using gmail (google apps) across our company with most users using outlook (windoze) or evolution (linux) and imap/pop based on user preference. We are having issues in that our internet links are fairly slow and when users download mails they get frustrated with the time it takes and often get timeouts and issues where outlook fails to fetch a mail yet gmail thinks it was retrieved - users then complain of missing emails. Is there a way that we could use dovecot (or similar?) to act as an imap proxy and users connect to dovecot while dovecot connects to gmail? Thanks Paul When you setup a (realtime) proxy that connects to gmail when the user actually connects to dovecot, retrieving mail is still slow. You could look into using fetchmail or something like that to pull everything from gmail and store it local. That way, when your users connect to dovecot, the mail is already on a local machine and access is fast. This implies of course that you need to setup fetchmail with the users' credentials. -- Regards, Tom signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[Dovecot] dovecot 1.2.1 quota plugin broken
On Jul 14, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Marc Dequènes (Duck) wrote: Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotILoading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap Edlopen(/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so) failed: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib10_quota_plugin.so: undefined symbol: xdr_ext_getquota_args This is because the Debian package is built with automake 1.9. 1.10 would work, or you could apply this patch: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/66040bffc1a5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org The problem is also in CentOS 5.3, the mentioned patch also solves the problem, but applying the new ones http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/1b5a1ac430a7 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/b6aaca59301a raised the error again. Regards -- ++ | Juan C. Blanco | || | Centro de Calculo | | | Facultad de Informatica U.P.M. | E-mail: jcbla...@fi.upm.es | | Campus de Montegancedo | | | Boadilla del Monte | Tel.:(+34) 91 336 7466 | | 28660 MADRID (Spain) | Fax :(+34) 91 336 6913 | ++
[Dovecot] RESOLVED: strange quota behaviour with dovecot 1.1.7
Hi, I just wanted to tell you that my problems are resolved now. Seems that Timo had the essential hint for me. Thank you very much!! :-) On 27.06.2009 23:40, Timo Sirainen wrote: passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf Do you really want to have system users too? No, I don´t want to :-) I switched this off. password_query = SELECT username AS user, password, '/drbd/mail/vmail/%d/%n' AS userdb_home, 'maildir:/drbd/mail/vmail/%d/%n' AS userdb_mail, 5001 AS userdb_uid, 5001 AS userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' You're also not using userdb prefetch, so all these usedb_* fields are ignored here. Seems that was it! Now quota works very fine! After growing quota, mails to the account are accepted again. But my Thunderbird with Quota plugin continues showing the old quota setting. When more mails are sent to this account, it shows a quota 100%. (...) If I try now, as a user, to delete mails from the overfilled Inbox, it is denied with a quota exceeded message. But I´m able to send further mails to this account. The only way to get the account working properly again is to delete the messages directly on the server´s filesystem. This happens again even after correcting the MySQL query, but it´s very easy to fix when the user logs out and in again (e.g. closes and reopens his Thunderbird) :-) Thank you very much for the fix and this very nice imap server!!! Andreas -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01
[Dovecot] multiple authentication mechanisms/passwords for same account
This may be trivial but reading the documentation I can't find a clear answer: If multiple authentication mechanisms (or multiple databases for one) are defined, does it allow one user account to have several (at least two) alternative passwords (so that any of them would work)? Or does it first map an account to a fixed authentication mechanism/password and if it fails, others won't be tried? -- Tapani Tarvainen
Re: [Dovecot] multiple authentication mechanisms/passwords for same account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: Or does it first map an account to a fixed authentication mechanism/password and if it fails, others won't be tried? Did you tried? As far as I know any passdb's are tried, until an OK is returned; the same with userdb. Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSl3IOHWSIuGy1ktrAQL1VQf/RcDcQHm5ktNSklvM8MwsNH5FrHbgTBTb VYuUDN7pJDhLIARTmCLvEfjQVclaQsIr8x/4x6OMcQrZ7SFRk89oNCEeyn+k0n2K 0SaD9YKHGB932DSmmrJ7+Md/ARoox5n8koK++KX/whLQUUC9ZEkkceSdJ0eV+fBH 0BYfbbVFXGfbr2570MPZfSYbRgPOq7ad/wRDxiDxEm7Zs8RMNGpkicOOkjSlcN29 gmM42k/a1K7YjDDVzDCEsVTjY9yxOD4ZmgxDdNC3/2DkNXpRlXNEP0u3QCRejNAr s06kdvtkORA2l4q1ZdkkcQfEnNA9z3UlYVgtkILQTyXmpJ8U/GaFYQ== =lf7K -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Dovecot] multiple authentication mechanisms/passwords for same account
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: Better to supply links than I thinks: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ You can use multiple databases, so if the password doesn't match in the first database, Dovecot checks the next one. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases Bye, - -- Steffen Kaiser -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSl3Ir3WSIuGy1ktrAQIcygf/WbRr1OPBxAdgzHDqJqBUqngknYFHsAO3 HrIcASD095zCJlJqyHbSG99HJVzEUbijwJHzNookX8YdKVAX7a89TyCQWUOzx02b /HXWOpoYB9sjmfxMlMz7sV7f7Hyj3TR/oqk7hfvt0t8dpKT5cev+1gI5KJ6IwLun 1/AK9tKrVJhsot+W2GMEc1SMEGD0jGE3VApvxAzLvmvKKqayhZjU0PI0tdSH5zVd aM6ZRPbIIxgIRAbVCeOjwNb9hQE6f+8khx0OOWKsEtm1kuZm+urIxMJaNTI4SVjs xHF6vPoXU4567/on+/Kya357z6EsT4ikubCEF7DxDKrtr4LljJZ8vw== =x6CN -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Dovecot] multiple authentication mechanisms/passwords for same account
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 02:14:46PM +0200, Steffen Kaiser (skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de) wrote: Or does it first map an account to a fixed authentication mechanism/password and if it fails, others won't be tried? Did you tried? No (still trying to decide if I should install dovecot). On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 02:16:47PM +0200, Steffen Kaiser (skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de) wrote: http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ You can use multiple databases, so if the password doesn't match in the first database, Dovecot checks the next one. How did I miss that. Thank you! http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases Right. One caveat remains: Currently the fallback works only with the PLAIN authentication mechanism. Guess I can live with that. Thanks again, and apologies for careless reading of the docs, -- Tapani Tarvainen
[Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption
Hello, I am new to Dovecot but installation was quite easy, so there is one more LDAP authenticated, Dovecot / Postfix mailbox online, but there is one question left: I would like to set up a configuration, which encrypts every user mail with a unique key. If user logs in, private key should be decrypted with user password and every mail user requests should be decrypted with users private key. If a mail comes in, it should be encrypted with users public key. That key pair should be used for that purpose only. Obviously a GnuPG plugin between deliver and rest of Dovecot is needed. best reagrds Christian
Re: [Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 18:26 +0200, Christian Felsing wrote: I would like to set up a configuration, which encrypts every user mail with a unique key. If user logs in, private key should be decrypted with user password and every mail user requests should be decrypted with users private key. If a mail comes in, it should be encrypted with users public key. That key pair should be used for that purpose only. Obviously a GnuPG plugin between deliver and rest of Dovecot is needed. Feel free to write such a plugin. :) Decryption could be done the same way as zlib plugin works. Encryption would need a bit more work. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption
Christian Felsing schrieb: Hello, I am new to Dovecot but installation was quite easy, so there is one more LDAP authenticated, Dovecot / Postfix mailbox online, but there is one question left: I would like to set up a configuration, which encrypts every user mail with a unique key. If user logs in, private key should be decrypted with user password and every mail user requests should be decrypted with users private key. If a mail comes in, it should be encrypted with users public key. That key pair should be used for that purpose only. Obviously a GnuPG plugin between deliver and rest of Dovecot is needed. best reagrds Christian i might fail but this is not the job for an imap server what you need is a gpg gateway mailserver the only open source i found is here http://www.djigzo.com/ comercial http://www.zertificon.com/ if there are other solutions , i will be happy to hear about it -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
[Dovecot] sieve / managesieve: unknown Sieve capability 'imapflags'
$HOME/.dovecot.sieve.log reports: main_script: line 8: error: require command: unknown Sieve capability 'imapflags'. main_script: line 8: error: require command: unknown Sieve capability 'notify'. main_script: error: validation failed. I'm using sieve (not cmusieve) and managesieve with dovecot-1.2. SquirrelMail 1.4 is using the avelsieve plugin to created/edit the sieve rules. What am I doing wrong here? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de
Re: [Dovecot] sieve / managesieve: unknown Sieve capability 'imapflags'
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 20:59 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: $HOME/.dovecot.sieve.log reports: main_script: line 8: error: require command: unknown Sieve capability 'imapflags'. main_script: line 8: error: require command: unknown Sieve capability 'notify'. main_script: error: validation failed. http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot#Migration_from_CMUSieve signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] sieve / managesieve: unknown Sieve capability 'imapflags'
* Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi: On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 20:59 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: $HOME/.dovecot.sieve.log reports: main_script: line 8: error: require command: unknown Sieve capability 'imapflags'. main_script: line 8: error: require command: unknown Sieve capability 'notify'. main_script: error: validation failed. http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot#Migration_from_CMUSieve Damn, I didn't know my users still had OLD sieve scripts back from when I tried cmusieve for about one week. Thanks! But I'll be back with more questions :) -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de
Re: [Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption
The only benefit this would being, is email being saved on the server would be encrypted. Otherwise it offers no protection. I guess if you paranoid that the system admin might read your emails, but then, he can just as easily read them as they come in or out of the system. Quoting Christian Felsing hostmas...@taunusstein.net: Hello, I am new to Dovecot but installation was quite easy, so there is one more LDAP authenticated, Dovecot / Postfix mailbox online, but there is one question left: I would like to set up a configuration, which encrypts every user mail with a unique key. If user logs in, private key should be decrypted with user password and every mail user requests should be decrypted with users private key. If a mail comes in, it should be encrypted with users public key. That key pair should be used for that purpose only. Obviously a GnuPG plugin between deliver and rest of Dovecot is needed. best reagrds Christian
Re: [Dovecot] sieve / managesieve: unknown Sieve capability 'imapflags'
* Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot#Migration_from_CMUSieve Damn, I didn't know my users still had OLD sieve scripts back from when I tried cmusieve for about one week. Thanks! I deleted the old sieve scripts. Fine. New problem: I can create sieve scripts, they actually work, but when I log out of squirrelmail and back in, the avelsieve plugin is not showing any rules. Checking the filesystem shows them. Does this ring a bell? Otherwise I'll ask on the SquirrelMail list .) -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de
Re: [Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption
So I have to inspect zlib plugin (and Dovecot) code ;-) If plugin knows username, it needs a way to get user password in clear text and of course his username to find and decrypt users private key. These items have to be saved in a secure way, while user is logged in. Obviously there are several differences to zlib plugin. If plugin API supports these extra requirements, it should be possible to write such a plugin which will stay compatible to future Dovecot versions. Encryption should be done in deliver tool, so there is no requirement to touch MTA (e.g. Postfix) code. Deliver tool must know dest. mail adress, so it can ask LDAP for the right public key. Does deliver also support plugins ? Christian Timo Sirainen schrieb: Feel free to write such a plugin. :) Decryption could be done the same way as zlib plugin works. Encryption would need a bit more work.
Re: [Dovecot] E-Mail Encryption
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 21:42 +0200, Christian Felsing wrote: So I have to inspect zlib plugin (and Dovecot) code ;-) If plugin knows username, it needs a way to get user password in clear text and of course his username to find and decrypt users private key. Username is known. There are several ways to get it, but with v1.2 easiest is just getenv(USER). To get the password you'll need to configure your passdb and userdb specially, but it's possible (as long as user logged in using plaintext authentication). These items have to be saved in a secure way, while user is logged in. They'll be in environment variables. Obviously there are several differences to zlib plugin. If plugin API supports these extra requirements, it should be possible to write such a plugin which will stay compatible to future Dovecot versions. Plugins can do pretty much anything. Encryption should be done in deliver tool, so there is no requirement to touch MTA (e.g. Postfix) code. Deliver tool must know dest. mail adress, Destination mail address would be the same as the username, still in getenv(USER). so it can ask LDAP for the right public key. Does deliver also support plugins ? Yes. You'll need to hook into mail-storage API's mailbox_save_*() and mail_get_stream() functions. zlib plugin shows how to hook into mail_get_stream(). For saving .. I just described it recently on this list: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-June/040181.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] sieve / managesieve: unknown Sieve capability 'imapflags'
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot#Migration_from_CMUSieve Damn, I didn't know my users still had OLD sieve scripts back from when I tried cmusieve for about one week. Thanks! I deleted the old sieve scripts. Fine. New problem: I can create sieve scripts, they actually work, but when I log out of squirrelmail and back in, the avelsieve plugin is not showing any rules. Checking the filesystem shows them. Does this ring a bell? Otherwise I'll ask on the SquirrelMail list .) It does ring some bells actually: http://wiki.dovecot.org/ManageSieve/Clients Regards, Stephan
[Dovecot] Expire plugin - where to start?
I'm running Dovecot 1.1.3 on FreeBSD 7.0 with procmail 3.22 sorting the output of Spamassassin. Just for me and a few friends. I didn't like the ageing 'standard' IMAP implementation so I thought I'd give Dovecot a try and it's really impressive. However, I'm a complete newbie to its inner workings. Spamassassin is able to find plenty to chew on so the Probable spam mbox (note) fills up fast. I obviously want to zap the old stuff in there automatically. It seems to me that the expire plugin is the thing I need BUT reading the documentation: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire Leaves me to scared to try anything. It's all working and I don't want to break it or delete anyone's mail. The problem that the wiki isn't accurate to the version I'm running. For example /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh doesn't exist. Okay, this isn't Linux, and there's something likely where I'd expect it on BSD (/usr/local/...) - but it's a binary, not a shell script. It may be a direct replacement AFAIK, but it may not. I've been reading the old mailing list about problems with 1.2 and this reinforces the feeling that the wiki is out-of-sync. Am I being paranoid? Possibly, but I don't want to be posting a Help! I've wrecked my config and deleted all my friend's mail type message. (Okay, I'd take a backup first). So could some kind person point me at the latest documentation? Thanks, Frank.
Re: [Dovecot] Expire plugin - where to start?
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 21:35 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: I'm running Dovecot 1.1.3 I'm pretty sure expire plugin is broken with this version. v1.1.17 had the last fixes to it. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire Leaves me to scared to try anything. It's all working and I don't want to break it or delete anyone's mail. The problem that the wiki isn't accurate to the version I'm running. For example /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh doesn't exist. The wiki is written a bit badly there. The expire-tool.sh is included in the v1.2.x section in the wiki page. I'll try to clean it up a bit. Am I being paranoid? Possibly, but I don't want to be posting a Help! I've wrecked my config and deleted all my friend's mail type message. (Okay, I'd take a backup first). So could some kind person point me at the latest documentation? The problem has never been that expire plugin deletes mails too early. It's always been that it doesn't seem to delete anything. :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] Expire plugin - where to start?
Timo Sirainen Wrote On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 21:35 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: I'm running Dovecot 1.1.3 I'm pretty sure expire plugin is broken with this version. v1.1.17 had the last fixes to it. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire Leaves me to scared to try anything. It's all working and I don't want to break it or delete anyone's mail. The problem that the wiki isn't accurate to the version I'm running. For example /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool.sh doesn't exist. The wiki is written a bit badly there. The expire-tool.sh is included in the v1.2.x section in the wiki page. I'll try to clean it up a bit. Am I being paranoid? Possibly, but I don't want to be posting a Help! I've wrecked my config and deleted all my friend's mail type message. (Okay, I'd take a backup first). So could some kind person point me at the latest documentation? The problem has never been that expire plugin deletes mails too early. It's always been that it doesn't seem to delete anything. --- Many thanks I shall forget the expire plugin for now and worry about upgrading the whole system instead. Off to do some more reading.
Re: [Dovecot] sieve / managesieve: unknown Sieve capability 'imapflags'
Ralf Hildebrandt schrieb: * Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot#Migration_from_CMUSieve Damn, I didn't know my users still had OLD sieve scripts back from when I tried cmusieve for about one week. Thanks! I deleted the old sieve scripts. Fine. New problem: I can create sieve scripts, they actually work, but when I log out of squirrelmail and back in, the avelsieve plugin is not showing any rules. Checking the filesystem shows them. Does this ring a bell? Otherwise I'll ask on the SquirrelMail list .) Hi Ralf, i might be wrong, but there where lots of bufixes with avelsieve, do you use the last version ? And you might get now answer about avelsieve on the squirrellist until its maintained elsewhere special to cyrus -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
Re: [Dovecot] sieve / managesieve: unknown Sieve capability 'imapflags'
* Robert Schetterer rob...@schetterer.org: Hi Ralf, i might be wrong, but there where lots of bufixes with avelsieve, do you use the last version ? How would I know? The plugin site has been down for a month now. And you might get now answer about avelsieve on the squirrellist until its maintained elsewhere special to cyrus Right now the patch fixed the issues :) -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de
Re: [Dovecot] sieve / managesieve: unknown Sieve capability 'imapflags'
Stephan Bosch schrieb: Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve/Dovecot#Migration_from_CMUSieve Damn, I didn't know my users still had OLD sieve scripts back from when I tried cmusieve for about one week. Thanks! I deleted the old sieve scripts. Fine. New problem: I can create sieve scripts, they actually work, but when I log out of squirrelmail and back in, the avelsieve plugin is not showing any rules. Checking the filesystem shows them. Does this ring a bell? Otherwise I'll ask on the SquirrelMail list .) It does ring some bells actually: http://wiki.dovecot.org/ManageSieve/Clients Regards, Stephan your patch might be the answer, i remember patching avelsieve my own long time ago and/or worked with the cvs version by problems with a brand new cyrus version -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
Re: [Dovecot] Can Dovecot Proxy GMail?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I think the best solution would be, to set up a real mail system on site - outsourcing and having a bad connection just doesn't work. SMTP is much more suitable for server-to-server delivery than POP and IMAP, in my experience. It has all the error reporting, automatic retry etc. features for a reason :) Patrick. On 2009-07-15 17:02, Tom Hendrikx wrote: Paul Carter-Brown schreef: We are using gmail (google apps) across our company with most users using outlook (windoze) or evolution (linux) and imap/pop based on user preference. We are having issues in that our internet links are fairly slow and when users download mails they get frustrated with the time it takes and often get timeouts and issues where outlook fails to fetch a mail yet gmail thinks it was retrieved - users then complain of missing emails. Is there a way that we could use dovecot (or similar?) to act as an imap proxy and users connect to dovecot while dovecot connects to gmail? When you setup a (realtime) proxy that connects to gmail when the user actually connects to dovecot, retrieving mail is still slow. You could look into using fetchmail or something like that to pull everything from gmail and store it local. That way, when your users connect to dovecot, the mail is already on a local machine and access is fast. This implies of course that you need to setup fetchmail with the users' credentials. - -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. http://www.star-group.net/ Phone:+86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779 PGP key: E883A005 https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpekPIACgkQ7yMg/OiDoAW9CgCdHPT2jQ6o4i/Mo5Zg/kDoX/4K VBEAnjbR2D7Sq97FHe6mwcWz/tt1wGaf =oRKn -END PGP SIGNATURE-
