Re: [Dovecot] locking question

2007-05-26 Thread Gunter Ohrner
Am Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2007 schrieb Paul Amaral: > Do I still need to use a locking mechanism if I'm using maildir with > pop3 access. This was a question, right? I guess Timo missed it as you missed the question mark... ;) AFAIK locking is not strictly neccessary if you're using local maildirs

[Dovecot] IMAP basics

2007-05-26 Thread Paul Scott
I have several POP mail accounts. I have installed and partially configured Dovecot 1.0.0 on Debian sid. I am having trouble understanding some of the basics. For starters do I need to fetch my POP mail (fetchmail, etc.) myself? TIA, Paul Scott

Re: [Dovecot] question mailbox format

2007-05-26 Thread alan premselaar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/27/07 1:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello marcus >>> Typically with mbox it would be set to: >>> >>> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u > i know, i try it too so but then i get a error to. > > On this system (Redhat 9), the mail

Re: [Dovecot] question mailbox format

2007-05-26 Thread Charles Marcus
You're making it difficult to try to help, by not answering the questions or providing requested information... Again - was that config output you provided the FULL output of dovecot -n? It looked incomplete to me... Also, you only provided one line from a log... and it said 'permission deni

Re: [Dovecot] Address extensions with dovecot LDA SOLVED

2007-05-26 Thread Nick Kartsioukas
Okay...I thought I had done enough searching before posting, but I guess I was wrong :) In Postfix's master.cf file I changed the dovecot delivery command to: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d [EMAIL PROTECTED] That was much easier than what I was trying before :) (note to others...the list software m

[Dovecot] Address extensions with dovecot LDA

2007-05-26 Thread Nick Kartsioukas
Greetings! I'm using Dovecot and Postfix with virtual mailboxes, the mailbox data is contained in a MySQL database. I'd like to use the Dovecot delivery agent so I can support Sieve filters. However, I'm not sure how to get the delivery agent to work with the Dovecot auth mechanism and MySQL to

Re: [Dovecot] question mailbox format

2007-05-26 Thread sc2
hello marcus Typically with mbox it would be set to: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u i know, i try it too so but then i get a error to. On this system (Redhat 9), the mails are only saved in /var/spool/mail/%u the problem is when i try it with : a.) mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool

Re: [Dovecot] Quick question on multiple access to dovecot indexes

2007-05-26 Thread Adam McDougall
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 06:23:45PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 11:28 -0400, Adam McDougall wrote: > I have up to 4 servers that will run dovecot behind a load balancer, which means > the same user might be accessing the same mailbox from multiple servers, and it >

Re: [Dovecot] locking question

2007-05-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:38 -0400, Paul Amaral wrote: > May 24 12:11:21 pop imap(generalg): Timeout while waiting for release of > exclusive fcntl() lock for index file /home/g/generalg/Ma > ildir/.INBOX/.imap.index This probably means that there were multiple connections to the POP3 mailbox and o

Re: [Dovecot] Converting mbox to Maildir, all prior read messages are downloaded as new

2007-05-26 Thread Bruce Bodger
On May 26, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: I have all my mbox-es in /raid/mbox/%u I have set convert_mail = mbox:/raid/mbox/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u in the dovecot.conf. But for some reason the folder with mail doesn't get renamed after conversion. Is that the way it should be? And th

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot crashes with malformed Qpopper's mbox

2007-05-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 22:09 +0900, MAEDA, Go wrote: >At first, I have modified istream-raw-mbox.c and now my Dovecot stops > mistaking the secound "From " line for a message separator. > >But RETRed message contains unnecessary (may be harmful for some pop3 > clients) "From " line. .. >

Re: [Dovecot] Converting mbox to Maildir, all prior read messages are downloaded as new

2007-05-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:36 -0400, FiL wrote: > > I guess you're talking about POP3. You'd need to be able to preserve > > the POP3 UIDLs (see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration), which would > > require that you also preserve the IMAP UIDs in the mbox -> Maildir > > switch. Unfortunately I'm not

Re: [Dovecot] Variable expansion in LDA vs POP/IMAP

2007-05-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 11:20 -0400, Jason Godsey wrote: > > Delivery works perfectly fine, Dovecot's deliver get a "mail" > > column from the database (that looks like this: > > /mail/01/%2LMd/%2.2LMd/%LMd/mail/%Ln/ ) and expands variables, > > delivers the mail into the maildir's location. .. > yo

Re: [Dovecot] Quick question on multiple access to dovecot indexes

2007-05-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 11:28 -0400, Adam McDougall wrote: > I have up to 4 servers that will run dovecot behind a load balancer, which > means > the same user might be accessing the same mailbox from multiple servers, and > it > seems like dovecot doesn't like multiple access to the dovecot index

Re: [Dovecot] Return error instead of dying on time back skip?

2007-05-26 Thread jalal
On 11/05/07, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 10:52 +0200, Amon Ott wrote: > Now I wonder if Dovecot could return errors to the users instead of > dying until time is fine again, e.g. "System time has moved > backwards, please come back in n seconds". If the time s

[Dovecot] dovecot.org DNS finally ok

2007-05-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
All DNS caches that had the old dovecot.org IP should finally be expired by now. About 20 people were unsubscribed because of bounces. I've subscribed them back. I think I'm also going to set up a dovecot.org mirror which can be quickly brought up if the current dovecot.org happens to break for so

Re: [Dovecot] question mailbox format

2007-05-26 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/26/2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok after playing a while now it works , but i have one problem open.. a.) now he makes for pop3 index files in /var/indexes/%u/imap/index etc... you said that is correct too if i only use pop3 ? b.) i have as INBOX file /var/spool/mail/%u set, when somebod

Re: [Dovecot] question mailbox format

2007-05-26 Thread Charles Marcus
Please don't top-post... >>> i set mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u >>> and protocols = pop3s pop3 >>> why he trys to create and use imap format?` >> Platform? >> OS Version? >> Dovecot version? >> Dovecot -n output? hello and thx a.) Linux b.) Redhat (Version unknown) ? You seriousl

Re: [Dovecot] question mailbox format

2007-05-26 Thread sc2
ok after playing a while now it works , but i have one problem open.. a.) now he makes for pop3 index files in /var/indexes/%u/imap/index etc... you said that is correct too if i only use pop3 ? b.) i have as INBOX file /var/spool/mail/%u set, when somebody logs in, and the mailbox exist he gets

Re: [Dovecot] question mailbox format

2007-05-26 Thread sc2
hello ok now it works but i still get errors, so i can login, and i get my emails but in log is this error (looks like he just trys to mkdir for imap) can i turn of imap use? i try it with INDEX, option too but same error. mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=80.108.xxx.x

Re: [Dovecot] question mailbox format

2007-05-26 Thread MAEDA, Go
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i set mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u > and protocols = pop3s pop3 > why he trys to create and use imap format?` Your Dovecot is trying to make index files. Index files are also used by pop3 for better performance. And your mail_location configuration s

Re: [Dovecot] question mailbox format

2007-05-26 Thread sc2
hello and thx a.) Linux b.) Redhat (Version unknown) c.) protocols: pops pop3s ssl_listen: *:995 ssl_cert_file: /etc/mail/certs/wildcard/cert.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/mail/certs/wildcard/nopass.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/loca