Re: [Dovecot] Searching the Archives (was: Re: dovecot developer documentation)

2008-05-21 Thread John Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-15, at 0645, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Also, dovecot.org offers list access by IMAP. :) See http://dovecot.org/mailinglists.html how would somebody who has an existing mailing list (managed by ezmlm- idx) set up IMAP access to their

Re: [Dovecot] Vanishing maildirsize files with 1.0.7 using 'deliver' via postfix

2008-05-21 Thread Charles Marcus
Jason Forester wrote: We have 3 RH5.1 boxes running the stock Postfix 2.3.3, but due to issues with the stock Dovecot 1.0rc15, Redhat supplied us with the version of Dovecot 1.0.7 that will be in Redhat 5.2. > The mail store is automounted per-user from a Sun box via NFS. Timo strongly recomm

Re: [Dovecot] Clients hang because imap-login discards post-login commands

2008-05-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On May 21, 2008, at 11:41 PM, Mike Abbott wrote: Some of my IMAP clients hang when connecting to Dovecot 1.1.rc5. I believe the problem is that imap-login reads eagerly rather than sparingly. If a client sends a login user password b select Inbox all at once, without waiting for the login

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot or postfix Quota

2008-05-21 Thread Johannes Berg
> I agree that bounces should be minimized. Still the most logical > solution would be that the MTA asks the MDA about the quota status. Yes, that could be doable. Although, dovecot's LDA doesn't actually support this. And then there's the issue of race conditions: You ask it, accept the mail, an

Re: [Dovecot] Clients hang because imap-login discards post-login commands

2008-05-21 Thread Curtis Maloney
Mike Abbott wrote: So it appears that both the client and Dovecot may be in violation, depending on how you define "ambiguity." The RFC does not explicitly define whether login causes an ambiguity, but I personally believe that login does "affect the results of other commands" (the login may f

Re: [Dovecot] VMware and Time moved backwards

2008-05-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-21-2008 2:39 PM Bjørn T Johansen spake the following: Why not? I have been running ntp inside vmware for many years now, without any problems And I occasionally fail to come to a full stop at a stop sign, and don't get a ticket, but is it the proper thing to do? -- MailScanner is

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot or postfix Quota

2008-05-21 Thread Alexander Prinsier
Johannes Berg wrote: >> Instead I think it's a cleaner (and more logical) way to let the mail >> delivery agent take care of this, hence by deliver from dovecot. > > Any self-respecting mail administrator should avoid sending bounces like > the plague, hence the need to check whatever you possibly

[Dovecot] Vanishing maildirsize files with 1.0.7 using 'deliver' via postfix

2008-05-21 Thread Jason Forester
Aloha, I've searched the list and have found no similar reports, so I'm asking here. We have 3 RH5.1 boxes running the stock Postfix 2.3.3, but due to issues with the stock Dovecot 1.0rc15, Redhat supplied us with the version of Dovecot 1.0.7 that will be in Redhat 5.2. The mail store is automou

Re: [Dovecot] VMware and Time moved backwards

2008-05-21 Thread Peter Hessler
the short explanation is that both the VM container and ntp adjust the clock tick, and both think they are the only application that does so. There are longer explanations in many places around the internet. On 2008 May 21 (Wed) at 23:39:17 +0200 (+0200), Bj??rn T Johansen wrote: :Why not? I h

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot or postfix Quota

2008-05-21 Thread Johannes Berg
> Instead I think it's a cleaner (and more logical) way to let the mail > delivery agent take care of this, hence by deliver from dovecot. Any self-respecting mail administrator should avoid sending bounces like the plague, hence the need to check whatever you possibly can during the smtp transac

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot or postfix Quota

2008-05-21 Thread Alexander Prinsier
Hello, First of all, postfix doesn't support quota's by default. There is the quota patch of course. But there is a reason that it isn't included by default. (but I'm not sure what the exact reason is, if it's not the one below). Secondly, how do you define the quota of a mailbox? There are many

Re: [Dovecot] VMware and Time moved backwards

2008-05-21 Thread Bjørn T Johansen
Why not? I have been running ntp inside vmware for many years now, without any problems BTJ On Wed, 21 May 2008 12:30:01 -0700 Peter Hessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > never ever ever run ntp on virtual hardware. > > instead, run ntp on the host hardware, and tell the client to always >

[Dovecot] Dovecot or postfix Quota

2008-05-21 Thread Adrián Ribao Martínez
Hello, I'm a bit confused with the dovecot quota support. What is it for? I thought postfix should be the one managing the quota. If I set up a quota in dovecot, does dovecot keep the messages size under certain limit? What happen when you reach the quota limit? What's the difference between postf

[Dovecot] Clients hang because imap-login discards post-login commands

2008-05-21 Thread Mike Abbott
Some of my IMAP clients hang when connecting to Dovecot 1.1.rc5. I believe the problem is that imap-login reads eagerly rather than sparingly. If a client sends a login user password b select Inbox all at once, without waiting for the login reply before sending the select, imap-login eats

Re: [Dovecot] VMware and Time moved backwards

2008-05-21 Thread Robert Henjes
Thank you for the prompt answers @Luuk Vosslamber >finding correct values for the following entrys in your vmware(host) >config file might solve some things: >host.cpukHz = 1596000 <== depends on processor speed ;-) >host.noTSC = TRUE >ptsc.noTSC = TRUE >hostinfo.noTSC = TRUE >tools.syntime =

[Dovecot] Maildir locking by LDA of dovecot

2008-05-21 Thread Mike Grozak
Hi all! First of all, I want ti thank the whole Dovecot community (developers for developing and fast responses, users for populating and responses too). Dovecot is a really good and fast IMAP server - it serves near 3000 in our installation. Now I have a problem and request community's help

Re: [Dovecot] VMware and Time moved backwards

2008-05-21 Thread Peter Hessler
never ever ever run ntp on virtual hardware. instead, run ntp on the host hardware, and tell the client to always obey the bios clock. I add "* * * * * /sbin/hwclock --localtime --hctosys" to my crontab for that. On 2008 May 21 (Wed) at 20:27:09 +0200 (+0200), Robert Henjes wrote: : :Hi, : :I

Re: [Dovecot] VMware and Time moved backwards

2008-05-21 Thread Bill Cole
At 8:27 PM +0200 5/21/08, Robert Henjes wrote: Hi, I followed the discussions regarding the "time moved backward" problem and the use of ntp in such cases. At our department we are running two dovecot servers within an vmware server environment, and unfortunately the timedrift (with ntpd active)

[Dovecot] VMware and Time moved backwards

2008-05-21 Thread Robert Henjes
Hi, I followed the discussions regarding the "time moved backward" problem and the use of ntp in such cases. At our department we are running two dovecot servers within an vmware server environment, and unfortunately the timedrift (with ntpd active) exceeds sometimes up to 30 minutes virtual drif

Re: [Dovecot] Disallow folder delete

2008-05-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-20-2008 6:50 PM Kenneth Porter spake the following: On Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:39 AM -0700 Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I usually make users wait a while before restoring their mistakes. A few hours of thinking about it might make them think about it Assuming it was a mistake.

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot crash in 1.0.13

2008-05-21 Thread Peter Eriksson
>> Btw, why is the whole Dovecot system shutting down due to a bug in the >> 'imap' subprocess? It's rather annoying for the rest of the users... > > It shouldnt' be. > >> May 20 15:16:32 ifm.liu.se dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.info] IMAP(inand): >> Server shutting down > > Do you mean you didn't c

Re: [Dovecot] Disallow folder delete

2008-05-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/20/2008 9:53 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: It might be nice to have a mode that disallows deletion of *non-empty* folders. In order for a user to delete the folder, the folder must first be emptied and purged. Alas, deleting messages can be undone, but folders can't be, and the UI of a clien

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot crash in 1.0.13

2008-05-21 Thread Timo Sirainen
On May 21, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Peter Eriksson wrote: mail_process_size setting limits this to 256 MB by default. You could increase it or drop it completely. It's there mainly to catch memory leaks and such because users rarely reach this limit. Question: Should Dovecot handle this better someho

[Dovecot] Building 1.1.rc5 fails on Solaris 10

2008-05-21 Thread Peter Eriksson
It seems the configure check for "krb5-config" isn't doing stuff 100% right.. :-) "make" after configure gives: ... Making all in auth source='mycrypt.c' object='mycrypt.o' libtool=no \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/bash ../../depcomp \ cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I../../s