Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Stewart Dean wrote: Dave McGuire wrote: On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote: What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a user's mail? I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The inital sync can take a while, but it gets faster after ther

Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread mikkel
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Just imagine backing the thing up, exporting 60.000.000 SQL queries. >> Not to say importing them again if something should go really wrong. >> Actually I'n not even sure it would be faster. When the index files grow >> to several gigabytes they kind of loose their pur

Re: [Dovecot] Startup info message

2008-10-30 Thread Athan Dimoy
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:59:20 +0200, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm. After a successful imap/pop3 login, you should have /var/lib/ dovecot/auth-success file. Do you have it? Dovecot always displays it when it starts, even after /var/lib/ dovecot being deleted. That's right, becau

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with Dovecot 1.1.4 and dovecot-antispam 20080829

2008-10-30 Thread Tom Hendrikx
HILT Guillaume wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:51:43 +0100, Guillaume Hilt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I'm running a server under Gentoo 64 with postfix 2.5.5, Dovecot >> 1.1.4-r1 and Dovecot-antispam 20080829 (all are the lastest versions >> availables under Portage). >> I ra

Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maildir is nice compared to mbox but it really isn’t optimal. In days where IOPS is the most difficult resource to get into your server (and dovecot already using close to nothing in terms of CPU time and memory) havi

Re: [Dovecot] Startup info message

2008-10-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Oct 30, 2008, at 9:50 PM, Athan Dimoy wrote: Thank you both for the explanation. @Timo: this message doesn't go way even after a successful login; Hmm. After a successful imap/pop3 login, you should have /var/lib/ dovecot/auth-success file. Do you have it? Dovecot always displays it whe

Re: [Dovecot] Startup info message

2008-10-30 Thread Athan Dimoy
Thank you both for the explanation. @Timo: this message doesn't go way even after a successful login; Dovecot always displays it when it starts, even after /var/lib/dovecot being deleted. I count it as a bug although a minor one. Anyway, not something serious, as Dovecot works really great.

Re: [Dovecot] SIGBART/SIGSEGV while SELECTing virtual folder

2008-10-30 Thread Lars Noschinski
* Lars Noschinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-10-30 20:29]: * Lars Noschinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-10-30 20:13]: And another one to go (using latest hg tip, changeset 8360:7c615ac48711) Forgot the dovecot-virtual file: * mbox/* all though it also occurs using only "*". And dovecot -n outpu

Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread Ed W
Scott Silva wrote: > Rsync will use more memory on large filesystems, but it is usually lighter in > CPU, network, and IO time. But tar gives you multiple backups. To achieve that > with rsync you need the rbackup script or rsnapshot. > > Also check snapback2 (similar to tools you mentioned ab

Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread mikkel
> On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Maildir is nice compared to mbox but it really isn’t optimal. In days >> where IOPS is the most difficult resource to get into your server (and >> dovecot already using close to nothing in terms of CPU time and >> memory) >> having one file

Re: [Dovecot] SIGBART/SIGSEGV while SELECTing virtual folder

2008-10-30 Thread Lars Noschinski
* Lars Noschinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-10-30 20:13]: And another one to go (using latest hg tip, changeset 8360:7c615ac48711) Forgot the dovecot-virtual file: * mbox/* all though it also occurs using only "*". And dovecot -n output: # 1.2.alpha3: /tmp/dd/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot -n - provide sys info too? - WAS: Re: Dovecot read only for users

2008-10-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Oct 30, 2008, at 9:02 PM, John Lightsey wrote: A little late, but I don't see any mention of /etc/lsb-release in the LSB specification. You probably want the output of /usr/bin/ lsb_release -d I don't think dovecot should execute external binaries. Sounds scary. PGP.sig Description: T

Re: [Dovecot] SIGBART/SIGSEGV while SELECTing virtual folder

2008-10-30 Thread Lars Noschinski
* Lars Noschinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-10-26 15:31]: * Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-10-26 15:28]: On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 11:49 +0100, Lars Noschinski wrote: #6 0xb7fbdca3 in virtual_mail_get_header_stream (mail=0x9b5c038, headers=0x9885050, stream_r=0x920c7cc) at virtual-mail.c:252

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot -n - provide sys info too? - WAS: Re: Dovecot read only for users

2008-10-30 Thread John Lightsey
On Oct 29, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: First however it checks for /etc/lsb-release and if it exists, prints DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION contents. I guess Ubuntu is the only distro currently using that file.. A little late, but I don't see any mention of /etc/lsb-release in the LSB spe

Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-30-2008 11:42 AM Allen Belletti spake the following: > I'd like to add my vote here as well; dbox would be *the* feature that > would make me happy. I'm the guy who asked a few weeks ago about ways to > speed access on our GFS clustered mail environment. > > Meanwhile, I've done some prelimi

Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread Dave McGuire
On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maildir is nice compared to mbox but it really isn’t optimal. In days where IOPS is the most difficult resource to get into your server (and dovecot already using close to nothing in terms of CPU time and memory) having one file per e-mail

Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread Allen Belletti
I'd like to add my vote here as well; dbox would be *the* feature that would make me happy. I'm the guy who asked a few weeks ago about ways to speed access on our GFS clustered mail environment. Meanwhile, I've done some preliminary testing with mbox. As expected, it's vastly faster than the Mai

Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread mikkel
Timo Sirainen: > One possibility is to just wait for dbox with multiple-messages-per-file > feature. I can't really say when it'll be ready (or when I'll even start > implementing it), but I know I want to use it myself and some companies > have also recently been asking about it. > Have you cons

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot expire doesn't work (?)

2008-10-30 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
On Thursday 30 October 2008 16.42.16 Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:28 +0100, LÉVAI Dániel wrote: > > I've got bitten by this: > > The wiki[1] reads: > > > > [...] > > - "%" works by matching any number of characters, but it stops at > > the hierarchy separator. Currently the sepa

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot expire doesn't work (?)

2008-10-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:28 +0100, LÉVAI Dániel wrote: > I've got bitten by this: > The wiki[1] reads: > > [...] > - "%" works by matching any number of characters, but it stops at the > hierarchy separator. Currently the separator is hardcoded to "/". > [...] > plugin { > # Trash and its chil

Re: [Dovecot] Startup info message

2008-10-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 08:30 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: > > "Info: If you have trouble with authentication failures, enable auth_debug > > setting. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/WhyDoesItNotWork"; > Ah, the irony. The message that was supposed to generate less questions > actually causes questions

Re: [Dovecot] Startup info message

2008-10-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
Athan Dimoy wrote: Hi folks, I'm using the latest Dovecot 1.16 with Postfix for my FreeBSD box. Since v1.1.4 (if i remember correctly), the following message is displayed whenever starting Dovecot. "Info: If you have trouble with authentication failures, enable auth_debug setting. See http://

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot expire doesn't work (?)

2008-10-30 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
On Monday 27 October 2008 14.26.50 LÉVAI Dániel wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using dovecot-1.1.5 and trying to make the expire plugin work. > What I've configured in dovecot.conf is the following: > > protocol imap,pop3,lda { > mail_plugins = [...] expire > } > > dict { > expire = db:/var/dovec

Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 11:00 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote: > Dave McGuire wrote: > > On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > >>> What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a > >>> user's mail? > >>> > >> I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot 1.1.5 mbox bug (From_-line separator related)

2008-10-30 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
On 30.10.2008 01:01, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 23:31 +0300, Anton Yuzhaninov wrote: On 29.10.2008 21:24, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 20:23 +0300, Anton Yuzhaninov wrote: If I send mail with content like this: From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed Jan 09 01:33:55 2008

Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread Stewart Dean
Dave McGuire wrote: On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Scott Silva wrote: What is the best way to do a (server-side) backup of all mail in a user's mail? I usually just rsync the /home directories to another server. The inital sync can take a while, but it gets faster after there is a base to work

Re: [Dovecot] mail_executable's process environment

2008-10-30 Thread Mike Malsman
On 29.Oct.2008, at 11:41 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 20:02 -0400, Mike Malsman wrote: Upon inspection of the processes' environment I'm pleased to see that there's a load of useful information in there. However, one essential component in my case is the destination network

Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread Ken A
Calvin Gordon wrote: I use the tar/bzip method, and have been wondering about the rsync. All my users have system accounts on the dovecot server, and use Maildir format. If i rsync the mail to another box where the users do not have system accounts, will the ownerships/ permissions etc. be go

Re: [Dovecot] Backing Up

2008-10-30 Thread Calvin Gordon
I use the tar/bzip method, and have been wondering about the rsync. All my users have system accounts on the dovecot server, and use Maildir format. If i rsync the mail to another box where the users do not have system accounts, will the ownerships/ permissions etc. be goofed up ? Correctly,

Re: [Dovecot] [dovecot] Enable logging of all client commands in dovecot-1.2.alpha3

2008-10-30 Thread Mateusz Kijowski
Dnia czwartek, 30 października 2008, Jonathan Siegle napisał: > Hello, > I would like to log all IMAP client commands sent to dovecot. The > format would be time pid command arguments. I reviewed > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging and started digging through > dovecot-1.2.alpha3/src/master . I

[Dovecot] [dovecot] Enable logging of all client commands in dovecot-1.2.alpha3

2008-10-30 Thread Jonathan Siegle
Hello, I would like to log all IMAP client commands sent to dovecot. The format would be time pid command arguments. I reviewed http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging and started digging through dovecot-1.2.alpha3/src/master . I don't need this turned on all the time, just enough to see how clients

Re: [Dovecot] Problem with Dovecot 1.1.4 and dovecot-antispam 20080829

2008-10-30 Thread HILT Guillaume
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:51:43 +0100, Guillaume Hilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm running a server under Gentoo 64 with postfix 2.5.5, Dovecot > 1.1.4-r1 and Dovecot-antispam 20080829 (all are the lastest versions > availables under Portage). > I ran into a problem when I log in

Re: [Dovecot] benchmark dovecot

2008-10-30 Thread Mathieu Kretchner
Mark Zealey a écrit : >> Mark Zealey a écrit : >>> Thanks; these look interesting. We have a similar nas setup >> but we have >>> 2 frontend dovecot servers connecting to it and store the >> indexes over >>> nfs. >> Could you please tell me how have you done this configuration ? >> 2 frontend

Re: [Dovecot] benchmark dovecot

2008-10-30 Thread Mark Zealey
> Mark Zealey a écrit : > > Thanks; these look interesting. We have a similar nas setup > but we have > > 2 frontend dovecot servers connecting to it and store the > indexes over > > nfs. > Could you please tell me how have you done this configuration ? > 2 frontend dovecot proxy with 10 dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Enh-Req: Mark As Read When Delivered

2008-10-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Neil wrote: > I'm under the impression bug-reports are supposed to go to the list, > so hopefully it's okay if I put in a feature request here too > (assuming it's not already implemented; but it doesn't look like it). > > Basically, all I would like to do is be able to sometimes deliver mail

Re: [Dovecot] benchmark dovecot

2008-10-30 Thread Mathieu Kretchner
Mark Zealey a écrit : > Thanks; these look interesting. We have a similar nas setup but we have > 2 frontend dovecot servers connecting to it and store the indexes over > nfs. Could you please tell me how have you done this configuration ? 2 frontend dovecot proxy with 10 dovecot mda ? We are lo

Re: [Dovecot] INBOX stored in AFS

2008-10-30 Thread Hans-Werner Paulsen
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 06:56:55PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:16 +0200, Hans-Werner Paulsen wrote: > > When I start my imap-client, I see the content of the INBOX, and I can > > read, delete, ... the different entries. But when new mail arrives dovecot > > (and my imap-c

Re: [Dovecot] benchmark dovecot

2008-10-30 Thread Mark Zealey
Thanks; these look interesting. We have a similar nas setup but we have 2 frontend dovecot servers connecting to it and store the indexes over nfs. We also have around 10 mail servers running deliver to try to keep the indexes on the nfs store up-to-date. Have you done any tests with the speed of m

[Dovecot] benchmark dovecot

2008-10-30 Thread Mathieu Kretchner
Hello, We would like to do a feed back to this active mailing list. We are working on a migration project from cyrus to dovecot. And we have just completed the benchmark sequence. As I say, this benchmark is here only to show that our old imap server is out to date. I would not be the source of c

[Dovecot] Problem with Dovecot 1.1.4 and dovecot-antispam 20080829

2008-10-30 Thread Guillaume Hilt
Hi there, I'm running a server under Gentoo 64 with postfix 2.5.5, Dovecot 1.1.4-r1 and Dovecot-antispam 20080829 (all are the lastest versions availables under Portage). I ran into a problem when I log in to my mailbox : Oct 30 10:39:23 ks29138 dovecot: IMAP(hiltg): Loading modules from

Re: [Dovecot] Startup info message

2008-10-30 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Athan Dimoy wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm using the latest Dovecot 1.16 with Postfix for my FreeBSD box. Since > v1.1.4 > (if i remember correctly), the following message is displayed whenever > starting Dovecot. > > "Info: If you have trouble with authentication failures, enab

[Dovecot] Startup info message

2008-10-30 Thread Athan Dimoy
Hi folks, I'm using the latest Dovecot 1.16 with Postfix for my FreeBSD box. Since v1.1.4 (if i remember correctly), the following message is displayed whenever starting Dovecot. "Info: If you have trouble with authentication failures, enable auth_debug setting. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Why

Re: [Dovecot] read only FS access

2008-10-30 Thread Mathieu Kretchner
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:CONTROL=~/Maildir/dovecot:INDEX=~/Maildir/dovecot > It's ok, I've tried with this configuration and it's working. Thanks for your help ! begin:vcard fn:Mathieu Kretchner n:Kretchner;Mathieu org:INRIA;Syslog adr;dom:;;2004 route des lucioles - BP93;Sophia Antipo

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot deliver mail bounce problem

2008-10-30 Thread dhaval thakar
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 17:57 +0530, Dhaval Thakar wrote: > > but when mail is sent to invalid user, it gets bounced back with error > > "I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too > > long." rather "

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot -n - provide sys info too? - WAS: Re: Dovecot read only for users

2008-10-30 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Charles Marcus wrote: On 10/29/2008 2:41 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: /etc/gentoo-release Added. Hmmm... this doesn't really contain useful info though... ~ # cat /etc/gentoo release Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 Looks just fine. maybe some forme of the uname command? ~ # uname -orpm