Re: [Dovecot] Expire plugin does not work

2009-02-05 Thread Nicolas Letellier
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:17:05 -0500 Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:27 +0100, Nicolas Letellier wrote: > > Info: us...@domain.tld/Trash: stop, expire time in future: Wed Feb 4 > > 21:00:50 2009 > > > > > > Why this message? I have 3 mailboxes, and the message appears only with

Re: [Dovecot] ¿DC won't start? "leaked file fd 5:"

2009-02-05 Thread mathemat
Hi Timo, >> mail.info dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.15 starting up >> mail.err dovecot: auth(default): Panic: Leaked file fd 5: dev 0.10 >> inode 3 > This happens only when Dovecot has been configured with --enable-devel- > checks (or was it --with-debug in v1.0? I'm not sure anymore). The > easiest

Re: [Dovecot] ¿DC won't start? "leaked file fd 5:"

2009-02-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:48 AM, mathe...@gmx.net wrote: mail.info dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.15 starting up mail.err dovecot: auth(default): Panic: Leaked file fd 5: dev 0.10 inode 3 This happens only when Dovecot has been configured with --enable-devel- checks (or was it --with-debug in v1.0? I'm

[Dovecot] ¿DC won't start? "leaked file fd 5:"

2009-02-05 Thread mathemat
Hi Gents, (apologizes, new here...) I didn't find any hint on G**gle nor in the Dovecot archieve (maybe due to the lack of a search function :), so: I installed Doovecot, but can't get it going. The logfile states: > mail.info dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.15 starting up > mail.err dovecot: auth(default)

Re: [Dovecot] Info regarding conversion of mbox to maildir

2009-02-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Feb 5, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Scott Silva wrote: When I finally decide to convert to maildir, will I have to set up namespaces during the conversion, or will dovecot figure out where everything is by itself? Just adding namespaces won't really help with anything, except unless you want to u

Re: [Dovecot] The 'dbox' Format

2009-02-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Feb 5, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Alexander Beisig wrote: mail_location = dbox:~/dbox That's correct. .. Ok thanks, so I downloaded the recent 1.1.11 release. But I still don't know how to enable the dbox format. I think dovecot- example.conf should explain how to enable it, unless you really

[Dovecot] Info regarding conversion of mbox to maildir

2009-02-05 Thread Scott Silva
When I finally decide to convert to maildir, will I have to set up namespaces during the conversion, or will dovecot figure out where everything is by itself? Should I set up deliver to go to maildir/ globally, or per user? I have considered using the convert plugin, if there are not a lot of neg

Re: [Dovecot] The 'dbox' Format

2009-02-05 Thread Alexander Beisig
Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 22:42 +0100, Alexander Beisig wrote: > > I'd like to give the dbox format a try, but I could not find any > > information on how to enable it. There's information on how to set > > mail_location for the Maildir and mbox formats in the wiki and also in >

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance on GFS clustered filesystem

2009-02-05 Thread Allen Belletti
Hi All, I wanted to follow up my own message from September now that I've got more information. As of RHEL 5.3, GFS2 was finally advertised as "production ready" and the servers discussed below have been upgraded from GFS to GFS2. The difference is night and day. Essentially GFS2 has completel

Re: [Dovecot] The 'dbox' Format

2009-02-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 22:42 +0100, Alexander Beisig wrote: > I'd like to give the dbox format a try, but I could not find any > information on how to enable it. There's information on how to set > mail_location for the Maildir and mbox formats in the wiki and also in > the commented configuration f

[Dovecot] The 'dbox' Format

2009-02-05 Thread Alexander Beisig
I'd like to give the dbox format a try, but I could not find any information on how to enable it. There's information on how to set mail_location for the Maildir and mbox formats in the wiki and also in the commented configuration file, but how to set it for dbox is strangely missing. I took a g

Re: [Dovecot] NFS - inotify vs kqueue

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Stewart
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 13:08 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: Anyone have pro/con experience with dovecot on the inotify/kqueue question when using NFS storage? Inotify is for Linux, kqueue is for BSDs. Right? So I'd think there are a lot of other issues if you're switching bet

Re: [Dovecot] NFS - inotify vs kqueue

2009-02-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 13:08 -0800, Jack Stewart wrote: > Anyone have pro/con experience with dovecot on the inotify/kqueue > question when using NFS storage? Inotify is for Linux, kqueue is for BSDs. Right? So I'd think there are a lot of other issues if you're switching between Linux/BSDs.. s

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.11 released

2009-02-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 21:59 +0100, Peter Lindgren wrote: > Timo Sirainen skrev: > > > > Hopefully this v1.1 release will last a few months. > > Builing on OpenBSD 4.4 (which has an ancient compiler, now I know), I > got some warnings. There is one warning not related to this compiler's > pointe

Re: [Dovecot] Deferred emails on alias emails

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/5/2009, Jehan Pagès (jehan.marmott...@gmail.com) wrote: > Yes but the issue was only this one time because I sent in one single row > several days of emails on an account which exists for years and years (so > unfortunately my friend has now many spams in several days, as well as many > real e

[Dovecot] NFS - inotify vs kqueue

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Stewart
Hi, I've seen some chatter on NFS boards about kqueue being more reliable than inotify when used in NFSv3 and NFSv2. The chatter is a bit old so I don't know if it is true anymore. Anyone have pro/con experience with dovecot on the inotify/kqueue question when using NFS storage? I realize

Re: [Dovecot] Deferred emails on alias emails

2009-02-05 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: > Um.. did you or did you not say: > > "In my case, most of these messages were forwarded to the gmail servers, > and as there were many spams unfortunately in these emails forwarded > (and it's not my server's purpose to remove the spams

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.11 released

2009-02-05 Thread Peter Lindgren
Timo Sirainen skrev: Hopefully this v1.1 release will last a few months. Builing on OpenBSD 4.4 (which has an ancient compiler, now I know), I got some warnings. There is one warning not related to this compiler's pointer handling which is worth considering I think: maildir-sync-index.c:29

Re: [Dovecot] Deferred emails on alias emails

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/5/2009, Jehan Pagès (jehan.marmott...@gmail.com) wrote: > I won't forward spam to you, I already told you. This is just an email alias > for a friend. It is just a email translation for a single external email > which has been explicitely asked. My smtp server is not an open relay for > any or

Re: [Dovecot] Deferred emails on alias emails

2009-02-05 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > But if you relay any spam and get blacklisted for it, you will be the one > that > suffers. The blacklists don't care what your point of view is or if you > generated the spam or just relayed it. > > Then everyone on your server will suffe

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 70, Issue 16

2009-02-05 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-4-2009 12:09 PM Anthony Davis spake the following: > Please remove me from the mailing list, i have tried a number of times > to un-subscribe, but i still keep getting emails... > > Tony > > On 4 Feb 2009, at 19:35, dovecot-requ...@dovecot.org wrote: > >> dovecot@dovecot.org > > What did

Re: [Dovecot] Deferred emails on alias emails

2009-02-05 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-5-2009 6:47 AM Jehan Pagès spake the following: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Charles Marcus > wrote: > >> Not sure what net neutrality has to do with this... unless you are >> syaing you are operating an ISP service? >> > > As for I, net neutrality is not about ISP only, but a

Re: [Dovecot] dirsize quota in sql pass db?

2009-02-05 Thread Ken A
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 08:38 -0600, Ken A wrote: Timo Sirainen wrote: On Feb 4, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Ken Anderson wrote: Is there a way to return a per user dirsize quota from a passdb sql lookup? If so, what is the syntax? Yes, but only if you use prefetch userdb. Do you? I

Re: [Dovecot] Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting)

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Stewart
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:36 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote: Question: Do you have to have a radically greater setting for maildir than for mbox? I would think... What sort of values are people using with both formats? Sounds like a nasty thing that could bite one in the $%# co

Re: [Dovecot] dirsize quota in sql pass db?

2009-02-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 08:38 -0600, Ken A wrote: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Feb 4, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Ken Anderson wrote: > > > >> Is there a way to return a per user dirsize quota from a passdb sql > >> lookup? If so, what is the syntax? > > > > Yes, but only if you use prefetch userdb. Do you

Re: [Dovecot] pop3_lock_session question

2009-02-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 09:28 -0500, Alan Ferrency wrote: > Thanks. > > More questions about the first patch: > > Is it necessary to apply this patch in 1.1, if we are using > "pop3_no_flag_updates = yes"? Probably not. > (And, is it compatible with > pop3_no_flag_updates in 1.2?) Yes. sign

Re: [Dovecot] Tracing a server problem

2009-02-05 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luigi Rosa said the following on 03/02/09 11:24: > I have a Linux CentOS server, 4 Gb RAM, with 50 IMAP users. > The server is connected to LAN via a firewall appliance, no filtering applied. > > Many users with different clients complain a lot of "se

Re: [Dovecot] Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting)

2009-02-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:36 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote: > Question: Do you have to have a radically greater setting for maildir > than for mbox? I would think... > What sort of values are people using with both formats? Sounds like a > nasty thing that could bite one in the $%# come migration fr

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.11 released (managesieve updated)

2009-02-05 Thread Stephan Bosch
Timo Sirainen wrote: http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.11.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.11.tar.gz.sig I've refreshed the ManageSieve patch for the new release: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.1/dovecot-1.1.11-managesieve-0.10.5.diff.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/d

Re: [Dovecot] Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting)

2009-02-05 Thread Stewart Dean
Question: Do you have to have a radically greater setting for maildir than for mbox? I would think... What sort of values are people using with both formats? Sounds like a nasty thing that could bite one in the $%# come migration from mbox to maildir Frank Bonnet wrote: Jack Stewart wrote:

Re: [Dovecot] Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting)

2009-02-05 Thread Frank Bonnet
Jack Stewart wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I have this message repeated several times each *seconds* in /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log the max_mail_processes is set to 8192 and I can see an average of 500 imap processes on the machine , I think there is a problem somewhere ... Debian 64

Re: [Dovecot] pop3_lock_session question

2009-02-05 Thread Ken A
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 14:51 -0500, Alan Ferrency wrote: One problem which might be making this worse than it needs to be, is the fact that mbox_lock_flock in mbox-lock.c is not using a blocking flock(); instead, it's polling for a non-blocking lock. This technique can cause

Re: [Dovecot] Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting)

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Stewart
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I have this message repeated several times each *seconds* in /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log the max_mail_processes is set to 8192 and I can see an average of 500 imap processes on the machine , I think there is a problem somewhere ... Debian 64 bits , IBM X3650 bip

Re: [Dovecot] Deferred emails on alias emails

2009-02-05 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: > Not sure what net neutrality has to do with this... unless you are > syaing you are operating an ISP service? > As for I, net neutrality is not about ISP only, but also for service providers (even if not professional like I, just for th

Re: [Dovecot] dirsize quota in sql pass db?

2009-02-05 Thread Ken A
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Feb 4, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Ken Anderson wrote: Is there a way to return a per user dirsize quota from a passdb sql lookup? If so, what is the syntax? Yes, but only if you use prefetch userdb. Do you? If not, you'll need to return it from userdb. So, prefetch userdb i

Re: [Dovecot] pop3_lock_session question

2009-02-05 Thread Alan Ferrency
Thanks. More questions about the first patch: Is it necessary to apply this patch in 1.1, if we are using "pop3_no_flag_updates = yes"? (And, is it compatible with pop3_no_flag_updates in 1.2?) Updating messages as "seen" was confusing to users who accessed their mail with both POP and IMAP, so

[Dovecot] Understanding dovecot ACLs

2009-02-05 Thread Achim Hut
Hello List I am running a Cyrus IMAP that needs to be replaced. Geting a Dovecot IMAP up and running was surprisingly simple. My configuration is close to Johnny Chaddas Howto at http://johnny.chadda.se/2007/04/15/mail-server-howto-postfix-and-dovecot-with-mysql-and-tlsssl-postgrey-and-dspam/ I

Re: [Dovecot] Deferred emails on alias emails

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/5/2009, Jehan Pagès (jehan.marmott...@gmail.com) wrote: > That's unfortunate, but I cannot do what you say for these reasons. This is > somehow a question of network neutrality ( > http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/144 ). Not sure what net neutrality has to do with this... unless you

Re: [Dovecot] v1.1.11 released - killall crash

2009-02-05 Thread Bruce Bodger
On Feb 3, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.11.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.11.tar.gz.sig Just FYI, ONLY SINCE UPGRADING TO 1.1.11 from 1.1.10, a 'killall dovecot' yields this... Feb 5 07:59:23 G520X2 dovecot: Killed

Re: [Dovecot] Deferred emails on alias emails

2009-02-05 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, I don't agree. If antispam systems were really 100% sure to never have any false positive, I would agree (having false negative is less an issue). But we all know that such system does not exist yet (and probably never will IMHO, even though efficiency may increase to close to 100%, as it is s

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP ACLs and global ACLs in v1.2

2009-02-05 Thread Robert Schetterer
Bernhard Herzog schrieb: > Hi all, > > On 15.01.2009, Sascha Wilde wrote: >>> But should it just internally convert "owner" to "username" when >>> replying? >> From our experience this would be a very good idea. Many clients >> recognize the username and handle those ACLs differently in there UI

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP ACLs and global ACLs in v1.2

2009-02-05 Thread Bernhard Herzog
Hi all, On 15.01.2009, Sascha Wilde wrote: > > But should it just internally convert "owner" to "username" when > > replying? > > From our experience this would be a very good idea. Many clients > recognize the username and handle those ACLs differently in there UI > (for example they don't offer

Re: [Dovecot] Deferred emails on alias emails

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/5/2009, Jehan Pagès (jehan.marmott...@gmail.com) wrote: > and as there were many spams unfortunately in these emails forwarded > (and it's not my server's purpose to remove the spams when > forwarding), all requeued and sent in the following minutes, I saw in > my logs that gmail has tempora

Re: [Dovecot] Deferred emails on alias emails

2009-02-05 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, I finally found my solution so I give it here if ever it interestes anyone. I needed to use "postsuper -r ALL" in order to requeue the whole message list and they were then using the new postfix configuration. Note though that if you have a lot lot of spooled messages, the "ALL" is maybe not

[Dovecot] Error: Maximum number of mail processes exceeded (see max_mail_processes setting)

2009-02-05 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I have this message repeated several times each *seconds* in /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log the max_mail_processes is set to 8192 and I can see an average of 500 imap processes on the machine , I think there is a problem somewhere ... Debian 64 bits , IBM X3650 biproc , 7 Gb RAM , RAID5

Re: [Dovecot] 1.1.6: PAM passdb/userdb (mis)configuration

2009-02-05 Thread Oved Ben-Aroya
I was not able to reproduce the Outlook/OL Express users complaints (in a test system). As it turned out, a DB problem in one of our ldap servers led to dovecot authentication failures - showing in the logs that "shadow" authentication failed. Deleting the "passdb shadow" (plus clean up of tens o