Re: [Dovecot] Why can NOT login as root

2011-09-10 Thread John Allen
As far as I recall, IMAP servers generally don't allow access to root. According to the Dovecot wiki, this is hard-coded in the binary: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig see under "first_valid_uid" If the root user is receiving emails, these need to be redirected to another user so they can be

[Dovecot] Sieve, before script - Can it include "personal" scripts?

2011-09-10 Thread Steve Fatula
Using sieve_before, can the script it references include a file from the personal space? I want to set some parameters (by user using the variables extension) there to control what the before script does, so, every user would have the file in their personal include space. If not, is there anot

Re: [Dovecot] MySQL, map files

2011-09-10 Thread Steve Fatula
- Original Message - > From: Steve Fatula > To: Dovecot List > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 6:52 PM > Subject: [Dovecot] MySQL, map files > > I'll try and break up my questions the other day about extdata that went > unanswered into pieces in the hopes it will be more speci

[Dovecot] sieve and pattern matching

2011-09-10 Thread David Newman
Dovecot 1.2.17 What is the sieve syntax for matching text somewhere in a subject line, but not at the beginning of the line? Background: Multiple machines each send a message with the subject of " operations run" to a mail server. The value is different for each sender. This sieve filter does n

Re: [Dovecot] BestPractice to migrate imap mailbox from one machine to another

2011-09-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/09/11 09:34, Tobias Hachmer wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:22:54 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: >> Am 09.09.2011 15:14, schrieb Tobias Hachmer: >>> What is the best way to copy the existing mailboxes from the older >>> machine running dovecot v1.2.15 to the new naked machine? >> >> i used i

Re: [Dovecot] BestPractice to migrate imap mailbox from one machineto another

2011-09-10 Thread David Favor
Johan Hendriks wrote: Tobias Hachmer schreef: Hi list, currently I use dovecot v1.2.15 with maildir++ mailboxes. (Debian Squeeze) I want to set up a different server with dovecot v2, also maildir++ mailboxes. (also Debian Squeeze) What is the best way to copy the existing mailboxes from the

Re: [Dovecot] mysql auth failover failing

2011-09-10 Thread Noel Butler
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 20:16 -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:02:57PM -0700, Noel Butler wrote: > > suggest, having just one master server, after all, dovecot and postfix > > just need to read, not alter/update/insert etc. > > True; but the pieces that are altering/upda

[Dovecot] Annoying "feature" in dovecot/pidgeonhole - include depth limitation

2011-09-10 Thread Mihai Moldovan
Hi all, I'm using dovecot 2.0.14 build on Debian. The maintainers obviously patch the dovecot source so that it uses the pidgeonhole sieve system. Today I ran into a very annoying issue: I created several sieve scripts and interlinked via the include command, only to find dovecot spewing this er

Re: [Dovecot] Why can NOT login as root

2011-09-10 Thread Pascal Volk
On 09/10/2011 10:04 AM jana1...@centrum.cz wrote: > Hi i use Dovecot and it works ok for users except for root user. > It is impossible to login as root > Here is a log > … > Sep 10 10:15:44 imap: Error: user root: Invalid settings in userdb: userdb > returned 0 as uid > Sep 10 10:15:44 imap: Er

[Dovecot] Why can NOT login as root

2011-09-10 Thread jana1972
Hi i use Dovecot and it works ok for users except for root user. It is impossible to login as root Here is a log Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=18077) Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: