Re: [Dovecot] Advise on upgrading from a jurassic version - please help.

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 9.3.2012, at 2.50, Martin Mielke wrote: I have read the Dovecot documentation and there are instructions to upgrade from 0.99.x to 1.x and so on... my question is: can I upgrade from 0.99.11 to 2.x directly or is it a massive leap? If so, what do I have to keep in mind? This is a

Re: [Dovecot] Whether the THREAD command support cross-mailbox thread?

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 9.3.2012, at 10.09, Andy YB Hu wrote: In the real world, the mails which belongs to one thread could be dispersed in different mailbox, at least Inbox and SENT, so whether the command can search different mailboxes and grap them in one talk with dovecot? If Not, any other approach to

Re: [Dovecot] migrating/converting from system users - virtual users

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 8.3.2012, at 20.46, Steve Platt wrote: use Dovecot v2.0's dsync I gather from your reply that it's OK to use Dovecot 2.0 utilities (eg dsync) on a dovecot (v1) installation; presumably with its own configuration file(s). Yes, although in some situations it might write stuff to index

Re: [Dovecot] dot named folders

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.3.2012, at 21.43, Micah Anderson wrote: When a user makes a folder called 'x.y' it actually creates a folder called 'x' with a folder called 'y' inside, rather than a folder called 'x.y'. I'm guessing this has to do with an internal folder separator namespace configuration, but I'm a bit

Re: [Dovecot] Single instance storage

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 8.3.2012, at 3.30, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: I have read most of the doc on the dovecot website, and couldn't find any info on the single instance storage feature, so I'm posting my questions here. - Are these 3 parameters the only one necessary for single instance storage? I cannot

Re: [Dovecot] Fscking warnings

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.3.2012, at 1.07, Stephen Davies wrote: Google tells me that these should go away but they don't. Seems to happen continuously while a user is viewing email. Mar 7 09:29:52 server dovecot: imap(john): Warning: fscking index file /home/john/Mail/INBOX/.imap/Archive/dovecot.index

Re: [Dovecot] POP3C storage backend

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 6.3.2012, at 0.06, Tom Talpey wrote: I see a new POP3C lib-storage client backend in dovecot 2.1, but I don't see anything in the 2.1 doc directory or in the wiki. Can this be used to synchronize dovecot with external pop servers? Doing away with my current fetchmail and lmtp solution for

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot Digest, Vol 107, Issue 20 Fscking warnings

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 9.3.2012, at 2.00, Stephen Davies wrote: However, it seems that deleting the .imap files did not fix the log sync errors or the fscking warnings. Both are still happening continuously. If you're talking about errors like these: Mar 10 18:21:38 imap(tss): Error: Log synchronization

Re: [Dovecot] Lock down Shared Mail Accounts?

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.3.2012, at 15.32, Charles Marcus wrote: 4. They can *move* messages to other folders in that account (ie, 'file' them), and last (this is the tricky part) 5. No one other than a designated user or users (Master User(s)? Users in a specified Group?) can delete any messages in this

Re: [Dovecot] Lock down Shared Mail Accounts?

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.3.2012, at 18.39, Ed W wrote: 5. No one other than a designated user or users (Master User(s)? Users in a specified Group?) can delete any messages in this account, in any of the folders. Have them delivered with only read permissions on the physical files? (Bet that doesn't work

Re: [Dovecot] mdbox + gzip and rsync

2012-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.3.2012, at 5.19, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: After reading the following paragraph from the dovecot doc, I've been wondering how it would affect rsync (when combined with gzip): Expunging a message only decreases the message's refcount. The space is later freed in purge step. This is