Re: [Dovecot] dovecot support ms-tnef mail parser?

2012-06-25 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
On 2012-06-25 04:52, DongYu.Zhen wrote: How to parse ms-tnef mail by dovecot? You can't do that directly in Dovecot. What you can do is to use a utility called tnef [1] (available in major GNU/Linux distributions) on the client to extract the data on the client. Otherwise you could use ytnef [2]

[Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'm trying to configure a server to use SAMBA and Winbind to authenticate to Active Directory I managed to get this portion up and running even the Dovecot portion. For reference something similar to this guide: http://www.whitneytechnologies.com/?p=119 However PAM is slightly

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, I'm trying to configure a server to use SAMBA and Winbind to authenticate to Active Directory I managed to get this portion up and running even the Dovecot portion. For reference something similar to this guide:

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread J E Lyon
On 25 Jun 2012, at 08:20, Kaya Saman wrote: Now what I would like to know is, which is better for virtual hosting Maildir or mbox? I always use Maildir in preference to mbox . . it's just such a lovely solution, imho :) (Mind you, I'm on a *nix server, so filesystem behaviour may be a

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Now what I would like to know is, which is better for virtual hosting Maildir or mbox? Basically my requirement is that I would like to separate users via either individual folders and then put each user's mbox or Maildir in the created directory,

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Trever L. Adams tre...@middleearth.sapphiresunday.org wrote: On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Now what I would like to know is, which is better for virtual hosting Maildir or mbox? Basically my requirement is that I would like to separate users via

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread J E Lyon
On 25 Jun 2012, at 08:52, Kaya Saman wrote: I've previously **only** ever worked with Maildir but I was told that there are some benefits to mbox which is why I decided to try to use it here! I used mbox before Dovecot, but once I found Maildir, I never looked back. I've not come up with any

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot support ms-tnef mail parser?

2012-06-25 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-06-25 2:15 AM, Matthias-Christian Ott o...@mirix.org wrote: On 2012-06-25 04:52, DongYu.Zhen wrote: How to parse ms-tnef mail by dovecot? You can't do that directly in Dovecot. What you can do is to use a utility called tnef [1] (available in major GNU/Linux distributions) on the

Re: [Dovecot] Additional passdb result status

2012-06-25 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-06-24 4:37 PM, Jürgen Pabel juer...@pabel.net wrote: I am implementing a plugin (for the pop3/imap process) that requires some data to provided from the authentication phase (a derivative of the password). For that, I have now implemented a passdb plugin that generates this data and I

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-06-25 3:20 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: # cat dovecot.conf # v1.2+: auth_use_winbind = yes Please always only provide output of doveconf -n, not copy/pastes from the config files. This proves (to yourself and everyone else) that you are using the config that dovecot is

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2012-06-25 3:20 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: # cat dovecot.conf # v1.2+: auth_use_winbind = yes Please always only provide output of doveconf -n, not copy/pastes from the config files. This

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-06-25 3:58 AM, J E Lyon role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com wrote: I've not come up with any significant advantages of mbox that count for much in my experiences and installations . . Would be interested to hear of suggested advantages that I might have overlooked One major advantage of

[Dovecot] specifying home/sieve/sieve_dir relative to mail_location

2012-06-25 Thread Edgar Fuß
With 1.2, is it possible to specify home, sieve and sieve_dir relative to mail_location? No-one, this one? Too simple? Too stupid? Too obvious? Not possible?

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Branko Majic
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:52:51 +0100 Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: To start with the reason I'm not using LDAP is because I couldn't find enough information on how to set it up! I did post here a couple of times but got no responses.. so I figured it was something that people either

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread J E Lyon
On 25 Jun 2012, at 10:44, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-06-25 3:58 AM, J E Lyon role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com wrote: I've not come up with any significant advantages of mbox that count for much in my experiences and installations . . Would be interested to hear of suggested advantages

Re: [Dovecot] Mail migration to dovecot with doveadm backup

2012-06-25 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-06-24 11:57 AM, Reinhard Vicinus r.vici...@metaways.de wrote: i try to migrate mails from a non dovecot imap server to a dovecot imap server with doveadm backup as described there: What version of dovecot (doveconf -n output_? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync i first tried

Re: [Dovecot] Mail migration to dovecot with doveadm backup

2012-06-25 Thread Reinhard Vicinus
On 25/06/12 13:39, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-06-24 11:57 AM, Reinhard Vicinus r.vici...@metaways.de wrote: i try to migrate mails from a non dovecot imap server to a dovecot imap server with doveadm backup as described there: What version of dovecot (doveconf -n output_? dovecot -n #

Re: [Dovecot] specifying home/sieve/sieve_dir relative to mail_location

2012-06-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 25.6.2012, at 12.54, Edgar Fuß wrote: With 1.2, is it possible to specify home, sieve and sieve_dir relative to mail_location? No-one, this one? Too simple? Too stupid? Too obvious? Not possible? Mail/Sieve dirs can be relative to home dir, not vice versa.. I know it's possible to

Re: [Dovecot] specifying home/sieve/sieve_dir relative to mail_location

2012-06-25 Thread Edgar Fuß
Mail/Sieve dirs can be relative to home dir, not vice versa. OK, thanks. Yeah, that would probably work. I'll try that. Maybe look into changing your directory hierarchy so mails are under home. Too late. Also, as directories corresponding to IMAP folders always start with a dot, it appeared

Re: [Dovecot] specifying home/sieve/sieve_dir relative to mail_location

2012-06-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 25.6.2012, at 17.42, Edgar Fuß wrote: Ah, and what about the WIKI ``user_attrs = .., mailDirectory=home=/var/vmail/%$'' example that I don't understand? Well, you could use a single mailDirectory LDAP attribute that expands to your mail directory to provide for all of the other home/sieve

Re: [Dovecot] dsync error: Mailboxes don't have unique GUIDs

2012-06-25 Thread Jeff Gustafson
On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 06:29 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: snip # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf As you are aware (since you participated in the thread discussion about this months ago), Timo is working on a total rewrite of dsync, and if memory serves, it is mainly for 2.1+, and it

Re: [Dovecot] Mail migration to dovecot with doveadm backup

2012-06-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 24.6.2012, at 18.57, Reinhard Vicinus wrote: i try to migrate mails from a non dovecot imap server to a dovecot imap server with doveadm backup as described there: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync i first tried (local-mailbox port 18143 is the non dovecot imap server):

Re: [Dovecot] dsync error: Mailboxes don't have unique GUIDs

2012-06-25 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-06-25 12:45 PM, Jeff Gustafson ncjeff...@zimage.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 06:29 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: # 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf As you are aware (since you participated in the thread discussion about this months ago), Timo is working on a total rewrite of

Re: [Dovecot] dsync error: Mailboxes don't have unique GUIDs

2012-06-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 25.6.2012, at 19.49, Charles Marcus wrote: I did try the 2.1.x version of dsync back in March. I found the version to be very unreliable. It would crash with many types of operations (e.g. maildir - mdbox conversions). Well, the version in 2.0.x was problematic, which is why Timo was

Re: [Dovecot] specifying home/sieve/sieve_dir relative to mail_location

2012-06-25 Thread Edgar Fuß
But that requires Dovecot v2.1. I was refering to http://wiki1.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home which, to my understanding, should apply to 1.2. I don't understand the Example at the bottom: LDAP with relative directory paths If your LDAP database uses e.g. mailDirectory = domain/user/,

Re: [Dovecot] Virtual users - what is better Maildir or mbox?

2012-06-25 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 06/25/2012 01:52 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Trever L. Adams tre...@middleearth.sapphiresunday.org wrote: On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Now what I would like to know is, which is better for virtual hosting Maildir or mbox? Basically my requirement

Re: [Dovecot] Mail migration to dovecot with doveadm backup

2012-06-25 Thread Reinhard Vicinus
On 25/06/12 18:46, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 24.6.2012, at 18.57, Reinhard Vicinus wrote: i try to migrate mails from a non dovecot imap server to a dovecot imap server with doveadm backup as described there: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync i first tried (local-mailbox port 18143 is

Re: [Dovecot] specifying home/sieve/sieve_dir relative to mail_location

2012-06-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
That example means that if you have in LDAP mailDirectory=domain.com/username field, and you want user's home to be /var/vmail/domain.com/username, then you can set mailDirectory=home=/var/vmail/%$ where %$ gets expanded to domain.com/username. I don't think it's relevant to what you want. On

Re: [Dovecot] Mail migration to dovecot with doveadm backup

2012-06-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 25.6.2012, at 21.21, Reinhard Vicinus wrote: Jun 25 20:01:26 10.129.3.200 dovecot: dsync(u...@example.org): Error: user u...@example.org: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location setting failed: imapc: missing imapc_host Jun 25 20:01:26 10.129.3.200 dovecot:

[Dovecot] started with dovecot sieve

2012-06-25 Thread mailinglist
As I am new to dovecot and sieve I am really happy to get it working in a straight forward way. Thanks for the documentation to whom it concerns. Now I came to my limits with this failure messages in /home/rolf/.dovecot.sieve.log: sieve: info: started log at Jun 25 20:22:54. error:

Re: [Dovecot] dsync error: Mailboxes don't have unique GUIDs

2012-06-25 Thread Jeff Gustafson
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 19:54 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 25.6.2012, at 19.49, Charles Marcus wrote: I'd suggest you try again with 2.1.7... The rewritten dsync is in v2.2 tree. v2.1's dsync is a fixed version of v2.0's dsync. I have no idea why v2.1's dsync would be less reliable than

Re: [Dovecot] Additional passdb result status

2012-06-25 Thread Jürgen Pabel
Hi, I am replying to my own message because it's probably the cleanest reply since I am not subscribed to the mailing list and thus can't reply to Charles' message itself. What specifically is the *purpose* of this? To encrypt the data on the server (like the zlib plugin does for compression).

Re: [Dovecot] started with dovecot sieve

2012-06-25 Thread Daniel Parthey
Hi Rolf, Rolf wrote: Now I came to my limits with this failure messages in /home/rolf/.dovecot.sieve.log: sieve: info: started log at Jun 25 20:22:54. error: msgid=1340648569.94073.yahoomailclas...@web190304.mail.sg3.yahoo.com: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': BUG: Unknown internal

[Dovecot] What does namespace inbox {... mean

2012-06-25 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I'm trying to set up a dovecot server for which mail arrives in an mbox, and mail is stored in a maildir. The wiki (see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces) refers to this as Mixed mbox and Maildir. It advises handling this situation by creating two namespaces: one for the mbox and the other for