[Dovecot] prevent dovecot from modifying maildirs

2013-08-09 Thread Felix Rubio Dalmau
Hi all, Is there any possibility to ask dovecot to write nothing to disk, something like a read only state, without shutting it down? I have set up a ZFS+postfix+dovecot mail server, and I need both postfix (postsuper -h ALL) and dovecot (¿?) to stop modifying the disk to create the

Re: [Dovecot] prevent dovecot from modifying maildirs

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-08-09 5:44 AM, Felix Rubio Dalmau felixrubiodal...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any possibility to ask dovecot to write nothing to disk, something like a read only state, without shutting it down? I have set up a ZFS+postfix+dovecot mail server, and I need both postfix (postsuper -h ALL)

Re: [Dovecot] prevent dovecot from modifying maildirs

2013-08-09 Thread Benny Pedersen
Felix Rubio Dalmau skrev den 2013-08-09 11:44: Does anybody has any idea on how to achieve this? stop dovecot/postfix, maybe remember sql/ldap database aswell

Re: [Dovecot] prevent dovecot from modifying maildirs

2013-08-09 Thread Michael Grimm
On 2013-08-09 11:44, Felix Rubio Dalmau wrote: Is there any possibility to ask dovecot to write nothing to disk, something like a read only state, without shutting it down? I have set up a ZFS+postfix+dovecot mail server, and I need both postfix (postsuper -h ALL) and dovecot (¿?) to stop

Re: [Dovecot] prevent dovecot from modifying maildirs

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-08-09 8:04 AM, Michael Grimm trash...@odo.in-berlin.de wrote: On 2013-08-09 11:44, Felix Rubio Dalmau wrote: Is there any possibility to ask dovecot to write nothing to disk, something like a read only state, without shutting it down? I have set up a ZFS+postfix+dovecot mail server,

[Dovecot] works | Re: Getting default uid/gid of users via socket for virtual user support for sendmail

2013-08-09 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Timo Sirainen wrote: You can't get the mail_uid/gid/home, because they really don't belong to auth process.. But what you could do with v2.2 is: userdb { driver = ldap args = .. default_fields = uid=1234 gid=1234

[Dovecot] Error: Threading lost Message ID?

2013-08-09 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
QUERY:THREAD REFERENCES ISO-8859-1 ALL RESPONSE: [SERVERBUG] Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2013-08-09 15:42:34] Aug 9 15:41:48 postamt dovecot: imap(username) tTbs7oPjfACNKs4m: Error: Threading lost Message ID Aug 9 15:42:34 postamt dovecot:

Re: [Dovecot] Error: Threading lost Message ID?

2013-08-09 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de: QUERY:THREAD REFERENCES ISO-8859-1 ALL RESPONSE: [SERVERBUG] Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2013-08-09 15:42:34] Aug 9 15:41:48 postamt dovecot: imap(username) tTbs7oPjfACNKs4m: Error: Threading lost

Re: [Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

2013-08-09 Thread Sam Flint
Gnus supports IMAP natively, and even ManageSieve. Use that, don't run a proxy, it's a lot easier. On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Steffen Kaiser skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, John Williams wrote: in order to not

Re: [Dovecot] prevent dovecot from modifying maildirs

2013-08-09 Thread Felix Rubio Dalmau
Actually the problem is that the snapshot is instantaneous, so if some commands are being run at the time of the snapshot I could get a snapshot of a non-consistent FS, right? Then, the single solution goes through just shuting down dovecot (and other services, like apache) the seconds

Re: [Dovecot] prevent dovecot from modifying maildirs

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-08-09 1:43 PM, Felix Rubio Dalmau felixrubiodal...@gmail.com wrote: Actually the problem is that the snapshot is instantaneous, so if some commands are being run at the time of the snapshot I could get a snapshot of a non-consistent FS, right? No, that is not right. If it was it

Re: [Dovecot] prevent dovecot from modifying maildirs

2013-08-09 Thread Michael Grimm
On 09.08.2013, at 19:43, Felix Rubio Dalmau felixrubiodal...@gmail.com wrote: Actually the problem is that the snapshot is instantaneous, so if some commands are being run at the time of the snapshot I could get a snapshot of a non-consistent FS, right? As mentioned before: Wrong. Have a

Re: [Dovecot] prevent dovecot from modifying maildirs

2013-08-09 Thread Felix Rubio Dalmau
Michael, Charles, thank you for your comments. I had already seen the wikipedia entries about ZFS, but when I have performed my tests, consisting in: generate a program that writes a 100 MB file to disk and perform the snapshot during the file is being written. Obviously the snapshot

Re: [Dovecot] execvp /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda: Permission denied

2013-08-09 Thread will moura
Hi, Can you help me? Because my config in master.cf is: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${user}@${nexthop} But now I have this problem in my postfix, logs: fatal destination user parameter (-d user) not given It´s funny

Re: [Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

2013-08-09 Thread John Williams
Sam Flint harmonicn...@gmail.com writes: Gnus supports IMAP natively, and even ManageSieve. Use that, don't run a proxy, it's a lot easier. I know. I'm using dovecot because I'm getting mail from an extremely slow connection, so Gnus blocks the Emacs UI for several seconds, making Emacs

Re: [Dovecot] prevent dovecot from modifying maildirs

2013-08-09 Thread Joseph Tam
In order to save space I prefer no to have such half-files (mails) , and it is for this reason that I am asking if there is any way to prevent this. I'm not an expert in field of file systems, so I can be asking very naive questions... but I appreciate your comments on this topic.