Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot tuning for GFS2

2013-08-22 Thread Alessio Cecchi
Il 21/08/2013 13:57, Andrea gabellini - SC ha scritto: Hello, I'm deploing a new email cluster using Dovecot over GFS2. Actually I'm using courier over GFS. Actually I'm testing Dovecot with these parameters: mmap_disable = yes mail_fsync = always mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_nfs_index = yes

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot tuning for GFS2

2013-08-22 Thread 林 宏河
Andrea, We tried to use GFS2 + Dovecot(mdbox) but when there's many mailboxes and mails, it seem to get slow while dropping mail to the mailbox. We tested with LeftHand storage by the way. So we switched to NFSv4. Also, keep in mind that director those not detect when the backend server fails.

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve filterset not activating in Dovecot 2.0.15 with Sieve plug-in and Roundcube 0.5.3: NO (TRYLATER) Internal Error.

2013-08-22 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Joe Lourenco wrote: roundcube: S: NO (TRYLATER) Internal error occured. Refer to server log for more information. [2013-08-21 19:01:13] Nothing is showing up on the server log. Check out Dovecot's error log and search for

[Dovecot] combining pop3 and imap accounts

2013-08-22 Thread Patrick Shirkey
HI, I have a working exim4 + dovecot system that uses system user folders for the inbox. exim4: domains = dsearch;/etc/exim4/virtual dovecot: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u - I would like to add additional virtual accounts using the method described in this post:

[Dovecot] Load goes up imap-login

2013-08-22 Thread Giles Coochey
Every so often recently I've seen the load on my heavily under-used dovecot server (1 mailbox) rise up to 1 A top shows imap-login to causing the issue. I have checked /var/log/secure, /var/log/maillog, /var/log/messages and cannot see anything unusual. Anybody else seen something like

Re: [Dovecot] Nee assistance with migrating/copying a virtual user's maildir to another virtual user

2013-08-22 Thread David Varela
Good morning, I tried the command provided by Steffan, however, although it runs and moves the files beginning with . to the destination maildir other directories and files in the previous users' maildir remained in the original location, and messages in the new users' maildir are not visible in

Re: [Dovecot] Load goes up imap-login

2013-08-22 Thread megodin
Hi there Giles, not really a solution to your problem, but a hint: Try activating verbose_proctitle = yes in your dovecot.conf, restart service dovecot and you might get more information (when the load is produced by logged in users) - it gives you verbose information about which specific user

[Dovecot] Logging passwords on auth failure/dealing with botnets

2013-08-22 Thread Michael Smith (DF)
Hi, Since upgrading our mail servers to Postfix/Dovecot, we've seen a rather large increase in botnet brute force password attacks. I guess our old servers were too slow to suit their needs. Now, when they hit upon a valid user, it's easy to see what passwords they are trying (we've enabled

Re: [Dovecot] Logging passwords on auth failure/dealing with botnets

2013-08-22 Thread /dev/rob0
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 04:16:51PM +, Michael Smith (DF) wrote: Or another option, is there any good DNS based RBLs for botnet IPs, and is there any way to tie that in to the dovecot auth system? I've been looking for botnet rbls, but what I've found so far doesn't seem to work very

Re: [Dovecot] Problem compiling 2.2.5

2013-08-22 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 20.8.2013, at 19.57, Luciano Mannucci luci...@vespaperitivo.it wrote: I'm trying to upgrade a very old sparcstation running Solaris 8 which is running dovecot 1.x for few users. All I have for the task is good old gcc 2.95.2. The poor sod complains because it can't compute the

Re: [Dovecot] Sieve filterset not activating in Dovecot 2.0.15 with, Sieve plug-in and Roundcube 0.5.3: NO (TRYLATER) Internal Error. (Steffen Kaiser)

2013-08-22 Thread Joe Lourenco
Thank you Steffen Kaiser. I enabled the auth_debug and saw this error for permissions: Aug 22 13:41:44 managesieve($u): Error: sieve-storage: Creating symlink() /home/$u/.dovecot.sieve to sieve/Out of office.sieve failed: Permission denied The user's home directory was owned by root. Can not

Re: [Dovecot] Load goes up imap-login

2013-08-22 Thread Giles Coochey
On 22/08/2013 16:56, mego...@inboxalias.com wrote: Hi there Giles, not really a solution to your problem, but a hint: Try activating verbose_proctitle = yes in your dovecot.conf, restart service dovecot and you might get more information (when the load is produced by logged in users) - it

Re: [Dovecot] Logging passwords on auth failure/dealing with botnets

2013-08-22 Thread dovecotmail
Have you or anyone else tried fail2ban? I haven't had any break-in attempts since going to Dovecot yet, But with qpopper it didn't work very well unless it hit an actual user on the server. Then it would block the IP for a predetermined set amount of hits on that username then it block for the

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot tuning for GFS2

2013-08-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/21/2013 4:07 PM, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: I would strongly suggest using mdbox instead. AFAIK clusterfs' aren't I'd recommend mdbox as well, with a healthy rotation size. The larger files won't increase IMAP performance substantially but they can make backup significantly quicker.

Re: [Dovecot] Logging passwords on auth failure/dealing with botnets

2013-08-22 Thread Joseph Tam
Michael Smith (DF) writes: Or another option, is there any good DNS based RBLs for botnet IPs, and is there any way to tie that in to the dovecot auth system? I've been looking for botnet rbls, but what I've found so far doesn't seem to work very well. Most of the IPs that I've had to firewall

Re: [Dovecot] Nee assistance with migrating/copying a virtual user's maildir to another virtual user

2013-08-22 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, David Varela wrote: I tried the command provided by Steffan, however, although it runs and moves the files beginning with . to the destination maildir other directories and files in the previous users' maildir remained in the